Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 381.
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Dear brethren and sisters, on
Monday we were looking at the
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Dear brethren and sisters, on
Monday we were looking at the
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wonderful historical accuracy
that marks the writings of Luke.
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Yesterday we examine his
reporting of a speech by Peter,
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in which we saw that his method
of summarizing of a presenting
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oppressive of the speech was
marked by the same superlative
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quality that Mark is writing as
a historian.
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We saw, or we endeavour to see,
that by quoting part of a
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passage, and then leaving the
rest unfinished, he indicated to
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us that at that point Peter
proceeded to expound the
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Scripture thus far, and that he
reverted to the remainder of the
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quotation at a later portion in
his address.
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We saw also that by the use of a
word which was itself taken from
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an Old Testament quotation, he
was indicating to us that Peter
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at that point quoted that
passage, and quoting it would
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bring out its bearing upon the
theme that he was presenting to
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them.
Now, if we have rightly found
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the key which enables us to
interpret Luke’s method of
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writing a summary, we shall find
that we can use the key
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throughout all his reporting of
addresses.
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And so as we go forward in our
examination of 1 speech after
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another, we shall be able to
check whether we have rightly
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understood his method.
And in the continued use of that
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key to speech after speech, and
finding that it always opens
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them up, we shall be assured
that we’ve come to some better
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understanding of Luke and of his
method, and understanding the
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man and his method the better.
We shall read these addresses,
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not just to read them through,
but to remember the illusions
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which he makes, remember the
contents of the Scriptures to
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which he alludes, and remember
that we have to expand it in our
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thought to something like maybe
20 times its length or more.
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The speech of Peter Pentecost
and the speech which has been
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read this afternoon are very
closely related, and both were
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spoken in Jerusalem.
They both belong to the
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Jerusalem ministry, which you’ll
see as we go forward in the next
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two or three days, that Luke
interpolates the speeches at
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given points, appropriate points
in the course of his history.
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Because he is unfolding in this
book not only the progress of
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Christianity as it spread
geographically throughout the
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Roman world, but he is showing
how the gospel which was
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presented again and again.
While it may vary in emphasis
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according to the needs and the
circumstances, was yet basically
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one that it set forth a gospel
that was a deliverance of a
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divine message.
That it concerned the divine
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purpose, That it concerned the
divine intervention in human
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affairs.
That God had revealed himself in
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a unique way in one who was the
Son of God, for whom had been
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wrote out a way of salvation for
men, and that they were.
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The apostles were commissioned
to carry that message of
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salvation with the invitation to
be reconciled to God.
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The Jews, of course, were
looking for the Messiah.
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They knew much of the Old
Testament writings.
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The burden of the argument of
the apostles in the earlier part
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of the Acts of the Apostles was
to show that the message of the
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Old Testament prophets presented
the Messiah in A2 fold role.
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That not only was the Messiah
one who would be a glorious king
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reigning over the restored
tribes of Israel, but that the
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prophets who predicted so
almighty A ruler also and in the
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context of the same prediction,
indicated that he would suffer.
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In other words, and it is
perhaps necessary for us to
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realize this, the Messiahship of
Jesus was but a part of His
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purpose.
We very often begin when we are
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proclaiming the truth by
preaching concerning the second
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coming of Jesus and the
establishment of the Kingdom of
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God upon earth.
But that is not the finality.
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It’s only the final
instrumentality by which God
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will bring to the effective
issue the purpose that He has in
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Jesus Christ.
And the apostles had to show
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that Messiah’s reign upon earth
was not an end, such as the
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Daxterl Jew was liable to think
it, but that it was only a part
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of a larger purpose concerning
the Messiah.
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In other words, the Kingdom that
is coming must be seen not as a
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social development among men,
but as a part of a divine scheme
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of redemption rooted in the work
of Jesus Christ, but carried
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forward to its final triumph in
the reign of Christ upon earth.
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And so the Messiahship of Jesus
has to be seen in the framework
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of the larger purpose of God
concerning Him as the Saviour of
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men.
And His kingship arises out of
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his Saviour hood because it is
the carrying forward of His
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redemptive work.
Now yesterday there was a
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reference to the name of Jesus
Christ.
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First, in concluding the
quotation from Joel, it was
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written, it is in Acts 221.
It shall come to pass that
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whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved.
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And when they were pricked in
their hearts, and that’s what
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they should do.
Verse 38.
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Peter said unto them, Repent and
be baptized, everyone of you in
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or into the name of Jesus
Christ, and the name of the
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Lord, in which there was
salvation there that call on the
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name of the Lord shall be saved.
He set forth as historically
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developed in the name of Jesus
Christ.
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Now this introduces us to the
peculiar use of the word name in
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the Scriptures.
We read of the name of God.
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We read that the apostles were
to go into all the world
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baptizing all nations, baptizing
them into the name, the name of
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the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit.
