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As we continue our discussion
through the Bible we need to
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remember that we're
coming from somewhere right?
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There's a story line.
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There's a narrative.
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And so when we come to the
New Testament the New Testament
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doesn't exist in a vacuum
there's backdrop, there's some,
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there's a stage,
there's something going on.
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There are characters these
characters have enacted aspects
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of the story and as we move into
the New Testament we see that
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Jesus is the fulfillment of this
Old Testament narrative, this
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trajectory, this steady, moving
story that comes to completion
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in the person of Jesus Christ.
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The gospels, Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John are basically four
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different angles on the
fulfillment of this story line.
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Some of it deals with creation
looping all the way back to Adam
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and Eve.
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Some of it deals with Abraham
and beginning with him in Israel
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and then filling out the details
of how Jesus fulfills on behalf
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of humanity and God's idea.
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-And it's all unique,
they're all complimentary and
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harmonious.
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--Yeah.
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--It's like 4 witnesses
at the scene type thing.
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--Exactly.
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So where do we go first?
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I think a good place to begin is
where nobody wants to begin the
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New Testament
with the genealogies.
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I mean.
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--The most
exciting parts of the Bible.
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--You want to put yourself,
if you want to put yourself to
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sleep just get comfortable
and read the genealogies.
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But it's there for a reason,
yeah there's something there.
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--When I read a story a
number of years ago about Willie
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Nelson, the country music singer
and he was in jail for something
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early in his life and he was.
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--For the same
thing he's always.
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--Well whatever, I don't know
a lot about him I just know that
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he was in jail and he was
telling this story about how
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somebody had given him a Bible
and he thought yeah, you know, I
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do need to get my life on track
and so he picked up a Bible and,
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it was just a New Testament,
you know, like probably the New
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Testament, Psalms and
Proverbs or something.
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And so he picks it up and
he starts reading and he starts
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reading of course in Matthew
chapter one which is where you'd
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start if it was
just a New Testament.
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And he became so frustrated,
he's like how can this and he
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just threw it against the wall
and he's like this is, what is
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this to me.
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And the truth is, is that while
many people wouldn't go quite
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that far to throw it against the
wall or just to disregard it at
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that point.
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The genealogies don't make,
especially in Matthew, they
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don't seem to make
a lot of sense to us.
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But Matthew is making a point
and it's a very important point
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especially to the audience
to whom Matthew is very likely
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writing and it's largely a
Jewish audience largely a Jewish
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context.
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Unlike, say Luke, who's writing
to a broader audience as a
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Gentile he has not only a Jewish
perspective but the gentile
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perspective as well.
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But in the genealogies of
Matthew, we don't have to go
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through all of them but we
can open up Matthew chapter one
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verse one where it just says the
book of the genealogy of Jesus
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Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham.
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Now for Matthew he has
just touched on the three major
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figures in the history of the
Jewish faith and religion, it's
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all there.
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There's the Jesus guy, there's
the Moses guy and there's the
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David guy.
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These are the guys and
excuse me Abraham I said
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--You said Moses.
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--I said Moses.
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-You meant Abraham.
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--So Abraham he takes the story
back to Abraham that's where
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we've been going then you have
David as the man after God's own
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heart, etc. We've not
really developed that, we might.
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And then he begins to go
through, look at where he starts
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in verse two,
Abraham begot Isaac.
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What if, that's a very
interesting place to start
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unlike Luke when he tells the
genealogy story of Jesus he goes
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all the way back to Adam.
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Of course he would be
inclined to do so as a Gentile.
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He wants to tell the
larger universal picture.
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Matthew's not denying that
but he's making a specific point
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here.
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He starts with Abraham now as he
sort of develops this watch what
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happens here when he comes
to the conclusion of all the
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genealogies, verse two, you know
Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot
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Jacob, Jacob begot Judah and his
brothers, etc. By the way Andrew
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Peterson has a really great song
that is the genealogies I don't
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know if you've
ever heard it or not.
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Oh it's awesome, isn't it?
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It's awesome.
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It's just this great song where
he sings the genealogy, Andrew
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Peterson.
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You should check it out.
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Anyway now look at verse 17
here's the point he's making he
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said so all the generations from
Abraham to David, these are the
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key figures
remember, are 14 generations.
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And from David until the
captivity in Babylon are 14
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generations and from the
captivity in Babylon until
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Christ are 14 generations.
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So in Matthew's thinking
these are the high points.
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Abraham is a high point, David
is a high point, the Babylonian
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captivity is a high point
that's really a low point.
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It's a high point in history but
it's the low point of Israel's
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experience because as
we've already talked about the
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fulfillment of the curse of
Deuteronomy 27 to 30 if you do
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this, this, this, this
is what's gonna happen.
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But it's interesting that he
crafts this very purposefully in
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3 groups of 14.
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He says there was 14,
there was 14, and there was 14.
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Well what is that?
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It's 6 groupings of 7.
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Right?
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There's 7/7, 7/7, 7/7 and this
is hugely significant biblically
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speaking because in scripture,
of course the 7th day is the
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Sabbath.
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It's a day for rest.
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It's a day for cessation
from the normal activities.
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But 7-7's right?
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Then you have what's called the
jubilee, right, the 50th year.
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--Liberation.
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--The liberation where debts,
all debts were settled, all
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slaves were set free.
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--Land is returned.
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--Think of it like a
Sabbath on steroids, right?
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So you have the Sabbath which is
the 7th and then you have 7 of
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those so it's 7 cycles
of 7 this is the thing.
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And Matthew's making a very
important point here and that is
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that there was the 7/7 the
7/7 the 7/7 and Jesus comes
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introducing and
inaugurating the jubilee.
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--Yeah wow yeah.
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--So here's a very interesting
thing we'll just skip from
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Matthew.
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--Well I want to
go back to Matthew.
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--Yeah stay in
Matthew, stay in Matthew.
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-There's something that has to
be, we have to call attention to
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in chapter 1.
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--Ok do it.
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--And verse 21 so in the
genealogy Matthew is basically
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invoking the language of
liberation, the language of
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jubilee to describe who
Jesus is and what he will do.
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--It's the language of Exodus.
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--Yes and the language.
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--It's coming out, it's
liberation, it's freedom.
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-That's right so then in verse
21 and she will bring forth a
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son, this is Matthew 1:21 bring
forth a son and you shall call
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his name Jesus for he will
save his people from their sins.
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This is fascinating.
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The word that is used here, in
the Greek, the word that Matthew
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purposefully
uses is the word sozo.
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Now we think of salvation
in a very limited sense.
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--Some of us do.
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--Yeah in our local, cultural,
western, Christian way of
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thinking.
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We think salvation is basically
getting out of punishment,
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getting into heaven when we die.
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So that's what
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--Which is not the
biblical way of thinking.
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--Yeah not the biblical
way of thinking, the word sozo
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literally means liberation.
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It means deliverance.
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Jesus will deliver.
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He will liberate.
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Jesus is inaugurating a new
exodus and he's leading people
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into a new liberation.
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So I just wanted to add that.
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--No that's brilliant.
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--The genealogies are invoking
jubilee in Matthew's account.
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--That's right.
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--But jubilee for the
purpose of liberation.
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That's the point he's
setting the captives free.
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--And here's something that
I love about that, thanks for
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bringing that up about the sozo,
I love that this is not Matthews
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sort of, he's
not laying this over.
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This is not just his
theological take away.
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This is not
something he's forcing in.
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This is something he
learned from Jesus himself.
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This whole idea that Jesus, and
I think that you're gonna take
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us a little bit later to Jesus
and Moses, Jesus and Moses.
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If you go to Luke's account,
Luke, in Luke chapter 4 he is
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returned to his hometown,
Nazareth and he goes into the
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synagogue which we have no
real equivalent for a synagogue,
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church is really
nothing like a synagogue.
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The synagogue was not just
the place of meeting for Jews.
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It was a civic place.
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It was a town hall.
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It was just the
place where people met.
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It was certainly spiritual
but it was not only a spiritual
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building just a
meeting place for the Jews.
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And so it says here in verse 16
so he came to Nazareth where he
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had been brought up, I'm in Luke
4, and as his custom was he went
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into the synagogue on the
Sabbath day and he stood up to
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read.
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Now this is, there's so much
language here that's important
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and he was handed the
book of the prophet Isaiah.
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When he opened the book, now
this is key, he found the place
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where it was written.
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Now almost certain they had
assigned readings in the time.
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So you know today's assigned
reading was whatever Isaiah 12
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or Isaiah 13.
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So he's handed the
book of the prophet Isaiah.
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--He pre-empted maybe?
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He found the place
or they assigned it.
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--No that's the point he found,
it says he found the place.
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So whatever the assigned reading
may have been that day, when
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they handed the scroll, and it
wouldn't have been just as nice
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and easy as us just looking
at, these are large you know,
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rabbinical scrolls.
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And he's looking, it's huge.
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--There's no verses
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--No chapterization so he must
have known, the point here is
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that he had to know
scripture to find it.
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To find something in this large
scroll where you're just trying
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to remember oh yeah....so I
like, in my mind's eye I like to
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just see them all there, why
isn't he reading the assigned
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reading?
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What?
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And he's looking
and he's looking.
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--We assigned Malachi.
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--Yeah that's right.
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He, he found the place and then
here verse 18 and he's actually
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quoting from what we
would call I think Isaiah 49.
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What we, in other words
after the versification, the
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chapterization of scripture.
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He finds the place.
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--Or 61 isn't it.
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--Is it 61?
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You probably are correct.
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--Go ahead just read it.
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--The spirit of the, it is 61,
the spirit of the Lord is upon
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me because he has anointed me to
preach the gospel that is to say
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the good news to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to proclaim
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liberty to the captives,
recovery of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty those who
are oppressed, to proclaim the
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acceptable year of the Lord.
