1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,600 Turn over to Genesis chapter 1. Today, all across our nation in 2 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,120 the world, there are going to be a lot of people ministering 3 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:26,840 along the lines of how I'm going to minister today, meaning the 4 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,160 subject matter. It tends to be traditional that 5 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,160 we would cover the death, burial, and resurrection of 6 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:38,480 Jesus in what the United States and other parts of the world 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,440 consider Easter. Now we do know that Easter has 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,800 been hijacked by a Bunny in most places and that there are many 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,400 people that will only see this day as a Bunny. 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,560 And eggs or Reese's peanut butter cups formed in the image 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:02,400 of a rabbit of which I would eat because my God is bigger than 12 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:08,600 that Bunny rabbit. The point is, is that we call 13 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,400 this Holy Week and it should put us in remembrance. 14 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,600 But the question is, is why are we remembering if the 15 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:21,480 remembrance doesn't change us? What's the point in remembering 16 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,400 if we just continue to do what we do? 17 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,680 So many will be ministering along these lines without 18 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:34,760 answering the actual question why They'll they'll get to 1 19 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:41,520 aspect, but they'll not answer the full context of why Jesus 20 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,160 came. Yes, it is true. 21 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:50,800 Jesus came because man fell. Man became a Sinner and he came 22 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,240 to die for our sins. That is a true statement. 23 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,240 But that's not the only reason why he came. 24 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,160 And the reason why I say that is because God is the creator of 25 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,120 heaven and earth, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 3 26 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,680 and one, they created everything that exists. 27 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,760 Do you know that there is a heaven that exists, although we 28 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,880 cannot see it, but it is real? You can go there. 29 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:26,840 Should you qualify, you could stand before the throne of God, 30 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,640 of which all will stand before some seat, whether it's the seat 31 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:36,120 before Jesus Christ to the Saints and their rewards for how 32 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,240 they live for Him after they called on His name. 33 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,680 Or the Great White Throne Judgment where the Father will 34 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,320 open up books and have to judge the dead and cast them into the 35 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,840 prison system of the Kingdom called the Lake of Fire. 36 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,360 One of the other. They'll see it. 37 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,600 There is angels. They exist. 38 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,840 In fact, they're in this room right now, and whether you can 39 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,440 see them or not, does it make you more spiritually discerning? 40 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,880 Because the Bible says that we can entertain angels unaware. 41 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,520 So ain't seeing angels does not mean you're more spiritually 42 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,720 mature. But I'm thankful for those who 43 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,040 have seen them, for those who have had encounters. 44 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,720 I'm thankful that the Lost have even seen angels, for there have 45 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,360 been many accounts of missionaries that have been 46 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:29,600 attacked in other countries where before their enemy was to 47 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,400 take them off, they dropped their weapons and ran and later 48 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,480 on ran into those individuals at another time. 49 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,160 And they asked them to question why did you run? 50 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,160 And they say, well, we saw these big people on the outside 51 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,920 standing and when they frightened us and we ran, so 52 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,880 they saw angels. Angels revealed themselves in 53 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,040 that moment to save God's covenant people. 54 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,400 So God created the angels, He created seraphim, He created 55 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,000 cherubims. You say, why are you saying all 56 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,040 this? Well if you go to Jude chapter 1 57 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:08,000 only 1 chapter in Jude verse 6, it says the angels that left 58 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,440 their proper abode are now in chains waiting for the judgment 59 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,040 of that great day. Which tells me that God created 60 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:28,840 a species of being that has no ability to be redeemed, no 61 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,760 ability to be redeemed. So then the question is why is 62 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:41,680 man redeemed and angels are not because if God only came because 63 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:49,400 we we fail, we send well then why did he not die for those 64 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:56,720 angels? It's obvious that God has not 65 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,320 said something concerning the angels that he has said 66 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,520 concerning man. And This is why Jesus came in 67 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,760 Genesis chapter 1 starting in the beginning, God created the 68 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,160 heavens and the earth. But in verse 26, as you know, it 69 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,840 says this thing God said let us make before man existed. 70 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:22,400 God said let us make man in our image according to our and let 71 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,960 them have dominion or rule over the fish of the sea, over the 72 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,920 birds of the sky, right over the earth, over every creeping thing 73 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,200 that creeps on the earth. God created man in his own 74 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,160 image. In the image of God. 75 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,520 He created him, male and female. He created them. 76 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:40,320 So God created a species in his image that was of his likeness, 77 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,760 from his own DNA, from his own spirit. 78 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:49,120 He created our spirit. We are a different spirit than 79 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,160 those of the angels, but more importantly, He spoke our 80 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,440 existence. Now why is this important? 81 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:02,560 Because God does not say things haphazardly, flippantly, off the 82 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,080 cuff. He does not say things He does 83 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:10,080 not mean, and He does not say things He will not fulfill. 84 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,880 So when God says let us make man in our image according to our 85 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,040 likeness, let them rule over the fish of the sea, let them have 86 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,520 dominion. Let them rule in this realm 87 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,560 called earth like I rule in this realm called heaven. 88 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,880 I'm over him, but I give him the management, the rulership, the 89 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,400 dominion, the governing, the oversight of that planet, of its 90 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,680 systems, of how it runs. And if he listens to my voice 91 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,960 and obeys me and hears my words, then life springs from him all 92 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,080 the time because I'm life, He's in my image. 93 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:51,360 I want man to be like me. And that's God's word concerning 94 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,120 us. Genesis chapter 2. 95 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,240 It takes this man and puts him in a garden. 