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That command was interpreted as
being equal to baptizing them
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into the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ or into the name of Jesus
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Christ, and Paul even puts it as
being baptized into Christ.
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Now they were only baptized into
one system of means whereby
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redemption was possible.
And so it is quite clear that
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the name of the Lord Jesus, or
the name of Christ, or into
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Christ are all in some way
equivalent to baptism into the
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name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Now a name is that by which a
person is known.
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We know Brother Parkin by his
name.
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You know me by my name, but this
is a mere appellative which
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distinguishes us for convenience
of record.
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There’s nothing particular about
the name itself in relation to
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the individual.
I might as well have been called
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Peter as well as John, and it
wouldn’t have made any
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difference.
But biblical names, when
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divinely appointed, are
expressive of a purpose, or the
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fulfillment of a purpose, as the
case may be.
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The name itself has
significance.
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Now God has given to himself a
name, and that name isn’t a
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matter of letters.
It is a purpose by which God has
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known.
But the letters by which God
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chooses to describe Himself are
themselves in the meaning of
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them, expressive of that
purpose.
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They are an enshrinement, a
memorial of the purpose that God
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will accomplish.
Now we read in the section which
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has already been read to you of
this name.
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Let us pick up the verses.
Verse 6.
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Peter said to this lame man,
silver and gold have I none but
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such as I have give I thee in
the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
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rise up and walk on the 16th
verse.
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And his name through faith in
his name has made this man
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strong, whom ye now see.
Yeah, the faith which is by him
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has given him this perfect
soundness in the presence of you
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all.
And the 4th chapter continues
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this theme because it continues
the discussion on the preaching
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of Peter when he was arraigned
before the authorities.
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And Peter asked the question in
verse 7, chapter 4, when they
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had set them in the midst, that
is, of Israel rulers, they
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asked, by what power or by what
name have you done this?
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The 10th verse, Be known unto
you all, and to all the people
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of Israel, that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
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He crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him does
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this man stand here before you
whole.
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And then the 12th verse.
Neither is there salvation in
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any other, for there is none
other name under heaven given
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among men, whereby we must be
saved.
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Now what is this name given
under heaven whereby we might be
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saved?
What is the meaning of this
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usage of the word name in these
addresses that we have here?
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Well, now we have the answer
when we come to analyse the
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recorded speech of Peter in this
third chapter.
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Now I shall want your close
attention.
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And if you find that the theme
develops with some complexity,
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Please remember that we are
being called upon to lift
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ourselves up to a comprehension
of divine things and that Peter
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stood up and spoke these words
and elaborated the theme as we
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are going to try and do it.
And the expected is hearers to
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follow.
So please think you’re put on
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your metal, got up the loins of
your minds, as we said before,
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and let us try to rise to the
higher understanding of the
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divine things that are revealed
so wonderfully in the Word of
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God.
Verse 12 then and onwards, ye
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men of Israel, why marvel ye
this, or why look ye so
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earnestly on us, as though by
our own power or holiness we had
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made this man to walk.
The God of Abraham, and of
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Isaac, and of Jacob, The God of
our fathers, have glorified his
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Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up
and denied in the presence of
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Pilot, when he was determined to
let him go.
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The God of Abraham, of Isaac and
Jacob.
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By the use of those terms, Luke
is indicating to us that he was
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quoting from the book of Exodus.
We turn to Exodus chapter 3
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where we find the phrase verse
6.
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The Angel as God’s
representative is speaking
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Norover.
He said I am the God of thy
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father, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of
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Jacob.
So Peter is referring back to
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the divine manifestation at the
Bush.
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And when Moses asked, being
commissioned to go down into
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Egypt, what is the name of the
one who has sent, who is sending
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me?
Verse 13 And Moses said unto
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God, Behold, when I come into
the children of Israel, and
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she’ll say unto them, The God of
your father’s.
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You notice in Acts 13, the God
of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of
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Jacob, the God of our fathers,
there’s your expression, the God
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of your father’s, that sent me
unto you.
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And they shall say to me, What
is his name, or what shall I say
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unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I will
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be who I will be.
And he said, Thou shalt say unto
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the children of Israel, he who
will be has sent me unto you.
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And God said, moreover unto
Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto
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the children of Israel, the Lord
God of your father, the God of
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Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob sent me unto
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you.
This is my name forever, and
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this is my memorial unto all
generations.
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So here then God gave to himself
a name, and it was a name which
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was defined as meaning I will be
who or what I will be.
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And the verbal noun derived from
that statement is he who will be
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has sent me.
Now what will God be?
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What will God be?
There are some deep and
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philosophic truths bound up with
some of the fundamental
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revelations of God.
It was axiomatic with Israel
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that God was one.
As the Shmar declares, Hear, O
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Israel, the Lord our God is 1
Lord.
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But Paul asked the question.
The closing verses of the 3rd
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chapter of the Letter to the
Romans, following the Revised
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Version.
