Oct. 2, 2024

Divine Lineage and the Royal Priesthood (First Words 10)

Send us a text What if the first words of a document could shape the course of history? Join us as we uncover the monumental impact of initial statements in foundational texts, from the U.S. Constitution to the Bible. In this enriching episode of our podcast, we delve into the intricate tapestry of biblical scriptures to uncover the profound connections between the Old and New Testaments. By focusing on the concept of the "seed," we explore how this foundational principle ties together ...

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What if the first words of a document could shape the course of history? Join us as we uncover the monumental impact of initial statements in foundational texts, from the U.S. Constitution to the Bible. In this enriching episode of our podcast, we delve into the intricate tapestry of biblical scriptures to uncover the profound connections between the Old and New Testaments. By focusing on the concept of the "seed," we explore how this foundational principle ties together prophecies, covenants, and genealogies to reveal Jesus Christ as the long-awaited Messiah. This episode offers a deep dive into the theological significance of small beginnings leading to monumental outcomes, shedding light on the divine orchestration behind God's grand design.

Bold statements and deep theological insights mark our journey through the concept of the "seed" in scripture. From Genesis to Revelation, we trace the principle of sowing and reaping, highlighting Jesus as the seed of the new creation. Through His conception, resurrection, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we explore how believers become new creations. We emphasize Jesus as the indestructible seed, whose death and resurrection allowed for the multiplication of this divine seed in our lives. This episode promises to deepen your understanding of God's grand design and your role within it.

Lastly, we examine the genealogy of Jesus Christ, revealing His identity beyond that of a savior. By analyzing the biblical prophecies and promises to figures like Abraham and David, we highlight the divine orchestration in Jesus' lineage. The significance of the Royal Priesthood of Melchizedek is unpacked, showing its deep spiritual implications. We discuss how prophecies and promises intertwine to reveal the Messiah’s coming, and how understanding Jesus’ genealogy enhances our appreciation of the spiritual depth embedded in the scriptures. Join us for a rich exploration of the seed of creation and its transformative power in our lives.

00:00 - Importance of First Words in Scriptures

05:52 - The Seed Throughout Scripture

12:18 - The Principle of the Seed

20:44 - The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

36:56 - God's Promises Concerning the Seed

51:52 - The Royal Priesthood of Melchizedek

01:00:12 - The Promised Seed Through Generations

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Glory to God.

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We have been talking about enmity with the seed Amen.

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But periodically the Lord interrupts that and takes us back to what we were doing when we got going on this, and that is talking about first words.

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We ran across something Wednesday night that got me meditating and I'm going to bring you some thoughts that the Lord gave to me concerning first words.

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First words, as we have discussed and we know about this, are important.

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As we have discussed and we know about this, are important because, if for no other reason, they always seem to set a tone and the direction of the thing that they precede.

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Okay, this happens all the time, happens in legal documents, happens in our Constitution, happens in the Declaration of Independence, the two foundational documents of our system of governing ourselves, amen, have very important first words and those first words, if they are followed, if everything is consistent with those first words, if everything is consistent with those first words, we'll be okay as soon as things start to divert away from those first words, because the first words establish principle.

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Amen, praise God.

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The 27 books of the New Testament are one book about the manifestation of the seed of God.

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The 39 books of the Old Testament are a series of books concerning the prophecy about the seed of God.

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Are you hearing me?

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There is one book that's called the Old Testament or the Old Covenant.

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That is really a series of covenants, and those series of covenants have to do with the prophecies and the foretelling that God was going to send a Messiah.

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God was going to send a deliverer.

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God was going to send a sent one.

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That sent one would come from God and Israel was under the assumption that that sent one was going to be the deliverer that set them free from the oppression of other nations.

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In other words, israel was expecting a political Messiah.

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The last time that God got involved in giving Israel a political something or other was when he gave them Saul.

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After that, he was not interested in that.

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After that, he was interested in kingship that would foretell the coming of this Messiah, in which house he would be born, and other prophecies that were important to pinpoint so that the people of Israel would know when the Messiah was coming.

