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2016-01-06 Wednesday Night Bstudy Week 6


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00:00:00.000 | Let me pray for us, and then we'll start.
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00:00:06.000 | Heavenly Father,
00:00:08.000 | we thank you so much for this evening.
00:00:10.000 | We pray that your Holy
00:00:12.000 | Spirit would give us understanding
00:00:14.000 | that things that we've studied,
00:00:16.000 | things that may be confusing,
00:00:18.000 | things that
00:00:20.000 | are important for us, Lord God, that
00:00:22.000 | would convict us,
00:00:24.000 | challenge us, cause us to think
00:00:26.000 | more deeply upon your character,
00:00:28.000 | what that means for us,
00:00:30.000 | the promises that you've given
00:00:32.000 | that are relevant, and we pray
00:00:34.000 | Father God that you would continue to guide
00:00:36.000 | and lead us so that our thinking, our
00:00:38.000 | emotions, our will, all of
00:00:40.000 | it, Lord, may submit to your living
00:00:42.000 | word. And so we pray for your grace
00:00:44.000 | this evening, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
00:00:46.000 | Okay. I know
00:00:48.000 | that some of you guys, if not
00:00:50.000 | most of you guys, are probably a bit
00:00:52.000 | confused, okay?
00:00:54.000 | And there's
00:00:56.000 | no guarantee that the deeper we get into
00:00:58.000 | Isaiah that it's going to get any better.
00:01:00.000 | So I, you know,
00:01:02.000 | Isaiah is one of those books that is kind of hard
00:01:04.000 | to grasp in totality.
00:01:06.000 | Remember we said in the very
00:01:08.000 | beginning, it is not written chronologically,
00:01:10.000 | it's not written
00:01:12.000 | like, okay, this happens in this year, and the next,
00:01:14.000 | this happens, next happens.
00:01:16.000 | It's written kind of thematically,
00:01:18.000 | so it'll jump around from,
00:01:20.000 | you know, it'll go from prophecy a hundred
00:01:22.000 | years later, which we're going to get into today,
00:01:24.000 | and then it'll jump back to
00:01:26.000 | the current situation, and then it jumps
00:01:28.000 | forward to the end times, and then it jumps
00:01:30.000 | backwards. So you kind of have to figure out
00:01:32.000 | what they're referring to by
00:01:34.000 | the text that you're looking at, okay?
00:01:36.000 | So, just kind of a
00:01:38.000 | larger, broader picture,
00:01:40.000 | just as a reminder, up to this
00:01:42.000 | point,
00:01:44.000 | God is basically
00:01:46.000 | giving an indictment to the nation of Israel,
00:01:48.000 | right? And
00:01:50.000 | then He transitioned from that
00:01:52.000 | to how He's going to judge Assyria.
00:01:54.000 | The primary agent
00:01:56.000 | of judgment was coming through the
00:01:58.000 | nation of Assyria, right?
00:02:00.000 | So it begins with, judgment
00:02:02.000 | is coming upon Israel for this reason,
00:02:04.000 | and then the Assyrians
00:02:06.000 | were the ones that God was using as an agent of judgment,
00:02:08.000 | and then He turns the table and says,
00:02:10.000 | the Assyrians, they're
00:02:12.000 | going to be judged, because they're going to, again,
00:02:14.000 | God is not
00:02:16.000 | pleased with the nation of Assyria. The only reason
00:02:18.000 | why He's allowing them to do that
00:02:20.000 | is because He's only using them as an agent.
00:02:22.000 | And then, again,
00:02:24.000 | what I'm talking about in broad picture,
00:02:26.000 | okay, what's going on here?
00:02:28.000 | Okay.
00:02:30.000 | And then, right before
00:02:32.000 | we went into break, basically, He
00:02:34.000 | begins to say, here's the
00:02:36.000 | judgment that's coming, here's the judgment that's coming
00:02:38.000 | upon Israel, but God is not going to be
00:02:40.000 | angry with Israel forever.
00:02:42.000 | And then remember we looked at, if you turn to chapter 10,
00:02:44.000 | starting from verse 20,
00:02:46.000 | He begins to talk about
00:02:48.000 | how God is going to remain faithful to the
00:02:50.000 | remnant of the nation of Israel.
00:02:52.000 | And then, in chapter 11,
00:02:54.000 | like how is He going to do that?
00:02:56.000 | How will He restore Israel?
00:02:58.000 | Right? And so chapter 11
00:03:00.000 | He goes into the specifics of
00:03:02.000 | how this restoration is going to come,
00:03:04.000 | and specific prophecy to the nation
00:03:06.000 | of, to the Messiah,
00:03:08.000 | about the coming of the Messiah.
00:03:10.000 | And then, starting from chapter 12
00:03:12.000 | and on, to all the way to chapter
00:03:14.000 | 23-24,
00:03:16.000 | He's going to be indicting all the nations.
00:03:18.000 | So, if you've kind of flipped ahead
00:03:20.000 | in the book of Isaiah, you'll see
00:03:22.000 | that chapter 12 all the way to chapter
00:03:24.000 | 23-24,
00:03:26.000 | it's going to be the same theme. That theme
00:03:28.000 | is, He's going to be saying, here's
00:03:30.000 | the Midianites,
00:03:32.000 | the Philistines, the Babylonians.
00:03:34.000 | One by one, He's going to
00:03:36.000 | have an indictment against them. Right?
00:03:38.000 | So, we're talking about for the next
00:03:40.000 | maybe 10 chapters,
00:03:42.000 | you're going to see a similar theme going over
00:03:44.000 | and over. So, by the time, you're
00:03:46.000 | already probably thinking, like, man, it's judgment
00:03:48.000 | after judgment after judgment.
00:03:50.000 | But, for the next 10 chapters, you're going to see something
00:03:52.000 | very similar. So, my encouragement to
00:03:54.000 | you is, I want you to pay
00:03:56.000 | attention, not the broad strokes of,
00:03:58.000 | what is going on here?
00:04:00.000 | Not the broad strokes of, here's judgment.
00:04:02.000 | If you read it superficially,
00:04:04.000 | I guarantee you, you're going to get lost.
00:04:06.000 | So, the way that I
00:04:08.000 | designed the question, is that
00:04:10.000 | you basically summarize each
00:04:12.000 | section. What is the main
00:04:14.000 | judgment on the Midianites?
00:04:16.000 | What is the main judgment on the Philistines?
00:04:18.000 | What is the main judgment upon
00:04:20.000 | the Assyrians
00:04:22.000 | and the Babylonians? So that
00:04:24.000 | when you think about the 10
00:04:26.000 | verses, you have at least one theme.
00:04:28.000 | This is what's emphasized.
00:04:30.000 | And that's what we'll talk about when we get to those chapters.
00:04:32.000 | We're not going to go by
00:04:34.000 | verse by verse. We're going to go by what is
00:04:36.000 | happening with, what is the historical background
00:04:38.000 | behind these nations, and why the
00:04:40.000 | judgment is specific, and what are emphasized
00:04:42.000 | in these. So that you can get a broad
00:04:44.000 | picture for the next 10 to 12
00:04:46.000 | chapters. Okay?
00:04:48.000 | You have no idea what I'm saying.
00:04:50.000 | Alright. So basically that's where we are.
00:04:52.000 | Where we left off, before
00:04:54.000 | we went on a break, and I know, you know,
00:04:56.000 | we're going to have to kind of re-gear back
00:04:58.000 | up into this. That we
00:05:00.000 | left off with God saying, He's going
00:05:02.000 | to restore Israel back. So if you go back to
00:05:04.000 | chapter 10, verse 20, the title
00:05:06.000 | of that section is, "The remnant of Israel
00:05:08.000 | will return." Right?
00:05:10.000 | And then
00:05:12.000 | we leave off in chapter 11.
00:05:14.000 | So basically,
00:05:16.000 | He described the judgment that's coming
00:05:18.000 | upon the nation as
00:05:20.000 | a tree
00:05:22.000 | where all the fruits and everything
00:05:24.000 | in it is going to die. It's going to be all chopped
00:05:26.000 | off. And only what is going to remain?
00:05:28.000 | Stump.
00:05:30.000 | Right? Only a stump is going to remain.
00:05:32.000 | But He says, "But from that
00:05:34.000 | stump is going to come the hope of the Messiah."
00:05:36.000 | And so if you look at chapter 11,
00:05:38.000 | verse 1, it starts out by saying, "There
00:05:40.000 | shall come forth a shoot from the stump
00:05:42.000 | of Jesse." In other words,
00:05:44.000 | this judgment is going to come, and it's going to be so
00:05:46.000 | thorough that the only thing that's going to remain
00:05:48.000 | is the stump. But
00:05:50.000 | even though there seems to be no hope,
00:05:52.000 | but from that stump, God
00:05:54.000 | is going to bring the Messiah. And then He
00:05:56.000 | goes into chapter 11 about the description
00:05:58.000 | of the Messiah. And that's where we're
00:06:00.000 | beginning. So one thing I want you
00:06:02.000 | guys to be aware of as we're talking about this
00:06:04.000 | is whenever we talk about prophecies,
00:06:06.000 | there's
00:06:08.000 | you kind of
00:06:10.000 | have to think of it in three different levels
00:06:12.000 | when we talk about prophecies. Okay?
00:06:14.000 | One is
00:06:16.000 | the immediate application.
