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00:03 ♪ >> Announcer: WELCOME TO 3ABN
00:28 FALL CAMP MEETING. HOMECOMING 2018, FEATURING
00:33 INSPIRED MESSAGES FROM YOUR 3ABN FAMILY, AND UPLIFTING CHRISTIAN
00:39 MUSIC. ALL TO PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR
00:41 THE COMING OF THE LORD. >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO HOUR
00:51 NUMBER 3 OF OUR OPENING NIGHT SITTING OF 3ABN FALL CAMP
00:58 MEETING 2018. AND GOD HAS BEEN HERE IN A
01:02 MIGHTY AND STRNG WAY, AND WE PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS POWER
01:06 AND HIS PRESENCE. WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF SITTING
01:10 UNDER THE MINISTRY THIS HOUR OF PASTOR TY GIBSON.
01:18 HE IS PREACHER, TEACHER OF THE WORD, ANDALS -- AND ALSO ADDS
01:38 PASTOR. WE WATCHED TY GROW UP ON 3ABN.
01:41 HE USED TO HAVE A BIG THICK BEARD, AND HE LOOKED OLDER.
01:48 AND NOW THAT HE IS GOTTEN OLDER, HE WANTS TO LOOK YOUNGER.
01:54 [ LAUGHTER ] >> WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE
01:56 ATTENTIVE EAR AND LISTEN CAREFULLY, AND YOU EXPERIENCE
02:00 SOME -- WHAT MIGHT BE NEW INFORMATION, OR INFORMATION THAT
02:03 HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, BUT NOW COMES TO US IN A FEW AND
02:09 FRESH WAY. HE IS THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE,
02:12 SUE, AND THE FATHER OF THREE GROWN CHILDREN.
02:15 HE STILL LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR AN OLDER FELLA, AND GOD HAS
02:21 BLESSED HIM TO STUDY THE WORD AND BE A GREAT STUDENT OF THE
02:25 WORD. BEFORE HE COMES TO US AND GIVES
02:28 US HIS MESSAGE, WE'RE GOING TO BE FAVORED WITH A SELECTION BY
02:34 OUR FRIENDS AND PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG.
02:38 WOULD YOU PLEASE BOW YOUR HEAD AND PREY WITH ME.
02:43 DEAR FATHER, BE PLEASED NOW TO SPEAK TO HIM SO THAT HE CAN
02:48 SPEAK TO US OF YOUR WORDS. BLESS THIS MUSIC THAT SHALL BE
02:53 SUNG. MAY IT BE WATER TO OUR THIRSTY
02:57 SOULS, AND THEN BLESS THE WORD THAT SHALL BE SPOKEN, MAY IT
03:01 FILL US AND NOURISH US AND HELP FIT US FOR HEAVENLY HABITATION.
03:08 WE PRAISE YOU. WE LOVE YOU.
03:10 WE THANK YOU. IN JESUS NAME.
03:14 AMEN. ♪
03:35 ♪ TIME MEASURED OUT MY DAYS ♪ ♪ LIFE'S CARRIED ME ALONG ♪
03:49 ♪ IN MY SOUL I YEARNED TO FOLLOW GOD ♪
03:56 ♪ BUT I KNEW I WOULD NEVER B SO STRONG ♪
04:03 ♪ I LOOKED HARD AT THIS WORLD ♪ ♪ TO LEARN HOW HEAVEN COULD
04:11 BEGIN ♪ ♪ JUST TO END WHERE I BEGAN ♪
04:22 ♪ WHERE HUMAN EFFORTS ARE ALL IN VAIN ♪
04:32 ♪ WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ♪ ♪ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ♪
04:46 ♪ WANDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS ROAD TO NOWHERE ♪
04:55 ♪ WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ♪ ♪ AND I KNOW HOW THAT COULD GO ♪
05:04 ♪ ALL THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ♪ ♪ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING
05:20 THE RACE, WERE IT NOT FOR GRACE ♪
05:30 ♪ SO HERE IS ALL OF MY PRAISE ♪ ♪ EXPRESSED WITH ALL MY HEART ♪
05:46 ♪ OFFERED TO THE FRIEND WHO TOOK MY PLATE AND HE RAN A COURSE I
05:57 COULD NOT START ♪ ♪ AND WHEN SAW JUST HOW MUCH HIS
06:10 LOVE WOULD COST ♪ ♪ HE STILL RAN THAT FINAL MILE ♪
06:18 ♪ BETWEEN ME AND HEAVEN ♪ ♪ SO I WILL NOT BE LOST ♪
06:30 ♪ WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GRACE ♪ ♪ I CAN TELL YOU WHERE I'D BE ♪
06:43 ♪ WANDERING DOWN SOME POINTLESS ROAD TO NOWHERE ♪
06:51 ♪ WITH MY SALVATION UP TO ME ♪ ♪ AND I KNOW HOW THAT WOULD GO ♪
07:01 ♪ ALL THE BATTLES I WOULD FACE ♪ ♪ FOREVER RUNNING, BUT LOSING
07:15 THE RACE ♪ ♪ WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GRACE ♪
07:25 ♪ FOREVER RUNNING AND LOSING THE RACE WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S
07:36 GRACE ♪
07:51 >> WHAT A BLESSING. WOW.
07:55 I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SING LIKE THAT.
07:59 I WOULD MAX OUT MY CREDIT CARD AND PAY MONTHLY PAYMENTS TO THE
08:03 SECOND COMING IF I COULD SING LIKE THAT.
08:06 SERIOUSLY, WHAT A BLESSING. IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE.
08:09 I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HERE. ACCORDING TO MY MEMORY, THE LAST
08:14 TIME I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING HERE AT 3ABN WAS IN 2014.
08:18 THAT IS FOUR YEARS AGO. FOUR YEARS AGO.
08:21 IT JUST FEELS GOOD, REALLY GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU, AND TO GET
08:28 IN TO GOD'S WORD. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A WARNING
08:32 AHEAD OF TIME, BY TELLING YOU SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ME A
08:35 FEW YEARS AGO. IT CAME TO MY MIND.
08:38 I REMEMBERED IT, AND IT'S A PERFECT METAPHOR.
08:43 I WALKED INTO MY FRIEND'S HOUSE. WE WERE ABOUT TO HAVE A
08:47 DISCUSSION. HIS WIFE CAME OUT OF THE KITCHEN
08:49 WITH A PLATTER COVERED WITH SOMETHING THAT LOOKED
08:53 DELIGHTFUL. SHE SAID WOULD YOU LIKE A
08:57 BITE-SIZED BLUEBERRY MUFFIN? I SAID I WOULD.
09:01 SO I TOOK ONE, I INSERTED IT IN MY MOUTH, I CHEWED IT UP.
09:06 I SWALLOWED. SHE JUST STOOD THERE STARING AT
09:10 ME WITHOUT BLINKING. AS IF I DID SOMETHING WRONG.
09:14 SHE SAID WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER? I SAID ACTUALLY, YEAH.
09:18 SO I PUT ANOTHER ONE IN MY MOUTH, CHEWED IT UP, SWALLOWED,
09:24 NUMBER 2 GONE. SHE SAID YOU ARE PUTTING THE
09:27 WHOLE THING IN YOUR MOUTH AT ONCE.
09:30 I SAID DID YOU NOT SAY THAT THEY ARE BITE-SIZED BLUEBERRY
09:38 MUFFINS? [ LAUGHTER ]
09:39 >> SHE SAID, YES, BUT -- I SAID BUT, WHAT?
