WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.080 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:10.099 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:10.099 --> 00:00:13.179 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:13.179 --> 00:00:31.589 right in. of the Son of the Holy Spirit, teaching 00:00:31.589 --> 00:00:34.350 them to observe all things that I've commanded 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:37.710 you and lo, I'm with you always, even to the 00:00:37.710 --> 00:00:41.009 end of the age. Praise the Lord. And on Sunday, 00:00:41.049 --> 00:00:44.549 we started teaching the union of the Spirit that 00:00:44.549 --> 00:00:46.670 we have. And we're going to continue that today. 00:00:46.909 --> 00:00:49.890 And we said that we answered the question why 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:53.310 Jesus was telling them to preach the gospel to 00:00:53.310 --> 00:00:56.469 all nations. Praise the Lord. Because that has 00:00:56.469 --> 00:01:00.619 always been His original plan. That has always 00:01:00.619 --> 00:01:04.219 been the intention of God. Praise the Lord. And 00:01:04.219 --> 00:01:06.000 we looked at other scriptures that were saying 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.599 also the same thing that he was telling them. 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.359 Praise the Lord. That other scriptures that would 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.900 say beginning at Jerusalem, right? And in Judea 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:20.519 and in Samaria and all the earth. And we said, 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:24.579 why did he tell them to begin at Jerusalem? And 00:01:24.579 --> 00:01:29.170 we said, because Jerusalem... as a message praise 00:01:29.170 --> 00:01:32.049 the lord jerusalem has a message and that message 00:01:32.049 --> 00:01:35.689 is about the kingdom of god the message of peace 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:38.689 praise the lord so beginning at jerusalem we 00:01:38.689 --> 00:01:42.609 said was signifying the kind of message that 00:01:42.609 --> 00:01:46.489 was coming the kind of message that was coming 00:01:46.489 --> 00:01:49.549 and we also looked at the world in detail the 00:01:49.549 --> 00:01:52.989 nations to see that that had always been gospel 00:01:52.989 --> 00:01:59.319 and jesus started His ministry, right, from Galilee 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:03.620 of the Gentiles or the nations, right? And also, 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:06.420 he was also telling them that he should meet 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:10.840 at a mountain which was in Galilee. Praise the 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.479 Lord. Also signifying that his message was for 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.180 everybody. So today we're going to continue with 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:19.080 what we have started and we're going to look 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.280 at a few other things that point to God's original 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.590 plan. Praise the Lord. Before we start to talk 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:30.629 about the spirit within us, or the spirit that 00:02:30.629 --> 00:02:34.150 we have, or the spirit that we enjoy, we need 00:02:34.150 --> 00:02:37.969 to look at other things that tells us about God's 00:02:37.969 --> 00:02:40.430 plan for the nations, or for everyone. Praise 00:02:40.430 --> 00:02:42.669 the Lord. So, in verse 20 of Matthew chapter 00:02:42.669 --> 00:02:56.780 28, it says, The things that he has taught them, 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.080 he taught them from the scriptures. Praise the 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.280 Lord. The things that he has told them, it is 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.620 from the scriptures. Praise the Lord. He was 00:03:04.620 --> 00:03:07.080 not telling them something abstract. They were 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.199 not going to look for something that is not there. 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.500 And he says what? That he should teach them to 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:14.960 observe the things he has commanded them and 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.419 lo and with you always. So the word unto the 00:03:17.419 --> 00:03:20.419 end of the world is the word Suntalia. S -U -N 00:03:20.419 --> 00:03:24.300 -T -E -L -I -A. Praise the Lord. and it is used 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:29.000 in matthew very often and we as a church and 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.020 as a cell meeting we have been dealing with it 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:34.060 the end of the age praise the lord we have dealt 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:36.000 with this word several times so i believe that 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.960 we all know what it is but just look at a few 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.300 references from the end of the age or end of 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:44.759 the world matthew chapter 13 verse 39 matthew 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.719 chapter 13 verse 39 he says the enemy who saw 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.330 them is the devil and the harvest is to the end 00:03:52.330 --> 00:03:55.389 of the age and the reapers are the angels he's 00:03:55.389 --> 00:03:58.229 asking what the end of the age matthew 13 40 00:03:58.229 --> 00:04:01.289 the 40 now therefore the towels are gathered 00:04:01.289 --> 00:04:04.449 and born into the fire so it will be at the end 00:04:04.449 --> 00:04:07.949 of the age verse 49 so it will be at the end 00:04:07.949 --> 00:04:10.590 of the age that the angels will come forth and 00:04:10.590 --> 00:04:13.590 separate the wicked among the just praise the 00:04:13.590 --> 00:04:16.430 lord so judgment he says is happening at the 00:04:16.430 --> 00:04:20.680 end of the age Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:24.100 9 verse 26. He then would have had to suffer 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:27.560 often since the foundation of the world. But 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.079 now once at the end of the age, he has appeared 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.420 to put away sins by the suffering of himself. 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.920 Praise the Lord. The end of the age, right? Is 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.980 he saying it is done? Is he saying, okay, after 00:04:43.980 --> 00:04:45.800 this thing now it's finished? Is that what he's 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.050 saying from everything that we have? learned 00:04:48.050 --> 00:04:50.189 from everything that we have studied telling 00:04:50.189 --> 00:04:54.050 you is he rapture is he talking about the everything 00:04:54.050 --> 00:04:56.670 is finished praise the lord that's not where 00:04:56.670 --> 00:04:59.050 we learned we can we we learned that it is not 00:04:59.050 --> 00:05:01.709 gone yet praise the lord and what is not done 00:05:01.709 --> 00:05:04.649 that the the word has not ended praise the lord 00:05:04.649 --> 00:05:08.329 the rapture had not happened if you like praise 00:05:08.329 --> 00:05:10.410 the lord and for some of you who have not been 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:13.389 here we also mentioned that you can never find 00:05:13.389 --> 00:05:16.860 the word rapture In the English translation of 00:05:16.860 --> 00:05:19.019 the Bible, it is not there. Praise the Lord. 00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:22.060 So what does the end