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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 2) | January 26, 2025
- Doug batchelor: one of the most famous attractions
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- In the san francisco bay area
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- Is the iconic golden gate bridge.
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- During its construction, the golden gate bridge
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- Had one of the best safety construction records
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- Of any project during that time.
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- Because of the extreme risks,
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- The chief engineer was absolutely adamant
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- About their using the most rigorous safety precautions
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- That had ever been used in bridge building.
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- But the most conspicuous safety measure
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- Was a gigantic net suspended from end-to-end
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- Under the bridge about halfway between the bridge and the bay.
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- During construction,
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- This net saved the lives of 19 men
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- Who were later known as the half way to hell club.
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- With the net in place,
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- These men were much more courageous
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- And brave during construction
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- Because they knew there was a mechanism to protect them
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- If they should fall.
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- Friends, as christians we get to participate with jesus
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- In building a bridge
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- That will connect heaven and earth.
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- There are dangers along the way,
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- But jesus has promised to protect us,
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- And we don't need to be afraid.
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- So join me now as we discover the fascinating bible facts
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- About the hero of revelation.
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- During the civil war, there was this one individual
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- That really surprised everybody.
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- His name was joshua lawrence chamberlain.
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- He was actually from maine.
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- He was a schoolteacher, english major,
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- Actually majored in rhetoric and different languages,
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- Seemed like something of a bookworm.
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- But he had very strong convictions about slavery.
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- And when, finally, the civil war broke out,
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- Even though his family was very religious
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- And he, maybe, was a pacifist by nature,
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- He thought the cause deserves
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- That we lay our lives down for this,
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- And he joined the forces.
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- Because of his education they quickly promoted him.
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- And the next thing he knew,
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- He was involved in the battle of gettysburg.
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- Some of the soldiers under him were a little worried.
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- They said, "this guy is always reading.
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- He's a bookworm, he's a lamb."
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- And he seems so polite and he seems so articulate,
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- They thought, "what's he going to do on the battlefield?"
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- Well, it turned out, in one of the biggest
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- And the bloodiest battles of the civil war,
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- The battle of gettysburg,
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- 50,000 people died in one day.
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- It's been the bloodiest battle in american history,
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- In any of our wars.
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- The south was trying to take this hill,
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- And they were trying to flank around the troops of the north,
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- And chamberlain knew
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- That he needed to hold that hill at all cost
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- And they--
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- For three days, the battle raged,
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- And the south continued to throw soldiers at that hill
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- Trying to get behind the troops and to defeat them.
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- And they fought the group from maine that he was over,
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- They fought until they ran out of ammunition.
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- And finally, he told them, "fix your bayonets and charge."
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- When they were coming up the hill after them,
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- He told his men to charge back at them
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- With just bayonets.
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- And it so terrified the southerners
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- That they turned and they ran.
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- They didn't realize they had run out of bullets.
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- They later called him, instead of the lamb,
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- They called him the lion of little round top.
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- Little round top was the hill that they were defending.
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- Well, you know, jesus, when he comes again,
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- He's coming like a lion.
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- When he came the first time, he came like a lamb.
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- But he is the central focus of the entire bible.
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- And our presentation tonight,
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- Dealing with the hero of revelation,
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- Is part of our prophecy encounter series.
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- I've got a lot of material to cover.
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- You may want to have a pen or pencil handy
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- Because we're going to give you some notes.
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- We're going to be looking at prophecies in revelation,
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- In daniel, and all through the bible,
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- That show us who jesus is,
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- So we can know that he is the central focus.
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- If you look in daniel chapter 9.
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- Daniel is praying.
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- God's people are captives in babylon.
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- He's saying, "we've been here 70 years."
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- Daniel is reading the prophecy of jeremiah
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- That said after 70 years they would go home.
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- So even daniel read the prophets.
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- And he's praying saying,
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- "lord, we've been here 70 years.
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- How long?
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- How long will you tolerate your people?
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- How long till the savior the messiah comes?"
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- While daniel is praying, the angel gabriel comes,
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- Same one that appears to mary,
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- And he hasn't aged a bit when he appears to mary
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- At 500 years later.
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- And he gives this prophecy,
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- "70 weeks are determined for your people..."
