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Here in Luke chapter 10, we are going to primarily be focused on verse 23 and 24, but in the reading, we're going to read actually verses 21 through 24 just so that we maintain and we can keep context.
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The Scripture says this, this is the Word of the Living God, Luke chapter 10 verse 21 through 24, in that same hour,
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Jesus, he rejoiced, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank you,
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Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children, to babes.
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Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my
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Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the
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Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
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Then, turning to his disciples, he said privately, blessed are the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.
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As we enter in upon this text today, it would do us all good, I think, just by way of recollection and recitation to hear what
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Matthew Henry said concerning Christ's rejoicing in the Spirit and the reason as to why that the statement is made so clear here by the
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Gospel writer, Luke. Concerning Christ's rejoicing, Matthew Henry said this, nothing rejoices the heart of the
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Lord Jesus so much as the progress of the Gospel, and it's getting ground of Satan by the conversion of souls to Christ.
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Christ's joy was a solid, substantial joy. It was an inward joy.
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He rejoiced in the Spirit, but his joy, like deep waters, made no noise.
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It was a joy that a stranger did not intermeddle with. Before he applied himself to thank his
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Father, he stirred up himself to rejoice, for as thankful praise is the genuine language of holy joy, so holy joy is the root and the spring of thankful praise.
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It's important as well that we know that the power that Christ is referring to here, rejoice not that the devils are subject unto you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
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It's important for us to, as Christians, to remember that power to become the children of God is to be valued more than the power to work miracles.
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For Matthew Henry said, we read of those who did in Christ's name cast out devils, as Judas did, and yet these same people will be disowned on the great day.
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Christ himself made reference to this fact in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew's Gospel, Matthew's account of the
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Sermon on the Mount in chapter 7. Jesus said, many will say unto me in that day,
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Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? And in your name, have we not cast out devils?
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And in your name, have we not done many wonderful works? Then Christ will respond to them, depart from me, you that work iniquity, for I never knew you.
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So let's never let our understanding or our excitement exceed or go beyond what it should.
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Our excitement should well be rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ and in the work that he has accomplished for our sins.
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Matthew Henry goes on to say this, at the same time when he revealed them unto babes, as the scripture says, he hid them from the wise and the prudent, the
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Gentile philosophers, the Jewish ravine, he did not reveal the things of the gospel to them, nor employ them, and I love how
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Matthew Henry puts this, nor did he employ them in preaching up the kingdom of God.
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Thanks be to God, Matthew Henry said, that the apostles were not fetched from their schools.
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For first, they would have been apt to mingle their notions with the doctrines of Christ, which would have corrupted it, as afterwards it proved.
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For Christianity was much corrupted by the Platonic philosophy in the first ages of it, by the peripatetic in its latter ages, and by the
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Judaizing teachers at the first planting of it, as we read in Galatians. Secondly, Henry said this, if ravine and philosophers had been made apostles, the success of the gospel would have been ascribed to their learning, and their wit, and the force of their reasoning, and their eloquence, and therefore they must not be employed, lest they should have taken too much to themselves, and others should have attributed too much to them.
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We see here in this statement, Christ hid it from the wise and prudent, and revealed it unto babes.
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In 1 Corinthians chapter 1, let's turn there for just a moment.
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The apostle Paul is writing to the church at Corinth, he's addressing one of the many issues that the church of Corinth faced.
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And in verse 18, he begins, picking up in verse 18, the apostle
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Paul states this, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the word of the cross is folly, it's foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning
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I will thwart. That is the word of God. That is what God said years beforehand.
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Verse 20, where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe?
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Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through its own wisdom, but through wisdom it pleased
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God through the folly of preaching. It through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
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For Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach
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Christ crucified. A stumbling block to the Jews, and a folly to the
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Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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For consider your calling, brethren. Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards.
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Not many were powerful. Not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.
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God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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And because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, let the one who boasts, boast in the
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Lord. So Christ hid these things from the wise and the prudent, revealed them to those whom he will, and then here in verse 23, as we turn to verse 23 and 24, again, let's read those verses.
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Then turning to the disciples, he said to them privately, he pulled them together, said to them privately, blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see.
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For I tell you, many prophets and many kings have desired to see what you see and did not see it and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.