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Amen, are you hearing me?

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I've said this before.

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I've said this many times what God had in mind was to raise up a nation called Israel that had millions of people who were waiting for a Messiah.

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There was ample biblical evidence that he was going to be born in Bethlehem, that he was going to be born of a virgin, that he was going to be born in Bethlehem, that he was going to be born of a virgin, that he was going to be born in this situation, that he was going to have these characteristics, that he was going to be known by these names and all of these things was going to happen.

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Amen and all of Israel would be waiting and when he manifested they would be sent out as his missionaries.

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He got Peter James, john, judas, bartholomew, thaddeus and those he had to basically hit with a cattle prod to even get them to pay attention.

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Now, to say that it didn't work out the way God planned amen is to underestimate God's abilities, because God can take little and make it much.

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But if little to God was millions of Jews, just think what he could have made out of that.

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Praise God.

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Anyway, both books the entirety of your Bible, from Genesis to Revelation is a book about the seed.

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I mean, we got the seed in the third chapter of the book of Genesis and we're still talking about the seed way off into the latter chapters of the book of Revelation.

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Amen, the whole book is about the seed, because this is what God is all about.

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God told me many, many years ago that if you don't understand the principle of the seed, you'll never understand.

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You'll never understand what I'm about.

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Amen.

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We think God is all about things that are not really what he's all about.

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He's all about the seed.

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This is one of the reasons that he told Noah after everything had been destroyed.

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He told Noah I'm not going to take seed time and harvest off the face of the earth.

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That's still going to be the primary emphasis of this creation.

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Why?

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Because he has to continually teach every person, day after day after day after day.

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If I plant, I sow, or if I sow, I'm gonna harvest.

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I need to plant and sow in order to reap.

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If I sow what?

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Generously, I'm gonna reap.

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Generous.

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If I sow sparingly, I'm gonna reach barely.

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All these principles about sowing had to be, to borrow a phrase ingrained in people's consciousness, amen.

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So that when God started to talk about things like the seed falling to the ground and dying, which he did to some Greek philosophers amen, some Greek, highly trained Greek thinkers they wouldn't choke.

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They wouldn't understand what that meant, because the real emphasis of God was not on grain, not on destruction, not on rainbows, not on arcs.

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It was about seed.

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And Noah was carrying the promise of the seed from the other side of the flood forward into this.

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So when God said that seed, time and harvest will not depart from the face of the earth, he wasn't only talking about corn.

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He was talking about the seed of the new creation which God had foretold to Adam, to Eve, to Christ, to the devil in the garden.

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When he said that her seed will destroy your seed, you are going to bruise his heel, he is going to crush your head and there is going to be enmity between your seed and my seed.

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Actually, he said her seed, but he wasn't pointing at Eve.

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When he said that, he was pointing at the woman who is the church.

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Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.

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That woman is the church.

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That woman is the church.

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That woman is the bearer of the seed.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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So when we look at the New Testament, which is the manifestation of the seed, the New Testament is all about what happened when the seed was planted into the Virgin Mary Amen.

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Matthew starts with that story, luke starts with that story, john starts with it as it applied back in time, and Peter starts with it in the manifestation of the seeds ministry, starting with the baptism of John the Baptist amen.

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It's all about the seed being manifested to Israel and then by his death and resurrection being manifested to the world on the day of Pentecost.

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Are you ready?

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Are you?

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Are you getting this?

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Amen?

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A lot of people only see Jesus as Savior.

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He is Savior because he is the seed of the new creation.

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You haven't been saved to live in the old creation.

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You've been saved to be to live in the new creation.

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You are a new creation.

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Amen.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Hallelujah.

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You're part of that new creation.

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This is all about you.

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So Jesus, as the first fruits, or the first among many, many brethren, is the seed that causes the new creation to start to manifest.

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Up until Jesus, there was no such thing as a new creation not manifested here on this earth.

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All the time, listen, all the times that Jesus showed up.

