Hebrews 1:2b | The Supremacy of God's Son | Part 3

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March 22, 2021

Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, Tullahoma, Tennessee Pastor Jeff Rice March 21, 2021 Hebrews Sermons playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8sIrq0gsadTndjGu3dBznMGKYtIAWjyd

Hebrews 1:1-4 | The Supremacy of God's Son | Part 4

00:07: If you have your Bibles, please turn. Well, we're going to be in Hebrews chapter 1.
00:16: We're going to look at and consider verse 2b. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 2b.
00:30: Pray with me. Oh God, as we were worshiping you in song,
00:40: I was completely overwhelmed by your love for us. Not for just us as a church, but for the churches that worship you throughout this whole earth,
00:54: Lord. Some of those are being persecuted and they're unable to meet.
01:00: Lord, let us not take for granted that we are here today, gathered as a people to praise your holy name.
01:07: For you are worthy. Lord, I'm so grateful for the pastors that have stood their ground, who have stood up and said, thus says the
01:19: Lord, that we are not to forsake the gathering. Lord, I pray that your hand be upon them, even in persecution.
01:30: For blessed are those who are persecuted. Be with us,
01:37: Lord, as I do my best to explain this text. Lord, I need your
01:44: Holy Spirit. Be with your people. In Christ's name
01:51: I pray. Amen. So I just want to give a quick overview of last week.
02:08: And before we get into that verse of Hebrews, I want to read to you from Galatians 4 again, but this time
02:14: I want to give a little commentary as I do so. Just to put things in proper perspective.
02:23: So in chapter 4 of Galatians, which you remember as we walk through this as a church, beginning in verse 1 says this,
02:33: I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child. So the heir that it's speaking about here is the
02:40: Jew, the Hebrew. So the heir, the Hebrew, as long as he is a child, he is no different than a slave.
02:48: And as you're walking through Galatians, I showed you how the Gentile was considered the slave.
02:55: So we have the heir, the child, the Hebrew, the Jew, is no different than the slave, the
03:02: Jew, as long, the slave, though he is owner of everything, speaking of the
03:08: Jew. But he is under guardians and managers until a date set by the father.
03:15: So this guardian, this manager that it's speaking about here is the law, the sacrificial system.
03:22: As long as the date is set by the father, they are supposed to be under this guardian, who is the heir, the child, who is the
03:35: Jew. They're supposed to be under this sacrificial system, this guardian, until the date set by the father.
03:45: In the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved by the elementary principles of the world.
03:52: But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, his son here is the true heir, born of a woman, born under the law.
04:03: This was the birth of Christ, which would have took place probably around 3 B .C.
04:09: So they were to be under the Jews, the heir, who was a child, was to be under this law, this sacrificial system, until the fullness of time, which would have been the arrival of the
04:22: Messiah. And it says that he was to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoptions as sons.
04:34: And because you are sons, he's still speaking to the Jews, you are sons, God sent forth his spirit of his son into our hearts, crying,
04:43: Alba, father. Now he's speaking to the Gentiles, so you are no longer a slave, but a son.
04:51: And if a son, then the heir through God. So those that are in Christ are co -heirs.
05:00: We looked at last week that a prophet was going to arrive. And this prophet was going to be one as unto
05:08: Moses. A prophet, Moses said, there's going to be someone like me born among you, the
05:15: Israelites, he's going to come, he's going to rise up from among you, and you are to listen to him.
05:22: So who are they to listen to? A prophet that is going to rise up from among them, from among the
05:29: Israelites, the heir. The true heir was going to rise up from among the heirs.
05:38: And we looked at Matthew 5, verse 17, it says this, do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets,
05:47: I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
05:55: So there seems to be this law and grace, this kind of like an overarching view of scripture, this law and grace.
06:07: And the scriptures tell us in John that Moses represents the law. It says that the law was given to us by Moses, but grace and truth came to us through Jesus Christ.
06:20: And so it's given us this energy of the law, Moses, the law, this guardian that you are under,
06:29: Moses, but then grace and truth is coming into the world and it is Christ Jesus.
06:37: And we see it, and so I explained to you last week how Jesus is the prophet that Moses spoke about.
06:45: I even took you to the transfiguration where Jesus was transfigured in front of three of his disciples and he shone, the glory that he once shared with God came upon him and he was transfigured and the disciples,
07:01: Peter, James, and John bowed down and they worshiped, they saw Elijah and they saw Moses, a representation of the law and the prophets.
