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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.

Everybody wants to know about Jesus sooner or later.

Everybody's going to see him face to face, but a lot of people are looking for him right now

and they don't know it.

And a lot of people are looking for him and they do know it.

In fact, you might be at the checkout in the grocery store or in the airport, and he's

right there. His Time magazine made a special edition last year. It's all about Jesus. We established

last week that he's a real person, a real historical person. That's not in dispute among any reasonable people.

Even non-believing academics will admit that Jesus really existed

and that he did many of the things that the Bible claims that he did.

Even an atheistic scholar has to admit that a man named Jesus lived on planet

earth. Last week, we looked at the title Jesus used most about himself, son of man. And we saw that

not only is he fully God, but he's fully man.

Today, we're looking at another title that's so appropriate in this Thanksgiving season.

Because as we're celebrating the Thanksgiving meal or the Thanksgiving feast in these days here in America,

we're thinking about one of the greatest celebrations and feast in the story of Scripture, and that's the Passover. And we're seeing Jesus today as the Lamb of God. The whole

idea in this text is to understand who Jesus is, but also to ask the essential question that they were asking as I was reading almost the last article in this time edition, why did Jesus die?

And down at the end of the first paragraph or column here, they're getting down at the

crux of it. The writer of this article says, why did Christ die? That is not who on earth killed him,

or even exactly how much he suffered, but what was the cosmic reason for

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