09:44 SHOW ME HOW IT IS DONE. SO SHE TOOK ONE IN HAND -- SHE
09:47 LOOK A LITTLE -- I DON'T KNOW. I WOULDN'T CALL IT A BITE.
09:53 MAYBE A NIBBLE. IT TOOK HER THREE OR FOUR
09:57 NIBBLES TO EAT A BITE-SIZED MUFFIN.
09:59 AND I WALKED AWAY SAYING THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE
10:04 WORLD. THERE ARE BIG BITE PEOPLE, AND
10:06 THERE ARE LITTLE BITE PERSON. I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TONIGHT TO
10:14 BE A BIG BITE PERSON BIBLE STUDY WISE.
10:17 WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE WHOLE THING IN OUR MOUTH AND CHEW AND
10:21 CHEW, AND MAYBE THEY ARE WHOLE WHEAT BLUEBERRY MUFFINS -- THE
10:27 ONES I HAD WERE NOT. THEY WERE TOO GOOD.
10:31 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE LIKE
10:34 WHOLE FOOD BLUE BERRY MUFFIN BIBLE STUDY.
10:37 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO TAK IN A LOT OF INFORMATION.
10:40 ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU READY TO DO THIS?
10:44 ARE THE REST OF YOU READY TO DO THIS?
10:46 [ LAUGHTER ] >> OKAY.
10:47 SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THIS IN TWO PARTS, BECAUSE WE'RE
10:51 LAUNCHING OUR LITTLE SERIES RIGHT NOW -- MY LITTLE PART IN
10:55 THIS CAMP MEETING. I HAVE FOUR SESSIONS WITH YOU.
10:58 AND MY FOUR SESSIONS ARE GOING TO BE DEALING VERY SPECIFICALLY
11:03 WITH THE CONCEPT OF COVENANT IDENTITY.
11:06 NOW IF THAT LANGUAGE IS NOT SUPER FAMILIAR TO YOU, I AM
11:11 HOPING, I AM PRAYING BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT YOU WILL NOT
11:15 ONLY BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THIS LANGUAGE, BUT THAT YOU WILL
11:18 ADOPT THIS LANGUAGE IN YOUR VIEW OF YOURSELF.
11:23 AND YOUR VIEW OF GOD, AND YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN BY THAT AS WE
11:27 JUMP INTO THE MATERIAL. NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE IT IN
11:30 TWO PARTS TONIGHT. FIRST OF ALL, I'M GOING TO GIVE
11:33 A LITTLE BIT OF AN INTRODUCTION THAT I THNK IS HELP.
11:36 SOMETHING THAT I REMIND MYSELF OF FREAK WENTLY, AND I WANT TO
11:41 REMIND YOU OF THIS AS WELL. YOU ARE NO DOUBT
11:46 AWARE -- BECAUSE HERE YOU ARE TONIGHT AT 3ABN HOMECOMING CAMP
11:50 MEETING, YOU ARE AWARE THAT SOMETHING VERY, VERY IMPORTANT
11:53 IS GOING DOWN IN HUMAN HISTORY RIGHT NOW.
11:57 WE HAPPEN TO LIVE IN THE MOST CRUCIAL PERIOD OF HUMAN HISTORY.
12:02 NOW THERE'S SOMETHING CALLED END TIME BIBLE PROPHECY.
12:13 IT'S THE END OF TIME. AND SOMETHING IS BROUGHT TO VIEW
12:18 IN BIBLE PROPHECY THAT WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES OF OVER AND
12:24 OVER AGAIN. THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF
12:27 COMPONENTS, BUT THERE'S ONE PIECE THAT IS AT THE CLIMAXIC,
12:32 THE PINNACLE OF END TIME BIBLE PROPHECY.
12:37 IT IS THE LEVER, IF YOU WILL. IT'S THE CATALYST.
12:40 IT IS THE EVENT OR PROCESS THAT ACTUALLY INITIATES, OR SETS IN
12:46 MOTION, A SERIES OF EVENTS THAT BRINGS ON THE SECOND COMING OF
12:51 JESUS. THIS IS THE CRUCIAL EVENT.
12:54 I'M GOING TO CALL IT A REVOLUTION.
12:58 NOW, THE WORD REVOLUTION -- YOU HEAR THE WORD REVOLVE THERE.
13:04 IT MEANS TO OVERTURN SOME EXISTING SYSTEM, AND TO REPLACE
13:08 IT WITH SOME KIND OF NEW SYSTEM. ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME?
13:13 THAT'S THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD.
13:15 A REVOLUTION IS THE OVERTURNING OF AN EXISTING SYSTEM, AND
13:19 REPLACING IT WITH SOME NEW SYSTEM.
13:20 ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR? ALL RIGHT.
13:27 SO FOR INSTANCE IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS, POLITICAL REVOLUTION
13:32 WOULD BE IN LANGUAGE LIKE YOU HEARD, LIKE THE FRENCH -REVOLUTION.
13:36 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
13:39 THE WORD IS USED FOR POLITICAL UPHEAVALS.
13:43 THE WORD IS ALSO USED FOR SEISMIC CHANGES IN ECONOMICS AND
13:50 IN THE WAY PEOPLE PROCESS INFORMATION, AND PRODUCE MONEY
13:54 AND CASH FLOW, AS IN LANGUAGE YOU HAVE HEARD, THE INDUSTRIAL
14:00 REVOLUTION OR THE TECHNOLOGICAL -- WHAT?
14:04 REVOLUTION. RIGHT?
14:05 BUT THE WORD IS ALSO USED WITH REGARD TO THE WAY PEOPLE PROCESS
14:10 REALITY. THE WAY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE
14:14 COMPETITION OF REALITY ITSELF. THE WAY PEOPLE THINK, AS IN THE
14:17 TERM YOU HAVE HEARD, NO DOUBT, THE SCIENTIFIC -- WHAT?
14:23 REVOLUTION. PEOPLE'S WAY OF VIEWING THE
14:27 WORLD AND THEMSELVES COMPLETELY UP ENDED SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.
14:32 NOW THE BIBLE ACTUALLY PROPHESIZED A REVOLUTION.
14:36 YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THESE WORDS.-REVOLUTION 18:1, PROPHESIZED,
14:45 FORTELLS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
14:49 A REVOLUTION. AFTER THESE THINGS JOHN SAID I
14:52 SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
14:55 NOW NOTE THE LANGUAGE, AND IT SAYS HAVING GREAT -- WHAT?
14:59 AUTHORITY OR POWER IN THE KING JAMES VERSION, AND THE EARTH WAS
15:05 ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY. NOW WHAT HAPPENS IN VERSE 2, AND
15:10 HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND HE SAID SOMETHING.
15:16 BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN. SO WE HAVE KIND OF SOMETHING
15:21 THAT IS DESCRIBED AS A KIND OF GLORY ILLUMINATION.
15:27 THAT GOES GLOBAL. THE WHOLE EARTH IS LIGHTENED
15:30 WITH HIS GLORY, RIGHT? THAT OVERTURNS AN EXISTING
15:35 PREVAILING SYSTEM CALLED BABYLON.
