11-16-25 Study of Acts Chapter 13:14-23 Paul Preaches Christ Part 2

➡ This Bible study focuses on the book of Acts, specifically Chapter 13, and its connection to the study in Ephesians. The discussion revolves around the transition from the Jewish church to the Gentile Church led by Paul, and how this forms the basis of the modern church. It emphasizes the importance of understanding Paul’s application of the Old Testament in the church, and the portrayal of Jesus Christ as the Messiah in both the Old and New Testaments. The study also explores the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, his victory over Satan, and the significance of his death and resurrection in the establishment of the church.
➡ The text discusses the belief that God’s spirit is sealed within us to guide and protect us, as prophesied in the Bible. It explains how the Old Testament saints knew God through external experiences, while in the New Testament, believers connect with God internally. The text also details numerous prophecies from the Old Testament that were fulfilled in the New Testament, such as Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, his lineage from Abraham, Isaac, and David, and his roles as a priest and king. It emphasizes that these fulfillments prove Jesus as the Messiah and that believers become children of God through spiritual rebirth, not physical birth.
➡ In Matthew 27, Judas threw down 30 pieces of silver, which the priests used to buy a potter’s field, fulfilling a prophecy. This is one of over 300 prophecies Jesus fulfilled, proving he is the Messiah. The book of Acts records the growth of the church, starting in Jerusalem and spreading to Judea, Samaria, and the Gentile world. Paul and Barnabas were sent from the first Gentile church in Antioch of Syria to spread the gospel, always starting in the Jewish synagogues to respect their traditions before introducing the New Covenant.
➡ The text discusses how Jesus Christ is seen as the peak of history, fulfilling prophecies from the Old Testament and being the only one who can correct wrongs and remove the curse separating men from God. It emphasizes the importance of studying the Old Testament to understand the spiritual lineage and history leading to Jesus. The text also mentions that Jesus’ life and actions, including his death and resurrection, are the basis for human redemption. Lastly, it asserts that without accepting Jesus, one’s life lacks historical relevance and meaning.
➡ The text discusses the spiritual lineage of Yeshua (Jesus) through Mary and Joseph, both descendants of David, giving him the right to the throne of David. It emphasizes the male authority structure in spirituality and the home. The text also explains how Yeshua fulfilled all messianic prophecies, making him the Messiah. It further discusses the role of John the Baptist as a forerunner to the Messiah, preparing people for the shift from law to gospel.
➡ The text discusses the role of John the Baptist in preparing the way for the Messiah, as foretold in the Old Testament. It emphasizes John’s humility and his mission to alert people to the coming of the Savior. The text also explores the questions raised by the Jewish leadership about the Messiah’s identity and the implications of his death. Finally, it highlights the importance of faith in accepting Jesus as the Savior.
➡ The text discusses how people in Jerusalem, including religious leaders, failed to recognize the significance of Jesus despite their regular study of religious texts. This ignorance led to Jesus’ condemnation and death, which ironically fulfilled the prophecies they had been studying. The text also criticizes modern religious practices, suggesting that many people today read religious texts without truly understanding their meaning. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and living by God’s word, rather than simply reading it.
➡ The text discusses how Jesus fulfilled various prophecies during his crucifixion, such as being mocked and given vinegar to drink. It also highlights how his burial and resurrection were prophesied, emphasizing that Jesus’ resurrection was crucial for the fulfillment of God’s promises. The text concludes by stating that Jesus is the Messiah, and his life, death, and resurrection are the fulfillment of prophecy, underscoring the importance of faith in him.
➡ The text discusses the spiritual lineage and prophecies in the Bible, focusing on Satan’s attempts to disrupt God’s plans. It mentions how Satan tried to corrupt humanity, leading to God causing the flood and preserving Noah’s family. The text also talks about the lineage of the Messiah through David’s bloodline, which Satan failed to fully understand. Lastly, it discusses the fulfillment of prophecies, such as the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas, and the roles of men and women in God’s plan.
➡ Jesus stated that John the Baptist was the greatest person to have lived due to his humble and obedient lifestyle. This was contrasted with Moses, who didn’t fully obey God’s commands. The speaker also questioned if the Sanhedrins and previous government authorities were descendants of Cain, which was confirmed. The session ended with a prayer of gratitude and a desire to understand more about God’s word and plan.

Welcome back. This is our Sunday morning Bible study. We are in to the book of Acts. We’re into the Transitionary Chapter, Chapter 13 of Acts. This is going along with our study in Ephesians on Thursday night, which we’re into chapter six on that, getting through that, that terrific epistle and chapter 13. We are now to the point where we have looked at the church as it relates to the focus of, to the Jewish population. And we’re into basically the middle of this, of the chapter beginning around verse 14, 13 or 14, where we’re moving into Paul coming on the scene and actually setting up the Gentile Church.

And we looked at, we’ve looked at this, oh, two or three weeks now. And we’re going to continue for a couple more weeks to, to really get this because this becomes the baseline of the church today. So you need to get a handle on this in a lot of ways especially, and I’m going to say this especially when you go get back into the Old Testament in Ezekiel, Daniel, Ezra, Zechariah, because what you’re going to see is Paul’s application of the Old Testament into the church. And it’s going to be critical that you get all of that underneath your belt so that you, you can actually see what is the foundation of the church.

So we, we began to look at this as the record of Jesus Christ. It’s basically God’s presenting Jesus of Nazareth as a messiah, the Savior to the world. Now, saw that in Stephen. Guys, I got allergies. So if you think that I’m doing coke or something, I’m not. I know that that’s a sign when they take my. But I got allergies and I just, I. It’s bugging crap out of me. So I got into the yard yesterday. So I got into all kinds of grass and dirt and weeds and moles and all kinds of things. So anyway, it’s God’s representing, presenting Jesus Christ of Nazareth as a messiah to the world.

And we saw that in Stephen as it relates to the Jewish leadership. And they stoned him. Saul at that point in time was the leader of that group which has now become Paul, the leader of the church. And whether you’re talking about the Old Testament or the New Testament, you. They’re both equally concerned with presenting Jesus Christ. Now, the Old Testament points to Jesus, Jesus the Christ. The New Testament points to the cross. But at the center of that is Jesus Christ. That’s how the Bible is laid out. So Jesus Christ himself, for example, said that he was the subject of The Old Testament, when he said this in the volume of the book, it is written of me.

So what? When Jesus began to teach his disciples, he had to get his disciples to understand. We, we found this out on the 40 days prior to Pentecost when he taught the disciples about his fulfillment of the Old Testament. Therefore they became bold and understood that he came to fulfill the prophecies and the law. They absolutely came to know that. So Christ’s portrayal in the Old Testament begins to look forward into the church. Christ’s. Christ’s portrayal in the New Testament looks backward. That’s what I said. Old Testament looks forward to Jesus Christ’s coming. New Testament looks back to the cross.

And so both the Old Testament and New Testament reveal the divine sovereign hand of God. As the master artist painting a portrait of Jesus Christ. Now we understand that Jesus is not the true name. Of of the true name is Yeshua hamashiach and the Christ is his mantle. All right, you need to understand it. Christ is not his name. It’s the mantle that he carried in his life. So in the Old Testament, God keeps promising a deliverer savior, a king, a Messiah. And in the New Testament, Jesus and others fulfills every single prophecy that God ever made of Messiah.

And the ones that are yet to be fulfilled by him will be fulfilled in his second coming. There’s where Ezekiel comes in. Ezekiel and Zechariah, because they focus on what has to take place prior to Christ’s second coming and what will take place upon his second coming up to the time of the millennial. Now, you guys understand that that’s two separate events, all right? While they coincide together, there’s actually two events, all right? The, his reign takes place after he gains control. So it’s two events that is spoken about in Revelation. So we’re going to go back to the very first book of the bible in Genesis 3:15, that God says, through man I will destroy the power of Satan.

Why? Because he gave man, Adam, the dominion over everything created that lived on this earth, which included all of the fallen angels. But when, as you recall, when Adam and Eve transgressed against God, they gave two of those seven dominion keys back to Lucifer. And Lucifer became the God of this world. And it wasn’t until Christ came back, came, died, resurrected in that process of those three days, he went and let the saints who were in shoal underneath Abraham’s bosom, released to allow them to go to heaven. Because no one could go to heaven until Christ is resurrected.

