WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.200 Let's have a word of prayer and watch into the scriptures. Father God, 2 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:14.599 we would be lost in a hurry without a patient kind of grace, without 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:21.280 a God who is from everlasting to everlasting and an everlasting righteousness in the mix. 4 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.600 Lord, you died to save the one, no doubt the whosoever of 5 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:32.240 John three point sixteen, the Father, thank you that the Bible teaches in 6 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.079 Isaiah and Daniel other places. You died to save the many. Also help 7 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.119 us to get it right in humility on our knees with Jesus, the Son 8 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:48.000 of God and his name Amen. Sometimes we have trouble in life because God 9 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:53.280 is more concerned about the many than the few. We tend to think we 10 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.920 are the center of our universe. You ever think that in your life, 11 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:00.200 I Am just got to pull it together, the whole world will fall par 12 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.120 Have you ever done that? No, sure you have. We capital we 13 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:11.680 quickly becomes me. We take the plural of eye and turn it into just 14 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.719 me, I, Me and mine becomes the center of a universe where the 15 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.040 many have become the few, and the few that can be reduced to you 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:26.040 and me simply becomes me. Jesus died on the cross for you and me. 17 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.599 Amen, But sometimes we forget that Jesus died on the cross for the 18 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:37.599 many too. And don't be surprised if God Almighty brings problems into your life 19 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.280 so that you can learn not to focus on you, but to focus on 20 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.439 others that are part of the many, of which Christ bled and died and 21 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.319 Christ on the cross of Calvary. We are here to affect the lives of 22 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:55.079 other men and women. That's why we are Christians. Our response to the 23 00:01:55.159 --> 00:02:00.560 cross is a moral response. My wife has a car that has one hundred 24 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:05.959 and eighty nine thousand miles on it. God be praised. Now, since 25 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.159 we are not made of money like many, how many of you are like 26 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:13.120 many of us? You know? Okay, we're hoping to get as many 27 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.360 miles on that Ford Taurus as possible. The Lord has anointed my car, 28 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.759 he has poured his spirit on my car. He's given my car endurance. 29 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:25.840 I have two hundred fifty thousand miles on my car, if my wife only 30 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.759 has one hundred and nine. I thought this time around, why not see 31 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.759 if I can get a half a million miles out of my cars? I 32 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:38.879 have to I change the oil every five thousand miles with synthetic oil and a 33 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:45.680 good oil filter. I changed the fluids on time. Also, I serviced 34 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.879 the car responsibly, and still that little annoying yellow light that looks like an 35 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.120 engine comes on. It's a pure irritant to me. Now I have a 36 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.560 code reader. How many have a code reader that goes with your car? 37 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:00.080 I have a code reader in each car to see what that means when it 38 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.039 comes on. I stopped the car and I check it out. You know, 39 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.560 a code reader has a cable that hooks up to a connection underneath your 40 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.159 steering wheel. Then you hit the right keys and starts telling you what those 41 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.599 codes aren't. And then you can look on the internet and I'll tell you 42 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.120 what they mean. You become your own mechanic when you have a code reader. 43 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:20.800 I picked mine up at thrift stores and pawnshops or whatever for five ten 44 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.479 bucks, and boy, it saves me a lot of ignorant confusion. Now 45 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:29.639 I have, for a long time read two codes PO four to two oh, 46 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:34.680 and then after that long time another code that's settled in PO four to 47 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.639 three to zero. The first code told me there was a catalytic converter efficiency 48 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.639 problem on my right side. The second code irritated me. It lodged as 49 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:52.639 a permanent code in my computer system, which means I couldn't erase it, 50 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.599 but stuff in my engine and passed the emissions test anymore. It was the 51 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.560 permanent code, which means you failed to fact unless you do something. Now, 52 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:06.080 why in the world would the auto manufacturer put a permanent code into my 53 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:11.639 computer computer system? And I figured out why? Because they actually want you 54 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.960 to fix the problem, not just to read the code, but to solve 55 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.120 the underlying issue so your car runs better and it's safer and better for the 56 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:27.439 environment. Therefore, don't be surprised in your life if the Holy Spirit keeps 57 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:32.560 coming to you reading the codes of your heart, showing you what's going on 58 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.360 by a little nudge here or there, so you will know that you've got 59 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:41.360 to fix those deep seated problems. Surrender to God so you can have a 60 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.079 real relationship with God, not a fake religious experience. Did you hear me? 61 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.040 There's no way around it. There are times in life the warning light 62 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:54.120 won't go away until you get it on your knees. You beg God to 63 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:59.800 fix the problem so the permanent code is solved in your life. After a 64 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.279 moment. Multiple attempts, I finally arranged to get the problem fixed at the 65 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.199 shop. You know, I had to go to a mechanic. I failed 66 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.319 the DMV test. I wasn't able to pass the emissions test that gave me 67 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:13.560 till April fourth. So I went to my mechanic yesterday around ten am, 68 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.839 and I had a two hour wait in his office as he worked on the 69 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:21.600 problem. As God would have it, I was there and I was going 70 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:26.680 through this problem because God wanted me to meet some people who are part of 71 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.959 the many that He cares about. My problem was a providential problem for others 72 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.720 and also for me. We meet these kind of people all the time in 73 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:41.240 our lives. People living lonely lives in darkness, people without hope in their 74 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.639 