Mike Bickle emphasizes the profound beauty and wealth of Jesus, exploring the depths of His grace and the transformative power of His love. He highlights how Jesus, though rich, became poor for our sake, allowing us to inherit His riches eternally. Bickle draws from Job 26 to illustrate God's transcendence and the awe-inspiring nature of His power, culminating in the thunder of His might that surpasses all understanding. The sermon calls believers to recognize their identity in Christ and respond with gratitude and wholeheartedness, affirming that Jesus is worthy of our love and devotion.

From Isaiah chapter 6 Father we come to you in the name of Jesus and Lord we ask you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation Lord we ask you for living understanding We ask you for our spirit to be strengthened with might By your Holy Spirit as we hear your word and the speaking of the word in Jesus name. Amen In 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 Paul the Apostle gives one of the clearest summaries on the grace of God that's in the New Testament and he emphasizes three dimensions three vast arenas of the grace of God that are critical for us to have a foundational understanding they're quite remarkable three statements that he makes In verse 9 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 9 He goes for you know, and the idea is that we must have a foundation in these three things. He's about to say For you know the grace of the Lord Jesus That though he was rich That's area number one. Jesus is rich Yet for your sakes he became poor That's subject number two in the grace of God he became poor and The reason this happened was that you Through his poverty might become rich That's subject number three three vast subjects within the doctrine of the grace of God Jesus is rich now in the teaching this morning. We're gonna focus most of our time on the wealth of Jesus He is rich in the glory of God. He's rich in love. He's rich in power He's rich in his attributes He's rich in many many ways But the doctrine or the the arena of truth that describes how he became poor is very important But then a often neglected Subject is that we would become rich through his poverty forever and forever and forever and we all know that We'll have resurrected bodies in the New Jerusalem in Fellowship with Jesus as sons of God and the bride of Christ forever But we often lose sight of how profound and how true this really is The subject of Jesus is wealth again. That's what we're gonna spend most of our time on this morning there's a grand subject of Scripture and The question is how rich is he really? He's rich how rich How much is he really worth in every way Isaiah chapter 6 verse 1 to 5 Isaiah had a glimpse of the glory or I'll use this phrase the riches of Jesus and He was undone when he saw the great wealth the great riches of Jesus John Tells us the Apostle John tells us That it's actually Jesus that Isaiah sees He says that in John 12 verse 41, but we'll look at Isaiah 6 here But I want you to know that it's not the father that Isaiah is looking at here, but it's actually this the son He said I saw the Lord He was sitting on a throne high and lifted up And above it that being the temple stood seraphim now seraphim are high-ranking angelic beings Probably the highest ranking in the heavenly order They have six wings cherubim have four there's a distinction between them With one set of wings or two of them the seraphim they cover their face When they're the immediate presence of God they cover their eyes Because they're overwhelmed at what they see in the immediate presence of God With two of their wings they cover their feet And with two of their wings they fly verse 3 They speak one to another in an antiphonal or a responsive way and And the presence of the Lord and the presence of Jesus holy Holy holy is the Lord They say it to the Lord and they say to one another and all of those that are witnessing the scene around the throne Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts And of course the phrase Lord of hosts means the Lord of the armies of heaven. That's what the host means the host of heaven Verse 5 this vision of the glory of God the proclamation of Jesus is great worth and Transcendent glory it moved Isaiah in a very deep way. He says I'm undone It deeply impacted him. My eyes have seen the king And again the king is specifically Jesus Paragraph 1 Now the reason that the seraphim with one set of wings they cover their feet is to acknowledge while in the presence of the Uncreated God that they are merely created beings. It's an act of humility So it's an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the uncreated God now We know that Jesus was never ever created. He's eternal like the Father in the Spirit there was never a time that Jesus did not exist and The seraphim declare that even by the covering of their feet. I have more about that in the notes. You can read on your own Number two With the one set of wings they cover their face Because the idea is that they're in the presence of The glory of God and Paul gives us insight of into this says in first Timothy 6 That God dwells in Unapproachable light that's talking about the blazing splendor of the being of God It's a remarkable statement He dwells in unapproachable light now. The light is not unapproachable Because God lacks desire to relate to us The state it's not a statement about God's heart about God's unwillingness to relate but rather it's a statement about the Capacity of the created beings to be in the presence of God in the