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This is this is I'm going to slow down a little bit All the times that Jesus showed up in the Old Testament.

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Numerous times.

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He was there when God prophesied to Adam and Eve Amen.

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He was there to receive the blood sacrifice of Abel.

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He was there to testify that the blood of Abel speaks a better word than than anything that Cain's got to offer.

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Glory to God.

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He was there all through.

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Who is the one that escorted Enoch off the planet, amen?

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Who is the one that taught Noah how to build an ark?

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Well, if you want some advice on how to build an ark, would you not get it from a carpenter?

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If you want some advice on how to build an ark, would you not get it from a carpenter?

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And what is gopher wood anyway?

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Jesus showed up all through the Old Testament, but in no instance of his showing up could he do any more than reveal the secret of the seed to someone.

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Abraham, for example.

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David's another example, are you following me?

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He couldn't do anything about the seed.

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He couldn't put the seed in somebody.

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He couldn't cause that seed to multiply.

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He couldn't cause that seed to multiply.

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As far as God was concerned, jesus was the seed, amen.

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Now there was a plan for Jesus to be able to replicate himself, but that could not happen in the Old Testament.

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Jesus had to enter flesh and be born of flesh before the seed had the capacity to lay itself down and die.

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Otherwise, listen, if Jesus doesn't come and inhabit the flesh, there's nothing you can do about the seed.

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It's indestructible, it's eternal, it's spiritual, it can't be destroyed.

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Are you not getting this?

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I mean, if you had one seed, the pearl of great price, for example, if you had one thing and God said that seed is eternal, that seed is indestructible, that seed is incapable of death, well, there's nothing you can do to that seed, unless the seed willfully enters another realm of existence where death is possible, and he willingly takes that seed with him into his death and lays it down.

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Now the promise of God was you can lay it down and you can take it back up.

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So when he came back up, he took the seed with him.

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But now, because that seed passed through death and was raised up, it now has a capacity to be replicated.

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This is the principle of the seed.

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Amen the seed.

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You know you can take a piece of corn.

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I've got several grains of corn out there in the back that we used to take down to the lake and feed the geese with it.

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You know you could take one of those seeds and if it remains alone out of the earth, it's not going to do anything.

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But if you put that seed in, it's going to replicate Hallelujah Praise God, are we here?

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So the Old Testament is a book containing the prophecies of the seed being manifested.

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The new testament is a book concerning the manifestation of the seed, how that happened, what happened when it was manifested, what happened in his ministry and what happened to the seeds that came out of him on the day of Pentecost.

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Okay, it's very well laid out there.

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There's not a lot of guesswork about it.

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Except that if you don't have a working knowledge of the principle of the seed, then you will think that Jesus came for other reasons, and all of the other reasons come out of the fact that he's a seed.

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He is a savior.

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This is the point I was trying to make.

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A lot of people see Jesus in one of his, one of the ways that Jesus is, because he is the seed, and so they skip the seed thing and they say he's a savior, or they say he's a teacher, or they say he's the redeemer, or they say he's this, or they say he's that redeemer, or they say he's this, or he say they these that, and that's where they focus.

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You got a whole bunch of denominations, that this was one of the great revelations that brother copeland brought to the church now, he wasn't the only one that brought it, but but he did bring it and that is that you don't get saved by making Jesus your savior.

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You get saved by making.

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There's no scripture that backs that up, but there is a scripture that says if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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You've got that scripture.

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Amen, you you may.

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You are saved when you make Jesus Lord, when you make Him King.

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Well, I'm here to tell you today that he is King because he is the seed of God.

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Listen, here's how it works.

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Everything you see, all of the stars, all of the universes that could be out there, all of the sky, the mountains, the oceans, everything you see, everything that is part of what we call this creation that Genesis 1-1 talks about, about everything that is part of this creation.

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Amen is not the end of the discussion.

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It is not the, the final product that God had in mind from the beginning.

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It is a stepping stone, it is a, it is a pass-through.

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In other words, we have to pass through this creation in order to get into the second creation.

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Now, why God did it that way?

