1 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:04,700 I thought about doing a little bit of whiteboard work tonight, 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:08,100 but I think I'll just stand down here and finish out this section 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:12,600 in Matthew, the 16th chapter because we began that this 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,400 morning and kind of just a verse by verse fashion. 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,200 And I want to do that again this evening. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,600 So I'm going to invite you along with me to Matthew the 16th 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,700 chapter. And I'm going to review just 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,900 momentarily what we discussed this morning, but then also 9 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,500 hopefully discuss the rest of this little section. 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,100 That goes down to about verse 19. 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:37,300 Now, as you recall, Jesus has taken his Apostles to the most 12 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:40,300 northern limits of the land of Palestine. 13 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:43,900 Right at the base of Mount Hermon to a very paganistic 14 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,500 area. That had long been taken to a 15 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,600 place called caesarea Philippi, says area. 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,600 Philippi was the ancient city of Dan that we find in the Old 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,300 Testament and area that had always struggled with Baal 18 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:01,200 worship and false worship. And in Jesus day this Same thing 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,400 was going on. There was much false worship 20 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:07,600 into this environment. Jesus takes his Apostles and he 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,300 elicits from them, his identity. He wants them to make for sure 22 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,600 that they are willing to State who he is. 23 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,200 And so he does that in a very interesting way. 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,400 He asks them what the word on the street is who are people 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,600 saying that I am? And as I mentioned this morning, 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,100 after about three years, there were a lot of opinions. 27 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,400 Somebody was an old estimate profit. 28 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,900 Some thought he was the one that would bring in or Harbinger to 29 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:39,600 the Messiah, but then Jesus turns to his own and he says, 30 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,600 but who do you say that? I, the son of man a.m. in other 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:50,200 words, who do you say that I am? What is your conviction about 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,400 me? And, as I mentioned this morning 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,200 that indeed really is the essence of our study because in 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,300 reality, it matters, but it doesn't matter what the rest of 35 00:02:00,308 --> 00:02:02,900 the Things. The rest of the world will do 36 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:04,500 what the rest of the world wants to do. 37 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,800 And while we try to convert the rest of the world, we are indeed 38 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:12,700 in need of converting ourselves before we try to convert the 39 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,800 world. And so Jesus asked who do you 40 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,200 say that I am? And it is, of course, at that 41 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,400 moment that we almost see Peter leaping off of, maybe The Rock. 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,200 He was setting on and saying you are the Christ, the son of the 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,800 Living. God now I want to analyze that 44 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,100 we've already Analyze what it means to be the Christ, you 45 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:36,100 know, Jesus is indeed the Christ, the Christos, the 46 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:40,900 Messiah, the same Greek concept of Christos is the same as the 47 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:44,900 Hebrew Messiah, but the Messiah means the anointed one. 48 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,300 It means the one who had in the Old Testament, the role of 49 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,600 prophet priest, or King. And Jesus, of course, today is 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,300 our Prophet. Our priests are King. 51 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:58,200 He is our messenger. He is our mediator. 52 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,800 He is our Monarch, he is the On that supersedes all other. 53 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,700 And that's really again. What Peter is acknowledging when 54 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:10,300 he says you are the Christ, the Old Testament had pointed toward 55 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:14,600 Jesus toward the Christ. The anointed one appointed to 56 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,000 the, to the kingdom that he would bring in. 57 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:20,400 In fact, Daniel chapter 2, 44, prophesize, that there would 58 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,400 come a kingdom that would never be destroyed and John the 59 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,000 Baptist. And Jesus had said, the kingdom 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,200 is very near its at hand and so the Jews had long looked for a 61 00:03:30,208 --> 00:03:33,000 messiah I know, they misunderstood they thought in 62 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,800 many ways that Jesus, or shall we say the Messiah would be a 63 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,700 political figure Jesus was none of that Jesus came. 64 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:44,300 Of course, preaching, a gospel of the heart, and a gospel of a 65 00:03:44,308 --> 00:03:48,500 relationship with God. Not a conquering gospel, that 66 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:52,300 would go and do all the world and make a territory of physical 67 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,400 Nations, but Jesus is the Messiah. 68 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,500 He is the one that they had longed for, and if he is not the 69 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:04,700 Messiah, Then, of course, we know of no other but Jesus, of 70 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:08,200 course, makes this statement. He says blessed, are you now? 71 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,700 Peter has said, you are the Christ, the son of God and now, 72 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:14,700 Peter is going to receive his own blessing. 73 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:17,500 Now, before I look at that blessing though, when Peters are 74 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:20,200 when Jesus says, Peter says, whether you are the Christ, the 75 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,800 son of the Living, God, let me just for a moment. 76 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,900 Focus upon that concept of the son of the Living God, you know, 77 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:33,700 when we think a son we think Gov Offspring and of course Jesus Is 78 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:37,200 Not The Offspring of God. The father he was not a created 79 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:42,300 being in fact Colossians 1 tells us that all things were created 80 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,300 by Christ of course in his pre-incarnate state. 