1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:08,000 Hebrews chapter 1 is where you can be waiting, we'll get to it 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:15,200 in a couple of minutes. So we are doing our series on 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,800 the Apostles Creed and we've talked a little bit about the 4 00:00:17,808 --> 00:00:20,200 Apostles Creed and we've said what it is and what it isn't. 5 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:22,000 The Apostles Creed is not the Bible. 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,700 The Apostles Creed though is a tool that was used to help teach 7 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:27,200 the Bible. Just like if you were to teach 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,000 somebody the Bible, you would use your own words. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,100 You would try and communicate it. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:33,500 And you're in your own way, the Apostles Creed does that, but 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,900 it's something the church leadership came together on not 12 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:39,900 not too long after Christ it ascended a couple hundred years 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,100 and the churches use the Apostles Creed Lead in Mass for 14 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:47,600 at least fifteen hundred years to clarify Doctrine. 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,600 To say this is what we believe you can't, you can't remove. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,400 This is are irreducible Parts. When it comes to Christianity. 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,200 Could there be more? Could we have other preferences? 18 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:58,200 Could we have other interpretations on other things? 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,400 Sure, there's a lot of opportunity. 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,800 There is a lot of freedom there, but these are irreducible cores. 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,300 You can't pull one thing out of the Apostles Creed and go. 22 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,200 Yeah, that's still intact everything here matters. 23 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,100 Everything here is important and this teaches us basic Christian 24 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:12,700 doctrine. So we can know What do I 25 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:13,400 believe? What? 26 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,200 I believe in Jesus. What do you mean by that? 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,100 Well, we clarified in the Apostles Creed oh, I believe in 28 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:22,000 God. Well, what do you mean by that? 29 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,500 The devil believes in God? So how do we clarify this? 30 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,500 How do we get more specific to actually say what is the 31 00:01:28,508 --> 00:01:30,100 difference between knowing something? 32 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:34,200 I know there's a god, well, everybody does ultimately, but 33 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,600 do you believe in him? Because if you know, there's a 34 00:01:36,608 --> 00:01:39,100 God, that means one thing. But if you believe in him, that 35 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:40,700 totally changes the way that you live. 36 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,600 I told you before. I I know people who say that 37 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,100 they know that there's a God and yet they don't believe in him, 38 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:48,800 they're not following him. They won't worship him. 39 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,300 They. Yeah. 40 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,100 I know, I know, I know, I know, they know a lot of things and we 41 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:54,700 said we all know how we ought to eat. 42 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:57,400 We ought to work out, I know that I should do those things 43 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,200 but I don't have enough belief in some of these areas that it 44 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,700 leads me to conviction but the Apostles Creed gives us Clarity 45 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:05,300 and Doctrine. It brings us Unity. 46 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:07,600 So we can celebrate with the whole body of Christ and say, 47 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,100 hey, we are Christians and it means something to be a 48 00:02:10,108 --> 00:02:12,200 Christian, and this is what it means, what we did. 49 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:13,500 Were on this. Well, that's okay. 50 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,600 We got room for that. We've got freedom for that and 51 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,600 the scripture is make room for our differences and yet we don't 52 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,400 want to get away from this irreducible core. 53 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,100 So the Apostles Creed is a powerful tool that we're walking 54 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:27,500 through step-by-step line by line. 55 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:30,100 I'm going to read it to you now and then we're going to read it 56 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:34,000 together at the end of service. But right now, I'm just going to 57 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,700 read it. The Apostles Creed is, I believe 58 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:38,300 in God, the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. 59 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,600 I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was 60 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,900 conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 61 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,600 He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was 62 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,400 buried. He descended to Hell. 63 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:53,600 The third day. He rose again from the dead. 64 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:56,300 He ascended to heaven. And is seated at the right hand 65 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:58,600 of God, the Father Almighty from there. 66 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:02,700 He will come to judge the living and the dead, I believe in the 67 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,900 Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, 68 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:10,700 the Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the 69 00:03:10,708 --> 00:03:14,700 life, Everlasting, amen, or amen. 70 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:17,600 Depending on your faith tradition and your background. 71 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 So today we're zooming in we're looking specifically at I 72 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,600 believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, we noticed 73 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,300 how in the creative breaks down, there's three I believes, I 74 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:36,200 believe in God, the Father, I believe in Jesus Christ, I 75 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,200 believe in the Holy Spirit and then we have Doctrine teaching 76 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,800 each of those. So we have the Trinity being 77 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,300 taught. There's a lot happening in the 78 00:03:42,308 --> 00:03:45,900 Creed but we're focusing today on I believe on in Jesus Christ, 79 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:48,900 his only son our Lord. We're going to look at each of 80 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:53,600 those Christ son. And Lord, three distinctions 81 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,100 that are being made here. So, we want to clarify right off 82 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,100 the bat. The Bible doesn't allow for us 83 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:02,100 to call Jesus a good guy, the Bible doesn't allow for us to 84 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:05,700 call Jesus a great teacher. The Bible does not allow for us 85 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:08,200 to merely call Jesus a religious leader. 86 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:10,500 There's, there's no opportunity for that. 87 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:12,800 I'm going to show you in John chapter 10. 88 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,200 I told you to go to Hebrews, but I lied. 89 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:19,200 Sorry. John chapter 10, verses, 27 90 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,200 through 33. My sheep hear my voice. 91 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:27,200 So he's talking to a crowd. He's talking to the Pharisees. 92 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:33,400 My sheep hear my voice. And I know them and they follow 93 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,900 me, I give them eternal life. If a human being speaks this 94 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:42,200 way, can we call this person? He's just a good moral teacher. 95 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,000 If he claims to give human to give other people eternal life, 96 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:49,000 can you just said yeah, I think he was a good guy will hang on a 97 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,500 second. He made some claims about 98 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:54,400 himself that you've got to deal with, because he said some 99 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,000 really bold things and you can't necessarily lump them into. 100 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,300 He was nice like, well, he said he gives people eternal life, 101 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:01,900 you got to do something with that. 102 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,400 Well I don't believe it ha fair enough, you've done something 103 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,400 with it but you haven't kidded yourself. 104 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,000 You haven't lied, me like It's just I'm going to set it aside. 105 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,800 There's no setting. Jesus aside he won't be set 106 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,000 aside. My sheep hear my voice. 107 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,000 And I know them and they follow me. 108 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,200 I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no 109 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,700 one will snatch them. Out of my hand, it's just a nice 110 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,600 guy, teacher with some new religious ideas. 