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00:09 Who was Jesus? 00:11 He had compassion for the weak and the hurting. 00:15 He loved every person He met and taught them how to love. 00:20 His great heart helped all those who came near Him. 00:24 But most of all, He was a friend, 00:27 that was who He was. 00:29 Now, find out who He is. 00:37 Welcome to another hour of blessing on 3ABN's 00:40 summer camp meeting. 00:41 This hour is an hour of blessing. 00:44 We have a message from God's word today 00:47 and the title is Covenant Son and Surety. 00:52 the speaker for this hour is sister Shelley Quinn. She has 00:55 been studying and pray. And I 00:58 I'm sure you will be blessed as you study God's word together. 01:01 Before this messages presented We do have a musical 01:05 offering PR Ryan Day will be presenting a message in song. 01:10 How Great Thou Art accompanied by piano by brother Tim Parton. 01:15 The next place you will hear after this musical offering 01:18 that of sister Shelley Quinn. May God bless each and 01:21 every one of us. 01:33 Oh, Lord my God 01:40 when I in awesome wonder. 01:47 Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made 02:01 I see the stars, 02:08 I hear the rolling thunder 02:16 Thy power throughout the universe display. 02:30 Ohhh, and when I think that God His Son not sparing 02:43 sent Him to die 02:48 I scarce can take it in, 02:56 Ohhh, that on the cross. 03:02 My burden gladly bearing, 03:09 He bled and died, 03:15 to take away my sin. 03:22 Then sings my soul, 03:28 my Saviour God to thee. 03:34 How Great Thou Art, How Great Though Arr... 03:46 Then sings my soul 03:51 my Saviour God to thee, 03:58 How great though art. 04:31 Amen! Thank you so much, Ryan and thank you, Tim, 04:36 for that beautiful song and indeed, how great is our God? 04:43 I'm so glad that you're joining us tonight for this message 04:46 titled Covenant Son and Surety. The purpose of this message 04:53 tonight is to answer 3 questions. When did God 04:58 become the Lamb of God. When did God become the Son of God? 05:06 and what does the Bible means when it says that Jesus is 05:12 surety our surety of a better Covenant? 05:16 In our time together, I'm going to tell you a story of Jesus 05:22 from Scripture, 05:24 the incomparable Jesus who is perfectly human 05:28 but perfectly divine. Let's pray. 05:33 Oh Father, 05:34 as we come together. 05:37 Lord, we come to glorify your name 05:41 and Lord, we do declare, You are great. You are mighty, You 05:46 are awesome. Father. I ask in the name of Jesus tonight 05:51 may your holy spirit 05:54 bring the scriptures to life to give us a true picture of 06:01 Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Father, I pray that none 06:07 of us will be the same 06:09 after this presentation that we will never again 06:14 take for granted what You have done for us in the covenant of 06:22 grace, redemption by grace. We love you, Father and we 06:29 thank you in Jesus name. Amen, 06:34 Have you ever 06:37 drawn a picture by connecting the dots? You know, 06:40 you draw one line to the next connecting the dots. What 06:44 happens if you only connect half the dots? Do you have a 06:49 clear picture. Well, let me tell you, some people have an 06:53 incomplete picture of Jesus, they see Him as inferior to the 06:58 Father or they see Him as being birthed from the bosom of the 07:03 Father. But the Bible does not say that, these people did not 07:08 connect all the dots. They see only half of them in the New 07:14 Testament. But they have missed 07:16 half of the dots that are in the Old Testament. 07:20 The New Testament 07:23 builds on the Old Testament. God has given us a progressive, 07:27 revelation of His covenant and of Jesus Christ and you 07:33 can't oversee, understand the New Testament without 07:39 referring to the Old 07:42 to develop a clear picture of Jesus we must consider that 07:47 He is the central figure of the Old Testament and He is the 07:54 central figure of the New Testament. 07:57 You know, Jesus was called by covenant terms. Covenant language. 08:03 He was called Messiah, promised seed, Son of man, last Adam 08:09 only-begotten firstborn Lamb of God, Son of God, surety of the 08:16 covenant. And tonight we're going to look at these covenant 08:20 terms so that we can connect all the dots and outline a true 08:27 picture of who Jesus is. I want to tell you something, 08:31 this is an ambitious study for our allotted time. 08:37 But please stay with me, 08:40 please, because I believe by the end of the study, you will 08:45 have an epiphany, a Holy Spirit light bulb moment where you are 08:51 going to see Jesus, as you've never seen Him before. 