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- Who was Jesus? Was He a liar?
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Was He a lunatic
or was He the Lord?
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(air whooshing)
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Our message this morning
probably could be classified
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as important as
anything I could talk about,
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because I'm
reminded as every now
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and then I mingle with
the people in our culture
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that a lot of folks,
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while they may hear the
name of Jesus from time to time,
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they really have
no idea who Jesus is.
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And I thought it
would be valuable
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and appropriate
to talk a little bit.
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And sometimes we need
reminding about that subject,
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who is Jesus?
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I wasn't sure how
to title this sermon,
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because when you
say who is Jesus,
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it sounds like
He's present tense.
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And some people
think you should title it.
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Who was Jesus,
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but either way you word it,
people want to know who is He?
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Where did He come from?
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Somebody wrote this
beautiful passage one time
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where they said,
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"All the armies
that have ever marched
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and all the Navys
that have ever sailed.
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All the
parliaments that have ever sat
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and all the Kings
that have ever reigned
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put together have not affected
life upon Earth is powerfully
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as this one solitary life."
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When you think
about the way that Jesus
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was born in
comparative obscurity,
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and He never did all the
typical things that usually do,
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you know greatness, He
never led an army into battle.
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He never led a Navy.
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It doesn't tell us
that He ever wrote a book.
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He didn't do any of the things
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that you typically
think of with greatness.
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We don't know
what He looked like.
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There's a lot of artist
renditions of what looked like,
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but there's nothing
contemporary from His day.
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And yet He
changed all of history.
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While we're
talking about history,
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you've got AB and BC and
they use new terms today.
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But we used to call that
Before Christ and After Death
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or the year of our Lord,
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all of history is
dated from His birth.
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So how can you
doubt that He lived?
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If you look in the encyclopedia,
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it doesn't cast any doubt
on whether or not He lived.
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So we know He lived the real
question you've gotta decide.
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Was He a liar?
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Was He a lunatic
or was He the Lord?
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Who was Jesus?
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Did God come to our Earth in
the form of a man to save us?
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Oh, I want to read
something first by A.W Tozer.
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He said, "Christ is not one
of many ways to approach God.
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He's not the
best of several ways.
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He is the only way."
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Anyone who comes to God
must come through Christ.
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And while Buddha may have said
a number of profound things,
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and you might have some
profound sayings from Krishna
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and Mohamed and the different
religions of the world,
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nobody spoke like Jesus.
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And none of them
died as a sacrifice
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for the sins of the world.
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There's something very
clearly different about Jesus.
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Jesus is the only
Redeemer with God.
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He's the only mediator with God.
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Christ is the bridge
between heaven and Earth.
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Jesus said to Nathaniel,
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"Hereafter, you will see
the angels of God ascending
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and descending
on the Son of Man."
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None of the other religious
leaders of the world say,
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"I am the way the
truth and the life to God."
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He didn't say,
"I'm one of the ways."
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He said, "I am the way."
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He didn't say,
"I'm one of the truths,
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all rivers lead to the ocean.
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I'm just one of them."
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He said, "I am the truth.
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I am the life."
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So why did Jesus come?
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So where do we look to
get the information for this?
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There are over 300
Old Testament prophecies
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that talk about what to expect
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when the Messiah comes through.
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We're not going
to look at all 300,
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but we're going to look
at some basic categories
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to find out who is Jesus.
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Especially, you'll
find a lot in the Psalms.
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Over 300 Old Testament
prophecies reference the
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anointed. First prophecy you're
going to find in the Bible
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regarding the Messiah coming
is actually in Genesis 3:15.
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We'll put that on the screen.
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Here it says,
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when God was speaking to
Adam and Eve after the fall,
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He said, "I will put enmity."
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That's similar
to the word enemy.
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It means there's animosity.
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There's friction.
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There's an
adversarial relationship
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between the and the woman.
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He was talking to the serpent.
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"Between your
seed and her seed."
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The seed of the woman,
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talking about this promised seed
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that was going to come through
humanity was the Messiah.
