How Do You Know You're A Christian | Pr Matthew Chang

You're listening to a message to go from as church. We hope this message

will light up your day. The last time when I came and spoke,

I shared with you guys about the Book of Second Peter, chapter one,

and if you remember clearly, I spoke about the you know, the context

or what the book was about, what the apostle Peter was going through,

and who are the people they were dealing with. Very quick recap. Basically

he was dealing he was actually going to die. He knows his time is

up. And he is also the leader of the Christian movement at that time,

and he wrote a letter read heartfelt letter to encourage the Christians because the

Christians were at a very important point of their journey where they are growing uh

in numbers, in influence, but also growing in terms of resistance from the

surrounding as well, resistance from the Romans, from the Greeks, and even

from the Jews as well their own people. So they were actually facing opposition

from every sign, and Peter, knowing that his time is up, left

them, tried to encourage them and especially try to guard and protect these pressures

souls so that you know, you know, a lot of times when you

when you remove the leader, right, you know, what you're trying to

see is that the team or the people or any institution to start to fall

apart without a leader. But they don't realize that actually Peter is just a

man. You know, Peter is not the leader. The leader. It's

already in a one. The leader is Jesus Christ and the leader, you

know, it's having what we call an upside down kingdom. If you have

that term before, an upside down kingdom. No upside down kingdom means what

a kingdom that is totally different from the kingdom of this world. The kingdom

of this world works by when the king deals their army, expand their land,

like Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan or anyone great conquerors. They expand,

British colony, they expand, and then there's a king or a queen

that you know, reigns over them. But the moment that the king and

queen dies, the empire falls apart or they depends on who succeeds them.

But Jesus is the opposite. When Jesus started to reign, he didn't have

any armies. He only had seven disciples there twelve disciples, isn't it.

But then when he died, what happened? Did his kingdom fall apart?

His kingdom just began. Actually, more people came to came to know Jesus,

came to be recruited into his soldier after he dies. It's kind of

interesting. That's why it's called the upside down kingdom, isn't it? So?

Instead, you know, when the empire falling apart, the empire builds

some you know, he keeps growing and growing on growing when the king dies.

But the king didn't die and perish. The king dies and was raised

again. So get he will reign in the hearts of the people. Finally,

incident, isn't it? Normally the kingdom must have people, must have

a kingdom, must have a country and an army. Jesus does it the

opposite way. He dies, he resurrects, and he lives, and his

kingdom will no end. Understand Now, it's what we call the upside down

kingdom. It's the opposite of how the way it operates. You know,

this is the way of the world Jesus right now, even now, the

Kingdom of God is still expanding, isn't it? In you? And he

made that's why we have worshiped. That's why in every country that you go

to, you see God, you know, doing, not expanding his influence

and his power. A lot of times we see British colonies already in a

subsiding Spanish colonies influence, you know. Oh then you still see histories that

but they are just a fragment of what they are. They are gone,

but Jesus still continues to reign. And we talked about, you know what

Peter was fearful of. What was not so much about the the the opposition,

or the resistance. They are coming from the outside. Okay, the

greatest danger that affects the church will always coming, will always come from the

inside, you know, not so much from the outside. His choice from

the inside, this choice from the inside where the wolves dressed up and clothes

like sheep, trying to steal, trying to kill and destroy. And he

warns, and he's seeing it already that there are a lot of teachers who

say that they know the Lord. I know God. I come from Rome,

I come from Greek. I know Socrates, I know Plato, I

know the philosophers. I know God. Oh I am a Jew, I'm

a true born jew raised under under a Jewish roof. I know, I

know, I never mixed by blood. I know God. So different people

within the church were claiming that they know God. But yeah, Peter highlights

out that a lot of these people who say they know God, they don't

bear the fruits of it. And he highlights three key problems or just very

quickly highlight it so that you guys remember. And one of that is that

there was a teaching that says that they don't believe that Jesus was the son

of God or Jesus was the Messiah. They believe that actually that the disciples

made his own up. And today we're going to be covering that point and

how Peter rebuilds that. Okay, the second point or second false teaching that

was happening was that the people do not believe that there is a judgment coming,

that the Lord, that the day of the Lord is not coming.

They say that keep talking about the day of the Lord from the Old Testament

until now Jesus say that the Lord is coming like a thief. But where

is it? Where is it? And then they took the writings of Paul.

