All Men Should Honor the Son

Q: What does the Bible say about honoring the Son?

The Bible states that all men should honor the Son just as they honor the Father (John 5:22-23). In John 5:22-23, Jesus emphasizes the importance of honoring Him by stating that the Father has committed all judgment to the Son. This conveys the reality that to honor the Son is directly linked to honoring the Father. The scripture clearly establishes that anyone who fails to honor the Son is indeed failing to honor the Father who sent Him. It is a critical theological point that recognizing and valuing Christ is essential to understanding one’s relationship with God.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is God?

The Scriptures affirm the divinity of Jesus, stating He is God incarnate (John 1:1, Matthew 1:23). Scripture provides substantial evidence that Jesus is God. For instance, John 1:1 indicates that 'the Word was God,' identifying Christ as divine. Additionally, Matthew 1:23 fulfills the prophecy of the virgin birth, calling Him 'Emmanuel,' meaning 'God with us.' Such verses establish that Jesus is not merely a prophet but the very embodiment of God, coming to reconcile humanity through His perfect righteousness and sacrifice. This central truth of sovereign grace theology establishes that acknowledgment of Christ's divinity is paramount for true faith and understanding.

Q: Why is honoring the Son important for Christians?

Honoring the Son is crucial because it affirms one's relationship with the Father and salvation (1 John 2:22-23). Honoring the Son is essential for Christians as it directly connects to the acknowledgment of the Father. 1 John 2:22-23 states that those who deny the Son are also denying the Father. Thus, honoring Jesus is foundational for genuine Christian faith. It implies recognizing Him as the sole mediator and the sacrificial Lamb who bore our sins, making it possible for believers to attain salvation and eternal life. This honor is not just about reverence; it is integral to our identity as followers of Christ and our understanding of grace.

Q: How does Jesus serve as our mediator?

Jesus serves as our mediator by reconciling us to God through His sacrifice (2 Corinthians 5:19). Jesus occupies the unique role of mediator between God and humanity, fulfilling this through His sacrificial death and resurrection. As mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5:19, God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. This means that Jesus not only represents humanity before God but also bore the penalty for sin, becoming our substitute. His mediatorship underscores the sovereign grace principle that our restoration and relationship with God are entirely based on His grace and merit, not on human effort or righteousness.

