1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,625 2 00:00:04,667 --> 00:00:14,667 [music] 3 00:00:31,583 --> 00:00:37,333 Alrighty, Mars Hill, today we're in Luke 18:31-34, 4 00:00:37,375 --> 00:00:39,875 where Jesus prophesies his death. 5 00:00:39,958 --> 00:00:42,125 As you're finding that place, 6 00:00:42,167 --> 00:00:43,917 let me explain today's sermon to you. 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,875 It's going to be a bit different. 8 00:00:45,958 --> 00:00:49,708 Some sermons, I'm trying to get your heart opened up to Jesus. 9 00:00:49,792 --> 00:00:54,083 Other sermons, I'm trying to get your hands to go serve Jesus. 10 00:00:54,167 --> 00:00:57,333 Some Sundays, I'm trying to get your feet to move 11 00:00:57,375 --> 00:01:00,417 in a particular direction on a mission. 12 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:03,292 Other times, I'm trying to get your wallet opened up 13 00:01:03,333 --> 00:01:05,625 for the poor and for the church. 14 00:01:05,667 --> 00:01:08,708 And today, I really want your mind. 15 00:01:08,792 --> 00:01:11,125 Today is going to be more like a Bible college 16 00:01:11,167 --> 00:01:14,500 or seminary lecture. And the Bible does say we are 17 00:01:14,583 --> 00:01:16,708 to love God with all of our hearts, soul, 18 00:01:16,792 --> 00:01:18,125 mind, and strength. 19 00:01:18,167 --> 00:01:20,333 Today, we're going to really focus on the mind. 20 00:01:20,375 --> 00:01:24,833 And I want to teach you and show you and hopefully help you 21 00:01:24,875 --> 00:01:30,167 believe some things about the Bible and to think in a way 22 00:01:30,250 --> 00:01:31,625 that is biblical. 23 00:01:31,667 --> 00:01:36,500 So today Jesus has a very few short statements 24 00:01:36,583 --> 00:01:39,333 about this book. 25 00:01:39,375 --> 00:01:42,000 He's going to talk about the prophets who wrote 26 00:01:42,042 --> 00:01:44,000 the Old Testament Scriptures 27 00:01:44,083 --> 00:01:48,917 and how his life is in fulfillment of this book. 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,625 So today we're going to talk a lot about the Bible and why 29 00:01:52,667 --> 00:01:56,792 we believe it and why we trust it and how we know that God, 30 00:01:56,833 --> 00:01:59,417 in fact, ultimately was the author of it. 31 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:02,500 And so I don't want to presume that you know a lot 32 00:02:02,583 --> 00:02:03,917 about the Bible. 33 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,417 Many of you are Christians who have a good familiarity, 34 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:08,417 but many of you are non-Christians, new Christians, 35 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,708 or people who haven't had a lot of teaching. 36 00:02:10,792 --> 00:02:14,167 At Mars Hill, we're a Bible- believing, Bible-reading, 37 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:18,167 Bible-memorizing, Bible- submitting church. 38 00:02:18,250 --> 00:02:20,500 In the grace of God, we have always been. 39 00:02:20,542 --> 00:02:22,833 And by the grace of God, I hope, trust, 40 00:02:22,875 --> 00:02:25,917 and pray we will always be a Bible people. 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,708 And for us, this is a book that is unlike any other book that 42 00:02:30,792 --> 00:02:34,333 has been written or will ever be written in the history of 43 00:02:34,375 --> 00:02:37,208 the world because this is the book that ultimately 44 00:02:37,292 --> 00:02:40,000 God wrote through human authors. 45 00:02:40,083 --> 00:02:42,333 We call that divine inspiration. 46 00:02:42,375 --> 00:02:44,125 And when it comes to the Scriptures, 47 00:02:44,167 --> 00:02:46,000 this is actually not just a book. 48 00:02:46,042 --> 00:02:47,708 This is a collection of books. 49 00:02:47,792 --> 00:02:51,208 This is a collection of books written over the course of about 50 00:02:51,292 --> 00:02:57,875 1500 years by some 40 authors on some multiple nations 51 00:02:57,958 --> 00:03:01,208 and continents in 3 different languages. 52 00:03:01,292 --> 00:03:04,833 And so this is, in fact, essentially a library. 53 00:03:04,875 --> 00:03:07,208 That's what we are dealing with. 54 00:03:07,292 --> 00:03:10,125 The word "Scripture" simply means writing. 55 00:03:10,167 --> 00:03:12,000 Bible means book. 56 00:03:12,083 --> 00:03:16,208 And when you hear of the Holy Bible, it means the Holy Book. 57 00:03:16,292 --> 00:03:18,833 And when it comes to the Scriptures, 58 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:22,167 there's the Old Testament leading up to Jesus, 59 00:03:22,250 --> 00:03:26,083 and then 400 years of silence where there was no prophecy 60 00:03:26,167 --> 00:03:29,708 or writing of Scripture, and then the coming of Jesus, 61 00:03:29,792 --> 00:03:32,333 which inaugurates the New Testament. 62 00:03:32,375 --> 00:03:35,208 And that's where we picked up the story over a year ago 63 00:03:35,292 --> 00:03:39,125 when we launched into the Gospel of Luke. 64 00:03:39,167 --> 00:03:41,500 A few facts: the Old Testament has 65 00:03:41,542 --> 00:03:47,417 1,189 chapters in its 39 books. 66 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:51,417 Those chapters were added in the 1200s. 67 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:56,625 There are 31,173 verses in the Old Testament. 68 00:03:56,667 --> 00:04:00,208 Those were added around 1551. 69 00:04:00,292 --> 00:04:02,667 Kind of like addresses we put on our home 70 00:04:02,750 --> 00:04:04,208 so that we can find things. 71 00:04:04,292 --> 00:04:05,917 That's how chapter and verse work. 72 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,208 So you've got books of the Bible like Luke, 73 00:04:08,292 --> 00:04:11,625 chapters, like today we're in chapter 18, 74 00:04:11,667 --> 00:04:15,333 and you've got verses, so for example verses 31-34 75 00:04:15,375 --> 00:04:17,917 is where we will be today. 76 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,875 Proceeding to the New Testament, 77 00:04:19,958 --> 00:04:21,625 it's much smaller than the Old Testament. 78 00:04:21,667 --> 00:04:23,625 The Old Testament's about three-quarters of your Bible 79 00:04:23,667 --> 00:04:25,000 by length. 80 00:04:25,083 --> 00:04:28,125 The New Testament is about a quarter of your Bible by length. 81 00:04:28,167 --> 00:04:33,625 The Old Testament has 39 books, the New Testament has 27 books. 82 00:04:33,667 --> 00:04:42,208 The New Testament has 260 chapters and 7,959 verses. 83 00:04:42,292 --> 00:04:44,792 And if you pick the Bible up, the question is, 84 00:04:44,833 --> 00:04:46,833 what's it all about? 85 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:51,125 All of these authors, nations, times, dates, places, 86 00:04:51,167 --> 00:04:56,833 hundreds of commands? Well, ultimately, it's a Word from God. 87 00:04:56,875 --> 00:04:59,333 That's why, when Jesus speaks of the prophets today, 88 00:04:59,375 --> 00:05:02,000 he is speaking of those who, in the Old Testament, 89 00:05:02,083 --> 00:05:06,417 said hundreds of times, "Thus saith the Lord." 90 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,667 They saw themselves, the authors of Scripture did, 91 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:16,417 as literally messengers for God, giving a word to his people, 92 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:19,500 commanding them to hear and obey, 93 00:05:19,583 --> 00:05:23,667 calling others to become his people by turning from sin 94 00:05:23,750 --> 00:05:25,875 and trusting in him. 95 00:05:25,958 --> 00:05:29,875 And so ultimately this is a book from God. 96 00:05:29,958 --> 00:05:33,208 And the question is, what's the book about? 97 00:05:33,292 --> 00:05:35,208 What's the book about? 98 00:05:35,292 --> 00:05:39,000 Is it about us and how we should live our life? 99 00:05:39,042 --> 00:05:41,708 Is it a book solely about history and nations? 100 00:05:41,792 --> 00:05:45,333 Is it a biographical sketch of major leaders in the history of 101 00:05:45,375 --> 00:05:48,625 the world and how they lived their lives and positive 102 00:05:48,667 --> 00:05:51,833 and negative moral examples we can obtain by evaluating 103 00:05:51,875 --> 00:05:55,917 their successes and failures? 104 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 What exactly is the big idea, the primary purpose, 105 00:06:01,042 --> 00:06:06,708 the central message, of this library of sacred books? 106 00:06:06,792 --> 00:06:10,417 That's exactly what Jesus tells us today. 107 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:14,667 He tells us the purpose of his life is ultimately 108 00:06:14,750 --> 00:06:17,167 the fulfillment of this book. 109 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:20,083 And so this book is about Jesus. 110 00:06:20,167 --> 00:06:22,917 It's all about Jesus from beginning to end. 111 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,500 I'll let you read it for yourself. 112 00:06:26,583 --> 00:06:31,875 Here's exactly what Jesus says about his life and this book. 113 00:06:31,958 --> 00:06:35,833 Luke 18:31-34, "And taking the twelve," 114 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:38,625 those were his disciples, "he," that is Jesus, 115 00:06:38,667 --> 00:06:43,125 "said to them, 'See, we are going up to Jerusalem,'" 116 00:06:43,167 --> 00:06:46,875 very important city, "'and everything that is written,'" 117 00:06:46,958 --> 00:06:49,208 there's the Scriptures, the writings. 118 00:06:49,292 --> 00:06:51,208 Again, Scriptures mean writings. 119 00:06:51,292 --> 00:06:54,000 "'Written about the Son of Man,'" that's about Jesus, 120 00:06:54,083 --> 00:06:57,875 "'by the prophets,'" so there we have the authors of Scripture, 121 00:06:57,958 --> 00:06:59,333 "'will be accomplished. 122 00:06:59,375 --> 00:07:01,625 For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles,'" 123 00:07:01,667 --> 00:07:03,667 those are non-Jews, "'will be mocked, 124 00:07:03,750 --> 00:07:05,625 "'shamefully treated and spit upon. 125 00:07:05,667 --> 00:07:08,208 "'And after flogging him, they will kill him, 126 00:07:08,292 --> 00:07:11,500 "and on the third day he will rise.' 127 00:07:11,542 --> 00:07:14,125 "But they understood none of these things. 128 00:07:14,167 --> 00:07:16,000 "This saying was hidden from them, 129 00:07:16,083 --> 00:07:19,875 and they did not grasp what was said." 130 00:07:19,958 --> 00:07:26,333 So Jesus here is telling us that his life is about this book, 131 00:07:26,375 --> 00:07:30,500 that the prophets who wrote the Scriptures were predicting 132 00:07:30,583 --> 00:07:36,333 his life, suffering, death, burial, and resurrection, 133 00:07:36,375 --> 00:07:39,625 that all of history, all of Jesus' ministry, 134 00:07:39,667 --> 00:07:46,500 and all of these books in this Bible are ultimately about 135 00:07:46,542 --> 00:07:49,500 the person and work of Jesus Christ. 136 00:07:49,583 --> 00:07:52,417 And so we do not worship the Bible, 137 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:56,000 but we worship the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ, 138 00:07:56,083 --> 00:07:59,833 and we love and trust the Bible because it is the perfect 139 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:05,000 and thorough recording of Jesus Christ predicted to come 140 00:08:05,083 --> 00:08:09,500 into history and the fulfillment of all that was promised. 141 00:08:09,583 --> 00:08:11,333 Jesus says a few things here. 142 00:08:11,375 --> 00:08:14,500 Number one, he says that he is on a mission. 143 00:08:14,542 --> 00:08:18,167 And ultimately, Jesus' mission culminated in Jerusalem. 144 00:08:18,250 --> 00:08:20,000 That's exactly what Jesus said. 145 00:08:20,083 --> 00:08:21,833 He said, "It will be accomplished, 146 00:08:21,875 --> 00:08:23,708 all that is written." 