The Ultimate King

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Welcome to No Compromise Radio Ministry. My name is Mike Abendroth. You can always write me, mike at nocompromiseradio .com.

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If you want just to find a show or have some other information at your fingertips, info at nocompromiseradio .com.

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Don't forget the new book, King is Out, talking about the Lord Jesus as King. The background of that book was simple.

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We don't really know kings here in America. Matter of fact, if I were to ask you, are there any throne rooms in America?

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Are there any thrones in America? Only in Hawaii, where there used to be a king and a queen, but we don't have throne rooms because we don't have kings.

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And even if you go to England now, they might have a king, but constitutional monarchs aren't the kings of the

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Bible. So if you understand the kings of the Bible, you would understand that God can choose his, a king can choose a bride.

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So it helps you with election or how do you approach God in prayer, like knowing he's a king that will help you pray, et cetera.

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So kings are important to understand. So the book is called King, How the

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Sovereignty of God, because kings reign, kings are sovereign, how it changes everything.

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Today, I want to help you read the Bible better.

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How to read the Old Testament with a sense of anticipation for the ultimate

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King Jesus. Our outline today is pretty simple. We're going to look at the need for a

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Messiah. We're going to look at potential Messiahs. Then we're going to look at the Messiah. And I think it will help you read your

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Old Testament better. We'll look at first, the need for the Messiah. Genesis chapter three.

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When you go to the book of Genesis, you're thinking, oh, could this be the most important chapter in all the

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Bible? I think that's what Arthur Pink says. Genesis chapter three, where you see treason, where you see sin, where you see the fall of Adam and Eve, and then you see the promise of the

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Messiah. Remember what God said, you may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.

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Here's this great God who makes everything and the joy in the garden before the fall, the bliss in the garden before the fall,

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God doing everything for Adam. And now He makes Adam a helper fit for Him. And her name was

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Eve. Everything is ideal. Everything is Edenic. It is Eden. And Adam had one responsibility, and that was to obey

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God. Whatever God said to do, He just needed to obey. And we call that the covenant of works or the covenant of life, the covenant of nature.

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And here we have obedience required. That's all Adam has to do. And he's able to do it.

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He's not fallen. He is able to obey. And Adam is what we call a public person, a federal head.

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He's representing us. He's the one who God says, you know what?

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You're going to be the federal representative for all of mankind. And so now

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Adam, the legal agent, standing in our stead is tempted by Satan.

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Satan's more crafty, Genesis chapter three talks about, than any other beast. And he says to the woman,

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Adam should be guarding. Adam should be the priest. Adam should be the one protecting. And he doesn't.

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Satan slips in and says, does God actually say to you, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

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I mean, all of a sudden, Genesis one and two, you've been reading and it's the bliss and it's the joy.

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And it's all these things God has created. And like out of nowhere, startling, you, the reader, the reader myself, this guy caught me off guard.

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Well, Eve is kind of caught off guard too. I would imagine the same thing. And here's the serpent comes.

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Luther said, the devil was permitted to enter beasts as he here entered the serpent. For there is no doubt that it was a real serpent in which

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Satan was and in which he conversed with Eve. Whatever was going on there, out of nowhere, we have

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Satan show up. Did God actually say, here's the doubt. Here's the, did

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God really say kind of, this subtle dig on God?

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You know what? You can't trust God. He's holding out on you. He's remember crafty.

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Did God really say these things? He didn't say that. Surely God, this gracious God wouldn't say that.

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Surely this God wouldn't restrict you and kind of impinge on your freedom. He wouldn't do that.

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And here now doubt is introduced. Distrust is introduced. God's word is not reliable.

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So says Satan. Has God said? Now Moses has been using the word

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Yahweh Elohim, God's name, the

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Lord God. But now Satan takes that personal name of God out of it.

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And he just says, God, I think with rebelliousness, with intentionality, it's not

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Yahweh Elohim anymore about God creator and personal

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God. It's just, he's just God. And by the way, where is Adam? Where is

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Adam? He should have the machete come over the sickle and take that serpent's head right off.

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And now Eve buys into this God talk. The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.

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But God said, not the Lord God, not Yahweh Elohim. But God said, your name for God, Satan.

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You may not eat of the fruit of the tree that's in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you die. What do you mean?

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Lest you touch it. God never said that. She's buying into what Satan is saying about the restrictive nature of God, the strident nature of God, the stringent nature of God.

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Hey, he's a God who prohibits everything. We can't even touch it. God is severe.

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God is restricting. God is harsh. God's measures are condemning. What did

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Jesus say to Peter when Peter was messing up? Get behind me, Satan.

