Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG002933
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00:09 >> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
00:12 ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT 00:15 THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:17 AND STILL TODAY, THE GREATEST NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION 00:20 OF GOD'S LOVE AS REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 00:23 "AMAZING FACTS" PRESENTS "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" 00:26 WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:29 COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH 00:31 IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. 00:33 DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY. 00:39 >> I WANT TO WELCOME EACH OF YOU AND ESPECIALLY WOULD LIKE TO 00:42 EXTEND A WELCOME TO THOSE WHO MAY BE VISITING. 00:46 WE BEGAN A SERIES A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. 00:49 ONE OF MY FRUSTRATIONS WHEN I HAVE AN INTEREST IN DOING 00:52 A SERIES HERE AT CENTRAL, I LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AND SOMETIMES I 00:56 HAVE TO BREAK IT UP WITH TRAVEL, AND I HOPE THAT WE DON'T LOSE 00:59 OUR MOMENTUM OR THE CONTINUITY. 01:01 BUT A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I BEGAN TALKING ABOUT A THEME THAT 01:05 IS VERY CLOSE TO MY HEART. 01:07 IF I SHOULD EVER RETIRE AND WRITE A BOOK, THIS WOULD BE THE 01:11 SUBJECT I'D WANT TO WRITE ABOUT. 01:13 AND THAT THEME WOULD BE "JESUS IN ALL OF THE BIBLE." 01:17 HOW YOU CAN FIND JESUS THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES AND HE 01:22 IS PORTRAYED IN THE TYPES OF THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OF 01:26 THE BIBLE. 01:27 AND THAT IS REALLY OUR THEME FOR THE MESSAGE. 01:32 NOW, WE TALKED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO ABOUT HOW A NUMBER OF BIBLE 01:37 HEROES LIKE ABRAHAM, EVEN ADAM AND ENOCH AND NOAH, ARE TYPES 01:43 IN DIFFERENT WAYS OF CHRIST. 01:45 THEN, WE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT JOSEPH. 01:49 AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WENT TO THE WEBSITE, BUT WE SENT TO 01:52 THE CHURCH WEBSITE SOME OF THE NOTES. 01:54 A NUMBER OF YOU ASKED FOR THAT LIST OF THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN 01:57 JOSEPH AND JESUS. 01:59 NOW WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT THESE SIMILARITIES, SOME PEOPLE 02:04 HAVE OFTEN WONDERED IF YOU'RE JUST TORTURING THE EVIDENCE SO 02:08 IT LOOKS LIKE--I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU TRY HARD ENOUGH, YOU CAN 02:11 FIND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANYBODY. 02:14 AND IT'S SORT OF LIKE WHEN WHAT THEY CALL A SELF-FULFILLING 02:19 PROPHECY. 02:20 HAVE YOU HEARD OF THAT BEFORE? 02:22 YOU GO TO THE CHINESE RESTAURANT AND YOU GET A FORTUNE COOKIE 02:27 AND THAT FORTUNE COOKIE SAYS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE 02:29 A DIFFICULT DAY TOMORROW. 02:31 WELL, YOU GET THAT IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU SAY, "WELL, TOMORROW'S 02:34 GOING TO BE A TOUGH DAY." 02:35 AND YOU WAKE UP AND YOU'RE IN A BAD MOOD ALREADY 'CAUSE 02:37 THE FORTUNE COOKIE. 02:39 AND SURE ENOUGH, IT TURNS OUT TO BE A VERY DIFFICULT DAY. 02:41 WELL, IT WOULD'VE BEEN FINE IF YOU HAD NEVER BELIEVED THAT 02:44 COOKIE, RIGHT? 02:46 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 02:48 AND SOME PEOPLE WONDER, "WELL, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JESUS WAS ABLE 02:51 TO ORCHESTRATE HIS LIFE SO IT MATCHED UP WITH SOME OF THESE 02:55 OTHER CHARACTERS BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE IDENTIFIED AS 02:58 THE MESSIAH." 02:59 THAT'S NOT VERY LIKELY. 03:01 AND IT'S ALSO MORE THAN JUST COINCIDENCE. 03:04 SOMETIMES THINGS, LET'S JUST FACE IT, COINCIDENTAL THINGS 03:07 HAPPEN THAT ARE REMARKABLE AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE AMAZING. 03:10 I REMEMBER ONE TIME, THIS IS TRUTH, I BOUGHT A NEW ATV, FOUND 03:16 A USED ONE ONLINE, FOUR-WHEELER, AND I GOT A FRIEND OF MINE TO 03:20 HELP ME GO PICK IT UP, RICH KOLLINBERG WHO WAS 03:24 BAPTIZED HERE. 03:26 AND I SAID, "LOOK, LET ME BUY YOU LUNCH." 03:29 I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW ATV. 03:31 SO I SAID--AND WE WENT TO A CHINESE RESTAURANT, AND SO I 03:33 BOUGHT HIM LUNCH FOR HELPING ME PICK UP AND DROP OFF THE QUAD. 03:38 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE FORTUNE COOKIE SAID? 03:41 "YOU'RE GOING TO SOON FIND SOMETHING WITH FOUR WHEELS THAT 03:45 WILL GIVE YOU GREAT JOY." 03:49 AND I WAS SO AMAZED BY THAT. 03:51 TO THIS VERY DAY, IT IS PINNED IN THE CAULK BOARD RIGHT ABOVE 03:54 MY--SO, THAT JUST CONFIRMED THAT THE LORD WANTED ME TO GET THAT 03:58 QUAD AND PROBABLY WANTS ME TO GET MANY MORE. 04:07 NO, THAT'S PROBABLY COINCIDENCE, BUT YOU KNOW IT'S ONE OF THOSE 04:09 IRONIC THINGS THAT YOU FIND FUNNY. 04:12 THERE'S SOME THINGS IN HISTORY THAT ARE PRETTY HARD TO 04:14 DESCRIBE. 04:15 I THINK IT'S PROBABLY BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I SHARED 04:17 WITH YOU AN AMAZING FACT ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE TITAN, 04:21 THE WRECK OF THE TITAN. 04:23 NOW, ALL OF US HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE TITANIC BEFORE. 04:26 ON APRIL 14TH, OF COURSE, 1912, THIS HUGE SHIP, THE TITANIC, 04:31 WAS STEAMING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TOWARDS NEW YORK, CLASSED AS 04:36 "THE UNSINKABLE SHIP" ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE. 04:39 HER CAPTAIN WAS ENCOURAGED TO BREAK A RECORD FOR SPEED WHILE 04:42 MAKING THE CROSSING. 04:43 AND MOST PEOPLE KNOW AFTER STRIKING AN ICEBERG, 04:47 "THE UNSINKABLE SHIP" WENT DOWN IN A MATTER OF HOURS. 04:50 OUT OF THE 2,200 PASSENGERS, ONLY 711 WERE SAVED. 04:55 SINCE THEN, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY BOOKS AND MOVIES ABOUT 04:57 THE TITANIC. 04:58 THERE WAS ONE FICTIONAL STORY THAT WAS WRITTEN BY A MERCHANT 05:02 SEAMAN BY THE NAME OF MORGAN ROBERTSON. 05:05 ROBERTSON'S BOOK WAS ABOUT AN UNSINKABLE PASSENGER LINER THAT 05:09 SANK WHILE CARRYING ELITE PEOPLE OF THE TIME. 05:12 THE SHIP IN ROBERTSON'S STORY WAS CALLED THE "TITAN." 05:15 AND THE BOOK WAS TITLED, "THE WRECK OF THE TITAN." 05:19 EVEN THOUGH THE BOOK IS A FICTITIOUS BOOK, THE EVENTS 05:22 IN THE STORY HAVE AN AMAZING PARALLEL TO THE EVENTS OF 05:25 THE TITANIC. 05:27 HERE ARE A FEW COMPARISONS. 05:28 LISTEN CAREFULLY. 05:30 THE TITAN WAS 800 FEET LONG. 05:32 THE TITANIC--AND TITAN IS FROM ROBERTSON'S BOOK CALLED 05:36 "THE SINKING OF THE TITAN." 05:37 THE TITANIC WAS 882 FEET LONG. 05:40 THE TITAN WAS 90 FEET WIDE, WHICH WAS ENORMOUS FOR THE DAY. 05:44 THE TITANIC, 92 FEET. 05:46 TOP SPEED FOR THE TITAN, 25 KNOTS. 05:49 TOP SPEED FOR THE TITANIC, 23 KNOTS. 05:52 WATER TIGHT COMPARTMENTS ON THE TITAN, 19. 05:56 THE TITANIC, OF COURSE, HAD 16. 05:58 BOTH SHIPS HAD THREE PROPELLERS. 06:00 CAPACITY ON THE TITAN, 3,000. 06:03 TITANIC, 3,250. 06:05 NUMBER OF PEOPLE ABOARD, 2,000 ON THE TITAN, 06:09 2,228 ON THE TITANIC. 06:12 LIFEBOATS ON BOTH SHIPS WERE INSUFFICIENT ONLY ENOUGH-- 06:16 24 LIFEBOATS ON THE TITAN, 20 ON THE TITANIC. 06:21 LISTEN CAREFULLY. 06:24 SAILING FROM APRIL TO NEW YORK, THE TITAN, IN APRIL, APRIL 10TH 06:30 WAS SAILING FROM ENGLAND TO NEW YORK. 06:34 BOTH SHIPS WERE BUILT TO BE UNSINKABLE. 06:37 BOTH SHIPS WERE ENCOURAGED TO BREAK SPEED RECORDS. 06:40 BOTH SHIPS SANK AFTER STRIKING A PYRAMID-SHAPED ICEBERG THAT HAD 06:44 JUST OVERTURNED. 06:45 BOTH SHIPS WERE ON THEIR MAIDEN VOYAGE. 06:48 MOST WELL-TO-DO FAMOUS PEOPLE WERE ON THE TITAN AND 06:52 THE TITANIC. 06:53 ONLY 1/3 OF THE PASSENGERS ON EACH SHIP SURVIVED. 06:56 BOTH SHIPS HAD INADEQUATE NUMBER OF LIFEBOATS. 06:59 ROBERTSON'S BOOK, "THE WRECK OF THE TITAN," WAS NEVER PUBLISHED. 07:03 EACH TIME HE GAVE IT TO A PUBLISHER, THEY TOLD HIM 07:05 THE EVENTS THAT HE WROTE ABOUT COULD NEVER POSSIBLY HAPPEN. 07:09 IT WAS SIMPLY TOO UNBELIEVABLE." 