THE SERMON - The Genealogy Of Jesus
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Genesis 1:1-17 The genealogy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon, and the deportation to Babylon, 14 generations, and 14 generations to the birth of Christ. 4 points to highlight from this genealogy: 1. Christ received a legitimate pedigree from both his father and his mother. 2. He was born to be both a messianic king and a king. 3. His birth was in keeping with the prophecies of the prophets. 4. His father and mother were blessed in the sense that he was the seed of Abraham.
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Amen. All right, let's stand for the reading of God's Word. Our text for today is Matthew chapter
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1 verses 1 through 17. Again, that's Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 17. I'll read our
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text in its entirety. When I finish reading the text, I'm going to say this is the Word of the
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Lord, at which point I would appreciate very much if you would respond by saying thanks be to God.
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One final time, our text for this morning is Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 17. The Bible
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says this, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah
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and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez, and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron,
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and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nashon,
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and Nashon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of
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Obed by Ruth. And Obed the father of Jesse. And Jesse the father of David the king. And David was
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the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah. And Solomon the father of Rehoboam. And Rehoboam the
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father of Abijah. And Abijah the father of Asaph. And Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat
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the father of Joram. And Joram the father of Uzziah. And Uzziah the father of Jotham. And Jotham the
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father of Ahaz. And Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. And Hezekiah the father of Manasseh.
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and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah
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and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon. And after the deportation to Babylon,
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Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father
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of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father
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of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of
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Eliezer, and Eliezer the father of Mathen, and Mathen the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father
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of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. So all the generations
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from Abraham to David were 14 generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, 14
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generations and from the deportation to babylon to the christ 14 generations this is the word of
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the lord all right please be seated i just gotta stop for a second i nailed it praise god praise
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god i was working on that this morning at breakfast my my daughters heard me you know
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reading it over and over and over genealogies are tough we got it praise god w's in the chat all
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All right. So a few things that we want to draw out of the genealogy today. I don't want to just
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skip it and pick up, you know, with verse 18 and the story of the birth of Christ and Mary and
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Joseph, all scriptures God breathed and it's all useful for our training, rebuking and correction
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when we need it. And so we don't ever want to make light of the word of God. So this is in the Bible
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for a reason. There's a few things that I want to draw out. So here are kind of four different
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points that, by God's grace, I hope to highlight from this genealogy today. The first is this.
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Christ received a legitimate pedigree from both his father and his mother. Both his father and
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his mother. On both sides of the family, we see the genealogy of Christ that is in keeping with
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all the messianic prophecies. A legitimate pedigree, a messianic pedigree, from both the
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father joseph according to the flesh human father and his mother mary second christ was born to be
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both savior and king and both of these things are prophetically highlighted and pronounced
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displayed not only by what christ himself says or by prophets such as isaiah who who prophesied that
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the kingly rule of jesus as well as the blessings of of a christ in his role as savior it's not just
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that there were particular prophecies about jesus being savior and about jesus also being king but
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even in his pedigree even in his genealogy and his ancestry we see that that is displayed it's
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manifest uh in two particular ways one in the sense that he is the seed of abraham and through
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that seed it was said that all the nations of the world would be blessed and blessed eternally so
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there would be no end the increase of his government would continue to expand so he is both
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savior and king he is savior and lord so we'll see that third point in our genealogy today is that
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christ was not of noble birth that is according to human standards he is not of noble birth
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according to human standards within the genealogy of christ we find ruth a moabitess a pagan
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worshiper of a foreign land. We find Rahab, the prostitute. We also find that Jesus is not always,
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he doesn't come from a line, an ancestry of always being the firstborn. In fact, whenever there are
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brothers mentioned in the genealogy of Christ, it is usually, more often than not, one of the younger
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brothers who actually carries this messianic line instead of the oldest think judah judah is the
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fourth born of of jacob he's not first he's not second he's not third or a better example would
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be thinking of king david himself in the case of his father jesse right samuel the prophet comes
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to anoint the next king because god has has prophetically spoken to samuel that saul is
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going to be removed. And not only Saul, but his entire lineage is going to be removed because of
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his unbelief, because of his sin. And so God leads him to the tribe of Benjamin, to the house of
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Jesse and Samuel instinctively. And he wasn't wrong for thinking this or assuming this. He was
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objectively wrong, but it was a decent sense for him to have. He thinks it's going to be the first
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born of Jesse. And when God says no and passes over Jesse's first born, well, then surely it's
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the second. No. The third. Surely the third. No. The fourth. No. And it keeps going and going and
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going. It gets all the way down to David. And so the third point that we'll find in the case of
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some of the mothers, whether it be Bathsheba, the wife of murdered Uriah, and the nature of which
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child, right? Which child is it of David that continues to carry the line? David had more than
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one wife. It could have been a wife that David had acquired by more ethical means than the case of
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Bathsheba involving adultery and murder of her husband Uriah. And yet God carries the messianic
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line, the lineage of Christ through Bathsheba and her son Solomon. Or Ruth, the Moabitess, as I've
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already said a Rahab you know in Jericho a Canaanite a prostitute in all these ways the line
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of Christ is surprising and it is not noble it is he is the son of David David was a king that's
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noble right he's the son of Abraham Abraham is the one who God created this great people Israel
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under the old covenant that there's nobility there so it's not insignificant and yet at the same time
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there are marks of nobility, such as Abraham and David, and that's what's highlighted. Those two
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heads, representatives, are highlighted at the very beginning of Matthew, in the beginning of our text
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today. But when we get into the details, when we get into the weeds, you have kind of two big
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placeholders of Abraham and David. But when we get more particular, underneath those headers of
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Abraham and David, we find several, not just one, but several examples, whether it be Rahab, whether
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it be Ruth, whether it be Judah as the fourthborn and Judah's sin in the case of Tamar, or whether
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it be David being far down, the youngest of his brothers. In all these ways, we find that Jesus
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is the Christ, but he is not the result of noble birth according to human standards. He doesn't
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only come from kings like David and only come from an untarnished line of firstborn sons,
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but he comes from a line that is mixed at certain points with foreign nations and idolaters.
