Star Child

Let's have a word of prayer. Let's start. Dear Father, you wait

until the very last book of the Bible to fully identify Jesus Christ. It

was an unfolding and unveiling. Lord. We could talk about many things today,

but if we fail to know Jesus, then we missed the boat.

It's not about how smart we are think we are. It's not about looking

good or signaling to others that we are Eternal life is in the sun.

So today give us Jesus Emmanuel God with us. Change our hearts, change

our thinking, change us in Jesus's name. Amen. Now I say this,

Jesus is not all there is of God God. But if Jesus is

not God, then Jesus is not good enough to save us. Did you

hear what I just said? I'll repeat myself. Jesus is not all there

is a God. But if Jesus is not God, then Jesus is not

good enough to save us. That's a clear statement. Whatever you do with

the Bible, you had better make sure that your Jesus is good enough to

save you. Is that valid? Christ had better be good enough to be

the savior. In the book The Desire of Age is the first chapter.

It carries the title Immanuel God with Us. I highly recommend that chapter in

that book. Also when it was written, Elder M. L. Andreasen

couldn't believe that Sister White wrote the thing. A number of people felt that

the church had been scandalized because suddenly you had this clear statement as to who

Jesus is and didn't agree with what some of them in thought. He wanted

to keep on believing that Jesus is less than God and that Jesus is create

a created being as the begotten of God. In that way, now the

language begotten is used, but that's our English interpretation of monogony, weos in

the Greek and other terminologies that are used. Sister White starts this amazing chapter

about Jesus with this beautiful statement Chapter one. I want to put it on

the screen. I want you to look at it with me. His name

shall be called Immanuel God with Us. The light of the knowledge of the

glory of God is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. And notice the

line that I just underlined from the days of eternity, the Lord Jesus was

one with the Father. For ire to ask you, based on this paragraph

how long was Jesus one with the Father? What would be the answer?

From the days of what eternity? He was the image of God, the

image of his greatness and majesty, the outshining of his glory. He was

to manifest this glory that he came to our world. Now, if Herd

to ask you, why did Jesus come to this world based on that paragraph,

what would be the answer? It was to reveal or manifest his glory

to this sin darkened earth. He came to reveal the light of God's love,

to be what God with us? Therefore it was prophesied of him,

his name shall be called Emmanuel. Now this Christmas, we're thinking of Jesus

as Emmanuel. It means God with us. So what does God with us

really mean? I ask you that question. I mean it was declared in

his birth. Of course, Matthew will quote that verse in light of what

the Angel said in Matthew want Emmanuel God with us? How far back are

the days of eternity that she is speaking of? The Bible teaches us that

Jesus goes that far back from the days of eternity. He keeps on going

back. Look at Micah fivers two. But you owe Bethlehem of Frotha,

you who are little among the thousands or clans of Judah the Hebrew. Yet

out of you shall come forth to me, the one to be ruler in

Israel, whose goings forth are from old, from everlasting. That's the new

King James version. The Hebrew is mercherine Mealam, literally from the east,

which in the Hebrew means the distant past, from days of everlasting, from

days of eternity. Now Alo whit quotes the Hebrew of Micah five two instead

of the English found in the King James version. How does she know Hebrew?

She says, Jesus came from the days of eternity. She never learned

Hebrew. I wondered how she could have these insights in the Hebrew Bible without

knowing Hebrew. I think she had an inside track to understanding from the days

of eternity, she says. So I asked the question of you, ken,

a created being, reveal the character, the goodness, the height and

the depth of the character of an eternal, uncreated, loving God of the

eternal God who's defined as the Ancient of days. The Book of Daniel seven,

where the son of man appears in the judgment The ancient of days who

inhabits eternity is Isaiah fifty seven fifteen says can a created being or a beginning

being who has a beginning point a reference point that is later than God,

can he reveal God? Look at Isaiah fifty seven, verse fifteen. The

Bible says for us, says the high and lofty one who inhabits Eternity's name

is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him who is

a contract and humble spirit. Now does it say God dwells with us because

we have all the answers? Yes? Or no? What does that say

in your Bible? It doesn't. It says God dwells with what kind of

person? Based on that verse, God dwells with who the humble and the

contract. Friends, if you want to know God, you don't get anywhere

unless you humble up. We don't have all the answers. We're not smart,

we're not geniuses. We can't figure out God on our own. We

can't make it work mathematically. We need a relationship with God. And have

a relationship with God, we must be humbled up in life. And so

God will break you and humble you to save you. He has in my

life he may again, and so we need the living Lord, and we

need that humility. So that's who God dwells with. I mean, it's

not the PhD types only he will be saved. If they're not humble,

they won't. It's those who walk with God, he says. It's with

he says, with him who is a contract and humble spirit, to revive

the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contract once.

