1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,400 It's wonderful to be here today. And to be assembled in this 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,500 place to be gathered with each and every one of you and to be 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:13,700 able to be your speaker as many of, you know, about 11 years 4 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,600 ago. Liz and I left Bakersfield after 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,100 having lived here for a number of years, to move to Missouri, 6 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:25,300 and it's hard to believe that was 11 years ago, and then about 7 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:27,600 two years ago. So, after being in Missouri for 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,100 nine years, my family and I packed up Our life. 9 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:36,600 And we moved overseas to do work in Malaysia, in Southeast Asia. 10 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,400 And over the course of about six months. 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,300 After we had been in Malaysia, we took a short trip. 12 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:46,900 What was supposed to be two weeks to Australia to visit some 13 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:51,200 Christians in that area and then covid happened and we got stuck 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,800 the borders of Malaysia closed the borders of Australia closed. 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,600 And we spent the next year and a half in Australia, just trying 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,500 to wait things out to get back. Malaysia. 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,300 Unfortunately we were not able to do that but after being 18 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:09,600 overseas for two years, we decided it was time for us to 19 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,500 come back to America and in fact come back to California. 20 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,600 And so after being out of the state for 11 years, we're very 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,800 excited that we're moving back and just up the road in the 22 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,300 Fresno area to work with the church in Clovis. 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,700 So you all will likely see a little more of us than you have 24 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:30,100 been over the last 11 years since we'll be just a few. 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,300 Hours up the road. I invite you to turn to Psalm 72 26 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:39,500 this morning and we're going to read the entirety of that Psalm 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:45,100 to introduce our study. A Psalm. 72 is unique in the 28 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,500 psalter, which is the collection of 150. 29 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:52,700 Psalms that we have in the Old Testament portion of our Bible 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,600 because Psalm 72 is the only Psalm ascribed to King Solomon. 31 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:05,100 And Solomon wrote this Psalm to talk about a time when God's 32 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:07,900 special king would take the throne. 33 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,700 So let's read Psalm 72 and then we will go to God In Prayer 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,300 verse 1. Give the king your judgments o 35 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:19,300 God and your righteousness to the King's son. 36 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:23,500 He will judge your people with righteousness and your poor with 37 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,200 Justice. The mountains will bring peace 38 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,700 to the people and the little Hills by righteousness He will 39 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:31,700 bring Justice to the poor of the people. 40 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,800 He will save the children of the needy and he will break in 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,900 pieces. The oppressor they shall fear 42 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:41,000 you as long as the sun and moon and door throughout all 43 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,800 generations. He shall come down like rain 44 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,900 upon the grass before mowing like showers that water the 45 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:50,500 Earth in his days, the righteous shall flourish and abundance of 46 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:55,000 peace until the Moon is no more, he shall have dominion also from 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,900 sea to Sea and from the river to the ends of the Earth. 48 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,600 Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before him 49 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,500 and his enemies will, lick the dust the kings of tarshish, and 50 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:10,300 of the Isles will bring presents the kings of Sheba and seba will 51 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:13,700 offer gifts. Yes, all Kings, shall fall down 52 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:18,900 before him all nations. Shall Serve him for, he will 53 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:22,300 deliver the needy. When he cries the poor also and 54 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:26,400 him who has no helper, he will spare the poor and needy and 55 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,100 we'll save the souls of the needy. 56 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:30,100 He will redeem. Their I'm from oppression and 57 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,700 violence and precious shall be there blood in his sight and he 58 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:38,600 shall live and the gold of Sheba will be given to him prayer. 59 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,900 Also will be made for him continually and daily. 60 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,500 He shall be praised, there will be an abundance of grain and the 61 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:49,300 Earth on the top of the mountains, its fruit shall wave 62 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:51,800 like Lebanon. And those in the city shall 63 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,400 flourish like grass of the earth, his name shall endure 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,100 forever. His name shall continue as long 65 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:04,900 as the sun and Men shall call him blessed and be blessed in 66 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:07,600 him. All nations shall call him 67 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,000 blessed blessed, be the Lord, God the god of Israel who only 68 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,900 does wondrous things and blessed. 69 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:18,500 Be his glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be 70 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:21,200 filled with his glory. Amen. 71 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:23,700 And amen. The prayers of David. 72 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:27,300 The son of Jesse are ended this morning. 73 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:32,900 I want to talk to you about The four pillars of the Gospel, but 74 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:35,200 before we study, let's pray at this time. 75 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:41,500 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth on the 76 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:45,000 earth, God planted a Paradise Garden called Eden. 77 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:50,300 And in Eden God plays His Image bearers, man and woman. 