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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Fullness of Time (Part 1) | December 1, 2024
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- Doug batchelor: one of the most important topics in scripture is
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- The subject of "family."
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- From genesis to revelation, family is explained and
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- Magnified as being both a blessing and a necessity.
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- There is a heavenly family above, the father, the son, holy
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- Spirit and all the angels,
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- And there are families on the earth in every nation, tongue,
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- Tribe, and people.
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- And there's also such a thing as a church family, a collection of
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- People coming together for one specific purpose:
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- To worship god.
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- It's that unity in the assembly, which is of particular
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- Importance to god.
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- In ephesians chapter 4, paul urges us "to keep the unity of
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- The spirit in the bond of peace."
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- If you think about it, this is what composes a home, people
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- Uniting to form a family, creating a home.
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- Friends, jesus is wanting to adopt you.
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- He's inviting you to join his family.
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- He draws everyone unto him to calvary with the intention to
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- Unite his people on earth and prepare them for that journey to
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- The heavenly home.
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- It's my hope that today's program will bring you closer to
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- Jesus and inspire you with a desire to be part of his family.
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- And don't forget, stay tuned for a very important free offer at
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- The end of this presentation.
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- Doug: the message today, as you could tell from the scripture
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- Reading, is dealing with the fullness of time.
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- And when we think of the fullness of time during this
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- Time of year, we're thinking, of course, about christ's
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- First coming.
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- But jesus actually used that phrase twice.
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- Not only does paul say in galatians chapter 4, "but when
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- The fullness of time was come, god sent forth his son, made of
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- A woman," speaking of the birth of christ.
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- But also when jesus began his ministry, that marked another
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- Time in bible prophecy history.
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- And it says there in mark chapter 1, verse 15, he began
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- Preaching and the first words out of jesus's mouth were, "the
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- Time is fulfilled, the kingdom of god is at hand.
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- Repent, and believe the gospel."
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- So we're gonna be talking about some of the prophecies in the
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- Bible that prove that jesus was who he says he was.
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- You know, there are about 300 old testament prophecies that
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- Provide a number of precise identifying characteristics
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- Regarding the messiah.
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- And by the way, the word messiah means "the anointed one."
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- And it also, in greek, it's christos, or we call him
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- The christ.
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- That's why when they christen a ship, and when your parents put
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- Suntan lotion on you, they are anointing you, they are
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- Christening you.
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- That's what that means.
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- It's the word messiah.
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- There would be one who would be filled with all the fullness
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- Of god.
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- He would be anointed with, filled, saturated with the holy
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- Spirit when god would come to the world in the form of a man.
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- And that was jesus.
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- But we're gonna show you from the bible that, that is so.
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- So can't talk about all 300 prophecies, but we're gonna take
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- A number of them.
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- And i hope that your faith is strengthened through
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- This presentation.
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- From genesis to revelation, it talks about this battle between
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- Three primary characters.
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- You've got the seed of the woman, the messiah who would
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- Come, christ.
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- You've got the woman, and that's a symbol for the church,
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- The people of god.
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- And you've got the serpent or the dragon.
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- First prophecy in the bible you find in genesis chapter 3, verse
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- 15, where god said to adam and eve there in the garden, "and
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- I'll put enmity," there'd be this animosity, this opposition,
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- This war, "between you and the woman," the serpent and the
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- Woman, "between your seed," that's babylon and her
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- Daughters, the serpent in its seed, "and her seed.
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- And he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel,"
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- The heel of the church.
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- That's, you know, when you walk, if you're, i sprained my ankle
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- A little this week and i was limping for a couple of days,
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- Hurt the foot, and it affects your walk, and the devil has
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- Been biting at the heel of the believers all through history.
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- But it says in the end, that the seed of the woman would crush
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- The head.
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- If you get your head crushed, that's a lot different than
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- Having your foot bit.
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- There would be a mortal wound that would finally be dealt to
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- The serpent.
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- And you trace the prophecies in the bible, you go to the end of
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- The bible, and you read in revelation chapter 9.
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- Sorry, revelation chapter 12, verse 9, "so the great dragon
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- Was cast out, that serpent of old, called the devil and satan,
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- Who deceives the whole world," and he tries to destroy the
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- Woman and the seed of the woman, as you read in that chapter.
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- So this battle, the theme of the bible is consistent.
