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The Authority of God's Unchanging Word 0:00 Take heart. I've overcome the world. Well, good morning. Would you help me welcome all of our campuses who are worshiping with us? So great to worship with all of you. I have a prayer0:11 request for you. Pastor Brian Elrod, our prison pastor, was out in DC this last week with the deputy director for the Federal Bureau of Prisons who has informed us everything is a green light. We want you to0:23 be in as many federal prisons as you possibly can be in, which not only means here in Colorado, but even neighboring states, other places across the country. He would like for0:35 Brave Church to be a model for how we do that. So that's 1 prayer request. Secondly, pray this way. We're trying to get all of our messages from Brave put on every iPod for every prisoner in the state of Colorado and0:47 around the country, and that's a strong possibility right now. So be praying for that as well. And then my sentiments on Easter, most people are looking for a place to go to church on Easter, even if they don't tell you0:57 that. You'll be surprised if you invite people to come. How many will come? If you're not bringing friends, come to earlier services. Okay? Because most people that are prone to come come later in the day. Come to the 71:08 o'clock service. They're even serving breakfast there. We'll have a good time. But if you're bringing friends, come when they can come. It's a great time to invite people to church. And with that, let's go before the1:17 Lord. Let's prepare our hearts for his living and active word among us. Our father in heaven, we do give you praise, glory, and honor for this very day to gather in your house with your people to sing praises to your1:27 name, to glorify you, to seek you in prayer, and to hear your word. Lord, we wanna be transformed. We wanna be more like Christ. And Lord, we wanna hear you and hear you clearly. And we as a people believe that every1:39 time your word is faithfully and accurately proclaimed, that it is you who are speaking. So our prayer collectively today and individually today is, speak Lord for we are ready to hear. And so now for all those who have1:50 gathered who desire to hear the Lord Jesus Christ speak directly to you, who will believe what he tells you, and who will by faith put into practice what he shows you, will you agree with me very loudly this morning by2:01 saying the word, Amen. Amen. God keeps his word or nothing else matters. I'll say it again. God keeps his word or2:13 nothing else matters. Everything in this book, from Genesis 1 1 through Revelation 22 21, is God speaking authoritatively to us. And this book is either2:25 true or it's false. It can't be kind of true. It's either we believe this book or we don't believe this book. And I find that many Christians even that say, well, I believe in Jesus. I believe he died for me. I2:37 believe he rose for me. I even believe the Bible tend to come to the Bible with a lot of skepticism, like, yeah, but I don't believe that about the Bible, or that one's kinda hard. And so we approach the Bible2:48 differently. We can approach the Bible in such a way that says, if it feels good with my spirit, then I'll believe it. Friends, whether it feels good with your spirit or not, if it's in the bible, it's true. It's God2:59 speaking. On every subject that God is speaking, he is speaking with authority. And the more that you approach this word that way, the more your life is going to change. The more that you see this book as3:11 a, when I study it, when I hear it preach, when I hear it taught, I know God is authoritatively talking to me. I wanna know what he means, and I wanna do what he says. The more you do that, the more you'll grow. When you3:22 come into the bible and you're like, well, I don't know if it's true or not. I should probably read my bible more. I should probably study it more. You can get to a place where this can become religion or routine because3:31 you don't realize this is God who is speaking. And God is the 1 who tells us everything, even the gospel. The fact that we can believe in Jesus and have eternal life comes from the word of3:43 God. Paul says in first Corinthians 15 verses 3 and 4, for I tell you of first importance, that Christ died according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose according to the3:55 scriptures. How do we know that God is telling the truth about the gospel? Because it's in the scriptures. So that's not what I believe. I believe because my mom told me about JIS. Well, where's she here? Well, her mom.4:05 Well, where did she here? You trace it all back. It comes right to this book. The word of God is true. The word of God stands the test of time. And no matter what subject we talk about, we need to let the word of God4:16 speak. Pastors