God In The Flesh: Our Savior
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Theme: The Godhead
Hope: To draw closer to God through a better understanding of the Father, Son, and Spirit both in their unity and different roles.
Last week we studied how Jesus was “Our Teacher.”
We examined how Jesus led a perfect life and demonstrated the need for people to see in the teachers life what is preached.
We looked at how Jesus “our teacher” had a great passion for the man’s soul.
We saw how Jesus used unfailing logic to prove his points when teaching.
Lastly, we noticed how Jesus took the lofty & made it simply when teaching.
Today, we are going to turn our attention to how “God In The Flesh: Our Savior.”
Everyone, knows the Jesus of the Bible is the Messiah but what exactly does that mean for us?
This morning we are going to answer that question.
Jesus being our Savior means…
He Suffered & Died For Us
He Suffered & Died For Us
Jesus Was Humiliated.
Jesus Was Humiliated.
God’s friend betrayed him.
49 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. 50 Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.
God was tried as a criminal having done nothing wrong.
4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”
God had a “crown of thorns” placed on his head and mocked as “fake news.”
17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.
Not only humiliated but we also know…
Jesus Was Tortured.
Jesus Was Tortured.
As if humiliation wasn’t enough Pilate, who “found no guilt in him” but who wanted to “please the crowd” made sure Jesus was flogged or scourged before his crucifixion.
15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
26 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
The Roman whip typically was nine whips in one with each “tail” having embedded within it pieces of metal and bone fragments.
As the whips, metal, and bone penetrated the back it would…
First open the skin and expose the muscle.
Second, grip the muscle and pull it way from the ribs, backbone, and clavicle.
It would leave the ribs, backbone, and often the spinal cord exposed.
Jesus was then told to “carry his own cross” to where…
Jesus Was Executed.
Jesus Was Executed.
He was taken to “the place of the skull.”
16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
He was nailed to a “cursed tree.”
Galatians 3:13 (ESV)
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”
He was executed in a most horrific way.
Hanging by nails in his hands and feet (John 20:25), struggling to breath, he died upon that cursed tree.
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
Summary
Summary
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Jesus being our Savior means…
He Offers Us Redemption
He Offers Us Redemption
Jesus Is Willing To Buy Us Back.
Jesus Is Willing To Buy Us Back.
To redeem means to “buy back” to purchased back what was lost.
13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
23 You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.
Ephesians 1:7 (ESV)
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
Summary
Summary
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Ephesians 1:7 (ESV)
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
Jesus being our Savior means…
He Pleads Our Case
He Pleads Our Case
Jesus Is Our Mediator.
Jesus Is Our Mediator.
Jesus having gone back to heaven and sitting now at the right hand of God as our Lord & Savior is now our Mediator between us and God the Father.
5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
This means he is the one that acts on our behalf to the Father.
His purpose as a mediator is “to bridge the interests of two opposing parties.”
In other words, Jesus is is the one that is striving to draw “us and the Father” together.
On one hand you have the Holy of Holies in the Father and on the other the “chief sinners.”
So how does Jesus “bridge that gap?”
He mediates effectively because…
Jesus Is Our Advocate.
Jesus Is Our Advocate.
Jesus is able to bridge the gap between God the Father and us because he is able to effectively advocate our case.
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
As an advocate or lawyer for our case Jesus is able to…
Prove we have his blood keeping us clean through admittance to his church.
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
Prove we are not perfect on our own but can stay perfect due to his blood keeping us clean.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Jesus is able to be our advocate because he “knows what it means to be tempted.”
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Summary
Summary
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Conclusion
Conclusion
Jesus being our Savior means…
He suffered and died for each of us.
He offers us redemption.
He pleads our case to the Father.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
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.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.