96 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,920 And he says to him, now Adam, he said, the Lord God took the man, 97 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,800 put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it, to keep it. 98 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,320 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, From any tree of 99 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,280 the garden you may eat freely, but from the tree of the 100 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,240 knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. 101 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,400 For the day you eat you will, surely. 102 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,520 And we've said this many times, but it bears repeating because 103 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,720 we have quite a few guests. If Adam had never eaten the 104 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:31,560 fruit, where would he be today? He'd be right here in this 105 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,200 planet. See, it's hard for us to 106 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:40,840 conceive this planet without sin, yet it existed without sin. 107 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,760 God did not make Adam eat the fruit. 108 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,040 God did not force him to eat it. God gave him more opportunities 109 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,200 to eat other fruit, but of one tree he says do not eat. 110 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,200 For the day you eat, you'll surely die. 111 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,760 And for the first day he was alive, the second day, the 112 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,200 second year, the third year it doesn't. 113 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,680 We don't know exactly how much time passed. 114 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,680 We do know it's less than 115 years because that was the age 115 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,640 of Adam when Seth was born, and that was after the death of 116 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,280 Abel, his son by Cain, of which the fall has already taken 117 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,840 place. So in less than 115 years, man 118 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,799 has released his dominion. In essence, man became separated 119 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,120 from God. Sin is simply disobeying God. 120 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,919 When we say death dead is not ceasing to exist, it means to be 121 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:46,280 separated from God. So when God says when you eat 122 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,720 this fruit will be separated, you'll have you'll experience 123 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,720 spiritual death, you'll no longer be like me because God 124 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:01,800 does not go against his word. God never goes against his word. 125 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,800 I'm going to harp on that one more time. 126 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:12,360 God never goes against his word. Oh, the love of God is amazing. 127 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,080 He's such a righteous God. He's a keeper of his word. 128 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,400 I said he's a keeper of his word. 129 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,440 And so man is in the garden. You may say, why in the world 130 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,360 did he put a tree there anyway? I mean, God's all knowing. 131 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,960 Doesn't he know he's going to do this? 132 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,480 Just because God knows it doesn't mean he made him. 133 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,280 But more importantly, God cannot make you love him. 134 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,200 God cannot make you obey Him willingly. 135 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,640 But God can't place things in your path for you to demonstrate 136 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,840 it. Because think about it, just for 137 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,720 a moment. And we're in the business of 138 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,280 helping you think again. We are here to help you repent, 139 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,920 change your thinking. I'm not here to give you a 140 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,160 discourse for you to believe and eat. 141 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,000 Period. I'm here for you to go, huh? 142 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,240 Because God has answers. And many of us, if we don't 143 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,800 watch out, will become so religiously brainwashed that 144 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,840 we'll make statements that aren't even in line with 145 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:15,160 Scripture. So it is our assignment to help 146 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,320 you become a critical thinker because then the devil cannot 147 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,880 deceive you anymore because you say no. 148 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,560 It is written. And we know what the Bible 149 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:29,840 actually says. So again, it says God made man 150 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,840 in his image. He formed him out of the dust of 151 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,680 the earth. Breathe into his nostrils. 152 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:37,520 The breath of life is Adam at this point without sin. 153 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,240 Is he in the image of God? How about Eve when he pulls the 154 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,400 the rib from his side and creates this woman and brings 155 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:50,040 him to act, brings her to Adam. And he said, man recognize the 156 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,040 bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. 157 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,040 A man shall leave his father, mother and become one flesh. 158 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,480 And they haven't even began. They haven't even started to be 159 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,440 a father and a mother yet. So he has a concept beyond his 160 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,720 experience because he has the knowledge of God and he is of 161 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,960 the nature of God. So it's God, Adam and Eve in the 162 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:16,520 garden, no sin, zero sin in the earth. 163 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:23,600 In essence, you could say it's heaven on earth, but it's not 164 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,200 heaven, it is earth. I didn't call it that, the Lord 165 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,400 did. Amen. 166 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:36,520 And so there's no sin, yet God is saying, how do I know Adam 167 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:41,120 loves me? I just need him. 168 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,920 What did Jesus say? If you love me, you'll keep my 169 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,400 word. And so he gives them this tree 170 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,440 that is his. Don't eat it. 171 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,840 You have way more options to eat other fruit. 172 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:58,800 This one's mine. And if you love me, if you love 173 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,680 me. Because he knows he's of his 174 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,240 nature, but he needs his love demonstrated towards him. 175 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:11,800 And what does Adam do? Well, Genesis chapter 3, where 176 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,200 most of us kick off on today's message, but we must get the 177 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,800 back story. Genesis chapter 3. 178 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,400 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast to the field 179 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,960 which the Lord God had made and said to the woman, indeed, has 180 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,120 God said, You shall not eat from the tree of the garden? 181 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,600 The woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the tree of 182 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,000 the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree which is 183 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,240 in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat from 184 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,720 it or touch it, or you'll die. And the serpent said to her, You 185 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,480 will surely not die. Now in essence the serpent's 186 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,280 saying, Listen what you think you know about God, you don't 187 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,960 know. He goes on to say, For God knows 188 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,640 because I know him, and he knows who God is. 189 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,720 He used to be somewhere else and he has the same ambition on 190 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,040 earth as he did in heaven. And you can read about it in 191 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,640 Isaiah chapter 14 where he wanted to exalt his throne above 192 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,080 the Most High. He wanted to take over God's 193 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:09,000 Kingdom realm in heaven. But Jesus said, I saw Satan fall 194 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,680 light, lightning from heaven. When he rebelled with the angels 195 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:20,400 who left their proper abode, he cast them, kicked them out, and 196 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,760 they were gone like lightning. That's how powerful our Father 197 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,840 is. That's how weak our enemy is. 198 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,600 He goes on to say, for God knows that the day you eat it, your 199 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,560 eyes will be open and he knows they'll be open. 200 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:38,840 That's true statement. And you'll be like God, knowing 201 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:39,960 good and evil. Here's the thing. 