Promised Messiah: Anointed by the Spirit

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.440 Let's turn to God's word. This morning I want to read several passages to 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:12.390 you to begin with and then more during the sermon. As we continue this 3 00:00:12.589 --> 00:00:18.269 series on the Promised Messiah, we are seeking to know and to hear from 4 00:00:18.309 --> 00:00:25.699 God's Word how various Old Testament passages and prophecies about this coming savior are fulfilled. 5 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:31.420 In Jesus, a thing that we celebrate this time of year when we 6 00:00:31.739 --> 00:00:37.770 reflect and meditate on the incarnation of the son of God. And we've seen 7 00:00:37.850 --> 00:00:41.490 how Jesus is the final word. We've seen how he is the mediator of 8 00:00:41.530 --> 00:00:45.530 a new and better covenant, we've seen how he is the son of God 9 00:00:45.729 --> 00:00:50.640 and the son of Man, and today we consider how he is the Messiah, 10 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.920 the anointed one, and in particularly the one anointed by the Holy Spirit. 11 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:02.679 So let's begin. I'm first in Isaiah, Isaiah Twas fore told it 12 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.790 we just sang, and here's one of those places that he does tell Isaiah, 13 00:01:07.829 --> 00:01:23.700 Chapter Eleven, verses one through nine. There shall come forth a shoot 14 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:29.260 from the stump of Jesse and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit, 15 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:34.969 and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom 16 00:01:34.049 --> 00:01:40.530 and understanding. The spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and 17 00:01:41.049 --> 00:01:44.769 the fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be in the fear of 18 00:01:44.849 --> 00:01:49.840 the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see or decide disputes 19 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:55.000 by what his ears here, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and 20 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.480 decide with equity for the meek of the Earth, and he shall strike the 21 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.510 Earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips. 22 00:02:02.549 --> 00:02:07.789 He shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist and 23 00:02:07.909 --> 00:02:14.150 faithfulness the belt of his loins. The Wolf shall dwell with the lamb and 24 00:02:14.310 --> 00:02:17.099 the Leopard shall lie down with the young goat and the calf, and the 25 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:22.379 lion and the fattened calf together, and a little child shall lead them. 26 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:27.539 The cow and the bear shall graze their young, shall lie down together and 27 00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:31.889 the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over 28 00:02:31.930 --> 00:02:37.050 the whole of the Cobra and the Wean Child shall put his hand on the 29 00:02:37.129 --> 00:02:42.689 adder's den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my Holy Mountain, 30 00:02:43.409 --> 00:02:46.479 for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the 31 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:54.120 waters cover the sea. Next, let's turn to a passage that I don't 32 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:10.550 have in your bulletins. This is Isaiah, Chapter Forty two, as I 33 00:03:10.710 --> 00:03:15.139 have forty two again, one through nine, and then you can take a 34 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:20.979 sneak peek at verse ten, which I'll read later. All right, Isaiah 35 00:03:21.020 --> 00:03:25.219 forty two, one through nine. Behold my servant, who my whom I 36 00:03:25.340 --> 00:03:30.969 uphold, my chosen in whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit 37 00:03:30.009 --> 00:03:36.210 upon him. He will bring forth justice to the nation's he will not cry 38 00:03:36.250 --> 00:03:39.050 aloud or lift up his voice or make it heard in the street. A 39 00:03:39.169 --> 00:03:44.240 bruised read he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not 40 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:49.599 quench. He will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or 41 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.800 be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth and the coast lands. 42 00:03:53.879 --> 00:04:00.110 Wait for his law. Thus says God, The Lord who created the heavens 43 00:04:00.150 --> 00:04:02.629 and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, 44 00:04:03.150 --> 00:04:06.949 who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk 45 00:04:08.030 --> 00:04:12.139 in it. I am the Lord. I have called you in righteousness. 