You know, especially I think it's a second first Testlonian and second to

Solonians, and then said, you know, they took the writings of Paul

which talked about the rapture and said that the day of the Lord already came.

You guys missed it, and you missed a resurrection, and so people

were confused, people were fearful, and people, some of them who were

corrupted, use this opportunity to leave a godly life and started to pursue the

world. You get me in, right, since we missed the boat already,

might so I just leave the best jocana. You know what, what's

the phrase nowadays? A leaf light? Ones? Is it? You only

live ones ah on yolo okay? So they basically yolo la Christians, let's

go yolo okay. He came in right. It was no Jesus already no

not coming religious leave you just do whatever you want. You see, all

these teachings are come and circle around with a different packaging. You it's always

a different it's always the same. It's the same, but it's a different

packaging. The yolo okay. And then the third one was there, you

know, since that Jesus has not forgiven us and we have freedom, like

Paul teach let us. You know, we don't have any more consequences.

We don't have to deal with consequences because grace is so powerful. Don't teach

me or preach to meet anything else but grace. Grace is enough. So

whatever that I do, you have no right to tell me that I'm wrong.

I don't need to bear fruits. And so I told you i'd share

with you. Guys. You know that Peter says that you know, no

being safe. It's just the first part. But we are called to bear

much fruit, and there are seven fruits. I'm not going to go through

all of them, but all the way it starts from, you know,

from your virtue, all the way to love, which is the demonstration of

God. Okay, so now I'm gonna start beginning in chapter one again,

but I'm gonna continue from verse twelve, okay, and I will share with

you guys a few more points here. Okay, let's look at second Peter,

Chapter one, verse twelve, and I think the slight Yes, Okay,

now it's going to read from here now. For this reason, I

will not be negligent to remind you always or these things, though you know

and are established in the present truth. Okay. This is what Peter is.

He feels the responsibility to remind them, to teach them while he is

still around. Now, yes, I think it is right as long as

I am in this tent. Okay. This is the key word that we

will be looking and seeing, repeating again and the next lot of this in

the remaining of this chapter. The word tent to stir you up by reminding

you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent. He's talking about

this ten, this body that every one of us here wherever you are living

right now, in your this body, you're living in a tent. There

is no permanent address. Okay, all this is just permanent. Okay,

it's a tent. Okay. Now, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed

me moreover, I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder

of these things after my disease. Okay. So Peter knows that he is

dying, okay, and he knows that he needs to remind them and to

ensure that they will still remember after he's passing. Now let's move on,

okay, Christ Glory and the prophetic world. Okay, remember the first point

I talk to you about that. They don't believe a lot they are teachings.

They were basically small groups within the church. Okay, literally small groups

within the church. Okay. They were not following the home notes. How

mean you'll go to homes? Okay, try to imagine with me that they

were not following the home notes. They started to have their own lead to

study. Okay, they start to have their own lead to study. They

start to draw from Paul's letter and start to draw for money, and they

start that they have their own lead to study, and they start to have

their own later interpretation. Actually it's covered inside there. They started to interpret

the scripture on their own and they didn't share. They at what they interpreted

with the rest of the church to whether to chat whether it's right or wrong.

They don't. They there was a leader and there will influential people who

did it, and they influence people and start the people. You know,

if you look at I can look at you guys, but then you guys

who have like different thoughts, you can smile, we can laugh, We

can say the same word, but we have a different dictionary. And after

that, after churching, you were to say, how come these group of

people are behaving one certain way, and then another group of people behaving a

certain way. How come you know, we are trying to do communion,

baptizing and live in simplicity, but these people are like trying to like,

you know, engage in business and you know, selling you know all these

funny funny staff you're not trying to sell money, and members shoot to certain

things as well. It's kind of weird, you know, you get me

in right and indulging in very earthly and last full practices. You know,

people were like why and then they still do it, continue doing it,

okay. And one of the things they were that they were they were arguing

about. They said that we don't really believe in Peter because she's just a

man. I think I can teach better. No, I can teach better.

No, I think Peter and the disciples and the Apostle probably made it

up. So this is where Peter steps in and intervenes and you know,

provides his teaching to guard the believers. And he says, therefore, we

did not follow cleverly devised Smith. Okay, they did not collue, They

did not try to. Hey, let's go and roll this one ton of

stone away, taking Jesus body and fight against a troop of Roman soldiers.