of the age mean? If it means 00:05:22.060 --> 00:05:24.459 that it's not done. If it means it's not the 00:05:24.459 --> 00:05:27.680 end. Praise the Lord. So the word refers to the 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.259 fulfillment of a promise. Praise the Lord. We're 00:05:30.259 --> 00:05:32.160 not going to go into details. Like I said, we 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.439 have learned this thing from ourselves. It means 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:38.850 the fulfillment of a promise. to meet a target 00:05:38.850 --> 00:05:41.629 or a goal praise the lord i am with you always 00:05:41.629 --> 00:05:45.430 until the end so if you if you put the word fulfillment 00:05:45.430 --> 00:05:49.269 in india what you will find is that it will look 00:05:49.269 --> 00:05:52.790 like i am with you always until the fulfillment 00:05:52.790 --> 00:05:55.910 of the world praise the lord and it's the same 00:05:55.910 --> 00:05:59.870 place where we find or where eternal life is 00:05:59.870 --> 00:06:02.790 praise the lord it is the offspring of what we 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:06.829 known as eternal life praise the lord so we also 00:06:06.829 --> 00:06:10.089 see that eternal life is also found in the old 00:06:10.089 --> 00:06:13.029 testament text it's not something that is also 00:06:13.029 --> 00:06:17.589 new right so eternal life simply means the age 00:06:17.589 --> 00:06:20.730 or time of the promised one praise the lord the 00:06:20.730 --> 00:06:24.610 age or the time of the promised one the age of 00:06:24.610 --> 00:06:27.949 the messiah praise the lord the end of the age 00:06:27.949 --> 00:06:31.649 the end the age of the messiah is something that 00:06:31.649 --> 00:06:34.560 the jews have been looking forward to The promise 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.560 or the age of the Messiah. The promise of the 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.600 age. It deals with the promise that is now fulfilled. 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:44.399 At that time, it was regarded as for all, it 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.139 is fulfilled. But at that time, it was the expected 00:06:47.139 --> 00:06:49.860 one. It was something that they were expecting. 00:06:50.420 --> 00:06:53.240 Praise the Lord. The time of the expected one. 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:56.600 Lo, I'm with you always until the end of the 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.259 age. So when we say eternal life, at that time, 00:06:59.259 --> 00:07:01.920 at this time, it is fulfilled. but it was something 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.220 that the jews were expecting they were expecting 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:08.259 a messiah like i said so more like they are waiting 00:07:08.259 --> 00:07:13.060 for a deliverer as we read in in isaiah praise 00:07:13.060 --> 00:07:15.540 the lord the age of the expected one so for the 00:07:15.540 --> 00:07:19.319 jews at this time that age is to come that age 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.399 is what they are looking forward to i'm just 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.540 saying so many things that i would really understand 00:07:23.540 --> 00:07:27.000 the expected one the age that is to come but 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.360 to us is the age that we are in now praise the 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:34.040 lord It's the age that we are in right now. It 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:37.000 is what we enjoy. Eternal life is what we have 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.279 and what we are. The expected one. So we'll look 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:44.120 at why some of the Jews had challenge or they 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.939 have serious problems with how Jesus came. Praise 00:07:47.939 --> 00:07:50.160 the Lord. Or the kind of things that Jesus was 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:52.300 doing. Praise the Lord. They had an expectation. 00:07:52.620 --> 00:07:54.600 Remember when we read in Acts where they were 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.980 asking him, would he at this time give the kingdom 00:07:56.980 --> 00:07:59.620 to Israel? Remember, they said that they misinterpreted 00:07:59.620 --> 00:08:03.550 it. Praise the Lord. And he told them no. Praise 00:08:03.550 --> 00:08:05.670 the Lord. He told them no, that it's not for 00:08:05.670 --> 00:08:08.230 you to know the time that is in the Father's 00:08:08.230 --> 00:08:10.550 hands. Praise the Lord. You shall receive what? 00:08:11.029 --> 00:08:14.329 Power when the Holy Ghost has come. So he's telling 00:08:14.329 --> 00:08:16.370 them this is their life. This is what is expected. 00:08:16.850 --> 00:08:19.230 You will receive power. Praise the Lord. He's 00:08:19.230 --> 00:08:22.029 telling them this is what has always been promised. 00:08:22.310 --> 00:08:25.550 So we want to look at why were they so expecting? 00:08:25.970 --> 00:08:29.980 Or why even to today? Some people still having 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:33.500 some type of mentality towards what that which 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:36.399 Christ has done. Why did the Jews have challenge? 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:39.159 They were expecting the Messiah. So that is what 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.899 Apostle Paul will often call, they were offended. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.759 Praise the Lord. It's the offense that they have. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.279 So reading as we have read last week, Isaiah 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.480 and Psalms, right? They were expecting somebody, 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.759 yes? They were expecting the Messiah to come. 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.019 They were expecting a kingdom. praise the lord 00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:00.299 they were expecting a king to come they were 00:09:00.299 --> 00:09:03.279 expecting like i said a deliverer somebody that 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.700 would come and save them praise the lord they 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:08.879 were expecting a savior somebody would come as 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.879 a king and he would deliver them from the oppressions 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.460 that he had so what were the challenges that 00:09:14.460 --> 00:09:17.700 he had so let's go again to matthew chapter 21 00:09:17.700 --> 00:09:21.840 verse 13 matthew chapter 21 verse 13 and he said 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.919 to them it is written my house shall be a house 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.259 of prayers but you have made it a den of thieves 00:09:28.259 --> 00:09:31.000 my house shall be called the house of prayer 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.259 but you have made it a den of thieves mark 11 00:09:34.259 --> 00:09:38.000 speaking of the same thing mark 11 17 then he 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.899 taught them saying is he not meeting my house 00:09:40.899 --> 00:09:44.279 shall be called the house of prayer for all nations 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.299 praise the lord let's take note of that he said 00:09:47.299 --> 00:09:50.740 for all nations but you have made it a den of 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:53.580 thieves praise the lord so even before the fulfillment 00:09:53.580 --> 00:09:56.830 he was still telling them the intention of god 00:09:56.830 --> 00:09:59.570 he said it's for all nations remember some people 