1 00:00:03,850 --> 00:00:06,150 What is the day in which God declares 2 00:00:06,150 --> 00:00:08,110 the decree, Thou art my son, and this 3 00:00:08,110 --> 00:00:11,470 day I have begotten you, and I have 4 00:00:11,470 --> 00:00:13,330 set you on the holy hill of Zion? 5 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:17,370 What day is that? 6 00:00:17,830 --> 00:00:19,910 By the way, the day of his resurrection. 7 00:00:20,890 --> 00:00:23,310 As we read in Romans chapter 1, verse 8 00:00:23,310 --> 00:00:29,110 4, the sonship has come through an obedience 9 00:00:29,110 --> 00:00:32,830 unto death, and the father, in the approval 10 00:00:32,830 --> 00:00:36,590 of that sacrifice, has exalted the son, not 11 00:00:36,590 --> 00:00:38,750 only to raise him from the death, but 12 00:00:38,750 --> 00:00:41,330 to give him a place on high, in 13 00:00:41,330 --> 00:00:44,110 rulership from the throne of heaven, and to 14 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:46,950 set him in the time of Israel's return 15 00:00:48,470 --> 00:00:50,030 upon the holy hill of Zion. 16 00:00:51,990 --> 00:00:57,030 Thou art my son, your sonship is attested 17 00:00:57,030 --> 00:01:00,690 by your sacrifice, and my approval for resurrection 18 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:04,230 is the qualification to rule for which I 19 00:01:04,230 --> 00:01:06,010 give you the nations as your inheritance. 20 00:01:07,230 --> 00:01:10,170 If that's required for that son, what's required 21 00:01:10,170 --> 00:01:12,690 for the sons to which we are called? 22 00:01:13,730 --> 00:01:16,390 How shall we be fitted into the theocratic 23 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:20,210 purposes of God, except also by the decree 24 00:01:20,210 --> 00:01:23,990 of a sacrifice of death, resurrection? 25 00:01:24,670 --> 00:01:27,490 And it's only in the resurrection reality that 26 00:01:27,490 --> 00:01:30,170 the governmental purposes of God are established. 27 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:33,130 Who shall rule and reign with him but 28 00:01:33,130 --> 00:01:36,310 overcomers who count not their life as dear 29 00:01:36,310 --> 00:01:36,950 unto themselves? 30 00:01:37,770 --> 00:01:41,450 So the father was pleased by how Jesus's 31 00:01:41,450 --> 00:01:44,750 ministry commenced, by going down into a watery 32 00:01:44,750 --> 00:01:47,810 grave, in identification with a sinful nation. 33 00:01:48,650 --> 00:01:51,610 When he came up, the Holy Spirit, as 34 00:01:51,610 --> 00:01:54,130 a dove, came upon him that John the 35 00:01:54,130 --> 00:01:56,450 Baptist could recognize, this is the Messiah of 36 00:01:56,450 --> 00:01:56,750 Israel. 37 00:01:57,190 --> 00:01:59,590 Though he's my cousin, I don't know him 38 00:01:59,590 --> 00:02:02,790 by anything natural, because God has said to 39 00:02:02,790 --> 00:02:06,290 me, you will recognize him when the Holy 40 00:02:06,290 --> 00:02:10,020 Spirit shall abide upon him, which is the 41 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:14,700 statement of God and his approval of a 42 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:15,800 son going down into death. 43 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,220 It's kind of a paradigm for all sons. 44 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,420 We have to ask the question, whether our 45 00:02:25,420 --> 00:02:26,900 baptism constituted that? 46 00:02:29,260 --> 00:02:30,220 Was it getting wet? 47 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:31,060 Was it an ordinance? 48 00:02:31,060 --> 00:02:32,540 Was it a religious requirement? 49 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,200 Something that people said we needed? 50 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:37,980 Or was it a conscious bringing our humanity, 51 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:40,580 not its worst, but its best, into the 52 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:42,180 waters of death that we might be raised 53 00:02:42,180 --> 00:02:43,820 up into newness of life? 54 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,840 Because only sons of an overcoming kind shall 55 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,920 rule and reign with him. 56 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,940 The issue of government, the issue of rule 57 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:51,960 is the issue of resurrection. 58 00:02:52,580 --> 00:02:54,080 And the issue of resurrection is the issue 59 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:54,500 of death. 60 00:02:57,130 --> 00:02:58,250 I don't want to belabor that. 61 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,840 But here in the German commentator on this 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,360 point, you are my son, I myself have 63 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,580 begotten you, reveals itself as a creative word, 64 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:13,660 one that originates a new existence. 65 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:15,500 What's the new existence? 66 00:03:16,820 --> 00:03:18,480 King on the Holy Hill. 67 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,400 The chosen king is drawn to the side 68 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:21,800 of God. 69 00:03:22,180 --> 00:03:24,460 He becomes the heir and representative of his 70 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:24,640 rule. 71 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,840 Thus, in the Old Testament, the king was 72 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,600 not by nature son of God, nor did 73 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,000 he enter the sphere by the natural things, 74 00:03:33,710 --> 00:03:36,680 but at the accession to his kingship, he 75 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,100 was declared to be the son by the 76 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:41,320 definitive will of the God of Israel. 