The Charge to Guard the Gospel - Pt 2 - 2nd Timothy 1:1-18

Well, good morning welcome to faith Bible Church for all of you at home are we're there with you as well and You know, we know that you can worship. We're worshiping corporately here today. This is probably God's best for us, but they're for a number of other reasons and health issues and so on you're at home and You can worship there as well.

So Anytime of the day or night we can worship our Lord. It's not just here. It's it should be all the time. So but we're thankful that you're tuning in and that you're here this morning. Welcome to we don't have any visitors today that I can tell but some very friendly faces and we're blessed to have you all here this morning a couple updates.

Iljin and Lauren are gonna be moving here. They'll be here on the 18th. There'll be some period just a probably a Sunday and then he'll probably be preaching the following Sunday. But we haven't we got to work that through he's ready and raring to go.

He is just it's like, you know a stallion. He's just holding them back because he just wants to go and that isn't that the best and that's the way that's the way I think God would please God immensely.

Yes young blood so and more on a somber note. Most of you know, but Penny Emmett passed away this week she went home to be with her Lord and Savior and It's been a it's been a tough road for her physically and in a number of ways and we're just.

We're thankful to God that we know she knew the Lord and she's with him today and she's in a much better place. And no pain no sorrow. No grief. No misery to be with her Savior, so It's just us left behind and those that are living with it and living out of the memory that it's hard on.

But she is at peace. She is at rest so just keep family and and church family. Barb and Victor who were very close with her and and a bit gone through this journey with her and Very closely. I just remember Penny and George her husband who passed away a number of years ago.

They were the first people we met at the entrance to the church they were the greeters and on that was that was our first impression of Faith Bible Church, and it was warm and welcoming and What would have what a pleasure that was and so She will be missed This morning.

I'd like to encourage us a little bit as we prepare our hearts for worship that I'd like to read Psalm 138 that here even in the face of Adversity and the world around us and even challenges within the church at large David gives us an example of praising God in the good times and also in the difficult times in the times of trial.

Always we can give praise to God. So I'd like to read this. You can just listen with as I read it I will praise you with my whole heart. Before the gods I will sing praises to you. I will worship Toward your holy temple and praise your name for your loving kindness and your truth.

For you have magnified your word above all your name in the day when I cried out you answered me and made me bold with Strength in my soul all the kings of the earth shall praise you. Oh Lord when they hear the words of your mouth.

Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord for great is the glory of the Lord though The Lord is on high yet. He regards the lowly. But the proud he knows from afar. Though I walk in the midst of trouble.

You will revive me you will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me your mercy Oh Lord endures forever. Do not forsake the works of your hands.

Amen. So if you join me in prayer Lord God We come to you today Lord having the confidence that you are who you say you are that father. You have shown yourself faithful For for the millennium Lord and and we see your evidence of your faith in our lives today father.

Let us hold on to the truths of the gospel message father as pastor John has been sharing with us so fervently Lord I pray today that we would have a heart that desires to know the truth and Lord that that truth is what will guide us that will govern our lives.

That Lord we are to give you glory in all things and that is is one of the many ways. But the primary way that we can do that Lord so today I pray that we would please you with our songs and worship songs and hymns and the message father and the preaching and teaching of your word father that we would just be glad in your majesty your greatness your goodness and Lord, we pray for those out in our congregation Lord and in family and friends that are suffering that are having difficulty and trials and and Health issues father, but that you would be in their midst that they would be holding on to you and the truth of your word Father, so Lord, we thank you and give you praise in all things.

We commit this service to your care in Christ's name. We pray amen.

Worshiping God in Every Season

David well, good morning. And it's time to worship the Lord every time it's time to worship the Lord.

We're right at this time. We're gonna worship the Lord in song and let's stand God be the glory.

Thank you, and please be seated at this time. Good morning.

Scripture reading this morning. It's taken from first Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 1 through 11. First Thessalonians chapter 5 1 through 11. But concerning the times and the seasons brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord and so comes as a thief in the night for when they say peace and safety Then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they shall not escape.

But you brethren are not in darkness So that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as others do but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night but let us who are of the day be sober putting on a breastplate of faith and love and As a helmet the hope of salvation for God Did not appoint us to wrath But to obtain salvation to our Lord Jesus Christ Who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him.

