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00:02 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:04 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:14 >>WHO WAS JESUS? WAS HE A LIAR? 00:16 WAS HE A LUNATIC? OR WAS HE THE LORD? 00:23 >>OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING PROBABLY COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS 00:27 IMPORTANT AS ANYTHING I COULD TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I'M 00:31 REMINDED, AS EVERY NOW AND THEN I MINGLE WITH THE PEOPLE IN OUR 00:35 CULTURE, THAT A LOT OF FOLKS, WHILE THEY MAY HEAR THE NAME OF 00:40 JESUS FROM TIME TO TIME, THEY REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHO JESUS 00:44 IS. AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VALUABLE AND APPROPRIATE TO TALK 00:50 A LITTLE BIT - AND SOMETIMES WE NEED REMINDING - ABOUT THAT 00:54 SUBJECT: 'WHO IS JESUS?' I WASN'T SURE HOW TO TITLE THE 00:59 SERMON BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY 'WHO IS JESUS' IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S 01:03 PRESENT TENSE AND SOME PEOPLE THINK YOU SHOULD TITLE IT 'WHO 01:06 WAS JESUS?' BUT EITHER WAY YOU WORD IT, 01:10 PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW 'WHO IS HE? 01:12 WHERE DID HE COME FROM?' SOMEONE WROTE THIS BEAUTIFUL 01:16 PASSAGE ONE TIME WHERE THEY SAID, 'ALL THE ARMIES THAT HAVE 01:20 EVER MARCHED AND ALL THE NAVIES THAT HAVE EVER SAILED, ALL THE 01:23 PARLIAMENTS THAT HAVE EVER SAT AND ALL THE KINGS THAT HAVE EVER 01:25 REIGNED PUT TOGETHER HAVE NOT AFFECTED LIFE UPON EARTH AS 01:29 POWERFULLY AS THIS ONE SOLITARY LIFE.' WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 01:34 WAY THAT JESUS WAS BORN - IN COMPARATIVE OBSCURITY - AND HE 01:40 NEVER DID ALL THE TYPICAL THINGS THAT USUALLY DENOTE GREATNESS - 01:43 HE NEVER LED AN ARMY INTO BATTLE OR HE NEVER LED A NAVY. 01:46 IT DOESN'T TELL US THAT HE EVER WROTE A BOOK. 01:49 HE DIDN'T DO ANY OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TYPICALLY THINK OF WITH 01:53 GREATNESS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE. 01:55 THERE ARE A LOT OF ARTISTS RENDITIONS OF WHAT JESUS LOOKED 01:58 LIKE BUT THERE'S NOTHING CONTEMPORARY FROM HIS DAY. 02:02 AND YET, HE CHANGED ALL OF HISTORY. 02:05 WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HISTORY - YOU'VE GOT A.D. AND 02:09 B.C. - AND THEY USE NEW TERMS TODAY, BUT WE USED TO CALL THAT 02:12 BEFORE CHRIST AND AFTER DEATH OR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD. 02:15 ALL OF HISTORY IS DATED FROM HIS DEATH SO HOW CAN YOU DOUBT THAT 02:18 HE LIVED? IF YOU LOOK IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA 02:20 IT DOESN'T CAST ANY DOUBT ON WHETHER OR NOT HE LIVED. 02:24 SO WE KNOW HE LIVED. THE REAL QUESTION YOU'VE GOT TO 02:27 DECIDE: WAS HE A LIAR? WAS HE A LUNATIC? 02:31 OR WAS HE THE LORD? WHO WAS JESUS? 02:34 DID GOD COME TO OUR EARTH IN THE FORM OF A MAN TO SAVE US? 02:38 OH, I WANT TO READ SOMETHING FIRST BY A.W. TOZIER. 02:41 HE SAID, 'CHRIST IS NOT ONE OF MANY WAYS TO APPROACH GOD. 02:45 HE'S NOT THE BEST OF SEVERAL WAYS. HE IS THE ONLY WAY.' 02:50 ANYONE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST COME THROUGH CHRIST. 02:53 AND WHILE BUDDHA MAY HAVE SAID A NUMBER OF PROFOUND THINGS AND 02:56 YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME PROFOUND SAYINGS FROM KRISHNA AND 03:00 MOHAMMAD AND THE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, NOBODY 03:04 SPOKE LIKE JESUS AND NONE OF THEM DIED AS A SACRIFICE 03:08 FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. THERE'S SOMETHING VERY CLEARLY 03:12 DIFFERENT ABOUT JESUS. JESUS IS THE ONLY REDEEMER WITH 03:16 GOD. HE'S THE ONLY MEDIATOR WITH GOD. 03:19 CHRIST IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. 