Episode Transcript
So when we're in Genesis 3, we'll be in verse 15 this morning and remind you all of the first gospel message that was preached,
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and that was in the Garden of Eden.
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"And God said, 'And I will put in Mati,' he told the serpent, 'between thee and the woman,
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and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.'
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So the serpent's head would be crushed, his kingdom would be destroyed by the seed of the woman, not the seed of the man."
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And this was the first hint of the Savior being born from a virgin.
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You see? Not the seed of a man, the seed of the woman.
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Every time you see a genealogy in the Bible, every time, it is reckoned according to the males in that family lineage,
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never according to the females.
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So it'll be Adam, Seth, on down and down and down like that.
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And so, and it'll talk about the sons and daughters that Adam and Eve had, but we don't even know any of their names.
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So, directly anyway.
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So, here saying the seed of the woman is unusual.
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And so what happened is, the devil used a woman to bring sin to the world.
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And now God would use a woman to bring a Savior to the world. You see?
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And so now, if you'll go ahead and turn to Matthew, chapter 1, Matthew, chapter 1, first book in the New Testament,
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we skipped the birth of Jesus Christ last week because before Jesus came on the scene, there was John the Baptist.
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And so to explain John's ministry, we introduced John, who introduced Jesus.
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And now, today, we're going to look at the birth of Christ and then move on into his ministry past the ministry of John.
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Matthew, chapter 1, verse 25, we're going to read the, I'm sorry, verse 1, we're going to read the entire chapter.
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"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham."
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So, here's what's happening. God promised Abraham that through him, the world would be blessed.
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So, the promised Savior is going to come through Abraham.
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God promised David that through him, the world would be ruled. See?
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David is a descendant of Abraham.
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And so, whoever saves the world and rules the world will have to be a descendant of Abraham, number one.
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Number two, they have to be a descendant of David.
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Specifically, they'll have to come from the tribe of Judah and not just the tribe of Judah,
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but the line of King David himself, a direct descendant.
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All right? And so, when we get to the New Testament, Matthew explains this exactly what happened with Jesus.
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Look here now, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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"Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob." These are people whose names we're familiar with.
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"Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, Judas begat Pharez and Zara of Thamar, and Pharez begat Esram,
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and Esram begat Aram, and Aram begat Amenadab, and Amenadab begat Nossin, and Nossin begat Selmon,
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and Selmon begat Boaz of Rehkub, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,
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and Jesse begat David the king, and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias,
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and Solomon begat Robom, and Robom begat Abiah, and Abiah begat Asa, and Asa begat Josephed,
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and Josephed begat Joram, and Joram begat Ozias, and Ozias begat Jortham, and Jortham begat Achys,
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and Achys begat Isaac, and Isaacias begat Manassas, and Manassas begat Amen, and Amen begat Josias,
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and Josias begat Jokhanas, and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
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And after they were brought to Babylon, Jokhanias begat Silathiel, and Silathiel begat Zerubbabel,
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and Zerubbabel begat Abud, and Abud begat Elachem, and Elachem begat Azar, and Azar begat Zadak,
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and Zadak begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud, and Elia begat Eliasir, and Eliazir begat Mathan,
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and Mathan begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who was called Christ.
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What a genealogy! But that is an incredible record. That's why we have the Bible. That's why we can trace,
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again, all the investigative work I did, any time the truth was given, detail was given.
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Detail that we could go and investigate and corroborate or prove, disprove the information we were given.
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When lies were given, detail was withheld.
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I rest a man the other day that brought marijuana into the courthouse.
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And it had been years since I had to rest anybody's. We almost never had anything happen like that at the courthouse.
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But he reminded me of so many other people that I had arrested in the past.
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You would ask them their name, and when they don't want you to know their name, they do like that.
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You say, "What's your name?" "My name's Richard."
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You say, "What are you saying?" "What's your date of birth?" "Well, it's just simply..." That's what they do.
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And they act like they're giving you information and not giving you information.
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And it's cumbersome until you finally get down to it and finally get who they are.
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And that's just the way people are. And they withhold data.
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They don't want you to know because there's something they're trying to hide.
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And with the gospel of Jesus Christ, there's not data withheld.
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For some people, it may be too much information.
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It was a lot.
