Matthew 4:23-25; more than a record of events!

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Discipling them uh helping them uh in whatever means that that they are able to help them uh financially or whatever it may be.

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Um it's a nationwide ministry organization and then you have your state -based organizations and then you have your even more local organizations called uh

Personhood Alliance and I want to get my county involved. If you are in my county and want to help me end abortion um make our county a safe uh sanctuary county for families, please contact me.

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We we need to fill up some petition pages and and present a resolution to our county commissioners.

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This is another local event um for my community. So if you're not in my community,

I apologize but it's love your neighbor event back to school. Bless blessing. It's not going to be it's not going to be this

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Newton Conover area, search up Vertical Life Church. Now, with all those announcements out of the way, those things that I wanted to share with you,

I want to get into god's word and spend some time there with you as long as you'll stay with me.

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I do and hopefully we can we can work on on fixing that issue eventually but I'm walking through Matthew and we are up to Matthew chapter four verses twenty -three through twenty -five.

Um if you have your Bible, if you want to follow along, if you just want to listen, we're in Matthew chapter four verses twenty -three through twenty -five.

Let me read it for us. And Jesus was going about in all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people and the news about him went out into all

Syria and they brought to him all who were ill, taken with various disease and pains and demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics, and he healed them in great multitudes followed him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the

Jordan. So, what's been going on in Matthew? Uh what we need to be reminded of when we're looking at Matthew is that Matthew is pointing us to Jesus.

Um his theme as he writes is pointed to Jesus as um as king, as the the

Messiah, the anointed one, the one who was to come. So, as Matthew writes, he is writing, pointing in that, pointing us in that direction.

So, that's how we need to read as we look at Matthew. You know, these the

Bible is um is an historical record. It is factual and it gives us a record of history but it's more than that.

It's it's God's history. It's God's plan and and the writers,

God used these writers to have uh specific um purposes as they wrote and here

Matthew says to point to Jesus as king and as we looked at Matthew chapter one through through four so far um especially in Matthew yeah

Matthew one two we saw that that Matthew was specifically pointing to Old Testament prophecies um and how

Jesus fulfilled those prophecies and actually in my opinion

I think that continues here I think it will you know of course continue throughout the book but it it continues here as well is um he's not as specific as he was um in some of the other passages where he says um as the prophet said uh like in in chapter two verse five so for so it has been written by the prophet so he's you know he's specific there and and pointing out this is what

I'm talking about but here I think he is continuing and I don't think it's always always pointed out to us that that's what they're doing they just um they their audience was familiar with uh the scripture with the

Old Testament so when they when they would use that language or when they would um speak of those passages they would they would know we must um in in our modern day we must do more study we must spend more time understanding the scripture having a biblical theology a systematic theology um looking at the references and letting scripture interpret itself letting scripture interpret scripture so so we know what

Jesus is talking about we know what Matthew and Paul and all the other uh New Testament believers we know that what they were talking about when they um use certain language reference certain passages in the

Old Testament and and that's the direction that I'm going here in Matthew chapter 4 verses 23 through 25 that Matthew continues to to look at the

Old Testament pointing to Jesus uh his fulfilling the prophecies fulfilling um what was written in the

Old Testament about the Messiah about the anointed one um we have

Jesus um calling his disciples in in chapter 4 verses verses 18 through 22 um he calls he calls

Simon who was called Peter Andrew his brother James and John who were with their father Zebedee and of course they they were all fish well

Peter and Andrew where they were fishing James and John they were tending or mending their nets but Jesus was there and and called them told them to follow him and and of course we talked about last time how they did immediately and so he would he was in Galilee he was by the sea of Galilee and verse 23 says

Jesus was going about in in all of Galilee so we're still in the same vicinity we're in the same geographical area and Jesus now

Matthew says it is in all of Galilee teaching in their synagogues a lot of times we're familiar with Jesus speaking on the

Mount of Olives the the Olivet discord um the Beatitudes um teaching on a boat um having everyone sit down um and disciples put them in groups and feeding them you know we're we're familiar used to hearing about Jesus teaching and preaching outside uh but Jesus also as Matthew tells us here was was teaching in their synagogues and they recognized

