1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,600 The junior church is dismissed and the choir comes down. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,300 If you have a copy of scriptures, I would encourage you to open to the second chapter 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:08,300 of Matthew. 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:31,980 Music plays. 5 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:40,620 We're only going to be looking at three verses this morning, 6 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:41,940 but out of respect for the word of God, 7 00:00:41,940 --> 00:00:44,240 would you stand as we look at these three verses. 8 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:54,280 Now when they, that is the Magi, the wise men had departed, 9 00:00:55,340 --> 00:00:57,260 behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph 10 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:00,500 in a dream, saying, arise, take the young child 11 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,060 and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there 12 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:07,980 until I bring you word, for Herod will seek the young child 13 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:09,220 to destroy him. 14 00:01:10,060 --> 00:01:13,180 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother 15 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:16,100 by night and departed for Egypt, 16 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,980 and he was there until the death of Herod, 17 00:01:18,980 --> 00:01:22,220 that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord 18 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:27,220 through the prophet, saying, out of Egypt I called my son. 19 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:28,540 Let's pray. 20 00:01:31,260 --> 00:01:33,160 Father, would you help us this morning? 21 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,260 Lord, I pray that you would meet with us, 22 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:40,580 and Lord God, and just, Father, reveal to us 23 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:42,220 the glory and honor of your Son. 24 00:01:44,660 --> 00:01:46,300 Lord, even in the quietness of this moment, 25 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:47,900 Lord, prepare our hearts. 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,780 Lord, there is nothing more important at this hour 27 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:58,780 than what is taking place right now as we hear from heaven. 28 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:01,320 Lord, speak to us through your word. 29 00:02:02,340 --> 00:02:04,640 Father, may a rapt attention be given. 30 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,160 Lord, I pray that outside distractions, 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,720 Lord, things in our mind, Lord God, 32 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,200 that you by your Spirit would have us to focus, Lord, 33 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,360 and see Jesus from the pages of holy text. 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,480 God, reveal him to us. 35 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,920 Lord, let us see his glory. 36 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:27,760 Father, help us understand, Lord, this glorious message 37 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,960 of salvation that is centered and found in your Son. 38 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,360 Lord, I pray this, God, for your glory and learning. 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,880 Lord, I pray that you would not be alone. 40 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,720 Would you help me? 41 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,800 Lord, keep me back from saying anything, Father, 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,960 anything at all that would not be a help, 43 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,840 that would be a distraction. 44 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,720 Father, I beg of you for your Holy Spirit, 45 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,160 Lord, speak through me. 46 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,040 Father, I pray for his help, his aid, his power. 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,800 Lord, help us to tremble this morning 48 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,560 that we would say something countlessly or carelessly, 49 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,880 flippantly. 50 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,880 Lord, help us, Lord, to reverence you rightly this morning, 51 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,280 and for his glory alone, I pray. 52 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:07,120 Amen. 53 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:07,960 You may be seated. 54 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,640 In 2 Corinthians 1.20, the Apostle Paul writes this. 55 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:18,400 He says, for all, comprehensive, 56 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,400 for all the promises of God in him, that is Christ, 57 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:29,000 are yes, and in him, amen, 58 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,800 to the glory of God through us. 59 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,720 Now, that's an astounding verse. 60 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,080 The Apostle is saying that every promise that God made, 61 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,880 every promise that God made in the Old Testament, 62 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,920 whether it be to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, 63 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,640 who is later renamed Israel, to David, it doesn't matter. 64 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,400 Whatever promise finds ultimate fulfillment, 65 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,120 not near fulfillment, 66 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,480 finds ultimate fulfillment in Christ. 67 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,800 Paul said all the promises, all, in him, 68 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,600 that is Christ Jesus, are yes, and amen. 69 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,360 So in the Old Testament, we go back 70 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,960 and we see that God made a covenant with Israel, 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,120 and then that he gave great sweeping promises to them. 72 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,480 Now, this began with Abraham, who stands as a covenant head, 73 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,920 and he received incredible promises from the mouth of God. 74 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,600 Genesis 12, you'll start to see that. 75 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,160 But as we turn to the New Testament, 76 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,040 we see that the New Testament writers, 77 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,320 and they're all consistent here, 78 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,760 they all say that those promises that were made to Abraham 79 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,040 are actually completely fulfilled in Christ. 80 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,680 Christ is the seed, not a seed, 81 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,400 the seed through whom all the world would be blessed. 82 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,600 God made incredible promises to David. 83 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,800 And the promise there was that one of his descendants 84 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,920 would arise, who would sit on his throne, 85 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,280 and rule over God's people forever. 86 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,440 But as we turn to the New Testament, 87 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,760 we see the writers consistently saying 88 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,720 that promise was fulfilled in Christ. 89 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,440 Christ is the true and better son of David, 90 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,160 who forever rules over God's people. 91 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,320 On Sunday nights, we've been looking at the book of Hebrews, 92 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,080 and we find there the argue, 93 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,280 whether it be Paul or someone else, 94 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:25,760 arguing about the superiority of Christ 95 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,680 over everything the Old Covenant offered. 96 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,680 Jesus is better in any way. 97 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,920 He is better than the angels, 98 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,720 he is better than Moses, 99 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,600 he is better than Joshua, 100 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,480 he's better than Aaron, who stood as the priestly head, 101 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,560 he's better than, he offers a better covenant. 102 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,400 He gives a better sanctuary, 103 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,560 because this time the sanctuary is his own body. 104 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,160 He offers a better sacrifice, it's his own life. 105 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,480 The sacrifice has better results, it's eternal forgiveness. 106 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,720 And there are better things promised. 