The Revelation of Jesus the Messiah | Pastor Paul McGee

The glory of the Lord rise among us, Amen.

He said he wanted the glory of the Lord to cover the earth as

the waters cover the sea, Amen. We need his glory, Amen.

Today, thankful for the presence of the Lord.

We have felt in this place over the past few services, in our

song service and our worship service.

Thank you to the praise singers and the praise band for leading

us, Amen, into the presence of the Lord.

That's important, That's important.

I want to be LED into His presence.

I want to sit at His feet. Amen.

And take some time to do so. You can stamp me this morning

and turn to the Gospel of Mark chapter #1 as you're standing.

Just a point of information, Sister McGee, and make mention

about our World Missions Commitment service that we had

and all of the commitments that were turned in after that.

For this year from the World Missions Commitment Service, we

have $904.50 per month that will be going.

You combine that with what goes from our church regularly

anyway, and you're talking about $1309.50 on a monthly basis that

goes from the church. We did not get to the World

Missions rally as a result of the weather that was pending and

no one knew the hour of it. But we did as a church, give

$1200 to Honduras for the Hirsch family as they start their

mission work down there in the country and the nation of

Honduras. So we're grateful, Amen.

That the Lord is, he blesses us. We, again, it's not my objective

here ever to have a large bank account.

I just want to be a piece of conduit through which it flows.

I'm not trying to build my Kingdom, trying to build his

Kingdom. And in fact, if I can get

somebody else in the area that I can't get to, such as a

missionary, then so be it. Because when they go get down in

glory there and speak a new tongues there, I've had a hand

in it here. Amen through giving, Amen.

Amen. And so until the whole world

knows Amen, that is our, that is our Commission from the Lord.

Mark chapter #1. Mark chapter #1 And also, and

I'm just kind of throwing this out ahead of time because I know

this is important. If you have plans and intentions

on going to the Indiana District can't meeting this year.

Registration will open on April the 28th.

That is a Monday. That is an important day.

If you plan on going, you better mark on your calendar because

you got to be on that like flies on on anything, bees on honey,

you know, flies on anything, but you want to be on top of that.

All right. And because you all know, I've

told you in past years that goes so quick anymore within just

less, I mean hours. It's booked all right on

grounds. And so you want to be mindful of

that. And my mind's kind of just not

there. I know Pastor Jonathan Vasquez

is our evening service and and brother David Ivy from Ohio is

in the morning services for the youth.

And so it will be good. Also some other things and we'll

have this for you and such, but some other things to be thinking

of a couple of revivals this year at the home church at

January the OR not January. That's already happened.

June the 1st through the 4th will be revival here.

That's a Monday through Wednesday, June 1st through the

4th with brother Adrian Sanford. And then in connection with our

annual chili supper and hayride, we're doing a little different

this year. We'll have our hayride, but on

that Sunday, the Sunday through Wednesday, we'll start revival

with Tyler and Kayla Smith's going to come back and be with

us. And so those are just a couple

of revivals. There's also a lot of other

stuff and perhaps we'll get, I'll get with Brother Alex and

we can make up some, some papers, some type of thing that

can get those major dates in your hands that you want to be

here for. Sorry to have you standing for

so long. Mark chapter #1 just a couple of

verses. Amen.

Today the Bible says, now after that John was put in prison,

Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the

Kingdom of God, verse 15 and saying the time is fulfilled and

the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent ye and believe the

gospel, Amen. For a little while this morning.

This really piggybacks off over last Sunday morning about the

revelation of God in Christ. This morning I want to talk to

you about the revelation of Jesus the Messiah.

All right, the New Testament Scripture, and it was all time

prophesied in the Old Testament about the Messiah of the Jewish

people that would come. And they were in many respects

looking for that Messiah. He did come in the man Christ

Jesus. But we'll see this morning that

even the Old Testament seems to relate to us that that Messiah

would be more than just a man, which is what we come to see

last week. He was divine, Amen.

And so we're going to look at that then this morning here, the

revelation of Jesus the Messiah. Let's talk to the Lord here.

Father, I love you, God, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness.