Now take Jesus body, healed it, somehow restored, and then put him

to France. There and he leaves as a quiet old man for the rest

of his life. Okay. So every now and then you will have people

who will write that out of fiction. So there to stir people up as

well. Okay. When we made known to you the power and the coming

of our Lord Jesus Christ, Okay, first of all, he said,

we did not devised it. But he said, we did not devised it.

But we were eye witnesses. Okay, we say, and we give

you an account because we were eye witnesses of his majesty. Okay, Peter

saying that I am not devising, I'm just a witness for when he received,

meaning Jesus receive honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice

was born to him by the majestic glory. He's saying that the honor.

Okay, we did not crown Jesus, We did not give Jesus the title.

Okay, as the Christ. You cannot you cannot go to a company

that you want to work with and say that you will be CEO. It

doesn't make sense. You are being employed. You get me in right,

you're being ployed. You don't go to and say I make you see.

Oh no, we saw the CEO got promoted by whom, by the shareholders

or by the director. It is coming from a higher authority. We just

witness only you get me that we were just witnesses. Okay. And what

was the inauguration? Then what was being said? The saying was and the

statement they came from God the Father was this is my beloved son, with

whom I am well please, And Peter says, we ourselves hurt this very

boys born from heaven, for we were with him on the Holy Mountain.

Okay, So this is not talking about Jesus being baptized and when he came

up from the baptism and there was that came upon him. This is my

son who am whom I'm well piece. He's not talking about that. Peter

was referring to one specific instance, and that is why we called on the

transfiguration. Now we're going to cover that a bit in a bit while.

Now. Then the next thing that he says that in verse nineteen, and

we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed to which he will do well to

pay attention. Has to a lamb shining in a dark place until the day

dawns and the morning star rises in your heart. Okay. And Peter says

that at first we have the testimony, okay, we have the declaration,

the witness of our heavenly Father. And secondly we have the witness of the

prophetic word. Okay, we know that Jesus is the Christ because we have

the prophetic word, and the prophetic world has a power to be a lamp

shining in a dark place, so that when you and in a surrounded by

people who will doubt who was scoff? Who will ridicule you? Who Jesus

ms, you will have to fall back on the one on the prophetic word.

And when you fall back to it, the prophetic word will not fail

you, but it would be a lamb onto your feet. And in verse

twenty, ah, I told you about people having small groups, right,

he says, Yah, knowing this, First of all, there no prophecy

of scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. Ah, what were they doing?

They were interpreting on their own. First of all, prophecy was not given

by these small groups. You know it was given by the Lord. Anything

that is given by the Lord in public. If God, God chooses to

reveal and not to reveal, God chooses whom he wants to propheside prophecide,

and if he makes known the prophecy, any interpretation must be made in the

public as well. In verse when he one says, for no prophecy was

ever produced by the will of men, but men spoke from God as they

were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Okay, now there's a lot of

things here. I'm uncovering these, like a class and theology over here.

How are you guys doing on case of far? Are you guys confused of

Far? That's why I need this light, isn't it. Now Let's go

to the next light that I have here. Okay, So today we're gonna

know it's just treat treatment key points the identity and the glory of Christ reviewed

through witnesses, So Peter, So today we'll deal with problem number one on

eat number one. Okay, enough Friday, and that is people don't believe

that Jesus is the son of God. That the apostles made it up and

saw Peter in his you know, he knows his time is um. He

gives the three main defense and witness and he says that we know that Jesus

is the son of God. Jesus is Christ, he is the Savior,

he is the king because there were witnesses, and the witnesses are Peter himself

and the apostles. What's God the father? And then the third one we

have the Holy Scripture. Okay, may people come to you say, hey,

do you know who? Who? Who? Who is Jesus to you?

And you say that, oh, Jesus is God? And people say,

how do you know? And what do you say? Or because my

heart tells me that's not good enough. People, that's not good enough,

you say, the Bible says so how so what's so special about the Bible?

The Bible is just a law of writing. Shakespeare writes better English.

