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\ntogether on this subject, and it
\nmay therefore be opportune that <\/p>\n
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\nwe try and gather up a little
\nsomething of the thread of Acts <\/p>\n
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\nin order that we may see these
\nspeeches in their historical <\/p>\n
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\nframework, and that perhaps
\nunderstand why Luke has included<\/p>\n
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\nthem.
\nHe tells us of the beginnings of<\/p>\n
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\nChristianity on the day of
\nPentecost, after the Lord that <\/p>\n
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\ncommissioned them to go into all
\nthe world, that they must begin <\/p>\n
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\nat Jerusalem, and pass outward
\nto Samaria and to Galilee, and <\/p>\n
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\nso to all parts of the earth.
\nWe have seen the message that <\/p>\n
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\nwas preached through Peter on
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\nWe have seen also in a second
\naddress and enlargement of that <\/p>\n
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\nmessage, and in the conclusion
\nof that chapter we find them <\/p>\n
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\nbefore the Jewish authorities,
\nand find that the opposition of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Jewish authorities was met
\nby the assertion that this was a<\/p>\n
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\ndevelopment of the Divine plan,
\nand that in Christianity they <\/p>\n
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\nhad the flowering, as it were,
\nof that which was part of their <\/p>\n
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\nJewish faith.
\nGreat fear came upon the Church <\/p>\n
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\nin its extension, and as many as
\nheard these things believed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Luke passes on in his
\nnarrative to tell us of Jewish <\/p>\n
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\ntoleration being established as
\nthe result of the Apostles <\/p>\n
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\ntestimony before the authorities
\nand the council of Gamaliel. <\/p>\n
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\nHe tells us of the organization
\nof the Church and of their <\/p>\n
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\ninternal difficulties in the
\nmatter of ananiasance of Father,<\/p>\n
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\nbut shows that the Spirit was at
\nwork in those days, guiding and <\/p>\n
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\ndirecting the infant church in
\nall that was done. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we come to Stephen, we find
\nthe beginning of divergent with <\/p>\n
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\nJudaism.
\nA divergent because of the <\/p>\n
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\ninnate traditionalism of the
\nJewish people, particularly as <\/p>\n
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\nheaded up in their rulers, and
\nthe insistence by the believers <\/p>\n
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\nin Christ that God required
\nworship in spirit and in truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the formalism, the ritual
\nconnected with the law were part<\/p>\n
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\nof a typical system, a
\nschoolmaster system, a tutor <\/p>\n
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\nslave, that would lead them on
\nto the fullness of the divine <\/p>\n
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\nrevelation.
\nAnd that had been manifested in <\/p>\n
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\none who was the Son of God.
\nAnd God was really wanting, not <\/p>\n
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\na building made of materials,
\nbut that the divine purpose was <\/p>\n
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\nto dwell in men and women.
\nAnd that was the goal of the <\/p>\n
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\ndivine purpose in calling out
\nmen and women in order that he <\/p>\n
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\nmight dwell with them and to
\ndwell in them. <\/p>\n
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\nStephen’s activity led to the
\nspreading abroad of the <\/p>\n
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\ndisciples and the carrying of
\nthe message. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this section we are told
\nhow Stephen’s testimony bore <\/p>\n
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\nfruit for the man who became the
\ndisciple, the man who became the<\/p>\n
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\npersecutor of the Christians, in
\nthe bitterness and in the zeal <\/p>\n
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\nof his heart found it difficult
\nto kick against the gourds. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd part of the zeal of Paul in
\nputting the Christians to death <\/p>\n
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\nprobably originated in the fact
\nthat he wasn’t able to confute <\/p>\n
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\nthe argument that had been
\nadvanced by Stephen in his <\/p>\n
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\naddress.
\nAnd so the man, in the <\/p>\n
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\nbitterness of his thoughts and
\nthe argumentation of his own <\/p>\n
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\nmind, was being shaped and
\nprepared for the revelation of <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ on the way to
\nDamascus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Paul was apprehended in
\norder that he might become the <\/p>\n
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\nLord’s ambassador to the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it was indicated by Luke
\nin this way, that it was the <\/p>\n
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\nrisen Lord who chose his
\nambassador, and he was directing<\/p>\n
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\nand guiding the progress of
\naffairs. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the man has now been chosen
\nafter the preaching to Judaism, <\/p>\n
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\nand this to the Jews and the
\nestablishment of the Church. <\/p>\n
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\nThe time has now come for the
\nman to be chosen for the <\/p>\n
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\nextension of the work.
\nWe have an illustration of <\/p>\n
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\ndivine ways which we all might
\ntake account of, and the fact <\/p>\n
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\nthat although Saul was now
\nchosen, he had to go through a <\/p>\n
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\nlong period of quiet training
\nbefore the hour struck for him <\/p>\n
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\nto begin his real work.
\nIf he was converted, say, about <\/p>\n
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\nthe year 33 or so, it was a
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\nBarnabas went to seek Saul.
\nWe can quite understand. <\/p>\n
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\nSo such a zealous man, not
\nwithout some impetuosity that <\/p>\n
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\nmark Paul, but at once he
\nthought it was his job to begin <\/p>\n
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\nand preach Christ.
\nHe even thought that because <\/p>\n
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\nhe’d been a persecutor and then
\nhad changed, there was in that <\/p>\n
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\nvery fact something that might
\nappeal in his testimony to the <\/p>\n
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\nJews, and that they might
\nreceive him. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the Lord told him his work
\nlay among the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he was quite a number of
\nyears away in Syria and in <\/p>\n
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\nSilesia, and he was there
\npreaching. <\/p>\n
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\nAll that they heard in Judea was
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\ndestroyed. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it was all like the trying
\nof his wings. <\/p>\n
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\nHe went away into Arabia first
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\nnot know.
\nBut we can understand that the <\/p>\n
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\nman must have done some
\nrethinking of his faith. <\/p>\n
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\nHe pleased got to reveal his son
\nin in him, and that revelation <\/p>\n
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\nof his son in fall could not
\nhave been done without some <\/p>\n
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\nentire reorientation of the
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\nThe old habits of his thought
\nhad to be broken down and new <\/p>\n
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\nhabits of thought established.
\nIt is true there was revelation,<\/p>\n
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\nbut that revelation through Paul
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\nwhich he tells us about in his
\nletter to the Corinthians, had <\/p>\n
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\nall to be rethought into the
\nvery fabric of his own mind so <\/p>\n
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\nthat the message given through
\nPaul became Paul’s own faith and<\/p>\n
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\nPaul’s own guiding light.
