1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you. Get ready for engaging unscripted conversations 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,240 with your hosts, Ben and Spencer. Our mission remains unchanged to explore the Bible through 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:19,880 the powerful lens of love. In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,000 fresh insights and gaining deeper understanding of how we can love God and live out our faith 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,360 in practical ways. So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:36,240 context of the Bible intersect to transform our lives. Welcome back everyone to the Love 7 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:43,320 in Context podcast. There it is. Yeah. We're excited that you are here to join us for the 8 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:49,600 final episode of Pentultimates next to last. Oh, next to last. Yeah. Cause we got one more. 9 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,840 We're going to talk about covenants with between like people. Oh, that's right. Yeah. That's 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,920 right. But we are going to be talking about the messianic covenant. Woo. Everybody's been 11 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,680 waiting for this one. And wives know this is not the covenant about how to get your 12 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,320 husband to do dishes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That, that would be the, the he is messy antics. 13 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:14,000 Yes. Yes. Covenant. Yes. Uh, this one I had to like be really careful how to pronounce 14 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,440 that. Ben's like, I had to think about that one. Yeah. Um, so this covenant that implies 15 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:30,560 that I don't think about anything else I say. So this covenant, uh, uh, this is great. Uh, 16 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,840 spoiler alert for everyone. This covenant talks about Jesus. Yeah. So that's where we're 17 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:42,720 going today. The Messiah, the Messiah. Yeah. So, uh, the messianic covenant obviously refers 18 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:48,040 to Jesus and it, so the messianic covenant is the, what we often will call the new covenant. 19 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,520 It's central to our faith, right? It signifies this, this new relationship between God and 20 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,680 humanity through Jesus Christ. Um, this is going to be incredibly important for Jew and 21 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:02,080 Gentile and alike. Uh, it, it emphasizes the forgiveness of sin, the indwelling of the 22 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,760 Holy Spirit and the promise of this eternal life is qualitative light for God now dwells 23 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:13,400 in you, right? From, from then on. Um, and even, uh, I might even say beyond forgiveness 24 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,440 of sins to actually you becoming a new person. Uh, one of the, one of the examples I love 25 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:24,000 to give is out of Jeremiah right here. It says Jeremiah 31, the days are coming declares 26 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,360 the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of 27 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,520 Judah, it will not be like the covenant I made with your ancestors when I took them 28 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,320 by the hand to lead them out of Egypt because they broke my covenant though I was a husband 29 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,560 to them declares the Lord. This is, this is the covenant I will make with the people of 30 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,160 Israel after that time. I will put my law in their minds and I will write it on their 31 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,880 hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people no longer. Will they teach their 32 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:51,320 neighbor or say to another, know the Lord because they will all know me from the least 33 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,120 of them to the greatest declares the Lord for I will forgive their wickedness and will 34 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:01,000 remember their sins no more. Okay. So what is the biggest difference between this, uh, 35 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,520 previous covenants and this covenant you're going to know God and God's going to fully 36 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,200 know you. Yes. Now of course somebody there is probably clacking away. They're like, Oh, 37 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,560 the God already knows everything. Yeah, I understand that. But in an experientially 38 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,440 way like God is going to know you in relationship. In other words, he's going to be indwelling 39 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:24,240 in your life. Right. And uh, I was like, I know that God knows everything, but at the 40 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,440 same time he is, he is desiring relationship and closeness with his kids. Well, in the 41 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,880 passage you just read talks about a marriage relationship, right? Yeah. Like in a marriage 42 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:39,160 relationship, the reality is like, I can say things about my wife, but that's different 43 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:45,200 than me knowing and being with my wife. Right. Yeah. Like, like I can tell you all the wonderful 44 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,600 things about her and probably a few not so wonderful things about her. Right. Yeah. Probably 45 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,560 just focus on the wonderful ones. If you're talking to us, focus on those ones. Yeah. 46 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,160 