Address—C. Hendricks
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Well, we're going to trace from Scripture of the many, many times that he is called the Son of God.
And how he claimed to be the Son of God.
And when I say the Son of God, I'm talking about his pre temporal.
Ontological inter trinitarian sonship.
Pretemporal means before time eternal.
Ontological means that He is of the same nature and essence as the Father and the Spirit.
An inter trinitarian is that he's one of the trinities.
Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. So when we say the Son of God, we're talking about.
What he always was and is.
Not what he became.
But his eternal.
The angle.
Let's turn to the second Psalm, where we have.
I believe the first mention.
Of him.
In the second Psalm.
And verse 7.
Verse six of the father speaks, and he says, Yet have I set my king?
Upon my holy hill of Zion.
And then the son speaks. I will declare the decree.
The Lord Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son.
This day have I begotten thee.
Now the Jehovah's Witnesses, they deny that he is the eternal Son of God and that he is God.
And they've translated that you are my son this day. Have I become your father?
Unfortunately, the NIV translation reads the same way, but they have a correct translation in the margin at the bottom.
Which reads this day Have I begotten thee?
There's two statements there, the father speaking to him and he says thou art my son.
That's what he always was. He never became the Son of God.
Actually, he became the Son of Man when he entered into this world.
As a man, as a baby.
And he grew up to be a full man.
And he was the Son of man, but he was always the Son of God. But then it says.
This day have I begotten thee, that refers to the incarnation that refers to when God became a man.
This day is a point in time.
This day have I begotten thee.
He was begotten of God.
And the Spirit of God was the beginning power in his birth.
Now this verse is quoted 3 times in the New Testament.
The first one is in Acts 13.
Turn do it please.
Some have applied from this passage.
Of this expression to the resurrection. But let's look at it carefully.
Paul is speaking.
And.
Verse 32 He says, We declare unto you glad tidings.
How that the promise which was made unto the Fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us, their children.
In that he raised up Jesus. The word again shouldn't be there.
He raised up Jesus, and that's not talking about raising him up in resurrection.
But it's talking about raising him up as a prophet here on Earth. That expression is used many times.
He hath raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm.
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And then the next verse.
Refers to the resurrection. It's a different expression and as concerning that he raised him up from the dead.
Now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, and he quotes a different verse.
From the Old Testament I will give you the sure mercies of David.
So this day have I begotten thee applies to the incarnation of the Sun.
And.
As concerning that he raised him from the dead, and he quotes, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
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This passage is also found in Hebrews 1 and Hebrews 5. Let's look at it. And Hebrews 1 is a very and we want to look at that a little bit more in detail because he's talking about the sun from the first verse.
God, who at sundry times and endeavors manners, spake in time passed unto the fathers by the prophets.
Has I'm going to correct this translation a bit hath at the end of these days.
The days in which the prophets spake and the Messiah was to be introduced. He has spoken unto us in the person of His Son.
It's not speaking now through one of the prophets, a creature, but or even an Angel who's a creature.
But speaking himself, God, speaking himself, the Son.
Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world's the Son.
Heir of all things appointed of God the Father, and He is the Creator of the universe.
Who being the brightness of his glory and the express.
The expression of his substance through translation.
Of the same essence as God himself, He is God.
And upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down.
On the right hand of the Majesty on High, a man seated.
The highest glory for that man is none other than the Son, the eternal Son of God.
Being made or taking a place so much better than the angels.
As he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For under which of the angels said he, at any time thou art my Son.
This day have I begotten thee never said that to an Angel, but he said it to his Son. And again I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him. That makes it very clear he's not an Angel.
Is God the Son become a man?
Wonderful precious truth, this day of begotten thee is wrongly translated.
This day I have become his father, if God became his father at that point in time when he entered manhood.
That would deny the eternal sonship of Christ, which is a very, very serious error.
Well, that's not an admissible translation at all. This day have I begotten thee, begotten in time.
Into manhood through his mother Mary, by the begetting power of the Holy Spirit.
