Paul's Warning to the Church | Sermon 05/28/2023

The Worth of Knowing Christ and the Need for Certainty

Alright guys, so we're going to be going over 2nd Corinthians 11 3 through 4. So you can pull out your Bibles. Just keep them open there. It's going to be over Paul's authority in his apostleship, but before we get into that I want to have a brief Introduction to the sermon just so you can understand a few points that we're going to be going over.

All right. We're told also by the Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 7 through 8. But whatever gain I had I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord Jesus Christ to the Christian.

He is our treasure. He is our God and there is nothing more valuable to man than knowing hold on to that throughout this sermon. Knowing. Truly having certainty in our knowledge of Jesus Christ like the psalmist declares.

And we read it today in Psalm 73. Whom have I in heaven but you. And there is nothing on earth that I desire. Besides you my flesh and my heart may fail. But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

So let's do a mental exercise guys. Think about your future. Think about all your aspirations. Think about all the things that you want in this life. Put them over on the left-hand side of your brain and then put Jesus on the right.

In which does your soul seek refuge in whom does your soul delight in? The things of this world or In Jesus really think about that challenge yourself. Jesus he was just a man of humble appearance. That's what the scriptures state.

He was beaten and bruised. Put to shame for our glory. He opposed people in their sin. He called them out. He challenged us to pick up our cross and follow him. For in what way can this man if he was only a mere man?

Truly battle with and hold the soul affections and desires of the human heart compared to the lusts of the world. Any lack for the desire of Christ comes from the lack of knowledge or the misunderstanding in some aspect of who Jesus actually is.

And there are many things in this world that seek to undermine the person and Work of Jesus Christ. And there are many Christians who we will see in the text who actually bear with these things. The things that hold us back from knowing Christ or the things that take us from one aspect of who the true Jesus is.

And try to make us follow something else. Some Christians even put up with it. Jesus declared this to his disciples. He said who do you say that I am. Think about it to yourself. Jesus were to ask you who do you say that I am?

How would you respond? The most important aspect of human life is Having a relationship with our Creator. We must learn who he is. We must walk in a way where we are growing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

We must truly know him so that we do not deceive ourselves or even be led astray by false teaching. We must truly know him also in order to love others. John says that he says they will know us by our love.

To know Jesus is to both know him and The father. You cannot know the father without knowing Jesus. Matthew 24 states this it states that many false Christs will come into the world. There will be false prophets that deceive many.

First John 4 1 echoes the same sentiment by saying many false prophets have gone out into the world. And that's the point of this sermon to show in Scripture who Jesus is and how our knowledge of Jesus affects the gospel.

So in other words. Our knowledge of who Jesus is comes directly from the source of that knowledge if the source of that knowledge is wrong. Then we will unavoidably come up with wrong conclusions about who Jesus is and we may have fruit in our lives that mimics the Christian fruit, but ultimately it will lead us astray and poison others and the world.

Seeks to lead us astray from pure devotion to Christ. Through false religion false Christ's false prophets different Gospels different spirits. They all seek to subvert the person and work of Jesus Christ.

They are all different sources of knowledge that lead to reinterpretations or reinventions of Jesus Christ and every single one of them leads to a yoke of slavery a yoke of slavery. The word Gnosis which is applied knowledge comes from the Greek word Gnosko, which is an experiential knowledge.

It's knowledge gleaned from firsthand personal experience. So our walk with Christ can be understood in this way. We have a relational or personal experience with Christ Gnosko. Which is then applied to our everyday life.

Gnosis the application of that fruit is the source. But if the source the relation that we have of that knowledge is wrong. The rest will be wrong as well. If we challenge the authority of Scripture and supplant it with the words of men the source of that wisdom is wrong.

So the question is this is the source for your relational knowledge of Christ coming from the means of grace. Which we'll get into near the end of the sermon that Jesus gave us. Is it coming from that which is necessary to know him or is your knowledge of Jesus coming from an extra biblical source?

So we're gonna pray and we're gonna dig into the text and find out. Lord thank you for allowing me to be up here today to open your word, which is a treasure trove of knowledge. Lord is a. It's in the scary task Lord.