lives. People who have never heard a word about Jesus. And they live 75 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.279 right here in Laurel. They're in your neighborhood. They're next to us. 76 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:54.920 They have no clue yet we live next to them, and they are yearning 77 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:57.680 inside for something and they do not know that that's something. Is what you 78 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.680 know when you come to church, you hear about, you read the spirit 79 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:04.199 of prophecy, you have interaction in prayer, they need some of that in 80 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:08.720 their life. Yet we lived miles away, even though we are close, 81 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:14.720 lonely people who will die forever about Jesus. The Many. There are many 82 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.079 of them out there, not a few. The many may be your brother 83 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.360 or sister, your son or daughter, your neighbor, or a pure stranger 84 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:26.879 you meet in life who needs you to tell them about Jesus, his word, 85 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.439 prophetic truth, the answers for our time. They need to know the 86 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.079 gospel, not a fake gospel, so they can have a reconciliation with God. 87 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.000 I really experience, as God would have it. My mechanic has a 88 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.120 family member who's come to our church here. She's come to our church a 89 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:49.720 daughter. I pray for him as family and that family member. I prayed 90 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.439 for him a number of times at the shop. And it started when God 91 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.439 first led me there because my car broke down, so I could meet him 92 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.639 and he could meet me and we could pray together. It's been a while 93 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.199 since he worked on my car. This time I noticed he had a new 94 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:08.639 secretary who let me know right off that she is an environmental scientist and that 95 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.600 she knows what's going on, So don't try to educate me or her. 96 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.399 She said about religion in the Bible and evolution and all that. She's a 97 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.680 lovely person with a New York accent, A keen mind, I get it 98 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:24.319 done, mindset organize a real help to the mechanic and to me, Frank, 99 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.639 you know, I like people who are transparent, and Frank, I 100 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.600 don't like people who are deceptive and they lie with their body language. I 101 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.240 like to be able to read someone know where they're coming from. I can 102 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.199 deal with that. They don't have to agree with me. And she was 103 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:38.480 that kind of person. She knows that I'm a pastor, and that makes 104 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.439 her a little nervous. You ever get nervous around a pastor? A pastor 105 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.720 walks in the room and everybody stops talking. Pastor just walked in. You 106 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.000 know how a pastor feels man alive? How should I dress? Maybe in 107 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.639 shorts or something, who knows, But you know there's something about the or 108 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.120 of a pastor that kind of calms the place and people look. Yesterday, 109 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:03.639 I walked in at ten am, and she reminded me of her credentials, 110 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.319 as if to say, don't bring up religion today. To a scientist like 111 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.800 me, I bring up religion, Yeah, here or there a little bit, 112 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.079 but not You know, I don't push religion on people, but I 113 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.000 do use every opportunity God gives me to talk to share, to introduce Jesus 114 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:26.560 practically for their needs and concerns. I have found that praying for someone is 115 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.240 the best way to share Christ. I found that over the years. It 116 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.200 doesn't mean we should in Bible study. I do. But when you pray 117 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.759 for somebody, they don't forget it. You keep on praying for them. 118 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.240 They know you love them. You don't have to defend the truth or teach 119 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:43.360 someone anything or virtue signal, which is often what we do in religion. 120 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:50.000 Do we virtue signal? I'm religious because you know, we can pray for 121 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:54.480 people sincerely, not to show off, just sincerely, and God does the 122 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.879 work for that someone he cares about. I like praying for people as the 123 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.240 spirit of Prophecy says that Jesus Christ would visit the workplace, homes, the 124 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.960 marketplace. He would meet people with these little contexts, micro contexts, and 125 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.039 he would pray for them and minister them. And when they had that great 126 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.480 harvest of souls at Pentecost, it was because Jesus was doing personal work in 127 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.559 people's lives. There's a place for great evangelists. But listen, this church, 128 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.519 this movement, God's work on Earth grows one person at a time, 129 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:31.039 one stone at a time, a personal contact at a time. I consider 130 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.399 every meeting a divine appointment for someone's good and also mine. With that said, 131 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:41.799 she was hinting that I should not bring up the religious stuff today. 132 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.840 So as I sat down in my chair, the one next to her desk, 133 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:46.799 there was another man sitting in the chair next to her desk. He 134 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.720 was getting his car fixed. Also, the two of us were next to 135 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.360 her. She was doing the work. Gary, our mechanic, was nearby, 136 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.600 and so this man next to me. He was smart, educated, 137 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.960 well read, and retired. Look retired. But I'm not hanging there. 