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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Names and Lordship of Jesus 0:00 Hi. Welcome to ALFC podcast. At ALFC, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:13 Today, we're gonna launch a series that's gonna be entitled, his name is blank. And we're gonna talk about the names of Jesus, what names he went by. You may be here, and I don't know if you're0:25 if you're married, you may engage, boyfriend, girlfriend, or your parents. I don't know if you've ever had a nickname before. Maybe you your spouse and each other, you guys call each other babe or baby or honey or0:37 boo thing. Or if you're really weird, daddy or something like that. I don't know what that's from. Or if you're really, really weird, like, you you have those odd ones that are, like, stinky or something like that that0:48 you may have, and then you have nicknames for your children and things like that. And maybe some, maybe grandpa and grandma have papa, me ma, dada, wawa. Whatever it is,1:01 these are nicknames. And a lot of times too, they really mean 1 of 2 things. It's either A, some type of term of endearment, you know, honey, babe, anything like that, but also1:13 people will go by names because, that is what their character, their personhood is a nickname. So if you have an endearing nickname like stinky for your spouse or1:25 1 of your kids or something like that, it tends to be because they stink, but you make it in a in a in a friendly way. Or there's other type of nicknames you hold. Ever since, I've never shared publicly,1:37 but ever since I was about 12 years old and still to this day, all of my closest friends call me Rabbi. It's been my nickname since I was 12 years old. My closest friends in my life, you'll never hear them say Adam,1:48 Pastor Adam, anything like that. It's been rabbi. Because ever since I was 12, I was obsessed with Jewish culture. I had an Israeli flag over my bed. I I I would I would buy, you know, me2:00 and my brother Caleb online on t b n dot com. We we would buy, like, these crown of thorns of Jesus that were from the bush that Jesus like like, we were just, like, really obsessed with the land of Israel, and we would2:12 buy, like, sand from Israel to have in our room and stuff like that. So, I'm sure it was from, like, Baja, Mexico or something like that. But we thought it was sand from Israel, and it was probably a bush2:24 from the Inlet Empire, you know, up in San Bernardino or something. But either way, we thought it was real. So all my friends, they would call me rabbi because of my love for the Jewish culture, and still to this day,2:34 it's stuck, it has stuck ever since then. And so we look at Jesus and we see names that he's referenced as. His actual name on earth was Joshua, and that was 1 of2:46 his nicknames. That that is not Jesus's name in heaven. They do not call Jesus Joshua in heaven. We we know in Revelations that that there is 1 name that no 1 knows and only him and the father knows, but2:57 we also know according to Revelations and John, 1 of Jesus's names in heaven is Logos, which is the physical word of God that as Jesus would live and breathe and speak,3:09 that is the logos. That is the God given word of God, and that is 1 of Jesus's names. And I remember growing up, my dad would have this poster. And if there's any older saints in here, you may still have this poster3:21 in your closet till this day. Does anyone have 1 of these posters in their closet? I know some of the older saints have raised their hands before. My dad, I grew up, this was in his office all the time, and I'd look at3:32 it all the time. And these were not all of them, but these were just some of the names that Jesus was called according to the scriptures. You know, he was called advocate, lamb of God, resurrection in the life,3:44 shepherd and bishop of souls, judge, lord of lords, man of sorrows, head of the church, master faithful and true witness, rock high priest, the door, living water, bread of life, rose of Sharon, alpha and omega, true3:56 vine, invisible God the visible of the invisible God, the chief cornerstone, and it goes on and on and on. And during these next 4 weeks, we're gonna pull out some of those names of Jesus4:08 and talk about what they really mean to us and how they apply to us. 1 of the name for 1 of the main formidable names that Jesus holds that we know both according to Revelations and4:20 also the gospels is 1 of Jesus's title is lord of lords and king of kings. Which means if he's Lord of lords, it means you have anyone in a position of authority, and4:32 if you are the Lord of lords, it means you are above all of those things. And if you are King of kings, it means you have all earthly rulers, all earthly authorities, and then you have the guy that's over them4:44 and his name is Jesus. He's the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And so this weekend as we launch this series of his name is, today we're gonna talk about his name being 1 of his4:56 names he goes by, 1 of the ones we famously know is Kyrios. It's the Greek word for it, Kyrios, k u r I o s. And the word for Kyrios is simply5:07 Lord. 1 of the names of Jesus is Lord. It's 1 of the most significant names that Jesus holds because the the title or the name of Lord,5:20 naturally in just English, it means master or person in authority. But what really Lord really means is it means supreme authority above all.5:32 And so when Jesus is referenced as Lord of lords, it means that there is no higher authority in heaven or on earth than that