Two Roads Two Destinies 02 Ireland st.chapel — Worth Ellis

2 Peter 1,. 2 Peter 1, the reading commences with a 10th verse,. 2 Peter 1,. Father, we thank you again for your Word, and remember that only the Spirit of God can teach us to check ourselves upon him.

Peace, Lord, through thy Word. Lord Jesus, amen. Therefore, though rather present, be of diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things ye shall never fall, for so an infant shall be ministered unto you abundantly unto the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Therefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though you know them, and be established in the present truth. Be I think it meet or necessary, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, knowing that shortly I must put off this, my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.

Moreover, I will endeavor that we may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunning and devised praises, we were made known unto you the power and cunning of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were our witnesses of his majesty.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, and there came such a voice to him from the angel of glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mountain.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy, for the prophetic word made more sure, wherein too you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God's faith, as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The Bible as God’s Inspired Revelation

Now, tonight, with the help of God, we would like to continue the subject we began this morning in our chart, seeking to lay a good solid foundation for all of these areas of prophecy before you. And this foundation stems from the fact that, in the Bible, we have a revelation from God inspired by the Spirit of God.

With tremendous importance, we noticed this morning, of the doctrine of inspiration where the Bible is concerned. In that God has been pleased to give to us a revelation of himself, and in that revelation he has told us of his love for us, of his provisions for our salvation through the death and resurrection of Christ, and that instrument used by God in every stage of the Christian life in salvation and in regeneration, in Christian growth and the development of our Christian character, at every stage of the Christian life, a medium without due is the Word of God.

The tremendous value of the doctrine of inspiration is that it secures for us an accurate transporting of the knowledge of God to us in a manner in which we can't rely absolutely in error and fallible, conscribed Word of God.

We made it very clear this morning that we believe in the verbal inspiration of the Bible in the very words of God that are inspired by the Spirit of God. This thought was considered by James this morning when he read in 2 Timothy 3 -16 that God's scripture is God-breathed, and it is possible for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the name of God may be perfected, completely furnished unto every good work.

We saw this morning that the Bible teaches that the life that is inherent in the scriptures will never forget that this book has life in it. A simple way to prove that is, in 1 Peter we are told that we are born again.

Interrupted, we'll see, by the Word of God that lives and abides forever, and it is very simple to see that if the book did not have life, it could not impart life in some tremendously mysterious way.

And, remember what Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter 3, that as the wind bloweth with it, so ever it lifteth. You hear the sound there, Ron? You cannot tell to whom the wind comes or where it goes, so it's everyone that is born of the Spirit of God.

And, in some mysterious way beyond human comprehension, this literal, living, written Word of God, when received into one's heart, prepared by the convincing medicine of the Spirit of God, regenerates, makes the man or woman a brand new creature.

We are born again by interrupted receive of the Word of God that lives and abides forever. This book actually, literally, has life in it. It is a life-giving Word, and the reason it is a life-giving Word is because all Scripture is God-breathed.

We suggested, but perhaps you have an illustration of this, in Genesis 2, where God created man of the flesh with the earth, God breathed in the man's flesh with the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

That Spirit of God was the first one mentioned in creation, actively working in Genesis 1 and in verse 2. Now, we read that the Spirit of God moves upon the face of the world, and that word spirit is the Hebrew word from which comes the word breath, the word breath and wind, and so on.

Oftentimes, it's used interchangeably, and so I believe that the Word of God teaches this. The Bible has in it inherent life. It is a life-giving Word because it gets life from the very breath of God.

The breath of God is associated with all that God has made. We saw that in a number of places this morning, and we don't want to get bogged down tonight in our review. Suffice it to say that it is our position here at this chapel.

We are unalterably committed to the doctrine of the absolute inspiration of the Spirit, that the Bible is in error, divinely inspired that it is without error, and is correctly interpreted by the aid of the Holy Spirit, and also without any contradiction.

All Scripture is God-breathed. It has life in it, and it has the power to impart life throughout it. This is so vitally important, and it reminds me of the people who were here this morning. In Violin Ephesians 2 of 8, the Bible says, by grace, are you saved through faith that not even thousands will get to God, but thousands in Romans 10 .17 shall again faith shall come herein, and herein comes by the Word of God.