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He comes from a line that is noble and kingly like David,
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but in some cases from the fourthborn son or even more so.
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So Christ was not of noble birth, at least not by human standards.
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And then the fourth point, by God's grace, I hope to highlight from our text today is this, that Christ ended the old covenant and began the new covenant.
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And there's an interesting, short, brief, but I think profound commentary on our particular text today, the genealogy of Christ in Matthew by Matthew Henry, the late great Puritan.
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and some of the illustration that he draws and the symbolism
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in the case of Pharaoh and Zerah and these two twins
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and that this actually in a prophetic sense symbolizes the ripping away of the kingdom
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from the house of Israel and it being granted to the Gentiles
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The ending and rolling up, wrapping up like a garment this old covenant
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and then the revealing and inauguration and unveiling of the new covenant.
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So that's the fourth point that I hope to illustrate today
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is that Christ ended the old covenant, began the new covenant,
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and even this is not only seen in the words of Christ
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or further espoused and exegeted in the apostles' epistles
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but even this is contained in symbolic seed form in Christ's genealogy itself.
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First point, Christ received a legitimate pedigree from both his father and mother.
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I'm going to be using Matthew Henry throughout all four of these points today as our primary commentary.
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This line is brought down not to Mary, the mother of our Lord, but to Joseph, the husband of Mary,
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for the Jews always reckoned their genealogies by the males, the father, and yet it's important
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for us to recognize Mary was of the same tribe and family with Joseph, so that both by his mother,
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that is Jesus' mother, Mary, and by his earthly father, that is Joseph, he was of the house of
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David. So right at the outset, one of the questions that I had in the past, I remember as I was
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thinking about the genealogy of Jesus, I remember, you know, a few years back thinking, well, I
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understand that they're tracking it by the father, but Jesus, you know, Joseph was, Joseph fathered
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him, but he is not the, you know, the genetic seed of Joseph because he has no father in that
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sense of procreation because Mary gave birth to Jesus as she conceived by the Holy Spirit.
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So Joseph was Jesus' earthly father, but he doesn't come from, Jesus does not come from Joseph's lineage.
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The only human code that he carries is on the mother's side, Mary, because again,
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Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary before she had union with any earthly man.
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And so I understand that in the tradition you would follow a genealogy, a lineage on the father's side with the males.
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And as it pertains to Joseph, Joseph really does have in his ancestry David and Abraham and all of this.
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And Joseph is the human father in an earthly sense of Jesus.
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But you could be tempted to kind of play the devil's advocate and say, well, you know, yeah, Joseph is the father in the earthly sense, but Jesus doesn't carry the genetic line of Joseph because he doesn't have an earthly father in the sense of his conception.
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Well, the solution for that, it's a very simple solution and not everybody is aware of it,
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but for your own information, for your knowledge, it's important to know that's tracking in this
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genealogy. What we're tracking is the male. So you're tracking Joseph, but Mary is actually of
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the same house. So any way you slice it, whether you go through Joseph or whether you're playing
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the devil's advocate and say, yeah, but Joseph isn't the biological father. He's the earthly
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father. He raises him, but he's not the biological father of Jesus. The only biological human parent
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that Jesus has is Mary. And so tracking Joseph and proving that he's of the house of David and that
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he is from the line of Abraham, that doesn't really do it for me. Well, guess what? So is Mary,
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both of them. So that's point one. Jesus has an outstanding pedigree in that sense. But in point
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three, when we get there here in just a moment, we'll find that in the human sense, according to
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human sensibilities Jesus does not have the noble pedigree that you would expect of the king of
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kings you would expect him to have a more noble pedigree but he has a perfect untarnished pedigree
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in regards to the messianic prophecies that have been foretold about him here's the second point
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from our text Christ was born to be both savior and king both savior and king of the line of
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Abraham, he is his seed, the seed by which the nations would be blessed, that is saved.
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And Jesus is to be seated on the throne of David with a kingly ministry.
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Matthew Henry commentates on this point saying the following.
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It is not a vainglorious one, as those of great men commonly are.
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It is like a pedigree given in evidence to prove a title and make out a claim.
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The design is to prove that our Lord Jesus is the son of David and the son of Abraham.
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Therefore, of that nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise,
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Abraham and David were, in their day, the great trustees of the promise relating to the Messiah.
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The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed, but of the dominion to David and his seed.
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And they who would have an interest in Christ as the son of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are to be blessed,
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must be faithful, loyal subjects to Him as the Son of David
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by whom all the families of the earth are to be ruled.
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Sinless perfection in this life will not be attained.
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And those who say otherwise, I do believe that that is, in fact, a heresy.
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No one is attaining sinless perfection in this life.
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And so when we speak of things such as lordship salvation,
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The phrase, if he's not, you know, lord of all, he's not lord at all.
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Well, in the truest technical sense, no one can say in this life that Jesus is Lord of all because there are particular arenas and certain crevices of your heart that are still darkened by sin that have not been fully submitted to the Lordship of Christ.
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And what is sin but a rejection of the Lordship of Christ?
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If he was truly Lord of all, then you would have no sin.
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You would not continue to rebel against his lordship, against his kingship.
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And so we still struggle with sin in this life.
