WEBVTT 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:09.650 But I'm not very good with notes because I walk around and I go off track, which is not very good. 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:17.610 But more than that, as we've already experienced, the presence of the Lord is really, really what we want. 00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:24.690 I want to come, you want to come home today and really feel that God touches you. 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:26.120 Amen. 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:31.280 Well, that depends on all of us together. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.400 open our hearts 00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:34.240 and that's my prayer 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.000 Lord open our hearts 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:36.840 wide 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.060 that we may receive 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:40.200 what you have 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.440 because you can talk 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:43.440 and we can have sermons 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:44.240 for an hour 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.120 but if it doesn't 00:00:46.120 --> 00:00:48.760 have the spirit of God in it 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:50.120 it doesn't do anything 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:50.740 you go home 00:00:50.740 --> 00:00:51.520 and you're just empty 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:52.820 and tomorrow you've forgotten 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:54.140 what it all was about 00:00:54.140 --> 00:00:54.900 I mean 00:00:54.900 --> 00:00:56.410 anyway 00:00:56.410 --> 00:00:57.750 I am going to start 00:00:57.750 --> 00:01:01.170 not just stand here and pray 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:01.930 and we're going to go 00:01:01.930 --> 00:01:13.610 back to the book of John. We already have been up till chapter 7. Chapter 6 was very exciting. 00:01:13.790 --> 00:01:20.790 There was lots happening. The feeding of the 5,000, Jesus walking on the water, and then Jesus 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:28.670 became quite radical in his teachings. He spoke about, I am the bread of life coming down from 00:01:28.670 --> 00:01:38.780 heaven unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you are not part of me but he said as well he said 00:01:38.780 --> 00:01:47.650 as well the words i spoken to you are spirit and they are life but it was radical stuff and at the 00:01:47.650 --> 00:01:54.550 end it says many disciples left him and then he comes back to his own disciples and he says 00:01:54.550 --> 00:02:03.320 what about you guys are you not leaving as well and then peter gives his confession and says 00:02:03.320 --> 00:02:12.100 where do we go lord we believe that you are the christ the son of god and that is such a wonderful 00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:20.040 testimony we all should have in our hearts because it's true where do we go the world is looking for 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:22.020 stuff. The world is all over the place 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:23.680 looking for stuff. 00:02:25.430 --> 00:02:25.550 Amen? 00:02:26.510 --> 00:02:28.870 But what they really want 00:02:28.870 --> 00:02:30.170 and need is 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:32.590 Jesus. Amen? 00:02:33.310 --> 00:02:34.840 So that's what we're going. 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:36.900 And then we come to chapter 7. 00:02:37.260 --> 00:02:38.600 And in chapter 7 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:40.620 it's about half a year later 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:42.800 because during Passover 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.100 it was this chapter 6. 00:02:45.620 --> 00:02:46.840 Chapter 7 is 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:48.640 tabernacles 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:50.060 is in Jerusalem. 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:53.000 and then Jesus first not going 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.040 and then he, in secret, he went to Jerusalem 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:02.020 and then he meets the people of Jerusalem 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:04.400 and that's really what it's about 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.220 and we're going to read only a very short passage 00:03:07.220 --> 00:03:09.000 what I'm going to talk about 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.220 and Sarah, you are coming here to talk to me. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.900 Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:28.660 started to ask each other, 00:03:28.660 --> 00:03:36.520 isn't this man isn't this the man they are trying to kill but but here he is speaking in public 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:44.520 and they say nothing to him could our leaders possibly believe that he is the messiah but how 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:51.180 could he be for we know that where this man comes from and when the messiah comes he will simply 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:58.330 appear and no one will know where he comes from while jesus was teaching in the temple he called 00:03:58.330 --> 00:04:06.490 out yes you know me and you know where i come from but i'm not here on my own the one who sent 00:04:06.490 --> 00:04:14.210 me is true and you don't know him but i know him because i come from him and he sent me to you 00:04:14.210 --> 00:04:21.470 then the leaders tried to arrest him but nobody laid a hand on him because his time had not yet 00:04:21.470 --> 00:04:28.950 come many among the crowds at the temple believed in him after all they said would you expect the 00:04:28.950 --> 00:04:36.070 messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man has done when the pharisees heard that the 00:04:36.070 --> 00:04:42.690 crowds were whispering such things they and the leading priests sent temple guards to arrest jesus 00:04:42.690 --> 00:04:50.090 but jesus told them i will be with you only a little longer then i will return to the one who 00:04:50.090 --> 00:04:58.560 sent me you will search for me but not find me and you cannot go where i am going the jewish leaders 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:04.160 were puzzled by this statement. Where is he planning to go, they asked. Is he thinking of 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:10.160 leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands? Maybe he will even teach the Greeks. 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:17.800 What does he mean when he says, you will search for me, but not find me, and you cannot go where 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:38.660 I am going? Thank you. Here we have a conversation between Jesus and groups of people in Jerusalem. 00:05:38.760 --> 00:05:41.540 I'm just giving a little summary of this little text 00:05:41.540 --> 00:05:44.260 because it might be a little bit overwhelming, 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:46.120 what is happening here, what's going on. 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:47.900 We're going through it, don't worry. 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:49.220 We're going through it. 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:54.880 But there are different groups really opposing Jesus 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:01.500 to the fact that the Pharisees want to call the gods to arrest him 00:06:01.500 --> 00:06:03.400 because they want to kill him. 00:06:04.460 --> 00:06:08.660 Jesus here in Jerusalem is rejected. 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:15.680 And he's redacted, he stands alone with those groups talking about him. 00:06:15.760 --> 00:06:18.120 Can we put the first slide up? 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:23.680 And they have a question, is Jesus the Christ? 00:06:24.140 --> 00:06:29.200 That is the big question, is Jesus the Christ? 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:32.200 Till today, that is a big question. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.800 Do people believe that Jesus is the Son of God? 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:46.020 that Jesus is the Savior of this world. Jesus standing by himself here, already he was rejected 00:06:46.020 --> 00:06:54.880 in Galilee. In Galilee, many disciples left him. And here he is in Jerusalem, standing in that 00:06:54.880 --> 00:07:03.280 rejection. And actually, I want to take you to a little bit of background of how deep that rejection 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:09.900 was. It was the beginning of his suffering, because he was rejected all the way to the cross, 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:19.100 where he had his suffering, and he died on that cross. He was being rejected big, but here already 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:26.800 with those people, those groups around him, he suffered that rejection. And that goes deeper 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:34.260 than we think, because two things. Here he is in Jerusalem, the place of his father, the place 00:07:34.260 --> 00:07:40.940 where the temple was. Jerusalem was very important. And then secondly, here he is on the Feast of 00:07:40.940 --> 00:07:49.340 Tabernacles. Now, the Feast of Tabernacles was the last feast. When we look at the feasts in Israel, 00:07:49.340 --> 00:07:57.840 they had seven feasts three big ones four four small ones and when they had the feasts they had 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:03.920 to go up there were big ones because they had to go up to jerusalem and be there for seven days 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:12.520 they celebrated for seven days now this was the last feast the first feast was passover passover 00:08:12.520 --> 00:08:21.220 was, the deliverance of the people of Israel out of Egypt, and then they moved into the 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:29.500 desert, and there they received the law, and that is Pentecost, that was Pentecost, for 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:34.700 us it is the Holy Spirit, the coming of the Holy Spirit, for them it was the receiving 00:08:34.700 --> 00:08:41.330 of the law, and then there is a third one, and that third feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, 00:08:41.330 --> 00:08:45.490 In fact, it starts coming Friday for seven days. 00:08:46.490 --> 00:08:51.910 That Feast of Tabernacles really is all about the presence of God. 00:08:54.330 --> 00:08:59.400 That word tabernacle means tent, a tent. 00:09:01.150 --> 00:09:02.010 Can we go to the next one? 