The New Testament Part 1 #2

Marie Flores looking to Jesus phoned her if the drama of redemption wordplay, it would have to old and New Testament central theme is that of the sacrifice in one animals were killed. The Temple in Jerusalem and asked to the real sacrifice is revealed, the one that takes away sin forever from the Moody Church in Chicago this is going to win with Dr. Erwin looks her loose clear teaching helps us make it across the finish line. Estimates are in a nutshell, why does God require a sacrifice for sin to be taken away.

Now Dave is all about God's holiness and the requirement that he has that sin paid for, but the remarkable thing is that God demands perfection of all of us and God supply is what he demands.

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Now let us once again open our Bibles as we discussed, the drama of God's redemption and he says destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up and that you said this temple has been 46 years in thing and you're gonna raise it up and then John adds that he spoke of the temple of his body. Jesus is the temple fact in John 114 the Word became flesh and tabernacle among us dwelt with us. What was the tabernacle. The temple of the Old Testament. What was that all about.

It was the meeting place between God and man because God always wants to meet with his people, and God says I want to take you through this ritual so that you understand the seriousness of sin and you will have a high priest who will represent you to me. Yes, to make sacrifice for his own sins first, but he'll represent you to me and all represent what I have to say through him to you. Jesus abolished all that because Jesus is high priest, not a high priest in the Old Testament. He offered bulls and goats on the altar Jesus turns out to be not just the priest but also the offering. He offers himself he is the Lamb. And he is the priest and so he did away with the temple.

We here at Moody Church do not have an altar and you are brought up in a church that had an altar. They talked about the altar. What usually upfront. Here we have a communion table. We have stairs that lead to the lower platform but you'll never hear me say, the altar, what we don't have one. Jesus did away with the need for an altar. We no longer offer sacrifices is sacrifice. The Bible says sanctifies this eternally by one offering he is perfect. All those who are sanctified years are high priest, don't you love him, don't you love him when you think of what is going on our behalf. Jesus also is the end of the law pulses.

Jesus is the end of the law to all those who believe you read the Old Testament law. That's why I suggested when you read the book of Leviticus and some of these passages in the Old Testament, I give you permission to speed read them receives them some feedback from that but it's all been good people say you know this time I'm going to get beyond Leviticus. When I read through the Bible we don't understand all those laws. Now they're rich in meaning.

If we stop and study you will never get through your Bible. If you're going to stop and study everywhere what you should do is designate sale and investigate this and then you study those more carefully in a different time, but all these rituals all these laws, there was the moral law, there was the ceremonial law, there was the civil law. Jesus is the end he fulfills it all and says I release you from the obligation of fulfilling the law. Now the reason is because the law could never be fulfilled by the people they would stand and they say all the Lord has said we will do and then moments later they were rebelling against God and breaking their covenant they couldn't keep it.

Then you can keep it. The law, though, was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. It showed us the great need that we have and Jesus said now you're no longer going to be under that law. Now there is the law of Christ were not law… If you go from America to Canada… Shall we say choose a country arbitrarily. If you go from America to Canada. You'll be under Canadian law. Now, many of these laws will be the same laws against murder laws against theft. But you are under a new dispensation and a new set of laws and we as Christians are why because there was no way that we could keep the long God says if I'm going to save you if I'm going to save you. I have to take the law and set it aside because you can't keep it.

I'm going to keep it for you and the Bible says curse. It is everyone who hangs on the tree because the law had curses Jesus that I will become a curse for use so that you can be free and you no longer are under obligation to be saved by works which could never save you anyway. Christ is the end of the law by faith in Christ. Paul says in Romans chapter 10. Now how do the Gospels and will the end by Jesus saying, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel and that's why we have missionaries in Haiti and missionaries and in and missionaries around the world and when we get to the book of acts when we get to ask what we discover is that the apostle Paul is dramatically converted and the book of acts is basically the story of how the gospel gets from Jerusalem to what we call Asia minor.

