03: Who Is Jesus Christ - Lesson Plan

Key Thought : The incarnation of Christ has ever been, and will ever remain, a mystery. It is a mystery that Christ could be tempted in all points like as we are, and yet be without sin..

[Lesson plan for Who Is Jesus Christ April 13, 2015]

1. Have a volunteer read Luke 7:17-23.

a. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
b. Why would John, who said, Behold the Lamb of God, ask if Jesus was the Messiah or not from prison?
c. Personal Application: Have you ever doubted God when things go wrong? How can we keep a strong faith in the face of trouble and difficulty? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “If Christ is in charge, why are Christians being persecuted and killed by Muslim extremists in various parts of the world?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Luke 1:31-35.

a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
b. What does it mean to us that Jesus is indeed God Himself?
c. Personal Application: How does the fact that Jesus was tempted in all points like we are help you in your struggle with sin? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study: One of your friends states, “How could Jesus be God and yet be fully a man? He came in all the likeness of humanity – He appeared like us, but He wasn’t like us because He was God.” How would you respond to your neighbor?

3. Have a volunteer read Luke 9:18-24.

a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
b. Why did Jesus tell His apostles not to tell anyone at that time that He was the Christ?
c. Personal Application: How do we take up our cross daily and follow Christ? Share your thoughts..
d. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “What does it mean that we have to lose our life in order to save it, and if we save our life, we would lose it?” How would you respond to your friend?

4. Have a volunteer read Luke 9:27-32.

a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
b. What is the significance of Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration with Christ appearing to His apostles?
c. Personal Application: How do we keep ourselves from being found sleeping or lacking oil when Jesus comes? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Note : “Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.” MH p. 149.

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Jesus had to be both God and man

When our first parents sinned it put heaven into a dilemma. God is a merciful God but He is also a just God.

When man sinned, the law said, the wadges of sin is death, eternal death

The Mercy of God wanted to save man, but the Justice of God said according to the law, he must die eternal death

God could not change His law for He is God and He changes not. If God changed His law to accommodate the sin of man, then all of the other worlds would think that it is alright to sin for God will change his law to save us. God, loves us to much to kill us. Then it would give all the children of Adam the OK to sin for God will change His law just to save us.

God could have forgiven man and ignored the penalty of the law. If He did that no one would take God seriously. Then He would have to apologize to Lucifer for not doing the same thing to him. Every parent knows that if you promise to punish your child and don’t follow through with it, that child will never take you serious and he will do it again.

Man could not die for himself for justice demanded eternal death and the only death that man could die for himself is eternal death..

Angels could had died for man, but that would not satisfy Justice for three reasons:
1. That would not be fair to the angel to die eternally for guilty man
2. Angels are created beings, for an Angel to substitute his life for mans life is just like a man that was given the death sentence but substitute his dog in his place. It was just not be the same. That would never satisfy Justice.

No angel could atone for our sin of unbelief and rebellion. If God had sent an angel to die for us, it wouldn’t heal our doubts about His love. If He had said, “Would you believe I love you if I sent someone else to die for you?” that would not be love. That would just be throwing one of His created beings under the bus! The only way that God could cure our rebellion and sin of unbelief in His love, is if He died for us Himself! Saying I love you enough to die for you, means a lot more than saying I love you enough to send an angel to die for you. (Posted on January 2, 20114 by William Earnhardt)

3. Angels cannot give eternal life, so his death cannot satisfy the demand of eternal death.

The only person who could satisfy the demand of eternal death is the person who can give eternal life

However, as a loving mother cannot stand to see her guilty son die in the gas chamber, the Mercy of God could not stand to see guilty man die an eternal death

Therefore Jesus as the Eternal Life Giver, volunteered to die for guilty man.

Justice said, that cannot be. For the wadges of sin is eternal death. You are God, You are life itself. You cannot die. Even if you tried to kill yourself God cannot die.

But Mercy said no! Then I will become a man. I will cover my Divinity with Humanity so I can die for man.

So God became a man so He could die for man.

