(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE
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MEMBERS HERE OF THE GRANITE
BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE
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VISITING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
SOME EVEN FROM SOME OTHER PLACES
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AROUND THE WORLD, A VERY
SPECIAL WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU.
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WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE TO STUDY
WITH US AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR
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LESSON FOR THIS WEEK. FOR
OUR FRIENDS JOINING US, WE
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ALSO WANT TO WELCOME
YOU IN A SPECIAL WAY.
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I'LL LET YOU KNOW THAT WE
ARE STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF
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MATTHEW. IF YOU
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QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
TODAY, AS USUAL, WE'D LIKE TO
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BEGIN WITH A FEW SONGS OF PRAISE
AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR
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CHORISTERS TO COME FORWARD AND
THEY'LL BE LEADING US IN SOME
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PRAISE THIS MORNING.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND
HELLO TO EVERYONE HERE AND THOSE
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OF YOU JOINING
US. IT'S TIME TO SING.
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WE KNOW THAT YOU LOOK FORWARD TO
SINGING YOUR FAVORITE HYMNS WITH
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US EVERY WEEK AND SO TODAY WE'RE
GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THAT
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TRADITION AND OUR FIRST ONE IS
#620 - ON JORDAN'S STORMY BANKS
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- JOIN WITH US, WE'RE GOING TO
DO THE FIRST, THIRD, AND FOURTH
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STANZAS - #620. (MUSIC)
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>>ON JORDAN'S STORMY BANKS I
STAND, AND CAST A WISHFUL EYE TO
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CANAAN'S FAIR AND HAPPY
LAND, WHERE MY POSSESSIONS LIE.
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I AM BOUND FOR THE PROMISED
LAND, I AM BOUND FOR THE
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PROMISED LAND; O WHO
WILL COME AND GO WITH ME?
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I AM BOUND FOR
THE PROMISED LAND.
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WHEN SHALL I REACH THAT HAPPY
PLACE, AND BE FOREVER BLEST?
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WHEN SHALL I SEE MY FATHER'S
FACE, AND IN HIS KINGDOM REST?
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I AM BOUND FOR THE PROMISED
LAND, I AM BOUND FOR THE
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PROMISED LAND; O WHO
WILL COME AND GO WITH ME?
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I AM BOUND FOR
THE PROMISED LAND.
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FILLED WITH DELIGHT, MY RAPTURED
SOUL WOULD HERE NO LONGER STAY;
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THOUGH JORDAN'S WAVES AROUND ME
ROLL, FEARLESS I'D LAUNCH AWAY.
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I AM BOUND FOR THE PROMISED
LAND, I AM BOUND FOR THE
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PROMISED LAND; O WHO
WILL COME AND GO WITH ME?
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I AM BOUND FOR
THE PROMISED LAND.
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>>THAT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SONG
AND SUCH AN UPBEAT, CHEERY SONG
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- BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND
- THAT YOU CAN'T FEEL DOWN WHEN
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YOU'RE SINGING THAT SONG,
CAN YOU? SOMETIMES WE SING
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UNFAMILIAR, NEW SONGS, AND
TODAY WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.
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WE LOVE LEARNING NEW SONGS
WITH YOU, SO LET'S SING #232
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AT THE NAME OF JESUS . (MUSIC)
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>>AT THE NAME OF JESUS
EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, EVERY
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TONGUE CONFESS HIM KING OF GLORY
NOW; 'TIS THE FATHER'S PLEASURE
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WE SHOULD CALL HIM LORD,
WHO FROM THE BEGINNING WAS THE
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MIGHTY WORD. AT HIS
VOICE CREATION SPRANG AT
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ONCE TO SIGHT, ALL THE ANGEL
FACES, ALL THE HOSTS OF LIGHT,
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THRONES AND DOMINATIONS, STARS
UPON THEIR WAY, ALL THE HEAVENLY
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ORDERS IN THEIR GREAT ARRAY.
IN YOUR HEARTS ENTHRONE HIM:
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THERE LET HIM SUBDUE ALL THAT IS
NOT HOLY, ALL THAT IS NOT TRUE;
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CROWN HIM AS YOUR CAPTAIN IN
TEMPTATION'S HOUR, LET HIS WILL
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ENFOLD YOU IN
ITS LIGHT AND POWER.
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SURELY, THIS LORD JESUS SHALL
RETURN AGAIN, WITH HIS FATHER'S
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GLORY, WITH HIS ANGEL TRAIN; FOR
ALL WREATHS OF EMPIRE MEET UPON
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HIS BROW, AND OUR HEARTS
CONFESS HIM KING OF GLORY NOW.
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>>PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO
COME OUT AND LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO BOW
YOUR HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE
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INDEED GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO
GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR HOUSE ON
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THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH, TO OPEN
UP THE SCRIPTURES AND TO STUDY
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ABOUT THE LIFE OF JESUS
AND THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
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AND SO, LORD, WE INVITE THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR
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HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
LEAD US INTO A FULLER AND
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CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF HIS
GREAT SACRIFICE, HIS LIFE, HIS
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MINISTRY - THAT WE WOULD
BE DRAWN CLOSER TO HIM, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY DR.
DEROSE. THANK YOU, DR. DEROSE.
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>>WELL, IT'S GREAT TO
BE STUDYING TOGETHER AGAIN.
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WE'RE STUDYING FROM
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.
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WE'RE ON LESSON #2 ENTITLED THE
MINISTRY BEGINS - THE MINISTRY
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BEGINS. IT WAS
SOME 80 YEARS AGO AND A
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STORY - A NARRATIVE - WAS
BEING DISSEMINATED, AT LEAST
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IT WAS IN GERMANY. THE
NARRATIVE WAS THAT IF YOU
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WERE NOT OF ARYAN BLOODLINES,
YOU WERE OF AN INFERIOR
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RACIAL BACKGROUND. IT
WAS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF
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CERTAIN RACES INCLUDING
THOSE FROM THE AFRICAN NATIONS.
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THAT NARRATIVE - THAT STORY WAS
BEING TOLD AND IN 1936 THE WORLD
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TURNED THEIR ATTENTION ON
BERLIN, GERMANY BECAUSE THAT WAS
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THE SITE FOR THE
OLYMPICS THAT YEAR.
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AND MANY OF YOU KNOW THE
STORY OF WHAT TRANSPIRED AT THAT
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AMAZING OLYMPIC
GAMES. THERE WAS ACTUALLY ONE
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INDIVIDUAL AMONG A NUMBER FROM
THOSE VERY AFRICAN BLOOD LINES
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THAT WERE BEING
DISPARAGED IN GERMANY.
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AS HITLER WAS LEADING THE
CEREMONIES THERE, ONE OF THE
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AMERICANS WHO CAME TO
BERLIN WAS JESSE OWENS, AN
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN, JUST A COUPLE
OF GENERATIONS REMOVED FROM
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SLAVERY - HIS
GRANDFATHER WAS A SLAVE.
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AND MOST OF YOU KNOW THE STORY,
HOW JESSE OWENS WON FOUR GOLD
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MEDALS AT THOSE 1936 OLYMPICS
AND, IN ESSENCE, REWROTE THE
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NARRATIVE, AT LEAST FOR
THOSE WHO WERE LISTENING.
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AFRICAN-AMERICANS
WERE NOT AN INFERIOR RACE.
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THE ARYANS WERE NOT THE
DOMINANT RACE IN THE WORLD.
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BUT AS INSPIRING AND AS
REMARKABLE AS THE STORY OF JESSE
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OWENS IS, TODAY WE'RE STUDYING
THE STORY OF ANOTHER LIFE THAT
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RE-WROTE HISTORY AND, IN FACT,
IN A MUCH GREATER WAY THAN JESSE
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OWENS EVER DID. IT'S THE
LIFE OF JESUS, OUR SAVIOR.
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AND AS WE LOOK AT THE BEGINNINGS
OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, PASTOR
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DOUG PROMISED US IN OUR PREVIOUS
STUDY, THAT WE WOULD REVISIT
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SOME OF THE THINGS IN
THE FIRST FEW CHAPTERS.
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WE'LL DO THAT, AS WELL AS
LOOKING THROUGH, REALLY, THE
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FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS
OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.
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THOSE FOUR CHAPTERS ACTUALLY
TALK ABOUT, IN A VERY BROAD WAY,
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HOW JESUS WAS
RE-WRITING HISTORY.
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TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO, PERHAPS,
A SURPRISING PLACE TO BEGIN.
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I'M TURNING TO THE BOOK OF
DANIEL - THE BOOK OF DANIEL
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BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET A
PERSPECTIVE ON THIS GOSPEL.
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AS PASTOR DOUG MADE VERY CLEAR
IN OUR LAST LESSON, MATTHEW WAS
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ESPECIALLY WRITING
FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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AND THE JEWISH NATION HAD
A VERY SPECIAL PROPHECY THAT
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WAS WRITTEN IN
THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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I'M TURNING IN DANIEL, CHAPTER
9, FOR WHAT IS COMMONLY REFERRED
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TO AS THE SEVENTY-WEEKS PROPHECY
- DANIEL 9 - AND I JUST WANT TO
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READ THE FIRST VERSE OF THAT
PROPHECY - DANIEL 9, BEGINNING
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WITH VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9,
VERSE 24, "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE
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DETERMINED FOR YOUR PEOPLE AND
FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH
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THE TRANSGRESSION, TO
MAKE AN END OF SINS, TO MAKE
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RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY,
TO BRING IN EVERLASTING
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO SEAL UP VISION
AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE
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MOST HOLY." FOR
THOSE OF YOU STUDENTS OF
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BIBLE PROPHECY, YOU REALIZE
THAT THIS PROPHECY, HISTORIANS
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AGREE, BEGAN IN 457 BC.
AND IF YOU WERE TO TRACE DOWN
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THROUGH THE STREAM OF TIME WHEN
JESUS IS BEGINNING HIS MINISTRY
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WE'RE ENTERING THE FINAL
WEEK OF YEARS OF THAT PROPHECY.
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SO THAT SEVENTY WEEKS TOOK
IN SEVENTY WEEKS OF YEARS OR 490
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YEARS. AND IF
THAT'S A STRANGE CONCEPT
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FOR YOU, YOU CAN GO TO THE
AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - THERE'S
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A LOT OF RESOURCES
THERE ON BIBLE PROPHECY.