And David said, I was glad when
they said to me, let's go to the house of the Lord. One of our ladies came out of
the service a week or so ago and said something along that line.
She said, it's so good to be here, so comforting, so refreshing,
such a blessing. I want you to turn to the book
of John for my message. I just want to talk to you a
little bit and try to get across one point tonight. Just one point,
and that's the title of my message. That is that all men should honor
the Son. That all men, all men should
honor the Son. Now, he says here in John 5,
this is the text, verse 22 and 23, this is my text. For the
Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the
Son. We're in the hands of the Son. God has put the whole world in
His hands, turned the world over to Him. Now, watch this, that all men
should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that
honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him. It's sort of like when Egypt
went through the seven years of plenty, as Joseph predicted that they
would. And Joseph, Pharaoh turned everything
over to Joseph. Everything was in his hands,
and he filled the barns. And then the seven years of famine
struck, and people used up all their supplies, and they came
to Pharaoh and asked him to help them. He
said, no. What did he say? Go to Joseph. Go to Joseph. I've put everything
in his hand. I've committed all the universe
into the hands of Joseph. And that's what our Lord said
here. Go to Jesus. The Father judgeth
no man. You're not going to deal with
the Father. God's appointed a day in which He's going to judge
the world by that man, Christ Jesus. Isn't that right? So that's
what this chapter is all about. Now here, back in verse 1, our
Lord had healed the lame man at the well. Let's read about
it. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by
the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude
of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving
of the water. But Angel went down at a certain
season into the pool and troubled the water. And whosoever then
first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in was made
whole of whatever disease he had. And I'm not going to comment
on that because I can't. Somebody asked Spurgeon one time,
I was reading one of his messages, and they asked him to explain
that. He said, I can't. I'm not going
to confirm it or deny it. I'm just going to leave it like
it is, because God didn't see fit to explain it, and why should
I undertake it? That's not the issue anyway.
And a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight
years. And when Jesus saw him lie and
knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he said to
him, Will thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him,
Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the
pool. But while I'm coming, another step it down before me. He didn't
know who Christ was. He called him Sir. He didn't
call him Lord, Master, Sir. You know who he was. And Jesus
saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately
the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. And on
the same day was the Sabbath. That was the Sabbath day. It
was forbidden on the Sabbath day to take very many steps,
let alone take any steps carrying a bed. And so the Jews saw this man
carrying his bed on the Sabbath day. And in spite of the glorious
miracle, in spite of the fact that they
had seen this man, he was there on one of those porches for a
long time. They were accustomed to seeing
him there, thirty-eight years an invalid pitiful sight. And here they
see him up walking, instead of being amazed by the miracle and
saying, what happened? How'd this take place? Tell us,
we'd be interested to know. No. They got upset because he
was carrying his bed on their Sabbath day. And so it says in
verse 10, the Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It
is the Sabbath day. It's not lawful for thee to carry
thy bed. And he answered them, Well, he
that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed
and walk. He that healed me told me to
carry my bed. You fellows can't do anything
for me. Why should I listen to you? All you can do is tell me what
to do on the Sabbath day. You can't make me whole, so why
should I listen to you? I'm listening to him that healed
me. That's who I'm going to listen to. He that made me whole. And then asked they him, what
man is that which said to you, take up your bed and walk? You
see, they didn't know who it was. They suspected, I'm sure,
but he didn't know. And when they found out that
it was Jesus who was called the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, that
made this man whole, they sought to kill him, destroy him, because
he had violated their Sabbath day. Verse 14 says, And he that
was healed wished not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself
away, a multitude being in that place. But afterward, Jesus findeth
him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art made whole,
sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee. And the man departed
immediately, and told the Jews who it was that made him whole.
He said it was Jesus that made me whole. I want you fellows to know who
it was. It was Jesus. And therefore did the Jews persecute
Jesus and sought to slay him because he'd done these things
on the Sabbath day. Now get this. Listen carefully
to this. These people were religious people
who professed to be children of God. Isn't that what they
said? Abraham's our father. We have Moses and the prophets.
God's our father. These are not pagan Gentiles
or heathen Gentiles, these are Jews, very religious, law-abiding,
moral teachers of the Scripture. They revered the Scripture. They
built great houses of worship. They had their ceremonies and
sacrifices and feast days and holy days. They taught the Ten