\nAnd so it was that that large <\/p>\n
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\nhearted man Barnabas, who is
\nseen in these very generous <\/p>\n
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\nattitudes in the Acts of the
\nApostles, recognize that Saul <\/p>\n
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\nwas the man for the developing
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen, as the result of the
\ngospel having been spread abroad<\/p>\n
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\nthrough the Patodoma Stephen,
\nthere had been established in <\/p>\n
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\nAntioch, in Syria, Antioch on
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\nChristian Church made-up for the
\nmost part of Gentile believers. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore that, indeed, as Luke
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\nofficial reception of a Gentile
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\nCornelius.
\nI think as we compare the <\/p>\n
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\nGalatian letter with Acts, we
\nmust conclude that Paul had been<\/p>\n
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\npreaching to Gentiles before.
\nBut it wasn’t until there had <\/p>\n
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\nbeen an official recognition of
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\nthrough the work of Cornelius,
\nthrough the work of Peter with <\/p>\n
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\nCornelius, that the time was
\nripe for Paul to enter upon the <\/p>\n
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\nofficial ministry of the Lord’s
\nambassador to the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nEvents were in a formative
\nstate, gradually developing, <\/p>\n
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\nguided along the developments by
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\nIt was God’s work proceeding
\namong men. <\/p>\n
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\nSaw Luke again and again
\nindicates. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Luke has shown what Peter
\ntaught in his preaching, and he <\/p>\n
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\ntells us in a rather more
\nsummary way in the 10th and 11th<\/p>\n
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\nchapters of Acts.
\nThe things that he preached unto<\/p>\n
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\nCornelius is one of the
\naddresses at which we’ve had no <\/p>\n
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\ntime to look.
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\nexamination of the address of <\/p>\n
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\nPeter to Cornelius when he went
\nto see him that we’ve endeavour <\/p>\n
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\nto follow in looking at these
\nother speeches that are <\/p>\n
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\nrecorded.
\nBut now that the work, the time <\/p>\n
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\nhas come for the work to be
\nextended to the Gentiles when <\/p>\n
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\nPaul and Barnabas are on their
\nfirst missionary journey, sent <\/p>\n
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\nout by the Mother Gentile church
\nat Antioch on the Orantes. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is therefore fitting that
\nLuke should give us an <\/p>\n
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\nillustration of the message that
\nPaul gave. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s given us the illustration
\nof Peter’s preaching. <\/p>\n
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\nHe must now give us an
\nillustration of Paul’s <\/p>\n
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\npreaching.
\nAnd in this chapter he gives us <\/p>\n
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\nthe address of Presidium
\nAntioch, where there was a <\/p>\n
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\nJewish synagogue, but where
\nthere were so many Gentiles <\/p>\n
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\ninterested that the synagogue
\nwas crowded by men who were <\/p>\n
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\neither worshippers at the gate
\nor interested Gentiles who <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves were so moved by the
\naddress that they asked Paul to <\/p>\n
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\ncontinue his work.
\nAnd it is evident that Luke <\/p>\n
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\nregards this episode in
\nPresidian Antioch as something <\/p>\n
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\nin the way of a watershed.
\nIt was something like a turning <\/p>\n
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\npoint, the reception by the
\nGentiles of the message and the <\/p>\n
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\nopposition of the Jews.
\nLet Paul to say that God had <\/p>\n
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\ngranted unto the Gentiles this
\ngrace and this pardon unto life,<\/p>\n
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\nand that they would turn onto
\nthe Gentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it was a message given to a
\nmixed community. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we have other addresses of
\nPaul which we shall not have <\/p>\n
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\ntime to look, but Luke finds it
\nnecessary, as part of his story,<\/p>\n
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\nto give us an illustration of
\nPaul’s address to a company of <\/p>\n
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\nelders.
\nThis is part of his teaching, <\/p>\n
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\nthe intimate teaching of a
\nleader of the Christian <\/p>\n
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\ncommunity to his fellow
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then we are told of Paul’s
\ncontact with philosophic <\/p>\n
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\nthought, of his day in the city
\nof Athens and what happened <\/p>\n
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\nthere.
\nWe’ll try next week to gather up<\/p>\n
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\nthe threads of these points to
\nshow how they culminate in the <\/p>\n
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\nevents connected with the trial
\nof Paul and the addresses that <\/p>\n
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\nhe gave incidental thereto.
\nBut look at this book of Acts. <\/p>\n
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\nJust note the major divisions as
\nindicated in the analysis that <\/p>\n
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\nyou were given at the beginning,
\nand take each section. <\/p>\n
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\nMake a note of the events
\nnarrated in each section and <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll see the masterly grasp
\nwith which Luke finds his way <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the events of those
\ndeveloping days of Christian <\/p>\n
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\nlife, in order that he might
\nshow how Christianity came into <\/p>\n
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\nbeing, what it was, its relation
\nto Judaism. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it will bring us to what is
\nthe climax of the book, the <\/p>\n
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\npresentation of the Christian
\ncase before the bar of the <\/p>\n
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\nhighest authority, in order that
\nit might be determined then the <\/p>\n
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\nstanding of Christian people in
\nthe eyes of Roman law. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the events move forward to
\nthe trial of Paul. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this letter, in this
\nbook, as we will try and show <\/p>\n
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\nnext week, we shall see that
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\nhere, there, and again, all
\npointing to the circumstances in<\/p>\n
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\ncatch the very feeling that Paul
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\nemphasizes in the letter and the
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\nbetween this address and the <\/p>\n
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\nBut so many of the Jewish
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\nvery remote antiquity that it is
\nnot impossible that they had <\/p>\n
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\nunrolled it to the place where
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\nin cadence as such as they must
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\npoint at which he closed the
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\nas starting from these two
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\nBut in all these epistles we
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\nIn all these addresses we find
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\nTestament Scriptures.
\nMay we remind you again that the<\/p>\n
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\nafter His resurrection, He
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\nAnd they caught the example of
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\nJesus, thus establishing that
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\nAnd then in the light of the
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\nbear upon it the light of the
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\nNow, although God had thus
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\npurpose in history, in the <\/p>\n
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\nthat God gave them Saul the son <\/p>\n
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\nmentions it to point out that
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\nexplained by the fact that it
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\nand bring them into bondage to
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\nBut if that was So, what were
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\ngoverning God in the selection
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\nwhom his purpose could be worked
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\nafter God’s own heart.
