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GOD BECAME MAN Sermon by Wm. Henry Cash (1927 – 2012) - June Estelle Cash \LILACLADY JUNEBUG2

 


First Baptist Church
Crescent OR  1955

Henry preached this sermon 

the first time October 25, 1955.  



GOD BECAME MAN   John 1. 14 – 15



 GOD BECAME MAN

  Sermon by Wm. Henry Cash (1927 – 2012)

in the Morning Service 

  October 23, 1955

   First Baptist Church, Crescent, OR


      

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JOHN 1. 14 – 15 

14,  and the Word was made flesh,

and dwelt among us,

 (and we beheld his glory, the glory

 as of the only begotten of the Father,) 

full of grace and truth.

15. John bare witness of him 

and cried, saying, 

This was he of whom I spake,

 He that cometh after me

 is preferred before me:

for he was before me.

  The incarnation does not mean 

that God dwelt in man,

 but that GOD BECAME MAN. 

  He became 

what he was not 

previously,

 though he never ceased to be 

what he was before.

 

 THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD BECAME MAN.

 He became man 

     so that He could:   

I.           REVEAL HIS ULTIMATE

ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

IN BECOMING FLESH. V. 14a.

He came for it was possible 

for Him to die (pay our penalty)

                 Hebrews 9.12 -14 

                  9.12   Neither by the blood of goats

                    and calves, but by his own blood

                    he entered in once into the holy

                      place, having obtained eternal

                       redemption for us.

                  9.13   For if the blood of bulls

                    and of goats, and the ashes

                     of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,

             sanctifieth to the 

            purifying of the flesh:

        9.14    How much 

          more shall the

              blood of Christ, 

       who through the

                  eternal Spirit offered himself

                    without spot to God, purge your

             conscience from 

        dead works to

               serve the living God?

John 12.24 

Verily, verily, I say unto you,

 Except a corn of wheat fall

 into the ground and die, it abideth

 alone: but if it die,

 it bringeth forth much fruit.

b.   He came so that now 

he could be touched 

with the feelings 

of our infirmities.  

            Hebrews 4.15,16

     For we have not

 an high priest

            which cannot be touched   

with the feeling

 of our infirmities,

but was in all points      

  tempted

 like as we are, 

    yet without sin  

 Let us therefore 

come boldly

unto

        the throne of grace, 

       that we

        may obtain mercy, 

and find grace 

       to help in time of need.

      c.   He has left us an example 

  to follow in His steps.  

     John 13. 14 – 16

If I then, your Lord and Master,

 have washed your feet, 

ye also ought to wash

 one another’s feet.

For I have given 

you an example, 

that ye should do

 as I have done to you.

 Verily, verily, I say unto you,

 The servant is not greater 

than his lord;

  neither he that is sent

 greater  than he

   that sent him.

II.          HE CAME TO DWELL 
 TABERNACLED – AMONG US.  Verse 14b. 

“ and dwelt among us,

(and we beheld his 

glory, the glory as of

 the only begotten 

of the Father,)”

A.    The tabernacle was

 a TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT 

(contrast Solomon’s temple 

which was permanent)  It was a tent

which had to be put up and taken 

down in the people’s travels.

 It went everywhere with them. 

It was for use in the Wilderness.   

Jesus came and tabernacled 

“temporarily” among us.

The two Tabernacles

of Christ’s two comings. 

The first time as a servant, 

and the second as the King

 

   C,  Outwardly the tabernacl

 was humble and unattractive

 in appearance

 (contrast with the glories

 revealed in the Temple)    

      Isaiah 53.2  

  He is despised and rejected

of men; a man of sorrows,

 and acquainted with grief

 and we hid

as it were our faces

 from him; 

he was despised, 

and we

   esteemed him not.

(His Prophetic  fulfillment 

in contrast to His Kingly

      Office.)


The Tabernacle was 

God’s Dwelling Place. 

 Therefore, the Tabernacle

 was the place where God met Man.    

John 14.6

I am the way, the truth

and the life,

No man cometh unto the Father,

but by me


   The Tabernacle was the place 

where the

Sacrifices were made.  

