Thank God I Got It Back

to worship God in spirit and truth for we recognize that our God is worthy to be praised God ought not have to beg us to praise him he's simply worthy and to that end we have come into this place that we will direct our attentions to the goodness and the mercy of Almighty God it's certainly good to be here at the heights and it is always a pleasure to come first and foremost to be with my mentor and to have just a moment to speak with him and to and to and to be blessed with some advice about life and just to be in his presence is always a pleasure and grateful for the deposit that he made in my life in regards to ministry and the preaching of the word of God I can say without any fear of successful contradiction that he without question is the greatest mentor that any preacher could ever have and I'm just always thankful that this church takes one month to celebrate him and to let him know how much he is appreciated within this local context although we recognize he is appreciated across this Brotherhood and so which is grateful to God for him and for what he means to us many of us did not know how to spell preach until he told us how to spell it and so we're just grateful to him for all of his deposits he's been a great defender throughout the years and has been an example of what it means to be an apologetic preacher and apologetic doesn't mean say sorry it means to set a defense for the Christian faith and I'm grateful for many times when I go across this Brotherhood and people say we appreciate your stance in defending the gospel where I know I got that from place and with all of the academic stuff I may have done there was no education greater than the education I received here at the golden Heights Church of Christ it's good to see mama as always and she is synonymous with neck bones and good food every time I see her that's that that feel it just comes all over me praise Jesus and I just just good to see mama she always maintains being absolutely beautiful and we're just grateful to God for her I bring you greetings from my family Sony Nehemiah and the Vail everyone is doing absolutely well and every time I come they wish they could be here the grandkids get upset when I say I'm going to Fort Lauderdale and Nehemiah says where you going I said I'm going to Florida without me and say yeah son is just gonna be me on this trip buddy every time this time of year Nevaeh and near my wish they could be here they're doing great and we just thank God for that if you would turn with me to Luke the nineteenth chapter in verse 10 and then I'm going to invite you to Psalms the eighth chapter and we'll read both context I won't be long I'm back home I'm learning how to preach within a decent amount of time I also long learned how to be long here at the golden Heights Church of Christ my sermonic elongated presentations were earned honestly but that's because I remember pop saying in a sermon he says it takes time to unfold the Word of God and he used acts 2 it says now when they heard this pop said I don't know how long he preached but it takes time for folk to hear the Word of God into getting a healthy dose of what it means so we just appreciate that Luke 19 and verse number 10 it's a familiar verse for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was a loss I want you to focus your attention on the phrase son of man now turn to Psalms a Psalms the eighth chapter Psalms the eighth chapter and if you don't mind I'd like to read this whole chapter Oh Lord our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth I've heard pops hope that many years and I'm even know where was but I used to hear him say O Lord our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth who has displayed your splendor above the heavens from the mouths of infants and nursing babes you have established strength because of your adversaries to make the enemy and the revengeful sees when I consider your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained what is man that you take thought of him and the son of man that you care for him yet you made him a little lower than the angels and you crowned him with glory and majesty you making the rule of all the works of your hands and you have put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen and also the beasts of the fields the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea whatever passes through paths of the Seas Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is your name in all the earth I want to lift for subject just for a few moments thank God I got it back thank God I got it back I want to suggest to you that when we begin to look at the scheme of redemption I believe the Bible is a redemptive book at the end of the day when we look at the Bible and the corpus of all of its writings while it is historical while it is true that it is theological while it is true that it is scientific or in at least lines up with true science while all of those things are true at the end of the day the Bible is a redemptive book that means that what God is unfolding from beginning to end is what we call the scheme of redemption that is the Bible must be read recognizing that God is unfolding his scheme in Romans 8 I think is the greatest synopsis of what the Bible is doing and what God is doing in Romans 8 it says for whom he did foreknow he did predestined to be conformed to the image of his dear son and then that he predestined them he called and those he called those he justified and those that he justified them he will also glorify that is what God is doing that is God's purpose that is his eternal purpose and that is what the Bible is unfolding so when you read the Bible we read it as a dissertation on the scheme of redemption now within the scheme of redemption I don't have to tell you Jesus Christ is the centerpiece everything happens and is centered on the work of Christ Jesus and I want to suggest to you that one aspect of his work that needs to be appreciated is found in one of his Missy antic titles and that messianic is that Jesus is not only the Son of God he is also the son of man I want to take that a phrase and look at it in what it means in regards to how Jesus works on our behalf in bringing about our salvation Christ without question we can appreciate that he is the son of God I don't know if there is a gospel writer that does more with the sonship of Jesus than the Apostle