The NXR Podcast - THE SERMON - The Genealogy Of Jesus

00:00:00.000 Amen. All right, let's stand for the reading of God's Word. Our text for today is Matthew chapter

00:00:06.100 1 verses 1 through 17. Again, that's Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 17. I'll read our

00:00:11.600 text in its entirety. When I finish reading the text, I'm going to say this is the Word of the

00:00:15.120 Lord, at which point I would appreciate very much if you would respond by saying thanks be to God.

00:00:19.580 One final time, our text for this morning is Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 17. The Bible

00:00:24.940 says this, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

00:00:30.720 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah

00:00:35.480 and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez, and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron,

00:00:42.440 and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nashon,

00:00:47.800 and Nashon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of

00:00:54.520 Obed by Ruth. And Obed the father of Jesse. And Jesse the father of David the king. And David was

00:01:00.880 the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah. And Solomon the father of Rehoboam. And Rehoboam the

00:01:06.840 father of Abijah. And Abijah the father of Asaph. And Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat

00:01:13.100 the father of Joram. And Joram the father of Uzziah. And Uzziah the father of Jotham. And Jotham the

00:01:19.080 father of Ahaz. And Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. And Hezekiah the father of Manasseh.

00:01:24.520 and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah

00:01:30.280 and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon. And after the deportation to Babylon,

00:01:36.520 Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father

00:01:42.560 of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father

00:01:49.160 of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of

00:01:55.660 Eliezer, and Eliezer the father of Mathen, and Mathen the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father

00:02:01.220 of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. So all the generations

00:02:07.460 from Abraham to David were 14 generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, 14 0.77

00:02:14.180 generations and from the deportation to babylon to the christ 14 generations this is the word of

00:02:21.280 the lord all right please be seated i just gotta stop for a second i nailed it praise god praise

00:02:32.380 god i was working on that this morning at breakfast my my daughters heard me you know

00:02:35.980 reading it over and over and over genealogies are tough we got it praise god w's in the chat all

00:02:41.700 All right. So a few things that we want to draw out of the genealogy today. I don't want to just

00:02:46.100 skip it and pick up, you know, with verse 18 and the story of the birth of Christ and Mary and

00:02:51.800 Joseph, all scriptures God breathed and it's all useful for our training, rebuking and correction

00:02:57.600 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

00:03:01.960 for a reason. There's a few things that I want to draw out. So here are kind of four different

00:03:06.200 points that, by God's grace, I hope to highlight from this genealogy today. The first is this.

00:03:12.280 Christ received a legitimate pedigree from both his father and his mother. Both his father and

00:03:19.620 his mother. On both sides of the family, we see the genealogy of Christ that is in keeping with

00:03:25.740 all the messianic prophecies. A legitimate pedigree, a messianic pedigree, from both the

00:03:31.980 father joseph according to the flesh human father and his mother mary second christ was born to be

00:03:39.120 both savior and king and both of these things are prophetically highlighted and pronounced

00:03:46.500 displayed not only by what christ himself says or by prophets such as isaiah who who prophesied that

00:03:53.680 the kingly rule of jesus as well as the blessings of of a christ in his role as savior it's not just

00:04:01.180 that there were particular prophecies about jesus being savior and about jesus also being king but

00:04:07.960 even in his pedigree even in his genealogy and his ancestry we see that that is displayed it's

00:04:15.180 manifest uh in two particular ways one in the sense that he is the seed of abraham and through

00:04:21.720 that seed it was said that all the nations of the world would be blessed and blessed eternally so

00:04:26.980 in a salvific sense.

00:04:28.560 So there's the Savior piece.

00:04:30.360 He is the seed, the son of Abraham.

00:04:33.160 But He is not merely son of Abraham.

00:04:35.340 He is also son of David.

00:04:37.720 David the king.

00:04:39.280 And so Christ was born to be Savior,

00:04:41.300 the seed of Abraham,

00:04:42.360 through whom all the nations would be blessed.

00:04:44.280 But He was also born to be king,

00:04:45.980 the son of David,

00:04:46.800 to sit on David's throne

00:04:48.700 in the truest spiritual and eternal sense

00:04:51.400 to rule the nations with a rod of iron.

00:04:54.540 And of the government,

00:04:55.920 of His government,

00:04:56.980 there would be no end the increase of his government would continue to expand so he is both

00:05:02.120 savior and king he is savior and lord so we'll see that third point in our genealogy today is that

00:05:10.340 christ was not of noble birth that is according to human standards he is not of noble birth

00:05:17.660 according to human standards within the genealogy of christ we find ruth a moabitess a pagan

00:05:25.440 worshiper of a foreign land. We find Rahab, the prostitute. We also find that Jesus is not always, 0.98

00:05:34.400 he doesn't come from a line, an ancestry of always being the firstborn. In fact, whenever there are

00:05:40.920 brothers mentioned in the genealogy of Christ, it is usually, more often than not, one of the younger

00:05:47.840 brothers who actually carries this messianic line instead of the oldest think judah judah is the

00:05:54.860 fourth born of of jacob he's not first he's not second he's not third or a better example would

00:06:02.920 be thinking of king david himself in the case of his father jesse right samuel the prophet comes

00:06:09.840 to anoint the next king because god has has prophetically spoken to samuel that saul is

00:06:14.840 going to be removed. And not only Saul, but his entire lineage is going to be removed because of 0.59

00:06:19.620 his unbelief, because of his sin. And so God leads him to the tribe of Benjamin, to the house of 0.69

00:06:26.080 Jesse and Samuel instinctively. And he wasn't wrong for thinking this or assuming this. He was

00:06:32.260 objectively wrong, but it was a decent sense for him to have. He thinks it's going to be the first

00:06:39.020 born of Jesse. And when God says no and passes over Jesse's first born, well, then surely it's

00:06:45.320 the second. No. The third. Surely the third. No. The fourth. No. And it keeps going and going and

00:06:53.320 going. It gets all the way down to David. And so the third point that we'll find in the case of

00:06:58.960 some of the mothers, whether it be Bathsheba, the wife of murdered Uriah, and the nature of which

00:07:07.300 child, right? Which child is it of David that continues to carry the line? David had more than

00:07:13.380 one wife. It could have been a wife that David had acquired by more ethical means than the case of

00:07:18.960 Bathsheba involving adultery and murder of her husband Uriah. And yet God carries the messianic

00:07:27.020 line, the lineage of Christ through Bathsheba and her son Solomon. Or Ruth, the Moabitess, as I've

00:07:35.140 already said a Rahab you know in Jericho a Canaanite a prostitute in all these ways the line 0.98

00:07:42.060 of Christ is surprising and it is not noble it is he is the son of David David was a king that's 0.86

00:07:50.040 noble right he's the son of Abraham Abraham is the one who God created this great people Israel

00:07:55.920 under the old covenant that there's nobility there so it's not insignificant and yet at the same time

00:08:02.140 there are marks of nobility, such as Abraham and David, and that's what's highlighted. Those two

00:08:07.720 heads, representatives, are highlighted at the very beginning of Matthew, in the beginning of our text

00:08:12.720 today. But when we get into the details, when we get into the weeds, you have kind of two big

00:08:18.780 placeholders of Abraham and David. But when we get more particular, underneath those headers of

00:08:23.840 Abraham and David, we find several, not just one, but several examples, whether it be Rahab, whether

00:08:30.040 it be Ruth, whether it be Judah as the fourthborn and Judah's sin in the case of Tamar, or whether

00:08:35.980 it be David being far down, the youngest of his brothers. In all these ways, we find that Jesus

00:08:42.260 is the Christ, but he is not the result of noble birth according to human standards. He doesn't

00:08:50.180 only come from kings like David and only come from an untarnished line of firstborn sons,

00:08:56.460 but he comes from a line that is mixed at certain points with foreign nations and idolaters.

00:09:03.560 He comes from a line that is noble and kingly like David,

00:09:06.720 and yet at other times of poor origins.

00:09:10.220 And he doesn't only come from firstborn sons,

00:09:12.940 but in some cases from the fourthborn son or even more so.

00:09:17.980 So Christ was not of noble birth, at least not by human standards.

00:09:22.840 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.

00:09:33.040 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.

00:09:44.240 and some of the illustration that he draws and the symbolism

00:09:48.100 in the case of Pharaoh and Zerah and these two twins

00:09:52.580 and that this actually in a prophetic sense symbolizes the ripping away of the kingdom 0.98

00:09:58.500 from the house of Israel and it being granted to the Gentiles

00:10:05.640 in the inauguration of the new covenant. 0.93

00:10:08.860 The ending and rolling up, wrapping up like a garment this old covenant

00:10:12.620 and then the revealing and inauguration and unveiling of the new covenant.

00:10:20.200 So that's the fourth point that I hope to illustrate today

00:10:23.640 is that Christ ended the old covenant, began the new covenant,

00:10:27.000 and even this is not only seen in the words of Christ

00:10:30.480 or further espoused and exegeted in the apostles' epistles

00:10:38.860 later on in the New Testament,

00:10:41.000 but even this is contained in symbolic seed form in Christ's genealogy itself.