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If we have a title today for this short sermon, and by the way,
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I know I say that every time, but if we have a title for this sermon today, it is what kings and prophets have desired to see.
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This is what we're going to look at today, and there's no other place that we can turn, no other source reference that we can go to other than the word of God, so that each one of you today will have no excuse to deny that Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of the living
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God, demonstrated from the Old Testament prophecies and the New Testament fulfillment of such prophecies.
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Christ said, blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. There are times in our lives where we are, as the old saying goes, where we do, as the old saying goes, we are unable to see the forest for the trees.
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Any of you ever heard that saying? If you're from the country, you've heard that saying. We can't see the forest for the trees.
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Christ here reminds the disciples of the blessing, and this is what he calls it, the blessing of seeing what they see and the blessing of hearing what they hear from him.
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He illustrates his statement by reminding them that the prophecies that went forth thousands of years beforehand had now been fulfilled in him.
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Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see. Blessed are the ears which hear the things that you hear.
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For what the prophets of old had spoken concerning the Messiah, what they could only see faintly, what they could only see in tops and shadows, the disciples and the people in all the regions where Christ went, they were now able to see in, to use a modern vernacular, in 8K clarity.
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It was better than anything that they had ever seen before. The fullness of the
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Godhead dwelt bodily among them. This is the kingdom of David in the
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Old Testament that set forth in tops and shadows, the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God had now come near to them.
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Now, in an article, what we're going to do here, I'm going to give you a quote from an article, and then we're going to be looking at several passages of scripture.
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I'll give you the references. I encourage you to write the references down, to study these throughout the remainder of this week, and so that you just can get, so that you can glory in the
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Lord, so that you can rejoice in what Christ has done. In an article from thejesusfilmproject .org,
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this is what an article says. Some scholars believe that there are more than 300 prophecies about Jesus in the
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Old Testament. These prophecies are specific enough that the mathematical probability of Jesus fulfilling even a handful of them, let alone all of them, is staggeringly improbable if not impossible.
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Peter Stoner, a chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Pasadena College, was passionate about biblical prophecies, and with 600 students from the
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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Stoner looked at eight specific prophecies about Jesus.
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They came up with extremely conservative probabilities for each one being fulfilled, and then they considered the likelihood of Jesus fulfilling just all eight of those prophecies.
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Remember, out of 300, they just looked at eight prophecies, and they found that the probabilities were staggering.
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So, the conclusion to his research was staggering as well. The prospect that anyone would satisfy those eight prophecies was just 1 in 10 to the 17th power.
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Now, what does that mean? If I did this correct, and this is where I need y 'all maybe to correct me on my math.
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I'm not trying to tell you a lie, but I'm just telling you as my little mind can figure this stuff out, 1 in 10 to the 17th power is likely 1 quadrillion.
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There is 1 in 1 quadrillion of a possibility of these prophecies being fulfilled.
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So, in this article, they gave us a helpful analogy. They said, let us try to visualize this chance.
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And they said it like this. If you mark one of 10 tickets, and you place all 10 tickets in a hat, and you thoroughly stir them up, and then you ask a blindfolded man to draw one, his chance of getting the right ticket would be 1 in 10, right?
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So, suppose that we take 10 to the 17th power of silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas.
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They'll cover all of the state of Texas two feet deep. Now, mark one of those silver dollars with just a mark from a marker and stir the whole mass thoroughly all over the state.
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Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wants, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one.
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You see how the numbers change? Just the same chance that the prophets would have that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man from their day to the present time, providing they wrote using, or provided what they wrote, they wrote using their own wisdom.
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But the wisdom that God gave to the prophets and to the kings was not the wisdom of men, but it was the wisdom of God.
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Christ fulfilled and is made unto us as the apostle Paul states to the
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Corinthians, Christ is made unto us the wisdom of God.
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And so we are going today as quickly as possible here, look through just several prophecies, but I believe and I hope.
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I know it's caused me to rejoice. I mean, I about rocked my chair off last night. You say, what are you talking about?
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Well, I rock while I study. So I got to moving pretty fast while I was studying. I about rocked it off the hinges after dinner last night.
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But there is so much in the scriptures that we have to rejoice and to help us understand this simple statement that Christ made, blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see and hear the things that you hear.