What's the difference between the Bible and every other book? How do you even

know that you can trust the Bible? Holy? Someone comes to you,

hey, but other religions also go book. You know some some something you

know it's People will say a lot of things you know, and then if

you're not sure, you say, hey, make people you don't even know

what you believe? In. You're mostly believing because you believe what you just

taught and you never question it, you never asked it. You never know

what you really believed in. How many of you had that fear before?

So quiet you don't really know what you're no believing in. Oh maybe then

there's a case pastor might see preaching about. Then you start to go into

this, this this path. I was like, Wow, I don't even

know. I need to re examine my life again. You know, maybe

the truth is out there and stuff like that. People, you must know

your Bible. No, not just that the Bible. The Bible is very,

very powerful and divine. There is no book in the world, no

word in the world like the Bible. I will share with you later in

a ray shot. While okay, but first of all, let's deal with

the witness Okay, let's deal with the witnessing. Okay, let me see

Okay, turn with me to Matthew chapter sixteen. Okay, we're gonna talk

about the witnesses of the disciples and of God came because Peter talks about he's

witnessing. Okay, that happened in the transfiguration, and the transfiguration happened in

Matthew chapter seventeen. But then why is it that I'm not turning to Matthew

chapter seventeen. I'm turning to Matthew sixteen. So again, this is one

of the ways that we normally help people to understand the scripture better. If

you read a scripture and you kind of understand fifty percent of it, or

if you don't really fully understand, what I normally encourage people is that you

read the chapter before, or even sometime two chapters before, and then read

the chapter after. Read. You're saying you must always read because there is

a sequence, there is a line, and I'll give you and this is

an example how reading the previous chapter help you to understand Matthew seventeen in a

lot better. Okay, cool or not. So next time when you do

your own Bible study or your own reading, you will know how to approach

a scripture a passage as well. Okay, Now, before, like I

said, the main focus is Matthew seventeen. Now we're going to look at

Matthew sixteen, the one before, and understand a bit of context in Matthew

sixteen. Here, I'm not going to go through the older verses. You

can see in your Bible that there's a few titles and a few stories being

planted there. The first one we see is that the Pharisees and the Saducees.

Saducees demand signs? What will they demand signs? Because Jesus was actually

performing a law of great and mighty works, and people will say they,

hey, Jesus, why don't you show us a sign? They make it

very clear that you are the son of God. Make it so clear that

you are the son of God. And what did Jesus respond to them?

I will not do I will not comply to you. Why should I do

that? I tell you, I may ask you a question. If Jesus

was here, what will people ask from him right now in this world,

not in the church, in this world and all the reporters MSNBCCN, M.

Buritakini and all the then name Jesus is here, what do you think

they will ask him to do? Show was a sign? Right? Show

was a sign? Show what that you're really God? Let me ask you

to then ask what sign would be enough? Open up the sky now,

travel back in time and you're really God? Let me ask you another question.

Do you think that they will change people as heart. Why not,

because it's not a problem of signs. Because the more moment you know there

is a God, you cannot live your life the same way again, gaming

right. To acknowledge God is to give up your freedom. Who will give

up their freedom to do what they want to do? People will not do

that. People ready high the gaming right. Adam and Eve were in the

garden with God. God must in the midst creation was everywhere, beauty splendid,

God's glory. And Adam was not a foolish man or not. You

know, he didn't go to university, he didn't went to primary school.

Asked, but he was able to name all the animals. You know,

he is not an uneducated man, and now he is well educated under the

tutoring of the Lord and all but yea, of all these things. When

he saw the Lord, what did he do? He hied? I tell

you, when God comes, we're not sure any signs. Man will not

want to see it. You know why, because they do not want the

truth, not because it's not because not because the sign is not powerful now

And in the same case, why happens that Jesus will not give them a

single sign because they will never want to see it, and no matter what

he does, they will reject him. There's a case why should I continue

showing all these signs to you. It's only to entertain you to fall under,

to fall under their whims and there place, So Jesus, do not

do that. Instead, if you look at the next chapter, this is

the famous part we talk about. You know, when Jesus asked Peter,

hey, what do people say? I am? And some people will say

that. Some people say that you were Elijah, some people say that you

are the Moses, you are a prophet, you are a great teacher.

