Look at verse number 20 where the Bible reads again,
and we know that the Son of God is come
and have given us an understanding
that we may know him that is true
and we are in him that is true,
even in his Son, Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
In the title of my sermon, I'm deriving here
the very first part of verse 20 where it says,
and we know that the Son of God is come.
And the title of my sermon this evening
is The Son of God is Come.
Now, the purpose of this sermon is it's a doctrinal sermon,
but it's to give us more confidence
in what the Bible is teaching.
And this statement here is to try and give us
even more confidence that we know Jesus Christ is come.
We have that confidence.
We know that the word of God is true,
but it's nice to quantify this
and to try and understand why we believe this.
Keep your fingers.
We're gonna come right back.
We'll go to Matthew, chapter number four.
Matthew, chapter number four.
There is a spirit that wants to attack who Jesus Christ is.
There is a spirit that wants to attack
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
There is a spirit that wants to attack
that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.
There is an attack on the New Testament
of the word of God today,
but we know that the Son of God is come.
We know that the New Testament is the word of God.
We understand these things,
and the devil wants to put doubt on the word of God.
The devil wants to put doubt on who Jesus Christ is.
And now Matthew, chapter number four,
we literally see a head off between the devil
and the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
It says in Matthew, chapter four,
look at verse number three.
This is the devil.
And when the tempter came to him,
he said, if thou be the Son of God,
command these stones that they be made bread.
What is Jesus Christ having being tempted with is doubt.
Doubt being put on the fact that he's the Son of God.
Doubt on the fact of who he is.
Doubt on the, wow, the authenticity,
wow, I can't even say this word.
Authenticity, sorry, of the word of God, right?
Now go back to first John, chapter number four,
but we know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
We know that the Son of God came.
We know that the New Testament's legitimate,
and there's whole religions devoted
to attacking this concept.
What would be a religion that attacks this?
Judaism.
Judaism does not believe that the Son of God came.
Or what about the Muslims?
The Muslims attack this.
They do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
They do not believe that he came.
And these two religions, they try to claim,
well, we believe the Old Testament.
We are of Abraham, and we believe the Abrahamic religions.
We just don't really accept the New Testament.
We don't really accept all the things
that the New Testament says about the Lord Jesus Christ.
But in a fundamental Baptist church, we do.
We do accept the New Testament.
We do accept who Jesus Christ said that he was.
And we know that the Son of God has come.
Now how do we know that?
My first point is this.
We know because the Spirit bears witness.
The Spirit bears witness.
Look at chapter four, verse number three.
The Bible says this.
And every spirit that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God.
And this is that spirit of antichrist
where ye have heard that it should come.
And even now already is it in the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them,
because greater is he that is in you
than he that is in the world.
They are of the world.
Therefore speak they of the world,
and the world heareth them.
We are of God.
He that knoweth God heareth us.
He that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
So the Bible actually says truth has a spirit behind it,
that Holy Spirit which enlightens us and teaches us,
and we know these things.
Why?
Because of the Spirit of God that comes upon us,
because of the Spirit of God that lives inside of us,
and we can recognize that spirit in other people.
We can recognize someone else that has the Spirit of God
inside of them, and we can also recognize
the Spirit of error by what?
Their confession of Jesus Christ is,
who they believe the Lord is,
the things that they believe
about Jesus Christ specifically.
I've already taught several sermons on this,
and I'm not gonna rehash it, but I do not believe
someone who attacks who Jesus Christ is,
or things about him is saved.
Someone who's saved is gonna get all the doctrines
about Jesus Christ correct.
They're gonna believe Jesus Christ is the son of God.
They're gonna believe Jesus Christ is God in the flesh.
They're gonna believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.
They're gonna believe Jesus Christ died,
was buried, and bodily rose again.
They're not gonna mistake these very important doctrines.
They're gonna believe in the virgin birth.
You're not gonna get wrong on Christophany.
This is basically a fancy word, or Christology, right?
Who Christ is and what he did for us.
Now obviously, people can believe false doctrine
and still be saved.
People can get led astray.
People can get carried off and believe certain things,
but not on the doctrine of who Jesus Christ is.
And nobody by the spirit of God called Jesus Christ a curse.
They're not gonna blaspheme Jesus Christ
and attack who he is and forget who he is.
That would be a false doctrine.
Now go to Romans chapter eight for a moment.
Let's get more verses that prove our point here.
How do we know that the son of God has come
by the Holy Spirit that's inside of you?
You say, well, I don't know that Jesus Christ came.
That's because you don't have the spirit,
because everyone that has the spirit already knows
that Jesus Christ has come.
That bears witness with our spirit.
Look what it says in Romans chapter eight, verse number 15.
For you have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear,
but ye have received the spirit of adoption.
Whereby we cry Abba, Father.
The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit
that we are the children of God,
and of children then heirs.
Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together.
So the Bible says that the spirit of God
actually bears witness with our spirit,
and it helps recognize that we are the children of God.
We can know that we're the children of God
by that Holy Spirit that bears witness inside of us.
Now go to John chapter number 19.
John chapter number 19.
I'll give you another verse.
It's pretty famous.
It says in there are three that bear witness in earth.
The spirit and the water and the blood,
and these three agree in one.
The Bible says that the spirit bears witness
of who Jesus Christ is in the earth.
And you say, well who is that spirit,
or how do I hear of this spirit?
You know how you hear that spirit?
It's the Bible.
The word of God itself is gonna enlighten itself to you,
and the Holy Spirit which is in this world
is gonna talk you through the word of God,
and it's gonna bear witness
of what Jesus Christ did on the cross.
That's how we know the Son of God has come,
by the word of God itself.
You say, that sounds like a circular argument.
It is, but you know what?
It's how God describes it.
He says, hey, you know how you know that the Bible's legit?
Because the Bible's legit.
You know how you hear the spirit?
By reading the words that are from the spirit.
But you know, this is similar to everything.
If I learn math, you know how I learn math
by actually doing the math.
It'd be difficult to learn math
without actually doing it, right?
