WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.680 fire in brimstone hand, and horrible tempest. This shall be the portion of their cup, for 00:12.680 --> 00:24.600 the righteous Lord loveth righteousness, His countenance doth behold, doth behold the 00:24.600 --> 00:30.000 upright in the Lord put I my trust. 00:30.000 --> 00:35.880 Alright, excellent singing everybody with apology please, private offering. 00:35.880 --> 00:39.560 Father, thank you so much for all you have. We give thanks for the things that we have, 00:39.560 --> 00:45.480 and we just pray to those that are honest to you, give to the church, and able to allow us to do the work that we do. 00:45.480 --> 00:47.400 Amen. 00:54.600 --> 01:08.200 Alright, good evening everyone. If you can turn to me with, to Hebrews 1, Hebrews 1. 01:08.200 --> 01:28.440 Hebrews chapter 1, starting in verse 1, we'll read the whole chapter, which is the custom of our church. 01:28.440 --> 01:37.960 Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1, God who at sundry times, and in diverse manner, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, 01:38.120 --> 01:46.680 hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he has made the worlds, 01:47.160 --> 01:55.720 who being in the brightness of his glory, in the express image of his persons, and upholding all things by the word of power, 01:56.200 --> 02:05.320 when he had by himself purged out sin, sat down the right hand of the majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, 02:05.400 --> 02:14.200 as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they, for unto which of the angels said he at any time, 02:14.200 --> 02:23.720 thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee, and again I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. 02:23.720 --> 02:32.520 And again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he said, and let all the angels of God worship him, 02:32.600 --> 02:41.400 and of the angels he said, who maketh his angels spirit, and his ministers a flame of fire, but unto the sons he said, 02:41.400 --> 02:48.280 thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, a scepter of righteousness, is a scepter of thy kingdom, 02:48.280 --> 02:59.720 thou hast loved righteousness, and hadeth iniquity, therefore God, even God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, 03:00.200 --> 03:07.960 and thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands, 03:07.960 --> 03:16.440 they shall perish, but they remaineth, and they shall wax old, and doth a garment, 03:16.440 --> 03:24.920 as is the vestured shall they fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail, 03:24.920 --> 03:32.520 but to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right hand until I make thy enemy thy footstool, 03:32.520 --> 03:40.680 are they not all ministering spirits sent forth the minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation. 03:41.880 --> 03:43.720 Brother Kyle, will you pray for the service? 03:44.520 --> 03:51.080 Dear Lord, thank you for your work. Please fill brother Jason with the spirit and give him a boldness to preach on. 03:51.080 --> 03:58.760 Amen. All right, so we're in Hebrews chapter number one, and we're going to come back there a little bit later in the sermon, 03:58.760 --> 04:01.320 but if you want to go ahead and turn to John chapter number one. 04:02.520 --> 04:10.280 John chapter number one, and the title of my sermon this evening is going to be Jesus is God, but not the Father. 04:10.280 --> 04:15.800 Jesus is God, but not the Father. And I'm basically going to be preaching a really basic doctrinal sermon tonight, 04:16.760 --> 04:23.960 basically just going over the fact that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, but that he is also not God the Father. 04:23.960 --> 04:28.600 Okay, and you know this is this is subject I think we all probably know pretty well, 04:28.600 --> 04:33.320 but it's good to every once in a while to just reaffirm these things and re-go over these things, 04:33.320 --> 04:38.840 and it's one of these things that is foundational and important, and if somebody you know while you were out 04:38.840 --> 04:44.840 soul-winning was like hey prove to me that Jesus is God, you know, what would you be able to do that? 04:44.840 --> 04:49.000 And that's one of those things that's actually pretty important to be able to do to be an effective soul winner, 04:49.000 --> 04:53.240 because it doesn't happen every time, but every once in a while like if you're talking to like a Mormon 04:53.240 --> 04:59.560 or Jehovah's Witness or something, you know, you're going to have to prove to them that Jesus Christ is God 05:00.200 --> 05:05.960 from the Bible, you know, or if you're speaking with like a Pentecostal or something like that, 05:07.080 --> 05:11.160 every once in a while you have to prove that hey Jesus is not the Father, right? 05:11.160 --> 05:17.320 And so we're just going to go through several verses tonight, and we're going to prove these things. 05:17.960 --> 05:24.440 So and in John chapter number one, verse number one, the Bible says in the beginning was the word, 05:24.440 --> 05:29.240 and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God, 05:29.240 --> 05:36.280 and all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. And of course 05:37.240 --> 05:42.920 these are probably the most powerful verses when it comes to the fact that Jesus Christ is God, 05:42.920 --> 05:50.920 because it directly says that the word was God and was in the beginning with God. So this is 05:50.920 --> 05:56.520 actually a great Trinity verse as well, because it says the word was with God, right? And it says all 05:56.520 --> 06:02.840 things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made, which means that this 06:02.840 --> 06:13.080 word, right, created literally everything. The entire universe was created by the word of God, 06:13.080 --> 06:19.000 right? And you know, and this, you know, these verses are so extraordinarily deep, because you 06:19.000 --> 06:27.320 know we realize that Jesus, you know, he literally spoke the universe into existence, but also at the 06:27.320 --> 06:35.400 same time the Bible is clear that the word is God, meaning that Jesus Christ is God, meaning that the 06:35.400 --> 06:43.720 word of God is Jesus Christ, which is an incredible thing. And you know there was a debate between 