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#15 Jesus Christ in Isaiah (Part 2) - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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You guys have your Bibles. Hold on, too tight.
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We're still in Isaiah today and we're going to be staying here,
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perhaps for a little bit longer than anticipated, which is
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totally okay. But just to recap since we
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weren't together and Bible Study last week, we've been
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discovering something about the person of Jesus Christ.
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According to Isaiah and two weeks ago, we discussed Isaiah
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describing the Messiah as the anointed one and every song that
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we sang was, so fitting to where we're going tonight, when we
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realize the depth of the power compassion, Mercy that Jesus
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possessed. It's quite astounding.
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And just for the sake of review, go to Isaiah 61 As Jesus was
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anointed with the Holy Spirit was anointed for a specific
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task. And we see here in Isaiah 61
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verse one, that Jesus was anointed to do what to bring
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good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
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Brokenhearted to Proclaim, Liberty to the captives, and the
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opening of the prison to those who are bound.
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And even as we were singing reflecting on these things, that
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he comes for the poor in spirit that he comes for those who are
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brokenhearted, that he comes for those that are bound in sin.
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Held captive, I realized something.
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That there is nothing within yourself or myself that can
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bring us to a place of Victory and Liberty apart from him.
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Only, he has been anointed to perform these things and if it's
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not for Jesus Christ, we are doomed.
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If it's not for Jesus Christ, We Are Forever bound.
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If it's not for Jesus Christ, We Are Forever broken.
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Hearted if it's not for Jesus Christ, We Are Forever held
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captive, if it's not for Jesus Christ, there is no good news,
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only, he has the Good news only. He has the power to set free
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only. He has the mercy and the love to
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heal the broken hearted. It doesn't end there because
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he's been anointed to do even further things, you go to Isaiah
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42. This is just all review, Isaiah
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42, Verse 1. Where God speaks about his son
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and says, behold my servant. Whom I uphold my chosen in whom
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my soul Delights, I have put my spirit upon him.
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You bring forth Justice to the nation's and here it is.
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He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice or make it hurt in the
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street, a bruised Reed, he will not break, and a faintly burning
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Wick, he will not quench again. You and I can get so damaged and
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discourage and life. And there's not enough.
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Positive thinking, there's not enough pep talk and there's not
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enough psychology to bring us to a place of wholeness, but
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somebody's been anointed. To bind us.
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And not only that. Look at this, this might
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encourage us. even when we are in a place of being faintly
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burning, if our light is dimming, if our passion is being
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lost, We can call upon him to rekindle that fire because he's
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been anointed to do it. Do you see how we can rely on
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him for so much? Do you see how everything about
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the Holy Spirit empowering him is for our good.
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As for our good, this is exactly what were realizing today.
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Because if you think for a moment that this is something,
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we're just studying and it's not something that we can experience
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in this Bible studies futile, My prayer, and we're going to pray
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in a moment. Our prayers should be Lord.
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As we study you, I need to experience what I'm about to
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realize. And what we need to do is call
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upon the anointed one to walk in this place and to touch to touch
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our hearts. And he's willing to do it.
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If we realize that, he alone can do it, would you buy our heads
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as we pray? Father, we thank you for this
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book because it's a supernatural book.
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It reveals your heart of reveals your power, reveals your son and
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Lord in this place. We do not need to hear from man.
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We don't need to hear mere opinion.
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We don't need to hear clever thoughts.
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We just need the raw truth of your word empowered by the Holy
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Spirit, to penetrate our hearts and to bring us to a place of
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experiencing what we are studying.
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So Lord even now Would you come and set free every distracted
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mind and every person that's so emotionally stirred up that they
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can't settle in their soul and Lord.
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Right now we plead with you that for the sake of our good and
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more importantly for the sake of your glory revealed, the
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anointed one to us and let us be caught up in him though.
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We pray that we would even be raptured with the Revelation
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that we are going to discover tonight and that Lord.
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Again, we need The anointed one to speak.
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So let your Holy Spirit, Come. Lord hear the hearts of your
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people that are hungry for bread.
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Men Are from heaven and Lord for those in here that are sitting
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in the seats for the wrong reason and you know them very
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well. We know that you were gracious
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enough. To even realign motives.
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Even despite false intentions touch and bless and renew.
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And we ask that you would do that because we know you were
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that good. We pray these things in Jesus
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name. Amen.
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The anointing of Jesus Christ. Does it end in Isaiah 61?
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Is it limited to Isaiah 42? Is there not more to the measure
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of the spirit of God that has been given to Christ, which is
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really without measure Isaiah chapter 11.
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That's our text tonight. Isaiah chapter 11.
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Because this anointing that was Upon Jesus.
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Implies much greater truth than what we've already discovered.
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This might be some review for the first two verses, but it
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will do us some good. So here's here's Isaiah.
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Now, a profit envisioning, something about this suffering
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servant, that's going to come. The Gospel, According to Isaiah
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discovering Jesus, according to this Old Testament st.
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And this is what he sees, he sees visually symbolically that
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there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a
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branch from his roots, shall bear fruit.
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Now they just stop there. We've talked about this before
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when we went through Isaiah 53. But let's review.
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So this is what he's seeing. He's seeing a stump a tree
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that's cut off, almost to the very bottom of its trunk.
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And he sees a little shoot that's coming out of it.
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And what he sees is that this stump symbolizes The Descendants
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and the ancestry of Jesse and the Chute comes out, which is
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something that's very important for us to understand because it
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speaks of when we think of trees in the Bible.
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Remember, this is not random poll.
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Language there's symbolism. And if you really want to know
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how to interpret a symbol the Bible interprets, the Bible,
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Scripture interprets scripture. You'll be amazed that if you
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even look at a book like Revelation, you'll find many
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answers in the Book of Daniel to what these horns meet and what
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these Waters mean, it's all there.
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And this is why we can't just pick and choose what books we
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want to read. We got to scale through all of
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scripture because you're going to find answers in one book that
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are unlock things in another book when we think of a tree and
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it's right context. Even in the chapter before this
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chapter 11. He talks about cutting down a
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tree, which symbolizes a kingdom, which symbolizes a
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Dynasty which symbolizes a a rain of a specific person, or a
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specific nation. And so when we talk about the
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stump of Jesse, what we're talking about is the davidic
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dynasty where David became king and God had made an eternal
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Covenant with David. That there will be a king that
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will reign on his throne forever more.
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But at one point in history because not of David necessarily
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but his descendants. Have you ever read 1st Kings and
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second Kings? What you see is failure after
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failure almost with a perfect record though.
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There was some faithful ones that have continually sinned
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against God and have brought the dynasty of David almost to a
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place of non-existence. And for 600 years, there was no
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King to rule on the throne of David so that tree was cut off.