03:23 JESUS SAID TO NATHANAEL, 'HEREAFTER YOU'LL SEE THE ANGELS 03:27 OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON THE SON OF MAN.' NONE OF THE 03:31 OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THE WORLD SAY, 'I AM THE WAY, THE 03:34 TRUTH, AND THE LIFE' TO GOD. HE DIDN'T SAY, 'I'M ONE OF THE 03:37 WAYS.' HE SAID, 'I AM THE WAY.' HE DIDN'T SAY, 03:40 'I'M ONE OF THE TRUTHS. ALL RIVERS LEAD TO THE OCEAN. 03:43 I'M JUST ONE OF THEM.' HE SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH. 03:46 I AM THE LIFE.' SO WHY DID JESUS COME? 03:50 SO WHERE DO WE LOOK TO GET THE INFORMATION FOR THIS? 03:54 THERE ARE OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES THAT TALK ABOUT WHAT 03:59 TO EXPECT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES. 04:02 WE'RE NOT GOING TO LOOK AT ALL 300 BUT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT 04:04 SOME BASIC CATEGORIES TO FIND OUT WHO IS JESUS? 04:11 ESPECIALLY YOU'LL FIND A LOT IN THE PSALMS. 04:13 OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES REFERENCE THE 04:16 ANOINTED. THE FIRST PROPHECY YOU'RE GOING 04:18 TO FIND IN THE BIBLE REGARDING THE MESSIAH COMING IS ACTUALLY 04:21 IN GENESIS 3:15. WE'LL PUT THAT ON THE SCREEN. 04:24 HERE IS SAYS, WHEN GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ADAM AND EVE AFTER 04:29 THE FALL, HE SAID, "AND I WILL PUT ENMITY" - THAT'S SIMILAR TO 04:34 THE WORD 'ENEMY' - IT MEANS THERE'S ANIMOSITY - THERE'S 04:36 FRICTION - THERE'S AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP - 04:39 "BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN," HE WAS TALKING TO THE SERPENT - 04:42 "BETWEEN HER SEED AND YOUR SEED." 04:46 - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - TALKING ABOUT THIS PROMISED SEED 04:50 THAT WAS GOING TO COME THROUGH HUMANITY - WAS THE MESSIAH - 04:54 "HE" - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - "SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD," - GOD 04:58 SAYS TO THE SERPENT OR DEVIL THAT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, 05:01 CHRIST, WOULD BRUISE YOUR HEAD - A MORTAL WOUND TO THE HEAD - 05:03 "AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." - YOU WILL IMPEDE HIS 05:05 PROGRESS OR SLOW HIS WALK DOWN. SO THIS FIRST PROPHECY IS FOUND 05:09 RIGHT THERE IN GENESIS CHAPTER 3. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A 05:12 SAVIOR - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN THAT WOULD COME THAT WOULD 05:14 DEFEAT THE SERPENT THAT CAUSED THE FALL OF MAN AND THE LOSS OF 05:18 PARADISE. THROUGH CHRIST PARADISE IS RESTORED. 05:22 SO LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE PROPHECIES. 05:25 FOR ONE THING, IN JOHN 1, VERSE 45, AFTER PHILIP FOUND JESUS HE 05:32 THEN GOES AND HE TELLS NATHANAEL, "WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF 05:35 WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE - JESUS OF 05:40 NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH." HE SAID MOSES AND THE PROPHETS 05:43 AND THE LAW ALL TALKED ABOUT THIS MAN. 05:46 IT ALL POINTED TO THIS ONE INDIVIDUAL. 05:48 WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM? NOW WE ALLUDED TO THAT THERE IN 05:52 JOHN CHAPTER 8 BUT LET'S LOOK AS SOME OTHER VERSES. 05:56 JOHN 19, VERSE 8 - MATTER OF FACT, PONTIUS PILATE, DURING THE 05:59 TRIAL OF JESUS, HE ASKED THAT VERY QUESTION: 06:03 'WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?' 06:08 JESUS SAID, IN JOHN 6, VERSE 38, "FOR I HAVE COME DOWN FROM 06:13 HEAVEN." NOW, IF I SAID THAT TO YOU, 06:17 YOU'D PROBABLY ASK ME TO GET SOME COUNSELING. 