Jeff Schreve - The Gift For A Savior

December 22, 2024 | S1:E4093

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From His Heart: Jeff Schreve | Jeff Schreve - The Gift For A Savior | December 22, 2024

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Pastor jeff schreve: hi, and merry christmas.
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We're in a december series from matthew 2 titled, "the
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Three gifts of christmas."
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We're looking at the three gifts the wise men brought to jesus.
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And today, we wanna look at the third gift: the gift of myrrh.
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Myrrh was a fragrant, bitter gum resin used as a perfume to wrap
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The dead.
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It's the perfect gift for a savior.
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Jeff: you know, we think about the fact that the wise men
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Brought to jesus--matthew 2:11.
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It says, "and they came into the house and saw the child with
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Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshiped him; and
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Opening their treasures they presented to him gifts of gold
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And frankincense and myrrh."
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"now, we know about gold, and we know that they were there.
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We have--saw his star in the east.
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We've come.
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Where is he who was born king of the jews?
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For we saw his star in the east and come to worship him."
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And so we know in matthew 2, okay, these are persian
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Kingmakers coming from afar, probably in the area of babylon.
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And they're coming a long, long way, hundreds and hundreds and
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Hundreds of miles.
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And they're coming to worship the king, and they have gold,
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Which is a gift for a king.
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But then when we get into the frankincense and myrrh, most of
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Us don't know a whole lot about frankincense and myrrh.
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And as we said last week, frankincense, that's incense--
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Very costly incense--and it's the gift of a priest because a
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Priest's job, among other things, among making the
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Sacrifices, was to go into the holy place in the temple and to
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Continually burn incense on the altar of incense right before
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The thick heavy veil that separated the holy place from
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The holy of holies.
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God was in the holy of holies, and the incense would be
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Continually in that holy place.
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Well, then we get into the gift of myrrh, and we say, "myrrh?
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Okay, i'm not real familiar with myrrh.
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I don't know much about myrrh.
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What is myrrh?"
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Well, myrrh is similar in look to frankincense.
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It's a resin from a tree just like frankincense is a resin
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From a tree.
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Now, myrrh is an interesting gift to give a young child.
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We said jesus is not an infant when the wise men come from
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The east.
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When the magi come, he's months old, maybe as much as six months
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Old, or maybe even close to a year old because herod's gonna
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Kill all the babies in bethlehem two years old and under.
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But they bring him this gift, and we've entitled this message,
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"the gift for a savior."
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And we're gonna look and see why the gift of myrrh is a fitting
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Gift for jesus.
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I wanna share with you three reasons why it's such a fitting
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Gift and speaks volumes about the life and the person of the
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Lord jesus.
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Reason number one: myrrh is a fragrant resin associated
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With suffering.
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Myrrh is associated with suffering.
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Why?
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Because the ancients found that myrrh had medicinal properties
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To it.
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And so they would use it as an antiseptic, as an astringent,
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Something to help the immune system, a stimulant for the
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Immune system, and then as a pain reliever.
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Myrrh, it's known for suffering.
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It's associated with suffering-- a fragrant resin associated
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With suffering.
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Second reason: myrrh is a fragrant resin associated with
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Death and burial.
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Now, we run into this word the third and last time in the new
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Testament when it came to the burial of jesus.
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And jesus died upon the cross.
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He was put on the cross at 9:00 a.m.
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On friday, april 3, 33 ad, if you go by the date of harold
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Hoehner, the scholar.
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And they took him off the cross; he died at 3:00 p.m.
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And joseph of arimathea along with nicodemus, they went to
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Pilate and requested the body.
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Now, he is riffraff that was crucified, so what were they
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Gonna do with the body of jesus?
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They didn't want to leave him on the cross.
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Why?
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Because 6 o'clock started the sabbath, so they're gonna take
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Him off the cross.
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They would have thrown him in gehenna, which is the garbage
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Dump in israel outside of jerusalem, where the fire is
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Never quenched.
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That's where all the riffraff would go.
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But joseph and nicodemus requested of pilate, "may we
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Have his body?"