111 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,100 He was just about love, right? That's what I've heard. 112 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:37,300 The enemies of Christ, teach me a lot about Christ, don't know 113 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:39,900 if you've noticed that in the world, people who don't love and 114 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,100 know God, they seem to be experts on social media anyway, 115 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,300 very vocal about what Jesus was all about. 116 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:48,800 No one can snatch them out of my hand. 117 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,300 My father who has given them to me, is greater than all and no 118 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,900 one is able to snatch them. Out of the father's hand, I and 119 00:05:56,900 --> 00:06:01,900 the father are one. The Jews picked up stones to 120 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:05,700 Stone him, again, to Stone him. I like how it adds again, the 121 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,900 Jews picked up stones. Again, here we go to Stone him. 122 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,200 Jesus answered them. I love Jesus, sarcasm, and his 123 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,300 wit, and his insults. I've shown you many good works 124 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:17,600 from the father, for which of them. 125 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,400 Are you going to Stone me? They're all flustered. 126 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,200 No, no no. The Jews answer. 127 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:25,800 It's not pretty good work that we're going to Stone you but for 128 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,000 blasphemy because you being a man, make yourself. 129 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:35,700 What's the word god? You being a man? 130 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,800 You're making yourself God. They understood exactly what he 131 00:06:38,808 --> 00:06:39,900 was claiming. He's going. 132 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:44,000 Yes, you get the point. You've heard me clearly. 133 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,000 The problem is you don't believe Jesus made himself God in their 134 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,900 ears. Has he already was God, he's 135 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,900 just coming as God revealed, but this is, this is why Christ was 136 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:58,000 crucified. He wasn't crucified, you don't 137 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,500 get crucified for nothing, he crucified for something for 138 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:08,900 telling the truth. So, he says, They said, we don't 139 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:11,600 we don't Stone you for any good work that you do. 140 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,000 We Stone you for blasphemy because you being a man, you 141 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,700 make yourself God. And that's the point. 142 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:19,900 Jesus didn't Jesus. Did make it clear that, that's 143 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:21,900 exactly who he was. I want to read you. 144 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:23,600 A quote from c.s. Lewis. 145 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 He said, I'm trying, he wrote this in his book, Mere 146 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,100 Christianity. I'm trying here to prevent 147 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:32,300 anyone saying, the really foolish thing that people often 148 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:35,700 say about him. And about Christ. 149 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,200 And that is I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher. 150 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,900 But I don't accept his claim to be God and now see us Louis 151 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:45,800 continues. He says this is one thing. 152 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:50,600 We must not say a man who is merely a man and said, the sort 153 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,500 of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. 154 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:58,100 He would either be a lunatic on the same level as a man who 155 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:02,900 says, he is a poached egg or or else he would be the devil of 156 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:05,300 help you. You must make your choice 157 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,100 either. This man was and is the Son of 158 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:12,200 God or else, he's a Madman or something worse. 159 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:16,600 You can shut him up as a fool, you can spit at him and kill him 160 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,900 as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and 161 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:26,000 God, but let us not come up with any patronizing, nonsense about 162 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,700 him. Being a great human teacher, he 163 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:33,900 has not left that open to us. He did not intend to This is 164 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:36,000 often called the trilemma is what? 165 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,799 It's been renamed. In recent years. 166 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:43,299 Jesus is, Lord, Jesus is a liar or Jesus is a lunatic but you 167 00:08:43,308 --> 00:08:44,900 don't get to go. He's cool. 168 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,900 Like he's that wasn't really an option. 169 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,000 He says, if he says, if he makes a grand claim you gotta, he's 170 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,600 crazy. He thinks that about himself 171 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,500 bless his heart. He's a liar. 172 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:00,400 He knows that's not who he is, or he is who he says he is. 173 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,300 Well, I know who he is, but do you believe I believe? 174 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:09,800 In Jesus Christ. His only son our Lord. 175 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:13,800 So the Creed of firms. What God's word already teaches? 176 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:18,000 Jesus is Messiah ship. Jesus is sonship, and Jesus is 177 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,500 lordship. Jesus is the savior of the 178 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,200 world. Jesus is one with the Father and 179 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,300 Jesus is King over all. This is all good news. 180 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:32,500 Now, the problem is Jesus is only been taught as Savior in 181 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,500 our culture in our moment, that is most of the time, the 182 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:37,600 emphasis that's get that gets It's made. 183 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,300 Should that be emphasized? Well they all should all parts 184 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:43,400 of who he is, should be emphasized and be clearly 185 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,200 taught. Hey, and it's all good news. 186 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,200 There was no bad news in it, but the problem is when we extract 187 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,300 one of these and we don't emphasize them all together go. 188 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,400 He's a full, this is the full God, this is who he fully is, 189 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,300 then we've missed something important about his nature about 190 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:59,500 his character and about who he really is. 191 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,100 So this is why the Creed of firms Jesus Christ, that's the 192 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,500 savior. God's only son, he's one with 193 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:09,400 the father, he's our Lord that were Lord. 194 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,000 He means we're going to get into all of it. 195 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,800 He is first, he is preeminent. Why do I emphasizing lordship so 196 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,600 much? Because we fight where the fight 197 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,000 is, we need to emphasize where something is weak and we need to 198 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,900 strengthen it. Well, I feel like you're always. 199 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:23,800 You're always lifting weights to work out this muscle. 200 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,500 Yeah, because I'm super weak there. 201 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,600 I've got a weakness there. Well, you ought to do all this. 202 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,600 Why do all that too? But these other things are 203 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,500 actually pretty much in balance these, these other things. 204 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,200 They don't need a lot of Effort or, or they're 205 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,000 disproportionately, large in some cases, you know, like, 206 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,900 that's my problem, my muscles everywhere, they're just too 207 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:43,100 big, you know, it's an embarrassing issue. 208 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,100 I've had for a long time, I'm just that guy who's just to to 209 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:50,000 swallow, but but in some cases, we've got to make adjustments. 210 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,700 Go hang on a sec. You got to you got to build this 211 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:53,400 up. Well, well, I just want to Jesus 212 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,700 who's a savior. Well, you don't get to make him 213 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,300 in your, in your image. He is who he is and we have to 214 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:03,700 understand him fully we come to him and we don't bring him to us 215 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,700 and Andre reframe him and reshape him. 216 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,500 So to say, I believe in Jesus is to say, I believe in the real 217 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:15,200 Jesus, not a Jesus that I create with my own desires, but the 218 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,500 Jesus that the Bible reveals, that's the only Jesus. 