78 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,100 God gave Adam and Eve the charge to be fruitful to fill the Earth 79 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,700 and subdue it to the honor and glory of God. 80 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,900 That is Adam and Eve were tasked with taking what they had in 81 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:05,300 Eden. A place of perfect union and 82 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,900 ship with God and covering the entire Globe to make more image 83 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:15,000 bearers, who knew the Lord and worship and honored him as their 84 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,500 creator, Until the Whole Earth was filled with a knowledge and 85 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:24,000 glory of God in Eden. Adam and Eve were sort of like 86 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,700 Royal priest. They were Royal because they 87 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:29,500 were given Authority and dominion over the Earth, and 88 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,500 they were priests, because they ministered in God's holy 89 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:36,800 presence, serving him and worshipping him as the Says, God 90 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,400 would walk in the garden. So God placed his image bearers 91 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,800 in the garden. He gave them their charge their 92 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:48,100 mission and then everything was ruined When sin entered the 93 00:05:48,108 --> 00:05:51,200 world. Instead of accepting God's rule, 94 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,600 Adam and Eve decided that they wanted to be their own Gods. 95 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,700 They wanted to elevate themselves to decide for 96 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:59,500 themselves. What was right and wrong, good 97 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,700 and evil to make their own decisions and to reject the 98 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:07,400 authority of God and they did this They ate of the tree of the 99 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:12,100 knowledge of Good and Evil, but from that moment onward, When 100 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:16,200 sin and death entered, the world, when Adam and Eve became 101 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:20,900 separated from their Creator, God began to work began to work 102 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:25,600 out a rescue plan, a plan to bring his creation. 103 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,900 His Image bearers back into his holy presence, a plan to enable 104 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,500 the image bearers to do the mission. 105 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:39,700 They were created to do a To undo all of the consequences of 106 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:44,100 sin in the world. So God began to really work out 107 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,800 this plan when it called a man by the name of Abraham and 108 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,700 Abraham was a man of tremendous Faith. 109 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:52,300 He wasn't perfect or sinless, not at all. 110 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,500 But he was a man who was always loyal to God. 111 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,000 So God, made promises to Abraham, he said I'm going to 112 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:02,500 give you a great nation. I'm going to give your people 113 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:05,600 your descendants, a land of good land, a land that flows with 114 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:06,700 milk. Milk and honey. 115 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:12,100 And through you Abraham, all the families of the earth will be 116 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:16,400 blessed, God, continue to work with Abraham and his offspring 117 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,300 as human Partners. Until finally, a few Generations 118 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:25,200 later, Abraham's children ended up in Egypt and in Egypt, they 119 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,500 became slaves. They were in terrible bondage. 120 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:31,900 They were oppressed and sorely burdened by their Egyptian 121 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:34,400 overlords. So God raised up the deliverer 122 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,700 Moses and God Sent the plagues on the land of Egypt, Moses 123 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:41,800 shepherded the people out, he brought them safely across the 124 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,800 Red Sea. He took them all the way to 125 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Mount Sinai and at Mount Sinai God appeared the presence of God 126 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,200 had been lost since even but now on the mountain in the smoke and 127 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,200 thunder and lightning and billowing fire, god appeared, 128 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:00,500 they told those people the Covenant watch what he said. 129 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,000 I will be your God and you will be my people. 130 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:09,100 He gave them the law, he gave them the blueprint for the 131 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:12,700 Tabernacle, which was sort of a mobile Eden. 132 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,400 It was a place of Sacred Space where God could come down and 133 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,800 dwell among his people and they could enjoy his presence and 134 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,900 worship and honor him God. Eventually led the Israelites 135 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:27,800 all the way into the land of Canaan that good land. 136 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,600 He had promised to Abraham centuries earlier. 137 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:35,200 And in the land, god set them up and told them if you follow me, 138 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,799 if your faith Folk to the Covenant that I have given you 139 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:40,299 everything would be good. You'll have rest, you'll have 140 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:43,900 peace safety from your enemies, abundance in the land, but of 141 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:47,400 course sin. Once again, got in the way and 142 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,000 the people, cyclically and generationally rebelled against 143 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 the Lord. Finally, God decided to raise up 144 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,600 a Prophet by the name of Samuel and he told Samuel, I want you 145 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,600 to go out and I want you to revive genuine religion, in the 146 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,600 land of Samuel did that. But when Sammy was old, the 147 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,900 people rejected his Leadership and the leadership of his sons 148 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,900 and they cried out to God, they said we want a king like all the 149 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:15,200 nations around us. And you know what, God gave them 150 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,000 exactly what they wanted. He gave them King Saul, who 151 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,700 started out, pretty, okay, but eventually rebelled against the 152 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:27,400 Lord and led the nation into chaos and ruin the Philistines, 153 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,500 invaded everything was going. Terribly Saul died on the 154 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:33,500 battlefield. And God said, okay, enough of 155 00:09:33,508 --> 00:09:35,300 that. We're going to do it my way now. 156 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,400 And he raised up another king, a king who was after his own 157 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,600 heart. The shepherd boy, turned Giant 158 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,400 Slayer, King, David now, David was like, Abraham. 