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The things that the prophets and kings desire to see and hear. Number one, that the
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Messiah will have a throne that is everlasting. The Messiah will have a throne that is everlasting.
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In the book of Daniel in the Old Testament, chapter seven and verse 13 and 14, we have the words of God.
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In my vision at night, I looked and there before me was one like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven.
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He approached the ancient days and he was led into his presence.
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He was given authority, glory, and sovereign power. All nations and peoples of every language worshiped him.
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His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away.
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And his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. That is the words of the prophet
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Daniel in the Old Testament. Now let's read the words of Luke in chapter one.
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In the New Testament, the angel comes and appears to Mary and says this, you will conceive and give birth to a son and you are to call his name
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Jesus. He will be great and he will be called the son of the most high.
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The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever.
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His kingdom will never end. His kingdom will never be destroyed and in the coming of Christ, his kingdom will never end.
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Number two, Jesus will set the captives free. Jesus will set the captives free.
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In the Old Testament, in the book of Isaiah chapter 61 and verse one, this is the word of God.
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The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me. The spirit of God is upon me because the
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Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and the release of darkness for the prisoners.
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Now many times this verse is quoted and misquoted and taken out of context.
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This verse is not about you and it's not about me. It's about Jesus Christ. For in the
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New Testament, we have the fulfillment of this prophecy. In Luke chapter four,
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Luke chapter four, verse 16 through 21. This is the word of God.
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The scripture says in Luke chapter four, verse 16, he went to Nazareth where he had been brought up.
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This is speaking of Christ. And on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue as was his custom.
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He stood up to read and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him.
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Unrolling it, he found the place where it was written. The spirit of the
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Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
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He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free and to proclaim the year of the
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Lord's favor. Then the scripture says, then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant.
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And he sat down and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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And he began by saying to them, today is this scripture fulfilled in your hearing.
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Oh, what the kings and the prophets of old desired to see and desired to hear.
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They were now hearing this. This is what Jesus was talking about when he said, blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see and blessed are the ears that hear the things that you hear.
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Jesus will set the captives free. Number three, Jesus will be a gentle redeemer of the
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Gentiles. Jesus will be a gentle redeemer of the Gentiles.
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Again, in the book of Isaiah chapter 42, Isaiah chapter 42, verses one through four.
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This is the word of God. The word of God states, here is my servant.
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Whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight. I will put my spirit on him.
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Here in the old Testament, again, we have the reference to the Trinitarian view of our
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God, the father speaking of the son and of the spirit. I will put my spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations.
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He will not shout or cry out or raise his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break and a smoldering flax he will not snuff out.
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In faithfulness, he will bring forth justice. He will not falter.
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Hallelujah. He will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on the earth.
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In his teachings, the islands will put their hope. My friends, this world is seeking for justice in our day and age.
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My friend, justice was satisfied on the cross the day that Jesus hung and took upon him the wrath of almighty
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God. The fulfillment of this passage is found in Matthew's gospel chapter 12.
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Matthew chapter 12, verse 15 through 21. Aware of this,
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Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him and he healed all who were ill.
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He warned them not to tell others about him. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet
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Isaiah. Here is my servant whom I have chosen. Oh, the one in whom
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I love and whom I delight. I will put my spirit on him and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
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He will not quarrel or cry out. No one will hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out till he has brought justice through to victory.
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In his name, the nations will put their hope. My friends,
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Jesus is the gentle redeemer of the Gentiles. Number four,
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Jesus would have a miraculous ministry. Number four,
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Jesus would have a miraculous ministry. What is spoken concerning Christ?
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Again, let's go to the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 35, verses 5 and 6.
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Isaiah chapter 35, verses 5 and 6. The word of the
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Lord says this. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
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Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy.
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Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
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And we have this fulfilled in Matthew's account. Matthew chapter 11.
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Matthew chapter 11, verses 2 through 6. The word of God says, when
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John who was in prison heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to ask him, are you the one who is to come or should we look for another?
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Jesus replied and he said, go back and report to John what you hear and what you see.
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Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see and the ears that hear the things that you hear.
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For many kings and prophets had desired to see those things and to hear those things.
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Jesus said, replied, and go report to John what you hear and what you see.
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The blind received their sight. The lame walked. Those who have leprosy are cleansed.
