Do Old Testament Promises to the Israelites Apply to Christians Today?

This is core Christianity were answering your questions about the Christian life Monday through Friday. Your hosts are author and seminary professor Dr. Michael Horton and Pastor atrial Sanchez call right now with your question. At 1833. The core that's 1-833-843-2673 and now here's atrial Sanchez to be back together here at the or with Prof. Michael Horton answer your questions about the faith. I'm Pastor atrial Sanchez and Mike Barna recently released their top 10 statistics for the previous year in number one is one it's troubling to me. I'm sure it's troubling to you as well had with millennial so my generation, and apparently almost 50% of millennial Christians believe that it's not right to try and convert someone who holds to another faith. In other words, if you're Christian and you've got a Muslim neighbor or a Buddhist neighbor and other settled their beliefs.

It's not okay to try to share the gospel with 8%. The average was 40 something percent.

Almost 50% but it was just it was just, well, me, you can't mean it's it's heartbreaking but you really can't square that that idea with the book of acts. Can you think about the disciples going around and preaching the gospel in seeking to convince people about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and say hey come embrace this believe I saw a great video clip years ago from I think it was Penn that Penner tell her magician. The magician who said I'm an atheist, but if somebody delete really believe this stuff and Christianity, and he believed that I was going to hell and I could only be saved by trusting in Jesus Christ and they didn't try to convert me. They didn't try to tell me that good news, then I would say there are horrible person you will.

He's right. Yeah it's it would make any sense of not loving at all to withhold the greatest gift from people were starving yeah will thinking about evangelism.

We got a phone call here from Amanda on Jesus's ministry to the Jews and the gospel going out. Let's listen in now faith THEN. WHY DID HE GO OUT AND AGAIN HOW THE GOSPEL IS FOR ALL PEOPLE. THANK YOU AMANDA.

THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT QUESTION BECAUSE IT REALLY REMINDS US THAT THE BIBLE IS AN UNFOLDING STORY.

YOU DON'T GO BACK TO GENESIS AND FIND THE TRINITY SPELLED OUT IN SO MANY WORDS. IT'S AS HISTORY UNFOLD TO BEGINS THE 00. THERE'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. ALL THERE'S THE ETERNAL SON APPEARING AS AN ANGEL OF THE LORD BEFORE HIS INCARNATION, THERE IS THE FATHER SPEAKING AS THE STORY GOES ALONG IS LIKE ANY GREAT NOVEL YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE CHARACTERS DEVELOP AND EMERGE OVER THE COURSE OF OF THE PAGES I LOVE THAT JUST THE TREE ANALOGY YOU KNOW YOU SEE YOU SEE A LITTLE SPROUT COMING UP. YOU CAN THINK THAT'S A PLANT RIGHT SO WE DON'T SEE EVERYTHING THAT AS HE GROWS OVER TIME.

THAT ENTRY AT THE PICTURE YEAH YEAH THAT'S EXACTLY HOW REVELATION WORKS ABSOLUTELY SO SALVATION COMES FROM THE JEWS SALVATION GOES, THE JEWS, GOD CHOSE TO WORK WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE OLD COVENANT. HE TOOK A NATION TO HIMSELF. HE TOOK A PEOPLE TO HIMSELF AND MADE THEM A NATION WILL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE CHURCH ISN'T A NATION IS NOT IDENTIFIED WITH ISRAEL OR WITH AMERICA OR ANY OTHER NATION. THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST IS AN INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF PRIESTS TO OUR GOD. WELL, AT THE TIME OF JESUS MINISTRY.

