1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:09,160 All I need, All I need is found in your prison. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:16,720 All I need, All I need is found in your prison. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,920 All I need, All I need is found in your prison. 4 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:33,600 Hallelujah, Jesus. Sing it today, sound in you. 5 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:41,400 Hallelujah. Oh, he's a very present help. 6 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,960 Amen. In trouble, I've learned through 7 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,200 my life experience though. There God's presence shows up. 8 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,240 God's presence wishes to demonstrate itself in some way. 9 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,440 It's a place in the New Testament Scripture. 10 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,600 Bible talks about that the Lord was sitting there and teaching 11 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,560 and things of that nature. It says that the power of the 12 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,240 Lord was present. And then it tells us it's 13 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,480 objective to heal. And I'm confident every time His 14 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,760 spirit shows up, He has a purpose and an objective. 15 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,880 Amen. So there's many of you that felt 16 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,240 that presence today. I, I'm, I'm, I'm confident that 17 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,120 there's nobody that sits in this room this morning that's been 18 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,400 unimpacted by the presence of the Lord that's in this place. 19 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,960 But you might be in this situation where I just don't 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,960 know what to do with what I'm experiencing. 21 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,480 Some of you, it's been born into the water spirit. 22 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,000 It's a drawing you close, but for some of you don't have a 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,040 relationship with God. He's drawing you unto himself, 24 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,000 Amen. And just a simple hand raised or 25 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,120 a simple conversation with God can start something of a total 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,480 change in your life, Amen. This morning, it's important to 27 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:56,960 respond. Amen. 28 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,240 To you. Might not you say, well, I don't 29 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,840 know. I don't want, I don't want to 30 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,120 get it wrong. I don't want to respond. 31 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,720 Listen, there is no wrong response to what you're feeling 32 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,080 here today. There is no wrong response to 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,759 what you're feeling here this morning. 34 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,400 Hallelujah, he is here today, Amen. 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,240 And we don't say that to be spooky. 36 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,160 I'm telling you confidently, you witness it. 37 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,480 You're what you're feeling is I don't can't describe this. 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,680 What you're feeling is the presence of God. 39 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,200 You're feeling God's Spirit today. 40 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:28,920 If you've never felt it before, man welcome. 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,520 This is God's Spirit, Amen, that you're feeling here today, 42 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,640 Hallelujah, Amen. Well, stand with me, I suppose, 43 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,640 Amen. It's so good to have each of 44 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:43,520 you, Amen, here this morning and some we've not been able to 45 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,800 touch base with in a while, it seems sickness and things of 46 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,000 that nature. And it's so good to be able to 47 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,560 cross the paths with you this morning, Amen. 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,120 We appreciate everybody's prayers for us as we were gone 49 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,120 past weekend. And it's good to be back home. 50 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,520 You know, you're always ready to get home to your bed and your 51 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,080 house, but I'm also always happy to get back home to the House of 52 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,400 God with this. You know, the Bible says that 53 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,960 the Lord said that the solitary in families. 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,240 And so this is the family of God that he has set me. 55 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,720 And I know it's bigger than this, but this is the family of 56 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:15,560 God. He set me in. 57 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,680 And so I'm glad to be back. Amen With you this morning. 58 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,800 I'm going to turn to two passages of Scripture today. 59 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,920 I'm going to turn to 2nd Corinthians 519 and also First 60 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,600 Timothy 316 reading from both of these passages. 61 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,840 Pardon me. Both of these passages, Amen. 62 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,200 The Scripture, one here, a letter that Paul wrote to 63 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,760 Corinth, another that he wrote to his son in the Gospel, 64 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,600 Timothy, and both of these have a couple of phrases that are 65 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,160 springboards really for our purposes that are here this 66 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,600 morning. Amen. 67 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,840 And at any time, Amen, you want to respond to the Lord. 68 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,360 And maybe we, we say, well, it goes without saying, but I think 69 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,880 it needs to be said sometimes. There's no such thing as an 70 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:01,640 interruption in Pentecostal service. 71 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:03,880 No such thing as an interruption. 72 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,560 The altar is always open, Amen. And this thing can turn on a 73 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,160 dime at any moment in time. Amen. 74 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,480 And so just want to put that in the forefront of your mind. 75 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,680 Second Corinthians chapter #5 and verse #19 The Bible says, to 76 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:25,240 wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto 77 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,520 Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and have 78 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,360 committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 79 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,160 First Timothy chapter #3 and verse 16. 80 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,080 The Scripture reads like this, a man, and with our controversy, 81 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,560 great is the mystery of godliness. 82 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:50,960 God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit scene of 83 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,080 angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the 84 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:00,120 world, received up in glory. The two phrases from these 85 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:05,280 verses in particular was that God was in Christ, and secondly 86 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:08,760 in Timothy that God was manifest in the flesh. 87 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,000 A little while this morning I want to talk to us about the 88 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:18,840 revelation of God in Christ Jesus, the revelation of God in 89 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,480 Christ Jesus, Amen. Can we talk to him one more time 90 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,880 before we get into the Word here today? 91 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,120 Father, we thank you, Jesus, God, that we can feel and 92 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,640 experience your presence. God, we're thankful, Lord, God 93 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,200 that you are have come down and Lord made yourself known to us. 94 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,520 I pray Lord you would continue to do so. 95 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,880 Lord, through the ministry of your word, y'all book alongside 96 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,040 us, enlighten Lord our minds. Let there be a spirit of 97 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,280 revelation. God upon our hearts. 98 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,200 And souls today as we share. The. 99 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,920 Good word of the Lord in this great gospel of Jesus Christ and 100 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,000 the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen of the church 101 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,280 say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 102 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:09,160 in Jesus name, Apostle Paul, of course, writing one letter, 2 103 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,720 letters actually, one to individual, 1 to a church. 104 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,760 But he's talking about this great, this great doctrine of 105 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,360 scripture. And I think it's important today 106 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:25,320 to under score that this isn't a, a, a corner of Pentecost or 107 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,480 Apostolic that this is a biblical doctrine, right? 108 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,960 This is a biblical doctrine. The scripture, Amen. 109 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,400 And and Paul is writing here this revelation that God was in 110 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,640 Christ or that God was manifest in the flesh. 111 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,680 And that's really what was played out, whether we tend to 112 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,480 believe it or see it or or catch it or not in the Gospels of 113 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:52,240 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we see those things as the life in 114 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,880 the ministry of Christ. But Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 115 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,600 are so much more than just the life in the ministry of Christ. 116 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:03,400 They are the revelation of God in Christ in many regards. 117 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,160 As a matter of fact, we see in particular Matthew, Mark and and 118 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,480 Luke are oftimes called the synoptic Gospels. 119 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,320 And that seems real fancy and everything. 120 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,200 But when you think of synoptic, synoptic and you think of a 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,960 synopsis, something that's a summary of something, that's 122 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,840 basically it. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John 123 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,720 are a summary of the life of Christ. 124 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,800 And then you have you have John, though that's not in the 125 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,520 synoptic because John kind of stands alone. 126 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,680 As a matter of fact, if you read John, John has a very major 127 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,000 focus on the divinity or the deity of Christ Jesus in his 128 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,040 writing. And so one of the core, core 129 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,600 doctrines of the Scripture is that God who the Bible says is 130 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,480 spirit. Everybody say God is spirit. 