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The Kingdom of the Messiah and the Reading of Acts 17

We're going to get things going now with the first presenter. He's had a big impact on my life as well, as far as my spiritual growth and actually ministering to me and pulling me out of the occult I was in.

He's been married for over 16 years to his beautiful wife, Candy. And he wanted to make sure I said that. They have three wonderful, wonderful children. And one kind of sub-heart kid, Sage. Where's Sage?

There's Sage, yeah. I threw that one in there for Sage. Stellar actually gave me money to say that one. But so I'm talking about my pastor, Jeff Durbin. He's one of the hosts of Apologia Radio. He's the founding, one of the founding pastors here of Apologia Church.

It started as Apologia Christian Ministries, an apologetic outreach to the cults. And he's still going out. I think it's been over 20 years he's been going to the Mormon temple out here in Mesa, Arizona.

And loves to meet new people and does not waver. That's one thing I'll tell you about him. It doesn't matter how big you are. I found that out at the abortion meal when we went out one time. Somebody came and Jeff didn't move.

That's the last I saw of Jeff. I came back, he was still standing. So pretty tough guy. But again, you guys, please give me a warm, give Jeff a warm welcome as we bring him up. Mr. Jeff Durbin.

The Message of the Kingdom in Acts and the Early Church

Welcome. You guys excited? Me too. Thank you guys. Some of you guys traveled a long distance to get here. And we just feel blessed to have you guys. So we're grateful. And thankful to God to be able to do this conference and talk about some important things.

And so Joel actually gave me my assignment. And when Joel gives me my assignment, I say, OK. All right, I'll do that. And I'm to speak to you today about the kingdom of the Messiah and the law of God.

And I was told to do it in an hour. Which if you know me and my sins in this area, it's easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for Jeff Durbin to preach for one hour. But we're going to try.

If you would, open your Bibles to Acts chapter 17. Acts 17. We'll get into the word of God. I'll read the passage, and then we're going to pray together. Acts chapter 17. I'm reading out of the ESV, starting verse 2.

And Paul went in as was his custom on three Sabbath days. And he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah.

And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous. And taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out into the crowd.

When they could not find him, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, these men who have turned the world upside down have come here. And they are acting, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And the people in the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things. And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. Thus far is the reading of God's word.

Let's pray. Father, I want to pray that you would bless God. This message, this conference, these people, Lord, those that hear the message, I pray, God, that you get me out of the way. I pray, Lord, that the words that are spoken, Lord, would be guarded by you, that you would guard us all from error, God, that you would teach by your spirit, that you would, Lord, illuminate God, that you would open our eyes to your truth, that you would allow the good news of the kingdom to set in our hearts, God, as an anchor, that you would bring boldness, confidence, truth, clarity, Lord, out of us as a people, the people of God, Lord, that you would bring your good news, the good news of Christ as king and salvation in him, the good news of your kingdom, that you would bring that, Lord, into this generation, that it would change hearts and minds and open eyes, that by your spirit, God, you would draw your people out of the world, out of darkness into light, that you, Lord Jesus, would be magnified, glorified, that you'd be exalted to the ends of the earth, that your fame would increase exponentially throughout the world through, God, this little conference and the work you do here.

I pray, God, that you're glorified. I pray that we would get out of the way, that people would forget our names and remember Christ's, and that the good news of the kingdom, the good news that Christ preached, the good news of the apostles, the good news of God would be heralded in clarity once again in this generation, that light would break into darkness.

You would change the world, God, for your glory, God, and by your grace through Christ and Christ alone. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. The message of the kingdom was on the hearts, on the minds, on the lips of the early apostles.

The early Christians had a clear, communicated message. If you look through the book of Acts, you see this constant exaltation of Christ, who is the Messiah, who fulfilled the plan of God. All the prophecies of Messiah fulfilled in Christ.

Jesus has come, not as a novelty, but part of the plan of God. He's actually arrived. The Messiah has come. He is raised, seated at the Father's right hand, putting all his enemies under his feet. The book of Acts is heralding the message that was anticipated.

