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Is Jesus The King of The Jews? | Mark 15:1-5 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall do
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  what set you free. Amen.
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  May freedom be known today as we come to the truth of God's Word.
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  Meet me in Mark chapter 15. We're going to be looking at the
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  1st 5 verses only. But I'm sure you're aware that
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  this is not the only place where we will be today in the Bible.
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  Keep your Bibles closed. Keep your Bibles open.
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  We have many things to touch on today because I want God's Word
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  to speak always, especially on this matter, because my goal
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  with this message is to address a single question, just one,
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  since it is based on the central theme of this passage, I'm going
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  to read it. Maybe you'll see it and.
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  Then we'll reflect together. Mark 15 beginning in verse one
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  and as soon as it was morning. The chief priest held a
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  consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole
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  council, and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered
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  them over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Are you
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  the king of the Jews? And he answered them, You have
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  said so. And the chief priest accused him
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  of many things, and Pilate again asked him, Have you no answer to
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  make? See how many charges they bring
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  against you. But Jesus made no further
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  answer, so that Pilate was amazed.
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  Up to now the title, the reference King of the Jews has
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  not appeared in the Gospel of Mark.
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  We find it here appearing for the first time and it is
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  actually repeated a total of 6 times in the entirety of the
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  wider section of this text. We saw it in verse 2, Pilot
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  asking Jesus, are you the King of the Jews?
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  Now Scroll down to verse 9. And he answered them, saying, do
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  you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?
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  Verse 12 And Pilot again said to them, Then, What shall I do with
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  the man you call the king of the Jews?
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  Verse 18 And they began to salute him, Hail King of the
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  Jews. Verse 26, An inscription of the
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  charge against them, Read The King of the Jews, and verse 32
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  counts. If king of Israel is synonymous
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  with King of the Jews, which it is, look at it with me.
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  Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the
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  cross, that we may see and believe.
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  Those who are crucified with Him also reviled him.
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  There is no doubt in our minds that the Holy Spirit seeks to
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  emphasize this theme as a relates to the person of Jesus.
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  Christ. So with this observation in
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  mind, the question we will seek to answer is this is Jesus
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  Christ of Nazareth, the King of the Jews?
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  That the sum the answer is obvious and to others the
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  question in itself doesn't seem to be worthy of a full
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  discussion. However, my aim today is to
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  demonstrate that this discussion is extremely significant, and
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  examining the answer will reveal its importance.
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  This is the question that Pilate asked Jesus after the Sanhedrin
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  brought him. The morning after the Lord stood
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  before the Jewish courts, and according to both the Scriptures
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  and secular historical sources, Pontius Pilate was the Roman
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  governor assigned to manage the Judean province, and he did so
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  for 10 years, from 8026 to 36. His main responsibility was to
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  maintain law and order, and it's very likely that Pontius Pilate
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  was in Jerusalem at this time so that he can supervise the events
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  during the Passover celebration. And you might be wondering why
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  the religious leaders brought Jesus to Pilate.
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  And there are different reasons, and one of them is because they
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  sought to distance themselves away from Christ's death and one
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  of the Romans to be held responsible for his execution.
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  And there are many other things that we can say about Pilot.
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  And there are many other things that we can say about the Jewish
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  leader strategy. But for the sake of time, let us
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  think over Pilots first recorded words in this gospel, the Gospel
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  of Mark. What caused them to ask Jesus if
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  he was the king of the Jews? You don't have to guess.
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  Luke tells us and gives us a more detailed account of why
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  this was important to discuss. And Luke 23 verse 2 we read, and
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  Luke 23 two. Then the whole company of them
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  arose and brought him before Pilate, and they began to accuse
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  him, saying we found this man misleading our nation and
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  forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he
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  himself is Christ a king. Pause, reflect, take your time.
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  Here you have the Jewish Council bringing a case against the Lord
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  Jesus before the Roman government.
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  And if you pay attention, there are three specific allegations
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  that are being made against Christ.
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  The first one is that he is misleading, misguiding the
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  nation with his teaching. Second, that he was forbidding
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  the people of Israel of paying their taxes to Caesar.
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  Finally, he was declaring himself to be Christ.
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  Christ is not Jesus's last name, you know that right?
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  It's the Greek word for anointed 1 and in the Jewish context it
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  is synonymous with being a king. Now here's what's fascinating to
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  me. Pilate does not even entertain
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  the 1st 2 accusations. He goes straight for the last 1.
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  He asked him, are you the king of the Jews?
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  He's more interested in that than not paying taxes to Caesar
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  potentially, or him misleading the people of his time.
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  What was it? I wonder if Pilot was alarmed
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  like Herod was. You remember when the Magi came
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  from the east and they paraded in Jerusalem and they were
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  asking about he who was born to be the king of the Jews?