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The gospel, what Christ has done at Calvary is that he, for the Christian, for those who are born again,
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he is fully paid, not just partially, but in full, he has paid the penalty for our sin.
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And also by his death and resurrection, he has broken the power of sin.
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So the Christian still sins, but the Christian is no longer a slave.
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to sin but rather a slave to christ and so the power of sin has been broken the penalty of sin
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has been paid but the presence of sin still remains in this life now first john tells us
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when we see him speaking about the life to come that when we see him in heaven we shall be like
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him for we shall see him as he is like him in what regard like him in regard to his divinity
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Jesus is God. And when we see him, we'll be like him. We'll be God's too. No, it's not saying we'll
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be like him in every regard, but we will be like him particularly in regard to his sinlessness.
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That in heaven, not only is the power of sin broken, that's broken even now for the Christian.
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And not only is the penalty of sin paid, that's paid even now for the Christian. But in heaven,
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the life to come even the presence of sin will be done away with that sin will be no more
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Paul the apostle under the inspiration of the spirit in Romans chapter 7 he writes this
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he says so I find this law at work within the members of my being that what I want to do good
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I cannot carry this out and the evil that I do not want to do this I keep on doing oh what a
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wretched man I am who will save me and notice what he says it's particular on purpose who will
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save me from this body of death. See, his soul has already been saved. He has already been justified
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and his mind is being renewed by the word of God. He is being in the process of being sanctified,
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but he has not yet been glorified. And so he speaks to the salvation of his body. His mind is
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been saved. His soul has been saved, but his body will be saved. Who will save me, this body of mine?
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Because earlier in Romans 7, he says, sin still resides within the members of my being. That is
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the flesh. That within the members of my being, within the flesh, there is still a proclivity.
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there is still a leaning a bent towards temptation and sin and so long as the christian is in this
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life the penalty of sin has been paid justification the power of sin has been broken which opens the
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door not only to the possibility but the guarantee for the christian of the process of sanctification
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justification the soul is saved the penalty paid sanctification the mind is being renewed
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I don't want to be the guy that actually, actually,
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There is no such thing as having Christ as your Savior,
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absolutely true and if that's what's meant by the particular person who's espousing lordship
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salvation then you know you have my sword i'm with you but if it's meant to say that
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that sanctification must be complete in order to say that jesus is lord at all he's not lord at all
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as he is. So even the mere presence, penalty paid, power broken, but even the mere presence of sin
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will be done away with for the Christian on that day and the life to come. But it is not done away
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with now. So Jesus has in his pedigree Abraham and the salvific prophecy that the seed of Abraham
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would bless not only Israel, not only the genetic line of Abraham, but all the nations. And so he
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is born to be Savior. But you cannot sever or divorce the saving role of Christ from the kingly
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role of Christ. For in his lineage is not only Abraham, but also David. Not only Abraham, a father
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of many nations, but also David, who is a king. And it is promised that Jesus would sit upon his
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father David's throne and rule the nations in equity and in justice. And so the lordship of
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Christ and the saving messianic ministry of Christ are a package deal. You cannot get one without the
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other. And so then what does it mean to recognize and submit to the lordship of Christ? So as a
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confirmation, submitting and obeying Jesus' lordship does not garnish salvation, but it does
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in fact confirm salvation as an evidence of salvation and what does it mean to recognize
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the lordship and kingship of christ well it cannot mean in this life sinless perfection
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but it does have everything to do with a sanctified direction you're not going to achieve
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sinless perfection in this life but if you are saved right once saved always saved yes
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I believe it. But better said, if saved, always saved. And if you're truly saved, you will be
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constantly progressing in righteousness. Never attaining a perfect sinless state in this life,
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but constantly growing. Constantly growing. And that's why we have to be careful in the way that
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we address one another, in the ways that we challenge one another, in the ways that we spur
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one another on because very often this has been my temptation in my early years and i'm sure it
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can still be my temptation because c.a sinless perfection in this life we don't attain it that
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includes me but earlier in my ministry and even just my christian walk before being in a position
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of being a pastor here was the temptation that i often experienced whatever particular area
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if the Holy Spirit was convicting me of that particular sin,
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and I was growing in that area by the grace of God
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which is grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone,
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And that's not to say that we shouldn't hold one another accountable
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in multiple areas of life and ask those hard questions.
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it is true that sanctification is the confirmation of justification. That's true.
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But what we tend to do is we narrow and truncate sanctification down to one arena.
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And we don't say sanctification confirms justification. No, what we subtly say,
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and perhaps even subconsciously without even realizing it, what we say is sanctification
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in this one area is a confirmation of justification and then which area do we choose well we tend to
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choose whichever area we happen to be in the moment most passionate about so are you being
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sanctified like this oh you're not you're not doing well there and then we kind of chatty
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kathy gossip a little bit and go to other people i'm really and and how do you how do you gossip
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without feeling bad about committing the sin of gossip?
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It sounds like he's not doing really good in this area.
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Like six months ago, and then he had a radical conversion.
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he's never stolen since and he's working hard with his hands so that he might have something
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to give to others and like he's been radically changed in this area and 14 other areas but
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well that sanctification doesn't matter why well because the sanctification that matters to me is
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a truncated narrow simplistic sanctification the one that i happen to care about and this is why
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the lordship of christ and not the lordship of you is a blessing praise god that he's lord
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So Christ was born to be both a Savior and a King.
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that the saving ministry and kingly ministry of Christ
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is not only prophesied about in the proper specific sense,
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but even that is clearly displayed in Christ's own lineage.