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There was nobody raining an authority for a long period of
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time. And it offers sudden Isaiah goes
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into a vision, he's receiving a word from the Lord and he sees
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what apparently seems to be dead because I one time David's
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Dynasty. David's kingdom, was a mighty
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tree that was providing righteousness and Justice to
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those who found shelter underneath that tree didn't last
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very long unfortunate. and all the book of First Kings and
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second Kings, really teaches us is that there's only one
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faithful King and he's going to come one day and he did come but
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he sees this little shoot coming out life And what he's seeing
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here is the Revival of the davidic, kingship and Rain.
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What he's seeing is the restoration of what seem to be
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so dormant, and almost dead for hundreds of years is about to
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spring up to life again. And that is so significant
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because God had made a promise to David.
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That there would be somebody that will rule on his throne
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forever and ever and ever. And it seems as though, God
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didn't fulfill this promise but all for a sudden, Isaiah gives a
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word And he says, no, it's coming.
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And as he comes up, we see that he is fulfilling a promise and
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it's a powerful promise, not only this profit but Amos 911.
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If we can put up, Amos 911 to see how another Prophet speaks
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about this. And this might not seem like it
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relates to us much, but aren't you?
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Glad that God keeps his promises.
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Even if hundreds of years past, God will keep his word.
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In that day, I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen
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and repair, its breaches and raise up its ruins and rebuilt
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it as in the days of old. So, even Amos, the prophet sees
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the same thing that Isaiah sees. But there's another reason why
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he says. From the stump of Jesse.
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Now, I remember this. This dynasty was almost so dead
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that to refer to David would almost be insignificant to say
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that it came from Jesse almost seems like there is a mini King
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for so long, so might as well give the reference to him.
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But there's another reason why the prophet says, Jesse relating
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to Isaiah predicting when the Messiah and how the Messiah
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would come. Can anybody think of a reason
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why? Well, here's a question.
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That might help where did Jesse come from?
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Not know who his father was but where he lived where he was born
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and where he was from. Geographically.
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That's right, so you go to First Samuel, 16 one when Samuel is
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being sent to go and anoint a new king that came from Jesse
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who came from where we're going to find out.
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The Lord said to Samuel. How long, will you grieve over
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Saul since? I had rejected him from being
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King over Israel, fill your horn with oil and go.
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I will send you to Jesse. The Bethel might fry provided
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for myself a king among his sons.
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That was David, David fulfilled, this ultimately, but then you
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have another Prophet a contemporary with Isaiah,
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meaning, he lived alongside with Isaiah named Micah and Micah,
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5:2 tells us something about another king that is to come way
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past the days of David and what is this?
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A, but you o Bethlehem ephrathah who are two littered little to
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be among the clans of Judah from?
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You shall come forth for me. One, who is to be ruler in
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Israel, whose Origins. Ian is from old from ancient
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days. So we know now the location
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where this Messiah is going to be born.
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Isaiah said he came from the stump of Jesse, which means,
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yes, he's going to be a descendant from Jesse but more
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specifically, he's actually going to be born in Bethlehem.
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Michael. Confirms that now who has King
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James? New King James, can you read how
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it reads the last phrase? Whose origin is from old from
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ancient days. What is it?
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King James save Micah 5:2. Yeah, whose goings forth have
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been from of old from Everlasting.
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From Everlasting new King James, Micah 5:2 Isaac, who's going to,
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who's going to support that from above from the last name from
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Everlasting? Same thing NES.
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Be anybody have New American Standard Bible, We got to
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recruit somebody and he asked me.
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Yeah. One, who is to be ruler in
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Israel, whose coming forth is from old, from ancient date,
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from ancient days. So, what we understand here.
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The language is that whoever is going to be a ruler in Israel.
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His origin is from eternity. His origin is not just from, as
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we find out from different prophets.
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Yes, it descended from David, but he's actually from of old
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from ancient days, from Everlasting, from Beyond time,
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when even time came into existence, this ruler is going
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to come from such a realm enter into time.
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Take on flesh. Be born in Bethlehem.
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It's so clear there. The language is so clear.
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That this person has a divine nature that this ruler is
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somebody Supernatural. Isaiah sees it.
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And this is the lesson that we can learn.
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If you want to make it practical, just from Isaiah
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11:1, God is able to revive anything.
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In this context, you know what, he revived a kingdom a rain?
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A dynasty. Don't limit it to that.
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If you can do it that way, I want you to look at your family
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and it might look near dead in terms of your parents marriage
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in terms of your siblings, and how they relate to one another
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and turn to the lostness and the blindness, and the Rebellion
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even in your own home and realize that a shoot can come
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out of it. Look at your school.
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Look at your workplace. Look at your own heart.
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Whatever seems like it has had life at one point and has lost
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life. God is able to bring it back to
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life. That's the power that he
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possesses. And that's the hope that you and
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I can have. And it can even look as hopeless
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as something. Listen, we can never give up.
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We can never give up who we pray for and what we pray for.
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Because something like this, something that was laid low for
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hundreds of years, God did not forget And God did not give up
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on. And so we look at something and
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we think this is literally hopeless.
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Well, if you have breath in your lungs, there's still hope.
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There's still hope that God can do things even at the very last
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moment and it's still worth praying for if that's a
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possibility. It's still worth seeking God.
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After if it's still a possibility that's what I see
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here. That God is a reviver, he takes
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Wilderness and he gushes forth pools of water, he's able to do
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anything. This is what I see simply from
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this and the reason why they shoot would become a branch,
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that would bear much fruit as it says, in the second part and a
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branch from his roots. Shall bear.
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Fruit, is because of the second verse, The only reason why so
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much life would come from something that's been dead for.
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So long, is because this servant would be one who possess so much
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life in himself. Why is he going to bear fruit?
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Why is life going to be restored and the spirit of the Lord shall
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rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and
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understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of
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knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
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Now, if you include verse to, what seems to be a title and you
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make it not necessarily a title, but one of the attributes and
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one of the characteristics of this anointing upon him, you
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have seven spirits Right. Spirit of the Lord, one Spirit
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of wisdom to Spirit of understanding three.
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Spirit of counsel, for Spirit of Might five Spirit of knowledge,
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6, Spirit of the fear of the Lord Seven.
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And that can seem a little confusing because you might
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think to yourself. What is our seven spirits or
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seven holy spirits? What do we see here?
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Is that the case? Or is this trying to teach us
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something else? Do you guys see that, right?
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Everybody count, 7 there. And in verse 2.
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And depending on your translation they all look like
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capital S is, right? So what do we have to do?
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We have seven holy spirit's. Yes, and that's exactly the
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answer that. This is not speaking about seven
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different Spirits with this is speaking about is this seven
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full operations of the one holy spirit that we acknowledge to be
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divine and to be God the seven and manifestations of who he is
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and how he interacts, and how he manifests his glory is found in
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these seven spirits. And so the describe how he's
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able to enforce himself and reveal himself and induce
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somebody else with power in a specific way way, and we see
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that in Revelation Revelations chapter one, Revelations chapter
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1. When John the Apostle is writing
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to the seven churches. In Asia.
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Look how he introduces his letter and Revelations 1425.
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Revelation is the opposite. End of Genesis The last book of
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the Bible and it says here, John.