That was the fulfilling of this whole system of of God’s government to allow people to go to heaven. So no one went to heaven in the Old Testament. They all went to a place, a holding, for lack of a better word, purgatory in hell controlled by Abraham at the direction of God. And it wasn’t until Christ went there and let him out of that jail cell and that they were able to go home. And in that process, Christ got those two keys that have been given away. And instead of giving back to man, we need to understand this, Instead of giving it back to man, what Christ did was give it, give it to his government in heaven and made it available to those of redeemed status, safe people through the body of Jesus Christ.

Through Jesus Christ, we have now dominion back to what Adam had at the time that Christ actually created Adam and gave him the seven Domini keys. Now we will never get access to those keys that Adam had until Christ is in the millennium, all right? Which he then takes and transfers his government to this earth underneath his leadership. So there’s a whole lot of understanding that’s got to take place. But you get, you can’t get one without the others like chicken and egg. Until, unless you understand the church, the baseline foundation of the church. So in Genesis 3:15, three man, I will destroy the power of Satan.

There will be born one of the seed of the woman. All right, so this was the prophecy that God gave to Satan. That’s really the key. He gave it to Satan as what he was going to use as the destroyer of Satan. Yeshua Hamashiach was the birth of Yeshua that gave, gave him the power then to, to have victory over Satan. And that’s already happened, by the way. And we know it’s happened because of two events. One is the event that occurred in Ephesians 1, 2 and 3, which everything was done before the foundation of the world.

And two, through the simulation that has occurred in this physical life that Jesus walked this earth, died very, resurrected. Now, if you know anything about procreation, you know the woman has no seed, okay? You get that, right? Seed is not something that has, is, is part of the procreation. There’s a prophecy, if you recall, of a virgin born man. And he would bruise the serpent’s head. The virgin born man would deal with a killing blow to Satan. That was the first messianic prophecy that was fulfilled by Jesus Christ who was born of a virgin. Isaiah had even said in chapter 7, verse 14, A virgin shall conceive and bring forth a child.

And it was to be named Emmanuel, which Means God with us. And if you look at your DNA, those words are inscribed on three components of your DNA. Okay? That’s the reason why we know we’re of his race. Another lack of term. So Jesus fulfilled the virgin born prophecy. And he also fulfilled the prophecy of victory over Satan as he won the victory at the cross. I said we would not have this life today if it wasn’t for three events. The cross, he died, he went to, he got the the cross and he died. He went to hell to get the dominion keys.

And three, he was resurrected. We would not be in the place we are today if it weren’t for those three events. And the writer of Hebrews says this. He destroyed the power of the devil in his own death. And the prophet Isaiah says in chapter nine, verse six that this Messiah who comes would be God. He’s called the mighty God. In Psalms 2. 7, God says, this is my beloved Son. And Jesus claimed to be the both God and the Spirit of God. And he substantiated both claims. So when we understand the basis of the church, that this is the foundation of the church, now you can see why he had to seal his spirit inside of you.

Because that is the house of God himself. And he had to seal it because he cannot participate with a sinful life. And in sealing your heart, that gives him the protection that he needs in order to fulfill the prophecy. Provide the foundation for the church, give us the ability to, to be able to go home in this body and give us the guidance that he gave in overseeing and protection of the Old Testament saints in the New Testament covenant. By him being inside of us instead of managing us on a physical presence. All of that’s important.

Let’s just look at it. We talked about this when we talked about the biological components of life. They knew who God was in the Old Testament. Why? Because God walked with them. God was with them. He talked through the prophets. The prophets were, were involved with God himself in the new covenant. We do that, but we do that from an internal component, not an external existence. Okay, we have the same thing that the Old Testament saints had, but we have it from an inward source versus an external source in the Old Testament. Same thing. The Old Testament saints came to know Christ by faith, as we have come to know Christ by faith.

But they had an external view of that. We have an internal view of that. So Psalms 2 said, God said, this is my beloved Son. And Jesus claimed to be both God and the Spirit of God. And he substantiated both claims. The prophet Micah Said when he comes, he will be born in Bethlehem. The whole process of Christ’s birth is laid out in prophecy fulfilled over 300 times in from the Old Testament. Mathematically, statistically, cannot be unproven. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Moses told us in the writings of the Pentate that the Messiah would be the son of Abraham.

Matthew tells us Jesus was the son of Abraham. Later tells us he would be the son of Isaac, that the lion would come through Isaac. Luke chapter 3 tells us Jesus came through Isaac. Verses 23 and 24, 23 and 34. In numbers 24 and 17 it says that the Messiah would be a star like out of Jacob. In Luke chapter 2, verse 23 and 34 again we find that Jesus comes through Jacob. All the line has been laid out in Old Testament Scripture, validated in New Testament Gospels and fulfilled by Christ’s birth through the lineage of David.

Now in Genesis 49:10, the Bible says that Jesus will come through the tribe of Judah. The Messiah will be out of that line. We know. And you’re going to get this as you further study Ezekiel. Judah was the chosen tribe. The book of Revelation calls him the lion of the tribe of Judah. All right, think about this. Daniel was what put in the den of lions. See the significance of the Old Testament to what the New Testament fulfilled fulfilling prophecy was. So in Luke 3, 23 and 33, he is from the tribe of Judah. The Bible says that out of Judah he will come from Jesse.

All right, Isaiah chapter 11, verse 1 and Luke 3, 23 and 32, we find that Jesus came from Jesse. In Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah capped it off with these words. Behold, the days are coming when I will raise up for David a righteous branch and he will reign forever. Now, branches are lineages, okay? In the Old Testament and that’s one of many prophecies including 2nd Samuel 7 and Jeremiah 33, that the Messiah would come through the lineage of David. And the New Testament repeatedly says that Jesus was the son of David. In Matthew 2:16, he fulfills that prophecy.

Now we find in Deuteronomy 18:18, the word of God came to Moses. I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you. He was talking to Moses and I will put my words in his mouth. And God dare promised a prophet like Moses. And Jesus came along and the people in Galilee looked at him in John chapter 6, verse 14 and said, this. This is that prophet likened to Moses. So everything weaves itself in history as a storyline. But it goes from books to books, chapter to chapter, verse to verse. And you’ve got to put this code together to see the storyline.

Whoever the Messiah is, he will be a priest after the order of Melchizedek. A priest not for a time, but a priest for what? Eternity Forever. And the book of Hebrews from the beginning to the end presents conclusively that Jesus was a priest after the order of melchizedek. Psalms chapter 2 and verse 6 tells us that he will be a king. Second Samuel, chapter 7 says he will be a king. And it’s repeat myriad of times within the two books of Samuel. And when Jesus arrived, they asked him if he was a king and he said yes.

And when they crucified him, they not knowing what they were doing over his cross. Cross a sign, right? Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. And some people got mad about that and they said no, put he is the king of the Jews. And Pilate says what I have written, I have written. And he was right. He was a king. Now that’s important because in the lineage of Jesus Christ, not from a physical birth stance, but from a spiritual rebirth. Okay, go back to, go back to that z. That kiss where he said, you know, the fact that he needed to be born again.

And the question was, how do I do that? I’ll go back to my mother’s womb. And he says, no, you were physically born. Now you got to be spiritually born into that birth of the regeneration of your spirit filled life. You become what? A child of God? You’re not a child of God in the physical life unless you regenerate. Right, because Ephesians 2 says we’re born with a demonic spirit controlled by the prince of the power of the air, with our whole focus is chaos. So when we’re born into this physical life, we’re not yet a child of God.

We only become a child of God in the salvation process and regeneration, transformation of our spirit. So when we see that we’re of the lineage, spiritual lineage of Jesus Christ. He was a king, he was a priest. So are we a king and priest? That’s how we get that in Zechariah 9:9, five centuries before it happened, the prophet said Jesus would ride into Jerusalem on an ass. Five centuries later on what we know as Palm Sunday, a week before his execution, Jesus rode into the city to the hosannas of the people, exactly as Zachariah had predicted.

Matthew, chapter 21, verses 2:7 says the same thing. In Zechariah 11:12, the prophet again predicted that the Messiah would be sold for 30 pieces of silver. In Matthew 26:15, Judas sold him not for 29, not for 31, but 30 pieces of silver. Five centuries before, the prophet had said it. In Zechariah 13:7, the prophet predicted the smiting of the shepherd and the scattering of the sheep. Spining of the shepherd would be Jesus Christ. Scattering of the sheep would be the Jews. And in Matthew 26:56, when Jesus was taken in to be crucified, the Bible says, and all his disciples forsook him.

