1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:04,920 If you have a Bible turned to the gospel of Luke, the third chapter, 2 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:09,540 I've entitled this message, 3 00:00:10,460 --> 00:00:12,680 The Humble, Glorious King. 4 00:00:15,620 --> 00:00:23,200 We've been looking at John the Baptist in his proclamation and his radicalness. 5 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:26,100 You ever been accused to being radical? 6 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,860 Man, that's just a, you guys are just Bible. 7 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:39,820 thumpers. Yeah. I like being a Bible thumper. Been called to Jesus freak. I'll take that one too. 8 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:46,320 I think I got called oral Roberts once, once, Oral Roberts. Who remembers at Oral Roberts? 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,900 Oh yeah, quite a few of you. So I kind of take issue with that, but it's all right. 10 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,960 But it's all right. But it's... But it's... This, this... 11 00:01:00,020 --> 00:01:12,880 book, this, this, this savior that we claim as our own. And he is our king. And he, some of the things he did 12 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:19,220 and said was wild. And even, even what we're going to look at today was maybe a little bit out 13 00:01:19,220 --> 00:01:29,940 out of character or what people, religious people, so to speak, was looking for. And so we, we got clear down to 14 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:36,140 verse 20. I'm going to start in verse 21 and just read verses 21 and 22 and then we'll pray. 15 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:46,820 But John has been telling the people to get ready. Right. Get ready. He's coming. 16 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:53,380 The Messiah is coming. And Israel had been looking for this and the prophets had been preaching about 17 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,540 this for millennia. And Zah, millennia is a millennia. 18 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:00,400 More than one. 19 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:09,800 And so he tells the people that this powerful Messiah that is coming, 20 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:14,620 he is going to offer to us a baptism of the Holy Spirit 21 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:18,000 or a baptism of fiery judgment. 22 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,220 Which one do you want? 23 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:20,780 Right? 24 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,200 A baptism of the Holy Spirit or a baptism of a fiery judgment. 25 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:29,520 And you're either in one. 26 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:41,220 of the other camps. There's no middle ground. And so I hope you've purposed in your heart and made a serious 27 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,340 decision to follow Jesus. If you haven't, I want to give you an opportunity to do that at the end of the 28 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:53,560 service today. But John tells him when they come to him and they hear him preaching and no doubt they're 29 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:59,020 convicted. You ever been convicted just by hearing the word of God? I read the word of God and I go, 30 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:28,580 Oh, no. I'm dead. Right? I mean, I mean, you just, yeah, you, you, it's, it's powerful. The word. It speaks to us. You know, it's alive, the Bible says. And, and that conviction. And so the people, as they're convicted, they come. And what do I do? What do we do? What do? What do I do now? And John just kind of lays it out for him, right? In essence, what I shared last week, the four things, where he says, be generous, be honest, be humble. 31 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:30,080 And don't be greedy. 32 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:33,960 Well, we're all sunk, right? 33 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:42,060 Because we're all not these things in our nature because of the sin nature. 34 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,080 You know, I read that. 35 00:03:44,620 --> 00:03:49,800 I read that there was a letter as actually it was a report. 36 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:50,720 It was a report. 37 00:03:50,740 --> 00:03:59,080 It was the Minnesota Crime Commission report back in the 1920s. 38 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:04,040 and it starts out with every child is born a little savage. 39 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:06,800 Right? 40 00:04:08,620 --> 00:04:10,560 He's selfish, he has nothing to offer. 41 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,140 All he thinks about it is himself. 42 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,160 He wants his playmates toy. 43 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:17,640 He wants his uncle to watch. 44 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,019 And if somebody does not, and to not get that, 45 00:04:21,140 --> 00:04:26,140 he's so seized with anger that if he were not so helpless and little, 46 00:04:26,620 --> 00:04:28,340 he would murder everybody in the room. 47 00:04:31,620 --> 00:04:41,040 That's us. That's our fallen nature. Right? We have this sin nature and the world does not like to embrace that. 48 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:47,760 Right? Why do when somebody, you know, somebody runs for an office, man, you start digging up trash, man. 49 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,720 We'll get some trash on this guy. Duh. Because we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, the Bible says. 50 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,240 Right. So you're going to get dirt on anyone. Because nobody. 51 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:01,800 has rose above that depravity. 52 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:06,200 And we start getting a handle on it when we come to Jesus 53 00:05:06,540 --> 00:05:07,860 because he forgives us of it. 54 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:11,760 And he starts leading us into a way that is good. 55 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,540 Because the Bible tells us Romans chapter 3, 56 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,200 there is no, none good, no, not one. 57 00:05:20,180 --> 00:05:22,640 Wouldn't that a song? No, not one, no not one. 58 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:23,240 Right? 59 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,440 We all like sheep have gone astray. 60 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:26,960 There is none who does good. 61 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,220 And so John is bringing this message to him and they're going, man, what do we do? What do we do? 62 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:35,220 And he sees, he repent for the kingdom of heaven is a hand. 63 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,700 And we know that he's preparing the way for the Messiah to come. 64 00:05:39,220 --> 00:05:42,860 That's why I'm convinced. That's why Jesus said he was the greatest of all the prophets. 65 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:51,220 Because he preceded, he was that one right before and pointing everybody to the Messiah, this John, the baptizer. 66 00:05:52,420 --> 00:05:56,320 And so, let's read, verses 21 and 22. 67 00:05:57,020 --> 00:06:01,940 When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus was also baptized. 68 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,460 And while he prayed, the heaven was opened. 69 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,600 And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him. 70 00:06:12,340 --> 00:06:15,840 And a voice came from heaven, which said, 71 00:06:16,260 --> 00:06:18,120 You are my beloved son. 72 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,100 In you, I am well pleased. 73 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:20,780 Let's pray. 74 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:21,960 Lord, thank you. 75 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,520 Thank you for showing us the way. 76 00:06:24,860 --> 00:06:26,960 Thank you for being the way for us for us. 77 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:29,580 and willing to come and humble yourself. 78 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:31,940 And you truly are that humble king. 79 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:37,960 But Lord, we know that you're coming again as a glorious reigning king and a warrior king. 80 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,340 And so, Lord, we just, we want to worship you. 81 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,180 We want to find ourselves in a place of walking by faith when you come. 82 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:49,260 And so would you prepare our hearts, Lord, as we look at your word this morning, 83 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,940 that it would bear fruit in us, Lord, that it would take root. 84 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,920 And Lord, that it would have that impact, that it's, 85 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:04,060 It's so good at, Lord, dividing the soul and the spirit and the bone and the marrow and a discerner of the 86 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:10,120 intents of our heart. Even today as we sit here and we hear these words, Lord, may it change us. 87 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:16,960 And into being more like our God, our forerunner, our mediator, the Lord Jesus. 