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To the seven churches that are in Asia, grace to you, and
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peace. Now, look at read this very
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slowly Grace to you and peace from him.
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Who is? And who was?
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And who is the come? Who does that describe?
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we're going to find out that's one person and from the seven
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spirits who are before his throne That's another person.
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And thirdly, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,
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the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the Kings on the
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earth to him, who loves us and has freed us from our sins by
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his blood. That's three.
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We're talking about discovering God, right?
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This whole past few weeks, we've been talking about the Trinity
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and how the Bible shouts that God is a trying being.
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And we see it in John's introductory letter, who is, who
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was and who is to come, that's the Father, the seven spirits
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who are before his throne. This is the seven full manifold
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operations of the Spirit, that's too.
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And thirdly, we have the person of Jesus Christ and all three
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are introducing themselves through John to the seven
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churches. It doesn't even end.
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Their Revelation is a nightmare for the anti trinitarian.
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The Book of Revelation is a living nightmare for anybody.
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With does not believe that, God is a Triune being Turn your
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Bibles. Now, here in Revelation.
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Go to chapter 4. Chapter 4.
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Let's begin in. Verse 2, just to see how this is
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so obvious. John is speaking against so he
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wrote his letter and now John is in a vision.
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He comes in the spirit and it says, I once I was in the spirit
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and behold a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the
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throne. Now if you read this you realize
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that this is God, the father he sees him sitting on the throne
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now I know that might be mind boggling but Daniel saw the same
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thing in Daniel chapter 7, so he sees God sitting on the throne
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but then you read in verse I've something interesting from the
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throne came flashes of lightning and Rumblings and peals of
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thunder and Before the Throne were burning, seven torches of
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fire which are the seven spirits of God. oftentimes, when we read
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Revelation, especially those Throne Room Visions, we often
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see who the father and the son, have we ever perceived the Holy
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Spirit The seven torches which is a symbol of the ministry of
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the Holy Spirit, the seven torches of fire which are the
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seven spirits of God. So we want to where's the Holy
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Spirit? He's right before the throne.
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The father's on the throne, The Holy Spirits, Before the Throne.
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And then we read in the next chapter, chapter 5 verse 6 and
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who comes into this scene. That gets all the attention from
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every eye that be held. And between the throne, we
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talked about The Throne, there's somebody on the throne to
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somebody before the throne and between the throne and the four
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living creatures. And among the elders, I saw a
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lamb standing. As though it had been slain.
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So there's Jesus, we had the father on the throne.
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We had the holy spirit before the throne and we have Jesus
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entering into the scene as the Lamb of God.
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Now, look at this. It doesn't even end there as
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though I'd been slain. So whenever he saw he saw as
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though, this lamb, this is all vision.
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Is all symbolism had been slain, we talked about the Lamb of God,
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through Isaiah 53, but as much, as he looks like he's been
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slain, it says, here that with seven horns, and with seven
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eyes, Which are the seven spirits of God.
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Sent out into all the Earth. There's the Holy Spirit again.
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But I thought he was before the throne.
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But he's not just before the throne, he's upon Christ.
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We look at this stuff like horns and eyes.
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So we see his slain Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes.
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What's going on here? It's symbolic.
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Does anybody know what horns represent in the Bible?
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One of the main descriptions of what horn has Power Authority
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sovereignty strength, we speak about a horn of an animal that
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comes against whoever's standing before him.
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This is speaking about its ability to bulldoze before
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anything. And Zechariah gives the exact
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definition. So we got to I know this is a
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lot of Bible Bible Study Bible Bible study scripture.
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Not a sermon is that Korea 1818 Zechariah 118 just to give us
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biblical definition, remember Bible interprets.
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Bible, we find the answers to what we see here in the
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scriptures alone. And I lifted my eyes, and saw
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and behold four horns. Now, what are these horns?
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And I said to the angel that talked with me, what are these?
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Maybe you've asked them when you read Revelation and he said to
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me, these are the horns that have scattered Judah Israel and
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Jerusalem speaking about superpowers, the speaking about
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Nations that have come against the nation of Israel.
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Horns. So Jesus by having seven horns,
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that number seven represents what completion Perfection
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wholeness. He possesses the perfect power.
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He possesses all authority. He alone has complete
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sovereignty over every Affair in the world.
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It actually speaks about his Omni potent, his power, he is
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all-powerful so though he is slain guess.
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What he's all-powerful. In fact that it's through him
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being slain that he has all power.
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And not just horns, but seven eyes.
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Seven eyes. What does that mean?
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Was that Korea has the answer in Zechariah Chapter 4 verse 10.
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Bible interprets Bible. That's why we don't skip books
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in the Bible. For whoever has despised the day
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of small things shall rejoice and shall see the Plumb line and
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the Hand of zerubbabel. Now, look what Zechariah says
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these seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the
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whole earth. So, Zechariah C7 eyes, but he
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gets description, he gets an understanding of what these
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seven eyes. Represent a speaks about God's
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omnipresence His omniscience that there is nothing in this
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world that is hidden from his eyes that there is no room dark
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enough. There's no pit deep enough.
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There's no land for enough in which God does not perceive and
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see and understand and is fully aware of what's Happening all at
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the same time. And so, now you take those eyes,
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you go back to Revelation and it says that Jesus has seven eyes.
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Which means what he has perfect knowledge.
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All awareness. Complete revelation.
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Total understanding. Fully aware nothing ever catches
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him by surprise. Nothing is ever done in secret.
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Nothing is ever hidden from him. Wow.
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How does this slain lamb have seven horns and seven eyes.
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When we go back to Revelation 5:6 and we realize these things
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that give them that ability, Which are the seven spirits of
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God. So for him to possess all power
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and for him to possess all knowledge, and all presence
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comes from the Sevenfold Ministry of the Holy Spirit
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which Isaiah says, I saw it. John saw it.
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Isaiah. Saw it.
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Welcome to the harmony of the Bible.
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I saw it and Paul actually rather Isaiah says I have I have
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the names of each of those seven spirits.
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I have the functioning I have the understanding of how these
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Sevenfold Spirit actually work. So, so look at this, it doesn't
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even end there. So the spirit is in the presence
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of the father Before the Throne, the spirit is upon Christ.
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We see it, right? Seven horns and seven eyes.
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That means the spirit is upon Christ.
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It doesn't even end there because the holy spirit's
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Ministry goes further than that, sent out into all the Earth.
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So he's Before the Throne seven torches.
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He's upon Christ. And Jesus says, you know, it's
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better that I go so I can send someone else.
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And he sent out into all the Earth.
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We have so belittled, the deity of the Holy Spirit, think about
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it, he's before the father, he's upon Christ, he's working in
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every single Believers, individual temples.
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And as the church as the Temple of the Lord, he's convicting.
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He's comforting. He's healing.
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He's restoring. He's empowering and he's
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regenerating lost. Souls In the presence of the
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father upon Christ in every believer out in the world,
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restraining Evil. All at the same time.