06:45.160 --> 06:51.160 Pastor Jonathan Shelley and then some weirdo orthodox guy about basically the authority of 06:51.160 --> 06:57.000 scripture, and you know I didn't watch the whole debate, and in fact I hardly watched any of the 06:57.000 --> 07:03.880 debate, but I watched a couple little clips from it, and you know basically this orthodox guy 07:04.840 --> 07:12.520 was saying that it's like blasphemy to say that the word of God is actually God, and like that 07:12.520 --> 07:18.360 we would put it at the same level as God, he's like, oh that's idol worship, which is, you know, 07:18.440 --> 07:23.800 it's like okay, you know, you're an orthodox Christian who, I mean they're worshiping Mary and 07:23.800 --> 07:31.480 they're bowing down to images and whatnot, but yet they're saying that the Baptists are idolaters 07:31.480 --> 07:37.880 because we say that the Bible is, you know, that Jesus is the word of God, which is the Bible, 07:37.880 --> 07:42.280 right? It's like, okay, I don't know, but I mean this is what the text says though, it says, you know, 07:42.600 --> 07:48.680 that in the beginning was the word, right? And you know, and what word are we talking about here? 07:48.680 --> 07:52.360 Are we talking about the words of Allah? Are we talking about the words of Buddha? I mean, 07:53.160 --> 07:57.400 what could possibly we be talking about here? Well obviously this is talking about the word of God, 07:57.400 --> 08:04.360 the Bible, right? So you know these are very clear scriptures, and it can be proven 08:05.240 --> 08:12.040 beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is talking about Jesus Christ, because later in the chapter, 08:12.040 --> 08:17.080 you know, John 14, it says, excuse me, John 1 14, it says, and the word was made flesh and dwelt 08:17.080 --> 08:22.600 among us, and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 08:23.480 --> 08:32.600 And so, you know, in multiple ways does this verse indicate that Jesus is the word, because it says, 08:32.600 --> 08:39.320 and the word was made flesh. Now when the Bible is talking about somebody being made flesh, 08:40.120 --> 08:45.560 you know, who in the world could that be talking about other than Jesus Christ? I mean, are we 08:45.560 --> 08:52.120 talking about, you know, Adam? Are we talking about Abraham? Are we talking about Moses? Like, 08:52.120 --> 09:01.080 who else could that apply to when the Bible says being made flesh? Because everybody else is just 09:01.080 --> 09:07.480 automatic, we're already flesh. I mean, we come into existence as flesh, right? And so it wouldn't 09:07.480 --> 09:13.880 make any sense for the Bible to be saying, hey, you know, the word was made flesh if we're talking 09:13.880 --> 09:20.440 about anybody other than Jesus, right? Because we know that Jesus Christ basically became a man, 09:20.440 --> 09:29.640 took on the form of a man, and put on flesh, and walked among us as a fellow human being, right? 09:29.640 --> 09:36.360 That's him putting on flesh. For anybody else, that makes no sense at all. You know, you couldn't 09:36.360 --> 09:44.120 say about me, like, hey, I became flesh, because I've always been flesh. And, you know, before I was 09:44.120 --> 09:50.760 flesh, I just didn't exist, right? And so, you know, again, in multiple ways, so, you know, we see that 09:50.760 --> 09:57.160 he's made flesh, and he's dwelling among us. And, you know, the Bible says, I believe in Matthew, 09:57.160 --> 10:01.320 chapter, I believe it's in Matthew chapter number one, where it says, hey, we're going to call him 10:01.400 --> 10:06.360 Emmanuel, meaning God with us, right? And so, you know, this is, he's dwelling among us, 10:07.800 --> 10:12.360 you know, and there's significance to that, because it's like, okay, well, Paul is dwelling 10:12.360 --> 10:18.040 among us, you know, is that that big of a shocker? Is that like a big deal that, you know, Paul is 10:18.040 --> 10:24.200 dwelling among us, you know, or that Kyle dwells among us? Or, you know, basically any other human 10:24.200 --> 10:29.480 being, you'd be like, well, you know, so and so dwells among us. And it's like, okay, well, this is 10:30.120 --> 10:35.880 normal, like this isn't anything to write home about. But yeah, right here it says, and dwelt 10:35.880 --> 10:41.880 among us. But when we realize that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, he's literally God walking 10:41.880 --> 10:49.560 among us, human beings whom he created, well, that is a big deal. And so, you know, again, multiple 10:49.560 --> 10:54.360 ways is this verse showing us that Jesus is God. It says, and we beheld his glory as of the only 10:54.360 --> 11:01.720 begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And of course, you know, this is like the major 11:01.720 --> 11:07.800 nail in the coffin right here, is the fact that says, hey, he's the only begotten of the Father. 11:09.240 --> 11:14.360 And, you know, of course, if we cross that with John 3.16, it says, for God so loved the world 11:14.360 --> 11:18.040 that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have 11:18.040 --> 11:26.760 everlasting life. And so, you know, John 1.14 absolutely has to be talking about Jesus Christ 11:26.760 --> 11:33.880 because Jesus, he's the only begotten of the Father, because he's the only begotten son. Because, 11:33.880 --> 11:39.000 you know, the Bible talks about how people that are saved, obviously, they become children of God. 11:39.000 --> 11:44.680 And in fact, in John 1.12, it says, but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the 11:44.680 --> 11:49.800 sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. And so they become children of God, anybody 11:49.800 --> 11:59.080 that believes on him. But Jesus Christ, because he is, you know, the Son of God, right? And because, 11:59.080 --> 12:05.960 you know, he's the firstborn among many brethren, basically, he was the one that resurrected first 12:05.960 --> 12:12.040 and purchased all of our resurrection. According to the Bible, he's the only begotten of the Father. 