Jesus the Promised Messiah Part 2 is the title for the sermon tonight.
And we're looking at, again, Daniel 9, we touched upon this last week,
and this prophecy, this 17-week prophecy that was given to Daniel regarding his people,
regarding also the coming of Messiah, and how this promise then played out into the New Testament,
and we saw people like Andrew knowing full well that the Messiah was to come,
and the woman at the well, Samaritan woman, knew that Messiah was coming to teach them about the Father.
But it says there in Daniel 9, let's have a look at it again, verse number 24,
17 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.
Now, I want you to pay attention to the next few words that we're going to read here.
It says, to finish the transgression.
We really saw last week that this has to do with the Messiah, okay?
Last week we looked at the time frame, the time frame when the Messiah had to come,
and the only one that fits the bill is Jesus Christ.
But now, not just the time frame, I want you to look at what Christ would have to fulfil
when we talk about his coming.
It says, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins.
Like these are all things that this promised Messiah has to fulfil,
and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy.
And those next words, and to anoint.
Okay, now I'm going to go back to the Hebrew, and I apologise if I'm not pronouncing this correctly.
Alright? But, and to anoint, the word anoint there back in the Hebrew is mishak.
Mishak, okay? If you go back to the Hebrew.
And that, I'm saying that for a reason because it will keep going.
And to anoint, so again that anoint mishak, the most holy, the most holy will be anointed.
And I had said to you that the word Messiah meant the anointed one or something along those lines.
And we see here that the most holy, who's the most holy, will be anointed.
You know? And then it keeps going there, verse number 25.
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem,
look at this, unto the Messiah.
So as we keep reading there, it says the prince shall be seven weeks, so we see Messiah.
But I want you to notice that Messiah was to be anointed.
And when you read the word Messiah, again back to the Hebrew,
you know if you'll just read this again, and I checked this out myself, right?
It's not some commentary. I put out the Hebrew text. I typed into Google.
I had a look at what that word means, okay?
And definitely it says here, according here in Daniel 9, verse 25.
Let me just read it again, verse number 25.
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem,
and then in your Hebrew text it says mishak, okay?
Mishak, okay?
To anoint is mishak, and the anointed one or the Messiah is mishak.
So you can see the similar root word, the root Hebrew word.
So we're talking about the one and the same, okay?
The Messiah, it says the prince.
So we can see the Messiah is part of a royal family.
He's a prince, and of course, he's a king. He's the king of kings.
He's the Lord of lords. Shall be seven weeks.
And so again, I just want to touch upon this prophecy, this promise of what Messiah would fulfill,
not just a time frame, we had a look at that last week, but what he would fulfill.
Does this line up with the Jesus Christ that we love and worship?
You know, this church is to be built on Jesus Christ.
He's our foundation.
It's not just our foundation, he's our head.
This whole church is the body of Christ.
We say Christ, we're talking about Messiah.
Remember, the Greek word for Messiah is Christ, which is the anointed one.
Hey, that is the one that we've come to church to celebrate, to praise and to become a little bit more like him
as we grow in our Christian life.
And so it's so important that we have the right Messiah.
Jesus is the promised Messiah.
And you know, again, we know this, we've put our faith and trust in the Messiah,
but it's good to just reinforce once again that truly the Messiah we love and worship
is the Messiah that was promised unto us in scriptures.
So if we go back to Daniel 9, look at 24 again, let's read it again.
Seven weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.
So the first thing I want you to notice there, to finish the transgression.
To finish the transgression, what is that about?
To finish the transgression.
Now of course we think about the word to transgress, you know, it's similar to the word trespass I suppose.
You know, you're passing a boundary that you're not permitted to cross over.
To transgress is basically to break those boundaries of God's laws to sin.
Okay, sin is the transgression of the law.
And so if you want to keep your finger there in Daniel 9, we are going to come back to this.
Now let's turn to some New Testament passages.
Let's go to Galatians chapter 3.
What does it mean to make an end of the transgression, in what sense?
Well, Galatians chapter 3, please turn there with me.
Galatians chapter 3 and verse number 19, and I, you know,
as we've been going through this little mini-series of Jesus the promised Messiah,
again, it is a bit of a Bible study.
So please, if you haven't got a Bible, grab a Bible, turn to the passages.
I want you to see it in God's word yourself.
I want your faith to be upon his scriptures.
The promise that we had many hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago even,
of the promised coming of Jesus Christ.
But it says in Galatians 3.19,
So of course we're talking about the Old Testament laws, we're talking about the Ten Commandments,
the laws of Moses, right?
The books of the law.
Like, what's the point of the law? How does it serve? In what capacity?
It says, it was added because of transgressions.
You see, because we transgress against the Lord, the Lord gave us a set of laws.
He gave the Old Testament Israelites a set of laws so they would know what it is to transgress.
Okay? What it is to break God's laws, they would be aware of this.
You know, God would give them direction of what is right and what is wrong.
But for how long? It continues there, it says, it was added because of transgressions.
Look at this. Till, or until, till the seed should come.
And of course if you know the book of Galatians, the seed is there referring to Jesus Christ.
