>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD
VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION
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ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY, THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL"
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WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK
FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH
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IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> THIS MORNING, I'M GOING TO
BEGIN A SERIES AND TO BE HONEST,
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I DON'T KNOW HOW
LONG IT WILL LAST.
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I'M SURE I WON'T BE
DONE TODAY, THAT'S ALL.
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DEALING WITH THE THEME OF
JESUS THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT A LOT OF EXAMPLES
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IN THE SCRIPTURES,
MOSTLY OLD TESTAMENT, MAYBE
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SOME NEW TESTAMENT AS WELL,
OF HOW THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
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AND EVENTS OF HISTORY
ARE REALLY FACETS THAT
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GIVE US A PICTURE OF JESUS.
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IT REPRESENTS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF
HIS IMAGES THAT CAN BE SEEN IN
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THE LIVES OF THE
PEOPLE THROUGH HISTORY.
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SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE SEEN THIS
LITTLE ANALOGY THAT WAS DONE
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BEFORE, EVEN YEARS
BEFORE THE INTERNET.
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I SAW THE PARALLELS THAT WERE
DRAWN BETWEEN ESPECIALLY THE
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CLOSING DAYS OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN AND JOHN F. KENNEDY.
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SOME OF YOU HAVE
HEARD THESE THINGS BEFORE.
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FOR EXAMPLE, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1846.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS
ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1946.
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LINCOLN WAS
ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1860.
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KENNEDY WAS
ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1960.
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LINCOLN'S WIFE LOST A CHILD
WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
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KENNEDY'S WIFE LOST A CHILD
WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
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LINCOLN HAD A SECRETARY
NAMED KENNEDY, WHO URGED HIM
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NOT TO GO TO THE THEATER.
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KENNEDY HAD A SECRETARY
NAMED LINCOLN, WHO URGED HIM
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NOT TO GO TO DALLAS.
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BOTH LINCOLN AND KENNEDY WERE
SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
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IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR WIVES.
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LINCOLN WAS SHOT
IN FORD'S THEATRE.
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KENNEDY WAS SHOT IN
A LINCOLN MADE BY FORD.
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THE NAMES, LINCOLN AND KENNEDY,
EACH CONTAIN SEVEN LETTERS.
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BOTH KENNEDY AND LINCOLN
WERE KILLED ON FRIDAY AND WERE
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ASSASSINATED BY SOUTHERNERS.
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YOU KNEW THEY
COULDN'T BE TRUSTED, RIGHT?
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LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN WAS KNOWN BY
THREE NAMES, JOHN WILKES BOOTH,
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COMPROMISED OF 15 LETTERS.
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KENNEDY'S ASSASSIN WAS
ALSO KNOWN BY THREE NAMES,
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LEE HARVEY OSWALD, ALSO
COMPROMISED OF 15 LETTERS.
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BOTH SHOT LINCOLN--BOOTH, I'M
SORRY, SHOT LINCOLN IN A THEATER
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AND THEN FLED TO A WAREHOUSE.
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OSWALD SHOT LINCOLN IN A
WAREHOUSE--I'M SORRY, OSWALD
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SHOT KENNEDY IN A WAREHOUSE
AND THEN FLED TO A THEATER.
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ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
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BOTH OSWALD, BOOTH--I'M SORRY,
BOTH OSWALD AND BOOTH WERE
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KILLED BEFORE
BEING BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
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LINCOLN'S SUCCESSOR WAS
ANDREW JOHNSON, BORN IN 1808.
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KENNEDY'S SUCCESSOR WAS
LYNDON JOHNSON, BORN IN 1908.
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NOW, WHEN YOU HEAR
THINGS LIKE THIS, YOU WONDER,
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IS THAT JUST A COINCIDENCE?
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OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?
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OR IS THERE A
MASTER HAND THAT IS GUIDING
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IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN?
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I THINK YOU COULD PROBABLY
SOMETIMES TAKE DIFFERENT EVENTS
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OF HISTORY AND IF YOU WANTED TO
PUT THEM SIDE BY SIDE AND START
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LOOKING FOR SIMILARITIES,
SOMETIMES YOU'LL FIND MORE
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THAN OTHERS AND YOU COULD
TRY TO TORTURE THE EVIDENCE
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AND SHOW PARALLELS.
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BUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK
AT TODAY ARE PARALLELS THAT YOU
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FIND THROUGH THE BIBLE, THROUGH
THE CHARACTERS AND THE HISTORY
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IN THE BIBLE, THAT I THINK IS
SOME OF THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE
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FOR THE INSPIRATION OF THE
BIBLE THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH
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AND THAT HE HAS A
PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE.
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AND SO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE
A LOOK AT ALL OF THE STORIES
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AND ALL OF THE CHARACTERS.
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BUT WE'LL BE EXAMINING SOME
OF THE PROMINENT PATRIARCHS,
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PROPHETS AND KINGS IN THE BIBLE,
AND I THINK THAT YOU'LL SEE
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THAT IN THEIR LIVES,
THERE ARE TREMENDOUS PARALLELS
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THAT HELP US
RECOGNIZE THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
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NOW, YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
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SOME PEOPLE TAKE THE BIBLE
SYMBOLS AND TYPOLOGY A LITTLE
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TOO FAR, AND THEY START LOOKING
FOR SECRET MEANING IN EVERYTHING
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WHERE THERE MAY NOT BE ANY.
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AND AS I JUST MENTIONED
WITH THE ILLUSTRATION OF KENNEDY
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AND LINCOLN, YOU COULD
FIND A LOT OF SIMILARITIES.
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I COULD ALSO RIGHT NOW GO
THROUGH A LONG LIST OF THINGS
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THAT WHERE
THEY'RE NOWHERE ALIKE.
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ONE WAS A REPUBLICAN.
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ONE WAS A DEMOCRAT.
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I MEAN YOU COULD
START RIGHT THERE.
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BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE STORIES
IN THE BIBLE, YOU CAN SEE IN
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THEIR LIVES SHADOWS AND TYPES OF
CHRIST THAT ARE VERY PROMINENT
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AND UNDENIABLE.
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TALKING ABOUT SHADOWS AND TYPES,
FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU LOOK IN
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JOHN, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:45,
IT TELLS US THAT AFTER PHILIP
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MET JESUS, HE WENT AND, "HE
FOUND NATHANAEL AND HE SAID TO
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HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF
WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO
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THE PROPHETS, WROTE, JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.'"
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HERE, PHILIP IS SAYING
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE THEY
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WERE WRITING ABOUT JESUS.
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NOW, YOU DON'T FIND JESUS' NAME,
PER SE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
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BUT YOU DO FIND TYPES OF CHRIST
ALL THE WAY FROM THE WRITINGS
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OF MOSES TO MALACHI,
THE SYMBOLS ARE THERE.
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AND GOD WANTS US TO
READ OUR BIBLES AND RECOGNIZE
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THESE ANALOGIES 'CAUSE
IT'LL STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH.
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NOW, HOW ARE WE TO INTERPRET THE
SYMBOLS AND TYPES IN THE BIBLE?
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YOU NEED TO LET THE
BIBLE GIVE YOU THE PATTERN OF
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HOW TO INTERPRET THESE THINGS.
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FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU TURN
IN YOUR BIBLE--MATTER OF FACT,
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TURN WITH ME.
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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
10, WE'RE JUST GOING TO READ
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SOME OF THIS TOGETHER.
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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, I'M
GOING TO JUST READ A FEW VERSES.
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"MOREOVER, BRETHREN," PAUL IS
WRITING, "I DO NOT WANT YOU TO
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BE IGNORANT CONCERNING
THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER
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THE CLOUD, AND THEY ALL
PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, AND THEY
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WERE ALL BAPTIZED INTO MOSES
IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA."
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NOW, PAUL IS TELLING US IN
THE SAME WAY YOU AND I NEED TO
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BE BORN OF THE WATER AND BORN
OF THE SPIRIT, THE CHILDREN OF
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ISRAEL WHEN THEY CAME
OUT OF THE SLAVERY OF EGYPT,
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THEY WENT THROUGH THE SEA.
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THEY WERE BAPTIZED.
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THEY HAD THAT PILLAR
OF FIRE GLOWING AT NIGHT.
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THAT REPRESENTS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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NOW, THESE THINGS THAT HAPPENED
HISTORICALLY ARE ALSO SYMBOLS
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OF SALVATION.
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I'M STILL READING HERE, "THEY
ATE THE SAME SPIRITUAL FOOD."
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CHRIST SAID, "I AM THAT BREAD
THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
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"THEY ALL DRANK THE
SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK.
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FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL
ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM, AND
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THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST."
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AND SO, HE'S
BEGINNING TO DRAW ANALOGIES.
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HE SAYS THAT WATER REPRESENTED
THE SEA, AND THAT CLOUD
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REPRESENTED THE SPIRIT AND
THE ROCK REPRESENTED CHRIST AND
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THE MANNA REPRESENTED CHRIST.
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MANNA WAS SWEET.
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JESUS IS SWEET.
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THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS.
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THE BIBLE SAYS THE
MANNA WAS ROUND, IT WAS PURE.
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THE GOSPEL IS PERFECT IN
THAT WAY, THAT IT CAME QUIETLY
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IN THE NIGHT.
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JESUS CAME QUIETLY
INTO OUR WORLD, UNANNOUNCED.
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THAT IT WAS VERY
SUSTAINING, KEPT THEM ALIVE.
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THEY HAD PRETTY MUCH
THE SAME THING ON THE MENU.
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CHRIST AND HIS WORD CONTINUES
TO BE FRESH AND SUSTAINING.
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AND SO, YOU CAN SEE ALL
THESE ANALOGIES HERE AND PAUL IS
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TELLING US--PAUL TALKS ABOUT
THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN LAW AND
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GRACE, AND HE COMPARES IT
TO SARAH AND HAGAR, HOW THEY
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WERE TYPES OF THESE THINGS.
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AND SO, YOU CAN SEE ALL
THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF THE
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NEW TESTAMENT HOW THEY LOOKED AT
THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THEY SAW
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THESE TYPES AND SYMBOLS.
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NOW, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH
YOU IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IS
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DEFINITELY NOT
AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY.
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WE'RE GOING TO QUICKLY FLY OVER
MANY OF THESE GREAT CHARACTERS
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OF THE BIBLE AND THESE EVENTS,
BUT I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO LOOK
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AT YOUR BIBLE AND SEE THAT IT'S
MORE THAN JUST A HISTORY BOOK.
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IT IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK.
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THE ONLY WAY ALL OF THESE TYPES
AND SHADOWS COULD BE THERE IS IF
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SOMEBODY IN CONTROL OF HISTORY
WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BIBLE.
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ALRIGHT, LET'S GO
BACK TO THE BEGINNING HERE.
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AND FOR EXAMPLE--OH,
BY THE WAY, I WANT TO READ
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1 CORINTHIANS 10:11.
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I MISSED VERSE 11.
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SPEAKING OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, "NOW ALL THESE THINGS
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HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES,
AND THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR
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ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE
ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME."
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THE WORD "EXAMPLES" HERE IN
GREEK MEANS IT COMES FROM THE
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GREEK WORD "TUPOS" WHERE YOU GET
THE WORD "TYPES" OR A PATTERN.
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THEY ARE ALL PATTERNS FOR US
SO WE CAN RECOGNIZE THE PLAN OF
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SALVATION AND THEN
APPLY THEM TO OUR LIVES.
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ALRIGHT, WHO'S THE
FIRST MAN IN THE BIBLE?
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ADAM.
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IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WE READ
THAT JESUS IS THE SECOND ADAM.
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FOR INSTANCE, JESUS IS IN ADAM.
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ADAM'S A TYPE OF CHRIST.
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ROMANS 5:14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH
REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN
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OVER THOSE WHO HAD NOT SINNED
ACCORDING TO THE LIKENESS OF
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THE TRANSGRESSION OF
ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE."
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NOW THE IDEA OF BIBLE TYPOLOGY,
PASTOR DOUG'S NOT INVENTING
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THAT, THE BIBLE WRITERS LOOKED
FOR THESE TYPES AND SYMBOLS.
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"ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE
OF HIM WHO IS TO COME."
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SO, YOU'RE READING
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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PAUL SAID, "ADAM IS A TYPE
OF THE ONE WHO IS TO COME,"
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THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS.
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WHAT ARE SOME WAYS THAT
ADAM IS A TYPE OF CHRIST?
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WELL, ADAM WAS MADE
WITH A LOVING NATURE.
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HE'S ACTUALLY THE ANTITHESIS
OF CHRIST, HIS TYPOLOGY THERE
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IN A MIRROR.
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ADAM WAS MADE WITH A
LOVING NATURE, BUT IT BECAME
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SELFISH THROUGH SIN.
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CHRIST WAS MADE WITH OUR FALLEN
BODIES, BUT HE LIVED A PERFECT
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LIFE IN SPITE OF THAT.
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HE WAS MOTIVATED BY LOVE.
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ADAM WENT TO SLEEP ON FRIDAY,
AND--GOD PUT HIM TO SLEEP,
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HE BREATHED, HE STOPPED
BREATHING AND--I'M SORRY, ADAM
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BREATHED HIS FIRST ON FRIDAY.
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JESUS BREATHED
HIS LAST ON FRIDAY.
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ADAM THEN WENT TO SLEEP.
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GOD OPENED HIS SIDE
AND BROUGHT OUT HIS WIFE.
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IT'S NOT HOW MOST
OF US GET MARRIED.
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BUT JESUS WENT
TO SLEEP ON FRIDAY.
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A SPEAR OPENED UP HIS SIDE.
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AND THROUGH THAT BLOOD
AND THAT WATER, HIS BRIDE,
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HIS CHURCH WAS BORN.