15:37 BABYLON IS THE SYSTEM THAT NEEDS TO BE UPENDED, OVERTURNED
15:45 DEFEATED. AND BABYLON IS A WAY OF
15:49 THINKING. SO THERE ARE FOUR ELEMENTS, IN
15:51 THE PROPHECY, WE SEE POWER, GLORY, ILLUMINATION AND BABYLON.
15:57 POWER IN THIS TEXT IS NOT REFERRING TO THE POWER OF FORCE
16:01 OR COERCION. IT'S REFERRING TO THE POWER OF
16:06 ATTRACTION, CREDIBILITY. IT'S REFERRING TO THE KIND OF
16:10 POWER THAT IS EXERTED WHEN YOU CAPTURE SOMEONE'S ATTENTION, AND
16:15 THEY LEAN IN. THEY LISTEN.
16:17 SOMETIMES WE REFER TO THIS AS MORAL AUTHORITY.
16:21 THE GLORY THAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT HERE WILL DEFINE MORE
16:26 SPECIFICALLY IN A MINUTE. THE ILLUMINATION IS TALKING
16:29 ABOUT -- NOT THE KIND WHEN THE SUN COMES UP, BUT MENTAL AND
16:36 EMOTIONAL ILLUMINATION. IN THE CHAMBERS OF OUR THINKING
16:39 AND FEELING PROCESSES WHERE THIS GLORY IS GOING TO ILLUMINATE,
16:44 AND THE RESULT OF THIS IS THAT THIS GLORY ILLUMINATION HAS THE
16:51 EFFECT OF TOPPLING BABYLON. BABYLON LOSES CREDIBILITY IN THE
16:58 WAKE OF THIS MORE ATTRACTIVE WAY OF THINKING.
17:03 NOW THIS IS REMARKABLE. WHAT DOES GLORY MEAN THEN?
17:07 BECAUSE THIS ANGEL, ILLUMINATES THE WORLD WITH GLORY.
17:11 NOW WATCH THIS. THIS IS THE WAY THE BIBLE USES
17:15 THE WORD GLORY, JUST SO WE KNOW HOW THE WORD IS EMPLOYED IN THIS
17:21 PROPHECY. PSALM 97:6, THE HEAVENS DECLARE
17:25 HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE SEE HIS WHAT -- GLORY.
17:33 IT IS TALKING ABOUT GOD, AND THE FIRST STATEMENT IS DEFINED BY
17:38 THE SEC -- SECOND.-GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
17:46 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S CHARACTER IS GOD'S GLORY, BUT
17:50 THE IDEA IS BIGGER THAN THAT. PSALM 115:1, NOT UNTO US, NOT
17:57 UNTO US, OH LORD, BUT TO YOUR NAME BE -- HERE IS OUR WORD
18:01 AGAIN -- GLORY, BECAUSE OF YOUR MERCY AND BECAUSE OF YOUR TRUTH,
18:06 SO NOW THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW THIS HEBREW FORM OF POETRY
18:11 WORKS. WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE
18:13 IS GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD'S WHAT?
18:17 HIS MERCY AND HIS TRUTH. ISAIAH 28:5 TELLS US IN THAT
18:22 DAY, THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL BE FOR A CROWN OF -- HERE IS OUR
18:28 WORD AGAIN -- GLORY, AND FOR A DIAGRAM O BEAUTY TO THE
18:35 REMANENT OF HIS PEOPLE. THIS IS REMARKABLE.
18:38 WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE BEAUTY OF GOD.
18:43 THE NEW TESTAMENT PICKS UP THE THEME OF GLORY AND TELLS US IN
18:48 JOHN 114, THAT THE GLORY PERSONIFIED IN CHRIST IS HIS
18:53 GRACE AND TRUTH, THEN AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS, IN LUKE 2:14,
19:00 GLORY IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD'S GOODWILL TOWARD ALL OF HUMANITY.
19:06 GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST THE ANGELS SING AT THE SPECTACLE OF
19:12 THE INCARNATION OF GOD IN THE FLESH BRINGING GOODWILL TO
19:17 HUMANITY, AND THEN AT THE VERY TIPPY TOP OF THE GLORY CONCEPT
19:23 IN SCRIPTURE IS THE CROSS OF CALVARY.
19:27 JESUS REFERRING TO HIS DEATH AT THE CROSS IN WHICH HE WAS POOR
19:32 OUT HIS LIFE'S BLOOD FOR YOU AND ME AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
19:37 JESUS SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, THE HOUR HAS COME -- THE HOUR HAS
19:41 COME THAT THE SON OF MAN -- THAT'S HIMSELF SHOULD BE
19:45 WHAT? GLORIFIED.
19:47 AND THEN IN VERSE 32, AND I WILL DRAW.
19:51 SO THE GLORY OF JESUS IS MANIFESTED IN THE GIVING OF HIS
19:58 LIFE, FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD. IN OTHER WORDS THE GLORY OF GOD
20:03 IS IN FACT THE BEAUTY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND GOODNESS AND
20:09 MERCY AND TRUTH OF THE CHARACTER OF GOD MANIFESTED IN CHRIST.
20:14 SO REVELATION 18:1-2 IS A PROPHECY THAT IS TELLING US THAT
20:21 SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN IN ORDER TO INITIATE THE FINAL COMING.
20:27 THE FINAL PROPHECY TO BE FULFILLED IS A GLOBAL GLORY
20:35 REVOLUTION. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE?
20:37 YOU KNOW WHAT I AM? BY COMMISSION.
20:39 WE SOMETIMES CALL IT THE GOSPEL COMMISSION.
20:42 HERE IS A JOB TITLE FOR YOU AND ME, WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT I AM, YOU
20:47 ARE A FAME AGENT FOR JESUS. YOUR WHOLE GOAL IN LIFE IS TO
20:54 MAGNIFY HIS BLEWTY AND GLORY, AND MAKE HIM FAMOUS IN THE MINDS
20:59 AND HEARTS OF HUMAN BEINGS. TO CLEAR UP THE MISCONCEPTIONS
21:04 THAT BABYLON HAS IMP IMPROSE -- IMPOSED ON HUMAN
21:12 MINDS TO LIFT THE VEIL FROM DOCUMENTS LIKE PREDETERMINATION,
21:18 PREDESTINATION. STRIPPING HIM OF BEINGS OF FREE
21:21 CHOICE TO LOVE GOD. THE ENTIRE CYCLE EDIFICE OF
21:27 BABYLON WILL COME DOWN IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL, AND THE
21:30 GOAL OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THESE LAST DAYS IS TO TOPPLE
21:35 THAT SYSEM WITH A PURE THEOLOGY THAT GLORIFIES THE CHARACTER OF
21:40 GOD. OR LET'S SAY IT THIS WAY, I'M
21:42 GOING TO SUMMARIZE NOW. BABYLON IN END TIMES PROPHECY IS
21:47 THE SYSTEM THAT ENGAGES ITS POWER, IT'S SYSTEM, BABYLON IS
21:55 THE SYSTEM THAT ENGAGES IN THE UGL
22:07 UGLY-IFINDICATION OF GOD. DON'T LOOK THAT UP.
22:09 IF YOU NEED A WORD AND IS THERE ISN'T ONE, YOU MAKE IT UP.
