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Voddie Baucham - The Thesis Statement For Redemptive History · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: How many times do people come to us and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got all these gospels and they don't all say
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  Speaker 1: the exact same thing and they don't have everything in
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  Speaker 1: the exact same order and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And we go into
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  Speaker 1: all these kind of convulsions. Again, Bad Bodhi just likes that.
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  Speaker 1: I got to like hold him back because he really does.
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  Speaker 1: He says, yeah, you got different gospels because you got
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  Speaker 1: different people writing to different audiences. And when you speak
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  Speaker 1: to different audiences who have different understandings, you communicate different things.
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  Speaker 1: For example, Matthew is communicating to a Jewish audience. And
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  Speaker 1: when Matthew communicates to this Jewish audience, he communicates that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is faithful Israel. How does he do that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you just go backwards and look on the left
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  Speaker 1: side of the book, God creates man and man sins.
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  Speaker 1: And when man sins, God brings judgment, but he also
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  Speaker 1: brings hope. He brings hope in Genesis chapter three and
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  Speaker 1: verse 15. I will put enmity between you and the
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  Speaker 1: woman and between your seed and her seed. He will
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  Speaker 1: bruise your head, you will bruise his heel. So there
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  Speaker 1: is one who is going to come from the woman
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  Speaker 1: who is going to crush the head of the snake.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be dealt with. That's the thesis
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  Speaker 1: statement of the rest of redemptive history. For the rest
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  Speaker 1: of redemptive history, we are looking for the seed of
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  Speaker 1: the woman who will crush the head of the snake
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  Speaker 1: or the faithful witness. And there are many in that line,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately they all fall short. We go through that
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  Speaker 1: line and eventually we get to these people who become
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  Speaker 1: Israelites and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and these 12
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  Speaker 1: tribes who eventually go into Egypt. Interestingly enough, Matthew begins
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  Speaker 1: his gospel with what? Genealogy. Why? Tracing Jesus as the
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  Speaker 1: promised seed. Well, then after you identify him as the
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  Speaker 1: promised seed, what happens? Well, what happened to Israel? Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: wanted to kill all the male children and they had
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  Speaker 1: to be protected. while they're in Egypt. Herod wants to
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  Speaker 1: kill all the male children and Jesus goes to the
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  Speaker 1: same Egypt to be protected there. Not only is he
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  Speaker 1: the promised seed, but he's the protected seed. Eventually he
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  Speaker 1: comes out and then he goes through baptism. Where? In
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan, same place Israel had to go through before
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  Speaker 1: they came into the land of promise. He goes into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, kind of like Israel went into the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: They were there for 40 years. He's tempted there for
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  Speaker 1: 40 days. Now while he's tempted, he's tempted in three
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  Speaker 1: very specific ways. Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: and the boastful pride of life. The exact same three
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  Speaker 1: things that led the first Adam to eat the fruit.
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  Speaker 1: But the last Adam is the faithful Adam, not like
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  Speaker 1: first Adam. He's the faithful witness. Then he goes up
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  Speaker 1: onto a mountain and starts teaching. Kind of like Moses teaching.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you have heard it said, but I
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  Speaker 1: say unto you. After he teaches for a few chapters,
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  Speaker 1: he comes down and starts healing and casting out demons.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like the conquest. Eventually, he goes to the
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  Speaker 1: cross as Isaiah's suffering servant. And then raises from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: In other words... Israel became a people, but they were unfaithful.
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  Speaker 1: They had a law, and the law couldn't save them.
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  Speaker 1: They had judges. Judges couldn't save them. Eventually, they got kings,
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  Speaker 1: and the kings were unfaithful and couldn't save them. Eventually
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  Speaker 1: came prophets, and eventually they were taken away from their land.
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  Speaker 1: Christ comes as the faithful witness, the prophet, priest, and
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  Speaker 1: king who is faithful and where Israel was not faithful.
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  Speaker 1: He is the last Adam. He is the promised seed.
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  Speaker 1: He is faithful Israel. He is the faithful witness. This
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  Speaker 1: is who our Jesus is. He is connected to all
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  Speaker 1: of redemptive history and even going forward. He is the
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  Speaker 1: faithful witness who will vindicate those who die at the
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  Speaker 1: hands of the unholy trinity. Not only is he the
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  Speaker 1: faithful witness, but he's the faithful witness. He's the firstborn
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. I love that. He's the firstborn from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. Doesn't say he was the only one resurrected
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Says he was the firstborn from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: which means that there are going to be others resurrected
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  Speaker 1: after him. Amen. So Jesus doesn't just conquer death. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus conquers death on behalf of all of those who
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  Speaker 1: are in him so that we have hope that we
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  Speaker 1: will conquer death as well. This is of great significance.
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  Speaker 1: So again, what does the world want to say? What
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  Speaker 1: does liberalism want to say? Liberalism wants to say the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection may be true, it may not. It really doesn't matter. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because ultimately we just need Jesus for his moral example. No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't. We need one who can conquer death and
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  Speaker 1: the grave. And that's precisely what Christ has done. Because
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  Speaker 1: death is the last enemy. We will all face this
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  Speaker 1: last enemy. And Christ is the one who has been
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  Speaker 1: victorious over this last enemy.