81 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,700 So what then is Jesus getting at when he says or Peter is getting 82 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:53,800 out when he says, you know, the Son of God. 83 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:57,100 Well, what is a son? Well, ass on his one who Bears 84 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:02,100 the likeness of his father, a son is Indeed one who Bears, the 85 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:06,400 similarities and character and nature of the father, you know, 86 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,400 in Africa and in other nations that I go to, we use Matthew 16 87 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,500 so many times because it is the go-to passage to demonstrate, 88 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:18,300 not only the authority of Jesus, but also to demonstrate the 89 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,800 promise of the church that Jesus was going to build. 90 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,500 And so it's a great passage to go to to demonstrate that Jesus 91 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:29,600 did not come to develop denominations, he came to start 92 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,000 or to begin. His church, he is the Builder of 93 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,600 his church, but one of the things we say over in Africa, is 94 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,200 we say, you know, we are white men work what they call Mizzou 95 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,000 goo. And that's a little bit of a 96 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,700 derogatory phrase, but it's used in jest. 97 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,100 And we'll say, you know, we are massugu. 98 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,900 And I'll say, I have a son in America and you already know 99 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:53,700 something about my son and they'll say, I've never met your 100 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:57,300 son and I'll say no, but, you know, something about it, first 101 00:05:57,300 --> 00:05:59,400 of all, you know that he's human. 102 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,100 Well me. Sometimes when he acts well but, 103 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:07,400 you know, he's human second of all, you know, that likely he is 104 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,400 a white boy. He is a massugu and also, you 105 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,200 understand that he has many of the same characteristics even 106 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,500 though you've never seen him. You can look at your child and 107 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:18,200 know that your children have your characteristics. 108 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:21,000 And so it's natural that he's going to have some of my 109 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,900 characteristics. Well I think this begins to hint 110 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:26,600 then at what Peter is, speaking of when he says you are the 111 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,300 Christ, the son of the Living God you know, This was dating. 112 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:35,100 That Jesus is not God. The father and God the father is 113 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,100 not God, the sun nor the Holy Spirit, but they all have 114 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:42,800 characteristics of similarity. They have the same stuff if you 115 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,900 will. So when Peter says, you are the 116 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:49,700 Christ, the son of the Living God, he is basically confessing 117 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:52,800 the deity. He's confessing the Heavenly 118 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,600 nature of Jesus. Now, that's very significant 119 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,500 because that was really the big question, who is Jesus, Who is 120 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:03,700 the Individual and of course, even today, in philosophical 121 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:07,600 question circles, the question is who is Jesus, who was he? 122 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,700 And this morning we talked about, you know, the various 123 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:12,600 opinions that you'll find on the street about philosopher and 124 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:16,300 enlightened one and teacher and all these are the things will 125 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:21,400 Peter Nails it when he says you have the same characteristics as 126 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,600 God you know, in John 14. Jesus says if you've seen me, 127 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,400 you've seen the father. You remember the apostles on 128 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,500 that occasion came to Jesus and they say Jesus show us the 129 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:35,200 father show us what God is like you know no man has ever seen 130 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,800 God. So show us God and Jesus says, 131 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,500 if you've seen me, you've seen God. 132 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,100 And of course that was again the thing that got Jesus into so 133 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:46,200 much trouble because he claimed to be equal with God. 134 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,800 Now I can talk a long time about this idea of sonship to because 135 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:53,800 today Sometimes some sonship carries, shall we say a 136 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,400 diminutive sort of position in the Jewish era, in the Jewish 137 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,500 times one son had the same Diaz's father. 138 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,200 In fact, you remember that Parable that Jesus gives about 139 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,300 the vineyard and the workers in the vineyard and it's time to 140 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:09,300 collect the goods from the vineyard. 141 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,600 And so he begins to send his servants, the owner does and 142 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,800 then pretty soon. All those servants are killed 143 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,000 and run off. And then he says, I've got one 144 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,100 more person that I'll send, I'm going to send my son and surely 145 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:26,500 they will reverence him. You see that son carried the 146 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,900 authority of the father. And so when Peter says you are 147 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:32,299 the Christ, the The son of the Living. 148 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:34,400 God not a dead. God not an idol. 149 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,900 Like there was all around them but living God, Peter is saying 150 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:42,100 you have the very characteristics and you have the 151 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:46,000 essence of deity. And so Jesus, then I think is 152 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 pleased with that because first of all Peter's, right? 153 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:52,400 But second of all, that's the very thing that Jesus was trying 154 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,100 to demonstrate and show the people his Apostles. 