Immanuel
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Last week I mentioned that this would be the last of the “Names of Jesus” sermons because I had basically come to the end of the list of names I had.
However, for whatever reason, the list I was going off of didn’t have the “I Am’s” for Jesus, so we are going to finish this series up when those are done.
Today we are going to be turning our attention to a name given Jesus in prophecy and then only mentioned once in the New Testament.
In Isaiah 7:14 we find the prophecy but let’s look at its fulfillment in Matthew 1:22-23.
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Let’s jump right in to our lesson for this evening by examining Jesus’ name Immanuel.
As this passage clearly tells us, the name Immanuel means “God With Us.”
Therefore, I want us to focus on each aspect of what Immanuel means starting with…
God
God
Eternal
Eternal
When discussing Jesus and his life on earth it is easy to get swept up in his humanity more than his deity.
After all it is his humanity that allows us to “relate” to him so much more than the Father or the Spirit.
It is important to remember that part of Jesus’ purpose being here was to show God the Father and Spirit through him as they are one in unity.
This is why Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9).
However, when discussing the name Immanuel we cannot start with Jesus’ humanity but rather his deity and there are two specific aspects of Christ we must remember.
As our first sub-point says, Jesus as God is eternal.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
14 that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
12 But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
12 Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Not only is Jesus eternal but he created the universe and all that is in it.
We cannot discuss his deity without recognizing his part in…
Creator
Creator
Jesus, like the Father and Son, was highly involved with the creation of the universe.
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.
5 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Summary
Summary
Now I want you to meditate upon this reality for a moment.
God the Son who is eternal (always yesterday, today, and forever), who created everything in the universe, was not satisfied with just letting man destroy himself but rather chose to be God…
With Us
With Us
Came To Us As Us.
Came To Us As Us.
So God, again who is eternal and the creator of “everything” came to us as us, in the flesh.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
So, the fullness of God “dwelt with us” as man and because of that he also suffered just like us.
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,
22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
The reality of that suffering did not stop Immanuel from demonstrating love and showing us how to love one another.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Why is all that significant?
Because all that time with his creation allowed for Jesus to be the perfect mediator between us and the Father.
Hallelujah, that the Godhead loves us enough to establish that which allows for us to spend eternity with them one day.
There is no greater blessing for man than knowing Jesus…
Mediates For Us.
Mediates For Us.
In fact Jesus became our high priest to mediate our sins with the Father.
17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Summary
Summary
Jesus came to us, as us, while in the fullness of God.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Brothers and sisters, the God whom you and I are here to worship today is the same God who is eternal and created the entire universe.
And yet, as majestic and awesome as that is, Immanuel, God, came to be with us, his fallen creation.
The sheer magnitude of that act is unfathomable and worthy of our constant faith and trust.
You and I know Immanuel, a deserving name if there was one for Jesus, but not everyone knows this real Jesus.
As we go throughout this week let us be a beacon of light and reminder to those around us, that have not obeyed the gospel, of who Immanuel is, “God With Us.”
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.