99. How the Story of Israel Proves Postmillennialism

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf This is episode 99 the story of Israel proves post -millennialism

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Part 1 an analogy of relationships in Human romantic relationships progress is made through promise

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When a man enjoys the company of a particular woman and the natural things start bubbling up inside of that man

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He ought to ask her if she will become his woman now this is not an open -ended promise where he reserves the right and to spend time with any harem or Throng of women that he so chooses.

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Now. This is a personal pledge that she Would become the lone object of his affections moving forward his

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Commitment and his promise carries with it exclusivity Now when that dating relationship advances beyond those initial phases

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Progresses again precipitated by promises without new pledges of increased loyalty and commitment

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The relationship will stagnate and it will usually wither into relational bramble. No woman wants to date a man who's going nowhere

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No woman wants to date a man for ten years without any sign of marriage. That's because promises

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Precipitate relational depth and if they're not there, well, then the relationship withers but after the pledge of lifelong fidelity comes the dating couple then transitions into Engagement with a ring of promise and then the engaged couple transitions to the altar where wedding rings are exchanged and they're awfully wet

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This normative period is filled with promises that progress every relationship from stranger and acquaintances

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To friends then from friends to dating eventually betrothal and then on into marriage now this period of Promise -making is a finite allotment of time and it's there to establish interest trustworthiness and commitment before the era of promises is over and I do mean that the era of Promises must come to an end in every relationship because no woman again wants to marry a man who?

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Continually rattles off his guarantees and assurances, but never ends up keeping them He would be a promise breaker instead of a promise keeper

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Once all of the promises of I want to be with you for a lifetime and I want to do this And I once all of that is made then the man must and the woman must

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Transition to a period of marriage. They're not going to go on making oaths and pledges and explaining their intentions They don't need to do that anymore.

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They need to transition To the relationship from being a promise -making sort of relationship to a promise -keeping sort of relationship or If they don't the only progress that they're gonna make is towards breaking up separation and divorce now this movement from Promise to fulfillment.

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It's the most natural step in any relationships maturation It is how trust is baked in time

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It is how marriages become ironclad centers of love for communities and clans of burgeoning people and in some ways

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We can actually apply this concept to what we spoke about last week. Maybe you're like, where's he going with this?

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Well, let me tell you last week we transition away from the wrong view of eschatology to the correct view and We saw how

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God himself has littered the book of Genesis with monumental promises He promised to fill the world with worshipers through Adam we said last week he's gonna keep that promise

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He repeated those same promises to Noah He kept those promises during the rocky and turbulent era of the time period called

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Babel He made those promises even more explicit and exclusive through the era of the patriarchs

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That's Abraham Isaac Jacob and Judah and like in our metaphor before the young man

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Who's making covenantal promises to the woman that he loves? God in those early years of Genesis was showering his people with all kinds of promises and he was letting her know

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What he was going to do when he went into covenant union with her

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And as we saw last week the content of those promises are astounding It was God himself promising to make a people into a fruitful worldwide

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Worshipping people worshippers in every aspect of life covering every square inch of the earth and I mean in Every sector and every space and every family we're talking about eventually

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Because we believe God is going to complete those promises in Genesis 1 that there's gonna be worshippers in all of the academic disciplines like science and music worshippers in local and national government workers in technology sectors and engineering firms

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Worshippers who create law practices and where they work in libraries and restaurants and public squares and plumbing and electrical and You get my point

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The whole world is gonna be filled with worshippers not just in our churches, but in every single sector of reality

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God is gonna fill the world in every space is going to have his joyful human worshippers

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So that everything on this rebel planet comes under the Dominion and the will of God He will have a world that looks like heaven before it's over now in Just the same way that a man shouldn't keep making promises with no intention of fulfilling them.

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God does not go on Speaking promises without a plan to do something about it.

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And that's where we're at today. He transitions from relationship promise -making to promise -keeping when we turn the pages from Genesis to the book of Exodus and He continues in that promise -keeping posture all the way through the conquest narratives the histories of the people of Israel and Judah the

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Kings and the Exile and all of that what we're going to see is that while Israel and Judah are

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Perpetually unfaithful to their God and while they provoke him to jealous fury and while they play the harlot with the nations instead of bringing them into the covenant family and while they cause him to even

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Issue a decree of divorce to the northern ten tribes of Israel that God is never once unfaithful to his promises

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He is going to fill the world with worshippers who worship him in spirit and in truth

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And what we're gonna see today in the history of Judah and Israel is Rock -hard textual evidence from the

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Bible that this is God's plan and that God will accomplish it Whether he gets our help or not

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Now what follows I want to sketch out all of this how the promises that God made in the book of Genesis are

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Going to come to fruition in the book of Exodus where the entire world is gonna be filled with worshippers We're all the families of the earth are gonna be blessed by the seed of Abraham where all of the nations are gonna come under God's blessing through the seed of Jacob and they're going to obey

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Yahweh their King through the promise Shiloh that God told to Judah and All of that is gonna begin to come true in Israel in the book of Exodus like an acorn

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Transitioning from the seed to the sapling the Exodus the conquest the kingdom of Israel is gonna show us how

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God is Committed to what he initially said he was going to do He is gonna deliver on those promises in the life of Israel and in the weeks ahead.

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We're gonna see that We're gonna see that today in the history of Israel next week We're gonna see that in the song book of Israel, which is called the

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Psalms two weeks from now we're gonna see that in the prophets from Isaiah to Malachi and We're gonna continue going seeing that over and over again.