131 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,240 God is spirit whenever he had his talking conversation with 132 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,840 the woman at the well and John chapter #4 this Bible tells us 133 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:57,880 in John 424 that God is a spirit and they that worship him must 134 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,920 worship him in spirit. And in truth in our English it 135 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,160 says God is a spirit as though he is one of many, but the 136 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,120 little a that little definitive word is not there in the Greek, 137 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,640 it's God is spirit, Amen. And so that we know that God is 138 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,800 Spears matter of fact, anytime we have references in Scripture, 139 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,080 particularly in the Old Testament, it's talking about 140 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,320 the finger of God, the hand of God, the face of God. 141 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,080 All of those are just wordings really spoken to us so that as 142 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,680 of human beings can relate with what's being said because as a 143 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,080 spirit of spirit has not flesh and bones as you and I have. 144 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,159 So when it's talking about face or finger or hand, it's talking 145 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,960 about things that we can relate to, right, that can help 146 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,480 understand. They give us some type of 147 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,600 relation, if you will, to God. And so we read in Scripture 148 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,600 though, in Corinthians and in Timothy, that that God who is 149 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,520 Spirit, that God who is spirit was manifest in the flesh, that 150 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,560 God who was in spirit was in Christ Jesus. 151 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,680 And we sometimes can get hung up off the word manifest. 152 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:01,080 What does that really mean? Well, the word manifest means to 153 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:06,800 make visible or known what had been hidden or unknown. 154 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,280 That's what manifest means. Manifest means to to make 155 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:15,040 realized or to show oneself. That's what manifest means, to 156 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,200 plainly, to plainly recognize. God was manifest in the flesh. 157 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,200 He was made known in the flesh. He was made visible. 158 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,080 A spirit we would for sure, unless it would choose to 159 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,600 represent itself in some way. It's not necessarily something 160 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,600 you see, it's invisible. But Christ Jesus, that flesh 161 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,160 made visible the invisible God. It made visible that invisible 162 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,560 spirit. It brought into being those 163 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:47,240 things that seemed to for a while through even the Old 164 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,920 Testament hidden to mankind until the babe was born in 165 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,920 Bethlehem's Manger and then people could realize and himself 166 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,400 was shown a man in that man Christ Jesus. 167 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,360 The Bible says in Hebrews chapter #1 and verse three it 168 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,280 says who and The Who. It's always good to see what the 169 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,640 who's are right? Who is this relating to? 170 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,960 You go back to verse #2 you understand it's relating to the 171 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,880 Son, the Son of God, or the Son of man, Christ Jesus. 172 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,600 Who be in the? Brightness of his the his who's 173 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,000 the his you go back to verse 1 and you see that the his is 174 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,760 referring to God and so we have this son who be in the 175 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:32,440 brightness of God's glory, the express image, the son or the. 176 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,320 Flesh Jesus Christ was the. The express image of his or 177 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,400 God's person upholding all things by the word of his power 178 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:45,360 when he hit, when he had by himself perched our sins sat 179 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,680 down on the right hand majesty on high and so Hebrews telling 180 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,960 this is that the man Christ Jesus was the express image or 181 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,040 you could even state it like this was the expression of God's 182 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:03,840 person in in the Greek language. That word there that is stated 183 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,280 as express image literally means this. 184 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:12,440 Christ Jesus was the figure stamped by God's person or 185 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,800 Christ Jesus was the exact copy of God's person. 186 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,320 Christ Jesus was the one that was imprinted, if we can say it, 187 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:27,440 with the divine reality of all who God's essence was is seen in 188 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,720 Christ Jesus. We see this even a New Testament 189 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,200 scripture over and over again in the epistles and in the letters 190 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,520 as well. The scripture tells us how the 191 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:42,440 fullness of the Godhead Amen was found in Christ Jesus. 192 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,800 It's represented there that when we look at the word person in 193 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,160 Hebrews 1 and 3, the word person there means a setting under or a 194 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,960 support or a basis, a foundation. 195 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,800 It's to place oneself under concealment, hidden. 196 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,880 It's it means unseen essence. So when we start putting these 197 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,880 definitions together that Jesus Christ was the exact copy of 198 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,440 God's hidden unseen essence, then there starts a light bulb 199 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,040 starts to come on. Amen. 200 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,000 Because Christ Jesus is the representation of everything 201 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:24,360 that God was and is a man and he was that visible to mankind in 202 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,360 his human flesh. We read in John 1, the Gospel of 203 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,600 John 1 and verse #18 these words then though the Bible. 204 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:38,920 Says that no man has seen God, no man has seen God at any time. 205 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,760 The only begotten Son, which is Speaking of Christ Jesus, which 206 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,920 is in the bosom of the Father, and the bosom is always a place 207 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:49,240 of honor. All right. 208 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,280 In the bosom of. The Father, He or Christ Jesus 209 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,400 have declared Him. That word declared in the Greek 210 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:02,280 actually means he revealed him. Christ Jesus revealed God to us. 211 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,000 Christ Jesus revealed God to us. No man had ever. 212 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,960 Seen God again. There are things called like 213 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,720 theophanies in the Old Testament where God would somehow express 214 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,880 himself in some form where they could get a glimpse, if you 215 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,200 will, of God. No man could. 216 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,000 Really, just ever look upon God. His Holiness was so profound 217 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,080 that the common man just could not look. 218 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,200 Upon God in the. Brilliance of his spirit, but 219 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,840 whenever God a man chose to impregnate Mary and his spirit 220 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,160 overshadowed, told her and made himself a body. 221 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:39,840 Galatians 44 tells us about that he was made of a woman and made 222 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,160 himself a body. That spirit had an encasement, 223 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,560 if you will, to express itself through and in at that moment in 224 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:49,000 time. I want to go to John. 225 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,680 I got everybody said a lot of scripture. 226 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,200 Yeah, we love the Bible around here. 227 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,840 Got a lot of scripture today. John chapter #10 and verse #24 228 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,600 the Bible says, then came the Jews round about him, Speaking 229 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:07,560 of Jesus, and said unto him, How long does thou make us to doubt 230 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,600 if thou be Christ or the anointed? 231 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,800 1 the Messiah Tell us plainly. And verse 25 Jesus answered 232 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,920 them. These are Jesus words I told you 233 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:24,120 and you believe not the same works that I do in my Father's 234 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,240 name. They bear witness of me. 235 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,480 Notice he says the works that I do, Jesus says the same works 236 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,840 that I do in my father's name. They're bearing witness of me. 237 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,600 They're giving you a revelation about me according to my works. 238 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,440 As a matter of fact, on the day of Pentecost, a part of Peter's 239 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,640 message and remember Acts 238, the repent be baptized is really 240 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,760 Peter's response to a question. His message happened before the 241 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,160 question ever came. He began to talk to them about 242 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,800 the Messiah and the Christ, how they had crucified him. 243 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,840 And he got them to identify that they had. 244 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,640 And they felt horrible within themselves and thought, well now 245 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,560 what are we going to do if we have crucified our Messiah, 246 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,120 right? That's where they come with the 247 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,800 question, what shall we do? Because they wanted to know what 248 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,720 they should do about their understanding. 249 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,080 About what they had. Done. 250 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,120 And so then he gives his response. 251 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,040 But Peter even told them at Pentecost. 252 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,600 He said in in Acts 2/22, he said Jesus Christ was a man that was 253 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,280 approved by God that were to prove there means he was 254 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,160 authenticated that that Jesus Christ was a man that was 255 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,320 authenticated by God. And it goes on to tell us how 256 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:43,600 God I authenticated Jesus Christ by the miracles and the wonders 257 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,160 and the signs that God did through Christ. 