202 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,920 God just didn't want Adam and Eve to know evil, didn't want 203 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,640 them experience, didn't want them to experience anything 204 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,240 outside the life of God. It says when the woman saw that 205 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,440 the tree was good for food, for food. 206 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,560 And this is the problem. A lot of times we start to live 207 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,480 by sight instead of by the word of God. 208 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,480 We start making decisions about what we see instead of what 209 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,960 we've heard and what we're hearing from God. 210 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,000 And that was a delight to the eyes and that it was desirable 211 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,360 to make one wise. So she thought she took its 212 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,200 fruit. 8 And she also gave to her husband, and he ate. 213 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,480 And when he ate, verse 7, then the eyes of both of them were 214 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,080 what opened, and they knew that they were naked. 215 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,080 And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves 216 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,600 loin coverings. And they heard the sound of the 217 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,720 Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, which 218 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,200 was his custom. And the man and his wife hid 219 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,400 themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the 220 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,080 garden. Then God called to man and said, 221 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,680 Where are you? And that's the same question 222 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:51,280 he's asking today. Where are you? 223 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,720 Where are you now? We know that God's all knowing. 224 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,760 It's not like he doesn't know where they're at. 225 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,560 What he is saying is what position are you in? 226 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,680 Now obviously he begins to have a little conversation with him 227 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:12,960 of which he converses with Adam, moves over to Eve, and then gets 228 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:19,760 to the root of the temptation, the one who enticed man, but it 229 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:25,160 was still man's decision. The temptation has no effect if 230 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,040 you don't act on it, but Adam acted on it. 231 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,000 And if we drop down to verse 15, it says God then says to this 232 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,880 serpent, I will put enmity. Now he's not talking to a 233 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,800 serpent, He's talking to the spirit behind. 234 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,440 He said I will put enmity between you and the woman, 235 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:49,880 between your seed and her seed. You shall bruise. 236 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,720 He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the 237 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,040 hill. Now who we talking about? 238 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,480 OK, this is Anchor Faith Church, right? 239 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,320 OK, who we talking about here? Jesus. 240 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,280 This is obviously talking about Jesus now. 241 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:19,560 This is why Jesus has to come, because God does his word. 242 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,400 Let me help pull you out of fantasy. 243 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,720 God is obligated to his own word. 244 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,080 If he's given dominion to man, Adam, who's his son, without 245 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:36,680 sin, then God himself as God cannot take it back. 246 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:43,160 But God can come as a man who has legal right to that dominion 247 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,320 and take back what Adam gave to the devil. 248 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,080 That's why in the Luke chapter 4 account of the temptation of 249 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,440 Christ, that when the devil took Jesus up to a high pinnacle and 250 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,400 showed him not religions, but all the kingdoms, all the 251 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:07,240 domain, the authority, the power of government influence over the 252 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,040 all over the world. He said all of this domain I 253 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,240 will give to you, for it has been handed over to me. 254 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,640 Well, who handed it over to him? His name was Adam. 255 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:25,040 So if a man gave the dominion away, it will require a man to 256 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:32,520 take that dominion back. So Jesus comes not just because 257 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,920 you've sinned. He came for a even higher cause 258 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:47,440 than you, and that is to fulfill My Father's word concerning you, 259 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:53,640 that you will have dominion. And in the current state of man 260 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,960 after the fall, Adam did not fall from heaven, and Adam did 261 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,400 not lose the religion, Christianity. 262 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:06,280 He lost the dominion his Father had given him to reign on the 263 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:15,000 earth as he reigns in heaven. And he says, this is my plan for 264 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,080 man, my idea. It's not my idea. 265 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,160 It's God's idea. God's idea for man was never for 266 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,400 us to be broke. Beat down, disgusted, 267 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,400 struggling, scrapping, dying, begging. 268 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:37,400 That was hurt, sick, busted. That was never his plan for us. 269 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,040 And for his way to fulfill us, to get us back in that position, 270 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,400 it requires a man to come. So Jesus says I love you, but I 271 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:56,280 love the will of my dad more. And it's because of that reason 272 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:05,500 I'm coming. And through the process of time, 273 00:19:06,940 --> 00:19:11,260 we're waiting for a virgin to show up that has favor with God. 274 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,360 Think about it. God could have with the first 275 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:25,680 daughter of Adam and Eve sent the seed, but he didn't because 276 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,400 God is way more wise than we are. 277 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,800 In fact, when this thing concludes with the new heaven 278 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,760 and the new earth, right? And everyone who has disobeyed 279 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,200 God and has nothing wants nothing to do with his lordship 280 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:40,000 or cast into the lake of fire of their own free will. 281 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:52,640 God will restore all things. God will have tried man in every 282 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:59,040 possible situation and scenario to show that he never would have 283 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:05,640 lived up. God is the only just God and 284 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,320 ruler of all. Of which all of us through the 285 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,520 various dispensations will willingly say you are Lord, 286 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:20,360 you're King of all, and we bow to you, we honor you, we obey 287 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:23,680 you because we want to, because your life. 288 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,920 Remember we said this couple weeks ago just to help get it in 289 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,120 context, because people would say, why in the world would I 290 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,480 have to do what Jesus says? I think there's a way that I can 291 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,360 do it. It may be right. 292 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,240 Well, the Bible says there's a way that seems right to a man, 293 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,600 but then he analyzes death. But how about what if your 294 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,560 right's not my right? And what if my right's right and 295 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,360 your right's wrong? Well, you're wrong because my 296 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,360 right's right, because my right's his right. 