219 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,700 And again, in the day and age we live in where, well, My Jesus 220 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,500 would never lie. Stop with whatever dumb thing is 221 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:29,400 about to come out of your mouth and just come back to the word 222 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,900 of God. My Jesus, there's one Jesus. 223 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,800 Well, he's my are good. But is your Jesus also the 224 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:36,500 Bible? Jesus. 225 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:37,900 Yep. Praise God. 226 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,400 Praise God. That's, that's the only way it 227 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,700 works. He's called the Cornerstone. 228 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,500 The Cornerstone is the stone. That was set the first stone. 229 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:49,000 And they said we're going to build the whole building based 230 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,900 off the orientation of this one stone. 231 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,900 We got this one. Lee set the way we want it. 232 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,300 And now, the whole rest of the building, the lines will be 233 00:11:56,308 --> 00:11:58,200 drawn. Everything will come off of this 234 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,400 Stone. Everyone must be calibrated 235 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,000 according to the Cornerstone. That's what Christ is. 236 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,800 That's who he is. Are you in Hebrews, yet? 237 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,300 You've had plenty of time. I don't hear any excuses. 238 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:17,900 Hebrews chapter 1. Some people think Hebrews was a 239 00:12:17,908 --> 00:12:21,600 letter, some people that Hebrews was a sermon, and you can kind 240 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,200 of see the argument for a, possibly being a sermon, because 241 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,500 it starts off with fire like right out of the gate, there's 242 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,200 no introduction. So, hey everybody. 243 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,300 I'm so, and so we don't know who wrote it. 244 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:33,300 Some people think Paul wrote it, some people think somebody else 245 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:36,500 wrote it. And you can see the argument for 246 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,300 a sermon here, we're going to just look at the first three 247 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,800 verses right now. Long ago at many times. 248 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,300 And in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. 249 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,900 But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son, whom he 250 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:54,500 appointed the heir of all things through whom. 251 00:12:54,500 --> 00:13:00,100 He also created the world. He is the radiance of the glory 252 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:05,600 of God, and the exact imprint of his nature and he Jesus upholds, 253 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,700 the universe by the word of his power after making purification 254 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,200 for Sins. He sat down at the right hand of 255 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,300 the Majesty on high fat and fire you up, then you better wake up. 256 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,900 Jesus is being glorified here. Jesus is being. 257 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,300 There's a subtitle that's been put in my Bible it wouldn't it 258 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:26,300 wasn't there in the original writing but it says the 259 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:32,000 supremacy of God's son. God used to speak to us. 260 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,400 So Hebrews was written to Hebrews. 261 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,100 Good. Yes, there So Hebrews has 262 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:39,100 written to the Jewish people and the Jewish people they have 263 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:40,700 other Patriarchs that they look up to. 264 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,500 We're looking up to Moses. We're looking up to Abraham as 265 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:46,100 we as Christians do as well. We say, praise God for what 266 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:49,900 David did and for these men of God and how the Lord used them, 267 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:52,700 and how they were served and how they serve God, how they were 268 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:54,900 anointed by God, how they fulfilled his will. 269 00:13:55,300 --> 00:14:00,200 So they're often looking at the Patriarchs, but as the Hebrews 270 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,700 as the letter of Hebrews of the sermon of Hebrews goes on, Jesus 271 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:07,100 is just can't it just swells. Starts on fire and it grows even 272 00:14:07,100 --> 00:14:11,000 more to the point where he says, Jesus is far superior to Moses. 273 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,100 And this is the thing that the Jewish people are like, oh, hang 274 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:13,900 on a sec. He's going. 275 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,300 Hang on. You got to understand Jewish 276 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:18,500 Christians, Hebrews, who have come to Christ to know the 277 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:20,800 Messiah. The Messiah is not like, he's 278 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,800 like, Moses. He's like Abraham, no, no, he's 279 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,700 far superior. And the same way that the 280 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,100 builder of the house is superior to the house itself. 281 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,400 He's calling Moses. The house is going Abraham, the 282 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,300 house. But Jesus is the Builder. 283 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,800 He could tear a house down and build. 284 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,100 Another one, tomorrow, Jesus is the thing. 285 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:36,100 He's the Pinnacle. Uncle. 286 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,000 He's the one who's supreme, but you also see he's the exact 287 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,300 imprint of the father. That means he's just like the 288 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:45,800 father. He is one with the father and 289 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,700 yet he is distinct from the father. 290 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,800 He is not the father. Sounds like a Maury Povich line 291 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,600 there for a second. You Chris picked up one of the 292 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,400 same time. I did you are not the father. 293 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,800 So the kids like what's Maury Povich be glad you don't know. 294 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:10,400 So Jesus, the Father, the Holy Spirit, their one, God but they 295 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,300 are not, but they are not the same thing as one, another 296 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:16,400 separate persons distinct and roll. 297 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:21,100 This is one of many passages in the New Testament that shows 298 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:24,200 Jesus Is God, and Jesus is God's son. 299 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,400 We have God the Father Almighty and we have Jesus Christ God's 300 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,600 son. He says the father has spoken 301 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,300 through his servants and now he has spoken through his son. 302 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:38,800 One thing you notice though, when the son speaks, he doesn't 303 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,300 speak like all of the other prophets have spoken. 304 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,900 When the other prophets spoke, they always said. 305 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:48,000 The Lord says they would say. The word of the Lord is they 306 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,500 would say the spirit is saying, when the sun spoke, the son said 307 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,500 you've heard it said this way. But I say it this way, he spoke 308 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:00,100 with his own authority and they said he doesn't sound like 309 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,100 anybody else. We've heard before he speaks as 310 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,900 The one who has Authority. Now you're getting it. 311 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,500 Now you're catching on, he does have authority, he is supreme, 312 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:14,100 he is Ultimate. He says, I say to you, he speaks 313 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:17,800 with authority, because he has Authority, go to John chapter 314 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:35,700 14. We're going to look more at this 315 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,600 idea of his Unity with the father. 316 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,000 As the father's only son, as Jesus is deity, The Book of John 317 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:48,900 does a lot. There's much in the Book of 318 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:50,800 John, that shows the deity of Christ. 319 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 If there's one gospel, that doesn't more than any other to 320 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,200 be the Book of John from the beginning versus that we read 321 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,600 earlier in service to many other claims that Jesus makes 322 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,600 throughout it to when they want to Stone it were stoning. 