Apostles' Creed pt.3 - Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord

Hebrews chapter 1 is where you can be waiting, we'll get to it

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in a couple of minutes. So we are doing our series on

the Apostles Creed and we've talked a little bit about the

Apostles Creed and we've said what it is and what it isn't.

The Apostles Creed is not the Bible.

The Apostles Creed though is a tool that was used to help teach

the Bible. Just like if you were to teach

somebody the Bible, you would use your own words.

You would try and communicate it.

And you're in your own way, the Apostles Creed does that, but

it's something the church leadership came together on not

not too long after Christ it ascended a couple hundred years

and the churches use the Apostles Creed Lead in Mass for

at least fifteen hundred years to clarify Doctrine.

To say this is what we believe you can't, you can't remove.

This is are irreducible Parts. When it comes to Christianity.

Could there be more? Could we have other preferences?

Could we have other interpretations on other things?

Sure, there's a lot of opportunity.

There is a lot of freedom there, but these are irreducible cores.

You can't pull one thing out of the Apostles Creed and go.

Yeah, that's still intact everything here matters.

Everything here is important and this teaches us basic Christian

doctrine. So we can know What do I

believe? What?

I believe in Jesus. What do you mean by that?

Well, we clarified in the Apostles Creed oh, I believe in

God. Well, what do you mean by that?

The devil believes in God? So how do we clarify this?

How do we get more specific to actually say what is the

difference between knowing something?

I know there's a god, well, everybody does ultimately, but

do you believe in him? Because if you know, there's a

God, that means one thing. But if you believe in him, that

totally changes the way that you live.

I told you before. I I know people who say that

they know that there's a God and yet they don't believe in him,

they're not following him. They won't worship him.

They. Yeah.

I know, I know, I know, I know, they know a lot of things and we

said we all know how we ought to eat.

We ought to work out, I know that I should do those things

but I don't have enough belief in some of these areas that it

leads me to conviction but the Apostles Creed gives us Clarity

and Doctrine. It brings us Unity.

So we can celebrate with the whole body of Christ and say,

hey, we are Christians and it means something to be a

Christian, and this is what it means, what we did.

Were on this. Well, that's okay.

We got room for that. We've got freedom for that and

the scripture is make room for our differences and yet we don't

want to get away from this irreducible core.

So the Apostles Creed is a powerful tool that we're walking

through step-by-step line by line.

I'm going to read it to you now and then we're going to read it

together at the end of service. But right now, I'm just going to

read it. The Apostles Creed is, I believe

in God, the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was

conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was

buried. He descended to Hell.

The third day. He rose again from the dead.

He ascended to heaven. And is seated at the right hand

of God, the Father Almighty from there.

He will come to judge the living and the dead, I believe in the

Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,

the Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the

life, Everlasting, amen, or amen.

Depending on your faith tradition and your background.

So today we're zooming in we're looking specifically at I

believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, we noticed

how in the creative breaks down, there's three I believes, I

believe in God, the Father, I believe in Jesus Christ, I

believe in the Holy Spirit and then we have Doctrine teaching

each of those. So we have the Trinity being

taught. There's a lot happening in the

Creed but we're focusing today on I believe on in Jesus Christ,

his only son our Lord. We're going to look at each of

those Christ son. And Lord, three distinctions

that are being made here. So, we want to clarify right off

the bat. The Bible doesn't allow for us

to call Jesus a good guy, the Bible doesn't allow for us to

call Jesus a great teacher. The Bible does not allow for us

to merely call Jesus a religious leader.

There's, there's no opportunity for that.

I'm going to show you in John chapter 10.

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I told you to go to Hebrews, but I lied.

Sorry. John chapter 10, verses, 27

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through 33. My sheep hear my voice.

So he's talking to a crowd. He's talking to the Pharisees.

My sheep hear my voice. And I know them and they follow

me, I give them eternal life. If a human being speaks this

way, can we call this person? He's just a good moral teacher.

If he claims to give human to give other people eternal life,

can you just said yeah, I think he was a good guy will hang on a

second. He made some claims about

himself that you've got to deal with, because he said some

really bold things and you can't necessarily lump them into.

He was nice like, well, he said he gives people eternal life,

you got to do something with that.

Well I don't believe it ha fair enough, you've done something

with it but you haven't kidded yourself.

You haven't lied, me like It's just I'm going to set it aside.

There's no setting. Jesus aside he won't be set

aside. My sheep hear my voice.

And I know them and they follow me.