I thank you, Lord, for another opportunity to be in this house,

the Lord in this place. We're thankful, Lord, for your

spirit. We're thankful, Lord, for your

hand of safety, Lord, over this week.

And we appreciate Lord Jesus, that God, we pray, Lord,

continue to be with all those that are in need.

Let our minds be engaged with your word and you're able to

help her understanding God in this place.

In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the church say Amen.

Amen. You may be seated.

And just as another footnote to those revivals, yes, they are

Sunday through Wednesday. All right, We've done a lot of

revivals of the year, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I'm trying to get a little bit more revival out of us, OK.

And so we're doing Sunday through Wednesday, and those are

two days you would already be here Sundays and Wednesday.

So just adding two more, which means when we would have revival

on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Friday and Saturday were two

days that you were typically here.

So you just move those and put them to Monday and Tuesday and

there you go. All right.

And so we're just going to try to do that.

It's been my experience when I wasn't evangelist.

I know the days of evangelism have changed, but if you can get

a series of services, sometimes things start to break as you

continue with some services that might not just happen in two

services. All right?

And so that's the purpose for it.

If you don't like it, you can talk to me.

It was my decision about it. Amen.

God bless you in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. Mark chapter #1 And so the Bible

here in Scripture again, 1st century Jews were aware and they

were expectant of the Messiah. Many of them missed their

Messiah. Many of them even treated him

not as their Messiah. They missed it.

They saw it in many respects. A earthly Messiah, a political

king, someone that would come back and give them their Kingdom

back to them, right, that would deliver them from the Roman rule

that 1st century Jews were under whenever Jesus was even born and

during his earthly ministry, they were under the Rome that

under the rule of Rome, all right.

And so before Jesus is ascension then to heaven from the mount of

all of it, His disciples had picked up on this concept of

this Messiah personality in Jesus Christ.

They even spoke to him in Acts chapter #1 and verse 6.

They had a question that that conveys that they had picked up

on this personality Messiah in Jesus when they said in Acts 1

and 6, when they therefore were come together Speaking of his

disciples, they asked of him Jesus saying, Lord, wilt thou at

this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel?

So they're looking for someone to bring Israel back into this

autonomy of not being under Roman rule, but under their own

rule. And so the Messiahship then

though of Jesus Christ though encompass more than just a

natural Kingdom, right? The messiahship of Jesus Christ

was more than just restoring Israel back to a earthly Kingdom

place or a order of rule for Israel.

It it was about also a spiritual Kingdom, the messiahship of

Jesus Christ. And so the Old Testament, it

contains several. There's no way that we have the

time afforded us today to go through all of the Old Testament

prophecies that speak about the Messiah.

But there's things in the Old Testament, when you read them,

you start to understand man that sounds a lot like Christ Jesus

or what Christ Jesus accomplished their stuff

throughout the book and the prophet of Isaiah especially

like chapters 52 and 53 and such.

And there that many people will call it's talking about a

suffering servant when in reality it's talking about our

Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who fits many of those

descriptions because it is he that's spoken of in those books

whose visage or his very being his his visage.

The way that he looked was so marred more than any man that

that his form was was more marred even than the sons of

men. That's talking about our Christ,

the beating, the Kadam 9 tells the the spear through his side.

All of those things are descriptions of him.

He's the one concerning the suffering servant that it's

Speaking of that would be despised.

All these different verbs, despised and rejected and

stricken and smitten, all of those are relating to our Lord.

He's the one that would be wounded and bruised and

chastised and beaten. The Bible even says with stripes

he would be. The Bible speaks of this one in

the Old Testament that would be cut off from the land of the

living. A man, that's our Lord.

He is the child that was born of a virgin, right?

Amen. That the Old Testament speaks

about the one upon whom which the government would be upon His

shoulders, and that He would have a Kingdom, right?

That was ordered and that was established with judgment.

This is just talking about Jesus Christ, and it's a matter of

fact. Jesus in his earthly ministry,

the 33 or so years that He was here upon the earth, He oftimes

referred to Himself and referred to his mission, and whenever He

did, He was really using passages from the book of Daniel

or from the prophet Daniel as he referred to Himself and his

mission. A standard way that Jesus talked

about himself in the New Testament is that he oftimes

talked about Himself as the Son of Man, the Son of Man.