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BUT HERE'S THE INTERESTING
THING IN THIS PROPHECY, IT WAS A
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PROPHECY GIVEN TO
WHO? DO YOU SEE IT THERE?
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IN DANIEL 9, VERSE 24, AS
IT BEGINS, SEVENTY WEEKS ARE
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DETERMINED FOR WHO? "FOR
YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR HOLY CITY."
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SO THIS IS A PROPHECY
GIVEN TO THE JEWISH NATION.
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AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE NARRATIVE
THAT WAS BEING WRITTEN, THE
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JEWISH NATION HAD NOT FULFILLED
WHAT THEY WERE CALLED TO DO.
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SOME FOUR HUNDRED AND WHAT -
EIGHTY-THREE YEARS HAD PASSED.
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I MEAN, IT'S THE CLOSING HOURS
OF PROPHETIC HISTORY, ACCORDING
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TO DANIEL 9, AND THE JEWISH
NATION HAS TOTALLY FAILED TO
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ACCOMPLISH WHAT GOD CALLED THEM
TO DO. BUT NOW WHAT HAPPENS IN
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THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW IS THE
FULFILLMENT OF ALL THAT HISTORY
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LOOKED FORWARD TO: JESUS IS
COMING TO RE-WRITE THE HISTORY
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OF THE JEWISH NATION - ACTUALLY,
TO BRING FULFILLMENT TO ALL
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THAT GOD CALLED HIS
PEOPLE TO ACCOMPLISH.
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SO LET'S LOOK AT THAT AS WE
SPEAK ABOUT THIS TOPIC OF THE
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MINISTRY BEGINS - AND I JUST
WANT TO TRACE WITH YOU, VERY
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BRIEFLY, HOW JESUS
RE-WRITES THIS HISTORY.
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LET'S LOOK FIRST AT MATTHEW
CHAPTER 1 - WE'RE GOING TO TOUCH
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ON A FEW THINGS THAT WERE
TOUCHED ON LAST WEEK AND THEN
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WE'LL TIE THAT IN
WITH WHERE WE'RE GOING.
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SO OUR FOCUS IS THE FIRST FOUR
CHAPTERS OF MATTHEW AND WE WANT
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TO SEE HOW JESUS CHANGES THE
HISTORY - REALLY FULFILLS THE
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PROMISE OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9.
SO IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSE
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18, WE READ THIS OF
JESUS' HUMAN ORIGINS.
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IT SAYS, "NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS
WAS AS FOLLOWS: AFTER HIS MOTHER
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MARY WAS BETROTHED TO JOSEPH,
BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE
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WAS FOUND WITH
CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT."
00:14:20.32\00:14:24.83
SO LUKE GIVES US A LITTLE MORE
DETAIL BUT MATTHEW, HERE, IS
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ALLUDING TO THE FACT OF
THIS DIVINE VIRGIN BIRTH.
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AND, OF COURSE, AS YOU READ
THROUGH MATTHEW'S ACCOUNT IN
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CHAPTER 1, JOSEPH IMMEDIATELY,
IN VERSE 19, REALIZES THAT THIS
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IS NOT THE WAY THAT THINGS
ARE SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, RIGHT?
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AND SO HE IS GOING TO
GRACIOUSLY JUST PUT MARY ASIDE.
00:14:46.35\00:14:52.75
HE'S NOT GOING TO MAKE A BIG
ORDEAL. THEY'RE NOT YET MARRIED,
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THEY'RE JUST
ENGAGED OR BETROTHED,
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BUT AN ANGEL APPEARS TO JOSEPH.
WHAT I WANT YOU TO REALIZE HERE
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IS, JUST LIKE THE JEWISH NATION
BASICALLY HAD THEIR BIRTH IN A
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SET OF MIRACLE BIRTHS, RIGHT?
ABRAHAM IS GIVEN THIS PROMISE
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OF BEING THE FATHER
OF WHAT? A MULTITUDE.
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AND YOU CAN IMAGINE ABRAHAM AS
HE WAS FIRST CALLED ABRAM, THEN
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ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF A
MULTITUDE - CAN YOU IMAGINE?
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT -
THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID IN YOUR
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NAME. I MEAN, CAN YOU IMAGINE
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INTRODUCING YOURSELF?
'HELLO, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?'
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'I'M FATHER OF A MULTITUDE.'
'WOW, FATHER OF A MULTITUDE, HOW
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MANY CHILDREN DO YOU
HAVE?' 'NONE.' NONE. AND SO GOD
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MIRACULOUSLY - IT WASN'T A
VIRGIN BIRTH, BUT IN SARAH WHOSE
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WOMB WAS DEAD, IN ESSENCE, IT'S
A MIRACLE BIRTH JUST AS MUCH -
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THE PROMISE OF A NATION OF
AN OFFSPRING COMES THROUGH A
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MIRACLE BIRTH AT
ITS VERY BEGINNING.
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ABRAHAM IS NOT THE FATHER OF ANY
NATION UNTIL THERE'S A MIRACLE
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BIRTH. WELL, YOU
KNOW, AFTER A NUMBER
00:16:08.53\00:16:13.87
OF GENERATIONS, GOD'S
PEOPLE, THE JEWISH NATION, FINDS
00:16:13.87\00:16:20.41
THEMSELVES IN EGYPT.
AND AS WE COME TO MATTHEW
00:16:20.41\00:16:23.35
CHAPTER 2, WE SEE JESUS - HE'S
ACTUALLY, IN ESSENCE, FULFILLING
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OR REDEEMING THE
WHOLE JEWISH HISTORY.
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AS YOU LOOK THROUGH IT - SO IT
BEGINS WITH THIS VIRGIN BIRTH -
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WITH THIS MIRACULOUS BIRTH -
AND WHEN WE'RE IN CHAPTER 2 OF
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MATTHEW - YOU KNOW THE STORY,
HOW IT UNFOLDS - THE MAGI, THESE
00:16:37.03\00:16:42.63
WISE MEN FROM THE EAST HAVE COME
TO BE THERE AND TO SHOW THEIR
00:16:42.63\00:16:47.97
RESPECT FOR - WHO IS
IT? THE KING OF THE JEWS.
00:16:47.97\00:16:53.07
SO IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL, THE
INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE DOES NOT
00:16:53.07\00:16:59.55
COME THROUGH SHEPHERDS - IT DOES
IN LUKE'S GOSPEL, AND IT DID
00:16:59.55\00:17:03.18
HAPPEN THAT WAY, OF COURSE,
BUT MATTHEW IS HIGHLIGHTING THE
00:17:03.18\00:17:07.26
KINGSHIP OF JESUS. AS
WE WALKED THROUGH IT IN OUR
00:17:07.26\00:17:10.59
LAST STUDY WITH
PASTOR DOUG, WHAT DID WE SEE?
00:17:10.59\00:17:13.46
WE SAW JESUS OF THE KINGLY LINE
- THE EMPHASIS - AND ON - IN ON
00:17:13.46\00:17:17.13
HIM BEING THE SON OF DAVID AND
BEING OF THE LINE OF ABRAHAM.
00:17:17.13\00:17:23.07
SO AS LUKE SPEAKS ABOUT PEOPLE
THAT, IN JEWISH CULTURE, WEREN'T
00:17:23.07\00:17:26.88
VERY SIGNIFICANT, LIKE SHEPHERDS
AND WOMEN AND OLD WOMEN LIKE ANA
00:17:26.88\00:17:33.01
IN THE TEMPLE. IN MATTHEW'S
GOSPEL THE FOCUS IS ON THESE
00:17:33.01\00:17:39.59
WISE MEN WHO COME TO JESUS.
BUT AFTER THE WISE MEN COME - GO
00:17:39.59\00:17:43.79
WITH ME TO MATTHEW
CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 13.
00:17:43.79\00:17:48.53
MATTHEW 2, VERSE 13 IT SAYS,
"NOW WHEN THEY" - THE WISE MEN -
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"HAD DEPARTED, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL
OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH
00:17:51.90\00:17:56.17
IN A DREAM, SAYING, 'ARISE, TAKE
THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER,
00:17:56.17\00:18:00.51
FLEE TO EGYPT, AND STAY THERE
UNTIL I BRING YOU WORD; FOR
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HEROD WILL SEEK THE YOUNG CHILD
TO DESTROY HIM.' WHEN HE AROSE,
00:18:04.68\00:18:10.95
HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS
MOTHER BY NIGHT AND DEPARTED FOR
00:18:10.95\00:18:14.16
EGYPT, AND WAS THERE UNTIL
THE DEATH OF HEROD..." WHY?
00:18:14.16\00:18:19.16
WHY? DO YOU CATCH
WHAT MATTHEW THEN SAYS?
00:18:19.16\00:18:21.83
HE SAYS HE WAS THERE SO "THAT
IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS
00:18:21.83\00:18:27.37
SPOKEN BY THE LORD THROUGH THE
PROPHET, SAYING, 'OUT OF EGYPT I
00:18:27.37\00:18:31.97
CALLED MY SON.'" SO YOU
SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?
00:18:31.97\00:18:35.74
JESUS, A MIRACLE BIRTH, A LINE
THAT HAS PROMISED KINGSHIP -
00:18:35.74\00:18:42.28
JESUS IS LOOKED TO AS THE
KING - AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS?
00:18:42.28\00:18:45.32
THE KING GOES - THE KINGLY LINE,
IF YOU WILL, THE KING HIMSELF,
00:18:45.32\00:18:49.19
JESUS, GOES TO EGYPT. HE
IS ACTUALLY RE-WRITING, IF
00:18:49.19\00:18:56.16
YOU WILL, HE'S RE-WRITING THE
HISTORY OF THE JEWISH NATION.
00:18:56.16\00:19:13.18
JESUS, AS HE WALKS ON EARTH, IS
FULFILLING ALL THAT GOD'S PEOPLE
00:19:13.18\00:19:21.06
WERE CALLED TO FULFILL.
AND SO NOT ONLY - NOT ONLY DOES
00:19:21.06\00:19:27.10
HE HAVE THIS HISTORY,
WHAT HAPPENS NOW IS THAT WE GET
00:19:27.10\00:19:30.57
INTO THE SPECIAL
FOCUS OF THIS LESSON.
