¤ >> Announcer: WELCOME TO 3ABN 00:00:03.13\00:00:28.86 FALL CAMP MEETING. HOMECOMING 2018, FEATURING 00:00:28.86\00:00:33.70 INSPIRED MESSAGES FROM YOUR 3ABN FAMILY, AND UPLIFTING CHRISTIAN 00:00:33.70\00:00:39.43 MUSIC. ALL TO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR 00:00:39.43\00:00:41.34 THE COMING OF THE LORD. >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO HOUR 00:00:41.34\00:00:51.51 NUMBER 3 OF OUR OPENING NIGHT SITTING OF 3ABN FALL CAMP 00:00:51.51\00:00:58.85 MEETING 2018. AND GOD HAS BEEN HERE IN A 00:00:58.85\00:01:02.32 MIGHTY AND STRNG WAY, AND WE PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS POWER 00:01:02.32\00:01:06.16 AND HIS PRESENCE. WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF SITTING 00:01:06.16\00:01:10.20 UNDER THE MINISTRY THIS HOUR OF PASTOR TY GIBSON. 00:01:10.20\00:01:18.67 HE IS PREACHER, TEACHER OF THE WORD, ANDALS -- AND ALSO ADDS 00:01:18.67\00:01:38.39 PASTOR. WE WATCHED TY GROW UP ON 3ABN. 00:01:38.39\00:01:41.90 HE USED TO HAVE A BIG THICK BEARD, AND HE LOOKED OLDER. 00:01:41.90\00:01:48.70 AND NOW THAT HE IS GOTTEN OLDER, HE WANTS TO LOOK YOUNGER. 00:01:48.70\00:01:54.54 [ LAUGHTER ] >> WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE 00:01:54.54\00:01:56.98 ATTENTIVE EAR AND LISTEN CAREFULLY, AND YOU EXPERIENCE 00:01:56.98\00:02:00.28 SOME -- WHAT MIGHT BE NEW INFORMATION, OR INFORMATION THAT 00:02:00.28\00:02:03.32 HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, BUT NOW COMES TO US IN A FEW AND 00:02:03.32\00:02:09.46 FRESH WAY. HE IS THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE, 00:02:09.46\00:02:12.36 SUE, AND THE FATHER OF THREE GROWN CHILDREN. 00:02:12.36\00:02:15.46 HE STILL LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR AN OLDER FELLA, AND GOD HAS 00:02:15.46\00:02:21.50 BLESSED HIM TO STUDY THE WORD AND BE A GREAT STUDENT OF THE 00:02:21.50\00:02:25.37 WORD. BEFORE HE COMES TO US AND GIVES 00:02:25.37\00:02:28.14 US HIS MESSAGE, WE'RE GOING TO BE FAVORED WITH A SELECTION BY 00:02:28.14\00:02:34.48 OUR FRIENDS AND PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG. 00:02:34.48\00:02:38.52 WOULD YOU PLEASE BOW YOUR HEAD AND PREY WITH ME. 00:02:38.52\00:02:43.09 DEAR FATHER, BE PLEASED NOW TO SPEAK TO HIM SO THAT HE CAN 00:02:43.09\00:02:48.56 SPEAK TO US OF YOUR WORDS. BLESS THIS MUSIC THAT SHALL BE 00:02:48.56\00:02:53.20 SUNG. MAY IT BE WATER TO OUR THIRSTY 00:02:53.20\00:02:57.04 SOULS, AND THEN BLESS THE WORD THAT SHALL BE SPOKEN, MAY IT 00:02:57.04\00:03:01.44 FILL US AND NOURISH US AND HELP FIT US FOR HEAVENLY HABITATION. 00:03:01.44\00:03:08.02 WE PRAISE YOU. WE LOVE YOU. 00:03:08.02\00:03:10.79 WE THANK YOU. IN JESUS NAME. 00:03:10.79\00:03:14.72 AMEN. ¤ 00:03:14.72\00:03:18.19 ¤ TIME MEASURED OUT MY DAYS ¤ ¤ LIFE'S CARRIED ME ALONG ¤ 00:03:35.68\00:03:49.62 ¤ IN MY SOUL I YEARNED TO FOLLOW GOD ¤ 00:03:49.62\00:03:56.73 ¤ BUT I KNEW I WOULD NEVER B SO STRONG ¤ 00:03:56.73\00:04:03.14 ¤ I LOOKED HARD AT THIS WORLD ¤ ¤ TO LEARN HOW HEAVEN COULD 00:04:03.14\00:04:11.18 BEGIN ¤ ¤ JUST TO END WHERE I BEGAN ¤ 00:04:11.18\00:04:22.76 ¤ WHERE HUMAN EFFORTS ARE ALL IN VAIN ¤ 00:04:22.76\00:04:32.57 ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ ¤ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ¤ 00:04:32.57\00:04:46.58 ¤ WANDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS ROAD TO NOWHERE ¤ 00:04:46.58\00:04:55.36 ¤ WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ¤ ¤ AND I KNOW HOW THAT COULD GO ¤ 00:04:55.36\00:05:04.23 ¤ ALL THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ¤ ¤ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING 00:05:04.23\00:05:20.65 THE RACE, WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ¤ 00:05:20.65\00:05:30.19 ¤ SO HERE IS ALL OF MY PRAISE ¤ ¤ EXPRESSED WITH ALL MY HEART ¤ 00:05:30.19\00:05:46.17 ¤ OFFERED TO THE FRIEND WHO TOOK MY PLATE AND HE RAN A COURSE I 00:05:46.17\00:05:57.35 COULD NOT START ¤ ¤ AND WHEN SAW JUST HOW MUCH HIS 00:05:57.35\00:06:10.87 LOVE WOULD COST ¤ ¤ HE STILL RAN THAT FINAL MILE ¤ 00:06:10.87\00:06:18.21 ¤ BETWEEN ME AND HEAVEN ¤ ¤ SO I WILL NOT BE LOST ¤ 00:06:18.21\00:06:30.05 ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GRACE ¤ ¤ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ¤ 00:06:30.05\00:06:43.90 ¤ WANDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS ROAD TO NOWHERE ¤ 00:06:43.90\00:06:51.07 ¤ WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ¤ ¤ AND I KNOW HOW THAT WOULD GO ¤ 00:06:51.07\00:07:01.22 ¤ ALL THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ¤ ¤ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING 00:07:01.22\00:07:15.63 THE RACE ¤ ¤ WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GRACE ¤ 00:07:15.63\00:07:25.87 ¤ FOREVER RUNNING AND LOSING THE RACE WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S 00:07:25.87\00:07:36.25 GRACE ¤ 00:07:36.25\00:07:43.79 >> WHAT A BLESSING. WOW. 00:07:51.93\00:07:55.00 I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SING LIKE THAT. 00:07:55.00\00:07:59.04 I WOULD MAX OUT MY CREDIT CARD AND PAY MONTHLY PAYMENTS TO THE 00:07:59.04\00:08:03.65 SECOND COMING IF I COULD SING LIKE THAT. 00:08:03.65\00:08:06.58 SERIOUSLY, WHAT A BLESSING. IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. 00:08:06.58\00:08:09.98 I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HERE. ACCORDING TO MY MEMORY, THE LAST 00:08:09.98\00:08:14.06 TIME I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING HERE AT 3ABN WAS IN 2014. 00:08:14.06\00:08:18.09 THAT IS FOUR YEARS AGO. FOUR YEARS AGO. 00:08:18.09\00:08:21.46 IT JUST FEELS GOOD, REALLY GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU, AND TO GET 00:08:21.46\00:08:28.24 IN TO GOD'S WORD. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A WARNING 00:08:28.24\00:08:32.51 AHEAD OF TIME, BY TELLING YOU SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ME A 00:08:32.51\00:08:35.88 FEW YEARS AGO. IT CAME TO MY MIND. 00:08:35.88\00:08:38.91 I REMEMBERED IT, AND IT'S A PERFECT METAPHOR. 00:08:38.91\00:08:43.12 I WALKED INTO MY FRIEND'S HOUSE. WE WERE ABOUT TO HAVE A 00:08:43.12\00:08:47.52 DISCUSSION. HIS WIFE CAME OUT OF THE KITCHEN 00:08:47.52\00:08:49.86 WITH A PLATTER COVERED WITH SOMETHING THAT LOOKED 00:08:49.86\00:08:53.23 DELIGHTFUL. SHE SAID WOULD YOU LIKE A 00:08:53.23\00:08:57.83 BITE-SIZED BLUEBERRY MUFFIN? I SAID I WOULD. 00:08:57.83\00:09:01.00 SO I TOOK ONE, I INSERTED IT IN MY MOUTH, I CHEWED IT UP. 00:09:01.00\00:09:06.41 I SWALLOWED. SHE JUST STOOD THERE STARING AT 00:09:06.41\00:09:10.51 ME WITHOUT BLINKING. AS IF I DID SOMETHING WRONG. 00:09:10.51\00:09:14.32 SHE SAID WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER? I SAID ACTUALLY, YEAH. 00:09:14.32\00:09:18.05 SO I PUT ANOTHER ONE IN MY MOUTH, CHEWED IT UP, SWALLOWED, 00:09:18.05\00:09:24.66 NUMBER 2 GONE. SHE SAID YOU ARE PUTTING THE 00:09:24.66\00:09:27.36 WHOLE THING IN YOUR MOUTH AT ONCE. 00:09:27.36\00:09:30.43 I SAID DID YOU NOT SAY THAT THEY ARE BITE-SIZED BLUEBERRY 00:09:30.43\00:09:38.44 MUFFINS? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:09:38.44\00:09:39.17 >> SHE SAID, YES, BUT -- I SAID BUT, WHAT? 00:09:39.17\00:09:44.11 SHOW ME HOW IT IS DONE. SO SHE TOOK ONE IN HAND -- SHE 00:09:44.11\00:09:47.78 LOOK A LITTLE -- I DON'T KNOW. I WOULDN'T CALL IT A BITE. 00:09:47.78\00:09:53.79 MAYBE A NIBBLE. IT TOOK HER THREE OR FOUR 00:09:53.79\00:09:57.36 NIBBLES TO EAT A BITE-SIZED MUFFIN. 00:09:57.36\00:09:59.76 AND I WALKED AWAY SAYING THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE 00:09:59.76\00:10:04.77 WORLD. THERE ARE BIG BITE PEOPLE, AND 00:10:04.77\00:10:06.84 THERE ARE LITTLE BITE PERSON. I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TONIGHT TO 00:10:06.84\00:10:14.51 BE A BIG BITE PERSON BIBLE STUDY WISE. 00:10:14.51\00:10:17.28 WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE WHOLE THING IN OUR MOUTH AND CHEW AND 00:10:17.28\00:10:21.48 CHEW, AND MAYBE THEY ARE WHOLE WHEAT BLUEBERRY MUFFINS -- THE 00:10:21.48\00:10:27.72 ONES I HAD WERE NOT. THEY WERE TOO GOOD. 00:10:27.72\00:10:31.09 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE LIKE 00:10:31.09\00:10:34.20 WHOLE FOOD BLUE BERRY MUFFIN BIBLE STUDY. 00:10:34.20\00:10:37.43 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO TAK IN A LOT OF INFORMATION. 00:10:37.43\00:10:40.10 ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU READY TO DO THIS? 00:10:40.10\00:10:44.31 ARE THE REST OF YOU READY TO DO THIS? 00:10:44.31\00:10:46.78 [ LAUGHTER ] >> OKAY. 00:10:46.78\00:10:47.51 SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THIS IN TWO PARTS, BECAUSE WE'RE 00:10:47.51\00:10:51.91 LAUNCHING OUR LITTLE SERIES RIGHT NOW -- MY LITTLE PART IN 00:10:51.91\00:10:55.62 THIS CAMP MEETING. I HAVE FOUR SESSIONS WITH YOU. 00:10:55.62\00:10:58.52 AND MY FOUR SESSIONS ARE GOING TO BE DEALING VERY SPECIFICALLY 00:10:58.52\00:11:03.29 WITH THE CONCEPT OF COVENANT IDENTITY. 00:11:03.29\00:11:06.66 NOW IF THAT LANGUAGE IS NOT SUPER FAMILIAR TO YOU, I AM 00:11:06.66\00:11:11.90 HOPING, I AM PRAYING BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT YOU WILL NOT 00:11:11.90\00:11:15.47 ONLY BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THIS LANGUAGE, BUT THAT YOU WILL 00:11:15.47\00:11:18.57 ADOPT THIS LANGUAGE IN YOUR VIEW OF YOURSELF. 00:11:18.57\00:11:23.28 AND YOUR VIEW OF GOD, AND YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN BY THAT AS WE 00:11:23.28\00:11:27.42 JUMP INTO THE MATERIAL. NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT IN 00:11:27.42\00:11:30.45 TWO PARTS TONIGHT. FIRST OF ALL, I'M GOING TO GIVE 00:11:30.45\00:11:33.46 A LITTLE BIT OF AN INTRODUCTION THAT I THNK IS HELP. 00:11:33.46\00:11:36.66 SOMETHING THAT I REMIND MYSELF OF FREAK WENTLY, AND I WANT TO 00:11:36.66\00:11:41.56 REMIND YOU OF THIS AS WELL. YOU ARE NO DOUBT 00:11:41.56\00:11:46.20 AWARE -- BECAUSE HERE YOU ARE TONIGHT AT 3ABN HOMECOMING CAMP 00:11:46.20\00:11:50.77 MEETING, YOU ARE AWARE THAT SOMETHING VERY, VERY IMPORTANT 00:11:50.77\00:11:53.98 IS GOING DOWN IN HUMAN HISTORY RIGHT NOW. 00:11:53.98\00:11:57.85 WE HAPPEN TO LIVE IN THE MOST CRUCIAL PERIOD OF HUMAN HISTORY. 00:11:57.85\00:12:02.22 NOW THERE'S SOMETHING CALLED END TIME BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:12:02.22\00:12:13.43 IT'S THE END OF TIME. AND SOMETHING IS BROUGHT TO VIEW 00:12:13.43\00:12:18.40 IN BIBLE PROPHECY THAT WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES OF OVER AND 00:12:18.40\00:12:24.01 OVER AGAIN. THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF 00:12:24.01\00:12:27.14 COMPONENTS, BUT THERE'S ONE PIECE THAT IS AT THE CLIMAXIC, 00:12:27.14\00:12:32.98 THE PINNACLE OF END TIME BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:12:32.98\00:12:37.42 IT IS THE LEVER, IF YOU WILL. IT'S THE CATALYST. 00:12:37.42\00:12:40.92 IT IS THE EVENT OR PROCESS THAT ACTUALLY INITIATES, OR SETS IN 00:12:40.92\00:12:46.70 MOTION, A SERIES OF EVENTS THAT BRINGS ON THE SECOND COMING OF 00:12:46.70\00:12:51.57 JESUS. THIS IS THE CRUCIAL EVENT. 00:12:51.57\00:12:54.57 I'M GOING TO CALL IT A REVOLUTION. 00:12:54.57\00:12:58.77 NOW, THE WORD REVOLUTION -- YOU HEAR THE WORD REVOLVE THERE. 00:12:58.77\00:13:04.11 IT MEANS TO OVERTURN SOME EXISTING SYSTEM, AND TO REPLACE 00:13:04.11\00:13:08.52 IT WITH SOME KIND OF NEW SYSTEM. ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME? 00:13:08.52\00:13:13.12 THAT'S THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD. 00:13:13.12\00:13:15.02 A REVOLUTION IS THE OVERTURNING OF AN EXISTING SYSTEM, AND 00:13:15.02\00:13:19.23 REPLACING IT WITH SOME NEW SYSTEM. 00:13:19.23\00:13:20.60 ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR? ALL RIGHT. 00:13:20.60\00:13:27.80 SO FOR INSTANCE IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS, POLITICAL REVOLUTION 00:13:27.80\00:13:32.34 WOULD BE IN LANGUAGE LIKE YOU HEARD, LIKE THE FRENCH 00:13:32.34\00:13:36.58 -REVOLUTION. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. THE AMERICAN 00:13:36.58\00:13:39.61 REVOLUTION. THE WORD IS USED FOR POLITICAL UPHEAVALS. 00:13:39.61\00:13:43.49 THE WORD IS ALSO USED FOR SEISMIC CHANGES IN ECONOMICS AND 00:13:43.49\00:13:50.56 IN THE WAY PEOPLE PROCESS INFORMATION, AND PRODUCE MONEY 00:13:50.56\00:13:54.50 AND CASH FLOW, AS IN LANGUAGE YOU HAVE HEARD, THE INDUSTRIAL 00:13:54.50\00:14:00.64 REVOLUTION OR THE TECHNOLOGICAL -- WHAT? 00:14:00.64\00:14:04.84 REVOLUTION. RIGHT? 00:14:04.84\00:14:05.67 BUT THE WORD IS ALSO USED WITH REGARD TO THE WAY PEOPLE PROCESS 00:14:05.67\00:14:10.88 REALITY. THE WAY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE 00:14:10.88\00:14:14.18 COMPETITION OF REALITY ITSELF. THE WAY PEOPLE THINK, AS IN THE 00:14:14.18\00:14:17.85 TERM YOU HAVE HEARD, NO DOUBT, THE SCIENTIFIC -- WHAT? 00:14:17.85\00:14:23.79 REVOLUTION. PEOPLE'S WAY OF VIEWING THE 00:14:23.79\00:14:27.30 WORLD AND THEMSELVES COMPLETELY UP ENDED SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. 00:14:27.30\00:14:32.60 NOW THE BIBLE ACTUALLY PROPHESIZED A REVOLUTION. 00:14:32.60\00:14:36.54 YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THESE WORDS.-REVOLUTION 18:1, 00:14:36.54\00:14:45.41 PROPHESIZED, FORTELLS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:14:45.41\00:14:49.92 A REVOLUTION. AFTER THESE THINGS JOHN SAID I 00:14:49.92\00:14:52.52 SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 00:14:52.52\00:14:55.82 NOW NOTE THE LANGUAGE, AND IT SAYS HAVING GREAT -- WHAT? 00:14:55.82\00:14:59.96 AUTHORITY OR POWER IN THE KING JAMES VERSION, AND THE EARTH WAS 00:14:59.96\00:15:05.00 ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY. NOW WHAT HAPPENS IN VERSE 2, AND 00:15:05.00\00:15:10.14 HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND HE SAID SOMETHING. 