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"He," the seed of the woman,
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"Will bruise your head."
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God says to the
serpent or the devil
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that the seed of the woman,
Christ would bruise your head.
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A mortal wound to the head.
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"And you will bruise His heel."
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You will impede his
progress or slow his walk down.
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So this first
prophecies found right
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there in Genesis chapter three,
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they were looking for a savior,
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the seed of the
woman that would come,
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that would defeat the serpent
that caused the fall of man
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and the loss of paradise.
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Through Christ
paradise is restored.
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So let's look at
some of those prophecies.
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For one thing, in John 1:45,
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after Philip found Jesus,
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he then goes and
he tells Nathaniel,
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"We have found Him
of who Moses in the law.
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And also the prophets
wrote, Jesus of Nazareth,
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the son of Joseph."
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He said Moses and the
prophets and the law all talked
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about this man.
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It all pointed to
this one individual,
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where did Jesus come from?
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Now we alluded to that
there in John chapter eight,
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but let's look at
some other verses.
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John 19:8,
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matter of fact, Pontius Pilate
during the trial of Jesus.
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He asked that very
question, "Where are you from?
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Where did you come from?"
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Jesus said in John 6:38,
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"For I have come
down from heaven."
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Now, if I said that to you,
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you'd probably asked
me to get some counseling.
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So, or you, you
know there are people
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out there that would
think that I snuck away
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from area 51 in Nevada.
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I was an alien, but
Jesus wasn't talking
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about being an extraterrestrial.
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He was saying He
came from the Father.
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He made that very clear
and we read just a moment ago.
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He said, "I'm going
back to the Father."
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This is a messenger.
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And when you
talk about the Father,
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we're not talking about a
God of a certain solar system
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or a certain galaxy.
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Biblically when you're
talking about the Father,
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you're talking about
thee God of everything.
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Think about the amenity of
space and how big God must be,
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how awesome God is.
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And when Jesus says
that I made all that
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and I am the Son of
God and I've come from God.
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Wow! That's a pretty bold claim.
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That's a pretty amazing
claim that He came from God.
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Again, Jesus answered and said,
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"My kingdom is
not of this world."
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He told Pilate if my
kingdom was of this world,
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then would my citizens fight
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but my kingdom is
not now of this world.
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Did Jesus claim to be God?
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Did He claim divinity?
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Is He just another man?
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Or was He the commingling
of the divine and human?
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John 8:58.
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"Jesus said to them,
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'Most assuredly I say to
you, before Abraham was, I AM.'"
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You remember when
Moses was talking to God
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at the burning bush and he said,
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"So exactly which God are you?
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What's your name?
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What shall I say to
the people of Israel?
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Who are you that
you are sending me?
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Do you have a business card?"
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How did God
introduce himself to Moses?
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He said, "I AM that I AM."
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It's not that I
once was, or I will be.
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The phrase I Am means,
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I AM everlasting to everlasting.
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I AM the self
existent one. I AM eternal.
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Christ was claiming to
be God and to be eternal.
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Says there would be something
unique about His birth.
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Now everybody alive
was born at some point,
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but Jesus was born
in a very unique way.
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And a prophecy told this
was going to happen 500 years
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before the event.
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Isaiah 7:14,
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"The Lord will give you a sign;
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Behold, a virgin will
conceive and bear a son
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and you will call
His name Emmanuel."
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Now that doesn't
happen very often, does it?
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Was Jesus born of a virgin?
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Doesn't it say that?
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You can read the next
verse here in Matthew 1:18.
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"Now the birth of
Jesus Christ was as follows;
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After His mother Mary
was betroth to Joseph,
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before they came together."
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This was not some
laboratory insemination.
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It said that the Holy
Spirit would overshadow her,
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before Joseph and
Mary came together.
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She was found to be with
child of the Holy Spirit.
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And God said
that, that would happen.
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The Bible records
that it did happen.
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The place of His
birth is identified.