But Jesus asked Peter, but who do you say? I am? And

Peter gave this great reply, I do not need the signs like now the

signs we've worked with you. I have seen it. You are the Christ

or God, the right answer, the best student ever. Oh yes,

and Peter like, whoa I did? You will realize that his moment and

glory was very short lived, as indicated by my slides here. Okay,

he's even and then Jesus, you know, commended him and say that flesh

and blood they not they not reveal this to you, But my father in

Heaven, who revealed this to you. Okay, his father, Father.

It is God's mercy that opened his eyes and his heart that he is able

to see. So to no God, no one can come to the Father

except through Jesus. You you cannot know Jesus unless the Father opens your eyes.

One no, it isto by the mercy of God. You and I

got safe, not because we are holier, we were kinder, we were

smarter. We are all safe by only only by the mercy of God.

You have been right. You're not saying he was saying, not because a

worship song. A worship guy Pare plays a song here. No, I

know there are circumstances, but you must understand all things work together because it

is God who works them, not you. Not because of the world.

It is God himself. It's God mercy. Peter confesses Jesus as Christ.

He got an answer, correct, And in the next paragraph, what do

we see? Okay, you got you got the identity right now. Let

me tell you. Now you know who I am. Now I'm going to

tell you for the first time. Jesus tells them what is going to happen

to him? Okay? He tells about his death and he's suffering and then

they're gonna deliver him to be to that, to torture him and to him

and to crucify him. Okay, now, what do you think Peter will

feel the moment Jesus tells him that I thought that you would the Messiah,

thought that you're going to save us. But yet now you tell me that

you're going to die immediately. So what did Peter do? Peter took Jesus

aside and started rebuking Jesus. You know this is the guy, just like

I'm saying. The same day, just moments ago, while saying you are

the Messiah, he was celebrating Jesus as the Messiah. And now after that,

immediately to Jesus, hey, you shouldn't talk like that. That is

not befitting of you. Don't say things like that. It doesn't just affect

you, it affects us. We follow you as well. Do you know

what I mean? Right? We follow you are the Messiah. Don't don't

say things like that. You shouldn't be good. This is not befitting of

the glory of a Messiah. And Jesus looks at him. Get behind me,

Satan. Oh. In the same day, you testify Jesus as Christ.

But you get you get rebuked that you are now Satan. Get behind

me. You know all happened in the same day. Now this is kind

of interesting, isn't it. Peter knows the identity, but he gets rebuilt.

So something is wrong or not complete in Peter's understanding or who Christ is

makes sense or not. He knows who Christ is, but somehow this understanding

is not complete, you know, God, But yet it is not.

It cannot wield it, you cannot use it, you cannot understand it,

you cannot live a life based on it. You can mean it is not

enough yet for you to build a church on it, not enough for Peter

to you to remember and then to be able to lead the church. And

so that's where when you go into verse seventeen, this is where the exciting

part happens. So we know all these things happened. Really, Then when

verse seventeen, he says, there six days after that, Jesus reading in

the scripture here and Jesus to Peter, James and John his brother, and

let them up on a high mountain by themselves, and Jesus was transfigured before

them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white

as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with

him. Then Peter answered and said, to Jesus, Lord, it is

good for us to be here. If you wish, let us make here

three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

Okay, let's pause there for a while. Why did Peter want to

build three tabernacles for them? What are tabernacles tense? What did peters?

What do we cover earlier? The world tense? Okay? These are for

tense? Now before I sorry, Actually there's one part I want to cover

first. First of all, we know that James, John and Peter okay

with m and when they get up this Jesus was tryingsfigured two key persons showed

up. One was Moses and one was Elijah. What did Moses Elijah represented?

Why Moses in Elijah? Why can't be Abraham? What can be a

Jeremiah? Moses appeared because he represented the law. God gave men two very

very powerful things in the Old Testament for us to leave, for us to

know that God is in control and for us to know who the Christ is.

Two key things. The first was the law, and law came through

Moses. Okay, the law came from Moses. God saved the people from

Egypt. He say thing, he brought them to the mountain. You are

my people, and my people they have law. The first thing he came

down, he gave them the law. Saw Moses represent that the law,

okay, and Elijah represented one. This is very important when you know when

you every time you have the Bible, it is both Moses and Elijah inside

there. It is the law, and Elijah represents the prophetic word, not

just the normal word, but the prophetic word. You understand why I'm saying.