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ADAM FELL IN A GARDEN.
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JESUS WAS
VICTORIOUS IN A WILDERNESS.
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YOU SEE HOW THIS WORKS?
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THERE'S SYMBOLS AND TYPES
THERE THAT TELL US HOW CHRIST
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IS THE SECOND ADAM.
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AND AS REAL AS THE FIRST
ADAM FELL, AND YOU ALL FEEL THAT
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FALL IN YOUR NATURES, DON'T YOU?
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YOU CAN THROUGH FAITH GET THE
DNA OF THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS,
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BECAUSE YOU ARE ADOPTED INTO
HIS FAMILY, YOU CAN EXPERIENCE
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THAT VICTORY.
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IT'S VERY REAL.
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SO, THESE SYMBOLS
ARE ALSO REDEMPTIVE.
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THEY'RE TEACHING US
SOMETHING THAT'S VERY PRACTICAL.
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WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON.
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WE GOT A LOT TO TALK ABOUT.
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CAIN AND ABEL, FIRST CHILDREN OF
ADAM AND EVE, AND THERE'S A LOT
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MORE WE COULD SAY
ABOUT ADAM AND EVE.
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BUT I'M JUST GIVING YOU AN IDEA
OF HOW THIS PRINCIPLE WORKS.
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WELL, WHAT ABOUT ABEL?
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FIRST OF ALL, YOU'LL OFTEN
NOTICE IN THE BIBLE THAT THERE'S
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A TENSION BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.
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CAIN, HE WANTED THE
WORLD, HE WANTED THE FLESH.
00:12:36.86\00:12:42.03
ABEL, HE WANTED THE
SPIRIT, HE WANTED TO SERVE GOD.
00:12:42.03\00:12:45.40
ONE PERSECUTED THE OTHER, JUST
LIKE JACOB AND ESAU, AND YOU
00:12:45.40\00:12:48.76
COULD LOOK AT MANY
OTHERS, ISAAC AND ISHMAEL
00:12:48.76\00:12:51.46
AND MANY OTHERS IN THE BIBLE.
00:12:51.46\00:12:53.46
ABEL IS THE FIRST
ONE TO DIE IN THE BIBLE.
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HE IS A GOOD SHEPHERD.
00:12:59.20\00:13:01.33
JESUS IS OUR GOOD SHEPHERD.
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THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE WORD
"BLOOD" IN THE BIBLE IS SPEAKING
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ABOUT THE BLOOD OF ABEL
THAT SPEAKS TO GOD, THE BLOOD
00:13:08.93\00:13:14.66
OF ABEL THAT CRIES
TO GOD FROM THE GROUND.
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ABEL OFFERS A SACRIFICE
AND THEN HE LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE.
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IT DOESN'T SAY HE
EVER RESISTED HIS BROTHER.
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WELL, YOU CAN READ IN THE
BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12,
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"AND JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR OF
THE NEW COVENANT, OF THE BLOOD
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OF SPRINKLING THAT SPEAKS BETTER
THINGS THAN THAT OF ABEL."
00:13:34.93\00:13:38.90
IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE BLOOD
OF ABEL SPOKE TO THE FATHER,
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THE BLOOD OF JESUS
SPEAKS TO THE FATHER.
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AND WHEN YOU AND I PLEAD
HIS BLOOD, WE ARE FORGIVEN.
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YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN
SHOWED MERCY ON CAIN, DIDN'T HE?
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HE SAID, "MY SIN IS
TOO GREAT FOR ME TO BEAR.
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ALL THAT FIND ME WILL KILL ME."
00:13:53.00\00:13:54.26
AND GOD SHOWED CAIN MERCY.
00:13:54.26\00:13:58.23
HE SAID, "I'LL PLACE A
MARK ON YOU LEST ANY THAT LATER
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COMES WILL KILL YOU."
00:14:00.43\00:14:03.90
WELL, WE FIND MERCY
BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS,
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OUR GOOD SHEPHERD.
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MOVING RIGHT ALONG,
ENOCH, ENOCH'S A TYPE OF CHRIST
00:14:09.23\00:14:14.33
IN THE BIBLE.
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WHAT DO WE READ ABOUT ENOCH?
00:14:17.16\00:14:18.73
TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO GENESIS 5:24,
00:14:18.73\00:14:24.00
"AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD."
00:14:24.00\00:14:25.66
WE CAN STOP RIGHT THERE.
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HOW MANY MEN IN THE BIBLE
HAVE REALLY WALKED WITH GOD?
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DID JESUS WALK WITH GOD?
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"AND HE WAS NOT,
FOR GOD TOOK HIM."
00:14:35.36\00:14:38.10
DOES ENOCH NOW
HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE?
00:14:38.10\00:14:41.90
WILL HE EVER DIE AGAIN?
00:14:41.90\00:14:43.56
IS HE UP IN HEAVEN?
00:14:43.56\00:14:45.50
ENOCH WAS THE
SEVENTH GENERATION,
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THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM.
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CHRIST IS A
SYMBOL--OR THE NUMBER SEVEN
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IS A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION.
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JESUS WAS PERFECT, WITHOUT SIN.
00:14:53.96\00:14:56.83
JESUS WALKED WITH GOD.
00:14:56.83\00:14:58.70
JESUS HAS
ASCENDED TO THE FATHER.
00:14:58.70\00:15:01.73
AND SO, THE FIRST ONE WHO
ASCENDS IS A TYPE OF CHRIST
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AND THAT IS ENOCH.
00:15:04.83\00:15:06.40
ARE YOU GETTING THE
IDEA OF HOW THIS WORKS?
00:15:06.40\00:15:09.03
IF YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND READ IN JUDE 1:14, "NOW
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ENOCH, THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM,
PROPHESIED ABOUT THESE MEN ALSO,
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SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES
WITH 10,000 OF HIS SAINTS.'"
00:15:19.80\00:15:23.30
WAS ENOCH A PREACHER?
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YES HE WAS.
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DID HE PREACH
ABOUT THE SECOND COMING?
00:15:26.53\00:15:29.13
WAS JESUS A PREACHER?
00:15:29.13\00:15:31.33
WAS ENOCH A PROPHET?
00:15:31.33\00:15:32.96
WAS JESUS A PROPHET?
00:15:32.96\00:15:34.43
THEY BOTH WALKED WITH GOD.
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DID JESUS TALK
ABOUT THE SECOND COMING?
00:15:35.70\00:15:38.46
AND ENOCH TALKED
ABOUT THE SECOND COMING.
00:15:38.46\00:15:40.66
HE'S A TYPE OF
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE.
00:15:40.66\00:15:44.40
WHAT ABOUT THE STORY OF NOAH?
00:15:44.40\00:15:46.00
CAN WE FIND JESUS
IN THE STORY OF NOAH?
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OH YES, IN MANY WAYS.
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YOU CAN TURN, FOR EXAMPLE,
IN YOUR BIBLE IN THE BOOK
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OF GENESIS 6:9.
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NOW, I'M GIVING YOU A FEW
SCRIPTURES AT THE BEGINNING.
00:16:01.23\00:16:03.43
I'M HOPING YOU
CAN LOOK THESE UP.
00:16:03.43\00:16:05.46
I'LL START GIVING YOU
SCRIPTURE PRETTY SOON.
00:16:05.46\00:16:07.30
YOU'LL JUST THROW YOUR BIBLE IN
THE AIR BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING
00:16:07.30\00:16:09.23
TO BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH ME.
00:16:09.23\00:16:10.66
BUT I'M GOING TO TRY AND PROVIDE
SOME NOTES FOR YOU ONLINE SO YOU
00:16:10.66\00:16:14.26
CAN HAVE THESE
THINGS IN YOUR HANDS.
00:16:14.26\00:16:17.40
GENESIS 6:9, "THIS IS
THE GENEALOGY OF NOAH.
00:16:17.40\00:16:21.53
NOAH WAS A JUST MAN,
PERFECT IN HIS GENERATIONS."
00:16:21.53\00:16:26.26
WHO IS THE ONLY MAN
THAT REALLY WAS PERFECT?
00:16:26.26\00:16:30.56
JESUS.
00:16:30.56\00:16:32.13
"NOAH WALKED WITH GOD."
00:16:32.13\00:16:35.10
JESUS WALKED WITH GOD.
00:16:35.10\00:16:36.80
ALL WHO WOULD BE SAVED IN
THE DAYS OF NOAH COULD ONLY BE
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SAVED THROUGH NOAH AND
THE WORK THAT HE HAD DONE.
00:16:39.86\00:16:43.26
NOAH BUILT AN ARK.
00:16:43.26\00:16:44.66
IF ANYONE WANTED TO BE SAVED,
THEY COULDN'T SAY, "ALRIGHT
00:16:44.66\00:16:46.90
NOAH, YOU'VE GOT YOUR
BOAT, I'VE GOT MY BOAT."
00:16:46.90\00:16:49.36
THERE WAS ONLY ONE BOAT.
00:16:49.36\00:16:50.86
THERE WAS ONLY
ONE DOOR IN THAT BOAT.
00:16:50.86\00:16:53.50
JESUS SAID, "I AM
THE DOOR, I AM THE WAY;
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THERE IS NO OTHER WAY."
00:16:56.30\00:16:58.76
AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY THAT
NOAH PROVIDED THE ONLY WAY TO
00:16:58.76\00:17:02.73
BE SAVED, JESUS
PROVIDES THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE.
00:17:02.73\00:17:05.63
THERE IS ONLY ONE ARK OF
SALVATION IN THESE LAST DAYS,
00:17:05.63\00:17:10.33
AND THAT'S THROUGH CHRIST.
00:17:10.33\00:17:12.56
GENESIS 6:18, GOD SAYS, "I WILL
ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU."
00:17:12.56\00:17:19.46
DOES JESUS MAKE
A COVENANT WITH US?
00:17:19.46\00:17:22.30
THE WHOLE WORLD WAS
SAVED THROUGH THE COVENANT
00:17:22.30\00:17:25.66
THAT GOD MADE WITH NOAH.
00:17:25.66\00:17:27.66
AS A MATTER OF
FACT, I'M JUST CURIOUS.
00:17:27.66\00:17:29.20
I MIGHT HAVE AN EXCEPTION HERE.
00:17:29.20\00:17:30.23
IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT
WAS NOT AT LEAST INDIRECTLY
00:17:30.23\00:17:33.13
SAVED BECAUSE OF NOAH?
00:17:33.13\00:17:35.43
ANYONE HERE ALIVE
THAT'S NOT RELATED TO NOAH?
00:17:35.43\00:17:41.43
DO YOU REALIZE
THAT WE'RE ALL KIN?
00:17:41.43\00:17:44.26
NOT ONLY THROUGH ADAM, BUT
THAT TREE COMES BACK TOGETHER
00:17:44.26\00:17:47.80
AGAIN IN NOAH'S
FAMILY AND THEN SPLITS OFF.
00:17:47.80\00:17:50.36
WE'RE ALL RELATED
FROM THE TIME OF NOAH ON.
00:17:50.36\00:17:53.13
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:17:53.13\00:17:54.26
AND SO, EVERYBODY IS
FAMILY BECAUSE OF NOAH.
00:17:54.26\00:17:58.93
IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, WE'RE
ALL FAMILY BECAUSE OF JESUS.
00:17:58.93\00:18:02.73
OUR DNA CAN ALL BE
TRACED BACK TO CHRIST THAT WAY.
00:18:02.73\00:18:08.06
GENESIS 7:1, "AND THE LORD SAID
TO NOAH, 'COME THOU, AND ALL THY
00:18:08.06\00:18:15.16
HOUSE, INTO THE ARK FOR THEE
I HAVE SEEN RIGHTEOUS BEFORE
00:18:15.16\00:18:20.16
ME IN THIS GENERATION.'"
NOW, YOU NOTICE HE SAID,
00:18:20.16\00:18:24.10
"ALL OF YOUR HOUSE."
00:18:24.10\00:18:26.53
DOES JESUS HAVE A HOUSE
THAT HE'S GOING TO BRING
00:18:26.53\00:18:29.96
INTO THE ARK?
00:18:29.96\00:18:31.50
IT'S THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:18:31.50\00:18:32.53
IT'S HIS FAMILY.
00:18:32.53\00:18:34.16
YOU BECOME PART OF
THE FAMILY OF CHRIST.
00:18:34.16\00:18:36.03
YOU NOTICE HE SAYS, "I AM
GOING TO SAVE ALL OF YOUR FAMILY
00:18:36.03\00:18:38.80
BECAUSE I FOUND THEE
RIGHTEOUS," SINGULAR.
00:18:38.80\00:18:41.83
GOD SAYS TO CHRIST, "I AM GOING
TO SAVE YOUR HOUSE BECAUSE,
00:18:41.83\00:18:45.53
CHRIST, YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS."
00:18:45.53\00:18:47.86
YOU GET THAT?
00:18:47.86\00:18:49.16
WE ARE AS CHRIST'S
BRETHREN, SAVED BY VIRTUE
00:18:49.16\00:18:52.60
OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:18:52.60\00:18:53.70
THE FAMILY OF NOAH, THE BOYS
AND THEIR WIVES, NEVER COMMENTS
00:18:53.70\00:18:57.80
IN THE BIBLE ON
THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:18:57.80\00:18:59.90
ACTUALLY, AFTER THE FLOOD,
SOME OF THEM GOT INTO TROUBLE.
00:18:59.90\00:19:02.60
BUT THEY WERE SAVED BY VIRTUE
OF THEIR FATHER'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:19:02.60\00:19:08.23
WE ARE SAVED BY VIRTUE OF
CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BEING
00:19:08.23\00:19:11.00
RELATED TO HIM,
BEING PART OF HIS FAMILY.