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- You know, in the first three chapters, you find man in
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- A paradise and he's surrounded with everything good.
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- But then because of the serpent, you have sin that comes in,
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- And all the misery and pain.
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- You get to the last three chapters of the bible, and
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- You have the serpent destroyed, and then you have
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- The garden of eden restored.
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- And once again, man is eating from the tree of life.
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- So the whole bible is about how to get back to the garden,
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- From the first three chapters to the last three chapters.
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- And the key, of course, is the messiah.
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- It's the savior.
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- God would come to earth as our savior and our substitute.
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- So we're gonna ask a number of questions here and let
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- The prophecies answer.
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- Now, most of the prophecies we're looking at are in
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- The old testament.
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- Just wanna remind you, you know, we have people at all
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- Different levels in their walk with the lord.
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- So you got the new testament book of matthew,
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- The old testament.
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- All of this was written before jesus was born.
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- This talks about the birth of christ.
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- Three quarters of the bible is old testament.
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- Most of the new testament was written by people that only read
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- The old testament.
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- Did you catch?
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- Talks about jesus even after the resurrection, or talks about
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- Paul and the apostles.
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- And they're always proving that jesus was the christ, pardon me,
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- From the old testament.
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- And so we're gonna look at those scriptures today and i think
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- You're gonna see why they came to that conclusion.
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- First of all, where did jesus come from?
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- He made some pretty bold statements.
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- He says in john 6:36, or 6:38, "for i have come down
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- From heaven."
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- Not only does he say it there, you can read in john 3, verse
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- 13, "no one has ascended into heaven but he that came down
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- From heaven, that is, the son of man who is in heaven."
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- He said he came from a place that is out of this world.
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- You can also read here in john 18, verse 36, "jesus said, 'my
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- Kingdom,'" he told pilate, "my kingdom is not of this world."
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- So jesus came from outside of this world, into this world,
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- And you and i will not understand through eternity.
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- We'll have a better idea when we get to the kingdom, how much
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- Jesus condescended to become a human and come to our world.
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- It'd be like you and i deciding to be a worm in a city dump.
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- To go from the glory that he had and the adoration he had, and
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- Come down and be treated like he was, it's just incomprehensible.
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- What would bring him to do that other than the explanation that
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- He loves us.
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- Did jesus claim divinity?
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- Now, there have been some people who've been debating this for
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- Years, but i don't see how you can read the bible and deny it.
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- You can read in mark 2, verse 10, "the son of man has power
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- On earth to forgive sins."
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- And even the jews knew god and god only can forgive sin.
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- There is one god, jehovah is our only savior, and yet jesus said
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- He is the savior.
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- The bible tells us that all the criteria that you would find
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- About god, you find about jesus.
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- Only god knows the thoughts of men's hearts, yet jesus always
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- Knew what they were thinking.
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- The bible says you are to worship god only, one of the
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- Ten commandments.
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- But in hebrews, it says even the angels worship him.
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- And when he rose from the dead, he said, "all hail," and they
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- Worshiped him.
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- And so jesus fills all the criteria of god.
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- You can look in john 8:58, jesus said to them, "most assuredly,
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- I say to you, before abraham was," what did he say?
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- "i am."
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- That is the name that god gave to moses as the self
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- Existent one.
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- Furthermore, you read in john 10, verse 30 and verse 33,
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- He said, "i and my father or are one."
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- The leaders listening understood what he was saying.
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- The jews answered and said, you being a man are making
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- Yourself god.
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- Now, if i said that, it would be blasphemy.
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- But if jesus said it, it's true.
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- If i say that i'm a great basketball player, that's
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- Bragging and lying.
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- If michael jordan says, i'm just not very good.
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- That's not humility, that's dishonesty.
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- He has every right to say i'm one of the best,
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- Because he was, you know what i'm saying?
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- So jesus is stating a fact.
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- He's not bragging or it's not the visions of grandeur.
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- Furthermore read in john 10, verse 17, "therefore, my father
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- Loves me, because i lay down my life, that i might take
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- It again.
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- No one takes it from me, but i lay it down of myself.
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- I have power to lay it down, and i have power to take it again."
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- How could anyone have power to lay down their life, be dead,
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- And power to take it back up again?
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- Except you are divine.
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- So how do we evaluate these very big claims?
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- Where do we go?
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- We've got to look at the history that we have, and most accounts
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- About the life of jesus are in the bible.