undiminished or unveiled glory and They seraphim when they would gaze at Jesus They were so awestruck. They were so overwhelmed by his Undiminished glory they had to cover their eyes. It's like they had to turn away and When the power of that revelation it would touch their being and it was like they would come up for air You know a few moments later and they would get another glimpse of him and then they would cry holy Holy is the Lord then they would cover their eyes again Never Do they exhaust? The infinite supply of the beauty and the glory of who Jesus is John the Apostle he had this similar view into the Glory of Jesus looking in the very face of Jesus He saw the king similar to how Isaiah did and he says this he gives his testimony Revelation 1 verse 14 his eyes were like a flame of fire But verse 16 talking about the unapproachable light the glory that radiates out of Jesus as being Was like the Sun Was unapproachable light using the language of Paul and when John saw it He fell like a dead man at Jesus's feet now. We're talking about The man who knew Jesus better than any man In that hour. I mean he walked with him for three and a half years. It's 60 years Approximately later after the resurrection. I mean the maturity of John the Apostle And he looks into the face of Jesus and that Unapproachable light and it absolutely overwhelms John. He falls like a dead man It's almost like he could say Jesus. I hardly know you. I don't know this dimension of you because even in the 40 days of Appearing after his resurrection Jesus appeared to the Apostles for 40 days. He veiled his glory So that they could relate to him they he showed some of it, but he veiled part of it, but here he is and John is looking in the eyes of his best friend and he seems almost as a stranger to him I mean from John's point of view He saw something in Jesus. He had never seen before Paragraph C We're talking about the wealth of Jesus. He's rich in glory He's rich in splendor the brightness of his being he's fully God. He's fully man Revelation chapter 4 the four living creatures That says they do not rest day or night and they proclaim there they they never cease to declare this They're under a compulsion to declare the holiness of God. I Believe that the four living creatures in Revelation 4 are the seraphim of Isaiah 6 They're making the same declaration But here in Revelation 4 verse 8 we see their heart response They never rest They're eternally overwhelmed and they never ever exhaust The fullness of the glory or the beauty of the Father or the Son It's always new a million years from now We'll look her up at the throne and there they will be bowing yet again covering their eyes declaring the holiness of God The wealth of Jesus Will be extolled forever and forever beloved he is rich Paragraph D now in order to understand this What's happening around the throne we need to understand what the word holy means The word holy because they're declaring holy holy forever they will declare this night and day It's the premier song around the throne of God the premier declaration holy holy holy It's not the only thing they say but they say it forever and forever Because the impact of it hits them over and over and over because they never exhaust They never get to the end of that which is new Well the word holy means to be separate from to be separate from and there's two applications of Holiness when related to the being of God The first application is the one that we're most familiar with That God is holy That means he's separated from everything that's sinful everything that's defiled It speaks of his moral perfection his infinite purity he's separated from sin and defilement and in that sense It would be the attribute of purity But that's not what the seraphim are saying here. They're not saying purity purity purity They're saying something actually more Something more profound We have to look at the second Definition or application of the word holy when related to the being of God It doesn't mean separated from sin, but separated from everything That's common or everything that's created What they're saying is You're holy other than everything else that exists You're separated from everything created everything that we know you're in a category That there is no other in your category You're totally different from everything that exists Holy other than another way that you could say it They would be saying in essence Infinitely superior infinitely superior infinitely superior to everything that exists now all of God's attributes are infinitely superior His love is Holy other than his wisdom is holy other than his power is holy other than anything else that exists His purity is holy other than what they're really declaring is his transcendence They're declaring his transcendent beauty his transcendent majesty He's in a realm where no other has ever been The realms are not comparable you know one of the Statements that the Spirit of God declares through the prophets or even through the angels around the throne is who is like the Lord That statement shows up a few times in the scripture Who is like the Lord and that's not a question. Actually It's not a question looking for an answer. It's a declaration It's a declaration of the uniqueness of God top of page two I Want to use an illustration that I received from a book I read years ago by a W Tozer on the knowledge of the Holy and I won't say it just right because it's been a few Years since I read it But it deeply impacted me He was trying to illustrate Give an illustration to understand what? transcendence