You see, it was added because of transgressions till the seed.
Okay? And so we have this idea again back in Daniel chapter 9 to make it,
it says to finish the transgression, well that makes a lot of sense.
Okay? Because the moment that you've trusted Christ, you are not under the power of the law.
You see, the new man, the new creature is sinless.
It cannot break God's laws. Praise God for that new man.
We go to heaven through that new creature, through that new man that God has given us, not this flesh.
We know this flesh continues to sin. And God's laws are still good for this flesh.
So we can have that awareness, we can know when we break the laws of God.
But don't forget, when you sin, the new man remains pure.
Okay? There is an end of transgression. There is no power.
Like you cannot literally in the new man, in that spiritual man that God has given us,
you cannot sin, you cannot break God's laws. It's very clear.
You know, there's this battle between the flesh and the spirit, the new man and the old man.
So Jesus Christ came through his sacrifice. He put an end of these transgressions.
The end of the law as it were, right? It says till the seed should come, look at,
to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
You see, there was a promise given, wasn't there? The promised Messiah. That was the whole promise.
You know, again, Galatians 3 often talks about Abraham, the promises given to Abraham.
A part of those promises would be that Christ would come, that Christ would put an end to transgressions,
that we would have reverend, a part of us, yes, even this moment, a part of us that cannot sin.
And one day that part of us that cannot sin is going to be reconciled with a physical body that cannot sin.
We've got to wait for the resurrection for that to happen.
Okay? So unfortunately, you're going to have that little battle for now.
It's a big battle sometimes, isn't it? Until those resurrected bodies come.
But truly, we are not under the law. Okay?
We've been freed from that because we have that new man. We walk in the spirit that God has given us.
And so you can see immediately, yeah, you know what?
This promised Messiah we read in Daniel 9 to make an end, to finish the transgression, I should say.
Hey, yeah, the Bible confirms for us that is what Jesus Christ has done.
Can you please turn with me to Romans chapter 8. Turn with me to Romans chapter 8.
Romans chapter 8, please.
And then it continued there in Daniel 9. It said to finish the transgression.
And then it said, and to make an end of sins. To make an end of sins.
How is that referring to Christ?
We'll look at Romans chapter 8 and verse number 2.
Romans chapter 8 and verse number 2.
Again, this is still in relation to the law of Moses.
The law that reveals to us the transgressions that we've committed against the Lord.
It says in Romans chapter 8 verse 2,
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus have made me free from the law of sin and death.
You've been made free.
It's like you were chained down by the power of sin.
The moment you're saved, you've been set free.
Hey, you've been given power.
You know, I know you and I, we still sin.
But I always say this. Don't get comfortable in your sin.
God's given you power to overcome those sins.
You've got it. I'm telling you.
You know what? If you just reach out to God the moment you face temptations.
Right? You quote the scriptures that you've memorized.
You know, you pray to the Lord, Lord help me overcome this temptation.
Lord, I don't want to give in to sin. You will overcome.
But you've got to be in that new man. You've got to be in the Spirit.
You know, it's so easy to just give in to temptations.
Alright? To give in to the lust of the flesh.
Okay? But listen, we've been given power. We've been made free.
Okay? This is a truth.
Let's keep going there. Verse number three.
It says, for what the Lord could not do, in that it was weak for the flesh.
Look, what the Lord could not do, it was weak in the flesh.
I mean, how can people think that you get saved by keeping the law?
The law can't do it. We're weak in the flesh.
You can't keep all the laws.
You've already failed. Well, we all failed. Who hasn't failed?
Man, it's crazy. Saved by the law.
It's workspace gospel. You know, turn from all your sins to be saved.
Ridiculous. Cannot be done. It is weak for the flesh.
God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
And for sin. Look at this. Condemned sin in the flesh.
Jesus Christ made an end of sin in his body, in his flesh.
Praise God for that. Okay?
So yeah, do we need to be sinlessly perfect to get to heaven?
Yeah, we do. But you and I aren't going to achieve that in our flesh.
Okay? It's not possible by the Lord. It's not possible by the flesh.
It is sinless perfection that we need to reach.
But it's sinless perfection of Jesus Christ.
Okay? Again, he gives us his imputed righteousness. Amen?
You know, Christ not only paid for our sin, but he gives us his righteousness.
Yes, you know, there's been an end of sins in us. It's true. It's already happened.
Okay? It's already happened. This is why you have the confidence the moment you pass away
that you're going to be with God in heaven.
You have that confidence because there's been an end of sin in your life.
Okay? So the Bible's absolutely correct about this.
I'll just quickly read to you from Hebrews 9 26.
Hebrews 9 26.
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world.
But now once in the end of the world,
have he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Christ has put away sin. Isn't that amazing?
You know, our position before God. He sees us righteous.
The righteous of Christ. What sin? What sin?
You know, isn't it amazing that God not only forgives, but he forgets.
I wish I could be a little bit more like that. I try to be.
Sometimes, you know, with the kids, I bring up something they've done in the past
and they're like, Dad, you forgave me. You've got to forget as well.
