The Manifold Excellence of Jesus Christ — David Cooper

The Manifold Excellence of Jesus Christ

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I greet you all this morning in the name of Jesus Christ. May His Spirit that He promised us draw near to you this morning and fill your hearts with the fullness of God by knowing Him and understanding Him and the realization of Him this morning.

Therein is the fullness of the Spirit. I would like, if we could, to kneel for prayer, if we could this morning, in worship. Now, Father, we come to you, this congregation, we lift up our eyes to you, our Father, here at the beginning of this message.

Thank you for all that you've given us up till now. Thank you for your working in this opening and the children's lesson this morning. Thank you for the courageous words that you give to us. Now, my Father, would you open up the Word of Life even more, quicken hearts here in this room.

Enlarge our hearts that we might run the way of thy commandments, that we might hear the Word of God and do it. Lord, let your Word have power. I pray that you'd give us a sanctuary here this morning.

Give us a sanctuary from our own idle minds and draw those minds in by the power of your Spirit. Give us an understanding heart that we might understand those things which are freely given to us by God.

And more than all, Lord, we would see Jesus this morning. God, would you lift up the Son of God this morning again in our minds? We lose sight so quickly in this day. Please lift up your Son again this morning.

We trust you and ask all these things according to your will. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Thank you. Well, I'd like to welcome the visitors that are here today. I've noticed we have some that at least I have not met before.

Welcome and thank you for coming to worship with us this morning. Worship in singing, to worship in the hearing of the Word of God. I would like to speak a message this morning and I thank God for the way he's already worked in Vernon's opening.

He actually used some verses that I was planning to use in my introduction.

So, thank you, brother.

I was wondering how I'd get through all my material today, so I think that will greatly help me. Praise God for laying that on your heart, too. I would like to speak this morning on the manifold excellence of Jesus Christ.

I am going to be preaching out of 1 John sometime, and this morning I'll touch in 1 John, but I felt this morning that this would be the subject that God would have me preach. It's the one that is closest to my heart this morning and I always like to preach out of my heart.

The Excellence of Jesus Christ

I see a great need in this last day. I know that we preach about this often and I don't think that we should get tired of hearing it. So, if you have that little twinge that goes through your heart this morning, oh, that subject again, sit up and do what you have to do to sharpen your ears and hear the Word of God this morning because we're going to be talking about Jesus Christ.

The most eminent and most majestic topic that can be spoken by mortal tongues, the name of Jesus Christ. Noah Webster defines excellence this way. He says that excellence is the state of possessing good qualities in an unusual or eminent degree.

That's excellence. Excellence in a person, the person of Jesus Christ, is that state of possessing good qualities in an unusual, a very unusual degree. Wouldn't you say? Jesus Christ possesses good qualities in an unusual degree and a very eminent degree.

I've heard men praised for a lot of things and I'm sure you have too. We've heard men praised for an excellent memory. My, that man has an excellent memory. Excellent physical strength. Maybe he's a fast runner or a strong worker or something like that.

Excellent speaking abilities. My, that man can speak. Excellent composure. He just doesn't get flustered. We've heard men just exalted for many, many qualities in their person. Maybe he's an excellent engineer or an excellent builder or an excellent manager.

Maybe he has an excellent family. He's an excellent family raiser. But who is like unto Jesus Christ? I'd ask you. Who is like unto Jesus Christ this morning? You can bring the greatest and the most excellent of all men together and they don't even come close to the Lord Jesus Christ.

They don't hold a candle to our Lord. He is most excellent in every way. And I know it's one thing to say that and we all know. Yeah, Jesus is excellent, I'm sure. I believe that. I agree with that. But this morning I hope to go a little step further and I'm just going to walk down the character of Jesus Christ and tell you again why Jesus is excellent.

I have here 11 areas in which Jesus is excellent. I'll list them here if you'd like to take notes and then we'll go through them. He is most excellent in His Father. First of all, His pedigree is without spot.

He is excellent in His person. He is excellent in His character. Excellent in His teaching. Excellent in His deeds. He is excellent in His promises. He is excellent in the power of His death. He is excellent in His resurrection.

