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This has been a great
discussion so far in our
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righteousness by faith series.
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We are in part 7 now and we're
calling this one righteous man
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which gives a clue, a hint that
we are inching toward the New
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Testament.
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But let's just admit it we love
the Old Testament scriptures.
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--Amen.
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--And we love the Old Testament
scriptures because we are seeing
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that the narrative and the
story that is broken down and
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unfolding in these Old Testament
scriptures is rich with gospel
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truth and insight.
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--By the way we should mention
that if because normally the Old
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Testament is viewed as awe,
all that crazy stuff, all the
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complexity, all those weird
verses but I think we should
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mention that if we were to view
the Old Testament in the context
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of the story then all of that
weirdness kind of begins to make
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more sense.
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--seeming weirdness
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--Hey can I ask a question?
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--Thank you.
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-I've asked this question of
a lot of people before, if you
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could have either the Old
Testament or the New Testament
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memorized in any translation
of your choice but just verbatim
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which would you chose?
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--Old for sure.
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--Old
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--Yeah old because
the new one is smaller.
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[Laughter]
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No think about it though if you
had the Old Testament memorized
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you could then read the
New Testament with such a rich
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perspective there would just
be trigger, trigger, trigger,
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trigger.
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--It's amazing though, if you
ask most people, not maybe us
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who are preachers and you know
closet theologians as it were,
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but you asked most people
like just people that I am in
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familiarity with, Christians,
have them over to the house 75%
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of the people New Testament,
New Testament, New Testament.
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You'd say New Testament?
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--I just love the book
of Revelation so I'm kind of
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sticking.
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--Well you have that memorized.
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--But he just asked a
question so I gave an answer.
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--Ok, alright, I'm taking Old.
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--So we're talking about
the Bible as a story, okay.
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And we're seeing here that the
Bible isn't just a collection of
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books with verses that you can
pull picky little statements out
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of to construct
whatever you want to construct.
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--Well it is that but
it's not that responsible.
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--Financial principles,
principles for successful
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living.
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The Bible is actually
an unfolding narrative.
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It's telling a story and we've
seen that that story, the ground
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work for that story is laid in
the book of Genesis of course,
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and we have this
towering figure, Abraham.
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Abraham is the father of the
concept the truth the reality of
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righteousness by faith
and Israel is the people that
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emerges from Abraham for the
purpose of establishing God's
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covenant in the earth for
all the nations of the earth.
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And we've been looking
at numerous Old Testament
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prophesies that are pointing
forward to the fulfillment of
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covenant in Christ the Messiah.
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And now we've come to one that
we all hold very very near and
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dear and sacred to our
hearts, Daniel chapter 9.
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Daniel chapter 9 is just an
incredible Bible prophesy of the
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Messiah.
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And it's greatly misunderstood.
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We don't need to go into
the details of this but Daniel
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chapter 9 is not generally
viewed as a Messianic prophesy
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but that's really what it is.
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So you have to try
hard not to see the Messiah.
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--Exactly.
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--You have to try very hard.
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--I don't know how people do it.
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I don't know how people
do it but some manage to.
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For me Daniel chapter 9 is the
critical hinge verse, it's the
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full proof verse between
the Old Testament and the New.
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I mean there are lots of
passages there that you could go
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to but this passage more than
any other single passage in the
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Old Testament encapsulates for
me this crucial transition from
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the covenant that was not
kept, you know, by Abraham's
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descendants broken, broken,
broken, broken, not on the part
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of God but on the part of God's
covenant people and the fact
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that it will be kept.
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But it will be kept by
a faithful Israelite, one
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righteous man who will be the
true Israel, the true Adam, the
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true humanity and
that's Jesus Christ.
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This is the one for me
that all of this sets up this.
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And that's why it's just such a
crime, it's such a tragedy when
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Daniel is misunderstood
somehow not in its radical
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Christocentric way
which is the biblical way.
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You go ahead.
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--Well I love the way that the
chapter is introduced because in
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the beginning of this chapter
we have this corporate language.
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Daniel uses this word over and
over and over again, it's really
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easy to catch.
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He's a captive in Babylon.
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He's there because of the
apostasy and unfaithfulness of
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his people.
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He's there because God's purpose
was always to reach the Gentiles
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and other nations through his
people and God's purposes will
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not fail.
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He will be faithful to that
and he'll use whoever will be
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faithful to accomplish that.
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So there's Daniel being faithful
and therefore God brings Daniel
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into Babylon, not for the
purpose of anything less than
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revealing this God of heaven
and earth, this creator to the
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Babylonians so they can be saved
which actually ends up being
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these of Nebuchadnezzar.
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--That's a powerful point
because we're talking about how
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Israel is in captivity because
of their lack of fidelity to
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God's covenant right?
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They're in captivity as the
result of their unfaithfulness
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contrasted with God's
faithfulness, however, the fact
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that they're in captivity also
serves as double purpose, like
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you're saying.
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It brings them, it brings
God's covenant exposure to other
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nations.
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--But not in the way
that he intended to be.
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--Right but, but like Ty said
earlier when we were looking at
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that verse, does the, does
our unfaithfulness make God
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unfaithful
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No never.
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He's still going to be faithful
to accomplish his purpose.
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--If the New Testament teaches
us anything it teaches us that
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God's promises will be fulfilled
but not in the way that we
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expect or anticipate.
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And it's the grandest plot twist
in all of literature I think.
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By the time we get to God
becoming a man and fulfilling
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we're getting there, I mean.
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--I mean earlier even in
the book of Daniel in chapter 4
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where we have this pagan king
who encounters the God of Israel
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but not in the,
not in the ideal way.
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It wouldn't have been at the
top of God's list, this is how I
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want to introduce
myself to Nebuchadnezzar.
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--Jeffrey you just preached,
what a week and a half ago now
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at a large
gathering in Florida, GYC.
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There were thousands of people
there and one of the passages
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that you preached on was the
whole experience of the Queen of
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Sheba coming to Solomon.
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That's God's ideal.
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And maybe you can just
unpack that a little bit.
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What was your kind of point?
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--Yeah the idea there is that
obviously there's news that's
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traveling to other nations,
there are reports, there are
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rumors that these people,
this nation Israel has something
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amazing and very special.
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So with the Queen of Sheba, what
is it 2nd Kings chapter 10, you
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have these people traveling
coming in to encounter this
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Hebrew culture because they've
heard rumors that there are some
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amazing things with these people
that their God is amazing right.
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So you have that but whenever
you don't have that ideal
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situation God allows his people
to go into captivity and by
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doing that he brings
exposure to his covenant.
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Just because the covenant people
are in captivity to another
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pagan nation.
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You have Babylon, you have
this --Exactly, Egypt, Greece.
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--Again here, if you're done.
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Ok here's this other theme that
we've been following and that is
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this corporateness, this
corporateness of humanity.
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So Daniel is obviously a
righteous man in the sense that
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we understand it.
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He is faithful to God.
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God is using him.
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--He's a new covenant believer.
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--And even his enemies
can't find fault with him.
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Now this is a spotless guy and
he, but he uses this terminology
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we, we, we, we, we.
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And he uses it in a
very very negative sense.
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He's talking about all of the
unfaithfulness of the people of
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Israel to God he
includes himself with them.
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Now either Daniel is
trying to be very humble.
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He's trying to be very,
you know, meek and you know of
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course, yes I recognize that I,
or he's actually speaking from
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his heart.
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--Or he truly feels that way.
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--Yeah he knows.
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--I totally agree with that but
maybe there's something more and
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this just came to me, I don't
know if this is, if you guys
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would resonate with this or
not but he's speaking corporate
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language.
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So when he's saying we have
sinned he understands something
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that we have talked about in
our previous session and that is
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that while Israel
is many Israel is one.
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My son, my servant, singular.
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He recognizes the corporate
nature of Israel in the singular
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sense and that prepares the
way for the one true faithful
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Israelite that
is to be prophesied.
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--That is exactly
what I was gonna say.
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You said it a lot
better than I did.
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And the whole idea here is
that the corporate sense is this
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depravity of our human fallen
nature that he recognizes no
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matter what his outward behavior
is and we see that in Daniel 10,
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no matter what his outward
behavior is he recognizes that
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he is depraved that his
falleness is much deeper than
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just his outward actions.
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So he can be a man that's
blameless, spotless praying
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doing all of these things but
he recognizes within himself is
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that same disposition that
the whole nation has to go into
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apostasy.
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And what's really powerful, you
mentioned this Ty, and I'm just
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going to elaborate on it is that
it's that way of thinking that
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allows heaven through Gabriel to
communicate to him the corporate
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identity of the Messiah is
going to come and identify with
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corporate humanity in its fallen
condition and take upon him, us,
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upon him our sins
and our iniquities.
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--So there's a sense in which
Jesus is not only the one new,
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one faithful
Israelite but he's one new man.
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He represents the entire human
race as we move into the New
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Testament.
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Yeah can I just fly
through chapter 9 because we've
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mentioned chapter 9 but we
haven't done anything with it.
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I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna
look at some of high points.
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--Someone has to
read verse 4 at least.
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--Ok that's where I was
gonna begin Jeffery, watch this.
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In verse 4, this is amazing,
God is called Oh Lord great and
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awesome God and what is it
defines God's greatness and his
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awesomeness who keeps
his covenant in mercy.
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Ok then you skip down to verse 7
Oh Lord righteousness belongs to
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you.
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So God keeping His covenant is
what defines His righteousness
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which we flushed out before.
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But now watch and then the end
of verse 7 God who is righteous
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who keeps covenant is called
the one who is, well, excuse me
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verse 7 righteousness belongs
to you but unfaithfulness to us.