159 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,000 He was not perfect or send this David David could be cruel and 160 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 violent. He was an adulterer, but he was 161 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,300 always loyal to God. He never abandoned the Lord. 162 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,400 He never worshipped idols. And so just like with Abraham 163 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,900 all those years before God made some promises to David. 164 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:09,000 He said one day Day one of your descendants is going to sit on 165 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,400 the Eternal throne and he's going to rule over an 166 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:17,900 everlasting Kingdom, David died and looked like maybe Solomon. 167 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:20,600 Was that son? That God had promised but no, no 168 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,800 wasn't Solomon. Solomon allowed idolatry into 169 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,800 the land into the holy city of David on Mount Zion and so 170 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,900 because of that God divided the kingdom into the davidic dynasty 171 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:35,300 continued to rule in Judah in the South, but a north in the 172 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:38,200 North No dividend King rained in Israel. 173 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,500 Now, the two Nations had a few times where things were going, 174 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:44,600 okay? But most of the time the two 175 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,700 kingdoms of Israel and Judah basically went further and 176 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:51,400 further away from God, and during this time, God didn't 177 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,600 abandon his people. He never gave up on them. 178 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:56,000 He decided to send them prophets. 179 00:10:56,500 --> 00:11:00,000 And these prophets would come, and they would announce God's 180 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,200 judgment upon the land. They would call the people to 181 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,600 repentance try to bring them back to Fidel. 182 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:08,500 Leti to the Covenant. But most importantly, the 183 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,700 prophets were announcing that God was not done in the world. 184 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:16,300 There was still an ancient rescue plan that God initiated 185 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,800 after the fall and he was still working that out. 186 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,800 God was still going to bring about a great restoration to 187 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,600 Israel and a deliverer and the hope of true salvation and 188 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,500 genuine forgiveness of sins. This prophetic message of Hope 189 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:35,500 begin to wrap around a figure. The prophets called the Messiah 190 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,600 and the Messiah was God's anointed God's chosen, the one 191 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,000 that God would send into the world to accomplish the rescue 192 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,000 plan, that he had promised way back to Abraham and even before 193 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:53,600 Now, eventually the Israelites went to Babylon and they spent 194 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,700 70 years in captivity. The Hope never died profits. 195 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:03,000 Like Daniel continued to announce that God was still at 196 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,400 work in the world and the kingdom. 197 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,400 The great Kingdom of justice and righteousness was coming. 198 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,300 It was an eternal Kingdom, and all the nations would be 199 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:17,000 subservient to this Kingdom. The Israelites came back from 200 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,700 Babylon, they returned to Jerusalem. 201 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,900 They rebuilt the temple. They re fortified the city, and 202 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:26,000 for a little while, things seem to be going. 203 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,600 Okay? Until some serious 204 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,000 disappointment set. In see when they built this 205 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,200 Temple. God didn't show up. 206 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,700 Oh, when they built the Tabernacle in the days of Moses 207 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:40,800 and when Solomon built the first temple as soon as it was 208 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,700 inaugurated and consecrated, the cloud came down and the presence 209 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:47,400 of the Lord. Build those holy places, but not 210 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,400 so with this new Temple and worse than that, the Israelites 211 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,200 were still being ruled by foreigners by heathens by 212 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,800 idolaters, there was no rien Throne moment of a davidic king 213 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,400 after their return from Babylon. So the people understood that 214 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:10,400 God wasn't done, there was still something amazing that God was 215 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,100 going to bring about. And so, they were waiting and 216 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:15,400 this Hope was building and the anticipation. 217 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,600 Building until finally. According to the Apostle Paul in 218 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,900 Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5 at just the right time. 219 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:28,500 God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to 220 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:31,700 redeem those who were under the law. 221 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:38,200 And when Jesus came for the first time, the gospel was 222 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,100 proclaimed. Now, if I was to ask you this 223 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:44,200 little question right here, what is the gospel? 224 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:45,800 How would you answer? Sir. 225 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,600 How would you answer? I think many of us might turn to 226 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,700 a passage like this one. In First Corinthians 15 verses 3 227 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:56,700 through 5, where the Apostle Paul were hearses. 228 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:00,400 The sort of bare bones of the Gospel that he had preached, 229 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,500 what he spent a year and a half establishing the congregation in 230 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:06,700 Corinth. In this passage Paul says that 231 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:10,200 the gospel is the death, burial and resurrection. 232 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,700 And we usually stop at verse 4 with Resurrection, but actually 233 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:16,000 the sentence finishes in verse 5. 