1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Let us pray, and the Word was made flesh and 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: as the only begotten of the Father, full of grace 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: and truth. John one fourteen. Heavenly Father, when I don't 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: understand your word or wonder how it applies to my life, 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: I look at your son Jesus. He is the embodiment 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: of your word in flesh and blood. The Bible shows 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: me how he lived when he walked among us. Your 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: word is not just a book, but also a living, 10 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: creative force able to change my life. I see the 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: power of Jesus through humility, his strength, through compassion, and 12 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: his divine wisdom and supernatural miracles. He is the glorious 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: manifestation of your grace and truth to all human kind. 14 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: What a joy to celebrate his entrance into this world 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: during this Christmas season. Thank you for Jesus, Amen. Thank 16 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: you for listening to Today's Daily Prayer for more inspiration 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: and an incredible message from our feature pastor stay tuned 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: to pray dot COM's Sunday service. 19 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: This is Getting to Know Your Bible, a program dedicated 20 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 2: to the proclaiming of the good News of Jesus Christ. 21 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: Here's Billy Lambert. 22 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 3: It is a pleasure to be with you today on 23 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 3: getting to know your Bible. I'm Billy Lambert. I'm the 24 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 3: regular speaker on getting to know your Bible. I'd like 25 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 3: to take this opportunity to welcome you. If we're watching 26 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: for the very first time, today, we're going to be 27 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 3: talking about the birth of the greatest human. 28 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 4: Being or ever lived on the face of this earth. 29 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: We're going to be talking about the one who was 30 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 3: not just man, but he was God as well. He 31 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 3: was God's man, he was God in human form. We're 32 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 3: going to be talking about Jesus and the birth of 33 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 3: our Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ. And we want 34 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 3: to begin by reading out of the Book of Matthew, 35 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: chapter one, verse eighteen and following. And if you will 36 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: listen carefully as I read account about the birth of Jesus. Now, 37 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise when 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they 39 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 3: came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 40 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: Then Joseph or her husband, being a just man, not 41 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 3: willing to make her a public example, was minded to 42 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 3: put her away privately. But while he thought on these things, 43 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 3: behold the Angel of the Lord appear unto him in 44 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 3: a dream, saying, Joseph, thou, son of David, fear not 45 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 3: to take unto the marrit thy wife, For thou, which 46 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 3: ist conceived in her, is of the Holy Spirit. And 47 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 3: she shall bring forth a son, And thou shalt call 48 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 3: his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from 49 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 3: their sins. And all this was done that it might 50 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the 51 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: prophet's saying, behold, of Virgin shall be with child, and 52 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his 53 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: name Immanuel, which being interpreted is God with us. And 54 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 3: then Joseph, being raised from asleep, did as the Angel 55 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 3: of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him 56 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 3: his wife, and knew her not tell that she had 57 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 3: brought forth her first born. 58 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 4: Son. 59 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: And he called his name Jesus. Never before has a 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 3: member of the Godhead taken upon himself human flesh to 61 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 3: live among men. In the second chapter of Philippians, the 62 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 3: apostles said in the fifth verse in following, have this 63 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 3: minding you, which was also in Christ, Jesus, who counted 64 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 3: not the being in equality with God, a thing to 65 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: be grasped, but emptied himself in the form of a servant. 66 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: Being found in fashion as a man. He elmbled himself 67 00:04:52,720 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Jesus came 68 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 3: down from heaven. God sent him. Jesus in John the 69 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: sixth chapter and verse thirty eight said that my meat 70 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: is to do the will of him that sent me. 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 3: He said, I came from down from heaven, not to 72 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: do my will, but the will of Him that sent me. 73 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: Jesus was sent into this world. He was sent in 74 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 3: human form. Verse timenty three sixteen reefs without controversy, gray 75 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 3: is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. 