Lie #4: Jesus Has A Dark Side Part 2

Reason for us to Jesus phone number for the sinful nature we all share was never passed on to Jesus so he can then be the perfect sacrifice for sin. Without that perfect sacrifice. None of us has a prayer seeing eternal life father. Today the truth of the virgin birth and why it matters from the movie church.

This is running to with Dr. Sir clear teaching helps us make it across the finish line elixir. If Jesus had no sinful nature could have never sin to things come immediately to mind Dave. First of all, thankfully, he did not have the sin nature. He was sinless, even in his nature. But secondly, in answer to your question, absolutely not.

I don't believe that Jesus was able to sin. He could be tempted but he couldn't sin and the reason I say that is because the two natures were united in one person. The human nature, the divine nature. They were united in such a way that if the human nature had sinned the divine nature would be implicated lots of mystery, but don't we have a wonderful Savior. I've written a book entitled slandering Jesus six lies. People tell about the man who claimed to be God.

I wrote it for two reasons. First, so that Christians might be affirmed in their faith able to defend the faith much better. But secondly, for the seeker. I want them to be confronted with the biblical Jesus in such a way that they might know that they can't ignore him too much evidence that he was who he claimed to be that we go to the pulpit of Moody Church where we discussed the virgin birth, the sinlessness of Jesus and our marvelous Savior question is why. Why did Jesus have had Joseph or Pantera, as his father. The angel that comes to Mary in Luke chapter 1 gives us the answer and will not turn there. I have another passage in mind for you but it says very clearly there. The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you.

Therefore the child to be born within you will be called a holy son of God. Jesus had to be conceived miraculously so that he would not have a sin nature so that he would be born in such a way that he would be preserved from original sin preserved from every change of sin and maybe the blessed Holy Spirit of God use that which Mary as a mother would supply for the child Jesus may have looked like his mother Mary.

But Jesus look like Joseph, it was because God just chose to make it that way. That which was conceived in Mary had to be perfectly and completely holy and sinless, and that's why Jesus was born of a virgin and that's why he could say to people and he could challenge people on that point whether they were his friends or his enemies.

It says in John 846. Jesus is speaking right to a those enemies that were around him and he said which of you convinces me of sin.

If I speak the truth, why do you not believe it.

Could you imagine anyone of us standing in a circle of friends. Not to mention enemies and saying which of you accuses me of San. I think we'd all get an ear full at that point the enemies of Jesus were very silent. Judah said I have betrayed innocent blood pilot says I find no fault in him, Peter says he committed no sin, neither was any guile found in his mouth. Paul says she, who knew no sin was made to sin. You see, Jesus personally was totally sinless, but our sin was credited to his account and so he became legally guilty of arson, but not personally guilty of arson and that's why Jesus is different from all of the other people in the world. He was completely sin less now. I reminded you that there is another passage of scripture would you take your Bibles and turn out to Hebrews Hebrews chapter 7 Hebrews chapter 7 and if you forgot to bring your Bible which is entirely possible that you forgot to bring your Bible in the pew Bible. It said page 1004 and find their page 1004 Hebrews chapter 7 and I'm picking it up in verse 26 Ford was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest.

Let's take these words. Now, one by one. In this description of Jesus the high priest to his holy is only in his obedience to God he set apart, and at no time did Jesus ever disobey his father. Everything that he did everything that he thought was as holy as God himself is, for it was fitting that we should have a high priest was wholly innocent. There's really no English word to pick up the Greek word at this point, it could be translated innocent, guileless. It means that Jesus was so cleansed from evil so cleansed that there was nothing in him except that she was completely good and because he was so holy. He was like an antiseptic. In other words, I do know in the Old Testament.

If a woman had an issue of blood.

She was considered to be unclean and not to be touched, but in the Gospels. There's a story of a woman who comes and touches Jesus and instantly she's cleansed she can't defile him, but he in turn lessens her with his healing power and is cleansing power. Jesus could touch a leopard because even though he touched that leper, his power would go to the leper, the lepers defilement would not come to him. He was totally innocent, undefiled, it says unstained absolved of all blemishes and it is because of this perfection.

But God was able to accept his sacrifice to see if Jesus had been a center and if you died on the cross for our sins, he had to die. First of all, for his own sins and then after dying for his own sins. Then somehow what he did might have been applied to us, but it would've been no better than some of the animals in the Old Testament that were slaughtered, whose whose death was symbolic, but who did not permanently take away sin. The contrast here is between the Old Testament. It says in verse 27 he has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself on the day of atonement.