297 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,680 I don't even have a right. It's his right. 298 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,760 Just to let you know, his ray is right. 299 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:58,200 He is the way actually, OK, but it's like this all of our bodies 300 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,400 and I am not going to break down the oxygen that we because 301 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,680 there's a lot going on in our atmosphere besides just oxygen. 302 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:10,040 But we all can't accept the fact that you're breathing oxygen to 303 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,960 a degree, OK, And you do this because your body's telling you 304 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,680 this is how you're living. You can rebel against your body 305 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:27,000 and say, don't tell me to breathe oxygen to live. 306 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:34,280 I choose propane. Propane is my gas. 307 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,800 That's how I roll. And you could come in here with 308 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,320 a propane tank as I'll be opening up some propane later 309 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,680 today, not to sniff it, but to grill with it. 310 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,960 All right. In fact, I've tasked my son with 311 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:49,320 grilling. I'm just going to watch. 312 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,680 With that being said, you could come in with a mask full of gas 313 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,680 called propane and begin to breathe it in rebellion to your 314 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:05,360 body, telling you that you must have oxygen. 315 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,360 Now all of us know the end of your story. 316 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,440 You're going to die. Your body's going to shut down. 317 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,840 It's not going to work, right? So really you're fighting 318 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,160 against that, which is telling you by creation. 319 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,040 See, you may be a free will, but your body tells you what you 320 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,600 breathe because someone ordered it that way. 321 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,640 Someone ordained it that way. And if you rebel against that, 322 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,920 then you're willfully saying I don't want life. 323 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,880 I want a different gas that will cause me harm. 324 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,880 You can go to propane, you can go to helium, You can go to all 325 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,520 the other types of gases out there. 326 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,400 Some will get rid of you quicker than others. 327 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,400 Some will make you talk funny before you die. 328 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,840 But nonetheless, in fact, the actual gas you exhale, if you 329 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,400 breathe it in too much, you'll die from it called carbon 330 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,320 dioxide. So when I say I want to do what 331 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,240 my father says, it's because it's life. 332 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:10,640 To not do it is sucking propane and I'm not here to die. 333 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,760 My father has words of life. Are you hearing me? 334 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:24,480 So we see that God said I need to bring my seed in the woman so 335 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,040 that he can crush you in order for me to have what I've said 336 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:33,280 concerning man in order for man to have the ability to be back 337 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,720 in the position. I have spoken concerning him. 338 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,800 I won't make him, but I will give him the opportunity. 339 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:48,120 Now get this, everything God has said concerning what will happen 340 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:56,160 to those who disobey will bring death, and He will fulfill even 341 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:03,600 death's price. This is why we're without 342 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:10,360 excuse, because everything done in disobedience, even the world, 343 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,320 the Word will say, I'll fulfill the word concerning that. 344 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:21,600 I'll take it on, I'll pay its price, I will fulfill its cost. 345 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:29,400 It doesn't go away without payment and the blood will be 346 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:35,040 the payment. So for this to happen, Jesus 347 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,880 must be stripped. Let's look at Matthew chapter 21 348 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,280 starting to verse No, excuse me, let's look in Philippians 349 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,600 chapter 2 verses six to seven. It says Who, although being 350 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,160 essentially one with God, and in the form of God possessing the 351 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,880 fullness of the attributes which make God God, did not think this 352 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,760 equality with God a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, but 353 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,440 stripped himself of all privileges and rightful dignity, 354 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,360 so as to assume the guise of a servant slave, in that he became 355 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:15,720 like men, and was born a human being. 356 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,600 We know this verse, Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6, it says that 357 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:29,880 God that a child will be born, a son will be given son's not born 358 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,480 because the son always existed, but a child's born cause a 359 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,400 body's needed to house the spirit of the Son. 360 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,080 And it goes on to say and the government shall rest on his 361 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,240 shoulders. And it says there'll be no end 362 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,800 to the increase of his government. 363 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,840 He will accomplish this task because Jesus is coming back. 364 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,400 Or Jesus came so that the dominion that Adam gave away, he 365 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:02,480 lost, he relinquished. Jesus gets back so that we can 366 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,800 be back in that standing. But in order to do that, He has 367 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:13,080 to strip himself and come in the form of man. 368 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:16,720 The Bible tells us that Jesus discovered himself through the 369 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,640 Scripture. In essence, when He came through 370 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:28,000 the womb of Mary, the Son of God had to discover who He was. 371 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,680 He was no longer all knowing because He was in the form of 372 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,440 man. And in order for him to discover 373 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:42,560 himself, he began to read the word that was given the law and 374 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,840 the prophets. And as he read them, because he 375 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,560 was without sin, he was he was that which was pinned, He's the 376 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,200 word. He began to realize that's me, 377 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,200 that's me, that's me. And don't you know, Mary was 378 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,920 saying, Son, I'm here to tell you that an Angel showed up and 379 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,320 that's why I got prayed to you. I, you're the Messiah, Son, 380 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,840 you're the one. Now it's one thing for Mama to 381 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,680 tell you. It's another thing to discover 382 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,120 yourself in the written word. And so mom at a young age told 383 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:17,720 him and would speak to him and then he would go through the, 384 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,800 the, the, the, the law when the prophets and begin to see 385 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,480 himself and discover himself. This is why in the end, when he 386 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,400 was walking with two other people, he was like, do I need 387 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,080 to show you what was written about me 'cause it's been all 388 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,040 the stuff you've been reading the whole time. 389 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,600 You didn't know I had to come and suffer first. 390 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,040 You didn't know there was a reason first. 