March 25 - What We Believe: The Holy Spirit

Lesson Plans:  What We Believe – The Holy Spirit

Texts:

John 14:15-31

The Father Will Send the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey what I command. ¹⁶ I will ask the Father. And he will give you another Friend to help you and to be with you forever. ¹⁷ The Friend is the Spirit of truth. The world can't accept him. That is because the world does not see him or know him. But you know him. He lives with you, and he will be in you.

¹⁸ "I will not leave you like children who don't have parents. I will come to you.

¹⁹ "Before long, the world will not see me anymore. But you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father. You will know that you are in me, and I am in you.

²¹ "Anyone who has my commands and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the one who loves me. I too will love him. And I will show myself to him."

²² Then Judas spoke. "Lord," he said, "why do you plan to show yourself only to us? Why not also to the world?" The Judas who spoke those words was not Judas Iscariot.

²³ Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love him. We will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. The words you hear me say are not my own. They belong to the Father who sent me.

²⁵ "I have spoken all these things while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the Father will send the Friend in my name to help you. The Friend is the Holy Spirit. He will teach you all things. He will remind you of everything I have said to you.

²⁷ "I leave my peace with you. I give my peace to you. I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be troubled. And do not be afraid.

²⁸ "You heard me say, 'I am going away. And I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad I am going to the Father. The Father is greater than I am. ²⁹ I have told you now before it happens. Then when it does happen, you will believe.

³⁰ "I will not speak with you much longer. The prince of this world is coming. He has no power over me. ³¹ But the world must learn that I love the Father. They must also learn that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me to do. Come now. Let us leave. “

Overview:

This lesson marks the final puzzle piece of the series of lessons on the Trinity.  Whew!  We made it!  The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity.  The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father.  Like Jesus, the Holy Spirit is in perfect union with the rest of the Trinity.  Like Jesus, the Holy Spirit has always been.  “He” was present and active in the creation of the world.  The Spirit continues to be active in our lives today.

Each person of the Trinity has their own distinctness that helps us identify with them by the way they interact with us.  The Holy Spirit is our most intimate connection to the Trinity in that we have direct contact with him.  The Holy Spirit dwells in us after we receive him in Baptism.  It is the Holy Spirit that serves as our guide and counselor.  He is the one that helps us to understand scripture, helps us to pray, gives us guidance in matters of conscience, calls upon us to act in charity, and inspires us to fully engage the spiritual gifts and virtues.  When we open our mouths to evangelize it is the Holy Spirit that speaks.  When we begin to see our true potential as God has created us and understand our likeness, it is through the eyes of the Holy Spirit.  What we see of God’s revelation, the Holy Spirit has pointed to.  The sacraments are carried out through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit was the conduit through which Jesus was incarnate in Mary.  The Spirit acts in miracles and divine revelation.  He is a busy guy!

His place in the Trinity is thus:  Those who bear the Spirit are led to the Word (the Son), and the Son presents them to the Father.  It is impossible to see God’s Son without the Spirit, and no one can approach the Father without the Son, because the knowledge of the Father is through the Son and the knowledge of the Son is obtained through the Holy Spirit.  It happens this way whether we are aware of it or not.  In other words, we may not be aware of how the Spirit is working in us, but any faith we have is because the Holy Spirit has made it possible. 

This is how intimate a relationship we have with the Holy Spirit.  He is not only aware of our deepest and most secret thoughts, he’s in there working on them.  Obviously God is not into mind control, so we are “advised” by the Holy Spirit rather than controlled by him.  When we surrender our will to God, we are allowing the Holy Spirit greater influence on our thoughts, choices, and actions.  We listen more closely to that “little voice.”  Our conscience becomes more developed and we feel an aversion to doing that which will be displeasing to God. 

In the passage from John above, we read about the time when Jesus explained to the disciples that he would be leaving them, but he wouldn’t leave them alone.  He would leave “another Counselor” (paraclete) with them.  Jesus had begun something very important with this ragtag band of followers.  They would need continued guidance as they began to build Christ’s Church after his ascension.  As future members of this body, the Church, we too are given the gift of the Holy Spirit. 

