The Man Christ Jesus (part 5)

Father we come before you this morning thankful for your kindness your generosity for your never failing love toward us and Lord even as we contemplate eternal things

How even in eternity past your son the Lord Jesus Christ agreed to come to earth?

Veil himself in flesh and be obedient to you that he might redeem a people

From their sin and return them to you father We give you all the praise for that and pray that you would bless our time even as we consider really a difficult doctrine to understand the

Humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ father bless our time and strengthen us even as we

Sometimes wrestle with these difficult matters in Christ's name we pray amen Well, I thought we would

I receive this the top part here I received this in an email from Pastor Mike, and I thought maybe

I would just add to that and we would kind of take a little Kind of a moment or two to recap and do it in a maybe a different way

This quote here at the top of the page is from Machen, and I thought this is profound Let me read it, and we'll just kind of walk through it for a moment certainly

Jesus had a religion of his own His prayer was real prayer his faith was real religious faith

His relation to his Heavenly Father was not merely that of a child to a father It was that of a man to his

God now I want to just pose or pause there for a moment or pose there for a moment and just consider

What he said to that point? Because I I think

I mean this is certainly the way I Don't want to say this is the way I would have thought of it before I read this book

But I think this is often like our reflex when we think of Jesus. We think of him rightly as God We think of him as the second person in Trinity.

That's true. We think of him as all -powerful. That's true But we neglect

Some of the more subtle things of the scripture, which is to say his humanity and so when

Machen says here His prayer was real prayer

I was thinking about that and I thought well in the Garden of Gethsemane if he's just praying as Second person of the

Trinity to the first person of the Trinity the son to the father Why all the sweat

Why all the passion? Why all that drama related to us it kind of loses some of its meaning if we remove the

Humanity if we remove what he knows because it's been revealed to him what he knows is in front of him the tension the pressure

Knowing that he is going to not only just physically suffer, but he is going to emotionally suffer

Why because he knows what's coming? He knows that the burden of sin is going to be placed on him and he's going to be placed on that cross

He knows what's coming and does he? humanly want it

No So what does he say? Father if it be your will

Let this pass from me. I don't really want to do this not in a sinful way, but in a human way saying

This is gonna be hard nevertheless Not my will but your will be done

Machen goes on his faith was real religious faith Again if it if we just think of this as first person

Trinity second person Trinity, I believe in the first person in the Trinity Maybe not so special, but this was a human being who

While he did not struggle with faith had genuine honest faith in the father trust in him complete trust

Not because he's the second person in the Trinity, but because humanly having no Sin nature he trusted completely.

He was completely given over to the Spirit and therefore he did not doubt he was faithful and Again, he says his relation to his heavenly father was not merely that of a child to a father

It was that of a man to his God and I just I don't think we think in those terms often enough

Machen goes on. He says certainly Jesus had a religion without it. His humanity would indeed have been income or would have

Would have indeed have been but incomplete he would have been human, but it would have been incomplete

Without a doubt Jesus had a religion this or the fact is of the most

Importance, but it is equally important to observe that the religion or that that religion

I hate the repetition there, but so I'd say that the religion which Jesus had was not

Christianity What does he mean by that? We can't be a follower of Christ If you're

Christ and you can't be you know following all the precepts when that has not been established as a religion

Christianity is a way of getting rid of Sin and Jesus was without sin. So there he even develops it better If Christianity is like pastor

Mike who I don't want to give away his whole message, but if he's going to I'll okay I'll give it away Christianity is the capacity of Being able to be forgiven of every sin that you've ever committed

I just gave the whole thing away. So those of you haven't heard my preach can go home. No You know this but it's good to be reminded of it and we're gonna hear it in a unique way here next hour

But Jesus had no need to be forgiven of sin. So in that sense he you know, we can't say that he was a

Christian in that in that one sense His religion was a religion of paradise not a religion of sinful humanity

It was a religion to which we may perhaps in some sort attain in heaven when the process of our purification is complete

Though even then the memory of redemption will never leave us I'm gonna pause there and just ask you.

What do you think he means by that? It was a religion to which we may perhaps in some sort attain to heaven in heaven

What does mention mean by that? Relationship and communion with God.