00:06:18.000 | What is the prophet saying about
00:06:20.000 | the historical context at
00:06:22.000 | that time? Right? So when
00:06:24.000 | he talks about the judgment of the nation of Israel,
00:06:26.000 | what is happening with Israel at that
00:06:28.000 | time, and how is God judging them?
00:06:30.000 | Right? The second
00:06:32.000 | application is, what is the application
00:06:34.000 | that
00:06:36.000 | is fulfilled in Christ?
00:06:38.000 | Okay? That's the second application.
00:06:40.000 | What is, okay, one is the
00:06:42.000 | application is the immediate context. What is the
00:06:44.000 | application that has to do with Christ?
00:06:46.000 | And then the third application
00:06:48.000 | is what does that have to do with the end
00:06:50.000 | times? Okay?
00:06:52.000 | Let me say that again. Three different
00:06:54.000 | levels that you have to think whenever
00:06:56.000 | you see prophecies in the Old Testament.
00:06:58.000 | What is the immediate historical context?
00:07:00.000 | How is that fulfilled in
00:07:02.000 | Christ? And how is it fulfilled
00:07:04.000 | at the end times? Okay?
00:07:06.000 | Yes?
00:07:08.000 | Okay. So keep that in mind while
00:07:10.000 | you are reading through the
00:07:12.000 | prophecy of Isaiah.
00:07:14.000 | It's not just kind of like, oh, what's going on
00:07:16.000 | in history, but how is it being fulfilled
00:07:18.000 | in those other levels as well? Okay?
00:07:20.000 | Alright. So I'm just going to go
00:07:28.000 | down by the questions that I gave you.
00:07:30.000 | My gosh, technology.
00:07:36.000 | Okay.
00:07:42.000 | [typing]
00:07:44.000 | Brian,
00:08:06.000 | is this connection
00:08:08.000 | missing there?
00:08:10.000 | It is there?
00:08:12.000 | Oh, you just put it in. Oh, there you go.
00:08:14.000 | Okay. Thank you.
00:08:16.000 | Alright. So we're going to go by question by
00:08:18.000 | question. Number one was describe the promise
00:08:20.000 | of hope given to Israel
00:08:22.000 | through the roots of Jesse.
00:08:24.000 | Alright. The promise of
00:08:26.000 | a descendant,
00:08:28.000 | you can see it, right?
00:08:30.000 | Of Jesse is not simply a promise of an
00:08:32.000 | ordinary man, but a king from a kingly line
00:08:34.000 | of David. So when he says
00:08:36.000 | that from this stump,
00:08:38.000 | from the shoot of
00:08:40.000 | Jesse is going to come this
00:08:42.000 | man, right?
00:08:44.000 | He's not describing just any man. He's talking
00:08:46.000 | about the kingly line. In other words,
00:08:48.000 | the description that he's giving is
00:08:50.000 | the true king of Israel
00:08:52.000 | that's going to come.
00:08:54.000 | He's not just talking about a person
00:08:56.000 | or a prophet who's going to come. He's talking about
00:08:58.000 | your king.
00:09:00.000 | So in everything that
00:09:02.000 | he describes of this particular king
00:09:04.000 | that's coming is in contrast
00:09:06.000 | to the other kings that
00:09:08.000 | Israel had. In other words,
00:09:10.000 | the invitement against the nation of Israel is that
00:09:12.000 | you had all these prophets and kings who led
00:09:14.000 | you astray. And the reason why you're
00:09:16.000 | in the situation that you're in now is
00:09:18.000 | because they worshipped idols, you worshipped idols.
00:09:20.000 | They forsook God,
00:09:22.000 | you forsook God. They were selfish, so you
00:09:24.000 | ended up being selfish. Right?
00:09:26.000 | But now, the
00:09:28.000 | Messiah is going to come. The real
00:09:30.000 | king is going to come, and this is what his kingship is
00:09:32.000 | going to look like. Right? The first thing
00:09:34.000 | that's going to differ is that his reign will
00:09:36.000 | be a reign of the Spirit of God.
00:09:38.000 | Unlike the reign of the
00:09:40.000 | previous kings.
00:09:42.000 | Specifically, he says,
00:09:44.000 | "The Spirit of the Lord shall
00:09:46.000 | rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom
00:09:48.000 | and understanding."
00:09:50.000 | Let me ask you a question.
00:09:52.000 | Obviously, this is in reference to
00:09:54.000 | who?
00:09:56.000 | To Jesus, right?
00:09:58.000 | This is clearly in reference to
00:10:00.000 | the promise of the
00:10:02.000 | coming Messiah, Jesus.
00:10:04.000 | Jesus is fully
00:10:06.000 | God. Why
00:10:08.000 | does he have to have the
00:10:10.000 | Holy Spirit upon him?
00:10:12.000 | If he's fully God?
00:10:14.000 | Do you understand the question?
00:10:18.000 | Why even mention that?
00:10:22.000 | He's God.
00:10:24.000 | [inaudible]
00:10:26.000 | Hm?
00:10:28.000 | [inaudible]
00:10:30.000 | I want you to keep thinking.
00:10:32.000 | I'm not saying it's wrong.
00:10:34.000 | You know,
00:10:40.000 | sometimes when we talk about
00:10:42.000 | Jesus, we kind
00:10:44.000 | of mesh his humanity and his
00:10:46.000 | deity in such a
00:10:48.000 | clear way that we kind of see
00:10:50.000 | him. He is God-man,
00:10:52.000 | obviously, and he, in
00:10:54.000 | every way he was like us.
00:10:56.000 | But in every way he was not like us, because he had
00:10:58.000 | deity, right? But
00:11:00.000 | Jesus Christ in his humanity
00:11:02.000 | was not this superhuman mixture
00:11:04.000 | of God and man.
00:11:06.000 | It was, that's why we say he was
00:11:08.000 | 100% God and he was 100% man.
00:11:10.000 | In his humanity,
00:11:12.000 | right, because he took on the form
00:11:14.000 | of man, when he describes all of these
00:11:16.000 | things that he's describing are a description
00:11:18.000 | of his humanity, who in
00:11:20.000 | the Spirit is leading.
00:11:22.000 | You understand what I'm saying?
00:11:24.000 | Because when he became a human being, when he
00:11:26.000 | was born of a virgin,
00:11:28.000 | he took on full humanity.
00:11:30.000 | So, remember
00:11:32.000 | years ago we had Dr. Proud, he came and he
00:11:34.000 | gave a series
00:11:36.000 | about Jesus and his identity
00:11:38.000 | and how we look at the New Testament
00:11:40.000 | and we automatically say, you know,
00:11:42.000 | everything that Jesus did, we can't
00:11:44.000 | relate because that was God.
00:11:46.000 | Right? But remember what Jesus said to his
00:11:48.000 | disciples, "After I leave, when the Holy Spirit
00:11:50.000 | comes, you're going to do even greater miracles."
00:11:52.000 | He says, "Not only was it
00:11:54.000 | possible for you to do, you're going to be
00:11:56.000 | doing it even greater because the
00:11:58.000 | Holy Spirit is going to be indwelling in you."
00:12:00.000 | Right? So, the
00:12:02.000 | description of Jesus that we see
00:12:04.000 | in 11, yes, he is God-man.
00:12:06.000 | But he's going to come fully
00:12:08.000 | as a man and he's going to be
00:12:10.000 | just like a man, he's going
00:12:12.000 | to set an example
00:12:14.000 | of what all the other kings should have done.
00:12:16.000 | But because of their fallen
00:12:18.000 | nature, because of their selfishness and rebellion
00:12:20.000 | and idolatry that they couldn't
00:12:22.000 | do, Jesus is going to come in
00:12:24.000 | his humanity and he's going to take on,
00:12:26.000 | like this is what a true
00:12:28.000 | king, a righteous king, should
00:12:30.000 | have done. And that's what Jesus is going to
00:12:32.000 | fulfill. Right? So, unlike
00:12:34.000 | the other reign of the other kings,
00:12:36.000 | he will reign and his character
00:12:38.000 | will be
00:12:40.000 | characterized by wisdom, understanding,
00:12:42.000 | counsel, might, knowledge, and
00:12:44.000 | the fear of the Lord, which all the other
00:12:46.000 | kings lacked. Right? And
00:12:48.000 | this is part of the reason why the Judgment was coming.
00:12:50.000 | And all these attributes
00:12:52.000 | are all descriptions of his reign.
00:12:54.000 | Right?
00:12:56.000 | I mean, you could talk about all
00:12:58.000 | different kinds of attributes, but all of these things
00:13:00.000 | are related to his reign
00:13:02.000 | because that's who he is and that's what his
00:13:04.000 | kingdom is going to look like. Right?
00:13:06.000 | And so, because he's going to
00:13:08.000 | be a king who's going to reign this way,
00:13:10.000 | who benefits from all of this?
00:13:12.000 | All of us. All of that applies to us.
00:13:14.000 | Right?
00:13:16.000 | It says
00:13:18.000 | in verse 3 to 5, his rule
00:13:20.000 | will be fair and
00:13:22.000 | just. Right?
00:13:24.000 | And his delight
00:13:26.000 | shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not
00:13:28.000 | judge by what his eyes see.
00:13:30.000 | Why would he not judge by what he sees?
00:13:32.000 | What does he mean by that?
00:13:34.000 | And then it says,
00:13:38.000 | he would not decide disputes by what
00:13:40.000 | he hears. Right?