I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no

one will snatch them. Out of my hand, it's just a nice

guy, teacher with some new religious ideas.

He was just about love, right? That's what I've heard.

The enemies of Christ, teach me a lot about Christ, don't know

if you've noticed that in the world, people who don't love and

know God, they seem to be experts on social media anyway,

very vocal about what Jesus was all about.

No one can snatch them out of my hand.

My father who has given them to me, is greater than all and no

one is able to snatch them. Out of the father's hand, I and

the father are one. The Jews picked up stones to

Stone him, again, to Stone him. I like how it adds again, the

Jews picked up stones. Again, here we go to Stone him.

Jesus answered them. I love Jesus, sarcasm, and his

wit, and his insults. I've shown you many good works

from the father, for which of them.

Are you going to Stone me? They're all flustered.

No, no no. The Jews answer.

It's not pretty good work that we're going to Stone you but for

blasphemy because you being a man, make yourself.

What's the word god? You being a man?

You're making yourself God. They understood exactly what he

was claiming. He's going.

Yes, you get the point. You've heard me clearly.

The problem is you don't believe Jesus made himself God in their

ears. Has he already was God, he's

just coming as God revealed, but this is, this is why Christ was

crucified. He wasn't crucified, you don't

get crucified for nothing, he crucified for something for

telling the truth. So, he says, They said, we don't

we don't Stone you for any good work that you do.

We Stone you for blasphemy because you being a man, you

make yourself God. And that's the point.

Jesus didn't Jesus. Did make it clear that, that's

exactly who he was. I want to read you.

A quote from c.s. Lewis.

He said, I'm trying, he wrote this in his book, Mere

Christianity. I'm trying here to prevent

anyone saying, the really foolish thing that people often

say about him. And about Christ.

And that is I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher.

But I don't accept his claim to be God and now see us Louis

continues. He says this is one thing.

We must not say a man who is merely a man and said, the sort

of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.

He would either be a lunatic on the same level as a man who

says, he is a poached egg or or else he would be the devil of

help you. You must make your choice

either. This man was and is the Son of

God or else, he's a Madman or something worse.

You can shut him up as a fool, you can spit at him and kill him

as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and

God, but let us not come up with any patronizing, nonsense about

him. Being a great human teacher, he

has not left that open to us. He did not intend to This is

often called the trilemma is what?

It's been renamed. In recent years.

Jesus is, Lord, Jesus is a liar or Jesus is a lunatic but you

don't get to go. He's cool.

Like he's that wasn't really an option.

He says, if he says, if he makes a grand claim you gotta, he's

crazy. He thinks that about himself

bless his heart. He's a liar.

He knows that's not who he is, or he is who he says he is.

Well, I know who he is, but do you believe I believe?

In Jesus Christ. His only son our Lord.

So the Creed of firms. What God's word already teaches?

Jesus is Messiah ship. Jesus is sonship, and Jesus is

lordship. Jesus is the savior of the

world. Jesus is one with the Father and

Jesus is King over all. This is all good news.

Now, the problem is Jesus is only been taught as Savior in

our culture in our moment, that is most of the time, the

emphasis that's get that gets It's made.

Should that be emphasized? Well they all should all parts

of who he is, should be emphasized and be clearly

taught. Hey, and it's all good news.

There was no bad news in it, but the problem is when we extract

one of these and we don't emphasize them all together go.

He's a full, this is the full God, this is who he fully is,

then we've missed something important about his nature about

his character and about who he really is.

So this is why the Creed of firms Jesus Christ, that's the

savior. God's only son, he's one with

the father, he's our Lord that were Lord.

He means we're going to get into all of it.

He is first, he is preeminent. Why do I emphasizing lordship so

much? Because we fight where the fight

is, we need to emphasize where something is weak and we need to

strengthen it. Well, I feel like you're always.

You're always lifting weights to work out this muscle.

Yeah, because I'm super weak there.

I've got a weakness there. Well, you ought to do all this.

Why do all that too? But these other things are

actually pretty much in balance these, these other things.

They don't need a lot of Effort or, or they're

disproportionately, large in some cases, you know, like,

that's my problem, my muscles everywhere, they're just too

big, you know, it's an embarrassing issue.

I've had for a long time, I'm just that guy who's just to to

swallow, but but in some cases, we've got to make adjustments.

Go hang on a sec. You got to you got to build this

up. Well, well, I just want to Jesus

who's a savior. Well, you don't get to make him

in your, in your image. He is who he is and we have to

understand him fully we come to him and we don't bring him to us

and Andre reframe him and reshape him.