07:15: And they wanted to build tents for them. They heard a voice coming from the clouds, said, this is my son in whom
07:23: I am well pleased, listen to him, and they fall down on their face and they begin to, some say worship, some say shake and just in fear because of the voice of God.
07:35: But then Jesus raises them up and the only one there is Jesus. And it's this representation that, like Moses said, one was going to come from him, from among the
07:44: Jews, from among the Israelites, and it is he who you should listen to. And it was like this passing of the baton right then where they were to think back on what
07:55: Moses said. These were Jews, these were people that knew the Old Testament Scriptures and they heard the voice,
08:00: God the Father saying, this is my son, listen to him. And Moses said, one would come and you are to listen to him.
08:11: And I spoke about how Jesus fulfilled the law. And a lot of people, they really get upset when you start talking about this because they really don't know how to break the law down.
08:21: And so in a reformed circles, the law was broke down into three sections. You have the moral, ceremonial, and civil.
08:27: The Jews say it's one continual law. I say yes to both.
08:33: Remember last week I said it's yes. Is it three or is it one? It's yes. Both are true.
08:40: It is one law. But it's also broken down into moral, ceremonial, and civil.
08:46: And I showed you that Jesus fulfills the moral law, how? By living the life we could not live.
08:54: He lived the life we could not live. He loved God with all of his heart, with all of his mind, with all of his soul, with all of his strength.
09:01: You and I cannot do that. Have not done it and will not do it. Jesus Christ has.
09:08: And he loved his neighbors as himself. He fulfilled the moral law.
09:14: He lived the life we couldn't. He fulfilled the ceremonial law by being our sacrifice.
09:20: Jesus Christ is our sacrifice. He was sacrificed for us.
09:26: Because we could not keep the moral law. He was our sacrifice.
09:34: And he fulfilled the civil law by being our substitute. He stood in our place.
09:40: As the axe of God's wrath is coming down to crush us, to destroy us, Jesus on the cross takes our place.
09:47: He fulfills the law. And what he calls us to do is to believe,
09:53: God calls us to believe in the name of the Son. We read it all the time. When you study 1
10:00: John, it tells us that, if you say that you have come to know him, but you have not kept his law, you are a liar and the truth is not in you.
10:09: Chapter 3 tells us that in order to fulfill the law, we have to love and we have to believe in the name of the
10:19: Son of God. So the only way that you and I can love God, and even in this we do this imperfectly, the only way that we can love
10:25: God with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our soul, with all of our strength, is by believing in the name of the Son, Jesus Christ, whom
10:31: God has sent. And we are to love our neighbors as ourself. Only those that have the
10:37: Spirit of God can even attempt to do this. He has fulfilled it for us.
10:46: And though our believing in him, our holding to him, that's how we love
10:52: God. That's how we love our neighbor. He lived the life that we could not live.
10:58: He died the death that we should die. We spoke about in Hebrews where it talks about this last day, but in these last days, and I told you that this would have began around 3
11:12: B .C. at the birth of Christ. I take it to 3 B .C. for this reason, because the angels were announcing his birth.
11:21: That woman, what was that woman's name in the temple? She was holding him. She was praising
11:27: God that she got to see the Messiah who was to come. You see, the
11:32: Jews at this time knew that the Messiah was coming into the world. All you have to do is read Daniel and study the 70 weeks of Daniel.
11:40: You knew that it was this time he was coming into the world. You have a period of time where there is no prophecy,
11:48: God is not speaking, angels are not seen, and all of a sudden angels were appearing everywhere and they were announcing the birth of the
11:56: Savior. So this would have started in 3 B .C. They were speaking about him.
12:01: You can go back in Luke and they're talking about Jesus. This would have been around 3 B .C. And I said that it would have probably lasted, what
12:08: I believe, according to the view that I hold, would have been 70 A .D.
12:14: And I say that because I believe that when the temple falls, the destruction of the temple, it was the end of the
12:21: Judaic age. It was the full fulfillment of the Messiah coming into the world.
12:27: Again, there was this passing of a baton. As the law was ending, grace was not ending, but being fulfilled, grace was in the world,
12:39: Jesus Christ. And as the Judaic age was ending, the age of the
12:45: Messiah was on the earth. And when the temple fell, the
12:50: Judaic age has ended. It's no more. We are living in the age of the
12:56: Messiah. And that age will never end. So when it talks about the last days here in Hebrews, I believe it's speaking about the
13:07: Judaic age. And I believe that it's speaking about everything that's going to be presented to us, how
13:16: Jesus spoke to us. In the former times, he spoke through prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken through his son,
13:23: Jesus Christ. It's talking about what he has said. And so I believe that all the books, the canon of this
13:30: Bible, had to be written before 70 A .D. So that's my position. I believe that God spoke through his son, through the mouth of Jesus Christ, to his apostles, from his apostles, to the paper, in the form of gospels and letters given to the church, and given by way of the
13:46: New Testament. So you want to hear God speak?
