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AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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>>HISTORY DOESN'T CHALLENGE
HIS EXISTENCE THAT HE LIVED.
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AND SO YOU REALLY ONLY
HAVE THREE CHOICES WITH JESUS.
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HE WAS EITHER A LIAR, OR HE
WAS A LUNATIC, OR HE'S LORD.
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>>OUR PRESENTATION
TONIGHT DEALING WITH THE HERO OF
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REVELATION IS PART OF OUR
PROPHECY ENCOUNTERS SERIES.
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THIS IS REALLY A NEW SERIES
WE CALL IT PROPHECY ENCOUNTER
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BECAUSE WE'RE HOPING THAT
THROUGH THE STUDY OF PROPHECY
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THAT PEOPLE WILL ENCOUNTER
THE HERO OF REVELATION.
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AND I THINK WE
ALL KNOW WHO THAT IS.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ THE
FIRST WORDS IN REVELATION IT'S
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NOT A REVELATION OF THE BEAST.
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IT'S NOT A REVELATION OF THE
ANTICHRIST. PEOPLE SAY 'I WANT
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TO READ ABOUT THE
ANTICHRIST IN REVELATION.'
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ARE YOU AWARE THE WORD
ANTICHRIST DOES NOT APPEAR IN
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THE BOOK OF REVELATION?
IT'S IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN.
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THE BOOK OF
REVELATION IS ABOUT JESUS.
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HE IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE, BUT
NOT JUST THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
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THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT JESUS
AS YOU'LL DISCOVER IN OUR STUDY
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TONIGHT. FIRST
VERSE REVELATION 1:1 "THE
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REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH
GOD GAVE TO HIM TO SHOW HIS
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SERVANTS THINGS WHICH
MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS."
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SO THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND
THE THINGS WE'RE GOING TO STUDY
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IN REVELATION - BIBLE TELLS US
WAY BACK IN THE TIME OF CHRIST
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THEY WERE ABOUT TO COME TO PASS
SO THE PROPHECY AT LEAST BEGINS
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DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST AND
CARRIES ON UNTIL OF COURSE WE'RE
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IN HEAVEN. YOU READ
REVELATION 21 AND 22.
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THERE ARE OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHECIES THAT PROVIDE A NUMBER
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OF PRECISE IDENTIFYING
CHARACTERISTICS REGARDING THE
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MESSIAH. A LOT OF
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
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THINK THAT JESUS WAS JUST
ONE OF MANY RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
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YOU CANNOT REALLY BELIEVE
THAT AND BE A CHRISTIAN. BIBLE
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SAYS THERE IS NO OTHER NAME
GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST
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BE SAVED. JESUS IS NOT
JUST ANOTHER RELIGIOUS TEACHER.
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GOD BECAME A MAN. IT'S
CALLED THE INCARNATION IN
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CHRIST TO SAVE US AND
WE NEED TO KNOW WHO HE IS.
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THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS ALL
ABOUT JESUS AND YOU NEED TO KNOW
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WHO HE IS. THE WHOLE
BIBLE TELLS US ABOUT THAT.
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WE'RE GOING TO
DELVE INTO SOME OF THESE.
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FIRST PROPHECY IS IN THE BOOK
OF GENESIS - GENESIS CHAPTER 3,
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VERSE 15. THIS IS AFTER ADAM
AND EVE SINNED AND GOD, THEN,
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SPEAKING TO ADAM AND EVE,
AND BECAUSE OF THE SERPENT WAS
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THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH LUCIFER
SPOKE, GOD SAID "AND I WILL PUT
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ENMITY" - THAT'S WHERE
YOU GET THE WORD ENEMY.
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IT MEANS THERE'S
ANIMOSITY THERE IS FRICTION.
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THERE IS A POLAR RESISTANCE
- "BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN" -
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BETWEEN THE
SERPENT AND THE WOMAN.
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THAT COMES UP IN REVELATION,
SO I WANT YOU TO NOTE THAT -
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"BETWEEN YOUR SEED" - THE SEED
OF THE SERPENT - "AND HER SEED"
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- THE SEED, OR THE
OFFSPRING OF THE WOMAN - THE
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SEED OF THE WOMAN IT'S
TALKING ABOUT IS THE MESSIAH.
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IT GOES ON TO SAY, "AND HE"
- THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - "WILL
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BRUISE YOUR HEAD."
CHRIST WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD
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OF THE SERPENT, AND
YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."
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THE PROGRESS OR THE WALK OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS BEEN
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IMPEDED - SLOWED BY
THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.
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THERE IS A BATTLE IN THIS WORLD
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - BETWEEN
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THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT - THAT
CARRIES ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
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YOU READ IN REVELATION 12 -
WE DON'T HAVE TO GUESS WHO THE
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SERPENT IS - 'SO THAT GREAT
DRAGON WAS CAST OUT; THE SERPENT
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OF OLD CALLED THE DEVIL AND
SATAN WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE
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WORLD." HOW MUCH OF
THE WORLD DOES HE DECEIVE?
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THE WHOLE WORLD. SO
WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM?
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THAT'S A VERY
IMPORTANT QUESTION.
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IT - IS HE JUST A MAN?
WAS HE BORN LIKE OTHER MEN?
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CHRIST MADE SOME
PRETTY BOLD CLAIMS.
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FOR ONE THING, HE SAID IN JOHN
6:38, "FOR I HAVE COME DOWN FROM
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HEAVEN." WELL, NOT
EVERYBODY SAYS THAT.