Of course, in order for the disciples to have even been able to recognize Jesus as the Son of God, the Holy Spirit was already working in them.  This new pouring out of Christ’s Spirit in his followers represents a beautiful concept in our faith.  We can be renewed.  We can be equipped.  Throughout the New Testament you will see the phrase “and so-and-so was filled with the Holy Spirit.”  You might ask yourself, wasn’t this Apostle (or believer of one kind or another) already filled with the Holy Spirit?  The good news is that when God picks a task for us, he pours his Spirit into us in order to motivate, inspire and equip us.  We’re just humans and we can lose steam, become distracted, or simply need to prepare for something bigger than we have ever done before.  In the words of Nicky Gumbel of the Alpha Course fame, “Our God is the God of free refills.”  It seems we can never be too full of the Holy Spirit and God is only too happy to keep on pouring.

You could add “Power Refill” to the many names of the Holy Spirit.  From the list above of the many things that the Holy Spirit does within or for us you could gather a number of names for the Holy Spirit.  Again, the names help us understand the character of the Paraclete.  His other names will reflect the more “hands-on” relationship we can have with this third person of the Trinity.

The relationship we have with the Holy Spirit, as mentioned above, is the means by which we gain access to God.  Without the Spirit, we cannot connect to Jesus who shows us to the Father.  The Holy Spirit makes you receptive to God.  The Spirit teaches you to pray and helps you to be there for others. The Holy Spirit is responsible for the “Gifts of the Holy Spirit” (wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord) and the “Fruits” (charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity).  We must work with the Holy Spirit to develop these gifts and virtues.

PreK-Kinder Lesson Notes:                                                                                                          

This class will focus on the gift that Jesus gave his Church, the Holy Spirit.  When Jesus was preparing to leave his friends, he told them he would not leave them alone.  He would leave a special friend with them who would remain with them always.  The Holy Spirit is this gift.  The Holy Spirit is our special friend who lives inside our hearts.  HE was a gift to us when we got baptized.  He is with us always.  He helps us to make good choices.  He helps us to learn about God.  He helps understand when God is trying to tell us something.  When you do something bad and you’re mom says, “You know better!”  She’s right, you do.  The Holy Spirit helps us to know right from wrong.  When we feel bad that we are doing something wrong, that’s the Holy Spirit saying, “I don’t think you should do that.”  The Spirit is inside us all the time even when we forget about him.  He never forgets about us. 

Objectives:

·         Introduce students to the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is one of the three parts of God that we’ve been talking about for a few weeks. 

·         The Spirit is with us always.  The Spirit lives in us because He “moved in” when we were baptized.

·         Help students understand one of the ways we interact with the Spirit.  He is our conscience.  You may need to explain what conscience is – knowing right from wrong and wanting to do right.

Activities:

·         Present the children with a few situations in which a good choice or a bad choice can be made.  Ask them which is which.  Which would they prefer to do and why?  How do they know which thing is good and which is bad.  Why do they want to do the good thing?  Their conscience is helping them know right from wrong and helping them make a good choice.

Crafts:

·         Make a Pinwheel.  One of the symbols of the Holy Spirit is wind.  Use the pinwheel pattern below to precut the pinwheel shape.  You can attach the paper to a drinking straw, wooden dowel, or a chop stick.  Have the children decorate the pinwheel with flames or other appropriate symbols.

·         Make a Good Choice/Bad Choice detector.  Supplies:  paper plates, markers, glue/tape/staples.  Have the students draw a happy face on the convex side of one paper plate, then a sad face on the convex side of a second plate.  Attach the two plates with tape, staples or glue.  If you’d like, you can add a stick handle using a ruler or a paint stirrer.  Run through some scenarios in which people are making good and bad choices and ask the children to show you the happy face when they hear a good choice and a sad face when they hear a bad choice. 

Lower Elementary Lesson Notes:                                                                                                

This class will focus on the names of the Holy Spirit.  Hopefully by now, the students are getting the hang of this.  The names of the Holy Spirit are listed on a separate sheet. 

Objectives:

·         Help children understand the role of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 

·         How many of the names on the list apply to ways they feel the Holy Spirit acting in their lives?

Activities:

·         Discuss ways in which the Holy Spirit helps us. 

·         Go on a field trip into the church to look for symbols of the Holy Spirit in the stained glass, linens and woodwork.  Hint:  There’s a dove over the baptismal font.  Where is there a flame?