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It was a lot, wasn't it? It's a lot.
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Say that fast ten times.
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Yeah. But you know what? I'm glad it's there.
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That is historical, genealogical documentation.
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Proof.
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Proof that the Savior came from Abraham, that the Savior came from David,
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just like God said He would.
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Now, if you'll go ahead and look here in verse 18.
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"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, or in this manner.
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When as His mother Mary was a spouse to Joseph, before they came together,"
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that is, before they had sexual union with each other,
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"she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
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A virgin had a child that was given to her by the Holy Spirit of God."
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The same Holy Spirit that created the animals, that gave light,
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that caused the grass in the field to grow, put a baby in Mary's womb.
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"Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example,
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was minded to put her away privately."
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He thought, "Oh, my wife has a child."
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And it wasn't me.
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I'm not going to humiliate in front of everyone.
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I'm just going about my way.
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Verse 20, "But while he thought on these things, behold,
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the aims of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying,
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Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee, Mary, thy wife,
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for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."
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It's of God.
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"And she shall bring forth the Son, and thou shall call his name Jesus."
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Remember, that's the New Testament name for Joshua.
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"For he shall save his people from their sins."
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The purpose that Jesus was conceived in the womb
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and was born into the world was to save people from their sins.
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Not to save Jews from the Romans, not to save people from hunger,
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not to build houses for people to live in.
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The world can do that.
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But the church has a specific message.
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It's not to feed and clothe the hungry and the poor,
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but it's to tell people how they can be saved from their sins,
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which is what Jesus came to do.
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Verse 22, "Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled,
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which was spoken to the Lord by the prophet."
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Now, Matthew's going to quote an Old Testament prophet.
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Verse 23, "The prophet said, 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child,
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and shall bring forth the Son, they shall call his name Emmanuel.'"
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Now, don't get confused when it says,
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"You'll call his name Jesus, and his name be called Emmanuel."
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There's many names for God in the Old and New Testament.
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And so names here mean something.
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When we think of names today, when a woman thinks of names,
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a lot of times the parents don't even care what the name means.
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They're thinking of syllables. They're thinking of how it sounds.
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But names mean something. At least they should.
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And so you'll call his name Emmanuel.
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We'll look back in your text, which being interpreted is God with us.
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E-man-u-l. There's "el" again, God.
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E-man-u-l, God with us. That's what that name means.
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And so what he's saying is, "Yeah, you'll call him Jesus,
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but he'll be called Emmanuel in the sense that even though you may say,
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'Jesus, I love you,' when you spoke of him, you would say,
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'He's Emmanuel. He's God with us.' God came in the flesh."
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Look now in verse 24, "Then Joseph, being raised from sleep,
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did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife."
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Look here now, "And you heard not," in other words,
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"they had no sexual relations till she had brought forth her firstborn son,
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and he called his name Jesus."
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Now, that prophet that Matthew's quoting is Isaiah.
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And in Isaiah 7.14, if you're taking notes,
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the Bible says, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign,
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behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
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and shall call his name Emmanuel."
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So we're looking at a virgin.
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Oops.
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Let me bring it down just a little bit.
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"A virgin conceives and bears a son."
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Luke, we're in Matthew, turn to Luke now.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, just turn to your right.
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A couple books, Matthew, then Mark, then Luke.
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Good morning to those who just tuned in.
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I remember listening to a man one day that was in seminary.
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He was about to get his Master's of Divinity,
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which is a lot of hours to get one of those.
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He was about to get his Master's of Divinity almost through.
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And back then there was a real debate over whether or not
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Jesus actually was born from a virgin.
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After all, that would be a miracle, wouldn't it?
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And that's kind of hard for some people to believe,
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because there's people today who are like the Sadducees.
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They don't believe in stuff like that.
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So I asked him, I said, "Do you believe in the virgin birth of Christ?
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He's in a bad dissimilar."
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He said, "Well, I personally do,
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but he didn't think there was anything worth arguing over."
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Well, that shows you how little he knows about the Gospel.
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The virgin birth of Christ is critical.
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It is necessary for our salvation.
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So let's go ahead and look here in Luke chapter 1.
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Let's look in verse 31 through 35.
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And let's look and see what the angel told Mary.
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"And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb,
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and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus.
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He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest.
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And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father, David."