That's how he came into this world.
We have to stick very closely to Scripture in order to understand the truth of His person.
Let all the angels of God worship him when?
Peter made the mistake when he came to the House of Cornelius. I shouldn't say Peter. Cornelius made the mistake when Peter came to the house.
Of Cornelius. He fell down and worshipped him, and Peter said stand up, I'm just a man.
And John, he made the mistake twice in the Book of Revelation. John the.
Beloved Disciple, that brings before us the glory of His person, probably more than any other writer.
He fell down before the Angel, and the Angel said, Stand up, I am thy fellow servant.
Worship God. Worship God.
The Lord Jesus accepted worship the.
He is God.
Had he not been, it would have been.
Great sin for him to have accepted. Worship. Worship God.
But unto the Son he saith verse. I should read verse 7.
And of the angels he saith, who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
They are there to do his bidding, to carry out His will, But unto the Son he saith thy throne, O God, God the Father, addressing his beloved Son, and he addresses him as God.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness.
Is the scepter of thy Kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness. He's talking about the Son here.
Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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When did he become his God? When he became a man?
When he became a man.
All through his pathway, he addressed God as my father or father.
Or ABBA father always father, the only time he used God.
Was on the cross during the hours of darkness when he cried.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
When did he become his God? When he became a man, the 22nd Psalm says.
Thou art my God, even from my mother's belly.
When he became a man.
Then he could look up and address him as God, he said to Mary Magdalene in John 20.
Go to my brethren and tell them I ascend to my father and your father. My father was a relationship.
That as the eternal Son He always had not one that he entered into.
Not one that will ever cease. An eternal relationship between the Father and the Son.
Son of God, thy Father's bosom ever was thy dwelling place.
That relationship never began. It's an eternal 1.
And then he says, my God and your God.
And so when we pray, we pray to God first. The God and Father of.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, to us He is God first.
And then because of redemption, the.
Address him as father.
Wonderful, that was. That's not true. The ungodly and the unsaved, He's not their father. He's their God, though.
But with the sun, it was just the opposite.
He was father 1St and then he became.
God to him as a man, precious and wondrous, He came to where we were.
That He might bring us into the immense blessing that we have been brought into. Or let's turn to the 5th chapter. I shouldn't dwell too long on any of these.
In the 5th chapter.
Verse 5 S Also Christ glorified not Himself to be made in high priest.
That was in his manhood and in his resurrection. He was made in High Priest and saluted.
As a priest after the order of Melchizedek in resurrection.
But he that said unto him, Thou art my son today have I begotten thee.
As he saith also in another place, thou art a priest forever. After the order of Melchizedek. Notice the order is exactly the same.
As in Acts 13 he quotes Thou art my Son is the of a begotten Thee. That was the incarnation, that was his becoming a man, and then he refers to the resurrection.
And here it's the same way, he said to him, Thou art my Son today. I have begotten thee the incarnation.
And then the resurrection, he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever.
After the order of Melchizedek that was in resurrection, he became the Melchizedek priest.
The eighth verse is a very, very important verse of chapter 5.
Though he were a son or though he were a son. Take the indefinite article out.
Though he were Son, yet learned he obedience.
By the things which he suffered. Notice it doesn't read because he was son.
Because he became Son, he learned obedience.
No, no, it says. Just the opposites, as though he were son.
Yet he came into a scene.
And took upon him the form of a servant, and he learned to obey.
As come become a man, though he was Son, he never obeyed in his eternal sonship.
Everyone obeyed him.
He was nothing less than God, but when he became a man, he.
Became something he became 1 He entered into a relationship that required obedience.
And that's the glory of his grace. He had learned he obedience.
By the things which he suffered.
Though he were Son, that's an eternal relationship that he had. He learned obedience as man.
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As a servant when he came here and then being made perfect in resurrection.
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.
All right, now let's go back.
To Matthew 22.
And.
The Lord here.
Asks the Pharisees who were his enemies.
Always trying to trip him up.
