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00:00Long before man was created, long before the earth was created,
00:03the Bible tells us there was a battle royal in heaven.
00:08Lucifer, who was one of the created angels, created, mind you,
00:13rebelled against God, wanting to be God Himself.
00:16And one-third of the angels followed Him.
00:20And Lucifer became Satan.
00:22And the Bible says he was cast to the earth.
00:24Where?
00:25To the earth.
00:26Long before man was created.
00:27And he and one-third of his angels that followed Him became demons.
00:32Now watch this.
00:33This is a drama of the entire redemption story.
00:37And when he was cast to the earth, in other words, earth became his domain.
00:41And that's why he was very jealous, of course, when God created another being called man.
00:46And God made man in His image.
00:49And God will give the entire earth to man.
00:51But this very place of the scenario of the battlefield
00:54became the place where God made His highest creation, man.
00:59I mean, God made the first man, Adam and Eve.
01:01God gave man everything wonderful in that garden.
01:05They were the only ones there.
01:06Amen.
01:07Adam and Eve.
01:08And they had every access to every good thing in the garden.
01:11And also, God made one tree called the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
01:17And God told Adam, don't eat from that tree.
01:20God gave man free choice.
01:21And whenever there's a free choice, there's always a risk.
01:24God says, to show that you love me.
01:26To show that you honor me.
01:29Amen.
01:29You acknowledge that I am your creator.
01:31That you want to have a relationship with me with your own choice.
01:35Don't eat from this one tree.
01:37Because the day that you eat of it,
01:40in the Hebrew it says,
01:42dying spiritually, you will surely die one day physically.
01:46So when Adam partook of that tree,
01:48the Bible tells us Satan possessed the body of a snake.
01:52Because Satan cannot, as an outlaw spirit,
01:55he has no jurisdiction on this earth.
01:58Only those created on this earth has jurisdiction on this earth.
02:02So the Bible tells us that Satan possessed the body of the serpent
02:06and tempted Eve.
02:07You all know the story.
02:09Eve took the fruit, ate it,
02:11gave it to her husband who was with her.
02:13They both ate it, and they fell.
02:16Now God cannot, being a just God,
02:19God cannot say, boys will be boys,
02:21oh never mind, sweep these under the carpet.
02:23Or else He'll not be a man of His Word.
02:25He'll not be a God of justice,
02:29of faithfulness, of righteousness, of truth.
02:31Yes, God is love.
02:33So God is, the fact that God is love,
02:35God has to find a solution, right?
02:37Man has sinned.
02:38And the consequence of sin is what?
02:40Dying, spiritually, you will die physically.
02:43So death came in.
02:45That's when sickness came in.
02:46That's when disease comes in.
02:48So God gave this earth to man,
02:49and man bowed his knee to an outlaw spirit, to Satan,
02:53and gave this earth to Satan.
02:56Now God has to intervene, yes,
02:57but God must come in legally.
02:59God Himself cannot violate His own Word.
03:02Thus the story begins.
03:03The whole drama of redemption begins.
03:06God was not willing,
03:07God was willing to just part with man.
03:09If God is just justice, which He is,
03:13righteousness, which He is,
03:15truth, amen, which He is,
03:18but He's not love,
03:19He can just forget man,
03:20just, you know, dissolve man into thin air
03:24like infinity wars.
03:28But God didn't want to do that
03:29because God is love.
03:31And how many know that when you follow God,
03:33you always win.
03:36Amen?
03:37No outlaw spirit knows Satan cannot beat God.
03:41So the drama continues.
03:43Man has sinned.
03:44Then God came on the scene,
03:45and God saw the entire thing.
03:47Did God abandon man?
03:48No.
03:48God loved man still.
03:50In fact, the Bible tells us
03:51God was the first one to offer a sacrifice.
03:55God killed the animal.
03:57An animal probably is a lamb.
03:58And God covered both Adam and Eve
04:00with coats of skin.
04:02Blood everywhere,
04:04thus signifying without the shedding of blood,
04:06there is no forgiveness of sins.
04:10It might be sinless blood
04:11washing away all our sins.
04:15Amen.
04:17And this is what God said
04:18to the snake or to Satan.
04:21And friends,
04:22if you leave this place,
04:23you forget everything else,
04:24don't forget this.
04:26Amen?
04:27That this is the first prophecy in the Bible.
04:30The first prophecy in the Bible
04:31is what God said to Satan.
04:33God said this,
04:34and I'll put enmity between you and the woman
04:36and between your seed.
04:38God is talking to Satan,
04:39and God is saying,
04:40I'll put enmity between your seed
04:42and her seed.
