Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: SSH021614A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR. WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU ALL HERE 00:39 AGAIN ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING, AS WE'RE GOING CONTINUE 00:42 OUR STUDY TOGETHER IN GOD'S WORD. 00:45 OUR LESSON IS DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 00:47 IT'S A BRAND-NEW QUARTER - BRAND-NEW STUDY. 00:49 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 00:51 AND AROUND THE WORLD, THIS IS WHAT THE QUARTERLY LOOKS LIKE 00:54 FOR THIS NEXT THIRTEEN WEEKS' STUDY TIME PERIOD. 00:57 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF THE LESSON QUARTERLY - WE'RE GOING 01:00 TO BE LOOKING AT LESSON #1 TODAY - YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING 01:02 FACTS WEBSITE AND YOU COULD DOWNLOAD LESSON #1. 01:05 AND TODAY'S LESSON IS ENTITLED THE SON OF DAVID AND IT GETS 01:08 INTO OUR STUDY OF THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 01:11 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. 01:13 IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED DOWN FROM HIS GLORY AND THIS IS OUR FREE 01:17 OFFER TODAY. IF YOU CALL OUR RESOURCE NUMBER 01:19 IT'S 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #701. 01:26 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY (IN NORTH AMERICA) WHO 01:28 CALLS AND ASKS. AGAIN, THAT NUMBER IS 01:30 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER #701. 01:36 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 01:37 IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA AND YOU'D LIKE TO GET 01:40 THE OFFER, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 01:43 YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE BOOK FOR FREE AT 01:47 THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:51 NOW, INSTEAD OF OUR USUAL SINGING TOGETHER AT THE 01:53 BEGINNING OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO 01:56 HAVE THE WEIMAR CHOIR JOINING US TODAY AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE 01:59 BRINGING US A SPECIAL MUSICAL ITEM AT THIS TIME. 02:08 >>O LORD, MY GOD O LORD, MY GOD HOW GREAT THOU ART. 02:33 O LORD, MY GOD, WHEN I IN AWESOME WONDER CONSIDER ALL THE 02:43 WORLDS THY HANDS HAVE MADE; I SEE THE STARS, I HEAR THE 02:55 ROLLING THUNDER, THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE 03:04 DISPLAYED. THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR GOD, TO THEE, HOW 03:19 GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART. THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY 03:29 SAVIOR GOD, TO THEE, HOW GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART! 03:54 WHEN THROUGH THE WOOD AND FOREST GLADES I WANDER AND HEAR THE 04:02 BIRDS SING SWEETLY IN THE TREES WHEN I LOOK DOWN FROM LOFTY 04:13 MOUNTAIN GRANDEUR AND HEAR THE BROOK, AND FEEL THE GENTLE 04:21 BREEZE THEN SINGS MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART. AND WHEN I THINK 04:35 THAT GOD HIS SON NOT SPARING SENT HIM TO DIE - I SCARCE CAN 04:54 TAKE IT IN THEN SINGS MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART. 05:12 THAT ON THE CROSS MY BURDEN GLADLY BEARING HE BLED AND DIED 05:24 TO TAKE AWAY MY SIN THEN SINGS MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART THEN 05:36 SINGS MY SOUL, HOW GREAT THOU ART MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART! 05:55 WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME WITH SHOUT OF ACCLAMATION AND TAKE ME 06:05 HOME - WHAT JOY SHALL FILL MY HEART! 06:26 THEN I SHALL BOW IN HUMBLE ADORATION AND THERE PROCLAIM, MY 06:47 GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART! THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR 07:06 GOD, TO THEE, HOW GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART. 07:15 THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR GOD, TO THEE, O LORD MY GOD, O 07:27 LORD MY GOD, O LORD MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART! 07:50 >>AMEN! >>AMEN. 07:58 THANK YOU SO MUCH WEIMAR CHOIR. BEAUTIFUL SONG. 08:01 WELL, FROM TIME TO TIME WE TRY TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MISSION 08:04 UPDATE OF SOME ACTIVITY - SOME OUTREACH - THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING 08:07 AMONGST SOME OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS - ALSO FROM AMAZING 08:10 FACTS. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING 08:12 WITH YOU A LITTLE UPDATE ON A MISSION TRIP TO THAILAND. 08:15 CARISSA IS GOING TO BE COMING FORWARD - AND OSTAP - AND 08:18 THEY'RE GOING TO BE SHARING AN AFCOE OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT TOOK 08:21 PLACE, OH A COUPLE MONTHS BACK - I THINK IT WAS DECEMBER. 08:25 THANK YOU, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO 08:27 SHARE. >>GOOD MORNING. 08:31 HAPPY SABBATH. WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, 08:33 BRIEFLY, HERE A LITTLE MISSION SPOTLIGHT ABOUT THE WORK THAT 08:37 JUST OCCURRED THIS PAST DECEMBER IN THAILAND. 08:41 WE HAD A MASSIVE MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR - AGAIN, WE WERE GOING 08:44 TO A VERY PREDOMINANTLY BUDDHIST COUNTRY - THAILAND. 08:48 FOR MANY PEOPLE THAT WE WERE MINISTERING TO, THEY HAD NEVER 08:51 HEARD THE NAME JESUS CHRIST BEFORE. 08:55 WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH AN INCREDIBLE AUSTRALIAN 08:57 TEAM THERE IN THAILAND THAT ORGANIZED THIS ENTIRE EVENT, 09:02 WORKING CLOSELY WITH CHUCK HOLTRY, OUR AFCOE DIRECTOR. 09:05 WE TOOK A TEAM OF 14 AFCOE GRADUATES AND OVER 20 MEDICAL 09:12 PERSONNEL TO GO AND WORK IN THAILAND AND MAKE AN IMPACT FOR 09:17 JESUS CHRIST. OUR FOCUS WHILE WE WERE THERE 09:20 WAS CHILDREN'S EVANGELISM, MEDICAL EVANGELISM, AND THEN 09:24 ALSO CONDUCTING SIX PROPHECY SEMINARS. 09:28 THAT'S A LOT OF WORK, ISN'T IT? MANY OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS HERE 09:32 AT GRANITE BAY WERE A PART OF THAT MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR. 09:35 THE NAKABAYASHIS, JANELLE, MANY OTHERS WERE INVOLVED, AND WE 09:38 JUST SO APPRECIATE THAT SUPPORT. OSTAP WAS ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS 09:42 THERE IN THAILAND - ONE OF THE AFCOE GRADUATES. 09:46 OSTAP, WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE LIKE AS A SPEAKER IN THAILAND? 09:52 >>THAILAND, FOR ME, WAS A VERY UNIQUE COUNTRY. 09:54 IT'S MY FIRST TIME IN THAILAND AND THE PEOPLE WERE SO WELCOMING 09:58 AND WARM AND JUST GREETED US AND ACCEPTED US. 10:01 AND I SAW, EVERY NIGHT, HOW FAITHFUL THEY WERE TO TRAVEL 10:05 LONG DISTANCES - HAVING TO WALK BY FOOT - AND THEY WERE COMING 10:08 OUT EVERY NIGHT TO LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD. 10:11 >>AMEN. >>AMEN. 10:13 >>WAS THERE ONE MOMENT THAT WAS PARTICULARLY MEMORABLE DURING 10:16 YOUR TIME IN THAILAND? >>WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO 10:18 WITH THE PASTOR TO DO HOUSE VISITATIONS AND TO TALK TO 10:21 PEOPLE AND TO GET THEM READY FOR BAPTISM - TO SEE IF THEY HAVE 10:24 ANY QUESTIONS - AND THIS FAMILY HAD WELCOMED US IN. 10:28 WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO INTO THEIR VERY SMALL, I WOULD 10:31 SAY, HUT - IT'S NOT EVEN A BIG HOME - AND, AS WE WERE SITTING 10:36 THERE ON THEIR FLOOR WITH OUR LEGS CROSSED AND - WE WERE JUST 10:41 AMAZED WITH THE HOSPITALITY AND THE LOVE THAT THEY SHARED WITH 10:44 US BECAUSE WE HAD TAKEN THE TIME TO COME AND SHARE THE WORD OF 10:48 GOD WITH THEM. AND ONE OF THE GESTURES THAT 10:51 THEY WANTED TO DO FOR US WAS TO SEND THEIR KIDS OFF TO A LITTLE 10:54 VILLAGE STORE AND TO BUY US SOME DRINKS. 