THE Greatest Man

Guest: David Salas 

Salas - didn’t have a father-figure - now reading Proverbs, the phrase, “My son” takes on new meaning and significance…

What’s the one role of a father? To point them to their heavenly Father. All the lesser things are important, but the greatest thing is to help them satisfy their greatest need - to know who they are as an image bearer of God.

Thomas Watson - great men are the mirror by which ordinary men dress themselves!

If you made a list of the “greatest men in history” - who would make that list? Would Jesus? That’s an interesting question!

Salas - Jesus really “mans like a man should man”!

Do we consider Jesus a “great man”? We should - here’s why we should recognize Jesus as THE GREATEST MAN:

1. Meekness - strength under control - you never get the sense that Jesus was anything but in control
2. Never sinned - only man to fully withstand temptation
3. Elevated the status of women - traveled with him, financed his ministry, woman at the well (talked to her, first person he told that he was the Messiah), woman caught in adultery (went down to her level, raised her to his level)
4. Teaching on marriage
5. Incredible balance between courage and conviction, strength and surrender 
6. Came not to be served, but to serve
7. Spoke truth to others
8. Suffered joyfully

The Chosen - great series from Dallas Jenkins on the life and “manhood” of Jesus

 

A Woman Caught in Adultery - John 8:1-11

Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust. 9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

IF you had to choose between your children being wealthy, healthy or walking in the truth - which would you select and what are you doing to train your children in that concept?

Take-away: spend some time examining the person and life of Jesus - read the Gospel letters of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament, and then, if you want to see a cinematic rendition of Jesus, watch The Chosen.