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11 20 2024 Old Testament Prophecies About Jesus, Part II · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, November twenty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle David Harris. I
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  Speaker 2: am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where
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  Speaker 2: we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  Speaker 2: is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study
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  Speaker 2: series themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Old Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven. Thank you for this new morning and for
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  Speaker 2: getting us into the middle of our work week and
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  Speaker 2: getting us soon over the hump. Finally, thank you, Father
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  Speaker 2: for giving us so much evidence in the scriptures of
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  Speaker 2: your love and your goodness. Thank you for being reliable
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  Speaker 2: and constant, and please transform our lives today in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. I'm grateful that God
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  Speaker 2: is available, He's willing, able and available to transform our
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  Speaker 2: minds and transform our lives. And we look into the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament scriptures not just for proof texts, not just
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  Speaker 2: to be able to give some kind of historic evidence
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  Speaker 2: of filling the blank positive thing here. It is so
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  Speaker 2: that God can do something new in our lives. That
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  Speaker 2: he can make us holy, that he can teach us
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  Speaker 2: how to serve him with all of our hearts, how
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  Speaker 2: we can be of service to other people. And so
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  Speaker 2: from the lesson writer it reads, from the Lesson it reads.
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  Speaker 2: Estimates vary, but some scholars argue that Jesus of Nazareth
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  Speaker 2: fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. Whatever the number, The
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  Speaker 2: odds against one man fulfilling even a few of them,
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  Speaker 2: much less all are staggering because all of these prophecies
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  Speaker 2: pointed to sometimes a certain time, certain locations, certain aspects
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  Speaker 2: of his ministry, et cetera, et cetera. And so this
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  Speaker 2: is statistically unlikely, really, and truly, I want to say impossible,
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  Speaker 2: except that it is exactly who we know that it is,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. But let me continue. Imagine filling an area
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  Speaker 2: the size of Texas in the United States of America
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  Speaker 2: or the entire land area of Jamaica Land we love, huh,
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  Speaker 2: with coins two feet high and painting one coin pink,
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  Speaker 2: and then mixing them all up. Then give a blindfolded
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  Speaker 2: person one chance to pick the pink coin. What are
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  Speaker 2: the odds that with one pick he or she get
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  Speaker 2: the pink one? Yeah, So that is the odds, that is,
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  Speaker 2: the statistical odds of these prophecies pointing to one man
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  Speaker 2: and it being other than Jesus. Like it is Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: There is no way in the world that it is
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  Speaker 2: not Jesus, these prophecies that all point to one person.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not Jesus, it's impossible. So it's Jesus. We
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  Speaker 2: are focusing on Jesus Christ because he is the fulfillment
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  Speaker 2: of these prophecies. Okay. And so now we go into
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of John and we read along with
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament. I'll probably read the Old Testament passages
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  Speaker 2: and then just cite the New Testament ones. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so from the Book of Psalms, chapter one, eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty six, it reads, blessed is he that cometh
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  Speaker 2: in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you
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  Speaker 2: out of the house of the Lord. Of course, this
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  Speaker 2: is a fulfillment of what happened after Lazarus's resurrection in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter twelve and verse thirteen. Also, also we want
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate Jesus's messianic kingship. This is what was happening
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  Speaker 2: in that scene in John chapter twelve. Jesus was being
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  Speaker 2: actually seen as the Messiah and becoming king at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. You see, the prophecy said that David's throne
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  Speaker 2: would not be left abandoned forever after Zedekiah would have
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  Speaker 2: vacated the throne. And then later, later, later, later, we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to the king, the king to ascend the throne.
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  Speaker 2: That king is Jesus Christ. That king is Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And of course out of the mouths of babes and
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  Speaker 2: sucklings come or thou hast perfected praise, the Bible writer says.
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  Speaker 2: And so in that moment we see that Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is indeed the one we have been waiting for, not Selassie,
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  Speaker 2: not some other emperor or king or ruler from somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the world. I wish I had the time Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ and Jesus alone, Okay. And so we read also
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  Speaker 2: from Zachariah, chapter nine and verse nine. Rejoice greatly, O,
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  Speaker 2: daughter of Zion, shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem. Behold thy
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  Speaker 2: king cometh unto thee He is just and having salvation lowly,
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  Speaker 2: and riding upon a donkey, and upon the cult the
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  Speaker 2: fall of a donkey. We see that is continual manifestation
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  Speaker 2: of John chapter twelve or fulfillment of John chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: Verses fourteen and fifteen. And so we embrace the humility
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  Speaker 2: of leadership. Jesus could have announced himself. He could have decided,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm going to do is have a
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  Speaker 2: retinue of angels. Like in the Bible it talks about
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  Speaker 2: when he goes back to Heaven. It says that the
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  Speaker 2: angels cried or lifted up their voices. Lift up your heads,
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  Speaker 2: o ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors,
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  Speaker 2: and the King of Glory shall come in. He could
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  Speaker 2: have chosen that route. But the Bible is teaching us
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  Speaker 2: that even as Jesus lived on planet Earth, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: he is the king of the universe and the fulfillment
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  Speaker 2: of all of these prophecies that he is going to
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  Speaker 2: save as people from their sins, our sins, we embrace
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  Speaker 2: the humility and the leadership that Jesus showed while he
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  Speaker 2: was living on planet Earth, so that he could prepare
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  Speaker 2: us for eternity. Okay, and now in Psalm chapter forty
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  Speaker 2: one and verse nine, we read yea mine own familiar
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  Speaker 2: friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,
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  Speaker 2: hath lifted up his heel against me in a very
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  Speaker 2: literal way. In a very literal way, we see in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter thirteen and verse eighteen that Judas Judas is
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  Speaker 2: the fulfillment of that aspect of the prophecy where he
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  Speaker 2: was a betrayer, like he was right there dipping his
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  Speaker 2: hand in the sop, as Jesus would have said, at
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  Speaker 2: what we call now the Lord's Last Supper. And we
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  Speaker 2: see that the prophecy actually foretold even down to what
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  Speaker 2: the trust would have been, what it would have been
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  Speaker 2: like at the last supper, which did eat bread with him,
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  Speaker 2: and he betrayed Jesus. So what God helps us to do,
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  Speaker 2: if he is revealing things in our lives against people
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  Speaker 2: like Judas, he prepares us for a response to betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that people will do all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: all manner of evil against us. Right who will teach
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  Speaker 2: all manner of lies against us falsely? For Jesus' sake?
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  Speaker 2: He said, In that case, rejoice and be exceeding glad,
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  Speaker 2: for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted
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  Speaker 2: they the prophets which were before you, especially Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And then Finally, we read from Zechariah chapter twelve and
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  Speaker 2: verse ten. Zechariah twelve and verse ten. And I will
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  Speaker 2: pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants
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  Speaker 2: of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and
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  Speaker 2: shall look upon me whom they have peers. And they
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  Speaker 2: shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his own son,
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  Speaker 2: and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
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  Speaker 2: is in bitterness for his first born. And in John
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  Speaker 2: chapter nineteen and verse thirty seven, we see that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ gave himself for us. He sacrificed himself for us,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible says that they looked on him who
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  Speaker 2: they appeared.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, friends, Always remember we cannot
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