00:15:10.14\00:15:16.95 BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN. SO WE HAVE KIND OF SOMETHING 00:15:16.95\00:15:21.48 THAT IS DESCRIBED AS A KIND OF GLORY ILLUMINATION. 00:15:21.48\00:15:27.16 THAT GOES GLOBAL. THE WHOLE EARTH IS LIGHTENED 00:15:27.16\00:15:30.49 WITH HIS GLORY, RIGHT? THAT OVERTURNS AN EXISTING 00:15:30.49\00:15:35.16 PREVAILING SYSTEM CALLED BABYLON. 00:15:35.16\00:15:37.63 BABYLON IS THE SYSTEM THAT NEEDS TO BE UPENDED, OVERTURNED 00:15:37.63\00:15:45.84 DEFEATED. AND BABYLON IS A WAY OF 00:15:45.84\00:15:49.41 THINKING. SO THERE ARE FOUR ELEMENTS, IN 00:15:49.41\00:15:51.38 THE PROPHECY, WE SEE POWER, GLORY, ILLUMINATION AND BABYLON. 00:15:51.38\00:15:57.72 POWER IN THIS TEXT IS NOT REFERRING TO THE POWER OF FORCE 00:15:57.72\00:16:01.62 OR COERCION. IT'S REFERRING TO THE POWER OF 00:16:01.62\00:16:06.33 ATTRACTION, CREDIBILITY. IT'S REFERRING TO THE KIND OF 00:16:06.33\00:16:10.23 POWER THAT IS EXERTED WHEN YOU CAPTURE SOMEONE'S ATTENTION, AND 00:16:10.23\00:16:15.87 THEY LEAN IN. THEY LISTEN. 00:16:15.87\00:16:17.44 SOMETIMES WE REFER TO THIS AS MORAL AUTHORITY. 00:16:17.44\00:16:21.04 THE GLORY THAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT HERE WILL DEFINE MORE 00:16:21.04\00:16:26.08 SPECIFICALLY IN A MINUTE. THE ILLUMINATION IS TALKING 00:16:26.08\00:16:29.98 ABOUT -- NOT THE KIND WHEN THE SUN COMES UP, BUT MENTAL AND 00:16:29.98\00:16:36.06 EMOTIONAL ILLUMINATION. IN THE CHAMBERS OF OUR THINKING 00:16:36.06\00:16:39.66 AND FEELING PROCESSES WHERE THIS GLORY IS GOING TO ILLUMINATE, 00:16:39.66\00:16:44.43 AND THE RESULT OF THIS IS THAT THIS GLORY ILLUMINATION HAS THE 00:16:44.43\00:16:51.61 EFFECT OF TOPPLING BABYLON. BABYLON LOSES CREDIBILITY IN THE 00:16:51.61\00:16:58.08 WAKE OF THIS MORE ATTRACTIVE WAY OF THINKING. 00:16:58.08\00:17:03.32 NOW THIS IS REMARKABLE. WHAT DOES GLORY MEAN THEN? 00:17:03.32\00:17:07.12 BECAUSE THIS ANGEL, ILLUMINATES THE WORLD WITH GLORY. 00:17:07.12\00:17:11.16 NOW WATCH THIS. THIS IS THE WAY THE BIBLE USES 00:17:11.16\00:17:15.53 THE WORD GLORY, JUST SO WE KNOW HOW THE WORD IS EMPLOYED IN THIS 00:17:15.53\00:17:21.94 PROPHECY. PSALM 97:6, THE HEAVENS DECLARE 00:17:21.94\00:17:25.77 HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE SEE HIS WHAT -- GLORY. 00:17:25.77\00:17:33.11 IT IS TALKING ABOUT GOD, AND THE FIRST STATEMENT IS DEFINED BY 00:17:33.11\00:17:38.32 THE SEC -- SECOND.-GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:17:38.32\00:17:46.29 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S CHARACTER IS GOD'S GLORY, BUT 00:17:46.29\00:17:50.53 THE IDEA IS BIGGER THAN THAT. PSALM 115:1, NOT UNTO US, NOT 00:17:50.53\00:17:57.34 UNTO US, OH LORD, BUT TO YOUR NAME BE -- HERE IS OUR WORD 00:17:57.34\00:18:01.54 AGAIN -- GLORY, BECAUSE OF YOUR MERCY AND BECAUSE OF YOUR TRUTH, 00:18:01.54\00:18:06.35 SO NOW THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW THIS HEBREW FORM OF POETRY 00:18:06.35\00:18:11.95 WORKS. WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE 00:18:11.95\00:18:13.76 IS GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD'S WHAT? 00:18:13.76\00:18:17.39 HIS MERCY AND HIS TRUTH. ISAIAH 28:5 TELLS US IN THAT 00:18:17.39\00:18:22.93 DAY, THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL BE FOR A CROWN OF -- HERE IS OUR 00:18:22.93\00:18:28.30 WORD AGAIN -- GLORY, AND FOR A DIAGRAM O BEAUTY TO THE 00:18:28.30\00:18:35.54 REMANENT OF HIS PEOPLE. THIS IS REMARKABLE. 00:18:35.54\00:18:38.35 WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE BEAUTY OF GOD. 00:18:38.35\00:18:43.52 THE NEW TESTAMENT PICKS UP THE THEME OF GLORY AND TELLS US IN 00:18:43.52\00:18:48.42 JOHN 114, THAT THE GLORY PERSONIFIED IN CHRIST IS HIS 00:18:48.42\00:18:53.66 GRACE AND TRUTH, THEN AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS, IN LUKE 2:14, 00:18:53.66\00:19:00.47 GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD'S GOODWILL TOWARD ALL OF HUMANITY. 00:19:00.47\00:19:06.14 GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST THE ANGELS SING AT THE SPECTACLE OF 00:19:06.14\00:19:12.18 THE INCARNATION OF GOD IN THE FLESH BRINGING GOODWILL TO 00:19:12.18\00:19:17.92 HUMANITY, AND THEN AT THE VERY TIPPY TOP OF THE GLORY CONCEPT 00:19:17.92\00:19:23.49 IN SCRIPTURE IS THE CROSS OF CALVARY. 00:19:23.49\00:19:27.76 JESUS REFERRING TO HIS DEATH AT THE CROSS IN WHICH HE WAS POOR 00:19:27.76\00:19:32.00 OUT HIS LIFE'S BLOOD FOR YOU AND ME AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. 00:19:32.00\00:19:37.07 JESUS SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, THE HOUR HAS COME -- THE HOUR HAS 00:19:37.07\00:19:41.11 COME THAT THE SON OF MAN -- THAT'S HIMSELF SHOULD BE 00:19:41.11\00:19:45.11 WHAT? GLORIFIED. 00:19:45.11\00:19:47.78 AND THEN IN VERSE 32, AND I WILL DRAW. 00:19:47.78\00:19:51.05 SO THE GLORY OF JESUS IS MANIFESTED IN THE GIVING OF HIS 00:19:51.05\00:19:58.73 LIFE, FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD. IN OTHER WORDS THE GLORY OF GOD 00:19:58.73\00:20:03.90 IS IN FACT THE BEAUTY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND GOODNESS AND 00:20:03.90\00:20:09.90 MERCY AND TRUTH OF THE CHARACTER OF GOD MANIFESTED IN CHRIST. 00:20:09.90\00:20:14.64 SO REVELATION 18:1-2 IS A PROPHECY THAT IS TELLING US THAT 00:20:14.64\00:20:21.58 SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN IN ORDER TO INITIATE THE FINAL COMING. 00:20:21.58\00:20:27.12 THE FINAL PROPHECY TO BE FULFILLED IS A GLOBAL GLORY 00:20:27.12\00:20:35.30 REVOLUTION. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE? 00:20:35.30\00:20:37.50 YOU KNOW WHAT I AM? BY COMMISSION. 00:20:37.50\00:20:39.60 WE SOMETIMES CALL IT THE GOSPEL COMMISSION. 00:20:39.60\00:20:42.84 HERE IS A JOB TITLE FOR YOU AND ME, WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT I AM, YOU 00:20:42.84\00:20:47.44 ARE A FAME AGENT FOR JESUS. YOUR WHOLE GOAL IN LIFE IS TO 00:20:47.44\00:20:54.65 MAGNIFY HIS BLEWTY AND GLORY, AND MAKE HIM FAMOUS IN THE MINDS 00:20:54.65\00:20:59.29 AND HEARTS OF HUMAN BEINGS. TO CLEAR UP THE MISCONCEPTIONS 00:20:59.29\00:21:04.86 THAT BABYLON HAS IMP IMPROSE -- IMPOSED ON HUMAN 00:21:04.86\00:21:12.43 MINDS TO LIFT THE VEIL FROM DOCUMENTS LIKE PREDETERMINATION, 00:21:12.43\00:21:18.51 PREDESTINATION. STRIPPING HIM OF BEINGS OF FREE 00:21:18.51\00:21:21.44 CHOICE TO LOVE GOD. THE ENTIRE CYCLE EDIFICE OF 00:21:21.44\00:21:27.95 BABYLON WILL COME DOWN IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL, AND THE 00:21:27.95\00:21:30.85 GOAL OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THESE LAST DAYS IS TO TOPPLE 00:21:30.85\00:21:35.22 THAT SYSEM WITH A PURE THEOLOGY THAT GLORIFIES THE CHARACTER OF 00:21:35.22\00:21:40.20 GOD. OR LET'S SAY IT THIS WAY, I'M 00:21:40.20\00:21:42.63 GOING TO SUMMARIZE NOW. BABYLON IN END TIMES PROPHECY IS 00:21:42.63\00:21:47.57 THE SYSTEM THAT ENGAGES ITS POWER, IT'S SYSTEM, BABYLON IS 00:21:47.57\00:21:55.41 THE SYSTEM THAT ENGAGES IN THE UGL 00:21:55.41\00:22:07.16 UGLY-IFINDICATION OF GOD. DON'T LOOK THAT UP. 00:22:07.16\00:22:09.39 IF YOU NEED A WORD AND IS THERE ISN'T ONE, YOU MAKE IT UP. 00:22:09.39\00:22:14.83 [ LAUGHTER ] >> SO BABYLON IS THE SYSTEM THAT 00:22:14.83\00:22:19.47 UGLIFIES THE SYSTEM THAT MAKE GOD LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF GOD 00:22:19.47\00:22:25.41 THAT CAN ONLY BE SERVED OUT OF FEAR OR BE DENIED WITHOUT 00:22:25.41\00:22:29.91 BELIEF. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BABYLONIAN 00:22:29.91\00:22:32.65 SYSTEM, YOU CAN ONLY EITHER BE A SLAVE TO GOD, OR WALK AWAY IN 00:22:32.65\00:22:44.09 ATHEISM BECAUSE IT'S UNTENABLE. BUT THE GLORY REVOLUTION IS A 00:22:44.09\00:22:49.46 GLORY TO GOD REVOLUTION THAT BEAUTIFIES THE CHARACTER OF GOD 00:22:49.46\00:22:53.60 BEFORE THE WORLD. WHAT I'M HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU 00:22:53.60\00:22:57.14 THIS WEEK IS A PIECE OF THAT BEAUTIFICATION OF THE GLORY OF 00:22:57.14\00:23:06.25 GOD. I HAVE BEEN ON A JOURNEY THE 00:23:06.25\00:23:07.95 LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND THAT JOURNEY HAS RESULTED IN A BOOK 00:23:07.95\00:23:12.42 THAT I JUST SAW HERE AT 3ABN ACTUALLY YESTERDAY. 00:23:12.42\00:23:15.42 IT JUST GOT PUBLISHED, AND THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE -- I'M NOT A 00:23:15.42\00:23:22.63 LITERATURE EVANGELIST, I DON'T CARE IF YOU BUY IT, BUT I THINK 00:23:22.63\00:23:26.94 YOU SHOULD. THIS BOOK HAS OPENED TO MY MIND 00:23:26.94\00:23:30.71 THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S CHARACTER ON AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL. 00:23:30.71\00:23:36.75 NOW WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS TITLE? THE TITLE OF THE BOOK IS "THE 00:23:36.75\00:23:42.95 SUN SHIP OF CHRIST," AND THE SUBTITLE IS "EXCLEARING THE 00:23:42.95\00:23:48.69 COVENANT IDENTITY OF MAN." >> THE JOURNEY FOR ME BEGAN WITH 00:23:48.69\00:23:52.59 A PROBLEM. ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHERE I WAS 00:23:52.59\00:23:55.90 GOING PEOPLE WERE ASKING THE SAME QUESTION. 00:23:55.90\00:24:01.10 SOMEBODY STOPPED ME IN A SALSA AISLE, AND SAID, HEY, HAVE YOU 00:24:01.10\00:24:07.41 HEARD OF THE ANTI-TRENTARIAN MOVEMENT? 00:24:07.41\00:24:22.99 AND THIS WAS THE QUESTION. AND THERE'S A TENSION IN 00:24:22.99\00:24:28.16 SCRIPTURE -- FOR EXAMPLE -- TRACK WITH ME HERE. 00:24:28.16\00:24:30.70 LET'S SET OURSELVES UP WITH A PROBLEM TO SOLVE. 00:24:30.70\00:24:34.84 ON THE ONE, JOHN 3:16, JESUS IS CALLED GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. 00:24:34.84\00:24:41.38 NOW IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE TEXT, AND ALL YOU HAVE -- LISTEN 00:24:41.38\00:24:45.98 IT TO VERY CAREFULLY NOW -- IF ALL YOU HAVE IS THIS PASSAGE, OR 00:24:45.98\00:24:51.29 IF YOU BLOCK YOUR VISION OUTSIDE OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE 00:24:51.29\00:24:54.99 PASSAGE, YOU JUST LOOK AT THE TEXT AND ANALYZE IT, LIKE UP 00:24:54.99\00:24:59.89 CLOSE IN A FOREST, LOOKING AT THE BARK ON A TREE AND THINK YOU 00:24:59.89\00:25:04.07 SEE THE FOREST. IF YOU LOOK AT THE TEXT, YOU MAY 00:25:04.07\00:25:08.40 REASON, WELL, HE SAYS HE IS THE SON AND GOD IS THE ONE WHO IS 00:25:08.40\00:25:12.94 THE FATHER, AND WE KNOW A FATHER AND SON DON'T COEXIST 00:25:12.94\00:25:18.81 CONCURRENTLY, CHRONOLOGICALLY. A FATHER HAS TO PRECEDE THE SON, 00:25:18.81\00:25:25.89 THEREFORE, JESUS MUST HAVE SOME INTO EXISTENCE AT SOME POINT.-pNOW CONNECTED WITH THIS 00:25:25.89\00:25:35.10 IDEA IS THE IDEA THAT IF JESUS BEGAN TO EXIST AT SOME POINT IN 00:25:35.10\00:25:40.97 ETERNITY PAST, IN SOME FORM. CALL IT BIRTH, CREATION, 00:25:40.97\00:25:44.17 WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, BUT HE DIDN'T EXIST AS A SECOND 00:25:44.17\00:25:48.04 PERSON FROM THE FATHER, AND THEN HE BEGAN TO EXIST AS A 00:25:48.04\00:25:52.15 FREE-STANDING PERSON FROM THE FATHER, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO 00:25:52.15\00:25:56.52 SPLICE THAT. IF THAT'S TRUE, WE'RE DOWN TO 00:25:56.52\00:25:59.02 THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT THE SAME MOVEMENT SAYS WELL, 00:25:59.02\00:26:03.22 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FATHER, AND THEREFORE, NOT A 00:26:03.22\00:26:08.63 THIRD PERSON THAT COEXISTS ETERNALLY WITH THE FATHER AND 00:26:08.63\00:26:12.83 THE SON. SO THIS IS THE REASONING IF YOU 00:26:12.83\00:26:15.94 LOOK AT THE TEXT ON ITS OWN. BUT THEN YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT 00:26:15.94\00:26:18.54 OF A PROBLEM. AND HERE IS THE PROBLEM YOU END 00:26:18.54\00:26:21.28 UP WITH, THAT IS DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH. 00:26:21.28\00:26:24.38 THE SAME SCRIPTURE THAT CALLS JESUS GOD'S SON EXPLICITLY TELLS 00:26:24.38\00:26:32.39 US JESUS IS NON-OTHER THAN GOD. NOT JUST IN PASSING AS THE 00:26:32.39\00:26:37.23 JEHOVAH WITNESSES DO, WHERE THEY TRANSLATE IT A GOD, WITH A 00:26:37.23\00:26:44.07 LOWER-CASED G AS IF HE WEREN'T GOD INHERENTLY, BUT WAS MADE 00:26:44.07\00:26:50.61 GOD, WHICH HAS ALL KINDS OF IMPLICATIONS FOR SPIRITUALISM, 00:26:50.61\00:26:56.71 BECAUSE IF ANY BEING COULD BE DEEIAFIED, THEN THE REST OF US 00:26:56.71\00:27:03.55 ARE OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DIAFICATOIN. 00:27:03.55\00:27:13.50 IF WE CAN BE MADE DIVINE THEN WHAT IS TO STOP US FROM GOING IN 00:27:13.50\00:27:20.20 THE DIRECTION THAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING DEEIAFIED. 00:27:20.20\00:27:25.71 NOW WE'RE GOING TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT, PHILIPPINES 2:5-6, WHO 00:27:25.71\00:27:33.38 BEING IN THE FORM, BEING IN VERY-pNATURE GOD, DIDN'T CONSIDER IT SOMETHING TO BE HELD 00:27:33.38\00:27:42.96 ON TO OR GRASPED OR BE ROBBERY, TO BE EQUAL AS GOD. 00:27:42.96\00:27:48.10 EQUAL WITH GOD. NOW THIS IS FASCINATING. 00:27:48.10\00:27:52.17 THE BIBLE IS FULL OF BOTH SETS OF STATEMENTS. 00:27:52.17\00:27:55.20 SON OF GOD. GOD. 00:27:55.20\00:27:57.17 GREATEST MYSTERY OF GODLINESS, GOD WAS MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH. 00:27:57.17\00:28:04.38 MATTHEW 1:23, THE ANGEL TELLS JOSEPH AND MARY, CALL THIS CHILD 00:28:04.38\00:28:12.62 EMMANUEL. GOD WITH US. 00:28:12.62\00:28:13.92 THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH 9, EXPLICITLY CALLS THE ONE WHO 00:28:13.92\00:28:19.56 WILL BE BORN OF MARY, THE EVER-LASTING FATHER, WHICH 00:28:19.56\00:28:27.80 THROWS US FOR A LOOP. EVER-LASTING GOD. 00:28:27.80\00:28:32.47 REVELATION 1, CALLS HIM THE ALL MIGHTY. 00:28:32.47\00:28:36.81 HE CALLS HIMSELF IN JOHN 8, THE I AM THAT INTERACTED WITH ALL OF 00:28:36.81\00:28:45.52 THE OLD TESTAMENT PATRIARCHS AND PROFITS. 