107 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,760 It's a kingdom that cannot be shaken. 108 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,840 Now in 1 Corinthians 5, chapter 7, the apostle Paul, 109 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:07,200 he says that Christ is our Passover. 110 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,640 So Paul is not just borrowing language 111 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:11,840 from the Old Testament, 112 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:13,920 he's actually writing the promises 113 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,840 and the events in the Old Testament. 114 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:21,560 And then he says, hey, these are all fulfilled in Christ. 115 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,800 In John chapter 2, the word Jesus, speaking of himself, 116 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,080 he said that his own body was the temple. 117 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,440 You see that in verses 19 through 21. 118 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,080 Jesus answered and said to them, 119 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,080 destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 120 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,280 Then the Jews said, well it's taken 46 years 121 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,800 to build this temple, 122 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,600 and you're gonna raise it in three days? 123 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,560 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 124 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,120 So Paul says he's the true Passover lamb. 125 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,000 Jesus said he's the true temple. 126 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,200 What was the temple for? 127 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,160 It was a meeting place between God and man. 128 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,440 In John 15, verse 21, or verse one, 129 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,320 Jesus said, I'm the true vine. 130 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,160 My father is the vine dresser. 131 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,280 Well now you might be thinking, 132 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,240 well that's just an agricultural metaphor 133 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,760 that Jesus used. 134 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,080 No, when Jesus said he's the true vine, 135 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,000 every Jew that would have been present listening to him 136 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,960 would have immediately understood what he was saying. 137 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:22,800 Why? 138 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,240 Because in the Old Testament, 139 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,960 the nation Israel is repeatedly referred to 140 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,640 as the vine of God. 141 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:31,640 I'll give you two examples, 142 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,280 and there are a multitude of examples. 143 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,720 Isaiah and Jeremiah. 144 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,920 In Isaiah 51, verse seven, 145 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,960 for the vineyard of the Lord of hosts 146 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,040 is the house of Israel. 147 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,960 Jeremiah 22, God speaking to the nation, 148 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,160 I had planted you a noble vine, 149 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,880 seed of highest qualities. 150 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,960 And here's what's gone wrong. 151 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:55,960 How then have you turned before me 152 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,240 into the degenerate plant of an alien vine? 153 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,480 So there was a vine, the nation Israel, 154 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,240 highest quality seed, and yet it produced a bad fruit. 155 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,280 But the Lord Jesus declares, I'm the true vine of God. 156 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,720 In other words, I'm the true Israel of God. 157 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,720 In Exodus, we see that the nation is actually called, 158 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,160 the nation of Israel is actually called God's son. 159 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,240 Exodus four, verse 22. 160 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,720 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, God speaking to Moses, 161 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,600 says, go say this to Pharaoh. 162 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:32,600 Thus says the Lord, Israel is my son, my firstborn. 163 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,040 But when you come to the pages of the New Testament, 164 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,880 they repeatedly say Christ is the true son. 165 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,240 Thus the true Israel. 166 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,440 Now today in our text, and this is what I wanna focus on, 167 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,880 you're gonna see another reference to Jesus 168 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,040 being the true Israel of God. 169 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,960 Now I think this has blessed me perhaps more 170 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,920 than a recent study has. 171 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,440 Just seeing the glory of Christ in this. 172 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,760 Matthew opens this letter, this gospel, 173 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,800 and he's showing the ancestry of our Lord 174 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,200 from Abraham and David. 175 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,520 He then proceeds to write of the miraculous 176 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,320 virgin conception and birth of the child. 177 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,800 Last week we saw these outsiders, these wise men, 178 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,800 these Magi, Eastern Magi, they come to worship Christ. 179 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,960 So it's foreshadowing outsiders 180 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,000 are gonna receive this child, 181 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,600 but those on the inside, the nation, 182 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:31,880 are gonna reject him. 183 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,880 So now the Magi arrive at the home of Mary and Joseph 184 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,640 in Bethlehem, and they're bearing these 185 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,720 incredibly expensive extravagant gifts, 186 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,080 and they give them to the family 187 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,120 as a sign of their worship to God. 188 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 And then immediately following this, these Magi, 189 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,760 and remember they're from a priestly aristocratic, 190 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,760 but also astrologers, they were warned in a dream 191 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,560 of Harold's evil, King Herod's, excuse me, 192 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:04,440 evil intention concerning the child. 193 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,360 They were told don't go back and talk to Herod, 194 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,360 because remember Herod said, 195 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,160 hey, when you find the child, bring word back to me, 196 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,200 and I'll come and worship him as well. 197 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,000 Well, God supernaturally warned them, no, that is a lie. 198 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,040 So then they take off, they head home back to the East 199 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,480 in another direction that they would not have to come 200 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,320 in contact with Herod. 201 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,160 So now when they departed, verse 13, 202 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,720 behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph 203 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,320 in a dream saying, arise. 204 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,960 Take the young child and his mother, flee to Egypt, 205 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,280 and stay there until I bring you word, 206 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:41,240 for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. 207 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:42,520 Herod wants to kill him. 208 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,480 So the danger for the child is not over. 209 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,840 In fact, it's just ramping up. 210 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,520 The very life of this child born to Mary is in danger, 211 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:57,520 because you have a wicked king full of paranoia and rage. 212 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,680 From the very beginning of our Lord's life, 213 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,860 we see opposition, even satanic opposition, 214 00:11:03,860 --> 00:11:06,720 seen through this murderous King Herod. 