Crafts:

·         Gel paint spray flames.  Make a solution of unsweetened Koolaid and hair gel and fill three spray bottles (red, orange and yellow).  Spray onto sections of poster board, then cover with clear wrap.  Using fingers draw swirls and shapes that depict a flame while blending the red, orange and yellow paints together (not completely).  Once the flames are complete, use a stylus (or the back of a paint brush) to draw one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit in the center of the flame.  (Dove, oil, water, light, wind)

Upper Elementary Lesson Notes:                                                                                                

This class will focus on how the Holy Spirit works in us.  We are given the Holy Spirit in baptism.  The Holy Spirit never leaves us.  Throughout our lifetime, the Spirit is trying to help us grow in our faith.  Whether it is helping guide our consciences, helping us understand scripture, developing the Fruits in us, or make Christ known to us in the sacraments, the Holy Spirit is always there for us.  The Spirit is like the seed in the Parable of the Sower.  We must feed it to help it grow.

The Gifts of the Spirit are:

Wisdom – able to judge rightly and desire what God wants

Understanding – seeing clearly into our faith

Counsel – guidance in practical matters

Fortitude – loving God no matter what

Knowledge – seeing God in all things

Piety – showing love and reverence for God

Fear of the Lord – having love that keeps us from offending God with sin.

These are things the Holy Spirit helps us to develop in our relationship with God.

The Fruits of the Spirit are:

charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity

These are things the Holy Spirit helps us to develop in our relationship with others. 

The Holy Spirit doesn’t leave these things fully developed for us like Easter eggs.  We have to make an effort to develop these things like growing a seed.  The more we use these gifts, the better they get. 

Objectives:

·         Help students understand how the Spirit is working in them.  Beyond helping them with their conscience, the Spirit helps them develop their gifts and fruits.

·         Give an overview of the gifts and fruits.  Ask the children how these things are helpful.

·         Make sure the children know that the Holy Spirit is always with them, right there inside them.  Whenever God calls them to do something he will always “fill them with the Spirit” so that they are equipped and encouraged to do whatever He asks.

Activities:

·         Have the children give examples of each of the fruits.  Children can take turns acting out scenarios involving each of the fruits.  See if the other students can guess what they are acting out.

·         Matching Glove Game.  Supplies:  Several pairs of different types of gloves and a bandana.  Blindfold a student and place a glove on their hand.  Have them try to find the matching glove in a pile of gloves.  The gloves illustrate how we can be “filled” with the Holy Spirit.

Crafts:

·         Make a Fruits of the Spirit Fruit Basket.  Supplies:  colored paper, scissors, hole punch, yarn, markers.  Have the students cut out basic shapes of different fruits.  They’ll need 12.  One each piece of fruit they will write the name of one of the Fruits of the Spirit.  Have them hole punch each piece and then tie them all together with yarn.  These fruit cards can be a reminder to try to exercise the Fruits every day.  Suggest that at the end of each day, the students flip through the Fruit cards and try to identify when they have done each fruit that day.  If they find there are some fruits they didn’t practice that day, they have a reminder to try again the next day. 

Titles and names

Of the Holy Spirit

Breath of the Almighty (Job 33:4).
Comforter (John 14:16, 26; 15:26).
Eternal Spirit (Hebrews 9:14).
Free Spirit (Psalms 51:12).
God (Acts 5:3, 4).
Good Spirit (Nehemiah 9:20; Psalms 143:10).
Holy Spirit (Psalms 51:11; Luke 11:13; Ephesians 1:13; 4:30).
Power of the Highest (Luke 1:35).
Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15).
Spirit of burning (Isaiah 4:4).
Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9; 1 Peter 1:11).
Spirit of counsel (Isaiah 11:2).
Spirit of glory (1 Peter 4:14).
Spirit of God (Genesis 1:2; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Job 33:4).
Spirit of grace (Zechariah 12:10; Hebrews 10:29).
Spirit of holiness (Romans 1:4).
Spirit of judgment (Isaiah 4:4; 28:6).
Spirit of knowledge (Isaiah 11:2).
Spirit of life (Romans 8:2; Revelation 11:11).
Spirit of might (Isaiah 11:2).
Spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10).
Spirit of revelation (Ephesians 1:17).
Spirit of the Father (Matthew 10:20).
Spirit of the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2).
Spirit of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2; Acts 5:9).
Spirit of the Lord God (Isaiah 61:1).
Spirit of the Son (Galatians 4:6).
Spirit of truth (John 14:17; 15:26).
Spirit of understanding (Isaiah 11:2).
Spirit of wisdom (Isaiah 11:2; Ephesians 1:17).
Spirit (Matthew 4:1; John 3:6; 1 Timothy 4:1).