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- I'm in daniel 9:24,
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- "for their holy city, to finish transgression,
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- To make an end of sins,
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- To make reconciliation for iniquity,
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- To bring in everlasting righteousness,
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- To seal up the vision and the prophecy..."
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- Talking about the visions
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- About the coming of the messiah.
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- "and anoint the most holy."
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- Very clear that this is a prophecy
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- That talked about the most holy being anointed,
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- 70 weeks.
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- So what does the 70 weeks represent?
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- Now, in the bible, a day equals a year.
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- First let's talk about the starting point here.
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- It tells us that it says,
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- "from the going forth of the commandment..."
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- If you read in daniel 9:25,
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- What's the starting point for this prophecy?
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- "from the going forth of the commandment
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- To restore and build jerusalem."
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- Jerusalem had been destroyed by nebuchadnezzar.
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- The persian king, artaxerxes, issued a decree.
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- You can find that in your bible in ezra chapter 7.
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- That they could go back
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- And he also helped subsidize their mission
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- To rebuild the city, to rebuild the temple.
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- And the bible says that would be
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- The starting point of this 70 week prophecy.
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- "from the going forth of the command
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- To restore and build jerusalem
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- Unto the messiah the prince, there'll be seven weeks..."
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- Now he breaks up that 70 weeks into three parts:
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- There'll be seven weeks, and 62 weeks,
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- Then you have your final week.
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- Okay?
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- And so seven weeks was the time it took them
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- To rebuild the walls and the streets
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- And troublous times in the temple.
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- Then there were 62 more weeks,
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- The most holy would be anointed.
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- Then during that last week,
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- He would confirm the covenant with the people,
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- But in the midst of that last week
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- He'd make the sacrifice cease.
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- Now i've said it, i'm going to say it several times
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- Because i know this is a lot of information,
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- And i want you to have this clear in your mind.
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- First of all, when you're dealing
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- With a large bible time prophecy like this,
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- There's a pretty safe principle
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- That you apply a day for a year.
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- And there's three references there,
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- You can see that support that principle.
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- Now i'm going to put a chart up on the screen
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- And explain this time prophecy.
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- You see the decree is given 457 b.c.
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- Artaxerxes you can find it in ezra 7.
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- It's a pretty well accepted date
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- In ancient history.
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- And so, 483 years after the command
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- Is when you would expect to see the messiah anointed.
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- He begins his ministry.
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- He then confirms the covenant with god's people
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- For the last seven years.
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- In the midst of that last seven years
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- He makes the sacrifice cease.
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- Stay with me.
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- All right, jesus was baptized when?
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- You can read in the gospel of john 1:29.
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- He came to john the baptist, and it says,
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- "john saw jesus coming to him and said,
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- 'behold! the lamb of god
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- That takes away the sin of the world!'"
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- You know, if you read in luke,
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- It tells us that the year
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- That john was preaching when jesus was baptized,
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- It talks about pontius pilate being in power.
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- You've got tiberius caesar, you've got herod.
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- There is only one year in history
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- When these three characters, their reigns overlapped
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- And it was 27 a.d.
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- 27 a.d. is exactly 483 years after
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- King artaxerxes' decree in 457.
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- That's when the messiah was baptized.
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- What happened at the baptism of jesus?
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- You can read in acts 10:38 where peter said,
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- "god anointed jesus of nazareth
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- With the holy spirit..."
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- He was the anointed, the christ.
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- "and with power, who went about doing good
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- And healing all who were oppressed by the devil,
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- For god was with him."
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- And so jesus was anointed by the holy spirit
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- Exactly 483 years,
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- But now you've got one week left
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- Still to get to 490, right?
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- Now we're going to talk about what happened
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- During the ministry of jesus.
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- We're parking the prophecy of daniel.
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- So you all with me? we're going to come back to it.
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- It said that he would confirm the covenant during this week.
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- What did jesus do during that time?
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- Let's look at the ministry of christ
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- And are there prophecies about the ministry of christ?
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- So i'm putting layers in here. prophecies in prophecies.
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- Isaiah 61:1, first sermon jesus preached
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- He quotes from this in nazareth,
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- His home church.
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- He said, "the spirit of god is upon me
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- Because the lord has anointed me
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- To preach the good news to the poor."
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- Christ is the anointed.
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- He's telling people, "i am the anointed."
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- "he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted..."
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- Did jesus do that?
