Voddie Baucham - God With Us

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1:01If you have your Bibles with you, open them to the Book of Galatians. Galatians chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4. My assignment tonight is to address the subject of God with us. The incarnate God. Jesus Christ, the God man. This is one of the most crucial, critical and neglected aspects of our theology. And we neglected for a number of reasons, not least of which,

2:06is people love Jesus as long as we're not too clear about who he is. Amen, somebody. If you want evidence of that, Christmas is the ultimate evidence of that. Amen. I'm not here to be a scrooge or anything like that. God bless you. I know the people who love Christmas, Christmas, favorite time of the year and everything else. That's great. God bless you. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord for all of that. But here's what's interesting. I want you to imagine something. Imagine, you know, in a few months, pastors standing up in their pulpits and saying, listen, at Easter, Jesus is the reason for this easy. Pastors don't say that at Easter. Why? Because unlike Christmas, nobody's tempted to make anything else the reason for this season.

3:11Or imagine a pastor around Easter time saying, hey, make sure we keep Christ in Easter. It's laughable to think that a pastor would say that. How often do we hear? Make sure to keep Christ in Christmas. Why? Because everybody loves Christmas. Not everybody. Everybody. That's beyond everybody. Amen. You don't believe me? Listen to this from the Guinness Book of World Records, the most expensive Christmas tree decorated. 16th December 2010, the most expensive dressed Christmas tree was valued at $11,026,900. And was erected and displayed by the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from December 16th to December 29th, 2010. That's right.

4:17We have so diluted Christmas that a Muslim country has the Guinness World Record for the most expensive Christmas tree ever in the world. It's erected in the middle of a mall in a country where you bet not convert to Christianity. Why? Because everybody loves Jesus as long as you don't define who He is. As long as you don't get into the nitty-gritty of what it means for Jesus to be the Son of God. Listen, if Jesus is just a good man and a good teacher, even a good prophet, He is completely acceptable.

5:24Mormons and Muslims alike love Jesus. Hindus and Buddhists are very happy with Jesus. As long as He's just a teacher who offers sage wisdom, then Jesus is fine. But the minute you step across that line and argue that Jesus is more than prophet, more than teacher, that He is actually God incarnate, God with us. Now all of a sudden, those who were more than willing to gather with you scatter. Because everybody loves Jesus as long as you don't define Him.

6:26And there are so many places that we could go. When the assignment came down, I was like, really? How? Where? But here it is, right here. We'll talk about a lot of passages. But I want to concentrate here in Galatians chapter 4. I'll begin there at verse 1, but really we get into this in verse 4. I mean that the air, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything. But he is under guardians and messengers until the date set by his father. In the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. And here's our text. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law,

7:39so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because your sons, God has sent the spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. At Amika Insurance, we know you'll always find ways to look out for the people you love. And with Amika Life Insurance, we'll help build a plan to make sure you always can. We're here to help protect the life you've built. Amika, empathy is our best policy. Visit Amika.com and get a quote today. What's up, baby? It's Bretsky. And I'm here to tell you that SpinQuest.com is giving out free, sweet coins. All you got to do is purchase a $10 coin pack. And guess what? They're going to give you the coins from a $30 coin pack. That lets you play all your favorite games like Blackjack, Wanted Dead or Wild, and we're talking real cash prizes, baby.

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9:58All you have to do is stand there and explain this text beginning at verse 4. And so we will go and we will stand in front of this tree, this 11 million dollar Christmas tree in Abu Dhabi. Decorated with 181 pieces of jewelry, Rolex watches, diamond rings, and all these sorts of things on it. That's why it's valued at. So you're probably wondering, right? What kind of wood was that? No, it's not the wood. It's the things that they put on the tree, which speaks even more to the heart of the misunderstanding of what it was about. And so here we are, we're in Abu Dhabi, we're standing in front of the tree. And when we have all of our Muslim neighbors there around this expensive Christmas tree, and our Muslim neighbors may even look to us and say, Merry Christmas.

