Christ's Glory and The Prophetic Word | Pr Matthew Chang

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

will light up your day. We're gonna turn to a Second Peter chapter one.

Okay, So I'm not going to go through all, but I will

just give a brief quick recap. Okay, so um, you know the

author. Okay, I would like my children too, now, now this

might I teach my children also, So I always ask them a lot of

questions, So better listen after that. I come back going to ask questions

later as well. So Second Peter was written by who Peter? Right?

Obviously Peter an apostle, and who is he writing too? No, I'm

gonna be listening, right, just three questions. He's writing to the church

overall, okay, overall church, is not writing to any particular church.

Of course, if you look at other books, right, the Book of

Efficians, the Book of Romans, the Book of Collosians, there are specific

locations that he was writing too. But for this book of Second Peter,

Peter is not just an apostle, He's not just an elder. He is

also the leader of the church over roll, okay. And he's addressing this

letter to the church overall. And he knows one thing very clearly is that

he is going to no longer be with them physically. Okay, he's actually

he knows that the Roman emperor and that at that time was the Roman Emperor

Nero. How many of you know about this Emperor Roman Nero her before?

Have you seen a picture of a Roman you know, a drawing of a

Roman Rome on fire before? Did you know that Roman Rome needs to be

on fire? A big part of Rom fire? And then there was a

guy who was sitting on the roof of a temper playing with his fidle.

That was the emperor. Okay. So basically, I mean, if I

could, I would give you guys a history lesson. Basically, Rome was

in a mess and suddenly there was a fire that was started in the whole

Rome. And it was started in the poorer area of Rome, Okay,

And there was because the Emperor Nero didn't like Rome as it was. He's

like, he likes the beautiful part now on the reach, the sophisticated,

the cultural part. But when he went to the other side where those slams

were, where all the poor people were, where a lot of Christians were,

he didn't like that, and he wanted to remake all of Rome,

and then he wanted to evacuate them and then remake them. And so he

went to the Senate and then to propose this idea. Okay, so he

couldn't make it, or that he needed to go to the Senate where different

leaders were there they would give a vote. So but they decided no,

it was just too cruel to do that. And so suddenly, I don't

know where, there was a fire and that started in that area of Rome.

WHOA, I wonder how he started. I wonder why it started.

And instead of calling for help, the emperor was not to be found anywhere

but playing and rejoicing around. Wow. But then he real lines that people

start to suspect that he was the guy who started the fire in Rome,

and people became very curious why. And so he decided to what to divert

attention from him? And what did he do? He started to blame one

particular group of people, and who better to blame dandy Christians. They will

say, these Christians are the ones who were foreigners who came in with their

funny religion. They say they drink blood and eat meat from the body.

They think our communion drinking the blood of Jesus and partikuing of his body.

They thought that we were cannibals, you know, literally in history they actually

thought Christians were cannibals. You know that. Wow. So they train their

change Christianity into a cult, into a cannibalistic cult. So nowadays you'll see

it in the same thing as well. You cannot you cannot trust a lot

of news that you read, isn't it a lot of news that will try

to distort, to pervert a lot of things from the truth into something that

is evil as well. And it was done in the same time, and

so the Christians were heavily persecuted by the locals, by the religion and by

the leaders and the religion of the world. At the same time the Jews,

okay, the Jews didn't like the Christians as well. The Jews will

actually betrayed the Christians and tell the Romans where the Christians are hiding. And

so the Christians who were betrayed when now were running away from the Romans.

But yet at the same time on their left that were being betrayed by their

own brothers and sisters in Israel as well. They were there in a very

very hard time. And so Peter at this time was captured by the Romans,

and he was the main leader of the church. The main guy of

the Christian movement was being captured and it's going to be executed by Nero himself.

Okay, and Nero and eventually, if you read the history, Peter

himself what was eventually crucified, and he requested to be crucified upside down because

he deemed himself not worthy of Jesus history. Lesson how many of you did

you know about his history before? No, right, go ahead and study.

It's very exciting. One. You have no idea how much pressures faith

that we have are because people sacrifice, people martyred for this faith. You

know, but you must see you understand that the Christian faith at that moment

was at a very very tender and fragile spot because the main leader is being

crucified. You may write, the main leader was being crucified, and Peter

in in knowing his time, is he's writing to these people, Okay.

And not only did he know that the people are being persecuted, the churches

okay, at that time were being infiltrated by false teachers or I tell you

talk about church having a problems, there's so much problem or now we have

like in fightings, disagreements sometimes in the church, in the family, the

church is like government attack and then wolves coming into your church trying to steal

and then try to cheat people money, have a autree, oh sorts of

problem. It doesn't mean that God is not with us you, I mean,

right, doesn't mean that bad times happening in the church. That doesn't

mean that bad times happened in your family. Was right, doesn't mean that

God is not with you. God is with you, but he's not just

gonna take you away from it. He's gonna take you through the tribulation and

the difficult times and stand. So it's a lot of times about hanging on

and going through the difficult times. God is always taking us through the difficult

times. And so this is a no not because of the time. I

can explain a bit to you guys. So Peter was writing here and he

was dealing with three mainly with false teachers. Okay, the false teachers who

were teaching three main problems, teaching three main false teachings. I think I

explain to you guys before right, what were the three main false teachings.

Number one, they didn't believe that Jesus is the son of God. Okay,

they believe that Jesus can perform many miracles. He can turn water into

wine. I believe he can south demons. I believe that he can feed

five thousand people, you know, But I don't think he's the son of

God. And even now, there are many religions, there are religions in

this world, even major religions. They claim try to claim Jesus for themselves.

Okay, they claim Jesus for themselves, means inside their religion. They

also mentioned Jesus. One h Jesus. They will say Jesus is a good

teacher, Jesus is a good healer. Jesus may be a prophet as well.

But of all these things, Jesus is definitely not the son of God.