13:52: Open your Bible. Do not seek dreams and do not seek visions.
14:00: Read your Bibles. And so the objection is brought up in Acts, and I just want to look at it for just a second.
14:12: We'll get to Hebrews in just a second, I'm sorry. So in Acts 2, beginning at verse 14.
14:21: Acts 2, 14. So this will be, Jesus has been crucified for our sins, death, burial, resurrection.
14:31: He ascends into heaven to be with the Father on the right hand of God, sitting on the throne of David. The Holy Spirit comes upon the church.
14:41: They hear them speaking in other tongues, which I believe are languages.
14:52: So all the Jews gather from around the world, come and they hear them speaking in their own language.
14:59: And Peter stands up after being accused of being drunk. It says this in verse 14.
15:05: But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted his voice and addressed it then, Men of Judea and all who are in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give ear to my words.
15:19: For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
15:29: But this was uttered through the prophet Joe. In the last days it shall be,
15:39: God declare that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Red, yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight.
15:47: All flesh. And your sons, again, and your sons, who's he speaking to?
15:54: Jews. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
16:00: And your young man shall see visions. And your old man shall dream dreams.
16:07: Even on my male servants and female servants in those days.
16:13: So this word those, it's takos in Greek and it actually means thee. In thee days
16:19: I will pour out my Spirit and they shall prophesy.
16:24: Who? Servants in their days. They shall prophesy.
16:30: And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below.
16:37: Blood and fire and vapors of smoke. The sun shall be dark, the sun shall turn to darkness and the moon to blood before the day of the
16:50: Lord comes. And great and magnificent is that day. And it shall come to pass that everyone, red, yellow, black and white, that calls upon the name of the
16:59: Lord shall be saved. When did that come to pass? In that day. Whoever calls upon the name, we see that in Acts chapter 10.
17:08: Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Is that something in our future?
17:16: No, it's right then. Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Again, so in my view, these last days where God was speaking through His Son, you want to know what
17:28: He has to say? He has spoken through His Son. Would have been that period, about 73 years. And I believe that everything that was written down has been canonized and we have it here in our hands.
17:39: It's the Bible. We have the closed canon. We have what God has for us today.
17:46: Our theme has been the supremacy of God's Son. And today we're going to look at Hebrews.
17:56: We're going to consider Hebrews chapter 1, verse 2b. I will read beginning in chapter 1.
18:05: Long ago, at many times in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
18:13: But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom
18:19: He appointed the heir of all things. So our proposition is this.
18:29: If He is the heir of all things, name me something that's not
18:38: His. It all belongs to Christ.
18:47: He is our sovereign God. He is the heir of all things.
18:57: And so that's going to be the kind of the backdrop outline. But I want to look at a supporting text.
19:03: I want us to look at the supporting text that's found. It's going to show how Jesus Christ is the heir of all things.
19:12: And that is Psalm 2. Psalm 2, 8. But we will be looking at 1 through 12.
19:20: And the sub -point outline I want to give to you today is when... I have three.
19:27: We see God the Father exercising His authority in three ways. So God the
19:33: Father in heaven, He is going to exercise His authority in three ways.
19:38: To do what? To show us that His Son is the heir of all things.
19:45: Number one, we'll see God the Father sovereignly causing the crucifixion of Jesus.
19:56: Announcing the inheritance of the glorified Son. And commanding rulers of the earth to turn to the
20:07: Son. So again, we see Him sovereignly causing the crucifixion of Jesus.
20:14: We see Him announcing the inheritance of His glorified Son. And commanding the rulers of the earth to turn to His Son.
20:29: But as we transition, have this in mind. Jesus is our final revelation.
20:40: He is the final revelation. The writer of Hebrews is saying,
20:46: Come to Jesus, but don't go any further. You can come to Christ, but don't go any further.
20:57: Heaven has given us His champion. It has given us
21:03: His champion. What else? What else could it give? If heaven was to offer something else, it would be secondary.
21:14: It wouldn't be worth. He has given us its best.
21:19: Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, left heaven. Became a man.
21:27: What else do we want? There is no need to look further than Jesus Christ.