147 00:08:23,792 --> 00:08:27,708 And he said, "We are going up to Jerusalem." 148 00:08:27,792 --> 00:08:30,333 And when he uses this language, the Lord Jesus does, 149 00:08:30,375 --> 00:08:33,000 of going up to Jerusalem, that would have been common 150 00:08:33,042 --> 00:08:34,667 and familiar language. 151 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:39,333 The most frequently mentioned city in the whole Bible is 152 00:08:39,375 --> 00:08:44,417 the great city of Jerusalem, the great city of Jerusalem. 153 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:48,708 And it literally is a city on a hill. 154 00:08:48,792 --> 00:08:51,208 And so people speak, when they visit, 155 00:08:51,292 --> 00:08:55,000 of ascending or going up to Jerusalem. 156 00:08:55,042 --> 00:08:58,125 And those who would pilgrimage in the days of Jesus, 157 00:08:58,167 --> 00:09:02,667 they would literally sing their way up toward the great city 158 00:09:02,750 --> 00:09:04,333 of Jerusalem. 159 00:09:04,375 --> 00:09:08,000 And it's a city that is built essentially on rock. 160 00:09:08,083 --> 00:09:10,333 And I've been there, I've seen it. 161 00:09:10,375 --> 00:09:13,375 In Jesus' day, it was an enormous city. 162 00:09:13,458 --> 00:09:16,500 And we learned earlier in Luke's Gospel that Jesus was born in 163 00:09:16,583 --> 00:09:19,833 a small town called Bethlehem, that he grew up in 164 00:09:19,875 --> 00:09:22,500 a very small town called Nazareth, 165 00:09:22,583 --> 00:09:25,125 that as a boy he was brought to the temple 166 00:09:25,167 --> 00:09:26,500 and dedicated in Jerusalem. 167 00:09:26,583 --> 00:09:29,417 He perhaps made other trips with his family. 168 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:32,500 It is possible that they did not go to Jerusalem very often 169 00:09:32,583 --> 00:09:35,917 because they were quite a poor family. 170 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,333 And so Jesus' life was lived away from Jerusalem. 171 00:09:40,375 --> 00:09:43,625 And we learned in chapter 9:51 of Luke's Gospel that, 172 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:46,792 though Jesus became very popular with large crowds, 173 00:09:46,833 --> 00:09:51,875 preaching and teaching in this more rural area called Galilee, 174 00:09:51,958 --> 00:09:55,500 Luke 9:51 is very important to the storyline 175 00:09:55,542 --> 00:09:57,917 of the Gospel of Luke and the life of Jesus. 176 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,750 It says, "He," Jesus, "set his face" toward Jerusalem, 177 00:10:02,767 --> 00:10:08,300 that Jesus was, while on the earth, a man on a mission. 177 00:10:08,292 --> 00:10:13,833 And he was, as an adult male, making his final, epic journey 178 00:10:13,875 --> 00:10:16,875 to the great city of Jerusalem. 179 00:10:16,958 --> 00:10:20,417 And he's on foot and this takes time and that accounts for much 180 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:24,625 of Luke's Gospel. The preaching, the teaching, the healing, 181 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:28,292 the demon casting out, the prophesying that Jesus does 182 00:10:28,333 --> 00:10:32,708 is on his way to Jerusalem to ultimately fulfill, 183 00:10:32,792 --> 00:10:34,625 culminate his mission. 184 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:38,000 And that is to go to the cross and atone for the sin 185 00:10:38,042 --> 00:10:43,083 of the world as our Savior, to substitute himself in our place, 186 00:10:43,167 --> 00:10:46,667 his life for our death. 187 00:10:46,750 --> 00:10:50,583 Now, all of this happens in Jerusalem. 188 00:10:50,667 --> 00:10:55,000 It's exactly what Jesus is doing on his epic journey, 189 00:10:55,083 --> 00:10:59,125 his final pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 190 00:10:59,167 --> 00:11:02,167 And the centerpiece of Jerusalem was the temple. 191 00:11:02,250 --> 00:11:04,667 That's why it's often called the city of David. 192 00:11:04,750 --> 00:11:08,917 David was the one to whom God gave the initial command to have 193 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,500 the temple constructed, though his son, Solomon, 194 00:11:12,542 --> 00:11:17,000 did oversee the construction of the temple. 195 00:11:17,042 --> 00:11:20,417 It was in that place that Abraham almost sacrificed 196 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:24,000 his only son, Isaac. 197 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:28,125 And Isaac willingly carried wood on his back to his place 198 00:11:28,167 --> 00:11:33,917 of potential death and he laid himself down willingly to die 199 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,917 at the hands of his father. 200 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,875 And just in the nick of time, the Bible records that 201 00:11:40,958 --> 00:11:42,417 the angel of the Lord appeared. 202 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:44,417 I believe that was the Lord Jesus Christ 203 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,625 before his birth to Mary. 204 00:11:46,667 --> 00:11:49,500 And said, "Do not sacrifice your son. 205 00:11:49,583 --> 00:11:53,000 It will be provided." 206 00:11:53,083 --> 00:11:57,000 That ultimately Jesus would come, another son, 207 00:11:57,042 --> 00:12:02,500 to carry his own wood, his cross in that same region, 208 00:12:02,583 --> 00:12:06,708 to willingly lay down his life at the hand of his father, 209 00:12:06,792 --> 00:12:11,417 that that was all foreshadowing and predicting and anticipating 210 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,000 what Jesus would do in that place. 211 00:12:14,083 --> 00:12:18,708 And so the temple was built literally upon that same place 212 00:12:18,792 --> 00:12:22,500 that Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac, 213 00:12:22,542 --> 00:12:25,917 foreshadowing what Jesus would, many years later, 214 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,500 ultimately accomplish. 215 00:12:28,583 --> 00:12:31,500 And the temple was the place that God's people would gather 216 00:12:31,583 --> 00:12:32,917 for worship. 217 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,333 It was the centerpiece to the nation of Israel. 218 00:12:35,375 --> 00:12:38,083 In the center of the temple was the Holy of holies, 219 00:12:38,167 --> 00:12:40,292 where the glory of God, the presence of God, 220 00:12:40,333 --> 00:12:43,792 literally dwelt among the people of God on the earth. 221 00:12:43,833 --> 00:12:48,000 And also there was the massive construction of this magnificent 222 00:12:48,083 --> 00:12:50,500 first and second temple. 223 00:12:50,542 --> 00:12:52,917 Also, there were priests who would offer sacrifices, 224 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,333 showing that Jesus would ultimately come and shed 225 00:12:55,375 --> 00:12:59,208 his blood for our sin, as our sacrifice, 226 00:12:59,292 --> 00:13:01,375 paying our debt of death. 227 00:13:01,458 --> 00:13:03,417 The priests were all foreshadowing that Jesus 228 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:05,333 would come as our great high priest. 229 00:13:05,375 --> 00:13:07,708 The temple was also foreshadowing that Jesus 230 00:13:07,792 --> 00:13:10,917 would come and be God among us, Emmanuel. 231 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,125 As we read earlier in Luke's Gospel that the presence of God 232 00:13:14,167 --> 00:13:17,083 would be in the person of Jesus Christ and the temple 233 00:13:17,167 --> 00:13:18,708 was the most sacred place. 234 00:13:18,792 --> 00:13:22,625 It was the connecting place between heaven and earth. 235 00:13:22,667 --> 00:13:25,417 It's where people met with God and God met with people 236 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:31,583 and God chose to dwell in glory there in the holy of holies. 237 00:13:31,667 --> 00:13:35,125 And Jerusalem was built around the presence of God. 238 00:13:35,167 --> 00:13:38,833 Jerusalem was built around the temple of God 239 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:43,417 and Jesus says that his mission will culminate in Jerusalem, 240 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:45,708 where all that had been foreshadowed, 241 00:13:45,792 --> 00:13:49,708 all that had been expected, all that had been anticipated 242 00:13:49,792 --> 00:13:52,375 would ultimately be fulfilled in him. 243 00:13:52,458 --> 00:13:55,167 Some of your translations literally use that word in 244 00:13:55,250 --> 00:13:58,500 Luke 18:31-34, "fulfilled." 245 00:13:58,542 --> 00:14:02,375 Jesus here in this translation uses the word "accomplished." 246 00:14:02,458 --> 00:14:05,708 The point is that everything that history has been leaning 247 00:14:05,792 --> 00:14:10,833 toward and everything that the Bible prophesies, promises, 248 00:14:10,875 --> 00:14:15,500 and anticipates is ultimately fulfilled in the death, burial, 249 00:14:15,583 --> 00:14:20,708 resurrection of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. 250 00:14:20,792 --> 00:14:24,583 And Jesus tells us--and he is here prophesying. 251 00:14:24,667 --> 00:14:28,500 He is prophesying, predicting, telling us the future 252 00:14:28,583 --> 00:14:30,500 because God is sovereign. 253 00:14:30,583 --> 00:14:34,417 He knows the future and God is omniscient, he's all knowing, 254 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:36,417 including of the future. 255 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:37,917 God is eternal. 256 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,417 He is apart from time, though he works in time. 257 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,333 Because God is unlike us, he knows the future. 258 00:14:46,375 --> 00:14:49,375 And here Jesus prophesies the future. 259 00:14:49,458 --> 00:14:53,208 On his journey toward Jerusalem, he says that he would be, 260 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:57,917 number one, arrested; number two, mocked; number three, 261 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,708 shamefully treated; number four, spit upon, 262 00:15:02,792 --> 00:15:07,000 which was an act of great disrespect; number five, 263 00:15:07,042 --> 00:15:10,167 that he would be flogged. 264 00:15:10,250 --> 00:15:13,500 He gives us the mode by which he would suffer. 265 00:15:13,583 --> 00:15:16,000 And flogging in that day, I've told you many times, 266 00:15:16,083 --> 00:15:19,000 but it's very important to note and I think the movie 267 00:15:19,083 --> 00:15:20,417 "The Passion of the Christ," 268 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,083 actually typified this graphically accurately. 269 00:15:24,167 --> 00:15:26,333 And that is that they would take a prisoner, 270 00:15:26,375 --> 00:15:32,000 strip them naked or near-naked to embarrass and humiliate them. 271 00:15:32,042 --> 00:15:35,875 Jesus was beaten, his beard was plucked out, he was mocked, 272 00:15:35,958 --> 00:15:39,333 shamefully treated, falsely accused, and spat upon. 273 00:15:39,375 --> 00:15:41,917 Everything he predicted came to pass. 274 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 And then the hands would have been affixed, 275 00:15:45,083 --> 00:15:48,500 possibly chained or roped together, 276 00:15:48,583 --> 00:15:52,417 and the man would have been tied to a whipping post and his back 277 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:56,083 and his legs and his buttocks would have been exposed. 278 00:15:56,167 --> 00:15:59,333 And then perhaps two soldiers, one on each side, 279 00:15:59,375 --> 00:16:03,333 would have something called a flagrum or a cat o' nine tails. 