07:11 THE EVENTS THAT HE WROTE ABOUT, BY THE WAY, WERE WRITTEN IN 07:15 1893--NO, 1898, 13 YEARS BEFORE THE TITANIC WAS BUILT. 07:22 ROBERTSON WROTE THIS BOOK. 07:25 THAT WAS THEN, BASICALLY, PARALLEL ALMOST PERFECTLY, EVEN 07:30 THE NAME, "TITAN," "TITANIC." 07:37 MORGAN ROBERTSON'S BOOK, WAS IT A COINCIDENCE OR A PROPHECY OF 07:40 WHAT WAS COMING? 07:44 SOMETIMES, I THINK GOD TRIES TO TELL US THINGS IN ADVANCE JUST 07:48 TO LET US KNOW THAT HE SEES ALL OF HISTORY. 07:52 NOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND ALL THE BIBLE 07:54 AND THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT HELP US RECOGNIZE 07:58 JESUS IS WHO HE SAID. 08:00 THE OLD TESTAMENT IS A MIRROR OF CHRIST. 08:05 THIS IS WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT TELLS US. 08:08 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF VERSES. 08:10 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'LL PROBABLY POST THESE NOTES ALSO. 08:13 BUT I HOPE YOU WRITE SOME OF THESE DOWN AND LOOK THEM UP THIS 08:15 SABBATH AFTERNOON. 08:17 JESUS SAID IN JOHN 5:39, "YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, FOR IN 08:22 THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; THESE ARE THEY THAT 08:27 TESTIFY OF ME." 08:29 HOW MANY BIBLES WERE THERE WHEN JESUS MADE THIS STATEMENT? 08:33 JUST THE OLD TESTAMENT. 08:35 SO WHEN CHRIST SAID, "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; THESE ARE THEY 08:38 THAT TESTIFY OF ME," WHAT BOOK PRINCIPALLY IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 08:42 THIS IS ALL OLD TESTAMENT AND THEN SOME THAT I'M TALKING 08:44 ABOUT HERE. 08:46 MOST OF THE BIBLE BEFORE CHRIST WAS EVEN BORN IS TELLING US 08:49 ABOUT JESUS. 08:51 AND I'LL EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. 08:53 LUKE 24:27, CHRIST SAID, AND I THINK I READ THIS 2 WEEKS AGO 08:58 BUT I WANT TO REPEAT IT IN CASE SOME WERE NOT HERE. 09:01 AFTER HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES, "'O FOOLISH 09:04 ONES, AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE ALL THAT THE PROPHETS 09:08 HAVE SPOKEN! 09:10 OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE SUFFERED THESE THINGS 09:12 AND ENTERED INTO HIS GLORY?' AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL 09:15 THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES," 09:19 HOW MUCH? 09:21 "ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 09:24 WHAT DO ALL THE SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT? 09:27 THEY ALL TALK ABOUT CHRIST. 09:29 THEN IF YOU GO JUST TO VERSE 44, SAME CHAPTER, JESUS SAID, "THESE 09:34 ARE THE WORDS THAT I SPOKE TO YOU WHILE I WAS STILL WITH YOU, 09:38 THAT ALL THINGS MUST BE FULFILLED WHICH WERE WRITTEN 09:42 IN THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS--" AND THEN HE ADDS: 09:45 "AND THE PSALMS CONCERNING ME." 09:47 SO WHENEVER I READ THE OLD TESTAMENT, ALL 09:50 THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE LAW, THE PROPHETS, THE PSALMS, 09:53 I'M LOOKING FOR JESUS. 09:55 HE SAID HE'S IN THERE. 09:57 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S A LOT OF VERSES I CAN GIVE YOU. 10:00 ACTS 28:23, PAUL IS SPEAKING TO THE JEWS IN ROME, "SO WHEN THEY 10:09 HAD APPOINTED HIM A CERTAIN DAY, THEY CAME TO HIM AT HIS LODGING, 10:14 TO WHOM HE EXPLAINED AND SOLEMNLY TESTIFIED OF 10:17 THE KINGDOM OF GOD," LISTEN, "PERSUADING THEM CONCERNING 10:21 JESUS FROM BOTH THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, FROM MORNING 10:26 TILL EVENING." 10:27 HE WAS ABLE TO PERSUADE THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH FROM 10:31 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS FROM MORNING TO EVENING. 10:35 THAT'S A LOT OF MATERIAL. 10:36 I KNOW I'M GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME JUST ON TODAY'S SUBJECT. 10:39 NOW, THE REASON I THINK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK AT 10:43 THE TYPES AND THE EXAMPLES AND THE SHADOWS OF CHRIST WE SEE IN 10:47 THE LIVES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS IS BECAUSE YOU ARE 10:51 SAVED BY KNOWING JESUS. 10:54 THE BETTER YOU KNOW HIM, THE BETTER YOU WILL LOVE HIM. 10:57 AND IF YOU CAN'T KNOW HIM FOR YOURSELF BY THE EXPOSURE YOU 11:02 HAVE HAD, GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER BY THE EXPOSURE OTHERS HAVE HAD. 11:08 LET ME ILLUSTRATE. 11:10 IT'S A FAULTY ILLUSTRATION BUT IT'LL STILL HELP, I THINK. 11:13 I WISH I HAD A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH MY FATHER. 11:17 I CALCULATE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S SAID THAT BEFORE. 11:21 DAD WAS ALWAYS SO WORK-ORIENTED. 11:23 IT NEVER SEEMED I SAW HIM. 11:30 I SAW DAD COME HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY TIRED, SOMETIMES 11:33 FRUSTRATED, AND THEN HE'D DRINK HIMSELF TO SLEEP. 11:37 AND I'M SURE THERE WERE OTHER THINGS, BUT MOST OF MY EXPOSURE 11:40 TO DAD I DIDN'T EVER REALLY GET TO KNOW ANYTHING BUT THAT 11:45 PERSPECTIVE, VERY LITTLE OTHER. 11:50 AFTER HE DIED, I'VE MET DIFFERENT PEOPLE, SOMETIMES I 11:57 MET PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH HIM, THEY COME UP TO ME AND THEY SAY, 12:00 "HEY, BROTHER DOUG, YOU KNOW I USED TO WORK WITH YOUR DAD? 12:02 I USED TO FLY WITH YOUR DAD." 12:04 AND THEY START TELLING ME THINGS ABOUT MY DAD, AND I'M REALLY ON 12:07 THE EDGE OF MY SEAT BECAUSE THEY'RE TELLING ME STUFF I HAD 12:09 NO IDEA, "OH, HE WAS SUCH A GREAT GUY." 12:12 AND I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT. 12:16 OR I'LL TALK TO SOMEBODY WHO--PERIODICALLY, I ACTUALLY 12:19 MEET MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH WHO WORKED WITH HIM YEARS AGO. 12:22 OR THEN, I'LL MEET SOMEONE WHO'LL SAY, "OH, YOU KNOW, 12:24 HE AND I WERE RACING BUDDIES." 12:26 MY DAD HAD A HOBBY OF RACING INDY CARS, ACTUALLY DAYTONA 12:30 CARS. 12:31 IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 12:32 AND SO, "OH, HE RACED--HE WAS SO AGGRESSIVE, HE WAS FEARLESS," 12:35 BLAH BLAH BLAH, AND THEY TELL ME. 12:36 I SAID, "REALLY? 12:37 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT." 12:39 AND SINCE HE DIED, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN NOW, 7-8 12:43 YEARS, I'VE GOTTEN TO KNOW HIM BETTER THROUGH PEOPLE WHO KNEW 12:50 HIM EVEN THOUGH HE'S GONE. 12:53 AND SO, WHILE YOU AND I ARE READING ABOUT JESUS REFLECTED IN 12:59 THE LIFE OF MOSES AND JOSEPH AND DAVID AND THESE DIFFERENT 13:04 CHARACTERS, EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW HIM LIKE YOU NEED TO 13:07 KNOW HIM, YOU'RE GOING TO GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER THROUGH THEIR 13:11 LIVES BECAUSE THEIR LIVES WERE REFLECTIONS OF HIS LIFE THAT 13:15 WAS TO COME. 13:18 SO, THAT'S PART OF THE REASON I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT AND 13:21 WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING. 13:22 THE BIBLE HISTORY, AND THIS IS WHERE YOU GET THE WORD "HISTORY" 13:27 IS "HIS STORY." 13:30 WHEN YOU READ THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT IS "HIS STORY." 13:33 IT'S TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. 13:35 NOW, MOST OF, IF NOT ALL OF, TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS GOING TO 13:39 BE LOOKING AT THE PARALLELS BETWEEN MOSES AND JESUS, 13:45 A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. 13:48 LISTEN TO THIS AMAZING PROPHECY MOSES GIVES US AND YOU MIGHT 13:51 MARK IT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT FOR THE NEXT 13:54 FEW MOMENTS. 13:56 DEUTERONOMY 18:15, LAST BOOK OF MOSES, SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED, 14:02 MOSES TOLD THE PEOPLE, "MY TIME IS UP BASICALLY, BUT SOMEONE 14:06 ELSE IS COMING AND THEY'RE GOING TO SET YOU STRAIGHT." 14:08 DEUTERONOMY 18:15, "THE LORD YOUR GOD," YOU OUGHT TO 14:13 UNDERLINE THIS IF YOU UNDERLINE IN THE BIBLE, "THE LORD YOUR GOD 14:17 WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME." 14:22 "A PROPHET," DOESN'T NAME HIM, "LIKE ME FROM YOUR MIDST," 14:30 HE'LL BE ONE OF YOUR PEOPLE, "OF YOUR BRETHREN. 