WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 Let's look in Hebrews chapter one and begin in verse four. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:09.839 You've stood quite a bit. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:11.759 I'm going to let you remain seated. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.279 Let's remember to reverence. 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:15.759 We are not reading a classic. 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.559 We're reading the words of Almighty God. 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.800 Thus saith the Lord. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:32.479 And he said in verse 4, having Jesus having become so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.000 That name is son. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.479 That name is Son. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.240 The context tells that. 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.759 For to which of the angels did he ever say, You are my son? 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:42.399 See? 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:44.479 Today I have begotten you. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.840 He said that to Jesus. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.399 And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:58.479 And when he again brings the firstborn into the world, he says, Let all the angels of God worship him. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:05.519 And of the angels, he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers flames of fire? 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:16.799 In other words, when he's quoting the scripture, he says, And of the angels he says, I'm going to make the angels spirits and my ministers flames of fire. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.400 Now that's what we'd say, but he quotes the scripture there. 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:23.040 It's a statement, not a question. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:28.239 Verse 8, but to the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.200 A scepter of righteousness is a scepter of your kingdom. 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.400 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.879 Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions. 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:47.599 And you, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.959 I want to tell you, you ought to be shouting glory even reading this. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:51.519 Amen. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.239 I just get excited about that. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:02.560 The Lord in the beginning laid the foundation, verse 10 says, and the heavens are the works of his hands. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.239 They will perish, but you remain. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.359 I love that. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.520 There will perish. 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.759 But when the smoke clears, there you'll be. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:38.639 But to which of the angels has he ever said, Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstools? 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:46.719 Are they not also ministering spirits sent for to minister for those who will inherit salvation? 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.280 Wonderful verses. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.240 Awesome. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:03:02.639 Verses you ought to when you when you feel like you need to have a little more awe and reverence for God and Jesus, these are verses you can go back to and read and see who He is. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:07.280 Again, my friend, this is God that says this. 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.759 So we need to pay attention. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.719 Hebrews 1:4 becomes He has become so much better than the angels. 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.159 This is the title. 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.319 The word better is used 13 times in this book. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.840 We're not going to go through them again. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.680 We did that last week. 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.639 But here in these verses, number one, he is much better than the angels. 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:42.159 I also did a little caveat in my introduction to tell you that some of these phrases, like having become or begotten, does not mean that Jesus was created. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.360 His body was, but he is eternal God. 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:49.120 He is a spirit. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:50.240 He was a spirit. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.400 Now he has a flesh. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:54.560 And we'll talk about that today. 00:03:54.879 --> 00:04:08.479 But don't make no mistake that Jesus has every attribute, ability, character, loveliness, fearfulness, terror of Almighty God. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:27.439 Jesus, in the New Testament that everybody loved because of his miracles, his manner, and his messages, is the same person, the same God that people feared in the Old Testament when the mountain shook and the lightning flashed and the people died in judgment. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.279 It is the same person. 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.680 But he's brought grace. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.439 Number one, he's better than the angels. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.680 Last week we said this, because he is the son of God. 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:44.959 Alright? 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.279 And that's what we talked about. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:53.120 Number two, because he is the son of man. 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.160 Not only because he's the son of God, but he is the son of man. 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:05.600 I spent a lot of years wondering what in the world, why would God call his son, call Jesus the Son of Man? 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.519 It's because he is. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.040 He is the son of man. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.279 He came from the womb of Mary. 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.279 His father was Joseph. 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.279 Now he didn't come from the blood of Joseph, but he came from the line of Joseph. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.519 He came from the line of David. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.920 And the Bible says he took upon human flesh. 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.959 He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and Mary. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.519 And inside of her, just like you and I, he grew a physical body. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:40.720 He was born just like you and I did: hands, feet, toes, and fingers, hair, the whole thing. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.920 And he he uh grew like we did when he got to be 12 years old. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.879 They fell saw him, and we finally see a glimpse that he's different than all the other boys. 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.319 Because he begins to teach the rabbis and the scribes in the temple. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:58.720 And he was wise beyond his years. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.600 The Bible says he grew in wisdom and stature. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:02.079 Why? 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:03.279 Why would he have to? 