08:56 And at the end of this presentation. You may not be 08:58 able to explain it to someone. But I guarantee a true picture 09:04 of Jesus, when we understand who He really is. It can be a 09:10 life changing experience. So who is Jesus? He is the 09:16 Messiah, the Old Testament. He is the Christ of the New 09:20 Testament. Both are messianic titles. Both mean the same 09:26 thing. They mean anointed. How did our risen savior when 09:32 He met the disciples on the road to Emmaus. How did He show 09:37 them and prove that He was the Messiah and Luke 24:27 it says 09:43 beginning at Moses and all the prophets, Jesus expounded to 09:48 them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself, 09:54 the Apostle Paul when he had people coming to visit him at 09:58 his place. He explained the kingdom of God to the Jews. 10:04 Acts 28:23 says he persuaded them concerning Jesus from both the 10:11 law of Moses and the prophets. That's the entire Old Testament 10:16 Jesus appeared many times in the Old Testament as the Angel 10:21 of the Lord and He fulfilled every messianic prophecy that 10:26 is in the Old Testament. Then when we get to the New 10:29 Testament. Christ is announced as the Anointed One, Christ, 10:34 that's what it means. He was consecrated to do His great 10:40 redemptive work. Acts 10:38 says God anointed Jesus of 10:45 Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with great power and He did 10:50 wonderful things. He healed all who are oppressed by the devil 10:57 and under the Devils tyranny 11:01 So, who is Jesus? He is the promised seed. This is an 11:06 important dot we're going to draw a line from the 11:10 messiah to seed. Adam was created 11:14 in God's image and he was given authority over all 11:17 the world. But Adam broke covenant with the Lord 11:21 by sinning through disobedience and as soon 11:26 as sin entered the world. 11:28 God promised a seed a coming deliver in Genesis 3:15 in the 11:35 Garden of Eden after sin came in God basically said this to 11:42 the serpent. Hey devil, this woman that you deceived 11:47 she's going to have a seed, a descendant from her bloodline 11:52 and you're going to bruise His heel. But that seed the promised 11:57 delivered will crush your head and that of all those who 12:04 follow your evil ways. He announced the good news of the 12:09 coming deliver right there in the garden. The seed of 12:13 promise, the promised Messiah, then 12:18 God defined afterwards the everlasting covenant of grace 12:24 with Abraham. 12:26 The everlasting covenant of grace is this righteousness 12:33 by faith. 12:35 He announced this to Abraham who believed in the Lord and 12:40 the Bible says it was accounted to Him as righteousness. 12:44 Abraham saw Christ day in vision and he was glad and in Genesis 12:51 22:18, God is repeating the promise of the covenant. He says 12:56 in your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed 13:00 because you have obeyed my voice clearly. 13:06 Paul identifies Jesus as the promised seed in Galatians 3:16 13:14 where he says God did not say that Abraham 13:18 seeds as plural. But He said seed, singular, obviously 13:26 referring to only one person and then Paul concludes saying 13:32 and to your seed who is Christ. 13:39 If we follow this seed descendants of Abraham 13:43 God renewed the everlasting covenant with Isaac, with Jacob, 13:48 with Israel and with David. And He even added a layer to His 13:54 covenant by making a 13:58 unconditional and unconditional covenant with David saying that 14:04 David's descendant the promised seed who we know to be Jesus 14:09 Christ would rule on the throne forever. 14:13 Now the everlasting covenant progressively unfolds 14:18 throughout the Old Testament 14:22 and into the new actually into and through the New. 14:29 When Mary understood that she would birth the Messiah. 14:33 She burst into song and this is recorded in Luke chapter one. 14:38 She said ah God is keeping his promises to Abraham 14:43 and to his seed, his descendants and she says now 14:47 God has shown us mercy by remembering His holy covenant. 14:54 She's talking about the everlasting covenant. She said 14:57 fulfilling His sacred oath to Abraham. You see the new 15:03 covenant is just an extension of what was revealed in the Old 15:10 Testament. New means renewed and 3 quarters of the new 15:15 covenant recall the Abrahamic Davidic covenants. 