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I'm still working on it, but I'm here to tell you that I know that for a fact that the second creation, or the new creation, or that creation which is primarily spiritual, amen is the primary creation.

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That's what God wanted to get to in the first place.

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He just created all of this so that people would recognize who he is.

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He is Hallelujah I.

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You know, god has, you know, it's not a mystery that God says my ways are not your ways.

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I mean, he does things that well.

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I probably wouldn't have done like that, but then, you know, I don't have all that information.

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He does.

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Amen, glory to God.

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That's obvious.

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If more people thought that they'd get in less trouble.

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God has ways to do things and ways to manage his creations, and because he made Jesus the seed of this new creation from the very there.

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Actually there's no beginning.

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It has always been like this in the beginning was a seed and the seed was with God, and the seed was God.

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He was in the beginning, the seed was in the beginning with God.

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All things were made by the seed and there was nothing made that was not made through the seed.

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In the seed was life, and that life was the light of men or the light of Adam.

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Amen, amen, amen In him was life and that life was the light of Adam, amen.

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There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

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He was not that light, but he was sent to bear witness to this light.

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Now, the problem with the light was that men loved darkness rather than light, and so they rejected the light.

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They rejected what?

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The seed?

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Because in the life of God and the light of God came out of the seed.

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The seed created these things In the beginning was the seed, everybody say in the beginning was the seed.

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That means that everything else that's attributed to Jesus comes out of the seed, comes out of the new creation and manifests in this creation.

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So if all Jesus is to you is your savior, you're missing the point, because I guarantee you, I guarantee you that people who think like that, if you ask them, okay, then what happens when you die?

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I'm going to heaven, and that's all they got.

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They got Jesus saves me from my sins and I'm going to heaven.

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Now I'm going to tell you something that will shock you and, trust me, there are a lot of saved people that have said those very words.

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But they didn't get saved because of those words.

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They got saved because their spirit engaged God in different ways.

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They may not have known what it was, but God knew.

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Are you following this?

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Probably, maybe not, but probably the greatest evangelical evangelist of our time is Billy Graham.

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Billy Graham preached to millions and millions and millions of people over multiple decades of time, and millions of people over multiple decades of time.

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And I do not have anything against Brother Graham, I'm not saying this.

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I'm just telling you that, out of his own mouth, he said this.

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He said the statistics bear out that we only retained about 1% of the people that came up and made a profession for Christ.

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Why?

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Because you don't get saved by making a decision for Christ.

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You get saved by saying yes to His Lordship and to His Kingship.

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You just don't make a mental.

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And that's what happened.

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And, trust me, they had the follow-up.

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They, they defined how crusade evangelism worked for many, many years.

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They did, you know.

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They, they define how to do the card business.

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They define working with local ministries.

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They, they, they made all that stuff part and parcel of what many of us ended up doing.

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But if you don't come to Jesus as the seed and the seed bearer and that he is going to reproduce his life in you, amen, you're going to miss it.

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The best you can do is be a warmed up Adam.

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And that's not what's going to happen, because when the seed falls to the ground, it has to die.

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And we're not talking about physical death and you going to heaven, we're talking about this.

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In the instant that you say yes to the Lordship of Jesus, this grain of corn has to die and the new reality of this new seed has to be put on.

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So all of that is in one verse the genealogy of jesus, the christ, son of abraham, son of david.

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Hallelujah, you go.

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You must be daft.

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How is that all in that one verse?

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Because it's first words.

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It's the first.

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It's not just the first words of the gospel of Matthew, it's the first words of the new covenant of Jesus Christ.

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You're not hearing me If you think that Matthew is the first book in the New Testament by accident.

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You don't know this God.

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You don't know what pains God went to to assure that these books got into our hands, that these books were delivered through one trial after another trial after another trial, hallelujah.

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You have no idea what God did to guarantee that these books have arrived to us in some semblance, hallelujah.

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Sometimes you need to read a preface of the New King James Bible.

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Sometimes you need to read a preface of the New King James Bible.