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I MEAN, IF YOU MEET SOMEBODY
THAT SAYS 'I'VE COME FROM
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HEAVEN' AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE
- WE TALKED A LITTLE LAST NIGHT
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ABOUT PEOPLE WHO
CLAIM TO BE CHRIST.
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AND THERE'S SOME PROMINENT
CHARACTERS THAT CLAIMED TO BE
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JESUS BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME THAT
ARE LOCKED UP HERE AND THERE.
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AND I MET SOMEBODY ONCE THAT
CLAIMED TO BE JESUS THAT I'LL
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NEVER FORGET BECAUSE I WAS
BY MYSELF UP IN THE MOUNTAINS.
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I LIVED IN A CAVE BACK THEN.
I WAS A HERMIT FOR ABOUT A YEAR
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AND A HALF AND I
WAS ALL BY MYSELF.
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AND A HIKER CAME BY THE CAVE AND
THAT WAS NOT THAT UNUSUAL I'D
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SEE PEOPLE FROM TIME TO TIME.
HE STAYED AND HE VISITED FOR
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A LITTLE BIT THEN
SAID HE WAS JESUS.
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AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT 'I'VE GOT
SOME SPANISH FRIENDS NAMED JESUS
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MAYBE THAT'S' - (RAUCOUS
LAUGHTER) - HE DIDN'T LOOK
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SPANISH. AND
THEN HE SAID 'NO I AM
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CHRIST.' HE SAID, 'MY
NAME IS MICHAEL DAVID HARPER.
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THEY SAID THAT'S MY EARTHLY NAME
BUT I'VE COME FROM HEAVEN.' WELL
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I'LL TELL YOU IT'S A LITTLE
SPOOKY WHEN YOU'RE BY YOURSELF
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UP THE HILLS AND YOU MEET
SOMEBODY WHO SAYS 'I'M JESUS.
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AND I HAVE COME' - AND I WASN'T
QUITE SURE WHAT TO SAY BECAUSE I
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JUST STARTED READING THE BIBLE.
I THOUGHT 'WEL,L IF IT IS JESUS,
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I'VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
AND IF IT IS JESUS I DON'T WANT
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TO SHOW A LACK OF FAITH AND
HURT HIS FEELINGS.' I MEAN, ALL
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KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS ARE GOING
THROUGH YOUR HEAD, YOU KNOW?
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AND I DIDN'T
WANT TO MAKE HIM MAD.
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WHETHER HE WAS
JESUS OR WASN'T JESUS.
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AND SO I SAID, 'WELL, THE BIBLE
SAYS THAT WHEN YOU COME THAT
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EVERYBODY IS GOING TO SEE YOU
IT WILL BE LIKE LIGHT -' HE SAYS
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'THAT'S TRUE.' - HE SAYS, 'YOU
DON'T BUT I'M COMING SPECIALLY
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TO PREPARE SOME OTHER PEOPLE
EARLY.' AND HE HAD LIKE AN
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ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING HE KNEW
THE BIBLE AND HE STAYED WITH ME
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FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS AND ATE
ALL MY FOOD SO I KNEW HE WASN'T
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JESUS AND HE DIDN'T CLEAN UP AND
- (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AND I SAW
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HIM A WEEK OR SO LATER AND HE
ACTUALLY HAD FOUND AN APOSTLE.
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SOME GUY WAS FOLLOWING HIM
AROUND SAYING THIS IS JESUS.
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AND THEN I SAW HIM A FEW WEEKS
LATER - WE LIVED ON THE STREETS
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BACK THEN WHEN I WASN'T UP
IN THE CAVE AND HE WAS MISSING A
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TOOTH BECAUSE HE
GOT INTO A FIGHT.
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I FELT SO MUCH BETTER BECAUSE
I KNOW JESUS HAS ALL HIS TEETH.
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(LAUGHTER) SO - BUT YOU KNOW YOU
MEET ALL KINDS OF STRANGE PEOPLE
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OUT THERE. WELL SO
WHEN JESUS SAID 'I'VE
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COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN' AND THEN
HE TOLD PILATE IN JOHN 18:36 "MY
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KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS
WORLD." - 'I AM FROM OUT OF THIS
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WORLD.' WELL, WHAT IS
HE AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL?
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WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM?
HE'S MAKING SOME BOLD CLAIMS.
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AND SO WE NEED TO EVALUATE
THAT. DID JESUS CLAIM DIVINITY?
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DID HE CLAIM TO BE
GOD? IN A WORD, YES.
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AND HERE'S SOME
VERSES THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT.
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JOHN 8:58 - "JESUS SAID TO THEM,
'MOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU
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BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'" NOW,
YOU MIGHT BE THINKING 'WELL THAT
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DOESN'T MEAN HE WAS
CLAIMING TO BE GOD.'
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THE JEWS WHO WERE LISTENING
TO HIM THAT DAY BELIEVED HE WAS
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CLAIMING TO BE GOD BECAUSE GOD
SAID TO MOSES, 'I AM THAT I AM.'
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THAT WAS A TITLE FOR GOD
- THE SELF-EXISTENCE ONE.
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THEY TOOK UP STONES TO STONE HIM
FOR BLASPHEMY CLAIMING TO BE GOD
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AND JESUS DID NOT RETRACT THAT.
AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, 'BEFORE
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ABRAHAM WAS' - HE SAYS - 'I
PREEXISTED.' AND THEN YOU CAN
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READ AGAIN IN JOHN 17:18.