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:08.480 That would seem like he's not God if he could grow in wisdom. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:18.000 That's because he withheld his human, or his not human side, he withheld his spiritual side. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:31.519 It's not that he didn't have it, he just suppressed it for our benefit, and so that he could confess that he was a high priest that was touched with the feelings of our infirmities. 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.079 He was at all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:37.519 And so he did that. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.279 Philippians chapter 2, you can go read about that. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:43.279 He is the Son of Man. 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:52.079 But when he again brings the firstborn into the world, verse 6 says, he says, Let all the angels of God worship him. 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.160 Now we're going to look at this verse. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:04.319 First of all, I want to show you that little last phrase, let all the angels of God worship him. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:18.959 Now, every phrase, every word, major word that I see in a scripture, one of the first things I do to study, as you should do in your study, is use a good cross-reference. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:24.240 Treasure of Scripture knowledge is the and there's a new treasure of scripture knowledge. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.879 Every Bible, your Bible may have cross-references. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:32.399 Go right down the middle of the scripture or maybe on the sides, and it has little numbers that correspond with the scripture. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:39.199 And what that does, that gives you proof texts and other verses that mean the same or maybe teaching the same. 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:40.959 And you can go look those verses up. 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:51.759 It is the some of the greatest commentators, greatest theologians said, one of the greatest tools a Christian, a theologian can have is cross-reference tools. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.279 Thank God for the men that did these for us. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:01.279 Well, I'll be honest with you, I ain't satisfied with the cross-reference that he gave for this. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:11.120 And just because you can't find a verse in the Old Testament that corresponds, that doesn't mean that the writer of Hebrews wasn't speaking prophetically. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:16.319 Now, does God say the angels should worship him? 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.240 Yes, we can go to other verses. 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:30.480 But this quote exactly where it says, let all the angels of God worship him, we have a hard time finding that exact quote in the Old Testament. 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.080 But it certainly is something we know that God demands. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.480 But I'll tell you one thing we can see in the New Testament that proves it. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.080 I don't know the reference. 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.440 I think it's Matthew 5. 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:42.000 I don't know. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:42.639 I don't know. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:43.919 But it says this. 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:53.519 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill to men. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.120 And you can go to Revelation. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:56.399 We're going to take the time. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:13.600 But at the end of chapter 5, chapter 4, chapter 5, in there, at the end of it, everything, but all the angels of heaven are worshiping him, bowing down to him, crying, holy, holy, holy, and saying, Worthy is the Lamb. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.000 Yes. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.960 Angels bow down to the Son of Man. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.799 He's the Son of God, but he's the Son of Man. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:39.679 Adolf Safir, who I got from Arthur Pink's commentary, but it's his quote, says this is a little lengthy, but it is tremendous. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.759 I love the point he brings out here. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.679 I'm going to quote it for you. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:54.159 He says, Is it more wonderful to see the Son of God in Bethlehem as a little babe, or to see the Son of Man at the right hand of the Father? 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.039 Because that's where the Bible talks about the Son of Man being. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.279 Daniel is the one that brought this up over in Daniel chapter 7. 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.279 Daniel calls him the Son of Man. 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:08.799 It has eschatological implications. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:15.200 It says there will be a man at the side of God, not just a man, but the God man. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:16.480 And listen to this. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:17.759 This is very important, kids. 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:18.960 You need to understand this. 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.799 Jesus is not 50% God and 50% man. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:27.759 He is 100% God and he is 100% man. 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:29.200 Okay? 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:30.639 Just like you. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.799 You have a spirit and you have a body, but you cannot separate the two. 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:36.320 That's you. 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.200 It's you. 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.600 And Jesus is God, and he is also flesh. 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.000 Not sinful flesh, but flesh nonetheless. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:47.679 Glorified now. 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:59.120 He said, Is it more wonderful to see the Son of Man, Son of God in Bethlehem as a babe, or to see the Son of Man at the right hand of the Father? 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:10.799 Is it more marvelous to see the counselor, the wonderful, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the everlasting Father, as a child born unto us and a son given to us? 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:18.000 Or to see the Son of Man and in him the dust of earth seated at the right hand of God? 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:34.000 Can you believe that you and I are going to be made to be able to approach the throne of God and cry out, not just Lord and God, but Abba Father. 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.120 How is that? 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.600 Because Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us. 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.039 It is marvelous to see this. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.799 He goes on, the high priest, I love this. 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:51.840 It just makes me want to break out and shouting and weeping at the same time. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:12:00.399 He says, the high priest entered once a year into the Holy of Holies, but who would have ventured to abide there? 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.200 What high priest would have stayed, my friend? 