234 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:18,600 So it's actually the death burial, resurrection, and 235 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,900 appearances of Jesus regarding the death and resurrection of 236 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,000 Jesus. Paul says that these things 237 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,500 happen, according to the scriptures that is according to 238 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,400 the old scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures, the Old Testament. 239 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,800 This was in accordance with the message of the prophets and this 240 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,800 was not just some historical event. 241 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:42,600 Paul says he said, Jesus died for our sins. 242 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:48,500 But First Corinthians 15 is not the only place where Paul does 243 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:52,600 something like this in the Book of Romans when Paul is 244 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,100 introducing himself to those Christians, he does something 245 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,500 very similar. Now Romans is the apostles. 246 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,200 Most thorough most complete Treatise on the gospel. 247 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:07,800 It stands 11 chapters and in these 11 chapters. 248 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,400 Paul is presenting to a group of Christians. 249 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,400 He did not really know he'd never been to Jerome what his 250 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,000 gospel was all about. So he introduces it right here 251 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,900 in the first couple of verses with these words. 252 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:27,800 He begins with Paul a servant of Christ Jesus called to be an 253 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,700 apostle and set apart, for the gospel of God, the gospel. 254 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:38,800 Paul goes on to say that God promised beforehand through the 255 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:45,100 prophets in the Holy scriptures. Pardon his son who has to his 256 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,800 Earthly life was a descendant of David and who through the spirit 257 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,000 of Holiness was appointed the Son of God and Power by the 258 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,300 resurrection from the dead Jesus Christ. 259 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,400 Our Lord. Now you might notice that these 260 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,900 two gospel presentations have a few things that are similar, 261 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,500 obviously they're both about Jesus, they both mentioned the 262 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:10,900 resurrection, they both mentioned something about sins 263 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:13,800 being forgiven because of the Work of Christ. 264 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,900 But other than that, these two gospel presentations are pretty 265 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:21,200 different. There's nothing in Romans 1 266 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,500 about the burial or post-resurrection appearances, 267 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,300 really, there's not even anything about the death of 268 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:29,100 Jesus. In Romans 1, there's nothing in 269 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:34,100 1st Corinthians. 15 about Jesus being a descendant of David or 270 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:38,600 that the spirit of Holiness was at work in cooperation with God, 271 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,900 raising Jesus from the dead. So what we have here are some 272 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:44,800 kind of different Brent gospel presentations. 273 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,200 These aren't the only ones there are more in the book of Acts. 274 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,100 We have all kinds of sermons that present, the gospel in Acts 275 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:57,200 13, the Apostle Paul is on the first missionary journey, he 276 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,500 comes to the city of pisidian Antioch. 277 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:03,300 He goes into the synagogue, they asked him to speak and he gives 278 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,200 this sermon that's recorded here and acts 13. 16 through 41 will 279 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,000 not read it. Let me summarize it for you. 280 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,500 He begins by talking about the Exodus out of Egypt. 281 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:17,200 He talks about the monarchy and Israel, and King, David, and the 282 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,000 fact that Jesus is David's, true, are he talks about the 283 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,400 ministry of John? The baptizer, and how Jesus was 284 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,800 rejected by Israel, how he was crucified, how he was 285 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,600 resurrected, how the apostles were eyewitnesses of all these 286 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,100 events. And then Paul goes to the 287 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:38,700 scripture, he quotes song to Isaiah. 55 and psalm 16 and 288 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:43,600 Paul's conclusion in this sermon is that now because Of Jesus, 289 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:48,000 the Forgiveness of sins is possible and available to all 290 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,300 people. And that all men and women are 291 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:56,900 made right with God by faith. All men and women are justified 292 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,400 by faith. In Acts 2, we have something 293 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:03,900 kind of similar but kind of different. 294 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,900 This is Peter on the day of Pentecost, Peter begins, his 295 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:12,000 sermon by pointing out that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 296 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,600 what? All those people were seeing. 297 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,900 And that moment was a fulfillment of the old 298 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:19,600 scriptures of Joel to. He mentions the miraculous 299 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,400 Ministry of Jesus. Jesus was crucified, Jesus was 300 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,600 raised. He quotes psalm 16, which Paul 301 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,100 also quotes in this sermon here, in Acts chapter 13, Teen. 302 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:33,500 And then he comes to the climax of The Sermon where he says, 303 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,500 Jesus is the true davidic king. The apostles are the witnesses 304 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,100 of the resurrection, and an axe to 36. 305 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:44,400 He sums it all up when he says, therefore let all the house of 306 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,900 Israel, know, assuredly that God has made this Jesus. 307 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:52,400 Whom you crucified both Lord and Christ. 308 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:58,600 What we have in these four passages are four different 309 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,900 gospel presentation Stations and they're different because 310 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:05,800 they're all tailored to the audience. 311 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:09,600 Whether the audience was a church, receiving an Apostolic 312 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,000 letter or a crowd of people hearing an Apostolic sermon. 