Sermon Tone Analysis

Life of Christ  Part 2

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In the temptation, satan tried to get Jesus to act independently of God’s will, just as he did with Adam.

He had the same opportunity to enter into the slave market, but He didn’t.

If He had, we would have been sunk with no hope.

Jesus didn’t act independently of God.

Satan could not trick Him.

He tried to tempt Him to bait Him, but Jesus always came back with the Word of God saying, *“It is written/.”/*/

It is not a sin to be tempted, but it is a sin to yield./

Jesus was tempted in all points as we are, but w~/o sin.

Some get under condemnation because temptation comes.

We are not to let it come in and abide with us.

Temptation came to Jesus and it will come to us.

Jesus prayed, *“Let this cup pass from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours.”

(Matthew 26:39)*

The door of the slave camp that used to be locked is now open.

He took the keys from satan.

People are standing around saying, “How do we get out of here?”

Hey, the door is open/.

Jesus is the Door/.

Many go around looking for supernatural experiences.

They can tell you when they were born again, that they saw lights, heavenly things, beautiful music, and all kinds of supernatural things, etc.  Yes, there are those, but for every one hundred of those, there are those who just heard the Word and came through the door.

Some walked through and some ran through.

The one who heard the Word and just believed will be a faithful follower and a dependable worker.

Too many are looking for lightning and miracles.

All I know is that I once was blind and now I see.

That’s it.

That is salvation.

Just walk out the door.

Now, let’s look *at John 10:1 “*Verily*, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”*

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  Many mistakenly take this verse to mean getting up into heaven.

But, there is no other way into heaven.

Well, if there is no other way into heaven, why even bring it up?

/The sheepfold is not heaven/.

/The sheepfold is the earth and the door is natural birth/.

The phrase *“entereth not by the door into the sheepfold”* means entering into earth by the door which is /natural birth/.

In other words, natural is the correct way to enter into the earth.

The end of the verse says, “but climbeth up some other way is a thief and a robber.”

Who is the thief and robber?

*/He is the one who is here illegitimately, who didn’t come through natural birth.

He came through deception.

He got his authority by deception.

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Now who is being talked about here?

Let’s move on to the next verse, *John 10:2 “but He that entereth in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep.”

* For JC to be the Redeemer of the earth and to be qualified for that, He had to come by legitimate means.

He is the Shepherd of the sheep, the qualified One who entered in the right way.

Authority only comes by being here naturally (I’m talking authority in the earth now) Jesus came to take the claim of authority away from satan.

Satan got it by deception.

Jesus took it away from him and gave it to His body.

The day is coming when the illegitimate one will be completely done away with.

In the garden, it was His humanity that was tempted (The Son of Man).

Humanity suffered.

He was absolute, perfect, sinless, spotless, w~/o blemish humanity.

Now He had to take on the sins of the world.

It was humanity, not deity, because humanity could be tempted.

That’s why His flesh wanted to draw back.

The temptation was there.

*“Nevertheless, not My will, but Thine.”*

That is why *Matthew **8:17* says, *“that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.’”*

He did it because He */could/* take them.

He had none of His own and that’s why He could take them.

He was perfect and fully qualified to redeem mankind.

I am a man and He was a man.

He had to come as a man to be qualified to redeem me.

If God had come any other way than in the form of a man, He wouldn’t have been qualified to redeem me.

He had to come through natural birth to be able to take my place, a life for a life.

He was /perfect/ humanity dying for /cursed/ humanity.

The hardest thing He ever did was go to the cross.

The Bible speaks of /three heavens./

The /first heaven/ is the area of heaven around the earth.

The /second heaven/ is where the stars and planets are.

The /third heaven/ is where the Father lives.

In His deity, Christ created all of these*.

Psalm 8:3* speaking of the heavens calls it the *“work of Thy fingers”.*

*Hebrews **1:10** *says, \\ * And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:*

 

 *“the heavens are the works of Thine hands.”*

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*  Psalm 19:1* speaks of His handiwork when it says \\ * “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”*

Take note though, in *Isaiah 53:1* it says, \\ * “Who hath believed our report?

and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”*

*“to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”*

You notice here to conquer satan the whole arm is used.

It was the hardest thing Jesus ever had to do.

Notice also that the strength of God is revealed to those who believe.

My main point here is that the arm is used, signifying strength.

In *Isaiah 59:16  we read * \\ * “And he saw that /there was/ no man, and wondered that /there was/ no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.”*

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 We see the term, God’s *“arm”* used in regards to there not being an intercessor until God did what had to be done.

/In creating the universe there was no resistance, but when it came to salvation it was arm to arm combat with satan.

Salvation is the greatest gift we have ever received.

The cross took the arm of God/.

When Jesus healed, it was performed through His humanity.

*Acts **10:38* mentions *Jesus of **Nazareth** who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.*

Jesus of Nazareth was a title of His humanity.

If it was deity, He could have healed before age thirty (/deity never matures/).

At age thirty, He was anointed by the HS.

Miracles started occurring after this point.

/When the HS is upon me miracles can occur when God uses me.

He was humanity and I am humanity in Him./

One of the biggest attacks on the teachings we have is about this question, “How did JC heal?”

The big thing people say is that He healed from His deity to prove He was the Son of God or that when JC left all the healings went with Him.  */That is not true/*.

People say that He healed from His deity.

The truth is that the Bible never backs that up.