Does Jesus Care About Me?

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• We may in painful, emotional times ask this
  question.

2
Does Jesus Care About Me?

• We may in painful, emotional times ask this
  question.
• Often one is isolated from others and wishes to
  have someone to share the burden of his pain.

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• We may in painful, emotional times ask this
  question.
• Often one is isolated from others and wishes to
  have someone to share the burden of his pain.
• Sometimes this question is asked in a bout of
  self-pity.

4
Does Jesus Care About Me?

• We must remember in these times that God has told
  us that he cares. (Psa 1425-6)

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• Psalm 1425-6 (NKJV) - I cried out to You, O
  Lord I said, You are my refuge, My portion in
  the land of the living. 6 Attend to my cry, For I
  am brought very low Deliver me from my
  persecutors, For they are stronger than I.

6
Does Jesus Care About Me?

• Jesus wants all men to know that God knows. (Mt
  1029-31)

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• Matthew 1029-31 (NKJV) - Are not two sparrows
  sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls
  to the ground apart from your Fathers will. 30
  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
  31 Do not fear therefore you are of more value
  than many sparrows.

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• God wants us to give Him our burdens. (1 Pt 57)

9
Does Jesus Care About Me?

• 1 Peter 57 (NKJV) - casting all your care upon
  Him, for He cares for you.

10
Does Jesus Care About Me?

• Some might say But God cannot understand us
  since we are flesh and God is Spirit. He then
  cannot suffer as we.

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Does Jesus Care About Me?

• Some might say But God cannot understand us
  since we are flesh and God is Spirit. He then
  cannot suffer as we.
• We need to know who Jesus is, and what He did for
  us.

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Jesus Became Flesh

• God became Man in the birth of Jesus. (Jn 11-2,
  14)

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Jesus Became Flesh

• John 11-2 (NKJV) - In the beginning was the
  Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
  God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.

14
Jesus Became Flesh

• John 114 (NKJV) - And the Word became flesh and
  dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the
  glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full
  of grace and truth.

15
Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus was fully human and fully God.

16
Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus was fully human and fully God.
• This was foretold in prophecy. (Heb 105 Psa
  406-8)

17
Jesus Became Flesh

• Hebrews 105 (NKJV) - Therefore, when He came
  into the world, He said Sacrifice and offering
  You did not desire, But a body You have prepared
  for Me.

18
Jesus Became Flesh

• Psalm 406 - 408 (NKJV) - Sacrifice and offering
  You did not desire My ears You have opened.
  Burnt offering and sin offering You did not
  require. 7 Then I said, Behold, I come In the
  scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I
  delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law
  is within my heart.

19
Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus is now divine but also human!

20
Jesus Became Flesh

• This loss and exposure on the part of God
  becoming man cannot be overstated. (Phil 25-8)

21
Jesus Became Flesh

• Philippians 25-8 (NKJV) - Let this mind be in
  you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6who, being
  in the form of God, did not consider it robbery
  to be equal with God, 7but made Himself of no
  reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and
  coming in the likeness of men. 8And being found
  in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and
  became obedient to the point of death, even the
  death of the cross.

22
Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus did not hold onto His position. (v. 6)

23
Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus did not hold onto His position. (v. 6)
• Jesus for the first time in eternity could now be
  hungry, tired, thirsty, and even suffer physical
  death. He is exposed to the great adversary Satan!

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Jesus Became Flesh

• Jesus did not hold onto His position. (v. 6)
• Jesus for the first time in eternity could now be
  hungry, tired, thirsty, and even suffer physical
  death. He is exposed to the great adversary
  Satan!
• Remember, He did this for you and me.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Temptation - In its full force. This was a threat.

26
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Temptation - In its full force. This was a
  threat.
• Imagine the severity of this temptation. (Mt
  41-2)

27
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 41-2 (NKJV) - Then Jesus was led up by
  the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
  the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days
  and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

28
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We need to know that Jesus fully experience the
  agony and suffering that life could bring.
  He was not sheltered. (Heb 57-9)

29
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Hebrews 57-9 (NKJV) - who, in the days of His
  flesh, when He had offered up prayers and
  supplications, with vehement cries and tears to
  Him who was able to save Him from death, and was
  heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was
  a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things
  which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected,
  He became the author of eternal salvation to all
  who obey Him,

30
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus never did sin.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus never did sin.
• No one who ever lived was tempted as He was.