155 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:59,500 First of all, through his miracles, the Miracles were 156 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:03,100 designed to The word. They were not for his own 157 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:04,900 aggrandizement. They were not. 158 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:08,500 So he would be some great person that would get mega followings. 159 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:12,600 They were designed to prove and confirm the word. 160 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,800 And so, Peter understood, he had, obviously, got the picture 161 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,500 to some degree though, human, and the week, in many ways, 162 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,000 like, we are Peter understood the nature of God. 163 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,000 He had seen Jesus. And you know what? 164 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Well, this is an aside, and I want to get on through the 165 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 technical part of the study. But, you know, we can See God 166 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,600 tonight, through Jesus and we can see God tonight through, 167 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,100 Jesus Will, how do we do that through? 168 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:40,700 Jesus works, when we look at how Jesus interact with people when 169 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:44,100 we look at how Jesus spoke. When we see what Jesus stood 170 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:47,900 for, when we see what Jesus said, We Come Away with a 171 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:52,700 picture, a clear picture of God himself, and I think that's so 172 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:56,100 wonderful because the creator of the universe while he gives us 173 00:09:56,100 --> 00:10:00,200 so many, secondary ways to see him while he gives us General. 174 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,900 Mission. He gives us the clearest picture 175 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:08,700 specific Revelation in his word. So how does Jesus respond then 176 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:10,800 to this a confession that Peters made? 177 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,000 You are the Christ, the son of the Living. 178 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,800 God, your daddy will, you know, it's very important, how he 179 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,500 responds because Jesus says, blessed are you Simon bar-jonah. 180 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:25,700 Now, if you're using a more updated translation, if I need 181 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:29,400 something like, Simon son of John, that notice the contrast 182 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,600 their Of all Jesus says blessed, are you son of John? 183 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,200 Now, the word blessed there. By the way is the same word 184 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,300 that's found in. Matthew 5 verses 1 through 13 185 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:42,500 where the Beatitudes are given, you know, blessed are the poor 186 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:45,300 in spirit blessed are the meek blessed, are those who hunger 187 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:48,100 and thirst for righteousness. It's the same Greek word. 188 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,700 And so, when Jesus is pronouncing a blessing upon 189 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,900 Peter, he's really giving Peter a compliment, really a pat on 190 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:57,700 the back, but notice what he does, he's not putting day Peter 191 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,600 down now. But he says, Peter, you're 192 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,300 blessed by You are the son of John. 193 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:09,100 Now contrast that what Jesus was Peter had confessed Jesus as 194 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,000 deity. Jesus now. 195 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,700 Professes flying Peter as Humanity. 196 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:18,600 Now that's so important because you see, we are not gone, the 197 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,700 authority that we give and give and yield to rather comes from 198 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:26,000 God. We are not our own authority and 199 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,400 even though there are religions in the world, in fact, one major 200 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:33,600 religion that It is based out of Rome that looks to Peter as the 201 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,200 authority of the church. Nothing could be further from 202 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,400 the truth. Because Jesus, here, 203 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,300 acknowledges Peter acknowledges, the statement gives him Kudos if 204 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,600 you will, but he says, Peter, you are a human, you are 205 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,000 fallible. You are the son of John. 206 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,500 But now Jesus does make a play in the Greek upon his name. 207 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,500 You know, Jesus was, I think an individual who obviously knew 208 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:02,800 the language of his And sometimes could make plays on 209 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,800 words. In fact, sometimes, even when 210 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,400 you read the scriptures, there's a little bit of humor, you know, 211 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,500 sort of woven into the text. But I think this is one of those 212 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,400 times where really we have what we might call a play on words 213 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,100 are upon. I'm not a funny pain in the 214 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:20,800 sense of that we might make puns today but let's analyze this 215 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,700 because this is very important, you know, back home I have a lot 216 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:26,300 of friends who are Catholic and a lot of Grants do, look the 217 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:30,200 Peter as the first pope and the first Papa of the church, the 218 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,900 head. Of the church the foundation of 219 00:12:31,908 --> 00:12:34,400 the church. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I 220 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,900 was with Ronnie weighed over in Rome and we toured the bag gun 221 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,800 and we even saw the pope, he came by his little poeple, Bill 222 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:43,900 and he went up and down the island. 223 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:47,000 We were from here to Terry from him, it almost reach out and 224 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 almost feel the blessing and I'm not making fun of that, my 225 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,600 right? My friends in in, you know, in 226 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,700 Kansas City, who many of whom are Catholic? 227 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,700 You know, I respect them, they were great people, but they look 228 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:04,000 to the pope as as, you know, the final of order and the kind is 229 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 that Peter, was that Authority, because the claim is that Jesus 230 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,300 placed upon Peter, the church, and built upon Peter on this 231 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:16,400 rock Peter, the Great institution of the church. 