Yahweh-Tsidkenu
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Today we get back to examining our series of lessons on “God By Name” wherein we have been studying the different O.T. names given God by God himself, or others that were followers of him.
A few weeks back we studied Yahweh-Rapha or LORD your Healer from Exodus 15:26.
Today we are going to be looking into Jeremiah 23:6 where we find the name Yahweh-Tsidkenu (sid-ik-nu).
In our passage here we find God’s sheep, the realities, being led astray by shepherds that destroy and scatter rather than nurture and protect (Jeremiah 23:1).
In the next three verses, God goes on to say he will bring his people back that have been scattered.
He will set shepherds over them that will truly care for them, protect them, comfort them, and not lose them.
It’s here we find, in Jeremiah 23:5-6, a common prophecy declaring what shall come in the “coming days.”
5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
The one that will rise from David as a “righteous branch” is Jesus the Christ.
This is a commonly used metaphor concerning prophesies about Jesus.
1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
Thus, we know this passage is dealing specifically with Jesus’ name as Yahweh-Tsidkenu (sid-ik-nu) LORD our Righteousness.
So how is Jesus the Christ our righteousness?
Christ is our righteousness because…
Jesus Is King
Jesus Is King
He Was Prophesied To Be King.
He Was Prophesied To Be King.
After examining the O.T. there can be no doubt concerning this at all.
5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Even the first book of the N.T. begins with the lineage of Jesus proving this true.
The Messiah was to be “king after David’s thrown,” as we just read, and over a kingdom that lasted forever.
Jesus did just that, because now Jesus isn’t just king but…
Jesus Is King Of Kings.
Jesus Is King Of Kings.
Again there is no doubt Jesus is king right now over his kingdom the church.
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
There’s equally no doubt that Jesus as king of his kingdom the church is “king of all kings.”
14 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Summary
Summary
What does this have to do with our righteousness?
Our king, Jesus the Christ, was not only tempted and tested in all ways like us but instead of falling short he rose to the occasion in perfection.
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
That means we have a king that was “made the perfect source of eternal salvation” through his temptation, perseverance, and victory over death.
7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Christ Jesus is our righteousness because he is perfect and able to deliver us actual righteousness through his leadership as king.
His kingship and thus perfect leadership in righteousness is magnified because…
Jesus Is Wise
Jesus Is Wise
Jesus Grew In Wisdom.
Jesus Grew In Wisdom.
Even growing up like everyone else Jesus was being trained by Joseph & Mary to live for God by growing in knowledge and wisdom which is evident by what Luke wrote in Luke chapter two.
40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Jesus became not just “wise” but we actually find…
Jesus Exemplifies Wisdom.
Jesus Exemplifies Wisdom.
The word exemplify means “to serve as an example” and when we look at Jesus he is just that, the greatest example of wisdom.
1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
In Jesus are “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Our Messiah exemplifies wisdom because he has been tempted in every way we have been yet without sin.
That is why the living creatures, elders, and angles were singing “the Lamb is worthy to receive power, riches, strength, honor, glory, blessings, and yes wisdom (Revelation 5:12).
Summary
Summary
What does all that have to do with our righteousness?
Christ Jesus is our righteousness not only because he is able to deliver us actual righteousness through his kingship but because he is uniquely qualified to “deal wisely” (Jeremiah 23:5) with us sinners as our mediator between us and the Father.
It’s this combination of leadership and wisdom that proves Jeremiah 23:5-6 right again in that…
Jesus Will Execute Justice
Jesus Will Execute Justice
Jesus & The Father.
Jesus & The Father.
The reality is the Father, Son, and Spirit are one; they are unified in all their decisions and work in perfect harmony to achieve their plans.
This why Jesus told Philip “if you have seen me you have seen the father.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
This is why the Hebrew writer declared Jesus was an “exact imprint” of the father.
3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
This is important because of what we know about how God feels concerning justice and righteousness.
Justice is a part of who God is.
18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Justice is what God loves.
8 For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
God loves justice because it provides fairness.
15 When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
And according to God in Jeremiah 23:5 Jesus is the one that will “execute justice and righteousness.”
This is confirmed in the N.T. as well.
42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Summary
Summary
So again, what does that have to do with our righteousness?
Christ Jesus is our righteousness not only because he is able to deliver us actual righteousness through his leadership and because he is uniquely qualified to “deal wisely” with us as mediator, but because he has been given the authority to execute justice on our righteousness.
Conclusion
Conclusion
This comes full circle when we realize that Yahweh-Tsidkenu (sid-ik-nu), the LORD our righteousness, is our righteousness because we are to be hidden in him (Colossians 3:3) and that it is no longer us but Christ’s righteousness that lives in us and is us (Galatians 2:20).
Jesus the Christ is truly “the LORD our righteousness.”
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.