00:13:42.000 | Wouldn't you be,
00:13:44.000 | wouldn't you need to hear and see to be able to make
00:13:46.000 | right judgments? What does he mean by
00:13:48.000 | that he would not judge by what he sees or hears?
00:13:50.000 | Hmm?
00:13:56.000 | He's not going to be deceived by just presentation.
00:13:58.000 | He's going to see reality. That's why
00:14:00.000 | you know, everything that
00:14:02.000 | we see, right? Everything that
00:14:04.000 | we see, everything we do, we talked about this before.
00:14:06.000 | We're all biased.
00:14:08.000 | Right? Every single one of us. I'm biased.
00:14:10.000 | I'm tainted by my
00:14:12.000 | personality. I'm tainted by my experience.
00:14:14.000 | I'm tainted by my pride.
00:14:16.000 | And so everything that I judge,
00:14:18.000 | it comes through a sinful screen.
00:14:20.000 | But he says when he makes a judgment
00:14:22.000 | as a king, when he rules,
00:14:24.000 | he's not going to simply be tricked
00:14:26.000 | by what someone's presentation.
00:14:28.000 | Right? He's not going to believe
00:14:30.000 | everything that he hears. He's going to see the truth
00:14:32.000 | as it is. He's going to be fair and he's
00:14:34.000 | going to be just. Right?
00:14:36.000 | And so who benefits from this?
00:14:38.000 | Verse 4.
00:14:42.000 | "But with the righteousness he shall judge
00:14:44.000 | the poor and decide with equity
00:14:46.000 | for the meek of the earth and he shall
00:14:48.000 | strike the earth with the rod of his mouth
00:14:50.000 | and with the breath of his lips he shall kill
00:14:52.000 | the wicked." So, who benefits
00:14:54.000 | the most when the king is
00:14:56.000 | righteous and his judgment is fair?
00:14:58.000 | People who are being
00:15:00.000 | oppressed. Right?
00:15:02.000 | People who don't have the ability to
00:15:04.000 | have proper justice. Right?
00:15:06.000 | And we say it all the time.
00:15:08.000 | The first person I think about
00:15:10.000 | who benefited from his money
00:15:12.000 | at least in my lifetime
00:15:14.000 | was O.J. Simpson.
00:15:16.000 | I remember when O.J. Simpson got off, everybody
00:15:18.000 | said, "Oh, it's because he had spent millions of dollars
00:15:20.000 | getting the right
00:15:22.000 | attorneys to represent him." He said, "Oh, poor
00:15:24.000 | man, we'll never have that kind of representation."
00:15:26.000 | Right? Which is true.
00:15:28.000 | So, basically what he's saying is
00:15:30.000 | in a corrupt kingdom
00:15:32.000 | where it's run by sinful men,
00:15:34.000 | if you don't have power,
00:15:36.000 | you're not going to get fair judgment.
00:15:38.000 | If you go to court, the people who have influence,
00:15:40.000 | people who have power, who have connection,
00:15:42.000 | they're the ones who are going to benefit.
00:15:44.000 | But the ones who are poor, who don't have
00:15:46.000 | a voice, he said, "The king is
00:15:48.000 | going to come and he's going to be fair."
00:15:50.000 | Right? So, when he
00:15:52.000 | says he's not going to judge by what he sees,
00:15:54.000 | well, not because you have good clothes, or
00:15:56.000 | because you have education, or you have connection,
00:15:58.000 | or you have money. He's going to judge
00:16:00.000 | fairly. Right? That's what his kingdom is going to
00:16:02.000 | be characterized by.
00:16:04.000 | Right?
00:16:06.000 | Right?
00:16:08.000 | Oh, sorry.
00:16:10.000 | Okay. For this
00:16:12.000 | one, I want you to take a few minutes.
00:16:14.000 | Remember I asked you, when you guys
00:16:16.000 | are going through this, the description
00:16:18.000 | of the Messiah, how
00:16:20.000 | much of this do you see actually fulfilled
00:16:22.000 | in Christ? Right?
00:16:24.000 | And so, I hope you took
00:16:26.000 | some time to discuss that. So, I want you guys
00:16:28.000 | to take maybe just another two, three
00:16:30.000 | minutes in your group, just to discuss what
00:16:32.000 | you found. What are some things that you found
00:16:34.000 | that was fulfilled
00:16:36.000 | in the life of Christ? Right?
00:16:38.000 | In the Gospels.
00:16:40.000 | What are some descriptions of Jesus
00:16:42.000 | in this text, in chapter
00:16:44.000 | 11, that you see fulfilled in
00:16:46.000 | Christ? Character, what he
00:16:48.000 | said, how he lived.
00:16:50.000 | Okay? Then after a few minutes
00:16:52.000 | of discussion in your group, I'll ask
00:16:54.000 | some of you guys to kind of give us
00:16:56.000 | your input.
00:16:58.000 | [inaudible]
00:17:08.000 | [inaudible]
00:17:36.000 | [inaudible]
00:17:44.000 | [inaudible]
00:18:12.000 | [inaudible]
00:18:40.000 | [inaudible]
00:18:54.000 | [inaudible]
00:19:22.000 | [inaudible]
00:19:32.000 | [inaudible]
00:19:52.000 | [inaudible]
00:20:14.000 | [inaudible]
00:20:30.000 | Okay.
00:20:32.000 | Let's get some input. So, what are some of the things that
00:20:34.000 | you found that
00:20:36.000 | would apply to Christ that you see?
00:20:38.000 | Just raise your hand and...
00:20:40.000 | Okay.
00:20:42.000 | [inaudible]
00:20:46.000 | Okay. When Jesus was baptized, the
00:20:48.000 | Holy Spirit comes and rests upon him, just like
00:20:50.000 | it says, right? Okay, good.
00:20:52.000 | Uh-huh?
00:20:54.000 | [inaudible]
00:20:58.000 | Uh-huh?
00:21:00.000 | [inaudible]
00:21:04.000 | Uh-huh.
00:21:06.000 | Okay.
00:21:08.000 | Good.
00:21:10.000 | What else?
00:21:12.000 | [inaudible]
00:21:34.000 | Okay.
00:21:36.000 | [inaudible]
00:21:38.000 | Right.
00:21:40.000 | [inaudible]
00:21:48.000 | Okay. The physical descendant of David.
00:21:50.000 | Yes. Okay.
00:21:52.000 | What else?
00:21:54.000 | [inaudible]
00:22:02.000 | That he was righteous.
00:22:04.000 | And he was faithful. Uh-huh.
00:22:06.000 | Okay. Uh-huh?
00:22:08.000 | [inaudible]
00:22:26.000 | Good.
00:22:28.000 | He was able to discern beyond what
00:22:30.000 | the other people were seeing.
00:22:32.000 | Right? I think about the widow who
00:22:34.000 | was giving the offering. Right?
00:22:36.000 | He sees through, and that was a true offering.
00:22:38.000 | Okay.
00:22:40.000 | What else?
00:22:42.000 | [inaudible]
00:22:46.000 | A couple more.
00:22:48.000 | [inaudible]
00:22:56.000 | Okay.
00:22:58.000 | [inaudible]
00:23:04.000 | Sorry, I couldn't hear.
00:23:06.000 | The airplane.
00:23:08.000 | [inaudible]
00:23:14.000 | Okay. So,
00:23:16.000 | the way he carried out.
00:23:18.000 | Okay. All right. Good.
00:23:20.000 | Anything else?
00:23:22.000 | If you notice here,
00:23:24.000 | the promise of deliverance
00:23:26.000 | for the nation of Israel
00:23:28.000 | was not freedom from reign.
00:23:30.000 | Right? He didn't say,
00:23:32.000 | you had all these kings and they
00:23:34.000 | reigned you, now you don't have to live under suppression.
00:23:36.000 | You're going to be free. He says,
00:23:38.000 | no, a good king is going to come.
00:23:40.000 | The problem that you had,
00:23:42.000 | you had bad kings. You had bad kings
00:23:44.000 | from other nations who came and
00:23:46.000 | they suppressed you, and then your kings led you
00:23:48.000 | astray, but here comes a true king.
00:23:50.000 | So, the promise
00:23:52.000 | of deliverance is
00:23:54.000 | good reign.
00:23:56.000 | Does that make sense?
00:23:58.000 | The promise of deliverance
00:24:00.000 | isn't freedom for us to do whatever we want.
00:24:02.000 | It's to have the right king to serve.
00:24:04.000 | Right? So,
00:24:06.000 | in reality, for Christians,
00:24:08.000 | true freedom,
00:24:10.000 | the way that God created us,
00:24:12.000 | is for us to worship
00:24:14.000 | the right person to
00:24:16.000 | worship, to serve the right king.
00:24:18.000 | Right? To submit.
00:24:20.000 | God created us
00:24:22.000 | as beings
00:24:24.000 | who were created for the purpose
00:24:26.000 | of worship and service.
00:24:28.000 | You know what I mean? We were never
00:24:30.000 | meant to be the focus of attention.
00:24:32.000 | God didn't create us
00:24:34.000 | so that he could put us on a pedestal and glorify
00:24:36.000 | us. We are
00:24:38.000 | creatures to glorify, and when we
00:24:40.000 | glorify, that's when we feel
00:24:42.000 | life. You understand
00:24:44.000 | what I'm saying? So, deliverance,
00:24:46.000 | salvation for Christians is in,
00:24:48.000 | you know, we deliver you so that you can be
00:24:50.000 | free and so you can be glorified.
00:24:52.000 | Right? When we feel the most alive
00:24:54.000 | is when we're in the act of worship.