Yeah. Um, I can tell you all those things, uh, but it'd be like this way I know about 47 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,360 her versus like being with her and actually doing life with her and knowing her. There's 48 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:07,680 a difference there. Yeah. And uh, so, so in Jeremiah, once again, what's happening in 49 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,280 the book of Jeremiah, they're going into captivity, right? Um, because they have not been following 50 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,360 God's, uh, Torah because he says, Hey, if you do the Torah, like your fields are going 51 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,360 to produce, you're going to have lots of kids. Uh, there's going to be peace. Like your enemies 52 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,920 will run away from you. You're going to be the story I put on display. All the world 53 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:30,400 is going to be changed because of you. And they're like, nah, they didn't say that. But, 54 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,960 but like as a nation, they basically wanted to be like everybody else. They didn't want 55 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,360 to be God's chosen people. Yeah. They wanted to be like everybody else. And uh, what ends 56 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,680 up happening is God has to, uh, send them into captivity. So they learned and they don't 57 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,800 want to be like everybody else. They actually want to be something different. Yeah. Um, 58 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,360 Jesus, of course, the Torah made flesh comes and puts that all on display. Jesus is what 59 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,440 the Torah was always supposed to look like in a person. Right. And he goes and puts it 60 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,400 on display. And as a Jewish Messiah goes to the cross and coordinates his kingdom with 61 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:04,640 his death and ultimately has power over death, becoming back from the grave. Yes. Right. 62 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,280 And because, uh, and Galatians, Paul's going to make a statement. He says, because of Jesus's, 63 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:15,040 uh, faithfulness, we now have faith in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And because 64 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,680 of this, our identity is carried with him to the very throne room of God. And we're restored 65 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,520 back to the father. Jesus is going to say this slightly differently. Um, but it's the 66 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,920 same, same idea is that, uh, he's talking in John 15. He says, I am the true vine and 67 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,960 you are the branches. If a man remains in me, he will bear much fruit apart from me. 68 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:37,240 You can do nothing that the process of actually being part of this kingdom life of being connected 69 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,960 to this life, giving fruit and, and being productive and everything in your life is 70 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:48,920 actually going to be being connected to Jesus. Yeah. That's it. It's not, it's not through 71 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,560 your effort. It's not through anything that you can do. Not through any of those things 72 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:58,240 is being connected to Jesus. And if you do that fruit's going to come out of your life. 73 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,880 And this, this invitation is like, it's not about what you can do. It's about what's been 74 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:07,680 done for you and whether or not you trust that. And Jesus says, if you trust me and 75 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,600 you follow me, suddenly everything's going to be way different. And you're not going 76 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:16,200 to have to do a ton. Now, um, I think sometimes the misnomer there is like people like, okay, 77 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,760 well, so I accept Jesus and then I don't do anything. If you accept Jesus, you're stepping 78 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,400 into a kingdom and so now you're following the King. Yeah. Are actually, our designs 79 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:31,160 actually to work. Correct. Right. Like we had jobs before Adam and Eve had jobs before 80 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,200 the fall. Right. Like they were tending the garden. They were tech support, you know, 81 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:43,480 at Apple. Yeah. No, that's not it. Yeah. Exactly. They actually, I think got fired from that. 82 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:49,480 They didn't do so well, but, uh, but they were tending the garden. They were in charge 83 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,560 of all the animals. They had jobs and there's actually, and there's actually scriptural 84 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:58,880 evidence in the new Testament to talk about that when, uh, when heaven is restored to 85 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:05,200 earth, cause there's actually side note, there's more scripture talking about having coming 86 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,960 to earth versus us going to heaven. Side note. Um, and some of you are typing away right 87 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,280 now. That's okay. I'd love to have that conversation. Yeah. We'll have that conversation a hundred 88 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:20,960 times. Yeah. Um, 101 times though, we're done at 101. We're done. It's actually at four 89 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,360 91. We're done. Okay. Forgiveness is done at that point. No, we're after four 91. Um, 90 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,720 but, uh, when heaven is restored to earth and we are part of that kingdom, eternally, 91 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:37,040 we will still have jobs, right? It'll look different, but we will still have work to 92 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,500 do in that kingdom. Yeah. Like that is the reality of who we are. We're not designed 93 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:46,160 to sit idle. We're not designed to do nothing. Yeah. And so oftentimes we get this message 94 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,200 of Jesus came to redeem restore and all you have to do is say yes. A hundred percent correct. 