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\nworked out, says Paul, through
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\ndesires, men in whom God can be
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\nunmindful of these little human
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\nbe called their God.
\nWho would think of attributing <\/p>\n
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\nwhere they understate a thing.
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\nashamed to be called their God,
\nor when Paul says it of God, it <\/p>\n
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\nreally means God was happy and
\nglad to be the God of Abraham, <\/p>\n
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\nwere men of such faith. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it is we have this
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\nin whom he delights.
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\nJesse, a man after mine own
\nheart. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Paul is dwelling upon the
\nqualities that are required in <\/p>\n
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\nmen who will have a place in the
\nabiding purpose of God. <\/p>\n
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\ncould reject Saul and choose
\nDavid, so God could reject all <\/p>\n
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\ntheir earthly rulers in order
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\nin whom, in the superlative
\nsense, it could be said he was <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:16,600 –> 00:24:21,600
\none after God’s own heart.
\nThat’s the theme there that Paul<\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:21,600 –> 00:24:25,560
\nis bringing out.
\nAnd so this man’s seedeth God <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:25,560 –> 00:24:28,840
\naccording to his promise
\nfunction of Saviour. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:29,080 –> 00:24:33,080
\nAnd so Saviour is a larger term.
\nAnd in order that he might be <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:33,080 –> 00:24:37,040
\nthe Saviour, it was necessary
\nthat they should be the life of <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:37,040 –> 00:24:40,720
\nthe Saviour upon earth,
\nfulfilled in the conditions and <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:40,720 –> 00:24:43,080
\ncircumstances of the life of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:43,840 –> 00:24:47,720
\nBut while he was born a man,
\nPaul would have them remember <\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:48,400 –> 00:24:53,120
\nthat of the while of this man’s
\nseed, the Saviour was the Son of<\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:53,120 –> 00:24:56,120
\nGod.
\nAnd so there was a forerunner <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:56,120 –> 00:24:59,360
\nbefore him.
\nAs John fulfilled his course, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:59,800 –> 00:25:03,600
\npreaching the baptism of
\nrepentance to all the people, he<\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:03,600 –> 00:25:07,840
\ntestified that one should come
\nafter him who was so much <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:07,840 –> 00:25:11,200
\ngreater than himself that he
\nwasn’t even worthy to do the <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:11,200 –> 00:25:17,280
\nservant’s part of unloosing the
\nlatchels of his, the latchets of<\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:17,280 –> 00:25:20,120
\nhis sandals.
\nAnd so Paul says, while he was <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:20,120 –> 00:25:25,800
\nof the seed of David, he was
\nmanifestation of God, our God, <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:25,800 –> 00:25:29,200
\nthe Holy One of Israel, in the
\nmidst of his people. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:30,040 –> 00:25:35,080
\nConsider His royal majesty.
\nKings had runners before them, <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:35,880 –> 00:25:40,560
\nand God was careful to observe
\nthat honour was given to those <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:40,560 –> 00:25:46,840
\nwho represented him when Ahab
\nhad been proved so faulty, so <\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:46,840 –> 00:25:52,880
\nfaithless, so dishonorable, and
\nso disgraced in the contest with<\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:52,880 –> 00:25:57,080
\nElijah at Carmel.
\nYet God import the prophet, <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:57,440 –> 00:26:01,720
\ncould be, in the means of his
\ndisgrace, to run before him as <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:01,720 –> 00:26:05,520
\nthe runner before the king, in
\norder that the majesty of the <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:05,520 –> 00:26:09,960
\nposition of the Lord’s anointed
\nmight not itself be dishonoured.<\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:10,440 –> 00:26:14,280
\nHe must have been one of the
\nmost unusual sights that ever <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:14,280 –> 00:26:18,840
\nhappened in Israel’s history to
\nsee the prophet who had <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:18,840 –> 00:26:23,280
\nchallenged the Baal prophets and
\ndisgraced the King, speeding <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:23,280 –> 00:26:27,600
\naway across Israel on on foot,
\npowered by the Spirit of God <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:27,960 –> 00:26:32,400
\nbefore the infamous King, who
\nyet was the Lord’s anointed. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:32,880 –> 00:26:36,280
\nHow much more than when the Son
\nof God is in the midst of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:36,280 –> 00:26:38,640
\nIsrael?
\nIt was fitting that there should<\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:38,640 –> 00:26:43,160
\nbe a forerunner, and John is
\npictured in the prophetic word <\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:43,760 –> 00:26:45,880
\nas the one who ran before the
\nking. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:46,080 –> 00:26:49,320
\nPrepare ye the way of the Lord,
\nmake straight in the desert a <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:49,320 –> 00:26:54,280
\nhighway for our God.
\nFor God was going to be revealed<\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:54,480 –> 00:26:57,360
\nin a theophany such as they’d
\nnever known in all their <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:57,360 –> 00:27:01,400
\nhistory, in that a child, virgin
\nborn, was to be revealed in <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:01,400 –> 00:27:03,480
\ntheir midst.
\nWho could bear the name <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:03,480 –> 00:27:05,800
\nEmmanuel?
\nGod with us. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:06,200 –> 00:27:12,080
\nAnd so John came before the
\nroyal Majesty to be the royal <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:12,080 –> 00:27:16,160
\nmajesty, to be revealed in their
\nmidst, who was raised up to be <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:16,160 –> 00:27:20,280
\ntheir Saviour.
\nAnd so he says, this word of <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:20,280 –> 00:27:24,880
\nsalvation is sent unto you.
\nBut he has to show them how this<\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:25,560 –> 00:27:31,640
\nJohn came before the Royal
\nMajesty to be the Royal majesty,<\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:31,640 –> 00:27:35,320
\nto be revealed in their midst,
\nwho was raised up to be their <\/p>\n
387
\n00:27:35,320 –> 00:27:39,200
\nSaviour.
\nAnd so he says, this word of <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:39,200 –> 00:27:44,320
\nsalvation is sent unto you.
\nBut he has to show them how this<\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:49,160
\nword was historically exhibited,
\nhow this salvation had been <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:49,160 –> 00:27:54,400
\nwrote out in history.