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  Was Pilot scared that his antennas go up?
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  Was Pilot being sarcastic as he asked this question to Jesus,
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  who stood before him, bloodied, bruised, battered?
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  Are you the King of the Jews? It could be a mixture of things,
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  but what's more important is determining the implications of
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  a positive answer. As we read, Christ was silent
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  with many of the accusations that came against him.
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  But when Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews, he was
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  undeniably clear. What did he say back in Mark 15
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  verse 2? And Pilate asked them, are you
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  the king of the Jews? And he answered them, you have
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  said so. Now some really like to massage
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  certain verses to mean something that it's not or to cause
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  confusion. And so they would say that Jesus
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  answer here is quite ambiguous and he he is suggesting that he
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  is, he is saying that he is the king of the Jews, but he's kind
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  of placing it on pilot as though he's saying that's what you're
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  saying so that he can suddenly confirm it while not
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  incriminating himself. Jesus is being very
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  straightforward here. And if you have any doubt about
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  that, you don't have to turn there.
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  But when John tells us about this interaction, Jesus is
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  something that most of you know, he elaborates on his answer and
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  he says what? My Kingdom is not of this world.
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  So if you say you have a Kingdom, what does that mean
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  about you? You're a king.
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  There is no confusion here. Jesus is being very clear, no
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  ambiguity. He is affirming that he is a
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  king, although the origin and the purpose of his Kingdom
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  differ from those of worldly governments.
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  But as Jesus answer merely a historical one, here's where it
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  gets relevant. Is this just a history study?
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  Does it only carry repercussions for the Jews and the Romans of
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  his time? Absolutely not.
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  Jesus being the King of the Jews is highly significant for all of
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  us in this room and beyond these four walls, and I want to share
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  why that is the case. I want you to consider 3
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  dimensions of this. Jesus being the King of the
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  Jews. Fulfilling that role satisfies
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  #1 past predictions #2 it carries present implications.
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  And lastly, it calls us to future anticipation.
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  Past, present, future, past predictions, present
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  implications, future anticipation.
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  Let's talk about it. You ready for Bible study?
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  Ready or not, here we go. Mimi in Genesis, go to chapter
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  49. Many centuries before Christ
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  entered into the world, God called a man named Abram to be
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  in covenant with him. Abram later named what?
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  Abraham. Good.
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  This is going to be a little bit more interactive.
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  Abraham and he was promised in this covenant to be a great
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  nation, a nation that would be blessed so that all nations
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  could be blessed. And Abraham, receiving this
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  promise, was also promised a son named Isaac, who would be the
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  channel to bring that promise closer to reality.
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  So Isaac is born, but it would not be further realized until
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  one of Isaac's sons named Jacob was born.
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  And as Jacob became a man, he himself had many children.
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  He had twelve sons and those 12 sons would later become the
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  tribes that would constitute this nation called Israel.
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  Israel is a name that God gave to Jacob.
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  The name itself has been issued and declared by God.
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  The significance of this is that at the end of Jacob's life, he
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  called his twelve sons to come near before his departure, and
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  he prophesized over each of them.
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  Some of these prophecies were uplifting and encouraging, and
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  some other prophecies were punitive because of how some of
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  these sons sinned. So Jacob, in declaring these
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  prophecies, not only speaks about what's going to take place
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  in the lives of his sons, but its main purpose, its primary
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  goal, is to declare what's going to take place with each of their
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  descendants. And so Jacob, in his old age,
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  begins. He prophesized over Reuben, then
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  he speaks to Simeon, then he proclaims something over Levi,
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  then he comes to the fourth in line, Judah.
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  And that's where we want to look.
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  We want to look at what God spoke through Jacob for this
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  particular tribe, Judah. We won't read the prophecy in
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  its entirety, but with me rather in verse 8 of chapter 49.
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  Genesis 49, Verse 8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you.
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  Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies.
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  Your father's sons shall bow down before you.
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  Judah is a lion's cub. You have gone up from the prey,
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  my son. He stooped down.
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  He crouched as a lion and as a lioness.
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  Who dares rouse him? The scepter shall not depart
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  from Judah, nor the ruler staff from between his feet, until
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  tribute comes to him, and to him shall be the obedience of the
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  peoples. I can just imagine the shock on
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  the faces of those brothers when he said this.
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  Remember, Israel and his sons were only few in number at this
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  point. They are not living in the
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  promised land. They're living in Egypt, away
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  from the Promised Land. However, Judah is told something
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  incredible. He is told that his descendants
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  will have preeminence in that they will possess a ruling
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  position among his brothers. And that's why I'm bringing your
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  attention to this, because it's one of the earliest prophecies
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  of royalty in connection to the people of Israel.