258 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,640 Hey man, God was working through the man Christ Jesus in that 259 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,280 earthly ministry of some 33 and and and and and a third or so 260 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,120 years here up on this earth. That's the reason why different 261 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,440 times and scriptures. You see even his own disciples 262 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,920 with a bit of bewilderment and say what what manner of man is 263 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,840 this man right because this is just different than someone 264 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,160 that's a carpenter's son. This is different than even just 265 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,960 a Old Testament prophet. What manner of man are we 266 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,680 contending with here and he says well the God has authenticated 267 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,320 or approved this man Christ Jesus through the works and 268 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,440 through the wonders because to a common man to the commoner to a 269 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,240 1st century, if you will Jew of that day in the New Testament 270 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,160 they. Seem. 271 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,960 Jesus Christ as a man that was trying to be like God. 272 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,440 They seen Jesus Christ as a man that was trying to pattern or 273 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,200 emulate after God, which they were real close but didn't quite 274 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,800 have it totally. What we had was really God. 275 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,080 Who had come down in the likeness of man, He men. 276 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,760 And so trying to reveal Himself to mankind, He was God, He made 277 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,560 himself a body, He undwelt that body. 278 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:09,440 And as some state, somebody was stated like this, that God, you 279 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,680 know, made Himself. A man, a fleshly human body. 280 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:16,640 Look what Jesus says, Jesus Christ, that many will attest 281 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,160 and say He's the Son of God, the Son of man. 282 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:25,160 In John chapter #10 and verse #30 Jesus says I and my Father 283 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,560 one verse 31. Then the Jews took up stones 284 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,000 again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good 285 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,240 works have I shooed you from my Father. 286 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,760 Right there were there were the miracles, the sangs, the 287 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,880 wonders, the breaking, the multiplying, the bread, all 288 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,120 these sundry things. He said, For which of those 289 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,400 works do you stone me? He says, Which of those works? 290 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,560 What miracle, what wonder, What is it? 291 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,320 What's the purpose and the reason? 292 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,000 Then if you stoning me which of those works? 293 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,720 Look what the Jews come. Back with in verse 33, the Jews 294 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:03,680 answered him, saying for a good work we stone thee not, but for 295 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:09,800 blasphemy, because that thou being a man make us thyself God. 296 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,680 See, they hadn't yet totally caught the revelation that this 297 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:19,000 man Christ Jesus God was in Christ that God had been 298 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,640 manifested in the flesh because in a Jew's mind, and this is 299 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,440 absolutely true. There was one God, huh. 300 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,120 Here, O Israel, Deuteronomy 6/4 here, O Israel, the Lord our God 301 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:34,280 is 1 Lord. We read in Isaiah about the 302 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:39,240 creation and he constantly uses the phrases he did it by himself 303 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,480 alone. He's repetitive with that. 304 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,520 That's that's, that's the, that's the milk that the Jews 305 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,440 were brought up on. And so when they saw another 306 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:52,280 individual upon the land that we're doing the works of what 307 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,440 they seem to know as only the fingerprint God, they thought, 308 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,920 are you trying to introduce another God to me? 309 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,760 No, he wasn't trying to introduce another God to them. 310 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,800 He was trying to introduce himself to them through the, 311 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,560 through the man Christ Jesus, Amen. 312 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,480 He wanted them to know that he was the great God of heaven, 313 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,200 that the prophets and those that had owed had had worship and 314 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,640 serve. He had just come down to them in 315 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,160 now a visible form that they could touch, they could handle, 316 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,760 they could experience in their humanity, Amen. 317 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,400 Something that they could see with their own eyes. 318 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,440 And no, they weren't going to stone him for his works. 319 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,880 They were going to stone him because they he was testifying. 320 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:41,240 And as a man, Jesus Christ, that he was God. 321 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,640 You know something else That's very interesting that when you 322 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,120 see all of the the trial of Jesus Christ leading up to his 323 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:51,000 crucifixion, we read many times that Jesus did not open his 324 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,840 mouth with all the different accusations that they brought 325 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,480 against him. He never said a word until they 326 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,400 ever questioned him about his identity. 327 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,640 The only time that you see Jesus responding back to those that 328 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,320 have him on trial is whenever it comes to His. 329 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,240 Identity. And that's when he's going to 330 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,160 speak up. You say that I'm the king of the 331 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,280 Jews and, and he starts because by that time he's wanting to 332 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,840 peel back the the layers of the onion so people will know who he 333 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,360 is and think here for a moment, folks, he has to be careful with 334 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:22,120 this because that's going to be the very reason why they put him 335 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,440 on the tree. And there's a timetable. 336 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,760 He has a God, folks, we are if we would really dig in deep, we 337 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,880 would be overwhelmed by the preciseness and the accuracy of 338 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,800 our God. You know why Jesus of times he 339 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,800 healed people, did those works and he would even. 340 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,080 And tell 1 he said, now go and tell no man about this, right? 341 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,160 I mean, I mean, my, my most comical one I can think of in 342 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,120 Scripture is whenever he heals, the man's the the mute and he 343 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,440 can now talk and he's like, don't talk about it to anybody. 344 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,000 I mean, Can you imagine the absurdity? 345 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,360 You haven't had the ability to have speech, and Jesus enables 346 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:56,200 you now to talk. Again. 347 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,400 But he don't want you to talk to anybody about what just happened 348 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,360 to you. Now you want to talk about the 349 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,440 best gift secret in the New Testament Scripture? 350 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,920 That's that guy. And he's all the time telling 351 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,440 them that the reason being is because if people learn things 352 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,320 too quickly, then the timetable would get shifted. 353 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,080 They'd want to put him on the tree quicker than what he needed 354 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,320 to be on the tree. He had a day, he had a Passover 355 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,600 in mind winning. He needed to be there in order 356 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,840 to fulfill all scripture of the Old Testament in order for these 357 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,360 things to come about. And so he he's very careful 358 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:28,120 about all this. But look at this. 359 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,600 He said again, this this man Christ Jesus, Peter said, was 360 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,920 approved or authenticated by God, by his wonders, by his. 361 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,840 It works by all these things. Jesus just testified that in 362 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,440 John 10, even to these people. Amen. 363 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,080 By what work are you going to do this? 364 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,560 You know, because I know I understand I'm doing some things 365 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,400 that seems to have the fingerprint of God on it right? 366 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,080 And So what work? Look at the Scripture Isaiah 367 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,880 prophesied of this day. I've spoken to this, no doubt to 368 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,480 several of. You and even collectively 369 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,240 before, but Isaiah prophesied of a day when God would come, the 370 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,080 Bible says in Isaiah 35. And Brother Mason, I'll say 371 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,320 thank you in advance this morning. 372 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,000 You see the Scripture Mass up there? 373 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,720 Amen. Isaiah 35 and verse 4 it says 374 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,640 say to them this is Isaiah the prophet. 375 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,720 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear 376 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:22,960 not, behold your God. Future will come with vengeance, 377 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,800 even God with a recompense, He will come and save. 378 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:35,360 You. 1st 5 Everybody say then, then the eyes of the blind shall 379 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:40,440 be opened, and the ears of the death shall be unstopped. 380 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:46,040 Then shall the lame man leap as an heart, and the tongue of the 381 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,800 dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall 382 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,680 waters break out, and streams in the desert. 