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>>GOOD EVENING,
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STUDY, LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS
AND ASK GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT TO
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GUIDE US. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
WE THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
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TO GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR
WORD. AND AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT
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THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT - AS
WE TALK ABOUT JESUS - LORD, WE
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NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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AND, LIKE MOSES, WE NEED TO
APPROACH THE SUBJECT HUMBLY.
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WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE
DEALING WITH THE DIVINE AND WE
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JUST ASK, IN A SPECIAL WAY, THAT
YOU'D BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER,
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>>AMEN.
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>>OUR LESSON TODAY - LESSON
#3 - ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, IS
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ENTITLED WHO IS JESUS CHRIST?
IT'S A FANTASTIC STUDY - JUST A
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LOT OF INFORMATION
THAT WE WANT TO BE SHARING.
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WE HAVE A MEMORY TEXT, IT'S LUKE
CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE 20 - LUKE
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CHAPTER 9, VERSE 20, "HE SAID
UNTO THEM, 'BUT WHOM DO YOU SAY
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THAT I AM?'" -
THIS IS JESUS SPEAKING -
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"PETER ANSWERED AND SAID,
'THE CHRIST OF GOD.'" NOW PEOPLE
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MIGHT ADMIRE
THE WORKS OF CHRIST.
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THEY MIGHT BE READY TO ACCEPT
JESUS AS A GOOD MAN WHO TRIED TO
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SET THINGS RIGHT, TO
INFUSE FAIRNESS WHERE THERE WAS
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INJUSTICE, TO OFFER HEALING
WHERE THERE WAS SICKNESS, AND TO
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BRING COMFORT WHERE THERE WAS
ONLY MISERY, BUT NONE OF THESE
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THINGS, HOWEVER, COME NEAR
TO ANSWERING THE ALL-IMPORTANT
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QUESTION THAT WE WISH TO
CONSIDER TODAY AND THAT QUESTION
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IS A QUESTION JESUS ASKED HIS
DISCIPLES: 'WHOM DO YOU SAY THAT
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I AM?' WHO IS JESUS?
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NOW I DON'T THINK THERE'S
TOO MUCH CONTROVERSY AS TO THE
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HISTORICAL PERSON OF JESUS.
ALL OF THE MAJOR RELIGIONS OF
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THE WORLD, IN ONE WAY OR
ANOTHER, RECOGNIZE THAT THERE
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WAS A PERSON BY
THE NAME OF JESUS.
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THERE'S AN INTERESTING QUOTE
THAT YOU FIND IN THE JEWISH
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ANTIQUITIES, WRITTEN BY
JOSEPHUS, WHO WAS A JEWISH
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HISTORIAN. HE LIVED FROM 37
AD TO 100 AD. HE WAS ACTUALLY
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PRESENT AT THE DESTRUCTION
OF JERUSALEM IN 70 AD.
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BUT HE HAD THIS TO SAY, WITH
REFERENCE TO JESUS - AND I QUOTE
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- IT SAYS, "ABOUT THIS TIME
THERE LIVED JESUS, A WISE MAN,
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IF INDEED ONE OUGHT TO CALL
HIM A MAN, FOR HE IS ONE WHO
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PERFORMS SURPRISING DEEDS AND
WAS A TEACHER OF SUCH PEOPLE AS
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ACCEPTED THE TRUTH GLADLY.
HE WON OVER MANY JEWS AND MANY
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OF THE GREEKS.
HE WAS THE MESSIAH.
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AND WHEN, UPON ACCUSATIONS
OF THE PRINCIPLE MEN AMONG US,
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PILATE HAD
CONDEMNED HIM TO THE CROSS.
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THOSE, WHO AT FIRST HAD
COME TO LOVE HIM, DID NOT CEASE.
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HE APPEARED TO THEM, SPENDING A
THIRD DAY RESTORED TO LIFE, FOR
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THE PROPHETS OF GOD HAD FORETOLD
THESE THINGS AND A THOUSAND
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OTHER MARVELS ABOUT HIM AND THE
TRIBE OF CHRISTIANS, SO CALLED
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AFTER HIM, HAS STILL, TO
THIS DAY, NOT DISAPPEARED."
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NOW THERE ARE SOME SCHOLARS THAT
FEEL THAT MAYBE WHAT JOSEPHUS
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HAD TO SAY ABOUT JESUS WAS ADDED
TO BY THE CHURCH DURING THE DARK
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AGES, BUT ALMOST ALL OF
THE SCHOLARS RECOGNIZE THAT
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JOSEPHUS DOES MENTION JESUS.
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HE ALSO, BY THE WAY, SPEAKS
ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST AND SOME
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OF THE THINGS THAT WERE
TAKING PLACE AROUND THAT TIME.
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SO, YES, JESUS IS
A HISTORICAL FIGURE.
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EVEN IN THE KORAN,
YOU CAN READ ABOUT JESUS.
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OF COURSE, HE IS NOT PRESENTED
AS THE MESSIAH, OR THE SON OF
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GOD, BUT HE'S
PRESENTED AS A GOOD MAN.
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SO WE KNOW JESUS EXISTED - NO
DOUBT ABOUT THAT - BUT WHO WAS
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HE? WHAT DID HE CLAIM TO BE?
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NOW, WHEN JESUS SAID THAT HE WAS
THE SON OF GOD, IT CREATED QUITE
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A RESPONSE FROM THE PEOPLE THAT
HE WAS TALKING TO. IN THE NEW
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TESTAMENT THESE INCREDIBLE
CLAIMS ARE MADE, NOT ONLY ABOUT
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WHAT JESUS DID BUT, EVEN MORE
IMPORTANTLY, ABOUT WHO HE WAS.
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JESUS CLAIMED THAT HE WAS GOD,
THAT HE WAS THE REDEEMER, THAT
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HE ALONE WAS THE WAY TO ETERNAL
LIFE. AND, OF COURSE, THESE
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CLAIMS DEMAND OUR ATTENTION
BECAUSE THEY ARE FULL OF
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IMPLICATIONS THAT HAVE ETERNAL
CONSEQUENCES FOR EVERY PERSON
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TODAY. SO LET'S
BEGIN BY TAKING A LOOK
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AT AN EXPERIENCE THAT HAPPENED
TO JESUS IN HIS HOMETOWN.
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YOU FIND THIS STORY RECORDED
IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE - LUKE
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CHAPTER 4 AND WE'RE GOING TO
BEGIN READING HERE IN VERSE 16.
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SO YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG WITH
YOUR BIBLES - LUKE CHAPTER 4 AND
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WE'RE GOING TO START
READING HERE IN VERSE 16.
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THIS IS A FAMILIAR
STORY. IT SAYS, "SO HE CAME TO
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NAZARETH, WHERE HE
HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP.
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AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE
WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE
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SABBATH DAY, AND
STOOD UP TO READ."
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NOW, IF YOU WERE TO GO VISIT THE
TOWN OF NAZARETH BEFORE CHRIST'S
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PUBLIC MINISTRY BEGAN, AND YOU
WERE TO GO THERE DURING ONE OF
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THE DAYS OF THE WEEK - YOU WALK
THROUGH THOSE COBBLESTONES AND
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YOU ASK SOMEBODY, 'I'M LOOKING
FOR THE CARPENTER'S SHOP -
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JOSEPH'S SHOP - OR HIS SON
JESUS' SHOP - THEY WOULD DIRECT
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YOU AND YOU WOULD GO FIND THIS
LITTLE SHOP AND INSIDE YOU'D SEE
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JESUS WORKING OR MAYBE JOSEPH
WORKING THERE IN THE CARPENTER'S
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SHOP BUT, IF YOU HAPPEN TO VISIT
ON THE SABBATH AND YOU WENT BY
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THIS CARPENTER'S SHOP, YOU'D
NOTICE THE DOOR WOULD BE CLOSED.
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MAYBE IF YOU PEEKED THROUGH
THE WINDOWS YOU'D SEE EVERYTHING
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PACKED NEATLY AWAY, AND IF YOU
ASKED SOMEBODY, 'SAY, WHERE IS
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JESUS?' THEY WOULD PROBABLY
SAY, 'WELL, IT'S THE SABBATH.
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HE'S NOT WORKING IN THE
CARPENTER'S SHOP, HE'S OVER AT
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THE SYNAGOGUE.' AND IF
YOU FOLLOW THE CROWD TO THE
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SYNAGOGUE AND YOU WALKED
IN, IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE THAT YOU
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COULD SEE JESUS STANDING UP
TO READ FROM THE SCRIPTURES.
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NOW CHRIST, BY THIS TIME,
HAD BEGUN HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
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HE HAD GONE AROUND THE AREA OF
GALILEE PREACHING AND TEACHING
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AND THE RUMORS HAD COME BACK TO
THE INHABITANTS OF NAZARETH THAT
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JESUS, ONE OF THEIR HOMETOWN
BOYS, WAS DOING MIRACLES AND
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PREACHING GREAT THINGS.
NOW JESUS CAME BACK TO NAZARETH
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AND YOU CAN
IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT.
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IT'S THE SABBATH, SO JESUS
COMES TO THE SYNAGOGUE AND HE IS
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ABOUT TO READ
FROM THE SCRIPTURES.
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TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 17 - LUKE
CHAPTER 4, VERSE 17 - IT SAYS,
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"AND HE WAS HANDED THE
BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
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AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK,
HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS
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WRITTEN:" - NOW JESUS QUOTES
FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 61, AND HERE
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HE'S QUOTING FROM
VERSE 1 AND VERSE 2.
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AND JESUS SAYS, "THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE
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HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE
GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HAS SENT
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ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO
PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES
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AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE
BLIND, TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE
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WHO ARE OPPRESSED; TO PROCLAIM
THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE
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LORD." NOW YOU
CAN JUST IMAGINE HERE,
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JESUS STANDS UP AND HE OPENS
UP THE SCROLL OF ISAIAH AND HE
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BEGINS TO READ SOME VERY
FAMILIAR WORDS TO THE PEOPLE.
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THEY'RE ALL NODDING - THEY'RE
SMILING - AND MAYBE EVEN THEY'RE
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QUOTING ALONG WITH JESUS AS HE
READS FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
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AND THEN, IF YOU READ THE NEXT
VERSE, "THEN HE CLOSED THE BOOK,
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AND GAVE IT BACK TO THE
ATTENDANT AND SAT DOWN. AND
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THE EYES OF ALL WHO WERE IN THE
SYNAGOGUE WERE FIXED ON HIM."
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SO IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR
THE RABBI TO READ A PASSAGE OF
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SCRIPTURE, HAND THE SCROLL BACK
AND IT WOULD BE PUT AWAY, AND
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THEN HE WOULD TAKE HIS SEAT IN
THE FRONT AND HE WOULD EXPLAIN
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THE SCRIPTURES. SO
JESUS READ FROM ISAIAH, GAVE
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IT BACK, AND IT WAS PUT AWAY.
AND THEN CHRIST TOOK HIS SEAT
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AND EVERYBODY'S WATCHING TO
SEE WHAT JESUS IS GOING TO SAY.
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UP TO THIS POINT, EVERYBODY'S
IN AGREEMENT. GREAT PASSAGE -
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THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS TO BE
A MESSIANIC PASSAGE - TO SPEAK
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ABOUT THE MESSIAH - AND THEN
JESUS SAYS, IN VERSE 21, "AND
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HE BEGAN TO SAY TO THEM, 'TODAY
THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED IN
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YOUR HEARING.'" AND AT FIRST,
THERE'S NOT MUCH RESPONSE.
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JUST IMAGINE THE PEOPLE ARE
SITTING THERE AND SUDDENLY IT
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BEGINS TO DAWN ON THEM
WHAT JESUS IS ACTUALLY SAYING.
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THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS PASSAGE
TO BE MESSIANIC - TALK ABOUT THE
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MESSIAH - NOW JESUS SAYS, 'TODAY
THIS SCRIPTURE IS FULFILLED IN
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YOUR HEARING.' AND THEY BEGIN
TO WONDER, 'IS HE TALKING ABOUT
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HIMSELF? IS HE SAYING
THAT HE'S THE MESSIAH?'
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TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEXT VERSE
THAT SAYS - VERSE 22 - "SO ALL
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BORE WITNESS TO HIM, AND
MARVELED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS
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WHICH PROCEEDED
OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
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AND THEY SAID, 'IS
THIS NOT JOSEPH'S SON?'"
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SOME WOULD SAY,
'WELL, WAIT A MINUTE.
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HE'S NOT THE
MESSIAH, HE'S JOSEPH'S SON.
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WE KNOW THE FAMILY.
THEY'VE BEEN IN NAZARETH.
