["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Welcome to Faith Ward Baptist Church.
Please find our seats and open up our hymnals to song number 22.
["Pomp and Circumstance"]
We are singing this year's my singing song, number 22.
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["Pomp and Circumstance"]
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["Pomp and Circumstance"]
O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming?
O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
Are you watching the blood of your Lamb?
Rise, O mountain, for the good of the soul.
We will be watching the blood of your Lamb.
Are you watching the blood in the soul
because we love your Lamb?
Are your priorities solid so that you can expand?
Are you watching the blood of your Lamb?
Amen.
All right.
Please turn your handles to Psalm 228.
We'll sing the Psalm 228.
I'd love to tell you a story of what God did for us.
We'll sing it.
I'd love to tell the story of his opportunity.
Sing it out of touch.
I'd love to tell the story of our defections from above.
Oh Jesus and His glory, Oh Jesus and His love.
I'd love to tell a story, because I know it's true.
It says that I love dreams, that love can get us to do.
I'd love to tell a story, totally by need and glory,
to tell the old-time story of Jesus and his love.
I'd love to tell a story of what we've always seen,
and all of the differences of all of the good dreams.
I'd love to tell a story, it did so much for me.
And that is just the truth, I'd tell it now to you.
I'd love to tell a story, totally by need and glory,
to tell the old-time story of Jesus and his love.
I'd love to tell a story, and his presence to be free.
I'd sing just like I tell it, your father would be sweet.
I'd love to tell a story, for some have never heard.
The message of salvation, your father holy,
I'd love to tell a story, totally by need and glory,
to tell the old-time story of Jesus and his love.
I'd love to tell a story, of what we've always seen,
come again and firstly, to hear and find the rest.
And when it seems of glory, I sing the new is gone.
We'll be in the old-time story, that I have loved so long.
I'd love to tell a story, totally by need and glory,
to tell the old-time story of Jesus and his love.
We'll be back this Thursday at 7 p.m. for our study in the book of Genesis.
As we make our way through there, we'll be in chapter 35 this week.
The church-wide soul-winning times, the regional soul-winning times,
as well as the salvations and baptisms for both the month and year,
and some notes about the church there as well,
that everyone here is, I'm sure, familiar with.
I did want to mention that we're handing out these with our bulletins now.
These are just visitor cards and also it's an opportunity,
if you're not a first-time visitor, a regular member here,
or even if you were a visitor, this isn't off limits to you,
you can submit a prayer request.
Now on these prayer requests, on the bottom there,
there's a box marked confidential.
So if this isn't something you want shared publicly or with others,
just make sure you check that.
And if it's ever something of a more personal nature and that's not checked,
I'm going to follow up on that before I just announce your news to the world.
But the reason I'm bringing that up is because I was actually just thinking this morning
that I'd like to start including a prayer request list in our weekly bulletin.
Add the next page and then we can make sure we have that in there week by week
so we can be praying one for another.
After all, the house of God is supposed to be a place of prayer,
so it's a great place to come and just kind of let people know what's going on.
Again, if you ever have a prayer request that you would like to have
included in the bulletin so we can all pray for it,
you can go ahead and just fill one of these out and just leave that unchecked.
So there's that.
But I want to go ahead and just count up the soul winning very quickly
before we get into the rest of the service.
Let's go ahead and go back to Thursday, going back to Thursday,
anything from Thursday and where's it Friday?
So let's go back to Friday.
I knew that fell off.
I go back to Thursday on Thursday, right?
Okay, let's go back to Friday, right?
Anything from Friday?
No?
Okay.
What about Saturday?
I know the group didn't have anything, but anything outside the group?
What's that?
Three on Saturday?
Why weren't you with the group?
No, I'm just kidding.
That's unpermitted.
We're not going to count those.
Got to be with the group.
I'm just kidding.
Sunday.
I got to be careful about joking, right?
Because if I joke, I realize like you guys don't know when I'm joking sometimes.
Maybe it's because I'm not joking.
I'm just kidding.
I'm sorry.
Sunday?
No Fruitville?
All right.
Nine?
Really?
Well, praise the Lord.
That sounds like a Fruitville.
The right kind of Fruitville, right?
I guess it's got to be a Fruitville if people get shot there, too, though, right?
Yeah, okay.
It was explained to me what was meant by that, you know?
Me being a Midwesterner, you know, I really don't pay attention to West Coast
incidents of police brutality.
But it was brought up to speed in what he meant by that last week.
So I picked it up.
Yep.
All right.
But great.
Well, praise the Lord.
Good job.
Slow it in, everybody.
Keep up the great work.
Let's go ahead and sing one more song before we get into preaching tonight.
All right.
If you could please open your intervals to song number 69.
To shine as the stars in the sky.
We shall shine as the stars of the glory.
May Jesus love us with my heart.
We shall rise to be like Him forever.
We turn and we shine as the sun.
We may never leave the changer's treasures.
We'll rise from the ladder of fear.
God, this day is the last that we hold in.
We will cheer and we will sing.
We shall shine as the stars of the glory.
May Jesus love us with our joy.
We shall rise to be like Him forever.
We turn and we shine as the sun.
We'll rise from the ladder of fear.
We may never leave the changer's treasures.
May God, His children cheer for you.
