Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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Our Father in heaven, we thank
You for the wonderful day that
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we have received from Your hand.
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We thank You for life,
not only physical life,
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but spiritual life.
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We thank You for
the book of Genesis.
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It's so important
in these last days.
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We ask that as we study another
episode from this wonderful
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book, that Your Holy Spirit
will be with us to instruct us,
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to teach us the
things that we need to know
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as we live in these last days.
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We thank You for
hearing our prayer
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, Amen.
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I'd like to begin our
study today at Genesis 1:26, 28,
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Genesis 1:26, and then
we'll jump down to verse 28.
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There are four points that
I want to underline in these
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two verses as
we begin our study.
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Verse 26 says: Then God said,
Let us make man in our image,
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according to our likeness:
and let them have dominion...
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That's the first idea that
I want us to notice: dominion.
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That means kingship, rulership.
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Let them have dominion.
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And then it speaks
about the territory.
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Second point: their territory.
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It says: over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air,
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over the cattle, over all the
earth, and over every creeping
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thing that creeps on the earth.
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Two points: 1.
God gave man dominion.
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2. His dominion was
exercised over planet Earth.
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Now we want to notice
also verse 28, verse 28.
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It says: Then God blessed them.
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This is the third element
that I want you to notice.
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God blessed them,
and God said to them,
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And God said to them...
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Fourth element... Be fruitful
and multiply, fill the earth...
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And then the same idea is
repeated as at the beginning
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of verse 26... and subdue
it: have dominion over the fish
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of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over every living
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thing that moves on the earth.
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Four ideas: 1. Dominion
2. The territory, the earth.
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3. The blessing. 4. A
multiplicity of descendents.
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And, of course, the idea
was that the descendents would
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be holy and righteous,
just like Adam and Eve.
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But then sin came into the
world, and Satan took the plan,
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which belonged to
God, and ruined it.
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The devil took
dominion over the earth.
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The devil took over
the territory of the earth.
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Instead of the blessing
three times in Genesis 3 and 4,
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we find the word curse.
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And instead of filling the
earth with a race of righteous
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and holy people, the Bible says
that the earth was filled with
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people, but it was a violent
and iniquitous race like Satan.
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And so the fourfold
plan of God was spoiled.
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Instead of man having
dominion, Satan took dominion.
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Instead of man owning the
earth, Satan stole the earth.
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Instead of the
blessing came the curse.
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And instead of a
multitude of holy descendents,
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there was a multitude of a
corrupt race, which eventually
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led to the worldwide flood.
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But God had set forth a plan
to recover these four things
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which Adam and Eve,
and their descendents lost.
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And what we want to study
in our lecture today is how God
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revealed the way in which He
was going to restore dominion,
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restore the earth,
restore the blessing,
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and restore a
multitude of righteous people,
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filling the whole earth.
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Now in order to understand how
God was going to counteract what
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the devil had brought in,
we need to go to Genesis 22,
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which will be the
central chapter of our study
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in our lecture today.
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This is the famous story of
the almost sacrifice of Isaac.
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Because we know that Isaac
was not actually sacrificed.
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Now I'm going to go through this
story quickly, and I'm going to
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underline certain points in the
story which are very important
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for what we're going to talk
about in the second half of our
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study, or the
second half of our lecture.
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So pay particular and
special attention to the details
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that I'm going to mention in the
first half, because we're going
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to do a parallel in the
second half of our study.
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The first thing that we need to
realize is that when Isaac was
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born Abraham was an old man.
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He was actually 120 years
old according to scripture.
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So we have an individual
whom we might call the ancient
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of days, who has a son.
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And, by the way, that
son, according to Galatians 4,
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was born by the
intervention of the Holy Spirit.
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You can read
there in Galatians 4.
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It says that Isaac was
born according to the Spirit,
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whereas Ishmael was
born according to the flesh.
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As you remember, Sarah
could not have children.
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And so the Holy Spirit worked
a special miracle so that Sarah
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could have this
child, Isaac, the son born
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according to the Spirit.
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The son born according to
the promise, he's also called,
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in Galatians chapter 4.
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Now let's go to Genesis 22
and examine several interesting
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details about this story.