Is God the God of the Jews only
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and not of the Gentiles?
In other words, have the Jews
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one God and the Gentiles another
God?
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Or, says Paul, if as we Jews
believe God is 1 and there’s
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only one God, then God must be
the God of the Jews and the God
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of the Gentiles.
But moreover, if God is 1, it
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must have necessity follow that
God is harmonious in himself.
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There’s no duality, there’s no
discord, there’s no disharmony,
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and therefore God must have one
method, one principle of working
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with men.
And so the apostle says it is
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through faith in his promises
that Israel must be saved.
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And it is through a similar
faith in the faith, the system
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of truth now brought to the
Gentiles, that men must be
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saved.
And the apostle draws out from
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the foundation fact that God is
one, that therefore the one God
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who is the Holy One of Israel
must be God of Gentile as well
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as Jew, and that he must have
one method of dealing with
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mankind.
But we must go further than
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that.
If God is one, then it must
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follow that for God to
accomplish and realize His
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purpose at last, everything must
be in harmony with Himself.
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Now He made man and gave Him
freedom to choose.
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He set up his own will in
defiance of the will of God and
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introduced disharmony.
It was a challenge to the
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supremacy of God.
It was introducing into God’s
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world a duality in which there
was the will of God and the will
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of man, and God could only
maintain His supremacy by
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exercising His right and passing
sentence of death upon the
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rebel.
But if He had just stayed there,
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His purpose in placing man upon
the earth would have been
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thwarted.
And therefore God must prove
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Himself to be a God who, in the
exercise of His supremacy,
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despite the frustrating effects
of man’s rebellion, must show
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himself to be a Saviour.
And so God must, to realize his
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purpose at last eliminate from
his universe that which is
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discordant.
He must at last bring all things
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that survive into harmony with
himself.
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And at last, in the very
significant phrase of Paul, God
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will be All in all.
That is to say, all that God is
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will be realized in all men, and
everything will be in perfect
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harmony with God.
But when God is all and in all,
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then God will have become all
that he intended should be.
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And since all that lives will of
its own voluntary choice, have
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sought to come into harmony with
God, it will have become God in
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manifestation in those who were
redeemed.
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Now a name, as we said, is
expressive of a divine purpose,
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and the name that God chose to
give himself, I will be or I
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will become, means that God
would become all that He was
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himself in those who at last
attained to the divine
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redemption.
Now these are necessary
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corollaries from the fact that
God exists, that He is one, that
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He has made man, and that He has
a purpose with men.
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And we might spend a week of
afternoon tracing through the
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Scriptures the enunciation of
these truths that we have tried
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to summarise in these few words.
But if we want the crispest and
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shortest expression of them,
they’re in the name that God
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gave to himself.
I will become, and in course of
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time a baby was born who was the
Son of God, and it was necessary
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that that child should be the
Son of God for the working out
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of this salvation.
For man cannot save himself.
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God must save.
And the challenge of the
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prophets was that part of the
folly of idolatry was that men
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will worship a God that could
not save.
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But in contrast to it God says,
Look unto me, and be ye saved
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all the ends of the earth, for I
am God, and there is none else.
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And so God is a Saviour, and in
order that He might be a
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Saviour, He must raise up one of
the rays who might so uphold the
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divine principles which had been
challenged when man transgressed
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God’s law that there would be
provided.
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Such a recognition of God’s
righteousness that God could
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say, my righteousness has been
declared, and because of the
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holiness and righteousness of
this man, he must be raised from
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the dead as the Conqueror of
death.
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But it was God who provided the
man.
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It was God who said, I will
uphold him in the hollow of mine
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hand.
It was God who, in the words of
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Jesus prophetically expressed,
was near, that justified.
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Jesus justified him in His own
right and of His own title
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because of the sinlessness of
his character.
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He must be born in the channel
of human life, with its weakness
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and frustration with its
mortality, in order that he
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might, as part of that, by the
voluntary surrender of his life,
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show that God was right in the
upholding of His supremacy in
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passing the sentence of death
upon the race and the moral
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principles of God, but thus
manifested in Jesus and upheld.
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But it could be said when Jesus
was born, that the Word was made
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flesh and Welt among us, and the
glory that was manifested in
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Jesus was the glory of the
Father, for in Him was the
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fullness of the embodiment of
the divine character.
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He was full of grace and truth,
and those words there, grace and
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truth themselves, go back to the
enunciation of the name of God
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in the book of Exodus.
Show me thy glory, said Moses.
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And God answered, I will cause
all thy glory to flash before
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thee, and will declare my name.
When God declared his name, he
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pronounced those principles upon
which he was operating in
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dealing with men long-suffering
and gracious abundance.
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In mercy and truth, not sparing
the guilty, but forgiving
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iniquity and transgression and
sin, there are elaborated the
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very principles of God in his
relation to men.