So to say, I believe in Jesus is to say, I believe in the real

Jesus, not a Jesus that I create with my own desires, but the

Jesus that the Bible reveals, that's the only Jesus.

And again, in the day and age we live in where, well, My Jesus

would never lie. Stop with whatever dumb thing is

about to come out of your mouth and just come back to the word

of God. My Jesus, there's one Jesus.

Well, he's my are good. But is your Jesus also the

Bible? Jesus.

Yep. Praise God.

Praise God. That's, that's the only way it

works. He's called the Cornerstone.

The Cornerstone is the stone. That was set the first stone.

And they said we're going to build the whole building based

off the orientation of this one stone.

We got this one. Lee set the way we want it.

And now, the whole rest of the building, the lines will be

drawn. Everything will come off of this

Stone. Everyone must be calibrated

according to the Cornerstone. That's what Christ is.

That's who he is. Are you in Hebrews, yet?

You've had plenty of time. I don't hear any excuses.

Hebrews chapter 1. Some people think Hebrews was a

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letter, some people that Hebrews was a sermon, and you can kind

of see the argument for a, possibly being a sermon, because

it starts off with fire like right out of the gate, there's

no introduction. So, hey everybody.

I'm so, and so we don't know who wrote it.

Some people think Paul wrote it, some people think somebody else

wrote it. And you can see the argument for

a sermon here, we're going to just look at the first three

verses right now. Long ago at many times.

And in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.

But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son, whom he

appointed the heir of all things through whom.

He also created the world. He is the radiance of the glory

of God, and the exact imprint of his nature and he Jesus upholds,

the universe by the word of his power after making purification

for Sins. He sat down at the right hand of

the Majesty on high fat and fire you up, then you better wake up.

Jesus is being glorified here. Jesus is being.

There's a subtitle that's been put in my Bible it wouldn't it

wasn't there in the original writing but it says the

supremacy of God's son. God used to speak to us.

So Hebrews was written to Hebrews.

Good. Yes, there So Hebrews has

written to the Jewish people and the Jewish people they have

other Patriarchs that they look up to.

We're looking up to Moses. We're looking up to Abraham as

we as Christians do as well. We say, praise God for what

David did and for these men of God and how the Lord used them,

and how they were served and how they serve God, how they were

anointed by God, how they fulfilled his will.

So they're often looking at the Patriarchs, but as the Hebrews

as the letter of Hebrews of the sermon of Hebrews goes on, Jesus

is just can't it just swells. Starts on fire and it grows even

more to the point where he says, Jesus is far superior to Moses.

And this is the thing that the Jewish people are like, oh, hang

on a sec. He's going.

Hang on. You got to understand Jewish

Christians, Hebrews, who have come to Christ to know the

Messiah. The Messiah is not like, he's

like, Moses. He's like Abraham, no, no, he's

far superior. And the same way that the

builder of the house is superior to the house itself.

He's calling Moses. The house is going Abraham, the

house. But Jesus is the Builder.

He could tear a house down and build.

Another one, tomorrow, Jesus is the thing.

He's the Pinnacle. Uncle.

He's the one who's supreme, but you also see he's the exact

imprint of the father. That means he's just like the

father. He is one with the father and

yet he is distinct from the father.

He is not the father. Sounds like a Maury Povich line

there for a second. You Chris picked up one of the

same time. I did you are not the father.

So the kids like what's Maury Povich be glad you don't know.

So Jesus, the Father, the Holy Spirit, their one, God but they

are not, but they are not the same thing as one, another

separate persons distinct and roll.

This is one of many passages in the New Testament that shows

Jesus Is God, and Jesus is God's son.

We have God the Father Almighty and we have Jesus Christ God's

son. He says the father has spoken

through his servants and now he has spoken through his son.

One thing you notice though, when the son speaks, he doesn't

speak like all of the other prophets have spoken.

When the other prophets spoke, they always said.

The Lord says they would say. The word of the Lord is they

would say the spirit is saying, when the sun spoke, the son said

you've heard it said this way. But I say it this way, he spoke

with his own authority and they said he doesn't sound like

anybody else. We've heard before he speaks as

The one who has Authority. Now you're getting it.

Now you're catching on, he does have authority, he is supreme,

he is Ultimate. He says, I say to you, he speaks

with authority, because he has Authority, go to John chapter

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14. We're going to look more at this

idea of his Unity with the father.

As the father's only son, as Jesus is deity, The Book of John

does a lot. There's much in the Book of

John, that shows the deity of Christ.