It is called turkey today and then beyond to grace and eventually to Rome and that's the story of the book of acts and this man told it was especially designated by God and called by God and wrote letters and he wrote letters to different churches. He wrote a total of 18 of the books of the New Testament and most of them were two churches, but then there were some letters also to individuals and as such as Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. He wrote these letters as well that we don't know who wrote the book of Hebrews but what we do know is that it belongs in the canon. Interesting story that we have to omit but the book of Hebrews is just a fulfillment and an explanation of the book of Leviticus. In light of all that Jesus has done and then you have some other writers such as James and Peter and John writes three letters and then John has that marvelous, marvelous revelation from God. That is a mystery to people and much of it is a mystery to all of us, but there's a special blessing to those who read it and I want to do when we do the next session is to open the book up for you in such a way that you say I'm going to read it and read it and read it because it says blessed are those who hear it and who obey the words of this prophecy, and what a prophecy it is. Well, that's the 26 books of the New Testament. Don't you think I did pretty well in about 20 minutes question is where does this leave us and what is the bottom.

What is the bottom line. First of all I want us to think about the integrity of God.

The question of whether or not God keeps his promises. God's integrity was seen by the coming of the New Testament and the events of the New Testament. I can imagine because the coming of Jesus and the life of Abraham, about 1800 years before that. I can imagine during those 400 silent years.

In addition to all the other centuries that I talked about that that people began to wonder you know where is his promise any promises of Messiah promises a seed. Nothing going on. Year after year generation after generation, century after century where is God and the people were asking that question.

Then suddenly an answer came private newborn baby in Bethlehem. God kept his promise. Let us not be confused because God takes so long. Sometimes, in keeping his promise.

You know, there are two different kinds of trees many different kinds of trees. I'm told that all humans, the elementary bugs very quickly and and bears its fruit, but the mulberry mulberry bushes in the mulberry trees sometimes bear fruit over a period of 75 200 years and some of God's promises are instant. God says I'm going to do something he does it right away and then there promises of God that linger on and we wonder whether we can believe him. That's why Abraham. The Bible says die not having seen the promises we die with unfulfilled promises no doubt about it, but we die in hope and we die in faith and someday Abraham will still see those promises fulfilled in ways that he could never have dreamed of the same kind of skepticism that existed back then no doubt exists today and that's why, in the book of second Peter we have these words of Peter writing to a skeptical audience and this is what he says you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. Now catch this knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing following their own sinful desires and they will say where is the promise of his coming forever.

Since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning. And so today you have scoffers who say you know you talk about the return of Jesus. Jesus is coming back to earth, but where is he, year after year, month after month when I was growing up we stepped prophecy, conferences, and you felt for sure that before the meeting was over.

Jesus was going to come and he still isn't here. I don't think it's going to be hundreds of years. I think it's gonna be a lot less than that, but we don't really know when Jesus is coming, the events of the world are coming together in such a way that it's startling but at the same time. Let's not think we know, but there will be scoffers who will say will. Where is the promise of his coming he promised to come where Izzy and then some day the heavens open and Jesus shows up according to God's timetable and not ours. Clouds are a promise reign is the fulfillment of Old Testament clouds God says I'm going to do this I meant to send a Redeemer I'm going to send a king. I'm going to crush the head of the serpent New Testament.

The rain comes in Jesus comes to this earth and fulfills the promises but not even he fulfilled all of them yet but they will be fulfilled. You're going through a trial today want you to think of the promises of God like stars.

The darker the night, the more clearly they can be seen. Hang on to the promises because they are yes and yes in Jesus we serve and we worship God, who has integrity second. It is not just the integrity of God. It is the redemption of God. If you get lost in the Old Testament.

If you get lost in Leviticus and Numbers and some of the rituals of the Old Testament that we don't understand very well.

Always remember what the dilemma was, as I explained in the first message in this series. In the Old Testament. The issue is this God is devising a way by which he can have fellowship with us without contaminating himself by sin and without compromising his holiness in the rituals to revert to remind people of their sinfulness. God's holiness and the way that he is devising today. Of course we don't have those rituals. As I explained they are fulfilled in Jesus Christ and how wondrously Old Testament you could be ceremonially clean. You know you could wash your hands, you could go through the rituals that the labor but it didn't change your heart necessarily new covenant God says I will write my law into their heart, and the law of God, and is written into the hearts of all those who believe in Jesus and trust him. And that's why when we get saved as we use the terminology which is very biblical actually changes our desires so that we begin to love him. We begin to have different priorities because under the new covenant we receive a new heart. Those who are in Christ all old things are passed away behold all things have become new.

And the story of the Bible the story line, the drama of redemption is God answering this simple question as I posed it and then Jesus comes on the cross and dies on the cross and he needs all of God's requirements, his holy life meets all the requirements of the law. He lives it perfectly, and he says to you and to me now, on the basis of my righteousness my gift to you. If you receive it you are acquitted by God. You can have fellowship with him and he remains entirely holy and justice is fully satisfied. That is the good news of the gospel. Why would anyone.