"THEREFORE MY FATHER LOVES ME
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BECAUSE I LAID DOWN MY LIFE
THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN."
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AND NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE LAY DOWN
THEIR LIVES AND TAKE IT AGAIN.
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HE SAYS, 'NO ONE
TAKES IT FROM ME.
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I AM LAYING IT DOWN AND I'M
TAKING IT UP.' AND THEN HE GOES
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ON AND HE SAYS IN MARK 2:10,
"THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON
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EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS" - AND YOU
CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS 'GOD AND
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GOD ONLY CAN FORGIVE SINS.' AND
SO THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS THAT
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JESUS EXPLAINED HE
HAD DIVINE PREROGATIVES.
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AND SO YES JESUS IS
NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN.
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HE SAID HE PREEXISTED BEFORE HE
CAME TO THIS WORLD - HAD POWER
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TO FORGIVE SIN. HOW
CAN WE EVALUATE HIS CLAIMS?
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HOW DO WE TEST TO
SEE IF THIS IS TRUE?
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C.S. LEWIS THE CHRISTIAN
PHILOSOPHER SAID YOU REALLY ONLY
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HAVE THREE CHOICES WITH
JESUS NO QUESTION THAT HE LIVED.
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WHAT YEAR IS IT RIGHT
NOW? I KNOW I'M JUST TESTING -
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2017 - 2017 WHAT? THE
WHOLE DATING METHOD THAT THE
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WORLD USES IS BASED
ON THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.
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I TOLD YOU THEY GOT THAT
OFF LITTLE BIT BUT IT WAS,
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OSTENSIBLY, DATED FROM CHRIST.
SO YOU CAN'T DENY THAT HE LIVED.
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HISTORY DOESN'T CHALLENGE
HIS EXISTENCE THAT HE LIVED.
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SO IT'S LIKE C.S. LEWIS SAID:
HE WAS EITHER A LIAR OR HE WAS A
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LUNATIC. OR HE'S LORD.
THOSE ARE REALLY THE ONLY
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THREE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE.
>>THIS MYSTERIOUS INDIVIDUAL
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APPEARS ALL THE WAY
FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
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IT'S MICHAEL THE
ARCHANGEL. WHO IS MICHAEL?
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IS HE A CHERUBIM? A SERAPHIM?
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THIS ANGEL GENERAL
OF THE LORD'S ARMY.
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND
THIS SUBJECT, FRIENDS?
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>>SO HOW DO WE DETERMINE -
WHERE DO WE GO TO FIND OUT?
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THE BIBLE TELLS US - AND JESUS
HIMSELF SAID IN JOHN CHAPTER 5,
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VERSE 39, "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE
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ETERNAL LIFE" - HE SAID - "THESE
ARE THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME."
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NOW WHEN JESUS SAID THAT, HOW
MUCH NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN?
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NONE. AND SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN
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ILLUSTRATE SOMETHING AND
I AM GLAD TO SEE SOME OF YOU
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BROUGHT YOUR BIBLES HERE.
I'M GOING TO QUICKLY - OH GOOD
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I'VE FOUND IT RIGHT AWAY.
THIS IS YOUR BIBLE I'VE DIVIDED
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IT JUST VISUALLY SO
YOU GET A ROUGH IDEA.
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME CONTENTS
AND CONCORDANCE AND STUFF IN THE
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FRONT THE BACK BUT APPROXIMATELY
THREE-QUARTERS OF THE BIBLE OLD
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TESTAMENT THIS IS
WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS.
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MATTER OF FACT, THE LAST BOOK
- MALACHI - IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
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WAS WRITTEN ABOUT 400
YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN.
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SO THERE'S A NICE
SPREAD BETWEEN THE TWO.
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AND THEN YOU GET TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT TALKS ABOUT THE BIRTH
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OF JESUS CHRIST. FIRST
WORDS IN REVELATION ARE
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THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
FIRST WORDS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
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- THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS
CHRIST. SO IT TELLS ABOUT THE
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COMING OF THE MESSIAH. THE
OLD TESTAMENT FORETELLS WHEN
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THE SAVIOR WOULD COME -
WHEN GOD WOULD BECOME A MAN.
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AND A LOT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
IS TALKING ABOUT CHRIST.
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THERE ARE
HUNDREDS OF PROPHECIES.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING NOW
AT A LOT OF PROPHECIES HERE THAT
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WERE WRITTEN HUNDREDS, IN
SOME CASES, MORE THAN A THOUSAND
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YEARS BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE HERE
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THAT EXACTLY WHAT
WAS FORETOLD HAPPENED.
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AND THIS IS ONE REASON I THINK
THIS IS NOT JUST WHITE PAGES AND
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BLACK INK. I
BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS A
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SUPERNATURAL CORRESPONDENCE
WITH HUMANITY AND GOD HAS DONE
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SOMETHING MIRACULOUSLY
TO PROTECT THIS BOOK.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK IN THE BIBLE.
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FURTHERMORE LUKE 24, VERSE 27,
JESUS, WHEN HE WAS TALKING TO
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THE TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO
EMMAUS, HE SAID, "HE EXPOUNDED
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UNTO THEM BEGINNING AT MOSES AND
ALL THE PROPHETS HE EXPOUNDED TO
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THEM IN ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES
THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF."
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SO JESUS GAVE A BIBLE STUDY
TO THESE TWO DISCIPLES AND HE
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SHOWED THEM THROUGH ALL OF
THE SCRIPTURES, PRIOR TO THE NEW
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TESTAMENT, THINGS CONCERNING
HIMSELF. AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
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THAT JESUS IS ALL
THE WAY THROUGH THERE.