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- "to proclaim liberty to the captives",
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- People captive by the devil and sin.
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- "and the opening of prison to those who are bound."
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- He came to set the captive free
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- And to proclaim liberty to the captives
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- And the great day of the lord.
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- And people that came to hear jesus preach,
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- You know, spies were sent to arrest him
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- And they came back
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- And the leader said, "where is he?
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- We told you to arrest him." you know what their answer was?
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- "never man spoke like this man."
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- And i can testify to you, that was my impression
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- Because i grew up believing that jesus was...
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- In our home, my mom didn't say very nice things about jesus.
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- Came, like i said, from a jewish background,
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- And we thought christians were the problem.
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- My jewish relatives,
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- They'd tell me "oh, yeah, jesus was...
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- He was a good man. he was a teacher."
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- And i would ask my grandfather,
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- I'd say, "now you realize
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- That he said he was the messiah.
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- Do you think he told the truth?"
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- They said, "oh, yeah, he was a good man.
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- He was a teacher. he's a prophet."
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- "well, he said he was the son of god.
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- He said he was the only one. he's the only door."
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- And so they used to kind of stumble over that.
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- So i was very antagonistic about jesus.
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- When i finally started reading the bible,
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- So i could argue with christians.
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- And i'd read where it says,
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- "he that is without sin cast the first stone."
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- I had heard that expression all my life.
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- I said, "oh, jesus said that."
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- "turn the other cheek." oh, jesus said that.
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- "go the second mile."
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- And all of these things
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- I was reading in the sermon on the mount,
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- I'm going, "i've been hearing these things all my life.
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- I had no idea that jesus said them."
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- I said, "wow, he was really smart."
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- I mean, he just said,
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- He's the most quoted person in history.
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- Nobody ever spoke like this man spoke.
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- Now you look at the prophecies
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- And the events surrounding the cross.
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- Are there some of those in the old testament?
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- For one thing, just the week before he was crucified,
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- They call it the triumphal entry.
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- "rejoice greatly, o daughter..."
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- By the way, this is zechariah 9:9,
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- "rejoice greatly, o daughter of zion!
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- Shout, daughter of jerusalem!
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- Behold, your king is coming to you.
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- He is just and having salvation, lowly
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- And riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey."
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- And then you go to the new testament
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- And then you see the story where jesus rode into jerusalem
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- Through the golden gate on a donkey.
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- Justice had been foretold with all the people rejoicing.
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- Doug: don't go anywhere, friends.
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- We will be back in just a moment
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- To complete today's presentation.
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- Can you imagine what it would be like to be out in the middle of
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- Discovering you're surrounded by hungry sharks.
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- You would be so thankful if a helicopter
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- Came by to rescue you.
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- Well, let's get back now to today's presentation and learn
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- Some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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- Doug: are there prophecies about the betrayal of jesus?
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- Yes, quite a few.
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- Matter of fact, you can read in psalms,
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- A thousand years before jesus was born,
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- King david wrote, "even my own familiar friend
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- In whom i trusted, who ate my bread,
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- He has lifted up his heel against me."
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- After they ate bread together,
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- Judas went out and he betrayed him.
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- And then, again, you read in zechariah,
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- It says, and this is 11, verse 12,
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- "then i said to them, 'if it is agreeable to you,
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- Give me my wages, and, if not, refrain.'
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- So they weighed out for my wages
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- Thirty pieces of silver.'"
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- How much was jesus sold for?
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- Thirty pieces of silver, exactly.
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- And then it goes on to say, "and the lord said to me,
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- 'throw it to the potter,'
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- That princely price that they set upon me.
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- So they took the thirty pieces of silver
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- And they threw them into the house of the lord,
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- To the potter."
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- You know what judas did with the money
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- When he was overcome with guilt?
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- He went into the house of the lord,
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- He threw the silver down.
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- They did not know what to do with the money
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- Because it was blood money.
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- They used it to buy a potter's field
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- To bury strangers in.
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- What precise details were foretold
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- Hundreds of years earlier, thousand years earlier.
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- No, this one hundreds of years earlier
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- Regarding the betrayal of christ.
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- What about the manner of his death?
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- Was that foretold?
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- You realize when some of these prophecies were written,
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- They didn't practice crucifixion.
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- But you look in psalm 22.
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- Now, do you know what the first words are
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- In psalm 22?