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Now, that's interesting.
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He's the Son of the Highest.
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Who's the highest?
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That's God.
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But he has a father named David.
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So according to his body, he's a descendant from David.
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But according to his person, his soul, and his spirit,
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he's a descendant from God directly.
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Okay?
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And so you have a man, you have God becoming a man,
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but at the same time, God bypasses Adam.
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He does not descend directly from Adam.
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So let's look here now.
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Verse 33, "And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever."
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Now, remember all the prophecies where God would give the land to Israel forever,
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where David's son would rule forever, and thus we would have to live forever.
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All of this is now coming to pass here through Jesus.
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God's saying, "This is how this is going to be done."
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Verse 33, "And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever.
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And of his kingdom there shall be no end."
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Praise God.
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"Then said Mary unto the angel,
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How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"
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In other words, how am I going to have a son?
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I've never had relations with a man.
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Verse 35, "And the angel answered and said unto her,
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The Holy Ghost, that is the Spirit of God, shall come upon thee,
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and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee.
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Therefore also that holy thing, holy thing,
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which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God."
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God is going to be the father of this child.
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God's spirit would allow Mary to conceive with no sexual relation,
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but God would be the father,
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and yet through Mary, God would take on human flesh.
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So God would be his father, yet legally,
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he would be a descendant of these people, you see.
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And Mary, Joseph, there's going to be a line coming down here
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that he's going to actually descend from Abraham.
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He's going to descend from David.
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But the child's going to be holy.
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The child's going to be the Son of God, not the Son of Adam.
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Now, that's very important.
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Remember last week when we looked at Jesus going into the wilderness
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to be tempted of the devil.
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And I told you last week that there were two atoms.
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Remember, there is the first atom who was tempted in a garden
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when he could fully eat.
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There was the second atom, the last atom that was tempted in the wilderness
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when he hadn't eaten for 40 days.
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The first atom did not represent the human race correctly
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and brought us into sin and death.
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The second atom came and did everything God said to do
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so that as we were born the first time into the first atom's disobedience and death,
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we could be born again the second time by accepting Christ
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into his obedience and eternal life.
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So we have the Son of God coming through Mary,
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not inherited the sin and death passed down from Adam.
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Now, let's go ahead and look here if you would in the Gospel of Luke.
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Luke chapter 3.
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Luke chapter 3.
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Just move a couple chapters to your right.
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Man, this is fun.
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In Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age,
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being as was supposed.
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You see that, "as was supposed"?
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In the Greek, that means "considered by law."
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Considered by law.
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Huh?
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I'm sorry.
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Luke 3 verse 23.
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You all should have known that.
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No, I'm kidding.
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I did, I got excited.
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Luke 3, 23.
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In Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age,
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being as was supposed.
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That means to be considered by law.
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The Son of Joseph.
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So legally he's considered the Son of Joseph,
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which was the son of Hailey,
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which was the son of Matthew,
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which was the son of Levi,
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which was the son of Melchized,
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which was the son of Johnna,
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which was the son of Joseph,
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which was the son of Mattathias,
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which was the son of Amos,
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which was the son of Nahum,
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which was the son of Esli,
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which was the son of Naj,
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which was the son of Moth,
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which was the son of Mattathias,
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which was the son of Samaya,
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which was the son of Joseph,
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which was the son of Judah,
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which was the son of Johanna,
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which was the son of Raisha,
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which was the son of Zerobah,
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which was the son of Salathel,
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which was the son of Neri,
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which was the son of Melchized,
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which was the son of Adi,
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which was the son of Qasim,
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which was the son of Elmatim,
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which was the son of Er,
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which was the son of Josie,
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which was the son of Eleazar,
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which was the son of Joram,
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which was the son of Matthet,
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which was the son of Levi,
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which was the son of Simeon,
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which was the son of Judah,
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which was the son of Joseph,
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which was the son of Johnna,
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which was the son of Eliacim,
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which was the son of Malaya,
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which was the son of Manon,
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which was the son of Mattathah,
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which was the son of Nathan,
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which was the son of David,
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which was the son of Jesse,
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which was the son of Obed,
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which was the son of Boaz,
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which was the son of Salman,
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which was the son of Nathan,
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which was the son of Amenadab,
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which was the son of Aram,
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which was the son of Asram,
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which was the son of Phares,
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which was the son of Judah,
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which was the son of Jacob,
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which was the son of Isaac,
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which was the son of Abraham,
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which was the son of Thara,
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which was the son of Nachir,
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which was the son of Saruk,
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which was the son of Raghu,
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which was the son of Phalek,
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which was the son of Haber,
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which was the son of Salah,
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which was the son of Canaan,
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which was the son of Arphaxad,
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which was the son of Sam,
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which was the son of Noah,
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which was the son of Lamech,
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which was the son of Methuselah,
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which was the son of Enoch,
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which was the son of Jared,
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which was the son of Malalael,
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which was the son of Canaan,
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which was the son of Enos,
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which was the son of Seth,
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which was the son of Adam,
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sit with me now,
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which was the son of God.
