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Amen, beloved. Let's turn to
a few passages this evening. The First
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Genesis Chapter Three, verses fourteen and
fifteen, and then some verses in Galatians.
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This one moment right, let's give
our attention to God's word. In
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Genesis Chapter Three, the Lord said
to the servant, because you have done
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this, cursed are you above all
livestock and above all beasts of the field.
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On your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat all the
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days of your life. I will
put enmity between you and the woman and
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between your offspring and her offspring.
He shall bruise your head and you shall
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bruise his heel. And now from
Galatians, glacians chapter four, verses four
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and five. But when the fullness
of time had come, God sent forth
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his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
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those who were under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.
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Two more verses. And because you
are sons, God has sent the
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spirit of his son into our hearts, crying AH, a father. So
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are you no longer a slave but
a son, and if a son,
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then an heir through God. Men. Well, this morning, as I
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mentioned, we are continuing our series
on the Promised Messiah, considering who it
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is exactly that was promised and how
Jesus fulfills those promises and is in fact
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of the Lord's Messiah, the Anointed
One, the Christ. This morning we
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consider Jesus as the son of God. This evening I want to consider with
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you from the scriptures, Jesus as
the son of man. That he is
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the son of man, that he
would be and was prophesied to be the
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son of man, is clear from
our passages this evening and others as well.
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One other will look out in particular
the promise that the Messiah, this
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chosen one of God, would be
born of a man, as we say,
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or as we saw I was we
read, comes right from the beginning,
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from Genesis chapter three. This is
an amazing section for all kinds of
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reasons, one of which in this
this promise about this future son born of
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a woman. This promise comes in
the midst of a curse. You remember
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that this curse is happening because man
has sinned. God put man in the
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Garden of Eden. He put a
call on his life. He told him
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to follow after God, to follow
in the footsteps of God, to be
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righteous, to be holy, to
do the things that God had called him
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to do, in particular not to
eat of a particular tree that God had
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forbidden, which is exactly what Adam
and Eve did, being tempted by the
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servant, this evil one, one
that the scriptures call a murderer, a
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liar and accuser. Satan, tempted
eve and Adam. They disobeyed the Lord.
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They did the one thing, the
one particular thing, that he had
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commanded them not to do, and
in fail failing at that one particular point,
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they failed at all the points.
They broke the law, and so
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instead of entering into life and glory
and communion with the Lord forever and ever,
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they received, justly the opposite,
a curse upon them and upon all
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their children, upon mankind. It's
for this reason that David says he is
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he was conceived in sin. It's
the reason that we believe we don't merely
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do sinful things, but we are
sinful people, a sad trait that is
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passed on from one generation to the
next, people born in a state of
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sin, of suffering and misery,
and rightfully so, under the wrath of
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God, because of this curse on
mankind, for the sins that we committed.
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But in the midst of this curse
God makes this promise. And God
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did not have to do this.
God did not have to say this.
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In his righteousness he could have only
cursed man, but in His grace he
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says, as he curses the serpent, I will put enmity between you and
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the woman, between her offspring and
your offspring. He shall bruise your head
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and you shall bruise his heel.
This is perhaps the first proclamation of the
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Gospel that we have in the Bible, and it's from this starting point that
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the scriptures will continue to develop and
we will see that this promised seed,
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this promised offspring of to Adam and
Eve, would one day be born in
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that son, that son of man, would be Jesus, who is,
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as we heard this morning, also
the son of God. That initial hope
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that was promised there in the midst
of the curse carries on throughout the story
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of the Bible, a son that
is promised in more and more specific ways
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to Abraham, to David and remarkably, this son of man, as we
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come to see, will be different
than other sons of men. As a
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son of man, he will save
the very people who were cursed. He
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will become a son of man so
that we can become sons of God.
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He will become like us so that
we can gain an inheritance, you can
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gain the glory and the promises that
God gives to us through the completion of
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Christ's work on our behalf. To
understand more of the more of the prophecies
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and more of the promises around this
person, round this promised Messiah, please
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turn with me to Daniel Chapter Seven. It's from this passage that Jesus draws
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his most common title, that he
refers to himself. As that was an
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awkward way to say that, let
me start again. Jesus refers to himself
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in a certain way. Most commonly
he calls himself the son of man,
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particularly when it refers to his work
on the cross and his work in the
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defeat of Satan. In Daniel Chapter
Seven, Daniel receives a vision, a
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vision of four terrible beasts, the
fourth one particularly terrible. And then,
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after the revelation of these beasts,
he sees something else, and I'll begin
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in verse nine. Please listen.