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:11.420 So the people of Israel came out of Egypt and they stayed in that desert in tents. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.880 And they moved in tents. 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:17.000 Now, it was a tent, tabernacles, a tent. 00:09:17.260 --> 00:09:19.840 And then God said to Moses, 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:21.900 I want you, and he gave all the measurements, 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:23.820 I want you to make me a tent 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:27.860 because I'm coming to be with you. 00:09:28.460 --> 00:09:31.080 He said, I myself, yeah, 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.440 I myself will be your God. 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:34.680 No, no, no, go back, go back. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.240 I myself will be your God 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.220 and you will be my people. 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:41.900 I will be your God 00:09:41.900 --> 00:09:43.800 and you will be my people. 00:09:43.880 --> 00:10:07.470 Now hold on to that verse. It appears about 30 times in the Bible from the beginning to the end to revelations. I will be your God and you will be my people. It's like God being the heart, the center of the people, the camp in the desert. 00:10:07.470 --> 00:10:16.650 and then he said it's not just a phrase it was the heart of the covenant of God he says because I am 00:10:16.650 --> 00:10:24.410 going to lead you I will be a fire a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day and I will provide 00:10:24.410 --> 00:10:30.430 for you and he did through the manna and the water out of the rock and the quail and he says and I 00:10:30.430 --> 00:10:38.170 will protect you those three covenant pillars i will lead you i will provide for you and i will 00:10:38.170 --> 00:10:47.330 protect you and you go through the desert with me i myself will lead you to the promised land 00:10:47.330 --> 00:10:56.500 and you are staying in tents now today when the feast of tabernacle is the people when you go to 00:10:56.500 --> 00:11:03.480 jerusalem they are staying in tents they're making tents of sticks and sheets and then they gaze up 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:09.260 to the heavens so till today in in even fancy hotels you see a hilton hotel on the balconies 00:11:09.260 --> 00:11:14.140 they've got those little tents and say what is it what is what is that all about that is those 00:11:14.140 --> 00:11:22.320 tents for tabernacle because they are reminded they look up to the skies and look at god saying 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:31.260 God is the one who provides for us, who leads us, who directs us. God is the heart of our community, 00:11:31.660 --> 00:11:43.250 the heart of our lives. Great stuff. For us, we don't celebrate tabernacles, but because that's 00:11:43.250 --> 00:11:52.250 still coming. Because tabernacles, Jesus would come, and Jesus would be among us. On one hand, 00:11:52.250 --> 00:11:59.290 it hasn't happened yet on the other hand it has happened because the feast of tabernacles for us 00:11:59.290 --> 00:12:07.980 we stay on this earth on our way to eternity when jesus comes in our life we are delivered from our 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:14.880 sin we receive on pentecost the holy spirit and then he leads us through our lives it is like 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:21.400 this world we live in is like a desert we are this is like a desert we do not know what's going on 00:12:21.400 --> 00:12:23.320 You do not know what's happening tomorrow. 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:25.400 We need God. 00:12:25.740 --> 00:12:27.980 We need to depend on God. 00:12:28.400 --> 00:12:33.040 Our dependence needs to be on God more than we think 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:34.700 because we're in our pride. 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:37.160 We think so easily, I can do it, I know, I know. 00:12:37.380 --> 00:12:38.300 No, you don't know anything. 00:12:38.300 --> 00:12:41.120 We need God in our life. 00:12:42.190 --> 00:12:45.330 And therefore, that tabernacle is so phenomenal. 00:12:46.430 --> 00:12:48.850 Our bodies are those tabernacles, 00:12:48.850 --> 00:12:57.290 those frail dwellings, it's frail dwellings which are passing, which are disintegrating, 00:12:57.710 --> 00:13:00.230 because our permanent dwellings are about to come. 00:13:01.300 --> 00:13:04.340 And that was for the people of Israel in the desert as well. 00:13:04.760 --> 00:13:12.420 They were in temporary dwellings because only in the Promised Land they would receive their permanent dwelling. 