And Jesus is definitely not God who he said. So it's not the

first time this issue has come up many many times. And so the second

Peter, and you must understand that this is a direct thread not only to

you know, the Christian Committee, but to Peter as well, because Peter

was one of the original and the leader of the Disciples of Jesus, and

so Peter could not let it stand anymore. Peter, the main, like

the main good guy you know you watch a movie, had to finally,

it is my turn to step up right now, you know, he's finally

stepping up to the stage to address this once and for all. Not Paul,

not Matthew, not Luke. Peter has to step up to verify this

once and for the paying guy, the main leader, has to step up.

Let me tell you who Jesus really really was. So that's the first

line. They don't believe Jesus was the son of God, so they will

say that Jesus is like Zeus, Jesus is like now some other god in

Roman history. So they tried to play it down, and then they started

to try to discredit Peter. So that's the first line. The second line

they believe is that, hey, they took the teachings of Paul. You're

saying, I'm saying. So at that time, the Christians had the benefit

of letters from the different parcels Peter was writing to them. Who else was

writing? Paul was writing, Luke was writing, Matthew was writing as well,

and must saying it's like our saying badge. Now it's like here in

Cheraza, su Bang is writing to you, Clang is writing to you,

Melbourne is writing to you. But all one thing is they may be very

far away, but they're all at the same time. You get me in,

right. And so they were taking all these letters and then trying to

compare who is right, who is better, who is smarter, who is

or a more holier. So some of the people they started to say,

hey, I only followed ex Melbourne, Oh, I only follow x London,

London more sophisticated, in nearer to the queen, no longer queen radio

okay, now no longer the king okay, King child right. So at

that time people were comparing, Hey, I don't follow Peter, I follow

Paul, I don't follow I followed Apollos, I followed Luke Yemen right.

So people were you not like trying to carve an identity out by attaching to

certain teachers and leaders, you know, okay, and then they start to

read Paul's letter or Paul's letter a very convincing, you know, very attractive.

You know why is so attractive because Paul said that you have been set

free in Chris You're are no longer a slave. Woh you know what they

did. They took it and say, hey, we are free. We

have bought this ticket in life means that whatever that we do has been paid

by Jesus. Ah, we can do whatever you want. Ready, you're

you're right. It's like, whoa, you paid one ticket? Your think

you can travel around the world without consequences. You get me in right.

And it's like, oh, all my scenes have been paid by Jesus.

I know right now I can go and rob a bank. I can still

to fund already, you know, without consequences. You know, you get

me right. So people they took that as the teaching of Paul. So

is you're thinking about it? Is this? Is this what Jesus saved you

for? You get me in right, Jesus sacre. So they were abusing

the freedom that Christ brought for them, and they were saying that the teachings

of Paul and Peter were contradicting. You get me in right. You could

Peter, you're officialman, you know you never went to university. Paul actually

studied in the best university. You know. Of course I trust paula you

know. So a lot of people having pride and not having all these things,

and so what they did then they so what Peter stood up again and

said, if you read it carefully, the teachings of Paul and myself and

all those that were inspired of the hope by the Holy Spirit, are you

united? Are the same. And he gave me right. They are united.

He actually verifies, Actually, Peter, if you read lated in second

peterin chapter two, he would even say Paul's writing is inspired by the Holy

script is scripture. When he says that it's scripture, means that it is

the direct word from Cordner. So Peter verifies Paul's writings, and he says

that it's not contrat it's not contradictory to mind or to God's But we are

united. It's the interpretation of the word that's perverted. You gave me right.

It's the interpretation that is perverted. So that's a second. Second problem,

Okay, the first one they don't believe that Jesus is the son of

God. The second one they say, Jesus has paid all our things.

We can live our life whatever, do whatever we want. And the third

one, what was it? The third one they say that Jesus is not

coming back. There is no final judgment before Jesus died. While he keep

telling Peter, I'm coming back again. I'm going to die and I'm coming

back again. So the whole entire church where they We're going through suffering,

isn't it. The Emperor Nero is going to hunt for us, He's going

to kill you, Peter. But yet you say that Jesus is coming back.

Where is Jesus? Where is Jesus? So people waited for so long

with without with this hope, you know, and yet they feel like,

hey, maybe Peter and they all are trying to cheat us, you know,

maybe Jesus is not why he really said, maybe Jesus really returned ready,

but you know, we missed it. Actually there actually there were good

people who really felt that they felt that Jesus has returned and they missed it.

And Paul had to write a letter to them. I think it's in

the second Tessalonians. He talks about the rupture. Okay, then Paul tell

them about no, you have not missed it yet, don't worry, don't

go and crying, oh we missed it. You know, they feel that

they thought they missed it, but no, they have not God's timing coming

back is his own timing. God counts days as thousands of years as well.

God's timing has a purpose. Our word. We are just part of

that. You know, that pebbla in that big river of God, you

know, Amy Ryan, just this small thing. God runs on his own

river, Yami Ran. He flows in his own time. So we do

not get discouraged by all these small little pebbles in our life, very insignificant.

One Hope and the Lord. Okay, So okay, so far everybody.

So this is the context I'm sharing with you guys about what Second Peter

is. Now, I'm gonna jump here very quickly to verse five, because

this is the part that I kind of missed out with you guys here.

Okay, So it says here Second Peter, Chapter one, Verse five,

It says here, but for also this reason, giving all diligence add to

your faith, virtue, virtue, knowledge, knowledge, self control, to

self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godness, to godliness, brotherly kindness,

and to brotherly kindness love. Okay. So Peter is telling all the

believers here, hey, once you believe in Cris right, Okay, it

is not the end but the beginning. It's like you think, when you

believe in Christ, you think you graduated. You will receive a certificate.

Yeah I graduated. No, you receive an entrance. Okay, the beginning

your Christian life has just begun. That is why he says that giving all

diligious once you are safe, you need to give all diligence. Diligence means

what effort means that you need to start running. It begins. You need

to give all your effort. He's talking about an athlete, an olympian now

begins the marathon. You need to start giving all your effort to add to

your salvation. It doesn't end there. You need to start. If you're

been safe, you're coming to church, you need to start looking at yourself.

Have you been adding? You know it's still just coming to church and

be a vegetate vegetable you know, hey, part the plant here. You

know we need to say we have a lot of part of plants in church

because people just stated, but they don't grow one, you know, but

we gotta open up the sky and let the rain of God coming and the

sun and make you grow and your big fruit. Fool and all not part

the plants on it. You know we're meant to be growing to be trees.

