Hello, friends, and welcome
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to another Wednesday
Night Bible Study here
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at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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So glad that you've taken
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the time to tune in.
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We are here.
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We'd like to welcome
you with a hearty amen.
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Can we all say amen? Amen.
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And wherever you
may be joining us from,
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whether here in
the United States
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or around the world,
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this is a time to
sharpen your focus.
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Now some people,
as we've travelled,
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have asked us, "Why
did we choose that title?"
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Because we know that
many of you study the Bible,
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the topics are
not perfectly clear,
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and I use the
terminology like a photographer.
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One thing the camera
has is a focus point,
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and everything that we
appreciate is in focus.
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Have you ever seen a
picture out of focus?
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Yeah.
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Doesn't it irritate you?
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And...
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Or if you're
watching something...
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And I've seen this
happen very rarely,
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I was watching a
television program,
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it was a news broadcast,
and for whatever reason,
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the camera operator
wasn't in complete focus,
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and the production
crew didn't catch it.
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We talk production.
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And I was just irritated.
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I'm looking at
that, I'm thinking,
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"I'm just going to turn away.
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I'm not going to look at it."
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Because unless it's in
focus, we really cannot find
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what God intends for us to see.
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So we keep studying
topics that are blurry,
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that don't make sense,
that are not very clear,
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and that's why we say as long
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as you keep studying God's word,
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one day, it will come into a...
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Sharper focus. Sharper focus.
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So thank you for
taking the time to tune in.
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In just a moment, I'll tell you
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where you can get
a copy of the lesson,
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how you can gain access
to all the prior lessons
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and all the prior
videos, but we're so glad
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that you've taken
the time to tune in.
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And before we
sing our theme song,
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we're going to have a
word of prayer together,
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so let's bow.
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Our loving Father
in heaven, we thank You
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that tonight we
could open Your Word.
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We also pray that
as we open the pages
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that You'll open our hearts.
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Lead us and guide
us, Heavenly Father,
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that we will not just understand
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what the Bible says,
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but as the topic is about Jesus,
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that we will see
Him more clearly.
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Come, Holy
Spirit, be our teacher.
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We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Now our theme song
tonight is Victory in Jesus,
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We're gonna sing that in just...
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Matter of fact, let me tell you
what I'm supposed to tell you
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before we go to
Victory in Jesus.
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If you'd like a
copy of the lesson,
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lesson number 36,
go to this website,
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ASF.3ABN.org,
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and download lesson number
36, The Truth About Jesus.
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If you're
following it correctly,
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you might say I
did it last week.
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Well, I added more questions,
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and I tend to do
that from week to week.
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I added more questions.
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You should come
up with 25 questions,
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and chances of us
getting that all 25 in tonight
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because, see, tonight,
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between lesson 13
and 25, you might say,
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"That's only 12 questions,"
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but every question
has two scriptures,
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so that's like 24 questions.
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So we'll try our best,
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but go to that
website, ASF.3ABN.org,
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download lesson number what?
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Lesson number 36.
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Now let's sing our
theme song together,
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Victory in Jesus.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day, I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen. Amen.
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Victory in Jesus.
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Tonight our topic is...
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Let's repeat that together.
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The title is The
Truth About Jesus.
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A few weeks ago...
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relatively
speaking, a few weeks ago,
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we began this lesson,
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and I thought, as
I chose this topic,
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the Lord impressed
me to choose the topic
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because most of the things
we talk about are doctrinal,
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but what greater
doctrine there is to know about
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than the doctrine of Jesus.
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In fact, Jesus is
not a doctrine only
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but Jesus is the
Christ, He's the Savior,
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He's the Messiah, He's the Lord.
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And when you
think about this topic,
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what we're going to do tonight
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that's going to dive
into a different aspect
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of the study about
The Truth About Jesus is
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we're going to look at
the prophecies about Jesus.
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What are we going to look at?
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Prophecies. Prophecies.
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Now go with me to
the book of John 13,
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John 13.
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This is why it's
so vitally important.
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You'll discover
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that when Jesus
arrived on the scene
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that is beginning
His earthly ministry,
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it was very difficult for people
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to accept Him
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because,
frankly, He was too young,
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and then to claim to
have the prerogatives of God,
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to be able to do
what God alone can do,
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forgive sins, cleanse,
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do things that are
only of divine origin,
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it was strange to
the people of His day.
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Yet to the very
people of His day,
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He had given
messages centuries before,
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millennia before
that were all pointing
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to the coming of Christ.
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If they had only
paid more attention
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to the prophecies
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and not become
enamored by the symbols...
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They fell in
love with the symbols
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and the ceremonies,
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and they missed to
whom it was pointing.
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And so when you read this text,
what are you going to see here
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is Jesus was
trying to clear up the fog
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about who people did
not believe Him to be,
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and He said
these words in John 13.
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Look at verse 19.
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Let me see. Is that the one?
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Yeah, that's the one.
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Let me see.
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"That you believe He is..."
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Okay, here it is.
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John 13, we'll start with,
"That you believe He is..."
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Look at verse 16.
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And actually, it is verse 19.
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That's the one I was looking at.
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Verse 19.
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He says, "Now I tell you..."
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When?
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"Before it comes, that
when it does come to pass,
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you may believe..."
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What? "That I am He."
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He didn't say,
"You'll believe it."
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He said, "You'll
believe that I am He."
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So the
prophecies in the Bible...
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Let's go now to Isaiah 46.
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The prophecies in the
Bible were to make it clear
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not to believe in the prophecies
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but to believe in the Christ,
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so when the
prophecies came to fulfillment,
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it was to make it very clear
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that these prophecies
were talking about Jesus.
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Look at Isaiah 46.
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All right, wait for me.
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I'm almost there.
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Isaiah 46.
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It's easy
sometimes to get caught up in
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the things we do and
forget its significance.
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Okay, Isaiah 46.
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Let's look at
verse 9 and verse 10.
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Here it is.
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"Remember the
former things of old,
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for I am God, and there is..."
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What?
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"No other.
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I am God, and
there is none like Me."
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What does God do?
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"Declaring the..."
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Together.
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"End from the
beginning, and from..."
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What?
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"Ancient times things
that are not yet done, Saying,
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'My counsel shall
stand, And I will do...'" What?
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"All My pleasure."
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In other words,
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"I'm going to do
what I want to do.
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Whatever I've said
is going to happen."
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So we have
prophecies in the Bible.
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Now there are
various kinds of prophecies.
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There are
apocalyptic prophecies.
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What kind did I say?
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Apocalyptic.
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Now with that word in mind,
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what do you think
apocalyptic prophecies...
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What books do you think
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apocalyptic
prophecies come from?
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That's not a word you want
to say five times in a row.
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Where?
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From Revelation.
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From what other book?
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So apocalyptic prophecies,
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you got to really take your time
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and say that one...
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Say it together.
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Apocalyptic.
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It's like the word millennium.
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Say those together, it could be,
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you know, a total meltdown.
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Millennial
apocalyptic prophecies,
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they are from
books that are pointing
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to the time of the end.
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Daniel and Revelation are
the two most common books,
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but you have other books
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that are not
necessarily prophetic
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but have
application to both times.
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And then you have also
apocalyptic prophecies,
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you also have Judaic prophecies.
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Now to whom do
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Judaic prophecies refer?
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Say it. Israel.
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Israel or the Jews.
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Judaic prophecies.
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Then, without going
through all five of them,
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then you have
messianic prophecies,
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points to whom?
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Jesus, the Messiah.
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Once you understand
the messianic prophecies,
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here's the very important thing,
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you can understand
apocalyptic prophecies,
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you can
understand Judaic prophecies,
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you can understand prophecies
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that have just been
pointed to specific people,
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prophecies that have
already been fulfilled,
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prophecies about the end time,
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all those are important,
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but if you miss out
messianic prophecies,
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then you miss the one
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that it really points to.
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Go to John 5:39.
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And then we're going to
dive into the first question.
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This is the
key, there are people
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that study their
Bibles and they miss,
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and they miss, they miss.
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What words did I
say? They what? They miss.
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Okay, here it is.
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So that's why tonight,
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we're going to
look at the prophecies
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that primarily
point to confirming.
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And I chose just a
few because there are...
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I mean from
Genesis to Revelation,
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you'll find that
they're prophecies
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that all are fulfilled
in the life, the ministry,
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the death, the resurrection,
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and that are yet to be fulfilled
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in the return of Jesus.
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But here's John 5:39.
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This is often used, by the way,
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to tell people
to study the Bible.
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There's nothing wrong
with studying the Bible,
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is there? No.
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But don't forget
why you study the Bible.
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Look at what He says.
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He says, "You
search the Scriptures..."
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Or some versions says,
"Search the Scriptures."
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Does it say that?
"Search the Scriptures."
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That's the King James Version,
"Search the Scriptures."
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But the New King
James Version says,
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"You search the Scriptures."
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One says,
"Search the Scriptures."
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That means that's
what you should do.
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The other one is suggesting,
clarifying it even more,
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"You do search the
Scriptures, and in them..."
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What?
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"You think you have..."
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What? "Eternal life."
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So when you
search the Scriptures,
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do you have
eternal life in the Bible?
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Yes or no?
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In the Bible? Yes or
no? Come on. Together.
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Yes or no? Yes.
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No.
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That is the hook.
