Sermon Notes September 13, 2026

About Jesus

“Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door” 

 Colossians 1:15-20, ”The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.”

  1. Jesus is one of the most documented figures in ___________.
  2. If there’s any truth to any of this Christian stuff, then there ought to be some kind of _____________________ between the prophesies about Jesus and Jesus Himself.

 A Few Prophecies About Jesus

Isaiah 9:7 – from David              Jeremiah 31:15- Slaughter of children  

Genesis 49:10 – from Judah       Zechariah 11:12-13 – Price of betrayal

Isaiah 11:1 – from Jesse             Isaiah 53:12 – crucified

Micah 5:2 – at Bethlehem           Psalm 22:7-8 – gambling for clothing

  1. The most singular event attributed to the life of Jesus — the  _________________________.

 See 1st Corinthians 15:14-17, 19. 

  1. People will die for what they ______________ to be true, even though it may be false. But people don’t have a tendency to die for what they know is a _____________.

 See John 8:48-59, Exodus 3:14