Christianity is fundamentally Christ, and understanding His person and work is essential. The sermon details Christ's deity, incarnation, work, and offices, emphasizing His divine nature and humanity as God becoming flesh. Through His redemptive work, Christ satisfies divine justice, enabling believers to receive sonship and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. He serves as prophet, priest, and king, revealing God, representing believers, and ultimately reigning universally, urging listeners to live for Him.
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Welcome to the Emmaus Bible Hour. This is a program for you and your family. A time to open the Bible and see what God has to say to us through His Word. Hello friends.
Today brings us to lesson number five in our series of studies based on the Emmaus Bible School course, What the Bible teaches. Now I trust that you've already glanced at lesson number five in view of today's lesson. You will have noticed, of course, that it concerns the all-important subject of Christ, and it occupies pages sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. And if you've already given this lesson a preliminary glance, you will notice the rich profusion of Scripture references. I want you to look up these references. The texts are not spelled out in our manual, but the references are indicated.
That means that we have to make good use of our Bibles and check on each statement. For example, under the heading His Deity, dealing with our Lord's Deity, in bracket at A, you will notice it says, His pre-existence. Christ had no beginning, John chapter seventeen, verse five. Now needless to say, John seventeen five affirms the truth of this declaration. And so that's what I mean when I say, be sure to check out the Scripture references. What a glorious theme we have for our meditation today. I don't need to tell you I'm sure that this is basic to Christianity. For in a real sense Christianity is Christ.
And if we have defective views as to our Lord Jesus Christ, then of course our very foundation is defective. So let's make sure that we understand the New Testament presentation of the complete Christ. In lesson number five, you'll notice that the lesson is broken down under four main divisions. First of all, His deity, then His incarnation, followed by His work, and then a glance at His offices. I'd like to present some texts that present Christ in His person and His work. The first of these is Galatians chapter four, verses four to six. And the second one is Second Corinthians eight, nine.
Thought you might like to make note of those texts. Let's turn in our Bibles to Galatians chapter four, and read verses four, five, and six. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Here we have a glittering array of truths concerning our divine Lord. You will notice, first of all, it says in Galatians four, four, that God sent forth his Son.
Now that's worth noting. The one who came forth from heaven to be our gracious, glorious Redeemer, is described here as God's Son. Doesn't that emphasize and teach His deity? The Son is of the same substance as the Father. He is one in life and nature with His Father. Now this couldn't be said of any mere creature. Here is one who, in the mystery of His person, was actually God. Now, under the heading His Deity on page sixteen of our lesson, Lesson five, there's a very convincing array of proofs of our Lord's deity.
And by the way, the word deity, of course, means His Godhood. That is, that our Lord Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh, having all the attributes, all the moral characteristics, and performing the work that only God could do, and also bearing the titles of God. It's just overwhelming. This one man who came forth to be our Savior was God. God sent forth His Son. Now notice again Galatians four-four. It says that he was made of a woman. Now that suggests his manhood. And that brings us to his incarnation.
By incarnation we mean that God became flesh. This is, of course, supported by that very well known text John one fourteen that we should all memorize. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The Word became flesh. Paul by the Holy Spirit says in Galatians four four that he was made of a woman. So here we have a very strong indication that the Lord Jesus Christ was virgin born. And then furthermore it says that he was made under the law.
This tells me that our Lord was of the stock of Abraham, and he came through Israelite-ish channels. He was born under the law, and it says in Isaiah that he magnified that law and made it honorable, the only one who kept the law in the absolute sense of the word. And then, too, going back to our text, verse five of Galatians four, it gives us the purpose of His incarnation. Here He came, God's Son, made of a woman. That means He became man. In order that, verse five, He might redeem them that were under the law.
So this brings us to His work. And that's under the heading of His work. He came to die. He came in order to provide redemption for us. and to meet all the full measure of God's claim against sin, that He might redeem us. How wonderful that He became a man in order that He might render to the divine justice the full satisfaction for all the terrible effects and penalty that sin had incurred. And then there's a further thought here. Not only did He die that He might redeem us, and in order that we might become the sons of God, that brings us to the effects of His redemption, salvation, and sonship.
But it says in verse six, Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Now this suggests that after dying for us on the cross, God raised Him from the dead, and glorified Him at His own right hand, and then He sent down His Holy Spirit, in order that we might have the same relationship to the Father, as the Divine Son Himself. The Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost, in attestation, that Christ was glorified, and that God was satisfied, and now we too have the same life and nature as the Son Himself.
And so this little paragraph in Galatians four presents the story of our Blessed Lord's person and work in capsule form. Oh, to think of it. to think of the mighty grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." I like the way the poet F. W. Pitt has put it, the maker of the universe, as man for man was made a curse. The claims of law which he had made unto the uttermost, He paid.
His holy fingers made the bow, which grew the thorns that crowned his brow. The nails that pierced his hands were mined in secret places he designed. He made the forest, whence there sprung the tree on which his body hung. He died upon a cross of wood, yet made the hill on which it stood. The sky that darkened or his head by him above the earth was spread. The sun that hid from him its face by his decree was poised in space. The spear which spilled his precious blood was tempered in the fires of God. The grave in which his form was laid was hewn in rocks his hands had made.
The throne on which he now appears was his from everlasting years. But a new glory crowns his brow, and every knee to him shall bow. Now in thinking of our Lord, we glance in the closing paragraph of Lesson five at His offices. You will notice that the authors point out that He occupies the role and enjoys the titles of prophet, priest, and king. As the prophet, He tells men what God has to say to them, and He thus reveals God to man. He came then as the last prophet, the fulfillment of the great prophecy of Deuteronomy eighteen concerning the coming prophet.
Our Lord spoke with positive authority, with absolute finality, the great prophet of God. We see him exercising his office and in this role in, for example, his great sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters five, six, and seven. And in his great Olivet prophetic discourse in Matthew twenty-four and twenty-five. But then he is also his priest. And thus he represents us before the face of God this day, as spelled out in Hebrews chapter four. And then finally he is king. And some of these glad soon coming days he's going to wield a universal sceptre and be acknowledged as king of kings.
and Lord of Lords. In the meantime, he wants to occupy the throne of these hearts of ours and command our wills for his glory. All right, let's go back over lesson number five. Let's get our boundaries and our convictions solidly embedded by the Word of God. Do our tests and then live for Christ and be good representatives of Him who today represents us before the throne of the living God. Sing aloud with great rejoicing, Through the world thy tidings bring, For the tomb could never hold him, Jesus Christ our risen king.
Hallelujah, lift us for us till the earth with joy shall ring. and glory to the Savior, Jesus Christ our risen King. He was crucified and buried, but for him that had no faith, what the cross, the cross, what the cross, what the name, Jesus Christ our risen King. Hallelujah. lift the chorus, fill the earth with joy shall ring. Praise and glory, we know that Christ our King, our King, our King, our King, our King, our King.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, sing the angels in the sky, sending forth a glorious message as he wrote, so we will rise. Hallelujah, hallelujah, let the chorus build your good joy shall be. Glory to the Savior, we who shies our risen King. Thank you.