The faith that enabled you to believe and receive Jesus Christ in a way that transformed your life and saved you, and makes you a new teacher in Christ, comes through the hearing of the Word of God. In some wonderful, tremendously wonderful way, the hearing of the Word of God, owned and blessed by the Spirit of God, creates faith in the heart, in the life, in the soul, in the intellect, in the entire being of a sinner, enabling him to accept Jesus Christ, and then he does.

He becomes a new teacher in Christ. We saw also, if you remember, in 1 Peter 1 verses 23 to 25, that all Scripture is not only God-breathed, but it is eternal and it is everlasting. That interesting passage reminded us this morning that God is compassing all of man's accomplishments, achievements, all of his glory, and all that he has to boast in with the eternal character and the qualities of the likeness of the Word of God, put into these interesting words.

In 1 Peter 1 verses 23 to 25, God says that all humanity is like grass, and all of the glory of man is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, the flowers fall away, but the Word of the Lord endures forever.

This is the Word which, by the gospel, is preached unto you. Jesus himself said, you remember, in the gospel, that heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away. Precious Holy Bible treasure, rich and rare, Word of God eternal, beyond compare.

This is that blessed heritage that God has given to us. Our firm foundation, you saints of the Lord, is made through your faith in his excellent Word. What more can he say than to you he has said, to you who to Jesus for refuge have fled?

And, thank God, he has said it in the Bible. And the Bible is a bounden star by the Holy Spirit of God, dependable, trustworthy, and when heaven and earth have passed away, the Word of God will still stand firm and true.

So, you see the value of having your extraordinary salvation based upon the authoritative scripture and not upon subjective experience. Not upon what you feel, but upon what God says. Now, in this section here tonight, I want you to notice with me that not only is all the Word of God brief by the Spirit of God getting its authority, not only is it eternal, but here we learn that it is not the opinions of men but that it comes from God.

Now, this is vitally important. For those who are opposed to the doctrine of inerrancy in the scriptures, and who then accept the doctrine of desperation, try and tell us that men go according to the way they felt.

They think they detect some differences between what various writers wrote in this standard course. Perhaps, for example, they have not been Spirit taught, or the Word of God has not been rightly divided, and many say, well, this man wrote and he gave us his opinion, and this man wrote and he gave us his opinion.

But, also notice what we have read here in verses 30 and 31 of 2 Peter chapter 1. Knowing this verse, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. Now, that means that no particular passage of Scripture can be interpreted in the light of all of itself.

It cannot be isolated from the rest of the Word of God. Now, the reason for that is given in the following verse. Quote, "...prophecy came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God spoke, as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.".

Now, let me give you the literal rendering of that verse, and then the New International Version, and the literal message Greek text, "...not by will of men did every prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spoke.".

So, we see the verb move translated by two words, borne on. Now, the New International Version says, "...for prophecy never had its origin in the will of men, but men spoke to God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.".

Men who are referred to here as holy men, the word means sanctified or set apart under a specific purpose or purpose. Here, the word is used in relation to God's mouthpieces, and those who recorded what the Lord said.

So, we see the exegesis of the transparency of the knowledge of God coming down to us is seen here in that while men wrote, they wrote under the control of the Holy Spirit of God. Now, remember this again, that literal rendering, "...not by will of men did every prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spoke.".

The Holy Spirit’s Control of the Biblical Writers

Now, in the Bible I have noted, and this is a fascinating thing and I have enjoyed it since I discovered it, that the Bible is its own character type. Not only its passages, but also of the meaning of words, and when I learned that this text had been revised and the word moved here had been changed to go on, I looked for it in other places in the Bible.

And, thanks to Mr. Calvin E. Brown, my favorite source of information regarding Greek words in the New Testament, I discovered that the word is used in the 27th chapter of the book of the Acts in connection with that ship upon which Paul sailed.