76 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 3: Let me ask you how was God manifest in the flesh. 77 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: God was manifest in the flesh in the person of 78 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. And when Jesus came into this world, he 79 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 3: brought spiritual light into the world. In John Chapter one, 80 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 3: in verse one, Jesusesus is spoken of. 81 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 4: Like this by John. 82 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 3: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 83 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: with God, and the Word was God. The same was 84 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 3: in the beginning with God, and without him was not 85 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 3: anything made that hath been made in him with life, 86 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 3: and the life was the light of men. And the 87 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not. 88 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 3: When Jesus came into the world, he came to bring 89 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: spiritual light. As a matter of fact, in John chapter 90 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 3: eight and verse twelve, Jesus said, I am. 91 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 4: The light of the world, and the. 92 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 3: World was in spiritual darkness when Jesus came. And when 93 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: we accept Jesus Christ and follow him, that brings spiritual 94 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 3: light into our lives. It was necessary that Jesus set 95 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 3: an example for us to follow. That's the reason it 96 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 3: was necessary for Jesus to come into this world. Jesus cried, 97 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 3: came into this world in human form. He was God 98 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 3: in the flesh. This is his incarnate self. And Jesus 99 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 3: Christ came to leave us an example to follow. One 100 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 3: Peter chapter two and verse twenty one. Peter said, for 101 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 3: hereunto where you call, because Christ also suffered for us, 102 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 3: leaving us an example that would shall follow his steps. 103 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 3: So why was Jesus born? Why did he come into 104 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 3: the world to die upon a cross? Well, it came 105 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: in order that you and I might have life and 106 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 3: it was necessary that Jesus died, and Jesus died to 107 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 3: heal us spiritually. In First Peter the second chapter, Peter 108 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 3: there in verse twenty four said, who himself bear our 109 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 3: sins in his own body on the tree, that you 110 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 3: should be dead into sin, should live under righteousness by 111 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: whose stripes you or heal you know. In Isaiah chapter 112 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: fifty three and verse five, Isaiah talked about healing through Jesus. 113 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 3: Some take that to mean that because of Jesus' death 114 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: on the cross, that we have physical healing. 115 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 4: That's not talking. 116 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: About physical healing, but spiritual healing, that we can have 117 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 3: the healing of our wounded souls. It was necessary that 118 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 3: Jesus died that the predictions and the prophecies that had 119 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 3: made about him would be fulfilled. For instance, in Luke's Gospel, 120 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 3: in the twenty fourth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, 121 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 3: and in verse forty four, this is what Jesus said 122 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 3: to his disciples. These are the words which I spake 123 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 3: unto you while I was yet with you, that all things, 124 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: And I underscore the word the words all things. There's 125 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 3: nothing that Jesus is talking about that's left undone. That 126 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 3: all things must be fulfilled, which were written number one 127 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 3: in the Love of Moses, number two and in the Prophets, 128 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: and number three in the Psalms concerning me. There's so 129 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 3: many things set about Jesus in the Psalms, there's so 130 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 3: much said about Jesus in the prophets, predictions and prophecies 131 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 3: that are made. And there are also things set about 132 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: Jesus in the Love of Moses. And so these things 133 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 3: were to be fulfilled. And it was necessary that Jesus 134 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: be born and live on this earth that these predictions 135 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 3: might be fulfilled. Well, what prediction, Well, the prediction about 136 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 3: where Jesus would be born. In Michael chapter five and 137 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 3: verse two, prediction about his birthplace, and thou Bethlehem of Ephritu, 138 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 3: though thou be little among the nations, yet out yeat, 139 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 3: Yet out of he shall out of these shall he 140 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 3: come forth, which is to be ruler in Israel. And 141 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 3: that was a prophecy about where Jesus Christ would be born. 142 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 3: In Isaiah the seventh chapter and verse fourteen, there's prediction 143 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 3: about his birth. He would not have a normal birth, 144 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: he would have a virgin birth. Hold a virgin shall 145 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 3: conceive And Baron's son, thou shall call his name Emmanuel. 