88 00:07:17,420 --> 00:07:19,100 And it's in your name we pray. Amen. 89 00:07:20,540 --> 00:07:26,900 So John comes along and it says, and all the people were about. 90 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:33,440 And this was a baptism of repentance, right? They recognized that their sin was wrong and they're going into the 91 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:43,840 water as a, as an idea of cleansing from that sin. And it stayed there. We see in Acts 19 when the people at 92 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,500 Ephesus, Paul asked him, he says, hey, have you received the baptism of the Holy Spirit since you 93 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:56,120 believed? And they go, we've never heard of such a thing. That's, that's Hick-Talk, but that's what they said. 94 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,040 We've never heard of such a thing. Baptism of the Holy Spirit. 95 00:07:59,620 --> 00:08:03,660 What baptism will you baptize with? And they said the baptism of John. 96 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:10,640 The baptism, right? They'd heard about Jesus and they were willing to repent and they were baptized with the 97 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,180 baptism of John. And we know that the Holy Spirit comes and comes upon them. 98 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:22,820 And but they were also there received water baptism as well. 99 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:26,040 And really what they're doing, 100 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:33,760 there is an identification. So John baptized with the baptism of repentance, right? And people were 101 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:40,760 turning from their sin. But our baptism is more of a baptism of identification. Like the other night 102 00:08:40,860 --> 00:08:47,440 when we baptized on Christmas Eve, I always read Romans chapter 6, right, where it says we identify. 103 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:52,900 As we get baptized, what we're doing is it's not for the cleansing or washing of sin. 104 00:08:53,260 --> 00:08:55,620 That's already taken place when you come to Jesus. 105 00:08:55,660 --> 00:09:02,600 right? A lot of people get baptized. They go under the water and they come up a wet sinner. 106 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:13,960 Their sins haven't been dealt with. Right. We deal with our sin at conversion when we accept and 107 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:18,220 believe, right? When we confess with our mouth of the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God is 108 00:09:18,340 --> 00:09:22,360 raised him from the dead, the Bible says, you're saved. You're saved from your sin right then. 109 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,160 And you're washed. 110 00:09:25,740 --> 00:09:26,460 I always share. 111 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:36,760 Revelation chapter 1, verse 5, where it says that Jesus washed us from our sin, not with baptism, 112 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:39,860 but with his own precious blood. 113 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,140 Revelation chapter 1 verse 5. 114 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,860 It's just like, thank you, Lord. 115 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:48,740 Right? 116 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:49,760 He did it. 117 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:51,020 He did it. 118 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:52,780 And so for us. 119 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:56,840 And so our baptism is a baptism of identification. 120 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,760 We're identifying with the death, speaking of going under the water, 121 00:10:02,260 --> 00:10:05,120 and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus coming up out of the grave. 122 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:07,340 That's what our identification is. 123 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:16,380 And so in Matthew, when Jesus comes to John, we don't see it here in Luke, 124 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:21,720 but in the gospel of Matthew, there's a conversation that takes place, right? 125 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,960 And it says then Jesus is Matthew chapter 3 verses 13 through 15. 126 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,760 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized. 127 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,300 It's the same thing that's going on in Luke right here. 128 00:10:35,860 --> 00:10:39,180 And John tried to prevent him, saying, 129 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,040 I need to be baptized by you and are you coming to me? 130 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:46,440 But Jesus answered and said to him, 131 00:10:46,860 --> 00:10:51,760 Permitted to be so, for thus it is fitting for us to us to be. 132 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:53,560 to fulfill all righteousness. 133 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 And then he allowed him. 134 00:10:56,740 --> 00:11:01,920 But Jesus does it for a different reason, right? 135 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,360 To fulfill all righteousness, it says here. 136 00:11:05,740 --> 00:11:11,080 Now, in your Bibles, there is the little word there in verse 15. 137 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:14,720 And it's where it says, permit, this is Jesus speaking. 138 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:21,260 He says, permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us. 139 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:25,180 the us there is not talking about Jesus and John. 140 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,880 It's talking about the triune God, the Trinity. 141 00:11:31,420 --> 00:11:33,340 Us to fulfill all righteousness. 142 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:36,600 Because you and I and even John the Baptist, 143 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:38,880 he had no righteousness of his own. 144 00:11:39,580 --> 00:11:40,200 None of us do. 145 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:43,800 What do we call that when we think we're righteous? 146 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:46,160 Self-righteousness, right? 147 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,860 Which is a stench in the nostrils of our God. 148 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:56,160 If you think you're righteous because of you, you've just deceived yourself, right? 149 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:01,620 Because there is none righteous. No, not one. No, not one. There we go again. No, not one. 150 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:08,460 So let us, us. This is, it's like a conversation within the Godhead. 151 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:15,420 We see it back in Genesis, right? Let us make man in our image after our likeness. 152 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,640 Yeah, but isn't God one? Yes, God is one. But he's three in one. How's that work? 153 00:12:19,940 --> 00:12:20,500 I don't know. 154 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:23,900 I just know the Bible teaches it. 155 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:25,800 Right? 156 00:12:28,020 --> 00:12:30,760 I had a guy that called me here a while back, 157 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,340 and I think I might have shared it with that. 158 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:32,860 I can't remember. 159 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,400 And he just wanted to argue about this point. 160 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:36,680 He doesn't believe in the Trinity. 161 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:40,080 And I'm just like a good gracious. 162 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,820 But the best way to explain it is just go look in the mirror, right? 163 00:12:46,780 --> 00:12:49,640 We are created in the universe. 164 00:12:49,660 --> 00:12:57,380 image of God. Right? We have a body, mind, and spirit. Three and one. We're three and one. 165 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:04,880 We bear the image of the, the almighty God, the creator of the universe. And that's, have you ever 166 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,540 talked to yourself? Well, we're not Jesus when he's praying there. He's talking to him. 167 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:17,360 Well, in a sense, yes. But do you ever talk to yourself? All the time. Listen, Dan's talking to himself 168 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:17,860 right now. 169 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:28,120 But our Lord's baptism in water was a picture of his. 170 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:34,520 But our Lord's baptism in water was a picture of his work of redemption. 171 00:13:35,260 --> 00:13:40,520 It was through his baptism of suffering on the cross that God fulfilled all righteousness. 172 00:13:41,180 --> 00:13:47,180 And so that's what he's, you know, and so people will say, well, if he's the savior, the Messiah, 173 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:48,980 why does he need to be baptized? 174 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:53,780 So I'm going to just give you three ideas that some commentators believe. 175 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:54,480 Number one. 176 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,880 Number one is to identify with us, right? 177 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:00,860 Jesus was baptized to identify it with us. 178 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:08,220 Here is Jesus, the sinless one, identifying with you and I who are sinners. 179 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:09,840 You and I are sinners. 