138 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.360 Someone just said today you look like you're so wise. You have gray hair. 139 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.960 Quit telling me that I'm just kidding. I told him I'm gonna I'm 140 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.639 going to cut off the wisdom this week and shorten it. Having fun with 141 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:22.399 you. We started talking about science, physics, quantum mechanics, you know, 142 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:28.080 quantum electric you know qed theory, Einstein philosophy, The pyramids came up, 143 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.360 Extra dimensions, aliens. YouTube has educated the world These days, everybody 144 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:39.360 knows everything and you name it. He could interact with them all because he 145 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.120 was well read, smart, and he watched YouTube. I could tell. 146 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.399 I'm not sure what he did for a living in the past, but I 147 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.000 suspect he was probably a scientist. He wouldn't tell me, or someone pretty 148 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.679 high up in the government. I kind of got that feeling. And as 149 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:00.799 we begin to talk, he gave me his testimony about a UFO. A 150 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:05.440 UFO encounter was a deep spiritual experience in his life. I didn't say, 151 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.200 oh, I don't tell me that. I said, sure, tell me. 152 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.120 Talked about the time he was driving down the road in some place in 153 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.799 Virginia when he saw clouds that was different than any cloud he'd ever seen in 154 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.039 his life, and as he began to examine it, he saw the structure 155 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.120 of an object wrapped in the clouds. He described the thing as a huge 156 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:26.679 thing. He says, it looked like a huge ship of some sort in 157 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.399 that cloud, with doors and structure, amazing features underneath. He says, 158 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.200 an alien kind of thing. I believe, he says, in extra dimensions, 159 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.759 and there was something from extra dimension appearing to me in the cloud. 160 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.879 He wasn't making it up either. He was dead serious. He saw this 161 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.919 thing in the sky and it was real to him, and I let him 162 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.799 know that I have seen the UFO once. I don't laugh at people. 163 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.480 I have seen the UFO. You know. Someone else who saw UFO was 164 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:58.159 Jimmy Carter. He's seen the UFO. I was also in hallm Michigan, 165 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:03.879 where military radar tracked a group of UFOs. It was they were pursued by 166 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:09.480 the police. A number of people in that community were interacting watching this stuff 167 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.440 in cornfields and other things, and it was such an amazing event that it 168 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.480 made the national news on forty hours. I think CBS carried that show almost 169 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.159 twenty years ago. It was right behind my house. I didn't see it. 170 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.240 I was in bed. I mean, the military has come out with 171 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:31.320 this kind of stuff, and why are they doing that? Who knows that 172 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.799 sighting occurred just behind my house in Hall of Michigan. I saw a UFO 173 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.279 somewhere else. I didn't act like he was stupid or he didn't see it. 174 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.639 I just listened to him share his testimony of the UFO. As he 175 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.200 shared with me his testament with the UFO, I prayed. I said, 176 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.399 Dear Lord, help me to know what to say so I can reach you, 177 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.480 help me listen to him. And then the moment came when the subject 178 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.240 shifted and Sir Isaac Newton he landed on the right spot with me. The 179 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:05.480 father of modern scientists, the great monotheist who influenced the Baconian scientific method, 180 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.320 who took the discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, and elliptical orbits, and was 181 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:20.759 able to discern from nature observation and intellect and prayer the laws of mechanics that 182 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.720 gave us the modern world. Devout Christian man, the father of modern science. 183 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.320 I said, did you know that Sir Isaac Newton was a devout Christian 184 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.960 man who quoted the Book of Daniel in his famous work Principia when he defined 185 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.440 the laws of motion, mechanics and gravity. So we can understand how the 186 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.320 motion of circles around the Earth, elliptical orbits were gravity, and so on. 187 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.159 Solar system stuff. Now, sister White wrote about the Solar system and 188 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.279 Jesus and the Tsar of Ages, page four sixty four. She says, 189 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.519 we can trace the line of the world's great teachers as far back as human 190 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:00.879 records extend, but the light was before them. The moon and the stars 191 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.879 of the solar system shine by the reflected light of the sun. So far 192 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:09.759 as their teaching is true, to the world's great thinkers reflect the rays of 193 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.320 the sun of righteousness. That's Jesus. Every gem of thought, every flash 194 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.720 of intellect, is from the light of the world. So when you have 195 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:22.600 a relationship with Jesus friend, you can get a higher education in the school 196 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.679 of God. And then she says this. In these days we hear much 197 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:31.720 about higher education. The true higher education is that imparted by Him and whom 198 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.960 are He had all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and him was life, 199 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.840 and the life was the light of men. He that follows me said, 200 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.440 Jesus shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 201 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:48.320 This is why education matters. In Adventism. We are meant to educate 202 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.919 our young people so that they are the brightest, the best in the world. 203 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.440 And we shine in the medical area. But we should be the best 204 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.559 in physics, the best in geology, the best in biology, et cetera, 205 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.240 et cetera. Theology, Bible study, biblical philosophy. That the world 206 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.399 has ever seen. Why because Jesus is the great teacher. And as we 207 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:15.480 talked about Sir Isaac Newton, I spoke up, and he was surprised that 208 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.039 a pastor would read about quantum mechanics, general and special relativity in this kind 209 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.000 of thing. But I have to you know, why God doesn't want us 210 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:26.879 to be ignorant. I'm not a scientist, but I have to know what 211 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:31.919 is going on or I cannot really represent God's word right. So as we 212 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.720 talk about sarrising Newton, I spoke up and said that Sir Isaac Newton claimed 213 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.120 here was the my you know way I got into this, that the prophecy 214 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.840 of the seventy weeks of Daniel nine. How many of you read that in 215 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.240 your Bible? Raise your hand high so I get a good sense of it. 216 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.919 About two thirds of you have. He claimed that that prophecy of seventy 217 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:54.200 weeks, which is a four hundred nine year prophecy, is the cornerstone of 218 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.279 the Christian religion. I said, well, how smart was aisa Newton? 