313 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Each time the gospel is presented. 314 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,700 It is tailored to the audience in a way that the audience can 315 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:26,700 understand and can respond to What I want to do with you this 316 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:33,100 morning is to try to figure out what are the core elements that 317 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:37,900 exist in every gospel presentation, in the New 318 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:42,300 Testament and I'm calling that before pillars of the Gospel, 319 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:43,300 you can call it whatever you want. 320 00:19:43,300 --> 00:19:46,200 I'm not consistent. Sometimes I'll say the gospel is 321 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,700 preached in four movements or something like that, but what we 322 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,900 want to do is we want to find the four themes, the four 323 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:57,300 pillars that are included. Added and our makeup, every 324 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,800 single gospel presentation that we can read in the New Testament 325 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,500 and then at the end, we'll need to be introspective and we'll 326 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:10,100 need to ask ourselves. Do we include these four core 327 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:14,900 elements every time we preach the gospel and share the gospel 328 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,800 with others. That's, we're going to try to do 329 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,700 today. Now, before we get to the first 330 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,400 pillar, I want to start with a definition, this is my 331 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,100 definition still a work, in progress, if you have something, 332 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,800 Tweaks. You think needs to be made to 333 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,300 it? I'm open to that. 334 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:31,600 Okay, I want to give you a definition of the Gospel. 335 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,000 The gospel is the good news, that's what the word gospel 336 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,600 means. Of course, comes from the Greek 337 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,800 word you on galleons means good news. 338 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:46,000 Okay. The gospel is the good news that 339 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:53,700 God has victoriously fulfilled, his rescue plan in Christ. 340 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,700 The good news that God has victoriously fulfilled, his 341 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,400 rescue plan that rescue plan that started. 342 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,700 When sin and death and to the world, he has victoriously 343 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:09,600 fulfilled, his rescue plan in Christ. 344 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,300 And when the gospel is proclaimed, when that gospel is 345 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:18,000 proclaimed in the New Testament, it always includes these four 346 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,600 things. Number one whenever the gospel 347 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,300 is presented in the New Testament, it always includes 348 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,500 something about the history of Israel. 349 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:36,400 The history of Israel. Our New Testaments open with 350 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,200 four books. Matthew Mark, Luke. 351 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,300 And John, sometimes we call these books, the four gospels, 352 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,400 and that's okay, but it's not the most accurate way. 353 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,300 We could describe them the ancient manuscripts of these 354 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:52,300 books. All, excuse me all had some sort 355 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:55,600 of title or super scripture up at the top of them. 356 00:21:56,100 --> 00:22:02,000 And they all said something like tone you Anjali on the gospel, 357 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,500 then the Greek word Kata, which means According to and then the 358 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:09,000 author's name, so it's not that. There are four gospels. 359 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,500 Is that there are there's one gospel. 360 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,600 And the one gospel was recorded by Matthew, Mark. 361 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,800 Luke and John. So it's The Gospel According to 362 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:23,100 these four evangelists or these four authors and when you open 363 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:27,600 up the four gospel accounts written by Matthew Mark and Luke 364 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,800 and John, you will discover that all four of them begin, their 365 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,100 gospel accounts with something. About the history of Israel 366 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:40,400 Matthews jumps out right away. Matthew begins without genealogy 367 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,700 says the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of 368 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:47,200 David, the son of Abraham. And then he documents the 369 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,900 Fourteen Generations from date from Abraham to David and David 370 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:54,300 to babble on and babble on to Joseph who has to the Earthly 371 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:57,900 Reckoning of things. Was the father of Jesus, Matthew 372 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:01,800 loves fulfillment passages. He says this thing happened in 373 00:23:01,808 --> 00:23:03,900 the life of Jesus, that it might be fulfilled. 374 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Old what that Prophet said, he shall be called a Nazarene or 375 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,700 out of Egypt. I called my son everything in 376 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:17,400 Matthew hinges on Jesus, as the Fulfillment of Israel's history, 377 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,700 Matthew tells us that Jesus comes to fulfill the long 378 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:26,600 storied history of the nation. Israel, Mark is no different 379 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:30,000 Mark begins like this in Mark. Chapter 1 verses 1 and 2. 380 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,900 He says, the beginning of the Gospel, the good news about 381 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:34,800 Jesus. Jesus. 382 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,000 The Messiah, the Son of God as it is written in. 383 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,600 Isaiah the prophet and then Mark goes on to describe the ministry 384 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,900 of John the baptizer and he says, John came to fulfill the 385 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:52,600 prophetic hope that someone would come to make Israel ready 386 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:57,100 for the arrival of Messiah, to prepare the way for the coming 387 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:02,100 of the savior of the great king. Luke is famously. 388 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:06,600 The only Gentile who contributed to the New Testament but even 389 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,500 Luke the Gentile basis. Everything in his gospel account 390 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:16,000 about the life and person of Jesus on Israel's history. 