of Jesus.5:44 Amen. Amen. And so this Christmas, we'll particularly look at as we open up the passage, and in Matthew chapter 2 is where we'll look at this morning to launch off, we look at Jesus's5:56 establishment as lord. You see 1 of the things that we see is we have the 4 gospels. We have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You see6:08 according to Matthew, Matthew's whole point in writing his book is he wants to show that Jesus is sovereign and lord of all. You see Mark's point of his gospel6:20 that he wants to get across is he wants to get across that Jesus was a servant of all. And then you have Luke Matthew, Mark, and then you have Luke's gospel. And what6:32 Luke wants to get across is that Jesus was the son of man. So Matthew chapter 1, Matthew traces Jesus' genealogy back to King6:44 David. Then you have Mark who tries to show that Jesus was a servant of all people. So you have a lot of his ministry in the book of Mark, a lot of his healings, a lot of his miracles showing that he was a6:55 servant. And then according to Matthew, Mark, and then you have Luke, now when you get to Luke, he wants to show he traces Jesus's genealogies back to Adam to show that Jesus was the son of man.7:09 And then lastly, you get to John, and John, he skips any genealogy and he just says, we all know John chapter 1, that the word was God, and the word7:21 became flesh. And so then what he wants to do is he wants to show that Jesus was the son of God. So today when we look at Matthew, the book of Matthew of all things that he's trying to get7:33 across is that Jesus is Lord of all. He's in the highest, most supreme position in our lives. And we're gonna look at today the first individuals that made that claim, and then we're gonna7:44 see someone that struggled with that reality. So let's look at Matthew chapter 2 as we begin to jump in and talk about the wise men. You see, I'm just gonna read the first couple7:56 verses, and we're gonna stop for a second. It says, after they had heard, we're gonna talk about the they, they had heard the king, talking of King Herod, they went on their way, and the star that they had seen in the at8:07 east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great delight. Pause right there.8:20 Now we talk about who's the they? Many of us over the years as we would know Jesus's birth story, you may call them the the the 3 wise men, the 3 kings, the 3 Magis. The8:32 reality is in no scriptures does it mention 3. We assume because there was 3 gifts given that there was 3 people. But the the plurality of mentioning them, really8:43 entails that there was a multitude of of Magi that came. We it it explains no number. It could have been 20, 30, 40. Some have been set upwards of possibly a couple hundred, but it's8:55 more than likely it it's somewhere around the 20, thirties, or forties, and these individuals all bring collectively 3 gifts that we're gonna talk about in a moment. But you see, these individuals, these these Magi,9:07 that's the Greek term that they give to them. And so nowhere does it mention that they were kings or nowhere does it We call them wise men in English because what they were is they were modern day9:19 scholars for the Eastern empires. So that's like Babylon, the Median Empire, the Persian Empire, these were their intellects, And they were magi where9:31 we kinda get the term magician is because they believed in both astronomy and astrology. So they believed in the religion of astrology. That's the stuff like Cancer and Pisces and Aquarius.9:43 And you know, if if if you're an Aquarius, it means you're sassy and stuff like that and whatever, whatever. So they believed in that kinda stuff. And then, and and and so they believed in that. And then they also9:54 believed in the astronomy side, which was the natural order of science of things, which is, you know, during this season, there's full moons, and fall, winter, spring happened because of the alignment of our stars being10:05 here and here and real true science, astronomy thing. They they merged both astrology and astronomy, which meant they were very smart and every king in the Eastern empires would10:17 listen to them. There was even a famous Jewish person who was a Magi in the Old Testament, and his name was Daniel. In Daniel chapter 5, it tells us in the Hebrew that Daniel10:29 was the head Magi in the Babylonian court. And so that was 500 years prior to Jesus. And so as the Israelites were in captivity10:41 with Babylon, chances are they would have taught the Babylonians, especially the scholars, the other Magis, Daniel would have told them about his religion and God, and the fact that 1 day they10:52 would have a king and a Lord that was above all kings, and a Lord that was above all lords. And so these intellectuals for generations would pass and educate to their children to say,11:04 hey. We're Median, we're Persian, we're Babylonian, but the Jews 1 day, we have been told that they're gonna have a king that's above all of us. And so11:16 as that would get passed down from generation to generation, these Magi who were in the Eastern Empire, not Israel but everywhere else, in Babylon, and in Persia, and in the11:28 Mesopotamian era, no 1 could become king without the approval of the Magi because they were their local religious leaders. And no king, because all kings were11:40 supposed to be put on their position by God, so they represented their pagan gods. So no king could become king without the Magi's approval.11:52 So here's what happens before even the Jewish people recognize. There's a