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July 1, 2023 2023-07-01 8:03Sermon
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Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. (NIV)
WHO WAS THIS CHILD?
JESUS WAS FULLY GOD
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NIV)
JESUS DID NOT CHANGE WHO HE WAS TO BE BORN OF A WOMAN
HE MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN OURS
HE SITS OUTSIDE OF TIME
HE IS THE ETERNAL ONE
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Hebrews 2:17
For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people (NIV)
JESUS WAS FULLY HUMAN
HE WAS BORN A BABY
HE HAD DIRTY DIAPERS
HE HAD TO LEARN HOW TO CRAWN, THEN WALK
HE HAD TO CLEAN HIS ROOM
ETC.
HE WAS FULLY HUMAN
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THE THEOLOGICAL TERM FOR THE ESSENCE OF CHRIST, BORN OF A WOMAN IS HYPOSTASIS
Philippians 2:5-8
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death —
even death on a cross! (NIV)
JESUS EMPTIED HIMSELF OF HIS HEAVENLY PREROGATIVE
HE WAS EQUAL WITH GOD
HE WAS NOT LESSER ON EARTH THAN IN HEAVEN
HE WAS NO LESS GOD IN HUMAN FORM THAN HE WAS CREATING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
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WHY?
JESUS HAD TO BE FULLY HUMAN
BECAUSE GOD IS A JUST GOD
MAN HAD TO BE PUNISHED FOR HIS SIN
WHEN ADAM SINNED, EVERYONE WAS PUNISHED
ALL THE EVIL WE HAVE TODAY IS BECAUSE OF ONE BITE OF A PIECE OF FRUIT
IT SEEMS SO HARSH
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD DO THIS
1 Corinthians 15:44-49
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. (NIV)
GOD ALLOWED SIN TO ENTER INTO EVERY SOUL BY ONE MAN
SO THAT, BY ONE MAN, ALL OF MAN COULD BE REDEEMED
THE WRATH OF GOD IS SHROUDED IN THE MERCY OF GOD
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JESUS HAD TO BE FULLY GOD
BECAUSE GOD IS A JUST GOD
TO BE REDEEMED, MAN HAD TO BE PERFECT
JESUS HAD TO BE PERFECT, WITHOUT SIN
Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. (NIV)
HE HAD TO BE PERFECT UNDER THE LAW
AFTER ADAM, FROM THE TIME OF CONCEPTION, MAN WAS SINFUL
NO REGULAR HUMAN COULD HAVE EVER LIVED PERFECT UNDER THE LAW BECAUSE OF THE SIN NATURE INHERITED
THIS IS WHY THERE IS NO OTHER NAME IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH GREATER THAN JESUS
BUT FOR JESUS
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR JESUS COMING TO EARTH, THERE WOULD BE NO HOPE
NOW THERE IS HOPE
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JESUS HAD TO BE BORN OF A VIRGIN
Genesis 3:14-15
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.” (NIV)
THE SEED OF A WOMAN
A WOMAN DOES NOT HAVE SEED
MAN’S SEED IS SOWN INTO THE WOMAN’S EGG
GOD IS FORETELLING OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH
HAD HE BEEN BORN OF JOSEPH
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SINFUL FROM BIRTH
PEOPLE WANT TO DENY THE VIRGIN BIRTH
PEOPLE WANT TO DENY JESUS WAS THE CHRIST
PEOPLE WANT TO DENY THERE IS A GOD
BUT THE BIBLE IS TRUE
CLEARLY THERE IS A CREATOR
CLEARLY MAN IS IN NEED OF REDEMPTION
CLEARLY MAN IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO REDEEM HIMSELF
IF MAN WAS EVER TO BE REDEEMED, THERE HAD TO BE A GOD WHO BECAME MAN
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Hebrews 2:14-18
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil — 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. (NIV)
BY BEING FULLY HUMAN AND FULLY GOD, HE BROKE THE POWER OF SIN AN DEATH
WE ARE BORN AGAIN NOT FROM THE SEED OF ADAM, BUT THE SEED OF GOD
WE ARE NEW CREATION
THE POWER OF DEATH IS BROKEN
THE SUPERNATURAL LIVES IN US