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Now you're getting very specific
because it's going to mention
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the town of Bethlehem
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and you can read
this passage in Micah 5:2,
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he interrogated the
scribes and he said,
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"Where is the
Messiah supposed to be born?"
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And they said, "We know exactly
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where He's supposed to be born.
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He's supposed to
be born in Bethlehem."
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And so there was no
question about that.
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Bethlehem,
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there are actually two towns
in Israel called Bethlehem.
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I didn't know
how many there are,
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but I know there
are scores of towns
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in North America
called Farmington.
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You know I'm talking about,
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there's a lot some towns
that have very common names.
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You can find all
over North America.
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I think we've
got a few James towns
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and you got a few
towns called Paris.
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There's Paris, Maine.
There's a Paris, Texas.
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I don't know why
you'd come to America
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and name anything Paris.
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But anyway they did.
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Well in the promise land,
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the word Bethlehem
means house of bread.
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And there were a
couple of Bethlehems,
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but you notice it
specifies the Bethlehem
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where Rachel died
giving birth to Benjamin,
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which was Bethlehem Efrata,
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which is just outside Jerusalem.
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So this prophecy in
Micah not only tells,
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what town it
delineates specifically,
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which Bethlehem Jesus
was going to come from.
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A matter of fact,
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it was so clear that when king
Herod saw the Wisemen coming,
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he interrogated the
scribes and he said,
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"Where is the
Messiah supposed to be born?"
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And they said,
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"We know exactly where
he is supposed to be born.
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He's supposed to
be born in Bethlehem."
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And so there was no
question about that.
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Now there's a very
interesting prophecy.
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This really could be a
prophecy that also tells
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the time of his
birth in Matthew.
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I'm sorry.
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In Daniel chapter
nine, Daniel 9:25.
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There's a prophecy.
It's the 490 year prophecy.
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Part of that prophecy is
called the 483 Year Segment.
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And that's where
it says in verse 25.
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"No one understand, that from
the going forth of the command
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to restoring and
build Jerusalem,"
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which was given in
457 BC by King Ahasuerus.
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"Unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks
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and three score in two weeks."
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So it's actually the
decree of Artaxerxes.
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I was getting Esther
mixed up with Nehemiah.
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King Artaxerxes in
457 BC gave that decree.
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Seven weeks in Jewish prophecy,
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a day equals a year.
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Now you'll see a
few references for this.
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Ezekiel 4:6, "I have appointed
you each day for a year."
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You can also read that
principle in Numbers 14:35.
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Even the words of
Jesus in a parable,
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He tells in Luke 13:32.
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He makes it clear
that in a prophecy,
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you use a principle
of a day for a year.
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So when you go and
you add up the time period
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here in Daniel, where he
says seven weeks and 62 weeks,
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seven plus 62 is how much?
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69, 69.
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A week has got how many days?
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A week has how many days?
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I gave you an easy
one. Come on, help me.
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Seven days.
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So you add that up
and you've got 483 years,
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69 weeks, 483 days, a
day is a year, 483 years.
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If you count from
the start of the decree
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to rebuild Jerusalem,
457 BC given by Artaxerxes,
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and then you go
483 prophetic years
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or regular years to 80, 27.
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That's exactly
when Jesus was baptized.
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And you can read
about that in John 1,
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when Jesus came
to the Jordan river,
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He knew His time had come
and right at His 30th birthday,
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He was baptized.
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John the Baptist
said he saw Jesus coming.
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"Behold! The Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world."
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Jesus was that lamb that
they had been looking for.
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Abraham said to
Isaac, when Isaac said,
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"Lord, our Father,
we've got the wood.
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We've got the fire, but
where is the sacrifice?"
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Abraham said,
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"My son, God will
provide Himself a lamb."
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Finally, they're all
looking for the lamb of God.
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The Anointed, the Messiah.
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John says, "There He is.
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This is the Lamb that
takes away the sin of the world.
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This is the seed of the woman.
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This is the one that we've
been looking for all this time."