The Messiah was coming to bring salvation, not just to Jews, but to Gentiles also. Salvation was coming now. Jesus was actually reigning now. The good news of salvation, the good news of forgiveness, Jesus is the king.

The early Christians knew it. And in the book of Acts, you see this constant message that's consistent about Jesus and salvation in him and in him alone. The call comes out, God has raised up this Messiah.

Repent and believe the gospel. Come to him for salvation in him and him alone. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby you must be saved.

And that message, that message was in conflict with the leadership of the day. Jesus was heralded as the chief ruler, the one that everyone had to give an account to. So much so that when the apostles are abused and they're beaten, and they say, we told you not to preach in this name again.

And they say, we must obey God rather than men. And when they were flogged and when they were beaten, before the authorities, they actually left the council rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer shame for the name.

They knew what it meant to have Jesus as finally arrived, the ascended king seated bringing salvation. They understood. Jews receiving salvation to the Jew first, also to the Greek. Gentiles receiving the gospel.

The different people brought into one family of God by faith, children of Abraham by faith. Salvation now has arrived. And amazingly, the world understood the message in a way that's not as clear in our generation.

Our generation has popularized the me gospel. It's about me. It's about every day of Friday. You know, it's about what I get from Jesus. That's why I come to Jesus. You'll be happy, healthy, wealthy, get a new car.

It's about maybe even just heaven one day. The good news that we preach to the world today is primarily centered upon me not going to hell and being in heaven one day. But the message of the gospel is the message not just about my story, but it's the message of his story that I get added to.

It's the message of salvation in him and in him alone. It's the message of reconciliation with God today. It's the message of the outpouring of God's spirit that brings dead sinners to life where the law of God was once outside of the people of God.

It is now internalized within us. The good news of salvation, the world understood what they were saying. The early Christians were not in danger with Rome because they worshiped another God. Rome doesn't care what you worship.

They're pagans. They're cool with it. They're really good with it. You can worship whatever you like. The early Christians were in trouble with Rome because they would not say Caesar, Kyrios. Caesar was not the ultimate authority.

Jesus was the king. He was the chief ruler. They understood it. This is what put the early Christians in conflict with the state then. And interestingly, the charge being brought against Christians, I wonder if it is a charge that can be brought against us today in our church context where the world hears our message and they understand it in such a way that they actually say, hey, these Christians are saying there's another supreme ruler, that there's another who has the ultimate authority over all things.

The early Christians are being accused of saying there's another king, Jesus. And the message of the gospel of the kingdom does not just directly affect me, but it has implications that spread out through all nations throughout the whole world.

This story of salvation is God's story of salvation. It's a story that he's told from the very beginning. And that's what we're gonna talk about today. So let's lay down some foundations. Interestingly, when the apostle Paul in his systematic explanation of the good news lays out the gospel, he takes pains to make sure you understand that this is not a novelty.

In Romans chapter three, when he talks about no one being justified by the law of God, nobody being justified by the law of God, no flesh being justified by it, he talks about the but now. Now God has actually given to us the salvation.

And he says it was promised beforehand in the prophets, in the holy scriptures. This was the story, they understood it. The apostle Paul in Acts chapter nine, as soon as he's knocked off his high horse, as soon as he comes to Christ, he takes a beeline in Acts chapter nine to Damascus.

And what he does is he goes into the synagogues proving that Jesus is the Messiah. And how did he do it? He used the Old Testament scriptures. They knew the story. And this gets us to a really important point that I think as Christians we have to embrace, we have to take in and actually cherish this truth more so than I think we do.

We live in a world today where our children are being raised in a context, many of them, maybe not many in this room, but in public school system, they're being told that life works like this. You are the end product of a long evolutionary process that did not have you in mind.

We are the result of time and chance acting on matter. Our ancestors used to be fish. And from that point, we've moved through an ungoverned process in a universe that does not care about us to where we're at today.

We are all meat bone protoplasm bobbing on the surface of the cosmos. There is no God above us, only sky, as Douglas Wilson said in his debate with Hitchens. Our culture is being taught, our children are being taught that they are meaningless protoplasm in a universe that does not care about them.