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  And this idea of royalty is communicated by the imagery of a
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  scepter. You've probably seen a scepter.
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  It's an ornamented staff, and it symbolizes sovereignty.
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  And in practical terms, then, this prophecy means that
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  eventually kings were going to arise from the line of Judah.
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  And what was in seed form when this was prophesied sprouted
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  when God raised a man called David from the tribe of Judah.
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  And the sprouting now would blossom more and more as
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  succeeding kings would follow David.
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  And that's what you and I are studying in the book of first
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  and 2nd Kings on Friday. A little teaser for you to join
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  us Bible study on Fridays. But there's an imperative peace
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  to this prophecy that some some might miss.
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  Look at verse 10 of Genesis 49. The scepter shall not depart
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  from Judah, nor the ruler staff from between his feet, until
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  tribute comes to him, and to him shall be the obedience of the
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  peoples. Now if you have any other,
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  virtually any other word for word translation of the Bible,
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  it's going to read differently. And some of you are probably
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  seeing that in your Bibles. Most of us in here read the ESV.
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  The ESV renders the second part of this verse a little
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  differently, so this is what you might read if you have like a
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  King James, a new King James, or an NASB translation.
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  The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler staff
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  from between his feet. Until what Shiloh comes capital
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  S, and to him shall be the obedience of the people.
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  What's going on here? Well, the etymology of the
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  Hebrew word Shiloh is a little complicated.
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  There are a variety of possible meetings for that word, and one
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  of the meanings of it is he to whom it belongs or that which
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  belongs to him. And that's how the ESV renders
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  it. So instead of giving the name
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  itself, the ESV seeks to give one of the meanings of the name
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  and applying it here. And we can say so much more
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  about this word, Shiloh. But I don't want to park here
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  too long because regardless of what translation you have, one
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  thing is undeniable. This prophecy anticipates a
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  particular individual from the royal line of Judah.
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  Do you see that? Again, it says until tribute
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  comes to him and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
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  Do you understand the significance of this?
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  So yeah, Judah can expect that there will be a royal dynasty,
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  but they also should be expecting a particular king, one
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  specific particular individual that will emerge from this royal
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  line. Something is leading to a
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  person, not just the government, not just a monarchy.
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  That's not the only thing in view here.
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  Primarily, what's in view here is a person until tribute comes
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  to him, and to him shall be the obedience of all the peoples.
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  This is confirmed by another prophecy, one that came from an
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  unexpected person, a Gentile. Not just a Gentile, a wicked
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  Gentile. You remember that after this the
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  nation of Israel was delivered from Egypt.
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  They were brought into the wilderness and they were being
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  guided to the Promised Land. And along that journey there was
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  a man named Balaam, who was hired by Bailek, the king of
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  Moab. Moab saw this nation marching
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  through the wilderness. The king was fearful, so he
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  hires a man to curse them. And so Balaam attempts to
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  pronounce a curse. And what does God do?
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  He turns it into a blessing. And he attempts to curse again,
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  and he turns into a blessing. And he does this until his final
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  Oracle, where he says something absolutely astounding.
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  Can I, can I pause here and just say something?
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  I'm worried that when we read verses like this, it doesn't
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  grip us as much because we have such accessibility to the Bible
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  and it's kind of digitized on our phones and so easy to just
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  flip open. I want you to feel how amazing
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  this is. We're touching ancient writings.
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  These are historical things that have been dictated and preserved
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  up until this point. We're dealing with God's Word
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  here. From centuries and even
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  thousands of years ago. And these prophecies are making
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  leaps throughout the timeline of history, and you're going to
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  realize that they're harmonious. This is a supernatural book that
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  we're holding today. Don't lose your awe of what
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  we're touching on. Balin pronounces this Oracle and
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  and tucked in the last Oracle is this incredible echo.
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  Look at Numbers 24 verse 17 with me.
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  Numbers 24 verse 17. I will wait for you, Balaam
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  says. I see him, but not now.
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  I behold him, but not near. Like how much more specific can
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  you get in that it's going to be in a distant future?
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  Who is he? A star shall come out of Jacob.
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  Oh, look at this. And a scepter shall rise out of
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  Israel, shall crush the forehead of Moab, and break down all the
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  sons of chef. Notice here that this prophecy
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  of a Kingdom emerging out of Israel is reinforced, but not
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  just that. There's an individual in view.
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  Him. I see him, but not now.
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  I behold him, but not near so. So whoever this individual is,
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  he is personified by two symbols of authority and prominence.
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  He is a * and he is a scepter that shall rise from Israel.
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  And in case there is any confusion of what this prophecy
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  is conveying, Balaam makes it undeniably clear because it's a
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  spirit speaking through Balaam. Look at verse 18 and 19.