10:57 AND THE FATHER WAS STUMBLING IN HIS POCKET TO FIND SOME CHANGE 11:01 FOR THESE DRINKS AND HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY WITH HIM. 11:05 AND SO THE YOUNG GIRL REMEMBERED THAT SHE HAD SOME CHANGE IN HER 11:08 ROOM AND SHE RAN TO HER ROOM, GRABBED SOME LOOSE CHANGE AND 11:12 RAN DOWN TO THE VILLAGE STORE TO BUY US SOMETHING TO DRINK. 11:15 IT WAS REALLY, REALLY HOT. >>THAT'S SPECIAL. 11:18 >>YEAH. >>EXCELLENT. THOSE LITTLE 11:19 MOMENTS WHERE, AGAIN, THEY SHOW THEIR LOVE AND 11:21 CARE TOWARDS US. OSTAP, AGAIN, IS AN AFCOE 11:24 GRADUATE AND A CHURCH MEMBER HERE AT GRANITE BAY AND NOW 11:26 HE HAS COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO FULL-TIME EVANGELISM AND 11:29 FOREIGN MISSION WORK. SO WE JUST PRAISE GOD FOR THE 11:31 IMPACT THAT THESE EXPERIENCES MAKE. 11:34 HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS WHEN, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WE SHOW TRUE LOVE 11:38 TO OTHERS. AND, WHEN WE DO, AGAIN, CHRIST'S 11:41 METHOD TRULY DOES BREAK AND WIN HEARTS. 11:45 YOU KNOW, THE WORK IS GOING FORWARD IN THAILAND. 11:47 THERE IS A NEED OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT. 11:49 THERE IS A NEED OF PRAYERS FOR THE TEACHERS AND THE 11:52 MISSIONARIES THAT CONTINUE THERE. 11:54 AND SO, OF COURSE, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY WITH US. 11:56 BUT EVEN MORE SO, I BELIEVE THERE IS A WORK HERE IN NORTH 12:00 AMERICA. I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS 12:02 A WORK WHEREVER WE ARE. GOD IS CALLING US TO TRULY 12:05 DEMONSTRATE THE LOVE OF JESUS IN OUR CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE TODAY. 12:11 AND NOW, AS WE TRANSITION INTO OUR LESSON STUDY WITH PASTOR 12:14 DOUG, WOULD YOU JUST BOW YOUR HEADS WITH ME FOR A WORD OF 12:18 PRAYER? HEAVENLY FATHER, GOD, LORD, WE 12:21 JUST THANK YOU FOR HOW YOU WORK. WE THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT WE 12:25 GET THE INCREDIBLE PRIVILEGE OF BEING AN AMBASSADOR 12:28 FOR JESUS CHRIST. THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR THESE 12:31 EXPERIENCES THAT REMIND US THAT YOU ARE REAL. 12:34 WHAT A JOY IT IS, FATHER, TO SEE SOMEONE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST - TO 12:37 HEAR HIS NAME FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. 12:42 AND FATHER, I PRAY THAT THAT SAME JOY AND PASSION MAY BURN IN 12:45 OUR HEARTS TODAY. AND NOW, FATHER, AS WE OPEN YOUR 12:48 WORD, I PRAY THAT YOU SPEAK THROUGH PASTOR DOUG AND OPEN OUR 12:52 HEARTS TO RECEIVE YOUR MESSAGE TODAY. WE THANK YOU AND WE PRAY 12:56 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN. 13:06 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CARISSA AND OSTAP. 13:09 AND I TAKE IT THAT OSTAP IS WEARING CLOTHING FROM THAILAND. 13:15 AND I WANT TO ALSO THANK THE WEIMAR CHOIR FOR SINGING - 13:19 THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. >>AMEN. 13:20 >>APPRECIATE THAT. I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO ALSO BE 13:21 TREATING US DURING OUR CHURCH SERVICE A LITTLE LATER. 13:24 WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS THAT IS STUDYING WITH US 13:28 AROUND THE WORLD. NOW, I PROMISED OUR FRIENDS IN 13:30 SOUTH AFRICA THAT WHEN WE GOT BACK HOME WE'D WAVE TO THEM, SO 13:34 I JUST WANT TO - I'LL GIVE YOU THE PRINCESS WAVE HERE. 13:36 I WANT TO WAVE TO OUR FRIENDS AND TELL THEM WE HAVEN'T 13:39 FORGOTTEN THEM. AND IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING AS WE 13:42 TRAVEL, WE MEET PEOPLE THAT ARE STUDYING WITH US EACH WEEK FROM 13:46 AROUND THE WORLD ON THE VARIOUS NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET. 13:49 AND SOME OF YOU WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - SOME 13:53 OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS, WE WELCOME YOU AS WELL. 13:56 I THINK PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER CALLED 13:59 DOWN FROM HIS GLORY , AND YOU CAN JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR 14:02 SCREEN - ASK FOR OFFER #701 - WE'LL SEND YOU THAT AND READ IT 14:08 - SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS. IT WILL ENCOURAGE YOU. 14:10 THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE STUDY FOR WHERE WE'RE GOING TODAY BECAUSE 14:14 TODAY WE'RE ENTERING INTO A BRAND-NEW STUDY DEALING WITH A 14:18 NEW QUARTERLY ON THE SUBJECT OF MATTHEW. 14:22 AND, FOR OUR FRIENDS THAT - SOME ARE WATCHING THIS STREAMING LIVE 14:27 - YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WHY ARE YOU THREE WEEKS AHEAD OF THE 14:29 REST OF THE WORLD CHURCH IN THEIR STUDY?' 14:31 IT'S BECAUSE WHEN WE BROADCAST THIS PROGRAM, BY THE TIME WE 14:35 EDIT THE PROGRAMS AND, IN SOME CASES THEY'RE TRANSLATED, AND 14:39 THEN WE PUT CLOSED CAPTIONING ON, IT JUST TAKES THREE WEEKS TO 14:42 GET THAT DONE AND SENT TO THE VARIOUS NETWORK STUDIOS. 14:45 AND SO, WE STUDY THE LESSON HERE - WE'RE LIVING IN THE FUTURE 14:48 HERE AT GRANITE BAY. WE STUDY THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE, 14:51 IF YOU'RE VISITING TODAY. I AM REALLY EXCITED TO BE 14:54 DELVING INTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, AND 14:56 WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH LESSON #1, OF COURSE, TODAY, 14:59 WHICH IS CALLED THE SON OF DAVID . 15:02 AND THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US 15:05 FROM THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSE 21. 15:10 AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ THAT WITH ME, MATTHEW 1, VERSE 15:14 21 - AND I'M DOING THE WHOLE VERSE HERE - YOU READY? 15:19 "AND SHE WILL BRING FORTH A SON, AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME 15:23 JESUS, FOR HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS." 15:29 IN THEIR SINS? >>NO. 15:31 >>OR FROM THEIR SINS? NOW THIS IS - THE MEMORY VERSE 15:35 IN THE LESSON'S ONLY GOT ABOUT HALF OF THE VERSE, BUT I THINK 15:38 THAT WE COULD ALL DO THE WHOLE THING. 15:41 'SHE'LL BRING FORTH A SON, YOU'LL CALL HIS NAME JESUS, AND 15:44 HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.' THIS SORT OF 15:46 SUMMARIZES THE MISSION OF JESUS. NOW, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE 15:50 APPROPRIATE, BEFORE WE DELVE INTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, THAT 15:55 WE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BOOK. 15:57 WE'RE STARTING, REALLY, NOT ONLY A NEW QUARTERLY, BUT THIS IS THE 16:01 FIRST BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND JUST MAYBE TALK A LITTLE BIT 16:06 ABOUT THE BACKGROUND. FIRST OF ALL, WHO IS MATTHEW? 16:10 WE'VE GOT A FEW VERSES THAT GIVE US A CLUE. 16:13 YOU CAN LOOK IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, CHAPTER 9, VERSE 9, AND 16:17 IT SAYS, "AS JESUS PASSED ON FROM THERE, HE SAW A MAN NAMED 16:21 MATTHEW SITTING AT THE TAX OFFICE. 16:24 AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME.' SO HE AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM." 16:29 AND THE TAX OFFICE MEANS THAT HE WAS A PUBLICAN. 16:33 NOW IT SAYS A LITTLE DIFFERENT ACCOUNT IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 16:37 5:27, "AFTER THESE THINGS HE WENT FORTH, AND SAW A PUBLICAN, 16:42 NAMED LEVI," - ONE PLACE IT SAYS HIS NAME'S MATTHEW, THE OTHER 16:45 PLACE SAYS HIS NAME IS LEVI - "SITTING AT THE RECEIPT OF 16:49 CUSTOM:" - THAT'S TAX. LUKE IS SPEAKING AS A GENTILE 16:52 WOULD - "AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, 'FOLLOW ME.' AND HE LEFT ALL, 16:57 ROSE UP, AND FOLLOWED HIM. AND LEVI MADE HIM A GREAT FEAST 17:01 IN HIS OWN HOUSE: AND THERE WAS A GREAT COMPANY OF PUBLICANS AND 17:04 OF OTHERS" - THE PHARISEES TELL US WHO THE OTHERS WERE, IT SAYS 17:08 THEY WERE PUBLICANS AND HARLOTS AND SINNERS. 