06:21 SO ARE - THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD THINK I SNUCK 06:24 AWAY FROM AREA 51 IN NEVADA - AS AN ALIEN - BUT JESUS WASN'T 06:29 TALKING ABOUT BEING AN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL. 06:32 HE WAS SAYING HE CAME FROM THE FATHER. HE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR. 06:35 WE READ JUST A MOMENT AGO HE SAID, 'I'M GOING BACK TO THE 06:37 FATHER.' THIS IS A MESSAGE - AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FATHER, 06:40 WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A GOD OF A CERTAIN SOLAR SYSTEM OR A 06:45 CERTAIN GALAXY, BIBLICALLY, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FATHER 06:48 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF EVERYTHING. 06:52 THINK ABOUT THE IMMENSITY OF SPACE AND HOW BIG GOD MUST BE - 06:55 HOW AWESOME GOD IS. AND WHEN JESUS SAYS, 'I MADE ALL 06:59 THAT AND I AM THE SON OF GOD AND I'VE COME FROM GOD.' 07:02 WOW, THAT'S A PRETTY BOLD CLAIM. THAT'S A PRETTY AMAZING CLAIM 07:08 THAT HE CAME FROM GOD. AGAIN, JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 07:12 "MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD." 07:14 HE TOLD PILATE, 'IF MY KINGDOM WAS OF THIS WORLD THEN WOULD MY 07:17 CITIZENS FIGHT. BUT MY KINGDOM IS NOT NOW OF 07:19 THIS WORLD.' DID JESUS CLAIM TO BE GOD? 07:24 DID HE CLAIM DIVINITY? IS HE JUST ANOTHER MAN OR WAS HE 07:29 THE CO-MINGLING OF THE DIVINE AND HUMAN? 07:33 JOHN 8, VERSE 58 - "JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY 07:38 TO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'" YOU REMEMBER WHEN MOSES 07:45 WAS TALKING TO GOD AT THE BURNING BUSH AND HE SAID, 'SO 07:48 EXACTLY WHICH GOD ARE YOU? WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 07:50 WHAT SHALL I SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL? 07:53 WHO ARE YOU THAT ARE SENDING ME? DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS CARD?' 07:58 HOW DID GOD INTRODUCE HIMSELF TO MOSES? 08:00 HE SAID, 'I AM THAT I AM.' IT'S NOT THAT I ONCE WAS OR WILL BE. 08:06 THE PHRASE 'I AM' MEANS 'I AM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. 08:09 I AM THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE. I AM ETERNAL.' CHRIST WAS 08:13 CLAIMING TO BE GOD AND TO BE ETERNAL. 08:16 IT SAYS THERE WOULD BE SOMETHING UNIQUE ABOUT HIS BIRTH. 08:20 NOW EVERYBODY ALIVE WAS BORN AT SOME POINT BUT JESUS WAS BORN IN 08:25 A VERY UNIQUE WAY AND A PROPHECY TOLD THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN 08:29 500 YEARS BEFORE THE EVENT. ISAIAH 7:14, "THE LORD HIMSELF 08:34 WILL GIVE YOU A SING: BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE AND 08:37 BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL." 08:41 NOW THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN, DOES IT? 08:43 WAS JESUS BORN OF A VIRGIN? DOESN'T IT SAY THAT? 08:48 YOU CAN READ THE NEXT VERSE HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1, VERSE 18, 08:53 "NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS AS FOLLOWS: AFTER HIS MOTHER 08:58 MARY WAS BETROTHED TO JOSEPH, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER." 09:03 THIS WAS NOT SOME LABORATORY INSEMINATION. 09:07 IT SAID THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD OVERSHADOW HER. 09:10 BEFORE JOSEPH AND MARY CAME TOGETHER SHE WAS FOUND TO BE 09:12 WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND GOD SAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN. 09:20 THE BIBLE RECORDS THAT IT DID HAPPEN. 09:22 THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH IS IDENTIFIED. 09:24 NOW WE'RE GETTING VERY SPECIFIC BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO MENTION 09:26 THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM AND YOU CAN READ THIS PASSAGE IN MICAH 09:31 CHAPTER 5, VERSE 2, HE INTERROGATED THE SCRIBES AND HE 09:36 SAID, 'WHERE IS THE MESSIAH SUPPOSED TO BE BORN? AND THEY 09:40 SAID, 'WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE HE SUPPOSED TO BE BORN. HE'S 09:41 SUPPOSED TO BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. AND SO THERE WAS 09:44 NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 09:46 NOW BETHLEHEM - THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO TOWNS IN ISRAEL 09:48 CALLED 'BETHLEHEM'. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE 09:51 BUT I KNOW THERE ARE SCORES OF TOWNS IN NORTH AMERICA CALLED 09:54 FARMINGTON. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 09:56 THERE'S A LOT OF - SOME TOWNS THAT HAVE VERY COMMON NAMES YOU 10:00 CAN FIND ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA. I THINK WE'VE GOT A FEW 10:03 JAMESTOWNS AND YOU'VE GOT A FEW TOWNS CALLED PARIS - THERE'S A 10:07 PARIS, MAINE AND THERE'S A PARIS, TEXAS. 10:09 I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'D COME TO AMERICA AND NAME ANYTHING PARIS 10:13 BUT ANYWAY, THEY DID. WELL IN THE PROMISED LAND THE 10:15 WORD 'BETHLEHEM' MEANS 'HOUSE OF BREAD' AND THERE WERE A COUPLE 10:19 OF BETHLEHEMS. BUT YOU NOTICE IT SPECIFIES THE 10:21 BETHLEHEM WHERE RACHEL DIED GIVING BIRTH TO BENJAMIN, WHICH 10:26 WAS BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, WHICH IS JUST OUTSIDE JERUSALEM. 10:30 SO THIS PROPHECY IN MICAH NOT ONLY TELLS WHAT TOWN, IT 10:34 DELINEATES SPECIFICALLY WHICH BETHLEHEM JESUS WAS GOING TO 10:38 COME FROM. MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS SO CLEAR 10:41 THAT WHEN KING HEROD SAW THE WISE MEN COMING HE INTERROGATED 10:46 THE SCRIBES AND SAID, 'WHERE IS THE MESSIAH SUPPOSED TO BE 10:49 BORN?' AND THEY SAID, 'WE KNOW EXACTLY 10:50 WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BORN. HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BORN IN 10:52 BETHLEHEM.' AND SO THERE WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 10:56 NOW THERE'S A VERY INTERESTING PROPHECY. 10:59 THIS REALLY COULD BE A PROPHECY THAT ALSO TELLS THE TIME OF HIS 11:02 BIRTH. IN MATTHEW - I'M SORRY, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - DANIEL 9, 11:07 VERSE 25 - THERE'S A PROPHECY - IT'S THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 11:12 PART OF THAT PROPHECY IS CALLED THE 483-YEAR SEGMENT AND THAT'S 11:17 WHERE IT SAYS IN VERSE 25, "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT 11:21 FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD 11:24 JERUSALEM" - WHICH WAS GIVEN IN 457 B.C. 11:27 BY KING AHASUERUS - "UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE SHALL 11:32 BE SEVEN WEEKS AND SIXTY-TWO WEEKS." 11:36 SO IT'S ACTUALLY THE DECREE OF ARTAXERXES - I WAS GETTING 11:38 ESTHER MIXED UP WITH NEHEMIAH. KING ARTAXERXES IN 457 B.C. 11:43 GAVE THAT DECREE. SEVEN WEEKS, IN JEWISH PROPHECY 11:48 - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. NOW YOU'LL SEE A FEW REFERENCES 11:51 FOR THIS - EZEKIEL 4:6, 'I'VE APPOINTED YOU EACH DAY FOR A 11:54 YEAR.' YOU CAN ALSO READ THAT PRINCIPLE IN NUMBERS 14:35. 11:58 EVEN THE WORDS OF JESUS, IN A PARABLE HE TELLS, IN LUKE 13:32 12:03 HE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT IN A PROPHECY YOU USE THE PRINCIPLE 12:06 OF A DAY FOR A YEAR. SO WHEN YOU GO AND YOU ADD UP 12:10 THE TIME PERIOD HERE IN DANIEL, WHERE HE SAYS SEVEN WEEKS AND 12:14 SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - SEVEN PLUS SIXTY-TWO IS HOW MUCH? 12:18 SIXTY-NINE. SIXTY-NINE - A WEEK HAS GOT HOW MANY DAYS? 12:23 A WEEK HAS HOW MANY DAYS? I GAVE YOU AN EASY ONE, COME ON. 12:26 HELP ME. SEVEN DAYS - SO YOU ADD THAT UP AND YOU'VE GOT 12:31 483 YEARS. 69 WEEKS - 483 DAYS - A DAY IS A YEAR - 483 YEARS. 12:39 IF YOU COUNT FROM THE START OF THE DECREE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 12:44 - 457 B.C. - GIVEN BY ARTAXERXES - AND THEN 12:47 YOU GO 483 PROPHETIC YEARS - OR REGULAR YEARS - TO A.D. 27, 12:54 THAT'S EXACTLY WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. 12:57 AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN JOHN 1. 12:59 WHEN JESUS CAME TO THE JORDAN RIVER HE KNEW HIS TIME HAD COME 13:03 AND RIGHT AT HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY HE WAS BAPTIZED. 