Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000139
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01:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>WHO WAS JESUS? WAS HE A LIAR? 01:14 WAS HE A LUNATIC? OR WAS HE THE LORD? 01:20 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:23 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:25 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:29 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:31 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:41 >>OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING PROBABLY COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS 01:44 IMPORTANT AS ANYTHING I COULD TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I'M 01:48 REMINDED, AS EVERY NOW AND THEN I MINGLE WITH THE PEOPLE IN OUR 01:52 CULTURE, THAT A LOT OF FOLKS, WHILE THEY MAY HEAR THE NAME OF 01:57 JESUS FROM TIME TO TIME, THEY REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHO JESUS 02:02 IS. AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VALUABLE AND APPROPRIATE TO TALK 02:08 A LITTLE BIT - AND SOMETIMES WE NEED REMINDING - ABOUT THAT 02:12 SUBJECT: 'WHO IS JESUS?' I WASN'T SURE HOW TO TITLE THE 02:16 SERMON BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY 'WHO IS JESUS' IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S 02:20 PRESENT TENSE AND SOME PEOPLE THINK YOU SHOULD TITLE IT 'WHO 02:24 WAS JESUS?' BUT EITHER WAY YOU WORD IT, 02:28 PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW 'WHO IS HE? 02:30 WHERE DID HE COME FROM?' SOMEONE WROTE THIS BEAUTIFUL 02:33 PASSAGE ONE TIME WHERE THEY SAID, 'ALL THE ARMIES THAT HAVE 02:37 EVER MARCHED AND ALL THE NAVIES THAT HAVE EVER SAILED, ALL THE 02:41 PARLIAMENTS THAT HAVE EVER SAT AND ALL THE KINGS THAT HAVE EVER 02:43 REIGNED PUT TOGETHER HAVE NOT AFFECTED LIFE UPON EARTH AS 02:47 POWERFULLY AS THIS ONE SOLITARY LIFE.' WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 02:51 WAY THAT JESUS WAS BORN - IN COMPARATIVE OBSCURITY - AND HE 02:57 NEVER DID ALL THE TYPICAL THINGS THAT USUALLY DENOTE GREATNESS - 03:01 HE NEVER LED AN ARMY INTO BATTLE OR HE NEVER LED A NAVY. 03:04 IT DOESN'T TELL US THAT HE EVER WROTE A BOOK. 03:07 HE DIDN'T DO ANY OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TYPICALLY THINK OF WITH 03:11 GREATNESS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE. 03:13 THERE ARE A LOT OF ARTISTS RENDITIONS OF WHAT JESUS LOOKED 03:16 LIKE BUT THERE'S NOTHING CONTEMPORARY FROM HIS DAY. 03:19 AND YET, HE CHANGED ALL OF HISTORY. 03:23 WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HISTORY - YOU'VE GOT A.D. AND 03:26 B.C. - AND THEY USE NEW TERMS TODAY, BUT WE USED TO CALL THAT 03:29 BEFORE CHRIST AND AFTER DEATH OR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD. 03:33 ALL OF HISTORY IS DATED FROM HIS DEATH SO HOW CAN YOU DOUBT THAT 03:36 HE LIVED? IF YOU LOOK IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA 03:38 IT DOESN'T CAST ANY DOUBT ON WHETHER OR NOT HE LIVED. 03:42 SO WE KNOW HE LIVED. THE REAL QUESTION YOU'VE GOT TO 03:44 DECIDE: WAS HE A LIAR? WAS HE A LUNATIC? 03:49 OR WAS HE THE LORD? WHO WAS JESUS? 03:52 DID GOD COME TO OUR EARTH IN THE FORM OF A MAN TO SAVE US? 03:56 OH, I WANT TO READ SOMETHING FIRST BY A.W. TOZIER. 03:59 HE SAID, 'CHRIST IS NOT ONE OF MANY WAYS TO APPROACH GOD. 04:03 HE'S NOT THE BEST OF SEVERAL WAYS. HE IS THE ONLY WAY.' 04:07 ANYONE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST COME THROUGH CHRIST. 04:10 AND WHILE BUDDHA MAY HAVE SAID A NUMBER OF PROFOUND THINGS AND 04:14 YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME PROFOUND SAYINGS FROM KRISHNA AND 04:18 MOHAMMAD AND THE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, NOBODY 04:22 SPOKE LIKE JESUS AND NONE OF THEM DIED AS A SACRIFICE 04:26 FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. THERE'S SOMETHING VERY CLEARLY 04:29 DIFFERENT ABOUT JESUS. JESUS IS THE ONLY REDEEMER WITH 04:33 GOD. HE'S THE ONLY MEDIATOR WITH GOD. 04:36 CHRIST IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. 