means Do you consider the ascending order of created beings from the lowest created being to the highest? Maybe you start with the lowest insect and work your way up the chain of greater glory To the animals to the greatest most glorious animals To the angels to the archangels to the cherubim and finally to the seraphim to the very top of the order the difference in glory between an insect at the lowest and A seraphim at the highest the difference is great, but significantly the difference is finite. It is measurable There is a limit to the difference though. The difference is great, but the difference in glory Between the highest angel and Jesus is infinite There is no way to measure it Jesus is as high above the cherubim in glory as he is above the insect because he's Infinite in his great superiority above both there is no measurement for either. That's the idea of transcendence We can't really get our finite minds around it But the angels are declaring the beauty and the worth and the riches of Jesus when they say holy holy they're really saying transcendent beauty holy other than beautiful in your love Beautiful in your glory beautiful in your wisdom beautiful in your power and they never ever overcome They Never become familiar They never get to the bottom of the supply. It's always new It's always fresh and they always are compelled to declare it transcendent beauty Paragraph F Colossians 1 Paul says that Jesus is preeminent But Jesus is more than preeminent Preeminent does not really capture the fullness of what transcendence means to be preeminent Means you're chief. You're at the very top among those within the same category the same order and As a man, he is preeminent among men But beloved he's more than preeminent among men. He is transcendent He's more than chief among men He is of a different order for he's fully God and he's fully man Paragraph H How much is Jesus worth how rich is he? I Mean, who is this man really? Well, I could say this and I know you agree he's worth all of our love We Can say it in a different way he's worth it Because the devil says it's not worth it We declare in the in the spirit of of this declaration of his worthiness. He's worth it All of heaven will declare his worth forever and forever his infinite value We will never ever Get to the end of it. We will always be discovering more of his value and his worth when the living creatures and the elders and all the angels and all the saints in the age to come one of the The grand choruses at the great convocations around the throne. There will be times when all will come together around the throne There'll be other times where the Saints and the angels will be working in the kingdom throughout the earth and in the age to come I'm talking about in the age to come but there will be those times they will all gather and Holy holy holy and worthy is the Lamb Will be at the very top of the list of the songs and the declarations That are made we will say infinitely superior Supreme you're worth it your value who could know it We will declare it forever Because you're the Lamb that was slain It says in that same chapter revelation 5 verse 9 he was slain To redeem us to God or I like the translation New America Standard to purchase men for God He was slain that he could give us as a gift to the father to the glory of the father That's in verse 9 of chapter 5, but verse 10 takes another dimension He was slain that he could make us kings and priests He did it for the exaltation of his people that we would be rich is how Paul the Apostle said it in 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 9 so we see the two threads of Scripture the two great truths Jesus died for the glory of God and Jesus died to crown his people with glory and honor because he loves that deeply David was touched by this in Psalm chapter 8 And when he looked up at the sky in Psalm 8 verse 3 When he considered the heavens and Psalm 19 tells us when he considered the heavens the beauty of God in the heaven He would ponder God You find that Psalm 19 it's a great Psalm about David's meditation on the heavens But then he gives his personal response here in Psalm 8 when he looked at the heavens He said the question that he would ask over and over What is man? That you are so mindful of us That you've crowned men talk about men and women the redeemed You've crowned them with glory and honor forever you've crowned them in the glory of God and You put all things under man's feet David was captured in verse 4. He said what is man? He couldn't get He couldn't get to the end of this great question that drove his life and it motivated him in love to respond in love to the Lord You are so mindful you have so many thoughts towards us Jesus You have such elaborate plans for us such detailed plans and your commitment to follow through is so Extravagant you gave your life in order to bring those plans to pass. Why are you so mindful of us? Why do we move your heart so much? Again this was one of the keys that Motivated David as a man after God's own heart. He was touched by the greatness of the dignity and The purpose and the value that man has in the heart of Jesus Using New Testament language I Mean David wouldn't have said Jesus but from the grid of the New Testament we can put in the full picture Again he purchased men for God He died that he could give us as a gift to the glory of God that we would love God forever to God's glory But he also died because he loved us so much We don't have to pick between those two Some camps focus on the glory the God the dignity that God