If there's one gospel, that doesn't more than any other to

be the Book of John from the beginning versus that we read

earlier in service to many other claims that Jesus makes

throughout it to when they want to Stone it were stoning.

You because you are saying your God, he's like, well, you're

right. That is what I'm saying, but

John chapter 14 and verse 6. Jesus said to him talking to his

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disciples, I am the way, the truth and the life.

No one comes to the father, except through me.

If you had known me you would have known my father.

Also from now on you do know him and you have seen him Philip

said to him, Lord show us the father and it is enough for us.

Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long And you still

do not know me. Philip Whoever has seen me, has

seen the father. How can you say show us the

father? Do you not believe that I am in

the father? And the father is in me the

words I say to you do not speak. I do not speak on my own

authority but the father who dwells in me does his Works,

believe me, that I am in the father and the father is in me

or else believe on account of The Works themselves.

Believe Me, Jesus says if you've seen me, you've seen the father,

this is what Jesus does. He gives us the image of God,

man. What's God really like, could

anybody ever really know? Yes.

Yes. He's revealed himself through

his word. He's revealed himself through

his son, Jesus. And like we said last week some

people have this idea God the father's mad and Jesus is here

like get us on his good side. That is a misunderstanding.

That is not who God is that is not how he operates, Jesus

accomplishes and fulfills the will of the father.

And Jesus says, I only do what I see my father doing.

So, he saw his father Healing The Sick, he saw his father,

raising the dead, he saw his father blessing, the children,

he saw his father forgiving Sinners, the father's will and

Jesus is whether or not divided and the holy spirit's.

Well, they're not divided, God planned, this God ordained, this

from the foundations of the world.

Now there is a there is a unique way where Jesus is 33 years on

the earth. There was a unique role to That

there's something different happening.

There was a unique way that they were functioning they hadn't

function to before there's a unique way that they functioned

for that temporary season. But they were always one Jesus,

always maintained his God, status his deity.

But if you've seen me, you've seen the father, this is good

news. You can know exactly what God

is, like, because Jesus is God because Jesus reveals the father

because the Holy Spirit, glorifies Jesus, We see this

service, we see this love within the Trinity.

We see the father bringing leadership, we see even a

hierarchy not in, not in value, but we see rolls operating

within the Trinity is what we talked about in our sermon on

submission to women. Women have been lied to and told

that submission, is a burden, something and Christians, and

the world, certainly. But Christians, most of the time

in their heart of hearts believes that a wife submission

to her, husband is a punishment in a cruelty.

They believe that in their heart of hearts and it's false and

it's unbiblical. Well, it is a gift.

It is a blessing. Just like it was a gift and a

joy, and a blessing for Jesus to submit to the Father, and Jesus

did not become less in doing so he fulfilled his role, he

pleased, the Father and Jesus is glorified.

It pleased. The father to glorify Christ

through it. So they are co-equal.

They are Co eternal We'll keep going here and looking at Jesus,

as the imprints of the father, go to Colossians. flip towards

the, the back of your new testament, you're going to

Philippians and then Colossians Colossians chapter 1.

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What are we looking at today? I believe in Jesus Christ, his

only son. Our Lord.

We're still looking at the sonship of Christ.

We're mixing it all together, why?

But because he's a whole person, he doesn't exist in boxes.

He's one person and all of these things are true about him all

the time, Colossians 1:15. Again, I've got a heading here

Colossians 1:15

in my Bible. It says the preeminence of

Christ verse 15. He is the image talking about

Jesus. He is the image of the

invisible. God God's invisible.

Nobody can see him, right? Except that God became visible

because he put himself in the image in Christ.

Jesus is the image of the invisible.

God, the firstborn of all creation.

For by him, all things were created in heaven and on Earth,

visible and invisible, whether Thrones, or dominions or rulers

or authorities. All things were created through

him. And for him, And he is before

all things, and in him all things, hold together.

And he is the head of that body, the church.

He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in

everything, he might be preeminent for in him.

All the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through

him, to reconcile to himself all things, whether on Earth or in

heaven May collapse. In Peace, by the blood of his

cross. Jesus is incredible.

He is the exact copy and the representation.

So the idea here that was being used this idea of imprinting,

the the mop, the early readers of this text.

They would have understood this to be just like a coin was made.

There's the original mold and then they've got the soft metal

that's getting ready to be pressed and the Press comes down

on it and the image of Caesar or whoever their current ruler was

was pressed into that coin. It's the Image.

It's not the mold itself but it's the exact image pressed

into it. You can see it identical.

