Thank you.
The first Noel.
The angel
did say
what's too certain
about us.
The angel
did say
what's too certain
about us.
The angel
did say
what's too certain
about us.
What's too certain
for shepherds
and fields where they lay
in fields
where they
lay keeping
their sheep
on a cold winter's
night that was
so deep
Noel
is the king
of Israel
and
by the
light of that
safe star
three wise men
came from
country far
to seek
for a king
was there in
tent and to follow
the star
rather it went Oh
Oh well, Oh well, Oh well, Oh well
For he is the king of Israel
This Lord drew nigh to the northwest
For at the helm it took its rest
and most often stay right over the place where Jesus lay
Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well Born is the King of Israel
Enter in those wise men free Forever and be upon their knees
And offer there in his presence Their golden, burnt, and broken sense
Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well Born is the King of Israel
Very good singing. Let's take a word of prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father for
giving us this opportunity to come and be gathered together. I pray that you would
just bless all aspects of our service that everything will be done to honor
and glorify you and your son Jesus Christ and we thank you for the gift you
gave us through your son. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Let's go to our handout. I
don't know if you have one. Did we already hand out the Oh Holy Nights? We're gonna
do Oh Holy Nights. I think we have to hand them out so if you don't have
one we're gonna give you one. Oh Holy Night. It's just a special thing. We don't
have a something in the aisle for you so if you need one just slip of your hand
nice and high and we got people walking up and down getting those sheets handed
out. Oh Holy Night. Maybe even just know this one all right so we can just sing
together and this one's a real good song. There on the first, Oh Holy Night.
Oh Holy Night. The stars are brightly shining. It is the night of the dear Savior's birth.
Only the world, it's in and ever by me. Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.
The weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. Fall on your knees.
By the face of me, baby, with glory, by his cradle,
over the world, a star sweetly gleaming,
wise
is
his
praise
Oh
Great singing. If you don't already have a full bulletin slip of your hand nice
and high and one of our ushers can come by and get you a bulletin. On the front
we have our Bible memory passage John chapter 1. We're on verse number 5 and
then inside we have our service and soul winning times. Also we have our church
stats. I'm gonna get a count for any soul winning to report for the last few days.
Is anything to report from Thursday? Anything from Thursday by chance? One. All
right one for Thursday. What about Friday? Anything for Friday? One for Friday. Okay
what about yesterday? Anything from Saturday? Three. All right three for
Saturday. What about today? I know the church band had four so outside of the
van what do we have? Is that five? One. Okay.
All right so it looks like we had 12 for today. Praise the Lord on that and
continue to really zealously push for those salvations. I know it's
close to the end of the year but we want to finish really strong and so
hopefully everybody can continue to participate. We still have some of those
Christmas cards so use those freely at your discretion. On the right we have a
list of all of our expecting ladies. Continue to pray for all of them. Also we
have our prayer list so if you have any additional prayer requests please submit
those into our bulletin and we'd love to be in prayer with you on those. On the
back we have the upcoming events. It is makeup day so get in there and get your
picture okay? We don't want to have to beat you down all right or anything like
that so get in there. Miss Lucy's been doing a great job and we really
appreciate her and so I feel like the pictures a lot of them I've seen and
they look really great and so even despite Ryan's face you know his family
looked really good in those pictures and so they really make up a lot and so
charity cover the multitude of sins and everything like that and so you know he
it's still gonna work out all right and I really really encourage you to because
we're gonna make some nice yearbooks and you're gonna want to see your hair in
that picture all right? We got this Wednesday our candlelight service and
cookie bake-off so our final song we'll do candlelight we'll turn out the lights
and it's kind of a fun experience for everyone and then we'll have our cookies
right after. Again to give the instructions cookies are gonna be able
to be entered into the competition pretty much you bring a cookie you're
gonna be entered in we'll just put a cup out and then people are gonna vote and
there's gonna be three style winners okay? The first category is best tasting
right? It means you really like the way it tastes. The second one is best
decorated so it just looks really pretty okay? Number three is most creative. Again
that's different than best decorated right? So something could look really
nice and really well decorated but then creative is just like wow I didn't think
about that or it's really unique or something so hypothetically though you
can win multiple of the competition okay so I'm not theoretically one cookie
could win them all if it's the best tasting best looking and it was the most
creative you're gonna get all three prizes all right so but you can
enter as many cookies as you want you're
automatically entered into all three competitions if your age is ten or older
you get to vote and so we're gonna have a lot of fun we're gonna have some
cookies my my tip though if you want to win is you probably want to bring a lot
of them just so you get a lot of people that are interested in voting for you
whereas if you only bring a few and it's gone you may not get as many people
that are zealous to vote for you you might have to you know bribe them or pay
them off or something or find a voting machine that'll help you I don't know
but either way you know I you know we're just gonna go in there and see how many
beads are in the cup right so if you figure out how to even you know invent
beads or something I don't know it is what it is but we're gonna have fun have
some cookies and and have a good time of fellowship for the holidays we're also
having a New Year's Eve party it's gonna be 7 p.m. just to give you an idea I
guess last year y'all did kind of like a men's preaching night so we're gonna
offer that again so essentially if you want to preach a five-minute sermon then
and you're a guy you're a man of our church then we'll just throw your name
in a hat and we'll pull names out and we'll let you preach and just so you're
not too nervous I'm not critiquing anything okay afterwards so you know you
just get up there and you just you know let it rip unless you preach heresy I'm
not gonna comment so that's your only warning okay but outside of that we'll
just tell you it did a good job also gonna have pizza fellowship and we'll
have games so you can bring your own bring your own board game or whatever
games you'd like to play and you can hang out you don't have to stay the
whole evening but if you'd like to people probably stay here all the way
till midnight or whatever the best one other announcement I guess we're gonna
do a New Testament challenge this year so starting January 1st we're just gonna
have basically an encouragement to try and read the entire New Testament the
month of January anyone who completes that will receive a prize and I think
brother Dylan's even made like nice little sheets that are a checklist so if
you want one we'll have checklists is provided for you but just to give people
a heads up I don't know if that impacts your current Bible reading now but if
you want to participate with us again we'll try to read the entire New
Testament in the month of January and no you cannot start early so you have to it
starts January 1st okay so it's just a challenge that in the month of January
you would read through the New Testament the congratulations here to the Johnson
family Isaac Elias Johnson was born December 14th at 3 22 a.m. weighing 5
pounds 8 ounces and measuring 19 inches long we got a picture there and so
congratulations that family continue to pray for them I think that's pretty much
all I had for announcements oh one thing just add to our prayer list I guess the
wood family Megan had gone to the hospital today I think and they were
just running some tests they were nervous about her like being having high
blood pressure with their baby and so I don't know I haven't had a follow-up but
just put them your prayer list and just can pray need to pray for their health
and their baby and so that's pretty much all I had for announcements at this time
we'll go to our third song for the evening it's going to be 324 draw me
nearer 324 draw me nearer it's in your hymnal
on the first verse 324 draw me nearer
I am fine
rise in the arms of a and because sir
Tommy
here bless you all to the cross where now as I
to the
side
come to create me now to my service by the power of grace let my soul look up
with the steadfast hope and my will be lost
do the cross way
Tommy
here
like precious meaning side although pure delight of a single that before
when I kneel in prayer
I could
Tommy
to the cross
Tommy
to the
I cannot
see
I saw joy
my breath
from
the
probably
oh
to the
this time during your Bibles John chapter 20 brother Ben is going to read
for us John chapter number 20 will pass the offering place and we'll follow
along read the entire chapter John chapter number 20 fall along with brother
Ben
John chapter 20 the Bible reads
the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark
under the sepulcher and see at the stone taken away from the sepulcher and she
runneth and cometh to Simon Peter into the other disciple whom Jesus loved and
say it unto them they have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher and we
know not where they have laid him Peter therefore went forth and that other
disciple and came to the sepulcher so they ran both together and the other
disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulcher and he stooping down
and looking in saw the linen clothes lying yet when he not in then cometh
Simon Peter following him and went into the sepulcher and see at the linen
clothes lie and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen
clothes but wrapped together in a place by itself then went in also that other
disciple which came first to the sepulcher and he saw and believed for as
yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead then the
disciples went away again under their own home but Mary stood without at the
sepulcher weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher
and see if two angels in white sitting the one at the head and the other at the
feet where the body of Jesus had lain and they say unto her woman why weepest
thou she saith unto them because they have taken away my Lord and I know not
where they have laid him and when she had thus said she turned herself back and
saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus Jesus saith unto her woman why
weepest thou whom seekest thou she supposing him to be the gardener saith
unto him sir if thou have borne him hence tell me where thou hast laid him and I
will take him away Jesus saith unto her Mary she turned herself and saith unto
him Rabboni which is to say master Jesus saith unto her touch me not for I am not
yet ascended to my father but go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto
my father and your father and to my God and your God Mary Magdalene came and told
the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto
her and the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were
shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews came Jesus and stood
in the midst and saith unto them peace be unto you when he had so said he showed
unto them his hands and his side then where the disciples clad when they saw the
Lord and said Jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father has sent me even
so send I you and when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them
receive ye the Holy Ghost whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and
whosoever sins you retain they are retained but Thomas one of the twelve called
Didymus was not with them when Jesus came the other disciples therefore said unto
him we have seen the Lord but he said unto them except I shall see in his hands the
print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand
into his side I will not believe and after eight days again his disciples were
within and Thomas with them then came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the
midst and said peace be unto you then saith he to Thomas reach hither thy finger and
behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not
faithless but believing and Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my God
Jesus saith unto him Thomas because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed are
they that have not seen and yet have believed and many other signs truly did Jesus
in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book but these are
written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that
believing he might have life through his name.