Commandments and morality. They, according to the Pharisee
in the temple, they gave alms to the poor and fasted and prayed
so many times a day. They talked of an eternal kingdom,
but here's their problem. Listen to me, young people especially. They had no love for Christ Jesus,
the Son of God. There's the whole problem. They
had no faith in Christ. They had no love for Christ,
they had no honor or worship to give unto Christ, and this
is what brought the words from our Lord, He that honoreth not
the Son honoreth not the Father. He that honoreth not the Son
honoreth not the Father that sent him. One cannot honor the
Father who honors not the Son. One cannot know the Father who
knows not the Son. And that goes for any religion.
And I know recently that one of the country
music stars I read in the paper, Dolly Parton, made a statement about the Jewish
people in California, Hollywood, not being able to have a part
in or present something having to do with Christ or Christian
principle. And man, the uproar started.
You mean, tell me we don't know God? You mean, what are you talking
about? What are you saying here? So she began to, as we say down
south, crowdad, you know. You're going to lose some money
if you don't back up. Back up. But not too many years
ago, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, I forget
his name, but it was 20 some odd years ago, he said that God does not hear a person
pray who does not come to God in the name of Christ Jesus,
whether he says the word or not, but he's got to come believing
on Christ or he'll not be received. Well, you can imagine what that
did. That was over national television. He had to crawl down because
he was fixing to lose face or something. But now let me tell
you, my dear friends, regardless of what it cost us,
We've got to say this, He that honoreth not the Son honoreth
not the Father. That's not... Well, are we going
to ask Christ to back up here? You offend some Jews, Jesus. Well, they just have to be offended. You offend some Muslims and Buddhists
and Mohammedans and And even some people call themselves Christians,
but he that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father.
He that hath not the Son hath not the Father. Isn't that, is
that what it? That's not being radical or fanatical,
it's being scriptural, it's biblical. Let me show you some scripture.
Now turn to John 15. Turn to John 15. And I know young
people, you sit here week after week and listen to me and other
men who occupy this pulpit and these dear elders. And then you
go out to school and you go to other churches when you visit
other churches with your friends and companions and your get-togethers
and your fellowship of Christian athletes and all of this campus
crusade and all of these things. kind of have an umbrella that
lets everybody under it, regardless of what they believe, regardless
of what they believe about Christ, regardless of what they believe
about his blood, his righteousness, and his person and work. And
what we're saying sounds, it sounds a little harsh. It sounds
a little, It is, to a certain extent. It
sounds like, well, you think you know everything and they
don't know anything. Well, if we don't know Christ,
we don't know anything about God, because no man knoweth the
Father but the Son, he to whom the Son will reveal it. And no
man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son hath declared
Him. It's just a fact. Listen to these
scriptures, John 15, verse 23 and 24. He that hateth me hateth my Father. If I had not done among you the
works which none other man did, they had not had sin. But now
they've seen and hated both me and my Father. When you hate
him, you hate the Father. When you hate Christ, you hate
the one that sent him, because he's the expressed image of the
Father. He's the exact likeness of the
Father. Isn't that right? To reject the Son is to reject
the Father. To hate the Son is to hate the
Father. Because I am a Father, one. The disciple said, well,
show us the Father. He said, he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father. Listen to this. Turn to 1 John
2. We can't afford to be any more
narrow than our Lord, but we can't afford to be any broader
than our Lord. We've got to say, somebody said,
well, just preach the Word. That's what I'm doing. I John 2, verse 22, listen. Who is a liar? Who is a liar? But he that denieth it, Jesus,
is the Christ. He's an antichrist that denieth
the Father and the Son. And whosoever denieth the Son,
the same hath not the Father. He that acknowledges the Son
hath the Father." Did you hear that? He that denieth the Son,
to deny that Jesus Christ is God, to deny that Jesus Christ
God came in the flesh, to deny that He is born of woman to give
us a perfect righteousness, to deny that His death is the only
substitute for sin, the only atonement, to deny that He's
the only mediator, to deny that He's the only way to God, is
to deny God. That's what it is. And it doesn't
matter who does it, no matter how popular he is, or how powerful
he is, or how educated he is, how religious he is, how moral
he is, how successful he is. If he denies the Son, he denies
the Father. Turn to I John 5, "...he that honoureth not the
Son honoureth not the Father." Who sent him? I John 5, listen. Verse 10, He that believeth on
the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth
not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his Son. That's I Sirius. This is the
record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life
is in His Son. And he that hath not the Son
hath not life. He that hath the Son hath life,
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Look at
verse 20. And we know that the Son of God
is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know
Him that is true, and we're in Him that is true, even in His
Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God. And this
