Welcome to Anchors Of Truth,
live from Surprise, Arizona.
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And we welcome you to the
last of our series of programs.
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For this particular Anchors, we
welcome you to Surprise, Arizona
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to the beautiful Clearview
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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and to what we suspect
will be a wonderful presentation
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by Ralph Ringer,
who we will introduce
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to you in just a moment.
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I need to say a very
special "thank you" to
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Pastor Murrell Tull and
his lovely wife, Ginger,
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who have been
such gracious hosts,
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and to everyone here.
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Thank you all for forcing me
to open my belt one more notch
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during potluck.
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What a wonderful,
wonderful, wonderful dinner.
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And someone said we weren't
going to have enough food,
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and I think this is the first
time I hear the pastor actually
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forcing people to
go back and do seconds.
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He had to beg us to go back.
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And we went back and
had seconds, and there was
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still extra food left.
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So Pastor, thank
you so very much.
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And to all of the cooks who
supplied that wonderful food,
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I thank you, my crew thanks
you, the directors thank you,
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and everybody thanks you.
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You did a
fabulous, fabulous job.
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So we say "welcome" to
you, those of you here.
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We have a very nice
audience this afternoon.
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And to those of you
watching around the world.
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This has been a very
blessed time of messages
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from really anointed speakers.
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And we get to see and experience
a little different perspective
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on the gospel from
those who were once of the
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Jewish persuasion and
now who have come and added
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Christ to the mix and
become Hebrew Christians,
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and those who are
working for and with them.
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And that is why we really
do this particular Anchors.
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And we're going to make
it kind of an annual thing,
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to try to sensitize the
world that there is a great work
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to be done among
our Jewish brothers.
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And we certainly want
to give them an opportunity
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to know about Christ and receive
Christ before Christ returns.
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Our message this
morning was another fine message
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by our friend, Sasha.
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We should call him,
Alexander Bolotnikov.
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We call him, Sasha.
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The Ukrainian
accent not withstanding,
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we understood you well, Sasha.
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And he is a great speaker,
and really just a great person.
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A fun guy to be
with, he loves to laugh.
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He loves the Lord, and
really an intelligent guy.
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and a great
preacher of the Word.
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This afternoon, our message
will be coming to us from
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Ralph Ringer, who
is the Director of
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North American
Division Jewish Ministries.
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And he's the fellow that sort of
stirs the drink for all of this.
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And we sort of saved him
for last for this afternoon.
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I wanted to say also, we
have met a number of people here
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who have either come to
the church through 3ABN,
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come back to the
church through 3ABN,
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come to Adventism through 3ABN.
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I have a couple of names, I
talked with Keith a bit ago.
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Where is Keith?
Keith, Keith, Keith.
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There he is, sitting
there. He is a Bermudian.
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And he spent some
time in the wilderness.
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And 3ABN was
instrumental in his return.
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We had a chance to talk.
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And Vonne sitting
right there in front of me,
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also she mentioned to me.
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And there was someone
else here who 3ABN was sort of
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instrumental in
coming back to the Lord.
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And we love to
hear those stories.
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Because it lets us know that
we're fulfilling God's mission
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to encourage those
who are in the faith,
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but also to go out and reach
those who are not in the faith.
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And that is a blessing to us.
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Got a chance to meet Peter
all the way from Australia.
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Married an American girl and
she dragged him all the way from
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Perth in western Australia
here to Phoenix, Arizona.
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So that was fun also.
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What a wonderful
congregation you have, Pastor.
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And it has been a
pleasure for us to be here,
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and a pleasure for us
to get to know some of you.
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I'm going to ask
Pastor to come and have our
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prayer for this afternoon.
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Then after he shall
have prayed, we get the
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other half of the duo.
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His lovely wife,
Ginger, will sing for us,
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let's see, The Body and Blood.
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And then the next voice
you will hear will be that of
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our speaker, our
friend, Dr. Ralph Ringer,
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who is the Director of
North American Division
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Jewish Ministries.
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He's going to be speaking
on, God's Covenant Completed.
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And we praise God for that.
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Pastor.
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Shall we pray.
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Loving Father, You are our God.
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You're the God of the
universe, and You know our name.
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We thank You for doing all
that You do for each of us.
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We do not know what we
would do without the Holy Spirit
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guiding us each
day, each moment.
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So we thank You for
the Holy Spirit guiding us.
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Now we pray that as we continue
the message for the Jewish work,
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we pray that they
too around the world
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will hear this message some way.
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You know the way in
which they need to hear it.
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So may it be
visible to them all.
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Again we thank You for Jesus,
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that He died that we
may have eternal life.
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So today bless us and keep us.
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In Jesus name I pray, amen.
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Fifty year ago today
she gave her only child away
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to live a life easy to regret.
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Years went by,
how time has flown,
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her days are mostly spent alone;
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daring to
remember, hoping to forget.
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This is My body broken for you;
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for all you've been,
and all you've been through.
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And this is My blood;
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and when you've reached the end,
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I promise you
again the body and blood.
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He fought a war
against his will;
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truth be known,
he's fighting still.
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He looks for hope
through narrow blood-shot eyes.
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He slips into a polished pew and
he lingers for an hour or two;
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sometimes it feels
better to sit and cry a while.
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This is My body broken for you;
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for all you've been,
and all you've been through.
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This is My blood;
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and when you've reached the end,
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I promise you
again the body and blood.
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And one by one we
take the common cup,
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and we remember
as we lift it up:
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This is My body broken for you;
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for all you've been,
and all you've been through.
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This is My blood;
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and when you've reached the end,
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I offer you again
the body and blood.
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This is My blood;
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and when you've reached the end,
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I offer you again
the body and blood.
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Amen, amen.
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What a beautiful
song beautifully sung.
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God's Covenant Completed.
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In this series, we have
been looking at the covenant.
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In fact, there
were many covenants
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throughout the Scripture.
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And when we look at God's
covenant, we want to realize,
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first of all, some definitions
of what a covenant is like.
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We're going to see God's
covenant is all of the above.
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And I believe we have
it on the screen over here.
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It is a league, an
alliance, an agreement,
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a promise or
promises, a commitment,
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relationship.
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And the ultimate
relationship of a marriage.
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God's covenant
are all the above.
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God brought a covenant.
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I want us to look, and I
want you to take a look at this
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on the screen here.
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Some of you
can't see it as well.
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But God's covenant
bridges the two creations.
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In fact, the Bible, the
first two chapters and the
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last two chapters of
the Bible are bookends
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for the covenant in
the great controversy.
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Let me share with you why.
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In Genesis chapter 1
and 2, we have God making
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a perfect creation.
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Then in Genesis
chapter 3 sin comes in.
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But God starts His covenant
right there in Genesis 3:15,
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that He gave that promise.
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He starts that bridge
between that first creation
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and the ultimate creation
in Revelation chapter 21
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and chapter 22.
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The great
controversy starts right there
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in Genesis chapter 3.
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The great controversy on
this earth, I'm speaking of.
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And then it goes
all the way through to
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Revelation chapter 19 and
20 where God brings an end
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to Satan, sin, and sinners.
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Fast forward to Revelation
chapter 21 and chapter 22.