If no one ever, you know, gives me one plus one,
then it's hard for me to understand two.
It's hard for you to understand anything that you don't do,
that you don't experience, that you don't see,
but the things that you do see and experience,
you can't convince somebody otherwise.
Could I convince you that wind doesn't exist?
No, you've experienced it.
You've seen wind, you've felt wind,
you know that you've never really seen it
in the sense that you can see wind,
but you can see the effects of it, right?
You can see the trees blow.
You can see the sky.
So things that you've already experienced,
things that you've realized,
you're not gonna be convinced away from that.
And the same is with the word of God.
When you read the Bible
and you see the spirit coming through the words,
that's gonna confirm to you this is the right spirit.
You know, when I read the Quran,
it doesn't have the same spirit.
Hey, when I read Hop on Pop, it's not the same spirit.
You know, when you read other literature,
it doesn't have that same spirit bearing witness with you
and helping you and enlightening you.
And it says in John chapter 19,
it's very important verses here,
but it says in verse 33,
but when they came to Jesus
and saw that he was dead already,
they break not his legs.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side
and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And he that saw it bear record,
and his record is true.
And he knoweth that he sayeth true
that ye might believe.
Now, who is the person that's referring to
that gave the record?
Is it John?
Well, obviously it was written by John,
but you know what it is?
It's the Holy Ghost.
Because holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
So, where did the Bible come from?
Well, it came from the Holy Spirit coming upon men
and then men speaking the word of God
and then it being transcribed,
and this is that spirit bearing witness.
So, whenever John wrote this,
this wasn't John's words,
this was the Holy Ghost bearing witness.
And here's the question,
and I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself
in this sermon,
but where is Jesus right now?
He's in heaven.
Where's his body?
Is his body on this earth?
It's not on this earth,
and I'm gonna get to that point in a moment,
but here's the thing.
So, then how do we know he died?
Because the Spirit tells us.
The Spirit told us in John chapter number 19
that he did die and it bears record.
What were the other two records that we have?
The water and the blood.
What's the evidence that Jesus Christ died 2,000 years ago?
The blood that was spilt and is still in this earth,
the water that was spilt that's still in this earth,
and the Spirit that comes through the word of God.
Those are the three witnesses that agree
that Jesus Christ truly died,
and that's an important doctrine
because if Jesus Christ didn't die for our sins,
then we have to.
We needed him to die on the cross for our sins.
He was that substitute,
and because the Spirit is the true author of the Bible,
in that sense that men weren't just speaking
of their own free will,
but is rather the Holy Ghost speaking through them,
there's no book like the Bible.
There's no book like the Bible.
So, point one, why do we know the Son of God has come?
Because the Spirit bears witness,
but point number two is because there is no book
like the Bible on this planet.
Go to John chapter number seven, John chapter number seven.
If Jesus Christ did not come,
you know what you would have to do
is you'd have to throw out the entire New Testament
because the whole New Testament
is testifying of Jesus Christ.
You either accept it or you don't.
You can't partially accept the New Testament,
but then you got a problem.
You're throwing out the greatest literature known to man
because there is no book like the New Testament.
There is no book like the word of God.
It is a testimony of Jesus Christ himself.
There is no better literature.
John chapter seven, look at verse number 40,
what the Bible says.
Many of the people, therefore,
when they heard this saying said of a truth,
this is that prophet.
Others said, this is the Christ.
But some said, shall Christ come out of Galilee?
Had not the scripture said that Christ cometh
into the seat of David,
and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?
So there's a division among the people because of him.
You know what that division was?
The spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
That was that division.
It says in verse 44,
and some of them would have taken him,
but no man laid hands on him.
Then came the officers of the chief priests and Pharisees,
and they said unto him, why have you not brought him?
The officers said, never man speak like this man.
I mean, literal, just the soldiers that are going
to just arrest him, just by his words,
they say, I've never heard anybody speak like this.
No one has words like this.
And let me tell you this, there is no literature,
there is no book on this planet
that's like the New Testament.
Just one chapter.
You take the one chapter you think's the most insignificant,
it's better than any other literature on the planet.
And then when you look at some of the greatest chapters
of the Bible, you look at, I mean, just John itself
is just such a beautiful masterpiece.
I love every chapter of John.
I mean, they're so amazing.
And you get the words of Jesus Christ.
I mean, John chapter 17 is one of the most incredible
chapters of the Bible.
First Corinthians chapter 13, talking about charity,
talking about the emphasis and the importance
of true Christian love through charity.
There's nothing like the New Testament.
How about the book of Revelation,
which tells us of the future.
There's nothing like it.
There's nothing like the word of God.
Go to First Corinthians chapter 14,
First Corinthians chapter number 14.
Well, the Muslims say that about the Quran.
Well, some Muslims must be illiterate or something.
I don't know.
They have to sing it, because it sounds so bad.
You know, they're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
You know, I don't even have to sing
the New Testament, and it's great.
But I'm sure if we did, it would still be great.
You know, there's people that have put certain
New Testament passages to song.
But you know what, there's nothing like the word of God.
And whenever you read the Quran, honestly,
it makes you never want to read again.
It's like listening to bad preaching.
I listen to bad preaching, and it just like ruins me.
It makes me feel terrible inside.
Reading the Quran makes me feel like a bad person,
because it just, it ruins every, it makes me apathetic.
It makes me hate life.
It makes me want to stop reading.
It's so bad.
I would rather read anything other than the Quran.
I've never read something as bad as the Quran.
And so, they say, well, you just have to get
the original language.
I don't care what language it's in.
It's not the word of God.
It's not even close.
You know, what's interesting is the English Bible
is not the original languages,
yet it still feels like the word of God.
Because you know what, the word of God is powerful
in all languages, whether that's Greek, Hebrew, Arabic.
I don't care what language.
In sign language, the word of God has power.
Every language.
First Corinthians chapter 14, look at verse number 37.
The Bible says, if any man think himself to be a prophet
or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things
that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Notice Paul's attitude to the scriptures that he's writing.
