Christmas: Name "Immanual God with us"
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What does God want them to know? God is Immanual “God with us” and saves us
Why? We want someone with us and a savior
What does God want them to do? Believe and follow
Why? It brings salvation and friendship
ME/WE
One of the most important things about you, that many of don’t realize this or I will say I forget this is the NAME you carry.
I am necessarily t referring to your actual NAME,
My name Peter Petros means rock…and at times people use that in a good way and say YOU ARE ROCK, STRONG…other times not so good as in as you a rock meaning stubborn.
In the Bible names were a big deal, a direct associate to who you are
We see this with
Moses: “drawn from the waters” “deliver”
Elijah: My God is Yahweh
Ruth: compassionate friend (friend to Naomi)
I am referring to what your name means....we might have a nickname....they call me Big Pete…you have a nickname
When someone says you name or hears you name or thinks about your NAME it carries a meaning behind it.
On the good side of things when they hear you someone say some that has a great impact on your life (dad, best friend, mentor): what do you think? people think LOVING, KIND, COMPASSIONATE, GENEROUS, SLOW TO ANGER
His name has a weight to it
There is oppisite side of thing. When you hear the name of your least favorite teacher…you think ANGRY WOMAN, mean, GRINCH, NEVER SMILES
Our names carry some much weight God has a command about it about for those who are believers in God to guard the name that is written on you
(this is not the sermon for the day)
What command? The 3rd one
Which is?
God knows this
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
This verse is not about saying the Lord’s name as a curse word of sorts, though this is not good.
This command is about those who follow Jesus, His name is written upon you, people see child of God, and to act contrary to your NAME, saint, child of God, is to take the Lord’s name in vein.
Back to the sermon for today.
TENSION
Why do I bring this up???
Many people wonder what does the name GOD or Jesus mean??
What does it mean when I say Jesus or God…what DOES THE BIBLE SAY THIS MEANS…what witness and testimony of the church say that GOD or JESUS means
What type of Messiah is he going to be? 85 words in the Bible
We are not going to threw them all today
We are going to focus on 2 today that come for in the Christmas Story
Let’s read
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Savior: Easter
Yahew Saves
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Explain that to Joseph
I am pregnant and it was an act of God
Yahweh Saves
God with us
GOD WITH US?!?
It is the Immanuel name that gives mixed emotion for people…emotions of FEAR and JOY
WHY WOULD THERE BE MIXED EMOTIONS OR Fear and JOY
In the OT how does God show up?
Is it really subtle thing? NO
When God shows up in the OT it is GRANDEOUS, HUGE,
it is a pillar of fire,
burning bush,
Many of the people of the nation of Israel
whirlwind,
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
When you here His name is IMMANUAL GOD WITH US…NO, NO, GOD STAY IN THE HEAVENS, GOD STAY IN THE TEMPLE, GOD
2. NOT ONLY THAT GOD WAS ALSO COMING TO BE WITH THEM NOT IN THEIR FINIST MOMENT AS A NATION OF ISRAEL (maybe you can relate or have related before)
For the past couple of centuries they have walked away from God
Let me get things cleaned up first God
The broken the Mosaic Covenant that there would be BLESSINGS if they followed the covenant and curses if they BROKE the covenant
When they hear God is with us…they want to run and hid
God give us a minute or a few days.....we need to get our house in order
-any been here?
many people don’t want to come to church until their house is in order
WHAT STARTS TO CALM OUR FEARS IS TO SEE HOW HE COMES?
- HOW DOES GOD COME, HOW DOES THE MESSIAH COME?
RIDING ON A WAR HORSE?
PILLAR OF FIRE
WHIRL WIND
JESUS COMES IN THE FORM OF BABY, HUMAN FLESH
Jesus comes as a BABY
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
HE FORSOKE HEAVEN TO BE WITH US, IN THE MUCK AND THE MIRE
Look
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
WHERE WAS HE BORN AND LIVED?
Not only that what neighborhood did JESUS move into?
Milliion dollar role? Billion dollar role? JERUSALEM?
NO
Where was he raised? Born in Bethelem....raised in Jerusalem, right?
EVEN WHERE HE IS BORN, PEOPLE WERE YEAH, RIGHT SOMETHING GOOD COME FROM THAT TOWN
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
No only that He comes to DWELL with US
WHO does JESUS HANG OUT WITH?
WHO DOES HE COME TO BE WITH MOST WHEN HE COMES? THE SOCOCIAL ELITE? THE PRIEST?
No
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
He goes to Samarai, those sinners, they are half breeds, half Jewish and half another nationality, He is with the woman at the Well, the one whom every one has abandoned because she was a loose women, been married 5 times and the man she is with is not her husband and yet Jesus is with her.
WhAT ABOUT HIS DISCPLES
He is these 12 disciples…these 11 teenagers and 1 adult in Peter
Fisherman
Zelot
Tax collector (enemy of the state)
Not ony was he Born a Baby, Born in Nazath (the sticks), hung out with the least of these, He feels as we feel
I have come to be with you and especially in the societies eye the least of you!
This is amazing! and if we stayed here we would have the best friend
BUT HE DOESN’T JUST COME TO BE WITH US
SECOND reason we don’t have to hid is because of Jesus’ second name
what is it?
YAHWEH SAVES
HE DOESN’T JUST COME TO BE WITH US....great friend…HE COMES TO SAVE US
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jesus takes the curse of the law
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Blessed to be a apart of the family of God
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus is the sacrificial lamb who takes away the sins of the world
HE DIED THE DEATH WE SHOULD OF DIED AND LIVED THE LIFE WE SHOULD HAVE LIVED
JESUS IS THE GOD WHO IS WITH US AND SAVES US
Jesus took the curse of the covenant
WE GOD DOES THIS HE ADOPTS US INTO HIS FAMILY
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.