Sermon Tone Analysis

Our Coming King

He is Coming!

The Messiah is coming.

(Is 40; Mk 1:1-8)

Who is Coming?

The Messiah is God incarnate, and His name is Jesus.

(Jn 1:1, 14; Is 9:6; 43:10-13; Jn 20:28; Tt 2:13; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jn 5:20; Re 1:8, 17-18; Ps 45:6-7; Heb 1:8)

Why is He Coming?

We all have sinned.

(Ro 3:10, 23; 5:12; 1Jn 1:10)We can not atone for our sins against God.

(Heb 10:4; Ps 49:5-9)God provided the sacrifice needed to atone for our sins.

(Gen 22:1-19; Jn 1:29; 1Co 5:7; 1Pe 1:18-19; Re 5:5-6, 13)

Why would God do this?

Because He loves us.

(Jn 3:16; 1Jn 3:1)

Our Coming King

We are in a series titled Our Coming King.

Three weeks ago we started the series with a message called “He is Coming!” looking at prophesies telling of a coming Messiah made hundreds of years before the birth of the Messiah, and how we were to prepare ourselves for His arrival by turning from sin in our lives, to live holy lives before our holy God.

Two weeks ago I preached a message called “Who is coming?”

where we looked at passages in the Old and New Testament where God informed us that it was God Himself that came to earth, being born as a man, and His name was Jesus.

I didn’t get to finish that message but we will be looking at that same theme more today.

Last week I titled our message “Why is He Coming?” where we saw why God had to come to earth as a man, and that was in order to provide a sufficient sacrifice that could atone for our sins so that we could be forgiven and so that we could not only be put into a right relationship with God that will last for all of eternity, but even more than that, so that we could be adopted as God’s sons and daughters, to be co-heirs with Christ, fully loved by our Father.

This week’s message is titled He is Here!

He is Here!

Tomorrow is Christmas!

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ!

So I want to say to you from the bottom of my heart, Merry Christmas!

The Scriptures tell us that there is only one God.

(Dt 6:4; 4:35, 39; Is 37:20; 44:8; 45:6, 21-22; 46:9; 1Co 8:4; 1Ti 1:17; 2:5; Jm 2:19)

And the New Testament —

The Scriptures describe God as both plural and singular at the same time.

(Ge 1:1; 26-27)

The Scriptures tell us that there will never be another God.

(Is 44:6; 43:10)

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus is God.

(Jn 1:1, 14, 18; 20:28; Ro 9:4-5; Ti 2:13; 2Pe 1:1; Ps 45:6-7; He 1:8; Is 9:6; 1Jn 5:20; Re 1:8, 17-18)

You may say, Paul wasn’t saying he was waiting for the appearing of his God Jesus Christ, he said his God AND Savior, two people.

Well there is a problem with that explanation.

The Old Testament teaches that God is our only Savior.

So to say that Jesus is our Savior, which we all agree the New Testament teaches, would be to say that Jesus is God, or that the New Testament is ultimately a lie.

You can’t pick and choose the parts you want to believe because you want them to be true.

You have to accept it all as the truth, all as God’s words, or they are not.

It is either true or it’s false.

There is no Savior besides God.

(Is 43:11; Hos 13:4)

Peter says the same thing.

The Psalmist refers to God as a king, and then, strangely refers to God’s God anointing Him.

The author of Hebrews tells us that this passage is referring to Jesus, which makes sense since Jesus is God.

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His name is Immanuel.

Which means God with us.

(Mt 1:23)

And there is so much more.

The Holy Spirit is described as the Spirit of God and as the Spirit of Jesus.

God says He will not share His glory with another, yet the Scriptures give glory to God and Jesus.

but Jesus talks about the glory He shared with God before the world existed.

God demands that you worship no one but Him alone but we see Jesus being worshiped throughout the New Testament and Jesus never rebukes anyone for worshipping Him, we see the wise men worshipped Jesus, Mt 2, the disciples worshipped Jesus before and after His resurrection Mt 14 and Mt 28, God Himself even commands the angels to worship Him Heb 1, and in Rev 5 John tells us about a vision of Jesus on the throne and this is what he describes.

God and Jesus are both being worshipped by all of creation, together.

God is sharing His glory and worship with Jesus, something He said He would never do with another.

This would be a problem if Jesus was anyone except God Himself.