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That's exactly what Eve should have said. Adam should have been there to rescue her.

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And the serpent said to the woman, you shall surely not die. God is a liar.

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God says, if you eat, you're gonna die. I'm telling you, God is a liar. Don't trust him. God's word is unreliable.

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God is selfish. His threat is hollow. This is just theory anyway. Who is this

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God? It's an idle threat. It might be an interesting hypothesis, but this is just not going to do it for me.

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One man said, some Jewish writers said, the second Satan said this, he pushed

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Satan, pushed Eve against the tree so she touched it. It's like, okay, see, you're not gonna die.

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She has the touching part. He slams her into the tree. Whether that happened or not, I don't know, but you get the idea.

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God isn't good, Satan says. God's word isn't trustworthy, Satan says.

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Sin isn't that bad, Satan says. And for the first time, we have judgment denied.

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Think about what we're doing in our society today. There's no judgment. There's no sin that has to be paid for.

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There's no hell. There's no consequences. What's the first lie in the Bible? Well, right up there at the top, the first lie is no eternal judgment.

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No, you're not going to die. No spiritual death. God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

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He's selfish, God is. He's deceptive, God is. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and there was a delight to the eyes and the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her.

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He was standing there the whole time and he ate. Satan's words, we'll believe.

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God's word, we won't believe. Satan wants my best.

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Satan's the savior from God. God is stingy.

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God is not generous. Satan is a wonderful, generous, truthful savior.

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Crazy, isn't it crazy? Isn't sin crazy? Sin makes you do crazy things. Sin is crazy.

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One writer said, Eve followed the snake, Adam followed Eve and no one followed God. She ate, he ate.

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Eyes of both were open, they knew they were naked and now they tried to cover their shame with their own works, sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

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How embarrassing. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the cool or the judgment of the day and the man hid himself and the wife hid themselves from the presence of the

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Lord God among the trees of the garden. They knew they were gonna be judged.

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This is not God walking in the cool of the day, this is the day. What day is that? The day, judgment day.

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The Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you? God takes the initiative.

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By the way, there could just be judgment only, but we're going to see there's gonna be grace.

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God says to the man, where are you? Singular, you're the federal head. He's not even calling Eve to account right now or Satan to account right now.

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He starts with the man. Who told you you were naked?

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Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? And the man said, the woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate.

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By the way, you gave me that woman and then she had me do that. And it's essentially as Luther would say,

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God, you made me sin. And then God addresses the woman.

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What is this that you have done? The woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

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What is this you have done? And then we find the promise of the gospel.

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The good news is God says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.

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He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. The first gospel, the proto -evangelical gospel, the first gospel.

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Verse 21, and the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

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God initiates, God provides. God says the wages of sin is death.

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Animals are slain in their place and God covers them.

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So now what? What happens? You say, well, I don't, what kind of animals were they?

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I guess they were lambs. We don't know. One writer said, two thoughts must have gone through Adam and Eve's mind.

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First, an instinctive horror of death, right? God kills the animals. So this is what death is.

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They must have exclaimed as they look down in horror at the bodies of the slain animals.

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Remember, this is in the garden. How horrible. In that instant, it must have dawned on them that if death is a result of sin, then sin is far worse than they could possibly have imagined it to be.

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There are those dead animals laying right there. The writer goes on to say, James Boyce goes on to say, the second thought mingling with their awareness of sin's horror must have been a deep and growing wonder at the mercy of God, who, though he had every right to take their lives in forfeit of his broken commandment, and had said that death must follow sin, was nonetheless showing that it was possible for an innocent victim to die instead.

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Interesting. We're gonna need a Messiah to deal with this sin.

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We're going to need a sin bearer to deal with this sin. What have you done?

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We have a need for a Messiah because of the fall. Secondly, there's all kinds of people showing up in the

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Bible who you might think might be the Messiah. I was reading a Shane Rosenthal article, a second

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Adam, a new way of reading scripture, and it dawned on me, that's true. Okay, remember, there's a promise of the

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Messiah. So we're gonna start looking for Messiah as we read Genesis four and following.

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How about Genesis four? And Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bore

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Cain, saying, I've gotten a man with the help of the Lord. So think about it, Adam and Eve in the garden,

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Satan comes and tempts them, they fall. God pays for their sins through the slaying of the animal.

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And then now I promise you, there's going to be someone who crushes Satan's head. Well, Adam and Eve knew each other.

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She conceived, got a man with the help of the Lord. Cain is going to be the Messiah.

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Yes, the son is going to be born and Cain is going to be the Messiah. And what happened?