00:09:59.570 --> 00:10:01.970 were not permitted to be here or to be in this 00:10:01.970 --> 00:10:04.129 house some people were not expected to be in 00:10:04.129 --> 00:10:06.169 this house and the background of this scripture 00:10:06.169 --> 00:10:08.669 was that they were changing money they were doing 00:10:08.669 --> 00:10:11.110 a lot of business in the in the in the temple 00:10:11.110 --> 00:10:13.970 john chapter 2 verse 16 speaking still talking 00:10:13.970 --> 00:10:16.330 about the same thing and he said to those who 00:10:16.330 --> 00:10:19.909 sold those take these things away do not make 00:10:19.909 --> 00:10:22.870 my father's house the house of my children praise 00:10:22.870 --> 00:10:26.419 the lord God make it a marketplace, right? And 00:10:26.419 --> 00:10:29.399 again, remember, he says that this is speaking 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.620 of the temple, that the temple is his father's 00:10:32.620 --> 00:10:35.740 house. Praise the Lord. The temple is his father's 00:10:35.740 --> 00:10:37.799 house. Now, this is where the challenge starts, 00:10:37.820 --> 00:10:40.820 right? To happen. Verse 19. And Jesus said to 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:42.860 them, answered and said to them, destroy this 00:10:42.860 --> 00:10:45.779 temple and in three days you will raise it up 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:50.120 again. Raise it up. Praise the Lord. This is 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.940 where the challenges start to happen. So we're 00:10:52.940 --> 00:10:55.379 going to come back to this. Destroy this temple 00:10:55.379 --> 00:10:58.940 and I will raise it up again. So my father's 00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:02.639 house, the temple, he says destroy it and in 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.799 three days I will raise it up again. So in Matthew, 00:11:05.980 --> 00:11:09.220 in Matthew 11, verse 17, he says what? He says 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:12.720 it should be a house of prayers for all nations, 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:18.019 for everybody. In Matthew 21, verse 13, he says 00:11:18.019 --> 00:11:21.029 that you have made it. a den of thieves you have 00:11:21.029 --> 00:11:23.789 changed it to something else what was the challenge 00:11:23.789 --> 00:11:26.669 they were having they were expecting a messiah 00:11:26.669 --> 00:11:29.289 but they had a big problem and we see even the 00:11:29.289 --> 00:11:32.870 black blind batmios said to jesus in mark 11 00:11:32.870 --> 00:11:37.850 47 he said oh jesus christ son of david praise 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:41.509 the lord he called jesus the son of david the 00:11:41.509 --> 00:11:43.889 one that they are expecting he said what have 00:11:43.889 --> 00:11:47.700 mercy on me Mark 11, 47. John chapter 4, verse 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:51.700 29. Speaking of the Samaritan woman, right? She 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:54.940 said, could this be the Christ? Could this be 00:11:54.940 --> 00:11:57.740 the Christ? I come to see a man who told me all 00:11:57.740 --> 00:12:02.559 things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ? 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.000 Where did their offense come from? They even 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.659 asked Jesus during his trial, he said what? Are 00:12:08.659 --> 00:12:12.440 you the Christ? Praise the Lord. Are you the 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:14.279 Christ? This was the question they asked him 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.299 in Matthew chapter 22. Let's go to verse 42 now. 00:12:17.379 --> 00:12:20.840 Matthew 22, verse 42. To see what Jesus said 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.779 to them. Matthew chapter 22, verse 42. Saying, 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.779 what do you think about the Christ? Whose son 00:12:26.779 --> 00:12:29.820 is he? And they said to him, the son of David. 00:12:29.940 --> 00:12:32.279 Remember the blind man. He said what? Jesus, 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.460 son of David, have mercy upon me. He said to 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:38.909 them, how then does David... in the spirit call 00:12:38.909 --> 00:12:41.590 him lord saying the lord said to my lord sit 00:12:41.590 --> 00:12:44.950 at my right hand till i make your enemy your 00:12:44.950 --> 00:12:48.269 future if david then called him lord how is he 00:12:48.269 --> 00:12:51.490 his son praise the lord so he was asking them 00:12:51.490 --> 00:12:54.690 question that they could not answer praise the 00:12:54.690 --> 00:12:57.049 lord but remember they told him that what that 00:12:57.049 --> 00:13:01.370 he's a son of david that christ is the son of 00:13:01.370 --> 00:13:03.970 david and this is this reference is in psalms 00:13:03.970 --> 00:13:08.240 110 verse 1. verse 45 said if david then called 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.419 him lord how is he his son so we see some of 00:13:12.419 --> 00:13:15.259 the challenges that they begin to have so last 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:19.179 on sunday we read isaiah's right and so when 00:13:19.179 --> 00:13:21.600 you think about the promise of the christ or 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.139 the promise of the savior or the thing that the 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:27.519 the jews were expecting you'll find that in isaiah 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.379 chapter 40 you find that in isaiah chapter 42 00:13:30.379 --> 00:13:34.500 you'll find it in 49 you'll find it in 52 but 00:13:34.500 --> 00:13:38.279 then When you go to 53, right, it's also where 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:41.059 they begin to also have challenges. Praise the 00:13:41.059 --> 00:13:45.559 Lord. You will also find it in 44, in 55. So 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.000 right in the middle of it, it talks about something 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.179 different that doesn't look like a savior. Praise 00:13:52.179 --> 00:13:54.100 the Lord. Just take your time and read it. Isaiah 00:13:54.100 --> 00:13:59.039 chapter 40, Isaiah chapter 42, 43, 40, 52, and 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:03.720 then you have 53. And then read 40, 55, and then 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:08.090 54. But then 53 is where they started having 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:12.690 the Ethiopian Union. Well, that was where his 00:14:12.690 --> 00:14:15.129 challenge was. Praise the Lord. Remember the 00:14:15.129 --> 00:14:17.309 Christian he was asking? Acts chapter 8 from 00:14:17.309 --> 00:14:20.210 verse 30 to 34. Is he speaking of himself or 00:14:20.210 --> 00:14:22.830 another? Praise the Lord. So Philip ran to him 00:14:22.830 --> 00:14:25.830 and had him reading from the prophet Isaiah and 00:14:25.830 --> 00:14:28.269 said, Do you understand what you are reading? 00:14:28.450 --> 00:14:31.009 And he said to him, How can I unless somebody 00:14:31.009 --> 00:14:33.289 guide me? And he asked Philip to come up and 00:14:33.289 --> 00:14:35.289 sit with him. And the place in the scripture 00:14:35.289 --> 00:14:39.330 where he read was this. He was laid as a sheep 00:14:39.330 --> 00:14:42.669 to the slaughter. As a lamb before a herder is 00:14:42.669 --> 00:14:47.470 silent. He opened not his mouth. Verse 3. In 00:14:47.470 --> 00:14:51.029 humiliation, his justice was taken away. Who 00:14:51.029 --> 00:14:54.710 would declare his generation? For his life is 00:14:54.710 --> 00:14:57.730 taken from the earth. Now, this is the question 00:14:57.730 --> 00:15:01.149 he asked him. So the eunuch answered Philip and 00:15:01.149 --> 00:15:04.340 said, I ask you, of whom does the prophet say 00:15:04.340 --> 00:15:07.940 this? Of himself or some other man? Praise the 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:10.799 Lord. Even him is confused. Praise the Lord. 