I need revival in my life, and so I must be humbled in my

life. So how far back in time is this God of eternity? How

far back are the days of eternity that Micah five two talks about? And

what does it mean to inhabit eternity and that light? We must ask the

question, what does it mean to be God with us? Emmanuel? If

you are God, you are an eternal being without the beginning of days,

because you are the Ancient of days. Daniel seventh the Great Judgment, seeing

God appears throne and Daniel calls him the Ancient of days. Revelation one,

Jesus looks just like the Ancient of days, and Danel seventy is a hair

like wool. You look at Jesus in Revelation one, he has the imagery

of the Ancient of Days immediately right out of the shoot. In the Revelation

of Jesus Christ, this simple yet profound picture in the Book of Revelation shows

him as the Ancient of Days. Is meant to teach us something about the

Son of Man, because he's declared to be the son of Man in the

same chapter. Christ is not all there is of God. I'll say that

forthrightly. But if Jesus is not the God who inhabits eternity, just as

the Ancient of Days his father is, then Jesus is not good enough to

really save us, and he cannot reveal who God is. If Jesus is

not the God of eternity, then Jesus has no firsthand knowledge of God that's

eternal, so he really can't tell us from his own experience. He knows

God that God was this way before I showed up, but I really don't

know because I wasn't with him from eternity and John one to five. John

writes that God is light and in him is no darkness at all, and

Jesus says clearly in John A twelve that I am the light of the world.

Has there ever been a time when God was not the light? You

can ask the equally relevant question, has there ever been a time when Jesus

was not the true light of God? Was there ever a time in the

experience of God when the darkness, the absence of Christ was there. John

calls Jesus the true light in John one nine that enlightens every person. The

best Greek is he was coming into the world. It's also supported by the

castic structure of the Book of John. Christ is the light of the world,

just like God is light. And there's no contradiction in these two statements.

If you want the light of God in your life, because God is

light, you had better have Jesus Christ, the true light in your life.

You know what does he say in John seventeen three, This is life

eternal, that they might know thee the only, the one true God in

Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Put together, you can't separate him.

Christ is the light of the world. In Revelation nineteen ten, take

your bibles in turn there, or observe on the screen the Angel here.

John the revelator interacting with probably Gabriel told John not to worship him, and

he was very clear about it. Look at Verse ten, and I fell

at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, see that

you do not do it. And the Greek no, I am your fellow

servant. Of your brethren, who have the testimony of Jesus, worship who

what does it say, worship God? For the testimony of Jesus is the

spirit of prophecy. The Angel and anyone else who has the spirit of prophecy

will always tell men and women to worship God. And am I correct?

And they will not bother to tell you. In fact, they will correct

you if you are trying to worship a creative being, if you're trying to

worship something other than God, true prophet will correct you. And they also

tell you the truth about Jesus, because they have the testimony of Jesus.

They'll tell you who he is, a manual God with us. Matthew tells

us that, and the true Light who enlightens every man he was coming to

the world. I'll talk about Jesus as the light of the world, like

John did or Sister White did in the desire of Ages, the Manual God

with us, that whole book. My dad died. The last chapter ever

heard in life was the chapter to my Father and yours. Unbelievable chapter for

someone to leave this world with, because they're going to be in the resurrection

if they're cleaning to Christ based on that chapter. So don't say this.

Don't scandalize the fact that Jesus accepted worship with no problem at all, knowing

full well that the first commandment in the Ten Commandments is all about worshiping God,

with no other gods before him, Christ accepted worship that Jehovah's witnesses.

I have respect for Jehovah's witnesses. I'm not knocking them here. They came

to my door this week. I let them in. I engage them.

I plan to visit their kingdom hall down the street. I believe they're very

conscientious, good people, and I have studied for a long period of time

with a prominent Jehovah's witness in this area who was a professor at the University

of Maryland bright Man. So I'm not here to knock them. I'm going

to interact with what they say that Jehovah's witnesses will not allow you to worship

Jesus or to pray in Jesus's name because they believe that in some point in

time in the past, at the dawn of time, God created Jesus.

It's called arianism. They'll use this word begotten to mean that. In other

words, when they come across the word for good, and that's what they

mean by it, they'll tell you to pray in Jesus' name, you know,

they'll tell you to pray in Jehovah's name, but not Jesus name,

and they'll stop you. And that's because they didn't want to defy all God's

name. And they'll insist that Jesus is not Jehovah, which is Yahweh's same

name. It's just the way you pronounce in English based on German scholarship of

the vowel pointing. So they'll insist that Jesus is not Jehovah Yahweh, So

don't pray in his name because he was begotten friend. If Jesus is not

Jehovah Yahweh God, then the scribes and the Pharisees were right, and their

bold accusations that Jesus Christ was blaspheming God. Jesus knew the first commandment in

the ten Commandments, and he knew the fourth one too, and he didn't

break a single word of it when he received worship that only God alone has

the right to receive turned him Exodus twenty verse three. Now here's the first

commandment. You shall have what no other gods before me. The first commandment

is the very reason why the Angel told John to worship God, and not

a created angel like himself or anything. Just God. Now I'm Matthew twelve

eight. Jesus came claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath. You ever

hear that on the Lord of the Sabbath, and now follow this. That's

a high claim. That's not just a claim. When Christ claims to be

the Lord of the Sabbath, he's really claiming to be Jehovah Yahweh God,

because that's who the Lord of the Sabbath is. Now look at Matthew twelve

eight. For the son of Man is what does it say is lord even

of the Sabbath. Now the mark of the beast issue at the time of

the end is when the beast power acts like he's Jesus the beasts power will

act like he's the Lord of the Sabbath. He'll act like he's the lord

of God's law. He'll have his own law to take the place of God's

law. They worship the beast number one, it's the violation of the first

commandment. They build an image to the beast. It's the violation the second

commandment. You shall not make yourself any graving images. The name of the

beast a violation of the third commandment. Shall not take the name of the

Lord your God in vain. In fact, the name of God is equivalent

to his law, his nature's character, accrorrding to Psalms one hundred nineteen fifty

five and other passages. So the name of the beast is the law of

the beast, which means the mark of the beast is a law imposed upon

the conscience. The beast is plain Christ and God. And the mark of

the beast is in contrast to the sign and seal of God. And God

said I gave them my Sabbath to be a sign. See so when Christ

claims he's the Lord of the Sabbath, he's claiming he's the lord that gave

the ten Commandments. He's the Word of God, and he is God.