17:13 THE PUBLICANS ARE THE TAX COLLECTORS IN JESUS' DAY. 17:17 IT WASN'T A REPUTABLE JOB. THEY WERE, SORT OF, 17:20 PART OF THE UNDERWORLD. THEY WERE AUTHORIZED BY THE 17:25 ROMANS TO COLLECT TRIBUTE AND TAXES FROM THEIR OWN PEOPLE. 17:29 AND THEY WERE GIVEN SOME - A CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS TO HELP - 17:33 LIKE THE POLICE - TO HELP ENFORCE WHEN THEY WOULD LEVY 17:36 CERTAIN TAXES ON THE CARAVANS AND THE PEOPLE BUYING AND 17:39 SELLING. IF YOU STARTED TO ARGUE TOO 17:41 MUCH, THEY'D HAVE YOU ROUGHED UP - THEY'D HAVE YOU ARRESTED. 17:44 AND THEY WERE THE MAFIOSO AND THEY HUNG OUT WITH THE 17:49 OFF-SCOURING OF SOCIETY. AND SO, WHEN MATTHEW LEVI, WHICH 17:55 IS WHAT WE CALL HIM, WHEN HE WAS SO HONORED THAT JESUS WOULD 18:00 ACCEPT HIM TO BE PART OF HIS INNER CIRCLE, HE MADE A FEAST 18:03 FOR HIM AND THAT'S WHEN ALL THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BEGAN TO 18:06 MURMUR TO THE OTHER APOSTLES AND SAY, 'LOOK, YOUR MASTER HAS GONE 18:09 TO BE A GUEST OF THEM THAT ARE SINNERS. 18:11 AND JESUS OVERHEARD THIS AND HE SAID, 'HAVEN'T YOU HEARD THAT 18:15 IT'S NOT THE WELL THAT NEED A PHYSICIAN, BUT IT'S THE SICK?' 18:19 THIS ALL HAPPENED IN THE CONTEXT OF JESUS CALLING 18:22 MATTHEW. NOW, WHY DOES ONE GOSPEL SAY HIS NAME WAS MATTHEW 18:25 AND THE OTHER GOSPEL SAYS HIS NAME IS LEVI? WELL, IT WAS VERY 18:29 COMMON TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE NAME. I MEAN, JESUS WAS CALLED 18:33 JESUS, THE SON OF JOSEPH, OR JESUS OF NAZARETH. 18:35 WHEN IT SAYS 'MATTHEW', THAT WAS PROBABLY HIS PROPER NAME. 18:38 'LEVI' MEANT THAT HE WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI. 18:41 KEEP IN MIND, THERE WERE REALLY THREE PRINCIPLE TRIBES LEFT IN 18:46 THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE TIME OF JESUS. 18:50 LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, DURING THE TIME OF KING 18:53 HEZEKIAH, THE ASSYRIANS CARRIED AWAY THE TEN TRIBES FROM THE 18:57 NORTH. THAT'S WHEN YOU HAVE EPHRAIM 19:01 AND MANNASEH AND ISSACHAR AND ZEBULON AND SO FORTH. 19:04 THE THREE TRIBES OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM WERE JUDAH, 19:08 BENJAMIN, AND LEVI. AND SO, PAUL, WHAT 19:13 TRIBE WAS HE FROM? HE SAYS, 'FROM THE TRIBE OF 19:15 BENJAMIN.' AND OTHERS WERE - JUDAS MAY HAVE BEEN FROM JUDAH. 19:22 MATTHEW WAS A LEVITE - HE WAS, AT LEAST, DESCENDED. 19:26 SO HE HAD GONE A LONG WAY FROM THE PRIESTLY FAMILY OF LEVI TO 19:30 BECOMING A TAX COLLECTOR FOR THE ROMANS. 19:33 AND SO, HE WAS SORT OF A FALLEN ANGEL. 19:35 AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT JESUS, AFTER HE INVITED ZACCHEUS, WHO 19:40 WAS A PUBLICAN, TO COME TO HIM, HE SAID, 'I MUST ABIDE AT YOUR 19:44 HOUSE.' NOW THERE'S ONLY FIVE RECORDS IN THE BIBLE OF PEOPLE 19:49 WHO WERE CALLED TO FOLLOW JESUS - WELL, SIX - I'LL GET TO THAT 19:52 IN A MINUTE - FIVE THAT ACCEPTED. 19:55 YOU'VE GOT PETER - THE CALL OF PETER IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE - 19:59 AND ANDREW - THEY WERE FISHING. 20:01 JAMES AND JOHN, LIKEWISE, FISHING. 20:05 AND THE ONLY OTHER ONE IS MATTHEW. 20:07 NOW THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN, WE DON'T KNOW HIS NAME, A RICH 20:09 YOUNG RULER. JESUS SAID, 'SELL WHAT YOU HAVE, 20:11 GIVE IT TO THE POOR, AND FOLLOW ME.' AND HE DIDN'T. 20:14 BUT HE SAID THE SAME THING TO HIM THAT HE SAID TO THE OTHERS, 20:17 'FOLLOW ME.' AND IT SAYS JESUS LOVED HIM. 20:20 BUT HE DIDN'T. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HIS NAME. 20:23 SO MATTHEW IS ONE OF THEM WHOSE NAME WAS RECORDED. 20:26 HE WAS PROBABLY A GALILEAN FROM - AS WITH THE OTHER APOSTLES - 20:32 AND A JEW. WHEN WAS HIS GOSPEL WRITTEN? 20:37 WELL, I TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE SOME HOMEWORK THIS WEEK. 20:40 I'VE LEARNED A LOT. ONE THING I LEARNED IS THAT THE 20:42 SCHOLARS DON'T AGREE WITH EACH OTHER. AND I JUST WANTED TO TRY 20:47 AND PIN DOWN, YOU KNOW, AN APPROXIMATE DATE. 20:51 AND I'LL JUST TELL YOU, THEY ARE ALL OVER THE MAP. 20:53 WHEN YOU SAY, 'WHEN WAS THE BOOK WRITTEN?' 20:55 IT GOES ALL THE WAY FROM 45 A.D. TO 100 A.D. 21:00 THAT'S A PRETTY BIG SCOPE. I'M INCLINED - I READ SEVERAL 21:04 SCHOLARS - I READ THEIR ARGUMENTS. 21:06 I'M INCLINED TO THINK SEVERAL THINGS: FIRST OF ALL, THAT THE 21:09 BOOK OF MATTHEW WAS FIRST WRITTEN IN HEBREW. 21:12 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME REASONS FOR THAT. 21:15 WE DO HAVE SOME DOCUMENTATION IN HISTORY. 21:18 IRENAEUS - NOW MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN IN GREEK - 21:21 MATTHEW, A JEW, WROTE HIS GOSPEL TO APPEAL TO JEWS, 21:25 PROBABLY FIRST WAS WRITTEN IN HEBREW. 21:28 IRENAEUS, SECOND-CENTURY BISHOP WRITES, "MATTHEW ALSO ISSUED A 21:32 WRITTEN GOSPEL AMONG THE HEBREWS IN THEIR OWN DIALECT." 21:36 AND THEN PAPIAS, ANOTHER SECOND-CENTURY BISHOP - HE 21:40 REFERS TO THIS BELIEF - HE SAYS, "MATTHEW PUT TOGETHER THE 21:42 ORACLES OF THE LORD IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE." 21:46 THIS WAS ALSO QUOTED BY EUSEBIUS IN HIS BOOK ON CHURCH HISTORY. 21:50 "ORIGIN: ASSUMED THAT MATTHEW PENNED HIS GOSPEL ORIGINALLY IN 21:53 HEBREW." SO A NUMBER OF THE EARLY CHURCH 21:56 FATHERS BELIEVED THAT THE FIRST THING THAT MATTHEW 21:58 WROTE WAS IN HEBREW. IT PROBABLY WASN'T THE FIRST 22:02 GOSPEL, AGAIN, THE SCHOLARS - OR THE JURY - IS STILL OUT 22:06 ABOUT WHICH WAS FIRST. MOST AGREE IT WAS 22:09 MATTHEW OR MARK. IF YOU READ THE GOSPELS OF MATTHEW AND MARK, 22:12 YOU'LL FIND THERE'S MANY SIMILARITIES. MATTER OF FACT, 22:15 IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT ONE IS QUOTING THE OTHER. 22:18 MANY OF THE DISCOURSES AND THE OUTLINES ARE THE SAME. 22:21 MATTHEW'S LONGER - MATTHEW'S MORE THOROUGH. 22:25 AND PROBABLY, IN MY OPINION, AND I'VE SPENT MANY YEARS GETTING TO 22:28 KNOW THESE GUYS, READING THEIR BOOKS, MY OPINION IS MARK WROTE 22:33 FIRST. HIS IS SHORTER. MARK IS SPEAKING TO THE GENTILES. 22:38 PROBABLY 40 - 45 A.D. HE WROTE HIS GOSPEL BECAUSE 22:44 HE WAS CONCERNED PEOPLE WERE BEGINNING TO OBSCURE AND CHANGE 22:48 THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND TO TWIST THE STORIES. 22:50 HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU GUYS ARE GETTING IT WRONG. 22:51 THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. LET ME WRITE IT DOWN.' 22:55 YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THERE'S A RISK OF SOMETHING BEING 22:57 MISUNDERSTOOD, YOU WRITE IT DOWN. 22:58 SO MARK WROTE HIS DOWN. HE'S GOT 16 CHAPTERS. 23:02 MARK'S IS THE SHORTEST AND IT'S THE QUICKEST GOSPEL. 23:05 WHEN YOU READ THE GOSPEL OF MARK, NOTICE HOW MANY TIMES IT 23:08 SAYS, 'IMMEDIATELY', 'STRAIGHTWAY' - IT'S TALKING 23:10 ABOUT JESUS IS JUST GOING FAST - IN THE BOOK OF MARK. 23:14 MATTHEW, WANTING TO WRITE A GOSPEL THAT WOULD APPEAL - 23:19 MARK'S WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN IN GREEK BECAUSE THE EARLY CHURCH, 23:22 BY 45 A.D., IT WAS EXPLODING THROUGH THE GENTILE WORLD. 23:26 THERE WERE MORE GENTILE CHRISTIANS, BY THE TIME MARK 23:29 WROTE, THAN THERE WERE JEWISH CHRISTIANS. 23:31 MATTHEW, NOT WANTING THE JEWS TO BE LEFT OUT, THEY WERE CONCERNED 23:34 THAT 'CHRISTIANITY IS ABANDONING THE LAW'. 23:37 MATTHEW WRITES HIS GOSPEL TO APPEAL TO THE HEBREWS. 23:42 NOBODY SPEAKS MORE THAN MATTHEW ABOUT THE MESSIAHSHIP OF JESUS. 23:48 THAT'S WHY HIS GOSPEL BEGINS, AS OUR LESSON TITLED, THE SON OF 23:51 DAVID - HE IS SHOWING JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. 23:55 THERE IS NO GOSPEL WRITER - MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, 23:57 AND JOHN - MATTHEW DOES THE MOST IN POINTING BACK TO THE OLD 24:01 TESTAMENT TO PROVE - AND HE QUOTES THE OLD TESTAMENT AGAIN 24:05 AND AGAIN - TO PROVE THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH. 24:08 HE PROBABLY WROTE IT FIRST IN HEBREW. 