00:10:48.420 All right, so here we go.

00:10:49.600 First point, Christ received a legitimate pedigree from both his father and mother.

00:10:53.940 I'm going to be using Matthew Henry throughout all four of these points today as our primary commentary.

00:10:59.660 He says this,

00:11:00.220 This line is brought down not to Mary, the mother of our Lord, but to Joseph, the husband of Mary, 0.97

00:11:07.220 for the Jews always reckoned their genealogies by the males, the father, and yet it's important

00:11:14.360 for us to recognize Mary was of the same tribe and family with Joseph, so that both by his mother,

00:11:21.340 that is Jesus' mother, Mary, and by his earthly father, that is Joseph, he was of the house of

00:11:29.780 David. So right at the outset, one of the questions that I had in the past, I remember as I was

00:11:35.660 thinking about the genealogy of Jesus, I remember, you know, a few years back thinking, well, I

00:11:40.160 understand that they're tracking it by the father, but Jesus, you know, Joseph was, Joseph fathered

00:11:47.900 him, but he is not the, you know, the genetic seed of Joseph because he has no father in that

00:11:55.940 sense of procreation because Mary gave birth to Jesus as she conceived by the Holy Spirit.

00:12:02.680 So Joseph was Jesus' earthly father, but he doesn't come from, Jesus does not come from Joseph's lineage.

00:12:10.980 He doesn't carry Joseph's genetic code.

00:12:14.340 The only human code that he carries is on the mother's side, Mary, because again,

00:12:19.040 Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary before she had union with any earthly man.

00:12:26.380 And so I understand that in the tradition you would follow a genealogy, a lineage on the father's side with the males.

00:12:35.520 And as it pertains to Joseph, Joseph really does have in his ancestry David and Abraham and all of this.

00:12:42.920 And Joseph is the human father in an earthly sense of Jesus.

00:12:47.440 And so that makes sense.

00:12:48.400 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.

00:13:04.500 He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

00:13:06.600 Well, the solution for that, it's a very simple solution and not everybody is aware of it,

00:13:12.780 but for your own information, for your knowledge, it's important to know that's tracking in this

00:13:17.880 genealogy. What we're tracking is the male. So you're tracking Joseph, but Mary is actually of

00:13:25.520 the same house. So any way you slice it, whether you go through Joseph or whether you're playing

00:13:30.020 the devil's advocate and say, yeah, but Joseph isn't the biological father. He's the earthly

00:13:34.660 father. He raises him, but he's not the biological father of Jesus. The only biological human parent

00:13:40.480 that Jesus has is Mary. And so tracking Joseph and proving that he's of the house of David and that 0.60

00:13:45.800 he is from the line of Abraham, that doesn't really do it for me. Well, guess what? So is Mary,

00:13:49.840 both of them. So that's point one. Jesus has an outstanding pedigree in that sense. But in point

00:13:57.440 three, when we get there here in just a moment, we'll find that in the human sense, according to

00:14:02.280 human sensibilities Jesus does not have the noble pedigree that you would expect of the king of

00:14:08.880 kings you would expect him to have a more noble pedigree but he has a perfect untarnished pedigree

00:14:16.040 in regards to the messianic prophecies that have been foretold about him here's the second point

00:14:23.480 from our text Christ was born to be both savior and king both savior and king of the line of

00:14:31.300 Abraham, he is his seed, the seed by which the nations would be blessed, that is saved.

00:14:36.600 But also he is the son of David.

00:14:39.660 And David was the king. 0.92

00:14:41.120 And Jesus is to be seated on the throne of David with a kingly ministry. 0.95

00:14:48.300 Not only savior, but also king. 0.88

00:14:50.660 He is prophet, priest, and king.

00:14:52.960 Matthew Henry commentates on this point saying the following.

00:14:56.500 It is not an endless or needless genealogy.

00:14:59.860 It is not a vainglorious one, as those of great men commonly are.

00:15:06.000 It is like a pedigree given in evidence to prove a title and make out a claim.

00:15:12.120 The design is to prove that our Lord Jesus is the son of David and the son of Abraham.

00:15:18.760 Therefore, of that nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise,

00:15:24.300 Abraham and David were, in their day, the great trustees of the promise relating to the Messiah.

00:15:31.740 The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed, but of the dominion to David and his seed.

00:15:39.260 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, 0.51

00:15:47.000 must be faithful, loyal subjects to Him as the Son of David

00:15:51.500 by whom all the families of the earth are to be ruled.

00:15:55.900 It's both. It is both.

00:15:58.040 You cannot merely have Jesus as your Savior,

00:16:01.900 but reject Christ as Lord.

00:16:05.360 Now, nobody follows Christ in this life,

00:16:09.000 in His Lordship, with perfection.

00:16:12.120 Sinless perfection in this life will not be attained.

00:16:17.000 And those who say otherwise, I do believe that that is, in fact, a heresy.

00:16:22.800 No one is attaining sinless perfection in this life.

00:16:26.760 And so when we speak of things such as lordship salvation,

00:16:31.400 the phrase has to be carefully explained.

00:16:36.060 The phrase, if he's not, you know, lord of all, he's not lord at all.

00:16:41.900 Have you ever heard that?

00:16:42.720 If he's not lord of all, he's not lord at all.

00:16:45.580 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.

00:17:03.960 In other words, you still sin.

00:17:06.600 And what is sin but a rejection of the Lordship of Christ?

00:17:10.380 If he was truly Lord of all, then you would have no sin.

00:17:15.060 You would not continue to rebel against his lordship, against his kingship.

00:17:19.860 And so we still struggle with sin in this life.

00:17:22.600 The gospel, what Christ has done at Calvary is that he, for the Christian, for those who are born again,

00:17:28.140 he is fully paid, not just partially, but in full, he has paid the penalty for our sin.

00:17:34.860 And also by his death and resurrection, he has broken the power of sin.

00:17:40.100 So the Christian still sins, but the Christian is no longer a slave.

00:17:45.060 to sin but rather a slave to christ and so the power of sin has been broken the penalty of sin

00:17:51.460 has been paid but the presence of sin still remains in this life now first john tells us

00:17:58.900 when we see him speaking about the life to come that when we see him in heaven we shall be like

00:18:05.560 him for we shall see him as he is like him in what regard like him in regard to his divinity

00:18:13.160 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

00:18:18.520 be like him in every regard, but we will be like him particularly in regard to his sinlessness.

00:18:25.700 That in heaven, not only is the power of sin broken, that's broken even now for the Christian. 0.95

00:18:31.420 And not only is the penalty of sin paid, that's paid even now for the Christian. But in heaven, 0.89

00:18:37.280 the life to come even the presence of sin will be done away with that sin will be no more

00:18:44.200 Paul the apostle under the inspiration of the spirit in Romans chapter 7 he writes this

00:18:49.840 he says so I find this law at work within the members of my being that what I want to do good

00:18:55.980 I cannot carry this out and the evil that I do not want to do this I keep on doing oh what a

00:19:01.440 wretched man I am who will save me and notice what he says it's particular on purpose who will

00:19:06.840 save me from this body of death. See, his soul has already been saved. He has already been justified

00:19:14.160 and his mind is being renewed by the word of God. He is being in the process of being sanctified,

00:19:20.680 but he has not yet been glorified. And so he speaks to the salvation of his body. His mind is

00:19:28.780 been saved. His soul has been saved, but his body will be saved. Who will save me, this body of mine?

00:19:37.660 Because earlier in Romans 7, he says, sin still resides within the members of my being. That is

00:19:44.780 the flesh. That within the members of my being, within the flesh, there is still a proclivity.

00:19:51.440 there is still a leaning a bent towards temptation and sin and so long as the christian is in this

00:19:59.320 life the penalty of sin has been paid justification the power of sin has been broken which opens the

00:20:05.540 door not only to the possibility but the guarantee for the christian of the process of sanctification

00:20:11.100 justification the soul is saved the penalty paid sanctification the mind is being renewed

00:20:18.120 the mind is being renewed

00:20:20.580 and you are being saved

00:20:22.740 a present ongoing

00:20:24.200 present continual sense

00:20:25.740 of being saved

00:20:27.300 but lastly

00:20:28.160 the body will be saved

00:20:30.500 that's not justification

00:20:31.740 or sanctification

00:20:32.900 but speaking of

00:20:34.300 a future glorification

00:20:36.940 and right now for the Christian 1.00

00:20:38.680 the presence of sin

00:20:40.460 still remains

00:20:42.100 in the sense that sin still resides

00:20:44.220 within the members of our being

00:20:45.840 that is our bodies

00:20:46.920 our flesh

00:20:48.580 Our flesh.

00:20:51.620 Now, I've got to remember how I got here.

00:20:53.640 Lordship, salvation.

00:20:54.960 There it is.

00:20:56.540 So He's not Lord of all.

00:20:58.040 He's not Lord at all.

00:21:00.420 I understand the general sentiment.

00:21:03.300 And I don't want to constantly, you know,

00:21:04.680 I don't want to be the guy that actually, actually,

00:21:07.740 I understand.

