The Mighty Jesus

Take your Bibles and let's go back to first Timothy is were going through an expositional preaching tour of this New Testament book again. This is a letter written by the aged apostle Paul is writing to his young disciple and young pastor Timothy he's left Timothy in Ephesus to oversee the pastor the church there.

So he writes this letter instructed Timothy in church life. In essence, Timothy. Here's what you need to do here something so you to address the fix to correct the build up to build on whatever. So we call this beautifying the bride her fashion this the way she structured and her function.

How is she to do her work will find everything we need to know about the church and the pastoral epistles, but we find a lot and last time we looked at verses 12 through 17.

We talked about a true servant minister because what Paul is doing.

He's exhorting Timothy right off the bat to confront and correct false doctrine that was creeping into the church. We might even say is not creeping anymore. It's gotten in there and so Paul didn't have time to deal with all of it, so is he goes somewhere else. He says Timothy I'm leaving you behind and I want you to do this benefit look back at verse three he says in verse three, she tried to Timothy on earth you upon my departure for Macedonia to remain on it.

Ephesus want so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines and I spent some degree of emphasis on the fact that in the balance of New Testament teaching the church pastor is to be intentional and ever vigilant to guard sound doctrine and to confront and correct unsound doctrine as it finds its way into the church in this is something that has to be done in every generation and the last 100 or so years and what we might call Baptist or evangelical history. We have failed greatly in allowing worldly false notions beliefs, practices, viewpoints into God's church and so this is a pattern for us. As Paul urges Timothy now we come to verse 12 and in verses 12 through 17 the apostle Paul lays down his own life, his calling his ministry as a contrast to that of the false teachers and we looked at everything from Paul's perspective last week. Never got a look at these verses from more of a divine perspective. I've entitled the exposition of verses 12 through 17. Today, as the mighty Jesus, the mighty Jesus. Look at verse 12. I think Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me because he considered me faithful, putting me in the service. Even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor yet. I was shown mercy because I acted in unbelief and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant with the faith and the love which are found in Christ Jesus is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am for most of all it for this reason, I found mercy so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.

Amen. So again, this is this is the same in text values last week, but a completely different message. The mighty Jesus I, Paul talks about Christ Street is a great mighty stream. He says in verse 12.

I think Christ Jesus. I think him because he has strengthened me.

Now that's an important statement because contrast to the false teachers. They don't look at themselves as home bold and wholly dependent upon Christ string but there full of themselves. They are in great all of their own wisdom and their own understanding, not the apostle Paul. Paul begins by saying it is Christ who is mustering you see the truth we know as Christians is that all men by nature are without Street all men before God are holy week. Romans 56 reminds us for a while.

We were helpless. What a word helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly helpless means no strength at all and actually could have the idea of being sickly and anemic. While we in our moral fortitude were deficient had no hope.

Couldn't do anything. We couldn't look to God. We could not reach to God we couldn't walk to God, we could intellectually find our way to God. We were helpless, then God acted on our behalf.

Listen church.

The reason men who do not believe and be saved. The reason that men do not honor Christ in their lives.

The reason men do not faithfully serve Christ and advance his kingdom.

The local church is because they're too weak to do so is not because they're brilliant and learned and above it. It's because they're too weak to grasp it, to see to embrace it because men on their own are deplorably weak. We are weak intellectually and we cannot grasp the vital greatness of Christ and his kingdom. We are weak of heart. We cannot feel our treasure the greatness of Christ and his kingdom. We are deplorably weak in our will.

We cannot bring ourselves to initiate a full devotion to Christ and his kingdom. We have an overall weakness of strength and cannot endure the rigors of following Christ and building his kingdom. That's what you are. That's what I am before God and to bring that out again when he says I think Christ Jesus because he has strengthened me know.

Paul was anything but a weakling, humanly speaking, but he said when it came to things that mattered. I was completely weak. I mean, Paul, who before he changed his name at conversion was Saul of Tarsus was by any objective standard. A strong man.

He was a determined man among the Hebrews. He was a brilliant man.