280 00:16:03,375 --> 00:16:06,708 It was a handle that had straps of leather that proceeded 281 00:16:06,792 --> 00:16:10,083 from it, at the end of which there would have been a ball 282 00:16:10,167 --> 00:16:13,500 made out of metal or of stone to tenderize the man's flesh 283 00:16:13,583 --> 00:16:16,167 as you would tenderize a piece of meat. 284 00:16:16,250 --> 00:16:19,792 And then there were hooks, often times made out of bone or metal, 285 00:16:19,833 --> 00:16:22,500 many of them, across each of the leather straps, 286 00:16:22,583 --> 00:16:27,083 that would then sink into the man's flesh. 287 00:16:27,167 --> 00:16:29,875 And they would whip the man, tenderize the flesh. 288 00:16:29,958 --> 00:16:33,417 The hooks would sink deeply into the body down into the deep 289 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:37,208 tissue and then they would literally rip the flesh 290 00:16:37,292 --> 00:16:39,833 off of the man's body. 291 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:41,500 His heart would go into trauma, 292 00:16:41,583 --> 00:16:44,125 he would have significant blood loss. 293 00:16:44,167 --> 00:16:48,417 For Jesus, this was after a sleepless night, dehydration. 294 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,708 The beating that he endured at the hands of a crowd who mocked 295 00:16:52,792 --> 00:16:58,375 him, of evil men, and Jesus at this point is a bloodied mess. 296 00:16:58,458 --> 00:17:01,500 History records outside of the Bible that on occasion 297 00:17:01,583 --> 00:17:04,292 it would be so violent that a man's rib would literally 298 00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:07,125 come flying off of his body. 299 00:17:07,167 --> 00:17:09,208 And when Jesus uses the word "flogged," 300 00:17:09,292 --> 00:17:12,083 he knows that that is exactly what he will experience 301 00:17:12,167 --> 00:17:15,417 in Jerusalem, but he is a man on a mission to fulfill 302 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,417 the Scriptures to get to Jerusalem to atone for the sin 303 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:21,417 of the world by suffering at the hands of sinful men, 304 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:25,417 though he himself was without sin. 305 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:28,125 Jesus also says that he would be killed, 306 00:17:28,167 --> 00:17:30,167 that he would not swoon on the cross, 307 00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:31,833 that he would, in fact, die. 308 00:17:31,875 --> 00:17:34,333 Jesus did die on the cross. 309 00:17:34,375 --> 00:17:36,375 He breathed his last. 310 00:17:36,458 --> 00:17:39,625 And to ensure that he was dead, an executioner took a spear, 311 00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:43,375 put it underneath the side, underneath the ribcage so that 312 00:17:43,458 --> 00:17:46,167 it punctured the heart sack so that water and blood 313 00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:48,000 flowed from his side. 314 00:17:48,083 --> 00:17:52,208 Jesus was then wrapped in burial linens and spices weighing 315 00:17:52,292 --> 00:17:56,625 upwards of perhaps 80 to 100 pounds and his body was placed 316 00:17:56,667 --> 00:18:02,667 in a cold tomb hewn out of rock without any medical care. 317 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:06,417 Friends, Jesus was killed, just like he promised. 318 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:09,125 And then he prophesied and promised as well that he would 319 00:18:09,167 --> 00:18:13,000 resurrect, that he would be the only man to ultimately conquer, 320 00:18:13,083 --> 00:18:16,375 defeat death, that he would do the one thing that no man 321 00:18:16,458 --> 00:18:22,417 has ever done--come back from death to never die again, 322 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:25,000 to never die again. 323 00:18:25,083 --> 00:18:28,333 And that is because the wage for sin is death. 324 00:18:28,375 --> 00:18:32,708 Jesus died in our place, for our sins, though he was without sin. 325 00:18:32,792 --> 00:18:36,708 But death could not hold him because he had no sin. 326 00:18:36,792 --> 00:18:39,625 And so 3 days later, on a Sunday, 327 00:18:39,667 --> 00:18:43,000 the day that Christians now generally prefer to worship 328 00:18:43,083 --> 00:18:46,833 together, though the Bible gives us freedom to worship anywhere 329 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:52,500 at any time corporately, Jesus rose from death on a Sunday. 330 00:18:52,542 --> 00:18:56,500 And so here Jesus predicted all of this in Luke 18. 331 00:18:56,583 --> 00:18:59,500 He tells us exactly what will happen to him. 332 00:18:59,583 --> 00:19:05,000 He prophesies and promises what awaits him in Jerusalem. 333 00:19:05,042 --> 00:19:07,083 And Jesus says this. 334 00:19:07,167 --> 00:19:09,375 I want to read it to you again. 335 00:19:09,458 --> 00:19:13,500 He says, "Everything that is written about the Son of Man 336 00:19:13,583 --> 00:19:17,583 by the prophets will be accomplished." 337 00:19:17,667 --> 00:19:22,417 Jesus says, "Everything that I am going to experience, endure, 338 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:26,208 "overcome, and accomplish is fulfillment, 339 00:19:26,292 --> 00:19:31,125 "accomplishment of that which God has spoken 340 00:19:31,167 --> 00:19:34,417 through the prophets." 341 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:38,208 What Jesus is saying is this, "The Bible is about me." 342 00:19:38,292 --> 00:19:40,208 That's what he's saying. 343 00:19:40,292 --> 00:19:43,708 Friends, this is why we disagree with the cults and the moralists 344 00:19:43,792 --> 00:19:47,083 and those who would just reduce Jesus down to a good example 345 00:19:47,167 --> 00:19:49,625 and not a real savior. 346 00:19:49,667 --> 00:19:53,000 The Bible isn't about us primarily. 347 00:19:53,083 --> 00:19:57,000 It's not about nations or history primarily. 348 00:19:57,042 --> 00:20:00,083 It's not about good works or religion or even 349 00:20:00,167 --> 00:20:02,208 the supernatural primarily. 350 00:20:02,292 --> 00:20:04,125 All of those things are in there, 351 00:20:04,167 --> 00:20:07,667 but it's primarily about Jesus Christ. 352 00:20:07,750 --> 00:20:10,875 It's primarily about Jesus Christ. 353 00:20:10,958 --> 00:20:15,667 And so this will undoubtedly raise the question in your mind. 354 00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:19,625 Jesus says that his life, mission, and ministry, 355 00:20:19,667 --> 00:20:23,500 his journey toward Jerusalem is in fulfillment 356 00:20:23,583 --> 00:20:25,917 of the Scriptures. 357 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,500 This leads to a very important question then. 358 00:20:29,583 --> 00:20:32,333 Not only does Jesus fulfill the Scripture, 359 00:20:32,375 --> 00:20:35,625 fulfilling the Old Testament Scriptures in particular, 360 00:20:35,667 --> 00:20:39,500 he makes this promise that, "The prophets are writing about me." 361 00:20:39,583 --> 00:20:41,667 So that leads to this question. 362 00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:44,375 Where is Jesus in the Old Testament? 363 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:47,333 Where is Jesus in the Old Testament? 364 00:20:47,375 --> 00:20:50,333 Because some reading the Bible falsely think that the first 365 00:20:50,375 --> 00:20:53,667 three-quarters of the Bible isn't really about Jesus. 366 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:57,125 Oh, and then he's born and we start the New Testament. 367 00:20:57,167 --> 00:20:59,792 The truth is that the whole Bible's about Jesus, 368 00:20:59,833 --> 00:21:03,708 including the Old Testament, and Jesus himself just said that. 369 00:21:03,792 --> 00:21:05,583 "Everything that the prophets have written in 370 00:21:05,667 --> 00:21:08,875 "the Old Testament is going to be fulfilled, accomplished, 371 00:21:08,958 --> 00:21:12,208 by me, in me, through me." 372 00:21:12,292 --> 00:21:14,000 So here's what I want to do. 373 00:21:14,042 --> 00:21:16,500 And this is going to be way too much information, 374 00:21:16,542 --> 00:21:18,792 I'll just tell you that in advance. 375 00:21:18,833 --> 00:21:20,792 Thankfully, we transcribe the sermons. 376 00:21:20,833 --> 00:21:23,625 You're not going to be able to write all this down, 377 00:21:23,667 --> 00:21:26,708 but it will all be made available for you freely, audio, 378 00:21:26,792 --> 00:21:29,000 video, and print transcript. 379 00:21:29,083 --> 00:21:32,083 We do it every week and I praise God that the elders 380 00:21:32,167 --> 00:21:34,500 are so generous to allow that to happen. 381 00:21:34,583 --> 00:21:38,792 But I want to share with you six different ways that you can see 382 00:21:38,833 --> 00:21:40,792 Jesus in the Old Testament. 383 00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:43,208 Not with something called allegorizing, 384 00:21:43,292 --> 00:21:45,708 where we pretend that he's there when he's not, 385 00:21:45,792 --> 00:21:49,333 but actually being faithful to the Scriptures and seeing Jesus 386 00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:52,375 just as he taught us that we should see him in 387 00:21:52,458 --> 00:21:54,208 the Old Testament Scriptures. 388 00:21:54,292 --> 00:21:57,333 So the first place that we see Jesus in the Old Testament, 389 00:21:57,375 --> 00:22:01,417 and welcome to Bible college, is what's called Christophanies. 390 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:03,708 Christophanies. 391 00:22:03,792 --> 00:22:05,917 I'll explain these to you. 392 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,292 These are appearances of Jesus in the Old Testament before 393 00:22:10,333 --> 00:22:12,917 he is born of Mary on the earth. 394 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,208 Jesus did not begin his existence 395 00:22:15,292 --> 00:22:16,833 with his life on earth. 396 00:22:16,875 --> 00:22:21,083 He existed eternally as God, God the creator, 397 00:22:21,167 --> 00:22:25,792 and he entered into human history as the man Jesus Christ 398 00:22:25,833 --> 00:22:28,708 at a point in time, but he existed, 399 00:22:28,792 --> 00:22:32,000 he lived and ministered, before his birth to Mary 400 00:22:32,083 --> 00:22:35,000 as the Son of God in eternity past. 401 00:22:35,083 --> 00:22:36,792 And so in the Old Testament, 402 00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:39,667 Jesus makes some cameo appearances. 403 00:22:39,750 --> 00:22:41,667 I'll give you some examples. 404 00:22:41,750 --> 00:22:45,083 He walked with Abraham. He wrestled with Jacob. 405 00:22:45,167 --> 00:22:47,708 He appeared to Moses. 406 00:22:47,792 --> 00:22:49,917 Right, "Before Abraham was, I AM." 407 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,583 I think it's Exodus 3:14. 408 00:22:51,667 --> 00:22:54,292 Jesus says in the New Testament, "That was me. 409 00:22:54,333 --> 00:22:55,667 "I AM. 410 00:22:55,750 --> 00:22:58,333 I was the one who spoke to Moses." 411 00:22:58,375 --> 00:23:02,667 He joined Daniel in the fiery furnace. 412 00:23:02,750 --> 00:23:05,417 He also called Isaiah into ministry. 413 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:10,167 There's this magnificent scene in Isaiah 6, 414 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:14,625 which is written about 700 years before Jesus was born of Mary, 415 00:23:14,667 --> 00:23:16,875 and heaven opens up at it were. 416 00:23:16,958 --> 00:23:21,333 It's like the curtain into the presence of God is pulled back 417 00:23:21,375 --> 00:23:24,417 and Isaiah gets to see the Lord. 418 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,375 And he says, "I saw the Lord high and exalted, 419 00:23:27,458 --> 00:23:30,125 "the train of his robe filled the temple. 