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1/6 Who Is Jesus To You? Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Maranatha Shabiba Conference 2021)

Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  1. We just praise God that were able to have a conference this

  2. year with the craziness that's going on in the world.

  3. And as much as there are different, political opinions

  4. about what's happening in America and across the nation's.

  5. One thing is, for certain, we are experiencing a dress

  6. rehearsal for the end times. You better believe it, and Jesus

  7. said something to the religious leaders of his day.

  8. He said, you know, you can tell when this summer is coming.

  9. When you study the the Fig Tree, you see the leaves budding and,

  10. you know, that the time is near. He's like, but you couldn't, you

  11. couldn't tell you couldn't see the signs for the coming of the

  12. Messiah, with all the prophecies and all the specific,

  13. articulations concerning my arrival, to this earth, you

  14. couldn't see it. And I believe in the same way

  15. this generation is not interpreting the signs

  16. correctly. And if they miss the first

  17. coming don't you think that it's possible for believers to miss

  18. the second? I think it's possible and that's

  19. why we must be grounded in the word of God.

  20. The grass withers, the flower Fades, but the word of our God

  21. will stand forever. If you have your Bibles, please

  22. turn with me to the book of Song of Solomon Chapter 5.

    Song of Solomon 5 chapter mention

  23. Again, we're so blessed that you're here.

  24. We're so thankful for every single person that contributed

  25. to making this conference happen if you notice there's new chairs

  26. this year because we want you to feel a little bit uncomfortable

  27. and feel, what the persecuted Church gets to feel all the time

  28. but then that concern because they're just caught up in the

  29. glory of God. No, I'm just kidding.

  30. That's not the reason why, but we're appreciative of your

  31. understanding The book of Song of Solomon, who here has read

  32. it. It's an interesting book because

  33. it is unlike really any other book in the scriptures.

  34. The reason being is that the content doesn't present itself

  35. as Redemptive history. You don't see a storyline of

  36. events taking place at describe God's working in the world that

  37. lead up to the coming of Jesus Christ.

  38. It's also not a book about prophecies, whether a judgment

  39. or the coming of the Messiah or the second coming of the

  40. Messiah. And it's not a book like we see

  41. in the Epistles and even the gospels where we get direct

  42. teaching and commands. But our faith and practice.

  43. The book of Song of Solomon is a romantic dialogue between a man

  44. and a woman who are pursuing marriage pursuing that Covenant

  45. with one another and you and I get a glimpse into their passion

  46. for one another. And this book, many don't read

  47. it for different reasons. And one of the reasons it makes

  48. them blush really and teacher shy away from teaching from it,

  49. because it doesn't seem to offer much except that one facet of

  50. your life, where you are pursuing a woman or, or being

  51. pursued by a man to come into that relationship of marriage.

  52. And if you read it carefully, you understand?

  53. At least one thing God, cherishes, this gift called

  54. marriage and he actually wants it to be enjoyable.

  55. I know that's a hard thing to understand.

  56. Especially for those who are in marriage.

  57. They kind of lose that wine as as it happened in the wedding of

  58. Cana. They lose that joy and that

  59. celebration and this book. Contradicts, all of that, this

  60. book shows us that you can actually no true desire for

  61. someone else. And you can cherish one another

  62. and you understand that God has provided that person as a gift

  63. to you. But is that it is this book just

  64. all about giving you some language.

  65. Men, if you're not good at communicating your emotions,

  66. this book will help you, but is that it?

  67. No, it's not it. I am of those who believe that

  68. you can find Christ in every book of the Bible.

  69. Because we are told in the last chapter of the Gospel of Luke,

  70. when Jesus had a personal Bible study with two people on a

  71. seven-mile journey to Emmaus, that beginning with Moses and

  72. the prophets, he began to interpret all the scriptures

  73. concerning himself, beginning with Moses and the prophets, he

  74. began to draw out of not some of the scriptures, all of the

  75. scriptures. Concerning himself.

  76. Can you find Jesus in The Book of Song of Solomon?

  77. You sure can with wisdom, you sure can with a balanced, you

  78. sure can. Here's a, here's a simple

  79. illustration to help us understand that this is not such

  80. a difficult idea to grasp did not the Holy Spirit, inspired

  81. the Apostle Paul to describe the relationship with Christ and the

  82. church through the imagery of what a passionate bridegroom

  83. pursuing and cherishing a bride. And so in some sense, you can

  84. come to this book and you can see some not all because some

  85. people get wild and crazy with interpretation, right?