He considered himself in his own words quote a Hebrew of Hebrew the top of the top when it came to the Jews but he says in things pertaining to God, and things that really matter and things that count for time and for eternity. I was weak. I was deplorably weak, but not verse 20 says, but Christ strengthened me Christ strength is what made Paul who he was. Christ strength is what made Paul, the men of God that he was Christ strength make God the minister of God that he wants Isaiah 53 verse 12 reminds us this is a prophecy what Jesus will performances. Therefore, I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the book. Though the booty with the strongest the spoils of war. Here Jesus is winning and warring and conquering and he enjoys this fall's of his victory. The point is Christ strength is adequate Christ strength this more than adequate Christ strength is mighty and Paul says it is his mighty strength that is made me what I the greatest day of any person's life is when they see themselves as hopeless and weak and Christ as my tea and strong. No wonder the same apostle said I can to all things through Christ who strengthens me little song we sing our children. I am weak but he is strong all that's a great thing to teach children.

That's a great thing that men need to learn.

Christ is the mighty strong one.

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This text also teaches us not only about his mighty strength, but his great calling Christ crawling there verse 12 notice at the end of the verse because he considered to be faithful, putting me in the service as part of site I was converted I looked at all the opportunities I counseled with men and I looked at all the job descriptions for ministers. I decided this was the kind of ministry.

I was going to have choices he made service.

This is speaking of God's calling on Paul's life and in principle very similar to God's calling on every Christian's life. This is Christ calling him and the service in acts 915, the apostle writes but the Lord said to him, go for he is a chosen instrument of my notices is what God is saying a Paul. Paul is a chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel. I have called him not only to salvation but also to service and particularly for Paul to the office of apostle. First Corinthians 916 and 17, Paul says, for if I preach the gospel. I have nothing to boast of what a minute Paul. We think you're a wonderful example of a faithful Christian a faithful ministry together, but I didn't posted for him under compulsion phrase pieces before you give me too many pats on the back.

You need to understand something I don't call the shots here. Pete called me out of my blindness and my wickedness and save me kind, and he called me to particular service I'm under his compulsion. He calls the shots for woe is me, he says, but I do not preach the gospel for if I do this voluntarily have a reward, but if against my will the system understand that it wasn't my will that prevail. Here is where prevailed over my will and called me to salvation and called me into the service. While this ties in greatly with the principle of Christ strength is it not Christ had all this power to overcome his will. Matter fact, if you're converted is the mighty strength of Jesus that overcame your will, because on your own. You would never will to adore him, you would never will to treasure him you would never allow to honor him.

Thank God for the overcoming power of Jesus Christ.

He received calling Paul to this stewardship.

This this this ministry that he has. There's a dual nature to God's call on one's life. Paul is a pattern of such here that is that the call of salvation always includes the call to service, did you get that the moment the apostle Paul was converted. God was already commissioning him and in in instructing him in the kind of service he would be performing for his new Lord and Savior.

The most radically unsound teaching is somehow that you can believe on Jesus. I get your name written that in heaven have heaven is your home but your life is not to be spent in honoring and serving him that is not Christianity. That's an invention of the last century of water down easy. Believe Buddhism and evangelicalism. It is not typical Christianity. Paul was called he was under compulsion. He was given a service, a stewardship that God had given him the call to salvation includes the call to service and the call to service included the call to salvation. The two are never alone. One is always in the company of another.

I lets amplify this out for us in in in in is way as a application to our life. Acts 241 and 42. Notice how these first believers in the New Testament are mentioned. So, than those who had received his word were baptized or converted, and they were added that day about 3000 souls notice. Save added to the local church save added to the local church. What set me when you believe on Jesus Christ. Your name is on salvation's role it immediately. God calls you. In addition to calling you to salvation. He calls you to service the put your name on the service role of a local church. Did you hear that your name goes on.

Salvation's role when you believe your name goes on the service role when you join local church and that's always been gotten God has no other concept. There are no hybrid Christians out there is no unique hybrid brand of Christianity that somehow gets around the local church. Christ was saved to be a minister and a servant to the churches we are saved and we are called to be a minister in a local church. Christ initiates this call, and our response should always be, and I believe this is true. Every true child of God has a heart desire to honor him in service to the local church now get always get the caveat in the balance that I understand a lot of good brothers and sisters again had correspondence I have correspondence with people every week.

Mostly church leadership talking with the person this week and they were talking about biblical principles and church life and how they had found themselves in a situation in their local church.

With the church leadership was just unwilling to be biblical and that these this wasn't a hard issue. This was a knife, a one of these things we can disagree on.