21:39: And yet the Jews didn't want to hear that. Nor did they want to hear directly from God.
21:46: We see that in the Old Testament, right? They tell Moses, you speak to God. Let God speak to you, and you speak to us.
21:57: You go to the mountain. You go to the tent. You visit God. And then you come back and tell us what
22:02: He has to say. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the very
22:08: Spirit of God living in us today. He is in us.
22:20: Look with me, please, at Psalm 2. So verse 1 through 4.
23:01: The Lord holds them in derision. So in Acts chapter...
23:12: I don't mean to make you travel around the Bible. You don't have to turn there.
23:17: But in Acts chapter 3, we studied this in Sunday school about Peter and John walking to Jerusalem, and they enter the gate called
23:26: Beautiful. And they see a man laying from birth, and he's asking for alms.
23:32: And Peter says to him, he says, The silver and gold I have not, but what I do have, such as this,
23:38: I give to you. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, stand and walk. And so the man who was laying from birth gets up and walks.
23:48: And it causes such an uproar, such an uproar. And Peter begins to preach the gospel.
23:56: He did a sign, and the next thing you know, he starts preaching the gospel to these people, and the uproar upset the council, the rulers of their day.
24:07: And so they take them into custody, and they basically tell them,
24:15: Do not speak in this name. Do not speak in this name. And he tells them,
24:21: Look, you decide whether it's right before your eyes or God, but as for us, we cannot help but speak what
24:29: God has done. And y 'all remember a few weeks ago,
24:35: I elaborated on that verse dealing with Pastor James Colts. And praise
24:40: God, I do believe they have let him out of prison. And so what
24:47: I want to do now is I want to look at what happened after that took place. What happened after that took place?
24:55: And it's found in chapter 4. You don't have to turn there. You can if you want. Chapter 4, verse 23, beginning in verse 23.
25:10: It says, When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
25:22: And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together and said, Sovereign Lord, who made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them?
25:34: Who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the
25:39: Holy Spirit, Why do the Gentiles rage? And the people's plot in vain.
25:45: The kings of the earth set themselves against, and the rulers were gathered together against the
25:52: Lord and against his anointed. For truly in the city of David, they were gathered together against the holy servant
26:03: Jesus, whom you appointed, both Herod and Pilate, along with the
26:09: Gentiles and the people of Israel, to do whatever your hand had predestined to take place.
26:20: We see the God, the Father, sovereignly causing the crucifixion of Jesus.
26:30: They're quoting Psalm chapter 2. We have the nations here equals
26:35: Gentiles. And actually in the Greek, when you translate it, the
26:41: Greek word can actually mean nations or Gentiles. So the nations here is
26:47: Gentiles. The peoples here represents the Jews. And the king and the rulers here represent
26:53: Herod and Pontius Pilate. Right here in Psalm chapter 2. This is a messianic psalm.
27:05: Whenever a king would be brought in, the coronation of a king, they would read this psalm the day of his coronation.
27:14: But listen, this is talking about Jesus Christ and God sovereignly, sovereignly causing the crucifixion of his son.
27:24: So you have these, the nations, the Gentiles, the peoples, the Jews, King Herod and Pontius Pilate coming together to sovereignly do what
27:33: God's hand had predestined to take place. Verse three and four.
27:43: He who sits in the heavens. Hold on. Three, I'm sorry.
27:49: Let us burst their bonds and cast away their cords. He who sits in the heavens laughs.
27:59: The Lord holds them. He holds them in derision. They think that this is their own will.
28:08: They think that they're doing this by their own will. We're going to take this man.
28:14: We're going to take this God who claims to be God. He said before Abraham was, I am, ego
28:20: I me. We're going to take him and destroy him. He's trying to raise up a group of people to overthrow not only the
28:29: Jews, but the Roman era. We're going to destroy this man.
28:35: And all the while God is sitting in heaven and he's laughing at them because he holds them in derision.
28:46: They're only carrying out his plan. Remember I was telling you whenever he was on the cross and they're throwing the death blow, it was as if they punched themselves in the mouth.
29:02: They had one reason for doing it. God had a different reason for it to be done for the salvation of his people.
29:16: Verses five through nine. Then he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify them in fury saying, as for me,
29:28: I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill. I will tell of the decree.
29:35: The Lord said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. As for me, ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance.
29:48: In the ends of the earth, your possessions. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
30:03: And you go back to Galatians chapter four and you see the air.
30:13: They were supposed to be under the air into the fullness of time.