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The deity of the Holy Spirit, the holy spirit is God.
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And he's very powerful. So this is what we see.
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Isaiah, and John are seeing the same thing and then we go back
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to Isaiah. 11:2 and we try to break down what these things.
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These spirits that are one but are manifested in seven,
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different ways, share the spirit of the Lord, some would debate.
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That's a title. I think that's included amongst
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his seven, the spirit of the Lord, which speaks of the nature
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of God, the character of God, The person of God.
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That is poured over the person of Jesus Christ in which the
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nature of the Father. The character of the father is
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reflected and radiating through his son, perfectly without
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measure C. We have the spirit of the lord,
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we have the Holy Spirit in us, but we're humans.
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And so Jesus Christ is not perfectly displayed through us.
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The father is not perfect, it's limited because we have sinned,
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we have thought patterns, we have motives that limits, so to
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speak. The Holy Spirit from going to
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that place, but John Tells us that Jesus received the spirit
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without measure. He perfectly displayed the Lord
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and he had the spirit of the Lord upon him and everything.
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That embodies who God is was portrayed through the person of
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Christ. Not just the spirit of the Lord
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but the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of wisdom.
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The spirit of wisdom is the ability to analyze.
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And to assess a situation. And to be able to provide the
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best decision and the best solution.
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To glorify God and to provide good for man.
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The spirit of wisdom was upon Christ, there was nothing too
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complicated for Christ to figure out.
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There is nothing to perplexing. There is nothing to
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dumbfounding, there is nothing. That was so great of a Ministry
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that Christ could not look at analyze assess and in provide
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the best answer to solving the best solution that can come out
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of it. He possessed the spirit of
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wisdom and it is even Stop there.
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There's even more and we see that in Jesus life, don't we
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not? You have politicians who have
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religious figures that come up to Jesus and try to throw and
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question that would stump him. And he goes and he provides an
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answer that literally leaves their mouths.
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Drop to the floor and some of them scratching their heads
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walking away thing. I've never heard somebody spoke
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like this, man, because he had the spirit of wisdom.
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You couldn't trap the guy. You could not Corner him, he
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would always find a way out and leave you feeling you're in a
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corner. The spirit of understanding.
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This is mainly speaking about discernment.
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And you could try to fool Jesus, all you want, he knew what was
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in man? John says He did not interpret
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things on the surface level, you can give him words, you can give
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him the right look. And he saw past all of that and
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he would see the substance of what's really inside of a man.
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He would see the reality of a matter, he would know the depths
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of a circumstance. There was nothing that could
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catch him by surprise. There was nothing that could
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fool him. There was nothing that could
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make him confused. He had such deep discernment.
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It would scare people. He knew about your past.
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You knew about what you just did.
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He knew where Nathaniel was sitting?
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Before he had met him in person. Jesus operated in the spirit of
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discernment. Without measure.
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We see here the spirit of counsel, I think about this,
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that's the next thing, right? With the spirit of wisdom, the
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spirit of understanding the spirit of counsel I love this
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because because he has the spirit of wisdom and because he
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had the spirit of understanding you combine those things, and
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who do you have the perfect counselor?
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Because he has such depth of knowledge and because he has the
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ability to apply that knowledge in the right circumstance with
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the right timing and everything else.
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Jesus Christ knows how to provide the right Insight.
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The right answer the right paths to take the right decision to
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make all of those things he gives with such precision.
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It's perfect. It's literally perfect.
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It's not just good advice. It's perfect advice.
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And the comfort that counsel, he also knows how to comfort.
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He knows the exact word to give in season.
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He knows the right scriptures to lead us to, he knows when you
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need to hear that sermon. When you walked into that
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service, he knows it all because he possesses understanding.
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And because he possesses wisdom, he is the counselor capital c.
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Now, like I said, Isaiah is filled, with prophetic
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statements about Christ, and here's one of them turned their,
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you can turn the year and Isaiah, right?
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Isaiah 50, Isaiah 50, this just confirms this thought, Go to
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Isaiah 50. Verse 5.
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Again, this is speaking about the suffering servant that is to
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come. Isaiah 50 verse 5.
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This is prophetically speaking about Jesus says the Lord.
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God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious, I turned not
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backward. I gave my back to those who
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strike and my cheeks, to those who pull out the beard, I hid,
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not my face from disgrace and spitting.
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Where was that? Fulfilled?
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In the gospels when he's being persecuted when he was being,
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it's persecuted in his trial. So this even gives Isaiah is a
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master at giving more description of what happened.
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So what you had was Jesus clearly, he had a beard and they
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pulled the hairs out of that beard and they spat in his face.
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And his back, he did not turn away from obeying the father,
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but he in fact, gave it to those to whip it to such a degree that
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it look like one big gash. And we go, that's Jesus.
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But then people don't realize the verse before verse 5 is
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Jesus to. So look at Isaiah, 50 verse 4.
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The Lord has given me the tongue of those who are taught that.
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I may know how to sustain with a word.
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Him who is weary. That's Jesus.
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So yeah, we see five and six, that's Jesus.
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But first for is Jesus to and you know what it's saying about
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Jesus that he's been given such a tongue If you have King James
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new King James says, that he would give a word in the right
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season. Didn't say, what kind of season
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any season. The Lord knows how to speak,
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just what you and I need to know to be sustained, log enough to
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get to the next season. This is why you don't miss
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reading the Bible because that's how God speaks please hear me.
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I can tell you moments. Where was in just checking off
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devotion in the morning. I can tell you waking up from
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something that happened the night before, only to find, even
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in my systematic, reading, Jesus, giving the right word.
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In the right season where the were like obscure verses that
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literally vibrate from the Bible only to penetrate your heart and
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Infuse so much life and hope it's as though he spoke from his
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very lips into your ears. Christ has been given that kind
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of a tongue for the sake of you and me to be able to walk
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another day in life. God, doesn't speak to me.
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Well, don't say that if your Bible is closed.
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Because when you get the word in you, even as you walk through
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life, even if you don't have this book directly open before
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you, he knows how to take that Revelation that you've digested
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to come to life and fruition, and to speak, as though again,
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he is whispering right in your ear.
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I guarantee you that He's been given the spirit of counsel.
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He's the best counselor. Talk to him.
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Bring it before, man. Watch how he will provide the
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right remedy. Lay on your bed and let those
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tears stream down your cheeks to only wet your pillow, but open
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your mouth and come to him. Who's been anointed to give you
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a word back. Sometimes it doesn't happen
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right away but it's worth the wait.
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I rather get a good word from the Lord than any were just for
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the sake of hearing something. I want to hear from God and
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there's one who's been given the spirit of counsel, Jesus Christ
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himself, who is the word in the flesh, through his Worth, to
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speak to our flesh. And to give us what we need to
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get to the next season. Don't say, God doesn't speak
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when your Bible is closed. He uses his word to speak, don't
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look for fortune. Cookie answer, this book is
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filled with truth and he wants to give it to you, and he wants
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to give you the right word from this book.