It was a clear undeniable biblical pattern and but because of the fear of man that that the leadership was just not able and they were to say what what can I do and I said well I don't know why I want you to honor your pastors and submit to their leadership. But if they're not willing to follow Scripture, then maybe you should pray about somewhere else to go on. This is where my going on as it I don't know because that far too often is the pattern in churches it it it just so prone that we are so prone to adapt to accommodate the culture and what makes our life more comfortable. I guess you'd say. And so it it is difficult so I do have a deep sympathy with true brothers and sisters in Christ to find themselves struggling in some local churches, but there are many good pastors out there that need some Saints of God come around them and say pastor. I know it's tough and all the struggles hard but count on me to be with. As you lead us to be more biblical church and that's what anchored in trades for the take the hand and put our arm around and encourage pastors out there who decided the drift has gone far enough and we need to start reforming back to a more biblical bad statistic local church.

I say Baptist it because I believe the old Baptist were about as biblical as you can get your read church history. I think you'll agree with me.

There were brothers and sisters if we went back 100 years in church history and brought up are Baptist leaders of hundred years ago they would look at the average bed to church today and say what have you done lately.

Literally, they would look at our church as I do realize we would excommunicate from our you from our association of churches if you were took your church and planted it back in our culture. The old Baptist were not perfect, but I believe they got it right in church history bears that out. That's why don't mind being called a Baptist in the historical sent not in most of the modern sense, Christ calling, Paul says he put me in the service. He didn't just calling to salvation, to serving and by the way, what a contrast in this is the context of what Paul telling Timothy. What a contrast to the false teachers.

God didn't call they called themselves they saw some advantage. They saw some profit in it. They saw something that would build their pride if you will and and gain in popularity so they are hirelings and set the policies. No no no contrast them with the true man of God, and he uses himself. I am called of service by God himself. I believe discerning men in the church can tell the difference. III Christ mighty strength Christ great calling on our lives.

Thirdly, Christ mighty mercy all the great mercy of Jesus Christ. Paul says, and I want to know something.

It was all mercy. Verse 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor and he's talking about.

In the context of Christ and his church.

He said that's what I was doing yet was shown mercy yet. I was shown mercy. What a contrast to what a paradox of such here this man.

His name was Saul of Tarsus.

He was so sad yes and passionate Iranians. I just mean spirited against Christ and trying to cross Christchurch. He was a hardened unbeliever.

He even obtained the commission of the local government, which was the high priest to crush the church of Jesus Christ. He was someone who showed no mercy to Christians yet in the context of his willful blasphemy is well below current willful persecution and is well thought violent aggression against Christ and his church and showing them no mercy. God showed Paul, the greatest mercy while not become the object of the great mercy of God not regularly define grace and mercy is two sides of the same corn and that's a good definition biblically, but these words are pregnant with meaning, and there's lots of other amplifications. For example, I will often tell you, grace is getting what you do not deserve God's favor.

You do not deserve Christ coming. You do not deserve Christ dying for you. God's given you something you do not deserve. You do not deserve Christ forgiving you he's given you something you do not and could not deserve there the side of the coin mercy God does not grant to you what you do deserve God's wrath.

God's retribution God's judgment and that's a good definition. But mercy is bigger than that.

Even mercy includes the outward show of PD God looks upon Paul. Paul is saying in my friend, God looks upon us, and he sees us for the worm that we are. He sees our dreadful wickedness. He sees our entire being stands in every way. Contrary to all the goodness, righteousness and holiness of his very being. Yet as he looks at us in this condition.

He both feels pity for us and he acts in mercy toward us stop there for a minute. You have to receive that by faith because you have no capacity to comprehend such a thing as this is radically contrary to anything you would do in our rights and state before this holy God looks at us use a new lamp and you young person. He looks at you and he feels I pity for you and he acts in mercy toward you. Hope you can't verbalize this. You can only lay on the floor and say hallelujah what a Savior. Give verbalize this is beyond our minds were the great frustrations of my ministries. I don't have the vocabulary to articulate the wonders of his grace and mercy and I really try for so the mid to single.

I really try hard, but you can't you just can't do that. I feel like when I get there.

I barely touch the hymn of the garment of the glories of his grace and mercy.

So he feels mercy. He acts and pity and mercy toward us in an abundant kindness that we could never never deserve. Ephesians 24 reminded us that God, being rich in mercy, being rich in mercy, in other words, God been looked down on us as rigid centers in God's is our God-given strength appear when working I will truck there sold their soul fall in there so simple there's.

I will try to the strength that the home in Osan and reached down to the know you know this means.

It means God ever lives with an ever abundant of mercy for us to save us is not hard forgotten all are you hearing me, it's not hard for God to show deplorable centers work mercy God being read. He didn't just become rich in mercy, just bailed out to a place of rich in mercy, God forever in the state of great mercy. My goodness, what a Savior rich in mercy, it's always ever present in him we were in a deep miry pit of guilt and sin and misery.

