1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:03,140 I marvel at your grace. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,380 Not only do you put up with two 3 00:00:07,380 --> 00:00:12,220 or three stuffy Englishmen, but you're putting up 4 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:13,540 with English weather now. 5 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:18,780 And I'm amazed how you're enjoying it. 6 00:00:19,220 --> 00:00:22,760 Nice to get a cool breeze from over 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,900 the Atlantic or Canada or wherever it's coming 8 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:26,360 from. 9 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:37,370 And it's amazing how, as I move around 10 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:40,870 your country, there are lots of ladies who 11 00:00:40,870 --> 00:00:44,050 try to scrape acquaintance with the old country, 12 00:00:44,150 --> 00:00:44,550 you know. 13 00:00:45,490 --> 00:00:50,090 One lady was saying that they traced her 14 00:00:50,090 --> 00:00:54,890 ancestors, she told me, back to King John, 15 00:00:55,970 --> 00:00:58,510 the man who lost his jewels in the 16 00:00:58,510 --> 00:01:00,870 wash, if you remember that story. 17 00:01:02,190 --> 00:01:04,150 She said, how far do you go back? 18 00:01:04,850 --> 00:01:06,370 Well, I said, we don't go back all 19 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:07,730 that far in our family. 20 00:01:08,890 --> 00:01:11,330 We lost all our records in the flood. 21 00:01:15,380 --> 00:01:16,820 And it seems to be quite a bit 22 00:01:16,820 --> 00:01:19,020 of competition about that sort of thing. 23 00:01:19,820 --> 00:01:22,100 Anyway, I think it's great grace on your 24 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:24,600 part when you show a little fellowship and 25 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,740 friendship with a stuffy old Englishman like me. 26 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:30,700 Now, you're at liberty to call me old 27 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:33,920 if you like, but I'm very pleased to 28 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,540 have a fellowship with you, Junior Citizens of 29 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:38,020 Glory. 30 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:40,220 I think that's a fine title. 31 00:01:40,740 --> 00:01:42,460 I used to go in each day when 32 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:45,660 I was with the Pells in Grand Rapids 33 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:49,040 to the home there that Grace is running. 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,120 And I called them the Junior Citizens of 35 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,080 Glory, and I got on very well with 36 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:56,320 them. 37 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,220 We had a lovely time together. 38 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,020 Now, let's have a lovely time in the 39 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:02,600 Lord's presence tonight and read his word, first 40 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,200 of all. 41 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,920 And we'll read from Daniel, I think, this 42 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:07,460 evening. 43 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:12,380 First of all, chapter 2, verse 31, the 44 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:15,400 prophecy by Daniel. 45 00:02:31,930 --> 00:02:36,530 This is Daniel speaking to the king about 46 00:02:36,530 --> 00:02:41,870 his dream and the image that he saw. 47 00:02:42,910 --> 00:02:45,270 There, O king, sawest and behold a great 48 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:50,150 image, this great image, whose brightness with excellence 49 00:02:50,150 --> 00:02:52,590 stood before thee, and the form thereof was 50 00:02:52,590 --> 00:02:53,370 terrible. 51 00:02:54,670 --> 00:02:59,170 This image, this image's head was of fine 52 00:02:59,170 --> 00:03:02,170 gold, his breast and his arms of silver, 53 00:03:03,410 --> 00:03:07,070 his belly and his thighs of brass or 54 00:03:07,070 --> 00:03:11,110 bronze, his legs of iron, his feet part 55 00:03:11,110 --> 00:03:12,910 of iron and part of clay. 56 00:03:13,950 --> 00:03:17,530 And thou sawest till a stone was cut 57 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:22,490 out without hands, which smote the image upon 58 00:03:22,490 --> 00:03:26,770 his feet, that were of iron and clay, 59 00:03:27,690 --> 00:03:29,510 and break them in pieces. 60 00:03:30,290 --> 00:03:31,990 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, 61 00:03:32,110 --> 00:03:34,250 the silver, and the gold broken to pieces 62 00:03:34,250 --> 00:03:37,410 together, became like the chaff of the summer 63 00:03:37,410 --> 00:03:40,210 -threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, 64 00:03:40,630 --> 00:03:43,210 that no place was found for them. 65 00:03:44,310 --> 00:03:47,370 And the stone that smote the image became 66 00:03:47,370 --> 00:03:53,150 a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 67 00:03:54,650 --> 00:04:01,370 Now verse 44, and in the days of 68 00:04:01,370 --> 00:04:03,950 these kings shall the God of heaven set 69 00:04:03,950 --> 00:04:09,630 up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. 70 00:04:10,330 --> 00:04:13,450 Now chapter 9, verse 1. 71 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:26,620 In the first year of Darius, the son 72 00:04:26,620 --> 00:04:29,840 of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,200 who was made king over the realm of 74 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,580 the Chaldeans, in the first year of his 75 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:41,350 reign, I, Daniel, understood by books the number 76 00:04:41,350 --> 00:04:44,850 of the years, whereof the word of the 77 00:04:44,850 --> 00:04:49,330 Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he 78 00:04:49,330 --> 00:04:55,330 would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of 79 00:04:55,330 --> 00:04:56,170 Jerusalem. 80 00:04:59,150 --> 00:05:01,430 And I set my faith unto the Lord, 81 00:05:01,570 --> 00:05:04,770 to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting 82 00:05:04,770 --> 00:05:06,730 and sackcloth and ashes. 83 00:05:07,650 --> 00:05:09,910 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, 84 00:05:10,110 --> 00:05:13,310 and made my confession, and said, O Lord, 85 00:05:14,150 --> 00:05:18,190 the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant 86 00:05:18,190 --> 00:05:22,550 and mercy to them that love him, to 87 00:05:22,550 --> 00:05:26,670 them that keep his commandments, we have sinned, 88 00:05:26,690 --> 00:05:30,970 and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, 89 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:36,210 and have rebelled, even by departing from thy 90 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:39,470 precepts and from thy judgments. 91 00:05:39,770 --> 00:05:40,610 Verse 24. 92 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:51,900 Gabriel said to Daniel, Seventy weeks are determined, 93 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:57,560 verse 24, upon thy people, upon thy holy 94 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,460 city, to finish the transgression, to make an 95 00:06:01,460 --> 00:06:05,460 end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, 96 00:06:05,580 --> 00:06:09,700 and to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal 97 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:13,200 up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint 98 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,860 the most holy. 99 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,620 Know therefore, and understand, that from the going 100 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:22,020 forth of the commandment to restore and to 101 00:06:22,020 --> 00:06:26,400 build Jerusalem, and to Messiah the Prince shall 102 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,500 be seven weeks, and three score and two 103 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:34,880 weeks, the street shall be built again, and 104 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,640 the wall, even in troublous times. 105 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:41,380 And after three score and two weeks shall 106 00:06:41,380 --> 00:06:43,620 Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, 107 00:06:44,540 --> 00:06:47,080 and the people of the Prince shall come 108 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,100 and shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, 109 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:50,620 and the end thereof shall be with a 110 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:53,660 flood, and unto the end of the war 111 00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:56,400 desolations are determined. 112 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,380 And he shall confirm the covenant with many 113 00:07:00,380 --> 00:07:05,400 for one week, and in the midst of 114 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,100 the week he shall cause the sacrifice and 115 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:13,840 oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of 116 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,680 abominations he shall make it desolate, he shall 117 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,620 make it desolate, even until the consummation, and 118 00:07:22,620 --> 00:07:26,600 that determined shall be poured upon the desolate 119 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,160 all, that is the men of sin. 120 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,360 May the Lord bless to us the reading 121 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,440 from his word. 122 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,780 When Shackleton was on his way to the 123 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:52,230 South Pole, he made up his mind to 124 00:07:52,230 --> 00:07:56,370 return to a certain base, and to leave 125 00:07:56,370 --> 00:07:58,770 his men at another one. 126 00:07:59,630 --> 00:08:01,910 But he purposed to join them after a 127 00:08:01,910 --> 00:08:05,210 little while, he didn't know how long he 128 00:08:05,210 --> 00:08:06,050 would be away. 129 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:10,330 So he put Captain Wilde in charge, and 130 00:08:10,330 --> 00:08:13,890 said to him, now Wilde when I return 131 00:08:13,890 --> 00:08:16,130 I want you and the men to be 132 00:08:16,130 --> 00:08:19,070 all ready for us to move straight forward 133 00:08:19,070 --> 00:08:21,570 toward the South Pole. 134 00:08:21,570 --> 00:08:27,530 When eventually he did return, he found everything 135 00:08:27,530 --> 00:08:33,110 just as he wanted it, and everybody ready 136 00:08:33,110 --> 00:08:33,730 to go. 137 00:08:34,950 --> 00:08:37,130 And he was delighted and asked some of 138 00:08:37,130 --> 00:08:38,690 the men why it was they were all 139 00:08:38,690 --> 00:08:39,570 so ready to go. 140 00:08:39,669 --> 00:08:42,230 Well he said, we've been ready ever since 141 00:08:42,230 --> 00:08:43,530 you left you know. 142 00:08:44,510 --> 00:08:46,630 It's Captain Wilde you know. 143 00:08:47,370 --> 00:08:49,790 Every morning he used to wake us up 144 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:52,190 and say, wake up men, roll up your 145 00:08:52,190 --> 00:08:56,330 sleeping bags for the skipper may be here 146 00:08:56,330 --> 00:08:57,010 today. 