Just as you're getting comfortable thinking, oh, this is him, this is my Jesus.

He goes, you know, actually I am my own.

I belong to my father.

And this Jesus right here will make you so happy and he will make you so mad.

And he will confuse you at times and bewilder you and you will wonder what on earth he is doing.

And then you will think he's the most majestic, merciful, gorgeous thing I have ever seen in my whole life.

Let's go on with our fourth point. Then we'll read the text that backs it up. This Jesus is the Jesus of Scripture. This Jesus is the Jesus of Scripture that could not be more important.

I want you to hold right there, but I want to read you a portion of 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

I did not plan on this, but as I'm teaching, it's coming to my remembrance, and I want you to hear it.

Now, I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preach to you, which you received, on which you have

taken your stand and by which you are being saved. If you hold to the message, I preach to you

unless you have believed in vain. Verse three, four, I passed on to you as most important what I

received, that Christ died for our

sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day,

according to the scriptures. And then it tells who he revealed himself to and who saw him

ending with like 500 different people that saw him resurrected from the grave.

I make that point for you to hear that reference over and over to according to the scriptures

because this was huge to them and it is extremely important to us that we acknowledge and are able to understand that this Jesus,

who gave his life on the cross, was consistently the one foretold in the Old Testament scriptures.

Now watch this in Acts chapter 17, one through nine. Now remember,

you know what key words to be looking for. After they, and this is Paul and his little cohort,

after they passed through amphiphalus and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where there was a Jewish synagogue.

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