John #22 - Did Jesus Say He Was God?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Other than Christianity, no other major world religion has a founder who claimed to be God. In our study of John, the public conflict between Jesus and His critics and enemies had been escalating for a long. In John 10:22-42 Jesus seals His death sentence by clearly declaring Himself to be God. Today, it is popular for people to claim that Jesus never declared Himself to be God, but that is the exact opposite of the truth even though it cost Him His life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mark to School Ministries podcast. To find more Bible teaching from
0:04.2	Pastor Mark visit mark, visit Mark for School.org. Thank you for listening and being a
0:07.4	part of Mark for School Ministries. And remember, it's all about Jesus.
0:13.0	Alrighty, we continue our one year study in John's Gospel.
0:16.5	If you've got a Bible, go to John Chapter 10,
0:19.6	verses 22 through 42.
0:21.4	And today is one of the most important sermons in the entire book.
0:25.1	It is where Jesus tells us emphatically, openly, publicly, clearly who he is and in their
0:31.1	day like our day there was no lack of opinion regarding Jesus
0:35.2	person and so I made a little list for you share it with you before we let Jesus
0:39.3	speak for himself how many of you when you're talking about Jesus you find that lots of people have lots of opinions about him and they vary quite greatly?
0:47.0	Well in the world of religions the Baha'is will say that Jesus is a manifestation of God and a prophet but inferior to Muhammad and Baha'
0:55.0	If you ask a Buddhist, they'll say that he is not God, but he is an enlightened man like
0:59.7	the Buddha but not quite as chubby. If you ask the Christian scientist, founder,
1:04.8	Mary Baker Eddie, and I don't get Christian science,
1:07.2	there's no Christians, there's no science,
1:08.6	I don't understand it.
1:09.7	To me it's like grape nuts, you open the box,
1:11.4	there's no grapes, no nuts.
1:12.4	I'm not sure who did the branding.
1:14.0	But the founder of Christian science will say, quote, unquote, Jesus Christ is not God.
1:19.0	Hinduism has many views of Jesus, but they will generally say that he is not the only God
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