 Good morning everyone and welcome to Monday and to our class we are going to be looking at the last chapter today and probably will be the last class because we've completed all our lessons. So before we begin can I ask Anita can you please lead us in prayer? Yeah ma'am. Thank you. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for bringing us all of us here. Thank you for each one of us Lord and I ask you to bless each one of us as we are learning from your word Lord. Help us to understand from your word Lord. Thank you for each one of us. In Jesus name you pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So we're going to be looking at the lesson Son of God and this is one of the titles of that's been given to Jesus Son of God, Son of Man. So we look at this and if you look at your notes you know there's just a couple of lines there just basically you know scripture references from Matthew 16 then how to live by faith from Galatians 2 20 and then couple of other references about the Son of God as the prototype for the sons and daughters of God. So before we look at those we'll just kind of you know look at a few scripture references to see who really is the Son of God and who is God himself. This is something that we've already studied in the previous chapters and it's also something that we looked at or studied in in doctrinal foundations systematic theology and we have already looked at most of these scripture references also in lessons 1 to 12. So we just kind of you know look at who is God himself and then we look at the Son of God his role and what is our response. Okay so before we begin we'll just look at three scripture passages. One is in Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 which you've already seen and read before in our classes John chapter 1 verses 1 and 4 we've already looked at it and read and studied that in detail in Christology and doctrinal foundations as well and then we look at Luke chapter 1 verses 34 and 35. So in Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 we read that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. John chapter 1 verses 1 to 4 you know because you've already read this couple of time I'm just kind of reviewing it so you know in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God was three all things were made through him without him nothing was made that was made and was four in him was life and the life was the light of men. Then we look at Luke chapter 1 verses 34 and 35 so can I ask one of you to please read Luke chapter 1 verses 34 and 35 please chapter 1 34 and 35 Luke chapter 1 verse 34 and 35 how will this be Mary ask the angel since I am a virgin the angel answer the Holy Spirit will come on you and the power of the most high will be called the Son of God. Thank you so here we see that you know Mary is being told by the angel that she's going to conceive of other part of the Holy Spirit and the one that is to be born will be called the Son of God. So we see that scripture states to us in these three scripture passages that in the beginning you know God created the heavens and the earth he created the rims heaven and earth but before the beginning you know there was God okay God existed even before the beginning God was there before the beginning and God was the cause of the beginning we've already studied this so what do the scriptures reveal about this God who was there before the beginning we'll consider a few things all of these we've already looked at and studied we know that this God who was there even before the beginning is eternal he was he is he will always be we read this in Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 27 but it mentions that he is the eternal God first Timothy chapter 1 verse 17 which says now to the king eternal immortal invisible to God who alone is vice be honored and glory forever and ever amen so this verse in first Timothy chapter 1 verse 17 talks about this king who is God who is eternal immortal and invisible and we've already read Psalm 90 verse 2 in the chapters that we've already studied previously it says before the mountains were bought forth or even or ever you had formed the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting you are God and Isaiah chapter 40 verse 28 reads this way have you not known have you not heard the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary and his understanding is unsearchable so if you look at all of these references which I've just mentioned in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 28 Psalm 90 verse 2 first Timothy chapter 1 verse 17 and Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 27 it talks about God who is eternal who is immortal invisible who is from everlasting to everlasting and he is the everlasting God whose understanding is unsearchable now all of these points that I'm being you know mentioning here is not in your notes sorry in your notes you have just a few scripture passages that have been mentioned for this lesson the Son of God which is our last chapter so you know I'm just giving you a little more extra things and this is all from you know the sermon that I've taken from Pastor Sermon on titled the Son of God okay so before we look at the few scripture passages that are there in your notes you know I'm just going to give you a brief about the Son of God the title Son of God and you know we'll just talk about who God is before we look at the the role of the Son of God what he accomplished and what is our response yes Abu Bakr I thought you had your hand up do you have a question no my realistic okay no worries so you like to take down notes you're welcome to do so because all of these things that I'm mentioning are not there but I could share the pdf copy of the sermon notes which I'm sharing now with you which is the sermon titled Son of God which was preached by Pastor Ashish so I'm just taking the notes from there okay so we see that God is eternal we also see that he is self-existent he's a God who's self-existent and all of these points as I mentioned you know we've already looked at he's self-existent he has life in himself and John chapter 5 was 26 says for as a father has life in himself so he has granted the son to have life in himself and so we know that and we studied already that you know God is does not depend on only anything for his self-sustaining so he's self-sufficient he's self-sustaining self-existent and he has life in himself he does not depend on anything for his sustains and for his life so he's self-existent we also studied and learned that he is infinite there is no measure