147 00:08:57,950 --> 00:09:02,290 And when the skipper eventually came, of course, 148 00:09:03,130 --> 00:09:05,450 all the sleeping bags were rolled up and 149 00:09:05,450 --> 00:09:08,050 they moved forward at once. 150 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,160 It is high time for us to awake 151 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,920 out of sleep, for now is our salvation, 152 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,880 that is the completion of our salvation, the 153 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,560 culmination of our salvation, nearer than when we 154 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,120 believe. 155 00:09:27,510 --> 00:09:29,830 And one of these days the children of 156 00:09:29,830 --> 00:09:34,030 day will be summoned away, and left the 157 00:09:34,030 --> 00:09:35,230 children of night. 158 00:09:35,770 --> 00:09:38,070 We are not of the night, we are 159 00:09:38,070 --> 00:09:39,090 of the day. 160 00:09:39,730 --> 00:09:42,530 And there are so many beautiful details in 161 00:09:42,530 --> 00:09:46,110 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 that we're going to 162 00:09:46,110 --> 00:09:48,470 discuss on another occasion. 163 00:09:51,050 --> 00:09:56,850 Now the subject of all scripture is the 164 00:09:56,850 --> 00:10:00,830 Lord Jesus Christ and his two comings. 165 00:10:04,010 --> 00:10:07,130 Christ in all the scriptures is the title 166 00:10:07,130 --> 00:10:10,690 of Mary Hodgkin's book. 167 00:10:11,770 --> 00:10:14,090 A little bit of women's ministry I suppose 168 00:10:14,090 --> 00:10:19,230 on the shelves of most brethren who are 169 00:10:19,230 --> 00:10:20,710 students of the word. 170 00:10:21,210 --> 00:10:22,430 That is very helpful too. 171 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,900 And the Lord Jesus, of course, in Luke 172 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:30,060 24, he expounded to them in all the 173 00:10:30,060 --> 00:10:33,820 scriptures the things concerning himself. 174 00:10:36,990 --> 00:10:40,430 Luther did not take the scriptures so literally 175 00:10:40,430 --> 00:10:45,230 that he did not expect to find Christ 176 00:10:45,230 --> 00:10:45,890 everywhere. 177 00:10:47,050 --> 00:10:51,110 He expected to find the Lord Jesus all 178 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:55,130 through the word, and indeed he found him 179 00:10:55,130 --> 00:10:55,630 there. 180 00:10:56,630 --> 00:10:59,870 Well now if Christ is the subject of 181 00:10:59,870 --> 00:11:05,050 all scripture, the subject of all prophecy is 182 00:11:05,050 --> 00:11:11,990 God vindicating his son, first of all, and 183 00:11:11,990 --> 00:11:17,430 secondly God glorifying his son. 184 00:11:19,990 --> 00:11:23,110 The Lord Jesus Christ, since his death and 185 00:11:23,110 --> 00:11:28,330 resurrection, in the Father's will, has ascended on 186 00:11:28,330 --> 00:11:32,050 high and he's been made very high, given 187 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:36,390 a name which is above every name, and 188 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,710 at the mention of his name the angelic 189 00:11:38,710 --> 00:11:40,650 hosts bow and worship. 190 00:11:41,870 --> 00:11:45,770 He is now the King of glory, and 191 00:11:45,770 --> 00:11:48,450 his is the glory in heaven today. 192 00:11:49,690 --> 00:11:53,250 But God is yet to vindicate his son 193 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:57,110 in the earth, and on the earth, at 194 00:11:57,110 --> 00:12:01,170 the place where he was rejected by men, 195 00:12:01,910 --> 00:12:04,330 and crucified and slain. 196 00:12:05,210 --> 00:12:08,290 And where he was crowned with thorns upon 197 00:12:08,290 --> 00:12:12,370 the tree, silent in his agony, he is 198 00:12:12,370 --> 00:12:14,710 going to be crowned with glory. 199 00:12:15,430 --> 00:12:17,450 The whole earth shall be filled with his 200 00:12:17,450 --> 00:12:20,750 glory, as the waters cover the sea. 201 00:12:21,250 --> 00:12:24,290 And Jesus shall reign from the river to 202 00:12:24,290 --> 00:12:25,750 the ends of the earth. 203 00:12:26,350 --> 00:12:28,670 And all the nations and the presidents and 204 00:12:28,670 --> 00:12:32,050 the prime ministers and queens and kings shall 205 00:12:32,050 --> 00:12:33,970 bow down before him. 206 00:12:34,470 --> 00:12:36,750 The nations of the earth shall bring their 207 00:12:36,750 --> 00:12:38,530 glory to Christ. 208 00:12:39,490 --> 00:12:41,530 And at the end of that lovely passage 209 00:12:41,530 --> 00:12:44,950 in Psalm 72 that I'm quoting, or trying 210 00:12:44,950 --> 00:12:48,730 to quote to you, the Psalmist says this, 211 00:12:49,950 --> 00:12:53,490 Amen, Amen, the prayers of David the son 212 00:12:53,490 --> 00:12:55,730 of Jesse are ended. 213 00:12:56,790 --> 00:12:59,830 The double Amen, of course, is significant, but 214 00:12:59,830 --> 00:13:02,230 it only really means that this is the 215 00:13:02,230 --> 00:13:05,230 end of one of the books of Psalm, 216 00:13:05,590 --> 00:13:07,850 because they all end with double Amen. 217 00:13:09,010 --> 00:13:11,010 But he says the prayers of David the 218 00:13:11,010 --> 00:13:12,250 son of Jesse are ended. 219 00:13:12,450 --> 00:13:12,850 Why? 220 00:13:13,530 --> 00:13:15,890 Nothing left to pray for. 221 00:13:16,470 --> 00:13:20,390 He's seen in his vision Christ coming and 222 00:13:20,390 --> 00:13:25,230 dying and living and coming again and reigning 223 00:13:25,230 --> 00:13:28,170 and having the glory in the place where 224 00:13:28,170 --> 00:13:29,450 he was rejected. 225 00:13:30,250 --> 00:13:33,350 His own in his presence praising him. 226 00:13:33,850 --> 00:13:36,510 Israel converted in a day that is the 227 00:13:36,510 --> 00:13:37,530 godly remnant. 228 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:40,390 All the nations of the earth bringing their 229 00:13:40,390 --> 00:13:41,610 glory to Christ. 230 00:13:44,550 --> 00:13:48,750 Amen, Amen, the prayers of David the son 231 00:13:48,750 --> 00:13:51,730 of Jesse are ended. 232 00:13:52,250 --> 00:13:55,450 So the subject of all prophecy is the 233 00:13:55,450 --> 00:14:00,130 vindication and the glorification of our Lord Jesus 234 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:03,250 Christ, not only in heaven, which is his 235 00:14:03,250 --> 00:14:07,510 now, but throughout the whole earth and the 236 00:14:07,510 --> 00:14:08,630 whole universe. 237 00:14:08,630 --> 00:14:11,050 And God is going to declare to the 238 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:16,550 whole universe the glory of Christ and his 239 00:14:16,550 --> 00:14:20,710 wisdom in the church, which is his body. 240 00:14:26,210 --> 00:14:29,350 Now I thought we should go quickly this 241 00:14:29,350 --> 00:14:33,790 evening through this first section of our main 242 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:34,450 chart. 243 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:37,410 You see that the main chart here, if 244 00:14:37,410 --> 00:14:41,130 you have eyes, telescopic vision at the back 245 00:14:41,130 --> 00:14:45,510 to see it, is divided into several sections. 246 00:14:46,730 --> 00:14:49,950 This whole chart we call number one, and 247 00:14:49,950 --> 00:14:53,550 this portion we have here is number two. 248 00:14:53,950 --> 00:14:56,790 Then God willing tomorrow we'll be talking about 249 00:14:56,790 --> 00:15:00,110 this present age of grace, the church age 250 00:15:00,110 --> 00:15:03,730 with a new chart here, as our brother 251 00:15:03,730 --> 00:15:07,350 Mr. Willie promised you a few moments ago. 252 00:15:08,590 --> 00:15:12,290 So the Lord Jesus himself is the subject 253 00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:13,470 of all prophecy. 254 00:15:14,410 --> 00:15:21,730 He says I am Alpha and Omega, the 255 00:15:21,730 --> 00:15:24,210 beginning and the ending. 256 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,060 And of course when he says that it 257 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:34,700 doesn't mean that he had a beginning and 258 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:36,300 that he will have an ending. 259 00:15:39,090 --> 00:15:46,020 He means that he is the beginning and 260 00:15:48,030 --> 00:15:51,530 that he is the eternal one in both 261 00:15:51,530 --> 00:15:52,310 aspects. 262 00:15:53,390 --> 00:15:55,750 Not that he had a beginning. 263 00:15:55,930 --> 00:16:00,570 Now when you read Colossians chapter one, you 264 00:16:00,570 --> 00:16:05,470 will see in verse fifteen, the Lord Jesus 265 00:16:05,470 --> 00:16:09,170 is called the firstborn of every creature. 266 00:16:09,170 --> 00:16:15,080 Now that is not a title of time. 267 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,700 It is a title of dignity. 268 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:23,840 Not that he was born first. 269 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:26,680 Far be the thought. 270 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,680 But that he is the firstborn. 271 00:16:32,140 --> 00:16:35,680 He is the preeminent one. 272 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,720 He is number one. 273 00:16:40,980 --> 00:16:43,060 And if you would think that it is 274 00:16:43,060 --> 00:16:46,260 a title of time and that he is 275 00:16:46,260 --> 00:16:50,480 born first, the next verse contradicts that idea. 276 00:16:51,620 --> 00:16:54,400 For the apostle in verse sixteen goes on 277 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,260 to explain that he isn't one of God's 278 00:16:58,260 --> 00:17:01,120 creation who was born first. 279 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,020 But that he is actually God the creator. 