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And so pilate gave them permission, and so they took the
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Body of jesus off the cross.
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And they had a mixture, 100 pounds, of myrrh and aloes.
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It's this--the spices and this fragrant perfume that the jews
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Would use--that's the burial custom of the jews--to help
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With two things.
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Number one is odor, and number two, with the putrefaction of
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The flesh, the rotting of the flesh, because myrrh was said to
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Slow that down and retard the rotting process.
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And that's going to happen, right?
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They didn't--the jews didn't embalm anybody.
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They would just wrap them, and they would wrap them quickly.
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And so he's got this linen garment, and he's got a lot of
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It no doubt, because they would wrap the body, and then they
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Would cover it in spices, and they would wrap the body, and
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They'd cover it in spices, and wrap the body and cover it in
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Spices--normally 20 pounds.
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They did 100 pounds weight for jesus.
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And jesus, who's gonna be--he's gonna be wrapped very tightly
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And with all these spices.
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And as one commentator said, you have joseph of arimathea
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And nicodemus.
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Nicodemus obviously has been changed by the message of jesus
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Because he didn't go along with the sanhedrin's plan to crucify
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Him, and he is standing up for jesus there at his burial.
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But he's gonna be wrapped tightly in this--these linen
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Garments that they put him in, and they would wrap him up, and
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Then they would put the whole body in some kind of a
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Linen wrap.
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And they would the--the mind of a jew is you're preparing him
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For the resurrection.
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You're preparing him for his meeting with god.
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Well, jesus is god, and jesus is going to rise from the dead.
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But here's the thing about myrrh: myrrh is associated--and
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They all knew this.
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It's associated with burial-- with death and burial.
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So with suffering and with death and burial.
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Now, that's what they bring-- the gift that they bring to this
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Four-month-old, six-month-old child.
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Very interesting.
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Why would you bring that to a child?
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Because that child is the savior.
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And there, in his infancy, associated with the birth of
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Jesus--the wise men are associated with the birth of
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Jesus--they have--you have this gift, this gift of myrrh
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That speaks of his suffering and speaks of his death and speaks
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Of the fact that he is the savior of the world.
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So reason number three: jesus was going to suffer and die for
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The sins of the world.
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There--that's symbolized in that gift, in the gift of myrrh.
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He was going to suffer and die for the sins of the world.
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Now, matthew chapter 1, you know, we get matthew's
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Perspective on the news about mary being pregnant by the
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Holy spirit.
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We read about mary being-- having that visitation from
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Gabriel in luke chapter 1. well, here's matthew's take on it.
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It says in verse 18, "now the birth of jesus christ was as
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Follows: when his mother mary had been betrothed to joseph,
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Before they came together."
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So they haven't been with each other physically.
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They're just engaged, and betrothal was a lot more binding
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Back then than an engagement would be today.
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The only way you could dissolve a betrothal was with divorce.
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So she was betrothed to joseph.
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"before they came together she was found to be with child by
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The holy spirit."
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She told joseph that.
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And joseph said, "i love you, but i can't believe that.
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I mean, it's just too much to believe."
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"and joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to
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Disgrace her."
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I mean, in his mind, she had to have sex with some guy because
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How else do you--how else are you with a child?
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And he didn't want to disgrace her.
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He desired to put her away secretly--to divorce
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Her secretly.
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"but when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the
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Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, 'joseph, son of david,
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Do not be afraid to take mary as your wife; for that which has
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Been conceived in her is of the holy spirit.'"
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"she's telling you the truth, joseph."
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"and she will bear a son; and you will call his name jesus,
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For it is he who will save his people from their sins."
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Jesus is the name that literally means yahweh saves.
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Yahweh saves.
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You call his name, yahweh saves, jehovah saves.
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Why?
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Because it's this one who's going to save his people from
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Their sins.
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Jesus is the savior and joseph knew that and mary knew that
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Before jesus was ever born.
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I love the fact that mary in the magnificat in luke chapter 1,
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She says, "my spirit has rejoiced in god, my savior."
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Why is that important?