11:05As they stand around this Christmas tree. And so what do we say to our Muslim neighbors as we stand in front of this tree? Again, official title, God with us, unofficial title. I know how to make y'all burn down that tree. First, but when the fullness of time had come, the birth of Jesus was providential. The birth of Jesus was providential when the fullness of time had come. In other words, at the exact moment when it was right, when it was time, in the fullness of time. Because God is never early and he can't be late in the fullness of time.

12:09When everything was exactly right, when everything was exactly as God intended it to be. In the exact moment that God intended it to happen, God was not reacting to situations or circumstances. It was in the fullness of time. God did not decide that things had gotten so out of hand that something had to be done. This was in the fullness of time. God did exactly what he intended exactly when he intended exactly how he intended. The birth of Jesus was providential. In other words, the birth of Jesus was part of a plan. The birth of Jesus was part of God's plan. A specific plan for a specific purpose.

13:13We learned a little something about that plan in the next phrase. When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son. We already lighten the fire. In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son. Jesus is not like God. He is not close to God. He is not almost God. Jesus is God. In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son. I'll put you this way in Philippians. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

14:14Although he existed in the form of God did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped. In Colossians, he makes it clear that the fullness of the Godhead dwelled in Him bodily. The triune God makes this clear at the baptism of Jesus. Jesus, the Son, is baptized and when Jesus, God, the Son, is baptized, God, the Father speaks from heaven and says, This is my beloved Son and whom I am well pleased. So God the Father declares that the one being baptized. They say if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. At Amika Insurance, we know what matters most to you. And we work even harder to protect it together.

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17:15God is executing a plan exactly when the plan is supposed to be executed. And this time is significant because of the very nature of the plan. And the nature of the plan is that God will send God. The fullness of time, God sent, is sun. By the way, this is also significant. We're going to see that he's born of a woman. But before we get to born of a woman, I want you to recognize the implications here. It's not only an affirmative statement that Jesus is the son of God. But this is also a very important statement in that in a very important sense, he's not the son of Adam.

18:17How so? Well, Adam is our federal head. And in Genesis, when Adam eats of the fruit, sin interests the world and death through sin because of the sin of Adam. And that curse, that sin is passed to all of us by who are born by ordinary generation. In other words, we are all born in sin and shaped in an equity. All of us who are born of man and woman. All of us who are born the ordinary way that people are born when you are the son of a man and a woman, when you are born and produced by the union of a man and a woman what you inherit is Adam's sinful nature and you stand under Adam's federal headship. Because of that, you're guilty.

19:19You're guilty because of Adam. Paul says this to us in Romans 5. Makes it very clear that we are guilty because of Adam and because of his federal headship. Now, federal headship is very important and it'll be very important in a moment, but in order for us to understand it's important in a moment, we have to understand it's important now. Because it's important in a moment, when we talk about federal headship in reverse, we get to the place where people often want to argue about federal headship and they want to say, how is it that Jesus can die all those years ago and how is it that Jesus can die and all of us can benefit from that? How is it that God can punish Jesus and all of us can benefit from that? In order to understand that later, you have to understand federal headship now. You have to understand that Adam is our federal head and that all of us were in Adam and guilty in Adam.

20:24And when he fell, he stood instead of us all as our federal head. And just like if our federal head today were to declare war, all of us by virtue of being under that federal headship would be considered at war. Amen? By virtue of that federal headship. So what's being said here is important not only in what it affirms but what it denies, but when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son. His unique Son.