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God is faithful to keep his promises these Postmillennial and optimistic future promises that God has made we will see their roots

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Today in the book of Exodus and beyond part two the

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Exodus and a world filled with worshippers Now After God had given those promises to Abraham and Isaac Jacob and eventually

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Jacob's fourth born son Judah the family Which had about a dozen men at that point along with their wives and children

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They're about 70 people who left Israel left Canaan and went and settled down in the land of Goshen Which is a providence of Egypt now if you're familiar with the end of the book of Genesis There was a massive famine that hit the land so much so that the people of God were going to starve and yet God through wonderful providence

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Allows Joseph the favorite of Jacob to be sold into slavery Jacob thinks that he's dead for a season of time

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God allows him to Supernaturally being lifted out of prison in Egypt to the second position in the kingdom of Pharaoh Perfectly positioned in the right place to rescue

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Jacob's family and the nation that would come from Jacob's body from starvation and death that family was reunited in Egypt under the leadership of Joseph and they began growing rapidly

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For 400 silent years. The Bible does not speak about them sort of just Kind of dying out and integrating into Egyptian society

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You know, the Bible talks about them being fruitful and multiplying even in a foreign land

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Now that is precisely the way the book of Exodus begins God promised Adam in the first chapter of Genesis and Noah in the ninth chapter of Genesis that's the early part of Genesis that he's going to make these men and their families fruitful and he's gonna multiply them and now in Egypt in the earliest parts of the exit narrative we see

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God keeping those promises He made the promises in Genesis now, he's keeping those promises in Exodus.

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Here's what the text says but the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly and Multiplied and became exceedingly mighty so that the land was filled with them

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Exodus 1 7 Do you see what God is doing here Do you see the promises that God is actually fulfilling he made all the way back in Genesis 1 do not overlook the significance of this moment

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God created world and we're Eden and in Eden where his covenant people if they live under his covenant rule and Stipulations they will come under his covenant blessings they will thrive and a key component of that is that they will be fruitful and that they will multiply and that they will expand and Populate all the lands of the earth establishing

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God's dominion Over the planet now these events that we're talking about in Exodus.

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They're unfolding in this passage Though not yet on a universal scale. God is doing them here in Egypt not global but he is doing it on a local scale and What we see here is the people of Israel were proliferate proliferating in Egypt Their number was swelling so quickly and so fast

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That they eventually filled the land full of their people Indicating to everyone who was watching that they were under the blessings of Almighty God now in typical fashion the native occupants the adversaries and enemies of God the ones who are watching this happen perceive all of this and they they respond with a kind of terror at the prospect of Israel's multiplication and they even view it as Fearing Israel's expansion and increased

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Dominion is going to continue to the point until it usurps their own authority in the land

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Egypt was apprehensive They were fearing that Israel's expansion and Dominion was going to continue and to the point to where they had no place

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And that highlights a profound understanding that I think has been lost today They lost upon many people

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God has not devised a plan Where we are destined for failure in Egypt understood this when they saw the blessing of God on the people of God They became terrified.

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Why are the enemies of God no longer terrified today? Because they've forgotten that when the blessing of God comes upon the people of God, they will multiply like rabbits in the summer and They will fill the land full of people in the the enemies of God will lose their place

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God will strip his enemies of their place of their nation of their status and In that divine plan

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God's people are destined to dispossess the lands That the squatters have occupied illegally

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Thereby they're the church and and we're talking about the Exodus right now So the people in exodus are extending

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Yahweh's Dominion far beyond its current boundaries and the Egyptians are torn up about it the

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Egyptian Pharaoh and his advisors are Grasping the enormity of God's plan with all of the visceral

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Clarity that could be needed and it filled their hearts with a kind of dread that spurred them on to very very dark actions

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Desperate strategies that led them to participate in what they thought would be a gent a

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Jewish genocide And it became a futile attempt actually to try to thwart

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God's holy intentions, which we see in Exodus 1 verse 9 through 10 now as is

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Always the case there is an inevitability to those who dare to challenge the Almighty their sinister schemes

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Always come crashing down and flakes of dust Well, Moses recounts all of this with poetic justice that the harsher that the

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Egyptians treated the Israelites the more prolifically God blessed them the more of God's favor that was poured out on them with unimaginable success and continued fruitfulness and multiplication

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Exodus 1 12 And in a twist of irony when Egypt sought to drown the

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Hebrew legacy in the Nile to Quite literally drown their fruit and their multiplication through their children.

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It was the fearless midwives the unsung heroes of the early Exodus story who were under God's watchful aisle and not not only

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Safeguarded the lives of countless infants, but they unwittingly became a part of God's plan to fill that nation full of worshippers

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To a to fill it to a burgeoning population which further frustrated Pharaoh's draconian degrees

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It's Exodus 120 now as we saw last week God is not gonna give up on his plan

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He made promises to Adam He made promises to Noah and he came and elected a sinner named Abraham and he gave that man children in his old age

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Who would eventually settle down in Egypt and now God's not abandoned that family He's now under the mighty hand of his blessing

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He's pouring out his favor upon them and they're doing what Yahweh promised would happen

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They're being fruitful and they're multiplying and they're spreading out and they're threatening the enemies of God. They're threatening their security.

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They're threatening their dominion They're threatening their sovereignty sounds a whole lot like post -millennialism if you ask me

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It sounds like God is being faithful to his promises that he's Ensuring that he will extend his dominion globally and he's gonna start that and locally

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With his people and with his worshippers now this plan, of course ran afoul of the

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Egyptian leaders No doubt it whipped them up into a fury as they whipped the

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Israelites back a little bit harder each day All the while they were doing this They were increasing the miseries and the suffering of the people of Israel and it all reached a breaking point

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Now the first breaking point sort of happened when this man named Moses a strapping 40 year old young lad at the time barely had

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Any gray in his beard? Well, he Decided to take matters into his own hands.