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we see that he was born not merely to save and yet not rule and not merely to rule over those
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that he has no intent to save but that he is both savior and lord savior and lord and we find this
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throughout the genealogy but we find it as kind of the header it's almost the title of this
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particular passage that's what's emphasized right out of the gate is this the book verse one the
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book of the genealogy of jesus christ the son of david the son of abraham and then it begins with
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abraham and it gets all the way down to david and david all the way down to christ but the two people
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from the outset that are mentioned by name as the headers is abraham and david why because abraham
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signifies the salvific promise that his seed would bless all the peoples of the earth and david
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One final thing on this point, a clarification,
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which tends to be, you know, par for the course.
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But I said something, and then my mind caught it
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about 90 seconds after it came out of my mouth.
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we don't want to sever the saving ministry and the kingly ministry of christ and then i think i said
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i can't quite remember but i think i said in passing that um that there is no one that christ
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saves that he doesn't rule over as lord that's true but then i think i follow that statement by
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saying and there is no one that he rules that he did not intend to save that one's not true
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so just to clean that one up real quick just for the record um have you ever i've heard people say
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this back to the lordship salvation kind of concept they've said um savior of all but only
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lord of some that's actually false and in fact it's precisely the opposite of what's true did
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you know that in a truly biblical sense, in the truest sense, Jesus is Lord of all and only Savior
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of some. And to be fair and hopeful and accurate, not just to be hopeful for the sake of wanting to
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be hopeful, but because the Bible really does give us this hope, we could say that he's not only Lord
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of all and Savior of some, but we could say he's Lord of all and Savior of many. Many. And this is
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for another time, but I would argue that actually many in this case actually means in the technical
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truest sense, most actually do believe that the population of heaven, when it's all said and done,
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will outnumber and dwarf the population of hell. That was Charles Spurgeon's belief
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and many others. And I understand that that begs the question, but what about narrow
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I think there are particular meanings and timely meanings
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for the generation and the particular tribe and people that Christ came to.
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And in that generation and at that time, it was particularly narrow.
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That He came to His own, but they received Him not.
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But did you know that elsewhere, if you cross-reference from one gospel to the other,
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that same parable as Jesus giving the parable of the narrow gate, right?
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And the difficult way that few ever find, right?
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Well, surrounded by that same parable, if you cross-reference, I think it's over to Luke's gospel.
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Over in Luke's gospel, right underneath that, in the same chapter, in the same breath,
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it then goes and says, but many will come from east and west and the north and the south and
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sit at Abraham's table. And it gives the impression that it's actually not just many,
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which could be, I mean, you could have, say there's a total population of a thousand,
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300 is still many, but 300 is still the minority. It's not most. But in this case,
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the impression given is that the many comprise in a true technical numeric sense, most,
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but it's most when you pan out and get the 30,000 foot view of all the other nations outside of
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Israel coming to Abraham's table from the west and the east when all of them come you find that
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the narrow gate right that the wedding banquet that all these people were invited to initially
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but most of them didn't come they made up excuses and they refused the invitation
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they chose not to come who was that it was Israel according to the flesh that he came to his own but
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they received him not they rejected him but then all the servants are sent out by the king again
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and said the wedding hall must be filled so now go out and invite those who were not initially
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invited those who are who aren't exactly in the technical sense my people and then even further
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to the highways and the byways to where eventually the house is full and the reason that the house
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is full is not only because many come but i do believe in the proper sense that most come that
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is most of the human population of all nations. But I do believe that it was narrow, that few came
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in the case of Israel, particularly in that time, the time that Jesus appeared in his earthly
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ministry and his incarnation 2,000 years ago. So all that being said, Jesus is Lord of all.
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Because, you know, Paul Washer, one of the quotes that I appreciated very much and still appreciate
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from him from years ago i remember when i heard it he said jesus is lord if you are evangelizing
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bearing witness sharing the gospel and you encourage people you need to make jesus lord
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then technically theologically you're you're making a mistake no one makes jesus lord
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he is lord and washer goes on to say you can love him or hate him bless him or curse him but he's
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your lord whether you like it or not he's already lord but it'd be great if he was also your savior
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that's the only question at hand is is he your savior but he most certainly is your lord whether
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you submit to his lordship or not christ is lord because you know who makes him lord not you with
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your decisionism your revivalism your billy graham baptist crusade no no no you don't make him lord
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But God has made Him both Jesus, Savior, and Lord.
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God has bestowed, the Father has bestowed upon Him
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Lord, Christ, the Anointed One, and Lord, King, Ruler.
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That is the name that God chose to bestow upon His Son, Jesus, and He has set Him up.
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In Ephesians, I believe, chapter 1, verse 21 or 22,
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that God the Father has made Him, that is the Son, head of all things.
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It is not only that Jesus is head of the church,
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but God the Father is determined and through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ
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He's head of business. He's head of families. He's head of everything. He's head of constellations
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and galaxies. He's head of everything. Everything. But in his headship role, speaking of his authority,
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his kingship, he's head of everything. But in his headship, as it pertains to laying down his life
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to ransom and redeem, well, in that sense of being head, he is uniquely head of the church.
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there are plenty of Presbyterians that said it,
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He said, I cannot abide the idea, the doctrine, that our sovereign God who controls all things
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and has determined the end from the beginning would allow his opponent, the devil, to have the final laugh.
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And so the population of hell would be swallowed up in the masses of heaven
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each and every individual person who has ever lived.
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And if you're wondering, well, how could that work?