Let the Father sing in this season.
Remember, teach one who is one.
May we shine as the stars of the glory.
May Jesus love us with our joy.
We shall rise to be like Him forever.
We turn and we shine as the sun.
The Lord said unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
till I make thy enemies thy quicksand.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of thine,
wilt thou in the midst of thy enemies.
Thy people shall be with me in the day of thy power,
in the beauty of holiness,
from the womb to the morn.
Thou is the beauty of thy soup.
The Lord has sworn,
and thou art the priest,
forever after the order of thou physically.
The Lord at thy right hand shall strive
to keep in the day of his wrath.
He shall judge among the human,
who shall fill the places with the dead body.
He shall wound the head over many countries.
He shall drink of the brook and the whale.
Therefore, he shall be lift up the head.
For that became greatness.
Heavenly Father, thank you for your goodness and mercy, Lord.
Amen.
So, Psalm 110, I just want to focus on the first verse there,
where the Bible says,
The Lord said unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
And of course this is,
it might say in your Bible,
underneath the chapter title as a heading,
A Psalm of David, right?
So, this is David that's writing this,
and David says here in verse 1,
That the Lord said unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
And of course we know this is a reference
to the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
Because he goes on and says in verse 4,
The Lord hath sworn,
and will not repent,
that thou art a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.
That's something that's clarified more
in the book of Hebrews,
that he is a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek.
That's a picture of Christ.
Some people have even
believed and suggested that
Melchizedek in the Old Testament,
when he appears unto,
presents himself to Abraham,
that that is Jesus Christ himself,
which is very likely a possibility.
That's certainly not anything I would disagree with.
But the point is,
that gives us the context
as to who this is referring to,
who it is that's being told to
sit thou at the right hand of the Lord
until he makes his enemies thy footstool.
It's the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, as long as you got that down,
let's go ahead and go back to
Mark chapter 12.
Because this is something that Jesus brings up
in quotes in Mark 12
to the Pharisees. Now again, if you remember
as we're going through Mark 12,
we're just going to look at three verses tonight
that
they have been kind of grilling Jesus.
They've been coming to him, asking him questions
and it's kind of interesting
that Jesus, it says in Mark 12, he goes in
in verse 35, while he
taught in the temple,
he asked the scribes and said,
How say the scribes, or rather
the Pharisees, that Christ is the son of David?
He's kind of grilling the Pharisees now.
So I kind of like this because
they've been coming to him and he's been answering all
their questions and
they haven't been able to catch him in his words,
they haven't been able to trip him up,
and now he's like, okay, now it's my turn.
And now he's going to ask them some questions.
And
they go on and he says here,
For David by himself said by the Holy Ghost,
The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit thou on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies my footstool.
David therefore himself
calleth him Lord,
and whence is he then a son?
And the common people heard him
gladly. So
he's basically
asking them, you know, how is it
that David is calling
him Lord if the scribes
say that he is the son of David?
It kind of seems like a contradiction.
Maybe he's trying to propose some kind of
contradiction, but that's not it. You kind of have to
understand the audience,
who it is that he's talking to,
and perhaps why he's proposing this
question to them.
So he's not saying
David was wrong to say that because he says
he's spake by the Holy Ghost.
When David said, The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
he said he's spake that by the Holy Ghost.
But he's asking them a question.
So how is it that David could call him
Lord if
he's his son?
Because in your mind, you might not drive.
It'd be like, you know,
it just seems kind of out of
place. Like if my son were to say, Hey, Dad,
and I kind of dropped to him and he said, Yes, Lord.
It would be out of place.
Because calling him Lord
is kind of acknowledging
his authority, the fact that he's
comes before him, that he's
the principal, that he
has the greater
authority, that he came before him.
So Jesus is kind of
playing their own game back at them.
They're coming to him and saying, Hey,
is it lawful to give unto
Caesar or not? What are you saying?
If a woman
had seven husbands and they all
died, which one
is going to have her in the resurrection?
They're all trying to trip him
up. And now Jesus is putting a
question to them that
they don't want to answer.
I think that's what's going on here. I don't think it's a matter
of him stumping them.
I think he's proposing this question. I think
that they understand it. Because if you
notice at the end there, it says, and the common people
heard him gladly. The common
people heard what he was saying, and they're like, Oh, we like the
sound of that.
But the Pharisees, they don't want
to answer this because if they gave
the answer that's the right answer,
how is it that he calls him Lord being his
son? They would have to admit
that he is the son of God, that he
is God in the flesh.
Now, if
you would, go over to Matthew 22,
Matthew chapter number 22.
This is something that's repeated
in Matthew 22. There's another parallel
passage in Luke 20
where he quotes it again, and he says,
How say they that Christ
is David's son?
And David himself saying in the book of Psalms,
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
David therefore calleth him Lord.
How is he then his son?
How can he be both his son of
David? Because he is the son of David.
That's not a title that Jesus
refuted.
If you were to say that Jesus is the
son of David, you would be right about that.
It's referring to his humanity.
He has the genealogy to back
that up, that he comes
in that lineage, that he is the son of
David.
People even, if you recall, throughout the
New Testament, at least in the Gospels,
call him the son of David.
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me,
is what the blind man said, and others.