21:26John says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God through Him all things were made. And apart from Him, nothing was made that has been made. And that Word became flesh. How did He become flesh? Not the same way that you and I became flesh. As Isaiah had foretold, behold, the Virgin conceived and bore a Son. And this Son is called Immanuel, which is God with us. There are those who have no problem giving up on the Virgin birth. They argue that you can remove the Virgin birth. You can remove the resurrection. All of these things and Christianity won't lose its essence. They could not be more wrong. If Jesus is born the same way you and I are born,

22:28then He is born having inherited Adam's guilt. And that's going to become important in a moment. But as the Son of God, the unique Son of God, He did not bear Adam's guilt. He was born of a Virgin. We learn. When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth. At Amika Insurance, we know it's not just what's inside your home that matters. It's who you share it with. That's why we work even harder to protect it. And as a mutual insurance company, we're built for our customers. We prioritize your needs and are here for you when you need us. Amika Empathy is our best policy. Visit amika.com and get a quote today. Forget whatever plans you have this weekend because you're staying at home and playing on SpinQuest. And there's never been a better time to sign up than right now.

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25:38And yet, he's born of a woman. The angel comes and announces this. And it is achieved and happens just as he says. As Jesus is born of a virgin. You know, we often talk about birth being a miracle. We shouldn't. Amen. The birth of a child is a wonderful thing, but it's not a miracle. We know exactly how it happens. And if I had time, I could explain it to you. But I won't. It is not miraculous.

26:38It's about the most natural thing in the world. Miracles are supernatural. The birth of a child is absolutely natural. It happens every day. All day long. Amen. In fact, it is so natural and unmiraculous that we can pretty much tell you when it's going to happen. And we've become so good at that that when the birth comes, if it comes before, you say your baby was early. And if it comes after, you say your baby was late. Why? Because you know it wasn't miraculous. It was completely natural, so natural that you can predict when it's supposed to happen. And you can predict it so accurately that when it comes, you don't say the prediction was wrong, you say the baby got it wrong. You say the baby got it wrong.

27:40You say the baby got it wrong. You say the baby got it wrong. You say the baby got it wrong. Here's the other problem with proclaiming the birth of a child that's miraculous. I believe it steals glory from God. Because this birth of this child was miraculous. The real issue is why. When the fullest of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law. And He did this so that His Son could redeem those who were under the law. All of these things get us here. When the fullest of time had come, His birth is providential.

28:40God sent forth His Son. Strategically, this is the Son of God. He's born of a woman. We're making the point here that Jesus Christ, fully human, born of a woman, but not born in the same way that all men are born. Because if He was, He would have man's sin problem. He's born under the law, which is significant and important as well, because He's born to redeem those who were under the law. Now, let's put it together. Go to Genesis. And let me make my point and burn this tree. Genesis chapter three. The serpent deceives the woman and the woman eats. The woman gives the fruit to the man and he eats.

29:41And so we have the fall of man as man has disobeyed the command that God gave him in Genesis chapter two. And then we have God cursing in the order of the offense. The serpent deceived the woman. So he's first. The woman ate. She's second. She gave the fruit to the man and he ate. He's third in line of these curses. But for our purposes, in order to understand our text and burn this tree, we just need to understand verse 15. Verse 14 says, the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you above all lives talking above all the beasts of the field. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring or seed and her offspring or seed.

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33:46So whoever comes to deliver us from the sin of the first Adam has to be born of the seed of the woman. But somehow, he cannot inherit the sin of Adam. That's why, when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman. No, why is this significant? This is significant because the wages of sin is death. Amen. That's what we owe. If Jesus has sin of his own, if he's born of ordinary generation like you and me, then he has a sin debt to pay, and he can't pay anybody else's. But because when the fullness of time had come,

34:48God sent forth his son, born of a woman. Something else could happen. By the way, he's not just born of a woman, he's born under the law. So that he might redeem those who are under the law. And what does this redemption look like? I'm so glad you asked. Because both sides of this are incredibly important. He's born under the law because we are guilty, born in sin. But we are also guilty because this sin nature is the very reason that we break and violate the law of God. So we have a double problem. Problem number one, we have the sin that we were born with. And we're guilty because of that. Problem number two, we have this law of God that we are commanded to keep. And because of the sin that we're born with, we are wholly unable and unwilling to keep this law. So any man born of ordinary generation

35:51is going to have this same problem. Number one, God requires those of us who are born under the law to keep the law and be actually righteous. But you will not and cannot keep the law and be actually righteous because you're born under the federal headship of Adam and with a sin nature. You're in trouble. What has to happen? The seed of the woman has to be born without a sin nature. Number one, and number two, he has to be born under the law and keep the whole law so that he can be actually righteous. Which is why this is God's son.

