DAILY TRUTH - What Is A Credible Confession Of Faith？ ｜ Part 2
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Summary
What does it mean to trust in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ? What does that mean in simple terms, and how does it relate to our lives? In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches us that Jesus is the God-man, and that in his person and work, he is fully God and fully man.
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heard that phrase trusting in the person and work of jesus this is what that phrase means in its
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simplicity all right because there's a lot of things that get thrown around platitudes and
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sometimes you know we'll go 50 years without something being defined and everybody's doing
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the what but they've forgotten the why and then all of a sudden the church begins to slide and
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compromise because we stopped teaching the why. And we get mad about the laser lights and the
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smoke machines, you know, in Sunday worship. But pastors a long time ago, long before the smoke
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machines made their way into the Sunday service, pastors were going through the liturgy, but not
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explaining to the congregants why they did so. And their children forgot and their children began to
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reject. They began to kick against the goats and they thought they were doing it even in a passion
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and zeal for christ because it just seemed like the traditions of men because the traditions had
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no longer been explained so what's the person and work of jesus christ in simplicity the person
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speaks to the fact that he is the god man so when we say trusting in the person work of jesus
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we're saying we trust that jesus is fully god fully man we're speaking of the incarnation
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we're speaking of his deity and his humanity we're speaking that he is eternal that he's
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eternally begotten, not made. Jesus is not the first among creatures, but he is the creator
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who is to be forever praised. Amen. That for him and by him and through him, all things that have
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been made were made. And in him, all things that have been made are being held together.
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Hebrews 1 says this. Colossians says this. Jesus is God, creator God, eternal God,
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second member of the godhead but he is also man not partially man but fully man
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so that he is able to represent man in his godness he could pay the infinite penalty
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of the sins of his people in his manness he is able to accurately represent people
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fully god and fully man and he is forever the god man still in now the glorified human flesh
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at the right hand of the father resurrected not just revived but truly resurrected and glorified
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as a first fruits of what all those who trust in him will one day receive the glorification and
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resurrection of our own bodies these bodies not new bodies meaning another body but new bodies
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meaning this body made new and i believe the same doctrinally for this earth for that matter
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not annihilated disintegrated and burned up in a literal sense but this world made new
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that all creation cries out with groans and eager expectations for the sons of god to be revealed
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for in their restoration the cosmos will be restored as well that the creation is not crying
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out with eager groans and expectations for a mercy killing to be taken out back behind the
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woodshed and put down by God so that the sons of God can now replace the creation but rather
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as the sons of God are restored and renewed so too mountains and rivers and trees will be renewed
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as well. That we will live in heaven with God, but one day at the final culmination of human history
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that the new heavens will come to this earth made new, and that we will see things that are
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strikingly familiar to us, but now glorify. I know that mountain range, but it never looked
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like that. Now I see it in its true majesty. I know this river. I used to fish in it when I was
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a kid. Now look at it. Jesus is the God-man, the person of Jesus. His work, life, sinless,
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and not only an absence of sin, but a presence and fulfillment of all righteousness.
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not only avoiding sin but obeying all the commandments of god his father this is what
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jesus says to john the baptist when john says i can't baptize you i'm not worthy and jesus says
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you must to fulfill all righteousness it is not only jesus passive obedience his willingness to
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die as a substitute on the cross for you and die but also his active obedience as john owen and
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the reformers would argue that he actively obeyed and fulfilled all the commandments of god in his
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life not only was his death obedience to god but he lived a life of obedience so his life
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his death and his death not as a mere example of sacrificial love but his life as payment
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atonement propitiation as penal substitutionary atonement he died as the lamb of god who takes
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away the sin of the world he died in our place his resurrection not as a mere metaphor speaking
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to the power and the triumph of the human spirit but his literal bodily resurrection from the dead
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and his ascension in glory and majesty and power and authority that he is raised before people's
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very eyes and then hidden behind the clouds as he enters into heaven to be seated to sit down
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at his father's right hand and right before he does this he says all authority not just in the
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17th dimension but on earth and in heaven has been given to me so you will go in obedience to my
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commands making disciples and you will be successful and you will disciple nations
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and in discipling them you will not only preach the gospel for conversion and their baptism but
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then you will teach them theonomy to obey all my commands and this is not separate but included in
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the great commission this is the work of jesus and the work which he still does that he intercedes
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on our behalf is praying for his own and promises one day to finally and physically return
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the person and work of jesus who he is the god man what he's done life death resurrection
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ascension and promise return this is the person and work of jesus this is the truth test do you
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believe the truth in these issues you can be wrong about other things we should strive to
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be right in all things to believe the sufficiency of scripture in all things