00:24:56.000 | I mean, think about it.
00:24:58.000 | Think about your life.
00:25:00.000 | Do you feel, I mean,
00:25:02.000 | think about the things that you
00:25:04.000 | are the most attracted to.
00:25:06.000 | There's a reason why
00:25:08.000 | we get caught up in
00:25:10.000 | adoring stuff.
00:25:12.000 | Whether it's cars, I mean, think about hobbies,
00:25:14.000 | or sports, or, and the more
00:25:16.000 | spectacular it is,
00:25:18.000 | the more alive
00:25:20.000 | we feel. Right?
00:25:22.000 | Whether it's sports or whatever it is.
00:25:24.000 | So, God created us
00:25:26.000 | to be worshippers,
00:25:28.000 | not to be worshipped.
00:25:30.000 | Right? And so, when we,
00:25:32.000 | and we're going to look at that next week
00:25:34.000 | when there's a description of Lucifer in
00:25:36.000 | I think it's chapter 14, and
00:25:38.000 | again, you know, I'm not going to spoil it for you,
00:25:40.000 | but you take some time to look into that.
00:25:42.000 | And his, his whole rebellion
00:25:44.000 | against God is he
00:25:46.000 | wants to be in the position of worship.
00:25:48.000 | He's trying to get
00:25:50.000 | attention so that the glory that belongs to God
00:25:52.000 | is going to come to him. Right?
00:25:54.000 | So, the whole description of deliverance
00:25:56.000 | for the nation of Israel is not about
00:25:58.000 | how you're going to be free to do this,
00:26:00.000 | you're going to have all the food that you want, you're going to be
00:26:02.000 | able to wake up, you never have to work,
00:26:04.000 | it's not all that. Right?
00:26:06.000 | The deliverance and the promise of salvation is
00:26:08.000 | you're going to have the right king to rule over
00:26:10.000 | you. You're going to have the right
00:26:12.000 | person to worship. Right?
00:26:14.000 | To adore.
00:26:16.000 | Okay?
00:26:18.000 | So how would you summarize
00:26:20.000 | in verses 6-9? 6-9
00:26:22.000 | it talks about the wolf shall dwell and the lamb and the
00:26:24.000 | leopard shall lie down. So, if you look at
00:26:26.000 | verse 6-9, what is the
00:26:28.000 | what is the general description
00:26:30.000 | if you were to summarize it in one word or a few
00:26:32.000 | words?
00:26:34.000 | What did all of this
00:26:38.000 | say in the show? I mean, is it literally
00:26:40.000 | the lion and the sheep, are they going to
00:26:42.000 | lie down and frolic around? Maybe.
00:26:44.000 | But what are all
00:26:46.000 | these descriptions generally
00:26:48.000 | saying? That
00:26:50.000 | when this kingdom comes...
00:26:52.000 | [audience member] That good and evil
00:26:54.000 | are going to be together?
00:26:56.000 | Good and evil
00:26:58.000 | will be together?
00:27:00.000 | [laughter]
00:27:02.000 | Good and evil? No, I'm trying to...
00:27:04.000 | [audience member] I think it would be more
00:27:06.000 | harmony. Harmony?
00:27:08.000 | Okay. Yeah, I think that's what you
00:27:10.000 | mean, right? There will be harmony.
00:27:12.000 | [audience member] Oh, okay.
00:27:14.000 | [laughter]
00:27:16.000 | I was trying to help you, man.
00:27:18.000 | [laughter]
00:27:20.000 | Okay.
00:27:22.000 | Harmony, peace, right.
00:27:24.000 | Right, right, right.
00:27:26.000 | [audience member] With humanity
00:27:28.000 | and with species, because it's all...
00:27:30.000 | Right, right.
00:27:32.000 | [audience member] But I think when it comes to that point, that time,
00:27:34.000 | it will be what? Harmony. Right. Harmony,
00:27:36.000 | there's peace, there's strife.
00:27:38.000 | The tension is going to be gone, right?
00:27:40.000 | That's what you meant. Right, now I get it.
00:27:42.000 | Okay. [laughter]
00:27:44.000 | So basically it's described as a period of peace.
00:27:46.000 | So all this, you know,
00:27:48.000 | judgment, all this war, you know,
00:27:50.000 | famine, all this stuff is coming because
00:27:52.000 | we live in a fallen world. So when the
00:27:54.000 | sin is taken away, all of that is
00:27:56.000 | gone, right? And that's basically
00:27:58.000 | a description of the Millennial Kingdom
00:28:00.000 | that is described in Scripture.
00:28:02.000 | Now, whenever we talk about the Millennial
00:28:04.000 | Kingdom, I mean, some of you guys may know,
00:28:06.000 | may not know, there's like a
00:28:08.000 | Amillennialism, Postmillennialism,
00:28:10.000 | there's Premillennialism. I'm not going to get into any of that.
00:28:12.000 | I'm just going to tell you the right view.
00:28:14.000 | [laughter]
00:28:18.000 | Okay. You are at a Baptist church,
00:28:20.000 | so I'm going to give you our view,
00:28:22.000 | okay? The Biblical view, alright?
00:28:24.000 | [laughter]
00:28:26.000 | So, the Millennial
00:28:28.000 | Kingdom is talking about the end times. Remember
00:28:30.000 | we talked about there's a promise
00:28:32.000 | of restoration coming, there's
00:28:34.000 | a promise of restoration that Jesus
00:28:36.000 | brought when He came and He was
00:28:38.000 | crucified on the cross. And then the
00:28:40.000 | ultimate fulfillment of all of this
00:28:42.000 | is at the Millennial Kingdom.
00:28:44.000 | Now, the Millennial Kingdom
00:28:46.000 | is when He comes a second time.
00:28:48.000 | And the dead in Christ rises
00:28:50.000 | up. And Israel is
00:28:52.000 | restored. And Jesus
00:28:54.000 | is the rightful King
00:28:56.000 | of this world. And
00:28:58.000 | what God intended in
00:29:00.000 | the Garden of Eden is going to be
00:29:02.000 | restored. And it's going to be a physical
00:29:04.000 | kingdom. Now, is that going to be
00:29:06.000 | a literally thousand years
00:29:08.000 | or is that just a figurative number, a long
00:29:10.000 | period of time? So, that's
00:29:12.000 | what we call the Pre-Millennial view.
00:29:14.000 | Post-Millennial. Amillennial basically
00:29:16.000 | means there is no Millennial. We're in the Millennial.
00:29:18.000 | It's all, you know, it's all
00:29:20.000 | allegorical.
00:29:22.000 | But I'm not going to get into all of this stuff. But
00:29:24.000 | again, I believe
00:29:26.000 | because the Bible says
00:29:28.000 | that at the end times when
00:29:30.000 | Christ comes He's going to establish
00:29:32.000 | a period of rule where
00:29:34.000 | all the promises that He made
00:29:36.000 | to the Church and to the nation of Israel
00:29:38.000 | is going to be fulfilled at this period.
00:29:40.000 | So, when we talk about
00:29:42.000 | Jesus' reign that He's talking about
00:29:44.000 | He, what we call the "Here
00:29:46.000 | and Not Yet" where He introduces
00:29:48.000 | the fulfillment of that through the Church.
00:29:50.000 | Right?
00:29:52.000 | But it's just an introduction.
00:29:54.000 | The actual fulfillment of that is going to come
00:29:56.000 | at His Second Coming. So He started it.
00:29:58.000 | Right? He started it
00:30:00.000 | by being crucified and renewing,
00:30:02.000 | regenerating, establishing the Church.
00:30:04.000 | But all of that is going to lead to
00:30:06.000 | the final product of the Millennial
00:30:08.000 | Kingdom. Okay?
00:30:10.000 | Just file that. If that's going
00:30:12.000 | over your head, just file that in your mind.
00:30:14.000 | That the fulfillment of all of this
00:30:16.000 | is going to be at the end times.
00:30:18.000 | Okay? Now where is this
00:30:20.000 | described in the Scripture?
00:30:22.000 | There's bits and pieces of it everywhere.
00:30:24.000 | But if you go to the end
00:30:26.000 | part of the Book of Revelation, especially
00:30:28.000 | Revelation Chapter 20 and on,
00:30:30.000 | there is a detailed description of what that
00:30:32.000 | Millennial Kingdom is going to look like and what God's
00:30:34.000 | going to do at the end time. Okay?
00:30:36.000 | Again, we're not going to get into that because we're not studying
00:30:38.000 | Revelation, but again,
00:30:40.000 | that's what, for your
00:30:42.000 | reference, like where is this going to be applied?
00:30:44.000 | That's when it's going to be applied.
00:30:46.000 | At the Second Coming of Christ.
00:30:48.000 | Okay?
00:30:50.000 | So,
00:30:52.000 | Chapter 11, 10-16
00:30:54.000 | is a description of
00:30:56.000 | that Millennial Kingdom.
00:30:58.000 | Okay?
00:31:00.000 | Who's going to come?
00:31:02.000 | This Kingdom is going to be worldwide.
00:31:04.000 | It's not just going to be Jews. It's not going to be just
00:31:06.000 | a group. He says,
00:31:08.000 | what did I say?
00:31:10.000 | In Verse 10,
00:31:12.000 | "In that day,
00:31:14.000 | root of Jesse, who shall stand at the signal of the peoples
00:31:16.000 | of him shall the nations inquire, and his
00:31:18.000 | resting place shall be glorious." Right?