If Jesus is not the Lord Jehovah, Yeahweh, God of the Sabbath.

And Jesus is guilty of blasphemy. And Jesus was worthy of death as accused.

They crucified him for these claims. When you read the New Testament.

They didn't put him on that cross for nothing. They put him on that

cross because he was saying things that they knew should not be said if they

were false, if they were. The Fourth Commandment teaches us that the Lord

God Yahweh Jehovah, God is the Lord of the Sabbath. And yet Jesus

claimed that he is the Lord of the Sabbath. Look at Exes twenty verse

eight. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy? Is that a good

thing? Yes? Or no? Six days you shall labor and do all

your work. And then it says verse ten. But the seventh day is

the Sabbath of the What does it say, you're the Lord your God?

Now he's the Lord of the Sabbath. And notice the word lord. You

see the word lord with all capital letters kepital l, kepel o, kepel

r, kepel d that is the Hebrew word Jehovah Yahweh. It is the

sacred name the tetragrammaton. The Jews wouldn't even pronounce it. They called it

out an eh. But that name is the sacred name of the Most High

God, who is the covenant God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the

God of eternity. And so the Lord of the Sabbath is the Lord your

God. Right there to Jesus, I am the Lord of the Sabbath Matthew

twenty eight and nine. Go with me there and notice this. And as

they went to tell his disciples, now Jesus is here given the great commission.

The gospel will be taking the world based on Jesus command. As they

went to tell his disciples, he said, behold, Jesus met them saying,

no, excuse me, I get the wrong place here, saying rejoice.

So that they came and held him by the feet. Yes, let

me repeat this. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold,

Jesus met them, saying rejoice. So they came and beheld him. Excuse

me, they came and held him by the What what does it say?

Defeat? And the text says, what did they do to Jesus. They

worshiped him. Now, based on the first Commandment, you can't do that

unless you are the Lord God. There are no other gods before him.

Now, if Christ is less than God, he should have said stop it

right there, just like the Angel did in Revelation nineteen ten, but didn't

do it. So don't scandalize the disciples for worshiping Jesus. Now, that's

what I would tell the Jehovah's witnesses. These kind good people. They are

very nice people. You won't ever hear me knocking them as people. They're

wonderful people. I have found. I wish that we were out doing door

to door work as much as they do. So don't scandalize the disciples for

worshiping Jesus by bowing down and worshiping him as God. And don't scandalize Jesus

for letting them do it. The Angel told Joseph, you shall call his

name Jesus because he will save his people from their what sins, and the

Old Testament only the Lord Yahweh Jehovah God can save us from our sins.

God is, by definition in the Book of Isaiah, the only savior there

is no other, And that is why the Angel told Joseph that the little

baby born in Bethlehem's manger is the Savior identified by Matthew as Emmanuel, God

with us who will save us from our sins. Yahweh, Jehovah, Elahem.

God was born in a manger when he became the Son of Man.

That's what you can't miss here. You can't plug in the texts of the

New Testament directly derived from the Old that speak of Yahweh and Jehovah when Jesus

applies them to himself or Bible writers do at that point in time. The

son of Man received the eternal life from the Father as a gift in his

incarnation. Some people say, what do you do with this text in John

five, where it says God has given life to be in the Son,

that means he must have been created. No, it means that when Christ

became the son of Man, the Son of God was fused with the Son

of Man, and the eternal life that John says was with the Father was

granted in the fusion that became the Son of Man. So a text out

a context is a pretext. That text is speaking of the incarnation, not

the distant ages of eternity. Yahweh Jehovah Elohem. God was born in a

manger when he became the son of man. That point in time, the

son of man received the eternal life from the Father as a gift in his

incarnation. Thus the human nature was fused with the divine nature for all time.

There will never be a time in the future when God with us is

God somewhere else. Jesus is one of us for all eternity. God gave

the eternal life to us in Jesus. That's why John will say life is

in the sun. The one who has the Son has life. The one

who does not have the Son does not have life. First John one one

to three. An amazing verse that which was from the beginning, which we

have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked

upon in touch with our hands. Concerning the word of life, the life

was made manifest. You see the word manifest. That's the Greek word phanera.

Oh, it's the equivalent of the Hebrew word Mara and Daniel eight,

Daniel eight fifteen twenty six, Danel nine twenty three, Danel ten to one.

It means the appearance and The Testament draws on this time and time again.

Christ was the appearance, the manifestation of God suddenly in time and space.

He says, we saw it, we testify to it. We proclaim

to you. And here he says, we proclaim to you the eternal life

which was with the Father and was manifested to us. And he's talking about

Jesus. That which has we have seen and heard, we proclaim also to

use, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is

with the Father and with his son Jesus Christ. When Christ appeared, the

eternal life appeared because Jesus is the life that only God can give to us

as a savior. John fourteen six, Jesus said to him, I am

the Way, the Truth. And what else does he say? The life?