However, the enemy waged war against Jesus. Satan said, “It won’t be that easy. You may defeat me as God, but if you become a man trying to save man from going to Hell, then I will give you Hell.

Jesus said, I don’t care if I have to suffer, I love the church and I will suffer and die for the church

So Jesus became a man, and married the church. Became one with man (Genesis 2:24 - For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. NIV). Christ became a man so that He could substitute His life for man.

As a man He could taste eternal death
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
So as Man Jesus could taste eternal death for man, but as God He could resurrect His humanity with eternal life.

John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

In His birth He covered His Divinity with Humanity so that He could die for us. In His death He covered our humanity with His Divinity so that we might live with Him.

So Jesus became our substitute. He substituted His life for our life and He substituted His death for our death.

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03: Who Is Jesus Christ – Lesson Plan — 2 Comments

Miguel Bernui on April 14, 2015 at 2:56 am said:

Excellent lesson plan. God bless your ministry.

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Roy Parham, Sr on April 14, 2015 at 5:14 am said:

Jesus had to be both God and man

When our first parents sinned it put heaven into a dilemma. God is a merciful God but He is also a just God.

When man sinned, the law said, the wadges of sin is death, eternal death

The Mercy of God wanted to save man, but the Justice of God said according to the law, he must die eternal death

God could not change His law for He is God and He changes not. If God changed His law to accommodate the sin of man, then all of the other worlds would think that it is alright to sin for God will change his law to save us. God, loves us to much to kill us. Then it would give all the children of Adam the OK to sin for God will change His law just to save us.

God could have forgiven man and ignored the penalty of the law. If He did that no one would take God seriously. Then He would have to apologize to Lucifer for not doing the same thing to him. Every parent knows that if you promise to punish your child and don’t follow through with it, that child will never take you serious and he will do it again.

Man could not die for himself for justice demanded eternal death and the only death that man could die for himself is eternal death..

Angels could had died for man, but that would not satisfy Justice for three reasons:
1. That would not be fair to the angel to die eternally for guilty man
2. Angels are created beings, for an Angel to substitute his life for mans life is just like a man that was given the death sentence but substitute his dog in his place. It was just not be the same. That would never satisfy Justice.

No angel could atone for our sin of unbelief and rebellion. If God had sent an angel to die for us, it wouldn’t heal our doubts about His love. If He had said, “Would you believe I love you if I sent someone else to die for you?” that would not be love. That would just be throwing one of His created beings under the bus! The only way that God could cure our rebellion and sin of unbelief in His love, is if He died for us Himself! Saying I love you enough to die for you, means a lot more than saying I love you enough to send an angel to die for you. (Posted on January 2, 20114 by William Earnhardt)

3. Angels cannot give eternal life, so his death cannot satisfy the demand of eternal death.

The only person who could satisfy the demand of eternal death is the person who can give eternal life

However, as a loving mother cannot stand to see her guilty son die in the gas chamber, the Mercy of God could not stand to see guilty man die an eternal death

Therefore Jesus as the Eternal Life Giver, volunteered to die for guilty man.

Justice said, that cannot be. For the wadges of sin is eternal death. You are God, You are life itself. You cannot die. Even if you tried to kill yourself God cannot die.

But Mercy said no! Then I will become a man. I will cover my Divinity with Humanity so I can die for man.

So God became a man so He could die for man.

However, the enemy waged war against Jesus. Satan said, “It won’t be that easy. You may defeat me as God, but if you become a man trying to save man from going to Hell, then I will give you Hell.

Jesus said, I don’t care if I have to suffer, I love the church and I will suffer and die for the church

So Jesus became a man, and married the church. Became one with man (Genesis 2:24 - For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. NIV). Christ became a man so that He could substitute His life for man.

As a man He could taste eternal death
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
So as Man Jesus could taste eternal death for man, but as God He could resurrect His humanity with eternal life.

John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

In His birth He covered His Divinity with Humanity so that He could die for us. In His death He covered our humanity with His Divinity so that we might live with Him.

So Jesus became our substitute. He substituted His life for our life and He substituted His death for our death.

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