\nAnd so he passes in review what <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:54,400 –> 00:27:56,520
\nhad happened in connection with
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:57,200 –> 00:28:00,280
\nThey call it Jerusalem and their
\nrulers, because they knew Him <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:00,280 –> 00:28:03,760
\nnot, not yet the voices of the
\nprophets, which are read every <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:03,760 –> 00:28:05,600
\nSabbath day, have fulfilled
\nthem. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:06,400 –> 00:28:10,240
\nAnd so He would reveal the
\ntestimony of the prophets <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:10,240 –> 00:28:15,040
\nconcerning the rejection of the
\nMessiah, and sure that many <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:15,040 –> 00:28:17,840
\nthings had to be fulfilled
\nconcerning Him. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:18,120 –> 00:28:21,440
\nSo they found no cause of death
\nin Him, desire they pilot that <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:21,440 –> 00:28:25,080
\nHe should be slain.
\nAnd when they had fulfilled. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:25,440 –> 00:28:30,800
\nAnd so emphatic is He about
\nthis, that we find in that we <\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:30,800 –> 00:28:34,120
\nfind it twice in three verses.
\nBut they have fulfilled all that<\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:34,120 –> 00:28:36,160
\nwas written of him.
\nThey took him down from the <\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:36,160 –> 00:28:38,000
\ntree, and laid him in a
\nsepulchre. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:38,440 –> 00:28:42,640
\nAnd now we want to turn aside in
\na moment to what he has to say <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:42,640 –> 00:28:46,440
\nin the Galatian letter.
\nBut look at this which Paul <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:46,440 –> 00:28:49,600
\nbrings into prominence.
\nThey took him down from the <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:49,600 –> 00:28:53,280
\ntree.
\nPeter referred to the tree, and <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:53,280 –> 00:28:56,280
\nwe read the tree and think
\nnothing at all about it. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:56,600 –> 00:29:01,280
\nBut suppose we substitute the
\ngalas, the gallows, or the <\/p>\n
410
\n00:29:01,320 –> 00:29:07,480
\nexecution as block, or anything
\nthat indicates the utter shame <\/p>\n
411
\n00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:11,760
\nand indignity of a death that
\nmen impose. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:15,000
\nBut here was one that was a
\npublic exhibition. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:29:15,280 –> 00:29:19,640
\nIt could be nothing more public
\nthan a man nailed to a state, <\/p>\n
414
\n00:29:20,320 –> 00:29:25,320
\nnot a decorated cross such as
\nChristian art as represented for<\/p>\n
415
\n00:29:25,320 –> 00:29:27,880
\nus.
\nThere’s no time to trouble with <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:27,880 –> 00:29:31,560
\nthat.
\nA tree trunk was sufficient A <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:31,560 –> 00:29:34,360
\nstake.
\nAnd nailed to that, with the <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:34,360 –> 00:29:39,240
\nshame of nakedness was hung one
\nwhom Paul recognised now to be <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:39,240 –> 00:29:42,120
\nthe Lord of glory, the Son of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:42,440 –> 00:29:48,040
\nAnd this bit hard into Paul’s
\nthought, just as the shame of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:48,040 –> 00:29:52,680
\nthe proclamation that he was the
\nMessiah bit into Israel’s <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:53,080 –> 00:29:55,920
\nthought.
\nAnd they spoke of Jesus as the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:55,920 –> 00:30:00,760
\nhanged one, as an expression of
\ntheir utter execration of the <\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:00,760 –> 00:30:02,800
\nman.
\nFor a man who came to the <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:07,360
\ngallows was surely shown to be
\nan impostor. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:11,080
\nHow could Israel’s king come to
\nsuch an end? <\/p>\n
427
\n00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:18,040
\nHow could it be that one who was
\napproved of God come to such a <\/p>\n
428
\n00:30:18,040 –> 00:30:20,600
\nshameful end?
\nIt seemed to them utterly <\/p>\n
429
\n00:30:20,600 –> 00:30:25,680
\nimpossible, and Pilate knew how
\nit hurt them when he wrote over <\/p>\n
430
\n00:30:25,680 –> 00:30:28,160
\nthe cross.
\nThis is Jesus of Nazareth, the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:30:28,160 –> 00:30:31,160
\nKing of the Jews.
\nIt was part of Pilate’s <\/p>\n
432
\n00:30:31,160 –> 00:30:35,640
\nmeanness, for he knew he was
\ngetting a little of his own back<\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:35,640 –> 00:30:39,240
\nbecause they’d forced his hands.
\nBut in his meanness he <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:39,240 –> 00:30:44,000
\nproceeded, how much it would
\nsting, and so much did it hurt <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:44,000 –> 00:30:46,720
\nthem that they went to Pilate
\nand said, don’t say that, but <\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:46,720 –> 00:30:50,480
\nsay He said, if you want to
\nwrite it, let atenerate the <\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:50,480 –> 00:30:54,040
\nshame of it rebound on him.
\nHe said that he was the king of <\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:54,040 –> 00:30:57,800
\nthe Jews, and look at him now.
\nBut Pilate wouldn’t have that. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:58,720 –> 00:31:02,560
\nWhat I have written, I have
\nwritten, and there it stands. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:31:02,720 –> 00:31:07,920
\nBut if we can enter into the
\nfeelings of the Jews concerning <\/p>\n
441
\n00:31:08,320 –> 00:31:12,720
\nwhat crucifixion meant, and how
\nthey felt that the fact that <\/p>\n
442
\n00:31:12,720 –> 00:31:17,840
\nJesus had been crucified was an
\nutter disproof of his claim, we <\/p>\n
443
\n00:31:17,840 –> 00:31:23,360
\ncan see then how this
\ncrucifixion of Jesus must needs <\/p>\n
444
\n00:31:23,360 –> 00:31:27,240
\nplay a part in the thought of
\nthose who believed in Jesus. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:31:27,640 –> 00:31:33,400
\nAnd they rejoined by saying,
\nThis very death, which to you is<\/p>\n
446
\n00:31:33,400 –> 00:31:40,360
\nsuch a stumbling block, is
\nitself the divine way for men’s <\/p>\n
447
\n00:31:40,360 –> 00:31:43,680
\nsalvation.
\nWe determine, says Paul, to know<\/p>\n
448
\n00:31:43,680 –> 00:31:50,040
\nnothing among you, the Messiah,
\nJesus, and him a crucified. 1 <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:50,840 –> 00:31:55,160
\nAnd the Christians took the very
\nsting out of it by showing that <\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:55,160 –> 00:32:00,040
\nit was the very instrument for
\nthe final rendering of honour <\/p>\n
451
\n00:32:00,040 –> 00:32:03,760
\nand glory to God.
