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Rabbi Jason Sobel explores the deep connections between the Old and New Testaments, revealing God's intentional story for each individual's life. From mystical encounters to historical revelations, the book delves into the transformative power of understanding Jesus' birth, baptism, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection. With profound insights and thought-provoking interpretations, readers are invited to journey through the biblical narratives to uncover a deeper understanding of faith, discipleship, and the redemptive work of the Messiah.

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Coming up tonight on praise...
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This woman approached me and she says, do you think truth is
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Clear, deep, and absolute?
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And i was shocked.
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I was taken back, right?
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The next thing i know, it was
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Like time and space actually dissolved.
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I was completely transfixed on this woman, with this, with
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These piercing blue eyes.
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Like, i literally could not move.
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I did not hear any sounds.
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And the next thing i know, i was hearing the gospel, which i
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Had not really ever heard like that before.
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And the next thing i know, i snap out of it.
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And, uh, she's not there.
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And i'm like, oh my goodness, what just happened?
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Tonight on praise from dallas, founder of fusion global and
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New york times best selling author, rabbi jason sobel.
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And now your host, sheila walsh.
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Welcome to praise.
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I want to read you a scripture that i think is one of the most
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Powerful promises we find in god's word.
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This is found in the book of isaiah, chapter nine.
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Verse six says this, for unto us a child is born, unto us
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A son is given.
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And the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will
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Be called wonderful counselor, mighty god, everlasting father,
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Prince of peace, of the increase of his government and
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Peace, there will be no end upon the throne of david and on
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His kingdom to order it and
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Establish it with judgment and justice.
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So i want to welcome you tonight.
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We're in the beautiful volume studio here at our new facility
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In texas.
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And i'm talking with one of our favorite people, um,
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Rabbi jason sobel.
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It's such a joy to have you.
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And as you can see, we've set the scene.
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This is what it would look like, bethlehem at night.
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Thank you for this new book.
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Oh, shalom.
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It's so great.
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I always love being with you.
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I honestly, even though i've been in church since i was a
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Child and love studying god's word,
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I learned things from you that i learned nowhere else, and
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This book is no different.
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There's so many things, but i
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Wanted to talk to you about the title.
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It's called transformed by the messiah.
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And even though i think i've
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Read everything you've ever written,
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But i didn't know that part of your story.
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Do you mind just taking a couple of minutes and telling
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Us that incredible experience you had spiritually?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, god is so good.
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I mean, i grew up as a nice jewish boy, uh, in the holy
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Land, new york, new jersey,
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And, uh, i, you know, i began this spiritual journey.
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I was actually working in the music industry, training to be
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A sound engineer, looked at the lives of these famous
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Individuals all around me, said to myself, there has to be more
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To life than just this,
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Began this spiritual journey, started study with my rabbi,
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But i wanted a real encounter with god.
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Got involved with martial arts.
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Meditation. yoga.
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One day i was coming out of a yoga studio in new york city,
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And as i walked out the front door, this woman approached me
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And she says, do you think
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Truth is clear, deep, and absolute?
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And i was shocked. i was taken aback.
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Right. because actually the front of my shirt said truth,
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And the back of my shirt said clear, deep, and absolute.
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But there was no way she could see the back of my shirt
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Because i had just walked out the front door.
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All she could see was the front of my shirt.
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The next thing i know, it was
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Like time and space actually dissolved.
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I was completely transfixed on this woman, with this, with
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These piercing blue eyes.
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I like, i literally could not move.
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I did not hear any sounds.
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And the next thing i know, i was hearing the gospel, which
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I had not really ever heard like that before.
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And the next thing i know, i snap out of it.
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And, uh, she's not there.
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And i'm like, oh my goodness, what just happened?
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And i believe that was kind of
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A divine, angelic kind of, uh, encounter.
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Uh, you know, i wound up not having a subway token to get
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Home because i'd accidentally given it to a homeless person.
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I was standing at the turnstile.
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I prayed, the next thing i know, i close my eyes.
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I felt a hand pushed me from behind.
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I was standing on the other side of the turnstile, and it
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Was shortly like around that time that my my best friend
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John called me on the telephone.
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He said, jason, could you tell the difference between the old
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Testament and the new testament?
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You went to hebrew school?
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I'm like, sure. he read me this passage.
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Bruised for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.
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By his stripes we are healed.
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I said, that's the new testament.
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Jesus. he said, no, that's isaiah 53, the jewish prophet.
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I began to be provoked to jealousy, and that led me to
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Going to a messianic congregation where jews who
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Believe in jesus worship.
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And i came to faith there.
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Wow. you heard this
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Interesting-- um, you had an experience where you heard the
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Lord say, many are called, but few are chosen.
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What happened to you during that?
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Yeah. so again, this is another experience i had in that
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Timeframe where i was
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Meditating and, uh, i was meditating.
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My soul began to vibrate.
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It left my body.
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Next thing i know was in heaven.
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I saw this king high and lifted up on this throne.
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And i saw this glorious light,
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Felt the power of god pulsate through every cell of my being.
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I began to shake under the power of heaven.
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And i knew that king on the throne was jesus.
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I knew nothing about him.
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Remember, i'm jewish, never seen a new testament, never
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Read a new testament, knew nothing about jesus, but i knew
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That was him seated on that throne, and he says
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These words to me.
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He says, many are called, but few are chosen.
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And i said, am i chosen, lord?
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He said, yes, you're chosen to serve me.
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The next thing i know is down in my body, shaking under
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The power of heaven, running
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Around, going, i'm called to serve.
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And my mom's like, we're jewish.
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You're called to serve?
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Oh for goodness-- what, are you meshugana?
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Are you crazy? wow.
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And honestly, the way that since that time that you have
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Continued to unpack the beauty of the continuity between the
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Old testament and the new testament.
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But as we're sitting almost in bethlehem and it's almost
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Christmas, can you take us to what was life like for people
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In israel around the time of christ's birth?
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What was their world like?