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We come back to Isaiah 11, what happens?
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Isaiah 11 says, the spirit of counsel in the spirit of Might
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the spirit of Might that he's been given the ability to
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overcome and Prevail any obstacle, that is laid before
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him. There is not one enemy, there's
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not one Temptation, there's not one trial that Jesus did not
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overpower because of the holy spirit, manifesting in total
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might Nothing could stand before him, because of the measure of
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power that clothe him. We see that in the wilderness,
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we see that with Miracles, we see that with demon possession.
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That he walked in with that power and it was glorious.
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I mean, you have Jesus when Judas comes with the band of
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soldiers as they were looking for, Jesus Christ of Nazareth
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and Jesus just says a few words, I am he And as, as though, a
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tornado had blown through the Garden of Gethsemane because all
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those men flew back just from that statement alone.
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The spirit of Might was upon him but that just his Spirit of
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mine, lastly, the spirit of knowledge.
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Again, a mind that was able to comprehend all matters relating
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to all things with a past present or future.
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There is nothing that he does not know concerning anything
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that this life presents itself. He knows all things.
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But let's just not limited to data and how things function and
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how things operate in this universe.
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Let's bring it and make a personal, he knows everything
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about me. And he knows everything about
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you. And so great is his knowledge.
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That it's coupled with his might, right?
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Because he knows every single need.
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Do you believe that God knows your needs?
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Do you think God knows your needs and he doesn't care about
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your needs? The very purpose of his
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knowledge of you so that he can take care of you.
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That's why he says, don't be worried or anxious.
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Listen. Not only is his knowledge.
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So clear and so obvious. I mean, it's so amazing that he
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knows you and I are more than this is.
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Why when you pray for things, you say Lord you know my
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desires, you know what, I need more than I know.
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So I'm going to trust your leading.
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Show me revealed to me. Lead Me Guide Me.
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Pray that prayer in every aspect in your life from your job to
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who Your spouse is supposed to be ask him because he is the
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spirit of knowledge and he knows you better than, you know
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yourself. And when you pray to the one who
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has the spirit of knowledge realized that he also has the
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spirit of might, so he knows it. But he also has the power to
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provide for the need So he sees the need and as complex as I
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might be. As far-fetched as it, might seem
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to receive an answer for it or to receive Clarity on it.
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Don't forget that it's coupled with the spirit of might so he
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comes in and brings forth and delivers exactly what your heart
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is craving. This is who were speaking about
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here. The limit himself that the
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spirit of all of this happened just at his Earthly Ministry and
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it lifted off. No, we just learned in
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Revelation that the spirit of God is still upon him.
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The Sevenfold spirit Spirit of knowledge.
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And then it says here. Lastly, the spirit of the fear
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of the Lord, the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
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So, the Holy Spirit. Energized.
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So to speak enabled. So to speak Jesus.
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To delightfully submit, his will to the program of God.
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Jesus walked in a reverential. Awe of God.
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God help us. This is what we need in 2019.
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If there's going to be any Spirit to manifest, that it be
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the spirit of the fear of God, the spirit of the Lord.
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So Came Upon Christ that he was in profound.
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All of the one he served and he walked in that and he operated
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in that and everything that he did was not in reluctance was
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not in a fear in which he was crippled and Paralyzed by
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Terror. It was this desire.
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Fire in the knowledge of how holy and awesome.
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The father is that he says you have all of me.
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You know, what's beautiful? We can ask for that.
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If the fear of the Lord comes from the Holy Spirit, I can pray
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to the Holy Spirit to be. I want that.
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I want greater measure of that because the fear of the Lord,
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prolongs life and the fear of the Lord is the hatred of evil,
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and the fear of the Lord is a shield, and the fear of the Lord
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is a Fountain of Life. I don't know why people are so
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afraid of the fear of the Lord. It brings so much good.
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Because it's a lie from the devil.
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That's why to make you afraid of the doctrine of the fear of the
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Lord. So that you would not benefit
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from the riches that ooze out of that reality.
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That's why guarantee you 100%? The spirit of the fear of the
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Lord was on him. And he says, in verse 3, that it
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was his Delight, his Delight shall be in the fear of the
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Lord. And now we read these wonderful
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things that Jesus operated in, we read these things and we go,
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that's amazing. Surely we see this in the
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gospels, but do you realize that Isaiah is not just speaking
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about Jesus first coming? That these things would not just
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be displayed as you walk in this world for 33 years. if you make
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the connection to the rest of this prophecy, we realized that
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this giving of the spirit, this anointing that Came Upon Christ
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extends into the second mission of his second coming when he
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comes back physically to rain on the world again.
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Because this is what we believe about the second coming of Jesus
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Christ. We believe that Jesus came at
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one point. Yes. 2000 years ago to purchase
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us through his blood to save us from our sins.
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But as Jesus comes back, we are not entering immediately into an
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eternal State some mistaken that we're not.
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We're not going to be just getting to heaven and
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everything's a done deal. That's not what the Bible
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describes. We have this first coming.
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This age of Grace, We're still in it.
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You want to know if you're in Bible times, were in Bible
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times, souls are still coming in, Gentiles are still coming in
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conferences, are still being organized, missionaries are
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still being sent because the year of the Lord's, favor is
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still in it when that comes to an end, Jesus will return when
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he returns, he is going to physically rain on the earth for
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1,000 years. It's called the millennial reign
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of Christ. Jesus is actually going to come
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set his feet because he's still fully man fully God, he's going
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to set his feet on the Mount of Olives and he is going to
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establish his kingdom physically before the Eternal state for
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1000 years. If we don't believe that there's
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a lot of things in the Bible that don't make sense.
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A lot of things in the Bible that don't make sense.
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Including this prophecy. We're going to talk about why
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believing in the millennial Reign is so important.
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What do we see here? And his Delight in verse 3,
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shall be in the fear of the Lord.
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He shall not judge by what is IC or decide disputes but what his
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ears here, this is speaking about kingship.
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This is speaking about one, who is to be a judge?
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Jesus Christ, did not come to the world to judge.
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You came to save, he's coming back to judge and when he comes
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back to sit on a physical throne, In a physical place.
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In this world, he's going to be judging all the nations and now
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look at how his judgment is going to be performed.
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Remember we just talked about the Sevenfold Ministry of the
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spirit upon Christ. He's going to be so endued with
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knowledge and discernment and insight.
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That when a case is brought before him, he won't need to see
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evidence, and he won't have to hear anything that they have to
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say. He shall not judge by what is IC
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or decide this piece by what his ears here he is.
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So, having this obvious knowledge of, what's before him
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that he's going to dictate and determine the judgment and
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they're going to go off, and they're going to be given what?
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He's been. Granted his perfect
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righteousness and judgment. Can you think about that?
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There's no need for lawyers in the lawyers in the millennial
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reign. Just bring the case before him
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and he's going to give the answer just bring the case
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before me. He's going to provide the
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solution. He doesn't need to hear your
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arguments it isn't he see the evidence?
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All he needs is the spirit that's been given to him.
