1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:06,960 A few months before our Lord would be crucified, he was in 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:14,560 the northern part of Galilee. He was about 25 miles northeast 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:20,000 of the Sea of Galilee, in a region called Caesarea Philippi. 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,160 It was named such by Philip the Tetrarch because he wanted to 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,040 name a city after Caesar, and of course his name as well, so that 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,840 he would be well known. But it also separated it from 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,240 Caesarea Meritima, which is on the sea. 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,640 And our Lord and his disciples were in this region, and there 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,360 were all kinds of false gods around them. 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:51,520 And there had been, according to Greek mythology, a a Greek God 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,160 by the name of Pan or Panas. It was called Panas before it 12 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,040 was called Caesarea Philippi. He was said to have been born in 13 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,120 a cave there. If you go there today, you can 14 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,640 still enter that cave. And it was here where our Lord 15 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:14,720 would give his men an exam. It was like their final exam, 16 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,400 but the exam would only have one question. 17 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,200 And if you understand the question and you get the 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,880 question right, that's good news. 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,200 If you get the question or the answer to the question wrong, 20 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,080 well, that's bad news. And so he would ask them just 21 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,320 one question, because it's the question that no man can ever 22 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:43,600 escape or avoid. In fact, everybody in the room 23 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:49,520 today is asked the same question because everyone will have to 24 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,400 face the answer. And the question was simply 25 00:01:53,400 --> 00:02:00,400 this, who do men say that I am? The question focused on the 26 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,400 identity of the Lord Jesus. And so the disciples would 27 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,360 answer by saying, well, some say you're Jeremiah, others Elijah, 28 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,480 some say you're John the Baptist. 29 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:19,720 Some say you're you're just one of the prophets. 30 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,400 In other words, everybody is saying that you're great, but 31 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,040 nobody is saying that you are God. 32 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,720 Now Christ didn't ask the question for information 33 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,640 purposes. He knew what the religious 34 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,360 leaders thought of him. They thought he was of Satan. 35 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,040 And so he wasn't asking about what the religious leaders 36 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,600 thought about his identity. He wanted to know what the 37 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:52,160 Jewish people thought of his identity, and the Jewish people 38 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,840 for all practical purposes, loved Jesus. 39 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,960 It was the religious establishment that hated Jesus. 40 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,640 So he asked the question, what is the popular opinion? 41 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:09,440 Not that whatever the popular opinion was would change the 42 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,560 ministry of our Lord. He just wanted to know what the 43 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,600 popular opinion of his ministry was. 44 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,000 After all, in a few short months, he would be crucified. 45 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,920 And then he asked the question towards men. 46 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:30,760 But who do you say that I am? It doesn't make any difference 47 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,760 what the multitudes say. What do you say? 48 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:42,080 Not the popular opinion. What is your personal opinion? 49 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:50,280 Who do you say that I am? And Peter would speak for the 12 50 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:57,000 He would say, Thou art the Christ, the Messiah, the Son, 51 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,040 equal in nature to the living God. 52 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,280 And the response that Christ gives is truly remarkable 53 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:16,519 because the Lord says, blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for 54 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:23,360 flesh and blood did not reveal that to you, but my Father who 55 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,720 is in heaven revealed that to you. 56 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,600 In other words, if you are to pass the ultimate exam, you 57 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:40,320 cannot do it on your own. You have to have a divine 58 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,720 enlightenment because flesh and blood cannot reveal that to you. 59 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:52,240 I cannot convince you that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the 60 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,040 living God. I can't convince you of that. 61 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,000 I can preach to you. I can show you in Scripture 62 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,520 where that's the case, but unless the Lord illuminates your 63 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:09,040 heart and your mind, you will never believe that Jesus is the 64 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,040 Christ, the Son of the living God. 65 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:18,680 Why is that? Because you have been blinded. 66 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,400 You've been blinded by Satan. You've been blinded from birth. 67 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,400 You have a supernatural blindness. 68 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,960 Therefore you need a supernatural enlightenment. 69 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,560 The Bible says that this way in 2nd Corinthians 4 verse #3 And 70 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,400 even if our gospel is veiled, that is veiled to those who are 71 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,200 perishing. In this case, the God of this 72 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,320 world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they 73 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,240 might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, 74 00:05:51,920 --> 00:06:00,800 who is the image of God. Satan has blinded the mind of 75 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,200 those people who do not know him, so they will not believe 76 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,560 that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. 