moment in which Jesus is gonna be burnt onto this earth to save us, and the Shekinah glory of God, the presence of God12:04 shines through the sky through a star known as the the Star of Bethlehem. And these individuals all the way hundreds of miles away see this star and see the significance of the star, and they12:16 say, surely, it is time. This must be the king of kings and the lord of lords. We have to go worship him. Before even the Jewish people12:28 recognized that Jesus was Lord, these pagan these pagan intellectual people who who they're the ones who put kings in power, they see this and recognize and12:40 say, this must be the king that we have heard of that we all have been waiting for and the Lord that we've all been looking for. And so, they travel hundreds of miles away and they find King12:52 Herod, and they tell Herod, where is this king to be born? Now, King Herod, who is the king, he said, I've not heard the news. There's a guy that's gonna overrule me, and so he gets13:04 angry because no king wants to give up their power, and so he says, please let me know when you find this king, because I'd like to come and worship him too. In other words, I wanna kill him, so let me know where he's13:15 at. So now we get to the place where the magi approach the child. Just 1 chapter before, when Jesus would be born, the Greek term that would be used would be13:26 baby or infant. Now we get to Jesus and he's called child. So some little time has passed. We don't know how long, but he's no longer called a baby in Greek. He's called a child in Greek.13:38 So maybe 6 months, 5 months, 4 months, because they saw the star and they had to travel a few hundred miles when Jesus was born. And so what happens is as they get there and he's a little bit younger, they13:50 bring 3 gifts. And it says this, On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they fell down and worshiped him. The Greek word for worship is proskeneo.14:03 It means to kiss the feet. So it wasn't just bow down. They all fell down at Jesus's feet, and they kissed this child's feet. Generally, you only do14:15 that in worship to God. In Revelations in the book of John, John says that when he sees that 1 of the angels in heaven, it says he proschened, he fell at his feet, and he kissed his feet to worship14:27 him. And it says the angel backed up and told John, don't ever do that to me again, because that sign of what you just did is only reserved for God. And14:39 so these wise men, the Magi come and they fall at Jesus's feet, and they kiss his feet, then they open their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.14:51 And having been warned, in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route. You see, here's the significance on why15:03 these individuals are explaining and exclaiming to the world that Jesus is Lord above all. Because you see, when you go and visit a king, you come with some sort of15:15 riches. So you'll maybe come with gold, you'll come with fabric, because fabric was very expensive, dyes to have dyed fabric, so maybe a purple fabric or a red fabric, because you15:27 have to crush all of these berries and things like that to dye fabric back then, so fabric was very expensive. So maybe you'd bring gold, you'd bring fabric, you'd bring salt because that was very expensive back then.15:38 They didn't have refrigerators and salt preserved things, or you'd bring some sort of exotic animal so that that king can show off travel, so maybe somewhere from India or Asia, some type of tiger or15:50 lion or something like that. But interesting enough, they bring 3 very significant gifts. Number 1, they bring gold, which was wealth, which a king deserved. A king deserved wealth. And it's16:02 very likely because after Jesus hit that age and the wise man informed them that Herod was looking for them, it said that they fled to Egypt for some time as Jesus would grow in age and stature. So chances are16:14 they used that gold for the king Jesus to flee and live. But then they give them 2 other things that you normally wouldn't give a king. The second thing is they give frankincense,16:26 which frankincense was an incense that you would burn in a temple when you were worshiping God. So you wouldn't give a king necessarily that unless you thought the king16:38 was worthy of worship as God. So they bring him incense to be burned to worship him, so they think he's king, but now they also think this16:50 guy is higher than any king, and he's definitely higher than any lord because he's worthy of worship. So they give him incense. Then oddly enough, they give him myrrh, which myrrh was17:02 when you would melt it down, it was an anointing oil. It was like a type of balm, like icy hot. They bring him this anointing oil that you would17:14 melt down, which 9 times out of 10, you would only use for ceremonial bearings on the flesh of someone who's died. So now these individuals are17:26 making 3 large claims that aren't even Jewish. They're just these wise men from the Eastern Empire. They come, they give this king wealth, they give this king worship,17:38 and then they anoint this king for death. Oddly enough that they would catch on that in order for this individual to be the Lord King of our life, something catastrophic has happened or will be happening. And so when17:49 they claim to the world that this man is Lord, Jesus, rejectingShow more In this video 0:00 The Names and Lordship of Jesus17:51 The Rich Young Ruler and True Discipleship40:59 Faith, Focus, and Following Jesus
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