383 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,880 He says, There's coming a day your God will come with 384 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,360 vengeance and recompense, and he will save you. 385 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,960 He says you'll know that day will have that day has come. 386 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,120 Whenever there are blind eyes that are being open. 387 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,840 Whenever there are deaf ears that are being unstopped, 388 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,800 whenever the lame are walking you're. 389 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,120 We're going to know in that moment that your God has come. 390 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,520 Folks, whenever we start following the ministry of the 391 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,960 Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament Scriptures, what do we 392 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,080 see Start. Happening blind eyes are being 393 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,680 open, the deaf are being able to hear, the mute is being able to 394 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,920 sing Amen. All the lame is being able to 395 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,240 walk. That was a sign that was to 396 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,800 authenticate if you will, the Lord Jesus Christ that their God 397 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,000 have come. Isaiah prophesied he will and 398 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,800 this is how you know when that moment has happened when these 399 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,400 things start to come about Jesus Christ. 400 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,840 He open eyes of the blind opened deaf ears healed the lane the 401 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,040 mute he what they need to know that that Jesus Amen wasn't 402 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,520 another God. It wasn't something that was 403 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,240 trying to imitate God. He was as a Corinthian said, God 404 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,760 in Christ. He was as written to Timothy, 405 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,720 God manifest in the flesh. The prophet Isaiah wanted them 406 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,240 to. To recognize, hey, our God has 407 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,520 come, he is here, He has arrived, He is present, Amen. 408 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:24,400 And so these signs were so profound that that Jesus Christ 409 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,280 was God that often again, Jesus would tell the people now don't 410 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,640 tell anybody about what's going on. 411 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,560 Amen. And no doubt it finally came to 412 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,480 the place that they're going to charge him with, with blasphemy 413 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,840 and things of this nature, because again, he had a very 414 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,280 careful timetable he's trying to keep here. 415 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,680 As a matter of fact, in, in in John Chapter 11, which is the 416 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,760 story of of Lazarus's being called from the grave. 417 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,680 The Bible says in verse 46, but some of them went their ways to 418 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,200 the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done. 419 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,240 We have a mix around whenever Lazarus is brought from the tomb 420 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,000 and there's some that's kind of cutting off and going to go talk 421 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,280 to the Pharisees. Those that try to keep to the 422 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,480 letter of the law about this Jesus and what he's he just 423 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:17,840 raised somebody from the dead. Verse 47 said then gathered the 424 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:22,320 chief priest, Oh boy, and the Pharisees a council and said 425 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:29,520 what do we for this man doeth many miracles. 426 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:36,640 They identified that Jesus was performing yes, many miracles at 427 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,680 that moment, sister Sheila, those chief priests and 428 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,520 Pharisees should have said he's here. 429 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,680 They should have looked at one another and said this is the one 430 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,960 did not even Jesus tell them and he did in John 10. 431 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:55,000 He said if I do not the works of my Father, he says believe me 432 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,160 not if I don't do the works of God, if I don't do the works of 433 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:04,280 the Spirit which God is, he says, believe me not, he says, 434 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,240 but if I if I can say the inverse of that. 435 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:13,160 But if I am, believe me. Believe on me and believe who I 436 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:14,880 am. And so I, I got to run this 437 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:15,800 morning. Amen. 438 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,640 I want to concentrate on, on about 3:00 or so, 3 or so 439 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,760 notable actions of Jesus here in the New Testament Scripture. 440 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,520 Number one, you all recalled the stealing of the storm when he 441 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,720 was on the ship asleep and then he stealed the storm. 442 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,040 I want to look at that. I also want to look on whenever 443 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,800 he walked on the water, remember The Walking on the water episode 444 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,560 and also want to concentrate upon maybe the mound of 445 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,400 transfiguration. If we can go to Mark chapter #5 446 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,680 there by OK Mark chapter #5 and verse #35 starting. 447 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,800 I'm just going to read this story real quick to kind of 448 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,400 refresh it in our minds here today. 449 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:56,960 Mark chapter #5 and verse #35 four 435 Sorry. 435 The Bible 450 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,560 says, And the same day when the even was come, he saith unto 451 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,040 them, Let us Passover, and to the other side. 452 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,200 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as 453 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,000 he was in the ship, and there were also with him other little 454 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,880 ships. And there arose a great storm of 455 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,440 wind, the waves beaten to the ship, so that it was now full. 456 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,120 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow. 457 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,840 Always wondered where that pillow came from. 458 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,400 And they awake him, and say unto him, Master, cares thou not that 459 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,680 we perish? And he arose and rebuked the 460 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,000 wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still in the wind 461 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,400 season. There was a great calm. 462 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,680 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? 463 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,840 How is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly and 464 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,360 said one to another, Look at this. 465 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:50,600 What manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey 466 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,440 him? That's that's interesting. 467 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,760 I think for us this morning that after this happening, after the 468 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,360 calming of the sea and the wind, that these disciples that have 469 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,640 been an intimate relationship with him are bewildered. 470 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,320 Like what? What manner of man is this? 471 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,480 And no particularly that this, the wind and the sea obey him. 472 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,080 Now, they could be like some other people, right? 473 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,000 They could just talk. And many people did just chalk 474 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,720 Jesus up like some Old Testament prophet because even whenever he 475 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,360 met with his disciples one time around Caesarea Philippi and he 476 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,600 posed the question, who do men say that I am? 477 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,280 You want to know what, what's, what's culture saying? 478 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,080 And some are saying, well, some are saying that you're Jeremiah 479 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,440 that's a prophet, or that you're Elias. 480 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,960 Prophet or one of the prophets, right, That that was the common 481 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,000 theme among the people of his day. 482 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,480 Surely he's like one of the prophets. 483 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,400 And so they could at this moment just chalked it up just like all 484 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,120 the others. You know, it's just like a Old 485 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,680 Testament prophet, but God used Christ. 486 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,440 Jesus did a miraculous wonder and work here, right? 487 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,360 That's authenticating who he is, that's approving who he is. 488 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,440 And so there's something about this event that distinguishes 489 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,840 him. In the eyes of a 1st century 490 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,560 Jew, just from being another Old Testament prophet, other 491 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,800 prophets of the Old Testament, some of them God wrought 492 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,040 miracles, yes, of course, by their hands as well. 493 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,280 But there was no echo of them being divine, no echo of them 494 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,560 being a God of any sort. But the disciples are picking up 495 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:27,720 on something. What manner of man? 496 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,040 They're picking up on this otherness about this man Christ 497 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,680 Jesus, because the wind and the sea obey him. 498 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,840 Now we we see in the Old Testament everybody OK we see in 499 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,320 the Old Testament the God of creation has demonstrated his 500 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,720 power throughout the Old Testament over the forces of 501 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,480 wind and sea. We see in the book of Job, Job 502 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,000 chapter 26 and verse. 12 The Bible speaks that God divided. 503 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,840 The sea with his power. Psalms one O 4 and verse 3 504 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:04,240 describes the Lord as walking on the wings of the wind. 505 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,600 Verse #7 even describes him as rebuking the waters, God doing 506 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:14,520 these things and them fleeing. In Psalms 106 and verse 9 it 507 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,400 even has. The record, it's reflecting 508 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,280 backwards. To to the book of Exodus. 509 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,720 But in the Psalms it's reflecting backwards in Psalms 510 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,360 one O 6 and verse 9 and it records the Red Sea crossing, 511 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,960 how it was God that rebuked the Red Sea. 512 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,240 Well, you say, well, Moses was there. 513 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,920 Yeah, Moses. Had a rod and Moses had an arm 514 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,080 and Moses had obedience. But that was the work of God, 515 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,080 right? And let's just get real today. 