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Genesis 22, and I would like to
begin at verse 2, Genesis 22:2.
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Actually, let's start
at verse 1 for the context.
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Now it came to pass after these
things, that God tested Abraham,
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and said to him,
Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
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Then He said:
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Now there's something wrong
there, because Isaac was not
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Abraham's only son.
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Now the Hebrew word that is
used here for only is the word
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yachid, which does not
mean the only, numerically,
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but it actually should be
translated the precious son,
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the unique son, the special son.
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Unique would probably
be a better translation.
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So God is saying,
Take your unique son,
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your one of a kind son.
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We know that Abraham had
another son who was Ishmael.
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And so Isaac was not
the only son numerically.
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Actually, this is speaking
about Abraham's special, unique,
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one of a kind son.
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Now I want you to notice
that according to Hebrews 11:17
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Isaac is called
the only begotten son.
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Notice the book of
Hebrews 11: 17, Hebrews 11:17.
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By the way, the word
only begotten is one word
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in Greek, monogenes.
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It also means
special, or unique son.
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It has nothing to
do with begetting.
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It has to do with status.
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So notice that the New Testament
agrees that Isaac was Abraham's
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only begotten son; his
special son, in other words.
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Now let's go back to Genesis
22: 2, and continue studying
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the details of this story.
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Genesis 22 and notice verse 2.
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In other words, this
is the only begotten,
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beloved son of Abraham.
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Now I want you to
notice also Genesis 22:2
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another
interesting detail. It says:
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...your unique son, your special
son, your one of a kind son,
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In other words, Your
beloved only begotten son.
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Now let's stop
there for a minute.
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Go to the land of Moriah.
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At this time
Abraham lived in Beersheba.
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From Beersheba to Moriah
there are forty-seven miles
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as the crow flies, which means
that Abraham, in spite of the
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fact that he was an old man,
must have been in good shape
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in order to make
that trip in three days,
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according to
what this story says.
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Now I want you to
notice that specifically,
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God told him to go to Moriah.
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Now why,
specifically, to Moriah?
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Well, go with me to
1 Chronicles 21:18, 26,
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1 Chronicles 21:18, 26.
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There's a very interesting
detail here that we need to
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notice in order to understand
why God sent Abraham to Moriah.
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It says in verse 18:
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Where was David supposed to
build an altar? on the threshing
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floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Now why is that important?
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Go with me to 2 Chronicles
3:1, 2 Chronicles 3:1. It says:
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This is Solomon's
temple, so called.
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What was built on Mount Moriah?
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What was built there
was Solomon's temple.
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And what was
offered in Solomon's temple?
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Sacrifices of
animals were offered.
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That means that the very
place where Abraham took his son
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is the place where
the sacrificial system,
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which pointed to
Christ, was established.
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On that very mountain, later
on, the temple was established.
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Now I want you to notice,
once again, going back to
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Genesis 22:2, that
this was a sacrifice for sin
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that Abraham was going to offer.
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Notice Genesis 22:2 again.
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Notice that he was supposed to
offer Isaac as a burnt offering.
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Now in Israel they had
thank offerings, and they also
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had sin offerings.
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This was not a thank offering.
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God was asking Abraham to
offer Isaac as a sin offering.
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And you say,
How do we know that?
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Well, because the
same expression is used in
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Leviticus 1:3, 4, if
you'll go with me there.
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Leviticus 1:3, 4. It says here:
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If this offering is
a burnt sacrifice...
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Same expression.
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...of the herd, let him
offer a male without blemish:
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he shall offer it of his
own free will at the door of the
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tabernacle of meeting
before the Lord. Verse 4:
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So the idea of Isaac going
to Mount Moriah with Abraham
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was so that Isaac would be
offered not as a thank offering,
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but offered as a
sacrifice for sin.
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This was a sin sacrifice, in
other words, on Mount Moriah.
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Now there's other interesting
details of this story.
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Go with me to
Genesis 22:4, Genesis 22:4.
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How long did the ordeal last?
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It says there in verse 4:
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Notice that this suffering
and agony of Abraham lasted for
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a period of three
days, according to the story.
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Not only that, we just read
that on the third day Abraham
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looked at the place and he
saw the place how? afar off.