24:10 IT BECAME VERY POPULAR AND THEY SAID, 'WE NEED A GREEK VERSION.' 24:14 MATTHEW, HIMSELF, MAY HAVE WRITTEN THE GREEK VERSION. 24:17 WE HAVE NO RECORDS IN EXISTENCE ANYMORE, OF THE ORIGINAL HEBREW 24:20 BUT, BASED ON THESE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, IT WAS PROBABLY FIRST 24:24 WRITTEN IN HEBREW, THEN HE WROTE IT IN GREEK AND MATTHEW, BEING A 24:29 TAX COLLECTOR, WAS PROBABLY CONVERSANT FLUENTLY IN HEBREW, 24:35 ARAMAIC, GREEK AND LATIN. AND SO - HE WAS EXPOSED TO JUST 24:41 ALL THESE - THIS TRAFFIC FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND YOU WOULD 24:45 NEED TO BE ABLE TO CONVERSE WITH THESE PEOPLE. 24:47 SO, SOMETHING ELSE - MATTHEW, BEING A TAX COLLECTOR, HE THINKS 24:53 MORE IN FINANCIAL TERMS. MORE IS SAID ABOUT FINANCE IN 24:57 THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW - TAKE A LOOK. 24:59 THE TWO PARABLES ABOUT TALENTS, THEY'RE IN MATTHEW. 25:03 WHEN YOU READ THE LORD'S PRAYER IN LUKE HE SAYS, 'FORGIVE US OUR 25:06 TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US.' HOW 25:11 DOES MATTHEW SAY IT? >>DEBTS. 25:13 >>DEBT - HE'S THINKING IN THE FINANCIAL TERMS. 25:15 'FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS' - THIS IS AN ACCOUNTANT. 25:17 THIS IS A TAX COLLECTOR. 25:19 AND SO YOU'LL NOTICE, AS YOU GO THROUGH MATTHEW, THAT HE - THERE 25:22 ARE MORE ILLUSTRATIONS AND PARABLES ABOUT MONEY IN MATTHEW 25:25 THAN ANY OTHER GOSPEL - AND I'M SURE WE NEEDED THAT TOO. 25:30 WELL, THE OTHER INTERESTING THING IS MATTHEW SUMMARIZES THE 25:35 WRITINGS OF JESUS. THE BOOK OF MATTHEW HAS FIVE DISCOURSES OF 25:40 JESUS. I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW. IT'S 25:43 MATTHEW CHAPTERS 5 THROUGH 7, MATTHEW 10, MATTHEW 13, MATTHEW 25:50 18, MATTHEW 24 AND 25. THE BOOK OF MATTHEW HAS FIVE PRINCIPLE 25:55 TEACHINGS OF JESUS. SOME WONDER IF HE WROTE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE 25:59 IT'S AN ECHO OF THE PENTATEUCH THAT HAS THE LAW SUMMARIZED AND 26:06 JESUS SORT OF GIVES THE RENEWING OF THE LAW. AND THEY'VE DIVIDED 26:10 THE TEACHINGS OF MATTHEW INTO FIVE PARTS. YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST 26:15 PART - THE PREPARATION OF THE KING - 26:18 THAT'S CHAPTER 1 THROUGH CHAPTER 4. 26:20 THE SECOND PART - THE PRESENTATION OF THE KINGDOM - 26:24 CHAPTER 4 THROUGH CHAPTER 16 - THE MESSAGE AND SO FORTH. 26:28 SECOND - OR THE THIRD PART - SERMONS - THAT'S 16 THROUGH 25 - 26:34 MATTHEW 16 THROUGH 25 - THE SERMONS OF JESUS. 26:37 THEN THE FOURTH PART IS THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST - THE FIFTH 26:42 PART, THE RESURRECTION. SO THE WHOLE BOOK, SORT OF, 26:45 IS DIVIDED INTO THESE FIVE SECTIONS. 26:48 ANYWAY, I'VE JUST LEARNED A LOT READING, SORT OF, THE 26:54 INTRODUCTION TO MATTHEW. I'LL READ YOU SOMETHING THAT WAS 26:57 WRITTEN BY DR. ADAM CLARKE, ON THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 27:01 HE'S A GREAT, GREAT BIBLE COMMENTATOR. YOU'VE HEARD ME 27:04 QUOTE HIM MANY TIMES BECAUSE HE'S ONE OF THE BEST. 27:06 YOU KNOW, HE HAILS BACK 200 YEARS AGO, BUT THIS GUY, HE KNEW 27:10 THE BIBLE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES - WAS JUST BRILLIANT. 27:14 HE WAS THE RIGHT-HAND MAN FOR JOHN WESLEY. 27:16 HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE BOOK OF MATTHEW: "THERE IS NOT 27:19 ONE TRUTH OR DOCTRINE IN THE WHOLE ORACLES OF GOD, WHICH IS 27:24 NOT TAUGHT IN THIS EVANGELIST" - MATTHEW - "THE OUTLINES OF THE 27:28 WHOLE SPIRITUAL SYSTEM ARE, HERE, CORRECTLY LAID DOWN. 27:32 EVEN PAUL, HIMSELF, HAS ADDED NOTHING." - IN OTHER WORDS, 27:35 EVERYTHING PAUL SAID IS FIRST APPROACHED IN MATTHEW - "HE HAS 27:38 AMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN THIS GOSPEL. 27:42 UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY GHOST, NEITHER HE NOR ANY 27:45 OTHER APOSTLES HAVE BROUGHT TO LIGHT ONE TRUTH THAT THE 27:50 PROTOTYPE OF WHICH HAS NOT BEEN FIRST FOUND IN THE WORDS OF OUR 27:54 LORD AS RELATED BY MATTHEW." IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S NOTHING 27:57 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT YOU DON'T FIND AT LEAST THE 28:00 PROTOTYPE FOR IT FIRST IN MATTHEW. 28:02 SO IT IS A VERY POWERFUL BOOK. AND, AGAIN, NOT SURE IF 28:08 MATTHEW WROTE FIRST OR MARK. I THINK MARK WROTE FIRST. 28:12 MATTHEW THEN WROTE HIS HEBREW VERSION SHORTLY AFTER, MAYBE 50 28:18 - 55 A.D. AND THEN SOON AFTER THAT 28:22 IT WAS WRITTEN IN GREEK. AND THE ONLY FRAGMENTS WE HAVE 28:26 OF THE GOSPEL ARE IN GREEK TODAY. 28:29 ANYWAY, THAT WAS ALL AN INTRODUCTION. 28:30 LET'S GO TO THE FIRST VERSE. MATTHEW CHAPTER 1 - AND THIS IS 28:34 UNDER THE SECTION THE BOOK OF GENESIS . 28:36 AND IT SAYS, "THE BOOK OF THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST THE 28:41 SON OF DAVID, THE SON OF ABRAHAM." 28:44 NOW WHO COMES FIRST, ABRAHAM OR DAVID? 28:46 ABRAHAM DOES, BUT HE MENTIONS DAVID FIRST. 28:49 WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH ABRAHAM FIRST. 28:51 SOMETHING INTERESTING YOU'LL ALSO FIND, HE STARTS OUT BY 28:55 SAYING, 'THE BOOK' - YOU KNOW HOW YOU SAY 'BOOK' HERE IN 28:57 GREEK? IT'S 'BIBLOS' - OR 'BIBLIOS'. 29:02 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE WAS AN ISLAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 29:06 SOMEWHERE - ONE OF THE GREEK ISLES CALLED BIBLOS AND THEY HAD 29:10 A TREE THERE AND THEY WERE ABLE TO USE THE BARK OF THE TREE TO 29:15 MAKE PAPER AND THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD FOR 'BOOK'. 29:19 AND SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE IS A COLLECTION 29:23 - THE WORD 'BIBLE' COMES FROM THE SAME WORD. 29:26 YOU DON'T, TECHNICALLY, FIND THE WORD 'BIBLE' PRONOUNCED IN THE 29:28 BIBLE, BUT YOU DO FIND THE WORD 'BOOK' - BIBLOS - 29:31 AND THAT'S WHAT BIBLE MEANS. 29:35 HE SAYS 'THE BIBLOS', AND THEN HE SAYS, 'OF THE GENEALOGY'. 29:40 NOW WHAT HE'S SAYING THERE IN GREEK, 'IT'S THE BIBLOS OF 29:43 GENESIS.' NOW WHEN YOU GO INTO GENESIS AND YOU START TO READ - 29:50 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE IN GENESIS 5 - EARLY IN GENESIS 5:1, THIS IS 29:54 THE BOOK OF THE GENEALOGY OF ADAM. 29:57 IN THE DAY THAT GOD CREATED MAN, HE MADE HIM IN THE LIKENESS OF 30:00 GOD." AND HE BEGINS TO GO THROUGH THE 30:01 GENEALOGY - THE CHRONOLOGY - OF ADAM THERE. 30:07 IT'S INTERESTING THAT YOU'VE GOT THE BIBLE AND THEN THE 30:12 GENEALOGY. IT'S ALMOST LIKE MATTHEW IS 30:14 SAYING, 'I'M STARTING THE NEW TESTAMENT AS A SECOND GENESIS. 30:20 THE OLD TESTAMENT - YOU KNOW, THE FIRST FEW CHAPTERS, WHEN IT 30:22 STARTS HERE IN CHAPTER 5 - IT BRINGS YOU TO THE GENEALOGY OF 30:26 ABRAHAM. WHAT MATTHEW DOES IS HE TAKES 30:30 YOU FROM ABRAHAM TO JESUS. NOW LUKE'S GENEALOGY GOES 30:35 ALL THE WAY BACK TO ADAM. MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY REALLY 30:39 STARTS WITH ABRAHAM AND GOES FROM ABRAHAM TO JESUS. 30:44 AND SO HE'S PROVING THAT ABRAHAM AND DAVID WERE RELATED TO JESUS 30:48 AND THEY BOTH FORETOLD JESUS. NOW, IN WHAT WAY WERE ALL THE 30:53 FAMILIES OF THE WORLD GOING TO BE BLESSED THROUGH ABRAHAM? 30:56 THAT - IT DOESN'T SPECIFICALLY SAY THE MESSIAH WOULD COME FROM 31:01 YOU, BUT THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT MEANT THAT THE 31:04 PROMISED ONE WOULD COME THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS. 31:07 FURTHER PROOF FOR THAT WOULD BE, IF YOU LOOK IN GALATIANS 3:16 - 31:12 HERE PAUL SAYS, 'NOW THE PROMISES WERE MADE TO ABRAHAM 31:15 AND TO HIS OFFSPRING.' - 31:17 IT DOESN'T SAY 'OFFSRINGS' REFERRING TO MANY, 31:20 BUT OFFSPRING - IT'S IN SINGULAR IN THE HEBREW, REFERRING TO ONE. 31:23 THERE WOULD BE A SPECIAL BLESSED OFFSPRING - "AND TO YOUR 31:26 OFFSPRING WHO IS CHRIST. SO PAUL MAKES IT VERY CLEAR. 