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is the part that is most directly
aimed right at you and me. I love the whole Bible. All Scripture
is profitable. The Doctrine of Proof, Correction,
Instruction, and Righteousness. But the Pauline epistles are
right for mine and your time right now. We need to study them
and we need to know them well. Alright, Colossians 2 verse 13,
And you, being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath He quickened, together with Him, having forgiven you
all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out
of the way, nailing it to His cross." Isn't that a blessing?
You get reading that Old Testament, you start trying to live up to
all those rules and that law. No wonder the Bible says the
law was a schoolmaster in bringing us unto Christ. Nobody can know
principalities and powers. He made a show of them openly,
triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new
moon, or of the Sabbath days." All those Old Testament details
that you had to keep. Verse 17, notice this closely,
which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. If I understand that verse correctly,
the idea is that the real thing, the actual person standing there
is one thing and the shadow that it casts is something else. Perhaps you've been in a place
where the sun was shining brightly and somebody was around the corner
and you couldn't see the person yet, but you saw their shadow
coming and you knew somebody was coming before you actually
saw the body. So I want to preach this morning
on this, the body is of Christ. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank
you for this chance to read and study your word and I pray your
spirit will bear witness to the truth of it and help us understand
some things that will reveal our Lord Jesus Christ to us even
better. He is the anti-type. And there
is no greater anti-type than the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the
main one this whole Bible talks about. It's true that we don't
have the full revelation of Him until we get in the Gospels.
But even then, there's something missing that we pick up more
of through the Pauline epistles and pick up even more of in the
book of Revelation. Now by the time you get Revelation,
you've got the Lord Jesus Christ front and center on the stage. He is the main subject of everything
going on there. If there was a problem, he took
responsibility for it and handled it. One thing that Pauline epistles
teach is that a marriage, a husband and a wife, is a picture of Christ
in the church. Amen. Do we here at Victory Baptist,
that's a good thing to remember. But the great anti-type is the
Lord Jesus Christ. If the husband is a type of Christ,
then goodnight, that scares us to death. You know who he's a
type of? He's a type of the Lord Jesus.
None of us can live up to that, but that's the role that we play.
Now, Paul's talking about the Jewish laws here, as we mentioned,
and he's concerning food and drink and observance of days,
and he says this. He says, they're a shadow of
things to come. In your Bible, the type is usually
a type of something in the future. It's not usually looking back.
In literature, we talk about something that is a for, shadow
of something that's going to come later. And those Old Testament
types, as rich as they are, and thank God for these Bible stories
and these children, Sarah and Isaac, and Daniel in the lion's
den, and the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, and they
can tell you those stories, but they still haven't received Jesus
Christ. They can tell you all those stories,
but even if they did get saved, they still haven't made Him Lord
of their lives. I want you to look at these types and I want
to contemplate them to see what a great, great person Jesus Christ
is. But at some point, you need to
make a personal application and receive Him as your Savior. And
even after you've done that, you need to make Him Lord of
your life and say, Lord, I've decided to follow you with my
life. Thank God for my fire insurance. Thank God for washing my sins
away. Thank God for saving me from hell. Thank God for giving
me eternity in heaven. Those are all wonderful things.
But I love you and appreciate you so much I'm going to live
for you even after I'm saved, not just get saved and let that
be you. The doctrine of Christ, you'll have to admit in the Bible,
is staggering. He is the creator of the universe.
He is the lawgiver. And he is also the one that holds
everything together, and then the one that will be crowned
by his father, wonderful day, and will rule and reign forever
and ever. You tell me a greater doctrine
than that. How in the world can your mind even wrap around that?
The vast majority of the Old Testament types point to the
Lord Jesus Christ, either His person or His work or His gospel
or His church or His ordinances or the benefits of it. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the anti-type. The Bible was called by a new
convert out on the mission field one time, the Jesus book. And
I've got to admit, there's a lot of truth to that. It's off the
Lord for a while. We get to Adam. You know what
Jesus is called? He's called the second Adam.
What was the first Adam? Well, he came directly from God,
didn't he? You know what Jesus did? He came
directly from God. God sent His Son, praise the
Lord. Adam was built in the image and
made in the image of God, wasn't he? You know what Jesus is? He is the image of God. When you trust the Lord Jesus
Christ as your Savior, you are trusting the one who is the image
of God. He is not the image of sinful
man. Jesus was different, like Adam. When Adam was created,
he was given dominion over the earth and all the animals. You
know what Jesus has? Absolute dominion. When it came
time, because the Lord saw that Adam was alone and did not have
a help meet for him. You know what the Lord did? He
cut him in close. And I many times refer to him
and I say, Noah, my rest, my peace. How are you today? Noah, will you help me with this?