And what fled the shepherd was smitten and the sheep were scattered. So In Isaiah chapter 11, verse 2, it says, tells us that fullness of the Holy Spirit would rest upon him. The sevenfold fullness of the Spirit. Sevenfold completeness. All right. The sevenfold fullness of the Spirit would rest upon him. And in Matthew 3, 16 and 17, when Jesus was being baptized by John the Baptist, the Bible says this. And the Spirit of God descended upon him like a dove, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah. Isaiah 35, 5 and 6, the Bible says when the Messiah comes, he will give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf and voices to the D.

Well, we find that fulfilled in Matthew 9:35, and it says that Jesus went everywhere in all the village and he healed all the sick and all those with diseases. And as you read the record of the Gospels, and exactly as the prophet had said, he gives sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf and voices to the D. This is your church. Okay? You have no church unless you’re in the lineage of Jesus Christ. You’re just part of this world. In Psalms 419, the Prophet indicates that he would be betrayed by his own familiar friend who had eaten bread with him.

Well, we find in John 13:21 30, Jesus sitting around the table the last night called the last supper, before his death, dipped the sop and get stop being liquid and gave it to the one next to him, who was Judas. And he ate bread with him. And then he went out into the night and betrayed Jesus fulfilling to the very letter. Psalms 41:9. In Zechariah 13, 11, 13, the Bible says that the money that was taken would be thrown down and that it would be picked up and used for a potter’s field. What we find In Matthew chapter 27, verses 5 through 7, Judas threw the money down.

Matter of fact, he threw it down in front of the in front of the priests. The price was taken and the prize was taken. And the purchase of a potter’s fill exactly fulfilling Zechariah’s prophecy was made by the priest who Picked, picked up the 30 pieces of silver. You recall in the story of that that the 30 people Silver could not be put back into the coffers of the Jewish synagogues treasury. It had to be used for something else. So they bought the potter’s field for burial sites. So those are just a few. All of the details of the life of Jesus Christ just fulfill prophecy after prophecy after prophecy.

So many fulfilling a price prophecies over 300 that it statistically is impossible for proving it wrong. There’s no way it could be manufactured. It’s a mathematical impossibility. Now powerful argument of prophecy sweeps away all doubt that Jesus and others is not the Messiah, the deliverer of Israel. Now this becomes the secondary theme in Paul’s message. And I say secondary in the order of their appearance, not in the order of their importance. As Paul is preaching here in the 13th chapter of Acts, he he majors in this second area of his message of Jesus, the fulfillment of prophecy.

Now let’s back up a moment and let’s look a little bit at some more background. The book of Acts is the record of the growth of the church. The church has exploded in Jerusalem. This was chapters 2 through 12. When it was finished there the Lord had designed that it would go to Judea and into Samaria. We go from strict Jews to half free Jews to or to Hellenistic Jews to half preachers and Gentiles in Samaria before it goes out to the rest of the world in the Gentile world. And the church went there and exploded and the people were saved and communities became converted to Christ and established congregations or assemblies of believers.

This is important because it was that foundational process geopolitically that allowed then the apostles to remove the pagan gods from their government, sending them to hell. And the government of God came into being for the people who were saved. Now we were learning that we don’t we those people have gone back to the pagan gods. And that’s the reason why the gods of that time period have returned. And then once that was done, a beachhead was established in the pagan world. And that beach head was Antioch of Syria. That was the first Gentile church. And as a group of believers were established in Antioch of Syria.

And God had designed that from that little congregation in that famous city missionaries would descent to reach the uttermost parts of the earth. Now that is what had we had studied last week about Paul and Barnabas that God had said okay first church Antioch, you’ve grown enough, it’s now time to move out in other areas. And he Sent then Paul and Barnabas into the next church region. And we also learned that a gentleman by the name of John, Mark, Mark who wrote the gospel, Mark left them for whatever reason. And we studied all of that last week now.

And so it took a few years until that congregation was strong enough to allow two of their leaders to be moved out. And we find this transition in the chapter 13 of Acts where God had said separate Barnabas and Paul and allow them to go forth into the next area. And we talked all about what that that next area was last time. And so they arrived in Antioch of Pisidia after a treacherous journey through the Taurus mountains in which Paul had been very sick. We talked about that last week as well. First thing they did According to verse 14, verse 14 is.

And we pick up the narrative there from last week when they departed from Perga. They came to Antioch of Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. Now that’s Paul’s modus of operandi. He always went to the Jewish synagogue first to pay them homage and to provide them with respect. There was a ready made audience in the Jewish synagogue, people who knew the Old Testament. So Paul, being a Jew and being a rabbi and perhaps even wearing the garb of a rabbi, knew that they would recognize him as such or assume who he was.

But he was known throughout all of all of the Jewish territories because of who he was as Saul. Now there was also the custom that after the preliminaries made in the synagogue activity, any invited guest who was of a dignitary category would be invited to speak. We talked about that last week. So Paul went into the Jewish. Think about this as strategy. Paul went into the synagogue, he talked to the Jewish leadership of the synagogue in Old Testament law fashion. He got them to understand who he was. If they didn’t already understand that, then he set in the audience of the synagogue.

And when the Jewish leadership had done all of their rituals, which we talked about last week, their customs of reading the Scriptures and and so forth, then they invited Paul up to speak. And what he did is he transitioned immediately from the Old Testament law to New Covenant. He got their attention and they couldn’t shut him up. So they were ready made audience, a great place to begin. And that became their pattern all the way through their missionary journeys. They would go to the Jewish synagogue and then because of getting them to understand the who they were, they went into the preaching and teaching of the Gospel itself.

So now we’re getting, now we’re sitting at verse 15. So after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, ye men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. So this was the invitation of Paul and Barnabas to get up and speak to the Jewish synagogue. So the Holy Spirit had set all this up. Remember God, the Holy Spirit called them to leave, to go to the next city. In doing so, just like any other calling, God prepared the hearts of those to receive them and in doing so allowed them to speak the message.

That is the process of any calling. Same thing. You’re called to be saved. You respond. God sends a messenger, you hear, you say, just like it was set up in dealing with the church, there’s no differences in a calling. Those of you who think that you are called to do something, you. You will hear the word of God calling you, you will respond. And then you are to what? Wait to know that I am God? And he will send you a messenger of some sort to confirm the calling in that time period of that messenger coming.

He’s preparing. You don’t get, don’t get frustrated and overzealous about going and doing your calling. You’re to be patient upon the Lord. He will prepare you, he will provision you, and then he will. He will tell you when it’s time to go foreign. So here the Jewish leadership asked Paul Barnabas if they wanted to speak, and the Holy Spirit had set it up. And last week we looked at this a bit, at the Holy Spirit’s public relations activity and how the Holy Spirit sets up publicly and gets a promotion, going to start what he wants. He did that at Pentecost, right? He did that for Peter.

He’s doing it the same thing with the Gentiles. So he begins this tremendous service sermon. In verse 16, Paul does with these words, men of Israel and ye that fear God. Okay? So he was talking to the Jews and he was talking to the Gentiles who had enjoined the Jewish law to be part of the synagogue. And he says, listen. And there are two kinds of people in the synagogue, the Israelites and those that fear God. God fearers. And that’s really a proper term referring to converted Gentiles, as we just talked about. So he says, you who are of Israel and you who are God fearers.

Converted Gentiles, listen to what I say. He’s about to unload a bombshell on them, to put it very mildly. Okay, as we get into the next several verses through verse 23. But he’s very subtle. And he doesn’t get to Jesus christ until verse 23. So he starts in verse 15. He builds up the process of getting them to what? Listen. That’s important. We talked about this this week. We were to. We’re to listen to our children. And in doing so, we build up their confidence in us to allow them to hear what we’re going to say.

And that is the only way they get understanding and wisdom. If you combat your children, you turn them off. You have to listen. So Paul’s very subtle in this. And if this sermon is only excerpts of what he really said, it may have been a lot longer than what we see in Scripture. In the sermon, he presents, as he always does in all his whole life’s work, the fact that Jesus is the Messiah of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, you find that consistent with what Peter threw at the Jewish leadership beginning in, in Acts chapter two. He always wanted to tell the Jewish leadership, you guys did something very wrong.

You rejected your Messiah, okay? And you mocked him by saying that, you know, that he was. Came from Nazareth and he was the King of the Jews. Now the sermon falls into three parts, and that’s what we’re going to try to get through today. Jesus Christ is presented first as the culmination of history. Oh, that’s very important, guys. Your history is the Old Testament. If you’re a lineage of Jesus Christ through salvation, redemption and transformation as a child of God, a king and a priest, your lineage comes from the Old Testament. Now, last week we saw Paul’s first point that Jesus is the culmination of history.