00:19:30.57\00:19:34.10
WE COME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 3
AND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 WE'RE
00:19:34.10\00:19:39.37
INTRODUCED TO JOHN THE
BAPTIST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IS
00:19:39.37\00:19:44.21
PREPARING THE WAY
FOR WHO? FOR THE MESSIAH.
00:19:44.21\00:19:49.78
HE'S PREPARING
THE WAY FOR THE KING.
00:19:49.78\00:19:52.82
AND SO WHAT HAPPENS TO
JESUS WHEN HE COMES TO JOHN?
00:19:52.82\00:19:57.66
WHAT HAPPENS? WHEN
JESUS COMES TO JOHN -
00:19:57.66\00:20:01.50
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE DIALOGUE
THAT HAPPENS. I'M IN, NOW,
00:20:01.50\00:20:05.03
MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13
- MATTHEW 3, VERSE 13. IT SAYS,
00:20:05.03\00:20:12.37
"THEN JESUS CAME FROM GALILEE
TO JOHN AT THE JORDAN TO BE
00:20:12.37\00:20:18.05
BAPTIZED BY HIM. AND JOHN TRIED
TO PREVENT HIM, SAYING, 'I NEED
00:20:18.05\00:20:23.69
TO BE BAPTIZED BY YOU,
AND ARE YOU COMING TO ME?'
00:20:23.69\00:20:28.99
BUT JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID
TO HIM, 'PERMIT IT TO BE SO NOW,
00:20:28.99\00:20:33.33
FOR THUS IT IS FITTING FOR US TO
FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' THEN
00:20:33.33\00:20:38.97
HE ALLOWED HIM." DO YOU
SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?
00:20:38.97\00:20:43.47
JESUS GOES THROUGH - HE GOES TO
EGYPT AND THEN AFTER HE'S COME
00:20:43.47\00:20:47.78
BACK FROM EGYPT HE GOES
THROUGH A BAPTISM EXPERIENCE.
00:20:47.78\00:20:53.68
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE
THAT IN THE JEWISH MINDSET THEY
00:20:53.68\00:20:59.75
UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY, AS A
PEOPLE, HAD BEEN COLLECTIVELY
00:20:59.75\00:21:05.59
BAPTIZED. ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS?
00:21:05.59\00:21:08.76
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT
THIS, TURN INTO 1 CORINTHIANS
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CHAPTER 10 - 1 CORINTHIANS
CHAPTER 10 AS WE HEAR THE
00:21:12.10\00:21:17.94
APOSTLE PAUL DESCRIBING
SOMETHING THAT WAS PART OF THE
00:21:17.94\00:21:21.11
CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE JEWISH
NATION. WE KNOW THIS FOR A
00:21:21.11\00:21:24.25
NUMBER OF REASONS: BAPTISM WAS
NOT INTRODUCED BY THE JOHN THE
00:21:24.25\00:21:27.95
BAPTIST. BAPTISM
WAS A PRACTICE THAT WAS
00:21:27.95\00:21:31.85
ENGAGED IN FOR JEWISH CONVERTS.
SO IF YOU WERE NOT OF THE SEED
00:21:31.85\00:21:36.36
OF ABRAHAM - IF YOU WERE
NOT OF THE BIOLOGICAL LINEAGE OF
00:21:36.36\00:21:41.10
ABRAHAM, WHEN YOU BECAME
A JEW, YOU WERE BAPTIZED.
00:21:41.10\00:21:45.37
AND THE REASON FOR IT WAS,
IF YOU WERE BORN INTO A JEWISH
00:21:45.37\00:21:49.17
BLOODLINE, YOU DIDN'T NEED TO
BE BAPTIZED BECAUSE OF WHAT PAUL
00:21:49.17\00:21:53.41
DESCRIBES HERE IN 1
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10.
00:21:53.41\00:21:56.48
LET'S LOOK AT IT - 1 CORINTHIANS
CHAPTER 10, BEGINNING WITH VERSE
00:21:56.48\00:21:59.95
1, "MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I DO NOT
WANT YOU TO BE UNAWARE THAT ALL
00:21:59.95\00:22:07.92
OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE
CLOUD, ALL PASSED THROUGH THE
00:22:07.92\00:22:13.93
SEA, ALL WERE BAPTIZED INTO
MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE
00:22:13.93\00:22:19.63
SEA, ALL ATE THE SAME SPIRITUAL
FOOD, AND ALL DRANK THE SAME
00:22:19.63\00:22:23.77
SPIRITUAL DRINK. FOR
THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL
00:22:23.77\00:22:26.98
ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM,
AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST."
00:22:26.98\00:22:30.91
DO YOU CATCH THE PICTURE?
AS PAUL IS RETRACING SOMETHING
00:22:30.91\00:22:35.88
THAT THE JEWISH NATION KNEW
- NOW HE'S WRITING, REMEMBER,
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.29
HERE TO A CHURCH IN CORINTH.
SO THESE WERE NOT JEWS BY BIRTH.
00:22:38.29\00:22:44.89
HE'S WRITING TO A CHURCH THAT WE
WOULD SAY WOULD BE IN MODERN-DAY
00:22:44.89\00:22:47.23
GREECE, AS WE DRAW LINES TODAY,
AND SO THIS WAS A GENTILE CHURCH
00:22:47.23\00:22:54.17
AT ONE OF THE CROSSROADS OF THE
- OF THE WORLD, DURING THE NEW
00:22:54.17\00:22:58.34
TESTAMENT TIMES. AND
SO, AS PAUL IS WRITING
00:22:58.34\00:23:01.08
HE SAYS, 'I'M REMINDING YOU.
I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT.
00:23:01.08\00:23:04.71
I WANT YOU - I DON'T WANT YOU TO
BE UNAWARE OF WHAT WE IN JUDAISM
00:23:04.71\00:23:09.25
HAVE KNOWN AND THAT IS THAT
THE JEWISH PEOPLE WENT THROUGH A
00:23:09.25\00:23:12.59
BAPTISM EXPERIENCE. AND
SO, AS WE'RE READING THROUGH
00:23:12.59\00:23:17.36
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, THE FIRST
FOUR CHAPTERS WE SEE JESUS,
00:23:17.36\00:23:21.76
BASICALLY, REDEEMING THE
ENTIRE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:23:21.76\00:23:27.24
JESUS IS THE ONE OF
THAT PROMISED LINEAGE.
00:23:27.24\00:23:30.01
HE'S THE MIRACLE-BIRTH
CHILD. HE ACTUALLY GOES TO EGYPT
00:23:30.01\00:23:34.31
FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. HE
COMES OUT OF EGYPT AND AFTER
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.45
HE COMES OUT OF
EGYPT, HE IS BAPTIZED.
00:23:37.45\00:23:41.58
WHERE WERE THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BAPTIZED?
00:23:41.58\00:23:45.42
IN THE RED SEA, YOU SEE?
SO THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO THE
00:23:45.42\00:23:49.36
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
AFTER THE RED SEA EXPERIENCE?
00:23:49.36\00:23:54.20
WHAT DID THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH?
00:23:54.20\00:23:57.90
THAT'S RIGHT, THEY HAD TO DEAL
WITH 4O YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:23:57.90\00:24:02.74
AND SO, AS WE READ OF JESUS'
BAPTISM - AND WHAT WE'RE DOING
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.01
IN THIS BEGINNING OF OUR STUDY
TOGETHER, WE'RE TRYING TO GIVE
00:24:06.01\00:24:09.34
YOU THE BIG PICTURE OF THE FIRST
FOUR CHAPTERS AND THEN, BY GOD'S
00:24:09.34\00:24:12.01
GRACE, WE'LL PICK UP SOME OF
THESE DETAILS A LITTLE BIT MORE,
00:24:12.01\00:24:15.68
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO SEE WHAT
THE NARRATIVE - WHAT MATTHEW WAS
00:24:15.68\00:24:19.35
TRYING TO DISPLAY - WHAT HE WAS
WRITING AS HE WAS WRITING THIS
00:24:19.35\00:24:22.99
BOOK TO JEWISH BELIEVERS.
AND SO WE SEE, NOW, AFTER JESUS
00:24:22.99\00:24:28.46
IS BAPTIZED - SO
I'M BACK IN MATTHEW.
00:24:28.46\00:24:32.50
IN MATTHEW 3 WE READ OF THE
BAPTISM AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO
00:24:32.50\00:24:36.47
FIND THAT JESUS FINDS HIMSELF,
AGAIN, RELIVING OR REWRITING THE
00:24:36.47\00:24:44.51
HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 ENDS WITH THE
00:24:44.51\00:24:52.15
BAPTISM AND GOD SPEAKING
THESE WORDS OF APPROVAL.
00:24:52.15\00:24:56.99
HE SAYS, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON
IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.' BUT
00:24:56.99\00:25:04.67
THEN WE COME INTO CHAPTER 4 -
JESUS JUST BAPTIZED - NOW SOME
00:25:04.67\00:25:09.44
OF YOU CAN
PERHAPS RELATE TO THIS.
00:25:09.44\00:25:11.87
YOU REMEMBER YOUR
BAPTISM VERY WELL.
00:25:11.87\00:25:14.91
AND PERHAPS SOME OF YOU, WHEN
YOU WERE BAPTIZED YOU HAD AN
00:25:14.91\00:25:17.88
IDEA THAT WHEN YOU WENT UNDER
THE WATERS OF BAPTISM, THAT WHEN
00:25:17.88\00:25:23.18
YOU CAME UP YOU
WOULD BE A NEW PERSON.
00:25:23.18\00:25:25.62
NOW, THAT IS TRUE, BUT IN YOUR
MIND A NEW PERSON MEANT THAT YOU
00:25:25.62\00:25:30.13
WOULD BE FREE OF ALL THOSE
TEMPTATIONS THAT YOU HAD BEFORE
00:25:30.13\00:25:33.33
YOU WERE BAPTIZED. CAN ANY OF
YOU RELATE TO THIS? THAT SOMEHOW
00:25:33.33\00:25:36.90
THAT BAPTISM - THERE'D BE
AN AMAZING TRANSFORMATION.
00:25:36.90\00:25:40.14
IT IS - IT'S AN AMAZING, AMAZING
SERVICE THAT GOD HAS INSTITUTED.
00:25:40.14\00:25:45.24
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IF YOU'RE
LIKE ME, WHEN YOU CAME OUT OF
00:25:45.24\00:25:48.34
THE BAPTISMAL WATERS, YOU STILL
DEALT WITH THE SAME - SOME OF
00:25:48.34\00:25:52.78
THE SAME OLD STRUGGLES.