180 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:15,520 And the Bible says that he became like sinful man. 181 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,120 He's like us, but he did not send. 182 00:14:20,140 --> 00:14:21,040 Christ never sent. 183 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:25,280 I think it's just so cool. 184 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,000 Jesus is willing to identify with me, right? 185 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:31,700 And take on this body of flesh. 186 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,260 Did you ever get tired of this thing? 187 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,160 And it's just nasty. 188 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:40,780 I got this thing with my... 189 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:41,860 I better not go there. 190 00:14:51,260 --> 00:14:59,440 But Hebrews tells us, right, in chapter four, the same one is the word of God passage, right? 191 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:06,080 It says, we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, 192 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:11,700 but was in all points tempted as like us. 193 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:19,480 yet without sin. He fully identified with those of us who need to express repentance by baptism 194 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:29,660 to identify with us. That's number one. He identifies with us. The sinless Christ came and went 195 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:36,680 through baptism. And just like once we repent, we give our heart to Jesus, we identify with him 196 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:41,720 and his death and we go through baptism. Number two is to verify. Number two is to verify. 197 00:15:42,620 --> 00:15:46,380 right? To verify, especially for John the Baptist. 198 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:54,540 If you remember anything about John the Baptist, he was, well, what he said about Jesus, 199 00:15:55,140 --> 00:15:58,240 but he comes to a crisis in his faith when he's in prison. 200 00:15:59,340 --> 00:16:03,560 Right? Jesus, John's saying all these things about Jesus. Behold this, the Lamb of God 201 00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:09,680 that takes away the sin of the world. Right. And he had talked about him here. And Luke, he's the one who, 202 00:16:10,020 --> 00:16:11,680 I'm not worthy to undo his sense. 203 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:17,920 And John's talking about this, but then when he's in prison, right? In Matthew 204 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:25,880 11, he goes, could you go ask Jesus if he's the one or should we look for another? 205 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:35,480 You know, I think John heard the rumor that they asked for his head. And obviously, we know, 206 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,520 we know hindsight that his ministry's over. Here he is a 30-year-old man and his ministry's done. 207 00:16:41,140 --> 00:16:56,080 Life's over. That's it. You're gone. You're out. And so he's got a moment of doubt. Maybe a faith crisis. If you're here today and you have a faith crisis, 208 00:16:57,940 --> 00:17:03,280 can I just tell you? Just put your faith in Jesus. No, but you don't understand. There's a crisis. 209 00:17:04,939 --> 00:17:08,900 Right. Well, that's how you fix the faith crisis is put your faith in Jesus. 210 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:11,699 is pretty simple, right? 211 00:17:14,180 --> 00:17:16,740 Well, and I know a lot of us and I probably would agree with you. 212 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:18,400 It's easier said than done sometimes. 213 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:19,800 Right? 214 00:17:20,660 --> 00:17:23,540 And so he verifies, 215 00:17:24,740 --> 00:17:27,180 he verifies what John was saying about him. 216 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:32,600 And he verifies everything that the prophets said about him. 217 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:35,140 And so. 218 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:47,280 you know, there's times in all of our walks, I think, that sometimes things get a little sketchy, you know, 219 00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:52,500 and you ask yourself, you know, you're praying, I've done this, sitting there praying, 220 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,800 and I'm going, is there really somebody there? 221 00:17:58,220 --> 00:17:59,980 Because sometimes it feels like nobody's there. 222 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:11,040 And, um, but God says that if we will seek him with all of our heart, we will find him. 223 00:18:12,180 --> 00:18:13,440 Seek him without doubting. 224 00:18:15,020 --> 00:18:17,040 And, um, and that's a hard thing to do. 225 00:18:20,259 --> 00:18:22,400 But the bottom line is, right? 226 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,900 We, we put our faith in him. 227 00:18:27,860 --> 00:18:31,460 And he will prove himself. 228 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,020 to us over and over again. 229 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:40,220 And so he's verifying John's claim. 230 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,020 He verifies what Isaiah says in chapter 11, 231 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,880 a rod will come out of the stem of Jesse. 232 00:18:48,740 --> 00:18:51,300 And a branch will come out of his roots. 233 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:54,320 And the spirit of the Lord will rest upon him. 234 00:18:56,020 --> 00:18:59,820 And so here we see the fulfillment of the Spirit of God 235 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:00,880 resting upon Jesus. 236 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:03,300 and what we just written here. 237 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:12,740 So he verifies what the, actually the Old Testament, the law, the prophets, and Jesus said, 238 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:17,060 and the Psalms, all those things that were written about him are going to come to pass. 239 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,340 And as they begin to come to past, it was verification that he was in fact, 240 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:25,740 who John said he was and he eventually who he will say he is. 241 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,060 And I think I quoted it. 242 00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:30,880 Maybe I quoted it last. 243 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:37,760 week. I quoted a lot, actually, the C.S. Lewis quote about Jesus, right? And the things that he 244 00:19:38,260 --> 00:19:45,060 did and said and who he was and what others said about him. He is either a lunatic. 245 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:52,880 He's absolutely insane, right? He's a liar and a very good one at that. Or he's Lord. 246 00:19:54,640 --> 00:20:00,160 And so you can't, you can't read through God's Word. And you can't read through God's Word. 247 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:05,300 and come to a neutral position of who Christ is. 248 00:20:06,260 --> 00:20:08,620 He's either your Lord or he's one of the other two to you. 249 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,900 He's either your Lord or he's one of the other two to you. 250 00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:24,380 So secondly, he's verified to John and others. 251 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,620 And thirdly, the third reason is to prophesy. 252 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:34,680 right? It's for him to be baptized is prophetic of what's going to happen. 253 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,400 It's pointing to something's going to happen some three years later to Jesus. 254 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:48,780 He's going to go into the ground and he's going to come back to life three days later, 255 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:53,420 never to die again. And that's what sets him apart. 256 00:20:54,580 --> 00:20:57,620 That's why this room has people in it right now. 257 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,620 Because we believe that to be true. 258 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:03,380 Could you imagine if you just, 259 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:09,580 that's a great story, but yeah, I don't think I can buy that one. 260 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:18,740 So it's a picture. 261 00:21:22,420 --> 00:21:24,780 Because baptism was done by immersion, 262 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:27,380 somebody was brought under the water 263 00:21:27,380 --> 00:21:35,920 and brought under the water, Paul speaks of, right, there in Romans 6, as death or burial, and the resurrection. 264 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:42,000 So, too, as he come up out of the water, we walk in the newness of life, or, or, 265 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,420 embracing the resurrection. 266 00:21:50,380 --> 00:21:56,500 Because if we believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, it says, we're saved. 267 00:21:58,180 --> 00:22:00,240 And that is, that's glorious. 268 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:05,700 That's glorious especially, especially in the face of death. 269 00:22:06,420 --> 00:22:06,580 Right? 270 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:15,560 So I, this last week, I had a dear sweet woman that I love so much growing up and 271 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,640 and got to go give her a kiss on the cheek and tell her I loved her. 272 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,480 And she responded. 