14:33 HIM YOU WILL HEAR." 14:35 NOT ONLY IS THAT A COMMAND, IT WAS A FACT, A STATEMENT 14:39 OF HISTORY. 14:40 NOW, THAT PROPHECY OF MOSES IS QUOTED MANY TIMES IN 14:42 THE NEW TESTAMENT. 14:43 IT WAS DURING OUR SCRIPTURE READING. 14:46 THAT'S WHAT MICHAEL JUST READ. 14:47 AND I WANT TO LOOK AT SOME EXAMPLES HERE. 14:50 FIRST OF ALL, THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF THIS PROPHET 14:53 WAS BUT EVERY JEW WAS WONDERING, "WHEN WILL THAT PROPHET LIKE 14:55 MOSES COME?" 14:57 AND THEY JUST SIMPLY CALLED HIM "THAT PROPHET." 14:59 FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU READ IN JOHN, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:21, 15:04 THEY CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THEY'RE WONDERING WHO HE IS. 15:08 "AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT THEN? 15:10 ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE SAID, 'I AM NOT.' 15:13 'ARE YOU THE PROPHET?'" NOW, WHO DO YOU THINK THEY'RE 15:17 TALKING ABOUT WHEN THEY SAID TO JOHN THE BAPTIST, 15:19 "ARE YOU THE PROPHET?" 15:22 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT PROPHET WHO WAS GOING TO COME 15:24 THAT WOULD BE LIKE MOSES. 15:26 "AND HE SAID, 'NO.'" JOHN 1:25, "THEY ASKED HIM THEN 15:32 SAYING, 'WHY DO YOU BAPTIZE THEN IF YOU ARE NOT THE CHRIST 15:35 OR ELIJAH OR THE PROPHET?'" SO, THERE WAS THIS ETHEREAL, 15:40 MYSTERIOUS, GREAT PROPHET LIKE MOSES WHO WAS TO COME AND THEY 15:45 ALWAYS REFERRED TO HIM AS "THE PROPHET." 15:48 JOHN 5:45, JESUS IS SPEAKING, HE SAID, "DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL 15:54 ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER; THERE IS ONE WHO ACCUSES YOU--MOSES, 15:59 IN WHOM YOU TRUST. 16:01 FOR IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD'VE BELIEVED ME BECAUSE 16:05 HE WROTE OF ME." 16:06 CHRIST IS SAYING, "LOOK, YOU KNOW THAT PROPHET MOSES TALKED 16:08 ABOUT? 16:09 THAT'S ME." 16:10 BUT EVEN MORE THAT, THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW IS JESUS. 16:16 HE'S THE VERY EMBODIMENT OF THE LAW AND WRITINGS OF MOSES. 16:20 HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE MOSES' WRITINGS, HOW 16:23 WILL YOU BELIEVE MY WORDS? 16:25 'CAUSE MOSES FORETOLD I WAS COMING." 16:27 NOW AS YOU READ ON FURTHER AND YOU DO A LITTLE MORE DIGGING, 16:30 YOU FIND OUT THE BIBLE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS RECOGNIZED 16:34 JESUS WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS TYPE THAT MOSES SPOKE 16:39 ABOUT. 16:41 JOHN, "JESUS IS THE PROPHET THAT MOSES FORETOLD." 16:44 JOHN 6:14, "THEN THOSE MEN, WHEN THEY HAD SEEN THE SIGN THAT 16:51 JESUS DID, THEY SAID, 'THIS IS TRULY THE PROPHET WHO IS TO COME 16:56 INTO THE WORLD.'" POINTING TO CHRIST, THEY'RE 16:58 SAYING, "HE'S THE PROPHET THAT MOSES HAD SPOKE ABOUT." 17:02 CAN YOU SEE THAT THERE, THOSE WORDS "THE PROPHET, 17:04 THE PROPHET"? 17:06 WE KNOW WHO IT IS. 17:07 IT'S A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. 17:09 ACTS 3:22, "FOR MOSES TRULY SAID UNTO OUR FATHERS, 'A PROPHET 17:15 SHALL THE LORD YOUR GOD RAISE UP UNTO YOUR BRETHREN LIKE UNTO ME. 17:19 HIM YOU WILL HEAR IN ALL THINGS, WHATEVER HE SAYS TO YOU.'" 17:22 YOU JUMP TO VERSE 24, "YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS, FROM 17:26 SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOWED AFTER, AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN, 17:31 HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD THESE DAYS." 17:33 NOT JUST MOSES, BUT ALL THE PROPHETS. 17:35 AGAIN, PETER IS REITERATING THEY'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT JESUS. 17:41 NOW, WE ALREADY READ ACTS 7:37. 17:43 SO, I WANT TO USE ANOTHER NEW TESTAMENT WRITER WHO HELPS US TO 17:48 ILLUSTRATE THAT CHRIST AND MOSES ARE TYPES, VERY POWERFUL TYPES. 17:52 AND HOPEFULLY, YOU'LL GET TO KNOW JESUS A LITTLE BETTER 17:54 AS YOU LOOK AT MOSES TODAY. 17:56 PAUL SAYS WE'RE BAPTIZED IN MOSES. 18:01 NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IF WE HAD A BAPTISM TODAY AND I HELD 18:04 UP MY HAND AND I SAID, "I BAPTIZE YOU IN THE NAME 18:05 OF MOSES." 18:07 THAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION. 18:08 BUT THIS IS REALLY WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING 'CAUSE MOSES WAS A TYPE 18:11 OF CHRIST. 18:11 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1, "MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I DO NOT WANT YOU TO 18:18 BE," IGNORANT OR, "UNAWARE THAT OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER 18:22 THE CLOUD, AND THEY ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, AND THEY WERE 18:27 ALL BAPTIZED INTO MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA, AND THEY 18:32 ALL ATE THE SAME SPIRITUAL FOOD, AND THEY DRANK THE SAME 18:35 SPIRITUAL DRINK. 18:36 FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM, 18:39 AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST." 18:41 NOW, PASTOR DOUG IS NOT MAKING UP SOME NEW BIBLE INTERPRETATION 18:46 METHOD HERE. 18:48 I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU ALL READ YOUR BIBLES USING THE METHOD 18:51 THAT THE APOSTLES USED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 18:54 THEY'RE SAYING, "READ YOUR BIBLE AND LOOK FOR JESUS, NOT JUST 18:57 THE OLD TESTAMENT BUT EVEN IN THE NEW." 19:00 PAUL, POINTING TO THE EXODUS EXPERIENCE, HE SAID THAT WHEN 19:04 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH THE RED SEA, 19:06 IT'S A TYPE OF BAPTISM. 19:08 WHEN THE PILLAR OF FIRE WAS THERE, IT WAS A TYPE OF BAPTISM 19:11 IN THE SPIRIT. 19:12 WHEN MOSES STRUCK THE ROCK AND WATER CAME OUT AND IRRIGATED 19:16 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHAT DID THAT ROCK REPRESENT? 19:19 CHRIST IS THAT ROCK. 19:23 AND WE SING ABOUT IT, BUT HERE ARE THE VERSES THAT TELL US 19:25 THAT. 19:25 BY THE WAY, YOU FIND THAT IN EXODUS 17:6. 19:28 I LIKE IT WHEN I SEE YOUR HEADS DROP DOWN, NOT BECAUSE YOUR 19:32 NODDING OFF BUT RIGHT WHEN I SAY THE VERSE. 19:35 IF YOU'RE GOING TO NOD OFF, DO IT RIGHT AFTER I SAY A VERSE 19:36 AND I'LL NOT KNOW. 19:37 BUT WHEN YOUR HEADS DROP DOWN, I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE LOOKING IT 19:40 UP OR YOU'RE WRITING IT DOWN. 19:41 EXODUS 17:6, "BEHOLD, I STAND BEFORE THEE, THERE UPON 19:46 THE ROCK IN HOREB; AND YOU SHALL SMITE THE ROCK, AND WATER WILL 19:51 COME OUT OF IT, THAT THE PEOPLE MIGHT DRINK." 19:54 CHRIST IS THE ROCK THAT WAS STRUCK THAT YOU AND I MIGHT 19:58 DRINK THE LIVING WATER. 20:00 SO AS YOU READ THROUGH THESE STORIES OF MOSES, AND IN 20:03 THE OLD TESTAMENT IT'S ALL TELLINGS ABOUT JESUS. 20:05 ALRIGHT, NOW I'M GOING TO GO QUICKLY BECAUSE I GOT A LOT OF 20:07 GROUND TO COVER. 20:09 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT PARALLELS OF JESUS AND MOSES. 20:14 AND WE'LL START AT THE BEGINNING. 20:17 ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT BOTH JESUS AND MOSES AS BABIES 20:22 SURVIVED GENOCIDE? 20:24 NOW, THERE WAS A GOVERNMENT MANDATE TO KILL ALL OF 20:27 THE BABIES, NOT ANY BABIES, ALL OF THE HEBREW BABY BOYS. 20:33 NOW, OF COURSE, IT WAS ALL THE HEBREWS FOR MOSES. 20:37 IT WAS THE HEBREW BOYS IN BETHLEHEM, IT WAS MORE LOCAL 20:38 FOR JESUS. 20:40 BUT THEY WEREN'T KILLING THE GENTILES, THEY WERE GOING TO 20:42 KILL THE HEBREW BABIES IN BETHLEHEM. 20:45 YOU READ THAT IN EXODUS 1:22, "AND PHARAOH CHARGED HIS PEOPLE, 20:48 SAYING, 'EVERY SON THAT IS BORN YOU WILL CAST IN THE RIVER.'" 20:52 MATTHEW 2:16, "HEROD, WHEN HE SAW HE WAS DECEIVED BY THE WISE 20:56 MEN, WAS EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY; AND HE SENT FORTH AND PUT TO DEATH 21:00 ALL THE MALE CHILDREN WHO WERE IN BETHLEHEM, FROM 2 YEARS OLD 21:04 AND UNDER." 21:05 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING THAT BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE BORN OF 21:12 SLAVES BUT THEY NEVER SERVED AS SLAVES. 21:16 WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS MOSES WAS BORN WITH SLAVE PARENTS, 21:18 BUT DID MOSES EVER MAKE BRICKS? 21:22 NO, HE NEVER WAS CAPTIVE AS A SLAVE BUT HE WAS BORN OF SLAVE 21:26 PARENTS. 