12:12.040 --> 12:18.280 So, because none of us are necessarily begotten of the Father, we are adopted into his family, 12:18.280 --> 12:26.120 right? And so, Jesus Christ, he is the begotten of the Father. And so this, you know, verse number 12:26.120 --> 12:35.640 14 can be talking about no one else than Jesus Christ. And so, you know, those three verses, 12:36.440 --> 12:41.960 in my opinion, is probably the strongest proof, the strongest absolute proof that Jesus Christ 12:41.960 --> 12:47.560 is God. But, you know, there's a lot of other verses that we can go to to prove the same thing 12:47.560 --> 12:55.000 as well. Go ahead and turn to Revelation chapter number one. I'm going to read for you 1 Timothy 316. 12:57.160 --> 13:03.400 And 1 Timothy 316, it says, And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. 13:03.960 --> 13:11.480 God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached under the gentiles, 13:11.480 --> 13:22.040 believed on in the world, and received up into glory. And, you know, this is another extraordinarily 13:22.040 --> 13:29.080 clear verse that Jesus Christ is God. Because it says, you know, great is the mystery of godliness. 13:29.080 --> 13:38.280 God was manifest in the flesh. And that crosses with John 14.1. It says, you know, because he was 13:38.280 --> 13:47.320 made flesh and dwelt among us. 1 Timothy 316, God was manifest in the flesh. Jesus Christ came down 13:47.320 --> 13:55.640 to earth and he put on flesh. Says he was justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached under the 13:55.640 --> 14:00.840 gentiles. Now, who else would this be talking about? Right? I mean, when we're saying, hey, he was 14:01.240 --> 14:07.720 preached under the gentiles. I mean, who else could this possibly apply to? I mean, obviously, 14:07.720 --> 14:14.520 you know, these false religions, you know, they're going to say, hey, you know, we have another 14:14.520 --> 14:20.280 messiah or we have another prophet or whatever. And, you know, they're denying the fact that Jesus 14:20.280 --> 14:28.680 Christ was God. For example, you know, the Mormons or Islamists, right? You know, are they going to 14:28.680 --> 14:34.840 sit there and say that, like, Muhammad was preached under the gentiles or that Joseph Smith was 14:34.840 --> 14:40.600 preached on the gentiles when those two characters came hundreds of years later after this was written 14:40.600 --> 14:46.040 down? I mean, who are they going to say that this applies to? Are they talking about, like, you know, 14:46.040 --> 14:52.200 John the Baptist or, like, who could this possibly apply to when it says, hey, he was preached 14:52.920 --> 14:58.040 unto the gentiles? And it says, God was manifest in flesh and he was preached on the gentiles. This is 14:59.240 --> 15:05.080 obviously talking about Jesus Christ. And so, honestly, I have no idea how people get around 15:05.080 --> 15:09.240 this particular verse that don't believe that Jesus Christ is God. How the Mormons do it, how the 15:09.240 --> 15:13.800 Jehovah's Witnesses do it. You know, I guess the only way that you can actually get around it is to 15:13.800 --> 15:19.240 just say the Bible is not true. And they'll come up with all kinds of different excuses for that, 15:19.240 --> 15:24.520 like, oh, it was corrupted or it was mistranslated or there's something wrong with the text here. 15:25.080 --> 15:29.080 But the reality is that they just don't want to believe what the Bible actually says. 15:29.080 --> 15:35.160 Because it says, hey, this God, right, God was manifest in flesh, he was preached unto the 15:35.160 --> 15:42.200 gentiles. And who was preached on the gentiles in the book of Acts? Jesus Christ, amen. It says, 15:43.080 --> 15:47.960 believed on in the world and received up into glory. And, you know, this is obviously just all 15:47.960 --> 15:53.720 over the New Testament. Who is it that we believe on, you know, in order to even receive eternal life? 15:54.520 --> 16:00.440 It's Jesus Christ. And so, I mean, all of these different characteristics, there's like 16:01.320 --> 16:07.400 five of them that this different verse, that this verse just gave. They're all attributes of Jesus 16:07.400 --> 16:14.840 Christ. I mean, Jesus, he's manifest in flesh, you know, he's justified in spirit, he's seen of angels, 16:15.480 --> 16:20.360 you know, and a lot of these are exclusive. You could say, well, there's lots of people are seen 16:20.360 --> 16:25.560 of angels, and you could say like, actually, everybody is seen of angels. But he's, you know, 16:25.560 --> 16:32.120 a lot of these are exclusive, right? Like, you know, he's justified in the spirit, you know, 16:32.120 --> 16:38.200 we get justified by Jesus Christ, right? But, you know, he didn't need anybody to justify him. 16:38.200 --> 16:45.480 He's just justified in the spirit by himself. We need him to justify us for us, because we can't do 16:45.480 --> 16:51.080 it by ourselves. You know, preaching on the Gentiles, that's exclusively him, that's exclusively 16:51.080 --> 16:56.360 Jesus Christ, believed on in the world, right? You could say, oh, well, people are believing on 16:56.360 --> 17:00.840 Muhammad, and people are believing on like, you know, these other false gods. But yeah, but when 17:00.840 --> 17:05.640 people believe in these different false religions, what does that do for them? It damns them to hell, 17:06.360 --> 17:13.240 right? And so, when we believe on Jesus, right, what do we get? We get eternal life. 17:13.960 --> 17:21.160 So we actually get something out of believing on Jesus, right? And so this isn't a vain belief. 17:21.160 --> 17:27.560 This isn't an evil belief, because, I mean, when people are believing in Allah, right, and rejecting 17:27.560 --> 17:35.160 Jesus, that is an evil belief. And so, you know, we see here in 1st Timothy 3, 16, you know, believed 17:35.160 --> 17:39.960 on in the world, this is a positive thing. They're actually receiving something, they're receiving 17:39.960 --> 17:45.960 eternal life when people believe on him, and received up into the glory. This one is also an 17:45.960 --> 17:53.080 exclusive attribute to Jesus Christ, because who else has just been received up into glory? 17:55.000 --> 18:00.120 I mean, is there anybody else that this could possibly be talking about? You know, maybe they're 18:00.200 --> 18:09.960 like, oh, well, you know, Enoch, or Elijah, you know, but, you know, Jesus, you know, he just 18:09.960 --> 18:15.000 ascended straight up into heaven, you know, with, you know, with those other two, God had to come 18:15.000 --> 18:21.720 down and basically grab them, right? But Jesus, he just ascends up by himself, right? And so, 18:21.720 --> 18:28.440 you know, he's received up into glory before the eyes of all the apostles. This is exclusively 18:29.080 --> 18:36.680 Jesus Christ. And so, you know, again, you know, this verse, it declares that this person who has 18:36.680 --> 18:44.120 all of these exclusive attributes is God. And so Jesus Christ has to be God if you believe the Bible. 