00:31:20.000 | He said Israel is going to be
00:31:22.000 | restored, and
00:31:24.000 | people from all nations are going to come
00:31:26.000 | and seek counsel.
00:31:28.000 | What does it mean?
00:31:32.000 | That God will restore the remnant a second time?
00:31:34.000 | Why is it called the second time?
00:31:36.000 | Now, I don't have this here, but
00:31:38.000 | when does the first restoration of Israel
00:31:40.000 | take place?
00:31:42.000 | On the King Cyrus, right?
00:31:48.000 | The Persians come into power
00:31:50.000 | later on, years later, and
00:31:52.000 | King Cyrus allows them to go back,
00:31:54.000 | right, under Zerubbabel,
00:31:56.000 | and they build the wall, they build
00:31:58.000 | the second temple, which later on
00:32:00.000 | gets destroyed again. That's the first
00:32:02.000 | coming. But he says,
00:32:04.000 | in the second restoration of Israel,
00:32:06.000 | and when is that taking place?
00:32:08.000 | The Millennial Kingdom.
00:32:10.000 | Now, again, the
00:32:12.000 | other view of that is, I'm not even
00:32:14.000 | going to get into it because I don't want to confuse you.
00:32:16.000 | That Israel's
00:32:18.000 | restoration, the promises that God has made
00:32:20.000 | to the nation of Israel. Some say that the
00:32:22.000 | Church fulfilled all of these promises,
00:32:24.000 | but if you look at the
00:32:26.000 | details, I think it
00:32:28.000 | makes more sense that He
00:32:30.000 | is referring to the nation of Israel more
00:32:32.000 | literally. One of these days,
00:32:34.000 | I'm going to get into more details of that,
00:32:36.000 | but not today, okay?
00:32:38.000 | Because once we start getting off-tangent,
00:32:40.000 | that's all we're going to be talking about.
00:32:42.000 | If you have questions of that, I'm more than willing to
00:32:44.000 | talk about it with you afterwards.
00:32:46.000 | The second
00:32:48.000 | restoration of Israel will be all
00:32:50.000 | over the earth. In other words,
00:32:52.000 | the Kingdom of Christ,
00:32:54.000 | He's going to be ruling through the nation of Israel,
00:32:56.000 | but it's going to be a rule that's
00:32:58.000 | not going to be limited to the nation of Israel.
00:33:00.000 | It's going to be worldwide.
00:33:02.000 | Will the gathering of Israel be literal or spiritual?
00:33:08.000 | There is
00:33:10.000 | a spiritual fulfillment in
00:33:12.000 | Christ, which includes the Church
00:33:14.000 | and the Gentiles, but the literal
00:33:16.000 | fulfillment is going to be in the
00:33:18.000 | Millennial Kingdom.
00:33:20.000 | That God is going to bring
00:33:22.000 | Israel back, and He's going to restore
00:33:24.000 | them, and then eventually
00:33:26.000 | He's going to come a
00:33:28.000 | second time, and He's going to rule through them.
00:33:30.000 | Okay?
00:33:32.000 | Now,
00:33:34.000 | this view
00:33:36.000 | was not a
00:33:38.000 | popular view for a long
00:33:40.000 | period of time, because when did the
00:33:42.000 | physical nation of Israel disappear
00:33:44.000 | in history?
00:33:46.000 | Anybody know?
00:33:48.000 | AD 70.
00:33:50.000 | AD 70.
00:33:52.000 | At AD 70,
00:33:54.000 | after Jesus is crucified,
00:33:56.000 | He's resurrected, and He ascended, the Church
00:33:58.000 | is going out, and at AD
00:34:00.000 | 70, the Zealots,
00:34:02.000 | the Jews, right,
00:34:04.000 | they decide to finally rebel against the
00:34:06.000 | Roman government, say, "You know, we're going to,
00:34:08.000 | we're not going to wait for the Messiah
00:34:10.000 | anymore. Jesus came and He
00:34:12.000 | disappointed us. Now we're going to do it ourselves."
00:34:14.000 | So they go and they start having
00:34:16.000 | terrorist attacks against the
00:34:18.000 | Romans. They finally
00:34:20.000 | had it with the Jews,
00:34:22.000 | and they send the guards in,
00:34:24.000 | and they completely annihilate Israel.
00:34:26.000 | They go after, they
00:34:28.000 | even go after the people in the
00:34:30.000 | caves, to the Essenes.
00:34:32.000 | They completely wipe out
00:34:34.000 | the Temple, all of it. Jesus
00:34:36.000 | prophesied that when He comes into, you know,
00:34:38.000 | when He comes into Jerusalem riding on a donkey.
00:34:40.000 | Right? See, utter destruction
00:34:42.000 | of Israel. So from AD 70,
00:34:44.000 | the physical nation of Israel
00:34:46.000 | disappears. When did they come
00:34:48.000 | back?
00:34:50.000 | 19, I
00:34:52.000 | think it's 1943.
00:34:54.000 | I could be off, or is it 43?
00:34:56.000 | It's 43 or 44, somewhere around there.
00:34:58.000 | Right? So, now,
00:35:00.000 | is He referring to that Israel
00:35:02.000 | now? Is He going to rule over that?
00:35:04.000 | Obviously, He's not saying that if
00:35:06.000 | you are born a Jew that you are God's chosen
00:35:08.000 | people. So even if you don't believe in Christ,
00:35:10.000 | you are going to have a special place in the Kingdom of God.
00:35:12.000 | What He is saying is
00:35:14.000 | a remnant of the nation of Israel
00:35:16.000 | is going to experience a revival.
00:35:18.000 | And they are going to be turned
00:35:20.000 | into Christ. Right? And so,
00:35:22.000 | this view of the
00:35:24.000 | literal application of the
00:35:26.000 | Millennial Kingdom and Jews coming back,
00:35:28.000 | I mean,
00:35:30.000 | obviously if a nation disappeared
00:35:32.000 | for over 1,000 years they are going to say,
00:35:34.000 | "Ah, you know, He probably meant that allegorically."
00:35:36.000 | But the fact that a nation that disappeared
00:35:38.000 | in AD 70 and then
00:35:40.000 | reappeared. So, when they first,
00:35:42.000 | when the Allies first gave that land
00:35:44.000 | back to the Jews, after the
00:35:46.000 | Second World War, they initially,
00:35:48.000 | I was reading up on this, and they said, "Initially,
00:35:50.000 | they thought only a very small number of
00:35:52.000 | people would actually come." Because they've
00:35:54.000 | been spread out for over
00:35:56.000 | 1,600, 1,700 years. Was it more than that?
00:35:58.000 | Yeah, 1,900 years. Right?
00:36:00.000 | They've been spread out. So how are these people
00:36:02.000 | who've been spread out for 1,900 years
00:36:04.000 | all of a sudden going to make their way back?
00:36:06.000 | But we have Israel now.
00:36:08.000 | I mean, all the news, like Israel is on the news
00:36:10.000 | all the time. So since that
00:36:12.000 | period, this view has been
00:36:14.000 | revived. That maybe this
00:36:16.000 | actually is going to be fulfilled
00:36:18.000 | literally. OK?
00:36:20.000 | And, again, in my opinion,
00:36:22.000 | you know, I wrestled with this for a long time,
00:36:24.000 | even in seminary. But
00:36:26.000 | as I'm studying through the Old Testament,
00:36:28.000 | especially when I understand about
00:36:30.000 | how the Jews understood the Kingdom,
00:36:32.000 | and how even as
00:36:34.000 | Jesus is being,
00:36:36.000 | He's ascending. Remember the last
00:36:38.000 | question the disciples ask Him?
00:36:40.000 | If you go to Acts chapter 1, He says,
00:36:42.000 | "Are you now going to restore the Kingdom?"
00:36:44.000 | The Jews,
00:36:46.000 | their idea of the Kingdom is the nation of Israel
00:36:48.000 | being restored, because this is all they've been reading.
00:36:50.000 | Right? Every prophet
00:36:52.000 | ends with, "God's judging you,
00:36:54.000 | but the Kingdom is going to be restored
00:36:56.000 | when the Messiah comes." So that's all they're
00:36:58.000 | thinking. So when Jesus is about to go up, they're asking,
00:37:00.000 | "Well, we thought you were going to establish the Kingdom.
00:37:02.000 | When are you going to do it?" Jesus says,
00:37:04.000 | "It is not for you to know." Right?
00:37:06.000 | And then He says, "When the Holy Spirit comes upon
00:37:08.000 | you, you shall receive power."
00:37:10.000 | So if Jesus is referring to
00:37:12.000 | the Church being inaugurated
00:37:14.000 | as the Kingdom,
00:37:16.000 | He would have answered that question by saying,
00:37:18.000 | "Oh, wait a few days. He's coming.
00:37:20.000 | The Kingdom is coming. The
00:37:22.000 | Church is going to fulfill that." Right?
00:37:24.000 | But He says, "No, you're not going to know."
00:37:26.000 | Meaning that the real fulfillment
00:37:28.000 | of it is not until later.
00:37:30.000 | And you're not going to know. And I can't tell you.
00:37:32.000 | Right? And then if you look
00:37:34.000 | at Romans chapter 9
00:37:36.000 | through 11, if you study the book of
00:37:38.000 | Romans, again I'm kind of sidetracking,
00:37:40.000 | if I already lost you,
00:37:42.000 | I apologize. It's not
00:37:44.000 | you know, you can still study
00:37:46.000 | the book of Isaiah if you don't understand this.