I Love you, and I thank you for having this ability Lord. Let me get out of the way. Let your word speak clearly. Let us dive into the text Lord. I pray that the body is edified Lord and that you are glorified.

And that we will know with certainty Jesus who you are what the gospel is in which spirit it is that lives Inside of us that has brought us from death into life. All right. Take a look at your Bible 2nd Corinthians 11 3 through 4.

Paul’s Apostolic Authority and the Church in Corinth

But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness. Your minds will be corrupted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach or you receive a different spirit.

Which you did not receive or a different gospel, which you did not accept you bear this. Beautifully, let's build some context here guys. We've been studying the book of Acts as a church every single Wednesday.

Except for the first Wednesday of the month, that's where we have our little church prayer meetings. But we go over a chapter every single time and we're gonna be on Acts chapter 21 next time. So we've been doing it for quite some time.

The book of Acts has been giving us awesome Insight into the life and ministry of Paul and also we know about the church in Corinth. Which is you know, the letter that was written to the Corinthians we learn about that in Acts chapter 18.

During Paul's second missionary journey. We find that Paul visits Corinth in verse 11 of Acts chapter 18. We find that Paul stayed in Corinth preaching that Jesus is hold on to this the Christ. That Jesus is the Christ to the Jew and Gentile for a year and a half meaning that Paul himself Helped establish the church that is in Corinth in the spirit in which Paul came to the church in Corinth.

He tells us in 1st Corinthians 2 1 through 8 was not in superiority of word or in wisdom. It was in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. So it was an eloquent speech that changed the hearts and minds of the Jews and Gentiles there.

It was solely through the power and authority of the gospel. It was in weakness and in fear in Acts 18. We get insight on to Paul. Jesus says this and comforts Paul it says in the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision.

Do not be afraid. But go on speaking and do not be silent for I am with you and no man will lay a hand on you in order To harm you for I have many people in this city. It's quite beautiful. The word the word the gospel was shown in a demonstration of the spirit and of power not eloquent speech.

So the source of the faith was not in man, but the power of God. He then states that the wisdom of the world in the book of Corinthians was being abolished because now the mystery of the wisdom of God is being revealed.

We can see that the Corinthians in whom are receiving Paul's letters. They know him personally. They have seen him and they have learned from him. He was with them again for a year and a half. That is a long time his first letter to the Corinthians challenged them on divisions Factions within the church which he learned by Chloe's people.

He then challenged them on bearing with the blatant sexual immorality. Which was taking place in the church of Corinth and in 2nd Corinthians Which is the sermon that we're going through today. We find that Titus was with the church of Corinth for a time and actually recounts The letter that Paul sent to them the effect that it had on the church of Corinth.

States this in 2nd Corinthians 7 8 through 11 for though I caused you sorrow by my letter. I do not regret it. Though I did regret it for I see that the letter caused you sorrow though only for a while.

I now rejoice not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have godly sorrow so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us for godly sorrow produces a repentance without regret.

Leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death. So we find that in 2nd Corinthians Paul starts commending the church in Corinth on the corrections that they have made. The first section of the 2nd Corinthians is Devoted just to that.

But it appears that there were people who were rising up in the church of Corinth who started challenging Paul's Apostolic authority and you have to understand that He first sends correction to them. They take the correction.

But I'm sure there were people who were upset. They were upset or perhaps his letters were strong but in person he was actually meek. Maybe this contributed to people questioning his apostolic authority but all in all.

The last part of letter the Paul's letter to the church in Corinth is his defense on his apostolic authority. And this is where our section of Scripture dwells. So we're gonna go back to 2nd Corinthians 11 and we're gonna start in verse 1 and 2.

I'm gonna read it out loud and then we'll go into it a little bit more from there just for the context of our immediate passage. He says I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness. But indeed you are bearing with me for I'm jealous for you with a godly jealousy.

For I betrothed you to one husband so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. So right here in this section Paul was bolstering his argument to the church in Corinth here. He was reminding them about he was the one That came and brought the gospel to them by the power of God that he's jealous.