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Yeah, and just before we jump into that, i think that's
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The point, right?
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Because i grew up in a jewish family, and because when my mom
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Found the new testament that i had hid in my bedroom because
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God forbid she should ever find it, she found it.
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I should have learned a lesson,
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You can't hide anything from your mom?
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Absolutely.
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They have that special
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Spiritual discernment and ability.
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But i had to-- she's like go meet with the rabbi.
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So i had to learn to show the connection between
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The old and the new
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Because jewish people don't believe in the new testament,
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But they believe in the hebrew
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Scriptures, what they call the tanakh.
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So being able to make those connections, which is what
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Jesus was doing on the road to emmaus when he opened the
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Scriptures and showed how all these things pointed to him,
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And the disciples said in their hearts, not burn with us.
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And that's part of the transformation.
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Those disciples began to be transformed when they saw how
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The old and the new connect.
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And that's why we wrote transformed by the messiah.
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It's one of the passions behind it.
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But going through going back to your question, the times in
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Which jesus were born were very difficult times.
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There was the roman empire that had subjugated most
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Of the known world.
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They were in power over the promised land and people were
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Being heavily taxed.
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They were under the burdens of taxation.
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Rome brought an army that brought paganism, that brought
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Pagan temples in the holy land, that brought immorality
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To a greater degree.
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All of this foreign, um, idolatrous stuff
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Now entered into israel.
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And this is a king who lived the lavish,
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The caesar lived the lavish lifestyle.
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And so what is he to do?
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He decides to take a census.
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The census was for the sake of taxing the people because
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He's a greedy king.
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And so he can't even imagine it, right?
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Here's, you know, mary, her hebrew name, miriam, very
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Pregnant, has to go on an 80 or 90 mile journey on a donkey
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From nazareth to bethlehem.
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And times seem hopeless.
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They seem like they were a pawn in the schemes of a
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Megalomaniac, narcissistic king and emperor.
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But the reality is this king had his own agenda.
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But god had a greater purpose.
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In order for a prophecy to be fulfilled,
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They ultimately had to be in bethlehem because--
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What's the significance of bethlehem?
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Yeah. the significance of
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Bethlehem is it's very significant.
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Number one, we know that scripture says, to you,
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Bethlehem ephrathah too small to be among the clans of judah.
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One will be born from you
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Whose going forth will be from the days of old, from the days
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Of eternity. [speaking hebrew] in hebrew.
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So there's this prophecy,
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Messiah born in bethlehem.
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Why? ruth and boaz were from bethlehem.
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Ruth and boaz ultimately, through them comes king david.
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So david comes from bethlehem.
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It's the city of david, so therefore the messiah.
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But then the deeper thing is this,
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Bethlehem in hebrew is beit lechem.
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Beit means house, lechem means bread.
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Jesus was born in the house of bread.
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Wow. bread of life.
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He is the bread of life.
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But of course, it goes even deeper than that.
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It goes back to the very garden of eden.
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We talked about it in transformed by the messiah.
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Because think about it,
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What is one aspect of the fall?
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It's the curse that man would have to bring forth bread by
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The sweat of his brow.
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So what does that mean? before the fall,
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God provided bread from heaven.
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Man didn't have to work for it.
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So jesus, being born in the house of bread and saying he is
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The bread of life, and the multiplication of the bread was
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Showing that he was restoring what was lost.
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He's beginning to reverse the
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Curse, restoring god's provision.
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So it's looking back to eden, but it's also looking forward
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To the messianic kingdom, where the marriage supper, the
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Banquet of the lamb, will be giving bread.
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But of course, there's still more, because one of the things
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That rabbis and jewish people
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Look at in the scriptures is numbers.
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Yes.
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And i think it's significant because we live in
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A mathematical universe,
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So what's interesting is the numerical value of bethlehem in
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Hebrew actually equals 490. why is that important?
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You know, the famous bible verse.
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Seventy times seven.
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How many times do we need to forgive?
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So 70 times seven was chosen very specifically because it
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Ties back to bethlehem. wow.
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I've never heard that. jesus was born,
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The hebrew word for born,
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Nativity, is 490 in hebrew.
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Bethlehem, 490.
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The word tamim, which means to be perfect or blameless, equals
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490. jesus was the blameless passover lamb, 490.
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Born, 490.
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In bethlehem, 490.
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To bring about what?
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Total forgiveness, 70 times seven,
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Seventy being the number of perfection,
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Seventy times seven, 490, the ultimate forgiveness.
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But then we have to also understand
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We know biblically bread and forgiveness ties together.
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Jesus says, give us this day our daily-- bread.
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And the very next line is what?
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We forgive.
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Forgive. so he ties bread in forgiveness.
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At the last supper, he breaks the-- bread.
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This is my body broken for you.
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So he ties bread and forgiveness together.
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What's the point?
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Just like we can't live physically without bread, we
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Can't live spiritually and emotionally without the
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Bread of forgiveness.
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Powerful. as you can probably tell by now, you are going to
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Want to get hold of this book.
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It's called transformed by the messiah.
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And honestly, that is just one of the incredible things
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That rabbi unlocks.
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Talk to us too, about
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We're imagining that we're seeing the fields of
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Bethlehem behind us.
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Talk to us about the shepherds that were there the night the
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Angels made the announcement.
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You know, i think it's so important because we've all
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Heard the christmas story. oh, yeah.
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Sure. but i think this is a wonderful thing about
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Scripture is there's always more.
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Yeah. that's why god's word is never born.
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Because you can read the same passage.
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And no matter how many times you read it, there are new
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Discoveries, new things to learn.
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Right. which is the amazing thing about it,
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Right? it's the divine nature of god's word.
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And look, we've heard the christmas story,
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But there's more to the story than we often see.
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We've got to go past the
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Surface, and that's what we're doing
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In transformed by the messiah.
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So when it comes to his birth,
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It's one of the things we talk about.
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So what's interesting is that
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Jesus is born in bethlehem.