Now for just any just regular reader, great, you know Son of

man. But for a 1st century Jew, their

mind is going back into the Old Testament and they are coupling

that with Daniel where the Son of man is mentioned in prophecy

in the book of Daniel. As a matter of fact, Daniel does

a very it's not like I got a validate God's word right.

It's like no, he does a good job.

Well of course he is, he's inspired of the Holy Ghost to

write what was written. But he'll, let me say he did a

great job, Amen Brother Zach, in writing and and webbing these

things together about how that Messiah that would come would be

the long-awaited king, but not just earthly king, but the

divine 1 Daniel really does this very well.

Amen. About bringing about a Kingdom,

yes, but more importantly A heavenly Kingdom, a spiritual

Kingdom. Throughout the New Testament

scripture, there's a lot of talk.

You read it in your Bibles. There's a lot of talk about the

Kingdom of God. You can't read the gospels

without you seeing the talk about the Kingdom of God, or

sometimes it's called the Kingdom of heaven.

Whenever the forerunner of Jesus Christ come, which was John the

Baptist, which was his cousin born like 6 months or so before

Jesus was, whenever John the Baptist even came, he came

repent. He came preaching a message of

repent, repentance, and he would say repent for the Kingdom of

heaven or the Kingdom of God is at hand.

It's at hand. So matter of fact, then whenever

Jesus started his own public ministry, Amen, he comes and he

has the same message. It's a message of repentance.

And he's telling the people that the Kingdom of God or the

Kingdom of heaven is at hand. But this Kingdom that we're

talking about in the New Testament, it has a very natural

earthly side, but it also has a very spiritual side to it.

Amen. A Kingdom that was beyond this

earth, beyond where they live. So my fact, when Jesus was

questioned by some of the Pharisees who were, you know,

the, the, the very people who try to keep the letter of the

law as best as they could, he was questioned by the Pharisees

that Lord, when the Kingdom of God, when, when should it come?

When it should come, which they're thinking about a natural

Kingdom. That's where their mind is,

when, when the Kingdom of God should come, when, when should

this happen? And he responded to them these

words which show us that it's more than just a earthly

Kingdom, but a spiritual Kingdom.

He said the Kingdom of God is within you.

Hold on a minute. So we're, we're talking about

something that's just not earthly.

Then there, there, there's a spiritual side to this Kingdom

as well. And So what did it mean them to

a 1st century Jew that Jesus said in our, our text even this

morning that the time is fulfilled.

The Kingdom of God is at hand. What it did it mean to them to

hear that the time is fulfilled. The Kingdom of God is at hand.

Why? Why would he even say such

things as the Kingdom of God is come unto you in this this 1st

century among the Jews, someone say a man.

And so while the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven is also

spiritual, again there is a earthly means to it, a means for

which Jesus wanted the Jewish people and those that had any

understanding of Old Testament scripture.

He wanted them to understand that the time for their

long-awaited Messiah was at hand.

It was occurring, right? He didn't want them to miss what

many of them missed, that their Messiah had come, their Messiah

had arrived. He wanted them to recognize

that. So he uses these phrases of

Kingdom of God or Kingdom of heaven in the Old Testament.

You know, just follow with me today.

We'll start weaving the web, all right, and putting the strings

together and tying the knots. But the Kingdom of God and the

Kingdom of heaven, those two phrases are never found in the

King James Version language of the Old Testament.

The closest thing that we get to that phrase is in the book of

Daniel when Daniels describing a bunch of these Pagan kingdoms

being destroyed by the Kingdom of the God of Heaven.

That's what it's stated in Daniel chapter #2 and verse 44.

Look at it with me now. And in the days of these kings,

we'll go back and look at those kings.

And Speaking of these Pagan kingdoms and Pagan kings, shall

the God of heaven set up a Kingdom?

All right, So that right there, if the God of heaven is setting

up a Kingdom, it must be a Kingdom of God, It must be a

Kingdom of heaven. He's going to set up, He's going

to set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed.

And the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it

shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and

it shall stand forever. In Daniel chapter #2 if you want

to host series on Daniel, check our podcast.

