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The Good News Of The Superiority Of Christ Jesus
I am weak.
I am imperfect.
I am broken.
I am mortal.
I am unable to effect any eternal change.
I am needy.
I am longing.
I need Jesus.
Jesus is strong.
Jesus is perfect.
Jesus is whole.
Jesus is immortal.
Jesus has all authority.
Jesus is the provision.
Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
I need Jesus.
I need the Jesus that heals the sick.
I need the Jesus that casts out the devils.
I need the Jesus that raises the dead.
I need the Jesus that speaks truth and silences the lies.
I need the Jesus that gives grace to my sin.
I need the Jesus that has mercy for my ignorance.
I need the Jesus that welcomes the children into his arms.
I need the Jesus that feeds the 5000.
I need the Jesus that challenges my self-righteouness.
I need the Jesus that sits with me and tells me he loves me after I turned away from him.
I need the Jesus that carries my sin.
I need the Jesus that challenges kings and politics.
I need the Jesus that defends me against my accusers.
I need the Jesus that doesn’t condemn my sin but gives me the grace to leave sin behind.
I need the Jesus that walks out of the tomb.
I need the Jesus conquered hell, death, and the grave.
I need the Jesus that has all power and authority.
I need the Jesus that confounds the wise and exalts the humble.
I need the Jesus that teaches me to pray and then prays for me.
I need the Jesus that washes my feet.
I need the Jesus that breaks bread and wine with Me and meets me at the communion table.
I need the Jesus that sits at the table with sinners.
I need the Jesus that heals his captors.
I need the Jesus that willingly laid down his life for sinners.
I need the Jesus that forgave his abusers.
I need the Jesus that seeks and saves the lost.
I need the Jesus of the Gospels.
I need the Jesus who saves, heals, and delivers.
I need that Jesus.
I need Jesus the Christ.
And that Jesus is the only Jesus worth following.
That Jesus is the only Jesus worth living for.
And that Jesus is the only TRUE JESUS.
This is the Jesus we serve.
Fully God.
Fully man.
Creator and sustainer of everyone and everything.
The head of the church.
The one with all power and authority.
The peacemaker.
The sacrifice.
The one who disarmed rulers and powers.
The one who cancelled your sin-debt.
The one who was raised from the dead.
The one who made you alive.
This is the Jesus we serve.
This is the Good News of the Superiority of Jesus.
And it’s this Jesus we see in Luke 13 making sure we know he is superior to things in heaven and things on earth.
If you’ve got your Bible turn with me to Luke’s Gospel.
Chapter 13.
Verses 31-35.
Go Tell That Fox
Jesus calls Herod a fox.
Pretty confidently, I might add.
Now, our common Western understand of fox as metaphor is one who is cunning or deceitful.
But Dr Randall Buth, whoreceived his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles, says that there is a second Hebrew understanding of the fox as metaphor.
“important for our understanding of Jesus’ words in Luke chapter 13 is a second, very common use of “fox” in Hebrew.
Lions and foxes can be contrasted with each other to represent the difference between great men and inferior men.
The great men are called “lions,” and the lesser men are called “foxes.”
The epithet “fox” is sometimes applied to Torah scholars: “There are lions before you, and you ask foxes?”[4]
In other words, “Why do you ask the opinion of foxes, that is, my opinion, when there are distinguished scholars present?”
A certain scholar, thought at first to be brilliant, was by all outward signs inept, and it was remarked about him, “The lion you mentioned turns out to be a [mere] fox.” (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Kamma 117a)
Sometimes the use of “fox” relates to pedigree: “He is a lion the son of a lion, but you are a lion the son of a fox.”[5]
In other words, “He is a distinguished scholar and the son of a distinguished scholar; but, although you are a distinguished scholar, your father is a less-distinguished scholar than his.”
The word “fox” can also have moral connotations, as a saying from the Mishnah demonstrates: “Be a tail to lions rather than a head to foxes.”[6]
This saying could be paraphrased, “It is better to be someone of low rank among those who are morally and spiritually your superiors than someone of high rank among scoundrels.”
Jesus called Herod a fox after some Pharisees reported that Herod wanted to kill Jesus.
Jesus’ response challenged any such plans: “Tell Herod I’ve got work to do first.”
Jesus was not implying that Herod was sly, rather he was commenting on Herod’s ineptitude, or inability, to carry out his threat.
Jesus questioned the tetrarch’s pedigree, moral stature and leadership, and put the tetrarch “in his place.”
This exactly fits the second rabbinic usage of “fox.”
When Jesus labeled Herod a fox, Jesus implied that Herod was not a lion.
Herod considered himself a lion, but Jesus pointed out that Herod was the opposite of a lion.
Jesus cut Herod down to size, and Jesus’ audience may have had an inward smile of appreciation at a telling riposte.”
Go tell that fox.
Jesus is saying that he is superior to Herod.
Jesus is Superior To Human Authority
Here that this morning.
Jesus is superior to human authority, reason, ability, strength, wisdom, dominion, law, culture, philosophy, knowledge.
Jesus is superior to kings and politicians, to presidents and politics.
Jesus is superior to nobles and the wealthy.
Jesus is superior.
Jesus has the last word.
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