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This is going to be a little bit more of a Bible study type sermon, but it's good for
us to lay down solid doctrine. The Bible says here in verse 1, God, who at sundry times
and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things. Notice
this, by whom also he made the worlds. So while Jesus Christ came into creation in a later
portion of time, he came in 4,000 years after creation, however, it's not like that's when
he came into existence. That's not when he started interacting with the world. No, the
son is the one by whom, the Bible teaches, God made the worlds. And so everything that
exists, everything that was created, it's clearly established in the Bible that Jesus
Christ is the creator, that Jesus Christ is the one that brought that into existence.
And then if you skip down to verse 8, notice this, but unto the son he saith, Thy throne
O God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness, is the scepter of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved
righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with
the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Now, verses 8 and 9, you kind of have to understand
how the New Testament works. The New Testament is often just quoting the Old Testament. The
New Testament is just often just a direct just grabbing from the Old Testament and bringing
it into the New Testament. And what's really unique about the New Testament is the author
is often just grabbing all kinds of different verses from the Old Testament and then putting
them all together in a unique narrative and really kind of expounding them. It's almost
like a commentary on the Old Testament itself. And here's where the commentary comes into
part. Verse 8 says, but unto the son he saith. That's the commentary. The commentary is,
let me explain to you what the context was of some verses that we find in the Old Testament.
Here's another thing that's kind of interesting is when the New Testament quotes or uses the
Old Testament, it's not always verbatim. It's not always just an exact word match that we
see in the King James Bible. And I believe that could be explained from a few different
viewpoints. It could be that obviously we had different translators work on the Old
and New Testaments, so they simply used different English words, a different sentence structure
to communicate the exact same thought. Another aspect is the fact that one's written in Hebrew,
one's written in Greek. Therefore, it's going to maybe be a little different as far as the
exact word usage. Here's another option is that these are just unique verses that are
being given to us communicating the exact same thought. But what we can learn from this
is when someone is communicating the exact same message, albeit with slightly different
words, it's still the Word of God. You know, just because it might use eternal here or
everlasting here, let me explain something. That's the same word, okay, folks? And we
don't want to get superstitious about word choices when they mean the exact same thing.
We want to make sure that we have the same kind of doctrine that the Bible itself has.
Because wouldn't it be kind of contradictory if we had to have them match exactly verbatim
and then the whole Bible doesn't do that? The Bible's not doing that over and over.
But when we read this in Hebrews, and then keep your finger, go to Psalm 45. What we're
going to read here in Psalm 45, while it's not a verbatim match, it is communicating
the exact same thing. This is another way to understand the fact that, look, it's not
like there is no Bible in the world before 1611. You know, the Bishops was still the
Word of God before the King James ever even was printed. And of course, if I compare a
King James Bible to a Bishops Bible, you'll notice that it's not always using the exact
same words. But let me tell you something. Boy, do they communicate the same meaning
in virtually every single location. There are slight, very minor differences between
them. And of course, we believe the King James perfected and kind of improved on that translating
work. But they're communicating the same message. It doesn't matter if you take the English
Bible and you translate it into another language. If it's saying the same thing, it's still
the Word of God. It's the Word of God in Hebrew. It's the Word of God in Greek. It's the Word
of God in English, in Latin. It doesn't matter Syriac. It doesn't matter what language. French,
German, Spanish. It's still the Word of God. But what we want to make sure we're doing
is we're capturing the exact same meaning every single time. And that we're allowing
the New Testament to be our commentary and to tell us what the Old Testament really meant.
Now in Psalm 45, look at verse 6. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. Now wouldn't it
be easy when you're just reading the Old Testament, when you're just reading Psalms, to read that
and just think about the Father or just think about God in general? You know what the New
Testament is trying to get you to realize? We were talking about the Son here. This verse
specifically is about the Son. And if we keep reading, it says, The scepter of thy kingdom
is a right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore God, thy
God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. You know what's really
unique about this verse, or these couple verses here, is we really see the Trinity in the
Old Testament. And how else can you get away from this when it literally spells out in
verse number 6, God, and then in verse number 7, it's talking about God's God. Did you
notice that? I noticed that. Where it's specifically saying, Thy throne, O God, and then verse
7, Therefore God, thy God, meaning what? We're talking about the God of God here. Well,
how does that work? Well, we know that it works because we talk about the Son of God
and we have God the Father. And so that the Lord Jesus Christ has his God, in a sense,
and of course, you know, there's still God. And so, you know, you could read this verse
and think, well, that sounds like multiple gods. Well, it could sound like that, but
when we read other passages in Scripture that clearly indicate there's only one God,
then we must reconcile those two. And that's where the doctrine of the Trinity comes, is
when we simply are trying to reconcile the fact that the Bible overemphasizes that it's
one God and then it also then abundantly makes it clear that there's the Father and the Son
and they're both God and they're not the same person. So, therefore, that's where ideas
come into play as far as the idea of the Trinity. Again, the word Trinity is not a word found
in our Bible, but we simply come to that conclusion when we compare lots of different verses and
we try to put them all together and say, all of these are true. And we recognize there's
one God, there's three persons, and those three persons are all God. So, of course,
when we try to get really deep into this, it gets kind of messy and, you know, human
logic sometimes fails and we can't necessarily understand everything, but it would be a fallacy
to say that you need the New Testament to derive the doctrine of the Trinity. No, no,
no. We have the doctrine of the Trinity in the Old Testament, in the Psalms specifically.
And as we go through the sermon, I think it's going to be even more abundantly clear that
even with just the Old Testament, we could see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, okay?
Of course, the oil of gladness is a loose reference or kind of a picture of the Holy
Spirit and the Holy Spirit anointing the Lord Jesus Christ and we have that perfect picture
of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now, go, if you would, back to Hebrews for a minute
and keep your finger here because we're coming back to Psalms. So I want to go back to Hebrews
and we're going to come back to Psalms, but verses 8 and 9 apply to the Son. Now, again,
I don't necessarily care too much, but I know some people do, and I just want to make reference
to this, is that when we read the word God, Lord, God Almighty, or different variations
of God in the Old Testament, sometimes they have different underlying Hebrew words. And
when we're reading in Psalm, when we're reading that Psalm and it says, Thy throne, O God,
that word God there is Elohim. So Elohim is what was referenced to what? The Son. So when
we talk about the Son, it would be just as accurate to say that Jesus Christ is Elohim
as to say God the Father is Elohim. They're both Elohim because it's clearly referencing
the Lord Jesus Christ in this verse and the New Testament is telling us, hey, that quote
from Psalm when we said Elohim, that was Jesus Christ, but unto the Son he saith. So it's
God the Father talking to Jesus, and if God the Father talked to the Lord Jesus Christ,
he would call him Elohim. That's what you would get from that if you cared. Look at
verse number 10. And thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth, and
the heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but thou are mainest. And
they also wax oldest of the garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up. And they
shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. Now, again, we want
to make sure that we're understanding how this is working. In verse number 8, he says,
but unto the Son he saith. And then we get a quote from thy throne all the way until
we end verse 9, fellows. So he's saying, unto the Son he said what? This specific quote.