77 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:42,780 That's a mouthful. 78 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:47,380 This is not, this is my son, I 79 00:03:47,380 --> 00:03:51,800 declare the decree by any natural reckoning, but 80 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,940 by a supernatural reckoning that issues from an 81 00:03:54,940 --> 00:03:57,980 obedience unto death and a resurrection from death. 82 00:03:58,140 --> 00:04:01,380 That is the qualification for the king and 83 00:04:01,380 --> 00:04:01,880 his rule. 84 00:04:04,980 --> 00:04:07,620 Here he speaks again about the significance of 85 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:08,140 resurrection. 86 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:11,020 The message of the Old Testament now for 87 00:04:11,020 --> 00:04:14,160 the first time really shines forth because the 88 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,620 crucified one is the resurrected one. 89 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:19,200 To him has been given all authority in 90 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,040 heaven and in earth. 91 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:22,640 He's the son and heir. 92 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,920 He's the true son of the father. 93 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:27,360 I can almost say a son of Shem, 94 00:04:27,460 --> 00:04:28,680 the true son of Shem. 95 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,680 In Jesus Christ, the New Testament sees the 96 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,760 king of God, who in the comprehensive sense 97 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,700 has approached and fulfilled the kingdom of office 98 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:41,640 as the anointed one of the Old Testament. 99 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,670 He's the true son given all authority in 100 00:04:47,670 --> 00:04:47,890 heaven. 101 00:04:48,710 --> 00:04:51,410 I wonder if that requires a death, that 102 00:04:51,410 --> 00:04:54,450 God can entrust his authority for the rule 103 00:04:54,450 --> 00:04:57,550 over creation to a son in whom there's 104 00:04:57,550 --> 00:05:01,490 no threat of taking to himself any self 105 00:05:01,490 --> 00:05:04,130 aggrandizement as politicians do. 106 00:05:04,130 --> 00:05:07,510 What may be a politician or a ruler 107 00:05:07,510 --> 00:05:10,210 who has not used his office for his 108 00:05:10,210 --> 00:05:11,810 own self aggrandizement? 109 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:14,870 God is waiting for a son who is 110 00:05:14,870 --> 00:05:19,330 completely free of any prospect of taking advantage 111 00:05:19,330 --> 00:05:22,470 of his place of authority for his own 112 00:05:22,470 --> 00:05:23,750 self exaltation. 113 00:05:24,750 --> 00:05:28,750 Jesus is that son and death is the 114 00:05:28,750 --> 00:05:32,870 testimony of any such impulse that would ever 115 00:05:32,870 --> 00:05:34,690 rise up out of his humanity. 116 00:05:35,390 --> 00:05:38,410 The resurrected one can be entrusted with the 117 00:05:38,410 --> 00:05:40,150 father's authority to rule. 118 00:05:40,730 --> 00:05:44,250 How then also those who shall rule and 119 00:05:44,250 --> 00:05:46,790 reign with him, which is the privilege of 120 00:05:46,790 --> 00:05:47,790 overcoming sons. 121 00:05:48,810 --> 00:05:50,650 Jesus is the paradigm son. 122 00:05:51,150 --> 00:05:53,710 He's the pattern son, but we can examine 123 00:05:53,710 --> 00:05:56,510 his sonship as the key to rule as 124 00:05:56,510 --> 00:05:57,470 being also our own. 125 00:05:57,810 --> 00:06:01,650 It's a privilege to rule and reign with 126 00:06:01,650 --> 00:06:02,070 Christ. 127 00:06:02,070 --> 00:06:06,950 Who will replace the fallen angelic powers who 128 00:06:06,950 --> 00:06:10,650 have been usurping their place in the heavenlies 129 00:06:10,650 --> 00:06:14,990 that God intended as an accompaniment to his 130 00:06:14,990 --> 00:06:17,930 governmental benevolence over the earth. 131 00:06:18,150 --> 00:06:22,190 The original purpose of those angels created by 132 00:06:22,190 --> 00:06:25,570 God was to aid and abet in his 133 00:06:25,570 --> 00:06:27,090 governance over creation. 134 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:29,670 But what had they become in their rebellion? 135 00:06:29,670 --> 00:06:32,150 The gods of this age. 136 00:06:32,710 --> 00:06:35,910 And instead of facilitating God's rule and turning 137 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:39,870 the attention of men to himself and to 138 00:06:39,870 --> 00:06:43,030 worship, they become the gods of this world. 139 00:06:43,510 --> 00:06:46,690 Not only turning men away from the God 140 00:06:46,690 --> 00:06:48,930 who is God, but turning them to themselves. 141 00:06:49,610 --> 00:06:52,130 They should be worshiped in turn as the 142 00:06:52,130 --> 00:06:53,250 gods of this world. 143 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:56,990 They have to be ousted and cast out 144 00:06:56,990 --> 00:06:58,930 from their original place. 145 00:06:58,930 --> 00:07:01,070 This has got to do with the fullness 146 00:07:01,070 --> 00:07:03,610 of the Gentiles being come in, in many 147 00:07:03,610 --> 00:07:03,970 ways. 148 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:08,850 A number, I believe, proportionate to the number 149 00:07:08,850 --> 00:07:12,270 of fallen angels who constitute the principalities and 150 00:07:12,270 --> 00:07:16,870 powers, occupying governmental places, but using them illicitly 151 00:07:16,870 --> 00:07:20,450 for their own self aggrandizement, even to the 152 00:07:20,450 --> 00:07:22,770 manipulation of nations. 