Noah, my rest, my peace. And sure enough, Noah in the
Bible, his name means rest. He lived in a wicked generation. and yet lived a comparatively
holy life. He was a preacher of righteousness. And you know what he had? He
had salvation from judgment that was coming through. You know
what the Lord Jesus Christ does? He offers you peace or rest. He's called the Prince of Peace.
He says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you Rest. You know where Jesus Christ is? Right in the middle of a wicked
generation. He still lived a holy life. As wonderful as it is, look at
that interesting, mysterious character named Melchizedek. That strange guy that shows up
and Abraham, as great as Abraham was, Father Abraham, the picture
of faith for us in the New Testament, and the father of the Jews in
the Old Testament, Abraham, as soon as he saw Melchizedek, humbled
himself and paid tithes to Melchizedek. Who in the world is so great
that Father Abraham gave him his tithes? Amen. And yet, he
has a mysterious lineage. We don't know where he came from.
We don't know what nationality he was. We don't know what his
descent was. We don't know who his mom and
daddy was. He just shows up and Abraham hits his knees. He was
a king and a priest. You know what the Lord Jesus
Christ is? He is a priest forever. Not after that order of Aaron,
like the Old Testament priests, but after the order of Melchizedek. What an interesting, interesting
character. And then how about Isaac? We
got a guy in here named Isaac, don't we, praise the Lord. Isaac,
the son of faithful Abraham. Mighty father. His very name means laughter. You know what I like to do? I
like to be around somebody that is happy and has joy and is often
laughing. Isn't that a blessing? It is.
He had a predicted birth. A couple people beat me to it.
Moses, over a hundred years old, I think 120, leading the children
of Israel through the wilderness, right up to the promised land,
on a mountain with God, and God showing him that promised land
that they were coming into. And it says, his eye was not
dimmed, nor his natural force evaded. That's pretty good at
120 years old. Here's Caleb, he's getting up
in his 80s, if I remember the story correctly, and the one
that we sing that song, I want that mountain, I want that mountain,
and you know what Caleb's word of testimony was? I am strong
now to go out and come in as I was before. You get serving
God and don't you worry about your glory days being behind
you. God Almighty will keep you serving
Him all the way to the end and give you the strength to do it.
I was bragging on some of the men at Victory Baptist Church
back there in the Sunday school rooms. We got people that are
great grandfather in here and still serving God. We got people
in their 70s and 80s and still serving God. This is God Almighty's
birth of his son Isaac and it was his only son. Legitimately
and correctly. But sure enough, in that story
that is so hard for us to understand, the Lord said, take thy son,
thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and offer him unto me. And Abraham was so true to the
Lord that he passed that test. And the Lord stopped him before
he could. Now that does remind me to say,
you know what the Lord will test you in? He'll test you in that
thing that you love. Your money. Whose is it? If you're
here today and you're saved, I hope the first thought that
came in your mind is God's. Let me tell you what happens
a lot of times, especially when people start hitting middle age
or so. They start thinking, you know what? I've sacrificed. I
wish to God they could trade place with some people in Victory
Baptist Church today. Amen. They can't stay off the
dope and the drugs and the drink. They can't stay out of therapy.
You trying to live for the Lord Jesus and you've been rejected
by some people in your family or in your close circle of friends.
Your heart was broken and you feel rejected and you're disappointed.
Oh, let me tell you who you can look to for comfort. Jesus Christ
that went through all of that. Joseph was a great type of Christ
in that he was rejected by his brethren. He was sold by his
brethren. He was falsely accused. You know what he did? He just
kept serving and moved right up. When he was sold by his brethren
in Potiphar's house, you know what he did? He was the best
servant Potiphar ever had. Then when he was falsely accused
by Potiphar's wife and ended up incarcerated, you know what
he was? With two others. You remember
the butler and the baker? And Jesus was condemned with
two others. You remember a thief on either
side of him there on the cross? Then Joseph was highly exalted. And he fed people in a famine. And he forgave his brethren.
You know what the Lord Jesus did even on the cross? but to save His people from their
sins. Moses was the lawgiver like Jesus
is. What's the problem? We ought to hang
our heads and we ought to humbly submit ourselves to the Lord.
You under a boss that doesn't exactly treat you fairly? I understand
that. You know why you ought to be
able to submit to that? Talk about, you know, abuse and stuff
that's going too far. Use some common sense here, folks.
That just an imperfect authority, you know why you ought to be
able to take that? Because Jesus Christ came all the way down
from heaven and got under some ungodly authority and he was
able to do it. You can, too. Again, I'm not
talking about criminal activity or anything like that. I'm talking
about, you know, just an imperfect person. Every one of you, as
you got older, As good as your parents were and as much as they
loved you, you started to see they're not exactly perfect authorities.