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HE IS NOT THE MESSIAH.' AND THEN
VERSE 23, "HE SAID UNTO THEM,
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'YOU WILL SURELY SAY THIS
PROVERB TO ME, 'PHYSICIAN, HEAL
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YOURSELF!'" - NOW,
BY THE WAY, THAT IS A
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REFERENCE TO WHAT THE PEOPLE
SAID TO JESUS WHEN HE WAS ON THE
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CROSS - AND YOU CAN READ THAT
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 27, VERSE 42
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WHERE THEY SAID, 'HE HEALED
OTHERS - HE SAVED OTHERS - HE
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CAN'T SAVE HIMSELF.' SO CHRIST
IS REFERRING TO THAT EVENT THAT
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WAS TO COME. AND THEN VERSE
23 CONTINUES: "WHATEVER WE HAVE
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HEARD DOWN IN CAPERNAUM, DO
ALSO HERE IN YOUR COUNTRY." -
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VERSE 24 - "THEN HE SAID"
- JESUS STILL SPEAKING TO THE
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PEOPLE - "'ASSUREDLY, I SAY UNTO
YOU, NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED IN
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HIS OWN COUNTRY.'" - VERSE
25 - "BUT I TELL YOU TRULY, MANY
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WIDOWS WERE IN ISRAEL IN THE
DAYS OF ELIJAH, WHEN THE HEAVEN
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WAS SHUT UP THREE YEARS AND SIX
MONTHS, AND THERE WAS A GREAT
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FAMINE THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND;
BUT TO NONE OF THOSE WAS ELIJAH
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SENT EXCEPT TO ZAREPHATH, IN THE
REGION OF SIDON, TO A WOMAN WHO
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WAS A WIDOW.'" SO NOW JESUS SAYS
A PROPHET IS NEVER RECEIVED IN
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HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND THEN
HE GOES BACK AND HE REFERS TO A
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HISTORICAL RECORD THAT THE JEWS
WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH - THE
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STORY OF ELIJAH WHEN IT DIDN'T
RAIN FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS
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AND HE WENT AND MINISTERED TO
THE NEEDS OF THIS WIDOW WHO WAS
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NOT EVEN A JEW, AND
HELPED PROVIDE FOR HER NEEDS.
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NOW, OF COURSE, JESUS IS
EMPHASIZING THE FACT THAT THE
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GOSPEL WAS NOT EXCLUSIVE FOR THE
JEWS, BUT THE WORK OF ISRAEL WAS
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TO PREPARE PEOPLE TO PREPARE THE
WORLD FOR THE FIRST COMING OF
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CHRIST. THEY WOULD HAVE
PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE.
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HOWEVER, THEY KIND OF FELT
THAT THE GOSPEL WAS THEIRS OR
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THAT THEY WERE PRIVILEGED ABOVE
ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS AROUND
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THEM, AND JESUS IS TRYING TO
HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR
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MISSION IS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR
THE FIRST COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
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OF COURSE, OUR MISSION TODAY
IS TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR THE
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SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE THREE
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ANGELS' MESSAGES THAT HAVE
TO GO TO EVERY NATION, KINDRED,
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TONGUE, AND PEOPLE.
NOW, A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT
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THIS ILLUSTRATION THAT JESUS
USES HERE ABOUT ELIJAH IN VERSE
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25 - IT SAYS IT DIDN'T
RAIN FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
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NOW THAT'S AN
INTERESTING TIME PERIOD.
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THREE AND A HALF IS THE TIME
PERIOD THAT YOU SEE REFERRED TO
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SEVERAL TIMES IN SCRIPTURE.
THERE IS A PROPHETIC ELEMENT TO
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THIS THREE AND A
HALF YEAR PERIOD.
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THE LAST WEEK OF THE SEVENTY
WEEKS OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9 IS
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DIVIDED - SEVEN - SEVEN YEARS
- IT'S DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS:
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THREE AND A HALF AND THREE AND
A HALF. THE FIRST THREE AND A
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HALF HAS TO DO WITH
CHRIST'S PUBLIC MINISTRY.
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IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK, JESUS
PUT AN END TO SACRIFICE AND
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OFFERINGS WHEN HE
DIED ON THE CROSS.
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AND THEN, FOR ANOTHER THREE AND
A HALF YEARS, THE DISCIPLES GAVE
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WITNESS OF CHRIST UNTIL THE
STONING OF STEPHEN IN 34 AD.
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THEN YOU FIND PERSECUTION COMING
UPON THE CHRISTIANS IN JERUSALEM
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AND THEY SPREAD OUT INTO
THE GENTILE WORLD AND NOW THE
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GOSPEL GOES OUT
TO THE GENTILE WORLD.
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IT'S FURTHER THEN - IT'S
NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS, BUT NOW
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EVERYONE'S
RECEIVING THE MESSAGE.
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THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER THREE
AND A HALF-YEAR TIME PERIOD IN
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REVELATION CHAPTER 12 THAT IS
REFERRED TO AS 42 MONTHS OR 1260
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DAYS. THIS
REPRESENTS A TIME PERIOD OF
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PAPAL SUPREMACY FROM 538 UNTIL
1798. IT SAYS, IN THE DAYS OF
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ELIJAH, IT DIDN'T RAIN FOR THIS
THREE AND A HALF-YEAR PERIOD.
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WHEN THE CHURCH LEFT THE TRUTHS
OF GOD'S WORD, THERE WAS A
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CORRESPONDING DRYING UP OF THE
SPIRIT AND THE MANIFESTATIONS OF
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THE SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH,
BECAUSE IF YOU SET ASIDE GOD'S
00:13:55.43\00:13:57.80
LAW AND YOU SET ASIDE THE
PRINCIPLES OF SCRIPTURE, THERE
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IS A DRYING UP, SPIRITUALLY
SPEAKING, AND THAT TIME PERIOD,
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OF COURSE, 538 ALL THE WAY
TO 1798. AND DURING THAT TIME
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PERIOD THERE WAS PERSECUTION
THAT CAME UPON THOSE WHO WANTED
00:14:09.43\00:14:12.96
TO STICK TO THE TRUTHS OF THE
BIBLE. WE'RE STILL WANTING TO
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FOLLOW THE TRUTHS AS
REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE.
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JUST LIKE THE JEWS PERSECUTED
THOSE WHO HELD TO THE TRUTHS OF
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THE BIBLE - THE TRUTHS OF THE
SCRIPTURES, SO, DURING THE DARK
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AGES, THERE WAS PERSECUTION
THAT CAME AGAINST THOSE WHO WERE
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HOLDING TO THE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
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NOW THERE'S ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION
THAT JESUS USES OVER HERE IN
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VERSE 27. READING
ON IT SAYS, "AND MANY
00:14:36.16\00:14:41.20
LEPERS WERE IN ISRAEL IN THE
TIME OF ELISHA THE PROPHET, AND
00:14:41.20\00:14:45.33
NONE OF THEM WAS CLEANSED
EXCEPT NAAMAN THE SYRIAN."
00:14:45.33\00:14:48.60
VERSE 28 "SO ALL THOSE IN THE
SYNAGOGUE, WHEN THEY HEARD THESE
00:14:48.60\00:14:52.53
THINGS, WERE FILLED WITH WRATH,"
- SO AT FIRST THEY'RE ALL HAPPY
00:14:52.53\00:14:57.26
THAT JESUS IS READING FROM THE
SCRIPTURES AND THEY'RE AMAZED AT
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THE WISDOM. AND THEN
WHEN HE BEGINS TO DEAL
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A LITTLE BIT WITH THEIR PRIDE,
SUDDENLY THEY BECOME VERY ANGRY.
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THEY BECOME SO ANGRY, IF YOU
LOOK IN VERSE 29, IT SAYS "AND
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ROSE UP AND THRUST HIM OUT OF
THE CITY; AND THE LED HIM TO THE
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BROW OF THE HILL ON WHICH THEIR
CITY WAS BUILT, THAT THEY MIGHT
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THROW HIM DOWN OVER THE CLIFF."
- THEY WANTED TO KILL JESUS -
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"THEN PASSING THROUGH THE
MIDST OF THEM, HE WENT HIS WAY."
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SO NOT EVERYONE, EVEN OF HIS OWN
PEOPLE - EVEN OF HIS OWN CITY -
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THEY WEREN'T WILLING TO RECEIVE
THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS IS THE
00:15:31.76\00:15:35.36
CHRIST. HOW TRUE THAT IS TODAY.
THERE ARE SO MANY TODAY WHO
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WON'T RECEIVE THE FACT
THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
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THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT
ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS AS BEING A
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GOOD MAN, EVEN SOME
THAT HE IS A PROPHET.
00:15:45.96\00:15:51.10
BUT IS HE REALLY THE CHRIST
- THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD?
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YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY WAS IT THE
ENEMIES OF JESUS THAT QUESTIONED
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SOME OF THE THINGS JESUS SAID.
EVEN SOME OF HIS FRIENDS, AT
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TIMES, QUESTIONED
THE THINGS CHRIST SAID.
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ONE OF CHRIST'S CLOSEST FRIENDS,
WHEN HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY BEGAN,
00:16:06.00\00:16:09.90
WHO PREPARED THE WAY FOR
JESUS, WAS, OF COURSE, JOHN THE
00:16:09.90\00:16:12.53
BAPTIST. DID
JOHN THE BAPTIST EVER
00:16:12.53\00:16:15.30
QUESTION WHETHER CHRIST -
WHETHER JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH?
00:16:15.30\00:16:19.06
WELL LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT LUKE
CHAPTER 7 - LUKE CHAPTER 7 AND
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WE BEGIN OVER HERE IN VERSE 18
- LUKE CHAPTER 7 AND VERSE 18.
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IT SAYS, "THEN THE DISCIPLES OF
JOHN REPORTED TO HIM CONCERNING
00:16:31.93\00:16:36.46
ALL THESE THINGS." NOW
THOSE THINGS, IF YOU LOOK A
00:16:36.46\00:16:39.36
LITTLE HIGHER, IT WAS THE
RESURRECTION OF THE WIDOW'S SON
00:16:39.36\00:16:42.66
AND SOME OF THE OTHER
THINGS THAT JESUS HAD DONE.
00:16:42.66\00:16:45.96
BY THIS TIME, JOHN THE BAPTIST
WAS IN PRISON BECAUSE HE HAD
00:16:45.96\00:16:48.63
BEEN PUT THERE BY HEROD AND
NOW HE HEARS ABOUT JESUS BUT HE
00:16:48.63\00:16:53.30
BEGINS TO WONDER 'IS
HE REALLY THE CHRIST?'
00:16:53.30\00:16:56.06
LOOK AT VERSE 19, "AND JOHN,
CALLING TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES TO
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HIM, SENT THEM TO JESUS, SAYING,
'ARE YOU THE COMING ONE, OR
00:16:59.33\00:17:03.10
DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?"
00:17:03.10\00:17:05.70
NOW THAT'S ALWAYS STRANGE THAT
HERE YOU HAVE JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:17:05.70\00:17:09.40
WHO, JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE
THIS, HAD POINTED TO JESUS WHEN
00:17:09.40\00:17:12.90
JESUS CAME TO HIM AT THE JORDAN
AND SAID, 'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF
00:17:12.90\00:17:16.03
GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SINS
OF THE WORLD.' AND NOW HE'S IN
00:17:16.03\00:17:19.93
PRISON AND HE'S WONDERING,
'WELL, IS HE REALLY THE CHRIST?
00:17:19.93\00:17:22.93
WELL PART OF THE REASON WHY
JOHN WAS ASKING THIS QUESTION IS
00:17:22.93\00:17:26.10
PERHAPS HE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL
PICTURE, AT LEAST AT THAT POINT,
00:17:26.10\00:17:29.30
AS TO WHAT THE
MISSION OF THE CHRIST WAS -
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WHAT THE MISSION
OF THE MESSIAH WAS.
00:17:32.60\00:17:34.23
JOHN, ALONG WITH MANY OF THE
OTHERS IN ISRAEL, LOOKED AT THE
00:17:34.23\00:17:37.90
COMING OF THE MESSIAH AS BEING,
NOT ONLY REDEMPTIVE FROM SIN,
00:17:37.90\00:17:41.56
BUT ALSO HE SHARED THE HOPES
THAT THE CHRIST OR MESSIAH WOULD
00:17:41.56\00:17:45.66
ESTABLISH ISRAEL AS A
GREAT NATION, FULFILLING THE OLD
00:17:45.66\00:17:51.30
TESTAMENT PROPHECIES ABOUT
ISRAEL AND GIVING THEM THEIR
00:17:51.30\00:17:55.30
PROPER POSITION AND STATUS
AMONGST THE OTHER NATIONS.