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We find that God makes a
new heaven and a new earth.
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The New Jerusalem
descents down on earth.
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We have the new earth
is actually better than the
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original creation
because God's throne is there
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and the New Jerusalem is there.
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The new earth becomes
the capital of the universe.
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We have the
marriage of the Lamb.
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We have God lives with His
people and they see His face.
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We sing the
hymn, "Face to face,"
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oh wait a minute,
"with Christ my Savior."
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We will see Him face to face.
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And God's name
is on our foreheads.
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You see, the
purpose of the covenant
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is to restore the image
of God into fallen mankind.
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And they become His
spiritual bride for eternity.
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His name is on their forehead.
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We are His people.
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That's how the covenant ends.
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In fact, all the covenants...
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And so far we've
seen various covenants.
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Sasha and Jeff, Alan, have
referred to different covenants.
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In fact, some people get
hung up on the old covenant,
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on the new
covenant, on this covenant.
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And there are many of
them throughout the Bible.
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If we could remember one thing,
all the covenants, the purpose
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is to someway draw
fallen humanity back to God.
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That's the bottom
line of all the covenants.
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And that is the
ultimate completion.
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But now let's go through and see
where God starts His covenants.
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There in the Garden
of Eden, the promise.
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Genesis chapter 3 verse 15,
"And I will put enmity between
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you and the woman, and
between your offspring and hers.
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And He will crush your head,
and you will strike His heal."
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Now all these
pronouns is basically saying,
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and the woman was the
symbol from the very beginning
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of God's people.
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From the Garden of
Eden right on through,
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we'll see, through Revelation.
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And so, through
the Seed of the woman,
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and that Seed of the
woman, this is the first
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Messianic prophecy of the
Scripture in Genesis 3:15.
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The promise
that... Yeah, Satan...
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The "He" here, that Seed,
the "He" that is capitalized
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as you see, that is
Jesus crushing the head
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of the serpent who is Satan.
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And even though His
heal would be struck,
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He was going to
have to face Calvary
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to crush the
head of the serpent.
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But here is the
first Messianic prophecy.
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In Genesis chapter 9 and
verse 16, after the flood,
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we find that here
in that verse, it says,
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"The rainbow
shall be in the cloud,
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and I will look on it
to remember the everlasting
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covenant between God
and every living creature
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of all flesh
that is on the earth."
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Notice, it is the
everlasting covenant.
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God doesn't want
a one night stand.
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God doesn't want a
temporary relationship.
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He wants an everlasting
relationship with us.
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And the everlasting
covenant that He gave,
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He doesn't back up on His word.
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Sometimes we
back up on our word,
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but He never backs up on His.
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And so what we see...
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Now notice, when it
says, "the everlasting covenant
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between God and..." What?
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What does it say?
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"...every living creature..."
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Have you ever
realized that God's covenant
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goes beyond
mankind to all the animals.
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Sin has brought all the death
and the pain, and all the rest,
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on the animals as well
as the people on earth.
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God is going to take
care of all of His creatures,
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including the animals.
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And He says, "Look, the
whole world will never be
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destroyed by a flood again."
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The rainbow is the
evidence of that covenant.
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And we still see
rainbows today, don't we.
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And so Leviticus chapter 24
verse 8, here is a different
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angle of the covenant.
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The other night, Jeff
was pointing out how that
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the Sabbath and those
things that are eternal,
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those are the things before sin.
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And the Sabbath, in
Genesis chapter 2 verses 1 to 3,
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was given before sin.
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But through the
covenants, the Sabbath took on
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an even closer role in the sense
that it shows that same God
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that created and that
same Sabbath that was given
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at creation as a
sign of the relationship
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between God and His people.
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It's precious.
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It's kind of like when you're
separated from your spouse
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or your loved one, and
that special, whatever special
00:19:39.14\00:19:42.74
symbols or times that you
have, even grow a little closer
00:19:42.78\00:19:46.11
as you long to see them.
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And so the Sabbath
was given here, it says,
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"Every Sabbath he shall set
it in order before the Lord..."
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Talking about special things
they were to do on this Sabbath
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to show the relationship that
started from the Garden of Eden.
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And being taken from
the children of Israel
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by an everlasting covenant.
00:20:07.97\00:20:10.41
Again, here we see the
everlasting covenant for Israel.
00:20:10.44\00:20:15.34
That covenant of
Israel is not broken by God.
00:20:15.64\00:20:20.92
Some Israelites might
go another way, but God
00:20:22.18\00:20:25.95
stays with them for eternity.
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Stays with us eternally.
00:20:28.59\00:20:30.73
We don't have to
worry if God loves us,
00:20:30.76\00:20:35.10
if God wants to save us,
if He cares about us most.
00:20:35.13\00:20:39.23
Even the very hairs of
our heads are numbered.
00:20:39.53\00:20:42.40
You see, God cares and He has
covenanted that He's going to go
00:20:42.84\00:20:48.38
with us through eternity.
00:20:48.41\00:20:50.48
And all the covenants, and
especially this everlasting
00:20:50.81\00:20:54.88
covenant, that is behind it all.
00:20:54.92\00:20:58.15
And as Sasha so ably
pointed out this morning,
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the covenant and
atonement are one and the same.
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They are together in this.
00:21:06.63\00:21:09.36
That atonement is the
reason for that covenant.
00:21:09.40\00:21:18.94
The atonement; to save mankind.
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As we look on, now
we're going to turn.
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God's answer to Daniel's prayer.
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We don't have enough
time, I'm just going through
00:21:32.95\00:21:35.59
the things in the Scripture.
00:21:35.62\00:21:36.96
We can't give a
detailed description.
00:21:36.99\00:21:39.56
But you remember, Daniel,
after he had the vision in
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Daniel 8:14 about the
2300 days, he was thinking
00:21:43.20\00:21:47.14
some way those 70 years of
Jeremiah that he understood
00:21:47.17\00:21:51.47
was going to be lengthened.
00:21:51.51\00:21:52.84
He didn't understand.
00:21:52.87\00:21:54.21
In fact, he got
sick and he's praying
00:21:54.24\00:21:55.88
for his sins and
the sins of Israel.
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And so then we find
God's answer to Daniel's prayer
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was the Messiah.
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And when we look, Daniel
9 is all about Jesus Christ
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our Messiah.
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It is the most
complete Messianic prophecy
00:22:18.70\00:22:22.84
in the Scriptures.
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And by the way, more
Jews have come to accept Jesus
00:22:24.24\00:22:30.55
as their Jewish
Messiah from Daniel 9:24-27
00:22:30.58\00:22:38.45
than any other
portion of the Bible.
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When we look and
understand Daniel 9:24...
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Now I have put, if
you look on the screen,
00:22:48.23\00:22:50.70
I have put the
numbers in parentheses.
00:22:50.73\00:22:53.90
And sometimes I will change
the color of the letters there
00:22:53.94\00:23:00.28
and underline it.
00:23:00.31\00:23:01.64
I won't change the words though.
00:23:01.68\00:23:03.28
In Daniel 9:24 we have, it says,
"Seventy weeks are determined
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for your people and
for your holy city..."
