1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:06,040 The glory of the Lord rise among us, Amen. 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,560 He said he wanted the glory of the Lord to cover the earth as 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:14,240 the waters cover the sea, Amen. We need his glory, Amen. 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,480 Today, thankful for the presence of the Lord. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,360 We have felt in this place over the past few services, in our 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,760 song service and our worship service. 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:29,000 Thank you to the praise singers and the praise band for leading 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,280 us, Amen, into the presence of the Lord. 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,880 That's important, That's important. 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,720 I want to be LED into His presence. 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:37,760 I want to sit at His feet. Amen. 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,920 And take some time to do so. You can stamp me this morning 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,480 and turn to the Gospel of Mark chapter #1 as you're standing. 14 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,360 Just a point of information, Sister McGee, and make mention 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,640 about our World Missions Commitment service that we had 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,880 and all of the commitments that were turned in after that. 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,360 For this year from the World Missions Commitment Service, we 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,160 have $904.50 per month that will be going. 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,239 You combine that with what goes from our church regularly 20 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:11,400 anyway, and you're talking about $1309.50 on a monthly basis that 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,200 goes from the church. We did not get to the World 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,240 Missions rally as a result of the weather that was pending and 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,040 no one knew the hour of it. But we did as a church, give 24 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,320 $1200 to Honduras for the Hirsch family as they start their 25 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:27,920 mission work down there in the country and the nation of 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,520 Honduras. So we're grateful, Amen. 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,560 That the Lord is, he blesses us. We, again, it's not my objective 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,280 here ever to have a large bank account. 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,800 I just want to be a piece of conduit through which it flows. 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,840 I'm not trying to build my Kingdom, trying to build his 31 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,920 Kingdom. And in fact, if I can get 32 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,560 somebody else in the area that I can't get to, such as a 33 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,000 missionary, then so be it. Because when they go get down in 34 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,520 glory there and speak a new tongues there, I've had a hand 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,720 in it here. Amen through giving, Amen. 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,040 Amen. And so until the whole world 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,720 knows Amen, that is our, that is our Commission from the Lord. 38 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,200 Mark chapter #1. Mark chapter #1 And also, and 39 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,600 I'm just kind of throwing this out ahead of time because I know 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,480 this is important. If you have plans and intentions 41 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,080 on going to the Indiana District can't meeting this year. 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,080 Registration will open on April the 28th. 43 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,760 That is a Monday. That is an important day. 44 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,560 If you plan on going, you better mark on your calendar because 45 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,600 you got to be on that like flies on on anything, bees on honey, 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,320 you know, flies on anything, but you want to be on top of that. 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,400 All right. And because you all know, I've 48 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,520 told you in past years that goes so quick anymore within just 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,480 less, I mean hours. It's booked all right on 50 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,600 grounds. And so you want to be mindful of 51 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,560 that. And my mind's kind of just not 52 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,440 there. I know Pastor Jonathan Vasquez 53 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:05,400 is our evening service and and brother David Ivy from Ohio is 54 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,480 in the morning services for the youth. 55 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,440 And so it will be good. Also some other things and we'll 56 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,720 have this for you and such, but some other things to be thinking 57 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,680 of a couple of revivals this year at the home church at 58 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,600 January the OR not January. That's already happened. 59 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,720 June the 1st through the 4th will be revival here. 60 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,880 That's a Monday through Wednesday, June 1st through the 61 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,000 4th with brother Adrian Sanford. And then in connection with our 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,560 annual chili supper and hayride, we're doing a little different 63 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,560 this year. We'll have our hayride, but on 64 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,000 that Sunday, the Sunday through Wednesday, we'll start revival 65 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,160 with Tyler and Kayla Smith's going to come back and be with 66 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,840 us. And so those are just a couple 67 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,520 of revivals. There's also a lot of other 68 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,640 stuff and perhaps we'll get, I'll get with Brother Alex and 69 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,600 we can make up some, some papers, some type of thing that 70 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,760 can get those major dates in your hands that you want to be 71 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,720 here for. Sorry to have you standing for 72 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,240 so long. Mark chapter #1 just a couple of 73 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,520 verses. Amen. 74 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,000 Today the Bible says, now after that John was put in prison, 75 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,320 Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the 76 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:19,320 Kingdom of God, verse 15 and saying the time is fulfilled and 77 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:25,080 the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent ye and believe the 78 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,560 gospel, Amen. For a little while this morning. 79 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,760 This really piggybacks off over last Sunday morning about the 80 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,480 revelation of God in Christ. This morning I want to talk to 81 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,120 you about the revelation of Jesus the Messiah. 82 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,160 All right, the New Testament Scripture, and it was all time 83 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,240 prophesied in the Old Testament about the Messiah of the Jewish 84 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,960 people that would come. And they were in many respects 85 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,840 looking for that Messiah. He did come in the man Christ 86 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,000 Jesus. But we'll see this morning that 87 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,840 even the Old Testament seems to relate to us that that Messiah 88 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,960 would be more than just a man, which is what we come to see 89 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,960 last week. He was divine, Amen. 90 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,160 And so we're going to look at that then this morning here, the 91 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,120 revelation of Jesus the Messiah. Let's talk to the Lord here. 92 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,240 Father, I love you, God, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness. 93 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,520 I thank you, Lord, for another opportunity to be in this house, 94 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,440 the Lord in this place. We're thankful, Lord, for your 95 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,160 spirit. We're thankful, Lord, for your 96 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,800 hand of safety, Lord, over this week. 97 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,120 And we appreciate Lord Jesus, that God, we pray, Lord, 98 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,760 continue to be with all those that are in need. 99 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,480 Let our minds be engaged with your word and you're able to 100 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,800 help her understanding God in this place. 