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See God had Miraculously orchestrated by divine providence for him to grow up in the palaces of Egypt So he was in some sense a son of Egypt and yet he also knew his

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Hebrew lineage His mother was allowed to teach him and homeschool him in the palace So he understood who his people were and when he saw them being mistreated he took it in his own hands killing an

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Egyptian attempting to bury the body and hide the evidence and Attempting honestly to free his people by his own strength and a 40 year old vigor

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Which I know something about because I'm 40 this year. It's a strong age. Now. This was not

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God's plan It was not God's plan for Moses to kill anybody and it was not God's plan to extend his kingdom through physical violence

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That is what jihadists do that is what Different periods of time that were gross and disgusting have done but that's not the way

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God extends his kingdom So God exiled Moses into the wilderness for an entire generation He was 40 years old when he went into the wilderness and God was exiling him for another 40 years

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To cool his jets down a little bit so that he would no longer trust in his strength in his vigor But he would trust the

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Lord that the Lord would do exactly as he has promised So 40 years later as an octogenarian

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God summons Moses back to Egypt with a mandate to go to his people and to reassure them that God has not left them that he's not gonna leave them to languish in the desert sands and he's not going to turn his back on his people and He would

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Assuredly rescue them from the shackles of Egyptian servitude and he's gonna do so with a mighty hand in the same way that his mighty hand of blessing was on Israel his mighty hand of cursing was gonna be on Egypt and that Liberation that he was stirring up in this early chapters of Exodus was not just about freeing the

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Israelites from their bondage But it was about relocating them to the land of promise the land of Eden Eden 2 .0

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You might call it because it calls that land of Canaan a land that's flowing with milk and honey and blessings

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Now there they were to flourish they were to tend the garden land extending Yahweh's sovereignty

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Across it across its breadth and depth and height and to transform that Canaan land into a region

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Where God's will would come on earth as it already had in heaven Exodus 3 8 they were to basically take a people who had filled

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Egypt full of their worshipers and then Set up Canaan as a base of operations

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Now this elaborate plan traces its way all the way back to the pages of Genesis and it was not merely for their benefit

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But it was being enacted by a God who wanted the entire earth To hear about him and to worship him because of his all inspiring deeds

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See God was doing all of this for his own glory He was partnering with Israel to make his name known among the nations and God had appointed

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Israel as his emissary as his helper To bring his blessings to all the world and he announced those purposes first and foremost in the book of Exodus To a man named

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Pharaoh, which I think is a striking feature that he announces these things to a pagan God says to Pharaoh in Exodus 9 16 but indeed for this reason

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I have allowed you to remain in order to show you my power and in order to proclaim

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My name through all the earth Exodus 9 16 Now you ask yourself, why would

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God tell the egotistical Pharaoh that his intention was to fill the earth with his name?

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Well, I think for one reason because the Pharaoh wanted to fill the earth with his little name so instead of that God tells him no,

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I'm gonna fill the earth with my name with stories of my power and my glory and God is

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Telling him that your kingdom is not going to be successful mine is God would not have said all of that to the

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Pharaoh if he had no desire to fulfill it God has no intention of doing divine locker room talk

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God has no intention of boasting and things that he has no intention on completing not at all

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God is going to do what he promised and he showed how serious he was by raining down a furious assortment of ten devastating plagues on Egypt crushing their egotistical pride

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Crashing their agricultural industry farming and shipping and Causing the entire country to experience an economic collapse that would cripple their empire for generations to come

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Now more importantly God was laboring to set Israel free so that Yahweh's name

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Would echo in every whole holler cave plane and hilltop on earth That alone reminds us that God is still committed to his original plan and purpose because he did not lie about that He wants his name to be made much of all over the earth and he will not stop until it happens

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Now he will make his name great and he'll do that by multiplying Worshippers everywhere that the

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Sun shines everywhere that the shadow falls and no one in hell and on earth is gonna stop him

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If you doubt that my encouragement would be for you to ask the Pharaoh of Egypt how that worked out for him

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He hardened his heart against the Lord and he got the unenviable Opportunity to see all of his wealth and power flushed down the

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Red Sea toilet God will complete his promises Part three the law in a world filled with worshippers

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Now from there God brought this newly freed nation out of Egypt and he brought them as an assortment of people

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There was both Jew and Gentile. There was Egyptians actually in a mixed multitude who came out with them

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Exodus 1238 and this throng of people this group of people Consisted of a couple million people who walked out of the land of each of this was no small

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Gaggle of people who crossed over a shallow pond No This was a massive group of people who left

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Egypt crossed over a Red Sea watched Egypt defeated right before their very eyes and God drew them by cloud of and fire to Mount Sinai where he would enter into a covenant relationship think about Mount Sinai sort of like a

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Marriage ceremony. That's what Ezekiel tells us That's what the Jewish scholars who look back on that time tell us that this was

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God Drawing his bride out to the desert so that he could perform a marriage

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And like all covenants, especially the ones before there There's specific stipulations and rules and precepts that the people of God are to follow

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It's in the same way that you make pledges and you make vows when you get married Well, if the people of God followed them, they would be in relationship with him

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If they followed the stipulations of the covenant They would inherit the blessings of the covenant which

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God describes in various ways all throughout the Torah The Torah is Exodus Leviticus numbers and Deuteronomy So as we look through this section of Scripture We see all kinds of ways that God is gonna pour out his blessings on an obedient people if they're disobedient

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They're gonna inherit the curses if they're obedient, then they will inherit the blessings for instance He promised the people that he was gonna walk among them in their midst

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Just like he had with Adam and Eve in the garden Leviticus 26 11 through 12 he promised that they would be fruitful and Prosperous in a garden land

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Genesis 26 9 He told them that he would give them dominion and authority among the nations on earth

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Deuteronomy 28 13 and he told them that he would partner with them in filling the world with Worshippers like he said to Adam before and he reminded them even that I will be your

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God and you will be my people Leviticus 26 12 Now God is encouraging them in this point.

