Inexhaustible Supply of Deity
Jesus Christ is the ultimate explanation and understanding of God and man, and His perfection as man gave Him access to all the inexhaustible supplies of deity.
Major W. Ian Thomas preaches about Jesus Christ being the ultimate revelation of truth, encompassing all we need to know about God and man. Jesus, while fully God, also became fully man, embodying the perfect relationship between man and God. Through His obedience and humility, Jesus demonstrated what it means to be truly available to God, allowing us to access the unlimited resources of deity through Him.
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Jesus Christ Himself is the final exegesis of all truth. He is all that we need to know about God, and He is all that we need to know about man.
The Lord Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into His hands that as a Man, all the illimitable resources of deity had been vested in His person. That is the first thing I would like you to notice, for although He was in the beginning with God, and was God, and is God and although as the Creative Word, all things were made by Him when He came to this earth, in the very fullest sense of the term, He became Man; but He became Man as God intended man to be, and behaved as God intended man to behave, walking day by day in that relationship to the Father which God had always intended should exist between man and Himself.
Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God (possessing the fulness of the attributes which make God God), did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained; but stripped Himself (of all privileges and rightful dignity) so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. And after He had appeared in human form He abased and humbled Himself (still further) and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of (the) cross! (Philippians 2:6-8 Amplified New Testament).
In all His activities, in all His reactions, in every step He took and in every word He said, in every decision He made, He did so as man, even though He was God. He knew that in His perfection as man, the Father had vested in Him all that God intended to vest in man all things! In other words, man in perfection has an unlimited call upon the inexhaustible supplies of deity.
To put it another way, all the inexhaustible supplies of God are available to the man who is available to all the inexhaustible supplies of God; and Jesus Christ was that Man! He was Man in perfection - - totally, unrelentingly, unquestioningly available and that is why there was available to Him all that to which he was available all things!
Sermon Outline
- I. Jesus Christ is the final exegesis of all truth
- A. He is all that we need to know about God
- B. He is all that we need to know about man
- II. The Lord Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into His hands
- A. As a Man, all the illimitable resources of deity had been vested in His person
- III. Jesus became Man as God intended man to be
- A. He behaved as God intended man to behave
- B. He walked day by day in that relationship to the Father which God had always intended
- IV. Jesus' perfection as man gave Him access to all the inexhaustible supplies of deity
- A. He was available to all the inexhaustible supplies of God
- B. He had an unlimited call upon all things
Key Quotes
“Jesus Christ Himself is the final exegesis of all truth.” — Major W. Ian Thomas
“He became Man as God intended man to be, and behaved as God intended man to behave.” — Major W. Ian Thomas
“He had an unlimited call upon all things.” — Major W. Ian Thomas
Application Points
- As followers of Jesus, we can tap into the inexhaustible supplies of deity by being available to all that God has for us.
- We must strive to become the man God intended us to be, just as Jesus did.
- By walking in a relationship with the Father, we can experience the unlimited call on all things that Jesus had.