Episode 112: The prophets fulfilled in Jesus

In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting

mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world

and the life of all. Give us wisdom by your law and

enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge.

Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be

obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at

every hour. O You who enlightens the

rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my

Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and

divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son

and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen.

We're going to go straight to Acts chapter 13.

Acts 13 · chapter mention

We'll pick it up from verse 26, but a brief recap we for the

first time we read off Saint Paul's sermon preaching not his

first words that he spoke, but his actual sermon.

And we noticed that he begins from the captivity, takes the

the those who are in the synagogue and takes them back to

the captivity. And he works his way until John

the Baptist. And we said, and we ascertained

to remind them that using history that they were quite

familiar with, to remind them what God had prepared, what God

had promised, and that now he's going to tell him that it was

fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And we learned from that, that

when we want to speak about a specific biblical topic, a

specific sacrament or anything pertaining to faith and

religion, and most importantly the Christian religion about

Jesus Christ, Oh God, we can't just pick one verse and say,

there it is. And we, we brought some

examples. We used some examples.

You can't just tell me baptism is Mark chapter 16, verse 16,

Mark 16:16

for example. So we need to go back to what

was a shadow of the things to come, which was the Old

Testament, and what is now the shadow of the things to come

when the Lord returns, which is the New Testament.

I'll read from verse 26 to 28, and that's Acts of the Apostles

chapter 13. Saint Paul continues to say, O

men and brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, that is

the Jews, and whosoever among you reverences God.

So whoever that believes in the law, in the God Elohim and who

obeys the law, he's referencing referencing them as well to you

is the word of salvation sent. There's the first word of

salvation. Salvation from what?

From the law and the prophets. The bondage of the law and the

bondage of the prophets. What of Moses for in as much as

the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders did not understand

him. That is Jesus, nor the books of

the prophets which are read every Sabbath day.

Remember we spoke about this, that when Jesus was resurrected

and assented and send it into heaven, the apostles would

continue to go on the Sabbath to the synagogue to listen to the

readings of the law and the prophets.

But then they would preach Jesus Christ, or they would.

They would then use the prophets and the laws to then emphasize

that they have been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Praise be to His name every Sabbath day they condemned him,

but all the things which were written have been fulfilled.

And though they found no cause for his death, they asked Pilate

that they might kill him. Now he's talking about, you

know, those fathers, those that were there during Christ time

and what they actually did to Jesus Christ.

You'll see that during Paul's sermons and you know his, his

writings on, on all of the occasions when he's addressing

the Jews, the people of the promise, we find that he's

making a a point to show them that the blessing is also

theirs. Yes, what they did was wicked

because of the stiff neckedness. Stiff neckedness because of

their pride, because of their blindness.

What they did was break a wicked but they cannot flee from Jesus

Christ because he is God, praise be to his name.

So he's sort of a little bit maybe apologizing on their

behalf. You know, they they thought for

themselves that we have nothing to do.

We crucified him. That's it.

But what Saint Paul wants to do is to give them hope, to bring

them to the hope, to show them that listen, you did not

crucify, you did not kill, you did not put to death the one and

only true Son of God. No, no, no.

God had foreordained this. And so Jesus voluntarily

submitted himself to death. You know, as I was saying, if

we, if we role play, this is as though Jesus said, come death,

come on, OK, you're going to, you're going to affect me now.

Yes, take over. You're going to you're going to

actually you're going to have an effect on my body, but but be

careful and wait for a crushing because I'm going to destroy

you. So I'm going to allow you to do

this so that I can come back and destroy you.

Oh, death, you're not having an effect on me because you are

overcoming me because you are stronger than me, because you're

overwhelming me. No, no, no, no, I submit myself.

That's why Jesus says the Son of man, I have authority to lay

down my life myself and to one more time resurrected.

So as we've said in many other episodes, you know, death did

not overcome, death did not win, death did not affect Jesus gave

himself up and admitted to himself in obedience to death so

that he could overcome death for you and I, beloved, in his

flesh. What a beautiful, you know, you,

you tell me, you message me, you call me, you do whatever you

want to do. Tell me in the history of the

world that someone has done such a gracious act of love and mercy

and kindness that you and I have benefited from.