101 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,440 In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the church say Amen. 102 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:40,840 Amen. You may be seated. 103 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,840 And just as another footnote to those revivals, yes, they are 104 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,960 Sunday through Wednesday. All right, We've done a lot of 105 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,080 revivals of the year, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 106 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,920 I'm trying to get a little bit more revival out of us, OK. 107 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,840 And so we're doing Sunday through Wednesday, and those are 108 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:02,200 two days you would already be here Sundays and Wednesday. 109 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,960 So just adding two more, which means when we would have revival 110 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,960 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Friday and Saturday were two 111 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,520 days that you were typically here. 112 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,800 So you just move those and put them to Monday and Tuesday and 113 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,480 there you go. All right. 114 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,680 And so we're just going to try to do that. 115 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,640 It's been my experience when I wasn't evangelist. 116 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,640 I know the days of evangelism have changed, but if you can get 117 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,400 a series of services, sometimes things start to break as you 118 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,080 continue with some services that might not just happen in two 119 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,720 services. All right? 120 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,000 And so that's the purpose for it. 121 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,760 If you don't like it, you can talk to me. 122 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,640 It was my decision about it. Amen. 123 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,040 God bless you in Jesus name, Amen. 124 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,120 Amen. Mark chapter #1 And so the Bible 125 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,280 here in Scripture again, 1st century Jews were aware and they 126 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:52,320 were expectant of the Messiah. Many of them missed their 127 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,320 Messiah. Many of them even treated him 128 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,320 not as their Messiah. They missed it. 129 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,320 They saw it in many respects. A earthly Messiah, a political 130 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,840 king, someone that would come back and give them their Kingdom 131 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:10,720 back to them, right, that would deliver them from the Roman rule 132 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,360 that 1st century Jews were under whenever Jesus was even born and 133 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,960 during his earthly ministry, they were under the Rome that 134 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,320 under the rule of Rome, all right. 135 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:26,720 And so before Jesus is ascension then to heaven from the mount of 136 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,200 all of it, His disciples had picked up on this concept of 137 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,880 this Messiah personality in Jesus Christ. 138 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,120 They even spoke to him in Acts chapter #1 and verse 6. 139 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,480 They had a question that that conveys that they had picked up 140 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:47,400 on this personality Messiah in Jesus when they said in Acts 1 141 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,600 and 6, when they therefore were come together Speaking of his 142 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,840 disciples, they asked of him Jesus saying, Lord, wilt thou at 143 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,760 this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel? 144 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,160 So they're looking for someone to bring Israel back into this 145 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,040 autonomy of not being under Roman rule, but under their own 146 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,400 rule. And so the Messiahship then 147 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,440 though of Jesus Christ though encompass more than just a 148 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,280 natural Kingdom, right? The messiahship of Jesus Christ 149 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,720 was more than just restoring Israel back to a earthly Kingdom 150 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,800 place or a order of rule for Israel. 151 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:32,280 It it was about also a spiritual Kingdom, the messiahship of 152 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,880 Jesus Christ. And so the Old Testament, it 153 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,679 contains several. There's no way that we have the 154 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,240 time afforded us today to go through all of the Old Testament 155 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,600 prophecies that speak about the Messiah. 156 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,920 But there's things in the Old Testament, when you read them, 157 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,160 you start to understand man that sounds a lot like Christ Jesus 158 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,960 or what Christ Jesus accomplished their stuff 159 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,240 throughout the book and the prophet of Isaiah especially 160 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,640 like chapters 52 and 53 and such. 161 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,440 And there that many people will call it's talking about a 162 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,960 suffering servant when in reality it's talking about our 163 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,640 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who fits many of those 164 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,240 descriptions because it is he that's spoken of in those books 165 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,520 whose visage or his very being his his visage. 166 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,760 The way that he looked was so marred more than any man that 167 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,400 that his form was was more marred even than the sons of 168 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,160 men. That's talking about our Christ, 169 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,320 the beating, the Kadam 9 tells the the spear through his side. 170 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,760 All of those things are descriptions of him. 171 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,000 He's the one concerning the suffering servant that it's 172 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaking of that would be despised. 173 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,560 All these different verbs, despised and rejected and 174 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:47,400 stricken and smitten, all of those are relating to our Lord. 175 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,760 He's the one that would be wounded and bruised and 176 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,080 chastised and beaten. The Bible even says with stripes 177 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,600 he would be. The Bible speaks of this one in 178 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,160 the Old Testament that would be cut off from the land of the 179 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,440 living. A man, that's our Lord. 180 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,000 He is the child that was born of a virgin, right? 181 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,720 Amen. That the Old Testament speaks 182 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:15,560 about the one upon whom which the government would be upon His 183 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,560 shoulders, and that He would have a Kingdom, right? 184 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,360 That was ordered and that was established with judgment. 