15:21 The Old Testament 15:23 seed the Messiah seed of the woman seed of Abraham, 15:28 is really eternal God. 15:31 Isaiah prophesied about messiah, he said, 15:36 unto us, a child is born and the government will be on His 15:43 shoulders. Who is this child of glory? Listen, Isaiah 9:6 15:49 Isaiah identifies the Messiah as Wonderful, Counselor, 15:56 Mighty God, Everlasting Father, 16:02 and Prince of Peace. The person of Jesus, the seed that was 16:08 promised is eternal God. 16:11 Speaking of Christ's birth place. God said that from that 16:16 village of Bethlehem shall come forth the one who is to rule 16:22 and reign. The one He describes in Micah 5:2, who's going's 16:29 forth are from of old. Are from everlasting and guess what, 16:35 now the term this covenant term seed applies 16:40 to you and me because Paul says in Galatians 3.29. 16:46 if you are Christ, you are Abrahams seed and heirs of the 16:52 covenant. 16:55 Who is Jesus, He is the Son of man. This is another messianic 17:02 title that will help us to connect the dots as the Son of 17:06 man Jesus identifies Himself with us in our 17:12 humanity. Did you know, this was Jesus's favorite title for 17:16 Himself. He used the title Son of man over 80 times in Mark 17:21 10:45. He said for even the Son of man did not come to be 17:26 served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. 17:32 The Son of Man, the Messiah portrayed in Isaiah 53 as the 17:38 suffering servant of God whose road to His future glory was, 17:45 by the way, of rejection suffering and humiliation on 17:50 the Christ. When Stephen that the Deacon of the early church 17:55 was stoned and laid dying, He was filled with the Holy Spirit in 17:59 he gazed up into heaven and He saw Jesus and He said in Acts, 18:05 7:56, look, I see the heavens opened and son of man standing 18:14 at the right hand of God. 18:19 But this son of man our humble messiah 18:23 claimed authority on Earth to forgive sins. 18:26 That's something only God can do. 18:29 The Son of man our humble Messiah claimed to be Lord of 18:34 the Sabbath. And Paul tells us that the rulers didn't 18:39 recognize who Jesus was. In first Corinthians 2:8. He says 18:46 for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of 18:51 Glory. The Son of man is actually the Lord of Glory 18:59 Those same Lord of Glory that Daniel saw in vision and 19:04 Daniel 7:13,14. He says behold one like the Son of man coming 19:11 with the clouds of heaven. He came to the ancient of days 19:14 and the brought Him near before Him, then to Him was given 19:18 dominion, glory and a kingdom and His is dominion is an 19:22 everlasting kingdom and His kingdom is the one that will 19:27 not be destroyed. The Messiah, the Christ, the promised seed 19:32 became the Son of man. 19:35 Who is Jesus? He is the last Adam. Boy, this is a wonderful 19:43 next dot to help us outline the picture of Jesus. 19:48 I told you Adam was created in the image of God as 19:53 the representative of humanity. 19:57 But He failed to follow the God in loyalty and it had tragic 20:03 results. In Romans 5:2, 20:06 Paul explains that when Adam sinned, the entire world was 20:11 affected. Sin entered into the human experience resulting in 20:18 death and cast a shadow over all of us because we all sin, 20:24 but the God of eternity 20:28 stepped out of heaven and He became the last Adam. 20:36 The new representative of humanity. In Romans 5:21, Paul 20:43 continues. He says just as sin reigned in death. Even so sin 20:48 conquering grace will rain through righteousness, 20:51 imparting eternal life through Jesus Christ. Our Lord 20:56 in 1Corinthians, 15:21,22 Paul said since death came by a 21:02 man, Adam, it is only fitting that the resurrection 21:07 of the dead will come through a man Christ. Even as all who are 21:14 in Adam die. It is in Christ that all shall be made alive. 21:20 Then He goes down a few verses 1Corinthians, 15:45,47. 21:26 He says the first man, Adam became a living being. 21:33 But the last Adam became a life giving spirit. The first man 21:40 was of earth, made of dust. 21:44 The second man is the Lord Jehovah from heaven. 21:49 Now our last Adam sits on the throne as the new 21:55 representative of humanity resurrected in His glorious 22:00 immortal flesh. 22:02 Who is Jesus? He is the only begotten of God. 22:10 Now, understanding this term is critical This is our next 22:16 dot. And if we don't understand this, we're not going to have 22:19 in an accurate picture 22:22 of God begotten can mean in the literal sense to have been 22:27 birthed by sire by but begotten is covenant language, which means 22:34 chosen for covenant purpose. When we show you in first 22:39 Corinthians 4:15, Paul told the Corinthians. You might have 22:42 10,000 instructors in Christ. Yet you don't have many fathers 22:47 for in Christ, Jesus. This is Paul speaking. I have begotten 22:53 you through the Gospel 22:58 Paul called Onesimus a runaway slave whom He had 23:03 converted through the Gospel. His begotten Son. And then in 23:09 Hebrews Chapter 11:17-19 by faith Abraham 23:14 when He was tested offered up, Isaac and he who had received 23:19 the promises offered up his only-begotten Son 23:25 of whom it was said in Isaac your seed shall be called... 