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Let's go back to
Genesis 22 and notice that
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very important detail.
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Genesis 22:4 again.
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It says, Then on the third
day Abraham lifted his eyes,
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and saw the place afar off.
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And then notice verse 5.
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So these lads that went
with Abraham, they're observing
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what is happening on
Mount Moriah from afar off.
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I want you to remember that,
there are witnesses to this,
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and they're standing afar off.
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Notice Genesis 22:6,
another very interesting detail.
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Chapter 22 and verse 6. It says:
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Who carried the wood?
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The wood was carried by Isaac.
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The father placed the wood
upon Isaac, and Isaac carried
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the wood, and then he
was bound to the wood.
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Notice, it says in verse 6
again, So Abraham took the wood
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of the burnt offering, and laid
it on Isaac his son; and he took
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And notice what
happens with Abraham. It says:
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That is Abraham took.
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So we notice here that
Isaac bears the wood upon which
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he is going to be placed,
but Abraham has the instrument
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which are going to be
used to slay his own son.
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In other words, the
father is going to slay his son,
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but his son bears the
wood, and then his son is placed
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upon the wood. Now notice
Genesis 22:7 when they arrive
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at this location, Genesis 22:7.
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Where is the ram
for the burnt offering?
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Now it's very interesting in the
answer that Abraham gave that
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Abraham is giving
a prophetic answer.
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Notice verse 8,
verse 8. It says here:
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For what? Now, now!
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Listen to that! All
these details are important.
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In other words, God is
going to provide a substitute.
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God is going to provide a
ram, or a lamb as an offering,
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as a sin offering.
He's saying to Isaac,
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Don't you worry about it.
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So they arrive at
the place of execution.
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I want you to notice
that this is an execution.
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This is not a natural death.
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It says there in Genesis 22:9:
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Notice that he's
bound to the wood.
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Can you imagine what
must have been going through
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the heart of
Abraham at this time?
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The son of the promise, the
son through whom the promises
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were going to be fulfilled
that God made to Abraham,
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and now God is telling Abraham
to lift up his hand against his
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own son. It must have been
a terrible ordeal for Abraham
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to do this. The father lifting
up his hand against his unique,
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only begotten, beloved
son there on Mount Moriah.
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And so the Bible says
that Abraham raised his hand
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to slay his son. Now there's
a detail that is not directly
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in the story, which I need
to emphasize before we continue
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with the story. Let me ask you,
do you suppose that when Abraham
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told Isaac, Now
Isaac, You are the sacrifice.
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You are the sin offering.
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Do you suppose it could
have been quite simple for Isaac
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to escape from his father?
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Do you think he could
have escaped? of course!
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Abraham was an old man.
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Isaac could have said, Not me!
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And he could have taken off.
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But when they arrived at the
place, and the father reveals
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his plan to his beloved son,
his unique son, and he says,
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son, you are the sacrifice.
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Isaac submissively places
himself in his father's hands,
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and he says, Your will be done.
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Allow me to read you a
statement in that classic book
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that I've read from before.
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It's a history of the
Old Testament up to the time
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of Solomon. Patriarchs
and Prophets, page 152.
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The author says this:
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He said, Father,
Your will be done.
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And so we notice in Genesis
22: 10 that Abraham raises up
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his hand to slay his
own son as a sin offering.
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Notice once
again, Genesis 22:10:
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Notice the son is on the wood.
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The son has borne the wood,
but the one who is going to
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actually execute the sentence
upon him is his own father.
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And it says in verse 11:
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And then we have some
very significant words.
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Now listen to
what I'm going to say.
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Isaac, we're going to find,
actually is a symbol of Christ,
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but he's also a symbol of us.
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He's a symbol of Christ, and I'm
going to explain what I mean.
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He a symbol of Christ in
the sense that, you know,
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he's the only son,
he's the beloved son.
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He's going to be
offered as a sin offering.
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He submissively places himself
in the hands of his father.
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In that sense he's
a symbol of Christ.
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But Isaac was never
actually sacrificed.
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There was a substitute
offered in place of Isaac.
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In two senses Isaac
is a symbol of Christ.
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First in his submission,
and his willingness to die
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at the hands of his father.