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He is lavishing on them Reminders of the promises but it's all predicated upon obedience at this point if they were obedient then they could live in the presence of a

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Holy God Leviticus 20 26 if they would obey his voice like Unlike their father

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Adam actually then they and if they would follow his decrees and if they would You know do everything that he said then he would make them fruitful and he would multiply them

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Leviticus 26 9 He would bless them in the land He would bless them as they come in bless them as they go out

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Deuteronomy 28 and he would bless them To live in his presence

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Deuteronomy 6 3 he would use them to bring his covenant blessings To all the nations

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Exodus 19 5 through 6. Do you see what the law of God saying? Everything we see in Genesis 1 28 is coming true in Exodus and in Leviticus and in Deuteronomy God said that he would bless them and it would be fruitful multiply spread out to the ends of the earth and I just showed

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You every element of those promises there in Exodus Leviticus numbers in Deuteronomy God is entering them into a

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Genesis 1 28 relationship. It's no longer a promised relationship now It has teeth now. God is enacting it now.

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God is bringing them into it. He's no longer promised maker he's promised keeper and he's drawn them out of Egypt to bring them into what he promised back in Genesis and He's going to allow them

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The privilege of assisting him in accomplishing his Genesis 1 28 vision to fill the world with worshipers

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Now from the very outset of national Israel and I would say national Israel begins at Mount Sinai God invited them into a covenant

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Whereby they could partner with him like Adam was promised long before to bring God's glory to all the earth numbers 1421

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They were commissioned to live such holy and fruitful lives aided by the law and the sacrificial system that the nations would see and behold the glory of God on them and the nations would either stream into Israel and repent and turn to know and love this benevolent deity which happens in Deuteronomy 4 5 & 6 or They would tremble in absolute abject terror of him because of his holiness and they would tremble because of his people

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Deuteronomy 28 9 through 10 either way The Lord was committed to his earth -filling promises as long as Israel was faithful to the

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Covenant God would allow them to join him in that work using them as a light to the

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Gentiles I see a 42 6 but as we know the story as We know the story

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Israel was not faithful They refused to be obedient to the terms of the

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Covenant and instead of reaching the nations with the knowledge of God They polluted the land with the idols of demons

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Instead of inheriting the Covenant blessings. They often languished under the torrent of covenantal cursings

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Deuteronomy 28 so the question is coming out of the law is God going to maintain his promises or is he gonna give up and wash his hands of it?

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Well, he does end up putting an entire generation to death in the wilderness their dead bodies and littered the sands

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Because of their covenantal disobedience, but God is not finished with his promises. The second generation rises up Moses gives them the entire book of Deuteronomy to prepare them for what's coming and then

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God calls them the second generation the Deuteronomic generation to enter the land

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Part 4 The conquest and a world filled with worshipers

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Now despite Israel's apparent ongoing inability to keep the covenant that God had given them

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God remained faithful to his promises as We've said before he is not only the promise maker, but he is the promise keeper

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He's the promise keeper in Exodus Leviticus and Numbers and he is the God who kept covenant with the wilderness generation in Deuteronomy Where he graciously repeated his entire law to his people one more time

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Who were preparing to take Yahweh's cosmic plan and his world filling goals into the land of Canaan?

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And they were gonna enact it like they had in Egypt on a local regional scale Now this means that the first phase of Yahweh's plan was to fill one nation full of worshipers

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Before he filled the world full of worshipers by choosing Israel God's gonna partner with one nation to reach all the nations, but they have to start somewhere and They have to start in their hometown in their homeland and they were could make it up They were gonna become a people who loved him lived in integrity and righteousness under his dominion and rule and they were gonna multiply those blessings in their nation first and in this way the land of Canaan would become a

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Microcosm or or maybe you could call it a blueprint for what God wanted to do all over the world

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The work that began in the land of Canaan as soon as the Lord's servant Moses died and the newly appointed leader was installed

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Would be emblematic of what God wanted to do in every nation and under Joshua God commissioned the

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Israelites to get to work immediately to go in and to bring the entire land of Canaan under the dominion of Yahweh Joshua 1 2 through 4 the second verse of the book is them getting to work

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Now to do that God had charged this newly minted leader to live a life saturated with the law of God Joshua what it was to to keep the law of God in his heart all the time so that he could lead the people to be

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Ever consecrated to him so that he could be a man of courage and so that the Lord would make this nation prosperous and give

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Joshua success Wherever he goes. It's Joshua 1 8 through 9 Now at the end of Joshua's life after all the battles after after Jericho had fallen

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AI had fallen Ogden of Bashan had fallen after all of that at the end of Joshua's life. He confesses to us

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Through the Word of God that God had accomplished every aspect of the plan that he had promised

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Joshua tells us that there was not a single promise that God gave to him that he did not complete

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Joshua 2143 to 45 so we're at a high point here Joshua has done everything

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God said and God has done everything God said and the whole land of Canaan is filled with worshippers

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That is phase one phase one of the plan was complete despite the apparent setbacks the golden cast that the generation that died in the wilderness the the whole debacle that happened at AI and With Aiken and all other despite all the setbacks associated with partnering with a sin -loving people

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God had used this motley crew to populate one nation full of worshippers

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And it said that he completed it that all the promises had come true in Joshua's lifetime, which is astounding and Way to end on a high note part five the judges and a world filled with worshippers and Just like being on a cliff's edge or on a high point falling down and going splat

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Sometimes happens and that is exactly what the book of Judges is all about even though it would have been reasonable to assume that God would have

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Transitioned away from the local national level fulfillment that happened at the end of Joshua And he would begin using

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Israel to multiply the knowledge of God and his blessings all across the globe. There is a Significant problem in the people of God when we get to the book of Judges God was entirely faithful.

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He perfectly upheld his end of the deal to partner with Israel to fill the world with worshippers But it was Israel that was entirely faithless on their end see after Joshua died the nation plunged itself into a cyclical pattern of idolatry and slavery

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Subjugation which sadly became the norm throughout the book of Judges God would raise up a judge because remember there was no king in the land at this point

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He would raise up a judge to rescue the people out of their slavery They would cry out to God and God would send a judge

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Which kind of like a second Moses figure to deliver them out of their slavery and all of that and then

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God Would rescue them and the people would walk with God for a little while as so long as the judge was alive and well but when the judge died

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Israel experienced a kind of spiritual death as well falling back into the most disgusting worship practices

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Harlot trees and macabre violence that you can imagine the book of Judges is the darkest most violent book in the

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Bible for good reason now that rebellion That cyclical rebellion and idolatry would cause

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God to give them over again and again and again to their enemies Which the vicious cycle would start over again and again in that sense

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No progress was made on God's world -filling goal Throughout the entire book of Judges.