146 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: There's a prophecy about Jesus in Isaiah chapter nine and 147 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 3: verse six. Unto us, a child is born, unto us, 148 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 3: a son is given, and his name shall be called 149 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 3: wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. So 150 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 3: that's a prophecy about Jesus Christ. Notice in Isaiah nine 151 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 3: and six, not only was the child predicted, the sex 152 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: of the child was predicted, and it was predicted he 153 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 3: would be a ruler. The government shall be upon his shoulders, 154 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 3: and he be called wonderful counselor to God, Everlasting Father, 155 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 3: Prince of peace. And Jesus Christ is described by each 156 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 3: one of those descriptors. Now, there are other prophecies about 157 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 3: Jesus that had to be fulfilled. Jesus came into the 158 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 3: world to fulfill those prophecies. There were those that did 159 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 3: not always believe them. In Isaiah, the fifty third chapter 160 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 3: begins in verse one, and this is a prophecy about 161 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 3: Jesus some seven hundred and fifty years before Jesus ever 162 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 3: came into the world in human form. Who hath believed 163 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 3: our report? And to whom is the arm of the 164 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 3: Lord revealed, he shall grow up before him as a 165 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 3: tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. 166 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 3: He hath no form the comeliness, and when we see him, 167 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 3: there's no beauty that we should desire him. He was 168 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 3: despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrow and 169 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 3: acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were our 170 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 3: faces from him. He was spiesed, and we esteemed him 171 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 3: not surely he hath borne our grief and carried our sorrows. 172 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 3: Yet we did esteem him, stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 173 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 3: But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised 174 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 3: for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was 175 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 3: upon him. And then he says, and with his stripes 176 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 3: we are healed. Everything that Jesus endured on the cross, 177 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 3: everything that he endured prior to the cross, in the 178 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 3: garden of guests, smite the agony there, Everything that he 179 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 3: endured in the Judgment Hall, everything that he endured when 180 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 3: he was being flogged, beaten, nearly dead. He endure all 181 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: of that because of his love for mankind. He carried 182 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 3: out the Father's will. And when Jesus died, it was 183 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: a fullfillment of the prophecies that had been made. 184 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 4: Why even his resurrection. 185 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 3: Was predicted in the sixteenth Psalm in verse ten, the 186 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: psalmon said, thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, 187 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 3: neither will thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption. 188 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: Now on the day of pentecosts mighty many years later, 189 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 3: it was the apostle Peter who's speaking, preaching on that occasion. 190 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 3: And Peter quotes this prophecy from David, and he says, 191 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 3: the full film of that prophecy in verse thirty one 192 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: is the resurrection of Christ. He seeing this before, spake 193 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 3: of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not 194 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 3: left in hades in the unseen world, and neither shall 195 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 3: his flesh reap corruption. So Jesus Christ's ration the dead 196 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 3: according to the prophecies made in the Bible. And so 197 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 3: it was necessary for Jesus to be born that he 198 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 3: might fulfill the prophecies that had been made. And it 199 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 3: was necessary that he might be born, let a new 200 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 3: covenant be given. When Jesus died on that cross, he 201 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 3: gave a new covenant. Colossians to fourteen, blotting out the 202 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary 203 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: to us taking it out of the way and nailing 204 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 3: it to the cross. But another reason the birth of 205 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 3: Jesus was necessary was that the Church of the Church 206 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 3: could exist. Jesus promised to build the church. In Matthew 207 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 3: sixteen eighteen and actually twentieth chapter when Paul has this 208 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 3: farewell speech will the elders of the church in Ephesus, 209 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 3: he says this to them, that they're the leaders in 210 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 3: the church. Take heed unto yourselves in all the flock 211 