Encountering Jesus His personality
HIS FEROCITY
Abide with me I FEAR NO FOE WITH THEE AT HAND TO BLESS!
A hunted man, behind enemy lines …waiting to take his life Jn 7 ..plotted how they might kill Jesus Mt 12 ..they tried to seize him. Jn 10 …no place to lay his head. Mt. 8
Toward men
Thunderstorm at the Temple John 2:13-17 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.
And he poured out the coins of the money- changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
Toward demons
“disabling spirit” …Sabbath…
3 gospels 2 rebukes Storm and Demons
TOWARD DEATH
Deeply moved =
“snort in rage!”
Hatred of death…
TOWARD satan and HELL
…third day I will reach my goal…
Gone fishing… mission work…
Let me see the real you, Jesus Let me see the real you, Jesus! Open my eyes, and let me see the real you. Amen