00:21:11.000 There is no such thing as having Christ as your Savior,

00:21:15.240 but rejecting Christ as your Lord.

00:21:17.240 absolutely true and if that's what's meant by the particular person who's espousing lordship

00:21:23.640 salvation then you know you have my sword i'm with you but if it's meant to say that

00:21:33.400 that sanctification must be complete in order to say that jesus is lord at all he's not lord at all

00:21:40.960 unless He's Lord of all,

00:21:43.000 every particular idol in your life

00:21:45.340 being smashed,

00:21:47.140 full repentance,

00:21:49.220 perfect faith,

00:21:50.960 well, then Jesus isn't Lord of anyone.

00:21:54.040 Because sinless perfection, again,

00:21:56.080 is not attained in this life.

00:21:58.640 It will be attained

00:22:00.120 when we see Him.

00:22:01.880 We will be like Him,

00:22:03.080 not in terms of His deity,

00:22:04.700 but in terms of His righteousness,

00:22:06.520 His sinlessness.

00:22:07.540 When we see Him,

00:22:08.280 we will be like Him,

00:22:09.720 for we shall see Him.

00:22:10.960 as he is. So even the mere presence, penalty paid, power broken, but even the mere presence of sin

00:22:17.180 will be done away with for the Christian on that day and the life to come. But it is not done away

00:22:24.120 with now. So Jesus has in his pedigree Abraham and the salvific prophecy that the seed of Abraham

00:22:33.080 would bless not only Israel, not only the genetic line of Abraham, but all the nations. And so he

00:22:40.280 is born to be Savior. But you cannot sever or divorce the saving role of Christ from the kingly 1.00

00:22:49.320 role of Christ. For in his lineage is not only Abraham, but also David. Not only Abraham, a father 0.67

00:22:58.300 of many nations, but also David, who is a king. And it is promised that Jesus would sit upon his

00:23:07.700 father David's throne and rule the nations in equity and in justice. And so the lordship of

00:23:14.100 Christ and the saving messianic ministry of Christ are a package deal. You cannot get one without the

00:23:21.180 other. And so then what does it mean to recognize and submit to the lordship of Christ? So as a

00:23:26.600 confirmation, submitting and obeying Jesus' lordship does not garnish salvation, but it does

00:23:32.860 in fact confirm salvation as an evidence of salvation and what does it mean to recognize

00:23:39.260 the lordship and kingship of christ well it cannot mean in this life sinless perfection

00:23:45.060 but it does have everything to do with a sanctified direction you're not going to achieve

00:23:52.240 sinless perfection in this life but if you are saved right once saved always saved yes

00:23:57.700 I believe it. But better said, if saved, always saved. And if you're truly saved, you will be

00:24:05.980 constantly progressing in righteousness. Never attaining a perfect sinless state in this life,

00:24:13.820 but constantly growing. Constantly growing. And that's why we have to be careful in the way that

00:24:21.080 we address one another, in the ways that we challenge one another, in the ways that we spur

00:24:25.920 one another on because very often this has been my temptation in my early years and i'm sure it

00:24:33.920 can still be my temptation because c.a sinless perfection in this life we don't attain it that

00:24:39.780 includes me but earlier in my ministry and even just my christian walk before being in a position

00:24:45.760 of being a pastor here was the temptation that i often experienced whatever particular area

00:24:51.760 of my life that the Holy Spirit

00:24:54.960 in that present moment

00:24:56.000 happened to be sanctifying me in,

00:24:59.200 I had a temptation

00:25:01.060 to make that the end all be all,

00:25:03.660 the true mark,

00:25:05.520 the master key

00:25:06.420 of everyone's sanctification.

00:25:10.100 So if the Holy Spirit was working on me

00:25:12.500 in the category of purity,

00:25:15.160 and for the sake of little ears,

00:25:17.920 you know what I mean,

00:25:18.780 what kind of purity I'm referencing

00:25:20.360 as a young man.

00:25:21.760 if the Holy Spirit was convicting me of that particular sin,

00:25:25.760 in absence of purity,

00:25:28.520 and I was growing in that area by the grace of God

00:25:31.940 to be more pure than any other young man

00:25:35.420 that I would cross paths with

00:25:36.740 who also bear the name of Christ

00:25:38.120 and claim to be a Christian,

00:25:39.540 if I was to measure whether or not,

00:25:42.280 if saved, always saved,

00:25:43.340 whether or not they're truly in the faith,

00:25:44.920 looking at sanctification,

00:25:46.360 not earning justification,

00:25:47.900 but as a confirmation of justification,

00:25:50.000 which is grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone,

00:25:53.000 if I was measuring their sanctification,

00:25:54.860 I would be looking, or tempted at least,

00:25:57.380 to look in that one particular area.

00:26:00.580 How are you doing with this?

00:26:02.940 And that's not to say that we shouldn't hold one another accountable

00:26:05.800 in multiple areas of life and ask those hard questions.

00:26:09.200 How are you doing in this particular area?

00:26:12.460 But we have to be careful to say that the one,

00:26:15.740 it is true that sanctification is the confirmation of justification. That's true.

00:26:22.320 But what we tend to do is we narrow and truncate sanctification down to one arena.

00:26:28.740 And we don't say sanctification confirms justification. No, what we subtly say,

00:26:34.440 and perhaps even subconsciously without even realizing it, what we say is sanctification

00:26:38.960 in this one area is a confirmation of justification and then which area do we choose well we tend to

00:26:47.560 choose whichever area we happen to be in the moment most passionate about so are you being

00:26:53.700 sanctified like this oh you're not you're not doing well there and then we kind of chatty

00:27:01.140 kathy gossip a little bit and go to other people i'm really and and how do you how do you gossip

00:27:05.040 without feeling bad about committing the sin of gossip?

00:27:07.900 Well, you use the word concern, right?

00:27:09.960 Because that's a very Christian word.

00:27:12.100 Very holy word, the word concern. 0.97

00:27:13.780 I'm concerned.

00:27:15.420 Very troubled.

00:27:16.700 Very concerned.

00:27:18.020 And I'm just concerned about sister so-and-so.

00:27:20.100 I'm just concerned about my brother.

00:27:22.520 You know, I talked to him.

00:27:24.420 It sounds like he's not doing really good in this area.

00:27:28.620 So, yeah, but wasn't he a thief?

00:27:31.920 Like six months ago, and then he had a radical conversion.

00:27:34.560 he's never stolen since and he's working hard with his hands so that he might have something

00:27:37.900 to give to others and like he's been radically changed in this area and 14 other areas but

00:27:42.420 well that sanctification doesn't matter why well because the sanctification that matters to me is

00:27:49.960 a truncated narrow simplistic sanctification the one that i happen to care about and this is why

00:27:56.160 the lordship of christ and not the lordship of you is a blessing praise god that he's lord

00:28:02.720 and that you and I are not.

00:28:05.780 So Christ was born to be both a Savior and a King.

00:28:08.780 We know this from all the Messianic prophecies

00:28:11.480 that we find in the Old Testament.

00:28:13.360 But it's a beautiful thing

00:28:14.620 that the saving ministry and kingly ministry of Christ

00:28:19.200 is not only prophesied about in the proper specific sense,

00:28:22.780 but even that is clearly displayed in Christ's own lineage.

00:28:28.140 Even in the genealogy of Christ,

00:28:30.000 we see that he was born not merely to save and yet not rule and not merely to rule over those

00:28:38.280 that he has no intent to save but that he is both savior and lord savior and lord and we find this

00:28:46.940 throughout the genealogy but we find it as kind of the header it's almost the title of this

00:28:52.300 particular passage that's what's emphasized right out of the gate is this the book verse one the

00:28:58.080 book of the genealogy of jesus christ the son of david the son of abraham and then it begins with

00:29:03.800 abraham and it gets all the way down to david and david all the way down to christ but the two people

00:29:10.220 from the outset that are mentioned by name as the headers is abraham and david why because abraham

00:29:17.620 signifies the salvific promise that his seed would bless all the peoples of the earth and david

00:29:24.460 It signifies the kingly promise.

00:29:27.120 And Jesus was born not merely,

00:29:29.240 not only to be Savior, meek and mild,

00:29:31.660 but also to be King,

00:29:34.240 who would shatter the nations with an iron rod

00:29:36.660 if they do not submit to Him.

00:29:39.160 One final thing on this point, a clarification,

00:29:42.120 because I'm speaking quickly,

00:29:43.460 which tends to be, you know, par for the course.

00:29:45.800 But I said something, and then my mind caught it

00:29:48.080 about 90 seconds after it came out of my mouth.