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And he identified
Him several times.
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And that's why Philip
and Peter and Nathaniel
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all began to follow Him then,
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because He had been
flagged by John the Baptist,
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as the Lamb of God.
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Now I told you,
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you could actually
figure from Daniel's prophecy
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when Jesus was born.
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By the way,
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there were a couple that
were looking for His birth,
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maybe because of
Daniel's prophecy,
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because they knew that
it was going to be 483 years
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from the command
to rebuild Jerusalem
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until the Messiah was
anointed and began His ministry.
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They could understand that a
priest could not begin to teach
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until he was 30.
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King David did not begin
to reign until he was 30.
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Joseph went out to administrate
over Egypt when he was 30.
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So all they had to do
was count back 30 years
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from 80, 27
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and find the birth
of Christ around 4BC.
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So even from that same prophecy,
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you could have calculated
about the time of His birth.
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Don't go anywhere friends,
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in just a moment will return
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for the rest of
today's presentation.
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and learn some more amazing
facts about the word of God.
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You can read
there in Acts 10:38,
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how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
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and with power.
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And He went about
doing good and healing
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all who were
oppressed of the devil,
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for God was with Him.
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When Jesus was baptized,
the Holy Spirit came down
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and He was anointed
with the Holy Spirit.
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He was the anointed.
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You don't hear about
the miracles of Jesus,
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unless you're
reading something apocryphal.
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You don't read about the
miracles of Jesus before He was
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30. For the first
30 years of His life,
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He lived as a man among
men, just as you and I do.
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And then He was
anointed at His baptism.
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He began as public ministry,
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turned the world upside
down in three and a half years.
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And then that would be
part of that 490 year prophecy.
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And then it tells the
nature of His ministry.
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Matter of fact, Jesus quotes
these very words in Nazareth
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when He began His ministry,
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Isaiah 61:1,
00:16:33.59\00:16:35.56
"Christ stood up in
the synagogue of Nazareth,
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His hometown church in Galilee.
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And He said, 'The
Spirit of the Lord God
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is upon me because
He has anointed me.'"
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He's the anointed.
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"To preach the good
tidings to the meek.
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He sent me to
bind the brokenhearted,
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to proclaim
liberty to the captives
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and the opening of
prison to them that are bound,
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to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord
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and the day of
vengeance of our God to comfort
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all that mourn."
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Furthermore,
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it tells us that He would
speak and teach in parables.
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King David said in Psalm 78.
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"I will open my
mouth in a parable.
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I will utter
dark sayings of old,
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which we have heard and known.
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And our fathers have
told us regarding Christ."
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It said that He spoke and
He taught them in parables.
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Without parable, He
didn't say anything.
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He often taught in
allegories and illustrations.
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And those that
heard Him talk, say,
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"Never, ever did a
man speak like this man."
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There's no man that
could teach like Jesus.
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People who went to
arrest him, came back and said,
00:17:36.38\00:17:38.82
"Wow! Nobody
speaks like this man."
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It goes on.
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And it tells us
about His betrayal.
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For instance, Psalm 41:9,
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"Even my own familiar
friend and whom I trusted,
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who ate my bread has
lifted up his heel against me."
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Did Jesus eat a meal
with bread with Judas
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and Judas walked
right out that door
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and went to the priest
and then led them to Christ?
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It gives us even more detail
about the betrayal of Jesus,
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Zachariah 11:12 and 13.
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"Then I said to them,
'If it is agreeable to you,
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give me my wages
and if not refrain.'
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So they weighed out for my
wages 30 pieces of silver."
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Not only tells that He was
sold for the price of a slave.
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It tells what kind of
metal it could have been copper.
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It could have been gold.
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It could have been bronze
or silver says it was silver.
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Tells how many pieces of silver.
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"And the Lord said to
me, 'Throw it to the potter,'
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that princely sum
and they set on me.
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So they took 30 pieces of silver
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and threw them into the house
of the Lord for the potter."