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The angels come to the shepherds and they say to the
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Shepherds, the angels say to shepherds,
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Today in the city of david, a king is born to you,
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And this will be the sign,
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You'll find a baby lying in a
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Manger wrapped in swaddling cloth.
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What's the significance of that?
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Yeah, but think about this for a moment, right?
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Angels come from heaven and not supernatural signs,
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A baby in a manger.
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It seems kind of, like anticlimactic.
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It's like, come on, guys, couldn't you--
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I mean, that's the signs? you'd expect
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Like the glory of god radiating out from the cave or something
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Like, spectacular.
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Every baby was swaddled.
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So what's so unique about this?
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Well, think about it.
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The first thing we have to understand is that these were
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Not ordinary shepherds.
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We have this idea,
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Oh, god appeared to these kind of like, uh, lowly shepherds.
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No, these were actually shepherds that were
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Levitical shepherds. in bethlehem,
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We know historically, they primarily raised the sacrifices
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That would be offered in the
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Jerusalem temple just six miles away.
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And the lambs that were born
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Were primarily for the passover.
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So these were levitical shepherds.
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Jesus was born not in a wooden manger, as we kind of picture
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It in the west, but the earliest church tradition.
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I love taking people to israel.
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You go to the church of the nativity, one of the oldest
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Churches in the world, and it's built in a cave.
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Jesus was born in a cave.
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Why is that important?
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Because when the lambs were
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Born, or when the weather was bad,
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They take the lambs into the caves.
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Keep them perfect.
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To keep them, to keep them perfect.
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Right? and so--
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So jesus was born in a cave like one of the passover lambs.
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And not just that, he was swaddled.
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Why is that important?
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Because lambs, according to some traditions, those
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Lambs are swaddled because the caves are rocky and jagged, and
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Therefore you don't want the, uh, the newborn clumsy lamb to
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Cut itself and then blemish
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Itself, and then it can't be sacrificed.
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So they would swaddle.
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So the levitical shepherds came, saw jesus born in the
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Place where the passover lambs were often born, and he saw him
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Swaddled like one of the passover lambs.
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And part of swaddling was salting.
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We get into it deep in the book.
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All the sacrifices in the
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Temple had to be offered with salt.
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God's covenant with david was a salt covenant.
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So he's fulfilling the salt covenant.
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He's swaddled. he's salted.
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What's the significance of salt?
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Is that for purification?
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One of the things is salt is for purification.
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Salt is white like pure. salt kills that bacteria.
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But salt also conveys a sense of permanency,
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Okay, because salt lasts for a long time.
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And what's interesting is that oftentimes covenants in ancient
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Near east were salt covenants
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And it actually symbolized friendship.
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So there's this ancient near eastern saying, we talk about
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It in the book, that people
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Would say, there's salt between us.
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What does that mean? wow.
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One person would take the salt from his pouch, and he would
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Add it to the salt of his friends pouch and vice versa.
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And they say, just like the salt can't be separated once
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Mixed, may or may our friendship never be broken.
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So deeply significant. deeply significant,
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Right? so part of jesus' salting it points to him as a
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Sacrifice, points of as a significant of the fulfillment
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Of the davidic covenant, which is a salt covenant god makes
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With david, but also it says god came to make friendship
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With us and jesus the incarnation, the divine,
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Becomes mingled with the human, with humanity.
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God inextricably ties himself to us, right, in order to redeem
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Us and make us friends of god.
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And that is really good news.
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God, through jesus, wants to be our friend.
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I now think that praise should be two hours, because there's
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No way we're going to get through all this.
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Amazing. the book is called transformed by the messiah and
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Let me read the subtitle, how old and new testament jesus
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Connections reveal god's
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Intentional story for your life.
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There's so many things in this. i mean, i thought the rock, the
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Road and the rabbi was phenomenal.
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There's so much in this that was not just a learning
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Experience for me, but i felt, um, deeply holy and an
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Invitation to a different kind of life.
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The significance.
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Talk to us even about the you know, when jesus is a toddler
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And the magi come from the east,
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Talk to us about the significance of that.
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Yeah, oftentimes we don't understand there is something
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So much deeper there
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Because think about it for a moment.
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There were many empires in the ancient near east, and there
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Were numerous kings that would be born.
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And when you think about how long the journey would have
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Been for the magi and how expensive it would have been
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For them to come.
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The question that you have to ask is, why would these pagan
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Kings from persia, babylon area,
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Care about the birth of a jewish king?
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And how would they even know-- yeah.
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--that this sign that they saw was pointing to the birth
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Of this jewish king.
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Well, we got to piece the story
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Together biblically from the scriptures.
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These wise men, these magi, were from babylon.
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Why is that important?
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Because there was a guy in babylon.
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Daniel.
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Daniel. and daniel became the head,
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Daniel chapter two, of the wise men in babylon.
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After interpreting king nebuchadnezzar's dream, he was
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The most esteemed wise man, probably in history with him
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And the things the three nice jewish boys did.
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And it's in the book of daniel, while he's in babylon,
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That he's meditating, okay,
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On the reason why he's there.
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God told the jewish people that if they didn't repent, and he
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Tells us through jeremiah and other prophets that they were
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Going to go into exile for 70 years.
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The end of the 70 years is coming.
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Daniel is saying, okay, god, he's praying,
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Is this the time our exile is going to end?
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Are you going to restore us to the land?
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Restore your house?
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And an angel comes and says, no, not 70 years, 70 times 70.
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That number again, 70 times seven, which equals 490 years.
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And then it goes on to say this, after 483 years after the sixth
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Week, is another way to say it,
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The messiah, god's anointed, it says, which is the hebrew word
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For messiah, will come and be cut off.
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So daniel gives the exact timing from the decree to
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Rebuild jerusalem, 483 years,
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The messiah messianic king would be born.
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The wise men in babylon knew the year the decree was given
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To build the temple, because it
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Was given from the same location.
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Okay, they knew daniel's prophecy.
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They began to count down the years, and they knew the exact
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Year the messiah had to be born.