215 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,260 So evil is seeking to kill this child prematurely, 216 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:15,200 but God's plan cannot be thwarted. 217 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,800 So God sends an angel of the Lord, 218 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,400 he appears to Joseph in a dream, 219 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,080 and he's warning Joseph again of Herod's murderous plot. 220 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,040 Now this is the second time 221 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,600 that the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph. 222 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,440 Remember the first time, the angel of the Lord 223 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,240 appeared to him in a dream saying, Joseph, 224 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,720 don't be afraid to marry Mary. 225 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,840 Don't be afraid to take her as your wife, 226 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,160 for she's actually telling you the truth about this child. 227 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,580 She's not been with a man. 228 00:11:39,580 --> 00:11:40,520 She's not been unfaithful. 229 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,000 She slept with no one. 230 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,580 In fact, this is a virgin conception. 231 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,360 But now this time, the angel comes again, 232 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,640 and he says, this child that has been born, 233 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,540 his life is in danger. 234 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:57,740 Gather the family and immediately flee to Egypt for safety. 235 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,580 Now Egypt may seem like an unlikely place 236 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:04,320 as a haven for any fleeing Jew, 237 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,120 but at that time, in the time of Christ, 238 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,920 Alexander the Great had given the Jews a refugee, 239 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,840 a sanctuary city in Alexandria, Egypt. 240 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,880 It was estimated by Philo, the historian, 241 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,960 that there were probably about a million Jews 242 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,760 living in Alexandria at this time, 243 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,700 so when Joseph and Mary and the child arrived there, 244 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,460 there would be a community to greet them. 245 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:28,000 Now to go from Bethlehem to the border of Egypt 246 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,760 of 75 miles, to go to Alexandria, 247 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,120 it's probably another 100 miles, 248 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,680 but Joseph and Mary are a poor family. 249 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:37,000 How do we know that? 250 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,840 Remember when they present Jesus at the temple, 251 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,760 they have to bring two turtle doves. 252 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,680 That's because they were such a poor family. 253 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:47,520 So how is a family like this gonna finance a trip so long? 254 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,240 Most believe, now we're not told, 255 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,080 but most believe those valuable gifts 256 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,200 that the Magi gave them, 257 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,480 they were used to finance this trip. 258 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,400 So the family arrives in Egypt, 259 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,200 and they stay there until the death of Herod. 260 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,120 Now we're not told how long, 261 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,640 but we know that Herod didn't live long 262 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:06,980 after Jesus was born, 263 00:13:06,980 --> 00:13:10,360 so some believe this is probably just a couple months, 264 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,120 but even if not, just a short period of time. 265 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,700 Could have been a year, could have been two years, 266 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,500 but most conservatives say they were probably only in Egypt 267 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:19,640 for a few months at this time. 268 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,400 Now just as before, Joseph is warned in a dream, 269 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,240 and immediately without hesitation, 270 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,320 he obeys the angel's command, 271 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,880 he packs up the family, 272 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,160 and notice they head to Egypt that night. 273 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:35,000 Verse 14. 274 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,200 When he arose, he took the young child, 275 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,560 and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. 276 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:42,680 He gets up, and there's no word of any fight. 277 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:43,500 My wife would be saying, 278 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:46,000 hey, we're not heading out right now. 279 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,200 Mary's not putting up a fight. 280 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,240 She's stressing Joseph implicitly here. 281 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:51,520 But I was thinking about this. 282 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,360 Why did they have to flee to Egypt for safety? 283 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,480 I mean, God could have easily, supernaturally protected 284 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,080 Jesus and the family right there in Bethlehem. 285 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,640 I mean, he could have changed Herod's heart 286 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,120 and evil intention, 287 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,660 because the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, 288 00:14:07,660 --> 00:14:11,280 and as rivers of water, he turns it whether so ever he will. 289 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,440 He could have destroyed Herod and his soldiers. 290 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,000 Remember the story of Pharaoh? 291 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,040 Didn't end well for his army. 292 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,040 He could have actually hidden the child and his family 293 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,760 in plain sight, making them unable to find the child. 294 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,880 I mean, there's many ways, 295 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,520 countless ways that God could have supernaturally 296 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,760 protected Joseph, Mary, and this child, Jesus, 297 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,120 but he doesn't. 298 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,360 Instead, he sends them to Egypt for refuge. 299 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,200 Why? 300 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,800 Why did he do this? 301 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,880 This is what I wanna focus on. 302 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,720 This is actually not a mystery. 303 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,760 We are told, look at verse 15. 304 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,880 And he was there until the death of Herod. 305 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,280 Now notice the phrase, that it might be fulfilled, 306 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,760 which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, 307 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,600 out of Egypt, I called my son. 308 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,680 Now remember, who is Matthew primarily writing to? 309 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,600 A Jewish audience. 310 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:11,660 Gentiles are welcome to read, 311 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:13,680 but this is primarily for Jewish readers, 312 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,180 and he's once again proving the credentials 313 00:15:17,180 --> 00:15:20,640 of Jesus being their Messiah. 314 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,000 He is going to show that Christ, 315 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,000 this child born to Mary, in fact is the true Israel of God. 316 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:35,020 Now in verse 15, he quotes the prophet, 317 00:15:35,020 --> 00:15:38,240 Hosea chapter 11, verse one. 318 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:39,920 Now listen to Hosea 11.1. 