20251214 Christmas: The One Who is Infinite and Finite part 2: The Finite Servant of Matthew 1:18-25
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13 Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. 14 Just as many were appalled at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men. 15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.
1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should desire Him. 3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our peace fell upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed. 6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
Introduction: Christmas: The One Who is Infinite and Finite
When Pastor Charles Spurgeon examined the Christmas story and the birth of Jesus Christ, he marveled at Jesus Christ, whom he called, "the vast unbounded One, whom earth could not hold," lying as a helpless infant, representing the infinite God becoming a finite man.”
Last Sunday
Part 1 - The Infinite Savior of John 1:1-5
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Part 2 - The Finite Servant of Matthew 1:18-25
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. 20 But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the One who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 “And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” 24 And Joseph got up from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, 25 but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.
(1) Isaiah spoke of the suffering Servant of the Lord
14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
13 Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our peace fell upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed.
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Jesus as the prophesied Son of Man, the one who is God, to serve and to die
The vicarious substitutionary death of Jesus
The double imputation of Jesus’s death
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(2) Paul spoke of the humble Slave of the Lord
5 Have this way of thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
The humiliation of Jesus
The active and passive obedience of Jesus
(3) Matthew spoke of the infant Savior of the Lord
21 “And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
The Infinite and the Finite has come to earth and dwelt among men
He can only save if he is a savior
He can only be Savior if he dies as our substitutionary sacrifice
He can only be our substitute of He is sinless
He can only be sinless if he is God
And as the God Man he is called Jesus - Yeshua, Yahweh saves, the Lord our Savior who comes to earth, born of a virgin, an infant who is finite but a King who is Infinite
Let’s pray
May we celebrate at Christmas the one who is Christmas, the One who is infinite and finite, the one who is fully Gd and fully man, the One who brings the gift of salvation to those who receive him by faith and trust in Him for their salvation, Amen
Let me leave you with this good word
23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”
May the finite Child who is the Infinite God with Us, bless you and keep you and be to you a Savior who saves you from your sin. Amen