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Well, just for the record, if you're getting worried,
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what rock has Joel been living underneath? Does he not understand how rebellious the world is
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right now? So just to put you at ease, so that you don't think that I'm completely bonkers,
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if I had to guess, I would say that the current population of hell
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outnumbers the current population of heaven by a great landslide, by a magnitude of 10 times,
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and maybe more the reason why I think heaven will eventually out populate hell is because I think
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there's still time on the clock by the grace of God and not that that should be used for us to
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take excuse and to be lackadaisical or apathetic but that as the world continues to increase in
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its population as the cultural mandate continues to be fulfilled to be fruitful and multiply and
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fill the earth as we have both more people and as we see the gospel experience more victory and
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success in the hearts of people that eventually over time that the scales would turn that's why
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and that's why Spurgeon held that view as well even though he wasn't technically post-millennial
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but in his heart I think he was he didn't know it he is now he is now all right so Christ was
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born to be both Savior and King. You cannot have him as Savior without having him as Lord. And in
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this case, I mean submitting to his Lordship. Matthew Henry says elsewhere, those knees which
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will not bow will break. Those are your options. You can bow to his Lordship by grace in this life
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or your knees can break to his Lordship in the life to come. It will be by grace or it will be
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by force. Let it be by grace that we would bow and not just begrudgingly, but that we would bow
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joyfully, seeing his lordship as good, just as in the way that we see him being savior is good.
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So, too, him being Lord is good. Isaiah chapter nine, verse six and seven, it says this for unto
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us, a child is born to us, a son is given and the government, not just that he'll save, but the
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government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
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God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will
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be no end. On the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with
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justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of
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host will do this and so all this is explicitly prophesied in the book of isaiah but even in his
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genealogy and the pedigree of christ the symbolism is contained even in the first verse of the first
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chapter of the first gospel the gospel according to matthew it is seen that christ is the descendant
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of abraham but not only abraham but also david savior and king point number three christ was
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not of noble birth according to human standards. I've already explained this a little bit, so I'll
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do it briefly. A quote again here from Matthew Henry. He says this, among the ancestors of Christ
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who had brethren, generally he descended from a younger brother, such as Abraham himself was a
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younger brother, and was Jacob, and Judah, and David. And all this is to show the preeminence
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of Christ came not as that of earthly princes from the superiority of his ancestors, but rather
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from the will of God, who, according to the method of his providence, exalteth them of low degree and
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puts more abundant honor upon that part which lacked it. We saw that. That's Matthew Henry
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tipping the hat to 1 Corinthians chapter 12, which we looked at briefly last Lord's Day as we were
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looking at the importance of biblical church membership and in first corinthians chapter 12
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we we find the illustration of a body that the church is to be the body of christ that there is
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a belonging and covenanting with one another but in belonging as a community there's also then
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behaving in unison working as a body working in in concert with one another recognizing that there
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are different parts of the body there are arms there are legs and hands and feet and eyes and
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ears and finding your role and the gifts that the spirit has sovereignly deposited within you
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and then working joyfully and humbly with a larger body of christ both at the local level
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and in a sense with the invisible universal church at a global level the body of christ
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working together for the glory of the head which is christ himself and the good of all his people
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here on earth matthew henry is looking at that same principle of the body of christ at the end
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of this quote where he says i need to flip back over at the end of this quote where he says that
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he puts more abundant honor upon that part which lacked the apostle paul in first corinthians 12
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he talks about how there are some parts of the body that you know you might not be super stoked
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about playing that role it's like i'd like to be an eye i'd like to be an ear i you know i i don't
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know if i want to be an armpit you know that is just not you know i wouldn't pick that one you
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is that every part of the body is indispensable.
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that lack of honor is not highlighted or taken advantage of,
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And so too, we find this principle at work within the pedigree of Christ.
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That he was not of noble birth according to human standards,
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that he doesn't always come from the oldest son,
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but he comes at times from an even scandalous line.
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And when there are multiple brothers at play within a particular family,
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very often he comes from one of the younger brothers rather than the oldest because it is
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not the nobility of kings and oldest sons that gives christ his legitimacy but rather the will
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and providence of god lastly final point fourth and final point christ entered the old covenant
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and began the new covenant one final quote here from matthew henry he says the following
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Pharaohs and Zerah, the twin sons of Judah, are likewise both named. Now, they're not both the
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father of Christ. It's not possible. Only one of them begets the line that continues down to
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the Christ, and yet both are named. They're twins, twin sons of Judah, and likewise both are named,
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though Pharaohs only was Christ's ancestor. Now, it was Zerah who put out his hand first
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Faris and Zerah. So Zerah it is in labor who puts out his hand first as a firstborn, but drawing it
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in, there's a rejection. As it were, it's what's being symbolized here is it's like Zerah had the
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opportunity to be the firstborn, but of his own volition, he chose not to take it, withdrew his
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hand. And so Ferris got the birthright. Now, the Jewish church, Matthew Henry says, like Zerah,
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reached first at the birthright. But through their unbelief, withdrawing the hand, it was the Gentile
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church, like Ferris, that broke forth and went away with the birthright to the New Testament
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Christian church. Now, understanding this principle in light of Romans 11, and we don't have time for
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romans 11 sermon here today but i'll try to give a snippet romans chapter 11 verse 17 through 31
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this is the common passage that i think many christians even within the reformed tradition
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tend to struggle with it says this but if some of the branches were broken off and you
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this is paul speaking to the church at rome so gentiles but if some of the branches were broken
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off and you although a wild olive shoot were grafted in among the others and now share in
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the nourishing root of the olive tree and the nourishing root for the record is not Israel
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but rather Christ. Christ is the root. So if you now have been grafted in you're a wild olive shoot
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you didn't even belong to this tree and yet in the providence of God the natural branches were
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broken off due to their unbelief and you a wild olive shoot you now have been grafted into the
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root who is christ now verse 18 if that's what god did and he did it all by his sovereign grace
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not the will or work of man but by god's grace and mercy then what's the proper response do not
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be arrogant towards those natural branches if you are remember it is not you who support the root
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the branches don't support the root but the root supports you now you will say verse 19 branches
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were broken off so that I might be grafted in. That is true. They were broken off because of
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their unbelief. But you stand fast through faith. What sustains you? What provides a continual
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ongoing security that you really are grafted in and will remain grafted into the root who is
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Christ? Well, faith. The very thing that the natural branches lacked. They had unbelief and
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so they were broken off and cut off in unbelief but if you stand make sure that you don't fall
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do not be haughty lest you fall so do not become proud but rather fear a proper fear and reverence
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of god and a proper fear to the human condition and the depravity that remains the proclivity
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and tendency towards unbelief if left to our own will our own devices that we too would wander away
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from christ so fear god and in a healthy and rightful sense fear your own sin that still
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resides within the members of your being and stand in faith and not unbelief for if god did not spare
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the natural branches then neither will he spare you note then the kindness and severity of god
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severity towards those who have fallen but kindness to you provided that you continue in his kindness
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Otherwise, you too will be cut off and even they, that is the natural branches, old covenant Israel, even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted back in.