There's not a husband in here, as much as the Bible teaches,
the man's the head of the house, there's not a husband in here
that's a perfect authority. Whatever the authority we're
talking about, Jesus Christ went even further. And he was able
to do it. And furthermore, if you're saying
you're just gonna only submit to the rightful authority, Then
how come you're not submitting to Jesus Christ? Because you
can't find one problem with Him. Let's just be honest, folks.
We're all sinners. Amen. We have an authority problem. You know what Moses was? The meekest
man in the world. And yet, the children of Israel
kept rebelling against him. You can't say it was because
Moses was too mean. He was a real monster and heavy-handed.
No, he was the meekest man there was. Now, don't misunderstand. You need to be a good, meek person
if you're in a position of leadership. You really do. But it's also
true that we have rebellious hearts, and the meekest man on
the earth we still wouldn't submit to the way we should. And the
meekest one of all is Jesus Christ, and we're not exactly 100% submitted
to him, are we? Amen. I say 100%. We're probably
not 80% submitted to him. Probably do what we want with
our money and our flesh and our time, don't we? Moses. Then there's Joshua. His name
means Savior. He succeeded Moses, the lawgiver. He did that miracle at the Jordan
River. He got possession of the promised
land and gave out the dwellings to all the children of Israel.
He'd come out of those things and whooped those Philistines
up in fears. And then Samson slew more in
his death than he did in his life. You know when the Lord
Jesus won the greatest victory? At his death. That was when,
buddy, the blood shed and the sins were washed away and eternal
life was given. And all our victories come to
the cross of Calvary. Bible says about the Lord Jesus,
the gates of hell shall not prevail against him. One time they thought
they had Samson locked in and you know what he did? He just
picked up gate and bar and all and took them out of there. Gates
couldn't prevail against big strong Samson and they sure can't
prevail against Jesus. Even the gates of hell. Then
we have David. Oh, what a great character is
David. Imperfect. Now I can list his sins. I'll
guarantee you, I can tell you some better family in the heart
of God like His Son Jesus Christ. David was anointed to be king
and who in the world is anointed? The very name Christ means anointed
one. The word Messiah means anointed
one. David was king, one of the great
kings. But who is the king of kings?
The Lord Jesus Christ. David was envied. Who in the
world has been more envied than the Lord Jesus? It says, for
envy they delivered him. That's true, when he was killed.
And David had traitors. Absalom. You know what the Lord
Jesus Christ had? Judas. Oh, Christian, I don't
care to talk about this. I wish I could skip it. But I
believe the Lord had me say it. When you decide to live for the
Lord, you know what's going to happen? Somebody's going to be
a traitor to you. Somebody that you love and somebody
that you put a lot of confidence in and somebody that you trusted
in and somebody that you've been a great blessing to will do you
wrong. In the heart of the earth, Jonah
was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. Type
after type after type in the Bible. Christ is the body represented
by the personal types. Christ is the body represented
by the things and the events. You remember the story of Jacob's
ladder? Who in the world is that but Jesus? He was placed on earth,
but he reached to heaven and the angels surrounding him. There
were angels all over the life of Jesus Christ. They announced
his birth. They strengthened him in times
of weakness. They were all around after his
death and resurrection. Angels were all over him. And
there were angels all around Jacob's ladder reaching up to
heaven. Jesus is the anti-type of the Passover lamb. You know what Jesus was? He was smitten. God smote him. And you know what
came out? Blood and water. It pleased the
Lord to bruise him. Why? Because of the blessing
that came out for everybody from it. And he was gushing the water
of life. All right, then we have the manna
from heaven. It was also from God. It was also free. Those of you who are here and
you're saved today, how much did it cost you to get saved?
How much money did you pay in order to get saved? It's free. Isn't that something that the
most precious substance in the whole universe, the lifeblood
of God's own son is offered to you free. The manna from heaven in that
whiteness was free. It was not outwardly cuddly.
Nobody looked at it and said, oh man, that looks like a meal
from a five-star restaurant. It was just something white down
on the ground. Probably got a little dirt on it. It was on the ground. Is that where you usually get
your food? When you go out today, you get a little priest who put
his hand on the head of that goat before the thing was offered. You know what happened to the
Lord as he was dying there on the cross? our sins were put
on them. That's true. He that knew no
sin became sin for us. There was the real torment to
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now granted, I'm not saying that
the physical torment wasn't bad. It was horrible, I'm sure. But
far more important to His eternal holiness was the fact that he
who knew no sin became sin for us. What did they have to do? They
had to lift him up so everybody could see him. Christ did fulfill
the law. The manna, there's some of it
in the Ark of the Covenant. I've got to admit, probably not
going to happen, but wouldn't it be the neatest thing if they
found that Ark of the Covenant? And they opened that thing up
and there was some of that manna, all these millennia later, and
there was the tablets given to Moses. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
That would be the neatest thing. One of these days we're going
to see that thing. It's up in heaven, or at least the anti-type
of the worldly one is. It had Aaron's rod that budded
to show, hey, that's the priest I want you to go through. Then
I think of the anti-type of the city of refuge. If you accidentally
killed somebody, and you didn't mean to, it was a completely
accidental death, and here come their brother coming to kill
you for killing his brother, you could run to a city of refuge,
and you could be safe. You know what I did one day?