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That's why they were interested.
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They were looking for the sign based upon the greatest wise
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Man magi ever, daniel.
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But then that still begs the question,
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How did they know that the star was going to be the key sign to
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Know of his birth
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To lead them to where they were supposed to go?
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Well, again, what's interesting is this, there is another wise
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Man who preceded daniel, and his name was balaam.
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And balaam is hired to curse the children of israel by king
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Balak of the moabites.
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And instead of cursing them four times,
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He winds up blessing them.
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In the book of numbers, one of those prophecies says this,
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I see him not now, but in the future.
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And he's talking about the distant future.
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And it says, a star will come out of jacob.
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This is known as the star prophecy.
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Wow.
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Okay. so the sign of the messiah is the star,
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According to balaam, who was a wise man famous from babylon.
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So both the timing and the sign of the star are all connected
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Back to babylon.
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So from the five books of moses to the book of daniel, there is
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This thread that is woven together, and we get much more
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Into the significance of that. but i think one of the
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Important things to remember is this,
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Jesus was born in the hopeless times.
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Hope is the belief that your future is going to be better
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Than your past.
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Many of us can today can look at what's going on in the
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World, very much like the first century taxes, wars, dictators,
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Chaos in the world like it was back then.
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And it's easy to lose hope.
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The fact that all of these prophecies came together.
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The way that they did is significant because hope is
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Rooted in understanding
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God is in control. yes.
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Nothing is by random.
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Nothing happens by chance.
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For thousands of years, god was weaving this intentional story
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Together of jesus, of the redemption.
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And he wants to--
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He's going to do everything he can,
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He's going to do everything to make it a reality.
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And just like there was an intentional story for jesus and
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Redemption, god has an intentional story for each and
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Every one of our lives. nothing is random
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By chance. god is working it together for a greater purpose
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And we can have hope because of that.
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Did you grasp on to that?
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If you're just joining me, i'm here with rabbi jason sobel.
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He has a fantastic new book, transformed by the messiah.
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You're going to want to order several copies and some new
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Pencils, because you're going to want to take notes.
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There's a lot there, people, but that's, to me, one of the
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Most incredible things about this book.
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This reminder that no matter what appears to be true,
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God is in control.
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God is sovereign.
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God has always had a plan.
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There's a couple of things i wanted to ask you that i've
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Always wondered about, like
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Moving further on into jesus' life,
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Why was jesus baptized?
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Because i remember when i was 16, i was baptized in my church
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In scotland and i understood my old life to be dead,
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Sin, raised to new life.
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Jesus was sinless.
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Why was he baptized?
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Yeah, and i think again, transformed by the messiah goes
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Through three things, right?
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It goes through his birth.
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It goes through his baptism and ministry, and it goes through
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His, ultimately culminating in
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His death, resurrection, pentecost.
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So basically, it's an overview of the life of jesus and how
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What god did in his life is a model of transformation
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In our own life.
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And i think what you're asking is a great question.
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So john's baptism was a baptism of repentance.
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That's why when jesus comes, john is hesitant to baptize him
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Because he had already said, behold the lamb of god who
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Takes away the sin of the world. he knew jesus didn't have sin.
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He was a spotless passover lamb.
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Therefore, why is it important for him to be baptized?
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Well, jesus says these words.
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It's fitting that this should
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Be done in order to fulfill righteousness.
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The key word in that passage is the word to fulfill.
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Mhm. in the gospel of matthew, when the word fulfill occurs,
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It means to fulfill a prophecy.
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Jesus' baptism was to fulfill
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Something from the old testament.
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And that's why it was so fitting, because jesus had to
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Fulfill everything written about the messiah in the law,
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The writings.
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And it's not that he had sin or that it was--
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No, it was for fulfillment.
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So the question is, what was he fulfilling?
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He wasn't fulfilling one prophecy in particular, but he
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Was fulfilling a spiritual and prophetic type in the bible.
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What was that type?
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The type was that we all sinned in adam.
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Jesus was going to be, as paul calls him, the last adam, the
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Final adam, the second adam.
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So part of what jesus comes to do in his life and ministry is
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To undo and reverse what adam and eve did in the beginning.
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And so what's interesting is this, is that the, is that
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According to jewish tradition, after adam sinned, he went into
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The river gijon and he immersed himself up to his neck, and he
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Cried out to god for repentance and forgiveness in connection
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With the water.
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So therefore, jesus reverses adam's sin
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Because what jesus is doing is he had no sin, but he's
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Identifying with humanity.
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And in his role as the last adam, he has to be immersed
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Because he has to get right
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What we got wrong.
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Wow. but it's not just adam.
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It also has to do with the fact that kings were coronated
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By the water.
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So he is anointed not with oil,
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But with the holy spirit by the water.
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Very significant.
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But of course, there's still more.
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That's what i love about you.
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There's always so much more.
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Think about it for a moment.
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The heavens open
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And a dove descends.
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There's something amazing here that we go into in the book,
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Which blew my mind.
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And i didn't know this until i began studying and preparing
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For this book, is that
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The rabbis say this at the very beginning of creation, when the
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Holy spirit was hovering over the deep, it was hovering like
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A dove over the waters.
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So again, we're seeing the dove coming because jesus is about
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To bring about new creation, a new order out of chaos.
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Then the rabbis say that in the days of noah, the last thing he
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Sent was the dove.
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And it says the dove very specifically, not a dove.
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The definite article, the dove. and the dove doesn't come back.
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And the rabbis say, where did the dove go?
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And they say this.
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There's a tradition that the dove went into heaven, and the
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Dove was waiting in heaven to crown the messiah.
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I'm getting chills when he came. wow.
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So the sign of the, part of the sign of the messianic king
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Was the dove that was going to be part of the coronation
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And crown him.
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And so, jesus-- as it was in the days of noah, so will it be in
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The days of the son of man,
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Jesus has this form, like the spirit in the form of the dove,
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Come upon him to show
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This is my promised son and messiah.
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Wow.