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  Edom shall be dispossessed, Sira also his enemy shall be
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  dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly, and
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  one from Jacob shall exercise dominion and destroy the
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  survivors of cities. No doubt that the same Spirit
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  who guided Jacob to prophecy over Judah moved Balaam to
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  remind us and all peoples of a distinct ruler metaphorically
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  identified as a star and as a scepter.
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  And if you're confused, still he's going to have dominion.
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  And it will come at a future time.
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  And as time goes on, the Spirit of God will become even more
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  precise with this particular prophecy.
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  And as I mentioned earlier, the Lord will raise a man.
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  We're told that he would come from not just Israel, not just
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  Jacob, but from the tribe of Judah.
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  And at some point when Israel established a royal monarchy,
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  David was chosen to be the first king from the tribe of Judah.
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  And early in his reign, David was approached by God.
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  And God does something spectacular.
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  He makes a covenant with him, and in that covenant He makes a
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  more precise promise that has its roots from Genesis.
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  He tells David this in second Samuel 7.
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  And you don't have to turn there unless you are writing notes.
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  Second Samuel 7 verse 12 and 13. This is what God says from His
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  mouth to this man. When your days are fulfilled and
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  you lie down with your Father's, I will raise up your offspring
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  after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish
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  His Kingdom. He shall build a house for My
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  name, and I will establish the throne of His Kingdom.
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  So not only are we told that there is going to be a scepter
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  that comes from Judah, not only are we told that He will come
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  from Judah, but we are even told specifically that He will come
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  through the seed of David, the Lion of David, the body of
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  David. So again, we're progressing here
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  in redemptive history and we're seeing the Lord getting more and
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  more specific. And this section specifically
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  verse 14 of Second Samuel 7 is confirmed to be about Jesus.
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  You'll find that in Hebrews one, verse 5.
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  But we're getting ahead of ourselves here.
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  You can imagine how thrilling this was.
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  You can imagine how exciting this was for David and for the
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  people of Israel. He shows it in the same chapter.
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  He's so overcome by emotion that he just pours out in praise and
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  Thanksgiving that he would he would be found worthy to be
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  chosen. And his descendants to have
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  everlasting rule and dominion. That one of his sons will
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  exercise such authority. But the hope of that promise
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  becomes increasingly dim after David's life, because one king
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  after the next succeeding him will mar the Davidic dynasty
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  because they will fail to uphold the righteous standard that God
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  asked of his kings and of the nation as a whole.
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  And if there was one king that that did come up and bring good
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  to the land and bring religious reform, all it took was the
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  following king to reverse and just bring down all the good
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  that was preceding them. And so it got so bad.
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  That God now begins to raise up more and more prophets to tell
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  the people of Judah specifically, judgement is
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  coming. You've rebelled against me.
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  You refuse to repent. So here is my final act of
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  chastisement. You're going to be removed from
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  the land. I'm going to raise up a foreign
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  nation, and they're going to take you from this place that
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  I've promised you. Now you have to understand that
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  to the average Jew, this was unthinkable.
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  God gave them this land. God conquered armies and foes
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  and kings to give them this piece of real estate.
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  And now all of a sudden he's telling them you're going to be
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  removed. Yes, I promise it to Abraham,
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  Isaac and Jacob, but your sin. Will cause me to vomit you out
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  of this place. And they dismissed it.
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  They called guys like Jeremiah false prophets and there are
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  other prophets, they were telling him.
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  No, no, no. Peace, peace, don't worry about
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  it. Such things are absurd.
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  They will not happen. But the promise of exile was
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  starting to be realized, and so there was growing fears that the
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  certainty of Israel's future was not so certain.
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  So the same prophets who pronounce judgment, exile,
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  destruction from time to time would be called by God to give a
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  message of hope and to remind the very same people who are
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  going to be disciplined of God's faithfulness despite their
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  unfaithfulness. And one of the most, as you
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  heard earlier, one of the most important prophets to declare
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  that message was Jeremiah himself.
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  I'm still reading Jeremiah, my personal reading, and it's
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  incredible to see how much he talks about this very thing.
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  Look at Jeremiah 23. This is somewhere where you
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  should turn. Jeremiah 23, verse 5.
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  Jeremiah 23, verse 5. Remember, what I'm about to read
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  to you is given in the context of Judah being severely judged.
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  To the point that they'll be removed from the promised land.
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  But look what Jeremiah says in chapter 23, verse 5.
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  Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will
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  raise up for David a righteous branch, and he shall reign as
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  king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and
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  righteousness in the land. In his days.
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  Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell securely, and this is
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  the name by which you will be called.