You know. Okay, God, God, God, No, say

you need to add to your life? What you say? You have faith

in God? Good? You believe in God is good. But what is

the first thing you need to have. You need to have virtue. Okay,

being a believer is good, but it's barely the beginning. You need

to be virtuous. Virtuous means what virtue means? Moral excellence. Okay,

turn to your neighbor. Turn turn to your neighble neighbor and ask them,

do you have moral excellence? You know what it's moral excellence or not?

Moral excellenca means when you look at that guy, that guy knows right from

wrong very clearly, and not just know right from wrong. He their life

is all about making the right choice. I don't care about making I don't

care about money, I don't care about whatever. It is. My most

important, most valuable thing in my life is making the right choice. When

I raise my kids up, the most important thing I want my kids to

know is making the right choice, and sometimes making the right choice. It's

difficult, it's hard, it will cost me something, but it's about moral

excellence. You got me in right. So, as a believer, when

you're saying, what do you care about always making the right choice true or

not making what is the right choice, the choice that God proves makes sense

or not? Things that God approved? What does the Bible say, sicky,

first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Why is he telling you

seek first not all the things of the world, the food, the clothing,

the money, but seek first the things that God prooves. God's righteousness

is the things that God approves. God looks like it, and he puts

a standard for Dad is good. Yeah, men, that is good.

That's for me, not what the world says good. Dad is good.

God says is good. I will do it. Okay, that's what we

call moral excellence. Then to moral excellence, what do you add knowledge?

Oh? What? How? Knowledge? Is it? More IQ? More

mathematics? This is not the type of knowledge that we're talking about, not

just general knowledge. Okay, how many of you? How many of you

like to do MATSA? You know, I'm not sure if you're saying to

think you know what I'm saying here. Have you gone to exams that and

you or maybe exams are Okay? Schooler. You don't understand the subject or

this part of the lesson, but you just do cost the theory and the

formula tells you to do it this way and it gets you to score marks.

You don't understand it, but you just do it. But any somehow

you pass the exam. It's that you came out of the exam. I

still didn't learn anything. You know what I'm talking about. You did it

because you know it's the right thing to do. You know, you're a

virtuous persona. You keep doing things they are right, even though you don't

understand how it works. You keep doing and doing it and doing it.

But then one day, one day you start to like, hey, I

start to understand why this formula works. I start to oh, instead of

just doing the right thing, now you start to realize this is how it

actually works. All the gears in your life start to click and you're like,

ah, so last time you used to know. Because as the back

of a knowledge. Right now, this knowledge becomes what deep knowledge. Deep

knowledge is knowledge from the head that you are able to apply into your life.

Ah, you get me right. There's knowledge in the head you know,

but you can't apply because you don't understand it works, but there's knowledge

there can be applied, deep quality, deep knowledge. In what I'm saying,

a lot of students study are they have knowledge, but they don't have

deep knowledge. They cannot apply what they're learning university outside. They cannot twist

it, they cannot apply because there's no true knowledge, true understanding. That's

what the Greeks called the deep knowledge. Some of us will still start there.

I think that my algebras are. They don't know how it actually makes

sense, you know, But then when you say, hey, going to

engineering, you're going into construction. Oh, this is what calculus means.

Oh, I do not understand it right now. There is the knowledge that

comes from us, knowledge not because you know the Bible. Suddenly, when

you go out and leave your life, you said, there is why God

told me to avoid this. There are things that your parents teach you.

You don't get it. But when you become older, you become a parent

yourself. You start to have responsibility. You're like, that's why why my

dad tell me that, That's why my mom tells me. There is deep

knowledge. You're like, wow, makes sense or not. That's what we

called deep knowledge. So what deep knowledge doesn't come and unless you keep doing

the right thing. So a lot of times and now while we just say

I need to know why first before I do it, yea, they want

the knowledge first, But God says no, you just keep doing what's right.

Then why will come later because why doesn't depend on you. Why depends

on the timing of God. Ah. Imagine if you're trying to raise children

now, okay, you're only learn it until you understand why. It may

say, wait until their thirty five years old, they learn why I'm teaching?

Is it? You know? You teach them about life when they're right

now. Even they don't get it, you teach them right now, so

they eventually they will do it, and they grow all that and they finally

understand Ah, that's why my dad tell me again, right, so believe

us. It's the same thing. You may not understand it why, but

you've got to keep doing what is morally right before God, and God will

show you the way makes sense. That's what Peter was trying to tell them

to do. Then eventually, once you have knowledge, you add self control.

Why is self control self control? When once you see things right,

you have knowledge right, you are able to say wow, I know I

don't know what is truly right and wrong. You start to be able to

say no, no, yes, and no. You start to deny yourself.

You start to pursue something that it's greater than yourself. You get me

right, you dieet isn't it? You fast? Or you try to sleep

earlier. You try to improve yourself. You try to not in indulging bad

things. You know why? They is called self control? Why you want

to have self control yourself? The reason why we and any of us have

reason have self controls. Why because we need to have self groun to succeed

and to survive. Okay, people change for two main reasons, to succeed

and to survive. I always say in maytimes, you will only change you

see U, I may not. I will still keep eating ice cream and

my favorite cross on and cookies until one day I have a heart attack and

I will stop eating. You know why not because I hate cookies and ice

cream. It No, I still look cookies and right ice cream, But

I look at them, I realize I need to stop eating it because I

need to survive. Survival trumps all these longings. Survival to need to succeed

trumps all these things you get me in, right, or I used to

drive, I'm mad, you know, I don't care about people. But

once I got into a very cart accident and I almost lost my life,

and I almost caused a life of my family members, I start to change

my driving. Not because someone tell me to change. I change because I

finally see it. I need to change to succeed and to survive. People

don't change because the vision is not clear, and sometimes you have to get

so close to the danger to see. Oh I need to change. Yeah,

right, that's the reason why I'm okay. So you have self control,

then, to self control, to perseverance. See, you cannot have

perseverance unless you know what it's right to do, unless you have finally understanding,

unless you have self control. You see that white people that hey do

a bit earlier, do too difficult. I don't want to don't don't want

to keep doing it. Oh, study so hard. I don't want to

keep studying. Oh this diet thing is so hard, and I've been there

before. Okay, I don't want to. There's what lacking one lacking perseverance,

lacking endurance, doing the same thing over and over again, it's so

difficult. Now this we hear that, now this right, well, this

job is so difficult. I want to change, ab lady or hear a

lot of people. I don't mean it will be personal, but it's true.