is eternal life. Young folks, is that clear? Is
that clear what we're saying? That's what it says, doesn't
it? The Son of God hath come. and
given us an understanding. Apart from Him, outside of Him,
we have no knowledge of God, no understanding of God, not
the slightest conception of who God is, of what God will do. He's the
only revelation of God. Now, let's go back to the text.
And listen to what our Lord says here. Let's go back and just
read a few more verses. In John chapter 5, And verse 16, I read this last,
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him,
because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. And he answered
them, and he said, My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the
more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath,
but he said also that God was his Father making himself. and
God, equal with God. Now I'm going to give you five
scriptures. Any time that you buy or are exposed to another
translation of the Bible, you use these five scriptures and
look at it first. It's what they say about Christ.
What they say about Christ. Now here's five scriptures. The
first one is Matthew 1.23, you can quote him, Matthew 1.23,
said this, you know, call his name Jesus, for he shall save
his people from their sins, and this is the fulfillment of the
prophecy of Isaiah, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth
a son, you call his name Emmanuel, God with us. God in human flesh. God in human flesh. You check
that verse. Or here's the next one. That's
Matthew 1, 21 through 23. Second one is John 1, verse 1,
2, 3, and 14. Listen. In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word, what? Was
God. And by him all things were made,
and without him was not anything made that was made. He is God,
he was with God, and he made all things. He is God. And verse
14 says, And the Word was made flesh. This same Word, who was
with God and was God, who made all things, was actually 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. You can't compromise that. Or here's the third one.
Acts 20, verse 28. Paul was talking to the elders
of Ephesus. And he said to them, feed the
church of God. Acts 20, 28. Feed the church
of God, which God purchased with his own blood. God has blood. God was made a man. And God purchased
that church with his own blood. Here's the next one. 2 Corinthians
5, 19. I always look these verses up.
Listen to this one, 2 Corinthians 5, 19. God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself. Who was in Christ? God. God,
I was talking about this morning. The earth is the Lord's. He was
in Christ. The fifth one is this, Hebrews
1, 8. Unto the Son, he said, Oh boy, you know, Cecil's smiling
already. That's the reason I like to preach
to y'all, you know what I'm going to say next. Under the sun he said, Thy throne,
O God, is forever. Let all the holy angels of God
worship Him. That's what our Lord said to
the Pharisees. When they got to asking him all
these questions, he said, what think ye of the Christ? Whose
son is he? They said he's the son of David.
Is that right? Yep, son of David. Then, how
did David call him his Lord? David said, thee Lord, and said
to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand. How can he be David's son
and be David's Lord? And from that time, they asked
him no more questions. They couldn't answer. There's a young man out here,
and I want to use this. Now listen to me. There's a young
man out here in Grayson, and this is a tender spot for a lot
of people here, I realize that. And for me, it's close to home.
We've got so many teachers in this congregation. But there's
a young man out here in Grayson, about 18, 17, 18 years of age,
that's awaiting trial and sentencing, certain conviction for murder. He murdered custodian of a high
school and a high school teacher. Shot him in cold blood. He's
as guilty as any human being. He's got 28 witnesses, 128, 293.
No hope for that young man. His hands are covered with blood. He's guilty. He must and ought
to be punished. Even God himself cannot change
that verdict. Nothing be gone. You talk about
a young man without help, without hope, without God, without Christ
at his wit's end, that's wrong. Wouldn't you say that? No one, even God, cannot change
his situation and be God. Can't change his guilt, can't
lift his sentence. Suppose God were to say, let
him go. The law said not, no way, no
way. I hope our law will say that,
should. His law does. Let him go! We feel sorry for
him. No justice says he must pay. He that sheds man's blood, by
man shall his blood be shed. That's Scripture. But suppose,
now let's suppose, that God came down here. God came down here. And God's the only one who can
do this. God actually became him. God actually became Pennington. Isn't that his name? He actually
became him. He actually entered into his
flesh. And that's his name. That's God's
name. Now God, the perfect God, came
down and took his bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and
became him, and he became God. How about this now? This is only
hope. It's not going to be done for
him. But God's the only one who can help him. You can't help
him, I can't help him, the judge can't help him, nobody can help
him, he's doomed. But God, if God could actually
become him, and become bone of his bone and
flesh of his flesh, and take his guilt, take his place, take
him, become him, and go to the gas chamber of
the lecter and pay the debt. Then he's without guilt, isn't
he? And he's free, isn't he? And he can't punish him twice.
And I'm telling you, that's what the Lord Jesus did for us. That's
it. We're guilty. We are without hope, without
help, without God, without Christ in this world. Nobody can help
us, and your mamas can brag on us, and Brother Barney used to
say, no mama's got a bad boy and no daddy's got a bad girl,
