Jesus #2: He Is the Scriptures — Why the Whole Bible Is About Jesus

He is the Scriptures: that is the heart of this second message in the Jesus series. Dr. William P. Hohman teaches that the Bible is not ultimately about Israel, about prophecy charts or even about us. It is the revelation of one Person, Jesus. Read it only for promises and it will let you down; read it looking for Him and you find life and love. This message continues from Jesus #1, the introduction to the series.

Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline and practical steps for the week.

Sermon at a Glance

This is the second message in a six-part series at NTC Ministries called Jesus. It runs just under an hour and closes with a call to commitment. Pastor Hohman begins by recapping the introduction: Jesus is not merely a religious figurehead. He lived before He was conceived in Mary’s womb, He created all things, and He had no beginning and has no ending.

From there he builds to one central claim, drawn from John 5: the Scriptures testify of Jesus. Knowing Him personally, not just knowing about Him, is what protects believers from deception and opens up a life of love and obedience.

The Firstborn and the Last Adam

Pastor Hohman opens by restating that Jesus created everything. He is not, as some groups teach, a created being who is the brother of Adam or of Michael the archangel. He is God. The Bible calls Him the firstborn of all creation, and in the Hebrew family, he reminds the church, the firstborn is the one responsible for managing the affairs and business of the family.

He draws a careful distinction. God is in charge and Jesus is managing, but that does not mean God controls every choice. God has given people a free will. Any manager knows that the people under his supervision sometimes make foolish decisions, and that is not because he is in charge; it is because they did their own thing. The answer is to do what God wants, and He will show you liberty beyond what you can comprehend.

Jesus is also the last Adam. Adam was given responsibility over everything and fell; Jesus came to undo Adam’s mess and give the blessings Adam was meant to pass on. That is why communion matters: “This is My body” means His broken body took away the curse, and His blood brings the blessings of God. He wore a crown of thorns to take away the thorns and thistles of the curse.

Even the garden carries the picture. Adam was told to keep the garden. When Mary Magdalene stood outside the empty tomb, she turned and supposed the risen Jesus was the gardener (John 20:15). Everything was done, he says, to purchase back life and give it more abundantly. And Jesus did not come only to get us to heaven; He came to bring heaven to us and to deliver us from the corruption of this present time.

He Is the Scriptures: A Book About One Person

Here Pastor Hohman states the theme plainly. The Bible is a revelation of one Person. Israel is in the Bible, but the Bible is not about Israel. It is not about Adam and Eve, Moses, Abraham or even us. “The Bible’s about Jesus, period.”

He applies this to the book of Revelation. Many people read it wanting to know what will happen to America, Israel, Britain, Russia or China. But it is a revelation of Jesus. When believers forget that, they read the Bible for things, dates and times, feeding an intellect that wants to feel superior, and they end up saying it does not work. God says all you have to do is know Jesus. He will let you know what you need to know, because He is your all in all.

That knowledge does not come through the intellect. It comes through a broken heart given to Him. He reads John 14:1–6, where Thomas admits he does not know the way, and Jesus answers, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus is our way to the Father, Pastor Hohman says, and He is also everyone’s destination, so we had better know who He is.

The last days will bring false christs and false prophets, and people will be deceived because they know of Jesus without knowing Him intimately. Peter shows the alternative. When Jesus asked who people said He was, the answers were John the Baptist, Elijah or a prophet. Peter said He was the Christ, the Son of the living God, and Jesus answered that flesh and blood had not revealed this, but His Father in heaven (Matthew 16:13–17). It was revelation placed in the heart, and that is what brings life.

The Fullness of Time and the Promised Seed

Jesus often spoke of eternal things to temporal people bound in corruption, so they invented their own interpretations. To show that even time is part of creation, Pastor Hohman reads Genesis 1:14, where God made lights in the heavens for signs, seasons, days and years. God has no time; He is eternal. He created time as a measurement for us to live by.

Then he turns to Galatians 4:4–5: when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law. What makes the right time? Farmers know. Every seed has a germination time. His new grass seed promised seven to ten days, and on day seven it came up.

The seed of the Messiah was first sown with Adam. In Genesis 3:15, God told the serpent that the woman’s Seed would bruise his head and he would bruise His heel. When the germination time came, God brought forth His Son.