420 00:23:30,167 --> 00:23:32,917 "Surrounding him were angels crying out, 421 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,917 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.'" 422 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,875 You wonder, "Who was that that Isaiah saw?" 423 00:23:43,958 --> 00:23:47,583 Jesus comes along in John 12 around verses 40 and 41 424 00:23:47,667 --> 00:23:54,417 and he says, "Isaiah saw me and spoke of my glory." 425 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,333 That's amazing, amazing. 426 00:23:58,375 --> 00:24:01,417 That's what John says about Isaiah. 427 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:06,125 Isaiah saw Jesus and spoke of his glory. 428 00:24:06,167 --> 00:24:10,375 So before he was even born, he was ruling and reigning 429 00:24:10,458 --> 00:24:16,708 in heaven, in glory as God calling Isaiah into ministry. 430 00:24:16,792 --> 00:24:24,000 Also, there is a difference in the Bible between an angel 431 00:24:24,083 --> 00:24:27,167 of the Lord, which is usually a spirit-being, 432 00:24:27,250 --> 00:24:30,208 a messenger who comes on behalf of God to speak, 433 00:24:30,292 --> 00:24:36,667 and the angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord. 434 00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:40,000 And I believe oftentimes when the messenger of the Lord 435 00:24:40,042 --> 00:24:43,917 shows up in the Old Testament, it's Jesus in a Christophany. 436 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,500 It's him appearing before he's born of Mary. 437 00:24:47,542 --> 00:24:51,792 He is the one who provided the sacrifice in Isaac's place. 438 00:24:51,833 --> 00:24:58,792 He is the one who journeyed and ministered to and with Moses. 439 00:24:58,833 --> 00:25:01,000 Those are Christophanies, places, ways 440 00:25:01,042 --> 00:25:03,500 in the Old Testament that Jesus shows up 441 00:25:03,542 --> 00:25:05,333 before he's born of Mary. 442 00:25:05,375 --> 00:25:08,167 And again, what we're doing, we're taking the words of Jesus, 443 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:10,208 "Everything the prophets wrote is accomplished 444 00:25:10,292 --> 00:25:11,833 and fulfilled by me." 445 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:14,917 Say, "Okay Jesus, then where are you in the prophets?" 446 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,125 Number one, we see him in the Christophanies. 447 00:25:17,167 --> 00:25:19,667 Number two, we see him in types. 448 00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:21,167 Let me explain this. 449 00:25:21,250 --> 00:25:23,333 I wrote this down to get it right. 450 00:25:23,375 --> 00:25:25,708 Types are Old Testament representative figures, 451 00:25:25,792 --> 00:25:30,000 institutions, or events that foreshadowed Jesus. 452 00:25:30,042 --> 00:25:32,875 So you're looking for figures, institutions, 453 00:25:32,958 --> 00:25:36,667 events that are foreshadowing, that are prophetically 454 00:25:36,750 --> 00:25:40,667 anticipating and revealing how Jesus would come 455 00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,625 and what he would do. 456 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,500 Give you some examples. 457 00:25:44,583 --> 00:25:46,667 They include Adam, who foreshadows Jesus 458 00:25:46,750 --> 00:25:48,708 as the second Adam. 459 00:25:48,792 --> 00:25:51,208 We see that in places like 1 Corinthians 15:45 460 00:25:51,292 --> 00:25:55,708 and Romans 5:12-21, where Jesus and Adam 461 00:25:55,792 --> 00:25:59,208 are said to be corollary in that Adam is the head 462 00:25:59,292 --> 00:26:01,875 of all fallen humanity and Jesus is the head 463 00:26:01,958 --> 00:26:04,333 of all new humanity. 464 00:26:04,375 --> 00:26:07,208 The priesthood, which prefigures Jesus as our high priest. 465 00:26:07,292 --> 00:26:09,625 And if you want to read more about that, 466 00:26:09,667 --> 00:26:11,333 just read the book of Hebrews. 467 00:26:11,375 --> 00:26:14,417 Much of the book of Hebrews is about how the whole priesthood 468 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:18,125 was to get us to Jesus, our great high priest. 469 00:26:18,167 --> 00:26:20,875 David and other kings who prefigured Jesus 470 00:26:20,958 --> 00:26:22,667 as the King of kings, 471 00:26:22,750 --> 00:26:25,375 and Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. 472 00:26:25,458 --> 00:26:27,333 So when you see a king, you remember, 473 00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:31,417 "Ah, Jesus is the kingliest king of them all." 474 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:35,208 Moses and the prophets, who prefigure Jesus as our ultimate 475 00:26:35,292 --> 00:26:38,625 prophet, the one who calls us to repentance and invites us 476 00:26:38,667 --> 00:26:41,333 to return to God by grace. 477 00:26:41,375 --> 00:26:44,792 Animal sacrifices, which prefigure Jesus as the sinless 478 00:26:44,833 --> 00:26:47,333 Lamb of God slain for our sins. 479 00:26:47,375 --> 00:26:51,875 And Jesus was actually called this by John the Baptizer, 480 00:26:51,958 --> 00:26:55,500 his cousin, in a prophetic moment where John saw Jesus 481 00:26:55,583 --> 00:26:58,708 coming and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away 482 00:26:58,792 --> 00:27:00,625 the sins of the world." 483 00:27:00,667 --> 00:27:03,833 He was referring then to the sacrificial system where animals 484 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:06,708 laid down their life and blood was shed for sinners, 485 00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:11,208 all foreshadowing Jesus' coming, the once for all sacrifice, 486 00:27:11,292 --> 00:27:13,833 so that we don't offer sacrifices today 487 00:27:13,875 --> 00:27:16,917 because Jesus is our sacrifice. 488 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,833 The temple, which prefigures God's presence 489 00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:22,625 dwelling among us in Jesus. 490 00:27:22,667 --> 00:27:26,500 So Jesus became the Holy of holies while on the earth. 491 00:27:26,583 --> 00:27:29,500 This is why even when Jesus died and he rose, 492 00:27:29,583 --> 00:27:33,125 ultimately the Holy Spirit was unleashed and the curtain 493 00:27:33,167 --> 00:27:37,167 guarding the presence of God in the temple was torn from top 494 00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:39,417 to bottom, from God to us. 495 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:43,000 So today we do not go to a holy place, we go to Jesus. 496 00:27:43,083 --> 00:27:46,292 There is one mediator, the Bible says, between us and God. 497 00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:48,500 And that is Jesus. 498 00:27:48,542 --> 00:27:52,500 Unlike other religions, we don't go to a holy place, 499 00:27:52,583 --> 00:27:54,125 we go to Jesus. 500 00:27:54,167 --> 00:27:56,417 We go to Jesus. 501 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,000 He is the presence of God. 502 00:27:59,042 --> 00:28:02,167 And through faith in him and grace from him, 503 00:28:02,250 --> 00:28:04,917 the body of the believer, the Bible says, 504 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,125 becomes the temple of God, that we don't go to be near God, 505 00:28:09,167 --> 00:28:12,208 God comes to be in us. 506 00:28:12,292 --> 00:28:14,625 And we individually as Christians and corporately 507 00:28:14,667 --> 00:28:17,917 as the church of Jesus Christ become the temple. 508 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,333 And that's all patterned after Jesus, 509 00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:23,417 who himself was the Holy of holies while on the earth, 510 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,917 he was the presence of God among us. 511 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000 This is why in 70 AD God had the temple destroyed 512 00:28:31,083 --> 00:28:33,125 and there is no temple there today. 513 00:28:33,167 --> 00:28:35,792 And I've been to the temple and it's interesting to study 514 00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:38,625 the history, but it's also tragic when people think that 515 00:28:38,667 --> 00:28:41,792 if they get to a pile of rocks, they're closer to God. 516 00:28:41,833 --> 00:28:44,333 You're not closer to God from a pile of rocks, 517 00:28:44,375 --> 00:28:46,667 you're closer to God through Jesus Christ. 518 00:28:46,750 --> 00:28:49,167 That's why when we went even to the Wailing Wall, 519 00:28:49,250 --> 00:28:51,167 I didn't put any prayers in that wall 520 00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:52,708 because that would be blasphemous. 521 00:28:52,792 --> 00:28:56,625 That would be saying by action, "This wall mediates between me 522 00:28:56,667 --> 00:28:59,667 "and God, and if I put my prayer in the wall, 523 00:28:59,750 --> 00:29:02,292 then I am ensured that it will go to God." 524 00:29:02,333 --> 00:29:05,000 No, there is one mediator between me and God 525 00:29:05,042 --> 00:29:06,375 and it's not a wall. 526 00:29:06,458 --> 00:29:09,333 It's the man Jesus Christ. 527 00:29:09,375 --> 00:29:14,833 Furthermore, there are shepherds who care for their sheep, 528 00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:17,792 which reminds us that we are foolish sheep 529 00:29:17,833 --> 00:29:19,917 and Jesus is our what? 530 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,625 Our good shepherd. 531 00:29:21,667 --> 00:29:23,208 That's what he says. 532 00:29:23,292 --> 00:29:25,000 So when you read the Old Testament, 533 00:29:25,083 --> 00:29:27,500 you see shepherds and sheep, think of Jesus as shepherd 534 00:29:27,583 --> 00:29:29,917 and we as sheep. 535 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 We also see in the Old Testament and throughout the Bible 536 00:29:33,083 --> 00:29:36,583 judges who render verdicts and make decisions, 537 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:40,167 and that reminds us of Jesus, the capital-J Judge, who in, 538 00:29:40,250 --> 00:29:43,417 I think it's John 5 says, "The Father judges no one, 539 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:46,083 but he's entrusted all judgment to me, his Son." 540 00:29:46,167 --> 00:29:48,792 Jesus is our Judge. 541 00:29:48,833 --> 00:29:50,625 Additionally, there are other things like 542 00:29:50,667 --> 00:29:52,333 Jesus is the true bread 543 00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:55,792 and Jesus is the true vine and Jesus is the true light. 544 00:29:55,833 --> 00:29:58,875 All of those are types, you see that? 545 00:29:58,958 --> 00:30:01,208 Here's what I'm trying to do, friends. 546 00:30:01,292 --> 00:30:04,500 I want you to read the Bible and get to Jesus. 547 00:30:04,583 --> 00:30:06,833 Honestly, that's the most important thing 548 00:30:06,875 --> 00:30:08,667 in the world to me. 549 00:30:08,750 --> 00:30:11,667 I love to lead, I love to preach, I love to teach, 550 00:30:11,750 --> 00:30:13,500 I love Mars Hill, I love evangelism, 551 00:30:13,583 --> 00:30:15,500 I love church planting, I love my family, 552 00:30:15,583 --> 00:30:19,417 but when it comes to my job for you and my family at home, 553 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:23,500 the most important thing in the world to me is that you 554 00:30:23,542 --> 00:30:26,708 would open the Bible and meet Jesus. 555 00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:29,083 That's everything to me. That's everything. 556 00:30:29,167 --> 00:30:32,167 That's the epicenter of all we believe. 557 00:30:32,250 --> 00:30:34,625 That's the epicenter for all life change. 558 00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:38,625 That's really at the bedrock of who we are as a people, 559 00:30:38,667 --> 00:30:41,625 what we believe, and how we behave as a church. 