04:45He shall bruise,
04:46or in the Hebrew,
04:47crush your head,
04:48and you will crush his heel.
04:50Straight away,
04:51God signified a virgin birth.
04:53Notice her seed.
04:55A woman does not have seed.
04:58The male has seed.
05:00The woman has egg.
05:02And when the seed meets with the egg,
05:04then you have life.
05:06But here God is saying,
05:08your seed, Satan,
05:09and her seed.
05:11So the war,
05:12down through the generations,
05:14has been proclaimed right there
05:16that it's from a virgin.
05:19Because a woman does not have seed.
05:20So from a virgin will come forth
05:22the dragon slayer,
05:24the serpent destroyer,
05:27the redeemer of men.
05:30His name is Jesus.
05:33So God prophesied.
05:35It's the first prophecy in the Bible.
05:37Now, when that happened,
05:39Adam and Eve later on gave birth to
05:41Cain and Abel.
05:43They're two sons, right?
05:45And Satan is not all-knowing.
05:47Satan probably thought,
05:48ah, woman's seed.
05:50This is her son.
05:51So it must be one of them.
05:53Abel offered to God
05:54a blood sacrifice
05:55by saying,
05:57I'm a sinner.
05:58Only the blood,
05:58and innocent blood,
05:59can wash me clean.
06:00And God showed him favor.
06:01I don't know how God showed him favor.
06:03Maybe you'll find there's a light
06:04that comes on him,
06:05and he's blessed,
06:07and the brother saw it.
06:07But the brother did not bring
06:08a blood sacrifice.
06:09The brother brought
06:10the works of his hands.
06:11He was a farmer,
06:12and he brought salad dressing,
06:14lettuce, broccoli,
06:15and things like that.
06:16And there's no blood.
06:17It's as if he's saying,
06:18you know,
06:19I'm not a sinner.
06:20I don't need the blood to wash me.
06:21I can bring the effort.
06:23As long as I have good efforts,
06:25God will accept me.
06:26And the Bible says
06:26God rejected him.
06:27Maybe it was like a dark cloud
06:29that came,
06:30and he had covered himself
06:32and all that.
06:32I do not know.
06:33But obviously,
06:34he knew Satan saw this.
06:35And Satan saw that Abel,
06:37who offered the blood sacrifice,
06:38had favor with God.
06:39The other one did not.
06:41So what did he do?
06:41This must be the woman's seed.
06:43I will kill him.
06:44So he got his brother Cain
06:46to murder,
06:47the first murder in history.
06:51God came to murder his brother.
06:53Again,
06:55Abel wasn't the seed.
06:57That tells you
06:58that Satan is not all-knowing.
07:01God is all-knowing.
07:03If you want to follow someone,
07:05follow someone who is all-knowing.
07:07You and I,
07:08we both are not all-knowing.
07:09The term used is omniscient.
07:11Omni means all.
07:13Seen means knowing.
07:14God is omniscient,
07:15omnipresent,
07:16omnipotent.
07:17All-knowing,
07:18all-present,
07:20and all-powerful.
07:21Satan's plan.
07:23He must stop the woman's seed
07:24from coming.
07:25But he didn't know who it was
07:26because Satan is not omniscient.
07:28So Satan saw Cain,
07:29killed Abel.
07:30He was happy.
07:30But then he found out
07:31Abel is not the one.
07:32Then down to the
07:33hundreds of years,
07:34by then,
07:35by then,
07:35the earth was populated.
07:37Man was doing
07:37all kinds of things.
07:38And the Bible says
07:39the one-third of the angels,
07:40some of them,
07:41you know, Satan came up
07:42with another plan
07:42to corrupt the woman's seed.
07:44Because if I can make the seed
07:46not fully human,
07:48it cannot be the woman's seed.
07:49So this is the story
07:50of Noah's flood.
07:51If you ever wonder
07:51why God flooded the earth,
07:53this is the reason why.
07:54The Bible tells us
07:55that some of the fallen angels,
07:56there are fallen angels,
07:57don't forget,
07:58I thought you just now
07:58become demons.
08:00They took on human form.
08:02Angels,
08:03even God's angels,
08:04can take on human form
08:06and stay with us
08:08for a while.
08:10Probably you encounter
08:11an angel you don't even know.
08:13I've got angels
08:15that I've probably met
08:16I don't even know.
08:18In fact,
08:19one might be sitting
08:20around you right now
08:20and you don't even know.
08:22Because the Bible says,
08:23be not forgetful
08:24to entertain strangers
08:25because some have
08:26entertained angels unaware.
