The Company Jesus Kept // Who is Jesus, Part 1

<p>You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. So that begs the question then, what company did Jesus keep and what does it tell us about Him?</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Calling Fishermen</strong></span></h3> <p>Well, it’s great to be with you again at the beginning of a new series and I really hope you have had a good week. It’s amazing how the year is already slipping by and here we are; well we are heading toward Easter. Can you believe it? And it feels as though we only just had Christmas.</p> <p>I was thinking about the whole Easter thing and how to approach it this year. I was wondering whether, together, we couldn‘t start earlier this year? I mean the Easter bunnies and the whole chocolate eggs thing aside, it seems to me that the central question of Easter is – who is Jesus; exactly, who is He? What’s He like? If He were to walk into my life or into your life right now, what would He be like? What would it be like to be around Him?</p> <p>It’s so easy to take someone who lived, well, two thousand years ago and turn Him into a kind of a stained glass window. But if He is going to be relevant; if He’s going to make a difference, well, what’s He like?</p> <p>So that’s why we are beginning a new series this week called, <em>“Who is Jesus?”</em> And over these next four weeks, as we head towards Easter, we are simply going to take a look at some snap shots - almost like going to a photograph album and looking at pictures of Jesus - but instead of going to a photo album we are going to go to the Bible; God’s Word. So if you have it, grab it and open it up. We are going to begin in Matthew chapter 4 and look at the first snap shot of Jesus.</p> <p>Where I live – just a few minutes drive from my home - is a wonderful fish market. And early in the morning when you go down there, it’s pretty quiet, later it gets a bit of a bustle. And there’s a huge array of fish and oysters and mussels and shell fish – you wonder where it all comes from. And at Christmastime there are so