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But they were seen revealed in
Jesus for Paul.
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For John goes back to Exodus
when he said he was full of
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grace and truth.
But when Jesus was born, it
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could be said the Word was made
flesh and God was manifest in
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flesh.
And to that extent at that point
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he who had said I will be to now
say I have become when the Word
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made flesh was raised from the
dead and made after the power of
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an endless life.
And there was revealed to men
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the Word of life, as John
describes it in the opening
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verses of his first epistle, the
word of life which they’d seen
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and handled and their eyes had
looked upon.
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Then God could say that not only
had he become flesh for a saving
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name, that not only had God been
manifest in flesh, but now God
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was manifest in one, justified
in spirit and made after the
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power of an endless life.
And in Christ exalted we have
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the extension of the moral
harmony that had extended
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between that had existed between
Jesus and God throughout his
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life, extended to its logical
conclusion, to its inevitable
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end, in the complete and perfect
harmony between Jesus and God in
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character and in nature.
And Jesus enunciates the fact
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that his purpose was to be one
with the Father, in the context
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of which he says, I have
declared thy name.
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And he says concerning those who
believe, I pray that they may be
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1 even as we are one.
And that teaching of Jesus in
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the 17th chapter of John in that
sublime prayer is but a carrying
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out in rotational form the very
underlying principles of the
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fact that God is 1 because God
is 1 at last, all must be one
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with him that survived, and all
that is contrary to him must
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ultimately be swept away.
And Peter says, By what name
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have I done this?
He says the name of God has been
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revealed in human life in Jesus
of Nazareth.
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The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, hath glorified his Son
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Jesus, whom he delivered up.
And Peter must have taken hold
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of this doctrine of the name by
the double allusion to it, and
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pointed out that God had
enunciated His purpose to
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become, and He had become in
human life that Jesus was God
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revealed.
He had declared him, as John
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declares in his Gospel.
He was, says Peter, the servant,
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the servant of whom Javer had
spoken.
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For the word Son has glorified
his Son Jesus.
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The word Son there is the
translation of a word which
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means boy and was used in the
sense that the servant, the
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servant of whom Javer had spoken
for the word Son, have glorified
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his son Jesus.
The word Son there is the
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translation of a word which
means boy, and was used in the
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sense in which the Negro was
spoken of as a boy and it meant
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a servant.
The idiom, the Greek idiom, was
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just that which corresponded to
the American description of a
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slave boy as being.
We’ll call the boy, and it may
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be a man of 40 or 50, but he’s
still the boy is the servant.
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And so here the word son is
servant.
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It is His Son used in that
sense, and it goes back to those
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servant prophecies.
Behold, my servant, that begins
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in the 42nd chapter onwards to
the 53rd chapter, where we have
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the servant of the Lord despised
and rejected of men, but at last
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seeing the travail of His soul
exalted and glorified, and the
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earnest of it was that Jesus had
been raised from the dead and
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glorified the God of our fathers
of glorified his servant Jesus,
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whom you delivered up and denied
in the presence of Pilate.
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Who had they denied?
Peter says just look at him whom
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you denied.
He denied the Holy One and the
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just that unto you, and killed
the Prince of Life, whom God
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hath raised from the dead,
whereof we are strangers.
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The Holy One and the Just One
were acknowledged Messianic
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titles, But while they were
Messianic titles, they also
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indicated the essential quality
and character of Him who would
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be the Messiah.
And these go back to the
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prophecies concerning the
Messiah.
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I will raise up unto David a
righteous branch, A man who had
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the quality of righteousness is
essentially himself.
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And so he was the righteous one,
the just one, the just one who
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shall live by faith of the 3rd
chapter, the 2nd chapter.
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Habakkuk, who stands in contrast
to the head of the nations that
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comes against the Holy Land in
the last days, and who is
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challenged by the just One, the
righteous One, who was living
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eternally by his faith.
And you get the clash portrayed
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by Habakkuk between the divine
head whom God has appointed to
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be ruler, and the heading up of
human pride and human scheme in
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the northern invader that comes
against the land.
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But the divinely appointed ruler
lives and is there, living
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eternally as the just one who
lives by faith.
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These phrases in the Old
Testament, both in the Major
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Prophets and in the Minor
Prophets, were used and expanded
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as the meaning of them was wrote
out in the Apostolic testimony.
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They had killed the Prince of
Life or the leader of Life or
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the Author of Life, whichever
you care to to adopt.
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But because he’s the leader of
life, he is the one who has led
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the way.
For the leader must be part a,
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part of those who may lead one
with them, a member of the
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group, the head of the group,
but still one with them and
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going through all that they go
through and coming out of it.
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And therefore he was one with us
essentially.
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And yet he’s led the way and
opened the way out of death to
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life and will lead others to it.
