There are some things.
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Okay, there are many
things that I don't understand,
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but they put me in all.
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Take this phone for example.
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I've been told there is more
computing power in this phone
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than there was in
the Apollo Lunar Modules
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or take sound for example.
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The trumpet has a certain
sound produced by the metal
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and its unique shape.
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A dog on the other hand is
made of different material,
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flesh and his
voice box is shaped
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different than the
trumpet, so it sounds different.
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And then there is the
violin with four strings,
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a wooden shoe
and a horse hair bow.
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It has a unique sound
unlike the trumpet or the dog.
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But here's what
I don't understand.
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Take the speaker
with a cone of paper,
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put sound through it and
this one shape can reproduce
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the sound of a trumpet,
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a dog or a violin.
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And then it can sound like
all of them at the same time.
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But this is made
of just one material
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and only has one shape.
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How does it do that?
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In the same way there are things
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that are hard to understand
in the spiritual round,
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especially if you're human.
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One of those things
was a teaching of Jesus
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found in John 10:30.
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"I and my Father are one."
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That caused some
serious thunder in the holy land
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because this teaching of Jesus
up ended a core understanding
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that made the Jews
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unique throughout the
entire world or did it.
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Yep, there are things
I just don't understand.
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I don't understand
how the human eye can see.
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I don't understand how
the human ear can hear.
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And I don't understand
how the phone, radio or T.V.
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can receive
signals through the air.
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But that doesn't stop me
from experiencing these things.
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The same is true
in regard to deity.
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I don't understand God either,
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but that doesn't stop
me from experiencing Him.
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And when I say Him is that one
Him, or two Him, or three Him.
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While the world all
around them was worshiping
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a whole pantheon of Gods.
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The Jews as a nation
taught that there was only one.
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So you can imagine how Jesus
stirred things up by saying
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"I and my Father are one."
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He sure did, Charles.
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Today I'm standing
at top of the very steps
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that Jesus and
the Jews have climbed
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to enter the Eastern Huldah Gate
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to go the temple
mount and worship God.
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This study concerns that God had
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and Jesus is
teaching on the subject.
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So today let's
start with the known fact.
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Jesus who claimed
to be the Son of God
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was rejected by
the Jews, but why?
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After healing the sick, raising
the dead, being morally good,
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why would they
want to kill Jesus?
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They had stated a reason
and I'll share that in a moment,
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but first I want to
share the real reason.
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When the Jewish
leaders brought Jesus to Pilot,
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he knew that for envy
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they had delivered
Jesus to him to be crucified.
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Not for morally wrong,
not for some great evil,
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they were simply jealous.
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Keep that in mind as
we consider the reason
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they gave to Pilot.
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"The Jews answered, we
have a law, and by our law
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He ought to die, because He
made Himself the Son of God."
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And what law were
the Jews talking about?
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Most likely the
one in Deuteronomy 6.
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There we have the most
famous Jewish prayer, The Shema.
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Observant Jews
consider the Shema to be
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the most important part of
the prayer service in Judaism.
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By religious commandment
that is by tradition,
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the Shema should be
recited twice a day.
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It is traditional for
the Jews to say the Shema
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as their last verse before death
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and for parents to
teach their children to say it
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before they go
to sleep at night.
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The Shema starts
with these words.
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"Hear, Israel, the Lord
is our God, The Lord is one."
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This teaching
made the Jews people
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distinct from every
other polytheistic religion.
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For the God of Israel was one.
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Unfortunately they took
these words absolutely literal.
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This was
repeated fall of theirs.
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Jesus told him,
"you must be born again."
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Nicodemus asked, how could a man
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going to his
mother and be born again?
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Nicodemus tried to take these
teachings completely literal,
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but this teaching was not
physical, it was spiritual.
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And spiritual things
must be spiritually discerned.
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The same is true of
this passage in John 10:30.
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Let's take a moment to
really look at this teaching,
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this doctrine of Jesus that
so disturbed the Jews leaders.
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"I and my Father are one."
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This angered the Jews,
but this anger was born
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of an over literal
reading of the Shema.