It's like, oh yeah, you're right. I've got to forget.
We're going to be more like God, right? Okay? Yeah, we've forgiven it.
It's in the past. You've said sorry or you copped it in whatever way you copped it.
All right? We don't have to keep bringing up your past sins.
We do this as human beings, don't we?
Okay, but God, it's an end.
There's an end. You know, our position in Christ Jesus, his righteousness.
When the Father looks at us positionally,
he sees his Son. He sees his children.
People of the royal family and end of sins, brethren.
Amazing how God sees us, even though he knows our walk is not perfect.
But that's our position before God in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
You're there in Romans, I believe.
So turn with me to Romans, chapter 5.
Romans, chapter 5, and it's always good to preach on soul winning, isn't it?
It's always good to preach on the importance of telling people
how they can be reconciled with God.
Well, it continues while you turn to Romans 5.
I'll just again read to you Daniel 9.
Once it says to make an end of sins, the next thing it says,
and to make reconciliation for iniquity.
To make reconciliation.
To reconcile.
Because of sins, because of iniquity.
To reconcile us.
You know, when you think about the word to reconcile something,
you know, you often think, like if you're going to reconcile two individuals,
there's been a conflict, there's been a separation, right?
If you're going to reconcile, you know, when people,
I guess if you're doing bookkeeping for a company,
you know, talk about reconciliation,
you know, we're bringing two things that seemingly are not in unison,
we're making that one, we're reconciling those things.
And God has reconciled us unto himself.
It says in Romans, chapter 5, verse number 10.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God,
by the death of his Son.
Hey, this is the Messiah.
The death of his Son.
By his death, brethren, we know that that new covenant,
the New Testament was brought in,
and it's by his death that we were reconciled to God.
But look at this.
And then it says, much more being reconciled,
we shall be saved by his life.
Okay, his death is important, but his life is even more important.
His resurrection is important.
If Christ was not resurrected, the Bible says we'd still be getting our sins.
And so his death has paid for our sins,
but his life allows us to be in fellowship with God.
His life gives us everlasting life,
to speak to the Father, to be reconciled to God.
Isn't that amazing?
It says there, for when we were enemies, enemies.
Before you were saved, you were like an enemy to God.
Separated, division, unreconciled.
But because you put your faith and trust in Jesus, you've been reconciled.
So definitely, as we're going through Daniel 9,
we're looking at what the Messiah was meant to do.
I mean, who else?
Who else but Jesus?
I hope, again, these sermons just gives you a further reinforcement,
a greater appreciation of these prophecies,
that Christ has come and fulfilled.
You know, fulfilled it all, perfectly, for us.
Please turn with me to another important passage,
2 Corinthians chapter 5,
2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse number 18.
The Bible says,
Again, wonderful, wonderful truth.
We're reconciled to God.
We're no longer in conflict, right?
We're no longer enemies to God.
Hey, we're His friends.
We're His children, is what we are.
And then it says,
You have given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
If you've been reconciled to God, this isn't a choice.
You've been given already.
Right now, you have this ministry.
Say, pastor, what is my ministry in church?
Well, we can have a lot of ministries,
but one thing I can tell you all, we have the same ministry.
It's been given to us already, the ministry of reconciliation,
to reconcile others.
Are you willing to do that?
We rejoice in our salvation.
I mean, think about how we don't have these burdens,
we don't have these doubts.
We have the confidence of salvation.
I don't know about you, but I have no fear,
absolutely no fear that I'm going to be in hellfire.
No fear at all about that.
I can suffer some extent on this earth, I guess.
It can be a little bit scary thinking about how you may suffer on this earth,
but it's not going to burn as much as hellfire.
I'll tell you that.
And that doesn't even concern me.
How selfish can we be, though, if we hide these wonderful words?
How to be reconciled with our Lord God, with our lost and dying world?
This Sunshine Coast is full of people that are dying and going to hell,
and we come across them every day, don't we?
We go to the shops, we pass by them.
Kids, when you have activities with other children,
those children aren't saved.
Did you know that?
You know, sometimes you form friendships with these people,
and that's fine.
But you know what?
If they were to die, they'd go to hell.
You've been given a ministry of reconciliation.
All of us. All of us.
Man, woman, and child.
God has put us on the Sunshine Coast,
because we've got a work to do.
And some of us can do more reconciling than others.
I understand that.
I understand there are different people in different situations.
Nevertheless, we all have been given this ministry.
And if it makes you a bit uncomfortable, it should make you uncomfortable.
Okay?
Because we can do more.
I can do more.
You can do more.
Alright?
To bring people to the Lord God by this reconciliation.
Look at verse number 19.
How do we reconcile?
To wit.
Hey, we're witnesses.
Okay?
We don't want to just point people to church.
Hey, come to church.
We want to witness what Christ has done.
We want to tell people of what Christ has done,
so they can be reconciled to God.
It's as to wit that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them.
Look at this.
And have committed unto us.
Look at this.
The word of reconciliation.
Raven, it's by word.
We have to open our mouths.
We have to say, sir,
do you have the confidence that if you would die today
that you'd go to heaven?