13:08 JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID - HE SAW JESUS COMING - "BEHOLD! 13:11 THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!" 13:14 JESUS WAS THAT LAMB THAT THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR. 13:17 ABRAHAM SAID TO ISAAC WHEN ISAAC SAID, 'FATHER, 13:20 WE'VE GOT THE WOOD. WE'VE GOT THE FIRE. 13:23 BUT WHERE IS THE SACRIFICE?' ABRAHAM SAID, 'MY SON, GOD WILL 13:27 PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB.' FINALLY. 13:29 THEY'RE ALL LOOKING FOR THE LAMB OF GOD - THE ANOINTED - 13:31 THE MESSIAH. JOHN SAYS, 'THERE HE IS. 13:34 THIS IS THE LAMB THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. 13:36 THIS IS THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 13:38 THIS IS THE ONE WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL THIS TIME.' AND 13:41 HE IDENTIFIED HIM SEVERAL TIMES AND THAT'S WHY PHILIP AND PETER 13:44 AND NATHANAEL ALL BEGAN TO FOLLOW HIM THEN BECAUSE HE HAD 13:47 BEEN FLAGGED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST AS THE LAMB OF GOD. 13:51 NOW, I TOLD YOU, YOU COULD ACTUALLY FIGURE FROM DANIEL'S 13:56 PROPHECY, WHEN JESUS WAS BORN. 13:58 BY THE WAY, THERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE LOOKING FOR HIS BIRTH 14:02 - MAYBE BECAUSE OF DANIEL'S PROPHECY - BECAUSE THEY KNEW 14:06 THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE 483 YEARS FROM THE COMMAND TO 14:09 REBUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL THE MESSIAH WAS ANOINTED AND BEGAN 14:13 HIS MINISTRY. THEY COULD UNDERSTAND THAT A 14:16 PRIEST COULD NOT BEGIN TO TEACH UNTIL HE WAS 30. 14:20 KING DAVID DID NOT BEGIN TO REIGN UNTIL HE WAS 30. 14:23 JOSEPH WENT OUT TO ADMINISTRATE OVER EGYPT WHEN HE WAS THIRTY. 14:28 SO ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS COUNT BACK 30 YEARS FROM A.D. 14:31 27 AND FIND THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AROUND 4 B.C. 14:36 SO EVEN FROM THAT SAME PROPHECY YOU COULD HAVE CALCULATED ABOUT 14:39 THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH. 14:41 >> HI FRIENDS, DON'T GO ANYWHERE. 14:42 IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL BE BACK TO COMPLETE 14:44 TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 14:46 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT THIS ENIGMATIC CHARACTER 14:48 IN THE BIBLE CALLED MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL? 14:51 WELL, THAT'S THE TITLE OF A BOOK WE'D LIKE TO SEND YOU FOR FREE. 14:55 MICHAEL SUDDENLY APPEARS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 14:57 HE'S WORSHIPPED BY JOSHUA. 14:59 IN ANOTHER PLACE, HE'S INVOLVED IN THE RESURRECTION. 15:02 THE BIBLE SAYS HE'S CONNECTED WITH THE SECOND COMING. 15:04 THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN 15:06 WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL. 15:08 YOU EVEN FIND MICHAEL FIGHTING WITH THE DEVIL IN REVELATION. 15:11 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 15:14 AND ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 170, OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. 15:19 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, 15:21 MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 15:23 WELL, LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN 15:25 SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 15:29 >> SO THERE'S PROPHECIES THAT TOLD WHEN HE WOULD BE BORN AND 15:32 WHAT DID IT SAY WOULD HAPPEN? HE WOULD BE ANOINTED. 15:35 YOU CAN READ THERE IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 38 HOW "GOD 15:40 ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH POWER, 15:43 WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED 15:47 BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM." 15:49 WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN AND HE WAS 15:52 ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE WAS THE ANOINTED. 