04:41 JESUS SAID TO NATHANAEL, 'HEREAFTER YOU'LL SEE THE ANGELS 04:45 OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON THE SON OF MAN.' NONE OF THE 04:48 OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THE WORLD SAY, 'I AM THE WAY, THE 04:52 TRUTH, AND THE LIFE' TO GOD. HE DIDN'T SAY, 'I'M ONE OF THE 04:54 WAYS.' HE SAID, 'I AM THE WAY.' HE DIDN'T SAY, 04:58 'I'M ONE OF THE TRUTHS. ALL RIVERS LEAD TO THE OCEAN. 05:01 I'M JUST ONE OF THEM.' HE SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH. 05:04 I AM THE LIFE.' SO WHY DID JESUS COME? 05:08 SO WHERE DO WE LOOK TO GET THE INFORMATION FOR THIS? 05:12 THERE ARE OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES THAT TALK ABOUT WHAT 05:17 TO EXPECT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES. 05:19 WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOOK AT ALL 300 BUT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT 05:22 SOME BASIC CATEGORIES TO FIND OUT WHO IS JESUS? 05:28 ESPECIALLY YOU'LL FIND A LOT IN THE PSALMS. 05:31 OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES REFERENCE THE 05:34 ANOINTED. THE FIRST PROPHECY YOU'RE GOING 05:36 TO FIND IN THE BIBLE REGARDING THE MESSIAH COMING IS ACTUALLY 05:39 IN GENESIS 3:15. WE'LL PUT THAT ON THE SCREEN. 05:42 HERE IS SAYS, WHEN GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ADAM AND EVE AFTER 05:47 THE FALL, HE SAID, "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY" - THAT'S SIMILAR TO 05:51 THE WORD 'ENEMY' - IT MEANS THERE'S ANIMOSITY - THERE'S 05:54 FRICTION - THERE'S AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP - 05:57 "BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN," HE WAS TALKING TO THE SERPENT - 06:00 "BETWEEN HER SEED AND YOUR SEED." 06:03 - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - TALKING ABOUT THIS PROMISED SEED 06:07 THAT WAS GOING TO COME THROUGH HUMANITY - WAS THE MESSIAH - 06:12 "HE" - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - "SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD," - GOD 06:16 SAYS TO THE SERPENT OR DEVIL THAT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, 06:19 CHRIST, WOULD BRUISE YOUR HEAD - A MORTAL WOUND TO THE HEAD - 06:21 "AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." - YOU WILL IMPEDE HIS 06:23 PROGRESS OR SLOW HIS WALK DOWN. SO THIS FIRST PROPHECY IS FOUND 06:27 RIGHT THERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 3. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A 06:29 SAVIOR - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN THAT WOULD COME THAT WOULD 06:32 DEFEAT THE SERPENT THAT CAUSED THE FALL OF MAN AND THE LOSS OF 06:36 PARADISE. THROUGH CHRIST PARADISE IS RESTORED. 06:40 SO LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE PROPHECIES. 06:43 FOR ONE THING, IN JOHN 1, VERSE 45, AFTER PHILIP FOUND JESUS HE 06:50 THEN GOES AND HE TELLS NATHANAEL, "WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF 06:53 WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF 06:57 NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH." HE SAID MOSES AND THE PROPHETS 07:01 AND THE LAW ALL TALKED ABOUT THIS MAN. 07:04 IT ALL POINTED TO THIS ONE INDIVIDUAL. 07:06 WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM? NOW WE ALLUDED TO THAT THERE IN 07:10 JOHN CHAPTER 8 BUT LET'S LOOK AS SOME OTHER VERSES. 07:14 JOHN 19, VERSE 8 - MATTER OF FACT, PONTIUS PILATE, DURING THE 07:17 TRIAL OF JESUS, HE ASKED THAT VERY QUESTION: 07:20 'WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?' 07:26 JESUS SAID, IN JOHN 6, VERSE 38, "FOR I HAVE COME DOWN FROM 07:30 HEAVEN." NOW, IF I SAID THAT TO YOU, 07:35 YOU'D PROBABLY ASK ME TO GET SOME COUNSELING. 