516 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,840 Let's pause for a commercial. There is no such thing as 517 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,400 another divine healer except God. 518 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,640 If there's a divine healing crusade, it's not because of the 519 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,880 man, it's because of the God of the man. 520 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,840 All right. OK, so in pursuit of all those 521 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,360 things, pursue him, right, in pursuit of all those things, 522 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,400 pursue Him. And so this is taking place. 523 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,000 But he so he rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up. 524 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,080 But in particular, and if you'll go there with me this morning, 525 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,600 look at Psalms one O 7 and starting with verse #23 this is 526 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,840 probably going. To sound very familiar or 527 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,720 similar at least to what we read in Mark chapter #4 read this 528 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:20,720 here. Look at it now. 529 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,760 Psalms one O 7 and verse 23. They that go down to the sea, 530 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,600 and ships that do business in great waters, these see the 531 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,360 works of the Lord in his wonders, in the deep. 532 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,840 For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifted up 533 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,360 the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, 534 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,320 they go down again to the depths. 535 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Their soul is melted because of trouble. 536 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,480 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and 537 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,720 are at wits in. Then they cry into the Lord in 538 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,200 their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distress. 539 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:02,360 He Speaking of this Lord, this God maketh the storm a calm, so 540 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,920 that the waves thereof are still. 541 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:10,560 They then are they glad because they be quiet, So He bringeth 542 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:16,120 them unto their desired haven. Now you cannot read that, having 543 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,600 already read Mark chapter #4 and not see some similarities and 544 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,480 parallels here in Scripture. What I wanted to point out to 545 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:28,640 you today that in Psalm, in Psalm one O 7, in verse 23, we 546 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,400 have some sailors in a ship, all right. 547 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:36,080 But in Mark chapter #4 and verse 36, we have disciples in it, 548 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,360 boats, all right. When we look at Psalms one O 7 549 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,880 and verse 25, there's a stormy wind and waves. 550 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,760 In Mark 437 there's a stormy wind and some waves. 551 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,160 In Psalms verse 26 of that chapter 107 the the those that 552 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,680 are on the ship in the storm, their courage melts away. 553 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,680 Then in Mark chapter #4, verses 38 and 40 of. 554 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:04,120 Chapter 4 The disciples are afraid in the Old Testament. 555 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,360 They cried those sellers. They cried out to the Lord in 556 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,080 verse 28. In verse 38 of Mark 4, there's a 557 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,600 cry out to Jesus from His disciples. 558 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:21,080 In verse 29 in the Old the Lord God stealed the storm in the New 559 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,160 Testament. In verse 39 and Mark 4, Jesus 560 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,640 Christ steals the storm in the Old Testament. 561 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,640 In verse 30 of Psalm 107, the waves of the sea now are quiet. 562 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,880 In the New Testament where Jesus is on the boat in verse 39, 563 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,360 there was a great calm. Now folks, listen, when it comes 564 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,520 to Lord, I don't believe in coincidences. 565 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,240 I believe in divine intersections. 566 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,560 I believe in divine intersections. 567 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,360 I think not. Neither was it, I believe to the 568 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,680 disciples on the boat a coincidence or they would not 569 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:01,320 have stated what manner of man is this, that even the wind and 570 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,480 the sea obey them. Because a 1st century Jew is 571 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,040 going to be very well acquainted with all of the scripture of the 572 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,800 Old Testament. They learned it, they memorized 573 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,040 it, they know it. Whenever they were in that 574 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,560 circumstance of a boat with sea and wind going and Christ shows 575 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,440 up and steals it, guarantee you this, their mind is going back 576 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,280 to a Psalm 107, how there were some sailors that went down in 577 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,480 the deep, their Rosa wind, their Rosa wave, but God Almighty 578 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,520 stealed all that. But now they have the man Christ 579 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,159 Jesus that's doing what God had done. 580 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,320 That's doing what God did in the Old Testament. 581 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,480 There's coming a revelation to the disciples. 582 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,080 What manner of man is this? He's more than a man. 583 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,520 He's the God. Man. 584 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,560 He's God manifest in the flesh. He's God. 585 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:53,159 Oh yes, he's God in Christ. Amen. 586 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,840 Then you can't start talking about the revelation of who he 587 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,760 is without Him coming. Near. 588 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:07,600 That's right, some say. Amen, Mark chapter 6, New 589 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,840 Testament, we go over just one chapter. 590 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:16,080 Mark chapter #6 or a couple chapters rather verse #45 and I, 591 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,480 and I hope no one's weary with me reading the scripture because 592 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,320 there's a lot of times, you know, a lot of times sermons are 593 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,640 packed full of Scripture and I just got little references after 594 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:26,960 it and I never even make mention of it. 595 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,440 But for this today, I want you to know, look, it's in there 596 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,200 right in the Word of God, OK? Mark chapter #6 and verse 45. 597 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,640 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into a 598 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,120 ship, to go to the other side before and to Bethesda, while he 599 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,640 sent away the people. And when he had sent them away, 600 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,120 he departed into a mountain to pray. 601 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,400 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea. 602 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,400 This is Mark chapter #6 verse #47 when when even was coming, 603 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,720 the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land. 604 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,280 Verse 48 And He saw them tolling in the rowing, for the wind was 605 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,440 contrarying to them. About the fourth watch of the 606 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,120 night He cometh unto them walking upon the sea, and would 607 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,960 have passed by. Folks, there's so many pits we 608 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,400 could make here today, but I can't do it. 609 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,560 OK, Amen. But when they saw Him walking 610 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,320 upon the sea, they suppose it had been a spirit, and cried 611 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,680 out, for they all saw him and were troubled. 612 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,760 And immediately He talked with them and sayeth unto them, Be of 613 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,520 good cheer it is, I be not afraid. 614 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,240 And he went up unto them and to the ship, And the wind seized, 615 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,960 and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and 616 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,880 wondered, Well, for number one, we have somebody walking on 617 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,960 water, OK? I mean, that's just not a 618 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,440 everyday New Testament occurrence. 619 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,160 That's not everyday Old Testament occurrence. 620 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,320 Someone's walking on water amid the wind and the waves. 621 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,320 Secondly, whenever you look at this account, the other the 622 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,040 other gospels of Matthew and look at it in Matthew 14 and 623 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:07,520 John 6, the other accounts of this event all have Jesus saying 624 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:14,440 to some effect when he responds, it is I be not afraid. 625 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,640 That's what we have in our good old King James 1611 Bibles. 626 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:27,360 It is I be not afraid. However, I have a a interlinear 627 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,840 translation that gives me the Greek and the English side by 628 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:38,240 side and in the Greek it literally says this you and it's 629 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:40,480 going to sound a little weird because of the arrangement. 630 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,480 Be you taking courage. I am. 631 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,600 Not. Be you fearful. 632 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,120 Let me say this one more time. Be you taking courage. 633 00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:03,200 I am not be you fearful. Now listen, but alone we got to 634 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,680 get on our 1st century Jew eyes to a 1st century Jew here in the 635 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:18,840 language I am has significance. There's more going on here than 636 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,880 Jim. Jesus, just saying hey guys, 637 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:25,160 it's me. There's so much more going on 638 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:33,200 than him just Hey guy, it's me if in the Greek, I am I am is a 639 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:39,360 Old Testament divine name of God that was revealed to Moses in 640 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,240 the desert when he commissioned them to be the. 641 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,760 Deliverer for the Children of Israel. 642 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,640 Exodus 3, verse 13. Let's look at it now. 643 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,800 This feels like Bible study. I know. 644 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,880 Well it is. I hope every sermon and anything 645 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,000 that's stated has some Bible study in it. 646 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,560 And Moses said unto God, this is Exodus 313. 647 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,080 And Moses said unto God, he's had this burning Bush 648 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,560 experience. Behold, when I come, God's 649 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:03,920 commissioned him, go be the deliverer. 