219 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.519 He said real smart? I said, well, when he makes a statement 220 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.159 like that, what does it mean? So we got a dialogue going. 221 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.440 I talked about those space aliens in the Torah. I went to Moses. 222 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.159 I said, when you go back to the Torah and books of Moses, 223 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.000 immediately you've got extraterrestrials in play. Is it? What do you mean, 224 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.159 I says, these angels are ets. I talked about the space aliens in 225 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.919 the Toro who came to Earth. According to Moses in Deuteronomy four nineteen, 226 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.000 God said, you shall not worship the host of heaven. I have given 227 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:32.279 these to the nations. Don't do what they do, these cosmic powers that 228 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:36.159 came here. I shared with him that the In fact, there's a tach, 229 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.480 a genealogical text in Genesis ten which I don't have the verse right on 230 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.919 the tip of my ting tongue, but it says kissaling him from what came 231 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.679 the Philistines, and it's structurally embedded with Satan's angels and structures in the revelation. 232 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.919 I don't want to go into that now, but kissala him means Orion 233 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:59.480 once came the sea invaders. And so I talked about those space aliens in 234 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.559 the Toro came to Earth, a coining to Moses in Deuteronomy four nineteen, 235 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:07.720 who gained control of the nations as gods and Psalms eighty two. The gods 236 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.400 in charge of the nations of the earth, the Alahms, which are space 237 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.680 aliens fallen angels, we know them ass And I share with him that the 238 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.920 Hebrew langers calls these shads demon gods. And as I as I asked, 239 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.839 as I asked if he agreed that it was possible, I said, is 240 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.000 it possible, sir, that these et demon gods are shads, might be 241 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.480 the bad guys playing with their minds, that they could actually make us see 242 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.640 things that they want us to see, so they can manipulate outcomes. If 243 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.319 they're that smarts and they're that powerful. He said, maybe so. And 244 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.480 I share with him briefly how all the nations came under the control of these 245 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:47.680 shad demon gods according to the Torah, and how finally God himself showed up 246 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:53.039 in the person of Jesus Christ to send seventy disciples to the seventy nations under 247 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:59.519 demonic control to get them back for God with the Gospel as I showed him 248 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.720 in the Bible, where Jesus was a sign to the nation of Israel that 249 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:10.039 came after the seventy and he became the overseer God of the Jewish nation who 250 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.039 would lead his people to promised land. They were all called Eloheims in Psalms 251 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:19.039 eighty two. But the true Elohim God was in Christ way back then Exus 252 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:22.839 twenty three, twenty twenty twenty one. Take your bibles in turn with me 253 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.920 there, if you would. This is Mount Sinai. The law has just 254 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.799 been given. God the Father is speaking, not God the Son. To 255 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:36.240 Moses, he says, behold, I send an angel before you to guard 256 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:37.799 you on the way, to bring you to the place which I had prepared. 257 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:44.039 What does it say next in verse twenty one, give he to him. 258 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:48.160 He's a person, and hearken to his voice. Do not rebel against 259 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.720 Tim, for he will not pardon your transgression, meaning rebellion, your consistent 260 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.759 rebellion. And here are his credentials. For my name is in him. 261 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.359 I share this one with the Jehovah's Witness PhD. In Physics, the University 262 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.920 of Maryland, who's trying to convert a lot of our young people here at 263 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:11.319 reaching hearts out of our faith into the Jehovah's witness faith. And I said, 264 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.920 and what does it mean that God's name is in him? I said, 265 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.279 sir, what is the divine name of God that your church is so 266 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.319 famous for? And he couldn't bring himself to verbalize it with this verse, 267 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:27.759 it's Jehovah Yahweh God. If Jehovah, Yeahweh God is in this being, 268 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.920 guess who he is? Jehovah Yahweh God. In angel form, the divine 269 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:38.079 name of the True God is Yahweh, which we often refer to as Jehovah. 270 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:42.799 I explained to him that Yahweh means craining to God himself in Exos three, 271 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.160 I am who I am, Yahweh Jehovah, the Lord in all capital 272 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.799 letters in your English Bible is Yahweh, and Jehovah is my name. Thus 273 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.079 I am to be remember throughout all your generations. So what's God's name? 274 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:59.160 If I were to ask you what God's name is? What would you say 275 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:06.240 to me today? Based on Ex's three, Come on, I am who 276 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:11.480 or what I am? What does that mean? You? See? You 277 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.200 are, your character, your nature, your personality. Who you are? 278 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:18.759 I am who I am? Is that? So? What's God's name? 279 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:26.160 It's his character, it's his person it's his nature. When we speak of 280 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.079 God's name, And what does that mean in practical terms, it's God's Law 281 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:36.400 revealed a transcript of his character. It's God's covenant who he is. So 282 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:41.160 what is the everlasting Covenant's God's Because God's Law is embedded in God's heart and 283 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.480 mind, it's who he is. And so if God's name is in this 284 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:49.039 being, this being is the messenger of the Covenant because he bears divine credentials. 