08:30So they can take on
08:31human form.
08:32So these fallen angels
08:34took on human form
08:35and they came down to earth
08:36and they cohabited
08:38with the women in the earth.
08:40And their offspring
08:41are giants.
08:43Tall, big, huge giants.
08:46Now some of the mythology,
08:49Greek mythology
08:50that you see,
08:51the one-eyed cyclops
08:52and you know,
08:53those creatures
08:53and all that,
08:54you laugh at it and all that.
08:55But actually,
08:56a lot of mythology
08:56is based on something
08:57that you know,
08:58the word of mouth
08:59passed on from generations
09:00from generations,
09:01father to son,
09:02father to son all the way.
09:03Became corrupted,
09:04yes, of course.
09:04But obviously,
09:05there is a truth.
09:07The Bible says
09:08they were giants.
09:10They were offspring
09:10of half,
09:11they are half-fallen angel,
09:13half-men.
09:16And after hundreds of years,
09:17the whole earth
09:18was populated with them.
09:20Satan was rejoicing
09:21because he thought
09:21he can stop
09:22the pure woman's seed
09:24from coming.
09:25The seed that will crush
09:26his head
09:27because the seed
09:28must be a human being,
09:29a full human being.
09:32By the way,
09:33this explains what
09:34Nat Geo and all that,
09:36they're trying to find
09:36who created the stonehenge.
09:39Some of these building blocks
09:40are so huge
09:41that they do not know
09:43how they move it.
09:45And sometimes,
09:45they find graves,
09:46cemeteries of huge tombs.
09:49In fact,
09:49there's one in northern Israel.
09:51I went to visit it
09:52with some of my pastors,
09:53right?
09:54Then,
09:54a few years ago,
09:55went to see a place
09:56called Dolmaine
09:57and it's filled
09:58with tombs of giants.
10:00And the Bible says
10:01in those days,
10:02the giants would be
10:03in the North Bashan,
10:04which is actually
10:05the area where we were.
10:06And their tombs are huge
10:07because they are half-men.
10:11Don't look around.
10:12They're not around anymore.
10:13Any resemblance
10:14is purely coincidental.
10:15Alright?
10:16Trust me.
10:17Pastor Gabriel is real.
10:18Fully human.
10:20Alright?
10:21So,
10:21when we were there,
10:22we took a picture.
10:23In fact,
10:23this is me
10:24at one of the tombs,
10:26my left side,
10:27my right side
10:28is where the hate starts
10:30and where the lake ends.
10:31The whole place there,
10:32I'm standing on rock tombs.
10:35That's how big it is.
10:35By the way,
10:36David and Goliath,
10:37Goliath is a remnant
10:39of the giants.
10:42Okay?
10:42So what happened to the earth?
10:43After hundreds of years,
10:45it happens.
10:46The whole earth is populated.
10:47And,
10:48hardly a human stock,
10:50pure human stock
10:50was left
10:51except for Noah
10:52and his family.
10:53The Bible says
10:54God saw Noah
10:55perfect in his generations.
10:57Not perfect in the way
10:58you and I think
10:59he's a perfect man.
11:00No, no.
11:00There's no such thing.
11:01But perfect
11:02is the Hebrew word
11:03tamim,
11:03which means
11:04he's of the pure
11:05human stock.
11:07There's no mixture
11:07in his blood.
11:08He's purely human.
11:10So the earth
11:11was populated
11:11with this
11:12half creatures,
11:13half human.
11:14And God decided
11:15to bring a flood
11:16to destroy the earth.
11:17But God wanted
11:18to preserve
11:18the human race.
11:20And God preserved
11:21Noah,
11:22his wife
11:23and his three sons
11:24and their wives.
11:26Right?
11:27Am I right?
11:29Adam
11:30and Eve
11:31were one.
11:33But after hundreds
11:33of years,
11:34the earth is populated.
11:36And now only one
11:37pure human stock
11:38left.
11:38And God decided
11:38to preserve them
11:40in Noah's Ark.
11:42And God
11:42brought flood,
11:44the floods of judgment
11:44upon all flesh,
11:45for all flesh
11:46has corrupted itself,
11:47the Bible says.
11:48The whole idea
11:49is to preserve
11:50men.
11:52And after the flood,
11:54there's,
11:55there's,
11:56Noah had three sons.
11:57Their names are
11:57Ham,
11:57Shem,
11:58Japheth.
11:59From these three sons,
12:01the whole earth
12:02was populated.
12:06Okay,
12:06so the devil
12:07doesn't know.
