Participants: David Asscherick, James Rafferty, Jeffrey Rosario, Ty Gibson
Series Code: TT
Program Code: TT000020
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00:12 [Music] 00:20 This has been a great discussion so far in our 00:23 righteousness by faith series. 00:25 We are in part 7 now and we're calling this one righteous man 00:29 which gives a clue, a hint that we are inching toward the New 00:34 Testament. 00:36 But let's just admit it we love the Old Testament scriptures. 00:38 --Amen. 00:40 --And we love the Old Testament scriptures because we are seeing 00:42 that the narrative and the story that is broken down and 00:48 unfolding in these Old Testament scriptures is rich with gospel 00:53 truth and insight. 00:55 --By the way we should mention that if because normally the Old 00:57 Testament is viewed as awe, all that crazy stuff, all the 01:01 complexity, all those weird verses but I think we should 01:04 mention that if we were to view the Old Testament in the context 01:07 of the story then all of that weirdness kind of begins to make 01:13 more sense. 01:14 --seeming weirdness 01:15 --Hey can I ask a question? 01:16 --Thank you. 01:17 -I've asked this question of a lot of people before, if you 01:18 could have either the Old Testament or the New Testament 01:20 memorized in any translation of your choice but just verbatim 01:24 which would you chose? 01:25 --Old for sure. 01:26 --Old 01:28 --Yeah old because the new one is smaller. 01:29 [Laughter] 01:31 No think about it though if you had the Old Testament memorized 01:34 you could then read the New Testament with such a rich 01:38 perspective there would just be trigger, trigger, trigger, 01:40 trigger. 01:41 --It's amazing though, if you ask most people, not maybe us 01:44 who are preachers and you know closet theologians as it were, 01:47 but you asked most people like just people that I am in 01:51 familiarity with, Christians, have them over to the house 75% 01:54 of the people New Testament, New Testament, New Testament. 01:56 You'd say New Testament? 01:57 --I just love the book of Revelation so I'm kind of 01:58 sticking. 01:59 --Well you have that memorized. 02:01 --But he just asked a question so I gave an answer. 02:04 --Ok, alright, I'm taking Old. 02:05 --So we're talking about the Bible as a story, okay. 02:11 And we're seeing here that the Bible isn't just a collection of 02:14 books with verses that you can pull picky little statements out 02:19 of to construct whatever you want to construct. 02:22 --Well it is that but it's not that responsible. 02:25 --Financial principles, principles for successful 02:28 living. 02:29 The Bible is actually an unfolding narrative. 02:32 It's telling a story and we've seen that that story, the ground 02:36 work for that story is laid in the book of Genesis of course, 02:39 and we have this towering figure, Abraham. 02:43 Abraham is the father of the concept the truth the reality of 02:49 righteousness by faith and Israel is the people that 02:53 emerges from Abraham for the purpose of establishing God's 02:59 covenant in the earth for all the nations of the earth. 03:03 And we've been looking at numerous Old Testament 03:06 prophesies that are pointing forward to the fulfillment of 03:10 covenant in Christ the Messiah. 03:12 And now we've come to one that we all hold very very near and 03:16 dear and sacred to our hearts, Daniel chapter 9. 03:21 Daniel chapter 9 is just an incredible Bible prophesy of the 03:28 Messiah. 03:29 And it's greatly misunderstood. 03:32 We don't need to go into the details of this but Daniel 03:36 chapter 9 is not generally viewed as a Messianic prophesy 03:43 but that's really what it is. 03:46 So you have to try hard not to see the Messiah. 03:49 --Exactly. 03:50 --You have to try very hard. 03:51 --I don't know how people do it. 03:52 I don't know how people do it but some manage to. 03:54 For me Daniel chapter 9 is the critical hinge verse, it's the 04:00 full proof verse between the Old Testament and the New. 04:03 I mean there are lots of passages there that you could go 04:05 to but this passage more than any other single passage in the 04:07 Old Testament encapsulates for me this crucial transition from 04:12 the covenant that was not kept, you know, by Abraham's 04:17 descendants broken, broken, broken, broken, not on the part 04:20 of God but on the part of God's covenant people and the fact 04:24 that it will be kept. 04:26 But it will be kept by a faithful Israelite, one 04:28 righteous man who will be the true Israel, the true Adam, the 04:33 true humanity and that's Jesus Christ. 04:35 This is the one for me that all of this sets up this. 04:40 And that's why it's just such a crime, it's such a tragedy when 04:44 Daniel is misunderstood somehow not in its radical 04:48 Christocentric way which is the biblical way. 04:51 You go ahead. 04:54 --Well I love the way that the chapter is introduced because in 04:56 the beginning of this chapter we have this corporate language. 05:00 Daniel uses this word over and over and over again, it's really 05:04 easy to catch. 05:05 He's a captive in Babylon. 05:07 He's there because of the apostasy and unfaithfulness of 05:10 his people. 05:11 He's there because God's purpose was always to reach the Gentiles 05:16 and other nations through his people and God's purposes will 05:19 not fail. 05:20 He will be faithful to that and he'll use whoever will be 05:22 faithful to accomplish that. 05:24 So there's Daniel being faithful and therefore God brings Daniel 05:27 into Babylon, not for the purpose of anything less than 05:31 revealing this God of heaven and earth, this creator to the 05:34 Babylonians so they can be saved which actually ends up being 05:37 these of Nebuchadnezzar. 05:39 --That's a powerful point because we're talking about how 05:42 Israel is in captivity because of their lack of fidelity to 05:47 God's covenant right? 05:49 They're in captivity as the result of their unfaithfulness 05:53 contrasted with God's faithfulness, however, the fact 05:56 that they're in captivity also serves as double purpose, like 06:00 you're saying. 06:01 It brings them, it brings God's covenant exposure to other 06:06 nations. 06:07 --But not in the way that he intended to be. 06:10 --Right but, but like Ty said earlier when we were looking at 06:12 that verse, does the, does our unfaithfulness make God 06:14 unfaithful 06:15 No never. 06:16 He's still going to be faithful to accomplish his purpose. 06:19 --If the New Testament teaches us anything it teaches us that 06:23 God's promises will be fulfilled but not in the way that we 06:27 expect or anticipate. 06:30 And it's the grandest plot twist in all of literature I think. 06:32 By the time we get to God becoming a man and fulfilling 06:36 we're getting there, I mean. 06:38 --I mean earlier even in the book of Daniel in chapter 4 06:41 where we have this pagan king who encounters the God of Israel 06:45 but not in the, not in the ideal way. 06:49 It wouldn't have been at the top of God's list, this is how I 06:52 want to introduce myself to Nebuchadnezzar. 06:53 --Jeffrey you just preached, what a week and a half ago now 06:57 at a large gathering in Florida, GYC. 07:01 There were thousands of people there and one of the passages 07:03 that you preached on was the whole experience of the Queen of 07:08 Sheba coming to Solomon. 07:09 That's God's ideal. 07:11 And maybe you can just unpack that a little bit. 07:13 What was your kind of point? 07:15 --Yeah the idea there is that obviously there's news that's 07:18 traveling to other nations, there are reports, there are 07:21 rumors that these people, this nation Israel has something 07:26 amazing and very special. 