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What Jesus is
doing here is putting
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a new and clear
meaning on the word one.
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And for years
they had been saying
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the Shema thinking
one God meant one being,
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but what if the word
God is a family name.
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You could have one family
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and that would mean
more than one person.
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In John 1:18 Jesus
used this earthly terms
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to try to explain something
beyond our understanding,
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but not beyond our
ability to experience.
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He talks about God as a
father in intimate terms.
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"No man hath
seen God at any time,
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the only begotten Son,
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which is in the
bosom of the Father,
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he hath declared him."
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And Jesus claimed to
have seen the Father,
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to have been embraced
in the bosom of the Father.
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And Jesus being here with us
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was a declaration
of the Father Himself.
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This oneness was very singular
and Jesus taught His followers
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that He and the Father
were virtually the same thing.
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Look at this in John 14:9.
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"He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father."
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I know the Jewish people don't
accept the teachings of Jesus,
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but what He was teaching
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wasn't merely a
New Testament doctrine.
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In fact if you
study the Old Testament
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with your Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance,
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you'll discover this teaching
of Jesus is clearly taught
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in the original
language of the Old Testament.
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And there is no
excuse for the Jewish leaders
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not to have known this,
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neither is there an excuse
for Christians not to know this.
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You can have more than one
being and still have one God.
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Following is
some Biblical evidence
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that affirms this
radical teaching of one.
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And there are three primary
names for God in Old Testament.
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One, El, two,
Elohiym and three, Yehovah.
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Some who claimed the
name of Christian suggested
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these three names are
three separate beings,
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but only one represents
the creator God of the universe
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and that is Yehovah or Jehovah
or some pronounce it Yehowah.
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But this is not at all the case,
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they are just different
names for the same God.
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In fact there are 19 verses
where all three come together
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and here are just two of them.
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Second Samuel 22:32 says,
"For who is El save the Yehovah
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and who is a
rock, save our Elohiym.
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And Nehemiah 1:5
says, "I beseech thee,
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O Yehovah Elohiym of heaven,
the great and terrible El,
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that keepeth covenant and mercy
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for them that love him
and observe his commandments."
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We're not talking about greater
Gods and lesser Gods here.
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No, here El, Elohiym and
Yehovah are all interchangeable
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as were referring to
the same one and only God.
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In other words the
names are all equal,
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the same and
referring to the same God.
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You're right, Levi.
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El, Elohiym and
Yehovah are names
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for the almighty God
of the Old Testament.
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Now Jesus said that He
and His Father were one.
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When we allow
scripture to interpret itself,
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an amazing discovery unfolds,
backed up by fulfilled prophecy.
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These three Hebrew names
referred to Jesus as well.
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Check it out.
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In Exodus 3:14 we find
the story of the Elohiym God
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talking to Moses
at the burning bush.
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On my recent trip through
the deserts of Egypt and Israel
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and I saw some of those bushes.
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Moses told God or Elohiym
that if he went back to Egypt
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and told the people
that he had been sent
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by the God of their
fathers to free them.
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They would ask what is His name.
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So he asked God,
what should I tell them.
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And God said unto
Moses, "I am that I am.
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And He said, thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel.
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I am hath sent me unto you."
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Let me pause for just one moment
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and take you back to
Genesis 1:1 to point out
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that the God who
is from the beginning,
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the God who created the heaven
and the earth is also Elohiym.
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The God of creation
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and the God of the
burning bush are the same God.
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And this is the
God of the Exodus.
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So you can imagine what thunder
was causing in the holy land
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by Jesus words in John 8:58.
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"Jesus said unto them,
verily, verily, I say unto you,
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Before Abraham was, I am."
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What Jesus was claiming
here is that He is Elohiym
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and that claim was not lost
on the people that hurt Him.
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To them those
words were blasphemous
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and they took up
stones to stone Jesus.
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But I believe
they were too hasty.
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You see, Jesus
claimed to be Elohiym,
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the God of creation and
the Exodus was backed up
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and proven for all
time by the fulfillment
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of an amazing prophecy.
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That's why I'm a
Christian, Andrea,
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because Jesus wasn't just an
egotist with grandiose claims.
