1. Who is this…Jesus?

2. Matthew 21:10 When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

3. Who is this…Jesus?

4. Preeminent  Driving out the money changers  Cursing the fig tree  Healing the sick and lame  Teaching in the temple

5. Who is this…Jesus?

6. Preeminent  John 1:1-2 In the beginning with God and was God  Colossians 1:16 By Him all things were created…  I Tim 2:5 …one mediator between God and men…

7. Who is this…Jesus?

8. Matthew 22:46 “No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.”

9. Priority Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Mt 22:37-40)

10. Deuteronomy 6:4,5 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

11. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mt 22) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deut 6)

12. Romans 6:11-13 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God…and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.

13. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mt 22) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deut 6)

14. Perspective As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us”, they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Mt 24:3

15. Perspective Immediately after the distress of those days 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. (Mt 24:29-31)

16. 2 Corinthians 5:4 …so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

17. Perspective Immediately after the distress of those days 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. (Mt 24:29-31)

18. Who is this Jesus?  Preeminent – The one with Power and Authority  Priority – Love God with all we are; neighbors as ourselves  Perspective – an eternal mindset

19. Who is He to you?