650 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,480 Go do this. Moses has been a little 651 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,520 inadequate. He says, Behold, when I come 652 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,240 unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them. 653 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,720 The God of your Father's have sent me unto you, and they shall 654 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:19,720 say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? 655 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:25,600 And God said unto Moses, I am. That I am. 656 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,120 And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I 657 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:36,400 am have sent me unto you. And God said, moreover, and to 658 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,680 Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord 659 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,080 God of your father's, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the 660 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,080 God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. 661 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:51,920 Know now this is my name. Forever, and this is my memorial 662 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:59,200 unto all generations. The I am in Scripture and 663 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,200 brother Mason, you correct me. I believe the, the, the the 664 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,200 Hebrew rendering there. If I am that I am is like Aya 665 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,520 Asha aya. If I'm not, if I'm not mistaken, 666 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,920 Amen. But nonetheless that I am in 667 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,680 Scripture is God's divine name that he revealed unto Moses, 668 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,240 Amen. It expresses it's full of many. 669 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,960 I know it's just I am, but it's full of meaning. 670 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,000 It's meaning means is that he is infinite, that he is the 671 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 personal God behind everything and to whom everything. 672 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,320 Must finally betrays that he is the author of life. 673 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,080 That phrase I AM that I am signals the truth that nothing 674 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:41,720 else can define God but God. What did God even say in crazy? 675 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,680 He said there's none beside me. There's none that can compare to 676 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,720 me folks, I've had people receive the baptism of the Holy 677 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:51,120 Ghost God Spirit and they start to say I can't explain it why? 678 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,960 Because nothing can really define God except God. 679 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,760 We don't have the words, the vocabulary, but whenever he says 680 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,200 I am that I am that can be translated these ways, I am that 681 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,960 I am I am who I was. I am who I will be. 682 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,920 I will be who I was. I am what I caused to be, and 683 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,680 one of my favorites. I will be all that is necessary 684 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:17,760 as the occasion arises. That's his revelation unto 685 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,200 Moses. That's how God identified 686 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,400 himself to Moses. Someone say Amen but isn't 687 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,640 interesting now that a New Testament scripture the man 688 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,720 Christ Jesus walks on the water and some of the first words he 689 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:34,440 gives to them to allay their fears. 690 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,040 Amen to encourage them in our English Bibles it says it is I 691 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,320 but literally in the Greek it came forth as I am. 692 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:47,000 Oh a 1st century Jews going to latch on to that idea of I am 693 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,960 because they're going to remember that is the name that 694 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,320 God shared with Moses. Jesus was not trying to tell 695 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,080 him, just here am I. He's trying to tell them I'm 696 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,760 God. I'm God. 697 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,040 I'm the very one that met Moses on the backside of the desert, 698 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,760 and I'm meeting you right now in the middle of your storm. 699 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,680 I am Amen. Is everybody OK? 700 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:12,200 OK. Just want to make sure because 701 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,880 Jesus starts to drop some other layers of revelation for us 702 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,960 really in Mark chapter #6 there in verse #40 back to verse #48 703 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,600 but this right, He's walking on the water forth watch of the 704 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,680 night and looked in at that last couple of phrases walking up on 705 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:35,440 the sea and would have passed by them and would have passed by 706 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:40,560 them. Doctor Brant Petrie says this. 707 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:46,360 He says in the Old Testament, the expression passing by is 708 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,920 repeatedly used to describe what God does when he appears to 709 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,840 human beings. Let's look at Scripture. 710 00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:02,360 Exodus 33, they're about ready to make their tread along to the 711 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,160 promised land. And Moses has a conversation 712 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,440 with God and says, God, I'd really like to see your glory, 713 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,920 Really, really like to see your glory. 714 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,000 And Exodus 33 and verse 19, God has conversation with him. 715 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,920 He says, well, there's a place beside me. 716 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,120 I'll put you in the cleft of the rock, right, And I'm going to 717 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,880 pass by. I'm going to cover you as I go 718 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:29,080 and you'll see the back parts. Look at it verse 19 of Exodus 719 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,880 33. And he which is referenced to 720 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:36,080 God said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I 721 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,720 will proclaim the name. That's this is also and I will 722 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,640 proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. 723 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:47,360 So we have in in context here in Old Testament God, He's passing 724 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,280 by, but He's also declaring His name. 725 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,840 I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be 726 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,040 gracious, to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy, 727 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,360 on whom I will shew mercy. Skip down to verse #22 if you 728 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,680 will. And it shall come to pass, while 729 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,480 my glory passeth. By that I will put thee in the 730 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,080 cleft, the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass 731 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,080 by. Again, this is something that 732 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,280 God repeatedly does in the Old Testament Scripture. 733 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,480 Whenever He appears to humanity, there's a passing by moment. 734 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,080 Amen. Exodus 34 and verse #6 this is 735 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,680 still continuing with Moses's story here, just in the next 736 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,320 chapter of what actually happened. 737 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:35,240 And the Lord all capitals, Lord, which signifies that divine name 738 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:38,120 that He gave to Moses. Anytime you see that in 739 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,320 Scripture, all capital Lord, it's signifying that covenant 740 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,040 name. And the Lord passed by before 741 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,600 him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, He's proclaiming His 742 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,080 name, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, abundant in 743 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,760 goodness and truth. So again, two things are 744 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,920 happening. He's passing by for them alone, 745 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,320 and he's proclaiming the name. Again, the Lord in all caps is 746 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,680 the covenant name of God revealed to Moses in Exodus 747 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:11,920 chapter #3 but in Mark, Jesus says I would have passed by and 748 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,720 he's showing up. And he's also proclaiming the 749 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:20,320 name I am that forever memorial name of God. 750 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,920 That's not enough. What happens when our prophet 751 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,600 Elijah leaves Mount Carmel and Jezebel told him, by tomorrow 752 00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,000 this time you'll be like these prophets now that are dead. 753 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,920 He goes off to a wilderness place and goes even further 754 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,320 without his companion, his servant to the mount of God. 755 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:40,040 He's in a cave. The Spirit of the Lord shows up. 756 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,320 On that mountain. And God calls him out of that 757 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,040 mountain. And the Bible says that the Lord 758 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:50,200 passes by. You look at it in first Kings 759 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,280 1911 for your own looking, it says. 760 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,240 And behold, the Lord pass by again. 761 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,400 His presence is visiting a man in the terminology of passing by 762 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,760 is signifying that visitation of God with humanity in the Old 763 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:06,400 Testament Amen again pointing to them now Jesus Christ in the New 764 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,280 Testament Amen passings and he would have passed by and also 765 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,680 declaring his name. Everybody doing OK. 766 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,360 Hey man, let's go a little further. 767 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,440 I'm looking, I'm keeping track of time I'm running. 768 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,680 I really am. This will be a good one to go 769 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:25,760 back and listen to again. Matthew 14 verse 33 gives the 770 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,200 same account of Christ walking on the water in this again, the 771 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,480 harmony of the Gospels from the different perspective. 772 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,680 Sometimes we get details. We didn't get one of the 773 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,160 Gospels. You put them together, you have 774 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,800 harmony, right? Right. 775 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,640 You get, it's like, it's like there's an accident and you have 776 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,560 different eyewitnesses. You talk to each eyewitnesses. 