So
he's not saying he was wrong to call him the
son of David. What he's saying is, how
is it that he can say that? How can he be called the
son of David, and yet David himself
calls him Lord?
What's going on here?
The fact is, is that the
Pharisees, I believe, know the
answer, they just don't want to admit it.
It's kind of like when he grilled them
about the baptism of John.
He said,
they were asking him questions, he said,
I'll tell you by what authority I do these things if you
answer one question. The baptism
of John, was it of heaven or of men?
And they got together real quick, and
they're like, well, if we say of heaven, then
he's a prophet. But if we say
it be of men, they feared the people.
Because all the people took him for a prophet.
And they said, we cannot
tell. And Jesus said, neither do I answer
your question. I'm
not going to tell you then.
So Jesus was, it's not a matter
of them not knowing the answer.
It's simply a matter of
them not wanting to admit.
Because the answer is, the reason
why David called
him Lord is because the son of
David is the son of God.
He is the Lord.
And it ties in with the eternal
sonship of Christ. It ties in with
the Trinity, which we believe here.
And the
fact that Jesus Christ has always
been the son of God and
himself is God. And we believe
in the triune God here.
The Trinity.
But look at verse 41
of Matthew 22. It says, while
the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them, saying, what think ye of
Christ? Who is he?
They say unto him, the son of David.
Now when he's asking them, what think ye of Christ,
he's basically asking, what do you think of the Messiah?
What do you think of the Messiah? What do you think
of the Savior? Where does the
Messiah, the Savior come from? Who is he?
They said, the son of David.
He saith unto them, how then doth
David and the Spirit call him Lord,
saying, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand
till I make that enemy's footstool.
If David then called him Lord, how is
he his son? Now look, I know this is a
basic kind of sermon.
This isn't, you know, this is kind of lower shelf
doctrine here. But this is important.
This is an important doctrine
that we need to understand.
So maybe if you need to perk up a little bit and pay
attention and get these verses,
because there's people out there that
deny the sonship of Christ,
the deity of Christ,
deny the eternal sonship of Christ,
and you know what, we need to understand these
things. We need to know
these basic orthodox
truths out of the word of God.
Okay?
So he's saying, look, if he
is the son of David,
if he is the Christ, how is he David's
son? And no man was able
to answer him a word, neither
does any man
from that day
forth ask him any more questions.
I mean, he basically puts one to him
and they're like, let's just stop bothering him.
Like, we can't go
toe to toe with Jesus. We keep losing
and now he's just, you know,
he's putting us on the spot.
We are not able to answer him a word because they're
I believe afraid of
having to admit in front of everybody
that he's the
son of David and the
Lord because he's the son of God.
These are all the same.
And if you would, go over to John chapter number 10
and I'll give you some
background as to why I
believe that's what's taking place here.
It's not just them going, oh,
we can't tell. I don't know. That's a really
hard question. I believe they
know how
David was able to call him Lord
when he is yet his son,
the son of David. How those two things
could be true. How those things could be said
in the Spirit by the Holy Ghost.
Right? I believe they
understood that because if you remember in John
10, well, let's just read
look at verse 23. And Jesus walked in the
temple on Solomon's porch. Then came
the Jews round about him and said to them, how long
dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be
the Christ, tell us plainly.
They want him to just say, I am
the Christ. And here's the thing.
I personally believe that the people
at this time understood
the Trinity. They understood
that there was the son of God. And
they understood that the Christ
would be the son of God.
I believe that. And I'll get into that a little bit
here in a minute.
So I believe that's basically what they're asking
him. If thou be the Christ,
tell us. And notice how
Jesus kind of answers their
question. Because he starts
referring to the Father.
He instantly goes into talking
about my Father.
If thou be the
Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them
I told you, and you believe me not, the works
that I do in my Father's name, they
bear witness of me.
So what's he kind of getting at here? What's he
insinuating? He's my Father
making me the son.
Right?
So he's not telling them plainly
like they want to. But he's telling
him, I am the Christ. Why? Because
I am the son of God.
Which is why when he's grilling
them in Matthew 22, how
can he call him
Lord if he's the son of David?
They don't want to admit, well
it's because he's the son of God. Because that would be calling
him the Christ. That would be calling him the Messiah.
They did not believe that about Christ.
They rejected him.
He said the works
they bear witness of me. But ye believe not
because ye are not of my sheep. As I said unto
you, my sheep hear my voice and they
and I know them and they follow me.
And I give them the eternal life and they shall never
perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave
them me, is greater than all
and no man is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand. So
three times already he's referred
to his Father.
Thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Well the works that I do
in my Father's name, they bear witness.
No man is able to pluck them out of my hand.
No man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
My Father is greater than all.
And then this.
I and my Father are one.
What's he basically saying here? I'm the
son of God. If thou be the
Christ, tell us plainly.
That's pretty plain, isn't it?
I and my Father are one.
And notice the Jews' reaction.
Well we don't understand what he means by that.
No. Then they took up stones
again to stone him.
Again.
Jesus answered, many good works
which I have showed you from my Father.
Have I showed you from my Father? Which of these do you
stone me for? The Jews answered
saying, for a good work stone me not,
but for blasphemy, because thou
being a man makest thyself God.