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A LOT OF - I'VE BEEN TO CHURCHES
BEFORE WHERE THEY SUPPLY A BIBLE
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AND ALL THEY HAVE
IS A NEW TESTAMENT.
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THEY SAY, 'WELL, WE'RE A
NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH WE DON'T -
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THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT.'
YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE NEW
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TESTAMENT WITHOUT
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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IT'S THE MOON THAT THE WOMAN
STANDS ON THOUGH SHE IS CLOTHED
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WITH THE SUN OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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IT'S THE FOUNDATION.
THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SO
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IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE
NEW. AND AGAIN, HEBREWS 10:7,
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HE SAID, "BEHOLD I COME. IN
THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS
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WRITTEN OF ME TO
DO YOUR WILL, O GOD."
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SO THE WHOLE BIBLE IS
TELLING US ABOUT JESUS.
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DOES PROPHECY FORETELL
THE MESSIAH'S FAMILY TREE?
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AND THE ANSWER
IS, ABSOLUTELY, YES.
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FOR ONE THING, GOD TOLD
ABRAHAM HE WAS CALLING HIM FROM
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MESOPOTAMIA. HE
SAID, 'THROUGH YOUR
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DESCENDANTS THE MESSIAH WOULD
COME.' AND YOU FIND THAT IN
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GENESIS 12, VERSE 3, "IN
YOU SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES
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OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED."
- THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS -
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THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD
COME THROUGH THE HEBREW LINE.
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NOW YOU REALIZE A JEW
AND A HEBREW IS DIFFERENT.
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ABRAHAM HAD MORE CHILDREN THAN
JUST ISAAC AND ISAAC HAD MORE
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CHILDREN THAN JUST JACOB.
AND JACOB HAD MORE CHILDREN THAN
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JUST JUDAH THE WORD 'JEW' KIND
OF COMES FROM THE DESCENDANTS
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OF JUDAH, PRINCIPALLY.
BUT WE OFTEN USE IT TO TALK
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ABOUT HEBREWS, IN GENERAL.
BUT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME
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THROUGH THE DESCENDANTS OF,
NOT ONLY ABRAHAM, BUT ISAAC.
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YOU READ IN GENESIS 26,
VERSE 4, SAYS "I WILL GIVE YOUR
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DESCENDANTS THESE LANDS AND IN
YOUR SEED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE
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WORLD WILL BE BLESSED."
BECAUSE JESUS DID NOT JUST
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COME FOR JEWS, DID HE?
HE CAME TO SAVE EVERYBODY.
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'WHOSOEVER WILL' THE PROMISE
IS. HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES GO
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TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
AND THEN, NOT ONLY DID IT COME
00:14:45.85\00:14:49.12
FROM ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC -
SEE ABRAHAM ALSO HAD ISHMAEL AND
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SEVERAL OTHER CHILDREN THROUGH
KETURAH. ISAAC ALSO HAD ESAU.
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BUT HE SAID THE BLESSING WOULD
COME THROUGH JACOB AND JACOB
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PROPHESIED. YOU SEE THE
PROPHECY IN NUMBERS 24:17.
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"A STAR WILL COME OUT OF JACOB,
A SCEPTER" - A SCEPTOR'S WHAT A
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KING HOLDS - "WILL
RISE OUT OF ISRAEL."
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THERE WOULD BE THIS KING - THE
KING OF KINGS - THAT WOULD COME.
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BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE PROPHECY,
PROBABLY, THAT THE WISE MEN IN
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THE EAST WERE READING WHEN THEY
CAME AND FOLLOWED THE STAR -
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THIS STAR THAT SAID THERE WAS
A NEW KING THAT WOULD COME AND
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THEN WHEN HE WAS DYING THERE IN
GENESIS 49, JACOB, LATER CALLED
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ISRAEL, HE PROPHESIED THAT
OF HIS SONS - AND HE HAD TWELVE
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SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER - THE
MESSIAH WOULD THEN BE COMING
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SPECIFICALLY
THROUGH WHICH ONE? JUDAH.
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RIGHT? YOU ALL WITH ME?
YOU ALL KNEW THAT DIDN'T YOU?
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THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH -
OF THE TWELVE SONS OF JACOB, HE
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WOULD COME THROUGH JUDAH.
AND HE SAYS THERE IN GENESIS 49,
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'THE SCEPTER WILL NOT DEPART
FROM JUDAH NOR A LAW GIVER FROM
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BETWEEN HIS FEET UNTIL SHILOH
COME' - THAT MEANS THE KING OF
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PEACE - AND UNTO HIM SHALL THE
GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE BE.' SO
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IT WOULD COME
THROUGH THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:16:01.56\00:16:03.56
'THERE WILL COME FORTH A ROD
FROM THE STEM OF JESSE' - JESSE
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WAS THE FATHER OF DAVID - 'AND A
BRANCH WILL GROW FROM HIS ROOTS'
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- IT SAID THE MESSIAH WOULD COME
FROM THE HOUSEHOLD OF DAVID -
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'AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL
REST UPON HIM.' WELL WHY DOES IT
00:16:13.64\00:16:17.47
SAY 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD'?
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THE VERY WORD 'MESSIAH,' IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, MEANS 'ANOINTED'
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THE WORD CHRIST - CHRISTOS
- IT'S GREEK FOR THE ANOINTED.
