Tim Tebow (Mark Seliger/Management+Artists)
God, he looks good.
Newly anointed Jet Tim Tebow looks like he’s ready to throw a Hail Mary as he poses shirtless in photo taken during his college-football days as a Florida Gator.
And the heavenly hunk makes no bones about his faith in Jesus — or about caring more about his Savior than the Super Bowl.
In an Oct. 18, 2009, sermon Tebow delivered at the North Central Baptist Church in Gainesville, Fla., the Bible-belter boasted it was more important for him to win on the playing fields of the Lord.
The Post listened to a podcast from the pulpit in which Tebow recounts an interview with a TV reporter.
“ ‘You know, Timmy,’ she said, ‘you’ve won two national championships, and you’ve won the Heisman Trophy, and you’ve won these things that the world says, you know, is success,’ ” Tebow recalls.
“I looked at her and just kind of giggled and thought this lady has no clue. It has nothing to do with winning a Heisman Trophy or winning national championships or being recognized over the country. It’s because I have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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“And this lady looked at me so puzzled. She was like, ‘What?’ And she didn’t even know what to say after that. It took her like 30 seconds to even ask another question. But it’s true. Most people in the world . . . think it’s material things are life’s success when that has nothing to do with success. It has nothing to do in God’s eyes with success.
“For me, success is having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and growing in that relationship every day.”
Tebow, 25, hails from a family of true believers. His parents are missionaries and his father, Bob, and brother, Peter, are pastors who have been known to squeeze in a prayer at the pulpit for the gridiron star and his team.
He not only wears his religion on his sleeve but on his face as well. While with the Gators and Denver Broncos, he was known to etch Bible verses into his black eye paint.
“You know, I really had a great opportunity to really spread that to so many people — the verses I have had under my eyes. They have been the top seven things on Google in the entire world,” he says in the podcast.
The newest Jet pulled into the city on Friday with as much fanfare as a holly roller entering a revival tent.
Tomorrow, he’ll be officially introduced by Gang Green as No. 15.
“It just goes to show that God really does have a plan and a purpose for everything,” Tebow said at the end of his sermon.
Additional reporting by Isabel Vincent