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So unfaithfulness is held in
contrast, our unfaithfulness is
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held in contrast to God's
righteousness and covenant
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keeping.
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Then look at verse 8 he says
at the end of verse 8 we have
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sinned against you.
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This is very interesting
especially in the light of our
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previous discussions and
that is that sin is defined here
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specifically as
unfaithfulness to covenant.
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Isn't that something?
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And then verse 9 to the
Lord our God belongs mercy and
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forgiveness.
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So there's an expectation here
that our unfaithfulness will be
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dealt with by
mercy and forgiveness.
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So it's just amazing to me
that in this context, again, the
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language is covenant language.
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God is defined in terms of
faithfulness to the covenant and
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sin is defined in terms of
unfaithfulness to covenant.
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--The whole thing here in Daniel
9 is taking place, again, as is
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all of scripture against the
backdrop of either an explicit
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or implicit law of court there
is a court scene here, there is
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a trial, there's a standard,
someone has been faithful to
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that standard, someone has been
unfaithful to that standard.
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And in the case of Daniel it's
particularly remarkable because
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Daniel is confessing he's not
trying to justify himself and
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say no no no we've
been true to the standard.
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We should be found justified or
blameless in the implicit law of
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court.
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He's saying
we're actually guilty.
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And you have been faithful,
you have been righteous.
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Now with your permission I think
we'll get a better feel for the
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flow of the passage if I
just quickly read it through
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beginning in verse 4.
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It really and you did touch on
some of the main passages there
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though, the main highlights Ty.
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But it really gives us a
feel for the way that Daniel was
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thinking, right.
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Because this is exile,
the temple is destroyed.
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I mean we've got to put
ourselves, Israel as God
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intended it is
nowhere to be seen.
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Jerusalem and the temple as
God intended it is nowhere to be
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seen and this is the response
and the thinking of a faithful
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Jew, in the light
of what has happened.
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Verse 4 Oh Lord great and
awesome God, first thing out of
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his mouth, who keeps his
covenant and mercy with those
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who love him and with
those who keep his commandments.
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So he begins by saying implicit
law of court you've been
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faithful, you've been true.
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Now watch the rest of this
we have sinned and committed
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iniquity.
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We have done wickedly and
rebelled, even by departing from
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your precepts
and your judgments.
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Neither have we heeded your
servants the prophets who spoke
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in your name to our kings and
princes, to our fathers and all
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the people of the land.
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Oh Lord Righteousness belongs to
you, rightness in the implicit
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law of court.
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But to us shame of face as it is
at this day to the men of Judah
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to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and all Israel, those near and
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those afar off and all the
countries which you have driven
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them because of the
unfaithfulness which they have
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committed against you.
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Oh Lord to us belong shame of
face to our kings, our princes
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and our fathers because
we have sinned against you.
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To the Lord our God belongs
mercy and forgiveness that we
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have rebelled against him.
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We have not obeyed the voice of
the Lord our God to walk in his
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laws which he set before us
by his servants the prophets.
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Yes all Israel has
transgressed your law.
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So what you see here, I mean
clearly, you can read the rest
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of the prayer it's one of the
most emotive prayers in all of
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scripture.
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What Daniel is saying, it's one
of the longest, Daniel is saying
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here is the standard.
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And the standard is the
covenantal agreement that you
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made with Abraham that was then,
and I like what you said in an
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early session Ty that was then
augmented and nuanced and never
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changed but added onto by later
prophetic revelation in Moses
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and even outside of Moses.
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So here you have this thing,
the covenant, and what Daniel is
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essentially saying is God
there's not been an instance in
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which you have not kept covenant
with your people, not one
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instance.
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But we have sinned.
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We have rebelled.
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We have turned away.
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So we're guilty.
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--And in fact he even mentions
the oath that was written by the
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Law of Moses in the
rest of that first verse.
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--Yes he does, yes he does.
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Read it.
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--It says therefore the curse
was poured upon us and the oath
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that is written in the Law of
Moses the servant of God because
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we sinned against him.
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And so he's confirmed the words
which he spoke against us and
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against our judges and judged
us are bringing upon us a great
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evil for unto the whole heaven
has not been done which has been
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done upon Jerusalem.
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As it is written in the Law
of Moses verse 13, all this evil
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has come upon us and yet we made
not our prayer before the Lord
00:16:03.26\00:16:06.83
our God that we might, that we
might turn from our iniquities
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and understand by truth.
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-He is, Daniel is
quoting directly here.
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The ideas that he's getting are
straight out of Deuteronomy 28.
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That the closing passage in the
writings of Moses 27, 28, 29, 30
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was essentially this Israel I
have made the universe and the
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world to operate on certain
principles, principles of love
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of magnimity of
grace of forgiveness.
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And if you operate in
harmony with those principles as
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communicated in the covenant
than this is what will happen.
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If you operate out of harmony
with those principles this is
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what will happen.
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So he's basically saying
blessing and cursing and Daniel
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here is saying all that stuff
that you said that's happening
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right now.
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We know the times in which we're
living, the circumstances in
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which we are living and the
beauty of Daniel chapter 9 is
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there's lots of passages like
this in the Old Testament where
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prophets are saying you
know Jeremiah 11 is a great one.
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You had a covenant unfaithful,
unfaithful, unfaithful,
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unfaithful but the beauty of
Daniel 9 is that when the whole
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thing closes and I don't know
how much depth we want to get
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into in terms of the actual
prophesy and anticipation of
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Messiah.
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But the thing that Messiah will
do is the most remarkable thing
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verse 27, I'll just jump down
there, if you guys want to fill
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in the details above that that's
great but he says he, Messiah,
00:17:25.20\00:17:30.63
will confirm a covenant with
many for one week but in the
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middle of the week he brings an
end to sacrifice and offering.
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Daniel 9 opens with Oh great
and awesome God who keeps his
00:17:37.20\00:17:41.53
covenant we've broken,
broken, broken, broken, broken.
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Daniel 9 but you will keep it.
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He will come and keep covenant.
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--Powerful, powerful
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--I love this I love it in
the context of his prayer too
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because when he gets ready
to end his prayer than Gabriel
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comes to give him this prophesy.
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As he ends this prayer he says
so here's our condition, here's
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how sinful we've been.
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Here's all of our apostasy
now could you do this for your
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namesake?
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Yeah could you do this
because of who you are?
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Because of your faithfulness?
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You are such and awesome God and
I would hate to see your name,
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because remember what you did
with Israel I mean with Egypt.
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He talks about that.
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Remember how you
brought us out of Egypt?
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And that's the
same thing Moses said.
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Moses said don't destroy them
because what about your name?
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--This is burning in my bosom
because of some sermons that you
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preached.
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Spend a little moment on that
I mean you preached this whole
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idea recently, again at GYC
on hey what are the Gentiles?
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Walk us through that.
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--Well in the context of this
passage that God realizes how
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high the stakes are for the rest
of the world to have access to
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his promises.
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And so this idea that you're
talking about where God is
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pleading with, Daniel pleading
with God that in scripture you
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often find where God will say
I'm gonna do such and such, not
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because you deserve it but
for the sake of the Gentiles.
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What will they think of
my name, name, my character?
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And then you find the flip
side of it where often times in
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scripture God's people are
pleading with him and they say
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you need to do such and such.
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Not because of us but you have
to because if you don't what
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will the Gentiles think?
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What will people think of you?
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So you have this concern, this
high sense of awareness in the
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heart of God to be properly
understood so that people know
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who he is and what he is like.
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--His reputation is at stake
but not because he's egocentric.
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His reputation is at stake
because he has an evangelistic
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eye.
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God is still thinking in terms
of Genesis chapter 12 I want to
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bless the whole
world, all nations.
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I'm pursuing every man,
woman and child on planet earth.
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And if you, my people, make me
look bad in their eyes then the
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power of the
attraction is broken.
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--You've got it.
00:20:05.43\00:20:06.66
--Which is so beautiful because
that's Ezekiel 36 the whole
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tenor of Ezekiel 36 is let
me read just a couple of verses
00:20:10.56\00:20:14.03
here, therefore says I say unto
the house of Israel thus saith
00:20:14.03\00:20:17.16
the Lord verse 22 I do not this
for your sake oh house of Israel
00:20:17.16\00:20:22.40
but for my holy namesake which
you have profaned among the
00:20:22.40\00:20:25.30
heathen where you went and
I will sanctify my great name
00:20:25.30\00:20:28.70
which was profaned among the
heathen which you have profaned
00:20:28.70\00:20:31.43
in the midst of them and the
heathen shall know that I am the
00:20:31.43\00:20:34.40
Lord says the Lord God when
I shall be sanctified in you
00:20:34.40\00:20:39.30
before their eyes.
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And then he talks about the new
covenant, sprinkle clean water,
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etc., etc, etc.
00:20:43.10\00:20:44.40
--You can summarize that like
this you guys are making me look
00:20:44.40\00:20:47.00
bad.
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And again it's not a concern
for his reputation for his own
00:20:48.20\00:20:51.10
conceit sake.
00:20:51.10\00:20:52.70
He's saying I'm
the source of life.
00:20:52.70\00:20:56.56
I'm the best thing for you in
the whole world and you guys are
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making me look terrible.
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--Guys this is
beautiful point in Hosea
00:21:01.26\00:21:03.66
--Can you go in after the break?
00:21:03.66\00:21:04.70
--That's what I'm
saying after the break.
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--We have to take a break
there's this thing called time
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and it just keeps ticking away.
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So let's just take a
break and we'll come right back.
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Jeffrey right before the break
you were gonna launch us into,
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what, Hosea?
