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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Messiah | April 1, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is pathway to victory, with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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- Throughout history, jesus christ has been known
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- By many names and titles.
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- The prince of peace, the lamb of god,
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- And the good shepherd, just to name a few.
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- But perhaps his most widely disputed title
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- Is his role as the messiah.
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- So what does this sacred title really mean,
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- And how should jesus the messiah
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- Impact our lives today and in the future?
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- My message is titled, "jesus the messiah,"
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- On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ let us bow down ♪
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ let us bow down ♪
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ let us bow down ♪
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ let us bow down ♪
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- ♪ so let us worship ♪
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- ♪ let us bow down ♪
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- ♪ let us fear our god ♪
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- ♪ our god ♪
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- [announcer] jesus is the most talked about person
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- In human history,
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- But we can't fully grasp who jesus is
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- Until we understand both his first and his second coming.
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- In his powerful new book
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- "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress unveils
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- The glorious return of our savior.
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- Learn what his triumphant return means
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- For your life today.
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- Request your copy of "jesus revealed in the end times"
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Tim gagnon is known as the fire painter.
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- He travels to churches throughout america
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- Giving powerful sermons about jesus christ
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- While at the same time painting works of art,
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- And he does it with his paintbrushes on fire.
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- The fire painter.
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- His latest project is called,
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- 'the illuminated messiah bible.'
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- Tim gagnon has read through
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- Each of the 66 books of the bible,
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- And he found a word image that described jesus christ
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- In each of those 66 books,
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- And in his 'illuminated messiah bible,'
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- He has a different picture of jesus for each of the books,
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- And when you put those pictures together,
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- They form an image of jesus on the cross.
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- Now i think tim gagnon is on to something.
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- If you search through the bible,
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- It certainly has the cross of jesus christ as central.
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- The old testament looks forward to it,
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- The epistles look back,
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- But jesus' work on the cross
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- Was central to his plan and purpose for god.
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- But it doesn't stop there.
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- The fact is, jesus didn't spend a lot of time on the cross.
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- He died for our sins.
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- He was buried.
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- He rose again on the third day.
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- He ascended into heaven and guess what?
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- He's coming back again one day.
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- And that's why, quite frankly,
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- You could have an image of jesus wearing a crown
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- That would've just as been as accurate as jesus on a cross.
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- And that's why the most foundational role
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- That jesus christ represents
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- Is that of messiah.
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- Tim gagnon said, "the theme of the bible
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- Is jesus as messiah."
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- Now when we talk about messiah, what do we mean by messiah?
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- Messiah's a transliteration for the hebrew word mashiach.
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- Its new testament equivalent in greek
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- Is christos, christ.
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- By the way, remember christ is not jesus' last name.
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- Jesus christ.
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- It's his title.
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- He is the christos. he is the mashiach.
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- Thus words both mean the same thing,
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- The anointed one.
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- Write it down, messiah means anointed one.
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- Now in the bible there were people, men and women both,
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- Who were anointed by god.
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- In exodus 30, the anointing of aaron,
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- As high priest by his brother moses.
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- In 1 samuel 16, the anointing of david
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- As king over israel by the prophet samuel.
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- In 1 kings 19, elisha was anointed by elijah
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- As the next prophet.
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- And then of course,
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- Ultimately the anointing of jesus christ.
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- Jesus was chosen by god
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- For a unique purpose.
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- His purpose was to serve as a prophet,
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- A priest, and a king.
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- A prophet was one who spoke god's word.
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- A priest, somebody who reconciled god and man.
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- Jesus did that through his sacrificial death.
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- And then as a king,
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- Somebody who would rule over a kingdom.
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- Jesus fulfilled some of these aspects
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- Of these roles in his first coming,
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- But they will be ultimately fulfilled
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- At his second coming.
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- Now, what is the evidence that jesus is that anointed one
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- That people had been waiting for?
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- Well, here are just a few on your outline i've placed.
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- First of all his place of birth
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- And his connectivity to david.
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- The bible was clear in the old testament in micah 5:2,
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- Written 700 years before christ's birth,
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- That the messiah would be born in bethlehem.
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- Why was bethlehem selected?
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- Because it was the city of david, where david was born.
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- And so jesus would be born the messiah in bethlehem.
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- But he also had to be connected
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- In his lineage to king david.
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- 2 samuel 7 was an old testament prophecy
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- That it would be one of david's descendants
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- Who would sit on the throne of david ultimately,
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- And rule the earth.