Jesus um as as a rabbi as a teacher and they would let him as as tradition would have it as they would do in their in their synagogues oh no this wasn't the temple the temple was in Jerusalem um every city had their own synagogue you know as we have our own churches you know here and there in our area uh this wasn't the temple but it was their synagogue the place where they would gather um for for worship for for teaching and and prayer in their local community and so Jesus was there in in all of Galilee in their synagogues their churches and what they would do is they would have excuse me a rabbi a teacher to read the scripture exposit or explain the scriptures and that's why

I I'm a big proponent of expository preaching

I think it's the best I wanted to say only but I know there's there's times where we um we can preach other styles and types of sermons but I think as a as a main diet that expository preaching is the the best type and style of preaching because we see that as the example in scripture um you know we we see that because we know how they they did in their synagogues in their temple they would read the scripture and they would explain it uh we we have the account of you know in Nehemiah where um the the the law was rediscovered and he he stood up and had you know elders there with him and they had a podium he was up in front of the people and he read and then he explained the scriptures you know that's the example that we see in scripture um and that's how we stay on course is is a good diet of hearing the word of God and hearing the word of God explained um as as we gather and I'm convinced of course that that's what

Jesus is doing here in the synagogue since that was what they practiced uh Jesus maybe was was called up or he went up and he he read read a portion of scriptures and then he explained it and it's interesting that um that it says he uh he was teaching in their synagogues so there you have that portion of what we were just talking about where a rabbi would get up read and explain the text so it seems to me that's what

Matthew was describing here Jesus read and explained the text and in the same breath as he was reading explaining the text he was proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and so it makes me think of Jesus as he um he was on the road to the mess he met these uh these two gentlemen who was distraught because of what was going on Jerusalem Jesus had died but now he had risen from the dead and he was walking with these men and he began to explain the scriptures to them showing himself in the old testament and here

I can't help but think the same thing was happening um early on in his ministry that he would be in the synagogues reading the text explaining the text and and in that he was proclaiming the good news of the kingdom um this was already occurring in in Matthew you have in in Matthew chapter in Matthew chapter 3 you have

John the Baptist who was preaching in the in the wilderness repent the kingdom of heaven is at hand and then you have

Jesus um after that transition Jesus begins to preach in in Matthew 4 verse 17 repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and now

Jesus to the people in the synagogue he's going to his people reading explaining the text and showing them the good news of the kingdom

I believe in the text um like I tried to mention in my description these these passages in scripture um and specifically the one that we're reading tonight we can we can read past them read through them look over them as just a historical record this is what happened next in Jesus's life and really not get anything out of it but there's so much more to the text as if we look um at what

God was doing from the beginning to the end and and we see the pattern we see the consistency um there's there's a thread and Jesus is the main thread of the tapestry you may have heard it said and talk about how um from the old testament to the new testament and you know they cite the passage with Jesus on the road to Emmaus how

Jesus is is the a thread that is weaved all through the old testament and new testament but that's the whole tapestry the whole timeline it's not two separate timelines uh the old covenant new covenant old testament new testament it's not two separate timelines um this is

God's creation this is God's history this is God's timeline his plan his work and it's it's from beginning to end as we're going to see here in a minute it

God is over it all and and we um we overlook so much by just reading passages like this and viewing them as just historical events and things that happen in Jesus's life and and what happened next because there's so much more involved than than what is on the surface and here as I was explaining when when

Matthew is telling us that Jesus was teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom or the gospel of the kingdom um this was their pattern this was their practice he read talked and he proclaimed the gospel or the good news of the kingdom this is where I want to to have the the meat of our discussion we to get more out of the text you know we've got to ask ourselves questions what what does he mean what is the gospel of the kingdom we've heard the gospel we've heard the good news um we've heard you know the sinner's prayer um the roman road you know that's kind of what we think of but here