Now where in this conversation did Jesus
say, I'm God? Where did he
say, I'm the Lord? All he's
done is said, refer to his
Father. And he said, I and my
Father are one. See this is why I believe
that they understood that when you
called yourself the son of God, you were telling yourself
the Christ and the Messiah
that you were calling yourself God. That's why
I believe they understood the Trinity.
This is one proof text of that. I believe
that was not a mystery to them, personally.
Because they didn't hear
him say, I and my Father are one.
They hear him referring to his
Father, and not one
as in the sense that we're the same person.
That's ridiculous.
But he's saying, my
Father gave them me. It's
very obvious that he's talking about two distinct
people leading up to that passage.
But when they hear
him say that,
they take that as,
oh, you're calling yourself the son of God.
Oh, you're calling yourself God. That's blasphemy.
Stone this man. That's
what they're doing. So when they
get to Mark 12,
Matthew 22, Luke 20,
when he's in the temple,
and he puts this question to them,
it's not that they're not getting it.
What's happening, I believe, is they're saying,
well, David could call
him Lord, even though he is
the son of David, because
he's the son of God. Because he's the Christ,
because he's the Messiah. See that?
So I don't think it's a matter of them
not getting it. I think it's just they don't
want to admit that Christ,
the son of David, is the son of God.
So that was Psalm 110.
Now, this ties in,
if you would, go over to Hebrews chapter number 1.
Hebrews chapter number 1. Some people
would argue and say
that, well, Jesus
was not eternally the son of God.
That at some point, he
became the son of God. That
there was God, and then somewhere
throughout creation,
Jesus became
the son of God. But here's the thing,
God is not a
created being.
Now, if you want to think about something
that's going to keep you up at night,
you want to give yourself a migraine,
you want to go beat your head against a wall,
you try to answer
that question, where did God come from?
Nowhere. He's always been.
God has always existed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but when did
God come into existence? No, he already
always has existed. There has
never been a time that God did not exist.
We'll explain
that. I can't explain it. I don't know.
My feeble, mortal mind
cannot wrap its head
around that. I can't, I just
I don't know.
I gave up trying to figure that out
a long time ago, all right.
But I just believe it. You know, the Bible just
says it.
You know, from
everlasting to everlasting, thou art
God.
And
some people would argue and say, well, Jesus,
yeah, he's God, but he became the son
of God at some point. No, the Bible's
really clear that Jesus has
always been the son of God. He did not
become the son of God when
he was born of Mary. He was the son of
God before that, okay.
And look, this is so
plain. This is just so
simple. This is just
so on the nose in the scripture. This is
just so plain to see that people
that don't get it, it's like John 10.
They must not understand it or get it because
they hear not God's voice. And they are
not of his sheep. People who
choke on this or disbelieve this or disagree
with this, I don't believe they're saved.
If you're going to deny the eternal sonship of
Christ, something that's just so plain in
scripture, you know, I would just
say you're probably unsaved.
Because it's so plain, right.
And look, the common people heard
gladly, oh, we get it,
Jesus, it's because he's the son of God.
We like that,
right. They believe in Christ.
They're accepting it.
It's the Jews, the unsaved
Pharisees that have a problem with it.
You know,
we don't want to answer that question. We know
the answer, but we don't want to hear it,
you know, because, you know,
we don't want you to take credit for that or
admit that you're God, okay.
Same problem today. You have
people that deny the deity
and the eternal sonship of Christ.
It's something that's attacked
in false religion,
you know, in many different ways.
You know, the Mormons believe that Jesus
was a created being. I believe the Jehovah
Witnesses don't believe that Jesus
was the
created being.
Don't they believe that he was Lucifer's
brother? I know the Mormons believe that.
Oh, he's Michael the Archangel. Yeah, that's it.
There's so many bizarre,
strange doctrines out there, right.
But, you know, people attack this doctrine
and, you know, they must not just read
the Bible. They just don't believe the Bible because the
Bible makes it very clear. Look at
Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1.
God, who at sundry times and diverse manners spake
and times past, and the fathers by the prophets,
hath in these last days spoken to us by
his son, whom he appointed
heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds.
So he made
the worlds, right. He made,
you know, everything that is.
Creation, the planets,
the stars, the worlds.
He made them.
All things were made by him.
Keep something there in Hebrews,
go over to John chapter 1.
John chapter 1.
Look, I know this is more of a Bible study tonight, but it's an
important one. You might want to
mark these down. You might want to check
these off. These would be good memory
verses to have in your back pocket.
Because you're going to run into
people who are going to tell you, oh, Jesus
wasn't the son of God. Or, you know,
he's a created being. Or, you know, he became
the son of God when he was born of
Mary, but he didn't exist prior to that.
It's like, well, you must
not believe the Bible. You're not saved.
Okay. John 1,
verse 1. In the beginning was the word,
right, and that's a reference to Jesus.
That's a title that he has,
the word of God.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was
with God. So,
in the beginning, the word Jesus was
with God. When was he with God?
In the beginning.
Right?
Well, where were they before that? Well, they were
still there. Right?
And the word was God.
So, Jesus is God, and he's
always been with God as the
son of God, as the word of God
since the beginning.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him, and without
him was not anything made that
was made. So, Jesus
could not have become the son of God
at the time that
Mary gave birth to him
because a lot of
things had been made by that point.
Right?