00:17:55.30\00:17:58.70
NOW AS JOHN HEARD OF JESUS AND
HEARD ABOUT THE MIRACLES THAT
00:17:58.70\00:18:03.53
JESUS PERFORMED, HERE JOHN IS IN
PRISON - MAYBE HE IS WONDERING,
00:18:03.53\00:18:07.80
'WELL, IF JESUS IS THE CHRIST,
WHY DOES HE ALLOW ME TO STAY IN
00:18:07.80\00:18:11.23
PRISON AND TO SUFFER? WHY
DOESN'T HE COME RESCUE ME OR
00:18:11.23\00:18:14.53
COME VISIT ME?' AND
NOTHING'S HAPPENING AND AS
00:18:14.53\00:18:17.30
HE'S SITTING THERE IN HIS DARK
DUNGEON HE BEGINS TO WONDER, 'IS
00:18:17.30\00:18:20.20
HE REALLY THE CHRIST.' SO HE
CALLS TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES AND
00:18:20.20\00:18:23.10
HE SAYS, 'GO
ASK.' AND SO THEY GO.
00:18:23.10\00:18:25.23
TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 20 - IT
SAYS, "WHEN THE MEN HAD COME TO
00:18:25.23\00:18:28.63
HIM, THEY SAID, 'JOHN THE
BAPTIST HAS SENT US TO YOU,
00:18:28.63\00:18:32.43
SAYING, 'ARE YOU THE COMING ONE,
OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?''"
00:18:32.43\00:18:36.20
VERSE 21 - IT SAYS, "AND
THAT VERY HOUR HE CURED MANY OF
00:18:36.20\00:18:40.53
INFIRMITIES, AFFLICTIONS, AND
EVIL SPIRITS; AND TO MANY BLIND
00:18:40.53\00:18:45.56
HE GAVE SIGHT." SO
JESUS DOESN'T ANSWER THEIR
00:18:45.56\00:18:48.86
QUESTION RIGHT AWAY, INSTEAD HE
SAYS, 'WELL JUST WAIT AROUND.'
00:18:48.86\00:18:52.23
AND THEY WATCH WHAT
JESUS DOES - HE HEALS THE SICK.
00:18:52.23\00:18:55.83
HE OPENS THE EYES OF THE
BLIND. HE PREACHES THE GOSPEL.
00:18:55.83\00:18:58.43
VERSE 22, "JESUS ANSWERED AND
SAID TO THEM, 'GO AND TELL JOHN
00:18:58.43\00:19:01.70
THE THINGS YOU HAVE SEEN AND
HEARD: THAT THE BLIND SEE, THE
00:19:01.70\00:19:06.03
LAME WALK, THE LEPERS ARE
CLEANSED, THE DEAF HEAR, THE
00:19:06.03\00:19:10.53
DEAD ARE RAISED, THE POOR HAVE
THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM."
00:19:10.53\00:19:14.60
- NOW IT'S VERY INTERESTING
WHAT JESUS SAYS IN VERSE 22.
00:19:14.60\00:19:17.76
AGAIN, CHRIST QUOTES FROM THE
PROPHET ISAIAH - HE'S ACTUALLY
00:19:17.76\00:19:21.73
QUOTING FROM ISAIAH 35, VERSE
5, WHICH WAS ALSO A MESSIANIC
00:19:21.73\00:19:25.53
PASSAGE WHICH HELPED TO IDENTIFY
THE WORK OF THE MESSIAH -
00:19:25.53\00:19:29.56
WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD DO.
00:19:29.56\00:19:30.83
AND SO, AT FIRST, WHEN THE
DISCIPLES OF JOHN COME TO JESUS,
00:19:30.83\00:19:33.53
HE DOESN'T GIVE THEM
AN ANSWER RIGHT AWAY.
00:19:33.53\00:19:35.56
BUT HE SAYS, 'WATCH.' AND THEY
OBSERVE WHAT JESUS DOES AND THEN
00:19:35.56\00:19:39.33
HE SAYS, 'NOW GO TELL JOHN.'
AND THEN HE QUOTES FROM ISAIAH.
00:19:39.33\00:19:42.76
NOW JOHN WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS
PASSAGE IN ISAIAH, SO WHEN THE
00:19:42.76\00:19:46.50
DISCIPLES WENT BACK AND THEY
TOLD JOHN WHAT JESUS HAD SAID,
00:19:46.50\00:19:50.40
JOHN REALIZED WHAT THE TRUE
MISSION OF THE MESSIAH REALLY
00:19:50.40\00:19:54.13
WAS - THAT IT WASN'T TO
ESTABLISH A NATION ON EARTH, BUT
00:19:54.13\00:19:58.00
RATHER THE WORK OF THE
MESSIAH WAS TO COME AND PROVIDE
00:19:58.00\00:20:00.73
SALVATION AND TO PREACH THE
GOSPEL AND TO SET AT LIBERTY
00:20:00.73\00:20:04.03
THOSE WHO ARE
HELD CAPTIVE BY SIN.
00:20:04.03\00:20:06.86
AND THEN IT SAYS IN VERSE 23
- JESUS SAYS, "AND BLESSED IS HE
00:20:06.86\00:20:11.20
WHO IS NOT OFFENDED BECAUSE
OF ME." VERSE 24, "WHEN THE
00:20:11.20\00:20:15.16
MESSENGERS OF JOHN HAD DEPARTED,
HE BEGAN TO SPEAK TO THE
00:20:15.16\00:20:17.96
MULTITUDES CONCERNING JOHN:" NOW
THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE
00:20:17.96\00:20:22.06
FROM VERSE 24 ON TO
VERSE 27. CAN YOU IMAGINE?
00:20:22.06\00:20:25.90
HERE THE DISCIPLES ARE LEAVING
AND AS THEY'RE WALKING AWAY FROM
00:20:25.90\00:20:28.20
JESUS, JESUS TURNS TO THE CROWD
AND SAYS, "'WHAT DID YOU GO OUT
00:20:28.20\00:20:31.50
INTO THE WILDERNESS TO
SEE? A REED SHAKEN BY THE WIND?
00:20:31.50\00:20:35.53
BUT WHAT DID YOU GO OUT
TO SEE? A MAN CLOTHED IN SOFT
00:20:35.53\00:20:38.83
GARMENTS?'" JESUS
SAYS THOSE DRESSED IN
00:20:38.83\00:20:41.43
FINE APPAREL, THEY
BELONG IN THE PALACES OF KINGS.
00:20:41.43\00:20:44.90
"BUT WHAT DID YOU GO
OUT TO SEE? A PROPHET?
00:20:44.90\00:20:46.10
YES, I SAY TO YOU,
AND MORE THAN PROPHET...
00:20:46.10\00:20:50.06
"FOR I SAY TO YOU, AMONG THOSE
BORN OF WOMEN THERE IS NOT A
00:20:50.06\00:20:53.30
GREATER PROPHET
THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST."
00:20:53.30\00:20:56.43
NOW MAYBE, WE DON'T KNOW, MAYBE
THE DISCIPLES, AS THEY WALKED
00:20:56.43\00:21:00.23
AWAY, THEY CAUGHT A
LITTLE BIT OF WHAT JESUS SAID.
00:21:00.23\00:21:04.46
AND AS THEY WENT BACK TO JOHN
THE BAPTIST AND THEY TOLD OF THE
00:21:04.46\00:21:06.83
GREAT THINGS THAT JESUS HAD DONE
AND THEY TOLD WHAT JESUS HAD
00:21:06.83\00:21:10.26
TOLD THEM TO TELL JOHN, AND
MAYBE THEY EVEN CAUGHT A LITTLE
00:21:10.26\00:21:13.73
BIT OF WHAT JESUS SAID TO THE
CROWD CONCERNING JOHN AND THEY
00:21:13.73\00:21:17.06
SHARED THESE THINGS,
JOHN'S FAITH WAS REVIVED AND
00:21:17.06\00:21:19.63
STRENGTHENED AND HE
SAID, 'NO, HE IS THE CHRIST.
00:21:19.63\00:21:23.40
HE IS THE MESSIAH.' AND HE STOOD
FAITHFUL TO THE TRUTH EVEN TO
00:21:23.40\00:21:27.70
THE POINT OF DEATH. SO
WHAT WE FIND JESUS DOING IN
00:21:27.70\00:21:31.46
THIS PASSAGE IS DIRECTING
JOHN'S ATTENTION BACK TO THE OLD
00:21:31.46\00:21:35.40
TESTAMENT AS A VALIDATION
OF HIS MISSION AND HIS WORK.
00:21:35.40\00:21:39.60
SO WHEN IT COMES TO US
CONSIDERING WHO JESUS IS, JESUS
00:21:39.60\00:21:43.63
HIMSELF DIRECTS
US TO THE SCRIPTURES.
00:21:43.63\00:21:46.13
JESUS SAID, 'IT IS THE
SCRIPTURES THAT TESTIFY OF ME.
00:21:46.13\00:21:50.50
NOW THERE WAS ANOTHER OCCASION
WHERE, NOT ONLY DID THE CROWD
00:21:50.50\00:21:55.43
QUESTION WHAT JESUS HAD TO SAY,
BUT EVEN HIS DISCIPLES - THE
00:21:55.43\00:22:00.33
TWELVE -
QUESTIONED WHAT JESUS SAID.
00:22:00.33\00:22:02.36
LET'S GO TO JOHN CHAPTER 6
AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK HERE IN
00:22:02.36\00:22:04.93
VERSE 53 - JOHN CHAPTER 6
AND LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 53.
00:22:04.93\00:22:11.73
JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT EATING
HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD
00:22:11.73\00:22:16.46
AND THIS CAUSED SOME
PROBLEMS WITH THE DISCIPLES.
00:22:16.46\00:22:19.26
STARTING IN VERSE 53 - JOHN 6:53
- IT SAYS, "THEN JESUS SAID TO
00:22:19.26\00:22:22.93
THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO
YOU, UNLESS YOU EAT THE FLESH OF
00:22:22.93\00:22:26.96
THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS
BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.
00:22:26.96\00:22:30.80
WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS
MY BLOOD HAS ETERNAL LIFE, AND I
00:22:30.80\00:22:35.06
WILL RAISE HIM
UP AT THE LAST DAY.
00:22:35.06\00:22:37.10
FOR MY FLESH IS FOOD INDEED,
AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED."
00:22:37.10\00:22:41.30
NOW IF YOU DROP DOWN TO VERSE 60
IT SAYS, "THEREFORE MANY OF HIS
00:22:41.30\00:22:44.90
DISCIPLES, WHEN THEY HEARD THIS,
SAID, 'THIS IS A HARD SAYING;
00:22:44.90\00:22:49.20
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND IT?'"
VERSE 61, "WHEN JESUS KNEW IN
00:22:49.20\00:22:53.30
HIMSELF THAT HIS DISCIPLES
COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS, HE SAID
00:22:53.30\00:22:57.00
TO THEM, 'DOES THIS OFFEND
YOU?' " - AND THEN HE EXPLAINS
00:22:57.00\00:23:00.33
WHAT HE MEANS IN VERSE 63.
HE SAID, "IT IS THE SPIRIT WHO
00:23:00.33\00:23:04.40
GIVES LIFE; THE
FLESH PROFITS NOTHING.
00:23:04.40\00:23:07.03
THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU
ARE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE LIFE."
00:23:07.03\00:23:11.66
BUT NOT ALL OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW
JESUS RECEIVED THE MESSAGE.
00:23:11.66\00:23:15.33
IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 66 IT SAYS,
"FROM THAT TIME MANY OF HIS
00:23:15.33\00:23:19.20
DISCIPLES WENT BACK AND
WALKED WITH HIM NO MORE."
00:23:19.20\00:23:23.60
- SO EVEN SOME OF THE CROWD
THAT WITNESSED THE MIRACLES THAT
00:23:23.60\00:23:26.66
JESUS PERFORMED, THEY HAD A HARD
TIME RECEIVING THE THINGS THAT
00:23:26.66\00:23:30.36
JESUS HAD TO SAY.
VERSE 67, "THEN JESUS SAID TO
00:23:30.36\00:23:34.56
THE TWELVE, 'DO YOU
ALSO WANT TO GO AWAY?'
00:23:34.56\00:23:37.66
BUT SIMON PETER ANSWERED
HIM, 'LORD, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO?
00:23:37.66\00:23:41.33
YOU HAVE THE
WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE.
00:23:41.33\00:23:44.53
ALSO WE HAVE COME TO BELIEVE AND
KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE CHRIST,
00:23:44.53\00:23:48.40
THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.'"
SO EVEN JESUS, WITH THE MIRACLES
00:23:48.40\00:23:53.73
THAT HE PERFORMED, THE CROWD
AROUND HIM WOULD NOT RECEIVE WHO
00:23:53.73\00:23:58.73
HE SAID HE WAS.
IT'S THE SAME TODAY.
00:23:58.73\00:24:01.43
NOW, ON MONDAY'S LESSON WE'RE
INTRODUCED HERE TO THE THEME OF
00:24:01.43\00:24:05.63
JESUS BEING THE SON OF GOD.