Christians at that time, all Christian face is so difficult. I don't

want to believe anymore. Lacking perseverance, isn't it. But once you start

to have self control, once you know that, hey for me to really

finally succeed and to have survived, but I need to self control when you

have this very clear goal, right you endure endure and duron is not about

seeing the end goal. Enduring is about today is a battle to fight today,

today, today, today, the next day, the next day,

the next hour, one at a time, and you start to begin not

trusting the world. You trust the process. Turned your neighbor, say trust

the process? Okay, turned your other neighbor, Do you trust the process?

Do you trust the process? Actually? I know that. You know

when I watch basketball teams are there's a team on that literally the attackline actually

literally called trust the process. And now did you know that they had to

start from zero because they got no good players? They're drafted a very powerful

player, but they're still very low ranking you all. So their motto it's

called trust the process. And over the years are they climbed from zero to

become something, It's called trusting the process. Even athletes know that, and

a professional athletes they know they got to train hard. This weird even this

year they didn't win it, they still got to train even doubly hard because

they trust the process. Okay. So the key to endurance is to trusting

the process. Okay. And then when you start to trust the process,

you're doing what is right. Your perseverance will lead you to godliness. What

is godliness? Does it means suddenly you have a led light on top of

your head here in hey, I start to float around like an angel.

No. Godliness means what, let me summarize it for you. Godliness means

you start to have a very clear fear of God in your life, a

very the fear of God is very evident in your life. When you walk,

when you go around in family, work, when you make choices in

life, someone asks you to invest into something, Somebody say hey you can

mischurch, or hey you've got an an at temptation. You start to work

in life with a different few. You want. Now it's not just people

around you. You start to look up. You know that God is around.

Your mind may tell you this is a good thing. Your heart may

want it, but because you've endured so much, you've trusted the process.

You know the moral excellence. You start to realize, above all these things,

God, is this what you want? I might like it, but

it's this what you want? And you let that question linger for a long

time, you know, because you know why I said God. You start

to say this, God, I don't want to move unless you are there,

no matter how good it is. I'm not want to move unless you

are there. And you can only say that when you've been too many many

endurans. You know, may many many difficult times because you realize that there's

no one as faithful as God. It may be the easiest thing in life,

but if God is not there, I don't want to be there.

But it may be the hardest thing. But if God is there, I

want to be there. I want, I need God. No one will

deliver me. He can't be in right. So godliness means what the fear

of God in your life? Your fear that makes you run away. No,

it doesn't mean it's not the fear that makes you that. I don't

know the fear of God that when you walk around in life, you really

God is with me and he restrains me. He withholds me, He preserves

me. You know, he leads me to steal waters, get me in

right the type. That's why when you read the Bible the Lord's prayer,

although the translation is not exactly accurate, okay, but he says that lead

us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one true or not?

Why God what it means that he's a god. It's not leading you

into temptation. But he's trying to tell God, I know I will walk

into temptation, but let your presence come upon me, that I might have

the fear of God, that you will restrain me away from temptation. You

can't be in right restraining away from temple for our children as well, for

our family as well, restrain them from from temptation. Okay. And lastly,

godess sorry, from godliness to broadly kindness. When you fear God,

that's when you start to forgive people. You forgive people, not because actually

in the upcoming homestones are I wrote it. You know I wrote there.

You know it's a preview. You know. The power, the true power

of forgiveness comes not from your ability to to forgive. You. The true

power forgiveness comes from a heart made whole. Okay, if your heart is

not whole or healthy, you will find it very hard to forgive. I

should be offended many times, not just by this, by this person,

but by many times, by many times before. If you'll never experience the

forgiveness of God, if your life is not made hold understanding what love is,

how much forgiven you are, it's very hard for you to forgive.

True forgiveness comes from a heart made whole, from the forgiveness of God.

A heart is made whole by the forgiveness of God. You get me right.

Only a heart that is made whole can you learn to truly forgive.

It's true one if you know why not, because there is no reason for

you to forgive. If somebody has hurt you, all you can care about

is I need them to pay, true or not. There's all you care

about. I need them to pay that guy, that girl, that person

that cut my car. Just now that person because he cut my car he

got me into an accident. He needs to pay. There is no one

above you, we know, But how can you forgive someone who will costs

you so much pain and hurt? It's when when you realize that you've been

forgiven much you get me right. You only forgive when you not realize that

you have been forgiven much. That's why it must come from a heart that

is made who so a lot of time times when we talk about, yeah,

you need to forgive someone, right, Sometimes I will even stay bad

bit and I will look into their lives and say, hey, you you

are offended. But is there anything else that you are more afraid of?

The truly godly person will tell me, I'm more afraid of God? What

God will think about me? Yeah? Me? Right. When you start

to have death fear, you start to let go. You start to let

go and forgive one another. No husbands and wives are sometimes we fight.

Are you feel like, oh, the person closest to us are offended you

the most? You know? How can he or she do that to me?

The only way you can reconcile. That's why we say that in a

marriage, God must be in the middle. You know why not? Because

sometimes that you cannot reconciund. But a husband and a wife who will say

sorry to each other not because they feel like it, because they fear God.

And God tells the husband to say sorry, you better say sorry.

And sometimes when I tell my wife and my wife can testify, I hope

so that okay, and she would say sorry to me as well. Okay,

we're learning. Okay, I don't like it. I feel it's not

there yet. You know, it's not biked, you know, I mean

this sorry is not good enough, you know, I you have to forgive

God. God said so. If not, they will not that peace that

comes into your life there is God's grace and musty to preserve your family.

