Sermon Tone Analysis

God Spoke Completely In His Son

God has always communicated with His creation.

We see this in the creation account.

He tells Adam of the tremendous blessing He has given him, but also the law.

16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not [a]eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

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Gen. 2:16-17

God Has a desire to have relationship with His people.

This is why He has always communicated with us

He spoke to the fathers in many portions and in many ways.

The writer of Hebrews points out that God spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets.

This means that before Christ He would use prophets to speak to the nation of Israel.

A prophet is one who speaks the words of God to men.

These were men like Isaiah, Zacheriah, Elijha, Elisha, Daniel, many minor prophets.

All these prophets and the words of God are recorded in the Old Testament.

They would normally give a warning about their disobedience to God and a coming judgement.

They would also tell of a coming Messiah.

The Prophets spoke in portions.

polymeros - in many portions adv.

— in multiple and various allotments of some amount.

They did not speak in completeness.

William Barclay says

They did not speak in completeness.

William Barclay says

They did not speak in completeness.

William Barclay says

Out of their own experience of life and out of the experience of Israel, the prophets had each grasped and expressed a fragment of the truth of God.

None had grasped the fullness of truth in its entirety; but with Jesus it was different.

He was not a fragment of the truth; he was the whole truth.

In him, God displayed not some part of himself but all of himself.

William Barclay, The Letter to the Hebrews, The New Daily Study Bible (Louisville, KY; London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 16.

They spoke in many ways.

polytropos - multifariously adv.

— in diverse or various manners or way.

They would simply use words or they would use some sort of dramatic action.

“Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

2 Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, [a]raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

3 Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it.

This is a sign to the house of Israel.

Jesus revealed God by just being Himself.

This is because He is God!

In the last days He has spoken to us in His Son!

God has spoken to us through Jesus in completeness.

Everything that He wants us to know about Him is found in Jesus.

There is no need for additional revelation.

Jesus has brought the complete message of redemption.

His words are the full expression of God’s message to His creation.

Jesus is the inheritor of all things.

This means all things belong to Him.

Since He is owner of all things he has control and authority over all things.

He has the right to speak the completeness of God.

The ultimate message that He spoke, He spoke on the cross.

There are three things that He said on the cross that I would like to focus on.

Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

This message gives us hope for the forgiveness of our sins.

Everyone sins and needs forgiveness.

This forgiveness comes through Jesus Christ.

It is finished!

Jesus completed the mission.

He had taken the sins of man upon himself and paid the price of punishment that was due us.

He brought the salvation of God to man!

We can now have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Into thy hands I commit my spirit.

Jesus is now at the right hand of the Father making intercession on our behalf.

He is going to come back and receive us and establish His kingdom forever!

Jesus Is the Radiance Of His Glory Exact Representation Of His Nature

Radiance of His Glory

John MacArthur puts it this way:

He expresses God to us.

No one can see God; no one ever will.

The only radiance that reaches us from God is mediated to us from Jesus Christ.

Just as the rays of the sun light and warm the earth, so Jesus Christ is the glorious light of God shining into the hearts of men.

Just as the sun was never without and cannot be separated from its brightness, so God was never without and cannot be separated from the glory of Christ.

Never was God without Him or He without God, and never in any way can He be separated from God.

Yet the brightness of the sun is not the sun.

Neither is Christ God in that sense.

He is fully and absolutely God, yet is a distinct Person.

We would never be able to see or enjoy God’s light if we did not have Jesus to look at.