IT WASN'T YET AT THAT POINT GOD WAS STILL CALLING HIS ELECT REMNANT FROM THE JEWS TO COME TO THE SAVIOR. JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH SENT FIRST TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WE SEE THAT IN MATTHEW 15. LOOK AT VERSES 21 TO 28 AND JESUS WENT AWAY FROM THERE AND WITHDREW TO THE DISTRICT OF TYRE AND SIDON SO OUTSIDE OF PALESTINE, AND BEHOLD A CANAANITE WOMAN FROM THAT REGION CAME OUT AND WAS CRYING NOVEMBER THE CANAANITES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ORIGINALLY THERE BEFORE ISRAEL WAS BROUGHT BY GOD INTO HIS LAND AS A CANAANITE WOMAN FROM THAT REGION CAME OUT AND WAS CRYING, HAVE MERCY ON ME. OH LORD, SON OF DAVID, MY DAUGHTER IS SEVERELY OPPRESSED BY DEMON DID NOT ANSWER HER A WORD. AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME AND BEGGED HIM, SAYING SEVERAL WAFERS SHE'S CRYING OUT AFTER US. HE ANSWERED I WAS SENT ONLY TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, BUT SHE CAME AND KNELT BEFORE HIM, SAYING, LORD, HELP ME, AND HE ANSWERED IT IS NOT RIGHT TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S BREAD AND THROW IT TO THE DOGS. THAT SOUNDS PRETTY NO UNHELPFUL DOESN'T SAY THAT SHE SAID YES LORD, YET EVEN THE DOGS EAT THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM THEIR MASTERS TABLE. THEN JESUS ANSWERED HER ALL WOMAN GREAT IS YOUR FAITH BE IT DONE FOR YOU AS YOU DESIRE. AND HER DAUGHTER WAS HEALED INSTANTLY. THIS IS HERE, JESUS PRESSED THE POINT IN ORDER TO MAKE A POINT, NOT JUST FOR HER, BUT FOR EVERYBODY THAT IT IS THROUGH FAITH ALONE IN CHRIST ALONE THAT PEOPLE ARE SAVED. NOTICE THAT WHEN HE CHANGES HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD HER IS BECAUSE SHE HAS EXPRESSED PERSONAL FAITH AND TRUST IN HIM IS NOT DOES SHE WANT SOMETHING FROM THEM. LIKE SO MANY OF JESUS OF FELLOW JEWS DID. THERE WERE ALWAYS BUT YOU DON'T SHOW US A SIGN GIVE US SOME BREAD IS IT'S A GREAT IRONY IN HERE. YOU HAVE THIS CANAANITE WOMAN WHO IS NOW IN A TRUE CHILD OF ABRAHAM RIGHT BY FAITH. ISN'T THAT AMAZING, SO THIS IS A GREAT EPISODE. ACTUALLY, JESUS PRESSED HER AND PUSHED HER IN A WAY THAT SEEMS TO US TO SEEM KIND OF A LARGE MADE MARSH AND YET THE WHOLE PURPOSE IS REALLY TO SHOW OKAY. EVEN NOW EVEN NOW THE GLOBAL MISSION OF JESUS IS ANTICIPATED IN THIS WOMAN'S COMING TO CHRIST WHAT YOU HAVE THAT ALREADY IS IN THE NATIVITY STORY WITH THE WISEMEN. THE WISEMEN COME BEARING GIFTS AND YOU ALREADY YOU HAVE PROPHECIES FULFILLED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT OF GENTILE RULERS COMING AND BEARING GIFTS OF GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH TO GIVE TO THE KING. THIS IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, BUT AT THIS STAGE IN MATTHEW 15, YOU HAVE JESUS STILL IN THAT MISSION. THE FIRST PHASE OF HIS MISSION WHICH IS TO ISRAEL. FINALLY, IN MATTHEW 28 YOU HAVE THE GREAT COMMISSION BY NOW. JESUS IS PREPARING HIS DISCIPLES TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. VERSE 16 OF MATTHEW 28 THEN THE 11 DISCIPLES WENT TO GALILEE, TO THE MOUNTAIN WHERE JESUS HAD TOLD HIM TO GO WHEN THEY SAW HIM THEY WORSHIPED HIM, BUT SOME DOUBTED. THEN JESUS CAME TO THEM AND SAID ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME. THEREFORE GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND TEACHING THEM TO OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND SURELY I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE VERY END OF THE AGE.

SO THERE'S A PROGRESSION HERE OF THE GOSPEL GOING FIRST ISRAEL AND THEN TO THE NATIONS. YET HE SAID PICKED UP IN THE BOOK OF ACTS TO WRITE HIM IN JERUSALEM AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF DRY EARTH, SO MANY THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION. HOPEFULLY THAT WAS HELPFUL FOR YOU IS AN EMAIL RECEIVED FROM ANNA WHO ASKED HELLO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SHOWS, WHICH HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL TO ME IN UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURES. DID YOU EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT IN LEVITICUS 27, 29, DID THE LORD REQUIRE HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT FIRST AND LEVITICUS 27, 29 READS READS THIS WAY NO ONE DEVOTED WHO IS TO BE DEVOTED FOR DESTRUCTION FROM MANKIND SHALL BE RANSOMED. HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.