The question is often asked, where is history going? Well, there is the answer. It’s going towards what Jesus Christ. Old Testament points to Jesus Christ. New Testament points to the cross. So history points to Jesus Christ. You’re the lineage of Jesus Christ. Do you not want to know the history of you spiritual? In order to do that, you must study the Old Testament. He is the fulfillment of history. He’s the only one that can right the wrongs and reverse the injustice. He’s the only one that can remove the curse which he did. He did the curse.

He’s the only one that can remove the curse that he said that separates men from God. Think about this. In the Old Testament, men were separated from God. They were cursed. If you looked at it and looked all the way through the Old Testament, you find that Israel as a nation always went the wrong way. They were separating themselves from God. That is your lineage. That is your. Your lineage not only through Jesus Christ, but that’s your lineage. In the history of this physical life, he’s the only one who can give meaning to life individually and life collectively.

That’s what we’re studying in Ephesians, life individually and in Acts, life collectively as the Church. He’s the only one that can do that, which is our history. And last week we went into the fact that history is his story, not ours, his story. Because if it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have life. So our history is Him. Now, God has been very active in history. God has been designing to redeem men, and the redeemer is Christ. If Christ does not come, the outcome is men are not redeemed. That’s the reason why we can do what we do today and have the ability to go home because of three events.

Death on the cross, get those demeaning keys, and resurrection. And so in those verses, verses 17 through 22 of Acts 13, which we talked about in detail last week, Paul declares that history comes down to one thing. Jesus Christ. You say then, well, history’s over. We’re. But we’re still going on. History is peaked out in Christ. It was uphill from there. It’s downhill from there. See, it was uphill to get to Jesus Christ, and it’s downhill for us because he lives inside of us. Christ is the apex of history. They looked up to Christ as the crowning event of history.

We look back to Christ as the crowning event of history, with one eye on the future. Because he’s coming again. Revelation, and we’ll see today. He didn’t fulfill everything the first time. He has to come again to complete the fulfillment of all of prophecy. Ezekiel 33, 48, Daniel, chapter 7 through 12, Zechariah, chapters 10 through 21. Okay, so he. He has to come again. But history still resolves in Jesus Christ. That’s his point, Paul’s point. And God did all of this. He set it all up. He goes through their history, the Jew history, Old Testament. God led you out, brought you into Egypt.

He went through the whole thing. He cared for you in the wilderness. He brought you out into the promised land. He divided the nation into you. He gave you the portions that you were supposed to have. Even when you wanted a king, he gave you a king. Then he raised up the King David, and David ruled. And then you come down to verse 23, and we’re going to pick it up there. Oh, this man’s seed, that is of David. See, hath God, according to his promise, raised into Israel a Savior. Okay, I want to stop here just for a moment, because this has come to my mind and I’m just gonna.

I’m just. I’m gonna put it out. Do you realize that all of this map reviews that we’ve done goes back to the actual defined territory of the nation of Israel in the Old Testament? It is defined in the Old Testament, which I put it into Ezekiel for the coordinates, boundaries, everything, so you know where it’s at. And it is large enough land mass to house the temple, but it was identified in the Old Testament already. Every detail of every event that will every ever come into existence in our history and the history of this world was identified in the Old Testament.

Now do you understand why you have to study the Old Testament? It’s your history. See, the Savior came through David’s seed. That was God’s plan. Now we know all of that, but Paul used that as the transition to actually wallop them with one word. That word was in verse 23, and it was the word of Yeshua. Now, I’m quite confident in this that they did not expect to hear that. All right, just by understanding the Jewish history, they did not. They did not ex. They did expect all of the rest of the information that Paul was going to say, but they didn’t expect that.

That rest of that information was hinged on one individual. And you know, Paul was wise because the Jewish people just live for their historical place. They live for the fact that they are in the plan of God. They have based their eternal salvation for centuries on the fact that God is their God. And so Paul recites their history. And guess what? God is controlling your destiny. God is controlling your history. Your history is going towards a savior, the seed of David. And they could have said Amen all the way down. And then wham. This name of Yeshua came out.

See, Paul was saying that Yeshua is the culmination of the Jewish history. God designed men that we saw last week for their purpose, just to exist, for fellowship with God and to give him glory. Well, we already know that God says, you’re here to glorify the Son. We saw that in our study of Ephesians 1, where the reason why God gave all of the angelic beings to his Son. And then what happened? Lucifer rebuilt. And now we start all of this physical mess. Man sinned, falling from that. God said, I want to recover them all right? That’s the reason why this host body systems is in place.

He wanted to recover man. That’s the only way he can recover them. That’s through Christ. And so Christ is necessary for the point of history. History was here in the beginning to create people who could worship and praise God. History is now fulfilling its purpose to what? Glorify and praise God. That’s it. Only those who come to Christ fulfill the whole meaning of the historical reference to this world. I want you to get that. I want you to really hear what I’m saying. So let me give it to you another way. If you are not saved, if you are not regenerated, and if you are not transformed, you.

Your life has no historical relevance to history. You follow what I’m saying? The only way you have historical relevance is to have life. That means you’re meaningless. You will not leave any legacy. You will be forgotten. And so Christ is the culmination of history. Without him, history has lost not only its meaning because man would not ever be reconciled back to God. See, the only way you have historical relevance is to be reconciled back to God. And how does that happen? Well, his son had to come die, buried, keys resurrected. Given this host body system, it prototype over with condition of implementation in place.

And we accepted him through faith and good day. What? We were saved, regenerated, transformed new life. Now you have historical relevance. Say history will resolve in the Savior who will bring men to God. Why? Because that’s what God said. I have sent my son to reckon, reconcile humanity to God, back to God. All right, that’s our. That’s our ticket home, guys. Without that, we have no ticket home. See, God made that possible. And that Savior, he says, is Yeshua. And that in verse 23, is the bridge that Paul used from the point of establishing knowledge of Jewish history, getting them to understand who he was and to listen to him.

With the pinnacle point of Yeshua, now he can get into a second point. And he says to them, hey, Jewish leadership. Yeshua was, you know, the seed of David. That’s your history. Through the line of Mary, he had the blood of David. And through the line of Joseph, he had the right to the throne of David. All right, I want you to stop here. We gotta. We gotta stop here a moment to give you physical relevance in authority structure. Women have no authority structure in the spiritual realm. Dennis D. Said, you’re a helpmate. There is no feminism in spirituality.

There’s no individualism in spiritual reality. Men can only have the right to the throneship of their authority structure, meaning the home. That’s the throne of physical man. As Christ is the head of the church, shall. Shall man be head of the home. Not a woman. So both ways, both blood from Mary virgin and lineage from Joseph, both coming from David, gave Yeshua the sole right to the throne of David. So Yeshua is the culmination of history. And now Paul moves into a sweeping statement secondarily because of this. They would say if he stopped here, oh, Yeshua can never be the fulfillment he had to go on to give them the rest of the history.

He didn’t even have a kingdom yet. You see, he was just 100 man and 100 God. And how do we know that? Because of the fulfillment of prophecy. See, the reason Yeshua is presented as the Messiah is because he fulfilled all of the messianic prophecies, the only one. By that having a mathematic statistic position of happened, I can simply mean if the Old Testament God says such, then and such will happen, such and such will happen. And Yeshua comes along and what it all happened. Every one of the prophecies were fulfilled up to that point in time.

See, that’s exactly what we have today. God’s saying all of these prophecies about Messiah. Every Jew knew it. Why? Because they knew the Old Testament. And now what Paul is telling them is, hey guys, you got, you know this guy Yeshua? Well, he has fulfilled every one of them. And you still rejected him as prophecy said you would. Stupid people. Now, he doesn’t expect those Jews just to believe that because he tells them. So what does he do? He goes down the prophecies. He just says, okay, this is your history. This is who this guy is.

Oh, and you still don’t believe? Let me just give you the prophecies. So from verses 23 to 37, what Acts chapter 13 does is lays out all of the fulfillment of prophecy in the life of Yeshua of Nazareth that qualifies him to be the Messiah. That’s the foundation of the church. He, as a lawyer, would say he gave every legal argument with fact, therefore it could not be disputed. So let’s begin. In verse 23 of this man’s seed, of David’s seed, hath God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a savior. Yeshua. Notice the word promise.