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- "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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- Does that sound familiar?
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- That's what jesus uttered from the cross.
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- People think, "did he say that because he was discouraged?"
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- No, jesus said that because later in that psalm
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- You find these other predictions.
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- Read in psalm 22:16,
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- "for dogs have surrounded me,
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- The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me.
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- They pierced my hands and my feet..."
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- Describing crucifixion.
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- It's in that same psalm, that messianic passover psalm
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- Where he says, "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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- Christ had not lost courage,
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- He was directing them to the psalm
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- That showed the very thing that was happening that day
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- As he hung up on the cross.
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- It says, "they divided my garments among them,
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- And they cast lots for my clothing."
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- What a precise detail.
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- And then you read, of course, in the new testament
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- There, mark 15:24 at the foot of the cross,
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- "when they crucified him, they divided his garments,
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- Casting lots for them
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- To determine what every man should take."
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- Gambling there at the foot of the cross.
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- But when they came to jesus,
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- It also says none of his bones would be broken
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- In that prophecy in psalm 22.
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- It says, "when they came to jesus
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- After breaking the bones of the thief
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- On the right and the left,
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- They saw he was already dead
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- And they did not break his legs."
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- Notice john goes on.
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- John quotes from the prophecy,
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- "but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
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- And immediately blood and water came out."
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- Talks about christ, the messiah being pierced.
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- Blood and water came out
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- But they did not break his bones.
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- It says, "for these things were done
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- That the scripture should be fulfilled,
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- 'not one of his bones would be broken.'"
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- And again another scripture says,
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- "they look on him whom they had pierced."
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- Quoting again that scripture, jesus was pierced,
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- His bones were not broken, he was crucified,
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- They gambled for his clothing.
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- Was he the one?
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- Do the prophecies all talk about jesus?
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- Now i told you, don't forget about daniel.
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- We're going back now to daniel chapter 9.
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- We got one week to go.
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- And it says, "after the sixty-two weeks
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- Messiah will be cut off, but not for himself."
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- Was jesus cut off? yes.
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- And when a person dies of old age,
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- That's not being cut off.
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- But when they're 30 years old,
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- 33 and a half, he died in his prime.
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- He was cut off from the land of the living.
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- But not for himself, for who?
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- For us. for me, for you.
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- He died for you as though you were the only one
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- Who had ever sinned.
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- He loves you that much.
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- And then it said, "he would confirm the covenant
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- With many for one week."
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- So that last seven years, from his baptism
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- Until seven years later,
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- He is confirming the covenant with the jewish people.
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- Three and a half years in person,
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- Three and a half years through the apostles,
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- Until, finally the first christian martyr,
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- Which is stephen,
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- He is tried by the jewish supreme court
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- For his faith.
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- They do the same thing to him they did to jesus.
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- They bring him out of the city.
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- He's falsely accused and then he is executed
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- And he prays for the forgiveness
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- Of those who kill him, the same thing jesus did.
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- In the middle of the week he causes,
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- He makes the offering and the sacrifice to cease.
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- Three and a half years after jesus was baptized,
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- When he dies on the cross, what happened in the temple?
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- You read in matthew 27:51,
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- "behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two
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- From top to bottom, and the earth quaked,
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- And the rocks were split..."
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- And the veil of the temple is torn,
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- Showing that the purpose
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- For that sanctuary was complete.
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- Jesus said, "destroy this temple made with hands
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- And in three days i will make one without hands."
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- He spoke of his body, the church.
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- Two things were torn, the temple was torn
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- And the high priest tore his garments.
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- We now have a new priesthood.
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- If you are a believer in christ,
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- Then you are part of that royal priesthood. amen?
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- And we also have a new temple.
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- If you are a believer in christ,
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- You are a living stone in that building.
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- That's what paul and peter say. we are the household of god.
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- Church is not a building, church is the people.
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- Now, go back, i want you to see the chart again.
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- And you notice here, we got from the decree
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- Until the 69 weeks are complete,
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- You've got 483 years and 69 weeks.
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- Four hundred and eighty three days
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- And a day is a year.
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- Christ is baptized 27 a.d.
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- He confirms a covenant with god's people
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- For another week
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- Before the gospel goes to the gentiles.
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- Three and a half years in person,
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- Then he dies and he causes the sacrifice to cease.