560 00:30:41,667 --> 00:30:43,500 This is a Word from God. 561 00:30:43,542 --> 00:30:45,667 We read it, study it, listen to it, 562 00:30:45,750 --> 00:30:50,333 memorize it to get to know Jesus and it's all about him. 563 00:30:50,375 --> 00:30:52,833 So in addition to Christophanies and types, 564 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:56,125 there is analogous service. 565 00:30:56,167 --> 00:30:58,333 Give you some examples of that. 566 00:30:58,375 --> 00:31:00,375 This is going to be a bit lengthy, 567 00:31:00,458 --> 00:31:04,583 but there are people who do things that ultimately Jesus 568 00:31:04,667 --> 00:31:07,292 does completely and fully. 569 00:31:07,333 --> 00:31:11,208 So they're a bit of foreshadowing or anticipating 570 00:31:11,292 --> 00:31:16,375 or preparing for the coming of Jesus and his service. 571 00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:19,708 Unlike the first Adam, Jesus Christ is the last Adam, 572 00:31:19,792 --> 00:31:22,792 who passed his test in the garden and in so doing 573 00:31:22,833 --> 00:31:26,417 imputed his righteousness to us to overcome the sin imputed 574 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:30,333 to us through the first sin of the first Adam. 575 00:31:30,375 --> 00:31:32,500 Jesus is the true and better Abel who, 576 00:31:32,583 --> 00:31:35,333 although he was innocent, was slain and whose blood 577 00:31:35,375 --> 00:31:37,917 cries out for our acquittal. 578 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,792 When Abraham left his father at home, 579 00:31:39,833 --> 00:31:42,417 he was doing the same thing that Jesus would do 580 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:43,833 when he left heaven. 581 00:31:43,875 --> 00:31:46,583 When Isaac carried his own wood and laid down his life 582 00:31:46,667 --> 00:31:49,208 to be sacrificed at the hand of his father, Abraham, 583 00:31:49,292 --> 00:31:52,583 he was showing us what Jesus would later do. 584 00:31:52,667 --> 00:31:56,000 Jesus is the greater Jacob who wrestled with God the Father 585 00:31:56,083 --> 00:31:58,917 in Gethsemane and, though wounded and limping, 586 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,083 walked away from his grave blessed. 587 00:32:01,167 --> 00:32:04,375 Jesus is the greater Joseph, who serves at the right hand of God 588 00:32:04,458 --> 00:32:07,500 the King and extends forgiveness and provision to those of us 589 00:32:07,583 --> 00:32:12,000 who have betrayed him and uses his power to save us 590 00:32:12,042 --> 00:32:14,000 in loving reconciliation. 591 00:32:14,042 --> 00:32:17,500 Jesus is greater than Moses in that he stands as a mediator 592 00:32:17,583 --> 00:32:20,625 between God and us, bringing us the new covenant. 593 00:32:20,667 --> 00:32:23,917 Unlike Job, innocent Jesus suffered and was tormented by 594 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,833 the devil so that God might be glorified while his dumb friends 595 00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:30,417 were of no help or encouragement. 596 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:32,708 Jesus is a king greater than David, 597 00:32:32,792 --> 00:32:35,417 who has slain our giants of Satan, sin, and death, 598 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:38,417 although in the eyes of the world he was certain to face 599 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:40,500 a crushing defeat at their hands. 600 00:32:40,583 --> 00:32:43,708 Jesus is greater than Jonah in that he spent 3 days 601 00:32:43,792 --> 00:32:46,833 in the grave and not just a fish to save a multitude 602 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:49,208 even larger than Nineveh. 603 00:32:49,292 --> 00:32:51,500 When Boaz redeemed Ruth and brought her and her 604 00:32:51,583 --> 00:32:54,500 despised people into community with God's people, 605 00:32:54,542 --> 00:32:57,708 he was showing what Jesus would do to redeem his bride, 606 00:32:57,792 --> 00:33:00,292 the church, from all the nations of the earth. 607 00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:04,000 When Nehemiah rebuilt Jerusalem, he was doing something similar 608 00:33:04,042 --> 00:33:07,000 to Jesus, who is building for us a new Jerusalem 609 00:33:07,083 --> 00:33:09,125 as our eternal home. 610 00:33:09,167 --> 00:33:11,292 When Hosea married an unfaithful, 611 00:33:11,333 --> 00:33:14,125 whoring wife that he continued to pursue and love, 612 00:33:14,167 --> 00:33:16,125 he was showing us the heart of Jesus, 613 00:33:16,167 --> 00:33:20,500 who does the same thing for his unfaithful bride, the church. 614 00:33:20,542 --> 00:33:22,000 You get it? 615 00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:24,417 Analogous service. 616 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:28,125 Throughout the Old Testament, significant figures do 617 00:33:28,167 --> 00:33:32,125 important things that ultimately lead us to Jesus, 618 00:33:32,167 --> 00:33:36,500 who is greater and does them better. 619 00:33:36,583 --> 00:33:41,125 Number four, there are events in the Old Testament 620 00:33:41,167 --> 00:33:45,667 which prefigure, prophesy the coming of Jesus, 621 00:33:45,750 --> 00:33:48,083 who as he says in Luke 18, 622 00:33:48,167 --> 00:33:51,125 fulfills and/or accomplishes them. 623 00:33:51,167 --> 00:33:53,208 I'll give you an example, one example. 624 00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:54,917 There could be many. 625 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,917 But for the sake of time, we'll go to the Exodus account. 626 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,625 And in the Exodus account, here is the story: 627 00:34:01,667 --> 00:34:05,833 The people of God were in slavery to a horrible, 628 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:08,792 cruel tyrant. 629 00:34:08,833 --> 00:34:12,333 He ruled over them as a false god. 630 00:34:12,375 --> 00:34:17,083 Their lives were marked by suffering and poverty 631 00:34:17,167 --> 00:34:20,083 and injustice and sorrow. 632 00:34:20,167 --> 00:34:22,625 And it was true for them and their children 633 00:34:22,667 --> 00:34:24,625 and their children's children. 634 00:34:24,667 --> 00:34:27,292 And there was no way they could liberate themselves, 635 00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:29,917 they could redeem themselves. 636 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,125 If you want to learn more about this, 637 00:34:32,167 --> 00:34:35,500 Pastor Mike Wilkerson's book "Redemption" builds on this 638 00:34:35,542 --> 00:34:39,792 massive theme of the Exodus and he does a fantastic job. 639 00:34:39,833 --> 00:34:44,083 And the story then is that God's people have no ability 640 00:34:44,167 --> 00:34:48,417 to redeem, to liberate, to free themselves from their captivity 641 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,292 and their slavery. 642 00:34:51,333 --> 00:34:57,417 And God makes a way. God comes and he invites even those who 643 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:02,000 were his enemies to repent and to turn from their wicked ways 644 00:35:02,042 --> 00:35:06,208 and to trust in him and to be generous and loving and gracious 645 00:35:06,292 --> 00:35:10,625 and kind and good, as he is. 646 00:35:10,667 --> 00:35:13,875 And beginning with the Pharaoh, the leader, 647 00:35:13,958 --> 00:35:17,792 his and their hearts become hardened. 648 00:35:17,833 --> 00:35:21,500 And they refused to bend their knee and bow their head 649 00:35:21,542 --> 00:35:24,333 to the real Lord. 650 00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:28,708 And so then God finally begins to allow the consequence of 651 00:35:28,792 --> 00:35:32,667 their sin to unfold and he does this for you as well, friends, 652 00:35:32,750 --> 00:35:34,708 because he loves you. 653 00:35:34,792 --> 00:35:37,917 Sometimes when things are hard, it may be that God is allowing 654 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,625 the consequences of your sin to encourage you to stop sinning 655 00:35:42,667 --> 00:35:45,625 and to turn from sin and trust in him. 656 00:35:45,667 --> 00:35:51,333 Yet their hearts only become harder and their deeds 657 00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:57,167 become more angry and violent and they're harming others. 658 00:35:57,250 --> 00:36:00,875 And so God makes a promise that he will no longer tolerate this 659 00:36:00,958 --> 00:36:06,500 kind of behavior and injustice, that he is going to bring death 660 00:36:06,583 --> 00:36:12,625 to the firstborn son in every home except for those homes 661 00:36:12,667 --> 00:36:15,167 whose faith is in him. 662 00:36:15,250 --> 00:36:19,792 And they would demonstrate their faith in him by offering 663 00:36:19,833 --> 00:36:23,625 a sacrifice, taking the blood of the sacrifice, 664 00:36:23,667 --> 00:36:27,500 and literally painting it over the doorway to their home. 665 00:36:27,583 --> 00:36:30,208 And God promised that there would come a night when 666 00:36:30,292 --> 00:36:34,333 literally death would come to that nation and those people, 667 00:36:34,375 --> 00:36:38,625 and that death would come seeking those who had 668 00:36:38,667 --> 00:36:41,917 hardened hearts instead of repentant hearts and those 669 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,833 who clung to their sin rather than despising it. 670 00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:49,833 And that literally death would pass over every home 671 00:36:49,875 --> 00:36:53,708 that was covered by the blood. 672 00:36:53,792 --> 00:36:58,583 And so some families in faith offered a sacrifice and did what 673 00:36:58,667 --> 00:37:02,208 is admittedly a peculiar thing, they took blood and they painted 674 00:37:02,292 --> 00:37:05,917 the doorway of their home with it, trusting that God's Word, 675 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,792 God's promises, God's prophecies were true. 676 00:37:11,833 --> 00:37:17,375 And death came. And death came to every firstborn son 677 00:37:17,458 --> 00:37:20,500 in every home, including the great Pharaoh's, 678 00:37:20,583 --> 00:37:24,500 with the exception of those people who trusted in the Lord 679 00:37:24,583 --> 00:37:27,917 and as an act of worship and faith, obeyed him, 680 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,375 doing what was peculiar, slaughtering an animal, 681 00:37:31,458 --> 00:37:33,417 showing that the wage for sin is death, 682 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,417 that they deserved death, too, but being covered by the blood 683 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:41,083 of the lamb so that death would literally pass over them. 684 00:37:41,167 --> 00:37:45,208 This is where we get the whole Jewish feast of Passover. 685 00:37:45,292 --> 00:37:49,625 The only way to have God's wrath pass over you is through faith 686 00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:52,625 in Jesus Christ so that you will be covered with the blood 687 00:37:52,667 --> 00:37:56,667 of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away 688 00:37:56,750 --> 00:37:58,875 the sin of the world. 689 00:37:58,958 --> 00:38:00,917 So the Exodus event was foreshadowing 690 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,292 the coming of Jesus. 691 00:38:03,333 --> 00:38:06,917 That the only way we can get out of slavery to sin--and many of 692 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,333 you don't see it that way. 693 00:38:09,375 --> 00:38:13,083 See, we live in a nation that promulgates this very powerful 694 00:38:13,167 --> 00:38:15,833 myth that we're free, we're all free. 695 00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:19,208 We're free to choose our own slave master. 