And then verse 10 is saying, and thou, Lord. So what's the and? The and is connecting another
quote, but it's still applying to who? To the Son. So he's saying, unto the Son he said
this quote, and he said this next quote that we're going to look up. Go ahead to Psalm
102. Sometimes it's maybe a little bit more difficult for us to discern that, considering
the fact that quotes in the King James Bible aren't always using quotes. But if you'd noticed
in verse 10, and is capitalized, and then thou is capitalized, because actually the
King James Bible, the way they would do quotations is they would start the quote with a capital.
So they may not put the actual quotes there, but if you just see a random capitalization
in the middle of a sentence, that's not an error. That was done on purpose to try and
indicate that this is now starting a quote. And so that's why you might see the and capitalized,
and then you would see the vow capitalized there, because it's trying to be like wink,
wink, nod, nod, this is a quote. Now if you look at verse number 25, it says this, of
old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and
thy years shall have no end. So what the Bible is saying is that the Lord Jesus Christ is
the one who what? Laid the foundation of the earth. Jesus Christ is the one that created
the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. How does the Bible start? In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. So who's the Bible telling us did verse 1?
It's the Lord Jesus Christ who has literally laid the foundation of the earth, who's literally
the one who created the heavens, and it says this in verse 26, they shall perish. The current
heavens and earth will be dissolved according to the Bible with fervent heat. You know they
always talk about global warming, well you know this one's going to be hot, okay? And
it's true in a sense, it's not true what they say, but it is true that everything's going
to burn up eventually, okay? They call it a heat death or something like that. But everything's
going to be destroyed and they're going to get a new heavens and a new earth. That's
what the Bible emphasizes in the book of Revelation, a new heavens and a new earth. So we shouldn't
get so fixated on this specific planet, on this specific solar system, because it's going
to be destroyed folks. It's going to be made new. Just like you shouldn't get super fixated
on this tabernacle, on this body, because it'll eventually be destroyed, you're getting
a new one anyways. But you know what you're not getting a new one is you're not getting
a new soul and spirit, so the Bible teaches that it's really important to work on godliness,
because that benefits you now and in the future. What does not benefit you in the future is
this tabernacle and anything in this planet and universe and solar system, because it's
all literally going to be destroyed. And the only thing that we can take out of it is souls.
And so it's important to minister unto other people and get them saved and discipled and
for them to be godly and for us to be godly, because that's the only thing we can take
out of this universe. The only thing that matters. Everybody that is not Christian,
they're only focused on the carnal and the temporal and this world and this tabernacle.
You know what, us as Christians need to live differently. We need to think differently.
We need to think about the eternal, because that's the only thing that truly matters.
The way it describes it is really interesting. It says,
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yea, all of them shall act old like a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
So in some sense, it's not necessarily like the earth and the heavens might completely
go away. One idea is that they're just simply going to be changed, just like we're changed.
Some people that are raptured, they may never even die. They're just changed in the blink
of an eye and just kind of a moment, all of a sudden they're just transformed into a new
creation. And so that's kind of the language it's using. But this is really important.
Verse 27, But thou art the same. So when Jesus Christ created, I want you to understand this,
when Jesus Christ created the world, He's the same from that point all the way into
the future. There's no changing. There's no difference between what Jesus Christ was,
is or will be. Jesus Christ has noticed this, the same, and thy year shall have no end.
So when we look at the Lord Jesus Christ, He's always been the Son, He is the Son, and
He always will be the Son. And when we look at certain qualities of the Lord Jesus Christ,
they have an eternal nature, they have an eternal aspect to them, and that's what the
Bible emphasizes over and over. Now if you go to Colossians chapter number one, go to
Colossians chapter number one. I'm really kind of focusing first here on creation itself,
because that's kind of our foundation, that's our starting point. That's the origin of where
we get these doctrines, and we understand that even at the very beginning Jesus Christ
was there, He created everything, and He's not going to change. Everything's going to
have to evolve and change a little bit. But you know what's not evolving and changing
is Jesus. He's the same. It's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I'm going to emphasize
that verse throughout the sermon, but Colossians chapter one. Now, for sake of context, you'll
notice in verse thirteen, it says, and it translates into the kingdom of the dear Son.
So the context is clearly the Son, but I'm going to start in verse fifteen. The Son,
verse fifteen, who is the image of the invisible God. Okay, so Jesus Christ, the Son, is the
image of the invisible God. Now that's an interesting statement, because first of all
you would have to say, how could anything be an image of something that's invisible?
How could anything be the image of something that's invisible? Imagine your child has an
invisible friend, okay, and he's decided that I've now created an invisible friend. And
then he draws a picture and he says, this is an exact image of my invisible friend.
But is that really true? No, because he doesn't have an invisible friend and the invisible
friend doesn't really have an image, it's just his imagination. So while he might say
that and they've dreamed that up, it's not true. So here's the thing, how can Jesus Christ
be the image of the invisible God and that be true? Well, we must then understand what
invisible means, because what does invisible really mean? It means it can't be seen. But
does it mean it can't be seen in every context is the real question. And when we study other
verses in the Bible, it's really clear that what it's describing here is the fact that
you and I cannot see God the Father. We can't see him. I can't look up in heaven, I can't
get a powerful enough telescope to look into heaven and see God the Father, it just can't
happen. It's not possible, and in fact, even if I could, I would just die, is what the
Bible says. So what the Bible is emphasizing is the fact that since we can't see God the
Father, and even if we could, we would die, Jesus Christ came to this earth so that we
could see what God the Father looks like through Jesus Christ. But do you know what
the word image means? A visual representation. A visual representation. How could you have
a visual representation of something that has no visual representation? The only way
for something to be an image of something is for it to have an image. What if I said,
this is the image of math? Well, that doesn't really make sense because math is an abstract
concept. Math isn't something, I can't draw a picture of math. Now, I could give you an
example of math, I could show you something that's mathematical, but I can't just draw
math. Math is just an idea. Math is an abstract concept. The thing is, God is not an abstract
concept. God is a person who has an image, and Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible
God. Now I'm going to prove that even more as we continue in this sermon, but I want
to emphasize that for a moment. Notice this, the firstborn of every creature. Now that's
a difficult phrase we find in the scripture, but I believe that, again, since we took some
of these verses in context, if we apply all context of the scripture, we would just simply
apply that to the fact that Jesus Christ is the firstborn from a resurrected state.