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In fact, this was a period of awful and bitter regression Where the people surrendered sovereignty in Canaan and they tarnished their witness among the nation's they didn't move forward

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They moved back and they moved way back To where they lost their place in their station in their own nation after all of the work to build up this

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Nation with worshipers and to fill it full be fruitful multiply all of that after all that work at the end of Joshua It all comes crashing down in Judges now the attitude of this

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Tragic period can be summed up by a couple of verses that are taken from the beginning in the end of the book These are fascinating in Judges chapter 2

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God comes personally down from heaven God leaves heaven and comes down bodily in the flesh and he comes down to Cain and he shows up as the

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Angel of the Lord a Christophany if you're familiar with that term Which just means Christ in the Old Testament and he speaks to all the covenant -breaking sons of Israel and he says this to them

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He says I brought you up out of Egypt. This is Jesus talking He said

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I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land Which I have sworn to your fathers and said

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I will never break my covenant with you but as for you You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land you shall tear down their altars, but you have not obeyed me

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What is it that you have done? therefore I also said I will not drive them out before you but they will become as Thorns in your side and their gods will be a snare to you

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Joshua 2 1 through 3 The angel of the Lord who is

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Jesus in the Old Testament said to this nation of miscreants that he is the one who brought them up out of the land of Egypt that he had been faithful to all of his promises and It was certainly not his intention to bring them into the royal family so that they could go on Wallowing in their filth and feces like barnyard animals, but that's what they were doing

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Christ himself God in the flesh reminding that reminded them that they had not been faithful And if had they been faithful God would have made them fruitful and multiplied them and he would have used them to take his blessings to the ends of the earth but because of their sin and rebellion their country was in a state of full -on collapse and God was bringing them into judgment and I'm not talking about the kind of judgment where God draws so near to them in white hot

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Fury that he destroys them. I'm talking about the kind of judgment that it's often worse where he abandons them to their own sick and Sadistic desires kind of like you would see in Romans 1 24 through 32

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Now nowhere is this judgment more clearly visible than at the end of the book where the author reports this in Those days there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in his own eyes judges 2125

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So when you think about closing out the section of judges this cliff moment where they go crashing down Fantastically on the rocks below It's crucial to remember that while God remained perfectly faithful to his promises

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And he did partner with the people to fill the world with worshipers the plan Encountered an all -too -familiar snag and that snag was due to human sin

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Idolatry and rebellion It's the same snag that was in the Garden of Eden that caused the world not to be filled with worshipers through Adam It's the same snag that ended up in the tent of Noah It's the same snag that caused

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Abraham's family to be a broken mess It's the same snag that caused Moses and the idolaters

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Israelites to fail in their plan Joshua and the warring tribes to fail and their plan and now we see the king list of based people of Israel failing as well

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Now at no point in this entire cosmic drama had

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God changed He was faithful through every scene every millisecond of it

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Everyone was exposed as liars and oath breakers except for him and if anything

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We are getting the most detailed glimpse in the book of Judges of the unsearchable depths and the riches of his limitless grace

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God by his mere good Pleasure and long -suffering goodness is repeatedly

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Rebooting his mission of partnering with humans who hate him and who abandoned him and who forsake him?

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This is not only because he abounds with limitless grace and he does and it's also not only to show us that we could never

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Uphold our end of the Covenant without him. We could not but it's also to make a way for his own son

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The one who stood before Israel and rebuked them in the book of Judges He's the one who would one day come and complete what they never could and in that sense

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These passages and judges do not remind us about how useful and how helpful we are to God far from it

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Instead they show us how useless and faithless We are when it comes to God and they show us

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God's unwavering commitment to accomplish his plan with or without Us This plan to partner with a man is not going to be filled by any of us men

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It's gonna be fulfilled by a man who's gonna fill the world with worshippers a man who's gonna be fruitful multiply a man

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Who's gonna be faithful and while the Bible? repeatedly recounts how none of the sons of Adam could be faithful in that role none of the sons of Noah could be faithful in that Role a true son of Adam the true

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Son of God is coming and he is gonna be faithful in that role He's the one who's gonna do what we could not do why because God doesn't give up on his plan

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And if God has to leave heaven and come to earth and die on our behalf in order to accomplish his plan

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Then that's what's gonna be despite the thousands of years of failure of God's people and all of the delays

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God's plan was never in jeopardy because he would never be thwarted his Intention to partner with a man was always about the man

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Jesus Christ and That plan remained intact throughout the period of the judges and as we will see next that period remained intact through the wishy -washy topsy -turvy period of the idolatrous faithless

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Kings Because God will use these eras to usher in a true son of Adam He's gonna use these eras to showcase to us the inability of man and the hope for the coming

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God man his only son who will be successful That's what the book of Judges and the era of the

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Kings is going to tell us and that's where we're going to end our time today part six the

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Kings of Israel the promise of Jesus and a world filled with worshippers

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Now humanly speaking the era of the Kings was birthed out of the same DNA The I draw the idolatry addicted

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DNA that was typical during the period of the judges Same people who craved the idols and the gods of all the nations

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We're now asking for a king so that they could be like all the nations for Samuel 8 20

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Instead of converting the pagan world. They were being converted by it, which is the great temptation of all generations

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You'll either convert them or they will convert you and here they are most certainly being converted by them

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Now in some ways this dark period of Israel's history set the trajectory for how the

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Kings are gonna crash and burn How a future messianic King is gonna be needed because God again

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We've said this over and over is not going to abandon this plan And since no human being could accomplish it God's gonna have to come from heaven to earth in order to establish it

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This is because neither Israel's or Judah's Kings could ever be enough

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Now instead of taking the covenant with Yahweh Seriously partnering with him to bring his covenant blessings to the nations and filling the world with worshippers as he intended

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The Kings of Israel and Judah are a dumpster fire They fell like a blind man walking off.