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And secondly, we're going to
notice in a minute, that he also
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symbolizes Christ in the fact
that on the third day in figure,
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he resurrected from the dead.
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But when it comes to
the sacrifice itself,
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Isaac did not die.
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A substitute was found.
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Now go with me to
Hebrews 11: 19, Hebrews 11:19.
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Here's where we find
the idea that Isaac actually
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resurrected the third day.
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You say, How could he
resurrect if he didn't die?
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Listen, in the mind of
Abraham, he was as good as dead.
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And on the third day
Abraham got his son back alive,
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in his mind. Notice
verse 17 of Hebrews 11.
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By faith Abraham, when he
was tested, offered up Isaac:
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and he who had
received the promises offered up
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his only begotten son, of
whom it was said, In Isaac your
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seed shall be called.
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Concluding, now notice this:
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In other words, Isaac
restored to his father alive
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on the third day, symbolized
in figure, the resurrection
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of Jesus, who once again is
in communion with His Father
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when He
resurrected on the third day.
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So, actually, Isaac,
in the mind of Abraham,
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resurrected
figuratively on the third day.
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And so you have this
marvelous story of Genesis 22.
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Now my question is, Why
did God give this story?
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Is this only a story
showing that Abraham loved God
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more than he loved his own son?
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Is this really even a
story about Abraham and Isaac?
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Or is this story far more
profound than the historical
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circumstances which took
place approximately 1900 years
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before the birth of Jesus?
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Now before I answer that
question we need to go back
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to Genesis 22 and examine
one further concept before
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we do the parallel.
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Genesis 22 and I
would like to read verse 13.
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A what? a ram. Do
you know what a ram is?
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It's a male sheep.
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That's what a ram is.
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Couldn't escape.
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Instead of his son.
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Was there a substitutionary
sacrifice on Mount Moriah?
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Yes, there was. In place
of Isaac a ram was offered,
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according to this. And
then it says in verse 14:
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Jehovah-Jireh in Hebrew.
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Do you know if you look at
the diagram of Solomon's temple,
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so called, because it
was really the Lord's temple.
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You know we talk about Noah's
flood, and Jacob's ladder,
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and Solomon's temple.
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The fact is that it was God's
ladder, it was God's flood,
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and it was God's temple.
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But anyway, for the sake of
understanding, Solomon's temple
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was built in a
direction from east to west.
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The western wall
supposedly is still there today.
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And northeast of the
temple was what was known
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as the sheep gate.
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And just outside the city,
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I've been there
where the sheep gate was.
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Just outside the city to
the north and to the east
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is where they kept the
sheep that they brought
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for the sacrifices.
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Now if you go to Jerusalem
today you'll discover that what
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is north and east of the temple
site is the place of the skull
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and the garden tomb,
interestingly enough.
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So geographically the very place
where Abraham found this ram,
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and offered him on Mount Moriah,
is the place where Jesus was
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taken from the sheep gate to
die for the sins of the world,
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which was represented by
the temple on Mount Moriah.
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Now the question is, did Abraham
understand that this story was
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far more profound
than just simple history?
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Notice John 8:56, John 8:56.
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Here Jesus is
entertaining a conversation with
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the Jewish people, with
a group of Jewish people.
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And Jesus says them:
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Did Abraham understand
that this whole story actually
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pointed to Jesus Christ
the Messiah? Absolutely!
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It says so very
clearly here in John 8:56.
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Abraham rejoiced to see my day,
and he was glad to see my day.
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By the way, Galatians 3:8 says
that God preached the gospel
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to Abraham in the Old Testament;
that God was going to justify
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the Gentiles by faith.
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So much for the idea that there
was no idea in the Old Testament
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that God was going to save the
Gentiles, and He was going to
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establish the Christian church.
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That that was just revealed
after Jesus died on the cross,
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on the Day of Pentecost.
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Oh, by the way, I have a
Plan B for the church now.
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The fact is that the
gospel was preached to Abraham,
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and the idea that the gospel was
going to go to the nations was
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already contained when God
gave this experience to Abraham.
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Now what is this
story really pointing to?
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Before I tell you, I'm going to
just mention the four promises
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that God made to Abraham.