153 00:07:23,550 --> 00:07:26,630 When they are cast out, who will occupy 154 00:07:26,630 --> 00:07:28,430 those places of rule? 155 00:07:29,750 --> 00:07:31,830 Who will be in agreement with God and 156 00:07:31,830 --> 00:07:32,710 not opposed to God? 157 00:07:33,370 --> 00:07:36,250 And can rule in the character of God. 158 00:07:37,210 --> 00:07:38,970 Ruling is not just shuffling papers. 159 00:07:39,170 --> 00:07:39,930 It's not bureaucracy. 160 00:07:40,670 --> 00:07:43,370 It's bringing the wisdom and the way of 161 00:07:43,370 --> 00:07:44,210 God to men. 162 00:07:44,790 --> 00:07:46,790 Can you picture what the millennium is? 163 00:07:47,850 --> 00:07:52,850 Israel restored to its governmental role as the 164 00:07:52,850 --> 00:07:56,270 locus of God's kingdom and going out to 165 00:07:56,270 --> 00:07:58,710 the Gentile nations, as well as receiving the 166 00:07:58,710 --> 00:07:59,950 representative of nations. 167 00:08:00,890 --> 00:08:04,190 And from the heavenly place, now, not just 168 00:08:04,190 --> 00:08:07,010 a realm of principalities and powers opposed to 169 00:08:07,010 --> 00:08:12,350 God, but sons who have been formed and 170 00:08:12,350 --> 00:08:14,790 been brought to maturity in this life to 171 00:08:14,790 --> 00:08:17,430 rule and reign from that place in concert 172 00:08:17,430 --> 00:08:18,430 with redeemed Israel. 173 00:08:19,250 --> 00:08:21,130 No wonder that the trees will clap their 174 00:08:21,130 --> 00:08:21,450 hands. 175 00:08:22,070 --> 00:08:25,450 No wonder that nature itself, creation, groans and 176 00:08:25,450 --> 00:08:28,750 travails till now, waiting for the showing forth 177 00:08:28,750 --> 00:08:32,010 the manifestation of the sons of God. 178 00:08:33,130 --> 00:08:36,809 When we lose this context and still celebrate 179 00:08:36,809 --> 00:08:38,809 sonship, we're on the ground of deception. 180 00:08:39,669 --> 00:08:43,510 And that's why the whole concept of sonship 181 00:08:43,510 --> 00:08:47,190 has fallen into a suspicious kind of elitism 182 00:08:47,190 --> 00:08:49,970 of men who think that they'll never see 183 00:08:49,970 --> 00:08:50,230 death. 184 00:08:50,290 --> 00:08:51,510 They'll never die, blah, blah, blah, blah. 185 00:08:51,510 --> 00:08:56,410 They have extracted the word and taken it 186 00:08:56,410 --> 00:08:59,270 out of the governmental context of God and 187 00:08:59,270 --> 00:09:01,630 the kingdom of God and celebrate it as 188 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:04,010 a thing in itself, as being their own 189 00:09:04,010 --> 00:09:07,290 personal distinctive and looking upon others as being 190 00:09:07,290 --> 00:09:10,110 in Babylon, as if they are an elite. 191 00:09:11,730 --> 00:09:14,190 How can you rule and reign with Christ 192 00:09:14,190 --> 00:09:17,670 being an elite having an elitist mentality? 193 00:09:18,010 --> 00:09:20,190 Because the rule of God has got to 194 00:09:20,190 --> 00:09:24,050 be in the character of God, selfless, humble, 195 00:09:24,650 --> 00:09:24,990 meek. 196 00:09:25,330 --> 00:09:28,970 Your king shall come to you lowly and 197 00:09:28,970 --> 00:09:29,430 meek. 198 00:09:29,990 --> 00:09:31,790 When he came down on the back of 199 00:09:31,790 --> 00:09:33,630 that ass upon which never men sat, they 200 00:09:33,630 --> 00:09:34,450 shouted hallelujah. 201 00:09:35,050 --> 00:09:40,150 They shouted Hosanna for the coming of the 202 00:09:40,150 --> 00:09:40,550 king. 203 00:09:41,270 --> 00:09:44,270 What shall they shout for the kingdom that 204 00:09:44,270 --> 00:09:45,770 comes in the same character? 205 00:09:46,290 --> 00:09:49,890 If we're elitist or superior in our spirituality, 206 00:09:50,470 --> 00:09:55,790 we're ipso facto nullified as any candidates to 207 00:09:55,790 --> 00:09:56,530 rule and reign with him. 208 00:09:57,510 --> 00:10:00,690 Where is this character of the son formed 209 00:10:00,690 --> 00:10:01,350 and shaped? 210 00:10:02,150 --> 00:10:04,050 That we shall rule and reign with him, 211 00:10:04,410 --> 00:10:08,630 not as self aggrandizing hotshots who occupy an 212 00:10:08,630 --> 00:10:13,130 elitist place, but humbled by the privilege of 213 00:10:13,130 --> 00:10:14,230 ruling and reigning with him. 214 00:10:14,590 --> 00:10:16,850 What is the parousia and the Lord's coming 215 00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:20,110 when we shall, as they say, be raptured 216 00:10:20,350 --> 00:10:24,290 but meeting the coming king and being with 217 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:27,570 him forever and accompanying him to his place 218 00:10:27,570 --> 00:10:30,250 of honor and rule at Zion? 219 00:10:30,810 --> 00:10:33,850 That's why we need glorified bodies to greet 220 00:10:33,850 --> 00:10:36,230 him in the air, to accompany him to 221 00:10:36,230 --> 00:10:40,970 his, that's what the Greek word means, and 222 00:10:40,970 --> 00:10:44,590 to see him receive the honor due him 223 00:10:44,590 --> 00:10:47,390 who suffered and died in shame, now to 224 00:10:47,390 --> 00:10:49,950 occupy the role of king from the place 225 00:10:49,950 --> 00:10:51,190 where he was crucified. 226 00:10:52,530 --> 00:10:54,330 And thereby to rule and reign with him, 227 00:10:54,730 --> 00:10:56,830 ascending and descending upon the son of man. 228 00:10:57,470 --> 00:11:00,390 Remember when Jesus saw Nathanael, he said, you're 229 00:11:00,390 --> 00:11:02,210 impressed that I show you standing under the 230 00:11:02,210 --> 00:11:02,430 tree? 231 00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:06,890 I'll show you a greater thing, angels ascending 232 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:08,830 and descending upon the son of man. 233 00:11:09,450 --> 00:11:14,270 It's a shaded allusion to the consummation of 234 00:11:14,270 --> 00:11:16,910 the ages, that this is a greater thing. 