Called To Be - Part 3 (Romans 1:1-6)

well romans chapter one people we're reading in verses one to six this morning and uh i'll begin reading in the odd-numbered verse if you'll pick it up in the even-numbered verse we'll go to uh verse six today as we are in this mini-series and the opening throws of the book called to be romans chapter 1 verse 1 paul abond servant of jesus christ called to be an apostle separated to the gospel of god concerning his son jesus christ our lord who was born of the seed of david according to the flesh [Applause] through him we have received or receive apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name amen and all of god's people did say amen you can be seated church i'm a fan i i love reading the uh pastor he's now long gone he's with jesus having a good day today but peninsula bible church that used to be up uh north under the leadership of pastor ray stedman if you can get a book by ray stedman yeah to read it and ray stedman said about the book of romans and i quote paul's letter to the romans is a description of the power of god listen to this let loose amid the ruins of man he declares the good news the gospel of jesus christ god has made a way through the death and resurrection of jesus to justify the ungodly says pastor ray stedman i agree with that fully by the way he went on to say this the bull's eye the heart of the target is the major theme that jesus christ is lord can you say that for a moment jesus christ is lord on the count of three one two three that statement two thousand years ago when paul the apostle wrote the book of romans that declaration would have gotten you either beaten it would have gotten you arrested and it may possibly have gotten you thrown to the lions did you know that we shouted today because thank god we live in a culture where it is still yet okay to say jesus christ is lord we don't know how long that's going to last but historically for the church that declaration has always come at a great price and yet paul will go to great lengths in this opening chapter to communicate to us and all the way through the 16th chapter of the book of romans that jesus christ is lord and you'll hear that today in fact sneak a little bit ahead we won't reach i don't think we'll see we won't reach verse four today but look at verse four just go way ahead to verse four the proclamation of jesus christ being lord listen up friends is the fact that the bible declares right here in fact clearly that jesus christ is deity we're going to stress that over and over again most of you know that but if one person doesn't you need to come to the knowledge that jesus christ is none other than god who visited earth in human skin that makes jesus christ deity we shouldn't be surprised by that but notice this verse 4 says that he's declared to be the son of god with power that verse goes on to say that it's according to the spirit of holiness you know that statement as that it's according to the holy spirit and then that verse goes on and concludes by the resurrection of the dead three statements that are undeniable in the code co courtroom of debate you cannot refute that the bible announces in one verse the deity of jesus christ and paul is speaking the supremacy of christ as lord to the romans to the believers at rome and to all of the empire because from this preaching of paul that body of believers would be energized to go and proclaim christ to the world listen quickly by recap called to be we saw this last time our number one argument is that you and i are called to be a new man god says i make you a new man a new creation in christ jesus the bible tells us and we saw the remarkable um oh i mean this in a good way it's it's known as an oxymoron or an oxymoronic statement which means how can these two things be true and in normal human argument they cannot be true well listen according to god's argumentation it is true and it's this verse one said that paul that he was a bond servant of jesus christ called to be an apostle separated the gospel of god that's part of being the new man and you might say today well i'm not i'm not the apostle paul doesn't matter you and i as believers are called to be a new man a new woman in christ jesus it's what god does hallelujah right he recreates us and though you and i are not perfect we're certainly not who we used to be but the beautiful thing is that we look back at that old person and we don't want anything to do with that old guy or that old woman no matter who you might be and that's because god has called us to be a new man and we saw that in three ways we saw in verse one that he's the bond servant of christ which we learned as that statement as a slave that is an honor to be a slave of jesus it takes the argument of this world and flips it on its head and i do get it that none of us want to be a slave of any man or of any culture we want to be free and listen coming up soon i'm going to be with 150 of you in going from plymouth massachusetts to washington d.c and all along the way on our heritage to tour we're going to be talking about the freedom and liberty that was born in the hearts of the patriot pastors it's known as the black robe regiment who preached liberty and freedom because that's what god wants in your life and they use the example of god delivering israel out of egypt and we're going to hear about freedom and all that to say that god wants you free and you say jack make up your mind does he want us free or does he want us to be slaves the answer is yes the only way that you and i can be truly truly free in this world is if we stop being a slave to this