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You can breathe now.
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That's what Jesus was saying.
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"You do search the
Scriptures, in them,
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you think you
have eternal life."
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But look what He ends by saying.
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"And these are they which..."
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What? "Testify of Me."
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He said, "You can read
the Bible until you die,
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if you don't find Me,
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you don't have eternal life."
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Amen.
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So don't get caught up in
Bible study and miss Jesus,
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that's what he's,
in essence, saying.
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There are some
people that will study
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the Bible forever
and they'll miss Jesus.
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How can you study the Bible
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and think that
Jesus is a lesser God?
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How can you
study, as it is in walks,
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and I want to say
this to keep it in context,
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there is an entire nation
of Jews that don't believe
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that Jesus is the Messiah
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because they stick
only with the Old Testament.
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How could you even
study just the Old Testament
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and not believe that
Jesus is the Messiah?
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Because when
Jesus quoted the Bible,
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what book in the New
Testament did Jesus quote?
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Huh? None.
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He spoke of all
the Old Testament.
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So what we're
going to do tonight
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is we're going to take a trek
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through the Bible
and look at Old Testament
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and what else?
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New Testament.
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And by the way,
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you'll find that they fit hand
in glove like one testament.
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They're not separated,
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but simply the Old
Testament is the New Testament.
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I would say this. Let
me see if you remember.
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The Old Testament is
the New Testament what?
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Concealed. Say it.
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Concealed, and the New Testament
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is the Old Testament what?
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Revealed. Revealed. Together.
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The Old Testament is
the New Testament what?
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Concealed.
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And the New Testament
is the Old Testament what?
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Revealed.
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In other words, when you
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when you study
the Old Testament,
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it points you back...
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It points you to the New.
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When you understand the
New, it points you to the Old.
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You can't take them out.
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So let's go to the
prophecies tonight,
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let's begin to see
how the Bible clearly...
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We're going to
begin with number 13,
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how the Bible clearly...
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And if you have the
syllabus, you'll notice it says,
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"The prophecies confirming
the messiahship of Jesus."
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The prophecies confirming
the messiahship of Jesus.
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Each of them has two scriptures.
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Each of the
questions have two scriptures.
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Let's go with
number 13. Here it is.
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"The Bible predicted the
place of the birth of Jesus.
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The Bible predicted the
place of the birth of Jesus."
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Let's go to Micah 5.
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Where are we going to go?
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Micah.
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Okay. Okay.
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And you could be way
ahead of me, by the way.
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Micah 5:2.
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Okay, let's look at this.
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Here it is.
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And since it's
the first Scripture
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we're looking up,
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let's all read it together
from the screen, all right?
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Here it is.
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"But you, Bethlehem
Ephrathah, though you are..."
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What?
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"Little among the
thousands of Judah,
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yet out of you shall come..."
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Who?
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"Come forth to Me One to be..."
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What?
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"Ruler in Israel,
whose going forth are..."
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What?
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"From old, from..."
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Where?
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"Everlasting." Where
does everlasting start?
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Where does everlasting start?
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We often use the word,
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"Man, it just seems like
that sermon went on forever."
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I've heard that before.
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But it hasn't, it really hasn't.
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It has a beginning and an end,
and it's hard for us to think
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that there's
something that has no beginning.
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Sorry, there's
someone who has no beginning,
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and there's
someone who has what?
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No end. Let's go to Revelation.
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Look at this.
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Let's do Luke first.
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Well, no, let's go
to Revelation first
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because I'm talking
about from everlasting.
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I'm talking about from where...
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everlasting.
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Okay, Revelation 1.
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Okay, here we are.
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Wow, this is wonderful.
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Okay, Revelation 1:8.
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Revelation 1:8.
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And then we're
going to look at verse 11,
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but let's start
with Revelation 1:8.
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"'I am the Alpha and the Omega.
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The beginning and
the end' says the Lord,
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'who is, who was, and who...'"
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What?
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"'Is to come the...'"
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Who?
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"'The Almighty.'"
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And who was that speaking about?
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Jesus.
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Because Revelation
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is the
revelation of Jesus Christ,
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it's the revelation of Jesus.
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Now,
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you know, some people
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are very hard
pressed to think that,
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"How could you possibly believe
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that there was a Man
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that came to earth,
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died,
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came back to life,
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went to heaven, and
He's coming back again?
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How could you
possibly believe that?"
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Whenever you try
to argue the point
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or try to convince someone,
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human wisdom always
falls short of winning
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that kind of a
tit-for-tat argument.
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But let me give you a key.
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Here's the key to always
allow the Word of God to be
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the strength on which you lean
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because Jesus didn't
just come to the earth
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and begin a ministry,
but He outlined prophecies,
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He outlined what?
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Prophecies.
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And one of the
biggest prophecies
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that we're going to deal
with in our next broadcast,
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we're going to go
ahead and insert that in,
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is one of the
greatest prophecies pointing
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to the coming of Jesus.
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It was harnessed right there
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in the Book of Daniel, Daniel 9.
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The 2,300 days
or the 2,300 years
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or the 70-week prophecy,
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which is really 490 years,
we'll discover every component
00:19:58.99\00:20:02.46
of that prophecy came
to pass, not only that
00:20:02.50\00:20:05.20
but that the
prophecies in Revelation
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.37
that are coming to pass,
00:20:07.40\00:20:08.74
the prophecies in
Daniel that have come to pass.
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And all these prophecies
are there like, John just says,
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"I've told you
these things beforehand
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so that when they come to pass,
00:20:16.31\00:20:18.31
you will
believe the prophecies."
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Is that what it said? No.
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What does it say?
You believe in Me.
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"You'll believe
that I am He." See?
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When these things happen,
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you're not
going to believe them,
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you're going to believe,
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"Hey I'm the God, I'm
the Christ, I'm the Lord."
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That's why I'm very careful...
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And I want to say this
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as we go to the
second part of question 13,
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I'm very careful not
to call Jesus my homie.
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I have a difficult time
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when I hear people
say stuff like that.
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"He's my homie."
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And it gets worse than that,
00:20:50.51\00:20:52.21
you know, and not
derogatory curse words,
00:20:52.25\00:20:56.58
but they belittle His name
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and bring Him
down to like nothing.
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"He's my homie, my homeboy."
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You know, all
these terminologies.
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No, He isn't. He's the Christ.
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He's our Lord. He's our Savior.
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He's not somebody
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that we bump fists with or cool,
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you know, we got it like that.
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Be very careful how you
talk about the Most Holy.
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Amen?
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Well, matter of
fact, a very good point.
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See, my wife thinks
for me while I'm speaking.
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I'm speaking, she's
thinking. That works.
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When the Bible
writers penned the scribes,
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when they penned, and
they wrote the name of God,
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they would put
the regular pen down
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and pick up a different
scribe to just write His name.
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They would only use...
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His name, this particular pen
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was only used to write His name,
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and then they'd put it
down and then continue writing.
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Just to write His name,
they had one particular,
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and I'm using the word,
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.15
they were
scribes, but I'm using...
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I forgot the word
that the pen is used,
00:22:05.65\00:22:07.69
but I'm just using
the word pen for...
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Huh? Quill.
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The quill. Exactly, thank you.
00:22:11.49\00:22:12.83
They would just pick up
00:22:12.86\00:22:14.20
that one quill
to write His name.
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And this is huge,
00:22:16.33\00:22:17.93
and if they
didn't do it correctly,
00:22:17.97\00:22:21.00
they didn't erase it.
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I want to crash my...
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They would take the paper
00:22:24.41\00:22:25.74
and throw it
away and do it over.
00:22:25.77\00:22:27.68
They would take the
parchment and do it all over.
00:22:27.71\00:22:32.21
They would not
even erase His name.
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So this is the
name, that's why today...
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What's happening
in our world today,
00:22:36.92\00:22:38.25
you find commercials
00:22:38.29\00:22:40.32
and movie stars
00:22:40.36\00:22:44.43
and music stars and hair
salons and in sports bars,
00:22:44.46\00:22:50.57
they're all using
00:22:50.60\00:22:51.93
"I am, I am, I am, I am, I am,"
00:22:51.97\00:22:54.67
that's God's...
00:22:54.70\00:22:56.04
That's the great "I Am."
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Let's not bring
the great I Am down
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to the common today.
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From
everlasting, from everlasting,
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He's been here before us,
and He will be here after us.
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Look at the prophecy,
and that's the prophecy.
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Now look at the fulfillment.
Go with me now to Luke.
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Go with me to Luke.
00:23:11.62\00:23:12.95
Oh, yeah, go with me...
00:23:16.32\00:23:17.93
Yeah, I tell you.
Go with me to Luke.
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We're going to try to
browse through some of these.
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I just laid some foundation,
00:23:21.66\00:23:23.00
we're going to move it a
little quicker pace here.
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So the Bible said that,
00:23:25.17\00:23:27.20
"He will come from
Bethlehem Ephratah,
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which not the least among..."
00:23:31.21\00:23:33.71
Let's look at
the fulfillment now.
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Luke 2:1-7, the Bible says,
00:23:37.95\00:23:39.85
"And it came to
pass in those days
00:23:39.88\00:23:41.58
that a census went
out from Caesar Augustus
00:23:41.62\00:23:46.05
that all the world
should be registered."