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- Though we will look at one or two that
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- Are extra-biblical today.
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- "search the scriptures, these are they that testify of me."
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- And if you look, for instance, in luke 24, when he rose from
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- The dead in verse 27, he's walking on the road with
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- Two disciples following the resurrection.
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- They don't know that he's raised, and he says, "o, fools
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- And slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken."
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- Notice he says, "'all that the prophets have spoken.'
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- Beginning at moses and all of the prophets, he expounded unto
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- Them in all of the scriptures the things concerning himself."
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- That means that the old testament is filled from moses
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- To malachi with prophecies that talk about jesus.
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- Doesn't mean every word of the old testament is talking about
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- Jesus, but you can find the theme of jesus, the messiah,
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- The plan of salvation all through the old testament.
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- Hebrews 10, verse 7, "then i said, behold, i come (in the
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- Volume of the book it is written of me,)
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- To do your will, o god."
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- The volume of the book, it is written of christ, and he was
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- The living expression of the will of god.
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- He lived out every aspect of the will of god in his life.
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- So let's begin to track down how do we know that jesus was
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- The messiah?
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- Well, the bible gives us some very specific understanding on
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- The family tree of the messiah,
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- What people, tribe, and family would the messiah come from.
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- Way back in genesis chapter 12, god spoke to abraham and he
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- Said, "in you, all the families of the earth would be blessed."
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- In fact, he repeats this promise to abraham three different times
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- Or slightly different, but he made it very clear that i have
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- Called you out of babylon to the promised land, and through your
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- Descendants, the messiah would come.
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- But you know, abraham was not only the father of uh isaac and
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- Ishmael from which you get, you know, the whole arab family.
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- Not every arab is a muslim, you know?
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- There are arab christians and a person can be born with jewish
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- Blood and become a muslim.
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- I know of jews that have become buddhists.
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- But islam did start from the descendants of abraham, but
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- Abraham also had a lot of children with keturah.
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- So which son was the messiah going to come through?
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- Well, the bible spells it out.
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- He said to isaac, i will give your descendants all these lands
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- And he repeated the promise to isaac, and in your seed, through
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- Your descendants, all the nations would be blessed.
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- The messiah would come through the descendants of isaac.
- 00:12:54.390 --> 00:12:57.560
- Now, isaac was a type of christ.
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- When isaac went up the mountain with his father, he was a
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- Willing sacrifice there in the prime of his life.
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- And he had the wood on his back as jesus had the cross on his
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- Back as he went up calvary.
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- And the bible tells us that, in the same way, it looked like
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- Isaac was doomed, but he came down the mountain alive, jesus,
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- Also rose from the dead.
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- So he's a type of christ, but the messiah was gonna come
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- Through isaac.
- 00:13:26.689 --> 00:13:28.023
- Now, isaac had two sons.
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- What were their names?
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- Jacob and esau.
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- They were very different, but it tells us which of those two sons
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- That the messiah would come through.
- 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.602
- God said to jacob in numbers 24, verse 17, "a star shall come out
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- Of jacob, a sceptre shall rise out of israel."
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- And even the prophecies that were given before their birth to
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- Rebekah, made it clear that the older esau would serve
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- The younger.
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- That it would be through the younger, jacob, who took hold
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- Of his brother's heel, the one who wrestled with god, his name
- 00:14:00.522 --> 00:14:03.459
- Was jacob, later changed to israel, meaning a prince with
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- God, because he wrestled with god and would not let go until
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- He had that blessing.
- 00:14:10.499 --> 00:14:12.835
- But then jacob had 12 sons.
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- So which one of them is the messiah gonna come through?
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- The bible is so specific.
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- You read here in genesis 49, when jacob was blessing his
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- Sons, it said, "the sceptre will not depart from judah, nor a
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- Lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh come; and unto him
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- Shall be the gathering of the people."
- 00:14:32.454 --> 00:14:34.857
- I always thought it was interesting that judah was
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- The one of the brothers who suggested they sell joseph
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- Instead of killing him, which was, you know, better,
- 00:14:42.364 --> 00:14:46.502
- Of course.
- 00:14:46.502 --> 00:14:48.337
- But it was judas that sold jesus.
- 00:14:48.337 --> 00:14:51.006
- But later judah went through a real conversion, and when he
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- Went down to egypt, he had changed so much, that he told
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- Joseph, he didn't know joseph was joseph.