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Is there significance to the fact that jesus was
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30 years old when he began his ministry instead of like 21?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Just one other thing before we jump into that, which is,
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I think an important point with the baptism in terms of
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Transformation is that he also hears the words, this is my
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Beloved son, in whom i am well pleased.
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See, here's the thing jesus was
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100% god, but he was 100% human.
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As human beings, part of the transformation that we need to
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Experience in our life is knowing that we have
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Acceptance, and that we have been affirmed by a father.
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Wow. see, i was blessed with a great father that affirmed me,
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Loved me unconditionally no matter what, and that gave me
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Confidence and courage in life to pursue the things that god
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Had put upon the heart and the dreams.
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But not everyone has that. no, that's true.
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And but even if you do-- like, i remember when my son was
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Little and he started karate and he wasn't very coordinated,
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And every time he'd mess up, he'd like, look to me like,
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Is it okay? like, if i would have looked
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At him like, you're totally uncoordinated,
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Um, you should quit,
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You're no good at thisc
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He would have given up instead
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Of going on to become a black belt.
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Oh, wow.
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As human beings, part of the practical relevance of the
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Baptism it says god accepts us and affirms us for who we are.
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Wow. and we have a father in heaven who is cheering for us
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And rooting us on.
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And that should give us the courage, uh, to pursue god's
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Dreams and purposes for our life.
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Okay, don't skip over that. we have a father in heaven.
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You have a father in heaven who is cheering you on.
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Your life is not out of control.
00:32:02.810 --> 00:32:05.046
It's no accident you're sitting where you are right now tuned
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In to this program.
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God has a plan and the father himself is cheering you on.
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This is such an encouraging book, such an encouraging book.
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Let me go back to my question, though.
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Is there a significance to how
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Old jesus was when he began his ministry part.
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Every detail in the bible is there for a reason, right?
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And so, and even the traditions around it.
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Right? so this idea of jesus beginning his ministry at 30
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Years of age, why is that significant?
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Well, think about it for a moment.
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David began to reign at 30 years of age.
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And so he is the son of david.
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He is the ultimate descendant of david, and the number 30 is
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Actually connected in a number of ways to kingship that we get
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Into in the book.
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And so it's connected to kingship.
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It's connected to david, but it's also connected to the fact
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That, um, priests began to serve at 30 years old, from
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30 to 50 years of old.
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They began to officially serve, uh, in the temple.
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They had the maturity at that age.
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So jesus is our great high priest.
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He's introducing a new high priesthood.
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And so, just like a priest began his priestly work at 30,
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Jesus, the great high priest, begins his ministry at 30 years
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Of age as well.
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I mean, there's there's so much more. 30 has to do in hebrew
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With learning and teaching and discipleship, and
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Jesus is a teacher.
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He's a rabbi. he's making disciples.
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And he's beginning that call at that age to fulfill all
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These different promises and
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Things that were said about him.
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Okay, let me throw something at you.
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But something i've wondered. at the end of matthew's gospel,
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Matthew chapter 11, jesus speaks this, come unto me, all who are
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Weary and heavy laden, and i will give you rest.
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Take my yoke upon you.
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What did-- like when i read that, it doesn't conjure up the
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Same thing as it would have for the
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People who heard it on that day.
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What did they hear? absolutely. so
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You got to understand this again in the context of jesus
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Is a rabbi,
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And part of the responsibility
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Of the rabbi was to make disciples.
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In fact, the rabbi say, every rabbi should raise up
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Many disciples. if he hasn't
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Raised up disciples, he's not a good rabbi.
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So jesus's mission was to make disciples.
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And here's the incredible thing.
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There's three aspects to discipleship, and you'll see
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Where this plays in.
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Number one is the call.
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Now, when i was young, i used to love basketball and i wanted
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To be like the goat, mj. michael jordan,
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And i used to stick out my tongue when i tried to dunk.
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And of course, i lowered the
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Basketball hoop because white guys
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Can't jump that high, right?
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Right. but here's the point.
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I wanted to be like mike, and i imitated him in every
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Way that i could.
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Spent too much money on sneakers.
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Well, that was cool when i was a teenager.
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But today i don't want to be like mike.
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I want to be like messiah.
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I don't want to be like jordan.
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I want to be like jesus.
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Yeah, that's the essence of
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Discipleship is about imitation.
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A disciple wants to be like their teacher, like their
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Rabbi, like their master.
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What's amazing is the disciples, only the best and
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Brightest, got to become
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Disciples of rabbis and become rabbis.
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The people jesus called didn't make the cut.
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That's why when jesus called them, they left everything
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Because they already got cut.
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But when jesus called them, he said, you know what?
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You've made the cut.
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You've made the team.
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I've-- you didn't even-- usually the disciple had a student had
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To present themselves to the rabbi.
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They didn't even present themselves.
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Jesus chose them,
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This greatest rabbi, miracle working, says, follow me.
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I've chosen you.
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You've made the cut.
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You're on the team.
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Follow me.
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And maybe some of us feel like we don't measure up in life.
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We didn't make the cut.
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But if you're a follower of
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Jesus, you know you made the cut.
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I love that because i've often wondered why they suddenly--
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I mean, they're fishermen and they suddenly are willing to
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Drop everything, some of them and follow him.
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But i didn't understand the significance of that.
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No greater honor than to be a disciple of rabbi.
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And like, it's like today, it'd be like making the nba or nfl,
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Like almost nobody makes it.
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That's how it was in that day to be,
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So it was an incredible honor.
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That's why they left everything.
00:36:49.830 --> 00:36:51.198
His reputation had already begun to precede him.
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Right? so that was the call, which is amazing.
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And then you have the content of discipleship.
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This is to answer your question.
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The content, the teachings of the rabbis which the disciples
00:37:02.977 --> 00:37:08.349
Were meant to learn and meant to emulate in their life,
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That's why they said they
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Wanted to pray like their rabbi.
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That's why they said, lord, teach us to pray.