It's there. All right, Probably 34 lessons

or so, or 24, I can't remember which.

But nonetheless, in Daniel chapter #2 you'll remember that

there was a dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had.

He was wanting an interpretation of a dream.

He's seen this great image in the Book of Daniel chapter #2

and this image had a head of gold.

It had breast and arms that were silver.

It had belly and thighs that were brass.

It had legs that were iron. And when you got to its feet, it

was a mixture of iron and clay. In Daniel chapter #2 Daniel told

Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of that dream.

He said, oh, you, Nebuchadnezzar, are that head of

gold. Nebuchadnezzar was the king over

a Babylonian Kingdom, all right? The very Babylon that would take

the children of Israel into captivity for 70 years.

He says, you are that head of gold, all right.

And that's around probably around 6th century BC when all

of that took place. But then there's going to come

a, a, a more inferior Kingdom, the Babylon, but it's going to

overtake Babylon. And that would then be known as

the Medo Persian, a Kingdom in the Scripture around the 5th

century BC. They would be the silver.

Then would come another Kingdom that would bear rule over the

whole earth. And that would be the Greek

Kingdom around the 4th century. That would be during the time of

Alexander the Great. It's like between the

Testaments. Alexander the Great was such a

great warrior that he he absolutely took over and

conquered the then known world. Yet when he was very young,

still yet very young, he would die and he would leave his

Kingdom to his, his four top generals that would really only

two of them would become dominant.

And so that's the next Kingdom, the Grecian Kingdom, Amen, that

we speak of then that is brass. And then the next Kingdom that

comes in succession is the Kingdom of Rome.

That is the Kingdom that was alive and well when Christ was

born in Bethlehem's Manger. That's the Kingdom that was

alive and well, Amen. During his lifetime there, Amen.

From 1st century like BC on into the AD generations, this Kingdom

would be in Rule. It's, it's strong.

It's strong as iron. That's it's representation of

iron. It's strong as iron that as you

get to the feet, you see it's mixed with clay.

There's a weakening, if you will, of the empire and of the

Kingdom whenever you look at the statue of Daniel chapter #2 I

hope this ain't too heavy for everybody on a Sunday morning.

I hope you ate, you ate your Wheaties today, all right, or

something. Amen.

On Daniel chapter #2 you'll notice that the, the metals

going from gold down to iron to clay, the metals really are

increasing in strength from gold to to silver to brass to iron.

That's, that's going from a soft metal to a very more hardened

metal, a stronger metal. But the value of the are are

diminishing in a sense until you get into the 5th Kingdom because

iron is not as valuable as go. There's a this diminishment of

value until you get to the 5th Kingdom.

And so every Kingdom is growing in its territory in an expanse

because like the Medo Persians, they're overtaking Babylon and

absorbing their landmass into themselves.

So the territory is getting larger with each successive

Kingdom that comes again, decrease in in, in value, but an

increase, if you will, in its power or in its strength.

Another reason why it's it's decreasing in value on a very

literal level is because these kingdoms like Medo Persia,

that's a split Kingdom. You get to Alexander the Great.

He has four generals. He's going to give that to.

They're splitting up. A Kingdom is really usually a

one man rule. And so it's a breaking up, if

you will, of the government and of the powers begin to splinters

begin to weaken. But look at Daniel chapter 2 and

Daniel 2 · chapter mention

verse 34. There is 1/5.

The Bible says, and in the interpretation he says, Thou

solace, thou seen everything that was going on till that a

stone was cut out without hands, without him.

This, this was not human invention.

This was not human offspring, so to speak.

This was done without hands, which smote the image up on his

feet that were of iron and clay and break them to pieces.

Then was the iron, the clay? Notice it's talking about the

statue. Now this stone that was cut

without hands hit the feet and it's it's shattered to pieces

along. Look at verse 2.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, the goat.

All of this broke into pieces together and became like the

chap of the summer, threshing floors and the wind that carried

them away, that no place was found for them.

The stone that smote the image became now it's not just a

stone, but it grows into this great mountain and filled the

whole earth. Scholar NT Wright says this.

He says the passage about the stone in Daniel 2 was regularly

interpreted from at least as early as the 1st century.