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- He told this prime minister, he said, "i will take
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- Benjamin's place.
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- I will be a slave."
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- He was willing to be the great substitute.
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- He had changed.
- 00:15:07.222 --> 00:15:08.590
- Well, the messiah was gonna come through the tribe of judah.
- 00:15:08.590 --> 00:15:11.627
- Well, judah had at least three sons, two of his sons died
- 00:15:11.627 --> 00:15:15.464
- Before they we're able to procreate.
- 00:15:15.464 --> 00:15:18.801
- And it tells us that the messiah was gonna come through the clan
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- Of david.
- 00:15:24.373 --> 00:15:25.841
- You read about this in isaiah 11, verse 1 and 2, "there shall
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- Come a rod, a stem from jesse," the house of jesse, and jesse
- 00:15:30.312 --> 00:15:35.084
- Had several sons, but which son?
- 00:15:35.084 --> 00:15:37.186
- And it said, "a branch shall grow from his roots: and the
- 00:15:37.186 --> 00:15:40.222
- Spirit of the lord shall rest upon him."
- 00:15:40.222 --> 00:15:42.825
- Later, the prophet nathan comes to david and says that
- 00:15:42.825 --> 00:15:46.795
- "your son will build me a house that will last forever."
- 00:15:46.795 --> 00:15:49.431
- Speaking of the son of david, not only did solomon build
- 00:15:49.431 --> 00:15:52.267
- A temple, but the son of david that would build a house that
- 00:15:52.267 --> 00:15:55.237
- Would last forever is jesus.
- 00:15:55.237 --> 00:15:57.039
- That's why jesus said, destroy this temple made with hands,
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- And in three days, i will make one without hands.
- 00:16:00.109 --> 00:16:02.378
- So you notice how the focus keeps getting a little sharper
- 00:16:02.378 --> 00:16:05.848
- As we're going through these prophecies, who is gonna be
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- The messiah.
- 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:09.284
- By the way, i heard somebody did--since there's 300
- 00:16:09.284 --> 00:16:11.954
- Prophecies in the old testament that help identify jesus.
- 00:16:11.954 --> 00:16:15.991
- Someone did some math and they said the statistical odds of
- 00:16:15.991 --> 00:16:21.497
- Finding one person that meets the criteria of only eight of
- 00:16:21.497 --> 00:16:25.901
- These prophecies is, what is the word, a zillion beyond
- 00:16:25.901 --> 00:16:30.105
- A trillion?
- 00:16:30.105 --> 00:16:31.473
- What's the next?
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- A google?
- 00:16:34.109 --> 00:16:36.278
- Google is one of those.
- 00:16:36.278 --> 00:16:37.713
- Anyway, it's an astronomical number just so far beyond
- 00:16:37.713 --> 00:16:41.250
- The possibility that it could be coincidence that all of these
- 00:16:41.250 --> 00:16:45.287
- Criteria would line up in one person.
- 00:16:45.287 --> 00:16:48.257
- Someone said it's something like taking the state of texas,
- 00:16:48.257 --> 00:16:52.995
- Covering it with quarters 2 feet deep, and then telling you that
- 00:16:52.995 --> 00:16:57.366
- There is one quarter out there that has been dipped in
- 00:16:57.366 --> 00:17:01.170
- Gold, go find it.
- 00:17:01.170 --> 00:17:04.006
- You know how big texas is?
- 00:17:04.006 --> 00:17:06.241
- So you cover the state of texas with quarters 2 feet deep, you
- 00:17:06.241 --> 00:17:09.344
- Gotta find that one quarter.
- 00:17:09.344 --> 00:17:10.846
- It's just the odds are astronomical.
- 00:17:10.846 --> 00:17:14.983
- So we know jesus came, of course, through the tribe
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- Of david.
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- And let's look at some verses to prove that
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- Now from the new testament.
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- You read in luke chapter 1, verse 26
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- And verse 27, "now in the sixth month the angel gabriel was sent
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- By god to a city of galilee, named nazareth."
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- Where was the angel sent?
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- Nazareth.
- 00:17:36.538 --> 00:17:37.906
- You know what nazareth means in aramaic?
- 00:17:37.906 --> 00:17:40.209
- It's the word branch, that comes up later for two reasons.