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Now I don't have
time to read it all,
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but all the verses
are in Matthew 27:3-7.
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You can look that
up. Matthew 27:3-7,
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it tells how during
the trial of Christ,
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Judas overwhelm
with a sense of guilt,
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you know once the
devil had used him,
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he didn't need Judas anymore.
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And Judas finally
realizing what he had done,
00:19:01.04\00:19:03.10
came to his senses.
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He betrayed the Son of God
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and they were
preparing to crucify Him.
00:19:06.57\00:19:08.68
He just was crushed
by a sense of his guilt.
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He went into the
outskirts of the temple,
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where He was being tried.
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The Sanhedrin was meeting.
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He said, I'd
betray innocent blood.
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He threw down the
30 pieces of silver.
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They didn't want to take
it because it was blood money.
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They called it.
00:19:25.43\00:19:26.86
So they bought a
potters field to bury strangers
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in with the money.
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That's all in the New Testament.
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You know I don't know if I'm I,
00:19:31.13\00:19:33.50
lemme just say
something here on the outset,
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just to give you an idea.
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All right, here we've
got the book of Matthew.
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Here's the New Testament.
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This is the Old Testament.
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Old Testament of
course starts with Moses,
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New Testament doesn't
begin until the birth of Jesus.
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These prophecies I'm reading
to you about the Messiah.
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They come from
the Old Testament.
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Not only do they come
from the Old Testament,
00:19:52.69\00:19:54.79
even though
there's no page here,
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there ought to be a page in
your Bible that says 400 years.
00:19:56.79\00:20:00.13
One page that just
says 400 years silence.
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There are 400 years
between all these prophecies.
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And when Jesus finally comes.
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That prophecy I just
read to you from Zachariah.
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They couldn't have concocted
00:20:11.41\00:20:12.71
and made that up
400 years went by.
00:20:12.74\00:20:14.78
We know from
the Dead Sea Scrolls
00:20:14.81\00:20:16.64
that these things were
written before Jesus was born.
00:20:16.68\00:20:19.65
How could you fabricate?
00:20:19.68\00:20:21.48
How could you counterfeit?
00:20:21.52\00:20:23.32
How could you manufacture that
prophecy would be fulfilled.
00:20:23.35\00:20:28.36
That Jesus would be betrayed
00:20:29.22\00:20:30.69
by a friend who ate bread with
Him for 30 pieces of silver,
00:20:30.73\00:20:33.03
who would then throw
it to the potters field
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in the house of the Lord.
00:20:35.43\00:20:36.77
I mean, that's
just one of thousands.
00:20:37.90\00:20:40.04
Oh, actually 300.
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I got carried away.
00:20:41.40\00:20:42.74
Prophecies, there might be more,
00:20:43.41\00:20:45.04
but someone counted
300 and I believe it.
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Tells about the
manner of His death.
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Now this is an incredible
prophecy you read in Psalm 22.
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"The congregation of
the wicked has enclosed me.
00:20:53.82\00:20:56.25
They pierced my
hands and my feet.
00:20:56.28\00:20:58.29
They divided my
garments among them,
00:20:58.32\00:21:00.32
for my clothing they cast lots."
00:21:00.36\00:21:03.36
This is prophesy nearly 800
years before Jesus was born.
00:21:03.39\00:21:07.40
How could you know that?
00:21:07.46\00:21:09.73
And that's all in that one Psalm
00:21:09.76\00:21:11.07
and there are
many Psalms, Psalm 34.
00:21:11.10\00:21:13.30
"He guards all his bones;
Not one of them is broken."
00:21:13.34\00:21:16.81
They've broken the bones
of the thief on the right
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.71
and the left of Jesus because
Jesus was the Passover Lamb.
00:21:18.74\00:21:21.71
And they were never to break
the bones of the Passover Lamb.
00:21:21.74\00:21:24.65
They didn't
break any of His bones,
00:21:24.68\00:21:26.78
just as the prophecy had
said, "He guards my bones."