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:16.220 Maybe he has read 52. Praise the Lord. And maybe 00:15:16.220 --> 00:15:18.620 he has seen some glamorous things, right, of 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:21.179 what the Savior will be like. And then he comes 00:15:21.179 --> 00:15:24.820 to, that is Isaiah, he comes to 53, and then 00:15:24.820 --> 00:15:27.649 he begins to have challenge as well. right you 00:15:27.649 --> 00:15:30.190 say is he speaking of himself of another man 00:15:30.190 --> 00:15:33.009 so right in the middle of these things of Isaiah 00:15:33.009 --> 00:15:39.110 chapter 40 to 55 right we have 53 praise the 00:15:39.110 --> 00:15:41.769 Lord so let's go to Isaiah 53 Isaiah 53 verse 00:15:41.769 --> 00:15:45.350 1 say who has believed our report to whom has 00:15:45.350 --> 00:15:48.750 the arm of the Lord being revealed praise the 00:15:48.750 --> 00:15:52.710 Lord what report is he asking about right what 00:15:52.710 --> 00:15:55.830 is this report who has believed our report to 00:15:55.830 --> 00:15:58.090 whom are the arm of the lord will reveal right 00:15:58.090 --> 00:16:01.210 this is where their offense is praise the lord 00:16:01.210 --> 00:16:05.970 so isaiah 53 right is what is the faith of the 00:16:05.970 --> 00:16:08.570 believer praise the lord what is the offense 00:16:08.570 --> 00:16:12.509 of the jews praise the lord the all nations are 00:16:12.509 --> 00:16:16.490 glad about 53 praise the lord all nations are 00:16:16.490 --> 00:16:20.669 glad about 53 galilee of the gentiles are glad 00:16:20.669 --> 00:16:25.679 about 53 for the jews are offended by it so let's 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.379 look at verse 3 verse 2 now but he grew up but 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:30.840 he shall grow up before him as a tender plant 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.399 as a root out of a dry ground he has no form 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.620 or cornyness and when we see him there is no 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:41.019 beauty that we should desire him praise the lord 00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:45.000 speaking of the messiah verse 33 now history 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.320 sorry he was despised rejected of men a man of 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.779 sorrow acquainted with grief as it were Our faces 00:16:52.779 --> 00:16:56.200 from him. He was despised and we do not esteem 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.139 him. Praise the Lord. Verse 4. Surely he bore 00:17:00.139 --> 00:17:03.659 our grief and carried our sorrow. Yet we esteem 00:17:03.659 --> 00:17:07.019 him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. Verse 00:17:07.019 --> 00:17:09.619 5. He was wounded for our transgression. He was 00:17:09.619 --> 00:17:12.500 bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:16.259 of our peace was upon him. By his strife we were 00:17:16.259 --> 00:17:18.779 healed. Verse 6. We all like sheep have gone 00:17:18.779 --> 00:17:21.700 astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.799 and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:29.359 the seven now so we see this is where the e -mail 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.079 started having this way he was reading and he 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.240 started having the problem praise the lord he 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.220 was oppressed he was afflicted yet he opened 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:40.339 not his mouth was led as a lamb to the slaughter 00:17:40.339 --> 00:17:43.660 as a sheep before his share is sailing he opened 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:46.920 not his mouth so this is where we saw in acts 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:49.950 chapter 8 verse 32 that he was having the issues 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:52.450 with him he was taken from prison and from judgment 00:17:52.450 --> 00:17:56.329 who would declare his generation but he was cut 00:17:56.329 --> 00:17:59.069 off from the land of the living for the transgression 00:17:59.069 --> 00:18:04.910 of my people he was stricken they made his grave 00:18:04.910 --> 00:18:07.529 with the wicked but with the rich at his death 00:18:07.529 --> 00:18:13.069 because he has done no violence nor was any deceit 00:18:13.069 --> 00:18:16.450 in his mouth yet he pleased the lord To bruise 00:18:16.450 --> 00:18:20.150 him. He has put him to grief. When you make his 00:18:20.150 --> 00:18:23.529 soul. As an offering for sin. He shall see. Now 00:18:23.529 --> 00:18:25.910 let's pay attention to this. He shall see his 00:18:25.910 --> 00:18:29.549 seed. And will prolong his days. And the pleasure 00:18:29.549 --> 00:18:32.430 of the Lord. Shall prosper in his hands. Verse 00:18:32.430 --> 00:18:35.329 11. He shall see the labor of his soul. And be 00:18:35.329 --> 00:18:38.109 satisfied. By his knowledge. My righteous servant. 00:18:38.450 --> 00:18:42.109 Shall justify many. For he shall bear their iniquity. 00:18:42.369 --> 00:18:44.769 Praise the Lord. This. He shall bear their iniquity. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.240 Praise the Lord. He's also a problem. Praise 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.519 the Lord. Because the king cannot, obviously, 00:18:50.539 --> 00:18:53.279 bear your iniquity. The king who is coming cannot, 00:18:53.420 --> 00:18:55.259 after all this suffering, bear your iniquity. 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:58.200 Praise the Lord. So we see some of the things 00:18:58.200 --> 00:18:59.819 that they were having. This is their offense. 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.819 Who would believe our report? Verse 1. So we 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:06.079 have spoken of Jerusalem, Zion, right? Behold 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:09.900 your God, he comes with all his glory. We see 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:12.660 that in Isaiah. We have read it before. And then 00:19:12.660 --> 00:19:15.069 all of a sudden, you are hearing afflicted. he's 00:19:15.069 --> 00:19:18.789 afflicted praise the lord before now he was behold 00:19:18.789 --> 00:19:21.910 your god he comes in his glory and then we come 00:19:21.910 --> 00:19:25.569 to 65 you're done hearing he was afflicted praise 00:19:25.569 --> 00:19:27.970 the lord so it's something that they cannot wrap 00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:30.589 their minds around how can a king be afflicted 00:19:30.589 --> 00:19:33.670 praise the lord they have forgotten what jerusalem 00:19:33.670 --> 00:19:37.470 means what melchizedek means praise the lord 00:19:37.470 --> 00:19:41.390 who will believe our report verse 1 of that is 00:19:41.390 --> 00:19:45.150 53 who will believe our report so That word, 00:19:45.329 --> 00:19:50.250 report, a report is a word, a man, a man. It's 00:19:50.250 --> 00:19:53.289 the same word that is used for when Abraham believed 00:19:53.289 --> 00:19:55.910 God. Praise the Lord. And it was accounted for 00:19:55.910 --> 00:19:59.690 him for righteousness. Genesis chapter 15, verse 00:19:59.690 --> 00:20:02.430 6. Abraham believed in the Lord and it was accounted 00:20:02.430 --> 00:20:05.309 for him for righteousness. It's a word, belief. 00:20:05.609 --> 00:20:08.109 And then, do not forget that first, righteousness 00:20:08.109 --> 00:20:10.630 was first described, who was first described 00:20:10.630 --> 00:20:13.089 to be righteous? Before Abraham. Melchizedek. 