31:29 THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS THIS PROMISED OFFSPRING THAT 31:33 WOULD COME THROUGH ABRAHAM THAT WOULD BE THE SAVIOR OF THE 31:36 WORLD. AND, OF COURSE, THINGS ALMOST 31:40 GOT MESSED UP WHEN HE TOLD SARAH, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT DOING 31:42 VERY GOOD AT HAVING THAT FIRST BABY. 31:44 WE'VE GOT TO GET HAGAR INVOLVED.' AND GOD SAID, 'NO, 31:48 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A MIRACLE CHILD, THROUGH SARAH. 31:52 WAS JESUS ALSO A MIRACLE BIRTH? 31:54 AND SO THERE'S SOME ANALOGIES THERE, AS WELL. 31:57 YOU CAN READ IN, FOR INSTANCE, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. 32:01 IT TALKS ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF JESUS - JOHN 1:3 - "IN THE 32:05 BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD 32:08 WAS GOD. HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE MADE 32:12 THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE." 32:15 NOW JOHN, IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS GOSPEL - HIS FIRST VERSE - 32:19 WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT JESUS? WHAT IS HE EMPHASIZING? 32:23 THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. BUT WHAT IS MATTHEW EMPHASIZING 32:28 IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS GOSPEL? THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST. 32:32 HE TELLS YOU RIGHT AWAY HE CAME FROM ABRAHAM AND HE CAME FROM 32:36 DAVID AND HERE'S HIS FAMILY TREE - AND WE'LL GET TO THAT 32:38 IN A MINUTE, IT'S VERY INTERESTING. 32:41 IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES PAGE 19, THERE THE AUTHOR SAYS, "BY 32:46 COMING TO DWELL WITH US, JESUS WAS TO REVEAL GOD BOTH TO MEN 32:51 AND TO ANGELS. HE WAS THE WORD OF GOD. 32:54 GOD'S THOUGHT MADE AUDIBLE." 32:58 AND YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS, IN CHAPTER 1, "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS 33:03 TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY 33:06 THE PROPHETS, HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, 33:12 WHOM HE HAD APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE 33:15 MADE THE WORLDS;". ALRIGHT, HERE'S A QUESTION FOR 33:17 YOU: WHAT PERCENTAGE OF JESUS WAS DIVINE? 33:25 A HUNDRED PERCENT - IS WHAT I'M HEARING. 33:28 WHAT PERCENT WAS HUMAN? >>A HUNDRED PERCENT. 33:30 >>HUNDRED PERCENT. NOW WHAT ACCOUNTANT 33:32 WOULD ADD THAT WAY? (LAUGHTER) DOESN'T THAT COME 33:35 UP WITH TWO HUNDRED PERCENT? SO HOW COULD JESUS BE A HUNDRED 33:40 PERCENT DIVINE AND A HUNDRED PERCENT HUMAN? 33:43 IT'S CALLED A MYSTERY. >>AMEN. 33:46 >>THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT GOD THAT ARE MYSTERIES THAT WE CAN'T 33:49 UNDERSTAND, BUT WE DO BELIEVE THAT HE WAS A HUNDRED PERCENT 33:53 DIVINE AND A HUNDRED PERCENT HUMAN. 33:56 ALRIGHT, LET'S GET TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE, TALKING ABOUT THE 33:58 ROYAL LINE. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, 34:01 PSALM 132, VERSE 11. I'M GOING TO READ 2 SAMUEL 7:12. 34:07 NOW, GOD MAKES A PROMISE TO DAVID. YOU'LL ALSO FIND THIS, I 34:09 THINK, IN 1 CHRONICLES 17 - IT'S ALMOST REPEATED VERBATIM THERE. 34:13 2 SAMUEL 7, VERSE 12, NATHAN THE PROPHET TELLS DAVID, "WHEN YOUR 34:18 DAYS ARE FULFILLED AND YOU REST WITH YOUR FATHERS, I WILL SET UP 34:22 YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, WHO WILL COME FROM YOUR BODY, AND I WILL 34:26 ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM." NOW WHO IS THAT TALKING ABOUT? 34:31 IT'S ABOUT JESUS. 34:33 WHY - WHY CAN'T YOU ARGUE THAT NATHAN IS MAKING, SORT OF, A 34:38 BROAD PROPHECY HERE THAT YOUR DESCENDANTS WOULD STAY ON THE 34:41 THRONE - ALL OF YOUR DESCENDANTS? 34:44 BECAUSE HE SAYS, 'OF YOUR SONS' - 'HIS KINGDOM' - THERE'S A 34:49 SINGULAR AGAIN, JUST LIKE GOD DID WITH ABRAHAM. 34:52 THERE WOULD BE A PARTICULAR SON OF DAVID. 34:55 NOW, UNLIKE THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH - 34:58 YOU REALIZE THE KINGDOM SPLIT AFTER SOLOMON? 35:01 YOU ONLY HAD THREE UNITED KINGS OF ISRAEL. 35:03 WELL, IF YOU COUNT ABIMELECH YOU COULD SAY FOUR, BUT THERE'S 35:06 REALLY SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON - KINGDOM SPLIT. 35:10 INTERESTING: SOLOMON REIGNED 40 YEARS, DAVID REIGNED 40 YEARS, 35:15 SAUL REIGNED 40 YEARS - A TOTAL OF 120 - PERIOD OF MOSES' LIFE. 35:20 IT'S VERY INTERESTING THOSE THREE PHASES. 35:21 MOSES SPENT 40 YEARS IN EGYPT, 40 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, 40 35:25 YEARS LEADING THEM FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND - IT'S LIKE 35:28 THREE 40S. NOW I'M GETTING INTO NUMEROLOGY. I'M SORRY. 35:31 ANYWAYS, SO YOU'VE GOT THOSE THREE SEGMENTS, THOSE THREE 35:35 KINGS, AND THEN AFTER THAT THE KINGDOM SPLIT. 35:38 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM - WHO WAS THE FIRST KING OF THE NORTHERN 35:41 KINGDOM, DO YOU REMEMBER? >>JEROBOAM. 35:43 >>TESTING - JEROBOAM, VERY GOOD. JEROBOAM WAS THE SON OF NEBAT 35:46 WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN. WAS IT JEROBOAM'S ROYAL LINE 35:50 THAT TOOK OVER THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OR DID IT CHANGE 35:54 EVERY FEW GENERATIONS? >>CHANGED. 35:56 >>THEY KEPT ASSASSINATING EACH OTHER AND THEY PICKED DIFFERENT 35:58 KINGS AND IT WAS JEROBOAM AND IT WAS AHAB AND IT WAS BAASHA AND 36:02 IT WAS - OH, I CAN'T EVEN NAME THEM ALL. 36:05 THEY HAD ALL THESE DIFFERENT KINGS AND THERE WAS NO 36:08 CONSISTENT ROYAL LINE. WHOEVER COULD ASSASSINATE 36:12 AND TAKE OVER WAS IN CHARGE. THEY WERE FROM DIFFERENT TRIBES. 36:16 BUT ONCE SOLOMON DIED, HIS SON REHOBOAM CAME TO THE THRONE AND, 36:22 UNTIL THE BABYLONIANS CARRIED THEM AWAY, IT WAS ONLY THE SONS 36:27 OF DAVID THAT WERE ON THE THRONE OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM. 36:30 SOME WERE GOOD, SOME WERE BAD, BUT ALWAYS THE SON OF DAVID. 36:33 THAT'S WHY QUEEN ATHALIA WANTED TO DESTROY THE SONS OF DAVID. 36:38 SHE TRIED TO KILL ALL THE BABIES. 36:41 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING THAT IN BETHLEHEM - WHERE WAS DAVID 36:44 BORN? KING HEROD KILLED ALL THE BABY 36:46 BOYS AND SO THERE WAS - IT WAS VERY CLEAR TO THEM THAT THE 36:51 MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH THIS ROYAL LINE. 36:53 WHY DON'T READ FOR US ANOTHER PROPHECY - PSALM 132:11. 36:58 >>"THE LORD HAD SWORN IN TRUTH TO DAVID; HE WILL NOT TURN FROM 37:02 IT: 'I WILL SET UPON YOUR THRONE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BODY." 37:06 >> AND THERE YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROMISE AND THIS IS IN THE 37:07 PSALMS. PROBABLY THIS PSALM - NOT ALL 37:09 THE PSALMS ARE WRITTEN BY DAVID, YOU KNOW. 37:11 SOME WERE WRITTEN BY ASAPH AND A FEW OTHERS. 37:13 THIS ONE WAS PROBABLY NOT WRITTEN BY DAVID. 37:15 YOU HAVE 2 SAMUEL, 7:16, "AND YOUR HOUSE AND YOUR KINGDOM 37:19 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER BEFORE YOU. 37:21 YOUR THRONE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER." 37:24 NOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THRONE OF DAVID? 37:26 IS IT IN POWER TODAY? DOES JESUS RULE? 37:31 >>YES. >>SO WHEN HE SAID 'YOUR THRONE 37:33 TO BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER', THE ONLY WAY THAT CAN BE FULFILLED 37:37 IS IF ONE OF THE SONS OF DAVID WAS THE MESSIAH WHO WOULD 37:40 RULE FOREVER AND EVER. AND SO, IN THAT WAY, IN 1 37:46 CHRONICLES, NATHAN SAYS THERE, 'YOUR SON, WHICH WILL COME FROM 37:49 YOU, HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.' DID THE 37:52 TEMPLE OF SOLOMON LAST FOREVER? DAVID DID HAVE A SON NAMED 37:56 SOLOMON, WHO BUILT A TEMPLE, BUT IT DIDN'T LAST FOREVER. 