22:14 [ LAUGHTER ] >> SO BABYLON IS THE SYSTEM THAT
22:19 UGLIFIES THE SYSTEM THAT MAKE GOD LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF GOD
22:25 THAT CAN ONLY BE SERVED OUT OF FEAR OR BE DENIED WITHOUT
22:29 BELIEF. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BABYLONIAN
22:32 SYSTEM, YOU CAN ONLY EITHER BE A SLAVE TO GOD, OR WALK AWAY IN
22:44 ATHEISM BECAUSE IT'S UNTENABLE. BUT THE GLORY REVOLUTION IS A
22:49 GLORY TO GOD REVOLUTION THAT BEAUTIFIES THE CHARACTER OF GOD
22:53 BEFORE THE WORLD. WHAT I'M HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU
22:57 THIS WEEK IS A PIECE OF THAT BEAUTIFICATION OF THE GLORY OF
23:06 GOD. I HAVE BEEN ON A JOURNEY THE
23:07 LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND THAT JOURNEY HAS RESULTED IN A BOOK
23:12 THAT I JUST SAW HERE AT 3ABN ACTUALLY YESTERDAY.
23:15 IT JUST GOT PUBLISHED, AND THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE -- I'M NOT A
23:22 LITERATURE EVANGELIST, I DON'T CARE IF YOU BUY IT, BUT I THINK
23:26 YOU SHOULD. THIS BOOK HAS OPENED TO MY MIND
23:30 THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S CHARACTER ON AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL.
23:36 NOW WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS TITLE? THE TITLE OF THE BOOK IS "THE
23:42 SUN SHIP OF CHRIST," AND THE SUBTITLE IS "EXCLEARING THE
23:48 COVENANT IDENTITY OF MAN." >> THE JOURNEY FOR ME BEGAN WITH
23:52 A PROBLEM. ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHERE I WAS
23:55 GOING PEOPLE WERE ASKING THE SAME QUESTION.
24:01 SOMEBODY STOPPED ME IN A SALSA AISLE, AND SAID, HEY, HAVE YOU
24:07 HEARD OF THE ANTI-TRENTARIAN MOVEMENT?
24:22 AND THIS WAS THE QUESTION. AND THERE'S A TENSION IN
24:28 SCRIPTURE -- FOR EXAMPLE -- TRACK WITH ME HERE.
24:30 LET'S SET OURSELVES UP WITH A PROBLEM TO SOLVE.
24:34 ON THE ONE, JOHN 3:16, JESUS IS CALLED GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
24:41 NOW IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE TEXT, AND ALL YOU HAVE -- LISTEN
24:45 IT TO VERY CAREFULLY NOW -- IF ALL YOU HAVE IS THIS PASSAGE, OR
24:51 IF YOU BLOCK YOUR VISION OUTSIDE OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE
24:54 PASSAGE, YOU JUST LOOK AT THE TEXT AND ANALYZE IT, LIKE UP
24:59 CLOSE IN A FOREST, LOOKING AT THE BARK ON A TREE AND THINK YOU
25:04 SEE THE FOREST. IF YOU LOOK AT THE TEXT, YOU MAY
25:08 REASON, WELL, HE SAYS HE IS THE SON AND GOD IS THE ONE WHO IS
25:12 THE FATHER, AND WE KNOW A FATHER AND SON DON'T COEXIST
25:18 CONCURRENTLY, CHRONOLOGICALLY. A FATHER HAS TO PRECEDE THE SON,
25:25 THEREFORE, JESUS MUST HAVE SOME INTO EXISTENCE AT SOME POINT.-pNOW CONNECTED WITH THIS IDEA IS
25:35 THE IDEA THAT IF JESUS BEGAN TO EXIST AT SOME POINT IN ETERNITY
25:40 PAST, IN SOME FORM. CALL IT BIRTH, CREATION,
25:44 WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, BUT HE DIDN'T EXIST AS A SECOND
25:48 PERSON FROM THE FATHER, AND THEN HE BEGAN TO EXIST AS A
25:52 FREE-STANDING PERSON FROM THE FATHER, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO
25:56 SPLICE THAT. IF THAT'S TRUE, WE'RE DOWN TO
25:59 THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT THE SAME MOVEMENT SAYS WELL,
26:03 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FATHER, AND THEREFORE, NOT A
26:08 THIRD PERSON THAT COEXISTS ETERNALLY WITH THE FATHER AND
26:12 THE SON. SO THIS IS THE REASONING IF YOU
26:15 LOOK AT THE TEXT ON ITS OWN. BUT THEN YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT
26:18 OF A PROBLEM. AND HERE IS THE PROBLEM YOU END
26:21 UP WITH, THAT IS DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH.
26:24 THE SAME SCRIPTURE THAT CALLS JESUS GOD'S SON EXPLICITLY TELLS
26:32 US JESUS IS NON-OTHER THAN GOD. NOT JUST IN PASSING AS THE
26:37 JEHOVAH WITNESSES DO, WHERE THEY TRANSLATE IT A GOD, WITH A
26:44 LOWER-CASED G AS IF HE WEREN'T GOD INHERENTLY, BUT WAS MADE
26:50 GOD, WHICH HAS ALL KINDS OF IMPLICATIONS FOR SPIRITUALISM,
26:56 BECAUSE IF ANY BEING COULD BE DEEIAFIED, THEN THE REST OF US
27:03 ARE OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DIAFICATOIN.
27:13 IF WE CAN BE MADE DIVINE THEN WHAT IS TO STOP US FROM GOING IN
27:20 THE DIRECTION THAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING DEEIAFIED.
27:25 NOW WE'RE GOING TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT, PHILIPPINES 2:5-6, WHO
27:33 BEING IN THE FORM, BEING IN VERY-pNATURE GOD, DIDN'T CONSIDER IT SOMETHING TO BE HELD ON TO OR
27:42 GRASPED OR BE ROBBERY, TO BE EQUAL AS GOD.
27:48 EQUAL WITH GOD. NOW THIS IS FASCINATING.
27:52 THE BIBLE IS FULL OF BOTH SETS OF STATEMENTS.
27:55 SON OF GOD. GOD.
27:57 GREATEST MYSTERY OF GODLINESS, GOD WAS MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH.
28:04 MATTHEW 1:23, THE ANGEL TELLS JOSEPH AND MARY, CALL THIS CHILD
28:12 EMMANUEL. GOD WITH US.
28:13 THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH 9, EXPLICITLY CALLS THE ONE WHO
28:19 WILL BE BORN OF MARY, THE EVER-LASTING FATHER, WHICH
28:27 THROWS US FOR A LOOP. EVER-LASTING GOD.
28:32 REVELATION 1, CALLS HIM THE ALL MIGHTY.
28:36 HE CALLS HIMSELF IN JOHN 8, THE I AM THAT INTERACTED WITH ALL OF
28:45 THE OLD TESTAMENT PATRIARCHS AND PROFITS.
28:49 SO YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE LANGUAGE THAT EXPLICITLY STATES
28:53 HE IS GOD, VERY GOD. HOW COULD HE BE GOD IN ANY KIND
28:59 OF ETERNAL SENSE THAT WE COMPREHEND, DEE ATTY, AND HAVE
29:05 NOT EXISTED AT SOME POINT IN THE REMOTE PAST, AND THEN SOMEHOW
29:12 BEEN BIRTHED, ACTUALIZED, CALL IT WHATEVER YOU WANT?
29:18 HOW DO YOU -- THIS IS THE PROBLEM -- HOW DO YOU RECONCILE
29:23 THESE IDENTITY. WELL, WHAT HAS BEEN HELPFUL FOR
29:29 ME IS TO BACK UP FROM THE BARK ON THE TREE, TO PAN OUT.