do not need to be p r agents for God and step up and just because the culture thinks something's unpopular say, today's gonna be a hard 1. It's all hard because it's all God and he doesn't think like4:28 me or you. And so when we read the word, we need to go in and say, well what does God say? And if God's clear on what he says and this is what he means, then I'm gonna obey what he says and what he means. Amen? And so4:39 today, we're talking about God keeping his word. Specifically, as we've been talking about God's covenant with Israel. Now I spent a lot of time on week number 1, talking about how4:51 God is the 1 who initiated a relationship with Israel. God, through his grace, secured an everlasting covenant with Israel. God is the 1 who, made promises to regather and restore5:03 Israel. And we celebrate the fact that the gospel comes through the Jews. We have a Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and rose from the dead, so that we can experience the blessings of5:14 Christ through him. Amen? And then we talked spent time the following week asking the question. I did an inductive sermon. I I asked 3 questions, and here were the questions. Has God rejected Israel?5:26 No. K. We're gonna try again. Has God rejected Israel? No. Has God replaced Israel? No. Has God revoked his promises to Israel? And the reason you're saying no is not because5:38 I taught you that. The reason you're saying no is because God's word taught us that. Reason you're saying no is because God says no no no all through Romans chapter 11. Well, today, we wanna see how God keeps his word.5:49 And to do that, we're gonna be in Jeremiah chapter 31. Jeremiah chapter 31. I'm gonna spend time in 35 through 37, but I just want to set up the text for you. This is really the6:01 new covenant language that is coming out and what God is promising, and I want you to see it with your own eyes. So starting in verse 33, I'll just read this short passage and then we'll unpack it together. He says this,6:13 but this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel. Notice who he's making the covenant with. The house of who? Israel. I'll make this with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will6:24 put my law within them and on their heart, and I will write it, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. This has not happened yet, by the way. Not all of Israel is saved. Not all of Israel is saying, he's6:36 my God, and he's not saying they're my people. They will not teach again each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.6:47 That hasn't happened yet. Nobody, you know, we're not living in the millennial kingdom where everybody knows Jesus is the Christ because he's living here with us and we don't need to teach anybody anymore because Jesus6:56 is here. From the least to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquities, and their sin I will remember no more. Notice what he says. Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day, and7:08 fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The Lord of hosts is his name. If this fixed order departs from before me declares the Lord, then the offspring of7:20 Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus says the Lord, if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth be searched out below, then I will cast off all of the offspring7:32 of Israel for all they have done, declares the Lord. And here we're hearing through the prophet Jeremiah the voice of the new covenant coming through and what God has promised. But I want you to7:44 see 4 truths today, and then we're gonna hammer down on some texts and pound them out so that you can hear the word of God. Because there are a number of people in our7:56 culture that have given their lives to Jesus who are drifting away from the word. And I want to plant our flag in the word of God to see what the word of God says when it comes to Israel and what8:08 he means, so that you hear God say, this is what I say. The first thing you need to see is this, that God sovereignly orders creation. God sovereignly orders8:20 creation. Thus says the Lord. It's the Lord who's speaking, who gives the sun for light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and the stars by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The Lord of hosts is8:32 his name. God sovereignly orders. He sovereignly rules over all creation. Therefore, God defines truth. I mean, it doesn't take you to get past the first page of your bible to realize8:44 that God is the 1 that created every single thing. Colossians 1 tells us that everything we see or don't see, things visible and invisible, all things were created by him and for him. The fact8:56 that you're here, you're created by God, He creates every human being in utero. He's the creator of all things. The sun, the moon, the stars, the