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The preface of the New King James Bible will tell you that in all of the documents, the papyri, the books, the things that the Vatican have in the basement, they've got copies of the Bible that go back to about 150, 200, something like that.

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But what the the they say in the, in the, in the introduction to the new King James, is that in almost 95 plus, I'm going to guess, in some really high number, across all of those documents, there's 100% agreement.

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Are you hearing what I'm talking about?

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Praise the Lord.

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Somebody say amen, amen, glory to God.

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Here's something you need to know.

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There is more manuscript support for the New Testament than for any other body of ancient literature.

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Over 5,000 Greek and 8,000 Latin and many more manuscripts in other languages attest to the integrity of the New Testament.

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There is only one basic New Testament used by Protestants, catholics, orthodox Conservatives and Liberals.

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Used by Protestants, catholics, orthodox Conservatives and Liberals.

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Minor variations in hand copying have appeared through the century before mechanical printing began in about 1450 AD.

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Some variations exist in spellings of Greek words, word order and similar details.

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It is important to emphasize that fully 85% of the New Testament text is the same.

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That is, in the Texas Receptus, which is the text that the King James Bible is based on, and the Alexandrian text and the majority text, which is the text that the newer translations is based on.

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You know where John, chapter 8, the introduction to that is omitted.

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Mark 16, that kind of stuff.

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85% of the New Testament is the same because it's the same in all of the source documents.

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There's different versions.

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The Alexandrian, the majority, the Texas Receptives all use different source Greek and Latin documents for their sources.

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Okay, what that statement tells you?

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That in all of the sources, the thousands upon thousands of copies that we have, 85% of those copies are all in agreement.

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That is an amazing thing to say about something that is 2,000 years old and has been through more hands than you can possibly think of.

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So if you think that it's an accident, then in all those copies the book of Matthew was the first book in the New Testament and the first words of your New Testament are the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Abraham, the son of David.

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And, furthermore, if you make the statement that these next 27 books are all about the revelation of the seed and the first thing that God has to say about the seed is that Jesus is the son of Abraham and the son of David, you better pay attention, and if you don't understand what that means, you better find somebody that will help you understand it.

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Amen, because I'm telling you what.

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If all of those things are true, you could stand here and preach.

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I told this to Sarah the other day.

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I said I bet I could preach five years on that verse, and then the next thing out of my mouth was I just might do that, because it sure does feel like it in my spirit that we went for five, for since 19,.

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Since 2017, we have been ministering on the names of the Holy Ghost, just to know what he does in our lives, and if all of that was preparatory to understanding the ministry of the seed of Jesus, well then, let's go after it.

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Glory to God, this isn't a promise.

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I'm just telling you what might happen.

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You might hear about it more than I know.

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Glory to God.

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Matthew is the genealogy of the flesh of Jesus.

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It terminates with his father, joseph, who by all accounts was his father.

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I'm sure they didn't make a big public announcement about the angel Gabriel coming to Nazareth and telling Mary that the thing that was to be born in her was of God.

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Well, yeah, sure, go ahead and try that one.

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Everybody tries that one, right?

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I mean, since Mary got away with it, everybody tries that one.

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I know it was an angel, I don't know.

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Yeah, the angel lives down the street.

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You know who are you trying to kid Mary?

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Amen is not the end of the genealogy line with Jesus in Matthew.

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She is in Luke.

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Luke is the genealogy of the seed, going all the way back to Adam, but in Matthew it's a flesh, it is a father-son relationship, because what Matthew was trying to establish was not the genealogy of the seed so much, but the genealogy of promise and destiny.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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When we look at Luke, it's got the genealogy from Mary all the way back to Adam, because the resurrection is a celebration of the seed.

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What is the day that Jesus was raised from the dead in the Jewish calendar?

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Anybody know it's the day of first fruits, talking all about harvest, all about seed.

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On that day, the high priest would go out in the fields early, early, early in the morning, and they would look for the first sprouts of barley in the field.

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Where they found some sprouts of barley, they would harvest them and take them back and offer them as a first fruits offering.