God said, I will raise up a Savior according to the seed of David. But in second Samuel, chapter seven, remember, you got to piece all of these together. Do you think God keeps his promise? That’s where he identified his promise to begin with in second Samuel. Well, I think he does. I think he has the capacity to do it. Numbers 23, 19, you look this up. Isaiah 46, 9 and 10 you can look that up. God never, never lied. God has no capacity for that. And God has promised his Savior through the line of data. David.

In 2nd Samuel, chapter 7, Jeremiah 33:15, it says, for this saith the Lord, David shall never lack a man to all upon the throne of the house of Israel. In other words, there is coming a guy who is going to sit on the throne of David. So in other words, when Messiah comes, it’ll be through the lineage of David. David’s line will never peter out, so that there is no descendant. David’s line will never be frustrated and cease. There will always be the line of David. David will never lack a man to sit on the throne.

The Messiah will be the seed of David. And God said it would never be any other way. No one would ever supplant David on the throne. I want you to think about this. And Samuel, which was the last judge by the way, he was coming to the age where he needed to put another judge in place. And instead of putting another judge in place, the people of Israel wanted a king just like everybody else. Okay? Now Saul was identified as the first king, but that’s not true. He was a captain, he was a guardian. David was the first king and David’s line will be the last king.

Even the screw ups throughout history, starting with his son Solomon and going through the other kings, you will find that all of the king’s bloodline came through David. Foreign. So you’re going to have an external king come out of the loins of David. That was the first promise and Jesus fulfilled it. He was born of the seed of David. If there had been a king in Israel, and of course there wasn’t because there were being ruled by outside powers. Right when Jebam went against God’s prophet Ezekiel, that was it. There’s been no other kings. Once Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, even when Cyrus came from Persia, he allowed the Jewish people to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild it.

But there was never a king. They’re scattered. They’re scattered today. And to fulfill Scripture, in order for the second coming of Jesus Christ to come, they got to go back to their homeland. That’s not happened yet. Number one, they don’t even have their homeland put together. Just give you one boundary point. This goes north of Damascus. Israel territory goes north of Damascus. That’s in Syria, guys. Today they don’t have access to their land as God set forth in Old Testament prophecy. So number one, they got to get their land. Number two, then they got to go Back now, do you see that anywhere in your lifetime yet? Probably not.

If there had been a legitimate king apart from Herod, who was a usurper. Now, if there had been a legitimate king, it would have been Jesus. That was what the apostles wanted in Rome. They wanted him to come back, take the throne, get rid of the Roman empire and let’s end this thing. Jesus says it’s not my time. I’m glad he said that. Why? Because we would not be here. We’d be somewhere in spiritual bliss trying to figure out if there’s a way, if God even put away, to allow us to go home. We wouldn’t have this opportunity.

So if there had been a legitimate king before Jesus, technically it could have well have been Joseph who had the royal right. And of course the Herods had been instituted as David’s kingdom, had been set aside until the Messiah came. See, that was on purpose. Remember, the judgment of Israel was God’s plan. Why? Because they rebelled against God. We think in a lot of ways that this is just a loving. Well, his love is quite brutal at times. Do you realize when Nebuchadnezzar came in and, and took the captive of Jerusalem, he killed Israelites in accordance to God’s plan.

You hearing what I’m saying? For disobedience. Oh, you want to look at self assessment a moment. Disobedience could be your life. Well, we already know death’s occurring because he tells us that whatever your sin, if it becomes inequity, basically you die. That portion of whatever it is dies. It could be physical death. But nevertheless, Jesus fulfilled the prophecy being of the line of David. Now in verse 24, Paul then moves ahead and he’s going to prove that Jesus is Messiah by fulfillment of prophecy. Now we’re only gonna. I’m. I’m not gonna go through all of this.

I’m just gonna give you some excerpts. You can study this. You know that it’s verses 24 through 37 and you work that through. Now the first great prophecy that Paul deals with in regards to the coming of the Messiah was the prophecy that would be for a be a forerunner to the Messiah. We know that to be John the Baptist. And we’re told that when John had first preached before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, even as John fulfilled his course, God had desired that there would be a forerunner. Now you see that in chap.

In verse 29, fulfillment in verse 22, fulfilled in verse 33, God has fulfilled. Now here you, you’ll we’ll be talking about prophecy is fulfilled. The first prophecy that Paul alludes to is that of the forerunner, John the Baptist. And he talks about that to the people. What did John do? He prepared the people’s minds to, excuse me, anticipate not only Christ’s coming, but the shift from the law to the gospel. John the Baptist was the first to say, you need to be saved. See, the baptism of repentance was. Was a ceremonial confession of. An inward confession of sin that desired to prepare their hearts for them.

Sight what he gave them. Remember the. The dispensation periods. What he gave them was. Was the process of moving from the law through the dispensation of Jewish conversion in baptism into the church. He foretold all of that process that we’ve gone through in Acts up to chapter 13, from Jews to Gentiles. He did that. Isaiah, chapter 40. Now, I’m just going to briefly read this. Verse three. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Oh, see, that was a prophecy of what John the Baptist would say done by Isaiah.

It says, there is going to be to come a prophet in the Messianic times who’s going to say, get ready for the Messiah. That’s John the Baptist. That’s the context here. Then if you go further into the book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, remember, before the silent years between Malachi and Matthew. In verse one of chapter three, it’s. It says this. Behold. Hey guys, listen, says the prophet, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple. The first place that Jew, that Yeshua, went, where he began his public ministry, was to the temple.

At what age? At not 33 and not 30. What age? He went to the temple as a child and he was reading to the Jewish leadership and his parents had lost him and they went hunting for him and found him in the temple as a young child. Foreign the Baptist. And all the Jews knew that there had to be a messenger. Well, the first one was Melchizedek, if you recall, that set the hearts and minds of the Jewish. That. Hey guys, this thing that you, you observe and you’re so engulfed in and so steadfast in that process and not understanding that there’s a new process to come, I’m here to sort of get your mindset going in the other direction.

So there’s a messenger saying, Messiah is coming. If you saw a messenger calling out a people to Messiah, then you better get your eyes upon it. That means Messiah is coming. Calling. Guys, think of all of the prophecies as a calling to the people to understand that a savior is going to come. Prepare your hearts and minds for this event. Because when this event comes, I’m going to send a messenger. Oh, thank calling. I’m going to send a messenger that’s going to be the forerunner of my coming to tell you I’m fixing to come. Therefore when I come, it’s not going to be a surprise.

You’re calling. Same thing here. So Paul begins by saying John fulfilled this course. John’s marvelous person. And the Bible doesn’t say a whole lot about him, but it just keeps hailing. His humility continuously exists. His humility and. But he’s a very strange guy. He’s like a. What do I call it? A modified Tarzan suit. Today we would think John the Baptist would be like a Tarzan in a movie today. It’s made out of camel’s hair. Have you ever. Have you ever read this? I mean, have really thought and read it. His. His bodysuit was made out of camel’s hair and he ate grasshoppers with honey on it.

See, that’s how grasshoppers were able to taste better by putting honey on yaakov. In verse 25 it indicates that he was such a humble guy. It says in verse 25 that John fulfilled his course. He said, Paul said this. Who think ye that I am? I’m not he. You think I’m the Messiah. This is John the Baptist talking to the people. I’m not the Messiah. But behold, there comes one after me. The shoes of which feet I am not worthy to lose. Say, understanding slavery. Then you would know that the most demeaning task that a slave had was to take the shoes off of the dirty feet of his master.

And only the lowest of the lowest slaves had the right to do that. I want you to think about Christ washing the feet of his ap Apostles. The lowest of the lowest. Self assessment. Where do you rank yourself in humbleness? And John says, not only am I not the Messiah, but there’s one coming after me who is. And I’m not even worthy to exist. Exalt myself to take off his dirty shoes. Guys, that’s humility. I’m not worthy to even do that. I’m way lower than that. So John was a humble guy. Ephesians 4, 5 and 6.

Guys, your individual position. Let me tell you something about humility. In Matthew 11:11, Jesus said this. Among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. In the eyes of John the Baptist, he was the lowest of low. In the eyes of Jesus Christ, he was the greatest guy, the greatest man that ever lived up until his time was John the Baptist. That’s what Christ had said. And you want to go back down to the Old Testament and say, who is John the Baptist? He’s great. He’s greater than Moses.

