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Good to have you guys back. This week we're looking at one of my favorite books from one of my

favorite authors, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. So specifically, we're going to dig into some

passages from the book that confronts a man's heart and forces everything back to the gospel of

Jesus Christ. This week, we've talked about the natural law of God and the cost of perfection,

and today we're going to discuss the identity of Christ.

Ultimately, who is Jesus?

How can we categorize him?

What do people claim about him?

What did he claim about himself?

And in order to do that, let's read one of the most, if not the most famous

passage from mere Christianity. And it comes from book two, chapter three. He told people that

their sins were forgiven and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had

undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if he was the party chiefly concerned,

the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if he really was the God whose

laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin. In the mouth of any speaker who is not God,

these words would imply what I can only

regard as a silliness and conceit unrivaled by any other character in history. Yet, and this is

the strange, significant thing, even his enemies, when they read the Gospels, do not usually get

the impression of silliness and conceit still less do

unprejudiced readers christ says that he is humble and meek and we believe him not noticing that

if he were merely a man humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some

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