29:34 I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR TEN YEARS OR SO NOW, WHEN IN DOUBT, PAN
29:40 OUT. IF YOU DON' KNOW WHAT A
29:43 PARTICULAR VERSE IS SAYING, OR YOU ARE GETTING BEFUDDLED BY
29:49 ANALYZING OR MICRO MANAGING WORDS IN A SINGLE VERSE, PAN OUT
29:53 FROM THE SINGLE VERSE, STO MICROMANAGING WORDS AND VERSES,
29:59 PAN OUT AND GRASP THE PANORAMA. SO I'M GOING TO SUGGEST TO YOU,
30:05 SCRIPTURE IS NOT A SYSTEMIC THEOLOGY TEXTBOOK.
30:09 NOW I DO IT MYSEF, BUT THE BOOK ITSELF IS NOT SYSTEMATIC
30:15 THEOLOGY. YOU CAN DERIVE SYSTEMATIC
30:18 THEOLOGY FROM THE BOOK. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT ELSE THE
30:22 BIBLE IS NOT. IT'S NOT AN ARSENAL OF VERSES TO
30:28 BE MOBILIZED TO PROVE ANY PARTICULAR DOCTRINE.
30:33 NOW YOU CAN USE IT THAT WAY, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE THING ITSELF
30:37 IS. WHAT IS THE THING ITSELF?
30:39 THE BIBLE IS A STORY. IT IS A NARRATIVE.
30:41 IT IS A NARRATIVE. IT HAS A BEGINNING.
30:46 IT HAS A MIDDLE. IT HAS AN END.
30:49 AND AT THE BEGINNING, YOU REALIZE IT IS GOING SOMEWHERE.
30:52 WHERE IT IS GOING FROM GENESIS IT'S GOING SOMEWHERE.
30:57 WHERE IS IT GOING? IT'S GOING TO JESUS.
31:01 IN THE MOST CRYSTAL CLEAR BEAUTIFUL SENSE IMAGINABLE.
31:05 SO LET'S LOOK AT THE BIBLE AS A STORY.
31:09 LET'S PAN OUT OUR QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE THAT WE
31:14 FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD?
31:17 WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE THAT HE IS -- PAUL EVN SAYS THE
31:23 FIRSTBORN SON OF GOD? WHAT IS THIS LANGUAGE BEGOTTEN,
31:28 OR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. WELL, GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING
31:32 OF THE STORY, AND THIS IS MIND BLOWING AND SO BEAUTIFUL.
31:35 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY, WE'RE TOLD THAT GOD CREATED MAN
31:39 IN HIS OWN -- WHAT? IMAGE.
31:42 I'M HIGHLIGHTING THE WORDS CREATED AN IMAGE.
31:46 HE HAS CREATED HIS IMAGE. NOW THE MAN AND THE WOMAN COMPOS
31:51 THIS IMAGE IN TOTALITY, BUT THE MAN HERE IN THE TEXT -- WATCH
31:56 THIS -- THE MAN IN THE TEXT, IF YOU RUN FORWARD IN THE
32:00 NARRATIVE, YOU COME TO LUKE 3, AND THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS,
32:05 WHERE LUKE IS TRYING TO CRACK THE SECRET OF HIS IDENTITY.
32:12 LUKE SAYS WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHO HE IS.
32:16 HERE IS HE GENEALOGY. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY THE
32:22 GENEALOGY? NOBODY EVER READ THEM START TO
32:24 FINISH. WELL, MAYBE YOU HAVE.
32:25 IF YOU READ THEM START TO FINISH, YOU'LL FIND THAT THERE
32:30 IS AN INTERNAL NARRATIVE LOGIC TO THE GENEALOGIES.
32:35 JESUS IS BEING INTRODUCED TO US IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE BY TELLING
32:39 US THE STORY OF HUMANITY, AND EACH PERSON IN THE GENEALOGY IS
32:45 THE SON OF SOME -- LISTEN CAREFULLY -- HUMAN FATHER.
32:51 DAVID IS THE SON OF JESTSY, WHO IS THE SON OF OBED, AND IT GOES
33:00 BACK AND BACK UNTIL YOU GET TO ADAM, AND THERE IS NO HUMAN
33:06 BEING BEFORE HIM TO NAME. IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK, SO AND
33:11 SO WHO IS THE SON OF SO AN SO, WHO IS THE SON OF ADAM, WHO IS
33:15 THE SON OF GOD. THERE IS OUR LANGUAGE.
33:18 OKAY. SO ADAM IS THE SON OF GOD IN
33:24 UNIQUE SENSE. IN A PRIMARY SENSE.
33:28 ALL OF US ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD BY PROCREATION.
33:34 ADAM AND EVE BY CREATION. ADAM AND EVE DIDN'T HAVE HUMAN
33:40 PARENTS. ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR?
33:42 WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THY HAD BELLY BUTTONS, BECAUSE YOU WOULD
33:46 HAVE TO HAVE A MOM OR DAD FOR THAT UNLESS GOD PUT THEM THEE
33:52 FOR AESTHETIC PURPOSES. [ LAUGHTER ]
33:55 >> SO YOU HAVE ADAM AND EVE, AND ADAM IS THE SON OF GOD.
34:00 LISTEN, ADAM IS TE SON OF GOD IN A UNIQUE PRIMARY SENSE.
34:05 NOW WATCH THIS. GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN
34:08 IMAGE. THIS GUY'S NAME IS ADAM.
34:11 THAT'S GENESIS 1. BUT LOOK AT GENESIS 5.
34:18 AND ADAM HERE IS YOUR LANGUAGE -- BEGOT A WHAT -- SON
34:23 IN HIS OWN LIKENESS AFTER HIS IMAGE.
34:25 SO YOU HAVE A PATTERN THAT IS INITIATED AT THE BEGINNING OF
34:30 THE STORY. WHAT IS THE PATTERN?
34:34 CREATION, PROCREATION. GOD CREATES THE FIRST MAN, THE
34:37 FIRST WOMAN, AND THEN THE FIRST MAN, THE FIRST WOMAN, THEY BEGIN
34:43 A GENEALOGICAL PROCESS OF PRO CREATION.
34:47 THIS IS GENESIS. NOW AS THE STORY UNFOLDS, WE
34:53 REALIZE THAT SONSHIP IS THE MEANS BY WHICH IMAGE IS
34:59 TRANSMITTED. THE WHOLE POINT OF THE
35:02 STORY -- THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND YOU
35:05 ARE READING ABOUT JESUS, PAUL SAYS BY THE WAY, HE IS THE SON
35:11 OF GOD AND THE IMAGE OF GOD FROM WHOM WILL COME BE BRETHREN.
35:21 WHAT? WELL, WHEN YOU COME TO ROMANS
35:24 YOU REALIZE THAT JESUS IS THE MULLIGAN FOR THE FALL OF THE
35:30 HUMAN RACE. HE IS THE DO OVER.
35:32 JESUS IS THE SECOND ADAM. JESUS IS INITIATING THE NEW
35:37 GENESIS. A NEW BEGINNING, BECAUSE THE
35:41 IMAGE OF GOD WAS LOST AND SO ADAM LOST THE CAPACITY FOR
35:48 TRANSMITTING FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, THE IMAGE OF GOD.