Because at the end of the day, Jesus Christ, he was the one that created everything, and
he never changed. But if we talk about Jesus Christ's resurrection, specifically the resurrection,
he is the firstborn. He precedes Adam, Eve, and every other person because they have not
been resurrected and glorified, only Jesus Christ, so I believe that's what it's clearly
indicating. Verse 16, for by him were all things created. That would totally contradict
itself if he's the firstborn of every creature, if then also he was created, but then all
things are created. How does that work? It's because we have different contexts here, right?
Firstborn from the resurrection, but also he is the creator of everything. Notice this,
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones
or dominions or principalities or powers, all things are created by him for him. Now
the invisible, I believe what it's trying to indicate here is it's saying all the things
that we can't even see but still are out there, he's the creator of it. You know, whether
that be microscopic bacteria that we can't see, he's the creator of that. Whether it
be heavenly bodies that are in the sky that could only be seen through telescopes or some
kind of a satellite technology, those are created. Or even when we talk about the third
heavens and the tabernacle and the temple that dwells in the third heavens, he's the
creator of that as well, even though we can't see it. I don't think it's, it's not trying
to describe an invisible plane that Wonder Woman flies in, okay? It's a context again
of the idea that just because we can't see certain things, it doesn't mean that there's
somebody else that created that. Jesus Christ created literally every visible and invisible
thing. Everything that exists, thrones, powers, dominions, everything. He literally created
it and the Bible says all things are created, notice this, by him and for him. Everything's
about Jesus. The whole Bible's about Jesus. All of creation's about Jesus. That's why
you see so many, you know, interesting phenomenon in the world that just picture the resurrection.
The fact that the sun rises every single morning and sets every single day just constantly
reiterates the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fact that the way we
eat food, pretty much the vast majority of food that we eat, if not all of it really,
it has to die for us to eat it. You know you take plants, they're sown in the ground, kind
of picturing that resurrection, and then they sprout up new life out and then we eat the
fruit of that. That's how we get our substance. We have to slaughter animals. They have to
be killed, literally, and roast with fire. Amen. Okay. And then we get to enjoy them.
And boy, doesn't brisket taste good when it's been slow roasted. Okay. We want to take our
time and get it perfect and dialed in. You know, three days might be a really good brisket.
You never know. Okay. Just throwing it out there. But, you know, even just 24 hours is
good. But this was the perfect, you know, roast. This is the Lamb of God that was sacrificed
for us and took our punishment for us. And Jesus Christ, in a symbolic way, said that
you had to eat His flesh and drink His blood to have life in you, to have eternal life.
And so just almost everything that we see in this world is constantly picturing Jesus,
the resurrection, the gospel. There's all kinds of different ways and allusions to the
gospel because everything was created by Him and for Him. Everything. That's what the
Bible teaches very clearly. And verse 17, and He is before all things, and by Him all
things consist. And He is the head of the body of the church who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence. Notice it clarifies
for us, even in this passage, when it said the firstborn of every creature, it says in
verse 18, the firstborn from the dead. So then when we get a little bit more details,
we understand that it's not talking about Him being the firstborn because the firstborn
is technically Cain. The firstborn is actually Cain in the Bible, but Adam was created straight
out of the dust. Cain's the firstborn. But the firstborn from the dead is the Lord Jesus
Christ from the resurrection. And that gives him the what? Preeminence because he's the
first. He's the first in every single way, and that's what gives him all the preeminence.
If other people were resurrected from the dead before him, then they would have a preeminence
above Jesus Christ. But no, he has all of the preeminence. Preeminence meaning basically
the glory, the honor, the right to certain honors. So he gets all of that glory. Now
I want to emphasize what I said earlier about the image of the invisible God. And I want
to take kind of a moment to flush that out a little bit more, but go back to Hebrews
1 for a moment. Go back to Hebrews chapter number 1, and let's see how the Bible talks
about Jesus Christ being an image. Hebrews 1, look at verse 3. And we were talking about
the sun. Verse 3, who? Meaning what? The sun being the brightness of His glory and the
express image of His person. Now the word express, we don't always use this that regularly.
I don't really use it that much. But another way to word the word express or another synonym
for this word is exact. Exact. So think about it this way. Jesus Christ is the exact visual
representation of God the Father's person. It's the exact image. Think about this. This
looks exactly like God the Father. Imagine if someone said, you can't see God the Father
at all. How could someone look exactly like something that can never be seen ever in any
context? That doesn't really make any sense. It would just be kind of an extreme statement.
Why would you even put the emphasis on express if it's something that can't be seen? Like
if you were going to say, well, I think the word image here just means something else.
It's not really meaning the word that they used. I know it means visual representation,
and that's the definition, but I think they just used the word image for a completely
different reason. But then why would you say it's the express? It's exactly what this
looks like, but I'm not talking about what it looks like. Just FYI. No, no, no. The Bible
is not that complicated. Obviously there are things in the Bible that are complicated.
There are some things that are difficult. But when you have a guy trying to tell you
that the exact English words, all the words that you're using, have no semblance to their
actual definition, this is a cult leader. When you can read the Bible and say like everybody,
10 out of 10 people, would come to the same conclusion reading these words, and that's
not what the Bible is saying, then you really start getting into a cult where you have to
have someone tell you what the Bible means because you yourself can't figure it out.
I mean there's no way anybody's going to read this passage and then think this is not saying
that God could never be seen or something or he doesn't have an image. This is telling
us just point blank. Jesus Christ looks exactly like the Father. That's what it said. Now
go all the way back to the beginning. Let's go to Genesis chapter number 1. So you're
telling me that Jesus Christ and the Father have an image? Yes I am. And they can both
be seen in a particular context. Obviously right now I can't see either of them. Just
because I can't see Jesus doesn't mean he doesn't have an image. Did you realize that?
Just because you can't see Jesus right now doesn't mean you couldn't see him. We just
can't see him right now. But there will be a day when we shall see him. And the Bible
teaches there will be another day, not the same, another day when you'll actually even
see God the Father's face. Now this is a really important word that we have here in our King
James Bible. Look at Genesis chapter 1 verse 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image.
Did you notice the word our? That implies that both somebody and another person have
something. What do they both have? A visual representation. Now I want you to understand
something about this verse. It says, And let us make man in our image. When this statement
is made, does man even exist? No. So before man even existed, God has an image. God has
a what? A visual representation. And not only does God, there's an hour here. Why would
there be an hour here? Because the Son has a visual representation, and the Father has
a visual representation. And if you were to look at them, Jesus Christ is the express
image of his person. So they look exactly the same. This would also be why I believe
that Adam looked like Jesus Christ. Because they're making a man in our image. So if the
Father and the Son look exactly the same, and then they create something and they say
it's going to look like us, then you know what I would think it would look like? Them.