00:23:46.09\00:23:48.46
Or some say text.
00:23:48.49\00:23:50.93
"This census first took place
00:23:50.96\00:23:54.40
while Quirinius
was governing Syria."
00:23:54.43\00:23:58.23
Same Syria today.
00:23:58.27\00:24:00.07
"So all went to be
registered, everyone to his..."
00:24:00.10\00:24:03.44
What? "Own city.
00:24:03.47\00:24:05.51
Joseph also
went up from Galilee,
00:24:05.54\00:24:08.14
out of the city of
Nazareth, into Judea,
00:24:08.18\00:24:12.28
to the city of
David, which is called..."
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What?
00:24:14.98\00:24:16.32
"Bethlehem,
00:24:16.35\00:24:17.75
because he was of the
house and lineage of David."
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And he went there to what?
00:24:21.62\00:24:22.96
"To be registered with
Mary, his betrothed wife..."
00:24:22.99\00:24:27.10
That's the word engaged
but a lot deeper than that.
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"Who was with child.
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So it was that
while they were there,
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.70
the days were
completed for her to be..."
00:24:33.74\00:24:35.70
What?
00:24:35.74\00:24:37.07
"To be delivered."
00:24:37.11\00:24:39.07
And it says,
00:24:39.11\00:24:40.44
"And she brought
forth her firstborn son
00:24:40.48\00:24:45.41
and wrapped Him
in swaddling clothes
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.08
and laid him in a..."
00:24:48.12\00:24:49.45
What?
00:24:49.48\00:24:50.82
"In a manger
00:24:50.85\00:24:52.19
because there was
no room for them..."
00:24:52.22\00:24:54.92
Where?
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.29
"In the inn."
00:24:56.32\00:24:57.93
What city was
Jesus born in? Bethlehem.
00:24:57.96\00:25:01.10
The city of David. Is
that prophecy fulfilled?
00:25:01.13\00:25:06.80
Yes or no? Yes!
00:25:06.84\00:25:08.24
So when you write this down,
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.60
the two components that
link the prophecy in Micah
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.44
to the fulfillment in Luke
is Jesus was born in the city.
00:25:12.47\00:25:16.54
Now you got to
understand the condition of Mary
00:25:16.58\00:25:18.85
in order for that to happen.
00:25:18.88\00:25:20.22
Mary is well on in childbearing,
00:25:20.25\00:25:22.25
she's well on in months.
00:25:22.28\00:25:23.79
She's about to be
delivered, she is...
00:25:23.82\00:25:28.09
And I'm not a doctor at
all, but I'm thinking...
00:25:28.12\00:25:30.13
How many
trimesters are there, ladies?
00:25:30.16\00:25:31.49
Help me out on
this. Are there three?
00:25:31.53\00:25:34.00
Okay, I guess that's
why it's called trimester.
00:25:34.03\00:25:36.67
Okay, I'm getting it.
00:25:36.70\00:25:39.13
Never had a baby
before and don't be surprised.
00:25:39.17\00:25:42.84
But she's beyond...
00:25:42.87\00:25:44.77
She's in her third
trimester I would imagine
00:25:44.81\00:25:46.68
because it wasn't very long
00:25:46.71\00:25:48.11
after they got there
that this census was taken.
00:25:48.14\00:25:51.35
She didn't travel
there in a vehicle.
00:25:51.38\00:25:55.18
She didn't travel in
anything comfortable.
00:25:55.22\00:25:57.35
She travelled on
the back of a burro,
00:25:57.39\00:26:01.99
a donkey.
00:26:02.02\00:26:06.13
And she went at a time
00:26:06.16\00:26:07.50
where it could've put
the child's life at risk.
00:26:07.53\00:26:10.53
What are the chances
of this prophecy happening
00:26:14.34\00:26:18.54
the way it did?
00:26:18.57\00:26:20.58
And it was spoken of
about 500 years earlier.
00:26:20.61\00:26:24.35
What are the possibilities
of this happening the way
00:26:24.38\00:26:27.72
that it was
prophesied to happen for her
00:26:27.75\00:26:31.32
at that particular point?
00:26:31.35\00:26:33.32
A husband would've said,
00:26:33.36\00:26:34.86
"Honey, we're going
to miss this census."
00:26:34.89\00:26:37.96
But I believe
00:26:37.99\00:26:39.33
that the Lord
moved it upon his heart
00:26:39.36\00:26:43.80
to be moved of the Holy Spirit
00:26:43.83\00:26:46.03
so that there will be no
doubt at all from the birth,
00:26:46.07\00:26:48.67
to the life, to the ministry,
00:26:48.70\00:26:50.11
to the death, and
to the resurrection,
00:26:50.14\00:26:51.94
and the soon return of Jesus.
00:26:51.97\00:26:53.31
Amen?
00:26:53.34\00:26:54.94
As the Bible said,
He was born in the city
00:26:54.98\00:26:57.91
that was clearly prophesied.
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.71
But let's go to the next one.
00:26:59.75\00:27:01.08
This next prophecy
took place 700 years
00:27:01.12\00:27:05.55
before it happened.
00:27:05.59\00:27:06.99
If I gave a
prophecy 700 years ago...
00:27:07.02\00:27:10.63
How many years is 700 years ago?
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.19
Somebody help me out.
What year would that be?
00:27:12.23\00:27:14.46
13?
00:27:14.50\00:27:16.93
That's 1316, right?
00:27:16.97\00:27:19.33
Wow.
00:27:19.37\00:27:20.70
If I said in 1316,
00:27:20.74\00:27:24.07
that at 7:27 pm
00:27:24.11\00:27:28.51
on August 24, 2016,
00:27:28.54\00:27:32.51
we're going to
be reading Luke 2,
00:27:32.55\00:27:36.08
and I have to make sure
this is going to happen.
00:27:36.12\00:27:39.59
I would have to
have a serious lineage
00:27:39.62\00:27:43.02
for my son to tell his
son to tell his son's son
00:27:43.06\00:27:46.13
and his son's
son's son's son's son
00:27:46.16\00:27:48.66
to make sure
that whatever you do,
00:27:48.70\00:27:50.77
don't forget on August 24, 2016,
00:27:50.80\00:27:54.57
700 years from now,
00:27:54.60\00:27:55.94
make sure that
at this time of day,
00:27:55.97\00:27:57.87
you read Luke 2
'cause if you don't,
00:27:57.91\00:28:01.44
nobody will believe
that I am who he is.
00:28:01.48\00:28:05.71
This is amazing.
00:28:05.75\00:28:08.42
Does it blow you
away at all to think
00:28:08.45\00:28:10.75
that these things happen
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.12
with such startling
accuracy years and years?
00:28:12.15\00:28:15.16
And then there are
some of the prophecies
00:28:15.19\00:28:16.52
that are thousands of years old
that happened exactly the way
00:28:16.56\00:28:18.69
it was prophesied.
00:28:18.73\00:28:20.06
But let's look at this one.
00:28:20.10\00:28:21.43
Isaiah 7, Isaiah 7,
00:28:21.46\00:28:24.67
"The Bible predicted
00:28:24.70\00:28:26.03
the method of
the birth of Jesus."
00:28:26.07\00:28:28.90
"The Bible predicted
00:28:28.94\00:28:30.37
the method of
the birth of Jesus."
00:28:30.41\00:28:32.57
Okay, here it is.
00:28:32.61\00:28:36.78
I'll bring it up on the screen.
00:28:36.81\00:28:39.95
"Therefore, the Lord
Himself will give you a sign."
00:28:39.98\00:28:44.12
Isn't that amazing?
00:28:44.15\00:28:45.59
Isaiah said, "He
will give you a sign."
00:28:45.62\00:28:47.59
Fourteen.
00:28:52.86\00:28:54.20
Yeah, 14. Yeah, 14.
00:28:54.23\00:28:57.27
On the lesson, it's actually 14,
00:28:57.30\00:29:00.14
so change your syllabus to 14.
00:29:00.17\00:29:02.34
"Therefore, the Lord
Himself will give you a..."
00:29:02.37\00:29:04.54
What?
00:29:04.57\00:29:05.91
"Sign."
00:29:05.94\00:29:07.28
Isaiah the Prophet said that,
00:29:07.31\00:29:08.64
"You're going to get a
sign, and here is the sign."
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.91
"Behold, the Virgin shall..."
00:29:10.95\00:29:12.85
What?
00:29:12.88\00:29:14.22
"Conceive and bear a Son
00:29:14.25\00:29:17.39
and shall call His name..."
00:29:17.42\00:29:19.55
What? "Immanuel."
00:29:19.59\00:29:21.49
Now do you know...
00:29:21.52\00:29:22.86
And this is...
00:29:22.89\00:29:24.23
As you read
00:29:24.26\00:29:25.59
through the writings of
Josephus, the historian,
00:29:25.63\00:29:27.50
and other Bible writers,
00:29:27.53\00:29:29.76
they said that women,
00:29:29.80\00:29:31.13
whenever they were
pregnant, the reason why...
00:29:31.17\00:29:35.20
This is kind of...
00:29:35.24\00:29:36.57
The reason why female children
were not as treasured is
00:29:36.60\00:29:40.84
because every woman
of Jewish lineage wanted
00:29:40.88\00:29:45.71
to be the one to have Jesus.