35:51 SO WHAT IS THE FALL OF MAN KIND IN THIS CONTEXT?
35:56 THE FALL OF MANKIND IS THE LOSS OF GOD'S IMAGE, BUT MORE THAN
36:00 THAT. IT IS THE LOSS AS WELL, OF THE
36:05 CAPACITY TO PROCREATE GOD'S IMAGE.
36:08 GENERATION TO GENERATION. THERE WAS AN INTERRUPTION IN THE
36:12 PROCESS OF THE TRANSMISSION OF GOD'S IMAGE FROM FATHER TO
36:19 CHILDREN AND ONWARD DOWN THROUGH THE AGES.
36:22 SO YOU REALIZE THAT SOMETHING IS GOING ON HERE.
36:25 THE STORY HAS A SHAPE TO IT. GENESIS 3:15, IS WHEN GOD COMES
36:30 AND HE SAYS THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IN ORDER TO RECTIFY
36:35 THE FALL. THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO,
36:37 AND HE'S SPEAKING TO THE SERPENT WHO TEMPTED OUR FIRST PARENTS,
36:47 HE IS SPEAKING IN THE PRESENCE OF ADAM AND EVE.
36:51 GENESIS 3:15, IT IS THE FIRST GOSPEL PROMISE AND IT IS THE
36:57 FIRST GOSPEL PROPHECY. IT IS A PROPHECY PROMISE.
37:00 A PROMISE PROPHECY. IT IS BOTH MESSONIC IT FORTH
37:14 TELLS THE COMING OF THE SON OF GOD.
37:17 AND IT FORTELLS THE COMPLETE DEFEAT OF SATAN.
37:23 THIS IS THE FIRST THING OUT OF GOD'S MOUTH IN DESCRIBING THE
37:27 PLAN OF SALVATION. I WILL PUT HOSTILITY BETWEEN YOU
37:37 SATAN, GOD IS ADDRESSING SATAN HERE, I WILL PUT HOSTILITY
37:46 BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN. WOMAN KIND TAKES ON
37:55 SIGNIFICANCE. AND ISRAEL ITSELF BECOMES A
37:56 CORPORATE WOMAN, A CORPORATE BRIDE.
37:59 AND THE CHURCH COMES A CORPORATE END TIMES GOD.
38:05 SO I'M GOING TO PUT HOSTILITY BETWEEN YOU, SATAN, AND THE
38:12 WOMAN, EVE, AND THE CHURCH, AND BETWEEN -- HERE IS THE LANGUAGE,
38:17 YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS. OFFSPRING.
38:21 YOUR OFFSPRING AND HERS. YOU HAVE HEARD THE TERM, NO
38:26 DOUBT, THE SPAWN OF SATAN. NEVER EVER USE THAT TO DESCRIBE
38:31 SOMEBODY YOU ARE UPSET WITH. IT HAS PROPHETIC SERIOUS
38:36 THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS MASS
38:38 AGE IS WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT TWO LINAGES WILL BE INITIATED FROM
38:44 GENESIS DOWN THROUGH THE AGES. TWO THEOLOGICAL LINAGES, TWO
38:53 LINAGES THAT CARRY AN OPINION, A VIEW, A PERSPECTIVE ON THE
38:57 CHARACTER OF GOD. A FALSE THEOLOGY CALL SYSTEM
39:01 WILL BE INITIATED AND CARRIED DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, AND A
39:06 TRUE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM WILL BE INITIATED AND CARRIED ON DOWN
39:09 THROUGH THE AGES. THE PROPHECY IS SAYING THAT
39:13 SATAN WILL BE DEFEATED AND IT SAYS THE EMNITY BETWEEN THE
39:24 OFFSPRING, HE -- NOW IT'S SINGULAR -- HE WILL CRUSH YOUR
39:30 HEAD AND YOU WILL STRICT HIS HEEL.
39:32 GOD IS SAYING TO THE SERPENT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING YOUR
39:41 WAY. SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE BORN OF
39:43 THE WOMAN, A SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL.
39:46 THERE WILL BE A LOT OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, A LOT OF PROCREATION,
39:52 BUT A SINGULAR HE, A SINGULAR OFFSPRING EVENTUALLY WILL BE
39:59 BORN, AND YOU WILL WOUND HIM IN THE PROCESS OF HIM CRUSHING YOU,
40:05 AND COMPLETELY DEFEATING YOUR KINGDOM.
40:09 HE WILL BE WOUNDED. YOU WILL BE COMPLETELY DEFEATED.
40:14 THIS IS THE MOTHER OF ALL PROPHECIES.
40:19 THIS IS THE INITIATING OF BOTH A MESSIONIC, AND A FORETELLING OF
40:30 WHAT IS GOING TO BE GOING ON AND REACH ITS CLIMAX WITH REVELATION
40:35 18 THAT WE BEGAN WITH. AS GENESIS 3:15 FORTELLS THE
40:44 PRO PROPHECY, THE PROPHECY TELLS US
40:46 THERE IS GOING TO BE AN OFFSPRING.
40:50 WE'RE BACKING UP FROM PROOF -TEXTING. WE'RE FINE WITH PROOF TEXTING AS
40:54 LONG AS OUR PROOF TEXTING IS IN CONTENT -- OKAY -- BUT WE'RE
40:59 BACKING UP RIGHT NOW. WE'RE SAYING AH, WHAT IS GOING
41:02 ON IN THE STORY OF THE SCRIPTURE?
41:05 WELL, GENESIS 3:15 FORTELLS AN OFFSPRING.
41:14 SO GOD IS INITIATING A GEOLOGICAL LINAGE.
41:18 SO GOD CALLS A GUY NAMED ABRAHAM, ALONG WITH SARAH, OUT
41:26 OF BABYLON, YOU GUYS. WHICH IS THEN RECONSTITUTED
41:40 ESCATOLGICALLY. SO ABRAHAM AND SARAH COME OUT OF
41:45 BABYLON, AND GOD'S COVENANT PROMISE -- I'M USING THE
41:51 WORD -- AFFIRMS. BECAUSE WHERE DO WE KNOW THE
41:56 PROMISE HAS ITS ROOTS? GENESIS 3:15.
42:00 SO GOD ISN'T PROMISING ANYTHING TO ABRAHAM THAT HE HASN'T
42:06 ALREADY PROMISED. THE COVENANT PROMISE IS NOW
42:10 EXPANDING WITH ABRAHAM. SO THE COVENANT IS AFFIRMED WITH
42:17 ABRAHAM. OKAY.
42:18 NOW WATCH THIS. AND A SONSHIP LINAGE IS
42:23 ESTABLISHED. GOD SAYS, ABRAHAM, SARAH, HERE
42:26 IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A SON, AND
42:30 YOUR SON WILL BE THE SON OF PROMISE, THE SON OF THE
42:36 COVENANT, AND THAT SON IS THE ONE THAT I'M GOING TO CARRY
42:42 FORTH THE COVENANT MISSION WITH. SO GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, LISTEN,
42:47 HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. GENESIS 12:3, IN YOUR -- THAT IS
42:52 IN YOUR SEED, IN YOUR OFFSPRING, IN YOUR LINAGE, IN YOU, ALL OF
42:59 THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED.
43:03 THIS IS GENESIS 3:15 MAGNIFIED. MESSIAH IS GOING TO COME THROUGH
43:11 THE LINAGE OF ABRAHAM EVENTUALLY, AND THE RESULT WILL
43:17 BE SOME KIND OF UNIVERSAL GLOBAL EFFECT.