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For God has the power to graft them in again.
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For if you were cut off from what is by nature,
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or for if, yeah, for if you were cut from what by nature is a wild olive tree
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and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree,
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then how much more will these, the natural branches,
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I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers,
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A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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And in this way, all Israel will be saved.
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As it is written, the deliverer will come from Zion.
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And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
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As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake.
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But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
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For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, for just as you were at one time disobedient to God, but now have received mercy because of their disobedience.
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So they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you, they also may now receive mercy.
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Incredibly controversial passage with a million, million different interpretations.
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I'm just going to take a moment and give you mine.
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This idea, going back to the Matthew Henry quote,
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but then it's Pharis who actually gets the birthright.
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the Jewish church, like Zerah, reached first for the birthright, but through unbelief,
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withdrawing the hand, the Gentile church, like Pharaoh's, broke forth and went away with the
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birthright. And this is what we see in the genealogy of Christ. And it's certainly what we see
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explicitly in the earthly ministry and death and resurrection and ascension of Christ. We see that
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he comes to Israel and he is rejected by Israel. That Israel does not receive their Messiah, but
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rather chooses to crucify the Lord of glory. And I know that that's controversial. Well, the Jews
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didn't kill Jesus. Yes, they did. Yes, they did. Now, let's be honest, biblically speaking, like
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people say, well, nobody killed Jesus, right? Because in John 17, in the Garden of Gethsemane,
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he says, no one takes my life from me. I lay it down. Uh-huh. That's also true. And I could also
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say, well, who killed Jesus? The father killed Jesus, right? Acts chapter 4, he was pleased to
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crush him. Everything that your hand and your plan predestined to take place. So the father killed
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Jesus. Jesus killed Jesus because he laid down his life freely. You killed Jesus by your sin
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in the theological and ultimate sense. The Romans killed Jesus in the technical, physical sense by
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driving the nails to his hands. And also the Jews killed Jesus by saying, crucify him, give us
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barabbas but keep him and nail him to a tree so all these are theologically true statements however
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maybe it's just my personality but i tend to want to emphasize the one that might become illegal
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all these statements are true but if you're telling me that one of these statements might
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become illegal to say then yeah i'm going to emphasize that one so i'm not saying it's only
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in a theological sense the jews that killed jesus but right now 2024 given the lay of the land
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Yeah, that's the one you're going to see me on Twitter,
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Because that's what the precise thing you're being told you can't say.
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I would say two of those statements are offensive.
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The Romans, they drove the nails to his hands.
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i've never heard anybody who's offended by that so only two are offensive which two you killed
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jesus by your sin that one that one stings a little bit it's offensive and the jews killed
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jesus politically culturally that that one's offensive so there's five statements all five
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are true two are offensive and one could become illegal so i'm going to emphasize these two
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and especially the one that's you know i am insufferable in that way i i hate to you know
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so some of you are new you're like what kind of what kind of personality does this pastor have
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there you have it for better or for worse that that is my personality so all that being said
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then did god forsake his promise then what happened this is incredibly controversial and
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requires a lot of time to theologically tease and explain there are multiple views at work and i
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don't have time to do it now but i'm going to do the short version i believe that romans 11 as a
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partial preterist preterist just means it's latin it means past or fulfilled so the same kind of
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hermeneutic. Hermeneutic is how you read the Bible and study the Bible. The same hermeneutic
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that allows me to be post-millennial in my eschatology, have a hopeful eschatology. All
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the stuff I said earlier about heaven out populating hell. The same hermeneutic that
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allows me to have a post-millennial eschatology is the same hermeneutic that allows me to read
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Romans chapter 11 in a particular light. Which light? Well, specifically a partial preterist
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line. Partial meaning not everything, not every prophecy in Scripture has been fulfilled.
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I do see some prophecies in Scripture, like the end of the book of Revelation, as being in our
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future, right? There is, for instance, I'll just name a big one. I absolutely affirm a future,
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in our future, final physical return of Christ. So hyper-preterism or full preterism that
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everything's already been fulfilled, I believe is seriously problematic, if not even potentially
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heretical. So I reject hyper-preterism, everything's fulfilled, or full preterism, I am a partial
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preterist. That is, I read the book of Revelation saying that towards the end of the book, the last
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couple chapters, that's in our future, but the majority of the book is not something that's
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going to happen next Thursday and we'll find it in the news. But instead, the majority of the book
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as something that already happened primarily in AD 70 in the judgment of Israel that Jesus
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prophesied. Jesus himself. And here's part of the beauty of it. Part of what my inclination and
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leaning towards this interpretation, this hermeneutic of scripture, is because I don't
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want Jesus to be a false prophet. Assuming, right? I'm a Christian. I'm a pastor. I'm pro-Jesus.