00:16:24.01\00:16:29.82
YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY CHRISTEN A
SHIP, THEY SPLASH THE BOTTLE OF
00:16:29.85\00:16:32.75
CHAMPAGNE OR WINE ON IT
AND IT'S CALLED A CHRISTENING.
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AN ANOINTING MEANS TO SHOWER
SOMETHING. JESUS WAS TO BE
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SHOWERED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
OF GOD AND THEY CALLED HIM THE
00:16:40.30\00:16:44.27
ANOINTED THAT CAME THROUGH
THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID.
00:16:44.30\00:16:47.97
NOW YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND YOU SEE WAS IT FULFILLED?
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AND YOU CAN READ IN LUKE CHAPTER
1, VERSE 26, NOW IN THE SIXTH
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MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS
SENT BY GOD TO A CITY IN GALILEE
00:16:56.71\00:17:01.98
NAMED NAZARETH.
WHERE'D THE ANGEL GO?
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I WANT YOU TO CATCH THAT BECAUSE
THERE'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM
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HERE IN THE MOMENT. TO A
VIRGIN THAT WAS BETROTHED
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TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS
JOSEPH OF THE HOUSE OF WHERE?
00:17:10.16\00:17:14.00
HOUSE OF DAVID - THE VIRGIN'S
NAME WAS MARY - AND THIS ALL
00:17:14.03\00:17:17.00
SOUNDS LIKE A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
YOU ALL KNOW THIS STORY RIGHT?
00:17:17.03\00:17:19.90
BUT BOTH MARY AND JOSEPH
WERE DESCENDANTS FROM DAVID.
00:17:19.93\00:17:23.57
YOU FIND THE GENEALOGY OF MARY
GOING THROUGH HER FATHER BACK TO
00:17:23.61\00:17:28.31
JESUS IN LUKE, AND THE GENEALOGY
FOLLOWS JOSEPH IN MATTHEW.
00:17:28.34\00:17:32.41
SO EITHER WAY THEY WERE
BOTH DESCENDANTS OF DAVID AND,
00:17:32.45\00:17:37.82
FURTHERMORE, IT SAYS THAT JESUS
WOULD COME THROUGH NOT JUST THE
00:17:37.85\00:17:40.89
HOUSE OF DAVID, BUT THE
MOTHER WOULD BE A VIRGIN.
00:17:40.92\00:17:43.09
NOW THAT
CERTAINLY IS UNIQUE, RIGHT?
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YOU READ THAT PROPHECY IN ISAIAH
CHAPTER 7, VERSE 14, "BEHOLD A
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VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE AND BEAR
A SON AND THEY'LL CALL HIS NAME
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EMMANUEL, WHICH
MEANS GOD WITH US."
00:17:54.30\00:17:58.11
JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
BY THE WAY, THAT'S WRITTEN 700
00:17:58.14\00:18:01.14
YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS
BORN - FORETOLD THAT THE MESSIAH
00:18:01.18\00:18:04.21
WOULD BE BORN OF A VIRGIN.
NOW YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:18:04.25\00:18:07.35
AND YOU READ IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 1:18.
00:18:07.38\00:18:10.02
IT SAYS THAT, 'NOW THE BIRTH OF
JESUS WAS AS FOLLOWS: AFTER HIS
00:18:10.05\00:18:14.59
MOTHER MARY WAS BETROTHED' -
OR ENGAGED - 'TO JOSEPH, BEFORE
00:18:14.62\00:18:18.46
THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE WAS
FOUND TO BE WITH CHILD.' AND, OF
00:18:18.49\00:18:23.23
COURSE, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THE
VIRGIN BIRTH OF MARY - JESUS -
00:18:23.26\00:18:28.84
VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS -
BUT MARY WAS THE VIRGIN. YEAH.
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WHAT ABOUT WHERE
HE WOULD BE BORN?
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DOES THE BIBLE TALK SO WE
WOULDN'T HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT
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WHO THE SAVIOR OF MAN
WOULD BE? NO DOUBTS ABOUT WHEN
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GOD BECAME A MAN. WHO IS IT?
00:18:40.95\00:18:42.75
IT WASN'T JUST ONE OF MANY WISE
MEN OR PROPHETS THROUGH TIME.
00:18:42.78\00:18:46.45
IT WAS JESUS THE PLACE OF HIS
BIRTH IS FORETOLD IN THE BOOK OF
00:18:46.49\00:18:50.03
MICAH ABOUT 600
YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
00:18:50.06\00:18:53.29
HE SPECIFICALLY SAID, "BUT YOU,
BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, THOUGH YOU
00:18:53.33\00:18:57.17
ARE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS
OF JUDAH, UNTO YOU - YET OUT OF
00:18:57.20\00:19:01.20
YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME THE
ONE WHO IS TO BE THE RULER IN
00:19:01.24\00:19:04.67
ISRAEL, WHOSE GOINGS
FORTH ARE FROM OLD, EVEN FROM
00:19:04.71\00:19:08.38
EVERLASTING." SO
ANOTHER PROPHECY HERE.
00:19:08.41\00:19:11.58
WHAT DOES THAT
TELL US ABOUT JESUS?
00:19:11.61\00:19:13.25
HE'S FROM EVERLASTING.
SEE, CHRIST DIDN'T JUST APPEAR
00:19:13.28\00:19:16.65
WHEN HE WAS BORN - FROM
EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING - YOU
00:19:16.69\00:19:19.49
KNOW, REVELATION - HE'S
REFERRED TO AS THE ETERNAL ONE.