77 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,520 And so in order for you to pass the ultimate exam, you cannot do 78 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,400 it because you have a proper intellect. 79 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,400 You cannot do it because you're a smart person or you've read a 80 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,880 lot. The only way you can pass the 81 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:31,760 ultimate exam is if the Father in heaven enlightens your soul 82 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:39,320 to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living 83 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,360 God. That's just remarkable. 84 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,280 Now here's the good news for those of us who have been 85 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:53,840 enlightened, for those of us who know the identity of Christ, we 86 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:57,960 want to praise His name. We want to thank Him that He has 87 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,000 revealed Himself to us. Well, we want to praise Him 88 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,960 because we know the identity of the Christ child. 89 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:13,040 We don't wonder as to who He is. We know who He is, which makes 90 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:20,120 our praise of him brilliant, beautiful, because we glory in 91 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,520 the fact that we have been enlightened to the truth of the 92 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,880 gospel. And so it accentuates our 93 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,080 praise. We want to honor the Lord. 94 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,920 So as we journey this pathway of praise that we've been on now 95 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:42,360 for for several weeks, the person of praise causes our 96 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:48,920 journey to be filled with joy because of who Christ is. 97 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,960 And so we have tried to unveil to you through the Scriptures 98 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:02,960 the identity of the Messiah, the identity of the Christ child, 99 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,720 the identity of of the Lord God of Israel. 100 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:14,360 That is just so important. See Israel had a problem and 101 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:21,320 that is this Hosea 4 verse #6 My people are destroyed for lack of 102 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,240 knowledge. They do not know me. 103 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,720 It's not that they didn't know the Scriptures that they knew 104 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,840 the scriptures. We we saying come thou long 105 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:38,120 expected Jesus. The expected one was a was a a 106 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,520 title for the Messiah. Psalm 1/18/26 Psalm 40 verse #7 107 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,880 He is called the Erica my, the expected one, the coming one. 108 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,200 And even at the triumphal entry, Psalm 1/18/26 was quoted by the 109 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,800 people of Israel. Blessed is he who comes in the 110 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,600 name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming one. 111 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,880 They hailed him as the expected one. 112 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,280 It's the question that John the Baptist asked in in Luke's 113 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:14,160 Gospel the the 7th chapter when he sent his men to go ask Jesus. 114 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,480 Are you the expected one or should we expect someone else? 115 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,720 Should we look for someone else? Are you the Messiah? 116 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,320 Because the Messiah is the expected one. 117 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,640 All of our expectations are in the coming Messiah. 118 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,200 Are you him? But Israel did not know Him. 119 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,440 They did not understand him. But we who do know him, we 120 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:50,400 praise Him continually, we exalt His name, we magnify the Lord 121 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,960 Jesus Christ. So as we journey along the 122 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,680 pathway of praise, we're looking at the person of praise. 123 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,800 And we began with the phrase Yahweh Hassinu, which means the 124 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,160 Lord is my Maker. He's the one who forms me. 125 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,200 He's the one who fashions me. And then we moved from there to 126 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,800 Yave Sebayath, which is the Lord of armies. 127 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,080 The one who forms me is the one who fights for me. 128 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,960 And the last week we talked about Yave Rafi, which is the 129 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:32,680 Lord is my shepherd, the one who who forms me and fights for me 130 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,880 is the one who feeds me. And today I I want to take you 131 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,760 to an Old Testament passage which is very familiar to us, 132 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,680 but is one of the two chapters in the Old Testament that are 133 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,920 absolutely pivotal to understanding the identity and 134 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,320 the ministry of the coming Messiah. 135 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,680 It's found in Genesis chapter 22. 136 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,520 So if you got your Bible, turn back with me there, if you would 137 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:11,080 please. Genesis chapter 22. 138 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,360 And in Genesis 22, you have a couple of firsts. 139 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,960 That is the first mention of certain words in the Bible. 140 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:26,000 So again, as I said last week and the week before, whenever 141 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,040 something is mentioned first in the Bible, you need to take 142 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:36,720 note, You need to understand why this is the first time. 143 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,560 So the Bible reads as follows. Genesis 22 verse #1 Now it came 144 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:46,760 about after these things that God tested Abraham and said to 145 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,360 him, Abraham, He said, here I am. 146 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:55,680 He said take now your son, your only son whom you love. 147 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:02,720 Isaac, stop right there. This is the first time the word 148 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:09,600 love is mentioned in the Bible. That's very, very important 149 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:17,160 because God is going to test Abraham as to his true love for 150 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,400 him, the son of God, the living God. 151 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,040 So he says, I want you to take now your son, your only son. 152 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,160 But that wasn't his only son, because Ishmael was older. 