21:27 CHRIST WAS BORN OF HUMANS WHO HAD SINNED, BUT HE NEVER SINNED. 21:35 "DRAWN FROM THE WATER" IS WHAT MOSES MEANS. 21:39 HE WAS RAISED UP FROM HIS PEOPLE. 21:41 WHAT DOES WATER REPRESENT IN PROPHETIC SYMBOLS? 21:43 MULTITUDES OF PEOPLES, LANGUAGES AND TONGUES. 21:46 CHRIST CAME FROM THE MIDDLE OF CIVILIZATION, OF ROME, AMONG ALL 21:50 THE PEOPLES TO SAVE THE PEOPLE. 21:52 HE WAS DRAWN FROM THE WATER, YOU MIGHT SAY, ANOTHER TYPE 21:55 OF MOSES. 21:57 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE SAVED THROUGH THE VEHICLE OF EGYPT 22:02 SOMEHOW. 22:03 YOU CAN READ THERE, EXODUS 2:10, YOU REMEMBER THAT HIS MOTHER PUT 22:10 HIM IN A BASKET ADOPTED BY THE PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. 22:13 I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL KNOW THE BIG PICTURE OF MOSES. 22:16 IS THAT OKAY? 22:17 OKAY, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THE WAY FROM EXODUS TO 22:19 DEUTERONOMY RIGHT NOW. 22:21 I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW THE BIG PIECES THERE, HOW THE MOTHER 22:24 SAVED HIM BY PUTTING HIM IN THE BASKET AND HE WAS THEN RESCUED 22:30 IN THE PALACE SO TO SPEAK OF EGYPT. 22:34 "AND SHE BROUGHT HIM TO PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, 22:37 AND HE BECAME HER SON. 22:38 AND SHE CALLED HIS NAME MOSES." 22:40 NOTICE, IT SAYS, "AND THE CHILD GREW," EXODUS 2:10. 22:44 GO TO LUKE 2:40, RATHER, AND LOOK AT THE WORDS IT SAYS 22:48 ABOUT JESUS. 22:49 BY THE WAY, JESUS FLED TO EGYPT AS A CHILD TO BE PRESERVED FROM 22:52 A GOVERNMENT OF THREAT. 22:57 "AND THE CHILD GREW," SAME FOUR WORDS, "AND THE CHILD GREW AND 23:01 BECAME STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF 23:04 GOD WAS UPON HIM." 23:06 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS REFUSED WORLDLY WEALTH. 23:13 THEY HAD OPPORTUNITY FOR GREAT GLORY AND WEALTH, AND THEY 23:20 TURNED THEIR BACK ON IT TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE. 23:23 READ IN HEBREWS 11:24 ABOUT MOSES, "BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE 23:30 BECAME OF AGE, HE REFUSED TO BE CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S 23:33 DAUGHTER, CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE 23:37 PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN, ESTEEMING 23:41 THE REPROACHES OF CHRIST," MOSES KNEW ABOUT THE REPROACHES OF 23:44 CHRIST, "OF GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT; 23:49 FOR HE LOOKED TO THE REWARD." 23:51 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THE PALACE. 23:55 JESUS LEFT THE PALACES OF GLORY AND CAME TO THIS WORLD. 23:57 THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS MADE OF NO REPUTATION THAT HE MIGHT SAVE 24:03 YOU AND ME. 24:04 THE DEVIL OFFERED JESUS ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, 24:07 AND WHAT DID HE SAY? 24:08 YOU REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED IN MATTHEW 4:8-9, "HE TOOK HIM 24:11 UP ON AN EXCEEDING HIGH MOUNTAIN AND SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS 24:14 AND THEIR GLORY." 24:15 AND CHRIST TURNED HIS BACK ON IT. 24:18 WHY? 24:19 'CAUSE HE WANTED TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE. 24:22 PHILIPPIANS 2:7, "BUT HE MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, TAKING 24:29 THE FORM OF A BONDSERVANT, AND COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF 24:32 SINFUL MEN. 24:33 AND BEING FOUND IN THE APPEARANCE OF MAN, HE HUMBLED 24:35 HIMSELF AND BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH." 24:39 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS OF JESUS, "I AM MEEK AND LOWLY." 24:44 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT MOSES? 24:46 HE WAS THE MEEKEST MAN IN ALL THE WORLD. 24:48 MOSES AND JESUS, A LOT OF PARALLELS THERE. 24:51 JESUS SAID, "I CAME FROM THE FATHER AND I COME IN THE WORLD. 24:56 AGAIN, I LEAVE THE WORLD AND I GO TO THE FATHER." 24:59 CHRIST LEFT THOSE PALACES OF GLORY, TURNED HIS BACK ON ALL 25:02 THAT SO THAT HE MIGHT SAVE US. 25:05 I ALSO THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT BOTH MOSES AND JESUS SAT 25:11 DOWN BY A WELL AND FOUND A WOMAN, AND THEY WERE BOTH 25:15 THIRSTY. 25:16 MOSES WHEN HE HAD FLED EGYPT, HE CROSSED THE DESERT OF MIDIAN 25:18 AND HE SAT DOWN BY A WELL. 25:20 AND YOU CAN READ HERE IN EXODUS 2:15, "NOW WHEN PHARAOH 25:24 HEARD THIS THING, HE SOUGHT TO SLAY MOSES. 25:27 BUT MOSES FLED FROM THE FACE OF PHARAOH. 25:29 HE DWELT IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN; AND HE SAT DOWN BY A WELL." 25:32 THERE HE MET THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF ZIPPORAH OF JETHRO, 25:38 AND HE ENDED UP MARRYING ONE OF THE SEVEN ZIPPORAH, RIGHT? 25:42 THEN YOU READ ABOUT JESUS, JOHN 4:6, "NOW JACOB'S WELL 25:47 WAS THERE. 25:48 JESUS THEREFORE, BEING WEARIED FROM HIS JOURNEY, SAT THUS 25:51 ON THE WELL." 25:53 AND THEN JESUS MEETS A WOMAN WHO'S HAD FIVE HUSBANDS. 25:57 SHE'S LIVING WITH ONE THAT SHE'S NOT MARRIED TO. 26:00 THAT'S SIX, AND JESUS ENDS UP BEING THE ONLY ONE THAT GIVES 26:03 HER SATISFACTION, A TOTAL OF SEVEN MEN. 26:06 DID YOU GET THAT? 26:08 NOW, WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS SHE WAS LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 26:11 AND SHE FINALLY FINDS THE MESSIAH IN THE SEVENTH MAN. 26:13 THAT GENTILE OR THAT SAMARITAN WOMAN REPRESENTS CHRIST GIVING 26:17 THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILE CHURCH 'CAUSE HE TOLD HER THAT DAY THAT 26:21 HE WAS THE MESSIAH. 26:23 SHE LEAVES HER WATER POT. 26:24 SHE RUNS AND SHE TELLS EVERYBODY ELSE THAT SHE'S FOUND 26:29 THE MESSIAH. 26:29 BY THE WAY, THAT WOMAN LEFT AND CAME BACK. 26:32 THE DAUGHTERS OF JETHRO LEFT AND THEY TOLD ABOUT THIS 26:35 EGYPTIAN WHO DELIVERED THEM FROM THE SHEPHERDS THAT WERE BEATING 26:39 THEM UP OR CHASING THEM AWAY FROM THE WELL. 26:41 HE SAID, "WELL, WHERE IS THE MAN? 26:42 HE SAVED YOU AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN BRING HIM HOME?" 26:45 SO, THEY WENT BACK TO GET HIM. 26:46 AND SO, YOU'VE JUST GOT SO MANY PARALLELS IN THESE STORIES HERE. 26:50 AM I MAKING THESE THINGS UP? 26:51 IS THIS ALL COINCIDENCE? 26:54 IS IT SELF-FULFILLED PROPHECY OR DOES GOD SEE ALL HISTORY 26:58 AND HE'S WANTING US TO RECOGNIZE JESUS? 27:02 MOSES AND JESUS, AND THIS IS JUST SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD, 27:05 WERE GREAT LAWGIVERS. 27:08 DO I NEED TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE THAT MOSES WAS 27:12 A LAWGIVER? 27:14 JOSHUA 8:32, "AND THERE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CHILDREN OF 27:17 ISRAEL, HE WROTE ON THE STONES A COPY OF THE LAW OF MOSES 27:20 WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN." 27:22 JESUS, JOHN 13:34, "A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU 27:27 THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER." 27:29 OVER AND OVER AGAIN, YOU FIND CHRIST AND MOSES TALKING ABOUT 27:32 GIVING THE LAW OF THEIR FATHER. 27:36 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE JUDGES. 27:40 EXODUS 18:13, "AND IT CAME ABOUT ON THE NEXT DAY THAT MOSES SAT 27:45 TO JUDGE THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE STOOD ABOUT MOSES FROM 27:48 THE MORNING UNTIL THE EVENING." 27:50 MOSES WAS A GREAT AND A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 27:53 THEN, YOU READ IN 2 CORINTHIANS 5:10, "FOR WE MUST 27:56 ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST THAT EACH ONE 28:00 MIGHT RECEIVE THE THINGS DONE IN THE BODY." 28:03 DOES THAT FIT? 28:04 AM I MAKING THINGS UP? 28:06 ARE BOTH MOSES AND JESUS, GREAT JUDGES OF GOD'S PEOPLE? 28:11 MOSES, DURING HIS TIME, PRAYED AND BREAD CAME DOWN, 28:17 SUPERNATURAL BREAD NOURISHED THE PEOPLE. 28:21 CHRIST COMMENTS ON THIS IN JOHN 6:32, "THEN JESUS SAID TO 28:25 THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, MOSES DID NOT GIVE YOU 28:29 THE BREAD FROM HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER GIVES YOU THE TRUE BREAD 28:32 FROM HEAVEN. 