Counselor

Comforter

Teacher

Spirit of Truth

Symbols:

The Dove

Healing Ointment (Oil)

Living Water

A Raging Storm

A Flaming Fire

Light

Wind

March 18 - What We Believe - Jesus

Lesson Plans:  What We Believe – Jesus

Relevant Texts:

John 10:1-18

The Shepherd and the Flock

 1 "What I'm about to tell you is true. What if someone does not enter the sheep pen through the gate but climbs in another way? That person is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him. The sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought all of his own sheep out, he goes on ahead of them. His sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger. In fact, they will run away from him. They don't recognize a stranger's voice."

 6 Jesus used this story. But the Jews who were there didn't understand what he was telling them.

 7 So Jesus said again, "What I'm about to tell you is true. I am like a gate for the sheep. 8 All those who ever came before me were thieves and robbers. But the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I'm like a gate. Anyone who enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out. And he will find plenty of food. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so they can have life. I want them to have it in the fullest possible way.

 11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. 12 The hired man is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when the hired man sees the wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired man. He does not care about the sheep.

 14 "I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my sheep know me. 15 They know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I give my life for the sheep.

 16 "I have other sheep that do not belong to this sheep pen. I must bring them in too. They also will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

 17 "The reason my Father loves me is that I give up my life. But I will take it back again. 18 No one takes it from me. I give it up myself. I have the authority to give it up. And I have the authority to take it back again. I received this command from my Father."

Overview:

This is the second installment in the series on the Trinity.  Jesus is the second person of the Trinity.  He was begotten by the Father.  It is through Jesus that God the Father carries out the pinnacle act of his plan of salvation.  Though it happened 2000 years ago, Christ’s atoning death also exists outside of time and acts on the souls of people who yet to be born. 

Jesus may be the most familiar person of the Trinity because he became human and lived among us.  It’s easier to connect with someone like us.  We can sort of understand Jesus as a man.  Jesus had a finite human life in which he experienced earthly things and accomplished tasks.  There isn’t anything mysterious about that.  People saw and heard him.  The “historic” Jesus is concrete enough for us that we can understand the concept of him even at an early age.  Very young people may not understand the full story of his atoning and sacrificial acts, but they can know how he treated people and what he taught.

One of the things Jesus did to help people understand him was to compare himself to a shepherd.  In fact, one of the many names of Jesus is “the Good Shepherd.”  There are several places in Jesus’ conversations where he makes reference to the care of sheep in the context of him being the shepherd.  The passage above refers to the Good Shepherd narrative in which Jesus describes how he cares for his flock and how they respond.  It’s a beautiful story of Jesus’ gentle and fiercely protective care. We can easily and personally connect to this story as the sheep.  This is a story that is easy for young children to understand as well. 

The Good Shepherd is just one of many names for Jesus.  Like the many names of God that we looked at last week, the names of Jesus tell us about his character.  Though Jesus is fully united with the other persons of the Trinity, the names we see are ways that we can know Jesus in his distinctness from the other persons.  Jesus’ incarnation gives him a different category in which we relate to him as a fully human person.  This humanity shows up in some of the names in the list below.

As if the nature of the Trinity isn’t confusing enough, within one of the persons of the Trinity exists two natures.  Jesus is both fully God and fully man.  He is able to be 100% both things at the same time.  He does not have to set aside one nature to let the other exist.  In fact, there are a few heresies based on people not understanding this dual nature.  What is most important that we understand is that when Jesus was incarnate (made man), it was complete.  He wasn’t just sort of human or even super human.  He was a regular person in is humanity.  The only thing that set him apart from other humans is that he is the only human that was perfect.  He was completely without sin.  He lived life the way we do.  He ate, drank, slept, hurt, bled, got tried, angry, sad and happy.  At the same time, Jesus did not set aside his godhood.  He was perfectly united with his Father and the Holy Spirit throughout his incarnation.  Jesus was the ultimate multi-tasker! 

PreK – Kinder Lesson Notes:                                                                                                       

This group will be learning about the Good Shepherd.  The Good Shepherd is a loving and approachable image of God, Our Savior.  Children at this age cannot understand death and would not be able to make the connections of an atoning death.  Instead this is the time to teach them how much Jesus loves them.  He cares for them in the same way a really dedicated shepherd cares for his sheep.  Jesus explains this in the reading from John above. 