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can't help it you know and and being pro jesus doesn't always help with 2024 pro israel stance
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sometimes those things kind of directly contradict directly contradict and so in being pro jesus one
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of the things that i want to defend is not the modern state of israel but rather what i want to
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defend is jesus and one of the things i want to defend jesus against is the charge and accusation
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that he was a false prophet and one of the things that jesus prophesied not just one but one of the
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chief, most fantastic, incredible, insane prophecies that Jesus ever made in his earthly
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ministry 2,000 years ago is in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 when Jesus says, I tell you the
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truth, all these things will happen before this generation passes away. And I know that it's fun
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to be cute and say, well, this generation is a metaphor and it means this type of generation,
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a generation of unbelief that rejects Christ. And so there'll always be unbelieving people all the
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way until the very end of time and jesus final physical return or here's a fun one maybe he just
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actually meant that generation maybe he meant this generation and jewish customs the generation was
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40 years and what happened exactly exactly according to the prophecy of jesus 40 years
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after he said he said you see this temple i tell you the truth not one stone will be left on another
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all these things will take place jesus even says that on that day that there will be a coming of
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the lord right so we think oh well this is the second final physical return of christ but jesus
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even says when he talks about this coming he says don't go back into your house or get your cloak or
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this or that but run well why would he say run because other portions of scripture talk about
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the wrath of the lamb talking about the final judgment and coming of christ and says that
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there's nowhere to run you can't escape it but in matthew 24 this is a local judgment it's not
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worldwide. It's a look. Jesus is going to come, not physically, but the second coming in a spiritual
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sense. And he would come on the clouds. Joel chapter two talks about clouds. It's not like
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baby angels playing harps on pretty clouds, but it's the clouds signify billows of smoke and
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judgment, desolation. And so what Jesus is saying is, I tell you the truth within 40 years in a
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literal sense, before this generation passes away, the same generation that cries out, crucify him
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that is through providence and through agency and he did that with titus who later became
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the emperor destroyed the jewish temple and all of this came to pass and i personally of the
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persuasion there are others who hold to this view that the spiritual revival that is prophesied and
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i do think that there's a spiritual revival that is being spoken to in romans chapter 11 it says
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well that they they received him not the natural branches their unbelief so they're broken off
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and then the wild olive shoot, that is the Gentiles, replace and they're grafted in.
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And that's what happened. Israel rejected Christ. And then for the next 40 years, what happens?
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A ton of people get saved. Who? Gentiles. The Israelites, by and large, continue to reject
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Christ. Now, I'm not saying none of them get saved. And that's why Romans 11 particularly
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says a partial hardening. Doesn't say complete. But this is not speaking of individuals being
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snip snap snip snap you know broken off grafted in grow but no that's not a thing right c.8 once
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saved always saved if saved always if you're a christian as an individual person with a regenerate
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heart you can't be broken off he is the vine john 15 you are the branches and once you've been grafted
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in you're there and the same grace that saves you will be faithful to keep you so this is speaking
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of election grafting in and breaking off but in a corporate sense a national covenantal sense not
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of individual people, but of peoples. And so Israel, not as one individual Jew, but the Jewish
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people in a corporate sense, in a, in a corporate election, Jesus came, they hated him, they rejected
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him. And due to their unbelief, which had already been, I mean, they'd been working on this for
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hundreds of years, right? For hundreds of years, Israel was already, you know, steeped in unbelief.
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from the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ
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leading up to AD 70, the natural branches, that is Israel, corporately, there's a partial hardening
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some belief under the apostles' preaching. Many do not. But with the Gentiles, they're flocking in,
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flooding into the Christian gospel, flooding into the Christian church, that one of the sons
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sticks out his hand, but then withdraws it in unbelief. That son is Israel. But then the other
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son he receives the birthright that is the gentile christian church but then leading up to 80 70
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here's the deal jesus his one of his greatest prophecies in matthew 24 the all that discourse
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it actually comes to pass did you know that's one of the chief gotchas that atheists use
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atheists all the time you can find debates between christians and atheists and they'll say well jesus
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isn't really the son of god and the bible is not really a sacred text and and you'll say well why
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and one of the evidences that they'll say is what jesus said before this generation passes away
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these things will take place. You know what the answer is? The answer is not to get cute and say,
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well, it's a metaphor. No, the answer is to say, actually, it did. Exactly what he said would
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happen, happened in the literal, physical, actual sense, and at the actual time that he said it
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would happen. This generation, 40 years, that means that those who handed him over to Pilate
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and Rome to be crucified, those who yelled, crucify him, the very same people, those Jewish
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people of that generation they looked upon Jesus as he was crucified and then they also in a
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spiritual sense saw Jesus coming on the clouds of desolation 40 years later in 80 70 and the
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destruction of everything that they cherished because of their sin because of their rebellion
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God brought the consequence and judgment and here's the hopeful part in accordance with Romans 11
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I believe that many according to the flesh many of Israel not in the spiritual sense you and I
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are Israel in the true spiritual sense but many of Israel according to the flesh at that time 80 70
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they saw they remembered the sermon of Jesus in Matthew 24 and then they saw its fulfillment in
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80 70 and they said oh my goodness we crucified the Lord of glory let us repent of our sins and
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believe and I believe that many in Israel came to saving faith so that the land promises the idea
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of well Israel has to have a nation state or whatever you know because this is the fulfillment
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of prophecy. Come on, Boomer. You've got to move past the dispensational premillennialism.