In other words, paraphrasing
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these two verses, Peter says the
one to whom belongs these
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descriptions, the Holy One and
the just one who Jews recognize
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to have reference to the
Messiah, is the one in whom is
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realized all that the words mean
of holiness and of
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righteousness.
And these are the qualities that
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belong to the Messiah, because
in Him God has manifested One
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who will be the leader to life,
who born amidst the evil common
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to all of us, as yet never
yielded to its temptation, and
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who therefore is Himself, the
life of God, revealed.
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And thus God has manifested
Himself, and His name is set
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before you in this testimony
concerning Jesus.
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For the name, in the fullness of
its definition, is the name of
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the Father, the one who would
become who by the operation of
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His power would bigot a Son.
And so it is the name which has
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been evolved historically as the
name of the Father and of the
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Son and of the Holy Spirit,
because divine power revealed in
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the Holy Spirit was the
operative agency and causing
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Jesus to come into being.
And the fullness of it is
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brought together in that
expression, and there is
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revealed the name of salvation.
And it is the name of salvation
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because it is the divine purpose
in which He will bring men to
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harmony with Himself, where He
will be revealed in them, and so
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they will be saved.
And so says Peter in verse 16.
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And his name.
His name, Can’t you see,
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brothers and sisters, what a
significance there is in these
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language, English language and
His name.
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And it sums up all these
thoughts.
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For the name of God is that by
which God is known, and is known
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by the purpose which He
executed.
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And so His name, through faith
in His name, has made this man
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strong.
And there was a dramatic
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revelation in the miracle.
The miracles of the Gospels and
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of the Acts were object lessons.
They were illustrations of
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divine power in Jesus.
They were attestations that God
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was with him, but they were also
of that character that showed
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that Jesus was the one foretold
in the Old Testament.
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It was written that in the days
of the Messiah, the deaf would
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hear, the blind would see, the
lame man would leap as a heart.
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In fact, the very word used to
describe that in Isaiah, in the
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00:32:53,800 –> 00:32:57,480
Septuagint version, is used in
the New Testament of the miracle
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00:32:57,480 –> 00:33:00,600
of healing the lame man, linking
the two together.
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00:33:01,360 –> 00:33:06,640
And so since these things were
characteristics of the Messiah’s
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00:33:06,640 –> 00:33:12,680
age, by the performance of them
Jesus was making a tacit claim
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00:33:12,680 –> 00:33:15,760
to be the Messiah.
John said, Art thou he that
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00:33:15,760 –> 00:33:17,440
should come?
I’ll look before another.
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00:33:17,640 –> 00:33:22,920
In that same hour, says the
record, Jesus gave sight to
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00:33:22,920 –> 00:33:26,360
blind hearing to the deaf.
He raised the dead.
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00:33:26,360 –> 00:33:29,120
And he said, go tell John what
things ye see.
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00:33:29,680 –> 00:33:32,520
And there’s the answer to the
question higher, the Messiah
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00:33:32,520 –> 00:33:35,680
that is coming.
He was doing the Messiah’s works
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00:33:35,680 –> 00:33:38,720
that will be done in all its
fullness in the age to come.
446
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:44,600
And by doing them then, he was
making claim to be the Messiah,
447
00:33:44,920 –> 00:33:49,000
just as he did when he assumed
the role that had been foretold
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00:33:49,000 –> 00:33:52,400
by the prophet Zechariah, that
thy king should come unto thee
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00:33:52,760 –> 00:33:56,000
riding upon an ass.
And the people were quick to see
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00:33:56,000 –> 00:34:00,240
the significance of his claim
when, on that Palm Sunday, he
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00:34:00,240 –> 00:34:04,360
entered into the city in the
role designated by the prophet
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00:34:04,360 –> 00:34:07,720
as being that in which the
Messiah would come.
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00:34:08,360 –> 00:34:11,400
And the people quickly
responding to what he’d done and
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00:34:11,400 –> 00:34:16,120
recognizing what was implicit in
his action, strewed palms in the
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00:34:16,120 –> 00:34:20,159
way and shouted in the words
that the prophets that said they
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00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:24,800
would use when Messiah came.
Blessed is he that cometh in the
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00:34:24,800 –> 00:34:29,320
name of the Lord.
And now, says Peter, you’ve seen
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00:34:29,320 –> 00:34:34,120
this man made sound, and this is
by his name.
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00:34:34,639 –> 00:34:40,400
And this is an illustration of
the saving power of the name of
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Jesus.
It is an illustration of that
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00:34:43,480 –> 00:34:48,800
perfection of health to which
men will come when at last,
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00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:52,760
through the forgiveness of sins,
they attained to the great
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00:34:52,760 –> 00:34:55,600
salvation.
That is the divine purpose.
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00:34:56,000 –> 00:35:02,200
And so, says Peter, you feel
dismayed that you’ve killed such
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00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:05,280
an one.
I know that through ignorance he
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00:35:05,280 –> 00:35:07,280
did it.