285 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:52.759 In this context, to have God's name in your life means that this 286 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.400 angel assigned to Israel is God in angel form, who has the power and 287 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:00.000 the credentials to lead us to the Promised Land. This angel, who became 288 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.519 the spiritual Prince of Israel was Yahweh God, an angel form according to God. 289 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:10.440 Isaiah sixty three nine I'm not gonna look it up calls him the Angel 290 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:15.759 of God's presence. They'll redeeming angel. Jacob called him the Redeemer, and 291 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:22.440 then he called him God in the Old Testament in Genesis when he was blessing 292 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.680 the sons of Joseph. And just like Isaiah forty six, he called him 293 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:33.799 who calls him also the Redeemer Yahweh Jehovah of Hosts. It says, it 294 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:38.599 talks about the King of Israel Yahweh, and his redeemer Yahweh of hosts two, 295 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:42.000 I am the first and the last. Besides me, there is no 296 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:47.200 God. And Jesus will quote that for himself at the end of book Revelation, 297 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:49.200 and God the Father will say it a couple of times in the book 298 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:55.400 Revelation, because together they are God. I am who I am. God 299 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.240 knew that the people needed to know that this angel assigned to Israel as Yahweh 300 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:04.480 Jehovah an angel form, and thus this angel possesses the almighty credentials. Why 301 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.839 does he need almighty credentials? Dear heart, we have broken Whose law? 302 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:18.920 Tell me interact? How eternal is God's law? It's God. The only 303 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.319 one who can atone for a broken law is God, no one else. 304 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:27.880 We have to have a high christology to have a high view of the Gospel. 305 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.960 Turned to Access twenty three twenty two, God said, but if you 306 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.920 hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will 307 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.759 be an enemy to your enemies, an adversary to your adversaries. Who do 308 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:42.960 we need to follow? In the context, who do we need to follow? 309 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.400 This being who has God's name in Him, which is the Son of 310 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.799 God. And when my Angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites, 311 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:55.599 the Hittites, the Parizites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebisites, 312 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:59.119 and he says, I blot them out verse twenty four. You shall 313 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.680 not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to 314 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:07.319 their works. But you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 315 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.519 What he's saying is, you don't compromise in some kind of crazy ecumenicism 316 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.799 with world religions. You stay true to what I've told you through Moses, 317 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:21.279 and let this be who is God in angel form guide you. You listen 318 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:25.359 to him from Sinai to the Second Coming. We have no business compromising with 319 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:30.759 evil anywhere in the Church in our lives, because the Lord Yahweh is in 320 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.200 our midst in the form of the Angel of His Presence, the mighty Angel 321 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:37.480 of the Covenant, as Malachi calls him. I shared with him from John 322 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:44.680 that this divine person that led Israel in the past is Jesus Christ. I 323 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.480 actually mentioned Jesus to him. Turn to John one to one. Here's what 324 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:52.160 I showed you in the beginning was the word. How many of you see 325 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.880 that? Now? The first time the word of God appears as a person 326 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:59.440 in Genesis is Jenesus fifteen to one. The word of the Lord came to 327 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:03.599 Abram and saying, Yet in the beginning is how the book of Genesis starts. 328 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:07.880 Christ was at the dawn of time. According to John, in the 329 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:12.200 beginning was the word revealed to Abraham as the word of the Lord that came 330 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:18.599 to Abrama vision saying, and the word was with God. He was God's 331 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:23.680 associate, and the word was God. Now that's clear language. Sister White 332 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:29.440 says, this is clear language. Look at verse two. He was in 333 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:34.359 the beginning with God. He's a person. Verse three, all things were 334 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:37.480 made through him. Now what's everything? I'm asking you a simple question. 335 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:45.599 What's everything? Well? What? Well? Everything's everything? Right? Okay, 336 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.400 we call that the universe, don't we. The fact is the Greek 337 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.359 word for universe is top panta. It's the same word here. All things 338 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.160 were made through him. With that him was not anything made that was made. 339 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.680 You see, Jesus created every star, read, every galaxy, every 340 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:06.119 micro particle. Sister White says, the total creat of universe was created. 341 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:10.319 Is the one who created the stars and the planets hung on Calvary's cross. 342 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:14.640 That's what this is saying. Look at the next verse was four and him 343 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.240 was life, and the life was the light event. How many of you 344 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.359 want to live forever? And this being was life? And I read this 345 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.319 to him, and he was looking at it. And then verse five the 346 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:32.799 light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome or comprehendeth it 347 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:36.920 not the pen your translation. Both are possible. I showed him in John 348 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:40.240 one that this person who is the Word of God is Jesus, who created 349 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:44.519 the universe as the Word of God, who is called God himself, who 350 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:48.559 is with God as an associate. In John one one, but also God 351 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.960 an amazing verse to read. He was all in there now, this space 352 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.440 alien stuff had brought him to Jesus, the true light that enlightens every person. 353 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.559 Verse nine was coming into the world. France, go, God cares 354 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.680 about the many, and that is why God sent Jesus, who's also God, 355 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:07.519 to save the many and to save you and me. And then I 356 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.240 showed him John one ten, and take your bibles and move John one ten 357 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.880 with me. Come on, what does it say? He was in the 358 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.480 world. And what does the text say next? The world was made through 359 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:23.880 him, yet the world knew him not Okay, so he was He was 360 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.160 the creator and he didn't leave this place when it got all messed up. 361 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:33.480 Verse eleven. He came to his own home. Now what would that be 362 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:36.920 based on Nexus twenty three twenty twenty one. That was Israel, wasn't He 363 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:41.079 was a sign to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai as their guardian protector. 