It was the responsibility of the high priest to wash himself.

He washed himself. He put on special linen garments and after you done that. He offered up an animal for himself and then he prayed a prayer of confession in which he said oh God, I have sinned against the wash away all my iniquity cleansed me and after he had made a sacrifice for himself, then he could make a sacrifice for his people. The author is saying that's not the way Jesus did that.

He didn't need to make a sacrifice for himself. That's why this was so entirely selfless. He didn't die for himself, but he died for us. No man takes his life from me my life from me.

I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.

That's who Jesus was. He did voluntarily because he loves us and he cares about us and his desire is to us, and he died to save his people. People that God would save from there sins. So the author wants us to understand that Jesus was perfectly human, perfectly human, it says here he is separated from sinners, but that doesn't mean that he is somehow not human says earlier in the book it says that we have a high priest who can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities because he was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin. It means he was separate from us because of his holiness because he was unstained, and because he is what we are not so what the writer is saying is he was a perfect human being and exalted human being. It says higher than the heavens. He has been exalted, and then he says that there was one sacrifice notice. This he did once for all when he offered up himself the Old Testament.

It says in the 10th chapter here in this book. As we well know. In the Old Testament, constantly offering sacrifices.

In fact, the priest had various rituals that they would go through and there would be a number of priests 38 hour shifts during the day because supposedly the fire was, not to go out on the altar. They were to keep it burning all the time and so priests had to be there continually one shift after another and when you were on duty. You always stood your never permitted to sit down because if you sat down. That would give the idea that somehow you are finished and you weren't finished so why the Bible says that Jesus, when he had made a sacrifice once for all. He ascended into heaven, and he sat down at the right hand of the father, my friend, Jesus sat down not because he was tired because he was finished the work was done.

It had been accomplished when he said it is finished on the cross he meant it is finished.

Paid in full. The work spend on the sacrifices been made and the good news is that in the resurrection of Jesus Christ prove that what he did was acceptable to the father because God raises him from the dead, and set them on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high.

That's why Jesus was not fathered by Pantera or Joseph. His uniqueness is the son of God is the holy son of God was preserved through the virgin birth. Now take the text here and let's look about that just a moment to verse 25. He's making a similar argument in the previous paragraph, but now he says consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. He is able to save to the uttermost that can be translated into different ways he can save to the uttermost he can save to the greatest extent of sin the greatest extent may be someone listening to me here in this sanctuary are on the Internet or on radio.

Maybe you've committed some huge sins. I mean I'm talking about crimes and you say yourself can Jesus Christ save me and the answer is yes, he can save to the uttermost he can save what shall we say to the gutter most as people discover he can save that man who wrote to me from prison who said I raped for women. Can I ever be forgiven. He can save that man to is a qualified Savior and then not only that, but it can be translated and perhaps more accurately he can save them completely. He can take them all the way to heaven. Jesus, when he saves somebody is qualified to lift us up and to bring us into the presence of God and declares as righteous as God himself is because he was completely and totally holy. I know that you've heard the story before I'm sure you have but to my wife and I were at the Palmer House yesterday and she reminded me of it and so I'm going to tell it to you again member in 1993 when I told you I attended the Parliament of world religions of the Palmer House and 5000 delegates came from all of the world and they were discussing how they might unify all the religions of the world and I was there the whole week dialoguing with these people that come from all of the world and had a wonderful time talking with witches new agers and Buddhists and everything. Everything was there at the Palmer House and one day I went on a search. You've heard before to find a sinless Savior. Now the reason I did that is because you member in Florida number of years ago there was a woman, a grandmother who is taking care of her little granddaughter and the little toddler fell into the swimming pool and that the grandmother bless her heart jumped in to rescue the little toddler and a few hours later. Both bodies were pulled from the water because you see if you're drowning you need somebody is not a part of your predicament to save you. You need somebody is not subject to the same waves to the same the same predicament in the same sins that you are.

You need somebody who is sinless, who's actually able to bring you to God, so I decided I go to the lower floor of the Palmer house and make that search for a sinless Savior. I remember the first religion I stopped at with the Hindus. They were very kind to me and I said you know I'm looking for a sinless Savior because I'm a sinner. I need somebody to save made you have a sinless Savior, no, no, no, we have grooves and so forth. But no sinless Savior.