235 00:11:16,910 --> 00:11:19,110 In fact, the Lord would not have gone 236 00:11:19,110 --> 00:11:21,070 too far to say, it's the greatest thing, 237 00:11:21,570 --> 00:11:23,770 that those who are taking off of dunkeeps 238 00:11:25,190 --> 00:11:28,550 shall sit with princes and be among the 239 00:11:28,550 --> 00:11:29,710 princes of my people. 240 00:11:30,190 --> 00:11:35,110 Those drug addicts and guys that were sexually 241 00:11:35,110 --> 00:11:39,030 deranged and immoral and in the world and 242 00:11:39,030 --> 00:11:42,330 out of prisons, the lowest, the scum, we 243 00:11:42,330 --> 00:11:43,090 all are that. 244 00:11:44,410 --> 00:11:46,990 He has taken off of the dunkeep and 245 00:11:46,990 --> 00:11:49,070 made to sit with the princes of his 246 00:11:49,070 --> 00:11:49,430 people. 247 00:11:49,850 --> 00:11:52,170 The word prince is an indication of rule. 248 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,240 Why did the young ruler come? 249 00:11:58,380 --> 00:12:00,820 What must I do to inherit life, to 250 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:02,820 inherit eternal life, to enter the kingdom? 251 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,580 He wasn't just talking about prolonged existence. 252 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,900 He wasn't just talking about endless life. 253 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,040 He was talking about the privilege of participation 254 00:12:13,690 --> 00:12:15,740 in the kingdom of God forever. 255 00:12:17,020 --> 00:12:20,100 We have lost that Hebraic sense of what 256 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:22,560 the destiny of our faith means. 257 00:12:23,180 --> 00:12:25,340 And for that reason, we're unwilling now to 258 00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:27,920 submit to the conditions by which our character 259 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,980 will be formed for that. 260 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,960 Rule and reign is not something that we're 261 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,820 going to magically obtain in the day of 262 00:12:35,820 --> 00:12:37,680 the Lord's appearing if we have not been 263 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,740 progressively fitted and formed to rule in keeping 264 00:12:41,740 --> 00:12:44,020 with the character of God and bring the 265 00:12:44,020 --> 00:12:48,060 moral dimension of God the Semitic character of 266 00:12:48,060 --> 00:12:51,480 God into the Japheth nations because they have 267 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,740 not seen the issue of sonship in the 268 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:55,380 context of kingdom rule. 269 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,620 They have divorced the issue of sonship that 270 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:03,720 comes through death and resurrection that we might 271 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:08,080 rule impartially and well with justice and righteousness 272 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,320 and without any corruption that would come by 273 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,980 the self-interest that has avoided the cross. 274 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,540 Now, where is the ultimate? 275 00:13:16,780 --> 00:13:19,400 Ooh, I'm really going off the gangplank now. 276 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,100 Where does the ultimate crucifixion and ultimate death 277 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:27,660 to the last vestiges of the subtlety of 278 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:32,080 self take place that would have cast a 279 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,720 shadow over our ability to rule righteously and 280 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,480 well with Christ in keeping with his own 281 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:38,980 character? 282 00:13:39,540 --> 00:13:45,020 When we will bow to enter the tent 283 00:13:45,020 --> 00:13:46,160 of Shem. 284 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,440 The last thing that identifies the issue of 285 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,920 Japheth rebellion and self-will that has characterized 286 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,940 the nations from the time of the Tower 287 00:13:55,940 --> 00:13:58,180 of Babel and yet resides in most even 288 00:13:58,180 --> 00:14:01,660 Christian hearts is met at that place of 289 00:14:01,660 --> 00:14:04,940 ultimate humbling when we will bow in the 290 00:14:04,940 --> 00:14:08,560 place where we would least desire before a 291 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:17,180 specific people who are the Semitic tent themselves 292 00:14:17,180 --> 00:14:21,820 transformed but we need to bow to enter. 293 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,900 And someone said to me last night talking 294 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:28,620 about our class, how many of us have 295 00:14:28,620 --> 00:14:29,240 so bowed? 296 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,220 Why do I say I'm going off the 297 00:14:33,220 --> 00:14:33,740 deep plank? 