THE SON OF GOD AND THE SON OF
00:24:05.63\00:24:10.60
MAN ARE TWO NAMES THAT ARE USED
IN THE GOSPELS WITH REFERENCE TO
00:24:10.60\00:24:14.40
JESUS. LUKE
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 31 AND 32
00:24:14.40\00:24:18.43
EMPHASIZES THE IDEA OF
JESUS BEING THE SON OF GOD.
00:24:18.43\00:24:21.46
IT SAYS, "AND BEHOLD, YOU WILL
CONCEIVE IN YOUR WOMB AND BRING
00:24:21.46\00:24:25.30
FORTH A SON, AND
SHALL CALL HIS NAME JESUS."
00:24:25.30\00:24:28.20
VERSE 32 - LUKE 1:32 - "HE WILL
BE GREAT AND WILL BE CALLED THE
00:24:28.20\00:24:32.86
SON OF THE HIGHEST;" - JESUS IS
THE SON OF GOD - "AND THE LORD
00:24:32.86\00:24:37.10
WILL GIVE HIM THE
THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID.
00:24:37.10\00:24:40.96
SO HERE, WITH REFERENCE TO
CHRIST, THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
00:24:40.96\00:24:43.76
BIRTH OF JESUS TO MARY, JESUS
IS SAID TO BE THE SON OF THE
00:24:43.76\00:24:47.03
HIGHEST AND HE'S ALSO SAID
TO RECEIVE THE THRONE OF HIS
00:24:47.03\00:24:50.30
FATHER, DAVID. NOW
YOU'LL RECALL THE PROPHECY
00:24:50.30\00:24:53.16
IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, WHEN
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON,
00:24:53.16\00:24:56.03
HAD A DREAM AND IN THE DREAM HE
SAW THIS GREAT STATUE - THE HEAD
00:24:56.03\00:25:00.16
OF THE STATUE MADE OF GOLD,
CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER, BELLY
00:25:00.16\00:25:03.03
AND THIGHS MADE OF BRASS, LEGS
OF IRON, FEET OF IRON AND CLAY
00:25:03.03\00:25:05.83
REPRESENTING THE DIFFERENT
EMPIRES FROM THE TIME OF BABYLON
00:25:05.83\00:25:09.33
ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
00:25:09.33\00:25:11.33
AND THEN IN THE DREAM THERE WAS
A STONE, CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS,
00:25:11.33\00:25:15.70
THAT CAME AND STRUCK THE IMAGE
UPON ITS FEET AND THEN THE STONE
00:25:15.70\00:25:19.10
GREW AND BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN
AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH.
00:25:19.10\00:25:22.20
NOW DANIEL, EXPLAINING THE DREAM
TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR, SAYS 'THE
00:25:22.20\00:25:26.06
HEAD OF GOLD, THAT'S
YOU - THAT'S BABYLON.
00:25:26.06\00:25:28.26
CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER IS THE
NEXT KINGDOM - WE KNOW THAT TO
00:25:28.26\00:25:30.86
BE MEDO-PERSIA AND THEN GREECE
AND THEN ROME AND THEN WESTERN
00:25:30.86\00:25:33.96
EUROPE DIVIDED UP AS WE HAVE
NOW. THE STONE THAT STRUCK THE
00:25:33.96\00:25:37.33
IMAGE REPRESENTS THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
00:25:37.33\00:25:39.93
BUT THE STONE GROWING AND
BECOMING A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND
00:25:39.93\00:25:43.90
FILLING THE EARTH, REPRESENTS
CHRIST'S KINGDOM BEING
00:25:43.90\00:25:48.40
ESTABLISHED. NOW,
THERE'S DIFFERENT PARTS TO
00:25:48.40\00:25:51.03
CHRIST'S KINGDOM AND THIS
IS WHAT THE JEWS AT THE TIME OF
00:25:51.03\00:25:54.06
CHRIST GOT MIXED UP ON.
THERE IS WHAT WILL BE CALLED THE
00:25:54.06\00:25:57.56
KINGDOM OF GRACE AND
THE KINGDOM OF GLORY.
00:25:57.56\00:26:01.46
WHEN JESUS CAME AND HE
BEGAN PREACHING 'REPENT, FOR THE
00:26:01.46\00:26:05.30
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND,'
JESUS WAS INTRODUCING WHAT WE
00:26:05.30\00:26:08.70
CALL THE KINGDOM OF GRACE -
THAT IS TO RECEIVE JESUS AS OUR
00:26:08.70\00:26:12.86
SAVIOR - AS OUR LORD - THAT IS
TO EAT HIS FLESH AND DRINK HIS
00:26:12.86\00:26:17.23
BLOOD. JESUS
SAYS, 'IF YOU'LL RECEIVE
00:26:17.23\00:26:18.80
ME - IF YOU BELIEVE ON
ME, YOU HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
00:26:18.80\00:26:21.63
THAT IS THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE KINGDOM OF GRACE.
00:26:21.63\00:26:24.63
BUT THERE IS A KINGDOM OF GLORY
THAT THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THAT IS
00:26:24.63\00:26:27.83
SOON TO COME AND THAT IS WHEN
JESUS COMES AS KING OF KINGS AND
00:26:27.83\00:26:31.70
LORD OF LORDS, JUST DESCRIBED
THERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2, THE
00:26:31.70\00:26:35.50
STONE THAT STRIKES THE IMAGE
THAT GROWS AND BECOMES A GREAT
00:26:35.50\00:26:38.76
MOUNTAIN AND
FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH.
00:26:38.76\00:26:40.53
MATTER OF FACT, JESUS, SPEAKING
OF HIMSELF SAYS, 'WHOEVER FALLS
00:26:40.53\00:26:43.60
UPON THIS STONE WILL BE BROKEN'
- SPEAKING OF HIMSELF - 'BUT WOE
00:26:43.60\00:26:48.86
UNTO THE ONE ON WHOM IT
FALLS, FOR IT WILL GRIND HIM TO
00:26:48.86\00:26:52.00
POWDER.' THAT IS A DIRECT
REFERENCE, BY JESUS, TO DANIEL
00:26:52.00\00:26:56.13
CHAPTER 2 AND THE
STONE THAT STRUCK THE IMAGE.
00:26:56.13\00:26:59.13
NOW, IN LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSES
10 AND 11, WE HAVE ANOTHER
00:26:59.13\00:27:04.63
REFERENCE HERE TO
JESUS BEING THE SON OF GOD.
00:27:04.63\00:27:08.76
LUKE CHAPTER 2 AND BEGINNING IN
VERSE 10, "THEN THE ANGEL SAID
00:27:08.76\00:27:13.00
TO THEM," - THIS IS THE ANGEL
ANNOUNCING THE BIRTH OF JESUS TO
00:27:13.00\00:27:15.46
THE SHEPHERDS ON THE HILLS
SURROUNDING BETHLEHEM, "'DO NOT
00:27:15.46\00:27:19.13
BE AFRAID, FOR BEHOLD, I BRING
YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY
00:27:19.13\00:27:23.66
WHICH WILL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.
FOR THERE IS BORN TO YOU THIS
00:27:23.66\00:27:27.10
DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A
SAVIOR, WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD."
00:27:27.10\00:27:32.53
SO HERE JESUS IS
REFERRED TO AS THE SAVIOR .
00:27:32.53\00:27:36.23
JESUS IS ALSO
REFERRED TO AS THE CHRIST .
00:27:36.23\00:27:39.60
NOW IF YOU NOTICE THERE IN VERSE
10, THE ANGEL SAYS, 'BEHOLD I
00:27:39.60\00:27:43.43
BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS OF
GREAT JOY.' THE TWO WORDS THERE,
00:27:43.43\00:27:48.63
TRANSLATED 'GOOD TIDINGS' IN THE
ENGLISH, COME FROM THE SINGLE
00:27:48.63\00:27:53.00
GREEK WORD WHICH ELSEWHERE IS
TRANSLATED AS 'GOSPEL.' IN OTHER
00:27:53.00\00:27:57.43
WORDS, YOU CAN READ 'DO NOT
BE AFRAID FOR I BRING YOU THE
00:27:57.43\00:27:59.76
GOSPEL OF GREAT JOY
AND IT IS FOR ALL PEOPLE.'
00:27:59.76\00:28:05.23
THE GOSPEL CONCERNS JESUS AS THE
CHRIST AND JESUS AS THE SAVIOR.
00:28:05.23\00:28:12.73
SO JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.
00:28:12.73\00:28:15.86
THIS AFFIRMS CHRIST'S
POSITION IN THE GODHEAD.
00:28:15.86\00:28:18.63
JESUS, AS THE SON OF
GOD, IS ALSO THE CREATOR.
00:28:18.63\00:28:22.76
NOW THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT
POINT THAT WE FIND EMPHASIZED,
00:28:22.76\00:28:26.16
ESPECIALLY IN THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN, SO GO WITH ME TO JOHN
00:28:26.16\00:28:29.26
CHAPTER 1 - JESUS AS THE
SON OF GOD IS ALSO THE CREATOR.
00:28:29.26\00:28:35.40
NOW WE'RE GOING TO SEE
WHY THAT'S SO IMPORTANT AS IT
00:28:35.40\00:28:37.66
RELATES TO REDEMPTION A
LITTLE LATER IN OUR STUDY.
00:28:37.66\00:28:41.96
JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 THROUGH
TO VERSE 5 - FAMILIAR WORDS -
00:28:41.96\00:28:47.73
JOHN CHAPTER 1 BEGINNING IN
VERSE 1, "IN THE BEGINNING WAS
00:28:47.73\00:28:50.80
THE WORD," - IT SAYS - "AND THE
WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD
00:28:50.80\00:28:54.93
WAS GOD." - WHO'S THE
WORD? THE WORD IS JESUS.
00:28:54.93\00:28:58.76
NOTICE THAT JESUS IS CALLED
THE WORD . WHAT ARE OUR WORDS?
00:28:58.76\00:29:03.40
WELL, OUR WORDS ARE
OUR THOUGHTS EXPRESSED.
00:29:03.40\00:29:07.20
JESUS IS THE EXPRESSION OF
GOD'S THOUGHTS. IN THE BOOK OF
00:29:07.20\00:29:11.50
REVELATION, JESUS IS DESCRIBED
AS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.
00:29:11.50\00:29:15.40
THE ALPHA IS THE FIRST LETTER OF
THE GREEK ALPHABET, OMEGA IS THE
00:29:15.40\00:29:20.40
LAST LETTER OF
THE GREEK ALPHABET.
00:29:20.40\00:29:22.66
JESUS IS THE A AND
THE Z, SO TO SPEAK.
00:29:22.66\00:29:26.33
AND, OF COURSE, WE TAKE THE
LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET AND WE
00:29:26.33\00:29:28.70
ARRANGE THEM
DIFFERENTLY TO PRODUCE WORDS.
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.26
OUR WORDS ARE OUR
THOUGHTS EXPRESSED.
00:29:31.26\00:29:33.06
SO JESUS IS THE WORD OF
GOD - GOD'S THOUGHTS REVEALED.
00:29:33.06\00:29:36.96
JESUS SAID, 'I HAVE
COME TO REVEAL THE FATHER.
00:29:36.96\00:29:39.20
JESUS SAID TO PHILIP, 'IF YOU'VE
SEEN ME, YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.
00:29:39.20\00:29:42.90
VERSE 2 - IT SAYS, "HE WAS
IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD."
00:29:42.90\00:29:45.83
- SO CHRIST AND
THE FATHER WERE ONE.
00:29:45.83\00:29:48.13
THEY WERE TOGETHER IN THE
BEGINNING - ALL THINGS WERE MADE
00:29:48.13\00:29:50.46
THROUGH HIM," - THAT IS THE
WORD, CHRIST - "AND WITHOUT HIM
00:29:50.46\00:29:53.66
NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE.
IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THE LIFE
00:29:53.66\00:29:58.76
WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN." -
VERSE 5 SAYS, "AND THE LIGHT
00:29:58.76\00:30:03.53
SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE
DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT."
00:30:03.53\00:30:07.80
NOW, WHEN YOU READ FROM VERSE
1 THROUGH TO VERSE 5, THERE IS A
00:30:07.80\00:30:11.60
PARALLEL WITH AN
OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGE.
00:30:11.60\00:30:14.43
WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU READ
ABOUT 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE
00:30:14.43\00:30:17.73
WORD' AND TALKS ABOUT
LIGHT SHINING IN DARKNESS.
00:30:17.73\00:30:20.70
WHAT PASSAGE COMES TO
MIND? GENESIS CHAPTER 1.
00:30:20.70\00:30:24.20
NOW, OF COURSE, THERE IS A CLEAR
LINK HERE, AND JOHN DOES THIS ON
00:30:24.20\00:30:26.93
PURPOSE, WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT
JESUS BEING IN THE BEGINNING
00:30:26.93\00:30:30.30
WITH THE FATHER AND THAT ALL
THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH CHRIST.
