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Introduction:

1.      What is the Bible about? How would you answer this question?

  1. It is about man’s redemption from sin, which means it is about Jesus our redeemer

  2. A person could reason that the Bible’s theme is Jesus Christ

2.      A general outline of the Bible: Old Testament point to Jesus coming, the New says Jesus came and Is coming back to take us home

3.      Jesus Christ is the very center of Christianity, obviously there can not be Christianity without Christ

4.      I want to talk about the incarnation of Jesus Christ with 3 major points:

  1. Jesus is God

  2. Jesus is Man

  3. Jesus purpose for becoming a man

I.                    Jesus is God

A.    The Inspired Word of God says Jesus is God

1.      The bible declares that Jesus is God

a.       Rom 9:5, “whose are of the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all, God blessed forever amen”

2.      Thomas and his good confession (John 20:19-29)

a.       Thomas was not with the other disciples, when Jesus showed himself to them

b.      Thomas said he would not believe unless he put his fingers into the nail prints and into his side. Some because of this event call Thomas doubting Thomas.

c.       Jesus came again and showed himself to Thomas, when Jesus asked Thomas to put his fingers into his nail printed hands, Thomas said My lord and My God.

d.      If Jesus was just a man then he could never be called God without someone sinning.

e.       Jesus accepted Thomas and his worship, so Jesus was God. Peter in Cornelius’s house would not allow a man to worship him and declared to Cornelius that he too was just a man. Jesus however is more than just a man.

f.        It is idolatry to worship anything other than God himself. It is idolatry to worship the created.

3.      Jesus equated himself equal to God

a.       John 10:30, Jesus said my Father and I are one.

b.      No man could ever say that he and God are one

4.      John the Apostle witness concerning Jesus (John 1:1-14)

a.       Jesus is inferred to be the word in verse 14

b.      In verse 2, He was with God. In verse 1, he is God

c.       He created all things, John was originally a Jew and believed in one God Deut 6:4. No Jew would say that there were two God’s unless they knew Jesus was indeed God.

5.      General epistles concerning Jesus

a.       Col 1:15-18, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature for by Him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in the earth, visible, invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, principalities, powers, all things are created by him and for him. He is before all things and by Him all things consist. He is the head of the church the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have preeminence.

b.       Heb 1:8, with the Father speaking, it says “thy throne O’ God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom”

B.     The 3 in 1 Trinity

1.      Father is God

a.      1 Cor 8:6, but to us there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things and we in him

b.      Gal 1:1, Paul an apostle (not of men, neither by man) but by Jesus Christ and God the Father

c.       Paul references the Father as being God

2.      Holy Spirit is God

a.      Acts 5:1-4,

b.      Anannias had predetermined to lie about how much money they were giving. Probably did this in order to receive prestige, prominence, and inflated pride

c.       Peter says in vs 3, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit? You have not lied unto men but unto God.

d.      Rom 8:9, “You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be the Spirit of God dwells in you”

3.      Summary of the Trinity

a.      Jesus is said to be God. The Father is said to be God. The Holy Spirit is said to be God

b.      Scripture clearly says that anyone of them can be called God. These are inter-dependent on each other, co-equal, co-eternal and inseparable. They are united in oneness by their essence or substance or what they are made out of. You and I are both flesh, they are  God.

c.       Mat 3:13-17, Jesus baptism is a picture of the Trinity. Jesus being baptized, the Spirit descending and the Father speaking

II.                  Jesus was human

A.      The Scripture Says He was a man

1.      John 1:14, the word was made flesh.

a.      The eternal Word that had existed from the beginning, was made flesh

b.      God decided to make himself flesh. Like me putting on a glove.

2.      Phil 2:5-8

a.      Jesus laid aside the glory of Heaven, so He could become a slave to the Law He ordained

b.      He was God and was being worshipped in Heaven. Jesus laid aside his throne and became a servant. The Creator became the created, instead of being served He began to serve. God can never stop being God, He just laid aside His will and submitted to the predetermined will of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that was decided before the world was formed.