But God, being rich in mercy, flew to our relief. Paul say here, the old songwriter wrote this way he saw me plunged in deep despair and flew to my relief for me.

He bore the shameful cross and carried all my grief. His mercy is adequate for my need. That's what Paul signposted. You know I was. And yet Jesus showed me that great great mercy that that feeling of pity for me in that adequacy to rescue me.

Songwriter wrote mercy. There was great grace was free pardon, there was multiplied to me there. My burden so found liberty Calvary is great mercy falls is a true minister God in contrast to those false teachers that keep creeping in the church. He's a man whose nose listen. He's hot by mercy. Now he can be bold.

He can be dogmatic on what matters he can be bold dogmatic to what really matters behind it all. He knows he's a child mercy number three I'm sorry number four Christ sovereign grace. Christ sovereign grace. Paul builds glory upon glory in this mighty Jesus who saved and made him the true minister of God, and he says in verse 14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus. The sovereign grace you see in any true understanding of what is right and what is just. We always and only deserve God's disfavor, not his favor.

We always and only deserve God's wrath, not his blessing.

Ephesians 23 reminded us that when you take our natural being and standing before God. We are by nature children of wrath that includes listen to me this morning that means when you are a one celled human being in the womb of your mother. You are to fetus your person when you're one celled human being in the womb of your mother yet you are given passed on from your forefather on nature of sinful rebellion.

A pollution of sin was in your being that cause the very holiness of God to be against you, and wrath he so that makes God a bad personal makes you a bad stuff. God's holy our great great great great great great great great great great great great granddaddy Adam started this and Has to get old and pass ghetto and we come to the world being of our very nature a meeting that calls for God's wrath against us, but Jesus is the grace ambassador.

He brings grace to us. He brings a favor to us.

We do not deserve God's unmerited favor grace changes. God's view of us and God's actions toward us to do.

Did you hear that God has changed from what he would naturally this justice how he would be was, let's say, and that has changed to a grace view of us. He has gone from disfavor toward us to favor toward us and remind yourself of the sovereignty of God and the eternal nature of God.

Listen to me this morning. Nothing we did not find favor with God. When we believed on Jesus. That's not when he began anyway. We found favor in God's heart before the foundation of the world, and this resulted in the father sending Jesus for us. Had we not found favor Jesus would never come. Finding favor doesn't primarily exist on your side of the equation. It was God's side of the equation that has handed holiness look down on us from heaven, and said God should not, in my wrath and my justice demands their pricing model demands that I cast a favor to the most undeserving so I will send my son to rescue them a favor. They simply could not deserve.

In choosing to send Jesus to us to save us in Christ God's countenance toward us is changed. It goes from a holy scout wall of displeasure to a smile of gracious favor. His eyes look at us now bright with delight and favor are you hearing me this morning in Christ Jesus. The triune God to if he confronted you in your natural state would be forced by the very being of his holiness to trust you, and wrath, but now he is looking upon you as the object of his greatest delight and in grace we become the joy of his heart.

The Bible even uses the phrase the apple of his eye certain. Listen to me you may be the laziest no good church member. We got don't raise your hand but is from your heart. You said Jesus, you're my only hope.

Jesus I got to have you.

You're my Lord and Savior.

I want you to know God looks on you as the joy of his heart. Verse 14 again the grace of our Lord Jesus and Paul just can't leave this alone was more than abundant more than it was superabundant again. This is a capacity in God's being that is beyond our comprehension that he walks around every day without even trying and he has a binder grace for those who are in Christ Jesus abundant favoring goodness toward the superabundance of it by his doing, and by his grace, his choice of sovereign grace. He saves us, and he changes us a listen it in the in the in the sense of his grace changes his view of us to listen to me his grace has changed our view of him.

His grace saved me and it changed me cheap and primarily it changed my view of him. Take the example Paul Paul's using himself as an example, what does he say about himself. He said I was a blasphemer of Christ and his church. I was a persecutor of Christ entertain it.

Everything about this Christ and his people is called out his adequacy is called out assembled one I was a violent aggressor against them in every way I could.

I tried to cross posted now I'm changed now.

My view of Christ and his people is radically changed now.

I'm willing to give up my life, my all to build up his church. This is how regeneration and the new birth changes the heart.

Listen, my heart is changed and I'm beginning to love him. My mind is changed I'm beginning to respect and honor him by has changed.

I'm beginning to look to him. My hands are changed. I'm beginning to reach for him. My feet are changed.