364 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.559 He came to his own home and his own people. And this is 365 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.279 the sad stuff. What does it say his own people received him? Not 366 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.640 Now, dear heart, your eternal destiny will be determined. But what you 367 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:57.000 do with Jesus in your life, you better be very careful when you study 368 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.920 your Bible and you pray that you don't make Jesus something less than what he 369 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:03.599 needs to be to save you. Now look what he says next in verse 370 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.759 twelve. But to all who received him, Now is that the few of 371 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:14.319 the many? That's the look. There'll be people saved who have very bad 372 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:18.880 theology, but if they have Jesus, they get in to all who received 373 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.720 him, who believed in his And here's the keyword. Is what and what's 374 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:30.839 his name? Yahweh Jehovah already revealed in the Old Testament, Yahweh of Hosts, 375 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.039 the King of Israel, Yahweh's redeemer. In Isaiah forty first six, 376 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:40.240 he gave power to become the children of God. You see, you have 377 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:45.359 to have a high christology to have the power to be saved. Angel power 378 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:52.400 won't save you. Created being power won't save you. Divine power will save 379 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.839 you. Peter tells us that we received divine power in our lives to the 380 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.279 promises that come in the word of God. And John tells us Jesus is 381 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.279 the word of God. Jesus came to save the many by changing them in 382 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.960 the insight by the power of his Yeahweh name. That is God's nature, 383 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.559 God's character, God's law of love, the content and meaning of I am 384 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:14.960 who I am. How do we know what God's character really is? We 385 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.039 can read the tenth Commandments, right, How do we really know who God 386 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.359 is? Only one person has revealed him? Who is that? In the 387 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.039 life of Jesus we know God verse thirteen, Who were born not of blood, 388 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.240 nor the will of flesh, nor the will of man, but of 389 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:32.599 God And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and 390 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:37.039 truth, and we beheld his glory. Glory is of the only son from 391 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.240 the Father. When we looked into the face of Jesus, John tells us, 392 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:47.119 we saw the glory of God shining out. The glory of God almighty 393 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:52.079 is Jesus. He's ascribed as that in Hebrews One. The outshining of his 394 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:56.119 glory. That's what Christ is. How can you separate God from his glory? 395 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.200 You can't. The word glory means character in the Bible too. The 396 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.599 word of God, who is God, has the divine credentials to save us. 397 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:10.119 He is the one who came to save the many. Paul says, 398 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:18.200 God was in Christ reconciling us. Unto him. He didn't send some weakened 399 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:22.759 representative. He sent the deity. Jesus was the ultimate Et, who is 400 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.640 God in human form. I then pointed him Day on nine twenty four to 401 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.200 show this amazing time prophecy that predicted the coming of Jesus, his death on 402 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.279 the cross, and his divine credentials. He was all years to hear what 403 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.079 Et had to say. So we went to Day on nine twenty fourth, 404 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:41.559 take your bible as quickly open it. We're not going to go in depth 405 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.079 here. We're going to look at the big thing. Seventy weeks are determined 406 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:49.720 in the Hebrew cuttok decreed for your people in your holy city, the Jewish 407 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:55.200 people, to finish the transgression. That's theirs. To make an end of 408 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:59.960 sins, that's all of us, to make reconciliation for iniquity. That's universe, 409 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.359 your soul, to bring in everlasting righteousness, that's eternal righteousness. What's 410 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:08.720 an everlasting righteousness? It's not a limited righteousness, it's an infinite righteousness. 411 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:14.440 To seal up vision prophecy and to annoint the Kodesh Koashim, the holy of 412 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.000 holies. And I explained to him that this means a lot to me, 413 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.319 that God would send Jesus to die for my sins. How many of you 414 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:26.119 appreciate that fact in your life? Raise your hands. I appreciate that fact. 415 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.240 We have to raise our hands and say, praise God that Jesus died 416 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:34.359 for me every day of our life. We did the math together without a 417 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.240 chart, no charts. Seventy weeks is seventy times seven, which equals four 418 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:44.240 to ninety he got it. Smart guy. He was happy to learn the 419 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:47.759 principle from Daniel that one day is one year in Bible prophecy. Kind of 420 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.200 simple, and just like Sir Isaac Newton, he was seeing a four hundred 421 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.160 and ninety year time prophecy about someone who would come with the credentials of God 422 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:02.519 Almighty, with an everlasting righteousness to take away our sins Danie nine twenty five, 423 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:06.039 next verse, No, therefore, and understand that from the going forth 424 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.920 of the command the Hebrew words davar is the is the Hebrew word for the 425 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:14.240 word. The Word is coming. Just like John in the beginning of the 426 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.319 word. When the decree goes out, the word Jesus is on the move 427 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:22.480 in Daniel nine twenty five to restore and build Jerusalem until the Messiah prince. 428 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.960 There should be seven weeks, in sixty two weeks, the street should be 429 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.759 built again in the wall. Even in troubles times. He was focused now 430 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:33.400 on the word. Who is God? And the Messiah is coming and there's 431 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.480 an everlasting righteousness. Now, who is the king of righteousness? In the 432 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:40.079 Book of Hebrews, you guys know, come on, you read your bibles. 