  86. But you can see some Shadow and some kind of indication of how

  87. we can relate what we see in this book to our relationship

  88. with the Lord, Jesus Christ. And the principle of all of that

  89. is this you and I have something called, We Tell it to people all

  90. the time. Don't we a personal relationship

  91. with God? Personal not corporate, not a

  92. relationship through your pastor who spoon feeds you sermons

  93. know, a personal relationship with the Living God.

  94. And one example, I believe we see here is in chapter 5 of this

  95. book. Here's what's happening.

  96. At this point, the woman, the unnamed woman apparently has a

  97. dream in this chapter and she is describing the dream that she

  98. has and the description of this dream really centers around this

  99. experience. That her beloved Solomon

  100. approaches her door, approaches her room to be in close

  101. proximity with her but she ignores it and she misses the

  102. opportunity and she realizes the foolishness of her laziness to

  103. not answer that door. And so she is On a quest.

  104. Now to find him. And so she gets up, she leaves

  105. her home and she goes to the city.

  106. This is all the dream that she's describing as she goes to the

  107. city and she begins to desperately and frantically try

  108. to find this man and she is so panicky that she begins not to

  109. kind of go to other people. Have you seen him?

  110. Have you seen him? Have you seen him?

  111. Finally, there's this group called the daughters of

  112. Jerusalem. Who observed This Woman's

  113. passion and her distress that they put her aside and they

  114. inquire there's something there's something about this

  115. man, clearly that is making this woman act this way and say these

  116. things. And so, finally, this these

  117. Outsiders inquire of this woman and come to verse 9 and see what

  118. they say, What is your beloved? More than any beloved other

  119. beloved. All most beautiful among women.

  120. What is your beloved more than another beloved that you thus a

  121. juror us? Let me read one more time.

  122. What is your beloved more than another beloved?

  123. All most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than

  124. another beloved that you thus a juror has in essence?

  125. What they're saying is, hey what's so special about this

  126. guy? What's what about in that is

  127. making you so crazy running around in these streets and

  128. trying to find out where he is. Why leave the comfort of your

  129. home? Why?

  130. Come in the middle of the night? Why are you going up to

  131. strangers and are asking them for their Direction?

  132. What about this man is causing you to be this way?

  133. And I can't help but read these verses and immediately examine

  134. my own heart and ask how would I answer these types of questions

  135. as somebody were to ask me about my personal relationship with

  136. the Lord Jesus Christ? What's the big deal about Jesus?

  137. Why do you choose to worship Him among other gods?

  138. I see your social media, I see what you do on weekends.

  139. Why do you Center your entire life around someone that you

  140. can't even see. Why have you surrendered your

  141. way of life? I knew who you were before.

  142. This whole thing called being born again, I know who you are.

  143. Why are you different now? Why are you letting go of your

  144. friends? Why are you letting go of your

  145. past patterns? Why are you not going where you

  146. used to go? Why are you not being with who

  147. you used to be with what did this men do to you for you to

  148. speak this way and act like this?

  149. How would you answer that? How would you answer that?

  150. I think some people would answer this way.

  151. Well, you know, I grew up in the church and You know, just grew

  152. up in the church and mom and dad knew Jesus and I just thought,

  153. you know, this is what I'm used to.

  154. This is what I know. So yeah, just I go to church and

  155. are you able to respond in such a way in which you don't have to

  156. pair it? Someone else's words.

  157. Are you able to actually? Are you able actually Express

  158. who he is? In a manner in which it would

  159. cause people to question their unbelief in your Jesus.

  160. What does he mean to us or is he just theology?

  161. Is he just Doctrine? You know, there are a lot of

  162. people who are theologians that will be in Hell one day.

  163. You can have your theology on blackboard and have your heart

  164. empty of the Holy Spirit. Doesn't take much to memorize

  165. some truths and be able to share it with others.

  166. Passionately. You got to know the person of

  167. Jesus Christ. Who is he to you?

  168. What has he done for you? And this woman here is about to

  169. answer. She's about to answer in a

  170. specific way, but hear me in this.