00:28:45.52\00:28:49.19 SO YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE LANGUAGE THAT EXPLICITLY STATES 00:28:49.19\00:28:53.80 HE IS GOD, VERY GOD. HOW COULD HE BE GOD IN ANY KIND 00:28:53.80\00:28:59.10 OF ETERNAL SENSE THAT WE COMPREHEND, DEE ATTY, AND HAVE 00:28:59.10\00:29:05.24 NOT EXISTED AT SOME POINT IN THE REMOTE PAST, AND THEN SOMEHOW 00:29:05.24\00:29:12.68 BEEN BIRTHED, ACTUALIZED, CALL IT WHATEVER YOU WANT? 00:29:12.68\00:29:18.52 HOW DO YOU -- THIS IS THE PROBLEM -- HOW DO YOU RECONCILE 00:29:18.52\00:29:23.89 THESE IDENTITY. WELL, WHAT HAS BEEN HELPFUL FOR 00:29:23.89\00:29:29.73 ME IS TO BACK UP FROM THE BARK ON THE TREE, TO PAN OUT. 00:29:29.73\00:29:34.84 I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR TEN YEARS OR SO NOW, WHEN IN DOUBT, PAN 00:29:34.84\00:29:40.98 OUT. IF YOU DON' KNOW WHAT A 00:29:40.98\00:29:43.24 PARTICULAR VERSE IS SAYING, OR YOU ARE GETTING BEFUDDLED BY 00:29:43.24\00:29:49.35 ANALYZING OR MICRO MANAGING WORDS IN A SINGLE VERSE, PAN OUT 00:29:49.35\00:29:53.79 FROM THE SINGLE VERSE, STO MICROMANAGING WORDS AND VERSES, 00:29:53.79\00:29:59.23 PAN OUT AND GRASP THE PANORAMA. SO I'M GOING TO SUGGEST TO YOU, 00:29:59.23\00:30:05.77 SCRIPTURE IS NOT A SYSTEMIC THEOLOGY TEXTBOOK. 00:30:05.77\00:30:09.77 NOW I DO IT MYSEF, BUT THE BOOK ITSELF IS NOT SYSTEMATIC 00:30:09.77\00:30:15.94 THEOLOGY. YOU CAN DERIVE SYSTEMATIC 00:30:15.94\00:30:18.61 THEOLOGY FROM THE BOOK. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT ELSE THE 00:30:18.61\00:30:22.32 BIBLE IS NOT. IT'S NOT AN ARSENAL OF VERSES TO 00:30:22.32\00:30:28.42 BE MOBILIZED TO PROVE ANY PARTICULAR DOCTRINE. 00:30:28.42\00:30:33.50 NOW YOU CAN USE IT THAT WAY, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE THING ITSELF 00:30:33.50\00:30:37.27 IS. WHAT IS THE THING ITSELF? 00:30:37.27\00:30:39.60 THE BIBLE IS A STORY. IT IS A NARRATIVE. 00:30:39.60\00:30:41.74 IT IS A NARRATIVE. IT HAS A BEGINNING. 00:30:41.74\00:30:46.68 IT HAS A MIDDLE. IT HAS AN END. 00:30:46.68\00:30:49.01 AND AT THE BEGINNING, YOU REALIZE IT IS GOING SOMEWHERE. 00:30:49.01\00:30:52.68 WHERE IT IS GOING FROM GENESIS IT'S GOING SOMEWHERE. 00:30:52.68\00:30:57.12 WHERE IS IT GOING? IT'S GOING TO JESUS. 00:30:57.12\00:31:01.69 IN THE MOST CRYSTAL CLEAR BEAUTIFUL SENSE IMAGINABLE. 00:31:01.69\00:31:05.16 SO LET'S LOOK AT THE BIBLE AS A STORY. 00:31:05.16\00:31:09.96 LET'S PAN OUT OUR QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE THAT WE 00:31:09.96\00:31:14.10 FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD? 00:31:14.10\00:31:17.47 WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE THAT HE IS -- PAUL EVN SAYS THE 00:31:17.47\00:31:23.78 FIRSTBORN SON OF GOD? WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE BEGOTTEN, 00:31:23.78\00:31:28.52 OR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. WELL, GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING 00:31:28.52\00:31:32.02 OF THE STORY, AND THIS IS MIND BLOWING AND SO BEAUTIFUL. 00:31:32.02\00:31:35.52 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY, WE'RE TOLD THAT GOD CREATED MAN 00:31:35.52\00:31:39.96 IN HIS OWN -- WHAT? IMAGE. 00:31:39.96\00:31:42.46 I'M HIGHLIGHTING THE WORDS CREATED AN IMAGE. 00:31:42.46\00:31:46.33 HE HAS CREATED HIS IMAGE. NOW THE MAN AND THE WOMAN COMPOS 00:31:46.33\00:31:51.44 THIS IMAGE IN TOTALITY, BUT THE MAN HERE IN THE TEXT -- WATCH 00:31:51.44\00:31:56.18 THIS -- THE MAN IN THE TEXT, IF YOU RUN FORWARD IN THE 00:31:56.18\00:32:00.95 NARRATIVE, YOU COME TO LUKE 3, AND THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS, 00:32:00.95\00:32:05.12 WHERE LUKE IS TRYING TO CRACK THE SECRET OF HIS IDENTITY. 00:32:05.12\00:32:12.26 LUKE SAYS WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHO HE IS. 00:32:12.26\00:32:16.13 HERE IS HE GENEALOGY. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY THE 00:32:16.13\00:32:22.07 GENEALOGY? NOBODY EVER READ THEM START TO 00:32:22.07\00:32:24.37 FINISH. WELL, MAYBE YOU HAVE. 00:32:24.37\00:32:25.94 IF YOU READ THEM START TO FINISH, YOU'LL FIND THAT THERE 00:32:25.94\00:32:30.55 IS AN INTERNAL NARRATIVE LOGIC TO THE GENEALOGIES. 00:32:30.55\00:32:35.92 JESUS IS BEING INTRODUCED TO US IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE BY TELLING 00:32:35.92\00:32:39.82 US THE STORY OF HUMANITY, AND EACH PERSON IN THE GENEALOGY IS 00:32:39.82\00:32:45.56 THE SON OF SOME -- LISTEN CAREFULLY -- HUMAN FATHER. 00:32:45.56\00:32:51.20 DAVID IS THE SON OF JESTSY, WHO IS THE SON OF OBED, AND IT GOES 00:32:51.20\00:33:00.78 BACK AND BACK UNTIL YOU GET TO ADAM, AND THERE IS NO HUMAN 00:33:00.78\00:33:06.11 BEING BEFORE HIM TO NAME. IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK, SO AND 00:33:06.11\00:33:11.09 SO WHO IS THE SON OF SO AN SO, WHO IS THE SON OF ADAM, WHO IS 00:33:11.09\00:33:15.96 THE SON OF GOD. THERE IS OUR LANGUAGE. 00:33:15.96\00:33:18.79 OKAY. SO ADAM IS THE SON OF GOD IN 00:33:18.79\00:33:24.30 UNIQUE SENSE. IN A PRIMARY SENSE. 00:33:24.30\00:33:28.80 ALL OF US ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD BY PROCREATION. 00:33:28.80\00:33:34.81 ADAM AND EVE BY CREATION. ADAM AND EVE DIDN'T HAVE HUMAN 00:33:34.81\00:33:40.58 PARENTS. ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR? 00:33:40.58\00:33:42.68 WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THY HAD BELLY BUTTONS, BECAUSE YOU WOULD 00:33:42.68\00:33:46.52 HAVE TO HAVE A MOM OR DAD FOR THAT UNLESS GOD PUT THEM THEE 00:33:46.52\00:33:52.93 FOR AESTHETIC PURPOSES. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:33:52.93\00:33:55.40 >> SO YOU HAVE ADAM AND EVE, AND ADAM IS THE SON OF GOD. 00:33:55.40\00:34:00.17 LISTEN, ADAM IS TE SON OF GOD IN A UNIQUE PRIMARY SENSE. 00:34:00.17\00:34:05.14 NOW WATCH THIS. GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN 00:34:05.14\00:34:08.48 IMAGE. THIS GUY'S NAME IS ADAM. 00:34:08.48\00:34:11.45 THAT'S GENESIS 1. BUT LOOK AT GENESIS 5. 00:34:11.45\00:34:18.19 AND ADAM HERE IS YOUR LANGUAGE -- BEGOT A WHAT -- SON 00:34:18.19\00:34:23.12 IN HIS OWN LIKENESS AFTER HIS IMAGE. 00:34:23.12\00:34:25.56 SO YOU HAVE A PATTERN THAT IS INITIATED AT THE BEGINNING OF 00:34:25.56\00:34:30.20 THE STORY. WHAT IS THE PATTERN? 00:34:30.20\00:34:34.04 CREATION, PROCREATION. GOD CREATES THE FIRST MAN, THE 00:34:34.04\00:34:37.94 FIRST WOMAN, AND THEN THE FIRST MAN, THE FIRST WOMAN, THEY BEGIN 00:34:37.94\00:34:43.61 A GENEALOGICAL PROCESS OF PRO CREATION. 00:34:43.61\00:34:47.15 THIS IS GENESIS. NOW AS THE STORY UNFOLDS, WE 00:34:47.15\00:34:53.36 REALIZE THAT SONSHIP IS THE MEANS BY WHICH IMAGE IS 00:34:53.36\00:34:59.93 TRANSMITTED. THE WHOLE POINT OF THE 00:34:59.93\00:35:02.00 STORY -- THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND YOU 00:35:02.00\00:35:05.47 ARE READING ABOUT JESUS, PAUL SAYS BY THE WAY, HE IS THE SON 00:35:05.47\00:35:11.94 OF GOD AND THE IMAGE OF GOD FROM WHOM WILL COME BE BRETHREN. 