No one comes to the Father but by me the desire of ages page

five point thirty, this wonderful book. Still seeking to give a true direction

to her faith, Jesus declared, I am the resurrection of life. Now,

these statements here is what made Emma Andreas and scratch his head real hard

until he verified the sister White wrote them, and then he changed his view

based on this statement. In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underrived,

clearer than that he that hath the Son hath life. And here's what

else, she says, The divinity of Christ is the believer's assurance of eternal

life. So she diminished the divinity of Christ. You're diminishing your confidence in

the eternal life, that's what she's saying. The Great Controversy, page five

twenty four. In the chapter the Snares of Satan, a chapter written for

end time misunderstandings that can set us up to lose sight of Jesus and thus

not be ready for end time events. Look at verse chapter The Great Controversy,

page five twenty four. If man reject the testimony of the inspired scriptures

concerning the deity of Christ, it is in vain to argue the point with

them, for no argument, however conclusive, could convince them. So we've

got to be careful we don't go down that road. Who does the Lord

live with? He lives with the humble and the contrate. We may not

have genius brains, and I certainly do not have one, but we can

have a genius savior who can teach us in the word of God. She

says, The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,

for they are foolishness und to him. Neither can we know them, because

they are spiritually discerned one Corinthians two fourteen. None who hold this error,

she calls it, can have a true conception of the character or the mission

of Christ, or of the great plan of God's Man of God for man's

redemption, to see the cross, right to understand what happened on Calvary,

to have confidence in our walk with God for eternal life. We must get

this right. That's what she's saying. Isaiah, the Gospel prophet declared the

whole truth and not alive when he declared that the only Jehovah Yah, that

only Jehovah Yahweh God, the Lord with all capital letters I am who I

am God of Exodus three in English. Here the Lord all capital letters can

save us. That's it. Besides the Lord, there is no savior.

If jesus divinity is diminished so that he is a created being, then Jesus

is not good enough to save you. I'm sorry, he's not. He

is either an eternal being or a creative being. There is no middle ground

here. There is no middle ground at all. He is either the I

am who I am, God of SINAI speaking from the burning bush, or

he's not. And remember that it takes the Lord God who inhabits eternity to

save us. The Angel is telling Joseph that marries baby is Jehovah Yahweh,

the Lord God, for he will save his people from their sins. Isaiah

forty three, verse eleven. I even I am the Lord, and that's

all capital letters, Yahweh Jehovah. Besides me, there is no savior,

So I'm sorry. You can't be a savior. And yes, you're Jehovah

Ahweh. The term savior is a title reserved for Jehovah Yahweh God alone.

According to Isaiah the Prophet, the word savior only curs twenty four times in

New Testament and is used for both God the Father and Jesus Christ, his

eternal son, the Savior. It's used for both of them one Timothy four

to ten. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach because we

trust in the Living God, who is the savior for all men, especially

of those who believe that's God the Father. In the context one John four

fourteen. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son

as the savior of the world. That's Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

He's savior Titus three four to six. But when the goodness and loving

kindness of God, our Savior appeared, he gave us. He saved us

not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his

own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renew on the Holy Spirit,

which He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ, our savior. God

the Father saves and Jesus is our Savior. That uses the term for both.

So they both have to be Jehovah Yahweh, just like Isaiah forty four

to six says. They are. Thus says the King of Israel Yahweh,

Jehovah and his redeemer Jehovah of Hosts. I am the first and the last,

and besides me there is no God. So the ancient Jews understood that

both of these two were God. Jehovah Yahweh rightly understood. For Jesus to

be the savior, Jesus has to be a manual Jehovah Yahweh God with us,

and nothing else will save us. Christ is not all there is of

God. And let me just make that clear. Our Kay Harris makes that

point brilliantly in his book, and it's a right analysis. He's not all

there is of God. That is true. But if Jesus is not Yahweh

Jehovah God, then Jesus is not good enough to save us as savior,

dear heart. Jesus came to this world to give us eternal life, the

abundant life that God's eternal life is in the sun. Satan sends the wolves

to attack the sheep, but God sent Jesus to save the sheep as a

manual God with us. It takes God like credentials to be the good shepherd

of the sheep, and nothing else will work. He's the same behavior or

the sheep. John ten ten, the sinner of the Gospel, John the

chiastical, linguistic sinner. The thief does not come except to steal and to

kill and destroy. And I have come that they might have what life,

and they might have it more abundantly. Jesus knew the shepherd's name. In

Psalm's twenty three I mean, he's the good Shepherd. But he read Psalms

twenty three. Go back to Psalms twenty three, Verse one, Palm of

David. What does it say, the Lord is my shepherd? I shall

not want who's the shepherd here? Look at the verse. How's it spelled

in your Bible? And that's Jehovah Yahweh is your shepherd. And Jesus says,

I'm the good Shepherd. That's a clear claim to divinity. Two,

he makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the

still waters. He restores my soul. It's he's the resurrection God who brings

people back from the dead. He leads me in the paths of righteousness.

For his namesake is lawless, character understood. The good Shepherd's name is the

Lord Jehovah Yahweh, and Jesus by statement and must be the Lord Jehovah Yahweh

like his father. When the good Shepherd is with you, friend, Jehovah

Yahweh, God is with you. What kind of shepherd do you want in

life? A weak one or a good one? How powerful do you think

he needs to be in your life? How much of the knowledge of God.