37:58 WE TALKED ABOUT THAT ON OUR MESSAGE ABOUT THE SANCTUARY. 38:02 BUT JESUS SAID, 'I'LL BUILD A HOUSE' AND HIS HOUSE, THE BODY 38:07 OF CHRIST, YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, IT WAS TO LAST FOREVER. 38:10 AND SO THAT DID COME TRUE. ALRIGHT, LET ME LOOK AT A FEW 38:13 OTHER PROPHECIES ABOUT DAVID IN THIS ROYAL LINE. 38:17 ISAIAH 16, VERSE 5, "IN MERCY THE THRONE WILL BE ESTABLISHED; 38:22 AND ONE WILL SIT ON IT IN TRUTH, IN THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID, 38:26 JUDGING AND SEEKING JUSTICE AND HASTENING RIGHTEOUSNESS." 38:30 HERE IS A PROPHECY ABOUT THE MESSIAH. 38:33 DID THE JEWS IN CHRIST'S TIME UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECY ABOUT 38:37 DAVID BEING THE MESSIAH? >>YES. 38:40 >>THEY DID. MATTHEW 21:9, "THEN THE MULTITUDES WHO WENT BEFORE 38:44 AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED CRIED OUT, 38:46 SAYING: 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID! 38:48 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'" 38:51 THEY ALL BELIEVED THE MESSIAH WOULD BE THE SON OF DAVID. 38:55 NOW WHAT DID THEY THINK THE MESSIAH WOULD DO, THIS SON OF 38:57 DAVID? WHAT DID DAVID DO? 39:01 DAVID CAME FROM A LOWLY POSITION AND HE BECAME A SOLDIER AND THEY 39:06 WERE BEING OPPRESSED BY THE PHILISTINES AND DAVID KILLED THE 39:09 PHILISTINE GIANT AND DAVID BEAT THE PHILISTINES IN MANY BATTLES 39:13 AND HE BEAT THE AMMONITES AND HE BEAT THE EDOMITES AND HE BEAT 39:16 THE SYRIANS AND DAVID NEVER LOST A BATTLE. 39:19 YOU SHOW ME ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE WHERE DAVID LOST A BATTLE. 39:22 HE ALWAYS WON. AND SO THEY THOUGHT, 'THE 39:25 MESSIAH IS GOING TO COME. WHAT'S HE GOING TO 39:27 DO TO THE ROMANS? WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO TO THE 39:29 PARTHIANS AND THE EGYPTIANS AND ALL THESE FORCES? 39:33 HE'S GOING TO MAKE US AN INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE.' SO THEY 39:35 WERE DISAPPOINTED WHEN JESUS DIDN'T TAKE UP THE SWORD. 39:39 CHRIST SAID, 'NO, THAT'S A DIFFERENT KINGDOM FROM WHAT 39:40 YOU'RE THINKING - IT'S AN INNER KINGDOM.' BUT THEY ALL WERE 39:43 LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SON OF DAVID WHO WOULD BE THE MESSIAH. 39:47 THEY JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD DO. 39:49 AND EVEN THE APOSTLES, DID THEY MISUNDERSTAND? 39:51 >>YES. >>EVEN AFTER THREE AND A HALF 39:54 YEARS OF JESUS' CLOSE ONE-ON-ONE CONTACT, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY 39:57 TO JESUS AFTER THE RESURRECTION? 'WILL YOU, AT THIS TIME, 40:00 RESTORE THE KINGDOM? YOU KNOW, NOW, IS NOW THE TIME?' 40:05 AND JUST - IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, JESUS SAID, 'NOW HE 40:10 THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SWORD, SELL YOUR GARMENT AND GET ONE.' 40:13 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 40:15 PETER SAID, 'WE'VE GOT TWO SWORDS. 40:18 WE'RE READY TO START. THAT'S ALL WE NEED. 40:20 LIKE JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOR BEARER - WE'LL TAKE ON THE 40:22 ROMANS - TWO OF US.' AND JESUS SAID, 'IT IS ENOUGH.' PEOPLE 40:27 THINK THAT MEANS HE WAS SAYING TWO SWORDS IS ENOUGH. 40:29 HE WAS SAYING ENOUGH MEANING, 'YOU DON'T GET IT.' IT'S LIKE 40:33 WHEN HE WAS IN THE BOAT ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, HE SAID, 'BEWARE 40:36 THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES.' AND THEY SAID, 'OH, WE FORGOT TO 40:38 BRING LUNCH.' HE SAID, 'DON'T YOU GUYS GET IT? 40:42 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BREAD.' SO SOMETIMES THEY TOTALLY 40:45 MISUNDERSTOOD JESUS' ANALOGIES. ALRIGHT - BUT - SO HE 40:48 WAS THE SON OF DAVID. ANOTHER ONE, MATTHEW 21, VERSE 40:52 14, AFTER THE - WHEN HE DID THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY AND THEY CALLED 40:58 HIM THE SON OF DAVID, IT SAYS, "THEN THE BLIND AND THE LAME 41:01 CAME TO HIM IN THE TEMPLE, AND HE HEALED THEM. 41:04 BUT WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES SAW THE WONDERFUL 41:06 THINGS THAT HE DID, AND THE CHILDREN" - EVEN THE CHILDREN - 41:10 "CRYING OUT IN THE TEMPLE AND SAYING, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF 41:13 DAVID!'" DID THE CHILDREN - NO, EVERY CHILD WAS TAUGHT 41:16 THAT SOME SON OF DAVID WOULD COME TO THE THRONE AND DELIVER 41:20 THEM FROM THEIR ENEMIES - THE MESSIAH. 41:23 AND WHEN THE SCRIBES HEARD THEM CALLING JESUS THE SON OF DAVID, 41:26 THEY WERE INDIGNANT AND THEY SAID, 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT THEY'RE 41:29 SAYING? THIS IS BLASPHEMY. THEY'RE CALLING YOU THE 41:31 MESSIAH.' THEY KNEW WHO THE SON OF DAVID WAS. 41:34 SO WHEN MATTHEW SAYS, IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS GOSPEL, EVEN 41:38 BEFORE HE SAYS 'THE SON OF ABRAHAM', HE SAYS, 'THE SON OF 41:40 DAVID.' THERE'S NO QUESTION WHO HE'S CALLING JESUS. 41:44 IT'S INTERESTING, HE SAYS, 'JESUS CHRIST - THE GOSPEL - THE 41:47 BOOK OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.' HOW DOES THE NEW 41:51 TESTAMENT END? DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT END 41:54 WITH THE NAME OF JESUS? "EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS." 41:58 WHAT'S THE BOOK OF REVELATION? HOW DOES IT BEGIN? 42:01 THE REVELATION OF - >>JESUS. 42:03 >>JESUS CHRIST. AND SO CHRIST IS THE CENTRAL THEME, OBVIOUSLY, OF 42:07 THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 42:10 REVELATION 22:16 - YOU HAVE THAT SAM? I'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE BEFORE 42:14 I GET THERE. I'M GOING TO READ MARK 12:35. 42:17 "THE JEWS ANSWERED AND SAID, WHILE HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, 42:21 'HOW IS IT' - NO, I'M SORRY, JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THE 42:24 JEWS, "WHILE HE TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, 'HOW IS IT THAT THE 42:26 SCRIBES SAY THAT THE CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID?'" 42:30 NOW JESUS IS QUOTING WHAT THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE 42:32 TEACHING - THAT THE MESSIAH - THE CHRISTOS - THE CHRIST - WAS 42:37 THE SON OF DAVID. HE WOULD BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID. 42:40 AND JESUS IS SAYING, 'HOW IS THAT?' 42:42 AND YET DAVID CALLS HIM LORD. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT 42:45 CLEAR, THAT WAS THE TEACHING. THE SCRIBES WERE RIGHT. 42:51 ACTS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 29, PETER'S PREACHING AT PENTECOST. 42:54 WHO'S HE TALKING TO - JEWS OR GENTILES - AT PENTECOST? 42:57 TALKING TO JEWS - THERE WERE DEVOUT JEWS GATHERED OUT OF 43:00 EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN - PETER PREACHES, "MEN AND 43:02 BRETHREN, LET ME SPEAK FREELY TO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT 43:06 HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND HIS TOMB IS WITH US TO THIS DAY. 43:09 THEREFORE, BEING A PROPHET, AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAD SWORN WITH 43:11 AN OATH TO HIM THAT OF THE FRUIT OF HIS BODY, ACCORDING TO THE 43:14 FLESH, HE WOULD RAISE UP THE CHRIST" - 43:16 THERE, AGAIN, YOU HAVE IT. THEY KNEW THAT THE SON OF 43:20 DAVID WOULD BE THE CHRIST. PETER USES THAT IN HIS SERMON 43:24 AND THEN HE POINTS TO JESUS. THIS IS WHAT MATTHEW DOES AT 43:26 THE BEGINNING OF HIS BOOK. READ FOR US - LAST CHAPTER IN 43:29 THE BIBLE - REVELATION 22, VERSE 16, PLEASE. 