319 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,000 You see it there on the wall behind me. 320 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,200 When Israel was a child, I loved him, 321 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,760 and Hosea's writing here, 322 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,640 and out of Egypt, I called my son. 323 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,920 Okay, Hosea is a prophet, eighth century BC. 324 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,680 This is probably 750 years before the birth of Christ, 325 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,520 and it takes place in a very dark time in Israel's history. 326 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,840 You know Hosea, he had to marry Gomer, the harlot wife. 327 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,520 So there's idolatry, there's apostasy in the land. 328 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,760 God had showered his love and blessing 329 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,640 upon his chosen people, Israel, 330 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,400 but instead of loving him and obeying him 331 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,520 as a choice vine ought to, they were a degenerate vine. 332 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,520 They were going after foreign gods. 333 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,440 They were worshiping foreign gods, 334 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,600 and God sent a message to the nation 335 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,640 through this prophet Hosea. 336 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,040 And in it, God is reminding them of his goodness, how. 337 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,660 Hey, y'all remember when you were slaves there in Egypt, 338 00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:38,040 and I delivered you from the hand of Pharaoh? 339 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,520 God had rescued the nation through the Exodus. 340 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,760 He brought them out of Egypt as a nation 341 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,160 and into the promised land. 342 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,920 If God had not intervened, 343 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,080 the people still would have been foreign slaves in Egypt. 344 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,720 So Hosea's prophecy, and I want you to understand this, 345 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,840 was given to the nation, Israel, 346 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,080 at a specific point in time in their history, 347 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,120 and it was given to them. 348 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:08,840 So Hosea is not writing, understanding, 349 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,440 he's actually prophesying about something 350 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,960 that's gonna happen 800 years later. 351 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:14,400 He's writing to the nation, 352 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,160 but as we come to the New Testament, 353 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,320 there was a deeper and more ultimate fulfillment 354 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,960 that even Hosea himself did not know of nor understand. 355 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,960 Now, admittedly, if you look at Hosea 11.1, 356 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,200 it seems at first glance that Matthew is playing fast 357 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,080 and loose with this Old Testament text. 358 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,200 I mean, is he not just cherry picking? 359 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,620 Is he going back and reading certain verses, 360 00:17:39,620 --> 00:17:41,640 and without warrant, 361 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,880 just applying them to Christ, whimsically? 362 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,640 Well, that's what it looks like, 363 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,560 but he's not doing that at all. 364 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,100 Matthew, who's writing under divine inspiration, 365 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,360 he's being led along by the Holy Spirit of God, 366 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:59,120 he tells us that Hosea's prophecy 367 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:04,560 was not ultimately fulfilled in that Exodus back in Egypt 368 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,160 when the Israelites escaped Pharaoh, 369 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,040 but it is ultimately fulfilled when this child, 370 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,680 who is also Israel, who is born to this virgin, 371 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:16,960 flees to Egypt, 372 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,080 and subsequently is called out of Egypt 373 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,520 back into the promised land of Israel. 374 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,160 Just as God had called his son, 375 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,080 remember Exodus 4, Israel is the son, 376 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,720 to the nation Israel, 377 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,320 God had called them out of Egypt into the promised land. 378 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:41,040 So now, God was calling his only begotten son, 379 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,200 the Lord Jesus, out of Egypt, 380 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,100 back into the promised land. 381 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,200 Now, why would Matthew choose to quote that passage 382 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,640 from Hosea right here? 383 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,400 He knows exactly what he's doing. 384 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:00,440 He is identifying Jesus with Israel. 385 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,960 Matthew is writing to prove that this child, 386 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,240 born to Mary, in fact, 387 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,320 and this is what we're gonna spend our time, 388 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:14,320 is the true Israel of God and the true son of God. 389 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:16,800 Now, here's what I want you to see. 390 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,200 If you look closely, 391 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,760 the entire life of Jesus is a recapitulation 392 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:24,880 of the life of Israel. 393 00:19:26,060 --> 00:19:27,920 Now, let me explain that. 394 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,560 Just as the nation Israel had an Exodus out of Egypt, 395 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,040 so also Jesus has an Exodus out of Egypt, 396 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,320 Matthew 2.15. 397 00:19:39,380 --> 00:19:41,320 But if you turn to chapter three of Matthew, 398 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,960 and this is where it gets really good, I think, 399 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,040 you see that Jesus is baptized. 400 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,980 When he leaves Israel, when he comes back into Israel, 401 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:51,840 he's being baptized. 402 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,520 As Israel, what happened after their Exodus? 403 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,380 They passed through the waters, right? 404 00:19:56,380 --> 00:19:58,280 They passed through the waters of the Red Sea, 405 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,740 so Christ is also passing through the waters 406 00:20:00,740 --> 00:20:01,920 of the Jordan River. 407 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,360 He's passing through the waters here. 408 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,660 After Israel passed through the waters, what happened? 409 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,240 They were tested. 410 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:11,140 Where? 411 00:20:11,140 --> 00:20:12,480 In the wilderness, the desert. 412 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:13,880 For how long? 413 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,240 40 years. 414 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,280 Jesus is baptized in Matthew 3, and in chapter four, 415 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,440 do you know what happens? 416 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:24,440 Immediately, the spirit takes Jesus into the wilderness 417 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,840 to do what? 418 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,820 Test him, tempt him. 419 00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:30,400 For how long? 420 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,720 40 days. 421 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:34,080 Why? 422 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,760 So you have an Exodus, you have a baptism, 423 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,760 and you have a temptation. 424 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,360 The nation had that, the life of Jesus has that. 425 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,720 What is Matthew doing here? 426 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,720 He is trying to show Jesus is the true son, 427 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,160 he's the true Israel who won't fail. 428 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,480 Remember what had happened to that nation? 