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another Just as you also are doing. May God has blessing to the reading and hearing of his holy word.

Let's stand and sing. My hope is in the Lord and have faith in God have faith in God everyone. You all for singing. Please be seated. I am now pastor Trump. I.

Want to show you a couple things real quick. So first Thessalonians Dave. Thanks so much for that reading and Also, you want to be in second Timothy, of course. So we're continuing this wonderful series.

I hope you're encouraged as I am living in the last days living in perilous times difficult times trying to glean Specific truths from the Word of God that you know that we can carry around in our pocket or hide in our heart as we face The various things that are going on.

There's so much going on in the world right now. I don't know if you've been following because my understanding is. You're not going to read you see about this on the national news. The protests against and the attacks on Jewish people around the world.

If you have a computer look it up in every major city major protests supporting the Palestinian. Attempt to kill the Jewish people. I mean in a United States of America Thousands of people swarmed a Main Street in Chicago waving the Palestinian flag beating up Jewish people in New York City jewelers, there's a section of of Jewelry stores and pawn shops and things like that there's a it's called the Jewish quarter in New York City, and they're being attacked on their way to work beat up and Paul writes to the Church of Thessalonica.

Concerning the times of seasons brethren. You have no need that I should write to you. In other words, he had grounded them so much in what to expect in the last days that he didn't need to say this. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

Remember we talked about the chronology of the last days, right? We have this broad from the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the second coming is called what the last days, right? And then we have that phrase in the New Testament the end times.

Right, which would be towards the latter part of the last days. Everybody following me and then we have the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord throughout the Bible is normally associated with a day of judgment.

So this is a rabbit trail. We don't have time to really develop. But when you see that phrase day of the Lord. In the New Testament context, it has kind of a twofold meaning one would be the return of Jesus Christ.

Another could be depending on the context. God's judgment on this earth. God is not going to flood The world again, right. When you see a rainbow you should be reminded of that. However, he will destroy the present earth with fire and there will be a new heaven and a new earth.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief of the night meaning what you don't know when. For when they say peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon them as Labor pains upon a pregnant woman and ask anybody any lady that's ever given birth.

They can tell you about that I don't want to go through it and They shall not escape. Now this is what I wanted to call your attention. One reason why I had this as our scripture reading because if you look I don't have.

I'm not going to read it all. Look at this verse 6 therefore Let us not sleep as others do. But let us watch and be sober. Beloved believers They need to watch and be sober. God has given to us an Inheritance a treasure to guard and we can't do it sitting at home watching TV seven days a week.

We have to be alert. Yeah, we need to sleep. We need to eat. But this is an active charge. Let us not sleep as other do. Verse 7 for those who sleep sleep at night. But see believers verse 8 are Of the day and we have to be sober.

That's not talking about not drinking wine or getting drunk this is talking about being alert and and have your faculties and Understanding what we are dealing with one of the One of the causes for what's going on in this country and the world.

Comes back, please. Listen to me comes back to the church to you and I Look at Hebrews over just a couple of books. Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10 24. Actually verse 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering.

What does it mean to hold something fast. Hang on for dear life hang on for dear life the confession of our hope the gospel without wavering. For he who promised is faithful and here's a charge to us and Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.

Let me tell you something. God has literally done a miracle in this church. You have been here since last December, right. As God has worked. You have no idea the hours Victor and Harold have put into how can we keep the doors of this church?

Open the lost sleep on our knees praying that God and God is. God has brought us a young man. This you are going to love this guy. Okay, who's that? What's that old suit commercial? I guarantee it. Remember that I Guarantee, I I'm telling you I have spent hours with this young man.

He is solid and He can't wait to come here. They're coming a month earlier three weeks early because they want to be with us. Hallelujah. Let me tell you that is a shepherd if he wasn't if he was a hireling First Peter 5, you know what he'd be doing.

He'd be chilling to the last possible minute. That's not what he's doing. He's packing up they'll get in the U-Haul and on his way. Here's what I want to challenge you with look at this. Please look please read please understand.

Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. That's what we're to be doing for one another when we gather on Sundays and God willing as we begin to fellowship again with. With or without the state's blessing if you ask me, but that's not my decision.

Alone when we come to church when we worship together. When we pray for one another are we stirring up? Love and good works. Did you get a chance to share the gospel this week? Boy, I don't want you to ask me that I'm retired.

I'm not feeling too. Well, look at this. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is in the manner of some. But exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day. Approaching beloved, please.

Listen to me. I love you. I love you. See here in the early church. People already stopped attending church. Please don't listen to me. Listen to God not forsake the assembling of ourselves together as Is the manner of some?

We will not know the effects of kovat on the church. By the way, thank you for those of you that talked to my daughters. That I should still get the in and out regardless if I said kovat. Thank you very much.

I'm very thankful to those of you that went to her because I did get my in and out but not that day. All right, dad, but not today. Compromise. Okay, please listen to me. We do not understand we do not understand yet or appreciate.

The incredible effects of kovat on the church not because people have gotten sick, but because we're not meeting together. Once you stop me I got I know I can tell you stories about people that are not going to go back to church.

Why. They'd rather worship in their pajamas on the sofa. I'm telling you a good friend of mine Pastors a church 200 people they're running 150. Not because people are afraid of getting sick. Because it's just easier to grab a cup of coffee and plop down on the sofa.

Come on. Isn't it? But see this is what this is warning us against. We need each other. To stir each other up. I need to be here. We're not going anywhere because here we're getting stirred up. Amen. All right.

Enough of that. That's a free sermon. Go to 2nd Timothy because we're want to continue in this series of messages. Seeking by God's grace. To learn some of the faith truths and gospel truths that are found in God's Holy Word.

That can help us stand firm in difficult days and we began last week dealing With these verses and I'll start reading at verse 12 just to get us plugged back in. For this reason I also suffer these things.

What the reason that he was appointed as a preacher apostle and teacher of the Gentiles, right? Nevertheless, I'm not ashamed embarrassed or afraid. For I know whom I have believed and I'm persuaded that he is able to keep what I've committed to him until that day.

Now, here's the charges. There's two of them. Hold fast the pattern of sound words, which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus that good thing Which was committed to you entrusted to you keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

This you know that all those in Asia have turned away from me. Among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. They've left him. Everybody in Asia the churches of Galatia Ephesus Colossae Laodicea Hierapolis.

Not Thessalonica because that's in Greece the Lord grant Mercy to the household of an is for us for he often refreshed me. He was not ashamed embarrassed afraid of my chain. But when he arrived in Rome He sought me out very zealously and he found me the Lord grant to him.

That he may find mercy from the Lord in that day and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus. So we've established that the church the early church was living in difficult days.

And it's in that context that Paul charges Timothy in verse 13 to hold fast. Meaning tightly the pattern of sound words, which he heard from Paul and then verse 14 He charges him to keep that good thing Which was committed to him so hold fast or guard the gospel.

Which was the good thing that was committed to him and please please please don't miss this important truth. How was he to keep that good thing in verse 14? By the Holy Spirit a reminder That the life we now live we also live how by faith.

We're saved by faith and the life we now live we live by faith. We cannot hang on in a hurricane, right? Which is what we're living through. So this morning we need to continue to understand. That one aspect of standing firm in the last days involves believers.

Obeying this vital and this very sober charge to guard the gospel. Amen. Let's pray Father God, we thank you so much for this day. What a joy to be together. Have faith have faith in God to God. Be the glory great things.

He has done. So loved he the world that he gave us his son. Father made the Holy Spirit today. Be our teacher. May I stay out of the way of what you might have for your sheep today including me. We commit these things to you.

For the glory of God and the exaltation of Jesus Christ, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. So when you go through the New Testament, you can trace the problems that were going on the challenges that were going on in the early church back to false teachers.

You know sinful nature of man obviously is in there. I don't have the time to develop all that but we've been talking about false teachers coming into the church and Changing a little here a little there when it comes to understanding The gospel that Jesus Christ preached and died for right?

They also sought. Listen, they also sought to corrupt the nature the character and the attributes of Jesus Christ. They questioned was he really God come in the flesh? Was he really a man. The Gnostics said he couldn't be a man.