This is just like rocket science or something, right? I mean, we're just looking at basic
words. But you know, it's crazy how many people do not believe what I've said so far. It is
crazy how many people will try to get you to not believe any of the things I've stated,
or say like, what I'm saying is just so antithetical to church history, or all kinds of different
strange ideas. I'm just trying to read what the Bible literally says. And God said, let
us make man in our image. And it says this, after our likeness, hey, I'm trying to get
you to understand this point, okay? And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Now, I'm not joking. People will read this
verse, and then they'll say, this is not saying that Adam looks like God the Father
and Jesus Christ. It's not, because you can't see God. You know, it's just that we kind
of look, we're in his image in the sense that we have a spirit, and we have a mind, and
we have a conscience, okay? But, you know, then they start getting some weird doctrines,
because the Bible makes it clear that man was created in God's image, and women were
not. So if I'm going to take this creation event and apply it to something other than
my physical structure, then that would mean that men have a different spirit and soul
than women. That's what you would have to believe, if you're going to take it to that
logical conclusion. But, you know, that's bizarre, okay? That's bizarre to start then
trying to make women this second-class spiritual or soul citizen. You know what? Men and women
are equal in that context. Now here's a difference between men and women. Your physical representation,
you're built physically different, but you know what? We all have the same intellect
and spirit and soul. Like, that's a bizarre doctrine, okay? Obviously, there are characteristics
that make someone masculine and feminine, and there is a distinction there, and I'm
not trying to downplay that part of it, but at the end of the day, you know, the Bible
is really clear that man is in the image of God. Look at verse 27. So God created man
in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. So
when he created man, man was the only one in God's image. Woman was not in God's image.
What does that mean? That means that Adam looked like God the Father and Jesus Christ,
and the woman didn't look like them. Just like the panda bears didn't look like them.
Just like the giraffes didn't look like them. Lots of things didn't look like God, okay?
You know what didn't look like God? Everything but Adam. You know why? Because God has a
specific image, a specific visual representation, and that visual representation is matched
with Adam and not with anything else. Now, albeit, you know, woman was the best thing
to look at, okay, on the earth, all right? But at the end of the day, she looked different,
okay? And the Bible emphasizes that. I'm going to go there in a minute, but before I get
to 1 Corinthians 11, I want to compare the Bible with itself for a moment. If the word
image does not mean a visual representation, then wouldn't we believe or wouldn't we anticipate
that when we use it in other places in the Bible it would not mean that? I mean, if we're
going to be consistent, why would the translators of the King James Bible use the word image
where 95% of the time it means a visual representation and then just a handful of times it just completely
doesn't mean that? That would be confusing. Like, how am I going to understand the distinction
or the difference of when they're using these words? But what if it's always the exact same?
Look at chapter 5 for a moment. Go to chapter number 5, and I would submit to you that every
time it uses this language, it means the exact same thing every single time. It means a visual
representation. You know, when we talk about something that God really gets mad at, it's
called graven images, and it's not an abstract idea. It's a literal object. God's really
mad at the literal objects of the graven images, and he wants them destroyed physically. He
doesn't want them just destroyed mentally. He doesn't want you to just say, like, I know
that that graven image isn't real. He wanted them to literally destroy it. He wanted them
to grind it into powder. He wanted it to be completely deconstructed. God doesn't look
down from heaven and look at the Statue of Liberty and think, like, well, at least people
aren't worshiping it. No, he thinks it's gross. It's a tranny anyways, okay, folks? Why would
I ever want that to represent my country? And how is that liberty? You know where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Not some tranny in a dress. That's not real liberty,
okay? That's confusion. That's bondage. That's communism, okay? And that's what our country's
gearing towards. We need more Bible. Genesis chapter 5, look at verse 1. This is the book
of the generations of Adam in the day that God created man. Notice this. In the likeness
of God made he him. How many times does God have to tell you this? Look at verse 2. Male
and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day when
they were created. That's why you take your husband's name, all right? Verse 3. And Adam
lived an hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image
and called his name Seth. What do you think that meant? Let me explain what that meant.
Seth looked like Adam. And I don't know if any of you have ever seen this phenomenon
where a son looks like his dad. Now, I could give you a really good representation of this.
Just meet my dad, okay? Now, we're separated by a lot of years, but even though there's
a lot of years between us, still you can tell, wow, they look very similar. And if
you look at pictures of my dad when he was young, look at pictures of me, boy, there's
a definite resemblance, okay? That's not always the case. Sometimes children favor their mother.
Sometimes they favor somebody in the family. But at the end of the day, many times, sons
look like their dad. Why? Because that's how God created it. That's how God instituted
it. And that's what the Bible is meaning. Why would I look at this passage where it's
telling us that Seth looked like Adam, and that's what it means, and then when it tells
us that Adam looks like God, that that's not what that means? That's where you just start
getting into cult-like interpretations of the Bible, cult-type instructions of, well,
when it says it this way and it's convenient for me, it means it, but when it's inconvenient
for me, it just randomly doesn't mean that. No, no, no. The Bible should be consistent.
And what kind of bizarre translators do you have using words that don't mean what they
actually mean? Like, why would you even do such a thing? Like, that just makes everything
impossible. Go to Genesis 9. Go to Genesis chapter number 9. I don't think that the Bible
teaches that God could be seen. What gave you that idea? I mean, we started out in Genesis
1, and the Bible said that God had an image. Before man ever created it, it said God had
an image. And you know, we already read that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,
and forever. It's not like Jesus Christ got an image eventually. Jesus Christ always had
an image. And the Father's always had an image. You would have to say that He changed
if He went from no image to an image. I mean, you'd have to say there was a change there.
I believe that He always had an image. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You
know, some people just get really irritated by what I'm saying right now, but I don't
care what they think. And in Genesis chapter 1, I didn't read this verse, but you know
the Bible says that the Spirit of God moved upon the waters. You know, it would be really
hard for an abstract idea to move upon water. And then math moved upon the water. And then
philosophy was moving and hovering on the water. You'd be like, what does that even
mean? That's just bizarre. You know what? The Spirit of God is a person. It's saying,
hey, the Holy Spirit was moving on the water. And you know what's interesting is the Holy
Spirit was literally interacting with the creation before man even existed. Before man
ever even existed, the Holy Spirit is moving around on the earth and hovering upon the
waters and moving upon the waters. I mean, that's an interesting verse there. It's already
talking about God interacting physically with His creation. And I'm having an image over
and over. Look at Genesis chapter 9 verse 6. Whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall
his blood be shed, for in the image of God made him. It seems like God cares about the
image. I mean, why would God say, I'm going to literally institute the death penalty.