You know you can mean, right, Okay, how much time do you

have that? Oh? Okay, I won't even got into my main message

yet. Okay, okay, anyway, no, I don't really. I

wanted to focus on that because I thought that's the more important part. Where

about ministry? Okay, everybody, you see you start to be when you

start to be able to have god leanness, brotherly kindness, but they kind

of doesn't mean you're nice to someone. Brotherly kindness and means that God is

requiring you to forgive people, because that's the hardest part. And lastly,

you were experienced love okay and brought to from bad brotherly kindness to love.

When you start to forgive people okay, you start to experience another level of

love with God. Get me right. When you start to forgive people,

you fear God. It's one thing, but now you are you got into

another level. God looks at you, approves you. I'm well pleased with

you. Well done, my good and faithful servant. You get me right.

You start you experience this profounder. It's when you become a believer.

You experienced love from God. Yes, true, but there is another level

of experience of the love of God, into another level that Jesus wants you

and I to experience. You get me in right, allert that please That

that comes from a father that is pleased with you and I get me right.

I love my children, but sometimes they do things that that doesn't please

me. I can learn my children and still not please with them. You

gave me right. They may stain decide to pour in all over my car.

I still love them, but am I pleased with them? Of course

not. But if my children I love them. When they go out and

they do the right thing. They succeed in life, they succeed as a

human being and as a believer in crime. I'm well pleased with them.

I will say, that's my son, that's my daughter, that's them.

I'm so proud of them. You're so proud to tell everybody that's my daughter,

that's my son. You gave me right. That's a type of pleasing

and they will know, Wow, I have an approval of my heavenly father.

That's the type of and they work with another level of confidence. They

can be and my son and daughter like, yeah, I met to Chang's

son daughter, But there's another Yes, I am Chang's daughter. Another level.

You get me right, there's another level, do it? Okay,

So God wants us for that, Okay, all right, everybody, Okay,

there's a lot of teaching here. Okay, but now let me draw

to straight away too. I'm not going to covert verse twelve to verse within

because that's about Peter talking about his death. I think I will move on

to the next part very quickly in verse sixteens. Okay, now the title

here, he says, here the trustworthy prophetic word Okay, I'm gonna read

here from verse sixteen to verse twenty one, and I'll slowly drove to a

close. He says, here, for we did not follow cunningly, cunningly

devised fables. Okay. Peter says that we did not make this up,

me and the apostles and the disciples. We did not make the resurrection of

Jesus up. We did not make all this miracle up as if like there

was some big plots that people were trying to make it up as well.

Okay, when we made known to you the power and the coming of our

Lord Jesus Christ. But he says here, Peter says, but we were

eye witnesses of his majesty underlying that eyewitnesses. Okay, for he received from

God. Okay, for Jesus received from God the Father, from the Father,

the honor and glory were such a voice came to him from the excellent

glory, and what the fathers say, This is my beloved son, in

whom I'm well pleased. And we heard this voice which came from heaven when

we were with him on the holy mountain. Okay, So so I told

you the first thing, right, There were three false teaching his name,

the first false teaching. They were saying, or they trying to counter to

the disciples, to say that we don't believe what Jesus is who he said

he is. Okay, we think that this is all made up. We

don't believe that Jesus is the son of God. So Peter came forward and

give two reputtals most important rebuttal okay, to the kingship, the deity the

divine nature of Jesus. We have two main argument. The first argument is

the eyewitness argument. Okay, eyewitness, we say it because we witnessed it.

That's the first one. Okay, we witnessed it, okay. And

it's not just that Jesus is not that just Peter was one of the disciples.

There was a very particular event that happened in the New Testament, in

the Gospel that Peter was referring to as eyewitness. Okay, you cannot just

be a disciple. You have to be an eyewitness to the declaration of Jesus

as a son of God. Okay. And then that and what declaration is

it from the teachers, from the priest? No, the only person who

can declare that Jesus is the son of God, is God himself? You

must add him. It's like you know, you graduated, right, you

have the deans, you have this, you know, all the parents are

everybody eyewitness man. But this one night they did not enough one. Wait

wait below you need the ultimate authority inaugurating Jesus. And you were there at

the inauguration. Yeah, we saw it. Jesus was crowned and Peter said,

I was there. Wow. So what event is they're talking about in

this particular case? What was the eyewitnessed too? So you will have to

turn to me very quickly to Matthew, chapter seventeen, and what do you

see there in the first title? Everybody or case of far can follow me

another fifty minutes. Very very important teaching here, okay, very very important.

Next time people ask you how do you know believe? How do you

know that Jesus is the son of God? There are two main arguments.

It's one here and then another one later. Okay, so that you don't

simply believe what people are trying to tell you. Okay, First thing,

Jesus transfigured on the mount. What is transfiguration? Means Jesus is being transformed.

It's not Jesus being transformed or Jesus cannot change. But the more accurate

work means Jesus unveiled, you know, Jesus revealed to us. Okay,

now he says here, I don't to go through all of it. Okay,

wow? Do is this turn with me to another chapter behind Matthew sixteen?

SORRYA, I know I take you guys before there. Okay. Now

to explain the transfiguration happening here, I need to give you a bit of

context as well. When you look at Matthew chapter sixteen right now, you

see a few titles in the whole chapter there? Do you see a title

there? It says that Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ. Do you see

that? Now? What happened there? So Jesus was asking the disciples,

who do these people say I am? Jesus is dealing with identity. Now

he's worked with disciples, he's dealing with people. People say, Jesus can

fifty five thousand, Jesus can walk on water. Now this is what I

do. But who do you think I am? Some people say that you

are Elijah? Okay, some say people you are? You know what he

is? There? Some say Elijah, some say John the Baptist, some

say Jeremiah, Oh, one of the prophets. But Peter, who do

you say? I am? And Peter whoa like the a student in a

smartest student. He's very competitive one in all my people must be sitting in

front of the class in the first one to race again, me, me,

ask me, me, and me, I know who you are.

You are the son of Son of God, the other living. You are

Christ. And then Jesus said, well done, son bar Jona for flesh

and bird has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in

heaven. Okay, Aw, Peter got a blue blue star, I know

whatever it is like. Okay, Do you think that's the end of the

story. No, you see, immediately after that paragraph, what happens was

the next title, Jesus predicts his death and resurrection. Why would Jesus do

that? Your disciple, your most excellent student, tells you, proclaims you

to be the Messiah, the Son of God, glorious one and all.

