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5. John 14:6
“I am the way,
the truth,
and the life.”
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6. ** Exodus 3:14 “Tell them ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”**
I AM Statements
John 6:35 “I am the bread of life.”
John 8:12 “I am the light of the world.”
John 10:9 “I am the door.”
John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd.”
John 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life.”
John 15:1 “I am the true vine.”
** Exodus 3:14 “Tell them ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”**
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7. One Way
“I am the way,
the truth,
and the life.”
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8. Contemporary View of Christianity
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9. The Truth Two Principles 1) Did Jesus truly exist?
2) Were His teachings truthful?
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10. 4,000,000,000
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13. Empirical Evidence Name Recognition Impact of his ministry
Textual historicity
Magnitude of persecution
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14. The Truth Two Principles 1) Did Jesus truly exist?
2) Were His teachings truthful?
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15. The Truth ‘Mankind’s moral absolutes devolve to opinions
without the authority of God.’
Dennis Prager
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16. True Teachings HiStory Do not lie (John 8:44)
Do not steal (Mark 10:19)
Love One Another (John 13:34)
Manage your Anger (Matthew 5:22)
Do unto others as you’d have done unto you (Matthew 7:12)
Money isn’t Everything (Matthew 6:19)
Always obey the law (Matthew 5:18)
Do not seek revenge (Matthew 5:38)
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17. “It ain’t those parts of the Bible
that I can’t understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand”

18. The Truth John 8:31-32 “If you hold to my teaching,
You are really my disciples.
Then you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.”
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19. One Way
“I am the way,
the truth,
and the life.”
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20. C.S Lewis HiStory Mere Christianity
“I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell
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21. C.S Lewis HiStory Mere Christianity
. . . You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
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22. The Way HiStory John 14:4-5 Jesus “And you know where I am going
and how to get there.”
Thomas
“No, we don’t know, Lord,
We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
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23. The Way HiStory Profession I am a sinner I am in need of a Savior
I recognize Jesus Christ as my Savior
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24. The Way HiStory Profession I am a sinner
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
I am in need of a Savior
I recognize Jesus Christ as my Savior
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25. The Way HiStory Profession I am a sinner
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
I am in need of a Savior
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
I recognize Jesus Christ as my Savior
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26. The Way HiStory Profession I am a sinner
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
I am in need of a Savior
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
I recognize Jesus Christ as my Savior
“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. . . Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
(Romans 10:9-10;13)
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27. The Life
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28. Born Again: HiStory The Life John 3:2-3 Nicodemus
“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher
who has come from God,
for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with Him.”
Jesus
“Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless one is born again
he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
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29. Born Again: HiStory The Life I Was I Am Dead In Sin Ephesians 2:5
Alive in Christ
Lost
Luke 15:24
Found
Slave to Sin
Galatians 5:1
Free in Christ
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30. That Impacts an Eternity
Build a Legacy
That Impacts an Eternity
1 Corinthians 3:12-15
“Now anyone who builds on that foundation may use
gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay or straw.
But there is going to come a time of testing
at the judgment day
to see what kind of work each builder has done.
Everyone’s work will be put through the fire
to see whether or not it keeps its value.
If the work survives the fire, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss.”
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31. The Challenge HiStory Revelation 3:20
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:
if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him,
and will eat with him, and he with me.”
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32. HiStory I’m Ready to Open the Door
I’m Ready to Rededicate My Life to Christ

33. Romans Road I Was/I Am Ephesians 2:5
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.”
Romans 10:9-10
“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:13
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
I Was/I Am
Ephesians 2:5
“Even when we were dead in our trespasses, [God] made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.”
Luke 15:24
“For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”
Galatians 5:1
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”