  They all pointed to  the Coming Messiah 

who would fulfill Them by His One Sacrifice.

    He is the Source and the Bread of Life.

   John 6. 48 – 51.

   6.48  I am that bread of life.

 49.  Your fathers did eat manna

 in the wilderness, and are dead. 

50. This is the bread

 which cometh 

down from heaven: 

that a man 

may eat thereof, and not die. 51.

 I am the living bread 

which came down from heaven: 

if any man eat of this bread,

 he shall live for ever: 

and the bread which 

I will give

 is my flesh, which I give 

for the life of the world.

  GOD BECAME MAN TO REVEAL 

HIS SUPERIOR GLORY

 AND EXCELLENCY. 

   His Essential glory – 

His all powerfulness

 and divine perfection:

  His glory revealed at his birth. 

Luke 2.8, 9 

 And there were in

 the same country

shepherds abiding in the field, 

watching their flock by night.

 9.  And, lo, the angel of the Lord 

came upon them, and the glory 

of the Lord shone round 

about them: 

and they were sore afraid.

His glory revealed in His baptism. 

Matthew 3.16,17.

And Jesus, when he was baptized, 

went up straightway out

 of the water: and, lo,

the heavens were opened unto him, 

and he saw the Spirit of God 

descend like a dove, 

and lighting upon him, and lo,

 a voice from heaven saying, 

This is my beloved Son

 in whom I am well pleased.

 

   His Glory revealed in his Ascension.

Acts. 1. 9   And when he had

 spoken these things, 

while they beheld: 

he was taken up; and a cloud 

received him out of sight. 

BECAUSE HE BECAME MAN,

HIS MORAL GLORY WE RECEUVE

John 1. 16,17

And of his fulness 

have we received, 

and grace for grace,

For the law

was given by Moses,

But grace and truth 

by Jesus Christ.

. b His OFFICIAL GLORY 

as Priest and King 

makes us children of the King.

    II Peter 1. 16  

Because it is written, 

Be ye holy; for I am holy.

D.   His ACQUIRED GLORY   -  His reward. 

Phillipians 2.9 – 11.

Wherefore God hath also highly 

exalted him, and given him

 a name which is above every name, 

that at the name of Jesus 

every knee should bow, 

of things in heaven,

 of things in earth, 

and things under the earth

 and that every tongue should confess 

that Jesus Christ is Lord 

to the glory of God the Father.

E.   John the Baptist 

bore record of His supreme glory 

 He is preferred before me. 

John 1.15.  John bare witness

 of him and cried, saying,

This was he of whom I spake,

 He that cometh after me 

is preferred before me: 

for he was before me.

To Conclude, I ask, 

What have you done

with the Son of God? 

You cannot know

 of His Eternal Glory 

unless you have been Born again.   

Christians –

 we need to be living examples

 and reveal

 the Son of God to others.  

I John 1. 12 

As many as received Him, to them

gave he the power

to become

the sons of God, 

even to them

that believe on His name.


Romans 10.9 - 11

That if thou shalt confess

 with thy mouth

The Lord Jesus, 

and shalt believe

in thine heart 

that God hath raised

Him from the dead,

thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart

man believeth unto righteousness

and with the 

mouth 

confession 

is made unto salvation.

For whosoever shall call 

upon the name of the 

Lord shall not be ashamed.

Romans 10. 9 - 11

Romans 10.13

For whosoever shall call

upon the name of the Lord

shall be saved. 

ii Cor 5.21  

For he hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin, 
that we might be made
the righteousness
of God in him.   
Henry looking at the church 

      He Pastored this church from 1954 to 1962  
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Baptizing was only done by him 

for those who already had asked Jesus 

to be their Savior, and were Born again, 

and now wanted to follow 

the Lord in baptism, to acknowlege the Death, 

Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

as a picture of what happens

in our hearts

 when we become saved, 

as well as to Identify

 with a local Baptust church 

to begin living for God. 

                   Galatians 2.20 

I am crucified with Christ, 

nevertheless I live, 

yet not I, 

but Christ liveth in me,

and the life

which I now live,

I live by the faith

of the Son of God,

who loved me and

gave himself for me.