to his attributes there is no measure to his greatness to his power to his wisdom and his understanding a few scripture verses that talk about this is in Psalm 100 104 verse 1 which says bless the Lord oh my soul oh Lord my God you are very great okay so it talks about the greatness of God you are clothed with honor and majesty that is Psalm 104 verse 1 Psalm 147 verse 5 talks about this God who's great who's mighty in power and whose understanding is infinite so God in his attributes you know is great has no limit in his understanding he's limitless his understanding is infinite the prophet Isaiah says that to whom then will you like in God or what likeness will you compare him to so no one can compare God to anything or anyone because there is none like him there is no measure of his greatness there's no measure of his power and there's no measure of his wisdom and understanding now this thing that I quoted from of prophet Isaiah is in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 18 so this God who existed even before the realms of the world and heavens were created it's a God who is infinite it's a God who is eternal and a God who is self existent he is also a God of wisdom he has all wisdom understanding and knowledge and we can see it from the way he's created the world in such uniqueness perfectness in such creativity and wisdom that it is created everything that he does he does in his wisdom we also studied that you know God is one in three persons he's a triune God the Father Son and the Holy Spirit one John chapter 5 verse 7 if you read this in the NKJV version it says for there are three that bear witness in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and these three are one so if you want to prove to anyone that you know there is one God who exists in three persons another scripture reference is one John chapter 5 verse 7 and this is I think only in the NKJV version that it says you know for there are three that bear witness in heaven the Father the Word the Word that's talking about Jesus Christ and we can you know how do we know that the Word is Jesus Christ you go back to John chapter 1 verses 1 2 4 and the beginning was the Word the Word was with God and the Word was God okay so that's talking about Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and it says and these three are one okay so we know that the Triune God they are co-equal each one of them are equal each one of them have the same substance the essence the nature that makes them God and each one fully represents the Godhead the Bible also reveals to us that this God is the God of glory his glory is seen in his very nature and who he is in his essence in his expression of who he is and what he does the glory of God is also the expression of all of his attributes which is his goodness his mercy his truth which we see his glory being manifested in a very powerful way we also know that God's glory is so precious that he will not share it with anyone else can one of you please read Isaiah chapter 42 verse 8 please Isaiah chapter 42 verse 8 can one of you please read that Isaiah chapter 42 verse 8 I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images thank you Rosalind so here we see that you know God's glory is so precious that he will not share it with anyone else we also know that each person of the Godhead that is the father the son and the holy spirit each one of them have the glory that glory that that is of God so each one of them held the glory of the Godhead we read this in the high priestly prayer of Jesus in John chapter 17 so can one of you please read John chapter 17 we've already looked at these scripture passages but to read them again John chapter 17 verses 5 and verse 24 so can one of you please read John chapter 17 verse 5 and someone else can read verse 24 John chapter 17 verses verse 5 and now O Father glorify thou me with thy own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was thank you verse 24 again please father I will I will that they also whom thou has given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou has given me for thou loved me before the foundation of the world thank you so here we see that you know in verse 5 Jesus is saying you know when he lived on the earth he he had the sonship glory he refrained from using the the glory that was of God okay and if he had the glory of God none of us could see him or even you know know him or relate with him in the personal way so we see that you know he tells the father father now glorify me with the glory I had even before the world was very important to note this okay so how do we know that Jesus was even was there even before the creation of the world even before the foundations of the world was laid this was clearly says that you know it was 5 of John chapter 17 Father glorify me together with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was so this is one of the verses that talks about Jesus being self-existent and be hence being God that he was there even before the foundations of the world and you know he is God himself and verse 24 you know it says that that he desires that we may have the sonship glory those who believe in him that have this have the sonship glory you know you and then he says that father a desire that they also whom you have you have given me may be with me where I am that they may be hold my glory which you have given me for you love me before the foundations of the world so if you notice here again the phrase of before the foundations of the world which is very very important for us to note because we know that Jesus was not just born in a certain time of course he was born in a certain time in history but his existence is even before the world was created even before the foundations of the world he was God he is God he will ever be God and so this is another verse that shows us that you know he is God and he had the glory of God himself and hence he is God and he had it even before the foundations of the world okay and hence we see that each person in the Trinity is fully God they fully represent the Godhead okay we also know that and scripture reveals to us that this God is a God of love okay we also know that there was a love that was shared among the Godhead among between the father son and holy spirit love defined the relationship that is in the Godhead because we read in John chapter 4 verse 8 this is something that we've already looked at these references references so I'm just stating them one John chapter 4 verse 8 which talks that God is love okay that is who he basically is that's a very core of his