153 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,520 Ishmael was born first. But Ishmael was not the only 154 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,720 begotten son. Isaac was the only begotten Son, 155 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,120 the Son of choice, the Son who had the right to the 156 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,720 inheritance. That was Isaac. 157 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,720 And so when the Lord says take now your son, your, your only 158 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:58,640 begotten Son, the Son of your love, OK, which is symbolic of 159 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,920 Christ, who is the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and 160 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:03,840 truth. And he was the only begotten 161 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:08,240 son, the monogamies of of the Father, the the son of choice, 162 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:13,200 the son of preeminence. He says, take the son that you 163 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,360 love. And then he says this and go to 164 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,760 the land of Moriah. That's the very important phrase 165 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:29,720 because Moriah means foreseen, very important to the narrative. 166 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,760 If you don't understand what Mariah means, you're going to 167 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,080 miss the point of the entire narrative. 168 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,960 It means foreseen. So God is telling Abraham, I 169 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,440 want you to take your son, your only son, to a place that I have 170 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,640 foreseen. That's the place called Mariah, 171 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,800 the Book of Chronicles. It would be where Solomon would 172 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,480 build the Temple on Mount Moriah. 173 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:05,600 So he says, go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a 174 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,080 burnt offering on one of the mountains, of which I will tell 175 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,760 you. So Abraham rose early in the 176 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,280 morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men 177 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,440 with him and Isaac's son. They split wood for the burnt 178 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,560 offering and the Rose and went to the place of which God had 179 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,000 told him. On the third day. 180 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,040 Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. 181 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,080 Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey and I, 182 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:38,040 and the lad will go over there, and we will worship and return 183 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,640 to you again. The very first time the word 184 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:48,080 worship is used in the Bible because worship always involves 185 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:53,520 sacrifice. If you come to church and you 186 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,880 don't sacrifice, you haven't worshiped. 187 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,760 Worship us all about sacrifice, giving yourself away. 188 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,280 And so the very first mention of the word worship, by the way, 189 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,400 before Exodus chapter 20, before the 10 commandments were given, 190 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,400 when God said you shall have no other gods before me, you 191 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,240 should, you should only worship me. 192 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,360 No other gods before that was ever given. 193 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,520 The word worship is mentioned because it's all about 194 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:29,600 sacrifice. And so God says, or Abraham 195 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:35,800 says, I am, the lad will go up and worship and we will return 196 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,640 to you. So it says verse 6, Abraham took 197 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,680 the wood of the burnt offering and then laid it on Isaac his 198 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,520 son, and took in his hand the fire and the knife. 199 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,040 So the two of them walked on together. 200 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,400 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, my father. 201 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,480 He said, here I am my son. He said, behold the fire in the 202 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,000 wood. But where is the lamb for the 203 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:08,640 burnt offering? Abraham said God will provide 204 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:14,200 for himself the lamb for the burnt offering my son. 205 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,760 So the two of them walked on together. 206 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:28,360 Very important phrase. So the Lord God will provide for 207 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:38,000 himself the land. The word provide is year a very 208 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,280 important to the narrative. Again, why? 209 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:49,040 Because God, we'll see. Because the word Yuri is the 210 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:54,360 word of vision. It's used 1300 times in the Old 211 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:59,680 Testament. All but 4 is it translated to 212 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,800 see or be seen. The other four times it's 213 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:13,880 translated to provide, but the 1296 other times it's used, it's 214 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:19,920 used to see or be seen. So Abraham is telling his son 215 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:29,320 Isaac the Lord will see for himself a lamb. 216 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,400 Now remember they went to Moriah, which means foreseen. 217 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:43,520 So on the place foreseen by God, God will see for himself the 218 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,280 land that will be provided. So you read on. 219 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,720 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. 220 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,920 And Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and 221 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,240 bound to son Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. 222 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,400 Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knight to slay his 223 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,280 son. But the Angel of the Lord, now 224 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,760 that's the pre and card of Christ. 