00:19:11.00\00:19:13.96
THE ARK SURVIVED
A STORM LIKE CHRIST.
00:19:13.96\00:19:18.20
WE MUST BE IN THE ARK.
00:19:18.20\00:19:20.46
WE MUST BE IN CHRIST.
00:19:20.46\00:19:22.30
THAT ARK WAS BEATEN BY A STORM.
00:19:22.30\00:19:25.13
IT WAS BATTERED BY A STORM.
00:19:25.13\00:19:26.80
JESUS, HIS BODY WAS BATTERED.
00:19:26.80\00:19:28.63
ONLY THOSE THAT WENT IN
THROUGH THE SIDE WERE SAVED.
00:19:28.63\00:19:32.86
ONLY THOSE OF US WHO GO IN
THROUGH THE SIDE OF CHRIST WHERE
00:19:32.86\00:19:36.23
THAT BLOOD AND THAT
WATER FLOWS ARE SAVED.
00:19:36.23\00:19:39.13
AND SO, CHRIST IS
LIKE NOAH AND THE ARK.
00:19:39.13\00:19:42.30
THIS IS A WONDERFUL ANALOGY.
00:19:42.30\00:19:43.60
AGAIN, MANY, MANY EXAMPLES I
COULD SHARE WITH YOU, BUT I'LL
00:19:43.60\00:19:47.43
NEVER GET THROUGH THIS SERIES
IF I PARK ON EACH ONE FOREVER.
00:19:47.43\00:19:51.36
NOW, I'M GOING TO JUMP
ALONG TO THE STORY OF ABRAHAM,
00:19:51.36\00:19:57.46
GOING TO CONSIDER ABRAHAM.
00:19:57.46\00:19:59.13
JESUS IS LIKE ABRAHAM
AND LIKE ISAAC, I MIGHT ADD.
00:19:59.13\00:20:05.70
ABRAHAM CAME FROM A FAR
COUNTRY TO THE PROMISED LAND,
00:20:05.70\00:20:08.56
AND HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY.
00:20:08.56\00:20:10.56
JESUS LEFT HEAVEN, CAME TO
THIS WORLD TO BRING HIS FAMILY
00:20:10.56\00:20:15.40
TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:20:15.40\00:20:18.90
EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE SAVED
THROUGH THE BLESSED SEED OF
00:20:18.90\00:20:22.06
ABRAHAM, WHICH WAS ISAAC.
00:20:22.06\00:20:24.93
ISAAC'S NAME, WHO
REMEMBERS WHAT IT MEANS?
00:20:24.93\00:20:28.43
LAUGHTER.
00:20:28.43\00:20:32.43
HOW MANY OF YOU
LIKE TO SMILE AND LAUGH?
00:20:32.43\00:20:35.93
THAT'S HAPPY NEWS.
00:20:35.93\00:20:38.93
THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS.
00:20:38.93\00:20:41.53
SO, ISAAC HERE IS A TYPE OF
CHRIST THAT SHOULD BRING US JOY.
00:20:41.53\00:20:46.80
ABRAHAM WAS AN ANCIENT MAN
WHEN HE GAVE BIRTH TO THIS CHILD
00:20:46.80\00:20:52.00
THAT WAS CERTAINLY A MIRACLE.
00:20:52.00\00:20:54.93
ISAAC WAS A MIRACLE BIRTH.
00:20:54.93\00:20:58.03
THE ANCIENT OF
DAYS IS GOD THE FATHER.
00:20:58.03\00:21:01.96
IT'S INTERESTING IN THE BIBLE
HOW MANY ANCIENT OF DAYS HAVE
00:21:01.96\00:21:05.16
THESE MIRACLE BOYS
OR TYPES OF CHRISTS.
00:21:05.16\00:21:10.86
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS
THAT JESSE, THE FATHER OF DAVID,
00:21:10.86\00:21:13.86
WAS AN OLD MAN.
00:21:13.86\00:21:16.23
JACOB WAS AN OLD MAN
WHEN JOSEPH WAS BORN.
00:21:16.23\00:21:21.56
JOSEPH EVIDENTLY WAS AN OLDER
MAN WHEN JESUS WAS BORN, JOSEPH
00:21:21.56\00:21:27.43
THE FATHER OF JESUS I'M SPEAKING
OF, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EVEN LIVE
00:21:27.43\00:21:31.50
THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST.
00:21:31.50\00:21:34.13
AND THEY REPRESENT THE FATHER
OF THESE GREAT TYPES OF CHRISTS.
00:21:34.13\00:21:37.26
IT REPRESENTS THE ETERNAL
FATHER, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,
00:21:37.26\00:21:40.96
THAT WE HAVE IN HEAVEN.
00:21:40.96\00:21:44.26
SO, HE'S GIVEN THIS SON
THAT IS A MIRACLE BIRTH.
00:21:44.26\00:21:47.30
AND ONE DAY, THE LORD
SPEAKS THEN TO ABRAHAM.
00:21:47.30\00:21:51.70
THIS PROMISED CHILD
THROUGH WHOM ALL THE WORLD'S
00:21:51.70\00:21:54.13
GOING TO BE SAVED THROUGH ISAAC,
WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO WITH HIM?
00:21:54.13\00:21:58.60
'FORE HE EVER GETS MARRIED,
WE'RE GOING TO SACRIFICE HIM.
00:21:58.60\00:22:03.00
WELL, THAT
DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
00:22:03.00\00:22:04.86
ALL THE PROMISE OF SALVATION
IS SUPPOSED TO COME THROUGH HIM.
00:22:04.86\00:22:08.06
YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM?
00:22:08.06\00:22:10.16
AND JESUS, IN HIS PRIME,
IS OFFERED AS A SACRIFICE.
00:22:10.16\00:22:16.00
SO, GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, "I
WANT YOU TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY
00:22:16.00\00:22:19.23
TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE."
00:22:19.23\00:22:21.83
THEY GO 3 DAYS.
00:22:21.83\00:22:24.00
THEY LEAVE THE DONKEY
WITH THE SERVANTS AND THEY SAY,
00:22:24.00\00:22:28.30
"WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN."
00:22:28.30\00:22:29.93
THEY GO ANOTHER HALF
A DAY UP THE MOUNTAIN.
00:22:29.93\00:22:32.80
SO, THE JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF
SACRIFICE IS 3 AND A HALF DAYS
00:22:32.80\00:22:36.10
FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S
BAPTISM WHEN HE BEGAN HIS
00:22:36.10\00:22:37.96
MINISTRY TO THE PLACE OF
SACRIFICE IS 3 AND A HALF YEARS.
00:22:37.96\00:22:42.43
A DAY, PROPHECY, IS A YEAR.
00:22:42.43\00:22:44.73
THE WOOD IS
LAID ON ISAAC'S BACK.
00:22:44.73\00:22:47.30
YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK
ABOUT THIS ANALOGY MANY TIMES.
00:22:47.30\00:22:50.26
THE CROSS IS
PLACED ON JESUS' BACK.
00:22:50.26\00:22:53.63
ON THE WAY UP THE HILL, ISAAC
SAYS TO HIS FATHER AND THIS IS
00:22:53.63\00:22:56.16
ONE OF THE IMMORTAL STATEMENTS
IN THE BIBLE, "FATHER,
00:22:56.16\00:22:59.30
YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT THE FIRE."
00:22:59.30\00:23:00.96
IT PROBABLY TOOK SOME KIND
OF TINDER OR SOMETHING TO MAKE
00:23:00.96\00:23:03.26
A FIRE.
00:23:03.26\00:23:04.20
HE SAYS, "WE'VE GOT THE WOOD."
00:23:04.20\00:23:06.06
HE HAD PROBABLY GONE TO
THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE MANY
00:23:06.06\00:23:08.30
TIMES BEFORE WITH HIS FATHER.
00:23:08.30\00:23:10.86
BUT HE SAID, "WE'RE MISSING
SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT.
00:23:10.86\00:23:13.63
WHERE IS THE LAMB?"
00:23:13.63\00:23:16.23
AND ALL OF HISTORY NOW FOCUSES
ON THE STATEMENT OF ABRAHAM
00:23:16.23\00:23:19.56
TO HIS SON.
00:23:19.56\00:23:21.40
HE SAYS, "MY SON, GOD
WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB."
00:23:21.40\00:23:26.46
NOW, THE WAY THAT'S WORDED, EVEN
IN THE HEBREW, IT'S SAYING, "GOD
00:23:26.46\00:23:30.56
WILL PROVIDED HIMSELF A LAMB."
00:23:30.56\00:23:35.23
AND THIS IS
EXACTLY WHAT JESUS DID.
00:23:35.23\00:23:37.36
GOD THE SON
PROVIDED HIMSELF AS A LAMB.
00:23:37.36\00:23:40.03
THEN, THEY GET TO
THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.
00:23:40.03\00:23:42.16
WAS JESUS A WILLING
SACRIFICE OR DID GOD THE FATHER
00:23:42.16\00:23:44.63
HAVE TO FORCE HIM?
00:23:44.63\00:23:46.50
HE SAID, "NOT MY
WILL, THY WILL BE DONE."
00:23:46.50\00:23:48.60
ISAAC, WHEN HE HEARS FROM
HIS FATHER WHAT THE PLAN IS,
00:23:48.60\00:23:51.33
HE SURRENDERS.
00:23:51.33\00:23:52.36
HE SAYS, "FATHER, IF THIS IS
WHAT GOD HAS TOLD YOU TO DO."
00:23:52.36\00:23:54.73
THEY HAD SUCH TREMENDOUS RESPECT
FOR THAT COMMAND THAT SAYS,
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.86
"HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER."
00:23:57.86\00:23:59.06
THAT EVEN IF THE FATHER
SAID, "HOLD OUT YOUR HANDS, SON,
00:23:59.06\00:24:02.03
I'M GOING TO TIE YOU UP AND
I'M GOING TO SACRIFICE YOU."
00:24:02.03\00:24:04.23
HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS.
00:24:04.23\00:24:07.00
HE WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE.
00:24:07.00\00:24:09.23
JESUS WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE.
00:24:09.23\00:24:11.93
HE WAS THE BELOVED SON.
00:24:11.93\00:24:14.46
HE SAID, "TAKE YOUR SON,
YOUR ONLY SON, WHO YOU LOVE."
00:24:14.46\00:24:17.60
"GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE
GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON."
00:24:17.60\00:24:21.50
AND JUST AS HE'S ABOUT TO BRING
THE KNIFE DOWN, THE ANGEL STOPS
00:24:21.50\00:24:25.86
HIM AND HE POINTS HIM TO A RAM,
A SUBSTITUTE, CAUGHT IN A THORN
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.76
BUSH, A "THICKET," WHICH MEANT
A THORN BUSH, BY THE HORNS.
00:24:30.76\00:24:35.70
WHAT THAT REALLY REPRESENTS
IS THERE YOU'VE GOT A RAM
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.50
WITH A CROWN OF
THORNS, ANOTHER TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:24:38.50\00:24:42.06
SO, IN THIS STORY OF ABRAHAM,
ALL THROUGH MANY EXAMPLES YOU
00:24:42.06\00:24:46.40
CAN SEE THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.
00:24:46.40\00:24:49.63
ABRAHAM PICKS A WIFE FOR HIS
SON, AND HE SENDS HIS SERVANT TO
00:24:49.63\00:24:55.60
THE LAND OF MESOPOTAMIA TO BRING
HIS WIFE OUT OF THIS PAGAN LAND.
00:24:55.60\00:25:00.60
BUT THE WIFE BELIEVED IN THE
TRUE GOD, BUT TO BRING HER OUT
00:25:00.60\00:25:02.96
OF THAT INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:25:02.96\00:25:05.03
DON'T MISS THAT THE PATRIARCHS,
ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, ALL
00:25:05.03\00:25:09.50
BROUGHT THEIR WIVES FROM THESE
PAGAN LANDS TO THE PROMISED
00:25:09.50\00:25:14.16
LAND.
00:25:14.16\00:25:15.90
DOES JESUS BRING HIS WIFE,
HIS BRIDE, OUT OF THE WORLD
00:25:15.90\00:25:21.20
INTO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:25:21.20\00:25:23.40
IT'S THE STORY OF SALVATION.
00:25:23.40\00:25:25.43
AND DON'T HAVE TIME
TO GO THROUGH THEM ALL.
00:25:25.43\00:25:28.63
YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE LEAVE
THE TIME OF ABRAHAM, YOU'VE GOT
00:25:28.63\00:25:31.40
ANOTHER PROMINENT CHARACTER
THAT FIGURES IN THE BIBLE WHO
00:25:31.40\00:25:33.86
THE NEW TESTAMENT
TELLS US IS A TYPE.
00:25:33.86\00:25:36.56
IT'S MELCHIZEDEK.
00:25:36.56\00:25:38.50
MELCHIZEDEK, YOU READ, FOR
INSTANCE, AND YOU FIND HIM IN
00:25:38.50\00:25:42.56
THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER 14.
00:25:42.56\00:25:45.03
I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK
OVERVIEW OF THE STORY.
00:25:45.03\00:25:48.96
I'M ASSUMING THAT MOST OF
YOU KNOW THESE BIBLE STORIES.
00:25:48.96\00:25:52.50
SOME OF YOU MAY NOT
BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE
00:25:52.50\00:25:54.73
OLD TESTAMENT STORIES AND SO,
I'M--GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW.
00:25:54.73\00:25:58.86
ABRAHAM HAS TO GO FIGHT HIS
SERVANTS WITH THESE FIVE KINGS
00:25:58.86\00:26:04.83
FROM THE NORTH, UP BY DAMASCUS,
THAT HAVE KIDNAPPED LOT
00:26:04.83\00:26:07.73
AND HIS FAMILY.