John John sees Jesus as God's only begotten Son and the word begotten means he's the only one of his kind Jesus is the Son of God which is but to suggest he has the same nature as his father but he is also the son of man and I want to look at how being the son of man factors into our salvation Luke 19 the verse suggests that Jesus says I have come the son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost and I want to at how Jesus refers to himself in that text as the son of man that has come to seek and to save that which was lost he doesn't say the Son of God has come to seek and to save that which is lost but he refers to himself in this sense as the son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost I need to know what does the son of man have to do with rescuing me from my lostness are you following what I'm saying and I just want to look at that for a few moments now if you turn your Bible quickly to Psalms a a Psalms the eighth chapter the book of psalms this elaborate aided in at least five books and it has a plethora of different authors although David is his primary authorship there are more Psalms written by David than anyone else however there are other authors of the Book of Psalms and this poetic genre is celebrity into five books we've got to look at the first book Psalms the eighth chapter is within the first section of the book of Psalms and look at this poetic literature as it impresses our minds about how God cares about us this is a Davidic Psalm and look at what the what David says Davis says Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is your reputation or name in all of the earth who has sent glory above the heavens there's some good preaching and just how excellent is God's reputation I think God his name his character is so excellent ah that anybody ought to be able to praise God for the excellency of who he is but look at the text look at verse number two by in Psalms eight look at verse number twenty says out of the mouths of babes and sucklings has now ordained strength because of thine enemies now thou mightest ill the enemy and the Avenger what's verse 3 verse three says when I consider please watch the question the work that your heavens and the works of your fingers the moon and the stars which thou has ordained look at verse 4 he says is me within the fabric of your created order what is man that you are mindful of him or has visited him all the son of man that thou has visited him look now he uses man and son of man and what we would call our parallelism in the book of songs parallelism means he says the same thing in different words so in the first quarter detects he says what is man that I want mindful of him or the Son of man that thou our visiting visited him in other words man and son of man are being used interchangeably so when we're talking about the son of man we are talking about the one or the persons who have human nature are you following that right man and the son of man are parallel and it indicates that one is of human nature what is man that thou art mindful of him now now in other words when I leave X Y or stars and I looked at your phone and I looked at your created order David said I'm trying to figure out what makes me so important are you following at all right now I think anybody could sympathize with that when you look at all that God has created and you look at the cosmic reality of all that God has created with his fingers and I looked at this cosmic power this this cosmic situation and within the tapestry of all the dark reading what is made are you following it all right now watch this next verse says yet you made him a little when I looked at creation and I looked at everything God made within the tapestry of this cosmic order David said I need you to help me God understand what in that cosmic order is made why do you care so much for him but you loved him and cared so much this is actually a positive statement you made him right under the Angels now he's not this is not a this is not a demotion kind of statement he's showing that as a man I'm made right under the angelic author now I don't have time to talk much about what an angel is except that an angel is an excuse powerful being uh and God made us a little lower than the Angels now but then there's something God did for me that he did not do for an inch look at so Tex look at the next verse he's put out that was made of little own angels I doubt or let's go back go back to verse five go back to verse 5 but for thou has made him a little lower than the Angels now here's what he didn't do for an angel you crowned him with glory and without now hold this in your pocket because I'm about to show you you lost something that Jesus had to give you back when God made man he crowned him with honor and with glory all right now watch the next verse verse 6 what's wrong done did you made him to have dominion over the works of your hand now David is looking back to when man was originally created when God created man he created him a little lower than the Angels but then watch what he did that he did do one angel he gave man Dominion crowning him with honor and with glory now let me help you that has everything to do with being made in the image of God the way I'm made in God's image one of the ways in which I am made in God's image as I am the only of God's created order that God made me to have dominion which resembles who he is in him God gives man Dominion that which he has given to no other creature of my glory is that a function in the position of told minion that is when man was first created and when he put men in the garden you need to be real clear that Adam had dominion glory and honor because he was made in God's image but now stay with me here because because if you don't understand that if you don't get this you're not gonna know what you lost salvation is not just about forgiveness of sin it's about restoring man back to how he was created are you follow what's this he says you made him to have dominion over the works of their hands thou has put all things under his feet watch the next verse by he's praising God of course he's praising God he all sheep all oxen gave the beasts of the field next verse says what all the Sheep all the oxen the beasts of the field defiled the air the fish of the sea and whatever past in the past of the sea all things were put on the man's feet and here's how David ends when David looks at