\nFor this was a public <\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:04,040 –> 00:32:07,440
\nexhibition.
\nGod has set forth, Jesus, Paul <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:07,440 –> 00:32:11,920
\ncould say, writing to the Romans
\nto declare his righteousness. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:12,240 –> 00:32:17,680
\nAnd Jesus had said before at his
\nat his baptism, when John had <\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:17,680 –> 00:32:21,280
\nbeen clip proclaiming that all
\nflesh is grass and the glory of <\/p>\n
456
\n00:32:21,280 –> 00:32:25,480
\nman is the flower of grass.
\nAnd when men had gone down into <\/p>\n
457
\n00:32:25,480 –> 00:32:30,560
\nthe water confessing their sins,
\nand in turn Jesus stepped down <\/p>\n
458
\n00:32:31,280 –> 00:32:35,120
\nwith no sins to confess.
\nAnd we wonder John said, I have <\/p>\n
459
\n00:32:35,120 –> 00:32:39,640
\nneed to be baptized of thee.
\nBut sinless though he were as a <\/p>\n
460
\n00:32:39,640 –> 00:32:44,240
\nman mortal as John had been
\nproclaiming a mortal under a <\/p>\n
461
\n00:32:44,240 –> 00:32:48,920
\ndispensation which had its
\nsource in the divine decree that<\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:48,920 –> 00:32:53,600
\nman must die because of sin.
\nThe race must die, for it’s all <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:56,160
\nbound up in the bundle of life
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:32:56,720 –> 00:33:00,520
\nThere’s a solidarity of the race
\nwhich the Bible recognises. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:05,200
\nTherefore Jesus must show God’s
\nrighteousness and fulfill all <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:07,160
\nrighteousness in the symbolic
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:33:07,360 –> 00:33:11,800
\nBut symbolism isn’t enough.
\nIt had to be wrote out indeed, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:33:11,880 –> 00:33:14,720
\nand in blood, which brought him
\nto the cross. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:14,960 –> 00:33:16,720
\nIt hadn’t to be done in a
\ncorner. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:16,920 –> 00:33:20,600
\nIt had to be done in a way that
\nit was placarded before the eyes<\/p>\n
471
\n00:33:20,600 –> 00:33:24,280
\nof all.
\nAnd now, if we want to see how <\/p>\n
472
\n00:33:24,280 –> 00:33:28,040
\nPaul presented the cross and
\nwhat it meant to him, we must <\/p>\n
473
\n00:33:28,240 –> 00:33:33,280
\nturn to the Galatian letter.
\nAnd so let us there for a minute<\/p>\n
474
\n00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:38,480
\nor two, remembering he’s arguing
\nto reclaim these Galatians. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:33:39,040 –> 00:33:42,360
\nAnd in the first verse of
\nchapter 3 he says, All foolish <\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:42,360 –> 00:33:46,080
\nGalatians who have bewitched
\nyou, that you should not obey <\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:46,080 –> 00:33:51,120
\nthe truth before whose eyes
\nJesus Christ have been evidently<\/p>\n
478
\n00:33:51,120 –> 00:33:53,560
\nset forth.
\nThere’s a vigor about Paul’s <\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:53,560 –> 00:33:58,480
\nlanguage before whom Christ was
\nplacarded, he says, just as the <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:58,480 –> 00:34:03,160
\nplacards on the wall are there
\nwith all the vigor of <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:03,160 –> 00:34:06,480
\nannouncement, pressing
\nthemselves, as it were, upon the<\/p>\n
482
\n00:34:06,480 –> 00:34:11,120
\nattention of men before whose
\neyes Jesus Christ has been <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:11,639 –> 00:34:18,400
\nplacarded, crucified among you.
\nAs though in bringing the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:22,440
\nknowledge of the crucifixion of
\nJesus, he’d done it with such <\/p>\n
485
\n00:34:22,440 –> 00:34:27,880
\nintensity and with such rigor
\nthat they’d actually seen him as<\/p>\n
486
\n00:34:27,880 –> 00:34:32,360
\nit were crucified among them.
\nIt’s not without its object. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:34:32,360 –> 00:34:35,960
\nLesson, Brethren and sisters,
\nthat Christ crucified must be <\/p>\n
488
\n00:34:35,960 –> 00:34:41,040
\nseen in some vividness, not with
\na morbid dwelling upon the <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:41,040 –> 00:34:47,120
\ndetails of his suffering, but to
\nsee his sufferings, and to see <\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:47,120 –> 00:34:51,920
\nthem in the light of the Divine
\nreason for them to see the <\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:51,920 –> 00:34:55,920
\ndivine purpose and the divine
\nprinciples that were seen in the<\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:55,920 –> 00:35:00,200
\ndeath of Jesus.
\nAnd he says that because he has <\/p>\n
493
\n00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:04,440
\nbeen giving them a reminiscence
\nin chapter 2 of his preaching <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:04,440 –> 00:35:07,400
\namong them.
\nIn chapter 2 he tells us that <\/p>\n
495
\n00:35:07,480 –> 00:35:11,040
\neven Peter defected.
\nWhen Peter was at Antioch, he <\/p>\n
496
\n00:35:11,040 –> 00:35:14,280
\ndissembled when some of the
\nJudaizers complained about a <\/p>\n
497
\n00:35:14,280 –> 00:35:18,280
\nmeeting with Gentiles.
\nAnd Paul saw that unless Peter <\/p>\n
498
\n00:35:18,360 –> 00:35:22,760
\nwas brought to line, the whole
\nposition of his work was at <\/p>\n
499
\n00:35:22,760 –> 00:35:26,080
\nstake.
\nAnd so he begins to reason with <\/p>\n
500
\n00:35:26,080 –> 00:35:27,280
\nPeter.
\nVerse 11. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:35:27,280 –> 00:35:30,480
\nAnd when Peter was come to
\nAntioch, I withstood him to the <\/p>\n
502
\n00:35:30,480 –> 00:35:33,160
\nface, because he was to be
\nblamed. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:35:33,960 –> 00:35:38,720
\nAnd the whole reason for for
\nrecounting this is because what <\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:38,720 –> 00:35:44,480
\nhe said to Peter, which won
\nPeter back, was the very message<\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:44,480 –> 00:35:50,360
\nthat he himself had proclaimed
\nwhen he was in in among the <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:50,360 –> 00:35:54,960
\nGalatian cities.