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, 212 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: and feed the Church of God, or tend or shepherd 213 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 3: the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his 214 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: own blood, the church blood bought. He was necessary that 215 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 3: Jesus be born that eventually might die to make the 216 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 3: church a reality. Jesus Christ did not come into the 217 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 3: world accidentally. He had been predicted he was coming, and 218 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 3: the Church was no accident. But the church was according 219 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: to the eternal plan and purpose of God. See Jesus' 220 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 3: birth was a part of that plan. He was to 221 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: be born, he was to grow to manhood. He would 222 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 3: have his ministry with his apostles and then finally Jesus 223 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: was die upon that cross to purchase the Church with 224 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: his blood. Some say the Church was a sort of 225 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 3: an emergent sid measure on the part of God, that 226 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 3: because he was rejected by the Jewish nation, that he 227 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 3: did not establish the kingdom, but that he set up 228 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 3: the Church and in the place of the kingdom, where 229 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 3: the Church and the Kingdom are one and the same. 230 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 3: That's easily determined by studying the Bible. Now, when Jesus died, 231 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 3: he carried out the eternal purpose of God Almighty. Listened 232 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: to Paul in the third chapter of Ephesians, verse ten 233 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 3: and eleven, to the intent now that under the principalities 234 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: and powers in heavenly places might be made known by 235 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: the Church the manifold wisdom of God according to the 236 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ, Jesus our Lord. 237 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 3: There's so many things in those two passages, but this 238 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 3: one stands head and shoulders perhaps above all others, that 239 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 3: the Church was in the eternal plan of God. You know, 240 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 3: we talk about God being eternal. We may not fully comprehended, 241 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 3: but we believe it. And Jesus is eternal. He's without 242 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 3: beginning without end that we again, we may not comprehend it, 243 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 3: that we believe it. The Holy Spirit is also referred 244 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 3: to as being eternal in Hebrews nine fourteen. So why 245 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 3: would it be unusual for Paul, by inspiration to let 246 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 3: us know that the Church was in the eternal plan 247 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 3: of an eternal God, meaning there never been a time 248 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 3: that he did not have it in his mind. So 249 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:52,719 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ came into the world as a baby, and 250 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 3: he drew to he became a young man and grew 251 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 3: to manhood, and then finally, after his ministry on this earth, 252 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 3: he was taken and crucified on the cross, raised from 253 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 3: the dead by the power of God. He could not 254 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 3: have died had he not been born. 255 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 4: He could not have. 256 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 3: Purchased the church with his blood unless he had first 257 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 3: been born. So that's why the birth is necessary so 258 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 3: the Church could exist. But Jesus did not come into 259 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 3: existence when he was born. Now that might sound rather 260 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 3: strange to some, but you see, Jesus was co eternal 261 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 3: with the Father, meaning that Jesus is in the beginning 262 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 3: with God, just like God was in the beginning. In 263 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 3: the beginning, God created John Chapter one and one says 264 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 3: in the beginning, the word was with God, and the 265 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 3: word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. 266 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 3: Jesus the Word was with God in the beginning. Later 267 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 3: in John chapter one, John said the word became flesh 268 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 3: and dwelt among us. So Jesus Christ had always existed. 269 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 3: In John the eighth chapter, in verse fifty six, Jesus said, 270 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 3: before Abraham was I am. What did he means before 271 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 3: Abraham was well, before Abraham ever existed, I existed. I 272 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 3: was with my father in eternity. There's never been a 273 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 3: time the Lord Jesus Christ did not exist. Some say 274 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 3: he was a creative being. 