how man was created he says Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name and all their how ever David is looking at how man was originally created but when sin into the garden man although God's image lost his dominion everything was under his feet he had dominion he was crowned with glory and honor which is but to say man was created for realest he's in God's image but when and sand that dapple introducing disobedience cause man to lose his position of dominance by of up now that means when sin sin robbed me of not only a relationship with God it robbed me of my glory when God made me he made me to have glory and my glory is tied to my Dominion when sin entered into the garden I lost all that what I lost was Dominion what I lost was my glory what I lost was my honor watch this so man is now walking around the earth in the image of God but he doesn't have what goes with his image I'm the image of God but what goes with my image is Dominion and now I'm walking around in God's image but I don't have the functionality of my image the functionality of my image is that our function as Lord who rules and has two million now the question is if that's what I lost and I'm walking around in God's image but I ain't got no glory I think I know Dominion what God puts in place in his scheme of redemption is how to bring you back to the glory that he gave you when he first created you are you finally what I'm saying when I look at salvation I see salvation as so much larger than just the forgiveness of my sin it's the forgiveness of my sin but you need to be mindful of everything you lost because of your sin all right now God wants to rescue man to the degree that he wants to rescue back his glory let me help you when an angel sinned there was no plan of salvation so when an angel sins God does not put in place a redemptive process to bring an angel back but he loved me enough that when he made me in His image and his resemblance God said I love you so much and you are so much a representation of me that I want to bring you back to the thing you lost you are in my image but you're not functioning as if you have the image are you following there because in order to function in God's image you got a function in Dominion are you follow and I need to get back what I lost so that God can bring me back to my glory how does God bring me back to my glory God becomes a man so that he can rescue man and bring him back to glory God's got to come down and become Who I am in order to bring me back to the Dominion I first had because man cannot get back to God unless God comes down to man and when God comes down to man he will become a man so that he can rescue man and bring him back to his original Dominion all right let's turn to Hebrews 2 certainly Hebrews to Hebrews said to us dad Hebrews the second chapter look at Hebrews 2 in verse 5 Hebrews chapter 2 in verse number 5 because if you don't appreciate salvation well you cannot appreciate salvation until you know what you lost and there's a lot of folks that don't know what they lost if you knew what you're lost you'd want to get it back and it's only through God then I get back everything that I lost and one of the things I lost was my glory in my Dominion all right now watch Hebrews 2 here it is Hebrews the second chapter and verse number 5 he says for he did not subject to angels the world to come concerning which we also speak in other word the world to come here he's using flamboyant language to describe the God scheme of redemption and bringing men back to his state of glory he did not subject to angels the world to come concern which we now are speaking but one is testified somewhere saying it is he quotes the Hebrew writer says get for me Psalms chapter 8 and he says but what is testify so we're saying what is man that you remember him please watch this all the son of man that you are concerned about him you have made him for a little while lower than the Angels all he's doing is quoting Psalms 8 you have made him a little lower than the Angels you have crowned him with glory and honor and have appointed him over the works of your hands you have put all things in subjection under his feet for in subjecting all things to him he left nothing that is not subject to him but we do not yet see all things subject to him wait a minute if your God is saying I made men have dominion the Hebrew writers saying I'm a man to have dominion I made him to have glory I'm quoting Psalms 8 to show you how God made man but here's the problem we don't see all things under him he lost his Dominion because there's now some stuff that's not under his feet when he was in the garden everything was under his feet he had to meet him he had glory he had honor but the Hebrew writer quote Psalms 8 to show how man was originally created but then he says problem we don't see everything under him okay come here yeah y'all see the problem we don't see him everything on him but watch verse 9 but we see Jesus all right come here we don't see all things under his feet that's me but we see Jesus if the house everything hands and in the garden was created to have rule and dominion what how am I gonna get back everything I lost but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels and Jesus was crowned with glory and Malana that he by the grace of God should taste death for every women I come here he looked me and lost everything God sends Jesus Jesus becomes man and when he becomes man he gets back for man what he lost Jesus becoming a man gets crowned with glory and with honor the very thing I lost because of sin come here but the way Jesus gets it back he gets it back by becoming a man he on I get it he gets it back by becoming me and on behalf of me gets back what I lost because I couldn't get it back for myself so God sends Jesus Jesus being God becomes a man and rescues back everything that I lost and when we see Jesus now we see him crowned with glory and honor now let me see what his ministry is alright with glory and honor that he might by the grace of God should taste death for every man next were looking for Sam hit his hip here's the sound for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things what are you doing Jesus I'm bringing many sons I lost glory I lost father I lost Dominion heis becomes a May and gets back for me what I lost now the Ministry of Jesus is that he's bringing many sons back to the glory that they lost when