23:30 Now. Wait a minute. 23:32 Abraham had eight sons, six by Keturah. Ishmael was his 23:37 first, born Son. 23:39 But he wasn't the Son of promise. It is Isaac who is called his 23:45 only-begotten because he was the Son of promise. Now 23:53 the Gospel of John 23:55 begins in John chapter one 23:59 explaining that Jesus is the word of God that He was with 24:05 God in the beginning that He was God in the beginning and 24:10 it says He is the creator of all things. And then in John 1:14 24:16 it says the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we 24:20 beheld His glory. The glorious of the only begotten of the 24:26 Father. Our creator God 24:30 became a man in the person of Jesus Christ. And just as Isaac 24:36 was called the only begotten of his father, Abraham, 24:42 our creator who became the last Adam the is called the unique 24:49 only begotten Son of covenant promise. And Acts 13:32, 33 24:59 Paul shares wonderful news. He says the promise that was 25:04 made to our forefathers. God has now fulfilled for us. 25:09 Their children for He has raised up Jesus as it is 25:13 written in the second Psalm 25:16 you are my Son 25:19 today I have begotten. Now some Bible scholars believe that 25:25 He raised up Jesus at His incarnation and that's when He 25:29 became the begotten Son. Others believe that it was at 25:33 his resurrection that He was begotten but either way, Jesus 25:39 wasn't begotten until He was here on Earth. 25:46 And you know what? When we accept Jesus as our savior 25:52 we are called, the begotten of God in 1Peter 1: 3 25:57 He says according to His abundant mercy, God has begotten 26:02 us again to a living hope through the resurrection of 26:07 Jesus Christ from the dead. 26:11 Who is Jesus. He is the first born of all creation, we can't 26:15 miss this dot or our picture will be distorted. 26:19 This does not mean that Jesus was born some time an eternity 26:25 past. It does not mean as some people explain it that He 26:31 was brought forth from the Father's bosom. While first 26:36 born can literally 26:38 refer to chronological order of birth. The 26:43 term firstborn has a covenant term means preeminence 26:48 superiority position and rank. It means surpassing all an 26:55 Exodus 4:22, 23 God is speaking to Moses and 27:00 he says, hey, go tell Pharaoh thus says the Lord. 27:05 Israel is my Son, my firstborn. 27:11 The whole nation is designated as God's first born Son. 27:17 Now they weren't the first nation, 27:21 but they were declared and treated as first in rank. 27:27 They were preeminent because of their covenant relationship to 27:32 the Lord. 27:33 Colossians1:15,17. 27:37 It says this Jesus is the image the invisible God. 27:41 The firstborn over all creation for by Him all things 27:47 were created that are in heaven and that are on Earth, visible 27:50 and invisible. He is before all things and in Him all things 27:56 consist. Jesus incarnated as the person or 28:01 God incarnated as the person of Jesus Christ as 28:05 creator of all things He has preeminence over all. The last 28:13 Adam. Jesus Christ is the first born covenant Son of 28:18 promise. This emphasizes, His honor, His dignity and His 28:25 exalted rank above all. 28:29 Jesus Christ who created 28:32 all things was not himself. A created being 28:38 who is Jesus? 28:40 All He is the lamb of God. This is a critical dot to 28:45 follow to get our picture in Revelation 13, probably my 28:51 favorite Scripture and the entire Bible. 28:54 He is the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the 28:58 Earth. This is the everlasting covenant. 29:01 This is the heart of the everlasting gospel 29:05 that Jesus Christ would be born and die and be 29:09 resurrected. God's plan has always been that He would step 29:14 in to save humanity and Isaiah 53, Isaiah portrays the 29:20 Messiah as a Lamb who was led to the slaughter. 29:26 I love what Paul says in Philippians 2: 5-8. 29:30 He's talking about, 29:32 Jesus as the eternal God 29:36 as equal to the Father, but He says He didn't think that 29:40 equality was something to hold on to rather, He humbled 29:44 himself to become a man. 29:47 And even He became obedient to the point of death on the 29:53 cross. God established the 29:57 penalty for sin was death. 