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Because there are lots of people who think mary is without sin.
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Lots of people who pray to mary and worship mary.
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Let me tell you something: mary might be a great example of
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Faith, but mary is a sinner, just like you and me.
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And mary needed a savior, and she understood that, and her
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Spirit rejoiced in god, her savior.
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The savior came in jesus, in this little child that we know
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As jesus.
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Jehovah saves.
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I like what the apostle paul says concerning the saving
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Ministry of the lord jesus.
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He said, "this is a true statement, deserving full
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Acceptance," 1 timothy 1:15, "that christ jesus came into the
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World to save sinners, among whom i am chief."
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So that statement that the savior has come and what does
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He do?
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What's the ministry of the lord jesus?
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To save sinners.
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He came to seek and to save that which was lost.
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He is the savior.
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And he didn't come to just save the jews, because as the angel
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Told joseph, "it is he who will save his people from their
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Sins," well, his people are the jewish people.
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But then we read in john chapter 4, when jesus meets the woman at
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The well in samaria--you remember samaritans, they're
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Half breeds--half jew, half gentile.
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And the jews didn't like them at all.
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Jews have no dealings with samaritans.
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Why?
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Because samaritans are half breeds, and, "they have sold
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Out, and we don't want to have anything to do with them."
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Well, jesus had a divine appointment with the woman at
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The well.
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And she goes and tells all the men, "come see a man who told me
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All the things i've ever done.
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This can't be the christ, can it?"
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And so they all come, and they-- jesus spends two days there with
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These people.
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And i love what they say: "we have beheld and bear witness
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That the father has sent the son to be the savior of the world.
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You are indeed the savior of the world."
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They said, "we don't believe just because of what this
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Woman said.
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We have heard it from you, and we believe that you are the
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Savior of the world."
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That's exactly what john says in 1 john 4:14.
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"and we have beheld and bear witness that the father has sent
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The son to be the savior of the world."
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Savior of the world.
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Now, how does jesus do that: to save the world and become the
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Savior of the world?
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Well, it's myrrh.
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It's suffering.
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There can be no salvation without suffering, without the
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Shedding of his blood.
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So there's suffering involved.
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And how does myrrh connect in with the savior?
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Well, myrrh is associated with suffering, and for jesus to save
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The world, he has to suffer.
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He has to shed his blood.
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Hebrews 9:22, "without the shedding of blood, there is
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No forgiveness."
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Now, when someone sheds his blood, in order to do that,
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There is suffering.
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And jesus was going to suffer.
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Now, he told the guys--his disciples--this was going to
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Happen, but it never registered with them.
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And the big, famous passage is matthew chapter 16, where they
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Go to caesarea, philippi.
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They get away for a little r and r because there were so many
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People around jesus, they didn't even have time to eat a meal,
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The bible says.
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And so he took his disciples way up north.
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I've been to caesarea, philippi.
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Such a cool place.
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And way up north, away from the crowds, and he asked that
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Question: "who do the people say that i am?"
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And they answered, and they said, "well, some say you're
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John the baptist.
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Some say you're elijah.
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Some say you're jeremiah.
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Some say you're one of the prophets."
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He goes, "okay, but who do you say that i am?"
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Remember peter?
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He steps up to the plate, and he says, "you are the christ, the
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Son of the living god."
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"that's right.
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Blessed are you simon, son of jonah, because flesh and blood
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Has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven
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Revealed that to you.
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You get a gold star, peter.
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You are exactly right.
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That's who i am."
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And then jesus said this in just a few verses later: "from that
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Time jesus christ began to show his disciples that he must go to
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Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and the
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Chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on
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The third day.
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And peter," the guy that got the gold star, "took him aside and
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Began to rebuke him, saying, 'god forbid it, lord!
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This shall never happen to you.'
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But jesus turned and said to peter, 'get behind me, satan!
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You are a stumbling block to me; for you are not setting your
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Mind on god's interests, but man's.'"
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You go from getting the gold star to getting the raspberry.
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I mean, that's just kind of rough, and it's all within just
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A few minutes from the way we read it in matthew 16.