world and start being a slave to jesus and it's a remarkable power of god that does that that brings us under three things under a greater authority we saw that last time it brings us to a greater commissioning because we're called to be ministers of the gospel every single one of us and then thirdly we saw last time that he's called us to a greater purpose that we've been separated to the gospel of god i love that i just love that because god he's so practical he doesn't take us out of the world and take the world out of us and then put us on a shelf if he wanted to do that the moment you accepted christ jesus as lord and savior you would drop dead and go straight to heaven no thank god he saves you and then he puts his spirit of the holy spirit in you and then he sends you to the end of the world he sends you down the street he sends you to your boss or to your co-workers or to your family it's absolutely awesome he loves doing this he separates us to the gospel of god this is very powerful because the word gospel of god we learned this church in the in that first century era listen to this when caesar would have a child specifically a firstborn son listen the announcement was made to the empire evangel he said wait a minute no that's a christian term right listen actually it originates with the world if if there was some great roman victory rome would announce the evangel of victory the evangel of the emperor's son the event you see where i'm going with this it's the good news that we just won a war in croatia or it's a it's good news that we just won a war against this region or that leader the good news and they would shout the gospel we're victorious paul comes along and speaks to the church at romans says i've got good news for you but the word good news regarding the gospel when he says that it is the gospel of god church that means it's very very beautiful because of course paul's speaking to his culture it's the gospel of god which trumps all other gospel announcements of caesar you see where we're going either caesar is lord or jesus christ is lord and paul spoke that to the empire he spoken to the believers in rome very very powerful reality very very great truth and as you and i do that imagine back then as it is today as you and i announce that we're christians now please i know your car's a christian i saw the sticker on your car [Music] and your car is probably a christian until you get behind the wheel then it backslides all the way down the highway just kidding but not really listen the thing is this that as a christian as a christian when we let the world know now i'm going to put you between a hard place in iraq in a second we are to announce to the world jesus christ that makes us to the world followers of jesus that means they have the license to watch you and i yeah and you know i said well that's why i don't tell anybody i'm a christian okay you have a big problem then you can't do that but if you announce christ as lord the overriding truth about everything about us should be love we may do it right we may do it wrong but the motive is love and the bible tells us the world is going to recognize us by our love jesus put it this way in john 15 verse 10 jesus said if you keep my commandments don't let that scare you you will abide in my love just as i have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love when you love god his commandments are joyous and when you love god you want to make sure that you are portraying christ to the world that's around us very important so church mark this down if you would number two is found in verses two and three and that is you and i are called to be a new voice a new voice and we're going to see how that's true in a moment look at verse 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures verse 3 concerning his son jesus christ our lord who was born of the seed of david according to the flesh this is absolutely awesome number one mark this down that you and i with a new voice we are called to speak out to announce what we know what we know what do we know as believers well verse 2 tells us that we know this that god gives promises it says which he promised before the word before simply means in advance you want to circle the word before some of your bibles translate the word rightfully so beforehand meaning which he promised beforehand that god has listen everyone god has preempted our life and the mission of our lives with his promises we're going to see this in a moment the word promise here means that he has made a promise of old this is key for those of you you're going to run into somebody at times who are going to say i believe in god but uh i don't believe in in what paul the apostle said a lot of people a lot of people are saying that today because paul the apostle addresses issues later on in romans chapter one that they say we don't need to obey that because we don't acknowledge paul well paul the apostle is telling us under the inspiration of god that god himself made us promises in advance and of course a promise by nature is something that is ahead of what has been promised but this word means that god has made us a promise of old ancient times it means to say something that is now long awaited it means to say something that is arriving it's not here yet but it's coming god gives us promises it's coming look at the promise of heaven aren't you excited about heaven i get excited more about heaven every day i look around this world i can't wait for it to arrive what is it the promise of heaven to arrive heaven is what it is and i'm going there and i trust you're going there too because