He had to be some kind of the dosage is spirit. Right. That's why what did what did he say to Thomas touch feel right? Remember that? Friends Solomon warns in Ecclesiastes. There's nothing new Under the Sun.

So what was happening then has happened throughout church history right up until this very day. So we've seen in Scripture how vital it is for believers to understand The gospel that Jesus Christ preached and died for and also what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ see being established and grounded in these truths is as a much a matter of life and death as a Scalpel is in the hands of a brain surgeon.

That is how important it is. These are critical truths in God's Word. Paul charges Timothy to not be ashamed of the gospel in verse 14. He charges him to keep and guard the gospel and remember we talked about this word keep.

It's an imperative. It's a it's a command and remember I mentioned last week that the word keep was used in association. Association with guarding things right being alert. Being a sentinel having your gun locked and loaded right your armor on you're ready.

Whatever's gonna come you're ready. Hey, you're gonna drop them with that AK. Effective Guarding requires alertness. It requires careful measures. It requires diligence. It requires knowledge. And we also saw how this good thing is is the gospel right?

It's it is that crucible of treasure. Timeless Bible truths, right simply by faith. The forgiveness of sin. Justification redemption. The good thing is it's it's the it's the it's the cover of a book of Incredible riches and benefits that we have in Christ because of the gospel eternal life in heaven not hell, right?

So this has been deposited. That's what this word is saying, which was committed to you. It has been deposited like I got to go to the bank this week. Johanna got some gifts for her graduation. She didn't have time to to go to the bank.

So I'm gonna go to the bank for her right and I'm going to deposit. I'm going to entrust. I'm going to commit those funds to her account. Please she said Salvation by grace through faith alone. This has been given to us to Timothy and all believers, right?

Reconciliation with God so we want to get back to it. I think I can be done on time today. How was Paul charging? Timothy to hold fast the pattern of sound words. That Timothy had heard from him and keep the good thing and guard the treasure of the priceless Gospel, and how should Christians today respond to this charge?

First of all, remember last week by comprehending the urgent need to guard the gospel. Effectively guarding and keeping the gospel starts at the beginning and The beginning is understanding and accepting and obeying the charge.

How is Timothy to respond to this charge? How do we sincere believers it how do believers at any point in history at any point on the timeline of the last days? Respond to this charge first of all understand that it's a charge that is to be obeyed.

Amen, simple. Yeah, that's like Christianity 101. God said it fine. I'll do it now number two by understanding the vital importance of having a biblical Christology a biblical Christology. As I said last week No biblical Jesus.

No biblical gospel. Did you hear me? If the Jesus that we worship is not Biblical then we don't have we have not responded to the biblical gospel. Okay? Don't get afraid by that term Christology. All we're talking about is what does the Bible teach about Jesus Christ?

Everything that the Bible teaches from Genesis 3. Actually Genesis 1 if we had the time to chase that down but Genesis 3 where the serpent and he's going to crush the head of the serpent all the way through the New Testament over 330 prophecies in the Old Testament fulfilled in the man Jesus Christ everything that the Bible talks about Jesus Christ.

Christology, right? Whether his birth his sinless perfection his attributes his ability to raise the dead. Lazarus. Heal the blind heal the lame. Whether we're talking about his death his burial three days in the ground his resurrection the list goes on it is it urgent?

It is imperative to understand how vitally important what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ is to guarding the gospel and how critical and interrelated being grounded in a biblical Christ is To guarding the gospel and I just want to review quickly.

Back in Matthew the verses that we looked at last week remember Matthew 16 verse 13. Listen the gospel is not founded on just any rock. The gospel is not founded on any Jesus. Do you understand? It's not just the Jesus that we want to have It or that we understand it.

It has to be the biblical Jesus, right. The biblical Jesus that is taught revealed in God's holy inherit inspired word. Now look again when Peter when Jesus asks. The disciples look at verse 13. Who do men say that I the Son of Man am.

Well, some say John the Baptist some say Elijah others Jeremiah. One of the prophets. I Had a fantastic experience this week now I know. If your church, I mean I I know most of you pretty well by now at least Casually and and I understand that, you know, you're retired and kovat and John you've been talking about sharing the gospel.

