The Son Of God
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
I’m so thankful that today, out of all other days, our Lord and Savior is remembered by many more than typically would.
Today, is often the day that many will hear from God’s word for the first time this year and possibly the last time this year and so I’m thankful that this day breeds opportunity for those that normally would not seek such.
It is for that reason that I want us to “pause” our typical series of lessons we have been doing on Sunday mornings and turn our attention to a specific lesson on “The Son of God.”
There is no greater love story, no greater demonstration of love from one source to the next than that of God’s love demonstrated in the “only begotten Son of God.”
So this morning we are going to examine the grace, grief, and glory of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
So with that in mind let’s start be inquiring about Jesus and…
Grace
Grace
What Is Grace?
What Is Grace?
As we have discussed before the word grace, in its most simplistic and basic definition, means “favorable gift.”
In the ESV we find the Greek word for grace found 154 times and it is translated as “grace” 123 times.
Again, as I just mentioned the word grace more often than not is translated as “grace” but we do find its usage in other passages translated instead of transliterated.
Grace can is sometimes just translated as “gift.”
1 Corinthians 16:3 (ESV)
3 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
Romans 4:4 (ESV)
4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Grace can mean “credit or benefit.”
Luke 6:32–34 (ESV)
32 If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.
Grace is sometimes translated as “favor.”
Luke 1:30 (ESV)
30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Acts 25:9 (ESV)
9 But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?”
So, what we find is that grace is a gift that has at its foundation “benefits or favors.”
This is why God has chosen to show us throughout the scriptures that…
Jesus Is Grace.
Jesus Is Grace.
Jesus is the “favorable gift” from God to mankind.
John 3:16 (NKJV)
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Romans 3:23–25 (ESV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
What makes Jesus a “favorable gift” to mankind?
Grace offers salvation!
Grace saves by way of faith.
Ephesians 2:8 (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God
Grace if free!
It is free for “all” of mankind to receive if they are willing to accept it.
Titus 2:11 (ESV)
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people
It is free for all mankind because it is too valuable for him to earn it.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Summary
Summary
Grace, the gift of God to mankind which is Jesus his only begotten Son, offers salvation freely to all those that are willing to take hold of this gift.
Jesus, the gift of God, came to this earth for you and I.
What happened while on this earth while Jesus was in the flesh (John 1:14)?
The reality is, as you and I know, Jesus came to this earth with a twofold purpose.
The first part of that purpose was to endure…
Grief
Grief
God’s Grief With Mankind.
God’s Grief With Mankind.
God is familiar with grief.
Throughout the scriptures and time we find God grieved by mankind’s actions or lack thereof wherein sin is concerned.
Genesis 6:5–6 (ESV)
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Isaiah 63:10 (ESV)
10 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Ephesians 4:30 (ESV)
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
When Grace was sent in the flesh we were given…
God’s Grief Visualized.
God’s Grief Visualized.
For the first time we could visually see God’s emotions.
John 14:7 (ESV)
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.
John 14:9 (ESV)
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
This was done so that we could see, and learn from this visualization of perfection in all things, but especially emotions.
Jesus demonstrated perfect “anger” while in the flesh.
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Jesus demonstrated perfect compassion while in the flesh.
36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
14 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Jesus grief was on full display visually and part of his twofold purpose for coming to this earth.
It was prophesied that this would be the case long before he ever became flesh.
Isaiah 53:3 (ESV)
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Jesus grieved the death of loved ones just like us.
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
Jesus grieved his own chosen people who had rejected him.
41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Jesus grieved over his pain and suffering.
7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Summary
Summary
Grace grieved with loud cries and tears for the humiliation and suffering he knew he must endure even though he was not deserving (Hebrews 4:15).
However, Grace’s grief was not without perspective because he knew what awaited and this is why he three times in grief and sorrow prayed, “not my will but thine.”
Even in that prayer wherein grief is so powerfully see the second part of Jesus’ twofold reason for coming to this earth.
He was not only to suffer and thus grieve but he would find again his…
Glory
Glory
A Glory That Had Been Removed.
A Glory That Had Been Removed.
There was a sense in which Jesus’ glory had been removed when he came to this earth.
We see this in his prayer before he was taken, tried, and executed.
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
We also know that Jesus still had “glory” as well.
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
So what did Jesus loose by coming to earth and becoming both God and man?
He lost the glory he had “in God’s presence.”
John 17:5 (ESV)
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
When Jesus died and was buried he did not stay in the grave as you and I know.
No, “Christ has risen!!!”
5 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
And now that he has risen he has…
That Glory Again.
That Glory Again.
As Jesus told the disciples so it came to pass.
14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Jesus has been glorified in the presence of the Father to be our Lord and Savior haven defeated death and risen from the grave to die no more.
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Summary
Summary
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Conclusion
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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,
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.