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We're not going
to read the verses.
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But listen to
what I'm going to say.
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It's interesting that every
time in the book of Genesis that
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either Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob
raised up an altar, immediately
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after they made the sacrifice
God makes the promises.
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And when they don't raise
up an altar, there was always a
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Messianic prophecy
connected with the promises.
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For example, immediately
after this story of Genesis 22,
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immediately after, God
gives Abraham four promises.
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Immediately after Jacob
saw that ladder between heaven
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and earth, you find God
giving him the promises.
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What God was trying to teach
is that the promises were going
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to come through the
Messiah, through the sacrifice,
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through Him who was
truly Jacob's ladder,
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through Him who truly
is represented by Isaac.
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Now let's make the parallel
between what happened on
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Mount Moriah, and
what happened with Jesus.
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By the way, the four promises
that God made to Abraham:
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1. He promised that
Abraham's, and his seed,
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would have
dominion over their enemies.
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Interesting. Is
that what Adam lost?
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What was going to be
restored through the seed?
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dominion. That's in Genesis 22:
17 immediately after this story.
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The second thing
that God promised Abraham:
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He promised him the land.
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And most Christians that
study this assume that God was
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promising Abraham that
little strip of land in the
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Middle East known as Israel.
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But the fact is that
Abraham understood that that was
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only a down payment.
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That was only a little
sample of what God really
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was promising Abraham.
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Because in Romans 4:13 it
says that God promised Abraham
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that he would be
the heir of the world.
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In Hebrews chapter
11 it says that Abraham,
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and all of the other heroes
up to the time of Abraham,
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they did not consider
Canaan their homeland.
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It says that they
looked for a city whose builder
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and maker was God.
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And when they left their country
it says that they knew that they
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were searching for a
homeland, a heavenly homeland.
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In other words, Abraham
was not looking for Jerusalem
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as the
fulfillment of God's promise.
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He wasn't looking at
that little strip of land.
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Actually, God was promising
Abraham that he would have
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dominion over all of the
enemies, including the devil;
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that he was going to
also inherit all of the earth.
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And, by the way, God
also promised Abraham that
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through his seed
the blessing would come
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to counteract the curse.
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Do you see how this is
counteracting what we have
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in Genesis
chapter 1, what we read?
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dominion, the earth,
the blessing, an innumerable
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multitude of righteous people?
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So God says to Abraham, Now,
as a result of this experience,
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and what it means, I'm telling
you that you're going to have
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dominion through your
seed over the enemies.
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That you are going to recover
the earth through your seed.
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That you are going to have
a blessing come to humanity
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through that seed, and that you
are also going to have a group
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of people that
no man can number,
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like the stars of heaven,
according to the promise.
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And so what God is telling
Abraham is that what was lost
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by Adam and Eve, is
going to be restored
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through Abraham and his seed.
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Now we need to
understand that Abraham
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is not the key figure.
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Abraham is only mentioned as
bringing these things because
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from Abraham comes Jesus.
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Abraham could
never bring these things.
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The devil defeated
him because Abraham lied.
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Abraham was a bigamist.
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Are you following me?
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So Abraham is only central
insofar as he's the instrument
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that God uses to bring the Seed
into the world, to recover and
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restore that which was lost.
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Now let's do the
parallel of this story.
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We're not going to
read all of the verses.
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You have them written down.
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But I'm going to tell you
the content of each verse.
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Matthew 1:18 says that
Jesus was born according to the
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action of the Holy Sprit.
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He's the child
of the Holy Spirit.
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He was conceived
by the Holy Spirit.
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According to Mark 1:11, when
Jesus was baptized the words
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were heard from heaven
that said, This is my what?...
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Furthermore, in John 3:16, that
verse that everybody can repeat
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from memory. The most famous
verse of the Bible. It says:
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So is Jesus conceived by
the work of the Holy Spirit
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like Isaac? Absolutely!
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Was Jesus the beloved Son?
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Actually, the Father said it
twice in the ministry of Jesus.
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Once again on the Mount
of Transfiguration the words
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were heard, This is My
beloved Son; hear ye Him.
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And Jesus is the
only begotten Son.