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Ah!
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What a genealogy!
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Now all of these genealogies,
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sometimes it may go through Joseph,
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sometimes it may go through Mary's line,
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but Joseph would always be substituted
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for the line,
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his father-in-law being called his father.
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But look here now,
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Adam, the first Adam,
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is the son of God.
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He didn't descend from anybody but God, right?
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Now he wasn't God,
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but he got his life directly from God
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and descended from no one else.
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So having got his life directly from God,
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Adam was born as the son of God, sinless,
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no sin passed down to the first Adam,
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son of God.
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Now through a virgin,
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we have another son of God.
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See how this works?
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No sin passed down to him as well.
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The only way it could happen is through a virgin.
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It had to be,
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God couldn't just come down,
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miraculously take on human flesh like us,
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beard like us, and then die for us.
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He had to be one of us because the human race
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had to overcome.
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The human race had to win.
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So he took on Adam's flesh
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without taking on Adam's nature and parenthood.
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And so now the first Adam,
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the second Adam,
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both sons of God in that respect,
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and now as one,
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represented all men to sin and death.
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So this one would represent all men to righteousness.
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And since this son of God is not just the son of God,
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he's God the son.
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He cannot sin. He will not sin. He's perfect.
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He's going to represent us righteously.
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All right?
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There were two Adams, two sons of God.
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The first brought sin and death to the world,
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to his offspring.
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The second is going to bring righteousness
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to the world through his offspring.
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So you have to be born again.
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Now if Christ
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had not been born of a virgin,
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then he would have inherited Adam's corrupt bloodline.
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Remember what we read last week in Romans chapter 5.
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"By one man sin entered into the world in death by sin,
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so death was passed upon all men,
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for that all have sinned."
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Well, Adam couldn't pass sin on to Jesus
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because Jesus is the son of God.
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If Jesus was not born of a virgin,
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we would not have a sinless substitute.
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And if you don't have a sinless substitute,
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then you're going to have another sinner just like you.
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You have no Savior.
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With no sinless substitute, there's no salvation.
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God thought of everything,
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and when man looks at things like this and he says,
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"Oh, well, we didn't have to have a Savior born of a virgin."
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It didn't have to be like that.
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It was just a poetic license,
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or it was just literary license.
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It wasn't really born of a virgin.
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Then you spoil the entire gospel,
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and you're calling the prophets,
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and you're calling God a liar.
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But when you see it play out like this,
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the Old Testament makes sense.
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Your salvation is secure.
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Who wants to rest on something that Adam gave us?
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Not me.
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Like Adam could say, "Well, I'll have a son that's better than me."
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Well, everything came from Adam.
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We're no better than our source.
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Jesus came from God. He was God,
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and he brought us righteousness.
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So that's what we learned about last week.
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If you'll turn to the book of Hebrews, please.
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Look at Hebrews.
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It's one of the last books in the Bible.
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Hebrews. Yeah, did you find it?
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Yeah, Chapter 1.
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We can... Yeah, we'll start with Chapter 1.
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Hebrews is a special book.
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It's written to compare the Old Testament to the New.
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Well, they had all those animal sacrifices in the Old Testament.
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The book of Hebrews is explaining, "Look, they were like credit cards.
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They weren't the real payment.
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You can't trust in plastic forever."
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I mean, you have to understand.
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Anybody using a credit card today has to understand
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that the plastic will never satisfy the person you owe.
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The only thing that's going to make that plastic good
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is a real cash payment that comes at the end.