00:19:19.52\00:19:24.69
HE'S THE 'I AM' THERE.
HE - HE'S THE ONE WHO IS THE
00:19:24.73\00:19:28.40
FIRST AND THE LAST,
THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.
00:19:28.43\00:19:31.33
SO CHRIST IS FROM
EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING.
00:19:31.37\00:19:34.37
HE WAS ETERNAL. AND IT SAYS
THAT HE'D BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
00:19:34.40\00:19:38.21
DID THAT HAPPEN?
NOW, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM.
00:19:38.24\00:19:41.38
WHEN THE ANGEL CAME TO MARY -
YOU HEARD ME SAY A MINUTE AGO?
00:19:41.41\00:19:44.18
WHERE WAS SHE? GALILEE.
AND WHAT CITY. NAZARETH.
00:19:44.21\00:19:49.12
I'VE GOT A MAP UP HERE ON THE
SCREEN NOW YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
00:19:49.15\00:19:51.29
NAZARETH AS THE CROW
FLIES ABOUT 70 MILES AWAY.
00:19:51.32\00:19:55.16
SHE'S GREAT WITH CHILD.
SHE'S A LONG WAY FROM HOME.
00:19:55.19\00:19:57.66
HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THE
MESSIAH BORN, AS HE'S SUPPOSED
00:19:57.69\00:20:00.26
TO BE BORN, IN THE
CITY OF DAVID - BETHLEHEM?
00:20:00.30\00:20:03.80
WELL THIS IS ONE OF THE
ONLY TIMES IN HISTORY WE NEED TO
00:20:03.83\00:20:06.37
THANK A POLITICIAN FOR
DOING A TAX INCREASE. (LAUGHTER)
00:20:06.40\00:20:11.67
CAESAR AUGUSTUS - LUKE CHAPTER
2, VERSE 1, ISSUED A DECREE,
00:20:11.71\00:20:17.08
"AND IT CAME TO PASS IN
THOSE DAYS THAT THERE WENT OUT A
00:20:17.11\00:20:19.61
DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT
ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED
00:20:19.65\00:20:23.99
AND THEY HAD TO GO REGISTER
FOR THE TAX IN THEIR OWN CITY.
00:20:24.02\00:20:28.26
AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP
FROM GALILEE OUT OF THE CITY OF
00:20:28.29\00:20:32.49
NAZARETH INTO JUDEA THERE TO
BE REGISTERED - TO BE TAXED AND
00:20:32.53\00:20:37.40
REGISTERED WITH HIS WIFE, MARY"
- OR HIS ESPOUSED WIFE - "BEING
00:20:37.43\00:20:41.50
GREAT WITH CHILD." AND,
OF COURSE, WHILE THEY ARE
00:20:41.54\00:20:44.21
THERE WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
"AND SO IT WAS, WHILE THEY
00:20:44.24\00:20:47.84
WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE
ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE
00:20:47.88\00:20:50.38
DELIVERED, AND SHE BROUGHT
FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON."
00:20:50.41\00:20:54.55
AND THIS IS, OF COURSE,
FULFILLING THAT THE MESSIAH
00:20:54.58\00:20:56.55
WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
WHEN THE SHEPHERDS SAW THE
00:20:56.58\00:20:59.15
ANGELS WHERE WERE THEY?
"THERE WERE DWELLING IN THOSE
00:20:59.19\00:21:01.52
DAYS OUTSIDE BETHLEHEM SHEPHERDS
WATCHING THEIR FLOCKS."
00:21:01.56\00:21:04.86
NOW YOU KNOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN
AMAZING TO ME, YOU KNOW WHAT
00:21:04.89\00:21:08.46
BETHLEHEM MEANS?
BETH MEANS HOUSE.
00:21:08.50\00:21:12.67
BETHLEHEM MEANS HOUSE OF BREAD.
AND JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:21:12.70\00:21:18.37
AND AFTER HE WAS BORN,
HE WAS PLACED IN A MANGER.
00:21:18.41\00:21:21.31
A MANGER IS A TROUGH FOR
PUTTING GRAIN FOR THE ANIMALS.
00:21:21.34\00:21:25.28
SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE BREAD OF
LIFE BORN IN THE HOUSE OF BREAD
00:21:25.31\00:21:27.52
PLACED IN A TROUGH FOR BREAD.
JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:21:27.55\00:21:32.92
"AND SO SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER
FIRST BORN SON, WRAPPED HIM IN
00:21:32.95\00:21:35.99
SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM
IN A MANGER BECAUSE THERE WAS NO
00:21:36.02\00:21:39.69
ROOM FOR HIM IN THE INN."
AND AGAIN THE ANGELS SAID "FOR
00:21:39.73\00:21:44.70
UNTO YOU IS BORN" - THEY TOLD
THE SHEPHERDS - "IN THE CITY
00:21:44.73\00:21:47.00
OF DAVID," - JESUS WOULD BE A
DESCENDANT OF DAVID BORN IN THE
00:21:47.04\00:21:50.34
TOWN OF DAVID AND IT WAS
ALL FORETOLD BY THE PROPHETS -
00:21:50.37\00:21:53.98
THE SAVIOR WHO IS
CHRIST THE ANOINTED, THE LORD.
00:21:54.01\00:21:57.61
AND WHEN CHRIST WAS A BABY,
EIGHT DAYS OLD THEY BRING HIM TO
00:21:57.65\00:22:02.48
THE TEMPLE TO BE NAMED
AND CIRCUMCISED, WHICH WAS
00:22:02.52\00:22:05.82
TECHNICALLY THE
FIRST TIME HE SHED BLOOD.