185 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,960 This is just talking about Jesus Christ, and it's a matter of 186 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,160 fact. Jesus in his earthly ministry, 187 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,160 the 33 or so years that He was here upon the earth, He oftimes 188 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:41,000 referred to Himself and referred to his mission, and whenever He 189 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,120 did, He was really using passages from the book of Daniel 190 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,920 or from the prophet Daniel as he referred to Himself and his 191 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,040 mission. A standard way that Jesus talked 192 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,360 about himself in the New Testament is that he oftimes 193 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:01,400 talked about Himself as the Son of Man, the Son of Man. 194 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,280 Now for just any just regular reader, great, you know Son of 195 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,480 man. But for a 1st century Jew, their 196 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,000 mind is going back into the Old Testament and they are coupling 197 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,360 that with Daniel where the Son of man is mentioned in prophecy 198 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,000 in the book of Daniel. As a matter of fact, Daniel does 199 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,600 a very it's not like I got a validate God's word right. 200 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,080 It's like no, he does a good job. 201 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,640 Well of course he is, he's inspired of the Holy Ghost to 202 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,720 write what was written. But he'll, let me say he did a 203 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,400 great job, Amen Brother Zach, in writing and and webbing these 204 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,280 things together about how that Messiah that would come would be 205 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,080 the long-awaited king, but not just earthly king, but the 206 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,720 divine 1 Daniel really does this very well. 207 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,160 Amen. About bringing about a Kingdom, 208 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,120 yes, but more importantly A heavenly Kingdom, a spiritual 209 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,880 Kingdom. Throughout the New Testament 210 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,680 scripture, there's a lot of talk. 211 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,440 You read it in your Bibles. There's a lot of talk about the 212 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,080 Kingdom of God. You can't read the gospels 213 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,320 without you seeing the talk about the Kingdom of God, or 214 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,960 sometimes it's called the Kingdom of heaven. 215 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,320 Whenever the forerunner of Jesus Christ come, which was John the 216 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,600 Baptist, which was his cousin born like 6 months or so before 217 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,240 Jesus was, whenever John the Baptist even came, he came 218 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,080 repent. He came preaching a message of 219 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,400 repent, repentance, and he would say repent for the Kingdom of 220 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,360 heaven or the Kingdom of God is at hand. 221 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,760 It's at hand. So matter of fact, then whenever 222 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,160 Jesus started his own public ministry, Amen, he comes and he 223 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,640 has the same message. It's a message of repentance. 224 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,120 And he's telling the people that the Kingdom of God or the 225 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Kingdom of heaven is at hand. But this Kingdom that we're 226 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,880 talking about in the New Testament, it has a very natural 227 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,040 earthly side, but it also has a very spiritual side to it. 228 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,040 Amen. A Kingdom that was beyond this 229 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,320 earth, beyond where they live. So my fact, when Jesus was 230 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,240 questioned by some of the Pharisees who were, you know, 231 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,360 the, the, the very people who try to keep the letter of the 232 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,560 law as best as they could, he was questioned by the Pharisees 233 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,320 that Lord, when the Kingdom of God, when, when should it come? 234 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,080 When it should come, which they're thinking about a natural 235 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:24,560 Kingdom. That's where their mind is, 236 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,560 when, when the Kingdom of God should come, when, when should 237 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:30,520 this happen? And he responded to them these 238 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,040 words which show us that it's more than just a earthly 239 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,360 Kingdom, but a spiritual Kingdom. 240 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,480 He said the Kingdom of God is within you. 241 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,000 Hold on a minute. So we're, we're talking about 242 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,360 something that's just not earthly. 243 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,360 Then there, there, there's a spiritual side to this Kingdom 244 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,280 as well. And So what did it mean them to 245 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:55,000 a 1st century Jew that Jesus said in our, our text even this 246 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 morning that the time is fulfilled. 247 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:04,360 The Kingdom of God is at hand. What it did it mean to them to 248 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,880 hear that the time is fulfilled. The Kingdom of God is at hand. 249 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,880 Why? Why would he even say such 250 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:17,800 things as the Kingdom of God is come unto you in this this 1st 251 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,560 century among the Jews, someone say a man. 252 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,320 And so while the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven is also 253 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,440 spiritual, again there is a earthly means to it, a means for 254 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,400 which Jesus wanted the Jewish people and those that had any 255 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,200 understanding of Old Testament scripture. 256 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,760 He wanted them to understand that the time for their 257 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,360 long-awaited Messiah was at hand. 258 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,960 It was occurring, right? He didn't want them to miss what 259 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,200 many of them missed, that their Messiah had come, their Messiah 260 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,600 had arrived. He wanted them to recognize 261 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,480 that. So he uses these phrases of 262 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,800 Kingdom of God or Kingdom of heaven in the Old Testament. 263 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,080 You know, just follow with me today. 264 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,760 We'll start weaving the web, all right, and putting the strings 265 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,920 together and tying the knots. But the Kingdom of God and the 266 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,440 Kingdom of heaven, those two phrases are never found in the 267 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,480 King James Version language of the Old Testament. 268 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,320 The closest thing that we get to that phrase is in the book of 269 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,320 Daniel when Daniels describing a bunch of these Pagan kingdoms 270 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,360 being destroyed by the Kingdom of the God of Heaven. 271 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,480 That's what it's stated in Daniel chapter #2 and verse 44. 272 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,080 Look at it with me now. And in the days of these kings, 273 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,880 we'll go back and look at those kings. 274 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,880 And Speaking of these Pagan kingdoms and Pagan kings, shall 275 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,160 the God of heaven set up a Kingdom? 276 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,040 All right, So that right there, if the God of heaven is setting 277 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,200 up a Kingdom, it must be a Kingdom of God, It must be a 278 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,000 Kingdom of heaven. He's going to set up, He's going 279 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,560 to set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed. 280 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,560 And the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it 281 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,360 shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and 282 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,640 it shall stand forever. In Daniel chapter #2 if you want 283 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,640 to host series on Daniel, check our podcast. 