The word was made, everything was made
by the word, meaning it had to exist before
anything that was made. He created the
worlds. All things were made by him.
Okay?
Go to Colossians chapter number 1.
Colossians chapter number 1.
So,
as you're turning there, again, just to
remind you, the Jews
here, the Pharisees
specifically, this group of them,
don't want to admit that he
is the son of God because that would be admitting
that he is God.
But,
Jesus is the son of God, and he
has always been the son of God.
Colossians chapter 1, look at verse 12.
Giving thanks unto the father which hath
made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
of the saints in light, who hath delivered us
from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of his dear son,
in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness
of sins, who is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature. And I say,
well, see, it says he was the firstborn,
but I'll get to that.
When was Jesus, because it does say of Jesus,
this day have I begotten thee.
But that's not referring to his
birth. That's referring to his resurrection,
and I'll prove that here in a minute.
So yes, he is the firstborn
of every creature, every
new creature, every new man.
He is the firstborn, because he was
resurrected, and he liveth
to die no more.
For by him were
all things created that are in heaven,
that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones
or dominions. So that could be where
by him he made the worlds.
Sometimes there's, the
worlds could even be
referring to the invisible things,
you know, the thrones and
dominions, the non-tangible things
even. He created
all these things, whether it be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers, all things
were created by him and for him,
and he is before all things.
And by him, all
things consist.
And there's a thought, you know, not only did Jesus
create everything, but it's through him that
all things consist, and
as Paul said, you know,
to the Athenians on Mars Hill,
in him we live
and move and have our being.
Right? Like we exist in
him, he's binding all of us
together, he keeps everything
together, keeps it moving
and existing. Go to
John chapter 17.
I'll begin reading in verse 1, it says
these words spake Jesus and lifted up
eyes to heaven and said, father the
power has come, glorify thy son
that thy son also
may glorify thee.
As thou has given him power over all
flesh, that he should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him, and
this is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only
true God in Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.
I have glorified
thee on earth, I have finished the work which thou
gave us me to do, and now, oh
father, glorify me
with thine own self, with the glory
which I had with thee before
the world was.
So Jesus, the son of God
had glory with God
the father before the world
was, before anything else existed.
Jesus Christ has always been
the son of God. He was not
made the son of God, and
did I have you keep something in Hebrews 1? I should have.
Go back there. As some
people falsely believe
that Jesus
became the son of God when he was
born of the Virgin Mary.
Which is ridiculous in light of
the verses we just read.
I mean, I doubt
anyone in this room is struggling to understand
and believe that Jesus Christ
has always been the son of God.
I mean, it's just so clear
in the Bible.
But you know, some people, they just, they don't
they're like the Pharisees, they're unsaved
and they just want to
put on their
fake intellectualism, they just
want to
try to wear some kind of
theological badge,
you know, they just want to
make themselves sound smarter
than they actually are, and all they really do in the
process is just out
themselves as the unsaved heretics
that they are.
People who deny the deity of Christ
are not saved.
People that deny the eternal sonship of Christ
are not saved.
Because they've got another Jesus, right?
Look, the Jesus of the Bible
is described
in great detail
in many respects.
And tonight we're looking at one aspect of
the Jesus of the Bible.
That he has always been, right?
That he has always existed.
That he was with the Father before the world
began. That by him all things
were made and consist.
That by him, you know, all
the worlds were made.
Okay? That's the Jesus
of the Bible. So if I start
denying that and teaching a false
doctrine that, no, he was not the eternal
son of God, now I have
another Jesus and another gospel
which is not another.
And now I would be an
unsaved heretic who's teaching
damnable heresy.
Okay? So that's why I can
boldly say that a person
who denies the eternal sonship of Christ
is unsaved.
Because they have a different Jesus. It's not the
God of the Bible. They've augmented and
changed God
as he is described in the Bible.
Okay?
So again,
Hebrews chapter 1, it says
by whom also, at the end of verse 2, he made the worlds.
Right? That's
his son. Verse
3, who being the brightness
of his glory and the express image of his person
upholding all things by the word of his power
when he by himself had
purged our sins and sat down at the right hand of the
Christ being made so much better
than the angels as he hath by
inheritance attained a more excellent name than they
for unto which of any of the angels
at any time said he, thou art my son
this day have I begotten
thee. Okay?
And again, I will be to him
a father and he shall be to me a son. Now some
people say, aha! See?
This day I have begotten me.
See?
That's referring to the fact that Jesus became
God at some point. That he became
the son of God because he was begotten of God.
Now he is
he is the only begotten son of God
but he has always been the son of
God. Okay?
Now when it's referring
what it's referring to here is the day that in which he
was begotten it is not when he was born of Mary.
It's referring to
his resurrection.
And if you would
I know I got you turning all over and I know
it's Sunday night
but go back to Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter number
1.
What is this day?
When is the day that he was begotten
of God? It's not the day that he was born of Mary.
Okay? And some people will say that. Now let's look at
let's look at the birth. Right? Verse
30. And the angel said unto her
fear not Mary for thou hast found favor
with God and behold thou shalt conceive
in thy womb and bring forth the son
and shall call his name
Jesus. Now did he say and he shall
become the son of God?
Didn't say that. Right? Just said and thou shalt call
his name Jesus. Okay?