Can I show you what the Bible says?
Can I show you that it's a free gift?
That it's not by works.
It's not by your church.
It's not by being a good person.
It's freely paid for us completely in Jesus Christ.
Can I show that to you from God's word?
It's the words, brethren, of reconciliation.
We all have it.
It can make us uncomfortable,
and especially if we're not doing it.
If we're not going out there and we're telling people
it can make us uncomfortable,
and again, it should make you uncomfortable,
because that's why you're still walking on the earth today.
I mean, if it was just about getting saved,
then you can just go to heaven right now.
God has still had you on this earth for a purpose.
To serve Jesus, yes.
To live a more holy life, yes.
To be part of this body of Christ, yes.
But to win souls.
To reconcile a lost and dying world to our Lord God.
But it all started in Christ Jesus.
He came to reconcile the world unto himself.
It's said there, right?
To wit that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself.
And look, individually we're not going to reach the whole world,
but we've been given the Sunshine Coast.
Let's start here, okay?
And hey, next week, week and a half,
Melbourne for some of us, let's go there.
Let's see what we can do.
Let's see what we can accomplish.
But you see, they're all studying Jesus Christ.
He made it possible.
It's through sacrifice that we can be reconciled to God.
Please turn with me to Romans 5.
You were in Romans 5 before, sorry.
Romans 5 again.
And then it says,
to make reconciliation for iniquity in Daniel 9.
And then it says,
and to bring in everlasting righteousness.
I love those words.
Everlasting righteousness.
That sounds good to me.
Righteousness forever.
Without sin.
That's going to be wonderful, isn't it?
But it says in Romans 5.19.
Romans 5.19.
It says, as for by one man's disobedience,
many were made sinners.
So by the obedience of one,
shall many be made righteous.
Wow, by the obedience of one.
Listen, being saved is not your obedience.
I'm just going to obey the commandments.
That's how I get saved.
No, it's by the obedience of one.
That was Jesus Christ.
The obedience of one.
Shall many be made righteous.
Verse number 20.
Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound,
but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
Isn't that amazing?
Have you ever spoken to someone at the door
and they say, look, I'm going to hell, I know it.
I've just done too many things.
I've just been too sinful.
You know, God will not accept me for what I've done.
But, you know, isn't it wonderful?
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
You cannot sin your way out of God's grace.
It's amazing.
Look at verse number 21.
That as sin have reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
See, it's all by Jesus.
Again, this whole sermon is just pointing back to Jesus,
pointing us back to Jesus, pointing us back to Jesus.
Righteousness unto eternal life.
Amazing.
Again, we talk about the imputed righteousness of Christ.
I don't know what it's going to be like, brethren.
A new heaven, a new earth with no sin, no corruption.
Okay, death and hell is cast into the lake of fire.
We know that the wages of sin is death.
That's all going to be cast into the lake of fire.
Everyone that makes it into the new heaven, new earth
will be sinless.
Amazing.
Okay.
And, you know, sometimes people say,
well, it's going to be just like back to Adam and Eve.
No, it's going to be better than Adam and Eve.
Okay, because we're going to have the righteousness of Christ.
We're going to have new resurrected bodies.
See, Adam and Eve, they could still sin.
They did sin, didn't they?
But we're not going to be sinning.
We're going to be incapable of sinning.
There's going to be everlasting righteousness.
And I don't fully understand how that can be
because I'm so used to a life of battling sin
and righteous being right, trying to do what is right
and then having the flesh that's trying to battle the opposite way.
But I'm excited about the future.
No sin.
Can you imagine how good life will be
when we don't have sin and the consequences of sin
and sickness and illness, you know, all these issues,
the curse that came upon this earth,
that curse will be lifted and gone.
Wow, what a future.
You know, and again, this is a tangible and real future,
not some promise and hope.
Oh, we're just so discouraged on this earth
and we're just hopeful for something better in the future.
It's going to happen.
It's definitely going to happen.
You know, this creation of God, this new creation
and all of us in the righteousness of Christ
join as with Jesus Christ.
It's amazing what God has promised us as His children.
Everlasting righteousness.
And then it continues in Daniel 9, verse 24.
And to seal up the vision and prophecy.
Now, I'm not going to really touch upon this too much.
I think it's outside of the scope of my sermon.
I do believe a lot of this has to do with the end times.
But in one sense, you can still apply it
to seal up the vision and prophecy.
And so if that's going to be Messiah's responsibility
that, you know, this prophecy is going to be sealed up.
Like, He's going to accomplish this.
You know, a lot of this is about His first coming
but some of this is about His second coming as well.
Okay, but it's going to be in Christ.
This vision, this prophecy is going to be sealed up.
It's all going to be done in Christ Jesus.
And then it says,
And to anoint, or mishak, as I had mentioned earlier,
the most holy, to anoint the most holy.
Was Jesus Christ anointed?
Is He the anointed one?
Well, turn with me to Acts chapter 10.
Acts chapter 10 and verse number 38.
It says in Acts 10, 38,
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost and with power.
Is Jesus Christ the anointed one?