but it's not so. There's none good. The preacher
can't help you, and you can come down this aisle ten thousand
times and promise not to do it again. But the law says he cannot
go free. Justice says the soul that sinned
has got to die. And our sins are many, multitude. But suppose God himself, who
has no guilt, who has no sin, can come down here, bone of my
bone, flesh of my flesh, and become me, actually become me. He took our flesh. He took our sins in his body. He was numbered with the transgressors.
And he should face the law and face justice and face the Father
as me. And the judgment and wrath of
God fall on him. I'm free. I'm free. Without guilt. That's right. And he can do that and live.
He can do that and rise. But now let's go back to that
boy. Suppose God did that for him. Somebody says, well, what's
to prevent him from doing it again? Huh? What's to prevent him from
doing it again? Well, this God also undertakes
on our behalf. He gives us a new nature. And
that old man is dead because of Christ Jesus. When
the Lord Jesus Christ became us and took our bone of our bone,
flesh of our flesh, was numbered with the transgressors, we died
in Him. That old man was crucified with
Christ. That's what Paul said, I'm dead,
I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. But the new
man in Christ Jesus lived. And God's done with that old
man. He's just marking time until he goes to the ground. That's
right. I'm not me. I'm him. Is that
clear what I'm saying? And if that could be done for
that young man, oh, it'd be all of grace, wouldn't it? It'd be
all of grace. God purposed to do it. He doesn't
deserve it. God purposed to do it. God chose Christ to come down
here. God sent him here. God was pleased
to bruise him. He was wounded for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquities,
the chastisement of my peace was upon him by his stripes.
I'm what? Healed. Now I know these television
preachers. Say that refers to sicknesses
and diseases. And it does, but not physical
sicknesses or physical diseases. It refers to spiritual sicknesses
and spiritual diseases. I still get sick. I don't feel
good now. And many of you don't. And we expect to get sick. We
expect to die. But I'm well spiritually. I'm
well. I'm perfectly whole. Sanctified
wholly. I'm a new man, that old man's
dead, and all in the world is just marking time till it's put
in the grave, never to be heard of again. But it's already over,
it's dead, John, the old man's dead. He died with Christ. The law has no charge, justice
has no charge, and it's all because of Christ. Is that clear? That's the gospel. That's the
gospel of substitution. It's not Christ didn't come down
to the cross and make a way for us to walk in. He is the way. He actually took... I often tell
people this when I'm preaching somewhere. I say, take that Isaiah
53. 4, 5, and 6, he was wounded for our transgressions. Put your
name in that. Every one of those personal pronouns,
put your name in it. He was wounded for Henry's transgressions. He was bruised for Henry's iniquities. The chastisement of Henry's iniquity
was laid on him by his stripes, Henry's heel. That's right. And when I say about that boy,
if he could come down and do all that, you say, I'd hate to
see a fellow like that set free. And not if Christ does it. See, we live in an age of new
creature. And if Christ pleads to save
us, it will be by His grace, won't it? All right, let's read
a couple more verses. He said here in verse 19, Jesus
said, Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself
but what he saith the Father do. He's speaking, there's the
servant, speaking, there's the man, Christ Jesus. Whatsoever
he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. What the Father
purposes, the Son fulfills. But the Father loveth the Son,
showeth him all things that himself doeth, and ye shall have greater
works than these that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth
up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom
he will. For the Father judgeth no man.
that's committed all judgment to the Son. Here it is, that
all men should honor the Son. Even as they honor the Father,
there's no difference. He that honoreth not the Son
honoreth not the Father that sent him. Isaac Watts wrote these
words, What equal honors shall we bring to thee, O Lord, our
God, our Lamb, when all the songs that angels sing are far inferior
to thy name. Worthy is he that once was slain,
the Prince of life that groaned and died, worthy to reign and
live and rise at his Father's almighty side. Blessing forever
on the Lamb who bear my sin, my curse, my pain. Let the angel
shout his holy praise, and every creature say, Amen. Honor the
Son. I take up where I left off last
Sunday night in addressing all of you. Honor the Son. Believe the Son. It's not a matter
of hocus pocus. It's not a matter of It's a form
and ceremony. It's not a matter of feeling.
But I'm waiting on a feeling. I'm not waiting on anything.
I believe on Christ. Trust Him. Lord, I do believe. Help Thine Unbelief. Just put
in this head and put in this heart one name, the Lord Jesus
Christ. No man ever perished looking
to Christ. Never. I promise you. There's
nobody in hell who look to Christ. I care not how dim the look,
I care not how weak the faith, I care not how late in life or
how early, no man ever perished looking to Christ. Now, they
perished in the church and they perished in religion, but they
never perished looking to Christ. Isn't that right? That's mine. And that's yours. All right, let's sing a closing
hymn.

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All Men Should Honor the Son

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How do we know that Jesus is God?

Why is honoring the Son important for Christians?

How does Jesus serve as our mediator?

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