And that all that exists is matter, time and chance acting on matter. And the universe is ultimately chaos, not governed, not purposed. And so what are we taught today? That there's no anticipation, that there's a climax to history, that it has a purpose to it, and that it's actually going somewhere according to plan.

But as Christians, we know the real story, amen? Amen? That's not the truth. That's not reality. Here's the reality, and this is one of the first foundations you need to understand about the kingdom of God, about the good news of the kingdom, is that is this, God is sovereign.

There is no maverick molecule in the universe. God controls all things. He wields the stars to tell the world about his son, the king, entering the world. God is absolutely sovereign over every single detail.

He decrees the ends from the beginning. History is not chaos, time and chance acting on matter. History is not like the pagans think, working in cycles. History is on a line that is carried along by God, the sovereign God who created all things.

That's the real story. And God has actually condescended. He's actually spoken to us. God loves sinners so much. He loves the rebel so much that he enters into his own creation of the rebels, and he tells them about himself.

And he doesn't just reveal things about himself. He tells them what his plan is for redemption. He tells them what he's like. We've got the story, a God who talks to us. We have his word, and he tells us his plan.

God is sovereign. A couple of verses, although I anticipate in this room we're probably some hardcore pipe-hitting Calvinists. Amen, right? So this is just for fun, all right? This is just like, yay, I know that verse.

Daniel chapter four, verse 35. Here's the verse. All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand and say to him, what have you done?

God is sovereign in heaven and on earth. Let me say it again, because sometimes we don't take in the truths of scripture and think about their implications, and I hope to show a little bit about that today.

God is sovereign in the heavens above, listen closely, and, and, and among the inhabitants of the earth. Let me just say this as a side. Really briefly, people have said to me, well, how can you be a post-millennialist and believe in the victory of Jesus within history when you see the world the way that it is?

And my answer is this. I don't interpret the Bible through the culture or the circumstances. God has told us what history is like, what it's about, and he's laid something down that gives me a lot of assurance.

He says this, I do according to my will. In heaven and on earth, no one can stay God's hand and say, what have you done? God is the sovereign, amen? And there's more, Isaiah 46, 10. Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand and I will accomplish, listen, all of my purpose.

God has his plan of redemption to bring about the glory of his Messiah through the redemption of sinful people. That is his purpose. He is predestined to people for salvation in Jesus Christ. That is his purpose.

And God says that his counsel shall stand and I will accomplish all of my purpose. Listen closely to this. Nobody can thwart God's purposes. It's interesting, two men heavily influenced my thinking, pointing me to scripture.

Dr. James White, one of my heroes of the faith, someone I consider a friend, I love the man. He's heavily impacted my thinking. Number one, Dr. White impacted my thinking in the era of the sovereignty of God.

He made me a hardcore pipetting Calvinist. So thank you, Dr. White, okay? Number two, Dr. Greg Bonson heavily influenced my thinking about what God promised that the Messiah was gonna do in history in rescuing the nations.

Number one, watch this. The sovereignty of God tells me that God has the power to save the world and the scriptures show us that God says he's actually going to do it. We have that promise. Number three, why should the nation say in Psalm 115, two through three, why should the nation say, where is their God?

Our God is in the heavens. He does all that he pleases. Now, interestingly, if you know Psalm 115, it's really interesting. It's kind of a mocking moment. The nations are actually saying, watch this, they're saying this to God.

Where's your God? Where's your God? Where is he? And you could take that in a modern context. You could say something like this. Where's your God with bone cancer for children? Where's your God in all the tragedies and the brokenness in the world?

Where's your God with economic collapse? Where's your God with starving children? Where's your God? And the answer from scripture, amazingly, is the answer that you want. It seems simplistic. It almost seems kind of cavalier, doesn't it?

Our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. It seems a bit cavalier, right? Kind of a jab. But the truth is, when you have the God who is infinitely good and holy and just, the judge of all the earth who always does right, that's the only answer you want to that question.

Where now is their God? Here's my answer. Our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. God is sovereign. Last verse, Ephesians 1, 11. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.

God works all things after the counsel of his will. All things, all things. You know what it means in the Greek? All things, all things. Everything he works after the counsel of his will. Favorite verse of Christians.