And after immediately your student tells you that, you decide to tell them,

Hey, by the way, I'm gonna let you know. I'm gonna be

captured tortured and I'm gonna die on the cross. How many of you will

go and work in a company, a good company er and then you have

an interview with the boss and then the boss said, welcome and welcome to

our team. Now sign on this doctor line and become powerful employer. Hey,

you can never share with it. Okay. By the way, tomorrow

a few text auditors are going to come with a few policemen and they're gonna

come and capture me and send me to the courtroom tomorrow. How would you

feel when you just join the company? You should like just got cheeta,

isn't it? What is going on? And know it's not nice to be

captured and then be trialed one And now you just say that you're the best

company, best Ceoh, you just say you're the son of God. You

agree with me, But now you're telling me you're gonna die. And then

what do we know that this is a very negative reaction? You know why?

Because what did Peter do in verse twenty two? Peter took Jesus aside

and began rebuild King Jesus. Oh, the t the student rebuild the teacher

you know this time is the student of rebuilding, the son of God and

all. Peter was so taken aback, so distraught over this newsa because he

thought that Jesus was king of coming as a king and destroy all these romans

and then restore the kingdom to this glory. God is gonna come and rain

down fire greater than God rain down fire during the time of Abraham. You

know, He's gonna do miracles ten times greater than the old testimonion. All

this what's what Peter was expecting. But yeah, instead, this guy whom

you followed is gonna get captured and crucified on the cross. What about me?

Then? If people come to my company and take my boss away and

start all diting everyone, what makes you think that you're going to be spared?

They will start looking into your work and said, hey, did you

will you complicit? Did you help your boss into making fraud? Did you

know that I used to interview for one MDB last time as a work I

went to it. Yeah, I feelt something fishy and I was like,

this company had never hurt before, even though it's from company. Then goodness

of God for a problem, God, who who never joined a company,

gave me an offering letter but I didn't join. But by the grace of

God. Okay, but you will. You will be shocked, isn't it?

So? Peter was so taken aback. He took Jesus away and said

that far be from you. You cannot this happen. This cannot happen to

you. And then in verse any tree, what did Jesus said to Peter

get behind me, satan? Or one moment you congratulate you a good student,

then another and just immediately a few minutes later, get behind me satan

or calling Peter, calling saying that Peter has the influence of Satan. You

are an offense to me. And then immediately after that you see another title.

Why did Jesus trying to tell Peter if you want to follow me,

you need to take up your cross. So weird enough, But all these

things are connected. People are all connected. Starts with starts with Peter saying

that Jesus, you're the son of God. But then it went down hill

after dead like the stomatic stopmarket crashing, crash and lower and lower and lower

and lower. You see what happened here? Peter says the right thing.

He has the head knowledge. He said that I think that this is a

son of God, but he does not understand the implication of the son of

God. He says the writing, but he does not understand the implication.

He does not know his scripture. He's like, whoa, you know that

the Son of God will go through suffering and tribulation and death. He does

not. So he knows, but he doesn't understand. You get in right,

But Jesus was so faithful. What did he do? In the next

chapter we go into the transfiguration. It's all connected one that is who went

It says there now after sixth Day, Jesus took Peter James and John tree

Fellers okay, and led them to a high mountain, and then he was

transfigure. Jesus is telling Peter, you say that I am the Son of

God, but yeah, you don't understand who I am. Now I'm going

to take you to the mountain and I'm going to show you my father.

Now you will not just say who I am. You will see who I

am right now. You get me in, right, Jesus is unveiling to

Peter. Right now, you don't just say I am the Son of God.

Okay, this is what it says there the face of Jesus shone like

the sun, and his clothes became as white as the lie. And behold,

Moses and Elijah appeared to them. Suddenly there were two guys appearing,

Moses in Elijah, Jesus, Moses in Elijah appeared before them. And then

Peter started becoming a bit tipsy and influence. I don't know why you know

you always say this problem, okay, And Gpeter said to Jesus, Lord,

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

us make three taberneckers for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah,

and one for you. What is Peter babbling about? Out of nowhere?

You decided you see Jesus face shining glory. You saw see most is that

descibed build tens? Why? Why did he decided to build ten? Why

did he say that this play is so good? I never wanted to leave

this place? Is he high? Is he drunk? No? The reason

why he was building tabernacle because at that time the Jewish people were celebrating the

festival of the Tabernacle. Did you know that the Israelites have seven major festivals.

We celebrate Chennese new Yea. They have seven major festivals. Okay,

I don't have the slights here. Okay, but very quickly you don't like

to go to it, but on your own, I highly encourage your gold

and check it out. Even a non Christians, the Jews are a majority

of the Jews are not believers. They still celebrate these festivals. And these

festivals they didn't start to eat. Why they all these festivals were given by

God and it was recorded in the Old Testament. So cool, right,

You can't actually track your festival, the festival you celebrate from the Bible,

you know, Chinese? Yea, how do we how do we track it

too? Cannot? I canno? I know soud? Then they all know

where we decided to invent this god of prosperities tison year, you know,

because I don't know where it come out, because we won more empower on

the okay. But but the Jewish people, they have seven holidays, seven

major festivals given by God. God commanded them to celebrate it, okay,

called commander to them to celebrate it, and one of them was to passover

the unleavened bread, the first fruit, the Pentecost. Okay. Now,

the festivals were divided into two main seasons, the seasons of spring and the

season of four autumn. There were four festivals to be celebrated in the springtime,

which included the Passover, the unleavened bread, the first fruits, and

the last one the day of Pentecost, and then the next three during the

autumn time, and then you have the festival trumpets, the Atonement, and

the Tabernacle. Now, I wish I could a day to share with you

guys that, but just to give you a previewer, every year they celebrated

seven one passover actually represents her the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus. They didn't

they didn't understand it. But while the nations were celebrating, God implemented his

celebration of the festivals in his own timing as well. But his timing coincided

with the with the earthly, but people were not aware. While people were

celebrating earthly passover, you know, eating the bread and the lama, God

celebrated He's passover with the lamb of God. The Lamb of God was not

any lamb, or was his own son. Jesus died on the day of

the Passover. Jesus was buried on the day of the uneleven Bread, okay,

which is the third day. On the first day, it was the

day of first fruits. All coinciding is exactly on that day of the festival.