He shall be great and
shall be called the son of the highest.
Which another way of saying that would be
son of God. The son of the highest.
Right? The most high.
You're the son of the highest. You're the son of God.
Okay? But did
the angel say to Mary you'll call
him Jesus and from that day forward
you will also call him the son of the highest because
when he's born of you that's when he's actually going to become
the son of God. No. That's not
what he said. It just says that he shall be great
and shall be called the son of the highest.
He's saying you shall call him Jesus
and he shall be great
and people
and others are going to call him
the son of the highest. Other people are going to call
him the son of God. Okay?
And not because he became the
son of God but because
God was manifest in the flesh.
Right? Because they
believe that he is the Christ, the son
of God. Who always was
is and always shall be.
And the Lord shall give
unto him the throne of his father David
and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever
and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Go to Luke chapter number 4.
Well it says there though that he
shall be called the son of the highest.
Yeah. Because that's what people are going to
call him.
It doesn't mean that
he's being called the son of the highest because he's
born of Mary and he's just saying hey look
you're going to call his name shall be called Jesus
thou shall call him Jesus and he shall be
called the son of the highest.
By other people. Right?
And that's something other people
called him repeatedly which is another reason
why I believe they understood
the trinity, understood this concept
of the son of God even
in Jesus' day
and probably even in the Old Testament.
Right? I mean think about how did
the apostles and Paul
explain and expound
the trinity.
They didn't use the New Testament
for obvious reasons.
It didn't exist.
The authors of the New Testament
couldn't pull out the New Testament and show
well let me back up what I'm telling you with Scripture
in the New Testament because it didn't exist.
Right?
So what did they use?
The Old Testament. Right?
So meaning that the Old Testament
had to have taught these truths and of course Jesus
came and certainly shed light
onto many of these things and they were more clearly
understood but I don't believe it was just a complete
mystery. Right? Why?
Because he shall be called the son of
the highest. Other people are going to
get it. They're going to understand this. They're going to
connect the dots. They're going to recognize him
for who he is.
Okay? And has always been.
For example,
Simon Peter
called him and said
thou art the Christ the son of the living God.
You know, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words
of eternal life and we believe and are sure that
thou art the Christ the son of the living God.
Look at Luke 4 verse 41
The devils also came out of many crying
and saying thou art
Christ the son of God. So even the
devils knew it.
Right? It's not like
it's not like Mary
told the devils, well, you know, since now he's
the son of God, now you can call him that. How do
the devils know to call him that?
Because he's always been the son of God.
Because the devils are just fallen angels.
There was a time before they
were fallen and
by the way, Christ created them.
Because by him were all things made.
He created all things
including the angels.
They know who he is.
And what do they call him?
Christ the what?
The son of God.
Because to them, that's who he is. Why?
Because that's who he's always been.
Like I know I'm being redundant
but I mean it's just scripture after scripture
example after example
just proving to us that Christ has always
been the son of God.
How can anyone deny it?
Go to Matthew chapter, well I'll just
you know, go to Acts 13.
Acts 13.
I'll start wrapping it up.
You know another passage
would be Mark 16, Matthew 16
where Peter again
in a different instance says thou art the Christ
the son of the living God.
I don't know what that means
but I know that's what you are.
No, they understood this.
He said, you know,
whom do men say that I am?
Some say thou art Elijah, some John the Baptist
or one of the prophets.
But whom do ye say that I am?
Thou art the Christ the son of the living God.
Daniel, in the book of Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar, when they throw the
three Hebrew children into the furnace of fire
they see
Nebuchadnezzar
looked in and said I see a fourth man
who is like unto
the son of God.
You have a heathen Babylonian
king in the Old Testament
in the book of Daniel
denying the son of God in the Old Testament.
And just flat out says, the fourth is like unto
the son of God.
Oh, but they didn't know anything about that back then.
They didn't understand that.
No, they did understand it and they had the Old Testament
and when Christ showed up
they recognized him as the son of God.
So when you get to Matthew 12
and Jesus is grilling the Pharisees, he's having his
turn and he says,
you know, what of Christ? Who is he?
The son of David. How does David then call him Lord?
Being his son.
Being his son if he calls him Lord.
No, they understood
folks. Nebuchadnezzar got it.
The devil's understood.
Peter got it.
It's because he's the son of God.
Well, we don't want to admit that.
You know, there's people that
hey, they don't want to admit it.
They don't want to admit that Jesus is the son of God.
People want to mock Christ.
People blaspheme Christ.
You know why? It's because they don't believe
he's God. They don't believe he's the son of God.
It's, you know, it's too bad.
You know, just on
the way over here, someone had one of those
stupid bumper stickers of that buddy Jesus.
I hate that stupid
picture. One,
that's how, oh, it's buddy Jesus.
One, you don't even know what Jesus looked like and two,
if you were to make a depiction of Christ, you wouldn't have
lung hair like your stupid
buddy Jesus or however he's doing it.
I don't know. I can't get the hands right. I don't care.
You know, that's a mockery
of Christ.
It's a mockery of Christ.
It's blasphemy.
You know, I feel sorry for the poor soul
that slaps down the back of their car and thinks it's funny.
You know,
they must not believe that Jesus is the son of God.
So you can see it's kind of an important doctrine.