No, no, yes, the holy Saints who devoted themselves to the Lord,

those who devoted them their lives to the Lord, they did it

through Jesus Christ. But Christ did it himself for

you and I. No one, no author of any

ridiculous faith can claim this. No, no, no, they can't claim it.

If they do, they're liars. They are deceivers.

There is nothing that anyone could do for mankind that would

bring the blessing that we received from Jesus Christ

voluntarily giving himself up. You know what is it The the

prophecy says that as a as a sheep that is taken to the

slaughter. He did not open his mouth.

He could have. He's God.

He could have, as he said to Simon, put away your sword.

I can ask for legions. That is 10 thousands of 10

thousands, trillions. Gazillions of angels can come

down now and fight on my behalf. And again, angels are not little

kids fondling themselves as they are being predicted.

No, no, no, no, no, Angels are huge, 10 thousands I can bring

down, but no, no, no, it's time I'm voluntarily doing this.

That's why I came. That's why God loves so for this

reason, God loved, so loved the world that he gave himself.

He, he presented his son and he did not rescue his son from

death. So he's trying to tell him

subliminally, yes, you did it because of your wickedness.

You were wicked, but it was to be fulfilled.

Someone had to die. Many died but could not bring

atonement through the blood, could not appease God.

But the Son of God, the only one and only begotten Son of God,

praise be to his name, Jesus Christ.

For as much as the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders

did not understand him, they did not understand they didn't know

Him. So the sin again, he's trying to

tell them that what happened, was it ignorance.

They thought they were doing something great.

Just like Saint Paul himself, Saul.

Saul thought he's a hero, he's the man of the match.

He's going to be held a hero because he is so learned of the

law. But that's why Christ caused him

to be blind. You know, showing that you know

nothing, soul, you know nothing. He thought he was doing

something great. Those who are following the way,

the people of the way, not Christians, they weren't called

Christians. They were called the people of

the way. And Jesus is the way, praise be

to his name. He would go and capture them and

bring them to the Romans. They would feed them to the

lions, right? Or they would, they would be

persecuted, put to death. OK, so the same thing with these

people because their sin was in ignorance.

They didn't read, they didn't understand that this was to

happen. See how he is gently making

again an apology on their behalf of the crucifies?

Like, OK, you've done this. You know this.

This gives, gives me personally a lot of courage and a lot of

heart, beloved. Yeah, sometimes we're foolish.

Sometimes we do things. Sometimes, at times we sin, we

drop the ball. We, we transgress the transgress

against the law, you know, sometimes knowingly and at times

not knowing. That's why the priest says

absolve my sins. And that's those that I know and

those which I do not know by your grace and mercies, at times

we do things and we, we feel so bad, so down and out, and we

withdraw ourselves from Christ as though I cannot have a

relationship with Jesus Christ because of where I am.

But hey, that's Satan. That's the enemy.

You know, this is, this is great encouragement.

You know, it's, it's don't ride yourself off from Jesus Christ

and the love, the grace of Jesus Christ come back to the Lord

regardless of what you have done knowingly or unknowingly.

And not only this beloved, but he adds also that that this

needed to be happen. It was written.

Let me read it again. For in as much as the

inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders did not understand

him nor the books of the prophets which are read every

Sabbath day, they condemned him. But all these things which were

written have been fulfilled. They were written, they were

prophesied, they were already in God's perfect plan for the

salvation, the word of salvation, which is Jesus

Christ. And though they found no cause

for the death, they asked Pilate that they might kill him.

You know, again being stiff necked, stubborn, prideful,

there was no reason his his trial was illegal.

There's an illegal trial. You cannot judge a man and

condemned to death in that 1 / 1 overnight, overnight he was

condemned to death. They didn't find anything that

that, that, you know, warranted his death.

That's what Pilot said. But they in haste lied and

made-up stories and they crucified.

But again, what Saint Paul's saying this was all written.

This was written and it had to happen.

But you again not justifying what they did, but it had to

happen and you were the fools and the sinners who did it.

Many of the priests and the you know who was it Nicodemus and

all those learned of many accepted Jesus Christ.

They accepted, they repented, but those who didn't, Paul is

addressing them. But God raised him from the

dead. God raised him.

Didn't Jesus claim in John chapter 2 verse 19 that talking

John 2:19

about the temple, he said destroy this temple and I will

raise it up. I will I there is that I factor

that I am the I factor I will raise it up.