07:28 So with the Queen of Sheba, what is it 2nd Kings chapter 10, you 07:32 have these people traveling coming in to encounter this 07:37 Hebrew culture because they've heard rumors that there are some 07:41 amazing things with these people that their God is amazing right. 07:45 So you have that but whenever you don't have that ideal 07:49 situation God allows his people to go into captivity and by 07:52 doing that he brings exposure to his covenant. 07:57 Just because the covenant people are in captivity to another 08:01 pagan nation. 08:02 You have Babylon, you have this --Exactly, Egypt, Greece. 08:06 --Again here, if you're done. 08:08 Ok here's this other theme that we've been following and that is 08:12 this corporateness, this corporateness of humanity. 08:15 So Daniel is obviously a righteous man in the sense that 08:19 we understand it. 08:20 He is faithful to God. 08:21 God is using him. 08:22 --He's a new covenant believer. 08:23 --And even his enemies can't find fault with him. 08:26 Now this is a spotless guy and he, but he uses this terminology 08:29 we, we, we, we, we. 08:31 And he uses it in a very very negative sense. 08:35 He's talking about all of the unfaithfulness of the people of 08:39 Israel to God he includes himself with them. 08:42 Now either Daniel is trying to be very humble. 08:45 He's trying to be very, you know, meek and you know of 08:52 course, yes I recognize that I, or he's actually speaking from 08:55 his heart. 08:56 --Or he truly feels that way. 08:57 --Yeah he knows. 08:58 --I totally agree with that but maybe there's something more and 09:02 this just came to me, I don't know if this is, if you guys 09:05 would resonate with this or not but he's speaking corporate 09:10 language. 09:11 So when he's saying we have sinned he understands something 09:14 that we have talked about in our previous session and that is 09:19 that while Israel is many Israel is one. 09:22 My son, my servant, singular. 09:25 He recognizes the corporate nature of Israel in the singular 09:31 sense and that prepares the way for the one true faithful 09:35 Israelite that is to be prophesied. 09:38 --That is exactly what I was gonna say. 09:39 You said it a lot better than I did. 09:41 And the whole idea here is that the corporate sense is this 09:45 depravity of our human fallen nature that he recognizes no 09:49 matter what his outward behavior is and we see that in Daniel 10, 09:52 no matter what his outward behavior is he recognizes that 09:55 he is depraved that his falleness is much deeper than 10:01 just his outward actions. 10:02 So he can be a man that's blameless, spotless praying 10:04 doing all of these things but he recognizes within himself is 10:08 that same disposition that the whole nation has to go into 10:12 apostasy. 10:13 And what's really powerful, you mentioned this Ty, and I'm just 10:15 going to elaborate on it is that it's that way of thinking that 10:20 allows heaven through Gabriel to communicate to him the corporate 10:24 identity of the Messiah is going to come and identify with 10:29 corporate humanity in its fallen condition and take upon him, us, 10:35 upon him our sins and our iniquities. 10:37 --So there's a sense in which Jesus is not only the one new, 10:42 one faithful Israelite but he's one new man. 10:46 He represents the entire human race as we move into the New 10:50 Testament. 10:51 Yeah can I just fly through chapter 9 because we've 10:54 mentioned chapter 9 but we haven't done anything with it. 10:56 I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna look at some of high points. 10:59 --Someone has to read verse 4 at least. 11:01 --Ok that's where I was gonna begin Jeffery, watch this. 11:03 In verse 4, this is amazing, God is called Oh Lord great and 11:08 awesome God and what is it defines God's greatness and his 11:11 awesomeness who keeps his covenant in mercy. 11:15 Ok then you skip down to verse 7 Oh Lord righteousness belongs to 11:21 you. 11:22 So God keeping His covenant is what defines His righteousness 11:27 which we flushed out before. 11:29 But now watch and then the end of verse 7 God who is righteous 11:33 who keeps covenant is called the one who is, well, excuse me 11:40 verse 7 righteousness belongs to you but unfaithfulness to us. 11:44 So unfaithfulness is held in contrast, our unfaithfulness is 11:49 held in contrast to God's righteousness and covenant 11:51 keeping. 11:52 Then look at verse 8 he says at the end of verse 8 we have 11:55 sinned against you. 11:57 This is very interesting especially in the light of our 11:59 previous discussions and that is that sin is defined here 12:05 specifically as unfaithfulness to covenant. 12:08 Isn't that something? 12:09 And then verse 9 to the Lord our God belongs mercy and 12:14 forgiveness. 12:16 So there's an expectation here that our unfaithfulness will be 12:19 dealt with by mercy and forgiveness. 12:24 So it's just amazing to me that in this context, again, the 12:29 language is covenant language. 12:30 God is defined in terms of faithfulness to the covenant and 12:33 sin is defined in terms of unfaithfulness to covenant. 12:36 --The whole thing here in Daniel 9 is taking place, again, as is 12:40 all of scripture against the backdrop of either an explicit 12:44 or implicit law of court there is a court scene here, there is 12:50 a trial, there's a standard, someone has been faithful to 12:52 that standard, someone has been unfaithful to that standard. 12:54 And in the case of Daniel it's particularly remarkable because 12:58 Daniel is confessing he's not trying to justify himself and 13:01 say no no no we've been true to the standard. 13:03 We should be found justified or blameless in the implicit law of 13:08 court. 13:09 He's saying we're actually guilty. 13:10 And you have been faithful, you have been righteous. 13:12 Now with your permission I think we'll get a better feel for the 13:16 flow of the passage if I just quickly read it through 13:18 beginning in verse 4. 13:19 It really and you did touch on some of the main passages there 13:23 though, the main highlights Ty. 13:24 But it really gives us a feel for the way that Daniel was 13:27 thinking, right. 13:28 Because this is exile, the temple is destroyed. 13:31 I mean we've got to put ourselves, Israel as God 13:35 intended it is nowhere to be seen. 13:37 Jerusalem and the temple as God intended it is nowhere to be 13:40 seen and this is the response and the thinking of a faithful 13:44 Jew, in the light of what has happened. 13:46 Verse 4 Oh Lord great and awesome God, first thing out of 13:51 his mouth, who keeps his covenant and mercy with those 13:54 who love him and with those who keep his commandments. 13:56 So he begins by saying implicit law of court you've been 13:59 faithful, you've been true. 14:00 Now watch the rest of this we have sinned and committed 14:03 iniquity. 14:04 We have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from 14:06 your precepts and your judgments. 14:08 Neither have we heeded your servants the prophets who spoke 14:10 in your name to our kings and princes, to our fathers and all 14:14 the people of the land. 14:15 Oh Lord Righteousness belongs to you, rightness in the implicit 14:19 law of court. 14:21 But to us shame of face as it is at this day to the men of Judah 14:23 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and 14:27 those afar off and all the countries which you have driven 14:30 them because of the unfaithfulness which they have 14:32 committed against you. 14:33 Oh Lord to us belong shame of face to our kings, our princes 14:37 and our fathers because we have sinned against you. 14:40 To the Lord our God belongs mercy and forgiveness that we 14:42 have rebelled against him. 14:44 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his 14:47 laws which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 14:49 Yes all Israel has transgressed your law. 14:54 So what you see here, I mean clearly, you can read the rest 14:57 of the prayer it's one of the most emotive prayers in all of 15:00 scripture. 