95 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,080 But in that redemption and restoration process, you're made into a new person. Yeah. Your 96 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:02,160 identity, your focus, your drive is going to change. And the reality is, is if you say 97 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,520 yes to Jesus, what you're actually saying is yes, I'm going to trust in you. Um, when 98 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,960 I sit in a chair and I say that I trust this chair, I demonstrate that by sitting in the 99 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:14,480 chair. Yes. I, if I say that I trust this chair and I never sit in it, which by the 100 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,520 way, I've broken a lot of chairs. So I don't trust all chairs. I've gone to your house 101 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,960 sometimes around the fire and you're like, Oh, you can sit there. And I very gingerly 102 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,040 sit down. Right. I've broken a lot of chairs. I was like, but if I have faith in a chair 103 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,200 and I believe that the chair is going to hold me, I sit in it. Right. If you believe and 104 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,560 have faith in the promises of Jesus, then you're going to live like you're a part of 105 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:38,640 his kingdom. Right. Uh, it's not something that you produce, but it is something that 106 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:44,840 is produced in you. Yeah. The, the power of Jesus inside you, the hope of glory, right 107 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,920 is what actually transforms the world. Like when the Holy spirit is in your life and he 108 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,880 is working through you, then you're able to go and actually be the hands of feet and feet 109 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,240 of Jesus in the community and magic, not magical, amazing things happen. Yeah. Right. Because 110 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:04,400 of Jesus working through you. And so yes, there is a, you absolutely do something, but 111 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,160 it's also not you doing it as Jesus doing it through you. Yeah, absolutely. So there 112 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,480 is a responsibility, but also the responsibility is almost is, is like the same responsibility 113 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,440 that you have with a gift that you'd be given is to actually go and bless with your blessing. 114 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:27,040 Right. Um, you didn't earn the blessing, therefore we share the blessing. Yeah. Right. Yep. And, 115 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,800 and so in the fulfillment of the messianic covenant, what you have is you have God saying, 116 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:38,140 Hey, we are returning to how Israel is supposed to be. Correct. Right. You have before Saul, 117 00:09:38,140 --> 00:09:43,280 you had Israel without a quote unquote King. Yep. Without an earthly King. Let's put it 118 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:48,680 that way. Um, and now you have the kingdom of God moving forward through the line of 119 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:56,640 Israel through Jesus. And guess what? There is no earthly King is King Jesus. Well, and 120 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,720 let's, let's go back to, because let's, let's talk about all these covenants because all 121 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:05,360 these covenants find their, find their fulfillment in Christ. Yep. Right. So Adamic, no way 122 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,840 a covenant, but we're just going to focus on the Adamic is, is, uh, through one man, 123 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,480 all sin enters the world. Right. Yes. But this whole thing is be fruitful, multiply, 124 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:19,000 subdue the whole worth and fill it. Right. So the, the, the covenant is about filling 125 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,200 the entire earth and bringing the kingdom of God everywhere that you go. Yep. This is 126 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,280 fulfilled in the second Adam, which is Jesus Christ. Yes. As, as we live into his kingdom, 127 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,840 we bring the kingdom with us wherever we go. Now, instead of a physical temple, we, the 128 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,520 people are the temple of the Holy spirit. And we actually walk in this world, bringing 129 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,120 the kingdom of God everywhere we go. If you're ever at work and you're like, man, this is 130 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,280 a dark, dark place. Guess what? You're the light of the world. Go turn on a light. Right. 