You remember it said when they moved, and the everything was stable and the south wind blew softly, and shortly after they had moved from their anchor and put out the sea, a north east arose. And, he did, because that the ship could not stand up to the wind, so they straightened themselves, and I take it to mean they simply took the sails down, so they let the merge with the wind and the sea, and it says the ship when they straightened themselves and faced in the wind, and so were driven, so were driven.

And, the word driven in the Greek is the identical word as the word moved here, or the word born along as the revisions had given it to us. And, here the Holy Spirit of God gives us a beautiful picture of the power under which men rode, who were those who talked of that which God breathed.

Just like a ship, just like a ship with its sails down, just like a ship with its rudder down, with all of its powers of steering down, and was completely at the mercy of the sea and of a raging wind, just like the course in which that ship was driven, and so holy men of God spoke as they were controlled and brought along and moved and moved by the Holy Spirit of God.

So, you see, here we learn that prophecy never came in times of old, according to the opinion of men. It is not what God, it's not what men wanted to write, but what God definitely instructed upon them to write, and controlled them perfectly, thus securing for us an accurate revelation from God.

This is vitally important to the doctrine of inspiration. There's a beautiful scripture in 2 Thessalonians 2 .13, or 1 Thessalonians 2 .13, rather, and I'd like to read it for you. Paul says, in connection with his visit to the Thessalonians, that it's called also, thank you God without whose name, because when you receive the word of God which you heard of us, you receive it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word of God which also has textual worth in you to believe.

And, Paul would think that the Thessalonians, when they heard the word of God, did not receive it as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word of God which is such as the word from those that receive this message was.

Internal Evidences for the Bible’s Authority

Now, tonight we want to move along in our study of the doctrine of the authority of the scriptures, and seek to show in the Bible some more infallible proof as to the authority of the word of God. I would like to say that these infallible evidences fall into two categories, I believe, generally, and since they are internal evidences of the authority of the Bible, the second category would be the external evidences.

There are more, I am sure, but rest for the sake of my outline. I have put the internal evidences of inspiration under three headings. Number one, the Bible claims to be the word of God. The second proof of the authority of the scripture is a continuity of the Bible.

The unity of the scriptures, for instance, is the unerring accuracy of the purposes of the word of God. Internal evidences, of course, are seen in the result that this message produces in the lives of those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Children, all is said and done, and all the theologians have had their say. Will everybody finish their argument so and come? Will the greatest proof of the authority of the word of God is a transformed life?

The Bible’s Claim to Be the Word of God

To give the first proof has power to change lives. Elements known as first of all, but the Bible claims to be the word of God. It is amazing, but true, that there are men in Protestant America today who are theologians of higher ascending and deterrent, who say that the Bible never claims to be the word of God.

But then, the same men say that the Lord Jesus never claimed to be God, nor did he ever claim to be the Son of God. So now, let me give you one fact that you may not have heard about. When you read the Old Testament, you will find no less than 2 ,000 times a statement like this for its equivalent.

Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord, is found no less than 2 ,000 times in the Old Testament. For example, in Genesis 15 -1, the word of the Lord came unto Abram. In Numbers 23 -5, the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth.

In 1 Samuel 15 -10, then came the word of the Lord to Samuel. 2 Samuel 7 -4, the word of the Lord came to Nathan. In 2 Samuel 23 -2, the spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue, and this is David who is doing the speaking.

So, I think it is very, very unusual that men should deny that the Bible came to be the word of God. Then, over and over, men say, the word of the Lord was in my mouth. So, the word of the Lord came to this one and that one, and they spoke because God has spoken to them.

I'll tell you now, dear friends, it is wonderful to know that the Bible God's most distinct and emphatically claimed to be the word of God. What I like about the Bible is what I find in Psalm 119 verse 89, and it's really one of the beautiful things about it, and there the psalmist says, "...forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.".

Now, that's good, and we ought to thank God for that, because you see, in these days, when perfect things are changing, and as we mentioned this morning, that some men in some institutions such as seminaries who, a few years ago, in their doctrinal statements and their brochures, told you, quite frankly, that we believe in the merits of the scriptures, they now have eliminated that statement from their brochures when they send it out to perfect the seminarians, and they're moving away from the scriptures.