00:22:05.85\00:22:08.32
WHEN THEY CALLED HIS NAME
'JESUS' - HE WILL SAVE HIS
00:22:08.36\00:22:11.29
PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS -
THE PRIEST THERE IN THE TEMPLE,
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.73
SIMON, TOOK HIM UP IN
HIS ARMS AND BLESSED HIM.
00:22:13.76\00:22:16.36
AND THEY SAID TO HIS MOTHER,
"BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS DESTINED
00:22:16.40\00:22:19.33
FOR THE FALL AND THE RISING
OF MANY IN ISRAEL AND FOR A SIGN
00:22:19.37\00:22:22.80
THAT WILL BE SPOKEN AGAINST.
YES, A SWORD WILL EVEN PIERCE
00:22:22.84\00:22:26.51
THROUGH YOUR OWN SOUL."
FORETELLING, OF COURSE, THE
00:22:26.54\00:22:29.54
SUFFERINGS THAT JESUS WOULD
BE GOING THROUGH - "THAT THE
00:22:29.58\00:22:32.35
THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MIGHT BE
REVEALED." SO EVEN AT THE VERY
00:22:32.38\00:22:35.72
BEGINNING MARY WAS GIVEN A
PROPHECY TO LET HER KNOW THAT
00:22:35.75\00:22:39.39
JESUS WAS COMING, NOT JUST AS A
LION, BUT HE WOULD FIRST HAVE TO
00:22:39.42\00:22:44.73
COME AS A LAMB AND SUFFER
FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:22:44.76\00:22:48.56
WELL, THEN, WHEN CHRIST WAS
STILL A CHILD, THEY'RE LIVING IN
00:22:48.60\00:22:53.03
BETHLEHEM - HEROD THE KING
WANTED TO EXTERMINATE JESUS AS A
00:22:53.07\00:22:56.34
BABY. YOU KNOW
THERE'S THREE TIMES IN
00:22:56.37\00:22:58.51
THE BIBLE WHEN THE DEVIL
MADE AN EFFORT TO TRY TO KEEP
00:22:58.54\00:23:02.14
THE SAVIOR FROM COMING.
YOU CAN READ ABOUT THE DEVIL
00:23:02.18\00:23:05.81
THOUGHT MAYBE THAT A SAVIOR
WAS COMING WHEN THE CHILDREN
00:23:05.85\00:23:07.88
OF ISRAEL WERE IN EGYPT.
SO HE WANTED ALL THE BABY
00:23:07.92\00:23:10.99
BOYS TO BE EXTERMINATED.
AND YET MOSES WAS MIRACULOUSLY
00:23:11.02\00:23:16.39
SPARED - THE SAVIOR WAS SPARED.
AND THEN DURING THE TIME OF
00:23:16.42\00:23:20.36
QUEEN JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER
ATHELIAH - SHE KILLED ALL OF THE
00:23:20.40\00:23:25.40
SEED OF DAVID - AGAIN,
THE DEVIL TRYING TO KEEP THE
00:23:25.43\00:23:28.14
MESSIAH FROM
COMING. BUT, MIRACULOUSLY,
00:23:28.17\00:23:31.24
JOASH WAS SPARED. AND
THEN, OF COURSE, DURING THE
00:23:31.27\00:23:35.51
TIME WHEN CHRIST WAS A
BABY, HEROD SENT HIS SOLDIERS TO
00:23:35.54\00:23:37.68
BETHLEHEM TO KILL ALL THE
BABY BOYS, ONCE AGAIN, TO TRY TO
00:23:37.71\00:23:40.28
KEEP THE SAVIOR FROM COMING.
AND JOSEPH WAS WARNED IN A DREAM
00:23:40.32\00:23:44.79
TO GO DOWN TO EGYPT AND YOU READ
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT AFTER
00:23:44.82\00:23:48.62
HE RECEIVED THAT WARNING HE SAID
'HE AROSE AND HE TOOK THE YOUNG
00:23:48.66\00:23:51.13
CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY NIGHT
AND HE DEPARTED FOR EGYPT.' -
00:23:51.16\00:23:54.93
NOTICE WHAT MATTHEW SAYS - 'THAT
IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS
00:23:54.96\00:23:58.17
SPOKEN BY THE LORD THROUGH THE
PROPHET SAYING, 'OUT OF EGYPT I
00:23:58.20\00:24:02.20
HAVE CALLED MY SON.'
AND, HERE, HE'S QUOTING HOSEA.
00:24:02.24\00:24:05.67
AND SO, EVEN THE NEW TESTAMENT
WRITERS, LIKE MATTHEW, COULD
00:24:05.71\00:24:10.08
OFTEN SEE HOW JESUS WAS
A FULFILLMENT OF ALL THESE
00:24:10.11\00:24:12.91
PROPHECIES.
THEY ALL COMBINED AND
00:24:12.95\00:24:15.35
CONCENTRATED AND
FOCUSED IN HIS LIFE.
00:24:15.38\00:24:18.19
YOU KNOW, I GET EXCITED WHEN I
TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THERE'S
00:24:18.22\00:24:20.49
JUST NO QUESTION THAT
JESUS IS WHO HE SAYS HE WAS.
00:24:20.52\00:24:24.83
ALRIGHT, AND THEN YOU CAN
SAY HE CAME WHEN HE WAS A CHILD.