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I understand that you watched the Left Behind movies. I know they were fun, but we've got to
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move on. The land promises. No, that's not a thing. Not in our future. It was a thing and God fulfilled
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it and it's done. It's done. Now, the spiritual, but at least the spiritual promises, right? So
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not the land promise, but the spiritual promises that that Israel is going to to get saved, that
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there's going to be a spiritual revival among Israel. That one I'm not going to be as as mean
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about, but I will tell you my conviction. I believe that that one's done, too. I believe that God has
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fulfilled the physical promises to Abraham, see the land promises. In fact, you can read it verbatim
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word for word at the end of the book of Joshua says everything that God promised through the
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prophet moses came to pass that they got the land from this river to that sea to this valley to that
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mountain they got it all it is not as though god changed his mind it is not as though god lied it
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is not as though god failed to keep his promise god promised he fulfilled it israel did what
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israel does best they lost it they lost it so on them it's not on god and the same thing spiritually
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God promised even in the rejection of my own son, right?
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no, no, no, you can't gather the fruit of our labor
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Well, surely after beating and sending all my servants away,
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surely if I send my own son, they'll respect him.
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So I'll send Jesus to my vineyard, Israel.
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and surely, surely the ones working in the vineyard
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No, instead what they say is, this is the heir,
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And if you tell me that that's anti-Semitic, then the problem is that I'm going to say it louder now.
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You tell me I can't say it, and now I'm going to say it more.
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And the reason why it matters, but there's all these things in which, you know.
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It must be said that Israel rejected the Messiah.
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Because if not, then you lose the meaning of Jesus' prophecies, of Jesus' parables.
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You lose the meaning of the Son of God and what he taught.
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You sit there and you can push this button or that button.
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The other button is don't call Jesus a false prophet.
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Paul's looking with a 15 year timeline and saying in 80, 55, leading up to 80, 70, the end of this
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generation, just like Jesus said in Matthew 24, guess what's going to happen? His judgment,
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desolation, but also in his judgment, his mercy. And those natural branches that rejected the root
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who is Christ, not Moses, not Abraham, but the true sense, the root is Christ. And they rejected
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the root and they were broken off in unbelief. But as we get closer to the fulfillment of Jesus
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prophecies in Matthew 24, the desolation, the clouds, the judgment, that judgment will be used
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in God's justice as a consequence for their unbelief and the crucifying of the Messiah.
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But God, who is just, is also merciful and he will give faith to many according to the flesh.
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Many of those natural branches will change their mind, that is, repent and say, we crucified the
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lord of glory we're sorry forgive us of our sins and they would put faith in jesus christ and it
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wouldn't just be gentiles coming in the wild olive branches but now the natural branches also being
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grafted in a beautiful picture of harmony and the salvation of the world and the gospel and it
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happened 1950 years ago so now get over it it's all beautiful it's all biblical it's all glorious
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now that doesn't mean that you hate the nation state of israel i'm not saying that and i'm
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certainly not on team sodomites for palestine just to be clear okay there's not really two
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you know given these choices these are bad options like would you like to have vomit or diarrhea
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neither really is there is there a third choice here so i'm not advocating for like taking the
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political side of one and political side. But what I am advocating for is this as it pertains to
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Christianity. It is not Judeo-Christianity. Judeo-Christianity is an oxymoron. It is a
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psyop. It is just Christianity. The church is Israel. We are grafted in and those according
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to the flesh the the invitation was warmly held out and i believe that they actually in the final
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analysis in 80 70 they accepted the invitation and came in and now what's going on so how should the
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christian think about israel my my suggestion and counsel to you not telling you through command
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what to do but my counsel is this i think you should think about israel that is the modern
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seat of israel in a few ways number one not as old covenant israel in the bible these are two i
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believe two different groups i don't believe it's the same people i don't i know it's controversial
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i don't okay secondly um because of that and because these prophecies are already fulfilled
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it was in paul's future but long in our past i think you should view israel in the same way that
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you would view any other country. That we still send missionaries. We still preach the gospel.
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We still pray for salvation. All these things. But you view Israel as you would view Russia,
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or as you would view the Sudan, or as you would view Uganda or Brazil. That they are a people
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who need to be saved with one distinction. Here's the last distinction I would add.
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I do think that you could view modern state of Israel as being uniquely hostile towards the
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Christian gospel. So needing salvation, just like any other nation, but uniquely hostile in the
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sense that out of, I know there are particular Christian cults that might be terrible, absolutely
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terrible, but in terms of major world religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Talmudic Judaism,
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the truth about Jesus and if you prescribe to their religion, you'll go to hell.
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But it's kind of unique for a major world religion to not just say
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he's not God, but he's still a prophet, he's still worthy of respect.
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Talmudic Judaism doesn't say that. Talmudic Judaism
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There is no major world religion that hates
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and somehow they they have this christian adjacent category that was theologically carved
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out for them 150 years ago with schofield and darby and and and what it's equated to is our
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greatest allies but really one-sided relationship and billions of dollars going overseas meanwhile
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our own children, neglected, no southern border, no America first, this is not, here's the point,
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you know, ideas have consequences, you've heard that phrase, bad theology has consequences,
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and the American church has been living underneath the consequences of bad theology in multiple ways,
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Arminianism, feminism, it's not like this is the only thing, but this one is a big one,
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And right now, as we seek to repudiate the evils of feminism and repudiate Arminianism and decisionism and all these isms, I'm with you.
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But if I constantly rail on feminism and uphold the patriarchy, because it's in the good book, but I never rail on Talmudic Judaism, then I'm a shill.
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father thank you for your word bless it to your people for christ's sake amen okay we're going
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to continue to worship the lord now through song uh if you would join me in standing if you are a
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follower of the lord jesus christ i would like to invite you as we worship the lord through song