Zacharias shows what happens when someone speaks against that timing. When the angel told him he would have a son, he objected that he and his wife were too old, and the angel shut his mouth (Luke 1:18–20). At the baby’s naming, relatives said no one in the family was called John. Zacharias wrote on a tablet, “His name is John,” and immediately his mouth was opened (Luke 1:59–64).

This gives believers confidence. Whatever you see or feel, you can say you have been healed by the stripes of Jesus and trust there is a germination time for it. When you take communion, he says, you are declaring that He took the curse from your life and that all the good things of God are yours.

You Search the Scriptures, but They Testify of Me

Every major religion, Pastor Hohman notes, acknowledges that Jesus lived, and many call Him a good man or a prophet. What they refuse is His claim to be the Son of God. That is why he sees the Gospel of John as so important: Matthew speaks to the Jews, Luke to the Gentiles, Mark of the power of God, but John starts by declaring that Jesus is God.

Jesus came to reveal the Father. In His prayer He said He had manifested the Father’s name to the disciples (John 17:6). Israel knew God as Jehovah Jireh the provider, Jehovah Rohi the shepherd, Jehovah Tsidkenu their righteousness and El Shaddai, but no one knew Him as Father. Jesus reveals the Father, and the Father reveals Jesus.

The key passage is John 5:37–47. Speaking to religious leaders who read the Scriptures constantly, Jesus said they did not have God’s word abiding in them. The church read verse 39 aloud together: “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” They were looking for blessings and promises, he says, when they should have been seeing Him.

Jesus went further: Moses, in whom they trusted, would accuse them, “for if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.” Moses was not only giving a law; he was writing about how Jesus would fulfill everything. That is why believers trust in Christ alone and not the work of their own hands. Jesus came to His own, and His own did not receive Him (John 1:11).

No one took Jesus’ life. He laid it down and took it again (John 10:17–18), something no other religious leader can claim. Hebrews 1:1–4, which he reads from the Moffatt translation, says God once spoke through the prophets and has now spoken by a Son, heir of the universe and superior to the angels. Angels are ministering spirits sent to serve the heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14). Because God now speaks by His Son, believers must learn to recognize the voice of Jesus above their own desires and the devil’s schemes.

Love That Makes Its Home With You

In John 14:19–24, Jesus promises that because He lives, His disciples will live also, and that they will know He is in the Father, they in Him and He in them. Real new birth, he says, is an experience like no other; you will not be bored with God or His Word. Then Jesus says whoever keeps His commandments loves Him, and He will manifest Himself to that person.

Pastor Hohman teaches that there are two levels of love in view. God so loved the world (John 3:16), but the world does not love Him back; the love is one-sided. John is called the disciple whom Jesus loved because that love was reciprocated. Anyone who has had a childhood crush ignored knows how disheartening one-sided love feels. When love flows both ways, there is a circuit of love.

When Judas, not Iscariot, asked why Jesus would show Himself to them and not to the world, Jesus answered that if anyone loves Him, he will keep His word, and the Father and Son will come and make their home with him. Pastor Hohman compares it to his marriage: when his wife Pam said she loved him too, he made a home with her. You do not move in where your love is not returned.

Love for God, he says, is not mainly an emotion. It is saying, I will do what You ask. A marriage that only accomplishes tasks is just a business. In the same way you nurture passion with God. He recalls a visitor at a Russian church who said he was born again but did not love God. Pastor Hohman told him that he had only wanted something from God, and had never truly given his life to Him.

John 8:31–32 says that if you abide in His word, you are His disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. To abide, he stresses, is not just to read more; it is to do what He asks. Revelation grows where obedience is given.

Counting All Things Loss to Know Him

Paul warned that in the last days perilous times would come, when people would be lovers of themselves, lovers of money and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God (2 Timothy 3:1–4). Those are emotional elements of destruction, Pastor Hohman says, and they make hearts grow cold. Jesus has already made His commitment to deliver us; what remains is our commitment to Him.

Paul himself lived this. He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees with wealth, prestige and honor from men, and he persecuted the followers of Jesus because their message was destroying what he had built his life on. Yet in Philippians 3:7–11 he says he counts all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord, that he may know Him and the power of His resurrection. “He said in just five verses what I’ve been saying to you for 45 minutes,” Pastor Hohman remarks.