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His assertions were
confirmed by fulfilled prophecy.
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Another term for God in
the Old Testament was Holy One.
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When we compare
scripture with scripture,
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we discover the
term holy one is equal
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to the other three names of God,
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El in Psalms 78:41,
Elohiym in Psalm 71:22,
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and Yehovah in Isaiah 47:4.
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Prophecy declares
Jesus to be that Holy One
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through the most
compelling evidence.
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In Psalms 16:10 we
find a messianic psalm
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that is a psalm referring
to the Messiah who was to come.
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Let's read it together.
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"For thou wilt not
leave my soul in hell,
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neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption."
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I first studied this out in
1976 as a senior in academy,
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but I didn't realize until later
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how significant
this passage was.
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When I studied this out
what I wanted to know was,
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who is thou, who is my,
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what is hell, and
who is this Holy One.
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Fortunately for us
Peter uses this passage
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from Psalm 2 as
his key note address
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on the day of
Pentecost in Acts Chapter 2.
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And thanks to
his prophetic insight
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we can fill in the blanks
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with scripture
interpreting scripture.
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We now know that
thou is God the Father,
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My is Jesus, and
hell is simply the grave.
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We know this because
Peter laid this prophetic text
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over the recent
history of Jesus in verse 31,
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"He, David seeing this
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before spake of the
resurrection of Christ,
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that his soul was
not left in the grave,
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neither did his
flesh see corruption."
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Jesus didn't stay in the
grave like everyone else does.
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He didn't rot away
eaten by worms, oh, no.
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He rose from the dead.
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"This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses."
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This is not just an exciting
prophecy, there is more here.
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You see, this Holy One was
none other than Jesus Christ
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and we've already
learned that the term Holy One
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is just another
name for Elohiym,
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the creator God,
the God of the Exodus.
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But the Holy One, the
one who rose from the dead
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is also the El God and this
name is also embraced by Jesus.
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Steven is standing by
in Bethlehem to explain.
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Thanks, Charles.
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This will only take a moment,
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because scripture is
absolutely clear on this.
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Let's look at another messianic
prophecy from Isaiah 7:14.
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"Therefore the Lord
himself shall give you a sign,
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Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son,
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and shall call
his name Immanuel."
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For anyone who has
taken the name of Christ,
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Christian, this passage
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is understood to
be fulfilled in Jesus.
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Let's compare
Isaiah 7 with Matthew 1.
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Listen to these words
of an angel from heaven.
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"The angel of the Lord
appeared unto Joseph in a dream,
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saying, "Joseph,
this pregnancy was done,"
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that it might be fulfilled
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which was spoken of
the Lord by the prophet,
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saying, "Behold, a
virgin shall be with child,"
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and shall bring forth a son,
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and they shall
call his name Emmanu'el,
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which being interpreted is,
with us is El or God with us."
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That little boy
born in a grotto stable
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right here in Bethlehem
was not just an ordinary child,
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He was El, He was God with us.
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Jesus is Elohiym and Jesus
is El and while we read it,
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Jesus is also
Yehovah. Isaiah 54:5 tells us.
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"For thy Maker is thine husband,
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the Yehovah of
hosts is his name,
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and thy redeemer
the Holy One of Israel,
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The Elohiym of the whole
earth shall he be called."
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Notice that the maker
is the God of Genesis 1:1,
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He is also Yehovah.
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This was also the
conclusion of the New Testament
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Pharisee Paul
in Colossians 1:16.
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"For by him that is Jesus
were all the things created,
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that are in heaven,
and that are on earth,
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visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones,
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or dominions, or
principalities, or powers,
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all things were created by him."
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Contemporaries of
Jesus who compared His life
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with the prophecies
of the Old Testament
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also came to the
conclusion that this man
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was the creator as was
testified in John 1:3."
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All things were made by him,
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and without him was not
any thing made that was made."
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There are other texts that say
the Father created all things,
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but then we find this
amazing messianic prophecy
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in Isaiah 9:6 that
says, "Jesus is the father."