275 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 4: Not so. 276 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 3: In Michael the fifth chapter and verse two, where Michael 277 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 3: had predicted the birthplace of Jesus, in the latter part 278 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 3: of that verse, he said, whose goings forth have been 279 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 3: from of all, from everlasting. So there's never been a 280 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: time Jesus did not exist. He is before all things, 281 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: and by him all things consist. So it is necessary 282 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 3: for Jesus to be born, and it was by his 283 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 3: death and resurrection that he was able to fulfill the 284 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 3: needs of man. Now are some things that concerning his birth, 285 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 3: of which we know nothing, And the main thing of 286 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 3: which we know. Nothing that's not revealed in the Bible 287 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 3: is the date of his birth. Have no idea when 288 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: Jesus was born. But someone said, well, do you believe 289 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 3: in the birth of Jesus. I absolutely believe that Jesus 290 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 3: was born. But the date of December the twenty fifth 291 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 3: was set by man by the name of Liberius in 292 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 3: AD three point fifty four and in Compton's Encyclopedia, and 293 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: this is an exact quote from them. The exact date 294 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 3: of Jesus' birth is not known, So we have no 295 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 3: way of knowing when Jesus is born. And when people 296 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 3: are thinking about Jesus, they've got their minds attuned to Jesus. 297 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 3: Then well to talk about Jesus. This is the reason 298 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 3: that I'm talking about Jesus today. I believe it was born. 299 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 3: I believe he lived with his parents, and we have 300 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 3: no record of him. There's some silent years there which 301 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 3: we have no record. And then we have a record 302 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 3: of Jesus when he's about thirty years of age, and 303 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 3: he had a ministry of three and a half years, 304 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 3: and that's when he called their disciples apostles to follow him, 305 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 3: and when he gave them the responsibility of spreading the 306 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 3: gospel about him, the good news about him, throughout all 307 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 3: of the earth. And then he died upon a cross. 308 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 3: He was raised from the dead, And the next grade 309 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 3: event in the life of Jesus will be when he 310 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 3: returns for his own But his birth was a fulfillment 311 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 3: of prophecy, and Jesus Christ lived of their onmble life. 312 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 3: Jesus when his parents went up to pay their temple tax, 313 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 3: they didn't have of lamb. They had the verses twenty 314 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 3: two twenty four out of look the second chapter suggests 315 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 3: they were very humble people, very poor people. But Jesus 316 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 3: Christ was born at the right time. You know, I've 317 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 3: often said about various things timing is everything, and I 318 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: believe that. I believe there's the right time for just 319 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: about everything. And Jesus was born at the right time 320 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 3: as a matter of fact. In the Book of Galatians, 321 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 3: Chapter four, verse four, beginning, Paul said, and when the 322 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 3: fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, 323 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 3: made of a woman made under the law, to redeem 324 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 3: them that were under the law, that we might receive 325 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 3: the adoption of sons. So Jesus was born of a 326 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 3: virgin at the right time. 327 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 4: What do you mean at the right time. 328 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the Hebrew nation had been taught 329 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 3: to believe in God. They had been taught to believe 330 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: in God and to trust God, and to love God 331 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 3: with all their heart. Number two, the Greeks had contributed 332 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 3: their language in which the New Testament largely was written. 333 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 3: The Romans had developed road systems that would be used 334 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 3: in traveling. And then there was a legal system that 335 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 3: gave citizenship to those that were Jews. Paul was a Jew, 336 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 3: but he had Roman citizenship. He was a citizen of Rome, 337 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 3: and he used that ought very often to his advantage. 338 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 3: And so all of these combined made the time Jesus 339 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 3: came into the world very conducive. 340 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 4: To the spread of the Gospel. 341 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 3: For example, the road system would be used by those 342 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 3: who would travel in varised parts of the world to 343 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 3: preach the Gospel, and the language be used to teach 344 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: men in their own language the Gospel. So at the 345 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 3: time was right when Jesus Christ came into the world. 346 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 3: And Jesus Christ, because of his birth, because of the 347 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 3: life he lived, because of the death he died, satisfies 348 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 3: all of man's spiritual needs. Now all of us have 349 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 3: a few wants that maybe we will never have satisfied. 