What Does God Want-Chapter 4
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Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
What Does God Want- Chapter 4
HIT RECORD JOE!
“When most Christians think about Jesus, they have the cross in mind.
That misses something.
The fact that God became a man in Jesus gets a little lost in the focus on the cross.
Most Christians don’t realize that it was necessary for God to become a man for many reasons: to fulfill all the Old Testament covenants and to overturn the results of the supernatural rebellions we talked about earlier.”
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (pp. 31-32). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
“The hope that human beings could still one day be with God forever was kept alive by God’s refusal to eliminate humanity or scrap the plan.”
Wandering Sheep
All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
If we had any hope of truly being God’s Kids we needed:
New hearts
God’s presence to enable us to believe.
We needed a means to be saved from ourselves and from a destiny that didn’t include everlasting life with the God who loves us. T
There had to be a way for God to :
Honor his covenant promises
Reverse the curse of death
And empower his people continue in their faith.
Jesus was God become man
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him—all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers—all things were created through him and for him. He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him. He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,
He was the solution to every one of these obstacles
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (p. 32). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
Jesus fulfills the Covenant Made with Abraham
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
He was the promised offspring who would release people in the divorced nations (“Gentiles”) from other gods so they could rejoin God’s family
(Gal 3:16-18; 26-29).
Jesus was the solution for fulfilling the covenant with Abraham.
Jesus fulfills the Covenant with David
This makes him the rightful king
(Matt 1:1; Luke 1:32; Rom 1:3).
He had the right ancestry and like behaved like the perfect King based on Deut 17:14-20
was perfectly loyal to God
Jesus fulfills the Covenant made at Sinai
He never committed any sin
2 Cor 5:21; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:22).
The fact that he never sinned demonstrated that he was the perfect example of the purpose of God’s law and the covenant made at Sinai.
Jesus lived out the true purpose and intent the covenant made at Sinai, which the chosen people of God had distorted and twisted to the point that it was a burden to people, not the blessing it was intended to be.
Jesus was the ultimate imager of God
(2 Cor 4:4; Col 1:15).
He is the illustration of how to image God
God wants us to conform to Jesus’s example (2 Cor 3:18; Col 3:10). As we’ll see later, that’s also what being a disciple means (1 Pet 2:21).
The Trinity
This is such a mystery which is truly beyond human understanding
God-Yahweh, is 3 persons
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
All three are One and yet distinct
“Theologians call that the incarnation, a term that means God coming “in the flesh.” Jesus would be the only human God the Father could rely on to fulfill the covenants.”
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (p. 33). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
Before the Foundations
(Eph 1:1-14; 1 Pet 1:20).
When Christ came into the world, he said [to God the Father], ‘Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me. . . . Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book’ (Heb 10:5, 7).
You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross!
Fixing More than the Fall
Jesus was a Human, therefore he could die and indeed must die on the behalf of humanity.
But the curse of death could only be reverse, IF the one who died for all was also Resurrected into New Life for all as well.
That One would be the One who Conquered Death.
Jesus fulfills this Mission and Now “Everyone who believes that Jesus’ death and resurrection provided forgiveness of sin and everlasting life will be in God’s family forever”
(Rom 4:16-25; 8:10-11; 10:9-10; 1 Cor 6:14).
Once the resurrection takes place Jesus must then return to the Father, so Holy Spirit can come
“The coming of the Spirit was the fulfillment of the new covenant described by Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jer 31:31-34; Ezek 36:22-28). It would be the Spirit who would provide victory over depravity (Gal 5:16-17), and whose works would be “greater” than Jesus’s own (John 14:12).
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (pp. 34-35). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
There are a lot of reasons why the gospel has nothing to do with our behavior—earning God’s love and salvation. This is the biggest of them. It’s insane to think our imperfect behavior could ever be adequate. The coming, death, and resurrection of Christ would never have been necessary if we could earn salvation.
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (p. 35). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
Are the Fallen Sons of God Idiots?
If the death and resurrection of Jesus overturned the effects of what the serpent (Satan) had done, and impeded the wickedness that permeated the world, and amounted to taking away the authority of the defiant gods of the nations, why in the world would Satan and the other evil spirits ever kill Jesus? It seems blazingly stupid.
Heiser, Michael S.. What Does God Want? (p. 35). Blind Spot Press. Kindle Edition.
1 Cor 2:7-8
Next week we look at the Spirit’s role in this grand Mission and how that plays into our Role.