232 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,800 Well, he's that the truth. Well, again, there is from the 233 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,200 beginning. The contrast Jesus is deity of 234 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:28,200 Jesus, is the son of God, but Peter is Humanity now with Jesus 235 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:33,200 build his church. Would Jesus build his kingdom on 236 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,400 Humanity? I don't think so because the 237 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:41,200 entire history of humanity is really a pretty disappointing 238 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,900 history from time immemorial all the way back to the Garden of 239 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:47,300 Eden. God would set something straight 240 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,500 and man wouldn't mess it up right on back to the Garden of 241 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:52,900 Eden. So I think already we're seeing 242 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:55,900 a bit of a problem. If we say that, you know, Peter 243 00:13:55,900 --> 00:14:00,000 is going to be as human the head of a spiritual body. 244 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,200 The one that Jesus would die for it. 245 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:05,100 Secondarily, of course, Peter did not die for the church. 246 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:07,400 Did he Christ died for the church? 247 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,300 So what then is, does this next section me when Pete? 248 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:15,400 And when Jesus says, blessed, are you Simon son of John flesh 249 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,600 and blood has not revealed this to you. 250 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,800 But my father who is in heaven and then he said, and I say unto 251 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,400 you that you are Peter and Upon This Rock, I will build my 252 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,800 church. May, you know, Jesus, here 253 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,100 speaks of Peter and he speaks of raw. 254 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:32,200 Now obviously. Is going to build his church on 255 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,500 some, you know, Carrie. I were talking earlier in the 256 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:38,100 week yesterday or today. I can't remember about 257 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:42,900 foundations foundations are so incredibly important digging 258 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:46,700 down and having a foundation. And obviously the best 259 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:49,800 foundation, this seems to me would be on bedrock. 260 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,100 In fact, you have you 7 Jesus taught about the man who built 261 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,600 on the sand versus the man who built on the Rock and of course 262 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,100 the illustration there is. Are you going to build Upon 263 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:01,100 Jesus words? And Are you going to do them or 264 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:03,700 not? But the point is is that any 265 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:06,800 structure that's going to stand the test of time? 266 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,500 Has to be built on something solid? 267 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:14,300 Well, Jesus here says you know Peter you have confessed me as 268 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:17,900 the Son of God. He says I am going to build my 269 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:21,900 church upon that rock. Now, you know, when we look at 270 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:25,200 the name of pu, the thing that confuses folks, sometimes is 271 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:32,600 that Peters name does me rock pet, Ross, it's Now, and it 272 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,000 means I Stone know. When Jesus says Peter, you are a 273 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,600 rock, a stone, A Little Rock. If you will, he's not putting 274 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,800 Peter down Peter and D would have his ups and downs but Peter 275 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,100 was going to be a great spokesperson. 276 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:50,700 Would he not for the church? In fact, in Acts chapter 2, 277 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:53,900 Peter is going to be the one who delivers the main sermon on the 278 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:56,600 day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter 10, he's going 279 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,600 to be the one who takes the gospel to the Gentiles and House 280 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,600 of Cards. He has for the first time. 281 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,700 So when Jesus says, blessed are you Simon Peter or he says you 282 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:10,200 are Peter or you're a little rock, he's not putting him down, 283 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:14,500 but he's laying in a contrast. He says, Peter, you are a little 284 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:16,700 raw, but then he changes the word. 285 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,100 And he says, and Upon This Rock. And now he changes it from 286 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,700 Tetris, which is a, again, a masculine noun, which means a 287 00:16:24,708 --> 00:16:29,800 little Stone to the word petrol. Petrol is a feminine noun. 288 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,000 And it is something that means a huge, massive outcropping, a 289 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,900 Bedrock if you will. So indeed there's two different 290 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,400 words. There's two different concepts 291 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,900 being woven together there in a pond. 292 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:47,200 Yes, there's a play upon Petros and Petra but Jesus is not 293 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,200 saying, I'm going to build my church upon you Peter. 294 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:55,200 He say I'm going to build it on something much more substantial 295 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,900 than a human being much more strong than a son of John. 296 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:03,300 I'm I'm going to build it on the fact that I am the Son of God. 297 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,300 You see, the idea of petrol there. 298 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:09,599 The rock, the Bedrock, surely must at least, in some way, go 299 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,099 back to that confession, that Peter made. 300 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:14,700 So Jesus is going to build his church. 301 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:16,200 What? Upon Peter upon a man. 302 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,599 No. Upon the fact upon that Bedrock, 303 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,800 true, that massive outcropping that would never be destroyed 304 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,500 that he was the son of God. Now, that's significant because 305 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,800 if Jesus Built his church on anything else and if Jesus is 306 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,900 not the Son of God. Then the church is no different 307 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:38,700 than any other organization, if the church is not built upon 308 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:42,800 Jesus, if it does not go back to his word as the authority. 