THE WORD ITS USE.

THERE IS REALLY INTERESTING IS THE HEBREW WORD HAD THEM AND THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS TRANSLATED THAT WORD IS ANATHEMA.

FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN PAUL PRONOUNCES A CURSE ON FALSE TEACHERS WHO PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS.

HE SAYS LET THEM BE ANATHEMA OR ACCURSED IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 1 IS SO THIS ISN'T REFERRING TO THE IDEA OF HUMAN SACRIFICE. IN FACT, GOD ABHORRED THAT IDEA ALTOGETHER AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BECAUSE IT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH PAGAN WORSHIP EVEN EARLIER IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS IN CHAPTER 18 GOD SAID, YOU SHALL NOT GIVE ANY OF YOUR CHILDREN TO OFFER THEM TO MOLEX AND SO PROFANE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD. I AM THE LORD. SO RATHER WHAT WERE SEEING IN LEVITICUS 27, 29, IS THAT WHEN SOMEONE CAME UNDER THE BAN WHEN THEY WERE UNDER HARRIMAN OR WHEN THEY WERE ANATHEMA GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, PRONOUNCE THEM ACCURSED THEY WERE TO BE DESTROYED. YOU THINK OF SAUL WITH THE AMALEKITES.

FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, GOD HAD COMMANDED THAT THE AMALEKITES BE DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION DESTROYED AND SOLD AND DO IT AND IT ENDED UP REALLY CAUSING A LOT OF PROBLEMS FOR SAUL. ULTIMATELY IT WAS IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD BEING TORN AWAY FROM HIM. I THINK YOU PICTURE SOMEONE WHO IS IN A BUILDING THAT'S ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED. I WOULD READ AN ARTICLE YET THAT THE OTHER DAY. IT IS THIS BUILDING IN IT. WHERE WAS BILL. IT WAS BASICALLY DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION. THEY WERE GOING TO DEMOLISH IT AND THERE WAS A GUY WHO WAS STILL WORKING IN THE BUILDING DURING THE TIME OF THE DEMO SHEEP. FORTUNATELY, HE ESCAPED BUT BUT WHEN SOMETHING IS DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION.

IT'S GOD SAYING OKAY REMOVE YOURSELF FROM IT DID WENT AWAY BECAUSE THE BOMBS ARE COMING YOU THIS IS THIS IS NOT TO BE GOOD FOR YOU AND THAT IT WAS TIME.

THAT'S WHAT GOD TOLD SAUL TO DO WITH THE AMALEKITES AND THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE SAYING HERE IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 27 NOT THE SHOCKING THING IS THAT UNDER THE NEW COVENANT IN ORDER TO SAVE SINNERS WERE TOLD THAT JESUS BECAME A CURSE TO READ ABOUT IT AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. SO IN THE GOSPEL, GOD THE SON BECOMES ACCURSED TO SAVE THOSE OF US WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND THIS IS WHAT WE REFERRED TO SOMETIMES HIS SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT AND IT'S THE VERY HEART OF THE GOSPEL. LEVITICUS 27 SHOWS US HOW SERIOUS GOD TAKES US IN THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, AND A GOD THE SON BORE OUR DEATH. OUR JUDGMENT SO THAT WE COULD BE RANSOMED AND SO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CHILD SACRIFICE ELSEWHERE ANY KIND OF HUMAN SACRIFICE ELSEWHERE IN LEVITICUS, YOU KNOW, GOD SAYS I DON'T LIKE. I ABHOR THAT THAT'S NOT OKAY THAT THE PAGANS ARE DOING. IT HAS TO DO WITH THE JUDGMENT OF GOD THAT COMES BECAUSE OF SIN BY GIVING THE OTHER THOUGHT ON OTHER GOODS IS A IS A OU BREAK THROUGH THE LEVITICUS, NOT THAT LONG AGO YEAH ARE PEOPLE OFTEN SAY YOU KNOW THAT WAS HER FAVORITE BOOK ACTUALLY SOMEBODY TELL ME AFTERWARDS. GLAD THAT'S OVER.