298 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:36,540 Because I can't say it, I'll say it 299 00:14:36,540 --> 00:14:36,900 for the Lord. 300 00:14:37,780 --> 00:14:40,220 Because I'll tell you what, dear saints, I 301 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:43,400 spent hours yesterday after our session and I 302 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,300 picked every book out of my bookcase of 303 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:47,780 commentaries on Genesis. 304 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,320 I read the Anchor series on Genesis. 305 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,980 I pulled out Klaus Westermann, one of the 306 00:14:53,980 --> 00:14:57,860 great German authorities, Von Raad, another German authority, 307 00:14:58,140 --> 00:15:00,080 everything that I have access to. 308 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,860 I read Karl Barth. 309 00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:03,900 I looked up the index of any reference 310 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:08,040 in the Genesis 9 of the statement of 311 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,620 Noah in blessing his sons that would give 312 00:15:10,620 --> 00:15:12,300 me some inkling of what this Tent of 313 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:12,780 Shem meant. 314 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:13,800 You want to know something? 315 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:14,760 Zero. 316 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:16,580 Zero. 317 00:15:17,260 --> 00:15:21,020 By the greatest commentators of Scripture, non-compassment 318 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:21,980 is blank. 319 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:25,420 And they acknowledge that, well, no one could 320 00:15:25,420 --> 00:15:26,080 really say. 321 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,060 It's hard to say. 322 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:31,340 There's an air here of mystery that no 323 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:33,200 one seems to be able to understand. 324 00:15:35,060 --> 00:15:39,000 So, kid cats, Brooklyn boy makes good. 325 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:46,480 He's suggesting something of the kind that I 326 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,420 spoke in Canada and I'm putting before you. 327 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:50,960 This is ultimate mystery. 328 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,020 And there's something about my 73 years on 329 00:15:54,020 --> 00:15:57,260 this earth as a Jew, my 38 years 330 00:15:57,260 --> 00:15:59,760 in the church, and what happened, in fact, 331 00:15:59,860 --> 00:16:02,380 in Canada with, shall I almost say, the 332 00:16:02,380 --> 00:16:06,680 rage, the anger disproportionate to the event itself, 333 00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:10,640 suggesting that what was touched here lies too 334 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,340 deep for words and even beyond the consciousness 335 00:16:13,340 --> 00:16:18,160 of those who exploded and reacted with that 336 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,580 depth of vehemence and emotion, calling it Jewish. 337 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:31,780 And so I'm suggesting that the cross, the 338 00:16:31,780 --> 00:16:35,600 death, has not had its final and deepest 339 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:36,380 working. 340 00:16:37,020 --> 00:16:37,980 And it waits for this. 341 00:16:40,050 --> 00:16:42,190 And not just for Gentiles, the Jews themselves, 342 00:16:42,330 --> 00:16:44,530 who are not Semitic by virtue of our 343 00:16:44,530 --> 00:16:50,770 birth, because Semitic is not ultimately a generic 344 00:16:50,770 --> 00:16:52,550 or racial or ethnic thing. 345 00:16:52,750 --> 00:16:56,550 It's the spiritual condition that this son himself 346 00:16:56,550 --> 00:17:00,410 attained by his own obedience to the father 347 00:17:00,410 --> 00:17:03,650 unto death, both in his baptism and in 348 00:17:03,650 --> 00:17:04,589 his crucifixion. 349 00:17:05,010 --> 00:17:06,910 And therefore, I have exalted you. 350 00:17:07,470 --> 00:17:10,230 I've raised you up from the abysmal depths 351 00:17:10,230 --> 00:17:12,150 of the death to which you submitted yourself 352 00:17:12,150 --> 00:17:12,589 freely. 353 00:17:12,910 --> 00:17:15,730 And I have exalted you by giving you 354 00:17:15,730 --> 00:17:16,910 a name above every name. 355 00:17:16,950 --> 00:17:18,810 And to you, every knee shall bow and 356 00:17:18,810 --> 00:17:21,829 every mouth confess, I'm giving you a status 357 00:17:21,829 --> 00:17:23,910 and a stature and a name equal to 358 00:17:23,910 --> 00:17:24,730 my own. 359 00:17:25,430 --> 00:17:27,630 Talk about the father deferring to the son. 360 00:17:28,070 --> 00:17:30,430 That very deferring is the revelation of the 361 00:17:30,430 --> 00:17:31,130 character of God. 362 00:17:31,470 --> 00:17:33,870 And I'm putting you on the Holy Hill 363 00:17:33,870 --> 00:17:34,290 of Zion. 364 00:17:34,630 --> 00:17:36,290 I've declared the decree this day. 365 00:17:36,950 --> 00:17:39,010 Thou art my son, and I have set 366 00:17:39,010 --> 00:17:40,790 you on the Holy Hill of Zion and 367 00:17:40,790 --> 00:17:42,830 given you the nations as your inheritance. 368 00:17:43,650 --> 00:17:45,630 Remember the first statements that I read from 369 00:17:45,630 --> 00:17:48,650 both of my sources, that the church has 370 00:17:48,650 --> 00:17:54,850 lost this understanding, has romanticized, has spiritualized away 371 00:17:54,850 --> 00:17:58,390 the literal, specific, hard fact and truth that 372 00:17:58,390 --> 00:18:01,010 the whole of redemption history from the beginning, 373 00:18:01,150 --> 00:18:02,910 even the lamb slain from the foundations of 374 00:18:02,910 --> 00:18:04,730 the earth, is the issue of God's rule 375 00:18:04,730 --> 00:18:05,670 over his own creation. 