ARE YOU RELATING TO THIS?
00:25:52.78\00:25:56.85
WE'RE NOT IMMEDIATELY REMOVED
FROM TEMPTATION BY BAPTISM.
00:25:56.85\00:26:02.16
AND WITH JESUS, WHO NEVER
SINNED, EVEN JESUS, AFTER HE
00:26:02.16\00:26:07.30
COMES OUT OF THE WATERS
OF BAPTISM, WHAT DO WE SEE
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.66
HAPPENING NEXT IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 4?
00:26:09.66\00:26:13.60
MATTHEW 4, VERSE 1 SAYS, "THEN
JESUS WAS LED UP BY THE SPIRIT
00:26:13.60\00:26:18.61
INTO THE WILDERNESS TO
BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL."
00:26:18.61\00:26:22.58
AND AS MATTHEW IS WRITING HIS
ACCOUNT OF THE GOSPEL - BY THE
00:26:22.58\00:26:27.92
WAY, IF YOU READ MARK'S ACCOUNT,
JUST A VERY SUCCINCT REFERENCE
00:26:27.92\00:26:32.32
TO THIS PERIOD, BUT MATTHEW AND
LUKE DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENS IN
00:26:32.32\00:26:36.66
DETAIL. IT SAYS,
IN VERSE 2, WHEN JESUS
00:26:36.66\00:26:40.20
"HAD FASTED FORTY DAYS AND
FORTY NIGHTS, AFTERWARD HE WAS
00:26:40.20\00:26:46.43
HUNGRY." SO CATCH
THE PICTURE HERE, THE
00:26:46.43\00:26:50.61
JEWISH NATION, THEY'RE BAPTIZED
IN THE RED SEA AND THEN WHERE
00:26:50.61\00:26:54.48
DO THEY FIND THEMSELVES?
THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN THE
00:26:54.48\00:26:57.55
WILDERNESS FOR HOW
LONG? FOR FORTY YEARS.
00:26:57.55\00:27:00.98
SO JESUS HAS THIS FORTY-DAY
EXPERIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS AND
00:27:00.98\00:27:06.62
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO
JESUS THERE IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:27:06.62\00:27:10.73
THAT'S RIGHT, JUST WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:27:10.73\00:27:14.10
THEY WERE TEMPTED
IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:27:14.10\00:27:16.23
HOW WELL DID THEY
DO? >>NOT TOO WELL.
00:27:16.23\00:27:19.23
>>THAT'S RIGHT, THEY DIDN'T
DO ALL SO WELL THERE IN THOSE
00:27:19.23\00:27:21.90
WILDERNESS TEMPTATIONS. IN
FACT, ALL OF THE MEN - ALL OF
00:27:21.90\00:27:27.48
THE INDIVIDUALS OVER TWENTY
DIED IN THE WILDERNESS, EXCEPT
00:27:27.48\00:27:30.78
FOR CALEB AND
JOSHUA. NONE OF THEM ENTERED
00:27:30.78\00:27:33.98
THE PROMISED
LAND. THEY ALL DIED.
00:27:33.98\00:27:36.42
THIS WAS NOT A
SUCCESSFUL OVERCOMING OF SIN.
00:27:36.42\00:27:41.79
BUT WHAT DOES JESUS
DO IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:27:41.79\00:27:45.53
JESUS OVERCOMES IN EVERY AREA.
NOW REMEMBER, I'M STRUGGLING
00:27:45.53\00:27:50.53
BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO GIVE AN
OVER - KIND OF A BROAD OVERVIEW.
00:27:50.53\00:27:53.03
I KNOW IT'S TAKING A LITTLE TIME
TO GIVE A BROAD OVERVIEW AND I'M
00:27:53.03\00:27:56.07
STRUGGLING WITH THE TEMPTATION
THAT MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE
00:27:56.07\00:27:58.34
STRUGGLING WITH BECAUSE YOU WANT
TO DIVE IN A LITTLE BIT MORE TO
00:27:58.34\00:28:01.71
SOME OF THESE STORIES.
BUT THE POINT IS, WE'RE TRYING
00:28:01.71\00:28:04.45
TO SEE THIS BIG PICTURE
THAT JESUS OVERCOMES IN THE
00:28:04.45\00:28:07.85
WILDERNESS IN THE
AREA OF TEMPTATION.
00:28:07.85\00:28:10.69
AND THEN HE ENTERS, IF YOU
WILL - JESUS DOES - AFTER THESE
00:28:10.69\00:28:15.92
TEMPTATIONS,
WHAT? THE PROMISED LAND.
00:28:15.92\00:28:19.19
HE ENTERS INTO HIS MINISTRY.
BY THE WAY, MAYBE I SHOULD
00:28:19.19\00:28:23.33
REMIND YOU OF THIS. LOOK
IN YOUR BIBLES AT GENESIS -
00:28:23.33\00:28:28.20
I'M TURNING TO GENESIS
CHAPTER 12 - GENESIS 12.
00:28:28.20\00:28:37.85
THIS PROMISE THAT GOD GAVE
TO ABRAHAM - GENESIS CHAPTER 12,
00:28:37.85\00:28:43.79
BEGINNING WITH VERSE 1.
"NOW THE LORD HAD SAID TO ABRAM:
00:28:43.79\00:28:48.56
'GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY,
FROM YOUR FAMILY AND FROM YOUR
00:28:48.56\00:28:52.33
FATHER'S HOUSE, TO A LAND THAT
I WILL SHOW YOU.'" BY THE WAY,
00:28:52.33\00:28:58.07
WHERE WAS THE HOUSE OF JESUS?
OF WHAT LINEAGE WAS HE OF?
00:28:58.07\00:29:04.17
THAT'S RIGHT, HE WAS THE
LINEAGE OF JUDAH AND HE WAS OF
00:29:04.17\00:29:08.31
BETHLEHEM, YOU
KNOW, DAVID'S SEED.
00:29:08.31\00:29:11.21
HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, BUT WE
FIND JESUS - HIS EARLY MINISTRY
00:29:11.21\00:29:17.12
IS ESPECIALLY FOCUSED, AS
WE'LL LOOK AT IN THIS LESSON, IN
00:29:17.12\00:29:21.12
GALILEE. SO HE'S
CALLED FROM - CALLED
00:29:21.12\00:29:23.99
FROM HIS HOME, IF YOU WILL - YOU
MIGHT SAY WE'RE TAKING A LITTLE
00:29:23.99\00:29:28.06
BIT - MAKING A LITTLE BIT
MORE TO THE PARALLELS THAN IS
00:29:28.06\00:29:32.10
WARRANTED, BUT FOLLOW ALONG.
IN VERSE 2 OF THE PROMISE TO
00:29:32.10\00:29:35.90
ABRAM: "I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT
NATION; I WILL BLESS YOU AND
00:29:35.90\00:29:40.94
MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT;
AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING.
00:29:40.94\00:29:43.91
I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS
YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO
00:29:43.91\00:29:47.25
CURSES YOU; AND IN
YOU" - WHO SHALL BE BLESSED?
00:29:47.25\00:29:52.79
- "ALL THE FAMILIES OF
THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED."
00:29:52.79\00:29:57.89
SO HERE'S THE POINT: ALTHOUGH
THE JEWISH NATION BEGAN TO THINK
00:29:57.89\00:30:03.33
IN NARROW TERMS OF JUST AN
ISOLATED FOCUS ON THEMSELVES,
00:30:03.33\00:30:12.54
THE ORIGINAL CALL TO ABRAHAM
WAS TO BLESS THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:30:12.54\00:30:16.48
AND SO JESUS, AS HE ENTERS
INTO HIS MINISTRY, WE SEE JESUS
00:30:16.48\00:30:22.15
REALLY, REACHING IN A
SENSE, THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:30:22.15\00:30:24.85
AND WE'LL CATCH THAT
EARLY ON IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.
00:30:24.85\00:30:29.32
BUT AS JESUS ENTERS INTO
MINISTRY LOOK AT HOW MATTHEW
00:30:29.32\00:30:33.09
SUMMARIZES HIS MINISTRY.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 BEGINNING WITH
00:30:33.09\00:30:39.50
VERSE 23, "AND JESUS
WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE..."
00:30:39.50\00:30:48.21
NOW IT WAS JUST A LITTLE
BIT EARLIER IN MATTHEW 4, IF YOU
00:30:48.21\00:30:54.75
WANT TO BE EXACT, VERSE
15, THAT THERE IS A PARTICULAR
00:30:54.75\00:30:59.19
DESCRIPTION OF GALILEE.
IT'S NOT JUST CALLED GALILEE -
00:30:59.19\00:31:03.26
DO YOU SEE IT THERE IN VERSE
15, IT'S CALLED GALILEE WHAT?
00:31:03.26\00:31:07.20
GALILEE OF THE GENTILES. SO
GALILEE IS IN A REGION OF THE
00:31:07.20\00:31:13.74
PROMISED LAND THAT FOR
CENTURIES HAD NOT BEEN UNDER, IF
00:31:13.74\00:31:19.77
YOU WILL, JEWISH CONTROL.
YOU KNOW THE HISTORY, BACK IN
00:31:19.77\00:31:26.15
THE DAYS OF SOLOMON THERE WAS A
UNITED TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
00:31:26.15\00:31:32.59
AND SOLOMON, LIKE HIS FATHER
DAVID, REIGNED OVER THOSE UNITED
00:31:32.59\00:31:37.59
TWELVE TRIBES. BUT
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE
00:31:37.59\00:31:41.13
REIGN OF
REHOBOAM, SOLOMON'S SON?
00:31:41.13\00:31:44.33
THAT'S RIGHT, THE KINGDOM
WAS DIVIDED AND THE TEN NORTHERN
00:31:44.33\00:31:48.47
TRIBES WERE SEPARATED FROM THE
TWO SOUTHERN TRIBES OF JUDAH AND
00:31:48.47\00:31:53.27
BENJAMIN. THOSE
TEN NORTHERN TRIBES,
00:31:53.27\00:31:57.81
CENTURIES AND CENTURIES BEFORE
JESUS' BIRTH, HAD BEEN CONQUERED
00:31:57.81\00:32:04.39
BY ASSYRIA AND THEY HAD BECOME
A GENTILE OR A HEATHEN REGION.