273 00:22:23,460 --> 00:22:24,780 And four hours later, she was gone. 274 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:25,900 Just gone. 275 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:26,860 right. 276 00:22:29,020 --> 00:22:31,740 Death is, it's powerful, right? 277 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:37,880 Because this person that you touch and you've talked to and you've been around your whole life, 278 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:43,420 all of a sudden, there's just like this, it's just a surreal experience, right? 279 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,280 It kind of puts an empty, well, maybe not even empty, but especially if they know Jesus, 280 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:55,960 but just this emotional tumult in your heart, you're going, wow, that is, I'm 281 00:22:55,980 --> 00:23:00,420 I was just me and my mom were face to face like this when she took her last breath. 282 00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:03,000 And I'm just going, she's gone. 283 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:04,760 She's gone. 284 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:06,860 Dorothy, the other night, she's gone. 285 00:23:07,740 --> 00:23:08,260 They leave. 286 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:09,620 Where do they go? 287 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:10,740 Good question. 288 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:12,340 Do you know where you're going? 289 00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:15,280 They leave. 290 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,080 Okay. 291 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:17,580 And they're going somewhere. 292 00:23:19,300 --> 00:23:19,800 Right? 293 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,920 It's that fiery judgment that we talked about at the beginning. 294 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,080 Or it's that glorious community. 295 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:31,740 this communion with the Holy Spirit in the presence of the mighty God and the holy angels. 296 00:23:32,860 --> 00:23:33,400 One or the other. 297 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,640 And it's before us every day. 298 00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:40,620 Just this week, right, with the plane crashes. 299 00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:43,840 It's like, the world is falling apart. 300 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:45,480 Who wants to fly? 301 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:48,680 My hand ain't up, right? 302 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:54,760 It's just, you know, all the scuttle butt about Boeing and the, 303 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,760 the laxed, you know, manufacturing and stuff. 304 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:03,080 You're just like, wow, no, my horse is looking better all the time. 305 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,460 Long as they don't buck. 306 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:10,260 Yeah. 307 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:21,800 I do not know how many times I have read Luke chapter three, 308 00:24:21,980 --> 00:24:23,880 but this one jumped out at me. 309 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:36,760 I'd never seen it before where it says, and it came to pass that Jesus was baptized, and while he prayed, 310 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:40,340 Jesus prayed, he's standing in the water, right? 311 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:43,380 He comes to this psycho dude, right? 312 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:52,180 It dressed in buckskins and in our vernacular, buckskins and, you know, a belt, and, um, 313 00:24:53,460 --> 00:24:54,580 totally out of the norm. 314 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,080 And he comes to him to be baptized. 315 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:01,800 And while he's there in the water, 316 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:05,340 Jesus prays. 317 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,220 And some, well, was he? 318 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,000 This is the, 319 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,540 we had talked a couple weeks ago about the incarnation, right? 320 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,160 Fully God and fully man. 321 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,780 This is the man Christ Jesus 322 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,480 praying to the Creator. 323 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:30,280 the universe. This is the man Christ Jesus praying to the universe. He not only come to identify with us, 324 00:25:30,620 --> 00:25:40,120 but he came to be an example for us, folks. If the son of God saw fit to pray, what's our prayer 325 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:47,400 life like? I'm convicted by this, right? Because usually I can point at you guys, 326 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,340 but there's always three more pointing back at me. Right? What's our prayer life like? 327 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,080 because it's powerful prayer. 328 00:25:58,380 --> 00:26:05,300 And it's one of the most powerful things that we have available to us, 329 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,420 but it's the thing least used, I think, in our Christian walk. 330 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,920 But he shows us this example, 331 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,580 how a man is in a relationship with God. 332 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,220 And he comes up out of the water, 333 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:28,300 It seems that this is after. If we just go chronologically through the verse, it just seems that he comes 334 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:35,600 out of the water and he prays. Now, we don't know what he prayed, but we do know the father's response, right? 335 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:45,080 This is my son in whom I'm well pleased. Right? And he just pictured for all of you what he's going to do for you. 336 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:51,580 And what are you going to do with that? And what do we do with that? I mean on a daily basis. 337 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:52,980 right? 338 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,440 Because I know a lot of people, man. 339 00:26:57,540 --> 00:27:00,780 Jesus is only a fire escape. 340 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,560 Only it's on fire when their tail end is on fire, do they pray? 341 00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:05,780 Right? 342 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,180 I know a lot of people like that. 343 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:14,120 I remember living with this guy down in Texas, 344 00:27:14,460 --> 00:27:16,360 and we would get in these talks, right? 345 00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:17,580 Now I was backslidden. 346 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,900 I was smoking weed with this guy and being a scumb bum. 347 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:36,240 But in those quiet moments, you know, in our little, you know, T.HC. stupor, you know, I would, I would, we would get in these talks about God and about Jesus. 348 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:41,280 And I would tell him that I, you know, what I'm doing ain't wrong. 349 00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:44,340 God doesn't mind that little stuff, he says. 350 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,240 I'm going, what are you talking about? 351 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:47,840 Right? 352 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,280 God has tuned in to everything. 353 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,420 And he was saying, they only pray about big things, right? 354 00:27:55,820 --> 00:27:59,440 And I, and I, it's funny because him and his wife are believers now. 355 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:00,960 This was, this was 30 years ago. 356 00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:02,680 But him and his wife are now believers. 357 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,920 He's realized, no, no, no, no, you pray about everything, right? 358 00:28:07,340 --> 00:28:09,700 And so it's just cool. 359 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:15,220 But the Lord confirms him here. 360 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:20,260 I think of this is really a fulfillment of Isaiah. 361 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:24,420 If you have a Bible, please turn there to Isaiah chapter 42. 362 00:28:26,460 --> 00:28:27,420 Just some good stuff. 363 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:33,280 This is a good memory verses here and powerful stuff. 364 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:41,100 And it says in Isaiah chapter 42, verse 1, it says, 365 00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:43,140 Behold my servant whom I uphold. 366 00:28:43,660 --> 00:28:44,000 Is that what? 367 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:45,960 Am I in the right place? 368 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:46,580 Okay. 369 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:50,020 He says, behold my servant whom I uphold. 370 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,440 My elect one in whom my soul delights. 