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:17.119 Praise the Lord. Before Abraham. Who has believed 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.980 our report. To believe. So let's run through 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:23.880 this. Genesis chapter 42 verse 20. So thy word 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.039 shall be verified. The word verified there. In 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.539 Genesis chapter 42 verse 20. To bring your strongest 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:33.880 brothers to me. So your word will be verified. 00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:37.019 And you shall not die. And they did so. That 00:20:37.019 --> 00:20:40.049 place verified is the word. A man is the same 00:20:40.049 --> 00:20:44.549 word as believe. Genesis 45 verse 26. It's also 00:20:44.549 --> 00:20:48.049 the word believe not or believe. He said, and 00:20:48.049 --> 00:20:50.309 they said to him saying, Joseph is still alive. 00:20:50.490 --> 00:20:52.710 He's the governor over the land of Egypt. And 00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:55.829 Jacob had stood still because he did not believe 00:20:55.829 --> 00:20:59.009 them. Did not believe them is the same word there. 00:20:59.150 --> 00:21:02.269 So to believe is used for somebody bringing a 00:21:02.269 --> 00:21:04.849 report to you. Praise the Lord. Did you believe 00:21:04.849 --> 00:21:08.140 the report that was told you? don't need to read 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:10.299 this i'll just list it for us exodus chapter 00:21:10.299 --> 00:21:14.940 4 verse 5 verse 8 verse 9 and verse 31 we'll 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:17.500 see the word believe there right you see the 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:20.119 word believe that they may believe that the lord 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:22.779 god of our fathers praise the lord is the word 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:27.079 a man in exodus 14 verse 31 exodus 14 verse 31 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:31.119 because israel saw the great walk which the lord 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.140 had done in egypt so the people fear the lord 00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:37.319 and believe the lord and his servant moses is 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.799 the word believed there exodus 19 verse 19 remember 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:43.519 in the wilderness the people did not believe 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.160 god we also did these studies they didn't believe 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.680 what was preached to them exodus 19 verse 9 so 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.440 is the word believe you forever in that place 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:57.039 numbers 14 verse 11 you see that same word there 00:21:57.420 --> 00:22:01.039 Deuteronomy 1 .32. Deuteronomy 1 .32. Deuteronomy 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:05.019 9 .23. Now, let's look at another way apart from 00:22:05.019 --> 00:22:08.660 believe in which it is used. Numbers 12 .7. It 00:22:08.660 --> 00:22:12.680 says, Not so with my servant Moses is faithful 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:16.839 in all my house. This word faithful is that same 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.839 word a man, right? To believe. It's also used 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.539 at faithful. Praise the Lord. It's the same word 00:22:22.539 --> 00:22:26.119 that is also found in the New Testament as pistis. 00:22:26.730 --> 00:22:30.170 right is the word pistis which is which appears 00:22:30.170 --> 00:22:33.710 a lot of time too as faith right as faithfulness 00:22:33.710 --> 00:22:38.450 so to believe right means to be faithful to be 00:22:38.450 --> 00:22:42.769 trusting or trustworthy that what a man means 00:22:42.769 --> 00:22:47.490 to what to be faithful to be trusting or trustworthy 00:22:47.490 --> 00:22:51.890 in Deuteronomy 7 9. so the word Belief, or the 00:22:51.890 --> 00:22:55.250 word aman, is also used to be faithful, trusting, 00:22:55.470 --> 00:22:57.890 and betrusting. Like I said, this is a word that 00:22:57.890 --> 00:23:00.890 is used in the Old Testament, right, as pistis. 00:23:00.930 --> 00:23:05.589 P -I -S, P -I -S. It is used about, roughly about, 00:23:05.849 --> 00:23:10.450 243 times in the New Testament. Praise the Lord. 00:23:10.710 --> 00:23:13.470 In Romans, in Hebrews, in the Epistles, right? 00:23:13.569 --> 00:23:16.970 It is used to describe us, and it's also used 00:23:16.970 --> 00:23:20.849 to describe God. It means to believe. God is 00:23:20.849 --> 00:23:23.990 faithful, right? We describe God as a faithful 00:23:23.990 --> 00:23:27.490 God, right? Is that what Christ is or a man in 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:29.789 the Old Testament? Which means we believe in 00:23:29.789 --> 00:23:33.410 God who is faithful and we become faithful. Or 00:23:33.410 --> 00:23:36.190 you can write, our faith is in a faithful God 00:23:36.190 --> 00:23:38.829 and that makes us faithful men. Our faith is 00:23:38.829 --> 00:23:42.170 in a faithful God and that makes us faithful 00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:44.539 men. Remember where we are coming from. Who has 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:47.920 believed our report in Isaiah 53? So, who has 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.680 believed our report in Isaiah 53 verse 1 is, 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:54.319 who has believed in the faithfulness of God and 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:57.039 is faithful to his message? Praise the Lord. 00:23:57.220 --> 00:24:00.460 Who has believed our report? Right? He said, 00:24:00.500 --> 00:24:03.359 to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:06.259 What he's saying is that who has believed in 00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:09.640 the faithfulness of God and is faithful to his 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:13.930 message? Our report. So the word report is shemua. 00:24:14.329 --> 00:24:17.890 S -H -E -M -U -A. It means to announce. Praise 00:24:17.890 --> 00:24:19.849 the Lord. We are dealt with the word belief, 00:24:20.130 --> 00:24:22.950 right? We said it's the word aman. It means faithful, 00:24:23.109 --> 00:24:26.269 right? And we said that it is to believe in a 00:24:26.269 --> 00:24:28.829 faithful God and to be faithful to his message. 00:24:28.950 --> 00:24:31.750 The word report is the word shemua, which means 00:24:31.750 --> 00:24:34.690 to announce. So you believe what someone said 00:24:34.690 --> 00:24:37.509 about someone. Faith in somebody who is faithful. 00:24:37.690 --> 00:24:41.440 Praise the Lord. Faith in someone. who is faithful 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.460 so let's go back to where i said we should pay 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:47.500 attention to which is verse 10 of isaiah 53 that 00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:49.980 talks about he will see his seed and prolong 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:52.799 his days yet he pleased the lord to bruise him 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.119 he has put him to grief when he makes his soul 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:58.460 an offering for sin for he shall see his seed 00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:00.819 and will prolong his days and the pleasure of 00:25:00.819 --> 00:25:03.299 the lord will prosper in his hands praise the 00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:07.019 lord is the word zebra right that word he shall 00:25:07.019 --> 00:25:10.980 see his sea is a word zed and prolong his days 00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:14.359 now to prolong his days is the word ar right 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.299 to prolong his days means to continue praise 00:25:17.299 --> 00:25:20.819 the lord to prolong these days means to continue 00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:24.119 his days what did after jesus resurrected did 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:28.660 we see him believable in the natural 133 years 00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:31.119 praise the lord what is he prolonging what is 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:35.160 he prolonging what does he see zero means his 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:38.180 days remember we talked about eternal life right 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.839 So the time of the Savior. The time of the Savior. 