Identity Crisis - Week Five

Week 5 – Jesus is GloriousAs people, we all know what it’s like to question who we are and what our purpose is. But what about the identity of Jesus? Do we know who He is? The real Jesus not just the image we have of Him? His identity changes everything about who we are trying to be as Christians.Jesus is Glorious.John 11:1 ESVJohn 11:2 ESVJohn 11:3 ESVJohn 11:4-6 ESVJohn11:14-15 ESV “…Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe…”Job 42:5 ESV  “I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.”God will often delay His power in order to reveal His glory.John 11:17-35 ESVFrom the Message – John 11:33 “When Jesus saw her sobbing and the Jews with her sobbing, a deep anger welled up within him.”John 11:34-35 ESV  “And he said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ 35 Jesus wept.”Jesus is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end…but He’s also present at every step in between.“Our tendency is to feel intuitively that the more difficult life gets, the more alone we are. As we sink further into pain, we sink further into felt isolation. The Bible corrects us. Our pain never outstrips what he himself shares in. We are never alone. That sorrow that feels so isolating, so unique, was endured by him in the past and is now shouldered by him in the present.” – Dane Ortlund Gentle and LowlyJohn 11:38-44 ESVJohn 11:2 ESV “It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.”Revelation 21:1-5a NLTRevelation 22:3-5 NLT