00:30:30.30\00:30:34.20
EVEN THE REFERENCE HERE TO LIGHT
- LIGHT SHINING IN THE DARKNESS
00:30:34.20\00:30:37.13
- GENESIS CHAPTER 1
SPEAKS ABOUT GOD SAYING,
00:30:37.13\00:30:39.83
'LET THERE BE
LIGHT.' AND THERE WAS LIGHT.
00:30:39.83\00:30:42.63
NOW WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR US
TO RECOGNIZE THAT JESUS IS THE
00:30:42.63\00:30:46.40
CREATOR? BECAUSE
IT'S THE CREATOR AND HIS
00:30:46.40\00:30:49.93
CREATIVE POWER THAT IS
NEEDED FOR OUR REDEMPTION.
00:30:49.93\00:30:54.26
THE PSALMIST SAYS, 'CREATE IN
ME A' - WHAT? - 'CLEAN HEART AND
00:30:54.26\00:30:59.56
RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN
ME.' ONLY THE CREATOR CAN CREATE
00:30:59.56\00:31:03.16
WITHIN US A CLEAN
HEART. THAT'S THE WORK OF
00:31:03.16\00:31:05.86
SANCTIFICATION. SO
GOD'S CREATIVE POWER IS USED
00:31:05.86\00:31:10.13
IN OUR REDEMPTION. SO
THE FACT THAT JESUS IS THE
00:31:10.13\00:31:13.63
SON OF GOD - IT'S EMPHASIZING
THAT HE IS THE CREATOR - THAT
00:31:13.63\00:31:17.46
HIS CREATIVE POWER IS
USED FOR MAN'S REDEMPTION.
00:31:17.46\00:31:21.70
IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES WE
HAVE THE STATEMENT TALKING ABOUT
00:31:21.70\00:31:24.56
JESUS BEING THE SON OF GOD AND,
I QUOTE, "JESUS SAYS, 'MY FATHER
00:31:24.56\00:31:30.53
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN' AS REMINDING
HIS DISCIPLES THAT WHILE, BY HIS
00:31:30.53\00:31:34.60
HUMANITY, HE IS LINKED WITH
THEM A SHARE OF THEIR TRIALS AND
00:31:34.60\00:31:38.33
SYMPATHIZING WITH THEM IN THEIR
SUFFERINGS BY HIS DIVING NATURE,
00:31:38.33\00:31:44.56
HE IS CONNECTED WITH
THE THRONE OF INFINITE."
00:31:44.56\00:31:48.83
SO WITH CHRIST'S HUMANITY,
HE COMES CLOSE TO MANKIND.
00:31:48.83\00:31:52.80
BUT WITH HIS DIVINITY, HE
CONNECTS US TO THE FATHER.
00:31:52.80\00:31:56.06
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE
WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.
00:31:56.06\00:31:59.70
NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER
BUT BY ME.' BECAUSE THROUGH HIS
00:31:59.70\00:32:02.73
HUMANITY CHRIST EMBRACES
HUMANITY AND WITH HIS DIVINITY
00:32:02.73\00:32:06.46
HE LIFTS US UP TO
THE THRONE OF GOD.
00:32:06.46\00:32:08.73
THAT'S WHY THERE IS SALVATION
ONLY IN JESUS - BECAUSE HE IS
00:32:08.73\00:32:12.43
BOTH THE SON OF GOD
AND HE IS THE SON OF MAN.
00:32:12.43\00:32:15.90
WELL, ON TUESDAY, WE
TALK ABOUT THE SON OF MAN.
00:32:15.90\00:32:20.13
WE SPOKE ABOUT THE SON OF GOD -
THE EMPHASIS THERE HIS CREATIVE
00:32:20.13\00:32:22.70
POWER - TUESDAY'S LESSON
TALKS ABOUT THE SON OF MAN.
00:32:22.70\00:32:25.53
AND THIS IS A GREAT STUDY
HERE. THE PHRASE SON OF MAN WAS
00:32:25.53\00:32:31.36
CHRIST'S FAVORITE NAME
THAT HE USES FOR HIMSELF.
00:32:31.36\00:32:35.03
ACTUALLY, IT'S MENTIONED 80
TIMES IN THE GOSPELS - 25 TIMES
00:32:35.03\00:32:40.26
IN LUKE ALONE, WHERE JESUS
SPEAKS OF HIMSELF AS BEING THE
00:32:40.26\00:32:44.96
SON OF MAN. NOW OUTSIDE OF
THE GOSPELS, THERE ARE FOUR
00:32:44.96\00:32:49.13
REFERENCES TO THE SON OF
MAN, AS IT RELATES TO JESUS.
00:32:49.13\00:32:53.36
THE FIRST ONE YOU FIND IN
DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 13.
00:32:53.36\00:32:57.93
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT ALL FOUR OF THESE.
00:32:57.93\00:32:59.40
DANIEL CHAPTER 7 AND VERSE
14 TALKS ABOUT THE SON OF MAN.
00:32:59.40\00:33:05.80
DANIEL 7 - WELL, ACTUALLY,
I'M GOING TO BEGIN OVER HERE IN
00:33:05.80\00:33:09.16
VERSE 9, JUST
TO GET THE CONTEXT.
00:33:09.16\00:33:11.53
DANIEL CHAPTER 7, BEGINNING HERE
IN VERSE 9, DANIEL WRITES, "I
00:33:11.53\00:33:18.30
WATCHED TILL THRONES WERE PUT IN
PLACE, AND THE ANCIENT OF DAYS
00:33:18.30\00:33:21.60
WAS SEATED; HIS GARMENT WAS
WHITE AS SNOW, AND THE HAIR OF
00:33:21.60\00:33:25.33
HIS HEAD WAS LIKE PURE WOOL.
HIS THRONE WAS A FIERY FLAME,
00:33:25.33\00:33:28.86
ITS WHEELS A BURNING FIRE;" NOW
IN VERSE 9 WE'RE INTRODUCED TO
00:33:28.86\00:33:33.33
SOMEBODY CALLED THE ANCIENT
OF DAYS . WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE THE
00:33:33.33\00:33:36.50
ANCIENT OF DAYS
IS? >>GOD THE FATHER.
00:33:36.50\00:33:38.46
>>THAT'S GOD THE FATHER.
YOU'LL SEE THAT AS YOU READ ON.
00:33:38.46\00:33:41.20
VERSE 10 SAYS, "A FIERY STREAM
ISSUED AND CAME FORTH FROM
00:33:41.20\00:33:44.10
BEFORE HIM. A
THOUSAND THOUSANDS MINISTERED
00:33:44.10\00:33:46.43
TO HIM; TEN THOUSAND TIMES
TEN THOUSAND STOOD BEFORE HIM.
00:33:46.43\00:33:49.73
THE COURT WAS SEATED
AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED."
00:33:49.73\00:33:53.50
SO HERE WE'RE INTRODUCED TO A
JUDGMENT-TYPE SCENE IN HEAVEN.
00:33:53.50\00:33:57.50
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, GOD THE
FATHER, IS SEATED AND IT SAYS
00:33:57.50\00:34:00.13
'THE COURT WAS SET AND THE BOOKS
WERE OPENED.' NOW, IF YOU TAKE A
00:34:00.13\00:34:03.93
LOOK AT VERSE 13, HERE WE HAVE
A REFERENCE TO THE SON OF MAN.
00:34:03.93\00:34:08.43
VERSE 13, "I WAS WATCHING IN THE
NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE
00:34:08.43\00:34:12.93
LIKE THE SON OF MAN, COMING
WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN!"
00:34:12.93\00:34:16.76
- WHO'S THAT? >>JESUS.
00:34:16.76\00:34:18.56
>>THAT'S JESUS. OF
COURSE, JESUS IS OFTEN
00:34:18.56\00:34:20.16
REFERRED TO AS COMING
WITH CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.
00:34:20.16\00:34:22.30
NOW, AT FIRST READING, YOU MIGHT
THINK, 'WELL, THIS IS THE SECOND
00:34:22.30\00:34:25.20
COMING OF CHRIST.' BUT KEEP
READING: VERSE 13 SAYS, "COMING
00:34:25.20\00:34:28.53
WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN!
HE CAME TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,
00:34:28.53\00:34:31.46
AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE
HIM." - SO THIS IS NOT JESUS
00:34:31.46\00:34:35.83
COMING TO THE EARTH
WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.
00:34:35.83\00:34:38.20
THOSE CLOUDS OF
HEAVEN CAN REPRESENT ANGELS.
00:34:38.20\00:34:41.30
BUT HERE IT IS, RATHER, JESUS,
ENTERING IN BEFORE THE ANCIENT
00:34:41.30\00:34:44.90
OF DAYS. SO THE COURT IS SET.
A JUDGMENT IS TO TAKE PLACE IN
00:34:44.90\00:34:49.26
HEAVEN AND NOW JESUS
ENTERS IN BEFORE THE FATHER.
00:34:49.26\00:34:52.80
LOOK AT VERSE 14: IT SAYS, "THEN
TO HIM" - THAT IS, CHRIST - "WAS
00:34:52.80\00:34:57.56
GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY
AND A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES,
00:34:57.56\00:35:02.00
NATIONS, AND
LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM.
00:35:02.00\00:35:04.36
HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING
DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS
00:35:04.36\00:35:07.56
AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THE ONE
WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED."
00:35:07.56\00:35:11.10
NOW, REMEMBER WE MENTIONED A
LITTLE EARLIER THAT IN DANIEL
00:35:11.10\00:35:13.43
CHAPTER 2, THE STONE THAT STRUCK
THE IMAGE REPRESENTS THE SECOND
00:35:13.43\00:35:16.56
COMING OF CHRIST AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF
00:35:16.56\00:35:19.16
GOD HERE ON EARTH. SO
IN DANIEL 7 YOU HAVE A
00:35:19.16\00:35:22.93
PICTURE OF THE JUDGMENT SCENE IN
HEAVEN THAT IS FOLLOWED BY THE
00:35:22.93\00:35:26.56
ESTABLISHMENT OF
CHRIST'S KINGDOM.
00:35:26.56\00:35:28.83
JESUS COMES AGAIN; HIS KINGDOM
IS ESTABLISHED HERE ON EARTH.
00:35:28.83\00:35:32.03
BUT HERE IN DANIEL, CHRIST IS
REFERRED TO AS THE SON OF MAN.
00:35:32.03\00:35:36.26
SO THE KINSHIP OF CHRIST IS
OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE FACT
00:35:36.26\00:35:40.26
THAT HE IS THE SON OF MAN.
HIS CREATORSHIP THAT HE IS THE
00:35:40.26\00:35:44.76
SON OF GOD. NOW
THERE'S ANOTHER REFERENCE TO
00:35:44.76\00:35:46.43
JESUS AS THE SON OF MAN AND
YOU'LL FIND THIS IN ACTS CHAPTER
00:35:46.43\00:35:49.96
7, VERSE 56 - ACTS CHAPTER
7 AND VERSE 56 - AND THIS IS
00:35:49.96\00:36:03.53
DESCRIBING THE STONING OF
STEPHEN AND, AS STEPHEN WAS
00:36:03.53\00:36:07.63
BROUGHT BEFORE THE COUNCIL
- VERSE 56 - "AND SAID, 'LOOK!
00:36:07.63\00:36:11.40
I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED AND
THE SON OF MAN STANDING AT THE
00:36:11.40\00:36:15.03
RIGHT HAND OF GOD!'" SO
THE SON OF MAN, HERE, IS
00:36:15.03\00:36:19.50
CLEARLY REFERRING TO JESUS.
JOHN - OR NOT, RATHER, JOHN,
00:36:19.50\00:36:23.30
SORRY - STEPHEN, HERE IN THIS
PASSAGE, AS IS READY TO FACE
00:36:23.30\00:36:27.23
DEATH. HE LOOKS
UP AND HE SEES JESUS
00:36:27.23\00:36:30.13
STANDING AT THE
RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER.
00:36:30.13\00:36:33.23
NOW, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT'S
GOING ON AS THIS RAUCOUS CROWD,
00:36:33.23\00:36:38.83
THEY GRAB STEPHEN AND THEY BEGIN
TO DRAG HIM OUT OF JERUSALEM AND
00:36:38.83\00:36:42.23
THEY BEGIN TO PICK UP STONES AND
THEY'RE ABOUT READY TO STONE HIM
00:36:42.23\00:36:44.36
AND STEPHEN LOOKS UP
AND HE SEES JESUS STANDING.
00:36:44.36\00:36:47.43
JESUS IS NOT SEATED AT THE RIGHT
HAND OF THE FATHER, AT LEAST NOT
00:36:47.43\00:36:51.90
IN THIS PICTURE,
BUT JESUS IS STANDING.