30:00 But God all along planned to pay that penalty for us. 30:07 I'm gonna say something. Listen closely. 30:11 while He, Jesus, was eternally considered as the 30:18 Lamb of God in anticipation of His incarnation. 30:24 It was when He entered the world through His incarnation 30:29 taking on human flesh that He actually became the lamb of God. 30:36 He was born to die. 30:39 2Corinthians 5:19 says God was in Christ reconciling 30:43 the world to Himself not counting their sins against 30:46 them. Reconcile means to bring us from position of alienation 30:51 net into a state of forgiveness and line us up in right 30:57 relationship with Himself. 30:59 And then in 2 Corinthians 5:21 31:03 Paul says He God made Him who knew no sin Him, who had no sin 31:11 to be sin for us. Jesus carried the weight of our sin on the 31:15 cross. And Paul explains why. So that 31:20 we might become the righteousness of God 31:26 as we are united to Christ. You see He imputes His 31:31 righteousness, He credits our account with His righteousness. 31:36 The fact of the incarnation is that God voluntarily 31:41 humiliated Himself become a man. And then He became the 31:46 sacrificial lamb of God. 31:49 He had to be a sinless human being to be the spotless 31:56 substitutionary sacrifice for God's wrath against sin 32:03 and He had to become a perfect human being to become 32:09 our righteousness as the last Adam Jesus 32:13 overcame all the temptations of the devil and the world. 32:18 And He bore Gods 32:20 judgment wrath for sin 32:23 for breaking the law. He suffered death on the cross. 32:28 And it was because He loved us. He gave His life for us 32:32 inaugurating the new covenant, ratifying it with His 32:37 blood. Hebrews 13:20 calls His blood the blood of the ever 32:45 lasting covenant He fulfilled revelation 13:8. The lamb who 32:51 was slain from the foundation of the world. And I love the 32:55 way John identifies the lamb as God in revelation 17:14. 33:00 He says these will make war with the lamb and the lamb will 33:04 overcome them for He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings 33:12 who is Jesus? 33:14 Wow. This one is an indispensable dot, He is the 33:19 Son of God. 33:22 Son of God is used as a covenant term for those who are 33:27 living in covenant relationship with God who are 33:31 chosen for covenant purpose. Let's revisit Exodus 4:22 33:37 and we'll add verse 23. God spoke these words to 33:41 Moses. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord 33:46 Israel is my Son, My first- born. So I say to you let my 33:52 Son go that He may serve me. God compared His relationship to 33:59 Israel as the relationship of a father and his Son in 34:04 Deuteronomy 32: 6. He says do you thus deal with the Lord 34:09 foolish and unwise people, is He not your Father? 34:16 And then David shared what the Lord told him in 34:19 I Chronicles 28:6, He says God said to me, it is your Son 34:24 Solomon who should build my house and my courts for I'm chosen 34:28 Him to be my Son and I will be His father. This is God 34:33 speaking of Solomon. And in Jeremiah 31:9 God says 34:38 I'm a Father to Israel Ephraim is My first born. I don't 34:43 know if you know the story of Ephraim. But Joseph had 34:45 2 sons. His older was Manasseh, the younger was Ephraim 34:50 and Joseph takes them to his father to be blessed before 34:54 Jacob died Jacob's blind and He crosses his hands and He 34:58 puts the hand of blessing for first-born Son on Ephraim's 35:03 head and Joseph is like oh no, no, no father, It's the other 35:07 way around. The Manasseh should have the first-born. But you 35:11 know what? Jacob refused to move his hands because he 35:16 knew it was by God's own hand at Ephraim would enjoy priority 35:21 status. The tribe of Ephraim became the dominant tribe in 35:26 the 10 tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel and Ephraim 35:30 even became symbolic name for Israel. So Jeremiah 31:20 Jesus 35:36 said God, says is Ephraim my dear Son, my heart yearns 35:43 for him. I will surely have mercy on Him, says the Lord and 35:48 Hosea 1:10, He says it shall come to pass in the place 35:52 where it was said of them, you are not my people 35:55 there it shall be said to them you are sons of the living God 36:01 in the entire Old Testament. However, Son of God is used 36:07 already once 36:10 to describe the Messiah. This is Daniel 3.25 and it's 36:14 used by pagan King Nebuchadnezzar he had thrown three 36:19 Hebrew worthy's into the fire 36:22 and then suddenly He looks and He's astonished because he sees 36:26 the form of a 4th man and King Nebuchadnezzar says 36:32 He appears to be like the Son of God. 36:38 I think it is significant that in the entire Old Testament. 