18:45.560 --> 18:52.680 Revelation 1, 8 says, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending saith the Lord, 18:52.680 --> 19:03.240 which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. So, you know, and again, this 19:04.040 --> 19:09.960 Revelation 1, 8, you know, if you turn to it in your Bible, if you have a red letter edition, 19:09.960 --> 19:14.920 which I'm not sure if this one's a red letter edition or not. I don't think it is. But if you 19:14.920 --> 19:23.400 have a red letter edition of the Bible, you know, verse number 8 is red, right? The beginning part 19:23.400 --> 19:29.560 of that verse is red. Actually, this is a, turns out this is a red letter edition. And then again, 19:29.560 --> 19:37.800 in verse number 11, and I didn't have this in my notes, but it says, verse number 11, it says, 19:37.800 --> 19:43.880 I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven 19:43.880 --> 19:49.000 churches which are in Asia. And so, you know, again, Jesus Christ multiple times, he's saying, 19:49.000 --> 19:57.880 hey, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. But, you know, verse number 8 is really interesting 19:57.880 --> 20:01.880 because at the end, you know, he's not always saying he's the beginning and the end, being before 20:01.880 --> 20:09.720 him, there's nothing before him and there's nothing after him, which are both attributes of God. 20:09.720 --> 20:18.040 At the end, he says, I, you know, he saith the Lord, which is and which was and is to come, 20:18.040 --> 20:24.120 the Almighty, and he's saying he is all these things. He's saying that he's the Almighty. 20:25.480 --> 20:31.640 Now, you know, Muslims will say, well, Jesus never said that he's God. Well, it kind of sounds like 20:32.600 --> 20:41.720 he said it to me. You know, he literally says, listening to all of his attributes, the Almighty. 20:42.520 --> 20:47.880 Now, is there like another Almighty out there that he could be referring to himself as? You know, 20:47.880 --> 20:54.280 I think, I kind of get the idea from reading the Bible that there's one Almighty, right? And so, 20:55.560 --> 21:01.000 you know, the Muslims to say that he never declares himself to be God, they're completely 21:01.000 --> 21:05.960 out to lunch. In fact, he does it multiple times. He does it right here in Revelation 21:05.960 --> 21:10.360 chapter number one, and we'll get to another example later, but right here in Revelation 21:10.360 --> 21:17.400 chapter one, he says, the Almighty, describing himself. And, you know, when you think of the 21:17.400 --> 21:25.160 Almighty, like people oftentimes just in common use, if they don't want to use the word God, 21:25.160 --> 21:31.320 they want to use a different word, they'll literally say the Almighty in reference to God. 21:32.120 --> 21:39.880 And so, when you say the Almighty, does anybody, is there anybody confused on what I'm talking 21:39.880 --> 21:45.240 about? If I said, hey, you know, I prayed to the Almighty this morning, you know, that everything 21:45.240 --> 21:51.480 would go well at church. Would anybody be confused on what I was saying and who I was talking to and 21:51.480 --> 21:59.000 who I was praying to? No, right? He's like, okay, well, he's praying to God. And instead of saying, 21:59.000 --> 22:04.520 I prayed to God, I said praying, I prayed to the Almighty, you know, for whatever the different 22:04.520 --> 22:08.920 reason, maybe he just wanted to, you know, spice things up, right? You know, use a different word, 22:08.920 --> 22:15.240 right? Because, I mean, there's multiple ways to refer to God as. And that's one of them, is the 22:15.240 --> 22:20.840 Almighty. In fact, that's one of the titles that God gave himself in the Old Testament, right? The 22:20.840 --> 22:31.880 Almighty. And so, you know, Jesus, you know, he doesn't use the word G-O-D in this verse, 22:31.880 --> 22:41.000 but yet he calls himself God, because that's what the Almighty is. I mean, Almighty, right? He has 22:41.000 --> 22:46.280 all power. All power is given to him. And so, you know, again, you know, this is, this is a very 22:46.280 --> 22:53.720 clear verse. Go ahead and turn to Hebrews chapter number one. Hebrews chapter number one. This is the 22:55.320 --> 23:03.640 chapter that we read for the verse. Hebrews chapter number one. I don't know why I'm turning there. I 23:03.640 --> 23:10.280 have it right here in my notes, but it was fun to turn there. Anyway, Hebrews chapter number one, 23:10.280 --> 23:14.840 in verse number eight, it says, But unto the sun sayeth thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, 23:15.480 --> 23:23.960 a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. And so, this is God the Father 23:25.400 --> 23:32.040 literally calling Jesus God, right? Because it says, But unto the sun he saith, and this is 23:32.040 --> 23:41.400 God the Father speaking, says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness 23:41.400 --> 23:49.400 is the scepter of thy kingdom. So, I mean, I guess you would just have to be calling God the Father 23:49.400 --> 23:55.400 wrong, you know, to deny this verse, to deny the fact that Jesus is God. Because it, I mean, 23:55.400 --> 23:59.880 that's literally, I mean, there's not a whole lot to expound on there because it's so clear. 23:59.880 --> 24:06.200 It just says what it says. It's God the Father just calling Jesus Christ God. And so, you know, 24:06.600 --> 24:13.480 I'm just going to believe God the Father when he says that the Son is God. I'm just going to go 24:13.480 --> 24:27.560 with what he says. Go ahead and turn to John chapter number eight. John chapter number eight. 