has given to his people and some focus on the glory of God beloved they are two sides of one coin. God loves perfectly in fully. He is the very fountain of love And love thinks of others According to first Corinthians 13. He's consumed with others He is the very fountain of love of concern for others of their value of their glory He loves to love that's who he is. It's what he does Roman numeral two. We'll just look at this briefly I'll leave you to meditate on your own more Job 26 one of the great passages of Scripture where the transcendence of God is Outlined in a in a brief way, but in seven different categories Job touches on the transcendence of God now, of course from the New Testament perspective We know it's Jesus that he's talking about Joe wouldn't have known that But he's talking about the Creator his power and his wisdom of the Creator because Job's gonna make seven Big strong bold points and then he's gonna come to a crescendo at the end He's setting up an argument to make even a more dramatic Statement at the end of the seven statements about the wisdom and the power of the Creator and his created order again From the view of the New Testament perspective. We know the Creator is Jesus under the Father's authority He spoke and the Spirit moved in power to bring it to pass Paragraph B The first point there's seven points again. I'll be ever so brief on each one he starts off with the realm of the dead underneath the earth and he says the dead tremble and those under the waters and She'll is naked before him again from the New Testament perspective. It's before Jesus because it's clear in the scripture I have it in the notes that all Judgment has been committed to Jesus by the Father. He gave Jesus the authority and the ability to administrate all the judgment of the human race Job says the dead tremble she'll which is another word for hell in essence and Destruction is another word for hell So now it's pointing to the underworld is pointing to the unredeemed It says there is no covering there is no protection for the unbeliever in hell that when the great judge Of all the earth his name is Jesus when they stand before him on the last day. There will be Absolutely, no way of escape Some of the great leaders have come out in terms of impact and power the great unbelieving leaders through world history They had great armies great wealth great power and prestige Many of them would have seen that the ones I'm thinking of would have seen themselves as the most powerful man in in the earth That his generation like the Alexander the greats men like that through history Most powerful man, nobody can challenge they answer to nobody Because of their armies and because of their wealth and all their pomp and splendor But the day is coming when they will stand With no armies, no wealth nothing to protect them to cover them from the man from Nazareth the true judge of all the earth the really and only true rich man The man which they thought they had nothing to do with they have everything to do and they will tremble all of history History Job's point here is not the peril of the lost That's another point for another day But it's the authority of God from whom all the great men of history tremble before who is this man? He is rich in authority Paragraph C the second point Job looked up he changes subjects now He moves from the realm of the dead below the earth now, he's talking looking at the realm of the sky above the earth and He points out three different Points of focus. She's pondering at the sky above He says the Lord stretches out the north. That's the constellations in the north of stars But he stretches it out over empty space jokes us, how are those stars staying in their place? Then he considered the earth itself and he goes He hangs the earth on nothing Then he looked at the clouds He binds the clouds The water he binds in them this I mean Millions of tons of water bound in the clouds, but it doesn't break the clouds Job was quite a philosopher scientist The point is this he was observing the mysterious Invisible power and wisdom of God that held everything in its place in the space in the sky in the heavens above He recognized an invisible hand an invisible fourth and a Creative design of intelligence behind all of order that he couldn't see he couldn't penetrate into Paul the Apostle comes later tells us in Colossians 117. I don't have this in the notes that Everything consists and is upheld by the Word of Jesus the stars stay in place because Jesus Continues to speak the word that keeps him in order Hebrews 1 3 says the same thing It's by the word of his power. Jesus doesn't have to even stand. He can remain seated by his own word All of the heavenly bodies stay in their ordered place Isaiah saw this in chapter 40 Isaiah touches the same thing Isaiah 40 and Job 26 would be The Companion passages Isaiah said he brings out the host. That means the stars He put the stars in their place and he has such Detailed information. They're all numbered. They're all named and they're named according to the Measure of their glory and splendor in their function in the grand scheme that he has. That's what a name does To name it means to identify its function and its role They all have a specific place so Job went from the realm of the earth below to the realm of the heavens above the heavenly bodies Top of page three. He goes to point three now. He moves over to the realm of God's glory in Heaven talk about the supernatural realm and he talks about God's kindness and And covering the throne of glory So that it would protect