They didn't understand who they were up against. Of course, they could never succeed in that.
And in the 41St verse, while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked.
Them saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?
They say unto him, the son of David.
That was right half right. That was the human side of his person.
The son of David.
But then he asks, he says to them, How then did David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. He's quoting the 110th Psalm, the first verse.
David's Psalm and he says Jehovah said to my Lord. David says Jehovah capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D it says to my Lord, capital L small Ord adonai.
Who is David's Lord, the Messiah?
Jehovah God the Father said to the Messiah.
What did he say?
He said sit thou on my right hand.
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Well, he was David's son. In his humanity, he was David's Lord.
Son of God in his deity. They didn't understand that.
And no man was able to answer him a word.
Neither durst any men from that day forth ask him anymore questions.
That 110th Psalm first verse is the most frequently quoted Old Testament passage in the New Testament.
Quoted every It's quoted over and over and over again. The most frequently quoted, and here. The Lord quotes it here, and many others.
Quote that wonderful passage.
Now let's turn back to the 16th chapter of Matthew, where the Lord asks another question. In 22 He asked the Pharisees, and they couldn't answer.
They didn't know that the Christ was also God.
Verse 13 When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man am? Now notice, just go down to verse 20 after this discussion and we'll come back here. Then charge to his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. Why? Because that testimony at this point in Matthew's Gospel had been rendered.
And rejected. He had been rejected as the Messiah. The Hebrew is Messiah, the Greek is Christ. Same same title. It means the anointed in both cases.
So he asked them, Whom do men say that? I, the Son of Manam? He doesn't say either. Christ AM.
He takes the broader title of Son of Man. As the Son of Man. He was rejected as the Christ.
And so then he takes the broader title, Son of Man, applying to the whole human race. He's about to introduce here the church.
He is about to give.
Something which was a tremendous advance over what they had in Judaism.
And they said, some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, that's Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. All of these fell far, far short of who he really is.
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And he saith to them, But whom say ye that I am?
Whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered.
And said, Thou art the Christ.
That's Jewish ground. They were waiting for their Messiah, the Christ. There he is.
But then he gives something further that we can lay hold of.
And it's so precious, the Son of the living God.
Thought the Christ in his manhood, He is the Son of the living God in his deity.
God and man.
In one person.
All right, the challenge of this Muslim to the Christian was.
He never claimed to be the Son of God. Well, here he does.
He says to Peter, Who do you say that I am? And he said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Did he accept that? Did he verify it? Absolutely.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood is not revealed it unto thee.
And I find this next statement so precious.
What? My father?
Which is in heaven.
That's so fitting when Peter confessed that he was the son of a living God.
He says my father told you that.
Not the Spirit. That would have been true. The Spirit could have revealed it to him.
But I think it's very precious that was his Father that told him of that eternal relationship that he had as the eternal Son.
Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, and everyone of us that believes that truth.
Is blessed as His blessing.
And those that don't believe it.
Anyone love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema there. Anathem, Paul says accursed the Lord come.
Yes, the curse.
Rests upon those that reject Christ.
We recently had a day of prayer in this country.
It was very sad to listen to some of those prayers. I didn't hear many.
But they could pray to God, Almighty God.
And so on.
This God.
Most of them didn't mention.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Mentioned him.
If you don't mention him, if you don't pray in his name, it's not a Christian prayer. It could be a Muslim prayer, it could be a Hindu prayer, could be a Buddhist prayer, it could be a Jewish prayer, but a Christian prayer.
Ah, they ask it in the name, that name which is above every name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I got saved when I was a freshman in college and I made the mistake. I was taking electrical engineering course.
Had an elective, some electives to.
Select and I selected a religion course. It was terrible.
Man was a rationalist and a modernist who didn't believe in the Bible. He made fun of it and so on. But every time I would speak of the Lord Jesus, I would always give him his full title, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Looked upon me with anger, students. They didn't like that. They didn't like me calling him his full title. And every time they gave me that look, I spoke of him again as the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's who he is.