280 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,579 For in him, by him and through him 281 00:17:08,579 --> 00:17:11,640 are all things created that have been created. 282 00:17:12,619 --> 00:17:15,359 Creation was for him and in him and 283 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,940 by him and he is the end of 284 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:18,560 it all. 285 00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:24,020 And Christ is the beginning and the ending. 286 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,420 Not that he has an end. 287 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:31,640 He is the everlasting father. 288 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,740 The apostle John speaks of him as that 289 00:17:36,740 --> 00:17:39,260 eternal life. 290 00:17:40,820 --> 00:17:44,340 And that eternal life embodied in the person 291 00:17:44,340 --> 00:17:48,120 of God's son is eternal from the past 292 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:51,620 eternity to the future eternity if we can 293 00:17:51,620 --> 00:17:53,900 talk about eternity that way. 294 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:57,500 Actually it isn't quite correct to do that. 295 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,600 But we must say something to try to 296 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:00,820 explain ourselves. 297 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,620 But not only is the Lord Jesus the 298 00:18:03,620 --> 00:18:06,800 Alpha and the Omega, the inference is that 299 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,340 he is from eternity to eternity. 300 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,340 He is the fullness of all eternity and 301 00:18:13,340 --> 00:18:14,360 all time. 302 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,400 He is from the beginning and the end 303 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,240 and is the fullness in the middle as 304 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:18,580 well. 305 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:22,280 And the Lord Jesus Christ is the one 306 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,080 all the way through. 307 00:18:25,460 --> 00:18:28,620 Now Dr. Way in his translation of that 308 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:32,520 verse in Colossians 1 puts it like this. 309 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,380 Not that it pleased the father that in 310 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:40,000 him should all fullness dwell because the words 311 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,360 the father are not in the original text. 312 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,640 But Dr. Way puts it this way. 313 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:50,080 All fullness with a capital F was pleased 314 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,220 to dwell in him. 315 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:56,460 He was the fullness, the pleroma is the 316 00:18:56,460 --> 00:19:00,520 word, the fullness, the completeness, that to which 317 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,160 nothing can be added. 318 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,400 He is the fullness of the Godhead bodily 319 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,340 from eternity to eternity and all in between. 320 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:13,260 And you are the fullness in him. 321 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,400 For as he is so are you. 322 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,120 And you are of course accepted by God 323 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,500 in him. 324 00:19:24,570 --> 00:19:29,630 Everything now, everything from the beginning, everything in 325 00:19:29,630 --> 00:19:34,290 the future is centered in God's son, the 326 00:19:34,290 --> 00:19:35,670 Alpha and the Omega. 327 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,110 All God's purposes are centered in him. 328 00:19:39,950 --> 00:19:42,990 All man's blessings are centered in him. 329 00:19:44,090 --> 00:19:49,310 All the church's hope is centered in the 330 00:19:49,310 --> 00:19:50,970 Lord Jesus Christ. 331 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:58,300 Now God called Abraham from the Ur of 332 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:05,000 the Chaldeans to create through him a new 333 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,040 and distinct nation. 334 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:14,940 The flood had come about, sin had been 335 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:21,880 eradicated, Nor and his family, Shem, Ham, and 336 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,540 Japheth, were given a new start in life. 337 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:30,900 But before long, God found there was no 338 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,100 nation for him to choose, no family for 339 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:40,400 him to choose, so he chose Abraham, called 340 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:45,120 him from Ur to make through him a 341 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:46,120 distinct nation. 342 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:51,720 For his own special possession. 343 00:20:55,120 --> 00:21:03,460 Now he didn't choose Israel because of something 344 00:21:03,460 --> 00:21:04,840 special in them. 345 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,620 But as Deuteronomy says, I think it's chapter 346 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:13,500 7 and verse 7, he loved them because 347 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,060 he loved them. 348 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,860 He set his love upon them. 349 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:22,820 They were sinners, but he was loved. 350 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,400 And he loved them in spite of their 351 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:26,720 sin. 352 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,560 However he called Abraham. 353 00:21:29,820 --> 00:21:35,360 And he made to Abraham special pledges and 354 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,460 promises and covenants. 355 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,820 He told him what he was going to 356 00:21:41,820 --> 00:21:44,860 do through him and through his offspring. 357 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,060 He spoke to them of present and future 358 00:21:50,060 --> 00:21:50,700 blessing. 359 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,480 He made a covenant with Abraham and his 360 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,940 descendants in ten different places in the scripture, 361 00:21:59,620 --> 00:22:03,980 you find the complete details of these promises 362 00:22:03,980 --> 00:22:05,480 and covenants. 363 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,020 The pledge was that God would make through 364 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:12,340 him a very great nation. 365 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,380 And a very big nation, numerically great. 366 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,880 That God would give to him and his 367 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,520 descendants the land in the Middle East. 368 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,480 From the river of Egypt, that's for now, 369 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,580 to the river Euphrates. 370 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,000 And that God was going to give them 371 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,800 his blessing in spite of themselves. 372 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,860 Because he set his love upon them. 373 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:50,780 So Israel's blindness is only, in these days, 374 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,260 Israel's blindness now is only until the fullness 375 00:22:55,260 --> 00:22:59,080 of the Gentiles transpires. 376 00:22:59,740 --> 00:23:02,160 Till the end of the times of the 377 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,180 Gentiles. 378 00:23:03,180 --> 00:23:06,680 And it is pretty evident that Israel is 379 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,620 going to come into the blessings that they 380 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,800 haven't come into yet, which God has promised 381 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:13,880 for them. 382 00:23:14,340 --> 00:23:17,960 The land and the greatness and the blessing. 383 00:23:19,180 --> 00:23:24,080 In Romans chapter 11, verse 25, it plainly 384 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,800 states that the promises of God, the callings 385 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,960 of God, the gifts of God are without 386 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,900 repentance. 387 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,800 He will not go back upon his word, 388 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,820 even if they or we become unfaithful. 389 00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:47,160 God remains faithful and must fulfill that which 390 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,980 he has promised. 391 00:23:50,350 --> 00:23:55,810 You see, after the exodus from Egypt, which 392 00:23:55,810 --> 00:24:00,590 we all know about, and after God giving 393 00:24:00,590 --> 00:24:05,170 to them the law, which came by Moses, 394 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,480 then they had God as their ruler. 395 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,160 There was a theocracy, and they soon got 396 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,320 tired of that. 397 00:24:16,220 --> 00:24:18,520 And they longed for a king like the 398 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,700 nations around them, and God gave them Saul 399 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:22,980 to be their king. 400 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,140 And still he loved them. 401 00:24:27,540 --> 00:24:30,800 And David, of course, was a man after 402 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,220 God's own heart, who should fulfill all his 403 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:34,740 will. 404 00:24:36,580 --> 00:24:39,940 And God renewed his covenant to his people 405 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:44,200 by giving a special pledge to David, similar 406 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,400 to what he had given to Abraham. 