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Now He's not the only
Son that God the Father has,
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but He is the unique
Son, the special Son.
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He's the Son of the promise,
the Son through whom all of the
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promises given to
Abraham will be fulfilled.
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By the way, do you know that the
sacrifice of Christ was offered
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as a burnt offering, which had
a sweet smelling savor to God?
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Notice Ephesians
5:2, Ephesians 5:2.
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The apostle Paul says:
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...to whom? to
His Father. Notice:
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Now let me ask you, how
long did the ordeal of Christ
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and His Father last?
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Matthew 12:40 speaks about
the ordeal of Jesus lasting
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how long? three
days and three nights.
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Three days and three nights!
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God the Father, and
Jesus His Son, agonized.
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The Father struggling with the
idea of delivering up His Son.
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Three days, just like the
in the Old Testament story.
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Now let me ask you, did
Jesus place Himself submissively
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in the hands of His Father?
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He most certainly did.
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You have, for example,
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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By the way, do you notice
that Isaac said in Genesis 22,
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My father, here's
the wood and the fire,
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but where is the offering?
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Where's the sacrifice?
00:39:05.32\00:39:06.35
Where's the animal?
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Isaac addressed his
father as my father.
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When you go to Matthew
26 you find Jesus saying,
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My Father, if this cup can
pass from Me, let it be so.
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If I could escape from having
to give My life from suffering,
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Father may it be so.
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My Father, He said three
times He prays this prayer.
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My Father, He says,
Nevertheless, not My
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will be done but Yours.
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Jesus, though He could
have escaped, presented Himself
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into the hands of
His Father submissively.
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By the way, who bore the wood?
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Go with me to John 19:17.
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Of course all of
this is no coincidence.
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I say that
facetiously, incidentally.
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We have here prophecy, folks.
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The center of
this story is Jesus.
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Now notice John 19:17. It says:
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What was the
cross made of? wood.
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So who bore the wood?
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Who was nailed to the wood?
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Jesus, by His own
consent, by His own willingness,
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He presented Himself
into the hands of His Father.
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Now let me ask you,
who actually was executing
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the sentence upon Christ?
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Go with me to
Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53.
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This is a very well
known Messianic prophecy.
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You see, like Abraham
bore the knife and the fire,
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He was the one who was
going to execute His Son.
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The one who turned against
Jesus was His own Father,
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because Jesus was
occupying the place
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that I should have had.
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Now notice Isaiah 53:4:
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Jesus suffered under the
sentence of His own Father.
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His Father raised
His hand against Him.
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And the hand of the Father was
not stayed in the case of Jesus.
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The Father followed
all the way through.
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Now why did Jesus do this?
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Remember that on the mountain,
the name of the mountain was
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Yahweh-Yireh, the
Lord will provide.
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For whom did Jesus
do this? Notice verse 5:
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In other words, Jesus
is the great substitute,
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the one that was offered in our
place, so that we do not have
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to suffer the death sentence.
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Notice 2
Corinthians 5:21 on this point.
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The apostle Paul in 2
Corinthians 5:21 speaks these
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marvelous words. He says:
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See, the One who knew
no sin the Father make sin.
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By the way, do you know that
when Jesus suffered on the cross
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there were witnesses who
watched it from afar off?
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Go with me to
Mark 15:40, Mark 15:40.
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See, this is a reenaction
of the story that we find on
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Mount Moriah, only what happened
on Mount Moriah is a shadow
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or a figure, of what Jesus
did for the whole human race.
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Mark 15:40 says this:
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The same expression!
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So there were witnesses
contemplating this from afar.
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What day of the
week did Jesus resurrect?
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The first day of the week.
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But what was the day with
reference to His sufferings?
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It was the third day.
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Did Abraham receive
Isaac back resurrected
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in figure on the third day?
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Did we find that
expression in Hebrews 11? Yes.
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Now notice what the
apostle Paul says in
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1 Corinthians 15:3,
4, 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4.
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Here the apostle Paul says this:
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Do you suppose that one of those
scriptures was the story of
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Genesis 22, that indicated
that He was going to resurrect
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on the third day?
Hebrews 11 seems to indicate so.
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That the fact that Jesus
was resurrected the third day is
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foreshadowed in the
story of Genesis 22.