Quite amazing, isn't it. Jesus's death, burial and resurrection coinside is

exactly on your fact on the festivals. You know. Well, it's like

you can coincide your your birthday are on the Chinese New Year? Are so

good, radio, I tell you. But Jesus's death not just your birthday.

He's death not coinciding on that same time You're not death, burial and

resurrections. And then fifty days after that we call it a fifty year.

In Greek, five means what panta right pentagon right penta. That is where

we get the word Pantecost from Pantecost means pent five, fifty fifty days later,

after the first fruit, fifty days later. It happened in the Old

Testament, Okay, when Moses came and when when? When? When the

people in Mount Sinai after fifty days later? What happened? Moses came down

from the mountain with the two tablets, and he saw what the people do.

They were worshiping the golden calf, isn't it? And Moses threw down

the tabernacle and then people started dying because they started started dying. Is it

because the disease came and broke out? Was it a disease? Was it

was snake? Can remembered it was sna Remember people started dying very quickly now

and Moses took out staff with a snake on it, and people had to

stare at it to get safe. On the day of their original Pentecost,

three thousand people dying. When Jesus was raised from the dead fifty days later,

what did he tell the discipposed to do? To stay in the upper

room, don't go anywhere. And when they they are Pentecosts happened, the

tongue of fire came upon them, Holy Spirit came upon them. And how

many people got safe? Three thousand people got safe? Is that thing happening?

And the Old Testament happening in the time of Jesus fulfilled? Amazing?

You know saw out of seven fulfilled four festivals, how many more left?

Tree left? And we will see in our coming time the tree festivals to

come, and the tree festivals with the festival on trumpets. When Jesus comes

still be allowed trumpet. We will hear in the skies more desclaring, and

then we will hear a day of atrment where people start to mourn and start

to repent of their sins and start to turn their hearts to Jesus. And

the last one the day of Taiberneca, which was talking about the one.

The day of Taieberneca represents the people. During the seven days our people,

the Jewish people will actually build their tentino. Okay. It's like you know,

during MCO time and sometimes we build can be you know, I was

like and the make finds nay becaus cannot go out right. So the Israelites

even until today, if you go to Israel, during the feast of Tabernecker,

they were literally built on their roof or outside the house a tentino and

they will stay in the tenor inside the house for seven days, okay.

And the reason why they do that is to remember God taking them, delivering

them. They're delivering them from Egypt and into the wilderness where they stayed inside

the tent for seven days makes sense or not? For seven days we're living

there, so Peter was there. Hey, it's a day feast of tabernacle.

Of all places I could build my ten in my house or near the

river, this is the best place, best camping site. So Peter said,

hey, let's build a temp for all of them. But he didn't

know why he was saying, And so who had to come and intervene?

The Father had to come and intervene because Peter no, he thought that Moses

and Jesus was the same level with Moses and Elijah. Moses represented the law.

Moses gave the law to the people's name. Elijah represented the prophets.

So God gave the nation of Israel two main gifts before Jesus, the Law

and the prophets. That's why you have the book the Old Testament, bo

might. The Old Testament is basically built there, the Law and the prophets.

That's why we have the Old Testament. God gave it to them so

that they could leave according to that. But something greater was coming after Moses

and Elijah. The New Testament. The New Testament is all about Jesus,

and Jesus was greater than Moses and Elijah. You get me right. The

only New Testament is about Jesus. But Jesus great, not contradicting Old Testament.

But Jesus was greater than the Old Testament because he fulfilled every single law,

and he fulfilled every prophecy from them. You get me right. He

fulfilled every law and prophecy. He was greater than that. So we trust

not in the law or in the prophets. When we trust Jesus, we

fulfill everything. Ah, get me right. It's like, suddenly I give

you an example that you go and study for a three year program. Okay,

the first two years that you're supposed to compete if you cannot pass.

But suddenly your your campers are decided to tell you you study this one.

Okay, you do maybe half the practical and you follow this guy. If

you do it, you already fulfilled that too. And I'll give you even

a greater mon. Jesus is giving us a more excellent covernant. You know,

we call it. It doesn't write the old program. It's just that

it's better. It fulfills the old program, and it's better. Give me

right, So you and I were given a privilege. It's a privilege not

just for us, but even the people from the old testament. They needed

to trust in Jesus as well. Give me right. That was the time

that one teaching our time, how they do that? Okay, so Peter.

So God the Father had to come in and reveal to Peter saying,

this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And so when

Peter was when you go back to second Peter, when Peter was writing this

letter, I said, I was there and I was an eyewitness to all

these events. When Jesus was declared the son of God by no other but

the Father himself. I was an eye witness. And you can verify it

with John and James as well, James the brother of Jesus, and they

were there at the same time as well. So the eyewitness was the first

rebuttal that Peter gave. But the most important Ribarton that Peter gave was not

just the eyewitness, but what did he say second second Peter, he says

here verse N, I think and says that, And so we have the

prophetic world confirm. Underlying that prophetic world confirm, which you do well to

hit a slight that shines in the darkness until the dawn, until the day

dawns, and the morning star rises in your heart. Knowing these first that

no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. For prophecy never came by

the will of men, by the holy men of God, who spoke as

they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Now another context I need to give

to you. Now. The people had the scripture, but they were saying

that Jesus is not the son of God. And the reason why they didn't

say say that Jesus is not the son of God is because a lot of

these leaders were privately interpreting the Bible in their own ways. They were having

small groups, not the good small group, okay, bad small groups.