He has been anointed with the Holy Ghost.
You know what's wonderful?
You and I have that same anointing in us
the moment we believe in Christ.
That same anointing, Jesus, the Holy Spirit
living within us, you know, teaching us,
guiding us, pointing us to Christ.
That's the work of the Holy Spirit.
Teaching us the word of God.
It says,
Who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the devil,
for God was with him.
And we are witnesses of all things,
which he did both in the land of the Jews,
and in Jerusalem,
whom they slew and hanged on a tree,
whom God raised up the third day,
and showed him openly.
Showed him openly.
Christ's resurrection was not some secret.
God showed him openly.
There were many, many witnesses.
At one time, 500 witnesses at once
to testify, to be a witness
that Christ was resurrected from the dead.
Hey, the tomb was empty.
They tried to hide that fact, didn't they?
It's recorded for us in scriptures for all eternity
that the tomb was empty,
that that stone was rolled away
and Christ was not there.
Jesus Christ is a living God,
a true and living God.
Our Messiah lives.
Our Messiah reigns.
And so, brethren,
when we look at Daniel 9,
again, the reference in the Messiah,
at least in our English translation Messiah,
is, I mean, who else but Christ?
Who else but Christ fits this entire description?
I mean, what are the odds
of all of this being about this one individual?
What are the odds,
if it's just some random human being,
you know, just trying to find some other Messiah,
people that want to reject,
they don't want Jesus Christ.
I mean, this is Judaism.
They love the thought of Messiah,
but they don't want it to be Jesus.
How?
I mean, if they just read the scriptures,
say, do they read the scriptures,
what did Jesus say?
He says, you didn't believe Moses.
Where's the guy again?
Does anyone remember?
You didn't believe in Moses,
something along the line,
I'm messing it up,
but you didn't believe in Moses,
so you're not going to believe in me.
Something along those lines.
Okay.
Well, yeah, okay,
they've got the scriptures,
but they don't believe it.
If they believe the scriptures,
they would come to realize
who the Messiah is and was and is today.
Okay.
The true Messiah, Jesus Christ.
And so I just wanted to point to you there
that Jesus Christ was most definitely anointed.
We see that he was anointed,
the most holy, Meshach,
and is the Messiah, Mashiach,
some people pronounce it,
but if you can please turn with me
to the Old Testament now.
Turn with me to 1 Samuel 2.
1 Samuel 2.
And I'm not trying to get you guys
to just go back to your Hebrew
because one thing that's dangerous, okay,
is that you can say,
okay, every time I look up
in the Old Testament scriptures,
I'm going to look up Meshach in the Hebrew
and I'm going to always know
that it's about Jesus Christ.
You're going to make a mess of things.
Meshach just means the anointed one.
Okay, that's all the anointed.
Something along those lines, okay,
as best as English can,
try to explain that, okay?
But Jesus Christ was not the only one
that was anointed.
Okay, priests were anointed.
Kings were anointed.
All right, I mean,
because you're going to find Meshach,
you're going to find it about a king
or you're going to find it about some priest.
But what I want to do today
is go back to this word,
and I did, again,
I checked it myself, all right?
I've actually got a copy
of the Hebrew scriptures, believe it or not.
Okay, anyway, I went back myself
and I wanted to make sure
that the words were used accurately
when you used it, again,
in the English translation to anointed
and all these passages
that we're about to look at
are referring to Jesus Christ.
It's a promise of the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the first one that I found
I thought was really, really interesting
was in 1 Samuel 2.
Now, when we begin the story of 1 Samuel,
we know that it contains
the story of Hannah, right?
A barren woman,
she was a second wife to a man
whose first wife had already
a number of children
and she obviously as a mother
desired to have the children
and she prayed to God
that he would give her a man child
and that she promised,
of course, this will become Samuel,
she promised that then Samuel
would be there serving the house of God
in the tabernacle from a very child.
And she goes and she prays, right?
She prays to the Lord
and of course God comes through
and answers that prayer.
And then when we get to 1 Samuel 2,
okay, she's had the child
and again we have a portion of her prayer
and I want you to see
very specifically about
what her prayer contains.
Like she's rejoicing the Lord.
She's rejoicing that the Lord
has given her a child.
And it says in 1 Samuel 2 verse 10,
it says,
the adversaries of the Lord
shall be broken to pieces.
What a great prayer, right?
It says,
out of heaven shall be thunder upon them.
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth.
Now look at this.
And he shall give strength unto his king.
Let me stop there.
Why is she saying that?
And he shall give strength unto his king?
We go past, of course,
there were kings in Israel.
Maybe it's about Dave.
Listen,
there were no kings of Israel
at this point in time.
Remember Samuel will be the one
in his adulthood
to appoint Saul to anoint Saul
into that position later on?
There is no king of Israel.
They're operating under the system
of the judges at this point in time.
And somehow as she prays,
these words have been captured
for us in the Bible.
She's speaking prophetically about a king.
Say, who is this king?
There is no king of Israel, Hannah.
What do you,
I mean, man,
you sound a little bit like
you just don't get it, Hannah, maybe.