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That's jubilee language.
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--And he closed the book.
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--I love this he closed the book
and there must have been some
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portant, something about the way
that he read it or the way that
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he carried himself because look
at this, he gave it back to the
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attendant and he sat down.
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So all is well but watch this
and the eyes of all who were in
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the synagogue were fixed on him.
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Something about his manner, the
way he carried himself and then
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look at this, he senses that,
you know how it is when you're
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in a room and you can just sense
that everybody's looking at you.
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What he says is mind blowing,
verse 21 he began to say to
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them today, now he's, he's
just extracted a passage from
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their history.
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--It's bold.
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--30 year old guy, Rabbi.
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--Which would have
been a huge passage to them.
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--Hugely important.
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--They knew what
the implications were.
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They're staring
at him for a reason.
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--To have the audacity to
say today this passage is.
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--And look at the word
here today this scripture is
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fulfilled in your hearing.
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And that word right there
fulfilled you could make a case
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that that is the single most
important word in all of the
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gospels.
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For Matthew, for Mark, for Luke
and even for John that Jesus was
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doing something that was
bringing Israel's history to a
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climax.
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It was filling the old
story, it was a new exodus.
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--You know can I just I mean
I hope we continue this theme of
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the new exodus but there's
all through the gospels there's
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these little hints,
you're talking about, fulfilled.
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And some of them are more
obvious than others and some of
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them, I believe, I think
Jesus had a sense of humor and
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sometimes he would drop these
things knowing that they had no
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clue what he was saying but they
would eventually figure it out.
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One example of that if you guys
will just in Matthew chapter 18
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where he's talking to Peter in
verse 21 Peter comes up to Jesus
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and he says Lord how often shall
my brother sin against me and I
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forgive him?
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Like should I do it 7 times?
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Is what Peter asks and then in
verse 22 Jesus says not 7 but up
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to 70 times 7.
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And this goes back to what
you're saying so he pulls out
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Isaiah, reads a messianic
passage that was obviously a
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messianic passage and
says today this is fulfilled.
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But he does it in sort of ways
is here you could just imagine
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Peter would walk, turn around,
walked away like scratching his
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head like 70 times 7 what in
the world is he talking about?
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But of course we have the
prophesy in Daniel 9 where
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Daniel, he's been praying and
just remembering the covenant of
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God and God gives a
prophesy of 70 weeks
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--which is 70 times 7.
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--7 days in a week 70 times
7 when the Messiah would come
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here's the word,
fulfill the covenantal promises.
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So I love these little things
here where the text doesn't even
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say that Peter got it.
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He was just like uh, ok.
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It could've been who knows how
long afterwards till he got it.
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--It was very good textural
reason in the rest of the
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gospels to
believe he didn't get it.
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I mean the disciples obviously
did not understand the kingdom
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of God or any of the prophesies
of the Old Testament the way
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that Jesus did.
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--But here's an incredible thing
though that I think is in the
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passage Peter is asking
a question about individual
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forgiveness, how often should
I forgive my brother right?
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Individual forgiveness.
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Jesus takes that question of
individual forgiveness on the
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horizontal level, human to human
and then he turns in vertical by
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referencing Daniel 9.
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And he blows this thing up
and he's basically saying he's
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taking that experience and he's
hinting at, he's indicating that
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right now Peter while
you're asking the question of
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horizontal human to human
forgiveness something monumental
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is taking place and that is a
vertical divine forgiveness to
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the point of perfection.
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And the number 7
indicates perfection.
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I had a guy one time when he was
struggling to forgive he said
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you know I've seen this passage
and I did the math I'm not
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gonna...is that how many times
and he was trying to get literal
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with it.
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Jesus is basically indicating a
total and perfect atonement for
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sin atonement perfect
forgiveness and in the larger
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context of the story a perfect
liberation is under way, right
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now in Christ.
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And at the foundation of
that liberation is forgiveness.
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-That's right.
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--So to dumb it down Jesus was
saying treat others the way I
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treat you.
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--You know I love this too
because when David was bringing
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out Luke chapter 4 and we
look at these passages the thing
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that's startling about these
passages and the way that Jesus
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applies them is he's
very inclusive of the Gentile
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nations.
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--Great point.
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--First of all he applies the
need to be liberated to the Jews
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and that is, that is, that
causes them to be indignant
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"What do you mean we
need to be liberated?"
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Then he goes on to talk about
how God has consistently and
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continually been able and
willing and eager to reach the
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Gentiles and do things for
the Gentiles when the Jews where
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steadily
abstinently separated from them.
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You know what I'm saying, now
this same thing is brought out
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in John chapter 1 because you
remember the whole story, the
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whole story is that in the
beginning Satan comes to Adam
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and Eve and Satan completely
eclipses the view of God, what
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God is like, misrepresents
him and all through the Old
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Testament God is trying to
re-introduce himself to the
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human family.
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And he does this to a
specific nation, the Jews.
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But Satan comes in subtly and
misrepresents God over and over
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again.
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God is exclusive.
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God loves us he
doesn't love you.
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You need to do this in order for
God to love you and accept you.
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And God is not like that at all.
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So when John introduces this
logos, this representation of
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God that is going to dispel
darkness, the darkness of the
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character of God,
this is what he does.
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He said the word became
flesh and dwelt among us.
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This was the true light which
lightens every man that comes
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into the world.
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And I think about this on my own
experience because I was raised
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Catholic, Roman Catholic and
I didn't know anything about the
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history of religion.
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I didn't understand what
Catholic and Protestism was all
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about.
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I didn't know any of that I
was just raised Roman Catholic.
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I was always on my mom's side.
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But I was proud about that there
was something, there was a way
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that my mom used to say we're
Catholic, Roman Catholic that
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made me feel like I was better
or in some category, I was part
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of something.
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I was in some category that,
you know, and so I was proud of
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that.
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And then I remember years later
of course I become a Protestant.
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Well I didn't know I became
a Protestant I just accepted
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Christ.
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--There ya go.
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--And I gave up some of these
things but there was something
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again that in me that
said I'm a Protestant.
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I'm not a
Catholic I'm a Protestant.
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And then I became a
Seventh Day Adventist.
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--There's something
in you that makes you.
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--Well you've
really arrived now.
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--Really arrived now.
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And then I started
understanding the story.
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The story that God is in love
with the entire human race and
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that I am simple a vessel, I am
simply a channel through which
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God wants to communicate this
light and dispel this darkness
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about his, his
love, his search for man.
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--I cannot tell you how deeply
resonate I am with that because,
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and I'll just kind of poke fun
at my own church here a little
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bit and not just poke fun but
it's a rebuke I think, to me and
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to my church and that is that,
and even to the larger Christian
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denomination.
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We'll say things
like is he an Adventist?
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No he's a non-Adventist.
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That shows,
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--Is he born again?
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--no he's not born again.
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Is he a Christian?
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No he's a non-Christian.
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What it shows is that we divide
people, as soon as you were
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Catholic you're world was
divided into 2 groups of people,
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Catholics and non-Catholics.
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--And not's.
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--That's right.
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And then he became a Protestant
and your world, whether you knew
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it or not, you didn't know you
had become a Protestant but when
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you did later figure that
out there's Protestants and
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non -Protestants and
then even Adventists.
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There's Adventists and
non-Adventists where Jesus
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doesn't see Jews and non-Jews.
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He sees his children.
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--The world.
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--He sees the world.
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And so I so love this that
you're bringing this out because
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you do see a universality there
in Luke chapter 4 to proclaim
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liberty to the captives.
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The other thing I wanted to
bring out about that and you
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made a great point on this and
it reminded me of something that
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Jesus said.
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When Jesus starts announcing
this, when he starts using this
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jubilee language and people
frankly were upset with Jesus.
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I mean he was a controversial
figure because they way that he,
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I'm gonna say it,
re-interpreted the story.
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He was telling a different story
then the Rabbis were telling.
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And when Jesus starts telling
his version of the story they're
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like, we don't need liberation.
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We don't need, and when you said
that the Jews are like we don't
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need liberation, it reminded me
of when Jesus is in this intense
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dialogue, one of the most
intense dialogues in scripture
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in John chapter 8 and they're
discussing fatherhood and the
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truth shall make you free and
this whole, I'm not going to get
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into it.
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But in the middle of it,
talk about selective memory.
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Some of the religious leaders
say to Jesus in John chapter 8
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verse 33 and they answered
and said we are Abraham's
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descendants and we have
never been in bondage to anyone.
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--Whoa.
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--Wow.
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[Laughter]
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--What?
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Not to Egypt, not to Assyria,
not to Babylon, not to Greece,
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not to Rome,
not to the Persians.
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--When have you not been?
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--Yea that's the point.
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It's like really?
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--How about Rome
in the present tense?
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--Of course how
could they have been so
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--He could have said
do you know where you are?
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--I know.
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--This to me is a great example
of how when the facts be damned
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if we have a perspective.
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--Can I add one
thing to this though?
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--Yes, please.
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--Jesus in John chapter 8 again
does this remarkable thing like
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we were pointing out in the
Matthew text, 70 times 7, where
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Jesus takes the human level and
then he blows it up to a cosmic
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pardent that's underway, a
cosmic forgiveness that is for
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the whole human race.
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Well he does
the same thing here.
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They're thinking we've never
been in bondage to anybody.
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They're thinking on the national
level on the human level and
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Jesus says your captivity
is deeper than you know.
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--That's right.
00:20:49.13\00:20:50.30
--You're of your father,
you think that Abraham is your
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father, you're of your
father verse 44, the devil.
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You are in captivity in a way on
a level to a death that you're
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not even aware of.