00:13:13.660 --> 00:13:17.560 And that's why on the Feast of Tabernacle they have those little dwellings, 00:13:17.560 --> 00:13:22.100 Just to remind them, we are here just a short time. 00:13:22.870 --> 00:13:23.890 We are here a short time. 00:13:24.010 --> 00:13:26.490 Our permanent dwellings are about to come. 00:13:27.210 --> 00:13:28.970 It's the Feast of Tabernacles. 00:13:30.940 --> 00:13:36.500 Jesus was on the Feast of Tabernacles there in Jerusalem. 00:13:37.060 --> 00:13:43.450 Jesus, being God, being the Son of God, was among His people. 00:13:43.450 --> 00:13:47.790 Like the people of Israel, they received the presence of God in their midst. 00:13:50.760 --> 00:13:52.740 But did they take him? 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:55.640 Did they go with him, the people of Israel, 00:13:55.880 --> 00:13:57.300 when they were in the desert, 00:13:57.950 --> 00:13:59.730 all the way to the promised land? 00:13:59.870 --> 00:14:01.690 They walked with God and they rebelled. 00:14:02.550 --> 00:14:04.530 And they did not believe God. 00:14:04.890 --> 00:14:05.890 And that's the sad thing. 00:14:05.950 --> 00:14:07.450 They did not believe God. 00:14:08.420 --> 00:14:10.440 And all those promises he had for them, 00:14:11.020 --> 00:14:14.840 about provision, about guidance, about protection, 00:14:15.020 --> 00:14:16.280 they didn't believe him. 00:14:16.900 --> 00:14:19.620 And by the time they were at the borders of the promised land, 00:14:19.620 --> 00:14:21.780 How many did go to the Promised Land? 00:14:23.060 --> 00:14:23.620 Two. 00:14:24.780 --> 00:14:26.580 Two only. 00:14:27.260 --> 00:14:29.160 And the rest died in the desert 00:14:29.160 --> 00:14:31.560 because they didn't believe Him. 00:14:31.800 --> 00:14:33.640 They didn't trust Him. 00:14:35.750 --> 00:14:37.880 Today, that's about us. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:38.620 Look at the world. 00:14:39.060 --> 00:14:40.300 I'm going ahead of myself now. 00:14:42.570 --> 00:14:43.250 That's us. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.640 How many people believe God's promises? 00:14:50.530 --> 00:14:52.310 This story, what we're reading, 00:14:52.490 --> 00:14:54.130 is about believing God. 00:14:54.130 --> 00:15:12.710 Can you go to the next one? I'm ahead of myself. Yeah. This, yeah, yeah. The tabernacle. No. This was the tabernacle. This was God's tent in the desert. It's just mind-blowing that God said, I'm going to make you a tent. I'm going to make a tent, and I'm going to stay with you guys. 00:15:12.710 --> 00:15:17.800 that was the tent, that was the measures 00:15:17.800 --> 00:15:19.880 well you have to be quick because it goes on 00:15:19.880 --> 00:15:21.840 that was the tent 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.720 and in that tent, the next one 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.460 was the Ark of the Covenant 00:15:27.460 --> 00:15:30.600 and the Ark of the Covenant 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:32.060 the presence of God 00:15:32.060 --> 00:15:34.140 would come on the Ark of the Covenant 00:15:34.140 --> 00:15:35.800 would be upon it 00:15:35.800 --> 00:15:38.340 and that was his presence 00:15:38.340 --> 00:15:39.480 among the people 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.280 and being with them 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:42.640 so there Jesus 00:15:42.640 --> 00:15:47.720 and there Jesus 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:52.300 was in Jerusalem on the Feast of the Tabernacles, where the presence of God should be center. 00:15:53.540 --> 00:15:59.120 It should be the center of the feast of the people. And the people there in Jerusalem, 00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:06.020 like the people in the desert, they rejected Jesus. They rejected Jesus. And that is that 00:16:06.020 --> 00:16:12.660 rejection that I say, it is even more than a feeling. He was rejected like his father was 00:16:12.660 --> 00:16:20.230 rejected in the desert and there he is with all those groups of people being rejected can we go 00:16:20.230 --> 00:16:27.660 to the next one that number one so he was rejected on the feast of tabernacles then jesus came his 00:16:27.660 --> 00:16:35.920 word became flesh and made dwelling among us it's that that first in john 1 he tabernacled among us 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:41.580 that's basically what it says he tabernacled among us like on the feast of tabernacle he that's what 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:49.340 I said. He became flesh and dwelled among us. And there he was in Jerusalem among his people, 00:16:49.420 --> 00:16:58.810 but his people did not recognize him. And then the next one. There he is in Jerusalem, 00:16:59.540 --> 00:17:07.940 in Jerusalem from the Damascus gate. Jesus, the city he loves. Now, Jerusalem was very important 00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:15.840 for Jesus because Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times in the Bible from Abraham to all the way 00:17:15.840 --> 00:17:24.680 from Genesis all the way to Revelation Abraham had met with Melchizedek the king of Salem 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:31.500 in Genesis that was in Genesis with the king of Salem Jerusalem the king of peace so it was 