I ran to the city of refuge. I got scared. I was going to
hell. Oh boy. How it was lowly, just like God's
church is lowly. I get thinking about it out in
the desert. It doesn't have much sustenance.
What we are, we're a church in the middle of a wicked world.
And we're not encouraged to live godly, are we? We're not encouraged
to follow this scripture. We're encouraged to do the cool
thing, the fun thing, the thing that'll make you rich. The things
that'll get you attention and make you feel good about yourself.
But the Bible says, humble yourself and he shall lift you higher.
Burning bush in the desert, suffering. A bush in a desert, it's not
exactly thriving. But it was from that bush that
when the suffering came and the fire was on that poor little
bush, it still stayed. It was so obvious that Moses,
who probably had tunnel vision and was busy thinking about things,
the type of the church, the priesthood of the believer, you know what
those priests were? They were separated. It wasn't just everybody
was a priest. They had to wash. It wears me
out to read how much washing those poor priests had to do.
They had to put on linen clothes so they couldn't even sweat once
they get in there is what I'm told. But you know what those
priests could do? They could go to God for you.
You know what we can do in the New Testament? We can go straight
to God. We don't have to go find a priest
and confess our sins. My goodness. Like some of the
false religions teach. We go straight to God. We don't
go through Mary. We don't go through John the
Baptist. We don't go through our preacher. We don't go through
anybody else. You, if you're saying, and I hope that you are,
you go straight to God. And if you want to get saved,
I can't save you. A priest somewhere can't save
you. You go straight to God and say, as Peter did, Lord, save
me. You find it would be a better
prayer than that. Then the tabernacle and later
the temple. I hope I'm not sounding disrespectful here. You know
what? There's a lot of New Testament
instructions about church and how you're supposed to behave
in here. This stuff is important to God. How about the Jewish
nation? Chosen because of his friend
Abraham. And they're supposed to be a
holy people and a peculiar people and had the special love of God.
But after all these types of the people and the items and
the institutions, all the types and metaphors are only feeble
representations of our Lord. They were sinful. He is sinless. They were created. He is the
creator. They were temporal. He is eternal. They were incomplete. He is the
fullness of the Godhead. They were weak. He is almighty. They were earthy. He is heavenly. That reminds me to say this.
Many times I have wondered, why is it that some people with the
same family, in the same church background, raised in the same
way, and remember how to spit it all back to me out of rote
memorization from hearing it a hundred times, but I want to
ask you, did you ever get to Jesus through this book? That
is the part that we can't do for you. The greatest preacher
you ever heard can't make you trust Jesus. The greatest Sunday
school teacher you ever heard can't make you trust Jesus. The greatest mom and daddy and
the greatest Christian can't make you trust Jesus. At some
point, you're going to have to see you're lost and you're sinking,
and I don't care how much Bible you know, you're going to have
to say, Lord, save me. Have you done that? Amen. You
think about those two thieves on either side of Jesus Christ
on that cross? They were both just as wicked
as they could be and fully deserved to die by their own admission.
I'm not arguing it anymore. Jesus is ruler of my life. I'm
not. Whatever it is he's dealing with,
if he's trying to get you to drop a bad habit or pick up a
good habit or be more generous or be a better witness or a better
testimony or clean up some dirty stuff in your life, whatever
it is, are you going to submit to him? I know. You're not. You're
going to mess up. But I want to know, number one, have you
trusted Him as your Savior? And number two, have you decided
you're going to submit to Him? Because all these types, as wonderful
as they are, and as they bless my heart to lift up the Lord
Jesus and remember the great characteristics of Him as we
study Him, it won't matter if I haven't trusted Him as my Savior
and I don't have a personal relationship that made Him Lord in my life.
And I'll add a third. Have you made Him your best friend?
And you go to Him as soon as something goes wrong in your
life. For you call your mama, for you call your brother, for
you call your sister.
The Body is of Christ
| Sermon ID | 730251227267564 |
| Duration | 27:18 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Colossians 2:13-17 |
| Language | English |
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