00:35:11.94\00:35:21.25 WHAT? WELL, WHEN YOU COME TO ROMANS 00:35:21.25\00:35:24.02 YOU REALIZE THAT JESUS IS THE MULLIGAN FOR THE FALL OF THE 00:35:24.02\00:35:30.23 HUMAN RACE. HE IS THE DO OVER. 00:35:30.23\00:35:32.93 JESUS IS THE SECOND ADAM. JESUS IS INITIATING THE NEW 00:35:32.93\00:35:37.70 GENESIS. A NEW BEGINNING, BECAUSE THE 00:35:37.70\00:35:41.07 IMAGE OF GOD WAS LOST AND SO ADAM LOST THE CAPACITY FOR 00:35:41.07\00:35:48.14 TRANSMITTING FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, THE IMAGE OF GOD. 00:35:48.14\00:35:51.71 SO WHAT IS THE FALL OF MAN KIND IN THIS CONTEXT? 00:35:51.71\00:35:56.28 THE FALL OF MANKIND IS THE LOSS OF GOD'S IMAGE, BUT MORE THAN 00:35:56.28\00:36:00.69 THAT. IT IS THE LOSS AS WELL, OF THE 00:36:00.69\00:36:05.36 CAPACITY TO PROCREATE GOD'S IMAGE. 00:36:05.36\00:36:08.10 GENERATION TO GENERATION. THERE WAS AN INTERRUPTION IN THE 00:36:08.10\00:36:12.87 PROCESS OF THE TRANSMISSION OF GOD'S IMAGE FROM FATHER TO 00:36:12.87\00:36:19.97 CHILDREN AND ONWARD DOWN THROUGH THE AGES. 00:36:19.97\00:36:22.14 SO YOU REALIZE THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON HERE. 00:36:22.14\00:36:25.51 THE STORY HAS A SHAPE TO IT. GENESIS 3:15, IS WHEN GOD COMES 00:36:25.51\00:36:30.75 AND HE SAYS THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IN ORDER TO RECTIFY 00:36:30.75\00:36:35.46 THE FALL. THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, 00:36:35.46\00:36:37.79 AND HE'S SPEAKING TO THE SERPENT WHO TEMPTED OUR FIRST PARENTS, 00:36:37.79\00:36:47.07 HE IS SPEAKING IN THE PRESENCE OF ADAM AND EVE. 00:36:47.07\00:36:51.17 GENESIS 3:15, IT IS THE FIRST GOSPEL PROMISE AND IT IS THE 00:36:51.17\00:36:57.35 FIRST GOSPEL PROPHECY. IT IS A PROPHECY PROMISE. 00:36:57.35\00:37:00.65 A PROMISE PROPHECY. IT IS BOTH MESSONIC IT FORTH 00:37:00.65\00:37:14.46 TELLS THE COMING OF THE SON OF GOD. 00:37:14.46\00:37:17.90 AND IT FORTELLS THE COMPLETE DEFEAT OF SATAN. 00:37:17.90\00:37:23.94 THIS IS THE FIRST THING OUT OF GOD'S MOUTH IN DESCRIBING THE 00:37:23.94\00:37:27.18 PLAN OF SALVATION. I WILL PUT HOSTILITY BETWEEN YOU 00:37:27.18\00:37:37.55 SATAN, GOD IS ADDRESSING SATAN HERE, I WILL PUT HOSTILITY 00:37:37.55\00:37:46.23 BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN. WOMAN KIND TAKES ON 00:37:46.23\00:37:55.00 SIGNIFICANCE. AND ISRAEL ITSELF BECOMES A 00:37:55.00\00:37:56.67 CORPORATE WOMAN, A CORPORATE BRIDE. 00:37:56.67\00:37:59.37 AND THE CHURCH COMES A CORPORATE END TIMES GOD. 00:37:59.37\00:38:05.51 SO I'M GOING TO PUT HOSTILITY BETWEEN YOU, SATAN, AND THE 00:38:05.51\00:38:12.69 WOMAN, EVE, AND THE CHURCH, AND BETWEEN -- HERE IS THE LANGUAGE, 00:38:12.69\00:38:17.09 YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS. OFFSPRING. 00:38:17.09\00:38:21.90 YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS. YOU HAVE HEARD THE TERM, NO 00:38:21.90\00:38:26.94 DOUBT, THE SPAWN OF SATAN. NEVER EVER USE THAT TO DESCRIBE 00:38:26.94\00:38:31.17 SOMEBODY YOU ARE UPSET WITH. IT HAS PROPHETIC SERIOUS 00:38:31.17\00:38:36.14 THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS MASS 00:38:36.14\00:38:38.71 AGE IS WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT TWO LINAGES WILL BE INITIATED FROM 00:38:38.71\00:38:44.39 GENESIS DOWN THROUGH THE AGES. TWO THEOLOGICAL LINAGES, TWO 00:38:44.39\00:38:53.86 LINAGES THAT CARRY AN OPINION, A VIEW, A PERSPECTIVE ON THE 00:38:53.86\00:38:57.63 CHARACTER OF GOD. A FALSE THEOLOGY CALL SYSTEM 00:38:57.63\00:39:01.00 WILL BE INITIATED AND CARRIED DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, AND A 00:39:01.00\00:39:06.07 TRUE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM WILL BE INITIATED AND CARRIED ON DOWN 00:39:06.07\00:39:09.48 THROUGH THE AGES. THE PROPHECY IS SAYING THAT 00:39:09.48\00:39:13.45 SATAN WILL BE DEFEATED AND IT SAYS THE EMNITY BETWEEN THE 00:39:13.45\00:39:24.99 OFFSPRING, HE -- NOW IT'S SINGULAR -- HE WILL CRUSH YOUR 00:39:24.99\00:39:30.90 HEAD AND YOU WILL STRICT HIS HEEL. 00:39:30.90\00:39:32.53 GOD IS SAYING TO THE SERPENT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING YOUR 00:39:32.53\00:39:41.91 WAY. SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE BORN OF 00:39:41.91\00:39:43.61 THE WOMAN, A SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL. 00:39:43.61\00:39:46.18 THERE WILL BE A LOT OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, A LOT OF PROCREATION, 00:39:46.18\00:39:52.25 BUT A SINGULAR HE, A SINGULAR OFFSPRING EVENTUALLY WILL BE 00:39:52.25\00:39:59.56 BORN, AND YOU WILL WOUND HIM IN THE PROCESS OF HIM CRUSHING YOU, 00:39:59.56\00:40:05.77 AND COMPLETELY DEFEATING YOUR KINGDOM. 00:40:05.77\00:40:09.60 HE WILL BE WOUNDED. YOU WILL BE COMPLETELY DEFEATED. 00:40:09.60\00:40:14.08 THIS IS THE MOTHER OF ALL PROPHECIES. 00:40:14.08\00:40:19.71 THIS IS THE INITIATING OF BOTH A MESSIONIC, AND A FORETELLING OF 00:40:19.71\00:40:30.13 WHAT IS GOING TO BE GOING ON AND REACH ITS CLIMAX WITH REVELATION 00:40:30.13\00:40:35.33 18 THAT WE BEGAN WITH. AS GENESIS 3:15 FORTELLS THE 00:40:35.33\00:40:44.57 PRO PROPHECY, THE PROPHECY TELLS US 00:40:44.57\00:40:46.24 THERE IS GOING TO BE AN OFFSPRING. 00:40:46.24\00:40:50.21 WE'RE BACKING UP FROM PROOF -TEXTING. WE'RE FINE WITH PROOF 00:40:50.21\00:40:54.58 TEXTING AS LONG AS OUR PROOF TEXTING IS IN CONTENT -- OKAY -- 00:40:54.58\00:40:59.15 BUT WE'RE BACKING UP RIGHT NOW. WE'RE SAYING AH, WHAT IS GOING 00:40:59.15\00:41:02.12 ON IN THE STORY OF THE SCRIPTURE? 00:41:02.12\00:41:05.86 WELL, GENESIS 3:15 FORTELLS AN OFFSPRING. 00:41:05.86\00:41:14.14 SO GOD IS INITIATING A GEOLOGICAL LINAGE. 00:41:14.14\00:41:18.17 SO GOD CALLS A GUY NAMED ABRAHAM, ALONG WITH SARAH, OUT 00:41:18.17\00:41:26.58 OF BABYLON, YOU GUYS. WHICH IS THEN RECONSTITUTED 00:41:26.58\00:41:40.83 ESCATOLGICALLY. SO ABRAHAM AND SARAH COME OUT OF 00:41:40.83\00:41:45.57 BABYLON, AND GOD'S COVENANT PROMISE -- I'M USING THE 00:41:45.57\00:41:51.04 WORD -- AFFIRMS. BECAUSE WHERE DO WE KNOW THE 00:41:51.04\00:41:56.95 PROMISE HAS ITS ROOTS? GENESIS 3:15. 00:41:56.95\00:42:00.75 SO GOD ISN'T PROMISING ANYTHING TO ABRAHAM THAT HE HASN'T 00:42:00.75\00:42:06.09 ALREADY PROMISED. THE COVENANT PROMISE IS NOW 00:42:06.09\00:42:10.83 EXPANDING WITH ABRAHAM. SO THE COVENANT IS AFFIRMED WITH 00:42:10.83\00:42:17.30 ABRAHAM. OKAY. 00:42:17.30\00:42:18.17 NOW WATCH THIS. AND A SONSHIP LINAGE IS 00:42:18.17\00:42:23.07 ESTABLISHED. GOD SAYS, ABRAHAM, SARAH, HERE 00:42:23.07\00:42:26.47 IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A SON, AND 00:42:26.47\00:42:30.91 YOUR SON WILL BE THE SON OF PROMISE, THE SON OF THE 00:42:30.91\00:42:36.52 COVENANT, AND THAT SON IS THE ONE THAT I'M GOING TO CARRY 00:42:36.52\00:42:42.26 FORTH THE COVENANT MISSION WITH. SO GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, LISTEN, 00:42:42.26\00:42:47.83 HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. GENESIS 12:3, IN YOUR -- THAT IS 00:42:47.83\00:42:52.97 IN YOUR SEED, IN YOUR OFFSPRING, IN YOUR LINAGE, IN YOU, ALL OF 00:42:52.97\00:42:59.61 THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED. 00:42:59.61\00:43:03.51 THIS IS GENESIS 3:15 MAGNIFIED. MESSIAH IS GOING TO COME THROUGH 00:43:03.51\00:43:11.99 THE LINAGE OF ABRAHAM EVENTUALLY, AND THE RESULT WILL 00:43:11.99\00:43:17.39 BE SOME KIND OF UNIVERSAL GLOBAL EFFECT. 