  171. As we begin this conference, many people perhaps even in this

  172. room have reduced their Christian experience to do's and

  173. don'ts That's what it is. But I would ask this if we're

  174. going around telling people that Christianity is not a religion,

  175. it's a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

  176. Let's humbly, ask this question to ourselves.

  177. How much of the person do I know?

  178. Do I claim with others that I have a relationship with He's a

  179. person. He's a person.

  180. And it's amazing how this woman answers.

  181. Look what she says in verse 10. My beloved is radiant and Ruddy

  182. distinguished among 10,000. His head is the finest gold.

  183. His locks are wavy black as a raven.

  184. His eyes are like doves besides streams of water.

  185. Bathed in milk, sitting beside a fool, pull pool.

  186. His cheeks are like the beds of spices mounds of sweet-smelling

  187. herbs. His lips are lilies dripping

  188. liquid myrrh. His arms are rods of gold set

  189. with jewels. His body is polished.

  190. Ivory bedecked with sapphires. His legs are Alabaster columns,

  191. sometime basis of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon

  192. Choice as The Cedars. What an answer?

  193. What an answer, she could have just said, you know, we're

  194. planning to get married, he's my fiance.

  195. Have you seen him around? No, nothing of the sort, the

  196. moment. These people ask who is this guy

  197. that makes you do this and feel this way she explodes, she

  198. explodes. You just you just Twisted the

  199. top now and I'm going to let it all out.

  200. Let me tell you how wonderful he is.

  201. And you know what? She does read carefully.

  202. She Grab some from head to toe. She goes from his hair to his

  203. eyes, to his cheeks, to his lips, to his arms, to his body,

  204. to his legs, from head to toe. Let me tell you, just why he

  205. magnetizes me and now, wonderful, he is, and what's so

  206. amazing about this is that you can clearly tell that this woman

  207. studied her beloved She didn't give some quick insignificant

  208. answer. No.

  209. She began to tell you spontaneously without

  210. preparation, who this man is And I'm afraid that modern

  211. Christianity especially in the west because of our Biblical

  212. illiteracy. We know how to give general

  213. answers, I knew how to do it. I'm telling you, I've come to

  214. conferences like this, maybe a younger age and we would break

  215. out into groups and they would. And, I would answer those things

  216. like I would even get scripture references.

  217. But there is no reality. There is no praise.

  218. There's no worship. There was no devotion.

  219. And I wonder how much of Jesus do we really know?

  220. How much of Jesus do? We really know with all the

  221. facets that we are? Given in the scriptures with all

  222. the angles that we are provided see what this woman is saying is

  223. whether you're from far up close, you'll realize something

  224. he is beautiful from head to toe, he is incomparable.

  225. In fact, she says, he is distinguished among 10,000.

  226. There is no one like this man. How much of Christ do we know in

  227. terms of him being savior? And saving work.

  228. Oh, he died on the cross. Great.

  229. What did that mean? Why did he die on the cross?

  230. What did it mean for him to die on the cross?

  231. What did it do for Humanity for him to die on the cross?

  232. What did his blood do in your life?

  233. He saved me from hell. That's wonderful.

  234. He doesn't just save you from how he saves you from sin.

  235. What did he save you from? What sins?

  236. Did he save you from? Can we stand before an

  237. unbelieving world and say, look, I want to tell you what, Jesus

  238. Christ saved me from this is who I was before.

  239. This is who I am now. I'm not perfect, but I'm walking

  240. in Victory. You see what I'm trying to say?

  241. Hope I'm trying to communicate this.

  242. Clearly, how much do we know of them as high priest?

  243. His Priestly work. Now we think Jesus ministry is

  244. over. No, he's actually high priest in

  245. heaven as we speak. When was he ordained as a high

  246. priest? Why high priest?

  247. What does it mean for Jesus to be king?

  248. What will it look like when he does come to this world and Rule

  249. and Reign for a thousand years? What does it mean for Jesus to

  250. be king of my life? Now what does he do for you as

  251. king? Who is he, as healer?

  252. What does he heal from? Is he able to heal it?

  253. Does he heal all things? What does it mean for him to

  254. keep his promises? What kind of promises has he

  255. given you? What a kind of promises?

  256. Do you see what I'm trying to say?

  257. She begins to just Ramble On on and on and on and then it's

  258. almost as though she runs out of language and just comes to this

  259. point in verse 16 his mouth is most sweet and he is altogether.