07:39 SO ARE - THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD THINK I SNUCK 07:42 AWAY FROM AREA 51 IN NEVADA - AS AN ALIEN - BUT JESUS WASN'T 07:47 TALKING ABOUT BEING AN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL. 07:50 HE WAS SAYING HE CAME FROM THE FATHER. HE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR. 07:53 WE READ JUST A MOMENT AGO HE SAID, 'I'M GOING BACK TO THE 07:55 FATHER.' THIS IS A MESSAGE - AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FATHER, 07:58 WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A GOD OF A CERTAIN SOLAR SYSTEM OR A 08:02 CERTAIN GALAXY, BIBLICALLY, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FATHER 08:06 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF EVERYTHING. 08:10 THINK ABOUT THE IMMENSITY OF SPACE AND HOW BIG GOD MUST BE - 08:13 HOW AWESOME GOD IS. AND WHEN JESUS SAYS, 'I MADE ALL 08:17 THAT AND I AM THE SON OF GOD AND I'VE COME FROM GOD.' 08:20 WOW, THAT'S A PRETTY BOLD CLAIM. THAT'S A PRETTY AMAZING CLAIM 08:25 THAT HE CAME FROM GOD. AGAIN, JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 08:30 "MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD." 08:32 HE TOLD PILATE, 'IF MY KINGDOM WAS OF THIS WORLD THEN WOULD MY 08:34 CITIZENS FIGHT. BUT MY KINGDOM IS NOT NOW OF 08:37 THIS WORLD.' DID JESUS CLAIM TO BE GOD? 08:42 DID HE CLAIM DIVINITY? IS HE JUST ANOTHER MAN OR WAS HE 08:47 THE CO-MINGLING OF THE DIVINE AND HUMAN? 08:51 JOHN 8, VERSE 58 - "JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY 08:56 TO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'" YOU REMEMBER WHEN MOSES 09:03 WAS TALKING TO GOD AT THE BURNING BUSH AND HE SAID, 'SO 09:06 EXACTLY WHICH GOD ARE YOU? WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 09:08 WHAT SHALL I SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL? 09:11 WHO ARE YOU THAT ARE SENDING ME? DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS CARD?' 09:16 HOW DID GOD INTRODUCE HIMSELF TO MOSES? 09:18 HE SAID, 'I AM THAT I AM.' IT'S NOT THAT I ONCE WAS OR WILL BE. 09:24 THE PHRASE 'I AM' MEANS 'I AM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. 09:27 I AM THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE. I AM ETERNAL.' CHRIST WAS 09:31 CLAIMING TO BE GOD AND TO BE ETERNAL. 09:34 IT SAYS THERE WOULD BE SOMETHING UNIQUE ABOUT HIS BIRTH. 09:38 NOW EVERYBODY ALIVE WAS BORN AT SOME POINT BUT JESUS WAS BORN IN 09:43 A VERY UNIQUE WAY AND A PROPHECY TOLD THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN 09:47 500 YEARS BEFORE THE EVENT. ISAIAH 7:14, "THE LORD HIMSELF 09:52 WILL GIVE YOU A SING: BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE AND 09:55 BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL." 09:59 NOW THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN, DOES IT? 10:01 WAS JESUS BORN OF A VIRGIN? DOESN'T IT SAY THAT? 10:06 YOU CAN READ THE NEXT VERSE HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSE 18, 10:11 "NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS AS FOLLOWS: AFTER HIS MOTHER 10:16 MARY WAS BETROTHED TO JOSEPH, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER." 10:21 THIS WAS NOT SOME LABORATORY INSEMINATION. 10:25 IT SAID THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD OVERSHADOW HER. 10:28 BEFORE JOSEPH AND MARY CAME TOGETHER SHE WAS FOUND TO BE 10:30 WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND GOD SAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN. 10:37 THE BIBLE RECORDS THAT IT DID HAPPEN. 10:40 THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH IS IDENTIFIED. 