It did also your rulers.
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00:35:07,640 –> 00:35:09,960
But you have fulfilled the
divine purpose.
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00:35:10,240 –> 00:35:13,120
It was according to what God had
written through the prophets,
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00:35:13,360 –> 00:35:17,680
The things which God had both
before showed before, that His
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00:35:17,680 –> 00:35:20,920
Christ, His Christ should
suffer.
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00:35:21,320 –> 00:35:25,400
He has so fulfilled, and the
assertion, as we said yesterday,
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00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:28,600
wouldn’t be sufficient.
He would recapitulate some of
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00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:32,680
those testimonies which spoke of
the sufferings of Christ, which
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00:35:32,680 –> 00:35:36,400
were associated also with the
glory of the Christ.
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00:35:37,040 –> 00:35:40,600
Prophecies of which Peter
himself later in his epistle,
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00:35:40,600 –> 00:35:44,760
says, that the prophets search
what a what manner of time that
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00:35:44,760 –> 00:35:48,120
spirit of Christ which was in
them, did signify, when he
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00:35:48,120 –> 00:35:51,400
testified beforehand the
sufferings of the Christ, and
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00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:54,320
the glory that could follow.
But how can they become
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00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:56,720
constituents of the name
themselves?
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00:35:57,040 –> 00:35:59,360
The appeal is made.
Repentive, therefore, and be
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00:35:59,360 –> 00:36:02,400
converted, that your sins may be
blotted out.
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00:36:02,680 –> 00:36:07,480
That so times of refreshing, and
times of refreshing was part of
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00:36:07,480 –> 00:36:11,560
their common speech, as
descriptive of the Messiah’s day
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00:36:11,800 –> 00:36:14,080
says, Repent therefore, and be
converted.
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00:36:14,640 –> 00:36:19,520
Prepare yourself for the coming
of that day when Messiah shall
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00:36:19,520 –> 00:36:24,720
come, bringing the times of
enlargement for the nation and
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00:36:24,720 –> 00:36:29,200
the times of blessing, when
these will come from God, where
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00:36:29,280 –> 00:36:33,280
Jesus is, when he will send
Jesus Christ, whom the heavens
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00:36:33,280 –> 00:36:37,840
must receive until the times of
restoration of all things.
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00:36:38,640 –> 00:36:43,120
And so he is weaving together
the evidence that the Jesus whom
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00:36:43,120 –> 00:36:48,320
he was speaking about, in whom
God had manifested himself,
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00:36:48,880 –> 00:36:53,240
who’d been the revelation in
human life of God, who descended
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00:36:53,240 –> 00:36:58,200
to God’s right hand, was he who
would bring those expected times
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00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:01,920
of blessing for which they were
looking and at which God had
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00:37:01,920 –> 00:37:05,080
spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world
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00:37:05,080 –> 00:37:07,880
began.
But Peter says when this time
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00:37:07,880 –> 00:37:13,120
comes, it will inaugurate a new
covenant for Israel, not the old
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00:37:13,120 –> 00:37:15,600
covenant.
And he reminds them that Moses
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00:37:15,600 –> 00:37:17,720
was the mediator of the old
Covenant.
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00:37:17,720 –> 00:37:19,680
A prophet.
Shall the Lord your God raise up
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00:37:19,680 –> 00:37:22,360
unto be so?
He says there has to be
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00:37:22,360 –> 00:37:28,080
inaugurated a new order, a new
covenant, one like unto Moses,
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00:37:28,280 –> 00:37:32,680
fulfilling as Moses did, a
mediatorship, acting as the one
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00:37:33,040 –> 00:37:37,720
who would introduce and make
sure a new covenant for Israel.
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00:37:38,080 –> 00:37:41,280
But what covenant is it?
What covenant is it?
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00:37:41,480 –> 00:37:45,440
Now I want you to notice the
application of the rule which I
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00:37:45,440 –> 00:37:50,280
think you will now see is pretty
well established, by which Luke,
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00:37:50,920 –> 00:37:55,120
in this very intriguing and
interesting and skilful way of
510
00:37:55,120 –> 00:38:02,320
his, brings out in this press,
as we call it, what Peter did
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00:38:02,480 –> 00:38:05,720
elaborately.
It shall come to pass that every
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00:38:05,720 –> 00:38:10,080
soul which will not hear that
prophet shall be destroyed from
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00:38:10,080 –> 00:38:12,880
among the people.
And you read it and perhaps
514
00:38:12,880 –> 00:38:16,880
think that that expression shall
be destroyed from among the
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00:38:16,880 –> 00:38:21,880
people belongs to the quotation
in Deuteronomy chapter 18.
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00:38:22,080 –> 00:38:25,120
But it doesn’t.
God there says I will require of
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00:38:25,120 –> 00:38:30,400
it, require it of him.