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And then Jesus says hey the
reason you are, the reason I
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know you are in captivity to
the devil is because he was a
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murderer from the beginning
and you're plotting my murder.
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Violence is in
your picture of God.
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You think you're serving God by
perpetrating violence against me
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and others.
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But that violence reveals
that your picture of God is
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completely distorted
and this is so amazing.
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He's essentially saying to them
you on the conscience level of
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your mind think that you're
worshipping God simultaneously
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the character traits you
ascribe to him prove that you're
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worshipping the devil while
applying the name capital F of
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God the Father.
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--He definitely
wasn't looking for a popular.
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--No, no, no, no.
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--He wasn't looking for
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--You see what I'm saying?
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--Not only do I see what you are
saying but they saw what Jesus
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--Oh they saw it.
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--Well they did because their
response look at it verse 40
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you, when you start to lose an
argument, when somebody starts
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to lose an argument, when
their case is not logically or
00:22:01.70\00:22:04.60
evidentially
sustainable what do they do?
00:22:04.60\00:22:05.93
They start saying well
you, it's called ad hominy.
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So look at this verse 48 this
is their answer when Jesus is
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bringing out this larger bondage
that you are describing, didn't
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we say that you were a
Samaritan, you got a demon.
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In other words they couldn't
even deal with the force of his
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logic and the force of the
evidence that he was bringing to
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bear.
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And they were like.
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--Basically they
say you're possessed.
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--They are
trying to shrug him off.
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--The thing I, and I know we
have to take a break here but
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the thing I want to close with
and this is so important is if
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you're dealing with anybody
who's addictive or who has a
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problem whether it's alcohol
or drugs or just a problem, any
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kind of a problem, it is
axiomatically the case that you
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cannot get help for those kinds
of things until you recognize
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that you have a problem.
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So Jesus here is like hey you're
free, the son shall make you
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free, which is John 8
you shall be free indeed.
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And they're like what
do we need to be free for?
00:22:55.63\00:22:57.03
--Yeah we don't have a problem.
00:22:57.03\00:22:58.10
--We don't even see it.
00:22:58.10\00:22:58.83
--Free from what?
00:22:58.83\00:22:59.96
--So Jesus is constantly
scanning the horizon, this is
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much of the story that the
gospels are telling, scanning
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looking for people who get it.
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And the only people that he can
get in the beginning to buy into
00:23:07.43\00:23:09.93
his telling of the story is some
fishermen, a tax collector, I
00:23:09.93\00:23:13.60
mean it's just like, he's at the
dreads, he's scraping the bottom
00:23:13.60\00:23:16.43
of the barrel just to
get somebody to buy into it.
00:23:16.43\00:23:18.83
--But the people that are most
religious are most insulated,
00:23:18.83\00:23:22.90
those who are most in the
paradigm that we're it, we're
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the people of God are the ones
that are most blind which comes
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back to a point we made
yesterday and that is that the
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best place in the world
to hide from God is religion.
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That's the best place to take
cover because as we quoted from
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Jeremiah there is an inheritance
of lies in this great
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controversy.
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We do need to take a break but
boy this is pretty exciting what
00:23:51.86\00:23:53.30
we're learning.
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Jeffrey during the break you
were just chomping at the bit
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with some exciting point in the
gospel of John that continues
00:26:17.83\00:26:21.86
the application of
Jesus to ancient Israel.
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I don't know what the point was.
00:26:27.86\00:26:29.23
--Well I even not even
continuing the application I
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think it sets the stage
for everything we're saying and
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everything that I'm
thinking we'll get to say.
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Because when Jesus comes what
we're establishing here is he's
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coming as the covenant.
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I think we established
that Isaiah 42 something.
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--Yeah 42
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--That the Messiah
will be the covenant.
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He's not coming
to bring a covenant.
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He is the covenant.
00:26:53.43\00:26:54.70
So when you look at the gospels
they're telling a story and I
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love this very simple point in
John chapter 2 where we find the
00:26:57.40\00:27:02.96
story of the wedding at Cana and
when Jesus attends this wedding
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and he performs
his first miracle.
00:27:08.20\00:27:13.16
John chapter 2 verse 11 says
this is the beginning of signs
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that Jesus did while in Cana
of Galilee and he manifested his
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glory and his
disciples believed in him.
00:27:22.93\00:27:26.43
So here's the point.
00:27:26.43\00:27:28.06
The first miracle Jesus
performs, we can say the first
00:27:28.06\00:27:31.16
public manifestation,
this is like his introduction.
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Hello my name is Jesus the
Messiah pleasure to meet you, to
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the whole world, right?
00:27:39.70\00:27:41.03
And to history he does that, he
selects a marriage, a marriage
00:27:41.03\00:27:47.00
ceremony.
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I think that's profound because
what sets the tone for the rest
00:27:48.26\00:27:51.20
of his life is the marriage
motif and what is a marriage?
00:27:51.20\00:27:54.83
It is an event, a ceremony
celebrating a covenant that is
00:27:54.83\00:28:00.40
entered into by two parties.
00:28:00.40\00:28:02.46
So Christ begins his whole
earthly ministry at a ceremony
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that represents a covenant.
00:28:08.10\00:28:09.83
And that takes a symbolic
meaning that everything that we
00:28:09.83\00:28:13.03
read on the life of Christ is
preaching which we'll get into,
00:28:13.03\00:28:15.96
his miracles, his healing.
00:28:15.96\00:28:17.96
Everything he does is just an
acted out, an acting out of the
00:28:17.96\00:28:24.10
covenant between God and
man that Christ is coming to
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represent.
00:28:27.30\00:28:28.36
--Jeffrey it's even more
explicit in the immediate
00:28:28.36\00:28:30.76
context here because if you
loop back to chapter one of John
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you're calling our attention to
chapter 2 verse 11 first miracle
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at the wedding feast.
00:28:39.26\00:28:41.36
Go back to chapter one verse
29 when Jesus is first entering
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onto the stage
of public ministry.
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The next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him, well that's
00:28:49.16\00:28:52.80
verse 29 behold the Lamb of
God but that's not the one I'm
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looking for.
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--35?
00:28:55.53\00:28:56.36
--No the
bridegroom one where is it?
00:28:56.36\00:28:58.83
Where is it, where is it?
00:28:58.83\00:29:00.10
It's in, oh man, Jesus is
introduced as a bridegroom in,
00:29:00.10\00:29:09.60
it's there.
00:29:09.60\00:29:11.26
--Is it in John one?
00:29:11.26\00:29:13.86
--Actually it's in chapter 3.
00:29:14.63\00:29:17.03
So Jeffrey it's after the
marriage feast, the miracle at
00:29:17.03\00:29:21.16
the wedding feast and look at
chapter 3 and verse 29 John the
00:29:21.16\00:29:27.16
Baptist is basically
acknowledging Jesus in a certain
00:29:27.16\00:29:31.03
character.
00:29:31.03\00:29:32.16
He who has the bridegroom,
he who has the bride is the
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bridegroom but the friend of the
bridegroom who stands and hears
00:29:36.16\00:29:39.76
him rejoices greatly because
of the bridegroom's voice.
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Therefore this joy
of mine is fulfilled.
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Here's what's happening
00:29:46.40\00:29:47.36
--There's the
word fulfilled again.
00:29:47.36\00:29:48.33
--Yeah there's the
word fulfilled too.
00:29:48.33\00:29:49.60
But here's what's happening here
Jesus has performed this miracle
00:29:49.60\00:29:52.43
at the wedding feast earlier but
now John the Baptist basically
00:29:52.43\00:29:56.70
is being questioned by his
disciples, those who he's been
00:29:56.70\00:29:59.63
teaching.
00:29:59.63\00:30:00.70
Hey are you the
one we're looking for?
00:30:00.70\00:30:03.00
Are you the Messiah,
basically and John the Baptist
00:30:03.00\00:30:05.56
interestingly he says no, no,
no, no I'm just the best man.
00:30:05.56\00:30:09.96
--Yeah there you go.
00:30:09.96\00:30:10.83
--I'm the friend
of the bridegroom.
00:30:10.83\00:30:13.10
But the one who has come
for the bride, that's Jesus.
00:30:13.10\00:30:16.36
So in explicit language just
like you were saying Jeffrey
00:30:16.36\00:30:20.06
Jesus is entering public
ministry as a groom searching
00:30:20.06\00:30:24.96
for his bride.
00:30:24.96\00:30:26.10
He's come to establish
covenantal love with his people.
00:30:26.10\00:30:29.86
Isn't that incredible.
00:30:29.86\00:30:30.56
--It is.
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That's awesome.
00:30:31.40\00:30:32.63
--Right there in John 3 I've
always loved this and I think it
00:30:32.63\00:30:35.00
continues to paint the picture
of the kind of person that Jesus
00:30:35.00\00:30:38.40
was.
00:30:38.40\00:30:39.66
At the end of verse 26 I just
read verse 26, they came to John
00:30:39.66\00:30:42.50
and they said Rabbi he who was
with you beyond the Jordan to
00:30:42.50\00:30:45.43
whom you testified, behold he is
baptizing and everyone is coming
00:30:45.43\00:30:48.70
to him all are coming to
him, this is the report of their
00:30:48.70\00:30:50.70
disciples to John.
00:30:50.70\00:30:51.83
Man your decreasing in
popularity and he's increasing
00:30:51.83\00:30:54.40
in popularity.
00:30:54.40\00:30:55.56
And then of course he says
famously no man can receive
00:30:55.56\00:30:57.00
anything unless it be
given him from heaven.
00:30:57.00\00:30:59.16
But then jump down to verse 32
it is an interesting little just
00:30:59.16\00:31:01.70
in position here.