He's saying, hey, do you think you're spiritual?
Then you have to acknowledge that what I wrote to you
is the commandments of God.
This is what God said.
This is God's word.
Why?
Because the word of God is unique.
The word of God stands in contrast
to all other words that are out there.
I cannot come up with any words anywhere close to the Bible.
Everyone that's tried to imitate, it's such an epic failure.
Whether that be the book of Enoch,
whether that be some lost book that they try to claim,
the second, there's like two books for the book of Daniel,
like Belle and the Dragon,
and some of these other nonsensical books.
These things are trash.
Oh, the Gospel of Thomas.
It's trash.
It's a fraud.
And you say, how do you know?
Read it.
Never man speak like this man.
There is nothing like the word of God.
Go to John chapter six, go back to John.
Such powerful words.
And you know, I hate this stupid attitude of,
well, that's your opinion, that's what you think.
No, why don't you, if you think you're spiritual,
you accept what the Bible says every single time.
There is no excuse.
I hate this stupid interpretation.
No one in this room needs an interpreter today
because we all speak English.
It's already been interpreted.
You just have to accept the facts of what the Bible says.
And the apostle Paul didn't say,
well, I know you guys have a different interpretation
over there at Corinth, but you know,
let me just give you my personal opinion.
No, he said, if you're spiritual or a prophet,
then you better accept everything that I just said.
Otherwise, you're a fraud.
Otherwise, you're a liar and you're a false teacher
because the word of God is plain.
Now, you know what's not plain, too,
is people that are unsaved, okay?
So, you know, they always talk about,
oh, we've got all these different interpretations.
Yeah, that's because y'all are unsaved.
That's why you have all these different interpretations.
Why don't you get saved and then you can get
the right interpretation of the scriptures.
John chapter six, look at verse 67.
It says, then Jesus said unto the twelve,
will ye also go away?
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life.
Notice what kind of value they place on what Jesus says.
Never man spake like this man.
What Paul was saying, he's saying,
these are the commands of the Lord.
Whenever the apostles are there with Jesus Christ,
the disciples, they say, who are we gonna go to?
If this isn't the word of God,
if the New Testament is not the word of God,
then where is it?
Where do we go?
I mean, there's no point to life anymore.
Everything else sucks.
I'm not interested in reading Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss
or, I mean, any of these other junk things.
It's all trash.
This is the words of eternal life
that we have here before us.
There is no substitute for them.
Go to Luke chapter four, Luke chapter number four.
Flip backwards in your Bible.
We know that the Son of God has come.
And I wanna continually confirm that to you.
Why do we know that?
Because the Spirit bears witness with us.
And you know how you get that witness
for reading the Bible?
Because there's nothing like the Bible.
Point number two, no book like the Bible
on the planet, period.
Luke chapter four, look at verse 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,
the Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor.
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 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 he began to say unto them,
this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
And all bear him witness,
and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth.
And they said, is not this Joseph's son?
Notice, when Jesus Christ preached the word of God,
and you know what he was preaching
to the Old Testament, mind you,
you know what Jesus Christ constantly preached?
The Old Testament, that's what they had.
He got up and he preached the Old Testament like Leviticus,
like thou shalt love thy neighbors thyself.
And he preached the law,
if any man curse his father or mother,
let him die to death.
That's what he was preaching,
he was preaching the word of God,
he was expounding upon the Old Testament.
He said, hey, I'm fulfilling
the Old Testament's prophecies here,
the Old Testament's scriptures here,
and when they heard these words come out of his mouth,
they wondered at the gracious words
that proceeded out of his mouth.
They said, never a man spake like this man.
I mean, when you hear the word of God being preached,
something should go inside of your heart.
I mean, you should feel a burning inside of your heart.
This is the words of eternal life.
Where are we gonna go?
Joel Osteen's church, I'm not gonna,
he doesn't have the words of eternal life there.
They don't even have a King James Bible.
Where are we gonna go?
What are we gonna hear, what are we gonna listen to?
Everything else sucks.
The Bible makes every other book suck.
Good preaching makes all other preaching suck, doesn't it?
And you know what the best preaching is?
Jesus Christ, his sermons and what he has to say.
Go if you would to Isaiah chapter seven.
Point number three I have of how we know
the Son of God has come because
it fulfills the Old Testament.
Jesus Christ literally just gave testimony
that he was fulfilling the Old Testament, didn't he?
And you know what, there's so many,
I can't, I couldn't spend enough time on this point.
So I'm just gonna give you some, all right?
But there is so much Old Testament prophecy
fulfilled in the New Testament, it's mind boggling.
It goes beyond our finite mind to understand
and comprehend how the word of God actually works.
But the New Testament is better than a glove fitting a hand.
I mean, it's just, it's insane how well
these things flow together.
You cannot accept one without the other.
It would be impossible.
Now Isaiah chapter number seven,
let's look at verse number 14.
It's a very famous verse, it says,
therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son
and shall call his name Immanuel.
So the Old Testament says, hey,
there's gonna be a virgin that conceives
and she's gonna bring forth a son called Immanuel.
And Immanuel, it's being interpreted,
if we go to Matthew chapter one, go to Matthew chapter one,
it's gonna tell us what that even means.
Now this prophecy is immediately addressed
in the first chapter of the first book of the New Testament.
It just starts right away fulfilling prophecy.
Just immediately, it's telling us the things
that were gonna be fulfilled.
Matthew chapter one, look at verse 23.
Behold, a virgin shall be a child
and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel,
which being interpreted is God with us.
So notice the Bible is saying it's fulfilled.
That prophecy in Isaiah seven verse 14
is fulfilled with Jesus Christ because he was God with us.
Go to Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one.
How do we know the Son of God has come?
Because it fit perfectly with Isaiah 14.
It fit perfectly with the other prophecies
that already existed thousands of years ago.
That is mind-boggling.
That is nothing other than the hand of the Lord.
There's no other religion that does this,
where it says, hey, I'm gonna tell you
what's gonna happen thousands of years from now,
and it happens exactly like that.