36:51Because he is the only one who can be born without a sin nature and can keep the whole law. Why is this significant? I'm glad you asked. Because he has to fulfill two sides of the redemption coin through what is often referred to as his active and his passive obedience. In his active obedience, he keeps the whole law. And he is actually righteous, which is important because that means he can impute actual righteousness to you and to me. And you can't stand before God without actual righteousness and you can't gain that righteousness because you're born in sin. So Christ keeps the whole law and is actually righteous and he can impute that righteousness to you. But then as a man, Christ can actually take the penalty that we owe to God for our sin

37:52and deal with the other side of it so that now there can be a double imputation. My sin imputed to Christ who is born of a woman and can therefore have my sin placed on him because the sin belongs to man. But because he's the God man, his righteousness can be imputed to me so that Christ can die of Icarus substitutionary atoning death on my behalf satisfying the wrath of God against my actual sin and my inherited sin and imputing to me the righteousness that is required for me to stand before God in right standing in righteousness. This is why when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law. Why? Because as Isaiah says, all we like sheep had gone astray. Each of us had turned to his own way.

38:53We're ruined. But what happens? God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Christ died for sin once for all but just for the unjust in order that he might bring us back to God. I'll come back up. At Amika Insurance, we know you'll always find ways to look out for the people you love. And with Amika Life Insurance, we'll help build a plan to make sure you always can. We're here to help protect the life you've built. Really? Amika, empathy is our best policy. Visit amika.com and get a quote today. I'm here with SpinQuest, where you can play and win from the comfort of your own home

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42:01And he cannot obey the love of God. And therefore, because it is appointed a demand wants to die and then face the judgment, even the best of men will be condemned. Even if he is a good teacher, being a good man is not enough. Being a good teacher is not enough. Jesus is a good teacher. That is excellent. Praise God for good teachers. But rid of me this, Batman, what can you teach me that will take away my sin nature? What can you teach me that will enable me to keep the law when I am completely and utterly bent against it? When I hate God's law and I hate God's righteousness, what is it that you can teach me that can overcome my sin nature? What is it that you can teach me? And by the way, if you boil every other religion in the world down, you boil it down to this.

43:01It's an oversimplification, but not by much. You need to have a religious experience. And then from that moment on, do more good things than bad things and hope for the best when you die. And you and I both know there's two problems with that. Number one, I can't be good. If you can't say amen, you ought to say out. I can't be good. I've tried it. I can't do it. I just can't. And even when I have achievements in the area of trying to be good, I get proud of the fact that I was good and then the pride is not good, I got to start all over again. Here's the second problem. What about all my sin before my religious experience?

44:03Even if I could possibly balance the tables from here on out, and I can't, I didn't start with a clean slate. So if Jesus is good man and good teacher, His teaching cannot and will not suffice. Even if Jesus is good man and good teacher and good prophet, what can a good prophet do other than to remind me of the fact that I am born under the federal headship of Adam and therefore have only death, hell, and the grave to look forward to. Thank you very much. None of that is sufficient. The only thing that will work is if when the fullness of time had come

45:06and God's perfect providence, He sent forth His Son, therefore escaping the guilt and having the power to obey, born of a woman, therefore representing the rest of us in humanity who are guilty. Born under the law, therefore being able to achieve perfect righteousness and impute that righteousness to those of us who have none of our own. So that He might redeem those who are under the law, therefore being able to impute our sinfulness to Him and to carry it to the tree.