Let's fire heads for a word of prayer.
Father we thank you for John chapter number 20 Lord and for our church and for
Pastor Shelley and pray that you would fill in with your spirit now and just enable
him to preach his sermon for us give him clarity of mind and also Lord help us to
apply this message to our lives and to listen and learn and in Jesus name I pray
Amen.
John chapter 20 is a very unique chapter of the Bible but it has a really popular
or a really famous portion of scripture here at the end where the Bible reads in
verse 30 and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples
which are not written in this book but these are written that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you might have life
through his name.
Now I'm going to come all the way back to this at the end of my sermon.
This is kind of the beginning and ending of my sermon but the point that I want to
first make is the fact that the books of the Bible I will present to you this
evening have a purpose or have an intent or have a specific goal in mind there's a
theme to the books that are written in the Bible and while every single book is
written for all of us in a general sense every single book of the Bible has a
different reason why it's written and John is telling us here what the reason
why the book of John is written why the gospel of John is written and why the
things in John are contained in the way that they are and it's to highlight a
very important aspect of the Bible which is how to have life and specifically
eternal life how to go to heaven okay and what's important is that we realize
that the Bible has four Gospels okay and the title my sermon this evening is the
four Gospels but what's unique is that the Gospels emphasize different things
they kind of have a different purpose so they all have a different vision as far
as why they're written what they're focusing on what the purpose of that
particular gospel is accomplishing now of course they're all the gospel what is
the gospel according to the first Corinthians chapter number 15 is the
death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ it's that simple it's those three
events contained in the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and certainly
Matthew evidences the death burial and resurrection Mark evidences the death
burial resurrection Luke evidences the death burial and resurrection and John
evidences the death burial and resurrection otherwise it couldn't even
be the gospel of Jesus Christ as far as contained to Matthew Mark Luke and John
and when you get into the epistles they have their own flavor they have their
own genre they have their own purpose as far as why they're written and what
they're essentially communicating so let's go to Matthew for a moment okay
I've kind of given you an intro to the Gospels what is what is Matthew all
about what why is Matthew written in the way that it's written because all four
Gospels start out differently they all have a unique way of starting and ending
they have unique stories they have unique aspects that are contained you
know a lot of it's the same but then there's things that are different why
are there things that are different what are the things that are different I will
submit to you that the gospel of Matthew according to Matthew he studies the
gospel of Jesus Christ but the the first gospel Matthew in your Bible is
specifically emphasizing the fulfillment of the scriptures by Jesus Christ it's
emphasizing Jesus fulfilling the scripture and it's telling us that this
is the guy that we've been reading about in Genesis through Malachi the person
that we've been hearing about constantly you know the coming Messiah and the seed
and the son of David and all the prophecies that are in the scripture
they're going to be fulfilled in a particular person and that person is
and Matthew is really really heavily emphasizing the fulfillment of scripture
how does it start it starts with the genealogy or the generations of Jesus
Christ through his father Joseph now I use the word father in the sense that
it's his stepfather technically we understand that he was born of a Virgin
Mary but it's important that Jesus you know was still under the authority of
his father Joseph and we kind of have two genealogies in the Bible we have one
Matthew we have one in Luke ok Luke is really kind of a genealogy that's coming
from Mary and we have the one in Matthew which is coming from Joseph why is it
important that Joseph was his father even as a stepfather because Jesus is
supposed to come from the lineage of David he's of the trees the lion of the
tribe of Judah ok and Joseph is of the lineage of Judah and of David look at
what it says in verse 1 the book of the generation of Jesus Christ and notice
who it's emphasized is emphasizing Jesus is saying this is Jesus's genealogy why
is the genealogy so important because it's fulfilling the scripture otherwise
it has no purpose we don't really care necessarily about the genealogy you know
the people that are selected it's not necessarily that important except for
all the scriptures being fulfilled that's why it's so important that we
have all these names and it's not like these people were just the greatest
people ever you know there's so much better than everybody that's ever walked
the earth because some of these people were kind of weird ok like look at verse
3 and Judas begat Pharaoh and Zara of Tamar now we already read in Genesis
about this relationship Tamar was Judah's daughter-in-law and he
impregnated his own daughter-in-law that was a weird story ok why is that
contained in the Bible because it's giving us the genealogy of Jesus that's
why it's important ok it wasn't because we were trying to set up our own you
know Jerry Springer show in the Bible or something like that no it's because it's
telling us where Jesus came from ok fact and point also you have in verse
number five and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab now Rahab is Rahab the harlot
that we read about in Jericho again not the most upstanding citizen in your
Bible ok Rahab is not necessarily the greatest person to ever live why is she
contained in the scriptures why do we read about that story in the Old
Testament because that's where Jesus is coming from and we learn about the great
faith that Rahab had and so you know when we're reading through the Old
Testament all those stories are then going to combine into this great
genealogy of who Jesus Christ is why because Matthews emphasizing the
fulfillment of scripture of Jesus Christ now look at verse 22 now all this was
done what was it what was all this that was done the birth of Jesus ok that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying that
you're going to find this in the book of Matthew over and over and over and over
this phrase of the fact that the Bible is being fulfilled by Jesus Christ let's
go to the more go to chapter 2 and look at verse 15 and tonight sermon it's more
like a Bible study ok we're just going to score through the Gospels and I'm
going to show you the theme and kind of highlight the thing you have to read it
though you need to read the whole you know book and I'm trying to get you
excited because in January it's your opportunity let's read the whole New
Testament right after to look at verse 15 and that and was there until the
death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which is spoken of the Lord by
the prophet saying out of Egypt have I called my son so we have the birth of
Jesus Christ fulfilling Isaiah we have right here out of Egypt I'll call my son
being fulfilled again scripture by Jesus Christ in Isaiah go if you would to
verse 17 then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet saying
now think about this we've only got into two chapters and we're hitting Isaiah
we're hitting Isaiah we're hitting Jeremiah what what do you think being
kind of really hammered here this is all the Old Testament just coming to
fruition here through Jesus Christ look at verse 23 and he came and dwelt in a
city called Nazareth that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophets he shall be called a Nazarene so notice again this guy this one
mentioned is just the prophets is just saying hey lots of guys were saying this
is coming from Nazareth all right look at you would at chapter 4 verse 14 that
it might be fulfilled which is spoken by Isaiah the Prophet saying the land of
Zebulun and the land of Nephilim by the way of the sea beyond Jordan Galilee of
the Gentiles the people which sat in darkness saw a great light and to them
which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up so again we
have a fulfillment of the book of Isaiah being fulfilled in an entirely new
prophecy just constant just prophecy after prophecy fulfilled fulfilled
fulfilled fulfilled fulfilled look at chapter 5 look at verse 18 verily I
say in you to heaven and earth past one jot or one tittle shall no eyes pass
from the law till all be fulfilled Jesus when preaching is bringing up the
importance of what scripture being filled and he's saying that you know all
the scriptures gonna end up getting fulfilled that's an important point to
make and why is it emphasizing what Jesus is doing because it wants us to
have the certainty of knowing that this is the true Messiah if it's not
fulfilling all the scripture then it's not the Messiah then it's not Jesus it
couldn't be Jesus go to chapter 8 and look at verse 17 chapter number 8 look
at verse number 17 the Bible says that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by Isaiah the Prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bear our
sicknesses it seems like Isaiah was a pretty important book to the Lord Jesus
Christ wasn't it this cause Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah and Isaiah has a lot of
future prophecy of Jesus Christ and the things that he's going to do also a