00:31:01.70\00:31:03.20
John continuing to speak and
he says and what he has seen, he
00:31:03.20\00:31:06.56
declares what he has seen and
heard that's what he's talking
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.13
about, he testifies.
00:31:09.13\00:31:10.23
Look at this and yet no
one received his testimony.
00:31:10.23\00:31:12.00
That is to say no one is
believing what he is saying.
00:31:12.00\00:31:14.70
So what a fascinating
little contrast here.
00:31:14.70\00:31:17.53
He says everybody is going
out to see this guy but nobody
00:31:17.53\00:31:19.93
believes what he is saying.
00:31:19.93\00:31:21.60
Because he's popular, he's
provocative, he's performing
00:31:21.60\00:31:24.56
miracles.
00:31:24.56\00:31:25.76
There's something new, there's
something fresh about him.
00:31:25.76\00:31:27.90
The people aren't buying it.
00:31:27.90\00:31:29.06
This doesn't
sound like the Rabbi.
00:31:29.06\00:31:30.60
This doesn't sound, we've
not heard this version of the
00:31:30.60\00:31:33.16
stories.
00:31:33.16\00:31:34.43
I've always loved it, he's super
popular but super misunderstood.
00:31:34.43\00:31:37.53
In fact, just very briefly and
I know we're gonna go there but
00:31:37.53\00:31:41.20
just really makes this point.
00:31:41.20\00:31:43.00
After Jesus gives the Sermon
on the Mount, we'll kind of move
00:31:43.00\00:31:46.46
back to and go to that.
00:31:46.46\00:31:47.86
I love that Matthew records in
Matthew chapter 7 the response
00:31:47.86\00:31:52.40
of the people to Jesus radically
new, radically different
00:31:52.40\00:31:56.10
teaching.
00:31:56.10\00:31:57.30
In John, excuse me Matthew
chapter 7, this is after Jesus
00:31:57.30\00:32:00.16
first public address, so we have
the first miracle, his first
00:32:00.16\00:32:03.26
public address and
they're just like what was that.
00:32:03.26\00:32:06.40
Look what he says in verse
28 and so it was when Jesus had
00:32:06.40\00:32:09.76
ended these sayings that the
people were astonished at his
00:32:09.76\00:32:13.93
teaching.
00:32:13.93\00:32:14.86
For he taught, why?
00:32:14.86\00:32:15.96
Why were they astonished?
00:32:15.96\00:32:17.23
Because he taught them as one
having authority and not as the
00:32:17.23\00:32:18.83
scribes.
00:32:18.83\00:32:20.43
That is to say they've never
heard this version of the story.
00:32:20.43\00:32:24.03
At this point in first century
Judaism there is a longing for a
00:32:24.03\00:32:27.76
Messiah.
00:32:27.76\00:32:28.90
There is a longing for
deliverance but the deliverance
00:32:28.90\00:32:30.16
that they're longing for is from
Rome, it's from oppression and
00:32:30.16\00:32:34.40
they really think that
there's gonna be a military.
00:32:34.40\00:32:37.46
--Merely physical.
00:32:37.46\00:32:38.56
--That's right a governmental,
national liberation.
00:32:38.56\00:32:43.06
And Jesus comes and he's dealing
with it, as you said, on a whole
00:32:43.06\00:32:45.06
nother level, a whole different,
like sub terrain and he's gone
00:32:45.06\00:32:48.43
underneath and they're just like
who is this guy and why is he?
00:32:48.43\00:32:53.03
But there was something that was
attractive about him something
00:32:53.03\00:32:55.46
that was beautiful,
something that was simple and
00:32:55.46\00:32:56.96
nonpretentious and accessible,
00:32:56.96\00:32:58.76
couple that with the
healings and the miracles
00:32:58.76\00:33:01.16
and Jesus was profoundly popular
but in a really unassuming and
00:33:01.16\00:33:06.66
humble way.
00:33:06.66\00:33:08.16
So he
00:33:08.16\00:33:09.33
--So that was what was so
popular and attractive about
00:33:09.33\00:33:10.26
him.
00:33:10.26\00:33:11.46
--That's right he was attractive
but grossly misunderstood.
00:33:11.46\00:33:13.16
What are you saying
because years of rabbinical
00:33:13.16\00:33:16.60
interpretation, centuries
we should say of incorrect
00:33:16.60\00:33:19.50
rabbinical interpretation is
just clogging the heads of the
00:33:19.50\00:33:23.16
religious people so that when
Jesus finally starts to call
00:33:23.16\00:33:26.40
people he can just you
know as we said scrape up a few
00:33:26.40\00:33:29.06
fishermen here a tax collector
ok now I can start with
00:33:29.06\00:33:32.90
something that's largely fresh.
00:33:32.90\00:33:35.00
--Essentially what we're saying
is that, is that there is no
00:33:35.00\00:33:39.30
sharp break between the Old
Testament and the New Testament.
00:33:39.30\00:33:44.50
We're dealing here
with more of a continuum.
00:33:44.50\00:33:47.73
And Jesus steps on the stage
of human history to fulfill, to
00:33:47.73\00:33:56.23
fill in the story that is
Israel's history but to redeem
00:33:56.23\00:34:02.53
and to reconcile and to achieve
success and victory on every
00:34:02.53\00:34:09.16
level then there was failure
to be the one truly successful
00:34:09.16\00:34:14.43
covenantal successful Israelite.
00:34:14.43\00:34:17.83
I don't like the word successful
but you know what I'm saying.
00:34:17.83\00:34:19.76
--I don't mind that word.
00:34:19.76\00:34:20.70
I like it.
00:34:20.70\00:34:21.60
--Yeah, so he's
fulfilling covenant.
00:34:21.60\00:34:24.03
I think we need
to understand that.
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.43
This is what we're realizing
Jesus is coming and point by
00:34:26.43\00:34:29.43
point he's fulfilling
covenant faithfulness.
00:34:29.43\00:34:33.80
--We went in our, I think it
was in our last session, we went
00:34:33.80\00:34:37.00
through those
points, some of those points.
00:34:37.00\00:34:38.83
--It was kind of Hodge podge.
00:34:38.83\00:34:40.13
--But we covered.
00:34:40.13\00:34:41.63
--It would be great
if we covered it again.
00:34:41.63\00:34:43.10
--Maybe we should do that.
00:34:43.10\00:34:43.96
--Yeah in order we
should move through.
00:34:43.96\00:34:45.40
So where does it begin Jesus
is, he's born, we call it the
00:34:45.40\00:34:49.73
incarnation then what?
00:34:49.73\00:34:52.46
--In terms of the recapitulation
of Israel's history?
00:34:52.46\00:34:54.33
--Yeah, yeah.
00:34:54.33\00:34:55.56
--Well the circumstances around
his birth involve man named
00:34:55.56\00:34:59.96
Joseph who's his earthly father
having dreams and the dream is
00:34:59.96\00:35:03.60
essentially an angel appearing
to him saying take the child
00:35:03.60\00:35:06.86
into Egypt.
00:35:06.86\00:35:08.86
Right?
00:35:09.10\00:35:10.33
Get the child away from here
because someone's going to hurt
00:35:10.33\00:35:12.00
him.
00:35:12.00\00:35:13.26
In fact, we'll just pick it up
in verse Matthew 2, if we want
00:35:13.26\00:35:17.93
to go through this
chronologically which I think we
00:35:17.93\00:35:19.96
should.
00:35:19.96\00:35:21.23
I think this, to me this is a
point I didn't understand this
00:35:21.23\00:35:22.76
until I'd been a
believer for about 10 years.
00:35:22.76\00:35:25.50
--That's a crime.
00:35:25.50\00:35:26.73
This should have been one of
the very first things that I was
00:35:26.73\00:35:28.83
taught and was explained to
me hey this is, as you said it's
00:35:28.83\00:35:32.33
not like Old Testament, that
mean old scary God doing all
00:35:32.33\00:35:35.13
those, you know arbitrary,
and then here's the nice new
00:35:35.13\00:35:37.43
graceful God there's
just absolute continuity.
00:35:37.43\00:35:40.03
And the more that we can get
that into the minds of fellow
00:35:40.03\00:35:43.63
believers that's,
look for the thread.
00:35:43.63\00:35:46.06
--Not only more do we get it
into our mind David but it will
00:35:46.06\00:35:49.20
redefine in many ways what
we call salvation and how we
00:35:49.20\00:35:55.30
understand the gospel.
00:35:55.30\00:35:56.70
--I heard a preacher say one
time and I think he was exactly
00:35:56.70\00:35:59.76
onto it that this is the most
useless page in all the Bible.
00:35:59.76\00:36:03.06
That this page right here, this
page, what it, there's nothing
00:36:03.06\00:36:07.10
on it.
00:36:07.10\00:36:07.90
There's no text on it right?
00:36:07.90\00:36:09.86
In other words
there's no scripture on it.
00:36:09.86\00:36:11.20
That page right there
what's it doing there?
00:36:11.20\00:36:13.76
It's, I know I was tempted.
00:36:13.76\00:36:15.43
[Laughter]
00:36:15.43\00:36:17.13
What is this page doing here?
00:36:17.13\00:36:20.76
It communicates discontinuity,
psychologically it's saying that
00:36:20.76\00:36:26.50
there's that and there's this.
00:36:26.50\00:36:27.76
--And psychologically there's
something to the fact that you
00:36:27.76\00:36:29.36
can't do it.
00:36:29.36\00:36:30.13
--There's no reverence for it.
00:36:30.13\00:36:31.80
[Laughter]
00:36:31.80\00:36:33.40
--We want so badly
00:36:33.40\00:36:34.30
--That's because of
00:36:34.30\00:36:35.16
--you still
haven't transitioned.
00:36:35.16\00:36:36.96
--You're tempting
me, you're tempting me.