24:31.640 --> 24:34.440 And in John chapter number eight, we actually have a couple verses here 24:35.400 --> 24:44.680 where Jesus basically is declaring himself to be God. And if you look at John chapter eight, 24:44.680 --> 24:51.080 look at verse number 23, it says, And he said unto them, Year from beneath, I am from above, 24:51.800 --> 25:00.760 year of this world, I am, notice this, not of this world. And, you know, that just, 25:01.640 --> 25:06.200 when I was looking this up earlier, that just kind of jumped off the page to me. Well, he says, 25:06.200 --> 25:15.560 Hey, I am not of this world. Now, if he's not of this world, then where is he from then? 25:16.520 --> 25:21.000 I mean, the Mormons will probably tell you he's from like the planet Krypton or something. But, 25:21.960 --> 25:30.040 you know, the Bible here, it says he's not of this world. And so, if you look back, 25:30.040 --> 25:34.760 because I think the answer to the that some people might have this is they will say, well, 25:34.760 --> 25:42.040 he's an angel. And angels are not of this world. But the thing about that is, in Hebrews chapter 25:42.040 --> 25:48.920 one, verse number five, it says, Under which of the angels saith he at any time, Thou art my son, 25:48.920 --> 25:56.760 this day have I begotten me, and again, will be to me to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. 25:57.320 --> 26:04.360 So this is a rhetorical question where, you know, he's asking, Hey, when have I ever said 26:05.320 --> 26:09.240 that the angels are my children? When have I ever said this day have I begotten me? 26:10.520 --> 26:20.440 Never. Right? So the Bible is super clear that Jesus is not an angel. Okay? Jesus is not a created 26:20.520 --> 26:27.800 being. And so, and I would say that angels would qualify as of this world because they're part of 26:27.800 --> 26:33.080 the created universe. And that's what this what I believe that when he says, Hey, I'm not of this 26:33.080 --> 26:39.400 world, that's what he's referring to is the created universe. Hey, he's not of the created 26:39.400 --> 26:45.400 universe. Why? Because he's the one that created it. You know, he is outside of it. He's outside of 26:45.400 --> 26:52.040 time. He's outside of space. He's the one that made it. And so, you know, Jesus, he says, Hey, 26:52.040 --> 26:56.680 I'm not of this world. And he's not an angel because the Bible says point blank that he's 26:56.680 --> 27:02.200 not an angel. Because why? Because he's the son of God. And, you know, he's never the angels 27:02.200 --> 27:07.080 have never been called the son of God because they're not. And so he's he's, you know, can't 27:07.080 --> 27:12.520 say, well, it's because he's an angel. No, it's because he is God. That's the only one that's 27:12.520 --> 27:17.400 actually outside of this world because everybody else, you know, we are all of this world, right? 27:17.400 --> 27:24.680 We were born in the world and we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna die in the world, right? We're 27:24.680 --> 27:31.560 all we're all born and we die in the world, you know, and so but Jesus, he's not of this world 27:31.560 --> 27:37.480 because he was there before it. Verse number 24 says, I said, therefore unto you that you shall 27:37.480 --> 27:45.960 die in your sins for if you believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. So, you know, 27:45.960 --> 27:50.280 what what is it that Jesus is talking about here when he says, hey, you know, if you believe not 27:50.280 --> 27:56.680 that I am he will die in your sins, you know, and to avoid dying in your sins, I would say that's 27:56.680 --> 28:02.440 a pretty important thing to do. Like that's an important goal to accomplish is to not die in 28:02.440 --> 28:07.080 your sins, right? So it's pretty important to know exactly what it is that he's talking about 28:07.080 --> 28:13.640 when he says if he believe not that I am he, believe not that that that you're who, like what 28:13.640 --> 28:19.240 what are we what are we talking about here? Well, I think he gives us a pretty big clue at the end of 28:19.240 --> 28:30.920 the chapter in John, John chapter number 58, excuse me, John 8 verse number 58. He says, Jesus sayeth 28:30.920 --> 28:41.240 unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. Right? And so Jesus here, he's 28:41.240 --> 28:50.120 saying, hey, before Abraham was, I am. And this is the the exact same way that God refers to himself 28:51.240 --> 28:57.080 when Moses goes to the burning bush, right? Moses, he sees the burning bush afar off 28:58.040 --> 29:03.080 before he goes in the promised land or before he goes to get the children of Israel out of Egypt 29:03.080 --> 29:08.680 and take him to the promised land. He sees this burning bush afar off and he goes to investigate 29:08.680 --> 29:13.000 it and he goes to, you know, to find out what's going on with this this bush that doesn't burn up 29:13.960 --> 29:20.600 and basically it's God there meeting with him. You know, God speaks to him there. He says, hey, 29:20.600 --> 29:26.840 take off your shoes. This is a holy ground and he's speaking with Moses and Moses asks him 29:26.840 --> 29:34.520 like, who do I, who do I tell him what your name is? And God simply answers, he says, tell him I am 29:34.520 --> 29:43.000 that I am. And then here in the New Testament, in John chapter number 8, Jesus says, before Abraham was, 29:44.040 --> 29:51.320 I am. So what else could he possibly be referring to? He's basically referring back to that name 29:51.320 --> 30:01.240 that God gave Moses and says, hey, that's me. Before Abraham was, I am. That's my title. And so this is, 30:01.240 --> 30:08.200 this is basically, this is as direct as it gets to Jesus Christ declaring himself to be God. I mean, 30:08.200 --> 30:15.160 okay, sure, he doesn't use the words I am God, but guess what? He doesn't have to use those words. 30:15.240 --> 30:22.280 He can use whatever words he wants. He says, hey, I am the Almighty. And he says, before Abraham was, 30:22.280 --> 30:29.800 I am. So in multiple ways, he's calling himself God. So again, Jesus Christ, he's declaring himself 30:29.800 --> 30:36.040 God. And so, you know, we should just take Jesus at his word and believe him. And by the way, 30:36.040 --> 30:40.600 he says in that same chapter, if you don't believe that I am, you're going to die in your sins. 30:41.320 --> 30:45.240 Why? Because if you don't, if somebody doesn't believe that Jesus Christ is God, 30:47.400 --> 30:55.080 they have rejected him. And they don't believe who he said he was. And they have somebody else, 30:55.080 --> 31:00.280 they have somebody that's not God, you know, paying for their sins. But in reality, though, 31:00.840 --> 31:03.960 you know, they don't even believe that Jesus is paying for their sins because they have to, 31:04.760 --> 31:08.360 they have to do, they have to pay for their own sins because they believe in works-based salvation. 