371 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,160 Ring a bell. 372 00:28:54,580 --> 00:28:57,520 I have put my spirit upon him. 373 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,400 He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 374 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,900 He will not cry out nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 375 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,740 A bruised reed, he will not break. 376 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,220 And smoking flax, he will not quench. 377 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,640 He will bring forth justice for truth. 378 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,200 He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has established 379 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,480 justice in the earth and the coastlands shall wait for his law. 380 00:29:23,940 --> 00:29:28,180 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, 381 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:29,860 who spread forth the earth. 382 00:29:31,940 --> 00:29:37,020 And that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, 383 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:37,960 that'd be you and me. 384 00:29:38,780 --> 00:29:40,900 Take a breath and just think about that one for a minute. 385 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,260 And spirit to those who walk on it, the Lord, 386 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,100 have called you in righteousness. 387 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:50,900 and will hold your hand. 388 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,640 I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people as a light to the Gentiles, 389 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,040 to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, 390 00:30:00,540 --> 00:30:03,080 those who sit in darkness from the prison house. 391 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,140 I am the Lord. 392 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:06,280 That is my name and my glory. 393 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,960 I will not give to another. 394 00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:10,880 This is Jesus. 395 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:17,580 This is Jesus fulfilling something that was written about him 700 years prior to him coming to 396 00:30:17,860 --> 00:30:18,000 the earth. 397 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,880 What are the odds? 398 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:29,780 of that. Right? That's the verification of the power of the word of God. And you and I need that in our life. 399 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:38,000 You need the word of God in your life. Proverbs 1520 says, a wise son makes a glad father. 400 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:46,480 Jesus is that, right? This is my son in whom I'm well pleased. The father is glad about Jesus. 401 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:49,000 He's glad about what Jesus did. 402 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,480 The Bible says in Isaiah, it pleased the Father to bruise him on our behalf. 403 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,500 God was pleased to do that for you and I. 404 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:07,420 That we would have this pathway, this bridge to heaven that otherwise were sunk. 405 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,440 Prayer is a conversation with God. 406 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:18,820 You talk to God and God talks to you. 407 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,060 Well, some people say, well, I talk to God. 408 00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:23,360 God doesn't seem to be talking to me. 409 00:31:24,980 --> 00:31:28,080 Okay, I got lamb baste you with a quote from my baby brother. 410 00:31:30,980 --> 00:31:34,160 Rick Brown, you know, he's pretty techy. 411 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,520 He's got some little quotes on the internet and here is one of them. 412 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,900 Rick said, don't say God has been silent when your Bible is closed. 413 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:47,700 Right? 414 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:51,080 He always had a way with words. 415 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,820 Don't say that God has been silent when your Bible has been closed. 416 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:07,940 Because God primarily folks speaks to us from his word. 417 00:32:08,620 --> 00:32:12,480 Now that doesn't mean that God doesn't show you things. 418 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,580 God doesn't lay things on your heart. 419 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,320 I just had somebody talk to me yesterday and said, man, this little boy, he's just, I just been 420 00:32:19,580 --> 00:32:25,720 thinking about him all the time. And I'm convinced that God will do that. He'll put people on your 421 00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:30,360 heart, people to pray for. And when you don't know what to pray for, that's where that Holy Spirit 422 00:32:30,540 --> 00:32:38,720 comes in and praise God for that. It's awesome. Notice what happens, though, as Jesus is baptized 423 00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:44,120 and praised. An explosion of the triune God happens. 424 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,620 This is one of the greatest passages in the scripture of the Trinity. 425 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:49,640 Right? 426 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,220 So Jesus, the man, prays to the creator of the universe. 427 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:59,220 God, the son, is speaking to God the Father, right? 428 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,240 This happens also in Hebrew 1, verse 8 and 9. 429 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,240 This is the father speaking to the son. 430 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,700 And it says, but the son, to the son, he says, 431 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,680 The Father says, your throne. 432 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,720 This is the Father speaking to Jesus. 433 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,960 So check this out. 434 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,680 People say, well, the Bible doesn't say that Jesus is God. 435 00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:27,880 Well, I beg to differ, but the Father does. 436 00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:30,000 The Father says that Jesus is God. 437 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,140 And who's greater in authority than Him? 438 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:33,540 Anybody? 439 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:34,500 No. 440 00:33:35,260 --> 00:33:40,400 So it says, your throne, the Father says to the Son, 441 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:42,980 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. 442 00:33:43,180 --> 00:33:45,840 A sceptor of righteousness is a sceptre of your kingdom. 443 00:33:46,460 --> 00:33:49,520 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. 444 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:58,860 Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions. 445 00:34:00,260 --> 00:34:00,400 Right? 446 00:34:00,860 --> 00:34:03,320 So here's the father speaking to the son. 447 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,720 God the father speaking to God the son. 448 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,919 And then you have God the Holy Spirit coming down upon the man Christ Jesus. 449 00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:14,679 in the form of a dove. 450 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:28,220 And so verse 23 says, now Jesus himself began in ministry being about 30 years old. 451 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,800 That's when the priests were ready to start in ministry. 452 00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:34,240 Is when they were 30. 453 00:34:36,179 --> 00:34:40,040 And so he's ready to roll. 454 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:41,399 He's got the Holy Spirit. 455 00:34:45,899 --> 00:34:49,740 If you haven't received the Holy Spirit, right? 456 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:55,520 Now, by that, I mean, in Calvary circles, right, we would break it down, 457 00:34:56,060 --> 00:34:58,500 where the Holy Spirit is with you, leading you to Jesus, right? 458 00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:02,200 Because the Bible says apart from the Holy Spirit, nobody can say that Jesus is Lord. 459 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:03,820 Nobody can do that, right? 460 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:08,000 And so that's the Holy Spirit, the Para, the with, he's with you. 461 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,140 And then the Holy Spirit comes in you at conversion when you, you, you, 462 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:15,160 You confess the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart. 463 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,020 Then the Holy Spirit is in you. 464 00:35:17,140 --> 00:35:19,340 And the Bible says that when the Holy Spirit comes, 465 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,300 he'll lead you into all truth. 466 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,740 But there was a third relationship that the Calvary Chapel circles point out. 467 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,840 And it is what we call the upon of the Holy Spirit. 468 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:29,840 Right? 469 00:35:30,340 --> 00:35:33,760 And Jesus had these experiences with his disciples. 470 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,900 He breathed on them, right? 