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  The Lord is our righteousness. So in the midst of judgment, God
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  is assuring His people that the promise He made to David would
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  still stand. It would not be nullified, it
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  would not be cancelled, despite the rebellion and their
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  idolatry. You notice how this king is
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  referred to this time not as a star, not as a sceptic, but as a
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  what? Is it there as a branch?
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  I could stop here and talk about the significance of that title
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  branch and show you the handful of times that this title branch
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  is mentioned in the Old Testament and how it amazingly
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  points to the person and ministry of Jesus Christ.
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  But you don't want to stay here for another hour, do you?
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  Do you see the plight of the preacher?
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  It's not what am I going to say? It's what I have to leave out.
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  So we will not do that. We'll talk about Jesus, the
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  righteous branch, another day. What we want to focus on is the
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  promise. David is going to know a son.
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  The Davidic line is going to be preserved, and we see here that
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  the Lord addressed a misleading conclusion that was gaining
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  traction. Again, they're being surrounded.
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  The rumors are now becoming true and they're thinking we're done
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  here and this is what was spreading, right?
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  The Lord pronounced this promise.
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  But look at Jeremiah 33 and look at verse 24.
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  Have you not observed that these people are saying the Lord has
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  rejected the two clans that He chose?
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  Pause. What does He mean by that?
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  The two clans, Remember, Israel was divided at this point.
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  There's a northern Kingdom and a southern Kingdom.
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  So those are the two clans that are being referred to.
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  And what were people saying? People were saying that the Lord
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  rejected the two clans. So in its entirety, its identity
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  are the people of Israel. Are people still saying that
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  today? Yeah, they are saying that
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  today. Notice what the Lord says next.
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  Thus they have despised my people so that they are no
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  longer a nation in their sight. Are people saying that today?
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  They are saying this today. So you have to understand that
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  the Jews are despised by many and that they are regarded not
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  as a true nation. That the Jews today are not the
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  Jews in the Bible, that they don't deserve a sovereign state.
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  That the Jews are to be rejected in many ways.
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  What a mistake that is. Whether you are professing
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  Christian or not, take note. God doesn't like that and
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  defense he makes can be understood in this way because
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  look what he says in verse 25. Thus says the Lord, if I have
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  not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed
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  order of heaven and earth, then I will reject the offspring of
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  Jacob and David my servant, and will not choose one of his
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  offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob, for I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on
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  them. You see what he's saying there?
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  Look at verse 25 again. If I have not established my
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  covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and
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  earth, then I will reject the offspring of Jacob.
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  Pause. You can translate it in this
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  following way. There's a better chance for God
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  to abandon his supervision of the order and the operations of
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  the universe than for him to relinquish and deny his covenant
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  with Israel. There's a better chance for him
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  to remove himself from the governance of the affairs of our
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  systems in this universe that for him to cast off.
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  The people of Israel from being a nation and His people.
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  You have a problem with that? You have a problem with the
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  Bible, not with the preacher, my friend.
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  And that's why he says something later on in Jeremiah 46, verse
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  28. Why so much Bible?
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  Again, deal with the Bible. I'm just telling you the Bible.
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  So you deal with the Bible and faithfully interpret it.
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  Jeremiah, 4628. He says in that passage, I will
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  make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven
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  you, but of you I will not make a full end.
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  How do you deal with that? Isn't it amazing that throughout
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  history kingdoms, empires, and civilizations have vanished, but
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  the people of Israel remain, though they have in their long
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  history experienced many calamities, even calamities that
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  have brought them to near extinction.
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  God tells them, I will discipline you.
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  God told them I will punish you, but I promise to never make a
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  full end of you. What's at stake here?
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  I'll tell you what's at stake. Listen here, you professing
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  Christians, I'll tell you what's at stake.
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  God's character is at stake. This is not about race, this is
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  not about this is not about favoritism.
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  This is about what God said and he said I will never make a full
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  end of you. But Israel were not only
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  promised the preservation of their people.
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  Notice again at verse 26, he says then I will reject the
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  offspring of Jacob and David, my servant, and will not choose one
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  of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac
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  and Jacob. So it's not just about the
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  people, it's about the royal line.
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  God's program and plan for a king to still arise is in motion
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  despite all that Israel has done.
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  God says I made an unconditional promise to David.
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  I'm going to keep it because I don't lie.
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  A king is still coming. Or we can stay here for the next
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  45 minutes and look at verse after verse and Isaiah and
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  Jeremiah and Zechariah and Zephaniah.
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  We can spend all day here looking at these things, but I
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  think the picture is clear. A king is coming and nothing
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  will change that, even the unfaithfulness of the people who
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  were supposed to usher him in. And I'm speaking, I hope, to a
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  group of people filling this room who believe that not just
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  the king is coming. The king came.
