Chief

"CHIEF"

PASTOR TIMOTHY PORTER

The Bridge Church Upstate

TEXT: PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11

INTRODUCTION:

Names!

We all have them.

They are important to our knowing one another and to others knowing us.

Most of our names are unimportant, that is, we could have any other name on earth and still be the same person we already are.

Our text tells us that there is a name that is above every name.

It is a name that prompts the people of Heaven to shout and the people of Hell to shutter.

A name that brings help to the helpless, peace to the tormented,rest to the restless, hope to the hopeless and comfort to the comfortless.

This name has cooled the fevered head; broken the chains of sin; delivered the captive and thrilled the saint.

The one who bears this name has been called everything from Adam to Wonderful. The name I am referring to is the name Jesus!

I want to explore the glory of that name. I have choosen a title of CHIEF for this message.

As I preach on this name today, I want you search your heart and if you do not know the Person Who wears that Name, you can meet Him today.

If you know Him, but aren't as close to Him as you should be, you can get that fixed up today as well.

And, if you love Him already, you will have even more reasons to shout and take on this morning.

when I think of this name I am reminded of how glorious and Chief it is.

I. The Reality (v. 9)

His glory is given to Him by divine decree. The word “Exalted” means, “To be raised to the highest heights.”

The exaltation did not concern Christ’s nature or eternal place within the Trinity, but His new identity as the God-Man Rom. 1:4; 14:9.

In addition to receiving back His glory Christ’s new status as the God-Man meant God gave Him privileges He did not have prior to the Incarnation.

If He had not lived among men, He could not have identified with them as the interceding high priest. Had He not died on the Cross, He could not have been elevated from that lowest degree back to heaven as the substitute for sin.

All over the world, with every tick of the clock, people, use in vain, curse and despise the name of Jesus, but it is this name that brings forgiveness of sin, Luke 24:47; and that gives us access into the Father's presence, John 16:23-24.

> "Beloved, If you can't understand then you should really take a hard look at walk with Christ and how you believe. If you find yourself in a place where you can't forgive, you should really start with frogiving yourself!"

> You see, when we make much of the Jesus, we are merely doing what God has already done. That's the reality!

God has decided that the name of Jesus should be lifted up to the heights of Heaven.

Beloved: Don't ridicule the people who loves to worship and praise the Lord.

They are merely doing the Father's business. However there is spirit filled worship and there is man ordaineded worship.

i) Man Made worship is a worship where we move and speak to be noticed by others.

[ The childern of Isreal while Moses was up on Mt. Sinai recieving the 10 commandments was making a golden calf to worship b/c God was taking to long ]

John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

If you are not worshipping in true spirit it's not of God

ii) True Spirit Filled Worship

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship” (Romans 12:1).

Worship is not the long slow song the worship team sings

> True worship is defined by the priority we place on who God is in our lives and where God is on our list of priorities.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we sacrifice our lives daily for His purposes and plans—not our own selfish motives.

We are to taking up our cross every day and trusting in the Lord to lead us in the right direction.

Our continual sacrifice is an offering of worship to Him out of gratefulness for the things He has done.

> His name is “above” every name. That means that it is “over, beyond, chief”.

Millions may claim to be Chief all over the world today, but there is only one Jesus and He is God and the Son of God at the same time.

Only He can take the vilest of sinners and make them clean. Only He can take a Hell bound sinner and reconcile him to God.