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"For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given,
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and the government
shall be upon his shoulder,
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and his name shall
be called Wonderful,
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Counselor, The mighty Elohiym,
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The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace."
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The Bible is clearly bearing
out the truth of Jesus' words.
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"I and my father are one."
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That's exciting, Steven.
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And this
plurality of the Godhead
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is not just
something we find comparing
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scripture with scripture
as you've just so aptly done.
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Did you know, the Bible uses
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plural nouns in
talking about God.
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"Let us make man in our image.
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Behold the man has
become like one of us.
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Come let us go down."
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But if God is one,
how can He be plural.
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And Paul
explains in Romans 1:20.
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"For the invisible things of him
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from the creation of
the world are clearly seen,
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being understood by
the things that are made,
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even his eternal
power and Godhead,
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so that they
are without excuse."
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Paul tells us,
that we can clearly see
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and even understand deity
or the divine nature of God
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or as the King James says,
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The Godhead by the
things that He's created.
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Everything in nature
tells us something about God
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and as such it also
tells us something about Jesus,
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for He is
Emmanu'el, God with us.
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And Jesus is not a lesser God,
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He is fully God.
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And Paul told the
believers in Colossians,
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"For in him that
is Christ dwelleth
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all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily."
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In other words, if you've
seen one you've seen the other.
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Some folk said,
I don't understand
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how you can have
one God and three beings
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as part of the Godhead.
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I don't
understand it well either,
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but remember the
invisible can be clearly seen
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by what he's created,
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so let me take a run at this
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with something from
nature that God created.
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This is ice, we make
it to keep things cool.
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Nature also makes a lot of ice.
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Ice is a solid. This is water.
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We use it to drink, to bath,
to work, to clean and to play.
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There is approximately
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326 million trillion
gallons of water on this planet
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and 98% of the water on
the planet is in the oceans.
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Water is a liquid.
Then there is steam.
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When water gets hot
enough, it turns into steam.
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Steam is a gas. Now follow this.
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A gas is neither
a solid nor liquid.
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A liquid is
neither a gas nor a solid.
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So all three items
are completely different
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and yet each of these items
is fully and completely H2O.
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H2O is one thing.
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God is one thing, but
a solid is not a liquid.
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God the Father is not Jesus.
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The Shema is
true. Our God is one.
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And Jesus also told the truth.
"I and my Father are one."
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In your illustration, Levi,
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you used H2O to
illustrate the oneness of God.
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The different forms
H2O can take are solid
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which you used to
represent the Father
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and liquid to represent Jesus.
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Well, what about H2O as gas.
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Could that
represent the Holy Spirit
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and is the Holy
Spirit a living part
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of the Godhead or just a force.
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Investigation reveals that
from the beginning of creation,
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the Spirit was already there.
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You can read about it in
the second verse of the Bible.
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"And the earth was
without form, and void,
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and darkness was
upon the face of the deep.
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And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters."
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However a careful read
of 273 verses in the Bible
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reveal some straddling insights.
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Not once in the
whole Old Testament
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is the personal pronoun He
associated with the Holy Spirit.
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This is perhaps part
of the reason the Jews
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even today reject this
plurality of the Godhead,
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even some who
claimed the name of Christian
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have come to believe that
the Spirit of God is simply
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some divine power or a
force that emanates from deity.
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But once again that
conclusion does not fit
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the entire reading of the Bible.
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If you consider all the
verses of the Old Testament
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regarding the
Spirit of the Lord,
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I can see how
one might be tempted
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to believe the force theory,
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though it's not stated as such.
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Well, when Jesus came
to His earth as the Messiah
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in direct fulfillment to so many
prophecies of the Old Testament.
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He also brought
added light and truth
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on the subject
of the Holy Spirit.
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And if we are
going to be Christians
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that is followers of Christ,
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then we must
embrace His teaching
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and doctrines on this subject.
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So what did Jesus said
about the Spirit of God?
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Well, for starters, at least
18 times in the book of John,
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Jesus used the personal
pronouns He, Him and Himself,
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in referring to
the Spirit of God.