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A passage in Hosea?
00:23:40.96\00:23:42.16
--Yeah what triggered the
thought was we were in Daniel 9,
00:23:42.16\00:23:45.23
he's doing this long beautiful
prayer for the first 14 verses.
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And then in verse 15 he says
and now Oh Lord who brought your
00:23:49.16\00:23:53.10
people out of the land of Egypt.
00:23:53.10\00:23:54.96
Ok so, real quick here, it
brings us back to this point God
00:23:54.96\00:23:59.03
expects us to have confidence in
His promises on the basis of His
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track record right?
00:24:04.50\00:24:05.76
So now Daniel brings back Lord
in keeping with your reputation.
00:24:05.76\00:24:11.30
--Can I add verses
before you go to Hosea?
00:24:11.30\00:24:13.20
--Go for it.
00:24:13.20\00:24:14.43
--Because you were in chapter
9 here's exactly what you just
00:24:14.43\00:24:16.00
said in verse 14 God is
righteous in all the works which
00:24:16.00\00:24:22.13
he has done comma though
we have not obeyed his voice.
00:24:22.13\00:24:24.93
See that?
00:24:24.93\00:24:25.63
--Yeah.
00:24:25.63\00:24:26.53
--Ok
00:24:26.53\00:24:27.76
--Ok so here's what I'm saying
the thing, the seminal event
00:24:27.76\00:24:32.83
that he points to is the
bringing out of Egypt, I just
00:24:32.83\00:24:36.33
wanted to bring out this little
point here that I think is
00:24:36.33\00:24:38.63
powerful.
00:24:38.63\00:24:39.90
In Hosea 11 next book in verse 1
when Israel was a child I loved
00:24:39.90\00:24:45.50
him.
00:24:45.50\00:24:46.83
--Singular.
00:24:46.83\00:24:48.06
--Yes.
00:24:48.06\00:24:48.90
--And out of
Egypt I called my son.
00:24:48.90\00:24:53.00
Ok in reference to this major
major event in the history of
00:24:53.00\00:24:58.00
this people right,
the exodus from Egypt.
00:24:58.00\00:25:00.53
--That is the defining
event in the history of Israel
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.10
--That's it.
00:25:03.10\00:25:04.33
--But the reason I think that's
powerful is because when the
00:25:04.33\00:25:07.33
Messiah, because we're basically
on the...we're right there.
00:25:07.33\00:25:09.90
When we get into Matthew
chapter 2 I get the privilege of
00:25:09.90\00:25:15.63
cracking open the Jesus book.
00:25:15.63\00:25:17.03
So in Matthew chapter 2
obviously the context here is
00:25:17.03\00:25:21.80
Christ is born,
here's His childhood.
00:25:21.80\00:25:24.56
They flee back into Egypt
to protect the child right, and
00:25:24.56\00:25:29.13
then in verse 14 it says they
arose and took the young child
00:25:29.13\00:25:35.73
meaning Jesus and his mother by
night and departed for Egypt and
00:25:35.73\00:25:40.03
was there verse 15 until the
death of Herod that it might be
00:25:40.03\00:25:43.90
fulfilled which was spoken
by the Lord through the prophet
00:25:43.90\00:25:48.53
saying out of
Egypt I called my son.
00:25:48.53\00:25:52.36
Direct verbatim quote from Hosea
11:1 so here's the point that
00:25:52.36\00:25:56.26
I'm trying to make, Daniel 9,
Daniel is pleading Lord we have
00:25:56.26\00:25:59.93
failed, we have been unfaithful,
our relational fidelity stinks.
00:25:59.93\00:26:04.56
But you have been faithful,
you have been faithful.
00:26:04.56\00:26:07.30
So the point of Daniel 9 is the
Messiah will come to be faithful
00:26:07.30\00:26:13.53
where God's
people were unfaithful.
00:26:13.53\00:26:15.36
--So here's the
incredible thing.
00:26:15.36\00:26:17.00
--That's exactly right.
00:26:17.00\00:26:18.26
--Here's the incredible thing in
Daniel chapter 9 and the whole
00:26:18.26\00:26:20.60
Old Testament we have this
constant refrain God is faithful
00:26:20.60\00:26:23.86
even when Israel was not, God
is faithful, Israel no, God is
00:26:23.86\00:26:27.60
faithful, Israel not.
00:26:27.60\00:26:29.26
Jesus, God is faithful now man
is faithful and Jesus fulfills
00:26:29.26\00:26:37.63
faithfulness to the covenant
from both ends of the spectrum.
00:26:37.63\00:26:39.43
--He's the righteous one.
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.73
--Yes he's faithful, he's
faithful as God to man and he's
00:26:40.73\00:26:44.70
faithful as man to God.
00:26:44.70\00:26:47.30
--He's the Lord
of righteousness.
00:26:47.30\00:26:48.50
--The circle of beneficent
is complete in Christ.
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.33
--Jeremiah 23:6
00:26:51.33\00:26:52.60
--So he is man's guarantee that
God will fulfill his promises
00:26:52.60\00:26:55.76
and God's guarantee that
man will be made in his image
00:26:55.76\00:26:59.43
and will be able to
fulfill to be faithful to God's
00:26:59.43\00:27:02.46
covenant.
00:27:02.46\00:27:04.20
--Exactly, the longing desire
of God's heart, and you see this
00:27:04.20\00:27:06.60
refrain over and over again in
the Old Testament is I will be
00:27:06.60\00:27:09.20
their God and
they will be my people.
00:27:09.20\00:27:11.33
So God's always scanning.
00:27:11.33\00:27:12.70
He's got the radar on looking
for the person about whom he can
00:27:12.70\00:27:16.20
say, that's my guy,
that's my dude right there.
00:27:16.20\00:27:19.96
We see an instance of this,
by the way, with Job, right?
00:27:19.96\00:27:21.73
When Satan comes and says it's
my planet, whatever, I've been
00:27:21.73\00:27:25.33
walking to and fro God
what does he long to do?
00:27:25.33\00:27:27.70
He wants to point to
somebody and say that's my guy.
00:27:27.70\00:27:29.43
--Have you noticed,
have you noticed Job.
00:27:29.43\00:27:30.90
--Now to some degree, I mean
there have been times I think
00:27:30.90\00:27:33.26
where God could
have said that about me.
00:27:33.26\00:27:34.53
So to you, so to
you, so to you, so to you.
00:27:34.53\00:27:36.06
So to Job in other instances.
00:27:36.06\00:27:38.40
--For me not last Tuesday.
00:27:38.40\00:27:41.16
[Laughter]
00:27:41.16\00:27:42.16
--Not last Tuesday,
what happened last Tuesday?
00:27:42.16\00:27:42.70
--It was a bad day.
00:27:42.70\00:27:43.26
I was a bad boy.
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.10
--Ok [Laughter]
00:27:45.10\00:27:46.23
--It was bad.
00:27:46.23\00:27:47.40
--I was in California, so
I don't even know what he's
00:27:47.40\00:27:49.80
talking about.
00:27:49.80\00:27:50.56
I'm nervous.
00:27:50.56\00:27:51.26
-Don't confess, don't confess.
00:27:51.26\00:27:52.46
--But the only one about whom
it could always be said under
00:27:52.46\00:27:56.80
every, even the most trying and
testing circumstance Jesus said
00:27:56.80\00:28:00.66
I do always those
things that place Him.
00:28:00.66\00:28:03.03
He could say, the thing that he
said as he was coming up out of
00:28:03.03\00:28:05.23
the waters of baptism, my
son in whom I am well pleased.
00:28:05.23\00:28:10.80
This is the one.
00:28:10.80\00:28:11.83
You want to know what I'm like.
00:28:11.83\00:28:13.20
And Jesus would say
again, if you've seen me.
00:28:13.20\00:28:15.26
--But here's the thing, when
he comes up out of the water in
00:28:15.26\00:28:18.46
baptism, this is my beloved son
in whom I am well pleased, Paul
00:28:18.46\00:28:23.80
later on takes that beloved
son language and applies it
00:28:23.80\00:28:27.13
corporately to the human race.
00:28:27.13\00:28:29.00
So when Jesus goes through
the process of fulfilling all
00:28:29.00\00:28:33.60
righteousness being baptized,
when he comes up out of the
00:28:33.60\00:28:37.50
water, this is my beloved
son in whom I am well pleased.
00:28:37.50\00:28:42.53
That is a universal corporate
benediction that God the father
00:28:42.53\00:28:47.03
is speaking over
humanity as a whole in Christ.
00:28:47.03\00:28:50.53
--Wait, wait,
wait, wait amazing.
00:28:50.53\00:28:52.13
--Ty, Ty, Ty but what you
just said, you know, drawing
00:28:52.13\00:28:56.30
attention to the baptism is even
more profound in the context of
00:28:56.30\00:29:00.06
Israel because isn't it true
that Jesus very carefully and
00:29:00.06\00:29:05.23
tactfully begins to
repeat the history of Israel.
00:29:05.23\00:29:08.30
--I don't know about
tactfully but yes, carefully.
00:29:08.30\00:29:11.13
--Very intentionally.
00:29:11.13\00:29:12.30
--To retrace the
history of Israel so he
00:29:12.30\00:29:15.86
--Name instances.
00:29:15.86\00:29:17.23
--For instance
how long is he in the
00:29:17.23\00:29:19.63
--wilderness for 40
days, wilderness for 40 years
00:29:19.63\00:29:22.76
--and then
00:29:22.76\00:29:24.03
--well first of all before the
wilderness what's the baptism of
00:29:24.03\00:29:26.13
Jesus parallel.