I think that's that's a good part of it. I mean if you just look back he says When the process of our purification is complete all of our sin removed no obstruction between us and God, right?

so we have that perfect communion that perfect relationship Any other thoughts about that?

Okay, our forensic that is our judicial righteousness Will be actual righteousness, right?

We will stand before him made perfect and What are some other things that are true, you know in heaven that would have been true of Jesus.

Well, we'll have no doubt We'll have no Concerns about the faithfulness of God will have no

No sin in us. There'll be nothing to tarnish us or to remind us of our

Former sinfulness He goes on to say but certainly it is not a religion

With which we can begin the religion of Jesus was a religion of untroubled sonship

Christianity is a religion of the attainment of sonship by the redeeming work of Christ. We are transferred

We are adopted all these things are true of us, but they're not true of him

Jesus was not the adopted son of God. He was the actual son of God the rightful son of God now

I I just wanted to kind of Maybe bring together some things about why I think this is so important for us to focus on this

So I wrote this and I took some things from CARM, which is a pretty good It's the

Christian apologetic and something or other Whatever. Anyway, it's an acronym.

I Study their acronym. I Will see you. I can't remember what it stands for.

What can I say errors to avoid? concerning the person of Jesus and Arianism and again

Elder Scott went through this but I just I thought it would be handy for us to just kind of have a Definition here of it.

Arianism is an ancient theological error that appeared in about the year 320 it taught that God could not appear on earth and that Jesus was not eternal and could not be

God Now again, I would you know so far we're right in the

Jehovah Witness wheelhouse here Additionally, it taught that there was only one person of the

Godhead the Father Jesus then was a creation. It was condemned by the

Council of Nicaea at 325 AD in essence and by the way

It's funny because if you talk to another cult with which I'm very familiar the Mormons They will tell you that the

Bible was fundamentally changed in 325 AD the Council of Nicaea.

That's when it was edited, you know, and you go to that novel What what was it called by Brown Dan Brown?

Da Vinci code, you know, what's the what's the big? Conspiracy there that the

Bible was edited at the Council of Nicaea and 325 AD or ID Got voter

ID in my mind so you put all these things together, you know, there's this huge Conspiracy this big council, you know where the

Gnostics were kicked out of Christianity and all their Gospels went with them and You know, the the

Mormons are all upset about it and everything else, but that's all That's all from a very man centered philosophy if we believe that God is sovereign and we do

That he orchestrates everything and that his word is precious to him Then do we believe that he allowed some men to to exclude?

Books that rightfully belonged in the Bible. Absolutely not This I wrote so if there's error in it,

I apologize for it The essence of this is that Jesus was a created being that's what they say

Sumerians teach Jesus became God that he started out as merely immortal But that he became

God, but they deny he is eternally existing and always God This is docetism it and it denies the literal incarnation.

That is to say the Physical incarnation that God became man that he took on an additional

Form an additional nature as God now, this is again from karm the danger of Gnosticism Which again, this is all part and parcel the same thing

Gnosticism is easily apparent It denies the incarnation of God as the Sun and so doing it denies the true efficacy of the atonement meaning the atonement

Christ death could not have atoned for our sins could not have paid the price for our sins

Why because if Jesus is not God he could not atone for all mankind Let's just say and this would be the

Mormon position that he was born as a man that he became God at some point They don't really tell you where I not that I've read anyway

If he was a man merely a man who went to the cross. He lived a perfect life.

Let's say And he went to the cross and died And a death

What would be true of that Jesus Christ if he if he had if Jesus had only lived a perfect life and then died on the cross what would be true

Charlie his sinless life would grant eternal life to him alone

Why because it would have no value beyond his soul So Jesus had to be perfect.