350 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 3: But there needs of the soul that only Christ can satisfy. 351 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 3: Sometimes we think we can do it ourselves. We can 352 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 3: do it ourselves, you know. But but the Bible says 353 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: the way of man is not in himself. He is 354 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,959 Speaker 3: not in man that walks to direct his steps. And 355 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 3: even Jesus in John fifteen and five said, without me, 356 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 3: you can do nothing. Without Jesus, you can't accomplish very 357 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 3: much in life. But with Jesus you can accomplish great things. 358 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 3: With Jesus Christ, one day you can go home by Heaven, 359 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 3: beyond this old world. Jesus came to help people. He 360 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,959 Speaker 3: came to seek and to save people that were lost, 361 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 3: and we can be saved today from our sins. First 362 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 3: of all, because Jesus came into this world as a baby. 363 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 3: He came into this world as a child, grew to manhood, 364 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 3: had his disciples prepared to care the gospel to the world, 365 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,199 Speaker 3: and we have it today because Jesus Christ was born. 366 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ is not a way, He's the way. And 367 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: living is not in several different forms today, but it 368 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 3: is in one way that's Christ's way. Listen to Jesus. 369 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 3: This is how he puts it. I am the Way, 370 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: the Truth and the Life. And no man comes under 371 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 3: the Father but by me. 372 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 4: Oh. 373 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: Yes, Jesus was born. I don't know when. And I 374 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 3: appreciate the birth of Christ, and we should all appreciate 375 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 3: his birth. But Jesus Christ came to live so he 376 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 3: could die for the world, and he left a message 377 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 3: behind that we could know what to do to go 378 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: home to be with him in heaven. One day, it 379 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 3: was the first time the Gospel was being preached to 380 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 3: the world. It would predict it in Isaiah chapter two, 381 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 3: verses two through four, that it. 382 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 4: Would begin in Jerusalem. 383 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 3: And it was in the city of Jerusalem on the 384 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 3: first Pentecost after jesus resurrection from the dead, and Peter 385 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 3: stood up and he preached the first Gospel sermon under 386 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 3: the world wide Commission, the Commission to God, all the 387 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 3: world preach the Gospel. And on that occasion he preached 388 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 3: about the life of Jesus, the death of Jesus, his resurrection, 389 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 3: and he let people know that the one that had 390 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 3: crucified was the son of the Living God. And when 391 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 3: the people heard that, they asked this question, men and brethren, 392 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 3: what shall we do? And here's his answer what they 393 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 3: should do. Peter answered and said, unto them, repent and 394 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 3: be baptized, every one of you in the name of 395 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and you shall 396 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 3: receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came into 397 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 3: this world to save us. We just need to have 398 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 3: the spirit of Christ. We need to have the right 399 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 3: attitude toward Him. We need to have the right attitude 400 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 3: toward eternity. Have you settled the question of eternity? Jesus 401 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 3: came to settle it for it to help you settle 402 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 3: that question. Do you know where you will be a 403 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 3: thousand years from today. You see, we'll be somewhere in eternity, 404 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that. And if you'll give your 405 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 3: life to Christ today, if you'll say, Jesus, I'm tired. 406 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 3: I'm tired of all this that's been going on in 407 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 3: my life. I'm tired of not knowing where I stand spiritually. 408 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 3: I'm tired of the termoil that I live in every day. 409 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 3: You can settle that by just saying, Lord, I'm coming. 410 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 4: To you today. I want to obey your gospel today. 411 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 3: Not some man made theory, not some man made idea 412 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 3: about salvation. If we will do just what Peter told 413 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 3: the people to do on the day of Pentecost, which 414 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 3: was repent and be baptized, we will have the same 415 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 3: benefit they receive, the remission of their sins. That's so simple, 416 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 3: that's so easy to understand that if we just do 417 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,479 Speaker 3: what the Bible teaches. What Jesus who came into this 418 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 3: world in human form and died on a cross, he 419 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: shed blood, died a horrible death. 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