46 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:15.620 I will take you by the hand and keep you. I will give you 47 00:04:15.699 --> 00:04:19.620 as a covenant for the People Alight for the nation's to open the eyes that 48 00:04:19.699 --> 00:04:25.050 are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison, 49 00:04:25.209 --> 00:04:29.089 those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord, that is my 50 00:04:29.250 --> 00:04:32.449 name, my glory. I give to no other, did no other norm 51 00:04:32.529 --> 00:04:38.009 I praise to carved idols. Behold, the former things have come to pass, 52 00:04:38.449 --> 00:04:43.120 and new things I now declare before I before they spring forth, I 53 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:49.480 tell you of them. And now, continuing on in Isaiah, Isaiah Chapter 54 00:04:49.720 --> 00:05:06.139 Sixty one, verse one, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me, 55 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:11.620 because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 56 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:15.019 He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to 57 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:19.740 the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. And 58 00:05:23.050 --> 00:05:30.050 now let us turn to the New Testament in the gospel of Luke. Two 59 00:05:30.129 --> 00:05:35.759 passages here. First Luke Chapter One, verse thirty five through Thirty Eight. 60 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.959 Thirty four through thirty eight. Luke Chapter One, verse Thirty Four, and 61 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.550 Mary said to the angel, how will this be, since I am a 62 00:05:50.670 --> 00:05:57.589 virgin, and the angel answered her the Holy Spirit will come upon you and 63 00:05:57.790 --> 00:06:01.910 the power of the most high will overshadow you. Therefore, the child to 64 00:06:02.029 --> 00:06:06.699 be borne will be called Holy, the son of God. And behold, 65 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:11.180 your relative Elizabeth, in her old age, has also conceived a son, 66 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:15.300 and it this is the sixth month with her, whom was called Baron, 67 00:06:16.019 --> 00:06:20.290 for nothing will be impossible with God. And Mary said, behold, I 68 00:06:20.410 --> 00:06:24.689 am the servant of the Lord. Let it and be to me according to 69 00:06:25.769 --> 00:06:31.290 your word, and the angel departed from her. Finally, Luke, Chapter 70 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:45.519 Four, Verses Sixteen through twenty, and he, that is Jesus, came 71 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.949 to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and, as was his 72 00:06:48.110 --> 00:06:51.870 custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath Day and he stood up 73 00:06:51.910 --> 00:06:57.990 to read and the scroll of the Prophet Isaiah was given to him. He 74 00:06:58.110 --> 00:07:01.060 unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. The spirit of 75 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:04.860 the Lord is upon me. He has anointed, because he has anointed me 76 00:07:05.019 --> 00:07:10.019 to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty 77 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:14.779 to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty 78 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:18.209 those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And 79 00:07:18.370 --> 00:07:21.649 he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down 80 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:27.810 and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began 81 00:07:27.889 --> 00:07:32.360 to say to them today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing, 82 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:38.959 and all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming 83 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.319 from his mouth. And they said, is not this Joseph Sun? And 84 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:46.110 he said to them, doubtless you will quote to me this proverb. Physician, 85 00:07:46.230 --> 00:07:49.750 heal yourself what we have heard you did at Copernham do here in your 86 00:07:49.790 --> 00:07:54.709 own town as well. And he said, truly, I say to you, 87 00:07:54.790 --> 00:07:58.509 no prophet is acceptable in his home town. But I tell but in 88 00:07:58.660 --> 00:08:01.060 truth, I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of 89 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:05.019 Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three months and six months and a 90 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:09.379 great famine came over all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of 91 00:08:09.420 --> 