The only person I see is my brother. Right, I work from home now, I don't I don't go to an office. How do I how am I gonna share the gospel? Well, can I tell you something? Just ask God. God opened the door for me to share the gospel in simple faith and trust him.

Okay. Did you hear me? I've never done it. Well when Iljin gets here, I'm sure he's watching. Hi Iljin. Not live recorded. I understand. But I know he's going to do some evangelism training, okay. But all you need to do is say God open the door and God opened a glorious door for me this week.

You don't have to do anything right you just have to be available and you have to be willing did you hear me? God open the door. Well when I dropped my family off on Thursday afternoon There was a central meet point because they rented a van one of those big 15 passenger tall vans you see running around Amazon.

Except it has 15 seats. They had to take seats out they had so much luggage three families. It was quite funny. Well as they're loading this guy walks. I didn't know we were parked in front of A mosque.

It's in a shopping center, right and there's a mosque right there. I didn't know it was a mosque this guy walks up and he's got the sathan or the so or whatever they call it. And it turns out this guy walks up to me.

He's the imam. He's the pastor of this mosque of This mosque and he comes up and he goes, what are you guys doing? And I started talking to him and I'm like God, I cannot believe this to myself. I Was like I had goose pimples.

I was Electricity running up and down my body, right? I have a the leader of a Islamic congregation standing right here. So we start talking and he's a very gentle guy. He's from Pakistan. He was born here.

His father is an attorney and worked for The Pakistan government. So anyway, we're talking and I'm just like God, how can I turn this? How do I turn this to a gospel? This is a divine appointment. So I just said so let me ask you something and This is What good witnessing involves is asking questions, right?

You ask do you have do you ever think about heaven or hell? You can say do you ever think about church you can ask questions and then that just opens up the conversation. So I said, what is the difference?

Listen to me carefully because this applies to what we're going to study today. What is the singular difference between biblical Christianity? The gospel that Jesus Christ preached and died for and and I understand that that's a matter of faith.

He goes. Yeah, I said but just for for argument's sake. What is the difference between Islam Mormonism Jehovah Witnesses Roman Catholicism because I would say none of those are biblical Christianity and he kind of looked at me I said Hinduism Buddhism all of those verses what the Bible teaches about how we get to heaven.

He goes that's a good question. This guy's very educated. I went. Thank you God. You understand we don't nothing I would have said in that instance would it be wrong. Right because it's not me that does the saving.

Anyway, he goes I'd say it's the Trinity. Why why did he say that because in Islam Jesus is not God. He's just a prophet a Teacher anyway, I told him and I went down and I was able to go doing versus done.

Remember that and He acknowledged that and then I was able to camp on Ephesians 2 8 and 9 for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves and I went through all that and I was able to give him the gospel and Guess what's in my phone?

His phone number and guess what's on his phone. You're gonna pray his name is Islam. How about that he said to them who do you say that I am that the disciples. Peter said you are the Christ the Son of the Living God God.

Islam denies that Mormonism denies that Jehovah Witnesses deny that. Okay, so what we have here as I said last week and I love it I very rarely come up with stuff this cool micro Christological statement.

Peter's confession is a micro Christological statement. Now go back to second Peter. I'm a second Timothy. Oh, no. No Ephesians. Let's go to Ephesians. In order to effectively guard the gospel believers.

Don't have to be geologists. They have to be Christologists, okay. They have to know Jesus Christ as he is taught and revealed in the Bible now why is a Biblical Christology so critical to the gospel why is having a Biblical Jesus so important when it comes to guarding the gospel.

I want to look at a couple of reasons why knowing and believing and being Convinced of what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ is so critical when it comes to guarding the gospel. Reason number one.

Because Jesus Christ is the cornerstone from which and on which the church is built. Now we looked at this verse. These verses a little bit early in the year, but look at Ephesians 219 now, therefore.

You are no longer strangers and foreigners. But fellow citizens with the Saints and members of the household of God. This is talking about the Jew Gentile issue. That was a big thing in the early church, and it's a big thing even to this day, right?