they were in the garden are you following us what are you doing Jesus as the son of me as a man I'm about to say something that's gonna make you think about it as the son of man as a man Jesus gets back for babe what men lost which was his Dominion watch this he dies as a man he resurrects on Sunday morning as a man he meets with his disciples as a man then Jesus steps on a cloud to go back to glory as a May in a glorified state so that when you see Jesus on the right hand of God you're not just seeing the Son of God you are seeing the Son of man who has now been exalted back to the place of the Viggen Christ on my behalf is as a man that got back glory and Dominion so when I look to heaven now I think I read where Stephen well let's read it read it get X 7 look at X 7 verse number 53 acts 7 verse 53 this is where it becomes amazing to me what God has done because what God did was he gives me back glory that I lost look at acts 7 and verse well I tell you what let's look at verse number 55 but being full of the Holy Spirit he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand and he said behold I see the heavens open and what he sees is the yawn I'll help you look what is it others say he saw the Son of God he is the son of God but what he sees y'all are missing this thing I guess Jesus alright Jesus is the first man in heaven I said the first man in heaven is Jesus in qualified state and everything Jesus became the Bible calls him the firstfruits which means whatever Christ got that is what's coming for me heís got up from the grave I'm getting up from the grave Christ's glory and honor I'm gonna get glory and honor because I'm not really making sure it knows where I might run around the building and I might jump on that Pew what was that you needed a man in heaven because only a man could plead your case okay come here you you need it you need somebody in heaven that understands the full scope of your temptation God in his state does not experience the full pressure of your temptation but if you can get a man of death that is able to understand the full scope of my temptation and can sympathise with when I have a problem I need somebody that can be touched with the feeling of my infirmity yet we without saying I fake Christ Jesus that is the son of man sitting on the right hand there's a verse we quote all the time in first Timothy 2:5 there is one mediator between God and man don't read it too fast it says the man i'ma say it again there's one mediator between God and man well who's feeding for me the man not not the son of God he's the son of God but when he's mediating for me he ate [Applause] oh the son of man though he's a sort of God but sometimes in emphasizing his divinity we ignored his humanity and I needed his humanity in order to give me some grace the only way I get grace is because I come to the throne of grace of the basis of the man's ministry all right one more verse I'm closing he Bruce Hebrews 4:15 Hebrews four four I'm close now you know this this can make you feel away because sometimes we don't want to consider that a man is in heaven but be mindful I said it's a man in glorified state ever nobody gets to heaven until their body is changed in the twinkling of an eye when Christ raises from the dead in a sense to God he ascends back but he receives a glorious body hey father what I'm saying yeah well that's two more verses I said one more but we have not a high priest it is which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points James 1 says God cannot be tempted but Jesus was tempted God cannot be tempted with evil but Jesus could be dipped it to sin the only reason Jesus could be tempted to sin is because he took on the form of a man that's vulnerable to sin but thank God he was yet with say now watch the tapes box work verse sixteen nakimura six I think in verse 16 let us therefore now pop used to say what is therefore therefore what is therefore therefore based on Christ humanity based on the fact that he could be tempted and all parts on that basis let us come boldly you ain't got no business coming boldly until Jesus postured himself as a mediating man and now that Jesus is my mediating man he was tempted in all points I now can come to God boldly watch that unto the throne of God of throne of grace that we may obtain now let me tell you what this is this ain't get help before you said this is you need help after you said you need mercy when you have failed but you need somebody to understand the full posture of what that sin feels like Jesus based on humanity allows you to come to the throne of grace to obtain maxie and five grace - I wish I had two or three folk that can admit that with this sin struggle of ours somebody needs some help somebody needs some mercy somebody needs some grace but the son of man is in heaven having been tempted in all points and based on his ministry I can come to the throne of grace poole not based on divinity but based on his humanity are you following us now let me prove that he got it he got it all back for you look at Daniel 7 Daniel 7 I should have said this earlier debt Daniel 7 verse 13 and 14 and I'm done Daniel 7 a prophetic picture of Jesus Daniel 7 verse 13 and we read it to get the kingdom because the kingdom is in here but I need you to also see that there's a rescue planning here that the one who got exalted to have a kingdom was a man I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of Days God and they brought in there before he watched the next verse watch what this man was given as he should have shouted already soon as you decide to read it look at what the Son of Man was given and there was given him isn't that what she lost there was given him Dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him Christ in addition to establishing the kingdom represents man and man through Jesus returns back to his exalted state are you seeing now here this morning I don't know much about football but they tell me in football sometimes a person fumbles and they tell me when that fumble happens sometimes the players can run to try to recover the ball because somebody fumble that summer I checked in football a few fumbles you made a mistake you fumbled the ball but somebody's got to recover it but I want to suggest to you is that if the got the ball and since then somebody's been trying to the top of the ball hey couldn't recover it David could not recover it I said but not