433 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:48.160 Hebrew seven, Who's the King of Righteousness. Mail Kezah deck in Christ 434 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.000 is a high priest after the order makeack Melkezdak means king of righteousness. I 435 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.200 share with him that I needed someone in my life who has the divine credentials 436 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.240 to save me. I create being is not good enough to say, and 437 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.440 one can't bring in everlasting righteousness. A being who has a beginning is not 438 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.519 good enough to bring in everlasting righteousness because he doesn't know what's that that far 439 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:13.200 back. He doesn't go to everlasting. No ordinary angel would get the job 440 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:17.400 done for us. Only God can do that. I showed him here the 441 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.440 Decree of Ezra seven. It starts in the fall four fifty seven BC. 442 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.279 He did the math with me, just like Sirrison Newton did from four fifty 443 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:29.200 seven BC seven weeks he was forty nine years. It comes to four eight 444 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:30.880 BC. He said, yeah, I got it. Then sixty two more 445 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.319 weeks sixty two times seven is four and thirty four more years with no zero. 446 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.359 We made sure that eight twenty seven a d. That's New Testament time 447 00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.759 when Jesus shows up in Luke three right on time, and they're expecting him 448 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:52.119 that year as the Messiah to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, become God's 449 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.880 anointed. Now look at Dane nine twenty six, real quick, and after 450 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:59.799 the sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for him. 451 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:01.480 Sol So when Jesus died, did he die for himself or he die 452 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:07.079 for everybody else? He died not for himself. I shared with him that 453 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:08.880 Jesus died for me, not just me, but the many, you, 454 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.680 me, all of us in this room, and the people. The Prince 455 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.640 who is to come, shall destroy the city and sanctuary. Theologians have argued 456 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.880 about this, Well, is the people the prince to come, the Messiah 457 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.799 prince or Titus? And the Gospel of John says the Prince of this world 458 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.880 is coming. He has no power over me. That's how John interprets this 459 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.880 verse. The end of it shall be with the flood, until the end 460 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:36.200 of the war desolations are determined. We both agreed that this was the destruction 461 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:40.440 of Jerusalem seventy eight eight. Here's Daniel talking about salvation hundreds of years before, 462 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.880 and he gets this history right. How did he know that? Now? 463 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:51.240 In the second century BC, Jewish people recognized that the Messiah, Prince 464 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.720 of the on nine twenty four is milkazidak. Did you know that how many 465 00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:58.480 of you have ever read the Dead Sea Scrolls? I mean it's a little 466 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:04.400 book. I actually read the Dead Sea Scrolls all the way through Cave eleven, 467 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:10.519 second century BC l Q is called the Melkezedic Document. And in that 468 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.239 document, the Jewish people were looking for the Messiah based on Daniel nine. 469 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.800 They were looking for tin ju Belieze, which is a four hundred and nine 470 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.440 year time period. They were interacting directly with seventy weeks. And they were 471 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.480 looking for Melkezedak, who is God Elahim, who would come to give the 472 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:31.800 light and spell the darkness. And they knew that to be Melkezedak, he 473 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.280 had to be an eternal being. And this is what Paul is interacting with 474 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.239 in the Book of Hebrews in chapter seven when he says, Melkezedek neither has 475 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:43.840 beginning of days or end of years. In this way he is likened to 476 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.840 the Son of God. This was what the Jewish people were interacting with based 477 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.400 on the Book of Daniel, expecting the Messiah in eighty twenty seven. And 478 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:57.199 they understood that this Messiah prince has to be God to say from darkness, 479 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.440 that he has to have the credentials of Melkezedak. He has to be Alohem. 480 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:05.039 It's right there in that document. And they taught that this king of 481 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.199 righteousness of Kezidak would lead the sons of light to the truth of God. 482 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:13.440 And they understood that all before Jesus came. And thus the New Testament is 483 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:17.440 hot loaded with context. Friend, don't strip Jesus of his god and credentials 484 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.000 that you need for him to save you from your sins, like he says 485 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.199 next, but what about the last week of the seventy weeks that gets the 486 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.119 job done to put an end to sin? To bring in everlasting righteousness in 487 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:36.280 verse twenty four is only possible if God's righteousness is God's righteousness. It has 488 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:40.440 to be an everlasting righteousness, Paul says. But now a righteousness he's quoting 489 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:45.519 to a nine twenty four has been revealed or manifested apart from the law, 490 00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:50.280 even though the law and the prophets bear witness the righteousness that comes through faith 491 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:54.440 in Jesus Christ, God's righteousness. In nine twenty seven, it says, 492 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:58.159 then he shall confirm a covenant. And no, I want to draw your 493 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:00.880 attention this verse. Look at the Bible. He shall confirm a covenant. 494 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:06.760 What does it say? Come on, read it with me with many? 495 00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:08.400 You see the word many, how many even see the word many? Come 496 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:15.679 on right, help me know you are looking at the Bible many for one 497 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:19.320 week, but in the middle of the week he shall bring it into sacrifices 498 00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.800 and such and such grain offering. I pointed out that Jesus did this, 499 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:27.559 but died on the cross as the pass over lamb, as the sacrifice. 