Excellent in His return. Excellent in His authority. And excellent in His worship. In every one of those areas, and I'm sure there are many, many more facets of the Lord Jesus Christ that you could draw into, but these were the ones that were on my heart this morning to share.

And if you just remember when we say excellent, excellent is not just neat or good or great. Excellent is that which surpasses what is usual. It is that which surpasses others. My purpose this morning is that worship flows out of these things.

Just like Brother Vernon read to us this morning, if you'll notice, that Christ might dwell in your heart through faith. And that you might know what is the love, the breadth, the height, the length, and the depth.

And in the knowing of that, you will be full of God. As your heart is aware of those things, God fills you through the knowledge of Him. Like Ephesians says in chapter 1. Ephesians 1 .17 says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.

That's where it is. It's in the knowledge of Him. It's when you come to the realization of Him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened. And to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.

It excels knowledge. The love of Christ. And that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. So let's begin. Jesus Christ is first excellent in His Father. I buy tools from a company. The Manhattan Supply Company.

I don't think it's wrong to make that known. It's a big tool company that sells tools over a wide area of businesses. Machinist tools. Industrial tools. It's an industrial supply corporation. They are a vast company.

If you need it, they have it. And I remember, I've been doing business with them for some years. And in their book, they have a book about this thick now. Of all their things that they supply. And in the beginning, if you open the first book, the first page, there's a picture of the president of the corporation.

I don't know if any of you other have dealt with them very long, but if you'll remember about eight years ago, that picture was of an old man, graying, balding, very noble man. The president of MSC, Manhattan Supply Company Incorporated.

A very important man, I would say, for sure. But as the years passed, then the next, pretty soon a book came out, and it had a picture in there of that old man shaking hands with another young man who resembled him, his son.

And then now, if you go look at that book, you'll see his son's picture, the president of the corporation. Well, you would say that that young man was excellent in his heritage, in his pedigree. He was the son of the president of the corporation, Manhattan Supply Company.

But you know, all the austeres, and some of you have been in that business before, you know, up there in the upper enchiladas where you have the stained glasses and marble tables, and let your mind go to the highest and noblest and most majestic setting, and the son of the most highest and grandest and most eloquent, and you name it, Jesus Christ surpasses by far that majesty.

He is by far more majestic. I once thought I grew up under the shadow of a man, Dianne Murray Cooper. That was my father. And going to school, I grew up in his shadow. I was his son. I was Dianne's son.

When I went to school, oh, you're the son of Dianne Murray Cooper. Dianne Murray was the school board administrator. He was a deacon and song leader in the First Baptist Church of Arlington. He was also a Bible study fellowship group leader.

He was a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering. A carpenter, a mechanic, and a salesman. Dianne Murray Cooper, and I grew up in his shadow. I was the son, and am the son, of Dianne Murray Cooper.

There is an excellence that a son has because of who his father is. And glory came to me because of who my father was. I wasn't deserving of it. I brought shame to that name many times. But you can just think of it.

What passes through your mind when you think of the son of George Brunk? What kind of a boy do you think of? What kind of a man is George Brunk's son? The son of Keith Daniels. The son of A .W. Tozer.

Jonathan Wesley. You know, there is an honor that is attached to a young man because he is the son of his father. And Jesus is no exception. He is the son. In Ephesians 1 .17 we read this morning. It says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory.

That's the Father of Jesus Christ. He is the Father of Glory. 2 Corinthians 1 .3 says, Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comforts. You wonder where Jesus gets it?

He gets it from His Father. Why does Jesus excel? Because His Father excels. It is the glory of His Father. His Father is God the Father. Of whom the Bible says are all things. He is the source of all things.

God is the source of all things. Jesus Christ is the Son of Him for whom and unto whom and of whom are all things. I don't know how awake your minds are this morning, but the more awake you are in your mind, the more that will humble you and amaze you and wonder you.