I beginning to run to him. He is my source. He is my wrist he is my reward. None. Grace change God's view of me.

Grace is changing my view of God.

V Paul is laying out that he is the true minister of God has been saved by this mighty Jesus and that's the mark of the real true minister.

He says notice Christ ambition verse 15 Christ ambition.

He says it is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am for most of all, that was Christ ambition the coming of the world to save sinners, that it was Christ ambition because this was Christ commission from the father. The father sent the son to come down here and rescue the children and Alice is fallen total ambition, it became his driving and consuming passion pieces. I did not come down here to do my own way, all but the will of him who sent me a Christ is not saying he did not desire to die on the cross and save us Peter saying it wouldn't matter if I didn't I'm here to do what he told me to do and let's go to the cross and save the children. It's Christ ambition to do it. John 17 four God the son, talking to God the Father in prayer says I glorified the on the earth having to accomplish the work Val has given me to do. You gave me the instruction and it's my ambition to carry them out. John 639 and this is the will of him who sent me this is Jesus, that of all that he's given me. I lose nothing but raise it up on the last day is the father sent me to save his church. He said I'm guilty what I'm going to I'm coming down to the earth, and I'm going get the job done so that not one of them is lost every single one of us will make it all the way home to heaven.

Jesus is that's my ambition to get the job. Isaiah 5310 the prophecy of Jesus work. But the Lord was pleased to crush him putting in the Greek that's the father, looking on the son crushing him for our sin. If he would render himself as a guilt offering, he Jesus would all see his offspring, he will prolong his days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hands. It was the good pleasure of the Lord in this context, God the father. To accomplish these things to the work of his son Jesus Christ.

It was a son, Jesus Christ, ambition to carry out the good pleasure of the father, Christ unaffordable ambition to save sinners's six Christ commission to us. We get this picture now of Paul saying that Tom, there's a reason why were say we hit on this sum and in being saved in service but notice it again in verse 16 yet. For this reason, I found Mercy so he said God had a purpose in saving me, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life example to those who would believe in him Actiq so he will who are destined to believe is a little trench right relation of Greek all of those who are his policies. He saved me so that I might be a blessing to all of those who are his.

And can I say to you, child of God. Every church member here. Grace, like church you were say and put here to be a blessing to the other folks around you. As Paul was saved to be that blessing. Ephesians 411 through 13 reminds us of how God is ordered things to work in the local church. He gave some as apostles sum is profit.

Some evangelist, some as pastors and teachers what for, for the equipping of the saints that you guys for the work of service that your work of service to the building up of the body of Christ at your local church and we keep as church leaders equipping you to do the work of service to build up this body verse 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God, to mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. So, as Paul was saved as an example to be a blessing to others. So we understand where saved that we might be a blessing to others.

Now your example of saving grace before the church is hardly like Paul's.

I'm you, you were not openly persecuting the church on the authority of the government. Your testimony of saving grace does not have the widespread impact that the apostle Paul said, however, you were like Paul save for a purpose you were saved and given a commission that centers in the local church.

Just as Paul's commission did. He said I was given as an example to those destined to believe you know every conversion testimony is a blessing to the whole church. Isn't it wonderful to hear those testimonies read and it blesses us again as Paul's testimony blessed God can and will save anyone who will turn to Christ as we hear those testimonies, we remind ourselves God will save anyone who turn to faith in Jesus Christ. So while none of us are called to the office of apostle, that upon that office no longer exist. Few of us are called to the office of pastor the local church. Yet all of us were saved to be a blessing and a servant for the benefit of one of Christ. Local churches also he saved me that I might be of benefit or blessing to all VII talking about the mighty Jesus and this is where it always must end the exultation of Christ. Christ great exultation he comes to this doxology.

As such, he says now to the King eternal Lord Jesus everything this good about me everything that's good about my work all those back and all the credit goes to the King eternal because in the King eternal, he means there's no other king like him. He's the forever King and by the way you are his forever child because he's the forever King, Exodus 15, 18, says the Lord shall reign forever and ever that he says he's in mortal which is the idea of incorruption easy it has in. He is rather incorruptible. He cannot be destroyed. See Jesus is made of such stuff as could never decay whether or diminish these the same yesterday today and forever. He changes not CN and its corroding forces are powerless to Jesus Christ. In fact, he reverses the effects of sin and decay. He doesn't just stop and he reverses it. You are the subjects of sin and decay. Does look at your picture now getting 20 years ago. It sags it bags and it drags you are enduring sin and decay, but in Christ Jesus is coming when they were a virus on corruption slammed on the brakes put in reverse on Sunday will cleanse you and beautified you can resurrect you and glorify you and you will forever reign with him and that perfect vacation he's immortal and he lends that immortality to us because were in Christ.

