{"id":5033,"date":"2011-10-21T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2011-10-28T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T12:45:31","slug":"fmbs-027-john-10-1-33-jesus-claims-ultimate-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/fmbs-027-john-10-1-33-jesus-claims-ultimate-power\/","title":{"rendered":"FMBS 027 John 10: 1-33 Jesus Claims Ultimate Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jesus is radical, you might almost say fanatical about his equality with God the Father.\u00a0 It’s important to understand that Jesus didn’t just claim to be a good guy, a religious leader, a prophet.\u00a0 He claimed to be God, to have the ultimate power, willingly die, and then by His own power, come back to life.\u00a0 Only Jesus was crucified and was resurrected from the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other thing that stands out in these verses is that he wasn’t afraid of confrontation.<\/strong>\u00a0 He wasn’t afraid to put people in their place when their intent was to harm other people.\u00a0 Jesus wasn’t nice, calm, and limp-wristed.\u00a0 He had a strong will and was willing to confront when the truth was at stake, when lives were at stake.\u00a0 Getting Jesus right is everything.<\/strong>\u00a0 And everything else is secondary to that.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you reflect on the study today, ask yourself these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Is Jesus Christ my God and Savior? Do I have a personal relationship?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Is my profession of faith as a Christian a current reality, not just something in the past I refer to?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Do I walk in the abundant life that Jesus dies to make possible?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. What is abundant life? How would I know it when I see it?<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. If Jesus Christ is essential, what am I doing to make sure other people hear the story of the gospel and the claims of Christ?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jesus is radical, you might almost say fanatical about his equality with God the Father.\u00a0 It’s important to understand that Jesus didn’t just claim to be a good guy, a religious leader, a prophet.\u00a0 He claimed to be God, to have the ultimate power, willingly die, and then by His own power, come back to … Continue reading “FMBS 027 John 10: 1-33 Jesus Claims Ultimate Power”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}