He is the Most High. He that is enthroned above the cherubim. Who dwelleth in unapproachable light. He is the King of Heaven. One hundred million angels, the Bible says, attend Him constantly. No king ever had an attendance like that.

One hundred million, not just servants, but angels attend Him constantly. Some cry, Holy, Holy, night and day it says, never ceasing. With voices that make the temple's post shake. He is infinitely majestic in being.

And He is worshipped night and day, constantly. Jesus has an excellent Father. Who is like the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ? The Bible says, Who is like unto thee, O Lord? Who made Heaven and Earth and all that is in them is?

That's My Daddy, Jesus says. That's My Dad. So, when you see the Father shaking hands with the Son, that austere moment of passing on authority from one to another, we are talking about the Father from whom are all things.

The Deity and Person of Jesus Christ

Alright, Jesus is excellent in His Father. Jesus is also excellent in His person. And when I say person, this is what I mean. Jesus is excellent in the very essence of who He is. You know, a person is more than just what He says or what He does or His character or that.

There is someone that He is and a position that He holds that makes the person. When the person of the judge of the state of Pennsylvania, the high judge, he is a person, but he fills a position, and that position makes him someone because he stands there.

The President of the United States may be nobody when he is born, but he is the President of the United States when he steps into that office. Jesus Christ is God, the second member of the undivided triune God.

Do you understand that? His person, His very person is who He is. He is the second person of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost who was with the Father before the beginning, had glory with Him even before the world was.

He is one with the Father. The Magi at His birth knew that because it says they came from the east, followed His star, so that they could get down on their knees at a cradle where there was an infant realizing that that baby was the Son of God, the second member of the triune God.

And they worshipped there and brought their gifts. It says when they were coming to the house and they saw the young child with Mary, His mother. Actually, pardon me, I slipped there into my childhood memories.

The Magi came to Him while I was in the house, not while I was in the cradle. And they fell down and worshipped Him. There was a wedding at Cana. You remember the disciples were at a wedding with Him at Cana?

And Jesus made approximately 150 gallons of the best wine that the steward had tasted. And as He was saying, most people serve the best wine first, you serve the best wine last, and the servant knew where the wine came from, that it was water.

And the disciples knew, and the Bible says, this beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and He manifested forth His glory. He pulled back the robes of His plain humanity, and out from His inner being shone forth the realization, this person is not just any ordinary man.

This man commands water to be something it is not. And it obeys Him. He manifested His glory. He is God the Son. And His disciples believed in Him. In the boat, after Jesus rebuked the storm, if you remember, Jesus stood up in the middle of the storm, they woke Him in the ship, the water was coming in, they were sinking, the boat was getting sluggish, Jesus stood up in the prow and said,.

Stop it! Be quiet!

And the sea that was about to swamp them obeyed. And they got down, it says, and they worshiped Him. A dawning and a realization in the heart of a man, that I am dealing with God. This is not just a humble carpenter of Nazareth who can do some tricks.

This man is the Son of God, He is the second part of the triune God. He is God the Son. This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. If you remember Peter, what was Peter's reaction when they had fished all night and caught nothing?

And suddenly Peter finds himself in this sinking ship full of fish around him, flopping and he can't believe it. And the one thing that he realizes is, I can't believe this is happening. And as he realizes that Jesus Christ is the one who is the result of it, it says he falls down in the boat and worships Him amid all those fish.

And says, Lord, depart from me, I am a sinful man. You're God and I'm a sinner. Depart from me. He is God, the blind man. It says Jesus heard that they had cast him out. If you remember, he was the man that the Pharisees brought in and brought him on trial, and then got his parents in there.

And, well, I don't believe he was blind when he was born. And finally the man was put out of the synagogue and says, when Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and when He had found him, He said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

And he answered and said, Who is He, Lord, that I might believe on Him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen Him, and it is He that is talking with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped Him.

That blind man knew more than a lot of seeing men of his day. He realized, this is the Son of God, and I believe on Him. And he worshipped. That was his result. And that's my heart this morning in all this.