31:09.000 --> 31:13.880 I mean, you pretty much find me, find me somebody that denies the deity of Christ, 31:13.880 --> 31:18.760 and I'll find you somebody that believes in works-based salvation. Because they pretty much, 31:19.640 --> 31:28.120 they all believe in works-based salvation. You know, you might find like one person that claims 31:28.120 --> 31:34.600 to believe in salvation by grace of faith, but then rejects the divinity price of Christ. You know, 31:34.600 --> 31:43.080 but at the end of the day, if they don't believe in the Jesus of the Bible, then they simply don't 31:43.080 --> 31:51.960 believe in Jesus, right? And so they are absolutely not saved. Go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter, 31:53.320 --> 32:00.120 chapter number 28, chapter number 28. So if you remember, the title of my sermon was 32:00.680 --> 32:08.840 Jesus is God, but not the Father. And we're just going to go over the fact real quick here that 32:08.840 --> 32:13.720 Jesus is not God the Father. So, you know, this is kind of a real simplified 32:15.000 --> 32:21.800 Trinitarian viewpoint where, you know, we believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, right? 32:21.800 --> 32:26.760 And we believe that these are three different persons. They're not, you know, they're not the 32:26.760 --> 32:33.000 same person doing different parts or different acts, right? They're the three different people, 32:33.000 --> 32:38.200 right? The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. But obviously there's people out there that are 32:38.200 --> 32:44.520 preaching and teaching that Jesus is the Father. And this is a major heresy. This is a major false 32:44.520 --> 32:52.280 doctrine. But it says here, and we're just going to prove that that's not true really quick. This 32:52.280 --> 32:58.760 isn't going to be a super long sermon. It's going to be a real quick sermon here, so we're 32:58.760 --> 33:05.560 going to go over this point. But it says in Matthew 829, it says, And behold, they cried out, saying, 33:06.360 --> 33:12.040 What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the 33:12.040 --> 33:19.000 time? So notice here, you know, these are basically, these are, these are devils that have possessed 33:19.000 --> 33:28.920 somebody. And Jesus, he's come to basically cast them out. And they're saying, Hey, Jesus, thou, 33:28.920 --> 33:37.480 they call him, thou Son of God. Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? So they know 33:37.480 --> 33:42.680 who he is, and they're calling him the Son of God, right? They're calling him the Son of God. They're 33:42.680 --> 33:47.800 declaring that he's the Son of God. But somebody might say, Well, yeah, but these are, you know, 33:47.800 --> 33:53.320 these are devils that are saying this. So, you know, why, why would we believe the words that 33:53.320 --> 34:00.680 a devil says? Okay, okay. We'll go ahead and turn to Mark chapter number one, Mark chapter number one. 34:07.560 --> 34:14.920 Mark chapter one says, In the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 34:15.560 --> 34:22.200 And so here we have the narrator of the Bible calling Jesus the Son of God. And this is 34:22.200 --> 34:28.600 significant because, you know, if Jesus Christ is the Son of God, then that by definition means that 34:28.600 --> 34:35.240 he's not God the Father. Amen. I mean, this is, you know, pretty basic logic, not that hard to figure 34:35.240 --> 34:42.920 out. And, you know, honestly, I don't even know what the one is Pentecostals. I don't even know 34:42.920 --> 34:49.480 what their answer to this is, because it's like, what is it that God is communicating here? 34:50.520 --> 34:56.840 I mean, if God really was just there was no Trinity, it's just God the Father, basically, 34:56.840 --> 35:01.720 and that's it. And then he like becomes the Son and then becomes the Holy Spirit, and becomes these 35:01.720 --> 35:07.720 different things. Like if that were true, if that was the reality that we lived in, like, 35:08.040 --> 35:14.120 why is he such a bad communicator? Like, isn't there a way that he could possibly, you know, 35:14.120 --> 35:19.080 come up with to like communicate that? I mean, and wouldn't this be not true? And would this be a 35:19.080 --> 35:26.040 horrible way to write the Bible that would make it seem like there's a son and there's a father? 35:26.840 --> 35:33.240 I mean, basically, we would have like a trickster for God if that was true, because like this is 35:33.400 --> 35:40.200 like this is very clearly communicating that you have God the Son and God the Father, 35:40.200 --> 35:47.160 because in our reality that we live in, if there's a son, that means there's a father, 35:47.800 --> 35:52.760 and they're not the same person. You know, I don't know, I don't care how many times you listen to a 35:52.760 --> 36:00.680 song, my own grandpa, you don't become your own dad. That's just, that's ridiculous, right? And so, 36:00.760 --> 36:06.760 you know, just the fact that he's the son, and the Bible here is calling him the Son of God, 36:07.960 --> 36:14.040 means he's the son of somebody that's not him, okay? Go ahead and turn to 36:15.640 --> 36:21.160 John, John chapter number six, John chapter number six. So we see that the Bible here, 36:21.960 --> 36:27.400 you know, the first proof that we have that Jesus Christ is not the Father is that he's called 36:27.400 --> 36:35.640 the Son, which means he's not the Father. John chapter number six, verse number 38, 36:37.960 --> 36:38.440 it says, 36:57.400 --> 37:02.040 see if the Son and believe on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day. 37:03.000 --> 37:10.360 And so, you know, this is a really interesting verse because this, you know, it's contrasting 37:10.360 --> 37:16.040 the Son's will versus the Father's will, which obviously means that there's two different wills 37:16.920 --> 37:22.840 that are, that are, that are brought up here. And, you know, I don't know about you, but I don't 37:22.840 --> 37:27.800 necessarily just have two different wills, you know, I just have what I want to do, right? 