131 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:51,160 Yep. Like we usher light in. Correct. Right. Uh, and I like to use the analogy of light 132 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,400 a little different than a light switch, right? Yeah. So that's what we're used to. Yeah. 133 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,600 Turn a light switch on, instant light. We're good to go. Right. That's probably not what 134 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,800 they knew though. Yeah. Probably what they knew was actually more of like this light 135 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,280 gradually filling a space. Right. Right. Cause we have to think of it more in the context 136 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,400 of a sunrise or sunset. Right. Well, I even think if you're talking about a person carrying 137 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,360 light in their context, it would have been like you're carrying a torch from room to 138 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,280 room. It's pitch blackness and you walk in with a torch. Yeah. Like it's not, you're 139 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:25,000 not the one on fire, but you carry the fire inside you. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. 140 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,660 So think of light a little bit like that where it's like where you're bringing it with you. 141 00:11:29,660 --> 00:11:33,880 So then, then there's these, this Abrahamic covenant, which is that, um, they're going, 142 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,280 it's, uh, you're going to be blessed so that all people can be blessed and all the world 143 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:41,400 is going to, uh, be drawn to God because of this. And it's a, it's a covenant that you 144 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,200 accept through faith, right? Because it, uh, Abraham believed God and it was credited to 145 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,440 him as righteousness. Yes. Right. So there is righteousness to God through faith. This 146 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,920 is fulfilled once again in the person of Jesus that in faith we cast our identity onto Christ 147 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,600 and, uh, because of that, we're carried to the throne room of God and we have his presence 148 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:04,840 place inside of us. Yep. Right. It's not through anything that we can accomplish. Um, the, 149 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,720 the next one is not one that is necessarily applicable for the Gentiles, but might be 150 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,200 applicable for Jewish people because there's called to live in a specific way. It's a mosaic 151 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,280 covenant. Like they're supposed to live a certain way to put God on display. Hint, hint 152 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:23,260 Gentiles. If the, um, Jews are supposed to live in a certain way to put God on display, 153 00:12:23,260 --> 00:12:28,200 what are we supposed to do? Also live in a specific way that puts a God on display. So 154 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:34,200 like the way that you, uh, work, the way that you parent, the way that you, uh, communicate 155 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:40,320 with like colleagues, the way that you, uh, uh, grocery shop, it should put God on display, 156 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,640 right? Where you spend your money should put God on display. Right. Um, I, I always hear 157 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,920 that really convicting thing that says, if you want to know what you really care about, 158 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:58,720 look at your pocketbook. I hate that. I mean, it's true, but I hate it. You know, um, Jesus 159 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:04,760 comes as a, as a, as a stand in for all of Israel, right? It's really important, really 160 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,040 reason why it's really important to understand is the Jewish Messiah. He steps in and he 161 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:14,440 fulfills the covenant, the mosaic covenant, the Torah made flesh and, uh, and, uh, and 162 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:20,800 steps into this Isaiah 55 role. Yep. Right. And that it's through him, all the world and 163 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,060 all the nation is going to be saved. Right. But he's not only that he's also, like we 164 00:13:25,060 --> 00:13:30,600 talked last week, he's this Davidic Messiah. Yeah. Right. And he's establishing a kingdom 165 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:36,840 that can't be stopped. He's establishing his rule, reign and expectations moving forward. 166 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,760 Yep. Right. Yep. And his kingdom isn't to fight the physical powers of this world. It's 167 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,700 none. Right. We, we often make that mistake where we're like, okay, we see the physical 168 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:50,720 thing that's wrong, Lord fix it. And he's like, you know, I'm much more concerned about 169 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:56,860 your heart. Right. Right. I'm like, you're, uh, look at your neighbor, like maybe their 170 00:13:56,860 --> 00:14:01,400 life looks really good, but where's their heart at much more concerned about that. Uh, 171 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,960 you read stories, you read about stories all the time where, where it's someone who is 172 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,760 a well-off has had a good life. And the next thing you know, they commit suicide or do 173 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:16,640 some sort of heinous act and, and the Lord saying, no, I'm going after the heart. I'm 174 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,960 not going after the physical state of the person. Right. And, and sometimes he does 175 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,520 heal physically. I'm not going to, I want to just clarify that before the keyboards 176 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,880 start clacking too much. We've seen too much of it for us not to know that God does it. 177 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:36,600 Yeah. God does it. Um, but he's much more concerned about your heart than he is you 178 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,640 physically. Well, coming from a Pentecostal and free Methodist background for you, of 179 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,560 course I grew up Southern Baptist, but, um, but