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- that the Bible is not just a disconnected book of 66 individual and separated books.
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- It rather is one book with one focused point. 66 books, 1500 years, 40 different authors, various backgrounds, various genres, and yet the
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- Bible has a single story. What is that story, preacher? I'm glad you asked.
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- The Lord Jesus Christ. In the beginning, the
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- Bible tells us, was Christ, was the Word. All things were created by Him and for Him and through Him.
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- He is the promised seed of Eve to crush the serpent's head. He is the reason for the rainbow.
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- God promises not to destroy the world again by flood so that Christ would come. He is the ark, a refuge from God's wrath.
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- He is the promised offspring of Abraham who will bless all the families of the earth. He is the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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- He is Jacob's ladder. He is the greater prophet that Moses spoke of.
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- He is the one that all the feasts and sacrifices point us to under the Mosaic covenant.
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- He is the Passover lamb. He is a better priest than Aaron. He is the promised son of David.
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- All the wisdom of Proverbs points us to Him. He is the bridegroom of the song of Solomon.
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- He gives music to every psalm. He is Isaiah's vision. He is Jeremiah's branch.
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- He is greater than Jonah. Zechariah spoke of Him. Zephaniah spoke of Him.
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- He is greater than Zerubbabel's temple. He is the Son of God. He is the
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- Son of Man. He is the last Adam, the true and better Adam. Gabriel announces his birth.
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- He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He grew up, the Bible says, like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground.
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- He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. He is truly
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- God and truly man. He fulfilled the law. He obtained righteousness for His people by His righteous life.
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- His life merits access to the tree of life. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
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- The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness. He completed the covenant of works.
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- Yet, the Bible says He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
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- And as one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised and we esteemed Him not. Yet, the
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- Bible says He is the way, the truth, and the life. He went to the cross as Scripture required and as Scripture predicted.
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- Nails were driven into His hands and one into both of His feet, and a crown of thorns was placed upon His head.
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- And He quotes from the cross. Psalm 22, verse 1. My God, my
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- God, why have you forsaken me? Naked, alone, derided, a sin offering between heaven and earth on God's altar, bearing the wrath of God for sinners, crying out in His last breath, it is finished.
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- He drank the cup. We are the lawbreakers and He is the one who upheld the law and yet He dies in our place.
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- Are you hearing what the Bible is about? A spear pierced His side. He was laid in a borrowed tooth.
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- Samson, in his death, brought more death. Jesus, in His death, secured life.
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- On the third day, up from the grave, He arose. He spent 40 days teaching
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- His disciples and then He ascended into heaven and He is seated now at the right hand of God, the
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- Father Almighty, and all things are under His feet. All principalities and powers and governments and every president and every world leader, they're under His feet.
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- He rules over all and He is head of the church and by His Holy Spirit, through the word of God, He is building this church because God will have
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- Him for Himself a people spread over all the earth who will glorify Him and enjoy
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- Him and serve Him and honor Him and He is doing this through the gospel that you're hearing.
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- All things happening in the world today are for the glory of Christ and for the good of His people.
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- And He's coming physically again to judge the living and the dead. What are you saying, preacher?
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- I'm saying this, no Jew, no Muslim, no Hindu, no liberal, no conservative, no southerner, no
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- Yankee, no Canadian, no one will receive pardon.
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- No nationality, no ethnicity, no gender, male or female.
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- No age will receive pardon or forgiveness of sins except in Christ alone.
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- This, my friends, is the subject of the scriptures He is
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- Christ. Jesus is the treasure in the field.
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- He is the pearl of great price. He is the one in whom, the only one in whom our restless hearts may find rest.
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- He is the only one to whom we may go to for forgiveness of sins.
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- He is the only one that we may go to for sweet and blessed reconciliation with our
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- God, for justification, for a new life, for eternal life. God saves sinners, but only one way.
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- Christ, friends, it's all about Christ. I'm telling you this morning, this book is not your little blessing box.
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- It's not for cute sayings on a couch pillow. It's not for men to build their own kingdoms or a way to manipulate
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- God or to make you just feel better about yourself or to manipulate others. This book is about Christ.
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- This book points us to our good and gracious King. Listen to the book.
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- This gospel calls out to all men, all women, all boys, all girls.
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- Listen to me now this morning. If you're in this room, the sexually immoral, the legalist, the hypocrites, the addicts, the self -righteous, the self -loathing, the self -infatuated, the lazy, the gluttons, the liars, the thieves.
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- The gospel calls out to all and says, come, repent, and believe the gospel.
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- He's slain with the sword. Hear me. The sword cuts deep.
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- Oh, it's such a deep cut. And yet it heals so beautifully.
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- The point of the Bible is Christ. Do you know this man?
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- Is he your joy, your solace, your master?
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- Hey, why are you calling Jesus Lord of your life if you don't do what he says? Well, preacher, that's offensive to me.
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- No, that's what the Bible says. Why do you call him
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- Lord, Lord, if you don't want to follow his commandments? If you love him, do what he says.
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- And under the providential, sovereign hand of God, you're hearing this this morning again in his grace.
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- Will you come know him today? Believe in the one today whom the whole
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- Bible points us to? Will you trust Jesus? So what if you can defend, so what if you can defend the doctrines of grace if you don't know
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- Christ? So what, so what if you're going to vote for the right person for president this fall if you don't know
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- Christ? So what if your children are successful in academics or in sports if you don't know
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- Christ? He is the one whom we were made for. And he is the one whom the