00:37:16.223 --> 00:37:18.626
They wanted to learn all the rabbi's teachings and they
00:37:18.626 --> 00:37:21.962
Would pass those teachings on,
00:37:21.962 --> 00:37:24.098
Right? the content of the teaching
00:37:24.098 --> 00:37:28.803
And the way the rabbi put that
00:37:28.803 --> 00:37:30.604
Into practice was known as the yoke.
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Oh, wow.
00:37:33.341 --> 00:37:34.909
So rabbis teaching was known as the yoke.
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And think about it. why is it referred to as a yoke?
00:37:39.347 --> 00:37:41.816
Because a yoke was used for farming.
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For example, it brought two oxens together in order to plow
00:37:44.185 --> 00:37:49.690
The field and get the work,
00:37:49.690 --> 00:37:52.526
The difficult work of plowing the field done.
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And so the idea of yoke is that the student was joining himself
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To the teacher.
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He was yoking himself to, committing himself to live out,
00:38:02.636 --> 00:38:07.608
To learn, to live out and to spread the yoke of his teacher.
00:38:07.608 --> 00:38:15.416
Jesus said other places the rabbis or the leaders of his
00:38:15.416 --> 00:38:19.153
Day put heavy burdens on the people.
00:38:19.153 --> 00:38:23.090
Jesus as a rabbi didn't.
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His yoke was easy.
00:38:24.892 --> 00:38:27.261
His burden was light. his burden was light.
00:38:27.261 --> 00:38:29.096
And there you will find
00:38:29.096 --> 00:38:30.965
Rest for your souls in me.
00:38:30.965 --> 00:38:33.234
His teaching, his way of life wasn't meant to be a religious
00:38:33.234 --> 00:38:38.806
Or spiritual burden.
00:38:38.806 --> 00:38:40.274
It was meant to be a relationship with him,
00:38:40.274 --> 00:38:43.511
Empowered by the spirit.
00:38:43.511 --> 00:38:46.013
It was not meant to be a burden, but a blessing, and it
00:38:46.013 --> 00:38:49.083
Was meant to bring joy because he would carry the-- he would
00:38:49.083 --> 00:38:52.553
Carry the heavier end of the burden for us.
00:38:52.553 --> 00:38:57.158
So that's a revolutionary message to the people who are
00:38:57.158 --> 00:38:59.760
Listening, who woke up every
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Day under the burden of the law.
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Yeah. he's saying, listen, every rabbi has a yoke.
00:39:03.764 --> 00:39:07.501
I have a yoke for you.
00:39:07.501 --> 00:39:09.136
And the truth of the matter is, our life is really determined
00:39:09.136 --> 00:39:14.508
By who and what we yoke ourselves to.
00:39:14.508 --> 00:39:17.344
Right? whether it be a spouse and--
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And that's why paul writes, do not be unequally yoked.
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If you yoke yourself to the
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Wrong person or the wrong thing,
00:39:24.418 --> 00:39:27.354
False ideas, idols, addictions,
00:39:27.354 --> 00:39:31.358
All these things, you can yoke yourself--
00:39:31.358 --> 00:39:33.794
We all yoke ourselves to something.
00:39:33.794 --> 00:39:35.496
The question is who and what we yoke ourselves to.
00:39:35.496 --> 00:39:38.532
To be yoked to jesus brings about the ultimate
00:39:38.532 --> 00:39:42.403
Transformation in our life.
00:39:42.403 --> 00:39:45.639
And the radical thing about being yoked to him is that he
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:50.277
Says, listen, what i offer you is not something,
00:39:50.277 --> 00:39:53.914
First and foremost, you have to do.
00:39:53.914 --> 00:39:55.616
It's something i've done for you.
00:39:55.616 --> 00:39:57.284
Wow. right? salvation isn't due.
00:39:57.284 --> 00:39:59.353
It's something that's been done.
00:39:59.353 --> 00:40:01.255
And the beautiful thing about that is that we just walk in
00:40:01.255 --> 00:40:07.394
What he's already accomplished for us.
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It's kind of like what paul writes,
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Every good work has been prepared in advance.
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Therefore, walk in it.
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Wow. wow.
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Um, you might be wondering where we are.
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Slightly different tonight.
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We're in this volume studio here at tbn, at our brand new
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Facility, and our backdrop is like a picture of what bethlehem
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Would look like at night.
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And this wonderful new book by rabbi jason sobel, transformed
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By the messiah.
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Literally in this hour, we're going to skim the surface.
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There's so much, but let's move on to-- talk to us about
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The importance of the actual crucifixion. what was happening
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There that perhaps we don't understand?
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Yes. it's so important to understand the crucifixion,
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Especially in the context of
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What we just talked about with discipleship.
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Yeah. because think about it for a moment,
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We all yoke ourselves to something.
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And the reality is, is that the call to discipleship is the
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Call to follow jesus, to live like him, to imitate him.
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And part of that imitation is jesus.
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Take up your cross and follow me.
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Yeah, it's something very serious.
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And we all know that the cross
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Is the, has become the symbol of christianity.
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But what is the deeper meaning? yes.
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Right? what is the deeper meaning of the cross?
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Like, why did jesus have to die on a cross?
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Was it just the roman means of execution?
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No. there's something so much more there.
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It goes back to what
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We said about jesus being the last adam.
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Sin came into the world where the first man and woman
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Took from the tree.
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So what does god do to reverse that?
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He puts jesus on the cross, which is a tree for you and me
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To reverse the curse and to restore the blessing.
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Why are his hands pierced?
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Because it's our hands that it took from the tree.
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We extended our hand in disobedience.
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Jesus extends his hands to embrace us and to bring about
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Our salvation.
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So our hands took--
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His hands took the nails for us in order to redeem us.
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Then his feet are pierced.
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Why? because
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What's the first messianic prophecy in the bible?
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The seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
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Satan's, right?
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Satan's mocking the promises of god.
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He's like, you think you're going to defeat me?
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I'm going to nail your feet to a tree.