And the reason why I say this spoken and I don't want to

bombard you. But even if today, if you were

in college and you were writing about something, you want what's

called primary sources. You want sources that are close

to the incident that you're you're talking about because

they're going to be the most reliable.

You you can grab somebody that's talking about it today, but they

weren't there when all of this thing came about.

And so when you have a primary source that has more credence

than something that is written about today.

And so whenever he said, as he says these things have been

written about that that stone and Daniel was regularly

interpreted as Amen and referring to the Messiah as

early as the 1st century, that a Kingdom would come and be set up

through the Messiah. Then we, we can, we can hang our

hat on that. Then understanding that this 5th

Kingdom that would come after the Kingdom of Rome would be the

Kingdom of the Messiah, the Kingdom of the Messiah.

And look now verse #44 you can look at verse 44 of Daniel one

more time. Daniel says, And in the days of

these kings, Speaking of the, the gold and the silver and the

brass and the iron, a man of Babylon and Medo, Persia and

Greece and Rome in the days of these kings, shall the God of

heaven set up a Kingdom? Shall the God of heaven set up a

Kingdom? And since God is setting up the

Kingdom, this is in essence the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of

heaven that's going to be set up.

And so a New Testament Jew that hears Jesus and even John the

Baptist and regular talk about the Kingdom of heaven or the

Kingdom of God is at hand, or the time of its fulfillment and

its placement or its start and its sea bed is now.

They've been expecting ever since Daniel's opened his mouth

and prophecy about all these kingdoms fallen.

There would be established a Kingdom from heaven and it would

take place. And so much so that they're

living during the day when Rome was in Rule.

They are looking for somebody to set up a heavenly Kingdom.

They're looking for somebody to set up the Kingdom of God.

And so whenever they consider that, Daniel says a stone's

going to come and it's going to annihilate all these others and

it's going to grow into a great mountain until it fills the

whole earth. Amen.

We see that really fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ, His

Kingdom, Amen. And in many ways began in

Bethlehem, Manger and Pentecost in Calvary, and the growth of

the Gospel. Why do you think that?

He said to his disciples before he departed, Amen.

Go ye into all the world and preach.

Why? Because that would be the

expanse of the heavenly Kingdom. That would be the expanse of the

Kingdom of God. That started as a stone but

becomes a great over. We're still expanding the

Kingdom. It didn't just happen in the

book of Acts while we're living right now today, we are living

in the Kingdom of God age. We are still expanding the

Kingdom. Amen for the purpose of heaven.

That's the reason why we're supporting the missionaries and

the home missionaries and this and that.

We are expanded. The stone is becoming a

mountain. Someone say man, the stone is

becoming a mountain and of the Messiah prophecy concerning

Jesus Christ, Isaiah said. And of the increase of his

government and peace there shall be no end.

This was made without hands. This isn't the ordering of a

man, no, this is all of the actions of God.

And so that's partly why Jesus Christ said in our text then the

time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand

because they were living during the days of the Roman rule.

He was coming in to set up another Kingdom, so to speak,

another king, another Kingdom. That's not man made, but it's

God made. So we consider all of this

again. Remember Jesus likes to refer to

himself as the Son, the Son of Man, the Son of Man.

As a matter of fact, here are just a few samples.

Can't give you them all. Again, time would not allow.

But Jesus says things like this concerning himself.

He talks in the third person, you know, and he says things

like the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say,

behold, A glutton and a drunkard.

Jesus said that of himself he says stuff like this, but the

Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.

He's talking about himself. He's calling himself the Son of

Man, he says, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is

betrayed. Again, he's talking about

himself. He knew the Jews would pick up

on him talking about himself as the Son of man.

He doesn't explain it to us in the New Testament, but he knew

they would pick up on it because the Son of Man is more than just

being a human being. That term could be used for

humans. Son of men.

Amen. But to a 1st century, it was

more than just being human, it was so much more.

In Daniel chapter #7 it records that Daniel, Daniel has a dream.

Daniel has a dream about a series of four Pagan empires in

Daniel 7. And listen, folks, you read like

Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8. You know, it seems weird, but

again, these are dreams that have representations in

Scripture. And Daniel, he has a dream about

four Pagan empires. They're represented by a lion

that has eagle's wings, a bear raising up on one side, a

leopard that has four wings and four heads, right?