323 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,000 You because you are saying your God, he's like, well, you're 324 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,900 right. That is what I'm saying, but 325 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:11,599 John chapter 14 and verse 6. Jesus said to him talking to his 326 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,800 disciples, I am the way, the truth and the life. 327 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,900 No one comes to the father, except through me. 328 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,099 If you had known me you would have known my father. 329 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:27,400 Also from now on you do know him and you have seen him Philip 330 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,600 said to him, Lord show us the father and it is enough for us. 331 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,500 Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long And you still 332 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:41,100 do not know me. Philip Whoever has seen me, has 333 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:43,700 seen the father. How can you say show us the 334 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:46,000 father? Do you not believe that I am in 335 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,200 the father? And the father is in me the 336 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,900 words I say to you do not speak. I do not speak on my own 337 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:55,800 authority but the father who dwells in me does his Works, 338 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:00,700 believe me, that I am in the father and the father is in me 339 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,400 or else believe on account of The Works themselves. 340 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,800 Believe Me, Jesus says if you've seen me, you've seen the father, 341 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,700 this is what Jesus does. He gives us the image of God, 342 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,700 man. What's God really like, could 343 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:14,900 anybody ever really know? Yes. 344 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,800 Yes. He's revealed himself through 345 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,600 his word. He's revealed himself through 346 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:23,000 his son, Jesus. And like we said last week some 347 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,400 people have this idea God the father's mad and Jesus is here 348 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,200 like get us on his good side. That is a misunderstanding. 349 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,100 That is not who God is that is not how he operates, Jesus 350 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,100 accomplishes and fulfills the will of the father. 351 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:36,800 And Jesus says, I only do what I see my father doing. 352 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:41,000 So, he saw his father Healing The Sick, he saw his father, 353 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 raising the dead, he saw his father blessing, the children, 354 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,500 he saw his father forgiving Sinners, the father's will and 355 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,400 Jesus is whether or not divided and the holy spirit's. 356 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,200 Well, they're not divided, God planned, this God ordained, this 357 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,200 from the foundations of the world. 358 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,600 Now there is a there is a unique way where Jesus is 33 years on 359 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,600 the earth. There was a unique role to That 360 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:07,300 there's something different happening. 361 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,500 There was a unique way that they were functioning they hadn't 362 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:13,500 function to before there's a unique way that they functioned 363 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,100 for that temporary season. But they were always one Jesus, 364 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:21,300 always maintained his God, status his deity. 365 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:24,900 But if you've seen me, you've seen the father, this is good 366 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:27,200 news. You can know exactly what God 367 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,300 is, like, because Jesus is God because Jesus reveals the father 368 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:35,000 because the Holy Spirit, glorifies Jesus, We see this 369 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,200 service, we see this love within the Trinity. 370 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,700 We see the father bringing leadership, we see even a 371 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:45,700 hierarchy not in, not in value, but we see rolls operating 372 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:48,200 within the Trinity is what we talked about in our sermon on 373 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,700 submission to women. Women have been lied to and told 374 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:54,100 that submission, is a burden, something and Christians, and 375 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:56,100 the world, certainly. But Christians, most of the time 376 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,700 in their heart of hearts believes that a wife submission 377 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:00,500 to her, husband is a punishment in a cruelty. 378 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,600 They believe that in their heart of hearts and it's false and 379 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,500 it's unbiblical. Well, it is a gift. 380 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,800 It is a blessing. Just like it was a gift and a 381 00:20:07,808 --> 00:20:11,200 joy, and a blessing for Jesus to submit to the Father, and Jesus 382 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,800 did not become less in doing so he fulfilled his role, he 383 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,000 pleased, the Father and Jesus is glorified. 384 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,100 It pleased. The father to glorify Christ 385 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:22,300 through it. So they are co-equal. 386 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,800 They are Co eternal We'll keep going here and looking at Jesus, 387 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:36,100 as the imprints of the father, go to Colossians. flip towards 388 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:38,700 the, the back of your new testament, you're going to 389 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:46,100 Philippians and then Colossians Colossians chapter 1. 390 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:57,100 What are we looking at today? I believe in Jesus Christ, his 391 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,700 only son. Our Lord. 392 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,000 We're still looking at the sonship of Christ. 393 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:12,500 We're mixing it all together, why? 394 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,700 But because he's a whole person, he doesn't exist in boxes. 395 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,800 He's one person and all of these things are true about him all 396 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:25,200 the time, Colossians 1:15. Again, I've got a heading here 397 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,400 in my Bible. It says the preeminence of 398 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Christ verse 15. He is the image talking about 399 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,700 Jesus. He is the image of the 400 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:37,700 invisible. God God's invisible. 401 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:41,000 Nobody can see him, right? Except that God became visible 402 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 because he put himself in the image in Christ. 403 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,100 Jesus is the image of the invisible. 404 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:49,100 God, the firstborn of all creation. 405 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:54,500 For by him, all things were created in heaven and on Earth, 406 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,700 visible and invisible, whether Thrones, or dominions or rulers 407 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,100 or authorities. All things were created through 408 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:07,200 him. And for him, And he is before 409 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,500 all things, and in him all things, hold together. 410 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,100 And he is the head of that body, the church. 411 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,900 He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in 412 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:24,600 everything, he might be preeminent for in him. 413 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,600 All the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through 414 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:34,800 him, to reconcile to himself all things, whether on Earth or in 415 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,600 heaven May collapse. In Peace, by the blood of his 416 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,500 cross. Jesus is incredible. 417 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:44,500 He is the exact copy and the representation. 418 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,400 So the idea here that was being used this idea of imprinting, 419 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,600 the the mop, the early readers of this text. 420 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,200 They would have understood this to be just like a coin was made. 421 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,400 There's the original mold and then they've got the soft metal 422 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,900 that's getting ready to be pressed and the Press comes down 423 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:03,600 on it and the image of Caesar or whoever their current ruler was 424 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:06,400 was pressed into that coin. It's the Image. 425 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,700 It's not the mold itself but it's the exact image pressed 426 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:12,100 into it. You can see it identical. 427 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:14,700 If you got a coin in your pocket, you can see that can't. 428 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,700 There was a press somewhere. You like, I wonder what that 429 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:19,400 press really looks like. You know exactly what the Press 430 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,300 looks like, that's what the Press looks like. 431 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,000 Look at the coin and thankfully, unlike a coin. 432 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Jesus doesn't wear off. He doesn't weaken, he doesn't 433 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,400 change. There's nothing temporary about 434 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,800 him. He is always strong. 