00:08:13.209 them but to the only to Zeraff in the land of side, and to 92 00:08:13.329 --> 00:08:18.649 a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in 93 00:08:18.810 --> 00:08:22.370 the time of the Prophet Elisha, and none of them work was cleansed, 94 00:08:22.410 --> 00:08:26.769 but only name them. The Syrian when they heard these things, all in 95 00:08:26.930 --> 00:08:31.040 the synagogue were filled with wrath. They rose up, drove him out of 96 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.639 town and brought him to the brow of a hill on which their town was 97 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.200 built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. The passing through 98 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:46.070 their midst, he went away. Since the reading of God's word for now, 99 00:08:48.070 --> 00:08:56.860 may bless it to us. So in these passages that I've read, 100 00:08:56.019 --> 00:09:03.860 you've heard of the Promised Messiah and his particular place in time and history. 101 00:09:03.980 --> 00:09:07.580 Is The one who is anointed by the spirit of God. The spirit of 102 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:13.370 the Lord shall come upon him. It is prophesied in these and many other 103 00:09:13.570 --> 00:09:18.250 places. This is anticipated, and indeed it does. Jesus says in the 104 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:22.690 synagogue that day today, in your hearing, this is fulfilled. He says 105 00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:26.519 that he is that promised one to come, that he is the one who 106 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:31.639 has been anointed by the Holy Spirit, and they of course, want to 107 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:37.639 throw him off a cliff for this. Of course, because this is what 108 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:43.590 people who worship false idols, who are consumed with their own righteousness, who 109 00:09:43.590 --> 00:09:46.350 are not running after the things of the spirit, but whose hearts are hard 110 00:09:46.509 --> 00:09:52.899 by the spirit, do when they hear of the anointed one. It's what 111 00:09:54.019 --> 00:09:56.259 they did then and it's what they still do today. It's what we do 112 00:09:56.980 --> 00:10:01.379 when we grieve the Holy Spirit, when we turn away from our Lord and 113 00:10:01.500 --> 00:10:05.940 our Savior. When we turn away from the cross of Christ and chase after 114 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:11.330 our own things, our own ends, we grieve the spirit of God, 115 00:10:11.610 --> 00:10:16.889 we resist the spirit of God who rests upon the anointed one, who is 116 00:10:18.129 --> 00:10:24.080 the anointed one. So as we come to these prophecies in their fulfillment in 117 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.600 Christ, we come to something that is very, very important. It teaches 118 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.919 us a lot about Jesus and ultimately reminds us of the Gospel, the good 119 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.389 news of our salvation and the great joy that we have in the anointed one. 120 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:46.870 The role of the spirit in the coming Messiah is essential for understanding our 121 00:10:48.029 --> 00:10:52.659 lives, for understanding who we worship, our trying in God, for understanding 122 00:10:52.700 --> 00:10:58.779 the incarnation in the Ministry of Jesus, for understanding what it means when Gabriel 123 00:10:58.019 --> 00:11:03.929 said to Mary that the Holy Spirit would overshadow her and because of that the 124 00:11:05.049 --> 00:11:11.049 son of God would be born. Sadly, these things are too often forgotten. 125 00:11:13.450 --> 00:11:18.490 Pastor and Theologian Sinclair Ferguson puts it this way. He says this doctrine 126 00:11:18.490 --> 00:11:24.039 has suffered considerable neglect and the history of theology, despite some noteworthy exceptions. 127 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:31.720 But here we have an opportunity not to neglect these things, but to hear 128 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.470 them afresh, to hear them new and to rejoice and seeing the goodness of 129 00:11:37.509 --> 00:11:43.429 our Lord. So let's consider these passages. First, Isaiah Eleven, some 130 00:11:43.590 --> 00:11:50.539 of these clearest announcements about the coming of the son of God and the role 131 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:54.940 of the spirit in this suffering servant, as we learn of him and Isaiah, 132 00:11:56.740 --> 00:12:01.570 that come from the Prophet Isaiah, from these places. Now, some 133 00:12:01.690 --> 00:12:05.809 of you are familiar, perhaps, with Galatians five and the fruits of the 134 00:12:05.889 --> 00:12:11.090 spirit that are listed there. Right love, joy, peace, patience, 135 00:12:11.169 --> 00:12:16.039 kindness, goodness, gentleness, self control. These things we call the fruit 136 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.919 of the spirit. This is what the spirit does. Remember from our creed. 