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And let's see, he thought he was foiling the plan of god.
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He was fulfilling it.
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Okay, that's also part of the
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Significance why jesus dies at golgotha.
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We talk about it in transformed by the messiah.
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He would crush the head of the serpent.
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Golgotha means the place of the skull.
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It's literally going--
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It's literally a symbol of his feet elevated, crushing the
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Head of the serpent, crushing the sin of humanity.
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In fact, there's jewish, ancient jewish and christian
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Tradition that says that adam was buried under the site of
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Golgotha and that the blood of jesus, the last adam, went into
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The blood of-- onto the bones of
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The first adam as a sign of restoration.
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Now, that's a tradition, though it's an ancient tradition,
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But it's a beautiful image, whether it's real or not.
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Sure. okay. his side is pierced.
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Yeah, well, in the creation
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Story, who's taken from the side? woman.
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The woman who led adam into temptation?
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The woman. the one taken from the side.
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So he's pierced in his side to make atonement not only for the
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Man, first man, but also for the first woman.
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Wow. but there's something more.
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His side being pierced like god opened adam's side is because
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He's birthing the new eve, which is the church,
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The redeemed bride of messiah, the redeemed bride of christ.
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Right? crown of thorns on his head.
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Why? what's the curse of creation?
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The ground produce thorns and thistles.
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He's taking the curse on his head to break it
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And restore the blessing.
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If you're just joining me, where have you been?
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Um, talking tonight to rabbi jason sobel.
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Phenomenal new book, transformed by the messiah.
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You want to grab hold a copy of this book.
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Get some for your kids, your college kids.
00:44:33.560 --> 00:44:36.196
There's so much in here that leads to worship.
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It's not often i read a book and i listened to music
00:44:41.101 --> 00:44:43.370
And i want to worship.
00:44:43.370 --> 00:44:44.571
I find myself wanting to worship reading sections of
00:44:44.571 --> 00:44:47.674
This because of the profound biblical truth.
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Talk to us about the significance of the curtain
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Being torn in the temple.
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I think there's two things.
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One is, before we even get to that, think about this
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Whole idea of curtain
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And how this plays such an important theme in the ministry
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Of jesus, right.
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At his baptism, the heavens open.
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Now, i grew up outside--
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I grew up going to broadway shows in new york city as a
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Child, and one of the most exciting moments,
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The curtain opens.
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The opening of the curtain. right?
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The first act. sure.
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When the heavens open at jesus' baptism,
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It is the opening act.
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The curtains begin to open.
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The show is about to get started.
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What we've been waiting for, prophesied about--
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Wow. we've been waiting is about to happen,
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Right. then going back to the cross,
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Jesus on the cross.
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And there's three hours of darkness.
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The heavens closed.
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Why? it's the final act for sin.
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Literally, the heavens closed.
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It's the final act.
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And not just that the heavens closed as a sign of the curtain
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Closing, the heavens closing, but the veil in the temple,
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As you mentioned, was rent in two.
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Why is that significant?
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It's significant because the veil of the temple, right,
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Was to the holy of holies, and no one could go behind the holy
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Of holies except the gadol, the high priest, on yom kippur, the
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Day of atonement, to make atonement for the people.
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And so when man sinned in the garden of eden, god put
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Cherubim to guard the way. you couldn't go back in the
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Presence of god in that fallen nature.
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There were cherubim on the curtains of the temple, which
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Is like the new eden, a return to eden.
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And god rents the temple to say, you know what?
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The cherubim are no longer longer guarding the way.
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The gates to eden are no longer closed.
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The gate to heaven is no longer
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Closed to you because of your sin.
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There's a new way, there's new access, because you have a new
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Identity, because atonement has been provided for what god has
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Done for us through the messiah.
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It is finished.
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And now god has made a new way.
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It's a new act.
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It's a new day.
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And what's amazing is we talk about in the book
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This is actually confirmed historically by the rabbis, his
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Death, because they say that one of the things they say
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40 years before the destruction of the temple, strange things
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Began to occur.
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One of those things is on the day of atonement, the same day
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The high priest went behind the curtain, parted the curtains.
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40 years when they offer the passover sacrifice is connected
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To the scapegoat, the cord,
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There was a red cord that would supernaturally turn from red to
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White, symbolizing though your sins be as scarlet, i will make
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Them white as snow. wow.
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40 years before the destruction of the temple,
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The cord stopped turning.
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The temple was destroyed in 70 a.d.
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Count back 40 years, 30 a.d.
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During the life and ministry of jesus
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That's why it stopped turning,
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Because it wasn't going to be by the blood of goats or
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Bulls and lambs, but by the blood of the lamb of god who
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Takes away the sins of the world. not animal sacrifices,
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The messiah's sacrifice. wow.
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You talk about the tomb in the book, and it's a very
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Interesting comparison.
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You almost compare it to like, a mother's womb.
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Talk to me about that.
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So we love taking people to israel on our
00:48:40.507 --> 00:48:44.011
Rock road rabbi tours.
00:48:44.011 --> 00:48:45.879
And one of the favorite highlights is taking them to
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What's known as the garden tomb.
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And i'm sure you love the garden tomb.
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There's just a presence and a peace,
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But in hebrew, the garden tomb is called
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[speaking hebrew] -- is garden.
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[speaking hebrew] is tomb.
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So think about it.
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Jesus is buried in a garden tomb. why in a garden?
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Because the fall happened
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In the garden. it all began in the garden.
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It all has to end in a garden.
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And we talk about that in transformed.
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But the word in hebrew for tomb is kever.
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But there's a paradox here.
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The word for tomb in hebrew is also one of the
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Hebrew words for womb.
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Wow! how can the word tomb and womb be the very same thing
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Because think about the connection.
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The tomb is a gateway.
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It's a gateway from this life to the next.
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The womb is a gateway into this world.
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They're both doors to a different reality.
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But here's the beautiful thing.
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When we think about the tomb, we think of it about the end,
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Whether physical life ends or whether it's a dead end,
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The end of a relationship,
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The end of a dream.