00:36:51.90\00:36:54.50
WHY IS JESUS STANDING?
HE'S STANDING BECAUSE ONE OF HIS
00:36:54.50\00:36:56.83
FOLLOWERS IS STANDING UP FOR
HIM. WHEN WE STAND FOR JESUS,
00:36:56.83\00:37:01.36
JESUS STANDS FOR US. SO IN
DANIEL CHAPTER 7, THE SON OF MAN
00:37:01.36\00:37:07.40
- CHRIST - IS PICTURED AS OUR
ADVOCATE BEFORE THE FATHER IN
00:37:07.40\00:37:11.66
THE JUDGMENT. HERE IN
ACTS, JESUS IS PICTURED AS OUR
00:37:11.66\00:37:16.10
DEFENDER - AS ONE WHO
COMES TO BRING HOPE - TO BRING
00:37:16.10\00:37:20.13
DELIVERANCE. AND, OF COURSE,
THAT ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE COMES
00:37:20.13\00:37:22.96
WHEN JESUS
COMES THE SECOND TIME.
00:37:22.96\00:37:25.46
ANOTHER REFERENCE TO JESUS
AS THE SON OF MAN IS FOUND IN
00:37:25.46\00:37:28.43
REVELATION CHAPTER 1, VERSE 13,
SO LET'S GO THERE - REVELATION
00:37:28.43\00:37:32.83
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 13 - AND NOTICE
HOW JESUS IS DESCRIBED HERE -
00:37:32.83\00:37:38.20
REVELATION CHAPTER 1, BEGINNING
IN VERSE 13 IT SAYS, "AND IN THE
00:37:38.20\00:37:43.80
MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAMP STANDS
ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, CLOTHED
00:37:43.80\00:37:47.30
WITH A GARMENT DOWN TO THE FEET
AND GIRDED ABOUT THE CHEST WITH
00:37:47.30\00:37:50.96
A GOLDEN BAND." NOW
JESUS IS DESCRIBED IN THIS
00:37:50.96\00:37:55.03
PASSAGE AS STANDING AMONGST
THE SEVEN BRANCHED CANDLESTICKS.
00:37:55.03\00:37:58.60
WHERE IN THE BIBLE DO YOU
READ ABOUT THE SEVEN BRANCHED
00:37:58.60\00:38:02.33
CANDLESTICKS OR THE LAMP
STANDS - THE SEVEN LAMP STANDS?
00:38:02.33\00:38:06.23
IT COMES FROM SANCTUARY IMAGERY.
ALSO NOTICE WHAT JESUS IS
00:38:06.23\00:38:09.93
WEARING HERE IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 1.
00:38:09.93\00:38:12.16
HE'S GIRDED, IT SAYS, WITH HIS
GOLDEN GIRDLE AROUND HIS CHEST
00:38:12.16\00:38:15.26
AND HE'S DRESSED
IN A LONG WHITE ROBE.
00:38:15.26\00:38:17.93
THAT'S REALLY THE
DRESS OF THE HIGH PRIEST.
00:38:17.93\00:38:19.46
SO HERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 1,
JESUS IS DESCRIBED, OR PICTURED,
00:38:19.46\00:38:23.13
AS OUR HIGH PRIEST
INTERCEDING FOR US.
00:38:23.13\00:38:26.26
OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT'S
WHAT JESUS IS DOING FOR US NOW.
00:38:26.26\00:38:29.26
SO JESUS IS DESCRIBED, NOT
ONLY AS OUR INTERCESSOR, OUR
00:38:29.26\00:38:32.33
DEFENDER, BUT ALSO HERE, AS OUR
HIGH PRIEST MINISTERING FOR US
00:38:32.33\00:38:36.53
IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY.
00:38:36.53\00:38:38.30
AND THEN THE FINAL REFERENCE TO
JESUS AS THE SON OF MAN OUTSIDE
00:38:38.30\00:38:41.46
THE GOSPELS, WE FIND IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 14 AND VERSE
00:38:41.46\00:38:46.96
14 - REVELATION CHAPTER 14,
VERSE 14 - AND NOTICE HOW JESUS
00:38:46.96\00:38:52.50
IS DESCRIBED HERE: IT SAYS,
"THEN I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A
00:38:52.50\00:38:55.43
WHITE CLOUD, AND ON THE CLOUD
SAT ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN,
00:38:55.43\00:39:00.60
HAVING ON HIS HEAD A GOLDEN
CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A SHARP
00:39:00.60\00:39:05.70
SICKLE. AND
ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF
00:39:05.70\00:39:07.90
THE TEMPLE, CRYING WITH A
LOUD VOICE TO HIM WHO SAT ON THE
00:39:07.90\00:39:10.60
CLOUD, 'THRUST IN YOUR SICKLE
AND REAP, FOR THE TIME HAS COME
00:39:10.60\00:39:14.56
FOR YOU TO REAP, FOR THE
HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE."
00:39:14.56\00:39:18.53
SO HERE YOU HAVE A DESCRIPTION
OF THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS
00:39:18.53\00:39:21.33
AND HERE HE ISN'T DRESSED AS
A HIGH PRIEST BUT HE'S WEARING A
00:39:21.33\00:39:25.70
CROWN AND COMING BACK AS
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:39:25.70\00:39:29.43
SO THE FOUR REFERENCES THAT WE
HAVE OF JESUS BEING THE SON OF
00:39:29.43\00:39:33.16
MAN - IT EMPHASIZES THAT HE IS
OUR INTERCESSOR, THAT HE IS OUR
00:39:33.16\00:39:36.93
DEFENDER, THAT HE IS OUR HIGH
PRIEST, AND THAT HE IS COMING AS
00:39:36.93\00:39:40.26
OUR KING - KING OF
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:39:40.26\00:39:44.23
IN THE BOOK SELECTED MESSAGES
PAGE 244, WE HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL
00:39:44.23\00:39:48.90
QUOTE. IT SAYS,
"THE HUMANITY OF THE
00:39:48.90\00:39:51.26
SON OF GOD IS EVERYTHING TO
US. IT IS THE GOLDEN CHAIN THAT
00:39:51.26\00:39:55.43
BINDS OUR SOULS TO CHRIST
AND, THROUGH CHRIST, TO GOD.
00:39:55.43\00:39:59.73
THIS IS TO BE OUR
STUDY. CHRIST WAS A REAL MAN.
00:39:59.73\00:40:03.16
HE GAVE PROOF OF HIS HUMANITY IN
BECOMING A MAN, YET HE WAS GOD
00:40:03.16\00:40:08.63
IN THE FLESH." SO
THROUGH CHRIST'S HUMANITY, HE
00:40:08.63\00:40:11.83
EMBRACES THE HUMAN FAMILY.
BUT BY HIS DIVINITY, HE PULLS US
00:40:11.83\00:40:16.60
UP INTO THE PRESENCE OF
GOD. ALSO, THE TITLE, SON OF MAN
00:40:16.60\00:40:21.33
EMPHASIZES FIVE ASPECTS OF
CHRIST'S MINISTRY. THE FIRST,
00:40:21.33\00:40:27.03
IT IDENTIFIES HIM AS BEING ONE
WITH HUMANITY. LUKE CHAPTER 7:34
00:40:27.03\00:40:33.00
AND LUKE 9, VERSE 58 TALK
ABOUT JESUS AS A HUMAN BEING,
00:40:33.00\00:40:37.26
WHERE HE DIDN'T EVEN
HAVE A PLACE TO CALL HIS OWN.
00:40:37.26\00:40:39.93
HE SAYS, 'FOXES HAVE HOLES, AND
THE BIRDS HAVE NESTS BUT THE SON
00:40:39.93\00:40:44.36
OF MAN HAS
NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.
00:40:44.36\00:40:46.66
SO JESUS IDENTIFIES
HIMSELF WITH HUMANITY.
00:40:46.66\00:40:50.10
EVEN THOUGH HE IS THE SON
OF GOD, HE BECOMES ONE WITH
00:40:50.10\00:40:53.50
MANKIND. 'THE
WORD BECAME FLESH,' THE
00:40:53.50\00:40:57.30
BIBLE SAYS, 'AND DWELT AMONG
US.' SECONDLY, THE TITLE SON OF
00:40:57.30\00:41:02.33
MAN ALSO CONNECTS JESUS
AS THE LORD OF THE SABBATH.
00:41:02.33\00:41:06.96
NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING
CONNECTION EMPHASIZING THE FACT
00:41:06.96\00:41:09.20
THAT JESUS IS THE CREATOR.
AND THE VERSE THERE IS LUKE
00:41:09.20\00:41:13.13
CHAPTER 6, VERSE 5, WHERE JESUS
SAID, "AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,
00:41:13.13\00:41:17.46
'THE SON OF MAN IS
ALSO LORD OF THE SABBATH."
00:41:17.46\00:41:21.06
NOW, OF COURSE, THE SABBATH
THAT YOU READ ABOUT IN GENESIS
00:41:21.06\00:41:23.36
CHAPTER 2, IT IS THE CELEBRATION
OR THE MEMORIAL OF GOD'S
00:41:23.36\00:41:28.20
CREATIVE WORK. JESUS,
HERE, IS THE LORD OF THE
00:41:28.20\00:41:31.63
SABBATH AND, AS MENTIONED
EARLIER, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE
00:41:31.63\00:41:34.10
THAT THE SON OF MAN - THE SON
OF GOD - IS ALSO THE CREATOR FOR
00:41:34.10\00:41:38.56
CREATIVE POWER IS
NEEDED FOR MAN'S REDEMPTION.
00:41:38.56\00:41:42.13
THIRDLY, THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO
CONNECTED WITH THE WORK THAT
00:41:42.13\00:41:46.00
JESUS CAME TO DO. JESUS
SAID OF HIMSELF, IN LUKE
00:41:46.00\00:41:49.43
CHAPTER 19, VERSE 10, "FOR THE
SON OF MAN HAS COME TO SEEK AND
00:41:49.43\00:41:53.26
TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS
LOST." JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR.
00:41:53.26\00:41:56.93
HE IS OUR
REDEEMER. HE CAME TO SAVE US.
00:41:56.93\00:41:59.40
IN LUKE CHAPTER 15 WE FIND
THREE PARABLES WITH REFERENCE TO
00:41:59.40\00:42:04.03
SOMETHING THAT WAS
LOST AND THEN IT WAS FOUND.
00:42:04.03\00:42:07.30
THE FIRST IS THE
PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP.
00:42:07.30\00:42:10.00
JESUS TOLD THE STORY ABOUT
A SHEPHERD THAT HAD A HUNDRED
00:42:10.00\00:42:13.20
SHEEP AND ONE WAS LOST AND HE
LEFT NINETY AND NINE SAFE IN THE
00:42:13.20\00:42:18.23
FOLD AND HE WENT IN
SEARCH OF THE ONE THAT WAS LOST.
00:42:18.23\00:42:21.40
AND WHEN HE HAD FOUND THE ONE
THAT WAS LOST, HE PUT THE SHEEP
00:42:21.40\00:42:24.06
ON HIS SHOULDERS AND HE
CAME BACK AND THERE WAS GREAT
00:42:24.06\00:42:26.63
REJOICING. JESUS
LEFT THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN
00:42:26.63\00:42:30.80
- LEFT THE OTHER WORLDS AND HE
CAME TO THIS SIN-POLLUTED PLANET
00:42:30.80\00:42:35.46
TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST.
THIS WAS THE LITTLE SHEEP THAT
00:42:35.46\00:42:39.70
HAD STRAYED
AWAY. JESUS CAME TO US.
00:42:39.70\00:42:42.63
THE SECOND STORY ABOUT SOMETHING
LOST THAT YOU READ ABOUT THERE
00:42:42.63\00:42:45.96
IN LUKE CHAPTER
15 IS A LOST COIN.
00:42:45.96\00:42:49.36
JESUS TELLS THE STORY ABOUT A
WOMAN THAT HAD TEN COINS AND SHE
00:42:49.36\00:42:53.36
LOST ONE OF THE COINS AND SO SHE
LIT A LAMP AND SHE SWEPT OUT HER
00:42:53.36\00:42:58.53
HOUSE AND SHE SEARCHED FOR THE
ONE THAT WAS LOST AND WHEN SHE
00:42:58.53\00:43:00.90
FOUND IT, SHE REJOICED AND
SHE TOLD HER FRIENDS ABOUT IT.
00:43:00.90\00:43:04.30
NOW, IN THE BIBLE,
WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT?
00:43:04.30\00:43:06.80
>>A CHURCH
>>REPRESENTS A CHURCH.