nature his substance his of who he is so one John chapter 4 verse 8 says God is love John chapter 17 verse 24 that we we basically read you know again says that you know you know father let them be where I am so that they will see my glory which you have given me and that you loved me even before the foundation of the world so we see that there was there is love between the father the son and the holy spirit how do we know that this verse in John chapter 17 was 24 which we just read now shows us that there is there was love there is love between the Godhead between the father son and holy spirit because Jesus said you love me let them let all of us who all of them who believe in me be where I am that was Jesus's prayer to his father and so that they can see his glory and they would know that you know that the father has loved the son even before the foundation of the world now this God who created the universe who is self-existent who existed even before the foundations of the world has a life in himself and that is what scripture reveals to us that John chapter 1 verse 4 we read this verse in the beginning of this class we also have seen this in detail and studied this in him was life and the life was the light of men so we what is this life here what is the Greek word for this life here we studied this what is the Greek word anyone remembers Zoe thank you it is Zoe and what does Zoe mean God kind of life yes it's the God kind of life it's the life that God has in himself the self-existent the immortal the self-sufficient the fullness of life that God has in himself is the life that he gives to all of us who believe in him so we know that God is life he is life he's a source of eternal life the source of immortal life and and this Zoe is the God kind of life he's also this God whom who created the heavens and earth who is was that even before the foundations of the earth is light he's the God of this God is light himself first Timothy chapter 6 verse 16 we look at this reference also he's someone who dwells in unapproachable light says who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light whom no man has seen or can see to him be honored and everlasting power soul his light he lives in unapproachable light okay and we also learned that this God is the great I am he he's somebody who dwells in the eternal now and he also lives outside of time he also lives outside of time and space we are limited to time and space but he lives right now in the present but he's also somebody who lives outside of time and space space and time cannot contain him time is irrelevant to him he lives outside the realm of time and space so for him you know one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day which is given to us in scripture which just you know goes to say or this is an attempt to convey to us that for god you know as time as we know it does not matter to him because he lives outside time and space okay for us time and space matters but for him it does not matter he lives outside time and space he's the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end everything begins with him everything will end with him and he is the one who ordains things that are happening in time and in history okay and we know before the beginning the I am was present he stood at the beginning and he's also at the end of time as we know it or we understand it because we know that you know things will come to an end but he is the I am who stands at the very beginning but also stands at the end of time okay the bible says in Isaiah chapter 46 was then that he declared the end from the beginning so he stood at the beginning and at the end and he declares everything that has happened from the very beginning to that which will happen till the very end okay act chapter 15 verse 18 says known to God from eternity are all of his work so we see that he is the great I am who dwells or lives outside time and space but also dwells in the eternal now everything begins with him everything ends with him and he is declared everything that has happened from the beginning of time that is happening now and that will happen at the end of time okay so we see all of these characteristics of God who is who was there even before the very beginning of time of space of the world being created and we all scripture also tells us that all of the things that you know that we see in in history that has happened that is happening now that will happen in the future was something that was already completed in the mind of God even before it began even before it started so God completed all of his works even before he started or even before it started in time and he finished everything before it even began so you know that is what we read in scripture so God completed all of his works before he started it and he finished everything before he even began if one of you can please read Hebrews chapter 4 verse 3 please Hebrews chapter 4 verse 3 Hebrews 4 3 now we who have believed enter that rest just as God has said so I declare on oath in my anger this I'll never enter my rest and yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world so here thank you superstitious so here we see in this in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 3 that all of his works even before they began in time you know it before it even started all of his works were finished from the foundations of the or even before the foundation of this of the world everything that God had planned was already completed even before he had started so what did this great I am complete even before it began to unfold in history okay any answers on that I repeat the question so what did this great I am the God who is eternal full of wisdom in finite who lives in unapproachable light the triune God whose wisdom is unsearchable who has life in himself who is the great I am what did he complete even before it unfolded in history any thoughts any ideas I think because God is eternal he has finished all the whole different foundation of the world wings in his mind the mind of Christ is completed and it is a step by step and the foundation is occurring in the world thank you John but it was not too clear your I couldn't hear you very clearly you said it all that he wanted to do he and now it's clear yeah okay yeah so I was saying in the mind of Christ it's everything which has to happen is already completed and the dispensation occurs in the world step by step so in the mind of Christ our redemption our salvation even our life in eternity is already completed in the mind of Christ that's what I was trying to say