309 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:46,600 If it does not look to him for the practices and the things in 310 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,300 the church, then it is no different than a man-made 311 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:52,500 institution. And of course, we know that the 312 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:57,400 church prophesied from old old was to be something that God 313 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,200 brought to this world. It was to be a divine Fine 314 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,400 institution, it was planned in the mind of God. 315 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,100 Jesus came and died for the church. 316 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,500 He gave his body and blood for the church. 317 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,000 Surely it is built on something founded upon something more 318 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,200 substantial. And more sure than simply a 319 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,400 human like Peter or any human, no matter how perfect he might 320 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,400 seem to be rather than upon the truth of God's son Jesus Christ. 321 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,300 So, when Jesus says, I will Build my church, he's looking in 322 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:35,400 the future, you know, at this point in time, Jesus had not 323 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,000 built his church. Jesus had not directed his his 324 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,200 church, or his called out people. 325 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,100 The word church comes from a Greek word. 326 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:47,100 That means the call-out and initially the word church or 327 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:49,000 ecstasy. As we sometimes, call it in 328 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,700 English was in reference to a political body or citizens, who 329 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,800 would be called out of their homes for a political purpose. 330 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,000 But, of course, when we think of it, spiritually it is. 331 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:03,200 Indeed, that we are called into our from our homes into assembly 332 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,300 and we can use the word Church in that way. 333 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:08,600 But it's the idea, I think spiritually, speaking of those 334 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,200 who have been called out of sin, you know, we are called by the 335 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,600 gospel. We are called by the message 336 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,500 that touches our heart about Jesus Christ dying for our sins 337 00:19:17,508 --> 00:19:21,300 and were called out of the world of sin and were brought into the 338 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:26,300 Glorious sunlight of God's son Jesus Christ through the gospel. 339 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:29,400 If you obedience to the gospel, when we are baptized for the 340 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,600 remission of our sins. We become part of that church. 341 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,000 That is so evident in the New Testament on the day of 342 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,300 Pentecost. When Peter again, preached and 343 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,600 they cried out men and Brethren. What shall we do? 344 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,600 He said, repent and be baptized every one of you. 345 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,600 In the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and then 346 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:51,900 in Acts 2:47, it says that the Lord added to the church daily, 347 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:54,900 those that were being saved. How will it being saved through 348 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:57,500 baptism? There will be saved by a change 349 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,900 of life by repentance and by baptism. 350 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:01,400 Mmm. And then what they do after 351 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,400 that, we'll Acts 2:42 says they continued steadfastly in the 352 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,400 apostles Doctrine. Have you been inspired by the 353 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,300 Holy Spirit, the apostles, then begin to lay down those 354 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:14,700 doctrinal truths, that came from Heaven itself. 355 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:18,000 And so, you see, when we're talking about the church, when 356 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,300 we're talking about the foundational premise of what 357 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:23,500 God's institution was built upon. 358 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:27,600 Surely undoubtedly. He is not saying that he's going 359 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,900 to build this on a man. Every human institution has its 360 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,500 oils. It has its Achilles heel. 361 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:39,700 Every Human Institution will come and go, no Human 362 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:42,500 Institution, whether it be a country or whether it be a 363 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,100 business will ultimately stand forever, but the kingdom of God 364 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,100 will stand forever. It is an eternal Kingdom. 365 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:55,900 It is a kingdom that was again prophesied and made in God's 366 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:59,900 mind and then brought to the World by His prophets. 367 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:03,000 It's and ultimately by his son Jesus Christ. 368 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,200 And so then Jesus says blessed are you? 369 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,800 You are a rock, your your small rock, but I'm going to build my 370 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,400 church on this massive outcropping of rock. 371 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,200 This confession that I am the Son of God. 372 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:19,700 And then he says, I'll build my church and even the gates of 373 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:21,800 Hades will not Prevail against it. 374 00:21:21,808 --> 00:21:25,000 Now if you're using the Old King James version which is fine, it 375 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,400 has some little quirks about it, he uses the word hell, it says 376 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,200 the game. Of Hell will not Prevail against 377 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,700 it. And of course, when we think of 378 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:37,300 hell, we think of damnation, we think a fire-and-brimstone we 379 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,800 think of, you know, those passages of Eternal punishment. 380 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:44,800 But the word here in the Greek is not hell as we think of it is 381 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:50,400 80s and the hadean realm or the word Hades refers to weird the 382 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,500 dead, go after they die, the hadean realm. 