Read along with me. As I looked,
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thrones were placed and the ancient of
days took his seat, his clothing
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was white as snow and the hair
of his head like pure wool. His
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throne was fiery flames. It's wheels
were burning fire, a stream of fire
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issued and came out from before him. A thousand thousands served him and ten
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thousand times tenzero stood before him.
The courts sat in judgement and the books
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were opened. I looked then because
of the sound of the great words that
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the horn was speaking, and as
I looked, the beast was killed and
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its body destroyed and given over to
be burned with fire. As for the
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rest of the beasts, their dominion
was taken away, but their lives were
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prolonged for a season and a time. I saw in the night visions and
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behold with the clouds of heaven,
there came one like a son of man,
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and he came to the ancient of
days and was presented before him,
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and to him was given Dominion and
glory and a kingdom that all people's nations
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and languages should serve him. His
Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion which shall not
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pass away, and he is kingdom, one that shall not be destroyed.
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A pause there. This is the
son of man, when Jesus refers to
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himself as the son of man.
This is the passage that we ought to
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have in mind. This one who
comes to the ancient of days, who
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sits in judgment, who sits in
judgment with this mighty host at his hands.
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Language that we read earlier as well, in the Psalms, a thousand
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thousand served him. Tenzero is in
times tenzero. I think that's a hundred
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million, if my math is right. If not, it's a really big
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number. Angels upon angels upon angels, this Mighty Army. Perhaps you've seen,
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either in newsreels or on TV or
something like that, some kind of
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military parade right, and you've got
the flags flying and the tanks and the
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airplanes moving down the street, with
the columns of troops marching one after another.
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Impressive. It's meant to be impressive. It's meant to strike a little
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fear in your heart or, if
you're on the side of that army,
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perhaps inspire a little courage and confidence
in the strength of your king or people.
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Here, though, is no ordinary
king. This is the one who
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is from everlasting to everlasting. His
armies are angelic. Millions of soldiers ready
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and waiting to do his bidding,
which is to minister to his people.
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This great one, then, is
accompanied by this other great one one to
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whom all of these dominions and authority
and a kingdom and a glory is given.
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To one like a son of man, this one whose kingdom shall not
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be destroyed. This son of man, therefore, is very much this same
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one that was promised to Adam and
even in the garden, this child who
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would come to crush the head of
the serpent here is spoken of in these
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magnificent terms. His kingship and his
power as he comes into the world to
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defeat those who would seek to destroy
the Lord, is awe inspiring. Let's
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continue on in Daniel Seven, as
we read of the fourth beast, the
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great beast in particular, in Verse
Twenty Three. Thus he said, as
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for the fourth beast, there shall
be a fourth kingdom on Earth, which
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shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth
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and trample it down and break it
to pieces. As for the ten horns,
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out of this kingdom, ten kings
shall arise and another shall arise after
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them, and he shall be different
from the former ones, and he shall
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put down three kings, he shall
speak words against the most high, he
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shall wear out the saints of the
Most High and shall think to change the
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times and the law, and they
shall be given into his hand for a
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time, times and half a time. But the court shall sit in judgment
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and his DEM minion shall be taken
away to be consumed and destroyed to the
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end, and the Kingdom and the
dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under
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the whole of Heaven shall be given
to the people of the saints of the
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most high. His Kingdom shall be
an everlasting kingdoms and all dominion shall serve
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and obey Him. So we have, in the description of the fourth beast,
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this great set of Kingdoms and kings
that are more powerful than any of
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us have ever experienced, a kingdom
and or set of kingdoms which is so
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powerful it is described as consuming the
world, wearing out the saints of the
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most high. This is difficult things, but the prophecy says it will just
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be for a period of time,
a period of time, or is described
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here a time times and half a
time, or is it was described earlier
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a season and a time, or
is it as described in other places about
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a thousand years, a period of
time, not an exact a thousand,
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but a period of time, a
period of reigning, in which it things
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will be hard. But we must
remember in even the most difficult of times,
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the Lord sits in judgment, he
rules, he reigns, and the
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day will come when all of this
great power will turn out to not be
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so great. It will be consumed
and destroyed to the end and the Kingdom
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and the dominion, in the greatness
of the Kingdom shall be all given not
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only to the king but to the
people of the saints, of the Most
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High God will deliver the kingdom over
to to his people who rule and who
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reign with him so beloved. This
is the thing that the world was waiting
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for, the Messiah, this great
king who would come, and indeed he
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did come. He was, as
we read in Galatians, born of a
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woman. To turn back to glacians
for a moment, when we when Paul
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writes here, notice what he says. When the fullness of time had come,
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the fullness of time had come,
God sent forth his son, born
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of a woman, and particularly what
that means is what it also means,
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I should say, is born under
the law. He was born under the
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law and he did so to redeem
those who were under the law, so
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that we might receive adoption as sons. So what does all this mean?