376 00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:08,630 That's what we see in the book of 377 00:18:08,630 --> 00:18:09,470 beginnings, Genesis. 378 00:18:11,730 --> 00:18:15,670 The flood, God's judgment, one family saved, three 379 00:18:15,670 --> 00:18:19,270 sons, a remarkable episode of a man getting 380 00:18:19,270 --> 00:18:22,210 drunk inadvertently, tasting for the first time the 381 00:18:22,210 --> 00:18:25,150 fruit of the vine and being taken advantage 382 00:18:25,150 --> 00:18:27,290 of by one son in particular to shame 383 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:27,550 him. 384 00:18:27,750 --> 00:18:30,550 Maybe tomorrow I'll bring another source of the 385 00:18:30,550 --> 00:18:32,870 one book that I found that had some 386 00:18:32,870 --> 00:18:35,350 deep insight is not any of the classic 387 00:18:35,350 --> 00:18:37,070 theologians, but it's a man I've never heard 388 00:18:37,070 --> 00:18:37,550 of before. 389 00:18:38,830 --> 00:18:44,650 And he suggests that this ham took delight 390 00:18:45,130 --> 00:18:48,890 in the embarrassment of his father's failure and 391 00:18:48,890 --> 00:18:52,590 told the other brothers sharing the gossip in 392 00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:55,690 a malicious way so as to denigrate and 393 00:18:55,690 --> 00:18:59,550 to demean the father although God says thou 394 00:18:59,550 --> 00:19:01,610 shalt honor thy father and thy mother. 395 00:19:03,230 --> 00:19:05,430 And so he could not induce the other 396 00:19:05,430 --> 00:19:08,550 brothers to share with him a taking advantage 397 00:19:08,550 --> 00:19:11,790 of the father in his fallenness, but they 398 00:19:11,790 --> 00:19:14,870 having something of the integrity of God himself, 399 00:19:15,450 --> 00:19:18,250 walked backwards with a cloak and draped it 400 00:19:18,250 --> 00:19:21,050 over the naked father and avoiding having to 401 00:19:21,050 --> 00:19:23,090 look upon him in that condition and therefore 402 00:19:23,090 --> 00:19:26,870 enjoyed the blessing spoken prophetically by the prophetic 403 00:19:26,870 --> 00:19:30,830 father Noah that the blessing for Japheth is 404 00:19:30,830 --> 00:19:31,950 that he would be enlarged. 405 00:19:32,870 --> 00:19:35,050 And indeed he has been as we can 406 00:19:35,050 --> 00:19:36,350 see in the history of nations. 407 00:19:37,070 --> 00:19:38,310 But that's Shem. 408 00:19:39,670 --> 00:19:44,230 Now Reedward says and God bless and bless 409 00:19:44,230 --> 00:19:46,970 the God of Shem. 410 00:19:49,290 --> 00:19:50,130 Blessed be the Lord. 411 00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:51,070 Verse 26. 412 00:19:52,210 --> 00:19:53,390 Here's the prophet. 413 00:19:54,050 --> 00:19:55,590 Well, it begins with 25. 414 00:19:55,590 --> 00:19:58,730 Then he said, waking from his wine, waking 415 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:02,150 from his drunkenness, cursed be Canaan, a servant 416 00:20:02,150 --> 00:20:04,050 of servants, he shall be to his brethren. 417 00:20:04,910 --> 00:20:07,710 And he said, blessed be the Lord, the 418 00:20:07,710 --> 00:20:08,350 God of Shem. 419 00:20:08,810 --> 00:20:09,930 Not blessed be Shem. 420 00:20:10,790 --> 00:20:13,270 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. 421 00:20:13,930 --> 00:20:16,670 And the word God there is different from 422 00:20:16,670 --> 00:20:17,670 the next sentence. 423 00:20:17,910 --> 00:20:18,990 And they came to be his servant. 424 00:20:19,370 --> 00:20:21,770 May God enlarge Japheth and may he dwell 425 00:20:21,770 --> 00:20:22,610 in the tents of Shem. 426 00:20:22,990 --> 00:20:25,210 The word God in verse 27 is not 427 00:20:25,210 --> 00:20:26,990 the same as the word God in verse 428 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:27,610 26. 429 00:20:28,030 --> 00:20:31,430 Very interesting that the word God in 26 430 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:36,310 is Yahweh, Jehovah, the distinct God of Israel. 431 00:20:37,250 --> 00:20:41,930 But the God of enlarging Japheth, may God 432 00:20:41,930 --> 00:20:42,330 enlarge. 433 00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:45,450 That is Elohim, the God of creation, the 434 00:20:45,450 --> 00:20:47,150 God of all mankind. 435 00:20:48,090 --> 00:20:51,750 So God uses one designation of himself in 436 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:55,070 blessing Shem and another in blessing Japheth. 437 00:20:55,730 --> 00:20:57,090 And that is not accidental. 438 00:20:57,890 --> 00:21:00,230 I tell you, dear saints, this is so 439 00:21:00,230 --> 00:21:00,790 deep. 440 00:21:01,910 --> 00:21:02,850 It's a mystery. 441 00:21:03,450 --> 00:21:06,410 We're walking on eggshells not to offend against 442 00:21:06,410 --> 00:21:09,470 the Lord, but neither to ignore the Lord 443 00:21:09,470 --> 00:21:12,710 and miss something that is set at the 444 00:21:12,710 --> 00:21:16,330 very foundation of the whole Heilsgeschichte, of the 445 00:21:16,330 --> 00:21:19,130 whole salvation history of God, going back to 446 00:21:19,130 --> 00:21:22,550 this inadvertent episode of a man drunk and 447 00:21:22,550 --> 00:21:24,890 waking from it to curse and to bless. 448 00:21:25,550 --> 00:21:28,030 Blessing the God, what would you make of 449 00:21:28,030 --> 00:21:28,150 that? 450 00:21:28,250 --> 00:21:30,310 Why didn't he bless Shem directly? 