He’s greater than Elisha, he’s greater than Abraham. He’s greater than David. John the Baptist, say he was the greatest because the lower man goes in humility, the higher he goes in the exaltation of God. Self assessment. So believe me, if John was the highest in the sight of God, what was he in his own sight? He had to be the lowest. That’s why he was great. Yes. S. But isn’t linen known as purity in Scripture? It’s yes. And that’s why he refers to John as that. Yeah. Now that’s the reason why they wore. Think about this.

Linen is clothes y okay? Even today it’s got the properties for your skin to be pure. And we will. We wear polyester plastic. Say John fulfilled his course, and if the messenger came, which he did, the Messiah must be on his heels, right? A forerunner is very close, fish to the actual event, the propaganda guy, the publicist, the promoter, whatever you want to call him. And he was the voice in the wilderness. Not wilderness as it relates to territory, but wilderness as it relates to a mindset. He’s out there in the sea of sinfulness, fulfilling the prophecy of his forerunnership to the Messiah.

So Paul goes on in verse 26 and he says, men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whose ever among you who fears God? And there again are the two distinctions, right? Jews and Gentiles. This talking of Abraham would be Jews. Whosoever feared God would be Gentiles. To us, he says collectively to us. I need to say that the best manuscripts out there in the original scrolls don’t say to us, just says us. Okay? So to us is the word of this salvation sent. The salvation that comes in Yeshua as announced by John is for us.

Now, I see as I read this, I see Paul’s outline coming. All right, when you look at this, seeing that snowing his process, seeing, seeing the cultures of the Jews, how the synagogue worked, I see Paul’s outline now taking shape. As far as this message goes, the climax in verse 39, Paul says this and by him, him, all that believe or justify. Say the three points Paul sermon, Jesus is the Savior, who Christ was. Verse 23, he saves us. And the third point, he saves us by what? By believing, through faith. And that was Paul’s three points of his sermon.

The Savior is sent unto us. Jesus, the promised Messiah, and he’s promised to us. Paul says, hey guys, don’t miss him. You’ve already screwed it up. Don’t miss him. Say you said don’t miss him because he’s going somewhere and he’s got. It’s going. All of history is going towards Yeshua Hamasia. Prophecy is going somewhere. It’s going towards Christ. Now you got to think about what Paul is saying in a logical mind. See, because if you understand how Paul writes, everything he writes is that way. The first part of his epistles are doctrine and theology, and the second half of his epistle is application.

So he’s a process guy. He’s a logical mind thinker. And in knowing that, you would see that he’s. He is putting forth an argument of questions that he has in his mind that he knows the Jewish leadership has in mind. Because why? He was a Sanhedrin individual. He knows how they think. So he’s going to answer the questions that come up. First question is, why would you kill the Messiah that you’ve been waiting for? And the second question would be, if perhaps by some unbelievable circumstance he was the Messiah and they did kill him, does that wipe out God’s plan? Those are very important questions.

Why? Because that’s the baseline of the Church. One, if the, if, if he is the Messiah, how come our leaders killed him? They’re Old Testament authorities. And number two, if he is the Messiah and they did kill him by some strange quirk, does that wipe out God’s plan? Well, Paul proceeds to answer these two questions, giving prophetic reasoning take note, because this is the power of the foundation of the church. Verse 27 answers the first question. If he is Messiah, how come our leaders killed him? For they that dwell at Jerusalem, Jewish people, people in Jerusalem and their rulers, the condition of the Church in relationship to the Roman Empire, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every day, every Sabbath day, they read the same thing over and over and over again.

What is this called? Complacency? They read it, they knew it, they rejected it, and they fulfilled the prophecy by condemning him. They that dwell at Jerusalem are the people and the rulers because they knew him, not blinded by their own sin, obedience Guy, self assessment, they didn’t see him. Not only did not, did they not see him, they didn’t know him. They couldn’t listen to them, they couldn’t hear him. Self assessment, where are you? But you might say, well they’re supposed to know who he is. Well, got to say this, they’re also the Bible scholars. Think about our education system.

They had an agenda, they had, they had prophecy that they had to fulfill. And God blinded them to the fact and put them in scholarship positions to teach the people exactly what they needed to know. Same thing with our school system today. No difference in history, guys. And we know what they did on the seventh day, right? They read the prophets. After reading the prophets, they read the scriptures and then they asked if anybody had to say anything. So they, they, they understood who this guy really was. And that’s the reason why Peter blasted him in chapter two through chapter 12 by telling them over and over and over again, hey guys, you knew who this person was, you killed him anyway.

Now let me, let me not just beat up on the Jews. Let me just say this. There are many in the collective church today who continually read scripture and absolutely have no concept of what God is saying. Oh, that’s church today. That’s the corporate church today. They read you scripture, they want you to get saved, they want you to get in the pew, they want to get your money, but they never take you to sanctification. They read scripture. And I bet you every one of you read scripture before coming here. And if I ask what it meant, I’m not really sure you could tell me.

And if you can’t tell me, then how in the world do you have any idea of the concept of what God is saying? Now I’m sure there are even some Christians who because of sin in their life, unforgiven sin today, hear the word of God and even read it themselves without any understanding of it. I, I know that. Why? Because it used to be one know what happens foreign. Israel had read the Old Testament continuously, every Sabbath. They did it over and over and over. They knew the prophecies, they knew the qualities and the characteristics of their prophecies.

They knew the kind of prophecy it was, they were supposed to be authorities on it and all of this and yet absolutely without any conclusion. This guy was standing in front of them and all of the miracles that he did, they knew fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament and yet they still rejected him. So I got to say this guys, self assessment type of, if you’re ignorant of the written word of God. You will be inevitably ignorant of the living word of God. You follow the difference? See, they read it without any understanding. Jesus indicated to them, indicted them from this.

That’s what he told the Sanhedrin. This he indicted them for this remembering. John 5 It says, Search the Scriptures for in them you think he had eternal life. Self assessment. Search the scriptures and think ye have eternal life. And they are they which speak or testify of me. If you really knew what you’re reading, you would see me. John 8 We’re the children of God. He is our Father. And he says, no, no, no, no, no. He’s saying, this ain’t Henry. You’re the children of the devil. And they read scripture and he says to them, because I speak the truth, you can’t understand it.

You remember what he said to the Sadducees in Matthew 22:29. You do err not knowing the Scriptures. In Luke 24 he walked on the road to emesis and he says to them, oh, slow of heart to believe all the Scriptures hath saith. Then he proceeded to teach them as concerning himself out of the scripture. Now here they are spending all of their life fooling around with the Old Testament, never knowing what it was talking about. Self assessment cups. That’s true in religions. Corporate church today, that’s true in the name of Christianity where people reading Bibles and talking about Bibles and carrying Bibles who haven’t got the faintest idea what they’re talking about.

Study to show yourself approved. There are many occults today that even take Bibles all over the place and pervert them and twist them. And by the way, this is common stuff in our society today. Ignorance has become a way of life. Back then and even today they had substituted a ritualistic structure for truth and they couldn’t fit everything into the frames that they had structured. You can twist the Scripture to do whatever you want it to be to support your outcome. So they were ignorant. That’s why they killed him. And the reason they were ignorant was because they didn’t even know the scriptures they professed to read with understanding.

So the answers, the first, this answers the first question. They missed him because they didn’t even understand what they were reading. Why they had too much unforgiven sin and too much hypocrisy in the way they lived their life. So the second question, if they killed him, did that wipe out God’s plan? Well, you get that in verse 27. They have fulfilled them in condemning them. Do you know that God knew what they would do. Oh yeah, we understand that from Ephesians 1, 2 and 3. This whole thing has been planned out. This is just a simulated process.

God knew every single thing did do all of the rejection of Christ. The condemnation of Christ is put in the plan from the very beginning. Isaiah 53:3. He was despised and rejected. God knew that every detail was prescribed. Let’s just stop here. Self assessment. You’re doing what you’re doing because God knows you’re going to do it. You have a choice. You have a choice to continue down this road or make an about face course correction and get obedient with God, receiving the blessings that he has provided you before the foundation of the world. In Ephesians 1:3, God knew from the very beginning that he would be fully rejected and he would be executed.

Well, we were told that in Ephesians 1, 2 and 3, John chapter 7, verse 5 says this. For neither did his brothers believe in him. That was the apostles, right? His brothers. James, remember we talked about that verse 48 when they were arguing about whether Jesus was the Messiah. It says this. Have any of the rulers of the Pharisees believed on him? No. That fulfilled prophecy as well. God says they’ll reject him. And they did. He was hated incidentally, without a cause. Look at verse 28. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired that Pilate, that he should be slain.