- 00:17:40.209 --> 00:17:45.080
- "to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was joseph, of
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- The house of," who?
- 00:17:49.785 --> 00:17:51.720
- "the house of david."
- 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:53.589
- Not only that, but said he'd be born of a virgin.
- 00:17:53.589 --> 00:17:56.592
- That's a whole separate prophecy that you find.
- 00:17:56.592 --> 00:17:59.027
- Look here in the book of isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, "behold,
- 00:17:59.027 --> 00:18:03.265
- A virgin will conceive and bear a son, and you will call his
- 00:18:03.265 --> 00:18:07.236
- Name emmanuel," which is being interpreted god with us.
- 00:18:07.236 --> 00:18:10.606
- And then you go to the new testament and we see that that
- 00:18:10.606 --> 00:18:13.509
- Was fulfilled there.
- 00:18:13.509 --> 00:18:15.110
- Now the birth, this is matthew 1:18, the birth of jesus christ
- 00:18:15.110 --> 00:18:18.847
- Was as follows, "after his mother mary was betrothed to
- 00:18:18.847 --> 00:18:22.217
- Joseph," that means they were engaged, "before they came
- 00:18:22.217 --> 00:18:25.754
- Together, she was found to be with child of the holy spirit."
- 00:18:25.754 --> 00:18:30.392
- And we heard where the angel said, "the power of the almighty
- 00:18:30.392 --> 00:18:33.295
- Would come over you."
- 00:18:33.295 --> 00:18:34.897
- And that's why, you know, jesus is this supernatural, and that's
- 00:18:34.897 --> 00:18:41.069
- The correct word, supernatural combination of human and divine.
- 00:18:41.069 --> 00:18:48.143
- The place of his birth is spelled out in the bible.
- 00:18:48.143 --> 00:18:51.980
- You can read the prophecy here in the book of micah, chapter 5,
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- Verse 2, "but you, bethlehem ephratah," now, the reason he
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- Says bethlehem ephratah is there were two places
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- Called bethlehem.
- 00:19:01.023 --> 00:19:02.357
- You know, it's like in north america, you got several cities
- 00:19:02.357 --> 00:19:04.426
- Called farmington, it means farming town.
- 00:19:04.426 --> 00:19:06.995
- There's a couple of portlands, you got portland, maine, you got
- 00:19:06.995 --> 00:19:10.065
- Portland, oregon.
- 00:19:10.065 --> 00:19:11.767
- But, so there was a--the word bethlehem means house of bread.
- 00:19:11.767 --> 00:19:15.370
- It was not an uncommon--anywhere that had a big bakery.
- 00:19:15.370 --> 00:19:17.940
- It might be called a house of bread, but this was the
- 00:19:17.940 --> 00:19:19.908
- Bethlehem ephratah, and this is where rachel died, giving birth
- 00:19:19.908 --> 00:19:24.680
- To benjamin.
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- And she was buried there and it was just outside, or not too far
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- From jerusalem.
- 00:19:30.385 --> 00:19:32.287
- "but you bethlehem ephratah, though you are little among the
- 00:19:32.287 --> 00:19:35.090
- Thousands of judah," it's a little hamlet, "yet out of you
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- Shall come forth to me the one who's the ruler in israel; whose
- 00:19:39.127 --> 00:19:43.565
- Goings forth are from old, even from everlasting."
- 00:19:43.565 --> 00:19:46.635
- Now, that prophecy is so clear, it can't be misunderstood.
- 00:19:46.635 --> 00:19:49.771
- That prophecy is so clear that when the wise men came looking
- 00:19:49.771 --> 00:19:53.775
- For the one who was born king of the jews, and herod got all
- 00:19:53.775 --> 00:19:58.046
- Upset and agitated that there was gonna be someone to replace
- 00:19:58.046 --> 00:20:01.383
- Him, i don't know why he was worried about a baby king at
- 00:20:01.383 --> 00:20:04.486
- That point because he was already a pretty old man, and
- 00:20:04.486 --> 00:20:06.555
- He had nothing to worry about by the time the baby grew up.
- 00:20:06.555 --> 00:20:09.157
- He called in the scribes and pharisees and said, where does
- 00:20:09.157 --> 00:20:11.927
- The prophecy say that the messiah would be born?
- 00:20:11.927 --> 00:20:15.297
- They knew, they said bethlehem.