30:19: They were supposed to be under into the fullness of time and Christ Jesus comes and they reject the
30:25: Messiah. They reject who God has set up. He says, I have set my king on Zion.
30:37: And the Jewish peoples, they say, yeah, we don't want him. We want the law.
30:43: We want to sacrifice. We don't want him.
30:57: They did not want Christ. And we see this.
31:09: It's so clear. I have set my king on Zion.
31:16: I have set my king on Zion. Right here, the word resurrection.
31:23: I mean, it says, ask of me. I have set my king on Zion and I will tell of my decree.
31:32: You are my son. Today, I have begotten you.
31:39: He says, I have begotten you. And we look to our text.
31:48: In here, we see the resurrection. We see a kingdom and judgment.
31:55: So right here, what I just read, verses five through nine, we see a resurrection, a kingdom and a judgment.
32:02: And we see the true heir, whom he appointed the heir of all things.
32:11: The heir of all things. Christ, when he was speaking to the chief priests, the rulers and the
32:19: Pharisees in Matthew chapter 21, they asked him, he's talking to them in parables.
32:29: And we find out, as he's speaking to them in a parable, he gives them one.
32:38: He says, hear another parable. A master went out of the house who planted a vineyard and he put a fence around it and he dug a winepress in it and he built a tower and he leased it to tenants.
32:56: And he went out of the country and when season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.
33:07: And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another and stoned another.
33:12: And again, he sent other servants more this time and they did the same to them.
33:18: And finally he said, finally he sent his sons saying, they will respect my son.
33:26: But when the tenants saw the sons, they said to themselves, this is the heir.
33:34: Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance. And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
33:47: Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?
33:58: And they responded, they said to him, he will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his fruit in their season.
34:13: And Jesus said to, listen, Jesus said to them, have you never read the scriptures?
34:21: The stone that you builders reject has become the cornerstone. This was the
34:27: Lord's doing and it was marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruit.
34:39: And the one who falls on the stone will be broken to pieces and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
34:50: And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard this parable, they perceived that he was speaking about them.
34:57: Although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds because they held him to be a prophet.
35:06: The crowds held Christ to be a prophet. And so we see in verse seven, this resurrection.
35:17: I mean, you look at Acts 13. I'm sorry for all the groundwork, but Acts 13, verse 33 says this.
35:29: 33 of Acts 13. This he has fulfilled to their children by raising
35:37: Jesus as he also written in the second Psalm. You are my son.
35:43: Today I have begotten you. So right here in the second Psalm, where it says you are my son.
35:50: Today I have begotten you. It's speaking of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
35:55: It also says something similar in Romans chapter one. Romans chapter one, verses one through four.
36:03: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel, which
36:08: God promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his son, who was declared from David, according to the flesh.
36:20: He was a descendant of David, according to the flesh. He was declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead.
36:31: Jesus Christ, our Lord. Jesus Christ, our
36:36: Lord. The second Psalm is prophesying to us the resurrection.
36:42: So we see that he foreordained, he causes the crucifixion of his son only to raise him up and to set him on Zion.
36:56: And we see a kingdom in verse eight. Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possessions.
37:07: At the time when Christ enters the world, who had the nations? Satan. Satan had the nations.
37:15: In Matthew chapter four and Luke chapter four, remember in the temptations of Christ, he says, if you bow down to me,
37:23: I will give you the nations. Remember, we've talked about this.
37:30: Satan tells Christ, if you bow down to me, I will give you the nations. Christ came for the nations.
37:37: That's what he wanted. And Satan was tempting him with the very thing that he wanted, the nations.
37:45: But Christ knew that he did not have the authority. Satan did not have the authority that the kingdom is given to him.
37:54: And we see when he rises from the dead, when he resurrects and he tells his disciples to go into all the earth, he says all authority, all the nations have been given to me.
38:06: Now go, therefore go. Why should you go and witness to people? Why should you go and teach people, disciple them and baptize them in the name of the
38:15: Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Why? Because it says, therefore go. All the nations have been given to him.
38:23: I stood up on the street corner yesterday for almost six hours. Why? Because the nations were given to him.
38:31: He has all the authority. It's all his.
38:40: It's all his. Verse nine.
38:49: It says, you shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.
38:55: Ladies and gentlemen, this is judgment. This is judgment language. Go back to what
39:01: Matthew 21 said at verse 43. Jesus told him, the chief priests and the elders, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and it's going to be given to someone else who can produce its fruit.
39:18: The covenant, it's going to be taken away from you.