Paul’s goal was knowledge of Christ, not knowledge of how to get things from Christ. Pastor Hohman links this back to the first message: you do not need faith for things; you need faith in Jesus. He then reframes the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1–17) not as a list of chores but as a covenant declaration, like vows at a wedding. The table below follows his reading.

If you abide in Him and His words abide in you, you can ask what you desire, and the Father is glorified when you bear much fruit (John 15:7–8). As passion for Jesus grows, the desires he used to wrestle with simply fall away like chains.

Asaph, David’s worship leader, said it in Psalm 73:25–28: “Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.” Jesus promised that anyone who leaves house, lands or family for His sake will receive abundantly in this life and eternal life in the age to come (Mark 10:29–30). Like Paul’s call to awake, you who sleep (Ephesians 5:14), Pastor Hohman urges the church to wake up and build passion with God.

Living It Out This Week

Pastor Hohman closes by asking the church to stand and make the same commitment Paul made, not working for Jesus but building a relationship with Him. Here are practical steps drawn from this message:

• Read for a Person, not a product. Before you open the Bible, ask the Lord to show you Jesus in the passage, not only a promise to claim.
• Learn His voice. Weigh what you hear against who Jesus is, so you can tell His voice from your own desires and the enemy’s schemes.
• Abide by doing. Pick one thing He has already asked of you and do it this week; revelation grows where obedience is given.
• Return His love. Move from a one-sided relationship to a reciprocated one by keeping His word, so He can make His home with you.
• Take a day with Him. Treat the Sabbath as His invitation to spend time together, not as a rule to tick off.
• Count something loss. Name one thing you value more than knowing Christ and lay it down.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Recap: Jesus is not just a religious figurehead
• 1:04 The firstborn manages the family affairs
• 2:05 In charge, but not controlling your free will
• 3:06 Jesus the last Adam
• 4:07 Communion: His body and His blood
• 5:11 The gardener at the empty tomb
• 6:19 Galatians 4: born of a woman
• 10:43 The Bible is about one Person
• 12:56 John 14: I am the way, the truth and the life
• 15:05 Peter’s confession by revelation
• 16:12 Genesis 1:14: God created time
• 18:17 The seed and its germination time
• 20:30 Zacharias: his name is John
• 22:40 Every religion acknowledges Jesus lived
• 24:40 Revealing the Father’s name
• 25:42 John 5: you search the Scriptures
• 27:56 Moses wrote about Me
• 29:59 Laying down His life and taking it again
• 35:17 John 14: manifesting Himself to those who love Him
• 37:21 One-sided love and reciprocated love
• 39:27 We will make Our home with him
• 42:31 John 8: abide in My word
• 46:52 Philippians 3: counting all things loss
• 50:05 The Ten Commandments as covenant
• 53:15 Psalm 73: none upon earth I desire besides You
• 55:29 Call to commitment and prayer

Jesus Series

This message is part of the six-part Jesus series at NTC Ministries. Go back to the introduction or continue with the next teaching:

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Frequently Asked Questions

If God is in charge, why do bad things still happen?

Pastor Hohman distinguishes between being in charge and being in control. God has given people a free will, so He does not override every choice. He compares it to a manager whose employees sometimes make foolish decisions; the mess is not because the manager is in charge but because people did their own thing. The answer, he says, is to stop doing your own thing and do what God wants.

Why does Pastor Hohman compare the Ten Commandments to wedding vows?

He sees them as a declaration of covenant rather than a list of extra chores. At a wedding, people promise to honor and live faithfully to one another. In the same way, God is saying, I want to be your one and only; spend a day with Me; trust Me to provide. If you love Him, he says, keeping His word follows naturally from the relationship.

What if I am born again but do not feel love for God?

Pastor Hohman teaches that love for God is built, not merely felt. He compares it to marriage, where both partners have to get to know each other and serve each other. Love grows as you abide in His word by doing what He asks. He also warns that if you came to God only to get something, it is time to truly give Him your life.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• John 5:37–47 — these are they which testify of Me
• John 14:1–6 — the way, the truth and the life
• Galatians 4:4–5 — the fullness of the time
• Genesis 3:15 — the Seed of the woman
• John 10:17–18 — I lay down My life
• John 14:19–24 — We will make Our home with him
• John 8:31–32 — abide in My word
• Philippians 3:7–11 — counting all things loss
• Psalm 73:25–28 — none upon earth I desire besides You

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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