- 00:20:15.297 --> 00:20:18.000
- So it was really clear, it's clear from this,
- 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.270
- Was jesus born in bethlehem?
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- He was.
- 00:20:23.805 --> 00:20:25.140
- Now there's a problem, where did the angel come and appear
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- To mary?
- 00:20:28.343 --> 00:20:30.245
- Nazareth, remember we just read that?
- 00:20:30.245 --> 00:20:32.648
- "an angel came to a virgin that was in the city of galilee
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- Called nazareth."
- 00:20:35.417 --> 00:20:36.952
- Nazareth is 70 miles north, and she is found to be with child
- 00:20:36.952 --> 00:20:42.324
- 70 miles north.
- 00:20:42.324 --> 00:20:44.059
- And 70 miles back then was more than 70 miles today, because
- 00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:49.331
- 70 miles today, you conquer in an hour.
- 00:20:49.331 --> 00:20:51.266
- Some of you conquer it in half an hour,
- 00:20:51.266 --> 00:20:53.602
- Depends on how you drive.
- 00:20:53.602 --> 00:20:56.004
- But back then it was a pretty serious journey.
- 00:20:56.004 --> 00:20:59.441
- So god has to somehow get mary down to bethlehem before she
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- Gives birth.
- 00:21:03.378 --> 00:21:04.713
- Enter octavian caesar, also known as augustus caesar.
- 00:21:04.713 --> 00:21:08.750
- We've got a month named after him.
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- He was one of the most successful leaders in history.
- 00:21:10.619 --> 00:21:13.188
- He ruled rome for about 40 years, and it was during
- 00:21:13.188 --> 00:21:16.625
- The time of what they call the great "pax romana."
- 00:21:16.625 --> 00:21:20.162
- That means the roman peace.
- 00:21:20.162 --> 00:21:22.631
- See when jesus came, it was ideal in its timing
- 00:21:22.631 --> 00:21:26.201
- Historically, and it was ideal in its location.
- 00:21:26.201 --> 00:21:30.806
- Why was it ideal in its timing?
- 00:21:30.806 --> 00:21:33.141
- Because augustus caesar, he was the one who really went and
- 00:21:33.141 --> 00:21:37.813
- Stretched the roman roads farther than ever.
- 00:21:37.813 --> 00:21:40.482
- It was like the internet, communication--karen was in
- 00:21:40.482 --> 00:21:43.452
- Greece a little while ago, and she was telling me about seeing
- 00:21:43.452 --> 00:21:45.654
- The ancient roman roads, and i told her, they looked a lot
- 00:21:45.654 --> 00:21:48.156
- Better back then than they do now.
- 00:21:48.156 --> 00:21:51.526
- And they used to go screaming up and down those roads with
- 00:21:51.526 --> 00:21:55.063
- Chariots, like the pony express and they'd change
- 00:21:55.063 --> 00:21:57.165
- Riders and messages went flashing through the empire.
- 00:21:57.165 --> 00:22:00.635
- For them, it was lightning speed.
- 00:22:00.635 --> 00:22:02.671
- And so communications happened very quickly.
- 00:22:02.671 --> 00:22:05.707
- Another reason the timing was perfect is the jews had been
- 00:22:05.707 --> 00:22:09.378
- Scattered all over the roman empire, and they were
- 00:22:09.378 --> 00:22:11.713
- In industries.
- 00:22:11.713 --> 00:22:13.048
- If you doubt that, read acts chapter 2, when the holy spirit
- 00:22:13.048 --> 00:22:15.984
- Was poured out.
- 00:22:15.984 --> 00:22:17.452
- Says, "now devout jews from out of every nation under heaven
- 00:22:17.452 --> 00:22:22.824
- Came to jerusalem for pentecost."
- 00:22:22.824 --> 00:22:25.427
- So when the holy spirit was poured out and the news about
- 00:22:25.427 --> 00:22:28.130
- Jesus spread, they were converted.
- 00:22:28.130 --> 00:22:30.465
- They then fanned out from jerusalem back to their homes
- 00:22:30.465 --> 00:22:33.935
- And the gospel spread on those roman roads like lightning.
- 00:22:33.935 --> 00:22:37.239
- So that paul said in one generation, the gospel has been
- 00:22:37.239 --> 00:22:39.708
- Preached to every creature under heaven.
- 00:22:39.708 --> 00:22:41.276
- Of course, that was a little bit of hyperbole.