So you are fellow citizens Jews and Gentiles with the Saints, right? If you're but if you've truly been born again, you're members of the household of God. Having been built on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself Being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

So the church is referred to as the body of Christ it is referred to as the bride of Christ. It is also referred to as a house. Now, would you think about that for a moment? Think about your own family relationships in a house and Those relationships how they are right and think about a stone house, right?

Because that's what he talks about he's he's using the picture of the stone buildings of that day and Jesus is the chief cornerstone and The foundation that goes out from that cornerstone is what the Apostles and prophets Taught and where we have what the Apostles and prophets teach is right here see because in Islam They have a prophet that isn't here.

His name is Muhammad. Okay, and so does Mormonism. Mormonism have a prophet. Did you know that his name is Joseph Smith and All of the state all of the presidents following him Brigham Young and so on and did you know?

That the Seventh-day Adventists. You know about that. Don't you David? You sure do and don't you know that the Seventh-day Adventists who come across as Christians and worship on? Saturday also have a prophet.

Her name is Ellen G white and they base most of their practices. Not on the Word of God, but on the writings and teachings of Ellen J white. Do you I need to go to Mormonism? I'm sorry. Jehovah Witness.

They have a prophet. It's the Bible Watchtower and Bible Track Society and The Jesus of Jehovah Witnesses is not the Son of God. Amen, okay. Do you understand what I'm saying? How important this is? Okay now Jesus is the cornerstone.

Jesus is the cornerstone right. Peter says coming to him as a living stone. Which has been rejected by men but as a choice and precious cornerstone in the sight of God you also as living stones. Wow are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

And I've already talked about Early in the year how these stone houses and I even put a picture up there, right? So what what the point I want to make here is that in the first century when the church at Ephesus got this letter?

They immediately would have resonated with what Paul was writing here. We have houses made of wood and sheetrock. We need to write a modern translation right. Concrete slab. Maybe you have a raised floor.

We do when you walk in the kitchen squeak squeak. So there's a cornerstone, right? The cornerstone is Jesus Christ. There's a foundation. Right. This is the Apostles doctrine what they taught about the gospel what they taught about Jesus Christ and it's been preserved for us in the New Testament and we understand from just that short message or two that I Preached early in the year that that if the cornerstone of a building is off at all.

Off at all, then the foundation is going to be off. The whole building is going to be off, right if any if any part of that foundation stone that cornerstone is off the whole building is going to be off right and This is exactly.

What is going on in many churches today? God willing. I'll have a video something I saw this week that's going on in a church. I was just I'm in shock the stuff that is going on in churches today. This guy had a rubber dinghy and an oar.

And he talked about being funny to appeal to the lost. He's not a pastor he's a comedian and there's thousands of people watching him online. You mean that might happen to me John? Yes. Unless you're what alert sober.

You might buy into the lie that church is about how you feel. It's not you know what church is about God. It's about worshiping God if you want to be biblical about it, right? Friends if the cornerstone is off according to Paul's warnings and the warnings we find in the rest of the New Testament even the slightest.

Even 70 hundredths of an inch the whole gospel building will be off. Reason number two because what the Bible. What the Bible reveals and teaches about Jesus Christ is very precise. Why is having a biblical Christology.

Being grounded in what the Bible teaches about Christ so important to guarding the gospel. Because number one Jesus Christ is the cornerstone on which the church is built. Number two. Because what the Bible reveals and teaches about Jesus Christ is very very precise, right?

You think about this over? 300 specific prophecies about Israel's Messiah. Were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. If I told you the odds of that you can't even appreciate them. Imagine the state of Texas filled with quarters one inch thick.

Has anybody here driven across Texas besides Victor and Barb? Okay, let me tell you this when you drive across, Texas. You wonder if you're ever gonna get to the other side. It's that big. Imagine the state of Texas filled with quarters an inch deep and Imagine one of those corners being painted orange.

Now, here's your mission ready? You have to reach down into the state of Texas and Pick up that orange quarter on the first try. That's the odds statistically of Over -300 prophecies written throughout the Old Testament being fulfilled in a single person.

Mathematicians have done the odds. It's ten to some unbelievable number. God is so precise. He is specific about the nature the character the attributes. Everything about Jesus Christ. And if you went on Amazon this afternoon and you typed in in the search bar books about Jesus Christ.