696 00:38:19,292 --> 00:38:21,000 But we're not free. 697 00:38:21,083 --> 00:38:24,167 The Bible says, if the Son sets you free, you're free indeed. 698 00:38:24,250 --> 00:38:27,125 You're not free apart from Jesus. 699 00:38:27,167 --> 00:38:30,417 All you can do is choose your slave master. 700 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:36,375 It can be drugs, sex, food, power, comfort, security, 701 00:38:36,458 --> 00:38:40,333 independence, dependence, whatever your thing is, 702 00:38:40,375 --> 00:38:45,917 accomplishment, achievement, self-loathing, self-medicating. 703 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,500 Whatever it is, all we can do is just choose our Pharaoh, 704 00:38:50,583 --> 00:38:54,333 we choose our slave master. 705 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:57,292 But we're not free. 706 00:38:57,333 --> 00:39:00,208 What we own owns us. 707 00:39:00,292 --> 00:39:03,333 All of a sudden, people and things begin to control us, 708 00:39:03,375 --> 00:39:06,708 and we suffer and our life suffers and it affects 709 00:39:06,792 --> 00:39:10,000 our children and our children's children. 710 00:39:10,083 --> 00:39:14,833 And we can't get ourselves out of a cycle of debt or pride 711 00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:20,292 or slavery or addiction, whatever the case may be. 712 00:39:20,333 --> 00:39:24,500 And we need Jesus to come and deliver us, to do a miracle, 713 00:39:24,542 --> 00:39:28,000 to get us away from Satan and demons and our addictions 714 00:39:28,083 --> 00:39:33,125 and sins and compulsions and proclivities and to liberate us 715 00:39:33,167 --> 00:39:37,833 through a miracle as he did those in the days of the Exodus 716 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,292 so that might be free to worship him, 717 00:39:40,333 --> 00:39:42,375 which was the point of the Exodus, 718 00:39:42,458 --> 00:39:45,417 and that we might be sanctified, continue to deal with our 719 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:48,667 own sin and grumbling even after God liberates us. 720 00:39:48,750 --> 00:39:51,208 And so the Exodus story is a little picture 721 00:39:51,292 --> 00:39:54,292 of the ultimate fulfillment in Jesus. 722 00:39:54,333 --> 00:39:56,625 That's why the Bible says, Jesus Christ, 723 00:39:56,667 --> 00:39:59,625 our Passover lamb, has been slain. 724 00:39:59,667 --> 00:40:03,125 That's why Peter as well says that we are given salvation 725 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:06,125 by the sprinkling of his blood. 726 00:40:06,167 --> 00:40:08,708 It's all the language of the Exodus. 727 00:40:08,792 --> 00:40:11,208 The Exodus makes no sense. 728 00:40:11,292 --> 00:40:15,417 I love Jewish people, but their eyes, the Bible says, are blind. 729 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:19,667 The whole point of Passover is Jesus, 730 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:24,000 that we are in slavery and sin and without him 731 00:40:24,042 --> 00:40:26,000 there is no redemption. 732 00:40:26,083 --> 00:40:27,833 And without the shedding of his blood, 733 00:40:27,875 --> 00:40:29,917 there is no forgiveness of sin. 734 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,917 That's the whole point of the Exodus. 735 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,917 That's the whole point of the Passover. 736 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,500 That's the whole point of the second book 737 00:40:36,583 --> 00:40:40,125 of the entire Bible: Jesus. 738 00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:43,500 In addition to events, there are titles. 739 00:40:43,542 --> 00:40:46,083 There are many titles for God in the Old Testament 740 00:40:46,167 --> 00:40:47,833 that refer to Jesus. 741 00:40:47,875 --> 00:40:49,208 I'll give you some. 742 00:40:49,292 --> 00:40:50,875 The suffering servant, alright, 743 00:40:50,958 --> 00:40:52,875 from Isaiah 40 through verse--through rather 744 00:40:52,958 --> 00:40:54,417 chapter 66. 745 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:58,167 That huge swing in Isaiah written some 700 years before 746 00:40:58,250 --> 00:41:01,708 Jesus is born talks about the coming of God 747 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:03,625 as a suffering servant. 748 00:41:03,667 --> 00:41:06,000 That's Jesus. 749 00:41:06,042 --> 00:41:09,417 He's also known as the first and the last in Revelation, 750 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:12,125 which is a title for God in the Old Testament. 751 00:41:12,167 --> 00:41:16,500 Light, rock, husband or bridegroom, shepherd, Redeemer, 752 00:41:16,583 --> 00:41:18,625 Savior, Lord of glory. 753 00:41:18,667 --> 00:41:22,167 Those are all Old Testament titles for God that are then 754 00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:24,000 given to Jesus. 755 00:41:24,042 --> 00:41:28,000 And you just saw one right here in Luke 18. 756 00:41:28,083 --> 00:41:31,625 I'll read it again, "And taking the twelve, he said to them, 757 00:41:31,667 --> 00:41:34,417 "'See, we are going up to Jerusalem and everything that is 758 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:37,125 "'written about the Son of Man by the prophets 759 00:41:37,167 --> 00:41:38,625 will be accomplished.'" 760 00:41:38,667 --> 00:41:41,333 Jesus right here in our text today of Luke 18--and we're 761 00:41:41,375 --> 00:41:43,708 taking this big idea that the whole Old Testament 762 00:41:43,792 --> 00:41:46,417 and prophetic history is about him. 763 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:49,500 He refers to himself here as the Son of Man. 764 00:41:49,542 --> 00:41:51,125 Well, that's category five. 765 00:41:51,167 --> 00:41:53,000 That's a title from the Old Testament 766 00:41:53,083 --> 00:41:55,375 that Jesus ascribes to himself. 767 00:41:55,458 --> 00:41:57,875 And I've shared this with you repeatedly in Luke's Gospel 768 00:41:57,958 --> 00:42:01,500 because this is Jesus' favorite self-designation. 769 00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:04,500 This is the favorite title that he ascribes to himself. 770 00:42:04,542 --> 00:42:08,167 He does it some 80 times in the 4 Gospels and he lifts it from 771 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:12,708 Daniel 7:14, where it speaks of God the Father ruling 772 00:42:12,792 --> 00:42:16,833 in eternity past and glory, and one like the Son of Man, 773 00:42:16,875 --> 00:42:20,625 who is alongside of him, that's Jesus Christ, God become a man, 774 00:42:20,667 --> 00:42:23,000 enters into human history. 775 00:42:23,042 --> 00:42:26,667 It says he comes into human history to rule and to reign and 776 00:42:26,750 --> 00:42:32,333 to redeem sin and to also set up a kingdom that will never end 777 00:42:32,375 --> 00:42:36,167 as he rules and reigns as God forever, the King of Kings. 778 00:42:36,250 --> 00:42:39,583 And so they were awaiting the coming of this Son of Man, 779 00:42:39,667 --> 00:42:43,208 God who would come like one of us. 780 00:42:43,292 --> 00:42:49,583 And Jesus says right here in Luke 18, "That is me." 781 00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:51,792 So he takes an Old Testament title 782 00:42:51,833 --> 00:42:53,917 and he appropriates it for himself. 783 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,125 And lastly, perhaps the most common category of finding Jesus 784 00:42:57,167 --> 00:42:59,958 in the Old Testament is prophecy. 785 00:43:00,083 --> 00:43:03,125 At the time of it's writing, some 25% of our Bible was 786 00:43:03,167 --> 00:43:05,917 prophetic in nature, meaning it predicted the future 787 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,500 in great detail. 788 00:43:07,583 --> 00:43:10,292 Some of the prophecies are hundreds of years in advance. 789 00:43:10,333 --> 00:43:13,833 Some of the prophecies are thousands of years in advance. 790 00:43:13,875 --> 00:43:17,083 If any of the prophecies of the Bible do not come true, 791 00:43:17,167 --> 00:43:20,125 then we are not to trust the Bible, even the Bible itself. 792 00:43:20,167 --> 00:43:22,583 In places like Deuteronomy 13 and 18, 793 00:43:22,667 --> 00:43:25,792 if memory serves me correct, say that we know that someone is 794 00:43:25,833 --> 00:43:30,583 a true prophet of God because absolutely everything they say 795 00:43:30,667 --> 00:43:34,125 happens exactly as they say it. 796 00:43:34,167 --> 00:43:37,208 So all prophets that are truly prophets of God, 797 00:43:37,292 --> 00:43:41,708 they are 100% right all of the time about all the details, 798 00:43:41,792 --> 00:43:45,625 sometimes predicting the future thousands of years in advance. 799 00:43:45,667 --> 00:43:47,417 It's a miracle of God. 800 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:49,333 Only God could know the future. 801 00:43:49,375 --> 00:43:51,500 Only God could control the future. 802 00:43:51,583 --> 00:43:55,500 And a prophet is one who is raised up by God to communicate 803 00:43:55,583 --> 00:43:58,083 on his behalf. 804 00:43:58,167 --> 00:44:00,833 I could share with you a lot of prophecies. 805 00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:02,833 I've got some in the book "Vintage Jesus." 806 00:44:02,875 --> 00:44:05,167 There's a bunch more in the book "Doctrine." 807 00:44:05,250 --> 00:44:10,333 The Bible tells us in great detail that Jesus would come to 808 00:44:10,375 --> 00:44:15,000 the temple before 70 AD, that he'd be born in the town 809 00:44:15,042 --> 00:44:18,000 of Bethlehem, that he'd be born of a virgin. 810 00:44:18,042 --> 00:44:20,625 It tells us all of these things hundreds and thousands 811 00:44:20,667 --> 00:44:22,500 of years in advance. 812 00:44:22,542 --> 00:44:25,500 For the sake of time, I just want to hit some of 813 00:44:25,542 --> 00:44:28,500 the prophecies, just a few that were written well in advance, 814 00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:33,208 prophesying the specific issues that Jesus addresses in Luke 18: 815 00:44:33,292 --> 00:44:35,500 that he would suffer, that he would die, 816 00:44:35,542 --> 00:44:38,417 that he would be flogged, that he would rise. 817 00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:40,667 Those kinds of big issues. 818 00:44:40,750 --> 00:44:42,917 So let me share some with you in succession. 819 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,208 Let me preface it by saying this. 820 00:44:45,292 --> 00:44:47,417 Number one, for those of you who are Christians, 821 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:51,417 I hope this helps you trust the Word of God as the Word of God. 822 00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:56,375 I hope this helps you to receive the Bible as true and written by 823 00:44:56,458 --> 00:44:58,833 God and miraculous and unlike anything else 824 00:44:58,875 --> 00:45:01,417 that's ever been written. 825 00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:03,917 For those of you who are not Christian, 826 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,417 I hope that you would be forced to consider and contemplate how 827 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:11,292 in the world could these things be written if God 828 00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:14,125 was not involved? 829 00:45:14,167 --> 00:45:18,000 You have to see that this book is unlike, superior to, 830 00:45:18,083 --> 00:45:22,083 every other book that's ever been written because it is 831 00:45:22,167 --> 00:45:28,792 literally God revealing himself to us in the person and work 832 00:45:28,833 --> 00:45:30,917 of Jesus Christ. 