00:29:26.13\00:29:27.43
--That's where we're
going crossing of the Red Sea.
00:29:27.43\00:29:28.76
--That's right.
00:29:28.76\00:29:30.76
--Before that out of Egypt.
00:29:30.76\00:29:32.70
--And after Jesus gets
baptized where does he go?
00:29:32.70\00:29:35.23
--Into the wilderness.
00:29:35.23\00:29:37.80
--Into the wilderness.
00:29:37.80\00:29:38.53
--For how long?
00:29:38.53\00:29:39.43
--For 40 days and
00:29:39.43\00:29:40.36
--How long was
Israel in the wilderness?
00:29:40.36\00:29:41.60
--For 40 not, and then check
this out when Israel is in the
00:29:41.60\00:29:44.30
wilderness they received the
book of Deuteronomy when Christ
00:29:44.30\00:29:47.70
is in his wilderness he comes
and he's being tempted by Satan
00:29:47.70\00:29:50.73
and he quotes 3 times it is
written, it is written, it is
00:29:50.73\00:29:54.50
written from the
book of Deuteronomy.
00:29:54.50\00:29:56.10
--It's just, it's profound
00:29:56.10\00:29:58.06
--What's the next one though.
00:29:58.06\00:29:59.00
--When Messiah is fulfilling
00:29:59.00\00:30:00.43
--yeah what's the next
one, what's the next one?
00:30:00.43\00:30:02.60
--He goes on from there and
Jesus delivers his first sermon
00:30:02.60\00:30:04.73
where?
00:30:04.73\00:30:05.60
--From a mountain.
00:30:05.60\00:30:06.60
--From a mountain
and what is that sermon?
00:30:06.60\00:30:08.86
It is a
magnification of the law of God.
00:30:08.86\00:30:12.16
You're at Sinai now.
00:30:12.16\00:30:13.43
Jesus, Israel personified is now
at the mountain and the law is
00:30:13.43\00:30:19.03
restated.
00:30:19.03\00:30:20.43
This is remarkable fulfillment.
00:30:20.43\00:30:22.46
--And there's one that we
misread at the beginning and
00:30:22.46\00:30:24.90
that is that the circumstances
by which ancient Israel,
00:30:24.90\00:30:28.80
national Israel was led into
Egypt was because a man named
00:30:28.80\00:30:31.66
Joseph had dreams
that anticipated that.
00:30:31.66\00:30:34.20
In the gospel of Matthew he
wants to make it very clear that
00:30:34.20\00:30:37.80
Joseph has dreams and the dream
says hey take my child into
00:30:37.80\00:30:42.33
Egypt.
00:30:42.33\00:30:43.10
So you have this whole
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.50
--Joseph, the father
of Jesus has a dream.
00:30:45.50\00:30:47.60
--Take him into Egypt.
00:30:47.60\00:30:48.90
--So Jesus, we
began with the baptism.
00:30:48.90\00:30:53.13
--There's
another one by the way.
00:30:53.13\00:30:54.40
--I mean, yeah, we back up from
there Jesus came out of Egypt
00:30:54.40\00:30:58.26
then which parallels the exodus.
00:30:58.26\00:31:00.50
-Of course, exactly, at
every -What's the one we missed?
00:31:00.50\00:31:03.13
--The reason why we have Christ
coming into Bethlehem or at
00:31:03.13\00:31:09.20
least his parents coming in is
to decree, a royal decree of a
00:31:09.20\00:31:11.40
heathen king.
00:31:11.40\00:31:12.80
And you see the same thing
taking place in relationship to
00:31:12.80\00:31:15.33
going into captivity into Egypt.
00:31:15.33\00:31:17.80
--The Pharaoh.
00:31:17.80\00:31:18.76
-Yeah the Pharaoh.
00:31:18.76\00:31:20.03
The Pharaoh decreeing yes bring
all of your house all of them in
00:31:20.03\00:31:22.56
here so every one of these
things is paralleling, every one
00:31:22.56\00:31:25.50
of these things is taking us
through this, as you said, this
00:31:25.50\00:31:28.40
repeat of the history of Israel.
00:31:28.40\00:31:30.20
--My memory may be wrong on this
so correct me if I'm wrong but
00:31:30.20\00:31:33.86
wasn't, didn't Jesus go into
Egypt because there was a census
00:31:33.86\00:31:39.80
being taken and wasn't
00:31:39.80\00:31:41.60
--Not into Egypt, no no
no, that was into Bethlehem.
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.03
--Into Bethlehem.
00:31:44.03\00:31:45.26
--He went into Egypt because
someone was going to harm the
00:31:45.26\00:31:47.06
child.
00:31:47.06\00:31:47.80
--That's right.
00:31:47.80\00:31:48.93
--What about this, I'm
stretching, I'm stretching you
00:31:48.93\00:31:51.86
guys now Genesis 12 Abraham the
father of, I'm gonna call him
00:31:51.86\00:31:56.46
Israel, he's called
out of his father's house.
00:31:56.46\00:32:01.30
And then Christ the Messiah
comes from his father's house,
00:32:01.30\00:32:04.93
from the father in heaven.
00:32:04.93\00:32:07.56
--What?
00:32:07.56\00:32:08.30
[Laughter]
00:32:08.30\00:32:11.20
--It's too deep, it's too deep.
00:32:15.33\00:32:18.30
--There is no question that
Matthew, let's take it a two
00:32:19.00\00:32:22.36
levels, first of all Jesus
is clearly intentionally doing
00:32:22.36\00:32:25.56
this.
00:32:25.56\00:32:26.80
This is not just serendipitously
occurring, oh look at that,
00:32:26.80\00:32:29.76
willy nilly, it just happened
to match up 40 days, Joseph.
00:32:29.76\00:32:32.96
--Not a coincidence.
00:32:32.96\00:32:34.50
--Jesus is intentionally
purposefully doing this for a
00:32:34.50\00:32:38.13
reason and the reason is to send
a message, a clear message that
00:32:38.13\00:32:42.93
he is Israel.
00:32:42.93\00:32:45.00
Now that sounds a little strange
to us because we think of Israel
00:32:45.00\00:32:47.20
as a nation.
00:32:47.20\00:32:48.56
But let's remind ourselves that
the first person ever called
00:32:48.56\00:32:52.16
Israel was a single person.
00:32:52.16\00:32:55.86
--Jacob.
00:32:55.86\00:32:56.70
--Jacob who won a
spiritual victory.
00:32:56.70\00:32:58.93
--Yes.
00:32:58.93\00:33:00.20
--Right a single person
that won a spiritual victory.
00:33:00.20\00:33:02.76
And then that grows and
becomes the nation of Israel.
00:33:02.76\00:33:06.76
And here we have a single person
gaining repeated spiritual
00:33:06.76\00:33:10.03
victories and becomes Israel.
00:33:10.03\00:33:12.66
Now this is a language thing,
theological and linguistic that
00:33:12.66\00:33:17.26
I'm very insistent about.
00:33:17.26\00:33:19.06
--Jacob had 12 sons
and Jesus had 12 disciples.
00:33:19.06\00:33:21.56
--Of course, there's so many,
and I don't mean to cut you off
00:33:21.56\00:33:25.93
there but there's something that
we have to be precise about.
00:33:25.93\00:33:27.76
Ok I'm cutting you
off, no you cut me off.
00:33:27.76\00:33:28.93
[Laughter]
00:33:28.93\00:33:30.73
And that is that we so
often talk about how the church
00:33:30.73\00:33:34.03
replaced Israel.
00:33:34.03\00:33:35.60
You hear this it's sometimes
called replacement theology, you
00:33:35.60\00:33:38.00
know, Israel didn't get 'er done
and so God raised up the church.
00:33:38.00\00:33:40.90
And so this masks
the much larger point.
00:33:40.90\00:33:44.46
God did everything he
said he would do in Israel.
00:33:44.46\00:33:48.63
--It's important
to understand this.
00:33:48.63\00:33:50.00
--In Israel but Israel was not
the nation of Israel, they had
00:33:50.00\00:33:53.53
opportunity, the failed,
they failed, they failed, they
00:33:53.53\00:33:55.73
failed, they failed, we went to
Isaiah and looked at all those,
00:33:55.73\00:33:57.40
my servant will do
this, my servant will do this.
00:33:57.40\00:33:58.66
Isaiah writes with hope,
with belief, with anticipation.
00:33:58.66\00:34:01.53
But what happens is the greatest
plot twist in all of literature
00:34:01.53\00:34:04.63
God himself becomes,
not just a man, but a Jew.
00:34:04.63\00:34:09.66
He becomes Israel step-by-step,
point-by-point walks through the
00:34:09.66\00:34:12.96
history of national Israel.
00:34:12.96\00:34:14.86
And so it's not that
Israel has been replaced.
00:34:14.86\00:34:18.23
It's that Israel
has been fulfilled.
00:34:18.23\00:34:21.33
--And let's just make this
point crystal clear, so God
00:34:21.33\00:34:22.93
accomplishes everything he
promises to Israel in Jesus
00:34:22.93\00:34:27.23
Christ.
00:34:27.23\00:34:28.33
--There's a verse that
says that exactly, it's, it's
00:34:28.33\00:34:32.23
2 Corinthians chapter 1.
00:34:32.23\00:34:33.90
--Is that the
yes and amen verse?
00:34:33.90\00:34:35.66
--Yes 2
Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20.
00:34:35.66\00:34:38.53
I love this.
00:34:38.53\00:34:39.73
I tell you if this one verse
was understood by many of our
00:34:39.73\00:34:42.53
various Christian friends
in various places it would, it
00:34:42.53\00:34:48.26
would literally short circuit
so much misunderstanding about
00:34:48.26\00:34:51.10
Israel all of this.