00:43:17.39\00:43:21.16 THINK OF REVOLUTION 18:1. THE WHOLE EARTH LIGHTENED WITH 00:43:21.16\00:43:25.57 HIS GLORY. A GLOBAL VIRAL MOVEMENT OF 00:43:25.57\00:43:29.54 BLESSING. THE WHOLE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED 00:43:29.54\00:43:31.51 IN THIS MESSIAH. SO ABRAHAM AND SARAH SAY THAT 00:43:31.51\00:43:37.55 MEANS WE NEED TO HAVE A SON, AND WE'RE GETTING UP THERE IN YEARS. 00:43:37.55\00:43:41.95 IN FACT SARAH FINDS IT HILARIOUS TO THINK THAT ABRAHAM CAN PULL 00:43:41.95\00:43:47.32 THIS OFF, AND SO SHE MAKES A SUGGESTION AND HE BUYS THE 00:43:47.32\00:43:53.63 SUGGESTION -- I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW -- HE 00:43:53.63\00:43:57.00 PULLED IT OFF, SHE COULDN'T -- ANYWAY, IT DOESN'T -MATTER. 00:43:57.00\00:44:02.00 THE POINT IS THIS, THEY WERE OLD. 00:44:02.00\00:44:03.81 THAT'S THE POINT. SO THEY DO THE WHOLE THING WITH 00:44:03.81\00:44:07.18 THE HAND MAIDEN AND GET ISHMAEL. TECHNICALLY ISHMAEL IS ABRAHAM'S 00:44:07.18\00:44:22.06 FIRST-BORN SON, BUT COVENANTALLY, HE IS NOT. 00:44:22.06\00:44:28.83 SO GOD SAYS, HE IS A FINE LITTLE BOY -- I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAID 00:44:28.83\00:44:33.67 THAT -- BUT THAT'S NOT HIM. I SAID THAT THE PROMISE WAS 00:44:33.67\00:44:37.87 GOING TO BE FULFILLED THROUGH YOU AND SARAH. 00:44:37.87\00:44:44.61 NOT YOU AND HAGAR. SO ISAC COMES ALONG. 00:44:44.61\00:44:50.12 AND ISAAC IS THE SECOND-BORN BUT-HE IS THE COVENANT CHILD. HE IS THE NARRATIVE CHILD. 00:44:50.12\00:44:56.62 HE IS THE SON THAT WILL CARRY THE LINAGE FORWARD, SO ALL OF 00:44:56.62\00:45:01.63 THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED. 00:45:01.63\00:45:05.40 SO ABRAHAM AND THEN COMES ISAAC, AND ISAAC IS EXPLICITLY CALLED 00:45:05.40\00:45:13.24 THE SON OF PROMISE, AND THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON IN THE BOOK OF 00:45:13.24\00:45:18.51 HEBREWS -- THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF ABRAHAM. 00:45:18.51\00:45:23.55 ABRAHAM I THINK HAD SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE SONS. 00:45:23.55\00:45:27.56 ISAAC WAS BY NO MEANS ABRAHAM'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, BUT IN THE 00:45:27.56\00:45:38.47 COVENANTAL SENSE, YOU CAN SAY THAT ISAAC WAS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN 00:45:38.47\00:45:42.57 COVENANT SON. HE IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF 00:45:42.57\00:45:47.44 PROMISE. AND THEN COMES JACOB, HIS 00:45:47.44\00:45:50.75 BROTHER WAS THE FIRSTBORN TECHNICALLY.-JACOB IS THE SECOND 00:45:50.75\00:45:58.55 BORN CHRONOLOGICALLY, BUT JACOB BECOMES THE FIRSTBORN, THE CHILD 00:45:58.55\00:46:02.62 OF PROMISE, THE SON OF THE COVENANT. 00:46:02.62\00:46:07.30 AGAIN, EMPHASIZING THAT GOD ISN'T SUPER CONCERNED WITH 00:46:07.30\00:46:13.44 CHRONOLOGICAL BIRTH. GOD IS CONCERNED WITH CHARACTER 00:46:13.44\00:46:17.94 MESSAGE, PURPOSE, PLAN, COVENANT. 00:46:17.94\00:46:19.91 AND THAT IS THE THING THAT IS BEING WOVEN THROUGH HISTORY. 00:46:19.91\00:46:27.02 AND THEN JACOB HAS -- HOW MANY SONS? 00:46:27.02\00:46:31.32 12 SONS. THEY COLLECTIVELY REPRODUCE AND 00:46:31.32\00:46:37.79 BECOME A NATION CALLED ISRAEL. THEY TAKE THE NAME OF JACOB, 00:46:37.79\00:46:42.53 THEIR FATHER AFTER HIS WRESTLING MATCH WITH THE LORD, AND GOD 00:46:42.53\00:46:47.44 CHANGE'S JACOB'S NAME FROM JACOB TO ISRAEL, ONE WHO PREVAILS WITH 00:46:47.44\00:46:51.87 GOD. SO NOW WATCH THIS. 00:46:51.87\00:46:53.94 ISRAEL BECOMES GOD'S CORPORATE SON. 00:46:53.94\00:46:55.91 WATCH THE LANGUAGE NOW. WHEN ISRAEL IS IN EGYPTIAN 00:46:55.91\00:47:01.78 BONDAGE FOR SOME 400 YEARS, NOTICE THAT GOD COMES TO MOSES 00:47:01.78\00:47:08.56 IN EXODUS 4:22-23 AND GOD USES VERY SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN HIS 00:47:08.56\00:47:17.03 ADDRESS TO PHARAOH THROUGH MOSES. 00:47:17.03\00:47:19.10 GOD SAYS ISRAEL -- HE IS TALKING THROUGH MOSES TO PHARAOH. 00:47:19.10\00:47:24.67 ISRAEL IS MY WHAT?-MY SON, MY FIRSTBORN. ISRAEL, THE NATION, 00:47:24.67\00:47:32.15 THE CORPORATE BODY IS GOD'S FIRST-BORN SON. 00:47:32.15\00:47:34.72 SO I SAY TO YOU, LET MY SON GO. WE'RE BEGINNING TO REALIZE THAT 00:47:34.72\00:47:43.63 YOU CAN'T INTERPRET THE SONSHIP LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN 00:47:43.63\00:47:52.93 A V-- VACUUM. THEY ONLY HAVE COHERENT MEANING 00:47:52.93\00:47:56.71 IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS NARRATIVE. 00:47:56.71\00:47:59.17 IN FACT ALL OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE SONSHIP OF CHRIST IN THE NEW 00:47:59.17\00:48:03.51 TESTAMENT IS DERIVED FROM OLD -pTESTAMENT NARRATIVE AND 00:48:03.51\00:48:09.88 PASSAGES. HERE ISRAEL IS CALLED MY SON, MY FIRSTBORN. 00:48:09.88\00:48:15.49 IN DEUTERONOMY 32, IS THE FIRST TIME IN SCRIPTURE THAT GOD IS 00:48:15.49\00:48:22.16 CALLED FATHER. AND IT'S IN A SPECIFIC CONTEXT. 00:48:22.16\00:48:26.74 MOSES IS TALKING TO ISRAEL. HE IS REMAINING THEM OF GOD'S 00:48:26.74\00:48:31.74 COVENANT PROMISES AND THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPTIAN 00:48:31.74\00:48:36.18 BONDAGE. AND MOSES SAYS TO THE CHILDREN 00:48:36.18\00:48:38.11 OF ISRAEL, IS HE NOT YOUR -- WHAT? 00:48:38.11\00:48:42.68 YOUR FATHER? GOD. 00:48:42.68\00:48:45.82 IS GOD NOT YOUR FATHER. WHAT HAD GOD REFERRED TO ISRAEL 00:48:45.82\00:48:49.26 AS A NATION? WHAT LANGUAGE DID NOT USE IN YOU 00:48:49.26\00:48:52.76 ARE MY SON -- MY FIRST-BORN SON. GOD TAKES ON THE ROLE OF FATHER 00:48:52.76\00:48:58.03 TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL, APART FROM ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS, 00:48:58.03\00:49:03.04 WHO ARE BEING PRESIDED OVER BY PAGAN DEITIES, DEMONS 00:49:03.04\00:49:13.72 MASQUERADING AS GOD. IS HE NOT YOUR PHATTER? 00:49:13.72\00:49:16.38 AND THEN THEY -- THE OTHER NATIONS, THEY SACRIFICED TO 00:49:16.38\00:49:20.99 DEMONS, AND NOT TO GOD. TO GOD, THEY DID NOT KNOW. 00:49:20.99\00:49:27.30 LOWER CASED GOD'S WHICH ARE IN THIS CASE, DEMONS MASQUERADING 00:49:27.30\00:49:33.07 AS GODS. THE NEW ARRIVES THAT YOUR 00:49:33.07\00:49:36.04 FATHERS DID NOT FEAR. NOW WATCH THIS. 00:49:36.04\00:49:40.01 OF THE ROCK WHO WHAT? BEGOT YOU. 00:49:40.01\00:49:43.68 GOD IS TELLING ISRAEL, I BEGOT YOU. 00:49:43.68\00:49:47.92 THAT IS -- I GAVE BIRTH TO YOU, AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL WAS 00:49:47.92\00:49:52.95 THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE. 00:49:52.95\00:49:55.76 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BIRTH AND SONSHIP. 00:49:55.76\00:50:03.23 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT ETALOGICAL, BIRTH. 