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And that this is amazing, right? Because at one point, there was
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a king just like that very similar to that.
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What was his name? A real king that actually lived
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in Israel. Solomon.
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Now, listen to this, I'm going to read to you.
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What Solomon was like in his Reign.
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It says, here in 1st Kings 3434 and people of all nations, came
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to hear the wisdom of Solomon. People of all nations came to
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hear what Solomon had to say, and from all the kings of the
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earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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So you have all these kings that heard about this man saw them
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and they go, we got to hear what this guy has to say and they
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would flock to him. We had the Queen of Sheba that
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flock to him to just here and she goes what you have to say.
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Is greater than what I've been told the wisdom that you've been
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giving. Surely, God has loved Israel by
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making you King. But then you go to the gospels
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and you see Jesus condemning certain cities and he said, even
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the Queen of Sheba went to go see Solomon and something
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greater than Solomon is here. So, if the nations of the kings
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of the peoples of all the world came to flocking here.
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Solomon, what will it be like? When Jesus Reigns on the earth,
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you want to wonder what its gonna be like when Jesus comes?
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What am I going to do for all eternity?
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Well, here's one thing you're going to do, you're going to
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want to sit and just hear him talk.
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You just going to want to hear the wisdom that oozes out of
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him. And be astonished stunned.
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By the spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel that
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he possesses. And so we see here in Isaiah 11,
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that it doesn't stop there. He shall not judge by what his
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eyes, see, your decide, this piece by what his ears hear.
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But with righteousness, he shall judge the poor and decide with
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equity for the meek of the earth.
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He shall strike the Earth with the rod of his mouth.
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And with the breath of his lips, he shall kill the wicked.
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So the same one that we love and adore and worship who breathes
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life into man is the same one, who possesses the power to take
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life out of man with his words. Just by his word, he doesn't
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need guards. He doesn't need weapons.
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He doesn't need tanks and he doesn't need nuclear.
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All he needs is to say the word for us to disintegrate like
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powder. and as powerful, as you see the Antichrist, the false
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prophet, the Beast, and the Book of Revelation, you know, what it
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says in 2nd Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians 2 tells us
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in verse 8 and then the Lawless one will be revealed whom the
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Lord, Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth.
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So even when Jesus Christ comes on the scene and he's faced with
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the Antichrist when he's faced with the one who deceived the
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whole world to worship a false. God who did false signs and
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wonders? You know what?
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Jesus will have to do when he shows up, get out of here, and
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he's gone. The breath of his mouth alone.
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and your non-existent, And when he comes to rule and reign in
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this world because he's coming when he sits upon his throne.
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And when he has to deal with the wicked, he just has to say the
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word that's going to be a site. Don't you think?
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And then it goes on to describe and verse 6.
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In this Millennial Reign, a shift in every way possible.
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So listen, it's not just going to change the way the world is
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operating. In terms on a human level.
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Every element of existence will be altered due to the Eternal
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reign of Christ specifically in his Millennial Reign.
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Look what it says in verse 6. This is just something that I
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think is amazing. The wolf shall dwell with the
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lamb. And the leopard shall lie down
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with the young goat and the calf, and The Lion, and the
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fattened calf together. So, what we see is harmony
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amongst animals. What we see is a reversal of
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what happened in Genesis, where there was a dread upon the
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animals from man, we see that today do we not that there's a
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dread of humanity from the animals that they're on guard,
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that they don't approach us? Some do, some are more tame than
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others. When Christ comes to establish
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his kingdom. There's going to be a literal
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shift of the way animals, relate, to one another.
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And what we see here and a little child shall lead them.
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The cow and the bear shall graze and their young shall lie down
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together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
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So, animals are not going to be eating each other anymore.
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The nursing child think about this shall play over the whole
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of the cobra. And the weaned child shall put
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his hand on the adders Den. They shall not hurt, nor destroy
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in all my Holy Mountain, for the Earth, shall be full of the
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knowledge of the Lord, as the waters, cover the sea.
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So, what we see is animals, They won't harm each other anymore,
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and hand animals will not harm children anymore and children
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can play with animals. Even with snakes, even with
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poisonous snakes because there's literally going to be such an
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obvious sense of the sovereignty and the power of God's enforced
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righteousness on the earth that it's going to have an effect on
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beasts itself. This was going to happen and
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this is in this world for 1,000 years.
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Do you know what else is going to change in this world?
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Not just the way animals relate to you.
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And I are relate to one another geographically land is going to
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shift. Isaiah chapter 2, turn your
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Bibles to Isaiah chapter 2, just to see it.
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Look at verse 1 of Isaiah chapter 2.
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The word that Isaiah the son of amoz Saw concerning Judah and
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Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the
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latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
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established as the highest of the mountains.
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And shall be lifted up above the hills and all the nations shall
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flow to it, that we see it. Then when he comes to Jerusalem
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and establishes his kingdom geographically speaking, the
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land will be so elevated that it's going to be the highest
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mountain and all the nations will realize it and Float to it.
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And what are people going to do? During this time, what they did
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in Solomon's time, look at verse 3 and many people shall come and
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say come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the
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house of the god of Jacob that he may teach us his ways.
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And that we may walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go
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forth, the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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He shall judge between nations and shall decide disputes for
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many people's. So, during this thousand year
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reign, it doesn't, it's not heaven yet.
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It's not free from sin, it's not free from Death.
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It's not free from the possibility of rebellion.
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In fact we're going to be shocked in a moment.
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What's going to happen at the end of the thousand year reign?
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But what is going to happen is that Jesus Christ will enforce,
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enforce such righteousness. He will judge between nations.
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He will bring about a verdict between how rulers deal with one
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another and there will be such a level of Peace during this
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thousand year reign. As Christ has come with the
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Sevenfold Spirit upon him. Look what they're going to do
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with their weapons. Look what your Bible says, the
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second part of verse 4, they shall beat their swords into
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plowshares. And their Spears into pruning.
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Hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation, neither
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shall they learn War anymore? So they're going to look at all
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the weapons and say, geez. What are we going to do with
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these? There's no more war so let's
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turn into farming equipment. Let's turn into agricultural
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tools. Let's find a different use for
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them. That's how much peace there will
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be in the world no more war budget.
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No more military investment. All of that is going to be given
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to different things in this life when Jesus Christ becomes king
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over the world. go back to Isaiah 11:10 as we conclude in
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verse 10, it says In that day, the root of Jesse who shall
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stand as a signal for the peoples of him, shall the
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nation's Inquirer and his resting place shall be glorious.
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This is why we have to read the Bible carefully and slowly,
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sometimes and repetitively. How does it describe?
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Jesus and Isaiah 11:1. What does it say there shall
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come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from
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his roots, shall bear fruit. Then you come to verse 10, it
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says in that day, the root of Jesse So, which is he?
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Does he come after or does he come before?
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Because a route implies something to produce.
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Something that Branch implies something as a result of the
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route. But it's saying to you that the
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branch of Jesse and is describing the same person as a
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root of Jesse, because Jesus is not just his descendant.