He is jealous for the church in Corinth with a godly jealousy that they are to be presented by Paul To Christ as a pure virgin to Christ. What does that make you think about? It's like a spiritual father right.

Paul aims to protect the church of Corinth from false Teaching that is is is his duty and one day he will present his work before God on behalf of his apostolic Authority, we've got to understand that Paul is held up also accountable to God.

He hears things that are going on in the church of Corinth and he sends them a letter to correct it. Why. Because one day Paul will also be held accountable. He is the spiritual father of the church in Corinth and like a father it is his duty to keep The church in Corinth pure as a father keeps his daughter pure and protects her before she is betrothed to her future husband with godly jealousy.

He wants the church in Corinth to stay pure and that's the picture of the life of a minister before God. Right. He wants to keep his congregation pure through the preaching and teaching of the word in correction through love and godly jealousy.

Remember that in our congregation here pastor Wade will be held accountable to God for how he shepherds the flock. It would go well for us to Understand that any correction that he gives to us is down out of the spirit of love for God and his duty to protect you.

All right remember that correction and rebuke are never done out of malice or anger but instead out of love for you in the fear of God and the Authority in which pastor Wade may correct you is through the word of God because he is also held in subjection to the word and in now second Corinthians 11 3 Paul is telling the church that although he is trying to present the church in Corinth as a pure virgin to Christ.

There are people who have crept in to deceive them by stating this verse 3. But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness. Your minds will be corrupted for the from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Let's break that down from here. We're supposed to understand the following number one false teachers have crept into the church of Corinth. Number two False teachers are compared to who the serpent. Who is the serpent?

That's the question, right? Well, we find the serpent first in the garden in Genesis chapter 3 and then the book of Revelation. The serpent is Satan the deceiver of the world and then we're told in John 8 44 that the followers of Satan are ones who do as their father does they're compared.

Jesus compares the Pharisees that of them says they do as their father does. He does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him. He speaks from his own Nature for he is a liar and the father of lies.

So the source of wisdom in which in which the serpent comes and speaks to man comes from his own in nature. Right from his own nature, which is that of lies not from truth, right not from truth. So there are people Who have crept into the church in Corinth and they are those who mimic the devil.

They speak of their own nature and are full of lies. Remember the two words from the introduction of the sermon. There's gnosis and gnosco. There's ones with Gnosco, which is the relational knowledge that we have right almost like the source from which that knowledge is derived and the gnosis which is the application of That knowledge.

So the source of knowledge from the false teachers here is from their father the devil. Right the source and the authority in which Paul speaks to them Comes from God. He is an apostle. He is an apostle.

The question should be who are they to deceive and to what end is this deception? Well, the church in Corinth here in verse 3 is compared to Eve. It's compared to Eve. The pure virgin church in Corinth is compared to Eve in the garden.

Eve was deceived By the serpents craftiness. That's what it says in 2nd Corinthians 11 here. But what's interesting the Greek word for craft craftiness can also be translated to false wisdom false wisdom.

So think about this the serpent and his workers Seek to separate the source of knowledge from Christ to other things. This is false wisdom the wisdom of the world. The serpent first tempted Eve by making her question God's authority and the word.

What is the point of what Paul is going through here in 2nd Corinthians 11? He's telling them that he has authority from God. He's arguing about his authority. Those who seek to question his authority Are just like the serpent who made Eve questioned God's authority.

These false apostles in Corinth are doing the same thing. They are questioning Paul's apostleship which then puts his word. Which he is speaking on behalf of Jesus Apostle awesome messenger of the king into question.

Paul is making an argument that is bulletproof again. He's defending his apostleship the source. For the wisdom that is coming from this these teachers is craftiness. It is false wisdom and it comes from the nature of the one who speaks it.

Scripture states that these false apostles, right? The craftiness comes from Satan whereas true knowledge that Paul has given the church in Corinth comes from God. Comes from God he speaks for Christ and there's a separation occurring here between his apostleship in False teachers so Paul is telling them if you listen to these people that are creeping in they are not like Me.

The truth that they think you are getting is a false wisdom. It's not the actual truth. He's separating his apostleship from false teachers. The source for Paul's wisdom and knowledge is Jesus himself meaning that it is true.