284 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,560 It's there. All right, Probably 34 lessons 285 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,600 or so, or 24, I can't remember which. 286 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:22,640 But nonetheless, in Daniel chapter #2 you'll remember that 287 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,480 there was a dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had. 288 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,960 He was wanting an interpretation of a dream. 289 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,840 He's seen this great image in the Book of Daniel chapter #2 290 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,680 and this image had a head of gold. 291 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,720 It had breast and arms that were silver. 292 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,960 It had belly and thighs that were brass. 293 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,560 It had legs that were iron. And when you got to its feet, it 294 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:53,360 was a mixture of iron and clay. In Daniel chapter #2 Daniel told 295 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,520 Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of that dream. 296 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,760 He said, oh, you, Nebuchadnezzar, are that head of 297 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,480 gold. Nebuchadnezzar was the king over 298 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:07,359 a Babylonian Kingdom, all right? The very Babylon that would take 299 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,920 the children of Israel into captivity for 70 years. 300 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,319 He says, you are that head of gold, all right. 301 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:17,960 And that's around probably around 6th century BC when all 302 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,480 of that took place. But then there's going to come 303 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,920 a, a, a more inferior Kingdom, the Babylon, but it's going to 304 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,520 overtake Babylon. And that would then be known as 305 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:33,520 the Medo Persian, a Kingdom in the Scripture around the 5th 306 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,800 century BC. They would be the silver. 307 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,240 Then would come another Kingdom that would bear rule over the 308 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,640 whole earth. And that would be the Greek 309 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,120 Kingdom around the 4th century. That would be during the time of 310 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:48,240 Alexander the Great. It's like between the 311 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,640 Testaments. Alexander the Great was such a 312 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,720 great warrior that he he absolutely took over and 313 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,960 conquered the then known world. Yet when he was very young, 314 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,400 still yet very young, he would die and he would leave his 315 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,000 Kingdom to his, his four top generals that would really only 316 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,640 two of them would become dominant. 317 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,560 And so that's the next Kingdom, the Grecian Kingdom, Amen, that 318 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,240 we speak of then that is brass. And then the next Kingdom that 319 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,920 comes in succession is the Kingdom of Rome. 320 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,480 That is the Kingdom that was alive and well when Christ was 321 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,960 born in Bethlehem's Manger. That's the Kingdom that was 322 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:30,240 alive and well, Amen. During his lifetime there, Amen. 323 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,400 From 1st century like BC on into the AD generations, this Kingdom 324 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,480 would be in Rule. It's, it's strong. 325 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:43,080 It's strong as iron. That's it's representation of 326 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,160 iron. It's strong as iron that as you 327 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,240 get to the feet, you see it's mixed with clay. 328 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,640 There's a weakening, if you will, of the empire and of the 329 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,320 Kingdom whenever you look at the statue of Daniel chapter #2 I 330 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,880 hope this ain't too heavy for everybody on a Sunday morning. 331 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,640 I hope you ate, you ate your Wheaties today, all right, or 332 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,760 something. Amen. 333 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,520 On Daniel chapter #2 you'll notice that the, the metals 334 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,920 going from gold down to iron to clay, the metals really are 335 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,280 increasing in strength from gold to to silver to brass to iron. 336 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,840 That's, that's going from a soft metal to a very more hardened 337 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,920 metal, a stronger metal. But the value of the are are 338 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,640 diminishing in a sense until you get into the 5th Kingdom because 339 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,720 iron is not as valuable as go. There's a this diminishment of 340 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,000 value until you get to the 5th Kingdom. 341 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,120 And so every Kingdom is growing in its territory in an expanse 342 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,640 because like the Medo Persians, they're overtaking Babylon and 343 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,920 absorbing their landmass into themselves. 344 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,560 So the territory is getting larger with each successive 345 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:49,640 Kingdom that comes again, decrease in in, in value, but an 346 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,720 increase, if you will, in its power or in its strength. 347 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,160 Another reason why it's it's decreasing in value on a very 348 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,520 literal level is because these kingdoms like Medo Persia, 349 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,240 that's a split Kingdom. You get to Alexander the Great. 350 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,000 He has four generals. He's going to give that to. 351 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,560 They're splitting up. A Kingdom is really usually a 352 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,400 one man rule. And so it's a breaking up, if 353 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,600 you will, of the government and of the powers begin to splinters 354 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,200 begin to weaken. But look at Daniel chapter 2 and 355 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,120 verse 34. There is 1/5. 356 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,920 The Bible says, and in the interpretation he says, Thou 357 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,440 solace, thou seen everything that was going on till that a 358 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:35,360 stone was cut out without hands, without him. 359 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,040 This, this was not human invention. 360 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,040 This was not human offspring, so to speak. 361 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,160 This was done without hands, which smote the image up on his 362 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:52,040 feet that were of iron and clay and break them to pieces. 363 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,280 Then was the iron, the clay? Notice it's talking about the 364 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,920 statue. Now this stone that was cut 365 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,000 without hands hit the feet and it's it's shattered to pieces 366 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,080 along. Look at verse 2. 367 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,200 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, the goat. 368 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,760 All of this broke into pieces together and became like the 369 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,040 chap of the summer, threshing floors and the wind that carried 370 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,360 them away, that no place was found for them. 371 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,600 The stone that smote the image became now it's not just a 372 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,280 stone, but it grows into this great mountain and filled the 373 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,960 whole earth. Scholar NT Wright says this. 374 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,800 He says the passage about the stone in Daniel 2 was regularly 375 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,520 interpreted from at least as early as the 1st century. 