Do you need in your life partial knowledge or complete knowledge? Now,

look, if you shrink the credentials of Christ down, he doesn't qualify to

get much done. And that's what sister White statement is about in great controversy.

He has to rise to the level to get it done. So the

Angel meant all of this when he said, you shall call his name Jesus,

for he will save his people from their sins. And Matthew then calls

Jesus in Manuel God with us quoting the scripture. The Bible teaches us that

meant that the man Christ, Jesus is the only mediator between God and man.

Have you read that verse? There's one mediator between God and man,

the man Christ, Jesus. Is that true or not. Some people say,

well, he can't be God if he's the man who's the mediator,

right, No, Jesus is the son of man. As such, the

son of man represents us before the Father. It's relevant humanity. But Jesus

is also the representative of the Father to us. It goes two ways.

Before he went to the Father to be our high priest, Jesus came from

the Father to reveal the Father to us. It's two directions and John three,

the one who came down from heaven is one who goes up John ten

thirty, I and the Father are what what does it say? That's an

amazing statement. It was written in the days of Gnosticism. Nacissism was a

heresy in the early Church that took over Christianity for about one hundred and fifty

years. There were more Gnostics than there were people who believed in the Bible.

And one of the core teachings of the Gnostic Church is that Jesus was

not fully God. Most people don't know that because they don't read Narcissism.

Bentley Layton's book The Gnostic Scriptures. I've read every single word of the Gnostic

Scriptures. I know what they taught in this second century. Ouranius actually was

a church father, not ours, but you know, just historical figure wrote

a treatise called against the Gnostics, and this belief descended into immorality and other

things. But basically what they taught was Jesus was somewhere in the middle or

maybe, but he's definitely not at the top. So when Paul says he's

the head of all rule and authority, the Gnostics had put God there,

the all sea and I. But that's repulpans Jesus there, as he's done

with proto gnosticism early and sipio gnosticism in the Early Church. The Bible teaches

us that the man Christ, Jesus, is the only mediator between God and

man, but it also teaches us that he's the mediator who brings God to

us because he's a manuel God with us. John ten, thirty verse to

thirty three. I and the Father are one. The Jews took up stones

against the stone him. Now why would they stone him for that? Because

it's a blasphemous claim if it's wrong. Jesus answered them, I have shown

you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you now

stone me? I like Jesus sense of humor. Did you stone me for

healing the guy? Resurrecting the guy? The Jews answered him, it's not

for a good work that we stone you, but for blaspheming. Here's what

they're accusing him. Abough, because you, being a man, make yourself

God. There's no missing this. He was claiming God. He was claim

to God. That they knew that Jesus was claiming to be the one with

the Father's the eternal Yahweh Jehovah God. And they understood what it meant,

and that was the crime that put Jesus on the cross. As far as

they were concerned, he was a dead man walking after he said that,

Is it a crime in your mind, in your thinking, that Jesus Christ

claims to be one with the Father. Is that a problem? They put

him on that cross because he claimed to be a Manuel God with us,

the real thing, and not a created being. Frinch, Jesus is not

all there is of God, that's true. But if Jesus is not God,

then Jesus is not good enough to save us. Philip Jesus to show

us the Father, and Jesus told him the truth about Jesus. Look at

John fourteen nine. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so

long and yet you have not known me? Philip, He who has seen

me has seen the Father. So how can you say, show us the

Father? In Isaiah nine and six, Jesus is called the Everlasting Father,

the Prince of Peace. Now this statement is only possible if you are an

eternal being with God the Father. You can't beat the Everlasting Father. If

you're not everlasting. Christ is an eternal being who is one with the Father.

It's the only way to put that together. Not some life for us

that became a person, but a person who is the Way, the truth,

and the life. So don't strip Jesus of his personality that he needs

to know God. Thus to reveal God to you and me as our great

high priest friend, Jesus represents us to God. Be because Jesus is man,

the son of Man. But Jesus is more than that. He's the

son of God Immanuel. He brings God to us. And because of that

fact, Jesus represents God to man because he can. He bears the proper

credentials as Yahweh Jehovah God. If there was ever a point in time when

the Father existed without the Son, then Jesus' knowledge of the Father is incomplete

and he cannot save us and reveal God to us. Now wrap your head

around that point. Jesus had to be an eternal being to reveal the Father,

to be legitimate, to show us and make the claim, if you've

seen me, you've seen the Father. That is one reason why Isaiah the

Prophet calls Jesus the everlasting father of the Prince of Peace. The prophet Micah

and Micah five to two says his days are from the east, Mehartam and

may Olam, from days of eternity. As it says in the first paragraph

a Desire of Ages in Isaiah fourteen twelve, Lucifer's called hillal ben Shahar.

You hear the word bend's in. That's the Hebrew word for sun hellel shining

one son of the dawn. Lucifer was created on this side of the morning,

this side of the dawn of time. He's the son of the morning.