12:08Wow!
12:08I tried to destroy,
12:09I tried to
12:10corrupt the whole earth.
12:11Now the whole earth
12:12is filled with humans.
12:12I wonder who
12:14is the promised seed.
12:16And then God
12:16narrowed down
12:17to Abraham.
12:18From Abraham,
12:20the devil realized
12:20Abraham is God's
12:21chosen one.
12:22And he whooped
12:24almost immediately
12:25to stop the seed.
12:28And the story
12:28of Sarah
12:29and how Sarah
12:30was nearly stopped
12:31from producing
12:32the seed,
12:33right,
12:33Abimelech.
12:34He got intervened.
12:35And then from,
12:36from Abraham
12:37and Sarah
12:37came the Jewish people.
12:40That much
12:40the devil knows.
12:41So he started
12:41attacking the line,
12:42trying to destroy
12:43the Jews,
12:44brought in the Philistines.
12:45And the Bible says
12:45there was another
12:46eruption
12:46of angels
12:48and men
12:49after the flood.
12:51But this time
12:52God didn't bring
12:52the flood
12:52because God
12:53swore He'll never
12:53flood the earth again.
12:54People like David
12:55will kill them.
12:57They are called
12:57the Anakims,
12:58Rephaims,
12:59the Giants.
13:01Goliath
13:01is one of them.
13:04They are extra toes,
13:05extra fingers,
13:06the Bible says.
13:07And they were
13:07head and shoulders
13:08above.
13:09They don't use a shampoo.
13:10Just head and shoulders
13:10above everybody else.
13:12And Goliath
13:15was destroyed
13:15by David.
13:16So God raised
13:17this nation
13:17to destroy
13:18the Giants,
13:19the Anakims,
13:20the Rephaims
13:20as well.
13:21Now watch this.
13:23So the devil's
13:24behind it.
13:24Who is the one?
13:25The promised one?
13:26All of a sudden
13:26zeroed in on David.
13:28God's choice
13:30to become king.
13:32Ah,
13:32he must be the one.
13:34Hence,
13:34all the spear throwing,
13:36all the attempts
13:38at David's life
13:39began
13:40because the devil
13:41thought he was
13:42the seed.
13:43But no,
13:44he was only the
13:45progenitor of the
13:46royal line.
13:47He became the king
13:47of God's choice,
13:49the royal house
13:49of David.
13:50So when David's line
13:51would come Solomon,
13:52then all the way down.
13:54In fact,
13:54there was one time
13:55the devil tried
13:55to destroy
13:56the heir,
13:57only a baby.
13:58At the time,
13:59the great,
14:00great,
14:00great,
14:01great,
14:01great grandson
14:01of David
14:02was only a child
14:03when the devil
14:04attacked the palace
14:05and the baby
14:06was kept
14:06heathen.
14:08It came to one baby.
14:10And after that,
14:11the baby was brought forth.
14:12Just that one day,
14:13Jesus,
14:14who is the son
14:15that's been heathen
14:15right now,
14:16will come forth
14:16into the earth
14:17to reign as a rightful king.
14:21And then,
14:22all the way down,
14:22down, down, down
14:23to a king
14:24of the royal line
14:25of David
14:25in Judah.
14:27And this king
14:28was called Jehoiachim.
14:29He was an evil king.
14:30Although he's
14:31from the David's line,
14:32he was an evil king.
14:33He will practice
14:34child sacrifice.
14:36For example,
14:36in the Valley of Hinnom,
14:37today you go to Israel,
14:38you'll see the Valley of Hinnom
14:39in Jerusalem.
14:41And it's a place
14:41where the word hell
14:42comes from.
14:43He will build statues
14:45of this evil
14:46bronze idol
14:48holding up the hands
14:49like this.
14:49And it's made of bronze
14:50and he has holes
14:51in his fingers
14:52and they will heat up
14:53the fire
14:54until it's so hot
14:55that flames of fire
14:56will come out of his fingers.
14:57And when it's really hot,
14:58they'll beat the drums
14:59and then women will come
15:00with their newborn babies,
15:02newborn,
15:02and they'll place it
15:03on the burning arms,
15:06thus killing their babies,
15:07offering them
15:07to this idol.
15:09And the drums
15:10will beat harder
15:10so that the women
15:11will not hear
15:11the cries of their babies.
15:13That's how wicked
15:13this king is,
15:15Jehoiachim.
15:16And God said
15:16to the prophet Jeremiah,
15:17tell them,
15:18alright,
15:19is this what I'm asking for?
15:20Is this evil
15:21that they are doing?