But, you see, I like it when it says, "...forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.". So, you see, there's the beauty of that, and it takes a bit. If you are here tonight, and you have not received Jesus Christ as your Savior, if you discover that you are lost, and if God loves you, and he's bound to help you in the flesh, and you hear Jesus say, "...I am the girl, I'll be your sinner, and you shall be saved.".

And, if you receive Jesus Christ, then you went from your Father to the Word of God. He's got to lead us on this long, hard, everlasting life. And, whenever you do that, remember, this word is forever settled in heaven.

I know I am saved today. I have been saved for 31 years in all, and I have never in these 31 years had not the slightest doubt that all my sins are forgiven. Now, tell me why. I made a discovery one time, and that discovery was this, that I was a worthless, no-good sinner on my way to hell.

And, I'll tell you this, my friend, no matter whether you are the same kind of worthless, no-good sinner I was, or whether you're a religious bad God, worthless, no-good sinner, it doesn't matter. The only time that people are God's slaves is worthless, no-good sinners.

The Son of Man comes to people to save us, which is law. This is a struggle you must absolutely know in order to become a Christian. Now, when I discovered that, I learned that Christ died for my sins, and it was a just, worthless, no-good sinner that Jesus died, and that was good news to me.

And, I learned that God loved me, and if I received Jesus Christ as my Savior, God would give me eternal life, and straighten out that mess, and make a man out of me, and change my life. I thought, well, a man would be a fool not to give in on that, and I believed him, and I trusted him.

And when I did receive him, my friend, I set my feet squarely upon the Word of God, and that Word is forever spread in heaven. Now, if you want me to doubt my salvation, don't come to me and ask me about some emotional, protective experience that I've had, and don't ask me whether I've had the second blessing in the law.

I've had the second billionth one, and I'm working on the second three-fifth one, or whatever. I can't count the blessings I've had. Don't try to get me occupied with my feelings. All I know is, be my feelings what they were, Jesus is my Savior still, because that Word is forever settled in heaven.

He that believes on the Son has everlasting life. Believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. And, I believe that that Word is forever settled in heaven. Now, that's why it's important to see the doctrine of inspiration.

The Word of God and the Character of God

Let me give you another wonderful nugget in the Psalms. In 138, Psalm 2, there the psalmist directs his voice to God and says, Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

That's interesting. It's a striking statement by the name of God that's exalted, the name of God that's magnified, it's that name that's written all over all that God has made, that glorious name of God eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And yet, the psalmist, writing by the inspiration of the spirit of God, says, Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Why? Well, if you have been raised in olden times like me, and I'm afraid there's not anybody else here, maybe Fort Warren Parish, and one or two more that were raised in olden times, it's a vanishing breed, I admit that.

But, way back when I was a boy, we used to have men, and I can remember them now, and how many times I've heard people say, that gentleman, that Mr. Cornfield, the man's word is a dumb. Do you know what that meant?

Now, there are some today. I'm going to say this. There are some professing preachers I would discuss with a wooden nickel. There are some that are so crooked, you have to screw them in the ground with a crook screw when they die.

Demons will never be able to get them in a straight box. But, I believe this. There are some people today who are, listen, there are some people today, I'm hoping, and there are here this night, some of them, who I would trust with every gut and tick of earthly possession I have, without a thing in writing, I would trust them with it.

You know why? Because I know these people, and they have character, and they know that a good name is better than a great riches, and they will not sacrifice their name for the sake of the material possessions that they might gain.

You see, a man's word is his bond, and what they meant was, if this man gives you his word, then you don't have to worry about it. This man is as good as his word, because for a man to go back on his word is to sacrifice his name and his character.

And so, you see, the strongman said, I magnify thy word of the Lord thy name. Now, look at the beauty of this, my friends. Suppose you, as an unsaved person, receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. You do what God tells you.

Listen in his word, and you cannot go back on his word. There are some things God cannot do. Absolutely cannot do. And, one of them is, he cannot say one thing in his book and leave something back in it.

