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
I WILL BE POSTING HIS SERMONS
ON THIS BLOG. WATCH FOR THEM.
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.
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
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.