If you got a coin in your pocket, you can see that can't.

There was a press somewhere. You like, I wonder what that

press really looks like. You know exactly what the Press

looks like, that's what the Press looks like.

Look at the coin and thankfully, unlike a coin.

Jesus doesn't wear off. He doesn't weaken, he doesn't

change. There's nothing temporary about

him. He is always strong.

He is always Eternal. He is always clear.

So he is the exact copy and the exact exact representation.

As we say, in the South, he's the spitting image.

So we can't see the original mold, but we know we do know

exactly what the original mold looks like Christ.

The Messiah is the image of God that Humanity can look at but

you should look at the whole Christ.

And this is my argument that a lot of times people look

exclusively at one part ago. He saved me from my sin, hang on

a second. You know, you know what that

means means, you have sinned and do you know that you have to

know more than knowing. Do you know the you have to

believe on. Jesus Christ.

Well yeah I like the Christ like to save your part.

Well you don't get one without the other.

You don't you don't get the Savior without also getting the

Lord. You don't get Jesus can't be

purchased in Parts, there's just Jesus, there's just the real

Jesus. The whole Jesus.

The only Jesus Natalie can't have like parts of husband and

not other parts. She's like I want like I like

the money thing. Like the the income thing like

big fan, big fan of that like the the other stuff.

If like nothing else, just like the money thing.

Well, that's not how you get me. Like, there's all of me.

I'll be the, I'll be the whole husband in every way, gladly all

the responsibilities, all the joys, everything all of it

together. But that's, that's that's what

you get. And that's good news by the way,

that's good news. But selfish person and immature

person according to a person goes, I just want this.

But that's because that person is just serving themself.

They actually, they actually don't want any responsibility.

It would be if Natalie would it. Take That point of view or if

your husband were to take that point of view, I'm just I'm

using, I'm just extracting Jesus.

You are useful to me because I'm Lorde.

And Lord I would never say it that way with my mouth, but I

would believe it with my heart, my life shows it my actions

reveal. What I believe always, it is an

inescapable truth fruit, always tells the truth of what's going

on inside and out of the Overflow of the heart, the mouth

will speak. So it will come out one way or

another, but I'm using jizo. He's super useful.

He can save me. You can like, do stuff for me.

I've taped, I like that part of Jesus.

Well, when I have a misunderstanding of who he is, I

didn't hold it against him when things don't go the way I

thought. Thought they were supposed to

the way that I heard that they should one time, because I don't

know the word of God and I actually don't know, Jesus.

I know a caricature of Jesus. I know, and I know a westernized

version of Jesus, but I don't know.

Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord.

I just know Jesus is the savior. Well, yeah, that's great news.

But the only thing that qualifies him to be the savior

is the fact that he is also Lord and the fact that he is the Son

of God, it's all together and it's all good news.

There's not one ounce of bad news anywhere in there.

It's all good news, why? Because Jesus is good.

Thank God, that God is good. If he wasn't, we wouldn't be

here to talk about him. So In this passage, we see Jesus

lordship. I love this passage, could you

see so much happening? You see all three things

happening, you see his lordship, you see his sonship and you see

his messiahship In this passage in Colossians 1:15 through 20.

Colossians 1:15–20

So let's look at verse 15 will go one verse at a time here and

we're going to see each thing and verse 15.

We see sonship he is the image of the invisible.

God the firstborn of all creation.

That word firstborn has led to many misunderstandings.

Understandings and false teachings because people have

taken it to mean that Jesus is a created being fair enough at

first glance. But it's a, it's, it's a totally

incomplete reading of all of the Bible, right?

We can't just take. I like this verse.

I'm gonna build everything on it.

It's going to be on my coffee mug, in my refrigerator, and my

bumper sticker, hang a slow down.

There's more viable than one verse.

Are you saying that first isn't true?

I'm saying, we got to consider everything.

Let's make sure we're paying attention.

The whole Bible is true together.

Let's make sure we understand what's And what's being said?

So like my son's, my firstborn son, Elijah he there was a day,

he did not exist. There was a time when he didn't

exist anywhere except in the heart of God.

And then there came a time where he started to exist.

This is not the case with the Lord Jesus Christ.

He does not have a beginning date.

He did not start to exist at one time, he is eternal.

God, the father is eternal, Jesus is eternal, in the Holy

Spirit is eternal, Jesus does not have a beginning.

Well he has a beginning on Earth.