451 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:33,950 And many of the translations say, bless Shem. 452 00:21:34,670 --> 00:21:38,270 Why do other translations show that the blessing 453 00:21:38,270 --> 00:21:40,830 is bless the God, the Lord God of 454 00:21:40,830 --> 00:21:41,170 Shem? 455 00:21:42,530 --> 00:21:45,110 Because even the translators could not figure it 456 00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:47,650 out and thought that, how do you bless 457 00:21:47,650 --> 00:21:48,170 God? 458 00:21:49,050 --> 00:21:50,770 You bless Shem, but how do you bless 459 00:21:50,770 --> 00:21:51,150 God? 460 00:21:51,630 --> 00:21:52,950 And you want to hear my opinion? 461 00:21:53,970 --> 00:21:54,130 Yeah. 462 00:21:54,890 --> 00:21:55,570 Yes. 463 00:21:56,110 --> 00:22:00,550 God is blessed when he is glorified by 464 00:22:00,550 --> 00:22:04,550 the fulfillment of his redemptive purpose through the 465 00:22:04,550 --> 00:22:07,450 election that he chooses out of his own 466 00:22:07,450 --> 00:22:11,470 freedom, a people, a place, a Zion, a 467 00:22:11,470 --> 00:22:12,970 nation, a tent. 468 00:22:14,550 --> 00:22:15,890 He's glorified. 469 00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:19,090 He will be blessed by the fulfillment of 470 00:22:19,090 --> 00:22:21,710 the mystery of that which he has chosen 471 00:22:22,450 --> 00:22:24,730 and by which all nations shall be blessed 472 00:22:24,730 --> 00:22:28,210 when they shall be broken in their arrogance 473 00:22:28,210 --> 00:22:32,830 and self-sufficiency and independence and accede to 474 00:22:32,830 --> 00:22:35,430 the means by which God has provided in 475 00:22:35,430 --> 00:22:37,930 one place only and through one people only, 476 00:22:38,670 --> 00:22:40,850 that they might dwell in that tent of 477 00:22:40,850 --> 00:22:44,670 Shem and in dwelling, lose their Japheth character 478 00:22:44,670 --> 00:22:48,090 and become themselves a Semitic people with Shem. 479 00:22:48,710 --> 00:22:50,830 So blessing all the families of the earth. 480 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:53,870 Started with Abraham, but it ends with all 481 00:22:53,870 --> 00:22:54,310 nations. 482 00:22:55,430 --> 00:22:57,490 Oh, the depth of the riches, both of 483 00:22:57,490 --> 00:22:58,990 the wisdom and knowledge of God who has 484 00:22:58,990 --> 00:22:59,670 been his counselor. 485 00:23:00,270 --> 00:23:01,670 You see why we couldn't sing it before? 486 00:23:02,170 --> 00:23:06,770 We didn't have the dimensions of the glory 487 00:23:06,770 --> 00:23:09,890 of God's intention and the specificity of his 488 00:23:09,890 --> 00:23:13,050 choosing because I am that I am and 489 00:23:13,050 --> 00:23:14,910 I will be who I will be and 490 00:23:14,910 --> 00:23:16,750 I will elect whom I will elect and 491 00:23:16,750 --> 00:23:17,910 I will have mercy whom I will have 492 00:23:17,910 --> 00:23:18,050 mercy. 493 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:19,290 Eat your heart out. 494 00:23:20,250 --> 00:23:21,290 You would have preferred Germans. 495 00:23:21,390 --> 00:23:22,270 You would have preferred Americans. 496 00:23:22,650 --> 00:23:23,410 Eat your heart out. 497 00:23:23,690 --> 00:23:26,310 I have chosen Shem and I blessed him 498 00:23:26,310 --> 00:23:30,550 from the beginning because it says that it's 499 00:23:30,550 --> 00:23:32,510 implied in the language and the grammar of 500 00:23:32,510 --> 00:23:35,050 these verses that when they took the cloak 501 00:23:35,050 --> 00:23:37,310 and put it on their shoulders, it is 502 00:23:37,310 --> 00:23:41,710 singular and the Hebrew commentator says it's because 503 00:23:41,710 --> 00:23:47,410 Shem, the firstborn son initiated the action to 504 00:23:47,410 --> 00:23:50,070 which Japheth lent himself, but it was really 505 00:23:50,070 --> 00:23:53,170 Shem's design to honor the father by walking 506 00:23:53,170 --> 00:23:55,070 backwards and covering his nakedness. 507 00:23:55,610 --> 00:23:58,690 That's why he received the greater blessing and 508 00:23:58,690 --> 00:23:59,370 the greater honor. 509 00:24:00,010 --> 00:24:03,330 He'll not be enlarged in terms of commerce, 510 00:24:03,470 --> 00:24:06,690 trade, power, military might, but he will render 511 00:24:06,690 --> 00:24:09,250 a service to bless all the families of 512 00:24:09,250 --> 00:24:09,690 the earth. 513 00:24:10,210 --> 00:24:12,430 But the great irony is that present day 514 00:24:12,430 --> 00:24:14,010 Israel is not Shem. 515 00:24:14,790 --> 00:24:16,710 Present day Israel is not Israel. 516 00:24:17,210 --> 00:24:17,970 It's yet Jacob. 517 00:24:18,870 --> 00:24:21,670 And that's where the true sons of Shem, 518 00:24:22,250 --> 00:24:26,630 despite their ethnic origin, will reveal to Israel 519 00:24:26,630 --> 00:24:29,150 what its own calling is by making her 520 00:24:29,150 --> 00:24:31,730 jealous when they see in us what is 521 00:24:31,730 --> 00:24:34,910 their own call to be the Shem tent 522 00:24:34,910 --> 00:24:35,710 for the world. 523 00:24:37,030 --> 00:24:39,130 They have to hang on to our skirts 524 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:41,330 before the nations will hang on to theirs. 525 00:24:42,070 --> 00:24:44,070 It's a foreshadowing and a completion. 526 00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:47,710 Zechariah ends with the Feast of Fabernacles and 527 00:24:47,710 --> 00:24:51,010 all nations coming up to obey it and 528 00:24:51,010 --> 00:24:55,310 also implying clearly a curse on those nations 529 00:24:55,310 --> 00:24:57,950 that are yet reluctant and unwilling to break 530 00:24:57,950 --> 00:24:58,510 into Baal. 531 00:24:58,810 --> 00:25:01,190 They don't want to enter, to come up 532 00:25:01,190 --> 00:25:04,290 to the Feast of Fabernacles, to Jerusalem, not 533 00:25:04,290 --> 00:25:06,910 only to acknowledge God, but the people whom 534 00:25:06,910 --> 00:25:10,470 he has redeemed is to bring upon yourself 535 00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:10,990 a curse. 