43:21 THINK OF REVOLUTION 18:1. THE WHOLE EARTH LIGHTENED WITH
43:25 HIS GLORY. A GLOBAL VIRAL MOVEMENT OF
43:29 BLESSING. THE WHOLE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED
43:31 IN THIS MESSIAH. SO ABRAHAM AND SARAH SAY THAT
43:37 MEANS WE NEED TO HAVE A SON, AND WE'RE GETTING UP THERE IN YEARS.
43:41 IN FACT SARAH FINDS IT HILARIOUS TO THINK THAT ABRAHAM CAN PULL
43:47 THIS OFF, AND SO SHE MAKES A SUGGESTION AND HE BUYS THE
43:53 SUGGESTION -- I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW -- HE
43:57 PULLED IT OFF, SHE COULDN'T -- ANYWAY, IT DOESN'T -MATTER.
44:02 THE POINT IS THIS, THEY WERE OLD.
44:03 THAT'S THE POINT. SO THEY DO THE WHOLE THING WITH
44:07 THE HAND MAIDEN AND GET ISHMAEL. TECHNICALLY ISHMAEL IS ABRAHAM'S
44:22 FIRST-BORN SON, BUT COVENANTALLY, HE IS NOT.
44:28 SO GOD SAYS, HE IS A FINE LITTLE BOY -- I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAID
44:33 THAT -- BUT THAT'S NOT HIM. I SAID THAT THE PROMISE WAS
44:37 GOING TO BE FULFILLED THROUGH YOU AND SARAH.
44:44 NOT YOU AND HAGAR. SO ISAC COMES ALONG.
44:50 AND ISAAC IS THE SECOND-BORN BUT-HE IS THE COVENANT CHILD. HE IS THE NARRATIVE CHILD.
44:56 HE IS THE SON THAT WILL CARRY THE LINAGE FORWARD, SO ALL OF
45:01 THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED.
45:05 SO ABRAHAM AND THEN COMES ISAAC, AND ISAAC IS EXPLICITLY CALLED
45:13 THE SON OF PROMISE, AND THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON IN THE BOOK OF
45:18 HEBREWS -- THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF ABRAHAM.
45:23 ABRAHAM I THINK HAD SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE SONS.
45:27 ISAAC WAS BY NO MEANS ABRAHAM'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, BUT IN THE
45:38 COVENANTAL SENSE, YOU CAN SAY THAT ISAAC WAS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN
45:42 COVENANT SON. HE IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF
45:47 PROMISE. AND THEN COMES JACOB, HIS
45:50 BROTHER WAS THE FIRSTBORN TECHNICALLY.-JACOB IS THE SECOND BORN
45:58 CHRONOLOGICALLY, BUT JACOB BECOMES THE FIRSTBORN, THE CHILD
46:02 OF PROMISE, THE SON OF THE COVENANT.
46:07 AGAIN, EMPHASIZING THAT GOD ISN'T SUPER CONCERNED WITH
46:13 CHRONOLOGICAL BIRTH. GOD IS CONCERNED WITH CHARACTER
46:17 MESSAGE, PURPOSE, PLAN, COVENANT.
46:19 AND THAT IS THE THING THAT IS BEING WOVEN THROUGH HISTORY.
46:27 AND THEN JACOB HAS -- HOW MANY SONS?
46:31 12 SONS. THEY COLLECTIVELY REPRODUCE AND
46:37 BECOME A NATION CALLED ISRAEL. THEY TAKE THE NAME OF JACOB,
46:42 THEIR FATHER AFTER HIS WRESTLING MATCH WITH THE LORD, AND GOD
46:47 CHANGE'S JACOB'S NAME FROM JACOB TO ISRAEL, ONE WHO PREVAILS WITH
46:51 GOD. SO NOW WATCH THIS.
46:53 ISRAEL BECOMES GOD'S CORPORATE SON.
46:55 WATCH THE LANGUAGE NOW. WHEN ISRAEL IS IN EGYPTIAN
47:01 BONDAGE FOR SOME 400 YEARS, NOTICE THAT GOD COMES TO MOSES
47:08 IN EXODUS 4:22-23 AND GOD USES VERY SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN HIS
47:17 ADDRESS TO PHARAOH THROUGH MOSES.
47:19 GOD SAYS ISRAEL -- HE IS TALKING THROUGH MOSES TO PHARAOH.
47:24 ISRAEL IS MY WHAT?-MY SON, MY FIRSTBORN. ISRAEL, THE NATION, THE
47:32 CORPORATE BODY IS GOD'S FIRST-BORN SON.
47:34 SO I SAY TO YOU, LET MY SON GO. WE'RE BEGINNING TO REALIZE THAT
47:43 YOU CAN'T INTERPRET THE SONSHIP LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN
47:52 A V-- VACUUM. THEY ONLY HAVE COHERENT MEANING
47:56 IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS NARRATIVE.
47:59 IN FACT ALL OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE SONSHIP OF CHRIST IN THE NEW
48:03 TESTAMENT IS DERIVED FROM OLD -pTESTAMENT NARRATIVE AND PASSAGES.
48:09 HERE ISRAEL IS CALLED MY SON, MY FIRSTBORN.
48:15 IN DEUTERONOMY 32, IS THE FIRST TIME IN SCRIPTURE THAT GOD IS
48:22 CALLED FATHER. AND IT'S IN A SPECIFIC CONTEXT.
48:26 MOSES IS TALKING TO ISRAEL. HE IS REMAINING THEM OF GOD'S
48:31 COVENANT PROMISES AND THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPTIAN
48:36 BONDAGE. AND MOSES SAYS TO THE CHILDREN
48:38 OF ISRAEL, IS HE NOT YOUR -- WHAT?
48:42 YOUR FATHER? GOD.
48:45 IS GOD NOT YOUR FATHER. WHAT HAD GOD REFERRED TO ISRAEL
48:49 AS A NATION? WHAT LANGUAGE DID NOT USE IN YOU
48:52 ARE MY SON -- MY FIRST-BORN SON. GOD TAKES ON THE ROLE OF FATHER
48:58 TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL, APART FROM ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS,
49:03 WHO ARE BEING PRESIDED OVER BY PAGAN DEITIES, DEMONS
49:13 MASQUERADING AS GOD. IS HE NOT YOUR PHATTER?
49:16 AND THEN THEY -- THE OTHER NATIONS, THEY SACRIFICED TO
49:20 DEMONS, AND NOT TO GOD. TO GOD, THEY DID NOT KNOW.
49:27 LOWER CASED GOD'S WHICH ARE IN THIS CASE, DEMONS MASQUERADING
49:33 AS GODS. THE NEW ARRIVES THAT YOUR
49:36 FATHERS DID NOT FEAR. NOW WATCH THIS.
49:40 OF THE ROCK WHO WHAT? BEGOT YOU.
49:43 GOD IS TELLING ISRAEL, I BEGOT YOU.
49:47 THAT IS -- I GAVE BIRTH TO YOU, AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL WAS
49:52 THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE.
49:55 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT CHRONOLOGICAL BIRTH AND SONSHIP.
50:03 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT ETALOGICAL, BIRTH.
50:11 IT'S TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL IS GOD'S BEGOTTEN SON, AND YOU ARE
50:16 NOT MINDFUL AND YOU FORGOT THE GOD WHO FATHERED YOU.