10:42 NOW WE'RE GETTING VERY SPECIFIC BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO MENTION 10:44 THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM AND YOU CAN READ THIS PASSAGE IN MICAH 10:49 CHAPTER 5, VERSE 2, HE INTERROGATED THE SCRIBES AND HE 10:54 SAID, 'WHERE IS THE MESSIAH SUPPOSED TO BE BORN? AND THEY 10:57 SAID, 'WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE HE SUPPOSED TO BE BORN. HE'S 10:59 SUPPOSED TO BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. AND SO THERE WAS 11:02 NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 11:04 NOW BETHLEHEM - THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO TOWNS IN ISRAEL 11:06 CALLED 'BETHLEHEM'. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE 11:09 BUT I KNOW THERE ARE SCORES OF TOWNS IN NORTH AMERICA CALLED 11:12 FARMINGTON. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 11:14 THERE'S A LOT OF - SOME TOWNS THAT HAVE VERY COMMON NAMES YOU 11:18 CAN FIND ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA. I THINK WE'VE GOT A FEW 11:21 JAMESTOWNS AND YOU'VE GOT A FEW TOWNS CALLED PARIS - THERE'S A 11:25 PARIS, MAINE AND THERE'S A PARIS, TEXAS. 11:27 I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'D COME TO AMERICA AND NAME ANYTHING PARIS 11:31 BUT ANYWAY, THEY DID. WELL IN THE PROMISED LAND THE 11:33 WORD 'BETHLEHEM' MEANS 'HOUSE OF BREAD' AND THERE WERE A COUPLE 11:37 OF BETHLEHEMS. BUT YOU NOTICE IT SPECIFIES THE 11:39 BETHLEHEM WHERE RACHEL DIED GIVING BIRTH TO BENJAMIN, WHICH 11:44 WAS BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, WHICH IS JUST OUTSIDE JERUSALEM. 11:48 SO THIS PROPHECY IN MICAH NOT ONLY TELLS WHAT TOWN, IT 11:51 DELINEATES SPECIFICALLY WHICH BETHLEHEM JESUS WAS GOING TO 11:56 COME FROM. MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS SO CLEAR 11:59 THAT WHEN KING HEROD SAW THE WISE MEN COMING HE INTERROGATED 12:04 THE SCRIBES AND SAID, 'WHERE IS THE MESSIAH SUPPOSED TO BE 12:07 BORN?' AND THEY SAID, 'WE KNOW EXACTLY 12:09 WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BORN. HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BORN IN 12:10 BETHLEHEM.' AND SO THERE WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 12:14 NOW THERE'S A VERY INTERESTING PROPHECY. 12:17 THIS REALLY COULD BE A PROPHECY THAT ALSO TELLS THE TIME OF HIS 12:20 BIRTH. IN MATTHEW - I'M SORRY, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - DANIEL 9, 12:25 VERSE 25 - THERE'S A PROPHECY - IT'S THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 12:30 PART OF THAT PROPHECY IS CALLED THE 483-YEAR SEGMENT AND THAT'S 12:35 WHERE IT SAYS IN VERSE 25, "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT 12:39 FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD 12:42 JERUSALEM" - WHICH WAS GIVEN IN 457 B.C. 12:45 BY KING AHASUERUS - "UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE SHALL 12:50 BE SEVEN WEEKS AND SIXTY-TWO WEEKS." 12:54 SO IT'S ACTUALLY THE DECREE OF ARTEXERXES - I WAS GETTING 12:56 ESTHER MIXED UP WITH NEHEMIAH. KING ARTEXERXES IN 457 B.C. 13:01 GAVE THAT DECREE. SEVEN WEEKS, IN JEWISH PROPHECY 13:06 - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. NOW YOU'LL SEE A FEW REFERENCES 13:09 FOR THIS - EZEKIEL 4:6, 'I'VE APPOINTED YOU EACH DAY FOR A 13:13 YEAR.' YOU CAN ALSO READ THAT PRINCIPLE IN NUMBERS 14:35. 13:17 EVEN THE WORDS OF JESUS, IN A PARABLE HE TELLS, IN LUKE 13:32 13:21 HE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT IN A PROPHECY YOU USE THE PRINCIPLE 13:24 OF A DAY FOR A YEAR. SO WHEN YOU GO AND YOU ADD UP 13:28 THE TIME PERIOD HERE IN DANIEL, WHERE HE SAYS SEVEN WEEKS AND 13:32 SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - SEVEN PLUS SIXTY-TWO IS HOW MUCH? 13:36 SIXTY-NINE. SIXTY-NINE - A WEEK HAS GOT HOW MANY DAYS? 13:41 A WEEK HAS HOW MANY DAYS? I GAVE YOU AN EASY ONE, COME ON. 13:44 HELP ME. SEVEN DAYS - SO YOU ADD THAT UP AND YOU'VE GOT 13:49 483 YEARS. 69 WEEKS - 483 DAYS - A DAY IS A YEAR - 483 YEARS. 13:57 IF YOU COUNT FROM THE START OF THE DECREE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 14:02 - 457 B.C. - GIVEN BY ARTEXERXES - AND THEN 14:06 YOU GO 483 PROPHETIC YEARS - OR REGULAR YEARS - TO A.D. 27, 14:12 THAT'S EXACTLY WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. 