28:33 FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHO COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN, GIVES 28:37 LIFE TO THE WORLD.' AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, 28:40 ALWAYS GIVE US THIS BREAD.'" THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT 28:43 THE WRONG BREAD. 28:44 LIKE THE WOMAN AT THE WELL, SHE SAID, "OH, I WANT THAT LIVING 28:45 WATER, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE WELL." 28:48 HE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT A SPIRITUAL TYPE OF WATER. 28:51 AND THEY SAID, "OH YEAH, WE WANT THAT BREAD. 28:52 WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO TO THE STORE ANYMORE. 28:54 CAN YOU RAIN BREAD FROM HEAVEN?" 28:56 AND JESUS SAID, "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. 28:59 HE THAT COMES TO ME WILL NEVER HUNGER AND HE THAT BELIEVES IN 29:03 ME WILL NEVER THIRST." 29:05 CHRIST IS THAT LIVING WATER. 29:07 HE IS THAT BREAD. 29:08 AND YOU KNOW WHEN THAT BREAD CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, I THINK 29:11 I MENTIONED TO YOU LAST WEEK, IT WAS ROUND WHICH IS A SIGN 29:14 OF PERFECT. 29:16 THE BIBLE SAYS IT TASTED LIKE HONEY, SORT OF ANGEL FOOD CAKE. 29:20 IT WAS SWEET. 29:22 THE WORD OF GOD IS SWEET. 29:23 THE WORD OF GOD IS PERFECT. 29:25 IT CAME SOFTLY. 29:26 THE WORD OF GOD COMES QUIETLY. 29:29 JESUS CAME QUIETLY INTO THIS WORLD, DIDN'T HE? 29:31 HE DIDN'T COME WITH TRUMPETS. 29:32 HE WAS BORN AS A BABY. 29:34 AND THAT, THEN IT EVAPORATED IF THEY DIDN'T EAT IT. 29:38 THEY NEEDED IT FRESH EVERY DAY. 29:40 AND YOU AND I NEED CHRIST FRESH EVERY DAY IN OUR LIVES. 29:43 IF YOU TRY AND LIVE TOMORROW ON WHAT YOU GET TODAY, IT'LL BREED 29:45 WORMS EVERY DAY EXCEPT SABBATH. 29:47 THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 29:48 JESUS IS THAT BREAD. 29:51 MOSES AND JESUS DEFEATED THE SERPENT. 29:57 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY FOUND IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS WHERE 30:01 THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MANNA THAT GOD WAS 30:04 GIVING THEM. 30:05 AND SO, THE LORD ALLOWED THESE FIERY SERPENTS TO JUST 30:08 PROLIFERATE AMONG THE PEOPLE AND THEY WERE BITING THEM. 30:10 THEY WERE VENOMOUS, DEADLY, VENOMOUS SERPENTS. 30:13 THEY WERE NOT SURE IF THEY CALLED THEM "FIERY SERPENTS" 30:15 BECAUSE THEY HAD SOME BRIGHT, RED COLORING OR IF THERE WAS 30:18 A FIERY STING THAT WENT ALONG WITH THEIR BITE. 30:22 THAT'S MORE LIKELY. 30:23 AND MOSES PRAYED AND INTERCEDED FOR THE PEOPLE. 30:27 AND THE LORD SAID, "MAKE A BRONZE SERPENT, PUT IT ON 30:30 A POLE, LIFT IT UP WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE IT. 30:33 IF THEY LOOK AND THEY BELIEVE WHEN THEY LOOK AT THIS SERPENT 30:36 ON THE POLE, THEY'LL BE HEALED FROM THE VENOM OF THE SERPENT." 30:40 SO, MOSES DID QUICKLY WHAT HE WAS TOLD TO DO. 30:43 PUT IT UP AND THOSE WHO DID WHAT THEY WERE COMMANDED AND LOOKED 30:46 AT THAT SERPENT--AND BY THE WAY, WHAT IS A SERPENT ON A POLE MEAN 30:49 TO A NATION OF SHEPHERDS? 30:52 LET ME GIVE YOU A PICTURE. 30:53 IT'S NOT UNCOMMON IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO SEE A SHEPHERD CARRYING 30:57 A STICK. 30:58 ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THINGS HE'LL DO WITH THAT STICK IS IF 31:01 HE SEES A SNAKE, HE'LL HIT IT. 31:04 I WENT TO COVELO A FEW WEEKS AGO, OPENED UP THE AIRPLANE 31:08 HANGAR THERE, AND A LITTLE RATTLESNAKE COILED UP. 31:13 I'VE GOT A BROOMSTICK IN THE HANGAR THAT I USE FOR COLLECTING 31:16 SPIDER WEBS, ALSO GOT BLACK WIDOWS IN THERE. 31:19 ANYONE WANT TO GO WITH ME NEXT TIME? 31:22 RATTLESNAKES AND BLACK WIDOWS. 31:24 AND I TOOK MY STICK, AND I WALLOPED THE SNAKE JUST A COUPLE 31:29 WEEKS AGO, PICKED IT UP WITH THE STICK, THREW IT OUT WHERE 31:31 NOBODY'S GOING TO STEP ON IT, SOMEWHERE SAFE. 31:34 SHEPHERDS FREQUENTLY TO PROTECT THE SHEEP WOULD KILL SNAKES, 31:37 PICK THEM UP WITH THEIR STAFFS AND CARRY THEM OFF. 31:40 AND SO, IT WAS A VERY VIVID SIGN WHEN YOU SAW A SHEPHERD CARRYING 31:44 A SNAKE ON A STICK, IT MEANT DEFEATED SERPENT. 31:48 THAT SERPENT'S NOT GOING TO BITE ANYMORE. 31:51 AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID THERE, "AS MOSES," IN JOHN 3:14-15, BY 31:58 THE WAY THAT'S BEFORE JOHN 3:16, "AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT 32:03 IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP, 32:07 THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE 32:11 EVERLASTING LIFE." 32:13 AND SO, CHRIST AGAIN IS DRAWING A PARALLEL BETWEEN HIMSELF AND 32:17 MOSES, EXCEPT THIS TIME MOSES THERE AS THE SERPENT KILLER, 32:22 CHRIST AS THE DRAGON KILLER. 32:25 THE DEVIL IS THAT SERPENT, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 32:28 ON THE CROSS WHEN CHRIST WAS LIFTED UP, DID HE DEFEAT 32:30 THE SERPENT? 32:32 IT GIVES YOU ANOTHER PICTURE OF JESUS WHEN YOU LOOK AT MOSES. 32:35 YOU CAN GET TO KNOW JESUS BETTER BY LOOKING AT MOSES. 32:43 I WAS FLIPPING THROUGH SOME PICTURES YESTERDAY. 32:44 IT WAS KIND OF FUN. 32:46 AND I HAD SOME OLD PICTURES, AND I HAD A PICTURE OF JOHN LOMACANG 32:53 AND I IN SOME APARTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY RIGHT AFTER 9/11. 33:01 AND ANGIE WAS HOLDING, JOHN'S WIFE, THE CAMERA BUT WHEN SHE 33:04 TOOK THE PICTURE, THERE WAS A CLOSET DOOR THAT WAS PART OPEN 33:06 WITH A MIRROR. 33:07 SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE OF JOHN AND I AND THEN THERE'S 33:09 A MIRROR AND WE CAN SEE ANGIE IN THE MIRROR. 33:12 NOW, ANGIE WAS TAKING THE PICTURE BUT SHE ACTUALLY 33:14 ENDED UP IN THE PICTURE, THE REFLECTION OF HER IS THERE. 33:18 SO, I GOT A FREE PICTURE OF ANGIE WHILE I'M LOOKING AT 33:20 THE PICTURE OF JOHN. 33:21 I'VE GOT TO SEND IT TO HIM. 33:22 IT'S KIND OF A FUN PICTURE. 33:23 AND THIS IS SORT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IS WE'RE LOOKING 33:26 AT MOSES, JESUS WAS BEHIND THE CAMERA. 33:30 WE CAN SEE HIM IN THE PICTURE. 33:31 AND YOU SEE THAT ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 33:34 I'M SEEING THESE PICTURES OF JESUS. 33:37 HE'S THERE. 33:39 AND AGAIN, THIS IS NOT SOME QUIRK THAT PASTOR DOUG HAS 33:42 WHEN HE STUDIES THE BIBLE. 33:44 THIS IS HOW JESUS TAUGHT THE BIBLE. 33:46 THIS IS HOW PAUL TAUGHT THE BIBLE. 33:47 CHRIST IS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORD. 33:50 WE NEED TO JUST LOOK FOR HIM. 33:52 SHINING ON THE MOUNTAIN, MOSES, JESUS. 33:57 MATTHEW 17, CHRIST WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN, IT'S ALSO IN 34:00 MARK 9, CLIMBED UP THIS MOUNTAIN. 34:03 HE'S TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THE DISCIPLES. 34:06 THE GLORY OF GOD IS THERE. 34:07 GOD SPEAKS TO HIM. 34:09 "HIS FACE DID SHINE AS THE SUN, AND HIS RAIMENT WAS WHITE 34:14 AT THE LIGHT." 34:16 DID MOSES GO UP ON THE MOUNTAIN AND TALK WITH GOD? 34:18 DID GOD SPEAK AUDIBLY TO HIM? 34:21 DID MOSES' FACE SHINE? 34:25 YOU READ THIS HERE, EXODUS 34:30, "SO WHEN AARON AND 34:28 ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAW MOSES, BEHOLD, THE SKIN OF HIS 34:31 FACE SHONE; AND THEY WERE AFRAID TO COME NEAR HIM." 34:35 SO, MOSES VEILED HIS FACE SO THAT HE COULD COMMUNICATE WITH 34:40 THE PEOPLE WITHOUT GIVING THEM SKIN CANCER FROM THE SHINE. 34:48 CHRIST IS GOD, THE GLORY OF GOD, VEILED IN HUMANITY. 34:57 AS A MATTER OF FACT IN THE BOOK "DESIRE OF AGES," I HOPE YOU'VE 34:59 READ THAT, YOU'LL FIND THAT PHRASE MANY TIMES THAT "CHRIST 35:02 VEILED HIS DIVINITY WITH HUMANITY," THE SAME WAY MOSES 35:08 VEILED THE GLORY WHEN HE TALKED TO GOD. 35:10 BY THE WAY, DO YOU OFTEN FIND ALSO IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD SPOKE 35:15 AUDIBLY TO JESUS? 35:17 HE SPOKE AUDIBLY TO MOSES. 35:20 YOU CAN FIND JESUS HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD AUDIBLY AT 35:25 HIS BAPTISM. 35:26 YOU CAN ALSO, WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF WITNESSES LISTENING, 35:31 YOU CAN ALSO FIND GOD SPEAKING AUDIBLY TO JESUS ON THAT 35:34 MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 35:36 GOD SPOKE TO MOSES AUDIBLY ON THE MOUNTAIN, AND HE SPOKE TO 35:40 HIM AUDIBLY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE VALLEY. 