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- Secondly, consider the testimony of john the baptist.
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- You know, the bible prophesied
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- That there would be a forerunner to jesus
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- Who would announce his arrival.
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- And the angel, remember in luke 1,
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- Appeared to zechariah, the father of john the baptist,
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- And say, "your son is going to be that forerunner."
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- He was the sign that the messiah was here.
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- In luke 1:17 it says,
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- "it is he who will go as a forerunner before the messiah
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- In the spirit and the power of elijah."
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- What is it that john the baptist said
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- When he first saw christ?
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- "behold the lamb of god,
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- He's here who takes away the sin of the world."
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- Consider also thirdly the claims of jesus himself.
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- Now, one of the things you hear
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- From liberal theologians all the time
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- Is that jesus himself never claimed to be the son of god.
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- That's something that happened hundreds of years
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- After jesus died
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- That people tried to claim he was the son of god.
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- No, throughout the scripture
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- He claimed to be the son of god.
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- Consider luke 4 for example,
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- "the spirit of the lord is upon me
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- Because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
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- He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives,
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- And recovery of sight to the blind,
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- To set free those who are oppressed
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- And to proclaim the favorable year of the lord."
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- And with that, he sat down.
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- The people begin to whisper,
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- "did you hear what he just read?
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- Do you think he thinks he's the."
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- And before they could complete the thought verse 21 says,
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- "jesus said, 'today this scripture has been fulfilled
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- In your hearing.'"
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- Yes, he said, i am the messiah.
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- They understood what he was claiming.
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- In fact, they got so angry
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- That they tried to drive him over a cliff
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- And kill him right away, but it wasn't his time to die.
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- Consider the confession of the apostle peter.
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- Remember in matthew 16,
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- Jesus got his apostles together.
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- It was kind of a focus group.
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- And he asked them, "who are people saying that i am?"
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- And they said,
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- "well, there are all kind of opinions out there, jesus.
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- Some say you're a prophet,
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- Some say you're elijah reincarnated."
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- But then jesus said, "who do you say that i am?"
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- And remember peter's words?
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- He wasn't always the sharpest knife in the drawer,
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- But he got this right.
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- He said, "you are the," what?
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- The christos, the messiah,
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- The son of the living god.
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- Think about the affirmation of martha in john 11.
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- Martha was upset because her brother lazarus had died.
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- They had sent word to jesus,
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- But jesus didn't come when lazarus was sick.
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- He waited until lazarus was dead.
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- And she said, "if only you had come, lord, sooner,
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- My brother would still be alive."
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- Jesus said to her in john 11:25,
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- "i am the resurrection and the life.
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- He who believes in me will live even if he dies.
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- Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
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- Do you believe this?"
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- Notice three times he says, believe, believe, believe.
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- There's an inseparable link
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- Between belief and salvation.
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- Belief is not just the
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- Assenting to certain facts about jesus,
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- Believing he was the son of god
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- Who died on the cross for the sins of the world
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- And rose again on the third day.
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- Even the devils, the demons believe those things,
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- But they're not saved.
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- No, that word believe when jesus said,
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- "do you believe, martha?"
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- That word believe means to depend upon, to bank upon,
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- To put your whole weight upon.
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- That's what it means to believe.
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- What are you banking on?
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- What are you trusting in
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- To get you into heaven when you die?
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- If you're depending on your good works,
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- Your church membership,
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- And maybe a little bit of jesus,
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- You're going to split hell wide open when you die.
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- It is only totally believing,
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- Totally depending upon jesus christ
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- To be your savior that guarantees your salvation.
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- Another claim of jesus
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- Involves the rebuke of the pharisees.
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- They didn't nail jesus to a cross
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- Because he was teaching people to turn the other cheek.
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- That's not what got jesus in hot water.
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- It was his claim to be messiah.
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- And then consider,
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- In addition to the rebuke of the pharisees,
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- The evidence from the book of revelation.
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- Nine different times in the book of revelation,
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- Jesus is referred to as the christos, the christ.
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- Just consider three of these passages.
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- Revelation 1:1, the revelation,
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- The unveiling of jesus christos, messiah,
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- Which god gave him to show his bond-servants.
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- Or revelation 11:15,
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- The angel proclaims the kingdom of the world
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- Has become the kingdom of our lord and of his what?
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- Christos, christ, messiah.