471 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,580 Before the Ascension, he breathed on them and says, receive the Holy Spirit. 472 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,080 Many believe that that's when they were actually converted. 473 00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:45,140 They walked with them for three years, recognizing truth. 474 00:35:45,460 --> 00:35:45,540 Right. 475 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:46,680 Thinking there's nobody like this. 476 00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:47,460 He's our hero. 477 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,300 We're going to walk with him. 478 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:52,240 But when he breathed on them after the resurrection, 479 00:35:52,820 --> 00:35:54,740 he says, receive ye the Holy Spirit. 480 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,640 Many believe that that's when the disciples, the apostles, 481 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,900 were actually converted. 482 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:00,160 Right? 483 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,340 And received the Holy Spirit. 484 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,260 But they were still scared cats. 485 00:36:06,580 --> 00:36:06,740 Right? 486 00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:08,660 And he told him, he says, you guys go. 487 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,840 And you will receive, 488 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:17,820 power from on high when the Holy Spirit comes not with you, not in you, but upon you. 489 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:23,800 The Holy Spirit comes upon you. And that's where we've seen Pentecost and people spoke with 490 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:29,900 tongues. We've seen the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And if you're going to go into a place of ministry, 491 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:35,580 if you're going to start ministering to people, you need the upon of the Holy Spirit. 492 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:41,860 Right? Because I'm sorry. You and I, we ain't got it. We ain't got what it takes. 493 00:36:42,380 --> 00:36:46,820 to do what we, even our hearts, we might have a desire to do. 494 00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:48,820 We don't got it. 495 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:50,360 We're not powerful enough. 496 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,800 But the Holy Spirit is in us. 497 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:54,800 And he comes upon us. 498 00:36:54,860 --> 00:36:55,420 And what happened? 499 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,400 What happened to those people when the Holy Spirit came? 500 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,640 Yes, there were gifts, but the most powerful thing that Jesus said would happen to them, 501 00:37:03,060 --> 00:37:05,920 you will receive power from on high to be what? 502 00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:06,960 My witnesses. 503 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,800 That word is literally martyrs. 504 00:37:10,260 --> 00:37:11,860 You are going to be, you will have. 505 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,380 have no fear of death. You're going to be as bold as a lion. You're going to share the Lord Jesus 506 00:37:16,620 --> 00:37:20,460 Christ with the world you live in until the day you take your last breath. And for most of them, 507 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:29,400 that was coming pretty quick. Right? They all died a vicious death for their belief in this 508 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:37,880 God man that we've been reading about. You need the Holy Spirit. And Jesus, the man, 509 00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:41,100 had this Holy Spirit upon him. How this all worked? I don't know. 510 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,660 But I know it's cool because he did some cool stuff. 511 00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:47,660 This guy. Right? 512 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,360 He's worth, he's worth following. 513 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,040 So Jesus prayed and God answered. 514 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:58,740 It's interesting that when Luke in chapter 8, he'll talk about the Holy Spirit. 515 00:38:00,940 --> 00:38:02,100 And what does he say about it? 516 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,500 He says, ask for it. 517 00:38:04,620 --> 00:38:08,100 He says, which one of you, you, you apostles? 518 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:09,260 Right? 519 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,840 Being a father of your child, if he asks you for bread, will you give him a stone? 520 00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:14,960 Right? 521 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,580 If he asks you for an egg, are you going to give him a snake? 522 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:24,820 He says, how much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? 523 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,700 Maybe that's how Jesus prayed there. 524 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,480 Oh, Spirit, fill me up. 525 00:38:35,660 --> 00:38:38,260 Because what he did in three and a half years, nobody's ever done. 526 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:42,340 in the history of the world. 527 00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:45,040 What Christ did. 528 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:48,040 Yes, he was humble. 529 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,720 But he was also God in human flesh. 530 00:38:55,940 --> 00:39:00,000 So, and this God in human flesh, 531 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,980 he came for you and for me to know us. 532 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,240 Years ago, we were at a men's, 533 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:13,440 deal, you know, I wanted to be a man of God. How do I be a man of God? I still ain't got to 534 00:39:13,660 --> 00:39:20,540 figure out, but I still want to be a man of God, right? And so I went to this Bible study 535 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:27,860 and it was, it was a book by Alan Redpath called The Making of a Man of God studies in the 536 00:39:28,020 --> 00:39:32,420 life of David, right? And so we're all sitting there and the teacher. He says, 537 00:39:32,860 --> 00:39:35,480 what's your greatest purpose in life? 538 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:44,320 Well, well, being a good husband, being a, you know, good dad, you know, reading the Bible, 539 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:45,360 praying. 540 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,700 What's your greatest purpose in life? 541 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,460 He asked us all. 542 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:49,460 We're all coming up. 543 00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:54,100 He says, your greatest purpose in life is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. 544 00:39:54,740 --> 00:39:56,820 That's your greatest purpose in life, right? 545 00:39:57,140 --> 00:40:03,760 And when we figure that out, and we stumble and we try hard to do that and we want to do that, right? 546 00:40:06,060 --> 00:40:07,560 God, God has something. 547 00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:13,720 something to work with. Because obviously, we're doing it in humility, knowing that, Lord, I 548 00:40:13,820 --> 00:40:20,320 even got much to offer. Except for a willing heart. And God loves that. Like in that passage in 549 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:26,700 Isaiah, that smoking flax, that bent, read, he's not going to despise that. If you're willing, 550 00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:36,720 he'll use you. God does not call the qualified, right? He qualifies the call. And so if God is 551 00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:40,540 calling you, you need to ask for his Holy Spirit. 552 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,960 Revelation chapter 3 says this, 553 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,740 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 554 00:40:45,820 --> 00:40:48,620 And I don't know if any of this stuff is resonating with you today. 555 00:40:49,420 --> 00:40:50,980 I might just be up here jabbering. 556 00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:56,120 But I have a sense that maybe God is maybe knocking on the door of some hearts. 557 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:59,420 Maybe God wants you to go deeper with him. 558 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,020 You know him. 559 00:41:00,140 --> 00:41:01,680 You walk with him for some time. 560 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,580 You just kind of been messing around. 561 00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:06,320 Don't mess around. 562 00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:07,760 right? 563 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,620 It's just, it's just, that's what it is. 564 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:14,380 It's just a mess. 565 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,840 But press in, draw near, ask, seek, and knock. 566 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:21,320 Revelation 3.20, 567 00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:22,980 behold, I stand at the door and knock. 568 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,720 And maybe the Lord's kind of knocking on the door of your heart this morning. 569 00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:28,020 Now it's afternoon. 