This is the first time we have mentioned in scriptures the death penalty, which is an
extreme punishment. And why is God doling out the extreme punishment? Because He says,
you shed something that looks like Me. You killed something that looks like Me, that's
a representation of Me, because mankind is a physical and a visual representation of
God. It looks like God. I wonder who would want to kill that. How about the devil? Because
he hates God. He despises God, and he wants to destroy everything. Now go to 1 Corinthians
chapter number 11. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. So Jesus Christ, I believe, the
eternal Son, He's always been the Son, yesterday, today, and forever. I also believe that Jesus
Christ had an image yesterday, and today, and forever, that those things aren't something
that happened 2,000 years ago. No, no, no, He had an image before that. God the Father
had an image before that. 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. For all the naysayers out there
that say, well, I think man and woman are the image of God. There's little preachers
that will teach this. Robert Morris of Gateway Church says that when God wanted to create
a picture of Himself, He created a marriage. I didn't say that. He said that. That's weird.
That's a weird idea, because it's just not in the Bible, number one. And like, you're
almost calling some part of God feminine at that point. Like, are you trying to say that
the Son or the Spirit are somehow feminine now, or something like that? And here's a
problem with a marriage. There's two. Well, isn't God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
How is that a picture of God now? And if that's a picture of God, then now all of a sudden
it's not really talking about a visual representation again, because you've now kind of muddled
the waters, and it's confusing. It's like, what are you talking about? No, no, no, no.
God, His physical representation, His image, is what a man looks like. Look what it says
in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as
he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. So here's the
thing. I am the image of God. Every man in this room is the image of God. But you know
what? Jesus Christ was the express image of God. Meaning what? I and every other man look
kind of like God. But you know what? Jesus Christ didn't look kind of like God the Father.
He looked exactly like God the Father. That's what's being emphasized is the physical representation.
And that's why it's saying men should not have long hair because God doesn't have long
hair. And it's saying it would be embarrassing for a man to have long hair because you're
supposed to look like God, and when you have long hair, you now no longer look like God.
It's a perversion of what God literally looks like. And so he gets mad at that. He's angered
at that. And he wants a woman to have long hair because a woman is not what God looks
like. And so he wants there to be that distinction. And you know what? Our world loves to pervert
this idea and tell you that it doesn't matter. The whole baby boomer generation is rejecting
what I'm saying right now. And let me tell you something. You know what? I still believe
in this standard that's found in the New Testament that men should have short hair and women
should have long hair. Then people always bring up some hypothetical, like what if some
woman had cancer and lost all her hair? Well, get a wig. I'm not going to make doctrine
based on your hypothetical situation. And you know, there is a time in the Bible where
it tells women to shave their head, but then it's telling them to like have them let it
grow back. It's not saying like stay in that state. It's not saying like please be like
this or this is highly recommended or this is attractive. It's saying like because we're
absorbing a whole other country that could have all kinds of potential diseases and lice
and ticks and who knows what, it's like we're going to shave this girl's hair and clean
her and purify her and make sure that we're bringing in disease or lice or any kind of
illness into the camp so we're making her start afresh. That is not a recommendation
for women to buzz their head. And you know what? It's popular and I've seen it. It's
weird how girls will now shave like a side of their head or something. Like they'll have
like a braid and then they'll have this like side head thing going on. It's just like that's
gross. It's just to be, let me tell you something. It's just to show how rebellious they are
in their heart. It's just a form of rebellion they have deep-seated into their heart and
it's eaten you out and when men have long hair, stay away ladies. Fabio is not the guy
for you, okay? He needs to get a haircut, alright? You want a guy with short hair who's
going to be in the image of God. I mean you want a guy to lead you. You want him to care
what God thinks. You want him to be in the image of God. You want him to be an ambassador
of Christ. Well you know what? He has to have short hair to start. And of course these
are outward things. He has to first be saved. It doesn't matter if an unsaved guy has a
short haircut. He needs to get saved first. But at the end of the day, many times our
outward appearance is a reflection of what's going on inside. And so if you actually love
God deep in your heart and you actually care about the image of God, you actually care
about what Jesus Christ and God the Father looked like, then you would have short hair.
That's what the Bible is emphasizing here. It was like almost a whole chapter. It's really
just that first half of 1 Corinthians 11 is dedicated to hair specifically. Isn't that
crazy? I mean of all the topics that the New Testament could bring up, the Apostle Paul
is spending a large portion of one of the Epistles, like one of their chapters, on just
hair length specifically. You know what? That tells me that God cares about details. And
you know what it really tells me is that God cares about his image. Because what is
the root of this particular issue? His image. And I'll tell you something. When you read
the Bible, you're going to read it in a whole new way when you think about the image. Because
you know what's constantly brought up? How much God hates graven images. And he wants
graven images destroyed. And he wants false images just burned and desecrated and eradicated
from society. And he's emphasizing man because he's his image, not the graven images. And
then when we get in the New Testament, he's like, oh yeah, here's another way I hate perverted
images. When men have long hair, it's gross. It's disgusting. And of course, what do rock
band singers love to have? Long hair. With all their satanic bands. Pantera and ACDC
and Kiss and whatever. I mean, it's no coincidence that the most satanic people on our planet
love to have long hair. And then at the same time, you know, the Bible's telling us, hey,
this is desecrating the image of God. And a tranny is the worst of all of this. And
is it any shock that every tranny knows what to do? They know to have long hair and put
a dress on. But then people get mad at a fundamental Baptist preacher saying that women should
have long hair and wear a dress. It's like the most God-hating Satanists know exactly
what women look like. Because they're trying to look like a woman. That's the point of
being a tranny. Did you realize the point of being a tranny is to try for a guy to look
like a girl? And when a guy tries to look like a girl that hates this book, you know
what he does? He puts a dress on and wears long hair. And then I get up and say, that's
what makes someone a woman. You now get offended. And the world freaks out and says, like, how
dare you tell women to wear, you know, the same tranny will criticize us for telling
women that they need to have long hair and wear dresses and skirts while he's wearing
long hair and a skirt. You're like, you're just a walking contradiction. And that's what
they are. And, you know, we should eliminate walking contradictions with stones. I don't
care if it's the back or the front of the head. You know, Dylan and I differ on that.
At the same day, you know, that nuance is not important for me. Okay. Go to Chapter
15 for a moment. Go to Chapter 15. Oh, you're going to get banned from YouTube. I already
am. Oh. Well, you're not going to create another one. Okay. I don't really care. I mean, you
know, this world, the censorship is extreme, folks. You know where I don't want to be censored
is here. And they're trying so hard to censor this and they're so hard trying to censor
churches and men of God from preaching the Bible. And so many preachers don't even have
to ever worry about being banned from YouTube because they'll never preach anything worthy
of being banned. 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, look at verse 49. And as we have borne the
image of the earthy, what do you think that means, rocket scientists? You know what? We
look like Adam because he's all our dad in a sense. He's all our grandpa. We're all related
to Adam and we've all borne the image of the earthy. We all look like dad to some degree.
Now again, racists don't like that. Evolutionists don't like this. But you know what? We do
have a common ancestor. It's not an amoeba. It's Adam. Okay. If you think that a bacteria
is your ancestor, well, you know what? You're brain dead. But you're still related to us.