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.45
So Gabriel was sent
from God to tell Daniel
00:23:12.65\00:23:16.46
what this vision of
the 2300 days should mean.
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And we are only going to look
at the first 70 weeks of that
00:23:21.30\00:23:25.23
just briefly right now.
00:23:25.90\00:23:27.70
But notice those numbers.
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Those numbers, there
are six of them here,
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.27
there are six prepositional
phrases in Daniel 9:24
00:23:33.31\00:23:38.18
that all apply to the Messiah.
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All the verbs of 9:24 apply
to the Messiah in these six.
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And so let's notice, number one,
00:23:48.52\00:23:51.53
"...to finish
the transgression..."
00:23:51.56\00:23:53.56
Jesus stopped the
rebellion of mankind.
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Sin is a rebellion against God.
00:23:57.43\00:24:00.24
And Jesus was the first
one, He stopped that process.
00:24:00.27\00:24:04.81
He was totally in
harmony with the Father.
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.64
Number two, "...to
make an end of sins..."
00:24:07.68\00:24:10.75
He was the first one to end...
00:24:10.78\00:24:15.58
Any person after Adam and
Eve fell, He was the first one
00:24:17.32\00:24:23.12
to live the perfect life.
00:24:23.16\00:24:24.49
He was tempted in all
points, and yet without sin.
00:24:24.53\00:24:27.93
Number three, "...to make
reconciliation for iniquity..."
00:24:28.23\00:24:32.10
He is the one that reconciles.
00:24:32.13\00:24:34.80
Sin separated God and man.
00:24:34.84\00:24:37.87
And He is the one
that died for those sins
00:24:37.91\00:24:41.61
and takes that separation away.
00:24:41.64\00:24:44.08
He reconciles God and mankind.
00:24:44.11\00:24:47.22
And number four, "...to bring
in everlasting righteousness..."
00:24:48.02\00:24:52.65
He lived the perfect life before
He died the perfect death.
00:24:52.69\00:24:57.89
And His righteousness,
by righteousness by faith,
00:24:58.66\00:25:02.80
we can have His righteousness.
00:25:02.83\00:25:06.37
We are saved by His
blood and by His life.
00:25:06.47\00:25:10.14
And then number five, "...to
seal up vision and prophecy..."
00:25:11.24\00:25:16.61
It ratifies all
of the prophecies,
00:25:16.64\00:25:22.15
the Messianic prophecies.
00:25:22.18\00:25:23.85
You look at all the
hundreds of prophecies
00:25:23.89\00:25:26.86
about the Messiah,
and He fulfilled them all.
00:25:26.89\00:25:30.93
He made all of
them come to pass.
00:25:31.49\00:25:36.13
In fact, He even told
John the Baptist when He asked
00:25:36.67\00:25:41.90
to be baptized, and
John said, "Well, I need to
00:25:41.94\00:25:44.17
be baptized of You."
00:25:44.21\00:25:45.54
And He said, "It's necessary
to fulfill all righteousness."
00:25:45.57\00:25:52.05
To fulfill the promise.
00:25:52.08\00:25:53.42
He understood that He was
fulfilling all of these things.
00:25:53.45\00:25:58.55
And then number six,
"...to anoint the Most Holy."
00:25:59.49\00:26:02.92
Things were anointed,
and especially the Most Holy
00:26:03.53\00:26:06.19
in the Sanctuary service.
00:26:06.23\00:26:07.56
Every part of that
Sanctuary service; the building,
00:26:07.60\00:26:11.83
the furniture,
all the sacrifices,
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.20
were all pointing
to the One who came.
00:26:14.24\00:26:17.61
The Messiah means, Anointed One.
00:26:17.64\00:26:20.18
In fact, His name
"Immanuel" means, "God with us."
00:26:20.78\00:26:25.41
And God was with us
in the Most Holy Place.
00:26:25.45\00:26:28.95
And the symbol of His
throne, the ark of His covenant,
00:26:28.98\00:26:32.29
was there; and it all
symbolized Jesus, the Messiah.
00:26:32.32\00:26:37.63
Now those six prepositional
phrases, we're going to
00:26:38.49\00:26:41.20
get to the antecedent
to them in just a moment.
00:26:41.23\00:26:43.77
If we go on to verse 25,
"Know therefore and understand,
00:26:44.43\00:26:49.27
that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and
00:26:49.30\00:26:52.54
to build Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince,
00:26:52.57\00:26:56.24
there shall be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks;
00:26:56.78\00:27:00.12
the street shall be
built again, and the wall,
00:27:00.15\00:27:03.05
even in troublesome times."
00:27:03.08\00:27:04.92
Now by the way, Ezekiel 4:6, you
see there in the parentheses,
00:27:04.95\00:27:08.59
Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34
point out each day for a year.
00:27:08.62\00:27:14.16
I don't have time to go through
that apocalyptic literature,
00:27:14.20\00:27:18.97
each day equals a year.
00:27:19.00\00:27:20.44
Well in verse 26, it says,
"And after the sixty-two weeks
00:27:20.47\00:27:24.64
Messiah shall be cut
off, but not for Himself."
00:27:24.67\00:27:28.38
So what we have is,
we have seven weeks.
00:27:28.41\00:27:31.71
It was going to take 49
years for the city of Jerusalem
00:27:32.21\00:27:37.49
to be rebuilt.
00:27:37.52\00:27:38.85
And then go on
another sixty-two weeks
00:27:38.89\00:27:41.62
until the Messiah the Prince.
00:27:41.66\00:27:43.93
I want you to notice three
times, anoint the Most Holy,
00:27:43.96\00:27:47.16
Messiah the Prince,
and Messiah cut off.
00:27:47.20\00:27:50.17
All three of those
are about the Messiah.
00:27:50.20\00:27:52.80
And by the way, three is a
number that is used for God.
00:27:52.83\00:27:56.10
And so, "Messiah cut
off," this is referring to
00:27:56.87\00:28:00.18
Him as the Savior.
00:28:00.21\00:28:01.74
"Messiah the Prince,"
it's referring to Him as King.
00:28:01.78\00:28:05.08
And we're going
to see more of that.
00:28:05.58\00:28:07.38
And Daniel 9:24-27 is
the Messianic covenant
00:28:07.42\00:28:12.29
for the Jews and is the answer
that Gabriel brought from God
00:28:12.32\00:28:17.66
to show Daniel how
the people would be saved
00:28:17.69\00:28:24.27
and how their belief and
their faith of the Messiah
00:28:24.30\00:28:30.81
would
materialize in Jesus Christ.
00:28:30.84\00:28:33.74
And it was all about that.
00:28:34.01\00:28:35.81
Well let's go on
and notice the 70 weeks.
00:28:35.84\00:28:38.18
If you look in the
prophecy, the chart there,
00:28:38.21\00:28:41.12
you see the decree, and Sasha
referred to that this morning,
00:28:41.15\00:28:44.69
457 BC, and he gave some
of the background to such.
00:28:44.72\00:28:49.39
You had seven
weeks plus the sixty-two;
00:28:49.42\00:28:53.23
a total of sixty-nine weeks.
00:28:53.26\00:28:55.03
That brought it
up to His baptism.