all that come near it It's a very interesting phrase and every one of these phrases have many applications and there's so much to say about each one of them They have natural applications and they have spiritual and supernatural applications that all kind of merged together in verse 9 God covers the face of his throne He covers it He spreads a glory cloud around it. Now. This is a supernatural cloud of glory. This is not a natural cloud He does it to veil the glory of the throne so that the angels and all the heavenly beings Are not overwhelmed when they come near the throne of God. I have some verses there on that But God in his kindness he puts a veil of glory around his throne so that the unapproachable light Is restrained in its full manifestation to all of those that come says in Revelation 20 verse 11 That at the end of the Millennial Kingdom when the Father's face Gazes on the earth and there's nothing between his face of the earth heaven and earth flee from his presence That's the power of the Father's face But Job is making the point. He covers it. He's sensitive to our limited capacity and his infinite superiority number four Verse 10 he drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness what Job is Looking across the season. He is really perplexed And he doesn't have the scientific answers, but he knows by the Spirit of Revelation. He's on to something He sees the place where light and dark come together He sees the place where the sky and the sea come together at the horizon far away and the point is God is the one who orchestrates the Dynamics of light and dark and the intricate science and intelligence Behind the how those two realms connect and how they relate to the sea in the sky It's the brilliant The brilliant design of God Job didn't get he didn't understand the science, but he said there's something there There's something amazing about the one Who orchestrated all these dynamics part five paragraph F He moves to another realm now the leadership of the earth You have to just kind of read it for a minute to understand that he says the pillars of heaven tremble the pillars of heaven tremble and they are Astonished when the rebuke of Jesus or the judgments of Jesus are administered and released into the earth His rebukes are Given into the earth realm. There's no rebuke in the heavenly realm amongst the ranks of the angelic and those around his throne But there's a response in the heavenly realm when Jesus's leadership is manifest in the earth Now the word pillar we can take it in a poetic way some of the Commentators talk about this speaking of a storm and others will think of it as the pillars of heaven Using the word from Galatians chapter 2 verse 9 Where Paul called the leaders of the church pillars in the church the top leadership of the church? And I believe that both of those applications are touching the spirit of truth But when the pillars of heaven the top leadership of heaven they tremble they're astonished They're awestruck. They're overwhelmed when the rebuke of Jesus goes forth into the earth realm John actually talks about this very directly in a way that it would have been beyond Job's revelation But in Revelation 4 19 verse 2 to 3 they declare true and Righteous are the judgments of God that have been just released in the earth at the end of the age and the 24 elders I believe that's human leadership. I Believe there's literally 24 elders. I believe there's more human government besides that but the very top of the human government For living creatures, I believe that's the seraphim They fell down they tremble They're astonished they're awestruck. They don't fall down in fear of Coming under the judgment, but they are so impressed with Jesus's leadership, they're awestruck and They're focusing on his leaderships released into the earth To cleanse the earth and to transition it to the age to come Jesus's Judgments are not too early. They're not too late. They're not too severe. They're not too lenient They're perfectly ordered and they never contradict lover wisdom or truth or righteousness in any way. I Mean the subject of judgments complicated. It's too early too late too severe It contradicts love a little bit a little bit justice Maybe doesn't fully uphold righteousness, but not the man Jesus his judgments are perfect And these pillars of heaven are so awestruck Who is like this man? He's rich in wisdom not just in power and authority Number six He stirs up the sea He stirs up a storm at sea, but he also breaks the storm. He stops the storm at sea Job 26 verse 12 he starts it and he stops it He has power and wisdom over the wind and the waters the wind in the seas now in the earth realm These are the two most powerful forces The wind in the water the ocean in the water the tsunami the hurricane at the highest degree The power is nothing like the power of wind and water together Jesus commands it he has total authority over it When he was on the earth in his earthly ministry Luke chapter 8 verse 25. They were awestruck. Who can this man be? He commands the wind in the sea But it was only a little here and a little there that Jesus showed it at the end of the age He will take the full leadership of the wind in the sea the earth realm I mean the powers the natural powers of the earth and all the powers that are even Secondary to those all of them. He will orchestrate to cleanse the earth and to shake it But that which is unshakable will become evident Paragraph H Now it moves to the heavenly realm The heavenly remaining in the sky the heavenly realm both physical and spiritual is