  260. Desirable This is my beloved look what she saying.

  261. This is my beloved. I didn't learn this in seminary.

  262. I didn't just get this for my favorite teachers on YouTube

  263. though. They help.

  264. This is my beloved and this is my friend mine.

  265. O Daughters of Jerusalem. and like with Christ take any angle,

  266. Look at any aspect of who he is and you will come to this

  267. conclusion. He is altogether.

  268. Lovely. He is altogether desirable.

  269. Look at him in his Holiness. Look at him in his love.

  270. Look at him in his mercy and his grace.

  271. Look at him and his judgments, you know, a lot of people today

  272. are uncomfortable with the doctrine of hell with the

  273. doctrine of God's Wrath. Do you realize in the Book of

  274. Revelation? How much of the themes of

  275. worship songs are his judgments? You know, in heaven, people are

  276. actually going to be singing and praising God with hallelujahs

  277. for him judging the wicked. Because no matter what point you

  278. take just like a diamond no matter what face you turn it

  279. towards it will radiate his Beauty And His Majesty he is

  280. infinitely glorious. He is altogether desirable.

  281. I mean, you can use any example, you can go to any portion of the

  282. scripture and you will find something of just how wonderful

  283. he is. Let me give you an example, with

  284. the genealogies of Jesus Christ, the things that we skip over The

  285. genealogies of Jesus Christ. You can see his majesty right

  286. there, how? Matthew, and what's the other

  287. book? Luke correct Matthew, why did

  288. Matthew give us the genealogy of Jesus Christ?

  289. Was audience was a Jewish audience and he wanted to show

  290. the people he want to show the nation of Israel that Jesus

  291. Christ son, of Joseph, son of Mary, Jesus Christ is what he

  292. is, the legal heir to David's throne.

  293. And so he reels back the lineage, through David to

  294. Abraham to show that he is a Jew and he is in fact a descendant

  295. of David Therefore, as a descendant of David, he must and

  296. he will occupy the throne and he will deliver the people of

  297. Israel, he will deliver the Jews.

  298. Not politically one day, he's going to do it in a real sense

  299. where he's going to come into this world and he's going to

  300. occupy a throne in Jerusalem. But more importantly, for the

  301. soul, he will liberate your soul.

  302. He will set you free once and for all the nation of Israel

  303. must realize through that genealogy, Jesus Christ is in

  304. fact, a descendant of David, the son of David.

  305. Also, the root of David. He is King of the The Jews.

  306. Luke now, Luke comes in with a genealogy and Luke is not

  307. concerned necessarily about a Jewish audience.

  308. You read look carefully and Luke chapter 3.

    Luke 3 chapter mention

  309. And you realize that he does go through Mary's line, some debate

  310. that. But I believe that is to be

  311. true. He goes through Mary's line,

  312. because Mary also is a descendent of David, but through

  313. a different son of David, you got to read that carefully to

  314. see it, but Luke is not concerned about how Jesus was a

  315. Jew. Luke reels, the lineage all the

  316. way back to. Who Who.

  317. Adam. He goes all the way to the

  318. Garden to the first man who have ever existed and saying son of

  319. Adam, Son of God. Why did Luke do that?

  320. Again, Luke is not concerned about a Jewish audience.

  321. Luke wants to show that the humanness of Jesus.

  322. Yes, but he goes back to Adam to declare what Jesus didn't come.

  323. Just to save the Jews. He came to save the whole human

  324. race. Jesus came to redeem man from

  325. The Curse of Adam and he is the last Adam and he will reverse

  326. everything that has happened in the garden and he was establish

  327. a new Garden for all eternity. He is the greater and the final

  328. Adam What about the other genealogies?

  329. There isn't any why? That's by Divine Design?

  330. You come to the Book of Mark and you realize.

  331. Where is his genealogy? There's any deserve another one.

  332. Maybe so. But what's marks concern?

  333. Marks, concern isn't necessary, they show the humanness of

  334. Jesus, or that Jesus was the king of the Jews.

  335. March concern is to show the world that Jesus fulfilled, the

  336. Prophecies of the suffering servant in Isaiah. and this is

  337. how you know it you read Mark and if you've read mark There's

  338. a is a word that occurs over and over again.

  339. Does anybody know the word immediately?

  340. Go to your room tonight and just scan Through The Book of Mark

  341. and you'll see this word over and over again, immediately,

  342. immediately immediately immediately immediately, Mark

  343. isn't concerned about showing the depths of divine truth.