00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:45.200 So he will sit with me and prolong his days. 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.799 So what is he prolonging? So he's prolonging 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:52.519 Christ's dominion. Praise the Lord. He's prolonging 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.180 Christ's dominion. He's prolonging Christ's ministry. 00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:58.019 Praise the Lord. He's prolonging Christ's ministry. 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:02.359 His dominion. His character. His teaching. This 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.420 is what is called eternal life. To prolong his 00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:07.960 activity. The seed there is what the church is. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.720 He will prolong his days. He will see his seed 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:13.319 and prolong his days. So eternal life is the 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:16.200 age and the time of the Messiah in the church 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.380 and the church in the Messiah. Eternal life is 00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:23.819 the activity of Christ after or upon his redirection. 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:26.319 So remember we said that he said his father's 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.759 house, the temple is his father's house. So therefore, 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:34.410 the temple there is also a parable. Praise the 00:26:34.410 --> 00:26:36.009 Lord. He was trying to teach them something. 00:26:36.210 --> 00:26:39.589 The temple there is also a parable. Praise the 00:26:39.589 --> 00:26:41.890 Lord. And as we have known, and we have logically 00:26:41.890 --> 00:26:45.109 asked the question, would he build a temple in 00:26:45.109 --> 00:26:47.690 three days? Is he talking about a physical temple? 00:26:48.150 --> 00:26:50.230 Praise the Lord. And we said, no, that's not 00:26:50.230 --> 00:26:52.730 what he means. Praise the Lord. We have been 00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:55.029 caught that. So the temple there for the year 00:26:55.029 --> 00:26:59.700 is a parable. 19, right? 19 jesus answered and 00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:02.220 said they share this temple and in three days 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:04.799 i will raise it up praise the lord so he's not 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:07.619 talking about what he's not telling them this 00:27:07.619 --> 00:27:10.380 temple praise the lord he's talking about what 00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:13.000 will happen at his resurrection the activities 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.160 of christ upon the resurrection so the temple 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.400 so the first thing we saw that he does is that 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:21.960 he he drove everybody that was selling and buying 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.099 from the temple praise the lord so everything 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:27.400 that he did before then and after then right 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.759 was pointing to his resurrection praise the lord 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.460 every of his activity as he entered the temple 00:27:33.460 --> 00:27:36.619 was pointing to his resurrection and eternal 00:27:36.619 --> 00:27:38.819 life so what he did before he entered the temple 00:27:38.819 --> 00:27:41.000 and what he did afterwards is very important 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.960 it is written my father's house shall be a house 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:45.980 of prayer what did we say the house there was 00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:47.839 it's a victim what is the house there praise 00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:50.799 the lord is a house of prayer for all nations 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:54.019 but you have made it a den of thieves my father's 00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:57.369 house shall be a house for all nations praise 00:27:57.369 --> 00:27:59.490 the lord my father's house shall be a house remember 00:27:59.490 --> 00:28:02.190 he said what was the promise that abraham believed 00:28:02.190 --> 00:28:04.670 praise the lord that was in him shall all the 00:28:04.670 --> 00:28:07.750 nation of the earth be blessed praise the lord 00:28:07.750 --> 00:28:10.309 so when jesus is saying my father's house shall 00:28:10.309 --> 00:28:14.029 be a house of prayer for all nations he is saying 00:28:14.029 --> 00:28:17.210 that which has been said from the beginning so 00:28:17.210 --> 00:28:20.549 says the lord keep justice and do righteousness 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.000 for my salvation is about to come and my righteousness 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.440 to be revealed blessed is a man who does this 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:29.339 and the son of man who lay hold on this on this 00:28:29.339 --> 00:28:33.000 on it who keeps from defiling the sabbath and 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.460 keeps his hand from doing any evil do not let 00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:38.319 the son of the foreigner who has joined himself 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.500 to the lord say the lord has utterly separated 00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:44.799 me from his people nor let the eunuch say here 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.720 i am a dry tree praise the lord they should not 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.599 feel segregated or different Praise the Lord. 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.779 Verse 4 now. Who keeps my servant and shows what 00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:57.960 pleases me and hold fast to my covenant? That 00:28:57.960 --> 00:28:59.799 is, he's talking to those who are coming in. 00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:01.960 Remember, at this time, there were some people 00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:03.940 that were not allowed to be in the temple. Verse 00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:07.579 5. Even to them, I will give what? My house. 