777 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,600 Someone probably caught something that someone didn't. 778 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,800 And when you put it all together, you get a full picture 779 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,640 then of what really happened. And so so here in Matthew we 780 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,600 have some other details that after this walking on the water 781 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,680 this it is I or I am scenario all took place. 782 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,800 It tells us in Matthew 1433. Then they were then they that 783 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:06,360 were in the ship came and worshiped worshiped him Speaking 784 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:11,760 of Jesus saying of the truth, thou art the Son of God. 785 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:20,520 Hold on now, if Jesus is just another man, this is getting 786 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:26,200 weird because we have other men falling down and worshiping a 787 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,400 man. I mean that. 788 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,480 Would be pure idolatry. As a matter of fact, what 789 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,480 whenever Jesus was speaking back in John Ford to that woman at 790 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,200 the well and he talked to her about that. 791 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:44,600 The hour cometh that the Father sought out true worshippers, 792 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,360 right Brother Malone to worship what? 793 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:53,720 The Father or the Spirit or if you will, God in spirit and in 794 00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:56,840 truth. So that explains that part, 795 00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,280 Brother Fred, that explains to me then part of true worship is 796 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:07,160 worshiping God as spirit. So where are these disciples 797 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,000 participated in true worship as they're falling down and 798 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,800 worshiping the man Christ Jesus? Everybody know, right? 799 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,960 Just as we'll pull it together. But it's just a caution when we 800 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,760 get to the Book of Revelation and John the revelator is having 801 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,760 all these visions about things that were happening would 802 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,640 happen, so and so forth. Even in the end of time, there's 803 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,760 an Angel that's going along with him and he's seeing these 804 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,520 visions and some of the things that he's seeing he is 805 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,720 overwhelmed by. And at different times the Bible 806 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:35,840 says that he fall down and worship like the Angel there. 807 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,480 And the Angel says, buddy, get up, don't worship me. 808 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,280 Why? Because the angels know that 809 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,240 only God is the one to be worshipped. 810 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,080 And you see, even the scripture, you see some of the disciples, 811 00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,960 they going into a city and the people of the city think all 812 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,640 this is Jupiter, this is Mercury's. 813 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,560 They've fallen down. Our gods have fallen down to, 814 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,560 you know, earth. And they go out with sacrifice 815 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,520 to worship them and and Paul and some of their disciples. 816 00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:58,920 Says, no, get up. Don't worship us. 817 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:04,760 We be men just like you are, because no one but God, no one 818 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:11,960 but God was to be worshipped. But here in Matthew, here comes 819 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,760 some other men that's falling down and worshipping what by 820 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:17,600 just. All. 821 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,040 Those of a natural eye would be another man, but they had a 822 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,960 revelation that this is more than just another man. 823 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:30,760 God is in Christ. God is manifesting the flesh. 824 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,520 They weren't doing anything wrong. 825 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:33,920 They weren't doing anything correct. 826 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,360 They were just following the revelation of who they knew that 827 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,800 man, Christ Jesus, to be. He was the Almighty God, the 828 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,960 creator of the universe that spent all things in orbit 829 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,200 walking in human flesh and humanity. 830 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:54,480 Hallelujah. Someone say Amen, I'm hurrying. 831 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,200 We can do this. God help us. 832 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,400 Mark chapter #9 If you'll just allow me, I won't read it, but 833 00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,120 if you want to read Mark 9 verses 2 through 9, you can 834 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,400 write down the tab of paper or something like that to look back 835 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,800 on because we got to run. You can also find it in Matthew 836 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,960 17 and Luke 9. It's also Matthew 17 and Luke 9. 837 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,680 You want to see the other parallel accounts? 838 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,920 What we have is Jesus taking just a very select few of his 839 00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,240 disciples up the Mount of Transfiguration. 840 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,400 All right, while he is there, he is transformed before his 841 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,680 disciples. The Bible talks about his, his 842 00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,240 garment himself almost becoming gleaming like white, like no 843 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:38,240 fooler could wipe them, right. And there's, there's also then 844 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:40,440 this appearance. Watch it now there's this 845 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,000 appearance of both Moses and Elijah up on this mountain. 846 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,040 Peter's taken all this any second. 847 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,320 Man, this, this was a good trip to go on. 848 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,520 I'm glad I got my ticket for this one. 849 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:51,840 You know, this is a good trip to go on. 850 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,760 He says, man, this is great. We'll build 3 temples. 851 00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,520 We'll build one for Moses, one for Elijah, and one for you 852 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,000 Christ. It's good for us to be here. 853 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,280 And there's a cloud that show up and there were some things 854 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,000 spoken and when the cloud went away, it was Jesus only. 855 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,040 Now, folks, there have been all kinds of applications and such 856 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,520 for the purpose of Moses and Elijah appearing on the mountain 857 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,920 there with Jesus. There's been things spoken about 858 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,080 how, you know, Moses no doubt is a representative of the law. 859 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,200 He's the one that the law giver, so to speak, that brought that 860 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,200 down from from the mount of God and gave it to the people. 861 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,200 And others will look at Elijah and think about him being such a 862 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,480 profound prophet throughout the Old Testament. 863 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,080 And many people see then on Mount Transfiguration, Jesus has 864 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,840 a representation then of the law and of the prophets right there 865 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,240 before him. You know, and, and, and, and, 866 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:39,680 and how even Jesus said in his earthly ministry in the Gospels, 867 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,960 he even said it one time, he said that all the law and the 868 00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,960 prophets are talking about me. When you read the law and the 869 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,280 prophets, they're talking about me. 870 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,920 All right. And so, you know, possibly a, a, 871 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,920 a, a possibility. And even Philip declared that 872 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,080 such writings were written about Jesus Christ in John chapter #1 873 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,440 He said such writings were written about him. 874 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,600 So this would be a very momentous occasion. 875 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,800 Some even look at Moses as being the deliverer of the children of 876 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,560 Israel from Egypt. And so there's that aspect of 877 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,840 deliverance. And then also Elijah, the 878 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,680 different miracles that were wrought by his hands. 879 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,480 And then again, seeing that there's this amount of 880 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,280 transfiguration, there's the Lord, there's a representation 881 00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,320 of deliverance and miracles that's upon the mountain. 882 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,400 All of that is wonderful and great. 883 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,640 But something else we need to note, and I'm just doing this 884 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:28,680 just for purposes today, is that both Moses and Elijah, and it's 885 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,920 a word, I stayed there earlier and it's just a fancy word, but 886 00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,840 they had theophanies, meaning they had appearances of God on 887 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,440 mountains as well. We already talked about the two 888 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,280 times when God was going to pass by Moses put him in the cleft of 889 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,560 the rock, and Elijah, he passed by him as well. 890 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,800 They both had appearances, if you will, of God. 891 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:53,320 And God told Moses in Exodus 33, he told him, you can't see my 892 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,720 face. God told Moses, you can't see my 893 00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:58,280 face. You'll remember that he, you'll 894 00:52:58,280 --> 00:52:59,840 remember that. God said, I'll put my hand, I'll 895 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:04,640 cover you with my hand. You won't see my face because my 896 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:09,720 glory is so just brilliant in this form, the common man. 897 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,760 This, this just the brilliance of all this, you get my back 898 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,640 parts. And so then we see then he 899 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,840 passed by Elijah and the Bible even tells us in verse 13 and 900 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,800 1st Kings 19, verse 13, the Bible even states that Elijah 901 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,480 covered his face with his mantle. 902 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,920 Covered his face with his mantle. 903 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,120 He would not be able to see the face of God. 904 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,360 Interestingly enough, these events of Moses and Elijah took 905 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:37,480 place on the same mount, separated in time, but took 906 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,640 place on the same how both could not see the face of God. 907 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,760 They heard him, his voice, they witnessed his power. 