00:34:51.10\00:34:52.93
--Where is it?
00:34:52.93\00:34:53.76
--2 Corinthians
chapter 1 verse 20.
00:34:53.76\00:34:55.53
For all of the promises of God,
let's just pause right there
00:34:55.96\00:35:00.26
--The whole testament.
00:35:00.26\00:35:01.53
--The entire Old Testament
every promise that God made.
00:35:01.53\00:35:03.20
--And and more specifically
Israel's entire history.
00:35:03.20\00:35:06.50
--Exactly and its history in the
Proverbs, in the Psalms, in the
00:35:06.50\00:35:10.50
prophecies, in
the poems, everything.
00:35:10.50\00:35:12.33
All of the promises of God
in him, that's Jesus, are yes.
00:35:12.33\00:35:19.93
And in Him amen
to the glory of God
00:35:20.70\00:35:24.53
--Now notice this David, notice
this verse 18 but as God is
00:35:24.53\00:35:30.06
--faithful
00:35:30.06\00:35:32.40
--faithful, true, our word
or the word of God toward you is
00:35:32.40\00:35:35.56
not yay and, excuse
me, was not yay and nay.
00:35:35.56\00:35:39.53
--Yes and no.
00:35:39.53\00:35:40.76
--For the son of God, Jesus
Christ who was preached among
00:35:40.76\00:35:43.66
you but us even by Silvanus and
Timotheus and was not yes and no
00:35:43.66\00:35:50.40
but in him was yes.
00:35:50.40\00:35:52.66
That's the context of it.
00:35:52.66\00:35:53.93
God is faithful, the word has
been preached, the promises have
00:35:53.93\00:35:57.20
been fulfilled.
00:35:57.20\00:35:58.66
All of it is
established in Christ.
00:35:58.66\00:36:00.60
--That's right.
00:36:00.60\00:36:01.46
--No I'm reading
these with new glasses.
00:36:01.46\00:36:03.36
This is so clear in the context
of all these Old Testament
00:36:03.36\00:36:07.20
verses.
00:36:07.20\00:36:08.46
--The first time I ever read and
understood this book I read an
00:36:08.46\00:36:11.20
entire book that was based
on this single verse right here
00:36:11.20\00:36:16.40
2 Corinthians
chapter 1 verse 21.
00:36:16.40\00:36:17.63
It was called The Israel of
God in Prophecy by Dr. Hans Lara
00:36:17.63\00:36:20.03
dell who's passed away now.
00:36:20.03\00:36:21.23
But there's this major
misunderstanding in modern
00:36:21.23\00:36:24.33
chrisiandom that says God
is going to do this to national
00:36:24.33\00:36:28.23
Israel.
00:36:28.23\00:36:29.10
I'm talking about
right now 2014 Israel.
00:36:29.10\00:36:30.96
And the whole
thing is misguided.
00:36:30.96\00:36:33.93
It's not the way that Paul
or any New Testament writer
00:36:33.93\00:36:36.83
understood what Israel was.
00:36:36.83\00:36:38.90
--It's already done.
00:36:38.90\00:36:39.90
--It's been done, it
was done 2000 years ago.
00:36:39.90\00:36:42.06
Everything that God was going to
do, every promise that God made
00:36:42.06\00:36:47.03
is yes.
00:36:47.03\00:36:48.03
But where is it yes?
00:36:48.03\00:36:48.96
It's yes in Jesus.
00:36:48.96\00:36:50.53
--And again it seems like this
is just one of those statements,
00:36:50.53\00:36:55.40
these verses
just kind of stated.
00:36:55.40\00:36:57.26
And then it gets on to,
you know what I'm saying.
00:36:57.26\00:36:59.93
--I see what you're saying.
00:36:59.93\00:37:01.03
--It's understood.
00:37:01.03\00:37:01.93
It's just understood.
00:37:01.93\00:37:03.06
--One of the things.
00:37:03.06\00:37:05.06
--I don't know what direction
you want to go here Ty.
00:37:05.06\00:37:06.90
--This is what Silvanus
is preaching this is what
00:37:06.90\00:37:08.83
Timotheus, this is what every
one of us has been preaching,
00:37:08.83\00:37:10.33
this is the word
we've been preaching.
00:37:10.33\00:37:12.00
--The one thing I was gonna
mention earlier and I just don't
00:37:12.00\00:37:14.70
want to let it trail in the dust
because I think it's important
00:37:14.70\00:37:17.36
is back in Daniel chapter
9, we don't have to turn there.
00:37:17.36\00:37:19.66
We started with the opening
of the covenant, we ended with
00:37:19.66\00:37:22.86
someone will come and will keep
covenant, will love God with all
00:37:22.86\00:37:25.40
his heart, mind and soul
and his neighbor as himself.
00:37:25.40\00:37:27.30
And I loved it a little bit
later in Daniel chapter 11 verse
00:37:27.30\00:37:31.20
what is it, you
know this 21, 22?
00:37:31.20\00:37:32.80
--Yes.
00:37:32.80\00:37:33.83
--He calls him the
prince of the covenant.
00:37:33.83\00:37:36.90
For Daniel I mentioned that,
let's see how a Jew was thinking
00:37:36.90\00:37:42.13
about covenant, about Jerusalem,
about the Deuteronomy blessings
00:37:42.13\00:37:47.23
and cursing's, the anticipation
is of someone who will come.
00:37:47.23\00:37:50.33
They are longing for
a faithful Israelite.
00:37:50.33\00:37:53.53
Longing for someone to
keep covenant with God.
00:37:53.53\00:37:56.73
--Since you brought up Daniel 11
and there's no way we can break
00:37:56.73\00:37:59.96
down Daniel 11 but I will just
say this, Jesus is called the
00:37:59.96\00:38:04.16
prince of the
covenant in verse 22.
00:38:04.16\00:38:06.63
And just mention this, this is
an area of study that we can get
00:38:06.63\00:38:10.66
into sometime and those who are
in this conversation with us.
00:38:10.66\00:38:14.70
But check this out, when we
talk about eschatology, end time
00:38:14.70\00:38:19.50
events, the way the
closure comes to human history.
00:38:19.50\00:38:24.46
The word covenant show up
repeatedly in verse 28 you have
00:38:24.46\00:38:28.73
a power that has moved up
against the holy covenant.
00:38:28.73\00:38:31.66
And in verse 30 you have this
power that has rage against the
00:38:31.66\00:38:36.36
holy covenant.
00:38:36.36\00:38:37.93
And those who over whom this
power exerts influence forsake
00:38:37.93\00:38:43.06
the holy covenant.
00:38:43.06\00:38:44.93
In verse 32 they do
wickedly against the covenant.
00:38:44.93\00:38:50.00
And then there's by contrast
those who know their God do
00:38:50.00\00:38:54.36
great exploits and as they know
their God and carry out great
00:38:54.36\00:38:58.46
exploits what they're doing
is they're manifesting, they're
00:38:58.46\00:39:02.20
following through with
faithfulness to the covenant in
00:39:02.20\00:39:06.53
an end time setting.
00:39:06.53\00:39:07.73
So we don't have
time to get into that.
00:39:07.73\00:39:09.66
I'm just pointing out that end
time events even, how many times
00:39:09.66\00:39:14.03
have you ever heard end time
events, the prophecies of Daniel
00:39:14.03\00:39:17.90
and Revelation spoken of, taught
or preached in the context of
00:39:17.90\00:39:22.40
conflict over the covenant?
00:39:22.40\00:39:25.96
It's foreign to our thinking and
the reason why is because we're
00:39:25.96\00:39:29.43
not doing theology and we're not
doing eschatology in the direct
00:39:29.43\00:39:34.66
lineage of the historical
trajectory of the Old Testament.
00:39:34.66\00:39:37.93
We're not reading the story,
we're not reading the story,
00:39:37.93\00:39:39.66
we're jumping to the book of
Revelation and we're defining.
00:39:39.66\00:39:45.66
--And with our newspaper in one
hand and the book of Revelation
00:39:45.66\00:39:47.70
in the other.
00:39:47.70\00:39:48.96
--And we're not even thinking in
terms of the covenant history of
00:39:48.96\00:39:52.10
Israel, its fulfillment in
Christ and how the whole thing
00:39:52.10\00:39:55.73
is moving toward a
complete realization of covenant
00:39:55.73\00:39:59.50
faithfulness in end time events.
00:39:59.50\00:40:01.73
--Can I, there's something
that I know we at this table
00:40:01.73\00:40:05.36
understand.
00:40:05.36\00:40:06.56
But I just want to expressly
spell out for those that are
00:40:06.56\00:40:08.56
listening in and that is when we
talk a lot about, we talk about
00:40:08.56\00:40:11.56
the covenant, the covenant
of course, is the whole history,
00:40:11.56\00:40:15.53
the arrangement that God made
originally with Abraham and then
00:40:15.53\00:40:17.56
with his descendants and then
ultimately, you know, sort of
00:40:17.56\00:40:19.86
epitomized in
the nation of Israel.
00:40:19.86\00:40:21.36
We mentioned earlier that the
determinative events that sort
00:40:21.36\00:40:25.30
of defines Israel is the exodus.
00:40:25.30\00:40:27.70
That's God
calling his people out.
00:40:27.70\00:40:29.66
He brings them to the mountain
and he gives them, he enters
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.83
into this covenant with them.
00:40:31.83\00:40:33.33
And He gives them the sanctuary
you might remember a couple of
00:40:33.33\00:40:36.46
sessions ago we said oh the
sanctuary but then we never went
00:40:36.46\00:40:38.56
back to it.