00:29:50.620 we don't want to sever the saving ministry and the kingly ministry of christ and then i think i said

00:29:57.980 i can't quite remember but i think i said in passing that um that there is no one that christ

00:30:03.560 saves that he doesn't rule over as lord that's true but then i think i follow that statement by

00:30:10.780 saying and there is no one that he rules that he did not intend to save that one's not true

00:30:17.300 so just to clean that one up real quick just for the record um have you ever i've heard people say

00:30:25.480 this back to the lordship salvation kind of concept they've said um savior of all but only

00:30:33.120 lord of some that's actually false and in fact it's precisely the opposite of what's true did

00:30:40.460 you know that in a truly biblical sense, in the truest sense, Jesus is Lord of all and only Savior

00:30:48.660 of some. And to be fair and hopeful and accurate, not just to be hopeful for the sake of wanting to

00:30:55.580 be hopeful, but because the Bible really does give us this hope, we could say that he's not only Lord

00:31:00.480 of all and Savior of some, but we could say he's Lord of all and Savior of many. Many. And this is

00:31:07.040 for another time, but I would argue that actually many in this case actually means in the technical

00:31:14.040 truest sense, most actually do believe that the population of heaven, when it's all said and done,

00:31:20.360 will outnumber and dwarf the population of hell. That was Charles Spurgeon's belief

00:31:25.940 and many others. And I understand that that begs the question, but what about narrow

00:31:30.980 Woe is the way, the gate, few ever find it.

00:31:35.100 What about some of these parables of Christ?

00:31:37.660 I think there are particular meanings and timely meanings

00:31:40.220 for the generation and the particular tribe and people that Christ came to.

00:31:46.280 And in that generation and at that time, it was particularly narrow.

00:31:51.060 It was particularly narrow. 0.98

00:31:52.420 Particularly for the Jews. 0.79

00:31:54.840 That He came to His own, but they received Him not.

00:31:57.400 But did you know that elsewhere, if you cross-reference from one gospel to the other,

00:32:02.540 that same parable as Jesus giving the parable of the narrow gate, right?

00:32:08.180 And the difficult way that few ever find, right?

00:32:12.480 Narrows the way few ever find.

00:32:14.460 Well, surrounded by that same parable, if you cross-reference, I think it's over to Luke's gospel.

00:32:20.300 Over in Luke's gospel, right underneath that, in the same chapter, in the same breath,

00:32:24.920 it then goes and says, but many will come from east and west and the north and the south and

00:32:30.180 sit at Abraham's table. And it gives the impression that it's actually not just many,

00:32:37.240 which could be, I mean, you could have, say there's a total population of a thousand,

00:32:41.640 300 is still many, but 300 is still the minority. It's not most. But in this case,

00:32:47.120 the impression given is that the many comprise in a true technical numeric sense, most,

00:32:52.660 but it's most when you pan out and get the 30,000 foot view of all the other nations outside of

00:32:59.960 Israel coming to Abraham's table from the west and the east when all of them come you find that

00:33:05.740 the narrow gate right that the wedding banquet that all these people were invited to initially

00:33:11.360 but most of them didn't come they made up excuses and they refused the invitation

00:33:16.460 they chose not to come who was that it was Israel according to the flesh that he came to his own but

00:33:22.600 they received him not they rejected him but then all the servants are sent out by the king again

00:33:27.460 and said the wedding hall must be filled so now go out and invite those who were not initially

00:33:32.960 invited those who are who aren't exactly in the technical sense my people and then even further

00:33:39.700 to the highways and the byways to where eventually the house is full and the reason that the house

00:33:45.660 is full is not only because many come but i do believe in the proper sense that most come that

00:33:50.600 is most of the human population of all nations. But I do believe that it was narrow, that few came

00:33:57.340 in the case of Israel, particularly in that time, the time that Jesus appeared in his earthly

00:34:04.240 ministry and his incarnation 2,000 years ago. So all that being said, Jesus is Lord of all.

00:34:12.020 Because, you know, Paul Washer, one of the quotes that I appreciated very much and still appreciate

00:34:16.780 from him from years ago i remember when i heard it he said jesus is lord if you are evangelizing

00:34:23.260 bearing witness sharing the gospel and you encourage people you need to make jesus lord

00:34:29.440 then technically theologically you're you're making a mistake no one makes jesus lord

00:34:36.100 he is lord and washer goes on to say you can love him or hate him bless him or curse him but he's

00:34:43.000 your lord whether you like it or not he's already lord but it'd be great if he was also your savior

00:34:49.020 that's the only question at hand is is he your savior but he most certainly is your lord whether

00:34:55.740 you submit to his lordship or not christ is lord because you know who makes him lord not you with

00:35:02.900 your decisionism your revivalism your billy graham baptist crusade no no no you don't make him lord

00:35:09.900 But God has made Him both Jesus, Savior, and Lord.

00:35:16.020 God exalted Him to that position.

00:35:19.040 God has bestowed, the Father has bestowed upon Him

00:35:22.500 a name that is above all other names.

00:35:25.880 And the name is not Jesus, by the way.

00:35:28.080 The name is Lord.

00:35:30.840 Lord, Christ, the Anointed One, and Lord, King, Ruler.

00:35:35.520 That is the name that God chose to bestow upon His Son, Jesus, and He has set Him up.

00:35:41.680 Ephesians speaks of this.

00:35:43.800 In Ephesians, I believe, chapter 1, verse 21 or 22,

00:35:47.380 that God the Father has made Him, that is the Son, head of all things.

00:35:54.760 Not just head of the church.

00:35:56.840 It is not only that Jesus is head of the church,

00:35:59.120 but God the Father is determined and through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ

00:36:04.160 in His finished earthly work,

00:36:07.400 God the Father has set His Son Christ

00:36:10.080 up as head of all things.

00:36:13.340 So Christ is, we could say,

00:36:14.840 He is not exclusively head of the church.

00:36:17.740 We must say He is uniquely head of the church.

00:36:20.900 He is uniquely head of the church

00:36:22.540 in the sense that the church

00:36:23.660 is the only institute for which Christ died.

00:36:26.580 So Christ is uniquely head of the church,

00:36:28.280 but He is not exclusively head of the church.

00:36:31.180 He is head of the state.

00:36:32.180 He is head of markets.

00:36:34.160 He's head of business. He's head of families. He's head of everything. He's head of constellations

00:36:39.480 and galaxies. He's head of everything. Everything. But in his headship role, speaking of his authority,

00:36:48.100 his kingship, he's head of everything. But in his headship, as it pertains to laying down his life

00:36:54.280 to ransom and redeem, well, in that sense of being head, he is uniquely head of the church.

00:37:00.480 Jesus didn't die for the state.

00:37:02.920 Jesus didn't die for markets.

00:37:05.360 He died for the church.

00:37:07.060 But he is head of the state.

00:37:08.960 He is head of markets.

00:37:10.400 He is Lord of all, Savior of many.

00:37:13.660 Or if you want to be Charles Spurgeon-esque,

00:37:17.160 the reason I quote him,

00:37:18.000 there are plenty of Presbyterians that said it,

00:37:19.400 but by golly, a Baptist even believed it.

00:37:23.160 Spurgeon, this is not verbatim,

00:37:25.440 but I'll give you the gist of the quote.

00:37:26.860 He said, I cannot abide the idea, the doctrine, that our sovereign God who controls all things

00:37:37.120 and has determined the end from the beginning would allow his opponent, the devil, to have the final laugh.

00:37:44.800 And so the population of hell would be swallowed up in the masses of heaven 0.64

00:37:49.180 and that it would be true, really true, 1.00

00:37:53.100 when the Bible says,

00:37:55.860 John 3, not 16, but I believe 17,

00:37:58.680 for God did not send his son into the world

00:38:00.620 to condemn the world,

00:38:01.640 but that the world might be saved through him.

00:38:05.680 That the world would be saved.

00:38:07.460 And that doesn't represent

00:38:08.820 each and every individual person who has ever lived.

00:38:11.380 We're not universalist.

00:38:12.640 Hell is real.

00:38:13.460 And people have gone there

00:38:14.660 and will continue to do so.

00:38:16.720 But there's also a sense

00:38:18.580 in which so many, the mass of humanity,

00:38:20.740 so many would be saved,

00:38:22.320 that when it's all said and done,

00:38:24.380 on that final day,

00:38:25.740 in the final physical return of Christ,

00:38:27.740 that we would see the population of heaven

00:38:30.520 completely eclipsing the population of hell,

00:38:33.920 and we'd say, by golly, he actually did it.

00:38:37.080 He saved the world.

00:38:39.760 He really saved the whole world.

00:38:41.300 And if you're wondering, well, how could that work?

00:38:43.920 Well, just for the record, if you're getting worried,

00:38:45.480 what rock has Joel been living underneath? Does he not understand how rebellious the world is

00:38:52.640 right now? So just to put you at ease, so that you don't think that I'm completely bonkers,

00:38:58.360 if I had to guess, I would say that the current population of hell

00:39:02.020 outnumbers the current population of heaven by a great landslide, by a magnitude of 10 times,

00:39:11.180 and maybe more the reason why I think heaven will eventually out populate hell is because I think

00:39:18.580 there's still time on the clock by the grace of God and not that that should be used for us to

00:39:23.340 take excuse and to be lackadaisical or apathetic but that as the world continues to increase in

00:39:29.960 its population as the cultural mandate continues to be fulfilled to be fruitful and multiply and

00:39:35.960 fill the earth as we have both more people and as we see the gospel experience more victory and

00:39:42.040 success in the hearts of people that eventually over time that the scales would turn that's why

00:39:49.560 and that's why Spurgeon held that view as well even though he wasn't technically post-millennial

00:39:55.440 but in his heart I think he was he didn't know it he is now he is now all right so Christ was

00:40:04.300 born to be both Savior and King. You cannot have him as Savior without having him as Lord. And in

00:40:08.900 this case, I mean submitting to his Lordship. Matthew Henry says elsewhere, those knees which

00:40:15.680 will not bow will break. Those are your options. You can bow to his Lordship by grace in this life

00:40:22.680 or your knees can break to his Lordship in the life to come. It will be by grace or it will be

00:40:30.920 by force. Let it be by grace that we would bow and not just begrudgingly, but that we would bow

00:40:39.260 joyfully, seeing his lordship as good, just as in the way that we see him being savior is good.