435 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,500 He is always Eternal. He is always clear. 436 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,600 So he is the exact copy and the exact exact representation. 437 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,900 As we say, in the South, he's the spitting image. 438 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,100 So we can't see the original mold, but we know we do know 439 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:49,200 exactly what the original mold looks like Christ. 440 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,500 The Messiah is the image of God that Humanity can look at but 441 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:55,900 you should look at the whole Christ. 442 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,900 And this is my argument that a lot of times people look 443 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:02,900 exclusively at one part ago. He saved me from my sin, hang on 444 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,900 a second. You know, you know what that 445 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:09,600 means means, you have sinned and do you know that you have to 446 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,500 know more than knowing. Do you know the you have to 447 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:14,700 believe on. Jesus Christ. 448 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:16,800 Well yeah I like the Christ like to save your part. 449 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,900 Well you don't get one without the other. 450 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,400 You don't you don't get the Savior without also getting the 451 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,200 Lord. You don't get Jesus can't be 452 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,700 purchased in Parts, there's just Jesus, there's just the real 453 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:28,900 Jesus. The whole Jesus. 454 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,400 The only Jesus Natalie can't have like parts of husband and 455 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,600 not other parts. She's like I want like I like 456 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,900 the money thing. Like the the income thing like 457 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,100 big fan, big fan of that like the the other stuff. 458 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:45,200 If like nothing else, just like the money thing. 459 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,100 Well, that's not how you get me. Like, there's all of me. 460 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,500 I'll be the, I'll be the whole husband in every way, gladly all 461 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,300 the responsibilities, all the joys, everything all of it 462 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:56,100 together. But that's, that's that's what 463 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:57,800 you get. And that's good news by the way, 464 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,800 that's good news. But selfish person and immature 465 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,400 person according to a person goes, I just want this. 466 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:08,900 But that's because that person is just serving themself. 467 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,700 They actually, they actually don't want any responsibility. 468 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,000 It would be if Natalie would it. Take That point of view or if 469 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,200 your husband were to take that point of view, I'm just I'm 470 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,400 using, I'm just extracting Jesus. 471 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,900 You are useful to me because I'm Lorde. 472 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,500 And Lord I would never say it that way with my mouth, but I 473 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:28,800 would believe it with my heart, my life shows it my actions 474 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,300 reveal. What I believe always, it is an 475 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,700 inescapable truth fruit, always tells the truth of what's going 476 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,200 on inside and out of the Overflow of the heart, the mouth 477 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,100 will speak. So it will come out one way or 478 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,200 another, but I'm using jizo. He's super useful. 479 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,600 He can save me. You can like, do stuff for me. 480 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,600 I've taped, I like that part of Jesus. 481 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,700 Well, when I have a misunderstanding of who he is, I 482 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:51,500 didn't hold it against him when things don't go the way I 483 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:52,800 thought. Thought they were supposed to 484 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,500 the way that I heard that they should one time, because I don't 485 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,500 know the word of God and I actually don't know, Jesus. 486 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:02,200 I know a caricature of Jesus. I know, and I know a westernized 487 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,900 version of Jesus, but I don't know. 488 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:08,100 Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. 489 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,400 I just know Jesus is the savior. Well, yeah, that's great news. 490 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:15,400 But the only thing that qualifies him to be the savior 491 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,000 is the fact that he is also Lord and the fact that he is the Son 492 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,500 of God, it's all together and it's all good news. 493 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:24,400 There's not one ounce of bad news anywhere in there. 494 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:26,800 It's all good news, why? Because Jesus is good. 495 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,500 Thank God, that God is good. If he wasn't, we wouldn't be 496 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:36,400 here to talk about him. So In this passage, we see Jesus 497 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,500 lordship. I love this passage, could you 498 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,600 see so much happening? You see all three things 499 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,900 happening, you see his lordship, you see his sonship and you see 500 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:48,400 his messiahship In this passage in Colossians 1:15 through 20. 501 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,700 So let's look at verse 15 will go one verse at a time here and 502 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,000 we're going to see each thing and verse 15. 503 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,000 We see sonship he is the image of the invisible. 504 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,700 God the firstborn of all creation. 505 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,200 That word firstborn has led to many misunderstandings. 506 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:05,300 Understandings and false teachings because people have 507 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:09,900 taken it to mean that Jesus is a created being fair enough at 508 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,500 first glance. But it's a, it's, it's a totally 509 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:15,000 incomplete reading of all of the Bible, right? 510 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:16,800 We can't just take. I like this verse. 511 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:18,300 I'm gonna build everything on it. 512 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,300 It's going to be on my coffee mug, in my refrigerator, and my 513 00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:21,900 bumper sticker, hang a slow down. 514 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:23,500 There's more viable than one verse. 515 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:24,900 Are you saying that first isn't true? 516 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,000 I'm saying, we got to consider everything. 517 00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:28,400 Let's make sure we're paying attention. 518 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,800 The whole Bible is true together. 519 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,300 Let's make sure we understand what's And what's being said? 520 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,900 So like my son's, my firstborn son, Elijah he there was a day, 521 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,100 he did not exist. There was a time when he didn't 522 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:42,900 exist anywhere except in the heart of God. 523 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:45,600 And then there came a time where he started to exist. 524 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,100 This is not the case with the Lord Jesus Christ. 525 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,200 He does not have a beginning date. 526 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,600 He did not start to exist at one time, he is eternal. 527 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,200 God, the father is eternal, Jesus is eternal, in the Holy 528 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,300 Spirit is eternal, Jesus does not have a beginning. 529 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:00,900 Well he has a beginning on Earth. 530 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:03,000 Yes. There was a time to about 2000's 531 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,200 years ago, when he was born of a virgin, but that was just him 532 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,800 God, the word of God becoming flesh like we read in John 1, 533 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600 the word became flesh. Jesus is the word of God. 534 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,000 What was his form before? That the word of the father, it 535 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,700 seems to me. So the word of God became flesh 536 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,200 and now he has that glorified body forever. 537 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,300 That's how we think of him. So was he the first born? 538 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,500 Yes, he was the firstborn of the new creation as well. 539 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,100 Not that he was made into a new creation. 