407 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:54,020 Before long, corruption set in, and of course 408 00:24:54,020 --> 00:25:00,490 they were unfaithful to God, their saviour, and 409 00:25:00,490 --> 00:25:02,410 became unfaithful to their king. 410 00:25:04,250 --> 00:25:06,570 And then there was the captivity. 411 00:25:07,730 --> 00:25:11,050 First of all, the ten tribes went into 412 00:25:11,050 --> 00:25:14,350 captivity, as you know, into Assyria. 413 00:25:15,510 --> 00:25:22,290 And then later on, the two tribes went 414 00:25:22,290 --> 00:25:28,330 into Babylon in captivity, when Jerusalem was besieged. 415 00:25:28,330 --> 00:25:31,010 At this stage, I want to point out 416 00:25:31,010 --> 00:25:37,090 the four players, the four parties, the four 417 00:25:37,090 --> 00:25:41,890 groups, who are the players on the stage 418 00:25:41,890 --> 00:25:43,170 of the world. 419 00:25:44,370 --> 00:25:47,750 Israel, we have been mentioning first of all. 420 00:25:49,350 --> 00:25:52,470 They were chosen by God, and loved by 421 00:25:52,470 --> 00:25:52,930 God. 422 00:25:53,890 --> 00:25:58,110 But then they were blinded by Satan, and 423 00:25:58,110 --> 00:25:59,470 they were set aside. 424 00:26:00,070 --> 00:26:02,630 And they are still set aside today. 425 00:26:02,630 --> 00:26:07,110 They rejected Christ, their king and messiah. 426 00:26:08,410 --> 00:26:13,230 And although God has not repented of his 427 00:26:13,230 --> 00:26:17,590 promise to them, he is postponing the fulfillment 428 00:26:17,590 --> 00:26:20,050 of it until a later day. 429 00:26:20,050 --> 00:26:31,080 You see, Jerusalem was taken, and 430 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,900 the people were scattered. 431 00:26:34,140 --> 00:26:39,120 And by the way, Hosea is a very, 432 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,440 portrays for us the book of Hosea, a 433 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,380 very interesting picture and type of Israel in 434 00:26:48,380 --> 00:26:49,040 this way. 435 00:26:50,420 --> 00:26:56,260 Hosea was called upon to marry an adulterous 436 00:26:56,260 --> 00:27:01,840 woman, because God wanted him to enter into 437 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,660 his feelings about his erring, unfaithful people. 438 00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:15,040 God often leaves his servants in difficult ways, 439 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,820 so that they might learn something of his 440 00:27:18,820 --> 00:27:21,940 mind and will, and of his heart of 441 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:22,460 love. 442 00:27:23,740 --> 00:27:28,920 And the three children that Hosea had by 443 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:34,900 this woman, were called Jezreel, scattered by God. 444 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:39,200 That was supposed to be a picture of 445 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,420 Israel, because of their sin being scattered by 446 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:45,080 God as they are today. 447 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,980 The second child was Lo-Ammi, which means 448 00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:51,720 no compassion. 449 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:57,940 In the present case, Israel is left by 450 00:27:57,940 --> 00:27:58,420 God. 451 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,860 They are seeing something of the results of 452 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:03,400 their own sin. 453 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,980 This often happens, of course, during a war. 454 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,960 People will say, they said to me, now 455 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,520 if God is love, why does he allow 456 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,920 such a thing to happen? 457 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,240 Why does he allow such destruction and bloodshed 458 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,340 and slaughter? 459 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:22,960 Well, God often will allow men to follow 460 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,960 in the course of their own wretchedness and 461 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,260 see the consequences of their own sin. 462 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,380 And the second child was called Lo-Ammi, 463 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,100 which means no compassion. 464 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,460 God was telling his people his love was 465 00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:42,240 turning from them because of their sin. 466 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,360 And the third one was called Lo-Ruhamah, 467 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:51,660 which means no people of mine. 468 00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:57,520 And God now was turning his people aside 469 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:02,500 until a later day. 470 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:09,280 Now Israel's failure in the world, because they 471 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,920 were God's representatives, they were meant to be, 472 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,240 they had the oracles of God, the law 473 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,860 was given to them. 474 00:29:19,860 --> 00:29:23,320 They were to be God's witnesses in the 475 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,020 world, but they failed. 476 00:29:28,580 --> 00:29:31,120 Now there's a lesson we can learn here. 477 00:29:32,060 --> 00:29:35,400 You know with God failure is not final. 478 00:29:36,460 --> 00:29:41,060 With God's ancient people failure is not final. 479 00:29:42,140 --> 00:29:45,840 With God's people today and Park of the 480 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,560 Palms people, failure is not final. 481 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,100 And who hasn't failed in the Christian life 482 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:56,600 and in the service of God anyway, in 483 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,280 some way or other? 484 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:02,560 Thank God if we confess our sin he 485 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,800 is faithful and just to forgive us our 486 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,380 sin, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 487 00:30:08,380 --> 00:30:11,580 And a day is coming when Israel is 488 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:16,200 going to make her confession, following the destruction 489 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,660 of Jerusalem, which is to be. 490 00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:26,280 And the sifting and persecution and judgment of 491 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,100 Israel. 492 00:30:28,340 --> 00:30:31,840 There will be a fountain open for sin 493 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,760 and for uncleanness. 494 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,660 And God will cleanse the remnant that remain 495 00:30:37,660 --> 00:30:42,980 and they will be forgiven and saved in 496 00:30:42,980 --> 00:30:45,600 a day, according to Romans. 497 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,420 But this failure of Israel in the past 498 00:30:49,420 --> 00:30:54,000 has given an opportunity for others to come 499 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,480 into the blessing of God for the time 500 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,580 being and indeed for all eternity. 501 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:08,540 So the next party shall I say, in 502 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:13,240 the stage, on the stage of the world, 503 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,780 the next is the Church from Pentecost onwards. 504 00:31:19,980 --> 00:31:22,940 I believe that Pentecost was the beginning of 505 00:31:22,940 --> 00:31:23,680 the Church. 506 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,180 The Church is the habitation of God by 507 00:31:27,180 --> 00:31:27,880 the Spirit. 508 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,220 The Spirit came at Pentecost, there was no 509 00:31:31,220 --> 00:31:34,500 Church therefore before Pentecost. 510 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,200 And the Church is today, as in those 511 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,680 early days, dependent upon the residence of the 512 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:44,660 Holy Spirit. 513 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,060 There is a day coming when the Spirit 514 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:50,520 will be taken away, but not before the 515 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,520 Church is taken away. 516 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:59,760 Now before Pentecost there were Jews and Gentiles 517 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,500 only. 518 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:06,560 But since Pentecost it is Jew, Gentile and 519 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,300 the Church of God. 520 00:32:08,820 --> 00:32:11,620 And the Church is the fullness of Him 521 00:32:11,620 --> 00:32:15,720 who filleth all in all. 522 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,300 The Lord Jesus, I was trying to explain, 523 00:32:19,460 --> 00:32:23,960 is the fullness from eternity to eternity and 524 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,200 all in between. 525 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,720 And His Church is the fullness in Him 526 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,780 who filleth all in all. 527 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,880 The next party is Christendom on the stage 528 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,880 of the world. 529 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:46,380 This is the unified religious system which is 530 00:32:46,380 --> 00:32:48,460 abroad in the world today. 