The Ultimate Care Package: The complete savior
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Over the last few weeks we have been considering or exploring the ultimate care package. In week one, Nohan provided us with a look into the doctrine of the Threefold Office of Jesus Christ. Put simply, it;s the fulfillment of soecial roles that God the father had anointed certain people and lineages for; they are prophet, priest and King.
In week two, Nohan taught us about the prophet who not only foretold things to come, but told-forth the commands and words of God. Jesus Not only performs this same role by foretelling and telling-forth, but by being the Word Made Flesh.
Week 3 I spoke on the High Priest and his role. A High Priest not only offers sacrifices, but is anointed to go beyond the vail, into the Holy of Holies where the presence and glory of God tabernacled with His people. Jesus not only offered a sacrifice, but offered himself as the perfect sacrifice, once and for all. He is able to mediate for us perfectly because he sits at the right hand of the father,
Last week Marcos gave us a glimpse into the kingship of christ and how through christ’s lineage we can find the he is rightfully the heir of the throne. As we heard through the christmas eve service, because of his human lineage and eternal nature, He is the one able to rule mediatorily and eternally for his people.
Our need
Our need
the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
1 john 4:7-14
Our goal for this series was to try and help you put together a picture of Jesus the Christ. There is so much more to him than the this doctrine of the threefold office, but any subject worth studying is a life long endeavour. This is one of the reasons why theology was widely known as the “queen of the sciences” in the Middle ages and beyond. But it’s important to note that we have a complete and whole savior. One of the ideas I threw in the ring while setting up this series is the thought that some of us might remember as kids. We would get a gift on christmas, maybe a toy or the like and the box would read, “batteries not included.” Like we spoke on last year, God has given us this gift, but this gift is complete and needs no assembly and batteries are included.
We came to to the conclusion that the idea of the ultimate care package worked, because it is true, Jesus is the ultimate care package, complete and not lacking.
We are. We lack to measure up. Though God is perfect and supplies all that is necessary to fulfill the roles set out in the OT, as humans we couldn’t. Many of these roles were designed to be representative due to our inability to handle God’s holiness.
And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live. Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’
In these verses we see God’s people asking for these representatives.
The Work of Christ Chapter 6: Christ’s Human Priesthood
Put crudely, if the prophet is God’s representative before humanity, the priest is humanity’s representative before God
robert letham
In the following examples we see how the flesh fails. I’ll be reading the next few verses for us.
elijah, the prophet, took off and ran to the wilderness
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
aaron questioned god and his messenger moses
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.
david, a man after God’s own heart.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
This is the stuff that novelas are made of, sends her husband off to war to die.
I’m not trying to make light of sin, but trying to give some room to take a breath. The beauty is that in all this God restores.
With elijah, god calls out to him, feeds him and strengthens him.
with aaron god commands him to offer up sacrifices
With david God allows him to repent
But these men were imperfect, and in their humanity sinned against God. There needed to be someone to be these things for us, perfectly. Someone to give us God’s word and warning perfectly, someone to mediate for us perfectly, intercede for us, offer up sacrifices for us perfectly, be our perfect sacrifice. We also need someone to rule over us perfectly, to call us and bring us the kingdom of God, since we could never achieve that.
This someone is Jesus Christ whom we celebrated yesterday.
Part of the beauty in all this is that all the fore runner’s humanity were their down fall. In the case of Jesus, his humanity is why he can stand in for us in these positions, and his divinity is why these things are performed perfectly and eternally. This is call the hypostatic union.
Put simply, jesus is not 50/50 god man, He is 100/100 god and man. This is one of those things in scripture that is easy to see, difficult to understand and a mystery we hold on to. common quote I like to use, “if God could be totally understood would he be God?”
The beauty
The beauty
“for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.”
So what ‘s the point to this? I’m glad you asked.
when we celebrate christmas we don’t just celebrate the birth of the sweet, little, 8lbs 6Oz baby jesus, but we celebrate this entire and complete care package that God the father sent to this world, out of love. And if we remember that’s wehre a care package comes from, a place of love and intimate knowledge of the recipient.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Christmas serves to remind us of how Christ fulfilled god’s prophecys in a multi-faceted way, In the case this series, is how he became out prophet, priest and King.
From this perfect savior comes perfect slavation. Something that christmas teaches us is that we are to share that love with one another. Something we learned a few months ago during our series on the upper room discourse is that as believers, Jesus commanded us to love one another and in the great comission we’re instrcted to make disciples. We do that by sharing God’s love for all mankind, without distinction. In romans we read, that our righteousness is in christ through faith for all without distinction. There are now ethnic, social economical barriers that hinder us from becoming children of God.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
God loves without distinction. And we are called to fight to love one another in the same way. To love our neighbors as ourselves. Not to earn God’s love, but becuase we have God’s love. Sharing love is just about sharing the fluffy stuff, but Something I’ve learned in my marriage is that love means sharing hard truths with eachother, Lovingly. Don’t be that guy, “it’s the truth it is what it is.” there is always a way to rip a band-aid off with love. Like wise we share wiht others the truth of God’s word, our sinfulness, our need of a savior and that fulfillment.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
This is why we have the ultimate car package, to be complete, not lacking. that we could proclaim to ends of the earth, be that our jobs, communities, families, the richness of God love for all and the amazing complete savior who has saved us completely, once and for all.
let us go forth, loving one another, engcouraging eachother all the more as the day draws near.
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
the saints’ and angels’ song.