Then Paul says here he's invisible. Verse 17 means he's unseen. Of course John 118 says no menacing God in any time that his men, him being invisible includes his infinite nature which includes that he is omnipresent he is omniscient he is, nip it.

You see, there is no place where God is not present.

Have you thought about it don't need to remind you again that God is inhale.

If he's not inhaling is not God, he's omnipresent. He's only there in his wrath is only there in his judgment, but he's there. There's no place. God cannot be, he's omnipresent. There's no place we cannot be there is no power which he is not superior to wait for the he is not superior and there's no knowledge which he does not know and he knows it without the corruption of evil connected with so much of the knowledge then Paul goes on in verse 17 says he's the only God. First Timothy 615 says blessed and only saw her in the King of Kings and the Lord of lords. The only one I'm all listen to me all is a mythical lie in every other so-called God men hold up. There is the one true God. Psalm 8610. You are great and do wondrous deed you alone. Our our God, the nieces he hit get risk is to receive all honor the idea of honor here means to be esteemed of the highest value. That's what happens when you become a child of God there begins to grow in you. This contemplation this conclusion that he is of highest my desires your pastors to so preach is glorious to help you get to the place where he arranged as of highest value to you, he's the highest value in my life when you're on your deathbed or maybe when you're where Austin and Linda and Shari were couple of days ago with their five month old in the intensive care ward Children's Hospital with an incubator in child paralyzed has no saliva stop blinking his eyes. I asked what has made his he's your house value plus nothing at that moment if he's your highest value plus nothing you're taking your final bristle your debt on your face and the greatest nightmare you've ever faxed a feature highest bag we can't lose we just can't lose none of those things are holy ground, and I don't trade the recklessly there's a reason why God wants us to grow in these things because God said I'm trying to help you, trying to help you. He is our highest value that heat.

He is one of all honor. Then he says glory. The word glory here in verse 17 means an opinion idea is about all righteous calculation. He is deserving of all reverence and praise in the nieces forever and ever. You see, it's the new birth. It's the regenerate heart that enables us to genuinely from the core of our being honor him as our highest treasure to deem him, the one and only of highest value is in the new birth, the regeneration of the heart that enables us from the core of our being to desire him glorified and to hold the opinion that he alone deserves all reverence and awe and pulses, that's where I am and that's where the true minister of God's will. By the way he's not just limiting this to minister God is limiting this to all true Christian's is true of all of us the true minister like the true believer is the product of the work of the mighty Jesus. I have only barely skim the surface of the glories of Jesus in this message is one glass you got some health invoices I want to keep on going and I'll get to end the end of everything I am capable in this lifetime of grasping and preaching about Jesus and I look at him and think I can start to get started, the true minister in every true believer is the product of the work of the mighty Jesus. It's his mighty strength. This is great.

Calling it just wonderful mercy. It's his sovereign grace. It's his committed ambition. And finally, all for the to the end of his glorious exultation. You got to remind yourself again this morning that God saving you is not first about you getting to heaven its first about God being exalted in that he can do the work of saving you. You couldn't do it.

The Pope can't do it the Cardinal's can't do it. The priest done at the church can't do it in the Baptist evangelist can't do it.

Only Jesus can do it. He gets the exultation he gets the exultation so Jesus didn't come here primarily get you out of hell, that's wonderful. And that was his purpose. But his higher purpose was to please his father and glorify the wisdom and the power of God in formulating and carrying out a salvation plan that this is so wonderful and so perfect and so glorious that only he could have done it so pulses look at me. I was a blasphemer of this church. I was a persecutor of the church I was a violent aggressor of this church. And yet, through the work of the mighty Jesus.

I became a true minister of Christ and of this church know where you stand this morning with the mighty Jesus, you got there with white don't check me out yet you got a deal with him. You have to deal with them. You can deal with him now as he stands before you with nail pierced hands as your mighty Savior, but if you wait he will appear for him at the end time when he returns he will not extend nail pierced hands he'll extend the rod judgment will be your mighty judge are now.

He can be your mighty Savior, but you will contend with Jesus you will deal with I begged you in my heart of hearts this morning. Turn your heart over to Jesus yield to Jesus call on Jesus because he is my friend. Mighty to save