00:28:55.06\00:28:57.23
And by the way, that's when He
was anointed of the Holy Spirit,
00:28:57.27\00:29:00.80
at the baptism.
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.34
And the voice from
heaven, "This is My beloved Son
00:29:02.37\00:29:05.47
in whom I'm well pleased."
00:29:05.51\00:29:07.08
And then we're going
to see at the cross...
00:29:07.31\00:29:11.31
Now I believe I
skipped a verse here.
00:29:12.21\00:29:15.65
Oh no, it's the next one. Okay.
00:29:15.92\00:29:18.52
And in the midst of the week
He'll cause the sacrifice...
00:29:18.72\00:29:22.32
Here it is.
00:29:22.36\00:29:23.69
No.
00:29:23.99\00:29:25.33
Oh you know, that
didn't get in there.
00:29:25.36\00:29:26.96
It's Daniel 9:27.
00:29:27.00\00:29:28.90
Daniel 9:27, I sent
them one, and then I realized
00:29:29.26\00:29:33.13
I left this verse out.
00:29:33.17\00:29:34.50
If you have your
Bible, turn to Daniel 9:27.
00:29:34.54\00:29:37.67
And you'll see that there
it says, in the midst of the
00:29:37.71\00:29:43.35
covenant how He's going to have
the covenant for one more week,
00:29:43.38\00:29:48.22
with many for one week.
00:29:48.25\00:29:49.58
And in the midst of the
week, He will cause sacrifice,
00:29:49.62\00:29:53.66
or some translation
say oblation, to cease.
00:29:53.69\00:29:57.63
Why don't we sacrifice
lambs today when we worship?
00:29:57.66\00:30:02.20
Because the Lamb
of God, Jesus Christ,
00:30:02.76\00:30:05.30
has died on the
cross of Calvary.
00:30:05.33\00:30:07.64
We no longer need
to sacrifice lambs.
00:30:08.60\00:30:10.74
All those lambs were
looking forward to Him.
00:30:10.77\00:30:13.64
So in the midst of
that last prophetic week,
00:30:13.68\00:30:17.85
we have the cross.
00:30:18.71\00:30:21.75
The cross is why we do
not sacrifice lambs today.
00:30:22.05\00:30:26.86
And then, if we end that
last week, it ends in AD 34,
00:30:28.09\00:30:32.29
that's when the
gospel goes to the Gentiles.
00:30:32.33\00:30:35.56
Now if we look
at Acts chapter 7...
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.03
And we're going quickly as we're
going through on our way to
00:30:38.73\00:30:41.47
Revelation to see
God's covenant completed.
00:30:41.50\00:30:44.91
It says there Stephen
is looking up, and he sees
00:30:46.71\00:30:52.31
Jesus standing at the right hand
of God, in verse 55 of Acts 7.
00:30:52.35\00:30:57.69
In verse 56, "...and
said, 'Behold, I see the
00:30:58.69\00:31:02.22
heavens opened, and
the Son of Man standing
00:31:02.26\00:31:06.29
on the right hand of God.'"
00:31:06.33\00:31:08.66
Now let's stop right here.
00:31:09.26\00:31:10.70
If you read the
first part of Acts 7,
00:31:12.03\00:31:16.37
he tells them a
lot of strong things.
00:31:16.67\00:31:18.37
He takes them through
history and shows a lot how they
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.88
have rebelled against God.
00:31:20.91\00:31:22.44
They held their tongue until he
says, "I see the heavens opened
00:31:23.11\00:31:29.72
and the Son of Man,"
that was Jesus' favorite name
00:31:29.75\00:31:32.75
for Himself, "standing
on the right hand of God."
00:31:32.79\00:31:37.83
Now notice, He's standing.
00:31:38.09\00:31:40.20
They understood this.
00:31:41.16\00:31:42.50
Most of us don't
really get the message.
00:31:42.53\00:31:45.63
But they understood
exactly what Stephen was saying.
00:31:45.67\00:31:49.70
And notice in verses 57
and 58, "Then they cried out
00:31:49.74\00:31:55.34
with a loud voice,
and stopped their ears,
00:31:55.38\00:31:58.28
and ran upon
him with one accord,
00:31:58.31\00:32:02.18
and cast him out of
the city, and stoned him."
00:32:02.22\00:32:05.49
That was against Jewish law
and that was against Roman law.
00:32:05.52\00:32:09.49
But they couldn't
stand hearing that Jesus
00:32:09.52\00:32:13.60
was standing at
the right hand of God.
00:32:13.63\00:32:16.36
Now by the way, "standing;"
00:32:16.40\00:32:17.93
you will find 25
times the New Testament
00:32:17.97\00:32:21.60
refers to standing or sitting,
most of the time sitting,
00:32:21.64\00:32:25.04
at the right
hand of God; majesty,
00:32:25.54\00:32:28.44
various terminologies there.
00:32:28.48\00:32:30.75
But here we see Him standing.
00:32:30.91\00:32:33.11
Sitting at the right
hand or the left hand,
00:32:33.15\00:32:36.58
as the disciples
wanted to do to Jesus,
00:32:36.62\00:32:39.39
was showing their
authority, their position.
00:32:39.42\00:32:43.12
But when they're
standing, then they are putting
00:32:43.93\00:32:48.50
their authority into action.
00:32:48.53\00:32:50.73
And so Jesus is standing
at the right hand of God
00:32:51.03\00:32:55.30
indicating He is now taking
on that authority with action.
00:32:55.34\00:33:00.94
And so, what was he doing?
00:33:02.04\00:33:03.98
Well, let's look.
00:33:04.01\00:33:05.35
Let's look, in AD 34,
at the stoning of Stephen.
00:33:06.41\00:33:10.89
They stoned him illegally.
00:33:10.92\00:33:12.82
But as we look at Acts 9
and the last part of verse 4,
00:33:14.92\00:33:18.96
"Saul, Saul, why
are you persecuting Me?"
00:33:18.99\00:33:23.47
This is on the road to Damascus.
00:33:23.50\00:33:25.23
"And he said,
'Who are You, Lord?'
00:33:25.70\00:33:28.34
Then the Lord said, 'I am
Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
00:33:28.77\00:33:32.91
It is hard for you to
kick against the goads.'"
00:33:33.27\00:33:38.18
Now we don't use
that term anymore.
00:33:38.91\00:33:40.58
It's thorns.
00:33:40.62\00:33:42.08
Stickers. Sharp things.
00:33:42.55\00:33:44.82
In other words, yeah,
like you're kicking against
00:33:44.85\00:33:47.76
a cactus out here barefooted.
00:33:47.79\00:33:49.89
You can relate to that
here in Phoenix, couldn't you?
00:33:51.23\00:33:53.70
And what was He talking about?
00:33:54.33\00:33:56.60
What was He talking about?
00:33:57.20\00:33:58.93
Who had held the coats
at the stoning of Stephen
00:34:00.70\00:34:04.54
and the official
witness of that stoning?
00:34:04.57\00:34:08.08
It was Saul.
00:34:08.84\00:34:10.18
He had seen Stephen's face
light up as an angel's face.
00:34:10.78\00:34:15.88
He had heard the words
inspired by the Holy Spirit.