225 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,320 The Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, 226 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,200 Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am. 227 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,160 He said, do not stretch out your hand against the lad and do 228 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,920 nothing to him. For now I know that you fear 229 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:26,160 God, since you have not withheld your son, your only Son, from 230 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,480 me. You mean to tell me there's 231 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:35,120 something that God doesn't know? For God says, now I know that 232 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:39,200 you fear me. God doesn't say that for his 233 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,400 purposes, He says it for Abraham's purposes. 234 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,200 He says that Abraham, now I know. 235 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:54,880 Meaning the knowledge of You fearing Me has been seen, 236 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:00,160 because in Your worship You are willing to sacrifice that which 237 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,360 is dearest to You on behalf of Me, and only those who fear My 238 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:11,280 name are those who sacrifice that which is dearest to them on 239 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,400 My behalf. Very, very important. 240 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:21,800 And so you read on. It says that Abraham raised his 241 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,160 eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the 242 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:33,120 thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the 243 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:38,040 ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of 244 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,520 his son. Abraham called the name of that 245 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:52,600 place Yahweh Yuray. The Lord will provide or better 246 00:19:52,600 --> 00:20:00,480 translation, The Lord will be seen, as it is said to this day. 247 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:07,320 In the mount of the Lord it will be seen. 248 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,640 In Moriah, the mount of the Lord, in the place foreseen by 249 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:23,400 God, what will be seen a substitute in the place of 250 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,040 Isaac. So when you go to John's gospel 251 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:36,160 and read John 856, it says Abraham rejoiced to see my day. 252 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:41,720 When did Abraham rejoice to see Christ's day? 253 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,040 Genesis chapter 22. That's when Abraham rejoiced, 254 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,280 because there he called the place the Lord will be seen. 255 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,680 How did Abraham know that the Lord would be seen on the place 256 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,120 foreseen by God unless it was revealed to him in a 257 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:04,960 supernatural kind of way from God himself that there would be 258 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:10,160 a substitutionary sacrifice on behalf of man which Christ the 259 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,800 Messiah would provide so that we would not have to play pay the 260 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:22,840 penalty for our sin? And so Abraham says, on this 261 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:29,440 place the Lord will be seen. Yahweh Yuray, the Lord that 262 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:34,640 forms me, Yahweh Hasinu, is the Lord who fights for me. 263 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,800 Yabe Savayov, the Lord who fights for me, is the Lord who 264 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:44,800 feeds me, Yabe Rafi. And the Lord who feeds me is the 265 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,440 Lord who foresees all that will happen to me. 266 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:56,400 Yabe Yuray, God sees everything. That's how He can feed you 267 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,400 properly. That's how he can fight for you 268 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,840 aggressively. That's how we can form you 269 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,000 perfectly. Because he foresees everything. 270 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,240 He foreknows it, but he also foresees it. 271 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,440 He sees it well enough in advance because he is the the 272 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,600 God of eternity, the eternal nature of God. 273 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,920 He sees the past, the present, and the future all at once 274 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:33,440 because He exists in the past, the present, and the future all 275 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,200 at once. He sees it all. 276 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,720 And therefore we can rest and praise His glorious name as we 277 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,040 journey down the pathway of praise because of who He is. 278 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,080 I can rest at ease this Christmas season. 279 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,120 I can rest at ease all throughout the year because it's 280 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:01,560 my God who foresees everything in advance. 281 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,720 He is the one who was mapped out all my days before there was 282 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,680 even yet one of them. He knows every event that will 283 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,680 take place in the future. He knows what's going to happen 284 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:21,960 to my family, in my marriage, in my work, in my school, in my 285 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,720 play. He knows it all. 286 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,480 He's foreseen it all, and He is my provider. 287 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,600 That's how He can provide for us because He knows in advance all 288 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:38,560 that will happen to me. Let me give you another 289 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,320 description of our Lord. Turn me to Exodus chapter 15, 290 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:50,200 Exodus chapter 15. And when you come to Exodus 291 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:55,960 chapter 15, you have the second experience of Israel having been 292 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,680 LED out of Egyptian bondage. The first experience is when 293 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,800 they come to the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army is bearing down 294 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,640 upon them and they are afraid that they're going to die. 295 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,880 And Moses says, stand still and watch the salvation of the Lord. 296 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,400 Watch the delivering power of God. 297 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,600 Watch the rescuing nature of God. 298 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,520 Watch the saving nature of God at work. 299 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:32,040 Of course, you know the story. You've seen the movie and the 300 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,920 waters part. Israel goes through on dry land, 301 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,400 right? Supernatural waters depart. 