the blood of christ and the resurrection of christ from the dead heaven awaits but what i'm thrilled about right now is the fact that the promise of heaven is arriving it's on its way and i'm excited about that and it gives me great hope and it causes me listen church it causes you to have a voice we speak about heaven we speak about the promises of god we need to do that more than ever that's why this church is committed to training you up in evangelism or in witnessing or apologetics and listen we've got other opportunities coming for you to join us in the not too distant future certainly this summer we're going to be looking at opportunities where you and i are going to have an opportunity to be out on the street somewhere in the southland here preaching jesus christ publicly to the unsaved community and communities and you're going to say can can you do that we're going to do it is it legal we're going to do it could could you get arrested we're gonna do it uh is it scary we're gonna do it why because we're running out of time christ is coming back and jesus has risen from the dead and we've got a voice in saying something about what god has promised it's thrilling we shouldn't be surprised by this by god's promises isaiah 55 11 a very familiar verse to all of us god says so shall my word that is promised be that goes forth from my mouth it shall not return to me void notice that it is his word which is a promise but it shall accomplish what i please and it shall prosper in that thing for which i sent it the good news of god what is promised god's word listen church god's word when you and i give it will never return void that's why we can announce to the world jesus christ crucified and resurrected and it doesn't matter if it's accepted or not by anybody standing around watch this this is kind of fun when we put it out there we've done our job we're done we're simply called to proclaim we cannot make anyone believe but here's what's kind of romantic about the science of it according to the theory of audio engineering that when something is generated by sound in this world theoretically everything that makes a noise i'll put it that way has a a sine wave a signature an audio signature to it are you with me for for example uh something that is uh like white noise or brown noise that you hear background noise it's that's a that's a very tight together wave that is displaying optically sound so that even if you couldn't hear because you you were hearing impaired you could look at an oscilloscope and you could see the sound can you can you get that right you've seen that before you're looking at sound when somebody looks at your heart and you can see or a baby with ultrasound you hear the or you see the what are you what are you hearing sound what are you seeing sound according to science that if i say jesus christ is lord according to the theory of science what just left my mouth is a collection of sound waves that though they dampen over time the argument is made it may be dampened to where we can't hear that anymore but sensitive machinery can maybe an animal can maybe an insect can maybe something else are you with me and theoretically my word will not return unto me void why because according to god spiritually speaking physics flirts with the idea that his word once launching out of your mouth never gets back to its place of origin without it making an effect that's why you and i as believers we've got a voice we didn't have one before we've got one now and it's a voice that is intentional isaiah 46 verse 9 says remember the former things of old for i am god and there is no other i am god there's none like me and here it is declaring or announcing the end from the beginning and from ancient times that's a promise things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and i will do all my pleasure isn't that awesome can somebody say amen i love that the truth of god's word is our voice and we've it's a remarkable argument because this is what you and i know we know this to be true because it's happened to us in salvation and we we have seen god's work when we put forth his word we see the effect second corinthians chapter 1 verse 20 second corinthians 1 verse 20 says for all the promises of god in him are yes and amen to the glory of god through jesus christ notice this god makes a promise and it's all about exalting his son jesus i love that you know why i love it because it doesn't depend much upon me at all god has made a promise that god is going to keep regarding his son read the fine print with or without your involvement we've got a voice because we know what we know and that is god's word is a given promise and god will keep his promises you might say well you know wait a minute how does that affect my life i mean really who cares about that well we should care because as we learned a moment ago separated the gospel of god when verse 2 says that which he promised before look at our assurance here this is why it matters you see where it says through his prophets in the holy scriptures this is awesome see what do we know i want to ask you to write this down by the way this is something going on side note while you get ready to write these thoughts down or these passages down i am delighted this is a god thing this is this is the lord encouraging me i have an incredible heart for the jewish people to know jesus yeshua as messiah why because that's what the exact that's exactly what the old testament talks about and the lord is blessing this church right now because i'm hearing from people who have a jewish background who are steeped in judaism and they're