833 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,917 And friends, I was not a Christian my whole life. 834 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,208 I grew up a marginal church attender 835 00:45:36,292 --> 00:45:38,208 and I didn't know and love Jesus. 836 00:45:38,292 --> 00:45:40,500 Wasn't my parent's fault and wasn't the church's fault. 837 00:45:40,583 --> 00:45:41,917 It was my fault. 838 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,125 I never read the Bible. I never read it. 839 00:45:44,167 --> 00:45:46,333 I never just picked it up and read it. 840 00:45:46,375 --> 00:45:48,333 I heard what everyone else said about it, 841 00:45:48,375 --> 00:45:50,167 but I never heard what it said. 842 00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:53,375 And I would have said, "Yeah, I believe the Bible and I think 843 00:45:53,458 --> 00:45:56,375 "parts of it are wrong and maybe it's written by people who 844 00:45:56,458 --> 00:45:58,583 "really weren't brought along by God and maybe God's 845 00:45:58,667 --> 00:45:59,958 not really involved." 846 00:46:00,083 --> 00:46:02,375 And then in college the most remarkable thing happened. 847 00:46:02,458 --> 00:46:04,708 I actually started to read the Bible for myself. 848 00:46:04,792 --> 00:46:07,708 And that's what I want for you. Read the Bible for yourself. 849 00:46:07,792 --> 00:46:11,208 And if you don't have a copy, pick one up on the way out, 850 00:46:11,292 --> 00:46:12,708 grab a stack for your friends. 851 00:46:12,792 --> 00:46:14,208 We love giving the Bible away. 852 00:46:14,292 --> 00:46:16,292 We're glad to. We're glad to. 853 00:46:16,333 --> 00:46:19,000 And if you want a good study Bible to help answer 854 00:46:19,083 --> 00:46:21,500 some of your questions, get the ESV Study Bible. 855 00:46:21,583 --> 00:46:23,667 That's a translation, English Standard Version. 856 00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:25,625 Get the ESV Study Bible. 857 00:46:25,667 --> 00:46:27,583 We've got them at all the campuses. 858 00:46:27,667 --> 00:46:30,917 But I started reading the Bible and one thing that absolutely 859 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,500 convinced me that the Bible is true, from God, 860 00:46:34,542 --> 00:46:37,875 unlike anything else, were the prophecies. 861 00:46:37,958 --> 00:46:42,000 I was like, "How in the world could anyone but God 862 00:46:42,042 --> 00:46:45,167 know the future in such great detail?" 863 00:46:45,250 --> 00:46:48,167 And I want to share just some of those with you today 864 00:46:48,250 --> 00:46:50,292 about the suffering and death of Jesus. 865 00:46:50,333 --> 00:46:54,000 One thousand years before Jesus was born, 866 00:46:54,042 --> 00:46:58,708 we read this in Psalm 16:10, "You will not abandon my soul to 867 00:46:58,792 --> 00:47:03,417 Sheol," or the grave, "or let your holy one," that's Jesus, 868 00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,500 he's the holy one, "see corruption." 869 00:47:06,542 --> 00:47:10,625 A thousand years before Jesus is born on the earth, 870 00:47:10,667 --> 00:47:13,708 the prophecy is made he will die, 871 00:47:13,792 --> 00:47:16,083 but he's not going to stay in the grave. 872 00:47:16,167 --> 00:47:17,917 He is the holy one. 873 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000 His body will not decay. 874 00:47:20,083 --> 00:47:22,583 He's coming back to life. 875 00:47:22,667 --> 00:47:26,083 Additionally, 1,000 years BC--and again, 876 00:47:26,167 --> 00:47:27,917 history's all about Jesus too. 877 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,792 BC is "before Christ," AD is Anno Domini, "the year of our Lord." 878 00:47:32,833 --> 00:47:36,625 So roughly 1,000 years BC, before Jesus Christ was born, 879 00:47:36,667 --> 00:47:42,375 Psalm 22:1, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" 880 00:47:42,458 --> 00:47:44,708 Who says that? 881 00:47:44,792 --> 00:47:46,333 Jesus. 882 00:47:46,375 --> 00:47:47,833 When does he say that? 883 00:47:47,875 --> 00:47:51,208 On the cross as he's breathing his last. 884 00:47:51,292 --> 00:47:55,375 In so doing, Jesus is showing us he reads the Bible, 885 00:47:55,458 --> 00:47:58,125 he memorizes the Bible, he knows the Bible, 886 00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:01,833 he's quoting the Bible, he's fulfilling the Bible, 887 00:48:01,875 --> 00:48:05,000 and that when Psalms was written 1,000 years prior, 888 00:48:05,083 --> 00:48:09,667 it was speaking of the day of his death. 889 00:48:09,750 --> 00:48:15,875 1,000 BC, Psalm 22:6 we read--22:16 rather, we read, 890 00:48:15,958 --> 00:48:19,875 "Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, 891 00:48:19,958 --> 00:48:22,333 they have pierced," what? 892 00:48:22,375 --> 00:48:25,125 "My hands, my feet." 893 00:48:25,167 --> 00:48:30,000 This is a prophecy that Jesus would be crucified with nails 894 00:48:30,083 --> 00:48:32,417 driven through the most sensitive nerve centers 895 00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:35,708 on the human body, the hands and the feet. 896 00:48:35,792 --> 00:48:39,000 And friends, this is written hundreds, hundreds, 897 00:48:39,083 --> 00:48:44,292 hundreds of years before crucifixion was even invented. 898 00:48:44,333 --> 00:48:47,417 At this point, crucifixion didn't even exist 899 00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:50,708 and the prophecy is made that Jesus would not only be 900 00:48:50,792 --> 00:48:54,500 put to death, but that he would be nailed through his hands 901 00:48:54,583 --> 00:48:57,708 and his feet and that godless men would surround him, 902 00:48:57,792 --> 00:49:03,500 mock him, scorn him, shame him, spit upon him. 903 00:49:03,583 --> 00:49:08,625 Additionally, 1,000 BC, Psalm 41:9, 904 00:49:08,667 --> 00:49:13,833 "Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, 905 00:49:13,875 --> 00:49:18,000 has lifted his heel against me." 906 00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:20,500 The lifting of the heel here would have been 907 00:49:20,542 --> 00:49:22,417 an act of disrespect. 908 00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:24,708 In our day, it's-- I hate to say it-- 909 00:49:24,792 --> 00:49:26,708 it's like giving someone a certain finger. 910 00:49:26,792 --> 00:49:33,125 It's a very aggressive, disrespectful action 911 00:49:33,167 --> 00:49:35,625 in that culture. 912 00:49:35,667 --> 00:49:38,833 And Jesus says that he would be betrayed by one who would 913 00:49:38,875 --> 00:49:43,417 despise him, one who what? 914 00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:45,208 Was a friend. 915 00:49:45,292 --> 00:49:49,417 Not just a friend, a close friend whom he would break bread 916 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:50,917 and have meals with. 917 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,917 Who was that? Judas Iscariot. 918 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,375 Here's the prophecy that Judas would betray Jesus. 919 00:49:55,458 --> 00:49:58,375 Judas was a friend of Jesus, a disciple of Jesus who spent 920 00:49:58,458 --> 00:50:00,125 3 years traveling with him. 921 00:50:00,167 --> 00:50:03,167 They ate meals together and broke bread frequently. 922 00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:09,208 And at the Last Supper, while eating bread together, 923 00:50:09,292 --> 00:50:12,125 Judas opened his heart, Satan entered him, 924 00:50:12,167 --> 00:50:14,208 and that's when he resolved, ultimately, 925 00:50:14,292 --> 00:50:17,875 that he would raise his heel against Jesus, 926 00:50:17,958 --> 00:50:22,125 that he would participate in his murderous execution, 927 00:50:22,167 --> 00:50:27,000 that Judas was going to kill Jesus or at least be complicit 928 00:50:27,083 --> 00:50:30,000 in that act. 929 00:50:30,083 --> 00:50:33,917 Seven hundred years before Christ was born and now 930 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,208 we're going to move into the book of Isaiah. 931 00:50:36,292 --> 00:50:37,625 Let me say this. 932 00:50:37,667 --> 00:50:40,625 Isaiah has so much to say about Jesus that some call it 933 00:50:40,667 --> 00:50:42,625 the fifth Gospel. 934 00:50:42,667 --> 00:50:49,500 And there's so much about Jesus, particularly from Isaiah 40-66, 935 00:50:49,542 --> 00:50:52,792 the whole suffering servant section. 936 00:50:52,833 --> 00:50:56,000 But here's one example, Isaiah 50:6, 937 00:50:56,083 --> 00:50:58,417 "I gave my back to those who strike, 938 00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:01,125 "and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; 939 00:51:01,167 --> 00:51:04,875 I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting." 940 00:51:04,958 --> 00:51:07,417 When Jesus says, "Everything that the prophets wrote, 941 00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:10,208 I will experience and I will accomplish," 942 00:51:10,292 --> 00:51:13,917 this is exactly the kind of Scripture that he had in mind. 943 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,917 Jesus' back was just bloodied and traumatized 944 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,292 through his flogging. 945 00:51:21,333 --> 00:51:25,500 They did actually pull his beard out of his cheeks, 946 00:51:25,542 --> 00:51:30,000 which was massive disrespect. 947 00:51:30,083 --> 00:51:34,708 And he says, "I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting." 948 00:51:34,792 --> 00:51:38,917 All of that happened at the death of Jesus in the city 949 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:44,292 of Jerusalem, in the greater region of the city of Jerusalem. 950 00:51:47,750 --> 00:51:54,083 700 BC, Isaiah 52:13-14 tells us this, "Behold, 951 00:51:54,167 --> 00:51:58,208 "my servant will act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, 952 00:51:58,292 --> 00:52:00,500 "and shall be exalted. 953 00:52:00,542 --> 00:52:04,292 "As many were astonished at you--his appearance was so 954 00:52:04,333 --> 00:52:08,125 "marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that 955 00:52:08,167 --> 00:52:10,208 of the children of mankind." 956 00:52:10,292 --> 00:52:11,792 Let's unpack this. 957 00:52:11,833 --> 00:52:16,417 Seven hundred years before Jesus is born, he is the servant. 958 00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:19,583 That's why he says repeatedly, "I didn't come to do my will, 959 00:52:19,667 --> 00:52:21,583 "but the will of him who sent me. 960 00:52:21,667 --> 00:52:24,000 I only speak what the Father tells me to say." 961 00:52:24,083 --> 00:52:27,000 That's why even in the Garden of Gethsemane, before he dies, 962 00:52:27,083 --> 00:52:32,375 he is literally sweating drops of blood and anxiety. 963 00:52:32,458 --> 00:52:37,500 He says, "Father, not my will, but your will be done." 964 00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:41,000 That's the language of a servant. 965 00:52:41,083 --> 00:52:43,417 "He shall be high and lifted up." 966 00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:45,333 That is crucified. 967 00:52:45,375 --> 00:52:49,833 Again, this too is before crucifixion is happening. 968 00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:52,125 "And shall be exalted. 969 00:52:52,167 --> 00:52:54,292 "As many were astonished at you. 970 00:52:54,333 --> 00:52:57,208 "His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, 971 00:52:57,292 --> 00:52:59,667 and his form beyond that of the children of mankind." 972 00:52:59,750 --> 00:53:04,417 What he's saying is they're going to beat Jesus, flog Jesus, 973 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:09,000 they are going to so traumatize the body of Jesus that he will 974 00:53:09,083 --> 00:53:16,000 just be an unrecognizable mess, just covered in blood. 975 00:53:16,083 --> 00:53:18,708 You would look at Jesus and you wouldn't even know, 976 00:53:18,792 --> 00:53:21,375 "Is that a man? Is that a beast? 