But Saint Paul says God raised Jesus.

Well, Jesus is God. You know, one of the fathers

writes that Jesus divinity raised his his humanity from the

dead. John chapter 8 before Abraham

John 8 · chapter mention

was I am Matthew chapter 5. It has been written.

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

It has been said in the old but I say to you I so when Saint

Paul is saying that God raised him from the dead.

Yeah, the divinity and it is the body of the Son that has been

raised from the dead, not the not I'm sorry, the the the

humanity, the body that is being of the Son that has been risen

and resurrected from the dead, not the divinity.

Here he is referring to the person of the Son, the human

nature, the human pneuma or hypostasis of the Son that God

resurrected. Just as when Jesus said in John

John 5:26

chapter 5 verse 26, the Father gave life to the Son.

What life gave life to the flesh?

Yes, the Father gave life to the flesh.

Why? Because if Jesus himself is

life, I am the life, right? John chapter 14 verse 6, I am

John 14:6

life. How can life receive life?

No, but in the flesh, in his humanity.

Hence we say the holy feast of the birth of our Lord and our

Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh, in His humanity, because

in His divinity He is pre existent, always existed.

And let me pose this question to you.

I did it in the Syrian segment. Who in the history of mankind

can claim this? Who in the history of mankind

can claim the pre existence of their nature?

Who? No one, no leader of all these

the some of the ridiculous faiths that are out there.

No, they never claimed. They did not dare to claim the

scriptures didn't say that about that's not the scriptures.

I'm sorry their books don't claim that about their leaders.

But the scriptures claim he is pre existent.

He's pre existent. He was resurrected.

His body, his flesh was resurrected and who rose it?

His divinity rose, resurrected his humanity.

Verse 31 And for many days he was seen by them who had come up

with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.

Because remember he said to his disciples, we're going to go to

Jerusalem from Galilee. The Son of Man will be captured

and he will be, you know, deceitfully condemned.

And he would be handed over to the men and they will beat him

and they will crucify him. But on the third day he will be

resurrected. You know, this is evident.

This is true because he appeared to many.

That's what he's going to say. And for many days he was seen by

them who came up with it for many days.

Yeah. For 40 days, 40 days, his

disciples busked in Jesus presence, the resurrected Lord

Jesus, the glorified Lord Jesus Christ.

And it was true. Jesus was seen alive, beloved.

Not, not in a dream, not according to a ridiculous myth,

not according to psychics, fortune tellers, tariff card

readers. No, he was seen in the flesh.

He was gazed at. Saint John writes they heard

him, they touched him. Thomas touched the Lord Jesus

Christ. Yes, the Scriptures don't say

that he did, but Jesus says come and touch.

And I believe when the and the Father's right that yeah, he

touched because Jesus commanded him.

We don't read that, Thomas said, Oh no, Lord, I'm not worthy to

touch you. No, he must have touched the

places of the nails and then proclaimed that Jesus is his

Lord and his God. Come on, get it right.

You know, it disappoints me. It annoys me that when those who

don't accept Jesus Christ haven't believed in Jesus

Christ, but they believe and they they give up their life to

someone who is dead and gone and decayed and corrupted, right.

Show me in the Bible where Jesus got Thomas claims that he is his

Lord and his God and Jesus didn't you know?

Someone was saying show me in the Bible where Jesus is I'm

God. He doesn't say I am God.

He didn't need to say I am God, I am God.

Yeah, verbatim I am God is not. But Rohalla is God, Kalamalla is

God and when Thomas proclaims you are my Lord and my God and

Jesus did not say don't no, no, no, no, no, Thomas, you can't

say that I'm not your no, no, he said, now that you've seen and

touched, you know, I added the touch, yes, I know no, that

you've seen you believe. No, no, no, blessed are those

who don't have not seen and have believed.

And verse 32 to 32, three he goes on.

And behold, we also preach to you that very promise which was

made to our fathers. Behold, God has fulfilled it to

us, their children, for he has raised up Jesus.

Just that as it is written in the second Psalm, You are my

son. This day I have begotten you.