recover it Jake could not recover it but by God the Son of man came what we and now he is in heaven I'm done on the right hand of God as a man so when I start playing and I know I messed up ain't no question did you mess up you messed up we ain't gotta come in church and act overly sanctified some of us mess up and you don't live all that good that you are dependent on your own righteousness some time that stop but then chase us when I play my prayer goes up god hears it and looks at Jesus and says what do you think Jesus said well when I was there I know what sin feels like I felt the full pressure of all of that temptation I know that he needs some forgiveness cuz I know what that lesson feels like get him my sea rice please by the time I'm done I got a hand here God God gave me Jesus to intercede but he also gave me the Holy Spirit and they intercede two different ways Jesus intercedes for my sin the Holy Spirit intercedes when I'm in my suffering that time they go to Romans 8 when I don't know how to pray the Holy Spirit makes intercession in the context of myself that can I show it to you and I'm done I need help just a few brothers and I'm done come on up here if you don't mind you don't have to read nothing you come on okay praise God all right listen well the hughley's stand on that top step just what today you can be God just just for the day if you don't mind do your knees hurt can you get on your knees on that bottom step good I need you to do me a favor man you just stand next to brother Hughley alright just stand there face me alright stay right there good I need one more brother and then come on y'all come up here stop playing it's not y'all afraid young man would you come up here for me because they were scared coming don't stand on the other side of other human this is you at 11 o'clock at night nobody's answering the phone ain't nobody available but you in a crisis and you need some intervention and for whatever reason you can't get no help you get on your knees to pray I'm saying now now that to relate to this you got to be somebody that's familiar with trouble now if you're not familiar with this this ain't gonna help you no but I'm talking about when you want a sho'nuff crisis and ain't nobody available in fact even if somebody was available they couldn't help you know how I'm talking about that kind of crisis are you finally what I'm saying and matter of fact there's some folk that call to check on you you don't even want to answer the phone you're afraid of what they might say and you your prayer you start praying to God but then as you praying you remember you got some sin in your life so what God will do is is why you praying you say Lord forgive me of my sin and Jesus the intercessor says God give him some forgiveness but then what you really want to pray about was not just a forgiveness of sin but you in a situation where nobody can help God will dispatch the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit comes by your side because he intercedes you're not getting it this intercessor got you forgiveness but another intercessor can get you help in the time of your travel and the Holy Spirit will intercede according to God's will and then when you get up from your knees you say and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose when outfit is talking to God one intercessor forgave bill said the other intercessor intercedes with my suffering that when I get up from the ground I can say all pains watch together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose because not only do I have the holy spirit I got a man on the other side of God and if you're here right now you can have your seats I don't know who you are where you are or what's your situation but thank God for the Son of Man and thank God when I play somebody understands me and understands the full pressure of my struggle and I could get some mercy because through him my glory has been rescued somebody here needs to get their glory back you can get it back you don't have to sit there with the image of God but have no dominion you need to benefit from what Jesus did and accept him right now this morning and the way you accept him as by hearing that Jesus died was buried and he rose again the third day and when he got up look at the gospel he got out as a man I send it back to God as am I now that man is ruling in his kingdom as a representative of man you can come and get forgiveness if you heard that you believe it repent of your sins and then make the confession I believe Jesus Christ is the son of God and then will baptize you right now for the remission of your sins according to acts 2:38 and when you are baptized the Holy Spirit will renew you and you'll be a child of God right now today if you're here I want you to come let's stand together let's stand together because I think somebody's ready to say yes to Jesus if you need before you sing if you need prayer sometimes we come up here for prayer for formality now here's what you don't see when you come up here to pray the Holy Spirit it's gonna make intercession when we don't know how to pray I know the King James says what to pray more accurately in that original languages we don't know always how I know who to pray to I know who to play to I know how to pray but sometimes I'm struggling with with my with my what to pray not the how I'm struggling with my what to pray what do I pray I know how to pray but in the original languages what G we don't know what to pray I know how I know who sometimes I don't know what I know I'm in a struggle and I know I'm suffering but God I don't know what and that's why the Holy Spirit searches you to find the what you can't find get that what and he does it according to God's will so that God will give you what you need and not always what you want and then you get up off your knees and say and we know whatever suffering I'm going through all things work for a long time I struggled with what was the things in that text if you just go back up a few verses he says the suffering of this world is not worthy to be compared with the glory that's going to come and God can navigate all of my suffering and work it out to his eternal purpose and I need you to trust that right now today if this somebody means to come we're gonna start singing and we're asking you to come give your life to Jesus

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Published: Mon Oct 30 2017