But the Bible does not call Jesus that there are morning stars. In

the Bible, the angels are called morning stars. They were created this side

of the morning, of the dawn of time. But Christ is declared to

be the bright and morning star. If you know astronomy, it precedes the

dawn, it precedes the rising of the sun, and thus it precedes the

dawn of time itself. So it's a beginning without a beginning. Really,

look at Revelation twenty two sixteen. I Jesus have sent my Angel to testify

it to you these things in the churches. I am the root which means

he's God and the offspring of David, which means I'm human, and I

am the Bride and morning Star. Right before this, Jesus identifies himself as

an eternal being. In the context Revelation one eighth, God, the Father

is identified as the Alpha and the Omega the Almighty. You read the first

part of Revelation, the one who was is and his coming is the Alpha,

and the Omega the panterator, the one who holds all things, the

Almighty. When you get to the end of a revelation. By the way,

that's a quote from Isaiah forty four to six, where it says Jehovah

Yahweh is the King of Israel, and his redeemer, who's Jesus, is

Yahweh, the Lord of Hosts. They're both Jehovah, Yeahweh. And then

it says for them both, I am the first and the last. Besides

me, there is no God. So Revelation one, it quotes the Father

piece the Father says it. But at the end of the book Jesus says

it about himself. Revelation twenty two thirteen, he says, I am the

Alpha and the Omega, quoting Isaiah forty four to six. The beginning and

the end, the first and the last. Jesus doesn't say here that he

had a beginning. He says, I am the beginning. There's a big

difference. In fact, the Greek word is our kay i am the beginning.

It can mean the chief rule of authority. It starts with me.

There's no beginning without me. Jesus says it is me. I am the

beginning. Christ is Now God says the same thing, says, I'm the

Alpha. They're in parity there. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega,

the beginning and the end, the first and the last. God was the

first being to exist in all eternities, the ancient days, and Jesus is

God alph and Omega like his father, the beginning and the end. Christ

passes the God tests. And that is why Jesus is our great high priest

that can save us. How many of you have heard that Jesus priest is

after the order of Melkezedic with me? Now you want a levitical priest or

a Melchizedic priest in your life. Now here's his credentials as a Metachasidic priest.

Hebrew seven to one for this Melkezdaic King of Salem. Priests are the

most high met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him

and to him Abraham a portion of tenth of everything. Now mel Kazidic here

is most likely Shem and I have a strong argument for that. From the

scriptures. He becomes a pattern of Jesus Christ. He represents an eternal priest,

and by virtue of how he appears in scripture, and it goes on

to say he is first by translation of his name King of Righteousness. In

Daniel nine twenty four, Jesus at the end of the study week springs in

everlasting righteousness. He's the new Melkazdic. The Jews were looking for the new

mol Kezdic in the first century second century AD. I mean no BC preced

in the coming of Christ. He says he is first by translation is named

King of Righteousness, and he is also King of Salem Shalom in Hebrew,

that is king of peace. Look at verse three. He is without father

or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life,

but resembling the Son of God. He continues a priest forever. Now

you have a lot there, you have the credentials of what it takes to

be a priest after the order of Melkezdic. No beginning of days. Now,

if you have no beginning of days, are you a created being or

not? Now he has no genealogy, no beginning of days. And that's

it represents Christ. It says, if you have no beginning of days,

are you created? No, You're an eternal being. And it says here

he has no father a mother. Now Jesus has a father, but only

by virtue of the fact that he entered into the creation of the world.

He took the form of a creature. But you go far enough back,

he's in the form of God, the Bible says. And so it's very

clear here that Christ is that kind of being. That's what qualifies him to

be a priest after the old Mechastic You see a Mechasidic priest in the book

of Hebrews can reveal God to us. He doesn't fail the test. You

can go all the way back, and he gets it done. Jesus Christ

is our high priest after the ord of Mechasdic. Because Jesus is an eternal

being with no beginning of days, and why is that important? Friend,

Jesus is not all there is of God. But if Jesus is not God,

then Jesus is not good enough to save you. If he is not

the eternal God, he can't get it done. He can't reveal the Father,

who is eternal if he wasn't or with him from all time, before

all time. Jesus can't save in a tone for a broken law that is

God himself. Really, unless he is God, he can't do it.

It's just not going to happen. On the cross. God's law, God's

name, and God's character are the same thing, and Jesus is one with

the Father. Therefore, the Bible calls him the messenger or the covenant.

God's law, God's name, his law is in him. He is the

only plan to save the world. There is no plan b Hebrew seven twenty

five. The former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death

from continuing office. But he that is Christ, holds his priestood permanently because

he continues forever. Consequently, he's able for all time to save those who

drowne you to God through him, since he always lived to make intercession for

them. He uses the infinite, omnipotent mind of God merged with human nature.

He was designated son of God in the Resurrection by the power that raised

him from the dead, and with that indestruct life. He applies his power

to your life and mind every moment of our life, as we pray and

seek God's answers for our life. The TSI of Ages, page twenty three.

The burning bush in which Christ appeared to Moses. What does it say?

It revealed what God? The symbol chosen for the representation of the deity

was a lovely shrub that seemly had no attractions. This enshrine the what word

does she use? Infinite? Infinite? The all merciful God shrouded his glory

to most humble type that Moses could look upon it and live. So in

the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, God

communicate with Israel, revealing to men his will and parting them as grace.

Next slide. God's glory was subdued, his majesty veiled that the weak vision

of finite men might behold it. So Christ was to come in the body

of our humiliation. See the word so Christ means everything that preceded. It's

talking about Jesus infinite. The deity was shrouded in the pillar of cloud in

the burning bush. He says, that's Jesus, and then she goes on

to say, in the likeness of men and the eyes of the world,

he possessed no beauty that they should desire him. Yet he was the incarnate

God, the light of heaven and earth. His glory was veiled, His

greatness and majesty were hidden, that he might draw near to sorrowful tempted men.