00:36:36.96\00:36:38.46
--So it's a transition now.
00:36:38.46\00:36:40.00
What, what, what, what,
forget transition the continuum
00:36:40.00\00:36:43.83
--The continuum
00:36:43.83\00:36:45.03
--Yeah what's going on there.
00:36:45.03\00:36:46.16
We've located our bearings
in none other than Egypt.
00:36:46.16\00:36:49.56
--Matthew chapter 2 verse 13 now
when they had departed behold an
00:36:49.56\00:36:52.73
angle of the Lord appeared
to Joseph in a dream arise, take
00:36:52.73\00:36:55.66
the child and his mother flea
to Egypt and stay there until I
00:36:55.66\00:36:59.03
bring you word.
00:36:59.03\00:37:00.33
For Herod will seek the
young child to destroy him.
00:37:00.33\00:37:02.23
That is very similar to what
happened in national Israel's
00:37:02.23\00:37:06.96
history.
00:37:06.96\00:37:08.23
--By the way, by the way if you
want biblical evidence for the
00:37:08.23\00:37:11.20
continuum let's just
go back to the genealogy.
00:37:11.20\00:37:13.83
--K.
00:37:13.83\00:37:15.10
--I'm not saying genealogy, I'm
just saying the genealogy is the
00:37:15.10\00:37:18.10
reason for the continuum.
00:37:18.10\00:37:19.66
--There ya go.
00:37:19.66\00:37:20.46
--There it is.
00:37:20.46\00:37:21.73
It is actually going back to the
Old Testament and saying here we
00:37:21.73\00:37:23.90
go.
00:37:23.90\00:37:25.10
And it just moves...and it
doesn't come to the part where
00:37:25.10\00:37:26.66
ok let's stop here
and put in a new chapter.
00:37:26.66\00:37:29.10
It is the reason
for the continuum.
00:37:29.10\00:37:31.83
--I'm getting so tempted,
here's what I'm gonna do.
00:37:31.83\00:37:33.76
I'm just gonna fold it in half.
00:37:33.76\00:37:35.20
That page I'm just
gonna fold it in half.
00:37:35.20\00:37:37.80
There we go.
00:37:37.80\00:37:40.33
So it's not entirely
gone but it's mostly gone.
00:37:40.33\00:37:43.76
I just can't bring myself to.
00:37:43.76\00:37:45.53
--It's ready, it's ready.
00:37:45.53\00:37:48.93
--Laying the ax to the root.
00:37:48.93\00:37:50.03
-- You were
saying it's very similar
00:37:50.03\00:37:51.70
--Very similar to national
Israel because you have Abraham,
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.26
Isaac, Jacob, the descendants
of Jacob, the 12 tribes, Joseph.
00:37:54.26\00:37:57.43
Joseph was a dreamer of
dreams and a seer of visions.
00:37:57.43\00:38:00.96
His brothers hated him.
00:38:00.96\00:38:02.76
Many of us know the story
of Joseph and the coat of many
00:38:02.76\00:38:04.56
colors.
00:38:04.56\00:38:05.83
But all of this happens because
he begins to have these dreams.
00:38:05.83\00:38:08.43
And the dreams are that a famine
is coming in the land and his
00:38:08.43\00:38:11.60
family needs to move to Egypt.
00:38:11.60\00:38:14.20
There's a death threat
and there's safety there.
00:38:14.20\00:38:16.66
Right and so we
have the same thing.
00:38:16.66\00:38:18.20
--Now we have
another Joseph here.
00:38:18.20\00:38:19.46
--We have a Joseph having dreams
saying hey this is a dangerous
00:38:19.46\00:38:21.26
situation.
00:38:21.26\00:38:21.93
Death threat, get into.
00:38:21.93\00:38:23.20
--Last program we talked about,
last conversation we talked
00:38:23.20\00:38:25.86
about just the verse 15 there
out of Egypt I have called my
00:38:25.86\00:38:28.83
son.
00:38:28.83\00:38:29.73
--Ok so that's
next thing I would say.
00:38:29.73\00:38:31.00
So the first one that they're
called into Egypt and then God
00:38:31.00\00:38:34.40
appears to Moses and says hey go
tell Pharaoh, and here it is, to
00:38:34.40\00:38:39.40
let my
00:38:39.40\00:38:40.56
--people
00:38:40.56\00:38:41.80
--not just my people but my son,
my first, well who is Jesus?
00:38:41.80\00:38:44.93
--Singular.
00:38:44.93\00:38:45.83
--He's the son of God.
00:38:45.83\00:38:47.86
Let my son go.
00:38:47.86\00:38:48.90
So number one called in.
00:38:48.90\00:38:50.16
--Yeah but let's just, can we
just go along that for a minute?
00:38:50.16\00:38:52.06
--Yeah do it.
00:38:52.06\00:38:53.33
--When Jesus is called the son
of God we speak those words so
00:38:53.33\00:38:56.80
easily and almost everybody
who's familiar with the Bible at
00:38:56.80\00:39:00.30
all and definitely all believers
refer to Jesus as the son of
00:39:00.30\00:39:03.43
God.
00:39:03.43\00:39:05.13
But we need to ground our minds
in the fact that that language
00:39:05.13\00:39:08.73
the fact that Jesus is the son
of God is a direct reference to
00:39:08.73\00:39:12.20
Jesus being the son of God
in the sense that he is Israel.
00:39:12.20\00:39:16.00
--That's right.
00:39:16.00\00:39:16.73
Absolutely
00:39:16.73\00:39:17.50
--And he is
00:39:17.50\00:39:18.36
--And he's Adam.
00:39:18.36\00:39:19.30
--The son of God has a name.
00:39:19.30\00:39:20.40
--Very few people
would make that connection.
00:39:20.40\00:39:21.63
--And his name is Israel.
00:39:21.63\00:39:22.86
--By the way here's another
interesting point and that is
00:39:22.86\00:39:24.73
that Jesus is conceived
out of a miracle birth.
00:39:24.73\00:39:29.36
Now go back to
Isaac, go back to Jacob.
00:39:29.36\00:39:34.60
--Yeah, yeah, yeah
this is miraculous.
00:39:34.60\00:39:35.76
--Abrahams a miraculous birth.
00:39:35.76\00:39:39.76
Jacob.
00:39:39.76\00:39:40.70
--Abraham is a miraculous birth?
00:39:40.70\00:39:42.43
--Has, has,
00:39:42.43\00:39:43.73
--Oh got it.
00:39:43.73\00:39:44.33
--Jacob
00:39:44.33\00:39:45.40
--So Isaac is
the miraculous birth.
00:39:45.40\00:39:47.23
--Same thing, all the way
through you have one miraculous
00:39:47.23\00:39:50.13
birth after and the
parallel is right here.
00:39:50.13\00:39:52.10
--That's interesting.
00:39:52.10\00:39:53.10
--Ok guys right there
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So we're looking at the
parallels between Jesus and
00:40:55.90\00:40:59.30
Israel's history and we've seen
that we're oriented in Egypt and
00:40:59.30\00:41:03.46
then Jesus comes out of Egypt.
00:41:03.46\00:41:06.20
So the language here is
deliberately giving us the sense
00:41:06.20\00:41:10.76
that a new
Exodus is taking place.
00:41:10.76\00:41:13.86
--That's right.
00:41:13.86\00:41:15.13
--Jesus immediately coming into
public ministry does something
00:41:15.13\00:41:19.13
specific.
00:41:19.13\00:41:20.90
He's baptized and the baptism of
Jesus runs parallel to Israel as
00:41:20.90\00:41:28.40
a nation corporate Israel
marching through the Red Sea
00:41:28.40\00:41:32.43
into the wilderness.
00:41:32.43\00:41:33.66
Jesus comes out of his baptism
and immediately goes where?
00:41:33.66\00:41:37.70
--Into the wilderness.
00:41:37.70\00:41:39.10
--Into the wilderness so again
let's flush out these parallels
00:41:39.10\00:41:42.50
what's happening there?
00:41:42.50\00:41:44.76
--Well first of all Paul
explicitly says in 1 Corinthians
00:41:44.76\00:41:47.93
10, we don't need to turn there,
he says basically that they were
00:41:47.93\00:41:51.20
all baptized as they went
into the sea, you know, through
00:41:51.20\00:41:55.53
Moses.
00:41:55.53\00:41:56.73
--So he parallels the baptism
language with the Red Sea.
00:41:56.73\00:42:00.50
--With the Exodus language
00:42:00.50\00:42:01.80
--And now we have Jesus
chronicalogically doing the same
00:42:01.80\00:42:03.66
thing.
00:42:03.66\00:42:04.93
--In, as Matthew in particular
is telling the story his word is
00:42:04.93\00:42:08.93
the word that we've
seen over and over again.
00:42:08.93\00:42:10.73
In 2:15 this was fulfilled, in
2:17 this happened that it might
00:42:10.73\00:42:15.70
be fulfilled, in 2:23 that it
might be fulfilled, in 3:15 that
00:42:15.70\00:42:19.10
it might be fulfilled.
00:42:19.10\00:42:20.33
All the way through, I mean
just, I think he uses the word
00:42:20.33\00:42:22.26
some 20 times or more than just
fulfilled, fulfilled, fulfilled
00:42:22.26\00:42:25.96
and the interesting thing is, is
that the specific things that he
00:42:25.96\00:42:29.00
says are fulfilled are
the passages from Israel's
00:42:29.00\00:42:32.66
scripture.
00:42:32.66\00:42:34.16
So he's quoting a verse whether
it's in Jeremiah or Isaiah or
00:42:34.16\00:42:36.86
one of the Psalms largely in the
prophets and he's saying oh that
00:42:36.86\00:42:40.56
was fulfilled in Jesus, oh
that was fulfilled in Jesus.
