The 24 Elders #1 - Mission Accomplished

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Welcome. Let's bow our heads for prayer to ask for the LORD'S guidance.

Our loving Father, what a privilege it is to call you our Father,

we ask that as we open Your Holy Word today, as we begin this series

on the identity of the 24 Elders, that Your Holy Spirit will be with us to instruct us.

Help us to understand this very complex subject and how it applies to our own personal walk with Jesus.

We thank You for Your presence, and for hearing our prayer, for we ask it

in Jesus' name, Amen.

The title of our study today is, "Mission Accomplished".

And I'd like to begin our study by going to John, chapter one and verses one to three.

John 1:1-3

These verses are so well known that probably most of you could repeat them from memory.

There's one particular point that I want to underline in these three verses.

There the beloved disciple wrote this,"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

"and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God."

And now comes the point that I want to underline,

"All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

This text tells us that Jesus was the creator of everything.

In other words, Jesus is responsible for our existence.

Now we need to understand that Jesus is not responsible for our sin.

But Jesus is responsible for our existence, because we did not ask to exist.

He is the one who created us and He is responsible over the fact that we exist.

Now you might be saying,"Well, that's kind of unjust. I was born into this world.

"I did not choose to be born into this world, and uh, and so that's not fair."

Well, it wouldn't be fair unless Jesus had given us a chance to escape the sin as it exists in this world.

In other words, if Jesus had created us and simply said,"Well, you fell into sin, there's nothing I can do for you,"

we would have problems with that because we didn't choose to fall into that condition.

But as long as Jesus has given us a way of escape, He is not responsible for us being lost.

In other words, we don't choose to come into this world, but we can choose how we will go out of this world.

He has given us a way of escape.

And so this text tells us that Jesus created everyone.

Now when I say this, there's always people who say,"Well, you know, I wasn't created

"by Jesus, I was born from my mother." And so I say,"Okay, you were born from your mother,

"and who was your mother born from?"

"Well, she was born from her mother."

"And who was her mother born from?"

"Well, she was born from her mother."

Now if you go all the way back to the beginning, where does the sequence ends?

It ends with Adam and Eve. When Jesus created Adam and Eve He created every

single human being that descended from them.

In other words, Jesus is responsible for our existence.

Jesus created everyone on planet earth.

Now when Jesus created this world, He created Adam and Eve and He placed Adam as the King

over this realm or over this territory.

I'd like to, uh, invite you to turn in your Bibles with me to Psalm eight verses three to five.

Psalm 8:3-5 We're going to talk about the original individual that God's, uh, established on this earth

to rule over the earth. It says in Psalm 8:3,"When I consider your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

"the moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

"What is man that You are mindful of him,

"And the Son of man that You visit him?

"You have made him," it's speaking about the creation of Adam,"You have made him a little lower than the angels,

"And You have," what? "crowned him..." now who is it that uses crowns? Kings use crowns.

So, Adam was created to be a what? A king. His position was the position of king, or ruler.

And so it says,"For you have made a little lower than the angels, You have crowned him with glory and honor.

"You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;" Now every king has a realm over which he rules, right?

And, so, Adam was created to be king, he must have had a territory of which he should rule.

Or a realm over which he should rule. What was that realm?

Verse six, once again,"You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;

"You have put all things under his feet," that expression,"under his feet," means you have placed him as a ruler.

Now, what was under his feet? Verse seven,"All sheep and oxen--Even the beasts of the field,

"The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the sea."

Now when the Bible uses the expression,"beast of the field, birds of the air, fish of the waters," it says,

it means everything connect with planet earth; sky, earth and waters.

In other words, Adam was created to occupy the position of king and his realm or his territory over which he ruled was planet earth.

But in order for Adam to continue ruling over planet earth he had to render perfect obedience to God's Holy Law.