He had to be human because he had to be able to die, but he also had to be God because God's life the life of God has eternal or Incalculable value

Immeasurable value it's significant enough. It's valuable enough to atone for the life of or the the sin of every

Single person so he had to be both God and man Oh, yeah on the opposite end and again, this is me this these false teachers taught

Jesus was not human but that he only appeared to be human and so that's the that's the

Gnostic theory that they would teach that he only appeared to be human on The other hand we must maintain

Jesus is fully God equal in essence and one in substance with the Father and the Holy Spirit What does that mean that means in terms of his attributes in?

terms of his power in terms of his being He is on equal

Footing he's entirely equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but they are

One God and three persons that we don't have a

Tri -theistic system we have a monotheistic system They are all each

God, but they exist in one person or one Godhood one triune

God in three persons Functionally he subordinates himself to the

Father This is called the economy of the Trinity They are all equal Father Son and Spirit, but the

Spirit subordinates himself to the Father and the Son And and I guess

I could well I did say the son subordinates himself to the Father we could study We're not studying the

Holy Spirit per se here, but we could study and we see that even in Isaiah Let me see if I can recall it now

Forty eight sixteen yes there it is Forty eight sixteen the Father sends the

Son and the Spirits So he sends them both, and then we would read in the New Testament that the

Son sends the Holy Spirit So he is sent out from both the Father and the Son See Jesus also fully man, so he's fully

God. He's fully man. He relinquished we talked about that from Philippians to you really relinquish the full exercise of his power and authority as God Descended to earth in submission to the will of the

Father was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit Suffered all the limitations of his creation just as we do

And I want to pause there for a moment It is an amazing thought We think often of the death and rightly so the death burial and resurrection of our

Lord Jesus Christ And we think that is amazing what amazing love that Jesus would do that for me

What amazing love that the Father would draw me that the Spirit would quicken me that is amazing

But here's another amazing thing is that the creator of everything?

agrees To enter his own creation and further amazing is to take on all the limitations that we enjoy

All the all the limitations that we have except no sin nature because he is

Conceived within the womb of Mary without the Aid of any man, but just miraculously conceived in the womb

So he has no sin nature which Goes through the line of Adam which

Joseph himself had Which Mary herself had but by virtue of being created by the

Holy Spirit within the womb of Mary Jesus does not have But he suffered all the limitations of his creation just as we do was tempted as we are net yet never sinned

He perfectly obeyed all the demands of the law then voluntarily suffered a

Most cruel and unjust death in order to be the satisfaction Jesus is the satisfaction for the wrath of God that is rightly do the elect that is to say every single believer

He rose bodily from the grave on the third day and is now seated in heaven interceding for those for whom he died that is

Who Jesus is? Fully God fully man all those things are true of him as calm

Again now that we're done with my stuff here Karma says this one of the most common errors that non -christian cults make is not understanding the two natures of Christ and this is so vital two natures one person and We're studying one of her or we're focused on one of his natures

But for example, the Jehovah Witnesses focus on Jesus humanity and ignore his divinity

They repeatedly quote verses dealing with Jesus as a man and try to set them against scripture showing that Jesus is also divine on The other hand the

Christian scientists do the reverse they focus on scripture showing Jesus divinity to the extent of denying his true

Humanity and we want to proclaim both and as I said when we began this study I think the easiest thing for us as Christians to do is to defend

The deity of Christ and sometimes it's harder for us to defend or even to grasp the humanity of Jesus So thoughts or questions about anything that we've said so far this morning you're free to keep that as Free to you no cost or obligation

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Okay We left off last week. We were talking about this concept of Jesus growing in Godliness growing in favor of the

Lord growing Spiritually throughout his life we would Acknowledge it or it's easier to acknowledge that he grew physically right maybe a little harder to grasp how he could grow spiritually why because he's

God How can God grow? Spiritually and we began talking about how if we really ponder it some of the scriptures don't seem to make much sense if we just assume that this little baby shows up and is

Aware of his divine nature I mean just imagine Jesus in the in you know in the

What's the word? I'm looking for he's he's in just newly born, and he's in the Major yeah, thank you.

I guess it's not close enough to Christmas yet, so he's in the major He's in the major, and you know he's sitting there as the second person of the

Trinity Just thinking I really feel small and puny right now I mean we don't have that recorded, but I but I I think that you know if we look back at the gospel of Luke and Fact let me just read that I'll see how far back

I have to go okay Let's go to Luke chapter 2 verses 41 to 52

Again, we're picking up this idea of Jesus increasing in wisdom one of the chapters from where his book

And I'll read this and then we'll skip ahead to where we are Luke chapter 2 verses 41 to 52 now his parents

Jesus parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover and When he was 12 years old they went up according to custom and when the feast was ended as they were returning

The boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem now again. We talked about how this is possible.

They weren't bad parents It's just like you would go as a community as a large extended family with all your friends.