The promises that were given to the fathers was fulfilled to the

children which was them. One of the fathers writes it

beautifully. God fulfilled his promise given

through the prophets of Israel who were not frauds, you know,

some people. And now, now let's bring it

home. It annoys me.

Yeah. It really annoys me when you

have Christians who make a mockery of the prophets of God.

Why? Because they're not your tribe

and they're not your, your same nationality.

No, no, We have a Syrians who, you know, our brothers and

sisters, our Syrian brothers who mock Moses, who mock the

prophets of God. They actually don't even want to

have anything to do with the prophets of God.

Well, let me tell you something. If you proclaim that you know

Jesus and you love Jesus and you are obedient to Christ, well,

Christ himself spoke of Moses and the prophet.

So where do you stand with that? No, no, repent.

And that's where you stand. You stand at the at the at the

place of repentance. They predicted, predicted his

birthplace. They predicted that Emmanuel was

conceived by virgin rights, one of the fathers.

They predicted the signs and wonders performed, performed by

him. How?

How? Through God.

God worked through them. So if God worked through them,

we got to be careful. You cannot tell God.

I love you, Lord. I love your son.

Oh, and I love some of your Saints and what have you.

But your prophets. No, no, no, no.

It's ridiculous. They predicted his word.

Would spread so speedily, they predicted the voice of the

apostles even went forth in all the earth.

They predicted this. They predicted the suffering and

the condemnation by the Jews and they predicted his resurrection

from the dead. And that's what Saint Paul is

saying. However, the fulfilment, all of

the of all those predictions was with the children, which is they

themselves. The promise was to the fathers.

The reality of the promise was to them themselves.

Do you see how how beautifully Saint Paul is, but isn't This is

the way we need to talk. As I said last time, about God,

you know, not just take one verse.

Look at the the entire Scriptures and not only this,

don't, don't limit Christ and Christianity to a book.

We cannot limit Christ's power and strength and work to a book.

No, go back to the early church fathers, go to the fathers, go

to the apostles. How did they understand this?

And we see Saint Paul, this is what he's doing.

He's expanding on this so that he can bring those to

repentance, those who crucify Jesus Christ.

And he says, listen, you know, you did it.

This was your sin, but you fulfilled what was written.

That's why Jesus, Saint Paul writes, I think it's in the in

the book of Corinthians, that if they too will stop from their

unbelief, the Lord can graft them back.

I think it's Hebrews or Hebrews. The Lord can, Lord can one more

time graft them into the vine again.

And he's talking about those who crucified him, those who

rejected him. And he says that, behold, we

also preach to you that very promise which was made to our

fathers. God has fulfilled to us their

children, for He has raised him up.

That is Jesus, just. That is as it is, is.

It is just as it is written in the second Psalm.

You are my Son. This day I have begotten you,

You are my Son. This is the Father speaking to

the Son. That is his power and his

wisdom. Hence God raised him from the

dead, and Jesus is the power and the wisdom of God.

Jesus is God according to one Corinthians 124.

Since He is the Son by nature and by truth, He's shown forth

from the very essence of God. We say He's the reflection of

God. Praise be to His name.

He was made flesh. Yeah, the word that was with God

and was God in the beginning became flesh.

John chapter one, verse 14. But we need to remember, beloved

also, that He was before with the Father, He was before his,

his incarnation. He was with the Father before he

came became flesh. He was with the Father.

The Father knew him, The Father was He was with the Father, the

Father knew Him and the the Son knew the Father.

That's why the Son came and introduced us to the Father.

Who again, one more time, let's take it back.

Which prophet, which St. Which apostle has introduced us

to the Father by Jesus Christ? Which other religious leader has

introduced us to the Father and said such statements that he who

sees him sees the Father by Jesus Christ because he is God

Incarnate by nature, just as He is human by nature.

He is God by nature. And this is what Paul is telling

them subliminally he's telling them you are my beloved son

today I have begun you Psalm chapter 2 verse 7.

Psalms 2:7

You are not you were you will be.

You are being, you are. My Son existed before time.

Actually, you know he was and he's not bound by time.

We cannot say to to the nature of the divinity, the divine

nature of Jesus Christ is not bound by time.

Just like God himself, God the Father, God, the Holy Spirit,

the Trinity is not bound by time, but the humanity of the

Lord Jesus Christ, the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Yes, yes, there was a time where it became flesh in the womb of

Mary, the blessed Mary, may her prayers be a beacon of high wall

of refuge to all of us, but was always with the Father.

