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Priestly King and Propitiation SERMON DATE:​ December 22, 2019 Priestly King and Propitiation SERMON DATE:​ December 22, 2019 SERMON BY:​ Jason Palmer and Mike Little INTRODUCTION: Over the last couple of months we have been studying the book of Hosea. We have been slowly walking, verse by verse, into the depths that the book has to offer, and what we have seen so far is that Israel has consistently rejected God and pursued other gods instead. Their problems stemmed from the fact that Israel had very poor leadership. The priests were bad, the kings were bad, the government leaders were bad and together they were leading the people away from God and down a path of perpetual sin. The consequence of it all was that the whole nation suffered, for sin was everywhere, and they were going to be punished for it by the Holy God that they forgot. So, it was due to the lack of Godly leadership that led to Israel’s demise. Ever since, Israel has been eagerly waiting for their Messiah, the Anointed One, the One Who would come and save the day. He would be their king. He would be their priest and for years they have waited. Even today, most of Israel still waits. For us as believers, we know that He has already come and that He will come again one day in the future. We know Him to be Jesus and it is because of Him that we celebrate Christmas. Christmas is us celebrating His first coming. And so, as we look at today’s scripture, we hope that you can see Jesus and that with Him: 1) We are provided with the Great Priestly King, the One Who surpasses all other priests and kings of history, including the ones in Hosea’s time. 2) We are provided with the propitiation for our sins. The One Who is fully capable of satisfying the full wrath of God on our behalf. TEXT: Different Passages from Bible. PRAYER: EXPOSITION 1: CHRISTMAS BRINGS US THE GREAT PRIESTLY KING:​ Jason Palmer The problems in poor leadership that we find in Hosea start further back in time. I mean way back in time. Hosea’s problems in leadership can be found all the way back in the garden of Eden. It was there in the garden where God placed man, Adam, and woman, Eve, for them to be His people and He to be their God. Together they were to worship God in His creation. It was here where we find Satan disguised as a serpent coming into a garden that was declared “good” and tempting Adam and Eve into mankind’s first sin. How did he do it? Well, first the serpent tempted Eve to sin through the twisting of God’s words. Then she went and convinced Adam to sin. So, together they both 1 sinned and transgressed God’s covenant. There is a lot that we can talk about here, but the two major points I want to draw out here are this. 1) Adam’s irresponsible leadership helped lead to the fall. For example, why did Adam let Eve listen to a creature when God gave mankind dominion over the animals, not the other way around? Also, after Eve was tempted by the serpent, why did Adam choose to listen to her and not obey the word’s of God spoken to him by God Himself? 2) With the fall of man, God in His gracious, loving manner promised an offspring that would save mankind and undo all that sin caused. God promised mankind a Savior and according to Genesis 3:15, this savior will crush the head of the Serpent in Genesis 3:15. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” This Promised Savior, that God revealed to mankind, would save the day by being the second, better Adam and by being the better husband and the better spiritual leader that Adam was not. He would be the Spiritual leader who would faithfully lead His bride to safety. From Genesis 3, and throughout the rest of scripture, God would reveal to His prophets, and us, glimpses about the identity of this Savior. So, let’s take a look at some of the prophetic passages and see this Promised Savior throughout Scripture. Who He is and what He will do. In Genesis 12:3,God told Abraham that through His blood line, God would bring about His Promised Savior and how this One would bless all peoples on earth. "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you" (Genesis 12:3). In Genesis 49:10, God told Moses that this Promised Savior would come through the tribe of Judah. "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his" (Genesis 49:10). In I Samuel 7:12-16, God speaks through Nathan to David that this Promised Savior would come through his blood line, that is the line of David who comes from the tribe of Judah. Therefore, this Promised Savior would be a royal Savior. He will be a king Who is better than king David. 12 When​ your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. ​13 He​ shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ​14 I​ will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with 2 the stripes of the sons of men, ​15 but​ my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ​16 And​ your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ” So far, from what we have just read, we can see how the Promised Savior of Genesis 3:15 is going to come from the tribe of Judah to be an eternal King, and bless all the nations. This would have been particularly important to the Israelites because after David, who had his own failures, Israel never had much luck in regards to having good kings lead them. Think about our time in Hosea so far. Again, how good have the kings been from Hosea’s perspective? Not good at all. Again, this has been a common problem for Israel, and so, they have been waiting and even today many are still waiting for the promised, eternal, righteous King Who has been foretold in the scriptures. Now let’s go to Psalm 110, and see what else we can learn about this Promised Savior, Righteous King, from a Psalm that was actually written by one of Israel’s better kings, King David Himself. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” ​2 The​ Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! ​3 Your​ people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. ​4 The​ Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” ​5 The​ Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. ​6 He​ will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. ​7 He​ will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head. In Psalm 110, it is pretty apparent that David is writing about the coming Messiah, the Promised Savior. We know this by how many times that the New Testament writers referenced this Psalm. Jesus Himself interpreted it this way (Mt 22:42–45) and so too, the apostles (Ac 2:34; 1 Co 15:25; Heb 1:13). So for us today, there is really no other way to interpret this Psalm. As one commentator put it. “The Psalm celebrates the exaltation of Christ to the throne of an eternal and increasing kingdom, and a perpetual priesthood (Zec 6:13), involving the subjugation of His enemies and the multiplication of His subjects, and rendered infallibly certain by the word and oath of Almighty God.”1 Did you hear that, the Messiah, the Promised One, will not only be a King but He will also be a Priest, something that Zechariah 6:13 references as well. Israel is not awaiting for just any King, but 1 ​ Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997).​ C​ ommentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 1, p. 380). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research ​ Systems, Inc. 3 a Priestly King. This is no shocker for us because we learned all about how Jesus is the Great High Priest from the Book of Hebrews. In Hebrews chapter 7 we learned about Melchizedek whom David referenced here in this Psalm. Melchizedek is a mysterious priest found in Genesis 14. It is there that we read about him coming out to meet Abram. When we studied Hebrews 7, we learned that for One​​ , Melchizedek was not like any other king of his time.
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