What you're going to do with Christ, what you're going to
believe about him.
Oh, he's a good teacher.
You know, he's just some historical figure that was misunderstood.
Some zealots got a hold
of his teachings and ran with it.
Or he was the
son of God.
And has always been the son of God.
And he is God.
You know, that same fool who had
that on yet another sticker was like
one of those, like, one of those Baphomet
signs that people put up, probably from
a band or something. It's like, well, connect
the dots there.
You should ask those
devils that those people worship, you
know, who he is.
That's a clear answer.
There, got that off my chest.
Look at Acts 13, verse 28.
So again, some people
will say, well, no, no, he shall be called the son of
God because he was
born of Mary, right?
Because he's the first begotten of the dead.
He's the first begotten.
It's said there,
you know, this day have I begotten thee.
That's what God said of him.
Right?
In
Hebrews
1, verse
5. Thou art my
son, this day have I begotten thee.
Well, what day was that? It wasn't when he was
born. It was when he was resurrected.
It's important to know, because
people, there's been people that try to trip
other people up with this on this doctrine.
Well, see, he said,
this day have I begotten thee, so
clearly he became the son
of God when he was born of Mary.
No, that's actually referring to the resurrection.
Look at Acts 13,
verse
28. And this is
Paul expounding these things to the Jews.
And they found no cause of death in him, yet
desired they pilot that he should be slain.
And they had fulfilled all that was written of
him. They took him down from the tree and laid him
in a sepulcher. But God raised him
from the dead. So he's talking about the resurrection
here. For he was seen
many days of them which came up
with him from Galilee to
Jerusalem, who are his witnesses
unto the people.
And we declare unto you glad tidings
how that the promise which was
made unto the fathers,
God hath fulfilled the same unto us,
their children. How did he fulfill it?
In that he raised up Jesus again.
That promise has been delivered unto
us through the resurrection.
As it is also written in the second
psalm, thou art my son,
this day have I begotten thee,
which is what Hebrews chapter 1 is
quoting.
The second psalm,
this day have I begotten thee.
But what day is he referring to?
The resurrection. I mean that's the
context that Paul is using that scripture
Psalms 2 in.
He says, thou art my son, this day have I
begotten thee, and as concerning that he raised him
up from the dead, now no more to return
to corruption. So how has
he begotten that he is
raised from the dead not
to return unto corruption? That's why he is the
he is the first fruits
of them that slept. He is
the first born, right?
Because he liveth to die no more.
Go to Revelation
chapter 1. Revelation chapter number 1.
So the day that I've
when he says this day have I begotten
thee, that's a reference to the resurrection
and not to Jesus' physical birth
of Mary. Very clear.
And
I should have had you keep something in Hebrews.
We're going to end up in Hebrews chapter 1 again.
Just to be warned.
You're going to have to turn one more time tonight.
If you can manage it.
Sprain a wrist.
Get a paper cut. It's worth it.
Look at Revelation chapter 1 verse 5.
And from Jesus who is the faithful
witness and the first begotten of the
dead. Now is this
passage explaining what that means?
And the prince of the kings of the earth?
No, he's the faithful
witness. These are titles, right?
Jesus Christ. Who is Jesus Christ?
Tell me something
about Jesus. Tell me something about him.
He's the faithful witness? Okay,
great. What else? He's the first begotten
of the dead.
What else? He's the prince of the kings of the earth. That's just a title.
That's it.
Who's the first begotten
of the dead? It's Jesus Christ.
Tell me something about Jesus. He's the first begotten of the dead.
So yeah, Jesus was begotten on a day
and it was the day of his resurrection.
That's when he became the first begotten.
But he has always been the son of God.
Go back to Hebrews one more time
where we'll see where this title is used.
The first begotten of the dead.
Just like
the prince of the kings of the earth is a title,
the first faithful witness is a title.
That's just a title that's important to
understand when you read
Hebrews chapter number, I believe
it's one, verse six.
And again, when he bringeth in
the first begotten into the world.
Now it kind of sounds
like it's referring to the birth of
his actual physical birth, doesn't it?
Because he brought him again into the world.
Again,
when he bringeth in the first
begotten into the world,
he saith,
let all the angels of God worship him.
But here's the thing,
first begotten is just a title.
Does it say
that he became the first begotten
when he brought him into the world?
It doesn't say that.
But see, people grab stuff like this
and they'll twist it.
They'll rest the scriptures.
And they'll say, see, when he was brought into the world
he was called the first begotten.
Yeah, because that's
the title that you could call him. You could put anything else
there besides first begotten.
Any other title. King of kings.
When he bringeth in the king of kings
into the world.
When he bringeth in Jesus
into the world.
When he bringeth in the
prince of the kings
of the earth.
When he bringeth in the faithful witness.
He's just using a title.
It's not saying explicitly that that's
when he became the son of God.
But we do have
verses that are saying quite clearly
that the first begotten of the dead
is Jesus Christ.
It's referring to his resurrection.
And we have incredibly clear scripture
that we looked at tonight
that just flat out says
that he has always been
with God. He's the word of God.
He was with God. And he was God.
And that he, Jesus
even prayed to the father and said
glorify me with the glory
which I had with you in the beginning
before the world was.
And I'm pretty sure Mary didn't exist
before the world either.