15:01 What Daniel is saying, it's one of the longest, Daniel is saying 15:03 here is the standard. 15:04 And the standard is the covenantal agreement that you 15:06 made with Abraham that was then, and I like what you said in an 15:09 early session Ty that was then augmented and nuanced and never 15:12 changed but added onto by later prophetic revelation in Moses 15:17 and even outside of Moses. 15:19 So here you have this thing, the covenant, and what Daniel is 15:21 essentially saying is God there's not been an instance in 15:25 which you have not kept covenant with your people, not one 15:27 instance. 15:28 But we have sinned. 15:30 We have rebelled. 15:31 We have turned away. 15:32 So we're guilty. 15:34 --And in fact he even mentions the oath that was written by the 15:36 Law of Moses in the rest of that first verse. 15:37 --Yes he does, yes he does. 15:39 Read it. 15:40 --It says therefore the curse was poured upon us and the oath 15:43 that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God because 15:45 we sinned against him. 15:47 And so he's confirmed the words which he spoke against us and 15:51 against our judges and judged us are bringing upon us a great 15:54 evil for unto the whole heaven has not been done which has been 15:57 done upon Jerusalem. 15:59 As it is written in the Law of Moses verse 13, all this evil 16:03 has come upon us and yet we made not our prayer before the Lord 16:06 our God that we might, that we might turn from our iniquities 16:10 and understand by truth. 16:12 -He is, Daniel is quoting directly here. 16:15 The ideas that he's getting are straight out of Deuteronomy 28. 16:18 That the closing passage in the writings of Moses 27, 28, 29, 30 16:23 was essentially this Israel I have made the universe and the 16:28 world to operate on certain principles, principles of love 16:31 of magnimity of grace of forgiveness. 16:36 And if you operate in harmony with those principles as 16:38 communicated in the covenant than this is what will happen. 16:40 If you operate out of harmony with those principles this is 16:44 what will happen. 16:46 So he's basically saying blessing and cursing and Daniel 16:49 here is saying all that stuff that you said that's happening 16:53 right now. 16:54 We know the times in which we're living, the circumstances in 16:57 which we are living and the beauty of Daniel chapter 9 is 17:00 there's lots of passages like this in the Old Testament where 17:02 prophets are saying you know Jeremiah 11 is a great one. 17:05 You had a covenant unfaithful, unfaithful, unfaithful, 17:08 unfaithful but the beauty of Daniel 9 is that when the whole 17:11 thing closes and I don't know how much depth we want to get 17:13 into in terms of the actual prophesy and anticipation of 17:17 Messiah. 17:18 But the thing that Messiah will do is the most remarkable thing 17:22 verse 27, I'll just jump down there, if you guys want to fill 17:25 in the details above that that's great but he says he, Messiah, 17:30 will confirm a covenant with many for one week but in the 17:34 middle of the week he brings an end to sacrifice and offering. 17:37 Daniel 9 opens with Oh great and awesome God who keeps his 17:41 covenant we've broken, broken, broken, broken, broken. 17:43 Daniel 9 but you will keep it. 17:48 He will come and keep covenant. 17:51 --Powerful, powerful 17:52 --I love this I love it in the context of his prayer too 17:54 because when he gets ready to end his prayer than Gabriel 17:56 comes to give him this prophesy. 17:58 As he ends this prayer he says so here's our condition, here's 18:01 how sinful we've been. 18:02 Here's all of our apostasy now could you do this for your 18:05 namesake? 18:07 Yeah could you do this because of who you are? 18:10 Because of your faithfulness? 18:11 You are such and awesome God and I would hate to see your name, 18:16 because remember what you did with Israel I mean with Egypt. 18:19 He talks about that. 18:20 Remember how you brought us out of Egypt? 18:22 And that's the same thing Moses said. 18:23 Moses said don't destroy them because what about your name? 18:26 --This is burning in my bosom because of some sermons that you 18:29 preached. 18:31 Spend a little moment on that I mean you preached this whole 18:34 idea recently, again at GYC on hey what are the Gentiles? 18:39 Walk us through that. 18:40 --Well in the context of this passage that God realizes how 18:43 high the stakes are for the rest of the world to have access to 18:48 his promises. 18:49 And so this idea that you're talking about where God is 18:52 pleading with, Daniel pleading with God that in scripture you 18:56 often find where God will say I'm gonna do such and such, not 19:00 because you deserve it but for the sake of the Gentiles. 19:04 What will they think of my name, name, my character? 19:08 And then you find the flip side of it where often times in 19:12 scripture God's people are pleading with him and they say 19:15 you need to do such and such. 19:18 Not because of us but you have to because if you don't what 19:21 will the Gentiles think? 19:22 What will people think of you? 19:25 So you have this concern, this high sense of awareness in the 19:30 heart of God to be properly understood so that people know 19:34 who he is and what he is like. 19:37 --His reputation is at stake but not because he's egocentric. 19:41 His reputation is at stake because he has an evangelistic 19:44 eye. 19:46 God is still thinking in terms of Genesis chapter 12 I want to 19:51 bless the whole world, all nations. 19:54 I'm pursuing every man, woman and child on planet earth. 19:57 And if you, my people, make me look bad in their eyes then the 20:03 power of the attraction is broken. 20:05 --You've got it. 20:06 --Which is so beautiful because that's Ezekiel 36 the whole 20:10 tenor of Ezekiel 36 is let me read just a couple of verses 20:14 here, therefore says I say unto the house of Israel thus saith 20:17 the Lord verse 22 I do not this for your sake oh house of Israel 20:22 but for my holy namesake which you have profaned among the 20:25 heathen where you went and I will sanctify my great name 20:28 which was profaned among the heathen which you have profaned 20:31 in the midst of them and the heathen shall know that I am the 20:34 Lord says the Lord God when I shall be sanctified in you 20:39 before their eyes. 20:40 And then he talks about the new covenant, sprinkle clean water, 20:43 etc., etc, etc. 20:44 --You can summarize that like this you guys are making me look 20:47 bad. 20:48 And again it's not a concern for his reputation for his own 20:51 conceit sake. 20:52 He's saying I'm the source of life. 20:56 I'm the best thing for you in the whole world and you guys are 20:59 making me look terrible. 21:01 --Guys this is beautiful point in Hosea 21:03 --Can you go in after the break? 21:04 --That's what I'm saying after the break. 21:06 --We have to take a break there's this thing called time 21:09 and it just keeps ticking away. 21:11 So let's just take a break and we'll come right back. 21:13 Don't lose that thought Jeffrey. 21:23 This is the story of Niyima who took a bus to the doctor and 21:28 found a piece of paper with words of hope about Jesus, which 21:33 was left by a church member who unpacked a box that 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basis of His 24:04 track record right? 