00:29:45.75\00:29:50.72
So even when Jesus
was born, remember,
00:29:50.75\00:29:55.16
the decree was to
kill what kind of children?
00:29:55.19\00:30:00.73
All the male children,
two years old and under.
00:30:00.76\00:30:04.73
Girls were just fine.
00:30:04.77\00:30:06.63
They didn't have to
worry about anything.
00:30:06.67\00:30:08.00
So whenever there was a
woman that was pregnant,
00:30:08.04\00:30:12.01
they thought, "Are you the one?"
00:30:12.04\00:30:15.08
"No, Louis is the
father." You know.
00:30:15.11\00:30:20.12
"Oh, that's not
immaculate by any means,
00:30:20.15\00:30:24.49
not divine."
00:30:24.52\00:30:26.29
"Oh, no, it's my husband.
00:30:26.32\00:30:28.66
We've been married five years."
00:30:28.69\00:30:30.69
"Okay."
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.06
And any time they heard
a woman was with child...
00:30:32.09\00:30:35.13
"Tell me." "Oh, no.
00:30:38.17\00:30:41.10
It's Donald's child."
00:30:41.14\00:30:44.11
Not predicting anything.
00:30:44.14\00:30:45.47
No, no, okay.
00:30:49.21\00:30:50.95
And that was the
constant expectation.
00:30:50.98\00:30:54.15
So this young girl...
00:30:54.18\00:30:55.62
Let's read this now.
00:30:55.65\00:30:56.99
Let's go to
Matthew and look at that.
00:30:57.02\00:30:58.35
So write down the first part.
00:30:58.39\00:31:00.29
Isaiah said, "A
virgin will conceive."
00:31:00.32\00:31:02.42
So that's what Isaiah
said. "A virgin will conceive."
00:31:02.46\00:31:05.06
When you read the
story, it's an amazing story
00:31:05.09\00:31:07.00
'cause I did the
sermon a number of times.
00:31:07.03\00:31:09.56
It was called A Baby had Mary.
00:31:09.60\00:31:12.30
You know, people
say Mary had a Baby,
00:31:12.33\00:31:13.67
but I did it
backward, a Baby had Mary
00:31:13.70\00:31:16.40
because every change
00:31:16.44\00:31:17.77
that took place in
Mary's life happened
00:31:17.81\00:31:19.14
because of the Baby.
00:31:19.17\00:31:20.88
Ladies, don't you
know that to be the case?
00:31:20.91\00:31:22.91
If you've had a baby,
do you make the changes
00:31:22.94\00:31:25.18
or do the baby make the changes?
00:31:25.21\00:31:27.18
The baby.
00:31:27.22\00:31:28.55
You eat differently,
you dress differently,
00:31:28.58\00:31:30.22
you walk more carefully,
00:31:30.25\00:31:32.19
you hold on to
your husband's hand
00:31:32.22\00:31:33.56
more carefully, right?
00:31:33.59\00:31:35.06
You avoid slippery
places, you have a glow,
00:31:35.09\00:31:37.46
everything about the woman,
the baby makes the changes.
00:31:37.49\00:31:40.86
So let's look at this now.
00:31:40.90\00:31:43.06
We're going to
go now to Matthew 1.
00:31:43.10\00:31:45.77
Matthew 1, I'm going there,
00:31:45.80\00:31:49.50
Matthew 1.
00:31:49.54\00:31:51.01
The story is phenomenal.
00:31:54.48\00:31:55.81
This is a sermon all by itself.
I'm not going to do that.
00:31:55.84\00:31:57.18
I'm not going to sermonize,
00:31:57.21\00:31:58.55
I'm just going to
read these two verses.
00:31:58.58\00:32:00.28
But let's look at
Matthew 1:22 and 23, all right?
00:32:00.32\00:32:03.85
Okay.
00:32:10.33\00:32:13.43
It says, "So all this was done
00:32:13.46\00:32:19.17
that it might be fulfilled
00:32:19.20\00:32:21.00
which was spoken by the
Lord through the prophet..."
00:32:21.04\00:32:25.37
What Prophet? Somebody tell me.
00:32:25.41\00:32:26.88
What prophet?
00:32:26.91\00:32:28.24
Isaiah. Isaiah.
00:32:28.28\00:32:30.21
You'll find that
word. Look for that word.
00:32:30.25\00:32:32.68
"The prophet, saying..."
00:32:32.71\00:32:34.35
In verse 23,
00:32:34.38\00:32:35.72
"Behold, the virgin
shall be with child,
00:32:35.75\00:32:39.89
and bear a Son,
00:32:39.92\00:32:41.92
and they shall call His name..."
00:32:41.96\00:32:43.86
What?
00:32:43.89\00:32:45.23
"Immanuel, which
is translated..."
00:32:45.26\00:32:47.26
What? "God with us."
00:32:47.30\00:32:50.07
So when Jesus came,
this was the hard part,
00:32:50.10\00:32:52.30
people thought that
when the name Immanuel
00:32:52.33\00:32:57.01
was given and the
definition was heard,
00:32:57.04\00:33:01.81
the common census was,
00:33:01.84\00:33:03.55
"No, God is not with us.
00:33:03.58\00:33:05.35
That's Mary's child.
00:33:05.38\00:33:07.28
God isn't..."
00:33:07.32\00:33:08.65
"He's not God.
He's Mary's child."
00:33:08.68\00:33:10.72
And when He began His ministry,
00:33:10.75\00:33:12.25
He continued to
fight that stigma
00:33:12.29\00:33:14.82
that He is not
the incarnate God.
00:33:14.86\00:33:18.56
But when the Bible
says, "God is with us."
00:33:18.59\00:33:20.70
It wasn't saying
God was sending someone
00:33:20.73\00:33:22.56
to be with us.
00:33:22.60\00:33:23.93
It was saying God
Almighty condescended,
00:33:23.97\00:33:27.34
took on human flesh.
00:33:27.37\00:33:29.00
How many of us would do that?
00:33:29.04\00:33:30.87
How many of us would
leave the courts of adoration,
00:33:30.91\00:33:33.71
a perfect scenario,
and come to this world?
00:33:33.74\00:33:38.15
I had a sermon that
began with the statement,
00:33:38.18\00:33:41.08
"Who would want
to come down here?"
00:33:41.12\00:33:43.79
Who would?
00:33:43.82\00:33:45.15
What could possibly happen?
00:33:45.19\00:33:47.76
Robbed, Shot, killed.
00:33:47.79\00:33:53.40
I mean, there's so many things
00:33:53.43\00:33:54.76
that could have
happened in the life of Jesus,
00:33:54.80\00:33:56.13
but He came here.
00:33:56.16\00:33:57.50
Why did He come?
00:33:57.53\00:33:58.87
Somebody tell...
00:33:58.90\00:34:00.24
Why did He come? To save us.
00:34:00.27\00:34:01.60
Huh?
00:34:01.64\00:34:03.00
"For God so loved the world..."
00:34:03.04\00:34:04.37
Why did He come? Because what?
00:34:04.41\00:34:06.31
Because He loved
us. He came to save us.
00:34:06.34\00:34:08.61
Amen?
00:34:08.64\00:34:09.98
So when the
Bible says "Immanuel,"
00:34:10.01\00:34:12.88
He came from the very beginning,
00:34:12.91\00:34:16.25
who knew that He was coming?
00:34:16.28\00:34:17.62
Somebody tell me.
00:34:17.65\00:34:18.99
I'm going to pull
it out of you tonight.
00:34:19.02\00:34:20.36
I do all the talking,
00:34:20.39\00:34:21.72
but I don't
usually ask questions.
00:34:21.76\00:34:23.09
Who knew that
He was coming? Huh?
00:34:23.12\00:34:26.29
The Jews knew. Did they?
00:34:26.33\00:34:29.16
No.
00:34:29.20\00:34:30.53
When the star led the wise
men to Jerusalem, they said,
00:34:30.57\00:34:33.64
"Where is He born?
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.00
Where?"
00:34:35.04\00:34:36.37
They said, "We
heard it's in Micah.
00:34:36.40\00:34:37.74
It's supposed to be
in Bethlehem somewhere."
00:34:37.77\00:34:39.27
They didn't even
have the experience,
00:34:39.31\00:34:40.64
although they had
00:34:40.68\00:34:42.01
the knowledge long
before it happened, right?
00:34:42.04\00:34:43.78
Who knew? Who
knew? Who knew? Mary.
00:34:43.81\00:34:47.42
Who? Mary knew? Who else knew?
00:34:47.45\00:34:50.52
The shepherds. Who knew?
00:34:50.55\00:34:54.16
Hannah the Prophetess.
00:34:54.19\00:34:56.19
Oh, Hannah the Prophetess, yes.
00:34:56.22\00:34:57.86
Who also knew? I
heard of it. Satan.
00:34:57.89\00:35:01.43
He knew.
00:35:01.46\00:35:04.10
If the wise men knew,
00:35:04.13\00:35:07.27
if the shepherds knew,
00:35:07.30\00:35:10.64
Satan knew.
00:35:10.67\00:35:13.51
You know how I know he know...
00:35:13.54\00:35:14.88
You know how I know he knew?
00:35:14.91\00:35:18.61
He tried to get Him killed.
00:35:18.65\00:35:20.88
We got to...
00:35:20.92\00:35:23.79
He remembered the
last two fights he had.