Objectives: 

·         Help the children understand that the shepherd in the story is Jesus and we are his sheep.

·         The way that the shepherd cares for the sheep is the way that Jesus cares for us.  

·         Even though we don’t see Jesus with us today, he still takes care of us just the way the shepherd did in the story.

·         Jesus knows us very personally the way the shepherd knows his sheep.  For example, he knows them all by name. 

·         The sheep know their master by his voice and by his care.  We know Jesus by his Word and his care.

·         We are kept safe in Jesus’ Church the way the sheep were safe in the sheepfold.

Activity:

·         Illustrate the story of the Good Shepherd as you tell it by using the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd story set.  This is a round sheep pen with a shepherd and a dozen sheep all made of wood.  It is in the shelves by the door.  As you speak move the figures to represent the action of the story.  To draw the children into the story speak quietly, be very focused on the set in front of you, and do not speak when you are moving the figures.  Speak, then move for each little piece of the story. You’ll be amazed at how captivated the children will be. 

Crafts:

·         Color a picture of Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

·         Cotton Ball Sheep.  These can be made in a number of ways from flat to 3D with a variety of materials.

·         Shepherd TP Roll Craft from http://www.dltk-bible.com/mabel.htm Materials you will need for the shepherd are a tp roll, printer, glue, scissors, something to color with and a piece of paper.

INSTRUCTIONS

       Print out the template of choice.

       Color the pieces as appropriate and cut them out.

       Glue the large rectangular piece around the toilet paper tube.

       Glue the long rectangle (belt) around the middle of the tube.

       Glue the head onto the top of the tube and the arms on the sides.

       Fold the tabs of the feet and glue them under the tube to make a 3 D effect.

       Glue the sheep into the shepherd's arms or onto the front of the tube near his feet.

Lower Elementary Lesson Notes:                                                                                                

This class will continue its study of the names of each of the persons of the Trinity.  The names of Jesus teach us a lot about who is, what he did and does, and his character.  The list of names of Jesus is in a separate document.  Look it over and make sure your favorite name is in there.  Share that with your students.

Objectives:

·         Help students understand Jesus’ character based on the names he has been called in scripture an over the years. 

·         Help students understand that some of Jesus’ names reflect him being a man who lived among us and some of his names reflect him being God.

·         Help students develop a more personal relationship with Jesus by knowing his many “nicknames.”

Activities:

·         Look at the list of names and decide which names describe a human and which are more appropriate to God.  Make a chart of the different types of names.  Some may fit in both categories depending on how you think about them.

·         Have the children pick out a name they had not heard before.  Ask them to say what that name makes them think of and why they like it.

·         Let the children share what name they think of when they are thinking of Jesus. 

Crafts:

·         Name of Jesus Windsock.  Supplies:  white paper (some in one piece, some cut into long strips), glue sticks, tape, hole punch, markers, yarn.  Have the students fold their full piece of paper into thirds making good creases in the paper.  Unfold and decorate each section with a different name of Jesus.  One side should say “Jesus.”  The other two can be the following different translations of the name. 

In Hebrew, it looks like this:

יֵשׁוּעַ = Yeshua

            In Greek it is:

ΙΗΣΟΥΣ

Using the long sections of paper, the children will write different names of Jesus from the list.  They can put as many on one “streamer” as they like.  Be sure to leave a space at the top for gluing to the body of the windsock so that no part of the words are lost in the attachment.  They can decorate the triangle and the strips with bright markers (using Christian symbols would be great).  Attach all the streamers to the bottom of the windsock while it is still unfolded.  Then bring the two short edges together to form the triangular tube.  This can be closed with tape.  Make two hole punches at the top and string with yarn for hanging.

Upper Elementary Lesson Notes:                                                                                                

This class will focus on the dual nature of Jesus.  Jesus was fully God and fully man.  His natures were indivisible.  This is a hard concept to understand because we can’t do it.  We don’t have any other example of it.  One way that we can see two distinctly different natures happening at the same time is in an inanimate object.  Think of a candle.  The flame emits both light and heat.  The light is not heat because a flashlight is not hot.  The heat is not light because a heating blanket emits no light.  Each of these natures is distinct, different and yet present at the same time in the same place.  Their source is the flame.  Jesus is like this.  He is both God and man at the same time.  These distinct properties are emitted from the same source.