00:43:06.80\00:43:08.86
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE READ
ABOUT IN THE BIBLE THAT COMES IN
00:43:08.86\00:43:13.06
TEN? WHAT'S THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
THING IN SCRIPTURE ASSOCIATED
00:43:13.06\00:43:17.50
WITH TEN? THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
NOW DID THE CHURCH, DURING THE
00:43:17.50\00:43:22.20
DARK AGES, LOSE SIGHT OF
ONE OF THOSE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.63
YES, INDEED. THE
ONE, IN PARTICULAR, THAT
00:43:25.63\00:43:28.46
WE'RE REFERRING TO IS
THE FOURTH - THE SABBATH.
00:43:28.46\00:43:30.46
BUT WHEN PEOPLE OPEN THE
SCRIPTURES THEY LIT THE LAMP AND
00:43:30.46\00:43:34.80
THEY STARTED STUDYING AND THEN
THEY DISCOVERED THE TRUTH OF THE
00:43:34.80\00:43:38.36
ONE THAT WAS LOST AND THEN THEY
WANTED TO TELL ALL THEIR FRIENDS
00:43:38.36\00:43:41.46
ABOUT IT. THEN THE
THIRD STORY THAT YOU
00:43:41.46\00:43:44.00
HAVE OF SOMETHING THAT IS LOST
IS, OF COURSE, THE PARABLE OF
00:43:44.00\00:43:46.46
THE PRODIGAL SON OR THE LOST SON
AND THAT REFERS, INDIVIDUALLY,
00:43:46.46\00:43:50.93
TO JESUS WANTING TO SAVE EACH
OF US. BUT IN ORDER FOR US TO BE
00:43:50.93\00:43:55.26
SAVED, WE NEED TO
RECOGNIZE OUR NEED OF A SAVIOR.
00:43:55.26\00:43:58.73
WE NEED TO TURN AND HEAD ON BACK
HOME. WE NEED TO COME TO GOD.
00:43:58.73\00:44:02.43
THE STORY TELLS US THAT THE
FATHER WAS WAITING FOR HIS SON
00:44:02.43\00:44:06.26
AND THAT'S THE
RECEPTION THAT WE HAVE FROM GOD.
00:44:06.26\00:44:09.23
WHEN WE COME TO HIM WITH
HUMILITY, WE RECOGNIZE OUR NEED
00:44:09.23\00:44:12.16
OF A SAVIOR. GOD WILL
EMBRACE US AND LIFT US
00:44:12.16\00:44:14.53
UP AND SAVE US.
FOURTHLY, THE PHRASE SON OF MAN
00:44:14.53\00:44:17.73
REFERS TO JESUS
IN HIS SUFFERING.
00:44:17.73\00:44:20.23
JESUS, IN LUKE CHAPTER 18, VERSE
31, SPOKE OF THE SON OF MAN THAT
00:44:20.23\00:44:25.63
WAS TO SUFFER AND DIE
AND THEN HE WOULD RISE AGAIN.
00:44:25.63\00:44:30.23
IN OTHER WORDS, THE SON OF
MAN - THE PHRASE THE SON OF MAN
00:44:30.23\00:44:34.33
EMPHASIZES THE
HUMAN SUFFERINGS OF JESUS.
00:44:34.33\00:44:37.53
HEBREWS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 15
SAYS, "FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH
00:44:37.53\00:44:40.93
PRIEST WHO CANNOT SYMPATHIZE
WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WAS IN
00:44:40.93\00:44:45.36
ALL POINTS TEMPTED AS
WE ARE, YET WITHOUT SIN."
00:44:45.36\00:44:49.23
SO, BECAUSE JESUS TOOK UPON
HIMSELF HUMANITY AND BECAME ONE
00:44:49.23\00:44:52.43
WITH US, HE UNDERSTANDS
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE HUMAN.
00:44:52.43\00:44:55.13
HE KNOWS OUR TRIALS - OUR
DIFFICULTIES - HE KNOWS WHAT
00:44:55.13\00:44:57.63
IT'S LIKE TO BE TEMPTED.
SO WE CAN COME TO HIM IN OUR
00:44:57.63\00:44:59.93
TIME OF NEED AND SAY, 'LORD,
PLEASE HELP.' AND HE CAN HELP US
00:44:59.93\00:45:02.93
BECAUSE HE IS ONE WITH
US. HE IS THE SON OF MAN.
00:45:02.93\00:45:06.73
AND THEN FIFTHLY, THE PHRASE SON
OF MAN IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH
00:45:06.73\00:45:10.56
JESUS COMING AS OUR KING AND
AS OUR REDEEMER. THERE ARE MANY
00:45:10.56\00:45:15.36
REFERENCES TO THE SON OF
MAN COMING THE SECOND TIME.
00:45:15.36\00:45:18.13
LUKE CHAPTER 9:26 AND LUKE 12:4
AND SO ON, TALKS ABOUT JESUS
00:45:18.13\00:45:23.03
COMING - THE SON OF MAN COMING
TO BRING DELIVERANCE. NOW, ON
00:45:23.03\00:45:27.43
WEDNESDAY, THE LESSON TALKS
ABOUT JESUS BEING THE CHRIST.
00:45:27.43\00:45:31.83
AND THE PRINCIPLE PASSAGE THERE
ON WEDNESDAY'S STUDY WAS LUKE
00:45:31.83\00:45:35.20
CHAPTER 9, BUT I WANT TO GO
AND READ THIS SAME OCCURRENCE IN
00:45:35.20\00:45:38.90
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, SO TURN
WITH ME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 16.
00:45:38.90\00:45:42.90
NOW I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT VERSE 13 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 16
00:45:42.90\00:45:46.90
AND BEGIN IN VERSE 13.
MATTHEW 16, VERSE 13 - IT SAYS,
00:45:46.90\00:45:56.16
"WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE REGION
OF CAESAREA PHILIPPI, HE ASKED
00:45:56.16\00:45:59.56
HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, 'WHO DO
MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN,
00:45:59.56\00:46:03.90
AM?" NOW, WHY DO
YOU SUPPOSE JESUS
00:46:03.90\00:46:06.73
ASKED HIS
DISCIPLES THAT QUESTION?
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.86
DID JESUS KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE
THOUGHT OF HIM? YES, BUT JESUS
00:46:08.86\00:46:13.80
WANTED THE DISCIPLES TO THINK
ABOUT IT SO HE SAID, 'WHO DO
00:46:13.80\00:46:16.80
THE PEOPLE SAY THAT I AM?' AND
THE DISCIPLES ANSWER IN VERSE
00:46:16.80\00:46:20.23
14, "SO THEY SAID,
'SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST..."
00:46:20.23\00:46:24.80
WELL, BY THIS TIME, JOHN
THE BAPTIST HAD BEEN BEHEADED BY
00:46:24.80\00:46:28.46
HEROD AND PEOPLE LOOKED AT JESUS
AND THE WORK THAT JESUS WAS
00:46:28.46\00:46:32.16
DOING AND THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS
WAS PREACHING AND THEY SAID,
00:46:32.16\00:46:34.70
'BOY, THIS IS JOHN THE BAPTIST
RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.
00:46:34.70\00:46:38.06
'SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT YOU'RE
JOHN THE BAPTIST.' AND THEN THEY
00:46:38.06\00:46:40.63
SAID, 'SOME SAY THAT YOU'RE
ELIJAH.' NOW THE REASON THE
00:46:40.63\00:46:43.90
PEOPLE SAID THAT JESUS
WAS ELIJAH IS BECAUSE OF THE
00:46:43.90\00:46:46.76
PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN THE
LAST BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT -
00:46:46.76\00:46:49.83
THE BOOK OF MALACHI - THAT SAYS,
'BEHOLD, I SEND YOU ELIJAH THE
00:46:49.83\00:46:52.83
PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE
GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE
00:46:52.83\00:46:55.46
LORD, AND HE'LL TURN THE HEARTS
OF THE FATHERS BACK TO THE
00:46:55.46\00:46:58.06
CHILDREN AND THE HEARTS OF THE
CHILDREN BACK TO THE FATHERS,
00:46:58.06\00:47:01.23
LEST I COME AND SMITE THE EARTH
WITH A CURSE.' AND SO PEOPLE
00:47:01.23\00:47:04.20
LOOKED AT JESUS AND THEY SAID,
'THIS IS ELIJAH COME DOWN FROM
00:47:04.20\00:47:07.46
HEAVEN. AND THEN,
READING ON, SOME OF
00:47:07.46\00:47:10.30
THE PEOPLE SAID, 'WELL, HE'S
ELIJAH.' OTHERS SAID, 'NO, HE IS
00:47:10.30\00:47:12.66
JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE
PROPHETS.' NOW I'VE ALWAYS
00:47:12.66\00:47:15.93
WONDERED WHY,
SPECIFICALLY, JEREMIAH.
00:47:15.93\00:47:17.96
IF YOU READ THE BOOK OF
JEREMIAH, IT TALKS ABOUT
00:47:17.96\00:47:21.03
THE NEED FOR
REPENTANCE IN ISRAEL.
00:47:21.03\00:47:25.10
SOMETIMES JEREMIAH IS REFERRED
TO AS THE WEEPING PROPHET.
00:47:25.10\00:47:28.03
IT TALKS A LOT ABOUT 'WOE
IS THIS' AND 'WOE IS THAT' AND
00:47:28.03\00:47:31.30
MAYBE WHEN PEOPLE HEARD JESUS,
THEY KIND OF GOT THE IDEA THAT,
00:47:31.30\00:47:34.46
'WELL, THERE IS A NEED FOR
REPENTANCE.' AND THEY SAID, 'HE
00:47:34.46\00:47:36.66
SOUNDS LIKE JEREMIAH.'
THEY SAID CHRIST IS JEREMIAH.
00:47:36.66\00:47:39.56
SOME SAID, 'NO, NO, HE'S NOT
JEREMIAH, HE'S JUST ONE OF THE
00:47:39.56\00:47:41.93
PROPHETS THAT IS COME.
AND THEN IF YOU LOOK OVER HERE
00:47:41.93\00:47:45.00
IN VERSE 15, "HE SAID TO
THEM, "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?"
00:47:45.00\00:47:50.30
IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS SAID, 'I
KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING
00:47:50.30\00:47:52.83
ABOUT ME, BUT WHO
DO YOU THINK I AM?
00:47:52.83\00:47:55.33
IN VERSE 16, "SIMON PETER
ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU ARE THE
00:47:55.33\00:47:58.63
CHRIST, THE SON
OF THE LIVING GOD."
00:47:58.63\00:48:03.06
NOW, OF COURSE, TODAY, WHEN
WE THINK OF JESUS, WE THINK OF
00:48:03.06\00:48:06.30
CHRIST AND RIGHTFULLY SO,
BUT TO THE JEW, JESUS WAS NOT
00:48:06.30\00:48:10.16
NECESSARILY THE CHRIST. TO
THE JEW, THE CHRIST WAS THE
00:48:10.16\00:48:13.56
ANOINTED ONE, THE PROMISED
MESSIAH, THE ONE THAT WOULD COME
00:48:13.56\00:48:16.76
AND SET ISRAEL
FREE FROM THEIR ENEMIES.
00:48:16.76\00:48:19.66
THE CHRIST WOULD RULE
ON THE THRONE OF DAVID.
00:48:19.66\00:48:22.43
EVERY GOOD JEWISH MOTHER
WOULD LOOK INTO THE FACE OF HER
00:48:22.43\00:48:25.13
NEWBORN SON AND SECRETLY HOPE
THAT HE WOULD BE THE CHRIST.
00:48:25.13\00:48:30.36
BUT PETER SAID,
'YOU ARE THE CHRIST.
00:48:30.36\00:48:32.70
YOU ARE THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES.
00:48:32.70\00:48:35.50
YOU ARE OUR
DELIVERER. YOU ARE OUR LORD.
00:48:35.50\00:48:38.13
YOU ARE OUR SAVIOR. YOU ARE
OUR KING. YOU ARE THE CHRIST.
00:48:38.13\00:48:43.63
THEN JESUS WENT ON TO SAY THIS
- VERSE 17 - "JESUS ANSWERED AND
00:48:43.63\00:48:50.30
SAID UNTO HIM, 'BLESSED ART
THOU, SIMON BAR JONAH: FOR FLESH
00:48:50.30\00:48:53.50
AND BLOOD HATH NOT REVEALED THIS
UNTO THEE, BUT MY FATHER WHICH
00:48:53.50\00:48:56.66
IS IN HEAVEN." IN
ORDER FOR A PERSON TO COME TO
00:48:56.66\00:48:59.56
A CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF WHO
JESUS REALLY IS - IT'S MORE THAN
00:48:59.56\00:49:04.53
JUST SIMPLY ACCEPTING A
SET OF HISTORICAL FACTS.
00:49:04.53\00:49:08.60
ITS' MORE THAN SAYING, 'YEAH,
JESUS CAME AND EVEN HE WAS THE
00:49:08.60\00:49:11.90
SON OF GOD.' TO REALLY KNOW
JESUS AS THE CHRIST, IT IS THE
00:49:11.90\00:49:16.43
MOVING OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT UPON THE HEART.