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.000 They wanted to get done and get out of there. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.159 Because the presence of God was there. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:16.960 And if he found one mistake in them, one uh unholiness or one uh uncleanliness in them, they'd die immediately. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.519 They were fearful and terrified. 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:21.279 So they'd leave. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.639 The high priest entered once a year into the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:35.919 But who would have ventured to abide there or take up his position next to the cherubim where the glory of the Most High was revealed? 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:37.279 I tell you who? 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.120 Jesus, the Son of Man, the Son of God. 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:42.960 Woo, glory. 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.919 I'm kind of liking my own preaching this morning. 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:46.879 End quote. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.960 This next is my own quote. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:13:00.000 He is the divine Son of God, and yet he has a body that is touched with the feelings of our infirmities and was all in all points tempted, like as we are yet without sin. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.200 Thank God, he's the Son of Man. 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:08.159 If he had not become the Son of Man, he could not save us from our sin. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:13.440 The mystery of the dual nature of Christ is very simple, though. 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.279 The dual nature of Christ is very simple. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:25.279 Jesus, who is eternally God in time, came to earth and was born of flesh through the Virgin Mary. 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:25.840 Okay. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.279 Number two, he took upon flesh, but not sinful flesh. 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.039 His body died on the cross. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:54.080 At his resurrection, his body, resurrected, became a glorified spiritual body that can walk through all and be one here, this place one second, and miles and miles, and probably eons away at the very next second. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:01.039 Jesus has a human body, but it does not limit any of his divine attributes. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.360 My friend, God the Father is omniscient, so is Jesus. 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:09.120 God the Father is omnipresent, so is Jesus. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:10.559 He is in this room with us. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:19.679 You have been baptized into Jesus, and at the same time in a body, he is sitting at the right hand of God in heaven. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.080 He's omnipresent, so is Jesus. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:29.759 God is omnipotent, all powerful, and so is his son. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.360 God is eternal, and so is Jesus. 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:37.600 God is immutable. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.080 That means he never changes. 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:41.519 We'll see that. 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.080 And so is Jesus. 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.600 He never changes. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:46.879 My dad. 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:56.960 My dad had a church background and he knew a lot of the Bible, especially after he got saved. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.120 He all he ever did after that, most of the time, is read his Bible. 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.039 He read it constantly. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.320 But even before that and memorize a kid, I'd ask him. 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:07.360 I went to church. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:08.240 He didn't go to church. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:09.519 He wasn't even saved then. 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.000 But I'd ask him, Daddy, what's your favorite verse? 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.519 Because I'd heard him say, well, my favorite Bible verse is this. 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.679 And I'd ask him every once in a while. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:25.679 And he'd say it's in Hebrews, and he'd quote it, Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.240 I didn't know why that meant so much to him. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.840 I don't know why it did. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.159 But for us, I want to tell you, you better be glad Jesus is the same. 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:39.039 His promises are the same today, yesterday, and forever, because you're not. 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:44.559 You might have been lovely today, but you probably won't be tomorrow. 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:50.799 You might have overcome your sin pretty good today, but you won't tomorrow or the next day. 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:53.279 You're going to fall and you're going to fail. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.480 But the promises of Jesus will not. 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.840 Oh, glory to God. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:58.879 Hallelujah. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:03.360 Because He does not change, we are not consumed. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.360 That's what the Bible says. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:06.879 Explain this, brother. 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:07.759 Unexplain it. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:08.720 I'm trying my best. 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:10.559 Quit yelling at me. 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:23.759 If you could explain it, if you could explain this, that God took on flesh and he is omniscient, almighty God spiritually, and he is also the same with the human body. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.759 If you could explain it, guess what? 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:27.600 He would be God. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.600 And there's just some things you can't explain. 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.960 You just got to take it by faith that it's true. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.559 It's unexplainable. 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:41.679 How can you explain that Jesus and God and the Spirit have always existed? 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:42.799 His eternality. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:43.919 We're going to get into that. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.120 How do you explain that? 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.000 I can't. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.399 I remember as a kid trying to think about him being eternal. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.720 I'd see him going back and back in the darkness until I couldn't see him anymore. 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:53.759 I don't know. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.799 I tell you why. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:56.159 I'll give you a little bit of this. 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.080 Time means nothing to God. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:03.519 Before creation, there might not have been even anything called time. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.279 We really don't know. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:11.440 The Bible declares it that he is God, that he's the Son of Man and that He is the Son of God. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.440 The Bible declares it, gives us ideas of its possibility. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:21.039 But at the end of the day, we must place our faith in what God said. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.079 Number three, where are we now? 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:25.440 Oh, we're good time. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:34.079 We know that Jesus is better than angel because he is the Son of God, He is the Son of Man, and because He is the King of Kings. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:37.680 It says King there, but He's King of Kings. 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:48.720 Verse 7 says, and of the angels, he says, Who makes his angels spirits and ministers of flame and fire, of fire? 00:17:49.359 --> 00:18:01.680 If we take the definitions of these two words for the angels, we find angel, the word angel, he makes his angels ministers. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.000 Angel means spiritual messenger. 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:05.440 That's all it means. 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:07.920 I'm a spiritual messenger. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:09.359 God called me to preach. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:11.200 You're spiritual, you're a messenger. 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:12.960 We're just a bunch of angels. 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:13.680 Amen. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.799 Wonder if our mamas would say that. 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.640 But the word ministers means servants. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.279 It means servants. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.000 So angels are servants. 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.160 Jesus is the Son of God. 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:31.279 He's the Son of Man. 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:33.279 He's the heir of all things. 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:39.920 And verse 8 says, But the Son, but to the Son he says, your throne. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:46.400 Oh God is forever and ever. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.160 A scepter of righteousness is a scepter of your kingdom. 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.839 Oh God, he says. 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:01.680 A scepter, he says. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.240 Your kingdom, he says. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.880 You put all those together, and although he doesn't call him by name, guess what? 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:10.960 It equals that he is what? 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:13.599 Thank you, maybe. 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:14.799 King. 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:16.799 He king. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:21.599 And since he's God, he's the king of kings. 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.839 Because he is of the lineage of David, he's the king of Israel. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.000 But because he is the Son of God, he is the King of Kings. 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:41.359 First Timothy 6 14, that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless, until the Lord Jesus Christ appearing, which he will manifest in his own time. 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:56.880 He who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. 00:19:57.200 --> 00:19:57.839 Amen. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:00.000 That's God. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:01.839 That's Jesus. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.079 Revelation 17, 14. 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:06.160 These will make war with the Lamb. 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:07.119 That's Jesus. 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.839 And the Lamb will overcome them, for he is the Lord of lords and the King of kings. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.920 And those who are with him are called chosen and faithful. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:22.319 And you know how he's going to overcome these hordes and millions and millions of enemies that come against him? 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:27.680 He's just going to open his mouth and they will be gone. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:28.640 Gone. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.079 The Bible builds it up as it's going to be some great battle. 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.319 How many people hate the chosen nation of God? 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:45.519 That is Israel. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:50.960 The amazing thing about the Armageddon is that men have the audacity. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.160 And the amazing thing is God Jesus has come from the heavens. 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:59.920 The Bible says on a white horse, I assume it is a white horse, and we're on horses behind him. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:06.960 And all of his servants and his angels and his messengers are behind him in the heavens. 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:08.400 Can you imagine? 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:10.400 That's going to make it awesome. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:14.400 But as far as the battle goes, it ain't going to last but a second. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:20.559 And we're going to start to draw swords and won't even have time to take them out of the sheath. 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:24.799 The only thing we'll do is bring them out of the sheath and pick our teeth with them. 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:27.680 Because he's done all the work. 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:31.119 Revelation 19, 15. 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:33.599 This is what I just talked about. 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:39.440 Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, and with it he should strike the nations. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.079 He himself will rule them with a rod of iron. 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:47.039 He himself treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:53.440 And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:54.400 Whew. 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.759 These titles do not refer to Christ. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.440 Christ's position. 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.960 It refers to his power. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.240 What good is a title king if you don't have an army to back it up? 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:19.759 What good is a sheriff's badge if he doesn't have the belt to back it up? 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:20.960 Amen. 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:24.240 I love Andy Griffith, but he's just foolish. 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:30.480 That show is built on the idea, well, every man is good inside. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:32.480 No, every man's evil inside. 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:35.440 You ought to have a six-shooter on your side. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:40.400 If you don't have the power to back it up. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:50.000 And if you got a gang of people that are broken the law, how are you going to arrest them if you don't have the power to call more authority and get them? 