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Series B – First Wednesday of Advent – Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:28	our reading tonight is taken from the
0:30	gospel of matthew chapter
0:32	1. the book of the genealogy of Jesus
0:35	Christ the son
0:36	of david the son of abraham and jesse
0:40	the father of david the king and david
0:42	was the father of solomon by the wife of
0:44	uriah
0:45	and solomon the father of rehoboam and
0:48	rahabom
0:48	the father of abhija and abhija the
0:51	father of asaph
0:52	and asaph the father of jehoshaphat and
0:55	jehoshaphat the father of joram
0:58	and joram the father of uzziah and
1:01	uzziah the father of jotham and jotham
1:03	the father of ahaz
1:05	ahaz the father of the hezekiah and
1:07	hezekiah the father of manasseh
1:10	and manasseh the father of amos and amos
1:12	the father of josiah
1:14	and josiah the father of jeconiah and
1:16	his brothers
1:18	at the time of the deportation to
1:20	babylon
1:22	oh lord have mercy on us in the name of
1:25	Jesus
1:28	Jesus the son of david and the son of
1:30	abraham we’re going to hear more about
1:31	abraham next week but today we’re going
1:33	to be looking
1:34	at Jesus the son of david now we all
1:37	know the stories about david
1:39	or at least the highlight reel stories
1:40	the story of david and goliath david’s
1:43	mighty men of valor
1:44	maybe you’ve even heard of banaya who
1:46	slew
1:47	a lion in a pit on a snowy day those are
1:50	kind of the highlight reels
1:51	but as we embark on our advent
1:53	meditations in advent being a time of
1:55	penitence
1:56	it’s vital for us to remember that the
1:58	heroic david who slew goliath
2:01	also sinned greatly against god and
2:04	needed to be rescued
2:05	and needed to be saved you may be
2:08	tempted to think that i’m referring to
2:09	that famous incident of the adultery
2:11	with bathsheba the murder of her husband
2:13	uriah the hittite
2:15	but tonight i’m not the sin i’m going to
2:17	be referring to today
2:19	in well in reference sheer numbers of
2:21	people who died as a result of this sin
2:24	um and it and you know let’s just say
2:27	that it puts
2:29	the consequences regarding bathsheba and
2:31	uriah the hittite to shame as far as
2:33	total consequences
2:34	but before we get into that considering
2:37	that david needed to be saved an
2:38	important thing for us to consider in
2:40	this regard today
2:41	we’re going to need to set the stage so
2:43	today we’re going to be doing a little
2:45	bit of bible study
2:46	if you would we’re going to start in the
2:48	book of genesis we’re going to go all
2:49	the way
2:50	back to genesis chapter 22 and there’s a
2:53	bit of information that we need to pick
2:55	up here
2:56	in this account where god asked for
2:59	abraham
3:00	to sacrifice his son isaac
3:03	it’s a fascinating text but we’re going
3:05	to focus in on the end but i’m going to
3:07	read it in its entirety
3:09	since it doesn’t look like you all are
3:10	going anywhere anyway
3:12	so genesis chapter 22 verse 1 after
3:14	these things god tested abraham
3:17	said to him abraham and he said here i
3:19	am he said take your son your only son
3:21	isaac whom you love and go to the land
3:24	of moriah i always like to point out
3:25	your only son doesn’t abraham have two
3:29	sons at this point two that i can count
3:31	i mean
3:31	you got ishmael the firstborn and you
3:33	got isaac
3:34	but god says your son your only son and
3:38	it’s important for us to keep in mind
3:39	here
3:40	that i like to note that in the types in
3:42	the shadows that what we are going to
3:44	see here
3:46	is a type and shadow dress rehearsal if
3:48	you would
3:49	of Christ’s sacrifice for our sins
3:53	Christ being the only begotten son of
3:55	god if you think it is really about
3:57	abraham and his obedience you’re kind of
4:00	missing
4:01	the point so take your son your only son
4:04	whom you love and go to the land of
4:06	moriah
4:07	keep that word in the back of your head
4:10	you’re going to need it
4:11	and offer him there as a burnt offering
4:13	on one of the mountains
4:14	of which i shall tell you so god has
4:18	given abraham
4:18	a specific place to go to mount moriah
4:21	and he’s going to show him where it is
4:23	so abraham rose early in the morning
4:25	saddled his donkey
4:26	took two of his young men with him his