really long book of the Bible it's not that it's not the longest of the Old
Testament you got Psalms there but it's really your second longest that's not a
song book it's the longest in the sense of all the books that are not a song
book really that's kind of like the longest in a sense and it just hammers
Jesus Christ over and over look at chapter 12 verse 17 chapter 12 verse 17
and you'll kind of notice a theme that in the Bible a lot of scriptures being
fulfilled at the beginning and at the end at his birth and it is death because
those are some of the more highlighted features of Jesus Christ life chapter 12
look at verse 17 the Bible says that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Isaiah is the prophet saying you'll my servant whom I've chosen my beloved in
whom my soul is well pleased I will put my spirit upon him and he shall show
judgment to the Gentiles you know the thing the Bible showing you is how the
the hand of the Old Testament is going straight or the gloves going straight on
that hand the New Testament glove is going straight on the hand of the Old
Testament how they fit together perfectly meaning you can't really take
one without the other kind of like you can't really take the son without the
father because how could you be a father without a son right isn't that pretty
self-explanatory it's like if he's the son then there must be a what a father
right if there's a father there's got to be a child somewhere right and so these
two things go hand in glove just like the Old Testament and the New Testament
you can't really break apart from one another look at chapter 13 verse number
14 chapter 13 verse 14 the Bible says and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Isaiah's which says by hearing he shall hear shall not understand and seeing he
shall see and shall not perceive now what's interesting as Isaiah is he's
getting hammered here but think about this Isaiah is not just giving a whole
bunch of prophecies that would for sure coincide either talking about I mean the
prophecies of Isaiah born of a virgin right prophecies like here that people
are not going to want to hear what he has to say you know they're not going to
comprehend some of the preaching that he's going to say like these things
aren't necessarily mutually exclusive in the sense that you would say well of
course if he's born of a virgin they're not going to understand what he says
either you know it's like completely separate prophecies the fact that he's
going to be going to Egypt the fact that he's born in Nazareth the fact that he's
born of a virgin the fact that nobody's going to want to hear I mean the fact
that he's coming out of Zebulun and Nephthalim meaning that he lived in that
area and he's the light he's the gospel all these things are really kind of
unique from one another and Jesus is just hitting them all like a bell just
bam bam bam just one after another look at verse 35 that it might be fulfilled
was spoken by the prophet saying I will open my mouth and parables I will utter
things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world you know the
Bible makes it clear that Jesus didn't speak to them in any in a normal way he
only spake them by parables and you know that's a really unique thing that how
could you predict that how could you predict that a guy is going to go around
and talk to people only by parables and only by mysterious sayings and things
like this having this type of wisdom go to chapter 21 go to chapter 21 so already
seen the Bible just hammering fulfilled scripture fulfilled scripture look at
chapter 21 verse number four all this was done that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophet saying tell you the daughter of Zion behold thy king
cometh unto thee meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of an ass
again is what does this have to do with being born of a virgin or coming out of
each I mean these are completely just separate but notice Jesus just hits
every single one just so perfectly every kind of scripture and I mean we're
talking about verses that are coming from all kinds of different places in the
Bible entering hitting pretty much all the chapters of Isaiah and what's
interesting was when you read Isaiah it doesn't it doesn't seem like it's just
talking about future it has its own complete narrative on its own now how is
how unique the Bible that it can give you in a complete story and then hidden
within or mixed in you have all these extra double meanings and double
prophecies foreshadowings and future prophecies that are going to be
fulfilled by Jesus Christ and you know Isaiah is a really important book just
think about in the book of Acts whenever the Ethiopian eunuch is sitting there
he's reading Isaiah and he's kind of like is the prophet speaking about
himself or is he speaking about you know someone else and then Philip the
evangelist has the opportunity to sit there and preach unto him Jesus you know
it seems like Isaiah was almost like the Romans Road at the beginning because
they're using Isaiah a lot to show that Jesus is the Messiah and that he's the
Christ and they're getting a lot of people saved out of Isaiah now someone
comes up you say I've completely remodeled the Romans Road I'm only using
Isaiah that person's got problems okay let's use the Romans Road all right but
I'm saying that you could tell that they were using Isaiah they're using the Old
Testament to get people saved you know when they were in the book of Acts they
didn't have Romans Road they didn't have a lot of the verses that we're going to
how are they getting people saved they're going Isaiah they're going to
Jeremiah they're going to the Old Testament and they're pulling out all
the same salvation verses they're calling about Lucifer's call upon the
name of the Lord shall be delivered which is what quoting Romans 10 in fact
if you understand the book of Romans Romans chapter 10 is virtually all just
quotes of the Old Testament like almost every verse is just a quote quoted verse
from the Old Testament you could probably preach the entire Romans Road
from just the Old Testament you could just find all the verses and mix them
all together because it's just a retelling of the Old Testament
scriptures is quite incredible you should just study that at some point in
time but look at what the Bible says in chapter 24 now go to chapter 24 and look
at verse 34 chapter 24 and let's go to verse 34 the Bible says this barely I
say unto you this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled
so again Jesus also while he's fulfilling a lot of scripture in his
lifetime he brings up how in the future a lot of scripture is also going to need
to be fulfilled and that's an important understanding of the Bible the Bible is
constantly fulfilling itself it's doing exactly what the Lord said when you read
the Old Testament law Moses made it clear that if a prophet came and said
thus say the Lord and it didn't come to pass exactly like the prophet said that
it was not the word of the Lord it is not what God had spoken so a really
important aspect of scripture itself is that it has to match reality perfectly
which also tells me this that you can't just completely disregard reality because
God is saying reality confirms the Bible history confirms the Bible in the sense
that if someone says thus say the Lord this is going to happen and it doesn't
happen it's not scripture there's not like well there's all this stuff the
Bible says is gonna happen and we don't have any of it or we don't know what
happened you know no it got fulfilled now of course we do have some prophecies
some scriptures that have not yet been fulfilled we're awaiting the coming
Messiah we're awaiting a coming Antichrist we're awaiting a lot of
future events that are told in the book of Revelation but let me tell you a fact
it's gonna happen exactly like it stated it's not like kind of close it's not
like well you know I think it's a little bit like it or you know I know
it's a little off or it's never gonna be a little off it's never gonna be like
kind of like it it's gonna be exactly like it just like every one of the
prophecies Old Testament is exactly fulfilled by Christ it's gonna be the
exact same in the future with the book of Revelation skip down to verse 34 I'm
sorry we already did 34 go to chapter 26 and look at verse 54 chapter 26 and
look at verse 54 now Bible says but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled
that thus it must be so Jesus Christ is making it clear that it's not possible
for you to do something in God's will and it and it violate the scriptures
that have already foretold what is going to happen so Peter and then they
want to like fight and like save Jesus out of the hands of the Romans they
don't want to be turned in and but here's the thing then Jesus asked this
question but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it
must be so he's saying I'm supposed to be betrayed I'm supposed to be given in
the hands of the Romans I'm supposed to be crucified if you fight and and we we
die in another way or we escape out of their hands how is the scripture going
to be fulfilled then Peter and so the important aspect is realizing that
scripture must be fulfilled exactly as it was described and Jesus was here to
fulfill scripture look at verse 56 but all this was done that the scriptures of
the prophets might be fulfilled and notice he's saying like look I'm
surrendering these guys because that's what the Bible said that's what the
scripture said and I'm going to do what fulfill the scriptures think not that
I'm come to destroy the law or the prophets but to what fulfill okay the
Christ didn't come to just do whatever he want he came to do exactly what the
Bible says in fact the Hebrews the Bible says lo in the book of the volume is
written of me to come and do thy will so Jesus is coming to do the will of God