14:16 AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN JOHN 1. 14:17 WHEN JESUS CAME TO THE JORDAN RIVER HE KNEW HIS TIME HAD COME 14:22 AND RIGHT AT HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY HE WAS BAPTIZED. 14:26 JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID - HE SAW JESUS COMING - "BEHOLD! 14:29 THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!" 14:33 JESUS WAS THAT LAMB THAT THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR. 14:35 ABRAHAM SAID TO ISAAC WHEN ISAAC SAID, 'FATHER, 14:39 WE'VE GOT THE WOOD. WE'VE GOT THE FIRE. 14:41 BUT WHERE IS THE SACRIFICE?' ABRAHAM SAID, 'MY SON, GOD WILL 14:45 PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB.' FINALLY. 14:47 THEY'RE ALL LOOKING FOR THE LAMB OF GOD - THE ANOINTED - 14:49 THE MESSIAH. JOHN SAYS, 'THERE HE IS. 14:52 THIS IS THE LAMB THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. 14:54 THIS IS THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 14:56 THIS IS THE ONE WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL THIS TIME.' AND 14:59 HE IDENTIFIED HIM SEVERAL TIMES AND THAT'S WHY PHILIP AND PETER 15:02 AND NATHANAEL ALL BEGAN TO FOLLOW HIM THEN BECAUSE HE HAD 15:06 BEEN FLAGGED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST AS THE LAMB OF GOD. 15:10 NOW, I TOLD YOU, YOU COULD ACTUALLY FIGURE FROM DANIEL'S 15:14 PROPHECY, WHEN JESUS WAS BORN. 15:16 BY THE WAY, THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE LOOKING FOR HIS BIRTH 15:21 - MAYBE BECAUSE OF DANIEL'S PROPHECY - BECAUSE THEY KNEW 15:24 THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE 483 YEARS FROM THE COMMAND TO 15:27 REBUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL THE MESSIAH WAS ANOINTED AND BEGAN 15:31 HIS MINISTRY. THEY COULD UNDERSTAND THAT A 15:34 PRIEST COULD NOT BEGIN TO TEACH UNTIL HE WAS 30. 15:38 KING DAVID DID NOT BEGIN TO REIGN UNTIL HE WAS 30. 15:41 JOSEPH WENT OUT TO ADMINISTRATE OVER EGYPT WHEN HE WAS THIRTY. 15:46 SO ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS COUNT BACK 30 YEARS FROM A.D. 15:49 27 AND FIND THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AROUND 4 B.C. 15:54 SO EVEN FROM THAT SAME PROPHECY YOU COULD HAVE CALCULATED ABOUT 15:57 THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH. 15:58 SO THERE'S PROPHECIES THAT TOLD WHEN HE WOULD BE BORN AND WHAT 16:01 DID IT SAY WOULD HAPPEN? HE WOULD BE ANOINTED. 16:04 YOU CAN READ THERE IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 38 HOW "GOD 16:09 ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH POWER, 16:12 WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED 16:16 BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM." 16:18 WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN AND HE WAS 16:21 ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE WAS THE ANOINTED. 16:24 YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT THE MIRACLES OF JESUS UNLESS YOU'RE 16:27 READING SOMETHING APOCRYPHAL. YOU DON'T READ ABOUT THE 16:29 MIRACLES OF JESUS BEFORE HE WAS 30. FOR THE FIRST 30 YEARS 16:33 OF HIS LIFE HE LIVED AS A MAN AMONG MEN, JUST AS YOU AND I DO. 16:38 AND THEN HE WAS ANOINTED AT HIS BAPTISM. HE BEGAN HIS PUBLIC 16:41 MINISTRY, TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN IN THREE AND A HALF 16:44 YEARS AND THEN THAT WOULD BE PART OF THAT 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 16:51 AND THEN IT TELLS THE NATURE OF HIS MINISTRY. 16:54 MATTER OF FACT, JESUS QUOTES THESE VERY WORDS IN NAZARETH 16:56 WHEN HE BEGAN HIS VERY MINISTRY. ISAIAH 61, VERSE 1 - CHRIST 17:00 STOOD UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF NAZARETH. 