JESUS IS OUR ADOPTION (2 OF 4)
Scripture: John 1:6-13
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Jesus Is Our Adoption (2 of 4)
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 1:6-13
Introduction
Now if I can start off this morning with a confession, I must admit that when I was a kid I use to find the intermediate season between Christmas and Easter terribly confusing. I always wondered how could Jesus have grown from a baby to adult man and done all the things that He did in only three or four months? Now we can laugh at this, of course. I mean its funny how a child's mind works, but to be frank, we kind of sometimes treat Jesus' life in this way.
Think about our creeds. We state in the Apostles' Creed, ''I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary,'' we're ok so far. We've got here that fact that Jesus is the eternal Son of God, fully divine, in no way lesser than the Father. We've got here His conception and virgin birth; all good, but then the creed jumps from the Virgin Mary to, ''He suffered under Pontius Pilate.'' We go straight from His birth to His suffering and death, without ever really asking, ''Why did Jesus live?''
Some have argued, and they are on the right track, that well Jesus' life is important because Jesus had to obey all the points of the law on our behalf. Theologians will sometimes call this Jesus' active obedience, or His full obedience to all the positive prescriptions of the law. The answer then to ''why did Jesus live?'' rests in that apparently 33 or so years was necessary for Him to rack up the adequate amount of points or merit we would need as forgiven sinners. Well if that were the case, though, if Jesus needed to live simply so that He could not sin and could obey the law, then why not just go hang out in the desert for 30 years, away from everyone and every temptation? You see, I think, we've missed something to the importance of Jesus' life; we've missed perhaps what He accomplished by His life. But John, at the very outset of his gospel, here in the pr ...
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 1:6-13
Introduction
Now if I can start off this morning with a confession, I must admit that when I was a kid I use to find the intermediate season between Christmas and Easter terribly confusing. I always wondered how could Jesus have grown from a baby to adult man and done all the things that He did in only three or four months? Now we can laugh at this, of course. I mean its funny how a child's mind works, but to be frank, we kind of sometimes treat Jesus' life in this way.
Think about our creeds. We state in the Apostles' Creed, ''I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary,'' we're ok so far. We've got here that fact that Jesus is the eternal Son of God, fully divine, in no way lesser than the Father. We've got here His conception and virgin birth; all good, but then the creed jumps from the Virgin Mary to, ''He suffered under Pontius Pilate.'' We go straight from His birth to His suffering and death, without ever really asking, ''Why did Jesus live?''
Some have argued, and they are on the right track, that well Jesus' life is important because Jesus had to obey all the points of the law on our behalf. Theologians will sometimes call this Jesus' active obedience, or His full obedience to all the positive prescriptions of the law. The answer then to ''why did Jesus live?'' rests in that apparently 33 or so years was necessary for Him to rack up the adequate amount of points or merit we would need as forgiven sinners. Well if that were the case, though, if Jesus needed to live simply so that He could not sin and could obey the law, then why not just go hang out in the desert for 30 years, away from everyone and every temptation? You see, I think, we've missed something to the importance of Jesus' life; we've missed perhaps what He accomplished by His life. But John, at the very outset of his gospel, here in the pr ...
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