536 00:25:10,990 --> 00:25:14,290 The fact that that threat is made indicates 537 00:25:14,290 --> 00:25:18,710 how deep is the intransigence in Gentile hearts, 538 00:25:18,970 --> 00:25:21,970 even after Israel's restoration, yet to acknowledge it 539 00:25:21,970 --> 00:25:22,530 and to come up. 540 00:25:22,890 --> 00:25:23,710 They will not. 541 00:25:24,170 --> 00:25:24,770 They're chafed. 542 00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:27,990 There's something in their gut, in the very 543 00:25:27,990 --> 00:25:33,830 depths of their humanity that will not accede 544 00:25:33,830 --> 00:25:34,810 to God's things. 545 00:25:35,790 --> 00:25:37,550 You can't tell you how deep and how 546 00:25:37,550 --> 00:25:40,710 stubborn that is and how it resides yet 547 00:25:40,710 --> 00:25:41,430 in the church. 548 00:25:42,090 --> 00:25:44,450 And we're not even conscious of it until 549 00:25:44,450 --> 00:25:46,530 the issue is put before us about our 550 00:25:46,530 --> 00:25:47,470 own point of entry. 551 00:25:48,470 --> 00:25:51,710 Isn't it interesting that Orthodox Jews to avoid 552 00:25:51,710 --> 00:25:54,550 the use of the word God, use the 553 00:25:54,550 --> 00:25:57,230 word Hashem, the name. 554 00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:00,290 What is the tenth of Shem? 555 00:26:00,650 --> 00:26:02,210 It's the tenth of God. 556 00:26:02,350 --> 00:26:03,610 It's the character of God. 557 00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:10,130 Shall we break and pray a little bit? 558 00:26:12,910 --> 00:26:15,770 I think I can easily take another session 559 00:26:15,770 --> 00:26:16,210 tomorrow. 560 00:26:16,370 --> 00:26:17,850 I have hardly got into some of the 561 00:26:17,850 --> 00:26:20,010 riches of the things in which the Lord 562 00:26:20,010 --> 00:26:21,650 had my notice this morning. 563 00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:26,030 But I think he's done good groundwork to 564 00:26:26,030 --> 00:26:27,150 prepare us. 565 00:26:30,090 --> 00:26:35,190 Let's thank the Lord and apologize for the 566 00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:38,770 church and for ourselves of having idealized these 567 00:26:38,770 --> 00:26:44,910 scriptures, romanticized them, having lost the rudimentary intention 568 00:26:44,910 --> 00:26:48,130 of God in his salvation history is the 569 00:26:48,130 --> 00:26:49,370 rule of his own creation. 570 00:26:50,630 --> 00:26:51,930 That men will not study war. 571 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:53,930 If they'll not study it, they'll not practice 572 00:26:53,930 --> 00:26:54,170 it. 573 00:26:55,130 --> 00:26:57,870 Right now they have 13, 12, 11, 10, 574 00:26:57,950 --> 00:27:00,530 11, 12, 13-year-old kids bearing arms 575 00:27:00,530 --> 00:27:02,890 in Africa and in other nations. 576 00:27:03,250 --> 00:27:06,150 And in Afghanistan, everything is death. 577 00:27:07,290 --> 00:27:10,350 So Lord, when we say thy kingdom come, 578 00:27:11,570 --> 00:27:13,410 we say it with a new comprehension. 579 00:27:14,390 --> 00:27:17,230 Your kingdom is your rule. 580 00:27:18,350 --> 00:27:20,150 And we pray my God for its soon 581 00:27:20,150 --> 00:27:20,590 coming. 582 00:27:21,530 --> 00:27:24,230 And you're waiting both for Israel and for 583 00:27:24,230 --> 00:27:24,830 the church. 584 00:27:26,590 --> 00:27:28,390 You're contained in the heavens. 585 00:27:28,390 --> 00:27:31,050 Waiting for the restoration of all things spoken 586 00:27:31,050 --> 00:27:33,330 about us since the world began. 587 00:27:34,030 --> 00:27:34,950 We bless you Lord. 588 00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:36,550 Help us Lord. 589 00:27:37,590 --> 00:27:39,370 Give us an understanding. 590 00:27:40,450 --> 00:27:42,830 Open up considerations my God that have been 591 00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:43,710 lost to us. 592 00:27:44,410 --> 00:27:47,550 Bring us to the myth and grit of 593 00:27:47,550 --> 00:27:51,330 redemptive history and the mystery spoken by Noah 594 00:27:51,330 --> 00:27:54,710 and carried on through the descendants of Shem 595 00:27:54,710 --> 00:27:58,530 out of which Abraham came, who was called 596 00:27:58,530 --> 00:28:01,390 out of his nation to become a new 597 00:28:01,390 --> 00:28:03,810 nation and to bless all the nations of 598 00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:04,270 the earth. 599 00:28:05,590 --> 00:28:08,330 So my God, we bless you. 600 00:28:09,730 --> 00:28:11,750 Let nothing fall to the ground my God. 601 00:28:11,810 --> 00:28:13,670 Let it find a deep place in our 602 00:28:13,670 --> 00:28:15,590 hearts and our understanding. 603 00:28:16,290 --> 00:28:18,610 Continue on with us Lord if there's more 604 00:28:18,610 --> 00:28:20,810 yet to say, to understand and to be 605 00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:21,270 defined. 606 00:28:22,710 --> 00:28:24,510 Help us to be the sons my God 607 00:28:24,510 --> 00:28:26,550 who shall rule and reign with you in 608 00:28:26,550 --> 00:28:27,050 that kingdom. 609 00:28:27,850 --> 00:28:30,310 God forbid there should be anything that keeps 610 00:28:30,310 --> 00:28:32,330 us from that overcoming. 611 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:36,220 Thank you Lord. 612 00:28:36,660 --> 00:28:38,840 Find us out and bring us my God 613 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,060 to an ultimate place of submission and breaking 614 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,260 even in the place that you've designated. 615 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:46,700 And we thank and give you praise for 616 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:48,480 your so great wisdom and your so great 617 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:48,800 way. 618 00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:50,460 In Jesus name.