302 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,880 There should be mud, but there was no mud. 303 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,520 It was dry land. They walked through on dry land, 304 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,120 and Pharaoh and his army, they went after them, and of course 305 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:54,520 they all drowned in the sea. And then you have the song of 306 00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:03,640 Moses and Exodus chapter 15 concluded in verse #21 when 307 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,600 Miriam said, sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. 308 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,680 The horse and rider he has hurled into the sea. 309 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,680 Can you imagine the excitement, the joy of Israel knowing that 310 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:21,160 their God had performed a supernatural act right before 311 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,600 their eyes, part of the Red Sea? I mean, how many gods can do 312 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,600 that? None except the one true and 313 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:35,480 living God who creates the sea. And they, they walk through on 314 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,880 dry land and they were able to see the salvation of the Lord. 315 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,920 They were able to experience it supernaturally. 316 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,200 You. You would think that that would 317 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,760 take them through at least another month. 318 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,080 But three days later comes another test. 319 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:00,880 Just three days to show you how quickly we forget what God has 320 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,920 done. Look what it says. 321 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:09,400 Verse #22 Then Moses LED Israel from the Red Sea, and they went 322 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,360 out into the wilderness of sure, and they went in three days in 323 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:18,080 the wilderness, and found no water. 324 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:25,760 This is test #2. When they came to the to Marah, 325 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,280 they could not drink the waters for of Marah, for they were 326 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,920 bitter. Therefore it was named Marah. 327 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,840 So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 328 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:48,720 Then he cried out to the Lord, what? 329 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,960 What happened to Israel? How do they go from celebrating 330 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:58,360 God to complaining about where they're at? 331 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,600 How do they go from sheer delight to disgruntlement in 332 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,880 three days? How do they go from magnifying 333 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,240 the name of God to murmuring against God's chosen leader? 334 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,200 How does that happen? You can ask yourself the same 335 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,320 question. How can you come to church on 336 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:31,080 Sunday morning, get in your car, and three minutes later start 337 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,800 yelling at your kids and yelling at your wife and your wife 338 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,320 yelling at you? How does that happen? 339 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:42,640 How can that it possibly be? Excuse me, but it happens all 340 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:48,280 the time. So here's Israel three days 341 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,880 after watching a supernatural act of God begin to murmur. 342 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,400 There was no water. They began to complain, and 343 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:07,040 Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree very 344 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,000 important to the narrative, and he threw it to the waters. 345 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:19,760 The waters became sweet there. He made for them a statue and 346 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,240 regulation, and there he tested them. 347 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,320 And he said, If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the 348 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,680 Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give ear 349 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,720 to His commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put 350 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,520 none of the diseases on you which I put on the Egyptians. 351 00:28:46,640 --> 00:29:02,720 For I, the Lord and your healer, Yavay Rafa, I am your healer. 352 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:10,200 The Lord who forms us is the Lord who fights for us. 353 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,880 The Lord who fights for us is the Lord who feeds us. 354 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,400 The Lord who feeds us is the Lord who foresees all that will 355 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:28,280 happen to us, and the Lord who foresees all that will happen to 356 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:36,400 us is the Lord who will fulfill us as only He can. 357 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:46,320 I am your healer. When we read that, we, we 358 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:53,280 naturally go to physical healing as if God is going to heal me 359 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,720 physically. But it's so much deeper than 360 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,520 that. It's so much more important than 361 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,040 understanding that which is in the temporal to that which is 362 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,400 eternal, that which is physical as to that which is spiritual. 363 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:20,360 Because sin has ravaged our souls, it's destroyed our souls 364 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:28,000 and we are in need of a physician who heals the 365 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:35,800 condition of our souls. Notice that it was a tree that 366 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,920 was thrown into the waters because it would be the great I 367 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:45,800 am who hung on a tree who would bring the ultimate healing to 368 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,880 people's lives. Listen to what the Bible says in 369 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:58,920 Isaiah chapter 1. Isaiah chapter 1 is as as God 370 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:06,160 describes Israel verse 2. Listen O heavens and hero earth, 371 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,600 for the Lord speaks. God is speaking. 372 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:18,440 Sons I have reared and brought up, but they have revolted 373 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,440 against me. Israel has revolted against me. 374 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,520 And Ox knows its owner and a donkey its masters manager. 375 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,600 But Israel does not know. My people do not understand. 376 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,040 My people do not understand my identity. 377 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,320 They don't know who I am. That's why the question, who do 378 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,680 men say that I am? Who do you say that I am is so 379 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,600 important. You got to get it right. 