00:21:26.82\00:21:30.59
Jesus also claimed
to be the Son of God,
00:21:30.62\00:21:32.92
not in the sense that
we are all sons of God,
00:21:34.96\00:21:37.09
but in the unique sense
00:21:37.13\00:21:38.43
that He is the only
begotten Son of God.
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.50
And He claimed to
have the prerogatives
00:21:41.53\00:21:43.90
or the powers of the divine.
00:21:43.93\00:21:45.27
He claimed to be God.
00:21:45.30\00:21:46.63
Now those are some
pretty bold claims.
00:21:47.84\00:21:50.61
What are you going to do with
what Jesus says about Himself?
00:21:50.64\00:21:53.38
C.S. Lewis puts it this way.
00:21:53.41\00:21:55.28
"A man who was merely a
man and said the sort of things
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.85
that Jesus said, wouldn't
be a great moral teacher.
00:21:57.88\00:22:00.28
He'd be a lunatic
on the level of a man
00:22:00.32\00:22:02.58
who says He's a poached egg,
00:22:02.62\00:22:04.39
or else he'd be
the devil of hell.
00:22:04.42\00:22:06.35
You must make your choice.
00:22:06.39\00:22:07.86
Either this man was
and is the son of God
00:22:07.89\00:22:10.16
or else He's a mad
man or something worse."
00:22:10.19\00:22:13.36
Someone else put it this way.
00:22:13.40\00:22:14.83
"Christ was either a conscious
deceiver, diluted or divine.
00:22:14.86\00:22:19.77
He is either
lunatic, liar, or Lord."
00:22:20.87\00:22:24.27
There is no escaping
one of these three options.
00:22:24.31\00:22:27.64
You know there's three principle
reasons that Jesus came.
00:22:27.68\00:22:30.61
First, He came
to be our example.
00:22:30.65\00:22:33.72
He says in John
13:5, sorry, John 13:15,
00:22:34.85\00:22:38.85
"For I've given you an example
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.36
that you should
do as I have done."
00:22:40.39\00:22:42.62
Part of the reason Jesus
lived for 33 and a half years
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.43
among men is He said, "I
want to show you how to live,
00:22:45.46\00:22:48.73
how to love each
other, how to forgive.
00:22:48.76\00:22:51.13
I'm not just going to tell
you to turn the other cheek.
00:22:51.17\00:22:53.37
I'm going to show
you how it's done."
00:22:53.40\00:22:55.30
And He did, didn't He?
00:22:55.34\00:22:56.91
When He went through His trial,
00:22:56.94\00:22:58.47
I'm going to show you how
to love and forgive each other.
00:22:59.91\00:23:01.61
The way He forgave.
00:23:01.64\00:23:02.98
He came point number
two, to reveal the Father.
00:23:03.75\00:23:07.25
This world is very
confused about who God is.
00:23:08.58\00:23:11.52
You know,
00:23:12.59\00:23:13.92
I don't know why it is that
as I intermingle with people,
00:23:15.62\00:23:19.16
I hear Jesus name being
used in profanity so frequently.
00:23:19.19\00:23:22.83
I've never heard people get mad,
00:23:23.90\00:23:25.37
hit their finger with the
hammer and say, "O Buddha."
00:23:25.40\00:23:28.24
I don't hear them cite
Muhammad's name or Allah or
00:23:29.84\00:23:34.68
Krishna. Why is it
this diabolical focus
00:23:35.91\00:23:38.48
to especially
scoring the name of Jesus?
00:23:38.51\00:23:43.18
That in itself ought to tell
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out there.
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World doesn't
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Jesus came to show us
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He said, "Have I
been with you so long?
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And you don't know me, Philip?
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He that has seen me
has seen the Father."
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By the way that's John 14:9.
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And then most importantly,
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Jesus came to
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We are all under a death
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I will come. I will take
the penalty for your sin.
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Not only take it, I will
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I am going to
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I will trade places with you."
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I will give you my strength
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I will give you my life
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I will give you my peace
and I will take your sufferings
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