00:42:40.56\00:42:43.50
But our point here is that these
were not just random piece mill
00:42:43.50\00:42:47.23
things that were being pulled.
00:42:47.23\00:42:48.80
But the real thing that
was being fulfilled is Jesus
00:42:48.80\00:42:51.53
retracing the
trajectory of national Israel.
00:42:51.53\00:42:56.36
And so we've got the into
Egypt, out of Egypt, baptism,
00:42:56.36\00:43:01.30
--Red Sea.
00:43:01.30\00:43:02.43
--which is the Red Sea,
then the wilderness experience.
00:43:02.43\00:43:03.86
-Yeah and it's specified in
Matthew's gospel that Jesus was
00:43:03.86\00:43:08.60
in the wilderness for a
specific period of time, 40 days
00:43:08.60\00:43:12.03
paralleling, of course,
the fact that Israel was in the
00:43:12.03\00:43:16.40
wilderness of
temptation for 40 years.
00:43:16.40\00:43:19.63
--There is one small little
niggle that we have to be clear
00:43:19.63\00:43:23.73
about, when the
children of Israel came out,
00:43:23.73\00:43:26.16
just think back to that.
00:43:26.16\00:43:27.43
When they came out of the Red
Sea they journed to the mountain
00:43:27.43\00:43:29.63
and scripture says that that
was a journey of about a month.
00:43:29.63\00:43:33.86
Ok.
00:43:33.86\00:43:35.00
Now the 40 years in the
wilderness doesn't come until
00:43:35.00\00:43:37.63
after Mt. Sinai.
00:43:37.63\00:43:38.90
So I think it's important that
we recognize, not just for our
00:43:38.90\00:43:41.63
purposes here but just in
general that it was not God's
00:43:41.63\00:43:43.70
will even close to his will
for the children of Israel to be
00:43:43.70\00:43:47.46
wondering around
aimlessly for 40 years.
00:43:47.46\00:43:50.06
The real wilderness journey
was from Egypt to the mountain,
00:43:50.06\00:43:55.20
which was about a month.
00:43:55.20\00:43:56.93
So we'll say 40 days.
00:43:56.93\00:43:58.50
So it certainly is a parallel
to the 40 years but the real
00:43:58.50\00:44:02.43
journey was from here to here
because the next thing that the
00:44:02.43\00:44:05.23
encounter is the mountain where
they receive the law and the
00:44:05.23\00:44:07.50
principles of
God's covenant with them.
00:44:07.50\00:44:10.70
And that's exactly what
Matthew does here, you have the
00:44:10.70\00:44:13.43
wilderness, Matthew chapter 4
the temptation and then where do
00:44:13.43\00:44:17.00
we go?
00:44:17.00\00:44:18.26
Jesus' longest public address in
the entire gospel of Matthew and
00:44:18.26\00:44:22.43
all the gospels is, I mean
the whole chapter of Matthew 5,
00:44:22.43\00:44:26.16
Matthew 6 and Matthew 7 referred
to as the Sermon on the Mount.
00:44:26.16\00:44:30.86
And what Jesus does here is
phenomenal because he has this
00:44:30.86\00:44:35.53
refrain that he uses 6 or 7
times and the refrain is you
00:44:35.53\00:44:38.26
have heard, but I say.
00:44:38.26\00:44:41.43
You have heard
and what he's quoting.
00:44:41.43\00:44:43.06
--It's the authority again.
00:44:43.06\00:44:44.13
--There's the authority thing.
00:44:44.13\00:44:45.26
Now what he's quoting
from is their own text.
00:44:45.26\00:44:47.70
You have heard that it is said
that you shall not lust after a
00:44:47.70\00:44:50.50
woman but I say unto you whoever
lusts after, you know looks at a
00:44:50.50\00:44:53.46
woman to lust after her
has committed adultery with her
00:44:53.46\00:44:55.63
already in his heart.
00:44:55.63\00:44:56.60
What is he doing?
00:44:56.60\00:44:57.86
Here is Jesus on top of the New
Testament Sinai handing the law
00:44:57.86\00:45:02.40
down, now here's a crucially
important point, not as a new
00:45:02.40\00:45:05.20
thing, not as standing in
opposition to the old thing but
00:45:05.20\00:45:08.90
in opposition to the incorrect
interpretation of the old thing.
00:45:08.90\00:45:13.90
--He indicates that in chapter
5 verse 17 do not think that I
00:45:13.90\00:45:16.66
have come to destroy
the law or the prophets.
00:45:16.66\00:45:21.10
I did not come to
destroy but to fulfill.
00:45:21.10\00:45:24.43
--There's that word again.
00:45:24.43\00:45:25.70
--There's that word again, Jesus
is not destroying the law, he's
00:45:25.70\00:45:28.80
not negating the law.
00:45:28.80\00:45:30.13
He's not abolishing the law.
00:45:30.13\00:45:31.33
Jesus is setting it in its
proper perspective and giving it
00:45:31.33\00:45:36.66
all the glory that
it really possesses.
00:45:36.66\00:45:41.80
--That's powerful, what do you
think of verse 20 because we're
00:45:41.80\00:45:43.80
talking about
righteousness by faith.
00:45:43.80\00:45:45.33
And after he makes that
statement, shortly after he
00:45:45.33\00:45:48.40
says, he says let me break
it down to you in verse 20, what
00:45:48.40\00:45:52.13
I'm trying to say is that,
the punchline is unless your
00:45:52.13\00:45:54.96
righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and
00:45:54.96\00:45:58.53
Pharisees you don't have
part of the kingdom of heaven.
00:45:58.53\00:46:01.96
--Now can I just add
something there Jeffrey?
00:46:01.96\00:46:03.60
And that it that when it
says unless your righteousness
00:46:03.60\00:46:06.16
exceeds the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees, there's
00:46:06.16\00:46:09.66
one of two ways
we can look at that.
00:46:09.66\00:46:11.56
Either Jesus is saying
they were picky, you need to be
00:46:11.56\00:46:14.10
ultra-picky.
00:46:14.10\00:46:15.36
Either Jesus is saying they were
very fastidious about the letter
00:46:15.36\00:46:21.03
of the law but you need to
be absolutely perfectionistic or
00:46:21.03\00:46:25.56
Jesus is saying that you need to
have a righteousness that is of
00:46:25.56\00:46:29.36
an entirely different quality.
00:46:29.36\00:46:32.26
--That's exactly where I was
going because to the listener
00:46:32.26\00:46:34.30
who would have been aware you
would've been like, seriously?
00:46:34.30\00:46:41.06
Thank you it was a
pleasure to meet you.
00:46:41.06\00:46:42.46
This is not going to work.
00:46:42.46\00:46:43.30
How are we gonna do this?
00:46:43.30\00:46:44.56
Unless he was talking about,
as you said, a different kind of
00:46:44.56\00:46:47.03
righteousness.
00:46:47.03\00:46:48.23
--We know that he's talking
about a different quality of
00:46:48.23\00:46:49.73
righteousness and not just more
of the same because in Matthew
00:46:49.73\00:46:53.30
23, I mean I'm jumping way ahead
here, we'll go back of course.
00:46:53.30\00:46:57.43
But in Matthew 23 verse 23 whoa
to you scribes and Pharisees
00:46:57.43\00:47:01.80
hypocrites, pretenders.
00:47:01.80\00:47:03.46
There's a surface, there's a
pretentious, there's an outward
00:47:03.46\00:47:07.20
compliance with the law,
hypocrites for you pay tithe of
00:47:07.20\00:47:10.50
mint and anise and cumin
and have neglected the weightier
00:47:10.50\00:47:14.56
matters of the law,
justice, mercy and faith.
00:47:14.56\00:47:17.40
--There ya go.
00:47:17.40\00:47:18.16
--And Luke's gospel adds love.
00:47:18.16\00:47:20.30
So Jesus is reaching deep and
then he uses the metaphor of the
00:47:20.30\00:47:24.46
inside of a cup and a
platter and the outside.
00:47:24.46\00:47:27.60
He used the metaphor of a white
washed tomb, that's fuill of
00:47:27.60\00:47:30.93
dead man's bones on
the inside but it looks
00:47:30.93\00:47:33.33
good on the outside.
00:47:33.33\00:47:35.66
So he's not talking in Matthew
25, the sermon on the mount,
00:47:35.66\00:47:37.73
he's not saying you need more of
what the scribes and Pharisees
00:47:37.73\00:47:41.23
have, just be more picky.
00:47:41.23\00:47:43.63
He's saying no you need
righteousness that is from the
00:47:43.63\00:47:47.16
inside out.
00:47:47.16\00:47:48.30
You need a quality of
righteousness that is prompted
00:47:48.30\00:47:51.73
by the covenantal love of God.
00:47:51.73\00:47:53.33
--That's why they're like we've
never heard anything like this
00:47:53.33\00:47:57.23
before.
00:47:57.23\00:47:57.96
--Who is this guy?
00:47:57.96\00:47:58.83
--What planet did
this guy come from?
00:47:58.83\00:48:00.16
--When you go back to Matthew
chapter 5 Jesus here, again, is
00:48:00.16\00:48:04.16
coming, not to do away with
the law, now notice this here in
00:48:04.16\00:48:08.00
verse 17 not to do away
with the law or the prophets.
00:48:08.00\00:48:10.40
He's bringing it all together.
00:48:10.40\00:48:11.63
He's not just talking about
Sinai alone because Sinai is the
00:48:11.63\00:48:15.63
principle upon which all
that God has given us is based.
00:48:15.63\00:48:20.16
--That's right.