36:42 The scriptures that Jesus used to explain Hebrews Messiah 36:46 scriptures that Paul used to explain Hebrews Messiah. 36:51 nowhere Do we see Jesus called 36:55 the Son of God. Son of God is a covenant term. 37:02 That means Jesus served as the covenant Son of promise. 37:09 In fact, even Adam is called son of God in Luke 3:38. 37:15 But now let's consider Jesus as Son of God. 37:21 The angel said to the Virgin Mary in Luke one. 37:25 In Luke 1:35, the Holy Spirit will come upon you in 37:29 the power of the Highest will overshadow you, therefore also 37:33 that holy one who is 2 people will be called the Son of God. 37:39 The same angel tells Joseph, her betrothed husband 37:44 in Matthew 1: 23. 37:46 Behold, the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and 37:52 they shall call His name Emanuel. 37:56 And the angel goes on and says Emanuel is translated 38:01 God with us. 38:02 So God with us, shall be called the Son of God. Remember how 38:08 Isaiah defined and scribe the Messiah in Isaiah 9: 6, He says 38:14 Wonderful Councilor everlasting God, 38:20 or mighty God everlasting Father and Prince of peace, 38:25 Jesus is now called Son of God because He serves as a 38:31 human covenant Son of promise. 38:35 We're going to spend some time in Hebrews chapter one now 38:39 because this will bring the point clearly to the surface. 38:44 Hebrews 1:2 says God has in these last spoken to us by His 38:50 Son whom He appointed heir of all things and through whom. 38:55 He made the universe. Our creator God is here called the 39:01 Son of God and then in verse 3, Hebrews 1:3, He says the Son 39:07 is the radiance of God's glory, the exact representation of 39:13 His being sustaining all things by His powerful word. And after 39:19 He had provided purification for sins. He Jesus sat down 39:25 at the right hand of the majesty of the Father 39:28 Jesus Christ didn't merely reflect God's glory, 39:32 He radiated God's glory because He is God. 39:37 He is the exact representation of God, He shares in His divine 39:43 essence in nature. All creation was created by Him, all 39:49 creation is sustained by Him and He sits 39:54 at the right hand of the throne as King. Now going on in Hebrews 39:59 chapter one verse five. 40:02 This is what it says for to which of the Angels did 40:06 He...talking about the father in verse 8 40:09 you are my Son today, 40:12 I have begotten you. 40:14 And again, 40:16 it goes on saying I will be, this is future tense, I will 40:21 be to Him a Father and He shall be again, future tense, He 40:27 shall be to me a Son. 40:30 Just as God compared His relationship with the nation of 40:35 Israel and other human beings as that of a father in the 40:38 Son. He describes His relationship with the person of 40:43 Jesus Christ as Father and Son. 40:47 Now, here's where it gets exciting. 40:50 Hebrews 1:6, says when it began brings the first born into the 40:54 world. The Father says let all the Angels of God worship Him. 41:00 But Hebrews 1:8 says, But to the Son, 41:05 the Father says, listen., 41:09 This is the Father speaking to the Son, 41:13 your throne Oh God, 41:16 is forever and ever. 41:19 A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 41:22 And then if you jump down to verse 10, it quotes the Father 41:26 as further saying to the Son, you Lord in the beginning laid 41:30 the foundation of the Earth. So God is calling Jesus God, 41:35 He's calling him Lord and He says 41:39 In the beginning you laid the foundation of the earth and 41:41 and the heavens are the works of Your hand. The father 41:45 Himself declares that the Son is God. Now let's hit the 41:51 pause button for just a minute. This is important in Matthew 22: 41:57 we'll start with verse 42 Jesus asked the Pharisees. 42:00 What do you think about the Christ? 42:02 Whose Son is He? And they said to him well, 42:05 He's the Son of David. 42:07 And, you know, scripture does call the Messiah, the Son 42:10 of David. But Jesus is about to expand their limited 42:15 understanding and listen to what He says beginning with Matthew 42:19 22:43. 