15:22It's never even
15:23entered my heart,
15:24God said to Jeremiah.
15:25And what he did
15:27was terrible,
15:28that his son,
15:30his name was Jehoiachim's son.
15:33Jehoiachim,
15:33God says,
15:34there'll be a curse
15:35on his line.
15:37So God is cursing
15:37the very royal line
15:39of David
15:39and this is the curse.
15:41Thus says the Lord,
15:42write this man down
15:43as charlis.
15:44Now, charlis
15:45does not mean here
15:46no child.
15:47It means heirless,
15:48no heir
15:49to continue the throne
15:50because if it's charlis,
15:51no child,
15:51how can none
15:52of his descendants
15:53shall prosper
15:54sitting on the throne
15:55of David?
15:55Obviously,
15:56he has descendants.
15:58But in other words,
15:59the curse is
15:59he'll have no heir.
16:01And true enough,
16:03he was the second
16:03last king
16:04before King Nebuchadnezzar
16:05of Babylon
16:06came to destroy
16:07the temple.
16:08Now, watch this.
16:09The moment God
16:09pronounced the curse
16:10that from the line
16:11of David,
16:11there'll be no more
16:12heir from Jeconiah,
16:16guess what?
16:17The devil rejoiced.
16:19Ha ha!
16:20The royal throne
16:21of David
16:21has stopped
16:21because of the curse.
16:23Am I right?
16:24Am I right?
16:25I believe at this point,
16:27God turned to the angel
16:28and said,
16:29watch me.
16:32So all the way down,
16:33now we go all the way
16:33down to Joseph and Mary.
16:35Watch this.
16:36Joseph and Mary right now,
16:37and there's a curse
16:37in this line.
16:39Jesus was born
16:40of Mary
16:41who was engaged
16:43to Joseph.
16:44And the Bible says
16:45before she was
16:46with child.
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17:12each time I open
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17:14As you behold Jesus
17:16in the pages of the Bible,
17:18I know you will fall
17:19in love with Him
17:20all over again.
17:22God bless you.
17:23and that's why
17:37the sign given to Israel
17:38was this in Isaiah 7.
17:40It says,
17:41therefore the Lord Himself
17:41will give you a sign.
17:42Behold the what?
17:44Behold the what?
17:47Virgin
17:47shall conceive
17:48and bear a son
17:49and shall call His name
17:51Emmanuel.
17:52Emmanuel means God with us.
17:54So a virgin,
17:55for the first time
17:56a virgin
17:57will conceive
17:59and bear a son.
18:00So Mary was that virgin.
18:02She was probably only
18:0214, 15 years old.
18:03In those days
18:04they married very early
18:04but she wasn't married yet.
18:06She was a virgin.
18:07She was betrothed to Joseph.
18:10Now Joseph
18:11and Mary,
18:12both of them,
18:13their line
18:13go all the way
18:14to David's royal line.
18:16If you look at
18:17the genealogy in Matthew,
18:19you'll find that
18:19Joseph,
18:20the husband of Mary,
18:21his line
18:22is traced
18:23all the way
18:24to David's son Solomon
18:26born of Bathsheba.
18:29The other son of Bathsheba
18:30is called Nathan.
18:32From Nathan's line,
18:33David's son Nathan,
18:34from,
18:34so there's Solomon's line
18:36all the way
18:36to Joseph's,
18:37Joseph the husband of Mary
18:38and from David's line,
18:40he has another son
18:41called Nathan,
18:41also born of Bathsheba.
18:43From Nathan
18:43all the way down
18:44to Mary.
18:47So watch this now.
18:49If Jesus
18:50lay claim
18:51to the title,
18:53if Jesus
18:53was actually born,
18:55actually born
18:56of the blood
18:57and the flesh
18:57of Joseph,
19:00he has,
19:01he cannot lay claim
19:02on anything.
19:02You know why?
19:03There's,
19:03there's sin
19:04in the blood of Joseph.
19:06And not only that,
19:07there's a curse
19:08on this line.
19:10Am I right?
19:11So Jesus
19:12will be a sinner
19:12and cannot sit
19:13on the throne.
19:14But he,
19:15he was not actually
19:16the son of Joseph.
19:19But Joseph married,
19:22married his mother,
19:23therefore,
19:24Joseph became
19:25the legal father,
19:26right?
19:26So now he has a legal,
19:27not actual,
19:28but legal claim
19:29to the throne.
19:30And yet,
19:32not have the blood
19:33where the curse is.
19:36Are you with me so far?
19:39It's the wisdom of God.
19:40Come on.