00:32:04.39\00:32:11.73
AND SO JESUS' EARLY MINISTRY
AND, AS MATTHEW IS DESCRIBING
00:32:11.73\00:32:15.60
IT, IS TO
GALILEE OF THE GENTILES.
00:32:15.60\00:32:19.33
JESUS IS GOING TO THE NON-JEWISH
WORLD WITH THIS MESSAGE, EVEN
00:32:19.33\00:32:24.14
THOUGH THERE
ARE MANY JEWS THERE.
00:32:24.14\00:32:25.64
AND, OF COURSE, HE'S PREACHING
IN SYNAGOGUES AND MINISTERING TO
00:32:25.64\00:32:28.28
JEWS, PRIMARILY
DURING HIS MINISTRY.
00:32:28.28\00:32:31.25
BUT, HOPEFULLY, YOU'RE CATCHING
THIS IMAGERY THAT JESUS IS
00:32:31.25\00:32:35.22
RELIVING THE
EXPERIENCE OF THE JEWISH NATION.
00:32:35.22\00:32:40.09
HE IS THE PROMISED ONE.
00:32:40.09\00:32:41.36
HE IS FULFILLING
THE PROMISE OF DANIEL 9.
00:32:41.36\00:32:44.46
HE'S BRINGING TO FRUITION
THE SEVENTY WEEKS' PROPHECY.
00:32:44.46\00:32:48.23
AND SO, LET'S READ ON THERE IN
MATTHEW 4, VERSE 23 AND ONWARD.
00:32:48.23\00:32:52.07
IT SAYS, "AND JESUS WENT ABOUT
ALL GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR
00:32:52.07\00:32:55.27
SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL
OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL
00:32:55.27\00:32:59.87
KINDS OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS
OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:32:59.87\00:33:04.21
THEN HIS FAME WENT OUT
THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA; AND THEY
00:33:04.21\00:33:09.58
BROUGHT TO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE
WHO WERE AFFLICTED WITH VARIOUS
00:33:09.58\00:33:12.42
DISEASES AND TORMENTS, AND
THOSE WHO WERE DEMON-POSSESSED,
00:33:12.42\00:33:15.46
EPILEPTICS, AND
PARALYTICS; AND HE HEALED THEM.
00:33:15.46\00:33:18.86
GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED
HIM - FROM GALILEE, AND FROM
00:33:18.86\00:33:21.53
DECAPOLIS, JERUSALEM,
JUDEA, AND BEYOND THE JORDAN."
00:33:21.53\00:33:25.53
AND SO WHAT IT'S SAYING HERE -
AS MATTHEW, IN THESE FIRST FOUR
00:33:25.53\00:33:28.17
CHAPTERS, IS DESCRIBING
THE EARLY BACKGROUND OF JESUS.
00:33:28.17\00:33:33.04
HE'S PRESENTING, I WOULD SUGGEST
TO YOU, A PICTURE OF SOMEONE WHO
00:33:33.04\00:33:36.31
HAS REDEEMED - WHO HAS REDEEMED
THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH
00:33:36.31\00:33:41.68
NATION. HE'S
REWRITTEN THE HISTORY.
00:33:41.68\00:33:43.95
THE JEWISH NATION, FOR 483
YEARS, COULDN'T FULFILL WHAT GOD
00:33:43.95\00:33:47.99
ASKED THEM TO DO AND
JESUS COMES AND HE DOES THAT.
00:33:47.99\00:33:52.59
AND THE GOOD NEWS FOR ME AND FOR
YOU IS THAT THAT HISTORY THAT
00:33:52.59\00:33:57.77
JESUS LIVED - THAT LIFE THAT HE
LIVED - HE WANTS TO ACCOUNT IT -
00:33:57.77\00:34:01.20
NOT JUST FOR THE HISTORY OF THE
JEWISH NATION, BUT FOR EVERY ONE
00:34:01.20\00:34:04.61
OF US - EVERY ONE OF US. SO
AS WE LOOK AT WHAT GOD CALLS
00:34:04.61\00:34:09.44
HIS PEOPLE TO BE - WE LOOK AND
WE SAY, 'I DON'T MEASURE UP TO
00:34:09.44\00:34:15.15
THAT.' HAVE YOU ACTUALLY
READ THE BIBLE AND LOOKED
00:34:15.15\00:34:17.85
AT ITS COUNSEL? AND
YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW, AS I
00:34:17.85\00:34:20.26
READ THROUGH THIS, I'M NOT
LIVING THE KIND OF LIFE THAT GOD
00:34:20.26\00:34:24.06
CALLED ME TO LIVE.' WELL,
JESUS HAS LIVED THAT LIFE.
00:34:24.06\00:34:29.10
ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS WROTE
ABOUT THIS IN A LITTLE BOOK
00:34:29.10\00:34:32.57
CALLED FAITH AND WORKS - FAITH
AND WORKS - THIS IS FROM PAGE
00:34:32.57\00:34:37.34
107 - LISTEN TO THIS:
"PERFECTION THROUGH OUR OWN GOOD
00:34:37.34\00:34:44.45
WORKS WE CAN NEVER ATTAIN.
THE SOUL WHO SEES JESUS BY
00:34:44.45\00:34:50.99
FAITH, REPUDIATES
HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:34:50.99\00:34:55.76
SO, IN OTHER WORDS, IF I'M
SEEING JESUS AND I'M SEEING WHAT
00:34:55.76\00:34:58.36
HE CALLS ME TO BE AND I
LOOK AT MYSELF, HOW DO I LOOK?
00:34:58.36\00:35:04.17
I DON'T LOOK VERY GOOD.
AND THAT'S PUTTING IT MILDLY,
00:35:04.17\00:35:07.84
ISN'T IT? SO WE
REPUDIATE - WE SAY, 'MY -
00:35:07.84\00:35:12.44
I CAN'T DO IT.' "HE SEES HIMSELF
AS INCOMPLETE." NOW, I KNOW
00:35:12.44\00:35:18.61
TODAY - THIS WAS WRITTEN MANY
YEARS AGO. IF WE WERE WRITING
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.15
TODAY WE WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, HE
OR SHE. BUT YOU UNDERSTAND WHEN
00:35:21.15\00:35:26.09
THEY WROTE IN THE
MALE GENDER YEARS AGO.
00:35:26.09\00:35:30.36
"HE SEES HIMSELF" - OR IF I WERE
TO PUT IT IN THE FIRST PERSON,
00:35:30.36\00:35:34.63
'I SEE MYSELF AS INCOMPLETE,
MY REPENTANCE INSUFFICIENT, MY
00:35:34.63\00:35:45.27
STRONGEST FAITH BUT FEEBLENESS,
MY MOST COSTLY SACRIFICE AS
00:35:45.27\00:35:53.42
MEAGER, AND I SINK IN HUMILITY
AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.' ARE
00:35:53.42\00:35:59.95
YOU FOLLOWING ALONG?
CAN YOU RELATE TO THIS?
00:35:59.95\00:36:02.72
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOU
JUST HAVEN'T REPENTED ENOUGH?
00:36:02.72\00:36:05.86
HAVE YOU EVER FELT
LIKE YOUR FAITH IS FEEBLE?
00:36:05.86\00:36:09.63
THIS IS A COMMON CHRISTIAN
EXPERIENCE. IF WE'RE SEEING WITH
00:36:09.63\00:36:13.50
GOD'S EYES, WE JUST DON'T - WE
DON'T STAND UP. AND AS WE FALL
00:36:13.50\00:36:18.77
AT THE FEET OF JESUS AT THE
CROSS, IT SAYS, 'A VOICE SPEAKS
00:36:18.77\00:36:24.25
TO US FROM THE ORACLES OF
GOD'S WORD' AND THEN IT QUOTES A
00:36:24.25\00:36:28.45
PASSAGE FROM THE BOOK OF
COLOSSIANS: "IN AMAZEMENT WE
00:36:28.45\00:36:32.59
HEAR THE MESSAGE 'YOU ARE
COMPLETE IN HIM.'" SEE, I CAN
00:36:32.59\00:36:39.59
LOOK AT MY HISTORY AND MY
HISTORY, HOW GOOD DOES IT LOOK?
00:36:39.59\00:36:44.20
DOESN'T LOOK VERY GOOD, OKAY?
AND LIKE I TOLD YOU, I'M JUST
00:36:44.20\00:36:47.20
BEING GENTLE WITH MYSELF.
IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY GOOD.
00:36:47.20\00:36:51.34
AND YOU CAN LOOK BACK AT YOUR
HISTORY AND IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY
00:36:51.34\00:36:54.54
GOOD, DOES IT? BUT
THE FOCUS IN JESUS IS
00:36:54.54\00:36:58.81
NOT TO LOOK AT MY
HISTORY. WHOSE HISTORY SHOULD
00:36:58.81\00:37:01.25
I BE LOOKING AT? JESUS' HISTORY.
00:37:01.25\00:37:04.52
AND AS WE LOOK AT JESUS'
HISTORY, WE HEAR THIS VOICE FROM
00:37:04.52\00:37:07.26
THE CROSS, 'YOU ARE
COMPLETE IN' - WHO? 'IN HIM.'
00:37:07.26\00:37:13.06
NOW ALL IS AT REST IN YOUR SOUL.
NO LONGER MUST YOU STRIVE TO
00:37:13.06\00:37:18.53
FIND SOME WORTHINESS IN YOURSELF
- SOME MERITORIOUS DEED BY
00:37:18.53\00:37:24.44
WHICH TO GAIN THE FAVOR OF GOD.
SO WHAT JESUS IS PLAYING OUT IN
00:37:24.44\00:37:29.81
MATTHEW 1 THROUGH 4,
HE'S LIVING A PERFECT LIFE.
00:37:29.81\00:37:34.02
AND NOT ONLY DOES THAT PERFECT
LIFE STAND IN PLACE OF THE
00:37:34.02\00:37:38.09
FAILURES OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT STANDS IN
00:37:38.09\00:37:42.46
PLACE OF MY LIFE WHEN I
ACCEPT JESUS AS MY SAVIOR.
00:37:42.46\00:37:46.53
SO THE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS
OF MATTHEW SPEAK ABOUT HOW JESUS
00:37:46.53\00:37:50.97
OFFERS A PERFECT LIFE TO US.