00:26:07.73\00:26:08.43
THEY CONQUERED SODOM
AND GOMORRAH AND ZOAR
00:26:08.43\00:26:10.86
AND THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN.
00:26:10.86\00:26:12.06
ABRAHAM GOES AND HE SAVES THEM.
00:26:12.06\00:26:13.60
HE WINS THE BATTLE.
00:26:13.60\00:26:15.20
HE GETS TREMENDOUS BOOTY
FROM THE WAR, A LOT OF GOLD AND
00:26:15.20\00:26:18.76
SILVER AND CLOTHING AND RICHES.
00:26:18.76\00:26:20.90
AND ON HIS WAY BACK DOWN,
HE STOPS AT A LITTLE COMMUNITY
00:26:20.90\00:26:25.10
CALLED "SALEM" WHERE THERE
IS A FAMOUS KING PRIEST THERE
00:26:25.10\00:26:28.93
THAT WORSHIPPED JEHOVAH.
00:26:28.93\00:26:30.23
NOBODY'S EXACTLY
SURE WHO MELCHIZEDEK IS.
00:26:30.23\00:26:33.60
THERE ARE SOME WHO
WONDER IF IT WAS SHEM.
00:26:33.60\00:26:36.80
SHEM, THE SON OF NOAH,
WAS ACTUALLY STILL ALIVE
00:26:36.80\00:26:41.20
AT THIS POINT.
00:26:41.20\00:26:42.46
AND SOME HAVE POSTULATED THAT
BECAUSE THINGS GOT SO BAD IN
00:26:42.46\00:26:47.23
MESOPOTAMIA AROUND THE TOWER
OF BABEL AND THAT AREA THAT WHEN
00:26:47.23\00:26:51.10
WORD REACHED SHEM THAT SOMEONE
WAS STILL WORSHIPPING THE TRUE
00:26:51.10\00:26:54.40
GOD IN THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT
HE WENT AND HE CAME AND SETTLED
00:26:54.40\00:26:59.66
IN SALEM WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD.
00:26:59.66\00:27:02.63
HIS NAME WAS MELCHIZEDEK,
AND THAT WORD MEANS KING OF
00:27:02.63\00:27:06.86
RIGHTEOUSNESS, KING OF PEACE.
00:27:06.86\00:27:08.50
NOW, I CAN'T PROVE IT'S
SHEM AND I DON'T KNOW THAT.
00:27:08.50\00:27:10.53
THAT'S JUST ONE THEORY.
00:27:10.53\00:27:11.96
BUT THERE'S
THIS NEBULOUS PERSON.
00:27:11.96\00:27:14.13
NO GENEALOGY IS GIVEN, WHERE
HE CAME FROM OR WHERE HE WENT.
00:27:14.13\00:27:18.26
HE APPEARS OUT OF
NOWHERE IN HISTORY.
00:27:18.26\00:27:20.63
ABRAHAM RECOGNIZES HIM.
00:27:20.63\00:27:22.36
ABRAHAM IS AN OLD,
GREAT PATRIARCH AT THIS TIME,
00:27:22.36\00:27:24.96
VERY RICH.
00:27:24.96\00:27:25.83
HE RECOGNIZES HIM AS THE
PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.
00:27:25.83\00:27:28.56
HE PAYS TITHE TO HIM.
00:27:28.56\00:27:30.86
HE ACKNOWLEDGES HIM AS
THE GREATER, MELCHIZEDEK,
00:27:30.86\00:27:33.46
THE KING OF SALEM.
00:27:33.46\00:27:35.36
THE WORD "MELCHIZEDEK"
MEANS KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:27:35.36\00:27:39.66
THAT'S WHAT THE NAME MEANS.
00:27:39.66\00:27:41.20
HIS TERRITORY IS SALEM,
LATER KNOWN AS "JERUSHALOM."
00:27:41.20\00:27:45.53
SO, HIS NAME IS KING OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS, KING OF PEACE,
00:27:45.53\00:27:48.16
AND YOU CAN READ
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:27:48.16\00:27:49.56
WHERE THE APOSTLE PAUL
SAYS HE IS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:27:49.56\00:27:52.96
HEBREWS 5:9, "HAVING BEEN
PERFECTED, HE," JESUS, "BECAME
00:27:52.96\00:27:58.63
THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION
TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM, CALLED BY
00:27:58.63\00:28:03.36
GOD AS A HIGH PRIEST 'ACCORDING
TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.'"
00:28:03.36\00:28:07.46
CHRIST DID NOT COME
FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI.
00:28:07.46\00:28:10.30
HE CAME FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:28:10.30\00:28:11.93
SO, CHRIST BEING A HIGH
PRIEST IS AFTER A DIFFERENT
00:28:11.93\00:28:14.23
KIND OF PRIESTHOOD.
00:28:14.23\00:28:15.30
IT'S NOT THE PRIESTHOOD
OF THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD
00:28:15.30\00:28:18.76
OR THE PRIESTHOOD OF AARON.
00:28:18.76\00:28:20.06
HE IS CALLED A PRIEST
AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.
00:28:20.06\00:28:23.76
WHY MELCHIZEDEK?
00:28:23.76\00:28:25.73
WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END,
THERE'S NO GENEALOGY GIVEN
00:28:25.73\00:28:29.53
FOR MELCHIZEDEK.
00:28:29.53\00:28:30.73
CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND THE
OMEGA WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END.
00:28:30.73\00:28:33.63
HE IS THE KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:28:33.63\00:28:35.10
HE IS THE KING OF PEACE.
00:28:35.10\00:28:37.03
AND BY THE WAY, YOU READ
ALL THOSE THINGS I JUST SAID
00:28:37.03\00:28:38.76
IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 7.
00:28:38.76\00:28:40.40
READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 3.
00:28:40.40\00:28:42.06
SO, I WANT TO SEE IF
YOU'RE STILL WITH ME.
00:28:42.06\00:28:45.13
DO YOU UNDERSTAND
HOW WE'RE READING THROUGH
00:28:45.13\00:28:46.76
THE BIBLE RIGHT NOW?
00:28:46.76\00:28:48.33
THAT THESE CHARACTERS IN
THE BIBLE ARE TYPES OF JESUS.
00:28:48.33\00:28:52.36
PASTOR DOUG IS NOT
MAKING THESE THINGS UP.
00:28:52.36\00:28:56.26
I'M SHOWING YOU WHERE PAUL
AND THE OTHER GOSPEL WRITERS
00:28:56.26\00:28:58.96
ARE USING THIS PATTERN
TO STUDY THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:28:58.96\00:29:03.30
AND IT'S TEACHING US
DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT CHRIST.
00:29:03.30\00:29:06.83
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON.
00:29:06.83\00:29:08.10
YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:29:08.10\00:29:10.20
JACOB, AND I COULD TALK AN AWFUL
LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB, BUT LET'S
00:29:10.20\00:29:16.23
JUST MENTION A FEW THINGS HERE.
00:29:16.23\00:29:19.06
JACOB, WELL FOR ONE THING,
HE HAS 12 SONS THAT END UP
00:29:19.06\00:29:23.83
POPULATING THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
00:29:23.83\00:29:27.60
IN THE SAME WAY, JESUS HAS
THE 12 APOSTLES AND THROUGH
00:29:27.60\00:29:31.30
THEIR MINISTRY, THE
CHURCH GROWS AND IS POPULATED.
00:29:31.30\00:29:35.90
JACOB WANTS THE
ETERNAL BIRTHRIGHT.
00:29:35.90\00:29:39.36
ISN'T IT AN INTERESTING
STORY THAT JACOB GOES BEFORE
00:29:39.36\00:29:45.03
THE FATHER AND HE OBTAINS THE
BIRTHRIGHT BY VIRTUE OF: HE PUTS
00:29:45.03\00:29:49.40
THE SKIN OF THE SACRIFICED
KIDS, GOATS, ON HIS HANDS AND
00:29:49.40\00:29:57.53
THE BACK OF HIS NECK AND HE
PUTS ON HIS BROTHER'S CLOTHES?
00:29:57.53\00:30:00.53
AND HE BASICALLY GETS CREDIT FOR
BEING THE FIRSTBORN BY VIRTUE OF
00:30:00.53\00:30:06.46
THE SKINS OF THE GOAT, WHICH
REPRESENTS A SACRIFICE, AND THE
00:30:06.46\00:30:10.00
CLOTHING OF THE ELDER BROTHER.
00:30:10.00\00:30:12.30
HE RECEIVES THE BLESSING
OF THE FATHER WHO IS BLIND.
00:30:12.30\00:30:16.26
IN OTHER WORDS, HE DOESN'T
LOOK AT HIM, BUT HE LOOKS AT
00:30:16.26\00:30:18.03
THE EVIDENCE THAT HE FEELS AND
HE SMELLS AND HE SAYS, "BECAUSE
00:30:18.03\00:30:22.50
OF THAT, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU
THE BLESSING OF MY FIRSTBORN."
00:30:22.50\00:30:26.83
IN THE SAME WAY, WHY DO WE
GET THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST?
00:30:26.83\00:30:31.20
THE FATHER BASICALLY WINKS.
00:30:31.20\00:30:33.06
HE'S BLIND TO OUR
SINS BECAUSE OF THE CLOTHES
00:30:33.06\00:30:36.06
THAT WE'RE WEARING.
00:30:36.06\00:30:37.90
HE SAYS, "THE VOICE IS
THE VOICE OF JACOB'S, BUT
00:30:37.90\00:30:41.00
THE SKIN IS THE SKIN OF ESAU'S."
00:30:41.00\00:30:43.43
AND SO, HE BLESSED HIM.
00:30:43.43\00:30:45.20
YOU AND I COME BEFORE THE FATHER
AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' ROBE,
00:30:45.20\00:30:48.26
AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' SKIN
AND THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST.
00:30:48.26\00:30:53.53
AND SO, WE GET THE BLESSING.
00:30:53.53\00:30:56.96
IT'S BEAUTIFUL TYPES AND
STORIES IN THE LIFE OF JACOB.
00:30:56.96\00:31:04.00
JACOB HAS A DREAM.
00:31:04.00\00:31:05.63
HE RUNS FROM HOME BECAUSE HE'S
DECEIVED HIS BROTHER AND, OH,
00:31:05.63\00:31:08.23
I COULD TALK A
LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB.
00:31:08.23\00:31:10.36
JACOB HAS A DREAM, AND
WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HIS DREAM?
00:31:10.36\00:31:14.23
HE LAYS DOWN.
00:31:14.23\00:31:15.26
HE'S GOT NOTHING
BUT A ROCK FOR A PILLOW.
00:31:15.26\00:31:17.86
SOME OF YOU HAVE PILLOWS
LIKE THAT AT HOME PROBABLY, HUH?
00:31:17.86\00:31:22.46
AND HE SEES THE LADDER
REACHING FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN.
00:31:22.46\00:31:27.00
WE ARE SEPARATED FROM HEAVEN,
BUT NOW THERE'S A LADDER.
00:31:27.00\00:31:30.90
AND ON THIS LADDER GOING UP AND
DOWN, YOU GOT ANGELS ASCENDING
00:31:30.90\00:31:33.93
AND DESCENDING.
00:31:33.93\00:31:34.93
IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU GO
TO THE MALL, YOU SEE RIGHT THERE
00:31:34.93\00:31:36.53
YOU'VE GOT THE UP AND THE
DOWN ESCALATOR, SIDE BY SIDE.
00:31:36.53\00:31:39.93
THESE ANGELS ARE GOING,
EXCEPT IT'S A LONG ESCALATOR.
00:31:39.93\00:31:42.63
IT'S REACHING UP TO THE
GLORY OF GOD, DISAPPEARS OFF
00:31:42.63\00:31:44.76
INTO HEAVEN SOMEWHERE.
00:31:44.76\00:31:46.43
THE VEHICLE THROUGH
WHICH GOD MINISTERS TO EARTH
00:31:46.43\00:31:49.53
IS THIS LADDER.
00:31:49.53\00:31:51.23
WHAT DOES THAT LADDER MEAN?
00:31:51.23\00:31:52.96
YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:31:52.96\00:31:53.93
JESUS TELLS US WE ARE TO
INTERPRET THAT THROUGH HIM.
00:31:53.93\00:31:58.50
JOHN 1:51, "CHRIST SAID TO
HIM," SPEAKING TO NATHANAEL,
00:31:58.50\00:32:04.60
"MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,
HEREAFTER YOU WILL SEE HEAVEN
00:32:04.60\00:32:08.63
OPEN, AND THE ANGELS OF
GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING
00:32:08.63\00:32:12.70
UPON THE SON OF MAN."
00:32:12.70\00:32:14.90
DID EVERY JEW KNOW
THE STORY OF JACOB?
00:32:14.90\00:32:17.73
AND WHEN JESUS SAID,
"ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON
00:32:17.73\00:32:20.66
THE SON OF MAN," THAT
MEANS CHRIST IS THAT ESCALATOR.
00:32:20.66\00:32:25.00
CHRIST IS THE LADDER.
00:32:25.00\00:32:26.53
AS A MATTER OF FACT,
THE CROSS IS THE LADDER.
00:32:26.53\00:32:28.96
IT'S THE BRIDGE CONNECTING
HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND IT
00:32:28.96\00:32:31.60
IS THROUGH CHRIST AND THROUGH
THE CROSS THAT WE HAVE ACCESS
00:32:31.60\00:32:35.10
TO HEAVEN.
00:32:35.10\00:32:35.86
IT'S THROUGH THE CROSS THAT
ANGELS COME AND GO, ANSWERING
00:32:35.86\00:32:38.40
OUR PRAYERS, BECAUSE
WE PRAY IN JESUS' NAME.