But the expression shall be
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00:38:30,400 –> 00:38:37,680
destroyed from among the people
comes from God’s terms in the
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00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:42,280
Abrahamic covenant.
Go back to Genesis 17 and verse
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00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:44,000
14.
Verse 9.
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00:38:44,480 –> 00:38:47,200
God said unto Abraham, Thou
shalt keep my covenant,
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00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,320
therefore thou and thy seed
after thee in their generations
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00:38:51,640 –> 00:38:53,760
every child shall be
circumcised.
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00:38:53,760 –> 00:38:58,160
And the 14th verse and the
uncircumcised man child whose
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00:38:58,160 –> 00:39:03,800
flesh of his foreskin is not
circumcised, that soul shall be
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00:39:03,800 –> 00:39:09,520
cut off from his people.
So it is a failure to comply
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00:39:09,520 –> 00:39:13,280
with the Abrahamic covenant to
which Peter refers.
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00:39:13,480 –> 00:39:17,240
And he says, Any man who isn’t
incorporated in this new
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00:39:17,240 –> 00:39:20,240
covenant, that the one like unto
the prophet Moses will
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00:39:20,240 –> 00:39:23,880
introduce, shall be cut off from
among the people.
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00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:30,280
In other words, Peter takes them
to the Abrahamic covenant, which
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00:39:30,280 –> 00:39:33,600
will be fulfilled in the
restoration of all things, and
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00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:37,640
in the coming of this time of
refreshing to which he has
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00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:40,120
spoken.
And he said, this is the theme
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00:39:40,120 –> 00:39:43,920
of all the prophets from Samuel
and those that follow after.
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00:39:44,280 –> 00:39:49,120
And now we can test again our
interpretation if that 23rd
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00:39:49,120 –> 00:39:53,600
verse has indeed taken their
thought to the Abrahamic
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00:39:53,600 –> 00:39:58,320
covenant with it new
mediatorship in Jesus Christ.
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00:39:58,840 –> 00:40:01,960
If we’re right there, then we
can see the sequence of thought
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00:40:02,440 –> 00:40:05,920
in the last two verses of this
third chapter.
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00:40:06,800 –> 00:40:11,960
Ye are the children of the
prophets, that midiomatic sons
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00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:15,160
idiomatic of as meaning of the
same race.
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00:40:15,520 –> 00:40:18,920
Ye are of the race of the
prophets, and of the covenant
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00:40:18,920 –> 00:40:23,200
which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham, Don’t you
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00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:26,640
see how?
How Peter’s thought has moved on
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00:40:27,000 –> 00:40:29,800
at times of refreshing, but it’s
under a new covenant and it’s
547
00:40:29,800 –> 00:40:32,920
under the Abrahamic covenant and
the Ave. mediatorship.
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00:40:33,560 –> 00:40:37,040
And he says you’re in the line
to which it belongs.
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00:40:37,440 –> 00:40:42,280
You’re the in the race of this,
this covenant blessing which God
550
00:40:42,280 –> 00:40:46,080
made with our Father, saying
unto Abram in thy speech, shall
551
00:40:46,200 –> 00:40:48,720
all the children of the earth be
blessed?
552
00:40:49,040 –> 00:40:53,720
And now I want to suggest an
enlargement of an interpretation
553
00:40:53,720 –> 00:40:59,080
common among us as a community.
I I think it is general that
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00:40:59,480 –> 00:41:04,360
when a lecture is given
concerning the age to come, we
555
00:41:04,360 –> 00:41:08,080
speak of the promises made to
Abraham, and we say all nations
556
00:41:08,080 –> 00:41:10,480
are going to be blessed under
Christ.
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00:41:10,480 –> 00:41:13,960
And if we say, what are the
blessings, we begin by saying
558
00:41:14,680 –> 00:41:17,640
they’ll have houses stick to
live in.
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00:41:18,520 –> 00:41:22,760
There’ll be a freedom from want
and a freedom from anxiety.
560
00:41:23,400 –> 00:41:27,000
And we should describe all the
economic advantages that we
561
00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:29,520
think we’ll obtain in the age to
come.
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And we’re dealing only with a
superstructure.
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00:41:32,440 –> 00:41:35,360
Then we’re not dealing with the
foundation fact.
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00:41:35,760 –> 00:41:40,400
Observe Peter’s interpretation.
In thy feet shall all the
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00:41:40,400 –> 00:41:44,480
kindreds of the earth be blessed
unto you.
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First, God, having raised up his
servant, Jesus sent him to bless
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00:41:54,080 –> 00:41:55,520
you.
Bless you.
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00:41:55,960 –> 00:41:58,960
What is the blessing He sent him
to bless you.
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00:41:59,640 –> 00:42:05,080
What is the blessing in turning
away everyone of you from your
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00:42:05,080 –> 00:42:07,600
iniquities?
What is the blessing of all
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00:42:07,600 –> 00:42:10,680
nations?