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Jesus wasn't
thinking of the Holy Spirit
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as some
spiritually electrical force,
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but rather a personal being.
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It was represented to Him
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at His baptism as
a living creature.
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Matthew 3:16 says, "And
Jesus, when he was baptized,
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saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove,
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and lighting upon him."
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And Jesus announced that
His powerful life of service
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was a direct fulfillment of
the prophecy in Isaiah 61:1.
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"The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me,
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because he hath anointed me
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to preach the
gospel to the poor,
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he hath send me to
heal the brokenhearted,
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to preach
deliverance to the captives,
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and recovering of
sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty
them that are bruised,
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to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord."
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Over and over the Bible
attributes personality traits
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to the Holy Spirit casting
Him in the light of a living,
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thinking, feeling and being.
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In the both the
Old and New Testaments,
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the Holy Spirit
is portrayed as one
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who can be vexed and grieved.
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Paul taught in Romans 8:27,
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that the Holy Spirit has a mind
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and one would need a mind to do
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what Jesus said the Holy
Spirit does in John 16:13.
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"Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come,
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he will guide
you into all truth,
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for he shall not
speak of himself,
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but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak,
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and he will show
you things to come."
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Not only does Jesus used
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seven personal
pronouns in this one verse,
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He also attributes
traits of character
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and personality to the Spirit.
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This being will guide you,
speak to you, and hear you.
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Four times in the book of John,
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Jesus refers to the
Holy Spirit as the Comforter.
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"But when the Comforter is come,
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whom I will send
unto you from the Father,
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even the Spirit of truth which
proceedeth from the Father,
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he shall testify of me."
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There is so much more I'd like
to share about the Holy Spirit,
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but time will
not permit just now.
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So let me encourage
you to find our study aid
00:24:35.08\00:24:37.62
from the qlp.tv website.
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I believe that
study aid will help you
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in your further investigation
of the Holy Spirit.
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The Bible is clear.
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The Holy Spirit is the
third person of the Godhead.
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The Bible clearly
presents all three as God.
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The true reason Christ
was spurned is love of self.
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love of sin and envy.
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For the same reason,
Christ is still rejected today,
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but at what cost.
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The kingdom was
taken from the Jews
00:25:07.34\00:25:09.47
and their spiritual
house was left desolate
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and it is still desolate,
but Jesus is still offering
00:25:12.26\00:25:16.00
a real and vibrant
relationship with God today.
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That conviction is born
impart from the doctrine
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or words of Jesus
Himself in Matthew 28.
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"Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost."
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Biblical baptism is not
just being baptized into Jesus.
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Oh, no, we are baptized
into the entire Godhead,
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Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
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After all, all three
were present at Jesus baptism
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and this does not
contradict the Shema.
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In Deuteronomy 6:4
the word one comes from
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the Hebrew word echadh
and it means united or one.
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This is the same word
used in Genesis 2:24 that said,
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Adam and Eve were one flesh.
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If our first parents
could be two separate people
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and yet one or echadh,
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then Jesus and the
Father could also be One God.
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Even in ways He
cannot yet fully comprehend.
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Now listen and listen
carefully to this doctrine,
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this powerful teaching of Jesus.
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Before Jesus
went back to heaven,
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He prayed for you
and me, His followers.
00:26:35.34\00:26:38.69
He prayed for every
person who would hear His truths
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taught by His disciples.
00:26:42.56\00:26:44.13
He prayed for
everyone who would believe,
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listen with your heart
to His prayer in John 17:21.
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"That they all may
be one, as thou, Father,
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art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us,
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that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me."
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He is asking the Father to
make us one with each other
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and one with the
Father and Himself
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just like He and
the Father are one.
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What Jesus is inviting us
to is a profoundly spiritual
00:27:15.41\00:27:20.87
and other worldly experience.
00:27:20.90\00:27:23.65
Imagine echadh,
one in the same way
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Jesus and the Father
are one, that's intimate.
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It doesn't matter if
you're Jewish, Christian,
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or Muslim, or anything else.
00:27:34.79\00:27:36.64
We're all invited to be one,
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one with each
other and one with God.
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What choice will you make?
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