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10 WELL KNOW PAUL IS SPEAKING LITERALLY, HE ADDS, IN FACT AND IN THE NEXT VERSE, THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES GOOD, NO, NOT EVEN ONE.

IT'S FUNNY, IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU COULD INSERT THE OBJECTION. THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES GOOD. WAS THAT WHY NOW I KNOW 21 WILL KNOW NOT WHAT YOU HAVE ONE NOW COURSE, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO US.

WE SEE PEOPLE EVEN NON-CHRISTIANS DOING GOOD THINGS ALL THE TIME AND WE WE KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING GOD, BUT NOT IN THE SENSE THAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT HERE. WE MAY SEEK A GOD. WE MAY DO THINGS THAT THAT ARE GOOD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. I CAN LOOK AT SOMETHING THAT YOU DO JEN AND SAY WOW THAT WAS REALLY GOOD, BUT WHAT PULSE I'M AT HERE IS WHAT THINGS ARE LIKE BEFORE GOD BEFORE GOD KNOWN AS RIGHTEOUS, AS FAR AS GOOD FROM GOD'S PERSPECTIVE.

NO ONE IS REALLY SEEKING HIM MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR A GOD CERTAINLY LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO WORSHIP WERE BY NATURE WORSHIPERS. BUT THAT'S WHY THERE'S IDOLATRY. WE SEE CAN WE WORSHIP A GOD WE CAN MANAGE A GOD, WE CAN CONTROL A GOD WE LIKE AND WHO IS LIKE US. AND OF COURSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE CONSIDER VIRTUOUS, BUT THE ONLY WORKS THAT GOD CONSIDERS GOOD OR THOSE THAT ARE COMMANDED IN HIS LAW AND ARE MOTIVATED BY HIS GOSPEL THAT IS SPRINGING FROM FAITH AS ITS ROOT.

WHATEVER IS NOT FROM FAITH IS SIN. PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS 1413 THE ONLY REASON ANYONE SEEKS GOD IS BECAUSE GOD IS FIRST SEEKING HIM OR HER WHAT PAUL SAYING IS BY NATURE THAT IS AS FALLEN SINNERS APART FROM THE GRACE OF GOD, NO ONE SEEKS AFTER GOD. I WOULD JUST TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO ANOTHER PAULINE EPISTLE EPHESIANS 2 VERSES ONE THROUGH SEVEN. HERE, JEN, AND YOU WERE DEAD IN THE TRESPASSES AND SINS IN WHICH YOU ONCE WALKED, FOLLOWING THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, FOLLOWING THE PRINCE OF THE POWER THE YEAR OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS NOW WORKING THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE, AMONG WHOM WE ALL ONCE LIVED IN THE PASSIONS OF OUR FLESH, CARRYING OUT THE DESIRES OF THE BODY AND THE MIND, AND WERE BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH, LIKE THE REST OF MANKIND. SO OUR NATURAL STATE WERE BORN INTO THE WORLD DEAD SPIRITUALLY DEAD, ALIVE, TO SIN, BUT DEAD TOWARD GOD BUT GOD. VERSE FOUR BUT GOD, I LOVE THAT. BUT GOD HEARS THE WAY THINGS ARE WITH YOU, BUT GOD, BEING RICH IN MERCY ME BEING GREAT IN SIN, BUT GOD, BEING RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF THE GREAT LOVE WITH WHICH HE LOVED US, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN OUR TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED AND HE RAISED US UP WITH HIM AND SEATED US WITH HIM IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS, SO THAT IN THE COMING AGES HE MIGHT SHOW THE IMMEASURABLE RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN KINDNESS TOWARD US IN CHRIST JESUS. WHILE WE WERE DEAD WHILE YOU WERE DEAD. HE MADE YOU ALIVE WHAT HOW DID YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WHAT TO DO WHILE YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO DEATH THAT'S YOUR PART.