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- Then he does another three and a half years
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- Through those that heard him.
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- And you'll find this is in hebrews 2:3
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- Where it says that,
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- "how shall we escape..." notice this.
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- "how shall we escape
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- If we neglect so great a salvation,
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- Which at the first began to be spoken by the lord..."
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- 27 a.d.
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- From his baptism began to preach
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- For three and a half years until he was executed.
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- "and was confirmed to us by those that heard him,"
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- For three and a half years.
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- Do you know the jews did not go when christ rose?
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- They did not go to the world yet.
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- He said, "first begin in jerusalem and judea."
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- He says, "do not go,
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- But first to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
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- The apostles' ministry
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- For the first three and a half years
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- Was exclusively to the jewish nation.
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- At pentecost, when the holy spirit is poured out,
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- It says there were devout jews
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- Dwelling in jerusalem from every nation.
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- They preached to jews.
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- In acts chapter 3, acts chapter 5,
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- They're all jews being baptized.
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- It wasn't until stephen was stoned,
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- It says, "a great persecution arose
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- And the gospel went everywhere."
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- Then paul is converted, following that,
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- In the next chapter.
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- Peter then goes to cornelius
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- And starts to preach to the gentiles
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- Who he had been calling unclean.
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- Finally the gospel began to go to everyone.
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- That was exactly 490 years
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- After, as daniel had said that prophecy.
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- You've got the decree, 457,
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- The baptism of jesus marks the last week
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- Of that prophecy,
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- First three and a half years he confirms the covenant.
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- He then causes the sacrifice
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- To cease by his death on the cross.
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- Then he says to the disciples, "as the father sent me,
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- Now you go confirm the covenant with the lost sheep
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- For another three and a half years.
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- Stephen is stoned.
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- And he says, "now the gospel goes
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- To the gentiles and everybody, whosoever will.
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- This is exactly what god said would happen.
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- There's no question that jesus was the messiah
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- That daniel foretold.
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- And i've even got a quote here from josephus,
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- The jewish historian,
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- That to me it just blows me away.
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- Josephus, flavius josephus
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- Was a contemporary of the apostles
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- And he wrote this from the time of christ.
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- "now there was about this time, a wise man,
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- If it be lawful to call him a man,
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- For he was a doer of wonderful works,
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- And a teacher of such men
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- As receive the truth with pleasure.
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- He drew over to him both many of the jews
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- And many of the gentiles, he was the christ."
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- This is coming from a jewish scholar
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- Who is not writing in the bible.
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- It says, "and when pilate,
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- At the suggestion of principal people among us,
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- Had condemned him to the cross,
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- Those that loved him
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- At the first did not forsake him,
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- For he appeared to them alive again
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- After the third day."
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- So this is not just the bible, friends, this is history.
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- And even this jewish historian says,
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- "yeah, he was the messiah,
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- He appeared, he rose from the dead."
- 00:21:46.221 --> 00:21:49.491
- "as the divine prophets had foretold these things
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- And ten thousand other wonderful things
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- Concerning him.
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- And the tribe of christian continues with us
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- And they are not extinct even to this day."
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- So i want you to consider what we've looked at here.
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- There are prophecies that tell about the time of his birth,
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- That he'd be born of a virgin, the time of his baptism,
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- The type of ministry, the events of his betrayal,
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- The manner of his execution,
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- His resurrection, his ascension.
- 00:22:14.583 --> 00:22:16.184
- This is all foretold in the old testament.
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- And then people say, "pastor doug, we had a question
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- I didn't read tonight.
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- How do you know the bible is true?"
- 00:22:22.924 --> 00:22:24.259
- I'm going, pff!
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- What evidence will you accept?
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- What evidence will you accept?
- 00:22:28.563 --> 00:22:30.365
- The book has been supernaturally preserved.
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- Everything it says has come true.
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- And jesus is the best evidence of all.
- 00:22:34.436 --> 00:22:37.572
- You start to put the pieces together, friends,
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- And you can see jesus
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- Is what the whole bible is talking about.
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- Amen?
- 00:22:43.145 --> 00:22:44.479
- Congregation: amen.
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- Doug: so why did he come?
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- Three quick reasons we're going to review.
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- One he came as our example.
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- Jesus, he said,
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- "i've given you an example
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- That you should walk as i've walked."