3.      John 8:40

a.      Jesus said, but now you seek to kill me a man that told you the truth.

b.      Jesus said he was a man

4.      Acts 2:22

a.      Ye men of Israel, hear these words Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God among you by miracles, signs, and wonders…

b.      Peter says, the Jesus was also a man

c.       We all know that Jesus was a man

B.      As a Man he felt our weakness

1.      He was tempted

a.      In Mat 4:1-11, Jesus was tempted by the devil. Jesus responded with the word of God

b.      Jesus due to flesh was tempted, but His will, and the power of the Holy Spirit that lighted upon Him at his baptism, was stronger than the flesh

c.       Heb 4:15, for we have not a high priest that can not be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we were yet without sin”

d.      Jesus felt the pull of the flesh in the direction that leads away from God but did not succumb to it

e.      Heb 2:15, in that he himself suffered temptation He is able to succor (comfort) them that are tempted.

2.      He was tired

a.      When dealing with the woman in Samaria at the well, he sat down because he was tired

b.      John 4:6, “Now Jacob’s well was there and Jesus being wearied from His journey sat thus on the wall”

3.      Jesus also was thirsty

a.      John 19:28, Jesus was on the cross about to die and says I thirst

4.      Jesus went to sleep

a.      Luke 8:23, as he sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake

b.      He woke up and rebuked the wind and the storm settled down. In this example, we see Jesus Divinity and his humanity

C.      He had human emotions

1.      Sorrow

a.      John 11:33-36 Raising of Lazarus

2.      Compassion

a.      Mat 9:36, “but when Jesus saw the multitudes He was moved with compassion”

3.      Strong Crying

a.      Heb 5:7, “who in the day of temptation offered prayers and supplications with strong tears and crying unto Him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared”

b.      Jesus became a man and as such he submitted to doing the predetermined will ordained before the foundation of the world.

4.      Anger

a.      John 2:13-17, Cleansing of the temple

b.      In this scene of Jesus life, Jesus took a cord and threw out the moneychangers. He called it a den of thieves.

c.       Then the disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of Thine house has eaten me up Ps 69:9.

d.      Anger is not sin, it is an emotion. However any emotion left uncontrolled can cause a person to sin. Be angry and sin not Eph 4:26

III.                The Role of Jesus

A.      Each Member of the Trinity has a role or function to perform

1.      The father

a.      He plays the role of the designer or authority

b.      He is the one with the plan

2.      The Son

a.      He plays the role of the provider

b.      He provided a way for all mankind’s needs to be met

3.      The Holy Spirit

a.      The Spirit plays the role of the doer

b.      He takes the plan and the provision and works it to completion

B.      The Son

1.      Jesus referred to Himself as God the son of Man

a.      Think about that literally. He is the God that became the son of mankind

2.      His Humanity

a.      We can identify with Jesus because he became like us

b.      We can see ourselves in His shoes doing what He did according to our ability

c.       We all have heard of the phrase wwjd have we not?

d.      Jesus also had vulnerability because of his human side. He was hungry, thirsty, sleepy, suffering in pain

e.      Emotional vulnerability could also worked to undo Jesus. He was betrayed, lied about, rejected, the very people he trusted betrayed him, the people he tried to save plotted to kill him, Jesus took it all for us though, because He loves us.

C.      Jesus Purpose of the incarnation

1.      Jesus put on humanity to kill sin or the works of the devil

a.      1 John 3:5, and you know He was manifested to take away sin and in Him there is no sin

b.      Jesus Role was to provide a way for mankind’s sin to be taken out of the picture

c.       Jesus said I will become like the man that I created so I can impart my perfection and righteousness to them that believe and obey my will

2.      Jesus was sinless

a.      1 Pet 2:21-24, 1Pe 2:20-25 ESV  For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.  (21)  For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.  (22)  He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.  (23)  When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.  (24)  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  (25)  For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

b.      We are healed by the stripes that Jesus took for us on His back to save us from our punishment.

c.       2 Cor 5:21, for He has made Jesus to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him

d.      We cannot be righteous by our own merits, so we trust in Jesus promises to impart that righteousness to us through faith in obeying His words.

e.      Jesus role revealed to us was to pay for infinite amount of sin, and to absorb an infinite amount of wrath.