531 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:55,600 It began with Babel and the confusion there. 532 00:32:56,340 --> 00:33:04,180 And it will continue until the tribulation and 533 00:33:04,180 --> 00:33:08,520 the coming and destruction of the Antichrist. 534 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:14,340 And Noah's sons were Shem and Ham and 535 00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:15,360 Japheth. 536 00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:20,780 And of course, Noah begat Ham, as I 537 00:33:20,780 --> 00:33:24,560 said, and Ham begat Cush, and Cush begat 538 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,520 Nimrod. 539 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,960 And it was Nimrod and his crowd who 540 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,140 belonged to the Ussites who said, come now 541 00:33:34,140 --> 00:33:38,120 and let us make a name for ourselves. 542 00:33:38,860 --> 00:33:42,900 Let us make for us a name. 543 00:33:43,780 --> 00:33:46,880 And it was a kind of religious system 544 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,900 which was leaving God in the background. 545 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,600 And I think this is developing today. 546 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,700 There is a trend to a unification of 547 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:03,960 a godless system, really, although they name the 548 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,040 name of God. 549 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:10,620 In the cult Baha'ism, you can belong 550 00:34:10,620 --> 00:34:16,340 to the Baha'i faith if you are 551 00:34:16,340 --> 00:34:19,440 a Hottentot, or a Zulu, or a Roman 552 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,080 Catholic, or a Protestant, or a Jew, or 553 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,280 anything else. 554 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,760 You can belong to the Reverend Nun of 555 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,639 Korea's organization, a religious system. 556 00:34:35,020 --> 00:34:37,840 If you are any kind of a religious 557 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,940 person, and so you can belong to the 558 00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:44,560 World Council of Churches. 559 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:50,460 And these ideas, including also the Church of 560 00:34:50,460 --> 00:34:57,860 Rome, I'm quite sure, will eventually unify themselves 561 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:07,860 into a Christendom culminating in the Antichrist and 562 00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:08,680 his doom. 563 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,960 And then of course there are the Gentile 564 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:13,820 nations. 565 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:23,740 The times of the Gentiles is the scriptural 566 00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:24,580 phase. 567 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:31,760 From the time of Nebuchadnezzar, when the Jews 568 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,970 were taken captive to his land, and all 569 00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:42,490 of Daniel's seventy weeks, plus the church age, 570 00:35:42,490 --> 00:35:48,130 I'm quite sure, is the age of the 571 00:35:48,130 --> 00:35:50,430 times of the Gentiles. 572 00:35:51,370 --> 00:35:54,910 And God, from among the Gentile nations in 573 00:35:54,910 --> 00:35:59,390 particular, not exclusively, is calling out today a 574 00:35:59,390 --> 00:36:01,490 people for his name. 575 00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:06,070 And God has a very special purpose for 576 00:36:06,070 --> 00:36:06,870 the Church. 577 00:36:08,150 --> 00:36:10,750 You see, at the beginning of the Gospels, 578 00:36:10,890 --> 00:36:12,610 the emphasis was on the Kingdom. 579 00:36:14,650 --> 00:36:17,230 And you will find that halfway through, the 580 00:36:17,230 --> 00:36:21,190 emphasis shifts, and the Saviour is speaking of 581 00:36:21,190 --> 00:36:22,030 the Church. 582 00:36:23,130 --> 00:36:27,650 The command was, go only to the house 583 00:36:27,650 --> 00:36:28,470 of Israel. 584 00:36:29,630 --> 00:36:31,950 At the beginning, and then at the end 585 00:36:31,950 --> 00:36:34,690 was, go into all the world and preach 586 00:36:34,690 --> 00:36:38,090 the Gospel to every creature. 587 00:36:39,870 --> 00:36:45,530 Now Israel's failure led to their bondage in 588 00:36:45,530 --> 00:36:46,070 Egypt. 589 00:36:47,090 --> 00:36:50,370 Led to the dividing of the ten tribes. 590 00:36:52,030 --> 00:36:54,270 And led to their captivity. 591 00:36:54,270 --> 00:37:01,160 It led to their dividing the ten northern 592 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:06,040 tribes from the two southern tribes, you know. 593 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:09,900 But thank God, in a coming day, there 594 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,020 is to be a restoration of the twelve 595 00:37:13,020 --> 00:37:16,360 tribes, or the remnant that is left of 596 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,000 both parties. 597 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:22,640 According to Ezekiel 37, and many other scriptures 598 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,300 show, that there will be a restoration of 599 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:32,360 the present lost ten tribes, together with those 600 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,140 that are saved from the two tribes, in 601 00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:37,320 a day which is to come. 602 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:45,220 Now the release from captivity in Babylon, was 603 00:37:45,220 --> 00:37:49,420 the start of Daniel's seventy weeks. 604 00:37:49,420 --> 00:37:52,740 As we were reading of them in our 605 00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:55,780 scripture portion this evening. 606 00:37:56,240 --> 00:38:02,520 These seventy weeks, that Gabriel told Daniel about, 607 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:08,980 were really concerning Daniel's own people. 608 00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:13,020 And this is where this image comes in, 609 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:13,680 you see. 610 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,080 It would have been helpful had we had 611 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,180 time to go into some of these details 612 00:38:20,180 --> 00:38:24,240 about Babylon, and the law, and the tabernacle. 613 00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:28,620 But time forbids, but I think perhaps I 614 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:35,620 ought to say, that God's presence of old 615 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:40,840 was known among his people, in the holy 616 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,480 of holies, in the tabernacle that was set 617 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:49,040 up in their wilderness journeyings, toward the promised 618 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:49,840 land. 619 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:56,540 And then eventually at Shiloh in Canaan, before 620 00:38:56,540 --> 00:39:00,640 the temple itself was built by Solomon. 621 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:10,180 But of course, there was a veil between 622 00:39:10,180 --> 00:39:13,220 the holy place and the holy of holies. 623 00:39:15,380 --> 00:39:19,180 And in the holy of holies, there was 624 00:39:19,180 --> 00:39:21,880 a little box, they carried with them two 625 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,060 boxes in their wilderness journeyings. 626 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,080 One was a box of bones, and the 627 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,820 other was the Ark of the Covenant. 628 00:39:34,510 --> 00:39:37,730 And on top of the Ark of the 629 00:39:37,730 --> 00:39:42,370 Covenant was some gold, a gold plate. 630 00:39:42,750 --> 00:39:44,530 This was the mercy seat. 631 00:39:45,590 --> 00:39:49,130 But over the mercy seat, joined to the 632 00:39:49,130 --> 00:39:57,550 box, were two cherubim, standing antithetically placed, looking 633 00:39:57,550 --> 00:39:59,670 toward one another and downwards. 634 00:40:01,210 --> 00:40:04,570 Inside the box was God's law. 635 00:40:05,730 --> 00:40:08,790 And the children of Israel had broken God's 636 00:40:08,790 --> 00:40:09,210 law. 637 00:40:10,490 --> 00:40:14,170 And the cherubim always speak of justice and 638 00:40:14,170 --> 00:40:14,990 judgment. 639 00:40:16,210 --> 00:40:21,430 A cherubim stood, or the cherubim stood, with 640 00:40:21,430 --> 00:40:23,610 sword in hand to keep the way of 641 00:40:23,610 --> 00:40:24,810 the tree of life. 642 00:40:24,810 --> 00:40:28,170 But there's no sword in the hand of 643 00:40:28,170 --> 00:40:30,450 these cherubim. 644 00:40:30,570 --> 00:40:33,550 By the way, let me get it grammatically, 645 00:40:33,810 --> 00:40:35,090 grammatically correct. 646 00:40:35,450 --> 00:40:38,510 Cherubim is the plural for cherub, as you 647 00:40:38,510 --> 00:40:39,170 all know. 648 00:40:39,470 --> 00:40:43,070 But there's no sword here over the Ark 649 00:40:43,070 --> 00:40:45,310 of the Covenant and in the most holy 650 00:40:45,310 --> 00:40:45,990 place. 651 00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:50,530 Because, you see, on the gold, the blood 652 00:40:50,530 --> 00:40:55,270 of victims newly slain was to be sprinkled. 653 00:40:55,910 --> 00:40:58,850 And there is no sword when the blood 654 00:40:58,850 --> 00:41:00,310 is on the gold. 655 00:41:01,130 --> 00:41:04,470 And there is no condemnation to them that 656 00:41:04,470 --> 00:41:06,310 are in Christ Jesus. 657 00:41:07,630 --> 00:41:09,210 But, you see, it was only the high 658 00:41:09,210 --> 00:41:14,670 priest who went into the holy place, into 659 00:41:14,670 --> 00:41:17,330 the presence of God, the place where God 660 00:41:17,330 --> 00:41:20,070 made his presence known of old, once a 661 00:41:20,070 --> 00:41:22,210 year and not without the blood of victims 662 00:41:22,210 --> 00:41:25,530 newly slain, which he took in for himself 663 00:41:25,530 --> 00:41:29,590 and for the people who had sinned. 