  344. Like, in different gospels, he's not even concerned of giving

  345. Parables as much as Matthew and Luke, he wants to show how Jesus

  346. was eager and willing to serve the father.

  347. So, immediately he heals and immediately, he goes to this

  348. place and immediately returns and immediately he walks on

  349. immediately immediately, like a good servant?

  350. No. Hesitation Obedience.

  351. But here's the thing in that humble is State.

  352. We have to understand that. Even, in ancient times servants,

  353. were not worthy to have their genealogies recorded.

  354. There was nothing significant about who they were.

  355. There was no great inheritance to pass down.

  356. So Jesus, as a humble servant is irrelevant.

  357. Concerning a genealogy. He's just a good servant.

  358. John. What is John's concern

  359. concerning Jesus is the show that he was a king.

  360. Is that the show that he was a son of man in terms of being a

  361. human was, at the show that he was a suffering servant.

  362. Where is John's genealogy of Jesus?

  363. Well, John's concern is to demonstrate one thing.

  364. He's the son of God. He is God in the flesh.

  365. He's the Eternal one who came into this, temporal world, and

  366. he radiated, the divine nature. We know that in the Book of

  367. John, you see, those wonderful I am statements.

  368. So you want to know where the genealogy of Jesus says in John,

  369. there isn't any. Why?

  370. Because he's God. In the beginning was the word

  371. and the Word was with God and the Word was God, no need for

  372. genealogy. He always was.

  373. He always will be Jesus. Christ is forever.

  374. God Genealogy does not your heart burn within you just to

  375. realize the Masterpiece of the genealogies of Jesus Christ.

  376. And we haven't even got to his work in his words yet.

  377. He is altogether desirable He's altogether.

  378. Wonderful. And that's the point of this

  379. conference. This is the greatest enemy to a

  380. preacher by the way. A giant clock.

  381. How wonderful nice to meet you again friend, every year?

  382. I see that thing I'm like, oh, great.

  383. This is the whole point of the conference for one single

  384. purpose. One single purpose, prayerfully

  385. to be understood that you and I would fall in love with the

  386. person of Jesus Christ. Because that is the whole Crux

  387. of the matter. And when you real, if I can use

  388. this language when you see him head to toe, I mean this weekend

  389. will not do justice because here's what it is when you come

  390. to the realization of who he is, it's like entering into a door.

  391. When you come to a certain portion of scripture or you hear

  392. a certain truth, you enter into a door.

  393. And here, this room filled with jewels and gems and diamonds and

  394. you examine them and I can tell you this from just 10 years of

  395. walking with the Lord and you think you figured it all out,

  396. you memorize them. You place them in nice little

  397. cases. You memorize certain thing and

  398. you're like wow this is amazing. What a wonderful Discovery and

  399. an offer sudden you look up and you see a wall another door and

  400. you open that door, you enter. And it's a bigger room and you

  401. thought, I thought I was over. I thought I realized all that I

  402. need to realize and then you see all these brand new jewels and

  403. gems and diamonds and coins and chest, and you open them up and

  404. you think after a few years I think I got it.

  405. I think I understand then you look up and you see another door

  406. and you open that door and there it is.

  407. Another big room filled with all these wonderful things.

  408. That's what it's like to know him.

  409. Anything well, where does it end?

  410. Well, I'll tell you where it ends one day, you'll come to a

  411. room, you'll open that door. And that door is going to lead

  412. you into a place called heaven. And when you get to heaven it's

  413. not going to have a door. It's not going to have walls.

  414. It's going to be an endless space where you will discover

  415. that the vine glories of God. For all eternity thousand years

  416. will pass by and you would only scratch the surface of just how

  417. wonderful he is. But we need help.

  418. We need help. Because we're clogged with so

  419. much dirt and filth and distractions.

  420. I'm telling you, this generation will have it on its Tombstone

  421. death by Distraction. We need help and Paul himself

  422. knows that the church needs help.

  423. That's why he says in Ephesians 1 16, 17.

  424. I do not cease. To give, thanks to you.

  425. Remembering you my prayers at the god of our Lord.

  426. Jesus Christ. The father of Glory, may give

  427. you the spirit of wisdom. And Revelation in the knowledge

  428. of him. Church of Ephesus.