the Father that was the whole goal of him coming in in the book of Matthew is
really emphasizing the fulfillment of Scripture of the Jesus Christ look at
chapter 27 verse 9 now then was fulfilled that which was spoken by
Jeremy the prophet saying and they took the 30 pieces of silver the price of him
that was valued whom they of the children of Israel did value and gave
them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me so again another prophecy
from a completely different author completely different book of the Bible
just like so specific early pieces of silver now there's a there's a lot of
mathematicians that are Christians so-called at least and they've tried to
study like the prophecies of the Bible and they tried to put like statistical
probabilities as far as like how likely is it that we take like nine or ten or
twenty of these these you know prophecies what is the just the
probability of them all you know essentially coming to fruition through
the scripture and it's Chuck Meisler I think is one of the guys I've heard you
know talk a lot about this I don't recommend him he's not like a good
person to listen to but I thought this is an interesting point I don't even
know if he came up with it or he just preaches it but I think they took and
forgive me on the number I wish I had this my notes but I think it's like they
took like nine maybe they took a handful more maybe they took like ten or twenty
but not all the prophecies are fulfilled because we don't even know I mean
there's so many they just took like a small number of the prophecies that they
know have been fulfilled and they said what is the statistical probability that
that would actually happen and they said it's more likely that you would fill the
entire state of Texas with nickels knee-high basically the entire state of
Texas is knee-high in nickels and they said one has a little mark on it and a
blind guy picked out that one nickel that's more likely than all the
scriptures just like a handful of the scriptures being you know fulfilled by
Christ and of course when you keep adding them it becomes a statistical
improbability it becomes just completely not possible to have ever done these
things that's why the Bible is constantly hammering the fulfillment of
Christ and it really you know obviously we believe the Bible by faith but just
just human reasoning you have to accept it just by human reasoning you have to
believe that Jesus is the guy that fulfilled all these scriptures because
it's just evident from historical fact I mean you want to talk about the most
recorded book and of antiquity the Bible what do we have the most manuscripts of
the Word of God you know everything's named after Christ hey it's 2021 you
know that's all about it's after Christ's birth my friend what's the most
popular holiday in America it's called Christmas why do you think it's called
Christmas why do you think that the only name that people get really mad at when
you blaspheme it's Jesus there is no other blasphemy it's only God or the
Lord Jesus Christ or whatever I mean people don't get mad and you say Buddha
Oh Buddha you know no one's like oh it's blasphemy you know everything is coming
from the Bible the most powerful quotes in this world are coming from Scripture
the love of money is the root of all evil I mean people that don't even
believe the Bible will get up and quote that people get up and quote the Proverbs
people quote all parts of the Bible look everything is influenced by Christianity
that's the only thing that matters atheists only attack Christians why is
it that atheists are so obsessed with Christianity because it's the truth my
friend they're not obsessed and disproving the Flat Earth or something
they're usually the same people the atheists are the Flat Earthers okay I
mean the atheists aren't zealous and going and shutting down the mosque and
going and shutting down these other organizations and shutting you know they
make up fake religions they made up this fake religion called the flying spaghetti
monster who's heard of the flying spaghetti monster you know the flying
spaghetti monster is basically just a bastardization of the gospel Jesus
Christ why isn't that the flying spaghetti monsters you know talking
about Hinduism or something or the Chinese tradition or Muslim faith or
whatever and the people get mad they're like oh there's all these different
versions of Christianity yeah because it's the truth there isn't all these
versions of Mormonism because it's a stupid cult anyways you know of course
there's a there's a couple camps in Mormonism but why is it there's just
like so many different camps in Christianity because the devil's
constantly trying to counterfeit Christianity and get people to be sucked
away from the truth why is it that there's so many Bible versions because
the devil's trying to constantly get you away from the power of the King James
Bible that's why it's not a shock when there's all these counterfeits of the
exact same thing you know why was there so many saw Saddam Hussein counter like
you know there's all these different people that were like walking around
looking like Saddam Hussein or like Osama bin Laden or whatever why do they
have like 20 different guys that all look like them because a lot of people
trying to kill him right but it's not like they're just 20 different versions
of a random Asian person or whatever or 20 different versions of a random you
know Muslim person walking around because nobody cares about them there's
no point to it so it's like why is there 20 different versions of the Bible
because there's power in the Word of God and they're counterfeiting it my friend
and the Bible is making it clear that the scriptures have been fulfilled in
Jesus Christ that's why Matthew is such a great gospel it's a great start to the
entire New Testament hey everything's been fulfilled I had you read verse
number nine look at verse 35 this is the last one we're gonna have in the book of
Matthew the Bible says this and they crucified him and parted his garments
casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet a part
of my garments among them and upon my vesture did they cast lots you know
there's so many cool prophecies in the Bible but think about this one it's like
not only when it tell you exactly how he dies we're gonna tell you a random event
that happens rather they're gonna gamble for my clothing isn't that just kind of
a weird thing or whatever but it's just to show like how God can literally tell
you everything that's gonna happen before it happens even done down to like
pedantic details like they cast a lot for his garment just to show you like look
this this is the Messiah I mean every single scripture even down to just crazy
things like they cast lots for his garment isn't that just crazy I mean how
many different and what does that have to do with being a you know having the
virgin birth you got to the place where he was born the fact he was born of a
virgin the fact that he went to Egypt the fact that he was in Nazareth the
fact that when he's gonna preach is gonna preach in parables the fact that
the Jews aren't gonna listen to this guy even though and think about this if you
were gonna try and predict the future and you're saying okay there's gonna be
this guy he's gonna be like the most powerful preacher ever he's gonna heal
every single person of every single one of their diseases every single one of
their illnesses everything in the scripture is gonna point to him yet no
one's gonna believe in him wouldn't that you'd be like of course they're
gonna believe in him he's gonna heal everybody he's gonna feed them food out
of just you know a sack lunch I mean this guy's gonna walk on water they're
gonna literally say never a man spake like this man spake and then they're
still not gonna believe in him that wouldn't seem that wouldn't seem to make
sense I mean imagine if I got up I said all right there's gonna be a basketball
player coming and this guy is gonna score every point he's gonna be able to
shoot you know from every part of the court and he's never gonna miss a shot
he can dunk it from every position on the court every time the opponent gets
the ball he's gonna steal it immediately he's never gonna lose and no one's gonna
like him it's like you know no one's gonna want his jersey you know no one's
gonna want to be on his team you know no manager's gonna want him obviously they
wouldn't probably because he would ruin the game for them but I'm just saying
like of course if you're talking about the greatest of all time people you
would think is contradictory that they wouldn't like him only the Bible could
tell you hey there's gonna be this this this prophet coming they're not gonna
like him they're gonna reject him even though everything he does is perfect
everything he said was perfect everything he did was only a help and a
blessing unto them it just shows the power of how the scripture was fulfilled
in the book of Matthew so let's go to Mark and the word fulfill or its
variations is found the most in the book of Matthew it's 16 times that's mentioned
another gospel and I'm not saying that there is an overlap in the gospel but
I'm saying if I were to define the gospel of Matthew in one word it'd be
fulfillment film it that is what the book of Matthew is really emphasizing so
does mark emphasizing if I had to put a word on it I would say mission it's the
mission of Jesus that is being emphasized in the book of Mark now how
did Matthew start started with the generation started with a genealogy and
then the birth of Jesus Christ right how does Mark start verse 1 the beginning of
the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God it just gets it just like hits the
point the gospel and really the word gospel is found in the book of Mark more
than any of the other Gospels why because the book of Mark is really