00:40:38.56\00:40:39.80
And in the sanctuary, without
getting into too much detail
00:40:39.80\00:40:42.16
that we can go
into as much as we want.
00:40:42.16\00:40:43.96
I just want to
make this one point.
00:40:43.96\00:40:45.50
In the sanctuary was this most
holy place piece of furniture in
00:40:45.50\00:40:50.66
the Israelite system and that
was the Ark of the Covenant, the
00:40:50.66\00:40:54.86
Ark of the Covenant.
00:40:54.86\00:40:56.06
Listen to the
language, most holy.
00:40:56.06\00:40:57.40
It was placed in
the most holy place.
00:40:57.40\00:41:00.36
And what's inside of that thing?
00:41:00.36\00:41:01.60
The encapsulation, that which
epitomizes and distills the
00:41:01.60\00:41:05.53
covenant, that's the Ten
Commandments which is to say you
00:41:05.53\00:41:09.40
just go down them 1, 2, 3, 4 the
first tablet or you know 5, 6,
00:41:09.40\00:41:12.90
7, 8, 9, 10 the second and
that is supreme love for God and
00:41:12.90\00:41:16.83
authentical love for man.
00:41:16.83\00:41:18.63
So this is the standard and by
the way you have, this is what I
00:41:18.63\00:41:20.83
like to say, you have the
big 1, the big 2 and the big 10.
00:41:20.83\00:41:24.60
The big 1 is love, the big 2 is
love for God, love for man and
00:41:24.60\00:41:28.40
the big 10 is the Ten
Commandments and then you have
00:41:28.40\00:41:30.23
further, you know, the rest
of the law and then you have,
00:41:30.23\00:41:33.03
that's what Jesus did.
00:41:33.03\00:41:36.33
There was never a time in Jesus'
entire life where it was not
00:41:36.33\00:41:40.63
true that he was not loving God
with all of his heart, mind and
00:41:40.63\00:41:43.13
soul.
00:41:43.13\00:41:44.23
And there's never an
opportunity, just go read the
00:41:44.23\00:41:45.50
New Testament.
00:41:45.50\00:41:46.76
Read the gospels where Jesus is
dismissive or unkind or cruel to
00:41:46.76\00:41:50.96
another person.
00:41:50.96\00:41:52.60
He kept covenant with God.
00:41:52.60\00:41:57.00
He was the very thing hoped
for and longed for anticipated.
00:41:57.00\00:42:00.30
Wow.
00:42:01.46\00:42:02.66
--That's why I love this thing
in Daniel 9 which I'd love to
00:42:03.93\00:42:05.20
get back to just share a little
thought but I know we're out of
00:42:05.20\00:42:07.20
time on this session.
00:42:07.20\00:42:09.10
--Can we come back to that?
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James I think you were
gonna take us back to Daniel 9?
00:43:13.86\00:43:16.26
--Daniel 9 because this whole
new covenant thinking is just
00:43:16.26\00:43:19.20
beautiful and powerful
especially when you recognize
00:43:19.20\00:43:21.86
that it is the
landscape of the book of Daniel.
00:43:21.86\00:43:25.36
The whole book of Daniel is
written in this new covenant
00:43:25.36\00:43:27.30
language so when you come to
Daniel 9:24 Gabriel has come and
00:43:27.30\00:43:32.00
answered Daniels prayer.
00:43:32.00\00:43:33.46
He's going to give him more
understanding of this prophecy
00:43:33.46\00:43:36.26
of Daniel 8, this 2300 day
prophecy and in Daniel 9:24 he
00:43:36.26\00:43:40.56
begins to give him this
insight, this understanding.
00:43:40.56\00:43:43.86
And he begins by saying this 70
weeks are determined or cut off
00:43:43.86\00:43:48.10
determined upon by thy
people and thy holy seed.
00:43:48.10\00:43:50.66
In other words, your people
Daniel, the Jews, the Jewish
00:43:50.66\00:43:53.33
nation, the Hebrews are going
to have a time allotted to them.
00:43:53.33\00:43:56.86
It's a prophetic time of 70
weeks and that time is going to
00:43:56.86\00:43:59.83
be allotted and in that
time they need to do, now notice
00:43:59.83\00:44:03.93
this,
00:44:03.93\00:44:04.86
--It's quite a list.
00:44:04.86\00:44:06.06
--Finish transgression, make
sin, make reconciliation for
00:44:06.06\00:44:09.86
iniquity and I like this
because it's transgression, sin,
00:44:09.86\00:44:13.23
iniquity, it's the whole bucket
right there everything's there.
00:44:13.23\00:44:15.60
Every aspect of our depravity
is there to bring in everlasting
00:44:15.60\00:44:20.03
righteousness to seal up the
vision and the prophecy and to
00:44:20.03\00:44:23.13
anoint the most holy.
00:44:23.13\00:44:24.36
There are 7 things they need
to accomplish now I like to ask
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.33
people when I preach on this
prophecy I like to ask them did
00:44:26.33\00:44:28.20
Israel accomplish these 7
tasks in the allotted time?
00:44:28.20\00:44:34.36
--Yes and no.
00:44:34.36\00:44:35.90
--Ok most of the
time people say no.
00:44:35.90\00:44:39.96
And my second question that I
ask them in response to that is,
00:44:39.96\00:44:43.93
the second question I ask
them is where they supposed to?
00:44:43.93\00:44:48.66
Were the literal Israelites
supposed to accomplish those
00:44:48.66\00:44:52.33
tasks?
00:44:52.33\00:44:53.60
And the answer is yes as long
as you're allowed to define what
00:44:53.60\00:44:55.03
that means.
00:44:55.03\00:44:55.80
And the answer to that.
00:44:55.80\00:44:57.06
--You guys are no remembering
where in the first Table Talk 13
00:44:57.06\00:45:02.30
parts I said hey remember
we dealt with, Daniel 9 and we
00:45:02.30\00:45:06.63
struggled with it.
00:45:06.63\00:45:07.73
--I don't remember that
I'm still not getting it.
00:45:07.73\00:45:09.33
[Laughter]
00:45:09.33\00:45:10.56
And the answer the obvious
answer in the context of the way
00:45:10.56\00:45:12.83
that most people think, not the
way that you're thinking, not
00:45:12.83\00:45:15.50
the way that we've established
this general direction.
00:45:15.50\00:45:17.40
But the way that most
people think the answer is no.
00:45:17.40\00:45:20.53
God never intended that they
would be the ones that would
00:45:20.53\00:45:24.70
fulfill this because notice
verse 25 know therefore and
00:45:24.70\00:45:28.53
understand.
00:45:28.53\00:45:29.93
There's something that he's
about to say in verse 25 that
00:45:29.93\00:45:32.86
you've got to understand in the
context of the 70 weeks which is
00:45:32.86\00:45:36.90
490 prophetic days
or 490 literal years.
00:45:36.90\00:45:42.26
There's something you need
to understand and know in the
00:45:42.26\00:45:45.23
context of these tasks that
need to be fulfilled and what is
00:45:45.23\00:45:47.76
that?
00:45:47.76\00:45:49.03
Well this is what it is known
therefore and understand that
00:45:49.03\00:45:50.56
from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to
00:45:50.56\00:45:53.46
build Jerusalem until the
Messiah the prince shall be how
00:45:53.46\00:45:57.33
long?
00:45:57.33\00:45:58.20
7 weeks and 3 score and 2 weeks.
00:45:58.20\00:46:00.86
--69 weeks.
00:46:00.86\00:46:03.10
--Ok you've got 70nweeks
this is what needs to be done,
00:46:03.10\00:46:05.73
pause for a second.
00:46:05.73\00:46:06.60
Think about that.
00:46:06.60\00:46:07.23
Take it all in.
00:46:07.23\00:46:07.93
--I see it and it's powerful.
00:46:07.93\00:46:09.16
--Know and understand that
in 69 weeks Messiah's coming.
00:46:09.16\00:46:13.06
--Why did he say 70?
00:46:13.06\00:46:14.13
--Yeah before the 70
weeks is up covenant is kept.
00:46:14.13\00:46:17.13
--Exactly and it's kept by
Jesus because you can't keep it.
00:46:17.13\00:46:20.96
You have failed and failed and
failed and failed and failed and
00:46:20.96\00:46:23.10
failed and failed.
00:46:23.10\00:46:24.93
--That's right.
00:46:24.93\00:46:25.56
--And this time he will
00:46:25.56\00:46:27.50
--The Messiah will succeed.
00:46:27.50\00:46:30.16
--Do you see that?
00:46:30.16\00:46:30.73
--Yes I see it.
00:46:30.73\00:46:31.66
--So he has to come
before the 70 weeks.
00:46:31.66\00:46:32.80
He has to because
you've only got 70 weeks.
00:46:32.80\00:46:35.63
--Is this true or not you guys?
00:46:35.63\00:46:37.23
It had to be Jesus which is
to say it had to be God in the
00:46:37.23\00:46:42.56
incarnation because one of the
7 tasks that has to be performed
00:46:42.56\00:46:46.36
is to make
reconciliation, atonement.
00:46:46.36\00:46:50.23
--By the way, by the way.
00:46:50.23\00:46:53.80
--Human beings can't
make atonement for their sins.
00:46:53.80\00:46:56.96
--They can't do any of this,
transgression, sins, all of
00:46:56.96\00:46:59.30
these things by the way,
are fulfilled in Christ, New
00:46:59.30\00:47:03.50
Testament.
00:47:03.50\00:47:04.43
You can find
phrase, verses, everything.
00:47:04.43\00:47:05.90
--The language.