429 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,960 Jeremiah 2, their degenerate plant. 430 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,160 The nation Israel has God's son failed them, 431 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,920 yet this Israel, God's true son, whose name is Jesus, 432 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,080 will not fail, but will succeed 433 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,400 in completely obeying the Father. 434 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,920 The nation as a son broke the covenantal relationship 435 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:24,840 through unbelief. 436 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,600 They did not believe. 437 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,440 That's why their carcasses 438 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,280 and their skeletons were scattered all over the desert. 439 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:36,160 But Christ, the true Israel, he succeeds as a son 440 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,120 by completely trusting his Father 441 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,600 in and through all circumstances. 442 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,120 But we're not done. 443 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:49,040 In Matthew 10, the Lord Jesus, the true Israel, 444 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,700 he chose 12 disciples. 445 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,400 Why? 446 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,640 Why 12? 447 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,000 Because he's a recapitulation of the nation. 448 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:04,920 The nation had 12 tribes based upon 12 sons. 449 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,340 Christ would choose 12 apostles. 450 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:15,480 We read in Paul's writings, there is a foundation change. 451 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,920 No longer is the foundation built upon 452 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,160 the 12 tribes of Israel, but the 12 apostles 453 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,640 will now serve as a foundation for the people of God. 454 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,000 You read that in Paul. 455 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,720 So what is this all saying? 456 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,900 We have a realignment of God's people. 457 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,560 No longer are the people of God 458 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,540 relegated to a land in the Middle East. 459 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,280 From now, the people of God 460 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,180 will come from all nations of the world. 461 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,940 They're no longer merely biological descendants of Abraham. 462 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:52,240 That's what made you a Jew. 463 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,360 These are spiritual descendants of Abraham. 464 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:58,120 Sons, yes, but spiritual sons. 465 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,640 The sons of Abraham, this is what Paul argued, 466 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,100 this is what Peter argued, I think this is what Matthew's 467 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,680 getting at here, are those who put their faith in Christ, 468 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,680 whether they be Jew or Gentile. 469 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,780 That's what makes you a son of Abraham. 470 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:13,840 So now, God's people are those who follow 471 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,380 in the steps of Abraham by putting their faith 472 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:18,880 in the promises of God, and where are the promises 473 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,600 of God fulfilled? 474 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,460 Remember what we started the verse, or this message with. 475 00:23:23,460 --> 00:23:25,120 They're all fulfilled in Christ. 476 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,400 Every promise of God is yes and amen in him. 477 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:33,400 So Galatians three, for you are all sons of God 478 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:35,800 through faith in Christ Jesus. 479 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,320 That's how you're a son. 480 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,760 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ 481 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,600 have put on Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek. 482 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,840 No, we take that for granted. 483 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,320 That's radical then. 484 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,560 There's neither slave nor free, male or female. 485 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,800 You're all one in Christ Jesus. 486 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,080 And if you are Christ, now notice this last verse. 487 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,360 I'm not making it up, Paul said it. 488 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,080 If you are Christ, and how are you Christ? 489 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:02,920 Through faith. 490 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,960 Then you are Abraham's seed, and you are heirs 491 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,680 according to that promise. 492 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,220 That Abrahamic promise, that's for you. 493 00:24:16,220 --> 00:24:20,040 If you're Christ, I love what Alan Strubeck said. 494 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,120 He said, you and I, we like the first Israel, 495 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:26,120 go to that next slide, are prone to wonder 496 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,280 from our father and to worship idols. 497 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,220 But Jesus, the perfectly righteous one, 498 00:24:33,220 --> 00:24:38,220 the better and true Israel, died to bear our sins 499 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,840 so that we might come and cast ourselves upon his mercy. 500 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,000 We have been gathered into his great company, 501 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,760 into the framework of the true kingdom of Israel, 502 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,920 not because of who we are or what we've done, 503 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,320 but because of who he is and what he has done. 504 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,800 Matthew is wanting his readers to know 505 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,500 that the Israel of God, the true Israel, 506 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:03,120 is this child that was born to this lady, this virgin. 507 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:06,520 It is Jesus Christ, and everyone who's gonna be united 508 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,720 to him by faith make up the people of God, the true Israel. 509 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,640 So who is God's true son? 510 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,920 Who is the true Israel? 511 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,720 It's not a nation, it is the Lord Jesus. 512 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:22,720 As Jesus is the true son, you and I are sons 513 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,200 by faith in him. 514 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,240 It's only as we're related to him. 515 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,460 As Jesus is the true Israel, you and I are part 516 00:25:29,460 --> 00:25:32,560 of this true Israel only as we're related to him. 517 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,300 Everything depends upon him. 518 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,620 You and I are those who by the spirit 519 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:41,840 have been circumcised in heart, 520 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,880 and we've come to believe in the promises of God, 521 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,560 I pray you have, just as Abraham did. 522 00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:50,160 But I think there's one more compelling truth, 523 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,800 and this is what I want you to see. 524 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,880 I've been asking you to pay attention, I always say that, 525 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,200 but I really want you to pay attention now. 526 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,280 That's a teacher in me. 527 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,080 I really pay attention to this. 528 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,200 We're gonna turn to the prophet Isaiah. 529 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,960 Isaiah, if you read through Isaiah, 530 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,300 you know that Isaiah prophesied much about the Messiah, 531 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,520 much about Christ. 532 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,640 Most Christological prophet of all of them would be Isaiah. 533 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,600 But starting in really chapters 42, 534 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,160 all the way through 53 or 54, 535 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,960 you have this motif of the suffering servant of Isaiah. 