00:50:03.23\00:50:11.11 IT'S TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL IS GOD'S BEGOTTEN SON, AND YOU ARE 00:50:11.11\00:50:16.81 NOT MINDFUL AND YOU FORGOT THE GOD WHO FATHERED YOU. 00:50:16.81\00:50:21.45 THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF THE LANGUAGE OF GOD'S FATHERHOOD IN 00:50:21.45\00:50:24.99 THE NEW TESTAMENT. IT DOESN'T PREDATE THIS 00:50:24.99\00:50:38.53 OCCURRENCE. BEFORE THIS GOD SOMETHING ELSE, 00:50:38.53\00:50:40.50 BUT NOW GOD IS TELLING A STORY, AND CARRYING OUT A PURPOSE. 00:50:40.50\00:50:46.54 SO MOSES ESSENTIALLY TELLS ISRAEL, GOD IS YOUR FATHER, 00:50:46.54\00:50:50.81 ISRAEL AS A NATION. THE OTHER NATIONS, THEY HAVE 00:50:50.81\00:50:55.18 THEIR FATHER GODS, BUT GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD IS YOUR 00:50:55.18\00:51:01.12 FATHER, AND MOSES TELLS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, YOU ARE 00:51:01.12\00:51:04.86 GOD'S ONY BEGOTTEN SON AMONG THE NATIONS. 00:51:04.86\00:51:08.36 NOW BACK UP AND REMEMBER THE PROPHECY PROMISE OF GENESIS 00:51:08.36\00:51:14.90 3:15. REMEMBER ABRAHAM AND SARAH 00:51:14.90\00:51:17.27 CALLED OUT SO THAT THROUGH THEIR LINAGE, HOW MANY NATIONS OF THE 00:51:17.27\00:51:20.98 EARTH WOULD BE BLESSED? ALL OF THE NATIONS. 00:51:20.98\00:51:24.41 LISTEN, ISRAEL WAS NOT CALLED OUT TO STAY OUT, BUT TO BE SENT 00:51:24.41\00:51:31.09 IN. ISRAEL WAS CALLED OUT TO BE THE 00:51:31.09\00:51:36.26 CORPORATE SON OF GOD AS A NATION IN ORDER TO WITNESS TO THE OTHER 00:51:36.26\00:51:41.90 NATIONS THAT WOULD BE INCORPORATED IN TO ISRAEL BECOME 00:51:41.90\00:51:51.34 NATION'S SONS OF GOD AS WELL. THIS IS THE PLAN OF SALVATION 00:51:51.34\00:51:56.11 UNFOLDING.-ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, ISRAEL, AND THEN THERE'S 00:51:56.11\00:52:04.82 KING DAVID. SURE ENOUGH PSALM 2, DAVID IS CALLED THE ANOINTED, 00:52:04.82\00:52:09.06 WHICH IS THE WORD MESSIAH IN HEBREW, BUT HERE IS WHAT IS 00:52:09.06\00:52:16.26 FASCINATING. IN PSALM 2, DAVID IS CALLED GOD'S SON. 00:52:16.26\00:52:21.10 THE LORD REFERS TO HIM SPECIFICALLY AS MY SON, AND 00:52:21.10\00:52:24.71 TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU, DAVID. 00:52:24.71\00:52:28.94 WHAT? DIDN'T DAVID HAVE A MOM AND A 00:52:28.94\00:52:32.25 DAD LITERLLY, BIOLOGICALLY? WAS NOT JESSE HIS FATHER? 00:52:32.25\00:52:38.35 GOD IS NOT TALKING ABOUT CHRONOLOGY. 00:52:38.35\00:52:41.56 GOD'S TALKING ABOUT COVENANT. DAVID, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO I 00:52:41.56\00:52:46.26 HAVE NOW DESIGNATED AS MY COVENANT CONTINUATION THROUGH 00:52:46.26\00:52:54.00 HISTORY. YOU ARE THE MESSIAH, ANOINTED 00:52:54.00\00:52:58.91 ONE IN THE LOWER CASE, AN YOU ARE THE MESSIAH THAT IS 00:52:58.91\00:53:13.69 COMING. YOU ARE THE ONE, DAVID. 00:53:13.69\00:53:16.19 YOU ARE MY SON, AND GOD SAYS THAT DAVID IS HIS BEGOTTEN SON. 00:53:16.19\00:53:23.57 HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER. 00:53:23.57\00:53:29.54 AND PSALM 89, SAME THING. JUST LIKE PSALM 2. 00:53:29.54\00:53:36.61 HERE WE -- WE READ IN PSALM 89, HE SHALL CRY OUT TO ME. 00:53:36.61\00:53:43.72 THAT IS KING DAVID AND LATER ON THE MESSIAH WILL CRY OUT TO ME, 00:53:43.72\00:53:49.56 YOU ARE MY FATHER. YOU ARE MY FATHER. 00:53:49.56\00:53:52.86 MY GOD, AND THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION, QUOTING DEUTERONOMY 00:53:52.86\00:53:58.40 32, WHERE THE LANGUAGE COMES FROM. 00:53:58.40\00:54:02.07 ALSO I WILL MAKE HIM MY FIRSTBORN, BUT NOTE THE 00:54:02.07\00:54:06.54 -LANGUAGE. GOD SAYS OF DAVID, I WILL MAKE HIM MY FIRSTBORN. 00:54:06.54\00:54:10.65 IT'S A MAKING. IT'S A DESIGNATION. 00:54:10.65\00:54:13.78 IT'S AN ASSIGNMENT. IT'S NOT -- IT HAS NOTHING TO DO 00:54:13.78\00:54:18.92 WITH BIOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS. YOU ARE MY FIRSTBORN, AND THE 00:54:18.92\00:54:23.36 HIGHEST OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. 00:54:23.36\00:54:27.30 MY MERCY I WILL KEEP FOR HIM FOREVER AND MY COVENANT SHALL 00:54:27.30\00:54:34.10 STAND WITH HIM, HIM, KING DAVID. DAVID IS THE ONE. 00:54:34.10\00:54:40.84 SO THERE IS A LINAGE THAT IS UNFOLDING. 00:54:40.84\00:54:44.05 THE STORY IS BEING WOVEN THROUGH HISTORY, AND THEN COMES SALOMON. 00:54:44.05\00:54:50.75 AND SALOMON IS THE SON OF DAVD. DAVID SAYS TO GOD, NOW I WANT TO 00:54:50.75\00:54:55.09 BUILD A TEMPLE FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD. 00:54:55.09\00:54:57.86 AND GOD SAYS YOU CAN'T BUILD A TEMPLE FOR MY WORSHIP, BECAUSE 00:54:57.86\00:55:02.93 YOU ARE A MAN OF WAR. GOD DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM FORCE 00:55:02.93\00:55:08.80 AND COERCION AND VIOLENCE. AND HE SAYS YOU CAN'T BUILD A 00:55:08.80\00:55:14.41 TEMPLE FOR ME. IT HAS TO BE A MAN OF PEACE. 00:55:14.41\00:55:19.05 AND SALOMON IS MAN OF PIECE. FIRST CHRONICLE 22:10, HE SHALL 00:55:19.05\00:55:25.45 BUILD A HOUSE. THAT IS SALMON WILL BUILD A 00:55:25.45\00:55:30.66 HOUSE FOR MY NAME, DAVID, NOT YOU, BUT YOUR SON, SALOMON. 00:55:30.66\00:55:38.23 AND HE SHALL BE WHO? MY SON, AND I WILL BE HIS 00:55:38.23\00:55:43.71 FATHER, AND I WILL ESTABLISH THE THROWN OF HIS, SALOMON'S KINGDOM 00:55:43.71\00:55:48.41 OVER ISRAEL FOR HOW LONG? WELL, SALOMON DIED, AND WILL NOT 00:55:48.41\00:55:54.35 BE THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. 00:55:54.35\00:55:59.42 THIS IS BOTH LOCAL HISTORICAL, AND THIS IS GOD SAYING DAVID 00:55:59.42\00:56:06.73 THEN SALOMON, AND SALOMON, YOU ARE MY SON, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER 00:56:06.73\00:56:14.34 SON COMING WITHIN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE. 00:56:14.34\00:56:18.21 HERE IS THE CLOSE FOR TONIGHT. AND I HOPE YOU'RE PRIMED FOR 00:56:18.21\00:56:22.61 TOMORROW NIGHT OKAY? 00:56:22.61\00:56:24.01 WE'RE JUST SETTING THE ABLE TO TONIGHT. 00:56:24.01\00:56:27.38 WE'RE GOING TO EAT TONIGHT. TONIGHT WE WERE NIBBLING AT THE 00:56:27.38\00:56:32.75 BLUEBERRY MUFFIN. SO HERE IS THE CONCLUSION 00:56:32.75\00:56:37.03 TONIGHT. WITHIN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE, 00:56:37.03\00:56:42.40 IT IS EVIDENT IF YOU PAN OUT AND LOOK AT THE STORY, THAT SONSHIP 00:56:42.40\00:56:48.14 IS A COVENANT IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION. 00:56:48.14\00:56:51.84 WHEN WE COME TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND WE ENCOUNTER THE 00:56:51.84\00:56:56.64 SON OF GOD IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST, THE NEW TESTAMENT 00:56:56.64\00:57:00.55 AUTHORS ARE NOT TRYING TO TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HE BEGAN 00:57:00.55\00:57:07.69 TO EXIST IN SOME TIME PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. 00:57:07.69\00:57:11.73 THEY ARE NOT ANSWERING GREEK QUESTIONS OF METAPHYSICS. 00:57:11.73\00:57:15.80 THEY ARE ANSWERING HEBREW QUESTIONS OF COVENANT AND 00:57:15.80\00:57:20.80 NARRATIVE. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR -JESUS, YOUR 00:57:20.80\00:57:28.58 COVENANT SON. MAY WE BE COVENANT SONS AND -DAUGHTERS OF YOURS AS WELL AND THE CONDUIT THROUGH 00:57:28.58\00:57:38.32 WHICH . . . ¤ 00:57:38.32\00:57:42.79