17:02 HIS HOMETOWN CHURCH, IN GALILEE AND HE SAID, 'THE SPIRIT OF THE 17:06 LORD GOD IS UPON ME; BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED ME" - HE IS 17:10 THE ANOINTED - "TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK.; HE HATH 17:14 SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 17:16 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM 17:19 THAT ARE BOUND; TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, AND 17:23 THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD; TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN." 17:26 FURTHERMORE, IT TELLS US THAT HE WOULD SPEAK AND TEACH IN 17:30 PARABLES. KING DAVID SAID, IN PSALM 78, "I 17:34 WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN A PARABLE; I WILL UTTER DARK SAYINGS OF 17:38 OLD, WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN, AND OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD 17:40 US." REGARDING CHRIST, IT SAID THAT 17:43 HE SPOKE AND HE TAUGHT THEM IN PARABLES. 17:46 WITHUOT A PARABLE HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 17:48 HE OFTEN TAUGHT IN ALLEGORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS AND THOSE THAT 17:52 HEARD HIM TALK SAID, 'NEVER, EVER DID A MAN SPEAK LIKE THIS 17:57 MAN.' THERE'S NO MAN THAT COULD TEACH LIKE JESUS. 18:01 PEOPLE WHO WENT TO ARREST HIM CAME BACK AND SAID, 'WOW, NOBODY 18:05 SPEAKS LIKE THIS MAN.' IT GOES ON AND IT TELLS US ABOUT HIS 18:10 BETRAYAL. FOR INSTANCE, PSALM 41, VERSE 9, 18:15 "EVEN MY OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND IN WHOM I TRUSTED, WHO ATE MY 18:18 BREAD, HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME." 18:22 DID JESUS EAT A MEAL WITH BREAD WITH JUDAS? 18:26 AND JUDAS WALKED RIGHT OUT THAT DOOR AND WENT TO THE PRIESTS AND 18:29 THEN LED THEM TO CHRIST. 18:31 IT GIVES US EVEN MORE DETAIL ABOUT THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS. 18:35 ZECHARIAH 11, VERSES 12 AND 13, "THEN I SAID TO THEM, 'IF IT IS 18:40 AGREEABLE TO YOU, GIVE ME MY WAGES; AND IF NOT, REFRAIN.' SO 18:44 THEY WEIGHED OUT FOR MY WAGES THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER." 18:47 NOT ONLY TELLS THAT HE WAS SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE, 18:50 IT TELLS WHAT KIND OF METAL. IT COULD HAVE BEEN COPPER, IT 18:52 COULD HAVE BEEN GOLD, IT COULD HAVE BEEN BRONZE OR SILVER. 18:55 IT SAYS IT WAS SILVER. IT TELLS HOW MANY PIECES OF 18:58 SILVER. "AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'THROW 19:01 IT TO THE POTTER' - THAT PRINCELY PRICE THEY SET ON ME. 19:04 SO I TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER AND THREW THEM INTO THE 19:08 HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR THE POTTER." 19:09 NOW I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL BUT ALL THE VERSES IN 19:13 MATTHEW 27, VERSES 3 TO 7 - YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP - MATTHEW 19:16 27:3-7 - IT TELLS HOW, DURING THE TRIAL OF CHRIST, JUDAS, 19:20 OVERWHELMED WITH A SENSE OF GUILT - YOU KNOW, ONCE THE DEVIL 19:23 HAD USED HIM HE DIDN'T NEED JUDAS ANYMORE AND JUDAS, FINALLY 19:27 REALIZING WHAT HE HAD DONE, CAME TO HIS SENSES. 19:29 HE BETRAYED THE SON OF GOD AND THEY WERE PREPARING TO CRUCIFY 19:32 HIM. HE JUST WAS CRUSHED BY A SENSE OF HIS GUILT. 19:36 HE WENT INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TEMPLE WHERE HE WAS BEING 19:40 TRIED. THE SANHEDRIN WAS MEETING. HE SAID, 'I'VE BETRAYED 19:44 INNOCENT BLOOD.' HE THREW DOWN THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. 19:48 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE IT BECAUSE IT WAS BLOOD MONEY, THEY 19:50 CALLED IT, SO THEY BOUGHT A 'POTTER'S FIELD' TO BURY 19:53 STRANGERS IN WITH THE MONEY. THAT'S ALL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 19:56 YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M - LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING HERE 20:00 AT THE OUTSET, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 20:02 ALRIGHT, HERE WE'VE GOT - I'VE GOT THE BOOK OF MATTHEW - HERE'S 20:04 THE NEW TESTAMENT, THIS IS THE OLD TESTAMENT. 