\nIt is because of the parallel <\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:54,960 –> 00:36:00,800
\nbetween what he said to Peter
\nand what he taught them that <\/p>\n
508
\n00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:04,920
\nthis account of the meeting with
\nPeter has its relevance. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:05,200 –> 00:36:10,400
\nAnd therefore it is that as he
\nproceeds in his argument, in his<\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:10,400 –> 00:36:14,120
\nrecounting of what he said to
\nPeter, Paul forgets his <\/p>\n
511
\n00:36:14,120 –> 00:36:17,640
\nrecounting Peter.
\nHe’s back again in presidian <\/p>\n
512
\n00:36:17,840 –> 00:36:20,560
\npresidian Antioch, talking to
\nthem. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:36:21,040 –> 00:36:25,640
\nRead what commentary you will.
\nYou’ll find that all writers <\/p>\n
514
\n00:36:25,640 –> 00:36:30,800
\nwith feeling discern that
\nsomewhere in this address to <\/p>\n
515
\n00:36:30,800 –> 00:36:35,880
\nPeter in the 2nd chapter, Paul
\nleaves Peter and he’s back in <\/p>\n
516
\n00:36:35,880 –> 00:36:38,960
\npresidian presidian Antioch.
\nBut it’s the same message. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:36:39,240 –> 00:36:41,920
\nThey differ at which verse the
\nbreak comes. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:45,080
\nIn fact, it’s gradual and merges
\ninto it. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:36:45,680 –> 00:36:49,440
\nBut in it he says, verse 16,
\nknowing that a man is not <\/p>\n
520
\n00:36:49,440 –> 00:36:53,720
\njustified by the works of the
\nlaw, but by the faith of Jesus <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:53,720 –> 00:36:58,840
\nChrist.
\nEven we, you Peter, and you <\/p>\n
522
\n00:36:58,840 –> 00:37:04,360
\nGalatians, even we have believed
\nin Jesus Christ, that we might <\/p>\n
523
\n00:37:04,360 –> 00:37:08,040
\nbe justified by the faith of
\nChrist, and not by the works of <\/p>\n
524
\n00:37:08,040 –> 00:37:10,600
\nthe law.
\nFor by the works of the law <\/p>\n
525
\n00:37:10,960 –> 00:37:16,320
\nshall no flesh be justified.
\nAnd if it means that we, finding<\/p>\n
526
\n00:37:16,320 –> 00:37:20,400
\njustification in Christ, must
\nhave necessity recognised to be <\/p>\n
527
\n00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:23,080
\nourselves, to be sinners, so be
\nit. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:27,120
\nAnd if Paul builds again the
\nthings which he destroyed, he <\/p>\n
529
\n00:37:27,120 –> 00:37:29,080
\nwould make himself a
\ntransgressor. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:37:29,640 –> 00:37:33,920
\nFor I says Paul through the law,
\nthrough his experience of law <\/p>\n
531
\n00:37:34,400 –> 00:37:38,680
\nwith its inevitable bringing to
\nlight the sinfulness of men. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:42,280
\nWhen the law came, he says, when
\nmy father said Paul, this is <\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:46,880
\nGod’s law and we mustn’t do
\nthat, you mustn’t do this and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:46,880 –> 00:37:50,960
\nyou mustn’t do that.
\nAnd Paul became aware of the <\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:50,960 –> 00:37:55,200
\nimpulses in him that were
\ncontrary to it. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:59,080
\nAnd he says sin sprang to life
\nand he felt that the penalty of <\/p>\n
537
\n00:37:59,080 –> 00:38:02,680
\nthe law broken must be, is.
\nAnd I died. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:38:02,960 –> 00:38:06,440
\nHave you ever watched a child
\ntold by its parents you mustn’t <\/p>\n
539
\n00:38:06,440 –> 00:38:10,160
\ndo that?
\nAnd you see the very impulses of<\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:10,160 –> 00:38:13,880
\nhuman nature welling up and the
\nbattle going on. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:14,280 –> 00:38:18,800
\nI, I, I warned, but I’d better.
\nWell, it’s in us just the same. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:21,960
\nWe camouflage it and hide it
\nsometimes. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:25,760
\nBut if we’ll analyse ourselves,
\nthere’s nothing more searching <\/p>\n
544
\n00:38:25,760 –> 00:38:28,120
\nthan the 7th chapter, the letter
\nto the Romans. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:38:28,480 –> 00:38:31,080
\nAnd Paul says, I through the
\nlaw, I’m dead to the law. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:38:31,520 –> 00:38:34,480
\nBut it was only that he might
\nthen come into another <\/p>\n
547
\n00:38:34,480 –> 00:38:37,440
\nrelationship, whereby I might
\nlive unto God. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:38:38,240 –> 00:38:43,120
\nAnd now verse 20, I am crucified
\nwith Christ. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:43,400 –> 00:38:48,280
\nNevertheless, I live yet not I,
\nbut Christ liveth in me and the <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:48,280 –> 00:38:50,240
\nlife which I now live in the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:38:50,240 –> 00:38:54,560
\nI live by the faith of the Son
\nof God who loved me and gave <\/p>\n
552
\n00:38:54,560 –> 00:38:58,200
\nhimself for me.
\nI am crucified with Christ. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:02,200
\nAnd your thought goes, as Paul
\nmust have vividly portrayed it, <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:06,720
\nto what happened just outside
\nthe gates of Jerusalem when <\/p>\n
555
\n00:39:06,720 –> 00:39:10,280
\nJesus was laid out to be
\ncrucified with two others with <\/p>\n
556
\n00:39:10,280 –> 00:39:14,760
\nhim.
\nAnd they were crucified with <\/p>\n
557
\n00:39:14,760 –> 00:39:17,160
\nChrist.
\nAnd that’s what being crucified <\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:17,160 –> 00:39:21,480
\nwith Christ means.
\nAnd Paul, though not present <\/p>\n
559
\n00:39:21,720 –> 00:39:27,880
\nprobably at the scene of the
\ncrucifixion yet, had as probably<\/p>\n
560
\n00:39:27,880 –> 00:39:32,280
\na member of the Sanhedrin, or at
\nany rate closely connected with <\/p>\n
561
\n00:39:32,280 –> 00:39:35,400
\nit, approve the action of his
\nnation. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:39:35,560 –> 00:39:39,720
\nAnd although he knew they jeered
\nat the man on the cross, he’d <\/p>\n
563
\n00:39:39,720 –> 00:39:43,960
\napprove their jeering.