It's like the whole neighborhood and Bigger would would all go down to Jerusalem to celebrate

Passover, so it says his parents did not know it They didn't notice. He was gone. Why would they this is just kind of how you traveled to these things?

in a big crowd But supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey

But when they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances or but then they began to Search for him among their relatives and acquaintances and when they did not find him they returned to Jerusalem searching for him after three days they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers listening to them and Asking them questions and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers 12 years old and All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers and when his parents saw him

They were astonished and his mother said to him Son, why have you treated us?

So behold your father and I have been searching for you in great distress and he said to them

Why were you looking for me? did you not know that I must be in my father's house and they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them and He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them and his mother

Treasured up all these things in her heart. So we were talking about this development this growth of Jesus and Where are notes that he

You know, he would have grown by the teaching of Joseph and Mary he would have grown by hearing the word taught by his rabbis in Nazareth Through his own study of Scripture, then he talks some about the favor of the

Lord and what that means And I'll pick it up here. It seems reasonable in any case to understand

Luke's reference to the father Placing upon his son

This favor to be the spirit which came upon him at his conception. This is where we left off last week

Just talking about the spirit being placed on him of the at conception we read that out of Luke 1 and The angel answered her

Mary and said the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you therefore the child to be born will be called holy the

Son of God and where said Luke likely has in mind here only and Not only the conception of Jesus as sinless but also the conception of Jesus as in dwelt by the

Holy Spirit in the same manner as John the Baptist, so with all that as a prelude, let's

Again, go to Isaiah chapter 11 in this passage

Really foreshadowing the life of Jesus and when somebody read

Isaiah 11 and just verse 2, please Okay, and where notes

He will be wise but not wise of himself or wise of his own divine nature per se rather he will be wise because The Spirit of the

Lord will rest upon him the spirit of counsel and might he's going to have this spirit of the

Lord Resting upon him. What what causes let me ask you this because we have commands in Ephesians 5 18 or we have a command there to be filled with the

Spirit. What is it that? Well first, let's what what causes you to be filled with the

Spirit. Can I can

I you know fill you with the Spirit? Can I give that to you? Can I just point to?

Pretty even or can pretty fling around With a sports jacket and throw it around give you a filling up.

What causes you to be filled with the Spirit? Well, God does yes By the reading of his word, yes

Regeneration I Mean that enables you to be filled with the Spirit, right? I think obedience what well, why why would obedience matter?

Which kind of drives to the point why would obedience matter? What does disobedience do

It Separates you from God Okay, if we're gonna say be filled with the

Holy Spirit Well, how would we we can't totally if we're if we belong to Christ if we belong to God We are indwelt by the

Holy Spirit and we can't remove him from us. But what is the idea of filling anyway?

the idea of filling isn't You know from my fingertips to the tops of my head to the bottoms of my toes

What's the idea of being filled with the Holy Spirit? being controlled by the

Holy Spirit If I am being controlled by the Holy Spirit, then

I am NOT being controlled by Sin by my own sinful desires by my sin nature so What would cause?

The the Holy Spirit to not rest upon Jesus God places

Isaiah says and in fact Luke says, you know, he's created by the

Holy Spirit humanly speaking What would cause the

Holy Spirit to leave Jesus sin? So when we see here that it the

Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him and then we consider Jesus lived a sinless life Well, what do we know? The Holy Spirit that presence that control of the

Holy Spirit Did not leave him. Yes I'll judge if it's bizarre or not

Boom bizarre. Okay. Go ahead. I Don't think that's a was that a statement or a question

Third the third person of the Trinity helped the second person of the Trinity keep one of his nature's sinless

Let's let's just back up a little bit from there his divine nature the divine nature

Jesus Could it sin and what we'll talk about this more.

I think next week we'll talk about peccability and impeccability Just means the ability of sin and the ability or not having the ability of sin but we'll we'll talk about that next week and we'll try not to say peccability and impeccability too many times, but could the could the nature of Jesus that was divine

God that the God nature Could it sin?

No So Charlie's question statement is what we'll address next week could the

Could the human nature of Jesus sin and that is as we will see next week a debate

Among I mean, I'm reading Charles Hodge Hi, I forget some of who the other guys are but there are a lot of different positions on this could he in his humanity sin?