540 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,600 Ian because he was always him but he leads the way for 541 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,700 everybody who can now be born again. 542 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,600 So when he's talking about firstborn, there's two ideas 543 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,200 there that are trying to be communicated that the the 544 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,500 readers would have understood. It's not that he had a start 545 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:47,800 date, it's not that Christ started to exist. 546 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,400 The father's like I'd like a son. 547 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,400 Now I have a son and now he'll be God with me. 548 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,300 That's not what happened. Jesus the Eternal Word of God 549 00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,500 was always with the father and the word became flesh. 550 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,000 But first born is not a reference to him being created 551 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000 or and that's not even a reference to him being born on 552 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,400 Earth. It is a reference. 553 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,500 This award firstborn is referencing the power and the 554 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,700 position and the inheritance of the first born throughout the 555 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,500 ancient world, that's what's being referenced here. 556 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,000 So the first born is the one who gets the bulk of The 557 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,300 Inheritance, the firstborn gets the bulk of the Privileges. 558 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,100 The firstborn son is the one who is preeminent. 559 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,700 Among his brothers, and Jesus is preeminent amongst the church. 560 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,500 His brothers. Jesus is the firstborn in that 561 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:30,100 sense. Not that. 562 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,400 Had a beginning. But this reference is his power, 563 00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:36,500 his position and his inheritance and it pleases, the father to 564 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:40,600 call him son in verse 16 for by him. 565 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:46,800 All things were created In heaven and on Earth visible and 566 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400 invisible, whether Thrones, or dominions or rulers or 567 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,900 authorities. All things were created through 568 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,500 him. And for him, through him, and 569 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:58,200 for him, all things were created. 570 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,500 He lists every possible Authority that he could think 571 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:04,500 of, he's like rulers, dominions natural Supernatural, you name 572 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,600 it. Everything was made by Jesus. 573 00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:12,100 For Jesus. What does that mean for 574 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:13,600 creation? What does that mean for every 575 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,100 single human that you and I know what does that mean for my life? 576 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,500 You exist everybody for the glory of Jesus. 577 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:24,300 That's it. Well I don't know if the 578 00:30:24,308 --> 00:30:25,800 governor, I don't know if the president. 579 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,600 I'm not everybody exists for the pleasure of Jesus Christ. 580 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,100 There's no other purpose for anybody anywhere. 581 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,000 That is humbling. I'm not the tip of the spear. 582 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,300 I'm not the Pinnacle. I'm not the top of the mountain. 583 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,400 Jesus, is we exist for his glory. 584 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:48,700 That should draw us to worship. That's the drawers too. 585 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,800 It's almost feels like lordship. Welcome to the point. 586 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,400 God is God and you are not. And this is good news. 587 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,000 This means every ruler no matter no matter it which level the 588 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,500 three spheres that we've talked about. 589 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,900 So many times God is and God created these three different 590 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,400 spheres of rulership but they're all under the rulership of 591 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,100 Christ. The household, the church, the 592 00:31:13,108 --> 00:31:16,400 civil government, which we often think of the civil government is 593 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,400 being Superior and the other two are parked underneath it. 594 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,800 That is not what God has done. They each have roles, and, and 595 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,000 purposes and distinct places. This means that every husband, 596 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,900 every father, Every Pastor, every president, every prime 597 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:34,100 minister, every official, every Angel, every Archangel, every 598 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:39,000 thrown every ruler was made for the pleasure glory and will of 599 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,500 Jesus Christ, they will submit to him like they were designed 600 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:46,700 to or the father will make them his footstool. 601 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,900 That's what he promises. Jesus, I'll make your enemies 602 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:53,700 your footstool. What's the advice, kiss? 603 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:55,600 The son? Lest he be angry at you? 604 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Well, is he like that? Well, he's the savior of the 605 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,200 world but he's worthy of Glory. He knows who he is and he knows 606 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,100 what he's worth just because you don't doesn't mean he gets 607 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,200 confused, your confusion doesn't confuse him. 608 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,000 Your attempt to demote him won't demote him. 609 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,700 This is why the church has its role of telling the truth to the 610 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,100 world. The truth of God is to be told 611 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:20,300 to the world. Wasn't there supposed to be a 612 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:23,500 separation of church and state says who? 613 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,200 Who do you think would have said that? 614 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:29,800 I don't let's go back to the Bible. 615 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,200 Everything was created through him and everything was created 616 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,900 for him. So now should I go ask the 617 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:41,900 creation? What creation thinks we ought to 618 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:45,700 do about obeying him who created it for him? 619 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,100 This is like extra level special kind of stupid. 620 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,800 It's bizarre. But it's not just stupid. 621 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:58,000 It's disbelief. It's not about stupidity. 622 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000 It's disbelief, makes you stupid. 623 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,300 Disbelief makes me stupid. Pastor Ken says, it simply one 624 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,800 of my favorite lines of his egos send makes you stupid and it's 625 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,200 true, and unbelief is a sin. But this, this should fill us 626 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,600 with courage and our role as the church. 627 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,800 What's the role of the church? The church is the Pillar of 628 00:33:16,808 --> 00:33:20,000 Truth in the world. That's the responsibility of the 629 00:33:20,008 --> 00:33:22,800 Church of Jesus Christ is the church supposed to execute 630 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,800 Killers. Nope, that's not the role of the 631 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,500 church that Authority. The authority to kill and take 632 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,400 human life. The lord gave to the Civil 633 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,800 Authorities to the civil magistrate, God gave that to the 634 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,600 government said, I want you to punish Is righteous to punish 635 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,300 they do that. Unfortunately. 636 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:39,200 And their wickedness, I want you to punish the unrighteous and 637 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,700 reward the righteous. That's your role so they can go 638 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:44,300 we'll put a speed limit in place. 639 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,000 That's fine. That's a love your neighbor kind 640 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,100 of law. That's good. 641 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:48,700 We're going to put some things in place. 642 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:52,100 A lot of times they overstep though in our context, the 643 00:33:52,108 --> 00:33:55,300 government is massive and people don't even recognize it. 644 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:56,700 People don't even think about it. 645 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,400 Is this, an anti-government message? 646 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,500 Absolutely, not the government is on. 647 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:03,700 Jesus is shoulder, though. I'm all about government, Jesus 648 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:05,800 is built and established. It's all for him. 649 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:08,600 So should there be a separation of church and state? 