383 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:57,900 And of course, if you look at Luke 16 and this is quite 384 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,400 another study, but you'll find of course that Hadean realm in 385 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,600 that picture of the rich man and Lazarus divided into paradise 386 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:09,600 and then torment will Jesus says, you know, I'm going to 387 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,600 build my church and even the gates of the hadean realm will 388 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,100 not Prevail against it. I watched Jesus talking about, 389 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,600 you see what Jesus is doing here is he's really predicting his 390 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,000 resurrection. He's predicting his death, his 391 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,100 burial and his resurrection because you see just in a few 392 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:33,300 short months, Jesus is going to make that long Trek from up 393 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:38,300 there and Galilee down the road up the road to Calvary and there 394 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:42,000 he's going to give his life. He's going to shed his blood for 395 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,100 me and you and then he's going to go down and that hadean realm 396 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:49,900 as he is buried in the Tomb for three days and three nights. 397 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:55,600 But on the third day, Jesus is going to come forth, he's going 398 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,900 to come out of that. Part of the Dead, the paradise, 399 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:02,500 he had promised the thief Thief that he would be with him in and 400 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:07,100 he's going to come forth and he is going to be victorious over 401 00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:11,400 the very thing that Satan I think has the dearest hold of 402 00:23:11,408 --> 00:23:14,100 and that is death. You know, when we think of death 403 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,500 we can't think of death of how Satan thinking of Satan you go 404 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,300 all the way back to the Garden of Eden and of course who was it 405 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,500 that initially brought death, Satan cry. 406 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:26,100 Our God gave life to Adam and Eve. 407 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,800 He gave them not only in life but he gave them the ability to 408 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,400 have eternal life. He put the tree of life in the 409 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,000 garden and they could have had they not said it would seem 410 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,300 lived there forever, but Satan came and Satan brought death, 411 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,100 you know, God had warned them. He said listen, don't even eat 412 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:49,100 of the forbidden fruit because in that day dying, you shall 413 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:52,700 die, or you will die. You see, death is the product. 414 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,200 It is the friend of Satan. You see? 415 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,600 I believe that Satan, no doubt through his hardest, Arsenal at 416 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,100 Jesus. Has he crucified him on a cross 417 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,800 and he thought no doubt that he had Jesus subdued. 418 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,300 But God had other plans on the third day, Jesus arose. 419 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:15,500 And so when Jesus says here, even the gates of the hadean 420 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:17,500 realm will not Prevail against it. 421 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:20,800 I think he's talking about his resurrection, you know, this 422 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,200 idea of the gate is sort of interesting, and I don't want to 423 00:24:23,208 --> 00:24:26,100 make too much of it because I think sometimes we can draw from 424 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:29,600 other passages in the scripture in the Old Testament parallels. 425 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:33,900 And We can stretch the analogy, but when you think of a gate, 426 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:36,900 what do you think of when you go back to the Old Testament? 427 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:39,000 The gate was everything in the city. 428 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,200 Now sure. They had walls it had great 429 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,200 parapets upon the edge of their walls where they could send 430 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,100 their archers out to fight, but the gate was really the main 431 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:53,900 thing you had to protect the gate and when the gate again was 432 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:57,200 broken down that's when the enemy encroached. 433 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,400 But there's another picture too and that is In a city sent out 434 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,600 an army, it sent it out from the gate. 435 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,500 In other words, the gate demonstrated, not only 436 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:11,200 protection, but it demonstrated a freedom as well. 437 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,800 Jesus says, listen, the gates of Hades that which would lock me 438 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,700 in Forever in death will not Prevail against my plan. 439 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,900 You see Satan and his armies. If you will, we can picture this 440 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:30,000 way, could not enter into that great. 441 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,600 Death and keep Jesus there. Now I realize we're taking some 442 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,600 license with our description tonight because we don't really 443 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,200 know all what it's about and what it looks like. 444 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,900 But nonetheless, Jesus could not be held in Haiti's, in fact, on 445 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,800 the day of Pentecost, when Peter stood up in Acts, chapter 2 and 446 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,900 begin to preach, he goes to the very idea that Jesus was not 447 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:55,300 left in Hades. Neither did his flesh. 448 00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:59,900 See corruption, you see? Jesus came forth, powerful. 449 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:04,200 Out of that hadean realm that Jesus had raised others from the 450 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,400 dead such as Lazarus but they were going to die again. 451 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,000 But Jesus came forth. As the first fruits, Paul tells 452 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,400 us in First Corinthians 15 of those that slept Jesus rose to 453 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,900 never die again. And so he sits now, eternally 454 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,300 Forever at the right hand of the Throne of God, his work is 455 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:24,000 finished. In fact, he is sitting down. 456 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,000 He will never die and isn't a wonderful blessing tonight to 457 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,400 know that our savior, the one Promised to build his church 458 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,900 will never die. His organization will never die. 459 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,200 You know, once in a while when I talk about church history, 460 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,300 people say well you do you think the church you know, maybe died 461 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:42,700 out somewhere in the Middle Ages or in the Dark Ages? 462 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:44,900 No. Now I don't know exactly where 463 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:47,100 the church went. Maybe it went underground, some 464 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:49,400 people believe that it was always an existence through the 465 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,700 seed principle that very well may be. 466 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:55,300 But the point is, is that the kingdom that Christ established 467 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:59,900 was an eternal Kingdom, Death would never Prevail against it. 468 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,100 Time would never Prevail against it. 469 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,100 History would never Prevail against it as long as there are 470 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,200 people today who are willing to give their hearts and Minds 471 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,900 Jesus. Because that's the, that's the 472 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,500 territory really, you know, a kingdom. 