AND AS WE GET TO THE LAST FOUR
00:37:50.97\00:37:56.00
CHAPTERS OF MATTHEW, IT
SHOWS US THAT JESUS OFFERS A
00:37:56.00\00:37:59.61
PERFECT SACRIFICE FOR
US. HE DIES IN OUR PLACE.
00:37:59.61\00:38:05.01
AND SO, THIS IS THIS GRAND
PICTURE THAT WE SEE IN MATTHEW'S
00:38:05.01\00:38:08.58
GOSPEL. BUT LET'S
GO BACK AND LOOK, NOW,
00:38:08.58\00:38:12.92
AT SOME OF THOSE DIMENSIONS
THAT WE ONLY HASTENED OVER.
00:38:12.92\00:38:16.42
AND THERE IS SO MUCH WE COULD
TALK ABOUT, BUT WHY DON'T WE
00:38:16.42\00:38:20.30
LOOK AT ONE THING THAT I WAS
JUST REALLY STRUGGLING TO JUST
00:38:20.30\00:38:24.20
BRUSH BY AND THAT'S
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S MINISTRY.
00:38:24.20\00:38:27.90
GO THERE, BACK WITH MATTHEW 3
- FROM THIS CONTEXT, NOW, LET'S
00:38:27.90\00:38:31.64
LOOK AT THIS GOSPEL THAT
WAS ESPECIALLY WRITTEN TO JEWISH
00:38:31.64\00:38:36.08
BELIEVERS - MATTHEW'S GOSPEL
- AND IN MATTHEW 3 WE WANT TO
00:38:36.08\00:38:41.05
NOTICE SOMETHING INTERESTING.
JOHN THE BAPTIST IS GIVING
00:38:41.05\00:38:45.72
A PROPHETIC MESSAGE.
IT'S INTERESTING TO ME THAT
00:38:45.72\00:38:50.06
MATTHEW, AS HE'S SPEAKING OF THE
MINISTRY OF JOHN, IN VERSE 3 OF
00:38:50.06\00:38:54.50
MATTHEW 3, HE QUOTES FROM ISAIAH
THE PROPHET, THESE WORDS: "THE
00:38:54.50\00:39:02.07
VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE
WILDERNESS: 'PREPARE THE WAY
00:39:02.07\00:39:06.41
OF THE LORD; MAKE HIS PATHS
STRAIGHT.'" NOW ONE EXERCISE
00:39:06.41\00:39:12.01
THAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU
TO ENGAGE IN AS YOU'RE STUDYING
00:39:12.01\00:39:14.62
THROUGH THE GOSPEL
OF MATTHEW IS COMPARING
00:39:14.62\00:39:17.95
THE DIFFERENT GOSPELS, AND WE'RE
GOING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
00:39:17.95\00:39:20.89
I WANT TO JUST CHALLENGE YOU
TO TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE
00:39:20.89\00:39:23.06
GOSPEL OF MARK. NOW,
ALTHOUGH MATTHEW BEGINS
00:39:23.06\00:39:26.80
WITH THE EARLY LIFE STORY
OF JESUS, MARK DOES NOT HAVE
00:39:26.80\00:39:30.83
ANYTHING THAT CORRESPONDS TO
MATTHEW CHAPTER 1 OR 2, BUT IN
00:39:30.83\00:39:36.37
THE SECOND GOSPEL, WHICH YOU
REMEMBER FROM OUR LAST STUDY,
00:39:36.37\00:39:39.27
WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN FIRST.
MARK'S GOSPEL WAS WRITTEN FIRST.
00:39:39.27\00:39:44.08
MARK ACTUALLY CONNECTS HIS
GOSPEL AT THE VERY BEGINNING
00:39:44.08\00:39:47.98
MORE SEAMLESSLY
WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:39:47.98\00:39:51.09
SO LOOK WITH ME AT MARK CHAPTER
1, PICKING UP RIGHT WHERE
00:39:51.09\00:39:54.99
MATTHEW 3 STARTS, DID YOU
NOTICE WHO MATTHEW QUOTED FROM?
00:39:54.99\00:40:01.63
WHAT OLD TESTAMENT
WRITER DID HE QUOTE FROM?
00:40:01.63\00:40:04.20
ISAIAH, THAT'S EXACTLY
RIGHT. LOOK AT WHAT MARK DOES.
00:40:04.20\00:40:10.64
MARK SAYS, IN MARK 1, VERSE
2, "AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE
00:40:10.64\00:40:14.94
PROPHETS: 'BEHOLD, I SEND MY
MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, WHO
00:40:14.94\00:40:20.35
WILL PREPARE
YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.
00:40:20.35\00:40:23.05
THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE
WILDERNESS: 'PREPARE THE WAY OF
00:40:23.05\00:40:26.59
THE LORD; MAKE HIS PATHS
STRAIGHT.'" SO MARK IS QUOTING
00:40:26.59\00:40:30.83
FROM ISAIAH, BUT HE'S
ALSO QUOTING FROM WHO?
00:40:30.83\00:40:33.33
DO ANY OF YOU KNOW?
00:40:33.33\00:40:34.86
THAT'S RIGHT, HE'S
QUOTING FROM MALACHI.
00:40:34.86\00:40:37.50
THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW THE
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE, WHERE
00:40:37.50\00:40:42.20
DOES THE BOOK OF MALACHI
FALL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:40:42.20\00:40:46.07
THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S THE VERY
LAST BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:40:46.07\00:40:49.94
SO I'M TURNING THERE TO MALACHI,
JUST TO CATCH THIS HERE, JUST TO
00:40:49.94\00:40:53.55
CATCH THE IMPACT
A LITTLE BIT MORE.
00:40:53.55\00:40:55.92
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ENJOYED THE
STORY THAT CONCLUDED OUR LESSON.
00:40:55.92\00:41:00.46
AND, BY THE WAY, AGAIN,
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS LESSON
00:41:00.46\00:41:03.02
QUARTERLY, YOU CAN GO TO THE
AMAZINGFACTS.ORG WEBSITE AND YOU
00:41:03.02\00:41:08.36
CAN ACCESS THE LESSON STUDIES.
BUT THE CLOSING ILLUSTRATION
00:41:08.36\00:41:13.84
WAS OF A PASTOR.
DID YOU LIKE THAT?
00:41:13.84\00:41:16.10
THE PASTOR WHO PROMISED THAT
IF YOU CAME TO HIS EVANGELISTIC
00:41:16.10\00:41:19.74
MEETINGS HE WOULD TEAR
A PAGE OUT OF THE BIBLE.
00:41:19.74\00:41:24.48
NOW HOW MANY OF YOU TREAT
THE BIBLE AS A SACRED BOOK?
00:41:24.48\00:41:28.75
I MEAN, I DO. I
MEAN, DOESN'T - THIS SOUNDS
00:41:28.75\00:41:31.05
LIKE SOMETHING YOU
MAY NOT WANT TO GO TO.
00:41:31.05\00:41:33.22
IN FACT, IF YOU'RE A PARENT,
A WATCHFUL PARENT, AND YOU HEARD
00:41:33.22\00:41:36.46
ABOUT AN EVANGELIST WHO WOULD BE
TEARING PAGES OUT OF THE BIBLE,
00:41:36.46\00:41:39.76
WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR
CHILDREN TO GO TO THE MEETING?
00:41:39.76\00:41:43.06
YOU MIGHT SAY, 'NO WAY, I'M
NOT GOING TO ALLOW MY KIDS TO GO
00:41:43.06\00:41:46.27
THERE.' BUT THE STORY IS THAT
HE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE COME AND HE
00:41:46.27\00:41:50.04
WOULD SAY, 'I'M GOING TO TEAR
A PAGE OUT OF THE BIBLE' AND I'M
00:41:50.04\00:41:53.78
LOOKING AT THE
VERY PAGE HE TORE OUT.
00:41:53.78\00:41:55.34
NOW, DON'T WORRY, I'M NOT
PLANNING TO TEAR MY PAGE OUT,
00:41:55.34\00:41:58.95
BUT HE WOULD TEAR
THIS PAGE OUT RIGHT HERE.
00:41:58.95\00:42:04.09
AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE ABLE
TO SEE, IF YOU'RE UP FRONT, WHAT
00:42:04.09\00:42:07.12
THE PAGE SAYS. IT'S
ACTUALLY A BLANK PAGE.
00:42:07.12\00:42:11.13
THERE'S NOTHING ON IT. IT
JUST SAYS THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:42:11.13\00:42:13.53
AND HE, SUPPOSEDLY,
WOULD TEAR THAT PAGE OUT.
00:42:13.53\00:42:16.46
AND HIS POINT WAS THAT THE
REVELATION OF GOD IS SEAMLESS.
00:42:16.46\00:42:22.54
THERE'S NO DIVISION
BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW.
00:42:22.54\00:42:26.34
AND SO IT IS, AS WE'RE IN
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, MATTHEW
00:42:26.34\00:42:31.35
DIDN'T QUOTE FROM
MALACHI, BUT MARK DID.
00:42:31.35\00:42:35.78
AND YOU SEE WHAT'S
HAPPENING THERE IN MALACHI?
00:42:35.78\00:42:39.02
IN MALACHI, HE'S GIVING THAT
PROPHET OF A MESSENGER THAT WAS
00:42:39.02\00:42:42.72
TO COME. AND
THAT MESSENGER - THAT
00:42:42.72\00:42:46.33
MESSENGER WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST.
SO WHY I'M TURNING HERE IS
00:42:46.33\00:42:53.34
BECAUSE THERE'S A PROMISE HERE
THAT I THINK YOU WANT TO CATCH.
00:42:53.34\00:43:00.51
IN MALACHI 3 IT NOT ONLY - LET'S
JUST READ IT TOGETHER - MALACHI
00:43:00.51\00:43:04.21
3, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 1,
"'BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER,
00:43:04.21\00:43:12.12
AND HE WILL
PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME.
00:43:12.12\00:43:14.56
AND THE LORD, WHOM YOU
SEEK, WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS
00:43:14.56\00:43:18.83
TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER
OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU
00:43:18.83\00:43:22.63
DELIGHT. BEHOLD, HE IS
COMING,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
00:43:22.63\00:43:26.50
BUT WHO CAN ENDURE
THE DAY OF HIS COMING?