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In the same way, these sacrifices in the Old Testament,
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they weren't going to satisfy God.
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Animals can't represent man for real.
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They can only represent the Son of God
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who would represent man for real
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because he would be man, yet he would be God,
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and he would be a sinless substitute to die in our place
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like the animals died in their place,
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and we could be free.
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Look here now in Hebrews 1, verse 1,
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"God, who at sundry times in diverse manners,
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spake in time paths unto the fathers by the prophets,
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hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
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whom he hath appointed heir of all things."
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Man, aren't you glad he appointed him heir of all things?
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If Jesus inherits everything, and we're Jesus' offspring,
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born again from him, then what do we inherit?
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We inherit everything, right?
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- Not soon. - Soon.
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Huh?
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- Not now. - Do we have a question? Go ahead.
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- No, no, no, I was just thinking. I was just thinking away.
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- Okay, sure, sure.
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"By whom also he made the worlds,"
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verse 3, "who, being the brightness of his glory,
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and the express image of his person,
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and upholding all things by the word of his power?"
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In other words, Jesus created the world,
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and he upholds, that means he keeps everything going
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by the word of his power.
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There's a certain amount of power that keeps the world spinning around.
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There's a certain amount of power that keeps the sun shining,
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a certain amount of power that keeps everything held in place
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until all the elements just don't fall apart,
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and all that's upheld by the word of Christ.
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So he says, "Upholding all things by the word of his power,
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when he had by himself purged our sins,
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sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high."
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Man, here's the Son of God who created the world.
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When we're reading in the book of Genesis,
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"Let there be light," that is Jesus saying, "Let there be light."
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When we see, "Let the grass and the trees come up upon the land,"
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"let the fish multiply in the waters,"
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"let the birds in the air, fly in the air,"
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"let this make cattle to multiply on the ground,"
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"let us make man in our image," all of that's Jesus.
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And then finally, Jesus comes, the one who upholds the entire world,
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the perfect, righteous, holy God becoming flesh for us.
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He then purges our sins by himself.
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I like that, by himself.
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No help from you, no help from me.
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He did it all by himself, so our salvation is all about Jesus.
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So here's what happens.
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We have Adam with all these genealogies,
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and you know what? We eventually make it in that genealogy, don't we?
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Jesus made it into that genealogy legally.
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We make it into that genealogy legally and biologically.
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And so here we are, sin, descendants,
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and eventually, you.
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You're in that line of genealogy.
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Now, Jesus was born back here
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from a virgin entering into that ancestral line.
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By doing so, he represents you.
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Jesus then goes to the cross.
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He dies as you.
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He dies in your place.
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Purges your sin.
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You know what purge means? Just put away.
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After he dies, when he died, you died, he represents you.
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He then goes to a tomb.
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When he went to the tomb, you went to the tomb.
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Now, when you're buried, Adam is dead.
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He's history. He's gone.
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After three days, he then is raised to the throne of God, who he is.
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And when he was raised, who else was raised? We were raised.
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Now, so you see now, through his birth, he takes on your identity.
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His death, he takes on your sin.
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His burial, he purges your sin.
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His resurrection, he then takes you from here to here.
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And now you're in a totally different line,
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totally different family, the family of God.
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He by himself purged our sins and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
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Absolutely amazing.
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The Bible says that we are seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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We are.
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This is a master design.
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There's no way man could have come up with this.
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But the death, burial and resurrection of Christ in his virgin birth,
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everything is necessary for our salvation.
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And that's why we wanted to make sure and go over the virgin birth of Christ today.
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Yes, sir.
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Okay, so it takes three days to three days to raise back up.
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Is that a particular number for a reason or did you take three days?
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That's a great question.
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So the question was, if you can't hear online,
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it took three days for him to raise back up.
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Is that a particular number or did you just take three days?
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First of all, and I know you know this, but to clarify,
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it didn't actually take him three days as if,
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as if he would, you know, couldn't come out sooner or something.
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But he took three days and yes, that is a specific number.
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When you go back to the book of Exodus,
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and again, this is beautiful.
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I love teaching the Bible because it's so tied together.
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They, Moses, when Moses first came to Pharaoh,
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he says, "Thus says the Lord,
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and let my people go three days journey into the wilderness."