20:07 OLD TESTAMENT, OF COURSE, STARTS WITH MOSES. 20:09 NEW TESTAMENT DOESN'T BEGIN UNTIL THE BIRTH OF JESUS. 20:12 THESE PROPHECIES I'M READING TO YOU ABOUT THE MESSIAH, THEY COME 20:16 FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. NOT ONLY DO THEY COME FROM THE 20:18 OLD TESTAMENT, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NO PAGE HERE, THERE 20:22 OUGHT TO BE A PAGE IN YOUR BIBLE THAT SAYS, '400 YEARS' - ONE 20:25 PAGE THAT JUST SAYS '400 YEARS OF SILENCE.' THERE ARE 400 YEARS 20:29 BETWEEN ALL THESE PROPHECIES AND WHEN JESUS FINALLY COMES. 20:34 THAT PROPHECY I JUST READ TO YOU FROM ZECHARIAH - THEY COULDN'T 20:37 HAVE CONCOCTED AND MADE THAT UP - 400 YEARS WENT BY. 20:40 WE KNOW FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THAT THESE THINGS WERE 20:42 WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. 20:44 HOW CAN YOU FABRICATE - HOW CAN YOU COUNTERFEIT - HOW COULD YOU 20:49 MANUFACTURE THAT THAT PROPHECY WOULD BE FULFILLED - THAT JESUS 20:54 WOULD BE BETRAYED BY A FRIEND, WHO ATE BREAD WITH HIM, FOR 20:57 THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER WHO WOULD THEN THROW IT TO THE 20:59 POTTER'S FIELD AND THE HOUSE OF THE LORD? 21:02 I MEAN, THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOUSANDS. 21:05 OH, ACTUALLY 300 - I GOT CARRIED AWAY. 21:09 PROPHECIES - THERE MIGHT BE MORE BUT SOMEONE COUNTED 300 AND I 21:11 BELIEVE IT. IT TELLS ABOUT THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH. 21:15 THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE PROPHECY. YOU READ IN PSALM 22, "THE 21:19 CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME. 21:21 THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. 21:23 THEY DIVIDE MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY 21:27 CAST LOTS." THIS WAS PROPHESIED NEARLY 800 21:30 YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. HOW COULD YOU KNOW THAT? 21:35 AND THAT'S ALL IN THAT ONE PSALM. 21:36 AND THERE ARE MANY PSALMS. PSALM 34, "HE GUARDS ALL HIS 21:39 BONES; NOT ONE OF THEM IS BROKEN." 21:41 THEY BROKE THE BONES OF THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT 21:44 OF JESUS - BECAUSE JESUS WAS THE PASSOVER LAMB AND THEY WERE 21:47 NEVER TO BREAK THE BONES OF THE PASSOVER LAMB - 21:50 THEY DIDN'T BREAK ANY OF HIS BONES. 21:52 JUST AS THE PROPHECY HAD SAID, HE GUARDS MY BONES. 21:55 JESUS ALSO CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF GOD - NOT IN THE SENSE THAT 22:01 WE ARE ALL SONS OF GOD, BUT IN THE UNIQUE SENSE THAT HE IS THE 22:04 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD AND HE CLAIMED TO HAVE THE PREROGATIVES 22:09 OR THE POWERS OF THE DIVINE. HE CLAIMED TO BE GOD. 22:12 NOW THOSE ARE SOME PRETTY BOLD CLAIMS. 22:16 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH WHAT JESUS SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF? 22:19 C.S. LEWIS PUTS IT THIS WAY, "A MAN WHO WAS MERELY A MAN AND 22:22 SAID THE SORT OF THINGS THAT JESUS SAID WOULDN'T BE A GREAT 22:24 MORAL TEACHER, HE'D BE A LUNATIC ON THE LEVEL OF A MAN WHO SAYS 22:28 HE'S A POACHED EGG OR ELSE HE'D BE THE DEVIL OF HELL. 22:32 YOU MUST MAKE YOUR CHOICE. EITHER THIS MAN WAS AND IS THE 22:34 SON OF GOD OR ELSE HE'S A MADMAN OR SOMETHING WORSE." 22:38 SOMEONE ELSE PUT IT THIS WAY, "CHRIST WAS EITHER A CONSCIOUS 22:42 DECEIVER, DELUDED, OR DIVINE. HE IS EITHER LUNATIC, LIAR, OR 22:48 LORD. THERE IS NO ESCAPING ONE OF 22:51 THESE THREE OPTIONS." YOU KNOW THERE'S THREE PRINCIPAL 22:54 REASONS JESUS CAME - FIRST, HE CAME TO BE OUR EXAMPLE. 