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And it's a very negative and painful association.
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In so many times in our life we feel like something has died.
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It's been buried.
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It's in the tomb.
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But here's the good news jesus transforms the tomb into a womb
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And births new life,
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Births new promise,
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Births new destiny, and what jesus did in the garden tomb
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He wants to do in our life. the very thing that is
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Meant to kill us,
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The very thing that the enemy means to destroy us, is going
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To be the very thing that god can use to birth us into our
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Promise and potential
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Because that's what he does.
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He's in the business of turning tombs into wombs and birthing
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Life out of death and calling forth light out of darkness.
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And the disciples knew this.
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The upper room, in a sense, was their tomb.
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They were scared and in fear and hiding.
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And then when they encounter the risen jesus, they went out
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Of the upper room and proclaimed the good news.
00:51:19.566 --> 00:51:21.935
The tomb turned into the womb, and the empty tomb declares
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That our fears are as empty as
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That empty tomb, because he's risen.
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Hallelujah! rabbi, we've got
00:51:33.313 --> 00:51:35.148
About just under five minutes left.
00:51:35.148 --> 00:51:36.917
I want to give you the time.
00:51:36.917 --> 00:51:38.785
Whatever is left on your heart that you want to share,
00:51:38.785 --> 00:51:41.488
If you want to pray for our people, i just,
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I want to hear from you. yeah.
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You know, i just want to encourage you
00:51:47.060 --> 00:51:49.796
That when jesus rose from the dead on that third day in
00:51:49.796 --> 00:51:55.302
Biblical thought, it's actually the eighth day. he dies on
00:51:55.302 --> 00:51:59.806
Friday, which is the sixth day he's in the grave all day, on
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The seventh day, which is the shabbat.
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And he rises on the sunday, which is either the first day.
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Or you can consider the eighth day.
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Why is that important?
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Because eight biblically is the number of new beginnings. eight
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Is the number of transcending. seven is the number of the
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Natural order. eight is the number of rising above.
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So here's the point.
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When jesus died and rose again,
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He died to give you a new beginning.
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He died to empower you to rise above of your situation and
00:52:30.136 --> 00:52:36.142
Your circumstances. the things that are trying to break you,
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God is going to empower you to break through.
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Okay, this is a season where god is calling you like lazarus
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Out of the tomb.
00:52:50.657 --> 00:52:52.025
He doesn't want you to remain trapped in fear.
00:52:52.025 --> 00:52:54.861
He doesn't want you to remain stuck in the old ways of being,
00:52:54.861 --> 00:52:59.532
In the old ways of seeing.
00:52:59.532 --> 00:53:01.468
He's calling you forth.
00:53:01.468 --> 00:53:03.503
He's calling the dead promises to life.
00:53:03.503 --> 00:53:06.473
He's going to resurrect some things in your life, and he is
00:53:06.473 --> 00:53:10.110
Going to bring that blessing.
00:53:10.110 --> 00:53:14.381
What others meant for evil,
00:53:14.381 --> 00:53:15.649
What others, how others tried to curse you.
00:53:15.649 --> 00:53:17.417
God is going to bring blessing and god is going to bring good.
00:53:17.417 --> 00:53:22.188
There are no hopeless situations.
00:53:22.188 --> 00:53:25.191
There is only hopeless people.
00:53:25.191 --> 00:53:27.627
We're called to be a day people.
00:53:27.627 --> 00:53:29.996
We're called to be resurrection people.
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That's why we're sunday people.
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Right. it's the day of the resurrection.
00:53:34.067 --> 00:53:35.935
It's not just meant to be a day that we commemorate it.
00:53:35.935 --> 00:53:39.306
It's meant to be a lifestyle.
00:53:39.306 --> 00:53:41.107
The same spirit that raised yeshua, jesus from the dead
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Lives in you.
00:53:45.745 --> 00:53:47.314
And therefore god is saying, rise above, pray,
00:53:47.314 --> 00:53:53.486
Have intimacy with me,
00:53:53.486 --> 00:53:56.156
Be filled with my presence, and i will give you everything you
00:53:56.156 --> 00:53:59.959
Need for life and godliness to break through and to see my
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Promises and potential fulfilled in and through you.
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And that is good news.
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This isn't about information.
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This is about transformation.
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God doesn't want you to remain the way you were.
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He loves you enough to help you
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To become something so much better.
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This is a season of metamorphosis, right?
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It's like a butterfly.
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It's like a caterpillar becoming into the cocoon and
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Breaking forth into butterfly.
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This is your time to break forth and to fly.
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The tomb was like the cocoon,
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And when jesus broke forth, it was like the butterfly.
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And he's calling you to break forth and to fly, to be
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Transformed, to be changed,
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So abba father, i just lift up all of my sisters.
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I lift up all of my brothers.
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I lift up everyone who was watching today.
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And we just want to ask that whatever it is that they are
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Going through, we're asking for your supernatural presence.
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We're asking for your supernatural power.
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We're asking for your supernatural provision to burst
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Forth and to cause them to break forth, to be able to
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Break through, for them to be able to become new because they
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Are new creations in messiah.
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The old is passing away and the new is coming.
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Give them that resurrection, new hope.
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Give them that resurrection power to overcome.
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And i just speak life and blessing over them.
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And i just want to give you this blessing.
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This is the priestly blessing,
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But it's also the father's blessing that he prays over his
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Children on the sabbath. [speaking hebrew]
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May the lord bless you and keep you.
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May the lord cause his face to shine upon you
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And be gracious to you.
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May the lord lift up his
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Countenance to you and give you shalom.
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Nothing missing, nothing broken.
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In the name of the prince of peace, yeshua jesus.
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Shalom. amen.
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The book is transformed by the messiah, the voice.
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Rabbi jason sobel.
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Remember, we love you, and we will see you next time.
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♪♪
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Jason Sobel: The Transformational Truth of Our Messiah | Praise

November 5, 2025 | 58:1

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