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We know Cain kills his brother Abel and that's not the Messiah. And the Lord said in chapter four, verse 10, what have you done?

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And by the way, that's exactly what God said to Eve. And that's exactly what's going to be said of all the other

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Messiahs that were false Messiahs until we get to the Lord Jesus. What have you done?

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Well, in a little bit, we'll read in Genesis six. I think the Messiah is here.

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There's somebody who finds grace in God's eyes. He's blameless, he's righteous.

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His name's Noah. Noah is going to be the Messiah and everybody else besides Noah's family is going to drown in the flood.

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He's going to be the one. He's found favor in the eyes of the Lord. He's walking with God. He's going to be the serpent crusher.

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Matter of fact, there's language about Noah that's similar to Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

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Yes, this is going to be the Messiah. And it says again in chapter nine, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth.

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The flood happened. We're gonna start over again. The Messiah is here. His name's Noah. Verse 11 of chapter nine.

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God says to Noah, I will establish my covenant with you. Messiah. The sons of Noah went forth from the ark where Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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And then what happened? Seeing the father's nakedness.

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Wow. Noah began to be a man of the soil and he planted a vineyard.

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He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. He partakes of the fruit of the vine.

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He becomes naked and ashamed. Sound familiar? Fruit, naked, ashamed.

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I guess Noah's not gonna be the Messiah. Oh, there's another man on the scene.

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Okay. We know there's gonna be a Messiah. Wasn't Cain. Wasn't Noah.

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Who comes along the scene next? Abraham. Abram. Maybe he is going to be the one.

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I mean, after all in chapter 12, God says, I'm gonna make a great nation out of you. I'm gonna bless you. I'm gonna make your name great.

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That you'll be a blessing. I'm gonna bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.

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Abraham, be fruitful and multiply. It says in Genesis 17, that I may make my covenant between me and you and may multiply you greatly.

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And what happens? There's a famine and they go to Egypt and they see

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Sarah, his wife, who's beautiful. He doesn't wanna die. So he says, by the way, she's not my wife.

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She's my sister. And Pharaoh figured it out and called Abraham and said, what is this you've done to me?

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Eve, what have you done? Cain, what have you done? Noah, what have you done? Abraham, what have you done to me?

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And by the way, it happened again. It happened in Genesis 20 with Abimelech. She's not my sister.

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I mean, she's not my wife. She's my sister. And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, any guesses?

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Eve, what have you done? Cain, what have you done? Pharaoh to Abraham, what have you done? What do you think

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Abraham is going to hear from Abimelech? Chapter nine, excuse me, chapter 20, verse nine.

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What have you done to us? I guess Abraham's not the

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Messiah, but God's promises are true. There's going to be a Messiah. We're just waiting for him.

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Oh, I know. Yes, it might not be Abraham, but it's his son, Isaac.

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Isaac is going to be the one. Isaac is the one we see Abraham take to go slay on Mount Moriah.

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And the Lord is going to provide a lamb. And it was provided. He was going to be a sacrificial lamb.

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Sounds familiar. Could be the one dying in our place. He's going to be the one.

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It says in Genesis 26 of Isaac, I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven.

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And I will give your offspring all these lands. Abraham might've failed, but Isaac is going to do it.

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And then you know what? Exactly like his father, who lied to Abimelech about his wife, who lied to Pharaoh about his wife.

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It says in Genesis chapter 26, Isaac settled in Gerar, when the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, she's my sister.

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So Abimelech called Isaac and said, behold, she's your wife. How could you say she's my sister?

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Isaac said, because I thought lest I die because of her. And Abimelech said to him, any guesses?

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Eve, what have you done? Cain, what have you done? Abraham, what have you done? Noah, what have you done? Isaac, Genesis 26, 10,

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Abimelech said, what is this you have done to us, Jacob?

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There's another one, Jacob. Genesis 28,

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God almighty bless you, Jacob, and make you fruitful and multiply. Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply.

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We're getting a little hint here, be fruitful and multiply. Yes, I can hear this. This is right, finally,

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Jacob. God said there's going to be a Messiah. Will this be the Messiah? Genesis 29,

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Jacob said to Laban, give me my wife that I may go into her for my time is completed. So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.

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But in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob and he went into her. And in the morning, behold, it was

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Leah. And Jacob said to Laban, what is this you've done to me? I mean, that kind of language is everywhere.

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And we find out later all the sins of Jacob. He's not the Messiah. Well, maybe

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Moses. Moses is going to be the one. Finally, we're going to have someone that crushes the serpent's head.

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His name is Moses. He's protected, he's rescued, he's trained, he's the one.

