Come Home PART 1
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INTRO
Fliers—Purpose statement
[Talk about what they are for, for a bit.]
Tell people what our church is about.
Invitation to the church.
Explanation of ‘Come Home’ (We want people to know Jesus, but we want to say that in a way that is meaningful to them.)
[FLIER BACK] Our greatest desire is that you would come home to God our Father by following Jesus…
…and learn to be a member of the family of God.
Come Home—biblical story behind it
God created humanity to be His children
we were estranged from God because of our rebellion and sin
God is calling us to Come Home.
Through Jesus, we can be adopted again as Children of God.
2 Part Message
[1] Who is Jesus and how does Jesus allow us to come home to God our Father.
[2] How do we live as children of God, as members of God’s family.
[2] How do we live as children of God, as members of God’s family.
How do we live in God’s house?
This week we are going to look at four traits about Jesus that are necesary for us to be called to come home to God. Next week we will look at four characteristics of God’s children.
This week we are going to look at four traits about Jesus that are necesary for us to be called to come home to God. Next week we will look at four characteristics of God’s people—his children.
BODY
The first trait of Jesus is that Jesus is…
KING: Mess. Jesus is the Messiah (King) (8.27-30)
Up to this point in the story of Mark, Jesus had been going here and there, teaching, healing, casting out demons and things of that sort.
People people began talking about who Jesus is. Is he just another prophet? Or what?
Jesus went out with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They answered him, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, one of the prophets.” “But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” And he strictly warned them to tell no one about him.
To be compared with the prophets was already unthinkable.
For Peter to suggest Jesus is the Messiah is mind-blowing! — And yet Jesus accepts this title willingly.
Lesser (People weren’t downplaying who Jesus was by saying he was a prophet.)
John the Baptist (come back to life, or John’s spirit came to Jesus, John hadn’t really died)
Elijah (prophet who performed great miracles; predecessor of the Messiah->King)
Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
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Great and terrible? -> for another day
Any other prophet (still amazing and worthy of great honor — cf. prophets of their fathers vs. how they would treat a prophet)
Great
Messiah (annointed) -> King of Israel (King of the Jews)
Peter: “You are the Messiah.”
Statement not question … Peter knew who Jesus was!
King -> Eschatological implications
Emphasize annointed/messiah => King
Why didn’t Jesus want it to be made known that he was the Messiah (King)
It is necesary that Jesus be King because it was the role of kings to lead their people to follow God the Father. But, human kings always fail, so it is also necesary that Jesus be…
DIVINE: Mess. Transfiguration (9.1-13)
Then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns.”
Mess. Jesus’s death predicted 1 (8.31-33)
SUFFERER: Mess. Jesus’s death predicted 2 (9.30-32)
Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but he did not want anyone to know it. For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after he is killed, he will rise three days later.” But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.
Suffering Servant
The Passover Lamb who takes away the sins of the world
c.f. Hebrews; Leviticus (flesh out a bit)
DIVINE: Mess. Transfiguration (9.1-13)
Mess. Transfiguration (9.1-13)
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain by themselves to be alone. He was transfigured in front of them, and his clothes became dazzling—extremely white as no launderer on earth could whiten them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here. Let us set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—because he did not know what to say, since they were terrified. A cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my beloved Son; listen to him!” Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They kept this word to themselves, questioning what “rising from the dead” meant.
Then he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.” After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain by themselves to be alone. He was transfigured in front of them, and his clothes became dazzling—extremely white as no launderer on earth could whiten them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it’s good for us to be here. Let us set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—because he did not know what to say, since they were terrified. A cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my beloved Son; listen to him!” Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They kept this word to themselves, questioning what “rising from the dead” meant. Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” “Elijah does come first and restores all things,” he replied. “Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written about him.”
Imagery: symbols of divinity
Dazzling clothes (cf. Angels elsewhere in the NT, Moses after coming out of the tent of meeting (radiant, dazzling))
Dazzling clothes
White clothes — absolute purity (in many cultures)
, the ancient of days shows up in clothes that are white as snow.
Cloud
Wilderness wandering, Moses in the tent of meeting
The cloud rested on the tent when Moses was to meet with God
THE Imagery points to known images of the divine.
Peter knew this:
Tents (The disciples were pandering, but not as dumb as they seem at first glance).
3 tents = 3 places of worship/meeting with the divine
The only stupid thing was that Elijah and Moses are still men and not to be worshipped; only Jesus
Jesus is showing that he is divine—far more than a son of man, but also the son of God.
Voice from the clouds, “This is my beloved Son, listen to Him.” (cf. , “only son”)
Implications of sonship:
“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.
Jesus is not precisely saying here that He is God (although He is, as in the doctrine of the trinity).
He is demonstrating that He is God’s son (Father/Son language). — Jesus is already God’s family
Jesus came to earth as a divine King
As God’s Son, he is so perfectly an image of the Father that to see Jesus is to see the Father. To hear Jesus is to hear the Father. To experience Jesus is to experience the Father.
A message from the King’s firstborn son is as good as a message from the King Himself.
Jesus came to earth as a divine King, son of the Father God. And he came as the Son of God to gather his brothers and sister—to bring us home to our Father.
The Apostle Paul wrote in that we were predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus so that Jesus would be the firstborn or oldest son of many brothers and sisters. And to do that Jesus would also need to be a…
MARTYR: Jesus’s death predicted 1 (8.31-33)
9.30-50
There are many professing Christians out there who believe that Jesus died for their sins, but they don’t understand why Jesus had to die for their sins.