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How can you step up to the plate and know who jesus is and then
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Bomb out when he says, "hey, let this fill your ears: that the
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Son of man is going to suffer and be killed?"
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That didn't compute with them.
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Why?
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'cause there is no suffering for the messiah in their theology.
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He had to suffer to be the savior.
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He had to shed his blood.
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Now, some people say, "what's the big deal about blood?
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Why does god require a blood sacrifice?
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Why does it say in hebrews 9:22, 'without the shedding of blood,
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There is no forgiveness?'"
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Because leviticus 17:11.
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Leviticus 17:11 says this: "for the life of the flesh is in the
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Blood, and i have given it to you on the altar to make
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Atonement," that's a covering, "for your souls; for it is the
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Blood by reason of the life that makes atonement."
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So we talk about that today.
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"give the gift--give blood.
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That's the gift of life."
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Because the life of the flesh is in the blood.
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Now, it's the blood of bulls and goats that they were giving, and
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The bible makes it clear in the book of hebrews, the blood of
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Bulls and goats can't take away sin.
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As i told you last week, what of the blood--what does the blood
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Of bulls and goats and lambs, what does that do?
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It just rolls the sins forward for the people just one
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More year.
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Just puts them off one more year, one more year, one more
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Year, until the savior comes, who is the lamb of god who takes
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Away the sin of the world.
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And it's his blood that washes white as snow.
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And how does he shed his blood?
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With suffering.
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And the myrrh reminds us of the suffering savior and how he had
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To suffer for us in order to be our savior.
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So there is no salvation without the shedding of blood.
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Secondly, there is no salvation without his death
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And resurrection.
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He had to die.
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But as you know, he didn't stay dead.
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He rose on the third day, and he had to rise from the dead in
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Order for salvation to be complete.
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Now, as he died upon the cross, he said, "it is finished, paid
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In full."
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And that was true, but it was completed when he rose from
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The dead.
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Now, paul makes the argument in 1 corinthians 15 because some
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Had come into the church in corinth, and they said, "there
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Is no resurrection of the dead.
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And so you guys are getting all hot and--taught about the
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Resurrection of the dead.
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There is no resurrection from the dead."
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And paul said, "that's a lie."
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He said, "if there's no resurrection from the dead, then
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Let me tell you something: then christ didn't rise from
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The dead."
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And this is his argument.
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He says, "and if christ has not been raised, your faith is
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Worthless; you are still in your sins.
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Then those also who have fallen asleep in christ have perished.
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If we had hoped in christ in this life only, we are of all
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Men most to be pitied.
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But now christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits
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Of those who are asleep."
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Here's the thing that was so important: jesus had to rise
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Again from the dead because if he hadn't, he couldn't be
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The savior.
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If he had come off the cross, he couldn't be the savior.
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If he didn't rise from the dead, he couldn't be the savior
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Because a dead man can't save anybody.
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And so there is no salvation without his death
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And resurrection.
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The myrrh speaks of his suffering because myrrh is
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Associated with suffering.
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The myrrh speaks of his death and burial because myrrh is
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Associated with death and burial.
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And the savior came up from the grave.
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He rose on the third day so he could be your savior and
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My savior.
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And lastly, and this is important to remember, there is
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No salvation that doesn't involve suffering and death.
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No salvation.
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For him to purchase our salvation, it involved his
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Suffering, his death, and his resurrection.
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For you to enter into salvation, it requires and involves your
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Death and your suffering.
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Now, not your physical death, but your dying to self.
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Jesus said, "if any man comes after--come after me, let him
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Take up his cross, deny himself, and follow me."
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What's a cross?
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A cross is a symbol of death.
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You have to die to yourself.
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You have to die to your old way of life.
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We just saw three people get baptized.
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What's the testimony through baptism?
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Buried with christ in baptism, raised to walk in newness
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Of life.
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You die to your old way of life and you get a brand-new life
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In jesus.
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Now, that doesn't happen in the water.
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That's a picture of what has already taken place.