00:47:05.90\00:47:07.26
--The language is all there.
00:47:07.26\00:47:08.83
--James I'm so deeply resonant
with this idea that it's before
00:47:08.83\00:47:12.13
the 70 weeks has to be.
00:47:12.13\00:47:13.90
So otherwise we couldn't, Paul
couldn't say well we just read
00:47:13.90\00:47:17.36
that he says in 2 Corinthians
1:20 that all the promises of
00:47:17.36\00:47:19.63
God are yes.
00:47:19.63\00:47:20.86
He could say all except for that
one Daniel 9 couldn't do it.
00:47:20.86\00:47:25.50
Now here's something that I
wanted to bring up there is and
00:47:25.50\00:47:27.46
we're gonna, you know, we got,
praise God we have another what
00:47:27.46\00:47:30.66
7 sessions or 6
sessions or whatever it is?
00:47:30.66\00:47:32.56
Because I'm sure we'll get to
some of this but I just want to
00:47:32.56\00:47:35.43
say here that this
is a key transition.
00:47:35.43\00:47:38.50
Daniel understands it and when
we come to the New Testament we
00:47:38.50\00:47:41.83
see Jesus and I don't want
to go too deep I'm just gonna go
00:47:41.83\00:47:44.60
surface because I know you
want to get into something.
00:47:44.60\00:47:46.46
Jesus in the gospels, Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John to a lesser
00:47:46.46\00:47:50.06
degree John but especially
in the synoptic is consistently
00:47:50.06\00:47:53.83
setting himself in a very
interesting kind of antagonism
00:47:53.83\00:47:58.40
to the temples, to the temple.
00:47:58.40\00:48:00.50
He's setting himself
over and against the temple.
00:48:00.50\00:48:02.66
Because the temple was always
the central place where God was
00:48:02.66\00:48:06.03
doing what God was
doing on earth, right?
00:48:06.03\00:48:08.43
The Shekinah was in
the most holy place.
00:48:08.43\00:48:10.16
This is the place where God's
doing what he's doing on earth.
00:48:10.16\00:48:12.46
It's the tabernacle of meeting.
00:48:12.46\00:48:13.66
It's the place and yet when
Jesus comes Jesus knows that
00:48:13.66\00:48:16.60
that temple has been so misused,
misunderstood and abused that he
00:48:16.60\00:48:19.80
actually goes in and
there's huge significance here.
00:48:19.80\00:48:23.60
He cleanses the temple of
all the money changers and
00:48:23.60\00:48:25.86
everything that are
in there, casts them out.
00:48:25.86\00:48:28.13
You've made my father's house
a den of thieves but here's the
00:48:28.13\00:48:30.26
interesting thing, they
say who do you think you are?
00:48:30.26\00:48:33.33
Who gives you the
authority to do this?
00:48:33.33\00:48:34.83
And then his response is very
interesting he says you destroy
00:48:34.83\00:48:37.33
this temple and in 3
days I'll raise it up.
00:48:37.33\00:48:40.20
What?
00:48:40.20\00:48:41.46
They're like it took 46 years
to build this how could that be?
00:48:41.46\00:48:42.73
Here's one for instance where
Jesus is setting himself in just
00:48:42.73\00:48:47.26
a position and even in contrast
to the temple because the temple
00:48:47.26\00:48:51.06
has been the main center of what
God is doing on earth and yet he
00:48:51.06\00:48:54.73
knows that's passing away.
00:48:54.73\00:48:56.46
Well how does he
know it's passing away?
00:48:56.46\00:48:57.66
Because of this very prophecy.
00:48:57.66\00:48:59.30
Daniel 9 parallels 2 events, the
coming of Messiah, the rejection
00:48:59.30\00:49:05.00
of Messiah, the coming and the
rejection of the Messiah and the
00:49:05.00\00:49:08.10
destruction of the city.
00:49:08.10\00:49:09.86
So the end of a thing
and the beginning of a thing.
00:49:09.86\00:49:12.50
The Messiah rejected, city
destroyed, Messiah rejected,
00:49:12.50\00:49:15.36
city destroyed 3 times Messiah
rejected, city destroyed and in
00:49:15.36\00:49:19.06
each of these instances
Jesus is trying to redirect.
00:49:19.06\00:49:21.56
You could almost feel the
desperation in the New Testament
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.86
in the gospels.
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.13
Where he's like hey you see this
thing there's not going to be 2
00:49:25.13\00:49:28.43
stones left upon
another that won't be throne.
00:49:28.43\00:49:31.43
Get your eyes, I'm telling
you this, this is not the thing.
00:49:31.43\00:49:35.36
And we could get into more
detail there but just this idea
00:49:35.36\00:49:38.73
that this is the
passing of a thing.
00:49:38.73\00:49:41.06
It's the end of an era but
it's the beginning of an era.
00:49:41.06\00:49:45.10
And it's not without huge
significance that when Jesus
00:49:45.10\00:49:47.20
dies on the cross you know Eli
Eli Lama Sabachthani why have
00:49:47.20\00:49:50.90
you forsaken me.
00:49:50.90\00:49:52.16
The veil of the temple, the
place, the location where God is
00:49:52.16\00:49:55.70
doing what God is
doing on earth is torn.
00:49:55.70\00:49:57.90
God says ok
we're done with that.
00:49:57.90\00:49:59.53
That system, that system is over
now because the thing has come.
00:49:59.53\00:50:04.23
And this is all
rooted in Daniel.
00:50:04.23\00:50:08.00
--Shadow
reality. --Shadow reality.
00:50:08.00\00:50:09.13
Shadow meet reality.
00:50:09.13\00:50:10.13
--So basically Jesus
was saying I am the temple.
00:50:10.13\00:50:11.73
--That's exactly
what he was saying.
00:50:11.73\00:50:12.73
--What was the
point of the temple?
00:50:12.73\00:50:13.83
The temple is a place
where people can encounter the
00:50:13.83\00:50:15.43
presence of God.
00:50:15.43\00:50:16.50
It's a connecting link
between heaven and earth.
00:50:16.50\00:50:18.10
--John
00:50:18.10\00:50:19.40
--And yet that's Jesus.
00:50:19.40\00:50:20.40
He comes for that purpose.
00:50:20.40\00:50:23.23
--I mentioned that you see Jesus
setting himself in opposition
00:50:23.23\00:50:26.46
and sort of juxtification to the
temple and primarily in Matthew,
00:50:26.46\00:50:29.20
Mark and Luke but John in
John 1 does make the point, very
00:50:29.20\00:50:33.33
profoundly, that he came
and tabernacled among us.
00:50:33.33\00:50:36.80
It's a very purposeful.
00:50:36.80\00:50:37.96
He pitches his tent with us.
00:50:37.96\00:50:39.80
This was an intentional work.
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--Make that connection there,
it's going right back to Exodus.
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--It's going right
back to the exodus.
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I mean there is, I just feel
like we're children swimming in
00:50:48.03\00:50:51.53
the ocean right now.
00:50:51.53\00:50:52.60
--It's deep.
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I mean look at, just look at
this one verse, just this one
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verse.
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In relation to what we just
read in Daniel, look at this one
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verse it's in Romans chapter
5 we're just touching on it,
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Romans chapter 5 and Paul is
summarizing, because you know
00:51:02.93\00:51:07.30
Romans, I mean he's just digging
into the Old Testament, all
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through Romans he's
digging into the Old Testament.
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He talks about the story
of Abraham and Sarah in Romans
00:51:11.80\00:51:14.00
chapter 4, He gives the
big picture of our depravity in
00:51:14.00\00:51:16.60
Romans 1 and 2,
talks about the gospel.
00:51:16.60\00:51:18.46
Romans 5 he begins here in verse
6 for when we were yet without
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strength, ok, that is the
realization that Daniel is
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bringing forth.
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We have no strength we have
no righteousness, in due time.
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Now that is a direct reference
to a specific prophetic time,
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due time, in the Greek it
actually means in the proper
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time or the set time.
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At the right time
Christ died for the ungodly.
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He's referring here I think back
to the Daniel time prophesy, for
00:51:42.43\00:51:45.56
scarcely for a righteous man
will one die: yet peradventure
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for a good man some would even
dare to die, verse 8 but God
00:51:48.26\00:51:50.76
commendeth his love toward
us, in that, while we were yet
00:51:50.76\00:51:52.86
sinners, Christ died for us.
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Now notice this in verse 9 much
more then, being now justified
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by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.
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For if, when, verse 10, we were
enemies, we were reconciled to
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God by the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled, we
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shall be saved by his life.
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He shall, it says right here in
Daniel chapter 9 he is going to
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make
reconciliation for iniquity.
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Paul has got to be quoting
directly from the prophecy of
00:52:18.43\00:52:21.53
Daniel and applying it to Jesus.
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--I love that at the right time.
00:52:23.76\00:52:25.40
--Yes in due time.
00:52:25.40\00:52:26.66
It wasn't willy nilly and we see
in the gospels Jesus will sneak
00:52:26.66\00:52:30.83
away when a crowd comes,
when they try to make him....
00:52:30.83\00:52:33.56
--the time has not yet come.
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--Yes, the time has not yet
come, but then in the garden
00:52:34.80\00:52:37.36
they come with, you know, the
swords and the clubs and all of
00:52:37.36\00:52:40.63
that.
00:52:40.63\00:52:41.86
He essentially says man I
was teaching in the temple every
00:52:41.86\00:52:44.26
day, let's go.
00:52:44.26\00:52:45.50
And he willingly goes because
he knows, he actually says, one
00:52:45.50\00:52:48.96
place he says
my time is at hand.