And then one that's called a very terrible, dreadful beast

that you read of in Daniel chapter #7 Daniel 7 and verse 17

says these great beasts, which are four are 4 kings, are 4

kings which arise out of the earth.

Now if you want to hear a few different schools of thought

again, podcast Daniel I refer you back to, But there are a few

schools of thought about these 4 kingdoms or 4 kings.

One of them mirrors the very order of the kingdoms that

Daniel told to Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel chapter #2 that we

already discussed of gold and silver and brass and iron.

All right. Nonetheless, again it doesn't

stop with the 4th king or the 4th Kingdom, because the next

king even in Daniel's dream will be the king which was as

mentioned in the book of Daniel was the Son of Man.

Look at it now, Daniel chapter #7 And verse 9.

He says, I beheld till the Thrones were cast down, the

Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and

the hair of his head like the pure wool.

His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning

fire. Verse 13.

I saw in the night visions and behold, one like the Son of Man

came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of Days,

and they brought him near before him, and there was given him

dominion and glory and a Kingdom.

That's verse 14, That all people, nations and languages

shall serve him. His dominion is an everlasting

dominion which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which

shall not be destroyed. All of this means then the ruler

or the king of the 5th Kingdom would be the Son of Man.

Please note there's not another Kingdom after his.

There's not enough there another power to come into place after

him. He is the king and the Kingdom

to end all kingdoms, all right. And so that is the the Messiah,

the anointed one for that time and again, many 1st century

writings equate the Son of Man with the Messiah with the

Messiah. And so Jesus often talk then

about the Kingdom of God being at hand, and he would also then

refer to himself as the Son of Man.

He wanted the Jews to understand that the time of his Kingdom, he

was there. I'm here, I've arrived.

This thing is now going to start turning around because I am that

king. I am your Messiah.

I am the Son of man. As a matter of fact, his Kingdom

would begin to have its seed bed during the Roman rule.

Again, you, you, you, you have Caesar, you have all these

different people that are Roman rulers during the time of Jesus,

even in his trial for his crucifix that are Roman rulers.

The Jews are constantly talking to Rome, right?

Because they weren't, they weren't going to be able to

crucify Jesus themselves. That's that.

It was not permissible in their law.

They had to have Roman rule in order to be able to, even to

crucify the Lord. So all of this is happening

while Christ is walking in his public ministry up on the earth.

The Bible says he walked his public ministry in, in, in Luke

chapter #3 during the reign of Tiberius the Caesar.

That's a Roman entity. That's a Roman government.

And so Jesus proclaims and and prophecies that the Kingdom that

is in Daniel, that 5th Kingdom to end all kingdoms that's cut

without a hand. He claims to be not only that

that Kingdom is starting now, but he's the king of that

Kingdom. He is that Son of God, that Son

of man, if you will, that's prophesied in the Old Testament

Daniel, that Kingdom that is made without hands.

And more So, what he wants them to know more than anything else

is more than a earthly Kingdom. This thing is a heavenly

Kingdom, more than just, you know, more than just dirt and

blocking and regimens and all of that, he says.

This is something that's spiritual because it can be a

Kingdom that's within you. Can I tell you today that if

you've been born again of the water and the Spirit, you

repented of your sins and you went down in Jesus that name,

you have entered a Kingdom that he told Nicodemus, Except a man

be born again of the water and the Spirit, he cannot see.

He cannot enter into the Kingdom of someone.

Say Amen, hail glory. So he he shares some time Jesus

sometimes shares about his death and his ministry.

He talks to his disciples about it.

He talks about being turned over into the authorities.

He talks about being put into the hands of men.

And he says it like this though know how he says it?

He says, and you can read this in Mark, Matthew, Luke, those

those gospels of the synoptic Gospels.

He often phrases it like this. Again, Speaking of himself like

third person, he says the Son of man must suffer many things.

The Son of man and the certainty of his suffering is in the word

must, he must suffer many things.

But the whole idea of him suffering is really based,

again, in the book of Daniel, because the Masonic son of man

that Daniel spoke of had to suffer.