00:48:20.16\00:48:21.43
--But notice verse 18 for verily
I say unto you until heaven and
00:48:21.43\00:48:25.23
earth pass one jot or tittle
from all of the law and the
00:48:25.23\00:48:29.93
prophets have spoken, all of the
Old Testament instruction, all
00:48:29.93\00:48:33.26
of the prophecies that have been
given to Israel, not one jot or
00:48:33.26\00:48:36.43
tittle shall in no wise pass
from it until all of it be what?
00:48:36.43\00:48:40.76
--Fulfilled.
00:48:40.76\00:48:41.86
--So Jesus is coming now
to fulfill the law and the
00:48:41.86\00:48:47.20
prophets.
00:48:47.20\00:48:48.43
He's coming as the covenant
keeper, as the one who is going
00:48:48.43\00:48:51.73
to fill up the full meaning
of all that God has done and all
00:48:51.73\00:48:54.96
that God has promised
and all that God has said.
00:48:54.96\00:48:56.66
--I'm so deeply memorized, I'm
so glad that you brought that
00:48:56.66\00:48:59.23
out because too often,
especially in our community of
00:48:59.23\00:49:01.66
faith when you hear the word law
you instantaneously assume 10
00:49:01.66\00:49:05.83
Commandments but that is not
the way that the New Testament
00:49:05.83\00:49:08.96
writers use the
word law, almost never.
00:49:08.96\00:49:10.90
When they say law they mean the
writings of Moses and the often
00:49:10.90\00:49:14.10
mean the entire Old Testament.
00:49:14.10\00:49:16.40
And here this division of the
law and the prophets he's saying
00:49:16.40\00:49:19.36
don't think I'm doing away with
the Old Testament, what we would
00:49:19.36\00:49:21.16
call the Old Testament, what
they would just call the Hebrew
00:49:21.16\00:49:23.16
Scriptures.
00:49:23.16\00:49:24.36
Don't think I'm doing away
with the Hebrew Scriptures I'm
00:49:24.36\00:49:26.03
fulfilling and that's a point
where they're like, you're what?
00:49:26.03\00:49:30.30
You think you're
the fulfillment, that's
00:49:30.30\00:49:31.80
--But it's down there like
00:49:31.80\00:49:33.20
--This guy talks, he talks a big
talk is basically what they're
00:49:33.20\00:49:35.83
saying.
00:49:35.83\00:49:36.56
He speaks with authority.
00:49:36.56\00:49:37.73
--Could we use this language
that Israel's history is a
00:49:37.73\00:49:40.00
microcosm of God's plan and
purpose for humanity and Jesus
00:49:40.00\00:49:47.30
is the macro
reality that fulfills?
00:49:47.30\00:49:50.36
He's the one.
00:49:50.36\00:49:52.00
--And it definitely
includes the teaching.
00:49:52.00\00:49:53.50
--I'm sorry I didn't hear
that I was busy trying to drink
00:49:53.50\00:49:56.06
Jeffrey's water.
00:49:56.06\00:49:56.76
--Say it again, say it again.
00:49:56.76\00:49:57.76
It was an accident because he
00:49:57.76\00:49:59.00
--the language that I'm
using here that I think would be
00:49:59.00\00:50:03.23
helpful just to wrap our
minds around it is that Israel's
00:50:03.23\00:50:06.06
history is a microcosm of God's
plan for humanity and Jesus is
00:50:06.06\00:50:12.80
the macro reality, he's
the macrofullfillment of that
00:50:12.80\00:50:17.40
history on behalf of all of
00:50:17.40\00:50:19.40
--what's the text in Isaiah that
says that when Messiah comes,
00:50:19.40\00:50:22.23
when the servant comes
he will magnify the law.
00:50:22.23\00:50:25.03
--Isaiah 41?
00:50:25.03\00:50:26.30
--Isn't it 41 yeah here it is
42:21 the Lord is well pleased
00:50:26.30\00:50:32.26
for his righteousness sake.
00:50:32.26\00:50:33.93
He will exalt the law, King
James, magnify the law and make
00:50:33.93\00:50:37.46
it honorable.
00:50:37.46\00:50:38.73
So this is not a diminishment of
Israel's scriptures and history.
00:50:38.73\00:50:41.63
This is a magnification to
include James' earlier point.
00:50:41.63\00:50:46.40
Not just this little isolated,
favoritism, hey you're my
00:50:46.40\00:50:48.93
people, this
universalization of.
00:50:48.93\00:50:53.10
--But no let's not use
this point he's gonna make it
00:50:53.10\00:50:55.50
honorable the law of the
transcript of God's character
00:50:55.50\00:50:57.20
it's his, it's who he is.
00:50:57.20\00:50:59.46
Jesus comes to dispel the
darkness and to make honorable
00:50:59.46\00:51:03.10
who God is and what
he really represents.
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.13
Pharisees haven't done that.
00:51:05.13\00:51:06.43
--James you continue to bring
that up and I appreciate that
00:51:06.43\00:51:09.43
you keep us grounded in the
fact that there's not only the
00:51:09.43\00:51:12.60
rabbinical first century thing
going on here, there is a deeper
00:51:12.60\00:51:15.03
conflict with an enemy.
00:51:15.03\00:51:18.00
--Stretching all
the way back to Genesis.
00:51:18.00\00:51:19.63
We're continually, and rightly
so, reaching into Israel's
00:51:19.63\00:51:23.26
history and as
far back as Abraham.
00:51:23.26\00:51:25.56
And James is saying well the
gospels also are reaching all
00:51:25.56\00:51:28.50
the way back to Genesis.
00:51:28.50\00:51:29.66
--Well look at this, look
at this in Matthew's account,
00:51:29.66\00:51:32.40
Matthew chapter 1 verse 5
and Solomon begat Boaz of Rahab.
00:51:32.40\00:51:39.46
Ok now when you look at the
next line and Boaz begat Obed of
00:51:39.46\00:51:44.03
--what verse are you in?
00:51:44.03\00:51:44.56
--Matthew 1 verse 5
00:51:44.56\00:51:45.23
--Five, ok.
00:51:45.23\00:51:46.03
--And Boaz begat Obed of Ruth.
00:51:46.03\00:51:52.03
Here are people, here are
people, at least in the context
00:51:52.03\00:51:56.36
of the genealogy of Christ, here
are people who have come out of
00:51:56.36\00:51:59.56
these other nations, Ruth was
not in her genetic line, she was
00:51:59.56\00:52:04.13
not an Israelite.
00:52:04.13\00:52:05.36
She wasn't a Jew.
00:52:05.36\00:52:06.40
You see what I'm saying?
00:52:06.40\00:52:07.60
So there's a clear revelation
here by Matthew purposely
00:52:07.60\00:52:12.13
including in the genealogy these
different gentile believers.
00:52:12.13\00:52:15.70
--And not only gentile
believers but shady characters.
00:52:15.70\00:52:18.06
--Shady characters, absolutely.
00:52:18.06\00:52:19.46
--Because to a Jew to see these
people as part of the lineage of
00:52:19.46\00:52:21.93
Jesus they would have said what?
00:52:21.93\00:52:23.96
--And get this, get this,
so when we include these shady
00:52:23.96\00:52:27.06
characters
immediately what does he do?
00:52:27.06\00:52:28.83
He says and by the way if you
think the shady characters only
00:52:28.83\00:52:31.06
come from the Gentiles remember
David begat Solomon verse 6 with
00:52:31.06\00:52:36.46
her that had been
the wife of Uriah.
00:52:36.46\00:52:38.86
In other words God again
is being inclusive but he's
00:52:38.86\00:52:42.66
showing.
00:52:42.66\00:52:43.53
--The pedigree
is not looking good.
00:52:43.53\00:52:45.33
--He's showing
there's no difference.
00:52:45.33\00:52:46.60
--So God is in the company
of the outcastal society, guys a
00:52:46.60\00:52:48.50
quick side point.
00:52:48.50\00:52:49.80
Should we, could we say then
that Jesus teaching us that the
00:52:49.80\00:52:54.76
Old Testament is beautiful?
00:52:54.76\00:52:56.00
Because if the sermon of
the mount, if the sermon on the
00:52:56.00\00:52:59.36
mount is beautiful an elevated
code of everything ethic,
00:52:59.36\00:53:03.70
morality, righteousness,
00:53:03.70\00:53:05.46
--social interaction
00:53:05.46\00:53:06.73
--and if that's beautiful and
yet all that is is a fulfillment
00:53:06.73\00:53:09.83
of the law and the prophets.
00:53:09.83\00:53:11.13
In other words, Jesus is summing
up and giving us the essence of
00:53:11.13\00:53:14.43
the law and the prophets then
basically he's telling us this
00:53:14.43\00:53:17.43
is how you read
the Old Testament.
00:53:17.43\00:53:19.00
--Exactly, over and against the
rabbinical misinterpretation of
00:53:19.00\00:53:21.60
what it was.
00:53:21.60\00:53:22.56
--Which is why it's beautiful
00:53:22.56\00:53:23.56
--He has to take
that apologetic posture.
00:53:23.56\00:53:25.06
You have heard but I
say, you have heard but I say.
00:53:25.06\00:53:27.00
You could even say, now we
don't want to be misunderstood
00:53:27.00\00:53:30.06
on this, you wouldn't need a
sermon on the mount if the Old
00:53:30.06\00:53:33.30
Testament had been
correctly understood.
00:53:33.30\00:53:36.40
He would say
keep up the good work.
00:53:36.40\00:53:37.53
--I want to get back to
something here that I think is
00:53:37.53\00:53:40.16
important when you talked about
the story of Willie Nelson and
00:53:40.16\00:53:42.16
that is this you don't have to
read past verse 6 to recognize
00:53:42.16\00:53:46.20
in the first book of the
New Testament that this book was
00:53:46.20\00:53:49.73
written for us.