19:40Mary's side,
19:43Jesus born of Mary.
19:44So in other words,
19:44Mary provided the body.
19:46Mary,
19:47he was actually
19:47born of Mary.
19:49He was not actually
19:50born of Joseph.
19:52He was the legal son,
19:54legal son of Joseph,
19:55but not born of Joseph
19:56because he was born
19:57of the virgin.
19:58Now,
19:58Mary had Jesus
20:00in his,
20:00in her womb
20:01for nine months,
20:02right?
20:03And during these nine months,
20:05the importance of the virgin,
20:06listen carefully,
20:07is very important.
20:08The father did not
20:09provide the blood
20:10for Jesus
20:11because if he did,
20:13Jesus would have
20:14sinned in his blood.
20:16Am I right?
20:18But Mary provided
20:19the body for Jesus.
20:21Am I right?
20:22But for years,
20:23people say,
20:24well,
20:24it's the same,
20:25Pastor Prince.
20:25Mary is not perfect.
20:26Mary also has sinned
20:27in her blood.
20:28All have sinned
20:28and come short
20:29of the glory of God.
20:30Am I right?
20:31I said Mary has sinned,
20:32right?
20:33So Mary will pass
20:34her blood to her womb,
20:35right?
20:35Her fetus,
20:36right?
20:37Wrong.
20:38Why?
20:39Not too long ago,
20:40science found out
20:41that the baby
20:43is connected
20:44to the mother,
20:45we all know this
20:46for a long time,
20:47of course,
20:48to the umbilical cord.
20:50Am I right?
20:52But only recently
20:53they found out
20:53that although
20:55the umbilical cord
20:56of the child
20:58brings food
21:01from the mother
21:02into the child
21:02and wastes away
21:05from the child
21:05to the mother,
21:06for years,
21:08people thought
21:08blood also comes
21:09from the mother
21:09to the child.
21:10But you know
21:11what they found out?
21:12Not a single trace
21:14of blood
21:14goes from the mother
21:16to the child
21:16to the unbilical cord.
21:21Do you see
21:21the importance
21:22of the virgin's birth?
21:24He was placed there
21:25in the virgin's womb
21:26by the Holy Spirit.
21:29Hallelujah.
21:30Now,
21:33he has a double claim.
21:34Through Joseph,
21:35the legal line,
21:37through Mary,
21:37the actual line,
21:38all the way to David.
21:39That's why when he was born,
21:41wise men came saying,
21:42where is he born?
21:44The king of the Jews.
21:46By the way,
21:47he's the only one
21:48born king.
21:49Even every potentate,
21:51every royal king
21:52on this earth,
21:54they are not born a king.
21:56They are born a prince.
21:57Oh,
21:59this is not a big revelation,
22:00right?
22:02They are born a prince.
22:05But,
22:06the wise men came saying,
22:07where is he born?
22:08The king of the Jews.
22:09And that's why
22:10the king Herod
22:11at that time
22:11was afraid
22:11when he heard that.
22:13Because Jesus
22:14was born king.
22:16Hallelujah.
22:20King of the Jews.
22:22Wise men sought him.
22:25You know why
22:25all of you are here today?
22:26Because you are wise.
22:29Wise,
22:29this wise man
22:30travels afar.
22:32It was an arduous journey
22:34through terrains,
22:36mountains,
22:36hills,
22:38a rough,
22:39rough desert
22:40to the rivers
22:42to find
22:43baby Jesus.
22:46So the first question
22:47in the entire
22:48New Testament is,
22:49where is he born,
22:50the king of the Jews?
22:52You know what's the first question
22:53in the entire
22:54Old Testament
22:54in Genesis?
22:56God is asking man,
22:57where are you?
22:59Adam,
23:00where are you?
23:01It's not that God
23:02doesn't know.
23:03But do you know
23:04where you are?
23:06You are lost.
23:08Adam should have answered,
23:09God, I'm lost.
23:11So God is asking man,
23:12where are you?
23:12The answer to that question,
23:14where are you,
23:14is found
23:15not in saying,
23:17I'm here,
23:17like you know your way,
23:18but saying,
23:19where is he born,
23:20the king of the Jews?
23:21The answer to your lostness
23:22is, where is he?
23:23You find he,
23:25you will find you.
23:26The Bible says,
23:27unto us,
23:27a child is born.
23:29That's his humanity.
23:31He must be born.
23:32But as a son,
23:33he cannot be born.
23:34As a son,
23:34he's always preexistent
23:35with God.
23:36As a son,
23:37he's given.
23:38That's his deity.