We need to quicken our hearts. I don't know what happens in our daily grinding life, but that essence of worship gets dull, doesn't it? It grinds to a slow grinding halt, and life loses its flavor, and the joy of my salvation somehow waxes cold, and my heart this morning is, can we just look at who Jesus Christ is, and somehow quicken that flame again of worship, that when we sing our songs, it's coming out of a heart of realization of worship this morning.

He is infinitely excellent in His person. After His resurrection, it says, they came and held Him by the feet and worshipped Him. Revelations 5 .11 says, And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, that's one hundred million, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor, and glory, and blessing, and riches, and wisdom, and strength.

And every creature which was in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and upon to the Lamb forever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth forever. I know we're all familiar with that scene. But brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ hasn't changed one iota from this day that this was first seen.

He has not changed a jot. And He is still worthy. And those angels are still enthralled with Him. Why aren't we? Truly Jesus is excellent in His person. Who is like unto Him? Who is like the Lord Jesus in their person?

He is worthy of worship. Alright, number three. He is worthy. He is excellent in His character. And I'd like to talk about some of His character this morning. One, I love the character of Jesus Christ in His humility and His patience.

You know, those two in His life blended together. Being the Son of God, the second member of the Godhead, yet was the epitome of humility. Can you believe that? Such a high position, and yet such a low estate, esteem of Himself.

And patience. There's a few things here, just a few sessions in His life that bring this out. If you remember when Lazarus died, remember that scene? And Jesus purposely stayed away for three days because He had plans much bigger than any man that could ever imagine for His friend Lazarus.

And finally He said, now let's go and we need to wake up my friend Lazarus. And what did the disciples say? Now remember, this is the Son of God who hearing that His friend Lazarus, whom He loved, was sick and on the verge of death, lingered three more days.

Now He didn't linger because He was delinquent, He lingered because He was the Son of God. And He knew, I'm going to raise Lazarus from the dead because I love Him. I'm going to do something in His life that people will talk about for the rest of eternity.

No one was raised from the dead like Lazarus was. Save the Lord Jesus. So what did the disciples say? Well Lord, if He's asleep, He'll recover. Can you imagine, you're speaking to the Son of God. Can you hear the intimation behind that?

Well, Lord, if He does wake up, the humiliation of that. I mean, they treated Him like a child. How many times in His ministry do His disciples try to tell Him what to do? I mean, Peter says, No Lord, it shall never be thus.

You know, scold Him like a little child. No, that's not the plans we have for You. And they treat Him as though He were just some carpenter from Nazareth in a brown robe. And forget the night on the storm.

And forget the Cana of Galilee. I see the humility of Jesus Christ. Do you see Him saying, Wait a minute, who do you think I am? No. You don't see that. You just see Him teaching them, No, boys, what I mean is He's dead.

And I'm glad He died. Because I'm going to wake Him. So that you can believe that I'm the Son of God. And who was raised from the dead like Lazarus. Lazarus, come forth. And the dead had no choice. Bound hand and foot, He must come forth.

The patience of Jesus Christ. If you want to feel small, observe the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no end to the room that you can grow in your Christian life as you gaze upon the beauty of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ in patience.

At the Last Supper, if you remember, Jesus said to His disciples, I have earnestly longed to eat this supper with you. Why do you think that is? You know, we just had communion here. Why did Jesus earnestly long and pray, God, let me eat this supper with my disciples.

Because it was the most important thing to Him. It represented His very life blood. It represented His death and the power that that blood was going to have in changing our lives. It was very important to Him.

It was the, if you had to say one thing was important to Jesus, He wanted to eat that supper. He wanted His disciples to grasp hold. Men, do you understand? This is my blood. I'm going to shed it for you.

Drink it, all of you. It will give you eternal life. The realization of that will give you eternal life. Eat this bread. It is my body. It's going to be broken for you. Eat of it. I'll not drink this wine until I meet you again, anew in the kingdom of God.

I'm going to be fasting wine from here until the time the kingdom of God is established. You know, it was important to Jesus. Those were precious, sacred moments. Now you tell me, the communion. Can someone tell me?