00:32:38.40\00:32:41.36
HE'S THE LADDER, THAT
LADDER THAT JACOB THOUGHT
00:32:41.36\00:32:44.50
THAT HE WAS SEPARATED FROM GOD.
00:32:44.50\00:32:45.96
HE DECEIVED HIS BROTHER.
00:32:45.96\00:32:46.93
HE WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME.
00:32:46.93\00:32:48.00
HE THINKS HE'S ALL ALONE.
00:32:48.00\00:32:49.16
AND THROUGH THAT DREAM, GOD
SAYS, "I HAVEN'T FORSAKEN YOU.
00:32:49.16\00:32:52.20
I'LL BE WITH YOU.
00:32:52.20\00:32:53.90
AND I'M GOING TO
GIVE YOU A LITTLE VISION.
00:32:53.90\00:32:55.40
WHAT EVERYBODY HAS YOU'RE GOING
TO SEE NOW, YOU'VE GOT A LADDER
00:32:55.40\00:32:58.83
TO HEAVEN THAT ANGELS ARE COMING
AND GOING TAKING CARE OF YOU,
00:32:58.83\00:33:02.63
WATCHING OVER YOU, AND YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO SEE THIS AGAIN,
00:33:02.63\00:33:04.46
BUT DON'T EVER FORGET
THAT LADDER IS THERE."
00:33:04.46\00:33:07.00
AND YOU'VE GOT A LADDER.
00:33:07.00\00:33:08.73
WHEREVER YOU GO, IF
YOU'VE COMMITTED YOURSELF TO
00:33:08.73\00:33:10.43
THE LORD AND YOU'VE ASKED
FOR FORGIVENESS, HE SAYS HE
00:33:10.43\00:33:12.43
WANTS TO BLESS YOU.
00:33:12.43\00:33:13.36
AND YOU KNOW WHAT
GOD SAID TO JACOB?
00:33:13.36\00:33:14.96
HE SAYS, "I'M GOING TO BRING YOU
BACK INTO THE PROMISED LAND."
00:33:14.96\00:33:17.53
AND HE SAYS THE SAME NIGHT
HE HAD THAT DREAM, GOD MADE
00:33:17.53\00:33:20.06
THAT PROMISE TO HIM.
00:33:20.06\00:33:22.76
AND HE SAYS TO YOU AND
I, "I'M GOING TO BRING YOU
00:33:22.76\00:33:26.16
TO THE PROMISED LAND."
00:33:26.16\00:33:27.90
DON'T FORGET THAT YOU PRAY
IN CHRIST'S NAME THAT WE'VE GOT
00:33:27.90\00:33:31.23
A LADDER THAT GOES FROM HEAVEN
TO EARTH, AND HE ANSWERS YOUR
00:33:31.23\00:33:34.10
PRAYERS AND HE PROTECTS YOU.
00:33:34.10\00:33:35.46
THE VERY FACT THAT YOU'RE
HERE NOW IS A FACT THAT GOD HAS
00:33:35.46\00:33:39.00
WATCHED OVER YOU OVER YOUR LIFE.
00:33:39.00\00:33:41.50
SO, WE'VE JUST DONE A FLYOVER,
REAL QUICK, LOOKING AT SOME OF
00:33:41.50\00:33:46.93
THESE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:46.93\00:33:48.23
NOW, I THINK I'M
PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET BEYOND
00:33:48.23\00:33:51.90
OUR NEXT ONE.
00:33:51.90\00:33:53.40
BUT THE NEXT ONE WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK AT IS ONE OF THE MOUNTAIN
00:33:53.40\00:33:57.26
PEAKS IN THE BIBLE, ONE
OF THE MAGNIFICENT VISTAS
00:33:57.26\00:34:02.20
THAT SHOWS US CHRIST IN A LIFE.
00:34:02.20\00:34:05.46
AND THAT'S THE LIFE OF JOSEPH.
00:34:05.46\00:34:08.36
WHEN YOU READ THROUGH THE BOOK
OF GENESIS, YOU'LL READ ABOUT
00:34:08.36\00:34:12.10
ADAM AND YOU'LL READ ABOUT
EVE AND ENOCH AND YOU'LL READ
00:34:12.10\00:34:14.70
ABOUT JACOB AND ABRAHAM.
00:34:14.70\00:34:17.03
BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT AS
YOU GET TO GENESIS CHAPTER 37,
00:34:17.03\00:34:20.56
THE REST OF THE BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO JOSEPH.
00:34:20.56\00:34:25.63
THERE'S MORE SAID THERE
IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS THAN
00:34:25.63\00:34:28.16
IS SAID ABOUT ABRAHAM OR
JACOB, MORE SAID ABOUT JOSEPH.
00:34:28.16\00:34:33.76
JOSEPH IS ONE OF THE PREMIER,
POWERFUL TYPES OF CHRISTS
00:34:33.76\00:34:38.23
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:34:38.23\00:34:39.50
HE IS A FANTASTIC, PHENOMENAL
EXAMPLE OF CHRIST IN SO MANY
00:34:39.50\00:34:44.56
FACETS OF HIS
LIFE, IT'S MINDBOGGLING.
00:34:44.56\00:34:47.83
I'VE GOT SOME NOTES HERE.
00:34:47.83\00:34:51.36
LOOKING AT THE LIFE AND THE
STORY OF JOSEPH, COMPARING IT
00:34:51.36\00:34:54.36
TO WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LIFE
AND THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS,
00:34:54.36\00:34:57.83
CONSIDER FOR A MINUTE
THE HUNDREDS OF SIMILARITIES
00:34:57.83\00:35:02.53
THAT OUGHT TO SET US
BACK WITH AWE ON HOW GOD IS
00:35:02.53\00:35:08.46
IN CONTROL OF HISTORY.
00:35:08.46\00:35:11.93
NOW, I SHOULD ADD AT THIS
POINT THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT
00:35:11.93\00:35:15.06
QUESTION IF THEY CAN
TAKE GENESIS LITERALLY.
00:35:15.06\00:35:18.80
AND THEY WONDER ABOUT, YOU KNOW,
ADAM AND EVE AND NOAH AND THE
00:35:18.80\00:35:22.56
ARK AND EVEN THE TOWER OF BABEL
AND EVEN SOME OF THE PEOPLE
00:35:22.56\00:35:27.46
OUT THERE THAT THEY DENOUNCE
THE FIRST 11 CHAPTERS OF
00:35:27.46\00:35:30.50
THE BIBLE AS FABLE.
00:35:30.50\00:35:31.76
THEY ALMOST ALL
UNIVERSALLY BELIEVE THAT JOSEPH
00:35:31.76\00:35:34.66
IS A REAL CHARACTER.
00:35:34.66\00:35:36.10
YOU CAN FIND IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY
TOO MANY PARALLELS TO THINK
00:35:36.10\00:35:40.76
THAT THIS IS A FABLE.
00:35:40.76\00:35:42.36
WE BELIEVE THAT HE REALLY
DID LIVE AND EVEN MOST CYNICS
00:35:42.36\00:35:45.36
BELIEVE THAT
JOSEPH REALLY DID LIVE.
00:35:45.36\00:35:47.30
SO, FOR HIS LIFE TO MIRROR
THE LIFE OF JESUS SO MUCH OUGHT
00:35:47.30\00:35:52.53
TO STRENGTHEN YOUR LIFE IN
THE OTHER THINGS IN THE BIBLE
00:35:52.53\00:35:55.80
AND THAT HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOU.
00:35:55.80\00:35:58.63
ALRIGHT, FOR INSTANCE,
JESUS AND JOSEPH, NUMBER ONE,
00:35:58.63\00:36:03.23
WERE BOTH THE FIRSTBORN SONS;
JOSEPH, FIRSTBORN OF RACHEL,
00:36:03.23\00:36:07.53
JESUS, FIRSTBORN OF MARY.
00:36:07.53\00:36:09.83
THEY WERE BORN THROUGH MIRACLES.
00:36:09.83\00:36:12.93
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER BUT
IT DOES SAY IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:36:12.93\00:36:15.63
RACHEL WAS BARREN AND SHE
PRAYED AND GOD HEARD HER PRAYER,
00:36:15.63\00:36:18.66
AND SHE HAS THIS MIRACLE SON.
00:36:18.66\00:36:20.86
HIS NAME IS JOSEPH.
00:36:20.86\00:36:24.46
JESUS COMES INTO THE WORLD
AND HE LEAVES THE WORLD FLANKED
00:36:24.46\00:36:28.80
BY TWO JOSEPHS.
00:36:28.80\00:36:31.56
JESUS' EARTHLY
FATHER WAS JOSEPH.
00:36:31.56\00:36:34.50
THERE TO BRING HIM INTO THE
WORLD WAS JOSEPH AS A WITNESS.
00:36:34.50\00:36:37.46
WHEN JESUS DIED, THERE'S ANOTHER
MAN NAMED JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
00:36:37.46\00:36:40.93
THAT GIVES HIM HIS GRAVE.
00:36:40.93\00:36:42.50
CHRIST COMES IN AND HE
GOES OUT WITH A JOSEPH.
00:36:42.50\00:36:45.30
AND SO THAT OUGHT TO MAKE
US THINK ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
00:36:45.30\00:36:51.03
JOSEPH WAS SECOND
ONLY TO THE KING OF EGYPT.
00:36:51.03\00:36:54.80
JESUS IS SECOND ONLY TO THE KING
OF THE UNIVERSE, GOD THE FATHER.
00:36:54.80\00:37:00.60
JOSEPH'S FATHER LOVED
HIM MORE THAN HIS BROTHERS.
00:37:00.60\00:37:03.80
JESUS IS CALLED "THE
BELOVED SON," THE PREFERRED ONE.
00:37:03.80\00:37:07.10
AND AGAIN, JOSEPH'S
FATHER WAS AN ANCIENT OF DAYS
00:37:07.10\00:37:09.26
WHEN HE WAS BORN.
00:37:09.26\00:37:11.50
BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE
DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE TO BE
00:37:11.50\00:37:14.43
VERY PIOUS MEN, WHO RECEIVE
REVELATIONS FROM GOD OF FUTURE
00:37:14.43\00:37:18.16
GLORY.
00:37:18.16\00:37:19.60
THE BIBLE RECORDS NO
SIN IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH.
00:37:19.60\00:37:23.16
IT RECORDS NO SIN
IN THE LIFE OF JESUS.
00:37:23.16\00:37:26.23
POINT FOUR, BECAUSE OF
ENVY, JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CONSPIRE
00:37:26.23\00:37:30.70
TO KILL HIM.
00:37:30.70\00:37:32.73
IT SAYS AND BEFORE HE REACHED
THEM, THEY PLOTTED TO KILL HIM.
00:37:32.73\00:37:35.83
THEY SAID, "HERE
COMES THAT DREAMER.
00:37:35.83\00:37:38.13
COME NOW, LET US KILL HIM AND
THROW HIM IN ONE OF THESE WELLS,
00:37:38.13\00:37:42.00
THESE PITS, AND SAY A FEROCIOUS
ANIMAL'S DELIVERED HIM."
00:37:42.00\00:37:45.66
THEY SAID THE
SAME THING ABOUT JESUS.
00:37:45.66\00:37:47.80
THEY CONSPIRED AND
PLOTTED TO KILL HIM.
00:37:47.80\00:37:50.03
YOU CAN READ HERE, IN THE
SAME WAY, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
00:37:50.03\00:37:52.20
WANTED TO GET RID OF JESUS.
00:37:52.20\00:37:53.90
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS
OF THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED IN THE
00:37:53.90\00:37:56.16
PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST
BEFORE CAIAPHAS AND THE PLOTTED
00:37:56.16\00:38:01.26
TO ARREST JESUS AND TO
SLAY OR KILL HIM IN SOME WAY.
00:38:01.26\00:38:04.86
SAME WORDING IS USED THERE IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT JESUS AS
00:38:04.86\00:38:08.83
YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:38:08.83\00:38:12.06
HE'S BETRAYED BY THE 12 AND
SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE
00:38:12.06\00:38:16.50
FOR SILVER.
00:38:16.50\00:38:18.03
NOW, JOSEPH IS SOLD, GRANTED,
FOR 20 PIECES OF SILVER.
00:38:18.03\00:38:21.40
JESUS IS BETRAYED AND
SOLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER.
00:38:21.40\00:38:24.56
BOTH WERE THE PRICE OF A SLAVE.
00:38:24.56\00:38:26.50
KEEP IN MIND INFLATION, THE
PRICE OF A SLAVE HAD GONE UP
00:38:26.50\00:38:29.60
IN THAT 1,500 YEARS AND SO
THAT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU.
00:38:29.60\00:38:36.53
POINT SEVEN, JESUS AND
JOSEPH BOTH WENT TO EGYPT
00:38:36.53\00:38:40.33
IN THEIR YOUTH.
00:38:40.33\00:38:41.83
JOSEPH WAS SOLD INTO EGYPT
ON THE ADVICE OF HIS BROTHER.
00:38:41.83\00:38:46.53
JESUS WAS HANDED OVER
TO THE ROMANS--OH WAIT,
00:38:46.53\00:38:50.13
I MISSED A POINT HERE.
00:38:50.13\00:38:52.63
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
THE DISCIPLE JUDAS, OH,
00:38:52.63\00:38:55.93
THAT'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER POINT.
00:38:55.93\00:38:58.00
JOSEPH WAS SOLD TO THE EGYPTIANS
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUDAS--
00:38:58.00\00:39:01.93
JUDAH, HIS BROTHER.
00:39:01.93\00:39:03.66
JESUS IS SOLD TO THE ROMANS
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUDAS.
00:39:03.66\00:39:09.50
BOTH HANDED OVER THE
GENTILES BECAUSE OF THOSE NAMES.