35:42 NOW, HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE DID GOD AUDIBLY SPEAK 35:45 TO WHERE OTHERS COULD HEAR? 35:47 NOT TOO MANY. 35:49 MOSES AND CHRIST ARE TYPES OF EACH OTHER. 35:53 BY THE WAY, WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION 35:58 AND HIS FACE WAS SHINING AND GOD SPOKE TO HIM, MOSES APPEARED 36:03 THAT DAY. 36:04 MAYBE THAT'S TRYING TO HELP US MAKE A CONNECTION, ALONG WITH 36:07 ELIJAH, THAT THEY WERE TYPES OF EACH OTHER. 36:10 WHEN THE GLORY FADED AND JESUS WENT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, THE 36:13 FIRST THING THEY RUN INTO WHEN THEY GET DOWN THE MOUNTAIN IS 36:16 THERE IS A BOY THAT IS SO DEMON POSSESSED, THE DISCIPLES CANNOT 36:19 CAST OUT THE DEVILS. 36:21 GO FROM GLORY ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH GOD TO DEVILS IN 36:27 THE VALLEY. 36:29 DID MOSES LEAVE THE GLORY OF GOD AND THEN COME DOWN AND FIND OUT 36:32 THAT THE DEVIL WAS IN THE VALLEY WITH A GOLDEN CALF? 36:37 ANOTHER PARALLEL RIGHT THERE, BOTH SAW THE GLORY OF GOD ON 36:41 THE MOUNTAIN AND DEVILS IN THE VALLEY. 36:44 BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 36:47 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE JESUS? 36:49 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE MOSES? 36:54 EXODUS 17:4, "AND MOSES CRIED TO THE LORD, SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I 37:00 DO WITH THIS PEOPLE? 37:01 THEY'RE ALMOST READY TO STONE ME!'" 37:03 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THEY WERE READY TO CHOOSE ANOTHER 37:05 LEADER AND EXECUTE MOSES. 37:08 NUMBERS 14:10, "BUT ALL THE CONGREGATION BADE STONE THEM 37:12 WITH STONES." 37:13 THAT WOULD BE MOSES, AARON, JOSHUA AND CALEB IN THAT STORY. 37:18 YOU GO TO THE LIFE OF JESUS, JOHN 8:59, "THEY TOOK UP STONES 37:23 TO CAST AT HIM," HIS OWN PEOPLE, BOTH CASES, "BUT JESUS HID 37:28 HIMSELF AND WENT OUT OF THE TEMPLE GOING THROUGH THE MIDST 37:30 OF THEM." 37:32 JOHN 10:31, "THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES TO STONE HIM AGAIN." 37:38 TWO TIMES, BOTH CHARACTERS, THE PEOPLE WANTED TO STONE 37:44 THEIR SAVIOR. 37:46 YOU WONDER SOMETIMES IF WE'RE THE SAME WAY. 37:50 SOMETIMES, WE GET TIRED OF GOD AND WE'RE NOT ONLY READY TO WALK 37:53 AWAY, WE'RE READY TO DO HIM IN. 37:59 DID JESUS LEAD 12? 38:05 AND MOSES LED 12. 38:07 LUKE 6:13, "AND WHEN IT WAS DAY, HE CALLED UNTO HIM, HIS 38:10 DISCIPLES, AND OF THEM HE CHOSE 12 WHO HE NAMED APOSTLES." 38:14 AND OF COURSE, THOSE ARE THE ONES HE LED FOR 3 1/2 YEARS 38:18 AND IT'S FROM THOSE APOSTLES THAT THE CHURCH WAS POPULATED. 38:22 YOU READ ABOUT THAT AT PENTECOST. 38:26 NUMBERS 1:44, "THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THOSE THAT WERE 38:29 NUMBERED, WHICH MOSES NUMBERED, AARON NUMBERED OF THE PRINCES OF 38:32 ISRAEL BEING 12 MEN." 38:34 THERE WERE 12 PRINCES OF ISRAEL, OF COURSE, 12 TRIBES THAT MOSES 38:38 LED THROUGH THE WILDERNESS THAT POPULATED THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 38:42 SO, YOU RIGHT AWAY FIND THESE NUMBERS THAT CORRELATE BETWEEN 38:46 MOSES AND JESUS. 38:47 THE NUMBER 12, HOW ABOUT THE NUMBER 70? 38:50 EXODUS 24:9, "THEN WENT MOSES, AARON, AND NADAB AND ABIHU, 38:56 AND 70 OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL." 38:59 THEY WENT UP TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN. 39:01 IT TALKS ABOUT THE 70 ELDERS THAT GOD TOOK OF THE SPIRIT OF 39:05 MOSES AND PUT IT UPON THEM. 39:07 WHAT ABOUT JESUS? 39:09 LUKE 10:1, "AFTER THESE THINGS, THE LORD APPOINTED 70 OTHERS 39:14 ALSO AND SENT THEM OUT 2 BY 2 BEFORE HIS FACE." 39:18 SO, HE HAD 70 LEADERS. 39:20 SO NOT ONLY DID JESUS HAVE THE 12 APOSTLES, HE ALSO HAD ANOTHER 39:23 GROUP AMONG THE DISCIPLES THAT WERE LEADERS. 39:26 AND YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY REPLACED JUDAS, IT SAYS THAT THEY DIDN'T 39:30 CHOOSE THE REPLACEMENT FOR JUDAS, IN ACTS CHAPTER 1, 39:33 FROM JUST ANYBODY. 39:34 THEY CHOSE FROM DISCIPLES WHO HAD FOLLOWED JESUS FROM THE 39:36 BEGINNING AND THAT'S WHEN THEY CHOSE--WHAT'S HIS NAME? 39:42 MALCHIAS--MATTHIAS, IS THAT RIGHT? 39:48 MATTHIAS, OKAY YEAH. 39:49 THEY CHOSE HIM. 39:51 OF COURSE, IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER 'CAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE GOSPEL 39:53 OF MATTHIAS. 39:55 BUT THEY REPLACED HIM. 39:57 HE WAS PROBABLY 1 OF THE 70 IN JESUS' EXPANDED GROUP 40:02 OF LEADERSHIP. 40:02 SO, BOTH HAVE 12, BOTH HAVE 70. 40:04 BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 40:07 DID MOSES FAST FOR 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS ON A MOUNTAIN? 40:11 DID JESUS FAST FOR 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS? 40:15 EXODUS 34:28, "AND HE WAS THERE WITH THE LORD 40 DAYS AND 40:19 40 NIGHTS; NEITHER DID EAT BREAD NOR DRINK WATER." 40:23 MATTHEW 4:2, "AND WHEN HE HAD FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, 40:26 AFTERWARD HE WAS HUNGRY." 40:28 AND BY THE WAY, NOT ONLY WAS MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE DEVIL 40:30 AT THE END OF JESUS' FAST TOOK HIM UP TO AN EXCEEDING HIGH 40:34 MOUNTAIN TOO. 40:35 SO, THERE THEY ARE BOTH FASTING ON A MOUNTAIN 40 DAYS 40:38 AND 40 NIGHTS. 40:39 NOW, ONE DIFFERENCE IS MOSES ATE NEITHER BREAD NOR WATER. 40:42 JESUS PROBABLY DRANK WATER IN THE WILDERNESS. 40:45 IT NEVER SAYS HE DIDN'T HAVE WATER. 40:47 IT WAS A REAL FAST WHERE HE HAD NOTHING TO EAT. 40:50 I ALSO THINK IT'S SIGNIFICANT THAT BOTH MOSES AND JESUS GAVE 40:57 OF THEIR SPIRIT TO OTHERS WHO WOULD LEAD THE CHILDREN OF 41:02 ISRAEL. 41:04 NUMBERS 11:17, GOD SAYS, "I WILL COME DOWN AND TALK TO THEE THERE 41:09 AND I WILL TAKE OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS UPON THEE AND I WILL PUT 41:12 IT UPON THEM." 41:15 AND SO, THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, "LOOK, YOU CAN'T JUDGE THESE 41:18 PEOPLE BY YOURSELF. 41:19 YOU NEED TO DELEGATE. 41:20 YOU NEED TO TRAIN. 41:21 YOU NEED TO EMPOWER OTHERS AND DISCIPLE THEM SO THAT THEY 41:24 CAN LEAD THE PEOPLE AS WELL." 41:26 SO NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE THE 12 PRINCES OF ISRAEL, THEY THEN 41:29 HAD 70 ELDERS AMONG THEM. 41:32 AND GOD SAID, "I'LL TAKE OF YOUR SPIRIT AND PUT IT UPON THEM." 41:35 WELL, DO YOU FIND THAT HAPPENING WITH JESUS? 41:39 JOHN 15:26, "BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME WHO I WILL 41:44 SEND TO YOU IN THE FATHER'S NAME, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH 41:48 WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER HE WILL TESTIFY OF ME." 41:53 AND CHRIST SAID HE WOULD SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT, ACTS 2, 41:56 WHEN THEY ALL GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE OF ONE ACCORD, HE SENT 42:00 THE SPIRIT, THAT SPIRIT OF CHRIST. 42:04 THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS, "YOU KNOW, I CAN BE WITH YOU, BUT HE 42:06 WILL BE IN YOU AND I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS 'TIL THE END 42:10 THROUGH THE SPIRIT." 42:12 IS CHRIST HERE WITH US RIGHT NOW? 42:13 IN PERSON OR PHYSICALLY HE'S AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER, 42:16 RIGHT? 42:18 BUT THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, HE'S WITH EACH ONE OF US. 42:21 SO, THE SAME WAY THAT GOD TOOK OF THE SPIRIT OF MOSES AND PUT 42:24 IT ON THE 70 ELDERS, HE TOOK OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST AND PUT IT 42:28 ON THE APOSTLES AND THE DISCIPLES. 42:31 AND DOES HE STILL DO THAT TODAY? 42:36 HE DELIVERED GOD'S PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY. 42:39 LUKE 4:18, JESUS WHEN HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, HE STOOD UP AND HE 42:45 SAID, "BEHOLD, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE'S 42:49 ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE SENT ME TO HEAL 42:52 THE BROKENHEARTED," AND HE SAYS, "TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE 42:57 CAPTIVES." 