15:55 YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT THE MIRACLES OF JESUS UNLESS YOU'RE 15:58 READING SOMETHING APOCRYPHAL. YOU DON'T READ ABOUT THE 16:00 MIRACLES OF JESUS BEFORE HE WAS 30. FOR THE FIRST 30 YEARS 16:04 OF HIS LIFE HE LIVED AS A MAN AMONG MEN, JUST AS YOU AND I DO. 16:09 AND THEN HE WAS ANOINTED AT HIS BAPTISM. HE BEGAN HIS PUBLIC 16:12 MINISTRY, TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN IN THREE AND A HALF 16:15 YEARS AND THEN THAT WOULD BE PART OF THAT 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 16:22 AND THEN IT TELLS THE NATURE OF HIS MINISTRY. 16:25 MATTER OF FACT, JESUS QUOTES THESE VERY WORDS IN NAZARETH 16:28 WHEN HE BEGAN HIS VERY MINISTRY. ISAIAH 61, VERSE 1 - CHRIST 16:32 STOOD UP IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF NAZARETH. 16:33 HIS HOMETOWN CHURCH, IN GALILEE AND HE SAID, 'THE SPIRIT OF THE 16:37 LORD GOD IS UPON ME; BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED ME" - HE IS 16:41 THE ANOINTED - "TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK.; HE HATH 16:45 SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 16:47 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM 16:50 THAT ARE BOUND; TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, AND 16:54 THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD; TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN." 16:57 FURTHERMORE, IT TELLS US THAT HE WOULD SPEAK AND TEACH IN 17:01 PARABLES. KING DAVID SAID, IN PSALM 78, "I 17:05 WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN A PARABLE; I WILL UTTER DARK SAYINGS OF 17:09 OLD, WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN, AND OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD 17:11 US." REGARDING CHRIST, IT SAID THAT 17:14 HE SPOKE AND HE TAUGHT THEM IN PARABLES. 17:17 WITHOUT A PARABLE HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 17:19 HE OFTEN TAUGHT IN ALLEGORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS AND THOSE THAT 17:23 HEARD HIM TALK SAID, 'NEVER, EVER DID A MAN SPEAK LIKE THIS 17:28 MAN.' THERE'S NO MAN THAT COULD TEACH LIKE JESUS. 17:32 PEOPLE WHO WENT TO ARREST HIM CAME BACK AND SAID, 'WOW, NOBODY 17:36 SPEAKS LIKE THIS MAN.' IT GOES ON AND IT TELLS US ABOUT HIS 17:41 BETRAYAL. FOR INSTANCE, PSALM 41, VERSE 9, 17:46 "EVEN MY OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND IN WHOM I TRUSTED, WHO ATE MY 17:49 BREAD, HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME." 17:53 DID JESUS EAT A MEAL WITH BREAD WITH JUDAS? 17:57 AND JUDAS WALKED RIGHT OUT THAT DOOR AND WENT TO THE PRIESTS AND 18:00 THEN LED THEM TO CHRIST. 18:02 IT GIVES US EVEN MORE DETAIL ABOUT THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS. 18:06 ZECHARIAH 11, VERSES 12 AND 13, "THEN I SAID TO THEM, 'IF IT IS 18:11 AGREEABLE TO YOU, GIVE ME MY WAGES; AND IF NOT, REFRAIN.' SO 18:14 THEY WEIGHED OUT FOR MY WAGES THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER." 18:18 NOT ONLY TELLS THAT HE WAS SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE, 18:21 IT TELLS WHAT KIND OF METAL. IT COULD HAVE BEEN COPPER, IT 18:23 COULD HAVE BEEN GOLD, IT COULD HAVE BEEN BRONZE OR SILVER. 18:26 IT SAYS IT WAS SILVER. IT TELLS HOW MANY PIECES OF 18:28 SILVER. "AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'THROW 18:31 IT TO THE POTTER' - THAT PRINCELY PRICE THEY SET ON ME. 18:35 SO I TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER AND THREW THEM INTO THE 18:38 HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR THE POTTER." 18:40 NOW I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL BUT ALL THE VERSES IN 18:44 MATTHEW 27, VERSES 3 TO 7 - YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP - MATTHEW 18:47 27:3-7 - IT TELLS HOW, DURING THE TRIAL OF CHRIST, JUDAS, 18:51 OVERWHELMED WITH A SENSE OF GUILT - YOU KNOW, ONCE THE DEVIL 18:54 HAD USED HIM HE DIDN'T NEED JUDAS ANYMORE AND JUDAS, FINALLY 18:58 REALIZING WHAT HE HAD DONE, CAME TO HIS SENSES. 