473 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:15,800 And I'm getting now into another subject, but the kingdom really 474 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,000 isn't reality. Composed of four things. 475 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:22,000 It has to have a king. It has subjects. 476 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,600 It has to have a territory and it has to have a wall. 477 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,500 You know, the territory of Christ's kingdom is our heart. 478 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,800 And as long as there are People who are willing and humble 479 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,200 submission to give their lives to Jesus Christ. 480 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,600 Like Peter was the affordable. And though, in in time made many 481 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,300 mistakes, the kingdom is secure. And I believe that God will 482 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,400 never allow a time while this earth goes on for the kingdom to 483 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,400 die. Well, let's go on very quickly 484 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,600 because Jesus says, I will then give you the Keys of the 485 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,300 Kingdom. Now, we've already talked about 486 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:57,600 gays, and I guess this leads into the next thought, but what 487 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,900 do keys do? Now, Jesus is going. 488 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,500 To give Peter the Keys of the Kingdom. 489 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,300 You know, when you're in Rome, by the way, you wander around 490 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:10,100 and you look at the opulent wealth of the organization that 491 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:11,900 builds the Vatican and of course st. 492 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,400 Peter's Basilica, and all the other great churches. 493 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,900 They're beautiful by man standards but almost every time 494 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:22,300 in fact I suppose every time you see a statue of Peter he has 495 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:25,600 keys in his hand. Now of course, was Jesus saying. 496 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,200 Peter I'm going to give you some physical Keys now. 497 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,900 Of course date. Trey the keys and Peter's heads, 498 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:35,900 because they believe that Peter is the Divine Authority from 499 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:39,100 from God. They believe, he is the vicar on 500 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:42,700 Earth or the one that is God. Spokesperson know Jesus, is 501 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:45,100 that. But what are these keys that 502 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,200 Jesus speaks of, I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom. 503 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,100 We know really, when you think about it keys, do two things, 504 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:58,000 you know, when I go home, I unlock the door keys, allow 505 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,100 interest, but then, of course, of course, if I'm inside, I can 506 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:08,400 lock the door to the same key. So Keys either allow or prohibit 507 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,600 interests, but I think in this case, the context, and as we 508 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,500 know of Peter, I think he is role in the church, is going to 509 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,700 be one of unlocking. In other words, Jesus is going 510 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:25,600 to give Peter a primal roll. A basic role that yes, a primary 511 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,700 role in the unlocking of the Kingdom. 512 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,500 That's not that Jesus is giving Peter a greater position 513 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,800 necessarily the church. In fact, the other Apostles had 514 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,900 the same keys. In fact, we have the key today. 515 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,800 The scripture that unlocks, The Plan of Salvation, but it was 516 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,500 Peter who physically and very verbally would stand up 517 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:52,100 literally on the day of Pentecost and preach and what 518 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:56,600 happened as Peter took that chi chi of the Gospel, the key to 519 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,900 the mysteries of Heaven, the Paul would later. 520 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,600 Speak up in Ephesians 4, as he took the key, and he unlocked 521 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,100 the door to the church. People porting 3,000 were 522 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:11,100 baptized on that day. And from that point on this 523 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:14,700 church began to spread that you know, just geometrically or 524 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:19,300 exponentially I suppose and it was a wonderful time in the 525 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,800 opening of The Doors of the Kingdom. 526 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,000 Well, you know, Peter had that job not only next to, but as I 527 00:30:25,008 --> 00:30:28,700 mentioned, a moment ago in Acts 10 and acts 10, he receives the 528 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:33,500 call to go down to the Gentiles. The Gentiles, of course, at this 529 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,900 point, we're not part of that church. 530 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,400 That Jesus was establishing, they were outcasts. 531 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,800 They weren't even part of God's people in the Old Testament. 532 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,200 They were the ones who were the ones out there in the, in the, 533 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,300 in the darkness of sin. But now, through the gospel, 534 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,100 Peter goes and he preaches. And the household of Cornelius 535 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:56,200 is converted and from there on, as you read the book of Acts, 536 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,800 you'll find others like Paul making the missionary Journeys 537 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,500 that open up the gospel to even us today. 