Exalt the name of Jesus
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The sermon focuses on the authority of Jesus and His Lordship, divinity, power, sovereignty, and exemplary nature. The passage from John 5:19-29 emphasizes that Jesus imitates the Father in everything He does and His instructions, ministry, style, words, teachings, and miracles come from His intimacy with and fixation on the Father. The coexistence of Jesus' deity and humanity in a single being is a mystery that goes beyond human language and reason. The Church must adopt the same balance of grace and truth in its personality and speak confidently about the solution to the world's problems. The Gospel according to Saint John exalts the Person, Ministry, and divine nature of Jesus Christ. The Church must take time to lift up the Name of Jesus, exalt His Presence and acknowledge His greatness. The sermon also touches on the contrast between Grace and the law and the effort required to live under the law and the rest that Christ offers through His Person.
The mystery of Jesus Christ as both fully God and fully man is important to understand. In His human nature, Jesus says that He only does what He sees the Father do, and from this keeping His eyes fixed on the Father comes the legitimacy of His ministry and the things that He does. The Lord Jesus tells us to seek the Father, fill ourselves with the Word of God, and become spiritual athletes. By staying glued to His Word, we are safe and full of power and authority. The Church of Jesus Christ can and should only do what the Father does as His Word describes it. The world cannot comprehend this mystery, but we cannot accommodate the Word to the world. We must tie ourselves to the mast of His Word and preach it even if we are left alone on Earth.
In John 5:19-29, Jesus emphasizes his relationship of intimacy and subjection to the Father, and how his power and ability to give life comes from the Father. Jesus declares that the Father instructs and trains him, and shows him what he must do. He also says that the Father has given him all judgment, and that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. The Son and the Father are consubstantial, made of the same divine substance, and the Son is the intermediary between God and men. He has the power to give physical life, as well as definitive life on the Day of Resurrection. Those who do not accept the Son do not have eternal life and may face eternal damnation. The Church should glorify and rejoice in giving glory to the Name of Jesus, and be a militant witness to his power and divinity.
The mystery of Jesus Christ as both fully God and fully man is important to understand. In His human nature, Jesus says that He only does what He sees the Father do, and from this keeping His eyes fixed on the Father comes the legitimacy of His ministry and the things that He does. The Lord Jesus tells us to seek the Father, fill ourselves with the Word of God, and become spiritual athletes. By staying glued to His Word, we are safe and full of power and authority. The Church of Jesus Christ can and should only do what the Father does as His Word describes it. The world cannot comprehend this mystery, but we cannot accommodate the Word to the world. We must tie ourselves to the mast of His Word and preach it even if we are left alone on Earth.
In John 5:19-29, Jesus emphasizes his relationship of intimacy and subjection to the Father, and how his power and ability to give life comes from the Father. Jesus declares that the Father instructs and trains him, and shows him what he must do. He also says that the Father has given him all judgment, and that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. The Son and the Father are consubstantial, made of the same divine substance, and the Son is the intermediary between God and men. He has the power to give physical life, as well as definitive life on the Day of Resurrection. Those who do not accept the Son do not have eternal life and may face eternal damnation. The Church should glorify and rejoice in giving glory to the Name of Jesus, and be a militant witness to his power and divinity.
The theme of the sermon that I have this morning fits very well with the theme of worship this morning, which has been to exalt Jesus at all times.
This morning I felt the Lord lift Him up and perhaps sometimes those movements, those currents of the Spirit one day God wants something to be done another day he wants something else to be done and one flows in the prophetic revelation of the Lord and sometimes it is necessary to declare things to the air, to the demons and to the angels and to humanity about Christ; there are poems that have to be declared about who He is and He wants to be exalted sometimes. Who knows how many Congregations right now in this city are doing the same? because that is the theme that He wants to be declared on this day and it is good to flow like this in the Spirit of the Lord.
This morning I felt the Lord lift Him up and perhaps sometimes those movements, those currents of the Spirit one day God wants something to be done another day he wants something else to be done and one flows in the prophetic revelation of the Lord and sometimes it is necessary to declare things to the air, to the demons and to the angels and to humanity about Christ; there are poems that have to be declared about who He is and He wants to be exalted sometimes. Who knows how many Congregations right now in this city are doing the same? because that is the theme that He wants to be declared on this day and it is good to flow like this in the Spirit of the Lord.