977 00:53:21,458 --> 00:53:24,125 "If it is a man, which man could it possibly be? 978 00:53:24,167 --> 00:53:25,833 "We cannot tell. 979 00:53:25,875 --> 00:53:29,000 "The skin is hanging off his body. 980 00:53:29,083 --> 00:53:31,417 "He is covered in blood. 981 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:33,917 "We cannot recognize him. 982 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,000 He's unrecognizable." 983 00:53:37,042 --> 00:53:41,708 This is exactly the kind of Scripture that Jesus memorized 984 00:53:41,792 --> 00:53:43,500 as a little boy. 985 00:53:43,583 --> 00:53:46,500 And at this point, as a grown man, 986 00:53:46,542 --> 00:53:49,208 setting his face toward Jerusalem, 987 00:53:49,292 --> 00:53:52,917 he knows that the day is coming when this is what he will be 988 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:59,292 experiencing in our place for our sins out of love for us. 989 00:53:59,333 --> 00:54:02,167 And friends, God's love is not just sentimental. 990 00:54:02,250 --> 00:54:04,125 He doesn't just feel loving. 991 00:54:04,167 --> 00:54:07,333 God's love is efficacious, he does something. 992 00:54:07,375 --> 00:54:11,208 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, 993 00:54:11,292 --> 00:54:17,000 "that whoever believes in him shall not perish but experience 994 00:54:17,083 --> 00:54:20,000 and enjoy everlasting life." 995 00:54:20,083 --> 00:54:23,500 This is the love of God in the bloody, 996 00:54:23,583 --> 00:54:27,292 horrendous murder of the Son of God. 997 00:54:27,333 --> 00:54:31,333 And lastly, you should just go home and read the second half of 998 00:54:31,375 --> 00:54:34,708 Isaiah 52 and all of Isaiah 53. 999 00:54:34,792 --> 00:54:38,500 It is absolutely packed with prophecy about the suffering 1000 00:54:38,583 --> 00:54:41,625 death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1001 00:54:41,667 --> 00:54:43,583 But we'll read this section. 1002 00:54:43,667 --> 00:54:46,583 Isaiah 53:8-12, 1003 00:54:46,667 --> 00:54:49,500 "He was cut off out of the land of the living, 1004 00:54:49,583 --> 00:54:52,500 "stricken for the transgression of my people? 1005 00:54:52,542 --> 00:54:55,667 "And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man 1006 00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:57,875 "in his death, although he had done no violence, 1007 00:54:57,958 --> 00:55:00,125 "and there was no deceit in his mouth. 1008 00:55:00,167 --> 00:55:02,917 "Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; 1009 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,875 "he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering 1010 00:55:05,958 --> 00:55:09,208 "for guilt, he shall see his offspring; 1011 00:55:09,292 --> 00:55:12,417 "he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord 1012 00:55:12,500 --> 00:55:14,625 "shall prosper in his hand. 1013 00:55:14,667 --> 00:55:19,000 "Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied. 1014 00:55:19,083 --> 00:55:22,625 "Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, 1015 00:55:22,667 --> 00:55:25,417 "and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, 1016 00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:30,000 "because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered 1017 00:55:30,083 --> 00:55:31,833 with the transgressors." 1018 00:55:31,875 --> 00:55:34,500 Let me briefly unpack this if they would go back 1019 00:55:34,583 --> 00:55:36,208 to the previous slide. 1020 00:55:36,292 --> 00:55:39,083 "He," Jesus, "was cut off from the land of the living." 1021 00:55:39,167 --> 00:55:40,625 What is that? 1022 00:55:40,667 --> 00:55:42,125 Dead. 1023 00:55:42,167 --> 00:55:45,000 Seven hundred years before he walked on the earth, 1024 00:55:45,083 --> 00:55:46,875 it was prophesied that he would die. 1025 00:55:46,958 --> 00:55:49,083 "Stricken for the transgression of my people." 1026 00:55:49,167 --> 00:55:50,625 Why did Jesus die? 1027 00:55:50,667 --> 00:55:52,125 For us. 1028 00:55:52,167 --> 00:55:54,917 The Bible says this over and over and over and over, 1029 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,208 Christ died for our sins. 1030 00:55:57,292 --> 00:56:00,125 The historical fact is Christ died. 1031 00:56:00,167 --> 00:56:04,333 The theological glory is for our sins. 1032 00:56:04,375 --> 00:56:07,292 Jesus died for us. 1033 00:56:07,333 --> 00:56:10,125 You and I killed God. 1034 00:56:10,167 --> 00:56:12,667 He hung in our place. 1035 00:56:12,750 --> 00:56:15,583 He died for our transgression. 1036 00:56:15,667 --> 00:56:17,792 He loves you. 1037 00:56:17,833 --> 00:56:20,417 He loves me. 1038 00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:24,917 And he shows it through his suffering. 1039 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,625 "After they made his grave with the wicked and the rich man in 1040 00:56:28,667 --> 00:56:30,333 his death," Jesus was not rich. 1041 00:56:30,375 --> 00:56:32,333 Jesus was poor. 1042 00:56:32,375 --> 00:56:34,833 Jesus was homeless and he was buried with the rich 1043 00:56:34,875 --> 00:56:36,208 in his death. 1044 00:56:36,292 --> 00:56:39,000 The Bible says, history records, after he died, 1045 00:56:39,083 --> 00:56:41,125 a disciple named Joseph of Arimathea, 1046 00:56:41,167 --> 00:56:44,417 who was a quiet follower of Jesus and was a wealthy man, 1047 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:46,917 knowing that Jesus had nowhere to be buried, 1048 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,125 gift Jesus post--he gifted Jesus, post mortem, 1049 00:56:50,167 --> 00:56:52,125 his own personal tomb. 1050 00:56:52,167 --> 00:56:54,083 And so the prophecy was fulfilled. 1051 00:56:54,167 --> 00:56:56,333 Jesus was laid with the rich in his death. 1052 00:56:56,375 --> 00:56:58,875 So some people said, "Oh, Jesus organized his life 1053 00:56:58,958 --> 00:57:00,333 to fulfill prophecy." 1054 00:57:00,375 --> 00:57:04,083 He did not cause himself to be born of a virgin and he did not 1055 00:57:04,167 --> 00:57:06,417 decide what grave he went in after he died. 1056 00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:08,708 All of that was in the providence of God, 1057 00:57:08,792 --> 00:57:10,208 who prophesied it in advance. 1058 00:57:10,292 --> 00:57:12,583 "Although he had done no violence and there was 1059 00:57:12,667 --> 00:57:14,083 no deceit in his mouth." 1060 00:57:14,167 --> 00:57:15,708 Jesus never sinned. Jesus is God. 1061 00:57:15,792 --> 00:57:17,125 Jesus is sinless. 1062 00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:20,125 He died for your sin and mine, none of his own. 1063 00:57:20,167 --> 00:57:23,167 "Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him." 1064 00:57:23,250 --> 00:57:26,500 So it was the plan of God the Father to hang our sins 1065 00:57:26,583 --> 00:57:29,875 on the cross of God the Son and this was a plan 1066 00:57:29,958 --> 00:57:33,500 that they agreed to in eternity past. 1067 00:57:33,583 --> 00:57:35,208 "He has put him to grief," 1068 00:57:35,292 --> 00:57:38,208 and Jesus did weep and he did grieve. 1069 00:57:38,292 --> 00:57:40,792 "When his soul makes an offering," when he dies. 1070 00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:43,833 That's all priestly temple language of sacrifice. 1071 00:57:43,875 --> 00:57:47,333 "For guilt he shall see his offspring; 1072 00:57:47,375 --> 00:57:49,833 "he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord 1073 00:57:49,875 --> 00:57:52,000 "shall prosper in his hand. 1074 00:57:52,083 --> 00:57:55,500 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied." 1075 00:57:55,542 --> 00:57:57,500 This is all about the resurrection. 1076 00:57:57,583 --> 00:57:59,958 Jesus would suffer, Jesus would die, 1077 00:58:00,083 --> 00:58:02,792 Jesus would be buried in a rich man's tomb. 1078 00:58:02,833 --> 00:58:05,000 And then, after the suffering of his soul, 1079 00:58:05,083 --> 00:58:08,000 he'd get out of his grave, he'd see the light of day, 1080 00:58:08,083 --> 00:58:13,500 he'd enjoy life again, he would accomplish his mission through 1081 00:58:13,583 --> 00:58:17,000 his death, burial, resurrection, that he would take away sin, 1082 00:58:17,083 --> 00:58:19,417 that he'd reconcile us to God, 1083 00:58:19,500 --> 00:58:21,583 that he would accomplish eternal life, 1084 00:58:21,667 --> 00:58:25,292 that all would be finished just like he said on the cross, 1085 00:58:25,333 --> 00:58:27,417 "It is finished." 1086 00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:29,000 What is finished? 1087 00:58:29,083 --> 00:58:32,917 All that the prophets had promised would come to pass. 1088 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:34,583 It was all finished. 1089 00:58:34,667 --> 00:58:37,625 "Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, 1090 00:58:37,667 --> 00:58:40,000 "and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, 1091 00:58:40,083 --> 00:58:43,000 "because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered 1092 00:58:43,083 --> 00:58:44,417 with the transgressors." 1093 00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:47,833 He died between two common criminals. 1094 00:58:47,875 --> 00:58:51,708 And in his resurrection, he is now ruling and reigning as Lord, 1095 00:58:51,792 --> 00:58:54,292 God, Savior, King, and Christ. 1096 00:58:54,333 --> 00:58:58,708 He is high and exalted, he is coming again to judge the living 1097 00:58:58,792 --> 00:59:03,833 and the dead, and he gives us gifts like salvation and grace 1098 00:59:03,875 --> 00:59:05,708 and his righteousness. 1099 00:59:05,792 --> 00:59:10,292 And he will give us who believe in him his kingdom 1100 00:59:10,333 --> 00:59:12,917 and grace that never ends. 1101 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,833 And this is the goodness of Jesus. 1102 00:59:15,875 --> 00:59:19,000 So friends, in closing--and I appreciate you, Mars Hill, 1103 00:59:19,083 --> 00:59:21,125 for allowing me to teach the Bible. 1104 00:59:21,167 --> 00:59:22,917 I've been doing this for 15 years 1105 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,333 and I really love what I get to do. 1106 00:59:25,375 --> 00:59:29,333 And my joy is to open this book and talk about that man, 1107 00:59:29,375 --> 00:59:33,125 that you would know him and love him and trust him and serve him, 1108 00:59:33,167 --> 00:59:36,833 that you would sing to him and speak to him and listen to him 1109 00:59:36,875 --> 00:59:40,500 and follow him and one day rise from death like him, 1110 00:59:40,542 --> 00:59:43,333 to see him face to face. 1111 00:59:43,375 --> 00:59:47,625 So Father God, I thank you so much for the Word of God, 1112 00:59:47,667 --> 00:59:52,000 which reveals to us the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. 1113 00:59:52,083 --> 00:59:58,333 And Father, today we just want to thank you for Luke 18:31-34. 1114 00:59:58,375 --> 01:00:01,833 Of all the verses in the Bible, it's amazing how much is 1115 01:00:01,875 --> 01:00:05,125 in just a few sentences. 1116 01:00:05,167 --> 01:00:10,000 Jesus knew that he was a man, the God-man, on a mission 1117 01:00:10,083 --> 01:00:14,333 to get to Jerusalem and to fulfill the Scriptures. 1118 01:00:14,375 --> 01:00:17,708 Lord Jesus, you did it. 1119 01:00:17,792 --> 01:00:22,708 You did everything that was prophesied you would do. 1120 01:00:22,792 --> 01:00:26,292 I pray for my friends, that we would believe that, 1121 01:00:26,333 --> 01:00:31,208 that we would stake our eternity on that, and that, Lord Jesus, 1122 01:00:31,292 --> 01:00:36,500 we would always be a people who trust this book and open it up 1123 01:00:36,542 --> 01:00:39,500 to learn more about you by the power of the Holy Spirit. 1124 01:00:39,542 --> 01:00:41,542 Amen.