570 00:41:30,420 --> 00:41:36,380 And he says, if, if anyone hears my voice and open, 571 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:44,080 opens the door. I will come into him and dine with him and he with me. The knock, the knocking sometimes is a 572 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:51,100 crisis. Sometimes people won't come to Jesus until there's a crisis. Right? Somebody dies and you just, 573 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:58,120 you just don't have a handle on death yet. It just tips you over. I've seen so many people's lives 574 00:41:58,220 --> 00:42:06,360 just take a 90-degree turn, man, they're gone when that happens. But when you get used to it and you know 575 00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:10,120 one who's conquered it, it doesn't have quite the hold on you. 576 00:42:11,060 --> 00:42:14,040 And so maybe he's knocking on that door. 577 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,920 God loves to get your attention. 578 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,220 Notice what he says here. 579 00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:27,580 If you open it, I will come into you. 580 00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:31,920 He comes in and he makes his abode right here. 581 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,120 In the holy of holies of our hearts. 582 00:42:37,820 --> 00:42:38,360 and he 583 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:40,320 He sets up residence. 584 00:42:41,980 --> 00:42:44,840 And all of a sudden, you start getting convicted for things 585 00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:48,280 you've never been convicted of in your life or for. 586 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:50,840 I got my own buddy here. 587 00:42:51,540 --> 00:42:54,640 He says, God won't even let me throw a candy wrapper out the window. 588 00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:03,600 And if you want him in you, 589 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,880 Like he said about the Holy Spirit there in Luke 8. 590 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:09,120 Ask. 591 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:11,140 Ask. 592 00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:14,720 Maybe that's Luke 11. 593 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,080 I probably got that address wrong. 594 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:20,640 So anyway, 595 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,480 you are my beloved son and you, I am well-pleased. 596 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,160 God is well-pleased because it's only through Christ that God can be pleased with you and I. 597 00:43:30,260 --> 00:43:33,600 Without faith, is that it is impossible to please. 598 00:43:33,620 --> 00:43:42,240 God. And God has given us someone to put our faith in. The God man, Christ Jesus, who knows all of our 599 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,720 weaknesses, right? We read it in Hebrews. He's tempted in every way that you and I have been tempted, 600 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:56,700 and yet without sin. And so it goes on here. He goes into ministry at the age of 30. Being as supposed, 601 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:03,580 listen, being as opposed the son of Joseph. Okay. Okay, we're going to read through this. One 602 00:44:03,580 --> 00:44:07,160 about teaching expositionally is you're stuck with the genealogy. Sorry. 603 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,420 And yet, though, I did hear a cool story about this particular genealogy, 604 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,000 a missionary was sharing it and actually read it to the natives. 605 00:44:18,340 --> 00:44:21,100 And as he read through the genealogy, the natives go, wait a minute. 606 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:22,560 Are you talking about a real person? 607 00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:25,540 They thought they were talking about Jesus, a fairy tale. 608 00:44:26,340 --> 00:44:27,700 He says, no, you're talking about a real person. 609 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,060 You can chase his genie. You can trace his genealogy? 610 00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:36,680 And many of them were converted because this is a real person. 611 00:44:37,540 --> 00:44:38,640 Jesus is a real person. 612 00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:41,180 So it says, 613 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,860 supposed to be the son of Joseph. 614 00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:46,940 Now, we know that Joseph was not his father. 615 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,080 So most believe that this here is Mary's genealogy 616 00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:52,340 because of what it says here in a second. 617 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:58,020 The son of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Mathath, 618 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,200 the son of Levi, the son of Melchie. 619 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,900 the son of Janah, the son of Joseph, 620 00:45:05,140 --> 00:45:07,960 the son of Mattathiah, 621 00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:10,160 the son of Amos, the son of Nahim, 622 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,080 the son of El-C, 623 00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:14,400 the son of Nagayaayai, 624 00:45:14,860 --> 00:45:16,140 the son of Moth, 625 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,060 the son of Marathaya, 626 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,280 the son of Semiai, 627 00:45:20,420 --> 00:45:22,000 the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, 628 00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:24,660 the son of Jonas, the son of Resha, 629 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,840 the son of Zirabal, the son of Shaltil, 630 00:45:26,940 --> 00:45:30,340 the son of Neri, the son of Melchai, 631 00:45:30,460 --> 00:45:31,740 the son of Adai, 632 00:45:31,860 --> 00:45:40,260 the son of Kaasem, the son of Elm, Adam, and the son of Er, the son of Josis, 633 00:45:40,420 --> 00:45:46,820 the son of Elizir, the son of Jorim, the son of Maudith, the son of Levi, 634 00:45:47,060 --> 00:46:01,740 the son of S 635 00:46:03,220 --> 00:46:04,420 Sorry, I had to break it up a little bit. 636 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,720 The son of Mathetha, the son of Nathan, the son of David. 637 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:15,160 Now, if you look at the genealogy in Matthew, this is where it changes, right? 638 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,440 Nathan, the son of David. 639 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:24,280 The other genealogy, which is Joseph's genealogy, which the kingly line came through, is Solomon. 640 00:46:25,060 --> 00:46:28,300 So that's something very specific, right? 641 00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:31,740 And so this is still the line of day. 642 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:37,640 but not the king line. The son of David, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salman, 643 00:46:38,540 --> 00:46:46,560 the son of Naishan, the son of Bidodad, the son of Ram, the son of Hezran, the son of Petrae, the son 644 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:02,940 I probably remember some of these names. 645 00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:08,240 The son of Jard and the son of Mahalel and the son of Canaan and the son of Inash and the son of 646 00:47:09,380 --> 00:47:11,420 Adam. Listen, the son of God. 647 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,880 Well, wait a minute. Time out. 648 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,280 Son of God. What's this? 649 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,700 I thought there was only one begotten son of God. 650 00:47:18,820 --> 00:47:20,280 There is only one begotten son of God. 651 00:47:20,380 --> 00:47:20,960 His name is Jesus. 652 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:22,620 This dude was created. 653 00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,600 Right? He wasn't begotten. He was created. 654 00:47:26,860 --> 00:47:27,820 And he wasn't born. 655 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,680 And so there's a difference there. 656 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,540 And it's kind of like the, well, I'll just take you there. 657 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:43,080 It's kind of the difference where the son of God, Adam, 658 00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:47,460 is called the first Adam in the book of Romans. 659 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,800 And Jesus is called the second Adam. 660 00:47:51,540 --> 00:47:54,660 It's the son of the flesh, this first Adam. 661 00:47:55,940 --> 00:48:00,980 And so remember when God told, take Isaac, 662 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:17,120 your only son. What? He had Ishmael. He fathered Ishmael. Ishmael was born. But Ishmael was the type of the flesh. You realize no flesh is going to inherit the kingdom of God. No flesh. 663 00:48:18,420 --> 00:48:28,040 And so that's why we need a new one. And I don't know about you, but I'm kind of looking forward to it. Right? 664 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,000 I'll double amen that there. 665 00:48:35,220 --> 00:48:39,620 So the Bible talks about it. 666 00:48:40,060 --> 00:48:41,160 Says in 1 Corinthians 15, 667 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,640 the first man, Adam, became a living being. 668 00:48:44,940 --> 00:48:47,440 Remember, God breathes into his nostrils, right? 669 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,280 The ruach, the breath of life, right? 670 00:48:51,860 --> 00:48:57,440 And, but the last Adam, Jesus is called the second Adam, right? 