Lord Jesus Christ.
Wonderful to own him.
To pray to God.
Through that blessed name.
Because no other name.
Is worthy.
Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona.
For flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven.
And then he tells us and he says, Thou art appearing on this rock. You just owned who I am. Yes, that's true. You got it from the Father. He says on this rock I will build my church.
And that's the most fundamental truth that the Church is responsible to uphold.
And that is the truth of his person, very God.
And very man.
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The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Well, there's another instance that I just want to call your attention to where he says very definitely in John nine that he was the Son of God.
That's what this this Muslim was saying. They don't believe there's such a person as the Son of God. God doesn't have a son, and certainly if he had, he never would have treated him the way he did on that cross.
That's unthinkable. That's their thinking.
That was the foundation of all our blessing, wasn't it?
In John 9, you know it well, we'll pick it up.
Verse 29 They say, as they are reviling this man, we know that God spake unto Moses. As for this fellow referring to the Lord, we know not from whence he is.
Him he heareth, since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind?
This man were not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? You see, this is the tactic of the enemy. When he can't answer you, he he resorts to reviling you.
And that's what he did to this man that was altogether born in sins. And dost thou teach us?
And they cast him out.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and when he had found him, he said unto him.
Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? Notice the beauty of the way the Lord answers that.
Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him.
He had never seen anyone before until the Lord opened his eyes.
And now he looks upon the Son of God. Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
And he said, Lord, I believe.
And he worshipped him.
He never claimed to be the sun God.
Look at the 10th chapter, verse 36, the Lord Jesus speaking.
Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, thou blasphemous, because I said I am the Son of God?
Turn back to.
Matthew 3.
Where we have.
The highest testimony.
As to who he is of any.
Verse 16.
Of Matthew 3. Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him.
And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved son.
In whom I am well pleased.
Father's testimony as to who he is.
Turn to the 4th chapter.
In verse 3, we're going to go over these very quickly.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God.
Command that these stones be made bread. He's not questioning that he is. He's saying since you are, prove it, change these stones into bread.
And in verse 6 he says to him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down. And he quotes an Old Testament passage.
And he owns that. He is the Son of God.
Then in the 8th chapter of Matthew.
Verse 28. And when he was come to the other side, into the country of the Gergescenes, there met him too possessed with devils.
Demons. These are coming out of the tombs, exceeding first, so that no man might pass by that way.
And behold, they cried out, saying, What are we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?
Art thou come hit her to torment us before the time?
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They knew who he was.
They knew it very well.
Turn to the 14th chapter.
I just have to touch on these because of time.
The Lord walks on the water. Peter sees him walking, and he says, If it be thou, let me, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, come. And he started to walk in the water. He actually walked in the water for a short time. Then he began to sink when he saw the wind, boisterous. And he said, Lord, help save me. And the Lord reached out his hand and saved him.
And verse 33 then they that were in the ship came.
And worshiped him, saying of a truth Thou art.
The Son of God, we have the Father's testimony, we have this, the devil's testimony, we have the demon's testimony, we have the disciples testimony. And then in the 16th chapter that we just looked at, we have the testimony of of Simon Peter that was revealed to him from the Father who the Lord Jesus was. And then in the 26th chapter.
26th chapter of Matthew.
And 63 The high priest arose. Verse 62. Excuse me.
2662 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answered thou nothing.
What is it which these witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered, and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God. Now the Old Testament said, When you hear the voice of adoration, you must answer.
And so he answered, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said.
You know we have an English expression.
Very similar to that. You said it, you said it.
In other words, he's verifying the truth of it. Thou hast said the truth.
In Mark, to make it very clear, I'm not going to turn to it because of time.
In mark of.
Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? It reads.
And he answers. I am.
Thou hast said means I am.
That's what it means.
27th verse.
Of.
Excuse me?
We're in 27.
And.
40.
Verse 40.
Well, I'm not going to read all that verse 43. He trusted in God.
Let him deliver him now, if he will have him for he said.