Ben being a Pentecostal church now, like 180 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,400 we expect miracles, we expect God to do miracles. But here's the thing that I think is really 181 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,240 important that you always temper miracles with every person who was ever healed died 182 00:14:54,240 --> 00:15:00,700 at some point. Yep. But every person who has encountered Jesus is changed forever. Yep. 183 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:06,440 And so the greater miracle is always for somebody to come into a experiential knowledge of Jesus 184 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:12,160 Christ and God as father. Right. And, uh, that's not to say that God's not going to 185 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:18,080 meet you in your physical elements or in your emotional issues. Right. Like he's not going 186 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,960 to step in and actually heal these things. But the much, much deeper thing is that if 187 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,120 your heart doesn't change, if your being doesn't change and, and like, you don't cast your 188 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:34,680 identity onto Christ, like you're missing the greater miracle. You are, uh, you are 189 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:41,920 eating a snack when a banquet is coming. Well, so look at John chapter four, uh, the woman 190 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:50,160 at the well, like it's a pretty prominent story in the Bible. Um, and, uh, side note, 191 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:54,800 go do your own research on this guys. Uh, but one could argue the woman at the well 192 00:15:54,800 --> 00:16:00,200 was not as despised as people originally make her out to be. Correct. But there's some really 193 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,000 interesting conversation about that. You guys can absolutely have your own opinion. Yeah. 194 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:10,280 You can have your own opinion on it. Do some research on it. But regardless, uh, what miracle 195 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:16,000 took place at this well? Like the miracle that took place was the fact that she came 196 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,800 to know who Jesus is. Right. And then she went into the community and shared that with 197 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,960 everyone. Well, and, and Jesus gives the story. He says, I will give you a water that will 198 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,000 bubble up a Springs inside of you. And she's like, Oh, well, I want that water. So I don't 199 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,400 have to drink water or pull water again. And yet she does drink of that water metaphorically. 200 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:42,000 And it does bubble up into the entire community. Right. Like this is the, this is the reality 201 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:49,240 of what, what Jesus does is that she thinks the physical issue is the issue. Yeah. And 202 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,880 Jesus says, no, I got something better. It's actually going to do more of what you want. 203 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:00,000 Yeah. And the thing that is crazy about this story is that the disciples were more shocked 204 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,160 about this than other miracles. It might be that this one, it could be that this one just 205 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:09,000 happened a little earlier, right? But, uh, they were so shocked that when they came back 206 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,360 because they went to go get food for Jesus, they came back and they're like, they're like, 207 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:16,040 what is he like thinking? Like, what's he doing? Why is he talking to her? And then 208 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,200 they're like, why is he talking to a Samaritan? Why is he talking to a Samaritan woman? I 209 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,780 don't understand why this would be happening. And so finally one of them like becomes brave 210 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:31,600 and is like, are you still hungry? And he's like, no, I'm good. I got, I got food. You 211 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:37,720 don't know about who got him food. Yeah. Who got, who got you food? Right. Completely missing 212 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,280 the miracle of what's happening because, because, uh, you know, this, this happens a lot in 213 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,960 our lives as we get tend to get focused on what we think God should do rather than understanding 214 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:53,120 God's for everybody. We get so focused on what we want that we forget that God is here 215 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:58,760 for everybody. I'm going to say that one more time because I don't think you heard me. We 216 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:07,640 get so focused on what we want that we forget that God is here for everybody. And, uh, and 217 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,160 his invitation is open to everybody, especially those people that in the case of like the 218 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:17,240 Jews and the, and the Samaritans, especially those people that you think are terrible, 219 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,600 awful, have nothing to do with them. People, if you really want to know how they, like 220 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,720 how they felt about them, like even in the text itself, James and John, when they're 221 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,880 leaving Samaria, like, are like, Jesus, do you want us to burn it down? Call down fire 222 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:36,280 from heaven. Right now, why would they say fire from heaven? Because where's the last 223 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,040 place that got burned with fire from heaven? Sodom and Gomorrah. And so he's like, do you 224 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,520 want us to burn it down? Like Sodom and Gomorrah? Cause in their head, like it's so corrupt. 