376 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,600 And the reason why I say this spoken and I don't want to 377 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,600 bombard you. But even if today, if you were 378 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,280 in college and you were writing about something, you want what's 379 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,320 called primary sources. You want sources that are close 380 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,880 to the incident that you're you're talking about because 381 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,680 they're going to be the most reliable. 382 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,240 You you can grab somebody that's talking about it today, but they 383 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,920 weren't there when all of this thing came about. 384 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,680 And so when you have a primary source that has more credence 385 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,800 than something that is written about today. 386 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,440 And so whenever he said, as he says these things have been 387 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,040 written about that that stone and Daniel was regularly 388 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,640 interpreted as Amen and referring to the Messiah as 389 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,520 early as the 1st century, that a Kingdom would come and be set up 390 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,760 through the Messiah. Then we, we can, we can hang our 391 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,840 hat on that. Then understanding that this 5th 392 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,120 Kingdom that would come after the Kingdom of Rome would be the 393 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,480 Kingdom of the Messiah, the Kingdom of the Messiah. 394 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,200 And look now verse #44 you can look at verse 44 of Daniel one 395 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,400 more time. Daniel says, And in the days of 396 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,320 these kings, Speaking of the, the gold and the silver and the 397 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,080 brass and the iron, a man of Babylon and Medo, Persia and 398 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,800 Greece and Rome in the days of these kings, shall the God of 399 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,080 heaven set up a Kingdom? Shall the God of heaven set up a 400 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,800 Kingdom? And since God is setting up the 401 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,600 Kingdom, this is in essence the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of 402 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,160 heaven that's going to be set up. 403 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:02,480 And so a New Testament Jew that hears Jesus and even John the 404 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,440 Baptist and regular talk about the Kingdom of heaven or the 405 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,520 Kingdom of God is at hand, or the time of its fulfillment and 406 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,320 its placement or its start and its sea bed is now. 407 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,840 They've been expecting ever since Daniel's opened his mouth 408 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,640 and prophecy about all these kingdoms fallen. 409 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,440 There would be established a Kingdom from heaven and it would 410 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,160 take place. And so much so that they're 411 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,720 living during the day when Rome was in Rule. 412 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,400 They are looking for somebody to set up a heavenly Kingdom. 413 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,680 They're looking for somebody to set up the Kingdom of God. 414 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,120 And so whenever they consider that, Daniel says a stone's 415 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,840 going to come and it's going to annihilate all these others and 416 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,040 it's going to grow into a great mountain until it fills the 417 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,480 whole earth. Amen. 418 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,360 We see that really fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ, His 419 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:54,040 Kingdom, Amen. And in many ways began in 420 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,440 Bethlehem, Manger and Pentecost in Calvary, and the growth of 421 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,480 the Gospel. Why do you think that? 422 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,960 He said to his disciples before he departed, Amen. 423 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,320 Go ye into all the world and preach. 424 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,960 Why? Because that would be the 425 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,760 expanse of the heavenly Kingdom. That would be the expanse of the 426 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,560 Kingdom of God. That started as a stone but 427 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,960 becomes a great over. We're still expanding the 428 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,680 Kingdom. It didn't just happen in the 429 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,320 book of Acts while we're living right now today, we are living 430 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,520 in the Kingdom of God age. We are still expanding the 431 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,920 Kingdom. Amen for the purpose of heaven. 432 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,280 That's the reason why we're supporting the missionaries and 433 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,800 the home missionaries and this and that. 434 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,240 We are expanded. The stone is becoming a 435 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,680 mountain. Someone say man, the stone is 436 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,800 becoming a mountain and of the Messiah prophecy concerning 437 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,120 Jesus Christ, Isaiah said. And of the increase of his 438 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:55,800 government and peace there shall be no end. 439 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,920 This was made without hands. This isn't the ordering of a 440 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:08,920 man, no, this is all of the actions of God. 441 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,480 And so that's partly why Jesus Christ said in our text then the 442 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,640 time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand 443 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,560 because they were living during the days of the Roman rule. 444 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,200 He was coming in to set up another Kingdom, so to speak, 445 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,400 another king, another Kingdom. That's not man made, but it's 446 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,360 God made. So we consider all of this 447 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,760 again. Remember Jesus likes to refer to 448 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:45,000 himself as the Son, the Son of Man, the Son of Man. 449 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,720 As a matter of fact, here are just a few samples. 450 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,120 Can't give you them all. Again, time would not allow. 451 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,320 But Jesus says things like this concerning himself. 452 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,600 He talks in the third person, you know, and he says things 453 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,760 like the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say, 454 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,440 behold, A glutton and a drunkard. 455 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,000 Jesus said that of himself he says stuff like this, but the 456 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,200 Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. 457 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,880 He's talking about himself. He's calling himself the Son of 458 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:22,080 Man, he says, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is 459 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,920 betrayed. Again, he's talking about 460 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,800 himself. He knew the Jews would pick up 461 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,720 on him talking about himself as the Son of man. 462 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,440 He doesn't explain it to us in the New Testament, but he knew 463 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,800 they would pick up on it because the Son of Man is more than just 464 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,520 being a human being. That term could be used for 465 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,280 humans. Son of men. 466 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,720 Amen. But to a 1st century, it was 467 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,920 more than just being human, it was so much more. 468 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:57,000 In Daniel chapter #7 it records that Daniel, Daniel has a dream. 