664 00:41:31,890 --> 00:41:34,850 In between, by the way, only the sons 665 00:41:34,850 --> 00:41:36,790 of Aaron could get here. 666 00:41:37,990 --> 00:41:41,490 And the sons of Levi here, and so 667 00:41:41,490 --> 00:41:41,630 on. 668 00:41:41,630 --> 00:41:49,140 Outside here was a sort of imaginary line, 669 00:41:52,150 --> 00:41:53,970 the middle wall of petition. 670 00:41:55,210 --> 00:41:57,110 And, of course, Jews would be inside and 671 00:41:57,110 --> 00:41:58,310 Gentiles outside. 672 00:42:01,220 --> 00:42:03,940 And if we Gentiles had been around in 673 00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:05,760 those days, we wouldn't have had a chance 674 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,960 of getting anywhere near the presence of God. 675 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,080 As a matter of fact, on the veil 676 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,240 between the holy place and the most holy 677 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,920 place, were two cherubim woven. 678 00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:21,820 And their wings were outspread and they touched 679 00:42:21,820 --> 00:42:26,400 each side and joined wings in the middle 680 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:26,960 too. 681 00:42:29,540 --> 00:42:32,220 The whole width of the veil. 682 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:37,000 And they always speak of justice and judgment 683 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,560 of a holy God. 684 00:42:41,740 --> 00:42:46,120 And virtually what God was saying was this, 685 00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:49,860 keep out, keep out, keep out. 686 00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:54,100 But when the Lord Jesus died and shed 687 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:57,020 his precious blood, that was enough forever. 688 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,060 Once and for all was his sacrifice made. 689 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,560 So God tore the curtain, the veil, from 690 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,520 top to bottom. 691 00:43:06,260 --> 00:43:08,520 And instead of saying, keep out, he said, 692 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:09,400 come inside. 693 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,140 And so now we'll all, by one spirit, 694 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,040 have access unto the Father. 695 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,520 What a great privilege and blessing is ours. 696 00:43:20,740 --> 00:43:22,840 I was just tempted to give you that 697 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,300 a little bit on the way through. 698 00:43:25,660 --> 00:43:27,900 But I wanted just to mention, just for 699 00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:31,840 a moment or two, Nebuchadnezzar's dream. 700 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:39,320 Of this image which Daniel reminded him of 701 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:45,120 and gave the interpretation of to him. 702 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:51,500 And as we all know, God was telling 703 00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:58,240 the king through Daniel, and incidentally telling us 704 00:43:58,240 --> 00:43:58,700 too. 705 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,360 That as far as the Gentile powers were 706 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:07,800 concerned, there would be one, two, three, four 707 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,800 world empires, world rulers. 708 00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:17,740 The head was of gold, and Daniel said 709 00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:21,840 to Nebuchadnezzar, thou art this head of gold. 710 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,340 And he being the head of the Babylonian 711 00:44:26,340 --> 00:44:28,380 world empire. 712 00:44:29,420 --> 00:44:33,740 Then of course there was the breast and 713 00:44:33,740 --> 00:44:39,140 arms of silver, which represented that which should 714 00:44:39,140 --> 00:44:39,700 come. 715 00:44:40,260 --> 00:44:44,680 The world empire of the Medes and Persians. 716 00:44:45,860 --> 00:44:51,280 And Cyrus was the one specially chosen by 717 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,880 God, revealing the sovereignty of God, to bring 718 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,820 judgment to God's people, and to set up 719 00:45:01,820 --> 00:45:04,720 this kingdom at that time. 720 00:45:06,910 --> 00:45:10,310 And of course the next one was, the 721 00:45:10,310 --> 00:45:13,530 thighs were of brass or bronze. 722 00:45:14,650 --> 00:45:19,050 And this was speaking of Alexander the Great's 723 00:45:19,050 --> 00:45:23,530 empire, the Grecian empire. 724 00:45:23,530 --> 00:45:27,770 And then the fourth was the Roman, represented 725 00:45:27,770 --> 00:45:30,850 by the legs of iron. 726 00:45:32,050 --> 00:45:36,850 And the toes were ten of course, they 727 00:45:36,850 --> 00:45:38,590 were iron and clay. 728 00:45:39,690 --> 00:45:42,310 And many of us feel that as far 729 00:45:42,310 --> 00:45:46,090 as we are concerned, we are just about 730 00:45:46,090 --> 00:45:54,420 there now, waiting for a confederacy in the 731 00:45:54,420 --> 00:45:59,500 world, in western Europe in particular, a revival 732 00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:05,920 somewhat of the old Roman empire, geographically, roughly 733 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,600 speaking, of a ten kingdom confederacy. 734 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:17,640 And then of course Daniel spoke about the 735 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,480 stone which the king saw, being cut out 736 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,760 of the mountains, and coming and forming upon 737 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,400 these ten toes, and upon the image, and 738 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,260 breaking it in pieces. 739 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:38,340 Now this stone which overcame and broke in 740 00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:41,900 pieces, the ten toes, shall we say, the 741 00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:47,700 ten kingdom confederacy of nations, eventually fills the 742 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:48,440 whole earth. 743 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:52,660 And when Christ comes, because this is a 744 00:46:52,660 --> 00:46:57,180 picture of Him, undoubtedly, when Christ comes in 745 00:46:57,180 --> 00:47:06,380 power and great glory, He will conduct the 746 00:47:06,380 --> 00:47:10,580 judgment of the nations, and His glory in 747 00:47:10,580 --> 00:47:13,980 person will fill the whole earth. 748 00:47:13,980 --> 00:47:17,440 And His kingdom according to Daniel chapter 2 749 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:22,920 and verse 44, will stand forever and ever. 750 00:47:27,070 --> 00:47:29,730 We have a little picture of a temple 751 00:47:29,730 --> 00:47:32,050 here, if it was anything like that. 752 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,100 There were three temples as you know. 753 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,720 The one which Solomon built, which was most 754 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:41,340 glorious. 755 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:47,100 The one which Zerubbabel rebuilt on the same 756 00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:47,740 site. 757 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,580 And you read of that in the book 758 00:47:50,580 --> 00:47:51,560 of Ezra. 759 00:47:56,180 --> 00:47:59,460 And the one that Herod built, he started 760 00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:02,720 to build it in B.C. 20. 761 00:48:03,820 --> 00:48:08,980 Still being built when our Lord came to 762 00:48:08,980 --> 00:48:09,660 this earth. 763 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,460 And it was completed in A.D. 60, 764 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:16,780 only a few years before it was completely 765 00:48:16,780 --> 00:48:20,040 destroyed again in A.D. 70. 766 00:48:21,380 --> 00:48:26,380 When the invasion came from the north, and 767 00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:30,100 the city was besieged, the walls broken down, 768 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,600 the temple burned with fire, and thousands and 769 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,380 thousands of Jews were slain, and the city 770 00:48:41,380 --> 00:48:43,760 flowed with blood. 771 00:48:44,980 --> 00:48:47,580 Just a word or two before I close 772 00:48:47,580 --> 00:48:52,880 about the cross, which is central to the 773 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:53,720 whole idea. 774 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,860 The cross divides the world. 775 00:48:56,860 --> 00:48:58,960 The cross divides history. 776 00:49:00,420 --> 00:49:03,920 What a purpose God has in the crosswork 777 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,860 of His dear Son. 778 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,900 When we talk about the cross, we are 779 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:11,480 not referring to a piece of wood, but 780 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,740 the crosswork of Christ. 781 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,820 There is a lovely hymn you sing sometimes, 782 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,440 I cling to the old rugged cross. 783 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,800 But I like the new one which says, 784 00:49:23,340 --> 00:49:25,820 let others who will praise the cross of 785 00:49:25,820 --> 00:49:28,220 the Christ, but the Christ of the cross 786 00:49:28,220 --> 00:49:31,320 is my theme, for though we must cherish 787 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,480 the old rugged cross, tis none but the 788 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,880 Christ can redeem. 789 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,320 And of course the cross appears all the 790 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,220 way through the Old Testament scriptures. 791 00:49:45,220 --> 00:49:47,660 All this is looking forward to the coming 792 00:49:47,660 --> 00:49:49,280 of Christ and His death. 793 00:49:50,100 --> 00:49:52,940 And all that is looking backward to the 794 00:49:52,940 --> 00:49:56,640 cross and what Christ did for the salvation 795 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,340 of the world. 