Jesus as Mighty God

The Mighty God: Our Perfect Sacrifice

What is up with CJ students? Guys I am so excited to be here, I had such a fun time last week during the teaching and connecting with you guys. I am up here again ending off the series Annointed one, we’ve been through what it means for Jesus to be prophet, priest king last week and this week were going to be talking about what it means for jesus to be mighty God. Todays title is, The mighty God: Our Perfect sacrifice.

Okay lets get into it. Today’s passage will be in the book of hebrews like how we've been. Chapter 10:11-18.

Lets get into it

Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. 12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 13 There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. 14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.

15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,

16 “This is the new covenant I will make

with my people on that day,[a] says the Lord:

I will put my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their minds.”[b]

17 Then he says,

“I will never again remember

their sins and lawless deeds.”[c]

18 And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.

Man these verses are so packed with truth and hope im so excited to get into it.

Today’s message will be sort of split into 2 parts. We’ll talk about jesus being mighty God and because he is mighty God we'll talk about his sacrifice being enough and what that means for us today.

I want to start today’s sermon by saying, “So what?”

Why should I know the truth that Christ is mighty God and the supremacy of Christ?

So what?

Why do i need to know it?

So what?

Well in the new testament times and even today there are alot of false prophets and people preaching a gospel that is no gospel at all. Its like a sickness and false teaching is real and it spreads quick. I believe the vaccine to this disease spreading throughout the church and social media is a having a clear and supreme view of Christ. Because when you have a a supreme view of Christ and a mighty view of Christ it protects you from being swayed by the many false teachings and and false prophets that are out in the word.

If you don’t embrace a Christ that is big enough and clear enough, you will be a sitting duck for Christ-diminishing, Christ-distorting philosophy of empty deceit, and human tradition.

If you dont embrace a Christ that is big enough and clear enough you’ll stop looking to Christ as the answer and instead look for the so called self-help like productivity and being a better me and blah blah blah

If you don't embrace a Christ that is big enough and clear enough, you’ll easily be taken to find your fulfillment in man made things that will never fill the void in your heart. The void that is inevitably in all our hearts.

So, the first answer to the “so what” question is this: if you embrace a Christ who is big enough and clear enough you will have a theological, spiritual, biblical vaccination against a hundred Christ-diminishing, Christ-distorting errors — and they will not be getting fewer in the last days.

He is God:

We saw last week that the son of God Christ is the radiance of the glory of God. He radiates divinity, he radiates holiness, radiates all that is mighty and good about God. He radiates strength.

He is before all things:

Christ is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. He has no beginning, he is the beginning. Yknow like how you guys go to school, and you know school starts at 7:20 until 2:20 and youre eagerly waiting for that 2:20 to hit. Think of Christ as creating the clock. He is not bound by the clock.

Which means christ is before all things and Hebrews also tells us that not only is he before all things but all things were created through him.

All things created for him:

Everything that is on this earth exists to give the ultimate glory and praise to Christ. He is the reason everything exists therefore everything exists to worship him. Yknow that worship song, If the stars were made to worship so will I. Yea guess what, the stars were made to worship. I encourage you all to read psalm 148 when you get a chance because psalm 148 is the perfect showing that all creation worships Christ. All creations was created for him and by him.

Yknow what this sounds like, it sounds like a perfect God, who is before all things, who is eternal, who is all powerful but who is wildly egotistical.

I paused there on purpose.

Because some of you right now, are saying who put this guy up on the stage.

Im just saying what it sounds like, it sound like en egotistical God.

Do you know why this God isn’t egotistical at all. Because of top of his glory. What John Piper likes to call, the Apex of his glory is Grace.

Grace means a gift or favour that is not deserved

When we look towards Christ glory and all that he has made through the lens of Grace we see that the apex of all this glory we are supposed to give him is Grace.

The whole idea of egomanian changes when we look at the fact that Christ supplies every need that his church, aka Us, need for everlasting holiness and joy. Elaborate

Its the glory of not being the only one risen from the dead but the first one risen from the dead. It means that all who believe in his sacrifice will be risen from the death into eternal life. He is not the only one risen from the dead, he is the first.

Its the glory of shedding his blood as a sacrifice to make a new world of redeemed people. Of people who see his goodness and say I repent and believe. All of that is his grace. He is not an egomaniac because at the top of all the glory Is his grace.

So Christ is holy, he is perfect, he has made everything and he before all things.

And i want us to take a look specifically at verse 14 of the 10th chapter of hebrews

When we take look to Christ and i mean truly look to who Christ is. What happens to us is alot like what happened to peter in Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, “Oh, Lord, please leave me—I’m such a sinful man.”

In other words seeing Jesus clearly causes us to be deeply conscious of our sinfulness and our unworthiness. This is a wonderful thing. Most of us are in a deadly dream world most of the time when it comes to how seriously we are in trouble with God because of our sin. We focus much more on how bad our grades our or how we messed up in sports. But sin is infinitely serious. And God's anger at sinners is the biggest problem in everyone's life, whether we know it or not.

To be blind or oblivious to the wrath of God and his anger is like having a gas leak in your house and not being able to smell it whatsoever. This leak is just getting ready to blow your house to absolute shreds. it is so dangerous to not be aware of the anger of God against those who turn from him in sin. And the reason it is so dangerous is that, if you are blind to this reality of God's wrath, you won't take steps to find a remedy for sin and an escape from God's anger.

It is so great that peter got on his knees noticing the absolute holiness and perfection of Jesus, which means i notice how not perfect and sinful i am and how deserving i am of the wrath of God. This is not an experience to be avoided, but to be cherished. O that God would do it this morning, as we turn our eyes on Jesus! Because when it happens, the Lord gives relief. Elaborate

Explain verse 14 and the connection to old testament sacrifices. And that by one offering we are all sanctified, not by our doing but by his. This about this grace, God made everything, he set the standard. WE broke the standard of God, and he himself fixes it by succumbing his own wrath. This is LOVE. This is true Love.

This new relationship that through one sacrifice which we remember and believe in and God forget our lawlessness and our sinful deed.

This new relationship is based on what we choose to remember and what God chooses to forget. Not because we gain it by any means but it was only by the work of Christ. His sacrifice is ENOUGH!

We need not gain it or work towards it. His work on that cross is enough to cleanse us. Is enough to make us holy.

Ill finish by saying this. I do jiu jitsu, i started not too long ago but i really enjoy it. I've wrestled in the past and so it was a clear step and its just fun. The reality of jiu jitsu when you're starting out is that everyone is better than you, weather stronger or weaker, their technique is better than yours so you're just not going to be as good.

And so you have to show up day in and day out to get better, to basically not get your butt kicked every time you step on the matts. And slowly you start learning so basic technique. The thing about jiu jitsu is that it always feels far to get to a good level of jiu jitsu, black belts have put in decades of consitency to get to where they are and so you always feel like youll never get there.

That can feel like our faith sometimes because we feel like were doing all this work to try and get closer to God and if i just read my bible and stop sinning and pray then ill reach God.

Here’s the thing, God already did the work. We don't need to get to God because he already got to us. He already came down and NONE of my works will ever get me closer to Christ. NONE of them. Once you trust in his sacrifice you already have God, those things matter… but we do them because of the work hes already done, not to get to God…