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And, by the way, it's also
foreshadowed in the story of
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Jonah, where he was in
the belly of the great fish
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three days and three nights,
and the third day the great fish
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cast him out. See, he couldn't
even stand this prophet.
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Not even the fish!
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The fish got indigestion!
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Because this prophet was a
bitter man, and so he spewed
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him out on the third day.
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And he lived in spite of
the fact that he'd been in that
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tomb, so to speak, for
three days and three nights.
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Notice Romans 8:32, Romans 8:32.
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Can you imagine, folks, what
it must have been like for God
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the Father to raise
His hand against His
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own Son in our place?
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The Lord will provide, as
a substitute for our sins?
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Notice what we
find in Romans 8:32.
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Here it speaks about what
the Father did with His own Son.
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We're told there by
the apostle Paul this:
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See that breathes
what we find in Genesis 22.
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Do you see the idea
of substitution there?
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Do you also see that it's
the Father who is delivering up
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His special Son? It says, He
who did not spare His own Son,
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but delivered Him up for us all,
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That is with Jesus.
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Who is at the center of
the story of Isaac and Abraham?
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At the very center of
this story is Jesus Christ.
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Now do you remember
the four promises that
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God made to Abraham?
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First of all He made the
promise that through Abraham
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and his seed
dominion would be restored.
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Secondly He promised that
through Abraham and his seed
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the earth would be recovered.
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Third He promised that through
the seed of Abraham a blessing
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would come upon the human
race to counteract the curse.
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And He promised that through
Abraham a multiplicity of seed,
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which no one can
number, would come as a result
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of Abraham and his seed.
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Now let me ask you, were those
promises made to the Jewish
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nation, or were they made for
the human race through Jesus?
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Actually, the promises
are centered in Christ.
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You see the
churches miss the point when
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they center on Israel.
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They say, God has to
give the land to Israel.
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He has to bless Israel, literal
Israel, I'm referring to.
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He has to restore
the land to Israel.
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He's got to defeat
the enemies of Israel.
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The fact is it's Jesus
who fulfills these promises
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with the whole human
race, not only with one people.
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Now notice Galatians 3:16.
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Prophecy is not
centered in Israel.
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Prophecy is centered in Jesus.
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Notice Galatians 3:16.
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To whom were the promises made,
and in whom are they fulfilled?
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It says there:
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To whom were the promises made?
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They were made to
Abraham and his seed.
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And who is that seed?
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That Seed is Jesus Christ.
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This is the reason why
the apostle Paul says in
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2 Corinthians
1:20, He says that:
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In Jesus. Never for
Israel without Jesus.
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Only fulfilled in
and through Jesus Christ.
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Did you know, by the way, that
these four promises that God
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made to Abraham will be
fulfilled through Jesus?
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Let me just mention
several verses here,
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as we draw this to a close.
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Luke 1:71-73. When the
birth of Jesus was announced
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in the temple the Priest
said, he praised the Lord.
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He said, God has sent us a
Seed of Abraham to deliver us
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from the hand of our enemies.
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So who delivers
from the enemies?
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F16's?, military power? No!
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Through Jesus, it says,
the enemies would be subdued.
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By the way, that means dominion.
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And Daniel 7:26, 27 says that
Jesus will recover the dominion
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of the whole world, and He will
restore dominion to His people.
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Dominion will be given to
the Saints of the Most High.
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God also promised Abraham
that he would inherit the world.
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Through whom does
he inherit the world?
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By divine right?
Because they happen to belong
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to a certain people, or a
certain nation, they're going
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to be given the
earth, or the land? No.
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This is only
fulfilled through whom?
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It is only fulfilled
through Jesus Christ.
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Because all of the promises
are yea and amen in Jesus.
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All of the promises
have been made to Christ.
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The meek shall
inherit the earth.
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But they inherit the earth
because of what Jesus has done.
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Jesus is at the very center.
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By the way, who
removes the curse?
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Galatians 3:13, 14 says that we
have been saved from the curse.
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Jesus has redeemed us
from the curse of the law,
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having become for us a curse;
taking our sins upon Himself.
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And then verse 14 says:
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That the blessing of
Abraham might come upon
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all those who believe.