\nAlthough they’d mocked him, he’d<\/p>\n
564
\n00:39:43,960 –> 00:39:47,480
\napprove their mocking.
\nAnd yet now he’d come to realise<\/p>\n
565
\n00:39:47,880 –> 00:39:51,800
\nthat there was the dynamic
\nenergy of God for men’s <\/p>\n
566
\n00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:57,560
\nsalvation in these facts of the
\ncrucifixion, and that instead of<\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:57,560 –> 00:40:02,440
\nbeing in the ring gathered round
\nthe cross, he’d got to leave the<\/p>\n
568
\n00:40:02,440 –> 00:40:07,360
\nring and crossover and to see
\nthat what was being done in that<\/p>\n
569
\n00:40:07,360 –> 00:40:13,840
\nman there crucified was such
\nthat he must identify himself <\/p>\n
570
\n00:40:13,840 –> 00:40:16,160
\nwith it.
\nAnd you have here the most vivid<\/p>\n
571
\n00:40:16,160 –> 00:40:18,760
\npicture of the idea of
\nrepresentation. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:40:19,080 –> 00:40:23,720
\nFor what was Jesus doing there?
\nHe’d gone there voluntarily, <\/p>\n
573
\n00:40:24,640 –> 00:40:28,440
\nalthough they’d arrested him.
\nIt sought not to escape. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:32,760
\nHe knew that it was the end that
\nthe Father appointed him. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:40:33,080 –> 00:40:36,040
\nWe go up to Jerusalem, he says,
\nand the Son of Man will be <\/p>\n
576
\n00:40:36,040 –> 00:40:41,520
\nrejected and be crucified.
\nHe hadn’t any illusions about <\/p>\n
577
\n00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:46,360
\nwhat the end would be, and so
\nclearly did he see it that it <\/p>\n
578
\n00:40:46,360 –> 00:40:51,560
\nwould appear that he minted the
\nfigure out of the foreseeing of <\/p>\n
579
\n00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:56,040
\nhis own death, that if any man
\nwould follow him, he must take <\/p>\n
580
\n00:40:56,040 –> 00:41:01,600
\nup his cross and follow me.
\nIt was out of the consciousness <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:01,840 –> 00:41:06,560
\nthat the cross was required of
\nhim that he could coin this <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:06,560 –> 00:41:10,920
\nfigure of cross bearing.
\nAnd what is the bearing of the <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:10,920 –> 00:41:13,800
\ncross?
\nIt’s carrying on your back the <\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:13,800 –> 00:41:18,960
\nstake to the place of
\ncrucifixion, that there, there <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:19,720 –> 00:41:25,400
\nyou might die, there you might
\nrepudiate self, and there your <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:25,400 –> 00:41:29,720
\nold self might be surrendered.
\nAnd to do it voluntarily, to <\/p>\n
587
\n00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:34,880
\ntake up the cross, is to deny
\nself and say self. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:41:35,280 –> 00:41:40,200
\nHuman nature, human nature with
\nall its propensities toward <\/p>\n
589
\n00:41:40,200 –> 00:41:44,680
\nevil, must be reprobated.
\nIt must die. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:41:45,000 –> 00:41:49,800
\nAnd God was right in saying that
\nthis nature is unfitted for <\/p>\n
591
\n00:41:49,800 –> 00:41:54,800
\nperpetuation and must die.
\nAnd God’s honour and God’s <\/p>\n
592
\n00:41:54,800 –> 00:42:01,240
\nmajesty, God’s supremacy, could
\nonly be upheld by a man <\/p>\n
593
\n00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:04,800
\nvoluntarily going to the
\nposition where there was a <\/p>\n
594
\n00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:08,920
\npublic exhibition of a man
\nvoluntarily laying down his life<\/p>\n
595
\n00:42:09,280 –> 00:42:11,400
\nto declare the righteousness of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:42:11,680 –> 00:42:16,000
\nAnd Paul saw that God’s honour
\nwas upheld, and he saw that God <\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:16,000 –> 00:42:20,680
\nhad set forth Jesus to do this
\nwhich we couldn’t do ourselves <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:20,680 –> 00:42:25,440
\nto be acceptable to God, in
\norder that this man, having thus<\/p>\n
599
\n00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:29,200
\nupheld God’s honour.
\nAnd then God having raised him <\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:34,280
\nfrom the dead because having
\nbeen obedient, he’d broken the <\/p>\n
601
\n00:42:34,280 –> 00:42:38,840
\npower that death had through sin
\nand therefore could be raised to<\/p>\n
602
\n00:42:38,840 –> 00:42:43,560
\neverlasting life.
\nAnd God says you can’t do it, <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:44,200 –> 00:42:48,400
\nbut it has been done by my
\nworking in him. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:48,400 –> 00:42:52,320
\nFor God was in Christ in this
\nwork of reconciliation. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:42:52,920 –> 00:42:56,840
\nAnd if you’ll recognise the
\nprinciples that have been upheld<\/p>\n
606
\n00:42:56,840 –> 00:43:02,080
\nin him, if you’ll identify
\nyourself with him by joining him<\/p>\n
607
\n00:43:02,080 –> 00:43:05,840
\nin crucifixion, in bearing the
\ncross and recognising what it <\/p>\n
608
\n00:43:05,840 –> 00:43:11,480
\nsignifies, then God says I’ll
\naccept your identification with <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:11,480 –> 00:43:13,480
\nhim and for his sake forgive
\nyou. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:13,960 –> 00:43:20,520
\nAnd thus it is with that circle
\nof thought that Paul can say I <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:20,520 –> 00:43:24,480
\nwas among those around the cross
\nin thought. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:28,320
\nI thought right was done and
\nthat he was an impostor. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:35,120
\nI jeered and I mocked, but I saw
\nthat I was wrong, that Christ <\/p>\n
614
\n00:43:35,120 –> 00:43:40,120
\nwas right, that I was opposing
\nGod, whereas Christ was obeying <\/p>\n
615
\n00:43:40,120 –> 00:43:43,200
\nGod.
