Understanding Jesus as Our Everlasting Father
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"Today we'll be focusing on one of those four names, the Everlasting Father. And when we do this, we're going to see that God, creator of heaven and earth, anticipated the problem of sin that you and I would face, and he planned from before eternity to enter into his creation to solve them." [00:07:28] (20 seconds)
"But he doesn't stop there. He wants a continuing relationship with you. Now, what does it mean that Jesus would be an Everlasting Father? It creates almost a tension, doesn't it? That we're told a child will be born and he will be called Everlasting Father." [00:07:47] (21 seconds)
"This word everlasting that we get in our English translation, the Hebrew word that we get that from is the word ad. A -D is a very simple word. And what that means that in Hebrew, it feels a little bit more power than everlasting. It means having no beginning and no end." [00:08:40] (20 seconds)
"And importantly, in John 1 .1, it says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John is talking about the Word being Jesus Christ. And so we see God the Father and God the Son present at the beginning, totally unbound by any limits within creation itself." [00:11:04] (22 seconds)
"And so the way that God describes himself to Moses, the way that he instructs Moses to describe God to others, is not in a relational sense, the way that I describe myself, right? I did use the phrase, I am, a couple times when I came up here. I said, I am a member of the preaching team. I am an elder at Sugar Grove. But these are all relational aspects to me, to help you identify things about me and understand me. God simply says, I am. I exist. I am here. I have always been here. It's this constant existence, that constant present tense." [00:13:00] (47 seconds)
"Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. And so two important things here is that first, like I said, Jesus is claiming this very important title that God gave himself to Moses, I am. And he was speaking to Pharisees. These are people who knew Scripture backwards and forwards. They would have had entire, not verses memorized, they would have had entire books of the Old Testament memorized." [00:14:26] (27 seconds)
"And so we think of Jesus as eternal, as existing from before time. But when we think of him in this season, in this Advent season, we know that he came to us, that he left heaven to be born. And that's why we say he put on flesh." [00:15:31] (18 seconds)
"And here we see, again, 700 years before Jesus Christ even came to earth, we see this is the gospel, right? This is the truth of, God, the way that we would be reunited to God as a family." [00:21:00] (15 seconds)
"And so why does God do this? Again, Isaiah 53 makes it clear. He makes this sacrifice for us so that he would have offspring. He makes us his children through this sacrifice. Sacrifice." [00:25:00] (13 seconds)
"One of the most powerful ways I think we can honor God as our father, honor Jesus, is by mimicking him, by being like him." [00:31:31] (10 seconds)
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"But he doesn't stop there. He wants a continuing relationship with you. Now, what does it mean that Jesus would be an Everlasting Father? It creates almost a tension, doesn't it? That we're told a child will be born and he will be called Everlasting Father." [00:07:47] (21 seconds)
"This word everlasting that we get in our English translation, the Hebrew word that we get that from is the word ad. A -D is a very simple word. And what that means that in Hebrew, it feels a little bit more power than everlasting. It means having no beginning and no end." [00:08:40] (20 seconds)
"And importantly, in John 1 .1, it says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John is talking about the Word being Jesus Christ. And so we see God the Father and God the Son present at the beginning, totally unbound by any limits within creation itself." [00:11:04] (22 seconds)
"And so the way that God describes himself to Moses, the way that he instructs Moses to describe God to others, is not in a relational sense, the way that I describe myself, right? I did use the phrase, I am, a couple times when I came up here. I said, I am a member of the preaching team. I am an elder at Sugar Grove. But these are all relational aspects to me, to help you identify things about me and understand me. God simply says, I am. I exist. I am here. I have always been here. It's this constant existence, that constant present tense." [00:13:00] (47 seconds)
"Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. And so two important things here is that first, like I said, Jesus is claiming this very important title that God gave himself to Moses, I am. And he was speaking to Pharisees. These are people who knew Scripture backwards and forwards. They would have had entire, not verses memorized, they would have had entire books of the Old Testament memorized." [00:14:26] (27 seconds)
"And so we think of Jesus as eternal, as existing from before time. But when we think of him in this season, in this Advent season, we know that he came to us, that he left heaven to be born. And that's why we say he put on flesh." [00:15:31] (18 seconds)
"And here we see, again, 700 years before Jesus Christ even came to earth, we see this is the gospel, right? This is the truth of, God, the way that we would be reunited to God as a family." [00:21:00] (15 seconds)
"And so why does God do this? Again, Isaiah 53 makes it clear. He makes this sacrifice for us so that he would have offspring. He makes us his children through this sacrifice. Sacrifice." [00:25:00] (13 seconds)
"One of the most powerful ways I think we can honor God as our father, honor Jesus, is by mimicking him, by being like him." [00:31:31] (10 seconds)
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