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- And revelation 12:10,
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- Now the salvation and the power
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- And the kingdom of our lord
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- And the authority of his christ have come.
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- Jesus is the messiah.
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- Now, just don't think the messiahship of jesus
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- Has to do with what he did in the past.
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- It is also found in what he is yet to do.
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- Jesus has promised two things,
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- And this is the promise related to the future of messiah,
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- A king with a kingdom.
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- And that is the promise that is yet to be fulfilled.
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- Every kingdom has to have a king.
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- Let's break that down for a moment.
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- First of all, to have a kingdom,
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- You have to have a location for the kingdom.
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- From the very beginning god said to abraham,
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- In that abrahamic covenant,
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- "go to a land that i will show you
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- And i will make you the father of a great nation."
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- Yes, israel would ultimately dwell in the land,
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- But temporarily they would be displaced from the land.
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- That's what god said to moses.
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- Remember in deuteronomy 28,
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- "it shall come about
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- That as the lord delighted over you
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- To prosper you and multiply you,
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- So the lord will delight over you
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- To make you perish and destroy you,
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- And you will be torn from the land
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- Where you are entering to possess it."
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- He said to moses, you're going to possess this land,
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- But because of israel's disobedience,
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- She will be uprooted from this land.
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- And you see that in the history of israel.
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- There was a rebellion of israel once they entered the land,
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- Everyone did what was right in his own eyes,
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- The book of judges says.
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- Then there was a clamor for a king, we want king,
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- Even though god said no, he acquiesced to their wishes.
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- And that led to a division of the kingdom.
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- For 70 years they were in babylonian exile
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- And then the order was given to return,
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- And they rebuilt the city and the temple.
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- Over the next hundred years,
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- Hundreds of years,
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- They lived under the rule of the medes and persians,
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- The greeks, and finally the romans.
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- And it was in the romans that the fullness of time came.
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- Remember, god sent forth his son,
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- Born of a woman, born under the law.
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- And we see the next phase in israel's history,
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- Their repossession of the promised land.
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- They were promised it ultimately, they were displaced,
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- But god says they will repossess it again.
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- And we see that beginning with the reestablishment
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- Of the nation of israel in 1948.
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- You know, during this dispersion time,
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- The american writer mark twain
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- Visited what we call the holy land in 1867,
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- But there wasn't much holy about it.
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- It didn't appear that way anyway.
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- In his book "innocence abroad,"
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- Mark twain wrote,
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- "the hills are barren.
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- They are dull of color.
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- They are not picturesque in shape.
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- The valleys are unsightly deserts,
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- Fringed with a feeble vegetation
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- That has an expression about it
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- Of being sorrowful and despondent.
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- It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land."
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- But that began to change on may 14th, 1948,
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- When the nation of israel was reconstituted as a nation
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- And the people began to return,
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- Just as ezekiel promised.
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- In ezekiel 36:22, "thus says the lord god,
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- It is not for your sake, oh house of israel,
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- That i'm about to act, but for my holy name,
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- Which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
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- For i will take you from the nations,
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- Gather you from all the lands
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- And bring you into your own land."
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- And we've witnessed that regathering of israel
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- That began in 1948.
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- And israel is back in the land,
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- She's not in all the land though yet
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- That god has promised her.
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- That is something future that is yet to come.
- 00:18:37.539 --> 00:18:41.176
- The kingdom of god is a location.
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- It's an actual earthly location
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- From which christ will rule for a thousand years.
- 00:18:46.481 --> 00:18:49.851
- But you don't only need a location in a kingdom, guess what?
- 00:18:49.851 --> 00:18:53.622
- You need a king.
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- You need somebody to rule.
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- Messiah will, in the future,
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- Reign from the promised land.
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- Of course, as you know, back in may of 2018,
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- I had the privilege of giving the opening prayer
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- For the dedication of the united states embassy
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- In jerusalem.
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- It was a historic day.
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- People say, what was the big deal
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- About moving the embassy
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- And recognizing jerusalem as the capital.
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- When we the united states recognized jerusalem
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- As the legitimate capital of israel,
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- We were recognizing israel's right to possess that land,
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- And their right to name their own country,
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- A right every other nation in the world has.
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- That's what made it historic.
- 00:19:37.532 --> 00:19:39.568
- It was an unbelievable day.
- 00:19:39.568 --> 00:19:41.403
- But you know what?
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- That embassy's not going to last forever.
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- There doesn't need to be an embassy forever.