  429. I am fully aware that you and I need the power of the Holy

  430. Spirit, his wisdom, his Revelation to come to the

  431. knowledge of who he is. You see tonight, the holy spirit

  432. is eager to glorify the Son of God because that's what he was

  433. sent to do. But the Holy Spirit meets a

  434. heart that is hungry. See Paul was hungry, not just

  435. for him but for the church to understand him so he prays and

  436. the Holy Spirit when he sees a heart that says I want to know

  437. him more, he'll meet it and he'll do it in different ways.

  438. I'm telling you, do it in your personal reading.

  439. He'll do it through a sermon. He'll do it through

  440. conversations. He finds marvelous ways to

  441. reveal the Majesty of the person.

  442. You and I claim to be savior. What's the result?

  443. I'm closing now? What's the result of this many

  444. things? You'll know deeper worship a

  445. deeper devotion? And something happens in the

  446. world things begin to get, strangely, grim and gray and

  447. they lose their flavor. you know, once in a while I hear

  448. about Trends and stuff and I just kind of want to peek into

  449. what's You know, happening in the world.

  450. So I dip my toe in it and I look into him like this is what

  451. people are crazy about this stuff.

  452. This is what people are obsessed with and millions of views are

  453. going towards. I'm like no, thank you.

  454. And I close that door and I go back to that room.

  455. That Jesus open. So yes, you will know a deeper

  456. love from a deeper revelation of Us near sense of his presence.

  457. But look, at chapter 6, verse 1, of Song of Solomon, look at what

  458. the people who initially asked this woman, what's the big deal

  459. of your beloved? Look, what happens to them?

  460. Where has your beloved gone? O?

  461. Most beautiful among women. Where has your beloved turn?

  462. That we may seek him with you? You see what happens here.

  463. So you have these inquires, you have those that are asking and

  464. then the moment, the woman describes the man, they are now

  465. persuaded to search for him as well.

  466. They are now not just curious about This Woman's relationship

  467. with this men. They are now curious to discover

  468. the man for themselves. You know what this generation

  469. needs more than anything, real Christians, like real

  470. Christians, real Christians. Possessed with a love and

  471. Obsession for this person. Jesus Christ to the point where

  472. it's contagious to the point where I actually makes people

  473. wonder why is it that you don't do all these things and you're

  474. so consumed with this person and you seem like a person who's

  475. mentally stable, you seem like a person who's educated, you don't

  476. seem like you're off the grid. You seem like a sensible person.

  477. So why is it that you are so different?

  478. And perhaps it's possible that you and I can come to a place

  479. where we are so, so captured and enthralled by him, that

  480. evangelism is just a natural outcome of our personal worship.

  481. And people wonder what is happening here.

  482. And then they begin to wonder, and they begin to make their own

  483. Quest. You want to see happening in the

  484. New Testament, I assure you, this is over after this.

  485. Matthew Chapter 2, what happens in Matthew chapter 2 Look at

    Matthew 2 chapter mention Matthew 2 chapter mention

  486. verse one, you're familiar with this.

  487. Matthew 21. Now, after Jesus was born in

  488. Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod, the king behold, wise

  489. men from the East came to Jerusalem saying, look at this.

  490. Where is he? Where is he who has been born

  491. King of the Jews for? We saw his star when it Rose and

  492. have come to worship Him. Contrary to the manger scene

  493. that you see up in Christmas, there was, I believe more than

  494. three. There was enough wise, men to

  495. come into Jerusalem and cause a Ruckus.

  496. It says, all of Jerusalem was disturbed by these men coming in

  497. and Desiring to know where the Messiah is.

  498. So they come and they say where is he?

  499. We want to know where this king of the Jews were ready to

  500. worship Him. Here's my question, how do these

  501. wise men from the East have any understanding of a Jewish King?

  502. Who would be born at this time? I understand if Israelis at this

  503. time would say, hey, where is he?

  504. We've studied the books. We realize that he can be coming

  505. any moment now, and we want to know where he's at.

  506. We want to worship and you have men from the East traveling

  507. miles upon miles to come to Jerusalem to inquire.

  508. What's the relationship? How do these wise men?

  509. These Magi have any comprehension that there would

  510. be a messiah born as a child. Here's what I believe.

  511. If you scan scripture, your realize that there is a heavy

  512. load of evidence of these people called the Magi, the wise men

  513. and a specific book in the Old Testament, which one is it?