Now, there's a lot I could say about these verses I'm about

ready to read to you, but we're not going to say everything that

can be said. OK, Daniel series, I reference

you again. But in Daniel chapter #9 and

verse 25, again, Daniel doesn't just talk about that Kingdom to

come. It talks about the King, the Son

of Man, and we already had precedence even from writings

even as early as the 1st century that that stone.

What is being spoken of is the Messiah.

The Bible says in Daniel 9 verse 25.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the

commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, and to the

Messiah, or if I say the Messiah says it clearly, Messiah.

The Prince shall be 7 weeks and three score and two weeks, and

the street shall be built again, and the wall even in trouble

troublous times. Verse 26.

And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,

but not for himself and the people.

The Prince shall come and destroy the city, the sanctuary,

and the end thereof shall be with a flood.

And to the end of the war, desolations are determined.

Again, we don't have all time to cover every detail that's in

this, because this new thing here is a lot.

It's like a key. It will open some doors.

Amen. But there's a lot in here.

But suffice to say it that Jesus treats the Son of Man of Daniel

7 and the Messiah of Daniel chapter #9 as one and the same

person. One and the same person.

One is enthronement is therefore the beginning of his Kingdom.

And there is, as we read here in Daniel 9A, earthly suffering,

even a death. That's what is being conveyed to

us when it says Messiah will be cut off.

It's speaking about his death. All right.

And since kings even the Old Testament Scripture, they were

anointed with oil. Sister Cox we see that happened

to David we see that happened to saw horns of oil put over their

heads. Since they are anointed with

oil, many times kings were referred to as the anointed.

As a result of that, whenever we talk about New Credit Testament

Scripture, Jesus Christ Christ isn't his last name.

Christ is a label in the Greek denoting the anointed Messiah in

the Old Testament. In the Hebrew, the anointed,

we're talking about the one that's being the Son of man.

We're talking about our king coming.

Jesus says the Son of Man or Messiah must suffer.

This is the mindset where they were kind of thrown off because

they were just looking for someone with our earthly

Kingdom. They didn't realize the

spiritual aspect of the Kingdom and they seen their king coming

in strong and they didn't realize his strength was through

his Amen. And according to Daniel, he says

he would be cut off, He would be put to death.

There would come a time that he would die.

And so there were Jews that were waiting for the Kingdom of God,

the Messiah, the Son of man, and Jesus fulfilled both of them.

He, he was the Son of man, He was the Messiah, He was the king

over that 5th Kingdom. As a matter of fact, and we

don't have time to do it, but if you read those verses again and

you go through the calculations about when the decree was given

and the weeks and the times and the years that that interprets

Amen. It says that He'll be cut off at

a certain time. Jesus meant that qualification

in the calendar when he was crucified, He he met the Old

Testament prophecy of when that Messiah would be cut off,

pointing to the fact that he was that Messiah that was coming and

dying in that 1st century time frame.

So much so I'll hasten to a close because I know we're

already where we're at here on our own timetable here this

morning. Amen.

But remember what the, what the Angel spoke to Mary in Luke

chapter #1 and verse 32, it says the angels told Mary he Speaking

of Jesus shall be great and shall be called the Son of the

Highest and the Lord God shall given to him the throne of his

Father David. He said he's going to be the son

of the highest and he's going to have a throne.

That was what that's what the Angel even told Mary.

And so as New Testament, as church believers today, we can

look at the scripture and understand Messiah has come,

right? The Messiah of the Old

Testament. We're, we are not in a pattern

of waiting. There are some today because

they missed it when he first came, believe they're waiting

for him to come. He already came the first time.

He's just going to come back the second time.

He's already come the first time.

He's just going to come back the second time.

We may not believe it, but his Kingdom is already the

construction, the, the, all the ordering of his Kingdom again,

the X, the expense of his Kingdom is happening even as we

are living up on this earth. There's going to come a day

folks, and it will come when it will be realized by every eye.

Once the church is taken out of here and and there's tribulation

and all those things and there'll be 1000 year Millennium

reign of the Lord people. I want to realize in that day

there was a Kingdom that was cut without hands that's grew into a

mountain that now is an everlasting Kingdom.