planets. The reason that the sun is up9:08 in the sky today is because God is sovereignly holding it right where he wants to hold it. If he moved it closer to the earth, we're toast. Moves it further away, we freeze. He puts it right where it needs to be. The9:19 reason the stars are out at night, the myriads of them everywhere, ones you can see, ones you can't see, because God is the 1 that hung them in the sky, and God is the 1 that holds them all in place. The oceans are his.9:31 The seas are his. The mountains are his. Everything in the world is his. He created it. He rules over all of it, and nothing ever catches him by surprise.9:43 K? That's what he wants you to know from the first pages of Genesis onward. That's why he says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. How would we know how we got here? God first tells us, well, in the9:54 beginning, it was me, and I made it all. Be enough detail for some of us. Well, how did he make the trees? And how did he do because he's God. There wouldn't be10:06 enough books in the universe that would show how God does what he does. Even some of you who are physicians, you know this. If you study a certain part of the body and you're a, say, kidney specialist or an eye10:17 specialist, you realize the more you study that part of the body, just how profound that 1 little part of the body is and how you can't know everything about it. Why? Because God created it. And10:29 he has an infinite mind, and he's smarter than you, and he's more powerful than you, and he's more authoritative than you. And what you need to see here is as he's10:41 talking about this new covenant, he's gonna give to the house of Israel, he says, he says this in verse 36, if the fixed order departs from me, declares the Lord, then the offspring of Israel will10:52 also cease from being a nation before me forever. Here's what he's saying. As long as the sun rises, Israel's still mine. That's what he's saying. I mean, there's a11:04 cosmic certainty to God's relationship with Israel. Now, we went over this, so I'll just take you back there. In Genesis chapter 12, God made the Abrahamic covenant. He ratified it. In11:16 Genesis chapter 15, he made it a unilateral, universal covenant, which means there's nothing Israel can do to break it.11:31 God's the 1 who made the covenant. God's the 1 who showed them the covenant. God's the 1 who established the covenant. Genesis 17 says it's an ever lasting covenant. That means it's eternal. It11:42 goes on forever. So the only way that that covenant can be broken is if God changes his word. Now you say, well, why is that important? Why do we need to know about Israel? Because if God can11:54 change his word for Israel, then God can change his word for anything else in that book. It means you're born again, but you think you are, but you may not because God may change his mind. God may say all your sins are12:04 forgiven, but he doesn't really mean that. See, we can't take the Bible and piecemeal the parts that we like, and take out the others. God wants you to know that as long as the sun, the moon, and the stars are in place,12:15 as long as he's the sovereign ruler of everything, he still has a special relationship with Israel, and his promises stand. Now today, I wanna hammer down on some passages, because even when people hear me12:26 preach that, they'll say stuff like, oh, that's just the Old Testament, or, hey, there's a lot of verses in the New Testament that contradict that, which there are 0 of them that contradict it. But I've I picked about 1012:36 today just to look through for us. So this may feel a little more teachy than usual. I get that. But we live in a culture where people are drifting from this book by the day in myriads12:48 and myriads of people. Friends, this book is either authoritative over you or you're an authority on it, and you get to decide. For me, this book's an authority over me. I wanna let God speak. I13:00 wanna let him say what he wants to say. So let's look at some of these passages that people turn to. How about Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 13? Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 13. And while you're turning to Hebrews chapter13:12 8, let me just say this. What you will see in the New Testament and the Old Testament, you'll see God judge Israel for disobedience. You'll see inclusion of Gentiles into some of Israel's promises. You'll13:23 see unity of both Jew and Gentile. And you'll see faith alone in Christ alone, but there's not 1 of these scriptures that ever say that God canceled his promises to Israel. You won't find13:35 it. There's not 1. In your entire Bible, there is not 1. When you hear somebody who seemingly has authority and by the way, nobody has authority. The book has authority over us. When somebody says that God is done with13:46 