THAT'S MY PART. WE WERE DEAD AND HE MADE US ALIVE EVEN WHILE WE WERE DEAD SO HE SOUGHT US. THE ONLY REASON A PERSON BEGINS EVEN TO SEEK THE TRUE GOD WHO IS THERE IS BECAUSE GOD HAS ALREADY SOUGHT AND FOUND HIM OR HER YEAH AND YOU KNOW THIS MAY BE A NEW IDEA FOR YOU AND IT MIGHT EVEN SOUND APPALLING IN OH GOSH, WE WERE DEAD IN LA THIS JUST SEEMS LIKE SUCH A LOW VIEW OF PEOPLE AND OF HUMANITY ARE PEOPLE NATURALLY GOOD. NORMALLY GOOD AND DEEP DOWN INSIDE AND YOU HEAR THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT WHAT THIS HIGHLIGHTS AND AND WHY WE HAVE TO CLING TO. THIS IS IT HIGHLIGHTS THE BEAUTY AND THE MAJESTY OF GOD'S GRACE.

IT SHOWS US THAT THERE WAS NOTHING IN US THAT DAY THAT MADE GOD SAY A YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD I THINK I'M IN A SHOW YOU MY FAVORITE.

MY KINDEST KNOW IT WAS THE EXACT OPPOSITE IN AGES. WHEN WE REALIZE THIS, GOD GETS ALL THE GLORY. I THINK THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL IS TRYING TO DO THERE IN ROME. THE OTHER IS HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT THIS IS ALL OF GRACE AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE DOCTRINE BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A CALL HERE ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR VERSES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT JEREMIAH 2911. LET'S LISTEN IN. MY NAME IS BROWN AND MY QUESTION IS, CERTAIN SCRIPTURES THAT WE READ, WE TEND TO PERSONALIZE THEM, SUCH AS JEREMIAH 2911 SPEAKS ABOUT FURTHER. I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU DECLARES THE LORD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU NOT TO HARM YOU, BUT PLANS TO GIVE YOU HOPE AND A FUTURE. NOW, I LOVE THE VERSE AND I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE VERSE IN TERMS OF MY OWN LIFE. HOWEVER, THAT WAS SAID TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE, AND GOD WAS MAKING A PROMISE TO THAT GROUP OF PEOPLE NOW IS IT SAFE FOR ME TO TAKE THAT VERSE OUT OF ITS CONTEXT AND APPLY IT TO MY OWN LIFE. BUT MY QUESTION THANK YOU BRAD. WHAT A WELL-INFORMED QUESTION INTO SUCH AN IMPORTANT ONE FOR HOW WE INTERPRET THE SCRIPTURES AT YOUR RIGHT BRAD. A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST LIFT UP.

I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID WE HAD A BOX OF TREASURY OF BIBLE PROMISES, AND WE TAKE ONE OUT FOR LIKE A FORTUNE COOKIE YOU HAD TAKE TAKE ONE OUT AND IT WAS OFTEN PROMISES LIKE THIS LIFTED FROM THEIR CONTEXT AND JUST APPLIED TO ME AS IF THE BIBLE WERE A COLLECTION OF HAPPY THOUGHTS THAT I COULD SORT OF INVOKE FOR THE DAY. JEREMIAH 29 BEGINNING AT VERSE 10 TELLS US, FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD. WHEN 70 YEARS ARE COMPLETED FOR BABYLON. I WILL VISIT YOU AND I WILL FULFILL TO YOU MY PROMISE AND BRING YOU BACK TO THIS PLACE FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU DECLARES THE LORD, PLANS FOR WELFARE AND NOT FOR EVIL TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE AND A HOPE.

THEN YOU WILL CALL UPON ME AND COME AND PRAY TO ME AND I WILL HEAR YOU. YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART, I WILL BE FOUND BY YOU, DECLARES THE LORD, AND I WILL RESTORE YOUR FORTUNES AND GATHER YOU FROM ALL THE NATIONS AND ALL THE PLACES WHERE I HAVE DRIVEN YOU, DECLARES THE LORD, AND I WILL BRING YOU BACK TO THE PLACE FROM WHICH I SENT YOU INTO EXILE. YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, BRAD IS TALKING ABOUT A VERY SPECIFIC CONTEXT YOU'RE TALKING TO VERY SPECIFIC PEOPLE. IT'S THE EXILE IN BABYLON, GOD IS TELLING HIS PEOPLE WHO ARE PRISONERS IN BABYLON HOW TO EXIST AS ALIENS AND STRANGERS IN A FOREIGN LAND UNTIL HE BRINGS THEM BACK CASE YOU HAVE THIS PATTERN OF EXILE IN BABYLON AND THEN RETURN NOW. WHAT IS THE RETURN. WELL, WE CAN'T JUST READ THE OLD TESTAMENT BY ITSELF. WE HAVE TO READ THE OLD TESTAMENT IN LIGHT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. THE WORDS WE HAVE TO TO READ THE PROMISE IN LIGHT OF ITS FULFILLMENT. THE FULFILLMENT TELLS US REALLY WHAT THE PROMISE WAS ALL ABOUT.

IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND THERE WE FIND THAT THE RETURN REALLY IS CHRIST. CHRIST COMING TO EARTH, BUT THE ETERNAL SON ASSUMING FLESH, THE GREATER SON OF DAVID BEING NO LESS THAN THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD, HE IS DAVID'S GREATER SON. HE ENDS THE EXILE, THE EXILE CONTINUED BRAD I WILL BRING YOU BACK TO THIS LAND AND SO FORTH. WELL IT WASN'T A HOLY LAND. THERE WASN'T A CONTINUATION OF FAITHFUL TEMPLE WORSHIP IN THE SENSE THAT YOU HAD A FULLY RESTORED TEMPLE YOU HAD ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAPPEN THAT WERE COMMANDED IN LEVITICUS THAT COULDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE IT WAS UNDER ROMAN RULE YOU HAD FOR EXAMPLE, HEROD SITTING ON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND HEROD WASN'T FIRST OF ALL, EVEN FULLY JEWISH, MUCH LESS A LINEAL DESCENDENT OF DAVID, SO IT WASN'T A HOLY LAND IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM. IT WAS STILL, IF YOU WILL, IN EXILE, EVEN IF THEY WERE LIVING ON THE PLOT OF LAND THAT GOD HAD GIVEN ISRAEL.

IT WASN'T ON THE PATTERN FULLY ON THE PATTERN OF LEVITICUS ONLY WHEN CHRIST COMES.

WE HAVE THE REAL TEMPLE ONLY WHEN CHRIST COMES TO WE HAVE THE FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST ONLY WHEN CHRIST COMES TO WE HAVE THE SACRIFICE TO THE PERFECT, PURE SACRIFICE, WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH TO END ALL SACRIFICES AND CIVIL RULE OF THUMB HERE AND THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES. BRAD IS PASSAGES LIKE THIS RELATE TO US ONLY IN CHRIST. THEY DON'T RELATE TO US DIRECTLY. SO THINK OF YOU ON A SHEET OF PAPER DRAWING A LINE YOU DON'T DRAW A LINE FROM JEREMIAH 2911 TO YOU. YOU DRAW A LINE FROM JEREMIAH 2911 TO JESUS AND THEN, BECAUSE YOU ARE IN CHRIST. IT APPLIES TO YOU AND I CAN GO TO ALL KINDS OF PASSAGES OF FULFILLMENT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT TELL US THAT YOU HE WORKS ALL THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE THAT THE PLANS HE HAS FOR US ARE GOOD AND NOT EVIL THAT HE IS GOING TO BRING US BACK NOT TO A PLOT OF LAND IN THE MIDDLE EAST HE'S GOING TO THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.

THERE'S AN EXILE FAR GREATER THEN ISRAEL'S IN BABYLON AND THERE IS A RETURN THAT IS FAR GREATER THAN ANYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED UNTIL JESUS CAME TO HIS OWN AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS EXACTLY WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID IN SECOND CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 24 ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD, FIND THEIR YES IN HIM. THAT IS WHY IT IS THROUGH HIM THAT WE UTTER OUR AMEN TO GOD FOR HIS GLORY MEDIATES ITS OWN WHY DID YOU SAY POINTS TO JESUS YOUNG LUKE 24 JESUS TOLD THE DEJECTED DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. DID YOU KNOW THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT ME. HE UPBRAIDED THE PHARISEES BECAUSE HE'S THIS YOU THINK YOUR BIBLE TEACHERS DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT'S THE SCRIPTURES THAT BEAR WITNESS OF ME. THAT'S RIGHT, BUT YOU WON'T COME TO ME TO HAVE. THANKS FOR LISTENING TO CORE CHRISTIANITY TO REQUEST YOUR COPY OF TODAY'S SPECIAL OFFER. VISIT us@corechristianity.com and click on offers in the menu for or call us at 1-833-843-2673 that's a 33, the court when you contact us.

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