4:28	son isaac
4:29	cut the wood for the burnt offering a
4:31	rose and went to the place
4:32	of which god had told him on the third
4:35	day
4:36	got to pay attention to that third day
4:38	stuff in scripture on the third day
4:40	abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the
4:42	place from afar
4:43	and then abraham said to his young men
4:46	stay here with the donkey
4:47	i and the boy will go over there and
4:49	worship and come again
4:51	to you and abraham took the wood of the
4:53	burnt offering
4:54	laid it on isaac his son so isaac is
4:57	about to be sacrificed
4:58	and he’s carrying the wood
5:02	hmm that sounds a lot like somebody i
5:05	can remember in the new testament so he
5:07	took the wood
5:08	and abraham took the wood burner off and
5:10	laid on isaac his son took
5:11	in his hand the fire and the knife so
5:14	they went
5:14	both of them together and isaac said to
5:17	his father abraham my father
5:18	and he said here i am my son he said
5:20	behold the fire and the wood but where
5:22	is the lamb for the burnt offering
5:24	good question right abraham said god
5:27	will provide himself the lamb for a
5:29	burnt offering my son
5:31	boy no truer words could be said no true
5:34	words could
5:35	definitely be said here so they went
5:36	both of them together and when they came
5:38	to the place of which god had told him
5:40	abraham built the altar there
5:42	laid the wood in order bound isaac his
5:44	son laid him on the altar on top of the
5:46	wood
5:46	then abraham reached out his hand took
5:48	the knife to slaughter
5:50	his son but the angel of the lord called
5:52	to him from heaven saying abraham
5:54	abraham and he said here i am he said do
5:57	not lay your hand on the boy or do
5:59	anything to him for now i know that you
6:01	fear god saying that you have not
6:02	withheld your son
6:03	your only son from me and then abraham
6:07	lifted up his eyes
6:08	and looked and behold behind him was a
6:11	ram
6:11	caught in the thicket by his horns well
6:14	thickets have
6:15	thorns and so you have a ram caught in a
6:17	thicket by
6:18	thorns think of it this way that’s a an
6:20	allusion to the crown of thorns that was
6:22	pressed into the head of our
6:23	lord and savior Jesus Christ so abraham
6:26	went took
6:27	the ram offered it up as a burnt
6:29	offering instead of his son
6:31	notice substitution is in play and verse
6:34	14
6:35	is where we’re going to need to pay
6:36	close attention and i’m going to offer
6:38	a different translation than the esv in
6:41	front of you for the hebrew
6:43	so abraham called the name of that place
6:46	here’s what it says in the esv the lord
6:48	will provide
6:49	as it is said to this day on the mount
6:52	of the lord it shall
6:53	be provided but if you pay close
6:55	attention to your esv there’s little
6:57	notes
6:58	little numbers there that tell you that
7:00	there are alternative translations
7:02	to this verse and let me give you a more
7:05	literal
7:06	translation abraham called the name of
7:09	that place
7:10	the lord will
7:14	see the lord will see
7:18	yahweh the lord will see
7:21	and on the mount of the lord now it
7:24	changes just a little bit
7:25	he shall be seen
7:30	that’s just a straight literal
7:32	translation
7:33	now hold that in mind hold that in mind
7:36	we’re going to come back to that point
7:38	in just a little bit now if you would
7:41	like to turn i’m going to take a look
7:43	at first chronicles chapter 21
7:46	first chronicles chapter 21 and
7:50	a much misunderstood account
7:53	of a very grievous sin that david
7:56	committed and the consequences led to
7:58	the death
7:59	of seventy thousand israelites
8:03	seventy thousand consequences were
8:06	severe
8:07	here’s what it says in first chronicles
8:09	21 verse one
8:10	satan stood against israel and satan
8:13	incited david to number
8:14	israel so david said to joab the
8:17	commander of the army
8:18	go number israel from barashiba to dan
8:21	and bring me a report that i may know
8:23	their number but joab said may the lord
8:26	yahweh
8:27	add to his people a hundred times as
8:29	many as they are
8:31	are they not my lord the king all of
8:33	them my lord servants
8:34	why then should my lord require this
8:37	why should it be a cause of guilt for
8:40	israel
8:41	now a little bit of a note here this has
8:43	caused a lot of confusion