37:28.920 --> 37:35.560 And it's like, you know, it's like they want to make God out to be like a schizophrenic person, 37:36.280 --> 37:41.640 where he has like, you know, the personality, you know, detached personality disorder or something, 37:41.640 --> 37:49.320 right? And it's like, you know, God is not that way, okay? God is, you know, he doesn't have 37:49.320 --> 37:55.960 detached personality disorder. He just, he has one will, right? God the Father has one will, 37:55.960 --> 38:02.040 but Jesus Christ, because he's another person, he has a different will, which is why Jesus, 38:02.040 --> 38:06.120 he's, he's the one contrasting his will with the Father's will here, right? Because he says, 38:06.120 --> 38:11.560 hey, look, I came down from heaven not to do mine own will. Meaning he's like, hey, I'm not here to 38:11.560 --> 38:17.400 do what I want to do. I'm here to do what my Father wants me to do. You know, it'd be like, 38:17.800 --> 38:25.000 if when I'm on the job, you know, I'm not there to do my will. I'm there to do the boss's will, 38:25.960 --> 38:30.920 right? I mean, like, you know, because, you know, when I'm on the job, I'm not necessarily just 38:30.920 --> 38:36.280 doing whatever I want when I'm there. Because, you know, what do I want to do? Well, you know, 38:37.400 --> 38:41.720 I want to stay home. I want to just stay home with the kids all day. I want to, you know, 38:41.720 --> 38:46.680 do whatever I want. I want to, you know, there's lots of things that I want to do, right? But when 38:46.680 --> 38:52.920 I'm on the job, guess what? I don't get to do those things. I have to get up early in the morning 38:53.720 --> 39:00.440 and go to work and be there on time and work all day fixing stuff. And then I get to go home at the 39:00.440 --> 39:05.880 end of the day. But when I'm there, I'm not doing what I want to do. I'm doing what somebody else 39:05.880 --> 39:11.080 wants me to do because it's their will, not my will. And so this is what Jesus Christ is saying. 39:11.080 --> 39:16.520 He's saying, look, I'm not here to just do what I want to do. And in fact, right before Jesus Christ, 39:17.320 --> 39:20.520 you know, went to the cross when he's in the Garden of Gethsemane, 39:21.960 --> 39:25.960 you know, he's praying to God the Father saying, hey, if there's any other way, 39:27.240 --> 39:34.600 you know, if there's any other way, let's do it that way. But at the end, he's like, hey, not my will, 39:34.600 --> 39:40.440 but thy will be done. I'm going to do what God wants me to do. Even though the Bible makes it 39:40.440 --> 39:45.160 clear that he didn't want to do it. And you know what? I don't think you would want to do it either. 39:47.000 --> 39:52.440 I mean, you can't really blame Jesus Christ for not wanting to go to the cross. I mean, 39:53.160 --> 39:58.280 when you read through the Bible and you read about what the cross was like, you know, all the things 39:58.280 --> 40:02.920 that happened to him leading up to the cross, you know, where they're just punching him and getting 40:02.920 --> 40:07.800 him to guess which one punched him. And then they're putting a crown of thorns on him. And then 40:08.680 --> 40:15.000 they're beating him with cords to the point that like it's basically turning the robe red or whatever. 40:15.800 --> 40:22.200 He's just bleeding like crazy and to the point where he can't even carry his cross anymore. 40:22.200 --> 40:28.280 They have to get somebody else to carry the cross the rest of the way to Calvary. And you know, 40:29.320 --> 40:37.240 they're like ripping out his beard and he just looks horrible. And he dies way before 40:37.880 --> 40:42.120 they expected him to. Because when they went to, you know, after they broke the bones of the 40:43.960 --> 40:49.640 two thieves, they came to Jesus and he was already dead because they were about to break his bones. 40:49.640 --> 40:52.760 But of course, you know, they didn't that the scripture would be fulfilled, that not of a 40:52.760 --> 41:00.120 bone of his body was broken. But they were surprised. They're like, he lasted only six hours? 41:00.920 --> 41:06.520 Like normally people, you know, they're up there, you know, for a lot longer than that. They're up 41:06.520 --> 41:11.320 there for days, you know, just we're just waiting for them to die. You know, this horrible death. 41:11.320 --> 41:18.360 But they traded him so badly before they put him up on the cross that he died with only in six hours. 41:19.080 --> 41:25.480 Right. And then of course, you know, we realized that Jesus was in hell for three days and three 41:25.480 --> 41:33.160 nights, paying for our sins, which in my mind is worse than any of the treatment that man could 41:33.160 --> 41:40.040 give unto him was actually suffering our punishment in hell is worse than any of that. 41:40.040 --> 41:43.640 It's really, it would be hard to blame him for not wanting to have to go through that 41:44.680 --> 41:52.200 to suffer that much suffering. But yet he said, hey, not my will, but thy will be done. 41:52.200 --> 41:56.760 So the Bible is clear that was not his will. That's not what Jesus wanted to do. 41:57.560 --> 42:04.920 But yet he did it anyway. And so, you know, this is a great proof of the fact that Jesus 42:04.920 --> 42:10.200 is the son of God because he did his father's will. He didn't just do what he wanted to do. 42:11.080 --> 42:14.280 He did what his father in heaven wanted him to do. 42:16.440 --> 42:21.320 And so, you know, we see that there's the fact that there's two different wills. 42:21.320 --> 42:29.880 Go ahead and turn to Acts chapter, chapter number seven, Acts chapter number seven. 42:39.880 --> 42:46.440 Acts chapter number seven. So we see the fact that Jesus is the son of God. We see the fact 42:46.920 --> 42:53.080 that there's two different wills. And here in Acts chapter number seven, there's going to be a 42:53.080 --> 42:57.720 further proof that you would, you know, you'd have to be insane to not see the fact that the 42:57.720 --> 43:03.240 father and Jesus are two different people. Says here in Acts seven, 55, it says, but he being 43:03.240 --> 43:09.960 full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus 43:09.960 --> 43:19.160 standing on the right hand of God and said, behold, I see the heavens open and the son of man 43:19.160 --> 43:25.480 standing on the right hand of God. So notice this. It says it basically multiple times here. 43:25.480 --> 43:31.640 It says, and I saw the glory of God. And when it says the glory of God, that's referring to God the 43:31.640 --> 43:39.960 father. Amen. And this says, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. So basically you have 43:41.080 --> 43:47.400 God, the father, right? Presumably sitting on his throne. And then you have Jesus, 43:49.320 --> 43:56.360 this is my right hand, right? Standing next to him on the right hand of God. And so 43:56.360 --> 44:01.480 they're not the same person. I mean, we're not talking about, you know, this can't be like 44:01.480 --> 44:05.960 Schrodinger's cat or something, where he's both, you know, God and the son at the same time. 44:06.600 --> 44:11.640 Because, you know, the whole Schrodinger's cat thing is that the box is closed, right? 