He cannot do it. He cannot do it, because God's word has magnified and exalted above all of his name, and the reason for that is this. If God breaks one promise in his book, the very character of God is for all eternity gone.

The name of God is no good. He is no longer the tender, nor the tough brother. Now, the beauty of that is this. If you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior, I don't care how thinned you are, and how little faith you have, I'm going to read to you how much this really is.

If on this God road, and you're here tonight, and you take one step in faith and get both your feet inside this door, believe that Jesus died for you. Trust him as your Lord and Savior. God promises you eternal life.

Now, the question is this. Do you think God is going to let one worthless, no-good sinner like you wind up in the land of fire at the expense of a sacrifice of his name? Never! Never! Instead of it all, the world should be lost, and the name of God should be dropped back down.

No matter. Don't you understand me? The salvation of sinners rests upon the word of God. Thy word, O Lord, is forever settled in heaven. I magnify thy word, O Lord, I make. And so you see, if you receive Christ as your Savior, you need worry no longer about being lost in the day to come.

Because God is not going to let you who put your trust in Christ be lost stainless, because if he does, it costs him his name. Do you understand that? And I ask you again, do you think God is going to let one poor, worthless sinner like you and me go to hell at the cost of his burning name?

The Bible’s Continuity and Unity

No. No, my friend. You see the importance tonight of the value of the word of God. Now, another blessing in the Bible that, to me, illustrates this wonderful authority and trustworthiness is the continuity of the Bible, and I have copied it down in my notebook because I could not memorize all of it, and it's so good I wanted to get it.

I looked right at it just to say that this wonderful book appears in one volume in which there is a perfect continuity of historical sequence from the creation to the new heavens and the earth. In it, the Bible, we have the presentation and exaltation of the most perfect personal earth, air, and heaven.

Yet, this one volume which is given to the most perfect continuity of thought the world has ever seen is composed of a collection of 66 books written by about 40 different authors. Among these writers of the Bible were kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, physicians, poets, and scholars who could have known but little of each other since their lives were lived in various countries.

Just as their writings, the writings of these 40 or so authors, stretch over a period of six generations of human history, representing a period of approximately 1 ,600 years. Now, you look at that book you have before you, and remember that within its cover are writings of approximately 40 men, and these writings stretch over a period of 1 ,600 years of human history.

And, many of these writers never heard of one another, and yet when you read the Bible, you learn that from Genesis, the book of the beginning, the Bible bears witness to one God. From the beginning to end, the Bible testifies to one way of salvation.

From the beginning to end, the Bible has one great thing, the personal work of Jesus Christ. In Hebrews 10 and 7, starting from the 40th Psalm, Jesus said, "'Lo, it is written of the Bible, a book of me.

I come to do thy will, O God.'. In John chapter 5 and verse 49, Jesus said to the Jews, "'Search the scriptures, and then you think you have eternal life.'. And they said, "'Jesus hath testified of me.'".

And look at 24 and verse 44, Jesus said to his disciples, "'These are the words which I have spoken to you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms concerning me.'".

Now, do you not understand that if you had a book written by 40 authors in the United States of America, and this book was written by 40 authors if it was written in a period of 15 or 16 years, let alone 1 ,600 years, if these men claimed they never knew one another and didn't know what the other one was writing about, and what the producer put, that this unit and company of the scriptures is not a man alive.

It's an idiot enough to believe that. Now, everybody would know that they had been built just to lose. They had gotten together and agreed on what they should write, so they built a consistent testimony.

This, my dear friends, is a wonderful book that God has given to us, and look at it, over 1 ,600 years of human history by 40 different men who never heard of one another, and who did not know what the others were writing about, and they all wrote about the same person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

One way of salvation is faith in Christ, and salvation through his blood. My friends, it's impossible for this book to be of any human elegance. It must, of necessity, come from God. You know, the more I studied the word of God, when I was an unsaved man, I used to believe that the Bible was a bunch of fairy tales, not quite on the quality that he thought they were, and not even as interesting in some places.