46:17All of that is good, but wait, there's more. So that we might receive adoption as sons. It would be enough if we just missed help. Amen? But He does this so that we might receive adoption as sons. In other words, Christ, the eternal Son of God, wraps Himself in flesh, clothes Himself in humanity so that He, as the Son, can redeem us, pay for our sin, reconcile us to God, not in children. At Amika Insurance,

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49:19so that we too can be adopted as sons. What does that have to do with burning the tree? Well, if the tree's not on fire yet, it's about to be. First of all, this Jesus is not just a baby in a manger. The baby's in the manger for a purpose. And the baby's in the manger because we are all guilty and alienated from God. And the baby's in the manger because it is only through the baby in the manger who grows up, lives the perfect life, dies a substitutionary atoning death on the cross, raises again on the third day, ascends to the right hand of the Father where He ever makes intercession for us. It is only through that that we can actually become sons and daughters of God.

50:23You know, one of the reasons people love Christmas? Because it reminds them that we're all God's children. I don't want to be overly technical and I'm not trying to get messy. But if we're all God's children, I'm not understanding something here. My wife and I have children who came into our family and I'm not trying to get messy. But if we're all God's children, I'm not understanding something here. We came into our family biologically and we had children who came into our family through adoption. And the ones who came into our family through adoption became our children and they had to become our children

51:24because before they were adopted, they were not our children. So if Christ came to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons, then that means that we were not sons or we are not sons prior to that adoption. And not only are we not sons, but we are enemies, rightly deserving the wrath of God. And that may sound ugly, and it is, in fact it is uglier than it sounds, but it is only

52:26when you understand the ugliness of that, that you understand the beauty of our adoption in Christ. Jesus is God with us, so that we might be with God for six. And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying of a father, by the way, just like we heard earlier, do you see the Trinity here? First, we see the father, and the full time had come, God sent forth his son, and we see the son. Now we see what the son does, verse six, and because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying of a father. And that one verse we get all three, but in the whole of this passage we get all three persons of the Trinity, the triune God working this out, saving us, and adopting us, so

53:32you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. This doctrine is essential. This doctrine is non-negotiable. Without Christmas, you don't get Easter. Without God sending forth his son, born of a woman born under the law, to redeem those who are under the law, then Christ pays for his own sin. And at the cross, and thereafter in hell, eternally separated from God, and he has no redemption to offer you and me, but because he is the God-man, because he is God with us.

54:44He is innocent of Adam's sin. Because he is the God-man, he could represent those of us who inherit Adam's sin. And because he is the God-man, he can keep the whole law for his people and suffer the punishment due to their sins. Anybody being catacas is not there. And because of the beauty of this, we can be a doppelgab, listen to this. At Amika Insurance, we know you'll always find ways to look out for the people you love.

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58:05God has granted that all those who are justified would receive the grace of adoption in and for the sake of His only Son, Jesus Christ. In and for the sake of His only Son, Jesus Christ, my adoption is not only contingent upon, but it is because of and for the sake of His only Son, Jesus Christ. By this, they are counted among the children of God, and they enjoy the freedom and privileges of that relationship. They inherit His name, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, and are enabled to cry, Abba, Father. They are given compassion, protected, provided for, and chastened by Him as a Father, yet they are never cast off, but are sealed for the day of redemption and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.

59:06That's what we get from God with us. That's why it matters that Christ is God with us. That's why it's not enough for Him to be good man, good teacher, good prophet, because there is no salvation in good man. There is no salvation in good teacher. There is no salvation in good prophet, unless that good man who was a good teacher and a good prophet was also God with us. Let's pray. Gracious God, our Heavenly Father, we bow before you, thanking you for your Son, the Lord

1:00:09Jesus Christ, and confessing to you that we are guilty of taking Him for granted, that we are guilty of thinking too little of Him. Grat by your grace that we might have a more full and meaningful understanding of who Christ is as God with us, and the more full and meaningful understanding of our communion with Him as our Lord and our Savior and our Redeemer, and the communion that we have with Godhead, communion with the Father, because of the Son, by the power of the Spirit, grant by your grace that we might fully embrace these doctrinal realities so that our faith

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