Yes. There was a time to about 2000's

years ago, when he was born of a virgin, but that was just him

God, the word of God becoming flesh like we read in John 1,

the word became flesh. Jesus is the word of God.

What was his form before? That the word of the father, it

seems to me. So the word of God became flesh

and now he has that glorified body forever.

That's how we think of him. So was he the first born?

Yes, he was the firstborn of the new creation as well.

Not that he was made into a new creation.

Ian because he was always him but he leads the way for

everybody who can now be born again.

So when he's talking about firstborn, there's two ideas

there that are trying to be communicated that the the

readers would have understood. It's not that he had a start

date, it's not that Christ started to exist.

The father's like I'd like a son.

Now I have a son and now he'll be God with me.

That's not what happened. Jesus the Eternal Word of God

was always with the father and the word became flesh.

But first born is not a reference to him being created

or and that's not even a reference to him being born on

Earth. It is a reference.

This award firstborn is referencing the power and the

position and the inheritance of the first born throughout the

ancient world, that's what's being referenced here.

So the first born is the one who gets the bulk of The

Inheritance, the firstborn gets the bulk of the Privileges.

The firstborn son is the one who is preeminent.

Among his brothers, and Jesus is preeminent amongst the church.

His brothers. Jesus is the firstborn in that

sense. Not that.

Had a beginning. But this reference is his power,

his position and his inheritance and it pleases, the father to

call him son in verse 16 for by him.

All things were created In heaven and on Earth visible and

invisible, whether Thrones, or dominions or rulers or

authorities. All things were created through

him. And for him, through him, and

for him, all things were created.

He lists every possible Authority that he could think

of, he's like rulers, dominions natural Supernatural, you name

it. Everything was made by Jesus.

For Jesus. What does that mean for

creation? What does that mean for every

single human that you and I know what does that mean for my life?

You exist everybody for the glory of Jesus.

That's it. Well I don't know if the

governor, I don't know if the president.

I'm not everybody exists for the pleasure of Jesus Christ.

There's no other purpose for anybody anywhere.

That is humbling. I'm not the tip of the spear.

I'm not the Pinnacle. I'm not the top of the mountain.

Jesus, is we exist for his glory.

That should draw us to worship. That's the drawers too.

It's almost feels like lordship. Welcome to the point.

God is God and you are not. And this is good news.

This means every ruler no matter no matter it which level the

three spheres that we've talked about.

So many times God is and God created these three different

spheres of rulership but they're all under the rulership of

Christ. The household, the church, the

civil government, which we often think of the civil government is

being Superior and the other two are parked underneath it.

That is not what God has done. They each have roles, and, and

purposes and distinct places. This means that every husband,

every father, Every Pastor, every president, every prime

minister, every official, every Angel, every Archangel, every

thrown every ruler was made for the pleasure glory and will of

Jesus Christ, they will submit to him like they were designed

to or the father will make them his footstool.

That's what he promises. Jesus, I'll make your enemies

your footstool. What's the advice, kiss?

The son? Lest he be angry at you?

Well, is he like that? Well, he's the savior of the

world but he's worthy of Glory. He knows who he is and he knows

what he's worth just because you don't doesn't mean he gets

confused, your confusion doesn't confuse him.

Your attempt to demote him won't demote him.

This is why the church has its role of telling the truth to the

world. The truth of God is to be told

to the world. Wasn't there supposed to be a

separation of church and state says who?

Who do you think would have said that?

I don't let's go back to the Bible.

Everything was created through him and everything was created

for him. So now should I go ask the

creation? What creation thinks we ought to

do about obeying him who created it for him?

This is like extra level special kind of stupid.

It's bizarre. But it's not just stupid.

It's disbelief. It's not about stupidity.

It's disbelief, makes you stupid.

Disbelief makes me stupid. Pastor Ken says, it simply one

of my favorite lines of his egos send makes you stupid and it's

true, and unbelief is a sin. But this, this should fill us

with courage and our role as the church.

What's the role of the church? The church is the Pillar of

Truth in the world. That's the responsibility of the

Church of Jesus Christ is the church supposed to execute

Killers. Nope, that's not the role of the

church that Authority. The authority to kill and take

human life. The lord gave to the Civil

Authorities to the civil magistrate, God gave that to the

government said, I want you to punish Is righteous to punish

they do that. Unfortunately.

And their wickedness, I want you to punish the unrighteous and

reward the righteous. That's your role so they can go

we'll put a speed limit in place.

That's fine. That's a love your neighbor kind

of law. That's good.

We're going to put some things in place.