What was the conversation immediately following communion? No, I think Judas might have been gone by that time. They fell to arguing who is greatest. Now tell me, what did that do in the heart of Jesus Christ?

Here He's trying to impress on them the most valuable truth the human race has ever or will ever get. The blood of Jesus Christ. And the next thing you know, they're bickering like boys about who's greatest in the kingdom of God.

And what did Jesus do? Did He scold them? Did He say, don't you guys have any spiritual interests at all? No, He simply laid aside His own desires, laid aside that precious teaching. Figured that that moment was past.

And He took up that old, many times before, He says, now men, among you it shall not be this way. It's not this way. But whoever is greatest will be the least. That was an old teaching. It's written two or three other times in the Gospels that He taught them that lesson.

Once He took a child and said, unless you humble yourself and say, I'm like that. When I read those things, I say, Lord have mercy on me. Make me like that. I want to be like Jesus Christ. He is excellent in humility and patience.

Endurance. Jesus is excellent in endurance. In the garden before Caiaphas, in the garden, the endurance of enduring the shame of being taken captive, before Pilate, the shame, the pain of the scourging, before the Roman soldiers, having the whole Roman guard fall down and mock you and scoff at you and tear your beard out by handfuls and beat a crown of thorns around your head with a reed.

And on the cross, the suffering on the cross, we see the Lord Jesus Christ not once yielding to the flesh, not once, but always loving, forbearing, forgiving, enduring. Often you see Jesus Christ serving and healing.

If you remember the time that it says that he was so busy healing that he couldn't even eat. His disciples didn't even eat. And his family came to take charge of him when he was 18. He's gone mad. And they came to take charge of him.

The endurance of the man was beyond human reason. They thought something must be wrong with the man. People just don't go without eating all day long. And serving. If you remember what it says, when the woman touched him with an issue of blood, remember?

What did Jesus say? How did he know that she touched him? I felt virtue go out of me. That tells us that it wasn't just some, it wasn't nothing for Jesus to heal people. Virtue passed out of him and healed people.

But he lost in it. He gave in it. Gave in it. And you find him day after day after day in the press of the people giving and the virtue flowing out of him and the virtue flowing out of him tirelessly.

The endurance of Jesus Christ is in excellent. He is beyond normal. Jesus is excellent in his compassion and pity. Remember the time that John was killed? John was the only man on earth that understood where Jesus was coming from.

He had foretold his coming. He was a close friend to Jesus Christ. John had actually baptized Jesus. And yet at his death, the news came to Jesus and his heart was heavy. And he drew aside from his disciples, with his disciples in a boat.

And if you remember, as he was going across the lake to a wilderness place where he could be alone, the people knew where he was going. They saw the direction of the boat and ran on land and got there first.

And as they came ashore, Jesus saw all these people waiting for his virtue to flow out of him some more. And what did he do? Just leave me alone. No. It says he had pity on them. In that study, the compassion of Jesus and the pity of Jesus, it just astounds me.

Who is like him? Who is like the Lord Jesus in his pity and in his compassion for people, hurting people? And he got out of that boat and he began to teach again and began to heal again. You know, we often focus on blind Bartimaeus.

Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. But think about it from Jesus' perspective for a moment. He is being pressed on every side by people moving along in this mob and now there is another voice shouting from the crowd.

I mean, he has people pressing all around. Our natural tendency would be to be annoyed at one more need when he is being pressed by needs all around already. And yet, what is his response? He stops and says, bring that man to me.

Always, even in the press of ministry, always has enough of grace to be sensitive to the need of where that man is at. That's a blind man. He needs me. Bring him here. The compassion, the pity of Jesus Christ.

That woman who had an issue of blood. You know, can you envision what that was? Peter says, Master, people are all around you touching you. How can you say who touched me? What would that be like? Just imagine that for a minute.

You are in a crowd of people and everybody wants to touch you. And you are just moving through a crowd and this woman has got to press her way and just has enough of room to reach the hem of your garment.