00:34:15.92\00:34:21.12
And it was pricking him,
and he was kicking against it.
00:34:21.46\00:34:28.53
He was fighting it.
00:34:29.36\00:34:30.87
By the way, have some
of you ever fought as the
00:34:30.90\00:34:32.70
Holy Spirit was
trying to reach your heart?
00:34:32.73\00:34:35.07
He was fighting it, he
was kicking against it.
00:34:35.30\00:34:37.77
And He said, "It's
hard to do it, isn't it."
00:34:37.81\00:34:40.14
And you see, it was
at the stoning of Stephen
00:34:41.34\00:34:44.68
that the apostle to the
Gentiles, as he said he was
00:34:46.21\00:34:50.89
in Romans 11:13, "I am
the apostle to the Gentiles."
00:34:50.92\00:34:56.36
The apostle to the
Gentiles was called starting
00:34:57.16\00:35:00.80
at the stoning
of Stephen; AD 34.
00:35:00.83\00:35:04.43
And he carried the
gospel unto the world
00:35:04.47\00:35:07.40
as that great leader.
00:35:07.44\00:35:09.57
So now let's look
at Daniel and make sure
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.37
we're putting all
this picture together.
00:35:12.41\00:35:14.64
Daniel chapter 9, well
let's start with chapter 2.
00:35:15.04\00:35:18.81
Daniel 2, the image was that
God is in charge of leadership.
00:35:18.91\00:35:24.49
He sets them up
and He takes them down.
00:35:24.52\00:35:26.69
He used an image there.
00:35:27.46\00:35:29.16
In Daniel 7, He uses beasts.
00:35:29.42\00:35:32.29
And God changes the
leadership of nations,
00:35:32.69\00:35:36.16
but also dealing with
spiritual things as well.
00:35:36.20\00:35:40.57
In chapter 8, He uses different
beasts and more details.
00:35:40.90\00:35:45.37
And He goes through,
and even more details
00:35:45.41\00:35:48.84
about the religious issues.
00:35:48.88\00:35:50.68
And, oh wait a minute,
He changes leadership again.
00:35:50.71\00:35:57.22
In Daniel 9, God
changes leadership in Israel.
00:35:57.25\00:36:02.76
In the covenants.
00:36:03.99\00:36:05.63
And so we're
going to see that later.
00:36:06.33\00:36:08.50
But so, now the high priest
and Sanhedrin, God changes
00:36:08.53\00:36:14.60
their leadership into
the Messiah the Priest
00:36:14.64\00:36:18.24
and the Messiah the Prince.
00:36:18.27\00:36:20.68
So Caiaphas is no
longer the high priest for God.
00:36:21.11\00:36:25.65
Jesus, the Messiah, is the High
Priest for God and His people.
00:36:27.82\00:36:34.02
And the Sanhedrin
council is no longer in charge
00:36:35.12\00:36:39.36
of His people.
00:36:39.93\00:36:41.86
Messiah the Prince is.
00:36:42.46\00:36:44.67
If we look on, did Jesus
understand this principle?
00:36:47.70\00:36:51.07
Let's look at John 18 verse 37.
00:36:51.87\00:36:55.24
"Pilate therefore said unto
Him, 'Are You the king then?'
00:36:55.54\00:37:00.08
Jesus answered, 'You say
rightly that I am king.'"
00:37:00.82\00:37:06.12
And I put the
numbers in here again.
00:37:06.15\00:37:08.12
Number one, "For
this cause I was born..."
00:37:08.16\00:37:12.76
And number two,
"...for this cause I have
00:37:12.79\00:37:16.23
come into the world..."
00:37:16.26\00:37:17.60
Now He did say, as
Alan mentioned last night,
00:37:18.07\00:37:21.64
that His kingdom
was not of this world.
00:37:21.84\00:37:23.64
In other words, He was not
trying to overthrow Caesar.
00:37:23.67\00:37:25.77
That was not His purpose here.
00:37:25.81\00:37:27.28
That's what the
Jews wanted Him to do.
00:37:27.31\00:37:30.28
That's what the Jews
wanted the Messiah to do.
00:37:30.31\00:37:32.88
But that's not what He came for.
00:37:32.91\00:37:34.38
He came as King, but He
came first of all as Savior.
00:37:34.68\00:37:39.25
Now He's going to come
back and we're going to see
00:37:39.65\00:37:41.79
He will come as King.
00:37:41.82\00:37:43.63
Seems like the
clicker is not wanting to go.
00:37:49.86\00:37:52.00
There we go.
00:37:52.03\00:37:53.37
Mark 14 verse 61,
"Again the high priest..."
00:37:53.57\00:37:58.97
Now He's talking
to the high priest
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.38
just before the crucifixion.
00:38:00.41\00:38:01.94
"...asked Him, saying to
Him, 'Are You the Christ,
00:38:03.81\00:38:09.12
the Son of the Blessed?'
00:38:09.15\00:38:10.59
And Jesus said, 'I am.
00:38:11.05\00:38:13.46
And you will see the
Son of Man sitting on the
00:38:13.96\00:38:17.99
right hand of the
Power, and coming with the
00:38:18.03\00:38:21.36
clouds of heaven.'"
00:38:21.40\00:38:22.90
The right hand of the
throne, or power, or of God,
00:38:23.60\00:38:28.50
or the Majesty,
refers to Jesus being King.
00:38:28.94\00:38:33.51
Five times in the book of
Hebrews and twenty-five times
00:38:33.94\00:38:38.05
in the New
Testament it refers to Jesus
00:38:38.08\00:38:41.02
at the right hand of the Father.
00:38:41.05\00:38:43.02
Now we look at
Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2.
00:38:45.35\00:38:51.33
"...looking unto Jesus,
the author and the finisher
00:38:51.69\00:38:54.93
of our faith, who for the
joy that was set before Him
00:38:54.96\00:38:58.67
endured the cross, despising
the shame, and has sat down
00:38:58.70\00:39:04.21
on the right hand
of the throne of God."
00:39:04.24\00:39:07.24
Now this goes along
with Revelation 3:21.
00:39:07.94\00:39:11.01
"To him who overcomes I
will grant to sit with Me
00:39:11.05\00:39:15.88
in My throne, as I also
overcame and am sat down
00:39:15.92\00:39:20.42
with My Father on His throne."
00:39:20.46\00:39:23.12
Now let's look at
Revelation 19 verses 15 and 16.
00:39:23.93\00:39:29.60
"Now out of His
mouth goeth a sharp sword,
00:39:29.86\00:39:34.50
that with it He
should strike the nations.
00:39:34.90\00:39:38.31
And He Himself will
rule them with a rod of iron.
00:39:38.34\00:39:42.18
And He Himself treads the
winepress of the fierceness
00:39:42.21\00:39:46.72
and the wrath of
the Almighty God.
00:39:46.75\00:39:49.02
And He has on His robe and
on His thigh the name written:
00:39:49.05\00:39:54.32
KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS."
00:39:54.36\00:39:56.79
And you notice, every
one of those letters of that
00:39:56.83\00:40:00.20
title are capitalized.
00:40:00.23\00:40:01.90
The highest title that He has.
00:40:01.93\00:40:04.90
"KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS."