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:55.599 If you don't have the power, how are you going to be a king if an army comes against you and you don't have an army? 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:58.720 You're not much of a king and you don't have much of a kingdom. 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:00.400 And it's silliness. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:02.880 And people laugh at you and they will laugh. 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.680 But my friend Jesus has all power. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.440 He has all authority. 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.759 And this isn't talking about his position. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:18.720 You could call him, you could call him peeny weenie, or whatever you want to call him, but my friend, he is going to destroy the armies of this world. 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:26.079 You may not call him king before he comes, but after he gets here and does what he does, you're going to call him king. 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:31.920 Every knee will bow, every toe will confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.000 And I tell you what's going to make it easier and funner and better if you'll start doing it right now. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.440 As God and King, he is better than the angels. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.599 We talked about that. 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:57.119 How awesome. 00:23:57.359 --> 00:23:58.400 But he's the Son of Man. 00:23:58.559 --> 00:23:59.759 Is that any less awesome? 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:00.160 No. 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:07.119 It's awesome for the universe to know that Jesus is God and He's in heaven and he sits around. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:19.119 But my friend, that Jesus that sits at the right hand of God, the Bible calls the Son of Man, which is good news for sinners like Roland Bettis. 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:23.279 He smiled real big. 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:28.240 Not because, not because I included, because he knows it's true. 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:37.599 That is awesome because we are sinners, like Fred Edwards. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:41.599 And like the chief among us, Ron Owen. 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:53.839 He is the Son of Man, therefore, he died, rose again, and intercedes for me, understanding what I went through and what I feel. 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.759 He did it without sin. 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:04.880 And since we're all sinners, not just me and Roland and Brother Fred and Miss Christie and Miss Barbara, all of us are sinners. 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:11.519 And even though we are, God made a way of escape by becoming flesh for you and me. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:15.200 I've told you this, and Jesus said this, and I should have brought it. 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:16.160 It's not in my sermon. 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:16.799 I don't know why. 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.000 I bring this up a lot. 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:20.880 I'm going to bring it up again, and then we're going to go home. 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:32.720 Jesus said, Father, in the garden, now glorify me now with the glory that we had before the worlds were made. 00:25:33.279 --> 00:26:00.319 Now he's talking about the crucifixion, the beating, the bloodiness, the spitting, and the mockery, and the flesh ripped from his face, and the flesh ripped from his back, and the riven feet and hands, and the nastiness, and the cursing and the blasphemies and the and the mockery of the thieves and murderers hung with him as a common criminal. 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:02.640 How is that glorious? 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.640 Let me ask you something. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.559 Through that, we know that our sins were forgiven and paid for. 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:11.920 I don't need a crown. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:13.519 I need a cure. 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.000 I don't need a sovereign king. 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:19.759 I need a savior. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:25.200 And my friend, the cross means more to me than the throne does. 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:32.640 Because it was that cross and that empty tomb that saved me from eternity, separated from God in hell. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.000 That's why the cross is more glorious than the crown. 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.119 Now don't make any mistake about it. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:51.759 When all the sin is gone, when all the flesh is gone, and we coronate him finally as King of Kings, that's going to be something else, isn't it? 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.440 It's going to be glorious. 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:54.960 So don't make any mistake. 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:04.240 I'm not deterring from his glory as the Son of God, but bless God, it's because he became the Son of Man that I get to be there with him one day. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.440 Do you know Jesus as your Savior? 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:10.640 Have you believed in him? 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.359 Do you believe what I'm saying about him? 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:22.960 You say, well, I tell you what, I've got intellect and through proof and all this, I just can't help help help not believe. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.440 I don't have anything for you. 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:27.680 God's going to have to convince you. 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:31.200 I mean, it's it's a miraculous thing to be saved, it really is. 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:32.640 But there's more evidence. 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:33.279 I'm not good. 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:45.440 I'm not good at apologetics, which takes creation and takes the Bible, takes things, and apologized, not says I'm sorry, but gives arguments for the existence of God and of Jesus. 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:46.960 I'm not good at it. 00:27:47.039 --> 00:28:06.960 And I don't think it's necessary, because at the end of the day, the Bible says he's chosen the preaching of the gospel, that Jesus came, was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, fulfilled the law perfectly, died a willing and substitutionary death for you and me, and then three days later, of his own accord, he rose from the dead. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:16.559 He ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God in his human form as the Son of God, and in his spiritual form as the Son of Man. 00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:18.400 Excuse me, I got those backwards. 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:20.160 You know what I'm talking about. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:24.319 And he's interceding for those who have trusted him by faith. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:31.519 The Bible says, if you will come to him by faith, whoever calls on the name of the Lord, that's it, shall be saved. 00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:38.079 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:47.519 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes, that's not just a head knowledge, that's a clinging to. 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:56.400 Whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.