So it's quite a debate, but did the third person of the Trinity help the second person of the

Trinity keep one of his nature's sinless I would say Yes, did he strengthen him so that his human nature would not fail.

I I think the answer is yes Right and and and and again that gets to the the peccadilla

Peccadillo the the peccability impeccability question was that Was the temptation real and I was reading, you know, there are certainly

Smarter scholars than me, but that's not saying much Who would say that it wasn't real that Jesus was in control his divine nature was in control and so basically, you know the temptation came along and you know his divine nature so controlled his human nature that it was not real and I I failed to see how that is

This is just my opinion but I failed to see how that's in keeping with the idea that Jesus was tempted in every way just as we are because Sadly for us and contra

Some heretics. We don't have a god nature in us saying Steve don't worry about this.

I've got that, you know cure Your human nature would fall to that sin, but your divine nature will not

I don't have a divine nature in me I don't have one and that's why I need a

Savior. I Can't be God So I that's a that's a question that we will wrestle with I think next week but Yes, well the fact that he's born without a sin nature enables him

First of all to never sin because the fact that we have a sin nature You know makes it impossible for us not to sin we sin by nature and by desire but You know even in James 1 which we've talked about, you know where it says

God cannot sin. He's not tempted to sin and How do we sin we sin when we we we first observe the

Potential sin or we think about it and then we just focus focus on it. We ruminate on it.

We decide to do it Sometimes it's more instantaneous than that but we entertain that thought and it's because of Our sin nature that we entertain it and I would argue that Jesus not having a sin nature

These things were Let's put it this way sometimes I think that our desire for sin is greater than our desire to obey

Right. I think that's a fair way to put it Because if it wasn't if our desire to obey

God was greater than our desire to sin, we wouldn't sin So let's back up. What is the sin nature or lack thereof for Jesus?

Then what does that do his desire to obey? Is what he always talks about.

I came here not to do my own will but the will of him who? sent me so Jesus is focused on obeying the father submitting to the father obeying the father's will

It's pretty hard then to especially when we consider the spirits work in his life to think well

Why didn't Jesus sin? It's because he had one objective to obey the father to do what the father wanted

We we don't have that so how did Then the the lack of a sin nature come in.

Well, I think it enabled him to resist sin and the spirit worked in him to strengthen that capacity, so I think it's kind of like You know if you have a certain amount of strength and you go to the gym and you work out more than you have more strength and that's a

Crude idea, but I think that's it He had a strength to begin with that. We just don't have other thoughts or questions about that Yes, Bob Yeah, he is that Jesus is the second

Adam, sorry Yeah, the first Adam fell the first Adam You know people want to talk about free will and I often say there are three people in the

Bible who have a free will three human beings anyway, you know Adam Eve and Jesus because they all had a lack of a sin nature two of them

Two of them didn't do very well And the first Adam failed the second Adam did not fail

So that's absolutely correct. All right See Where it goes on he says it stands to reason that the

Spirit of God Did with Jesus what he seeks to do with all of us in whom he dwells this says he illumined the

Word of God to Jesus mind and Cultivated that word in his heart as Jesus read studied heard and was taught that precious spirit

Inspired word now. This is the what passage should this remind us of?

first Corinthians Taking you guys back to seminary to What did

I get for my $300 ,000 education You know every time my wife and I talked about the price of seminary goes up Let's just go to 1st

Corinthians chapter 2 for a moment see if this doesn't

Strike a chord for you. I'm gonna start maybe

Well, I'll just start back in verse 6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom

Although it is not a wisdom of this age or the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God which

God decreed before the ages for our glory None of the rulers of this age understood this for if they had they would not have crucified the

Lord of glory But as it is written what no eye has seen nor ear has heard

Nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him These things

God has revealed to us through the Spirit for the Spirit searches everything Even the depths of God for who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person which is in him

So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God Now we have received not the spirit of this world or of the world

But the Spirit who is from God that we might understand the things freely given us by God And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the

Spirit Interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual the natural person does not accept the things of the

Spirit of God for they are There are folly to him and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned

So there is this Spiritual knowledge that the Spirit would impart to us and he does it through his word and even as Jesus would study as he would ruminate as he would read about the

Bible Was the Spirit at work in him? Yes. Will he work in us? Yes But all the more

I think in Jesus not having a sin nature Was able to contemplate and spend a lot more time frankly on it

It would be the focus of his life where writes this he says How did he come to know the Bible talking about Jesus as he did?