writing me or they're telling me that i don't know what god's doing but i'm listening to you a gentile and some some of the jews are coming now to visit so they're sitting in service and they're looking at you you're worshiping and they're looking at you i was told i was looking at people around me trying to figure out what's going on here what are they doing did you know that paul will tell us later in the book of romans that we as gentiles who love the lord provoke the jew to jealousy for god that they look around you're like this praise the lord hallelujah and they're going and there's a witness that they know they should be doing that but they're not why because they're not focusing on the fact that jesus is the promised messiah from the prophets in the holy scriptures the holy scriptures you know or the old testament watch this the prophets i wish we had time to develop this more we don't but write this down if you would what do we know we have a new voice with that voice what do we speak we speak what we know here's what we know psalm 2 announces that god has a son and that's just not a theory the bible tells us that in psalm 2 the son is exalted and the son s-o-n can become angry at unrighteousness psalm 2. what do we know we know that psalm 22 says that this son will be pierced in his hands and his feet psalm 22 what do we know for sure isaiah chapter 7 14 tells us that the son will come into the world being born of a virgin you think that's a new testament christmas story that's an old testament promise in isaiah 7 14. and then what do we know for sure we know that isaiah 9 6 announces to us that he's none other than god and his life and ministry will one day result in him physically being on earth and he will rule and reign as king over the earth he will be the almighty god enthroned as king what else do we know isaiah 53 tells us that the son will suffer for the sins of the world this is the redemptive the priestly work if my jewish friends are listening right now this is the priestly work of the messiah yes he's king but he's also priest yes he's lord but he's also the sacrifice he's everything that's why we love him we're so crazy about him it's because he's everything for us and to us and isaiah 53 announces that he is the sacrifice for not only the nation of israel but for the entire world isaiah 53 by the way i'm intentionally giving you verses that your synagogue will not teach on and i would simply ask this of you why are they not teaching on it answer because you'll discover who the messiah is and it doesn't meet the narrative today so that's a big statement oh it's nothing compared to this next one [Applause] micah chapter 5 verse 2 tells us that he has to be born in bethlehem he has to be born in bethlehem i submit to you this morning that there's one who goes by the name of jesus who was born in nazareth just as the old testament talked about as well or born in bethlehem but lived in nazareth came out of born in bethlehem came out of nazareth and would listen and would flee to egypt said the old testament and when jesus was born did not his mom and his stepdad take him to egypt micah 5 2. and then of course i told you before you know this verse more than any verse at all i use it every week i think proverbs 30 verse 4 the bible says that the son is god proverbs 30 verse 4 says that he is the very one who god himself the father declares what is my name and what is the name of my son if you can tell me and of course we know his name what are we saying to this the bible declares not buddha not muhammad not joseph smith not billy graham not the pope but jesus from the bible is messiah jesus is lord from the holy prophets and from the holy scriptures and if that wasn't enough jesus himself said in matthew 5 verse 17 do not think that i came to destroy the law or the prophets i did not come to destroy but to fulfill for assuredly i say to you listen to this till heaven and earth pass away one jot or one tittle the best we can say to that for us in english is one comma or one hyphen who by no means pass away from the law till all is what fulfilled that's awesome the bible here tells us in romans 1 that he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures meaning that with absolute intent jesus christ has commissioned us to proclaim what the prophets have said according to the holy scriptures church family i've said this before i'm going to say it in the future as i'll say it now every one of us without any excuse i mean this i don't mean to put you on the spot or make you uncomfortable but it's it's true listen if you haven't caught on sunday mornings here uh there'll be a little element of evangelism other churches are strong evangelistic uh commitment we're evangelistic but this church is all about disciple making we we happen to be a church that uh you can get saved here you'll hear the gospel but predominantly this church is designed by god to strengthen believers so that they go out into the world and be disciples make disciples of all nations having said that it's exciting by the way that's why we're in the book of romans right now some of you have been with us new i guess and you're scratching your head saying what are we doing we're going verse by verse through the bible here in the book of romans it will transform your life why is that important because it's the only way that you can have fulfilled what i'm about to read you in matthew 5 17 jesus says do not think that i came to destroy the law and the prophets i did not come to destroy but to fulfill for assuredly i say to you till heaven and earth pass away not one jot or one tittle