00:35:23.82\00:35:27.19
He lost the fight in heaven.
00:35:27.22\00:35:29.82
In the garden, the Lord says,
"I'm going to crush your head.
00:35:29.86\00:35:33.66
Let's get him
before he gets Me."
00:35:33.70\00:35:37.13
And when Jesus came, He
had such divine protection.
00:35:37.17\00:35:41.00
You've got to put that together.
00:35:41.04\00:35:42.37
I don't like to run
through these stories
00:35:42.40\00:35:43.81
because if the president
has Secret Service protection.
00:35:43.84\00:35:46.94
Do you think that Jesus
came without any protection?
00:35:46.98\00:35:50.15
Huh?
00:35:50.18\00:35:53.52
Mary was the most
protected woman on earth.
00:35:53.55\00:35:58.95
Do you believe that?
00:35:58.99\00:36:00.32
I believe that
00:36:00.36\00:36:01.69
because if the devil
could have killed her,
00:36:01.72\00:36:03.99
I mean, he went
after her right away
00:36:04.03\00:36:05.36
through her husband.
00:36:05.39\00:36:06.96
Right away, she
fell into the difficulty
00:36:07.00\00:36:09.90
of having Jesus
being born in her life.
00:36:09.93\00:36:12.57
He said, "You know, we got a..."
00:36:12.60\00:36:13.94
"I know we're supposed to be
getting married in a few weeks,
00:36:13.97\00:36:15.47
but this is not
going to happen."
00:36:15.50\00:36:17.87
Until the Lord visited him.
00:36:17.91\00:36:19.34
Praise the Lord that He
steps in when difficulty arises.
00:36:19.37\00:36:22.24
So right away, God with us,
00:36:22.28\00:36:24.18
the devil knew,
the prophets knew,
00:36:24.21\00:36:26.51
but the devil knew, he
was waiting for that moment.
00:36:26.55\00:36:29.28
He was waiting for that moment.
00:36:29.32\00:36:30.65
Praise the Lord,
God protected His Son
00:36:30.69\00:36:34.62
when He came to this earth.
00:36:34.66\00:36:35.99
Can you say amen to that? Huh?
00:36:36.02\00:36:38.23
He knew. Of course, he knew.
00:36:38.26\00:36:39.59
Let's go to the next
one. Let's go to the next one.
00:36:39.63\00:36:41.73
This is very interesting.
00:36:41.76\00:36:43.10
There's so many...
00:36:43.13\00:36:44.47
And I selected some of these.
00:36:44.50\00:36:45.83
So you want to write the
answer down to number 14.
00:36:45.87\00:36:49.90
"His name is Immanuel." Exactly.
00:36:49.94\00:36:51.67
"The virgin shall conceive."
00:36:51.71\00:36:53.44
Now here's another, number 15.
00:36:53.48\00:36:55.94
"The Bible predicted that a Star
00:36:55.98\00:36:59.05
would arise out of Judah."
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.58
This is huge because...
00:37:00.62\00:37:02.05
I did a series on the occult.
00:37:02.08\00:37:04.69
And what do they
call movie actors today?
00:37:04.72\00:37:07.26
Movie stars. Film stars.
00:37:07.29\00:37:11.46
There's only one
star, His name is Jesus.
00:37:11.49\00:37:14.96
See, that's the whole
exaltation of humanity.
00:37:15.00\00:37:17.13
Trying to make us a
star, focusing on man
00:37:17.17\00:37:19.67
when Jesus came to
have us focus on Him.
00:37:19.70\00:37:22.64
Let's look at this now.
00:37:22.67\00:37:24.34
We're going to go to Numbers 24,
00:37:24.37\00:37:26.74
Numbers 24.
00:37:26.78\00:37:28.64
All right, and
I'm turning there.
00:37:28.68\00:37:31.95
I'm turning there even
though I have it on the slide.
00:37:31.98\00:37:35.68
Okay, let's go on the
screen. Numbers 24, here it is.
00:37:35.72\00:37:38.42
Here it is.
00:37:38.45\00:37:40.66
"I see Him, but not now.
00:37:40.69\00:37:44.86
I behold Him, but not near.
00:37:44.89\00:37:48.83
A Star shall come out of..."
00:37:48.86\00:37:51.13
What?
00:37:51.17\00:37:52.50
"Jacob.
00:37:52.53\00:37:53.87
A Scepter shall rise out of..."
00:37:53.90\00:37:56.27
Where?
00:37:56.30\00:37:57.64
"Israel, and
batter the brow of Moab
00:37:57.67\00:38:02.54
and destroy all the sons of..."
00:38:02.58\00:38:04.45
What?
00:38:04.48\00:38:05.81
"Tumult."
00:38:05.85\00:38:07.18
A star shall arise out of where?
00:38:07.22\00:38:08.95
Jacob.
00:38:08.98\00:38:10.32
Let's go ahead and see this now.
00:38:10.35\00:38:11.69
Let's go to Matthew
2. Let's go to Matthew 2.
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Now what we're seeing,
00:38:14.59\00:38:15.92
let me just go and put this back
00:38:15.96\00:38:17.29
in the context.
00:38:17.33\00:38:18.66
What we're seeing is prophecy
00:38:18.69\00:38:20.03
and we're
seeing the fulfillment,
00:38:20.06\00:38:21.70
prophecy and fulfillment.
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.06
Now today,
archaeologically speaking,
00:38:23.10\00:38:25.77
there is no doubt that
there was a man named Jesus.
00:38:25.80\00:38:29.14
There's no doubt today
an entire nations says,
00:38:29.17\00:38:31.41
"Oh, yeah,
there's a man named Jesus,
00:38:31.44\00:38:32.77
but He was just a good prophet.
00:38:32.81\00:38:34.21
He was a good man."
00:38:34.24\00:38:35.64
In the Muslim world and
the Jewish world, surely,
00:38:35.68\00:38:38.48
in the Christian
world, there is no doubt
00:38:38.51\00:38:40.02
that there was
a man named Jesus,
00:38:40.05\00:38:41.65
but they put Him in
different categories.
00:38:41.68\00:38:43.02
He was a Prophet,
00:38:43.05\00:38:44.39
He was a Good
Man, He was a Teacher,
00:38:44.42\00:38:45.75
He was a Rabbi.
00:38:45.79\00:38:47.12
But He's not just a Prophet,
a Good Teacher, and a Rabbi,
00:38:47.16\00:38:49.49
He is the Christ.
00:38:49.52\00:38:50.86
That's where you miss it.
00:38:50.89\00:38:52.43
If you take that
title away from Him,
00:38:52.46\00:38:54.60
He could be a Good
Teacher, a Rabbi, a Prophet,
00:38:54.63\00:38:57.10
but if you take away
the Christ, then you're lost
00:38:57.13\00:38:59.37
because there's no other name
00:38:59.40\00:39:00.90
given to whereby
we must be saved.
00:39:00.94\00:39:03.71
But let's look at this now.
00:39:03.74\00:39:05.07
Matthew 2:1,
00:39:05.11\00:39:07.44
Matthew 2:1 and 2, okay.
00:39:07.48\00:39:09.81
"Now after Jesus was born..."
00:39:14.68\00:39:17.32
Where?
00:39:17.35\00:39:18.72
"In Bethlehem of
Judea in the days of..."
00:39:18.75\00:39:23.39
What?
00:39:23.43\00:39:24.76
"Herod, behold, wise men
from the East came to..."
00:39:24.79\00:39:28.63
Where?
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.00
"To Jerusalem, saying,
'Where is He who is...'"
00:39:30.03\00:39:34.97
What?
00:39:35.00\00:39:36.34
"'Born King of the Jews?
00:39:36.37\00:39:39.34
For we have seen
His star in the East
00:39:39.37\00:39:43.24
and have come to do,'" What?
00:39:43.28\00:39:44.75
"'To worship Him.'" So, huh?
00:39:44.78\00:39:49.22
Did he come to
worship Jesus? No!
00:39:49.25\00:39:51.52
What did he
want to do? Kill Him!
00:39:51.55\00:39:53.12
Okay.
00:39:53.15\00:39:54.59
Some people use worship to...
00:39:54.62\00:39:57.06
Ah, that's bad.
That's a horrible thought.
00:39:57.09\00:39:59.23
He wanted to use
worship to get rid of Jesus.
00:39:59.26\00:40:01.96
Prophecy and
fulfillment, write it down here.
00:40:02.00\00:40:05.30
So Numbers 24,
00:40:05.33\00:40:07.70
"Arise out of
Jacob," the same city,
00:40:07.74\00:40:12.87
the same city
00:40:12.91\00:40:14.24
in which He was
born identify with Jacob,
00:40:14.28\00:40:18.61
identify with David.
00:40:18.65\00:40:20.58
When He was born,
00:40:20.62\00:40:22.62
this prophecy was
fulfilled as prophesied
00:40:22.65\00:40:27.62
in the Book of Numbers.
00:40:27.66\00:40:28.99
Now Numbers, who was the penman?
00:40:29.02\00:40:30.96
Who was the one that
wrote the Book of Numbers?
00:40:30.99\00:40:32.96
Moses. This is a long time ago.
00:40:32.99\00:40:36.93
This prophecy
was way further back,
00:40:36.97\00:40:39.40
farther back than
the prophecies of Isaiah.