The nature of God right truth comes from God since God created all things and upholds the universe by the word of his power. He in fact knows all things from mathematics to some atomic sciences anything.

That is true. Can be true and reliable only because of him. It is a reflection of his order and character with regards to revelation about who he is and the Gospel. God sent certain people to speak for him in the early Christian Church when Paul spoke about Jesus.

He speaks truth because the source of the information is from God himself through the power of the Holy Spirit. The one who seeks to subvert his authority are like the serpent and again Jesus says in John 8 they do not abide in the truth because the truth is not in them and.

That there's a deception that occurs that Paul warns about 2nd Corinthians 11 3 here and that deception comes from the mind. We find being corrupted. It's a separation Between the person and the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

The mind right like mental perception thought is being corrupted when the source is bad. The outcome will be bad and the Greek word here for corrupted can mean four different things. And I think it's very interesting.

For Jews the temple was corrupted or destroyed when anyone defiled or in the slightest degree damaged anything in it. Or if it's guardians neglected their duties number two. To lead away a Christian Church from the state of knowledge and holiness in which it ought to abide.

Three to be destroyed or to perish or four in an ethical sense to corrupt or deprave. I think the first two meanings for the word corrupted here in 2nd Corinthians 11 for have some of the most power here.

Corrupted from a purity a temple the body in which the Holy Spirit dwells if the guardians neglected their duties. Paul and his apostleship Is not neglecting his duties. He is correcting the church in Corinth again.

He is warning of the wolves and to a corruption occurring for the source of our knowledge the state of knowledge and holiness in which we ought to abide is corrupted by the serpent and When we are corrupted in mind.

By the serpent it distorts simplicity and purity in devotion to Christ. Think back to the fall. Adam and Eve worshipped God with simplicity and purity. They did there was a relationship that they had according to their nature and their duty.

Meaning they operated with the confineness of their creatureliness and they were doing what they were supposed to do. What were they supposed to do. Be fruitful and multiply subdue the earth? That's what they knew and they acted according to it.

It was simple and there's a purity of devotion to God. Adam knew what he had to do in the garden Eve. Likewise the source of the relationship and their knowledge of God came from their personal relationship with God.

He walked with them in the cool of the garden at that time. It was simple and pure and Then the serpent crept in and brought about a false wisdom a craftiness in Which Eve was deceived and the fall of man brought about a separation between God and man through sin.

Now We have a distorted view of God. The simplicity and purity of God is gone. It was gone after that. Really tried to grasp that at that moment in time at the fall separation between God and man happened through embracing false wisdom and that created a cataclysmic shift a cataclysmic shift in history.

Simplicity and pure right gardening eternal life naming animals being fruitful and multiplying. Taking Dominion food was provided for them. God walking with them into the cool of the garden to corruption death.

Dominion creating thistles and thorns painful childbirth. Sin literally distorts all the things that were to be simple and pure within our universe and God then required Stipulations covenants right in order to dwell with his people.

Those aren't bad things. That's grace and mercy given to us by God, but it wasn't simple and pure any longer. But there was a reason for that Adam and Eve once would have learned from God directly. Now the shadow is that God spoke through prophets and his glory was veiled.

That's the shadow. Yet God and all his stipulations to his people. Pointed forward to the second Adam Jesus Christ who would reverse the curse as far as the curse was found. The shadow has been fulfilled.

What does it say in Hebrews 1 says long ago at many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. But in these last days he has spoken to us. Through his son through his son God fulfilled that there's a simplicity and a purity of devotion that we have to Christ now through Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins the veil being split in the temple so that we can have a relationship with God.

The church in Corinth had it. But if they listen to these false apostles just like the serpent corrupted Eve in the garden. They too will be corrupted and they will follow after something different. Losing the simplicity and purity.

False Teachers, Jude, and 2 Peter

So let's think about what Paul is saying in this paraphrase here of verse 3. There are false apostles in the church looking to subvert my apostleship like their father the devil. They aim to corrupt your thoughts to separate you from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Paul is saying if you listen to them and not me you will be led astray from Christ. You will end up believing other things things that are false for the source of their false wisdom comes not from God, but it comes from the devil and Jude warns us.