They were saying that, Hey, I've heard from Paul before. Hey I've

come away, I come from Greece, I come from China, I come

from here. Don't listen to Peter. Let me tell you how to properly

interpret the scripture. Sounds very familiar nowadays. Were also are people doing that

nowadays name But Peter Saia interpretation er is not private one and all. It

is public because interpretion interpretation needs to be tested. One how you're interpreting one

now, because if you can give you the scripture, but if you anyhow

interpret it, you can make it say whatever you want, one true or

not. If you really want it, you can make the Bible say whatever

you want. That's what we call account you know. So interpretation must be

public. That's why there's what Peter. There's what Peter is saying, scripture

not No prophecy or scripture is of any private interpretation. For a prophecy never

came by the will of man. If it came from God, If it

came from men, you can you can privately interpret it. But it even

came from man, it came from God. Whatever God gives it must brought

into the light. Makes sense or not. It must be brought into the

light. Nobody can tell if anyone comes to you, to your children,

to your family, or anyone say hey, this is how we should interpret

it. No, it must be brought into the light. You are not

a ship or a wolf. Simple as that makes sense or not. Okay,

Now it says, yeah, but we have the prophety will come from

last one. What does it so? The first rebutter Peter gave us we

were eyewitnesses. The second thing is say, even if I die, if

I'm nailed to the cross, and all of us where I've gone, and

generations who come? What would you? And I have to confirm and to

know that Jesus is really the son of God. Someone comes to you right

now and said, how do you know Jesus is the son of God?

How would you defend? And this question will come not sparing any generations.

You know you need to know you and how do you know? The scripture

not just any scripture, it's a prophetic scripture. Do you know that your

scriptures are prophetic? Your scripture has something unique greater than any Shakespeare, any

Choke earlier book. You know, and I know whatever book wisdom written by

men in all better than John C. Maxwell, whatever, whatever guy you

follow. I know there's one element about the scripture that is greater than all

that. Why is that element prophetic scripture? Prophetic element? It's prophetic you

see. Uh, if your prophetic prophecy fails, you know that you're a

fraud. You got me in right. That's why nobody dares to predict anything.

Now, That's why when they do a video or they put a disclaimer

there or in case we say anything wrong or it's not a fault er,

nobody dares to say guarantee, but the scripture says it, no, it

is a word of God. It is a guarantee. And anyone who claims

to be the Son of God, they need to meet every criteria or prophecy.

Did you know that the Bible has a criteria about the guide about the

Son of God is about to come. They don't know who he is first,

they don't know how he looks like. They're not called his name yet,

but there's a title called the Son of God or the Son of Man

or the Messiah as well. Did you know how many prophecies are there?

How many requirements are listed to qualify this person. I want to anyone to

go and give a guess, ten twenty, how many recomments? Everybody so

scared? How many requirements are there to become the son? To talk to

to fulfill this requirement to be this son of God? They know they were

coming, and different people were coming, say I am the Son of God,

I am the Messiah, I am the Christ. So if you say

you are, you can't say it, but you have to fulfill it.

Now. If you don't fulfill it, you'll be stoned to death. How

many requirements three hundred and twenty four. And that's why you must come to

a Bible study knowing Jesus. Right, Yes, they're right. I was

teaching. It's like you need to come out of classes. Actually, the

best way to study the book of knowing Jesus is not true. Hey,

Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you great, but to know that he is

real. You cannot escape from prophecy because it is the one thing that the

humans don't have. Somebody can say that I love you, I Valentine's there,

I love you. They can say all the love you want, but

the one thing they cannot give you is prophecy. You can't be in right.

Nobody can give your prophecy. You must know the Christians. Do you

do you know the prophecies? You can be right. You must know the

prophecies three hundred and twenty four of them prophecies like what hey, I want

to be bormbed by my mother must be a virgin. That means that my

mother hasn't known any man how to do there or by the way, I

need to be able to perform certain miracles are and these miracles have never been

performed by any men, but only Jesus only you know that miracles are They

are normal miracles, and they are miracles by God on perform by God on

the means. You can cast out demon but they are deemers or a certain

level that you cannot cast out one. Do you know that you can heal

certain people, but there are certain healing only the Son of Men can heal,

so that you know that he is really the son of Man. It's

reserved for them. It's called messianic miracles. You know that. Oh,

by the way, did you know that you also need to not only need

to fulfill the requirement? You need to decide how you're gonna die, how

you're gonna die. When you're gonna die, you know, you're gonna basically

tell the person who kill you a you don't step here, you need to

step here. Oh, by the way, when my blood comes out,

it's not red, it must be a white color. One you have to

do. You can decide where you're going to be buried, you know,

Oh, by the way, you have to you have to be able to

determine after you die three days of the day. You need to be able

to rise from the dead. You need to be able to decide all these

things. You know now you say tell people say it's very probable. I

still believe in the idea of probability. It's a closing here I put you.

Let's say we are not asking one guy to fulfill eight prophecies, ten

or three hundred and twenty four prophecies, but just eight prophecies. You know,

what are the chances of them being able to be able to fulfill them?

Say raphire, okay, you are an alien from Mars. Maybe you

are are you and you come down to Earth, then you have to fulfill

eight requirements of this message of this messiah. What are the chances did you

be able to do that? To give you an idea of what are the

chances are calculated by SCIENTISTSA you know, like tiles, Ah, those tiles

like one and a half inch tiles. If you tie the war one,

right, those one and a half inch hols like the size of my thumb

like that right. Imagine you take this tile and you tile the entire earth.

You tie the entire the whole entire earth becomes a bathroom, every single

in one and in one of the tile there you take out one coin and

you put it the bet and you press it into the into the ground,

and Raphael from Mars will have to land on earth. You pick one tire

and you open it up, it happens to be that coin. That's the

probability you can fulfill just eight prophecies. You see here there is only one

son of man. They can don't be other. Jesus is not a coincidence.

Other religions. Other people will come in and try to steal. They

will try to kill, they were kindred, destroy. They will say that,

oh Jesus didn't that Jesus didn't rise from there. They will come do

whatever you can to steal what not your money, not your family. They

want to steal what that hope in you, Your hope. It's the most

precious thing. Amen, God. God has given this to us, and

Peter has trust that not to his own power. He's saying that I know

the future generations will be safe. We'll know the true power and the love

of Jesus because of the power of the Holy Scripture. God spoke, has

spoke, and his words still rings in today to give affirmation for you and

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