00:37:48.000 | If you study the book of Romans,
00:37:50.000 | the whole book of Romans
00:37:52.000 | tries to answer one question.
00:37:54.000 | What about the Jews?
00:37:56.000 | Right? All the
00:37:58.000 | way through, they're asking, "What
00:38:00.000 | about the Jews?" If
00:38:02.000 | we're all condemned, whether we
00:38:04.000 | have the law or without the law, what about the Jews?
00:38:06.000 | And so He keeps asking the question,
00:38:08.000 | "Then is God done with Israel?
00:38:10.000 | Is God done with Israel? Has God
00:38:12.000 | because of the unfaithfulness
00:38:14.000 | of some, has God
00:38:16.000 | been unfaithful to His promises?
00:38:18.000 | Has God forgotten Israel?" And He answers
00:38:20.000 | that question repeatedly over and over again
00:38:22.000 | by no means.
00:38:24.000 | And then in chapter 9 through 11,
00:38:26.000 | He answers
00:38:28.000 | that question, all three chapters,
00:38:30.000 | "They've experienced a temporary hardening of their
00:38:32.000 | heart until the fullness of time has
00:38:34.000 | come," and then He's going to regraft them back
00:38:36.000 | in. Meaning He's going to
00:38:38.000 | fulfill the promises that He made. And
00:38:40.000 | then if you go way back in the book of
00:38:42.000 | Revelation, where
00:38:44.000 | there's a vision
00:38:46.000 | given to John, and
00:38:48.000 | he sees a vision of the nations
00:38:50.000 | worshipping, he says he sees
00:38:52.000 | the 12 tribes of Israel, and
00:38:54.000 | behind them are all the
00:38:56.000 | Gentiles. So he
00:38:58.000 | separates. So if it's
00:39:00.000 | the church, why are
00:39:02.000 | they separated at the end times, and the
00:39:04.000 | vision at the end? So
00:39:06.000 | there's other reasons, but
00:39:08.000 | to me that was compelling enough
00:39:10.000 | where, one,
00:39:12.000 | if you look at the prophecies that God
00:39:14.000 | makes about Jesus,
00:39:16.000 | it is fulfilled literally in Jesus.
00:39:18.000 | Virgin birth, riding on
00:39:20.000 | a donkey, and all the stuff. So why do
00:39:22.000 | we think that His Second Coming and His promises
00:39:24.000 | are all going to be allegorical?
00:39:26.000 | I think it makes more
00:39:28.000 | sense that if His prophecies
00:39:30.000 | of His First Coming was going to be literal,
00:39:32.000 | the prophecies of the Second Coming is
00:39:34.000 | also going to be literal. Right?
00:39:36.000 | Alright, that's all I'm going to say. Okay?
00:39:38.000 | That's all in reference to
00:39:40.000 | the Millennial Kingdom. So, it
00:39:42.000 | begins, the fulfillment begins
00:39:44.000 | with Christ, and it will end
00:39:46.000 | with the Second Coming of Christ.
00:39:48.000 | Okay?
00:39:50.000 | - What does that mean, 48?
00:39:52.000 | - 48. Okay, we're off by
00:39:54.000 | five. That's acceptable to
00:39:56.000 | me, five years.
00:39:58.000 | Alright.
00:40:00.000 | So,
00:40:02.000 | why was Ephraim, Northern Kingdom,
00:40:04.000 | jealous of Judah, the Southern Kingdom?
00:40:06.000 | Right, he said, "When that time
00:40:08.000 | comes, the tension is going to disappear,
00:40:10.000 | because ever since the two kingdoms split,
00:40:12.000 | even though the Northern
00:40:14.000 | Kingdom had ten tribes, and the Southern Kingdom
00:40:16.000 | only had two, the ten tribes
00:40:18.000 | was never blessed. They were never acknowledged by God
00:40:20.000 | as a legitimate nation, because they broke
00:40:22.000 | off. Right? Because the promised
00:40:24.000 | fulfillment was going to come through the line of Judah.
00:40:26.000 | And so, even though
00:40:28.000 | that the Southern Kingdom,
00:40:30.000 | the Kingdom of Judah, and
00:40:32.000 | Benjamin, even though they had evil kings,
00:40:34.000 | God still blessed them. His promise
00:40:36.000 | was coming through that line. And
00:40:38.000 | the Northern Kingdom clearly saw
00:40:40.000 | the blessing was upon the Southern Kingdom.
00:40:42.000 | And so when he comes, he's going
00:40:44.000 | to restore Israel. So the tension, again,
00:40:46.000 | all that description of peace and harmony,
00:40:48.000 | that even within the tribes, God's going
00:40:50.000 | to restore all of them back.
00:40:52.000 | Okay. I ask you to
00:40:56.000 | consider the content of worship, instead of giving you
00:40:58.000 | time to discuss, right,
00:41:00.000 | in verses one and six, what are some insights
00:41:02.000 | that you found? In light
00:41:04.000 | of this, in light of his faithfulness
00:41:06.000 | and his fulfillment, basically
00:41:08.000 | there's a
00:41:10.000 | worship that breaks out in chapter 12.
00:41:12.000 | Right? You will see in
00:41:14.000 | that day, right, when that day
00:41:16.000 | comes, he's not going to command worship.
00:41:18.000 | Worship is going to happen. You're going to
00:41:20.000 | be so overwhelmed by the presence of Christ
00:41:22.000 | that worship is going to just come out of you.
00:41:24.000 | And he says, "I will give thanks
00:41:26.000 | to you, O Lord, for though
00:41:28.000 | you are angry with me, your anger
00:41:30.000 | turned away, that you
00:41:32.000 | might comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation.
00:41:34.000 | I will trust and will not be afraid,
00:41:36.000 | for the Lord God is my strength and my song,
00:41:38.000 | and he has become my salvation."
00:41:40.000 | So, this praise and worship
00:41:42.000 | that he's talking about, is not
00:41:44.000 | just at the end times. It's about when
00:41:46.000 | Christ comes, this is going to happen.
00:41:48.000 | And that's the church, right?
00:41:50.000 | The nature of the church
00:41:52.000 | is to respond to what Christ
00:41:54.000 | has done, and to give worship. So,
00:41:56.000 | the question here was, what are some things that
00:41:58.000 | you can observe about worship here?
00:42:00.000 | Okay? Let me just
00:42:02.000 | take a couple
00:42:04.000 | insights from you guys, whatever you guys have
00:42:06.000 | for that.
00:42:08.000 | So, for cry time for that day,
00:42:12.000 | what are some insights that you gained?
00:42:14.000 | I'll start you off, okay?
00:42:26.000 | Where he says,
00:42:28.000 | "The Lord is my salvation."
00:42:30.000 | Right? "That our salvation
00:42:32.000 | and God
00:42:34.000 | are not two separate things."
00:42:36.000 | Right? So,
00:42:38.000 | if we celebrate the
00:42:40.000 | work of the cross, without
00:42:42.000 | celebrating an affection
00:42:44.000 | for Christ,
00:42:46.000 | I think we missed the point.
00:42:48.000 | Right? Jesus is our salvation.
00:42:50.000 | So, to say that
00:42:52.000 | I'm a believer of Jesus Christ because
00:42:54.000 | he died for me on the cross, but I'm
00:42:56.000 | not a good follower of Jesus,
00:42:58.000 | or, it's
00:43:00.000 | an oxymoron. Right?
00:43:02.000 | We are saved
00:43:04.000 | because we are followers of Christ.
00:43:06.000 | We are saved because we know him.
00:43:08.000 | So, God is our salvation.
00:43:10.000 | So, the gospel and Jesus
00:43:12.000 | cannot be separated.
00:43:14.000 | Right?
00:43:16.000 | Okay. I stirred the pot.
00:43:18.000 | So, your turn.
00:43:20.000 | [silence]
00:43:37.000 | Hmm?
00:43:39.000 | [inaudible]
00:43:44.000 | Right. So, it doesn't separate like,
00:43:46.000 | oh, we worship and evangelism.
00:43:48.000 | Often times we separate these two
00:43:50.000 | things, but worship
00:43:52.000 | and evangelism are all
00:43:54.000 | part of one pot. Right?
00:43:56.000 | Because what is really worship?
00:43:58.000 | Worship is adoring what we see.
00:44:00.000 | Right?
00:44:02.000 | And so, if you are actually
00:44:04.000 | worshiping something, the first thing
00:44:06.000 | that we want to do is tell people about it.
00:44:08.000 | Right? If you
00:44:10.000 | saw a great movie,
00:44:12.000 | those of you guys who went to see Star Wars, and you
00:44:14.000 | really liked it,
00:44:16.000 | and you came back, I guarantee
00:44:18.000 | you, you told somebody about that movie.
00:44:20.000 | Right? Because
00:44:22.000 | we have a tendency to proclaim
00:44:24.000 | the things that we adore.
00:44:26.000 | Right? We just naturally,
00:44:28.000 | that's who we are. We are people who
00:44:30.000 | worship. Right? So, he talks about
00:44:32.000 | how in that day, when that happens,
00:44:34.000 | when you are in the presence of his glory,
00:44:36.000 | you are going to make known his deeds
00:44:38.000 | among the people. Proclaim that his name
00:44:40.000 | is exalted. And again, I think
00:44:42.000 | you know, it's a shame when
00:44:44.000 | we get so caught up and we
00:44:46.000 | differentiate between worship and evangelism.
