This is the final episode on 1 John, chapter four, verses 1-6 and it's called, "Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?" We live in an age of growing skepticism when it comes to the claims of the Bible and, specifically, the message of the gospel. People have no problem believing that Jesus existed as an historical figure. But they have difficulty accepting His deity and the idea of His being the sacrifice for the sins of mankind. So, they invent a different Jesus. They come up with a way to explain away His divinity, by stressing His humanity. And they downplay His role as a Savior by denying the reality of sin. For so many in John's day, Jesus was seen as a revolutionary who came to change the world, but they refused to see Him as the Savior of the world. And we face the same kind of resistance to the gospel message today. There are so many views about Jesus that it's hard to keep up with them all. And the greatest problem is that these false views find their way into the thinking of self-proclaimed Christ-followers. Their belief in Jesus becomes tainted by a worldly view of who He was and a human perspective that attempts explain away the sacrificial nature of His death and the need for salvation from sin.
