God the Son

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Bryan DeOliviera

Open Door Community Church

Convictions: What We Believe • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago • Presented 3 years ago • 19:30

Philippians 2:5–11

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we are a in our fourth week of our series Convictions: What We Believe

Do Christians have nonnegotiable beliefs, and if so, what are they?

This eight-week series looks at eight key topics in evangelical theology that all Christians agree about. Our faith will be challenged as we ask ourselves, “When it comes to my beliefs, what is important and why?”

So far we have covered two beliefs/ doctrine. Week one we look at the Holy bible and how it was a gift from God that we do not have to do anything too. A perfect gift.

Week two. We look at Trinity and how there is only one God but he shows himself in three different ways The Father, The Son, and Holy Spirit. The idea of the Trinity confronts us with a lead of faith. We have to have a little faith to believe God is who He say he is.

Last week we look God the Father. We look at how God created everything in 6 days.. On the 6 day He created man and women. He created us in his image. Genesis 1;1 you don’t read, “In the beginning God dropped something on accident, and as a result there was life.” Rather, we read, “In the beginning God created…” He set about to do something when he created, which means you have purpose and value.

This week will be look at the second part of the Trinty- God the Son.

If you have your bibles go head and turn to Philippians 2:5-11. You can also follow along on the screen in a few minutes. Before we look at who the Son of God is and what he did for us. I have a question for you. So think for a moment.

Have your belief be changed any during this series?

if they have i hope that it was for the better and that this series has help you nail down your belief your docterine .

Today we continue looking at the convictions that we believe are essential elements of our faith. These are non-negotiable. There’s nothing wrong with having core convictions. There are many differences between the Christian faith and a voluntary association, but one similarity between them is that both have norms and behavior’s that help give the group their identity. One of those core norms, or values, for Christians is the divinity of Jesus. We believe that Jesus is God in human flesh.

When God lead the Israel out of Egypt and set them free.

God gave them laws to follow

This laws were give to set the Israelites out for other and to allow them to live in the Holiness of God. Has you read the Old Test. you quick see that Israel had a hard time try to keep this laws. We are the same way. By our human nature we can’t keep this law too.

It’s like this. Someone tells you not to push this button. What do you do most of the time. You go head and push the button anyways.

If we look at the world today. We can see that we live in broken world where people push the button all the time. We live in a world full of sin. Full of people that can’t and will never be able to follow all of the laws of God.

Humanity’s inability to keep either the Old Testament law or the moral law written on their hearts is revealed with a mere glance at the newspaper or social media.

We are living in darkness.

Where do we turn?

Where can we find light?

We turn to the one who could keep God’s law—both the spirit and letter of the law—God himself. God could keep his own law. In Philippians 2, Paul talks about how God took the initiative in our salvation, coming to earth in the person of Jesus and living a life of perfect obedience Join me read in Philippians

Philippians 2:5–11 CSB

5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. 7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, 8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross. 9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth— 11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Who is Jesus?

Has we read. He was God himself that humbled himself and took the form of a human. Jesus was God and is God. God sent Jesus down has a baby to live like we do. He was truly human and truly God at the same time. Jesus took on this form for you and I.

The text is clear: his body didn’t just seem to be like ours, it wasn’t some neat imitation—it was truly human.

Jesus, the very Son of God, was fully human (vv. 7–8). Once that is established, it might be easy to think that Jesus was just a really good human, but verses 9–11 tell us he is God himself. The name of Jesus is equated with the name of God; unless Jesus is God, what these verses predict (every knee bowing to him and every tongue confessing him) would be idolatry.

So we read these verses and are faced with a question: Is God contradicting himself or is God presenting Jesus as someone who is worthy of the same glory and praise that he alone demands we give him? He is the Lord! As Lord and Master, he is the second person of the Trinity.

Jesus obeyed every law

As God in the flesh, Jesus did what we could not do: he obeyed the law perfectly. He died on the cross for our sins. By rising from the dead, he showed that death was not the end of the story.

Jesus is God, and he became a human being for a reason: for us and for our salvation.

John 3:16 CSB

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

This is nonnegotiable. We hold to this belief because we are grateful that God looked at our situation, set aside the glories of heaven, and came down and identified with us—all so that we could be set free and live with him forever.

Philippians 2:9–11 CSB

9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth— 11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

“Every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord”

We have to be willing to confess that Jesus is Lord. That he is try the Son of God. When it say everything it means everything and everyone will know who Jesus is and will bow down to him. Everyone will worship him. Everyone will worship God.

God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, died on the cross, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven. Christ will return to earth to conclude history and restore God’s plan for humanity.