00:39:09.50\00:39:12.60
NUMBER EIGHT, JOSEPH ASKS
THE IMPRISONED CUPBEARER NOT TO
00:39:12.60\00:39:16.96
FORGET HIM WHEN HE'S RELEASED
AND WHEN HE'S REINSTATED
00:39:16.96\00:39:20.96
AT COURT, HE SAYS, "BE
SURE TO REMEMBER ME WHEN THINGS
00:39:20.96\00:39:24.50
GO WELL WITH YOU."
00:39:24.50\00:39:26.50
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING AS CHRIST
HAD THE LAST SUPPER WITH HIS
00:39:26.50\00:39:29.20
DISCIPLES, HE SAID, "DO
THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME EVEN
00:39:29.20\00:39:32.46
HANGING ON THE CROSS."
00:39:32.46\00:39:34.56
WELL, THINK ABOUT
THIS FOR A SECOND.
00:39:34.56\00:39:36.23
CHRIST IS BETWEEN
TWO CONDEMNED MEN.
00:39:36.23\00:39:40.10
ONE SAYS, "LORD, REMEMBER ME."
00:39:40.10\00:39:41.63
HE GETS ETERNAL LIFE.
00:39:41.63\00:39:43.93
THE OTHER DOES NOT.
00:39:43.93\00:39:45.56
ONE IS SAVED.
00:39:45.56\00:39:47.03
ONE IS LOST.
00:39:47.03\00:39:48.36
JESUS IS IN JAIL
BETWEEN TWO CONDEMNED MEN.
00:39:48.36\00:39:51.86
AND HE INTERPRETS
THEIR DREAMS FOR 'EM.
00:39:51.86\00:39:53.93
ONE IS REINSTATED.
00:39:53.93\00:39:56.00
HE IS SAVED.
00:39:56.00\00:39:57.10
THE OTHER IS EXECUTED.
00:39:57.10\00:39:58.56
HE DIES.
00:39:58.56\00:40:00.70
AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT
THIEF THAT WAS SAVED SAYS,
00:40:00.70\00:40:04.13
"LORD, REMEMBER ME."
00:40:04.13\00:40:06.33
JOSEPH TESTED HIS
BROTHERS WITH A CUP.
00:40:06.33\00:40:10.40
YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:40:10.40\00:40:11.76
HE WANTED TO FIND OUT IF
THEY REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER.
00:40:11.76\00:40:14.80
AND SO, THEY'RE TESTED WITH THIS
CUP THAT'S PUT IN THEIR SACK.
00:40:14.80\00:40:18.10
JAMES AND JOHN CAME TO JESUS
AND SAID, "LET US SIT ON YOUR
00:40:18.10\00:40:21.40
RIGHT HAND AND YOUR
LEFT HAND IN YOUR KINGDOM."
00:40:21.40\00:40:23.40
HE SAID, "YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING."
00:40:23.40\00:40:25.46
BY THE WAY, THIS
IS MATTHEW 20:22,
00:40:25.46\00:40:28.00
"ARE YOU ABLE TO DRINK THE
CUP THAT I'M GOING TO DRINK,
00:40:28.00\00:40:30.53
AND BE BAPTIZED
WITH MY BAPTISM?"
00:40:30.53\00:40:32.40
THEY SAID, "OH
YES, LORD, WE'RE ABLE."
00:40:32.40\00:40:34.20
WHEN CHRIST WAS IN THE
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE SAID,
00:40:34.20\00:40:36.06
"FATHER, IF THERE'S ANY
WAY, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME."
00:40:36.06\00:40:39.40
A CUP PLACED PROMINENTLY
EVEN IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH.
00:40:39.40\00:40:45.30
IN PERSECUTION, JESUS AND JOSEPH
WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR ROBES AND
00:40:45.30\00:40:50.03
PLACED IN A PIT WHERE THEY WERE
ULTIMATELY--THEY CAME OUT ALIVE
00:40:50.03\00:40:54.13
TO BECOME GREAT PRINCES
AND EXALTED BY GOD FOR THEIR
00:40:54.13\00:40:57.50
GREAT SUFFERING.
00:40:57.50\00:41:00.60
THE ROBE IS
TAKEN AWAY FROM JOSEPH.
00:41:00.60\00:41:02.90
IT'S COVERED WITH BLOOD.
00:41:02.90\00:41:05.06
IT'S THEN PRESENTED TO
THE FATHER OF JOSEPH TO COVER
00:41:05.06\00:41:08.10
THE SIN OF HIS BROTHERS.
00:41:08.10\00:41:11.70
WHAT DO WE PRESENT
BEFORE OUR HEAVENLY FATHER
00:41:11.70\00:41:14.50
TO HAVE OUR SIN COVERED?
00:41:14.50\00:41:16.13
DID JESUS HAVE A BLOOD-STAINED
ROBE THAT WAS TAKEN FROM HIM?
00:41:16.13\00:41:19.06
REMEMBER WHEN HE
WENT BEFORE HEROD.
00:41:19.06\00:41:20.93
THEY STRIPPED HIM OF HIS ROBE.
00:41:20.93\00:41:22.20
THEY BEAT HIM.
00:41:22.20\00:41:23.63
THEY PUT A PURPLE ROBE ON HIM.
00:41:23.63\00:41:25.06
THEY BEAT HIM.
00:41:25.06\00:41:26.63
THEY TOOK BACK OFF THE
PURPLE ROBE AND THEY PUT HIS OWN
00:41:26.63\00:41:29.13
CLOTHING BACK ON HIM.
00:41:29.13\00:41:30.33
AND THEN, THEY LAID THE
CROSS ON HIS BACK WHEN HE WENT
00:41:30.33\00:41:32.60
BACK TO PILATE.
00:41:32.60\00:41:33.90
CHRIST'S ROBE WAS
A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE,
00:41:33.90\00:41:36.93
BUT THEY DID NOT TEAR IT UP.
00:41:36.93\00:41:39.00
THEY CAST LOTS FOR IT.
00:41:39.00\00:41:41.53
IT IS THAT ROBE THAT WE
PLEAD BEFORE THE FATHER TO COVER
00:41:41.53\00:41:44.60
OUR SINS.
00:41:44.60\00:41:46.76
A WONDERFUL ANALOGY OF
THE RIGHTEOUS OF JESUS.
00:41:46.76\00:41:50.40
AND THEN, OF COURSE,
BOTH EXALTED BEFORE--AFTER
00:41:50.40\00:41:54.50
THEIR SUFFERINGS.
00:41:54.50\00:41:55.80
BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE
PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF FALSE
00:41:55.80\00:41:59.46
WITNESSES.
00:41:59.46\00:42:01.26
THE WIFE OF POTIPHAR BEARS FALSE
WITNESS BEFORE JOSEPH AND BEFORE
00:42:01.26\00:42:05.43
MEMBERS OF HER HOUSEHOLD
AND BEFORE HER HUSBAND.
00:42:05.43\00:42:08.70
THE WITNESSES FALSELY ACCUSE
JESUS BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN
00:42:08.70\00:42:13.50
AND BEFORE PILATE.
00:42:13.50\00:42:15.20
JOSEPH WENT TO PRISON
BECAUSE OF THE FALSE WITNESSES.
00:42:15.20\00:42:18.30
JESUS WENT TO THE GRAVE
BECAUSE OF THE FALSE WITNESSES.
00:42:18.30\00:42:21.76
THE WORDS "PRISON"
AND "THE GRAVE" ARE OFTEN
00:42:21.76\00:42:24.23
INTERCHANGEABLE IN THE BIBLE.
00:42:24.23\00:42:26.03
DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:42:26.03\00:42:29.10
JOSEPH BECOMES A
MODEL OF SEXUAL PURITY.
00:42:29.10\00:42:32.83
DID HE FALL WHEN HE WAS
TEMPTED BY POTIPHAR'S WIFE
00:42:32.83\00:42:35.66
OR DID HE SUCCESSFULLY
RESIST THIS GREAT TEMPTATION?
00:42:35.66\00:42:39.93
DOES JESUS FACE
A GREAT TEMPTATION?
00:42:39.93\00:42:41.76
IS HE ALSO VICTORIOUS?
00:42:41.76\00:42:43.80
DID POTIPHAR PROBABLY
HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT JESUS' GUILT
00:42:43.80\00:42:47.66
BUT HE STILL CONDEMNED HIM?
00:42:47.66\00:42:49.96
NO SORRY, I SAID THAT WRONG.
00:42:49.96\00:42:51.10
DID POTIPHAR HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT
JOSEPH'S GUILT BUT HE STILL
00:42:51.10\00:42:55.56
HANDED HIM OVER BECAUSE
HE WAS AFRAID OF THE PRESSURE
00:42:55.56\00:42:57.70
THAT HE MIGHT GET?
00:42:57.70\00:42:59.70
DID PILATE HAVE
DOUBTS ABOUT JESUS' GUILT?
00:42:59.70\00:43:03.63
BUT HE STILL CONDEMNED HIM.
00:43:03.63\00:43:09.60
BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE
MEN WHO WERE REJECTED BY THEIR
00:43:09.60\00:43:12.96
BRETHREN BECAUSE THEY WANTED
THEIR INHERITANCE, BUT GOD
00:43:12.96\00:43:17.30
RAISED THEM UP TO BE
JUDGE OF THEIR BROTHERS.
00:43:17.30\00:43:21.33
THEY WANTED--YOU
KNOW WHY JACOB GAVE JOSEPH
00:43:21.33\00:43:23.40
THE COAT OF MANY COLORS?
00:43:23.40\00:43:26.10
HE BASICALLY SAID,
"REUBEN, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE
00:43:26.10\00:43:28.10
THE FIRSTBORN.
00:43:28.10\00:43:28.96
YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE
INHERITANCE OF THE FIRSTBORN."
00:43:28.96\00:43:30.73
IF YOU KNOW YOUR
BIBLES, YOU KNOW REUBEN SLEPT
00:43:30.73\00:43:32.33
WITH HIS STEPMOTHER.
00:43:32.33\00:43:33.26
JACOB SAID,
"YOU'RE DISQUALIFIED."
00:43:33.26\00:43:35.36
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE GIVES
JOSEPH THIS ROBE OF MANY COLORS.
00:43:35.36\00:43:38.56
IT'S A SIGN OF ROYALTY.
00:43:38.56\00:43:39.73
AND ALL THE BROTHERS REALIZED,
"OH, YOU KNOW, RACHEL'S
00:43:39.73\00:43:42.10
THE WIFE HE WANTED.
00:43:42.10\00:43:43.63
JOSEPH'S THE
FIRSTBORN OF RACHEL.
00:43:43.63\00:43:45.10
HE'S GOING TO GIVE
THE INHERITANCE TO THIS
00:43:45.10\00:43:46.66
YOUNG WHIPPER-SNAPPER."
00:43:46.66\00:43:47.96
AND THEY WERE JEALOUS OF
THE INHERITANCE THAT JACOB
00:43:47.96\00:43:50.80
WAS GOING TO GIVE JOSEPH.
00:43:50.80\00:43:52.66
SO THEY SAID, "LET'S SLAY
HIM AND THEN THE INHERITANCE
00:43:52.66\00:43:55.40
WILL BE OURS."
00:43:55.40\00:43:56.40
DOES JESUS TELL A PARABLE
ABOUT THE OWNERS OF A VINEYARD
00:43:56.40\00:43:59.80
WHO SAID, "OH LOOK, HERE
COMES THE SON, THE FIRSTBORN,
00:43:59.80\00:44:02.60
LET'S KILL HIM AND THE
VINEYARD WILL BE OURS"?
00:44:02.60\00:44:05.53
THE EXACT SAME
WORDING IS USED BY JESUS.
00:44:05.53\00:44:07.86
IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT
IN THAT PARABLE AS WELL.
00:44:07.86\00:44:15.13
THE STORIES OF JOSEPH
AND JESUS ARE BOTH A KIND OF
00:44:15.13\00:44:17.93
RAGS TO RICHES STORY.
00:44:17.93\00:44:20.06
JOSEPH IS BROUGHT OUT OF
THE PIT AND EXALTED TO PHARAOH'S
00:44:20.06\00:44:23.10
RIGHT HAND.
00:44:23.10\00:44:24.60
PHARAOH SAID TO JOSEPH,
"SINCE GOD HAS MADE ALL THIS
00:44:24.60\00:44:27.26
KNOWN TO YOU, THERE'S NO ONE
SO DISCERNING AND WISE AS YOU.
00:44:27.26\00:44:31.16
YOU WILL BE IN CHARGE OF MY
PALACE AND ALL MY PEOPLE ARE
00:44:31.16\00:44:33.83
TO SUBMIT TO YOUR ORDERS."
00:44:33.83\00:44:35.36
WHEN JOSEPH WENT
OUT FROM THE PHARAOH,
00:44:35.36\00:44:37.96
ALL KNEES BOWED BEFORE JOSEPH.
00:44:37.96\00:44:41.36
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT CHRIST
GOES FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE.
00:44:41.36\00:44:45.90
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT
SAYS THAT EVERY KNEE WILL BOW
00:44:45.90\00:44:48.96
AND EVERY TONGUE WILL
CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD,
00:44:48.96\00:44:51.96
THE WILING AND THE UNWILLING.
00:44:51.96\00:44:54.93
EVEN POTIPHAR AND HIS WIFE
HAD TO KNEEL BEFORE JOSEPH.
00:44:54.93\00:44:59.23
YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT?
00:44:59.23\00:45:00.36
THAT WOULD'VE BEEN SOMETHING TO
GET ON YOUR LITTLE VIDEOPHONE.
00:45:00.36\00:45:05.06
I AM GOING THROUGH HERE BECAUSE
I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK.