8:44	i mean after all here in the united
8:46	states we
8:47	take a census every 10 years
8:51	but you’re going to note something here
8:52	in the united states when a census is
8:54	took and
8:55	took and yeah
8:58	i woke up again with another speech
9:00	impediment not sure what’s going on
9:01	there
9:02	but when a census is taken it’s a big
9:04	deal there’s a lot of politics involved
9:05	a lot of power is involved
9:07	but here’s a little known portion of the
9:09	mosaic covenant that is going to help
9:11	shed a little bit of light on this
9:13	in exodus chapter 30 verses 11 through
9:15	16
9:16	here’s one of the stipulations of the
9:18	mosaic covenant
9:20	yahweh said to moses when you take the
9:22	census of the people of israel
9:25	then each shall give a ransom for his
9:28	life to yahweh when you number them
9:32	that there be no plague among them when
9:34	you number them so in order for there to
9:37	be a census in israel in order for jews
9:39	to be counted
9:40	in the in the in the kingdom of israel
9:43	they have to offer a ransom
9:47	they have to offer a ransom and this is
9:49	kind of interesting stuff
9:50	each one who is numbered in the census
9:52	shall give this
9:54	half a shekel according to the shekel of
9:57	the sanctuary
9:58	the shekel is 20 guerras and half a
10:01	shekel
10:01	as an offering to yahweh
10:05	so the ransom price for each person
10:08	numbered is an entire shekel half for
10:11	the lord
10:12	and half for the upkeep of the sanctuary
10:15	everyone who is numbered in the census
10:17	from 20 years old and
10:19	upward shall give yahweh’s offering
10:23	the rich shall not give more the poor
10:25	shall not give less
10:27	then the half shekel when you give
10:29	yahweh’s offering to make atonement
10:31	for your lives so you’re going to note
10:33	here this
10:35	money that goes along with the census
10:38	is for the purpose of atonement for the
10:40	purpose of
10:41	ransom all of these are words that we
10:44	use regarding
10:45	whom Christ and what he did on the cross
10:49	so in this particular case any every
10:51	head that gets counted
10:53	must be atoned for
10:56	command of god you shall take the
10:59	atonement money from the people of
11:00	israel
11:01	you shall give it for the service of the
11:03	tent of meeting that it may bring the
11:05	people of israel to
11:06	to remembrance before the lord so as to
11:10	listen to the quote make atonement for
11:12	your lives
11:14	now did david in this census
11:18	atone for all the people of israel
11:22	did he require them to pay the shackle
11:25	nope and so here we’ve got the entire
11:28	nation of israel
11:29	being numbered without an atonement
11:34	that’s not gonna fly and joab the
11:37	commander of the army
11:39	knows perfectly well that this is to
11:41	create a cause of guilt for israel
11:43	so you wonder what is going on inside
11:46	the mind in the heart of king david as
11:49	he’s getting to finish out his days
11:51	is he putting his trust in the army
11:53	rather than in god
11:55	where is his focus and why is it so
11:57	important for him to know
11:59	the number of people who can carry the
12:01	sword in israel
12:02	so the story then continues but the
12:04	king’s word prevailed against joab
12:07	so joab departed and went throughout all
12:10	of israel and came back to jerusalem
12:12	and joab gave the sum of the numbering
12:14	of the people to david
12:16	in all of israel there were 1 million
12:18	100
12:19	000 men who drew the sword and in judah
12:21	470 000
12:23	who drew the sword and you notice these
12:24	are all numbers that are rounded up
12:27	in other words joab really didn’t care
12:30	to give a correct accounting he just
12:31	kind of gave a ballpark figure and he
12:34	didn’t even include levi and benjamin in
12:36	the numbering he only counted 10 of the
12:38	tribes
12:39	for the king’s command was abhorrent to
12:42	joab
12:43	and indeed it should have been it should
12:46	have been
12:47	so god was displeased with this thing
12:50	and he struck israel
12:52	david said to god i have sinned greatly
12:55	and that i have done this thing but now
12:57	please
12:58	take away the iniquity of your servant
13:00	for i have acted
13:02	very foolishly and you’re going to note
13:05	something here
13:06	in what follows next we see one of the
13:09	horrifying things about sin and that is