32
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus never did sin.
• No one who ever lived was tempted as He was.
• How did Jesus resist then? No one trusted in God
  as he did. (1 Pt 222-23)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 1 Peter 222-23 (NKJV) - Who committed no sin,
  Nor was deceit found in His mouth 23 who, when
  He was reviled, did not revile in return when He
  suffered, He did not threaten, but committed
  Himself to Him who judges righteously

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• In his resistance of Sin, He showed us the way.

35
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• In his resistance of Sin, He showed us the way.
• Satan used the same methods of temptation as he
  does us. (1 Jn 215-17)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 1 John 215-17 (NKJV) - Do not love the world or
  the things in the world. If anyone loves the
  world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16
  For all that is in the worldthe lust of the
  flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
  lifeis not of the Father but is of the world. 17
  And the world is passing away, and the lust of
  it but he who does the will of God abides
  forever.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Consider how Satan questioned His deity and then
  tempted Him to take a short cut to reveal
  Himself. (Mt 43, 6, 8-10)

38
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 43 (NKJV) - Now when the tempter came
  to Him, he said, If You are the Son of God,
  command that these stones become bread.

39
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 46 (NKJV) - and said to Him, If You
  are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it
  is written He shall give His angels charge over
  you, and, In their hands they shall bear you
  up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

40
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 48-10 (NKJV) - Again, the devil took
  Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and
  showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and
  their glory. 9 And he said to Him, All these
  things I will give You if You will fall down and
  worship me. 10 Then Jesus said to him, Away
  with you, Satan! For it is written, You shall
  worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall
  serve.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• How do we know that Jesus overcame Satan by His
  faith? Look at His response It is written...

42
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• How do we know that Jesus overcame Satan by His
  faith? Look at His response It is written...
• Remember our victory over Satan lies here also.
  (Psa 11911)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Psalm 11911 (NKJV) - Your word I have hidden in
  my heart, That I might not sin against You.

44
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We can overcome temptation. Remember Jesus cares.

45
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Hunger, Thirst, Weariness

46
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Hunger, Thirst, Weariness
• He was without food or water for 40 days and
  nights. (Mt 42)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 42 (NKJV) - And when He had fasted
  forty days and forty nights, afterward He was
  hungry.

48
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus, like we, became wearied. But He always
  took time to help another. (Jn 46)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 46 (NKJV) - Now Jacobs well was there.
  Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey,
  sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

50
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We probably would rationalize a reason to do
  nothing. Jesus was busy!

51
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We probably would rationalize a reason to do
  nothing. Jesus was busy!
• You cannot use a busy schedule to relieve you of
  your duties.

52
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We probably would rationalize a reason to do
  nothing. Jesus was busy!
• You cannot use a busy schedule to relieve you of
  your duties.
• Jesus by faith kept His goal before Him. (John
  433-34)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 433-34 (NKJV) - Therefore the disciples
  said to one another, Has anyone brought Him
  anything to eat? 34 Jesus said to them, My food
  is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to
  finish His work.

54
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Contrast Jesus with Esau. Who are you like? (Heb
  1216)

55
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Hebrews 1216 (NKJV) - lest there be any
  fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for
  one morsel of food sold his birthright.

56
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• We can be busy and tired and serve God. Remember
  Jesus cares.

57
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Loss of Wealth and Income.

58
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Loss of Wealth and Income.
• Jesus stepped down from the treasures of heaven.
  Nothing we lose can compare. (Jn
  175)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 175 (NKJV) - And now, O Father, glorify Me
  together with Yourself, with the glory which I
  had with You before the world was.

60
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Listen then to our Lords call to follow Him. (Lk
  958)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Luke 958 (NKJV) - And Jesus said to him, Foxes
  have holes and birds of the air have nests, but
  the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.

62
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Do you grieve over your position in life?
  Remember Jesus cares. (2 Cor 89)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 2 Corinthians 89 (NKJV) - For you know the
  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He
  was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that
  you through His poverty might become rich.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Disappointment.

65
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Disappointment.
• Have you ever had A dearly important goal and
  failed? Love expressed to another and be
  rejected? Trusted another and been betrayed?