00:45:05.06\00:45:08.70
I'VE GOT 8 MINUTES, AND I'VE
GOT A LOT OF JOSEPH LEFT HERE.
00:45:08.70\00:45:11.70
BOTH BEGAN THEIR LIFEWORK SAVING
THE WORLD AT THE AGE OF 30.
00:45:11.70\00:45:17.86
WHEN DOES JOSEPH
GO OUT ON THE STAGE?
00:45:17.86\00:45:21.46
HE'S 30 YEARS OF AGE.
00:45:21.46\00:45:23.30
WHEN DOES JESUS
BEGIN HIS MINISTRY?
00:45:23.30\00:45:25.10
WHEN IS HE BAPTIZED?
00:45:25.10\00:45:26.36
THIRTY YEARS OF AGE.
00:45:26.36\00:45:29.10
THE COURSE OF THE
LIVES OF JOSEPH AND JESUS
00:45:29.10\00:45:31.53
WERE DRAMATICALLY
CHANGED BY THE POWER OF DREAMS.
00:45:31.53\00:45:34.90
JOSEPH BECAME AN INTERPRETER OF
HIS OWN DREAMS AND THE DREAMS OF
00:45:34.90\00:45:38.10
OTHERS, WHICH ARE USED TO SAVE
EVERYONE'S LIFE IN SOME WAY.
00:45:38.10\00:45:42.80
IN THE SAME WAY, A DREAM
IS GIVEN TO JOSEPH, THE FATHER
00:45:42.80\00:45:46.40
OF JESUS, TO SAVE
THE LIFE OF JESUS.
00:45:46.40\00:45:50.83
AND THAT'S WHEN THE
FAMILY FLEES TO EGYPT.
00:45:50.83\00:45:53.06
IT'S INTERESTING.
00:45:53.06\00:45:54.36
YOU CAN READ EVEN IN THE BOOK
OF HOSEA 11:1, "OUT OF EGYPT
00:45:54.36\00:45:58.06
I HAVE CALLED MY SON."
00:45:58.06\00:45:59.73
ANOTHER DREAM IS GIVEN TO
JOSEPH, THE FATHER OF JESUS,
00:45:59.73\00:46:02.86
IN EGYPT THAT SAYS, "NOW
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO TO
00:46:02.86\00:46:05.63
THE PROMISED LAND."
00:46:05.63\00:46:08.36
BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE HATED
BECAUSE OF THEIR GREATNESS.
00:46:08.36\00:46:13.06
THEY RESENTED JOSEPH'S DREAMS.
00:46:13.06\00:46:15.06
THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST RESENTED
HIM BECAUSE OF HIS DREAMS.
00:46:15.06\00:46:19.13
AND THEY SAID, "BEHOLD,
HERE COMES THIS DREAMER.
00:46:19.13\00:46:21.36
LET'S KILL HIM."
00:46:21.36\00:46:22.43
CHRIST WAS ALSO A PROPHET, AND
HIS PEOPLE WANTED TO KILL HIM.
00:46:22.43\00:46:27.70
BUT ULTIMATELY, JOSEPH AND
JESUS ATTAINED GREAT AUTHORITY
00:46:27.70\00:46:31.60
AND INSPIRED
CONFIDENCE IN THOSE AROUND THEM.
00:46:31.60\00:46:34.73
THEY SAID,
"WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU, DO."
00:46:34.73\00:46:37.60
WHAT DID POTIPHAR SAY
TO THOSE IN HIS HOUSEHOLD?
00:46:37.60\00:46:41.23
"I'M GIVING EVERYTHING
INTO THE HANDS OF JOSEPH.
00:46:41.23\00:46:43.30
DO WHATEVER HE SAYS.
00:46:43.30\00:46:44.53
DO WHATEVER JOSEPH SAYS."
00:46:44.53\00:46:45.40
WHAT DID MARY SAY REGARDING
JESUS AT THE WEDDING FEAST?
00:46:45.40\00:46:48.43
"WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU,
YOU DO WHATEVER HE SAYS."
00:46:48.43\00:46:51.46
SO, IN SPITE OF RESISTANCE
FROM SOME, OTHERS SAW THEY
00:46:51.46\00:46:54.40
WERE BLESSED AND HAD
GREAT CONFIDENCE IN THEM.
00:46:54.40\00:46:57.63
JOSEPH MIRACULOUSLY GAVE BREAD
TO THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM BECAUSE
00:46:57.63\00:47:01.16
THEY RECEIVED GOD'S REVELATION,
WHICH SAVED THEM FROM DYING
00:47:01.16\00:47:04.13
IN THE FAMINE.
00:47:04.13\00:47:05.83
JESUS MIRACULOUSLY FED THE
MULTITUDES THAT SAVED THEM FROM
00:47:05.83\00:47:09.96
HUNGER AND CHRIST FURTHERMORE
SAYS, "I AM THE BREAD THAT
00:47:09.96\00:47:12.63
CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
00:47:12.63\00:47:14.00
JOSEPH AND JESUS,
VERY SIMILAR IN THESE WAYS.
00:47:14.00\00:47:19.33
THE BROTHERS CAME TO
JESUS-- I'M SORRY, THE BROTHERS
00:47:19.33\00:47:22.80
CAME TO JOSEPH AND THEY
TRIED TO PAY FOR THEIR BREAD.
00:47:22.80\00:47:26.26
AND HE KEPT PUTTING
THE MONEY BACK IN THE SACK.
00:47:26.26\00:47:27.93
WHY'D HE DO THAT?
00:47:27.93\00:47:29.53
BECAUSE THAT REPRESENTS
THE BREAD OF GOD AND YOU
00:47:29.53\00:47:31.50
CAN'T PAY FOR IT.
00:47:31.50\00:47:32.53
IT'S A GIFT.
00:47:32.53\00:47:33.96
AMEN?
00:47:33.96\00:47:35.10
JESUS SAID, "I AM THE BREAD
THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
00:47:35.10\00:47:39.10
FINALLY, WHEN JOSEPH REVEALS
HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS THAT
00:47:39.10\00:47:41.86
HAD SOLD HIM, HE COULD'VE
SPENT THOSE YEARS BITTER
00:47:41.86\00:47:44.16
AND CONNIVING.
00:47:44.16\00:47:45.36
AS SOON AS HE CAME INTO POWER,
HE COULD'VE SENT AN ARMY INTO
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.36
ISRAEL AND KILLED HIS BROTHERS.
00:47:47.36\00:47:49.46
BUT HE FORGAVE THEM.
00:47:49.46\00:47:51.60
DOES CHRIST FORGIVE
THOSE WHO ARE EVEN RESPONSIBLE
00:47:51.60\00:47:54.23
FOR HIS CRUCIFIXION?
00:47:54.23\00:47:55.86
"FATHER, FORGIVE THEM,
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO."
00:47:55.86\00:47:57.66
BY THE WAY, I WAS
TALKING ABOUT YOU.
00:47:57.66\00:48:00.26
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR HIS CRUCIFIXION.
00:48:00.26\00:48:03.16
AND HE FORGIVES US.
00:48:03.16\00:48:04.70
NOT ONLY DID HE FORGIVE HIS
BROTHERS, HE FEEDS HIS BROTHERS
00:48:04.70\00:48:08.00
AND HE SAYS, "LOOK, I WANT YOU
TO COME INTO THIS LAND RIGHT NOW
00:48:08.00\00:48:10.80
'CAUSE THE FAMINE'S NOT OVER
WHERE I'LL CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN
00:48:10.80\00:48:13.56
YOU DURING THE TIME OF FAMINE."
00:48:13.56\00:48:16.46
THERE'S A FAMINE FOR THE
WORD OF GOD IN THIS WORLD.
00:48:16.46\00:48:18.36
CHRIST SAYS, "BUT COME
UNTO ME AND I'LL SUSTAIN YOU."
00:48:18.36\00:48:21.13
AND HE FORGIVES US, AND
WE GET TO ABIDE WITH HIM.
00:48:21.13\00:48:24.16
AND HE PROTECTS US.
00:48:24.16\00:48:25.73
HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY THERE
TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY, GAVE THEM
00:48:25.73\00:48:28.03
OF THE BEST OF THE LAND.
00:48:28.03\00:48:29.76
CHRIST IS OFFERING
US THE BEST OF THE LAND.
00:48:29.76\00:48:32.13
EVEN WHY WE WANDER HERE IN
THIS WILDERNESS, SO TO SPEAK, HE
00:48:32.13\00:48:35.93
GIVES US THE BEST OF THE LAND.
00:48:35.93\00:48:37.40
HE BLESSES HIS PEOPLE HERE.
00:48:37.40\00:48:40.16
WHEN MARY ANNOUNCED JESUS'
RESURRECTION TO THE DISCIPLES,
00:48:40.16\00:48:43.00
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT.
00:48:43.00\00:48:44.86
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
00:48:44.86\00:48:46.63
THEY WANTED PROOF.
00:48:46.63\00:48:47.73
WHEN THE BROTHERS COME BACK
FROM EGYPT AND THEY TELL JACOB,
00:48:47.73\00:48:50.40
"YOUR SON IS STILL ALIVE," AFTER
22-3 YEARS, WE'RE NOT EXACTLY
00:48:50.40\00:48:55.16
SURE, MAYBE CLOSER TO 21 YEARS.
00:48:55.16\00:48:59.80
HE HAD NOT SEEN HIS SON.
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.70
IT SAYS JACOB SAID,
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT."
00:49:01.70\00:49:03.50
HIS HEART STOPPED,
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
00:49:03.50\00:49:05.60
AND THEN AS THE EVIDENCE CAME,
HE SAYS, "I DO BELIEVE IT."
00:49:05.60\00:49:07.96
THEN HE SAYS, "LET ME DIE IN
PEACE BECAUSE MY SON IS ALIVE."
00:49:07.96\00:49:11.53
AND WHEN SIMON SAW JESUS AS
A BABY, HE SAID, "NOW, LET ME
00:49:11.53\00:49:15.36
DIE BECAUSE I'VE
SEEN YOUR SALVATION."
00:49:15.36\00:49:19.16
ANOTHER ANCIENT OF DAYS THERE.
00:49:19.16\00:49:22.86
BY THE WAY, CHRIST WAS
SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER.
00:49:22.86\00:49:27.13
THE TIME THAT HE WAS DOWN HERE
ON EARTH, JOSEPH WAS SEPARATED
00:49:27.13\00:49:30.53
FROM THE FATHER.
00:49:30.53\00:49:31.86
THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION
IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS AROSE.
00:49:31.86\00:49:35.63
THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION WHEN
JOSEPH AND JACOB GET TOGETHER.
00:49:35.63\00:49:39.26
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT
WHENEVER I READ THROUGH THE
00:49:39.26\00:49:41.23
BIBLE, EVERY TIME I GET THROUGH
WITH THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND I
00:49:41.23\00:49:43.83
READ WHERE JOSEPH AND JACOB ARE
REUNITED AND THEY FINALLY--YOU
00:49:43.83\00:49:46.90
CAN SEE JOSEPH STEPPING OUT OF
HIS GOLDEN CHARIOT, AND YOU SEE
00:49:46.90\00:49:51.10
JACOB KIND OF
FALLING OFF HIS OLD MULE.
00:49:51.10\00:49:55.63
AND THEY RUN TO EACH OTHER, THE
OLD PATRIARCH HOBBLING WITH HIS
00:49:55.63\00:49:59.06
CANE BECAUSE HE'S GOT THIS HIP
PROBLEM FROM WRESTLING WITH AN
00:49:59.06\00:50:02.20
ANGEL, AND JOSEPH IN HIS PRIME,
RUNNING AND HUGGING EACH OTHER
00:50:02.20\00:50:08.30
AND A LONG TIME
SOBBING ON ONE ANOTHER.
00:50:08.30\00:50:11.06
THAT STILL MOVES ME WHENEVER
I SEE THAT OR READ THAT STORY
00:50:11.06\00:50:14.70
IN THE BIBLE.
00:50:14.70\00:50:15.43
DOES THAT MOVE YOU?
00:50:15.43\00:50:17.96
AND I MEAN HE THOUGHT HE
WAS DEAD, AND HE FOUND OUT
00:50:17.96\00:50:20.46
HE'S ALIVE.
00:50:20.46\00:50:21.40
HOW DO YOU THINK THE FATHER FELT
WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS?
00:50:21.40\00:50:24.20
AND HOW DO YOU THINK HEAVEN
REJOICED WHEN CHRIST ASCENDED?
00:50:24.20\00:50:27.36
THAT'S WHY HE SAID, "MARY,
DON'T CLING TO ME, I'VE NOT YET
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.43
ASCENDED TO MY FATHER.
00:50:29.43\00:50:30.83
I'VE GOT TO GO SEE MY FATHER.
00:50:30.83\00:50:32.06
HE MISSES ME.
00:50:32.06\00:50:32.83
I'VE BEEN HERE ON THIS
EARTH 33 AND A HALF YEARS."
00:50:32.83\00:50:35.40
FOR DECADES, THEY WERE
SEPARATED, JESUS AND JOSEPH,
00:50:35.40\00:50:39.13
FROM THEIR FATHERS AND THERE WAS
A GREAT REUNION YOU CAN BE SURE.
00:50:39.13\00:50:46.90
THE BROTHERS OF JOSEPH EMBALMED
AND PROTECTED HIS BONES, LATER
00:50:46.90\00:50:51.10
TRANSPORTING THEM FROM
EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:50:51.10\00:50:54.56
THE FATHER OF JESUS
RESURRECTED HIS BODY.
00:50:54.56\00:50:57.83
NONE OF HIS BONES WERE BROKEN.
