What is your picture of God?

Culture inspires that picture.

In America, we picture Him as Caucasian.

In Africa, He is thought of as black.

In Israel, He has a middle eastern look.

According to archeology finds of the people from the area where Jesus lived, He was most likely small in stature, had a short beard and had short curly hair.

We draw from our backgrounds, the people who surround us and so forth.

Some feel He is near, others that He is far off and still others believe He's unapproachable.

Why do we have such marred views of Christ?

Are you just playing religion or are you trusting Christ by an intimate loving relationship?

Sinner, God will meet your needs!

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - John 14:6

10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; 

11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.  - Romans 3:10-11

1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst

4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

5 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"

6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.

9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

10 Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]] - John 8:1-11

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.  - Jeremiah 17:13

Jesus is our Savior!

There is no other!

Will your name be blotted out?

Or will your name be found written in the blood of Jesus, covered, forgiven, justified, and sanctified?

You are helpless!

You are a slave to sin!

Receive the mercy that Christ is offering!

Christ is holding His arms open!

He will adopt you!

He is risen!!!

Jesus is our Savior!

15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. - John 8:15-16

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. - John 3:17

Thanks Pastor Matt!!