536 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,760 They're called the servant songs. 537 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:26,700 Now, Isaiah, he's writing about the nation, 538 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,520 and he's writing about how this nation will be restored 539 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,880 because the nation's gone astray 540 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,280 through a suffering servant. 541 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,480 Now, well, I wanna show this, 542 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,280 so you have to prove this to you. 543 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,600 So this is like a geometric, 544 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,280 remember in geometry I do all those proofs? 545 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,960 That's what I'm doing right here. 546 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,600 Isaiah 41, but you Israel, my servant, 547 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,120 Jacob, whom I have chosen, 548 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,320 the descendants of Abraham, my friend, 549 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,340 you whom I have taken from the ends of the earth 550 00:26:55,340 --> 00:26:57,680 and called from its farthest regions and said to you, 551 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,360 you are my servant, I have chosen you, 552 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:02,360 and have not cast you away. 553 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:03,520 There's hope for Israel. 554 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,280 Israel, now there's no doubt, look at verse nine. 555 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,640 You are my servant, I have chosen you. 556 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,600 Who's he talking to? 557 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,520 Verse eight, Israel. 558 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,480 Israel's a servant, right? 559 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,280 Now we're going to turn to chapter 42, verse one. 560 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,680 Behold my servant whom I uphold, 561 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,680 my elect one in whom my soul delights, 562 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,280 I have put my spirit upon him. 563 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,080 He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 564 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,720 He will not cry out nor raise his voice, 565 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,660 nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 566 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:37,360 A bruised reed he will not break 567 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,840 in the smoking flax he will not quench. 568 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,800 He will bring justice for truth. 569 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,320 He will not fail nor be discouraged 570 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,600 till he has established justice in the earth 571 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,620 and the coastlands shall wait for his law. 572 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:51,760 Now look down at verse six. 573 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,080 I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness 574 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,720 and will hold your hand. 575 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,380 I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, 576 00:28:00,380 --> 00:28:02,840 as a light to the Gentiles. 577 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:03,680 What's he gonna do? 578 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,280 Verse seven, open blind eyes 579 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:06,960 to bring out prisoners from the prison 580 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,440 and those who sit in darkness from the prison house. 581 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,680 Okay, stop. 582 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,160 This servant, Israel, because we know from 41, 583 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,640 is the elect one, the chosen one. 584 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,560 It is gonna bring justice and truth and light to Gentiles. 585 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,700 His mission is found in six and seven there. 586 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,600 A light to Gentiles, open blind eyes, 587 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,280 and release prisoners who are sitting in darkness. 588 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:33,720 Now we keep reading from 42 all the way to 53, 589 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,440 and I'm giving you just choice verses. 590 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,600 Chapter 44, verse one, just in case you need to hear it again. 591 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,120 Yet here now, oh Jacob, my servant, 592 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,760 and Israel, whom I've chosen. 593 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,960 There's no doubt who we're talking about. 594 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,040 Chapter 49, verse three, this is where it gets good. 595 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,760 And he said to me, you are my servant, 596 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,320 oh Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 597 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,000 Now right now, every time you've heard Israel, 598 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,160 you're thinking the nation, right? 599 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,880 That's what I would be thinking. 600 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,640 Same chapter, 49, three, look down two verses later. 601 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,680 And now says the Lord, and now the Lord says, 602 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,040 who formed me from the womb to be his servant. 603 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,400 So he's still talking to the servant. 604 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,000 What is this servant who earlier was identified as Israel, 605 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,720 what's he gonna do? 606 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,340 To bring Jacob back to him, 607 00:29:16,340 --> 00:29:18,600 so that Israel is gathered to him. 608 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,240 For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, 609 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,520 and my God shall be my strength. 610 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:25,760 This servant is Israel. 611 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,880 I've shown that to you, chapter 41, chapter 44. 612 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,320 The servant is Israel, verse three, 613 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,200 and yet we're told in verse five, 614 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,040 he's going to bring Jacob or Israel back to God. 615 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,440 This servant who is the elect one, who is Israel, 616 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,480 is going to redeem and save and restore Israel. 617 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,600 I know you're confused, you should be. 618 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,080 There is a servant, Israel, 619 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,360 who will save the people, Israel. 620 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:01,880 Isaiah 52. 621 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,160 I haven't proved it yet. 622 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,480 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently. 623 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,400 He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. 624 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,320 Just as many were astonished at you, 625 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,480 so his visage was marred more than any man, 626 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,520 and his form more than the sons of men. 627 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,080 So shall he sprinkle many nations. 628 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,880 King shall shut their mouths at him. 629 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,680 For what had not been told them, they shall see, 630 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,200 and what they had not heard, they shall consider. 631 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,440 Now, Isaiah 52 goes immediately into 53. 632 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,160 Remember, there are no chapter and verse divisions. 633 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,960 This is one big long scroll, if you will. 634 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,240 So the suffering servant of 52, whose visage was marred 635 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,160 and king shut their mouth at him, 636 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,840 immediately continues to 53, where the servant, 637 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,040 this same servant, is going to be crushed. 638 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,640 Why? 639 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,800 Like it's really good. 640 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,120 Who has believed our report? 