225 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:52,520 They are so corrupt that they're like Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus says like, no, no, no, 226 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,320 no, that's not what we're doing. Um, and, uh, and so it's like one of those things where 227 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,040 something like it was the messianic covenant. Like I think sometimes people like, yes, it's, 228 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,480 it's a fulfillment of all these covenants, but it's built, it's predicated on what came 229 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:14,280 before it. Yeah. Right. And, um, I, I, I don't love, I don't love the way that we've taken 230 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,000 the book of Hebrews and we said, this is a better covenant then. Cause I think what the 231 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,600 book of Hebrews is more illustrating is that it is the fulfillment of all the covenants 232 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,760 that came before it. Like it is the covenant that was originally the design that we were 233 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:32,560 working towards. Right? So yes. Is Jesus a better high priest than having a high priest? 234 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,920 A hundred percent. That's always what it was working towards is that God was supposed to 235 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:41,800 be our high priest. Right? Is, uh, Jesus a better temple than the physical temple? Yeah, 236 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,360 of course. Is the Holy spirit's presence better than, you know, when they rest in us rather 237 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:52,920 than on us? Absolutely. Like this is a better thing. Right. Um, and I, and I think sometimes 238 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,080 if when you read the book of Hebrews, if you don't understand that this is written to the 239 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:03,360 Hebrew people, hence the book title that you might misconstrue what he's actually having 240 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:07,520 a conversation about, he's talking about that Jesus is taking everything that we had and 241 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:12,640 he's leveling it up. Yeah. Like dramatically. Yeah. And it's a really cool. It's really 242 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,040 cool. Well, I've had people talk to me and they'd be like, well, the book of Hebrews 243 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:21,160 and James are just so different in the new Testament. I was like, yes, cause they're 244 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,120 really written to the Hebrew people. Both those books are like they're written to a 245 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,920 culture that is different culture that's supposed to be different culture that's supposed to 246 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,720 be set apart. Right? Yeah. Cause, uh, we talked about this in James and Hebrews has the same 247 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,520 thing, but in the book of James, he's writing to Jewish people and he's like, you know what 248 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,400 you're supposed to do. You know, Torah, like, and you know what Jesus said to do with Torah. 249 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:50,280 Right? Like you have a great example of what it looks like to put Torah on display. Yeah. 250 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:55,640 It's called Jesus Christ. Yep. Right. And, uh, Hebrews is, and is like, is saying, Hey, 251 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,920 you gotta understand that Jesus is fulfillment of everything that's come before it, you know, 252 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:04,640 and uh, you actually find, and once again, I want to go back to this idea of a fulfillment 253 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:12,560 abolish, right? Yeah. Like in a rabbinic sense, fulfilled doesn't mean do away with any more 254 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:18,080 than abolish means do away with. Like fulfill means you actually put it on display and it's, 255 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,640 it's able to be seen by the people around you. Abolish means you're actually downplaying 256 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,880 covenant that came before it. Jesus didn't come to abolish the Torah. He came to fulfill 257 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:32,600 the Torah and to put it on display and show us what it's always supposed to look like. 258 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,600 The thing that where I think people get missed issues with is when they get into Galatians 259 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:42,320 is understanding what is the role of the Gentile as opposed to the Jew, which is probably most 260 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:47,280 of the people who listen to this. Right. Most of us are probably Gentiles. Yeah. And I mean, 261 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,880 that, that also goes back to the book of Acts about midway through where they're, where 262 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,080 the disciples and Paul, they're hashing this out. I'm like, do we hold these people to 263 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,400 the same standards? Do we not? And then they come, and then they come out with the four 264 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,200 things that they expect of the Gentiles. Right. And so there's this whole conversation around 265 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,960 this, right. And they're like, no, Israel is actually supposed to be its own separate 266 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:16,480 thing. Right. And it's, and it's not, there's not a special blessing for Israel and there's 267 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:22,080 not a special blessing for Gentiles. We're both calm to put God on display in different 268 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:27,180 ways. And we should be super thankful for the Jews and for the, for the Orthodox Jews 269 00:22:27,180 --> 00:22:33,760 who follow Jesus. Right. Because their preservation of Torah and history helps us understand what 270 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:38,320 Jesus actually means for us to do. Yeah. Right. Like an example, like a way to think of this 271 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,920 with the Jew and Gentile thing is like, it's like welcoming an outsider into your family. 