Why would anyone think about rejecting Jesus.

It is unthinkable. Finally, we have not only the integrity of God in the redemption of God, but the condescension, the condescension of God, that is.

I mean, I'll even use the word humiliation of God church historian said that Christianity is the only religion to have as its central event, the humiliation of God.

Islam cannot accept this to them.

A law always has to be victorious. A lot cannot humble himself a lock cannot become a man and a lock cannot allow himself to be crucified. Jesus comes in against all reason because you and I would not of done it this way, against all reason is able to come out of heaven to leave his glories to become a baby to grow up. A man is the son of God is the second member of the Trinity, humble himself. Take all the curses and the accusations that were heaped upon them to have him humiliated in the eyes of others did die on a cross naked along with two other criminals only Christianity can say that God did that. If that isn't mercy of that is grace.

If that isn't the unbelievable gift that God offers you the day you may be watching this by way of our Internet ministry. You may be hearing this on the radio and of course the large crowd that is here today at the Moody Church. When you receive Christ you receive the victor receive a king, you receive a Savior you receive a priest and you receive a liberator liberates you from the law. Why would you reject him. You may be seated in the balcony today but you know that you need a Savior.

I ask you to reach out and saved by faith I receive him as mine and you see that's why we sing lifted up, was he to die. It is finished was his cry now in heaven exalted a high hallelujah what a Savior. What a Savior. And if you will let us pray father we stand amazed in the presence of Jesus, we thank you that the promises that you have given were fulfilled with integrity and those still unfulfilled will be yesterday that you will help us to cleave to the promises because we live by promises, not explanations. We ask in the darkness of the night that the stars might shine very brightly as we look at him and remember what he did on our behalf, maybe let your word may we love you may work in us to bring about the transformation we need. And for those of never trusted Christ as Savior. May they do that, even where they are seeing right now say Jesus be my pray in his name my dear friend from my heart to yours. If you've never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior would you do that right now. Would you receive Jesus Christ's sacrifice, remembering that he is the sin bearer for those who believe on him the ministry of running to win exists to help people make it all the way to the finish line in this series of messages we have tried to show how the various books of the Bible all fit together. This series is actually available in a CD form or DVD and along with that we give you a color chart of where all the books of the Bible fit and how they come together for a gift of any amount. This can be yours.

Here's what you do good RTW offer.com that's RTW offer.com or call us at 1-888-218-9337 I'm going to be giving you that phone number. Once again, but remember it's the drama of redemption, helping us to understand the Bible story line from beginning the book of Genesis to Revelation how the Bible ultimately is all about Jesus for a gift of any amount. This can be yours as I mentioned as a CD or a DVD. You can call us at 1-888-218-9337 it's time again for you to ask the pastor looks or question you may have about the Bible or the Christian life will heaven be all gladness in life.

A listener named Gary is not so sure. Pastor looks or he says I know the Bible says won't be any tears or sadness in heaven. But how can we be happy knowing the people we love are not in heaven but in hello. Well first of all let me say this Gary that your question is an excellent one and we've all wrestled with it, but I think the best we can do is to understand that when we get to heaven. We are going to view things from God's standpoint. If God can be glad if God can be content throughout all of eternity. If God can be joyful and happy and by the way, Gary, how could we possibly rejoice in the Lord unless he were a rejoicing God, but my point is this. If God can be content with what is happened.

We also will be I think it was Jonathan Edwards and I hope that I can now quote this in a general way at least correctly. He said that we will rejoice in God's judgment in heaven, not because we are unloving but because we are perfectly loving, just like God.

So if you think of it.

From that standpoint will see things from God's point of view and I believe that we will be satisfied that God did right and that yes we will be enjoying God throughout all of eternity. Despite the reality of hell. Some wise counsel on a tough issue from Dr. Erwin looks or thank you pastor looks or if you'd like to hear your question answered. You can go to our website@rtwoffer.com and click on ask Pastor looks or or call us at 1-888-218-9337 that's 1-888-218-9337 you can write to us running to win 1635 N. LaSalle Boulevard Chicago, IL 60614 written in apocalyptic language. The book of Revelation portrays the future yet to be the glorious return of Jesus resurrection judgments. The millennial reign and then eternity which follows. Next time, fasten your seatbelts as we begin our flight through the entire book of Revelation. This is Dave McAllister running to win is sponsored by the Moody Church