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How is it that the blessing of
Abraham comes upon all of those
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who believe? How
is the curse removed?
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It's removed by receiving Jesus
and accepting Him in my place
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as He who was
cursed for my sins.
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The curse is
removed through Jesus.
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The earth is
restored through Jesus.
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The blessing is
restored through Jesus.
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Dominion is
restored through Jesus.
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By the way, is there going to
be a great multitude of redeemed
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people that no one can
number, in fulfillment of the
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prophecy given to Abraham?
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You've read Revelation
7:9, where John sees a great
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multitude which
no man could number,
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from every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people.
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And a little bit later on it
explains how these individuals
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got to be in heaven.
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It says that they have washed
their robes, and they have made
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them white in the
blood of the lamb.
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So the innumerable host
comes as a result of what
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Jesus has done.
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The removal of the curse, is
as a result of what Jesus does.
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It says in the heavenly
city there will no longer be any
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curse. The meek
will inherit the earth.
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The meek will have
dominion over the earth.
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The earth will be restored.
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But none of this is given
to Israel as a literal nation.
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It is given to
those who receive Jesus.
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They are fulfilled only
in and through Jesus Christ.
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Now, go with me to
Galatians 3:29, Galatians 3:29.
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You know, there's a lot
of speculation today in Bible
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prophecy. People say, oh,
yeah, you know, God is going to
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fulfill all of His
promises to the literal Jews
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over there in Israel.
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You know, there are
people that are blessed by God.
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And, you know, God has
given them a multiplicity
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of descendents. And God
has given them the land.
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And there's all kinds
of talk along this line.
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But let me ask you, are these
really the promises given to
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Abraham, which are fulfilled
with the literal Jewish people?
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Absolutely not!
Notice Galatians 3:29.
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Very important verse!
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Galatians 3:29. The
apostle Paul says this:
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If you are what? Christ's.
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I guess that disqualifies
everyone in the Middle East
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who rejects Christ.
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Because it says clearly in
this verse that those who are
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Christ's are Abraham's seed.
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And they inherit the
promises through Jesus.
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So what happened in 1948
has no prophetic significance.
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And what the churches are
saying is being fulfilled over
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there in the Middle East is
no fulfillment of any prophecy,
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or any promise of God.
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Because scripture says that
all of the promises are Yea,
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and Amen in Jesus, the Seed.
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No promise is
fulfilled outside Jesus.
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If you join Jesus
the promises are yours.
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If you are not in Christ,
the promises are not yours.
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So is it just possible
that the religious world today
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is focusing in, wrongly,
upon Israel as the fulfillment
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of prophecy rather than
those who have received Christ
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as the fulfillment of prophecy.
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I believe so. Now
let's go to Galatians 4:6, 7.
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This will be our last verse.
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Galatians 4:6, 7, and actually,
we'll read verses 4 through 7
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so that we can
catch the context.
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It says here: But when the
fullness of the time had come,
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God sent forth His Son, born
of a woman, born under the law,
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to redeem those who were under
the law that we might receive
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the adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons
God has sent forth the Spirit
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of his Son into your
hearts crying out, Abba, Father.
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Therefore you are no
longer a slave, but a son.
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And if, now notice this,
and if a Son then an heir
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of God through Christ.
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What do we need to become in
order to inherit the promises?
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We have to become
sons and daughters of God.
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How do we become
sons and daughters of God?
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In the previous chapter the
apostle Paul says that all those
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who have been baptized
into Christ, have put on Christ.
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He says that we are Sons
of God through Jesus Christ
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in verses 26 and
27 of Galatians 3.
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And so we must receive Jesus.
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In this way we become
His brothers and sisters,
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and thus through Him, we
are Sons and Daughters of God,
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and through Jesus, according to
Galatians 4:7, we inherit what?
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all of the
promises of God through Him.
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We will live in that
land restored to the redeemed.
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We will once again have
dominion over the earth.
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We will live in a place where
there's no longer any curse.
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And God's people, from
every nation, kindred, tongue,
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and people, an innumerable
host, will be there redeemed,
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and will be able to live
with Jesus forever and ever.
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Isn't this good news?
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