So your Bible is not just the law where people know me just look

at it as the law. But your Bible is also the prophetic word of

God. Your man sends what I'm saying here. Jesus stands in the middle

and greater than Moses and Elijah. He fulfills both the commandment, the written

word and the prophetic word of God. You're the same. I'm saying.

So now you know Christ as who it is, and you are sure of

it because the world has come in its fullness of flesh. Greater than Elijah,

greater than Moses, but Peter did not understand and fully comprehend what he

So, you know, saying what I'm saying here. When you read the

Bible, you don't realize that did Most of the time we just read a

scripture. It's just a word, it's just a teaching. But did you

realize that the word is prophetic? That is why the Bible is so unique

compared to any other word. It's not that it's a law. Everybody can

write law, but no one can make it prophetic. Every prophecy must be

fulfilled, ye I mean right, not by events, not by a man.

Ye I mean right. Jesus is the combination fulfillment of everything. He

was greater. And so Peter did not understand it. He's like, oh,

Moses, hey, they're harry a party. Come you know. And

they were, because I don't have much time here, they were actually celebrating

a feast at that time. They celebrating the Feast of the Tabernacle. Game

the Feast of the Tabernacle is on the seventh feast that the Jewish people were

celebrating. Okay, and I can give a picture, maybe you can go

to the I think the next line. So they're having a feast, and

then normally if you have a house or lender house, they will literally set

up a booth outside there. Okay, celebrating a booth outside there. People

will do celebration there. Okay, And we can go to the next line.

So there are seven feasts that the Jewish people celebrate all the way from

the Passover to the unleven Bread, the first Fruits, the Penticos, the

trumpers, Day of Tomon, and the Tabernacles as well. Tabernacus is the

last one. Okay. Actually, if you want to teach on this,

actually, yeah, the first four has already been fulfilled by God. The

third one is coming by anyway. Actually, Highday is a mystery for now.

You're very very fascinating. You know in a day of Pentecost that the

day means fifty days. You know, pens means pentagon fifty days. Okay,

when Moses, when they all celebrate the fifty days, the people were

building the golden calf, isn't it? People die, But in the Book

of Ants they are painted costs came, right, people instead of dying,

they were say, the Holy Spirit came. So there is sort of like

a small scale celebration and the God's scale celebration of the feast. Okay,

so all four has been for field ready Jesus as the passover eleven bed first

fruits all for field ready. The Holy Spirit came and now we're entering phase

number two right now, the trumpets, the day of a Talman, and

the tabernacle. Okay, So now why do I why why do I talk

about this? Because Pete they were celebrating the feast of tabernacles, and he

saw Moses, Elijah, Ah and Jesus there come let us make tabernacles.

Now this is very important. But I'm not sure whether you remember, but

I think if he's not mistaken, is in John chapter sixteen were then they

go into it? There was John said the sixty or six Camember, the

Jewish people were going to celebrate the fast of taber Eckles, and the brothers

of Jesus were saying that, hey, why don't you go and celebrate repast

as well, the feast of taben Ecles, and then you go and perform

all your miracles I'm paraphrasing here, by the way, Ah, and then

when you and then you perform miracles there because no profet and no great,

no people and a great prophets. I should do things that you know and

then hide it and not let let people know. But they were basically basically

mocking him. Okay, so no, sometimes the worst mocks comes from your

own family when they don't believe it all works. So Jesus said, I

know I will not go because my time has not yet come. It's kind

of funnier because people were celebrating the feast of taban Eckles to celebrate God.

No Jesus saying my time has not yet come. Because Jesus was not going

to celebrate. He's going to be celebrated. He will be the one day

will actually worship him. You gave me right. It's kind of funny,

you know. And so when Peter he tried to build three tabernecles for for

both, for all three of them, right, what happened? What did

we see happen? Go back to their verse five, and while verse fight,

he says, well, he was still speaking, Behold a bright cloud

overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying,

this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. Hear him chas

at that time before he Peter go and do something silly that he didn't know

what he was doing. He didn't understand. The Father intervened and declare,

this is my beloved son, in whom I am well piaced. And when

the disciples heardly, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. But

Jesus came and touched them and said, arise and don't be afraid. And

when they lift up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus. Only.