137 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.480 He is the Lord and Giver of Life. He FRUC deifies things, 138 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:33.269 he makes a life happen, juicy, beautiful, wonderful, nourishing things like 139 00:12:33.509 --> 00:12:37.710 love and joy and peace and patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self 140 00:12:37.830 --> 00:12:41.710 control. Against such things there is no law. These are the things that 141 00:12:41.830 --> 00:12:46.860 the the fruit of the spirit. Here in Isaiah Eleven we have another passage 142 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:50.779 that we might consider the fruit of the spirit, another fruit of the spirit 143 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:56.220 passage. Why might we say that? Well, because, first we see 144 00:12:56.419 --> 00:13:03.210 that on this son of Jesse, he will be anointed by the spirit, 145 00:13:03.330 --> 00:13:09.610 and we see things happening. First, notice the life that happens in verse 146 00:13:09.690 --> 00:13:16.360 eleven, from this stump of Jesse. Why a stump? Well, because 147 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.679 the wrath and judgment of the Lord. It has come upon Israel, is 148 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.039 come upon even the House of David, and the tree has been cut down. 149 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:31.309 But out of this stump, out of judgment, springs forth what life? 150 00:13:33.669 --> 00:13:37.429 Life comes forth and from this life, this branch, from his the 151 00:13:37.509 --> 00:13:45.940 roots, shall bear what fruit, fruit, and he will this for this 152 00:13:46.220 --> 00:13:48.980 one who comes from the stump of Jesse, who is, of course, 153 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:56.330 our savior, Jesus, the son of David, he is the anointed one, 154 00:13:56.409 --> 00:14:01.730 anointed by the spirit. So we read their shall come forth a shoot 155 00:14:01.850 --> 00:14:05.250 from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. 156 00:14:05.929 --> 00:14:11.399 And what? And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. 157 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:18.960 Who is the spirit? Well, he is the spirit of wisdom and understanding, 158 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.590 he is the spirit of counsel and might, he is the spirit of 159 00:14:24.830 --> 00:14:30.070 knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be in 160 00:14:30.149 --> 00:14:33.909 the fear of the Lord. We Vir Verse Three. So the spirit comes 161 00:14:35.070 --> 00:14:39.379 upon this servant, this shoot coming up out of the lineage of Jesse. 162 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:43.620 Jesse, by the way, is David, the name of David's father, 163 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:50.259 King David. Out of the stump Dutch Jesse comes this new son of David, 164 00:14:50.620 --> 00:14:54.929 and the spirit that is anointed on this servant will have an effect on 165 00:14:56.090 --> 00:15:01.129 that servant. What is the effect? We read it in verses three through 166 00:15:01.169 --> 00:15:05.049 five. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord, instead of 167 00:15:05.210 --> 00:15:09.799 judging by his eyes, what he happens to see, what he happens to 168 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.039 hear. Instead verse, for with Righteousness He shall judge. This is a 169 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.909 true judge, righteousness, order, fairness, instead of taking bribes, instead 170 00:15:20.909 --> 00:15:26.909 of concealing things, instead of plut making power plays with his authority, as 171 00:15:26.269 --> 00:15:31.750 sinful men are do, as great kings do, as those who are often 172 00:15:31.789 --> 00:15:37.220 called to lead do. This one, this great king, this great ruler, 173 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:43.539 this son of David, will decide with equity for the meek of the 174 00:15:43.659 --> 00:15:50.570 Earth. Instead of protecting his friends and his cronies, he'll protect even those 175 00:15:50.649 --> 00:15:54.210 who can't really do anything for him. He will protect the meek. He 176 00:15:54.250 --> 00:15:58.129 will decide with equity for them. He shall strike the Earth with the rod 177 00:15:58.210 --> 00:16:02.970 of his mouth, with the breath of his lips, he shall kill the 178 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:07.320 wicked. This anointed one, this Messiah, this one who has been filled 179 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:11.799 with the Holy Spirit, will do powerful things, will exercise judgment and righteousness 180 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:17.360 like the world has never seen before. Verse