39:25: Oh, religious people, you who walk around in these robes, you whitewashed tombs, you who killed the prophets and stoned them, the covenant, the kingdom is going to be taken away from you and it's going to be given to a people that's producing its fruit.
39:50: This is that baton, remember? It's that overlap. It's taken away from Moses.
39:58: It's given to Christ. The sacrificial system has fallen and the victorious reign of Christ has come.
40:12: It's come. Lastly, verses 10 through 12.
40:21: Therefore, listen, this is not just a warning to them. This is a warning to the kings around us today and to you if you are not in Christ.
40:33: Therefore, oh kings, be wise, be warned.
40:41: Oh, rulers of the earth, serve the
40:46: Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he be angry and you perish in the way for his wrath is quickly kindled.
40:58: Blessed are those who take refuge. So we have this warning, a warning for kings, for rulers in our day too, telling them, be wise.
41:12: Be wise, don't be foolish. Be wise. Why should they be wise? Why should they be wise?
41:19: Because God has spoken through his son. We have the incarnation, the resurrection, the end of the old covenant, the coming of the new covenant, judgment on Jerusalem.
41:30: We have prophecy telling us about this and it actually took place and now in hindsight today, we can look back and see that God's word is true, that it happened exactly the way that he said it was going to happen and we can look back as people that can think and say,
41:53: I need to be wise. I need to be wise.
42:00: Our president should look back at this and say, I need to be wise.
42:06: I need to kiss the son lest I perish. God has given it to us.
42:15: It is written. All you have to do is look. It's right here.
42:21: The prophecies tell us who is coming and he has come and he has fulfilled the things written about him and we can look back now in hindsight and see that it happens and we can see that judgment fell on them and right now, if the earth was to open its mouth and swallow
42:40: America up, God would be just for doing so. He would be just for doing so and our leaders around the world need to be wise.
42:52: You listening to my voice, whether in this room or online, need to be wise.
42:59: You need to kiss the son lest you perish because judgment came and listen to me, it's coming again.
43:12: There's going to come a day where the feet of Jesus Christ will land on this earth again and the dead will raise.
43:23: The dead will be raised. He is going to judge.
43:31: He is going to separate the sheeps from the goats. I know.
43:39: Oh, take counsel and understand that God sent his son born of a woman, born under the law, who suffered under the hands of Pontius Pilate and Herod, who lived the life you could not live and died the death you and I deserved and as they put the crown of thorns on his head and as they nailed him hands and feet to a
44:09: Roman cross after beating him with the cat of nine tails and they stabbed him in the side with a spear, that's what you deserve.
44:20: That's what I deserve. The wrath of man and the wrath of God.
44:29: But luckily, for mine and your sake, this God man, after taken down from the cross, put into a tomb, came forth glorified.
44:41: Glorified. Go back to the mountain of transfiguration. They saw him in all his glory.
44:47: He came out with the glory that he had with his father. But he still bared the mark.
45:00: He has risen. And not only has he risen, he has descended. And not only has he descended, he is on the throne of David at the right hand of the father.
45:09: And listen, he makes intercessory and not for everyone, but only for those that draw near to him by faith.
45:16: If you are not seeking Christ by faith, he is not making intercessory for you.
45:25: And imagine what you can do knowing that he was praying for you.
45:36: I was telling my wife this morning that as I was on the street yesterday, I felt as bold as a lion.
45:42: When in reality, I am not. I am not. But I only felt bold because I know he is praying for me.
45:56: And if you are not in Christ, if you are not clothed in the righteousness of Christ on that day of judgment, you are going to die.
46:04: After you die, you will raise and you will be cast into the lake of fire. And that is truth.
46:12: That is truth. Whether you're a liar or a homosexual, anywhere in between, you are going to be thrown into the lake of fire if you do not repent and put your faith in Christ.
46:23: And that's what it means to kiss the sun. Be wise.
46:29: Be warned. Kiss the sun. Least you perish.
46:37: And remember, those that are in Christ, we are co -heirs with the true heir of God.
46:46: Pray with me. Oh God, God, I thank you for your word.
46:53: I thank you for my friends and my family that you have with me in worshiping you today.
47:06: Oh Lord, give us a heart that does not coward, that only trembles before you, not before men.
47:18: Lord, we pray that you will put men in pulpits who will say, thus says the
47:23: Lord, and will not back down. Why? Because Jesus Christ is the true heir, heir of all things.
47:37: And if he is heir of all things, that means he is sovereign over all things.
47:43: So we thank you, Lord. We thank you, and we love you. Please give us grace as we live our lives for you by faith.