00:40:46.520 So, too, him being Lord is good. Isaiah chapter nine, verse six and seven, it says this for unto

00:40:53.180 us, a child is born to us, a son is given and the government, not just that he'll save, but the

00:40:59.360 government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty

00:41:04.940 God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will

00:41:11.040 be no end. On the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with

00:41:17.580 justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of

00:41:23.160 host will do this and so all this is explicitly prophesied in the book of isaiah but even in his

00:41:31.440 genealogy and the pedigree of christ the symbolism is contained even in the first verse of the first

00:41:38.160 chapter of the first gospel the gospel according to matthew it is seen that christ is the descendant

00:41:44.660 of abraham but not only abraham but also david savior and king point number three christ was

00:41:51.820 not of noble birth according to human standards. I've already explained this a little bit, so I'll

00:41:56.740 do it briefly. A quote again here from Matthew Henry. He says this, among the ancestors of Christ

00:42:01.820 who had brethren, generally he descended from a younger brother, such as Abraham himself was a

00:42:08.400 younger brother, and was Jacob, and Judah, and David. And all this is to show the preeminence

00:42:15.040 of Christ came not as that of earthly princes from the superiority of his ancestors, but rather

00:42:23.200 from the will of God, who, according to the method of his providence, exalteth them of low degree and

00:42:30.600 puts more abundant honor upon that part which lacked it. We saw that. That's Matthew Henry

00:42:37.340 tipping the hat to 1 Corinthians chapter 12, which we looked at briefly last Lord's Day as we were

00:42:43.240 looking at the importance of biblical church membership and in first corinthians chapter 12

00:42:48.060 we we find the illustration of a body that the church is to be the body of christ that there is

00:42:54.880 a belonging and covenanting with one another but in belonging as a community there's also then

00:42:59.800 behaving in unison working as a body working in in concert with one another recognizing that there

00:43:07.700 are different parts of the body there are arms there are legs and hands and feet and eyes and

00:43:12.060 ears and finding your role and the gifts that the spirit has sovereignly deposited within you

00:43:18.200 and then working joyfully and humbly with a larger body of christ both at the local level

00:43:24.120 and in a sense with the invisible universal church at a global level the body of christ

00:43:29.180 working together for the glory of the head which is christ himself and the good of all his people

00:43:34.440 here on earth matthew henry is looking at that same principle of the body of christ at the end

00:43:40.660 of this quote where he says i need to flip back over at the end of this quote where he says that

00:43:46.040 he puts more abundant honor upon that part which lacked the apostle paul in first corinthians 12

00:43:51.440 he talks about how there are some parts of the body that you know you might not be super stoked

00:43:57.080 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

00:44:03.240 know if i want to be an armpit you know that is just not you know i wouldn't pick that one you

00:44:07.640 No, I'd rather be a hand over a foot. 0.72

00:44:09.600 Or I'd rather this, I'd rather that.

00:44:11.080 But what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12

00:44:13.140 is that every part of the body is indispensable.

00:44:16.520 And on those lesser parts,

00:44:19.060 as far as the perspective of man goes,

00:44:22.200 if anything, we bestow upon them

00:44:24.380 not a lesser, but an even greater honor.

00:44:27.420 It is those lesser parts of the body

00:44:29.440 that we give special care to and even conceal.

00:44:33.260 So that whatever lack of honor there may be,

00:44:35.560 that lack of honor is not highlighted or taken advantage of,

00:44:40.280 but rather a greater honor is given.

00:44:42.080 And so too, we find this principle at work within the pedigree of Christ.

00:44:47.520 That he was not of noble birth according to human standards,

00:44:50.460 that he doesn't always come from the oldest son,

00:44:52.640 from a line of kings and princes,

00:44:54.180 but he comes at times from an even scandalous line.

00:45:00.440 And when there are multiple brothers at play within a particular family,

00:45:04.460 very often he comes from one of the younger brothers rather than the oldest because it is

00:45:09.600 not the nobility of kings and oldest sons that gives christ his legitimacy but rather the will

00:45:17.040 and providence of god lastly final point fourth and final point christ entered the old covenant

00:45:23.300 and began the new covenant one final quote here from matthew henry he says the following

00:45:28.480 Pharaohs and Zerah, the twin sons of Judah, are likewise both named. Now, they're not both the

00:45:36.060 father of Christ. It's not possible. Only one of them begets the line that continues down to

00:45:42.440 the Christ, and yet both are named. They're twins, twin sons of Judah, and likewise both are named,

00:45:48.540 though Pharaohs only was Christ's ancestor. Now, it was Zerah who put out his hand first 0.72

00:45:55.940 as the firstborn. 0.75

00:45:57.480 But drawing it in,

00:45:59.160 Ferus got the birthright.

00:46:01.060 Very similar to Esau and Jacob.

00:46:04.380 The same thing appears in the Bible.

00:46:06.040 It's not random.

00:46:07.240 It appears in the Bible

00:46:08.240 in the case of twin sons

00:46:09.540 on more than one occasion.

00:46:11.400 It's remarkable

00:46:12.080 that in God's providence

00:46:13.440 that He allows this principle

00:46:15.320 to be demonstrated

00:46:16.460 in a battle between two sons.

00:46:19.280 And the order of birth

00:46:20.580 and the birthright,

00:46:21.780 this is played out throughout Scripture

00:46:23.340 on more than one occasion.

00:46:25.020 And this is one.

00:46:25.940 Faris and Zerah. So Zerah it is in labor who puts out his hand first as a firstborn, but drawing it

00:46:34.160 in, there's a rejection. As it were, it's what's being symbolized here is it's like Zerah had the

00:46:42.740 opportunity to be the firstborn, but of his own volition, he chose not to take it, withdrew his

00:46:49.100 hand. And so Ferris got the birthright. Now, the Jewish church, Matthew Henry says, like Zerah,

00:46:56.860 reached first at the birthright. But through their unbelief, withdrawing the hand, it was the Gentile 1.00

00:47:03.040 church, like Ferris, that broke forth and went away with the birthright to the New Testament 1.00

00:47:08.860 Christian church. Now, understanding this principle in light of Romans 11, and we don't have time for 0.96

00:47:15.300 romans 11 sermon here today but i'll try to give a snippet romans chapter 11 verse 17 through 31

00:47:23.500 this is the common passage that i think many christians even within the reformed tradition

00:47:28.280 tend to struggle with it says this but if some of the branches were broken off and you

00:47:35.800 this is paul speaking to the church at rome so gentiles but if some of the branches were broken

00:47:42.320 off and you although a wild olive shoot were grafted in among the others and now share in

00:47:47.920 the nourishing root of the olive tree and the nourishing root for the record is not Israel

00:47:53.300 but rather Christ. Christ is the root. So if you now have been grafted in you're a wild olive shoot

00:47:59.240 you didn't even belong to this tree and yet in the providence of God the natural branches were

00:48:04.420 broken off due to their unbelief and you a wild olive shoot you now have been grafted into the

00:48:10.260 root who is christ now verse 18 if that's what god did and he did it all by his sovereign grace

00:48:16.600 not the will or work of man but by god's grace and mercy then what's the proper response do not

00:48:22.940 be arrogant towards those natural branches if you are remember it is not you who support the root

00:48:29.460 the branches don't support the root but the root supports you now you will say verse 19 branches

00:48:35.820 were broken off so that I might be grafted in. That is true. They were broken off because of

00:48:41.360 their unbelief. But you stand fast through faith. What sustains you? What provides a continual

00:48:48.560 ongoing security that you really are grafted in and will remain grafted into the root who is

00:48:54.000 Christ? Well, faith. The very thing that the natural branches lacked. They had unbelief and

00:49:00.120 so they were broken off and cut off in unbelief but if you stand make sure that you don't fall

00:49:08.140 do not be haughty lest you fall so do not become proud but rather fear a proper fear and reverence

00:49:15.040 of god and a proper fear to the human condition and the depravity that remains the proclivity

00:49:21.660 and tendency towards unbelief if left to our own will our own devices that we too would wander away

00:49:28.580 from christ so fear god and in a healthy and rightful sense fear your own sin that still

00:49:35.820 resides within the members of your being and stand in faith and not unbelief for if god did not spare

00:49:42.420 the natural branches then neither will he spare you note then the kindness and severity of god

00:49:48.020 severity towards those who have fallen but kindness to you provided that you continue in his kindness

00:49:54.320 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.

