Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - An Expanding Name
One meaning would have been enough, to simply know He is with us, but it wasn't enough for God, so He expanded our understanding of Him through His name.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:This is the way that God shows himself into history. Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1. So this goes on through history. God keeps revealing himself more and more and more so that we can appreciate him more and worship him more and more. This is why it's important to know history, right? Because through it you're learning about God. And you're learning to appreciate, and your worship can become more genuine. So Hebrews chapter 1, verses 1 through 3, further revelation about God. God, after he spoke long ago to the fathers and the prophets, in many portions and in many ways, which is what we've been looking at, right? In these last days has spoken to us in his son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the world. Genesis 1, right? And he is the radiance. This is the Son. The Son is the radiance of His what? His glory. And that's what we're studying here, the doctrine of God's glorification. Well, Christ is the radiance of his glory. In other words, if you've seen, what did Jesus say? If you seen me, you've seen the Father.
SPEAKER_02:What's the greatest revelation of God ever in the history of the world? The Son, Jesus Christ. They said, Jesus even said, Why do you say, show me the Father?
SPEAKER_01:You're looking at the exact radiance of his glory. And it goes on to say, and the exact representation of his nature. And his nature is his attributes, right? His sovereignty, his righteousness, his justice, his love, his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, immutable, eternal, eternality, right? I mean, it was all embodied and captured in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was all there. I mean, if you saw him, what were you seeing? You were seeing God, right? This is why it was such an egregious thing that the nation rejected him. You're looking at God in the face and you're saying, crucified. Can you imagine? Well, yeah, it's not a good moment for the nation Israel. So this is to elicit worship, right? To elicit worship. Ephesians 3.10, God is doing, there's also angels, right? What is God doing? We won't have to go through all these, but Ephesians 3.10, God is making himself known to angels through his work with the church. It's like, you know, we have the Bible to learn about God and the things of God. Angels, of course, have the Bible, but they also have the church. And we're like their Bible. And through us, they learn about the manifold wisdom of God, the manifold, many aspects of the wisdom of God. When they watch what he is doing with the church, and you say, Well, my goodness, the church is a wreck. Yeah, I know it is. But God is doing things through the church. Some things we don't understand what all he's doing. And the angels are looking at all this at the church, and they're learning about God, which is how God glorifies himself to the angelic realm. And so there's a whole lot going on with history, not just with men, but also with angels. And this is all part of the progressive revelation of God's glory in time. But there's also, oh, so a statement. History is a crescendo of revelation. You know, a crescendo, you know, like uh when you start in music very softly and you increase in volume. Then you got the day crescendo. But history is a crescendo of revelation culminating in a marveling that is beyond expectation, and every knee will bow and confess that Jesus is Lord. I mean, the whole of history is just great crescendo. And we're working our way to this time when every knee will bow and confess that Jesus is Lord, which we'll talk more about next next week. The glorification of God is not just progressive in time, it's also uh extensive in space or extends in space. Psalm 139. Turn to Psalm 139, verses 7 and 8.
SPEAKER_02:This is a famous uh Psalm of David. Psalm 139, 7 and 8.
SPEAKER_01:Goes through several of the attributes of God, God's omniscience, and when he gets to verse 7, where he he moves not to his omniscience, but he moves to his omnipresence. Or his permeation of every place that can be. Right? Both inside and outside the universe. God's not just uh omnipotent inside space, he's he permeates outside of space. You say, What's that? I know but God is, right?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, before the creation of the world, was there any space? No. Space is a creation. So what was there? God. But isn't that a space? No. That's outside of space. And he's there too.
SPEAKER_01:And he's David is reflecting on the fact of God's immanence inside of creation, his presence wherever you go. He says, Where can I go from your spirit? I mean, in space. Is there a place I can go away from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you're there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you're there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, if I go to Pluto, if I go to another galaxy, you see, um, behold, he is there.
SPEAKER_02:He's as much there as he is here. Isn't he? And it's like, well, then he is making himself known where?
SPEAKER_01:Everywhere. If you go to the farthest reaches of space, will you see the glory of God through his handiwork? Yes. You will see it. It's unmistakable. You'll be seeing from a different perspective, from somewhere else in our cosmos. And we've never seen it. And how much more is there we haven't seen of him? And he's infinite. So it's infinite. You will always, for all of eternity, learn new things about God. Every single moment you will learn more about God. It's impossible not to. And guess what? You'll never know him entirely because he's incomprehensible. You can never know him entirely. Eternity will not be boring because it will be like new discoveries every moment.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube under Spoke and Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.