I. Righteousness Shall Be the 181 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:22.909 belt of his waist and faithfulness the belt of his loins. So we see 182 00:16:22.269 --> 00:16:27.429 that from this, from devastation and from judgment, shoots up new life, 183 00:16:29.990 --> 00:16:34.659 anointed by the spirit, a made effective by the spirit, and the those 184 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:45.220 effects come not only upon him but upon the whole world. And we read 185 00:16:45.259 --> 00:16:48.970 about those effects in the verses after that, versus six through nine. The 186 00:16:49.090 --> 00:16:55.889 Wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopards shall die lie down with the 187 00:16:55.970 --> 00:17:00.879 young goat or my favorite, Verse Eight, the Nursing Child shall play over 188 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:06.799 the whole of the Cobra. Every parent's heart skips a beat. No, 189 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:14.319 but of course it's a new world with this one, this new king, 190 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.950 inaugurates a new something, new, a new reality, a new place, 191 00:17:21.990 --> 00:17:30.380 a place where there is no war with men against men, and even men 192 00:17:30.500 --> 00:17:36.059 and animals seem to have found a way to live at peace with one another. 193 00:17:37.859 --> 00:17:47.210 These are the glorious results that come through the spirit anointed servant. Let's 194 00:17:47.210 --> 00:17:52.690 turn to Isaiah Forty two, a similar passage in which we are called to 195 00:17:52.849 --> 00:17:59.440 behold the servant verse, one whom I uphold. I have put my spirit 196 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.640 on him, and he will bring forth justice to the nation's a similar idea, 197 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.720 right those one who will rule in righteousness and judgment. On that he 198 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.230 speaks and he works for those that are weak, a bruised weed. He 199 00:18:12.349 --> 00:18:17.349 will not break a faintly burning wick. He will not quench a fit. 200 00:18:17.549 --> 00:18:22.390 You know, I've tried to start a fire recently and it's not always easy. 201 00:18:22.430 --> 00:18:26.910 Right, you have this tiny little emberria. Come on, grow, 202 00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:30.819 grow, they're just seemed to snuff out on their own. They're so easy 203 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:36.539 to put out. But he will not put it out. He will not 204 00:18:36.740 --> 00:18:45.529 quench even the faintest burning one. Instead, he will fan the flames and 205 00:18:45.769 --> 00:18:49.609 bring them to life. This one, unlike other kings, he will not 206 00:18:49.809 --> 00:18:53.529 grow faint or be discouraged until he is accomplished what he said to do, 207 00:18:53.809 --> 00:19:00.279 which is to establish justice in the earth. He goes on to describe, 208 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.400 then, of course, the effects, as we saw in Isail eleven. 209 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:11.670 Here we have this we have described particularly in terms of the people. So 210 00:19:11.789 --> 00:19:15.309 verse seven, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the 211 00:19:15.430 --> 00:19:18.509 prisoners from the dungeon, the prison from the prison, those who sit in 212 00:19:18.589 --> 00:19:26.859 the darkness. And it goes on from there. Now Isaiah Sixty one, 213 00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:33.539 and Isaiah sixty one again we have another similar passage. Isaiah, the big 214 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:37.849 sixty one begins. The spirit of the of the Lord God is upon me 215 00:19:38.289 --> 00:19:44.930 because he has anointed me right. He has poured out the spirit of God 216 00:19:45.289 --> 00:19:51.849 on this one, commissioning him and equipping him to do his will again, 217 00:19:52.009 --> 00:19:57.920 to bring good news to the poor. Here our emotions are taken into view. 218 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:04.039 He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted and to proclaim liberty for 219 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:07.829 the captives. This whole chapter goes on. We won't go through it all, 220 00:20:08.869 --> 00:20:15.269 but this joy of the Lord, accomplishment, righteousness on peace, inward, 221 00:20:15.309 --> 00:20:22.059 outward, everywhere you can imagine, every relationship all set right by this 222 00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:30.180 spirit, this Lord and Giver of Life. What job said is true. 223 00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:33.019 Of Jesus. The spirit of God has made me and the breath of the 224 00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:41.450 Almighty gives me life. And we see that when we come to this announcement 225 