Jude warns us about false teachers. Listen to what it says about false teachers in Jude 4 or Yeah in Jude verses 4 12 and 13. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into sensuality and does deny our Only master.

In Lord Jesus Christ then verse 12 through 13 says these are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast With you without fear caring for themselves. Clouds without water carried along by winds autumn trees without fruit.

Doubly dead uprooted wild waves of the sea casting up their own shame like foam. Wandering stars for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. So understand this that God knew these men would come.

God knew Satan would deceive Eve but like their father the devil the false apostles who seek to undermine Christ Church are marked out for Condemnation. Black darkness is reserved for them. Satan never wins in his deception.

Never likewise his people do not win for their deception is Appointed that they have reserved for them a special form of judgment just because we see false Teachers creeping into the church in the book of Jude in 2nd Peter here in the church of Corinth doesn't mean that the church ever Lost its truth.

No, actually what we see is the opposite. Paul defends the apostleship and he defends the gospel keeping the church in order and in line. They weren't appointed to win. If you read the scriptures, they're appointed to judgment.

We'll see so in 2nd Peter 2 9 through 20, but I'm only gonna hit on a few verses on this section. So I want to make a point here to show you 2nd Peter 2 verse 9 states this. Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment.

For the day of judgment and especially those who go after the flesh and its corrupt lust and despise Authority. Authority remember we're talking about here people who are challenging the authority of Paul those who have crept in To make them question what the Word of God is.

Then number 12 in terms of those verse 12 for those who are questioning Authority says this in verse 12, but these like Unreasoning animals born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed. Blaspheming where they have no knowledge.

Remember false wisdom. The source of their wisdom is in error. It comes from their father the devil. Blaspheming where they have no knowledge will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed.

Then we have Peter here mimicking what Jude was saying. These are springs without water in verse 17 and mists driven by a storm for whom the black darkness has been kept. For speaking out arrogant words of vanity the enticed by sensual lusts of the flesh.

Those who barely escape from the ones who conducted themselves in error promising them freedom. Promising freedom giving a different gospel. While they themselves are slaves of corruption for by what a man is overcome by this he is enslaved.

And at the end of verse 20 it states this. For if they are overcome having both escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Having again been entangled in them and the knowledge of the world then the last state has become worse for them.

Than the first. The Bible has a lot to say about false teachers. It never says that they win. It never says that they won. It says actually they're reserved for utter judgment. Also, what we show here is that it states that God preserves the godly through a trial.

It's what it says in 2nd Peter here. So we can extrapolate from 2nd Peter that the church in Corinth is doing what is it going through an apostasy? No. It's undergoing a trial. The church is being sanctified.

Paul is aware of this and that is why he is pleading with them Giving the totality of scripture at our disposal today. We find that even Peter compares false teachers to what? Unreasoning animals. Unreasoning animals and that they speak without knowledge.

They have a false wisdom. Paul again Also made this sentiment Comparing those who seek to undermine his authority to an animal to a serpent who deceived Eve with false wisdom. We then find Peter stating that these false teachers are under slavery.

They're under slavery While they are trying to promote freedom. It says when the Sun sets you free you shall be free indeed. You cannot be free unless you have been bought with the blood of Jesus Christ these people.

Though it seems like they once overcame it says in 2nd Peter at the end with the knowledge of the true Jesus Christ they became entangled and their last state is worse than the first before they Professed Christ.

We'll get back into that but getting back into 2nd Corinthians 11 3. Looking at it through the lens of Jude in 2nd Peter we find that false teachers subvert the authority of the apostles and Then supplant the true knowledge of Christ with false knowledge that enslaves into the individual.

This separates the person from what the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ because the simplicity and purity of devotion To Christ comes from the perfect work that Christ did for us on the cross and us being indwelt now by the Holy Spirit.

Those who can worship God don't have to go to this mountain or to that mountain. They know him they'll learn from him and they worship in spirit and in truth by the blood of Jesus Christ and we know That John tells us which we'll get into later.

It says they went out from us in terms of these false Apostles or these false teachers in terms of apostasy because they were not of us in Hebrew states that they tasted of the heavenly gifts. And they turned back.