What is she saying there?
Against the Lord, sorry,
it says,
shall give strength unto his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed.
And again, if you go back to that,
he's anointed, it's Mashiach.
Okay.
Say, who is this?
I mean, this could be a king.
Dave is going to be king Saul.
No, no, no.
Let's read it again.
The adversaries of the Lord
shall be broken to pieces.
Out of heaven
shall be thunder upon them.
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth.
Reverend, at what point
is the Lord going to have this authority
over the ends of the earth?
At what point is he going to give strength
unto his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed?
What is this referring to?
The whole earth
under the authority of this king,
of this anointed one.
Of course, somehow, prophetically,
she's speaking about Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
She's speaking about Jesus, the Christ,
isn't it amazing?
Of course, this would not take place until,
this hasn't taken place yet.
Talking about some future events
where this king, this anointed one,
this one that has the exalted horns
is going to have power over the entire earth.
You know, we know that there's a coming a time
when all nations will bow themselves down
to Jesus Christ.
And that's going to be
during his millennial reign.
Somehow, Hannah,
just a godly woman,
just in her heart,
I guess being pushed and inspired
I guess being pushed and inspired there
by the Holy Spirit to say these things,
could speak about, you know, the Messiah,
could speak about this coming Messiah
that will have authority over the whole earth.
This is how she praises him.
This is how she prays toward him
because he's answered this prayer for children.
Hey, then she gives Samuel over
to the house of the Lord
to serve in the tabernacle.
And then later on,
the Lord blesses her with many more children.
It's a great story.
Hannah's a wonderful woman,
a great woman of the Lord.
Please turn with me now to Psalm 2.
Please turn with me to Psalm 2.
And this is a very famous psalm.
You guys probably know it very well.
But it still blows me away.
Just some of these psalms,
just the clarity of Christ.
It's kind of mind-blowing sometimes to me
because I just think about
how long ago was this written about Jesus?
In Psalm 2, the second psalm,
Psalm 2 verse 1,
it says,
Why do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing?
And look, verse number 2 is true.
This is applicable today.
It says,
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together.
You know what the kings of the earth,
the rulers,
they speak to one another.
They seek counsel amongst each other.
They're trying to further their kingdom.
They're trying to help one another.
It's like sometimes when people talk about politics,
the right wing and the left wing,
they're all in counsel together.
I mean, how many times in politics
have I seen the right party,
you know,
argue against left policies,
and then when they're in power,
they bring in those left policies?
Because they take counsel together.
And people are so misled.
They think there's this real choice out there.
But no, this is the truth of God's Word.
They're all working together.
Look, I'm sure they're not always on the same page.
There is some level of division,
but really,
you know,
they're trying to better each other.
They're really trying to come together
and find a solution,
and not just find some solution
for the benefit of the nation.
It says here again,
it says,
And the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord
and against his anointed,
saying,
against his anointed,
against the Lord.
Say, why?
Through our government's past laws
that are contrary to the Word of God.
It shouldn't surprise us
because the Bible tells us
they're actually seeking to be
contrary to God's Word.
They're actually looking at God's Word
and say,
No, we need to do contrary to that.
Say, I don't believe it.
That's what the Bible says.
They take counsel together.
They say,
Okay, this is what the Bible says.
This is what God wants.
Let's do the opposite.
Let's try to convince the masses,
you know,
to desire laws
or a certain way of living
that is contrary to God's Word.
That's what they do.
But again,
against the Lord
and against his anointed.
Who's his anointed?
Again, the Messiah.
Jesus the Christ.
Saying,
Let us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us.
Oh, we don't want the laws of God.
The death penalty for adultery?
Bah!
You know, no photo-dultry.
Let's bring that in.
You know, death penalty for murder?
Ah, nah.
Let's just give them 20 years max in prison
and let's let our mothers
kill their own babies in their womb.
So how?
How does this happen?
Because they're trying to break away
from the cords,
from the restrictions they feel
that come from God's Word.
They don't realize that God's Word
is there to help a nation.
To help them.
So they can be blessed.
They want to break away
from the Lord's Word,
from the anointed.
It's amazing.
Say,
Pastor Kevin,
what do we do?
I don't know.
Look at God.
Verse number 4.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
The Lord shall have them in derision.
God laughs.
So we don't need to get, like,
fearful.
God's laughing.
He's mocking at them.
He's going,
What?
You know?
And he has them in derision.
They're confused.
You know,
they've got a slippery path.
They never succeed.
They're never happy.
They're never satisfied.
You know,
they can't.
They're never going to reach this utopia
that they're seeking for.
God's laughing at them.
God's mocking at them.
You know,
at some point,
God's going to come and destroy them all.
He's going to set up a new kingdom on this earth.
Okay,
but we saw definitely here
that it's referring to his anointed.
Right?
The Lord and his anointed.
You say,
Who is this anointed one?
Well,
drop down to verse number 7.
It's amazing.
It says,
I will declare the decree.
The Lord have said unto me,
Thou art my Son.
This day have I begotten Thee.