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The deaf hear. The dead are raised. And the good news of the gospel is proclaimed to the poor.
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Blessed is the man who does not stumble on account of me.
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We have this. Jesus would have a miraculous ministry. The Messiah would have a miraculous ministry.
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Number five, Jesus would draw to himself the
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Gentiles. Jesus would draw the Gentiles to himself.
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Again, let's go to the book of Isaiah chapter 11 and verse 10 concerning this prophecy that Christ, the
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Messiah, would draw Gentiles to himself. The word of God says, in that day, the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the people.
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The nations will rally to him and his resting place will be glorious.
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The fulfillment of this is read in John's gospel, John chapter 12, verse 18 through 21.
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The word of God says this. Many people, because that they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him.
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So the Pharisees said to one another, see, this is getting us nowhere.
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Look, the whole world is gone after him. Now, there were some
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Greeks among those who went up to the worship at the festival and they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida and Galilee, with a request.
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And their request was this, sir, we would see Jesus. The nations seeking unto the
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Messiah. Number six, the Messiah will have a throne that is everlasting.
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The Messiah will have a throne that is everlasting. These are the things that kings and prophets desired to see and hear, that they were not able to see and hear in their fullness, as were these blessed disciples.
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The Messiah will have a throne that is everlasting. The book of Daniel chapter 7, verse 13 and 14.
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In my vision, the prophet said, at night I looked and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven.
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And he approached the ancient of days and he was led into his presence. I may have included this one twice, but that's okay.
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Repetition is good for the mind. He was given authority, glory, and sovereign power.
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All nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is everlasting, an everlasting dominion that will not pass away.
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And his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed. Again, Luke chapter 1, verse 31 through 33.
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The fulfillment is this. You will conceive and give birth to a son. You will call his name Jesus.
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He will be great. He will be called the son of the most high God. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father,
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David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end.
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Now, the last few we'll look at here have not yet in the text as where we're at contextually taken place, but are going to be fulfilled.
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The scriptures teach us that the prophets had prophesied that Christ the
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Messiah would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. In the book of Zechariah, in the
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Old Testament, the prophet Zechariah chapter 11, verses 12 and 13.
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This is what the word of God says. I told them, if you think it is best, give me pay, but if not, keep it.
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So they paid me 30 pieces of silver. And the
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Lord said to me, throw it to the potter, the handsome price at which they valued me.
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So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the
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Lord. This is hundreds of years before Christ came.
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And in Matthew's gospel, chapter 27, verses 6 through 10, hear the words of the living
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God. The scripture says, the chief priest picked up the coins and said, it is against the law to put this into the treasury since it is blood money.
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Judas brings back the 30 pieces of silver for which he betrayed our Lord and our savior.
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So they decided to use that money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.
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That is why it has been called unto this day, the field of blood.
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Akodama is another translation. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah, the prophet was fulfilled as well.
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They took the 30 pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, and they used them to buy the potter's field as the
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Lord had commanded me. We had the fact that he was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver written prophetically hundreds of years before his coming.
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The next one, Christ will be our Passover lamb. I believe this is number seven. Christ will be our
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Passover lamb. Amen. Exodus chapter 12, verse 21 through 27.
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Christ will be our Passover lamb. Here is the prophecy, the word of the
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Lord concerning the Messiah. Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the
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Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on top and on the sides of the doorpost and the doorframe.
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None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through, when the
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Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on top in the sides of the doorframe and he will pass over that doorway and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
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Moses said, obey these instructions as a lasting and everlasting ordinance for you and for your descendants.
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When you enter the land that the Lord God will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
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And when your children ask you, what does this ceremony mean? Then tell them, it is the
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Passover of the Lord's sacrifice who passed over the house of the
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Israelites in Egypt and who spared our homes when he struck down the
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Egyptians. Then the people bowed down and they worshiped. We have here
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Christ, our Passover lamb. The fulfillment we can read in 1
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Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7, the apostle
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Paul under inspiration of the Holy Spirit writes these words, get rid of the old yeast, get rid of the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch as you really are for Christ, our
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Passover lamb has been sacrificed. Praise God, like the
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Passover lamb, number eight, like the Passover lamb, none of Christ's bones will be broken.