You know, it's like you're the black sheep of the family, all right? And you're really
just a goat. But the Bible says this, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now,
how in the world could that make sense if there is no image of the heavenly, folks?
We are going to bear the image of the heavenly. That is Jesus Christ. His image. We're going
to bear it. We're going to look like him. And of course, I think that the emphasis of
1 Corinthians 15 is he's trying to illustrate how there's even a distinction between flesh
and how they kind of slightly are different and how the flesh that we have now is different
than the type of flesh or the type of body that we're going to have in the future. And
now we're going to have some kind of a glorified flesh or a glorified body or glorified state.
You say, what does that mean and look like? I can't tell you. I don't know exactly, but
we're going to look like Jesus Christ in essence. Not express image will look like
him in essence just like we all look like Adam. The way that we all look like Adam right
now is the same way that we're going to look like Jesus in the sense that we're going to
have unique characteristics. We're still going to look like a person. I even think that we're
going to carry our current characteristics into heaven because otherwise it would be
weird. I mean, if all of us just look like completely different people, it would be weird.
If I run into someone that looks like him, he's like, hey, I'm Ben. Just like, you're
Ben. And Jason's like, I'm Dylan. And it's just like, what's going on? I'm like, that
would be confusing if you're just running into a whole bunch of people that just look
completely different than the person you knew. And I mean, how can people look up in heaven
and recognize Abraham or David or any of these individuals if they just look radically different?
Now, albeit I think we probably look like the best version of ourselves or maybe the
hypothetically best version of ourselves or some kind of variation there. But probably
what's going to stay intact is our face for the most part. You know, I don't know. That's
just a theory. You can believe whatever you want. But at the end of the day, we are going
to bear the image of Jesus Christ. And I'm not Peter Ruckman. We're not going to all
look like Jesus. That would be confusing. Hey, Jesus. Oh, you're not. Hey. Oh, oh, you
know, it's like, that would be weird. How does that even work? Okay. That I don't believe
that for one second. Okay. That's not how the Bible talks about the heaven. Anyways,
go view it to second Corinthians chapter before we go to second Corinthians chapter four.
So we're going on a little bit of tangent for a moment. But but don't you see just like
how much Bible is emphasizing the image of God? I mean, it's really emphasizing God's
visual representation, what he looks like. It would be bizarre for someone to then say
that there's there's nothing that God looks like. He just there is. There is no such thing.
Second Corinthians chapter four. Look at verse four. The Bible says this in whom the God
of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not less the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine on them. I mean, how many times
the Bible going to emphasize that Jesus Christ is the image of God? We're the image. It's
just over and over. Now go to John chapter one. Go to John chapter one. The Bible's really
clear that Jesus Christ is eternal. He's always existed yesterday, today and forever. And
John one's probably one of the most popular or famous verses on this. But again, it's
emphasizing creation. And that's really all I've kind of stuck to so far is I've really
been emphasizing just the creation event because once we establish Jesus Christ was exactly
how we think of him back then, well, then it's going to always carry forward. Okay.
John chapter one. Look at verse one. In the beginning was the word and the word was with
God and the word was God. The same meaning the word was in the beginning with God. It
double states it. And I think the reason why sometimes we have double stated things like
this is to help us recognize there's going to be a lot of contention on this point. God
knew there were going to be a lot of people that would argue with these verses or argue
with these points. Sometimes he double states things and that's for us to recognize, hey,
this is right. This is true. It doesn't matter what Jehovah's Witnesses or Muslims or Jews
or anybody else says. No, no, no. The word was with God in the beginning. All things
are made by him and without him was not anything made. Meaning Jesus Christ is not just the
creator of back then. Anything that's ever been created, ever, all time, past, present
and future, it's Jesus Christ. He is the maker of it. Verse 10. He was in the world and the
world was made by him and the world knew him not. That's sad for you to literally be the
creator and maker of literally everything and you come in and your own image bearers
can't even recognize you. Your own people can't even recognize you. And it was his people.
It's not like, oh, the children of Israel are God the Father's people. There is a strange
idea out there. I believe it's labeled dual covenant theology and dual covenant theology
will teach that the Jews have their covenant. Their covenant is with God the Father and
us in the New Testament, the church, we have our covenant with the Son. And they'll say
that the children of Israel are the bride of God and that the church are the bride of
Christ and they make all these strange distinctions between these two. But let me explain something.
The Jews were Jesus Christ people. They were his children in the same sense. And I'm going
to prove that way more. Go to Genesis chapter 14. Go to Genesis chapter 14. When the children
of Israel interacted with God, they were interacting with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was there
with them. It wasn't like, now again, it's not to say that God the Father isn't involved.
It's not to say that there isn't ways in which we understand certain labels, like the children
of God. We're all the children of God in Christ Jesus and we're brethren with Jesus Christ.
But in another sense, the children of Israel belong to Jesus Christ. And he's their Lord.
He's their God. He's the one that's leading them. And Genesis chapter 14, we haven't really
ventured that far away from where we started. It says in verse 18, and Melchizedek, king
of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the Mosiah God. All of
a sudden in the story of Abraham, we just randomly have a guy show up, Melchizedek,
and Abraham pays tithes to Melchizedek. He offers these things to Melchizedek. And notice
Melchizedek is noticed as the king of Salem. Salem means peace. And he's the priest of
the Mosiah God. Now, go if you would to Hebrews chapter number seven. You can keep your finger
in Genesis. We'll come back in a minute. But go to Hebrews chapter number seven. Hebrews
chapter number seven. Let's get a commentary on Melchizedek. Because let's be honest. Sometimes
when we're reading the Old Testament, it's hard to know exactly what was being said or
communicated. And we need some man to teach us or to guide us, as the Ethiopian eunuch
said. And praise God, we have all kinds of men, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. And we
have the apostle Paul. And we have the Holy Spirit. And then God even gave us other things,
pastors and teachers, to also instruct us. And so we have a lot of extra information.
Let's apply that and use that to figure out who Melchizedek is. Hebrews chapter seven,
verse one, for this Melchizedek, king of Salem. That sounds like the same guy, right? Priest
of the Mosiah God. Isn't that the exact same labels we read in the Old Testament? Same
guy who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him. To whom also
Abraham gave a tenth part of all. First, being by interpretation, king of righteousness.
And after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace. Now again, when I told you
that Salem means peace, that wasn't my opinion. That was the Hebrew's opinion. Hebrews is
interpreting the Bible for us. It's saying Salem is peace, okay? You can notice that
from the end of Jerusalem, okay? And we also see in verse three a description about, and
I want to make this clear, the description is about Melchizedek, okay? It's saying Melchizedek
without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of
life, but made like unto the son of God, abideth the priest continually. So what does this
mean? Well, it's telling us that Melchizedek did not have an earthly father. And Melchizedek
did not have an earthly mother. And that Melchizedek had zero descent. He didn't come from Adam.