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:38.140 already mentioned in Genesis, and then Abram had to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah, which is the 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:43.680 Temple Mount, which is in the middle of Jerusalem. So again, it was already in Genesis mentioned, 00:17:44.140 --> 00:17:50.120 and then David, of course, takes it as his capital, then Solomon builds the Temple, and then 00:17:50.120 --> 00:17:57.260 well, a lot of Bible stories, they're all in Jerusalem, till Jesus comes, and Jesus is there 00:17:57.260 --> 00:18:02.760 in jerusalem and he loves jerusalem because the temple the presence of the lord is there 00:18:02.760 --> 00:18:11.340 till even he even he's rejected he says then to the uh to the people to the i love to to gather 00:18:11.340 --> 00:18:18.300 you he says in luke 15 i'd love to gather you jerusalem my people i would love to gather like 00:18:18.300 --> 00:18:25.020 a hand gathers her chicks i would love to gather but you don't want me you don't want me the 00:18:25.020 --> 00:18:33.840 rejection there he said and i will not come again till you cry out come in the name of the lord 00:18:33.840 --> 00:18:40.570 come you people of jerusalem when you cry out come in the name of the lord i will come back 00:18:40.570 --> 00:18:47.100 because that is the end jesus will come back to jerusalem painted the next one i don't know 00:18:47.100 --> 00:18:57.290 what's going on with the oh okay okay ah okay okay i see it just flashing there so like i don't 00:18:57.290 --> 00:19:09.060 know what's going on but anyway and then he says in revelations let me see getting into my 00:19:09.060 --> 00:19:14.960 zachariah 8 verse 3 i will return to zion and dwell in jerusalem then jerusalem will be called 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:23.080 the city of the truth revelation 21 verse 2 i saw the holy city jesus is coming he came on a donkey 00:19:23.080 --> 00:19:29.740 first in jerusalem but he was rejected crucified he's coming back on a horse on a white horse 00:19:29.740 --> 00:19:32.580 and he says, I saw the holy city, 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.960 the new Jerusalem, the dwelling of God with men 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:36.480 and he will live with them 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.860 and they will be my people 00:19:37.860 --> 00:19:40.180 and God himself will be their God. 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:41.800 You know what I said to the beginning? 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.420 I will be their God and they will be my people. 00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:48.240 I will be their God and you will be my people. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.840 There in Revelation he says that 00:19:49.840 --> 00:19:53.640 in the heavenly Jerusalem he will come back on a horse 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:57.360 and God will take his residency in Jerusalem 00:19:57.360 --> 00:20:00.140 and He will be God 00:20:00.140 --> 00:20:03.260 and we will be His people. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.120 And there is Jesus in Jerusalem at that time 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:11.080 being rejected, being rejected. 00:20:11.980 --> 00:20:13.700 Understand the pain. 00:20:14.360 --> 00:20:15.520 He loves His people. 00:20:15.760 --> 00:20:16.800 He's coming back there. 00:20:17.060 --> 00:20:19.580 His Father is going to take residency in Jerusalem. 00:20:20.300 --> 00:20:21.100 It's the capital. 00:20:21.280 --> 00:20:23.080 Like London is the capital of the UK. 00:20:23.420 --> 00:20:25.460 It's the capital of the world, Jerusalem. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:29.880 That's where Father God is going to take up residency. 00:20:30.260 --> 00:20:31.500 That's where Jesus is coming back. 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:33.180 He is rejected. 00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:36.200 And that's how he stands. 00:20:40.280 --> 00:20:41.140 It's a lament. 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:43.080 It is sad. 00:20:43.080 --> 00:20:47.620 The early church used to have a prayer, Maranatha. 00:20:48.600 --> 00:20:52.740 It's an ancient prayer from the early church, Maranatha, 00:20:52.820 --> 00:20:54.380 which means, Come, Lord Jesus. 00:20:55.080 --> 00:20:58.520 When we see the world in flames all around us, 00:20:58.520 --> 00:21:03.780 We can only call, come Lord Jesus, because you will deal with all this stuff. 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:10.400 Okay, let's go to the scripture. 00:21:10.660 --> 00:21:15.110 Verse 26, 7, 26. 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.280 Going back to Jerusalem with those groups. 00:21:20.760 --> 00:21:21.680 Can you do the next one? 00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:25.900 Jesus. 00:21:27.750 --> 00:21:30.170 They ask, is Jesus the Christ? 00:21:30.370 --> 00:21:32.270 That's the whole question on our scripture. 00:21:32.510 --> 00:21:34.110 Is Jesus the Christ? 