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Jesus is David's creator. In that day, the root of Jesse
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who shall stand as a single for the peoples of him, shall rule
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the Nations and choir and his resting place shall be glorious.
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Now we read this, and I know it's a long week, it's the end
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of the week. It's Friday night.
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We read this and we see a future hope, don't we?
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We look forward to the day in which Jesus Christ will come
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physically Reign for a thousand years and more importantly, for
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all eternity and when he comes there's going to be such Harmony
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and is going to be such peace amongst one.
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Another there's going to be such a limited amount of evil.
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You know why? Because Revelations 20 says that
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Satan will be bound for a thousand years.
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To not deceive anyone. So we don't have the tempter
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coming and doing what he does. Best there's going to be a time
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period in which his influence will be subdued in order for
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Christ to fulfill his reign. And here's my question though,
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that as a future anticipation, there is a present reality of
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that, that we should also long for why, because though, the
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world itself will not come under subjection until Jesus Christ.
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Physically returns, there is a reality of the kingdom of God
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and it is represented in the church.
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And so, you know what, we should think of, if the result of Jesus
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Christ becoming King over a land, over the world, produces
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peace and Harmony and unity should then not be at least
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somewhat displayed in the people of God.
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Jesus Christ is King over their lives.
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Do you guys understand what I'm trying to say trying to say
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this? That when the world who will one
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day bow the knee to Jesus Christ and realize him as king of the
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earth, and King of the universe that same world who is not in
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that place. Yet should at least be able to
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look and open one of our Windows PK and get a glimpse of the
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reality of what Jesus Christ and his Reign looks like by seeing
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how we treat one another. No.
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Is Jesus Christ. Not King over.
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Our lives is not the kingdom of God within us.
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Jesus said, because the reality of the Kingdom now is that it's
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here and not yet. And the here part must manifest,
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because the world should look into the church and see another
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world. But it doesn't come when you
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have a building with a cross on top of it, that's not a church.
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It doesn't come with a nice padded.
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Pews is even come with a speaker and a worship team.
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It comes with people that Jesus Christ King over their lives and
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when you get those people together, there should be some
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kind of flavor of the millennial Reign.
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There should be some kind of insight into what it will look
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like when Jesus fully takes over the world and becomes king over
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all the nations. We have a responsibility.
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We should be a window into what's to come and we should
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have people excited for Jesus Christ to return by seeing what
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it's like to be under his Reign before he actually comes and
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Reigns. This is just a sign of.
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Have you ever wonder why Jesus Christ has to come for a
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thousand years? Why don't we just get to heaven?
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I've always thought that and some people believe that we are
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in the Thousand Year now that the rain is symbolic and that
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this is all these things that we just read about the wolf and the
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lamb. All this is not essential
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doctrinal things, these are secondary issues but it's just
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worth the thought. And so you think like why would
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Jesus physically Reign for a thousand years?
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We can just go straight into the Eternal state.
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There's many reasons. Here's one of the main reasons
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God is faithful to his promises and God had made particular
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Promises to the nation of Israel that he is yet to fulfill and
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will be fulfilled during this thousand year reign.
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God promised that there would be a king who would rule forever
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and ever. Jesus Christ will actually do
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that physically as he sits on the throne in Jerusalem.
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Jesus Christ will fulfill the promises that God made to
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Abraham about land. He made a land Covenant with
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Israel that he's going to fulfill and that he's going to
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show forth that he's kept his promise.
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Not only that there's even more to that the millennial Reign is
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going to reveal very shockingly, the depth of the depravity of
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mankind. Do you know why?
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Because even when Jesus Christ, physically comes to this world
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and Reigns and will enforce righteousness, to all the
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nations, listen to this, this is crazy.
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You ready for this? Satan will be subdued for a
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thousand years. Satan will literally be bound in
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a pit to not influence anyone to not whisper.
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Hey, why don't you do this and do that and influence the media
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and music and all the things that are surrounding us and
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bombarding us? He's going to have no influence
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and yet you ready for this turn to Revelation 20?
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Look at verse 7 of Revelations, 20.
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And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released
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from his prison and will come out to deceive the Nations that
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are at the Four Corners of the Earth.
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Think about that for a moment. Then after all of that, the
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devil yet has one more attempt to deceive the people of this
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world in a Utopia and almost a Garden of Eden State.
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Like and yet still have a chance to see people and people will be
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deceived even in that kind of holy environment to betray and
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walk away from Christ, only to ultimately experience Eternal
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separation from. Can you?
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Imagine what is that? Say that just describes that.
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It's not about an environment that influences our Behavior.
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The problem of humanity is their heart, not what kind of home
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they grew up in necessarily and now what kind of neighborhood
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they are in or what kind of nation has no.
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No, we're going to find out that there's a day.
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Coming were perfect, Justice will be enforced.
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Perfect laws will be established.
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The the poor everybody else will receive what is due unto them.
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And they're going to even see the physical Christ and yet
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Satan will have one more chance to deceive and it's actually
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going to work for some people. What's the problem here man's
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heart? That's the problem.
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If a happened in the Garden of Eden, it will happen in the
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millennial Reign and all its going to show is the depths of
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our depravity and our need for the Holy Spirit to regenerate
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our hearts. That's what it's going to
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reveal. But it's going to be a time in
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which we're getting closer to what heaven will be like, do
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what I'm saying. We're not there yet during that
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rain, but it's like time is now taking us closer into what God
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wants to usher in for all time. You guys have time, we're good,
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Isaiah 65, Isaiah 65. So we knew that is going to
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affect land. It's going to affect how laws
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are established it's going to affect animals.
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Then we come to a verse like this and Isaiah 65.
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Verse 17 for behold. I create new heavens and a new
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Earth and the former things shall not be remembered or come
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to mind, aren't you? Glad that when Heaven comes
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there things are, we're not going to remember.
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This is a verse that we often use when it comes to people, who
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think what am I going to do? If I have a loved ones that are
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going to go to hell, what am I going to do?
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If one of my best friends that is not going to accept Christ is
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going to be eternally separated from, I think this first place
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some roll into that, the former things shall not be remembered
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or come into mind. And Isaiah has this habit by the
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Holy Spirit to speak about a certain reality and then shift
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gears and to go into another Prophecy in the same thing.
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We saw that with Jesus right, he stops, right?
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When he says to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the
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very next phrase talks about his second coming.
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You remember that the year of the Lord's favor, first coming
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and the day of Vengeance of our God s coming in one sentence.
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So verse 17 to verse 19, he's talking about the new heavens
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and the new Earth coming in the Eternal state.
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But in verse 20, he is not speaking about the Eternal
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state. It may seem like that as you're
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reading, it may seem like he's talking about having.
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It may seem like he's talking about the Eternal state but then
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you go to verse 22. Hold on.
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That's not talking about eternity.
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Can't talk about eternity. What does it say?
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No more shall there. Be in an infant who lives but a
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few days or an old man who does not fill out.