641 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,760 To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 642 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,240 For he, this servant, shall grow up before him 643 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,760 as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. 644 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,160 He has no form nor comeliness. 645 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,080 He's not good looking. 646 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,480 And when we see him, there's no beauty 647 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:10,840 that we should desire him. 648 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,680 He's despised, rejected by men, 649 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,760 a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 650 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,280 And we hid as it were our faces from him, 651 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,800 and he was despised. 652 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,920 Oh, we did not esteem him. 653 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,000 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, 654 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,080 yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God afflicted. 655 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,600 But he was wounded for what? 656 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,520 Our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, 657 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,240 the chastisement for our peace, 658 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,320 and he's identifying with Isaiah here, was upon him, 659 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,680 and by his stripes, whoever the servant is, 660 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,160 were healed by them. 661 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,720 All we, like sheep, have gone astray. 662 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,120 We've turned everyone to his own way, 663 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,800 and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 664 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,640 Isaiah, the people of Israel. 665 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,480 He's oppressed, he was afflicted, 666 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,160 but he didn't open his mouth. 667 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,000 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter 668 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,720 and as a sheep before it shears the silent, 669 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,520 so he opened not his mouth. 670 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,160 Verse eight, and this is where I wanna focus on. 671 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,400 He was taken from prison and from judgment, 672 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,200 and who will declare his generation? 673 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,600 For he, the servant, 674 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,120 was cut off, killed from the land of the living. 675 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,680 Why? 676 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,560 For the transgressions of my people, he was stricken. 677 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,400 You have a servant here, 678 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,160 who somehow is killed, cut off from the land of the living, 679 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,120 for the transgressions of God's people. 680 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,080 This servant, going back to 42, 43, 44, is Israel. 681 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,080 You've been thinking the nation the whole time. 682 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,600 Israel, the servant, was killed for Israel, the people. 683 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,240 The true Israel, also known as the true people of God, 684 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,400 are the ones who are united to this servant, 685 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,920 the true Israel in faith. 686 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,720 They're the ones who unite to Christ Jesus. 687 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,520 Now you might say, but Ryan, you're really just reading 688 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,800 into Old Testament text when he wants to read it. 689 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,080 When he wants him to see. 690 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,440 No, I'm not. 691 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,800 I'm not, because New Testament writers, 692 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,200 who are writing under the influence of the Holy Spirit, 693 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,760 under divine inspiration, they take these passages 694 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:30,880 and they apply them to Christ, 695 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,800 and I'm just gonna give you a few examples and we'll close. 696 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,360 Let's go to the gospel we're preaching from, Matthew. 697 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,120 In Matthew 12, then the Pharisees went out 698 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,600 and plotted against him, that is Jesus, 699 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,600 how they might destroy him. 700 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,840 Of course they did. 701 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,600 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew from there, 702 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,000 and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all. 703 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,440 Yet he warned them not to make him known. 704 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,960 Verse 17, why did he heal them all? 705 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,520 That it might be fulfilled, which is spoken 706 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,040 by Isaiah the prophet, saying, now notice the text here. 707 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,200 I love this, it's so good here. 708 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,000 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, 709 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,200 my beloved, and whom my soul has well pleased. 710 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,800 I will put my spirit upon him. 711 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,480 He will declare justice to the Gentiles. 712 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,440 He's not gonna quarrel or cry out, 713 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,640 nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. 714 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,160 A bruised reed he will not break, 715 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,920 a smoking flax he will not quench, 716 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,280 until he sends justice, fourth justice to victory. 717 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,160 And in his name, Gentiles will trust. 718 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,600 Do you know what Matthew is quoting here? 719 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,280 Do you know what Matthew 12 is quoting? 720 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,080 Isaiah 42, that's where we started. 721 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,720 Matthew is telling us that the servant of Isaiah 42 722 00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:38,320 is Christ Jesus. 723 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,640 Matthew chapter eight. 724 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,160 When evening had come, they brought to him 725 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,800 many who were demon possessed. 726 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,600 He cast out the spirits with the word, 727 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,360 he healed all who were sick. 728 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,180 Why? 729 00:34:51,180 --> 00:34:54,520 Verse 17, that it might be fulfilled, 730 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,000 which is spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, 731 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,400 now notice where he's quoting. 732 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:04,240 He himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. 733 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,640 Matthew 8, 17 is quoting Isaiah 53, four. 734 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,720 What Matthew is telling us, this servant who is killed 735 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:18,720 in Isaiah 53 is Jesus. 736 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,600 And one more in Acts eight, the Ethiopian eunuch, 737 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,200 do you remember him in Acts eight? 738 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:30,120 He's reading from a scroll, a portion of Isaiah. 739 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,680 God sends Philip to him. 740 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,920 And Philip, excuse me, the Ethiopian eunuch 741 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,320 is reading about this suffering servant 742 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,440 and he's very confused. 743 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,520 He doesn't know who Isaiah is writing of. 744 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,400 Acts eight, 32. 745 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,800 The place in the scripture which he read was this. 746 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,280 He was led as a sheep to the slaughter 747 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,000 and as a lamb before it shears a silence. 