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So off a cliff's edge. They are of course There are of course notable exceptions in among the

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Kings good Kings like Josiah or Hezekiah David but those good

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Kings even rarely got complete control of the land like Joshua did and they rarely

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Finished the Revivals and the purification movements that they led and they almost never

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Multiplied and filled their land full of worshippers What we see in Joshua and what we see at the end of the reign of Solomon or the sort of the middle of the

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Reign of Solomon is sort of the high points of Israel filling just one nation full of worshippers

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And God is calling them to fill all of the nations full of worshippers. In fact the all -too -normal

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Method and mode for the Kings was not to live under the obedience to God but to lead the people and themselves forcefully away from him and to bring them into Devastating fury and and in the cursings of God's punishment and wrath

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Because that was the default mode of the human heart, especially the heart of the Kings Well, God begins the era this era of the

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Kings with a powerful admonishment in Scripture And he does so on the most unlikely candidate

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I love how God speaks beautiful promises to the Pharaoh or to a donkey

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When you look back on Balaam's account here, he's speaking it on the lips of a humble maiden Her name is

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Hannah. And this is the song that she sang by the Spirit of God. She said Those who contend with the

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Lord will be shattered Against them he will thunder in the heavens the

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Lord will judge the ends of the earth and he will give strength to his king and He will exalt the horn of his appointed for Samuel 2 10

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God is warning the nation and its rulers that he will shatter Anyone who is disobedient to him and then he's gonna execute his justice over the face of the earth

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He's not saying I'm gonna execute my justice just in Canaan he's saying my justice my righteousness my rule my authority my government is going to be executed across the

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Entire earth that hasn't happened yet, but it will So he's saying to them if you disobey me

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You don't have to worry about disobeying me just in the land of Canaan if you disobey me anywhere on earth my justice my watchful

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I will see you so that no one will escape his glance But to the

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Lord's anointed King Hannah sings a song a picture of a future coming

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Messiah. This is not a song about David It's not a song about Solomon not a song about Hezekiah or Josiah or any of those

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Kings because this song is bigger than them this is a song about a coming King the true anointed one of God who

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God will give his own strength to and Who will bring about the plan that God has been enacting since Eden?

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Hannah says that God will give his strength to the appointed King and that appointed King will extend God's Justice to the nation's that is none other than Jesus Christ case you missed it

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None of the Kings none of the priests none of the judges none of the prophets none of them would measure up To the song of Hannah none of them would measure up to the latter part in 1st.

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Samuel 2 35 none of them ever Would or ever could usher in the promises made to Adam Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah Moses Judah or the lot of them none of them

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But as I've been saying all along Even though we are unfaithful to God's plan.

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It does not mean that God will be unfaithful to his plan Just because we're unfaithful doesn't mean

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God will be unfaithful. We forget his promises we fail to bring about all that he's desired to do, but he doesn't if his plan is to partner with a man and There are no good men to partner with and he will leave heaven and earth and come down and he will be that true man

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That true King he will leave the throne of heaven and become the better King that we've all been waiting for Hebrews 1 8 through 9 and since God is looking to partner not only with a perfect King, but with a perfect kingly priest

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I am speaking about Jesus here. He will come as the eternal priest from the eternal line of Melchizedek Mediating the relationship between God and man that God has always promised

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Hebrews 7 24 through 25 Jesus Christ the Righteous One will bring God's kingly victory to the nation's revelation 15 -4 the era of the judges and the

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Kings as dark as it is does not tell the story of God abandoning his plan but revealing that a better man better judge better priest better King is coming in Christ now that shift in the language is

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Striking before the era of the judges and the Kings God was using sort of Israel Centric Israeli centric language

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He was speaking about partnering with that particular peculiar slave -saved nation to accomplish his global purposes and there's fewer hints about the

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Messiah in the Exodus narrative and even some in the conquest narrative, but The tremendous inability of the nation becomes more exposed over time

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More light on God's coming Messiah floods in so that more light comes in in the book of Judges more light comes in the era of the

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Kings more light comes in the songs of Israel and more light even comes in the prophets the worse that Humanity gets the more clearly we see that God is gonna send a better human the

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God man You see in the providence of God God had entered into partnerships that he knew was going to fail so that he could showcase the

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Christ This is not an accidental bug. It is not a mistake within his calculus. It's a feature

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God partner with Adam to fill the world with worshipers because he knew that Adam couldn't do it God partner with Noah because he knew out it

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No was gonna fail God partner with Abraham because he knew Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah Israel all their

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Kings all of it He knew all of them were gonna fail Fantastically, maybe you're like well, why would

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God enter into a relationship with them if he knew they were gonna fail? Why would God choose partners who can do nothing but fall flat on their faces?

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Well, it's not because God is capricious I will tell you that and it's not because God enjoys

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Spectacles or try not to laugh videos where he watches us slam our faces on the sidewalk. That's not what God does

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He was showing us something in all of this. He's showing us two things. In fact first That he will never fail at bringing about his promises it doesn't matter how bad we get

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God is faithful and he's showing us that all throughout the Old Testament and Second you can down him all you want

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You can go on living in a doom and gloom worldview where the world is gonna collapse the sky is always falling you can be chicken little if you want where the church is

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Gonna end in an abysmal and pathetic failure and God is never going to succeed in accomplishing what he promised to all those men

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In Genesis you can believe that if you want But you believe that against scripture and you indict the character of God and you say you're a liar and you're not faithful If that's what you believe then that's what you're saying about God Third I had to now

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I've got three third you can realize what our place is

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You can realize that our place in the divine metanarrative is not about us The Bible tells a story of human failure over and over and over again because the

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Bible is not about us It's about him and his victory and his success. You are not the story's hero

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You are not the one who comes in and rescues the day you and I are cast as the villains in this story who need rescuing our