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--By the way, real quick,
you mentioned that he's gotta be
00:52:50.80\00:52:53.83
quoting from Daniel, right, then
you begin to see that there's,
00:52:53.83\00:52:56.46
there's so many little things
that are said that are in direct
00:52:56.46\00:53:00.36
reference to this prophecy.
00:53:00.36\00:53:02.53
For example verse 27 says
he will confirm a covenant.
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During that last
stage of his earthly life.
00:53:05.43\00:53:09.73
Fast forward Matthew 26
he's with his disciples, they're
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partaking of the bread and
the wine, of the juice that
00:53:14.10\00:53:16.86
represents his blood and he says
this is the blood of the new
00:53:16.86\00:53:20.10
covenant.
00:53:20.10\00:53:20.93
At the exact same time
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.16
--he knows it he knows it.
00:53:23.16\00:53:24.23
--He knows what it is.
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--By the way that's the only
place, if I'm not mistaken that
00:53:25.86\00:53:28.13
the word covenant occurs in
all of Matthew, the only place.
00:53:28.13\00:53:30.60
--Is that right?
00:53:30.60\00:53:31.80
--Yep, he knew that his
death was the ratification, the
00:53:31.80\00:53:35.20
sealing of the
covenant of Daniel 9.
00:53:35.20\00:53:37.00
But there in Daniel 9, we've
got to look at this because this
00:53:37.00\00:53:41.06
covering is not only forward to
Romans but it's going to loop us
00:53:41.06\00:53:46.10
back to Abraham.
00:53:46.10\00:53:47.33
--verses 26 and 27 Ok so in
the 5 minutes we have remaining
00:53:47.33\00:53:52.86
we're back in Daniel chapter 9
and the way that Jesus fulfills
00:53:52.86\00:53:58.43
covenant is by a
very specific means.
00:53:58.43\00:54:01.66
Verse 26 and after 62 weeks
Messiah shall be cut off but not
00:54:01.66\00:54:08.26
for himself and then the
language follows up in verse 27
00:54:08.26\00:54:12.23
he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week thus
00:54:12.23\00:54:16.93
bringing an end to sacrifice.
00:54:16.93\00:54:19.26
Ok that's verses 26 and 27
this language specifically is
00:54:19.26\00:54:23.83
referring back,
again, to Abraham.
00:54:23.83\00:54:26.56
Genesis chapter 15 remember
we looked at Genesis 15 and God
00:54:26.56\00:54:31.13
specifically entered into
covenant with Abraham by having
00:54:31.13\00:54:35.83
Abraham cut into 3 animal
sacrifices and then both God in
00:54:35.83\00:54:43.36
the form of a flaming torch
and Abraham passed between the
00:54:43.36\00:54:47.26
pieces in order to form
covenant with one another.
00:54:47.26\00:54:51.66
This language is so beautiful
that Messiah shall be cut off.
00:54:51.66\00:54:56.60
Essentially what it's saying
is that Jesus, in order to keep
00:54:56.60\00:55:01.00
covenant, will follow through to
experience this cutting off or
00:55:01.00\00:55:07.66
this sundry, this separation
when he cries out on the cross
00:55:07.66\00:55:12.50
"My God my God why
have you forsaken me?"
00:55:12.50\00:55:15.70
Jesus is experiencing all the
dark psychological and emotional
00:55:15.70\00:55:19.73
horror of the separation that
comes between God and falling
00:55:19.73\00:55:26.16
human beings
apart from salvation.
00:55:26.16\00:55:28.93
This is astounding.
00:55:28.93\00:55:30.40
--So he's taking upon us of
thousands of years of covenant
00:55:30.40\00:55:35.13
infidelity and he's
taking it upon himself.
00:55:35.13\00:55:37.93
--And he's following through to
keep covenant to remain faithful
00:55:37.93\00:55:42.36
but you remember in Genesis 15
the covenant the symbolism, let
00:55:42.36\00:55:46.76
me slow down here, the symbolism
of cutting the animals into and
00:55:46.76\00:55:50.76
passing between the pieces
was a formal ritualistic oath.
00:55:50.76\00:55:58.33
It was a way of saying may
it be done as it's done to these
00:55:58.33\00:56:03.06
animal sacrifices if I don't
follow through to keep my word.
00:56:03.06\00:56:07.83
--But he did.
00:56:07.83\00:56:09.00
--Yeah Jesus did.
00:56:09.00\00:56:10.26
He follows through to keep God's
word and he makes atonement for
00:56:10.26\00:56:13.80
our unfaithfulness to the
covenant on the human end of the
00:56:13.80\00:56:18.03
spectrum.
00:56:18.03\00:56:19.10
We didn't keep covenant
so he has to be severed.
00:56:19.10\00:56:21.46
He has to be cut off.
00:56:21.46\00:56:23.60
--That's why
since not for himself.
00:56:23.60\00:56:25.56
--Isn't the word
there, that's right?
00:56:25.56\00:56:27.56
--Forgive me if I'm wrong about
this but isn't the language
00:56:27.56\00:56:29.70
there the exact same language
the cutting into pieces?
00:56:29.70\00:56:32.76
--It is.
00:56:32.76\00:56:33.76
--The passing through
the pieces that's the idea.
00:56:33.76\00:56:35.46
It's the very same word.
00:56:35.46\00:56:37.63
--Not only that but in the New
Testament it talks about people
00:56:37.63\00:56:40.86
who are lost in Matthew 24 for
example and it talks about them
00:56:40.86\00:56:44.46
being cut off.
00:56:44.46\00:56:47.23
It talks about it in the
context of them being cut off.
00:56:47.23\00:56:48.86
In other words
00:56:48.86\00:56:50.20
--You mean the Old Testament.
00:56:50.20\00:56:50.86
--In the New Testament too.
00:56:50.86\00:56:51.46
--Oh ok got it.
00:56:51.46\00:56:52.73
--In the New Testament it bores
that same phrase, that's what
00:56:52.73\00:56:54.43
we're talking about the idea
that the New Testament is born
00:56:54.43\00:56:56.50
from the Old Testament.
00:56:56.50\00:56:57.76
Christ tasted what will be the
experience, the reality of those
00:56:57.76\00:57:03.06
who reject this covenant
experience, what God has
00:57:03.06\00:57:08.36
accomplished for them, Christ
tasted that because that cut off
00:57:08.36\00:57:11.56
phrase is used to
apply to those who reject.
00:57:11.56\00:57:14.06
--Now David I just want to
point out here you mentioned the
00:57:14.06\00:57:17.06
language, the word covenant in
Daniel 9:27 he shall confirm the
00:57:17.06\00:57:21.90
covenant, the word covenant
is bareth in the Hebrew and the
00:57:21.90\00:57:26.10
word literally means to cut
asunder or to cut in pieces.
00:57:26.10\00:57:32.30
And that is exactly the same
word that is used in Genesis 15
00:57:32.30\00:57:36.26
verse 18 on that day
when this sacrifice was made.
00:57:36.26\00:57:40.13
On that day the Lord
made a covenant, bareth.
00:57:40.13\00:57:43.50
It's the same exact word a
cutting of the pieces will take
00:57:43.50\00:57:48.50
place.
00:57:48.50\00:57:49.73
There is just this infinite
scale of suffering that will be
00:57:49.73\00:57:53.43
endured by God in Christ in
order to save the human race.
00:57:53.43\00:57:59.00
--The depth of this, again, I
just feel like a child swimming
00:57:59.00\00:58:03.10
in the ocean here.
00:58:03.10\00:58:04.30
To sort of put the picture
together, at least for my mind,
00:58:04.30\00:58:07.73
I just want to say that
what Jesus has done and has
00:58:07.73\00:58:14.13
accomplished is so remarkable,
so intentional, so perfect that
00:58:14.13\00:58:20.70
he just is
worthy of our worship.
00:58:20.70\00:58:22.80
We had a moment and it wasn't
on camera here it was off camera
00:58:22.80\00:58:26.13
but when the camera's
went off we were like.
00:58:26.13\00:58:27.93
We were freaking out, like
this is true this is awesome.
00:58:27.93\00:58:31.03
Jesus was a genius, you know we
were just like having a worship
00:58:31.03\00:58:33.70
moment right there.
00:58:33.70\00:58:34.96
And we so often, that's right,
we so often think oh worship.
00:58:34.96\00:58:37.80
Ok somebody cue the
band and we'll worship.
00:58:37.80\00:58:41.06
This is worship man.
00:58:41.06\00:58:42.30
--It is.
00:58:42.30\00:58:43.50
--Understanding, studying,
conversing, fellowshipping, this
00:58:43.50\00:58:48.03
is, I love it there in Malachi
3 where it says that a book of
00:58:48.03\00:58:51.76
remembrance was written before
the Lord when people thought
00:58:51.76\00:58:54.46
upon His name.
00:58:54.46\00:58:55.63
That's what
we're doing right now.
00:58:55.63\00:58:57.36
We are thinking about the
goodness of God in Christ, his
00:58:57.36\00:59:00.46
covenant faithfulness.
00:59:00.46\00:59:01.73
And this is an act of worship.
00:59:01.73\00:59:03.86
And it's an
experience of worship.
00:59:03.86\00:59:05.36
--We're essentially saying that
when we begin to see God for who
00:59:05.36\00:59:09.13
God really is He
becomes extremely attractive.
00:59:09.13\00:59:13.33
We're drawn to Him.
00:59:13.33\00:59:15.23
He's beautiful in our
eyes because there is beauty in
00:59:15.23\00:59:19.80
covenant faithfulness.
00:59:19.80\00:59:22.66
This is a response that's right.
00:59:22.66\00:59:23.66