You don't get better theology than that. This is the profound stuff in

the zarib Ages. You don't get better than this kind of thing. Friends,

Jesus is the Starchild, the bright and morning star, who precedes the

dawn of time. The Jewish rabbi has understood this claim very well. If

you study Inner Testament Judaism. They knew that these two great powers of heaven,

the Son of Man in Dale seven and the Father God the ancient days,

are both yahwah. They got it. They understood Isaiah forty four to

six, and they knew that when Jesus claimed to be the son of God.

He was claiming to be equal to God. When he claimed to be

the son of man. They knew it, especially he was claiming to be

God. John five seventeen. Jesus claims to be the son of Man.

He's just healed a man on the Sabbath. So he's claiming to be the

Lord of the Sabbath by how he heals. There are seven miracles. There's

seven signs in the Gospel of John. And Jesus is the lord of the

Sabbath, as he is the Lord of creation and the Lord of salvation.

But Jesus answered them, my father is working still and I'm working. They

were saying, you can't do that on the sabbath heal a man. He's

saying. This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him,

because he not only broke the Sabbath in their mind, but also called God

his father. And notice what it says making himself what equal with God?

Now that's clear scripture in the Gospel. John, friend, you cannot be

equal to God. If you are a created being, you cannot be infinite

and eternal. If you are less than infinite and eternal, you cannot be

equal to God if you come, if you show up later after he did,

you can't be the wisdom of God. If you show up after He's

already wise, you can't be the word of God. If if you appear

after he appears, If you appear after he appears, why because God creates

with his word. And if you are the word of God, who creates

you with what word? Impossible? Peter says in One Peter one twenty three

that Jesus is the living and a bidying word of God, who is one

with the Father from all eternity. Because of that fact, Jesus can say,

this is our savior. Friend, Jesus has the primary knowledge of God,

his father. Because Jesus is God. He is the son of God

for us, but he is God to God. He is the son of

God in relationship to God. Friends, Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath.

You believe that Jesus the Lord of the Sabbath. The mark of the

Beast is coming. Sabbath will be the test for the world. The beast

is a counterfeit Christ. He's Antichrist, and he has a mark, a

sign of authority that is whacked away. The fourth commandment. If we have

a diminished view of Christ. We are not able to stand in the last

days. We must have a high view of Jesus. Christ is the Lord

of the Sabbath. Because Jesus is the Lord Jehovah Yahweh, Almighty God with

right credentials to save us. He is the good Shepherd, the Savior Yahweh.

And Jesus knows the Father from all time. You can't go far enough

back where you can't find him and his Father. He was with the Father

from eternity. And he will know the God, the Father for all time.

And guess who He's brought into the circle of love, you and me

so we can know God. Hebrews one three says clearly in the Greek New

Testament that Jesus created the eons of time. It's translated he created the universe.

The most English translation the English word is the Greek word is I owns

eons. Christ created the fourth dimension of time. Einstein's fourth dimension of time

is a creative thing. Now think about this. Before there was a was

time, it was Jesus. Before there was it was, it was Jesus.

That's why in June twenty five it says Christ is before all time.

Jesus didn't have a beginning. Jesus is the beginning. See it's a big

difference. He is the beginning. God, says thou, O Lord,

hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Moses said that before the mountains

are brought forth, or eever you formed the world. From everlasting everlasting you

are God. God is our house. God is our beginning. Before there

was, it was, there was God. Christ was always with the Father

n our kay hey in a lah goss in John one one, in the

beginning was the Word, and the word was with God. The word was

God. Quoting Proverbs eight thirty, I was daily before him, a master

workman, rejoicing always in the Sons of Men Proverbs eight twenty three. The

Greeks is Tuagen will actually say in its translation to the Hebrew that the wisdom

of God is before eternity, before all time, using the Nrky statement that

in the begin statement of John one to one and Matthew eleven, Jesus offers

a sabbath rest, that is the knowledge of God. Because Jesus the Lord

Jehovah Yahweh, God of the Sabbath, the Lord of the Sabbath. What

does that mean? It means the one who made us, the creator,

God who made us, has the credentials to save us. Matthew eleven two,

verse two passages here will end with these. I've gone a little longer

today, but you know what, I couldn't develop this unless I hugged the

scriptures tight today. Is that all right? Matthew eleven twenty five. At

that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of

heaven and Earth, that you've hid these things from the wise and prudent have

revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good

in your sight. All things have been delivered to me by my father,

and no one knows. Here's what he's saying. No one knows the Son

except the Father. As a human being, the son of Man Christ was

brought into the god Head, he was incorporated in and so gifted with this

access to the divine knowledge which all things have been delivered to me by my

father. And no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone

know the Father except the son. They're the only ones who know each other

perfectly. That's what he's saying. And the one to whom the son of

Man reveals him, So he has to have that ability to reveal God.