Israel, they didn't get that from the word of God. Period. End of story. I stand on that truth. So let's look at this because this is where people will take you. Notice what he says in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 13. When he13:57 said, quote, a new covenant, he has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear. So apparently, there's a new covenant that's14:09 coming, and apparently, it's gonna make the first 1 obsolete, and whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old, it's ready to disappear. So doesn't that mean that God got rid of his covenant with Israel? No. Because14:20 there's several different covenants. There's the Abrahamic covenant, which God said he made an everlasting promise. There's the Davidic covenant, where God promised a descendant of David to sit on his throne forever and14:31 ever, which is going to be the Lord Jesus Christ when he returns to the earth to sit on it. And then there's the Mosaic covenant. We read about in Exodus chapter 19 through 24 ish, right around there, where God made14:41 covenant with his people Israel. Now the first The Abrahamic covenant was a a promise. The Mosaic covenant was law. That covenant was conditional. That was really based upon Israel's obedience. That's why you read14:53 in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 to 30 and all those different places about blessings and curses. Israel, if you do this, I'll bless you. If you don't do this, I'll curse you. And that's how the Mosaic Law played out.15:04 When Israel did what God wanted them to do, God blessed them so other nations would look on and say, we need to act like them because their God's blessing them. And when Israel acted indifferent to God, or belligerent to15:16 God, or disobedient to God, and God punished them, other nations would look on and say, we don't wanna act like them because they're God's the most powerful God. God was saying, I'm gonna get my glory either way. That's15:25 what the Mosaic covenant did. When Jesus died on the cross, he fulfilled the Mosaic covenant. Romans 10 4 says, in Christ is the fulfillment of the law. So when15:37 God gave the law to Israel, it was to show his holiness, to show them how to live, and to demonstrate that only with God's help could they live it. That was the purpose of the law. Once Christ came, he did what no human15:49 being in history had ever done. He fulfilled the law. There wasn't 1 law that he broke. He kept them all. And so when he died on the cross in our place as the perfect sacrifice for our sin16:01 and rose from the dead, and we trust Jesus and the Holy Spirit comes into our life, we have Christ, the fulfillment of the law inside of us. Which means we're not judged by what we16:13 do, we're judged by whom we believe in. Amen? So the covenant that's becoming obsolete, it can't be the Abrahamic covenant, because God said, that's a unilateral covenant that16:25 I'm making with them. They're not making it with me. I'm promising to make it eternal. This is the Mosaic covenant, which was definitely conditional based upon their obedience. And what we find in the New Testament is16:36 Jesus came and inaugurated a new covenant, where he served bread and wine to his followers. He said, this is my body which is given for you. This cup is the new16:48 covenant in my blood which was shed for you. And he inaugurated the new covenant. Now the fulfillment of that hasn't been realized yet. Why? Because the promise was made to the house of Israel that 1 day all Israel would16:59 believe. Now Romans 11 says that 1 day all Israel will be saved. So there's seemingly a time in the future where all that's going to come together, where the new covenant will be fully realized with Jews and Gentiles17:10 together, all believing in the Lord who's living among us. Amen? But this is what it means. And so when people just read this stuff out of context, if you read the entire book of Hebrews, I've talked through every verse17:21 of this book by the way, you can go back and hear it. If you read through it, he's talking about the Mosaic Covenant. He's talking about the conditional covenant, that Christ fulfilled the law. And so in Christ, we can17:30 have the fulfillment of the law and our sins too can be forgiven. That's what that's talking about. How about another 1? How about Galatians chapter 3? People go to this 1 all the time. All the time. Galatians chapter 317:42 27, 28, and 29. Alright? Let's talk about that. Galatians chapter 3 27, 28, and 29. For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have17:54 clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free man. There is neither male nor female, for you are all 1 in Christ. And if you belong to Christ, then you are18:05 Abraham's descendants, heirs according to the promise. Therefore, here's what they say. If I'm in Christ, I'm 1 