00:20:41.529 --> 00:20:48.490 about the incarnation to Mary and Luke. One just as the spirit of God 226 00:20:48.809 --> 00:20:55.920 in those first days are that before the days, the spirit of God hovering 227 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:02.559 over the waters of creation, about to bring forth life by the word as 228 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.390 it is spoken. We see the same thing here in new creation. Luke 229 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:12.430 tells us that the Holy Spirit would hover over the waters of Mary's empty womb 230 00:21:12.509 --> 00:21:19.220 and would bring forth life, mysteriously, brought forth out of nothing. And 231 00:21:19.420 --> 00:21:26.900 then, also according to humankind, as we read in woke one hundred and 232 00:21:26.900 --> 00:21:30.859 thirty five. The Angel answered her. How will this be? She's he 233 00:21:30.019 --> 00:21:36.170 says, the Holy Spirit will come upon you. That's how this will be. 234 00:21:37.250 --> 00:21:42.089 The power of the most high will overshadow you. Therefore, the child 235 00:21:42.210 --> 00:21:48.640 to be born will be called Holy, the son of God. And of 236 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.119 course, the same spirit that hovered over Jesus bringing about the conception is the 237 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:57.680 same spirit who came down like a dove and Hoverard over him and would at 238 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:03.789 his baptism and which the Lord declared this is my son and whom I am 239 00:22:03.430 --> 00:22:10.910 well pleased. And he was that same spirit that launched Jesus's ministry a drove 240 00:22:11.109 --> 00:22:15.980 of him out into the Wilderness. Remember, it was the spirit of God 241 00:22:15.140 --> 00:22:22.819 who drove Jesus out to be tempted by the devil. In his excellent book 242 00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:29.140 rediscovering the Holy Spirit, Michael Horton writes this. The spirit did not lead 243 00:22:29.180 --> 00:22:34.730 Jesus above natural life with its exposures to dangers, trials, temptation and suffering, 244 00:22:36.970 --> 00:22:41.809 but deeper and deeper into it, into that life. We may with 245 00:22:42.009 --> 00:22:48.440 profit consider this in our own trials and temptations. We may think that the 246 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.839 spirit is the one who works miraculously above this world, in its dangers, 247 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.480 to keep us from going through the Valley of the shadow of death. However, 248 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:03.190 not even in this unique and sinless savior was the spirit anointed life one 249 00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:10.910 of hovering above the ordinary existence of the world. But Horton is saying is 250 00:23:10.950 --> 00:23:15.660 that the Holy Spirit and doesn't sort of hover above the ordinary existence of the 251 00:23:15.779 --> 00:23:21.420 world and then it's our job to climb up out of that world to find 252 00:23:22.339 --> 00:23:29.930 heaven, but instead the Holy Spirit comes into this world and brings life in 253 00:23:30.089 --> 00:23:36.250 a man, in a human being, and in that human being and in 254 00:23:36.410 --> 00:23:42.400 that anointed life the the spirit work and and drives him even out into the 255 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:48.039 Wilderness to be tempted by Satan, even as Adam was tempted. It was 256 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.640 in that wilderness that Jesus would face temptation, just like Adam did, and 257 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:59.390 like every son and daughter of Adam and Eve after him, the brothers and 258 00:23:59.470 --> 00:24:06.910 sisters. You know what happened this time. This time man made it through. 259 00:24:07.630 --> 00:24:12.539 Yes, more than man, but still man, the representative of of 260 00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:18.500 God, of four men and of men for God, Jesus Christ himself. 261 00:24:21.099 --> 00:24:26.890 He resisted the devil, and he did that not only in the temptation the 262 00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:32.490 wilderness, but throughout his entire life. He resisted temptation as the one who 263 00:24:32.930 --> 00:24:37.650 did not grieve the Holy Spirit, but lived in light of the Holy Spirit, 264 00:24:37.890 --> 00:24:42.039 by the power of the Holy Spirit. This happened throughout his whole life. 265 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:47.200 reread in Luke to forty, as the child grew and became strong, 266 00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:52.390 filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him. Hebrews five eight 267 00:24:52.470 --> 00:24:56.829 tells us that, although he was a son, he learned obedience through what 268 00:24:56.950 --> 00:25:03.710 he suffered, and he confesses this