\nAnd I saw that my only way of <\/p>\n
616
\n00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:47,680
\ncoming into a living
\nrelationship to God was by <\/p>\n
617
\n00:43:48,440 –> 00:43:52,160
\nwalking across the patch that
\nseparated me to him. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:43:53,040 –> 00:43:56,000
\nThough the swing around might
\nsay, what’s he doing? <\/p>\n
619
\n00:43:56,280 –> 00:43:59,840
\nWhat’s happening to him that is
\nleaving us who are jeering to go<\/p>\n
620
\n00:43:59,840 –> 00:44:02,960
\nhimself and join him in his
\nshame and disgrace? <\/p>\n
621
\n00:44:03,560 –> 00:44:08,360
\nBut I am crucified with Christ
\nas Paul because it is only in <\/p>\n
622
\n00:44:08,360 –> 00:44:12,640
\nChrist crucified that there has
\nbeen brought life for men. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:44:12,640 –> 00:44:17,480
\nAnd therefore, although
\ncrucified with Christ, I live. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:44:17,880 –> 00:44:21,760
\nWhat sort of a life is it?
\nIt’s alive, motivated and <\/p>\n
625
\n00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:26,200
\nenergized and directed by the
\nSpirit of him who died. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:44:26,360 –> 00:44:29,480
\nYet not I, but Christ liveth in
\nme. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:31,880
\nAnd the life which I now live in
\nthe flesh. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:44:31,880 –> 00:44:36,440
\nI live by the faith of the Son
\nof God and Paul, who’s all <\/p>\n
629
\n00:44:36,440 –> 00:44:40,680
\nexperienced of the law.
\nPerhaps there’s no other man in <\/p>\n
630
\n00:44:40,680 –> 00:44:45,240
\nIsrael’s history had ever
\nexperienced it before in his <\/p>\n
631
\n00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:48,800
\nconscious effort after
\nrighteousness by the works of <\/p>\n
632
\n00:44:48,800 –> 00:44:53,920
\nthe law, came to see that it had
\nno power for righteousness in <\/p>\n
633
\n00:44:53,920 –> 00:44:56,280
\nhis life.
\nAnd it was only by the <\/p>\n
634
\n00:44:56,280 –> 00:45:01,800
\nconstraining power of the love
\nthat Christ had revealed in <\/p>\n
635
\n00:45:01,800 –> 00:45:04,920
\nbearing these sufferings and
\ncoming to the cross to fulfil <\/p>\n
636
\n00:45:04,920 –> 00:45:07,520
\nthe well of God.
\nAnd it was because Paul knew the<\/p>\n
637
\n00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,800
\nintensity of the shame of it
\nthat it came home to him with <\/p>\n
638
\n00:45:10,800 –> 00:45:14,280
\nsuch fullness.
\nIt was only by that by that, <\/p>\n
639
\n00:45:14,960 –> 00:45:18,320
\nthat men could be moved to
\nrighteousness, and that’s what <\/p>\n
640
\n00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:22,000
\nhe told the Galatians.
\nHence the correspondence between<\/p>\n
641
\n00:45:22,000 –> 00:45:24,440
\nthe two.
\nGod raised him from the dead and<\/p>\n
642
\n00:45:24,440 –> 00:45:26,800
\nthe promise which God had made
\nto the fathers had been <\/p>\n
643
\n00:45:26,800 –> 00:45:30,520
\nfulfilled.
\nYou’ll observe in verse 33 the <\/p>\n
644
\n00:45:30,520 –> 00:45:33,280
\nword again, God has fulfilled
\nthe same unto us, their <\/p>\n
645
\n00:45:33,280 –> 00:45:36,360
\nchildren, in that he has raised
\nup Jesus again, the Revised <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:36,360 –> 00:45:40,040
\nVersion amidst again they again.
\nIt’s a reference to his birth <\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:40,040 –> 00:45:43,360
\nwhich was fulfilled in the Psalm
\nThou art my son. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:44,080 –> 00:45:46,800
\nAnd the 34th verses is
\nconcerning that he raised him up<\/p>\n
649
\n00:45:46,800 –> 00:45:48,560
\nfrom the dead.
\nThey get the compass. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:48,560 –> 00:45:53,040
\nYou see, there’s the one raising
\nup in birth verse 33, the <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:53,040 –> 00:45:57,200
\nraising up from death in verse
\n34, in fulfilling the promises <\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:57,200 –> 00:46:00,560
\nmade unto David.
\nAnd you’ll observe the strict <\/p>\n
653
\n00:46:00,560 –> 00:46:05,200
\nparallel between Paul and Peter,
\nthat they both argue that David <\/p>\n
654
\n00:46:05,200 –> 00:46:07,480
\nis dead, and the promise
\ncouldn’t refer therefore to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:46:07,480 –> 00:46:10,920
\nDavid, and must refer to the day
\nto David’s Messiah. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:46:11,280 –> 00:46:15,360
\nAnd now in the 38th and the 39th
\nverses we have the <\/p>\n
657
\n00:46:15,520 –> 00:46:19,960
\ncharacteristic doctrine of Paul
\nconcerning justification by <\/p>\n
658
\n00:46:19,960 –> 00:46:22,520
\nfaith.
\nBe it known unto you, therefore,<\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:22,520 –> 00:46:25,440
\nmen and brethren, that through
\nthis man is preached unto you <\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:26,040 –> 00:46:31,680
\nthe forgiveness of sick sins.
\nFor by him all that believe are <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:31,680 –> 00:46:36,320
\njustified from all things from
\nwhich he could not be justified <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:36,760 –> 00:46:40,480
\nby the law of Moses.
\nAnd the word justified and the <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:40,480 –> 00:46:44,480
\nword believe are based upon that
\nstatement of her backup, which <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:44,480 –> 00:46:48,360
\nPaul uses so much in his letter
\nto the Romans and the letter to <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:48,360 –> 00:46:51,840
\nthe Galatians.
\nThe just shall live by faith. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:52,240 –> 00:46:55,720
\nThe just shall live by faith.
\nAnd in the very context of that <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:55,720 –> 00:47:01,280
\nstatement in her backup, which
\nforms so basic a case for Paul, <\/p>\n
668
\n00:47:02,040 –> 00:47:04,440
\nthat occurs, the words, Behold,
\nhe despises. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:47:04,440 –> 00:47:08,040
\nAnd wonder of the 41st verse,
\nwhich shows that the apostle <\/p>\n
670
\n00:47:08,040 –> 00:47:12,480
\ntook up that second chapter of
\nher backup and expounded it in <\/p>\n
671
\n00:47:12,480 –> 00:47:16,640
\nall its bearings.
\nAnd so the word of salvation <\/p>\n
672
\n00:47:16,800 –> 00:47:19,920
\ncame to the Gentiles.
\nMy time is entirely up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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