24:05 So now Daniel brings back Lord in keeping with your reputation. 24:11 --Can I add verses before you go to Hosea? 24:13 --Go for it. 24:14 --Because you were in chapter 9 here's exactly what you just 24:16 said in verse 14 God is righteous in all the works which 24:22 he has done comma though we have not obeyed his voice. 24:24 See that? 24:26 --Yeah. 24:27 --Ok 24:28 --Ok so here's what I'm saying the thing, the seminal event 24:32 that he points to is the bringing out of Egypt, I just 24:36 wanted to bring out this little point here that I think is 24:38 powerful. 24:39 In Hosea 11 next book in verse 1 when Israel was a child I loved 24:45 him. 24:46 --Singular. 24:48 --Yes. 24:49 --And out of Egypt I called my son. 24:53 Ok in reference to this major major event in the history of 24:58 this people right, the exodus from Egypt. 25:00 --That is the defining event in the history of Israel 25:03 --That's it. 25:04 --But the reason I think that's powerful is because when the 25:07 Messiah, because we're basically on the...we're right there. 25:09 When we get into Matthew chapter 2 I get the privilege of 25:15 cracking open the Jesus book. 25:17 So in Matthew chapter 2 obviously the context here is 25:21 Christ is born, here's His childhood. 25:24 They flee back into Egypt to protect the child right, and 25:29 then in verse 14 it says they arose and took the young child 25:35 meaning Jesus and his mother by night and departed for Egypt and 25:40 was there verse 15 until the death of Herod that it might be 25:43 fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet 25:48 saying out of Egypt I called my son. 25:52 Direct verbatim quote from Hosea 11:1 so here's the point that 25:56 I'm trying to make, Daniel 9, Daniel is pleading Lord we have 25:59 failed, we have been unfaithful, our relational fidelity stinks. 26:04 But you have been faithful, you have been faithful. 26:07 So the point of Daniel 9 is the Messiah will come to be faithful 26:13 where God's people were unfaithful. 26:15 --So here's the incredible thing. 26:17 --That's exactly right. 26:18 --Here's the incredible thing in Daniel chapter 9 and the whole 26:20 Old Testament we have this constant refrain God is faithful 26:23 even when Israel was not, God is faithful, Israel no, God is 26:27 faithful, Israel not. 26:29 Jesus, God is faithful now man is faithful and Jesus fulfills 26:37 faithfulness to the covenant from both ends of the spectrum. 26:39 --He's the righteous one. 26:40 --Yes he's faithful, he's faithful as God to man and he's 26:44 faithful as man to God. 26:47 --He's the Lord of righteousness. 26:48 --The circle of beneficent is complete in Christ. 26:51 --Jeremiah 23:6 26:52 --So he is man's guarantee that God will fulfill his promises 26:55 and God's guarantee that man will be made in his image 26:59 and will be able to fulfill to be faithful to God's 27:02 covenant. 27:04 --Exactly, the longing desire of God's heart, and you see this 27:06 refrain over and over again in the Old Testament is I will be 27:09 their God and they will be my people. 27:11 So God's always scanning. 27:12 He's got the radar on looking for the person about whom he can 27:16 say, that's my guy, that's my dude right there. 27:19 We see an instance of this, by the way, with Job, right? 27:21 When Satan comes and says it's my planet, whatever, I've been 27:25 walking to and fro God what does he long to do? 27:27 He wants to point to somebody and say that's my guy. 27:29 --Have you noticed, have you noticed Job. 27:30 --Now to some degree, I mean there have been times I think 27:33 where God could have said that about me. 27:34 So to you, so to you, so to you, so to you. 27:36 So to Job in other instances. 27:38 --For me not last Tuesday. 27:41 [Laughter] 27:42 --Not last Tuesday, what happened last Tuesday? 27:43 --It was a bad day. 27:44 I was a bad boy. 27:45 --Ok [Laughter] 27:46 --It was bad. 27:47 --I was in California, so I don't even know what he's 27:49 talking about. 27:50 I'm nervous. 27:51 -Don't confess, don't confess. 27:53 --But the only one about whom it could always be said under 27:56 every, even the most trying and testing circumstance Jesus said 28:00 I do always those things that place Him. 28:03 He could say, the thing that he said as he was coming up out of 28:05 the waters of baptism, my son in whom I am well pleased. 28:10 This is the one. 28:11 You want to know what I'm like. 28:13 And Jesus would say again, if you've seen me. 28:15 --But here's the thing, when he comes up out of the water in 28:18 baptism, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, Paul 28:23 later on takes that beloved son language and applies it 28:27 corporately to the human race. 28:29 So when Jesus goes through the process of fulfilling all 28:33 righteousness being baptized, when he comes up out of the 28:37 water, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 28:42 That is a universal corporate benediction that God the father 28:47 is speaking over humanity as a whole in Christ. 28:50 --Wait, wait, wait, wait amazing. 28:52 --Ty, Ty, Ty but what you just said, you know, drawing 28:56 attention to the baptism is even more profound in the context of 29:00 Israel because isn't it true that Jesus very carefully and 29:05 tactfully begins to repeat the history of Israel. 29:08 --I don't know about tactfully but yes, carefully. 29:11 --Very intentionally. 29:12 --To retrace the history of Israel so he 29:15 --Name instances. 29:17 --For instance how long is he in the 29:19 --wilderness for 40 days, wilderness for 40 years 29:22 --and then 29:24 --well first of all before the wilderness what's the baptism of 29:26 Jesus parallel. 29:27 --That's where we're going crossing of the Red Sea. 29:28 --That's right. 29:30 --Before that out of Egypt. 29:32 --And after Jesus gets baptized where does he go? 29:35 --Into the wilderness. 29:37 --Into the wilderness. 29:38 --For how long? 29:39 --For 40 days and 29:41 --How long was Israel in the wilderness? 29:42 --For 40 not, and then check this out when Israel is in the 29:44 wilderness they received the book of Deuteronomy when Christ 29:47 is in his wilderness he comes and he's being tempted by Satan 29:50 and he quotes 3 times it is written, it is written, it is 29:54 written from the book of Deuteronomy. 29:56 --It's just, it's profound 29:58 --What's the next one though. 29:59 --When Messiah is fulfilling 30:00 --yeah what's the next one, what's the next one? 30:02 --He goes on from there and Jesus delivers his first sermon 30:04 where? 30:05 --From a mountain. 30:06 --From a mountain and what is that sermon? 30:08 It is a magnification of the law of God. 30:12 You're at Sinai now. 30:13 Jesus, Israel personified is now at the mountain and the law is 30:19 restated. 30:20 This is remarkable fulfillment. 30:22 --And there's one that we misread at the beginning and 30:24 that is that the circumstances by which ancient Israel, 30:28 national Israel was led into Egypt was because a man named 30:31 Joseph had dreams that anticipated that. 30:34 In the gospel of Matthew he wants to make it very clear that 30:37 Joseph has dreams and the dream says hey take my child into 30:42 Egypt. 30:43 So you have this whole 30:45 --Joseph, the father of Jesus has a dream. 30:47 --Take him into Egypt. 30:48 --So Jesus, we began with the baptism. 30:53 --There's another one by the way. 30:54 --I mean, yeah, we back up from there Jesus came out of Egypt 30:58 then which parallels the exodus. 31:00 -Of course, exactly, at every -What's the one we missed? 