Show me another book like that that doesn't exist.
And people, I mean, John Hagee's trying to predict
the coming of the Lord and all these blood moons
like every single year, and he always fails.
I mean, there's all kinds of frauds
and charlatans trying to predict things in the future,
and they constantly fail.
I mean, the Jehovah's false witnesses
have tried to predict the coming of the Son of God
so many different times, and they always fail.
You know why?
Because they don't have the same spirit.
There's never a man spake like this man,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God.
Luke chapter number one, look at verse 31.
And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb
and bring forth the Son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest
and the Lord God shall give unto him
the throne of his father David.
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever
and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel,
how shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her,
the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee,
and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee.
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.
Now, I didn't have this in my notes,
but just reading it, you can tell that verses number 31
and 33 are basically quoting Isaiah nine six
and talking about how Jesus Christ
is gonna be that everlasting father and that ruler
and that prince and that governor and of his kingdom,
there shall be no end.
And we see who is that manifestation?
Who is that prophecy about?
It was about the Lord Jesus Christ himself
and he's called the Son of God.
Because here's a logical question, who's his father?
Is it Joseph?
No, it's not Joseph.
Joseph had nothing to do with him
other than just taking him as a son in the future,
but his birth was that of the Holy Ghost,
of the virgin, he is the Son of God.
Now, go if you would to John chapter one,
John chapter number one.
So what's fulfilled in the Old Testament?
That he would be born of a virgin,
that the coming Messiah would be the Son of God.
None other, I mean, he didn't have an earthly father,
very important doctrine.
John chapter number one, not only this,
people were expecting for Jesus Christ
to fulfill this calling in his life.
Look at John chapter one, verse 41.
He first findeth his own brother Simon and saith unto him,
we have found the Messiahs,
which is being interpreted the Christ.
Now, here's a question.
Can you find something that you're not looking for?
The answer's no.
So you know what, they were looking for the Messiahs,
they were looking for the Christ, why?
Because the Old Testament prophecies were saying,
there's a coming Messiah, there's a coming Christ,
and so they were looking for someone,
and guess who fit that bill?
Jesus Christ fit that bill perfectly.
Anyway, he's gonna be born of a virgin.
Oh yeah, look, Jesus, born of that virgin.
Go to John chapter four, John chapter four,
look at verse 25.
This is that woman that he speaks with,
it says in verse 25, the woman saith unto him,
I know that Messiahs cometh, which is called Christ.
When he is come, he will tell us all things.
So notice, she's anticipating who?
The Messiahs, she's anticipating the Christ.
What does Jesus Christ say?
Jesus said in there, I that speak unto thee am he.
So here's a question.
If Jesus is telling the truth,
then we know that the Son of God has come.
If he's not telling the truth,
then we have to throw the whole New Testament out
because he just lied, didn't he?
He was not that anointed one.
You can't accept part of the New Testament,
it's either all or nothing.
And our spirit is bearing witness with us
that this is the truth.
Go to Luke chapter two, go to Luke chapter number two,
Jesus Christ was that coming Messiah,
and it fulfills every single Testament prophecy.
Nobody can write a book like this.
I don't care if it's Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings
or whatever it is, they try to come up
with some cool foreshadowing and things like that.
Nobody has the prophecy like the Bible.
Nobody has things fit together like the Bible.
And some of the deep pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ
are not even fully understood by people.
I mean, we constantly study and we constantly look
at the scriptures and memorize them and meditate upon them,
and we constantly discover new pictures
of the Lord Jesus Christ and new foreshadowings
and other prophecies that other people
hadn't really seen before.
Because the whole Bible is picturing Jesus Christ.
And there's so much that could be understood
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke chapter two, look at verse 26.
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost
that he should not see death before he had seen
the Lord's Christ.
So now it's talking about Simeon,
how before he was gonna die, the spirit told him
that he was gonna see the Lord's Christ.
Now here's a question.
If the Holy Ghost told Simeon that he was gonna see
the Lord's Christ, then it would have to be someone
in that generation.
And it was, it was Jesus Christ.
Otherwise, that wouldn't have been true either.
He said, hey, before you die, you're gonna see
the Lord's Christ, and guess what?
He held Jesus Christ in his arms.
He got to hold the word of life in his hands.
What a precious sight, what an amazing experience.
And you know what, my wife loves to hold babies,
but I can't even imagine if it was
the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
I mean, what a special honor and a privilege
to hold none other than the Son of God himself.
Go over to Micah chapter five, Micah chapter five,
a famous verse here that we're gonna go back and look at.
What's the title of the sermon?
The Son of God Has Come.
We know that.
How do we know that?
Well, we know it because the spirit bears witness with us.
There's no book ever written like the Bible.
Point number three, it fulfills all
of the Old Testament prophecy.
All of the Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled
in Jesus Christ.
There's no prophecy that's wanting.
There's nothing when we read in the Old Testament
that says, well, he was gonna pop hot air balloons
on his 35th birthday, and we're still waiting for that guy.
Everything that it said that Jesus was gonna do,
it says he did it.
We actually have the record of him doing it.
We have that spirit, that witness,
that is telling us other things he did.
Look at Micah chapter five, verse two.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me,
that is, to be ruler in Israel,
whose goings forth have been from of old,
from everlasting.
So the Bible even tells us the exact city
that Jesus Christ was gonna be born from.
Go if you would in your Bible to Matthew chapter two,
Matthew chapter number two.
Let's see this fulfilled in the Bible perfectly.
Now, deciding exactly what city someone's gonna be born in,
that's impossible.
I mean, there's so many different cities,
especially just think about Texas.
Texas has like every city known to man.
You got Paris, and you got,
I mean, just name a city,
and like, Texas has its version of it, basically.
Yes, I mean, even if you knew
that someone's gonna be born in Texas,
just guessing the city would be astronomical.
There's no way you could ever get that.
But the Bible just nails it.
Look at Matthew chapter two, verse one.
Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
you know, just one mistake in the New Testament,
and people would throw it all out.
You know, you'd never find it.