380 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,480 It's not about accumulation of all kinds of knowledge about who 381 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,960 God is. It's about knowing him in a 382 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,960 personal sense, knowing him for who he really is. 383 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,640 Because if Jesus is truly the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of 384 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:11,320 the living God, He is all He claims to be, then He is yave 385 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:17,080 Rafa in my life and yave Yire in my life, and yave Hassinu in my 386 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,640 life, and yave Sabayov in my life and yave Rafi in my life. 387 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,800 That's who he is, and I live in accordance to that. 388 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,000 But Israel haven't experienced all that God did. 389 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,600 Through all the wilderness wanderings and all the 390 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,400 supernatural dealings that God did with Israel, they still did 391 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,200 not know Him. That's why Christ asked the 392 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,600 question who the men say that I am? 393 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,120 Because you see, when Christ came, what did He do? 394 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,880 He healed everybody. He practically banished all 395 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,480 disease from the land of Israel. Every person blind, healed, 396 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:04,400 paralyzed, healed, can't walk, healed. 397 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,920 You got an issue, you're dead. Raise them up. 398 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,480 God did everything, and yet they still did not know Him well. 399 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:20,320 Some say you're Jeremiah, some say you're Elijah, John the 400 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,880 Baptist, one of the prophets. Everybody's saying you're great, 401 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:30,360 but nobody's saying you're God. In spite of all the miracles, in 402 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,600 spite of all the supernatural acts that he performed. 403 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,480 Feeding the 5000, feeding the 4000, walking on water. 404 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,560 They still did not know the identity of the Christ child. 405 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:51,440 How sad is that? But that was always Israel's 406 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:57,320 problem. They did not understand their 407 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,720 God. And yet he revealed himself over 408 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:09,080 and over and over again. And so he says, alas, verse 4A, 409 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,679 sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of 410 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,880 evildoers, sons who act corruptly. 411 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,040 They have abandoned the Lord, they have despised the Holy One 412 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,440 of Israel, they have turned away from Him. 413 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:33,360 This is why they were going into bondage, yet it would be 100 414 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,000 years away. And so the Lord God would say to 415 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,080 Israel those very familiar words in verse 18, Come now and let us 416 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,960 reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are a scarlet, 417 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,400 they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like Crimson, 418 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:53,280 they will be like wool. If you could send and obey, you 419 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:58,280 will eat the best of the land. But if you refuse and rebel, you 420 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:03,720 will be devoured by the sword. Truly, the mouth of the Lord has 421 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:08,000 spoken. God says, I want to heal you. 422 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:14,400 Listen to what He says in Jeremiah 30 verse #17 for I will 423 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:20,680 restore you to health, and I will heal you of your wounds. 424 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,560 Those are not physical wounds. Those are spiritual wounds. 425 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:32,800 Jeremiah 3 verse #22 return you backsliding children and I will 426 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:40,640 heal you're backsliding. Isaiah 30 verse #26 I will heal 427 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:46,440 the stroke of your wounds. Why? 428 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:51,120 Because he's Jaffe Rafa the Lord, your healer. 429 00:35:52,040 --> 00:36:00,640 Remember on that day in Nazareth in Luke chapter 4 when Christ 430 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,160 would read from Isaiah chapter 61, because that was the reading 431 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:10,240 of the day, and every prophet or every rabbi who came would say 432 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:15,480 one day this will be fulfilled. But on this day Jesus says this 433 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,240 has been fulfilled in your hearing. 434 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,120 He says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. 435 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,080 So He's saying that He is the Messiah. 436 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:32,200 Isaiah 11 verse #2 Isaiah chapter 42 verse #1 Isaiah 61 437 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,480 verse #1 It's all about the Spirit of the Lord being upon 438 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,440 the Messiah. So he says the Spirit of the 439 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,240 Lord is upon me because He anointed me to preach the gospel 440 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,320 to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim 441 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,600 release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, 442 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,680 to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the 443 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,120 favorable year of the Lord. And they closed the book, gave 444 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,520 it to the attendant, sat down, and the eyes of all in the 445 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,880 synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, 446 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:09,560 Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. 447 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:17,480 I am the one who has come to preach the gospel to the poor. 448 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:23,120 I am the one who has come to proclaim release to the 449 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,880 captives. I am the one who has come to 450 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:33,520 provide sight for the blind. I am the one who has come to 451 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,680 produce freedom to those who are oppressed. 