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MAIN IDEA Jesus Christ is both God and the Son of God. While Jesus was on earth, He showed people what His Father, God, is like and did things that only God could do. Jesus had to be fully God to save us from our sins because only God is without sin. NIV

MEMORY VERSE HEBREWS 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. NIV

Share what you wrote about or drew in Start Here. INTRODUCTION Share what you wrote about or drew in Start Here. NIV

How do we know what God can do? INTRODUCTION How do we know what God can do? How did people who believed Jesus is God while He was alive on earth know He was God? NIV

MAIN LESSON 1. Jesus is both God and the Son of God. He is the exact representation, or exactly like, His Father. NIV

MAIN LESSON Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. NIV

MAIN LESSON 2. Jesus showed He was God when He lived on earth by doing things and teaching things that only God could do or know. NIV

MAIN LESSON Matthew 14:13-21 When Jesus heard what had happened, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed Him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them and healed their sick. NIV

MAIN LESSON Matthew 14:13-21, continued As evening approached, the disciples came to Him and said, "This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food." Jesus replied, "They do not need to go NIV

MAIN LESSON Matthew 14:13-21, continued away. You give them something to eat." "We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish," they answered. "Bring them here to Me," He said. And He directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking NIV

MAIN LESSON Matthew 14:13-21, continued up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satis-fied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left NIV

MAIN LESSON Matthew 14:13-21, continued over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. NIV

MAIN LESSON 3. Jesus has always been alive. The world was created through Jesus and now He holds the universe together. NIV

MAIN LESSON Colossians 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invis-ible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. NIV

4. Only Jesus could save us from our sins because He is a sinless God. MAIN LESSON 4. Only Jesus could save us from our sins because He is a sinless God. NIV

MAIN LESSON 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. NIV

Who are the three persons of God? Are they all the same one God? FAITH IN ACTION Who are the three persons of God? Are they all the same one God? Is Jesus God? If you know Jesus as your Savior, what can you do to show Jesus is God in your life? NIV

SUM IT UP Jesus is both God and the Son of God. He is the exact representation, or exactly like, His Father. NIV

SUM IT UP Jesus showed He was God when He lived on earth by doing things and teaching things that only God could do or know. NIV

SUM IT UP Jesus has always been alive. The world was created through Jesus and now He holds the universe together. NIV

Only Jesus could save us from our sins because He is a sinless God. SUM IT UP Only Jesus could save us from our sins because He is a sinless God. NIV

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