00:53:49.73\00:53:50.80
Now I'm going to share
a little bit about myself.
00:53:50.80\00:53:53.20
I was born to a father who was
black, a mother who was white
00:53:53.20\00:53:58.50
who were not married and this is
going back to late 50s early 60s
00:53:58.50\00:54:03.30
I was born in '62
and never married.
00:54:03.30\00:54:06.03
And so back then
in those days to be
00:54:06.03\00:54:08.70
--There's a stigma attached.
00:54:08.70\00:54:09.96
--Yes, now when I read the first
6 verse of Matthew's account of
00:54:09.96\00:54:16.03
the genealogy of
Christ I'm thinking like ok.
00:54:16.03\00:54:16.66
--You're gonna be alright.
00:54:16.66\00:54:18.06
Everything's gonna be alright.
00:54:18.06\00:54:20.16
--I'll be ok.
00:54:20.16\00:54:20.86
--You're in good company.
00:54:20.86\00:54:21.60
--Society today
00:54:21.60\00:54:23.16
--So genealogies
preach the gospel.
00:54:23.16\00:54:24.76
--Yes.
00:54:24.76\00:54:25.46
--Amen.
00:54:25.46\00:54:26.73
--In society today you are
an outcast, I can't tell you how
00:54:26.73\00:54:29.23
many years and even to this day
how difficult it is sometimes to
00:54:29.23\00:54:32.83
say to people well my mom
and dad never actually married.
00:54:32.83\00:54:35.86
Well my mom and dad never
actually marr, well my mom and
00:54:35.86\00:54:38.06
dad weren't actually married.
00:54:38.06\00:54:39.96
You know what I'm saying?
00:54:39.96\00:54:41.23
But when I read these first 6
verses I'm like oh I'm in good
00:54:41.23\00:54:42.93
company.
00:54:42.93\00:54:43.73
[Laughter]
00:54:43.73\00:54:45.60
Here's Rahab, here's Ruth,
here's the one who was born of
00:54:45.60\00:54:50.86
Uriah's former wife.
00:54:50.86\00:54:54.56
I mean
00:54:54.56\00:54:55.43
--The pedigree
is not looking good.
00:54:55.43\00:54:57.16
When we come to
00:54:57.16\00:54:58.76
--But it is good.
00:54:58.76\00:55:00.66
--Of course, amen for
anyone who is an outcast.
00:55:00.66\00:55:03.23
--For sinner's hallelujah
00:55:03.23\00:55:04.26
--Willie Nelson,
whoever else it is good.
00:55:04.26\00:55:06.06
--When and there's so much more
that can be said about Jesus and
00:55:06.06\00:55:09.53
the gospels but something that I
just feel like I would be remiss
00:55:09.53\00:55:12.36
if we didn't point out is that
the very first thing that Jesus
00:55:12.36\00:55:15.50
says, we went through the into
Egypt, out of Egypt, through the
00:55:15.50\00:55:19.70
baptism, into the wilderness
and then here he is on the New
00:55:19.70\00:55:21.73
Testament Sinai, you know
here he is in the sermon on the
00:55:21.73\00:55:25.46
mount.
00:55:25.46\00:55:26.56
What's the first thing
that comes out of his mouth?
00:55:26.56\00:55:27.86
It's not this nice,
cute little innocuous phrase.
00:55:27.86\00:55:32.06
This is something, Jesus has
been thinking about this for,
00:55:32.06\00:55:34.56
who knows, 20 years?
00:55:34.56\00:55:36.53
I mean this is calculated.
00:55:36.53\00:55:38.00
It's intentionally calculated in
a single phrase to tectonically
00:55:38.00\00:55:42.90
upend the whole of
first century Jewish thinking.
00:55:42.90\00:55:46.63
And we know that because when
John the Baptist was baptizing
00:55:46.63\00:55:49.13
people some people came out,
some of the religious leaders
00:55:49.13\00:55:52.43
came out and John anticipated
their objection to what was
00:55:52.43\00:55:54.96
going on.
00:55:54.96\00:55:55.86
He said I know
what you are thinking.
00:55:55.86\00:55:57.13
Don't even begin to say within
yourselves that we have Abraham
00:55:57.13\00:56:00.86
as our father.
00:56:00.86\00:56:02.10
See this is, he's tapping
into first century Jewish psyche
00:56:02.10\00:56:05.16
here.
00:56:05.16\00:56:06.00
Hey we're alright.
00:56:06.00\00:56:07.26
We're connected because we are
the descendants of Abraham all
00:56:07.26\00:56:08.50
is well.
00:56:08.50\00:56:09.76
And Jesus is constantly pushing
back against this idea that your
00:56:09.76\00:56:13.03
genealogical attachment
to Abraham is the thing.
00:56:13.03\00:56:15.53
So when he stand up there he's
speaking not just, as you said
00:56:15.53\00:56:18.60
Ty, into a vacuum.
00:56:18.60\00:56:19.90
He is speaking into a very
specific social, theological,
00:56:19.90\00:56:22.80
psychological situation and that
situation is if we are the Jews
00:56:22.80\00:56:26.76
we are God's people full stop.
00:56:26.76\00:56:30.56
--We have a monopoly on the
truth on God's salvation, on
00:56:30.56\00:56:33.76
blessing.
00:56:33.76\00:56:35.66
--So when Jesus opens his mouth
look at what he says, the first
00:56:35.66\00:56:38.50
thing he says blessed are the
poor in spirit for theirs is the
00:56:38.50\00:56:43.90
kingdom of heaven.
00:56:43.90\00:56:45.40
--What?
00:56:45.40\00:56:46.20
--It's revolutionary.
00:56:46.20\00:56:47.23
--What totally
rev...that's the best word.
00:56:47.23\00:56:48.93
It literally is revolutionary.
00:56:48.93\00:56:52.10
We think of Jesus turning over
the tables in the temple which
00:56:52.10\00:56:53.70
I'm sure we'll get to, this is
turning over, he's turning minds
00:56:53.70\00:56:57.33
over because
what he is saying is
00:56:57.33\00:56:59.36
[Laughter]
00:56:59.36\00:57:01.03
--Flip.
00:57:01.03\00:57:02.26
--You're not God's people if
you know that you are elite and
00:57:02.26\00:57:05.80
elect and special.
00:57:05.80\00:57:07.20
You are members of God's
kingdom if you know that you are
00:57:07.20\00:57:09.80
spiritually impoverished.
00:57:09.80\00:57:11.53
--If you think you're elite and
special that's evidence that you
00:57:11.53\00:57:13.73
are not.
00:57:13.73\00:57:15.00
--You are not, blessed are those
who recognize their spiritual
00:57:15.00\00:57:18.30
poverty.
00:57:18.30\00:57:19.40
I'm gonna tell you about
a whole new kind of kingdom.
00:57:19.40\00:57:21.20
And it's a kingdom, and I tell
ya there's gonna be a near riot
00:57:21.20\00:57:24.53
when Jesus has the audacity to
say, to a Roman Centurion, I've
00:57:24.53\00:57:28.53
not seen so great faith in all
of Israel as I see in this Roman
00:57:28.53\00:57:33.03
Centurion.
00:57:33.03\00:57:34.23
What he's saying is that
the kingdom is not just for some
00:57:34.23\00:57:37.43
special little
enclave of God's favorites.
00:57:37.43\00:57:39.93
The kingdom is for those
who recognize their covenant
00:57:39.93\00:57:43.10
unfaithfulness, their
spiritual poverty and lethargy.
00:57:43.10\00:57:47.46
--Jesus in the beatitudes with
the series of blessings on those
00:57:47.46\00:57:53.66
who are completely unsuspecting
that this is what will come out
00:57:53.66\00:57:59.43
of his mouth, Jesus is basically
saying everybody you think is
00:57:59.43\00:58:03.46
not blessed is blessed.
00:58:03.46\00:58:06.40
It's a great universion.
00:58:06.40\00:58:09.06
He's turning it
inside out and upside down.
00:58:09.06\00:58:12.86
--Right side up.
00:58:12.86\00:58:13.76
--Yeah right side up.
00:58:13.76\00:58:14.93
[Laughter]
00:58:14.93\00:58:16.43
Upside down is right side up.
00:58:16.43\00:58:17.43
It's incredible
what he's doing here.
00:58:17.43\00:58:19.36
--Like I said earlier when
somebody was quoting something
00:58:19.36\00:58:22.66
and I said it's no
wonder they killed him.
00:58:22.66\00:58:24.20
I mean
00:58:24.20\00:58:25.23
--Well they had to.
00:58:25.23\00:58:26.80
--Of course, he was just
00:58:26.80\00:58:28.06
--They shouldn't
have but they had to.
00:58:28.06\00:58:29.26
--Right well he was such a
threat to both the Pharisees and
00:58:29.26\00:58:33.16
the Sadducees and
just the establishment.
00:58:33.16\00:58:34.93
We talk about revolutionary
Che Guevara or whoever, like
00:58:34.93\00:58:38.40
modern revolutionaries.
00:58:38.40\00:58:39.26
This guy, who
does he think he is?
00:58:39.26\00:58:42.73
And that's gonna come
up, who do you think you are?
00:58:42.73\00:58:45.10
And he's gonna give some
answers and people will be like
00:58:45.10\00:58:48.30
[whistling]
00:58:48.30\00:58:49.56
--In this sermon on the mount
I think what we're realizing is
00:58:49.56\00:58:51.70
that Jesus is redefining
righteousness as love and he's
00:58:51.70\00:58:57.20
redefining Israel as inclusive
of the entire human race, in
00:58:57.20\00:59:02.83
God's plan in the
potential that is in Christ.
00:59:02.83\00:59:06.56
Amen.
00:59:06.56\00:59:07.56