as well, that his work is done 269 00:25:03.750 --> 00:25:07.259 by the power of the spirit. Matthew Twenty eight, Jesus says, but 270 00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:11.900 if, but if it is by the spirit of God that I cast out 271 00:25:11.940 --> 00:25:15.700 demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you and of course that 272 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:21.180 if is true, he is saying that I do cast out demons by the 273 00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:23.730 spirit of God. Therefore, the Kingdom of God has come upon you. 274 00:25:26.250 --> 00:25:30.250 And then, of course, we have his death itself. Hebrews fourteen says 275 00:25:30.369 --> 00:25:37.640 through the eternal spirit he offered himself without blemish to God. He purified our 276 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.960 conscience from dead works to serve the Living God. So as we see all 277 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:45.480 these things and we sum all of this up, we see that Jesus is 278 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:51.950 who he is because the spirit is who he is. Now the reverse is 279 00:25:51.990 --> 00:25:55.309 also true. The spirit is who he is because Jesus who is who he 280 00:25:55.549 --> 00:26:00.509 is. But that's another sermon and will save that for another time. But 281 00:26:00.670 --> 00:26:07.220 we can simply say that these with between the son and the spirit, as 282 00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:11.819 Ambrose said, there is no inferiority and subjection, but only a community of 283 00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:19.410 power, and we could add love as well. As we come to understand 284 00:26:19.529 --> 00:26:25.609 the importance of the spirit in the life of Jesus, that helps us to 285 00:26:25.609 --> 00:26:30.930 understand the importance of the spirit in our lives as well, because we come 286 00:26:32.009 --> 00:26:34.599 to see that Jesus is miracles don't just show us his divinity, but they 287 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:41.039 show us the try you work of God the work that God is doing and 288 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:48.950 has done for us. Consider this as and I'll finish up here. Consider 289 00:26:48.109 --> 00:26:55.029 this by way of a contrast, one that comes from scripture. In numbers 290 00:26:55.069 --> 00:27:00.029 eleven, there's a scene where the spirit of God, who has settled upon 291 00:27:00.269 --> 00:27:07.619 Moses, is then given to seventy elders. Scriptures say a portion or some 292 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:14.180 of the spirit that was on Moses was given to each of these elders, 293 00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:19.730 some of that spirit. Interestingly, or an amazingly graciously, that happens at 294 00:27:19.769 --> 00:27:27.009 a moment when these elders are coming to attack Moses. Essentially, they are 295 00:27:27.049 --> 00:27:33.480 really mad at him, they are coming with complaints against Moses, and it 296 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.000 is that this moment that God then takes his spirit that is on Moses and 297 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:44.160 gives some of it to all of these elders, and then they begin prophesying 298 00:27:44.630 --> 00:27:48.869 in the spirit. It's an amazing moment. After time, however, they 299 00:27:48.910 --> 00:27:56.230 stop prophesying. But there are two people too who were registered among the elders 300 00:27:56.269 --> 00:28:00.180 but weren't there when all of this happened, El Dad and me Dad, 301 00:28:03.099 --> 00:28:08.579 and they start prophesying. So you've got the picture right. Everyone stops prophesying. 302 00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:12.089 Then there are these two who weren't there when it all happened and now 303 00:28:12.130 --> 00:28:18.250 they're prophesying. Joshua goes to Moses, who had served Moses. He goes 304 00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:22.650 to Moses and he says, my Lord, Moses stopped them. But here's 305 00:28:22.650 --> 00:28:26.319 what Moses says. Are You Jealous? For my sake, would that all 306 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:32.799 the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit on them. 307 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.759 In other words, this amazing moment in which the spirit was on Moses 308 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.079 and then gets portioned out a little bit to these elders and then they stop. 309 00:28:42.710 --> 00:28:47.309 Moses says, Oh, if only everybody would the only if this would 310 00:28:47.390 --> 00:28:49.869 happen, if everybody, if the spirit would be upon all of them. 311 00:28:51.869 --> 00:28:55.029 Now, why did I tell you this story? I tell you the story, 312 00:28:55.819 --> 00:28:59.740 history, true story. I tell you this because of the contrast that 313 