Now,
of course,
as David is writing these words,
you know,
yes,
it's applicable to him,
but we know there's a greater application of this Psalm.
Thou art my Son.
Okay,
now,
I actually want you to turn here with me.
Please keep your finger there in Psalm 2
and go to Acts 13.
Please go to Acts 13.
You see,
we learn a great truth here,
that the anointed is the Son.
The anointed is the Son of God.
Thou art my Son.
This day have I begotten Thee.
Now,
when was this fulfilled?
And I want you to get this.
I think it's important,
because as Christians,
I've had this used against me.
So,
a lot of people believe this reference
has to do with the birth of Christ.
Okay?
And,
unbelievably,
I've heard people say
that this is when Christ,
or this is when
Jesus became the Son.
They'll say that Jesus was not the Son
until His birth.
And then God is saying,
Thou art my Son.
Now,
what's interesting about that
is that the modern version will say
something along the lines of
you have become my Son.
Something along those lines.
It's not saying that.
It's not saying you've become my Son.
This is a statement of fact.
Thou art my Son.
Right?
Jesus Christ is the Son.
Okay?
Now,
let's keep going.
Acts 13 to 33.
When was this said?
When did the Father say this to the Son?
When was this said about the anointed?
It says in Acts 13 to 33.
God hath fulfilled the same unto us,
their children,
look at this,
in that
He hath raised up Jesus again,
okay,
so this is about the resurrection,
as it is also written
in the second Psalm,
Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten Thee.
Isn't that amazing?
What is this about?
Is this about the birth of Christ?
No,
it's about the resurrection of Christ.
You see,
at the resurrection of Christ,
as it is also written in the second Psalm,
Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten Thee.
You see,
Christ is the first begotten from the dead.
When the Father says,
you know,
it's not talking about being born
in Bethlehem's manger.
It's about His resurrection.
It's about His resurrection,
alright,
resurrected from the dead,
okay,
Thou art my Son,
of course,
He was the Son before that,
okay,
this is not saying,
now you've become my Son,
and now I've become your Father,
and now we have this relationship.
It's always existed.
It's a statement of fact
of His position
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
and at the resurrection,
raised on the third day,
you know,
He was begotten,
begotten from the dead,
the first begotten,
and again,
by this,
what took place,
this promise that one day we too,
will be begotten from the dead.
One day we too will have
a fleshly body,
you know,
made like unto Christ,
you know,
that will live forever.
So I just want to show you,
that we're not taking Psalm 2
out of its context.
The New Testament confirms,
it's about Jesus.
This Son is Jesus Christ.
This anointed is Jesus Christ.
Back to Psalm 2 please,
Psalm 2,
and verse number 10.
And look,
I have to say,
I don't think,
I know we may disagree on this
with some people,
we have conversations,
I don't think every politician
is some wicked reprobate,
okay.
I know a lot of them are,
I'm not saying that,
but I'm sure there are some
that get into the political realm,
that take on positional authority,
trying to do what is right.
They're just trying to do their best.
They're trying to have a positive impact
on the nation,
on the world,
a positive impact on the nations
that they are to rule over.
Okay, I'm sure there are some,
because then we have this Psalm,
it's continued in verse number 10,
because this is the instruction
to the kings.
Be wise now,
therefore,
O ye kings.
You see,
God is giving the instruction
to the kings that live today.
Now, be wise now,
therefore,
O ye kings.
Be instructed,
ye judges of the earth,
serve the Lord with fear,
rejoice with trembling. This is why you often find me praying that God, God can
you please put politicians in place that fear you. You know I understand they're
not all going to be saved, they're not all going to be independent Baptists, okay.
But can you at least fear you, fear your word, fear your judgments so
they can do the right, make the right decisions. Decisions that line up with
your word. Can you please remove those that do not have a fear of you God and
replace them with someone that fears you. Look this is like this is an
instruction here. It must be possible, okay. It must be possible for kings and
people in authority and judges to say you know what I'm not going to live this
ungodly life. I'm not going to pass ungodly laws and judgments. I'm gonna do
what God says. It must be possible. This is the instruction that's given. Then
in verse 11, kiss the Son, kiss the Son kings, love him, show him affection, serve
the Son, kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish from the way. When his
wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Reverend have you put your trust in the Son? Bible says blessed are all they that
put their trust in him. You're blessed today because you put your trust on the
Son of God, on the anointed one, on the Messiah, on Christ, okay. These kings can
be blessed as well. You know if they just acknowledge the Son, if they just trust
God's Word, if they have a fear of God, they too can be blessed. So we ought to
pray for our kings. We ought to pray for our those in authority, okay. We ought
to pray for them. But Psalm 2 isn't it amazing how it just confirms for us the
anointing to the Christ, you know is Jesus Christ, is the Son of God. Please turn
with me to Isaiah 61. Isaiah 61 verse number one. Actually you know what I'll get you
to turn to Luke chapter 4. Please turn to Luke chapter 4 and I'll read to you
from Isaiah 61 because we're looking at very similar passages here. You go to
Luke chapter 4 and I'll read to you from Isaiah 61 verse 1. In Isaiah 61 verse 1
it says the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed
me. The Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He have sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn, to point
unto them that mounts in Zion, to give unto them beautiful ashes, the oil of joy
for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might
be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he might be
glorified. Beautiful words isn't it? Beautiful words in Isaiah 61. Well you
know what? Jesus Christ read these words one day as he walked into the synagogue
there in Luke chapter 4. Turn with me to Luke chapter 4 verse number 16. Luke
chapter 4 and verse number 16. Speaking of Jesus it says and he came to Nazareth
where he had been brought up, and I love the next words, as his custom was. He went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. Man, Jesus
Christ had a custom, okay? Yeah, he had his way of living was no matter what
town he was in on the Sabbath he would go into the synagogue because he wanted
to hear the words of God being read. Don't forget in these days, not like us,
please remember they're not like us. It's not like every home everybody had a
copy of the Bible of whatever scriptures were made. No, okay? If people wanted to
hear the scriptures read, the easiest way to do that was to go to the synagogue
which was the local community center, okay, where people come together and hear
the scriptures read. We have such an honor because I know in my house we have
more Bibles than people in my house. It's probably the same for you guys. It isn't
a shame if the Bible doesn't get read though in a household like that. You've
been given it. You know what Jesus said, I need to be where the Bible's being read.