- 00:22:55.791 --> 00:22:58.260
- Jesus christ came and that, by the way, is john 13:15.
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- "i want you to live as i have lived."
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- A christian is a follower of christ.
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- He came to show us the father, is the second reason he came.
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- He said, "he who has seen me has seen the father."
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- And then, finally, he said,
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- "i've come because i want to take your place."
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- He is our substitute.
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- He died as a sacrifice for our sins
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- Because he loves us.
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- But there's something that we need to do.
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- We need to accept that sacrifice in our behalf.
- 00:23:28.290 --> 00:23:32.828
- You know, when jesus was being tried,
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- Pilate said to him,
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- "what am i supposed to do with jesus
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- Who is called the christ?"
- 00:23:39.401 --> 00:23:40.769
- Everyone really needs to answer that question.
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- He is the central figure of human history.
- 00:23:42.804 --> 00:23:46.341
- All of history dated from his birth.
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- You cannot just ignore jesus.
- 00:23:48.510 --> 00:23:50.745
- God has given an incredible gift
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- That we might be forgiven.
- 00:23:53.248 --> 00:23:55.917
- I remember reading a story years ago about this,
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- A railway switch keeper in prussia over in europe
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- Where they had this span that crossed the bridge,
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- A railroad track crossed the river
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- And there was a drawbridge.
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- And whenever the train was approaching
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- It would toot its whistle
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- And he would raise this flag and said,
- 00:24:14.402 --> 00:24:16.137
- "all clear, keep going."
- 00:24:16.137 --> 00:24:18.073
- And one day, while he was at his station
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- Waiting for the train, it tooted the whistle
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- And he gave the all clear sign.
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- But that was also a day that he had brought
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- His 4-year-old son with him to work
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- And he had taken his eyes off his son
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- Who had wandered out on the trestle
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- And he saw the train coming.
- 00:24:32.587 --> 00:24:34.656
- Knowing the speed of the train,
- 00:24:34.656 --> 00:24:35.991
- Seeing how far out on the track his son was,
- 00:24:35.991 --> 00:24:39.661
- He thought, "what do i do?
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- If i leave the bridge up,
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- The train will go off and all those people
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- Will perish in the river.
- 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:47.002
- If i don't switch the train off the track,
- 00:24:47.002 --> 00:24:49.938
- My son is going to perish."
- 00:24:49.938 --> 00:24:52.407
- And so he shouted out to his son,
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- "lay down now.
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- Lay down and do not move."
- 00:24:56.111 --> 00:24:58.647
- And he knew the boy couldn't outrun the train
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- And the boy just lay down.
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- The bridge went down,
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- The train went across the river
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- And the man never knew, and the people went by,
- 00:25:07.889 --> 00:25:09.691
- They are waving at the man in the booth.
- 00:25:09.691 --> 00:25:12.561
- They had no idea that
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- What the decision he had just made.
- 00:25:14.162 --> 00:25:16.498
- After the train passed, he ran out there expecting
- 00:25:16.498 --> 00:25:18.733
- Maybe to find the mangled remains of his children.
- 00:25:18.733 --> 00:25:21.169
- His boy had obeyed and he was alive.
- 00:25:21.169 --> 00:25:23.805
- The whole train went over him.
- 00:25:23.805 --> 00:25:26.374
- Next day the king of prussia gave that man a reward
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- For being willing to sacrifice his son
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- To save all those people.
- 00:25:32.047 --> 00:25:35.083
- His son did not die.
- 00:25:35.083 --> 00:25:37.719
- You've probably heard variations of that story.
- 00:25:37.719 --> 00:25:41.056
- But it is true that our father gave his son
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- And he did die.
- 00:25:43.458 --> 00:25:45.093
- And a lot of the world doesn't even know,
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- As they go on their merry way,
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- They're alive today because of the grace of god,
- 00:25:48.163 --> 00:25:50.632
- Because the penalty for sin is death.
- 00:25:50.632 --> 00:25:52.133
- And why aren't these people all dead?
- 00:25:52.133 --> 00:25:54.402
- Because jesus, by his sacrifice,
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- Bought the human race time,
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- Probation to make a decision.
- 00:25:59.107 --> 00:26:01.643
- We've got just this life. one life to make a decision.
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- That's why all the prophecies are there
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- That you might have an encounter with jesus.
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