42:22 Jesus said to them 42:24 How then does David in the spirit call Him Lord? 42:29 saying the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand until I 42:32 make your enemies, your foot stool 42:34 and Jesus asked this pointed question verse 45 42:38 If David then calls him Lord, 42:43 how is He His Son? Now, Let's connect that thought with 42:47 Hebrews 1:8 and 1:10 that we just read the father address 42:52 the Son as God, He addressed the Son as creator 42:58 of all the Father Himself affirmed the Deity of Jesus 43:03 Christ. How then if Jesus is God and Creator, 43:09 How is He God's Son? 43:12 The last Adam. God in the person of 43:16 Jesus Christ became a the Son of man 43:22 and the covenant Son of God in Romans 1:4, Paul wrote that 43:27 Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power. 43:31 According to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection 43:35 from the dead. 43:36 The resurrection clearly declare Jesus withstand to 43:43 indicate that Jesus was the Messiah of the Old Testament 43:48 and He was established as the exalted Lord? 43:51 You know, Jesus claimed quality with a father a number 43:56 of times He says before Abraham was I am. I and the Father are 44:01 one. If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. Yet He 44:05 also said in John 14:28, my father's greater than I. 44:10 Well, if Jesus is equal to the Father, what does He mean? 44:14 My Father is greater than I. It was in His incarnation 44:19 that Christ voluntarily sub- mitted to do the Father's will 44:26 through the power and direction of the Holy spirit. 44:32 Listen to what I'm about to say. 44:36 This is something that if you can get your head around this, 44:41 you will have a new appreciation for your Lord and Savior. 44:44 While Jesus was eternally Son of God in anticipation 44:54 of His incarnation. 44:56 It was when He entered the world 45:00 through His incarnation born in our flesh, that He was installed 45:08 in the official role as covenant Son of God 45:13 and took one of submissive role to the Father. 45:17 In John17:5 before Jesus' death, He was in the Garden of 45:22 Gethsemane and He was praying and He says oh Father glorify 45:27 me together with Yourself with the glory which I 45:32 had with you before the world was. 45:37 After He bore the judgment wrath, 45:40 for sin, His humiliation was over. He was united once 45:47 again with the Godhead. And in His risen flesh, 45:52 He once again shared the glory with the father. 45:58 You know what I like? 46:01 the risen Christ in His glorified flesh still carries 46:06 the exulted covenant title of Son of God. 46:13 Jesus is eternal God 46:16 distinctly unique as the Son of God. He is the Son of promise 46:22 of the everlasting covenant. He became the Son of man, Son of 46:26 God that we might become the sons of God, Galatians 3:26 is 46:31 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ. 46:36 Jesus. Who is Jesus? He is our Assuranty of the 46:47 everlasting covenant of redemption. 46:53 Let's unpack that because this is our final dot and this is 46:58 going to help us see things that we may not have considered 47:02 before. In Hebrews 7:22 it is written by so much more 47:11 Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. 47:18 Surety, this is the only use of this Greek term in the New 47:24 Testament. You know what it means. It means guaranteed. 47:29 It means Jesus is our guarantor. 47:35 And He says by so much more. Jesus has become the surety of 47:38 of a better covenant because He continues forever. 47:45 Jesus has and unchangeable priesthood. 47:51 Therefore, because His priesthood is unchangeable. 47:57 He is also able to say to the uttermost, 48:03 those who come to God through Him 48:06 since He always lives to make intercession for them. 48:10 Whew! Do you realize Jesus is in heaven praying for you right now. 48:18 Jesus is the surety of the covenant. 48:23 Jesus himself guarantees the success of the new covenant of 48:29 salvation, He is the guarantor. 48:33 He's our guarantor from God to us 2 Corinthians 1:20 48:40 says that all of God's promises are yes and Amen! 48:46 In Christ Jesus, no matter how many promises God has made, 48:52 they find the yes answer in Jesus Christ and He is the 48:59 guarantor from us toward God in 2 Corinthians 12:9 Jesus says 49:08 My grace is sufficient for you from My power is made perfect 49:14 in weakness. In Philippians 2:13 it says that 49:19 He works in us to will and to do God's good pleasure. And then 49:27 in Philippians 4:13 it says that we can do all things 49:33 through Christ who strengthens us. 49:37 In fact, Jesus is not just the surety of the covenant, 49:43 He is Himself the covenant. 49:47 Let's look at how our guarantor is the covenant, 49:53 Isaiah 42: 6 through 7. 49:58 It's a messianic passage. It's about, this is one of 50:03 the songs about, and it's a poem about the Messiah. 50:10 And here's what Isaiah prophesied as he hears the 50:14 words of the Lord. 50:16 I the Lord have called you 50:19 speaking to the Messiah in righteousness. 