00:40:04.93\00:40:06.30
It's when He comes
riding on the white horse.
00:40:06.33\00:40:09.27
It's the time that He
comes now to finish up
00:40:09.30\00:40:13.44
all of the wicked and to
destroy Satan, sinners, and sin
00:40:13.48\00:40:21.12
from this world.
00:40:21.15\00:40:22.48
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11.
00:40:23.35\00:40:25.45
"But Christ came as High Priest
of good things to come..."
00:40:25.69\00:40:30.73
Now go down to verse 24.
00:40:30.76\00:40:32.43
"For Christ is not entered into
holy places made with hands,
00:40:32.79\00:40:37.40
which are the figures of the
true, but into heaven itself,
00:40:37.43\00:40:42.07
now to appear in the
presence of God for us."
00:40:42.10\00:40:45.44
Sixteen times in the book of
Hebrews, Jesus is referred to
00:40:45.77\00:40:50.75
as the High Priest.
00:40:50.78\00:40:52.41
You see, what happened, this
is the application of what...
00:40:53.18\00:40:57.99
By the way, the apostles
had said, Stephen had said,
00:40:58.09\00:41:02.76
Jesus had said, the Bible
says, when we're looking at
00:41:02.79\00:41:07.00
all of this together.
00:41:07.03\00:41:08.63
Now let's go on in verse 19.
00:41:09.00\00:41:11.70
Talking about how
the High Priest enters in
00:41:12.73\00:41:15.74
the Most Holy
Place behind the veil.
00:41:15.77\00:41:17.91
In verse 20, "...where the
forerunner has entered for us,
00:41:17.94\00:41:22.78
even Jesus, having become
High Priest forever according
00:41:22.81\00:41:28.18
to the order of Melchizedek."
00:41:28.22\00:41:30.75
This is fulfilling a Messianic
prophecy of Psalm 110 verse 4.
00:41:30.79\00:41:37.43
"You are a priest
forever according to the
00:41:38.23\00:41:42.56
order of Melchizedek."
00:41:42.60\00:41:45.30
Nine times in the book of
Hebrews, Melchizedek is used.
00:41:46.00\00:41:50.97
It's always used in a
reference of how Melchizedek
00:41:51.01\00:41:56.34
was a symbol for
Jesus the Messiah.
00:41:56.38\00:41:59.61
He was a priest
of the Most High God.
00:41:59.65\00:42:02.78
He was the king of
Salem, which was the forerunner
00:42:02.82\00:42:06.52
of Jerusalem.
00:42:06.55\00:42:08.52
And Jesus is the High Priest and
the King of the New Jerusalem.
00:42:09.09\00:42:17.73
And so we see that
he was a type of Christ.
00:42:17.93\00:42:21.37
As we go on in
Hebrews 7 verse 11,
00:42:21.40\00:42:24.44
"Therefore, if perfection were
through the Levitical priesthood
00:42:24.74\00:42:29.74
what further need was
there that another priest should
00:42:29.78\00:42:33.95
rise according to
the order of Melchizedek,
00:42:33.98\00:42:36.85
and not be called
after the order of Aaron?
00:42:37.15\00:42:41.62
For the
priesthood being changed..."
00:42:42.26\00:42:45.16
Now let's go on
down to verse 14.
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.20
"For it is evident that
our Lord arose from Judah,
00:42:47.43\00:42:52.60
of which tribe Moses spoke
nothing concerning priesthood.
00:42:53.37\00:42:58.77
And it is yet far more
evident if, in the likeness of
00:42:59.27\00:43:05.38
Melchizedek, there arises
another priest who has come,
00:43:05.41\00:43:11.55
not according to the law
of a fleshly commandment,
00:43:11.59\00:43:14.92
but according to the
power of an endless life.
00:43:14.96\00:43:19.33
For He testifies, 'You are a
priest forever according to the
00:43:19.93\00:43:25.93
order of Melchizedek.'"
00:43:25.97\00:43:28.20
You see, Jesus'
priesthood is so much better
00:43:28.40\00:43:31.61
than even that of Melchizedek.
00:43:31.64\00:43:34.01
Because He has the
power of life eternal,
00:43:34.04\00:43:38.51
and giving us life eternal.
00:43:39.05\00:43:41.78
Death could not
hold Him in the grave.
00:43:41.82\00:43:44.95
And He raises.
00:43:45.45\00:43:46.79
And the fact that He
rose, it makes no difference
00:43:46.82\00:43:50.23
whether we live
or die on this earth,
00:43:50.26\00:43:52.59
if we're in Jesus
we have eternal life.
00:43:52.63\00:43:55.26
And so we go on and notice.
00:43:56.46\00:43:58.53
Now let's look at
Romans, how Paul puts this in.
00:43:59.30\00:44:02.80
Romans 9 verse 2,
"...that I have great sorrow
00:44:03.67\00:44:07.31
and continual grief in my heart.
00:44:07.34\00:44:09.58
For I could wish that I
myself were accursed for Christ
00:44:09.61\00:44:14.32
and my brethren,
and my countrymen
00:44:14.35\00:44:16.58
according to the flesh,"
00:44:16.62\00:44:18.75
in verse 4, "who are Israelites,
to whom pertain the adoption,
00:44:19.62\00:44:24.59
the glory, the covenants,
the giving of the law,
00:44:24.69\00:44:28.36
the service of God,
and the promises..."
00:44:28.40\00:44:31.40
Now notice, I want you to
notice the word, "covenants,"
00:44:31.43\00:44:34.27
and, "promises."
00:44:34.30\00:44:35.64
It's through Israel
that the covenants especially
00:44:35.67\00:44:39.41
were shown and demonstrated
so visually and emphatically.
00:44:39.44\00:44:45.11
Now in verse 5, "...from
whom, according to the flesh,
00:44:45.15\00:44:50.15
Christ came, who is
over all, the eternally
00:44:50.19\00:44:54.69
blessed God; amen."
00:44:54.72\00:44:57.06
Now notice who the flesh...
00:44:57.09\00:44:58.59
Who came? Christ came.
00:44:58.96\00:45:00.80
Jesus was a Jew.
00:45:00.83\00:45:02.43
And those who are
against Jews and hate Jews,
00:45:02.53\00:45:06.07
well how could
you be a Christian?
00:45:06.10\00:45:08.00
Jesus, the source of
Christianity, was a Jew.
00:45:09.30\00:45:13.68
And he says the
covenants came there,
00:45:14.04\00:45:15.98
the promises came through them.
00:45:16.01\00:45:17.81
In fact, of all the Bible
writers, almost exclusively
00:45:17.85\00:45:22.28
the Bible writers under the
inspiration of God were Jews.
00:45:22.32\00:45:25.42
And Paul says, "Look, all
of this came through there.
00:45:25.72\00:45:28.96
Don't turn your
back on your roots."
00:45:28.99\00:45:31.63
And Christ Himself came there.
00:45:31.83\00:45:33.90
As we go on in chapter
9 verse 6, "But it is not
00:45:34.36\00:45:38.47
that the word of
God has taken no effect.