500 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.280 It came to an end of veil, the temple was rent. He got 501 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:34.760 the connection. We did the math together again without a chart. No charts 502 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.039 twenty seven AD plus seven more years ends an eighty thirty four. So from 503 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:42.320 twenty seven AD to eighty thirty four is the last seven years. The middle 504 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.719 is eighty thirty one. He said, wow, that's the year. Yep, 505 00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:50.719 Jesus died for the many in thirty one A d and for me and 506 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.400 you, and then says, on the wing of abominations shall come on who 507 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:58.760 makes desolate, even until the decreed end is poured on the desolate. He 508 00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:00.679 could see that Jesus got it done. At the end of the fourty ninety 509 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:07.599 years for the many. Now this verse is quoted in the Gospel of Matthew 510 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:14.400 directly. It's quoted in Matthew twenty six twenty eight when Jesus the Lord's sappers 511 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:19.079 said, for this is my blood of the covenant, which has poured out 512 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.400 for the many for the forgiveness of sins. Daniel said, he will confirm 513 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:28.000 a covenant with or for the many. Christ is going right back to day 514 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:30.280 on nine and says, I'm getting it done by God's grace. I am 515 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:34.760 the fulfillment of the seventy weeks. I'm going to die on time for the 516 00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.920 sins of the world. I pointed out that Jesus died for me and you 517 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:43.599 brothers. He could see that Jesus got it done at the end of the 518 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.679 ninety years for the many. Then I did something. Now, how many 519 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:50.480 of you have seen these blue cards here? How many of you pick up? 520 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:52.840 John? Do you have any more of these blue cards in church? 521 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.000 Here? Where's John domit? He's with his children in the side room. 522 00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.360 Okay, John, come on out here a second. They see these blue 523 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.800 cards, they say, angels in the glen dot org. How many have 524 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.800 you got on on the website? Angels the Glen dot orgs. I gave 525 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.440 him, Look, if you can't give a Bible study, you can give 526 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.599 a card and then if you interact with that person through the card and so 527 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.480 the angels in Glen dot org website, I gave it. I told him 528 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.440 about it, told him to email my friend John and time the pastor Mike 529 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.400 had showed up and shared that with him. I like getting an interaction, 530 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.559 you know, I said, start the videos in day one and go all 531 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.000 the way to the end and call me back. Now. I'm gonna call 532 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:37.079 him this week. We exchanged phone numbers and at that point we both got 533 00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:43.480 our bills for the auto work at the same time. My bill was very 534 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:51.119 small. Ha laylu y'ah, hallay lou y'all praise the Lord. And his 535 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:55.360 bill was not so small. God is in control. He kept looking at 536 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:59.360 his bill. It was kind of hard for him to remember what I had 537 00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.760 said, so I explained to him gently that our mechanic does good work on 538 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.960 the inside of a car. He can fix it. He looked a little 539 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.840 relieved at that fact, but not the bill. It was twice my bill. 540 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.280 At this point, my mechanic came back in. I took the opportunity 541 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:21.920 to bow my head and pray for my mechanic and everybody else in the room 542 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:27.960 too. Why why not just leave and get my keys and go home. 543 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.159 Because Jesus died for the many. Every person we meet in our life is 544 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:38.400 a candidate for eternal life. I went to my mechanics, my other two 545 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:43.039 mechanics, but because I want to know all of them. Who works on 546 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.719 another car that I've been going by his home, his shop for weeks and 547 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:50.960 months, just praying for him. We started studies and he got too busy, 548 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.079 he has to close his shop up. But this last week he said, 549 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.280 you come by this. It's this coming Wednesday. He says, you 550 00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.360 linger my son, and I want to study the Bible with you. It's 551 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.679 been months just going by and praying for him, nothing more than that. 552 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:12.320 And he volunteered that. Friend. Have you heard have they heard the people 553 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:15.480 in your lives? You speak joyfully of Jesus to them? Are you proud 554 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:19.039 of Jesus? Have you bothered to study the Bible with them? You said, 555 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:21.760 well, I don't know how to give Bible. I've heard doctors and 556 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.719 lawyers tell me, oh, I don't know how to go a Bible study 557 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:29.159 you ever said that I don't know good Bible's duty. Look, you don't 558 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.719 have to know how to give a Bible study. You can stumble through the 559 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:34.880 Bible. The powers not in you. It's in the word. Open it 560 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.039 up, share a promise with a dear heart. They ask you a question, 561 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.960 research it. Use the Amazing Facts Bible study series. I'm telling you 562 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.639 it's a good thing. Have you bothered to study the Bible with them, 563 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.599 even a little bit of the Bible? Have you shared your faith in Jesus? 564 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.599 Or you just assume? Well? By influence is so wonderful. If 565 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:54.199 I say nothing, they'll figure it out. Well, they won't figure anything 566 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:59.239 out unless you say something. Jesus said, you are my witnesses, So 567 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:04.400 share and prayer helps. It matters. How did I feel when I left 568 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:08.519 my mechanic shop yesterday. I'm going into my emotions. I felt great. 569 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:15.280 I felt great because God had arranged a divine appointment in my life with some 570 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.880 very precious people in my path, who are the many in need of prayer, 571 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:22.679 a thought, and some love. It was great. I also felt 572 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:24.840 good because I didn't have to pay a big bill to fix my car. 573 00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:29.079 I thought it'd be twenty five hundred to three thousand dollars to fix her car. 574 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.360 It's thirty five, three hundred and fifty dollars. That's it. I 575 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.840 was out the door. God be praised. God took care of that challenge 576 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.719 too. And I noticed when I drove away that the check engine light was 577 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.480 gone. Is that a good thing? And I also noticed that check engine 578 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:52.199 light here inside of me that I felt good inside because that day, because 579 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:58.199 of God's providence, I wasn't on my agenda. I was living for others, 580 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.559 and that out good. The check engine light and side felt good. 581 00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:08.559 Friends, when you love the many, God saves you too. He loves you