of Abraham's descendants. And guess what? There is no Jew or Greek. It's done. God's done with the18:17 Jews. That is to take that verse and rip it entirely out of context. The whole book of Galatians is talking to a group of people who need to realize it's through grace alone,18:29 faith alone, and Christ alone. It doesn't matter whether you're Jewish or Gentile. The only way that you can be saved is through the person of Jesus. It doesn't matter whether you're male or female. The18:41 only way you can be saved is through the person of Jesus. It doesn't matter if you're a slave dependent upon somebody else or a free man. The only way you can be saved is through faith alone, in Christ alone, in Jesus.18:52 That's what it's saying. As a matter of fact, to say it's something else, it means when you get saved, you're neither male or female anymore. Are you kidding me? I mean, the same man that penned this book wrote the book19:04 of Ephesians later, saying what a man and a woman are in marriage. The same man that wrote this book wrote first Timothy chapter 2 and talked about in the church what men are to do and what women are not to do, and what19:15 women shouldn't do and what women shouldn't do. I mean, it's all over there. There's doesn't mean you lose your gender at conversion. It doesn't mean you lose your Jewishness at conversion. It means only in Christ can we19:26 have the fulfillment of everything that we need. And we know we share in the Abrahamic blessings of that, that what was intended for the Jews through Christ by belief in him, we get the spiritual blessings of that. So we19:37 are sons of Abraham because we've been grafted in as wild olive shoots like we've talked about in Romans chapter 11. It doesn't mean there's no Jews anymore. It doesn't mean there's no Greeks. It doesn't19:49 mean that God's not God's done with Israel. They do the same thing in this book. Some people, and they go to Galatians chapter 6 and verse where is it? Verse, 16, I think20:01 it is. Yeah. Verse 16. And they'll say this. They'll say, and those who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God. Therefore, the Israel of God. That means the20:13 church. God's church is God's peace is in the church. It's the Israel of God. We're the Israel of God. It's not what it means. There. The word it's it's the Greek word, chi. It means and. It's in your bible. It's in your20:24 bible. And to those who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them. Peace and mercy be upon who? Those who are living by faith in Jesus Christ. Peace and mercy be upon you and upon the20:36 Israel of God. Who's that? The the Jews that actually believe that Jesus is the Messiah. Peace be on them too. Right? That's what he's saying. He's not saying anywhere that Jews have been replaced by the20:48 church. That's nowhere. It's nonsense. It's not found anywhere. And why do we need to know this? Because this is what the word of God teaches, that God sovereignly orders his orders his creation. I mean, think about it20:59 like this. Just from a human example, I mean, I won't ask the question. Some of you have been adopted. Some of you have adopted children of your own. But when they come into your family, that child's fully loved. That21:10 child's fully included. That child's fully part of the family. Child even takes the last name that you have. They become part of it. Right? And you're like, this is our child. They may look different. They may have a21:21 different skin color. They may be taller. They may be shorter. They're your child. They belong to you because why? Because you've been adopted in. Do you know what you don't do? I've never heard a family do this. You21:30 don't kick out the biological kids when you bring the adopted 1 in. Oh, you're out. We've adopted now. Get. That that's not what happened. God didn't kick Israel to the curb.21:42 There's been a partial hardening for a period of time, but you're gonna see even today how God is going to bring them back in to the family. Every eye will look upon the 121:54 that they have pierced, and all Israel will be saved. There's coming a day where that's going to happen. Alright. Let me tell you this. Not only is God sovereignly ordered creation, God permanently preservesGod Permanently Preserves Israel 22:06 Israel. He permanently preserves Israel. Back to verse 36, when he tells about talks about this fixed order, this this creation that I have from before me, if this fixed order departs, declares the22:18 Lord, then the offspring of Israel will also cease from being a nation before me forever. So here's what he's saying. If and when the universe collapses, I'll be done with Israel. That's what he's22:29 saying. If the universe collapses, you won't be here either, so you don't need to worry about it. It's God's hypothetical way of saying, I'm in control of everything. I'm