I went to the Buddhists. I said didn't go to claim sinlessness because I'm a sinner and I need help and they said no enlightenment but not sinlessness the hollow enlightenment, not sinlessness went to the Muslim table. I knew that in the Quran. Mohammed had said that he himself needed forgiveness. I think at least seven time know we have a profit but we don't have Savior. I spent a lot of time down there. Went to some of the new agers I went to those who believe in the cosmic Jesus defined the Savior and couldn't do it. And that's when it dawned on me the radical difference that there is between Christianity and all the other options out there because Christianity actually has someone who is perfect and holy, whose sacrifice was accepted by a holy God and and therefore he is able to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by him and that's why I commend him to you today is because we have a Savior who was a virgin born. I love the story on August 21 1544 Martin Luther wrote a letter to one of his faithful and trusted coworkers.

George's politician's politician worked there in Wittenberg and sometimes was in the library and actually the librarian of the city of Wittenberg's politician had given a friend some very bad advice and's politician could not forgive himself for this because he was immersed in grief and guilt and regret, and he would not be consoled. If you ever had that experience you just so regret it. You say to yourself I can't forgive myself. I Move on.

Luther wrote to him and it's interesting to see what Luther did today. Counselors would've handled it differently. I'm sure that it sits politician lighten up. Chill me. We've all done silly things we've all given bad advice. What you did is not so bad.

Luther didn't do it that way.

He took an entirely different view. He did not minimize the sin, but oh how he mag fied grace. Listen to the letter, my faithful request and admonition is that you join our company and associate with us who are real great and hard-boiled centers. He said you must by no means make Christ seem to be paltry and trifling to us, as though he could be our helper only when we want to be rid of the imaginary minimal and childish sins all nose's politician that would not be good for us. He must rather be a Savior and Redeemer from real great grievous and damnable transgressions and iniquities gave from the very greatest and most shocking of sins to be brief from all of the sins added together in a grand total.

My friend, you're going ahead have to get used to the belief that Christ is a real Savior and you are a real sinner, for God is neither jesting nor dealing in imaginary affairs, but he was greatly and most assuredly in earnest when he sent his own son into the world and sacrificed him for our sakes, I stand before you today with great joy in my heart to tell you that we have a real Savior for real centers, real Savior. People have always said you know I should write a book about all of the airplane conversations that I have and I don't think it's worth that. But I do come to you today with another one about to think I this happened some time ago where a woman was very very prim and proper in the not needing a Savior. So I said to her.

I said that, would you consider yourself ungodly. I said it with a smile.

Don't don't ask a question like that unless you're smiling. She was clearly even with my smile somewhat of bended course I'm not ungodly. I said, I'm so sorry to hear that because that means that Jesus didn't die for you.

The Bible says that Jesus died for the ungodly. I said I'm ungodly and he died for me and if you admit your need.

He died for you as well. One time I was on a talk show with a very liberal scholar whose name I shall not give because it goes into other matters, but he was very much disdaining the idea that either Christianity was unique or that Jesus died for sinners.

He said it's barbaric and he was arguing vociferously against all the things that you and I have just heard the last half-hour so I said to him as the show was beginning to and I said what word do you have for a person sitting in prison whose committed rape who wants to know whether or not he can be forgiven and you know he had virtually nothing to say.

Isn't it wonderful that because Jesus meets the requirements of Savior would not just profit.

There are all kinds of prophets out there who have human fathers because there sinners, but he actually meets the required treatment of Savior who it is.

You heard me say so many times there is nobody else out there like him.

That's why he doesn't have a dark secret in this past he was not fathered by Pantera or Joseph that which is conceived in you is of the Holy Spirit and he shall be holy and he shall give himself as a ransom for the sins of the world. Don't you love that Savior. Let's pray together. Her father, we do want to thank you so much that Jesus came to rescue us.

We thank you that while other religions might be like people drowning in others coming next to them and saying let's join hands to go to the bottom of the lake together. We thank you today that Jesus is actually able to cleanse us to save us to bring us into the presence of God, and to declare us as holy as he is. Thank you father, help us to love him to defend him to speak of him to share him with all whom we meet and out before I close this prayer. What about your relationship to him.

He sees your heart even where you are right now you can receive Christ.

You can say I trust Jesus today to be my Savior. My sin bearer father we pray that you might do that in the lives of many. We ask in Jesus blessed name, amen, amen.

This is Pastor Luther and as always I hold out to you an invitation to believe in Jesus is sinless Savior somebody who's actually qualified to save us from our sin. And as I've stressed many times and you've heard me say there's nobody else out there like Jesus Christ the Savior of the world at the beginning of this program I told you bought a book I've written.

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