okay thank you that was clear so yeah redemption salvation which happened at a point in time in history was already completed in the mind of God yes even for the foundation's world thank you what else what else other than redemption salvation what else was completed in the mind of God okay let's look at a few points you know God decided to have a family of sons and daughters people who he could love and be loved by him so it is basically he decided to have a family of people who will be called the sons and daughters who he would love and be loved by him we read this in Ephesians chapter one verse four where it says just as he chose us in him before the foundations of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love okay so he decided to have decided and also was a completed done thing in the mind of God even before the foundation the world to have a family of people he also decided that he will be our father Ephesians chapter one verse five can one of you please read that Ephesians chapter one verse five Ephesians chapter one verses five he to be holy and he pressed predestined us to be adopted as his son through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pressure and will thank you so he is the father predestined us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his wills so here we see that God already decided that he will be our father he decided that he would create people in his own image in his own likeness people who would be free mortal moral beings sorry free moral beings who have the free will to choose and we also see that he created us in his own image and likeness however he knew that when he is giving us the free moral will to choose or he's creating us as free moral beings he knew it there would be a problem he knew that we would rebel and that we would sin against him that we would give away what he has entrusted to us he entrust what did he what did he entrust to us in when he created Adam and Eve what did he entrust to them the garden of Eden to to take care of it and to to work on that thank you yes he gave them to tend the garden and to subdue it okay to subdue it now when you when you look at this word subdue what comes to your understanding why did god use this word subdue here and this is just out of the context i mean not part of the lesson but it's good to just get the knowledge of it what's the meaning of subdue it means to rule and also to take care okay it means to rule but to rule with what like a military term like subdue means take under control of somebody who's going to rise up and you know a kind of be like an enemy or try to overtake you so subdue means keep under yeah conquer keep under you know under your power under your authority so it's like a military term but why does god use this military term subdue who does he want to subdue there was only Adam and Eve there were the animals and there was god but the animals were no way everything was perfect you know Adam and Eve could even sit beside a hungry lion or a tiger or you know and they would not eat him up because everything was perfect there was no murder there was no killing so why does god use this word subdue yes thank you paul the word is dominate good why does god say subdue when everything was perfect why do you have to keep dominate why do you have to keep under control because everything was created so perfect there was nothing you need to control over basically god knew that you know satan and his demons his forces were there on the earth and they would you know come and tempt and try to overpower Adam and Eve and hence he says you know you have to subdue you have to take control god had given them the sorry the authority to take control to dominate and hence they were you know god was telling them you know be aware take control take authority of your possession of what i have given to you because he knew that there was the enemy would come and steal it away from them okay now this is just a side thought because we were just looking at this reference coming back to what we were talking about so god knew that you know if he created us as free moral beings there would be a problem he knew that we would rebel against him we would sin against him he knew this even before the foundations of the world and he knew that you know we would give away what was entrusted to us he would he knew that adam and eve would give it away to the enemy they will give their authority their power they will be subdued by the enemy they will become his slaves and he saw that sin would finally taint the world would make everything that he created perfect would become imperfect and that he would have to recover them back and that would require the work of redemption so the question often people ask is when god knew that adam and eve you know would sin you know would and sin would destroy the world and why did he even create that tree or why did he even want it to be there so you know we see that you know god knew everything that is going to happen he saw everything even before it came into existence even if even before they were formed and even before sin came into the world god already had the plan of redemption okay in his mind and it was a completed done completed thing that he even saw jesus come the son of god come become the perfect lamb of god take the sins of the world and redeem mankind back to himself redeem the family that he created to be his sons and daughters to redeem them back to god and also to redeem this family who god said he will be their father he will love them and they will and we will be loved by him so you know when god foresaw all of these things there would have been a discussion in the godhead well this is not given in the bible this is just something that we try to understand there would have been a discussion in the godhead and the second person of the godhead who is the eternal word you know would have said that i will become the lamb to bear the sins to take away the sins of the entire world and bring back mankind to ourselves to bring them back to us to where they belong so we see that the eternal word became the lamb of god even before the foundations of the world even before the beginning now we can see this you know this is there in scripture about the discussion that happened between the father son and the holy spirit between the trinity is not there is just something that we are assuming that we are thinking but jesus being the eternal lamb of god even before the beginning of the world is given to us in scripture so can one of you please read first peter chapter one was 20 we already read this but