00:44:48.000 | Evangelism really ought
00:44:50.000 | to be an overflow of worship.
00:44:52.000 | So, when evangelism is not happening,
00:44:54.000 | there is something defected in
00:44:56.000 | our worship. Right?
00:44:58.000 | Because those two things are connected.
00:45:00.000 | You know? So,
00:45:02.000 | I mean, I
00:45:04.000 | guess in application it could be different.
00:45:06.000 | But the source behind worship
00:45:08.000 | is the source behind evangelism.
00:45:10.000 | Right?
00:45:12.000 | But when there is true worship,
00:45:14.000 | proclamation tends to follow.
00:45:16.000 | Okay.
00:45:18.000 | Um...
00:45:20.000 | How about one more?
00:45:22.000 | Okay.
00:45:36.000 | [Audience] To never cease in worship,
00:45:38.000 | because I specifically like
00:45:40.000 | the part that says,
00:45:42.000 | "The Lord God is my strength
00:45:44.000 | and my song, and my salvation."
00:45:46.000 | So, no matter what kind of
00:45:48.000 | circumstances you may be in your life,
00:45:50.000 | in the lowest or even the highest point of your life,
00:45:54.000 | you should always worship the whole heart of the Holy Spirit.
00:45:56.000 | Right.
00:45:58.000 | You know, I think we talked about that
00:46:00.000 | with Job. Right? We talked about
00:46:02.000 | with all...as messed up as his life was,
00:46:04.000 | when God showed up,
00:46:06.000 | he just worshipped.
00:46:08.000 | And he was okay. Right?
00:46:10.000 | So, his source of life shows up and he
00:46:12.000 | worships. So, our object of worship,
00:46:14.000 | he says it in verse 3,
00:46:16.000 | "With joy you will draw water
00:46:18.000 | from the wells of salvation." Water representing
00:46:20.000 | life. Right? So, where does
00:46:22.000 | the water of joy
00:46:24.000 | come from? It's from our salvation.
00:46:26.000 | Right? When we recognize
00:46:28.000 | what it is that we have in Christ, and when
00:46:30.000 | we are beholden His glory,
00:46:32.000 | worship happens. And when true worship
00:46:34.000 | happens, evangelism happens.
00:46:36.000 | Right? And then when you're surrounded
00:46:38.000 | with people who are worshipping evangelism,
00:46:40.000 | fellowship happens.
00:46:42.000 | Right? And the church is built.
00:46:44.000 | So, at the end, it's
00:46:46.000 | worship. Right?
00:46:48.000 | And that's why the first vision of our church
00:46:50.000 | is to worship God, the God-centered worship
00:46:52.000 | and not man-centered. Because when
00:46:54.000 | God is glorified, when we behold
00:46:56.000 | Him, evangelism, the
00:46:58.000 | fuel for evangelism happens. And then
00:47:00.000 | when...without those two things,
00:47:02.000 | you can call it fellowship, but it's not fellowship.
00:47:04.000 | You can gather together and
00:47:06.000 | call it fellowship and do whatever,
00:47:08.000 | but it's not fellowship. Fellowship is
00:47:10.000 | in the context when those two things are happening
00:47:12.000 | when fellowship happens.
00:47:14.000 | Okay?
00:47:16.000 | Okay.
00:47:18.000 | So, from here, from chapter 13
00:47:20.000 | and on, He's going to be focusing
00:47:22.000 | His energy on the judgment of
00:47:24.000 | all the nations. So, He starts with
00:47:26.000 | judgment of Israel, chapter 1.
00:47:28.000 | And then He moves on to
00:47:30.000 | judgment of Assyria, because
00:47:32.000 | they're the ones that God uses. He says, "No, you're going to be
00:47:34.000 | humbled." And then He says...He takes a
00:47:36.000 | break and says, "But God is not going to be angry with you
00:47:38.000 | forever." And then He says, "Israel
00:47:40.000 | is going to be restored." And then
00:47:42.000 | He turns His attention upon
00:47:44.000 | the Babylonians, the Assyrians,
00:47:46.000 | the Midianites, the Philistines.
00:47:48.000 | One by one, all these people
00:47:50.000 | who suppressed His people.
00:47:52.000 | Even though God allowed it,
00:47:54.000 | He said, "Judgment is going to come upon them." Okay?
00:47:56.000 | And that's going to take us all the way to chapter
00:47:58.000 | 23. So He begins with the Babylonians.
00:48:00.000 | When He
00:48:02.000 | refers to the Babylonians,
00:48:04.000 | did that already
00:48:06.000 | happen?
00:48:08.000 | At the time
00:48:10.000 | of this prophecy,
00:48:12.000 | were the Babylonians already in the
00:48:14.000 | superpower?
00:48:16.000 | No.
00:48:18.000 | They were not. They're almost 100
00:48:20.000 | years away. Right? The
00:48:22.000 | Babylonians exist, but they're not the superpower
00:48:24.000 | that they're going to be eventually.
00:48:26.000 | Right? It's about another
00:48:28.000 | 100 years before they become superpower, and
00:48:30.000 | they come attack the southern kingdom
00:48:32.000 | and then take them captive.
00:48:34.000 | So a lot of people who are
00:48:36.000 | what they call critical scholarship of the New Testament
00:48:38.000 | say, "See, Isaiah could not have
00:48:40.000 | been written during the period that
00:48:42.000 | the Jews said, because
00:48:44.000 | there's no way he could have written this about
00:48:46.000 | Babylonia, because historically
00:48:48.000 | he's talking about stuff that didn't
00:48:50.000 | happen yet." Right?
00:48:52.000 | I remember the first time I ran into
00:48:54.000 | this is I took a Western
00:48:56.000 | Civilization class at Fullerton
00:48:58.000 | JC while I was at Biola,
00:49:00.000 | because I wanted to save some money.
00:49:02.000 | And I went to Fullerton, and
00:49:04.000 | one of the things that she said was
00:49:06.000 | how the dating of Moses
00:49:08.000 | was incorrect. That all these
00:49:10.000 | hundreds of years that Moses
00:49:12.000 | could not have written the Bible
00:49:14.000 | in the period that the Bible was written.
00:49:16.000 | So I was like, "Why do
00:49:18.000 | you say that?" And she said, "Because
00:49:20.000 | there's things that Moses writes about the
00:49:22.000 | dietary laws that Moses
00:49:24.000 | could not have known."
00:49:26.000 | Because she's completely taken out the
00:49:28.000 | supernatural aspect of it.
00:49:30.000 | She said, "The things that he mentions in the
00:49:32.000 | dietary law, he couldn't have known.
00:49:34.000 | Mankind did not know
00:49:36.000 | until almost 700-800 years later.
00:49:38.000 | So therefore, Moses is
00:49:40.000 | dated way later. So if Moses came
00:49:42.000 | way later, and then
00:49:44.000 | they start backtracking. So Judaism,
00:49:46.000 | as far as
00:49:48.000 | they're concerned, was started with Moses.
00:49:50.000 | Right? They don't believe all that
00:49:52.000 | other stuff before, because Moses was the one who
00:49:54.000 | wrote it. So therefore, she started
00:49:56.000 | saying, teaching like a fact,
00:49:58.000 | Zoroastrianism was the first
00:50:00.000 | religion. And then Moses came about
00:50:02.000 | 700 years later, and started
00:50:04.000 | copying that religion. And then the
00:50:06.000 | Mithraism started coming in, and they started
00:50:08.000 | copying about the Messiah. And then Christianity
00:50:10.000 | came off of that.
00:50:12.000 | And piggybacked off of that. And so
00:50:14.000 | they were drawing this timeline.
00:50:16.000 | And how Judaism and
00:50:18.000 | Christianity was just a copy of all these
00:50:20.000 | other stuff. But the reason
00:50:22.000 | why secular scholars, if you ever
00:50:24.000 | took a religion class in
00:50:26.000 | secular university, that's the timeline
00:50:28.000 | that they're going to give you. And the reason why
00:50:30.000 | they give you that timeline is because there's
00:50:32.000 | no way they could have known that at that period.
00:50:34.000 | If you take out
00:50:36.000 | the supernatural. Right?
00:50:38.000 | So, same thing with Isaiah.
00:50:40.000 | They refused to date Isaiah
00:50:42.000 | at the time that the Bible dates him, because
00:50:44.000 | there's no way he could have known this.
00:50:46.000 | Right? So he's prophesying.
00:50:48.000 | God is prophesying about something that's going to
00:50:50.000 | happen 70 to 100 years
00:50:52.000 | later. Right? And it's detailed.
00:50:54.000 | He actually even names names.
00:50:56.000 | Okay? So he
00:50:58.000 | goes and he says, "Okay, this prophecy was given many
00:51:00.000 | years before Babylonians came into power."
00:51:02.000 | Again,
00:51:04.000 | consider how laughable this
00:51:06.000 | must have been.
00:51:08.000 | That Isaiah is a prophet
00:51:10.000 | of this tiny little nation that's been kicked
00:51:12.000 | around by the Midianites,
00:51:14.000 | by the Philistines, by
00:51:16.000 | Egyptians, by the Assyrians.