You can never find a single place
where the Old Testament doesn't line up
with the New Testament.
It lines up perfectly every single time.
But you know what doesn't?
The Gospel of Thomas.
You know what it does in Enoch.
You know what it does in the Quran.
These things, it's not just one time either, all right?
Now, for sake of time, go to John chapter seven.
Go to John chapter number seven.
Isaiah chapter number seven gives another prophecy
of the fact that Jesus Christ is gonna be
from the seed of David.
It says in Isaiah chapter seven, verse 42,
or Isaiah nine, I'm sorry, I'm gonna read a verse for you.
Isaiah nine, seven, it says,
of the increase of his government and peace,
there shall be no end upon the throne of David
and upon his kingdom to order it
and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
So the Bible says that this coming Messiah
is gonna be on the throne of David.
And we see that specifically mentioned
in John chapter number seven.
Look at verse number 42.
The Bible says, hath not the scripture said
that Christ cometh of the seed of David
and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?
Not only that, here's another place
where it hammers Bethlehem.
And it says he's of the seed of David.
It says not only what city,
it tells what family tree he's gonna come from.
Now go, if you would, to Acts chapter number three.
Acts chapter number three.
Let's look at another prophecy fulfilled.
And we're gonna look at verse number 20.
Acts chapter number three, look at verse number 20.
And I'm gonna read for you from Deuteronomy chapter number 18
and all the way back to the Old Testament law,
all the way back to Moses,
there was already prophecy of Jesus Christ.
They have not even tried to keep the law yet.
I mean, the law is being given unto them.
And I mean, Deuteronomy is the second time,
but even in the Old Testament law,
before it was fully given, before they even tried to do it,
it already has pictures and hints of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have pictures of it back to Genesis.
But it says in Deuteronomy chapter number 18, verse 15,
the Lord thy God will raise up unto thee
a prophet from the midst of thee,
of thy brethren like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken.
Now, some people I've heard say this,
and this is really bizarre,
but they say that the New Testament is like plan B
for the Old Testament.
Like, somehow God had made this covenant with them
and there was a possibility that they were going to live
under this Old Testament covenant for forever,
or that this Old Testament covenant had a possibility
of even being a covenant for forever.
That's silliness.
God always ordained it that the new covenant would come.
He always ordained the New Testament.
He always knew that Jesus Christ was gonna come.
He always knew that they weren't gonna fulfill the law.
In fact, the law was just to help make sin
exceeding sinful.
He wasn't like, well, let's give them the law.
Maybe they'll clean up their action.
It was like, no, you guys aren't getting it.
You need a savior.
Let me just show you how much you really need a savior.
I mean, it's basically like you're drowning
and someone's like pouring water on top of you
to help you realize you really need a savior.
Or they're splashing you even more
or dunking you even more.
That's what the law did.
It basically was like, oh, you don't think you're a sinner?
Let me go ahead and dunk you a few more times
and make you realize you need a sinner.
And then Jesus comes and he says,
oh, you heard that it had been said,
thou should not kill?
Well, this is what I'm saying to you,
that thou shalt not even hate thy brother in your heart.
He's like, you really need a savior.
You know, except your righteousness exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees,
you shall know and wise enter in.
He's saying, you think that you're gonna make it in?
Let me just expound the law to you a little bit.
Let me just exceed righteousness for you
and show you your need for a savior.
The plan was always for the savior.
Jesus Christ, the lamb slain
before the foundation of the world.
There was never a point where God was like,
well, maybe he'll keep the law.
Maybe the Old Testament covenant is gonna be forever.
No, it was always a temporary thing.
It was always gonna be a picture to Christ.
It was the schoolmaster to bring us into Christ.
Look at Acts chapter three, verse 20.
And he shall send Jesus Christ,
which before was preached unto you,
whom the heaven must receive until the times
of restitution of all things,
which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets,
since the world began.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers,
a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
of your brethren, like unto me,
him shall ye hear in all things,
whatsoever he shall say unto you.
So notice that prophecy of that prophet coming
was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
The Bible makes it clear.
Go if you would to Exodus chapter 12 and John chapter one.
Go to Exodus chapter 12 and John chapter one.
I'm gonna show you a few more here quickly.
And I think these are very important to understand
the significance of the New Testament
and all the prophecies that were fulfilled.
There's nothing like the word of God.
There's nothing like the Bible.
And don't let people put shade on the Bible for you.
Don't let people put doubt in the Bible.
Like, oh, I don't know, how do you know
that's the word of God?
Well, number one, the spirit bears witness.
Number two, never man spake like this man.
Number three, every single Old Testament prophecy
was fulfilled in the New Testament
by none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
Write a book like that.
Show me another book that has a religion like that.
Show me someone else that has the words of eternal life.
Because I've knocked on thousands and thousands of doors,
and you know what, I've never heard a good way
to go to heaven outside of the Bible.
Show me a good, why save cats?
That doesn't sound like a good one.
I don't like cats.
So I'm screwed, you know, I'm not gonna make it that way.
You know, well, I'm such a good person.
Well, I'm not, so I'm not gonna make it that way.
Well, you know, I believe in Muhammad.
Well, I don't believe in pedophiles,
so I'm not gonna make it that way either.
I'm struggling to find a better solution.
There is no other solution.
Everything else is, it's not even close.
It's so bad.
It's like Christian rap, you know, it's like,
Christian rap is just bad.
Like, nobody's like, oh, man,
I was listening to Snoop Dogg and Dre,
but then I heard that Toby Mac and I was hooked.
You know, I mean, Jesus back, you know.
Toby Mac, I don't even know.
It's so bad.
It's cringy.
You're just like, you just feel bad for them.
You're embarrassed for Toby Mac.
Look at Exodus chapter 12, look at verse three.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying in the 10th day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of their fathers,
a lamb for a house.
And if the household be too little for the lamb,
let him and his neighbor next unto his house,
take it according to the number of the souls.
Every man according to his eating
shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish,
a male of the first year.
He shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
So the Passover lamb that was pictured in Exodus,
which saved the children of Israel,
is that spiritual picture in the New Testament.
And when John the Baptist, in John chapter number one,
look at verse 29, as soon as he sees Jesus Christ,
what's his first reaction?
The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith,
behold the lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
You know, John the Baptist admitted
he didn't even know who it was.
You know what, the Spirit of God just came upon him,
and as soon as he saw Jesus, he's like,
behold the lamb of God.
There's none other.
Every Old Testament prophecy just fulfilled just perfectly.
Go to Zechariah chapter nine, Zechariah chapter nine.
And there's so many, like I said,
I can't get through all of these,
but I think it's good to get through some of them.
And we'll be reminded of how magnificent the word of God is
and how there's no other book like it.
Zechariah chapter nine, look at verse nine.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion.
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Behold thy king cometh unto thee.
He is just and having salvation,
lowly and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
So the Bible says, hey, you're gonna shout,
you're gonna sing praises when you see your king coming,
and he's got salvation with him,
and specifically, he's gonna be riding upon an ass,
upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
I mean, this is very specific.
Go to Matthew chapter 21, Matthew chapter number 21.
We have four eyewitnesses telling us
all the details about Jesus Christ's life
and how come every single detail fits perfectly
with the Old Testament.
Every single one.
You know why it's the same author, it's the Holy Ghost,
and he's that witness.
Matthew 21, look at verse number four.
All this was done that it might be fulfilled
was just spoken by the prophet, saying,
tell ye the daughter of Zion.
Behold, thy king cometh unto thee,
meek and sitting upon an ass,
and a colt, the foal of an ass.
I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
You could never write a book like this, ever.
Go if you would to Matthew 27, just flip the page,
and I'll read for you in Psalms real quick.
Psalms 22, we're doing a Bible drill here this evening.
Psalms 22, verse 16, it says, for dogs have compassed me.
The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me.
They pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones.
They look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them
and cast lots upon my vesture.
The Bible predicted that Jesus Christ would be crucified,
that his hands would be pierced.
In the Old Testament, in the book of Psalms,
not only that, that you could tell all of his bones,
you could see his bones on the cross
from all the gruesome pain and suffering
that he was going through.
It also said they were gonna part his garments.
They were gonna basically cast lots for them.
Look at Matthew 27, verse 35.
Matthew 27, verse 35, the Bible reads,
and they crucified him and parted his garments,
casting lots that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet.
They parted my garments among them
and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
Here's my question.
Which New Testament verses aren't fulfilling prophecy?
It's like you just let it fall open
and it's just constantly just verses after verses
after verses, I mean, it's incredible
how the Bible actually works.
If you go to Mark 15,
I'll read you another thing from Jeremiah.
Not only this, the Bible knew that Jesus Christ
was going to accomplish that work.
Every single Old Testament prophecy.
Because there could have been someone
that was born in Bethlehem and said,
well, that one was about me.
But the writing on the cult of the full mass,
that was about someone else, right?
They could have come and said,
I partially fulfilled some of these things
or they could have fulfilled some of the prophecies
and you could have gotten tricked or deceived.
But here's the thing.
Jesus Christ fulfilled every single one of them.
All of them.
And one failed swoop.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Four separate witnesses of men
but we know it's through the Holy Ghost.
But the Bible said after Jesus Christ came,
there would be a need for something.
It's called the New Covenant.
It's called the New Testament.
And it says in Jeremiah 31, I'll read for you in verse 31.
The old of the days come, saith the Lord,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
Not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
which my covenant they break,
although I was in husband unto them, saith the Lord.
But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord.
I will put my law in their inward parts
and write it in their hearts
and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
So in the Old Testament, way before Jesus Christ,
he said, hey, there's gonna be a need for a new covenant.
It's gonna be different.
And it's not according to the law.
It's different than the law.
And you know what that was?
That was Jesus Christ.
Mark chapter number 15, look at verse 37.
The Bible reads, and Jesus cried with a loud voice
and gave up the ghost.
And the veil of the temple was rent and twain
from the top to the bottom.
You know what that pictures?
That old covenant's gone.
It was fulfilled in Christ
and Christ didn't come to destroy the law.
He came to fulfill.
Notice what this guy's reaction is after he sees this.
And when the centurion, which stood over against him,
saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost,
he said, truly, this man was the Son of God.
Hey, you can't deny these things.
Hey, even the centurion, when he saw what had happened,
he said, this was obviously the Son of God.
We know that the Son of God has come.
The Spirit bears witness with our spirit.
Never a man spake like this man
and all the Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled
in Jesus Christ.
They fit together better than a hand and a glove.
Number four point, why we know that the Son of God has come,
because the gospel spread throughout the entire world.
The gospel spread.
If you go to Mark chapter number,
go to Mark chapter number one and look at verse one.
Mark chapter number one, look at verse one.
Notice how this book starts.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
You know how you and I know?
Because the gospel came to the whole world.
If it didn't go to the whole world, I wouldn't know.
You know, there's certain cults and religious sects
that nobody's ever heard of.
Why?
Because it's not the truth.
Because it's not the word of God.
The word of God has been spread across the entire earth.
There's not a place, there's not a rock
that you can go hide under
where you won't hear the name of Jesus Christ.
Why?
Because the gospel has spread throughout the entire world,
just like the Bible said it would.
Go over to Colossians chapter number one,
Colossians chapter number one.
And I'm gonna read for you
in first Timothy chapter number three.
First Timothy chapter number three, verse 16.
And without controversy,
great is the mystery of godliness,
God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into glory.
If Jesus Christ was not the son of God,
then why did so many Gentiles believe in him?
We see the power of the word of God
is that it spreads like wildfire.
You know, you look at this COVID nonsense or whatever,
and you have to admit it has some power, right?
I mean, it's spreading everywhere.
You'd be a fool to deny
that it doesn't have some level of power,
some level of authenticity and how contagious it is
and how it's spread across the globe,
but some disease that's just, you know,
to one specific person is not that powerful.