50:21 THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF THE LANGUAGE OF GOD'S FATHERHOOD IN
50:24 THE NEW TESTAMENT. IT DOESN'T PREDATE THIS
50:38 OCCURRENCE. BEFORE THIS GOD SOMETHING ELSE,
50:40 BUT NOW GOD IS TELLING A STORY, AND CARRYING OUT A PURPOSE.
50:46 SO MOSES ESSENTIALLY TELLS ISRAEL, GOD IS YOUR FATHER,
50:50 ISRAEL AS A NATION. THE OTHER NATIONS, THEY HAVE
50:55 THEIR FATHER GODS, BUT GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD IS YOUR
51:01 FATHER, AND MOSES TELLS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, YOU ARE
51:04 GOD'S ONY BEGOTTEN SON AMONG THE NATIONS.
51:08 NOW BACK UP AND REMEMBER THE PROPHECY PROMISE OF GENESIS
51:14 3:15. REMEMBER ABRAHAM AND SARAH
51:17 CALLED OUT SO THAT THROUGH THEIR LINAGE, HOW MANY NATIONS OF THE
51:20 EARTH WOULD BE BLESSED? ALL OF THE NATIONS.
51:24 LISTEN, ISRAEL WAS NOT CALLED OUT TO STAY OUT, BUT TO BE SENT
51:31 IN. ISRAEL WAS CALLED OUT TO BE THE
51:36 CORPORATE SON OF GOD AS A NATION IN ORDER TO WITNESS TO THE OTHER
51:41 NATIONS THAT WOULD BE INCORPORATED IN TO ISRAEL BECOME
51:51 NATION'S SONS OF GOD AS WELL. THIS IS THE PLAN OF SALVATION
51:56 UNFOLDING.-ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, ISRAEL, AND THEN THERE'S KING DAVID.
52:04 SURE ENOUGH PSALM 2, DAVID IS CALLED THE ANOINTED, WHICH IS
52:09 THE WORD MESSIAH IN HEBREW, BUT HERE IS WHAT IS FASCINATING.
52:16 IN PSALM 2, DAVID IS CALLED GOD'S SON.
52:21 THE LORD REFERS TO HIM SPECIFICALLY AS MY SON, AND
52:24 TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU, DAVID.
52:28 WHAT? DIDN'T DAVID HAVE A MOM AND A
52:32 DAD LITERLLY, BIOLOGICALLY? WAS NOT JESSE HIS FATHER?
52:38 GOD IS NOT TALKING ABOUT CHRONOLOGY.
52:41 GOD'S TALKING ABOUT COVENANT. DAVID, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO I
52:46 HAVE NOW DESIGNATED AS MY COVENANT CONTINUATION THROUGH
52:54 HISTORY. YOU ARE THE MESSIAH, ANOINTED
52:58 ONE IN THE LOWER CASE, AN YOU ARE THE MESSIAH THAT IS
53:13 COMING. YOU ARE THE ONE, DAVID.
53:16 YOU ARE MY SON, AND GOD SAYS THAT DAVID IS HIS BEGOTTEN SON.
53:23 HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER.
53:29 AND PSALM 89, SAME THING. JUST LIKE PSALM 2.
53:36 HERE WE -- WE READ IN PSALM 89, HE SHALL CRY OUT TO ME.
53:43 THAT IS KING DAVID AND LATER ON THE MESSIAH WILL CRY OUT TO ME,
53:49 YOU ARE MY FATHER. YOU ARE MY FATHER.
53:52 MY GOD, AND THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION, QUOTING DEUTERONOMY
53:58 32, WHERE THE LANGUAGE COMES FROM.
54:02 ALSO I WILL MAKE HIM MY FIRSTBORN, BUT NOTE THE -LANGUAGE.
54:06 GOD SAYS OF DAVID, I WILL MAKE HIM MY FIRSTBORN.
54:10 IT'S A MAKING. IT'S A DESIGNATION.
54:13 IT'S AN ASSIGNMENT. IT'S NOT -- IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
54:18 WITH BIOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS. YOU ARE MY FIRSTBORN, AND THE
54:23 HIGHEST OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.
54:27 MY MERCY I WILL KEEP FOR HIM FOREVER AND MY COVENANT SHALL
54:34 STAND WITH HIM, HIM, KING DAVID. DAVID IS THE ONE.
54:40 SO THERE IS A LINAGE THAT IS UNFOLDING.
54:44 THE STORY IS BEING WOVEN THROUGH HISTORY, AND THEN COMES SALOMON.
54:50 AND SALOMON IS THE SON OF DAVD. DAVID SAYS TO GOD, NOW I WANT TO
54:55 BUILD A TEMPLE FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD.
54:57 AND GOD SAYS YOU CAN'T BUILD A TEMPLE FOR MY WORSHIP, BECAUSE
55:02 YOU ARE A MAN OF WAR. GOD DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM FORCE
55:08 AND COERCION AND VIOLENCE. AND HE SAYS YOU CAN'T BUILD A
55:14 TEMPLE FOR ME. IT HAS TO BE A MAN OF PEACE.
55:19 AND SALOMON IS MAN OF PIECE. FIRST CHRONICLE 22:10, HE SHALL
55:25 BUILD A HOUSE. THAT IS SALMON WILL BUILD A
55:30 HOUSE FOR MY NAME, DAVID, NOT YOU, BUT YOUR SON, SALOMON.
55:38 AND HE SHALL BE WHO? MY SON, AND I WILL BE HIS
55:43 FATHER, AND I WILL ESTABLISH THE THROWN OF HIS, SALOMON'S KINGDOM
55:48 OVER ISRAEL FOR HOW LONG? WELL, SALOMON DIED, AND WILL NOT
55:54 BE THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
55:59 THIS IS BOTH LOCAL HISTORICAL, AND THIS IS GOD SAYING DAVID
56:06 THEN SALOMON, AND SALOMON, YOU ARE MY SON, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER
56:14 SON COMING WITHIN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE.
56:18 HERE IS THE CLOSE FOR TONIGHT. AND I HOPE YOU'RE PRIMED FOR
56:22 TOMORROW NIGHT OKAY?
56:24 WE'RE JUST SETTING THE ABLE TO TONIGHT.
56:27 WE'RE GOING TO EAT TONIGHT. TONIGHT WE WERE NIBBLING AT THE
56:32 BLUEBERRY MUFFIN. SO HERE IS THE CONCLUSION
56:37 TONIGHT. WITHIN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE,
56:42 IT IS EVIDENT IF YOU PAN OUT AND LOOK AT THE STORY, THAT SONSHIP
56:48 IS A COVENANT IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION.
56:51 WHEN WE COME TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND WE ENCOUNTER THE
56:56 SON OF GOD IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST, THE NEW TESTAMENT
57:00 AUTHORS ARE NOT TRYING TO TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HE BEGAN
57:07 TO EXIST IN SOME TIME PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.
57:11 THEY ARE NOT ANSWERING GREEK QUESTIONS OF METAPHYSICS.
57:15 THEY ARE ANSWERING HEBREW QUESTIONS OF COVENANT AND
57:20 NARRATIVE. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR -JESUS, YOUR COVENANT SON.
57:28 MAY WE BE COVENANT SONS AND -DAUGHTERS OF YOURS AS WELL AND THE CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH . . .
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