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For 1,500 years.

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They had been doing this For 1,500 years.

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They had been doing this.

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When they went out that morning to inspect the barley fields and look for the first fruits, the first fruits had already sprouted up and it had come out of the grave and it had come through the stone and it entered into the realm of the Spirit.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, I'm feeling the Holy Ghost.

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And it had come out.

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I said he had come out.

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I said he'd come out.

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I said he'd come out.

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He had come out from death.

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He had come out from from, from all of the shame and all of the, all the guilt and all of the pollution and all of the of the hatred that was associated with all of the sins that he had to bear and all of the taunting and all of the harassment that he had to bear, and all of the taunting and all of the harassment that he had to experience in hell and he came out as the first fruits of God, of the new creation.

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Hallelujah.

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And the high priest and all of those folk just went on looking for barley when the first fruits had already risen from the dead and they didn't even know they had put him to death.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So here's the question that has to be asked, and this is probably about as far as we'll get today Amen?

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This is the question that has to be asked.

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Why David and why Abraham?

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Why couldn't you have said the son of Noah, for example?

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Amen, it has to be the son of Noah.

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There wasn't anybody else except him and his sons that came over on the ark.

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Why wouldn't it be the son of Noah?

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Why do we wait 10 generations from Noah until we get to Abraham before we mention anybody?

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When Noah got the promise of God that seed time and harvest was not going to depart from the face of the earth?

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Amen.

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Why wasn't Noah mentioned?

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Amen?

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Why wasn't Shem mentioned?

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He's the offspring of Noah, through which the Hebrew race was born.

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If Abraham was mentioned, why wasn't Isaac mentioned?

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Amen?

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If Abraham was mentioned, why wasn't Isaac mentioned?

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Amen?

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If Abraham was mentioned.

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Why isn't Jacob mentioned?

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If Jacob isn't there, there's no Israel.

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Are you following?

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Because the genealogy between Abraham and David, between David and the captivity and between the captivity and David, between David and the captivity and between the captivity and Jesus was a genealogy of destiny and prophecy In the time that that happened, the time between Abraham and Jesus is roughly 2,000 years.

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In that 2,000 year period is roughly 2,000 years In that 2,000 year period, amen.

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The Bible contains many, many prophecies concerning this man, jesus.

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A virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel.

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God with us, amen.

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Hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah, his name shall be Wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, prince of Peace.

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Of his government there shall be and his peace there shall be no end.

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Government there shall be and his peace there shall be no end.

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Those kinds of prophecies are all through Isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, daniel.

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Daniel gave some of the most pinpoint, precise prophecies concerning the Messiah that are in your Bible.

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In fact, there are many Bible critics who say that Daniel could not have been written when it was written, that it had to be written by somebody who lived after Jesus, because his prophecies are so precise.

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Hallelujah.

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The period of 2,000 years between Abraham and Jesus are full of prophecies, ending up in Malachi, where it says that suddenly the messenger of the covenant will come to his temple, amen, and he will bring an offering and he will be a refiner.

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He will be like a refiner's fire and he will purify the sons of Levi so that they can offer an offering of righteousness to the Lord.

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Hallelujah.

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500 years before Jesus would come, that prophet Malachi would prophesy these things.

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Many prophecies had been made concerning the seed, but there's a difference between prophecy and promise Amen.

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A prophecy is not necessarily a promise.

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A prophecy oftentimes is something that may or may not happen.

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Oftentimes is something that may or may not happen, depending on now.

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This is not so much the case in the old testament but in the new testament.

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Prophecies depend on the receiver participating.

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You know, if I gave you a prophecy and told you, you know that in, in 10 years, you were going to set up a missionary outreach in lower Siberia and you better get ready and buy some heavy clothes and get used to living in igloos and all those kinds of things you know.

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And if you took off and moved to Colombia, which is kind of in the opposite direction, you know and live right on the equator.

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You know, and all of those heavy clothes that you bought are absolutely useless because you said I'm not going to Siberia.