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Three days journey.
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Three, of course, three is the number of God,
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but the Father sent the Holy Spirit.
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But three also being three days journey,
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it's a number of complete separation.
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Three days journey is the complete separation.
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And so when Jesus was in the grave for three days,
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it shows a complete separation of you from Adam's race.
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A perfect death.
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He didn't slumber in the grave.
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He didn't go in there and go, "Oh, my side hurts."
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And then come back out and say, "Well, I'm feeling better now."
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A complete death.
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At the same time, he didn't stay past three days
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because the Bible prophesied in the Old Testament
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that he would not see corruption,
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that he would not remain dead and see corruption.
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There was a time, in fact, let me turn it real quick.
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We've got enough time here.
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Let me look this up and then we'll close.
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Let me see here.
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Turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 11.
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Yeah, John chapter 11.
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Now, in John chapter 11, a man named Lazarus had died.
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Jesus loved Lazarus.
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If you look here now, Lazarus had a sister named Mary,
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different Mary than Jesus' mother.
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Verse 32, John 11, 32.
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"Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him,
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she fell down at his feet, saying to him,
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'Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died,
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or my brother wouldn't have died if you would have been here.'"
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Verse 33, "When Jesus therefore saw her weeping,
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and the Jews also weeping, which came whether he groaned
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in the spirit and was troubled, and said,
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'Where have you laid him?'
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They said unto him, 'Come and see.'
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Jesus wept.
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Then said the Jews, 'Behold how he loved him.'
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And some of them said, 'Could not this man,
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which opened the eyes of the blind,
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have called that even this man should not have died?'
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Jesus therefore again groaning in himself,
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cometh to the grave, it was a cave,
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and the stone lay upon it.
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Jesus said, 'Take away the stone.'
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Now, you're going to a cemetery.
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Jesus says, 'Roll the stone away from the grave and side.'
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He says, 'Roll away the stone,
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Martha the sister of him that was dead,
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said unto him, 'Lord, by this time he what?'
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Stake hath.'
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Watch this now, 'For he had been dead,' how long?
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Four days.
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So, 'Lord, while we roll away the stone by this time,
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he stinks.'
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It's been four days.
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He's rotten. He's corrupted.
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So you see another reason,
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Jesus stayed three days for complete separation
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to show he is truly, in fact, dead.
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So we truly, in fact, died to our sins,
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died to our relationship with Adam.
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A complete separation,
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as the Israelites were completely separated from Egypt
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and their bondage, we're completely separated from Adam
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and our bondage to sin and death.
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Complete separation. However,
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he did not lay in the grave long enough
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to rot and stink.
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Because the Bible prophesied,
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'Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell.'
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Hell means death.
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'Thou shalt not suffer,
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thou unholy one to see corruption.'
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And he didn't.
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He actually wasn't in the grave,
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from what I can tell,
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72 hours.
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But shorter than that, because the Jews,
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reckoned by law, day nights.
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So when you look at,
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you know, you look at when he went into the grave
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and when he came out of the grave,
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some people have trouble with that.
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They say, 'Man, it didn't look like he was actually under 72 hours.'
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But they have day nights, because they reckon,
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we reckon from, you know, midnight to midnight.
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They don't.
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They reckon their time differently.
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And part of the whole is reckoned as the whole.
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And so if you get in the grave at the latter part of one day,
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then it counts legally as the whole day,
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and the second day,
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and then you get out early the third day,
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it counts as three days and three nights.
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Or three night days is what it's called in the Jewish history.
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But that's a whole other thing.
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I just threw that in there,
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because I didn't want you all to later get on that
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and get confused about it.
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And so, anyway, yes, the three days means something,
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a complete separation.
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And I tell you what, those who trust in Christ as their Savior,
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those who look to the cross for their salvation,
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there is a complete separation from your sins
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as far as the east is from the west.
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Buried in the deepest sea, yes, that is enough for me.
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My sins are gone, as the song says.
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With that, we'll go ahead and stop.
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Thank God for a sinless substitute.
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Born of a virgin.
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Now, because Jesus was the Son of God,
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those who trust in Him are called the sons of God as well.
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Lord William will take back up with Jesus' ministry
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and the calling of the apostles next Sunday.
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All right?
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We'll see you next door.
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