671 00:48:58,180 --> 00:48:59,940 Or actually, the word, Adam, 672 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:05,920 can literally mean man. The first man and the last man. The last Adam, listen, 673 00:49:07,420 --> 00:49:13,160 this is why we love Jesus so much. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 674 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:19,520 He gives spirit. He gives life to you and me. Jesus has this ability. So powerful. 675 00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:26,940 So I'm just quoting Warren Wearsby here. It says Luke interrupted his narrative at this point to give us a 676 00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:29,840 genealogy of Jesus. Matthew's genealogy begins with. 677 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:35,900 Abraham and moves forward to Jesus while Luke's begin with Jesus and moves backward to Adam. 678 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:41,720 Matthew gives us the genealogy of Joseph, the legal foster father of Jesus, while Luke 679 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:49,020 gives us the genealogy of his mother, Mary. Luke 323 can be translated when he began his 680 00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:55,900 ministry. Jesus was about 30 years old being supposedly the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, 681 00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:59,700 an ancestor to Mary. And some of your Bibles have that in. 682 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:06,660 in quotes. Mary herself would not be mentioned because it was unusual for a woman to be named 683 00:50:06,940 --> 00:50:17,860 in the official genealogy, though Matthew names for women, right? And so, um, it's important to look 684 00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:25,800 genealogies, especially when it comes to our Lord and Savior. Luke reminds his readers here 685 00:50:25,900 --> 00:50:29,720 that the son of God was also the son of man, born into the son of man, born into the 686 00:50:29,740 --> 00:50:35,660 this world, identify with the needs and problems of mankind. And since Joseph and Mary were both in 687 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:42,360 David's line, these genealogies prove that Jesus of Nazareth has the legal right to David's 688 00:50:42,460 --> 00:50:48,060 throne. And that's what the Devatic covenant is all about, is that there was a promise that a 689 00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:55,540 descendant of David would sit upon the throne of David. Listen, forever. That's why Israel is so 690 00:50:56,460 --> 00:50:59,700 important. Because that's where the throne of David is. Right? That's their 691 00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:07,860 symbol, right? And it's not that they're a righteous holy people because some of them are really bad. 692 00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:16,620 But that's just proof and affirmation that Jesus is that humble king. 693 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,400 And he came the first time in humility, right? 694 00:51:21,180 --> 00:51:26,580 Coming to that wild man there in the Jordan and front of people watching it, the common people. 695 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,680 Right? It wasn't in some palace with some. With some. 696 00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:37,120 some glorious, you know, royal pomp? No, he came and he was like us. And he went into the water 697 00:51:37,340 --> 00:51:44,320 and he was humble, he was a humble king. But listen, the second part of my title was he's a glorious 698 00:51:44,620 --> 00:51:49,700 king. And that's how he's coming back this second time. And that's why you and I need to be ready. 699 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:56,080 Because he's coming and he's coming soon and very soon. And I pray that you're ready for that. 700 00:51:56,660 --> 00:51:58,060 And if you're not, right? 701 00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:05,240 I want you to have an opportunity right now, right? 702 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,620 This is what an invitation is all of us. 703 00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:08,340 It's an invitation. 704 00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:12,500 You don't have to, you know, you don't have to RSVP. 705 00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:14,700 Right? 706 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,080 You can just say, I don't think. 707 00:52:16,580 --> 00:52:17,240 But it's an invitation. 708 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,020 If you want it, you can accept it. 709 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:21,860 And you can accept Jesus. 710 00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,260 That's simply just by saying a simple sinner's prayer 711 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:31,420 with a sincere heart, like that broken reed or that smoldering flax, 712 00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,700 the Lord will come along and he'll fan that flame and he'll make that which is broken 713 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:41,200 upright, he'll fix it, he'll heal it. And maybe you need that today. And so would you pray with me? 714 00:52:41,900 --> 00:52:47,040 Father, we thank you. Thank you for your word. Lord Jesus, thank you for being who you are. 715 00:52:47,540 --> 00:52:53,980 Lord, you're so approachable. You're so much like us and yet you're so much bigger than us. 716 00:52:54,740 --> 00:52:59,260 and we need you. I need you every day. I need you more today than I did 30 years ago. 717 00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:09,600 Lord, and for direction and for Lord, forgiveness and for just the newness that you bring to our lives, 718 00:53:09,780 --> 00:53:15,580 Lord, the fruit that you can cause to come out of a life that is broken and doesn't have much to offer. 719 00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:23,600 And so, Lord, I know there's some here right now that might be in a place where they just think maybe there's no hope or they're just, 720 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,780 They've blown it too much, Lord, or they're just, they're tired. 721 00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:30,960 Lord, I just pray that you would come to them right now and, 722 00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,620 and Lord that you would gently knock on the door of their heart. 723 00:53:34,300 --> 00:53:36,660 And if that's you and the Lord is knocking on the door of your heart, 724 00:53:36,740 --> 00:53:38,900 I just want to invite you to invite him in. 725 00:53:39,780 --> 00:53:42,180 And you can do that with just saying a simple prayer like this. 726 00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:43,340 You can repeat it after me. 727 00:53:43,460 --> 00:53:44,400 You can say it out loud. 728 00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,380 You can say it in the quietness of your own heart. 729 00:53:47,100 --> 00:53:50,660 However, if you do say it, I would encourage you to come up and pray afterwards. 730 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,400 But just say a prayer like this. 731 00:53:53,420 --> 00:53:56,000 Lord Jesus, I've sinned. 732 00:53:56,940 --> 00:53:57,860 I've sin against you. 733 00:53:58,020 --> 00:53:58,940 I've sin against others. 734 00:53:59,780 --> 00:54:00,580 Please forgive me. 735 00:54:01,620 --> 00:54:04,140 I believe that your blood washes me clean. 736 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:06,200 And I accept that. 737 00:54:07,340 --> 00:54:09,120 And I believe that you went into the grave 738 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,800 and that you rose again and that you're alive today and you're ready 739 00:54:12,940 --> 00:54:13,660 to be my Lord. 740 00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,200 So would you please be my Lord? 741 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:17,940 And I ask you to come in now. 742 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:21,380 Lord, I turn from my sin and I turn to you with all that I am. 743 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:22,680 Lord, I'm weak. 744 00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:28,200 I need your strength. So fill me with your Holy Spirit. And I pray it in the mighty and powerful name in Jesus. 745 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:35,540 Amen. And already. Well, if you prayed that prayer, welcome, welcome to God's family. 746 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,460 And like I said, the prayer team's going to be up here. Let's all stand, shall we? 747 00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:48,760 The prayer team's going to be up here. And if you, if you prayed that prayer, just come up and let somebody know. 748 00:54:48,980 --> 00:54:52,820 They'd love to pray with you and encourage you. Maybe get you a Bible if you don't have one. 749 00:54:53,100 --> 00:55:05,040 that's what they're here for. So please take advantage of that. And we'll just, we'll kind of end with the, it's an old Keith 750 00:55:05,660 --> 00:55:08,860 Green song called I Love You Lord. And we'll just sing the chorus. 751 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:21,700 I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. And I lift my voice to worship. 752 00:55:23,060 --> 00:55:50,820 you, oh my soul, rejoice. Take joy, my joy, my king, in what you hear, may it, may it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear. May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear. 753 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,780 We do love you. Pray that you go before us. Lord, direct our steps this week. 754 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,220 And may the name of Jesus be on our lips. 755 00:55:58,520 --> 00:55:59,800 And it's in your name we pray. Amen. 756 00:56:00,420 --> 00:56:02,260 God bless you guys. Have a great week in the Lord.