Jesus is preaching the gospel of the kingdom why don't we speak that language in church um we're mainly familiar like I said with a gospel message a sinner's prayer roman's road uh whatever it may be but we're not familiar with this kingdom language and Jesus is not just familiar with it he is it and he's proclaiming the gospel the good news of the kingdom not just the the gospel uh message of salvation but the gospel of the kingdom and of course we think about the audience and as we talked about before they were familiar with the scriptures they were familiar with with what he was talking about this this idea of a kingdom um they they are familiar their ancestors were part of a kingdom a kingdom that succeeded a kingdom that failed a kingdom that that had its ups and downs that was taken into captivity that was taken into the wilderness that that sin and disobeyed

God um and then turned back to God but they had a kingdom they had kings as we're going to look at so they were familiar with this this concept but Jesus was pre proclaiming the the gospel of the kingdom um and why was he doing that um another thing that I wanted to point out too is that Jesus wasn't proclaiming a new kingdom um you know this isn't some some new thing that God is doing is basically what

I wanted to how I wanted to phrase it Jesus wasn't isn't doing a a brand new thing there's a there's a plan

B is probably more clear a way to explain what

I'm right I'm trying to convey if this isn't a plan B this isn't a new kingdom um this was a concept and a plan that has been in place from from eternity past and so that's what

Jesus was proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom so what were they familiar with um

I want to look at um kind of walk through some articles that uh if you go to Ligonier .com

this is um RC Sproul's ministry Ligonier .org and these articles were written by Ben Dunson and um so this this kingdom idea goes all the way back to the beginning and the concept of God's kingship is present throughout the old home and throughout the old testament and is vital if we are going to make sense of Jesus preaching about the kingdom of God um

Jesus simply announces that the kingdom is at hand um assuming that his ear hearers had some grasp of what he meant even if he knew that they did not fully understand so first thing that he points out is that uh king

God is king over all creation um psalm uh psalm 10 16 uh 2nd chronicles 20 verse 6 and and I don't have time to or to read all these verses or we we would be together you know for so long but psalm 10 16 2nd chronicles 20 verse 6 um

Isaiah 37 verse 16 psalm 93 verses 1 and 2 God is um began as ruler and king over everything that's the um of course that's that's the standard that's the uh the mark that never moves that's the constant that has always been and always will be that that God is king over everything so um

I know we're not familiar with that concept because we're Americans we live in America and uh we are so focused on our individual freedom and individual rights that we we're not we really don't know what it's like to live under an earthly kingship uh monarchy but that's the way the old testament

God reveals himself as as ruler as king over the whole universe and so this idea this understanding of kingdom was familiar to Matthew's audience and the old testament um

Israelites this is this was the pattern of Israel and of course that's why you see um the that's the main form of government in early history for such a long time is because it's patterned after um its creator our governments are patterned after its creator and so that's why you see that so the second thing that I mentioned is that the old testament portrays

God as king over Israel in a special way and of course you know we know that uh first Samuel 8 verses 4 through 9 first Samuel 12 12 through 13 and you know we're familiar with God's relationship excuse me with Israel he says while it is true that God alone is the ultimate king of Israel and over all creation human kings have a key role to play in God's kingdom in fact

God built human kingship into creation itself which is you know kind of what

I'm talking about in Genesis 1 through 2 Adam is clearly portrayed as king this is seen most clearly in the commission that God gives

Adam in Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 through 30 so here are the things that here are the commands that God gives

Adam that that shows us that maybe it doesn't you know word for word say that God anoints him as king of the earth but the description um his his obligations his his commands that that God has given him clearly points to him as being the the ruler

God has set him up as ruler over over the earth kingship is part of the heart of the commission that God gives to Adam he has granted dominion over all animal life on the earth he is told to have many children in order to subdue the earth and take dominion over it he's given control over all plant life and again over every animal on earth in short

Adam is to rule over the whole world as a subordinate king underneath God the true king overall so that's the way it was set up originally

God is the king overall and then God sets up a king to to manage his earth to to take dominion to rule and subdue it so um and some of you may not be familiar with but familiar with this but one name of this is called the creation mandate that God gave to Adam to subdue it and to fill it and have dominion over it and a lot of times as we as we try to study or as we review this story that we're so familiar with we're we're stuck in the garden do you find yourself stuck in the garden uh that's where you know the story of Adam and Eve takes place in the garden of Eden and then because of their disobedience they're kicked out but the part of the story that we really need to remember is this part