650 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,100 Well, yes, in the sense that the church should not be the state. 651 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,500 And, and I don't think that the Church of Jesus Christ that the 652 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:19,000 elders, the pastor should be running all civil governments, 653 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:22,400 but all civil governments should be submitted to the will of 654 00:34:22,408 --> 00:34:24,300 Jesus Christ. So if you want to have a 655 00:34:24,308 --> 00:34:27,500 separation of church and state, I guess, technically I can agree 656 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,000 but there should never be separation from church from from 657 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,699 State and God their God. God is connected to church, God 658 00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:38,400 is connected to State, God is connected to household, there is 659 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,600 no other option, the laws will be made and there's no such 660 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,800 thing as a neutral. Law law will always be pulling 661 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,100 in One Direction or another depending on who the lawmakers 662 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:50,300 are. And all lawmakers should submit 663 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,100 and bend the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ. 664 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,900 Well, we don't agree with that. Well, who are you? 665 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,800 Are you? The Lord Jesus Christ because he 666 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,400 made everything every ruler, and every Authority. 667 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,000 Well, I don't believe that. Well, that's where you're wrong. 668 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:07,500 This is simple stuff but the church shouldn't back up. 669 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,000 You shouldn't let courage. Why? 670 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,500 Because you should be about Jesus Glory. 671 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,800 So you should be jealous for his glory, not for our Glory. 672 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,800 But for his glory, you should be jealous for your Lord's. 673 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,000 Glory. You should be eager to please 674 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,200 your lord to the to tell the truth. 675 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,600 Because that's the role of the church to be the pillow, the 676 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,500 truth and the Earth and say, hey this is good, this is right, 677 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,700 this is wrong. Well we can't allow the church 678 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:33,200 to make the law. No we're not the lawmakers, 679 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,400 that's the government's role. Roll. 680 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,900 But when you're off, we must instruct you. 681 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,600 That's the role of the church to call righteousness and to call 682 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,200 evil. And to say, hang on guys, you 683 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,200 made a mistake there. You made a mistake there because 684 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,000 God's word declares this. Well, we want separation of 685 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,100 church and state But you can't be separate from God because 686 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:53,500 he's the one who established you. 687 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,600 He's the one who's giving you your instruction, otherwise you 688 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,500 just think you're a bunch of mammals who are making laws 689 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:02,600 based on your own preferences and brain chemistry. 690 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,900 Which again, disbelief leads to all sorts of foolishness, all 691 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,000 sorts of sin, all sorts of Brokenness. 692 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,200 But God is about human flourishing and God is about 693 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:19,300 God's glory. There's a fable a tale that is 694 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,500 told about a ship who was plowing through the Seas, one 695 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:26,600 night, a a destroyer. It goes like this plowing 696 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,300 through the see one rough night over foggy Seas. 697 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,900 A destroyers radar, suddenly indicates, an object directly in 698 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:38,500 its path. The captain sends a radio 699 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:41,000 signal, we're on a collision course. 700 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,400 We advise you to change course 10 degrees. 701 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,200 North a response comes back and crackles over the radio - we 702 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,300 advise you to change course 10 degrees, north 10 Degrees, South 703 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,300 the captain can now see this blinking light from the 704 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,300 approaching object perturbed? He Bells reply I'm a ship's. 705 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,900 Captain change the course, 10 degrees north now. 706 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,500 The reply comes. I'm a seaman second class. 707 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:11,100 Advise you change course, 10 Degrees South to avoid imminent. 708 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,500 Collision. The captain is now Furious he 709 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,600 blurts another command. This is a destroyer of the 710 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,300 United States Navy change. Your course immediately back 711 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:27,700 comes the reply. This is a lighthouse I'm not 712 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,100 moving. I won't move. 713 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,600 I can't move. Welcome to Jesus. 714 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,800 The Cornerstone. You will adapt to him, or you'll 715 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,500 be crushed by him or you'll be his footstool. 716 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,400 The lighthouse doesn't move the times are changing fools. 717 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,700 Will say, I agree, times, literally changing every second 718 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,300 great point, but the lighthouse still hasn't moved. 719 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,000 And this is good news because, you know what a lighthouse does. 720 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,800 The lighthouse, doesn't just get in your way and go, oh, not 721 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,600 moving. On the White House. 722 00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:05,500 The White House says, I'm here to shine light. 723 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:08,800 I'm here to give you Direction and I'm here to protect you from 724 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,800 your own destruction. That's what a lighthouse does. 725 00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:14,700 This is the good news of Jesus. He's the Savior. 726 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:15,700 Right. Absolutely. 727 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,000 He's the Savior and he's Lord, and He won't move and you won't 728 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,200 move him. He's strong, he's worthy. 729 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:26,400 He knows who he is. Do you know who, He is is always 730 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,700 the question. Who do you say that? 731 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,800 I am Peter. Who do you say that? 732 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,000 I am. That's the question that 733 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,700 everybody has to answer. I don't get to answer it off. 734 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:39,700 My Mom and Dad's Faith. You don't get answered off a 735 00:38:39,708 --> 00:38:43,500 Pastor James, faith. I won't stand before you before 736 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,300 the king of glory. I'll be trembling all by myself 737 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,800 before him. My children won't be good to go 738 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,300 but Daddy. But mommy though go the king of 739 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:55,600 glory. Should that be a scary moment? 740 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:59,600 I'm gonna throw myself again under the blood, the blood, I 741 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,800 plead the blood of Jesus and the father smiles and goes of course 742 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,500 of course there's no other there's nothing else, you can't 743 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:09,700 plead not guilty. But you can plead the blood. 744 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,500 Jesus is the light house and this is good news. 745 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,700 Let's keep looking here to see more about his lordship verse 17 746 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:23,300 and he is before all things. And in him all things, hold 747 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:25,900 together. He is the head of the body, the 748 00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:28,000 church. He is the beginning the 749 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,000 firstborn from the dead that in everything, he might be 750 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:35,700 preeminent. There were preeminent, it just 751 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:38,600 means first first among first among first. 752 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,800 What do you mean by that? Yes, first Above and beyond 753 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,300 everybody so you can joyfully not with anger. 754 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:51,400 But joyfully tell the whole world that Jesus is, first Jesus 755 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,600 is Lord, Jesus is Savior. Jesus Is God, give them the 756 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,800 whole picture of this good and perfect? 