It's just that pressing and yielding to it. You know, not get me out of here. Like the flesh would want to do. But rather yielding to it and allowing virtue to continue to flow from God through me to the people.

The compassion and the pity of the Lord Jesus. Is it not excellent? Does he not surpass the usual in degrees? His integrity and his honesty are unblameable. Here is the most difficult setting, wouldn't you say?

You have been invited to somebody's house for supper. And you are sitting down at their table and their food and they have sin in their life. That is a test of a man's integrity. That is a test of how much honesty he really has.

Isn't it? That's where you are pressed the most to keep it to yourself. I mean, the man is feeding you but not the Lord Jesus. Not the Lord Jesus. Now you Pharisees, you wash the outside of the cup but inside you are full of dead man's bones.

That is a testimony of the integrity of the Lord Jesus. The word of God and the truth were of utmost importance to him no matter what setting he was in. He told the truth. Simon, I have something to say to you.

This woman has been forgiven much and that's why she loves me so much. But you, Simon, you have been forgiven very little and that's why you love me so little. Who is like Jesus Christ in his character?

And that's just a few. I think I've just touched on a mountain top. If you want to plumb the depths of character, Jesus Christ excels in all. I would love him more. That's what I would do. I want to be like him.

I want to be like my hero. Jesus Christ is my hero. And let this vain world out there with its business and its trucks and its homes and its pleasures and its honors, let it go its way, but give me Jesus, the song says.

Take the world, but give me Jesus. Let my character become more like his character, whatever the world says about me. Jesus Christ is excellent. The excellence of the Lord Jesus Christ in his deeds. Jesus Christ is excellent in his deeds.

The Deeds and Teachings of Jesus

Acts 1038, the testimony of the apostles was how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power. He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Period. That's the synopsis of Jesus' life.

He went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed of the devil. Jesus Christ is excellent in his deeds. He is excellent in his healing and I'm just going to list some of them here. If you just think about the healings that he did.

Who healed like Jesus Christ did? Not a man. Who preached and taught like Jesus Christ? Impromptu. Impromptu. Any moment of the day he was ready. Preaching. Teaching. Disciples get a burner saddle who's the greatest.

He just right there with a teaching. What were you talking about along the way there men? And he calls a child over. Now I want to teach you something here. Unless you are converted and there's a definite change in your life and you become like this little child you won't even enter the kingdom of heaven.

Teaching. Always teaching. His teachings or his deeds pardon me and his preaching and his teaching. His praying. Did you notice when he said to Peter Peter Satan has wanted to sift you like wheat. But what?

But what? I prayed for you Peter. You know what that tells us about the Lord Jesus? There was praying going on that we don't know about. And who was it for? Peter. Lord I know you're going to sift him.

I know he needs some sifting. You need to deal with those things in his life. But Lord when he's converted would you please make him an anchor and a rock in your church? I've prayed for you Peter. And when you turn then comfort your brother strengthen your brothers.

In his giving to the poor Jesus is excellent. Did you notice that Judas when he went out all the disciples thought Jesus just told him to go give something to the poor. That was their assumption. Why is that?

Because Jesus gave to the poor all the time. It was not uncommon for Jesus to give to poor people. He was excellent in his giving to the poor. He is most excellent in dying for the sins of men. The deed he did in dying to save us who has ever excelled like that?

Is there any deed that any man has ever done that comes close to the redemption of the ungodly and sinful race of men? In his death he redeemed the human race. If you want to shake hands with someone of importance it would be Jesus Christ.

If you had to pull some name out of heaven or earth by which to lift up song and majesty and exalt it would be the name of Jesus Christ. He is the exalted one. And yet he had to tell us as his disciples he that is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous generation I will be ashamed of him in the day that I come with my angels.

Because we are ashamed of him often. Shame on me. He is most excellent. The Lord Jesus is most excellent. He is worthy of the honor and the adoration and the respect and the worship of every living creature let alone men.

It says in Revelation I heard the voice of every created thing birds reptiles trees hills will clap or the hills will the trees in the field will clap their hands. He is worthy of excellent praise. He intercedes day and night for his people even now.