really emphasizing the works and the mission of Jesus Christ what he was
doing on this earth okay look at verse 1 again the beginning of the gospel right
look at verse 14 now after that John was put in prison Jesus came into Galilee
preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God so we have it just starting right
out hey we're preaching the gospel here verse 15 and saying the time is with
filled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel so
what did Jesus do while he was on this earth he preached the gospel my friend
and you say what's the gospel the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ
what did Jesus go around doing telling everybody I'm gonna die I'm gonna come
back I'm gonna die I mean just the death the burial the resurrection now of
course a lot of his preaching is through parables we have to understand that and
and a lot of times the disciples didn't even understand what he was saying but
even the book of John many times he is like saying it exactly like I'm gonna
die and come back or be risen again and there's like what does he mean you know
what what is it what does that mean you know what is it what are you trying to
say like I don't get it you know how are you gonna go a place that we can't go to
and you know the Jews are confused everybody's confused about it but he
made it really manifest and he made it really clear what his mission was here
it was the gospel and Peter didn't get that we already learned in Matthew you
know Peter was kind of resistant to the gospel message he didn't want Christ to
die but that was his mission go to chapter 10 and look at verse 29 now the
book of Mark doesn't have a lot of unique stories in it it really in my
mind is just like kind of highlighting all the really important stuff that's in
all the other Gospels it's just it's just kind of like saying like this is
what we really need to emphasize and what do we really emphasize the gospel
of Jesus Christ right look at verse 35 chapter 8 verse number 35 the Bible
reads Bruce ever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall lose
his life for my sake and the Gospels the same shall save it look at chapter 10 in
verse number 29 chapter 10 in verse 29 and Jesus answered and said very I stand
you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or
mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the Gospels but he shall
receive in hundredfold now in this time houses brethren and sisters and mothers
and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life
now Jesus in these past two mentions is also emphasizing the importance of how
we should live our lives based on the gospel Jesus is setting up a model life
for us you know Jesus didn't come to just say like I did it you can't know
Jesus is trying to show us what he wants us to do and what was Jesus doing going
around preaching the gospel and he's trying to teach his disciples look you
need to make your life about preaching the gospel you need to make it about the
gospel you need to you know give your life up for the gospel sake you know and
emphasizing the mission you know what's the mission in this world what's the
mission of this life it's preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ no more important
work no more important truth that we can get out there you know people get
real zealous about all kinds of things today don't they they get really zealous
about you know hey we need to tell people not to get the packs you know we
need to tell people not to wear a mask or we need to tell people about 9-11
truth or we need to tell people about you know this fad diet keto diet man all
about the keto you know they've been hiding we need to warn them about
refined sugar you know we need to warn them about the evils of milk you know
well we need to stop eating animals you know we need to rescue animals we need
to kill animals I mean it's all over the board right people have all kinds of
missions in their life here's the most common mission people have money to see
how much wealth they can acquire how much money can they get what is Jesus
want our mission to be what is our purpose what our goal in life it's the
gospel of Jesus Christ is to get people say look at chapter 13 and look at verse
number 10 and the gospel must first be published among all nations now again in
the book of Matthew Mark and Luke it's giving you the Olivet Discourse which is
talking about future things to come but again if we're talking about the
emphasis we're talking about the mission what's you know even in the midst of the
greatest tribulation ever what is the mission it's still the gospel it didn't
change you know it's not like well my whole life's goal was the gospel but as
soon as we get in the Great Tribulation it's hiding it's being a prepper you
know it's seeing how long I can just survive man I'm just trying to see like
it's ah well you know that's a dumb goal because if you really want to survive
you know the Bible teaches you to honor thy father thy mother and you know one
of those fathers is your father in heaven and your father in heaven wants
you to go and preach the gospel and let me tell you in my opinion one of the
best ways to stay alive is being a faithful soul winner is in my
estimation when I understand the Word of God and I'm thinking like why would God
want to keep someone alive it's so they can keep preaching the gospel people but
when you stop being a light in this world the Bible teaches when assault is
lost and saltness it's good for nothing like what's the point of having a what
if we said look I've got 10 billion Christians store away in my basement and
they know how to give the gospel I mean these guys are the greatest soul winners
you've ever met in your entire life and you're like sweet when we do a sermon
well they don't leave they don't go out no they're gonna talk to anybody but
they're gonna survive to the end hey will you give me some money so I can
feed them like no who cares send them to heaven or send them out of the
basement but there's no point in keeping them locked up what's the point of
having all this great light if you don't actually put it on a candlestick let
your light shine is what the Bible teaches it doesn't say hide it under a
bushel it doesn't say like well let's just preserve the light bulb to the very
end no no no no you're gonna put it on a stand until someone puts it out and in
my estimation again if you want to have a long life it's coupled with two
factors honoring your father and your mother on this earth and honoring your
father in heaven which in my opinion being a gospel soul winner is the best
you can do and obviously you know we don't want to sin but then they no one's
gonna be perfect and you look at people in the Bible that lasted a really long
time like Paul why did Paul say he constantly was getting delivered from
evils I mean that guy's life was a hazard that guy was a walking insurance
nightmare can you imagine getting a life insurance policy he's filling out the
application so I've been shipwrecked 24 hours been beaten with rods you know a
lot of times I've been stoned to death a few times I've got an entire nation that
wants to kill me I'm headed back soon I mean like the insurance policy be like
no we will not ensure you at all you know you're the riskiest person to keep
alive ever everyone wants to kill you everyone hates you right how did he live
so long because he's getting the gospel out because the Lord wants to preserve
him it's the mission that we have and Jesus is saying hey the gospel must
first be published among all nations hey I want the gospel to go every single
place before we end this thing that's Jesus is here to save souls my friend
and if Jesus wants soul saved and we're his only vehicle to get them saved he's
gonna want to preserve us you have faith in your faithful creator I mean if he
died if he spent so much effort to die on the cross don't you think he would
want to keep us alive so we can get people saved to make sense what's the
mission what's the goal what's the what's our work our work is the gospel
my friend look at chapter 14 and look at verse 9 Bibles is very nice and you
who serve or wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole
world is also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her so
again the gospel being brought up bringing about the works of a woman the
works that she did and the goal that she did and her part in the gospel of Jesus
Christ go to chapter 16 and look at verse 15 chapter 16 and verse 15
probably one of the most famous verses in the Bible probably in my opinion the
most famous verse in the book of Mark verse 15 and he said unto them go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature what a clear
commandment in the Bible I mean Jesus gets done doing the gospel and then he
says hey let me tell you your entire job don't all the world preach the
gospel there you go go and preach the guy I mean that is the work that is the
mission he spent three and a half years with his disciples for what purpose
preaching the gospel why is he disappointed in and Peter when he comes
back because he goes a fishing well I'm just gonna make it to the end bro
fishing fishing Peter come on you know well I got to learn how to fish so when
we get in the end times and I'm out in the wilderness I'll know how to you know
get some bread how many fish did Peter catch when he wasn't in the Lord's will
none but then when he's in the Lord's will he has so many he can't even bring
him in you know it's better to be in the Lord's will with no skills than have all
the skills in the world and not be in the Lord's will and I'd rather have
zero storable food up and have the gospel stored in my heart and in my hand
than to have all the food in the world and not even know what to do when the
end times hit go listen to the gospel of Alex Jones the false gospel that guy's a