And it's a mystery, beloved, it is a mystery.

But we see that through what Jesus did and what he spoke,

what the Scriptures are teaching us, that he is the Father, not a

God. He, he's not the Father.

I'm sorry, He's not a God. He is not another God.

He is the the definite article the God and then he adds that

today I have begotten you again. Again he is humanity.

This is one of the fathers of writes about this that he has

begotten you that his final generation according to the

flesh that he voluntarily underwent in the womb of the

holy Virgin so that he was also God be called begotten of God

his flesh he was begotten his His flesh was begotten from Mary

and he is the only begotten of Christ which that means he is

the only one that is a perfect representation of our humanity

before the Father. He took our flesh upon himself

made it perfect in him in him made it perfect, cleansed it,

purified it and made it perfect, justified it and represented it

presented it to the Father and that is why we remain in our

Lord Jesus Christ. That is why, beloved, the word

of salvation is this, that prior to Jesus Christ, prior to Jesus

Christ, whatever was prior in the Old Testament, in the Old

Covenant, all the, you know, commandments and the 600 more

commandments prior to that mankind was bound by, that was

under the jurisdiction of the law of Moses.

Jesus Christ came by his death and resurrection, saved.

He brought salvation of that jurisdiction.

And then how we become adherents and partakers of that salvation

is when we receive the Lord Jesus Christ, When we believe in

the Lord Jesus Christ, then we are baptized in his in his

burial, in baptism, we are put to death in baptism, in his

burial and resurrected one more time.

Then we have new lives in Jesus Christ for eternal life heading

for eternity. Not once we have been baptized

and been born in you and have been saved and that's it.

We're in the Kingdom of heaven. No, because we have a a great

obligation to strive. Strive, not believe.

Stand outside the gate and say I believe this is the gate.

No, no, no. Strive to enter the narrow gate,

produce fruits of repentance until the Lord returns.

And when the Lord returns, those who have been a part of his

life, let's put it simply, those who have lived a pious life

struggled to live a pious life, struggled to produce fruits of

repentance, struggled to produce virtues, to be obedient and

continue communication and partaking with him through

prayer, fasting, the Holy Scriptures, the holy sacraments

of the Church, yet may be fallen and and and transgressed at

times, but once again continued the fight.

And those who prior to entering this warfare and warhead prior

prior to entering this battle have been saved from the

requirements of the law. Then they will gain eternal

life. They will hear by the grace of

God, they will hear the words well done, good and faithful

servants. So that's what Paul is trying to

do. Beloved, this is how we too need

to present Jesus Christ to those who have no relationship, those

who have had a relationship, those who have been already

saved from the requirements of the law, yet they have.

Then what is it? Backslide.

They have then walked away from Christ to bring them back one

more time. There's no more sacrifice for

that. There's no you don't need to be

put to death. You only, you only die once

through Jesus Christ. There is that gracious gift of

confession and repentance and there are 10 tentacles,

confession, fasting, praying and repentance and the absolution

received from the church. And one more time they are

grafted back into the vine, just like the Jews, Jesus, Saint Paul

says, if they stop from their unbelief, they believe in the

Lord Jesus Christ, they receive the holy Bapt and they are also

baptized. They live in Christ.

They will be grafted and remain in Jesus Christ for they for

that amazing day when he returns to hear those blessed words.

Well done, good and faithful servants.

So again, Saint Paul, he's continues to continue.

He's continuing to speak to them of the old and, and to remind

them one more time because they were, they knew what he's

talking about. But still some of them would not

receive it, unfortunately. And you know, it's, it's sad to

say there will be people when the Lord returns that would not

have received Jesus Christ, regardless of how many, how much

preaching there is and how, how many times they introduced the

truth of Jesus Christ. Some will not accept Jesus

Christ out of their free will, but we need to pray for those

people. We need to pray for the world,

beloved. We need to pray that just as

Moses commands the Israelites in Numbers chapter 12, verse eight,

Numbers 12 · chapter mention

that let's not live according to our own thinking, how we think

it's right. Let's live according to the

presets of God through His Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the

power of His Holy Spirit, praising glory be to His name,

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