00:43:26.50\00:43:28.60
AND WHO CAN
STAND WHEN HE APPEARS?
00:43:28.60\00:43:30.71
FOR HE IS LIKE A REFINER'S
FIRE AND LIKE LAUNDERERS' SOAP.
00:43:30.71\00:43:34.44
HE WILL SIT AS A REFINER AND
A PURIFIER OF SILVER; HE WILL
00:43:34.44\00:43:39.38
PURIFY THE SONS OF LEVI AND
PURGE THEM AS GOLD AND SILVER,
00:43:39.38\00:43:44.62
THAT THEY MAY OFFER TO THE LORD
AN OFFERING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:43:44.62\00:43:48.72
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?
THIS MESSENGER - THERE'S TWO
00:43:48.72\00:43:53.40
MESSENGERS, BY THE WAY, IF
YOU LOOK CAREFULLY AT MALACHI 1.
00:43:53.40\00:43:58.27
THERE'S TWO MESSENGERS - ONE
MESSENGER IS REFERRING TO JOHN
00:43:58.27\00:44:03.24
THE BAPTIST, IN ITS FIRST
APPLICATION THERE. BUT THEN
00:44:03.24\00:44:07.64
THERE'S A SECOND MESSENGER,
THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT.
00:44:07.64\00:44:12.25
SOME TRANSLATIONS CAPITALIZE
THAT MESSENGER BECAUSE IT'S
00:44:12.25\00:44:16.25
REFERRING TO WHO?
IT'S REFERRING TO JESUS.
00:44:16.25\00:44:19.72
AND THEN IT SPEAKS OF
JESUS REFINING WITH WHAT?
00:44:19.72\00:44:24.16
WHAT DO YOU USE
TO REFINE METALS?
00:44:24.16\00:44:26.80
THAT'S RIGHT,
REFINING WITH FIRE.
00:44:26.80\00:44:29.13
SO, NOW, LOOK BACK AT MATTHEW 3.
00:44:29.13\00:44:33.74
MATTHEW 3, JOHN THE BAPTIST IS
LIVING THIS FULFILLMENT OF THE
00:44:33.74\00:44:40.88
PROPHECIES OF
ISAIAH AND OF MALACHI.
00:44:40.88\00:44:46.28
SO MATTHEW'S WRITING
ABOUT IT; JOHN IS FULFILLING IT.
00:44:46.28\00:44:49.78
AND JOHN GIVES
THIS CALL TO REPENTANCE.
00:44:49.78\00:44:55.69
AND DO YOU SEE WHAT
JOHN PROMISES IN VERSE 11?
00:44:55.69\00:44:59.66
HE'S BAPTIZING WITH WATER, BUT
WHAT DOES HE SAY THE MESSENGER
00:44:59.66\00:45:05.07
OF THE COVENANT,
JESUS, WILL BAPTIZE WITH?
00:45:05.07\00:45:08.07
FIRE. SO DO YOU
SEE THIS CONNECTION?
00:45:08.07\00:45:10.97
SO THE OLD TESTAMENT
SEAMLESSLY MERGING INTO THE NEW.
00:45:10.97\00:45:16.34
NOW, I'M ACTUALLY
PREACHING, IT JUST SO HAPPENS,
00:45:16.34\00:45:21.58
FROM THE ANDREWS
UNIVERSITY STUDY BIBLE.
00:45:21.58\00:45:25.15
AND I WANT TO READ YOU AN
INTERESTING FOOTNOTE - A VERY
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.79
ACCURATE FOOTNOTE -
SPEAKING ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:45:27.79\00:45:32.59
AS WE READ ABOUT JOHN THERE, IT
HAS SOME INTERESTING DETAILS -
00:45:32.59\00:45:38.77
ONE THAT HAS CAPTURED PEOPLE'S
ATTENTION IS IN VERSE 4.
00:45:38.77\00:45:42.97
IT SAYS, "NOW JOHN HIMSELF WAS
CLOTHED IN CAMEL'S HAIR, WITH A
00:45:42.97\00:45:47.48
LEATHER BELT AROUND HIS
WAIST;" - AND WHAT WAS HIS FOOD?
00:45:47.48\00:45:54.55
- "LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY."
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LET ME READ YOU A FOOTNOTE
HERE: 'THERE'S A LONG HISTORY OF
00:45:56.15\00:46:02.09
SCHOLARLY DEBATE OVER WHETHER
THIS TERM REFERS TO AN INSECT,
00:46:02.09\00:46:09.16
LISTED AS A CLEAN FOOD IN
LEVITICUS 11:21-22, OR TO THE
00:46:09.16\00:46:17.04
CAROB BEAN.' HAVE
YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:46:17.04\00:46:22.18
NOW LISTEN TO THIS: COUNSELS
ON DIET AND FOODS , PAGES 70 AND
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71, "JOHN SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM
FRIENDS, AND FROM THE LUXURIES
00:46:27.55\00:46:32.79
OF LIFE...HIS DIET PURELY
VEGETABLE, OF LOCUSTS AND WILD
00:46:32.79\00:46:41.50
HONEY, WAS A REBUKE TO THE
INDULGENCE OF APPETITE, AND THE
00:46:41.50\00:46:46.97
GLUTTONY THAT
EVERYWHERE PREVAILED."
00:46:46.97\00:46:51.71
INTERESTING, ISN'T IT?
MAKES YOU WONDER, IF SOMEONE WAS
00:46:51.71\00:46:55.48
WEIGHING IN ON THIS QUESTION
OF WHAT THE LOCUSTS WERE.
00:46:55.48\00:47:00.12
BUT WHETHER THEY WERE BEANS OR
WHETHER THEY WERE GRASSHOPPERS,
00:47:00.12\00:47:04.19
IT SOUNDS LIKE A FAR SPARSER
DIET THAN I'M PLANNING TO ENJOY
00:47:04.19\00:47:09.12
AT LUNCH TODAY. HOW ABOUT
YOU? YOU CAN RELATE, RIGHT?
00:47:09.12\00:47:15.00
SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?
IT MEANS THAT JOHN, FOCUSED ON A
00:47:15.00\00:47:24.17
MESSAGE, IS LIVING A LIFE
THAT IS SAYING 'NO' TO THE
00:47:24.17\00:47:32.85
TEMPTATIONS OF
APPETITE SURROUNDING HIM.
00:47:32.85\00:47:36.85
AND I THINK IT'S INTERESTING
THAT AFTER JOHN BAPTIZES JESUS
00:47:36.85\00:47:41.39
HE REALIZES HE IS UNWORTHY,
BUT JESUS SAYS, 'ALLOW IT.
00:47:41.39\00:47:45.56
SUFFER IT.' DO YOU
REMEMBER THESE WORDS?
00:47:45.56\00:47:48.50
VERSE 15, ALLOW IT, OR "PERMIT
IT TO BE SO NOW, FOR THUS IT IS
00:47:48.50\00:47:54.30
FITTING FOR US TO
FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:47:54.30\00:47:58.04
AND SO JOHN ALLOWED
HIM AND HE BAPTIZES JESUS.
00:47:58.04\00:48:02.18
AND THEN THERE'S THIS HEAVENLY
PROCLAMATION WHERE GOD SAYS,
00:48:02.18\00:48:06.11
'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM
I AM WELL PLEASED.' AND HE SAYS
00:48:06.11\00:48:11.42
THAT TO YOU TOO, YOU KNOW?
WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED - WHEN YOU
00:48:11.42\00:48:15.22
COMMIT YOURSELF TO
A LIFE OF MINISTRY.
00:48:15.22\00:48:17.69
THIS IS REALLY JESUS' ORDINATION
- HIS CHRISTENING, IF YOU WILL -
00:48:17.69\00:48:21.63
HIS SETTING APART -
HIS ANOINTING FOR MINISTRY.
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WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT
AFTER? WE LOOKED AT IT ALREADY.
00:48:29.80\00:48:32.74
JESUS IS IN THE WILDERNESS
AND WHAT IS THE FIRST TEMPTATION
00:48:32.74\00:48:37.25
THAT HE ENCOUNTERS? IT IS
THE TEMPTATION ON APPETITE.
00:48:37.25\00:48:42.72
NOW, IF YOU'VE EVER READ
ANYTHING ABOUT THE FASTING
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.72
LITERATURE IN MEDICINE - I'VE
READ SOME OF THAT LITERATURE.
00:48:45.72\00:48:49.02
AS A PHYSICIAN, I'VE PUT
PATIENTS ON MEDICALLY SUPERVISED
00:48:49.02\00:48:52.46
FASTS BEFORE, AND SO I'VE
BEEN INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC.
00:48:52.46\00:48:56.16
AND WHEN YOU READ THE MEDICAL
LITERATURE, WHAT YOU READ
00:48:56.16\00:48:58.67
MAY BE SOMETHING
THAT YOU'VE LEARNED.
00:48:58.67\00:49:01.14
AFTER A RELATIVELY SHORT WHILE
ON A FAST, USUALLY WITHIN A FEW
00:49:01.14\00:49:05.24
DAYS, YOUR BODY IS IN A PHASE OF
WHAT WE CALL KETOSIS - YOUR BODY
00:49:05.24\00:49:11.05
IS BURNING FAT AND IT'S MAKING
THESE COMPOUNDS CALLED KETONES.
00:49:11.05\00:49:16.45
AND WHEN THOSE KETONES
RISE IN THE BODY, YOUR HUNGER IS
00:49:16.45\00:49:20.79
ACTUALLY SUPPRESSED. AND
MANY PEOPLE, AFTER SEVERAL
00:49:20.79\00:49:25.16
DAYS OF FASTING,
REALLY ARE NOT HUNGRY.
00:49:25.16\00:49:28.43
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, READ WITH
ME WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT JESUS'
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40 DAYS OF FASTING.
LOOK AT VERSE 2 IN MATTHEW 4.
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IT SAYS, "WHEN HE HAD FASTED
FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS,
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AFTERWARD HE WAS HUNGRY."
WHAT THEY TELL US IN THE
00:49:43.65\00:49:50.22
RESEARCH IS, ALTHOUGH INITIALLY
THOSE KETONES SUPPRESS THE
00:49:50.22\00:49:56.12
DESIRE TO EAT, AS YOU
APPROACH DEATH, HUNGER RETURNS.