false prophet that guy's wicked as hell that guy's preaching that you need to
like enter in a third eye or something like that to go to heaven and he's he's
like trying to sell his truth and let me tell you something anybody that's selling
truth it's not truth never the truth I've never met anybody that's selling
the truth I've never met anybody that said like give me five bucks and I'll
give you the you know the death-bearing resurrection of Jesus you know the
people have the death-bearing resurrection of Jesus are giving away
for free the people that are selling truth it's never any good information
all the good information you can have for free it's called the King James Bible my
friend and everything outside of this is trash it's not even worth anything don't
buy it get this get wisdom get knowledge get understanding it comes from the
Bible from the Word of God and let me tell you something the mission of Jesus
Christ is the gospel that's what Mark is just hammering over and over go to Luke
chapter 1 point 1 Matthew is the fulfillment of Jesus Mark is the mission
of Jesus what is Luke the story of Jesus it's the story of Jesus and you
know Luke is a really unique gospel and the fact that it contains like 15
parables that none of the other gospels contain it's got all kinds of cool
stories like the prodigal son it's got stories like the rich man and Lazarus
it's you know when you read the book of Luke it's like a great likes narrative
and it has a beautiful language and it is it's written as to read as the you're
reading about the history and the story of Jesus and you know when you watch
movies or something like the Charlie Brown movie or whatever what do they
read from when they read about the birth of Jesus Christ they read Luke why
because Luke is giving you kind of this great narrative and this great story and
it starts out in chapter one really long chapter it makes sense though if you're
telling a story don't you think it's going to be kind of a long and you're
going to talk a lot whenever it's the mission and the instructions like Mark
it's just real short real abbreviated right you kind of think about even how
the entire books composed it's kind of composed based on this theme this
element of what's happening in it and Luke chapter 1 we get all this great
story about John the Baptist being born right you know the story of Jesus Christ
and his birth and it has all this beautiful language you know let's get
skip down to some of the back or some of the end parts of chapter number one but
let's read in verse number 74 the Bible says that he would grant unto us that
we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear
and holiness and righteousness before him all the days of her life and thou
child shall be called the prophet of the highest thou shalt go before the face
of the Lord to prepare his ways give knowledge of salvation unto his people
by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God whereby the
day spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in
darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace the
child grew and waxed strong and spirit it was in the deserts till the day of a
showing in Israel so the Bible just has great beautiful poetic language and if
you think about the first verse here in chapter 1 as for as much as many as have
taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are
most surely believed among us even as they determined them unto us which from
the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word it seemed good to
me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to
write unto thee in order most excellent theophilus that thou mightest know the
certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed he's like you got
the doctrine you got the highlights and everything but let me just give you the
whole story let me just fill in all the details let me fill in all the gaps let
me just give you like the whole thing in a package I just want you to have the
exact account of all the stuff that happened and when you think about Luke
it's probably one of the most complete Gospels of the Bible really encompassing
from the beginning to the end and all the special things that happen in it and
then you get this great chapter 2 verse 1 and it came to pass in those days there
went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world would be taxed as
taxing was first made when Serenius was governor of Syria and all went to be
taxed everyone into his own city Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the
city of Nazareth into Judea unto the city of David which is called Bethlehem
because he was of the house and lineage David he taxed with Mary as a spouse
wife being great with child now I always think man how hard was that on Joseph
you know verse 6 and so it was a joke all right none of you laughed and so it
was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be
delivered he brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes
and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the end and
there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over
their flock by night and lo the angel Lord came upon them and the glory of the
Lord shone round about them they were sore afraid the angel said unto them
fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to
all people run to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is
Christ the Lord and this shall be a sign unto you you shall find the babe wrapped
in swaddling clothes lying in a manger and suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God and saying glory to God in the
highest and on earth peace goodwill toward men one of the most iconic
stories of the Bible and notice the narrative is the narrative really just
like instructions or doctrine or is it giving you the story it's setting all
the pieces of the puzzle together it's giving you all the details it's giving
you the setting it's giving you you know the characters it's giving you all the
description why because Luke is really written in a story narrative and think
about it what other book do we believes written by Luke acts and is it acts like
a very historic it's kind of like a story again we're getting these stories
and these elements of the history and the things that are going and it's very
detailed in its instructions and in what happened and it gives you just all this
great narrative you know some books of the Bible our story history right some
are doctrine some are a letter to somebody some are poetry some are a song
some are you know they all kind of have their own different way in which they
were written you know style theme and everything like that and really Luke is
kind of emphasizing what it's emphasizing the story of Jesus Christ
another story I think is really interesting go all the way the end one
that I think is really unique and really captures the essence of the book of Luke
is the very end Luke chapter 24 you have an interesting story in their Bible it's
the walk to Emmaus and it's a really powerful story in about and look there's
so many the birth of Jesus Christ powerful story powerful narrative but
you know the walk to Emmaus is really interesting narrative it's a really
interesting story that we hear about you know in the Bible and when I use story
I'm not saying something fictional because it's history is you know the
same root word their story you know just because the story doesn't mean it's fake
all the stories the Bible are true and it's great because in Luke we have the
story of Jesus Christ and after his death burn resurrection we have this
interesting walk to Emmaus it starts in verse number 13 the Bible says and be
old two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus which is from
Jerusalem about three score furlongs and they talked together of all these things
which had happened he came to pass while they communed together and reasoned
Jesus himself drew near and went with them their eyes were holding that they
should not know him and he said unto them what manner of communications are
these that you have one to another as you walk and are sad one of them whose
name was Cleopas answering said unto him art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem
and has not known the things which are come to pass there in these days and he
said unto them what things I got Jesus just asked the you know like these
questions you know like what happened as if he doesn't know and they said in him
concerning Jesus of Nazareth which was a prophet mighty indeed and word before
God and all the people and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to
be condemned to death and have crucified him we trusted that it had been he which
should have redeemed Israel beside all this day is the third day since these
things were done there's a good proof text of when Jesus died if Sunday the
first day of the week is the third day then what would that make Saturday the
second day what would that make Friday the first day but here's the thing did
he die on Friday because no it says he was crucified okay and it's the third
day since these things were done so Friday would have been the first full
day since something happened which was what the crucifixion of Jesus on
Thursday okay there's another proof text for you verse 22
yea and certain women also of our company made us astonished which were
early at the sepulcher when they found not as bought he they came saying that
they had also seen a vision of angels which said that he was alive certain of
them which were with us went to the sepulcher and found it even so as the
women had said but him they saw not it's funny it's like they give the whole
gospel the death the burial and the resurrection and he's like this is
crazy it's like what is Jesus but then he said to them all fools and slow of
heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken like haven't you read