00:21:34.110 --> 00:21:43.510 now we must understand Christ for the people of Jerusalem Christ means anointed one means 00:21:43.510 --> 00:21:51.850 chosen one the anointed one because the kings of Israel were anointed with oil I brought anointing 00:21:51.850 --> 00:21:56.870 oil for afterwards for those who are sick to come forward and we anoint you with oil and pray for 00:21:56.870 --> 00:22:04.990 you. Anointing oil. The anointed one means the Spirit of God was upon them. They were chosen. 00:22:05.130 --> 00:22:12.470 The kings were chosen by God. So, they look for the Messiah. Messiah is Hebrew for Christ. 00:22:14.860 --> 00:22:28.260 Jesus means God who saves. The Lord is salvation. So, the name Jesus Christ is quite a weighty title. 00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:36.560 Jesus Christ, the one who saves, the anointed one, the chosen one of God. 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:37.660 That was Jesus. 00:22:37.900 --> 00:22:41.580 They were looking for that because during the time of Jesus, 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:43.080 the Romans were in the land. 00:22:43.220 --> 00:22:49.840 They had occupied the land and the Jewish people were looking for a Messiah, 00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:53.380 looking for someone who would take the Romans out. 00:22:53.760 --> 00:22:56.620 So they were looking for anyone and here was Jesus. 00:22:56.620 --> 00:22:59.840 And that's the whole discussion of our text here. 00:23:00.140 --> 00:23:03.100 Is Jesus really that Messiah? 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:05.260 Even the disciples, they talked about it. 00:23:05.620 --> 00:23:07.300 Is Jesus the Messiah? 00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:08.260 Is He the one? 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:09.540 Do we need to take up swords? 00:23:10.140 --> 00:23:13.820 And they did not understand who the Messiah was. 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:16.260 They did not understand who Jesus was. 00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:18.760 So the argument starts among them. 00:23:19.730 --> 00:23:20.490 They are wondering. 00:23:20.690 --> 00:23:21.390 Verse 27. 00:23:22.690 --> 00:23:25.070 But we know who this man is, they say. 00:23:25.670 --> 00:23:27.010 We know who this man is. 00:23:27.010 --> 00:23:30.430 He's from Nazareth. He's the son of Joseph and Mary. 00:23:30.730 --> 00:23:34.710 So they looked at him, and they said, but we know Jesus from Nazareth. 00:23:35.070 --> 00:23:36.850 Is he really the Messiah? 00:23:37.290 --> 00:23:39.430 So they looked at him in the flesh. 00:23:39.490 --> 00:23:41.250 Now we're going to get into that discussion. 00:23:41.430 --> 00:23:45.550 Is Jesus man, or is Jesus God? 00:23:45.950 --> 00:23:49.370 That is their discussion. Is Jesus man, or is Jesus God? 00:23:49.470 --> 00:23:53.470 Now, first of all, they didn't understand, maybe, that Jesus, 00:23:53.470 --> 00:23:56.370 or know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. 00:23:56.990 --> 00:24:00.170 Micah 5 verse 2 is that he will be born in Bethlehem. 00:24:00.610 --> 00:24:01.870 Jesus was born in Bethlehem. 00:24:01.950 --> 00:24:03.090 We know our Christmas story. 00:24:03.790 --> 00:24:04.650 Maybe they didn't know. 00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:09.430 They only saw, oh, that is just Jesus from Nazareth. 00:24:10.360 --> 00:24:15.060 Because the Christ will come, and we will not know where he is from, they said. 00:24:19.090 --> 00:24:25.110 Then Jesus says, you know me, but I am not here on my own. 00:24:25.190 --> 00:24:26.670 I am not here on my own. 00:24:27.090 --> 00:24:28.790 You do not know who he is. 00:24:28.790 --> 00:24:32.410 I am from him and you do not know him 00:24:32.410 --> 00:24:35.390 so Jesus here speaks 00:24:35.390 --> 00:24:38.490 you know me but you do not know me 00:24:38.490 --> 00:24:41.970 and I had to think when I read that 00:24:41.970 --> 00:24:45.390 maybe a weird comparison 00:24:45.390 --> 00:24:47.190 had to think when I was born again 00:24:47.190 --> 00:24:49.330 when I got born again and the Spirit of God 00:24:49.330 --> 00:24:51.890 I had received the Holy Spirit in my life 00:24:51.890 --> 00:24:53.630 there were people saying like 00:24:53.630 --> 00:24:56.150 but you are just the same 00:24:56.150 --> 00:24:57.110 you know you are just 00:24:57.110 --> 00:24:58.650 you are Cornelius aren't you 00:24:58.650 --> 00:25:00.710 you're just Cornelius. Yes, I am. 00:25:00.830 --> 00:25:02.690 They did not understand that I was 00:25:02.690 --> 00:25:04.450 so excited that I met God. 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:07.180 And they said, but you are 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:09.060 just the same like you always are. Yes, 00:25:09.080 --> 00:25:11.080 I am. But the Spirit of God came upon 00:25:11.080 --> 00:25:12.540 me. I met God. 00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:15.080 And I was excited. And my whole 00:25:15.080 --> 00:25:17.180 life turned around. Because now 00:25:17.180 --> 00:25:19.080 I was not interested in anything to do 00:25:19.080 --> 00:25:21.200 with the world. And I was going 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.000 for what God had for my life. I 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:24.880 wanted His direction for my life. 00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:26.900 And that's how I went to Mozambique and 00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:34.280 did