See, they had no absolute reason to kill him, but they did. That was all because it was part of God’s plan. God knew he had to die. Why? Because that was the price that he had to pay in order to reclaim his people. So they had no fault. They killed him. Jesus said in John 15:25, this cometh to pass, that the Word might be fulfilled. That is written in their law. They hated me without a cause. God knew all along. Well, if the Jewish rulers reject him, did that wipe out God’s plan? Let’s get back to that.

Answer that question. The question. Answer to that is no. They actually fulfilled his plan. He knew that they would do that. He planned for it. Jesus fulfills every prophecy. Some people say that Jesus got up there on the cross and tried to fulfill all the prophecies at once. He knew the Old Testament real well and so he just worked it out so that he could fulfill all of them. He quoted the right verses and did all of that. Well, that might be fine, but how do you get the Jews, the whole nation of Israel, to condemn him without a cause, unless the scripture set it in motion? How do you get soldiers to stick stick spears in his side? I don’t hear him giving orders to the soldier to pierce his side.

See that a lot. That too is fulfilling a prophecy. Verse 29. And I love this. And when they had fulfilled all all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree. You got to say, man, that’s amazing. You know what they were doing the whole time they were crucifying Jesus, they were filling Fulfilling what prophecy. One right after another after another after another. They thought they were so wise. They were getting rid of this imposter insurrectionist. Fulfilling prophecy right on schedule down the line to the end. Then you gotta love what Paul says.

And when they had fulfilled all of the prophecy, they took him down. God’s no victim. Neither was Jesus. Well, you might say, what were the prophecies were they fulfilling on the cross? Well, the first of all, the fact that he was executed without a cause, which is mentioned in verse 28. But you have just analyzed the things that he fulfilled on the cross. Let me just give you a few Psalms 109. 25 I also have become a reproach to them that when they see me, they wag their head prophecy that the people would wag their head at him.

Just remember the interval 100 years between the prophecy and the fulfillment. Matthew 27:39 and those who were passing by were hurling abuse at Jesus, wagging their heads. Psalms 22:17 they took. They stared at me 23:35 and the people stood by looking. Psalms 22:18 they divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. John 19:23 and 24 the soldiers got together. They said, let’s not part his garments, let’s cast lights. Exactly fulfilling the prophecy. The soldiers fulfilled it. They didn’t even know it. They were Romans. They had no idea of the old testament. Romans 69:21 and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

And gall, which is snake venom. They have thirsty with vinegar. And G mentioned in Matthew 27:34 they gave him wine to drink. Mangle with golf. The vinegar was there too. And Jesus on the cross said, I thirst in. In Psalms 21:22:1 he says, My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why would he cry of the dying Messiah on the cross? Do that in Matthew 27:46 again and we can go on and on. And fulfillment of script. So they crucified, fulfilling scripture, everything about your history. Now let’s wrap up some our thoughts. Verse 29 they laid him in A sepulcher, you know, that fulfilled prophecy as well.

The Bible says in Isaiah 53, 9, that is grace. His grave was assigned to be with wicked men. They used to throw criminals in the same big place where they buried criminals. It was assigned to be there. But with a rich man in his death, Jesus didn’t wind up where the criminals were buried. He wound up in the tomb of a rich man. Joseph Arithmea. Exactly fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 53, 9. And that brings us to the climax of Paul’s sermon beginning at verse 30. And this happens to be the keynote of the apostle apostolistic preaching throughout the rest of the book of Acts, saying God raised him from the dead.

He concludes here, you killed him. God raised him three times. Here Paul says the same thing and it sounds like Peter from here on. This is what Peter preached in Acts chapters two through twelve. God raised him. In fact, the great proof that Jesus is the Messiah crowning proof is his resurrection. Why? Because all of the promises God made would be unfulfilled if Jesus was dead. As I said, the whole scenario of your life and the historical relevance that you have is the history of Jesus Christ. He had to be resurrected from the dead. And to do that, God the Father had to get give his approval for him to be raised from the dead.

Paul goes on to the evidence. In 31 he was seen many days of them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. About 500 witnesses according to 1st Corinthians 15, saw Jesus in his resurrected form. So God raised him. They saw him. There are witnesses to prove it. And then in verse 32 he says this and we declare unto you good news. The promise which was made to the fathers. God hath. What’s the next word in that? Fulfilled. What was the promise? There’s three of them. Verse 33, first promise in that he hath raised Jesus up again.

Here comes that first promise as it also is written in the second psalm. Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. You know that God predicted that he would beget his Son. That has to do not only with his uncle, incarnation to begin with, but has to do with his resurrection. God prophesies through David, a resurrection. God said, I’m going to have a Messiah, a living Messiah begotten an incarnation and in insurrection that’s fulfilled when Jesus rose. Then he goes to the second prophecy. Look at verse 34. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to Corruption.

He said, in this way, I will give you really the holy and sure blessing of David. Oh. What he says is because of his resurrection, there’s no more corruption. Not physical corruption, spiritual corruption, victory over Satan. Isaiah 55:3 incidentally, that he quotes their Godhead given all these promises to come in Messiah. But if you’ve got a dead Messiah, what happens to the promises turn out good. So he raised him so that I could grant the promises to you. Through him, David can never fulfill the Messiah’s promises. A dead Messiah fulfills nothing. He says, I’ve got sure mercies.

I’ve got blessings for David and erased him to make them possible. I will give you the sure mercies of David. Oh, notice that I will give you. That’s Christ saying, I will give you. There’s no condition. It’s a gift. And if the Messiah can stay alive, I’ll give you the mercies. See, that’s the reason why I had to be raised from the dead, so that the mercies and blessings could come through him to us. Now, here’s the last one. Find this in Psalm 16, verses 8 to 10. Thou shalt not allow thine Holy One to see corruption.

Clear. Back in Psalm 16, God promised that Jesus would ris raise from the dead. Some people said, oh, come on, that refers to David. Well, no song of the Jews said that. Of course Thou shalt not allow the Holy One to see corruption. That doesn’t have any messianic statement. That’s David. So the answers come in verse 36. For David, after he had served his generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was laid to his fathers and saw what corruption you know, his body is still corrupted there. Oh, so are yours when your yours are buried.

By the way, no flesh or blood shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. Why? Because it’s corrupted. Doesn’t matter whether you live or die, your body is still corrupted. St. John the Baptist, the forerunner, announced that. And he said even in his execution, when it looked like everything was going wrong, there was a fulfillment of prophecy after prophecy after prophecy. Even in his death, God raised him from the dead. Jesus is the Messiah because what happened before he came, what happened before King? And what happened after he went? God raised him again to life. So in the church, Jesus the Messiah, he is not only the culmination of our history, he is the fulfillment of prophecy.

We can only judge our future by the past. And in the past, God always kept every promise. If is he fulfilled, is the key word. All through these scriptures, God has appointed a future Day of judgment. And the Bible says that for every man that rejects Jesus Christ, there will be a judgment of eternal hell, revelation. God’s kept his promise in the past, we already know that. And he’s going to keep his promise in the future. God’s predictions come true. And for one who rejects Jesus Christ, it is a fearful thing to fall to the hands of the living God and be judged.

Self assessment and be sent to hell. Part two of Paul’s preaching about the church going to finish this up next week in part three, wrapping up the church and then moving throughout the rest of the book of Acts. Questions, comments? Anything? Yeah, try. Did you go away? Anybody have comment? Nope. Okay. Yeah, Maria? Yeah, I have a comment. You said something about women has no. What? They have no authority. Structure in spirit reality, spiritual reality. They’re not the head of the home. They’re not the head of the church. They’re a helpmate to the man who has the authority as Christ has the authority over the church.

Okay. Now, what if someone is single? What is God? Christ is still your husband. Okay. So you have no authority over the hierarchy of spiritual reality. Okay. Now. And that’s not to be condescending to you women? Oh, no, no. That’s just understanding your place. That’s just understanding your spiritual place in life. Okay. Right. So. Okay. I have to gather my thoughts on my next one, so you can ask somebody else, because I have to gather. I had another comment, but I have to look at my notes. Okay. All right, Tracy. Thank you, Jim, for taking my question.

I’ve always wondered, when they go away, those 300 prophecies of the coming of Christ, if it’s written down and you might have covered this, I had to go and, you know, put some laundry in and, you know, take a shower. This, that and other. If it’s written, if these prophecies are written down, couldn’t the devil, Satan and the other angels, the bad angels, read it and kind of anticipate that? They did. They did. God told him in the garden what he was going to do. What. What Satan tried to do is figure out what bloodline it was.