42:58 DOES ANYONE HERE NEED FOR ME TO RECITE TO THEM THE BOOK OF 43:01 EXODUS WHERE MOSES LED THE PEOPLE OUT OF CAPTIVITY INTO 43:06 THE PROMISED LAND? 43:08 ISN'T JESUS OUR MOSES THAT LEADS US FROM THE CAPTIVITY OF SERVING 43:12 THE DEVIL LIKE THAT PHARAOH, OUT OF THAT SLAVERY INTO 43:16 THE PROMISED LAND? 43:17 IS IT A REAL EVENT OF HISTORY THAT MOSES LED THOSE PEOPLE FROM 43:22 EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND? 43:26 ARE THERE PEOPLE CALLED JEWS IN THE WORLD TODAY? 43:28 IS THERE A LAND CALLED THE "PROMISED LAND"? 43:30 IS THERE A LAND CALLED "EGYPT"? 43:32 DOES ANYONE CONTEST THAT MOSES REALLY LIVED? 43:36 AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY BOOK AND YOU LOOK IN, 43:38 YOU KNOW, GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, DEUTERONOMY 43:42 AND YOU SEE SO MUCH OF JESUS IN THE LIFE OF MOSES, 43:46 AND THEN YOU GO OVER HERE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. 43:48 AND YOU BEGIN TO WONDER, "I WONDER IF JESUS REALLY LIVED," 43:51 HOW CAN YOU EVER WONDER THAT WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE PARALLELS 43:55 THAT HAVE BEEN--SO MANY PEOPLE MISS IT. 43:58 IT'S SO REAL. 44:00 NOW, WE'RE NOT DONE YET. 44:02 CHRIST WAS A GREAT SAVIOR. 44:04 MOSES WAS A GREAT SAVIOR. 44:05 DID BOTH BUILD A TEMPLE? 44:09 YEAH, THEY DID. 44:11 EXODUS 25:9, GOD TOLD MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN, "ACCORDING TO ALL 44:16 THAT I SHOW YOU, THAT IS IN THE PATTERN OF THE TABERNACLE 44:18 AND THE PATTERN OF ALL OF ITS FURNISHINGS, SO YOU SHALL 44:21 MAKE IT." 44:22 AND WE ALL KNOW THAT MOSES BUILT THAT FIRST TABERNACLE, THE FIRST 44:25 SANCTUARY, GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 44:28 WHAT ABOUT JESUS? 44:30 WAS HE A TEMPLE BUILDER TOO? 44:33 CHRIST SAYS IN JOHN 2:19, "DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN 44:38 3 DAYS, I WILL RAISE IT UP." 44:40 AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT THE TRIAL OF CHRIST, THEY ONLY FOUND 44:43 TWO WITNESSES THAT WOULD AGREE WITH EACH OTHER. 44:46 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAID? 44:47 "WE HEARD THIS MAN SAY, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND 44:50 IN 3 DAYS, I'LL MAKE ANOTHER ONE WITHOUT HANDS.'" 44:53 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US, "WHAT? 44:55 DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, THAT YOU ARE 44:58 LIVING STONES, THAT YOU ARE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD." 45:01 THAT JESUS BUILT A TEMPLE AND MOSES BUILT A TEMPLE, ALL THESE 45:05 TREMENDOUS PARALLELS. 45:08 AND THEN, BOTH WERE RESURRECTED. 45:11 NOW THIS ONE, YOU'VE GOT TO STAY WITH ME 'CAUSE IT TAKES A LITTLE 45:16 MORE TO PROVE. 45:18 1 CORINTHIANS 15:4, "AND THAT CHRIST WAS BURIED, THAT HE ROSE 45:23 AGAIN THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES." 45:26 EVERYBODY KNOWS JESUS DIED AND HE ROSE. 45:28 AND WHERE IS HE NOW? 45:30 HE'S IN HEAVEN. 45:31 WHAT ABOUT MOSES? 45:33 IF YOU READ THERE IN JUDE 1, ONLY ONE CHAPTER, 45:37 VERSE 9, "YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, WHEN CONTENDING WITH 45:41 THE DEVIL, HE DISPUTED ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES, HE DAREST NOT 45:46 BRING AGAINST HIM A RAILING ACCUSATION, BUT SAID, 'THE LORD 45:48 REBUKE THEE!'" NOW, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 45:51 THIS IS SORT OF A CRYPTIC STATEMENT AND A LOT OF SCHOLARS 45:54 HAVE LABORED OVER THIS. 45:55 I WAS POURING OVER THE SCHOLARS LAST NIGHT AND LEARNING A LOT OF 45:58 INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THIS VERSE. 46:01 THE MOST REASONABLE EXPLANATION IS THAT AFTER MOSES DIED, 46:08 FOR ONE THING, HE DIDN'T WANT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO MAKE 46:12 A SHRINE TO MOSES AND TO WORSHIP HIM. 46:14 THAT'S THE LAST THING MOSES WANTED. 46:16 IT'S THE LAST THING THE LORD WANTED. 46:18 AND SO, GOD TOOK HIM UP TO HEAVEN FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. 46:21 ONE IS MOSES DIED BEFORE HE GOT TO SEE THE CHILDREN CROSS OVER. 46:26 THE HEARTACHE OF HIS LIFE WAS BECAUSE OF HIS FINAL SIN, HE WAS 46:29 NOT ALLOWED TO LEAD THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 46:31 HE GOT TO SEE THE LAND FROM A DISTANCE, BUT GOD WENT 46:34 ONE BETTER THAN THAT. 46:35 HE TOOK MOSES UP TO HEAVEN SO THAT HE COULD SEE THE CHILDREN 46:38 OF ISRAEL CROSS OVER. 46:40 "NOW, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT, PASTOR DOUG?" 46:44 WELL, IF YOU GO TO MARK 9 WHEN CHRIST HAS THE VISION ON 46:46 THE MOUNTAINTOP, HE'S TALKING TO MOSES. 46:48 HE'S NOT TALKING TO SOME DISEMBODIED SPIRIT. 46:51 HE'S TALKING TO MOSES. 46:52 AND MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL DOES NOT COME BACK TO THE GRAVE OF 46:56 MOSES SO THAT HE CAN COLLECT THE CORPSE OF MOSES AND PUT IT 46:59 IN SOME HEAVENLY MORGUE TO KEEP IT FROM DECOMPOSING. 47:02 WHENEVER GOD COMES FOR A BODY IN THE BIBLE, IT'S A RESURRECTION. 47:06 WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE COMES DOWN AND THESE GRAVES 47:09 ARE MARKED IN THE LAST DAYS, THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE. 47:12 HE'S NOT RAISING THE OLD BODIES. 47:14 HE'S RAISING THEM TO NEW LIFE. 47:17 BUT IT DOES SEEM HE GOES BACK TO WHERE THEY WERE LAST LAID 47:19 TO REST. 47:21 AND SO, THIS IS NOT IN THE BIBLE BUT THERE'S A MISSING--IT'S NOT 47:26 A MISSING BOOK, IT'S A MYSTERIOUS BOOK. 47:30 JUDE EVIDENTLY IS QUOTING FROM A BOOK THAT NO LONGER EXISTS 47:33 THAT WAS IN JEWISH HISTORY. 47:36 IT WAS CALLED "THE ASSUMPTION OF MOSES." 47:38 ORIGEN, ONE OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, QUOTES FROM THIS BOOK. 47:43 AND THE TRADITION IN THIS BOOK THAT ORIGEN REFERS TO IS THAT 47:45 THE THIRD DAY AFTER MOSES DIED BEFORE HE WOULD DECOMPOSE, 47:51 GOD SENT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL TO RAISE HIM. 47:55 AND THIS WHOLE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE DEVIL SAYING, "NO, YOU CAN'T 47:58 HAVE HIM BECAUSE HE SINNED AT THE END." 48:01 AND MICHAEL SAID, "THE LORD REBUKE THEE!" 48:03 AND HE TAKES MOSES AND RESURRECTS HIM. 48:06 THAT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE, BUT JUDE REFERS TO IT SO IT'S A BOOK 48:09 THAT MUST'VE EXISTED. 48:11 HE REFERS TO IT AS THOUGH THE LISTENERS KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING 48:13 ABOUT, BUT IT'S ONE OF THESE LOST BOOKS CALLED "THE 48:18 ASSUMPTION OF MOSES" THAT YOU JUST CAN'T FIND ANYMORE. 48:20 ANYWAY, WE KNOW THAT MOSES IS IN HEAVEN NOW, RIGHT? 48:24 WELL, WE DO KNOW MOSES DIED, JESUS DIED. 48:28 MOSES WAS RAISED. 48:29 HE'S IN HEAVEN NOW. 48:30 JESUS WAS RAISED. 48:32 THEY'RE BOTH IN HEAVEN NOW. 48:34 JESUS, IT WAS 3 DAYS LATER. 48:36 ONE DEPENDABLE TRADITION TELLS US IT WAS 3 DAYS LATER. 48:40 WHY WAIT LONGER? 48:43 WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO RAISE MOSES IN TIME TO SEE THE CHILDREN OF 48:45 ISRAEL CROSS OVER? 48:47 I THINK SO. 48:49 NOW, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT AND THIS'LL BE MY FINAL 48:53 MAIN POINT HERE. 48:55 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE WILLING TO LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES 48:59 SO THEIR PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED. 49:00 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SINNED WITH THE GOLDEN CALF, GOD 49:04 SAID, "GET OUT OF MY WAY, MOSES, I'M GOING TO ROLL UP MY SLEEVES, 49:07 I'M GOING TO WIPE THEM OUT. 49:08 I'LL MAKE A GREAT NATION OF YOU." 49:10 AND MOSES--NOW, THAT'D BE PRETTY FLATTERING. 49:13 YOU KNOW, IF GOD TOLD ME, "DOUG, THOSE PEOPLE AT CENTRAL 49:15 CHURCH, THEY'RE SO DIFFICULT. 49:16 TELL YOU WHAT, I'M GOING TO VAPORIZE 'EM ALL SOME SABBATH 49:18 MORNING. 49:19 YOU MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON VACATION THAT DAY. 49:21 I'LL RAISE UP A NEW CHURCH IN YOUR NAME." 49:23 I WOULDN'T WANT 'EM TO DO THAT. 49:25 BUT I'D PROBABLY THINK ABOUT IT. 49:30 MOSES DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. 