66
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus was betrayed and crucified by the ones He
  loved. (Jn 13-5, 10-11)

67
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 13-5 (NKJV - things were made through Him,
  and without Him nothing was made that was made.
  4In Him was life, and the life was the light of
  men. 5And the light shines in the darkness, and
  the darkness did not comprehend it.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 110-11 (NKJV) - He was in the world, and
  the world was made through Him, and the world did
  not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own
  did not receive Him.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus was hurt when others rejected the words
  they desperately needed. (Jn 664-67)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 664-67 (NKJV) - But there are some of you
  who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the
  beginning who they were who did not believe, and
  who would betray Him. 65 And He said, Therefore
  I have said to you that no one can come to Me
  unless it has been granted to him by My Father.
  66 From that time many of His disciples went back
  and walked with Him no more.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, Do you also
  want to go away?

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The lack of faith of His own disciples often
  caused Him grief. (Mk 919 168-9 Jn 1631)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Mark 919 (NKJV) - He answered him and said, O
  faithless generation, how long shall I be with
  you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to
  Me.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Mark 168-9 (NKJV) - So they went out quickly
  and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and
  were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for
  they were afraid. 9 Now when He rose early on the
  first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary
  Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 1631 (NKJV) - Jesus answered them, Do you
  now believe?

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus grieved over the city of Jerusalem. (Luke
  1334)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Luke 1334 (NKJV) - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
  one who kills the prophets and stones those who
  are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather
  your children together, as a hen gathers her
  brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Enemies Without a Cause

79
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Have you ever had someone hate you when you have
  only done them good?

80
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Have you ever had someone hate you when you have
  only done them good?
• Jesus was angry with their hardness of hearts but
  He loved them too. The religious leaders attacked
  Jesus at every step. (Mk 31-5)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Mark 31-5 (NKJV) - And He entered the synagogue
  again, and a man was there who had a withered
  hand. 2 So they watched Him closely, whether He
  would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might
  accuse Him. 3And He said to the man who had the
  withered hand, Step forward. 4 Then He said to
  them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or
  to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they
  kept silent.

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 5 And when He had looked around at them with
  anger, being grieved by the hardness of their
  hearts, He said to the man, Stretch out your
  hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was
  restored as whole as the other.

83
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• How do you treat your enemies? Jesus cares! (1 Pt
  221-23)

84
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 1 Peter 221-23 (NKJV) - For to this you were
  called, because Christ also suffered for us,
  leaving us an example, that you should follow His
  steps 22 Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit
  found in His mouth 23 who, when He was reviled,
  did not revile in return when He suffered, He
  did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him
  who judges righteously

85
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Grieved Over the Pain of Others.

86
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Grieved Over the Pain of Others.
• How many would rather bear the pain than have a
  loved one experience it?

87
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Grieved Over the Pain of Others.
• How many would rather bear the pain than have a
  loved one experience it?
• Jesus grieved not only over Lazarus but over the
  family. (Jn 1131-37)

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 1131-37 (NKJV) - Then the Jews who were
  with her in the house, and comforting her, when
  they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out,
  followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb
  to weep there. 32 Then, when Mary came where
  Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His
  feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here,
  my brother would not have died.

89
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• 33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the
  Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the
  spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, Where
  have you laid him? They said to Him, Lord, come
  and see. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said,
  See how He loved him! 37 And some of them said,
  Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the
  blind, also have kept this man from dying?

90
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• He comforted them through the promises of God.
  (Jn 1125-26)

91
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 1125-26 (NKJV) - Jesus said to her, I am
  the resurrection and the life. He who believes in
  Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And
  whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
  Do you believe this?

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What did Jesus experience as a man?

• In our pain we need to know that Jesus cares.

93
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The Betrayal and Denial of Friends.

94
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The Betrayal and Denial of Friends.
• Judas. (Lk 2247-48)

95
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Luke 2247-48 (NKJV) - And while He was still
  speaking, behold, a multitude and he who was
  called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them
  and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him. 48 But Jesus
  said to him, Judas, are you betraying the Son of
  Man with a kiss?