19:00 HE BETRAYED THE SON OF GOD AND THEY WERE PREPARING TO CRUCIFY 19:03 HIM. HE JUST WAS CRUSHED BY A SENSE OF HIS GUILT. 19:06 HE WENT INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TEMPLE WHERE HE WAS BEING 19:11 TRIED. THE SANHEDRIN WAS MEETING. HE SAID, 'I'VE BETRAYED 19:15 INNOCENT BLOOD.' HE THREW DOWN THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. 19:19 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE IT BECAUSE IT WAS BLOOD MONEY, THEY 19:21 CALLED IT, SO THEY BOUGHT A 'POTTER'S FIELD' TO BURY 19:24 STRANGERS IN WITH THE MONEY. THAT'S ALL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 19:27 YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M - LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING HERE 19:31 AT THE OUTSET, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 19:33 ALRIGHT, HERE WE'VE GOT - I'VE GOT THE BOOK OF MATTHEW - HERE'S 19:35 THE NEW TESTAMENT, THIS IS THE OLD TESTAMENT. 19:38 OLD TESTAMENT, OF COURSE, STARTS WITH MOSES. 19:40 NEW TESTAMENT DOESN'T BEGIN UNTIL THE BIRTH OF JESUS. 19:43 THESE PROPHECIES I'M READING TO YOU ABOUT THE MESSIAH, THEY COME 19:47 FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. NOT ONLY DO THEY COME FROM THE 19:49 OLD TESTAMENT, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NO PAGE HERE, THERE 19:53 OUGHT TO BE A PAGE IN YOUR BIBLE THAT SAYS, '400 YEARS' - ONE 19:56 PAGE THAT JUST SAYS '400 YEARS OF SILENCE.' THERE ARE 400 YEARS 20:00 BETWEEN ALL THESE PROPHECIES AND WHEN JESUS FINALLY COMES. 20:05 THAT PROPHECY I JUST READ TO YOU FROM ZECHARIAH - THEY COULDN'T 20:08 HAVE CONCOCTED AND MADE THAT UP - 400 YEARS WENT BY. 20:10 WE KNOW FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THAT THESE THINGS WERE 20:13 WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. 20:15 HOW CAN YOU FABRICATE - HOW CAN YOU COUNTERFEIT - HOW COULD YOU 20:20 MANUFACTURE THAT THAT PROPHECY WOULD BE FULFILLED - THAT JESUS 20:25 WOULD BE BETRAYED BY A FRIEND, WHO ATE BREAD WITH HIM, FOR 20:27 THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER WHO WOULD THEN THROW IT TO THE 20:30 POTTER'S FIELD AND THE HOUSE OF THE LORD? 20:32 I MEAN, THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOUSANDS. 20:36 OH, ACTUALLY 300 - I GOT CARRIED AWAY. 20:39 PROPHECIES - THERE MIGHT BE MORE BUT SOMEONE COUNTED 300 AND I 20:42 BELIEVE IT. IT TELLS ABOUT THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH. 20:46 THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE PROPHECY. YOU READ IN PSALM 22, "THE 20:50 CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME. 20:52 THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. 20:54 THEY DIVIDE MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY 20:57 CAST LOTS." THIS WAS PROPHESIED NEARLY 800 21:01 YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. HOW COULD YOU KNOW THAT? 21:05 AND THAT'S ALL IN THAT ONE PSALM. 21:07 AND THERE ARE MANY PSALMS. PSALM 34, "HE GUARDS ALL HIS 21:10 BONES; NOT ONE OF THEM IS BROKEN." 21:12 THEY BROKE THE BONES OF THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT 21:15 OF JESUS - BECAUSE JESUS WAS THE PASSOVER LAMB AND THEY WERE 21:18 NEVER TO BREAK THE BONES OF THE PASSOVER LAMB - 21:20 THEY DIDN'T BREAK ANY OF HIS BONES. 21:23 JUST AS THE PROPHECY HAD SAID, HE GUARDS MY BONES. 21:26 JESUS ALSO CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF GOD - NOT IN THE SENSE THAT 21:32 WE ARE ALL SONS OF GOD, BUT IN THE UNIQUE SENSE THAT HE IS THE 21:35 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD AND HE CLAIMED TO HAVE THE PREROGATIVES 21:39 OR THE POWERS OF THE DIVINE. HE CLAIMED TO BE GOD. 21:43 NOW THOSE ARE SOME PRETTY BOLD CLAIMS. 