00:51:18.000 | And then Babylonians,
00:51:20.000 | Babylonians were a
00:51:22.000 | superpower. So,
00:51:24.000 | it could be equivalent to
00:51:26.000 | where the U.S. has been for the last
00:51:28.000 | 100 years. Right? U.S. has been
00:51:30.000 | a superpower, especially the last 50 to
00:51:32.000 | 60 years. U.S. is, you
00:51:34.000 | don't mess with U.S. Right? It's kind
00:51:36.000 | of like a little tiny country, maybe
00:51:38.000 | Burma. I don't know. I don't know any other
00:51:40.000 | small countries. You know what I mean?
00:51:42.000 | A prophet coming off of there saying, "We're going
00:51:44.000 | to get you." You know? "One of these
00:51:46.000 | days we are going to overthrow all of you, and
00:51:48.000 | your king is going to be," you know. And
00:51:50.000 | basically imagine when this prophecy went
00:51:52.000 | out. And here is this prophet
00:51:54.000 | from this tiny little nation that
00:51:56.000 | is being kicked around by
00:51:58.000 | Assyria. You know all their kings
00:52:00.000 | are gone. And you know they
00:52:02.000 | are experiencing famine and all this stuff. And Isaiah
00:52:04.000 | comes and he says, "One of these days,
00:52:06.000 | you know the Babylonians are going to
00:52:08.000 | disappear, the Assyrians, you know our God is going to
00:52:10.000 | destroy the Assyrians." Right?
00:52:12.000 | But it happened.
00:52:14.000 | Right? 2,000 years later,
00:52:16.000 | I mean, we're what?
00:52:18.000 | 2,700 years later.
00:52:20.000 | Right? More than 2,700 years later.
00:52:22.000 | We look at now the influence
00:52:24.000 | of Isaiah we're
00:52:26.000 | talking about today. Right?
00:52:28.000 | What Christ has done, the fulfillment that
00:52:30.000 | he talks about, comes and actually
00:52:32.000 | gets fulfilled.
00:52:34.000 | But imagine how laughable it must have been at
00:52:36.000 | that time. Right?
00:52:38.000 | And he says, "What God says,
00:52:40.000 | He will do."
00:52:42.000 | You know? So at this time, we look
00:52:44.000 | at it and say, "Wow, yes!"
00:52:46.000 | Because we were able to be on this
00:52:48.000 | side and see it all fulfilled and say, "Wow, our God is
00:52:50.000 | awesome!" But imagine how that must have
00:52:52.000 | sounded looking
00:52:54.000 | forward. Right?
00:52:56.000 | Think about how
00:52:58.000 | crazy some of these things that the prophecy
00:53:00.000 | is about the coming of Christ and the end time
00:53:02.000 | sounds to us now. Right?
00:53:04.000 | He's going to come and all
00:53:06.000 | the things, the description of the
00:53:08.000 | Millennial Kingdom, all this.
00:53:10.000 | Oh, it's crazy! You know?
00:53:12.000 | But I bet you it didn't sound as crazy as
00:53:14.000 | what Isaiah is saying at this time.
00:53:16.000 | The people who heard it.
00:53:18.000 | [Audience]
00:53:20.000 | [inaudible]
00:53:34.000 | I actually have that here somewhere.
00:53:36.000 | I forgot where I have it.
00:53:38.000 | [pages turning]
00:53:46.000 | Okay, that's actually the next one.
00:53:48.000 | Okay.
00:53:50.000 | Babylon is also used figuratively to describe the
00:53:52.000 | world's rebellion against God. So,
00:53:54.000 | Babylon,
00:53:56.000 | again, the physical nation, but all
00:53:58.000 | over the scriptures, we're talking about
00:54:00.000 | Babylon and using
00:54:02.000 | figuratively as a nation
00:54:04.000 | or the world that rebels against God.
00:54:06.000 | Right? What's another
00:54:08.000 | city that whenever it talks about
00:54:10.000 | debauchery that keeps coming up?
00:54:12.000 | Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:54:14.000 | You always say, "Oh, Sodom and Gomorrah."
00:54:16.000 | God would have to apologize to
00:54:18.000 | Sodom and Gomorrah. You know?
00:54:20.000 | So, when we talk about wickedness, we talk about Sodom
00:54:22.000 | and Gomorrah. In a larger scale
00:54:24.000 | of the world, it usually
00:54:26.000 | uses the term Babylon.
00:54:28.000 | Okay.
00:54:30.000 | [pages turning]
00:54:34.000 | Verse 8, chapter
00:54:36.000 | 13, verse 8,
00:54:38.000 | "They will be dismayed. Pangs and agony
00:54:40.000 | will seize them.
00:54:42.000 | They will be in anguish
00:54:44.000 | like a woman in labor." Where have you read
00:54:46.000 | that before?
00:54:48.000 | [pages turning]
00:54:50.000 | Can you think
00:54:52.000 | of a...
00:54:54.000 | You've read that before in the New Testament,
00:54:56.000 | right? At the end times?
00:54:58.000 | I think it's Matthew 24, verse 8.
00:55:00.000 | I might be off by
00:55:02.000 | 10 verses. But look at Matthew
00:55:04.000 | 24, verse 8.
00:55:06.000 | Right? Somebody read it out
00:55:08.000 | loud for us. Just so that we can confirm that
00:55:10.000 | that's the right passage.
00:55:12.000 | [pages turning]
00:55:18.000 | Oh, I have it here. Yeah. Matthew 24, 8.
00:55:20.000 | Okay.
00:55:22.000 | So it talks about at the end time it's going to be
00:55:24.000 | like birth pains. And that's what
00:55:26.000 | he's referring to, the end times. Right?
00:55:28.000 | [pages turning]
00:55:30.000 | In describing
00:55:32.000 | Babylon's judgment, so from
00:55:34.000 | here on I'm going to go pretty quickly.
00:55:36.000 | How is it figuratively depicted?
00:55:38.000 | There's utter destruction and
00:55:40.000 | wrath like never seen before.
00:55:42.000 | So all the judgment that God has
00:55:44.000 | prescribed in the past is going to be nothing like
00:55:46.000 | what's coming. Right?
00:55:48.000 | And the primary sin of mankind is described
00:55:50.000 | in verse 11 as pride and
00:55:52.000 | arrogance. Right?
00:55:54.000 | God's going to humble the world.
00:55:56.000 | Right? With all this technology
00:55:58.000 | and all this stuff that we're achieving
00:56:00.000 | that in the end all the arrogance
00:56:02.000 | and pride is actually
00:56:04.000 | a rebellion against God. And God's
00:56:06.000 | going to deal with that.
00:56:08.000 | And then finally, whom will God stir up against the
00:56:10.000 | Babylonians? Okay.
00:56:12.000 | He says, what is that, in verse 17?
00:56:14.000 | [pages turning]
00:56:16.000 | Okay. "Behold, I am stirring
00:56:18.000 | up Medes against them who have no regard
00:56:20.000 | for silver." In other words, no amount of
00:56:22.000 | money is going to buy you
00:56:24.000 | peace.
00:56:26.000 | What will be the end of the city
00:56:28.000 | of Babylon? The judgment of
00:56:30.000 | Babylon will be thorough and
00:56:32.000 | complete, verses 19 and 20.
00:56:34.000 | Okay. So in other words, when
00:56:36.000 | that final day comes, the restoration
00:56:38.000 | is going to be complete, but
00:56:40.000 | also the judgment is going to be complete.
00:56:42.000 | Alright. Everything that we see now
00:56:44.000 | is partial. God's anger is
00:56:46.000 | partial. His wrath is partial.
00:56:48.000 | Right? His,
00:56:50.000 | even His grace, right,
00:56:52.000 | is partial.
00:56:54.000 | The full
00:56:56.000 | application of it
00:56:58.000 | is going to come when He comes a second
00:57:00.000 | time.
00:57:02.000 | Okay. Alright.
00:57:04.000 | So, if you look at the
00:57:06.000 | questions for next week, just to kind of
00:57:08.000 | give you a reference, I want you to focus
00:57:10.000 | your attention.
00:57:12.000 | [pages turning]
00:57:14.000 | This is the passage, if you
00:57:16.000 | look at passage, chapter
00:57:18.000 | 14,
00:57:20.000 | [pages turning]
00:57:22.000 | verse 12
00:57:24.000 | and on, it
00:57:26.000 | is a description of Satan,
00:57:28.000 | Lucifer.
00:57:30.000 | Okay. So some of your Bibles, I think,
00:57:32.000 | actually translates a
00:57:34.000 | section here, and translates the name
00:57:36.000 | Lucifer. Does the NASB do that?
00:57:38.000 | Anybody have the NASB,
00:57:40.000 | verse 12?
00:57:42.000 | Nobody uses NASB anymore.
00:57:44.000 | Well, anyway, whether
00:57:46.000 | you have it or not, this is
00:57:48.000 | talking about Lucifer's fall
00:57:50.000 | and his rebellion and God's judgment against him.
00:57:52.000 | So, I want you guys to pay more attention to that.
00:57:54.000 | And look at his rebellion
00:57:56.000 | because his rebellion is
00:57:58.000 | what epitomizes
00:58:00.000 | the rebellion of mankind.
00:58:02.000 | Okay. And so, the way he rebelled
00:58:04.000 | is the way that he is trying to get his
00:58:06.000 | disciples to rebel as well. So, try to
00:58:08.000 | pay more attention to that. Okay.
00:58:10.000 | Alright. So, if you have any questions, again,
00:58:12.000 | you know, I'll come around
00:58:14.000 | and I'll try to answer them. Otherwise,
00:58:16.000 | take some time with your small group
00:58:18.000 | and we'll finish with that.