44:11.640 --> 44:16.520 And the whole thing with, you know, the particle is that it's unobserved. But when it's observed, 44:16.520 --> 44:26.520 but when it's observed, which, right, it's Stephen here observing God and Jesus, right? The box is 44:26.520 --> 44:33.400 open. And there's two, right? Why? Because he's observing God the father and Jesus Christ at the 44:33.400 --> 44:42.440 same time. They're standing. I mean, again, unless for some reason, God is just trying to deceive the 44:42.440 --> 44:48.600 whole world with these verses, which the Bible, which he's not, because, you know, we know what 44:48.600 --> 44:51.720 the Bible says, and hoping for eternal life with God that cannot lie, a promise before the world 44:51.720 --> 44:57.320 began. So, you know, God's not lying to us. We just have to believe what the Bible says here, 44:57.960 --> 45:02.840 where Jesus is not the father. Why? Because the Bible records him standing next to God the father. 45:03.800 --> 45:08.520 And so, you know, and again, it says it multiple times in this verse, it says, you know, Jesus 45:08.680 --> 45:14.680 standing on the right hand of God, verse number 56, and said, behold, I see heaven open, and the Son 45:14.680 --> 45:20.760 of Man standing on the right hand of God. And of course, you know, the Son of Man, Jesus referred 45:20.760 --> 45:27.400 to himself as the Son of Man dozens of times in the Gospels. And so, of course, that is referring 45:27.400 --> 45:33.480 to Jesus Christ, just like I said in the previous verse, Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 45:34.360 --> 45:41.240 And so, you know, basically, the only way to get around that is to say that Jesus, 45:41.960 --> 45:47.960 to say that God is a deceiver. And, you know, or it's just mistranslated, and nobody has the 45:47.960 --> 45:53.240 real Bible, and we can't, and at that point, it's like, we have nothing to actually put our faith in. 45:53.240 --> 45:59.800 There's nothing to anchor our souls if this is not true. If it's been mistranslated, then who the 45:59.800 --> 46:05.160 heck has the real translation? Where has it been? And how do we, how are we going to know at that 46:05.160 --> 46:11.240 point, how would we know that it's true? How would we know what God's word is? And so, you know, this 46:11.240 --> 46:15.400 is again, this is why we're, this is why we're King James only, amen, because we believe we actually 46:15.400 --> 46:20.680 have the words of God, and we can actually trust him, right? But we're going to go ahead and turn 46:20.680 --> 46:26.840 back to John chapter one. We're going to take it full circle back to John chapter one, where we 46:26.840 --> 46:36.600 began the sermon. It says in John chapter one, and this is, you know, basically Jesus speaking 46:36.600 --> 46:41.000 about himself, it says, or this is the Bible speaking about Jesus, I should say, it says, 46:41.000 --> 46:49.000 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God 46:49.000 --> 46:57.560 at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. So, 46:58.760 --> 47:04.200 you know, according to this verse, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, 47:05.080 --> 47:12.120 right, hath declared him. And again, who's the only begotten Son that we're talking about 47:13.000 --> 47:21.960 in this chapter? It's Jesus, amen. And so, you know, this is, you know, if we can't see how this 47:21.960 --> 47:28.840 proves that Jesus is not God, you know, I don't know, there's not much I could do, you know, at 47:28.840 --> 47:35.240 this point, it's not an evidence problem, it's a faith problem, right, because it's Jesus, he's in 47:35.240 --> 47:41.640 the bosom of the Father, meaning, you know, it's kind of like when you hug your wife, and she puts 47:41.640 --> 47:51.480 her head right here, she's in your bosom. And is she you now? No. It makes no sense, right? So, 47:51.480 --> 48:00.120 again, you know, Jesus, the bottom line of the sermon is Jesus is God, but he's not the Father, 48:00.120 --> 48:07.080 because, you know, we believe in these two, you know, we believe there's Jesus Christ and God the 48:07.080 --> 48:11.880 Father, right? And, you know, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, amen. I 48:11.880 --> 48:18.920 mean, we got the trinity even in that verse. And so, you know, if, you know, I know this wasn't any 48:18.920 --> 48:25.080 kind of a groundbreaking sermon, you know, hopefully this wasn't just like completely out of the blue 48:25.080 --> 48:30.200 and nude everybody here. But, you know, every once in a while it's good to just, you know, reinforce 48:30.280 --> 48:37.640 the foundations, go over these things, and show up on these things. And, you know, if you're out 48:37.640 --> 48:42.360 soul-winning and somebody, you know, says, hey, you know, prove to me that Jesus is God, hopefully 48:42.360 --> 48:46.840 you, you know, have some verses and some tools to be able to prove those things with. But let's go 48:46.840 --> 48:50.040 ahead and bow our heads in our prayer. All right, dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, 48:50.040 --> 48:53.640 Lord. I thank you for everything you've done for us. We thank you for your word. We thank you that 48:53.640 --> 49:00.120 we can read it and believe it. And, Lord, we thank you that you sent your Son, that the heat 49:00.120 --> 49:04.840 died for all of our sins, that he rose again, and that he was actually able to pay for all of 49:04.840 --> 49:09.720 our sins because he was God manifesting the flesh, Lord. And, dear Jesus, name, amen. 49:12.840 --> 49:18.360 All right, if you want to go ahead and take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 155. 49:23.000 --> 49:27.640 Page number 155, doxology. 49:30.120 --> 49:33.640 Page number 150.