God's kingship overall God sets up a king underneath him to take dominion to subdue the earth and and rule over it the earth not just the garden they were to take their rule and dominion and authority and and spread it over the whole earth it wasn't uh they they were representing

God and we're supposed to do that all over the earth but of course their disobedience in the garden forbid them or stop them from fulfilling that creation mandate but that was their mandate and we can't we can't look over we can't look past can't look over that aspect we've got to we've got to get out of the garden and remember the creation mandate that it was for the whole earth and since that didn't happen you have

Abram later named Abraham come along Ben Dunstan says that he says as I mentioned despite Adam's sin and failure

God does not abandon his intention to rule over the earth through a human king in fact although one can sometimes get the wrong impression reading first Samuel that Israel's desire for a king was purely sinful already in the book of Deuteronomy God through Moses promised

Israel that they would one day have a king so this promise you know you have the and I can never pronounce this the the you on you angeli on the the first gospel in Genesis the that God says that he is going to the the seated woman is going to crush the head of Satan Satan will bruise his heel but he will crush

Satan's head that the first gospel and here early on in Deuteronomy through Moses Israel is promised a king they would one day have a king however the true king he says

God is the one who sets up the terms for Israel's future king and he gives the list of qualifications that that this king must meet for him to be a king

Dunstan goes on to say Adam's specific commission from God to take dominion over the earth is also not abandoned because of his sin so this promise of a king is not abandoned

God does not abandon him God does not abandon his plan of of him being king over all and then

God having someone underneath him or others underneath him ruling and having authority and dominion under he doesn't abandon that plan he doesn't abandon it because of Adam's sin this creation mandate is not abandoned that they are to take dominion over the whole earth although Adam certainly forfeits his role as king with the call of Abram in Genesis 12 we see a renewed commitment on God's part to rule over the entire world through his chosen means so God is continuing this plan a plan that is not abandoned that's why

I wanted to us to focus on Matthew chapter 4 verse verse 23

Jesus is preaching the gospel of the kingdom this is not a new concept this is

God not abandoning his plan not abandoning his people and not abandoning the mandate to have rule and dominion through his means over all the earth and so we continue

God will bless Abraham abundantly and make him through his descendants into a great nation that God will bless so that they in turn can be a blessing to all families of the earth

Genesis 12 Genesis 17 the dominion mandate originally given to Adam is renewed with Abraham now called

Abraham Dunstan says there is however a very important difference between Adam's commission this is this is an important point that he makes here

Adam's commission and the covenant God makes with Abraham whereas Adam was given the responsibility to go take dominion over the earth

Abraham is told that God will grant him dominion God will make

Abraham the father of the multitude of nations Adam's commission was given when there was no sin to get in the way of carrying it out after Adam's fallen to sin if dominion over the earth is to going to be possible it must be a gift from God how about that that's significant

I think that's something that we must remember that it's a gift from God because now sin has cursed this earth

Dunstan says with the Abrahamic promise the stage is set for Israel's future role as God's new son we've talked about before Matthew talks about this is my beloved son in whom who

I am well pleased we've talked about how that's not a new concept God does not abandon his plan let's see here

Dunstan says however Israel does not actually receive an earthly king until the time of Samuel so here he goes on to talk about how eventually the

God's people want an earthly king they they're tired of waiting on God and they they don't want to they don't want to live under God's rulership

God's kingship and him being their king they want to they want a sinful earthly king for themselves so they can be like the other nations if you're familiar with that passage and then you have you have

Saul you have David and then you have Solomon and then after that you have the um the civil war you have the um the splitting between the the north and the south northern and southern kingdom

Israel and Judah and then you have the the kings who were mostly um downward spiraling rulers there were some that were occasionally good but most of them were bad and that was the trajectory of the the kingship that they requested from God that their kings were sinful which again kept them from fulfilling the dominion the creation mandate that God gave in the beginning that God um

