The God Who came to Save

God wouldn't come down to Earth just to save us?

Leap into Conflict

• - Devils Minion

• Only God

• Like 7:39 Not even a prophet

• Luke 119:39 Didn’t event want his miracles acknowledged

• He didn’t come from Bethel

• He heals on the sabbath

• What about John , he would be a more proper candidate

Let me tell you why Jesus doesn't fit our image of a Messiah

Backstory

He’d didn’t act like we wanted him to

He doesn’t talk like a messiah should

He’s definitely not part of our inner circle

He hangs out with all the wrong people

Why wouldn’t they believe

What should the messiah looked like in their minds

Fleshly descendent of David, If jesus was truly born of a virgin, this was not possible and a stumbling point for the Jews.

Matthew 22:41 NLT

Then, surrounded by the Pharisees, Jesus asked them a question:

Matthew 22:41

Isaiah 9:1–7 NLT

Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory. The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine. You will enlarge the nation of Israel, and its people will rejoice. They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors dividing the plunder. For you will break the yoke of their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders. You will break the oppressor’s rod, just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian. The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. They will be fuel for the fire. For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!

Isaiah 9:1-

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Messiah would be a earthly King who would save Israel - He says this is not his kingdom here

Now let me tell you why he did come

Name the Stakes

Whats at stake if he didn’t come down

why was his humanity so important

why was his divinity just as important

Why he picked the men he did

Why he chose the outcast

why its important to you

He came in sinful flesh

Fulness of time

He was made flesh and blood to show us that death has no hold and is not to be feared

Not a part of man and a part of God, but fully and wholly and completely one

To show us and lead us

He was hungry desires have a right time and a wrong time a right way and a wrong way.

Mark1:12-23 Tempted but not sinning. He understands your weakness . He’s been there

Leader - Example - Baptism was not required but needed to show us the example

Christ - The perfect leader -leads you

the perfect model - he is our model

the perfect sacrifice - died for you

the perfect conqueror - conquered death hell and the grave

the perfect high priest = merciful, loving, understanding

To present the image of God - the model of God Character

John says became flesh - human

made his home pitched his tent

Image of the invisible God

- Expound on this point

why the pharisses and Saducces never got it

Revisit the Conflict

what was his attitude to those who rejected him

what was attitude toward those who received him

why the outcast chose him

why you and I can believe it

God’s do come down and

God’s will send their only son

HIs humanity was just as important as his divinity

He was born, grew, ate, slept, emotional, died

Two naturals - conceived by the Holy Spirit in a human womb- Fully God and fully man

Messiah was not Divinity

He a a deliverer but not the one they were looking for …Batman phase here

He was a king but not but not of this earth just yet

They wanted a National Exhalation of Israel not a worldwide salvation

They were the exclusive reps for God here not Jesus

Didn’t need or want a heavenly messiah

Really didn’t want the Gentiles to have what they had

No concept of a equally divine and equally human messiah

Pharisees rejection led to the to the lowly acceptance

Their Messiah was a very high ruler not a down to earth man

The believed the boundary to cross into the light was being made too easy

Again Messiah not equal to a God

He spoke with authority

No other could save but a God, not bull, goats, no blood, no sacrifice

New Living Translation Chapter 4

25 The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus told her, “I AM the Messiah!”

Max Lucado, in his book, God Came Near, just after picturing the birth, describes what people were doing while this dramatic event occurred undramatically. "Meanwhile, the city hums. The merchants are unaware that God has visited their planet. The innkeeper would never believe that he had just sent God out into the cold. And the people would scoff at anyone who told them the Messiah lay in the arms of a teenager on the outskirts of their village. Those who missed His Majesty’s arrival, missed it not because of evil acts or malice; No, they missed it because they simply weren’t looking, they weren’t attentive. Little has changed in the last 2000 years, has it?" I think we miss God working in our lives sometimes because we’re searching for the spectacular, the dramatic.