Objectives:

·         Help the children understand that Jesus was fully God and fully man.  Jesus was not just born a man leaving behind his godliness to try out being human for a while.  Jesus was also not just a visiting God having nothing in common with those he came to see (He was not like Superman, hiding his superpowers under his street clothes).  He was always both at the same time.

·         Explain the dual nature of Jesus in the context of the candle flame.

Activity:

·         Demonstrate the aspects of light and heat mentioned above so that the children can see the two aspects as separate.  Bring a candle, a flashlight, and something that emits heat without light (like a heating pad). 

Craft:

·         Make candles.  These can be made by rolling beeswax, melting wax beads, or even decorating a premade candle.  Be sure to instruct the children never to light a candle without an adult present. 

Names of Jesus:

Advocate 1Jo 2:1
Almighty Rev 1:8
Alpha and Omega Rev 1:8; 22:13
Amen Rev 3:14
Apostle of Our Profession Heb 3:1
Arm of the Lord Is 51:9; 53:1
Author and Finisher of our Faith Heb 12:2
Author of Eternal Salvation Heb 5:9
Beginning of the Creation of God Rev 3:14
Beloved Son Matt 12:18
Blessed and only Potentate 1Tim 6:15
Branch Is 4:2
Bread of Life Jo 6:32
Captain of Salvation Heb 2:10
Chief Shepherd 1Pet 5:4
Christ of God Lu 9:20
Consolation of Israel Lu 2:25
Cornerstone Ps 118:22
Counsellor Is 9:6
Creator Jo 1:3
Dayspring Lu 1:78
Deliverer Rom 11:26
Desired of All Nations Hag 2:7
Door Jo 10:7
Elect of God Is 42:1
Everlasting Father Is 9:6
Faithful Witness Rev 1:5
First and Last Rev 1:17
First Begotten Rev 1:5
Forerunner Heb 6:20
Glory of the Lord Is 40:5
God Is 40:3; Jo 20:28
God Blessed Rom 9:5
Good Shepherd Jo 10:11
Governor Matt 2:6
Great High Priest Heb 4:14
Head of the Church Eph 1:22
Heir of all Things Heb 1:2
Holy Child Acts 4:27
Holy One of Israel Is 41:14
Horn of Salvation Lu 1:69
I Am Jo 8:58
Image of God 2Cor 4:4
Immanuel Is 7:14
Jehovah Is 26:4
Jesus Matt 1:21
Jesus of Nazareth Matt 21:11
Judge of Israel Mic 5:1
Just One Acts 7:52
King Zech 9:9
King of Kings 1Tim 6:15
King of Saints Rev 15:3
King of the Ages 1Tim 1:17
King of the Jews Matt 2:2
Lawgiver Is 33:22
Lamb Rev 13:8
Lamb of God Jo 1:29
Leader Is 55:4
Life Jo 14:6
Light of the World Jo 8:12
Lion of the Tribe of Judah Rev 5:5
Lord of All Acts 10:36
Lord of Glory 1Cor 2:8
Lord of Lords 1Tim 6:15
Lord Our Righteousness Jer 23:6
Man of Sorrows Is 53:3
Mediator 1 Tim 2:5
Messenger of the Covenant Mal 3:1
Messiah Dan 9:25; Jo 1:41
Mighty God Is 9:6
Mighty One Is 60:16
Morning Star Rev 22:16
Nazarene Matt 2:23
Only Begotten Son Jo 1:18
Our Passover 1Cor 5:7
Prince of Kings Rev 1:5
Prince of Life Acts 3:15
Prince of Peace Prophet Lu 24:19; Acts 3:22
Redeemer Job 10:25
Resurrection and Life Jo 11:25
Redemption 1Co 1:30
Righteousness 1Co 1:30
Rock 1Cor 10:4
Root of David Rev 22:16
Rose of Sharon SofS 2:1
Sanctification 1Co 1:30
Savior Lu 2:11
Son of David Matt 1:1
Son of God Matt 2:15
Son of Man Matt 8:20
Son of Righteousness Mal 4:2
Son of the Blessed Mk 14:61
Son of the Highest Lu1:32
True Light Jo 1:9
True Vine Jo 15:1
Truth Jo 1:14
Wisdom 1Co 1:30
Witness Is 55:4
Word Jo 1:1
Word of God Rev 19:13