A lot of times they overstep though in our context, the

government is massive and people don't even recognize it.

People don't even think about it.

Is this, an anti-government message?

Absolutely, not the government is on.

Jesus is shoulder, though. I'm all about government, Jesus

is built and established. It's all for him.

So should there be a separation of church and state?

Well, yes, in the sense that the church should not be the state.

And, and I don't think that the Church of Jesus Christ that the

elders, the pastor should be running all civil governments,

but all civil governments should be submitted to the will of

Jesus Christ. So if you want to have a

separation of church and state, I guess, technically I can agree

but there should never be separation from church from from

State and God their God. God is connected to church, God

is connected to State, God is connected to household, there is

no other option, the laws will be made and there's no such

thing as a neutral. Law law will always be pulling

in One Direction or another depending on who the lawmakers

are. And all lawmakers should submit

and bend the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Well, we don't agree with that. Well, who are you?

Are you? The Lord Jesus Christ because he

made everything every ruler, and every Authority.

Well, I don't believe that. Well, that's where you're wrong.

This is simple stuff but the church shouldn't back up.

You shouldn't let courage. Why?

Because you should be about Jesus Glory.

So you should be jealous for his glory, not for our Glory.

But for his glory, you should be jealous for your Lord's.

Glory. You should be eager to please

your lord to the to tell the truth.

Because that's the role of the church to be the pillow, the

truth and the Earth and say, hey this is good, this is right,

this is wrong. Well we can't allow the church

to make the law. No we're not the lawmakers,

that's the government's role. Roll.

But when you're off, we must instruct you.

That's the role of the church to call righteousness and to call

evil. And to say, hang on guys, you

made a mistake there. You made a mistake there because

God's word declares this. Well, we want separation of

church and state But you can't be separate from God because

he's the one who established you.

He's the one who's giving you your instruction, otherwise you

just think you're a bunch of mammals who are making laws

based on your own preferences and brain chemistry.

Which again, disbelief leads to all sorts of foolishness, all

sorts of sin, all sorts of Brokenness.

But God is about human flourishing and God is about

God's glory. There's a fable a tale that is

told about a ship who was plowing through the Seas, one

night, a a destroyer. It goes like this plowing

through the see one rough night over foggy Seas.

A destroyers radar, suddenly indicates, an object directly in

its path. The captain sends a radio

signal, we're on a collision course.

We advise you to change course 10 degrees.

North a response comes back and crackles over the radio - we

advise you to change course 10 degrees, north 10 Degrees, South

the captain can now see this blinking light from the

approaching object perturbed? He Bells reply I'm a ship's.

Captain change the course, 10 degrees north now.

The reply comes. I'm a seaman second class.

Advise you change course, 10 Degrees South to avoid imminent.

Collision. The captain is now Furious he

blurts another command. This is a destroyer of the

United States Navy change. Your course immediately back

comes the reply. This is a lighthouse I'm not

moving. I won't move.

I can't move. Welcome to Jesus.

The Cornerstone. You will adapt to him, or you'll

be crushed by him or you'll be his footstool.

The lighthouse doesn't move the times are changing fools.

Will say, I agree, times, literally changing every second

great point, but the lighthouse still hasn't moved.

And this is good news because, you know what a lighthouse does.

The lighthouse, doesn't just get in your way and go, oh, not

moving. On the White House.

The White House says, I'm here to shine light.

I'm here to give you Direction and I'm here to protect you from

your own destruction. That's what a lighthouse does.

This is the good news of Jesus. He's the Savior.

Right. Absolutely.

He's the Savior and he's Lord, and He won't move and you won't

move him. He's strong, he's worthy.

He knows who he is. Do you know who, He is is always

the question. Who do you say that?

I am Peter. Who do you say that?

I am. That's the question that

everybody has to answer. I don't get to answer it off.

My Mom and Dad's Faith. You don't get answered off a

Pastor James, faith. I won't stand before you before

the king of glory. I'll be trembling all by myself

before him. My children won't be good to go

but Daddy. But mommy though go the king of

glory. Should that be a scary moment?

I'm gonna throw myself again under the blood, the blood, I

plead the blood of Jesus and the father smiles and goes of course

of course there's no other there's nothing else, you can't

plead not guilty. But you can plead the blood.

Jesus is the light house and this is good news.

Let's keep looking here to see more about his lordship verse 17

and he is before all things. And in him all things, hold

together. He is the head of the body, the

church. He is the beginning the

firstborn from the dead that in everything, he might be

preeminent. There were preeminent, it just

means first first among first among first.