I am the Son of God.
Testimony of his enemies.
Testimony of his disciples.
And in verse 54, when the centurion sent aid that were with him, we don't know how many there were.
Watching Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things which were done, they feared greatly, saying truly.
This was the Son of God.
Truly, this was the Son of God.
I turn to mark chapter 1. I like this one so much.
Mark doesn't use that expression.
My God, very often, in fact, only once, and that's at the cross.
But notice.
He doesn't use the expression the Son of God much either, but notice in the first verse.
The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Son of God, now we know that Mark presented him as the perfect servant.
And it's as though the Spirit of God is saying through Mark, I'm going to show you.
The perfect servant at the very outset. But don't ever forget he's the Son of God. Don't ever forget that.
The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
And again, you have his enemies speaking up against him in the third chapter.
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But owning who he is chapter 3 and verse 11.
Verse 10 And he healed many, insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him.
As many as had plagues and unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
The devil, demons, unclean spirits, owning who he is.
15th chapter.
Of Mark.
Verse 39 and when the centurion now in Matthew it's the centurion and those that were with him here in Mark.
It's just the centurion.
Notice it says it a little differently which sit over against him. Saw that he so cried out.
There's two times when he was on the cross that he cried with a loud voice. The first time was the cry of abandonment. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
The last time he cried with a loud voice was to Telesty, which means it is finished.
The voice of the Conqueror. The first one was the voice of being abandoned.
And the next one was the voice of the victor.
When he saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost, he said truly this man was the Son of God.
Son of God.
Luke 1.
Verse 35.
And the Angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.
And the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee and the whole Trinity in this verse.
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called.
The Son of God.
That baby.
That had come into this world through his mother, Mary.
Was called the Son of God.
Tremendous.
Turn to Luke 22. I am skipping a number of.
Versus because of time Luke 22.
Verse 69.
Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. They set all.
And said They all art thou then the Son of God.
That was the critical question, what they wanted to nail Iman.
You said unto them, Ye say that I am. That's the truth.
And they said what need we any further witness or we have heard ourselves have heard?
Of his whole mother out of his mouth, and the whole multitude of them arose and led him to Pilate, and so on.
Art thou then the Son of God?
That's what they wanted to hear. John 19. John 19.
This tells why they rejected him, why they crucified him.
Verse 6.
When the chief priests therefore an officer, saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify Him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him, for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law.
By our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God.
Well, the real truth is that the Son of God made himself the Son of man. He never made himself the Son of God. He was always the Son of God.
They meant that he said he was the Son of God, which he did.
Now turn to Acts 9. Here we have the 1St.
Apostle happens to be Saul of Tarsus after his conversion.
And what does he confess?
Verse 19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened, then was solved certain days with the disciples, which were.
At Damascus and straightway he preached Christ. I think it should read Jesus.
In the synagogues that he is the Son of God.
He's the first one of the apostles to preach that. Peter confessed it in Marx in Matthew 16. But when he preached to the Jews, he said, God hath made that same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. But Saul, the one who who had hated him so thou converted, become the apostle. He preaches that he is.
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The Son of God. Romans 1. Romans 1.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated under the Gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. That's his humanity and declared to be the Son of God, that's his deity with power.
According to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection.
From the dead, remember in John two he said, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
46 years was this temple and building, and thou reared up in three days. They didn't understand his words, but he spake of the resurrection of his body.
Three days He would raise it up, and he did. And so he he He was proved by his resurrection not only of himself, but others as well, that He was and is the Son of God. 2nd Corinthians 1.
2 Corinthians 1.
Verse 19. Verse 18. But as God is true, our word toward you was not Yeah and nay, for the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Who was preached among you by us, even by me and Sylvanus and Timotheus?
Was not ye, and nay, but in him was ye for all the promises of God?
And Him are yeah. And in him Amen unto the glory of God, by us all the promises of God centered focus.
In him the Son of God.
Turn to Galatians 2.