00:49:16.43\00:49:19.23
JESUS SAID TO NICODEMUS, 'EXCEPT
YE BE BORN AGAIN, YOU CANNOT SEE
00:49:19.23\00:49:24.16
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' IT
IS THAT CONVERSION EXPERIENCE -
00:49:24.16\00:49:27.60
THAT NEW-BIRTH EXPERIENCE - IT
IS THE HOLY SPIRIT MOVING UPON
00:49:27.60\00:49:30.83
THE HEART OF THE PERSON.
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'FLESH
00:49:30.83\00:49:33.93
AND BLOOD HAS NOT
REVEALED THIS TO YOU.
00:49:33.93\00:49:35.96
YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THIS FROM
SOMEBODY ELSE, IT'S MY FATHER IN
00:49:35.96\00:49:38.20
HEAVEN THAT'S REVEALED THIS TO
YOU.' THAT'S THE MOVING OF THE
00:49:38.20\00:49:41.26
HOLY SPIRIT UPON
THE HEART OF SOMEONE.
00:49:41.26\00:49:43.66
THAT'S THE KIND OF EXPERIENCE
THAT WE WANT - THAT CONTINUAL
00:49:43.66\00:49:47.83
MOVING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON
OUR HEARTS AND OUR LIVES SO THAT
00:49:47.83\00:49:50.90
WE CAN COME TO UNDERSTAND WHO
JESUS REALLY IS - THAT HE IS OUR
00:49:50.90\00:49:55.30
CHRIST,
PERSONALLY. HE IS OUR SAVIOR.
00:49:55.30\00:49:58.26
HE IS OUR DELIVERER. HE
IS OUR LORD. HE IS OUR KING.
00:49:58.26\00:50:02.26
IT'S THE MOVING OF THE SPIRIT
OF GOD UPON THE HEARTS AND THE
00:50:02.26\00:50:05.03
LIVES OF PEOPLE.
THAT'S THE SECRET TO LIVING A
00:50:05.03\00:50:08.80
VICTORIOUS SPIRITUAL LIFE -
IT'S UNDERSTANDING WHO JESUS IS.
00:50:08.80\00:50:12.86
IT'S KNOWING JESUS AS OUR
PERSONAL CHRIST, AS OUR SAVIOR,
00:50:12.86\00:50:17.30
AS OUR LORD AND THAT'S WHAT
THE SPIRIT WANTS TO DO IN US.
00:50:17.30\00:50:21.00
JESUS EMPHASIZES
THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT.
00:50:21.00\00:50:24.80
THEN JESUS GOES ON AND SAYS HERE
IN VERSE 18, AS WE FINISH UP
00:50:24.80\00:50:29.50
HERE, "AND I ALSO SAY TO YOU
THAT YOU ARE PETER, AND ON THIS
00:50:29.50\00:50:32.50
ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH,
AND THE GATES OF HADES SHALL NOT
00:50:32.50\00:50:36.06
PREVAIL AGAINST IT."
NOW, I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR
00:50:36.06\00:50:38.63
THAT PETER IS NOT THE FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT.
00:50:38.63\00:50:42.93
THE WORD 'PETER' HERE MEANS
A PEBBLE OR A STONE, BUT THE
00:50:42.93\00:50:46.53
DECLARATION THAT PETER HAD JUST
MADE - THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST
00:50:46.53\00:50:49.76
- THAT'S THE FOUNDATION - THAT'S
THE ROCK UPON WHICH THE CHURCH
00:50:49.76\00:50:55.06
IS BUILT. PETER
NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED HIMSELF
00:50:55.06\00:50:58.43
TO BE THE FOUNDATION
OF THE CHURCH. HE SAID,
00:50:58.43\00:51:00.13
'JESUS IS THE CORNERSTONE.
JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION.' JESUS
00:51:00.13\00:51:04.50
IS THE ROCK UPON
WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT.
00:51:04.50\00:51:08.36
IF WE COME TO KNOW JESUS AS OUR
PERSONAL CHRIST, THAT WILL BE
00:51:08.36\00:51:14.43
THE FOUNDATION TO OUR LIVES.
JESUS GOES ON TO SAY, "AND THE
00:51:14.43\00:51:19.06
GATES OF HELL SHALL
NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT."
00:51:19.06\00:51:22.53
WHEN WE COME TO KNOW JESUS
AS OUR PERSONAL CHRIST, AS OUR
00:51:22.53\00:51:26.43
SAVIOR, AS OUR LORD, AS OUR KIN,
THE DEVIL CANNOT OVERCOME US
00:51:26.43\00:51:30.76
BECAUSE 'GREATER IS HE THAT
IS IN US THAN HE THAT IS IN THE
00:51:30.76\00:51:34.06
WORLD.' THAT'S
THE PROMISE OF JESUS.
00:51:34.06\00:51:35.96
JESUS HAS OVERCOME THE ENEMY AND
AS WE RECEIVE HIM AS OUR CHRIST,
00:51:35.96\00:51:40.43
HE EMPOWERS US, BY HIS
GRACE, TO OVERCOME THE ENEMY.
00:51:40.43\00:51:44.60
SO THERE'S SOME WONDERFUL
PROMISES THAT JESUS MAKES WITH
00:51:44.60\00:51:47.46
REFERENCE TO
RECEIVING HIM AS CHRIST.
00:51:47.46\00:51:49.60
BY THE WAY, THAT'S NOT JUST A
ONE-TIME EXPERIENCE, BUT IT'S A
00:51:49.60\00:51:53.13
DAY-BY-DAY,
MOMENT-BY-MOMENT EXPERIENCE.
00:51:53.13\00:51:56.06
THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, 'I DIE
DAILY.' IT IS THAT DAY-BY-DAY
00:51:56.06\00:52:00.80
SURRENDERING OF OURSELVES TO
CHRIST AND RECEIVING HIM AS OUR
00:52:00.80\00:52:04.80
PERSONAL SAVIOR.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
00:52:04.80\00:52:07.53
WELL, WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO
GET TO THURSDAY'S LESSON, BUT
00:52:07.53\00:52:11.10
THURSDAY WE HAVE THE STORY
OF THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION,
00:52:11.10\00:52:14.23
WHERE JESUS IS GLORIFIED AND
THERE'S MOSES AND ELIJAH THAT
00:52:14.23\00:52:17.93
COME AND STAND WITH HIM.
JUST ONE THING I WANT TO MENTION
00:52:17.93\00:52:21.36
QUICKLY ABOUT THAT IS YOU
HAVE MOSES AND ELIJAH - MOSES
00:52:21.36\00:52:25.03
REPRESENTS THE LAW AND
ELIJAH REPRESENTS THE PROPHETS.
00:52:25.03\00:52:28.86
THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS DIVIDED
INTO TWO PARTS: THE LAW, THE
00:52:28.86\00:52:32.60
FIRST FIVE BOOKS WRITTEN BY
MOSES, AND THEN THE PROPHETS.
00:52:32.60\00:52:35.73
THE PROPHETS WERE OFTEN
REPRESENTED BY ELIJAH SO IT'S
00:52:35.73\00:52:38.96
INTERESTING THAT HERE JESUS,
BEING THE SON OF GOD - BEING THE
00:52:38.96\00:52:42.70
CHRIST - HE IS BEING TESTIFIED
BY THE LAW, REPRESENTED BY
00:52:42.70\00:52:47.73
MOSES, AND BY THE
PROPHETS, REPRESENTED BY ELIJAH.
00:52:47.73\00:52:50.93
JESUS SAID, 'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO
OR THREE WITNESSES, EVERYTHING
00:52:50.93\00:52:54.53
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED.' CHRIST
WOULD OFTEN POINT PEOPLE BACK TO
00:52:54.53\00:52:57.10
THE SCRIPTURES AS EVIDENCE FOR
WHO HE SAID HE WAS - THE LAW AND
00:52:57.10\00:53:02.80
THE PROPHETS. OUR
CONFIDENCE FOR WHO JESUS IS
00:53:02.80\00:53:08.13
NEEDS TO BE ROOTED IN THE
SCRIPTURES - IN THE LAW AND THE
00:53:08.13\00:53:12.13
PROPHETS. IT'S
INTERESTING WHAT PETER HAS
00:53:12.13\00:53:14.80
TO SAY ABOUT THIS WHEN
HE SPEAKS OF HIS EXPERIENCE.
00:53:14.80\00:53:18.50
LET'S GO TO THAT QUICKLY - 2
PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSE 16 - AND
00:53:18.50\00:53:22.00
WE'LL CLOSE UP WITH THIS - 2
PETER CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 16.
00:53:22.00\00:53:26.63
NOTICE WHAT PETER SAYS - 2
PETER CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 16.
00:53:26.63\00:53:32.73
PETER SAYS, "FOR WE DID
NOT FOLLOWING CUNNINGLY DEVISED
00:53:32.73\00:53:36.40
FABLES WHEN WE MADE KNOWN TO YOU
THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD
00:53:36.40\00:53:40.80
JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE
EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY."
00:53:40.80\00:53:44.63
VERSE 17 "FOR HE RECEIVED FROM
GOD THE FATHER HONOR AND GLORY
00:53:44.63\00:53:48.10
WHEN SUCH A VOICE CAME TO HIM
FROM THE EXCELLENT GLORY: 'THIS
00:53:48.10\00:53:51.90
IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I
AM WELL PLEASED.'" NOW, AT FIRST
00:53:51.90\00:53:54.93
READING, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING,
'WELL, THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE
00:53:54.93\00:53:56.90
BAPTISM OF JESUS.' AND, OF
COURSE, WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED,
00:53:56.90\00:54:00.10
THERE WAS A VOICE HEARD, 'THIS
IS MY BELOVED SON.' BUT NOTICE
00:54:00.10\00:54:03.26
IN VERSE 18 HE SAYS, "AND WE
HEARD THIS VOICE WHICH CAME FROM
00:54:03.26\00:54:07.63
HEAVEN WHEN WE WERE WITH
HIM ON THE HOLY MOUNTAIN."
00:54:07.63\00:54:10.73
- TALKING ABOUT THE
MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION.
00:54:10.73\00:54:12.60
THEN HE SAYS, IN VERSE 19, "AND
SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC WORD
00:54:12.60\00:54:16.90
CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO
TAKE HEED AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES
00:54:16.90\00:54:21.16
IN A DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY
DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR RISES
00:54:21.16\00:54:25.36
IN YOUR HEARTS; KNOW THIS FIRST,
THAT NO PROPHECY OF SCRIPTURE
00:54:25.36\00:54:29.30
IS OF ANY
PRIVATE INTERPRETATION."
00:54:29.30\00:54:31.06
SO PETER SAYS, 'WE'VE NOT
FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED
00:54:31.06\00:54:34.70
FABLES WHEN WE'VE TOLD YOU ABOUT
THE POWER OF JESUS - THAT HE IS
00:54:34.70\00:54:39.06
THE CHRIST.' HE SAYS, 'WE WERE
EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY.
00:54:39.06\00:54:42.70
WE SAW IT. WE KNOW IT'S REAL.
WE HEARD THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN.
00:54:42.70\00:54:46.13
IN ESSENCE, PETER IS
SAYING, 'PLEASE BELIEVE.
00:54:46.13\00:54:49.36
BELIEVE THAT
JESUS IS THE CHRIST.
00:54:49.36\00:54:52.03
RECOGNIZE JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL
SAVIOR - AS YOUR KING - AS YOUR
00:54:52.03\00:54:56.13
LORD - THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD
AND HE IS ALSO THE SON OF MAN.'
00:54:56.13\00:55:00.70
IN RECOGNIZING JESUS AS THE
CHRIST, WE HAVE DELIVERANCE.
00:55:00.70\00:55:05.70
WE HAVE FORGIVENESS. WE
HAVE POWER. WE HAVE REDEMPTION.
00:55:05.70\00:55:09.20
SO THAT'S THE
EMPHASIS OF THIS WEEK'S LESSON.
00:55:09.20\00:55:11.80
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BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STUDY.
00:55:11.80\00:55:14.63
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00:55:14.63\00:55:17.60
JESUS IS THE CHRIST. HE IS
OUR SAVIOR. HE IS OUR LORD.
00:55:17.60\00:55:20.90
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LET'S CLOSE WITH PRAYER.
00:55:52.30\00:55:55.93
DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU
ONCE AGAIN THAT WE HAVE THE
00:55:55.93\00:55:57.83
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AND WE JUST ASK THAT THIS VERY
00:55:57.83\00:56:01.46
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THE CHRIST - THAT WE WOULD ALLOW
00:56:01.46\00:56:04.90
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THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR THE GREAT
GIFT THAT WAS GIVEN IN JESUS.
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IN HIS NAME, AMEN.
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