391 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,000 You missed the first act, but the end's coming. 392 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:54,040 I said, but the end's coming. And so he stripped himself of 393 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,280 the privileges right and dignity so as to assume the guise of a 394 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,560 servant, a slave that in becoming like men. 395 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,400 This is why Jesus is very powerful statement was this I am 396 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,960 the son of man. This is why he declared that now 397 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,760 the demons say you're the Son of God, but Jesus will say I'm the 398 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,880 son of man and the reason he said that he says because I'm 399 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,720 not here illegally. I've been sent by my father 400 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,760 legally into this realm as a man. 401 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:30,680 Now he's all God, but he's also all man God in the fact he's 402 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,680 life and he is not going to sin because he's going to please his 403 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,880 father. Don't you know he has the pages 404 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,400 of his brother Adam? That if you read the genealogies 405 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,320 in the Gospel, it says Adam the Son of God. 406 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,400 Now that doesn't mean he's God in the flesh, but he is God's 407 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,680 son and he was God's son without sin and so was Eve. 408 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,800 However, Jesus is God in the flesh and he says Adam 409 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,880 disobeyed. He said I only do what my father 410 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,800 says. Whatever my father says I do. 411 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,320 I do not speak on my own initiative, but what my father 412 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,160 says I do and the things that I'm doing, I've only heard from 413 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:12,080 my father because I'm not going to fail like everybody else 414 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:17,800 that's been wearing this flesh suit to do a word contrary to 415 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:23,160 what Father has said, but he stripped himself of his God 416 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,440 realm and put on man. John chapter 17 verse 5 says 417 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,800 this. He said, now Father, glorify me 418 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,280 together with yourself, with the glory which I had with you 419 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,880 before the world. So there was a place Jesus was 420 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,440 in, but he's not in right now because he stripped himself of 421 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:52,200 that glory. Now we got a little taste of 422 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,080 some of that glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, and it 423 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,600 caused the apostle to say, let us build temples for you all 424 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,920 right now, right? However, that wasn't the point. 425 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,080 The next thing that Jesus was stripped of was his clothes. 426 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,680 Look at this in Matthew chapter 27, verse 27 to 31, it says then 427 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,960 the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Petorium and 428 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,880 gather the whole Roman cohort around him. 429 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:26,560 They stripped him and put a garlic robe or scarlet robe on 430 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,680 him, and after twisting crown together a crown of thorns, they 431 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,080 put it on his head, and they read in his sight in his right 432 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,120 hand, and they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying Hail 433 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,760 King of the Jews. They spat on him and took the 434 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,760 Reed and began to beat him on the head. 435 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,200 After that they mocked him and they took the scarlet robe off 436 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,040 him and they put his own garment back on and led him away to be 437 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,240 crucified. Isaiah 50 and verse 6 says this, 438 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,920 the amplified I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to 439 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,160 those who plucked off the beard, off the hair. 440 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,680 I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 441 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,880 John chapter 19 verses 23 and 24 says in the soldiers when they 442 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,240 had crucified Jesus, He's on the cross now. 443 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,480 They took his garments. Well, they obviously were not in 444 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:22,200 on his body anymore and made four parts, one share for each 445 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,440 soldier. And also the tunic, the long 446 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,000 shirt like undergarment, but the tunic was seamless woven. 447 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,520 That's what royalty wore. Very expensive garment, so they 448 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,080 said to one another, let us not tear it, but let us cast lots 449 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,840 and decide whose it will be. This was to fulfill the 450 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,200 scripture. They parted my garments among 451 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,400 them, and for my clothing they cast lots. 452 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,120 So the soldiers did them. See in Roman culture public 453 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:57,760 nakedness equaled maximum humiliation, especially for non 454 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:03,080 Romans. And this guy has made himself 455 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,200 out to be a king. In fact, his own people have 456 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:13,000 stood before Pilate and said we have no king but Caesar. 457 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:22,120 In fact, it was the kingship that caused Pilate to go ahead 458 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,320 and execute him. For the religious of the Jews 459 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,920 came and says, if you release this man, you are no friend of 460 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,920 Caesar, for he makes himself out to be a king. 461 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,720 And, and Pilate had the right then say, well, I cannot have a 462 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,480 letter go before the king that I let another person parade around 463 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,640 and act like their king. There's only one king in this 464 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,640 area that we dominate, that we have control over, that we have 465 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,840 power over, and that is Rome and Rome alone and Caesar is the 466 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:00,240 only king. That's why Pilate had it put 467 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,920 Jesus, King of the Jews, so you would know that they wanted to 468 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:11,040 humiliate him. So not only was he stripped of 469 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:16,080 his heavenly glory, he was stripped of all of his clothing 470 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,040 and exposed. And some believe that maybe a 471 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:27,240 type and shadow that takes us back to the garden of when sin 472 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:32,000 entered and Adam and Eve knew they were naked. 473 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,040 See it was in a garden that dominion was lost. 474 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,360 It was in another garden called the Garden of Gethsemane that 475 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,280 the dominion was was to be restored because Jesus said not 476 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:55,960 my will, but your will be done. Are you hearing me? 477 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,160 So Jesus is stripping represents total humiliation and 478 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,000 identification with with humanity shame. 479 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:10,159 This is one of the greatest examples of shame, exposure and 480 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:17,199 rejection. And for it to go even worse, the 481 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:24,400 greatest humiliation is that three are being crucified. 482 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,520 They placed him in the middle to say he was the worst of them 483 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:35,639 all. And through his life he 484 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,639 experienced another stripping and it was a stripping of 485 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:42,679 dignity and honor while he walked among people. 486 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,480 Matthew 1223 and 25 says all the crowds were amazed and saying 487 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:49,120 this man cannot be the son of David Kenny. 