469 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:04,480 Daniel has a dream about a series of four Pagan empires in 470 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,200 Daniel 7. And listen, folks, you read like 471 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,080 Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8. You know, it seems weird, but 472 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,120 again, these are dreams that have representations in 473 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:17,040 Scripture. And Daniel, he has a dream about 474 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,960 four Pagan empires. They're represented by a lion 475 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:26,720 that has eagle's wings, a bear raising up on one side, a 476 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,880 leopard that has four wings and four heads, right? 477 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:35,240 And then one that's called a very terrible, dreadful beast 478 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,480 that you read of in Daniel chapter #7 Daniel 7 and verse 17 479 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:46,120 says these great beasts, which are four are 4 kings, are 4 480 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:50,240 kings which arise out of the earth. 481 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,440 Now if you want to hear a few different schools of thought 482 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,960 again, podcast Daniel I refer you back to, But there are a few 483 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,480 schools of thought about these 4 kingdoms or 4 kings. 484 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,480 One of them mirrors the very order of the kingdoms that 485 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,520 Daniel told to Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel chapter #2 that we 486 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:14,280 already discussed of gold and silver and brass and iron. 487 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,920 All right. Nonetheless, again it doesn't 488 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:22,160 stop with the 4th king or the 4th Kingdom, because the next 489 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:28,120 king even in Daniel's dream will be the king which was as 490 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:32,680 mentioned in the book of Daniel was the Son of Man. 491 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,760 Look at it now, Daniel chapter #7 And verse 9. 492 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,080 He says, I beheld till the Thrones were cast down, the 493 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,280 Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and 494 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,720 the hair of his head like the pure wool. 495 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,680 His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning 496 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,080 fire. Verse 13. 497 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:58,480 I saw in the night visions and behold, one like the Son of Man 498 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,880 came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of Days, 499 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,200 and they brought him near before him, and there was given him 500 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,960 dominion and glory and a Kingdom. 501 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,320 That's verse 14, That all people, nations and languages 502 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,960 shall serve him. His dominion is an everlasting 503 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,320 dominion which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which 504 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,600 shall not be destroyed. All of this means then the ruler 505 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,640 or the king of the 5th Kingdom would be the Son of Man. 506 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,600 Please note there's not another Kingdom after his. 507 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,560 There's not enough there another power to come into place after 508 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,920 him. He is the king and the Kingdom 509 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,120 to end all kingdoms, all right. And so that is the the Messiah, 510 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,960 the anointed one for that time and again, many 1st century 511 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,160 writings equate the Son of Man with the Messiah with the 512 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,840 Messiah. And so Jesus often talk then 513 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,520 about the Kingdom of God being at hand, and he would also then 514 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,080 refer to himself as the Son of Man. 515 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,960 He wanted the Jews to understand that the time of his Kingdom, he 516 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,320 was there. I'm here, I've arrived. 517 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,760 This thing is now going to start turning around because I am that 518 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,000 king. I am your Messiah. 519 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,160 I am the Son of man. As a matter of fact, his Kingdom 520 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,800 would begin to have its seed bed during the Roman rule. 521 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,480 Again, you, you, you, you have Caesar, you have all these 522 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,520 different people that are Roman rulers during the time of Jesus, 523 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,600 even in his trial for his crucifix that are Roman rulers. 524 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,840 The Jews are constantly talking to Rome, right? 525 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,600 Because they weren't, they weren't going to be able to 526 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,720 crucify Jesus themselves. That's that. 527 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,400 It was not permissible in their law. 528 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,400 They had to have Roman rule in order to be able to, even to 529 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,160 crucify the Lord. So all of this is happening 530 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,120 while Christ is walking in his public ministry up on the earth. 531 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,080 The Bible says he walked his public ministry in, in, in Luke 532 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,720 chapter #3 during the reign of Tiberius the Caesar. 533 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,440 That's a Roman entity. That's a Roman government. 534 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,080 And so Jesus proclaims and and prophecies that the Kingdom that 535 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,320 is in Daniel, that 5th Kingdom to end all kingdoms that's cut 536 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,920 without a hand. He claims to be not only that 537 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,680 that Kingdom is starting now, but he's the king of that 538 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,280 Kingdom. He is that Son of God, that Son 539 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,240 of man, if you will, that's prophesied in the Old Testament 540 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,600 Daniel, that Kingdom that is made without hands. 541 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,000 And more So, what he wants them to know more than anything else 542 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,160 is more than a earthly Kingdom. This thing is a heavenly 543 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,600 Kingdom, more than just, you know, more than just dirt and 544 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,520 blocking and regimens and all of that, he says. 545 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,440 This is something that's spiritual because it can be a 546 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:55,520 Kingdom that's within you. Can I tell you today that if 547 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,600 you've been born again of the water and the Spirit, you 548 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,600 repented of your sins and you went down in Jesus that name, 549 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,400 you have entered a Kingdom that he told Nicodemus, Except a man 550 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,280 be born again of the water and the Spirit, he cannot see. 551 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:16,920 He cannot enter into the Kingdom of someone. 552 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:25,120 Say Amen, hail glory. So he he shares some time Jesus 553 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,960 sometimes shares about his death and his ministry. 554 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,440 He talks to his disciples about it. 555 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,880 He talks about being turned over into the authorities. 556 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,520 He talks about being put into the hands of men. 557 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,360 And he says it like this though know how he says it? 558 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:48,000 He says, and you can read this in Mark, Matthew, Luke, those 559 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,360 those gospels of the synoptic Gospels. 560 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,800 He often phrases it like this. Again, Speaking of himself like 561 00:32:53,800 --> 00:33:00,520 third person, he says the Son of man must suffer many things. 562 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:08,840 The Son of man and the certainty of his suffering is in the word 563 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,200 must, he must suffer many things. 