whatever we did in Mozambique but we were led by God and that's a little bit what this is 00:25:34.280 --> 00:25:43.140 Jesus is God he's man what is he they're asking him what is happening and even the early church 00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:49.760 in the early church there were discussions about who is Jesus is he man or is he God 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:57.170 there were early fathers and they said no he is man he's only man and then they had to come 00:25:57.170 --> 00:26:09.670 to the council in 326, the council of Nicaea. And there they had to make the rules and said, 00:26:09.670 --> 00:26:19.040 no, we believe Jesus was God and man. And that's what we go with. You must believe, 00:26:19.340 --> 00:26:27.260 is Jesus God? Yes, he is. And then I say, you can only find out that Jesus is God by inviting 00:26:27.260 --> 00:26:30.130 Him in your life. Only 00:26:30.130 --> 00:26:31.810 then. If you do not 00:26:31.810 --> 00:26:34.190 invite Him in your life, if you 00:26:34.190 --> 00:26:36.250 are not born again, because that's 00:26:36.250 --> 00:26:37.290 really what it is about. 00:26:37.950 --> 00:26:40.090 If you're not born again, you don't understand. 00:26:40.730 --> 00:26:42.250 You do not understand. People 00:26:42.250 --> 00:26:43.970 in the world do not understand 00:26:43.970 --> 00:26:45.990 that Jesus is God 00:26:45.990 --> 00:26:48.800 and man. And that's 00:26:48.800 --> 00:26:50.200 actually what Jesus says, because then 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:52.800 we get a very, very 00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:54.060 sad first. 00:26:56.890 --> 00:26:58.570 First, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:26:58.890 --> 00:27:00.210 First the next one. Yeah. 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:06.450 Ah, Jesus, Jesus Christ. 00:27:07.050 --> 00:27:11.790 We don't need a counsel from Nisi to get that confirmed. 00:27:11.970 --> 00:27:14.270 Jesus Christ, in very nature God, 00:27:14.670 --> 00:27:17.630 he made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, 00:27:18.290 --> 00:27:21.130 being made in human likeness, in appearance as a man. 00:27:21.930 --> 00:27:24.930 He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, 00:27:25.650 --> 00:27:27.530 death on a cross. 00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:32.360 That is our Saviour, Jesus Christ. 00:27:32.360 --> 00:27:43.730 for us it's clear if you met him it's clear that is our savior but then he says jesus says we're 00:27:43.730 --> 00:27:51.500 going back to the scene he says you will look for me but you will not find me and where i am 00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:58.770 you cannot come let me say it again you will look for me he says this to the people of jerusalem 00:27:58.770 --> 00:28:01.860 but you will not find me. 00:28:01.980 --> 00:28:04.120 And where I am, you cannot come. 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:08.440 Now, that's actually the saddest verse in the Bible 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:12.960 because he actually condemns the people of Jerusalem. 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.480 He actually says, where I go, you cannot come 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.770 because where did Jesus go? 00:28:20.970 --> 00:28:22.430 He went to heaven, to his Father. 00:28:23.030 --> 00:28:24.850 And to be able to go to his Father, 00:28:24.850 --> 00:28:29.110 to be able to be with him, you must believe. 00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:31.600 You must believe. 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.100 And what was lacking to the people of Jerusalem? 00:28:35.030 --> 00:28:36.450 They did not believe. 00:28:37.170 --> 00:28:39.750 What was lacking to the people of Israel in the desert? 00:28:40.230 --> 00:28:41.730 They did not believe. 00:28:42.030 --> 00:28:43.790 And that's why they didn't enter the Promised Land. 00:28:44.090 --> 00:28:45.210 They did not believe. 00:28:45.210 --> 00:28:50.010 And Jesus Himself here, He condemns the people of Jerusalem 00:28:50.010 --> 00:28:54.150 because they did not believe. 00:28:55.140 --> 00:28:55.900 The next one. 00:28:58.550 --> 00:29:01.930 Because Jesus said it Himself earlier, John 3, 16, 00:29:01.930 --> 00:29:09.530 whoever believes in him will have eternal life and will be with him whoever believes in him 00:29:09.530 --> 00:29:15.490 will have eternal life and be with him but whoever does not believe and that's what jesus is talking 00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:25.000 about whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he did not believe in the name 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:41.870 of god's only one and only son jesus is saying this to the people of jerusalem it's that belief 00:29:41.870 --> 00:29:56.020 it's that trusting God what he says to take it you don't understand that I 00:29:56.020 --> 00:30:02.080 surrender you know what I said before we might walk in a desert here on this earth 00:30:02.080 --> 00:30:11.820 alone we need God we don't understand but we want him we don't understand we 00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:16.540 want his presence we want Jesus there is nothing else as the disciples said there 00:30:16.540 --> 00:30:25.940 is nothing else peter said we want you jesus son of god because there is nothing else and it's only 00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:36.310 when you believe when you surrender and receive and it's i say this here and i stand here because 00:30:36.310 --> 00:30:45.700 i experienced it myself and i say do not be let out do not be standing on the outsides like the 00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:53.140 people of Jerusalem. It's a warning we get in those verses, a warning that if you do not believe, 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:59.540 you will be an outsider. And Jesus says exactly the same to you. You cannot come where I'm going. 