God is not going to abandon uh doesn't says the promise to David that God will establish the throne of his of his kingdom forever becomes especially significant when we get to the prophets so you you've got these kings we know what happens that they they're sinful and this dominion that's supposed to happen in the earth over the earth ruling over the earth can't happen because of sinful man but God's promise of a king

God's creation mandate dominion mandate his plan that he does not abandon is reiterated and uh is continually discussed and and shared by God the promise is um is is reminded to them as as God gives us prophets and he gave

Israel prophets he gives us the prophets in the old testament in the writings to remind us of his um his thankfulness his holiness his dedication to his plan to have dominion over all the earth using um using a you know man using men to carry that out so uh we get to the prophets and one of the passages is is pretty um pretty amazing that i want to share with you and i want to share with you that passage at the end because it ties in most directly with our uh three verses here

Matthew chapter four but um let's see dunston says how then were

God's people to make sense of the kingly corruption and failure in Israel's history how especially was

Israel to understand the seeming abandonment of God's kingdom that the exile represented here is here's where the prophets come in we will turn to old testament prophetic teaching about God's kingdom in our next post so we're going to flip to the next article you know they they were warned about the exile because of their sin um they were the ones who actually abandoned

God um it may seem like God abandoned them because the exile but um this was you know it was a warning it was prophesied this is what's going to happen and it happened um you you

God even gave them a timeline 70 years you know we're looking at that in Daniel um the book of Daniel with Dan in my other videos you know

God was specific about that timeline and it may seem have seemed to some that God that was an abandoning of God but God it's clear throughout scripture

God is faithful he's dedicated he's holy he doesn't abandon his plan he doesn't doesn't abandon his promises he doesn't abandon his people and we can bank on that and that can give us hope and help with our anxiety um doesn't says when the northern and southern kingdoms of Israel went into exile the hope for God's rule over the earth to be manifested in an

Israelite king seemed to have come to nothing the prophets before during and after the exile however however make it clear that even with the exile

God would not and did not abandon his intention to rule over his people and his world through a

Davidic king and here in this article um I didn't know if I would read a specific passage and get to it where he uses this term but if you're familiar with um any of our recent videos where it's been me or it's been uh

Dan and myself we've been talking about eschatology in things in times um and and the aspect of what we how we view what we believe in what we believe scripture scripture to be saying and and the view that we hold is is a partial preterist preterist means past most of the prophecies happen in the past and the the post -millennial position so it's it's reasonable for for me to think that that some of you that hear us say we're we're partial preterist we believe that um many of the prophecies have already been fulfilled so many many of you out there and many other people are believing that the prophecies are yet to be fulfilled in the end times so the question that I think is is a reasonable question that that some of you may have as you hear those things is how can someone like me who is a partial preterist think thinks that most of the prophecies have happened in the past already been fulfilled in the past how can we have a conversation about in times if we think that it's it's already happened we don't you do you even believe it in in times if you think it's already happened

I think those are reasonable questions that you may have of of someone like me but here is uh

Dunson uses a phrase that I think encapsulates the the best answer to that he calls this kingdom that is promised remember he's promised a king to come an

Israelite king through the Davidic line he's promised this king all the way back in in Deuteronomy through Moses and now he's reminding them again through all these prophets that this king is still going to come this messiah is going to come he's coming

I've not abandoned my plan so the king and this kingdom

Dunson refers to as the end times kingdom this is the end times kingdom the the end time started when

Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is at hand I am here the kingdom is here this is the gospel of the kingdom it is here and it is the the end times kingdom um we don't have time to read to read all the passages but maybe you're familiar with them this kingdom that whose king is going to be the the messiah the anointed one the

Christ is going to be an everlasting kingdom we read those passages at Christmas and an everlasting kingdom one that is never going to end that's why it's the end times kingdom it's it's the one that comes at the end and then never ends it's it's the one that they have been looking for so they are looking for that end times kingdom so uh

Dunson says how will the rain manifest itself what is necessary for God to reverse the failure of Israel to be a light to the nations and extend the kingdom across the earth first God will be about a new exodus this exodus however will not be mere deliverance from Israel's earthly enemies instead