Matthew yet it was fulfilled you know verse 26 ought not Christ have suffered
these things and enter into his glory so it's like they gave the gospel and
thinking that it's not Jesus because of the gospel and he's like dude I'm Jesus
because of the gospel it's like the whole point is the story of Jesus it's
like the reason why I am Jesus because the death burial and resurrection my
friend that's what proves who I am verse 27 and beginning at Moses and all the
prophets expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
himself and that would have been the coolest walk to ever take and I think
I've calculated it I forgive me I wish I'd written this it's like two two and
a half miles or something like that or maybe I'm wrong I'm thinking right it
was like two and a half hours I'm sorry it's like two and a half hours I think
is approximately how long if you're just walking a steady pace how long you'd be
going on this journey it could have been longer how long it took them to go these
this distance or whatever but you know it was three score furlongs which is 60
furlongs a furlong is an eighth of a block okay and so you know you could do
the calculations obviously it takes about eight to twelve minutes to walk a
mile so you could kind of figure out what you think that is I think it's
about two and a half hours maybe you could be as long as four hours depending
on how ambitious they are on their little journey here I don't even
understand how he did it in such a short amount of time because like the whole
Bible is Jesus I don't know what method he did but talk about one of the coolest
experiences to literally walk with Jesus while he just walks you through the
whole Bible and it just shows you all the scriptures of the death and the
burial and the resurrection just over and over and over again and you have
this cool story of Jesus it says in verse 28 and they drew nigh under the
village whether they went and he made as though he would have gone further but
they constrained him saying abide with us or it is toward evening and the day
is far spent and he went in to tarry with them they came to pass as he sat at
meet with them took bread and blessed didn't break and gave to them their eyes
were open and they knew him and he vanished out of their sight they said
one to another did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the
way and while he opened to us the scripture and this is what I love about
this story we look at it from a hindsight perspective okay they're
walking down this path and Jesus himself is literally preaching to them the Bible
I mean couldn't get any cooler but you have to think about it from their
perspective from their perspective it's a random dude just a random dude is just
telling the scripture but notice how they described it they said their heart
burned within them and let me tell you why their heart burned within them it
wasn't because of the preacher they didn't even know who it was it was
because of the Word of God and when you just read the story of Jesus when you
read Luke what can happen is your heart is just burning within you when you hear
the scripture as soon as Jesus is recognized he vanished but notice we can
all have that walk to Emmaus feeling when you just open the Bible and you
just walk through the scriptures and you know what you're not even walking alone
because if you're saved you have the Holy Ghost with you walking alongside
and you know what he's gonna lead you into all truth it and you know what the
Holy Ghost will do you he'll remind you of all the verses about Jesus and it'll
just show you about Jesus and you can have that same walk to Emmaus feeling
and experience when you just get along with the Word of God and you just walk
through the story of Jesus and the powerful stories that we have in your
Bible I mean the powerful story of Lazarus and the rich man and the rich
men going down into hell lifting up his eyes in hell is what the Bible says I
mean if that doesn't scare and terrify you when you hear about this guy being
in hell being in torment asking for water never getting any I mean a story
can really grip you it can really just impact you in a unique way whereas just
instructions or just the doctrine may not quite grip you the same but the
stories of Jesus the parables of Jesus you know why did Jesus preach in
parables so that you could really get the feeling behind the message of what
he was teaching you know the pictures of the prodigal son returning nothing
really hits you like an analogy or an example where it kind of hits you from a
personal reflective spot you actually have that child you can think about
maybe a wayward child or thinking about you know the struggles of having this
distant relationship and reconciling and those emotions that are attached to the
Word of God you know the Bible is a living book but it's also an emotional
book God wants us to have an emotional reaction when we read the scriptures you
know it's not just this mundane thing it's not just this rote memorization of
words or a random collection of ideas but rather it's a beautiful story that
will literally grip your heart and a burn within you when you read the
scriptures if you would have John and we'll finish with this the point one is
Matthew is the fulfillment of Jesus mark is the mission of Jesus Luke is the
story of Jesus what would John be then the purpose of Jesus and not only that
it's the purpose of the whole Bible my friend if you have to say one of the
most important books of the Bible it's probably just John because again what's
the most important thing that we do is get saved and what's the whole purpose
of the book of John being written so that we could be saved and so how is
this one gonna start well look at verse 1 in the beginning was the word and the
word was with God and the word was God the same was in the beginning with God
all things are made by him and without him was not anything made that was made
in him was life and the life was the light of men what is the purpose of
Jesus Christ he has life and that life is to be given unto men what does every
single person desire more than anything it's life it's eternal life there's an
instinct in every single person that doesn't want to die why is it so hard
for people to kill themselves because of a desire to live why is it that
people are so terrified of one event called death because they want to live
why is that people are searching and spending all kinds of money on living
longer because they want to live life and that life is found in one person and
that person is Jesus Christ now it elaborates on John the bad is being sent
to bear witness of that light but skip down to verse number 14 and the word was
made flesh and dwelled among us and we be held as glory the glory is the only
begotten of the Father full of grace and truth John bear witness of him and cried
saying this was he of whom I spake he that cometh after me is preferred before
me for he was before me and of his fullness have all we received in grace
for grace for the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ no man has seen God at any time the only begotten Son which is in the
bosom of the Father he hath declared him so why is Jesus coming to tell us of the
Father to give us this life and the word life is emphasized in the book of John
so many times look at chapter 3 let's do a quick journey chapter 3 verse 15 the
Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal
life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever
believeth in him did not perish but have everlasting life verse 36 he that
believeth on the Sun hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Sun
shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him notice the Bible is going
to emphasize something in the book of John this is the most important aspect
of John is the purpose of getting life it's believing if you believe eternal
life you believe everlasting life you believe you have everlasting life who
doesn't the person that doesn't believe doesn't say good people have a life and
bad people don't it doesn't say the Catholic does and the non Catholic
doesn't it doesn't say the Baptist does and the non Baptist doesn't it says the
one who believes has life and the one who does not believe shall not even see
it won't even know what it's like we'll never know what heaven is like look at
chapter 4 verse 14 but is there a drink of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
spring up into everlasting life look at verse 36 and he that reapeth wages or he
that reapeth receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal that both he
that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together look at chapter 5 verse
24 barely barely I stand you he that heareth my word and believeth on him that
sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but has
passed from death unto life verse 26 where the father hath life in himself so
hath he given to the son to have life in himself verse 29 and shall come
forth they that have done good under the resurrection of life and they that have
done evil under the resurrection of damnation look at verse number 39
search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and they are
they which testify of me you know there's a sad day when we realize that
in America almost everybody that you knock on the door and ask them if they're
going to heaven this is what they say yes and it's a sad day in Jerusalem
when most people at that time thought they had eternal life they thought they
were saved they thought that they were gonna go to heaven they thought they
were children of God they thought they knew the scripture but they didn't at
all it all had gone over that they were raised in church but you know what being
raised in church won't save you you got to believe the gospel you got to humble
