Mighty God: Jesus my deliverer
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Deliverer
Deliverer
Did you know that another name for deliverer is savior? Well, it is in the Greek. Our Mighty God is Jesus our Savior, our Redeemer. This morning we are looking at our Deliverer, why do we need one, what does our Deliverer does and what do we do with our Deliverer.
Deliverer (n): 1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. 2. One who relates or communicates.
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There have been many deliverers throughout the bible:
Noah delivered humanity (Gen6-8)
Moses delivered Israel from Egypt (Exo12)
Deborah delivered Israel from Canaanites (Jud4)
Gideon delivered from the Midianites (Jud6-7)
David from the Philistines (2Sam5)
(Transition) With each of the ones I have just mentioned there was a problem. The problem was return to:
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People returned to sin! (Expand)
(Transition) So, if there is a sin problem, even when there is a recurring/return to sin, there needs to be a solution, a deliverance (a Savior) for that. This morning we are looking at
Jesus our great Deliverer
Jesus your Deliverer
Be delivered by the great Deliverer.
Jesus our Great Deliverer
Jesus our Great Deliverer
God is in the redemption business, not just in the New Testament, but in the Old Testament too. The need for a deliverer has already been illustrated. May we now describe our Mighty God: Our Deliverer from the scripture.
Our Great Deliverer described (PS103:3-12)
3 Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; 4 Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;
5 Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle. 6 The Lord performs righteous deeds And judgments for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
I want to look at the description of Our Mighty God; Our Great deliverer as the psalmist David describes, but I think I need to back up and look at context a little more
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits;
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BENEFITS! David is giving praise, saying to be a blessings because of the blessed benefits he has from the Great Deliverer.
He pardons, and He heals (v.3)
pardons our iniquities, heals our diseases
He redeems, and He crowns (v.4)
redeems us from hell, crowns us with lovingkindness and compassion
He satisfies us, our years with good things (v.5)
He performs righteous deeds (v.6)
He is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness (v.8)
He is just, and justice will be served (vv.9-10)
In (vv.9-10) I am summarizing in my words not the word directly, but God will not always strive with us, He is just and justice will be served one day and that leads to one more thing
He is forgiving and removes our transgressions (vv.11-12)
As far as the East has been from the West! To those who fear Him!
Our Great Deliverer demonstrated (Rom5:8-10)
By His death, we can see our Great Deliverer
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
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He demonstrates His love by His death (v.8)
He justifies us by His blood (v.9)
He delivers us from wrath (v.9)
He reconciled us through His death (v.10)
He saved us by His life (v.10)
He lives for us today (Heb1:3; Heb7:25; 1Jn1:7)
3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
By having made purification of sins (Heb1:3)
25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
He lives to make intercession for us (Heb7:25)
7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
He lives for us by cleansing (continually) us from all sin (1Jn1:7)
He rescues us from the wrath to come (1The1:8-10)
8 For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. 9 For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.
How did He do it? Glad you asked. By the gospel that was proclaimed
How did it happen? By the gospel proclaimed and the gospel received!
Why did it happen? Because He raised from the dead, and then rescued from the wrath to come.
Jesus your deliverer
Jesus your deliverer
We have had Him described, we have had Him demonstrated, now may we look at our deliverer and why He is needed.
Delivers us from death sentence (Rom6:23; 3:23)
A couple of familiar scriptures that we do not hesitate in stating around here.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We have already talked about deliverance needed in the O.T. and deliverance here is provided from God through the life, death of CHrist Jesus because.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Delivers us from the power of darkness (Col1:13)
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
Delivers through warnings needed (2Tim3:12)
While this is a long passage I think it deserves our attention so let me share the warnings needed and direction given (listen carefully to vv.8-9).
1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Last days defined by scripture as the days of Christ until now and until the return of Christ.
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
Man will be lovers of self rather the lovers of God and there is more.
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
These kind of people, described as men of depraved mind, rejecting the faith, the true faith, that in these end times we need to not associate with them.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also. 10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
the promise and the direction: hold on their folly will become evident so follow what You have been given, what you have been taught, but wait there is more in context.
11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
You want to live a godly life, be ready to be persecuted!
There are going to be many who leave the truth to be pleasers of self or told that God wants them to have their every desire instead of His desire for them. They trade the truth for lies of this world, they accept a false bill of goods.
Notice they have a form of godliness but it is not godliness (v.5) - it may look like it, but it is not.
Many deceivers have the truth but are unwilling to come to the truth (vv.7-8) - a little truth misused is still a lie and a deception. Eve was deceived in the garden by a little truth, just change a word and it changed the outcome. Sin entered the world.
(Transition) - Jesus is our great Deliverer; He delivers from the Word by the power of the Spirit under the cover of His blood as sent by the Father fulfilling God’s scheme of redemption!
Be delivered by the Great Deliverer - Jesus
Be delivered by the Great Deliverer - Jesus
Deliverance, there is no other way (Act4:12) and there is no better way described on why needed than our next passage we are going to look at this morning.
Deliverance- no other way (Act4:12; Jn14:6)
12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
Jesus tells us such!
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Deliverance is needed (Eph2:1-3; Isa59:2; 2The1:8)
1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Dead in sin! Separated from God (Isa59:2)
Living dead under the powers of this world, by nature were children of wrath (v.3)
Deliverance is provided (Eph2:4-9; Rom6:3-7)
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
But God! made us alive, even when we were dead
Made alive, saved, by His grace
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Saved by grace and seated in the heavenly places “in” Christ Jesus!
Christ was a display of God’s riches, of God’s kindness and you know what, so are you who are in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
That saving grace is received through faith, God’s gift to the obedient, repentant believer who has heard the word, believed the word and has obeyed the word in submission to the Fathers call, command and work.
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
Having been baptized for forgiveness of sins (Act2:38) you were united with Him through baptism in order that the body of sin, our sinful nature could be crucified and done away with so we no longer would be slaves to sin.
Deliverance is submitting to the work of the Father (Col2:9-14)
9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
In Christ Jesus, In Him the fullness of Deity dwells,
In Him you have been made complete sine he is in you and you are in Him and He has all rule and authority in heaven and earth (Mt28:18)
11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
“In Him” you were circumcised
you were buried, you were raised up through the working of God.
Raised up from the dead because of our transgressions, and then seated in the heavenlies (Eph2:6)
13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
(Invitation slide - Paid in full) invitation (expand on each of the below)
Deliverance from our Great Deliverer Jesus Christ
We need it, it is provided, it is commanded for he paid in full the price of our sin.
Have you received your deliverance? If you wonder than let’s take away any question and be delivered today!
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