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HE MOVED BACK THEN, AFTER EGYPT,
TO NAZARETH AND HE WAS SUBJECT
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.30
TO HIS PARENTS "THAT IT MIGHT BE
FULFILLED THAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY
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THE PROPHETS" - ANOTHER
PROPHECY - "HE WILL BE CALLED A
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NAZARENE." NOW THEY'RE TALKING
ABOUT WHEN SAMSON'S PARENTS WERE
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TOLD THAT THIS PROMISED
CHILD WOULD BE A NAZARENE.
00:24:44.15\00:24:47.28
SEVERAL OF THE TYPES IN THE
BIBLE, LIKE SAMUEL AND SAMSON,
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HAD THE VOW OF A
NAZARITE. TYPICALLY, JESUS IS
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PAINTED WITH LONG HAIR. AND
YET THERE'S A SCRIPTURE SAYS
00:24:54.82\00:24:58.33
'IT'S A SHAME FOR A MAN TO HAVE
LONG HAIR.' BUT THE NAZARITES
00:24:58.36\00:25:01.10
WERE NOT SUPPOSED
TO CUT THEIR HAIR.
00:25:01.13\00:25:03.20
AND SO SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'DID
JESUS' PARENTS HAVE THE VOW OF A
00:25:03.23\00:25:06.90
NAZARITE ON HIM UP
UNTIL HE WAS BAPTIZED?'
00:25:06.94\00:25:10.71
BECAUSE A PERSON COULD HAVE
A NAZARITE VOW FOR A VARYING
00:25:10.74\00:25:13.84
LENGTH OF TIME. IT WASN'T
NECESSARILY A LIFELONG VOW.
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.05
NAZARITES COULD NOT EAT OR
DRINK ANYTHING FROM THE VINE.
00:25:17.08\00:25:20.88
JESUS OBVIOUSLY
DRANK GRAPE JUICE.
00:25:20.92\00:25:23.32
AND SO, HE MAY HAVE JUST
BEEN A NAZERITE UP UNTIL HIS
00:25:23.35\00:25:26.25
BAPTISM OR FOLLOW THAT
VOW. WE'RE NOT SURE BUT HE'S
00:25:26.29\00:25:29.66
TYPICALLY PAINTED WITH
LONG HAIR AND THAT'S ONE OF
00:25:29.69\00:25:31.56
THE REASONS FOR THAT.
BUT THAT WAS FORETOLD.
00:25:31.59\00:25:35.16
"AND THEN HE WENT DOWN WITH HIS
PARENTS AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH
00:25:35.20\00:25:38.17
AND HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM." AND
THERE'S ALL THESE THEORIES THAT
00:25:38.20\00:25:42.07
SAY, YOU KNOW, THE REASON JESUS
WAS SO BRILLIANT IS BECAUSE,
00:25:42.10\00:25:46.21
FROM THE TIME HE WAS BORN,
HIS PARENTS THEN TOOK HIM AND HE
00:25:46.24\00:25:49.14
STUDIED UNDER THESE WISE GURUS
IN INDIA, OR HE WENT TO EGYPT
00:25:49.18\00:25:54.42
AND HE STUDIED THERE.
AND THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE
00:25:54.45\00:25:56.38
THEORIES ABOUT WHERE JESUS GOT
HIS GREAT KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE IT
00:25:56.42\00:25:58.85
SAYS THAT HE WAS NOT
EDUCATED IN JERUSALEM.
00:25:58.89\00:26:01.56
IT TELLS US THAT HE LEARNED THE
SCRIPTURES RIGHT THERE FROM HIS
00:26:01.59\00:26:05.29
PARENTS IN HOME. HE
DIDN'T GO OFF AND WASN'T
00:26:05.33\00:26:08.10
SECRETLY TAUGHT BY ANY,
YOU KNOW, KUNG FU EXPERTS
00:26:08.13\00:26:12.00
OFF THERE SOMEWHERE.
AND THEN COME BACK AND HAVE
00:26:12.03\00:26:15.17
THIS GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT.
HE WENT TO HIS PARENTS.
00:26:15.20\00:26:18.07
HE LIVED A NORMAL LIFE FOR 33 -
FOR THE FIRST 30 YEARS UNTIL HIS
00:26:18.11\00:26:21.98
BAPTISM. BUT THE
MAIN REASON WE DO THESE
00:26:22.01\00:26:24.31
SEMINARS IS BECAUSE WE
WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE
00:26:24.35\00:26:27.22
BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT
JESUS. WHEN ABRAHAM WENT UP THE
00:26:27.25\00:26:31.75
MOUNTAIN WITH ISAAC GOD
SAID, 'ARE YOU WILLING TO
00:26:31.79\00:26:34.72
GIVE ME YOUR SON?' HE
PUT THE WOOD ON ISAAC'S BACK.
00:26:34.76\00:26:40.40
THE CROSS WAS
PLACED ON JESUS' BACK.
00:26:40.43\00:26:42.96
THE FATHER AND THE SON WENT
TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP TOGETHER.
00:26:43.00\00:26:46.87
ISAAC WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE.
JESUS WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE.
00:26:46.90\00:26:52.07
ABRAHAM WAS WILLING TO GIVE HIS
SON AND THAT'S A TYPE OF GOD WHO
00:26:52.11\00:26:55.98
DID GIVE HIS SON. BUT
WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE
00:26:56.01\00:26:58.75
YOU'RE READING IN THE STORY OF
JOSEPH AND IN THE STORY OF DAVID
00:26:58.78\00:27:02.95
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00:27:02.98\00:27:05.45
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