757 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,700 God, tell them the truth. You don't have to stay back and 758 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:02,400 conversations. You don't have to hide your 759 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,400 well, some people don't believe that, right? 760 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:08,400 Which is why you're here church so that they may believe so that 761 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,200 they can be saved because God loves them, this Is God's plan 762 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,200 to rescue the world through his son? 763 00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:18,500 This is the good news. This is what verse 20 goes on to 764 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,200 tell us as we see more about the messiahship. 765 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,700 This is the side that I said, sometimes we are too. 766 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:25,000 We just go. He's just my savior. 767 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,200 He's just my save. You just say use me. 768 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,200 All he ever does is save me well and he's worthy, right? 769 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,000 Well, he saves me but verse 20 and 4 sizes. 770 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,100 Yes, he's the savior. And through him. 771 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:40,500 Sorry, I'll pick back in verse 18, will connect it all and he 772 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:43,500 is the head of the body, the church he is the beginning the 773 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:47,400 firstborn from the dead that in everything he might be 774 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:48,900 preeminent. So right now you're going to 775 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:53,700 save me from the Wrath of the Lamb, hang on for in him. 776 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,900 All the fullness of God was pleased to dwell ah save me from 777 00:40:56,900 --> 00:41:01,300 the Wrath of the Lamb, hang on, and through him, to reconcile to 778 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:06,100 himself all things, whether on On Earth or in heaven, Making 779 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:10,300 Peace by the blood of his cross. Are you kidding me? 780 00:41:10,300 --> 00:41:11,900 I was getting really scared. Yeah. 781 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:13,600 But you don't have to be afraid of him. 782 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,900 Although you should fear Him, you take coverage in him. 783 00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:19,900 He is your protection. He's your salvation, but don't 784 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:22,100 get me wrong, you don't want to run your shipping to him. 785 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:25,600 But if you will, but he will serve you. 786 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,900 Well, as a lighthouse, if you'll take his direction and you will 787 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,900 adjust course, if you will just korth go south 10 degrees or in 788 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:36,900 our case is, all of us needed to turn 180 degrees in Repentance. 789 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:39,400 If you will adjust course because the lighthouse has, hey 790 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:41,100 I got you. I'm protecting you, I'm looking 791 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:45,000 out for you because I love you, he makes peace. 792 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,200 How does he make peace does Jesus make peace by destroying 793 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,400 his enemies. Eventually, he will destroy his 794 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,100 enemies as we've talked about and seen, but but that's not how 795 00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:57,300 he's made peace between us and himself. 796 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:01,700 He makes Peace by the blood of his cross. 797 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,900 He takes the hit. Jesus Takes the penalty, Jesus 798 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:11,100 Takes the suffering, he makes peace not by killing his 799 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:15,900 enemies, but Jesus makes Peace by giving himself to be killed. 800 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:23,500 What kind of God is this? This is the god that we say I 801 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:26,700 believe this is what we mean when we say I believe, let's 802 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:30,100 keep reading it gets better and through him to reconcile to 803 00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:32,300 himself. All things verse 20, whether on 804 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:35,800 Earth or in heaven, Making Peace by the blood of his cross first 805 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:41,200 21, and you who were once alienated and hostile in mind 806 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:45,700 doing evil Deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of Flesh 807 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:49,300 by his death. In order to present you, he's 808 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:53,100 taking you and he sang father. I have someone to present to you 809 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,100 to present you, holy and blameless and above reproach 810 00:42:57,100 --> 00:43:01,300 before him if you indeed. Continue in the faith, stable 811 00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:04,700 and steadfast not shifting. From the hope of the Gospel that 812 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,100 you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under 813 00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:14,900 heaven, and of which I poll became a minister Wow, Jesus 814 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:20,000 Christ. God's his only son our Lord. 815 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,800 So when we say, I believe in Jesus Christ, that's what we're 816 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,900 saying. Jesus Christ is the savior. 817 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:29,800 He is made the way he's reconciled me with God. 818 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,000 I've been made right? My accounts. 819 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000 I was way in debt. The banking reconciliation is a 820 00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:37,400 financial term that was used. I was in debt. 821 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,100 I owed a lot of money, Christ reconcile the account. 822 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:42,100 How did he pay for it with his own money? 823 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,800 But much more precious than that with his own blood. 824 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:48,500 That's Jesus Christ. God's only son. 825 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:53,100 We're saying he's one with the Father and Jesus Is God and our 826 00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:57,200 Lord. He's pre-eminent there's no 827 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,300 other way to put it. He's first first in every in 828 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:05,600 every comparison you can think of every this is why every knee 829 00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:09,300 will bow every tongue will confess. 830 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:17,400 Blessed are those who do it now Let's stand together and read 831 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:31,100 the Creed. Ready. 832 00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:33,700 Let's begin. I believe in God, the Father 833 00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:36,800 Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. 834 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:42,100 I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was 835 00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:45,900 conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 836 00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:51,300 He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was 837 00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:53,500 buried. He descended to Hell. 838 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,400 The third day. He rose again from the dead. 839 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,500 He ascended to heaven. And is seated at the right hand. 840 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:04,700 Hand of God, the Father Almighty from there, he will come to 841 00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:09,400 judge the living and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the 842 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,300 Holy Catholic Church. The communion of saints, the 843 00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:17,400 Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the 844 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,800 life Everlasting. Amen. 845 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:22,900 God we love you and we submit to you. 846 00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:24,900 It is our joy. We're thankful that you are the 847 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:27,100 White House. It points out the Rocks. 848 00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:29,500 You keep us safe. You keep us in the perfect 849 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:32,800 Waters in the calm. Others and you calm the storms, 850 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,200 even around us in your kindness as a messiah as a savior, as the 851 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,100 Christ. You're the son, who is worthy of 852 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:43,300 all the inheritance? As you have poured out your 853 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:45,900 life, as you have obeyed, the will of the father. 854 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,800 You're so deserving, you're so worthy is our privilege and 855 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,500 honor to serve you and as Lord we submit to you we defer to 856 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:56,500 you. You are preeminent. 857 00:45:56,500 --> 00:46:01,100 You are first. And all this is good and we 858 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:04,000 thank you for it. God in Jesus name. 859 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,200 And now the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord, make his face 860 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,200 shine down upon you and be gracious to you. 861 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:13,500 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you great. 862 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,500 Peace in Jesus name. Amen.