21:46 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH WHAT JESUS SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF? 21:49 C.S. LEWIS PUTS IT THIS WAY, "A MAN WHO WAS MERELY A MAN AND 21:53 SAID THE SORT OF THINGS THAT JESUS SAID WOULDN'T BE A GREAT 21:55 MORAL TEACHER, HE'D BE A LUNATIC ON THE LEVEL OF A MAN WHO SAYS 21:59 HE'S A POACHED EGG OR ELSE HE'D BE THE DEVIL OF HELL. 22:02 YOU MUST MAKE YOUR CHOICE. EITHER THIS MAN WAS AND IS THE 22:05 SON OF GOD OR ELSE HE'S A MADMAN OR SOMETHING WORSE." 22:09 SOMEONE ELSE PUT IT THIS WAY, "CHRIST WAS EITHER A CONSCIOUS 22:13 DECEIVER, DELUDED, OR DIVINE. HE IS EITHER LUNATIC, LIAR, OR 22:19 LORD. THERE IS NO ESCAPING ONE OF 22:21 THESE THREE OPTIONS." YOU KNOW THERE'S THREE PRINCIPAL 22:25 REASONS JESUS CAME - FIRST, HE CAME TO BE OUR EXAMPLE. 22:30 HE SAYS IN JOHN 13:5 - SORRY, JOHN 13:15, "FOR I HAVE GIVEN 22:35 YOU AN EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD TO AS I HAVE DONE." 22:38 PART OF THE REASON JESUS LIVED FOR THIRTY-THREE AND A HALF 22:41 YEARS AMONG MEN IS HE SAID, 'I WANT TO SHOW YOU HOW TO LIVE - 22:45 HOW TO LOVE EACH OTHER - HOW TO FORGIVE. 22:47 I'M NOT JUST GOING TO TELL YOU TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, I'M 22:49 GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE.' AND HE DID, DIDN'T HE? 22:53 WHEN HE WENT THROUGH HIS TRIAL? 'I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO 22:56 LOVE AND FORGIVE EACH OTHER' - THE WAY HE FORGAVE. 22:59 HE CAME - POINT #2 - TO REVEAL THE FATHER. 23:04 THIS WORLD IS VERY CONFUSED ABOUT WHO GOD IS. 23:08 YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS THAT AS I INTERMINGLE WITH 23:14 PEOPLE I HEAR JESUS' NAME BEING USED IN PROFANITY SO FREQUENTLY. 23:19 I'VE NEVER HEARD PEOPLE GET MAD AND HIT THEIR FINGER WITH A 23:22 HAMMER AND SAY, 'OH BUDDHA!' I DON'T HEAR THEM CITE 23:27 MOHAMMAD'S NAME OR ALLAH OR KRISHNA. 23:32 WHY IS IT THERE'S THIS DIABOLICAL FOCUS TO ESPECIALLY 23:37 SCORN THE NAME OF JESUS? THAT IN AND OF ITSELF OUGHT TO 23:41 TELL YOU THERE'S A SPIRITUAL BATTLE OUT THERE. 23:44 THE WORLD DOESN'T KNOW WHO THE FATHER IS. 23:45 JESUS CAME TO SHOW US WHAT THE FATHER IS LIKE. 23:49 HE SAID, "HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU SO LONG AND YOU DON'T KNOW ME, 23:52 PHILIP? HE THAT HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE 23:54 FATHER." BY THE WAY, THAT'S JOHN 14:9. 23:58 AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, JESUS CAME TO TRADE PLACES WITH 24:01 US. WE ARE ALL UNDER A DEATH 24:03 SENTENCE BECAUSE OF OUR SIN AND OUR SELFISHNESS. 24:06 AND CHRIST DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE US. HE LOVES US AND HE SAID, 24:09 'I WILL COME. I WILL TAKE THE PENALTY FOR YOUR 24:12 SIN AND NOT ONLY TAKE IT, I WILL GIVE YOU MY STRENGTH AND POWER. 24:16 I AM GOING TO BE YOUR SUBSTITUTE. 24:17 I WILL TRADE PLACES WITH YOU.' HE SAID, 'I WILL GIVE YOU MY 24:21 GOODNESS AND I WILL TAKE YOUR BADNESS. 24:23 I WILL GIVE YOU MY STRENGTH AND I'LL TAKE YOUR WEAKNESS. 24:27 I WILL GIVE YOU MY LIFE AND I WILL TAKE YOUR DEATH. 24:30 I WILL GIVE YOU MY PEACE AND I WILL TAKE YOUR SUFFERINGS AND 24:32 YOUR MISERY.' HE'S OFFERING THAT ALL AS A GIFT THAT WE RECEIVE BY 24:36 FAITH. BUT YOU NEED TO BELIEVE THAT HE 24:39 IS WHO HE SAID HE IS. DO YOU KNOW HIM, FRIENDS? 24:43 HAVE YOU ACCEPTED HIM? YOU CAN RIGHT NOW. 24:47 "HIS EXAMPLE" - MARTIN LUTHER SAID, IN HIS LIFE "IS SHOWING US 24:52 HOW TO LIVE. IN HIS DEATH HE IS A SACRIFICE 24:56 SATISFYING FOR OUR SINS. IN HIS RESURRECTION HE IS A 24:59 CONQUEROR. IN HIS ASCENSION HE IS A KING. 25:02 IN HIS INTERCESSION HE IS A PRIEST. 25:03 HE IS EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED." IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS 25:07 WRITTEN OF HIM. WHEN WE SEE ABRAHAM GOING UP THE 25:11 HILL WITH ISAAC WE SEE JESUS. 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