Paul says in the 4th chapter the
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00:42:10,680 –> 00:42:14,200
letter to the Romans.
Let us take Abraham as the
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00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:19,760
classical illustration and
determine from him and what is
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00:42:19,760 –> 00:42:24,480
written concerning him, the
basis of a man standing before
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00:42:24,480 –> 00:42:26,960
God.
Was it upon the basis of the
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00:42:26,960 –> 00:42:29,520
flesh?
If it was, says Paul, then
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00:42:29,520 –> 00:42:33,480
Abraham had wear off the glory.
But what does the Scripture say?
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00:42:33,920 –> 00:42:37,680
Abraham believed God, and it was
counted to him for
579
00:42:37,960 –> 00:42:43,200
righteousness, even as David
describes the blessedness of the
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00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:48,920
man to whom the Lord imputeth,
into to whom the Lord imputeth
581
00:42:48,960 –> 00:42:54,200
righteousness without work,
saying, Blessed is the man whose
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00:42:54,200 –> 00:42:57,280
iniquities are forgiven and
whose sins are covered.
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00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,960
What is blessedness?
The forgiveness of sin, the
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00:43:00,960 –> 00:43:03,720
being accounted righteous before
God.
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00:43:04,080 –> 00:43:09,760
And the fundamental thing of the
Abrahamic covenant is that it is
586
00:43:09,760 –> 00:43:15,520
a declaration of a divine means
whereby men and women can be
587
00:43:15,520 –> 00:43:19,600
esteemed by God as righteous
through the forgiveness of their
588
00:43:19,600 –> 00:43:22,000
sins.
But the other side of the
589
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:26,480
shield, if sins are forgiven and
forgiven by God in this
590
00:43:26,480 –> 00:43:30,440
arrangement, it is impossible
for men and women with things
591
00:43:30,440 –> 00:43:36,200
forgiven to continue in sin.
It would be a denial of all that
592
00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:38,640
they’d accepted in this
blessedness.
593
00:43:39,240 –> 00:43:43,760
And so while Paul puts the one
side of the shield and
594
00:43:43,760 –> 00:43:47,520
emphasizes that the blessedness
is the forgiveness of sins,
595
00:43:47,760 –> 00:43:53,560
Peter puts the other side that
is blessing you in turning you
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00:43:53,920 –> 00:43:57,240
away, everyone of you, from his
iniquities.
597
00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:01,200
And why has God doing that?
He’s doing it in order that men
598
00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:06,440
may be brought into harmony with
Himself and incorporated in His
599
00:44:06,440 –> 00:44:10,520
name now in the blessedness of
fellowship with Him.
600
00:44:10,800 –> 00:44:14,600
But at last in the fullness of
the revelation, when God is
601
00:44:14,600 –> 00:44:19,360
revealed in the nature that He
now has becoming the nature, in
602
00:44:19,360 –> 00:44:23,720
the nature that God has becoming
the nature of those who are His
603
00:44:23,720 –> 00:44:27,920
redeemed.
That just as Isaiah says, God is
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00:44:27,920 –> 00:44:32,200
one who is never weary and who
never faints, so they that wait
605
00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:36,400
upon the Lord will be themselves
so assimilated to the divine in
606
00:44:36,400 –> 00:44:40,040
its energy and its power, that
they that wait upon the Lord
607
00:44:40,040 –> 00:44:43,200
shall renew their strength.
They shall run and not grow
608
00:44:43,200 –> 00:44:45,960
weary.
They shall walk and not faint,
609
00:44:46,480 –> 00:44:50,960
because the energy that belongs
to the divine will have been
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00:44:50,960 –> 00:44:53,840
given unto them.
There’s no other name given unto
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00:44:53,840 –> 00:44:55,640
heaven.
There’s no other system of
612
00:44:55,640 –> 00:45:00,720
salvation than this.
And I think we will agree that
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00:45:00,720 –> 00:45:04,680
as we strive to rise up to the
heights of the wonder of the
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00:45:04,680 –> 00:45:10,240
grace of God is revealed here,
that we are highly privileged to
615
00:45:10,240 –> 00:45:14,040
know it.
And what a wonderful testimony
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00:45:14,320 –> 00:45:18,000
the apostles made.
Don’t let us be afraid of
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00:45:18,000 –> 00:45:22,800
putting forward in our testimony
something of the fullness of the
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00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:25,400
grace of God and the wonder of
this purpose.
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We can do it with sustained
logical power, just as Peter did
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00:45:30,920 –> 00:45:34,560
in this in the speeches of his
that we’ve considered.
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For God, who is 1 is in perfect
harmony in every way with
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00:45:39,760 –> 00:45:43,360
himself, and therefore there’s
nothing illogical or
623
00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:47,800
inconsistent or incongruous
about him, and the presentation
624
00:45:47,800 –> 00:45:51,720
of His truth should similarly
have those characteristics.
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Thank you.
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