488 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,760 But when the Pharisees, that's the religious heard this, they 489 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,440 said this man casts out demons only by bells above the rulers 490 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,840 of demons. So they said his work was 491 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,840 demonic. They were giving, they were into 492 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,160 character assassination. They wanted this guy who was 493 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,240 doing the works of God to get people to question whether he 494 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,480 was actually acting on God's behalf. 495 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,360 They slandered him. They gossiped about him. 496 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,960 They got him back rooms and talked about him. 497 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,280 They made excuses. They assembled with others and 498 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,080 say he can't be that, he can't be this. 499 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,120 But they were threatened by his mere existence of righteousness 500 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:33,680 and godliness, but all the while spreading lies, trying to create 501 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,360 within their own nation reasonable doubt of the 502 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,920 character of this man. And day by day they were 503 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:48,760 stripping him of the dignity and honor and integrity he deserved 504 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:54,360 as the Son of God in the flesh. Psalm 69, verse 7 says, Because 505 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,600 for your sake I have bore reproach, dishonor has covered 506 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,960 my face. Then verse 9, for zeal for the 507 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:06,400 house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach 508 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,480 me have fallen on me. In essence, not only did He 509 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,960 literally take on our sin, but before He actually took on our 510 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,560 sin, because He was actually righteous, the man who knew no 511 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,440 sin became our sin, but before he actually took it on, people 512 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,600 were taking it on. In their mind, He was that which 513 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:28,240 He was not. And every time they saw Jesus, 514 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:31,760 they would question His motive, why He was doing what He was 515 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,840 doing, how He was doing what He was doing. 516 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,080 And then telling people, I don't believe it's all like that. 517 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,040 No, it's not really that way. You know, that seems like a good 518 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,200 act. Sure, that person was healed, 519 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:53,320 but he used the devil to do it. I'm sure someone said he just 520 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,840 wants your money. I'm sure somebody said that 521 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,840 probably was Judas, though. He just wants your money. 522 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,720 We need another offering because we know where Judas's heart was 523 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:14,760 at. Verse 12 says those who sit in 524 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:20,080 the gate talk about me and I am the song of drunkards. 525 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,840 This is talking about you, Jesus just walking into a community. 526 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:34,040 There was a wave of accusations. He was daily being stripped of 527 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:39,480 honor and dignity in the eyes of the crowds, even though he's 528 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:45,800 working the miraculous. The religious don't care whether 529 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,400 you think he's a prophet. They cannot have you think he's 530 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,920 the king. They cannot have you believe 531 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,800 he's the Messiah. He's the anointed one, the one 532 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,800 to come because they them too would have to bow, Matthew 27 533 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,600 verses 1412 to 14 says. And while he was being accused 534 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,160 by the chief priests and elders, he did not answer. 535 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,680 And Pilate said, do you not hear how many things they testify 536 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,480 against you? And he did not answer him with 537 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,280 regard to every single charge, to even a single charge. 538 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,160 Excuse me? So the governor was quite 539 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,040 amazed. You know what, you ought to be 540 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,600 amazed when you hear somebody being talked about, but the 541 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,880 person won't actually say something about it. 542 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,400 That's being the accused. Maybe the one being accused is 543 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:37,320 the one that's actually right. Mark chapter 10 verse 34. 544 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,120 And they mocked him and they spit on him, and they whipped 545 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,080 him and put him to death. But after three days he will 546 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:52,200 rise again from death. Matthew 2667 they spat in his 547 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,280 face and struck him with their fists and someone slapped him in 548 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,240 the face. They say prophecy to us Jesus 549 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:02,200 who did this. Now can we take a moment before 550 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,520 I move forward? Because this moment's really 551 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:10,040 important. This moment has never been 552 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:18,520 caught on film. No one has ever accurately 553 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:29,480 showed the humiliation of Jesus when he was stripped of His 554 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,320 glory. It's difficult for us to 555 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,640 understand because he was a worker of miracles, man. 556 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,000 I mean, he already outshined humans. 557 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,800 But really what Jesus was showing us is this is how you 558 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:49,480 used to live. This was the dominion you had. 559 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,040 Now why do I say that every miracle Jesus performed was 560 00:39:54,040 --> 00:40:03,720 within the dominion Adam lost? Think about his miracles on more 561 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:06,040 than one occasion he dealt with fish. 562 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,760 What was Adam's dominion over the fish of the So when he says 563 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:17,120 throw your net on the other side, When he says put your line 564 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:23,240 in and get tax for me when he takes 5 loaves and two fish that 565 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:26,280 are dead in anyone else's hand. But the Creator can give life to 566 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:33,800 the molecules, and even the dead have to deal with the judge, the 567 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:40,000 righteous 1 He can speak over that fish and it multiply, and 568 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,920 he did that twice. Plants are of the earth. 569 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,640 He could talk to fig trees because they're on the earth. 570 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,320 This is no issue plants he had dominion. 571 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:59,680 This is why anyone that suffers from addiction from leaves, 572 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,040 whether those are tobacco leaves or marijuana leaves, you should 573 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:10,000 never have a plant have dominion over you or any other drug that 574 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,480 comes from a plant for that matter. 575 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:17,520 God never intended for a plant to rule you and control you and 576 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,800 control your pocketbook and control your relationships and 577 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,320 control when you get into bed with someone whether you know 578 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:28,120 them or not. I'm preaching better than you 579 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,080 shot. But that's OK because this thing 580 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,240 we're in is not a one way ticket to heaven. 581 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,400 It's a dominion status. It's an understanding that God's 582 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:44,120 come to fulfill His word concerning you, that God has to 583 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,760 keep his word concerning you. And Jesus said the dominion I'm 584 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:52,080 walking in is the same dominion that Adam had before he ever 585 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,520 lost it. Winds and waves are of the 586 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,680 earth. He can speak to those things. 