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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 . . . 57:38 ♪ |
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