00:45:38.50\00:45:40.90
For they are not all
Israel who are of Israel,
00:45:40.94\00:45:44.71
nor are they all
children because they are the
00:45:45.14\00:45:49.71
seed of Abraham; but, 'In Isaac
your seed shall be called.'"
00:45:49.74\00:45:54.25
By the way, I like
that what Sasha brought out.
00:45:54.28\00:45:56.99
You know, 9/11
couldn't happen unless
00:45:57.02\00:46:00.56
first of all
Abraham went into Hagar.
00:46:00.59\00:46:03.19
And that's true.
00:46:03.39\00:46:04.73
A lot of other terrorism
could be added to that as well.
00:46:04.76\00:46:07.50
But then notice in verse 8,
"...the children of the promise
00:46:08.66\00:46:13.64
are counted as the seed."
00:46:13.67\00:46:15.00
The children of the promise.
00:46:15.04\00:46:16.40
In fact, if we go to verse
24, "...even us whom He called,
00:46:16.44\00:46:20.94
not of the Jews only,
but also of the Gentiles?"
00:46:21.04\00:46:26.05
So it's not just a Jewish thing.
00:46:26.08\00:46:29.08
God didn't want
just to save the Jews.
00:46:29.12\00:46:32.52
Even in the Old Testament
they were to be a witness,
00:46:32.55\00:46:36.09
they were to be a light
to the rest of the world.
00:46:36.29\00:46:38.86
Just like the church is to be a
light to the rest of the world.
00:46:38.89\00:46:41.93
All the blessings aren't suppose
to be just on the church.
00:46:41.96\00:46:44.60
The church is the
means of getting the gospel
00:46:44.63\00:46:48.14
out to the others.
00:46:48.17\00:46:49.50
And that was true then as well.
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.67
And we're going to see
how that ties in to Revelation
00:46:51.71\00:46:54.44
in just a moment.
00:46:54.48\00:46:55.81
And now notice in
Romans 9 verse 27,
00:46:55.84\00:46:58.41
"Isaiah also cries
out concerning Israel,
00:46:58.95\00:47:02.28
'Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the
00:47:02.78\00:47:05.45
sand of the sea...'"
00:47:05.49\00:47:06.82
Read this last part with me.
00:47:06.86\00:47:08.26
"...the remnant will be saved."
00:47:08.62\00:47:12.19
I want you to notice, it
says a remnant will be saved.
00:47:12.39\00:47:15.66
Now he is talking
about the end of time.
00:47:15.70\00:47:18.43
Look at the very next
verse, the very next phrase.
00:47:18.47\00:47:22.57
"For He will finish the work and
cut it short in righteousness,
00:47:22.67\00:47:28.88
because the Lord will make
a short work upon the earth."
00:47:28.91\00:47:32.85
Now this shows, and
there are many from the
00:47:33.42\00:47:37.99
pen of inspiration that say
these are the last people group
00:47:38.02\00:47:40.79
to be reached
before Jesus comes.
00:47:40.82\00:47:42.66
Here it says the
remnant will be saved,
00:47:42.69\00:47:44.79
He's going to finish the work.
00:47:44.83\00:47:46.16
It's the remnant at
the finishing that he's
00:47:46.19\00:47:48.10
talking about here, isn't it?
00:47:48.13\00:47:49.56
That's the context.
00:47:50.17\00:47:51.77
And the Lord's going to
make a short work out of it.
00:47:51.80\00:47:54.37
We go on in chapter 10 verse
1, "Brethren, my heart's desire
00:47:54.40\00:48:00.01
and prayer to God for Israel
is that they may be saved."
00:48:00.04\00:48:05.98
Going on in verse 2,
"...they have a zeal of God,
00:48:06.35\00:48:10.79
but not according to knowledge.
00:48:10.82\00:48:12.95
For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness,
00:48:12.99\00:48:17.36
and seeking to establish
their own righteousness,
00:48:17.39\00:48:21.23
have not submitted to
the righteousness of God.
00:48:21.26\00:48:25.07
For Christ is the end of
the law for righteousness
00:48:25.33\00:48:29.90
to everyone who believes."
00:48:29.94\00:48:31.77
In other words,
righteousness by faith
00:48:31.81\00:48:34.01
is the basis of salvation.
00:48:34.04\00:48:36.58
It's not how good we
are, it's how good He is;
00:48:36.61\00:48:39.61
is the basis of our salvation.
00:48:39.65\00:48:41.75
And so all the
lambs, all the sacrifices,
00:48:42.08\00:48:45.59
were looking to the cross.
00:48:45.62\00:48:47.52
That's what we
looked at in Daniel 9
00:48:47.56\00:48:50.63
and verses 24 and
right on through 27.
00:48:51.09\00:48:55.76
And the righteousness of Christ
is what, His righteousness,
00:48:55.93\00:49:00.47
is what will give
us righteousness now
00:49:00.50\00:49:03.10
and for eternity.
00:49:03.14\00:49:04.47
It's His righteousness
that covers our sins,
00:49:04.51\00:49:07.24
that washes away our
sins, and empowers us to
00:49:07.28\00:49:10.51
overcome our sins.
00:49:10.55\00:49:12.55
Now notice 2 Corinthians
5:19, "...God was in Christ
00:49:12.75\00:49:19.05
reconciling the
world to Himself..."
00:49:19.09\00:49:22.96
You remember the reconciling?
00:49:23.43\00:49:25.93
That was one of the lines
of the prepositional phrases.
00:49:25.96\00:49:29.73
God was in Christ
reconciling the world.
00:49:29.76\00:49:33.57
It's through His sacrifice,
it's through His atonement,
00:49:33.60\00:49:37.51
it's through His
covenant, that we are saved.
00:49:37.71\00:49:41.68
Now let's notice in
Hebrews chapter 8 verse 10.
00:49:41.94\00:49:45.15
"For this is the covenant
that I will make with the
00:49:45.18\00:49:48.72
house of Israel:
00:49:48.75\00:49:50.09
I will put My laws in
their mind and write them
00:49:50.29\00:49:53.96
in their hearts;
and I will be their God,
00:49:53.99\00:49:56.93
and they shall be My people."
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.19
Here is the new covenant.
00:49:59.73\00:50:01.60
It was prophesied in Jeremiah.
00:50:01.63\00:50:03.70
Here we have it, in
saying that it's going to be,
00:50:03.73\00:50:07.50
and it's at the end time.
00:50:07.54\00:50:09.37
Now as we go on, and
notice in chapter 13 of Hebrews,
00:50:10.14\00:50:15.04
verses 20 and 21,
"...through the blood of the
00:50:15.08\00:50:18.65
everlasting covenant, make
you complete in every good work
00:50:18.68\00:50:24.75
to do His will..."
00:50:24.95\00:50:26.55
The everlasting covenant
is complete in His blood.
00:50:26.59\00:50:31.33
And it makes us
do every good work
00:50:31.53\00:50:34.83
when we accept and allow
that covenant, that atonement,
00:50:35.16\00:50:40.40
that change in our life
from what the Messiah has done.
00:50:40.44\00:50:45.61
Now in Romans chapter 11.
00:50:45.64\00:50:48.21
"Has God cast away His people?
00:50:49.84\00:50:52.21
Certainly not.