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People failed our priests failed our prophets failed our Kings failed our feasts failed our morals failed our ability failed every aspect of the human story is

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Accurately subsumed within the words of Romans 3 23 all have fallen short and Because of this feature

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God from Genesis and all throughout the Torah the conquest narratives the book of Judges Samuels Kings Chronicles all of it was lining up in front of us the very best of our representatives the most excellent of our people showing us that even our mighty men have fallen and If they have failed then you and I would fail too if you were in their place

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You would have fallen too if you were in their place You would have picked up the stone and you would have cast it if you were in their place you would have been outside the ark if you were in their place you would have sold your wife into to the arms of Abimelech to all of the examples of failure of the people of God the adultery of David all of it

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You would have done it too because even our best representatives Cannot obey God in the way that God desires and here we arrive at the point of what

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God is doing He is not writing a story that pumps up our pride and makes much of us he is teaching us to take our eyes off of us and to put them on him and To put them upon the one whom he will send

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The one who would succeed where Adam fell and the one who would be fruitful and multiply where Noah collapsed

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God is pointing us to the overarching point of the entire Bible That we must look to the

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King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He is Going to be successful He will never fail and he will bring the promises of God and he will fill the world with Worshippers now in case that's not clear enough for you.

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Let me speak on the level of crystal God is gonna fill the world with worshipers through Jesus Christ No other man is worthy the era of the judges and the

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Kings tell us that point in ugly clarity But after the period of ugly failure after the period of rebellion

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God sent his one and only Son and He would be successful and he has been successful for the last two thousand years.

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This means The coming messianic King Jesus will be a picture of what faithful Israel was supposed to be

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Matthew 2 15 He will succeed where Israel failed He will be the true firstborn son like God called

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Adam Luke 3 38 and like God called Israel Exodus 4 22 He will be the one who fulfills and obeys the covenant with God and like all before him

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Matthew 5 17 and like Israel He will be tasked with taking God's fruitful and multiplied

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Kingdom to the nations Isaiah 49 6 Matthew 28 18 through 20

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Jesus comes like Joshua. He comes at 30 years old and he explodes upon the scene.

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His name even is Joshua Yeshua Jesus Joshua same name and He has a mission like Joshua He goes through all of the land of Judah conquering and bringing freedom for the kingdom of God He's bringing freedom to the captives and he's putting the enemies of God under his feet.

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Isaiah 61 1 and Luke 4 18 And he promises that he's gonna set the city on fire, which is what

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Joshua did in the conquest He's gonna set the city on fire that has been given over to destruction

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Matthew 22 7 Matthew 23 36 Matthew 24 34

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Luke 21 20 through 24 He's like Joshua the conqueror He's going through the towns and he is

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Devoting to destruction those things that don't belong to God and he is bringing into the kingdom those that do and like Joshua He sends out his armies he sends out his disciples and he sends them out into Judah's highways and byways

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Bringing into the land and into the kingdom the worshipers. The king has called Matthew 22 1 through 14

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He's the true and better Joshua and then as he dies He's the true and better fulfillment of the law and then as he ascends he's the true and better King the one who sits down and Heaven's throne room the

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Lord of Glory who will do what no one else could do He will lead his people not just into Canaan But he will lead them to all the nations to Judea to Jim to Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the world

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By his Holy Spirit. He's leading the church and he has been leading the church for the last 2 ,000 years into the world

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The world that Adam was supposed to claim the one that Noah was commanded to accomplish the one like Israel the one that Israel never could this shows us that in Christ in his redemption and the forgiveness of sins and the death and the burial and the resurrection and the reversal of the curse and in the new creation nature that he's given us and in our

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Regeneration and indwelling of the Holy Spirit that God has partnered with Christ and Christ has brought us in union with him

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So that now you and I through the gospel are partnered back with God How Adam failed in his partnership

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Jesus succeeded now you and I the church are partnered with God to accomplish his plan to spread his dominion to the nations

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That's what Jesus says in Matthew 28 All authority in heaven and earth now belong to me now therefore go

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Jesus fulfilled the law Perfectly and Because of that he could bring us in union with him and as he ascended to heaven

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He would take us spiritually with him so that now in Christ we are partnered with God and we are partnered in the mission of God and this mission

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Because of Christ God Almighty Will be perfectly victorious in filling the world with worshipers

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How do we see this truth revealed in the era of the Kings? well Consider what God said to the first of his anointed

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Kings David who was the first king and arguably the best king in The covenant

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God made with David God does not promise him that that David will accomplish God's plans. He can't

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He's too sinful He doesn't even allow the warrior king to build him a temple because of his blood -stained hands in first Chronicles 22 8

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This is the best King He doesn't promise that his son Solomon who at the end of his life bowed his knee to countless idols is gonna do anything to Advance God's kingdom the way that God designed it first Kings 11 for he promised that an enduring house he promised that an enduring house would be built for David and That a perfect king would come out of that house and would extend that line forever

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That's Luke 1 32 to 33 the God -man born in the city of David Luke 2 11 who would take up the mantle of God's mission to bring his rule and dominion to the earth second

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Samuel 7 12 through 13 and 16 in no way Was God gonna ever accomplish this through one of us?