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  He arrived and this is what we see the Angel of Gabriel
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  proclaiming to a virgin girl named Mary and Luke chapter 1
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  and 31 to 33 where he said, behold, you will conceive a son,
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  and his name shall be called Jesus.
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  And this Jesus will take the throne of his father David, and
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  his Kingdom will be established forever and ever.
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  Now I want you to pretend that you have never read the New
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  Testament. Imagine everything that you just
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  heard in this past 45 minutes. I don't know how long it's been,
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  but imagine everything that you just heard now was fresh to you
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  up to the point of Luke chapter 131 to 33.
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  Wouldn't you think God? No way the long-awaited king has
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  come. Wouldn't you think that euphoria
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  would sweep over the land after this angelic declaration?
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  The people should be elated, especially in the context of
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  when this was declared. They're under Roman oppression.
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  They are succumbed to sin and corruption.
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  He's here. He's.
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  Come, but that's not what we see.
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  Let me remind you how we open the service or specifically the
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  sermon. This baby who would be born, his
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  name would be called Jesus, would grow up to become a man.
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  And this man would not just have a reputation of being the son of
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  David. He proved it and they denied
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  Him, and now he's standing before Pilate ready to be
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  condemned to death. Which brings us to the present
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  realization. The people who were promised him
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  and were presented Him rejected Him, and as you heard Jesus here
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  said, He is the King of the Jews.
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  But what would now become of the promised king?
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  How could a king be a king if the people that he's called to
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  govern deny you? Jesus gives the answer to that.
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  The next few verses I'm about to show you are absolutely
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  imperative for you to grasp. Jesus gives the explanation to
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  how He can be a king, though the people that he is called to
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  govern denied him. Matthew 21 verse 43.
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  Therefore I tell you He's speaking to the Pharisees and
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  the religious leaders. Therefore I tell you, the
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  Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a
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  people producing its fruits. You reject me, I reject you.
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  This is not immediate. This was after He'd done
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  miracles, after He fulfilled prophecies, after he had shown
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  them over and over again that He is the sinless son of David and
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  they had nothing and wanted nothing to do with him.
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  So let me tell you what Jesus words here doesn't mean.
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  It doesn't mean that because the Jews rejected Jesus, that
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  salvation that was once not available to the Gentiles is now
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  granted to them. That's a gross misunderstanding
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  of this verse, to think as though because the Jews denied
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  Jesus, the plan being God's salvation is to give, to give us
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  a chance, as though we Gentiles, if you're not a Jew here, you're
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  a Gentile or an afterthought. Do you know how I know that to
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  be the case? Because God from the beginning
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  always had in mind the salvation of the nations.
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  And throughout the Old Testament you have people who are Gentiles
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  getting saved. So that's not what this means.
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  Instead, what it means is that this is so important.
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  By transferring the Kingdom from the people of Israel to another
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  people, God is essentially removing the honorable position
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  and privilege of being the vehicle that brings the message
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  of salvation to the world. It no longer now belongs to the
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  people in the nation of Israel, but is awarded to the Church.
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  Israel failed to be the faithful witness, the light to shine, the
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  means to draw people into the truth, because they have turned
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  their back on Messiah. And So what the Lord says, if
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  you read very carefully, is that he's going to take that
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  privilege, that honorable responsibility, and give it over
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  to another people who will constitute both Gentile and Jew,
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  the entity called the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  And that's why he says you're in the same verse, that the Kingdom
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  of God will be taken away from you and given to a people
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  producing its fruits. And that makes more sense now
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  when you hear verses like First Peter 29 where Peter is speaking
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  to Gentiles and he says, but you are a chosen race.
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  You are what a holy nation you are what a people for his own
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  possession. You are what a royal priesthood.
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  All those identities were exclusive to Israel up to the
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  point of the new covenant. Now it's shared with the
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  Gentiles. But what do those identities
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  mean? He finishes it here in First
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  Peter 29, Your chosen race, your royal priesthood, you're a holy
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  nation, you're a people for his own possession.
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  Why? Why?
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  Why? What does that do?
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  This is what it does, that you may proclaim the excellencies of
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  Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous
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  light. So you understand now, right?
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  For the Kingdom to be transferred from the people of
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  Israel to the Church means now the Church has been granted the
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  responsibility and the honor of being ambassadors of this
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  Kingdom. Ah, then this means that Israel
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  is no longer relevant. And all those promises in the
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  Old Testament can either be reinterpreted or disregarded
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  altogether. No it doesn't mean that, because
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  Jesus statement here doesn't teach that God has replaced
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  Israel or erased Israel by giving the Kingdom of God over
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  to another people. It just means that for a time,
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  he has set them aside. But a time is coming when they
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  will be grafted in again. So people often quote Matthew
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  2143 to make a case that the idea of Israel as a people and
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  as a state and as a national identity, it's just like it
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  means nothing. So what do you do with Matthew
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  23? This is after Jesus gives a
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  series of scathing woes to the same people and he says this at
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  the end of Matthew 23. Look at verse 38 and 39.