00:50:08.240 For God has the power to graft them in again. 0.89

00:50:12.100 For if you were cut off from what is by nature,

00:50:15.660 or for if, yeah, for if you were cut from what by nature is a wild olive tree

00:50:21.520 and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree,

00:50:25.560 then how much more will these, the natural branches,

00:50:28.660 be grafted back into their own olive tree?

00:50:31.760 Lest you be wise in your own sight,

00:50:34.120 I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, 0.99

00:50:37.560 A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 0.98

00:50:43.660 And in this way, all Israel will be saved. 0.99

00:50:47.120 As it is written, the deliverer will come from Zion. 0.90

00:50:50.040 He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. 0.95

00:50:53.100 And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins. 0.97

00:50:58.180 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake.

00:51:01.640 But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

00:51:05.880 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.

00:51:18.500 So they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you, they also may now receive mercy.

00:51:28.540 Incredibly controversial passage with a million, million different interpretations.

00:51:33.480 I'm just going to take a moment and give you mine.

00:51:36.620 This idea, going back to the Matthew Henry quote,

00:51:39.380 the pedigree of Christ,

00:51:41.060 Pharis and Zerah, twin sons of Judah.

00:51:43.800 One sticks out his hand.

00:51:46.100 It seems as though he will be the firstborn.

00:51:48.020 To him is given the birthright,

00:51:49.260 but he chooses to withdraw his hand.

00:51:52.400 There's a sense in which, like Esau,

00:51:54.240 he despises the birthright.

00:51:56.340 And then it is Pharis, 0.51

00:51:58.720 or I'm sorry, Zerah put out his hand first,

00:52:01.060 but then it's Pharis who actually gets the birthright.

00:52:04.240 Matthew Henry says,

00:52:05.020 the Jewish church, like Zerah, reached first for the birthright, but through unbelief, 0.95

00:52:09.720 withdrawing the hand, the Gentile church, like Pharaoh's, broke forth and went away with the 0.95

00:52:14.980 birthright. And this is what we see in the genealogy of Christ. And it's certainly what we see 0.98

00:52:19.920 explicitly in the earthly ministry and death and resurrection and ascension of Christ. We see that

00:52:28.000 he comes to Israel and he is rejected by Israel. That Israel does not receive their Messiah, but

00:52:36.600 rather chooses to crucify the Lord of glory. And I know that that's controversial. Well, the Jews

00:52:43.580 didn't kill Jesus. Yes, they did. Yes, they did. Now, let's be honest, biblically speaking, like

00:52:49.600 people say, well, nobody killed Jesus, right? Because in John 17, in the Garden of Gethsemane,

00:52:53.600 he says, no one takes my life from me. I lay it down. Uh-huh. That's also true. And I could also

00:52:57.700 say, well, who killed Jesus? The father killed Jesus, right? Acts chapter 4, he was pleased to

00:53:01.980 crush him. Everything that your hand and your plan predestined to take place. So the father killed

00:53:07.000 Jesus. Jesus killed Jesus because he laid down his life freely. You killed Jesus by your sin

00:53:13.160 in the theological and ultimate sense. The Romans killed Jesus in the technical, physical sense by 0.93

00:53:18.280 driving the nails to his hands. And also the Jews killed Jesus by saying, crucify him, give us 0.92

00:53:23.680 barabbas but keep him and nail him to a tree so all these are theologically true statements however

00:53:29.520 maybe it's just my personality but i tend to want to emphasize the one that might become illegal

00:53:35.540 all these statements are true but if you're telling me that one of these statements might

00:53:41.340 become illegal to say then yeah i'm going to emphasize that one so i'm not saying it's only

00:53:46.760 in a theological sense the jews that killed jesus but right now 2024 given the lay of the land

00:53:52.780 Yeah, that's the one you're going to see me on Twitter, 0.91

00:53:55.340 banging that one, banging that drum.

00:53:58.580 That's why.

00:53:59.800 Because that's what the precise thing you're being told you can't say.

00:54:04.020 And it's perfectly biblical to say.

00:54:07.440 I would say two of those statements are offensive.

00:54:09.480 I had some write-up that I did about this.

00:54:12.080 Multiple things.

00:54:12.960 Jesus laid down his own life.

00:54:14.460 The Father predestined to crush the Son.

00:54:17.280 Before the foundations of the world were laid,

00:54:19.240 the Father chose to crush the Son.

00:54:21.680 So the father killed Jesus. 0.54

00:54:22.940 Jesus killed Jesus. 0.92

00:54:23.900 The Romans, they drove the nails to his hands. 0.99

00:54:26.440 The Romans killed Jesus. 0.99

00:54:27.740 Your sin killed Jesus. 1.00

00:54:28.980 And the Jews killed Jesus. 0.99

00:54:30.340 And I put those five statements.

00:54:31.820 I said, only two of them are offensive.

00:54:34.060 I've never met anybody who's like,

00:54:35.380 you said the Romans killed Jesus?

00:54:36.800 I'm angry.

00:54:40.100 Only two of those are offensive.

00:54:41.920 Jesus, of his own volition,

00:54:43.560 laying down his own life freely

00:54:46.360 for the sake of his elect,

00:54:48.560 to save his people that he loved.

00:54:50.220 i've never heard anybody who's offended by that so only two are offensive which two you killed

00:54:54.680 jesus by your sin that one that one stings a little bit it's offensive and the jews killed

00:54:59.040 jesus politically culturally that that one's offensive so there's five statements all five

00:55:03.920 are true two are offensive and one could become illegal so i'm going to emphasize these two

00:55:09.120 and especially the one that's you know i am insufferable in that way i i hate to you know

00:55:15.960 so some of you are new you're like what kind of what kind of personality does this pastor have 0.66

00:55:19.660 there you have it for better or for worse that that is my personality so all that being said

00:55:24.880 then did god forsake his promise then what happened this is incredibly controversial and

00:55:30.960 requires a lot of time to theologically tease and explain there are multiple views at work and i

00:55:36.080 don't have time to do it now but i'm going to do the short version i believe that romans 11 as a

00:55:43.180 partial preterist preterist just means it's latin it means past or fulfilled so the same kind of

00:55:49.300 hermeneutic. Hermeneutic is how you read the Bible and study the Bible. The same hermeneutic

00:55:54.780 that allows me to be post-millennial in my eschatology, have a hopeful eschatology. All

00:56:00.400 the stuff I said earlier about heaven out populating hell. The same hermeneutic that 0.90

00:56:05.340 allows me to have a post-millennial eschatology is the same hermeneutic that allows me to read

00:56:10.580 Romans chapter 11 in a particular light. Which light? Well, specifically a partial preterist

00:56:16.460 line. Partial meaning not everything, not every prophecy in Scripture has been fulfilled.

00:56:21.500 I do see some prophecies in Scripture, like the end of the book of Revelation, as being in our

00:56:27.400 future, right? There is, for instance, I'll just name a big one. I absolutely affirm a future,

00:56:34.020 in our future, final physical return of Christ. So hyper-preterism or full preterism that

00:56:40.180 everything's already been fulfilled, I believe is seriously problematic, if not even potentially

00:56:46.700 heretical. So I reject hyper-preterism, everything's fulfilled, or full preterism, I am a partial

00:56:51.800 preterist. That is, I read the book of Revelation saying that towards the end of the book, the last

00:56:56.440 couple chapters, that's in our future, but the majority of the book is not something that's

00:57:00.420 going to happen next Thursday and we'll find it in the news. But instead, the majority of the book

00:57:05.140 as something that already happened primarily in AD 70 in the judgment of Israel that Jesus

00:57:12.020 prophesied. Jesus himself. And here's part of the beauty of it. Part of what my inclination and

00:57:18.060 leaning towards this interpretation, this hermeneutic of scripture, is because I don't

00:57:23.520 want Jesus to be a false prophet. Assuming, right? I'm a Christian. I'm a pastor. I'm pro-Jesus.