22:59 HE SAYS IN JOHN 13:5 - SORRY, JOHN 13:15, "FOR I HAVE GIVEN 23:05 YOU AN EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD TO AS I HAVE DONE." 23:08 PART OF THE REASON JESUS LIVED FOR THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF 23:10 YEARS AMONG MEN IS HE SAID, 'I WANT TO SHOW YOU HOW TO LIVE - 23:14 HOW TO LOVE EACH OTHER - HOW TO FORGIVE. 23:16 I'M NOT JUST GOING TO TELL YOU TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, I'M 23:19 GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE.' AND HE DID, DIDN'T HE? 23:22 WHEN HE WENT THROUGH HIS TRIAL? 'I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO 23:25 LOVE AND FORGIVE EACH OTHER' - THE WAY HE FORGAVE. 23:28 HE CAME - POINT #2 - TO REVEAL THE FATHER. 23:33 THIS WORLD IS VERY CONFUSED ABOUT WHO GOD IS. 23:37 YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS THAT AS I INTERMINGLE WITH 23:43 PEOPLE I HEAR JESUS' NAME BEING USED IN PROFANITY SO FREQUENTLY. 23:48 I'VE NEVER HEARD PEOPLE GET MAD AND HIT THEIR FINGER WITH A 23:52 HAMMER AND SAY, 'OH BUDDHA!' I DON'T HEAR THEM CITE 23:56 MOHAMMAD'S NAME OR ALLAH OR KRISHNA. 24:01 WHY IS IT THERE'S THIS DIABOLICAL FOCUS TO ESPECIALLY 24:07 SCORN THE NAME OF JESUS? THAT IN AND OF ITSELF OUGHT TO 24:10 TELL YOU THERE'S A SPIRITUAL BATTLE OUT THERE. 24:13 THE WORLD DOESN'T KNOW WHO THE FATHER IS. 24:15 JESUS CAME TO SHOW US WHAT THE FATHER IS LIKE. 24:18 HE SAID, "HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU SO LONG AND YOU DON'T KNOW ME, 24:21 PHILIP? HE THAT HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE 24:24 FATHER." BY THE WAY, THAT'S JOHN 14:9. 24:27 AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, JESUS CAME TO TRADE PLACES WITH 24:31 US. WE ARE ALL UNDER A DEATH 24:33 SENTENCE BECAUSE OF OUR SIN AND OUR SELFISHNESS. 24:36 AND CHRIST DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE US. HE LOVES US AND HE SAID, 24:39 'I WILL COME. I WILL TAKE THE PENALTY FOR YOUR 24:42 SIN AND NOT ONLY TAKE IT, I WILL GIVE YOU MY STRENGTH AND POWER. 24:45 I AM GOING TO BE YOUR SUBSTITUTE. 24:47 I WILL TRADE PLACES WITH YOU.' HE SAID, 'I WILL GIVE YOU MY 24:51 GOODNESS AND I WILL TAKE YOUR BADNESS. 24:53 I WILL GIVE YOU MY STRENGTH AND I'LL TAKE YOUR WEAKNESS. 24:56 I WILL GIVE YOU MY LIFE AND I WILL TAKE YOUR DEATH. 24:59 I WILL GIVE YOU MY PEACE AND I WILL TAKE YOUR SUFFERINGS AND 25:02 YOUR MISERY.' HE'S OFFERING THAT ALL AS A GIFT THAT WE RECEIVE BY 25:06 FAITH. BUT YOU NEED TO BELIEVE THAT HE 25:08 IS WHO HE SAID HE IS. DO YOU KNOW HIM, FRIENDS? 25:13 HAVE YOU ACCEPTED HIM? YOU CAN RIGHT NOW. 25:16 "HIS EXAMPLE" - MARTIN LUTHER SAID, IN HIS LIFE "IS SHOWING US 25:22 HOW TO LIVE. IN HIS DEATH HE IS A SACRIFICE 25:25 SATISFYING FOR OUR SINS. IN HIS RESURRECTION HE IS A 25:28 CONQUEROR. IN HIS ASCENSION HE IS A KING. 25:31 IN HIS INTERCESSION HE IS A PRIEST. 25:33 HE IS EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED." IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS 25:37 WRITTEN OF HIM. WHEN WE SEE ABRAHAM GOING UP THE 25:41 HILL WITH ISAAC WE SEE JESUS. WHEN WE SEE MOSES LEADING A 25:44 NATION FROM SLAVERY, WE SEE JESUS. 25:47 WHEN WE SEE JOSEPH FORGIVING HIS BROTHERS FOR MISTREATING HIM WE 25:51 SEE JESUS. WE SEE JESUS IN SAMPSON WHEN HE 25:54 STRETCHES OUT HIS ARMS TO DEFEAT THE ENEMIES OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 25:58 WE SEE JESUS IN GIDEON DEFEATING THE ENEMY WITH THIS SMALL GROUP. 26:03 ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE I SEE JESUS EVERYWHERE. 26:05 THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM. HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW WHO HE IS. 26:09 GOD BECAME A MAN AND HIS NAME WAS JESUS. DO YOU KNOW HIM? 26:15 YOU NEED TO KNOW HIM BECAUSE KNOWING HIM IS EVERLASTING LIFE. 26:23 >>THIS MYSTERIOUS INDIVIDUAL APPEARS ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS 26:26 TO REVELATION. IT'S MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL. 26:30 WHO IS MICHAEL? 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