  514. The Book of Daniel? The Book of Daniel.

  515. And what's amazing about Daniel who is taken from Israel with

  516. his friends because of God's judgment upon the nation brought

  517. to which place Babylon. There brought their right before

  518. Babylon and Daniel has such an influence.

  519. He is so filled with the spirit. He is now promoted early on in

  520. the Book of Daniel, to be chief of who the Magi chief of the

  521. Wiseman. And I believe Daniel had gained

  522. such respect such Authority that those who were under His

  523. tutelage those who are under his supervision heard about this

  524. Messiah through his own Lips Read Daniel, how much does he

  525. get about the revelation of the Messiah to come the son of man

  526. the one who's about to come in a certain amount of years and I am

  527. sure that with Daniel pass along to the Magi as a person of great

  528. impact on their culture, these Magi passed down from one

  529. generation to the next one. Generation to the next one.

  530. Generation to the next to the point of this.

  531. This generation with a magi realize, he should be here any

  532. moment now and they come because of one person who worked in a

  533. governmental position. They had the audacity in the

  534. boldness to speak about the Wonders, the coming Kingdom of

  535. the true king that would destroy all other kingdoms and

  536. governments. Imagine that one man's testimony

  537. had generational effects. I'm sure Daniel though, he was

  538. prophetic didn't understand the implications of what he would

  539. share in his office and what he would share in those courtrooms

  540. and all for a sin. You have these men of the East

  541. as says that great teacher, Daniel hundreds of years ago,

  542. told us about this Messiah. Now, we want to come and see

  543. him. Where is he?

  544. We want to worship. And so you and I have an

  545. opportunity to deepen our understanding of Christ to

  546. worship and truly to love him, to see him through the lens of

  547. the scripture in such a way. When we go back into that world,

  548. we will have a new Fresh seal and sharpness to our testimony

  549. of Christ. The other people would say I've

  550. been pretty miserable my whole life.

  551. Where is he? I want to know him more.

  552. I'm excited for this weekend. I hope you are too.

  553. This is a deep. Well that never runs dry.

  554. Never been disappointed. Sometimes this word punches me

  555. in the gut with conviction and other times, it showers me with

  556. comfort that the Living God is watching.

  557. Over me, he's for me, is with me.

  558. He would lead me to the end. I would like to say so much

  559. more, but we'll leave it for this weekend.

  560. Let's pray together, shall we? And just set your heart to ask

  561. what Paul asked of the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

  562. Lord, help me. See Christ.

  563. My eyes have been dull for a while.

  564. My heart has been hard. Lord your word.

  565. If I'm honest has been collecting dust instead of

  566. collecting my affections. Heavenly Father.

  567. Lord we are humbled in this place.

  568. Lord, we want to partner with you, to know the depths of who

  569. Jesus is. Low.

  570. We don't want to just no General things or take us up close.

  571. Help us see him in his Humanity. Help us, see us.

  572. See him in his divinity. Help us.

  573. See us in him. Help us see us without him.

  574. Lord in this place. You know, the hearts that know

  575. you, you know, the hearts that have yet to come to know you but

  576. we pray that together in this place, we would all have an

  577. encounter with Christ and that we would all get in our cars and

  578. leave this place by the end of the week and knowing that we

  579. have met with the Living God. Do we pray against the works?

  580. Of Satan, we pray against the things that would distract

  581. people from seeing Christ and that could be as simple as

  582. sickness Lord. We pray that every person in

  583. this place would be Heavenly minded with all the joys of

  584. fellowship and games and all these wonderful things.

  585. We pray that one thing would be true that you would be the

  586. Supreme desire of our hearts. And Lord if that's not the case.

  587. When our hearts this weekend, transform us.

  588. Because Lord, we know that, when we see you rightly, we see other

  589. things, everything the way we're supposed to see them.

  590. And so Lord, in this place we commit this week and every

  591. session all the times in between that you would be in the midst.

  592. We pray for profound Fellowship, we pray for life-changing

  593. sessions, we pray, Lord, that if this book is true that we would,

  594. we would love you the way you deserve to be loved and we know

  595. that you're able to bring us there.

  596. We commit these things into the hands of the living Christ in

  597. Jesus name we pray. Amen, and amen.

  598. God bless you, the stand and Worship the Lord together.