748 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,240 So he opened his mouth. 749 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:57,720 In his humiliation, his justice was taken away 750 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,000 and who will declare his generation for his life 751 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,200 is taken from the earth. 752 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:04,480 The eunuch answered Philip and said, 753 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,240 I ask you of whom does the prophet say this? 754 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:08,640 Of himself or some other man? 755 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,680 I mean, I don't understand what I'm reading here. 756 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,520 Look at verse 35. 757 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,440 Philip opened his mouth and beginning at this scripture 758 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,040 right here, Isaiah 53, verse seven and eight, 759 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040 he preached Jesus to him. 760 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,960 That's so good. 761 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,520 The eunuch is reading Isaiah 53, verse seven and eight. 762 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,080 Philip is sent to him and he said, 763 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,920 I'll tell you exactly who Isaiah is referring to 764 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,920 in this prophecy and he starts to preach Jesus. 765 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,200 According to the New Testament, 766 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,440 the word Jesus is that servant of Isaiah. 767 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,520 He is the suffering servant from Isaiah 42 to 53. 768 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,920 But the servant in those passages is called what? 769 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:52,760 Israel. 770 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,360 Why? 771 00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:00,360 The word Jesus is the true Israel of God. 772 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,680 He is the true suffering servant of God 773 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,120 and he is the true son of God. 774 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,520 So you may be thinking, okay, so now what? 775 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,640 What do you wanna do? 776 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,280 What will you do with Jesus? 777 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:17,760 You're either, there's two choices 778 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,640 and there really are only two. 779 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,400 You either fall down and worship him, 780 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,440 you're gonna reject him to your own peril. 781 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,400 To have faith in this Christ 782 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,520 is to be part of the true people of God. 783 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,040 Friends, God has spoken from heaven. 784 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,800 There is no other way to be saved from God's wrath 785 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,760 except through this child that was born. 786 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,640 There is one savior, there is one mediator, 787 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,240 there is one true son and his name is the Lord Jesus Christ. 788 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,880 All the promises of God in him are yes and amen. 789 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,760 He is the covenant fulfillment of all the old covenant. 790 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,400 And I talk to Christians. 791 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,840 You have faith in this one 792 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,680 and the Bible clearly says in Galatians three, 793 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,360 you are Abraham's offspring. 794 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,840 You are blessed. 795 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:09,800 Why? 796 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,560 You are blessed because of faith. 797 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,080 By faith you are united to him 798 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,520 and he alone was that seed who inherited all those blessings. 799 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,160 And this is the message before we go to the table 800 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,000 to worship him. 801 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Christ is the true son. 802 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680 You are sons in him. 803 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,080 Christ is the true Israel. 804 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,520 You are part of the true Israel, 805 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,080 that is the true people of God by faith in him. 806 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,120 Christ is the blessed one. 807 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,480 You are blessed in him. 808 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,160 Christ is the elect one, the chosen one. 809 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,680 You are elect, chosen in him. 810 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:48,840 Friend, do you see it? 811 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,160 Friend, do you see it? 812 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,080 Is your heart exploding? 813 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,560 All the promises of God, 814 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,400 all the promises that God made 815 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,560 are yes and amen in this child. 816 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,200 And you are blessed if you see that. 817 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,160 You are blessed if you have trusted in him. 818 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,480 The father has revealed his son to you. 819 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,840 Praise him, friends. 820 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,640 But you know what this means? 821 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,040 He has given to us his son. 822 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,760 He has spoken from heaven and he is Lord. 823 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,080 And as Lord, you and I obey. 824 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,880 He is king and we are subjects. 825 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,560 He is God and we are servants. 826 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,760 For friends, Lord, give him your life. 827 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,160 And today, if you have never bowed your knee 828 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,000 in repentance and faith before him, 829 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,520 there is a savior, the true elect one, sent from heaven 830 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:44,960 to redeem those who are sinful. 831 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,600 And today, if you see yourself as a sinner 832 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,040 and you see Christ as savior, 833 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,880 confess him, he will save you. 834 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,280 Put your faith in him. 835 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,000 You must come to him today. 836 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,720 And friends, if you do believe and you've been baptized 837 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,120 and you have the sign of the covenant upon you, 838 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,480 rejoice today. 839 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,680 Exalt today as we take the communion 840 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,280 for this one given to heaven. 841 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,920 What a blessed people we are. 842 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:10,760 Let's pray. 843 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,920 Father, thank you, Lord, for your word. 844 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,080 Lord, I am so amazed. 845 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,840 Lord, the intricacy and Lord, just the, 846 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,520 Lord, the absolute astounding ways 847 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,960 that you have weaved together this perfect plan 848 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,440 and have revealed it in your word. 849 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,760 Oh, what a wonderful God. 850 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,080 How intelligent, how wise you are. 851 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,400 And yet you revealed it to babes and infants 852 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,880 and unworthy ones like ourselves. 853 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,400 Oh, Lord, help us Lord now by your spirit 854 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,880 as we come to the table and we celebrate 855 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,840 and remember the Lord's death. 856 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,440 Until he returns once more, we pray this in his name. 857 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,360 Amen. 858 00:40:50,360 --> 00:41:16,360 I'm Wester Deakins, if you would come.