452 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,200 I am your healer. I am here. 453 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,240 And when Christ came, remember everything that the Lord does in 454 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:51,360 the physical realm is symbolic of what He does in the spiritual 455 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:55,960 realm. Christ came to heal people that 456 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,200 were that. That's what His credentials were 457 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,560 all throughout the Old Testament. 458 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,040 The Lord would come and do supernatural acts and He would 459 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,080 heal those who were physically infirmed. 460 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:10,640 Why? Because they would prove His 461 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,440 messianic credentials, but He didn't come to heal them 462 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,480 physically. He came to heal them 463 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,080 spiritually, but they didn't want that. 464 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,520 Remember in Matthew chapter 4, and we'll talk about this in the 465 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,280 new year when we go to through Matthews 5-6 and seven, he, he 466 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,520 heals everybody. All who are paralyzed, all who 467 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,520 are diseased. He heals everybody. 468 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,200 Throngs of people would follow him. 469 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,120 Why? Because he's healing everybody. 470 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:46,120 And so he sets him down on this mount called this sensational 471 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:53,160 sermon by our Savior on the mount there on the northern 472 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:59,600 slopes of the Sea of Galilee. He says, I want to give you true 473 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,800 blessing. I know you think you're blessed 474 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,920 because you're blind, but now you see. 475 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,000 I know you think you're blessed because you were paralyzed, but 476 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,800 now you're not. I know you think you're blessed 477 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,680 because you were sick, but now you're well. 478 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,360 But that's not true blessing, and it gives those great 479 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,720 beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit, 480 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,240 for there's the Kingdom of heaven. 481 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,960 Blessed are those who who mourn over their sins, for they and 482 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:34,200 they only, they'll be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they 483 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,840 will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and 484 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,680 thirst for righteousness, for they will truly be satisfied. 485 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,320 You see, you think you're satisfied because yesterday you 486 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,680 were sick, but today you're better. 487 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,960 Yesterday you were in bed, but now you're up. 488 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,920 But I got news for you. You're still going to die. 489 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,200 You might feel better today, but you're going to die tomorrow. 490 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,200 Everybody's going to die. So you got to be spiritually 491 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,240 made. Well, you have to be spiritually 492 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,760 healed. And if not? 493 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,880 Then you will die and live a Christ less eternity. 494 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,440 How sad is that? And that's why in Luke's gospel, 495 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,160 when John the Baptist said are you the expected 1, he said his 496 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,400 disciples to ask him what did Christ do? 497 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,360 He immediately healed everybody in the crowd. 498 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,040 One fell swoop, boom, they're all healed. 499 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,160 Now you go tell John what you just saw, because nobody but the 500 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:49,680 Messiah can do that. You see Christ is Yahweh, Rafa 501 00:40:50,760 --> 00:41:01,400 the Lord your healer. So many times we we 502 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:09,160 misunderstand the soul healing nature of our King. 503 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:15,720 He's the only one who can free the captives. 504 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:22,840 Every person born is born enslaved to Satan. 505 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,480 Everybody. You're dead in your trespasses 506 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:31,480 and sin. And so God grants man repentance 507 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:38,000 that he might be freed from the the captivity of Satan sets the 508 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,800 prisoner free, doesn't mean he goes to the jails and locks the 509 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,400 doors. It means he goes and sets you 510 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,200 free from Satan's oppression in your life and the captivity that 511 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:57,320 Satan has on your soul. This tree, according to first 512 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:07,240 Peter chapter 2 verse 24, Peter says this, He himself bore our 513 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:12,400 sins in his body on the cross, literally on the tree. 514 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,360 So we might die to sin and live to righteousness. 515 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:21,400 For by his wounds you were healed. 516 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,000 You healed spiritually. Yes, there will come a day where 517 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,320 we are physically healed, we have glorified bodies, and we 518 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,800 are perfectly healthy in eternity. 519 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,120 That one day is going to come. That's the result of ultimate 520 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,400 salvation. But in the meantime, we have 521 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,400 been set free and healed in our souls so that we experience a 522 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:49,120 true blessing of Yahweh Rafa, the God who heals. 523 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:59,480 He gives us living water, waters that are fresh and clean and 524 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,880 pure. In fact, listen to this the Book 525 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:11,240 of Revelation chapter 22 verse #1 John says. 526 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:17,320 Then he showed me a river of the water of life. 527 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,920 Now my friends, you need to know there is no water in heaven. 