796 00:49:58,820 --> 00:50:01,320 The cross appears in Genesis 3. 797 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,800 The seed of the woman shall bruise Satan's 798 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:07,320 head. 799 00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:09,600 That's His crosswork. 800 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:15,500 The cross is foreshadowed in Abel's Lamb, the 801 00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:18,020 accepted sacrifice. 802 00:50:19,340 --> 00:50:23,100 The cross is typified in the judgment of 803 00:50:23,100 --> 00:50:29,730 the flood, and the ark, and those that 804 00:50:29,730 --> 00:50:30,970 survived in it. 805 00:50:30,970 --> 00:50:34,110 And the cross is seen in the picture 806 00:50:34,110 --> 00:50:40,990 of Abraham and Isaac at Mount Moriah, you 807 00:50:40,990 --> 00:50:41,910 will recall. 808 00:50:42,870 --> 00:50:46,070 The cross is seen in Egypt, in the 809 00:50:46,070 --> 00:50:52,620 Lamb that was chosen without blemish for the 810 00:50:52,620 --> 00:50:54,960 salvation of the people from judgment. 811 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,900 And the cross is pictured in the crossing 812 00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:01,360 of the Red Sea. 813 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,940 It is pictured in the tree at Marah. 814 00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:10,120 The children of Israel in their wanderings came 815 00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:13,820 to Marah, and the waters of Marah were 816 00:51:13,820 --> 00:51:14,380 bitter. 817 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,800 But Moses found a tree which God showed 818 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,780 to him and he put it in the 819 00:51:20,780 --> 00:51:24,280 water, and the waters were made sweet, and 820 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:25,820 the people were saved. 821 00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:30,100 And God showed Christ a tree. 822 00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:32,820 The cross of Calvary. 823 00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:36,100 Thank God for the salvation which is yours 824 00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:39,800 and mine through what He did there at 825 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,340 the cross of Calvary. 826 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,540 The cross is pictured in the smitten rock, 827 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,940 and the life-giving water that was produced 828 00:51:50,940 --> 00:51:53,640 for Moses and the people then. 829 00:51:54,340 --> 00:51:58,020 And the cross is foreshadowed in the Levitical 830 00:51:58,020 --> 00:52:01,500 offerings as we see them in the book 831 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:02,440 of Leviticus. 832 00:52:03,020 --> 00:52:07,440 And the cross is foreshadowed in the brazen 833 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,720 serpent that Moses erected for the salvation of 834 00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:15,200 the people who were bitten by serpents. 835 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:20,200 And the cross is called for by Job's 836 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,900 plea for a day's man to stand between 837 00:52:24,900 --> 00:52:27,720 him and his God. 838 00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:32,000 There is one mediator between God and men, 839 00:52:32,140 --> 00:52:34,980 the man Christ Jesus, who on the cross 840 00:52:34,980 --> 00:52:38,260 gave Himself a ransom for us. 841 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:42,040 The cross is portrayed in Psalm 2. 842 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:47,180 The rulers had taken counsel together against the 843 00:52:47,180 --> 00:52:49,860 Lord and against His anointed. 844 00:52:49,860 --> 00:52:53,920 And the cross is portrayed in Psalm 22. 845 00:52:54,380 --> 00:52:58,620 My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken 846 00:52:58,620 --> 00:53:01,200 me but Thou art holy? 847 00:53:01,740 --> 00:53:05,740 The cross is prophesied in Isaiah 53. 848 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,060 The Lord Jehovah hath laid on Him the 849 00:53:10,060 --> 00:53:12,440 iniquity of us all. 850 00:53:12,820 --> 00:53:16,420 And the cross is prophesied in Zechariah chapter 851 00:53:16,420 --> 00:53:18,800 13 and verse 6. 852 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:23,020 A Waco sword against my shepherd, against the 853 00:53:23,020 --> 00:53:25,340 man that is my fellow, saith the Lord 854 00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:27,660 of hosts, smite the shepherd. 855 00:53:28,140 --> 00:53:31,340 You say that wasn't Christ and His crosswork, 856 00:53:31,580 --> 00:53:33,900 that was the prophet or some other person. 857 00:53:34,260 --> 00:53:34,940 Impossible! 858 00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:37,700 There is only one person in the universe 859 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:40,100 who is the fellow of the Lord of 860 00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:40,740 hosts. 861 00:53:41,260 --> 00:53:43,940 And that is our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. 862 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:48,180 And that was His crosswork when Jehovah bade 863 00:53:48,180 --> 00:53:51,780 His sword awake, O Christ, at the cross. 864 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:55,780 It fell on Thee, it smote Thee. 865 00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:59,180 And the cross is inevitable, as seen in 866 00:53:59,180 --> 00:54:02,840 John the Baptist's message, the forerunner of the 867 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:03,380 Saviour. 868 00:54:03,820 --> 00:54:07,240 Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away 869 00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:09,800 the sin of the world. 870 00:54:10,220 --> 00:54:11,580 The cross is central. 871 00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:14,120 The cross divides all history. 872 00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,740 The cross divides the world. 873 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:18,920 And as a matter of fact, it's quite 874 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,580 possible it divides us here tonight. 875 00:54:22,980 --> 00:54:24,980 On the one side of the cross of 876 00:54:24,980 --> 00:54:28,100 Christ, there was a man dying for his 877 00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:28,560 sin. 878 00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:31,360 And the scripture says the wages of sin 879 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:31,980 is death. 880 00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:34,480 On the other side there was a man 881 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,180 who was turning to Christ and trusting Him. 882 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,400 And the Word says the gift of God 883 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:44,520 is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 884 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,380 The cross is central. 885 00:54:47,060 --> 00:54:51,980 O mystery of mysteries, of life and death, 886 00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:57,780 the tree, centre of two eternities, which look 887 00:54:57,780 --> 00:55:02,880 with rapt, adoring eyes onward and back to 888 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:03,820 Thee. 889 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:08,340 O cross of Christ, where all His pain 890 00:55:08,340 --> 00:55:13,440 and death is our eternal gain. 891 00:55:13,940 --> 00:55:18,740 He hath appeared to put away sin by 892 00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:21,700 the sacrifice of Himself. 893 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:23,860 He hath appeared. 894 00:55:24,020 --> 00:55:25,880 What a person to appear. 895 00:55:29,390 --> 00:55:32,990 The Word, the eternal Word was made flesh. 896 00:55:33,770 --> 00:55:34,690 He hath appeared. 897 00:55:34,830 --> 00:55:37,210 What a day when He appeared. 898 00:55:38,890 --> 00:55:41,250 He hath appeared to put away sin. 899 00:55:41,250 --> 00:55:44,070 What a purpose for His appearing. 900 00:55:45,130 --> 00:55:48,050 To put away sin by the sacrifice of 901 00:55:48,050 --> 00:55:48,430 Himself. 902 00:55:48,950 --> 00:55:53,050 What a price He paid for your salvation 903 00:55:53,050 --> 00:55:54,970 and mine. 904 00:55:56,310 --> 00:56:01,830 There were three features of divine judgment accomplished 905 00:56:01,830 --> 00:56:05,310 and achieved at the cross of Calvary. 906 00:56:05,310 --> 00:56:10,550 This was God's greatest act of judgment. 907 00:56:11,230 --> 00:56:16,530 When He judged His Son, who became sin 908 00:56:16,530 --> 00:56:19,870 for you and me, that we might become 909 00:56:19,870 --> 00:56:22,130 the righteousness of God in Him. 910 00:56:23,050 --> 00:56:25,970 Now it doesn't say that we become righteous 911 00:56:25,970 --> 00:56:26,510 there. 912 00:56:28,750 --> 00:56:30,830 We are accounted righteous. 913 00:56:31,070 --> 00:56:33,770 It says we become the righteousness of God 914 00:56:33,770 --> 00:56:35,010 in Him. 915 00:56:35,010 --> 00:56:38,850 So that is an imputed righteousness. 916 00:56:40,210 --> 00:56:42,670 And in the same sense He was made 917 00:56:42,670 --> 00:56:46,310 sin only in this sense that our sin 918 00:56:46,310 --> 00:56:47,910 was imputed to Him. 919 00:56:48,550 --> 00:56:51,350 And the word imputation is used in 2 920 00:56:51,350 --> 00:56:54,030 Corinthians 5 in that same context. 921 00:56:54,770 --> 00:56:58,130 And it says He has not imputed their 922 00:56:58,130 --> 00:56:59,530 transgressions to them. 923 00:56:59,630 --> 00:56:59,990 Why? 924 00:57:00,510 --> 00:57:03,990 Because God imputed our transgressions to Him. 925 00:57:03,990 --> 00:57:07,450 And in that sense He was made sin. 926 00:57:07,950 --> 00:57:11,830 I can't possibly see how He could have 927 00:57:11,830 --> 00:57:16,310 actually been made sin itself without thinking of 928 00:57:16,310 --> 00:57:19,550 the context there and at the same time 929 00:57:19,550 --> 00:57:21,730 to die to atone for my sins. 930 00:57:21,890 --> 00:57:25,130 I find a theological difficulty in my mind 931 00:57:25,130 --> 00:57:25,590 there. 932 00:57:26,710 --> 00:57:27,930 Take the context. 