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And of course, Moses doesn't trust the Lord completely. He strikes the rock. No paradise for Moses, no promised land for Moses.

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He's not a Messiah. Well, maybe there's a supernatural kind of birth that needs to take place so that the

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Messiah can be the real Messiah. Judges chapter 13.

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An angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, behold, you're barren and have not born children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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And he shall begin to save Israel from the hands of the Philistines. Samson, the

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Messiah. Yes, here we go. Genesis 3 .15 is finally going to be born.

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And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew and the Lord blessed him.

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The Messiah, strong and mighty, tearing lions into pieces. The spirit of the

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Lord's upon him, striking 1000 men with the jawbone of the ax. Yes, the Messiah, Samson.

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Mario's looking like, I know this is gonna end badly. And then Samson goes to Gaza.

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There's the prostitute. He went into her, et cetera, et cetera. Samson's not the one. I mean, we could go on and on, reading the

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Bible in such a way where you're anticipating the Messiah and the King did what was wicked in the eyes of the

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Lord, evil in the sight of the Lord. You get to David and you think, okay, the spirit of the Lord was on David. It rushed forward that day, killing all the

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Philistines. Oh, wait a second. David is the Messiah. He goes over to Goliath.

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David doesn't go to Samson and cut his head off. He cuts the head of Goliath off.

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Some say Goliath has that chain mail on that almost could look like the skin of a serpent, like just the scales.

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He cuts the serpent's head off as it were. And God works a great salvation in Israel.

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But of course we know. What have you done, David? You're on the housetop and you see on the other roof.

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So sad, isn't it? What have you done? Eve, what have you done?

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Cain, what have you done? Noah, what have you done? Abraham, what have you done? Isaac, what have you done?

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Jacob, what have you done? Samson, what have you done? David, what have you done? Jeremiah, what have you done?

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And the list goes on and on and on. And finally we come to the Messiah who was and his name is

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Jesus. And if you ask yourself the question, Jesus, what have you done? That will answer the question, who's the

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Messiah? Jesus is the Messiah. After all the Messiahs who weren't, we finally come to the

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New Testament. You can go to whichever gospel you want, including the book of Luke. And after many hundreds of years of silence, we come to the one who's done the right thing.

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Ask yourself of Jesus. If you were to say to Jesus, what have you done? The answer, unlike Adam, unlike Eve, unlike everybody up through David, he perfectly obeyed

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God's law. He entirely obeyed God's law. He exactly obeyed

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God's law and he personally obeyed God's law. God specially made the womb of Mary, specially with the glory cloud of the

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Holy Spirit, hovering over the womb of Mary, making sure Jesus not tainted by any sin.

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Who is this Messiah? What have you done, Jesus? And so when it comes to the

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Bible and you start seeing the promise seed that it is going to be fulfilled one day, it'll be fulfilled in Jesus, I think it's going to encourage you.

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I think you're gonna be encouraged that Jesus, when he meets Satan in the wilderness, not

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Satan in a garden, but in a wilderness, he deals with Satan properly. Paradise gained by this

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Jesus. And if you think about how much harder it was for Jesus than Adam, it's going to impress you.

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I read by one man who said, Adam was tested in a garden, Jesus tested in a wilderness.

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And where Adam failed, Jesus, the last federal head, the last Adam, did the right thing.

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Second point of contrast is that Adam was given a helpmate, but Jesus was alone as mediator, interesting.

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Third contrast, Adam was given every tree in the garden for food, except for one tree.

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Jesus is hungry and he's been in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights. And so when it comes to reading the

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Bible, I just want you to say, as you're reading the Old Testament, the hopes and dreams and aspirations of the people to finally have the

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Messiah were so dashed and so crushed when these men sinned.

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But how much greater the joy is when you finally get to the New Testament, you finally get to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, you finally get to a

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Messiah and you just watch him. Virgin born, okay, this could be the one.

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Studying in the temple, this could be the one. Preaching in the synagogue, Luke four, this could be the one.

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He's victorious over Satan in the wilderness, this could be the one. He's powerful over nature, over supernatural things like demons.

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He's powerful over water, he can forgive sins, he can raise people from the dead, this could be the one.

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He dies, he's a sinless man, he dies for sinners on the cross, he's powerful enough to raise himself from the dead, this is the one.

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And you finally get there and you think, God is faithful to his promises, Satan is the liar,

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Satan isn't the saviour, he's a deceiver and God's word can be trusted because God can be trusted.

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How do you read the Old Testament? With great joy knowing the New Testament is coming. Mike Eban wrote,