And of his government and of his increase, there is no end folks.

It's just building up. Can I tell you that?

It's just building up? Every day it's increasing.

Every day it's getting greater. I know it looks like on the

earthly surface, man weren't drowning here.

No, there is a Kingdom, an established.

Oh, yes, stay with me. I'll hurry.

Too close here. I'll hurry.

I'll hurry. I see someone.

Someone had that lunch look on in their eyes.

Amen. Because this is God's plan,

right? Understanding Jesus as the

Messiah, right, is important because he's central to the

mission and the fulfilling of God's plan.

Even a Daniel know what it says. That the Messiah would be cut

off, but not for himself. Jesus didn't die for himself,

Messiah said. He's cut off, but not for

himself. Jesus didn't die for himself, He

died for you. He's cut off, but not for

himself. It's for you.

So he's not as many even presumed him that day as just

another prophet or another teacher.

No, he was the promised king. He's the divine Son of man

spoken of by the prophet Daniel. He's the suffering servant of

Isaiah. A man death has been prophesied

and he's going to be the cornerstone of an everlasting

Kingdom. So when Jesus declared in our

text in Mark, the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God

is at hand, really calling the people to recognize that God's

redemption plan was unfolding before their eyes, not some

earthly ruler trying to find some type of political power

establishment as many are today. His Kingdom, yes, has an earthly

side, but more importantly as a heavenly side for the purpose of

transforming hearts and bodies for that matter.

Because when my change comes to be able to endure forever in

this everlasting Kingdom. So both his death and his

resurrection prove that his Kingdom, it's not of this world.

And Alexander the Great died. He's still dead, you hear me?

When, when, when Nebuchadnezzar pushed up tulips, he's still

pushing them up. But when our king supposedly was

cut off and some of them are saying, but this is, but this is

the third day, huh? Those two, they're walking to

Emmaus, they said, but it was the third day.

And Jesus came and walked beside him and said, tell me about this

crucifix and resurrection stuff. And before the night was over,

it's like, oh, that's Jesus because they knew him whenever

he broke, broke bread and he said, did not our hearts burn

within us? Huh?

Their king wasn't dead. Whoa, that king wasn't dead,

honey. Every other Kingdom of the world

and other every other religion of the world, Amen, that

subscribes to a different Kingdom, the king of this Amen,

an Apostolic Amen, Biblical, let me just say biblical truth.

Hira Krishna dead, Reverend Moon dead.

Joseph Smith dead, go visit their grave.

But you go over into the Holy Land and you visit where they

say my King laid. There's no body there, there's

no poem there. There's no testimony of his

residence there because he's alive.

It's a everlasting Kingdom that shall know no end.

Hear me today, anything that is being built can be built right

now on this day, but there's nothing that is going to be

built that will not be destroyed by the Kingdom of God.

It all comes under the power and the authority of the Kingdom.

So fear not what you see sometimes taking place around

you as though man, this is going to swallow us, ain't going to

swallow you up because there's a rock that's been cut a stone

without him. I feel him in this place.

So not only was Christ Jesus from last week divine, but he's

my Messiah. And that fulfills exactly what

Daniel was talking about, a king, a man that would come that

with yes, he would have a divine side to him, but he would also

be the Messiah for the people. That's your Christ Jesus.

Daniel said that that last piece, it was dreadful and it

was horrible. But there's a 5th Kingdom

coming, honey. We got all kinds of stuff going

on around here. I don't know if it's right or

wrong. I don't know.

And we got terrorists going up left and right, right, United

Nations, right. In terrorists, we race

terrorists. We want Canada to be 51st state.

They're racing terrorists, we're racing terrorists.

We got all this stuff, right? Bunch of economic unsettledness.

Maybe it'll all pan out. I don't know.

Maybe it'll set up a time that we can call for a greater

economy of oneness. I don't know.

But this one thing I do know. I know in whom I have believed.

I know in whom I have believed. I know in whom I.

I know him, I know him. I know him.

I know. Raise your hands right now.

Today, let acknowledge our God, acknowledge our Savior,

acknowledge our Messiah, acknowledge the King of glory.