God will come in power to deliver his people as he ushers in a new creation itself and renews his reign over his people that new creation new heavens and new new earth that's what has come this new kingdom with this promised messiah um the the prophets speak of God's deliverance of his people in this way as as the re -establishment of God's kingdom did you catch that um see yeah

I hope you will have time to read all these passages yourself but but in Isaiah 49 through 11 the this is what

Dunson says about it the prophets speak of God's deliverance of his people this exodus this deliverance of his people in this way as the re -establishment of God's kingdom isn't that amazing that's so wonderful um he says then it will only come about when

Yahweh returns to Zion to deliver his sinful people and equip them to extend his saving reign to the furthest points of the earth does that sound familiar go back to Adam go fill the earth subdue the earth have dominion over the earth this is the same plan

God has not abandoned his plan um Isaiah 52 7 through 10 how beautiful upon upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news here's

Jesus bringing good news of the kingdom who publishes peace who brings the good news of happiness who publishes salvation who says to Zion your

God reigns the voice of your watchman they lift up your voice together they sing for joy for eye to eye they see the return of the

Lord to Zion so the Lord has come back to Zion this this is Jesus coming to Zion break forth together into seeing you waste places of Jerusalem for the

Lord has comforted his people he has redeemed Jerusalem the Lord has bared his holy arm before the eye of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our

God wow and then um Jeremiah expresses this with the imagery of God's placing shepherds a symbol of kingship over his people in the context of bringing them in the new exodus out from the nations to which they have been driven

Jeremiah 23 3 through 4 what do we call shepherds pastors that's our pastors today um

Jeremiah 23 3 through 4 uh i hope you'll take some time time to read that um this is what the new kingdom looks like um

Daniel going back to Daniel Daniel speaks of this reality in this way um and in the days of those kings um that gives us a timeline of when this kingdom will be established uh i hope you remember that from the video um that we did in Daniel chapter 2 in the days of those kings remember the last kingdom is the

Roman kingdom that's when Jesus came the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed nor shall the kingdom be left to another people it shall break into pieces all the kingdoms and bring them to an end and shall stand forever you see how consistent scripture is um through the end through the end time kingdom that's

Dustin Dunson's phrase the end time kingdom that God will set up the Lord will be king over all the earth on that day the

Lord will be one and his name one Zechariah 14 verse 9 um he says while the prophets consistently speak of God as the the one who will solemnly usher in his end time kingdom they also speak of this as being accomplished through a kingly messiah figure um and then we go through all the passages of course that we we've looked at how

God is promising this kingdom and he's promising this king and the prophets go through that um

Isaiah 53 the the suffering servant uh Daniel 7 verses 13 and 14

I saw in the night vision and behold with clouds in heaven there came one like the son of man and he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people's nations and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away in his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed there's the mandate from the beginning of creation is going to be fulfilled and actual actualized and accomplished through Jesus Christ and this kingdom um so I hope that was helpful and edifying to you as we look look at what this gospel of the kingdom that Jesus was preaching is all about that's what it's all about from Adam until now

Jesus is the actualization the fulfillment of this promised kingdom and this promised king that will have no end um and it's for the whole earth

Jesus is accomplishing that dominion mandate to fill rule the whole earth now what was that last passage that I wanted to to share with you that is really relevant to the three verses that we're looking at tonight it's

Isaiah chapter 35 and why do I say it's relevant well if you remember the beginning of the video

I said that I believe that Matthew is still pointing us to Jesus fulfilling prophecies in the old testament about this king about this kingdom and and what it would look like so you have

Jesus teaching in the synagogues so we've discussed how that was he read the text he explained the text and part of that he was proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and then it says um he was healing every kind of disease and his the news about that went everywhere and everybody brought everyone that they knew that had diseases and he was healing all of them that was what was going on that's part of this puzzle so how does that fit in with what's going on here in this passage we understand his his teaching and preaching his proclaiming but then he's healing people among other things

I think Jesus is fulfilling old testament prophecy it is a sign of the messiah