49:32 HE SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO MAKE A NATION OUT OF ME, LORD." 49:35 HE SAID, "I'M WILLING TO HAVE YOU TAKE MY NAME OUT OF 49:38 THE BOOK OF LIFE. 49:39 BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR NAME AND WHAT ABOUT 49:41 YOUR PEOPLE?" 49:42 HE LOVED THE PEOPLE LIKE A SHEPHERD LOVES THE SHEEP. 49:45 IT SAYS HERE IN EXODUS 32:32, "YET NOW IF YOU WILL FORGIVE 49:52 THEIR SIN, BUT IF NOT I PRAY BLOT ME OUT OF YOUR BOOK 49:57 WHICH YOU HAVE WRITTEN." 49:58 WHAT BOOK IS THAT? 50:00 IT'S THE BOOK OF LIFE. 50:02 MOSES WAS WILLING TO LAY HIS LIFE DOWN TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE. 50:07 WHO IS HE A TYPE OF THERE? 50:09 JESUS. 50:11 MATTHEW 20:28, "EVEN AS THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO MINISTER, 50:15 TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE 50:20 A RANSOM FOR MANY." 50:23 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE MEDIATORS FOR GOD'S PEOPLE. 50:28 THEY WERE INTERCESSORS. 50:30 THEY INTERCEDED TO SAVE OTHERS. 50:33 READ THAT GREAT PRAYER THERE IN JOHN 17. 50:36 MOSES AND JESUS WERE LAWGIVERS, JUDGES, PRIESTS, KINGS, 50:39 AND PROPHETS, BOTH OF THEM. 50:46 QUICK REVIEW: JESUS AND MOSES BOTH BORN AS HEBREWS. 50:51 NOT PRIESTS BY BIRTH, BUT SERVED AS PRIESTS. 50:56 ISN'T CHRIST OUR MELCHIZEDEK? 50:58 DIDN'T MOSES END UP SERVING AS A PRIEST AND AN INTERCESSOR? 51:01 HE OFFERED SACRIFICE FOR THE PEOPLE. 51:03 BOTH CHOSEN BY GOD TO LEAD THE PEOPLE. 51:05 COMMUNICATED DIRECTLY WITH GOD. 51:07 BOTH MOSES AND JESUS WERE NOT LIKED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT 51:12 AND OFTEN THREATENED WITH STONING BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE. 51:15 BOTH WERE LAWGIVERS. 51:17 BOTH FOUNDED A NEW RELIGION. 51:20 HAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT MISUNDERSTOOD THEIR MISSION. 51:25 CHOSE 12 LEADERS TO GOVERN BOTH MOSES AND JESUS. 51:29 LED THEIR PEOPLE TO THE PROMISED LAND. 51:31 CHRIST WILL LEAD YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND. 51:33 CHOSE SPECIAL PEOPLE TO CARRY FORWARD; CHRIST APPOINTED 51:37 THE APOSTLES TO CARRY ON ON HIS BEHALF, MOSES CHOSE JOSHUA. 51:41 TAUGHT OTHERS HOW TO PRAY. 51:43 CHOSE A LIFE OF HARDSHIP. 51:45 THEY ARE--MOSES IS THE DOMINANT PERSON IN THE TORAH OR THE LAW. 51:50 CHRIST IS THE DOMINANT PERSON IN THE GOSPELS. 51:52 FOLLOWERS STRAYED FROM THEIR TEACHINGS IN BOTH THE NEW 51:55 AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. 51:57 REVISED AN EXISTING RELIGION. 52:00 CHRIST REVISED AN EXISTING RELIGION. 52:03 THEY BROUGHT REVIVAL. 52:05 PROVIDED HIS PEOPLE WITH VISION AND IDENTITY, BOTH OF THEM. 52:09 WORKED MIRACLES AND EMPOWERED OTHERS. 52:12 YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO PAUSE THERE. 52:15 BUT I'D LIKE TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU JUST BEFORE WE SING OUR 52:18 CLOSING SONG HERE. 52:20 THAT'S NOT A CUE FOR ANYONE TO LEAVE EARLY. 52:21 I WANT YOU TO HEAR THIS. 52:23 I MAY HAVE SHARED THIS ONCE BEFORE. 52:25 I'VE DONE SO MUCH PREACHING HERE NOW, I FORGET WHAT I'VE SAID. 52:28 AND AS TIME GOES BY, PRETTY SOON I'LL PROBABLY JUST STAND UP HERE 52:31 AND REPEAT MYSELF ONE WEEK AFTER ANOTHER. 52:34 BUT THIS IS FROM THE BOOK BY CHARLES SPURGEON. 52:38 YOU CAN ALL READ THIS ONLINE. 52:39 IT'S A MORNING AND EVENING DEVOTIONAL. 52:42 AND IT'S UNDER THE HEADING OF JUNE 10TH. 52:44 THE THEME IS "CHRIST IN ALL THE SCRIPTURE, THESE ARE THEY THAT 52:48 TESTIFY OF ME," MEANING "THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY ME." 52:51 LISTEN, HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL WITH HIS USE OF THE LANGUAGE HERE: 52:55 "JESUS CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF THE BIBLE. 52:59 HE IS THE CONSTANT THEME OF ITS SACRED PAGES. 53:02 FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST, THEY TESTIFY OF HIM. 53:05 AT THE CREATION, WE AT ONCE DISCERN HIM AS THE ONE SACRED 53:09 TRINITY. 53:10 WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIM IN THE PROMISE OF THE WOMAN'S SEED. 53:14 WE SEE JESUS TYPIFIED IN THE ARK OF NOAH. 53:17 WE WALK WITH ABRAHAM AS HE SEES THE MESSIAH'S DAY. 53:20 WE DWELL IN THE TENTS OF ISAAC AND JACOB WITH CHRIST, FEEDING 53:23 UPON THE GRACIOUS PROMISE. 53:25 WE HEAR THE VENERABLE ISRAEL OR JACOB TALKING TO SHILOH. 53:29 AND IN THE NUMEROUS TYPES OF THE LAW, WE FIND THE REDEEMER 53:32 ABUNDANTLY FORESHADOWED. 53:34 PROPHETS AND KINGS, PRIESTS AND PREACHERS, ALL LOOK ONE WAY. 53:38 THEY ALL STAND, AS THE CHERUBS DID OVER THE ARK, DESIRING TO 53:42 LOOK WITHIN AND TO READ THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S GREAT 53:44 APPROPRIATION. 53:46 STILL MORE MANIFESTLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WE FIND OUR 53:49 LORD THE ONE PERVADING SUBJECT. 53:51 IT'S NOT AN INGOT HERE AND THERE OR DUST OF GOLD THINLY 53:55 SCATTERED, BUT HERE YOU STAND UPON A SOLID FLOOR OF GOLD. 53:59 THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS JESUS CRUCIFIED, 54:03 EVEN ITS CLOSING SENTENCES BEJEWELED WITH A REDEEMER'S 54:06 NAME." 54:07 "EVEN SO COME, LORD JESUS," THE CLOSING WORDS. 54:09 "WE SHOULD ALWAYS READ SCRIPTURE IN THIS LIGHT. 54:12 WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE WORD TO BE AS A MIRROR INTO WHICH CHRIST 54:17 LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND WE LOOKING INTO IT SEE HIS FACE 54:21 REFLECTED." 54:22 LIKE THE BIBLE IS A MIRROR, WE'RE LOOKING AT CHRIST THAT'S 54:24 UP IN HEAVEN LOOKING THROUGH THE CLOUDS AND WE SEE HIS FACE 54:26 IN THE BIBLE. 54:28 BEAUTIFUL WORD PICTURE. 54:30 "WE SEE HIS FACE REFLECTED AS IN A GLASS DARKLY. 54:34 IT IS TRUE, BUT STILL IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE A BLESSED 54:36 PREPARATION FOR SEEING HIM AS WE WILL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. 54:40 THIS VOLUME," THE BIBLE, "CONTAINS JESUS CHRIST'S LETTERS 54:44 TO US, PERFUMED BY HIS LOVE. 54:46 THESE PAGES ARE THE GARMENTS OF OUR KING. 54:49 THEY ALL SMELL OF MYRRH AND ALOES AND CASSIA. 54:52 SCRIPTURE IS THE ROYAL CHARIOT IN WHICH JESUS RIDES AND IT IS 54:57 PAVED WITH LOVE FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. 55:00 THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE SWADDLING BANDS OF THE HOLY CHILD, JESUS. 55:04 UNROLL THEM AND YOU FIND YOUR SAVIOR. 55:07 THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST." 55:11 WOO! 55:12 I'VE GOT GOOSE BUMPS. 55:15 I DON'T KNOW IF IT DOES FOR YOU WHAT IT DOES FOR ME, BUT THAT 55:17 JUST REALLY SAYS IT. 55:18 THAT SUMS IT UP. 55:20 CHRIST OUGHT TO STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH AS YOU LOOK AND SEE THAT 55:24 HE'S EVERYWHERE REFLECTED. 55:28 IT'S LIKE THE BIBLE IS--IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT'S JESUS 55:33 WEARING SEQUINS AND EACH ONE IS A MIRROR OF CHRIST. 55:39 ALL THESE CHARACTERS AND YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER AND YOU SEE JESUS. 55:42 AND YET, WE NEGLECT THE BIBLE SO MUCH. 55:45 YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN HIM THE WAY YOU WANT TO KNOW HIM THROUGH 55:51 THE LITTLE BIT YOU'RE DOING AND READING AND PRAYING. 55:54 BUT MAYBE YOU CAN GET TO KNOW HIM BETTER FROM THOSE WHO KNEW 55:58 HIM, AND I HOPE YOU'LL MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE LIKE ABRAHAM 56:02 AND NOAH AND JOSEPH AND MOSES AND YOU'LL GET TO KNOW JESUS 56:06 BETTER. 56:07 IS THAT YOUR DESIRE? 56:08 THE BIBLE IS THE STORY OF JESUS. 56:11 YOU SEE IT NOW? 56:12 IT DOESN'T START WITH MATTHEW. 56:14 IT STARTS IN GENESIS. 56:16 IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS. 56:18 YOU THINK THAT YOU'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW HIM A LITTLE BETTER AND 56:22 LOVE HIM BETTER AND SERVE HIM BETTER? 56:24 HE'S GOT A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. 56:26 IF HE KNEW EVERY DETAIL OF MOSES' LIFE AND HE WAS ABLE 56:29 THROUGH PROVIDENCE TO ORGANIZE MOSES' LIFE SO IT WOULD SOMEDAY 56:33 REFLECT HIS OWN, CAN GOD ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE SO IT WILL 56:37 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