00:40:39.43\00:40:42.50
So therefore,
for this to happen,
00:40:42.54\00:40:44.01
Isaiah had 700 years to cover
00:40:44.04\00:40:45.67
before this was to be fulfilled.
00:40:45.71\00:40:47.74
Was there many more? Way more.
00:40:47.78\00:40:50.85
Moses, long time,
that's what he said,
00:40:50.88\00:40:54.45
and I want to go back to that.
00:40:54.48\00:40:55.82
Let me just...
00:40:55.85\00:40:57.19
Let me go back to
that, and I want to read
00:40:57.22\00:40:58.55
that very quickly.
00:40:58.59\00:40:59.92
That's why I
like the way this...
00:40:59.95\00:41:01.29
And you don't have to
bring some of this now.
00:41:01.32\00:41:02.66
I'm just going to
emphasize this here.
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.03
That's why I like the
way he says it this way.
00:41:04.06\00:41:05.39
He says, "I see Him..."
00:41:05.43\00:41:06.76
What? "But not now.
00:41:06.80\00:41:08.13
I behold Him, but..."
00:41:08.16\00:41:09.50
What? "Not near.
00:41:09.53\00:41:10.87
I could see it, I
could see it happening,
00:41:10.90\00:41:14.17
but it's not right now.
00:41:14.20\00:41:15.80
I could behold it,
00:41:15.84\00:41:17.17
but it's not really
is not any time soon."
00:41:17.21\00:41:20.91
God gave him a vision
that he wrote down in Numbers
00:41:20.94\00:41:25.25
that this is going to
happen hence, and it did.
00:41:25.28\00:41:29.08
I could see it but not near.
00:41:29.12\00:41:32.12
I could behold Him but not now.
00:41:32.15\00:41:35.39
And so he wrote it
down and praise the Lord.
00:41:35.42\00:41:38.23
That's why I say
00:41:38.26\00:41:39.59
if the prophets
were alive today,
00:41:39.63\00:41:40.96
do you think that
Daniel could get excited
00:41:41.00\00:41:44.47
about these days
in which we live?
00:41:44.50\00:41:45.90
Do you think John
00:41:45.93\00:41:47.27
the Revelator
would be excited about it
00:41:47.30\00:41:48.77
and Jeremiah the
prophet and Eliza?
00:41:48.80\00:41:52.67
They would be
excited about these days.
00:41:52.71\00:41:54.44
So that's why,
00:41:54.48\00:41:55.81
that's why Jesus said to Thomas,
00:41:55.84\00:41:58.25
"Blessed are those
who have not seen and..."
00:41:58.28\00:42:00.95
What?
00:42:00.98\00:42:02.32
"Yet believed."
This applied to Moses.
00:42:02.35\00:42:04.25
He didn't see it
happen, but did he believe it?
00:42:04.29\00:42:06.22
Yes. He did.
00:42:06.25\00:42:07.76
Why did he believe it?
Because God revealed it.
00:42:07.79\00:42:11.26
You know, the
simplicity of faith is
00:42:11.29\00:42:13.19
if God says it, that should be
00:42:13.23\00:42:15.23
all that is
needed to believe it.
00:42:15.26\00:42:17.63
If God says it, right?
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.90
Who said it? God said it.
00:42:20.94\00:42:23.30
Well, how do we know
it's going to happen?
00:42:23.34\00:42:26.11
How do you know? God said it.
00:42:26.14\00:42:28.68
And the one thing
God can't do is what?
00:42:28.71\00:42:30.71
Lie. He cannot lie.
00:42:30.75\00:42:32.51
Let's go to the very next
one, number 16, number 16.
00:42:32.55\00:42:37.49
These prophecies...
00:42:37.52\00:42:38.85
And as I said,
I've only picked a few.
00:42:38.89\00:42:40.22
I didn't pick a
whole lot of them.
00:42:40.26\00:42:41.59
I just picked a
few. There's so many.
00:42:41.62\00:42:47.86
The numeric possibility,
00:42:47.90\00:42:49.93
the scientific possibility
of these things happening
00:42:49.96\00:42:52.87
the way they were prophesied...
00:42:52.90\00:42:55.64
They didn't have email.
00:42:55.67\00:42:58.21
There was no letter sent
from generation to generation
00:42:58.24\00:43:00.74
to generation to generation,
but how did that happen?
00:43:00.78\00:43:04.01
How did all these
things get tied together,
00:43:04.05\00:43:06.95
from the prophecy
to the fulfillment?
00:43:06.98\00:43:09.28
Say it, David.
00:43:09.32\00:43:10.65
I thought I
heard somebody say it.
00:43:10.69\00:43:12.02
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit.
00:43:12.05\00:43:13.39
He was the active one
00:43:13.42\00:43:14.76
that was
inspiring them to write it.
00:43:14.79\00:43:16.12
He was the active agent,
00:43:16.16\00:43:17.49
the holy angels also
monitored the fulfillments,
00:43:17.53\00:43:20.50
monitored these things.
00:43:20.53\00:43:21.86
And let me tell
you, they would have been
00:43:21.90\00:43:24.20
if the Lord wasn't in
charge of the affairs of men,
00:43:24.23\00:43:28.74
if the Lord was not in
charge of the affairs of men,
00:43:28.77\00:43:32.21
his people could have been
wiped out centuries before,
00:43:32.24\00:43:35.91
but the reason why
God never wiped out
00:43:35.94\00:43:37.55
the children of Israel
00:43:37.58\00:43:38.91
because He knew
through their lineage,
00:43:38.95\00:43:40.35
the Messiah would come.
00:43:40.38\00:43:43.25
David could have
been stoned to death
00:43:43.28\00:43:46.15
because of what
happened with him and Bathsheba,
00:43:46.19\00:43:48.66
but it was, "Oh,
no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:43:48.69\00:43:50.73
he's going to be fulfilled.
00:43:50.76\00:43:52.09
He's going to be forgiven,
and then through his lineage,
00:43:52.13\00:43:54.73
Jesus is going to come.
00:43:54.76\00:43:56.10
You see how merciful God is?
00:43:56.13\00:43:57.63
So, so many people
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.00
that were involved in the chain,
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.10
any one of them
could have been eliminated
00:44:01.14\00:44:03.34
because of what they did
00:44:03.37\00:44:04.71
or where they were or
what battle they were in,
00:44:04.74\00:44:06.31
but the Lord watched over them
00:44:06.34\00:44:08.34
so that these
prophecies could happen.
00:44:08.38\00:44:10.98
That's only divine intervention.
00:44:11.01\00:44:12.85
That's not coincidence.
Praise the Lord for that.
00:44:12.88\00:44:15.65
Look at the other one.
00:44:15.68\00:44:18.22
"The earthly
family line of Jesus
00:44:18.25\00:44:19.99
was also revealed."
00:44:20.02\00:44:21.56
"The earthly
family line of Jesus
00:44:21.59\00:44:24.23
was also revealed."
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.59
I was like Matthew,
I'm going to turn there.
00:44:25.63\00:44:28.50
We'll read Genesis, and
I'll go ahead and give...
00:44:28.53\00:44:31.63
We're going to Luke 2,
but let's look at Genesis,
00:44:31.67\00:44:36.00
the answer here first or
the prophecy, the prophecy.
00:44:36.04\00:44:39.71
Now this is a long time back,
00:44:39.74\00:44:42.44
"Judah, you are he whom
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.85
your brothers shall praise.
00:44:45.88\00:44:49.05
Your hand shall be on
the necks of your enemies.
00:44:49.08\00:44:53.56
Your father's
children shall do..."
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.19
What? "Bow down before you.
00:44:55.22\00:44:58.49
Judah is a lion's
whelp, from the prey, my son,
00:44:58.53\00:45:03.16
you have gone up.
00:45:03.20\00:45:04.83
He bows down, he
lies down as a lion.
00:45:04.87\00:45:10.34
And as a lion,
who shall rouse him?"
00:45:10.37\00:45:15.98
Continuing, "The
scepter shall not depart
00:45:16.01\00:45:19.51
from Judah nor a lawgiver
00:45:19.55\00:45:21.68
from between his feet, until..."
00:45:21.72\00:45:24.39
Who? "Shiloh."
00:45:24.42\00:45:26.42
That's the prince of peace.
00:45:26.45\00:45:27.86
"Until Shiloh
comes, and to Him shall be
00:45:27.89\00:45:32.79
the obedience of the people."
00:45:32.83\00:45:35.56
So now get this,
00:45:35.60\00:45:36.93
let me just make a
comment about Judah.
00:45:36.97\00:45:39.43
Judah was very successful.
00:45:39.47\00:45:44.77
Judah was a very
successful person,
00:45:44.81\00:45:46.98
and the Bible says,
00:45:47.01\00:45:48.34
"Your brothers
shall bow down to you."
00:45:48.38\00:45:50.51
Now that's one thing,
the problem with Judah though
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.31
before he was
converted is, and by the way,
00:45:53.35\00:45:55.48
Judah's mentioned in Revelation.
00:45:55.52\00:45:56.85
So Judah did overcome.
00:45:56.89\00:45:58.79
The one that's not
mentioned in Revelation
00:45:58.82\00:46:00.39
out of the
original tribes is Dan.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.12
He's not there.
00:46:02.16\00:46:03.49
But Judah did overcome...