what I'm trying to say here That he by his spirit he adorns the physical heavens and By his spirit he pierces the fleeing serpent Now the fleeing serpent Isaiah gives us more insight I have the notes there He elaborates on the fleeing serpent. He calls him Leviathan the fleeing serpent and it speaks of the demonic realm The point is this Jesus creates and cleanses the heavenly realm meaning the physical Skies as well as this the demonic part of the heavenly realm He both creates and cleanses and rules Top of page 4 Now Job comes to his crescendo his main point He made those seven points in order to make his final point He said indeed verse 14 These are but the mere edges of his ways He's talking about these seven subjects these seven different Manifestations of the power of God the wisdom of God These are but the mere edges of his ways He says the truth is They are but a whisper of what he's capable of doing. I The riches of Jesus talking about the transcendence of our Savior Now he makes his big point he says there's something more than these It's called the thunder of his power Who can comprehend this? He goes these other seven you can maybe comprehend in part, but who can comprehend the thunder of his power The thunder of his power speaks of the more dramatic The more important expressions of his power the greater measures That are far beyond these others that are only whispers in comparison. I Mean just take for a moment He said these are mere edges. These are whispers the realm of the dead his authority The realm of the sky both the the northern Constellations and the earth and the clouds how they hang in their place The realm of his glory he covers the throne The relationship the dynamic relationship between the light in the dark The leadership of the earth how his judgments go forth and the pillars of heaven tremble the control of the wind in the sea the Creating and the cleansing of the physical heavens and the demonic heavens Those are all the categories that are in Job's mind. He goes these do not compare to the great Demonstrations of his power the thunder of his power. These others are mere whispers Beloved what Jesus did in his earthly ministry was a whisper of a whisper of a whisper I mean when he went and healed the sick the nation was in an uproar But he created in Genesis 1 that was nothing if he would not have specified The name Lazarus when he said come forth the graves would have opened across the earth Because the day is coming John 5 he will speak at all the graves will open at the command of his word Raising Lazarus with a whisper, but there's something more There's a storm That touched the very center of the Godhead because where there's thunder there's a storm that is being indicated Paragraph L Job has just made the point Seven different themes nothing is too difficult for God. Nothing is impossible. Matter of fact, he can do all of these Seated at the right hand of the father. He doesn't have to lift a finger. He doesn't have to stand He only has to utter his word and they're done, but there's something more There's something that's so Beyond in comparison that these are whispers and edges of his power and his love Peter touched on it First Peter chapter 4 verse 18 talking about the God with whom nothing is impossible Peter makes this very Powerful statement holy It's one that we tread Carefully on this subject. He says it is with difficulty That the righteous are saved with difficulty To the God from which nothing is impossible the transcendent God who's rich beyond measure He acknowledges difficulty in one area The difficulty is not in the righteous person receiving salad salvation. The difficulty was in God providing the salvation There's difficulty in paragraph am I lay it out just a little bit you can read it on your own But there are great Complexities involved in accomplishing our salvation. They are difficult How can a perfectly righteous God Bring sinful people into intimacy with himself. He has to make them perfectly righteous But in order to make them perfectly righteous he can't violate his own justice nor can he violate their free will They're sinful and dark. They have to be as righteous as he is or they can't fellowship. They can't be in his family But he can't violate his justice and he won't violate their free will and to complicate it more because it's humans that are getting saved a Human is the only one that can provide salvation for us. Where is this human that is perfectly innocent? Beloved it's complicated was difficult God looked at his own right hand and he had a difficult plan for his rich and beautiful son And John 8 42 Jesus makes it clear The plan was from the father and I just imagine the day when he looked at the Sun and it didn't go exactly this way But son I have the solution It's difficult You must embrace embrace poverty In a way that's beyond anything that you've ever touched you have to become human and Then after you can't become human You will live perfect Then you as the innocent one will take the place of the guilty and the guilty ones will take the place of the innocent They'll be the exchange that satisfies justice You must be crushed by the wrath of God son. This will be difficult My rich beloved son you must become poor. Do you understand now remember? When Jesus said yes to become human, this was not a temporary Arrangement when Jesus became human, he will be human for ever Billions of years from now. He will still be human Now being human is exciting to us But when you're the uncreated God of Genesis 1 being human is a real big step down Really and