yourself and realize it's not by your works that you're saved it's the free
gift of eternal life by trusting in Jesus Christ alone or nothing verse 40
and you will not come to me that you might have life what were they what were
they not coming to him for because they were justifying themselves rather than
pointing to Jesus for salvation they pointed to themselves I thank thee God
that I'm not like other men other sinners I tithe and I fast and I've
turned from my sins I'm not like this public in oh you wicked wretched man
that think that your works are gonna get you into heaven you got to come to him
if you want to get saved go to chapter 6 and look at verse 27 chapter 6 verse 27
labor not for the meat which perishes but for the meat which endureth unto
everlasting life which the Son of Man shall give unto you for him have God the
Father sealed Jesus has that everlasting life verse 33 for the bread of God is he
which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world verse 35 and Jesus
said unto them I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger and
he that believeth on me shall never thirst verse 40 and this is the will of
him that sent me that everyone would see the Son and believeth on him may have
everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day what is the whole goal
that God has for us is the believe in Jesus to have everlasting life verse 47
Jesus very speaking verily verily I stand you he that believeth on me had
everlasting life verse 48 I am that bread of life verse 51 I am the living
bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live
forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the
life of the world verse 53 then Jesus said unto them verily verily I send you
except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life
and you verse 54 whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life
and I will raise him up at the last day verse 63 it is the spirit that quicken
it the flesh prophet is nothing the words that I speak unto you they are
spirit and they are life verse 68 then Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom
shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life I wonder what the book of
John's about let's keep going chapter 8 verse 12 then spake Jesus again of them
saying I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness but shall have the light of life chapter 10 verse 10 the thief
cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might
have life and they might have it more abundantly I am the Good Shepherd the
Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep you know what Jesus gave his life
so we can have life and think about this every item of food on this earth has to
die to give you life otherwise it wasn't worth eating yet okay all of you weird
cockroach you know bug eating people or you know people have to eat live things
you know let it die first okay this is what I do I let the cow die and then I
eat the steak and then the steak gives me life what does the weed have to do the
wheat has to die and then you grind it into powder and then you mix it together
with lots of butter and then you eat it as bread with more butter you make it
with butter and then you put butter on it and then you eat it and you know what
it gives you life and Jesus had to come and had to die give us life go to 15
verse 15 as the father knoweth me even so know I the father and I lay down my
life for the sheep verse 17 therefore doth my father love me because I laid
down my life that I might take it again verse 28 and I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand
you know it's great when Jesus gives you eternal life you can't lose that one hey
we can all screw up the first one we get because we're all sinners you know what
you can't screw up the second one this is eternal life that you get that's why
it's so great look at chapter 11 verse 25 Jesus said unto her I have the
resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though we were dead yet
shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die believe
is thou this here's my question do you believe that faith alone in Jesus will
get you into heaven or not as if you believe that you're going to heaven if
you don't you won't even see life chapter 12 look at verse 25 chapter 12
verse 25 he that loveth his life shall lose it neither hate his life in this
world shall keep it unto life eternal verse 50 the Bible says and I know that
this and I know that his commandment is life everlasting whatsoever I speak
therefore even as the father said unto me so I speak chapter 13 look at verse
37 Peter said in him Lord why cannot I follow thee now I will lay down my life
for thy sake Oh Peter you're gonna give us the gospel verse 38 Jesus answered
him wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake verily verily I say unto thee the
cock shall not crow till they'll deny me thrice he's like oh you're gonna die you
won't even say that you know me you know the Bible talks about even for a
good man some would dare to die you know what Christ died for sinners
Christ died for all Christ died for no one's willing to do that no one was
willing to be a perfect sacrifice and here's the problem with with Peter when
the Lord encountered him he said depart from me Lord from a sinful man so if
Peter dies for you you're still going to hell Catholic
because Peter isn't saved by works and you wouldn't be saved by Peter's works
we're only saved by the works of Jesus Christ him giving us his life which was
the perfect sacrifice chapter 14 verse 6 famous verse Jesus say than him I am
the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me the
only life you can have is in Jesus Christ chapter 15 verse 13 Bible says
greater love hath no man than this that a man laid down his life for his friends
chapter 17 verse 2 as thou has given him power over all flesh that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou has given him and this is life eternal that
they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent go
back to chapter 20 we've made our full circle all the way back to the the
beginning verse what's the what's the point of John it's the point of the
whole Bible my friend it's the most important decision you could ever make
in your entire life is to believe on Jesus Christ you could have life what
does it say in verse 30 and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of
his disciples which are not written in this book but these are written that you
might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you
might have life through his name why do we have the Gospel of John because it's
the purpose of Jesus and you know I think it's great to preach a sermon on
kind of these different emphasis is because what's the goal if I say you
know I want to get someone saved what's the best gospel then is it Matthew Mark
Luke or John it's gonna be John if I want to prove that Jesus fulfilled
Scripture where am I gonna go I'm gonna go to Matthew if I really want to touch
someone with a really impactful story I'm gonna go to Luke if I want to just
tell you exactly the the purpose as far as the mission the works that Jesus did
and what we're supposed to do I'm going to mark why because that's what it's
emphasizing that's why these books have these different emphasize or emphasis
and it would be weird though when you say well I'm gonna go to mark to prove
you exactly how to get saying you know why wouldn't you go John that's the
whole purpose of that one right and you'll see a lot of false doctrine
coming out of books where that's not even their main emphasis that's not the
real purpose of that book being written that's not the main overarching goal of
that particular part of Scripture Matthew's not emphasizing belief because
it's it's talking about how you fulfill the scripture you know Mark and Luke
aren't emphasizing believe like John is because it's emphasizing the works that
Jesus did in the works that we do well guess what works don't get you into
heaven so that's gonna be really weird to think that the Gospel of Mark is
gonna really emphasizing believing for salvation now I can still show it to you
in there I'm not saying it's not contained Jesus still preached repent
you and believe the gospel in the beginning of Mark but at the end of the
day if I want to get someone saved I'm going to John I'm going to John 3 16 I'm
going to John 3 36 I'm going to John 5 24 I'm going to John 6 47 I'm going to
John 10 28 I'm going to John 11 25 and 26 I'm just gonna hammer John John John
believe believe believe life life life life and so we have to look at the
scriptures and say what is the purpose of this book and why am I reading it
what is the emphasis of the scriptures here and we see the beautiful impact the
Bible has of having four Gospels why I have four Gospels so we could have the
fulfillment we could have the mission we could have the story and ultimately we
could get the purpose those in prayer thank you Heavenly Father for giving us
the Gospels of Jesus Christ thank you for containing them in the Word of God
so we could read them so we could understand that you fulfilled the Old
Testament scriptures so we could understand the mission that you had so
we could understand the story and ultimately the purpose that you have
for people to get saved and for us to go out and do the same the same likewise
make our lives about the gospel and to show people how to be saved I pray that
this sermon will be a blessing and that all of us would live lives to honor and
glorify your son in Jesus name we pray amen
let's do our last song for the evening we're going to 441
I got so excited about you know walking off I forgot I'm leading the song right
got so excited to do the mission you know let's sing some songs right 441
great is thy faithfulness they're on the first great is thy faith
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