00:50:57.83\00:50:59.40
AND HIS DISCIPLES TOOK CARE--
HIS 12 DISCIPLES TOOK CARE OF
00:50:59.40\00:51:03.13
THE BODY, JUST LIKE
THE 12 BROTHERS OF--
00:51:03.13\00:51:06.33
TOOK CARE OF THE BODY OF JOSEPH.
00:51:06.33\00:51:08.50
NOW, THERE'S MUCH MORE.
00:51:08.50\00:51:10.83
MATTER OF FACT, A COUPLE OF
THINGS, STEPHEN AND I WERE GOING
00:51:10.83\00:51:12.80
THROUGH SOME OF THE PARALLELS
LAST NIGHT AND--OH YEAH, YOU
00:51:12.80\00:51:16.70
KNOW WHAT THE NAME RACHEL MEANS?
00:51:16.70\00:51:20.53
RACHEL, THE MOTHER
OF JOSEPH, MEANS EWE.
00:51:20.53\00:51:24.23
NOT Y-O-U, E-W-E, IS
THAT HOW YOU SPELL IT?
00:51:24.23\00:51:30.63
EWE.
00:51:30.63\00:51:32.60
THAT'S A FEMALE LAMB, A MOTHER
LAMB THAT HAS A BABY LAMB.
00:51:32.60\00:51:38.96
RACHEL GAVE BIRTH TO A
BABY LAMB NAMED JOSEPH.
00:51:38.96\00:51:43.60
HE BECAME A SACRIFICE THAT ALL
OF HIS PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:51:43.60\00:51:47.13
MARY--BY THE WAY,
MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS,
00:51:47.13\00:51:51.30
GIVES BIRTH TO A LAMB.
00:51:51.30\00:51:53.13
MARY HAD A
LITTLE LAMB, DIDN'T SHE?
00:51:53.13\00:51:55.40
MARY GAVE BIRTH TO
A LAMB IN BETHLEHEM.
00:51:55.40\00:51:59.33
FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE
WORD "BETHLEHEM" IN THE BIBLE
00:51:59.33\00:52:02.93
IS WHERE RACHEL DIES.
00:52:02.93\00:52:05.46
THE MOTHER OF
JOSEPH DIES IN BETHLEHEM.
00:52:05.46\00:52:10.06
MARY GIVES BIRTH TO THE SAVIOR
OF THE WORLD IN BETHLEHEM.
00:52:10.06\00:52:16.10
BOTH JESUS AND JOSEPH, AS
JOSEPH IS DYING, HE TELLS--
00:52:16.10\00:52:20.73
DON'T FORGET, JOSEPH,
HE'S THE LEADER IN EGYPT.
00:52:20.73\00:52:24.80
HIS BOYS, EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH,
HAVE PASSPORTS THAT SAY "EGYPT."
00:52:24.80\00:52:29.13
THEY'RE BORN IN EGYPT.
00:52:29.13\00:52:30.76
THEY COULD'VE SAID, "LOOK, WE
REALIZE WE'VE GOT SOME RELATIVES
00:52:30.76\00:52:33.03
THAT ARE FROM THE PROMISED LAND,
THOSE SHEPHERDS, KIND OF HOKEY.
00:52:33.03\00:52:36.33
WE'RE GOING TO STAY HERE
WITH OUR FAMILIES IN EGYPT.
00:52:36.33\00:52:38.33
YOU KNOW, WE SPEAK THE LANGUAGE.
00:52:38.33\00:52:39.43
WE'VE GOT ALL OUR FRIENDS HERE.
00:52:39.43\00:52:40.53
THE TRIBES OF EPHRAIM
AND MANASSEH ARE GOING
00:52:40.53\00:52:43.10
TO STAY HERE IN EGYPT."
00:52:43.10\00:52:44.00
JOSEPH TELLS HIS
BOYS, HE SAYS, "NO NO, BOYS,
00:52:44.00\00:52:46.30
YOU DON'T BELONG HERE.
00:52:46.30\00:52:47.56
DON'T GET COMFORTABLE HERE.
00:52:47.56\00:52:49.23
YOU'RE GOING TO GO
BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:52:49.23\00:52:51.33
I WANT YOU TO
STAY WITH YOUR PEOPLE.
00:52:51.33\00:52:52.80
I DON'T WANT YOU TO
HANG OUT WITH THE EGYPTIANS."
00:52:52.80\00:52:55.53
CHRIST TELLS HIS PEOPLE, "DON'T
GET COMFORTABLE IN THE WORLD.
00:52:55.53\00:52:57.83
DON'T BECOME PART OF THE WORLD.
00:52:57.83\00:52:59.50
YOU'RE GOING TO
THE PROMISED LAND.
00:52:59.50\00:53:01.20
THIS WORLD IS NOT YOUR HOME."
00:53:01.20\00:53:03.00
SAME MESSAGE OF JESUS TO THE
CHURCH IS THE MESSAGE OF JOSEPH
00:53:03.00\00:53:06.06
TO HIS POSTERITY.
00:53:06.06\00:53:07.33
AND JOSEPH SAYS,
"DON'T BURY ME HERE.
00:53:07.33\00:53:09.93
BURY ME BACK IN
THE PROMISED LAND."
00:53:09.93\00:53:15.10
YOU'VE GOT THAT 7 YEARS
OF PLENTY DURING THE TIME OF
00:53:15.10\00:53:18.23
THE FAMINE, BUT THERE
WAS 7 YEARS OF PLENTY.
00:53:18.23\00:53:22.63
THERE'S 7 YEARS WHEN THE WORD
OF GOD IS POURED OUT IN PLENTY
00:53:22.63\00:53:26.93
FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE
BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY
00:53:26.93\00:53:30.13
'TIL PROBATION WAS CLOSED
FOR THE JEWISH NATION WITH
00:53:30.13\00:53:33.46
THE STONING OF STEPHEN.
00:53:33.46\00:53:35.20
"AND WHAT SHALL I MORE SAY?
00:53:35.20\00:53:36.80
TIME WOULD FAIL ME," AS
THE BIBLE SAYS, TO GO ON AND
00:53:36.80\00:53:40.40
TELL YOU ALL THESE EXAMPLES.
00:53:40.40\00:53:42.16
I'VE GOT A SUMMARY WITH
THE SCRIPTURES THAT MAYBE
00:53:42.16\00:53:45.76
I CAN PUT THIS IN THE
OFFICE AND WE'LL PRINT IT OUT.
00:53:45.76\00:53:48.23
LET ME REVIEW VERY
QUICKLY FOR YOU JUST SOME OF
00:53:48.23\00:53:51.73
WHAT WE LOOKED AT.
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.23
THIS IS NOT EVERYTHING.
00:53:53.23\00:53:54.76
BOTH JESUS AND JOSEPH
WERE SONS OF AN ANCIENT FATHER.
00:53:54.76\00:53:58.40
BOTH HAD A SPECIAL ROBE,
ULTIMATELY COVERED WITH BLOOD.
00:53:58.40\00:54:01.73
BOTH HAD MIRACULOUS BIRTHS.
00:54:01.73\00:54:03.93
BOTH WERE SHEPHERDS.
00:54:03.93\00:54:05.46
BOTH ARE TAKEN TO
EGYPT TO AVOID BEING KILLED.
00:54:05.46\00:54:08.26
BOTH WERE SERVANTS.
00:54:08.26\00:54:09.96
JESUS SAID, "I
CAME AS ONE WHO SERVES."
00:54:09.96\00:54:11.73
JOSEPH SERVED IN
THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR.
00:54:11.73\00:54:13.86
BOTH BEGAN PUBLIC
MINISTRY AT THE AGE OF 30.
00:54:13.86\00:54:17.06
BOTH WERE SENT BY THE FATHER
TO FIND THEIR MISSING BROTHERS.
00:54:17.06\00:54:20.16
JOSEPH CAME
LOOKING FOR HIS BROTHERS.
00:54:20.16\00:54:21.96
JESUS HAS COME LOOKING
FOR YOU, HIS LOST SHEEP.
00:54:21.96\00:54:26.00
BOTH WERE FILLED
WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
00:54:26.00\00:54:28.70
BOTH RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL.
00:54:28.70\00:54:30.80
BOTH WERE HUMBLE
AND UNSPOILED BY WEALTH.
00:54:30.80\00:54:33.83
BOTH WERE TAUGHT BY GOD.
00:54:33.83\00:54:35.66
HE FORGAVE--OR
BOTH FORGAVE FREELY.
00:54:35.66\00:54:38.93
BOTH GAINED THE
CONFIDENCE OF OTHERS QUICKLY.
00:54:38.93\00:54:41.56
THEY FED THE HUNGRY
AND GAVE THEM BREAD.
00:54:41.56\00:54:44.60
THEY RESISTED THE
MOST DIFFICULT TEMPTATIONS.
00:54:44.60\00:54:48.03
THEY WERE GIVEN
VISIONS INTO THE FUTURE.
00:54:48.03\00:54:50.46
THEY TESTED PEOPLE TO
REVEAL THEIR TRUE NATURE.
00:54:50.46\00:54:53.83
THEY WERE HATED
FOR THEIR TEACHINGS.
00:54:53.83\00:54:56.63
THEY WERE BOTH SOLD
FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE.
00:54:56.63\00:54:59.16
BOTH FALSELY ACCUSED.
00:54:59.16\00:55:01.20
BOTH SILENT
BEFORE THEIR ACCUSERS.
00:55:01.20\00:55:03.76
WERE CONDEMNED
BETWEEN TWO PRISONERS.
00:55:03.76\00:55:08.46
THOUGHT TO BE
DEAD BEFORE THE FATHER.
00:55:08.46\00:55:12.00
THEY WERE HELD--BOTH
WERE HELD FOR 2 DAYS,
00:55:12.00\00:55:16.80
BUT FREED ON THE 3RD.
00:55:16.80\00:55:18.83
THEY AROSE TO NEW LIFE,
CAME OUT OF THE WELL, CAME OUT
00:55:18.83\00:55:23.06
OF THE TOMB, NOT RECOGNIZED.
00:55:23.06\00:55:25.33
JOSEPH WAS NOT
RECOGNIZED BY HIS OWN BROTHERS.
00:55:25.33\00:55:27.76
JESUS WAS NOT RECOGNIZED.
00:55:27.76\00:55:29.70
RETURNED TO THE FATHER.
00:55:29.70\00:55:31.50
BECAME LORD OF LORDS.
00:55:31.50\00:55:35.56
THERE'S SO MANY
PARALLELS HERE, FRIENDS.
00:55:35.56\00:55:40.00
DO YOU FIND THAT INTERESTING?
00:55:40.00\00:55:41.86
I FIND THAT AMAZING.
00:55:41.86\00:55:43.26
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DOES FOR ME?
00:55:43.26\00:55:44.53
THAT STRENGTHENS MY FAITH IN
THE BIBLE THAT GOD IS IN CHARGE
00:55:44.53\00:55:47.60
OF EVERYTHING IF HE CAN
CONTROL HISTORY THAT WAY.
00:55:47.60\00:55:50.03
NOW, I'D LIKE TO
CLOSE WITH THIS VERSE.
00:55:50.03\00:55:52.00
HEBREWS 12:1-2, I'VE JUST LOOKED
AT A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF HOW
00:55:52.00\00:55:57.03
YOU SEE JESUS THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:55:57.03\00:55:59.70
AND IT SAYS HERE, "THEREFORE,"
HEBREWS 12:1, "SINCE WE ARE
00:55:59.70\00:56:05.00
SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A
CLOUD OF WITNESSES," ALL THROUGH
00:56:05.00\00:56:09.80
THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE
WE CAN SEE A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
00:56:09.80\00:56:14.60
"LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT."
00:56:14.60\00:56:16.16
WHAT IS GOD TELLING US TO DO
WHEN YOU SEE ALL THIS EVIDENCE
00:56:16.16\00:56:18.56
IN THE BIBLE OF JESUS?
00:56:18.56\00:56:20.53
THAT GOD CAN SEE ALL OF HISTORY.
00:56:20.53\00:56:22.86
BY THE WAY, HISTORY, WHEN YOU
READ THE BIBLE, IS "HIS STORY."
00:56:22.86\00:56:27.93
IT'S ALL ABOUT
JESUS BEING EVERYWHERE.
00:56:27.93\00:56:31.03
"LET US LAY ASIDE," HERE'S
HOW WE RESPOND, "EVERY WEIGHT,
00:56:31.03\00:56:34.46
AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY
ENSNARES US, AND LET US RUN WITH
00:56:34.46\00:56:38.20
ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT IS SET
BEFORE US, LOOKING UNTO JESUS,
00:56:38.20\00:56:42.40
THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF
OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT
00:56:42.40\00:56:47.03
WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED
THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME,
00:56:47.03\00:56:50.50
AND HE'S SAT DOWN AT THE
RIGHT HAND OF THE GLORY OF GOD."
00:56:50.50\00:56:55.10
YOU AND I FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS.
00:56:55.10\00:56:57.20
AS YOU READ THROUGH THE BIBLE,
YOU THINK YOU'RE REALLY READING
00:56:57.20\00:56:59.20
ABOUT JOSEPH OR ARE
YOU READING ABOUT JESUS?
00:56:59.20\00:57:02.20
YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT NOAH.
00:57:02.20\00:57:03.73
YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT
ABRAHAM OR ENOCH OR MELCHIZEDEK.
00:57:03.73\00:57:07.40
YOU'RE READING ABOUT JESUS
IN THESE HEROES OF THE BIBLE.
00:57:07.40\00:57:10.56
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:57:10.56\00:57:11.33
YOU ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING.
00:57:11.33\00:57:13.26
I HOPE YOU'RE
READING YOUR BIBLES.
00:57:13.26\00:57:15.56
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