I hope you know it. It's in your heart, Romans 8, 28. God causes what? All things, come on now. God causes all things to work together for good. To those who love God, those who are called according to his purpose, according to his purpose.

Here's the first foundation we need to grasp about the kingdom of God in history. It must be laid down. It has to be underneath us. We've got to be standing on this. Our God does whatever he pleases. He is the sovereign.

He wields the stars and every molecule. Everything is in his hands to bring about his glory and his purposes. Now, when we think about what God has done in revealing himself to us in his plan, we need to think about what the scriptures actually say.

It's amazing to me. I wasn't raised in a Christian home and a Christian context, and so it really was a stunning thing for me. When I first heard the gospel, I got to see, I got a little book from D. James Kennedy, a little book, and it was just all the verses in the Old Testament.

Not all the verses, but a lot of the verses in the Old Testament where God had told us the specifics of Jesus' coming. It's really compelling to me. I find it awing when I find an atheist saying, you don't have any evidence for God.

Not only is there just evidence all around him, and we know he's suppressing the truth of God, but when you look at the messianic prophecies of Jesus, it is earth-shattering. It gives you goosebumps.

It changes your whole life. The Old Testament, God told us every detail about the Messiah necessary to know him as Savior and as Lord. Everything about him, who he is, what he was gonna accomplish, why he was coming, when he was actually coming.

These are prophecies laid down long before Jesus actually touches the earth. It's absolutely fascinating. I tell the story oftentimes about a young Jewish girl whose parents were immigrants I was ministering to in a hospital.

She came to me one day, she said, hey, I don't wanna talk about Jesus with you, I'm a Jew. And so I said, okay, well, let's sit down and let's talk about your case. And she was a patient of mine. And so after a little bit of discussion, she says to me, she said, oh, okay, tell me about Jesus.

I said, yes, okay, all right. Okay, so I said, here's what I'll do for you, okay? I wanna show you that Jesus is in fact Mashiach, that he's the Messiah, and I'm gonna do it without appealing to the New Testament at all.

I just wanna show you that Jesus is in fact the Messiah using only the Old Testament scriptures that you and I both agree to, the Torah, the Tanakh, and everything else. And she says, I don't think you're gonna be able to do that, but give it a shot.

So two weeks, I'm ministering to this young Jewish girl for two weeks. And after about two weeks of just getting into Isaiah and to Daniel and to Micah and all the pastors and the Psalms and the Old Testament and Moses, amazingly, this young Jewish girl who was the daughter of immigrants from Israel, parents were in the Israeli army, she calls her mom on the phone and she says, mom, I think I'm believing in Jesus.

And her mom says to her, no, no, no, no, we don't do that, we don't believe in Jesus, we're Jews, shalom. And she says, well, mom, I'm only looking at the scriptures that we believe in and it's pointing right to him.

Is there any good reason to believe that Jesus is not the Messiah? And her mom was quiet, she told me on the phone, 30 seconds of silence, awkward silence. And finally, she got annoyed by that and she said to her mom, mom, mom, is there any reason to believe that Jesus is not the Messiah?

What is it? Is there any reason? And her mom said, no. And see, that's the story. The clarity with which God communicated Jesus coming is something that cannot be avoided. But I wanna say something very, very important that needs to be hung onto right now.

God did not simply promise us a person who was coming to bring salvation to sinners, he promised us a king who was gonna bring salvation to the ends of the earth. The Messiah was not just about bringing private salvation to individual sinners.

The Messiah was coming to bring redemption to the ends of the earth, to destroy all the works of the devil and to destroy death. The Messiah was coming to do what we could not do in ourselves. It's a whole story of salvation.

And I want to give you a few of those themes. The promises, number one, and most of you guys know these things, but you need to hang onto them. The promise to Abraham was that he would have descendants as numerous as the stars, Genesis 15, five.

Genesis 22, 17. Genesis 26, four. Abraham will have descendants as numerous as the stars. And that is really interesting to me. It's really, I think, amazing. If you ever go out to, like, say, a cruise ship, maybe one day we'll have GGC 16 on a cruise ship.