Verse 20. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son of God. That means the faith which has the Son of God as its object. That's the meaning of that expression. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me.
And gave himself for me. Ephesians 4.
Paul was especially given to preach him as the Son of God.
Verse 12. For the perfecting of the Saints. I should read verse 11. He gave some apostles and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, that we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.
Unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness.
Of Christ.
Now in the book of Hebrews, turn to it, please. Hebrews of.
Was written, of course, to the Jewish people, and they had to have enforced upon them.
Who Jesus is in the very first chapter.
We saw that earlier and.
That he was indeed the Son of God. Now in the 4th chapter.
In the 4th chapter.
Verse 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest.
That is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.
Let us hold fast our profession, this one who is a man who.
Is our great High Priestess passed into the heavens as man? Is the Son of God?
That's insisted on in the 6th chapter. He says in verse 4 it is impossible.
For those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, if they shall apostatize, give up Christianity, that was the profession they were making, and go back to Judaism. He says It's impossible to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucified to themselves.
The Son of God.
Afresh and put him to an open shame.
Anyone that does that, any Jew that apostatized from his Christian profession who went back to Judaism, was an apostate and.
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Destined for help.
Again, in Hebrews 10 you have another case of apostasy.
Verse 26 For if we sin willfully now the willful sin of this passage is rejecting that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. If we sin willfully after we've received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses law died without mercy.
Under two or three witnesses of how much sore punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God?
And hath counted the blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite.
Unto the spirit of grace.
Those that.
Tread under foot the Son of God, our apostates now, 1 John 3.
1 John 3.
These wonderful testimonies.
Of the Word of God.
Verse 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.
That he might destroy the works of the devil.
Chapter 4.
And verse 15.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God.
God dwelleth in him.
And he in God. I'll read that again. It's so such a powerful verse. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God.
God dwelleth in him.
And he and God.
Verse 5 of chapter 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Verse 10. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar.
Because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son.
And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.
That you may believe on the name of the Son of God and the 20th verse.
One of my favorites and we know that the Son of God is come.
And has given us an understanding that we may know him that is true.
This is one of those verses where you don't know exactly if he's talking about the Father.
Or the sun. Because they are one. They are one. They are one in deity, one in glory.
We know that the Son of God is common. Hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true.
Who is that, Father or the Son? Well, it's true of both, and we are in him. That is true.
Even in his son Jesus Christ.
This is or He is the true God.
And eternal life, children, keep yourselves.
From idols.
Idolatry is any religion that leaves Christ out.
The greatest opponent to.
Christianity is religion.
You believe that the greatest opponent to Christianity is religion.
Christianity is not a religion, it's a person, the Son of God.
You know him. It's a relationship that we have with that most glorious person, the creator of the universe.
The only person of the Trinity that became a man.
Came to where we were.
One mediator between God and men. If he's going to be a mediator between God, he has to be able to lay hold on God.
And he has to be able to lay hold on that.
And he's both.
Are in.
In one person. The last one is in Revelation 3.
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In Revelation 3 to the address to Thyatira, Thyatira is the Romish system.
And they speak a lot about the Son of Mary. Lord is the Son of Mary, knows how he presents himself to Thyatira under the Angel of the Church in Thyatira write these things, saith the Son of God.
Who had his eyes like unto a flame of fire that was from the vision in the 1St chapter and his feet like fine brass. What's added here is and it heads the list is a he is the Son of God.
Would that they would recognize that and own that and give up their Mariola tree and worship only the sun of the living God.
Before I close, I want to ask you all a question. Do you know him?
Is he your Lord and Savior?
Your Creator, Your Redeemer.
The Son of the living God, the foundation rock upon which the church is built.
And you say he's yours.
And you say, as Peter said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Then he will say to you, Blessed art thou, whoever you are?
For flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee.
But my Father, which is in heaven.
And it's written.
This book.
I didn't read it, but I think I can quote it.
Many, many other things that Jesus which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe.
That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.
Not believing you might have life.
To his name.