564 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,800 But the whole idea of him suffering is really based, 565 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:22,120 again, in the book of Daniel, because the Masonic son of man 566 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,120 that Daniel spoke of had to suffer. 567 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,720 Now, there's a lot I could say about these verses I'm about 568 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,920 ready to read to you, but we're not going to say everything that 569 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,240 can be said. OK, Daniel series, I reference 570 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,360 you again. But in Daniel chapter #9 and 571 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,520 verse 25, again, Daniel doesn't just talk about that Kingdom to 572 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,880 come. It talks about the King, the Son 573 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,880 of Man, and we already had precedence even from writings 574 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,720 even as early as the 1st century that that stone. 575 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,280 What is being spoken of is the Messiah. 576 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,520 The Bible says in Daniel 9 verse 25. 577 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,000 Know therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the 578 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,360 commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, and to the 579 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:09,560 Messiah, or if I say the Messiah says it clearly, Messiah. 580 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,159 The Prince shall be 7 weeks and three score and two weeks, and 581 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:16,560 the street shall be built again, and the wall even in trouble 582 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,760 troublous times. Verse 26. 583 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,719 And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, 584 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,920 but not for himself and the people. 585 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,880 The Prince shall come and destroy the city, the sanctuary, 586 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,080 and the end thereof shall be with a flood. 587 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,280 And to the end of the war, desolations are determined. 588 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,600 Again, we don't have all time to cover every detail that's in 589 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,800 this, because this new thing here is a lot. 590 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,719 It's like a key. It will open some doors. 591 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,800 Amen. But there's a lot in here. 592 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:52,159 But suffice to say it that Jesus treats the Son of Man of Daniel 593 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:58,280 7 and the Messiah of Daniel chapter #9 as one and the same 594 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,200 person. One and the same person. 595 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:09,640 One is enthronement is therefore the beginning of his Kingdom. 596 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:15,920 And there is, as we read here in Daniel 9A, earthly suffering, 597 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,160 even a death. That's what is being conveyed to 598 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,480 us when it says Messiah will be cut off. 599 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,800 It's speaking about his death. All right. 600 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,200 And since kings even the Old Testament Scripture, they were 601 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,760 anointed with oil. Sister Cox we see that happened 602 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,520 to David we see that happened to saw horns of oil put over their 603 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,360 heads. Since they are anointed with 604 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,160 oil, many times kings were referred to as the anointed. 605 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,120 As a result of that, whenever we talk about New Credit Testament 606 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,480 Scripture, Jesus Christ Christ isn't his last name. 607 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:07,440 Christ is a label in the Greek denoting the anointed Messiah in 608 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,000 the Old Testament. In the Hebrew, the anointed, 609 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,600 we're talking about the one that's being the Son of man. 610 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,560 We're talking about our king coming. 611 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,560 Jesus says the Son of Man or Messiah must suffer. 612 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,840 This is the mindset where they were kind of thrown off because 613 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,480 they were just looking for someone with our earthly 614 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,760 Kingdom. They didn't realize the 615 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,720 spiritual aspect of the Kingdom and they seen their king coming 616 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,560 in strong and they didn't realize his strength was through 617 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,360 his Amen. And according to Daniel, he says 618 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,360 he would be cut off, He would be put to death. 619 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,240 There would come a time that he would die. 620 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,960 And so there were Jews that were waiting for the Kingdom of God, 621 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,320 the Messiah, the Son of man, and Jesus fulfilled both of them. 622 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:00,480 He, he was the Son of man, He was the Messiah, He was the king 623 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,040 over that 5th Kingdom. As a matter of fact, and we 624 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,680 don't have time to do it, but if you read those verses again and 625 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,480 you go through the calculations about when the decree was given 626 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,320 and the weeks and the times and the years that that interprets 627 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,440 Amen. It says that He'll be cut off at 628 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,480 a certain time. Jesus meant that qualification 629 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,680 in the calendar when he was crucified, He he met the Old 630 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,080 Testament prophecy of when that Messiah would be cut off, 631 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,520 pointing to the fact that he was that Messiah that was coming and 632 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,520 dying in that 1st century time frame. 633 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,080 So much so I'll hasten to a close because I know we're 634 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,000 already where we're at here on our own timetable here this 635 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:39,960 morning. Amen. 636 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,360 But remember what the, what the Angel spoke to Mary in Luke 637 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:50,240 chapter #1 and verse 32, it says the angels told Mary he Speaking 638 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:56,400 of Jesus shall be great and shall be called the Son of the 639 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,040 Highest and the Lord God shall given to him the throne of his 640 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,760 Father David. He said he's going to be the son 641 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,400 of the highest and he's going to have a throne. 642 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,720 That was what that's what the Angel even told Mary. 643 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,720 And so as New Testament, as church believers today, we can 644 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,720 look at the scripture and understand Messiah has come, 645 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:18,440 right? The Messiah of the Old 646 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,840 Testament. We're, we are not in a pattern 647 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,120 of waiting. There are some today because 648 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,840 they missed it when he first came, believe they're waiting 649 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,800 for him to come. He already came the first time. 650 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,840 He's just going to come back the second time. 651 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,040 He's already come the first time. 652 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,880 He's just going to come back the second time. 653 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,480 We may not believe it, but his Kingdom is already the 654 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,000 construction, the, the, all the ordering of his Kingdom again, 655 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,360 the X, the expense of his Kingdom is happening even as we 656 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,520 are living up on this earth. There's going to come a day 657 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,760 folks, and it will come when it will be realized by every eye. 658 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,320 Once the church is taken out of here and and there's tribulation 659 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,760 and all those things and there'll be 1000 year Millennium 660 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,480 reign of the Lord people. I want to realize in that day 661 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,400 there was a Kingdom that was cut without hands that's grew into a 662 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,240 mountain that now is an everlasting Kingdom. 