You know what your custom should be? To come to the house of the Lord where the
Bible is going to be read, where the Bible is going to be preached. Make that
your custom. Just like Jesus, make it your custom to be where the Bible is
being read. And then it says, verse number 17, and he stood up to read. Hey, if you
get up to read before the preaching, what an honor. You're doing the same role
that Jesus Christ did when he went to the synagogue. Okay, when you get up here
to read the scriptures, you are serving, you're ministering, you're doing a great
work, a work that even Jesus Christ was willing to do. Verse number 17, and there
was delivered unto him the book of the prophet, Isaiah, and when he had opened
the book, he found the place where it was written, and these are the words that I
read to you from Isaiah 61. Jesus Christ says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he have anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. Jesus Christ says,
the Lord has anointed him. Now he's not just reading this passage. We know that
he's speaking about himself. Okay, the Spirit of the Lord was upon him. Jesus
Christ is anointed to preach the gospel to the poor. You know, again, brethren,
we've been given the ministry of reconciliation. We've been given the task
to preach the gospel. Just like Christ says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
We need to pray that the Spirit of God is working in us when he uses us to go and
preach the gospel to our community. Jesus Christ continues, he has sent me to heal
the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord. And of course, Christ fulfilled all these things. Not only did
he save us from our sins, not only did he lay down his life, but we saw that he
came and he did heal the sick. He did make the lame to walk. He did make the
blind to see. These things that we read about, absolutely, Jesus Christ
fulfilled all these things. And then look at verse number 20. And he closed the
book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of
all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And the next words blow
in my mind again. And he began to say to them, this day is the scripture fulfilled
in your ears. What is he saying? I'm the one that I just read about. That's me.
When Isaiah penned these words, when Isaiah penned about the one that was
anointed, the anointed one, the Messiah, this is about me. Isn't that amazing? How did
people react? Are they excited? Verse number 22. And all bear him witness and
wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. It's like
they can't fight his words. Like Christ, even though he's saying, and it might
sound very prideful, yeah I'm the Messiah, but it's like they're gracious words. See
Jesus Christ spoke with grace, didn't he? He spoke some hard truths. He had some
hard sayings, but no one can debate the grace that was found in his mouth. Then
it says, and they said, is not this Joseph's son? He's saying he's the Messiah,
but we know him. We've grown up with him in Nazareth. That's Joseph's son. I went to
school with him or whatever. We were doing that activity together. You know, I
grew up with him. That's Joseph's son. Jesus Christ said, I'm the Messiah. You know, I'm the
anointed one. I'm the Christ. Amazing. And you know, I wanted to end on this one
because again, when we go out and we witness of salvation, we're witnessing of
the promised one to come to deliver us from our sins, to give us everlasting
righteousness. You know, to deliver us from wickedness, to give us a great
promised future in heaven. And brethren, people aren't sure. You know, people aren't sure.
They've heard of Christ. They've heard of the death, burial, and resurrection, but they
just don't get it. And they might not say, isn't this not Joseph's son? But they'll say
things like, but is that really enough? Can one man really die for me and die for
the whole world? Aren't we all accountable for the things that we've done? You know,
is salvation really done and paid for in Jesus Christ? Can he really do such a
thing? And that's our job, brethren, to say, you know what? He's not just Joseph's
adopted son or stepson or however you want to look at that situation. He's the
Messiah. He's the promised one. He's the Lord. He's been anointed. He died for
our sins. He paid the penalty. He's God's way of salvation. He's our deliverance.
He's our Messiah. He's our Christ. It's our job, isn't it, to proclaim, to be a
witness of this wonderful truth. So, brethren, I hope I've encouraged you the
last couple of weeks that Jesus Christ is our promised Messiah, and it's our job
to also communicate that to a lost and dying world. All right, let's pray.