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  See your house is left to you desolate.
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  So people also quote that verse. Your house is left to you
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  desolate, but read verse 39 would you?
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  For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, blessed
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  is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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  Until implying what? There is a time coming when the
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  same people who have been removed from that place of honor
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  in the world of being the channel of spiritual blessings,
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  a people who, as we read earlier, his house has been left
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  desolate. There is a time coming where
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  their eyes will be open. They will see Jesus again and
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  they will say he is our Messiah. That's coming.
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  Whether you like it or not, it's coming.
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  It's going to happen. I don't know why you would
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  oppose that idea. That's a glorious thing.
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  Underline that word until there's a time coming when
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  national Israel will acknowledge Jesus Christ as their savior.
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  And if you want to know exactly how that's going to happen, sit
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  with your family around the dinner table in the living room
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  and read Zechariah chapter 12 and 14.
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  And you will see the play by play blueprint of how this is
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  going to happen. And it is then where God will
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  fulfill all his promises, the promises that he made to
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  Abraham, the promises that he made to David and to the people
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  of Israel as a whole. And this does not mean, of
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  course, that Jews cannot be saved until that glorious
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  revival comes. Jews have been getting saved.
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  The early church was comprised of Jews and check this out.
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  The church has been the means to draw the Jewish people into
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  saving faith in Jesus Christ. And this is something for you
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  and I to consider because it's all over the New Testament as
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  individual Jews are coming in to be saved.
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  It will culminate when Jesus Christ Himself will do the
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  complete work and redeem the nation as a whole, that as a
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  national identity and a corporate confession.
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  They will hail Jesus as their king.
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  Is Jesus the king of the Jews? Yes, but Israel has not realized
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  it just yet. They will though, which leads us
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  to the future anticipation. Here's our final verse together.
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  Paul elaborates on this. In case you feel like this was
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  more lopsided and Old Testament leaning Romans 11, I just want
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  to read you one verse. The whole point of Romans 11 is
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  really Paul echoing Jeremiah where the people of his day were
• 43:59
  saying God has cast off his people.
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  Paul answers that precise question in light of the new
• 44:06
  covenant. What has become of the people of
• 44:08
  Israel since they have rejected Jesus Christ?
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  If Jesus Christ is the king of the Jews, what has become of
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  them since they have denied Jesus?
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  And that's his thesis right here.
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  But notice what he says here in Romans 11, verse 12.
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  Now if there being the people of Israel, now if their trespass
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  means riches for the world and if their failure means riches
• 44:28
  for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean?
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  So Paul's argument here is absolutely brilliant.
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  You got to take your time to understand what he's saying.
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  Here's how he's breaking this down.
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  If the Israelites unbelief led to their trespass, which in turn
• 44:48
  enrich the world, how did it enrich the world?
• 44:52
  Well, it was giving rise to the Church of Jesus Christ and the
• 44:57
  world has been blessed by the church's impact in the nations.
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  If there's sin 'cause salvation to spread across the globe.
• 45:08
  Here's what Paul is saying. Then what will become of the
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  world in their full inclusion if their denial did this?
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  What will happen in their righteousness when they embrace
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  Christ? You see Paul's train of thought,
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  and it should leave you wondering, yeah, what would
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  happen if we have, as Gentiles, benefited from.
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  The Jews shutting their door in the face of Christ, what will
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  happen to the Gentiles when that day comes and they open the door
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  and say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord?
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  Well, This is why you have to understand Bible prophecy, and
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  it makes it makes so much sense now.
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  Because the nation of Israel accepting Jesus Christ as their
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  Messiah coincides with Jesus Christ establishing His
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  physical, literal reign on the earth.
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  And this world will know universal peace.
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  The Church will rule and reign with him, and both Jew and
• 46:17
  Gentile will behold the promise keeping God who fulfilled His
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  word to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and the Gentiles.
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  That's what's coming. And so this was a lot to take
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  in, perhaps in one sitting, and it was purely theological,
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  wasn't it? So let me, let me tell you how
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  studying this, not just in this past week but throughout the
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  years has made an impact on me. Let's make this now applicable,
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  and I hope it impacts you. 1 It just highlights the goodness and
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  the faithfulness of God. When he says something, he means
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  it, no matter who he said it to. So the same God who keeps his
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  word to a person or people, I can trust that he'll keep his
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  word for the church and for me as a follower of Jesus Christ. 2
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  To pray and believe God for the salvation of the Jewish people.
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  Yes, to to preach the the gospel to all nations.