00:50:52.51\00:50:53.85
For I also am an Israelite,
of the seed of Abraham,
00:50:53.88\00:50:58.35
of the tribe of Benjamin."
00:50:58.39\00:50:59.92
Those who say the
Jews were gone after AD 34,
00:51:00.26\00:51:04.36
you know, replacement
theology; hey, the Bible says,
00:51:04.39\00:51:08.10
God says certainly not.
00:51:08.13\00:51:09.83
They have not been cast away.
00:51:09.86\00:51:11.50
God doesn't
cast away His people.
00:51:12.07\00:51:14.10
People leave Him, but God
doesn't cast away His people.
00:51:14.14\00:51:17.41
We're teaching wrong about
the character of God when we
00:51:17.44\00:51:20.21
say God throws people out.
00:51:20.24\00:51:21.78
They throw themselves out.
00:51:22.31\00:51:23.71
God doesn't throw them out.
00:51:24.11\00:51:25.58
He wants to save all of them.
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But going on in verse 2, "God
has not cast away His people..."
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What part of that
do we not understand.
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He hasn't cast them away.
He's talking about Israel.
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And then going on, "...what
the Scripture says of Elijah,
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how he pleads with God
against Israel, saying,
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'Lord, they have killed
Your prophets and torn down
00:51:46.90\00:51:50.94
Your altars, and I alone am
left, and they seek my life.'
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But what does the
divine response say to him?
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'I have reserved for
Myself seven thousand men
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who have not bowed
their knee to Baal.'
00:52:03.55\00:52:05.89
Even so then, at this
present time there is a remnant
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according to the
election of grace."
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There's, again, the second time
"remnant" is used for Israel.
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And it's used after the cross.
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It's used in Paul's day.
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And he says, a remnant
after grace; Jewish believers.
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And going on in chapter 16,
you can read about the tree.
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And basically what we
find is, the branches were,
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some branches were
broken, in verse 17.
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And wild olive tree
branches were grafted in them.
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For time's sake, we're
going to go on down to verse 19.
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"You may say then,
'Branches were broken off
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that I might be grafted in.'
00:52:50.97\00:52:53.54
Well said.
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Because of unbelief
they were broken off,
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and you stand by faith.
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Do not be haughty, but fear.
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For if God did not
spare the natural branches,
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He may not spare you either."
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And then in verse 24, the
natural branches are grafted
00:53:08.12\00:53:11.42
back into their olive tree.
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Remember, the
tree wasn't cut down.
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And Jesus is the root.
00:53:15.66\00:53:17.19
The tree was there.
00:53:17.23\00:53:18.56
Some branches were cut off.
00:53:18.59\00:53:20.23
Wild branches were grafted in.
00:53:20.26\00:53:22.46
And then some of
the original branches
00:53:22.50\00:53:25.17
were grafted back in.
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Now as we look in
verse 25, he says he didn't
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want them to be ignorant,
"lest you should be wise
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in your own opinion,
that blindness in part has
00:53:36.91\00:53:41.02
happened to Israel
until the fullness of the
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Gentiles has come in."
00:53:44.05\00:53:45.65
So Paul is saying there's
blindness on much of Israel
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until the fullness of
the Gentiles comes in.
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And then we're going to
find the grafting back in.
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Just as we saw in chapter 9 at
the end in finishing the work.
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But let's go on in verse 26.
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"And so all Israel will
be saved, as it is written,
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'The Deliverer will
come out of Zion, and He will
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turn away
ungodliness from Jacob.
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For this is My
covenant with them,
00:54:16.75\00:54:19.49
when I take away their sins.'"
00:54:19.52\00:54:21.49
I want you to notice
that all Israel being saved is
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referring to all the branches;
the natural and the other.
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That is all Israel being saved.
00:54:28.90\00:54:31.67
It's not like some are saying,
it's all the nation of Israel.
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No, it's all the believers.
00:54:35.10\00:54:36.60
All the believers.
00:54:36.81\00:54:38.14
And we look now at Revelation
chapter 12 and verse 17.
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And I want us to
look at what it says.
00:54:44.68\00:54:46.92
"And the dragon was
wroth with the woman,
00:54:46.95\00:54:48.92
and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed,
00:54:48.95\00:54:51.39
which keep the
commandments of God and have the
00:54:51.69\00:54:54.06
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:54:54.09\00:54:55.79
In Revelation chapter 12 we
find a woman in the beginning
00:54:55.99\00:55:00.66
who bears a child, and
that man-child is Jesus.
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In the Old
Testament, Israel was the bride
00:55:05.80\00:55:10.07
of God, wasn't it?
00:55:10.57\00:55:11.91
And we've already
read in chapter 9 of Romans
00:55:12.24\00:55:16.41
that it was through
Israel that Jesus was born.
00:55:16.44\00:55:19.98
But now we find
that in the wilderness,
00:55:20.68\00:55:24.75
this is the church.
00:55:24.79\00:55:26.12
The two become one to
make this final remnant.
00:55:26.15\00:55:29.72
What we see is happening.
00:55:31.03\00:55:32.79
And how do I know that it true?
00:55:32.83\00:55:34.36
Look at Revelation
chapter 21 and verses 12 and 14.
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In verse 12, the names of
the twelve tribes of Israel
00:55:40.37\00:55:45.01
are over the gates
of the New Jerusalem.
00:55:45.04\00:55:48.01
The names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb
00:55:48.04\00:55:52.21
are on the foundations.
00:55:52.25\00:55:53.72
Wait a minute.
00:55:53.98\00:55:55.32
On the New Jerusalem.
00:55:55.45\00:55:56.85
The names of the tribes
and the names of the apostles.
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You see, the final
remnant are the believing Jews
00:56:02.36\00:56:07.96
and the believing
Gentiles together;
00:56:08.00\00:56:11.00
make up the final remnant.
00:56:11.03\00:56:13.03
And that is God's completed
covenant where they are saved.
00:56:13.13\00:56:21.54
And what we find there
in Revelation chapter 21
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.58
and verse 3, "And I heard a
loud voice from heaven saying,
00:56:25.78\00:56:28.92
'Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
00:56:29.02\00:56:31.75
and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people.
00:56:31.79\00:56:35.52
And God Himself will be
with them and be their God.'"
00:56:35.62\00:56:39.16
And in chapter 22,
there we find, it says,
00:56:39.19\00:56:42.96
"They shall see His
face, and His name shall be
00:56:43.00\00:56:46.97
on their foreheads."
00:56:47.64\00:56:49.67
This is God's
covenant completed.
00:56:49.70\00:56:52.77
This is what all the
covenants were working toward.
00:56:52.81\00:56:56.51
This is why the
covenants were given.
00:56:56.64\00:57:01.48
To redeem all mankind.
00:57:01.78\00:57:03.99
And let's rejoice that
we can be part of God's
00:57:04.25\00:57:10.89
covenant completed.
00:57:10.93\00:57:12.89
Let's pray.
00:57:12.93\00:57:14.26
Father in heaven, thank You
for loving us and saving us.
00:57:14.30\00:57:19.37
Thank You for Your covenants.
00:57:19.40\00:57:21.14
And thank You that we can be
the result of those covenants.
00:57:21.17\00:57:27.34
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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