43:32 >>"I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MY ANGEL TO TESTIFY TO YOU THESE THINGS 43:36 IN THE CHURCHES. I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING 43:39 OF DAVID, THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR." 43:42 >>SO YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF MATTHEW AND PETER AND PAUL AND 43:46 ALL THE APOSTLES UNDERSTOOD THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE FROM 43:49 THE HOUSE OF DAVID. BARTEMAEUS - YOU REMEMBER 43:53 BLIND BARTEMAEUS? JESUS IS GOING THROUGH JERICHO 43:56 AND THIS BLIND MAN, HE SAYS, 'WHAT IS IT?' 43:57 AND THEY SAID, 'IT'S JESUS OF NAZARETH.' BARTEMAEUS CHASES 44:00 AFTER HIM AND HE DOESN'T SAY, 'JESUS OF NAZARETH' HE SAYS, 44:03 'SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON ME.' SON OF - BECAUSE BARTEMAEUS 44:07 NEEDED A MIRACLE. CHRIST SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU WANT?' 44:10 'THAT YOU MIGHT OPEN MY EYES.' 'WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I CAN DO 44:13 THIS?' 'YOU'RE THE MESSIAH. 44:14 YOU'RE THE SON OF DAVID.' AND SO HE KEPT - AND THEY SAID, 'BE 44:18 QUIET.' AND HE CALLED LOUDER, 'SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON 44:21 ME.' SO THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD WHO THAT WAS GOING TO BE. 44:25 AND HERE'S ANOTHER PROPHECY THAT TELLS YOU WHY: MICAH 5:2, "BUT 44:30 YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH," - NOW THE WORD 'BETHLEHEM' MEANS 44:35 'HOUSE OF BREAD.' I UNDERSTAND THERE WERE MORE THAN - THERE WAS 44:39 MORE THAN ONE TOWN IN THE PROMISED LAND CALLED BETHLEHEM. 44:43 IT WAS A COMMON TOWN. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY 44:46 THERE ARE - HOW MANY PORTLAND'S ARE THERE IN NORTH AMERICA? 44:49 YES, I KNOW PORTLAND, MAINE; YOU'VE GOT PORTLAND, OREGON - 44:52 THERE'S LIKE THREE OR FOUR PORTLANDS. 44:54 HOW MANY FARMINGTONS? I KNOW - I'VE RUN INTO 44:57 TWO OR THREE FARMINGTONS. THERE'S SEVERAL TOWNS - 45:02 CENTERVILLE - SEVERAL TOWNS HAVE A CENTERVILLE. AND THERE'S 45:07 SEVERAL TOWNS IN NORTH AMERICA YOU HAVE A REPEAT. BETHLEHEM WAS 45:09 LIKE THAT BECAUSE ANYWHERE THAT YOU GROUND BREAD OR MADE BREAD, 45:13 AND YOU DID A LOT OF IT, THEY CALLED IT THE HOUSE OF BREAD. 45:15 THEY HAD A LOT OF OVENS - THEY CALLED IT THE HOUSE OF BREAD. 45:17 BUT THIS ONE IS VERY SPECIFIC. IT SAYS, "BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH." 45:22 THIS IS WHERE RACHEL DIED. THIS IS WHERE DAVID WAS BORN. 45:25 IT'S SPECIFYING WHICH BETHLEHEM - IT'S BEING VERY SPECIFIC. 45:29 AND LISTEN TO WHAT MICAH PROPHESIES LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS 45:31 BORN: "THOUGH YOU ARE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH," - 45:34 IT WAS A LITTLE TOWN - "YET OUT OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME 45:39 THE ONE TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM OF 45:44 OLD, FROM EVERLASTING." IT GOES BACK TO WHAT JOHN SAID, 45:47 "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD." AND SO THIS MESSIAH, THIS SON OF 45:52 DAVID EXISTED BEFORE DAVID WAS BORN. 45:55 ISN'T THAT - THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING WHEN HE TRIED TO - HE 45:58 PLACED A RIDDLE FOR THE SCRIBES. HOW DID DAVID CALL HIM 46:03 LORD AND YET HE'S HIS SON? THIS ONE WHO IS GOING TO BE THE 46:07 MESSIAH, IS THE SON OF DAVID YET HIS GOINGS FORTH ARE 46:11 FROM BEFORE DAVID. IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS. 46:15 AND THEN HE BEGINS TO RECITE THE GENEALOGY - WE'LL GET TO THE 46:18 GENEALOGY - AND HE DIVIDES THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS INTO THREE 46:22 SETS OF 14. DID YOU - HAVE YOU READ CHAPTER 1 OF MATTHEW? 46:27 AND THERE ARE 14 GENERATIONS FROM ABRAHAM TO DAVID; 14 46:35 GENERATIONS FROM DAVID TO THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY; 14 46:38 GENERATIONS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO CHRIST. 46:43 NOW WHY DID MATTHEW DO THAT - THREE SETS OF 14? 46:47 TWO TIMES WHAT EQUALS 14? >>SEVEN. 46:51 >>SEVEN. NOW DOES SEVEN - IS THAT AN INTERESTING NUMBER? 46:55 SO WHAT HE'S DOING IS HE'S SAYING THERE ARE SIX SETS OF 46:59 SEVEN BEFORE YOU GET TO THE MESSIAH AND THEN JESUS PREACHES 47:06 FOR ONE PROPHETIC WEEK - THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON - 47:10 THREE AND A HALF YEARS THROUGH THE APOSTLES. 47:12 YOU KNOW ABOUT THE 70-WEEK PROPHECY IN DANIEL? 47:14 DID I ALREADY MENTION THAT MATTHEW WAS AN ACCOUNTANT? 47:18 SO HERE HE IS, HE'S COUNTING THE GENERATIONS AND HE'S DIVIDING 47:21 THEM UP FOR US AND HE'S SHOWING THAT THERE'S A PATTERN HERE. 47:25 SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY - OH, YOU KNOW HOW WHEN YOU ADD UP 47:30 DIFFERENT NAMES - WE DON'T DO IT SO MUCH IN ENGLISH, BUT IN 47:34 GREEK, IN HEBREW, IN LATIN - LETTERS HAD A NUMERICAL VALUE. 47:38 WHEN YOU CALCULATE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, PEOPLE OFTEN TAKE 47:42 LIKE THE TITLE OF THE POPE VICARIUS FILII DEI AND IT'S 47:45 FASCINATING THAT THAT ADDS UP TO 666 BECAUSE ROMAN NUMERALS - WE 47:51 ALL KNOW ROMAN NUMERALS HAVE A VALUE. 47:54 THE V IS WHAT? >>FIVE. 47:56 >>IT'S FIVE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU GET - AN I IS ONE AND THE X IS 48:00 TEN AND SO FORTH. JEWS HAD THAT TOO. 48:04 WHAT DO YOU THINK THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF DAVID'S NAME IS? 48:08 14 - IT'S INTERESTING. SO CAN YOU SEE THE BIG EMPHASIS 48:13 ON DAVID THAT MATTHEW IS MAKING? THE SON OF DAVID - 14, 14, 14. 48:20 HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S AT LEAST - I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN, THE 48:23 SCHOLARS ARE WONDERING WHY IS HE EMPHASIZING 14 GENERATIONS? 48:27 THE ONLY THING THEY CAME UP WITH IS THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF 48:31 DAVID'S NAME IS 14. I ALSO THINK IT'S REALLY 48:34 SIX SETS OF SEVEN THAT HE'S EMPHASIZING THERE. 48:37 YOU STILL WITH ME? >>YES. 48:39 >>ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SECTION TALKING ABOUT JESUS' 48:41 EARLY FAMILY TREE. OH MAN, I'VE GOT 48:43 FOUR MINUTES LEFT. JUST AMAZING TO ME, IT 48:50 HIGHLIGHTS JUST SOME VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERS. 48:54 NOW IT TALKS ABOUT TAMAR. DO YOU KNOW WHO TAMAR IS? 48:58 TAMAR IS THE CANAANITE LADY - SHE WAS A YOUNG LADY - MARRIED 49:03 ONE OF THE SONS OF JUDAH. THE LORD SAID HE WAS 49:06 EVIL AND HE SLEW HIM. SO, BECAUSE HE HAD NO SEED, AS 49:10 THE CUSTOM WAS, JUDAH'S BROTHER - JUDAH'S SON'S BROTHER 49:14 - TOOK TAMAR AND HE DIED. NOW JUDAH HAD ANOTHER SON, 49:20 SHELAH AND HE THOUGHT, 'I'M NOT GIVING - SHE'S BAD LUCK. 49:23 I'M NOT GIVING' - HE SAID, 'JUST YOU GO WEAR YOUR WIDOW'S 49:26 GARMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN SHELAH'S GROWN UP - HE'S STILL 49:28 PRETTY YOUNG - AND I'LL GIVE HIM TO YOU AND YOU CAN HAVE CHILDREN 49:31 AND ALL WILL BE WELL.' BUT HE GREW UP, YOU KNOW, HE WENT FROM 49:34 13 TO 18 - WHATEVER IT WAS - AND THAT WAS OLD ENOUGH TO MARRY 49:38 BACK THEN - AND NOTHING HAPPENED. 49:40 AND SHE WAS WAITING AND WAITING AND SHE REALIZED 'HE'S NEVER 49:41 GOING TO DO IT AND I'M GOING TO DIE WEARING WIDOW'S CLOTHES. 49:44 I'LL HAVE NO ONE TO TAKE CARE OF ME IN MY OLD AGE.' SO SHE DID 49:47 SOMETHING VERY - CREATIVE. 49:50 SHE DRESSED UP LIKE A PROSTITUTE - SHE KNEW THAT JUDAH'S WIFE WAS 49:54 DEAD - SHE HAD DIED - THAT HE MAYBE WAS GETTING LONELY AND SHE 50:00 CAUGHT HIM ALONE ON THE ROAD BETWEEN THE SHEEP SHEARING - SHE 50:03 KNEW HE'D BE TRAVELING BY HIMSELF. 50:04 AT A FORK IN THE ROAD SHE DRESSED UP LIKE A PROSTITUTE, 50:07 SHE SEDUCED HIM - SHE HAD PROBABLY PAINTED HER FACE IN 50:11 SUCH A WAY THAT HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HER - WEARING HER 50:14 GARMENTS AND SHE SAID, 'NOW,' - HE SAID, 'I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY 50:18 ON ME.' AND SHE SAID, 'WELL, GIVE ME A PLEDGE THAT YOU'LL PAY 50:21 ME.' 