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.119 Praise the Lord. So this is where Jesus was teaching 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.740 them from. That what? My Father's house shall 00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:15.559 be a house of prayer for all nations. For you 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:17.720 have made it a den of thieves. Even them, I will 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.619 give my house. within my walls the place and 00:29:20.619 --> 00:29:23.099 the name sons and daughters i will give them 00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:26.740 an everlasting name that they shall not be cut 00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:29.740 off everyone who keeps on defiling the sabbath 00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:32.119 and hold my covenant was certain even them i 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:35.759 will bring to my holy mountain i will make them 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:40.059 joyful in my house of prayers their bones offering 00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:43.420 and the sacrifice will be accepted at my altar 00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:47.019 for my house shall be what called the house of 00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:51.369 prayer For all nations. Praise the Lord. All 00:29:51.369 --> 00:29:55.009 nations. Jews and Gentiles. Hallelujah. Praise 00:29:55.009 --> 00:29:57.390 the Lord. I would raise it up. Right? In John 00:29:57.390 --> 00:30:01.390 chapter 2 verse 19. That is to restore. Right? 00:30:01.650 --> 00:30:05.890 He's restoring the promise that is made to Abraham. 00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:09.089 So what we see in Mark chapter 11. Matthew chapter 00:30:09.089 --> 00:30:13.769 22. John chapter 2. My house. The house of the 00:30:13.769 --> 00:30:16.289 Lord. Matthew chapter 21. Now at resurrection. 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.779 It will welcome everybody inside. There will 00:30:19.779 --> 00:30:22.140 not be strangers anymore. Praise the Lord. And 00:30:22.140 --> 00:30:24.839 we see that even before it becomes a reality, 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:28.539 Christ has done some practice. He has practiced 00:30:28.539 --> 00:30:30.940 some things, which we also studied before now. 00:30:31.059 --> 00:30:33.519 Praise the Lord. By the healing that he healed 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:35.660 in the temple. Praise the Lord. We have done 00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:39.619 these studies. Matthew 21, verse 13. It is written, 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:41.880 My house shall be called the house of prayers, 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:45.200 but you have made it a den of thieves. Do not 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.180 forget all nations. right verse 14 now then the 00:30:49.180 --> 00:30:51.640 lame then the blind and the lame came to him 00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:54.680 in the temple and he healed them praise the lord 00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.880 he healed them so the lame and the blind were 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:01.740 not allowed in the temple before so they came 00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.839 to him in the temple and he healed them right 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.759 in doing this or in healing them what he's saying 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.720 is that you are all welcome to this place praise 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.579 the lord it is a house for all nations so the 00:31:14.579 --> 00:31:17.819 physical temple We say it is a parable, right? 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.319 A parable of what? Right? The people. Praise 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:24.019 the Lord. The people. When God builds his temple, 00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:26.960 he builds men. Praise the Lord. When God builds 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.819 his temple, he builds men. Why did he use the 00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:32.240 temple? I think we have also done these studies. 00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:34.740 We said that some of the things that happened 00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:38.279 in the Old Testament, God allowed them. Praise 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:42.640 the Lord. He did not approve those things. He 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.480 allowed them. Men had cultures. Remember, Abraham 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.059 was what? He came from a pagan background. All 00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:51.980 the Chaldeans. Praise the Lord. There were so 00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:54.000 many things that God allowed. Praise the Lord. 00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:58.400 So, this temple was a borrowed culture. Praise 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:00.920 the Lord. Now, why is that a borrowed culture? 00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:04.480 So, we observe that when Moses was building the 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.819 tabernacle of God, right? God said he should 00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:10.759 build it according to his plan. Why? Because 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:13.359 these people understand what temples are. They 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:14.779 had a culture. They were something they were 00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:17.980 coming from. They had idols. They had idol worship. 00:32:18.259 --> 00:32:21.680 Exodus chapter 25 verse 40. To build it according 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:25.759 to his own pattern. Because the temple, right, 00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:29.259 was in their culture. Praise the Lord. The temple 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:31.759 was in their culture. They had their temples. 00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:34.339 They had their sacrifice. They had the place 00:32:34.339 --> 00:32:37.299 of idols. They already have that. Praise the 00:32:37.299 --> 00:32:39.769 Lord. That's why Abraham, They did not build 00:32:39.769 --> 00:32:43.910 any temple. Neither did Isaac nor Jacob. Right? 00:32:44.230 --> 00:32:47.829 We will see what Jacob did. Genesis 28, 19. And 00:32:47.829 --> 00:32:50.970 he called the name of the place Bethel. And the 00:32:50.970 --> 00:32:53.170 name of that city had been loosed previously. 00:32:53.710 --> 00:32:57.150 Praise the Lord. Bethel. Bethel. Right? It means 00:32:57.150 --> 00:33:00.289 what? The house of God. The house of God. The 00:33:00.289 --> 00:33:03.470 16th. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, 00:33:03.509 --> 00:33:06.769 Surely the Lord is in this place. And I did not 00:33:06.769 --> 00:33:10.029 know it. Praise the Lord. The Lord is in this 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:12.809 place and I do not know it. But did you notice 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:16.410 that if you read, he did not say, let's call, 00:33:16.569 --> 00:33:19.730 you know, Mr. Gabriel works in a construction 00:33:19.730 --> 00:33:22.670 company, right? He said, let's call Mr. Gabriel, 00:33:22.789 --> 00:33:24.509 let him come and build a structure here for us. 00:33:24.670 --> 00:33:27.170 The Lord is here. He didn't look for an architect. 00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:29.769 He didn't look for an engineer to come and say, 00:33:29.869 --> 00:33:32.509 come and build something for us here. Praise 00:33:32.509 --> 00:33:34.509 the Lord, because he knows, he has knowledge. 00:33:34.950 --> 00:33:37.480 Praise the Lord. He knows. He didn't get an architect. 