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- There's a day coming when there'll be no embassies anywhere.
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- You know why?
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- Because there will no longer be any threat of war.
- 00:19:52.881 --> 00:19:55.951
- There will be perfect peace in the world,
- 00:19:55.951 --> 00:19:58.387
- Because the prince of peace will be reigning.
- 00:19:58.387 --> 00:20:01.356
- And by the way, listen to this promise of joshua 1:4,
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- "from the wilderness and this lebanon,
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- Even as far as the great river, the river euphrates,
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- All the land of the hittites,
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- As far as the great sea,
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- Toward the setting of the sun."
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- You find those words from the river to the sea.
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- Today you have hamas,
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- You have iran,
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- You have muslims threatened to destroy every jew
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- From the river to the sea.
- 00:20:35.290 --> 00:20:37.726
- Hamas is nothing more than a group of pip squeaks
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- In the sight of god.
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- They are gnats, they are ants
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- That are going to be destroyed and eliminated one day.
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- God's people are going to dwell forever in that land
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- Between the river and the sea.
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- That's the promise of god.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- And that leads to the promise of hope.
- 00:21:01.450 --> 00:21:04.720
- I have a friend who says,
- 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:05.987
- "with god, a promise made is a promise kept."
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- Why do we get excited about these promises
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- Being fulfilled to israel?
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- Because the same god who's going to be faithful
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- To fulfill his promise to israel,
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- Can be counted on to fulfill his promise to you and to me.
- 00:21:19.901 --> 00:21:23.772
- Just think of all the things god has promised.
- 00:21:23.772 --> 00:21:26.908
- He's promised there's no condemnation.
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- No condemnation awaiting those who belong to christ jesus.
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- We never have to worry
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- That god is going to dredge up some past mistakes,
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- Some past sin, and hold us accountable for it.
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- There's no condemnation coming.
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- He's promised that these bodies that get worn out
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- And infected with cancer,
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- And every other malady you can think of,
- 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:54.102
- One day we're going to get to exchange these bodies
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- For a new body that is forever free
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- From suffering and sickness.
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- He's promised that those loved ones of ours
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- Who have died and gone on to heaven,
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- That we'll see them again.
- 00:22:07.349 --> 00:22:08.717
- There is a great reunion.
- 00:22:08.717 --> 00:22:10.786
- Thus, we shall be together with the lord forever and ever.
- 00:22:10.786 --> 00:22:15.524
- He's promised that those relationships that are broken
- 00:22:15.524 --> 00:22:20.495
- And so difficult to reconcile now,
- 00:22:20.495 --> 00:22:23.098
- Will one day be healed in heaven.
- 00:22:23.098 --> 00:22:26.301
- Those are the promises god has for us,
- 00:22:26.301 --> 00:22:28.403
- And that's why the bible refers
- 00:22:28.403 --> 00:22:30.338
- To the coming of christ,
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- Whether it's at the rapture or the second coming,
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- It's called the blessed hope.
- 00:22:34.609 --> 00:22:37.779
- We all need hope, don't we?
- 00:22:38.380 --> 00:22:41.183
- The only thing that makes living
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- In this world bearable today,
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- Is the hope of a better world tomorrow.
- 00:22:47.823 --> 00:22:51.193
- And that's what god gives each one of us.
- 00:22:51.193 --> 00:22:55.163
- I think of god's word in 1 kings 8:56,
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- "praise the lord
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- For the rest he has given to his people
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- Just as he promised.
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- Not one word has failed
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- Of god's wonderful promises
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- Given to us through his servant moses."
- 00:23:13.014 --> 00:23:17.853
- Doesn't that make you hopeful?
- 00:23:18.487 --> 00:23:20.555
- A better world is coming,
- 00:23:21.122 --> 00:23:23.892
- And it's going to be ruled over
- 00:23:23.892 --> 00:23:25.627
- By jesus the messiah
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- Forever and ever.
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- The promise of jesus as messiah gives us hope,
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- Not just for tomorrow but for all eternity.
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- And i trust today's message
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- Has strengthened your confidence in christ's role
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- As prophet, priest and king.
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- Now, before we close today,
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- There is one prophet
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- Who makes perfect predictions about the future.
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- We can trust every word he says about the future.
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- He knows the future perfectly,
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- Because he has planned the future.
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- And that prophet, the only one on whom we can rely,
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- Is named jesus.
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- The christos, the messiah.
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- " here on pathway to victory.
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