96
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Peter. (Lk 2261)

97
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Luke 2261 (NKJV) - And the Lord turned and
  looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word
  of the Lord, how He had said to him, Before the
  rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

98
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Jesus overcame by faith. He knew He was not
  alone. (Jn 1632-33)

99
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• John 1632-33 (NKJV) - Indeed the hour is
  coming, yes, has now come, that you will be
  scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me
  alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father
  is with Me. 33 These things I have spoken to you,
  that in Me you may have peace. In the world you
  will have tribulation but be of good cheer, I
  have overcome the world.

100
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Many in this life are left alone by the sin and
  betrayal of loved ones. Remember the Lord!

101
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The Death on the Cross.

102
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The Death on the Cross.
• In fact the cross represents all these pains
  brought together.

103
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• The Death on the Cross.
• In fact the cross represents all these pains
  brought together.
• He was tempted to come down from the cross. (Mt
  2653)

104
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Matthew 2653 (NKJV) - Or do you think that I
  cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide
  Me with more than twelve legions of angels?

105
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• He experienced pain, thirst and weariness.

106
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• He experienced pain, thirst and weariness.
• He suffered the disappointment of betrayal and
  desertion.

107
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• He experienced pain, thirst and weariness.
• He suffered the disappointment of betrayal and
  desertion.
• He witnessed His enemies mocking Him at His death.

108
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• What did Jesus do? (Lk 2334)

109
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Luke 2334 (NKJV) - Then Jesus said, Father,
  forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
  And they divided His garments and cast lots.

110
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Remember the Lord in your trials. He cares. (Heb
  122-4)

111
What did Jesus experience as a man?

• Hebrews 122-4 (NKJV) - looking unto Jesus, the
  author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
  that was set before Him endured the cross,
  despising the shame, and has sat down at the
  right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider
  Him who endured such hostility from sinners
  against Himself, lest you become weary and
  discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet
  resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

112
What Does this Mean to Me?

• We have a faith in a Savior who understands and
  cares. (Heb 415-16)

113
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Hebrews 415-16 (NKJV) - For we do not have a
  High Priest who cannot sympathize with our
  weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we
  are, yet without sin. 16Let us therefore come
  boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain
  mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

114
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Let us never doubt the One who loves us.

115
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Let us never doubt the One who loves us.
• You are never alone!

116
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Let us never doubt the One who loves us.
• You are never alone!
• There is only one way to be right with this great
  God. (Heb 58-9)

117
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Hebrews 58-9 (NKJV) - though He was a Son, yet
  He learned obedience by the things which He
  suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became
  the author of eternal salvation to all who obey
  Him,

118
What Does this Mean to Me?

• God will not take away our sufferings, but will
  give us strength to endure.

119
What Does this Mean to Me?

• God will not take away our sufferings, but will
  give us strength to endure.
• Anyone who tries to take a short cut will turn
  their back on God! (Gal 611)

120
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Galatians 611 (NKJV) - See with what large
  letters I have written to you with my own hand!

121
What Does this Mean to Me?

• You can overcome sin! (Heb 121-4)

122
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Hebrews 121-4 (NKJV) - Therefore we also, since
  we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
  witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
  sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run
  with endurance the race that is set before us, 2
  looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
  our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
  has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
  God.

123
What Does this Mean to Me?

• 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility
  from sinners against Himself, lest you become
  weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have
  not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against
  sin.

124
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Let us throw away the excuses and build a
  Biblical faith.

125
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Let us throw away the excuses and build a
  Biblical faith.
• Let us each trust God and take up our cross
  daily. (Lk 923-24)

126
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Luke 923-24 (NKJV) - Then He said to them all,
  If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny
  himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow
  Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will
  lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake
  will save it.

127
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Our life in Christ begins with a death. (Rom
  63-5)

128
What Does this Mean to Me?

• Romans 63-5 (NKJV) - Or do you not know that as
  many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus
  were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were
  buried with Him through baptism into death, that
  just as Christ was raised from the dead by the
  glory of the Father, even so we also should walk
  in newness of life.

129
What Does this Mean to Me?

• 5 For if we have been united together in the
  likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be
  in the likeness of His resurrection,

130
What Does this Mean to Me?

• What in this life is more trustworthy than Jesus?

131
What Does this Mean to Me?

• What in this life is more trustworthy than Jesus?
• Example The Atheist who tried to lead the birds
  into the barn before the winter storm.