00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:41.400 So, the idea of calling a place, let's say, the 00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:43.700 temple, or let's say the house of God, was something 00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:45.740 that was borrowed. It's a borrowed concept. So, 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:48.880 but God accommodated it because of his love and 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:53.000 his grace. Verse 17 says, And he was afraid and 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.920 said, How autumn is this place? There is no other 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:00.099 than the house of the Lord and the gates of heaven. 00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:02.799 Praise the Lord. Like I said, do not come and 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.680 start laying blocks. for the gate of heaven the 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:08.760 house of the lord this is the gate of heaven 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:11.440 why did they call it the gates of heaven look 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:14.920 at rest verse 2 now why do you call it gate of 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.179 heaven they didn't just manufacture that like 00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:22.139 in genesis 28 then he dreamt and behold the ladder 00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:25.360 was set up on the earth and the top reached the 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:27.639 heavens there the angel of the lord we are sending 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.800 and descending praise the lord why did he call 00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.360 it the gate of heaven why because there is an 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.710 entrance in his dream He saw that there was an 00:34:35.710 --> 00:34:38.670 entrance, right? Like a staircase. It's this 00:34:38.670 --> 00:34:42.409 same word that we find in Genesis 11, talking 00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:45.909 about the Tower of Babel. Praise the Lord. They 00:34:45.909 --> 00:34:47.829 were building something to the Lord, the Tower 00:34:47.829 --> 00:34:49.909 of Babel. It's a place of worship. Let's read 00:34:49.909 --> 00:34:53.590 from verse 12 to 13 now. Genesis 20. Okay, verse 00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:56.949 13. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, 00:34:57.090 --> 00:34:59.750 I'm the Lord God of Abraham, your father, the 00:34:59.750 --> 00:35:02.699 God of Isaac, the land which you lie. I will 00:35:02.699 --> 00:35:05.000 give to you and your descendants. Verse 14. And 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.400 your descendants shall be as the dust of the 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:10.039 earth, and they shall spread abroad to the east, 00:35:10.219 --> 00:35:12.380 to the west, to the east, to the north, to the 00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:16.000 south. And you and your seed, all families of 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.559 the earth, shall be blessed. Praise the Lord. 00:35:18.659 --> 00:35:22.719 Seeing another plan of God on the earth, house 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:26.980 of the Lord. So we say that the temple is a parable. 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:32.019 So Jesus used their practice to teach. Praise 00:35:32.019 --> 00:35:34.820 the Lord. When he says, destroy this temple in 00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:37.380 three days, he was using what they know of to 00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:40.659 teach. So God uses their practice to teach them 00:35:40.659 --> 00:35:43.260 his plan and his purpose. He uses illustration. 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:45.719 Praise the Lord. So we need to pay attention 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.159 to these things. So that somebody will not say, 00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:50.159 until you come to this altar, you will not be 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.059 blessed. Praise the Lord. There are a lot of 00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:54.760 things like that. Or somebody will say that, 00:35:54.820 --> 00:35:58.000 I will not allow anybody on my altar. Praise 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.360 the Lord. There's so many, as the word would 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.239 say, charlatans that use those words. Moses started 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.440 by what? We see that Moses started by using tabernacles. 00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:11.199 He was moving houses from tent to tent. And then 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:13.940 the temple is a parable. So we have looked at 00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:17.039 all these things. Praise the Lord. Right? Now 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.860 we're going to focus in our next teaching where 00:36:19.860 --> 00:36:23.179 we have the time about what? The word became 00:36:23.179 --> 00:36:26.380 flesh. Praise the Lord. The union of the spirits 00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:29.820 that we have. The word became flesh. Hallelujah. 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.280 And dwelt among us. God dwelling among us. John 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.920 chapter 1 verse 14. He said the word became flesh 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.880 and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory. 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:44.159 The glory as of the only begotten of the father. 00:36:44.260 --> 00:36:49.059 Full of grace and truth. The flesh. He became 00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:51.619 flesh and dwelt among us. So the word that was 00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:56.190 used for dwelt is tabarako. Right? He dwelt among 00:36:56.190 --> 00:36:59.610 us. He tabernacled among us. And we beheld his 00:36:59.610 --> 00:37:02.909 glory. Right? That is the temple language. Praise 00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:05.110 the Lord. Remember what was happening in the 00:37:05.110 --> 00:37:07.010 Old Testament. We beheld his glory. This thing 00:37:07.010 --> 00:37:10.869 you're seeing is temple language. The glory as 00:37:10.869 --> 00:37:13.570 the only begotten of the Father. Full of grace 00:37:13.570 --> 00:37:16.369 and truth. In temple language. So what he says, 00:37:16.510 --> 00:37:19.210 destroy this temple and in three days we will 00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:22.849 raise it up again. Right? What? In three days 00:37:22.849 --> 00:37:25.840 he will raise it up what? for the Jew and for 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:29.139 the Gentiles. Hallelujah. And everybody will 00:37:29.139 --> 00:37:32.420 be welcome in the inside of it. Praise the Lord. 00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:35.460 I would raise it up. Praise the Lord. I will 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:39.139 restore God's plan and purpose. I will restore 00:37:39.139 --> 00:37:42.239 the house of God for all nations. Let me just 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.070 rise up on our feet and just thank God. for what 00:37:45.070 --> 00:37:47.730 we have we appreciate you being here today we 00:37:47.730 --> 00:37:49.670 hope you carry this word with you throughout 00:37:49.670 --> 00:37:51.929 your week don't forget to check the show notes 00:37:51.929 --> 00:37:54.309 for additional insights stay connected with us 00:37:54.309 --> 00:37:57.110 through our website or follow us on social media 00:37:57.110 --> 00:37:59.429 if you were encouraged share this message with 00:37:59.429 --> 00:38:02.170 someone you care about until next time stay blessed