528 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:32,800 There is no more sea, there's no hydrological cycle, there's no 529 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,760 rain. So what is the water of life? 530 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,600 He says that he showed me a river of the water of life. 531 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:50,200 What is that if there's no sea, if there's no rain, if there's 532 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,800 no water in heaven, because there's no need to drink 533 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:59,320 anything in a glorified state, what is the water of life? 534 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:06,720 Chapter 22 verse #17 At the last invitation of our Lord, he says, 535 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:09,680 the Spirit and the Bride say, Come, and let the one who hears 536 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,120 come, and let the one who was thirsty come. 537 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:21,760 Let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost. 538 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:27,080 The water of life is the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 539 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,560 Look at this, he says. They showed me a river of the 540 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,200 water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God 541 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,200 and of the Lamb. So whatever the water of life 542 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,680 is, it's not the H2O like we know it. 543 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:47,320 It's this salvation experience that comes and flows from the 544 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,640 throne. It flows from God and the Lamb. 545 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,200 And that's where salvation originates from. 546 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,760 The God who is a God who delivers and rescues and saves. 547 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:04,280 And it says in the middle of a street on either side of the 548 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:13,480 river was the tree of life, the tree of life bearing twelve 549 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,800 kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. 550 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:26,680 And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 551 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,040 What is that? There's no injury in heaven. 552 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:38,160 There's no illness in heaven. There's no sickness in heaven. 553 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,480 Why do the nation's need to be healed? 554 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,640 Think about it, The tree of life, there's all kinds of fruit 555 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,880 every month. There is no time in heaven. 556 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,640 There's no clock in heaven. There's no calendar in heaven. 557 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,160 What do you mean it bears fruit every month? 558 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,560 It talks about the unending succession of the variety of 559 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,840 enrichment that God gives to His people who have drank from the 560 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:17,640 water of life because it provides healing therapia. 561 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,200 Get our English word therapeutic. 562 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,240 It's like taking vitamins. Vitamins don't heal you, but 563 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:31,680 they keep you fresh and lively. You don't eat because you need 564 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,240 to eat. You eat because of the enjoyment 565 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:37,400 of the enrichment that God gives. 566 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:45,760 It provides healing nourishment, life giving tree that provides 567 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:54,960 health giving life forever. So the psalmist says these 568 00:46:54,960 --> 00:47:06,040 words, Psalm 124, verse #8 Our help is in the name of the Lord 569 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:15,440 who made heaven and earth. Where does my help come from? 570 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:23,920 From the name, the character, the attribute of the Lord. 571 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:33,640 So the psalmist says in Psalm 147 verse #3 he heals the broken 572 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:40,160 hearted and binds all their wounds. 573 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:52,720 That's Yahweh. Rafa, listen to this Isaiah 12. 574 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,880 God says, you will say on that day I will give thanks to you, O 575 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,600 Lord, for all. Though you were angry with me, 576 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,720 your anger is turned away and you comfort me. 577 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,560 Build. God is my salvation. 578 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,480 I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord. 579 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,240 God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. 580 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:22,920 Therefore you will joylessly draw water from the springs of 581 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:30,600 salvation, and in that day you will say, give thanks to the 582 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:36,240 Lord and call on His name. Make known as deeds among the 583 00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:41,360 peoples. Make them remember that His name 584 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,560 is exalted. What name? 585 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:56,360 Yave Rafa. Yave Rohi, Yave Sabayath, Yave 586 00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:08,600 Yuray, all those titles, all those descriptions make the name 587 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,520 of the Lord. We haven't even covered Yave 588 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:20,200 Mekadiskam, which is the Lord your sanctifier, or Yave 589 00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:29,040 Sidkanu, which is the Lord your righteousness, or Yahweh Shema, 590 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:37,360 which speaks of the Lord who is there because he never leaves. 591 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:47,640 The unending study of the person of praise goes on and on and on. 592 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:54,120 We can never exhaust it. And my prayer for you is that 593 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,160 you will be able to journey with joy the pathway of praise 594 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:05,240 because you understand the person of praise. 595 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,760 Let's pray. Father, we thank you for today 596 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,200 and the opportunity you give us to spend time in Your Word. 597 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:18,760 So much to cover and so little time to do it, yet we are 598 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:24,880 blessed because of who You are. I pray that everyone in the room 599 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,560 would know Christ as Lord and Savior. 600 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:31,640 They would know you as their Deliverer. 601 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,120 They would be able to answer effectively. 602 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,720 Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and live 603 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,880 accordingly. So Lord, as we depart this day, 604 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:50,960 go before us and may we journey with joy the pathway you've 605 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:57,400 called us to live, the pathway of praise in Jesus name, Amen.