will by no means pass away from the law till all is fulfilled the fact of that truth is this part of the fulfillment dovetails perfectly into get ready to write it down [Music] it is the commissioning of every believer who's been discipled by jesus by the holy spirit matthew 28 19 go go therefore i love this go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit verse 20 teaching them this is what we're doing to observe all things that i've commanded you and lo or behold i am with you always even to the end of the age or the end of the world this is amazing why because here's what we're supposed to be doing regarding the law in the prophets regarding the prophets and the holy scriptures we are to take this good news to every area of our lives as believers you see jack i'm retired i don't see many people you see somebody how long has god been telling us to tell somebody we know about this gospel yeah forever and i look around the world and i see the things that we just came through this last past year and where we're at right now and it seems like the world it seems like there was there's been a power that's a foot that is still trying to keep people from talking to each other how do you know anymore if somebody has joy on their face sadness how do you minister to people when you can't see them isn't it interesting that god says regarding moses i'm going to talk to moses face to face like a man talks to his friend poor god he didn't know that moses someday would have to wear a mask i'm talking about the spirit i'm not talking about the medical side of things or the supposed science side of things i'm talking about the just the spiritual witness of things have you noticed how quiet we've become in our culture that if anyone speaks up right now it breaks the silence of the store or of the shop or wherever you're at or the mall think of it so what should we do as believers let's pretend for a moment that satan is actually behind the masking and silencing of people and to rob them from their joy because right now your joy my joy we should be shining on on a world they should see us so if somebody can invent a transparent mask that'd be cool right but check this out could it be that there's in this late hour of church history because christ is coming back satan doesn't know the day of the hour but he can sense that we're close like we sense we're close could it be that he's trying to silence people and keep people apart and and isolate especially kids let's keep let's let's let's let's get kids to never think again without being veiled to be of course the veil representing fear right come on think about it now look if you're compromised wear the mask wear it but by and large here's the deal you you have to agree that there's been a cloak of of uh of silencing placed upon us and what i'm saying to you this morning goes against how we're being conditioned i'm saying proclaim christ and it seems well i can't do it with a mascot listen do it with a mask on for crying out loud do it with a man do it look do it in a bubble if you have to it doesn't matter there's no excuse let's do it but god says go to the ends of the world go to the ends of the earth i'm going to be with you and i want you to do this to the end of the age do it do it and i first firmly believe that the sequestering that we're sensing in the world around us is so powerful that no doubt when youtube or facebook just listens to what i just said in the algorithm that it probably pulled that conversation that we just had why i believe it's demonic i believe that there's a satanic power that is trying to silence the preaching of the word of god what's next removing the gospel from the airwaves blocking broadcast of hope salvation quite possibly what do we do then we're going to do whatever the next thing is but could it be that maybe god is calling his people in the midst of this attack to be silenced that now is the time we speak up more than ever before that we refuse to be sequestered and silenced by forces of spiritual darkness we've got something to say people we've got a voice it is spiritual it is power it is truth and cheer up it has nothing to do with your personal attributes personality or strengths it's all by god it's all from god it's through him he said go go means go go could possibly also mean send today all around the world think about it we're reaching more people and i'm stealing this from dr ed heinsen who called me and said some time ago he said i'm driving through lynchburg virginia right now listening to you on the radio he said jack have you ever realized that radio ministry today preaching internet facebook youtube television you reach more people in one day than quite possibly paul reached in his entire lifetime think about that paul reached everybody through the written word not by preaching publicly he only hit a few people but those few people and this is what we're trying to adopt those few people couldn't be silenced they talked they spoke they shared christian we're running out of time jesus is coming back tell somebody tell somebody about his love tell them tell them tell them in john chapter 13 verse 34 the bible tells us a new commandment i give you that you love one another as i have loved you that you also love one another check this out verse 35 by this all will know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another is that awesome you can listen you can't the bible says love covers a multitude of sin you can fumble and bumble but when love is displayed people are very very quick to forgive and to forget if they realized he loves me she loves me today the world