00:57:32.080 can't help it you know and and being pro jesus doesn't always help with 2024 pro israel stance

00:57:38.160 sometimes those things kind of directly contradict directly contradict and so in being pro jesus one

00:57:45.620 of the things that i want to defend is not the modern state of israel but rather what i want to

00:57:50.300 defend is jesus and one of the things i want to defend jesus against is the charge and accusation

00:57:56.360 that he was a false prophet and one of the things that jesus prophesied not just one but one of the

00:58:01.300 chief, most fantastic, incredible, insane prophecies that Jesus ever made in his earthly

00:58:08.680 ministry 2,000 years ago is in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 when Jesus says, I tell you the

00:58:14.820 truth, all these things will happen before this generation passes away. And I know that it's fun 0.98

00:58:22.100 to be cute and say, well, this generation is a metaphor and it means this type of generation,

00:58:26.340 a generation of unbelief that rejects Christ. And so there'll always be unbelieving people all the 0.77

00:58:31.060 way until the very end of time and jesus final physical return or here's a fun one maybe he just 0.91

00:58:37.980 actually meant that generation maybe he meant this generation and jewish customs the generation was

00:58:43.560 40 years and what happened exactly exactly according to the prophecy of jesus 40 years

00:58:50.040 after he said he said you see this temple i tell you the truth not one stone will be left on another

00:58:54.640 all these things will take place jesus even says that on that day that there will be a coming of

00:59:00.520 the lord right so we think oh well this is the second final physical return of christ but jesus

00:59:05.580 even says when he talks about this coming he says don't go back into your house or get your cloak or

00:59:10.520 this or that but run well why would he say run because other portions of scripture talk about

00:59:15.380 the wrath of the lamb talking about the final judgment and coming of christ and says that

00:59:20.000 there's nowhere to run you can't escape it but in matthew 24 this is a local judgment it's not

00:59:26.620 worldwide. It's a look. Jesus is going to come, not physically, but the second coming in a spiritual

00:59:32.460 sense. And he would come on the clouds. Joel chapter two talks about clouds. It's not like

00:59:37.240 baby angels playing harps on pretty clouds, but it's the clouds signify billows of smoke and

00:59:43.420 judgment, desolation. And so what Jesus is saying is, I tell you the truth within 40 years in a

00:59:49.660 literal sense, before this generation passes away, the same generation that cries out, crucify him

00:59:56.080 and let His blood be on us and our children.

00:59:58.980 Not forever, by the way.

01:00:00.400 That's actually not in the text.

01:00:01.920 But us and our children, on two generations,

01:00:04.640 on us, let the blood guilt be on us

01:00:07.100 for crying out, crucify Him.

01:00:09.200 And Jesus says, I tell you the truth. 0.99

01:00:11.280 Before this group of Israelites dies, 1.00

01:00:14.360 before these Jews die, 1.00

01:00:15.920 they will see the Son of Man 1.00

01:00:17.840 coming on the clouds in judgment. 0.98

01:00:20.340 He will destroy, I will destroy the temple

01:00:23.600 that is through providence and through agency and he did that with titus who later became 0.98

01:00:28.760 the emperor destroyed the jewish temple and all of this came to pass and i personally of the

01:00:35.240 persuasion there are others who hold to this view that the spiritual revival that is prophesied and

01:00:41.180 i do think that there's a spiritual revival that is being spoken to in romans chapter 11 it says

01:00:47.260 well that they they received him not the natural branches their unbelief so they're broken off

01:00:51.800 and then the wild olive shoot, that is the Gentiles, replace and they're grafted in. 0.92

01:00:57.020 And that's what happened. Israel rejected Christ. And then for the next 40 years, what happens? 0.99

01:01:01.780 A ton of people get saved. Who? Gentiles. The Israelites, by and large, continue to reject

01:01:10.660 Christ. Now, I'm not saying none of them get saved. And that's why Romans 11 particularly

01:01:14.280 says a partial hardening. Doesn't say complete. But this is not speaking of individuals being

01:01:20.200 snip snap snip snap you know broken off grafted in grow but no that's not a thing right c.8 once

01:01:26.720 saved always saved if saved always if you're a christian as an individual person with a regenerate

01:01:31.380 heart you can't be broken off he is the vine john 15 you are the branches and once you've been grafted

01:01:36.840 in you're there and the same grace that saves you will be faithful to keep you so this is speaking

01:01:41.680 of election grafting in and breaking off but in a corporate sense a national covenantal sense not

01:01:49.360 of individual people, but of peoples. And so Israel, not as one individual Jew, but the Jewish

01:01:55.900 people in a corporate sense, in a, in a corporate election, Jesus came, they hated him, they rejected

01:02:03.360 him. And due to their unbelief, which had already been, I mean, they'd been working on this for

01:02:07.980 hundreds of years, right? For hundreds of years, Israel was already, you know, steeped in unbelief. 0.59

01:02:14.180 and then that unbelief culminated

01:02:15.960 at the proper time when in God's providence

01:02:18.680 he sent Christ

01:02:19.500 and that unbelief manifested itself

01:02:21.640 in the chief sin of unbelief

01:02:23.400 that is rejecting the son of God himself

01:02:25.680 and sentencing him to death upon a tree

01:02:29.540 and because of that unbelief

01:02:31.480 they were corporately cut off

01:02:33.200 and then for 40 years

01:02:34.700 from the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ

01:02:37.260 around 80-30

01:02:38.360 between 80-30, 80-34, 80-35

01:02:41.240 for the next 40 years

01:02:42.960 leading up to AD 70, the natural branches, that is Israel, corporately, there's a partial hardening

01:02:49.040 some belief under the apostles' preaching. Many do not. But with the Gentiles, they're flocking in,

01:02:57.160 flooding into the Christian gospel, flooding into the Christian church, that one of the sons 1.00

01:03:01.940 sticks out his hand, but then withdraws it in unbelief. That son is Israel. But then the other

01:03:09.420 son he receives the birthright that is the gentile christian church but then leading up to 80 70

01:03:15.100 here's the deal jesus his one of his greatest prophecies in matthew 24 the all that discourse

01:03:20.080 it actually comes to pass did you know that's one of the chief gotchas that atheists use

01:03:26.060 atheists all the time you can find debates between christians and atheists and they'll say well jesus

01:03:30.020 isn't really the son of god and the bible is not really a sacred text and and you'll say well why

01:03:34.360 and one of the evidences that they'll say is what jesus said before this generation passes away

01:03:38.520 these things will take place. You know what the answer is? The answer is not to get cute and say,

01:03:42.380 well, it's a metaphor. No, the answer is to say, actually, it did. Exactly what he said would

01:03:49.080 happen, happened in the literal, physical, actual sense, and at the actual time that he said it

01:03:56.060 would happen. This generation, 40 years, that means that those who handed him over to Pilate

01:04:01.540 and Rome to be crucified, those who yelled, crucify him, the very same people, those Jewish

01:04:07.980 people of that generation they looked upon Jesus as he was crucified and then they also in a

01:04:13.860 spiritual sense saw Jesus coming on the clouds of desolation 40 years later in 80 70 and the

01:04:19.800 destruction of everything that they cherished because of their sin because of their rebellion

01:04:24.140 God brought the consequence and judgment and here's the hopeful part in accordance with Romans 11 0.73

01:04:29.540 I believe that many according to the flesh many of Israel not in the spiritual sense you and I

01:04:35.820 are Israel in the true spiritual sense but many of Israel according to the flesh at that time 80 70

01:04:41.700 they saw they remembered the sermon of Jesus in Matthew 24 and then they saw its fulfillment in

01:04:47.460 80 70 and they said oh my goodness we crucified the Lord of glory let us repent of our sins and

01:04:54.100 believe and I believe that many in Israel came to saving faith so that the land promises the idea

01:05:00.780 of well Israel has to have a nation state or whatever you know because this is the fulfillment

01:05:04.780 of prophecy. Come on, Boomer. You've got to move past the dispensational premillennialism. 0.75

01:05:13.580 I understand that you watched the Left Behind movies. I know they were fun, but we've got to

01:05:18.760 move on. The land promises. No, that's not a thing. Not in our future. It was a thing and God fulfilled

01:05:24.440 it and it's done. It's done. Now, the spiritual, but at least the spiritual promises, right? So

01:05:30.540 not the land promise, but the spiritual promises that that Israel is going to to get saved, that

01:05:35.440 there's going to be a spiritual revival among Israel. That one I'm not going to be as as mean

01:05:40.640 about, but I will tell you my conviction. I believe that that one's done, too. I believe that God has

01:05:46.360 fulfilled the physical promises to Abraham, see the land promises. In fact, you can read it verbatim

01:05:51.740 word for word at the end of the book of Joshua says everything that God promised through the

01:05:55.560 prophet moses came to pass that they got the land from this river to that sea to this valley to that

01:06:01.480 mountain they got it all it is not as though god changed his mind it is not as though god lied it

01:06:07.220 is not as though god failed to keep his promise god promised he fulfilled it israel did what

01:06:12.380 israel does best they lost it they lost it so on them it's not on god and the same thing spiritually

01:06:21.480 God promised even in the rejection of my own son, right? 0.92

01:06:25.420 He would send many servants to the vineyard

01:06:27.300 and they would beat the servants and say,

01:06:29.080 no, no, no, you can't gather the fruit of our labor

01:06:32.380 and give it to the master, to the king.

01:06:33.900 No, it's ours.

01:06:35.060 Well, surely after beating and sending all my servants away,

01:06:38.680 surely if I send my own son, they'll respect him.

01:06:41.160 What do you think that parable is about?

01:06:43.200 It's about Jesus and Israel. 0.96

01:06:45.140 So I'll send Jesus to my vineyard, Israel. 0.99

01:06:47.760 and surely, surely the ones working in the vineyard 0.99

01:06:52.380 and producing the wine,

01:06:55.060 if I send my son, they'll respect him.

01:06:56.740 And what do they say?

01:06:57.500 What does Jesus tell us in the parable?