00:46:03.53\00:46:05.03
When you study
the life of Judah,
00:46:05.06\00:46:06.39
Judah knew that he
would be successful
00:46:06.43\00:46:09.50
and the prophecy his father
was telling him this prophecy
00:46:09.53\00:46:12.63
that his brothers will
bow down and praise him,
00:46:12.67\00:46:15.00
the problem with
Judah is he knew that.
00:46:15.04\00:46:18.71
And he almost insinuated
00:46:18.74\00:46:20.31
that they should
bow down and praise him.
00:46:20.34\00:46:22.54
Can you imagine
having a brother like that?
00:46:22.58\00:46:24.71
"Hey, Yanick,
you need some money.
00:46:24.75\00:46:28.52
You wish you were
like me, don't you?"
00:46:28.55\00:46:31.19
No, Judah had to
overcome that. Yes, he did.
00:46:31.22\00:46:33.22
He was very self-centered.
00:46:33.25\00:46:34.99
He was very successful,
00:46:35.02\00:46:36.56
but he had to
overcome his self-centeredness
00:46:36.59\00:46:38.89
for the Lord to use him.
00:46:38.93\00:46:40.26
But the Lord
looking at this man...
00:46:40.30\00:46:42.10
I'm trying to
give us some courage
00:46:42.13\00:46:44.00
because some of us
got stuff to overcome.
00:46:44.03\00:46:46.17
Come on, help me out.
00:46:46.20\00:46:48.90
Some of us, I said, right?
00:46:48.94\00:46:51.37
Can you change to all of us?
00:46:51.41\00:46:53.07
Okay, the Lord looks at
us broken-folk, and He says,
00:46:53.11\00:46:58.55
"Oh, Kevin, I
got a plan for you.
00:46:58.58\00:47:01.28
I'm picking on Kevin tonight.
00:47:01.32\00:47:02.65
I got a plan..."
00:47:02.68\00:47:04.02
"You're broken in some areas,
00:47:04.05\00:47:05.92
but I'mma a fix you
'cause I got a plan for you."
00:47:05.95\00:47:08.09
Amen for that?
00:47:08.12\00:47:09.46
God looked at these broken
men, these faulty men, and said,
00:47:09.49\00:47:14.36
"I've got a plan for you,
00:47:14.40\00:47:15.73
so I'mma fix you so I
can work out my plan."
00:47:15.76\00:47:18.80
He had to fix Judah
00:47:18.83\00:47:20.67
so that this
prophecy could be fulfilled.
00:47:20.70\00:47:23.81
"I am not letting Jesus
come through a pride-filled man.
00:47:23.84\00:47:28.71
I would not have
a pride-filled man
00:47:28.74\00:47:30.45
connected to My Son in no way.
00:47:30.48\00:47:32.71
I got to humble him
00:47:32.75\00:47:34.65
so that when his
name is mentioned
00:47:34.68\00:47:36.52
in the fulfillment
of the life of Jesus,
00:47:36.55\00:47:38.69
people will think
of Judah differently."
00:47:38.72\00:47:41.52
And that's why he
mentioned Judah in Genesis.
00:47:41.56\00:47:44.19
It took that
many centuries to fix
00:47:44.23\00:47:47.90
what was wrong in Judah's life.
00:47:47.93\00:47:49.36
Amen? Amen.
00:47:49.40\00:47:50.73
So by the time, Jesus came,
00:47:50.77\00:47:52.50
and they
mentioned the name Judah,
00:47:52.53\00:47:53.87
"Oh, very nice man.
00:47:53.90\00:47:55.24
I've heard about him. My
father told me about him."
00:47:55.27\00:47:57.61
But his brothers are going
to tell you the real story.
00:47:57.64\00:47:59.21
"Judah, no, no, no. We
knew a different Judah."
00:47:59.24\00:48:03.11
But that's what God does, amen?
00:48:03.14\00:48:05.21
He looks at us
where we are and says,
00:48:05.25\00:48:07.68
"Yanick, you're
broke, but I'mma fix you
00:48:07.72\00:48:10.69
so that My plan
could be fulfilled
00:48:10.72\00:48:12.35
in your life."
00:48:12.39\00:48:13.92
That's what I
like about studying
00:48:13.96\00:48:15.59
these stories, these prophecies,
00:48:15.62\00:48:18.56
as none of these
men were perfect.
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They were just as faulty
and messed up as we all are.
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Let's go to the fulfillment now.
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Let's go to the
fulfillment, Luke 1.
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Luke 1, okay,
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so the answer...
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Huh?.
00:48:35.61\00:48:38.45
Oh. Yeah, I tell you.
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And by the way, these,
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you know, the answers
are the same for both verses,
00:48:44.15\00:48:47.02
but one of the prophecy...
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Oh, where we're going
now? Luke 1, okay, here I am.
00:48:48.52\00:48:50.63
Why am I Romans? I have no idea.
00:48:50.66\00:48:53.09
That's what happens
00:48:53.13\00:48:54.46
when your hands
are turning fast.
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You pick up a
whole clump of paper,
00:48:55.86\00:48:57.63
and you turn it really quickly.
00:48:57.67\00:49:01.47
That's why I'm so glad.
00:49:01.50\00:49:02.84
We don't have to
finish the lesson in one night
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because there's so many
things behind these verses that,
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you know, we just go prophecy,
00:49:08.34\00:49:09.68
fulfillment,
prophecy, fulfillment.
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You're kind of
like, "Okay, I got it."
00:49:11.08\00:49:12.41
But there's so much
00:49:12.45\00:49:13.78
behind the stories of the people
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that are included here.
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Here it is, Luke 1:30-32,
00:49:16.55\00:49:20.66
"Then the angel said to her,
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'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you
00:49:22.99\00:49:26.16
have found favor with God.
00:49:26.19\00:49:29.16
And behold, you will
conceive in your womb
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and bring forth a..."
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What? "A Son.
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He will be..."
00:49:37.54\00:49:38.87
What? He will be what?
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"And call His
name Jesus." Sorry.
00:49:42.94\00:49:44.98
Verse 32, "He will be..."
00:49:45.01\00:49:46.35
What?
00:49:46.38\00:49:47.72
"Great and will be
called the Son of the Highest.
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And the Lord God will give Him
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the throne of
His father, David."
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When you follow David's lineage,
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go with me now to Matthew 1,
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Matthew 1.
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You have the prophecy,
you have the fulfillment.
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Look at Matthew 1.
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'Cause, see, what happened is...
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Okay, we're going to
go ahead mess around here
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and go start tracing stuff back.
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Matthew 1:17,
'cause you might wonder,
00:50:30.56\00:50:35.10
"David, didn't
he just say Judah?"
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How do we get to
David from Judah?
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You got to go
through the lineage.
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Matthew 1:17, look at this.
00:50:44.34\00:50:47.48
"So all the generations
00:50:47.51\00:50:50.28
from Abraham to David are..."
00:50:50.31\00:50:52.25
What?
00:50:52.28\00:50:53.62
"Fourteen generations,
00:50:53.65\00:50:55.62
from David until the
captivity in Babylon are..."
00:50:55.65\00:50:58.39
What?
00:50:58.42\00:50:59.75
"Fourteen generations,
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and from the
captivity in Babylon
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until the Christ are..."
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.26
What? "Fourteen generations."
00:51:05.29\00:51:06.90
Then how many
generations is that?
00:51:06.93\00:51:09.03
Forty two generations.
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He said, "You got to go
back 42 generations to find out
00:51:10.47\00:51:13.87
how we got Judah
connected to David."
00:51:13.90\00:51:17.27
That's a seriously...
00:51:17.31\00:51:18.67
How far can you
trace your lineage back?
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I just found out
about my grandfather,
00:51:21.98\00:51:23.88
and that's about as
far back as I can go,
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from the Philippines on
one side, on the other side,
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Native American,
African-American,
00:51:29.38\00:51:30.72
on the other side of branch.
00:51:30.75\00:51:32.42
I mean, that's
just two generations,
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father, grandfather.
00:51:35.26\00:51:37.26
Go back 42, Jonathan.
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How many of us could do that?
00:51:40.30\00:51:41.86
You know what makes the
Bible so beautiful as a book?
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You can follow the lineages.
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Now the book that...
00:51:47.20\00:51:49.90
I got to say this
in the right manner.
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When I first started
beginning to read Numbers,
00:51:53.91\00:51:56.18
my wife and I were
reading Numbers together.
00:51:56.21\00:51:58.01
When I first
started reading Numbers...
00:51:58.05\00:52:02.08
This is a terrible
confession for a pastor to make,
00:52:02.12\00:52:04.65
but I said, "Honey, those
names are just driving me nuts."
00:52:04.69\00:52:10.06
I honestly said that
00:52:10.09\00:52:11.43
because there's so many names,
00:52:11.46\00:52:12.79
you know, Zadok and Meruba.
00:52:12.83\00:52:14.43
And I'm thinking,
"Could he just not say family?"
00:52:14.46\00:52:18.67
But you know what was happening?
00:52:18.70\00:52:20.24
The Lord was setting
up all the generations,
00:52:20.27\00:52:22.90
so if you sat down with a pen
00:52:22.94\00:52:24.77
and decided to
trace David's lineage,
00:52:24.81\00:52:27.68
you're going to
come up with some names
00:52:27.71\00:52:29.61
that are far from being modern,
00:52:29.64\00:52:31.88
but you'll be able
to find every connection
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all the way back.