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God must have had the map upside down, he must have meant Columbia.

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And you go down there and you try to start a ministry in Columbia.

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You're not going anywhere Because God didn't talk about Columbia, he was talking about Siberia and he wasn't talking about going to Siberia by way of Columbia.

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That wasn't any part of the prophecy.

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You just added that to the prophecy.

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Amen.

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You thought.

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Well, you know, if he could talk to me here in Texas, he can talk to me in Columbia.

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You know how many people do stuff like that.

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You know, if he can talk to me here in Texas, he can talk to me in Columbia.

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You know how many people do stuff like that.

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Or they don't do anything at all.

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They expect God just to teleport them with their heavy clothing to Siberia in the middle of a heat spell when all the ice is melting.

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All right, you know, you guys haven't dealt with people like I've had to deal with them.

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They come up with these wacko ideas.

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Well, I'm just waiting for God, waiting for God to do what Teleport, you Send you through the Stargate and get you over to.

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You watch too much television.

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You think you're just going to be teleported over to Siberia.

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And here I am, and here comes the biggest revival that's ever happened.

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You haven't even witnessed to your neighbor yet.

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Glory to God.

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There's a difference between promises and prophecy.

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When it said behold, a virgin shall conceive.

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Well, what virgin?

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In what town, in what tribe, in what country, in what circumstance, in what time?

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See, none of those things were told.

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So there's all kinds of possibilities that can happen.

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Amen.

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The prophecies concerning Jesus and His arrival were many and you have to put them all together to get a picture.

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Hey, they knew this stuff because when Herod called the priest and said where is this Messiah supposed to be born?

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Because the wise men had come and told him that the king of the Jews had been born.

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Well, this was news to Herod because he was the king of the Jews, amen.

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So he was looking for where is this going to happen?

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So he asked the king of the Jews, amen?

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So he was.

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He was looking for where's this going to happen?

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So he asked the priests where's this going to happen?

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And they said in Bethlehem, because it is written and they quoted the scripture.

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So the scripture was there, but it wasn't given all at one time.

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There was pieces here, pieces there.

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You had to put the whole thing together, amen.

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And it was still so uncertain that Herod ordered the killing of all children that were two years old, all sons, all males that were two years old and younger, because the timing was not quite certain.

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Are you with me on this?

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Now, this is different than a promise, and especially when God makes the promise.

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Because when God makes a promise, here's what happens with God.

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It tells us this in Hebrews, the fourth chapter God wanting See a promise is not like we make a promise.

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If you'll loan me $100, I promise I'll pay you back next Tuesday.

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Just don't come looking for me, because I may have an excuse as to why I can't make that payment on Tuesday, but I guarantee you it'll be the next Tuesday or the next one after Some Tuesday.

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How many of you have all been there?

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Don't look at me like that.

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Glory to God.

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God's not like that.

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Promises to God are when he swears, and since the Bible says he couldn't find anybody to swear by that was greater than him, he just swore by himself saying in blessings, I will bless you and in multiplying, I will multiply you.

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He said that to Abraham.

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He made promises to Abraham that he swore to by himself that he would make him the father of many nations, that in you, all nations will be blessed, that your seed will be more numerous than the sands of the seashore and the stars in the sky.

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All of these things were promises to Abrahamraham.

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Concerning the seed, they weren't prophecies.

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He prophesied to adam.

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He promised abraham.

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He prophesied to noah concerning seed time and harvest.

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He promised abraham.

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He said ab, come here, stand upon this hill Now, look all around you.

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Whatever you can see is yours.

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Wherever you put your foot is yours.

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The sand that you're walking on.

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I'm going to give you more descendants than that.

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Look up.

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More descendants than that.

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Are you hearing?

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He promised this to Abraham.

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He swore by himself to Abraham that I'm going to do this for you.

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Now watch this.

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You can trace even today.

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If you had Abraham's DNA and you went and took a blood sample of everybody within a thousand miles of Jerusalem, you'd find a whole bunch of folk that are related to Abraham, but they are not related to him by the seed.

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