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What this means is that, in
God's perfect plan, he did not only
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come as God, in his power
and his glory, to accomplish these saving
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ends, but he came as a
man, and this is very important.
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Remember. This morning I read from
first John, Chapter Four. Whoever confesses
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that Jesus is the son of God, God bides in him and he in
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God. This the importance of confessing
that Jesus is the son of man,
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that he came in the flesh,
is also equally important. John writes in
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First John for two. By this
you know the spirit of God. Every
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spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come
in the flesh is from God. And
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the flip side of that is in
second John. One seven from many deceivers
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have gone out into the world,
those who do not confess the coming of
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Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such
a one is a deceiver and the antichrist.
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Why does John Speak so strongly?
Why is it important for us to
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confess that Jesus is not only the
son of God, but he is the
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son of man. The reason and
is because, apart from him taking on
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our place in the covenant, there
would be no salvation. Jesus was born
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as a man. He became man
to save man. The author of Hebrews
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makes this point when he says he
didn't become like an angel, became like
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a man. He partook of human
flesh and blood, to partake of these
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same things in order to save us, to save us from ourselves, Romans
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Nineteen says for us, by the
one man's disobedience, that's Adam. The
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many were made sinners, so by
the one man's obedience, the many will
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be made righteous. Want to end
with this point. When we think about
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the triumph of Jesus, it's important
for us, of course, to think
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about it in terms of Jesus's Power
and authority in his divinity. Everything that
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we spoke to this morning from the
Scriptures about Jesus's Great Glory as the son
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of God is all true. Also, it is true that as we think
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about Jesus as the son of man, we also think about authority and Power
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and glory. We see that not
only from Daniel seven and these other of
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passages. But remember that when Jesus
went to the cross, he did it,
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as Paul says in Colossians, to
put the devil to open shame.
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In his conquering of death and his
conquering a defeat of death, he took
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the one who had the power over
death and he embarrassed him, he shamed
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him, showing him, who thought
himself to be so great, to ultimately
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be truly nothing. and Jesus did
that, Hebrew says, in particular,
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by taking on flesh, by becoming
incarnate. Jesus is victory, is not
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only as the son of God,
but also as the son of man,
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for by the one man's disobedience we
all were plunged into death, but by
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the one man's obedience we receive righteousness. Simply put Jesus obeyed where Adam failed,
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and by obeying and obeying as a
mediator and a representative for us,
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he obeyed perfectly. He didn't slip, he didn't make a mistake, he
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didn't accidentally say the wrong thing.
Every single thing Jesus did as a man
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was perfect in every way. And
so when we receive what Paul Calls The
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righteousness of God, we receive it
knowing that we have fulfilled the covenant,
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not in ourselves but through him who
did it for us. The triumph of
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Christ as a man over Satan and
as God over Satan is a marvelous thing.
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Who else but our God would do
this, would promise to defeat the
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evil one, to rescue us out
of sin and misery, and would do
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that by becoming one of us?
Who Else but our gracious and mighty and
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magnificent God would be would say,
I will be your God and you will
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be my people, I will be
with you forever, and then become one
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of us. This is our God. And so, when we put our
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thoughts towards Jesus and we see what
it is he is accomplished and what he
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is, he has done. Let
us worship him and serve him and trust
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him, as he is fully God
and fully man. Let us pray