31:03 --The reason why we have Christ coming into Bethlehem or at 31:09 least his parents coming in is to decree, a royal decree of a 31:11 heathen king. 31:12 And you see the same thing taking place in relationship to 31:15 going into captivity into Egypt. 31:17 --The Pharaoh. 31:18 -Yeah the Pharaoh. 31:20 The Pharaoh decreeing yes bring all of your house all of them in 31:22 here so every one of these things is paralleling, every one 31:25 of these things is taking us through this, as you said, this 31:28 repeat of the history of Israel. 31:30 --My memory may be wrong on this so correct me if I'm wrong but 31:33 wasn't, didn't Jesus go into Egypt because there was a census 31:39 being taken and wasn't 31:41 --Not into Egypt, no no no, that was into Bethlehem. 31:44 --Into Bethlehem. 31:45 --He went into Egypt because someone was going to harm the 31:47 child. 31:48 --That's right. 31:49 --What about this, I'm stretching, I'm stretching you 31:51 guys now Genesis 12 Abraham the father of, I'm gonna call him 31:56 Israel, he's called out of his father's house. 32:01 And then Christ the Messiah comes from his father's house, 32:04 from the father in heaven. 32:07 --What? 32:08 [Laughter] 32:15 --It's too deep, it's too deep. 32:19 --There is no question that Matthew, let's take it a two 32:22 levels, first of all Jesus is clearly intentionally doing 32:25 this. 32:26 This is not just serendipitously occurring, oh look at that, 32:29 willy nilly, it just happened to match up 40 days, Joseph. 32:32 --Not a coincidence. 32:34 --Jesus is intentionally purposefully doing this for a 32:38 reason and the reason is to send a message, a clear message that 32:42 he is Israel. 32:45 Now that sounds a little strange to us because we think of Israel 32:47 as a nation. 32:48 But let's remind ourselves that the first person ever called 32:52 Israel was a single person. 32:55 --Jacob. 32:56 --Jacob who won a spiritual victory. 32:58 --Yes. 33:00 --Right a single person that won a spiritual victory. 33:02 And then that grows and becomes the nation of Israel. 33:06 And here we have a single person gaining repeated spiritual 33:10 victories and becomes Israel. 33:12 Now this is a language thing, theological and linguistic that 33:17 I'm very insistent about. 33:19 --Jacob had 12 sons and Jesus had 12 disciples. 33:21 --Of course, there's so many, and I don't mean to cut you off 33:25 there but there's something that we have to be precise about. 33:27 Ok I'm cutting you off, no you cut me off. 33:28 [Laughter] 33:30 And that is that we so often talk about how the church 33:34 replaced Israel. 33:35 You hear this it's sometimes called replacement theology, you 33:38 know, Israel didn't get 'er done and so God raised up the church. 33:40 And so this masks the much larger point. 33:44 God did everything he said he would do in Israel. 33:48 --It's important to understand this. 33:50 --In Israel but Israel was not the nation of Israel, they had 33:53 opportunity, the failed, they failed, they failed, they 33:55 failed, they failed, we went to Isaiah and looked at all those, 33:57 my servant will do this, my servant will do this. 33:58 Isaiah writes with hope, with belief, with anticipation. 34:01 But what happens is the greatest plot twist in all of literature 34:04 God himself becomes, not just a man, but a Jew. 34:09 He becomes Israel step-by-step, point-by-point walks through the 34:12 history of national Israel. 34:14 And so it's not that Israel has been replaced. 34:18 It's that Israel has been fulfilled. 34:21 --And let's just make this point crystal clear, so God 34:22 accomplishes everything he promises to Israel in Jesus 34:27 Christ. 34:28 --There's a verse that says that exactly, it's, it's 34:32 2 Corinthians chapter 1. 34:33 --Is that the yes and amen verse? 34:35 --Yes 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20. 34:38 I love this. 34:39 I tell you if this one verse was understood by many of our 34:42 various Christian friends in various places it would, it 34:48 would literally short circuit so much misunderstanding about 34:51 Israel all of this. 34:52 --Where is it? 34:54 --2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 20. 34:55 For all of the promises of God, let's just pause right there 35:00 --The whole testament. 35:01 --The entire Old Testament every promise that God made. 35:03 --And and more specifically Israel's entire history. 35:06 --Exactly and its history in the Proverbs, in the Psalms, in the 35:10 prophecies, in the poems, everything. 35:12 All of the promises of God in him, that's Jesus, are yes. 35:20 And in Him amen to the glory of God 35:24 --Now notice this David, notice this verse 18 but as God is 35:30 --faithful 35:32 --faithful, true, our word or the word of God toward you is 35:35 not yay and, excuse me, was not yay and nay. 35:39 --Yes and no. 35:40 --For the son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among 35:43 you but us even by Silvanus and Timotheus and was not yes and no 35:50 but in him was yes. 35:52 That's the context of it. 35:53 God is faithful, the word has been preached, the promises have 35:57 been fulfilled. 35:58 All of it is established in Christ. 36:00 --That's right. 36:01 --No I'm reading these with new glasses. 36:03 This is so clear in the context of all these Old Testament 36:07 verses. 36:08 --The first time I ever read and understood this book I read an 36:11 entire book that was based on this single verse right here 36:16 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 21. 36:17 It was called The Israel of God in Prophecy by Dr. Hans Lara 36:20 dell who's passed away now. 36:21 But there's this major misunderstanding in modern 36:24 chrisiandom that says God is going to do this to national 36:28 Israel. 36:29 I'm talking about right now 2014 Israel. 36:30 And the whole thing is misguided. 36:33 It's not the way that Paul or any New Testament writer 36:36 understood what Israel was. 36:38 --It's already done. 36:39 --It's been done, it was done 2000 years ago. 36:42 Everything that God was going to do, every promise that God made 36:47 is yes. 36:48 But where is it yes? 36:49 It's yes in Jesus. 36:50 --And again it seems like this is just one of those statements, 36:55 these verses just kind of stated. 36:57 And then it gets on to, you know what I'm saying. 36:59 --I see what you're saying. 37:01 --It's understood. 37:02 It's just understood. 37:03 --One of the things. 37:05 --I don't know what direction you want to go here Ty. 37:06 --This is what Silvanus is preaching this is what 37:08 Timotheus, this is what every one of us has been preaching, 37:10 this is the word we've been preaching. 37:12 --The one thing I was gonna mention earlier and I just don't 37:14 want to let it trail in the dust because I think it's important 37:17 is back in Daniel chapter 9, we don't have to turn there. 37:19 We started with the opening of the covenant, we ended with 37:22 someone will come and will keep covenant, will love God with all 37:25 his heart, mind and soul and his neighbor as himself. 37:27 And I loved it a little bit later in Daniel chapter 11 verse 37:31 what is it, you know this 21, 22? 37:32 --Yes. 37:33 --He calls him the prince of the covenant. 37:36 For Daniel I mentioned that, let's see how a Jew was thinking 37:42 about covenant, about Jerusalem, about the Deuteronomy blessings 37:47 and cursing's, the anticipation is of someone who will come. 37:50 They are longing for a faithful Israelite. 37:53 Longing for someone to keep covenant with God. 37:56 --Since you brought up Daniel 11 and there's no way we can break 37:59 down Daniel 11 but I will just say this, Jesus is called the 38:04 prince of the covenant in verse 22. 