663 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:13,880 And of his government and of his increase, there is no end folks. 664 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,960 It's just building up. Can I tell you that? 665 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,520 It's just building up? Every day it's increasing. 666 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,240 Every day it's getting greater. I know it looks like on the 667 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,160 earthly surface, man weren't drowning here. 668 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,600 No, there is a Kingdom, an established. 669 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:33,200 Oh, yes, stay with me. I'll hurry. 670 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,040 Too close here. I'll hurry. 671 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,920 I'll hurry. I see someone. 672 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:39,440 Someone had that lunch look on in their eyes. 673 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:47,600 Amen. Because this is God's plan, 674 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,520 right? Understanding Jesus as the 675 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,160 Messiah, right, is important because he's central to the 676 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,760 mission and the fulfilling of God's plan. 677 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,320 Even a Daniel know what it says. That the Messiah would be cut 678 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:08,480 off, but not for himself. Jesus didn't die for himself, 679 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,080 Messiah said. He's cut off, but not for 680 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,200 himself. Jesus didn't die for himself, He 681 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,080 died for you. He's cut off, but not for 682 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,760 himself. It's for you. 683 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,640 So he's not as many even presumed him that day as just 684 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,440 another prophet or another teacher. 685 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,040 No, he was the promised king. He's the divine Son of man 686 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,280 spoken of by the prophet Daniel. He's the suffering servant of 687 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,640 Isaiah. A man death has been prophesied 688 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,920 and he's going to be the cornerstone of an everlasting 689 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,840 Kingdom. So when Jesus declared in our 690 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:51,000 text in Mark, the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God 691 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:56,240 is at hand, really calling the people to recognize that God's 692 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:02,360 redemption plan was unfolding before their eyes, not some 693 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,600 earthly ruler trying to find some type of political power 694 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,600 establishment as many are today. His Kingdom, yes, has an earthly 695 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,080 side, but more importantly as a heavenly side for the purpose of 696 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:19,040 transforming hearts and bodies for that matter. 697 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,520 Because when my change comes to be able to endure forever in 698 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:29,120 this everlasting Kingdom. So both his death and his 699 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:34,000 resurrection prove that his Kingdom, it's not of this world. 700 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:40,080 And Alexander the Great died. He's still dead, you hear me? 701 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,800 When, when, when Nebuchadnezzar pushed up tulips, he's still 702 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:50,120 pushing them up. But when our king supposedly was 703 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:56,160 cut off and some of them are saying, but this is, but this is 704 00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:00,520 the third day, huh? Those two, they're walking to 705 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,720 Emmaus, they said, but it was the third day. 706 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,400 And Jesus came and walked beside him and said, tell me about this 707 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,880 crucifix and resurrection stuff. And before the night was over, 708 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,720 it's like, oh, that's Jesus because they knew him whenever 709 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,880 he broke, broke bread and he said, did not our hearts burn 710 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,440 within us? Huh? 711 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:23,040 Their king wasn't dead. Whoa, that king wasn't dead, 712 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,040 honey. Every other Kingdom of the world 713 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,920 and other every other religion of the world, Amen, that 714 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,880 subscribes to a different Kingdom, the king of this Amen, 715 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,880 an Apostolic Amen, Biblical, let me just say biblical truth. 716 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:38,520 Hira Krishna dead, Reverend Moon dead. 717 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:43,800 Joseph Smith dead, go visit their grave. 718 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,240 But you go over into the Holy Land and you visit where they 719 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:51,000 say my King laid. There's no body there, there's 720 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000 no poem there. There's no testimony of his 721 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,440 residence there because he's alive. 722 00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,600 It's a everlasting Kingdom that shall know no end. 723 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,800 Hear me today, anything that is being built can be built right 724 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,400 now on this day, but there's nothing that is going to be 725 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,840 built that will not be destroyed by the Kingdom of God. 726 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,840 It all comes under the power and the authority of the Kingdom. 727 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,760 So fear not what you see sometimes taking place around 728 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,880 you as though man, this is going to swallow us, ain't going to 729 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,720 swallow you up because there's a rock that's been cut a stone 730 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:45,280 without him. I feel him in this place. 731 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:50,440 So not only was Christ Jesus from last week divine, but he's 732 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,480 my Messiah. And that fulfills exactly what 733 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,120 Daniel was talking about, a king, a man that would come that 734 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,160 with yes, he would have a divine side to him, but he would also 735 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:05,320 be the Messiah for the people. That's your Christ Jesus. 736 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,000 Daniel said that that last piece, it was dreadful and it 737 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,280 was horrible. But there's a 5th Kingdom 738 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:27,120 coming, honey. We got all kinds of stuff going 739 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,160 on around here. I don't know if it's right or 740 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:30,880 wrong. I don't know. 741 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,240 And we got terrorists going up left and right, right, United 742 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:35,440 Nations, right. In terrorists, we race 743 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,240 terrorists. We want Canada to be 51st state. 744 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:38,640 They're racing terrorists, we're racing terrorists. 745 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,480 We got all this stuff, right? Bunch of economic unsettledness. 746 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,080 Maybe it'll all pan out. I don't know. 747 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,040 Maybe it'll set up a time that we can call for a greater 748 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:54,280 economy of oneness. I don't know. 749 00:44:55,120 --> 00:45:00,320 But this one thing I do know. I know in whom I have believed. 750 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:05,160 I know in whom I have believed. I know in whom I. 751 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,680 I know him, I know him. I know him. 752 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:39,800 I know. Raise your hands right now. 753 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,360 Today, let acknowledge our God, acknowledge our Savior, 754 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,320 acknowledge our Messiah, acknowledge the King of glory.