It's saying that he had, there was no point in which Melchizedek did not exist. It says
neither beginning of days, meaning there's never a time when Melchizedek didn't exist,
nor is there a time when Melchizedek won't exist, nor end of life. And then he says there's
another person that's exactly like this. There's another person that has all of these same
characteristics. You know what kind of person that is? The person's the son of God. It's
meaning that the son of God did not come into existence in Mary's womb. No, no, no. That's
how he entered into the world. But you know what? He existed way before that. He has,
Jesus Christ has no descent. And it says without father. The context is earthly father. Of
course Jesus Christ has a heavenly father. He has God the father. But you know what?
Jesus Christ has no earthly father. Mary is not his mother in this context. You know,
I know they love to say that Mary's the mother of God or something like that, but that's
just a weird way to word it because Jesus Christ existed before Mary even thought of
existing. She didn't bring Jesus Christ into the universe. No, no, no. She just brought
him from heaven down into the earth. She humbled him and lowered him, but she did not by any
means bring him to existence. And again, specifically, neither beginning of days. There is never
a time. There's never been a time. There never will be a time when the son of God doesn't
exist. Jesus Christ was the son of God from eternity, from the present, and the future.
That's what the Bible clearly says. Go over to Genesis, back to Genesis chapter 18. This
is what Jesus said in Revelation 22 verse 16. I am the root and the offspring of David.
How is he the root? Because he was there at the beginning. He is what started all of it.
That's why he's the root. He's the one that created Adam. And so he's that root. And then
somehow by a miracle, God was manifest in the flesh. I mean, great is the mystery of
godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. How in the world can Jesus Christ enter into
his own creation into his own stream and be born through the Virgin Mary? I have no idea.
That's why the Bible literally says great is the mystery of godliness. Okay. The way
in which God could become a man through his own creation is a mystery. I will totally
agree with that. I don't think that we could ever fully understand it. And of course Catholic
theologians love to tell you exactly how that works. The same people that tell you you have
to literally eat Christ's physical body and blood. The same people that say you have to
baptize babies or they're going to burn in purgatory or hell. The same kind of people
that wear dresses. Okay. The guys wearing dresses are not the people I get my theology
from. I'm just telling you. It's not who I'm interested in getting my theology from.
I don't really care what Catholics have believed. Well, Catholics have always believed the same
thing. So it means that you're an eternal heretic. Why do I care? I'm sure Mormons have
believed the same things. Now they have actually evolved a little bit because they were so
obviously racist that they had to kind of pretend like they haven't been. But at the
end of the day, it's like even the Catholics have evolved and changed. I mean, the pope
is getting up and endorsing Sodomite marriage. John Chrysostom does not agree with you, buddy.
John Chrysostom, I don't know where he is, heaven or hell, but he's rolling over in his
grave for sure. Okay. Now Genesis chapter 18, look at verse 33. The Bible says this,
and the Lord went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham and Abraham returned
into his place. I wanted to show you this verse for a moment for a specific reason that
when we're talking about the Lord here, it was about a physical person on the earth.
This is a person that interacted with Abraham, ate food with Abraham, and here's a really
cool thing. Abraham saw him. Abraham saw the Lord. Now, again, I'm not making a big deal
of this because it doesn't really matter to me, but just to emphasize this, the word Lord
here is the tetragrammaton, and the tetragrammaton we would know as Jehovah. So you say, is Jesus
Jehovah? Yes, he is. Okay. And here is Jehovah being seen by Abraham, talking and interacting
with Abraham. And then when we fast forward in chapter 19, look at verse 24. Then the
Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. So the
Lord on the earth is raining fire and brimstone from the Lord in heaven. And just to emphasize
again, in this verse, it's Jehovah raining fire from Jehovah. Okay. So even in the Old
Testament, you would have seen, hey, there's a Jehovah on the earth and there's a Jehovah
in heaven, and they're interacting somehow, and that this Jehovah is working with that
Jehovah to pour fire down on a bunch of faggots. Okay. Just if you didn't know what the story
was about, all right. Go to the first Corinthians chapter number 10. Go to first Corinthians
chapter number 10. Boy, I mean, I feel like when you start really slowing down and paying
attention to what's going on in the Bible, you see Jesus is right there in the Old Testament.
Jesus is creating, it's our image. He's there as that priest interacting with Abraham. And
I mean, Abraham is like the pinnacle of the greatest man on the earth. If Abraham's giving
tithes and being blessed by somebody else, it has to be someone better than Abraham.
The only person better than Abraham was Jesus folks. Okay. It's father Abraham. Okay. He's
the pinnacle of faith of the prophets of the patriarchs, but you know who's better? Jesus.
And we have him interacting with Jesus again here, the Lord directly, and the Lord pours
out fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah. Now look at first Corinthians chapter 10 verse
1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant. I mean, I don't want you
to not understand something. I don't want you to be dumb about something. How that all
our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptized
unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat and did
all drink the same spiritual drink for they drink of that spiritual rock that followed
them and that rock was Christ. He said, hey, I don't want you to be ignorant of something.
I don't want you to be dumb about something. When we read about the Old Testament, you
know who they were following? Jesus. Jesus isn't like a Johnny come lately. It's not
like in the Old Testament, they're just hanging out with God, the father. And then when Jesus
finally comes up to heaven, they're like, who are you? Where did you come from? No,
no, no, no. All the Old Testament patriarchs, they were following Jesus. Jesus was there
with them. And notice, here's some great verses on the fact that meat and drink is spiritual.
They ate the spiritual meat and spiritual drink. Let me tell you something, Catholics,
the bread and the juice is spiritual, folks. It's spiritual meat. It's not a physical representation
of his body. And look at this in verse nine. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them
also tempted and were destroyed a serpent. You know who they were tempting in the wilderness?
Jesus Christ. Not just God the father. Jesus Christ they were tempting in the wilderness
because Jesus Christ was there with them. Go to Psalm 110. Go to Psalm 110. I just have
a few verses left. The Bible says in Matthew 22, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is
he? This is what Jesus asked the Pharisees. They say unto him, the son of David. He saith
unto them, how then doth David and spirit call him Lord? Saying, the Lord said unto
my Lord, sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David
then call him Lord, how is he a son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither
durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions. So when Jesus Christ is
talking with the Jews, let me explain something. They're unbelievers. They don't believe in
Moses and if he's going to ask them a question to trip him up, what will be a question to
trip him up on? The eternal state of the son. And you know something that Jews don't
believe in? The eternal state of the son. They're always talking about God is one.
We have one Lord, one God. They always emphasize the one and they deny the son. But when you
deny the son, you deny the father. You have to have both. And so he's saying, oh really?