391 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,300 Luke's favorite Bible character, his favorite Old Testament 392 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:24,500 character is Abraham in Luke chapters 1 & 2, Luke has those 393 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:28,800 birth narratives and he records the song of Mary and he records. 394 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,800 A prophetic announcement of Zechariah who was the father of 395 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,600 John? The baptizer and if you read 396 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,200 Mary, A song and the other one in Luke, Chapter 2 is no 397 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,200 different. If you read merry song Mary when 398 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,600 she realizes. What's about to happen with her 399 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,800 baby boy she says finally God has fulfilled the promise that 400 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,400 he made to Abraham to Abraham. What was the promise to Abraham 401 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:55,800 that all the families of the Earth would be blessed through 402 00:24:55,900 --> 00:25:01,500 Abraham's line. John and John opens his gospel 403 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:04,100 account. He takes us all the way back to 404 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,700 Genesis 1 when he says in the beginning was the word and the 405 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:11,500 Word was with God. And the Word was God. 406 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,200 And then in John 1:14, John gives us that great. 407 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:22,900 Incarnation passage he says the word became flesh and dwelt 408 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,100 Among Us. The word. 409 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,800 Dwelt, by the way, is the word for Tabernacle. 410 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,700 So in the Old days, the glory of God came down in the Tabernacle 411 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:35,400 in that Pillar of Fire or smoke, and it was so brilliant that the 412 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,100 people, the, the Israelite priests could not go into the 413 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:42,000 Tabernacle. But John says, now the word has 414 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,700 become flesh and tabernacled among us and we beheld. 415 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,600 His glory. The glory, as of the only 416 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,700 begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. 417 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:57,500 Imagine that John says, we could touch him We could handle him. 418 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,100 The glory of God. In a human body. 419 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:12,900 Jesus came as the Fulfillment. Israel's long storied history. 420 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:17,200 They came to redeem the people of Israel. 421 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:22,800 But now number two, The gospel, in addition to always, including 422 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,500 something about the history of Israel, always. 423 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:29,100 And this better be the most obvious one includes something 424 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:39,900 about the work of Christ, the work of Christ, the person life, 425 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:46,400 DC's teaching suffering death, burial, Resurrection, 426 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,700 appearances, and Ascension into heaven. 427 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:54,200 A heaven of Jesus. The Messiah is the story of 428 00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:00,000 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the four evangelists and every 429 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,400 gospel preacher. Whoever delivers anything about 430 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,900 the gospel in the New Testament route, everything they believe 431 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:12,800 and everything, they Proclaim in the work of Jesus Christ, and 432 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:19,400 who he is in what he did and where he now sits as the cosmic 433 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:24,100 King, Of Glory, the king of kings, and Lord of lords. 434 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,200 Now, of all that Jesus accomplished while he was here 435 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,200 on the earth. The thing that gospel preachers 436 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,700 in the New Testament, focus on more than anything else. 437 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:39,900 Is that last week in lot, in the Life of Christ that final, what 438 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:44,400 we sometimes call passion week where Jesus returns to Jerusalem 439 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,400 on a donkey when he confronts the religious leaders one final 440 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,800 time when he Cleanses the temple. 441 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,200 One final time when he's betrayed by a close personal 442 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,300 friend, when he meets with the disciples one last time. 443 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,000 For the Passover, when he finally is arrested in the 444 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,200 garden. He's tried six different trials. 445 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:06,900 He's taken to the cross at 9:00 in the morning, and for six, 446 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,900 grueling hours, he hangs there between Heaven and Earth, he 447 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:16,900 dies, he's buried but then he is Vindicated and he is raised by 448 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:22,600 the power of God to show. You that this is the primary 449 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,600 emphasis of Our Gospel accounts on look, just look at Mark as an 450 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,000 example. Marked whole gospel account, can 451 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,400 be divided into two sections, chapters 1 through 9, and 452 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,100 chapters 10 through 16. When you get to chapter 10, 453 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,100 that's when you start the final week, the passion week. 454 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,600 So everything here in the first nine chapters perceives that one 455 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,500 week and here in these chapters. If that week and the 456 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:54,300 Resurrection Sunday here in chapter 16 in these nine 457 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:59,000 chapters Mark uses a Greek word that we translate our English 458 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:05,500 Bibles as immediately. 34 x mark says Jesus went and did this and 459 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,300 immediately he went over here and did this then immediately he 460 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:10,900 went in there and healed that guy immediately, then he came 461 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:15,100 over here and he preached this sermon 34 x mark uses that and 462 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:18,000 these nine chapters. And when Marcus to chapter 10, 463 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:22,800 the word disappears, Ears. He never uses it again. 464 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:31,300 Mark wants us to slow down. All of this is to get to here. 465 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,100 To get to this week right here. That's why. 466 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,900 When Paul really wants to condense the gospel, even 467 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,200 shorter than this here in 1st Corinthians 15. 