Right? So we have
some really clear scripture backing us up.
What other people who deny the sonship of Christ got?
They got nothing.
What they've got is people
just relying on people of being gullible
and ignorant of these scriptures
and of the Bible and of the truth of it.
And they just
relying on them being easily manipulated
and falling for stupid word games
and semantics.
You know, here's another great verse.
Verse 7, And unto the angels he saith,
who maketh his angels spirits
and his ministers a flame of fire,
but unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever
a scepter of righteousness
is a scepter of Thy kingdom.
And unto the Son he saith, O God.
Right?
That's a great verse to show
your Christ-denying friends
you know, those
damnable heretics that want to teach that
Jesus is not the Son of God.
You know, the Jehovah Witnesses
the Mormons and others that want to deny
the sonship of Christ. Explain this one.
How does he say
unto the Son he saith, O God, that you have
the Holy Spirit, the scripture
calling the Son of God
God.
It's very clear.
But, you know, there's a lot of people today
that are like the Pharisees.
It's not that they don't understand this, it's just that they
deny it.
They don't want to admit it.
A lot of people don't want to admit that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God.
I don't know why
it's so clear
in scripture
and I don't think tonight that when Jesus
was asking that question it was a matter of them
not getting it.
I think it was them not wanting to
deliver, not wanting
to give up whatever power they thought
they were going to lose or whatever.
It was because they were
envious. It was because, you know,
they just
were reprobate often.
They weren't saved.
But, you know, we have great scripture, thank God
that we have such clear scripture
explaining to us
exactly who Jesus is. We don't have to
wonder about these things.
And that, you know,
we can know sound doctrine and we don't
have to be confused about these things. Don't let people
try to trip you up.
And look, when people start
getting squirrelly on doctrines like this
that's a big red flag.
When people start getting squirrelly
on doctrines when it comes to the Trinity,
the deity of Christ, the eternal sonship
of Christ, when people start trying to get
cute and fancy,
you know, and they want to go against the grain, and they
go, oh, you just believe Orthodox belief. Yeah.
I believe in Orthodox
beliefs like this because they're right.
They're right. There's a
reason why every
denomination believes this.
Because it's so plain in the scripture.
Because it's just, it's just right
there. It's undeniable.
Oh, you guys believe in the
Trinity. You believe in that Catholic
doctrine. Yeah,
even an unsafe Catholic without the Holy Ghost
can read the Bible and understand the Trinity,
and you can't.
You can't get it. It goes
right over your head. You deny it.
Like, what other
doctrine that we, that the
Catholics believe, like us, do we want
to deny tonight? What a stupid
way to decide what you're going to believe
about the Bible. Well, anything the
Catholics believe, I'm going to throw out.
Well, you're going to throw out
nine of the Ten Commandments
because they believe in those.
You know, just because some
false religion believes
something about the Bible, that doesn't mean we're
going to stop believing it. The
reason why they believe it is because they know they
can't pull the wool over anyone's eyes on some of this
stuff. Look, there should
be nobody in this room that walks out of here
and is ever deceived on this doctrine.
You shouldn't walk
out, if you were paying attention
and got it and understood it
and hopefully I was clear enough tonight
with it, I mean, maybe in my
explanations I wasn't crystal clear, maybe
I could have done better, but I mean, come on,
the scriptures, the verses I read,
they're just abundantly
clear that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
No one should walk out of here confused
on this topic. And if you are, come talk to me.
You know, everyone
should be able to walk out of here tonight and defend
this belief. And you know what, you might, there's a
good chance you're going to have to.
Because it comes out of some, you know,
these attacks come out of places you would
never expect sometimes.
And we've had
problems with it even in our own ranks,
you know, at Faithful Word.
Where people turned on
this doctrine and started denying
the trinity and deny
the eternal sonship of Christ, it's bizarre.
You know,
and you can't have this
straw man and say, oh, well, you know,
it's orthodox, so what.
It's Bible.
It's plain
to see. It's Scripture.
Let's go ahead and close the Word of Prayer.
Dear Lord, again, thank you for
a clear teaching in the Word of God.
Thank you that we can
understand it through the Holy Spirit, which is given
unto us through salvation
that we have in you
through your
only begotten Son. And thank you
for the hope of the resurrection.
Thank you for the firstborn,
the first begotten from the dead,
Lord Jesus Christ.
In his name we pray, Amen.
Alright, we'll go ahead and sing one more song before we go.
I must leave
no home by the way
of the cross
in the world that may well
ease.
I shall err inside
of the gates of life
in the way of the cross
I will ease.
No way of the
cross we turn
no way of
the cross leaves no
other way to
go as the dawn
heard come
no way of
the cross leaves no
other way.
If we speak of no more
then the bloods bring away
the path that we say
will draw.
If I ever
fly to the heights of
my flesh, no
other way
the way of the
cross leaves no
other way.
The way of the cross leaves
no other way
in this street to
know as the dawn
heard come
the way of the
cross leaves no
other way.
If I live farewell
to the way of the
throne to
talk in the
way of the
cross leaves no
other way
the way of
the cross leaves no
other way.
The way of the
cross leaves no
other way.
In this street to
know as the dawn
heard come
the way of the
cross leaves no
other way.
Thank you for watching!