These false teachers will look to redefine words. To corrupt the simplicity and purity of what Christ has accomplished and what it is needed for us to be conformed to the image of Christ for example in Colossians 2.

We're told that there are commands of men that promote Self-made religion. False wisdom in one of the showing signs of it is that they create statutes and ordinance of which we are to follow. But then Paul condemns that in Colossians 2 and he says.

But they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh no value. Because the source of these statutes is not in Christ. In fact when Christ is subverted complexity occurs within our relationship with God simplicity and purity.

Devotion to Christ gone you must obey X Y and Z in order to get to heaven. It's not correct. We stand justified solely by the work of Christ on the cross and that justification is a forensic term. I am declared righteous.

I was guilty, but now I'm declared righteous by the work of Christ on the cross. And then my sanctification comes from the means of grace. Which I have been given to live a life in devotion to God with a relationship with God through the source of that knowledge.

Coming directly from God not a mediator of man. But if someone comes and corrupts or twists Christ in the gospel. There will no longer be freedom in devotion because then we will submit to man-made principles.

In order to please God and this is shown by Paul continuing on in verse 4 of 2nd Corinthians 11. He states this for if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach or you receive a different spirit.

Which you did not receive or a different gospel, which you did not accept you bear with this beautifully. Paul is showing that if Corinth the church in Corinth denies his apostleship and questions the very Word of God that they will inevitably fall into.

They'll fall into false teachings. They'll follow what a different Jesus that was preached a different spirit that was received in a different gospel. That they will accept from the one that they had accepted and it says not only this that they'll follow.

But they will bear with it beautifully, but I like how that ESB states at the end of the verse. It says you would put up with it readily enough. So we should ask ourselves Who is the Jesus starting with that?

Starting with the first for if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach. So who was the Jesus that the Apostles preached since they have the authority to them given by Christ. Who do they say that Jesus is and I love it.

We've been going through the book of Acts and actually went through the book of Acts and counted a total of 12 times where Peter And Paul are preaching to the Jews and the Gentiles and they preach that Jesus is the Christ.

They say is the Christ 12 different times. What did they preach? How do we know? Well Christ knowing the Christ it's a title and it means Messiah. Let's ask ourselves then who is the Messiah? According to Scripture and this isn't gonna be an exhaustive list.

But this is an example for us to show what the Apostles would have used to argue who Jesus is. They would do it from the Old Testament scriptures. This will show us clearly who the Messiah was expected to be.

There's a title the Christ and they say Jesus is the Christ. He fulfilled it. So from the Pentateuch in the historical books of the Bible if you guys have a pen and paper you can write some of these Verses down just to look up later.

It's pretty cool. It's who is the Messiah who was the Christ supposed to be from the Old Testament? Well, the Messiah would be born from a woman and crushed the head of a serpent. That's from Genesis 3 14 through 15.

The Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah. Genesis 49 10. He will be the prophet that Moses prophesied of that's Deuteronomy 18 verse 15 and 18 through 19. He will be a priest of God's order. It's from first Samuel 2 35.

Then from Job in the Psalms, we find that the Messiah will be a physical Redeemer. That's in Job 19. The Messiah is God's son. Psalm 2 quoted in Hebrews 1 and even the word son itself is a title thinking back to John 1 18.

It says no one has ever seen God except for the unique and only. The only one the monogamous deus which has made him known. Not a literal offspring. But the title the one whom which all authority is derived that has guided Israel from the beginning to his incarnation.

What does it say in the book of Jude? It was Jesus who led them out of Egypt. He spoke on behalf of the father the whole time. He like like Jesus when he's always condemning the Pharisees. He says you think your children of Abraham or children of Moses?

He's like if you actually believed what Moses said you would believe in me because he spoke of me. But they denied that of course. Again, the Messiah will suffer Psalm 22 1 16 and 18 the verses there.

The Messiah will resurrect Psalm 22 verse 24 in Psalm 16 10. The Messiah will be rejected by his people. Psalm 118 22. Isaiah 53. The Messiah will be a priest the only one in the order of Melchizedek and a king.