What do you guys think about that? That sounds good to me, I like that. For the conference, for the conference, okay? But if you ever went on a cruise ship and you go out into the ocean where there's no more light pollution and you actually look up to the stars, it really is stunning.

It's something we miss a lot living in a city and with all the light pollution. You don't get to see, really, the glory of God in the way that I wish we could see all the time. The stars in the heavens, you can't even begin to calculate them.

And amazingly, if we think about Abraham's day, probably very little light pollution. And God tells Abraham, look up, that's how your descendants are gonna be, as numerous as the stars. And what is that supposed to speak to us?

Of failure in history? A few stars? A lot of stars? Or stars that you can't even begin to imagine? So many stars, it becomes difficult to imagine, how can I begin to calculate this number? It is such a massive amount of descendants, that's supposed to shout at Abraham, victory.

Descendants as numerous as the stars. Next point, Shiloh, Genesis 49 .10. This is very important, I want you to see it. Genesis 49 .10, Old Testament, first book of the Bible. Genesis 49 .10, go ahead and get there.

Interestingly, you guys know the passage where Jesus confronts the religious leadership of his day. He says to them, if you believed Moses, you would believe me because he, what? Wrote about me. And so we look in the writings of Moses, the first five books, we can see Jesus in those books.

But Genesis 49 .10 is a very important passage, speaking about the kingdom and the Messiah. Genesis 49 .10, the scepter should not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet until tribute comes to him.

Listen closely to this. And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Mark that down. The promise according to scripture, not only is that Abraham would have descendants as numerous as the stars, but that this Shiloh who would come would actually have the obedience of the peoples.

That was part of the promise. That was the expectation. Interestingly, as a theme you wanna see in the background, 1 Samuel 8 and 11, the people of Israel have God as their king. They have God as their king.

He's revealed himself to them. He's given them graciously his law. He's revealed to them his character. His law was given as a gift to his people. It was supposed to be their wisdom and the sight of the peoples.

And God is their God, their king. And the people of Israel see the surrounding nations, and interestingly, they fall into a trap. 1 Samuel 8, they want a king like the other nations. And Samuel perceives that as sinful.

And God essentially agrees with them and says that it is sinful that he's their king. And he says, well, I'll give him a king. And when God gave his people a king, an earthly king over them, in that way, it was a curse upon them.

He warned them, you're gonna have these consequences. You're gonna take your kids to war. All this is gonna happen to you. So God giving the people of Israel, his people, a king, was actually a curse, a punishment upon them.

Because what does he say? He says, I'm their king. I'm their king. Think about that as a theme for a moment. God promised that he was gonna send a Messiah who would be the king over his people forever.

And yet God tells his people, I'm your king. Think about that. Next point, and there's so many, I can't even begin to scratch the surface, but let's take a smattering of verses here. I think it's important.

Psalm chapter two, Psalm chapter two. Interesting passage you need to grab hold of. I wanna just show you a few points here out of this passage. Psalm 2, four, he says, he who sits in the heavens laughs.

The Lord holds them in derision. And speaking about those who come against the Lord and against his anointed. Then he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify them in his fury, saying, as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.

I will tell of the decree the Lord said to me. Listen closely. You are my son. Today I have begotten you. Watch what the father says to the son here. It's compelling. Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Now, therefore, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the son, obey the son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way. For his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. Brothers and sisters, hang on to this very, very tight.

The father says to the son, ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance. And then God turns to the kings of the earth and he says to them, be wise, obey the son, or you'll perish. The father is saying to the son, ask of me, I'll make the nations your inheritance.

Now watch this. Dr. Bonson used to say when speaking on this passage, I think it was a powerful point to make. He said, do you think that God, the Lord Jesus, forgot to ask the father? Do you think Jesus forgot to ask?

The father says, ask of me, I'll give him to you. We know that Jesus, when he ascended in Matthew 28, 18 through 20, said this, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, therefore go, make disciples of what, guys?

All nations. We know that Jesus did not forget to ask. And a thing you want to grab hold of in Psalm 2 is the father promises the son the nations for his inheritance and he warns the kings of the earth to obey the son.

Are we to anticipate with Jesus as the king, with the nations as his inheritance, are we to anticipate that the kings of the earth are to obey the son? According to the scriptures, yes. Jesus' authority does not end at the walls of the church.