933 00:57:28,170 --> 00:57:31,470 The context always explains the meaning of the 934 00:57:31,470 --> 00:57:31,930 text. 935 00:57:33,130 --> 00:57:35,250 And I think you have it there. 936 00:57:35,590 --> 00:57:37,090 He was accounted sin. 937 00:57:38,210 --> 00:57:41,010 And I am accounted the righteousness of God 938 00:57:41,010 --> 00:57:43,110 in Him. 939 00:57:43,510 --> 00:57:46,870 So there were 3 features of divine judgment 940 00:57:46,870 --> 00:57:48,370 accomplished at the cross. 941 00:57:49,190 --> 00:57:52,330 The judgment of the sin of the whole 942 00:57:52,330 --> 00:57:56,490 world potentially and that's the word to use. 943 00:57:58,390 --> 00:58:01,510 The Lord Jesus received that judgment. 944 00:58:01,510 --> 00:58:04,950 So that anybody in any part of the 945 00:58:04,950 --> 00:58:09,510 world whosoever will may find eternal life through 946 00:58:09,510 --> 00:58:10,290 His death. 947 00:58:11,110 --> 00:58:15,110 And there was the judgment of the believer's 948 00:58:15,110 --> 00:58:18,590 sin nature that transpired at the cross. 949 00:58:19,190 --> 00:58:24,670 God judged my own nature when He judged 950 00:58:24,670 --> 00:58:29,450 His Son at Calvary because Christ took with 951 00:58:29,450 --> 00:58:32,210 Him on the cross my own nature. 952 00:58:33,450 --> 00:58:37,590 If you wonder what I can do or 953 00:58:37,590 --> 00:58:40,350 what I am you look at the cross 954 00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:43,910 and I am crucified with Christ and that's 955 00:58:43,910 --> 00:58:44,950 the end of me. 956 00:58:45,570 --> 00:58:48,550 And my own nature was crucified with Him 957 00:58:48,550 --> 00:58:50,390 in the reckoning of God. 958 00:58:50,970 --> 00:58:54,470 In God's estimation what Christ did for me 959 00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:56,510 was done by me. 960 00:58:57,110 --> 00:59:00,070 I have died for my sin in the 961 00:59:00,070 --> 00:59:04,650 divine reckoning because Christ died for my sin. 962 00:59:04,970 --> 00:59:07,470 I have died for my sin and another. 963 00:59:07,890 --> 00:59:10,070 I am crucified with Christ. 964 00:59:10,670 --> 00:59:13,030 And not only the judgment of the believer's 965 00:59:13,030 --> 00:59:17,430 sin nature but the judgment of Satan happened 966 00:59:17,430 --> 00:59:20,550 also at the cross of Calvary. 967 00:59:20,550 --> 00:59:22,030 Thank God! 968 00:59:22,170 --> 00:59:25,770 Ours is the victory over Satan by faith 969 00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:28,590 in the merits of the death of Christ 970 00:59:28,590 --> 00:59:31,190 and the judgment that He bore for us 971 00:59:31,190 --> 00:59:33,870 and the judgment that He gave to Satan 972 00:59:33,870 --> 00:59:34,850 at that time. 973 00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:38,330 That came to Satan at that time. 974 00:59:38,850 --> 00:59:41,090 The Prince of this world is judged. 975 00:59:41,410 --> 00:59:43,150 And Christ when He said that was just 976 00:59:43,150 --> 00:59:46,570 looking a little while ahead to His cross 977 00:59:46,570 --> 00:59:48,150 work at Calvary. 978 00:59:48,150 --> 00:59:51,090 For by dying He slew death and Him 979 00:59:51,090 --> 00:59:52,830 that had the power of death, the devil 980 00:59:52,830 --> 00:59:57,290 to deliver us to our subject bondage. 981 00:59:57,830 --> 00:59:59,830 And now you see for all those who 982 00:59:59,830 --> 01:00:03,290 really believe in Christ the devil is a 983 01:00:03,290 --> 01:00:04,790 defeated foe. 984 01:00:05,050 --> 01:00:08,110 The Lord Jesus said the Holy Spirit when 985 01:00:08,110 --> 01:00:10,950 He comes will convince the world of sin 986 01:00:10,950 --> 01:00:14,310 of righteousness and judgment not judgment to come 987 01:00:14,310 --> 01:00:18,110 don't misquote it of judgment which has come. 988 01:00:18,430 --> 01:00:21,070 The Prince of this world is judged. 989 01:00:21,470 --> 01:00:25,030 It happened at the cross of Calvary. 990 01:00:25,770 --> 01:00:28,390 And thank God the devil is a defeated 991 01:00:28,390 --> 01:00:32,250 foe today for everybody here who believes and 992 01:00:32,250 --> 01:00:35,530 keeps right on believing in the Lord Jesus 993 01:00:35,530 --> 01:00:38,810 and His glorious victory over Satan and His 994 01:00:38,810 --> 01:00:40,010 judgment of the devil. 995 01:00:42,780 --> 01:00:47,720 If Christ is your life then Christ's victory 996 01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,700 is your victory too. 997 01:00:49,860 --> 01:00:51,520 We'll read of some in a coming day 998 01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,100 in the book of Revelation we read of 999 01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:56,120 them who are going to overcome Satan then. 1000 01:00:57,240 --> 01:00:58,580 Do you know how they are going to 1001 01:00:58,580 --> 01:00:59,820 overcome Satan then? 1002 01:01:00,260 --> 01:01:03,160 By what happened two thousand years ago. 1003 01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,360 They overcome Him by the blood of the 1004 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:06,640 Lamb. 1005 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:11,080 Every spiritual triumph over Satan since the cross 1006 01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,960 work of Christ has been through the cross 1007 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,020 work of Christ. 1008 01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,880 And if I'm trusting Him and Christ is 1009 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,680 my life Christ's victory at the cross is 1010 01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,580 my victory too. 1011 01:01:24,780 --> 01:01:27,260 There was one dear brother in the middle 1012 01:01:27,260 --> 01:01:29,580 of Africa named Samuel. 1013 01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:31,980 He hadn't been converted very long and they 1014 01:01:31,980 --> 01:01:35,020 were kidding him rather they said Samuel we 1015 01:01:35,020 --> 01:01:37,660 hear that you are converted now. 1016 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,380 So he said just praise the Lord. 1017 01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,660 And they said we hear that you are 1018 01:01:43,660 --> 01:01:44,700 going to heaven now. 1019 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,160 He said just praise the Lord. 1020 01:01:47,220 --> 01:01:48,800 And we hear you've got all your sins 1021 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:49,720 forgiven Sam. 1022 01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,500 He said just praise the Lord. 1023 01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:53,840 And we hear that you've got the victory 1024 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:55,220 over the devil Sam. 1025 01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,420 Oh he said no half a minute now. 1026 01:01:57,900 --> 01:01:59,200 That's not quite right. 1027 01:01:59,540 --> 01:02:02,380 It isn't that I have the victory the 1028 01:02:02,380 --> 01:02:05,880 victory over the devil so much as I 1029 01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,500 have the victor of the devil living in 1030 01:02:10,500 --> 01:02:11,640 my heart. 1031 01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,220 And that is the way of enjoying his 1032 01:02:16,220 --> 01:02:16,780 triumph. 1033 01:02:17,140 --> 01:02:21,720 Because the prince of this world is judged. 1034 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:27,520 Well when the Lord Jesus reappears as He 1035 01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:29,860 certainly will and the details of this we 1036 01:02:29,860 --> 01:02:33,980 are going into in the following nights as 1037 01:02:33,980 --> 01:02:37,840 four believers He will come as the bright 1038 01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:43,040 and morning star bringing in their new day 1039 01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:44,500 with Him. 1040 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,600 For the godly remnant of Israel He will 1041 01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,000 come as the Son of Righteousness with healing 1042 01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:56,720 in His wings bringing in their new national 1043 01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:57,720 restoration. 1044 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,200 For the ungodly He will come as a 1045 01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:06,060 thief in the night bringing in their night 1046 01:03:06,060 --> 01:03:09,920 of doom and for the nations He will 1047 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,480 come as the stone cut out of the 1048 01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:18,300 mountains filling the whole earth bringing in their 1049 01:03:18,300 --> 01:03:23,040 destruction and Himself to have all the glory 1050 01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,960 in all the earth as the Lord Jesus 1051 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:31,280 now has all the glory in Emmanuel's land. 1052 01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:32,680 Let us pray. 1053 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,020 Oh God we worship Thee tonight through Jesus 1054 01:03:42,020 --> 01:03:47,820 Christ our Lord we praise Thee for Thy 1055 01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,860 love and grace to the sons of men 1056 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:58,260 for the wonderful plan of redemption for Thy 1057 01:03:58,260 --> 01:04:01,180 dear Son and His mighty work of the 1058 01:04:01,180 --> 01:04:05,240 cross we thank Thee that today He lives 1059 01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,380 by the power of an endless life to 1060 01:04:07,380 --> 01:04:09,940 succor and save all who call upon His 1061 01:04:09,940 --> 01:04:10,420 name. 1062 01:04:12,620 --> 01:04:15,640 We thank Thee that ours is salvation in 1063 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,700 Him and ours is the victory in Him. 1064 01:04:19,180 --> 01:04:21,560 Give us now in the light of His 1065 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:27,740 second coming to walk before Him in faithfulness 1066 01:04:27,740 --> 01:04:32,180 and fear doing His will from the heart 1067 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,560 knowing nothing among men say Jesus Christ and 1068 01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:42,360 Him crucified until we see His face so 1069 01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:45,020 may the all sufficient grace of the Lord 1070 01:04:45,020 --> 01:04:49,660 Jesus be with us all until He shall 1071 01:04:49,660 --> 01:04:51,760 return Amen.