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  That's the Great Commission. But the church doesn't have the
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  greatest history and how they have dealt and addressed the
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  Jews. But to believe that God can do a
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  work in their hearts, not just when he comes back and opens
• 47:46
  their eyes, but between now and then.
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  Paul tells us in Romans 11 that salvation has come to the
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  Gentiles for many reasons, and one of the reasons is to provoke
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  the Jews to jealousy. I've shared this testimony so
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  many times. I've always wondered how is it
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  that the Jewish people would be provoked to jealousy through the
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  church, by the church because of the church.
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  And I remember hearing a testimony from a Jewish woman
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  that gave light to this. She came to Christ as a Jew.
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  She believed Jesus Christ as her Messiah.
• 48:14
  And one of the things that. Stirred her was when she knew
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  Gentiles who knew the Old Testament and the Hebrew
• 48:21
  Scriptures better than her and she thought how is it that me as
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  a Jew, I did not know my Bible like these Christians did?
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  And when she come to find out is that she studied the word of God
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  for herself. Jesus was the Messiah, you see.
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  God is not done with this people.
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  They will be saved and we have as a church the responsibility
• 48:43
  to preach the gospel to all nations, including them.
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  And lastly, the feeling that I had in my heart when studying
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  this for today, after gathering my thoughts and just seeing the
• 48:57
  Symphony of the Scriptures, is to push myself away from my
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  desk, get before God and from my heart to hail Him as my King.
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  You're my King, and not only are you my King, Lord Jesus, you are
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  the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  And Revelation 11 promises that the kingdoms of this world will
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  become the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
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  Is he your king? What did you hear in this past
• 49:29
  hour? Did you hear my thoughts?
• 49:30
  You heard ancient prophecies placed before you all pointing
• 49:37
  to unanimously the person of Jesus Christ.
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  What are you going to do with that information, my friend?
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  Like, how can you actually walk out of here and not come to a
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  conclusion about where you stand on this issue?
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  He is the king of the Jews. Now, here's my question to you.
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  Is he your king? Because whether you like it or
• 49:55
  not, he is going to be the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  He is today, and he's going to demonstrate it in an undeniable
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  way, perhaps very shortly. But you have to make him king
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  today. He is the king of a spiritual
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  Kingdom. We are part of that Kingdom.
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  And one day he will come to rule and reign physically with his
• 50:16
  Kingdom. And you have to make a choice
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  between now and then. Will I surrender?
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  Will I love him? Will I receive him?
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  Will I crown him? Oh, I pray that you would.
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  The way that you crown him as king is by repenting of your
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  sins and believing that this king who was promised a throne,
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  we're also told, would suffer for the sins of his people.
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  That's why the Jews. Missed him because they were so
• 50:41
  focused on the kingly aspect of him and not realizing that this
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  king would also lay down his life and suffer for his
• 50:49
  subjects. And so you have the opportunity
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  to understand that this king is not just coming with a scepter.
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  He came first as a child and he grew up to be a man.
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  And he was tempted in every way, but did not sin, not even once.
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  And he was nailed upon a tree and he was coronated there with
• 51:09
  a crown of thorns and piercing in his hands and his side in his
• 51:12
  feet. And he bled.
• 51:13
  He bled. Why did he bleed?
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  Is this the King of the Jews? Yes, it is the king of the Jews
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  who died for the Jewish people and died for all nations.
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  What are you going to do with that?
• 51:23
  What are you going to do with Christ crucified?
• 51:31
  There's no neutrality. He's either king by willing
• 51:36
  submission, or he will be king. By force He will be king and you
• 51:43
  become a part of His Kingdom, or He'll be king and expel you from
• 51:49
  His Kingdom for all of eternity. The bridge from condemnation to
• 51:54
  acceptance is faith. Believe.
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  Today, make the decision to look at the Word, to realize that it
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  is true, indisputable, and to realize that He is after your
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  heart, for you to have your sins washed and for you to have a
• 52:09
  future with Him. Lord, we thank you for Your
• 52:13
  word, we bless Your holy name. We ask, Oh God, that You would
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  grant us the eyes to see what Your Word says on all matters.
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  And we pray today that if we're going to wrestle with anything,
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  let it be with what the Scriptures have said.
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  And we ask, oh God, that you would cause our hearts to
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  remember that you are faithful. What you have said, you have
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  done, and the things that you have not done yet you will
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  accomplish. Nothing will stop you.
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  Nothing will halt, nothing will keep you from performing your
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  faithfulness. And Lord, we give you praise and
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  honor. We rejoice in knowing that we
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  are in the truth and that we are free because of this truth.
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  In the precious name of our Lord and King Jesus Christ, we pray A
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  men and Amen. Let's stand.
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  We are going to sing and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is
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  King.