And you know what?
What religion is spread like the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Nothing.
Nothing is spread like the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That's how we know that the son of God is come.
Now it says in Colossians chapter number one,
let's look at verse number two.
Colossians chapter one,
look at verse number two.
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ,
which are at Colossae, grace be unto you,
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We give thanks to God and the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
and of the love which you have to all the saints,
for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,
where have ye heard before in the word
of the truth of the gospel, which is come unto you
as it is in all the world,
and bringing forth fruit as it doth also in you
since the day ye heard of it,
and knew the grace of God and truth.
So notice what he says about the gospel.
He says the gospel is gone in all the world,
and everywhere it goes in the world it brings forth fruit.
And by that spreading of the gospel,
we can see the evidence of the fact
that the son of God is come.
No other religion spreads like this.
Look, Muslims, they are a big number,
but you know what?
It's a cult and they force you to believe it.
You know that the gospel doesn't force you to do anything,
but people readily accept it.
You know why?
Because it's the truth.
You know why people don't believe in Mormonism?
Because you have to go to the cult
and you have to drink the Kool-Aid
to get inundated to believe it.
You have to grow up Mormon to basically believe that junk,
or you have to be some kind of a derelict loser
that nobody likes, and just with the fact
that they smile at you, you go get sucked in
to their nonsense, get sucked into their garbage
and their lies today.
There is nothing like the gospel of Jesus Christ,
which spreads devoid of the messenger.
Look, we're a bunch of sorry messengers.
You know what makes us so effective?
The power of God's word.
And that's what brings forth the fruit.
You are evidence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'm evidence, you're evidence, why it has power.
How did so many people, I mean, if we were to figure out
where all of us have been born,
where all of us lived five years ago,
what all of us were doing five years ago, it's crazy.
What has brought us all together?
None other than the power of the word of God.
None other than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I mean, how many people in this room
were not even saved five years ago?
I mean, there's hands all over the building.
And yet, no one forced them to be here, I guarantee it.
We try to get people out.
We don't try to force them to come in.
You know how you're in a cult?
There's pressure to stay.
Go to Romans chapter number one, Romans chapter number one.
Look at verse number eight.
The Bible says this.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all
that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Look, the gospel is not something that's hid in a corner.
It's not just one person has the key to the truth on it.
No, it has the power and it's spread everywhere
and we know that the Son of God has come.
I could go to any country in this planet
and someone could give me the gospel.
There's someone saved there.
There's someone that has the ability to get me saved.
There's someone that could open a Bible to me
and show me how to get saved.
What other religion has that?
What other religion even has salvation?
I mean, I don't even know.
You ask a Muslim, what do you have to do to be saved?
I mean, I don't even say that all is God or something.
What about Jehovah's Witnesses?
What about the Mormons?
What about the Jews?
There is no other salvation.
There is no other gospel like the Bible.
Go to Romans 10, just flip the page.
Romans chapter 10, look at verse 18.
But I say, have they not heard?
Yes, verily their sound went into all the earth
and their words unto the ends of the world.
So here's the question.
What religion has gone to the ends of the world?
The gospel of Jesus Christ.
Since the time of the disciples and the apostles till now
and even before then, look, you have the book of Jeremiah
and Jeremiah, it makes it clear
he went to all kingdoms and the entire earth.
He preached the word of God to every single person.
Look, they've always had the word of God.
It's always been thundering forth
throughout the entire world.
How do I know the son of God has come?
Because the gospel has spread in the entire world.
If the gospel did not spread in the entire world,
it's not the word of God.
Well, I found the word of God.
It's only in Egypt.
It's called Alexandria, you know, that's a lie.
The King James Bible spread in the entire world, my friend.
And you know what?
The Greek underlying text, the Texas Receptus,
was spread in the entire world, my friend.
And you know what?
The Hebrew Bible was spread in the entire world.
Go to Acts chapter number 15.
You know what he says?
Hey, I didn't really mean that.
I just mean like in proverbial speak.
I'm just saying in Acts chapter number 15, what do they do?
They say, hey, they have Moses read in every city.
Why?
Because the word of God has power.
The word of God is going everywhere.
And if God gave us a new prophet in the New Testament,
do you know what's gonna be a proof of the authenticity?
It spread in the entire world.
Say, how do you know the Son of God has come?
Because everybody's heard of it.
Everybody knows it.
It's everywhere.
It's infected our entire society.
Paul said, I'm pure from the blood of all men.
This brings me to my last point.
How do I know the Son of God has come?
Jesus Christ is the most influential person to ever exist.
And this is mind-boggling because his body's not here.
What proof that he even existed on this earth is there?
It's the Bible.
What proof?
You and me.
We're the evidence.
We're the proof that he exists.
You know, we have the body of every other false prophet
that's ever existed before him.
We have Buddha's body.
We have Muhammad's body.
We have all these things.
You know what?
There's no evidence that Jesus Christ even came here
from that physical sense of his body
because it's up in heaven, alive.
You know what?
We have the word of God.
And how could you be the most influential person
to ever, ever cross this earth
and you don't even know that your body's not even here?
That's incredible.
That's amazing.
There's people that will try to deny
that Jesus Christ existed.
But how could you deny that when he literally touches
every aspect of all cultures everywhere?
Everybody's heard the name of Jesus Christ.
Everyone.
I looked at several different charts.
Now there's one chart that doesn't put him number one
but he's a liar, all right?
He said heart's top 10.
Most influential people of all time.
Number one's Muhammad.
Now I can prove that that's false, okay?
But he said Muhammad.
This guy's obviously got a bias towards Muslims, all right?
Number two, Isaac Newton.
How's Isaac Newton more influential than Jesus?
And number three was Jesus, all right?
He was a liar.
Who was a liar but he that denied that Jesus
was number one, all right?
Now historycollection.com, their top 40,
Jesus is number one and they say he's influenced,
think about this, Christianity, Catholicism,
and the Muslims.
But you know what?
Muhammad didn't influence the Catholics and the Christians.
We don't care about that pedophile rapist or whatever.