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These are very important. The book of Exodus chapter 12 and verse 46, the scriptures clearly give this distinction.
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It must be eaten inside the house, take none of the meat outside the house and do not break any of the bones.
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Christ is our Passover lamb. And we had the fulfillment of this scripture found in John chapter 19, verse 31 through 36.
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The scripture says, now it was the day of preparation and the next day was to be a special Sabbath because the
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Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath. They asked
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Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus.
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And then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and they found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
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Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus side with a spear and therewith blood and water came forth.
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The man who saw it has given testimony and his testimony is true.
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He knows that he tells the truth and he testifies so that you may believe.
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These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled.
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Not a one of his bones would be broken. Christ, our
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Passover lamb. The prophecy is said concerning number nine, they would pierce
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Christ's hands and feet. Again, in the book of Psalm, chapter 22, verse 16.
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Psalm 22, verse 16. The word of God states this. Dogs surround me.
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A pack of villains encircle me. They pierce my hands and my feet.
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We have this 22nd, 23rd and 24th Psalm grouped together there.
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We have a picture of the suffering Christ. We have a picture of the peace of God, the finished work of Christ in that.
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But notice the fulfillment. They will pierce my hands and my feet in John chapter 19, verse 36 and 37.
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The scriptures say this. These things happen so that the scripture would be fulfilled.
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Again, not a one of his bones will be broken. And another scripture says they will look on him in whom they had pierced.
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Number 10, they will plot to kill God's anointed. They will plot to kill
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God's anointed. Psalm chapter 31 and verse 13.
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Psalm 31 and 13. For I hear many whispering terror on every side.
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They conspire against me and they plot to take my life. In Matthew chapter 27, verse 1, we had the words of the gospel writer
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Matthew. Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans to have
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Jesus executed. Plotting against our Christ. Number 11 or 12.
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God's anointed will not see decay. God's anointed will not see decay.
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God's anointed, the Messiah would not see decay. We had this prophesied in Psalm chapter 16.
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Psalm chapter 16, verse 9 through 11. The writer says, therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices.
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My body will also rest secure because you will not abandon me to Sheol, to Hades, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
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You make known to me the path of life. You will fill me with joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
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In Acts chapter 2 and verse 31, we hear the word of God. Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the
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Messiah that he was not abandoned or left to the realm of the dead.
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Nor did his body see decay. For we know that according to the scriptures on that third and appointed day, when the disciples, when the women went to the grave to dress the body of Jesus, that the stone had been rolled away.
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The stake of death was not there, but Christ the Lord was risen.
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We have this in the word of God. These are the things that the kings and prophets desired to see and desired to hear, but they did not.
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But these are the things that those blessed disciples saw and heard.
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Last of all, the Messiah will conquer death.
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The Messiah will conquer death. In the book of Isaiah chapter 25, verses seven and eight, the word of God states this.
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On this mountain, he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations.
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He will swallow up death forever. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces.
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He will remove his people's disgrace from all the earth for the
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Lord has spoken this. And we have this fulfilled in the statement of the apostle
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Paul in first Corinthians chapter 15, really verse 50 through 54.
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The apostle Paul writes this, beloved flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
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For behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trump shall sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible.
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For this mortal must put on immortality and this corruptible must put on incorruption.
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And so that after this mortal is put on immortality and this corruptible has put on incorruption, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.
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Oh death, where is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory? For the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our
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Lord Jesus Christ. Death has been swallowed up of victory.
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And if you would stand with us this morning in closing, one of the hymns makes this statement, standing on the promises of Christ my
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King through eternal ages, let his praises ring. Glory in the highest.
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I will shout and sing. I'm standing on the promises of God.
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Standing on the promises that cannot fail. Church, they cannot fail because they have already come to be.
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They cannot fail when the howling storms of doubt and fear assail. By the living word of God, I shall prevail.
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I'm standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises
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I now can see. Perfect, present, cleansing in the blood for me.
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Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free. I'm standing on the promises of God.
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Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord. Bound to him eternally by love's strong cord.
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Overcoming daily by the spirit's sword. I'm standing on the promises of God.
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Standing on the promises I cannot fall. Listening every moment to the spirit's call.
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Resting in my savior as my all. And in all,
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I'm standing on the promises of God. Let's sing together the doxology this morning.