538 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:06,700 And, you know, I'm glad to have because I dare say that most of 539 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:08,500 us in this audience are Gentiles. 540 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,900 We don't trace our lineage back to Abraham. 541 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:15,500 We don't trace our lineage back to the physical lineage of 542 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:16,500 Abraham. Isaac. 543 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,600 Jacob and the nation of Israel. We are Gentiles and We threw the 544 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,400 Keys of the Kingdom. The gospel have been allowed to 545 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,200 enter in and be part of that relationship with the Son of God 546 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,700 with deity and be part of that institution. 547 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:36,300 That Jesus says, I will build on the truth that I am the Son of 548 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:40,000 God and that is a wonderful thought tonight. 549 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,500 Well, he says, I will give you the keys of the kingdom and he 550 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,600 says, whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven and 551 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,400 whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven. 552 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,900 Another way that this could be translated is whatever you bind 553 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:58,500 on Earth will have already been bound in heaven and whatever you 554 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:03,200 loose on Earth or allow on Earth or disallow on Earth will have 555 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,300 already been in heaven. The point here is though is that 556 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,800 Jesus is not telling Peter, you can make up your own rules. 557 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:15,200 He's not giving Peter the right to speak by inspiration ex 558 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,800 cathedra just because but rather he is saying Peter Listen, you 559 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,900 are going to teach what heaven reveals what has already been 560 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:26,400 decided in heaven. How do we know that? 561 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,700 Well, of course, all you have to do is go and look at Jesus 562 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:31,300 Promised. You remember, right before? 563 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,400 Jesus went back to heaven in John, 14 15 and 16. 564 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,000 Jesus told the apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit and 565 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,500 the Holy Spirit would guide them into all truth. 566 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:45,200 Bring all things to their remembrance and of course allow 567 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,300 them to use the keys of the Gospel in a way that would bring 568 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,700 others. Sirs to Salvation and what they 569 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,500 taught began. Then to be that which the church 570 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:59,600 follow and continued to follow. And today, the true church 571 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,100 continues to follow that today, that's the reason. 572 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:05,900 Again, the passage I noted, a moment ago, you'll hear me, 573 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,700 coming. Back to this passage numerous 574 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:13,500 times Acts 2:42, they continued steadfastly in the apostles 575 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:17,400 Doctrine and of course it is. The apostles doctrine, that was 576 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,900 inspired literally. By the one who built his church 577 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,200 upon the fact that he is the Son of God. 578 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:28,400 And so while there are so many other things and so many other 579 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,500 nuances and so many other little rabbit Trails, we might look to 580 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,700 look at in this great passage in Matthew 16. 581 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,300 Basically, what we have is we have Jesus graduating, his 582 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:41,100 Apostles. Now, it's going to get tough 583 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,100 after this. He's going to send them out. 584 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:47,900 Literally to some, some of them to die for the cause, but he 585 00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:49,400 brings them to caesarea Philippi. 586 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,700 Why they confess that he is the Christ, the son of the Living 587 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:58,600 God, they then are commissioned as later on to go into all the 588 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,100 world with that knowledge that it is the authority of Jesus. 589 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,400 The kingship Authority that his church will be founded upon 590 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000 well, those are the thoughts this evening and again, we're so 591 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,300 privileged to be part of the Lord's Kingdom. 592 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:16,500 The church tonight. Well, how do we get into the 593 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,500 church? How do we become a part of that? 594 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,000 Called out body that the New Testament speaks of and that 595 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,600 Jesus promised to build. Well, how do we do that? 596 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:30,600 We obey the gospel. We do what they did on the day 597 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,800 of Pentecost, you know, on the day of Pentecost, they heard the 598 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,000 gospel, didn't they? Peter preached. 599 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,699 In fact, he told them that they with Wicked hands have crucified 600 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,000 the Lord Of Glory. They heard the gospel, they 601 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,199 believed the gospel, they believe the message about how 602 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,800 Jesus had not been left in the hadean realm. 603 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:53,199 How he Add rows over all obstacles. 604 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,800 They repented of their sins. We know that because they cried 605 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,400 out. And of course they were willing 606 00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:01,600 to be baptized for the remission of their sins. 607 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,400 You see it's in the waters of baptism that we have our sins 608 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,600 washed away, you know, Peter says it's not the putting the 609 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,800 way of the dirt of our bodies or the filth of the flesh, but it's 610 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,200 the answer of a good conscience. Before God as we in faith, step 611 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,900 out, actively and obey. God in Salvation, in baptism. 612 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,100 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 613 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:31,800 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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