38:06 And just mention this, this is an area of study that we can get 38:10 into sometime and those who are in this conversation with us. 38:14 But check this out, when we talk about eschatology, end time 38:19 events, the way the closure comes to human history. 38:24 The word covenant show up repeatedly in verse 28 you have 38:28 a power that has moved up against the holy covenant. 38:31 And in verse 30 you have this power that has rage against the 38:36 holy covenant. 38:37 And those who over whom this power exerts influence forsake 38:43 the holy covenant. 38:44 In verse 32 they do wickedly against the covenant. 38:50 And then there's by contrast those who know their God do 38:54 great exploits and as they know their God and carry out great 38:58 exploits what they're doing is they're manifesting, they're 39:02 following through with faithfulness to the covenant in 39:06 an end time setting. 39:07 So we don't have time to get into that. 39:09 I'm just pointing out that end time events even, how many times 39:14 have you ever heard end time events, the prophecies of Daniel 39:17 and Revelation spoken of, taught or preached in the context of 39:22 conflict over the covenant? 39:25 It's foreign to our thinking and the reason why is because we're 39:29 not doing theology and we're not doing eschatology in the direct 39:34 lineage of the historical trajectory of the Old Testament. 39:37 We're not reading the story, we're not reading the story, 39:39 we're jumping to the book of Revelation and we're defining. 39:45 --And with our newspaper in one hand and the book of Revelation 39:47 in the other. 39:48 --And we're not even thinking in terms of the covenant history of 39:52 Israel, its fulfillment in Christ and how the whole thing 39:55 is moving toward a complete realization of covenant 39:59 faithfulness in end time events. 40:01 --Can I, there's something that I know we at this table 40:05 understand. 40:06 But I just want to expressly spell out for those that are 40:08 listening in and that is when we talk a lot about, we talk about 40:11 the covenant, the covenant of course, is the whole history, 40:15 the arrangement that God made originally with Abraham and then 40:17 with his descendants and then ultimately, you know, sort of 40:19 epitomized in the nation of Israel. 40:21 We mentioned earlier that the determinative events that sort 40:25 of defines Israel is the exodus. 40:27 That's God calling his people out. 40:29 He brings them to the mountain and he gives them, he enters 40:31 into this covenant with them. 40:33 And He gives them the sanctuary you might remember a couple of 40:36 sessions ago we said oh the sanctuary but then we never went 40:38 back to it. 40:39 And in the sanctuary, without getting into too much detail 40:42 that we can go into as much as we want. 40:43 I just want to make this one point. 40:45 In the sanctuary was this most holy place piece of furniture in 40:50 the Israelite system and that was the Ark of the Covenant, the 40:54 Ark of the Covenant. 40:56 Listen to the language, most holy. 40:57 It was placed in the most holy place. 41:00 And what's inside of that thing? 41:01 The encapsulation, that which epitomizes and distills the 41:05 covenant, that's the Ten Commandments which is to say you 41:09 just go down them 1, 2, 3, 4 the first tablet or you know 5, 6, 41:12 7, 8, 9, 10 the second and that is supreme love for God and 41:16 authentical love for man. 41:18 So this is the standard and by the way you have, this is what I 41:20 like to say, you have the big 1, the big 2 and the big 10. 41:24 The big 1 is love, the big 2 is love for God, love for man and 41:28 the big 10 is the Ten Commandments and then you have 41:30 further, you know, the rest of the law and then you have, 41:33 that's what Jesus did. 41:36 There was never a time in Jesus' entire life where it was not 41:40 true that he was not loving God with all of his heart, mind and 41:43 soul. 41:44 And there's never an opportunity, just go read the 41:45 New Testament. 41:46 Read the gospels where Jesus is dismissive or unkind or cruel to 41:50 another person. 41:52 He kept covenant with God. 41:57 He was the very thing hoped for and longed for anticipated. 42:01 Wow. 42:03 --That's why I love this thing in Daniel 9 which I'd love to 42:05 get back to just share a little thought but I know we're out of 42:07 time on this session. 42:09 --Can we come back to that? 42:10 That's where we'll come back after the break. 42:23 The Light Bearers story is a short award winning video that 42:26 gives an inside look at one of the boldest and most effective 42:29 missionary ventures of our time. 42:31 You will see how multiple millions of gospel publications 42:35 are flooding the nations free of charge by surprisingly simple 42:38 means. 42:39 For your free copy of the Light Bearers story call 877-585-1111 42:47 or write to Light Bearers, 37457 Jasper Lowell Rd, 42:51 Jasper, OR 97438. 42:54 Once again for your free copy of the Light Bearers story call 42:58 877-585-1111 or write to Light Bearers, 37457 Jasper Lowell Rd, 43:06 Jasper, OR 97438. 43:10 Simply ask for the Light Bearers story. 43:13 James I think you were gonna take us back to Daniel 9? 43:16 --Daniel 9 because this whole new covenant thinking is just 43:19 beautiful and powerful especially when you recognize 43:21 that it is the landscape of the book of Daniel. 43:25 The whole book of Daniel is written in this new covenant 43:27 language so when you come to Daniel 9:24 Gabriel has come and 43:32 answered Daniels prayer. 43:33 He's going to give him more understanding of this prophecy 43:36 of Daniel 8, this 2300 day prophecy and in Daniel 9:24 he 43:40 begins to give him this insight, this understanding. 43:43 And he begins by saying this 70 weeks are determined or cut off 43:48 determined upon by thy people and thy holy seed. 43:50 In other words, your people Daniel, the Jews, the Jewish 43:53 nation, the Hebrews are going to have a time allotted to them. 43:56 It's a prophetic time of 70 weeks and that time is going to 43:59 be allotted and in that time they need to do, now notice 44:03 this, 44:05 --It's quite a list. 44:06 --Finish transgression, make sin, make reconciliation for 44:09 iniquity and I like this because it's transgression, sin, 44:13 iniquity, it's the whole bucket right there everything's there. 44:15 Every aspect of our depravity is there to bring in everlasting 44:20 righteousness to seal up the vision and the prophecy and to 44:23 anoint the most holy. 44:24 There are 7 things they need to accomplish now I like to ask 44:26 people when I preach on this prophecy I like to ask them did 44:28 Israel accomplish these 7 tasks in the allotted time? 44:34 --Yes and no. 44:35 --Ok most of the time people say no. 44:39 And my second question that I ask them in response to that is, 44:43 the second question I ask them is where they supposed to? 44:48 Were the literal Israelites supposed to accomplish those 44:52 tasks? 44:53 And the answer is yes as long as you're allowed to define what 44:55 that means. 44:56 And the answer to that. 44:57 --You guys are no remembering where in the first Table Talk 13 45:02 parts I said hey remember we dealt with, Daniel 9 and we 45:06 struggled with it. 45:07 --I don't remember that I'm still not getting it. 45:09 [Laughter] 45:10 And the answer the obvious answer in the context of the way 45:12 that most people think, not the way that you're thinking, not 45:15 the way that we've established this general direction. 45:17 But the way that most people think the answer is no. 45:20 God never intended that they would be the ones that would 45:24 fulfill this because notice verse 25 know therefore and 45:28 understand. 