908 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,880 Elijah saw the the effects of the earthquake and the wind and 909 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:50,600 the fire, but God wasn't in all that. 910 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,800 Remember, saw the effects of all those things, but none of them 911 00:53:54,800 --> 00:54:01,200 could witness the face of God. Just stay here, but on Mount 912 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,480 Transfiguration, going to bring back Elijah. 913 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,920 I'm going to bring back Moses. They couldn't look on the face 914 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,640 of God then because of the form that God was in. 915 00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,960 But I'm going to give them an opportunity that they didn't 916 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,920 have before this time. I'm going to bring them back now 917 00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,120 and they'll be able to look up on, in essence, the face of God 918 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:30,360 because God has now made himself a body, ladies and gentlemen. 919 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:37,040 All of God that they ever saw was in the face of the Lord 920 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,200 Jesus Christ. Hear me today. 921 00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:43,600 All of that invisible God that they ever saw was in that 922 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:49,680 tangible face of in person of the Lord Jesus Christ, God 923 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:54,120 manifest in the flesh, God in Christ. 924 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:58,120 When they saw the face of Jesus and lyrics have been written 925 00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,560 about it. You've seen the face of God. 926 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,560 Oh yes, stand with me today. Did not. 927 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,600 Did not John say in the beginning was the word? 928 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,760 The word was with God? The word was God? 929 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,120 The same verse 2 was in the beginning with God. 930 00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:27,120 Skip the verse 14 and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among 931 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:32,640 us, and what did we do? We beheld the glory as the only 932 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:37,040 begotten of the Father, full of grace and full of truth. 933 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,440 I did. And Moses, you can only see the 934 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,040 back parts, but whenever Christ comes, you're going to look upon 935 00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,840 the face of God. You're going to through the man 936 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:52,000 Christ Jesus God's in Christ God's manifest. 937 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,680 So we have all these Old Testament works, the miraculous 938 00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,680 works of God, man, they're all overwhelming as we see them. 939 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,240 But folks, when we see them and even get in the New Testament, 940 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,360 they're testifying to the truth that God is in Christ. 941 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,880 That's the works, the wonders. That's how Peter said God would 942 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,240 approve and authenticate that. Man Christ Jesus. 943 00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,680 And in Corinthians it told us that God was in Christ 944 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,600 reconciling the world to himself. 945 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:28,160 Jesus Christ walking in Jerusalem and Samaria and around 946 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,160 Galilee. God was in that man and he was 947 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,680 pulling. There was rivers of living water 948 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,400 that was pulling upon humanity, trying to reckon them, reconcile 949 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,680 them back into a relationship with God that was broken. 950 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:45,440 All the way back at Eden, God was reconciling man unto himself 951 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,080 through the man Christ Jesus. The Bible teach about that. 952 00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:53,080 Christ Jesus is a mediator between God and men. 953 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:57,000 The man, Christ Jesus, he's mediating, He's closing the gap 954 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,280 in our relationship. That sin put a wedge and a chasm 955 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,840 there, but Christ Jesus is mediating. 956 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:08,720 Hallelujah that God in Christ is closing the gap for you and I to 957 00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:13,160 repair, restore, reconcile the relationship that we had. 958 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,400 He's revealing the unseen essence. 959 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,240 Jesus Christ is revealing the unseen essence of the Almighty 960 00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:21,880 God. To us. 961 00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,280 He has authority over nature. He. 962 00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:28,080 He had all his His miracles and His declaration then even to 963 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:32,120 them all times, not just in what we seen this morning of I. 964 00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,120 Am all of that confirms his identity. 965 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:41,200 The question today then for us is this do you recognize him? 966 00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:50,880 Pharisees refused to recognize that it was evident, but those 967 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,200 those very works identified Jesus as God. 968 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:57,320 They refused to acknowledge that there's some disciples and I 969 00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:02,480 hope we're among them today that same but what manner of man Even 970 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,880 so much that finally at Caesarea Philippi after you ask them what 971 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,600 do men what is culture saying he gets a person says who do you 972 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:14,120 say Peter says thou art the Christ the son of the living 973 00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,800 God. I'm here to tell you today 974 00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,280 because we've already felt him here. 975 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:27,400 God's not some distant deity. He became very real to the 1st 976 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:32,680 century Jews through his humanity, but he's even drawn 977 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:37,080 closer to us of this age through His spirit being able to now be 978 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:43,480 inside of you. He's not a God that's afar off. 979 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,320 But he's close and he's still offering this reconciliation. 980 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,080 He's still offering this reconciliation. 981 00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,000 Believe in him, ladies and gentlemen, this morning, not 982 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:02,120 just for his work's sake, but for who he is sake. 983 00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:08,440 It's the revelation of God. In Christ Jesus, we can just bow 984 00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:13,080 our heads all over this place, folks. 985 00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,520 He wants, He wants to make himself known to you. 986 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,280 All these, these Pagan practices of Old Testament that they 987 00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,360 believed that their God had certain control, like maybe over 988 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,400 a river or over the wind or over fertility, or they had control 989 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,800 over certain districts or regions that they could only 990 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,600 operate within certain sectors of land. 991 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,040 That that was their perimeter, that was their boundaries. 992 00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,880 He told them the Old Testament Scripture, even the Israelites 993 00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:46,400 did said our God, our God is a God of the hills and the 994 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,240 valleys. You know what they're saying, 995 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,880 There's not a scope, there's not a sector, there's not a region 996 00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,640 that he just operates in and that's all. 997 00:59:56,240 --> 01:00:01,400 He's the Lord of all. He's the God of gods. 998 01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,880 He has all power. He's willing to exercise that 999 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,600 power here this morning. I wonder if we could just start 1000 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:11,040 to sing a song today and if you would just be responsive. 1001 01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,240 I still feel His presence here this morning, even through the 1002 01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,440 teaching of His Word. Amen. 1003 01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,280 If you've never done it before, I want to, I want to gently 1004 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,400 challenge you today. If you never just even raised a 1005 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,440 hand, you might not have it extended fully up in air, But if 1006 01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,000 you've never just even raised a hand unto the Lord, which is 1007 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,320 really an act of surrender when we do that. 1008 01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:32,160 If you never. Really. 1009 01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,080 Just even raised a hand. I challenge you. 1010 01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,160 People's eyes are closed, their heads are bowed. 1011 01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,960 No one's looking around but you. You could just take just a 1012 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,800 little step of freedom today and raise that hand, Amen. 1013 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,360 And just have an active surrender to the Lord. 1014 01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:46,840 And you're like Brother McGee earlier. 1015 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,640 I didn't know what to do with what I felt. 1016 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,360 I'm challenging you again today if you'll just just just maybe 1017 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,600 by by emphasis of raising a hand as a surrender and just have 1018 01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,440 this in your heart and mind. Lord, I want whatever you have 1019 01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,480 for me. I want whatever you have for me. 1020 01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,280 And if, if what I was experiencing earlier was you, 1021 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,880 God, then I want that to become more real to me than it's ever 1022 01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,960 been in my walk in life. God, I just want you to be more 1023 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,520 real to me. God, if you could reveal 1024 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,560 yourself to disciples and people throughout the New Testament, I 1025 01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,080 pray, God, that you bring revelation and enlightenment to 1026 01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,760 my heart and my mind. If you hunger for God, you 1027 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,920 desire for God, that that's a proper prayer, that that's a 1028 01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:28,680 proper desire. Hallelujah. 1029 01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,440 Can we just reach out to him just with hands of surrender? 1030 01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,800 However that may look for you, maybe even accompanying your 1031 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,440 voice with it. You can take to God the things 1032 01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,920 you don't understand, the things you may be confused about or, or 1033 01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,880 the things that that that just seem contrary to where you are. 1034 01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,560 That's all right. God's not put off or offended by 1035 01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,320 those type of things. You can be.