Greatest plot twist of all time.
The disciples had the same issue.
Then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns.”
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.” “Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ—truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.
NAME/LORD: Mess. Casting out demons in His name (9.38-41)
It was necesary for the Son of Man to suffer, be killed, and rise.
Couldn’t God have saved people from their sins another way? Wasn’t there another way to bring us home to the Father?
Jesus says, No
Paul says that God sent Jesus to redeem us so we can be adopted as sons.
When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Galatians
Redeem (to compensate for the faults of another) -> Elaborate: What does it mean that Jesus is our redeemer?
According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
The path of redemption and the means for God’s estranged children—you and me—to Come Home is for Jesus to die a martyrs death.
His blood was shed so that we could Come Home.
That’s why when Peter rebuked Jesus for saying he must die, Jesus rebuked him back and called him Satan.
When Peter suggested that Jesus should not die, that would be to work against God’s purposes just like Satan does.
Jesus came to die so that we who were estranged from God could come home to the Father.
To be redeemed so we could Come Home, we needed to be purified, and that required the shedding of blood on our behalf.
Jesus’s death predicted 2 (9.30-32)
Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but he did not want anyone to know it. For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after he is killed, he will rise three days later.” But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.
Mark adds a new detail: The disciples did not understand why Jesus had to die and that he would rise three days later.
the King who rises (cf. Transfiguration; don’t tell anyone until I rise)
Suffering Servant
The Passover Lamb who takes away the sins of the world
c.f. Hebrews; Leviticus (flesh out a bit)
They weren’t dumb. They understood the words. What they lacked was the significance of it.
HUMBLE TO A FAULT: Disc. Greatest in the Kingdom (9.33-37)
RIGHTEOUS: Disc. Warnings (9.42-50)
We struggle the same way. We understand Jesus died and Jesus rose. But, try to explain why it had to happen that way.
Paul explains it this way:
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses.
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
We were dead because of sin. We were in debt to God because of our sin.
Jesus died so that we might live. He took our obligations, our punishment for sin, and he nailed it to the cross. He took it all away securing forgiveness for us.
The, just as Jesus was raised to life after three days, we have been made alive with him.
All of our failures, and all of our brokenness was hung on the cross and it was buried in the grave so that we can live.
TRANS: Jesus died a martyrs death, but not just because of his beliefs and principles. He died for you and me, so that we could be adopted as children of God. And because of Jesus’s death, he was given the name above all names…
Disc. Warnings (42-50)
BELIEVING Disc. Come as children (10.13-16)
TRANS: Because of Jesus’s death, he was given the name above all names…
LORD (NAME): Mess. Casting out demons in His name (9.38-41)
That’s the 4th trait. Jesus is King. Jesus is Divine. Jesus is Martyr. And Jesus is LORD.
Let’s look at one last story:
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.” “Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ—truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.
Silly question....what is Jesus’s name?
Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
Book of Acts: Jesus of Nazareth (in the name … walk, come out, etc.)
— Jesus grew up in Nazareth in Galilee
There’s more to a name than a magic word
One of the Apostle Paul’s favorite ways to refer to Jesus is to call him, “Lord Jesus.”
Means more than Jesus is our Lord (i.e. there are many so called Lord’s, but for us there is one LORD)
Paul uses Lord as a far greater reference to the vastness of Jesus’s authority.
The man who was casting out demons in the name of Jesus was doing so according to Jesus’s authority as Lord.
The man who was casting out demons in the name of Jesus was doing so according to Jesus’s authority as Lord.
Lord Jesus cf. OT Adonai YHWH (Lord YHWH or Lord GOD)
Lord Jesus cf. OT Adonai YHWH (Lord YHWH or Lord GOD)
Paul knew that Jesus wasn’t just playing on some greater beings authority, but that He was the keeper of authority; the one who has all authority because He is the God who created all things.
Like the OT referred to God as Adonai YHWH, now He is called Adonai Yeshua (Hebrew) or in English, Lord Jesus.
Paul wrote:
Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross. For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth— and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus came as the divine King. And because he humbled himself to the point of death on the cross in order to save you and I from our sins and bring us into the family of God, then God the Father raised Jesus, exalted Jesus, and seated Him on His eternal throne and gave Him the name that is greater than any other name. It was the name that He had from the beginning, and it is the name which he holds forever.
Jesus came as the divine King.
And it’s by that name that we are able to come home. We are able to be adopted as children of God.
When it comes to our being adopted as children of God, the most significant thing is not that we say the name Jesus or Yeshua or Jehovah or Yahweh, but that we look to Jesus, we understand who He is, and what he has done.
Then we submit to Jesus as Lord, we bow the knee to Jesus as Lord, and we confess that Jesus is Lord—not just any Lord, but THE LORD.
And in so doing we then give glory to God our Father.
Next week we’re going to do part 2 of this message: Come Home. We’re going to look at 4 characteristics of the one who has “Come Home” to God our Father, so that we know how to live for His glory.
Name = Jesus; Title = Lord/YHWH
PRAYER
The name and eternal security (declaration theology)
Thankfulness for being the divine King and Lord of the universe
Confess that our sin made it necesary for Jesus to die
Thankful that God has called us home…
… and that Jesus made a way.