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His days for the young man shall die.
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A hundred years old in this sinner.
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Sinners are sinners in heaven. There's death and Heaven.
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Sinner. 100 years old shall be accursed.
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He shift gears and he's talking about the Eternal that rather
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the millennial reign of Christ. And what is he saying there that
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in the millennial Reign, it's going to be very much like how
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the Ages were from the Garden of Eden downward.
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That life will be extended for hundreds of years.
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I mean, life will be extended to such a degree that if you died,
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100 years old, you're considered a cursed and babies aren't going
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to die. Verse 22.
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They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant.
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And another eat for like the days of a tree, shall the days
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of my people be and just in case we don't think this is speaking
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about the millennial Reign, go back to verse 25.
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What is this a the wolf and the lamb shall graze together?
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The lion shall eat straw, like the ox and the dust shall be
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serpents food. They shall not hurt, or destroy
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in. All my Holy Mountain.
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Isaiah already said that in Chapter 11.
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Jesus Christ is coming back. And as much as we see this world
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and is amazing as it is, we're only getting a glimpse of what's
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to come. Things are going to shift real
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quick when he puts his feet on the Mount of Olives.
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Things are going to happen and they're going to happen in a way
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in which we're going to think it's Heaven itself but it's not
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even what heaven has to offer. But as it comes to that point,
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we're getting closer and closer to the curtain of Eternity.
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And so Jesus Christ, fully comes.
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Now think about this. Think about this.
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Apart from the Holy Spirit entering into your heart and
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changing you, you can live in a place like the millennial Reign
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and still go to hell at the end of it.
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Man, if that should create anything in us, a sense of
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desperation, if you're in this place, and you're not sure
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you're saved. Because even people had seen
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Miracles, Jesus opening the eyes of the Blind and Jesus opening
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the ears of the deaf and guess what?
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Many of them did not believe If I knew I wasn't saved and I
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realized that one day, Jesus going to physically rain on the
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earth and there's still people that will be deceived by the
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devil. Oh my.
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Oh my God have mercy on me, change my heart because I know
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that even if I see, even if I hear and even if I behold unless
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you come in and change me from the inside out, I'm doomed.
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Give me your conviction. And give me the ears to hear and
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give me the eyes to see my need for a savior.
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The gospel doesn't change in the millennial Reign, people will
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still need to realize Jesus Christ as the only source of
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salvation. And that's true today.
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That's true today. Can you imagine either this book
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is true or we just read a fairytale ladies and gentlemen.
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Either this book is true or we just spent the last hour here,
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talking about nonsense. Either God is true or he is like
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a man who lies. Well, let's look at his track
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record. Jesus Christ, physically
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existed, Jesus Christ, physically walked on this Earth,
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atheists, acknowledge that agnostics, acknowledge that,
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where they'll disagree is his statements, about being divine
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so if there is really a man that came and walked in this world
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named Jesus Christ who actually influenced history, And here's
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another thing that should get our attention, his grave is
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empty. And maybe we should take what he
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has to say about the future more seriously.
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And for those who have believed on him, may this be a source of
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hope. We're not talking Fairy Tale
1:06:44
video games and movies here. We're talking about a reality
1:06:48
that Jesus Christ is actually going to come and Reign and
1:06:51
Rule. And we're going to see a shift.
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Like we never thought will happen but we'll be able to say
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that's my king. That's my king.
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Do you have Jesus Christ as king of your life?
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He's real. He's more real thing than you
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think I dare you to get desperate enough to say.
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Lord if you're really the one that I just heard about that can
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give good news to the poor that can heal the brokenhearted that
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can make me. Hold I can set me free from sins
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and heal the brokenhearted that can make my fire.
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For you come to life that can give me counsel and can give me
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wisdom and can give me guidance. I want you, I dare you.
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To take this word as it says and to give God childlike Faith at
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this, a God, if you're there, I want you.
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And watch how gracious and tender.
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He really is and watch how powerful he is.
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Watch how powerfully is? I don't care how bound you are
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in sin. I don't care how many lines you
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sniffed up your nostril. I don't care.
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How buzzed you might be on drugs even now.
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God is able to set you free. But you got to call upon him.
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Because I got nothing for you. Nobody up here has anything for
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you. All we do is sing and Proclaim
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about the one who's able to do something about it and we're not
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talking about somebody that doesn't exist.
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We're not talking about a historical figure that once live
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He's Alive. He's more real than you think.
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He's at touching distance from your seat right now.
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He's unseen but also if you call upon him, it will be as though
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you can see him. Because more than the eyes of
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your flesh, the eyes of your heart will open up and you will
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be holding, because the spirit will come in and regenerate your
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soul and you will know life, like, you've never known life
1:08:42
before. I'll tell you this, as much as
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in the millennial, Reign things will shift and change in this
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life. Now, you'll see everything
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differently. Grass gets Greener and walls and
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their pain, get brighter lights, get brighter songs, sound better
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especially The Godly ones. Life has purpose.
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There's a satisfaction of the Soul.
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That nothing in this life can even come close to.
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I'm trying to bite my tongue. because, Christians.
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We need to prove to the world. That Jesus is enough.
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Because from what I hear from different people.
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And our generation. They're not very convinced.
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And yes, a big part of that is their sin nature.
1:09:55
But I think another reason for that is because they look at us
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and they don't see any difference.
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But until we can say, Holy anointed one, your name is like,
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honey. On my lips.
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You know what we're saying to Jesus?
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When we say that we're saying when I actually say your name,
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there's sweetness to it. Like the name alone can come for
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me. There's reverence to that name.
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Jesus is not your homeboy. Jesus is Holy.
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Your spirits like water to my soul.
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What we're saying there. you satisfy me beyond anything else
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in this life, and I'm telling you that I think that's a song
1:10:48
that we can sing in light of this, holy and anointed one, he
1:10:52
is so anointed, he is so set apart.
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He is so consecrated, he alone. Possesses all these things that
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we described and he's worthy of our worship and adoration in
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light of it. I encourage you if any point
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this time as we close in a moment to sing that if you don't
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know Jesus, you would call upon him and say, God almighty I want
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to know you and I give my life to you.
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I know that my sins have put you on the cross.
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I Repent of them and I give you my life if you do know him Is
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your first love. Can you confidently?
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Say your name is like, honey on my lips and your spirits like
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water to my soul. If not, he is so good to us and
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you so anointed he can rekindle that reality again, that's how
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precious he is. So when we focus on Isaiah 61,
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we talked about his ability to restore from sin Isaiah 42, to
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restore the broken hearted and those that are discouraged.
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And here he is and Isaiah 11 who needs some wisdom.
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Who needs counsel, who needs Direction?
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Who needs guidance, who needs to know the next step who needs to
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hear a word in season call upon him?
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Call upon we've called upon him and Isaiah 61.
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We've called upon him and Isaiah 42.
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Let's call upon him and Isaiah 11.
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He's willing to do it. Would you bow your heads?
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He's willing to do it. Would you bow your heads?