50:22 I will hold your hand I will keep you and give you as a 50:30 covenant to the people 50:31 as a light to the Gentiles to open blind eyes to 50:36 free captives from the prison and release those who sit in 50:42 the darkness of the dungeon. 50:46 Jesus is the covenant Revelation 13:8, 50:50 the eternal covenant. 50:53 the everlasting gospel. He is the Lamb who was slain 50:57 from the foundation of the world. God had this covenant in 51:01 mind before He ever created the world and his blood Hebrews 51:06 13:20 says is the blood of the everlasting covenant. 51:11 God had to become a man 51:14 to service our high priest 51:17 in Hebrews 2:17,18, listen to this. 51:21 He had to be made like His brothers in every way He 51:26 embraced our full humanity in order that He might become a 51:31 merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to 51:35 God and that He might make atonement for the sins of the 51:41 people. 51:42 Then He says because He himself suffered 51:47 when He was tempted. 51:49 He is able to help those who are also being tempted. 51:56 I think that is so beautiful. 51:59 His human suffering 52:03 qualified Jesus to be 52:07 our sympathetic high priest. 52:11 Some people don't realize that Jesus 52:15 continues to minister to us as the high priest. 52:23 In fact, I've had people who write to me 52:24 and they will say 52:27 when Jesus said it is finished on the cross. That was 52:31 the end, salvation was complete. 52:34 Let me ask you something. 52:36 This word lamb of God was familiar to the Jews, they knew 52:42 that the lamb of the Passover that they had to apply 52:47 the blood to the doorpost, to the mantle 52:51 and they knew that when they went to the sanctuary, which by 52:57 the way, the sanctuary is the full plan of salvation by grace. 53:03 On the substitutionary sacrifice, the sanctuary was 53:08 theology in physical form. But they understood what 53:14 the lamb was with the lamb wasn't just slain in that outer 53:19 court, the blood had to be taken into the Holy place. 53:25 And on the day of atonement to the Holy of Holy's to be 53:29 applied to the mercy seat. See when Jesus cried it is 53:35 finished on the cross. 53:38 The sacrifice was completed. The bearing of judgment, wrath 53:45 was finished. 53:47 But salvation wasn't complete 53:50 until He assumed the role in heaven as our high priest. 53:55 Who would minister His blood 53:59 in the heavenly sanctuary. 54:01 1Timothy 2:5, 6, says there's one God, 54:06 there's one mediator between God and man, 54:12 the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom 54:20 for all. Only God's Messiah 54:26 the Christ who was God Himself has the character and the 54:32 credentials to be the mediator of the new covenant 54:38 and He is able to save to the uttermost. 54:43 So, Jesus is the Messiah, 54:51 the Christ, the anointed one, 54:54 Jesus is the promised seed 54:58 who became the Son of man. 55:02 Jesus is the last Adam who became the new representative 55:09 of human kind. And whereas the first Adam handed over 55:14 the government to Satan. 55:17 Jesus is restoring the government to God, 55:20 The government that is operated by the power 55:27 of love, not a love of power. 55:30 Who is Jesus? He is the only begotten, chosen, unique Son 55:37 of the covenant. He is our creator, the first born who has 55:41 preeminence over all the world He outranks everyone. Who is 55:47 Jesus? He is the lamb of God our substitutionary sacrifice. 55:53 He is the Son of God, the unique, one of a kind covenant 56:00 Son of promise and He is our surety. 56:06 He guarantees our redemption because He was given 56:12 to us as a covenant. 56:16 Do you have a clearer picture of Jesus now? 56:21 Have you may be expanded, 56:25 let the scriptures expand your understanding. If you do, 56:31 may we be like Thomas? 56:32 When we look upon our risen Savior, Jesus Christ in 56:37 John 20:27, 29, Jesus after He rose from the 56:43 dead said to Thomas reach your finger here. 56:46 Look at my hands, reach your hand here put it in my side. 56:50 Do not be unbelieving but believing and when Thomas did, 56:55 you know what He answered and said to him? 56:58 My Lord and my God. 57:01 Oh, may we realize, God died for us. 57:08 [MUSIC] 57:10 >> His body was broken 57:13 so that we could live giving us the gift of eternal life. 57:19 He pursues us relentlessly with an everlasting love, 57:24 regardless of our failures and mistakes. 57:29 The one who loves us like no other. 57:32 This is who Jesus is. 57:35 [MUSIC] |
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