 

Conclusion:

1.      Jesus is God and was involved in the creation of Man and even planned to save mankind before man was ever created. Nothing was or has been done without His knowing about it. Jesus knew every detail of the life He was going to live before He chose to come down to earth and live it (Jn 1:1-18, Col 1:15-18, Eph 1:1-8)

2.      God can never stop being God, Jesus simply decided before He became a man what He was going to do and then when He became a man submitted to the predetermined will He and the rest of the God head had decided to do before the creation of the world.

3.      Jesus was fully human, he felt human emotions, human limitations, human temptations, but was still fully God just did not use His Godhood but relied upon the God Holy Spirit to do the miracles and inspire Him to teach the will of the Father.

4.      The Holy Spirit was the reason for His inspiration and the miracles. Listen: John 6:28-29, “then they said unto Him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he has sent”. The miracles were never the point but the pointer, that pointed to Jesus being the savior of mankind to all those that believe and obey His New Agreement between God and Mankind the New Testament of Christ, which He is the only Mediator of.

 

Father please help us be suitable for salvation…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

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Jesus is the Mediator of better promises...better agreement...

Jesus is the Mediator of a New Agreement between God and creation…

1Ti 2:3-6 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;  4  who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.  5  For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,  6  who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times; 1Co 15:1-4 ASV  Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,  2  by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.  3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  4  and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;… Eph 2:14-15 ASV  For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,  15  having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace…Col 2:11-15 ASV  in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;  12  having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.  13  And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;  14  having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;  15  having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it…But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.  7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. Heb 8:6-7 ASV 

 

The Old Covenant had a promise I will never leave you nor forsake you…

Deu 31:6 ASV  Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee…

New Covenant Promise…Heb 13:5 ASV  Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

The Jews were never forsaken by God but God always used the faithful…Jesus will not leave us or forsake us even more than the Jews unto eternal life…and promises we will never hunger or thirst… Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Joh 6:35 ASV …better promises

 

Old Testament Promise…No weapon fashioned against us shall prosper…

Isa 54:17 ASV  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.

New Covenant…Better promise… Eph 6:16 ASV  withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

 

Old Testament promise…Mount up with wings like eagles…and not grow weary…

Isa 40:31 ASV  but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

New Covenant promise…2Co 4:16 ASV  Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day…I can do all things in him that strengthens me. Php 4:13 ASV 

 

Father please help us be faithful and forgiven…in Jesus of Nazareth name amen.

 

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To stop reaping bad fruits, stay out of Satan’s orchard.

To stop reaping bad fruits, stay out of Satan’s orchard.


1Co 15:33 Do not be deceived; evil companionship corrupts good behavior…Now we know that the law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully, 9 Understanding this: that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers, 10 For fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine…1Ti 1:8-10


Act 17:27-31, In order that they might seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him; though truly, He is not far from each one of us, 28 For in Him we live and move and have our being; as some of the poets among you also have said, 'For we are His offspring.' 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we should not think that the Godhead is like that which is made of gold, or silver, or stone—a graven thing of art devised by the imagination of man; 30 For although God has indeed overlooked the times of this ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 Because He has set a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man Whom He has appointed, having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead….For in the first place, I delivered to you what I also had received: that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; 4 And that He was buried; and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures; 5 And that He appeared to Cephas, and then to the twelve. 1Co 15:3-5.


Mar 16:14-20 Afterwards, as they were sitting to eat, He appeared to the eleven and reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. 16 The one who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but the one who does not believe shall be condemned. 17 And these signs shall follow those who believe: in My name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new languages; 18 They shall remove serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them in any way; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19 After speaking to them, the Lord was indeed then taken up into heaven, and He sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word by the signs that followed. Amen.


Col 3:12-17, Put on then, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, deep inner affections (compassion), kindness, humility, meekness (obedience) and longsuffering (patience); 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also you should forgive. 14 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you were called into one body, and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And in everything—whatever you do in word or in deed—do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him…


if you want to stop reaping bad fruits, stay out of Satan’s orchard.


Father please meet our soul’s deepest needs, our flesh’s deepest needs, and our spirit’s deepest needs so we may not offend or sin against You in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.


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