01:06:59.000 He's predicting his own death. 1.00

01:07:00.620 He's indicting Israel in that generation. 1.00

01:07:03.060 He says, no, but when the son comes, 0.87

01:07:04.760 instead of saying, oh man, this is the heir,

01:07:07.220 we should respect him.

01:07:08.700 No, instead what they say is, this is the heir, 1.00

01:07:10.680 let's kill him and take his inheritance. 0.99

01:07:12.420 And that's exactly what Israel did. 1.00

01:07:14.780 It's exactly what they did. 0.94

01:07:17.760 And if you tell me that that's anti-Semitic, then the problem is that I'm going to say it louder now. 0.88

01:07:24.160 You tell me I can't say it, and now I'm going to say it more. 0.95

01:07:27.580 Because it's Bible.

01:07:30.360 And I'm not going to be ashamed of the Bible.

01:07:33.460 And the reason why it matters, but there's all these things in which, you know.

01:07:36.540 Yeah, but these have prophetic meaning. 0.51

01:07:39.420 It must be said that Israel rejected the Messiah.

01:07:44.460 Because if not, then you lose the meaning of Jesus' prophecies, of Jesus' parables.

01:07:51.000 You lose the meaning of the Son of God and what he taught.

01:07:54.780 You got two choices, right?

01:07:57.780 You sit there and you can push this button or that button.

01:07:59.880 One button is don't be offensive to Israel.

01:08:04.540 The other button is don't call Jesus a false prophet.

01:08:09.600 That one's more important.

01:08:11.680 That one's more important.

01:08:12.480 Jesus is not a false prophet.

01:08:14.960 Everything he said would come to pass.

01:08:16.540 It came to pass how he said it,

01:08:18.200 when he said it would,

01:08:19.600 all these things.

01:08:20.800 And I believe that Romans 11,

01:08:22.300 that extra piece,

01:08:23.120 now cross-referencing from Matthew 24,

01:08:25.180 all of that discourse,

01:08:26.220 all the way to Romans 11,

01:08:27.340 what Paul says,

01:08:28.200 Paul is writing Romans 11,

01:08:29.620 I believe around AD 50.

01:08:31.340 So he's saying this is still futuristic

01:08:33.420 for him and his immediate audience,

01:08:36.380 but it's not futuristic for us,

01:08:38.760 2,000 years now removed.

01:08:40.580 But at the writing,

01:08:41.340 Paul's looking with a 15 year timeline and saying in 80, 55, leading up to 80, 70, the end of this

01:08:48.860 generation, just like Jesus said in Matthew 24, guess what's going to happen? His judgment,

01:08:54.620 desolation, but also in his judgment, his mercy. And those natural branches that rejected the root

01:09:02.920 who is Christ, not Moses, not Abraham, but the true sense, the root is Christ. And they rejected

01:09:08.500 the root and they were broken off in unbelief. But as we get closer to the fulfillment of Jesus

01:09:13.080 prophecies in Matthew 24, the desolation, the clouds, the judgment, that judgment will be used

01:09:17.940 in God's justice as a consequence for their unbelief and the crucifying of the Messiah.

01:09:22.980 But God, who is just, is also merciful and he will give faith to many according to the flesh.

01:09:31.120 Many of those natural branches will change their mind, that is, repent and say, we crucified the

01:09:37.060 lord of glory we're sorry forgive us of our sins and they would put faith in jesus christ and it

01:09:42.200 wouldn't just be gentiles coming in the wild olive branches but now the natural branches also being

01:09:48.000 grafted in a beautiful picture of harmony and the salvation of the world and the gospel and it

01:09:53.020 happened 1950 years ago so now get over it it's all beautiful it's all biblical it's all glorious

01:10:02.920 but it happened 1950 years ago

01:10:06.100 and so to look in the newspaper

01:10:10.000 every single day

01:10:10.840 oh my gosh

01:10:11.480 what prophecy is happening today

01:10:13.440 oh it's the third temple

01:10:14.900 no

01:10:16.680 no it's not Halloween

01:10:19.320 grow up Peter Pan

01:10:21.180 put the dispensationalism

01:10:24.300 John Hagee 0.94

01:10:24.960 put it in the garbage

01:10:26.560 where it belongs 0.74

01:10:27.260 that's not

01:10:29.100 it's not how we read the Bible

01:10:30.960 that's not what God is doing

01:10:32.600 now that doesn't mean that you hate the nation state of israel i'm not saying that and i'm

01:10:39.740 certainly not on team sodomites for palestine just to be clear okay there's not really two 0.92

01:10:46.840 you know given these choices these are bad options like would you like to have vomit or diarrhea

01:10:52.040 neither really is there is there a third choice here so i'm not advocating for like taking the

01:10:59.840 political side of one and political side. But what I am advocating for is this as it pertains to

01:11:06.260 Christianity. It is not Judeo-Christianity. Judeo-Christianity is an oxymoron. It is a

01:11:14.820 psyop. It is just Christianity. The church is Israel. We are grafted in and those according 0.98

01:11:24.780 to the flesh the the invitation was warmly held out and i believe that they actually in the final

01:11:32.160 analysis in 80 70 they accepted the invitation and came in and now what's going on so how should the

01:11:38.660 christian think about israel my my suggestion and counsel to you not telling you through command

01:11:43.940 what to do but my counsel is this i think you should think about israel that is the modern

01:11:48.880 seat of israel in a few ways number one not as old covenant israel in the bible these are two i

01:11:55.080 believe two different groups i don't believe it's the same people i don't i know it's controversial

01:12:00.280 i don't okay secondly um because of that and because these prophecies are already fulfilled

01:12:07.440 it was in paul's future but long in our past i think you should view israel in the same way that

01:12:13.880 you would view any other country. That we still send missionaries. We still preach the gospel.

01:12:19.560 We still pray for salvation. All these things. But you view Israel as you would view Russia,

01:12:26.560 or as you would view the Sudan, or as you would view Uganda or Brazil. That they are a people

01:12:33.520 who need to be saved with one distinction. Here's the last distinction I would add.

01:12:38.340 I do think that you could view modern state of Israel as being uniquely hostile towards the

01:12:43.980 Christian gospel. So needing salvation, just like any other nation, but uniquely hostile in the 0.61

01:12:52.220 sense that out of, I know there are particular Christian cults that might be terrible, absolutely 0.98

01:12:58.440 terrible, but in terms of major world religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Talmudic Judaism, 0.58

01:13:06.040 There is no major world religion 0.57

01:13:07.600 with a more hostile view

01:13:08.820 towards the person of Jesus Christ

01:13:10.320 than Judaism. 0.99

01:13:12.540 Islam rejects the deity of Christ, 0.99

01:13:15.660 but tips the hat to him

01:13:17.080 as a prophet and a good man.

01:13:18.900 Buddhism, likewise,

01:13:20.140 does the same.

01:13:20.840 Hinduism. 1.00

01:13:21.420 They all say, 0.98

01:13:21.900 yeah, Jesus, yeah,

01:13:22.480 we reject what the Bible says.

01:13:24.220 So if you prescribe

01:13:25.220 any of those religions, 1.00

01:13:25.960 you will go to hell. 1.00

01:13:27.040 It's serious. 0.99

01:13:28.140 I'm not minimizing 1.00

01:13:28.900 the heresies of Islam 0.99

01:13:31.040 or Buddhism or Hinduism.

01:13:32.720 But here's the deal.

01:13:33.560 They all reject 0.99

01:13:34.540 the truth about Jesus and if you prescribe to their religion, you'll go to hell.

01:13:38.740 But it's kind of unique for a major world religion to not just say

01:13:42.540 he's not God, but he's still a prophet, he's still worthy of respect.

01:13:46.900 Talmudic Judaism doesn't say that. Talmudic Judaism

01:13:50.400 says that he's boiling alive in urine. 0.91

01:13:55.340 There is no major world religion that hates 0.98

01:13:58.120 Christianity more than Israel.

01:14:01.240 and somehow they they have this christian adjacent category that was theologically carved

01:14:11.300 out for them 150 years ago with schofield and darby and and and what it's equated to is our

01:14:18.220 greatest allies but really one-sided relationship and billions of dollars going overseas meanwhile

01:14:26.140 our own children, neglected, no southern border, no America first, this is not, here's the point,

01:14:35.780 you know, ideas have consequences, you've heard that phrase, bad theology has consequences,

01:14:41.040 and the American church has been living underneath the consequences of bad theology in multiple ways,

01:14:47.580 Arminianism, feminism, it's not like this is the only thing, but this one is a big one,

01:14:51.340 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.

01:15:00.760 That needs to be talked about. 0.67

01:15:02.860 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. 0.64

01:15:15.720 Then you know I've been bought. 0.75

01:15:17.860 And I can't be bought.

01:15:19.460 Let's pray.

01:15:19.980 father thank you for your word bless it to your people for christ's sake amen okay we're going

01:15:25.600 to continue to worship the lord now through song uh if you would join me in standing if you are a

01:15:33.300 follower of the lord jesus christ i would like to invite you as we worship the lord through song

The NXR Podcast - June 30, 2024

THE SERMON - The Genealogy Of Jesus

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