468 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:50,500 He'll say something like for I determined not to know anything 469 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:53,900 among you. Except Jesus Christ. 470 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:58,400 And him crucified. 1st Corinthians 2:2. 471 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:07,900 The gospel must include and emphasize the work of Christ. 472 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,900 You can't have the gospel without it. 473 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,900 Number three. In addition to the history of 474 00:30:14,908 --> 00:30:19,500 Israel and the work of Christ. The Gospel always includes 475 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:24,000 something about the Plan of Salvation. 476 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:32,200 The Plan of Salvation. Now, please listen to me here. 477 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,400 The gospel is news. It's news. 478 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:47,300 It's not a transaction. We shouldn't preach the gospel. 479 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:51,900 Like it's a sales pitch. Four, five, easy payments of 480 00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:54,200 hear believe confess repent and be baptized. 481 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,800 You can go to heaven when you die. 482 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,200 No one in the Bible. Ever taught the gospel that way. 483 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 The gospel is an announcement about something, amazing. 484 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,200 That the Creator God Of Heaven and Earth. 485 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:18,600 Came down in a body of Flesh. To fulfill the long hope of 486 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:24,800 Israel to rescue His Image bearers who had rebelled against 487 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:34,500 him and to do that by giving his own life on the cross, then 488 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:40,200 being Vindicated and raised from the dead to ascend into glory 489 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:46,500 and to sit on a throne. To rain and to rule over the 490 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:51,000 universe. It is an announcement of 491 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:57,600 something incredible. Now, when we hear news different 492 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,200 kinds of news, it should invoke different kinds of reactions, 493 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,200 okay? Those of us who are old enough 494 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:12,400 to remember 9/11. We remember how we felt how we 495 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:18,600 reacted when we heard the news of those attacks, and if you had 496 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,400 gone out on that day, and met someone who had also heard the 497 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,000 same I'm news and they were clapping and cheering and 498 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,100 giggling. You would think that is not the 499 00:32:30,100 --> 00:32:37,900 normal reaction to this news. The Plan of Salvation is the 500 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:43,100 holy spirit outline. To how people should react to 501 00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:46,200 the news of what Christ has done. 502 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:52,300 Now, Jesus taught this first and gave it to the apostles. 503 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,300 He told those men that when they went out and preached this when 504 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:01,700 they went out and preached how Jesus was the Fulfillment of 505 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:05,600 Israel story, and how now through Christ, God has 506 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,800 victoriously fulfilled his long awaited rescue plan when they 507 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,400 announced this to people that they should tell them if you 508 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,900 want to be a part of what Christ has accomplished if you want to 509 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:19,400 be. Beneficiary of the mission that 510 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,900 Christ has accomplished. If you want to have the 511 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:26,000 Forgiveness of sins and be part of the New Kingdom of Messiah, 512 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000 this is what you need to do. Jesus said you go out and you 513 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,200 tell people to believe on me. To put their trust and hope in 514 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,700 what I have done. Tell people to turn away from 515 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:42,100 this life. In this world filled with sin 516 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,200 and death. This world, that's in rebellion 517 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,700 and opposition to God and to turn towards the Lord. 518 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:51,800 You tell people to be immersed in water. 519 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:56,700 To Mark, the time when they are forgiven of their sins. 520 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:03,800 To see their sins washed away. In baptism, you tell people come 521 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:09,800 into my kingdom, a new creation. And to dedicate the rest of 522 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,500 their lives to serving me. That's what Jesus taught, the 523 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:18,300 disciples to preach. Now, we have to be careful. 524 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:22,500 That we don't skip the first two and go straight to the three. 525 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:26,600 Okay, we don't want to convert people to this. 526 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,400 We want to convert people to this. 527 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,300 We want to convert people to the Lord Jesus. 528 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,699 And there may have been a time in America's history where we 529 00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:40,100 could assume that most people had already pretty well accepted 530 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,800 these things. But that's becoming less and 531 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,100 less. The case, isn't it? 532 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,100 So before we get here, we've got to teach people about what God 533 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:56,300 has done in history. And how that history led to the 534 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:01,400 Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ. And to what he has accomplished. 535 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,400 And now we've come to the last point. 536 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,400 And that is that the gospel always includes something. 537 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,700 About the kingdom. Of God. 538 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:23,900 The kingdom of God. Of kingdom of God, or the 539 00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:29,600 Kingdom of Heaven is Matthew. Prefers refers to God's Rule and 540 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,400 Reign on the earth. It's like what Jesus prayed your 541 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,900 will be done. Your kingdom, come your will be 542 00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:40,000 done on Earth as it is. In heaven. 543 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:46,100 In heaven, God's will is no longer rebelled against God's 544 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,200 Will and rain is supreme the kingdom of God refers to God's. 545 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:56,700 Rule and Reign on the earth Heaven, come down to the earth. 546 00:35:56,900 --> 00:36:00,900 Now, I mentioned Luke chapter 1 and Luke Chapter 2 earlier where 547 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:04,500 we have a merry song and zechariah's prophetic 548 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:06,900 announcement. If you don't read Luke 1 and 549 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:10,700 Luke to you will see what the Jews were expecting. 