not22:41 going anywhere, and Israel's not going anywhere either. And even if you look at the history of the world, the fact that there's still surviving Jews today is nothing shy of a miracle and the22:53 grace of God. I mean, you think of all the people groups in the world that have disappeared that no longer exist, and yet Israel is still recognized. On March 4 May fourteenth of 19 48 when they became a23:05 state. That wasn't a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. That's not the fulfillment, but but it is a kind of an inauguration or kind of a start to something that we start seeing in the scriptures that's gonna happen with23:15 the land that they're gonna have when Jesus Christ is sitting on his throne in Jerusalem ruling over all the nations, which the scriptures promise that he's doing that we should be praying for when we pray the Lord's23:27 prayer. Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, we want you to get here and rule. We're we're tired of voting. We think you'd do a better23:38 job. That's what we're saying. Amen? But just because God punishes Israel, just because there's judgment, doesn't mean there's cancellation.23:51 Right? I mean, parents, when you love your kids, you discipline them. You may punish them. You may remove privileges from them. It's not because you hate them. It's because you love them. You discipline them not to kick24:03 them out of the family. You discipline them to keep them in the family. Israel's been disciplined. This entire book is filled with discipline that Israel has had. Some not so severe, some extremely severe. Being sacked24:15 by the Assyrians, and then being, you know, with the Babylonians as well. I mean, all throughout history. But it doesn't mean just because they've been disciplined or corrected that they've been kicked out of the family.24:25 Just like a coach, just because he disciplines a player doesn't mean he kicks them off the team. God hasn't kicked Israel out anywhere. Now, here's some more passages we need to drill down on and just hammer down on so24:37 you can hear them. People will sometimes go to Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, 29 and 30 and talk about the curses and the blessings and see Israel was getting all the curses. The reason that24:48 they're excluded now is because they sinned too much. Friends, God made a unilateral covenant with them that was everlasting. It wasn't dependent upon their good behavior. It was dependent upon25:00 his grace. It was dependent upon his person. And the reason that's really, really, really, really, really good news for those of you who are believers in Christ, If God can change his mind about Israel, he can change his25:11 mind about you. If God's done with Israel because of their disobedience, what about you? What about you? I mean, I listen to people all the time. Like, that whole that Old Testament, I mean, Israel was so rebellious. Can25:22 you believe that? To which I always wanna say, have you ever looked in the mirror? I've looked in the mirror. I've seen how rebellious I've been since becoming a believer. Not just before, but since becoming a25:34 believer. There's a lot of rewinds I would love to do. Shouldn't have said that. Shouldn't have thought that. Wish I would have known better. Shouldn't have done this, done that. All sorts of things since becoming a25:44 believer. Praise God that my eternal security is not based upon my performance, it's based upon what Christ did for me. Amen? Praise the Lord that God's love25:56 for Israel is not based upon their obedience. It's based upon his unconditional love and the fact that God keeps his word. And even when you go through the Bible and you look at passages like26:08 Deuteronomy 28 and 29, you get to 30 where restoration is promised. People skip that. I mean, God promises right in the same section, he's gonna restore the entire nation. He's gonna bring them back in. He's gonna do26:19 that. Let's look at a couple others. Matthew chapter 21. This is 1 people love to go to. Matthew chapter 21. This is Jesus speaking. He's just told the parable of the land owner.26:31 And in Matthew chapter 21 starting in verse 42, Jesus quotes Psalm 1 18. He says, did you did you never read the scriptures? I mean, that's pretty offensive to the Pharisees and the scribes because26:43 that's all they did was read the scriptures. Did you never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected? This became the chief cornerstone. This came about from the Lord, and it's marvelous in26:55 our eyes. Now notice this first. Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing fruit in it. See, therefore, there you have it. It's gonna be taken away from you27:05 and given to a people. There He's done with the Jews. He's told Jesus said he was done with the Jews. That's what people say. It's hard for Jesus to be done with the Jews because Jesus is Jewish. But what I love about27:15 the Bible is if you just keep reading, it will explain what it's talking about. He Jesus says, and he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but whomever it falls on it will scatter him like dust.27:27 So who's he talking about? He's gonna take the kingdom away from it? Is it all the Jews? Is it the nation of Israel? Look at verse 45. When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they understood27:40 that he was speaking about them. Who is Jesus speaking to? Wasn't talking about Israel. He was talking about the hard hearted leadership of the nation of Israel that he was going to27:51 replace so that he could give it to people who would actually believe in him. And even if if you could bring the chief priests and the scribes back from the dead and they stood here right now, they would say, we knew he28:02 was talking about us. He wasn't talking about Israel. He's talking about us. He was talking about our hardheartedness. That's what he was talking about. The Bible makes that clear. There's no scripture in here that says28:13 he's done with Israel. It's quite contrary to that. Or how about this in the book of Revelation? Revelation chapter 3 and verse 9, we28:25 read. Now in Revelation, if you're not familiar with it, the the first 3 chapters are really a picture of Jesus and then him writing to 7 churches and instructing them on what to do. This is the church he's writing28:37 to in Philadelphia, the Church of Brotherly Love. And he tells the angel or the messenger of the church in Philadelphia to write this, he who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no 1 will shut,28:48 who shuts and no 1 opens, says this, I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no 1 can shut because you have little power and have kept my word and have not denied my name. So29:00 this is 1 of 2 churches that Jesus just gives commendation to. He doesn't say they're doing anything wrong. As a matter of fact, he tells them, I know your deeds. You're doing all the right things. I'm gonna put an open29:10 door before you that no 1 can shut. Then he says this, verse 9, and this is where people go. Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie. I29:22 will make them come and bow down at your feet and make them know that I have loved you. And then people say, see, Jews are a synagogue of Satan. All synagogues are29:33 synagogues of Satan. That's what it is. He hates the Jews. It's not what he's saying. It's not what he's saying at all. Here's what he's saying. He's saying there's a group of Jews who are not believers, who are meeting29:44 in a synagogue outside, who are saying, we know the way. Y'all are wrong. The Church of Philadelphia, you're wrong. Jesus is not the Messiah. We're right. He was calling them a synagogue of Satan. And here's what he said29:54 he was gonna do. He was gonna bring them before that church, and he goes, because you've been honoring me, I'm gonna let them see that I'm the 1 that's honoring you. They're gonna know that you're serving the real God.30:04 That's what he's saying. He's not calling Jews a synagogue of Satan. That that's nowhere, anywhere in our in our Bible. Amen? This is what's going on. And this is what people try to do. When you hear somebody that just30:16 pulls 1 verse out of context and says, this is what it means, be very careful because words have meaning in sentences, and sentences have meaning in paragraphs, and paragraphs have meaning in in pericopes.30:27 So that's how you learn what it says. Just keep reading it. Keep seeing what it says. And there's nothing wrong with reading it and saying, I have some questions. There's nothing wrong with reading it and saying, I don't30:39 understand. There's nothing wrong with reading it and saying, I think I need some further help in revelation. God has gifted some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors, and some30:51 to be what? Teachers to do what? To equip God's saints for the work of ministry. God raises people up to help you grow. That's why you need to be part of a local church so you can be the fullness of what God wants. Amen?31:00 You don't have to know everything. You don't need to be a Bible expert, but just be careful when somebody's using 1 verse out of 66 books in the Bible to say, this is the way it is. Just be careful,31:12 because that's not at all what it's saying there. Amen? What you see is that Jesus is preserved permanently preserving Israel. There's nowhere anywhere in the scriptures that says he's not. Let me give you a third 1. GodShow more In this video 0:00 The Authority of God's Unchanging Word22:00 God Permanently Preserves Israel31:23 God Secures His Everlasting Covenant39:28 God Speaks with Final Authority
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