00:49:56.12\00:50:03.20
SO THE INDICATION HERE IS THAT
JESUS HAD BEEN FASTING SO LONG
00:50:03.20\00:50:08.67
THAT HE'S NOW AT ABOUT THE POINT
OF DEATH. NOW I WILL REMIND YOU,
00:50:08.67\00:50:14.68
WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT
JESUS RELIVING A HISTORY.
00:50:14.68\00:50:18.31
EARLY IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL
THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE WHO
00:50:18.31\00:50:22.58
THOUGHT THEY WERE ABOUT AT THE
POINT TO DIE BECAUSE THEY HADN'T
00:50:22.58\00:50:26.65
EATEN IN SUCH A LONG TIME. DO
YOU KNOW WHO I AM REFERING TO?
00:50:26.65\00:50:31.63
ESAU, THAT'S RIGHT.
ESAU HAD BEEN HUNTING ALL
00:50:31.63\00:50:34.20
DAY - WAS HE ABOUT TO DIE? >>NO.
00:50:34.20\00:50:36.87
>>NO, BUT HE MADE A DECISION
BASED AS IF HE WERE GOING TO
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DIE, RIGHT? I MEAN, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO DIE, WHAT DOES YOUR
00:50:42.34\00:50:45.31
BIRTHRIGHT MATTER TO YOU?
BUT HE WASN'T GOING TO DIE.
00:50:45.31\00:50:50.75
IT'S VERY INTERESTING - WE DON'T
HAVE TIME TO FULLY EXPLORE IT,
00:50:50.75\00:50:54.48
BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU
TELL YOURSELF IN YOUR MIND SETS
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.59
YOURSELF UP EITHER
FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
00:50:57.59\00:51:00.69
IF YOU TELL YOURSELF, 'I AM -
THIS TEMPTATION IS JUST TOO MUCH
00:51:00.69\00:51:03.66
FOR ME' WHAT ARE YOU
SETTING YOURSELF UP TO DO?
00:51:03.66\00:51:07.13
YOU'RE SETTING
YOURSELF UP TO FAIL.
00:51:07.13\00:51:08.86
BUT JESUS DID NOT MAKE
EXCUSES IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:51:08.86\00:51:11.40
WHAT DID HE DO? HE
RELIED ON HIS FATHER - HIS
00:51:11.40\00:51:15.67
FATHER'S ASSURANCE OF
HIS ACCEPTANCE - AND HE
00:51:15.67\00:51:18.51
RELIED ON THE WORD OF
GOD. DID YOU CATCH THAT?
00:51:18.51\00:51:23.45
AT EVERY
TEMPTATION JESUS SAYS WHAT?
00:51:23.45\00:51:26.68
'IT IS WRITTEN.' JESUS ACTUALLY
LIVED A PERFECT LIFE TO SHOW US
00:51:26.68\00:51:37.06
THAT SIN HAS NO POWER OVER
THE ONE CONNECTED TO THE SAVIOR.
00:51:37.06\00:51:43.06
JESUS DIED IN OUR PLACE TO SHOW
US THAT THERE IS NO PENALTY FOR
00:51:43.06\00:51:48.34
SIN THAT HAS NOT
BEEN PAID FOR BY JESUS.
00:51:48.34\00:51:53.58
SO TODAY, AS WE'VE LOOKED
AT THESE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS OF
00:51:53.58\00:51:58.11
MATTHEW - TOUCHED ON SOME OF
THEIR HIGH POINTS, I HOPE WE'VE
00:51:58.11\00:52:01.18
GRASPED, A LITTLE MORE FIRMLY,
JESUS AS GIVING US - GIVING US A
00:52:01.18\00:52:09.26
- NOT JUST A PERFECT
EXAMPLE, BUT BEING OUR PERFECT
00:52:09.26\00:52:12.09
SUBSTITUTE. NOW,
WHEN WE COME TO OUR STUDY
00:52:12.09\00:52:16.90
NEXT TIME, WE'LL BE STUDYING
FROM WHAT HAPPENED FROM A
00:52:16.90\00:52:22.94
MOUNTAIN - A PROCLAMATION OF
GOD FROM A MOUNTAIN - SOUNDS A
00:52:22.94\00:52:26.74
LOT LIKE SINAI, DOESN'T
IT? THE NEW SINAI, IF YOU WILL,
00:52:26.74\00:52:30.01
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE STUDYING,
00:52:30.01\00:52:32.51
BY GOD'S GRACE, IN
OUR NEXT TIME TOGETHER.
00:52:32.51\00:52:35.85
WELL, AS WE'RE WINDING UP, I
WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE DO
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HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER THAT
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WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US FROM
AROUND THE WORLD, AS WE CONTINUE
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>>HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL
KNOW A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE
00:53:59.83\00:54:02.24
LONGEST AND HARDEST
RACES A PERSON COULD RUN.
00:54:02.24\00:54:04.97
BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
ULTRA MARATHON THEY USED TO HAVE
00:54:04.97\00:54:08.01
IN AUSTRALIA? IT WAS 544
MILES FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY.
00:54:08.01\00:54:13.18
IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS
150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:54:13.18\00:54:17.22
BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET.
00:54:17.22\00:54:19.89
IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO
FARMER NAMED CLIFF YOUNG DECIDED
00:54:19.89\00:54:24.96
TO ENTER THE RACE. NOW
PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED
00:54:24.96\00:54:27.40
BECAUSE HE HAD ON RUBBER
GALOSHES OVER HIS BOOTS AND
00:54:27.40\00:54:30.60
WHEN THE RACE BEGAN AND ALL THE
RUNNERS TOOK OFF, SURE ENOUGH
00:54:30.60\00:54:34.04
OLD CLIFF WAS LEFT BEHIND
SHUFFLING ALONG VERY SLOWLY
00:54:34.04\00:54:38.01
- BUT HE WAS
SHUFFLING VERY PERSISTENTLY.
00:54:38.01\00:54:40.74
NORMALLY, DURING THIS 7-DAY
RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT
00:54:40.74\00:54:44.31
18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D
SLEEP FOR 6 HOURS, BUT NOBODY
00:54:44.31\00:54:47.82
EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED
00:54:47.82\00:54:51.09
TO REST DURING THE NIGHT,
CLIFF JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
00:54:51.09\00:54:54.62
SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
00:54:54.62\00:54:56.89
ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
00:54:56.89\00:54:59.93
AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN.
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
00:54:59.93\00:55:03.30
EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON
THE PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
00:55:03.30\00:55:06.40
SLEEPING HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
00:55:06.40\00:55:10.44
RACE CLIFF PASSED ALL OF
THESE WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:55:10.44\00:55:14.51
NOT ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO
RUN THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
00:55:14.51\00:55:18.51
DYING, HE WON - BEATING ALL
THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS,
00:55:18.51\00:55:22.88
BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING
A NATIONAL HERO IN THE PROCESS.
00:55:22.88\00:55:27.02
WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS THAT
WHEN THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON
00:55:27.02\00:55:28.96
THE $10,000.00 PRIZE, HE LOOKED
CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW
00:55:28.96\00:55:32.53
THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED
TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER
00:55:32.53\00:55:35.10
RUNNERS. WHEN
ASKED HOW HE WAS ABLE
00:55:35.10\00:55:37.57
TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG, CLIFF
RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP ON A
00:55:37.57\00:55:40.64
FARM WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT 2,000
HEAD OF CATTLE AND, BECAUSE THEY
00:55:40.64\00:55:43.54
COULDN'T AFFORD HORSES, HE
USED TO HAVE TO ROUND THEM UP ON
00:55:43.54\00:55:46.14
FOOT, SOMETIMES RUNNING
TWO AND THREE DAYS NON-STOP.
00:55:46.14\00:55:49.58
SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST
IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING
00:55:49.58\00:55:52.05
AFTER THE COWS AND
TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM.
00:55:52.05\00:55:55.15
OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE
00:55:55.15\00:55:58.45
SLEEPING. YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:55:58.45\00:56:00.89
THAT THE RACE IS NOT
NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT.
00:56:00.89\00:56:04.36
SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE
00:56:04.36\00:56:07.76
TORTOISE JUST
KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.30
THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US IN
MATTHEW 24:13, 'HE THAT ENDURES
00:56:10.30\00:56:14.20
UNTO THE END, THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED.
00:56:14.20\00:56:16.81
NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP
AND FALL DURING THE RACE.
00:56:16.81\00:56:19.24
YOU MIGHT EVEN GET
OFF TO A BAD START.
00:56:19.24\00:56:21.34
BUT IN THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT
WE RUN, THE MAIN THING IS YOU
00:56:21.34\00:56:24.35
WANT TO FINISH WELL.
KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS,
00:56:24.35\00:56:26.92
AND DON'T GIVE UP. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:37.56\00:56:39.66
>>AND I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:39.66\00:56:41.33
>>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:41.33\00:56:44.10
>>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING
WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD
00:56:44.10\00:56:46.94
ABOUT THAT. I
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED.
00:56:46.94\00:56:49.67
>>I BEGAN
READING THE BIBLE AND -
00:56:49.67\00:56:51.51
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST -
00:56:51.51\00:56:53.74
>>I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:56:53.74\00:56:55.98
>>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME.
00:56:55.98\00:56:58.28
>>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL.
>>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE
00:56:58.28\00:57:00.55
GOES. >>AMAZING
FACTS. MORE THAN 45
00:57:00.55\00:57:05.02
YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:05.02\00:57:08.99
>>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
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I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS
00:57:13.06\00:57:15.36
WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S
ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE
00:57:15.36\00:57:18.30
I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE
00:57:18.30\00:57:22.37
NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.
LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND
00:57:22.37\00:57:24.57
FIND THIS. >>THAT
I JUST COULDN'T GET
00:57:24.57\00:57:25.87
ENOUGH. >>AND SO I
STARTED DOING BIBLE
00:57:25.87\00:57:27.64
STUDIES. EVERY
SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS
00:57:27.64\00:57:30.65
STARTED BEING
CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:30.65\00:57:33.72
>>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:33.72\00:57:37.09
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:37.09\00:57:40.32
A FATHER. >>I LOST
EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS
00:57:40.32\00:57:43.49
WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT
WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:43.49\00:57:46.90
>>I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:46.90\00:57:50.57
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL
AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT,
00:57:50.57\00:57:54.97
'THIS IS REAL. THIS
IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
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