needs the love of god don't grow timid don't get scared get up in love the greatest thing you can do is to tell people that's another thing side i'm sorry i'm uh what's the rabbit hole side whatever it is how many people have died in our world today alone when they could have heard the gospel you don't think that's satanic in the hour of need an hour of hurt and fear the person's all alone family members are not allowed to come and love and speak and give them the gospel don't tell me that's not demonic secondly look at this a new voice listen we speak what we hear we speak what we know and we speak what we hear when he says through the prophets and through the scriptures check this out the holy scriptures say this in romans 3 21 but now the righteousness of god apart from the law is revealed listen up everyone being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of god through faith in jesus christ that's an amazing statement church we've got to get all excited about this romans 3 verses 21 to 22 announces this that the law and the prophets watch prophesied and were written in stone waiting wondering searching how is all this going to come to pass how's this going to work out and the verse announces and says to us it's through jesus it's through christ the old testament prophets the holy scriptures announce that's what we hear the bible listen we follow jesus because the bible has spoken to us that this is who he is what else did the holy scripture say in hebrews chapter 1 verse 1. are you sitting down this is awesome hang on this is incredible hebrews 1 verse 1 god who at various times and in various ways spoken time past to the fathers by the who prophets has in these last days spoken to us by his son jesus is the last and final word what else did the holy scripture say okay this is wonderful this and this is uh gonna get me all pumped up hopefully you too luke chapter 24. i love this beginning in verse 13. this is this is resurrection sunday afternoon getting toward evening now jesus his tomb is empty luke 21 13 luke 24 13 says now behold two of them that's two disciples were traveling the same day to a village called emmaus which was seven miles from jerusalem verse 14. and as they talked together all these things which had happened or about all these things that had happened verse 15 so it was that while they conversed and reasoned this is a apologetics they're they're they're dialoguing and they're arguing not in an argument but they're arguing what about this well the bible says this what about that i thought the scripture meant this well i thought it meant the other thing but then how good of that are you with me everybody that jesus himself drew near and went with them can you imagine heather walking talking bible well it's been what a crazy day right unbelievable day the tomb's empty what happened i don't know there's some verses that suggest that god would no it can't be true right well maybe it is oh i don't know but no there's been rumors people have seen him today and they're talking they're going home it's resurrection evening and then the bible tells us that jesus comes up alongside them are you kidding me would you not like to have been in that conversation oh my gosh and verse 16 says but their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him they didn't recognize him and he said to them what kind of conversation is this that you have one with another as you walk and are sad translation hey guys what up why are you so bummed seems to me the more you guys talk the sadder you're getting maybe you shouldn't talk that's a jewish thing if you're going to be sad keep your mouth quiet but they couldn't they couldn't be quiet isn't this beautiful you don't tell me god's got a sense of humor he and by the way he doesn't jump out of a bush and then walk up behind them he wasn't there and then he's there by the way in your life you think he's not there and then he's there okay and he just i would like to have seen it somehow on like in the hidden camera where they're just walking along and then about three feet behind them this he just appears they don't know it hey why you guys so sad and they look at him they don't recognize them their eyes it's it's it's withheld from them to see verse 18 says the one whose name was cleopas answered and said to him are you the only stranger in jerusalem [Applause] and have you not known the things which happened there in these days are you where have you been isn't that a great review what's wrong with you everybody's talking about this it gets better verse 19 and he said to them look he says to them hmm what things is this awesome this is jesus does he not talk to you like this absolutely hmm what things why did he ask he wants them to say something because they have something to say there's things that they know there's things that they've heard what's going on guys and verse 25 says then he said to them o foolish ones and slow heart to believe in all wait a minute what in all that the who prophets have spoken ought not christ who have suffered these things and enter into his glory where do you get that from don't you guys know isaiah 53 and i in psalm 22 don't you guys know that you were taught that in synagogue all your life he's bringing clarity to them verse 27 here it goes and beginning at moses and all the prophets he expounded to them and all the scriptures the things concerning himself verse 31 says then their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished from their sight and they said to one another this is the best part to me to me listen i pray all the time verse 32 is i pray that church