45:29 There's something that he's about to say in verse 25 that 45:32 you've got to understand in the context of the 70 weeks which is 45:36 490 prophetic days or 490 literal years. 45:42 There's something you need to understand and know in the 45:45 context of these tasks that need to be fulfilled and what is 45:47 that? 45:49 Well this is what it is known therefore and understand that 45:50 from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to 45:53 build Jerusalem until the Messiah the prince shall be how 45:57 long? 45:58 7 weeks and 3 score and 2 weeks. 46:00 --69 weeks. 46:03 --Ok you've got 70nweeks this is what needs to be done, 46:05 pause for a second. 46:06 Think about that. 46:07 Take it all in. 46:08 --I see it and it's powerful. 46:10 --Know and understand that in 69 weeks Messiah's coming. 46:13 --Why did he say 70? 46:14 --Yeah before the 70 weeks is up covenant is kept. 46:17 --Exactly and it's kept by Jesus because you can't keep it. 46:20 You have failed and failed and failed and failed and failed and 46:23 failed and failed. 46:24 --That's right. 46:26 --And this time he will 46:27 --The Messiah will succeed. 46:30 --Do you see that? 46:31 --Yes I see it. 46:32 --So he has to come before the 70 weeks. 46:33 He has to because you've only got 70 weeks. 46:35 --Is this true or not you guys? 46:37 It had to be Jesus which is to say it had to be God in the 46:42 incarnation because one of the 7 tasks that has to be performed 46:46 is to make reconciliation, atonement. 46:50 --By the way, by the way. 46:53 --Human beings can't make atonement for their sins. 46:56 --They can't do any of this, transgression, sins, all of 46:59 these things by the way, are fulfilled in Christ, New 47:03 Testament. 47:04 You can find phrase, verses, everything. 47:05 --The language. 47:07 --The language is all there. 47:08 --James I'm so deeply resonant with this idea that it's before 47:12 the 70 weeks has to be. 47:13 So otherwise we couldn't, Paul couldn't say well we just read 47:17 that he says in 2 Corinthians 1:20 that all the promises of 47:19 God are yes. 47:20 He could say all except for that one Daniel 9 couldn't do it. 47:25 Now here's something that I wanted to bring up there is and 47:27 we're gonna, you know, we got, praise God we have another what 47:30 7 sessions or 6 sessions or whatever it is? 47:32 Because I'm sure we'll get to some of this but I just want to 47:35 say here that this is a key transition. 47:38 Daniel understands it and when we come to the New Testament we 47:41 see Jesus and I don't want to go too deep I'm just gonna go 47:44 surface because I know you want to get into something. 47:46 Jesus in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to a lesser 47:50 degree John but especially in the synoptic is consistently 47:53 setting himself in a very interesting kind of antagonism 47:58 to the temples, to the temple. 48:00 He's setting himself over and against the temple. 48:02 Because the temple was always the central place where God was 48:06 doing what God was doing on earth, right? 48:08 The Shekinah was in the most holy place. 48:10 This is the place where God's doing what he's doing on earth. 48:12 It's the tabernacle of meeting. 48:13 It's the place and yet when Jesus comes Jesus knows that 48:16 that temple has been so misused, misunderstood and abused that he 48:19 actually goes in and there's huge significance here. 48:23 He cleanses the temple of all the money changers and 48:25 everything that are in there, casts them out. 48:28 You've made my father's house a den of thieves but here's the 48:30 interesting thing, they say who do you think you are? 48:33 Who gives you the authority to do this? 48:34 And then his response is very interesting he says you destroy 48:37 this temple and in 3 days I'll raise it up. 48:40 What? 48:41 They're like it took 46 years to build this how could that be? 48:42 Here's one for instance where Jesus is setting himself in just 48:47 a position and even in contrast to the temple because the temple 48:51 has been the main center of what God is doing on earth and yet he 48:54 knows that's passing away. 48:56 Well how does he know it's passing away? 48:57 Because of this very prophecy. 48:59 Daniel 9 parallels 2 events, the coming of Messiah, the rejection 49:05 of Messiah, the coming and the rejection of the Messiah and the 49:08 destruction of the city. 49:09 So the end of a thing and the beginning of a thing. 49:12 The Messiah rejected, city destroyed, Messiah rejected, 49:15 city destroyed 3 times Messiah rejected, city destroyed and in 49:19 each of these instances Jesus is trying to redirect. 49:21 You could almost feel the desperation in the New Testament 49:23 in the gospels. 49:25 Where he's like hey you see this thing there's not going to be 2 49:28 stones left upon another that won't be throne. 49:31 Get your eyes, I'm telling you this, this is not the thing. 49:35 And we could get into more detail there but just this idea 49:38 that this is the passing of a thing. 49:41 It's the end of an era but it's the beginning of an era. 49:45 And it's not without huge significance that when Jesus 49:47 dies on the cross you know Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani why have 49:50 you forsaken me. 49:52 The veil of the temple, the place, the location where God is 49:55 doing what God is doing on earth is torn. 49:57 God says ok we're done with that. 49:59 That system, that system is over now because the thing has come. 50:04 And this is all rooted in Daniel. 50:08 --Shadow reality. --Shadow reality. 50:09 Shadow meet reality. 50:10 --So basically Jesus was saying I am the temple. 50:11 --That's exactly what he was saying. 50:12 --What was the point of the temple? 50:13 The temple is a place where people can encounter the 50:15 presence of God. 50:16 It's a connecting link between heaven and earth. 50:18 --John 50:19 --And yet that's Jesus. 50:20 He comes for that purpose. 50:23 --I mentioned that you see Jesus setting himself in opposition 50:26 and sort of juxtification to the temple and primarily in Matthew, 50:29 Mark and Luke but John in John 1 does make the point, very 50:33 profoundly, that he came and tabernacled among us. 50:36 It's a very purposeful. 50:37 He pitches his tent with us. 50:39 This was an intentional work. 50:42 --Make that connection there, it's going right back to Exodus. 50:45 --It's going right back to the exodus. 50:48 I mean there is, I just feel like we're children swimming in 50:51 the ocean right now. 50:52 --It's deep. 50:53 I mean look at, just look at this one verse, just this one 50:55 verse. 50:57 In relation to what we just read in Daniel, look at this one 50:59 verse it's in Romans chapter 5 we're just touching on it, 51:02 Romans chapter 5 and Paul is summarizing, because you know 51:07 Romans, I mean he's just digging into the Old Testament, all 51:09 through Romans he's digging into the Old Testament. 51:11 He talks about the story of Abraham and Sarah in Romans 51:14 chapter 4, He gives the big picture of our depravity in 51:16 Romans 1 and 2, talks about the gospel. 51:18 Romans 5 he begins here in verse 6 for when we were yet without 51:23 strength, ok, that is the realization that Daniel is 51:26 bringing forth. 