Then as a human he was crushed by the wrath of God This this plan was difficult We see it in the response of Jesus. He's in the garden father Is there any other way to do this beloved? It was a difficult plan There is no other way son Then on the cross he cries out My god, my god you forsook me because he became the offering for sin and there was separation Between him and the father in their relationship Because he became sin for us. It's the only time in The Bible in the New Testament where Jesus refers to the father as God instead of the father he didn't say my father because there's a There's a break in the relationship he's burying the price for sin God didn't just Forgive sin. He didn't just overlook sin. He pays for it The humanistic religions of the earth. They have a God in their imagination that overlooks sin, but not one that pays for it There's the difference. That's why there's only one way of salvation. There's only one Innocent man who paid the price for sin We say boldly it's not about one religion better than another It's about an innocent man who was innocent took the role of the guilty and the guilty take the role the innocent That's what makes him so unique. There is no other religion That's like Christianity. There is no such thing. They don't all lead to the same place. There's only one way of salvation Paragraph Oh Jesus became poor This is the premier passage Philippians 2 verse 6 8. I'll just read it You can read it on the the notes on your own You know it he became poor he embraced poverty Who being in the very nature of God in the form of God another translation says? He did not consider his equality with God something to hold on to he laid aside his rights That He rightfully possessed as God he made himself nothing he took the form of a servant He made himself into human likeness. He humbled himself became obedient to the point of death even death on a cross After the incarnation Jesus had two natures Jesus was always God But he did not live as God He took his privileges and laid them aside and he lived on the earth as a man Dependent on the Holy Spirit beloved. That is such humility If you're the Genesis one God Why do you pray and fast and believe and exercise faith and wait for the guidance of the Spirit? You're as much God as the Spirit is And I have written here though he was never ever less than God He lived though he was never more than a man dependent on the Holy Spirit What humility what poverty he embraced? paragraph Pete Beloved I just take one minute on this We become rich Do not downplay this do not lose sight of this he died For the glory of the father and he died to crown the people he loved With glory and honor that the love that was in his heart for them could be openly manifest Scripture says he came to seek and save that which was lost. That's why he came He came to glorify the father we don't have to pick between the two realms both of them are true The first commandment and the second commandment are two Outflows of one reality of one river they are not separate We became rich now a lot of believers the way that they Apply this to their life. Jesus is rich. Yes. He became poor. Yes, they get that and that they stay poor in their own way They just they live as people with no destiny no inheritance. No connection to God They live in this it's for so common in the body of Christ Filled with complaining and compromise lose sight of the truth of who they are beloved What is man that he even thought of you with such elaborate plans? You're rich forever forever There's Applications of it in this life. That's not my point now because I want to bring this to an end My bigger point is for billions of years. We're rich in glory. We're rich in love. We're rich in wisdom Yes, the streets are gold. We're in the presence of God. We're in his family as sons of God the bride of Christ Resurrected body new Jerusalem sitting on thrones forever ruling with him beloved. Who are you? Who are you? He's worthy of our love he's worthy of our gratitude he's worthy of our focus He's worthy of our obedient love. He's worth it And when the devil comes and says, oh, it's not worth it. Just give up and give it say he's worthy. He's worth it And he's made me rich in relationship with him forever Let's end with this verse have the worship team come up first Corinthians chapter 2 I has not seen Ear has not heard It's never entered the heart of a man the fullness of What God prepared? With his people in mind He prepared it for you He had you in mind when he devised the plan Beloved we have it made we really do we have it made Amen let's stand What I want us to do with this response is re-sign up to gratitude and Re-sign up to wholeheartedness And our seeking and obeying the Lord Take our complaints and say you know what Lord? I just disavow my complaint. I break my agreement with it. I Have a good deal You've treated me better than I could ever deserve Let's trade in our complaint And our despondency with grateful love Let's trade in our compromise with loving obedience wholeheartedness I encourage you across the room just as the worship team goes ahead and begins Just to interact with the Lord in this way If you want to come up front you can But I want to talk talk to the Lord about the complaint with gratitude talk to the Lord about throwing away compromise replacing with wholeheartedness Here we are Lord Oh Transcendent Jesus glorious God With the beauty Oh Forever you will be Jesus We sign by back up Lord we say yes to your leadership I worship you alone Forever Forever you will be The Lamb upon the throne