587 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:02,640 You have way more authority than you know. 588 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,960 But because we're stuck in sin consciousness and failure and 589 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,560 how much we've done wrong, we don't want to accept that we 590 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,680 could live a little bit higher here. 591 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,200 We wait till we go there. And the devil wants you to wait 592 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,440 till you go there, because if you start. 593 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,520 Functioning like Jesus in the earth, of which he said you 594 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:27,520 would, of which he said that the same works that I do, they will 595 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:35,080 do. We go see this, but before we 596 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:42,360 go, I just want you to go back in time with me and let's 597 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:50,640 pretend this pole is the cross. I think many of us have been in 598 00:42:50,640 --> 00:43:02,570 church way too long. He was stripped everywhere he 599 00:43:02,570 --> 00:43:06,330 walked. He talked about him, posted on 600 00:43:06,330 --> 00:43:10,960 social media about him, ran him down, attacked him constantly, 601 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,560 and then when the time came, the attack came and they took great 602 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,840 pleasure in his punishment. You kings. 603 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,480 And you know what? If it's only about the 604 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,720 forgiveness of your sin, then Jesus should not have to take 605 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:34,000 the beating. But it's not just about your 606 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,200 sins, it's about another thing that came with sin. 607 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,920 It was called disease that attacks your flesh. 608 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,760 And that's why it says by his see he needed enact the 609 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,880 healthcare system of his Kingdom to be able to get and play. 610 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:57,720 I don't know how you can accept one symptom without a fight. 611 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,000 I understand they can come, but they, they, they got to fight 612 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,120 on. They got to fight a fake. 613 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,720 You cannot stay on this covenant suit. 614 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:12,400 It's not immortal, but it does not have to bow to sickness and 615 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,520 disease. Because my Lord and King, He 616 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:20,440 healed all who were oppressed of the devil and the stripes he 617 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,320 took on his back was not A warm up was not to get him loose. 618 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,360 It was to take on our sicknesses as disease so that we could 619 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,200 accomplish the will of our Father. 620 00:44:38,010 --> 00:44:43,850 He was beat, stripped, scourged, mocked. 621 00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:50,400 We go come into church services and have this like little 622 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,120 emotional experience. These people were so ruthless 623 00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:58,920 that they saw the deformity of someone that the Bible declares. 624 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:04,560 He did not even look human anymore, but they loved seeing 625 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:08,440 every bit of it. And if we do not put that image 626 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,720 in our mind, then it allows Wednesday night service to be a 627 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:16,800 complacent time for us, and next Sunday service to be a 628 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,200 complacent time for us, and the next service a complacent time 629 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,160 because we have forgotten the price that was paid. 630 00:45:31,610 --> 00:45:36,170 We forgotten. And why did he do it? 631 00:45:36,850 --> 00:45:41,050 First Timothy 2, four through 6. Who desires all men to be saved 632 00:45:41,050 --> 00:45:42,490 and to come to the knowledge of truth. 633 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:46,600 For there is one God, one mediator also between God and 634 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:51,920 men, The man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for the 635 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,000 testimony given at the proper time. 636 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,840 So has he made a ransom for all. But we'll all be ransomed. 637 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,600 Not all will receive that which has been ransom for them. 638 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,960 He was stripped of glory, stripped of his clothes which 639 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,720 humiliated him, stripped of his dignity as honor. 640 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,080 But all that stripping gave him the power to strip. 641 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,200 So Jesus had a little bit of, I'm going to strip some things 642 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:33,880 myself. And so he goes to the grave and 643 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,760 he's down in paradise with the criminal that was just on the 644 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,000 cross with him and the criminal saying. 645 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:46,240 I am so glad I abandoned what I was doing on the way to Gal 646 00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:49,560 Gotham. I'm so glad that I quit 647 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:55,400 listening to the other thief. I am so glad that I feared God, 648 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,080 that I repeated of my wrongdoing, that I recognize you 649 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,840 are righteous and I called. You, my king. 650 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,160 Cuz here I am with you in paradise, with Abraham, with 651 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,280 David, come on with Moses. I'm here with all the righteous 652 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:16,400 dead waiting for Jesus, waiting for the one who will redeem 653 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,800 them, who will bust them out day. 654 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:25,640 Two we still hanging out cuz with the Lord a day is like A 655 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:32,000 and 1000 years like a so day one 1000 years, day two another 656 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,680 thousand years. Well, it's been a couple 657 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,200 thousand years since the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus. 658 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,080 Could we be approaching the third day? 659 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,160 Could we be approaching the third day where he's going to 660 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,680 break out in the cloud, the trumpets going to sound? 661 00:47:53,080 --> 00:48:01,760 Come on, the King of Glory, one day, 1000 years, two days, 1000 662 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,360 years. But on the third day, something 663 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:12,720 started rumbling in the grain. A power started to flow down 664 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:18,520 into the grain. A spirit started to show up in 665 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,600 the grain. It was the Holy Spirit and he 666 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,640 came through and he broke captivity captive. 667 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:32,440 He busted them out of paradise and resurrected the dead that 668 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:36,960 were in faith that Jesus was coming in the old covenant and 669 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:46,560 all the writings up towards. But it doesn't end there. 670 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:53,560 Jesus leaves the place not where the devil was because the devil 671 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:58,320 isn't hanging out in hell. It's not his home and it's not 672 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:03,800 his domain. Hell is the prison system of the 673 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:09,520 Lord. No, the devil is called the 674 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,920 Prince of the power of the. He is the God of this. 675 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,640 And so Jesus left the grave by the power of the Holy Ghost and 676 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:23,320 says, go once again, Holy Ghost, because you've already done it 677 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,040 once. You took me to the devil on the 678 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:31,800 planet, and he tempted me on all accounts, but I did not sin. 679 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:41,610 Take me back to the devil. Just lead me straight to him. 680 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,000 And he led him to him in Colossians chapter 2, verses 14 681 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,600 and 15 gives the account. When Jesus was raised out of the 682 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,080 dead, he said by blotting out the certificate of debt that 683 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,840 stood against us with its legal demands, he took it away. 684 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:02,080 By nailing it on the cross, He stripped the rulers and 685 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:10,440 authorities of their power and made a public display, leading a 686 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,760 triumphant procession over them by the cross. 