Nobody cares about him.
But you know what?
They have to believe in Jesus and the Islam.
They talk all about him.
He influenced Islam and Christianity and Catholicism.
I mean, we're talking about billions and billions of people.
What religious figures like that?
Nobody else.
The Beatles said they'd be more famous than Jesus.
How's that working for you, Beatles?
They're crying about that in hell, I'm guessing.
They said number two, Albert Einstein.
Number three, Isaac Newton.
Wealthyguerilla.com has the exact same list.
Their top 25, Jesus number one, Albert Einstein number two,
Isaac Newton number three.
Has number one, Jesus.
Number two, Caesar.
Number three, Nikola Tesla.
Now, when you have a whole bunch of different lists,
you know what you're supposed to do?
You're supposed to combine them.
And you know who rises to the top?
Jesus.
Because it's obvious.
You would have to be a flat earther to deny
that Jesus Christ is not the most influential person
to ever exist.
And if the son of God came to earth,
wouldn't you think that would have been
the most influential person to ever exist?
I mean, if the son of God has come,
he would have been the most influential person.
He would have been the most noteworthy person
to have ever existed.
I mean, maybe we would have based our time scale off of him.
Oh wait, we did, didn't we?
Anno Domini in the year of our Lord.
Based off his birth.
Everything's based about Jesus Christ.
It's all about the Lord.
The most influential book on the planet, the Bible.
The most influential person, Jesus Christ.
Our time is based off of him.
Everything revolves around Jesus Christ and who he is.
We know that the son of God has come.
If you deny that the Jesus Christ has come, you're a liar.
Go to Matthew 28, go to Matthew 28.
We're gonna finish our sermon quickly.
Matthew chapter number 28.
How do we know that the son of God has come?
Number one, the spirit bears witness.
Number two, there's no book like the Bible.
Number three, it fulfills all Old Testament scripture.
Number four, the gospel is spread throughout all the world.
Number five, because Jesus Christ is the most influential
person to ever have existed.
You can't deny the Bible.
It checks every single mark, all of them.
And you know what, even if those didn't,
we still know the word of God is true, but it does.
We have every witness, we have every account.
You say, what are the most noteworthy documents
that have survived antiquity?
It's the Bible.
We have more artifacts of the Bible
than like all other artifacts combined typically.
When you go back into history and we find old documents,
why, because there's nothing like the Bible.
You know that you preserve the things
that are the most valuable.
That's why the Bible's been preserved,
because it's the most valuable thing
that could ever exist on this planet.
Matthew 28, look at verse number one.
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
And behold, there was a great earthquake,
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven
and came and rolled back the stone
from the door and sat upon it.
His countenance was like lightning
and his raiment white as snow.
And for fear of him, the keepers did shake
and became his dead men.
The angel answered and said unto the women,
Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus,
which was crucified.
He is not here, for he is risen as he said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay,
and go quickly and tell his disciples
that he is risen from the dead.
And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee.
There shall ye see him, lo, I have told you.
And they departed quickly from the sepulcher
with fear and great joy,
and did run to bring his disciples word.
And as they went to tell his disciples,
behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail.
And they came and held them by their feet,
and worshiped him.
Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid.
Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee,
and there shall they see me.
Now when they were going, behold,
some of the watch came into the city
and showed unto the chief priests
all the things that were done.
And when they were assembled with the elders
and had taken counsel, they gave large money
unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye,
his disciples came by night and stole him away
while we slept.
And if this come to the governor's ears,
we will persuade him and secure you.
So they took the money and did as they were taught.
And this saying is commonly reported
among the Jews unto this day.
So notice what's being under attack,
that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead.
Why?
Because if Jesus Christ rose again from the dead,
then the Son of God has come.
They have to deny that, so they had to give money to them.
They had to lie, and they had to report
this false narrative.
But you know what?
We know that the Son of God is come.
And if some rando person just pretended
to have risen from the dead, which happens all the time,
no one would have believed it.
They caught, the guy had a cell phone
when he was in the casket.
They rose him from the dead in Africa,
where they raised people from the dead all the time.
He's like, why do you need a cell phone?
You're dead, gonna be buried.
Because he wasn't really dead, because it was fake.
You know what, Jesus Christ,
he really did rise again from the dead.
And we really don't even have his body.
Think of the magnitude of that.
Why?
Because he ascended up into heaven, but he's coming back.
And you say, well, I don't know if I believe that.
Well, it takes faith.
Look at Acts chapter two, those last places I'll have you
turn, Acts chapter number two.
And let's look at verse number 29, Acts chapter number two.
What's the title of the sermon?
The Son of God Has Come.
And it's so important that we go out
and we preach that the Son of God has come.
And we go out and preach the gospel,
the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And it's important that we understand
the power of God's word, and we get these truths
deep into our heart so that we're never persuaded by lies,
that we don't lose sight of the focus of our life,
we don't lose sight of the focus of the reality
of the word of God, that we have more confidence,
and we're inspired to go out and preach the greatest truth,
the greatest story ever told, the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Look at verse 29, men and brethren,
let me speak freely unto you of the patriarch David,
that he is both dead and buried,
and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
Therefore, being a prophet and knowing
that God has sworn with an oath to him
that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.
He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell,
neither his flesh did see corruption.
This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we are all witnesses, we all are witnesses.
Notice the power of what they said,
we saw the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ,
we know that the Son of God has come.
David wasn't speaking about himself in the book of Psalms,
it was all the prophecies of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the most influential person to ever cross this planet
will always be the Son of God.
This closing prayer, thank you, Father,
so much for your word.
I pray that you coming to this earth
would just illuminate in our minds
when we read the scriptures,
that we would see the importance,
that we'd see the significance of what you did for us,
that we'd not be ashamed of your first coming
or your second coming,
but rather we'd be inspired to go out
and preach the greatest story ever told,
the gospel of Jesus Christ,
and that our church would be a constant light
shining on the word of God,
and trying to get other people to believe this great truth,
that the Son of God has come,
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.