- 00:22:41.276 --> 00:22:43.512
- I'm not sure they had made it to, you know, south america and
- 00:22:43.512 --> 00:22:46.715
- Australia, and some of these places.
- 00:22:46.715 --> 00:22:48.383
- But the gospel had gone through the known civilized world in
- 00:22:48.383 --> 00:22:51.953
- One generation.
- 00:22:51.953 --> 00:22:53.288
- The other reason it was an ideal location is because the place
- 00:22:53.288 --> 00:22:56.558
- Where jesus was born, the land of israel was a land bridge
- 00:22:56.558 --> 00:23:00.228
- Between three great continents of europe, asia, and africa.
- 00:23:00.228 --> 00:23:06.067
- So here rome owned that territory.
- 00:23:06.067 --> 00:23:09.571
- Christ was born.
- 00:23:09.571 --> 00:23:10.939
- The message then went fanning out, it went into north africa,
- 00:23:10.939 --> 00:23:13.975
- It was taken down to ethiopia, it went off into india with
- 00:23:13.975 --> 00:23:16.912
- Thomas, it went off through europe with paul and peter and
- 00:23:16.912 --> 00:23:20.115
- The others.
- 00:23:20.115 --> 00:23:21.450
- So the timing was perfect.
- 00:23:21.450 --> 00:23:23.452
- So when the bible says, "in the fullness of time,"
- 00:23:23.452 --> 00:23:27.155
- Some people wonder, "why didn't jesus come 1,000 years
- 00:23:27.155 --> 00:23:30.192
- After adam sinned.
- 00:23:30.192 --> 00:23:31.526
- Why did he wait 4000 years?"
- 00:23:31.526 --> 00:23:35.697
- The ways of the lord is sometimes a mystery, but there's
- 00:23:35.697 --> 00:23:37.732
- Good reason for it.
- 00:23:37.732 --> 00:23:39.067
- He waited for the perfect timing.
- 00:23:39.067 --> 00:23:40.502
- He also waited for conditions to be at their lowest in some
- 00:23:40.502 --> 00:23:44.706
- Respects morally, when people especially needed, a time of
- 00:23:44.706 --> 00:23:49.177
- Darkness, this light shone the brightest.
- 00:23:49.177 --> 00:23:52.647
- So she went down to bethlehem, and luke chapter 2, verse 6,
- 00:23:52.647 --> 00:23:58.553
- "and so it was, while they were there, the days were
- 00:23:58.553 --> 00:24:01.690
- Accomplished that she should be delivered.
- 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:04.426
- And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him
- 00:24:04.426 --> 00:24:08.230
- In swaddling clothes," swaddling clothes is strips of cloth,
- 00:24:08.230 --> 00:24:13.468
- The early pampers, "and laid him in the manger; because there was
- 00:24:13.468 --> 00:24:17.939
- No room for them in the inn."
- 00:24:17.939 --> 00:24:19.541
- Isn't that something?
- 00:24:19.541 --> 00:24:20.876
- You've heard it before, but it's still staggering when you think
- 00:24:20.876 --> 00:24:23.945
- That god almighty of the cosmos comes to the world in the form
- 00:24:23.945 --> 00:24:27.148
- Of a man, and there's no room for him, and he comes to his own
- 00:24:27.148 --> 00:24:30.819
- People that had all the prophecies, and they do not
- 00:24:30.819 --> 00:24:32.821
- Know him.
- 00:24:32.821 --> 00:24:34.356
- And it's--the religious leaders totally miss it.
- 00:24:34.356 --> 00:24:37.592
- And yet it's revealed to a shepherd, and later to some
- 00:24:37.592 --> 00:24:41.630
- Foreign wise men or magi.
- 00:24:41.630 --> 00:24:45.433
- He's laid in a manger.
- 00:24:45.433 --> 00:24:46.835
- A manger is a place where you put grain for the beasts.
- 00:24:46.835 --> 00:24:50.872
- And i think it's interesting that here in a town called
- 00:24:50.872 --> 00:24:54.876
- "the house of bread," the bread of life is put in a vessel
- 00:24:54.876 --> 00:24:59.514
- For bread.
- 00:24:59.514 --> 00:25:00.882
- So everything about that is telling us that jesus is
- 00:25:00.882 --> 00:25:03.285
- The bread that came down from heaven, amen?
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