Why did the Father intervened, Why they got intervened. The reason God

intervened was to show, was to let Peter and the disciples know as witnesses

that Jesus are not It's not just mere humans or teachers. That Jesus is

greater. Not by what people say, not by the pharisees seduces, not

by what Peter says, but God. The Father himself declared that Jesus is

the son of God. He get me in right. That is why you

cannot build a tabernacer for him. He's not human. He is not to

celebrate people. No, God, he is to be celebrated. You cannot

be a tabernacer for him. He get in right. So this is a

very clear passage that when we are when when we read it, we understand

that Jesus, okay, is the son of God. Okay, it's not

a it's not a myth. So the disciples world witnesses God, the father

world witnesses that Jesus is the son of God. Third witness that Jesus is

the son of God. Is the Messiah. Is the prophetic Word. As

I draw to a close here, now, well, like I say again,

you know, how do you know that Jesus is the son of God?

How do you know that you have eternal life? How can you trust

the Bible? You must understand again the Scripture is both the law and the

prophetic word. Okay. And Peter says here that the prophetic world is a

light and a lamb onto your feet. It's not the world, but it's

more like a lamb onto your life. In times of toughness, when you

fall from when you, when you when you, when you lean on it,

when you fall onto equal provide you with guidance. It will provide you

with Shooty. Now, when we are discouraged, we will know how prophecies

have been fulfilled. When you doubt the word of God, when you don't

like, well, why am I learning? Why am I reading? Is

the Bible better? You will know that the Bible has prophecies. Now,

the Bible doesn't just have any prophecies. The Bible has prophecies about who the

crisis. Okay, do you know how many Bible prophecies are there about who

the Son of God is? Anybody want to guess? Five two hundred.

There are three hundred and twenty four prophecies regarding the Messiah from the Old Testament,

and she more all away from the Old Testament. Okay, three hundred

and twenty four. Now let's put it in a bit more contacts. Okay,

what are the chances are in the world of fulfilling just eight prophecies out

of the twenty four? Okay, because a lot of people, Musa,

I must understand at that time, a lot of people will say that I

come from God. I think I know how to interpret the Bible. I

know at the right teaching, I know the way. A lot of people

will come in force pretense. Okay, this is before Jesus time, saying

they know a lot of things. So the Bible has to least down a

lot of requirements. You need to be born, you know, first of

all, you need to be born by a virgin mother. How to do

that without the technology? Or by the way, before you were born or

so, you need to know how you die. You need to know exactly

how you die. And after you die you must be raised from the dead.

How to arrange that? Oh, by the way, you're you need

to come from a certain david lyone. Okay, ah, yeah. By

the way, Oh, by the way, you need to perform a lot

of miracles as well. You need to be able to heal the lame the

mule, you know, people who are possessed with demon but cannot speak,

you know. Oh, by the way, Oh, by the way,

when you're crucified, by the way, I forgot to tell you, you'll

be tortured. You know. By the way, you need to be stepped

on the left. I think it rights out of left side already, you

know. Okay, putting that assigne just for feeling aid of that? What

are the chances for feeling that? Imagine the whole entire earth, okay,

whole entire earth. And we are all construction workers and we try to tile

game. We tied to lay town from here from XPJ all the way around

the world to the north pole or the supple to the US, and come

back here with tiles the size of one inch tiles like the size of my

thumb. Hey, the size of my thumb. We tile the whole entire

earth is tile with one inch tiles. Okay? And then there is an

alien. Sorry, no the alien yet before the alien part yet? And

then I will ask Jess all the earth, all the tiles there. I

want you to open up one tile underneath, and I want you to put

a special coin inside there. I want you to cover that tile, okay.

And then after that the alien comes. This alien come from millions of

millions of miles away, coming to earth. He has one chance to open

up one tile of open it and that how reveals that coin. There is

the chance that you'll be able to fit and meet it requirements. Only so

is it still very possible. The reason why prophecy was given was that so

that you and I will know and bear witness that the word of God is

unlike any word of God. And not only the word of God is so

unique, is so profound. It's only can come of God. The person

who fulfills the world is no mere human. As well, you get him,

saying both the word of God is divine and the person fulfilling it is

divine. You came in right. So when we read the Bible, we

must appreciate it is divine, but reading the world is one thing. After

this, we respond to the one who is divine, Amen, the one

who is divine, and we know sure and sure God is true. Amen.

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