How did he have such a mastery of its content and ability to bring appropriate texts to mind when needed

Was his knowledge of the Bible automatic? Did he just know all of it due to his being fully

God? And I wrote

I said well, how could he converse with the most learned men and all of Israel at the age of 12? Well, how could he do that?

How could they not just say child get away from us, you know nothing It's because he obviously demonstrated something to them and may

I say that as you know pastor Mike is want to say that We don't learn the

Bible by sticking in it or a pillow at night learning by osmosis. Jesus didn't either

He studied I Think I did read this last week or maybe I didn't me. I was just thinking about it last week, but He was a

Psalm 1 prototype Jesus was I'm gonna read or why don't we turn to Psalm 1 verses 1 to 3 and just think about Jesus as you read this and See if this doesn't apply.

I mean not only did he know Scripture, but what do you what do you also know? He had a great amount of discernment.

That is to say he listened to the teaching of the Pharisees and he said That's wrong you've heard it said and May I also add at great risk to my myself add to Scripture and say this

I'm going to add to Scripture by saying this you've heard it said and you have taught Right.

This is what they did It wasn't you know, they didn't hear it from on high. This is something they taught to one another so I'm not really adding description

You've heard it said but I say to you he corrected them How could he do all these things let's read

Psalm 1 verses 1 to 3 just think about Jesus as you read this Psalm 1 1 2 3

Everybody raise their hand Bruce designated reader Okay. Now I I don't think that that is necessarily speaking only of Jesus, but when we think of Jesus doing all these things perfectly

We understand exactly how he was able to do what he did Where writes of this or where writes this he says the

Spirit then worked in the mind and the heart of the young boy Jesus to grant him a hunger for the

Word of God and Insight into that word as he was taught and as he meditated upon it in quiet study and reflection

As and where goes on he says as he meditated upon certain passages

It's easy to imagine how the Spirit may have taught him now some of this is speculation But I think this is right as we just kind of think about the life of Jesus as a human being

Let's know where says says as he reflected on Psalm 22, and we'll look at Psalm 22 in a minute

As he reflected on the weightiness of the suffering described there the despair and agony Depicted the

Holy Spirit illumined Jesus mind to understand the one spoken of in the psalm Forsaken by God and given over to unimaginable

Torment was none other than himself. He quoted from its opening line from the cross

Listen to Psalm 22 verses 14 to 18. I Am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like wax. It is melted within my breast My strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to my jaws

You lay me in the dust of death for dogs encompass me a company of evildoers encircles me

They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all my bones They stare and gloat over me.

They divide my garments among them and for my clothing They cast lots imagine

You know the boy Jesus reading this and you know, just kind of getting that sense.

This is you this is your future Isaiah 53 verses 10 and 11 will close here

Isaiah 53 verses 10 and 11 yet. It was the will of the Lord to crush him He has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for guilt.

He shall see his offspring He shall prolong his days The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand out of the anguish of his soul

He shall see and be satisfied By his knowledge shall the righteous one my servant make many

To be accounted righteous and he shall bear their iniquities

This is what that servant was to do Where said this about Isaiah 53?

He said the Spirit of the Lord within him Would grant him increasing understanding not only of the truth of that word

But also of his identity as the Son of God the suffering servant the one who came into this world to give his life a

Ransom for many And we'll pick it up there again next week as we speak of the man

Christ Jesus again Just contemplating the greatness of what? Jesus Christ did and the work and ministry of the

Holy Spirit in his life and we'll get into the controversies of peccability and impeccability next week and Which I think should be very interesting.

All right, let's close in prayer father We thank you again for the perfect life of the

Lord Jesus Christ Fully God fully human fully obedient to your will fully devoted To bring you about the the rescue of many to Die a sacrificial death in our place the death that we deserve

For our sins for our sinful thoughts for our deeds Father we we praise you as we consider the work of the triune

God in redeeming us in bringing us ultimately to the heavenly prize father, let us rejoice and and really just bask in the wonder of All that you have done for your people.