02 And He Shall Be Called Mighty God
Christmas 2022 | And He Shall Be Called • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 46:14
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Names mean something to us.
Alyvia (found it in a baby name book) Marie Jane (both grandma’s)
Bennson (baby name book) Hugh
Amyah (picked by Amy and spelled for her) Renea (Amy)
Names meant even more in the Old Testament.
They would name their children by how they felt, something that was happening, or the way the children acted.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
1. The Child that was born is a Mighty Warrior.
1. The Child that was born is a Mighty Warrior.
Once again we need to understand the meaning is lost through the english translation.
This phrase is translated from El Gibbor.
Gibbor = carries the meaning and idea of a mighty warrior, a champion, a war hero.
Goliath is called a champion of the Philistines = he is their gibbor.
Nimrod
8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
David
8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.
1. The Child that was born is a Mighty Warrior.
1. The Child that was born is a Mighty Warrior.
David’s men were fierce and known for their battle field heroics.
The child that was born was gibbor - mighty warrior, champion.
But not ANY mighty warrior or champion. Not simply gibbor.
El - meaning God.
El Shaddai - all sufficient one
El Elyon - the Lord Most High
El Gibbor - God the the champion and mighty warrior.
We tend to romanticize the birth of Christ.
Silent night - holy night.
Oh little town of Bethlehem how still we see thee lie
We see Mary and Joseph huddled around the baby while He quietly sleeps.
We tend to think of Jesus as soft.
We don’t understand the difference between soft and meek.
Voddie Baucham says it this way:
We think of Jesus as the one who showed up on the right side of the Bible to apologize for the God of the left side of the Bible.
Jesus is the God of the left side of the Bible.
He is the Mighty Warrior of the Old Testament destroying those who stood against Israel.
We forget that this baby came as a mighty warrior.
This was a carefully planned invasion.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
At the exact right time, God sent His champion to fight!
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Think about this...
3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
This did not stop at conception.
This did not stop because he was a baby in a manger.
He was not week because He was a baby.
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Luke 1 - John the Baptist leaped in his mothers womb at the sound of Mary’s voice.
Jesus - knitting His cousin John the Baptist together in Elizabeth’s womb while knitting himself together in Mary’s womb, who he knit together in her mother’s womb.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
Darkness is a metaphor for evil.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Paul tells us what life in darkness looks like.
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
Separated from Christ.
Having no part in Him.
Alienated from the commonwealth of Isreal
Commonwealth - a citizenship, a nation
No homeland
Alienated implies we once were.
Until Adam sinned.
Strangers to THE promise
Not a part of the Abrahamic covenant.
No promise from God to keep us save or to make us useful.
Not gaining any blessing from a good and promising God.
No hope
No divine promise
No hope beyond this life
Without God
Atheists (Greek “atheos”)
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
In the world.
31 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
In this world that is Satan’s domain. His kingdom.
I can’t image a more desperate situation.
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
The Father qualifies us.
Once unqualified we no longer have to be alienated, without a homeland, and with no hope - NOW AN INHERITANCE!
Because something happened to cause sin debt to be satisfied.
It was something God did.
He authorized a rescue mission!
He delivered us from the domain of darkness.
Delivered = rescued.
From the domain or kingdom of darkness.
A realm dominated by sin and death.
A kingdom that provides no hope.
We were once held under the authority and power of Satan.
Satan is dangerous.
Satan is powerful.
But Jesus it THE Mighty Warrior.
Jesus is THE champion.
4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
He redeemed us and forcefully removed us.
He paid our ransom.
12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
He rescued then transferred us into HIS Kingdom.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
2. The mighty warrior is an incredible Rescuer from evil.
3. We are rescued because of the self-sacrifice of the Mighty Warrior.
3. We are rescued because of the self-sacrifice of the Mighty Warrior.
A Son is given.
This is the language of a father sending his son to war.
Brought near by the blood of Christ.
4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
He was already in exsistance as the incomprehensible strategist and mighty warrior.
He emptied Himself
He became a slave
He was completely submissive to the Father’s will.
Jesus did not stay silent during His trial or stay on the cross because He was soft.
Rather, it was because He was a mighty warrior sent by His Father to accomplish a specific mission.
Jesus would was to be called the mighty warrior because He was the mighty warrior.
Yet, He willingly submitted to the Fathers plan.
He completely humbled himself.
To bring salvation to us.
So why do we find it so hard to humble ourselves and live Romans 12:1-2?
How this played out for Jesus.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
He will get His recognition as a mighty warrior.
Questions for the week:
Am I trusting and continuing the work of the Mighty Warrior?
What is keeping me from fully serving Jesus the way I should?
Am I making my life count as one who has been sacrificially rescued?