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This Jesus is the one that God set aside to have an eternal reign and all of us

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Every one of us all of our failure broken to sin and misery are all pointing to the fact that we need him

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Jesus Will be the one who obeys the covenant stipulations of Yahweh and as Solomon prayed

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He would be the one to bless all the peoples on earth first Kings 8 6 8 8 16 2nd

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Chronicles 6 32 to 33 Solomon certainly didn't do that. He was praying for Jesus Jesus Jesus is the one who delivered

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Hezekiah from Assyria and who threw the Nations into panic and confusion so that they were the ones who killed themselves in the valley outside of Jerusalem It was

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Jesus who delivered him 2nd Kings 19 15 through 19. He's the one who unlike the kings of Judah will not lead his people into idolatry

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He will not fail in his righteousness But he will establish and uphold justice and righteousness all across the face of the earth

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Isaiah 9 7 Jesus the perfect King Unlike Hezekiah will not falter after great successes and be consumed with pride nor will his kingdom face the downfall seen by Judah at the hands of Babylon instead his reign will bring about the peace and the

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Prosperity that God promised David a peace that extends not just over Judah, but over the entire earth fill

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Fulfilling the true extent of the Abrahamic Covenant from Genesis 22 18 Jesus is kingship and his kingdom

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Will contrast starkly with the failures of the kings of Israel and Judah where they brought division

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He's gonna bring unity where they led the nation to sin He leads to people into holiness where their kingdom ended his as eternal and will never end in this

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Jesus Christ embodies the true and better King that God had promised all along to come from the line of David a king whose kingdom would be established forever just like for Samuel 7 says in his first coming

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Jesus inaugurated this kingdom not with might and warfare and weapons and swords

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But through humility of a servant death on a cross to save his people from their sins

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Philippians 2 6 through 8 and in his resurrection He demonstrated his power over death and his authority

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Over heaven and earth and a foretaste of the kingdom to come would come in his rule in his reign

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Now as our Ascended Lord is at the throne of God He is gathering a people from every tribe and every tongue and every nation he is building his church as the new

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Israel as the true Israel a Global assembly of worshipers who who obey his commandments and worship him over every square inch of the earth

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It's not full yet, but it's coming. He's doing it He's been doing it ever since the day that he ascended into heaven and as we live today

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We are caught in the already but the not yet reality of his kingdom advance

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Through Christ work on the cross and his resurrection We are being made citizens of this kingdom and we are called to live under his lordship and extend his rule by making disciples of all the nations

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You and I are a part of that today For 2 ,000 years. He's been successful For 2 ,000 more if the

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Lord should tarry that long he will continue to be successful We await the day when he will return after he has made all

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Things new after he has brought his kingdom all across the face of the earth now

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I'm not saying that he's gonna bring us into a state of perfection I'm not saying that I'm saying that he will bring his kingdom until every one of his enemies have been put under his feet and he will bring his kingdom on earth until the entire world is

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Filled with worshippers just like God promised Adam Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah and all of it

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I'm saying that he will do this before he returns because that's what first Corinthians 15 says, but we're getting ahead of ourself

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We'll talk about that in the weeks ahead with all of that with all of the robust failure and the flickering glimpses of godliness that we see in the era of Israel the true and better King Jesus shines through The adultery of David the disloyalty of Solomon the foolishness of Rehoboam the pride of Josiah the the pride of Hezekiah the disgusting practices of Manasseh Ammon and Jehoiakim and the failure of their reign to to Materialize into anything at all that goes towards your promises

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God They make us yearn for your perfect reign in Christ their mistakes highlight the coming

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Success of the king their temporal kingdom point to the eternal kingdom and their inability to bring about what you promised

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Makes us long for the only one who can the only one who can fulfill every promise the only one who every knee will bow to The only one who every knee or every tongue will confess to Jesus Christ We see the shadow of his victory in the story of Israel We see the shadow of his coming success in the failure of Judah in Jesus Christ We don't know the shadow anymore.

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We know the substance as Postmillennialism teaches through this true and better King and God is going to partner with his people again

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Made new in Christ to fill the world with worshipers Bringing his rule and his reign and his dominion to every corner of the earth not through the sword not through human might but through the preaching of the gospel through the transformative power of the

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Holy Spirit So our hope for the future is not in our ingenuity not in our might not in our weapons our hope for the future brothers and sisters and our work in the present brothers and sisters and our

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Understanding of the past are all anchored in him He is the capstone of our faith

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Ephesians 220 and in the narrative of redemption We find our place not as the hero of the story but as the grateful recipients of Jesus's love and mercy and grace and You and I are called into the faithful service of his kingdom as we await his glorious return

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Conclusion The story of God's plan to fill the earth with worshipers is a sweeping narrative from general from Genesis to Revelation You and I witness

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God's steadfast commitment to those promises throughout the ages partnering with very flawed and very broken human people

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Who fall short? Who yet in his boundless grace God remains faithful? forever and he uses such unfaithful creatures as us to paint a more picture of more vivid picture of his goodness kindness and his glory that he showed to us most perfectly in Jesus Christ and The era of the

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Exodus and the conquest and the judges and the Kings and in the whole Old Testament We see the pattern unfold with striking clarity

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God's people's rebellion and their leader shortcoming expose our need for a true and a better King One who would succeed where all others failed and in the fullness of time

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God sent forth his son The embodiment of true Israel the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant and the eternal

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King whose reign knows no end Through his obedience through his sacrificial death through his glorious resurrection from the dead

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Christ inaugurated a kingdom that was foretold by the prophets and that will never end and He is gathering to himself a redeemed people from every nation tribe and tongue

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And he is forming a nation of people a holy nation a priesthood a global assembly of worshippers

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Who will live under his lordship from now? forever more as We await his return as we await the consummation of this kingdom when

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Christ returns to judge the living and the dead and where he Comes to renew all things Brothers and sisters find your place today in that kingdom.

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Don't sit on the sidelines. Don't wait to do anything Don't don't play passive Don't play coy find your place in his kingdom today

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Not as the heroes because you're not you're a failure just like me find your place as a grateful recipient of his grace

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Our calling is to be faithful slaves and servants one day our Kings gonna return

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He's gonna look at all that we done and he's gonna say well done good and faithful servant He's gonna say depart from me. I never knew you He's gonna say you did with what

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I gave you very much go in and do this or he's gonna say you buried your talent In the sand and now you go into shame our calling as slaves is to faithfully serve our

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King to extend his rule and his dominion to the ends of the earth through the proclamation of the gospel through the transformative power of the

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Holy Spirit God's promises stand sure brothers and sisters and his purposes will prevail

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Every knee will bell every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of the glory of God. Do you believe that?

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