272 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:47,920 All right. So you have a sibling, that sibling gets married. Yeah. Right. You're welcoming 273 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,080 an outsider into the family. Yeah. Right. It's going to probably change some family 274 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:59,280 dynamics, right? That's, let me rephrase that. It will change. I was going to say, you may 275 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:04,520 need to say that differently. It will change some family dynamics. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, 276 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:09,440 between the outsider in well, and, and, and it's the same family though. Like it's, they 277 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,820 have different history, but they're the same family and they're, they don't act the exact 278 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:17,480 same way. Yeah. Um, you have a number of, uh, adopted siblings. Yes. Is any single one 279 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,000 of them not your family? Nope. They're all your family. The second that you brought them 280 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,000 in, they're your family. Yep. Period. The same way we are, we have been adopted in, 281 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,960 we've been grafted into this tree. We're a part of the family that God's been building 282 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,880 from the very beginning. And good news about Jesus and about God is that they love adopting. 283 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:43,120 Yep. Right. They love adopting. They do. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think we can understate how 284 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:50,280 overstate how, um, important the messianic covenant is. Right. And it's really important 285 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:56,300 to understand what it is and what it isn't. Yes. Right. Because, um, the gospel, the good 286 00:23:56,300 --> 00:24:00,960 news that Jesus preached is that the kingdom of heaven is here. The covenant is expressed 287 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,200 through his blood. Yep. Right. And, uh, you, you remember that you and I, we had this, 288 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,400 we were preaching, uh, um, a couple of years ago and we were, we use that illustration 289 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,440 with, uh, the Lagos, right? Where there's a big pile of Lagos, a bunch of different 290 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,880 colors and we said, this is the information in your Bible. Yeah. Right. And then, uh, 291 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,640 and then you separate them by stacks and you're like, this is the different books of the Bible. 292 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,960 And then you actually stack up all the colors next to each other and neat little rows. It's 293 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,600 like, this is systematic theology. Right. And then we showed a picture of, uh, uh, of 294 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,640 the Lagos actually being built into a house with a, like a yard and, and a door and all 295 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,880 this stuff. And I said, by the way, this is the gospel. Yeah. And so sometimes we can 296 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,000 see the individual pieces and never actually build the entire picture. Yeah. Um, because 297 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:52,160 the, the life death or the, the death and burial and resurrection of Jesus is the doorway 298 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:57,560 by which we enter into this different life. Right. And so the covenant is incredibly important 299 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,840 because that's what happens in the messianic covenants fulfilled the, through the death 300 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,360 burial, resurrection of Jesus. Yeah. And then we're invited into this kingdom life where 301 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:12,200 we follow a King in the line of David golden years in a, in a kingdom that doesn't end 302 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,080 and always is moving forward. The earth is being subdued. It's being filled. We are being 303 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:21,240 fruitful. We multiply all these covenants are being fulfilled in our midst. Yep. It's 304 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:26,600 good stuff. Good stuff. So the last one we're going to be talking about next week is we're 305 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,160 going to talk about what does it mean to live in covenant with each other? Yeah. What does 306 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,400 it mean to live in covenant with your friends and, and, and your church and your spouse, 307 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,240 you know, like these, there are covenants that we jump into all the time. And, and, 308 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,840 are you actually in a covenant relationship, but you're not behaving like you're part of 309 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,640 a covenant. Yeah. Right. That, that, that's, I think that's, that's the, the place that 310 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:53,480 we go next because we exist in this covenant to relationship with God. 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