But, after I became a Christian and began to try to study the word of God, I will confess to you tonight that I do not have enough faith to be an unbeliever. I just haven't got enough faith to be an unbeliever, and I don't believe anybody who approaches the study of the word of God objectively, and listens to its claims, and encourages its sayings in the light of plain literature and in the light of common sense, then it's a lecture to denial.

But, the book is absolutely supernatural. Now, where there is a confluence of the natural and the supernatural, as in the spirit of God using human instruments, when the two are brought together, there are things we cannot understand.

As in the confluence of the natural and the supernatural, when the spirit of God moves over the womb of a virgin, that's what the United States Jesus Christ. I don't understand how, in the womb of a virgin, the Holy Spirit of God forms a baby.

I'll never be able to understand that. There are a lot of things I don't understand. But, you see, the Bible does not depend for its authority upon my understanding. So, let's remember this. It is a supernatural book that is given by the Spirit of God, and we can't rely upon it.

Prophecy as Evidence of Divine Inspiration

Now, let's give you one further evidence. The third one is the prophetic equivalency of the scriptures. Now, we read back here the value of prophecy in relation to the Word of God. What we read tonight here at length in 2 Peter 1, the Lord Peter says, "...we were with them and the Holy Mount.".

Now, what Peter's talking about here in 2 Peter 1 is the experience that he and James and John had on the Mount of Transfiguration. It's recorded in Matthew Chapter 17, also in Mark and in Luke, that they were on the Mount of Transfiguration, and Peter said, "...now listen, I want you to know this.

We have not sat under you trying to divide tables and myths, for we made none of you look tired in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father both glory and honor, and it came such a voice in from the Holy Mount saying, This is my beloved Son, and both am well pleased.".

Now, Peter says he heard this voice. What was going on on the Mount of Transfiguration? Well, I believe if you'll notice very carefully these words in verse 19, you have the result of that which transpired on the Mount of Transfiguration.

As a result of that experience, we see in verse 19, we have also a more sure word of prophecy. The Revises put it this way. We have the prophetic word made more sure. Another revision says we have the words of the prophet made more sure, more reliable, and it simply means this.

That on the Mount of Transfiguration, when the Lord Jesus Christ was transfigured before them, he took on in his appearance... I like what Mark said, and he used his language. It's so striking and so different.

He said his garment was blistering white, it was flying snow. The white that he was full of was inviting. He was of some very interesting name, and Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, my friend, momentarily took upon himself that body which he bears in the glory today, and that body also which he put there and which he shall love, and he has now that body of his, and he's going to sit upon the throne of David and reign for a thousand years, known as a millennium, as he comes back and puts his enemy down under his feet, and at the end of the figuration he's going to come back and establish his kingdom.

Now, I suspect that approximately two-thirds of Old Testament prophecy has to do with the establishment of his kingdom, and you see on the Mount of Transfiguration, the Lord Jesus gave today's king and son a miniature picture of the establishing of the literal kingdom, and, see, as a result of that we have the words of the prophet made more sure, because the Lord Jesus gave them a little preview of the literal establishing of a kingdom of which a major part of the prophecy of Old Testament prophecy speaks.

I might pass this interesting fact along to you, and you can take it home with you and think it over. But, when it's done again, and you can do the same thing, and if you read your Bible school systematically year by year, eventually you'll find them all yourself if you'd like to make a note of them, but they'll be easy to remember because there are 333 purposes and predictions related to the Lord Jesus in the Old Testament.

333. Now, there are many, many more, but these 333 predictions concern, in fact, a very special one, and the reason is this, that they can be found as a matter of history already fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ recorded in the full gospel.

I repeat, 333 predictions in the Old Testament concerning the Lord Jesus that can be found as a matter of past history already fulfilled in the life of the Son of God. Now, not, listen, not in some haphazard or fortuitous manner, but in a very exact manner, in a very minute manner of a technician that is undeniably supernatural.

Now, let me give you some examples. In Isaiah 714, we read that the Lord Jesus was to be born of a virgin. In Isaiah 11 .1, he was to be called out of Egypt. In Jeremiah 31 .15, he was to be slain of a serpent.