Right. Right. And I remember you said that they. That the plan was that Eve, it was taken through her line and it had to go. You said this a couple weeks ago. It had to go through. I mean, sorry, Mary’s bloodline. It had to go through Mary’s father because of. For some reason, I can’t remember right at the moment, but that kind of was like a. A zinger, you know, it confused Satan and his minions just put place. Yes. Okay. The fact that Lucifer did not understand the spiritual lineage of that process, he knew that was going to come from a virgin.

And at the time of the garden. That’s all in there. He knew it was going to come from the seed of the woman. That’s the reason why he brought in 200 fallen angels to corrupt all the seeds of man. That’s the reason why God had to separate Noah and his family and produce the flood to kill all the fallen angels. So Lucifer knew that at that point in time, and he made a chess move and God counteracted that chest moved by the flood. And then God set forth in prophecy the lineage of the Messiah through David’s bloodline.

Well, go back and studying Ezekiel, you’re going to find all of the issues that came through David’s blood line with Lucifer. Got. Satan tried to do that, but there was another chessboard, mother. It was the two daughters that didn’t have any brothers that got the inheritance of their father in doing so created a lineage approved by God that basically was through the line of David getting to Mary. Lucifer didn’t realize that. Right. That’s the third zinger. That’s the one that I was thinking about. Okay. So. Yeah, So I think that answered my question. Thank you, Trey.

So I think this ties into what was just covered, but. So the 30 pieces of silver which was prophesied, they knew it was coming, but the head of the Sanhedrin in giving that 30 pieces of silver didn’t even recognize or they’re so evil, they knew they were fulfilling the pro prophecy and taking out the Messiah. Yep. Well, they knew that they were doing it because they wouldn’t have paid. Paid Judas to do it. They knew they were doing what the deed that they were doing now. Right. I don’t. This. I stink. Going back and being ignorant of the prophecies, the Sanhedri, reading all the scriptures, should have known that that’s what they were doing.

Regardless of whether they knew it or not. That was prophecy that they were reading in the synagogues. Erita. Right. And they failed to recognize it. So God either blinded them to it or Satan played them through it to do what he was expecting. To do what? Yeah, we learned resurrection and he walked right into it. Even though I tell you the truth, you don’t understand it. We made them ignorant to the truth. Shane. I just. I was listening to a sermon this past week, and because you got to Joseph, the one that paid for the burial spot for Christ, they were talking about In.

In the Old Testament, how the Joseph. Joseph had stored up all his treasures for seven years to carry the people through the. The long the times. And then the Joseph of the new test that they talk about his economy for Christ was you give it. You give into the Lord what the Lord asked you to give. And it was. They tied how whenever you are blessed, either financially or where you’ve been blessed to giving to God what God asks of you. And the Joseph that was. That gave up his burial spot, he was a very prominent person in that time.

So I just kind of thought that you kind of got to it a little bit. But it just kind of brought me back to what I’d heard this earlier this week, so thought, sure. Well, it goes back to one of the relationship laws of God. You got to give to receive, right? So. Yep, good point. Hi, Dar. Sorry, Jim. Hard to get to that button. Boy, I hope I can get this out. I probably can. Okay, so what the Lord has been working with me on is how the woman being the weaker sex and staying in your lane is this incredible opportunity to be open as a child, to receive wisdom.

I never would have connected all that because, of course, as a recovering feminist, I’m supposed to look for my own fulfillment and I’m supposed to put my own needs first. I mean, man, I deal with that every day. So I just really want to thank you, God, for bringing this information in. Because at some level, of course, I know that God’s plan is perfect. I’ve always known that. But I haven’t had a clearly defined role before. This was not taught to me at all growing up in church at all. But the things that you’re talking about, even today, like washing someone’s feet, that’s one of the things I did when.

When Will and I first started dating, is I wanted to wash his feet. And it was so amazing to do that. So there. I mean, I can feel Holy Spirit trying to get through to me for years and years and years and years. And it’s just really wonderful to get the lie of feminism. We are of equal value to God and our roles are so different. And Satan really, really, really, really tries to keep us confused on that. Because if a woman takes her role and a man takes his role, we would bring heaven on earth.

We would be. We would be ministering to everyone without saying a word. Yeah. So that was one of the things I was thinking about, and I had a question. I can get it. Remember when Paul landed on Malta and he. If they hadn’t have landed On Malta, they would have surely been lost, right? Because that area, they would have run out of food and run out of whatever. So he’s there on the beach on Malta, and a snake comes out and bites him. And the people are like, oh, he’s a murderer, or else that wouldn’t have happened and he’s gonna die.

And he doesn’t die. But in a way, I thought it was really cool that God let them know, yeah, this guy was a murderer. But now I have transformed him from Saul into Paul. But then they immediately went to, oh, he must be a God. So it just. It. It that. That story really impacted me on how Satan likes to operate, which is black and white thinking. And so I don’t know if this ties in very well, but it really helps me with the whole concept of hate the sin because sin separates us. And you. Oh, I’m so grateful for all that.

You talked about association, because it’s easy to associate with those that are sinning. And if you’re not careful, it influences you. It just does. So hate the sin. And the. The thing that’s helping me so much is the love the sinner. It’s getting me out of that black and white judgmental thinking. Because there go I, but by the grace of God, anyone sin, there go I, but by the grace of God. This humility comes and I’m sorry. Judgment feels horrible to my heart. It feels horrible. It just tightens me. I feel like the Grinch who stole Christmas.

So I just really get that that’s not my Lane and Jim. Without this teaching, I would not. I would not be here. I would be out there trying to be a man. I would be fighting with my husband every day to wear the pants. I mean, that is what Satan wants. He wants that level of horrible suffering to occur within the sacred system of marriage where God wants us to experience what it is to be one. So, yeah, a ton of gratitude. And I just feel like everything you’re dropping these days, oh, it just. I can tell you’re led by Holy Spirit because it just goes right in and goes boom.

So. Okay, I’m done. Thanks. Maria. Hi. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. When you said that John the Baptist. There’s none greater than John the Baptist. And then he’s greater than Abraham, he’s greater than Moses. Didn’t God say that Moses is the meekest man on earth? So what? He wasn’t. He wasn’t the lowliest man on earth. So what’s the difference between being meek and humble? Humble it is. It’s putting yourself before everything else. Okay. And Moses didn’t do that. You can read scripture and see that. Okay, why. Why was Moses not allowed to go into the promised land? Because he disobeyed God.

Yeah, well, because he took it upon himself to be God. Okay. Because. Okay, he hit the rock. Okay. Right, Right. So now go ahead. So. So while he was obedient and. And relocated to roles in God’s mind, he did not. He did not do. Do exactly what God commanded him to do. John the Baptist did and he became the Lord. He even, even said that. I. I’m not. I. I am not the type. I can’t. I’m not able to fulfill. Even taking his shoes off and washing his feet, which was the lowest that anybody could get in that culture of being a servant.

Moses didn’t do that. Okay. John the Baptist did. Okay. Could it be that Moses was environment because he was, you know, next to the pharaoh? And there could be a number of reasons. But, but comparison. This is not my comparison. This is God’s comparison. That’s what, that’s what Jesus said out of his mouth, not mine. Right. So this is Jesus talking that basically John the Baptist was greater. Was. Was greater than anybody else that lived this earth. Okay. And Christ said that because of. Of the way that John the Baptist lived his life. Okay, One more thing.

It’s not. I have a question. The Sanhedrins, were they the bloodline of Cain? Yes. Okay. Right now, the authority of our government. Can I. I’m sorry, is that too much to ask? Go ahead. Is that the authority before trump of our government? Are they the bloodlines of king? Yes. Okay. All right, thank you. Anything else, guys? We’re good. All right, let’s pray. Father, thank you again for great morning of. Of getting into your scripture and understanding your word. Appreciate the ability to. To be utilized as. As a vessel for. For your mouthpiece. Father, thank you for giving me not only the opportunity, but, but coming in, coming into me, orchestrating online, making sure that what is said is exactly your truth and what you want us to understand.

Father, take these words apply to our hearts. May. May we utilize this and to understand more of your scripture, understand more of your plan, understand more of our history, and more importantly, understanding more of your son. And Father, we just give you all the praise and glory. Thank you for everything that you’ve done. Thank you for everything will to me. Thank you for your son death on the cross and more importantly, the resurrection, which is the only way we have our ticket home. We ask all these things in your son’s name.
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