What do you mean by that? Yes, first Above and beyond

everybody so you can joyfully not with anger.

But joyfully tell the whole world that Jesus is, first Jesus

is Lord, Jesus is Savior. Jesus Is God, give them the

whole picture of this good and perfect?

God, tell them the truth. You don't have to stay back and

conversations. You don't have to hide your

well, some people don't believe that, right?

Which is why you're here church so that they may believe so that

they can be saved because God loves them, this Is God's plan

to rescue the world through his son?

This is the good news. This is what verse 20 goes on to

tell us as we see more about the messiahship.

This is the side that I said, sometimes we are too.

We just go. He's just my savior.

He's just my save. You just say use me.

All he ever does is save me well and he's worthy, right?

Well, he saves me but verse 20 and 4 sizes.

Yes, he's the savior. And through him.

Sorry, I'll pick back in verse 18, will connect it all and he

is the head of the body, the church he is the beginning the

firstborn from the dead that in everything he might be

preeminent. So right now you're going to

save me from the Wrath of the Lamb, hang on for in him.

All the fullness of God was pleased to dwell ah save me from

the Wrath of the Lamb, hang on, and through him, to reconcile to

himself all things, whether on On Earth or in heaven, Making

Peace by the blood of his cross. Are you kidding me?

I was getting really scared. Yeah.

But you don't have to be afraid of him.

Although you should fear Him, you take coverage in him.

He is your protection. He's your salvation, but don't

get me wrong, you don't want to run your shipping to him.

But if you will, but he will serve you.

Well, as a lighthouse, if you'll take his direction and you will

adjust course, if you will just korth go south 10 degrees or in

our case is, all of us needed to turn 180 degrees in Repentance.

If you will adjust course because the lighthouse has, hey

I got you. I'm protecting you, I'm looking

out for you because I love you, he makes peace.

How does he make peace does Jesus make peace by destroying

his enemies. Eventually, he will destroy his

enemies as we've talked about and seen, but but that's not how

he's made peace between us and himself.

He makes Peace by the blood of his cross.

He takes the hit. Jesus Takes the penalty, Jesus

Takes the suffering, he makes peace not by killing his

enemies, but Jesus makes Peace by giving himself to be killed.

What kind of God is this? This is the god that we say I

believe this is what we mean when we say I believe, let's

keep reading it gets better and through him to reconcile to

himself. All things verse 20, whether on

Earth or in heaven, Making Peace by the blood of his cross first

21, and you who were once alienated and hostile in mind

doing evil Deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of Flesh

by his death. In order to present you, he's

taking you and he sang father. I have someone to present to you

to present you, holy and blameless and above reproach

before him if you indeed. Continue in the faith, stable

and steadfast not shifting. From the hope of the Gospel that

you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under

heaven, and of which I poll became a minister Wow, Jesus

Christ. God's his only son our Lord.

So when we say, I believe in Jesus Christ, that's what we're

saying. Jesus Christ is the savior.

He is made the way he's reconciled me with God.

I've been made right? My accounts.

I was way in debt. The banking reconciliation is a

financial term that was used. I was in debt.

I owed a lot of money, Christ reconcile the account.

How did he pay for it with his own money?

But much more precious than that with his own blood.

That's Jesus Christ. God's only son.

We're saying he's one with the Father and Jesus Is God and our

Lord. He's pre-eminent there's no

other way to put it. He's first first in every in

every comparison you can think of every this is why every knee

will bow every tongue will confess.

Blessed are those who do it now Let's stand together and read

the Creed. Ready.

Let's begin. I believe in God, the Father

Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was

conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was

buried. He descended to Hell.

The third day. He rose again from the dead.

He ascended to heaven. And is seated at the right hand.

Hand of God, the Father Almighty from there, he will come to

judge the living and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the

Holy Catholic Church. The communion of saints, the

Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the

life Everlasting. Amen.

God we love you and we submit to you.

It is our joy. We're thankful that you are the

White House. It points out the Rocks.

You keep us safe. You keep us in the perfect

Waters in the calm. Others and you calm the storms,

even around us in your kindness as a messiah as a savior, as the

Christ. You're the son, who is worthy of

all the inheritance? As you have poured out your

life, as you have obeyed, the will of the father.

You're so deserving, you're so worthy is our privilege and

honor to serve you and as Lord we submit to you we defer to

you. You are preeminent.

You are first. And all this is good and we

thank you for it. God in Jesus name.

And now the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord, make his face

shine down upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you great.

Peace in Jesus name. Amen.