687 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:19,600 Now we didn't see it down in little old earth, but in the 688 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:24,480 heavens. All creation saw Jesus parade 689 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,760 the devil. He took him up to the heavens. 690 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,160 He showed all the angels that stayed with the Lord. 691 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,000 He showed the ones that were down in the abyss chain for the 692 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,920 Day of Judgment. He took him in every realm of 693 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,640 the spirit and said where he had dominion. 694 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,920 I take it back. I've stripped him. 695 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,520 I pulled it. He doesn't have it anymore. 696 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,160 I take it all. I take it all back. 697 00:50:51,040 --> 00:51:01,560 Whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey. But it gets better. 698 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:05,640 I said. It gets better because in 699 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:12,720 Colossians chapter one verse 13, he said he rescued us completely 700 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:18,200 from the tyrannical rule of darkness and transferred us into 701 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:23,640 this Kingdom. Not only did he strip the power 702 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,120 of the devil, and now he holds it to me and he says. 703 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:29,400 I. Think I'll just give it away. 704 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,800 I'll give it to Don, I'll give it to Michelle. 705 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,560 I'll give it to Marshall. I'll give it to Mike. 706 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:36,480 I'll give it to Arnelle. I'll give it to Chase. 707 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,720 I'll give it. I'll give it, I'll give it, I'll 708 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:40,800 give it away. I'll just give it away. 709 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:49,880 And I can give it away because Daddy said let us make man in 710 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:55,440 our image according to our likeness and let him have 711 00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:00,400 dominion. It was yours in the 1st place. 712 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:07,880 You can have it if you want it. It only requires one thing, that 713 00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:16,920 you bow to the king, that you repent, that you get out of your 714 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,920 rebellion to the Kingdom and acknowledge the death, burial, 715 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:26,200 resurrection of the king. And when you do that, then 716 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:33,960 another thing that he came to strip Romans 425 who was 717 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,800 betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was 718 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,480 raised up to secure our justification, our acquittal, 719 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:47,880 making our account balance and absolving us of all guilt. 720 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:56,440 He says, you know what, Sabrina, I'll just strip you of all your 721 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,760 guilt and condemnation, your shame. 722 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:05,360 I just strip it off of you. It's as if you never did it. 723 00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,680 It's like it doesn't even exist. In fact, when I see you, I see 724 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:17,760 you as in Christ in the sun, righteous, holy, separated unto 725 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:23,160 God, a child of the King. Your nature is just like me. 726 00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,760 You can roll and reign with my name. 727 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,640 You've been made righteous, holy. 728 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,080 And that old life, you don't want nothing to do with it, 729 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,280 because then I'm going to put my Spirit in you and my Spirit's 730 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,280 going to come and start stripping away. 731 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,320 The thinking in your mind that tells you you're not good 732 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,240 enough, you're not well enough, you don't deserve, and I'm going 733 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:50,000 to put in you, you deserve, you can, you should. 734 00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,440 You're a child of God. He wants you, He loves you, He 735 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:58,080 has chosen gladly to give you his Kingdom. 736 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:06,840 Well, glory to God. So I close with this verse. 737 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:14,080 Hebrews 414 and 16 is so much then as we have a great high 738 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:19,160 priest who has already Are you hearing me? 739 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:24,800 I have not fallen. I'm OK, I am. 740 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,720 OK. Who? 741 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,640 Yes, I got to answer. They call the law man. 742 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,400 I won't want to be here. They think I've fallen. 743 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:40,720 I can't get up this apple does not know I'm a child of God. 744 00:54:40,720 --> 00:54:45,000 That's the problem just called I'm 56 doesn't mean I'm fragile. 745 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,080 I'm strong in the Lord. I'm well able in so much then. 746 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,000 Come on, give me a little something there please. 747 00:54:53,040 --> 00:55:02,240 Rafael in so much as then as we have a great high. 748 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:06,680 Priest who has already ascended and passed through to heaven, 749 00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:14,520 Jesus the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession 750 00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:22,200 of faith in Him, for we do not have a high Priest who is unable 751 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,480 to understand and sympathize and have shared feelings with our 752 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,680 weakness and infirmities and liabilities to the assaults of 753 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:37,760 temptation, but one who has been tempted in every respects, as we 754 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:46,640 are, yet without sin. Let us stand fearlessly and 755 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:52,840 confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace, the 756 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:57,160 throne of God's unmerited favor to us as sinners, that we may 757 00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:02,600 receive mercy for our failures and find grace to help in good 758 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,880 time for every need appropriate help and well timed help coming 759 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:18,040 just when we need it. Jesus is saying, don't wait for 760 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:22,200 heaven, come to the Kingdom today. 761 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:24,560 What? Jesus? 762 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:31,000 Preached was not an insurance policy upon your death or a life 763 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,840 insurance policy. He did not give you that. 764 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:39,000 Jesus came to give you an inheritance that begins now in 765 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:45,720 the earth, no longer waiting. You now are not dependent upon 766 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,000 arriving somewhere after you die. 767 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:54,320 Now you can have what you're going to come to you, Jesus 768 00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,080 said. Now when you pray, pray this 769 00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:01,080 way, our Father. Come on, our Father. 770 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:06,800 Who art in heaven hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your 771 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:12,920 will be on as it is. And as a child of God you can 772 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:17,080 have heaven's realm reside in the earth's realm. 773 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:23,960 Through your life and authority in Christ, He's done way more 774 00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,920 than saved you. He has restored you. 775 00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,520 He has given you dominion back. He's given you the name of 776 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,600 Jesus. He's made you more than a 777 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,960 conqueror. He causes you to triumph in 778 00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:40,440 every situation because he stripped principalities and 779 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,040 powers and all we have to do is act. 780 00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,840 He's the king of kings. Who are those kings? 781 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,880 Who are those kings? And we are those now in the 782 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:54,240 earth.