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Core #1: Session 4
December 18, 2021
| By: Sam McVay, Jr. |
Category: Equip S of D |
Location: Wichita
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Sam teaches session 4 of Core #1 The Disciples Heritage equipping series. The Word Become Flesh: The God/Man Messiah's birth and manifestation. Intro to a robust Christology.
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Introduction to a robust Christology.
I. The Old Testament promise of a coming Messiah from and for Israel.
In his Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, J. Barton Payne itemized 127 Messianic predictions involving more than 3,000 Bible verses, with a remarkable 574 verses referring directly to a personal Messiah!
The word “Messiah” or “Anointed One” (or in Greek, “Christ”), is taken from Psalm 2:2 and Daniel 9:25-26.
Psalm 2:2 (ESV)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
Daniel 9:25-26 (ESV)
25 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
The term took its meaning from the Jewish practice of anointing their priests and kings. But this term was applied in a special sense to the future Ruler who would be sent from God to sit on the throne of David forever. He is, “The One” that God distinctly identified many years ahead of His arrival on earth, as Acts 3:18 affirms:
Acts 3:18 (NIV)
18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.
-Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
II. Progressive Messianic Understanding in Old Testament
1) Messianic Hope in Genesis
- Seed to destroy Satan (Genesis 3:15)
- Seed from Israel to bless all Nations
2) Messianic Hope in the Kings
- promise of a King and an everlasting Kingdom (2 Samuel 7:12-13) that would type all nations (Psalm 2)
2 Samuel 7:12-13 (ESV)
12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
3) Messianic Hope in the Prophets
- Coming Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) with supernatural birth and a child who will be called by Glorious titles having a kingdom that increases forever.
III. The Advent of the Messiah
- Prophetic Accuracy & Angelic Activity of the birth. (Matthew 1 & 2 and Luke 1 & 2)
- The stunning theological reality of the Messiah. (John 1:1-14).
John 1:1-14 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
IV. The Stunning Double Advent of the Messiah.
The Jewish religious leaders were confused by the prophesied Messianic reality of a "suffering servant" and "ruling King".
- First coming (Isaiah. 53) Came to rule over sin, sickness, Satan, and death.
- Second coming (Isaiah 63) Will return to finish these globally and also to rule all nations in a New Heaven and New Earth.
V. Living Between the Advents
- We live in a time "after" the First Advent and the resurrection of a, "Man" in an eternal body Who is residing in heaven and pouring out His Spirit on the earth.
- We live in a time "before" the Second Advent that still is filled with the affects of sin, sickness, Satan, and death.
- Living in the "already but not yet" calls for a life of faith and endurance filled with hope!
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Notes
The Word Become Flesh: The God/Man Messiah's birth and manifestation.Introduction to a robust Christology.
I. The Old Testament promise of a coming Messiah from and for Israel.
In his Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, J. Barton Payne itemized 127 Messianic predictions involving more than 3,000 Bible verses, with a remarkable 574 verses referring directly to a personal Messiah!
The word “Messiah” or “Anointed One” (or in Greek, “Christ”), is taken from Psalm 2:2 and Daniel 9:25-26.
Psalm 2:2 (ESV)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
Daniel 9:25-26 (ESV)
25 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
The term took its meaning from the Jewish practice of anointing their priests and kings. But this term was applied in a special sense to the future Ruler who would be sent from God to sit on the throne of David forever. He is, “The One” that God distinctly identified many years ahead of His arrival on earth, as Acts 3:18 affirms:
Acts 3:18 (NIV)
18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.
-Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
II. Progressive Messianic Understanding in Old Testament
1) Messianic Hope in Genesis
- Seed to destroy Satan (Genesis 3:15)
- Seed from Israel to bless all Nations
2) Messianic Hope in the Kings
- promise of a King and an everlasting Kingdom (2 Samuel 7:12-13) that would type all nations (Psalm 2)
2 Samuel 7:12-13 (ESV)
12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
3) Messianic Hope in the Prophets
- Coming Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) with supernatural birth and a child who will be called by Glorious titles having a kingdom that increases forever.
III. The Advent of the Messiah
- Prophetic Accuracy & Angelic Activity of the birth. (Matthew 1 & 2 and Luke 1 & 2)
- The stunning theological reality of the Messiah. (John 1:1-14).
John 1:1-14 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
IV. The Stunning Double Advent of the Messiah.
The Jewish religious leaders were confused by the prophesied Messianic reality of a "suffering servant" and "ruling King".
- First coming (Isaiah. 53) Came to rule over sin, sickness, Satan, and death.
- Second coming (Isaiah 63) Will return to finish these globally and also to rule all nations in a New Heaven and New Earth.
V. Living Between the Advents
- We live in a time "after" the First Advent and the resurrection of a, "Man" in an eternal body Who is residing in heaven and pouring out His Spirit on the earth.
- We live in a time "before" the Second Advent that still is filled with the affects of sin, sickness, Satan, and death.
- Living in the "already but not yet" calls for a life of faith and endurance filled with hope!