00:28:59.819 --> 00:29:03.940 you can see what God is doing in Christ, where, with Moses the 314 00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:10.210 spirit was given in a measure to these saints. You know a portion of 315 00:29:10.289 --> 00:29:14.569 the spirit that was on Moses. In John Thirty four, Jesus says that 316 00:29:14.690 --> 00:29:26.599 he gives the spirit without measure, with out you can't even measure. The 317 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:33.359 amount wasn't quotation marked. For those who are listening, the amount of the 318 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:48.349 Holy Spirit that is in you. The implications of this are vast. Let 319 00:29:48.509 --> 00:29:55.140 this reframe the fruits of the spirit, for example, love, joy, 320 00:29:55.299 --> 00:30:00.299 peace, patience, etc. When you think of those gifts and you think 321 00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:03.700 about the Holy Spirit dwelling in you and you think about your savior, who 322 00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:12.690 is given you his spirit without measure, let your heart be filled with awe 323 00:30:15.049 --> 00:30:26.079 and wonder. These elders came and with complaints and angry at Moses, man 324 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:34.240 came against Jesus and murdered him, and yet he gives the spirit without measure. 325 00:30:36.589 --> 00:30:40.670 The Holy Spirit that dwells in you dwells and you, not for a 326 00:30:40.869 --> 00:30:48.910 moment, not for a time, but for all time, uniting you with 327 00:30:49.740 --> 00:31:00.779 your savior so that his life would be in you. He equips you not 328 00:31:00.099 --> 00:31:06.809 just for this particular moment enter this particular task, as he does with unbelievers. 329 00:31:07.210 --> 00:31:15.490 Instead, he makes all your living holy. He sanctifies you and one 330 00:31:15.529 --> 00:31:23.599 day, this Lord and Giver of Life Will Glorify you so that you would 331 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:33.390 fully share in that same resurrection by which he glorified the Lord Jesus. It 332 00:31:33.549 --> 00:31:41.589 is the Holy Spirit that makes us truly human and alive to God and in 333 00:31:41.789 --> 00:31:48.940 God. He makes us so that we can share in heavenly things, eternal 334 00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:56.180 life and all those blessings that are described in Isaiah, rescuing out of dungeons, 335 00:31:56.220 --> 00:32:00.140 healing the broken hearted, debts forgiven, and on and on and on. 336 00:32:00.569 --> 00:32:07.930 These mercies and these grace through the spirit anointed king, have come upon 337 00:32:08.089 --> 00:32:15.039 us. Romans eleven says it in this way, addresses one of these things 338 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:21.759 in this way. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead 339 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:27.640 dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give 340 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:37.950 life to your mortal bodies through his spirit it who dwells in you. So 341 00:32:37.029 --> 00:32:42.789 I said we'd come back to Isaiah, chapter forty two. We've read about 342 00:32:42.910 --> 00:32:47.299 the promises and the blessings that come to us through Jesus, the spirits adointed 343 00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:53.180 one, who then pours out his spirit on us without measure. We've considered 344 00:32:53.339 --> 00:33:00.130 they react or that the the the things we will experience, the heavenly rest, 345 00:33:00.289 --> 00:33:04.930 the resurrection, the glory, all of these things. What should our 346 00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:09.569 reaction be to that? Well, one of them is found in Isaiah forty 347 00:33:09.609 --> 00:33:14.559 two, which, hopefully you peeked at. Isaiah Forty two, verse ten 348 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:21.519 sing to the Lord a new song his praise from the end of the earth, 349 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:23.759 you who go down to the sea and all that fills it, the 350 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:29.950 coast land and their inhabitants. Let the desert and it's cities lift up their 351 00:33:30.029 --> 00:33:34.990 voice. The villages that Kate are inhabits. Let the inhabitants of sell US 352 00:33:35.029 --> 00:33:37.150 sing for joy. Let them shout from the mountain tops, from the top 353 00:33:37.230 --> 00:33:42.700 of the mountains, let them give glory to the Lord and declare his praise. 354 00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:45.500 In the coast lands, the Lord goes out like a mighty man, 355 00:33:46.099 --> 00:33:50.700 like a man of war. He stirs up his zeal, he cries out, 356 00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:58.809 he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes. Amen, 357 00:34:00.450 --> 00:34:00.769 let us