550 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:14,800 When the news that the kingdom of God was coming, what they 551 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,700 expected would be included in that. 552 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,200 So when John the baptizer and Jesus came around say repent, 553 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:25,200 Went for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand people of the Jewish 554 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:30,500 faith knew what that meant. They knew Psalm 72. 555 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:34,100 They knew that Psalm that we read earlier. 556 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:38,000 They had prayed it for generations and generations, and 557 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,800 they knew that when the kingdom finally arrived, there'd be an 558 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,600 outpouring of justice and righteousness and Fidelity to 559 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,200 God. They knew that the poor and the 560 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,200 oppressed would be lifted up. They knew that the The crowd and 561 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,100 the arrogant and the violent would be brought down. 562 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,800 Some 72, says their face will be smashed against the dust. 563 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,600 They knew that this Kingdom would be a kingdom that all the 564 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,300 nations would serve. All the kings would bow down 565 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:11,300 before this one ruler. They knew that this King, this 566 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:15,100 special King that Solomon had announced what have supreme 567 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:19,500 authority, and the prayers would be offered to and for him. 568 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,300 And the praise would be given to him. 569 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,800 In the Old Testament, the kingdom, always included at 570 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:33,100 least four things Kingdom, always included God. 571 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,900 As the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 4 God is over all 572 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:41,400 through all and in all it starts with God. 573 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:44,800 The kingdom always includes a king. 574 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,000 The ruler that God has designated the ruler that God 575 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,300 has delegated his authority to the one who Reigns, who protects 576 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,600 the one who leads and who sets the laws? 577 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,000 That's Jesus. Kingdoms always include 578 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,000 subjects. Or citizens, those who live in 579 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,100 the King's life, those who bend, the knee to the king, who serve 580 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:15,100 him, who love him, who follow him, who go wherever he leads, 581 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:20,600 and finally Kingdom always includes land territory. 582 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,900 Now in one sense, all the Earth Belongs to the Lord, right? 583 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:28,600 Jesus said all authority in heaven and on Earth has been 584 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,300 given to me. But there are still many parts 585 00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:36,000 of the earth that are an act of. I am against God, there are 586 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,900 still many people on the Earth who oppose the rule of God. 587 00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:44,000 But in spite of that rebellion, in spite of that Insurrection 588 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,800 against the almighty, there is still a space. 589 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,900 There is still a sacred territory that God has carved 590 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:55,900 out for himself on the Earth. This is it right here. 591 00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:02,000 Right here. This is a group of people. 592 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,500 Who have committed themselves to the king? 593 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,800 Who come into God's holy presence. 594 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:16,100 To worship to honor. To enjoy his Fellowship. 595 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:22,100 A group of people who accept the will of the king. 596 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,100 It's hard for us, we live in a democracy and we have four 597 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:31,900 generations in this country. It's hard for us to think about 598 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,800 ancient monarchy sometimes and what that would have been like 599 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,000 now, if you had a good King, my all my, everything went great 600 00:39:43,300 --> 00:39:45,100 How can you have a better King than Jesus? 601 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,200 There's no civil disobedience in the Kingdom of Heaven. 602 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,400 All who want to enjoy the Kings blessings? 603 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:08,400 Obey, the Kings law. And serve him. so that now this 604 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,500 Outpost of heaven with the Apostle Paul calls, a colony of 605 00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:17,300 Heaven, this becomes a landing point. 606 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:24,800 For the honor and fame of the king is proclaimed to the world 607 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,700 around. So that we can accomplish what 608 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,100 God created us to accomplish in the very beginning. 609 00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:39,000 To fill the Earth with the knowledge and glory of God, 610 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,000 that's why you were made. That's what I was made. 611 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,600 To fill the Earth with the knowledge and glory of God. 612 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,100 Now we messed it up in the garden. 613 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,100 But God gave us a king to help us. 614 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,600 He gave us salvation. To bring us back into his 615 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,400 glorious presence and Union and fellowship. 616 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,200 And he did it all through Christ. 617 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,700 That's the gospel. God's rescue plan. 618 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:23,500 Victoriously fulfilled in Christ. 619 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:30,100 So, maybe today you're here. And you're ready to be a part of 620 00:41:30,107 --> 00:41:36,100 this. This next part of our service, 621 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,600 by the way, is for you. We have a whole part of our 622 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:49,600 service that is dedicated. Just for you. for those who are 623 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:56,900 here, who are ready to follow the king, who are ready to 624 00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:00,000 commit themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ. 625 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:06,000 Who recognize what Christ has accomplished for them for you. 626 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,600 And are eager to respond to it. 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