Who do you even think this Jesus Christ is? Because when he said he's the son of God,
they were saying he's a blasphemer and rejecting him and everything like that. And he's like,
okay, well when this Jesus Christ comes, who is he? Whose son is he? And they're like,
well he's the son of David. So they're thinking from a physical perspective, from a carnal
perspective, well this guy is the lineage of David. And he's like, well then how come
in the Old Testament when we were talking about the son of God did David call the son
of God his Lord? And why is it saying in Psalm 110, look at verse 1, the Lord said unto my
Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. You know what,
that's the Old Testament saying. God the father is saying unto Jesus Christ, and who's Jesus
Christ? David's Lord. The Christ is David's Lord. And he's saying how in the world is
David calling Jesus his Lord if he's his son? And at that point, you know what the Jews
did? They just shut up because they don't know how to answer that. Because they believe
in false doctrine. Because they don't believe the Bible. Because the Bible emphasizes over
and over Jesus Christ, not just in the New Testament and the Old. You know, you have
to realize that the New Testament authors, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, all these individuals,
the Apostle Paul, all of them, while they wrote a lot of the Bible, they didn't have
it at first. You know what they were going out and convincing people with? The Old Testament.
You know what they were going into the synagogues and showing the Jews that Jesus was the Christ?
From the Old Testament. You know what they were getting people saved from? The Old Testament.
The Romans road is found in the Old Testament. The Trinity is found in the Old Testament.
Jesus Christ is found in the Old Testament. It's all about Jesus. I mean, think about
it, if you needed the New Testament to understand who Jesus was, how could they have ever showed
anybody who Jesus was? Who would they have been arguing for? Who was the Apostle Paul
going into the synagogue and convincing the Jews that Jesus was the Christ if it wasn't
the Old Testament filled with him? Who is Jesus Christ explaining on the walk to Emmaus?
I mean, on the walk to Emmaus, the Bible says that Jesus Christ is literally explaining
to these two guys all the references of the Bible that are about him, specifically. And
it says that our hearts burn within us, meaning that boy, wow, that was amazing when we saw
the spiritual connections and all the pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it must be something
that's not always obvious because the Apostle Paul clearly said in Corinthians, hey, I don't
want you to be ignorant of this, meaning that a lot of people don't get this. It's not necessarily
something that the carnal mind will pick up on, but us that are spiritual, we don't have
to be ignorant of that. We can recognize, oh, that was Jesus that we were talking about.
Go if you went to Micah 5. Go to Micah 5. One of the verses I'll just read for you in
Daniel 3. The Bible says, he answered and said, lo, I see four men loose, walking in
the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son
of God. Hey, there's the Son of God in the Old Testament, too. You know, it's interesting.
If you have this idea or viewpoint that the Son of God or God has no image, then why in
the world would Nebuchadnezzar say that the form looks like it? You would think that if
you had a form that looks like something, it's because something actually has a form,
right? If you have a formless object, hey, the form of the fourth looks like math. It
looks like philosophy. It looks like wisdom. It looks like instruction. It looks like a
book. You're like, what do you mean by a book? You mean like the shape? No, no, no. It has
no shape. It's just a book. It's like, no, no, no. The Son of God has a form. The Son
of God has an image. The Son of God is a person. The Son of God has always existed. Micah 5
verse 2, but thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is, to be ruler in Israel, whose goings
forth have been from old, from everlasting. You know what's sad is modern versions will
change this verse. The NIV says, origins are of old from ancient times. That does not indicate
the same message. The ESV says coming forth is from old from ancient days. The Christian
Standard Bible used to be known as the Holman Christian Standard Bible. It says his origin
is from antiquity, from ancient times. That's the Bible of the Southern Baptists. You know
what? They're destroying the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ in this verse. And the Bible
emphasizes that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is from everlasting.
And you say, well, we can find it in other verses. Well, you know what? I like all of
them. I don't want just a few, because as we start to whittle down all the important
doctrine verses, what happens when someone wants to change that one too? Let's just keep
all of them. And let's emphasize all of them. And, you know, I don't really care what other
people think. I don't really care what Catholics think. You know what? Jesus Christ is the
eternal Son of God. He has an image. The Father has an image. And we look like that image.
Let us be the best physical representation, visual representation of God. And let us take
care of ourselves. Let us have short hair. Instead of being like, well, God doesn't really
look like anything. I can do whatever I want. No, no, no, no. Don't tat a bunch of tattoos
on your face, like seal, okay? Don't draw, get your hair all long and gross and, well,
that's a dreadlock. It's still ugly. It looks like you braided your hair like a little girl
now. Oh, you wouldn't say that to their face. Well, you know, test me. Test me on that.
You know what? Because we're supposed to be image bearers of God. You know, we're supposed
to look like God. And it's not a specific skin color or anything like that. You know
what it is? It's having short hair and looking like a man, being manly. You know it's a sin
being effeminate. You know why being effeminate is a sin? Because God's not effeminate and
we're image bearers of God. You know, this is an important doctrine because it takes
on a practical application that we should be the best physical specimens we can because
we represent God on this earth. You know what? When he speaks, it's loud. You know what?
Men should be loud. They should be strong. They should have short hair. They should be
masculine. They should be manly. They should be spirit-filled. You know why? Because we
are the image of God. We are the physical representation of God. And you know what?
Men should be feminine because they're supposed to be the glory of the man. And you know what?
We need to embrace these doctrines and get them deep into our heart and believe them
because they have a real application. And it's no coincidence that the people that deny
what I'm saying seem to be the most effeminate, queer-looking sissies. All right? If you get
good doctrine, then you'll look like a good person. All right? Let's go to prayer. Thank
Heavenly Father so much for the Word of God. Thank you for giving us the knowledge and
the commentary of the New Testament so that we could understand who Jesus Christ is and
who He was and who He will be. That we won't be ignorant of the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
That we'll recognize that He is the Creator. We'll recognize that He is eternal. We'll
recognize that He is the Son of God. And we'll recognize that we were made in the image of
the Father and the Son. And that we would take care of our bodies, that we would take
care of this doctrine, and that we would be a good representation of God. In Jesus' name
we pray. Amen.
All right. For a final song, let's sing 124, God Will Take Care of You. 124, God Will Take
Care of You. Song 124, God Will Take Care of You.
God Will Take Care of You.
God will take care of you.
Beneath His wings a powerful light.
God will take care of you.
Through every day, or all the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
The days are told, the good part of death,
God will take care of you.
When dangerous fears sort out the sale,
God will take care of you.
Through every day, or all the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
All you may need it will provide,
God will take care of you.
Nothing you ask will be denied,
God will take care of you.
Through every day, or all the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you.
In hearing one upon his breast,
God will take care of you.
Through every day, or all the way,
He will take care of you.
God will take care of you.
Thank you all for coming, God bless, you are dismissed.