23:39Oh, you all understand this.
23:44We are going through
23:45the entire Bible,
23:45you know.
23:47By the time you all
23:47leave this place,
23:48you don't have to go
23:49to a Bible seminary
23:49or whatever,
23:50you know.
23:50You actually cover,
23:51if some people go
23:52to a Bible seminary,
23:52they don't even know
23:53the why.
23:54They see the what.
23:54They study the what.
23:55They do the exams
23:55on the what.
23:56But you get to see the why.
24:01We are caught
24:02in this epic drama,
24:05this redemption story,
24:07this battle of the ages
24:09within evil and good
24:11is a Star Wars of Star Wars.
24:15Of all the earth
24:16that God made,
24:17of all the planets
24:18that God made,
24:18God saw the earth
24:19and God made this
24:20the location,
24:23the platform
24:23for his redemption plan.
24:26Now, the devil
24:27cannot stop Jesus, right?
24:28He was born.
24:29Born in Bethlehem.
24:30But he tried.
24:31Tried to send a Herod,
24:33tried to destroy
24:34all the babies
24:34under two years old
24:35in Bethlehem.
24:36Jesus escaped
24:38the seed.
24:40He must stop the seed.
24:41Hence the drama
24:42of how the devil
24:43tried to push him
24:44when he was 30 years old
24:45over the cliff
24:46through the people
24:47that were jealous of him.
24:50And time and time again,
24:51no, no one can take his life.
24:52He came to die, yes,
24:53but not at the whim
24:55and fancy of man,
24:56at the Father's timing.
24:58At the right time,
24:59he will lay down
24:59on the cross.
25:01This is the first time
25:01the Romans ever saw
25:02a man lie down
25:03like that willingly.
25:04Many of them
25:04will be cursing
25:05and swearing,
25:05fighting them.
25:06And he laid down
25:07and he was lifted up
25:09and he looked up to heaven.
25:11The Father,
25:12forgive them
25:13for they know not
25:13what they do.
25:14Finally,
25:15the sacrifice came.
25:16And when he hung down
25:22on the cross,
25:24it was a declaration
25:24to Satan.
25:26You lost.
25:29God won.
25:31Now sinful men,
25:33you know your sins,
25:34my sins,
25:34are actually our title
25:36to Jesus.
25:39If you have no sins,
25:41you got no title
25:41to Jesus.
25:43Because the Bible says,
25:45he'll be born,
25:46what?
25:46A saviour.
25:48So if you have no sins,
25:49he cannot be your saviour.
25:52He's only saviour
25:53for people who have sins.
25:57But when you say,
25:58I have sinned,
25:59he says,
25:59I'm your saviour.
26:00But I'm a big sinner.
26:01I'm a greater saviour.
26:05You can't believe
26:06the things I've done.
26:07You can't believe
26:07the things I have for you.
26:12My grace is greater
26:13than your sins.
26:15But,
26:15but I cannot forgive myself.
26:17But I can forgive you.
26:21And on that cross,
26:22God took your sins
26:23and my sins
26:24and God put it
26:24on Jesus Christ,
26:26the true Lamb of God.
26:27It's as if we all
26:28lay hands on Jesus,
26:29transferring all our sins
26:30to Him on the cross.
26:31And then,
26:32instead of the judgment
26:33coming on you,
26:34coming on your family,
26:35it came on Jesus.
26:36We are the guilty ones.
26:38But because we put
26:38our trust in Jesus,
26:39He who knew no sin
26:40became sin at the cross
26:42and took our sin.
26:43That even the one
26:44who betrayed Him,
26:45Judas Iscariot,
26:46Judas said of Jesus,
26:48he threw the money
26:49that he,
26:49he,
26:49he got from the Pharisees
26:51in betraying Jesus.
26:52He threw the money
26:53and said,
26:54I have betrayed
26:55innocent blood.
26:56He calls Jesus' blood
26:57innocent.
26:59But it was more
26:59than innocent.
27:00It was royal blood.
27:03It was kingly blood.
27:05It was sinless blood.
27:06It was divine blood.
27:09You're not washed.
27:10You're not washed
27:11by your good works
27:12because there's no amount
27:13of good works sufficient
27:14to wash your sins.
27:16You're not washed
27:17by your morality.
27:18No matter how great
27:19your morality is,
27:19it's not enough.
27:21You're not washed
27:22by church attendance.
27:23You all know
27:24you don't attend enough.
27:26You're not washed
27:27by your own blood.
27:30I cannot die for you.
27:31You cannot die for me.
27:32We both have sinned.