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And so let me
give you some proof.
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We got five minutes.
We'll get to another question.
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Look at Matthew 1.
Let's just try that.
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Let's just try that, okay?
00:52:48.13\00:52:50.57
Because we're
talking about prophecy here,
00:52:50.60\00:52:52.43
and if we don't get
to the next question,
00:52:52.47\00:52:54.20
this is a great place to end.
00:52:54.24\00:52:56.47
"The book of the
genealogy of Jesus Christ,"
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and then he says,
00:52:59.91\00:53:01.24
"the Son of David,
the son of Abraham,"
00:53:01.28\00:53:04.25
now look at this,
Matthew put that in here
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so that when we get to Jesus,
00:53:09.72\00:53:12.05
we could know legitimately, yes,
00:53:12.09\00:53:13.99
he's got a family line.
00:53:14.02\00:53:15.69
Now are any of these people
00:53:15.72\00:53:17.63
that we're going to
read about from heaven?
00:53:17.66\00:53:20.06
Yes or no? No!
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Not one of them.
00:53:21.70\00:53:23.16
Did any of them have
any issues in their lives?
00:53:23.20\00:53:25.30
Yes!
00:53:25.33\00:53:27.97
It ought to give us
courage every day to wake up
00:53:28.00\00:53:30.04
and look at
Jesus' family and say,
00:53:30.07\00:53:32.74
"We're doing all right."
00:53:32.77\00:53:35.84
Amen?
00:53:35.88\00:53:37.21
Because the same Lord that...
00:53:37.25\00:53:38.85
The same Father
that connected Him
00:53:38.88\00:53:40.75
to that family
line, He says of us...
00:53:40.78\00:53:45.92
This is huge, this is
powerful. Are you ready?
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Ready, Louis?
00:53:49.06\00:53:50.39
Jesus got connected
to an earthly family line
00:53:50.43\00:53:53.96
so we can get connected
to a heavenly family line.
00:53:54.00\00:53:57.83
That's powerful. That's huge.
00:53:57.87\00:53:59.67
He said, "I'm going
I'm going to connect You
00:53:59.70\00:54:01.04
to some messed up folk."
00:54:01.07\00:54:02.57
Just don't take too
much time to look at them,
00:54:02.60\00:54:04.71
look at Jesus
00:54:04.74\00:54:06.44
because if you look
at Jesus' family line,
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and you say, "Are you
sure He's the Messiah?"
00:54:08.61\00:54:11.11
But if you look at
Jesus, there's no doubt.
00:54:11.15\00:54:13.48
So this very quickly,
00:54:13.52\00:54:15.42
"Abraham begot
Isaac, Isaac begot..."
00:54:15.45\00:54:17.29
Who?
00:54:17.32\00:54:18.65
"Jacob and Jacob begot
Judah and his brothers.
00:54:18.69\00:54:20.72
Judah begot Perez and Zerah
and Tamar and Perez begot..."
00:54:20.76\00:54:24.99
You could do that tonight
after the meeting is done.
00:54:25.03\00:54:28.83
But archaeologically
and genealogically,
00:54:28.86\00:54:32.77
you can trace
these back to real places
00:54:32.80\00:54:35.70
that existed in history.
00:54:35.74\00:54:38.14
You can place this
back to real cities
00:54:38.17\00:54:40.81
that are there still today
00:54:40.84\00:54:42.84
'cause Christianity
is not an old religion.
00:54:42.88\00:54:46.15
You can trace these back,
and you have some names in here
00:54:46.18\00:54:48.15
that some of
you've never heard before.
00:54:48.18\00:54:51.02
Verse 6, yeah,
00:54:51.05\00:54:52.39
"And Jesse begot David the King,
00:54:52.42\00:54:54.19
David the King
begot Solomon by her
00:54:54.22\00:54:57.46
who had been the wife of Uriah."
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What happened there?
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Oh, that was some serious stuff.
00:55:02.63\00:55:07.14
But you see, what's happening?
00:55:07.17\00:55:08.87
"Solomon begot
Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah,
00:55:08.90\00:55:12.84
Abijah begot Asa."
00:55:12.87\00:55:14.28
Read Asa, Asa had problems.
00:55:14.31\00:55:17.08
Asa was the kind of
guy that always got upset
00:55:17.11\00:55:19.35
when he saw people
that were successful.
00:55:19.38\00:55:21.68
It was of Asa
that did not understand
00:55:21.72\00:55:23.35
why God allowed the
wicked people to prosper
00:55:23.39\00:55:25.65
until he went into the sanctuary
00:55:25.69\00:55:27.26
of the Lord, and he
said, "Now I understand."
00:55:27.29\00:55:30.13
All these faulty...
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And then you have,
"Uzziah begot Jotham."
00:55:31.53\00:55:34.43
What happened to Uzziah?
00:55:34.46\00:55:37.83
Huh?
00:55:37.87\00:55:40.04
Uzziah was king,
but he died a leper.
00:55:40.07\00:55:45.77
"Begot Jotham,
Jotham begot Ahaz,
00:55:45.81\00:55:47.98
Ahaz begot Hezekiah."
00:55:48.01\00:55:49.48
What happened to Hezekiah?
00:55:49.51\00:55:53.01
When the Lord gave him
extra time, what did he do?
00:55:53.05\00:55:54.88
He spend that time to show
00:55:54.92\00:55:56.25
on the people
all his possessions.
00:55:56.28\00:55:58.49
Messed up men.
00:55:58.52\00:56:00.26
It keeps on
going, and you go back...
00:56:00.29\00:56:02.96
I mean, you could spend a
whole lot of time in that,
00:56:02.99\00:56:05.29
but when you keep
going all the way back,
00:56:05.33\00:56:07.90
and I like it when it comes down
00:56:07.93\00:56:09.96
to verse 16,
00:56:10.00\00:56:11.57
"And Jacob begot
Joseph, the husband of Mary,
00:56:11.60\00:56:16.20
of whom was born Jesus
who is called the Christ."
00:56:16.24\00:56:19.24
Amen.
00:56:19.27\00:56:20.61
So it's not how...
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This is the beauty, it
is not how the story begins,
00:56:22.01\00:56:25.61
it's how the story ends.
00:56:25.65\00:56:29.78
A minute and 34
seconds, real quick,
00:56:29.82\00:56:31.49
number seven, number 17,
00:56:31.52\00:56:33.59
we're just going to
the question in here.
00:56:33.62\00:56:35.56
Let's go to number 17.
00:56:35.59\00:56:37.59
"What did the
Bible teach concerning
00:56:37.63\00:56:38.99
the government of Jesus?
00:56:39.03\00:56:40.53
What did the
Bible teach concerning
00:56:40.56\00:56:41.90
the government?"
00:56:41.93\00:56:43.26
I'll go right to it
in the interest of time.
00:56:43.30\00:56:45.97
The Bible says in Isaiah 9:7,
00:56:46.00\00:56:48.44
"Of the increase
of His government
00:56:48.47\00:56:53.71
and peace, there will be..."
00:56:53.74\00:56:55.24
What?
00:56:55.28\00:56:56.61
"No end upon the throne of David
00:56:56.64\00:56:58.85
and over his kingdom to
order it and establish it
00:56:58.88\00:57:02.08
with judgment and justice
00:57:02.12\00:57:04.15
from that time forward, even..."
00:57:04.19\00:57:06.79
What? "Forever.
00:57:06.82\00:57:08.79
The zeal of the Lord of
hosts will perform this."
00:57:08.82\00:57:12.83
So I'm just going to go ahead
00:57:12.86\00:57:14.20
and just in the
interest of time,
00:57:14.23\00:57:16.93
we gave you the
prophecy, but next week,
00:57:16.97\00:57:20.17
we're going to give
you the fulfillment.
00:57:20.20\00:57:22.64
Now what did you learn tonight
00:57:22.67\00:57:24.24
about how much
the Lord loves us?
00:57:24.27\00:57:27.68
Does He love us
because we're good?
00:57:27.71\00:57:29.91
No!
00:57:29.94\00:57:31.51
But He works out His
plan in the lives of those
00:57:31.55\00:57:33.95
He chooses.
00:57:33.98\00:57:35.42
How many of us did
He choose? All of us.
00:57:35.45\00:57:37.75
Every one of us.
00:57:37.79\00:57:39.25
He's got a plan for your life,
00:57:39.29\00:57:40.62
your life, your life, our lives,
00:57:40.66\00:57:43.02
and when you look
at how God's grace
00:57:43.06\00:57:45.29
and His mercy
00:57:45.33\00:57:46.66
and His forbearance is
extended to the human family,
00:57:46.70\00:57:49.40
you begin to look at
yourself in the unfolding
00:57:49.43\00:57:51.60
of the genealogy of
Christ, and you say,
00:57:51.63\00:57:54.17
"I don't understand it now,
00:57:54.20\00:57:55.54
but I'm going to
keep on reading my Bible,"
00:57:55.57\00:57:56.97
because one day,
whatever doesn't make sense,
00:57:57.01\00:57:59.14
friends, I guarantee you,
00:57:59.17\00:58:00.78
it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
00:58:00.81\00:58:03.31
God bless you.
00:58:03.35\00:58:04.68