good to read it again and revelation chapter 13 was eight so one of you can you please read first peter chapter one was 20 and someone else can please read revelation chapter 13 was eight first peter chapter one verses 20 he was chosen before the creation of the world but was revealed in this last time for your sake thank you so here we see that you know jesus christ was foreordained before the creation of the world but he has manifested himself in these last times in this time in history this point in history revelation chapter 13 was eight all who dwell on the earth will worship him whose name have not been written in the book of life of the lamb of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world thank you so please underline that in your bible the lamb that was slain even before the foundations of the world so jesus christ in the mind of god in the mind of the trinity this was a completed done act that the lamb was slain even before the foundation of the world the lamb was slain for the redemption of the sins of mankind and purchased and redeemed mankind back to god even before sin even began on the earth the sin entered the world okay and so because of the lamb of god we all have redemption through his blood freely which we receive freely by his grace and our sins are forgiven and we are accepted back into his family as sons and daughters and we are loved by god and this is mentioned to us in Ephesians chapter one verse seven we read this when we were studying about redemption in doctrinal foundations in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the richness of his grace okay but all of this was already conceived completed done thing even before the foundation of the world the lamb was slain even before the foundation of the world okay so we are looking at basically you know what are what did this great i am complete even before it began to unfold in history we saw that he decided to have a family who would who he would love and we would be loved by him he decided that he would be our father he also decided that we would be adopted as his sons and daughters and it was already decided that Jesus would become that lamb of god and the lamb of god was slain even before the foundations of the world okay the other thing is that you know which was already a completed thing or in the mind of god something that the great great i am completed even before it began to be unfolded in time in history was that we would be adopted as sons and daughters so the godhead the father son and the holy spirit saw through time and they saw that you know some will accept this lamb of god who is the word the eternal word that is Jesus christ and some will reject the lamb of god who is Jesus christ and the godhead already fore knew or they already saw beforehand the choices each one of us will make the choices each person will make and they decided that those who make a choice of believing in the lamb of god who is eternal word who is Jesus christ that you know they would be made back as sons and daughters and not just be made as sons and daughters and be back in the family of god and be loved by him but they would be transformed into the very image of the son of god so each one of us who made the choice it's not something that you know something that god fore saw the godhead already fore saw and fore knew that we would be making that choice that each one of us will choose the lamb of god and they already knew beforehand you know who will make the choices and they already knew who will be their sons and daughters and who will be transformed into the very image of the of the son of god who is Jesus Christ so god decided beforehand before the foundation of the world that those who choose him choose his son choose the lamb of god the eternal word will be conformed to the image of his son and this is something that he already predestined okay we read this in roman chapter eight versus 29 to 30 can one of you read that again but please roman chapter eight versus 29 to 30 roman say 29 for whom he fore knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren moreover whom he predestined he also called whom he called these he also justified and whom he justified these he also glorified thank you so here we see that you know he predestined that means even before the foundation of the world god predestined those who would be conformed to the image of his son that is those who accept the lamb of god who believe in him those who believe in their heart and confess with them out that Jesus christ is lord will be conformed to the image of his son there will be his sons and daughters now this whole topic of predestination which is a big theological debate a controversy a study about predestination you know is something that you know many theologians argue many say that you know god is partial he predestined some for heaven some for hell some to be his sons and daughters some to be you know a bit be thrown into hell so what do you understand by this word predestined he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son if somebody comes and argues with you and says you know it says here in scripture he predestined comes some to be conformed to the image of his son he predestined those he has also called those he's called he's justified those he's justified he's glorified so what do you understand about predestination has god chosen some for eternity some for hell we discussed about this we spoke about it any thoughts think it means the future which is already decided okay thank you paul what do you understand by predestination did god conform some to be his children and some to you know be his enemies to be against him so whenever we try to understand god and understand his ways we always need to go back to his what are the two things that we need to look at to understand god and his ways his word his word and his nature thank you his word and his nature so we go back to his nature so it's the god who we serve or the god who created us the god of the universe is he a partial god is he a partial god no you know if you look at scripture verses is it it says that i think in one is in roman chapter five i think roman chapter five was 11 i think not sure but you know it says that you know the god is our god is not a partial god okay i'll just give you the reference it okay it's time up okay we'll take a break and we'll come back because it's 950 and then we'll discuss about predestination about god's nature about him being whether he's partial or not he's not partial but we look at it in scripture okay okay we'll take a break and come back thank you