is like this verse 32. did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road or in church and while he opened the scriptures to us my gosh we were so bummed and he shows up he starts talking to us and he starts making sense of it all he just expounded the word of god to us from genesis all the way through from the prophets to the law and it clicked and the moment we got it we looked around and he was gone their hearts were on fire by the way you can read it later luke 24 says they turned around and they ran back to jerusalem can you imagine like paul revere man running through the streets we saw him he's resurrected he's alive we've got something to say we want to tell you what we've heard we want to tell you what we know we've got something to say we've got a voice we've got a voice absolutely precious then finally look at verse three i say finally because this is as far as we can go but we're halfway through now our scripture reading segment of verses one through six we are making great progress church so what else well we have a new voice because we speak what we learn we speak what we learn verse 3 says concerning his son jesus christ our lord who was born of the seed of david according to the flesh this statement verse 3 cannot be any more pregnant with theological power than what it is how does paul in one verse say what could keep you and i busy in bible study for the rest of our lives seriously his son go and study that jesus study that name christ or messiah go study that our lord just the word our possessive we get to possess god you can't possess the gods of paganism they possess you oh not the god of the bible he allows himself to be owned by you he allows himself to be brought into your life he wants you to grab him come on what parent every parent wants their kid of their own choosing to grab them and pull them and say daddy i want to give you a hug that will melt a giant right what a god we have who was born what that god would be born from the seed of david that makes him not only a human but it makes him a direct descendant from david himself and it says according to the flesh you know what that means it means that there's a genealogy of jesus christ that is pure divine [Music] and there's a genealogy of jesus christ that is pure david it has to be david the word concerning here it's kind of a neat word you want to mark it down it means all around i'm not kidding if you've been to the movies lately the word actually means all around you you heard that dobie sound all around you this is a cool thing just that just this one word concerning concerning his son it means this by the way if you're if you're a skeptic in the house listen up if you're a doubter an unbeliever listen to this that we're concerning regarding the son of god jesus it means this all around you is the witness of who jesus christ is his divinity come to earth in human skin of the genealogy of david which makes him eternal god in human skin he alone able to be on the throne of david which is the millennial fulfillment of christ being king of kings and lord of lords from jerusalem if that doesn't happen then we can throw this away we can just burn our bibles today but hallelujah it will happen and you need to know just that one word concerning all around you in any direction you look it's jesus christ as lord that he's come to earth according to the workings of god and of the lineage of david it's jesus christ the god man he's listen jesus christ is eternal god who came into this world to become a man to bring salvation to you and i that is the opposite of the cults the cults say you're a man but if you're really good you can become a god and that doctrine came right out of the mouth of satan himself in the garden when he spoke to eve you want to become a god then get real religious forget about knowing him personally forget about god coming down here and loving you enough to show you himself and then to die on the cross no forget about that no you'd be a real good person and you just worked the rest of your life perfecting your humanity until you get it and then you're going to get a bump in the end maybe it's a push but this is what we've learned this is what we know this is what we hear this is why we speak here's the qualifier colossians chapter one we're almost done church colossians 1 15 says he this is jesus is the image of the invisible god the firstborn don't let that word throw you if the firstborn meaning he's the prototype meaning when he died and rose again he'll never die again he's the gateway he's the door he's the shepherd he's the one he's the way right he's the truth he's the light he is the firstborn over all creation he's the creator did you know that listen wednesday nights we're going to be starting the book of hebrews oh are you going to hear about jesus being the designer and the creator verse 16 for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions principalities or powers all things were created through him and for him and he was before all things and in him all things consist the atomic glue jesus holds the atoms together that's what the word means literally and then finally this this is what we learned this is what we know in the beginning was the word the word was with god and the word was god he was in the beginning with god and all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth that's who jesus christ is that's the jesus that gives you and i a new voice this is what we speak well hey thanks for listening and we appreciate you and of course we do in this 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Published: Sun Apr 25 2021