Verse twenty eight. Come to me, all you who labor in heavy rate

laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and

learn from me, for I'm gentle and lowly in heart, and you will

find rest. The Greek word is sabbath rest. Anna pauses right before he

does those Sabbath miracles in Matthew twelve. You'll find sabbath rest for your souls,

not just the right day, the right person. You'll know God Philippians

two five through eleven. Have this mind among yourselves, which was yours in

Christ Jesus, who though he was, Now what does it say? Read

the verse, who though he was in the That's how he starts. He

starts in the form of God. That's why the Jews that he's equal to

God because he is did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.

So he starts out he's God. Don't get fuzzy on that point.

And look what he says next, but emptied himself. That means he condescends

taking the form of a servant. How many people think that means an angel

and that means a human being. See the Bible says he was one seven

he makes his angel servants. Christ took the form of the Angel of the

Lord in the Old Testament before he was a human. He took the form

of the Lord of Hosts, the Angel commander of Heaven's armies. He's still

that, but he's human. He came into the universe to greet Lucifer with

angel eyes, even though he had to condescend to do that. He had

to empty himself as the form of God to take the form of a servant

in Isaiah fifty two and fifty three. In other places, the servant the

Angel of the Lord is are the same person. He's always been God's servant.

But there came a day when it wasn't good enough. He couldn't reach

people with that identity, and so he came in a different form, and

says in the Book of Hebrews, low I come in the volume of the

book. It has written me to do thy willow God. He clipped his

angel wings off. He had condescended to become that servant, the Angel the

Lord Michael from God, from being God. Now grasped that equality of God.

The Bible says, and don't censure someone in your mind for quoting the

scripture. Here he was equal with God. He became the servant, but

that wasn't good enough. And so being born in the likeness of men,

he condescended and became a human being. So how many natures he has,

he has three. He's God. He became the bride and morning Star,

the age of the Lord, who was in existence before the dawn of time.

And then he became a human being. See in the Book of Ephesians.

He unites heaven and earth because he he's the peace child. He's Heaven's

child and ours two. And he is the Son of God, and he

is God. All three are in Jesus. And it says he makes peace

through his cross because he has the credentials to save us. He emptied himself,

taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Next verse verse eight. But being found in human form, he humbled

himself and become obedient undo death, even death on a cross. Verse nine.

Therefore God has highly exalted him, bestowed on him the name which is

above every name. Verse tend that at the name of Jesus, every knee

should bow in Heaven on Earth verse eleven, and every tome confessed that Jesus

Christ is Lord. That's the Greek curios It means Yahweh. It's referring back

to the Jehovah Yahweh of the Old Testament, to the glory of God,

the Father. God wants us to know who Jesus is. He does not

want you to come up with something that diminishes his son, because when you

do not know the Sun right, you cannot know him right. Christ is

the Way, the Truth, and the life. No one can come to

the Father but by Him. Now I've meant to inspire you to good Bible

study. Here we're going to have a Bible study topic. And I really

appreciate Doctor Schaeffer, the different speakers you've brought to prayer meeting. Mister Kendo

had a very Christ centered message Wednesday, and I'm going to be falling up

on the New Testament use of the word begotten and also the Old Testament subtuagent

word. Just to help us clarify what do these terms mean. We can

rely on a word in our English Bible, and I have a clue what

it really means if we don't have it in context. And so what we've

looked at today is the broad context of who Jesus is. How many of

you want a savior who gets the job done? Are you in that cloud

want? I want the Savior and gets the job done and he does.

Let's pray, Dear Father, I just pray so we stand for our closing

song. Help us to stand for Jesus. You are the most humble being

in the universe, and Christ is like you because he is you. You're

one in a way, and so Father, the great humility of the Godhead.

A sister White calls it that they would go through this incredible hell at

the cross for us that would damage their eternal interaction, wound them for all

time. Maybe not lose sight of that. And Lord, help us to

realize that in the mystery of what it means to be God, we're brought

into the fellowship of the family, that we are one. And John says

he's right in these things that we may have fellowship with the Father and Son.

Lord, may we do so, and never forget who you are and

who he is. In Jesus' name, Amen, They're heavenly Father. When

you came to this world in the person of your Son God with us.

No one had a clue who you were. In Bethlehem's The early Christians learned

it over the course of a lifetime, and some would write and give evidence

of your divinity in a simple acronym of a fish, where the name of

Jesus was called God with no apologies, Jesus Christ, God, Son,

Savior, all in a single acronym that was a fish symbled the early Church

Father. There have been many good people in history who didn't know this.

Thank you. They were not saved by our theology. We're not saved by

being correct. We're saved by you and that you're merciful. There'll be many

Jehovah's witnesses in heaven. I believe that, and there'll be others in heaven

too. So help us not to be arrogant think that somehow because we see

it this way, that others are bad people. But Lord, thank you

that in the gift of Jesus you gave yourself. Thank you but the depth

of your love. Thank you for bringing us directly to you, with no

one in the way, no pope, no priest, no preacher, no

theologian, that in Jesus we have direct access to You. The revolution of

that in our relationship with You should humble us. Thank you now, Father,

I'm just a simple preacher trying to make it all fit together. I'm

not God, and I don't have all the answers, but I pray to

help us here. One of the evidences of the Holy Spirit is when we

live for others in this great controversy distribution today, Lord, bless every copy

that goes out in every hand and every worker that is involved in it.

And Lord, help us to be about soul winning around here for the sake

of you. And if there are certain things we don't understand fully, you'll

teach us when we get to heaven. But help us get there. In

Jesus' name, Bless your people, every one of us, in Jesus name. Amen.