51:28 We have no strength we have no righteousness, in due time. 51:31 Now that is a direct reference to a specific prophetic time, 51:35 due time, in the Greek it actually means in the proper 51:38 time or the set time. 51:39 At the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 51:42 He's referring here I think back to the Daniel time prophesy, for 51:45 scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure 51:48 for a good man some would even dare to die, verse 8 but God 51:50 commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet 51:52 sinners, Christ died for us. 51:54 Now notice this in verse 9 much more then, being now justified 51:58 by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 52:02 For if, when, verse 10, we were enemies, we were reconciled to 52:07 God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we 52:10 shall be saved by his life. 52:12 He shall, it says right here in Daniel chapter 9 he is going to 52:15 make reconciliation for iniquity. 52:18 Paul has got to be quoting directly from the prophecy of 52:21 Daniel and applying it to Jesus. 52:23 --I love that at the right time. 52:25 --Yes in due time. 52:26 It wasn't willy nilly and we see in the gospels Jesus will sneak 52:30 away when a crowd comes, when they try to make him.... 52:33 --the time has not yet come. 52:34 --Yes, the time has not yet come, but then in the garden 52:37 they come with, you know, the swords and the clubs and all of 52:40 that. 52:41 He essentially says man I was teaching in the temple every 52:44 day, let's go. 52:45 And he willingly goes because he knows, he actually says, one 52:48 place he says my time is at hand. 52:50 --By the way, real quick, you mentioned that he's gotta be 52:53 quoting from Daniel, right, then you begin to see that there's, 52:56 there's so many little things that are said that are in direct 53:00 reference to this prophecy. 53:02 For example verse 27 says he will confirm a covenant. 53:05 During that last stage of his earthly life. 53:09 Fast forward Matthew 26 he's with his disciples, they're 53:14 partaking of the bread and the wine, of the juice that 53:16 represents his blood and he says this is the blood of the new 53:20 covenant. 53:21 At the exact same time 53:23 --he knows it he knows it. 53:24 --He knows what it is. 53:25 --By the way that's the only place, if I'm not mistaken that 53:28 the word covenant occurs in all of Matthew, the only place. 53:30 --Is that right? 53:31 --Yep, he knew that his death was the ratification, the 53:35 sealing of the covenant of Daniel 9. 53:37 But there in Daniel 9, we've got to look at this because this 53:41 covering is not only forward to Romans but it's going to loop us 53:46 back to Abraham. 53:47 --verses 26 and 27 Ok so in the 5 minutes we have remaining 53:52 we're back in Daniel chapter 9 and the way that Jesus fulfills 53:58 covenant is by a very specific means. 54:01 Verse 26 and after 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut off but not 54:08 for himself and then the language follows up in verse 27 54:12 he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week thus 54:16 bringing an end to sacrifice. 54:19 Ok that's verses 26 and 27 this language specifically is 54:23 referring back, again, to Abraham. 54:26 Genesis chapter 15 remember we looked at Genesis 15 and God 54:31 specifically entered into covenant with Abraham by having 54:35 Abraham cut into 3 animal sacrifices and then both God in 54:43 the form of a flaming torch and Abraham passed between the 54:47 pieces in order to form covenant with one another. 54:51 This language is so beautiful that Messiah shall be cut off. 54:56 Essentially what it's saying is that Jesus, in order to keep 55:01 covenant, will follow through to experience this cutting off or 55:07 this sundry, this separation when he cries out on the cross 55:12 "My God my God why have you forsaken me?" 55:15 Jesus is experiencing all the dark psychological and emotional 55:19 horror of the separation that comes between God and falling 55:26 human beings apart from salvation. 55:28 This is astounding. 55:30 --So he's taking upon us of thousands of years of covenant 55:35 infidelity and he's taking it upon himself. 55:37 --And he's following through to keep covenant to remain faithful 55:42 but you remember in Genesis 15 the covenant the symbolism, let 55:46 me slow down here, the symbolism of cutting the animals into and 55:50 passing between the pieces was a formal ritualistic oath. 55:58 It was a way of saying may it be done as it's done to these 56:03 animal sacrifices if I don't follow through to keep my word. 56:07 --But he did. 56:09 --Yeah Jesus did. 56:10 He follows through to keep God's word and he makes atonement for 56:13 our unfaithfulness to the covenant on the human end of the 56:18 spectrum. 56:19 We didn't keep covenant so he has to be severed. 56:21 He has to be cut off. 56:23 --That's why since not for himself. 56:25 --Isn't the word there, that's right? 56:27 --Forgive me if I'm wrong about this but isn't the language 56:29 there the exact same language the cutting into pieces? 56:32 --It is. 56:33 --The passing through the pieces that's the idea. 56:35 It's the very same word. 56:37 --Not only that but in the New Testament it talks about people 56:40 who are lost in Matthew 24 for example and it talks about them 56:44 being cut off. 56:47 It talks about it in the context of them being cut off. 56:48 In other words 56:50 --You mean the Old Testament. 56:51 --In the New Testament too. 56:52 --Oh ok got it. 56:53 --In the New Testament it bores that same phrase, that's what 56:54 we're talking about the idea that the New Testament is born 56:56 from the Old Testament. 56:57 Christ tasted what will be the experience, the reality of those 57:03 who reject this covenant experience, what God has 57:08 accomplished for them, Christ tasted that because that cut off 57:11 phrase is used to apply to those who reject. 57:14 --Now David I just want to point out here you mentioned the 57:17 language, the word covenant in Daniel 9:27 he shall confirm the 57:21 covenant, the word covenant is bareth in the Hebrew and the 57:26 word literally means to cut asunder or to cut in pieces. 57:32 And that is exactly the same word that is used in Genesis 15 57:36 verse 18 on that day when this sacrifice was made. 57:40 On that day the Lord made a covenant, bareth. 57:43 It's the same exact word a cutting of the pieces will take 57:48 place. 57:49 There is just this infinite scale of suffering that will be 57:53 endured by God in Christ in order to save the human race. 57:59 --The depth of this, again, I just feel like a child swimming 58:03 in the ocean here. 58:04 To sort of put the picture together, at least for my mind, 58:07 I just want to say that what Jesus has done and has 58:14 accomplished is so remarkable, so intentional, so perfect that 58:20 he just is worthy of our worship. 58:22 We had a moment and it wasn't on camera here it was off camera 58:26 but when the camera's went off we were like. 58:27 We were freaking out, like this is true this is awesome. 58:31 Jesus was a genius, you know we were just like having a worship 58:33 moment right there. 58:34 And we so often, that's right, we so often think oh worship. 58:37 Ok somebody cue the band and we'll worship. 58:41 This is worship man. 58:42 --It is. 58:43 --Understanding, studying, conversing, fellowshipping, this 58:48 is, I love it there in Malachi 3 where it says that a book of 58:51 remembrance was written before the Lord when people thought 58:54 upon His name. 58:55 That's what we're doing right now. 58:57 We are thinking about the goodness of God in Christ, his 59:00 covenant faithfulness. 59:01 And this is an act of worship. 59:03 And it's an experience of worship. 59:05 --We're essentially saying that when we begin to see God for who 59:09 God really is He becomes extremely attractive. 59:13 We're drawn to Him. 59:15 He's beautiful in our eyes because there is beauty in 59:19 covenant faithfulness. 59:22 This is a response that's right. |
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