27:34But God's love
27:35plans for us
27:37to believe on the one
27:39who came willingly.
27:42Talk about free choice.
27:43He came willingly.
27:44He's the only one
27:45who can choose
27:46to be born
27:46in a palace
27:47or in a tomb,
27:49I mean,
27:50in a stable,
27:51in a manger.
27:53Before he went
27:54to the virgin's womb,
27:54he took away
27:55his royal ropes,
27:57his royal regalia,
27:59and all the angels
28:00would bow before him.
28:03And infinity became
28:04for night
28:04in the virgin's womb.
28:06A child is born.
28:08The son is given.
28:13And many years after this,
28:14the child would grow up
28:15and are close with this.
28:20And a religious man
28:21called Nicodemus
28:22came to Jesus at night.
28:23He didn't want his peers
28:25and colleagues
28:25to see him come to Jesus.
28:26So he came to Jesus
28:27at night and said,
28:28we know you're a teacher
28:29come from God.
28:30No one can do
28:30these miracles that you do.
28:32And Jesus came straight
28:32to the point.
28:34Nicodemus,
28:35with all your
28:36erudite learning,
28:37you must be born again.
28:41And he says,
28:42how can a man
28:43as old as I am
28:45go into his mother's womb
28:46and be born?
28:47And Jesus says,
28:47unless you are born
28:48of the Spirit,
28:49you cannot see
28:50the kingdom of God.
28:51And then Jesus
28:52says something
28:52very beautiful
28:53that people don't realize.
28:54They have seen this verse
28:55many times,
28:56but they don't realize
28:57it's spoken by Jesus himself.
29:00Jesus told Nicodemus,
29:01for God so loved the world.
29:03Now don't forget,
29:05Nicodemus is a Jewish
29:06religious leader.
29:09And his idea is always,
29:10God loves only the Jews.
29:13But Jesus said to him,
29:14for God so loved the world.
29:17So, little word,
29:18small word,
29:18small word,
29:19little,
29:20so,
29:23but so intense.
29:25But God didn't just
29:26love you, friend.
29:27God so loved you.
29:30God so loved you.
29:32For God so loved the world
29:33that he gave
29:34his only begotten son.
29:37A song is not a song
29:38until you sing it.
29:40A bell is not a bell
29:41until you ring it.
29:43Love in your heart
29:44wasn't given to stay.
29:47Love is not love
29:48until you give it away.
29:52For God so loved the world,
29:53Nicodemus,
29:53he gave his only begotten son
29:55that whosoever
29:57that includes anybody
29:59believes on him
30:00should not perish,
30:02but have everlasting life.
30:06So one of the last words
30:07Jesus cried on the cross
30:08was this,
30:11Finish!
30:12What is finish?
30:13All the prophecies
30:16of his first coming
30:17has all been finished.
30:18All your sins
30:19and my sins
30:20against a tris-holy God
30:22has all been forgiven.
30:25All the judgment
30:26that's supposed to fall
30:26on your head
30:27has all been removed
30:29in his body.
30:31All the claims
30:32of God's holiness on us
30:34is fully met
30:35on our behalf.
30:37And now you can expect
30:38nothing but blessings
30:40and blessings
30:41and more blessings.
30:43Expect even more.
30:45Because Jesus said,
30:46I come that you might
30:48have life
30:48and have it more abundantly.
30:50Amen?
30:51Give praise to him.
30:52Come on, church.
30:52Hallelujah!
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31:07God talked to Abraham
31:11about that mountain.
31:12God says,
31:12Abraham,
31:13take your son,
31:14your only son,
31:16the son that you love.
31:17What was God thinking of?
31:19God was thinking of his son,
31:21his only son,
31:22the son that he loved.
31:23Will be sacrificed
31:24on that mountain.
31:25So I believe,
31:26like Isaac took the wood
31:27on his back
31:28and he went up the mountain,
31:30like Jesus took the cross
31:31on his back
31:32and he went up,
31:33God called her.
31:34But before he plunged the knife
31:35into his son,
31:36God stopped him
31:37and God says,
31:38now I know you love me
31:39because you have not
31:41withheld your son,
31:42your only son,
31:43the son that you love.
31:45Today you and I
31:46can tell God today,
31:47I know now you love me
31:48because you have not
31:49withheld your son,
31:51your only son,
31:52the son that you love.
31:53It's not about us, people.
31:55All the stories in the Bible,
31:57it's about Jesus.
31:59You see,
31:59you'll never know
32:00how much God loves you
32:02until you know
32:03how much God loved his son
32:04because he gave up
32:06his son for you.
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