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Because in order to be saved, what has a person--what does a
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Person need to do?
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He or she needs to understand, "i'm a sinner, and i'm lost, and
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I can't save myself, and i need the savior."
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And they cry out for the savior.
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I was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore, very
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Deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more.
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But the master of the sea heard my despairing cry, and from the
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Waters lifted me.
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Now safe am i, you die to your old way of life, you receive a
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Brand-new life in jesus christ.
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Without that, all you have is religion.
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That doesn't save anybody.
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Religion doesn't save anybody.
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When i got saved, i gave my life to jesus.
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And when you give your life to jesus, he gives his life to you.
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Now, if you give 50% of your life to jesus, he doesn't
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Come in.
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If you give 70% of your life to jesus, he doesn't come in.
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If you say, "lord, i'm gonna give you six days a week, but,
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You know, saturday night, that's for me.
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I'm gonna do what i wanna do," he doesn't come in.
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You have to give yourself completely to jesus.
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And when you give yourself to him, he gives himself to you,
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And you are saved.
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It involves death and it involves suffering.
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Well, we really don't like to hear about suffering.
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But see, the moment you give yourself to jesus, you die
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To yourself.
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You're a new creation in christ.
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"therefore, if any man be in christ, he's a new creation; the
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Old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
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Paul says, "i have been crucified with christ, and it is
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No longer i who live, but christ lives in me.
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And the life which i now live in the flesh, i live by faith in
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The son of god, who loved me, and delivered himself up
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For me."
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And so the moment that you do that, you are taken--delivered
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From the domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of
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His beloved son, in whom we have redemption, and you're put into
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The lord's army.
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And paul said to timothy, 2 timothy chapter 2, verse 3,
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"timothy, suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of
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Christ jesus."
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You are going to suffer in the christian life.
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Do you remember when paul--when he met the lord on the road to
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Damascus, and then the lord told ananias he was struck
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With blindness?
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"ananias, hey, go to a street called straight, and there
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You're gonna find saul of tarsus, and you pray for him
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That he'd receive his sight."
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And he said, "for i must show him how he must suffer for
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My namesake."
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And paul knew early on that the christian life had suffering
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In it.
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And that's one of the things that we don't like to hear.
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Why is the prosperity gospel that you see so often on
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Television, why is that so popular?
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Because it doesn't say anything about suffering.
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It just says, "hey, god--your promotion is on its way.
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Good times are on their way.
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God's gonna bless you with health and wealth and happiness,
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And everything's gonna be great."
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They don't sell suffering because suffering doesn't sell.
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Nobody wants to suffer.
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But there's a big part of the christian life that
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Is suffering.
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God is glorified through the suffering.
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Philippians chapter 1, verse 29 in the erv says this: "god has
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Blessed you in ways that serve christ.
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He allowed you to believe in christ.
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But that is not all.
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He has also given you the honor of suffering for christ.
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Both of these bring glory to christ."
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People don't like to hear about suffering, but the bible says
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All who desire to live godly in christ jesus will
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Suffer persecution.
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They will come after you.
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And when we stand up for the truth, we will suffer hardship
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Just as paul did, just as the disciples did.
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Hey, the christian life--you're not gonna get into the christian
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Life without giving your life to christ, without dying to self,
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And without being willing to suffer for his namesake.
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But remember this: paul said in romans 8:18, "for i consider
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That the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
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Be compared to the glory that shall be revealed to us."
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That's the gift of your heart.
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Have you surrendered to him?
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If not, you can do it right now.
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Just pray this simple prayer with me: lord jesus, i'm a
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Sinner, and i'm lost, and i can't save myself.
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But i believe that you are god in the flesh.
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I believe you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from
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The dead.
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And right now, jesus, i surrender my heart and my life
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To you.
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Come into my life, forgive me of all my sins, be my lord and
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Savior, and i promise to follow you all the days of my life.
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My friend, if you'll pray that kind of prayer and mean it, the
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Lord will come in, and your life will never be the same.
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Jeff Schreve - The Gift For A Savior

December 22, 2024 | S1:E4093

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