00:31:00.990 --> 00:31:07.410 You will be lost. Your tabernacle, you will perish, perish, and that will be it. You will 00:31:07.410 --> 00:31:17.000 perish, and that's it, because you did not believe the Son of God. It's powerful. And therefore I say, 00:31:17.140 --> 00:31:24.940 anyone here who never received jesus as the savior who had any doubts about it can you do the next 00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:38.600 one believe last slide believe it is only by faith that we enter and jesus is encouraging us 00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:43.960 through this scripture those first those few verses when i first received them i thought like 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:50.020 oh boy what is this about and as i got into it i thought like wow there's a warning here there's a 00:31:50.020 --> 00:31:58.240 warning for all of us if we don't believe we're out you're out it's only by believing that jesus 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:05.920 christ is the son of god you will be in you will be in and that's not just for afterlife that's for 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:13.920 now because he cares for you he loves you he wants to direct you in your life he has a plan and 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:20.100 purpose for your life and he wants to provide for you he wants to protect you all those promises 00:32:20.100 --> 00:32:22.080 as God has in the Word of God 00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:22.980 are for you. 00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:27.000 And it only comes by believing. 00:32:28.300 --> 00:32:29.500 When you believe, 00:32:31.460 --> 00:32:33.180 all those promises come to you. 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:33.980 And like I said, 00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:35.620 experience myself. 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.700 And that's why I can shout here, 00:32:37.980 --> 00:32:39.780 wake up people, wake up. 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:48.840 Like I said, a broad anointing oil 00:32:48.840 --> 00:32:50.810 for those who are sick. 00:32:51.570 --> 00:32:52.510 If there are people sick 00:32:52.510 --> 00:32:53.570 or not feeling well, 00:32:53.910 --> 00:32:55.530 come forward and we pray for you. 00:32:56.270 --> 00:32:57.950 We anoint you with that oil 00:32:57.950 --> 00:32:59.730 because that word anointing came up. 00:32:59.950 --> 00:33:00.870 I thought, that's a good one. 00:33:02.300 --> 00:33:05.880 If you never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, 00:33:06.840 --> 00:33:08.760 I think I brought it clear enough. 00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:10.220 Come forward. 00:33:10.540 --> 00:33:12.540 Do not be an outsider. 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:16.040 Do not stand at the end of your life 00:33:16.040 --> 00:33:17.540 and say like, I didn't know. 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:18.560 Yes, you did know. 00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:20.680 If you heard it today, you heard it today. 00:33:22.690 --> 00:33:22.950 Amen? 00:33:23.530 --> 00:33:25.150 So if you never gave your life to the Lord, 00:33:25.330 --> 00:33:26.290 come forward as well. 00:33:26.290 --> 00:33:28.910 The music is going to start 00:33:28.910 --> 00:33:31.250 and we will pray for you. 00:33:32.930 --> 00:33:34.110 Let me just pray for you now. 00:33:34.270 --> 00:33:35.610 Father, we just thank you 00:33:35.610 --> 00:33:37.620 that you are, 00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:40.160 your presence is in our midst. 00:33:41.050 --> 00:33:43.450 We desire your presence, Lord. 00:33:44.150 --> 00:33:46.750 We desire your presence 00:33:46.750 --> 00:33:48.010 in our lives, 00:33:48.650 --> 00:33:49.930 in our daily lives, 00:33:50.170 --> 00:33:51.150 in our community 00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:53.590 here at Jordan-Ford and Batemore, 00:33:53.790 --> 00:33:56.090 in the community of MCF. 00:33:56.310 --> 00:33:57.750 And we say, Holy Spirit, 00:33:58.570 --> 00:33:59.510 work among us. 00:33:59.510 --> 00:34:04.910 Holy Spirit, work in each person here in this room. 00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:09.740 We pray and believe that you will take us 00:34:09.740 --> 00:34:13.540 and that we will be with you on the last day. 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:15.060 Thank you, Lord. 00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:17.440 We pray in Jesus' name. 00:34:18.310 --> 00:34:18.610 Amen.