Jesus' authority does not end between my ears. And in my heart, his authority is over all. The father said, the nations are yours and he warns the kings to obey the son. Psalm 22, amazing passage, flipped there quickly and I picked a couple passages.

And by the way, really important here, I am in no way exhausting this and so you have to bear with me. I'm giving you just a smattering of verses here. We'd be here for six weeks on all the passages that really just talk about the display of the victory of the Messiah in history.

But here's a smattering of verses that should be somewhat familiar to us. Psalm 22, ready, my God, my God, what? Why have you forsaken me? The Jews, this is so important to me just to get across. They should have known better, amen?

They're at the foot of the cross and Jesus says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Amazingly, they knew the hymn. They knew the song. It's like if I say to you, amazing grace, how sweet the sound that, what?

You got it, there you go. We're singing the song, so you just finished the verse for me. The Jews knew this song. They knew their text of scripture and at the foot of the cross, they should have heard the Messiah saying, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

They should have finished singing the song and they would have been singing about Jesus whose hands and feet were pierced, whose heart was like wax melted within him, who was surrounded by dogs who were wagging their heads, who were taking his garments and casting lots for them, whose bones were out of joint, but amazingly, in this clear passage about the passion of the Messiah, look closely, sometimes we miss it.

In the passage of the passion of the Messiah, after the Messiah's clear death, laid in the dust of death, look what happens in verse 22. I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation, I will praise you.

You who fear the Lord, praise him. All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him and stand in awe of him. All you offspring of Israel, for he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard when he cried to him.

Now look closely, verse 27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. And all the families of the nations shall worship before you, for kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations.

Brothers and sisters, victory. Brothers and sisters, inheritance. That's what the scriptures are shouting to us. Again, let's move into Psalms a little bit more together. Psalm 72, move forward, Psalm 72, verse five.

May they fear you while the sun endures and as long as the moon throughout all generations, may he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth. Brothers and sisters, that gets everything wet.

Do we have any question about how far reaching Jesus' dominion is? The Bible talks about his reign and his dominion as getting everything wet. Psalm 72, again, in his days, verse seven, may the righteous flourish and peace abound till the moon be no more.

May he have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. May desert tribes bow down before him and his enemies lick the dust. May the kings of Tarshish and the coastlands render him tributes.

May the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts. May all kings fall down before him. Listen closely, listen closely. All nations serve him. Brothers and sisters, where did we ever get the idea that Jesus fails in history?

All the families of the earth, all the nations, he has dominion, water getting everything wet, descendants as numerous as the stars. To him is gonna be the obedience of the nations. And you can't tell me that believing the opposite has no effect on our witness as a church in this world.

It does, it does. Moving forward, powerful passage. Many of you guys know it, I hope you do. Psalm 110 .1, Psalm 110 .1, most of you don't even really need to read it. And here's possibly why. This passage was a favorite passage of the apostles and that should basically have us grab hold of something.

Brothers and sisters, listen closely. Psalm 110 .1 was a favorite passage of the apostles. Why is it the apostles are quoting this passage so much? One of the most quoted passage from the Old Testament into the New Testament.

The apostles loved this verse and here's why. This verse codified what the entire Old Testament talked about when it came to the Messiah. Psalm 110 .1, the Lord said unto my Lord, what? Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.

And we have to ask the question, did Jesus ascend? Yes or no? Is Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father? Yes or no? The apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 puts Jesus at the right hand of the Father, seated on his throne and the apostle Paul has him currently reigning, saying that he is putting all his enemies under his feet.

The last enemy is death. And that's when Jesus delivers the kingdom over to the Father. Brothers and sisters, again I ask you, where did we ever get the idea that Jesus does not win all the nations? Psalm 110 .1, now the prophets and I'm gonna go quickly here.

I'm gonna give you some verses. It's my job today, my duty today to lay down some foundational things for you guys. Isaiah chapter two, grab hold of that passage, go back to it later. The promise is that in the last days, God would have his mountain raised up above all the mountains, listen closely, and listen, all the nations would stream to it.