'HERE'S MY SIGNET RING AND A BRACELET AND A STAFF.' AND HE 50:25 GAVE HER SOME THINGS THAT WERE VERY PERSONALIZED AND HE SAID, 50:28 'I'LL SEND SOMEONE BACK WITH A CALF AND WE'LL PAY FOR OUR LOVE 50:31 AFFAIR AND THEN YOU GIVE ME BACK THOSE THINGS.' WELL HIS FRIEND 50:34 GOES TO PAY FOR IT AND SHE'S GONE. HE SAID, 'WHERE WAS THE 50:36 PROSTITUTE THAT WAS AROUND HERE?' 50:38 'THERE'S NO PROSTITUTE AROUND HERE.' SEVERAL MONTHS LATER WORD 50:42 COMES TO JUDAH, 'HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD? 50:45 YOUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW IS WITH CHILD.' JUDAH, INDIGNANT, SAYS, 50:49 'WELL, THAT FLOOZY. 50:50 BRING HER FORTH AND BURN HER.' THAT'S WHAT HE SAID. 50:54 HE DIDN'T SAY 'FLOOZY', HE SAID, 'BRING HER FORTH AND BURN HER.' 50:59 SHE COMES FORTH AND SAYS, 'NOW, BEFORE YOU BURN ME, I JUST 51:02 THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I AM WITH CHILD BY THE MAN WHO 51:05 OWNS THESE THINGS.' YOU KNOW THOSE - THERE'S A FEW MOMENTS IN 51:09 THE BIBLE WHEN GOD SAYS, 'THOU ART THE MAN.' (LAUGHTER) AND 51:15 JUDAH GOES, 'OOH. SHE IS MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN ME.' 51:19 SO THIS WHOLE STORY IS IN THERE. JUST TALK ABOUT SOAP OPERA. 51:24 AND TAMAR'S NAME - IT DOESN'T MENTION THE WOMEN'S NAME UNLESS 51:28 THEY FACTOR INTO THE STORY IN SOME PROMINENT WAY AND ALL THE 51:30 WOMEN WHO ARE MENTIONED AND THE WOMEN YOU HAVE MENTIONED IN THIS 51:34 STORY: YOU'VE GOT TAMAR, RAHAB, RUTH, AND BATHSHEBA. 51:38 AT LEAST THREE OF THEM ARE GENTILES. 51:41 THERE'S SOME QUESTION ABOUT BATHSHEBA - SHE'S THE 51:43 GRANDDAUGHTER OF AHITHOPHEL, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE - 51:46 WHETHER SHE WAS JEW OR NOT WAS NOT CLEAR. COULD HAVE BEEN 51:50 EITHER BUT CERTAINLY THERE WAS A VERY FAMOUS AFFAIR AND SOME BAD 51:57 BEHAVIOR THAT HAPPENED IN THAT STORY. 51:59 AND THEN RUTH WAS A MOABITESS AND THEN YOU READ ABOUT RAHAB 52:05 WHO WAS A HARLOT AND IT'S MENTIONING SOME - AND THEY TALK 52:09 ABOUT THE SONS OF DAVID THAT ARE IN THIS STORY. 52:16 YOU'VE GOT WICKED ABIJAH, WHO'S THE FATHER OF GOOD KING ASA, 52:21 WHO'S THE FATHER OF GOOD KING JEHOSHAPHAT, WHO'S THE FATHER OF 52:24 WICKED KING JORAM. AND THEN YOU GO THROUGH THE 52:27 FAMILY TREE - NOT ALL THE SONS OF DAVID, THE KINGS, WERE GOOD. 52:31 THERE'S GOOD AND BAD IN THAT TREE. 52:32 SO WHY - WHY WOULD MATTHEW GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF TRACING 52:36 THIS GENEALOGY? HE'S EMPHASIZING, FIRST OF ALL, 52:40 THAT JESUS IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID. 52:45 HE'S ALSO SAYING, 'AND THOUGH HE WAS HUMAN, HE WAS SINLESS AND HE 52:49 WILL SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.' AND HE WAS TEMPTED - AND ACTUALLY, I 52:54 THINK I'M STEALING SOMEBODY - YOU'VE GOT THE LAST VERSE WE'RE 52:57 GOING TO READ. WHY DON'T YOU READ FOR US, LET 53:03 ME SEE HERE, ISAIAH - OH YEAH, YOU'RE GOING TO READ ISAIAH 53:06 53, VERSE 6 FOR US, PLEASE. GO AHEAD. 53:09 >>"ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY 53:14 ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM THE 53:18 INIQUITY OF US ALL." >>AND SO HERE IT SAYS THAT 53:21 JESUS, HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. 53:24 ALL OF US HAVE SINNED. AND YOU LOOK THROUGH 53:25 THE FAMILY TREE. ONE MORE QUESTION BEFORE WE 53:28 CONCLUDE OUR LESSON TODAY, THERE'S A GENEALOGY IN LUKE 53:32 THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE GENEALOGY IN MATTHEW. 53:36 WHY IS THAT? DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? 53:40 >>ONE IS THROUGH JOSEPH THE HUSBAND AND THROUGH MARY. 53:45 >>THAT'S RIGHT. LET ME REPEAT IT SO PEOPLE HEAR AT HOME. 53:48 THE GENEALOGY OF MATTHEW IS GOING THROUGH THE FATHER. 53:52 THE GENEALOGY OF LUKE IS GOING THROUGH THE FATHER-IN-LAW, WHICH 53:56 IS THE MOTHER'S - BOTH JOSEPH AND MARY WERE OF THE HOUSE OF 54:02 DAVID. THAT'S WHY THEY WENT 54:03 COLLECTIVELY TO BETHLEHEM, TO REGISTER FOR THE TAX. 54:06 AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED - LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING MORE 54:10 INTO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS AT 54:12 HOME WE JUST BARELY GOT INTO LESSON #1. 54:15 I'LL BACK UP AND TRY AND COVER SOME OF WHAT WE MISSED IN OUR 54:16 NEXT STUDY. AND WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER. 54:19 I WANT TO REMIND YOU CALLED DOWN FROM HIS GLORY - IT TALKS ABOUT 54:22 THE INCARNATION OF JESUS. 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THEY'VE GOT VERY THICK SKULLS. 55:35 SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR 55:38 HEADS TO RAM THE ICE. THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE 55:42 IN THE ICE THAT IS A FOOT AND A HALF THICK. FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO 55:46 JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE WALKING AROUND ON THE 55:49 ARCTIC ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE THE GROUND BENEATH YOU 55:52 CRACK AND SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE OF THESE SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS 55:57 HEAD UP TO BREATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 90 MINUTES. 56:01 BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR 56:03 WORLD, THEY HAVE THE THICKEST BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE. 56:07 BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM 56:10 PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN WHALERS DISCOVERED THE BOWHEADS. 56:14 THEY HUNTED THEM NEARLY TO EXTINCTION. FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE 56:19 OF CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN 56:22 TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS 56:26 ABOUT THE BOWHEAD WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY. 56:29 SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN 56:32 THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD 56:36 WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD. 56:40 YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE 56:44 OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS 56:48 ELECTED PRESIDENT. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 56:51 AMONG THE OTHER AMAZING MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE 56:54 BOWHEAD WHALE, IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH. 56:57 THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 57:00 AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE 57:03 ENOUGH TO PARK A MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE. 57:07 YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS, 57:09 THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN 57:13 - PLANKTON, KRILL, AND OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS. 57:17 FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE. 57:21 THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS. 57:24 THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR 57:26 HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR. 57:30 AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST 57:33 MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS. IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE 57:36 SURVIVE THROUGH THE LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD. 57:40 JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW 57:43 LITTLE VERSES AND HE SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING. 57:46 YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE 57:49 BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES. 57:53 (MUSIC) 58:01 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES VISIT 58:04 AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:11 (MUSIC) |
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