13:12	that our sin doesn’t impact only
13:16	us note that we have been thrust
13:19	into the curse and the chaos that we
13:22	find
13:23	ourselves in because of the sin of one
13:25	man
13:26	adam thank you adam
13:29	and so you’ll note adam stood as a
13:31	representative of all of us
13:33	and in this particular case now david
13:37	his sin is going to have consequences
13:41	for the entire nation but whose sin was
13:45	it
13:46	his sin and so you’ll note that
13:49	god does when somebody who’s a
13:52	representative
13:52	of an entire country or an entire people
13:56	he has the prerogative to punish
13:59	one person’s sin throughout the entire
14:02	community remember
14:03	at the fall of jericho god had said that
14:06	all of jericho has to be devoted to
14:08	destruction
14:09	and then there was that that fellow who
14:11	decided he was going to take some of the
14:13	gold for himself
14:14	some of the plunder for himself and the
14:16	silver for himself and he hid it and dug
14:18	it under his tent
14:19	and god caused the entire nation of
14:22	israel to suffer defeat
14:24	at the hands of the people of ai as a
14:26	result of this
14:27	one man’s sin and so now we can kind of
14:31	see kind of a bigger universal picture
14:32	here
14:33	david is almost like a representative of
14:35	whom
14:37	of adam the people of israel are being
14:39	made to suffer
14:40	so who’s going to make atonement for
14:42	them because none of them have made
14:44	atonement for themselves by paying what
14:46	was required of them to pay
14:48	for this census and that’s kind of the
14:50	big rub isn’t it
14:51	don’t you think that somebody in israel
14:53	would have said hey wait a second there
14:55	joab
14:56	you just counted my head here’s a thing
14:58	here’s a shackle for you
15:00	nobody even remembered the command of
15:03	the lord regarding how censuses are to
15:05	be taken
15:06	that there needs to be a ransom that
15:07	there needs to be atonement
15:10	well now we’ve got a problem so
15:13	david said please take away the iniquity
15:15	of your servant i’ve acted very
15:16	foolishly
15:17	and yahweh spoke to gad david’s seer
15:20	that’s his prophet
15:21	saying you go and you say to david thus
15:23	says yahweh
15:24	three things i offer you choose one of
15:27	them that i may do it to you
15:29	so now there are consequences so god
15:31	came to david and said to him
15:33	thus says yahweh choose what you will
15:36	either three years of famine three
15:39	months of devastation
15:40	by your foes while the sword of your
15:42	enemy overtakes you
15:44	or else three days of the sword of
15:46	yahweh
15:48	pestilence on the land with the angel of
15:50	yahweh
15:51	destroying throughout all the territory
15:53	of israel
15:54	now decide what shall i answer what what
15:58	answer shall i return to him who sent me
16:02	well none of those sound really good is
16:04	there an option for
16:06	no there is no option for so david said
16:09	to god
16:10	i am in great distress let me fall into
16:14	hand of yahweh
16:15	for his mercy is very great but do not
16:17	let me fall into the hand of men
16:20	and so david casts his lot with the
16:23	mercy of god
16:24	even in god’s judgment he trusts
16:28	that god is merciful he knows much about
16:31	the very
16:32	nature of god this is the same god who
16:34	when confronted
16:36	with his sin regarding bathsheba and
16:38	uriah the hittite
16:39	upon confessing his sin he unflinchingly
16:43	received
16:44	a full absolution from the prophet
16:47	nathan
16:48	this is the man who prayed it psalm 51
16:52	created me a clean heart o god and renew
16:55	a right spirit within me
16:57	cast me not away from your presence and
16:59	take not your holy spirit from me this
17:01	is the one
17:02	who has been forgiven multiple times and
17:05	needs to be so but here’s the issue
17:08	there is an unmet requirement
17:11	for atonement that must be
17:15	taken care of
17:18	and so i’m in great distress
17:22	so the lord sent a pestilence on on
17:25	israel
17:26	70 000 men of israel
17:30	fell seventy thousand
17:34	god sent the angel to jerusalem to
17:36	destroy it
17:38	but as he was about to destroy it listen
17:41	to the words
17:42	the lord saw
17:47	and he relented from the calamity
17:51	you remember what it says in genesis 22.
17:57	abraham named that mountain
18:00	that place yahweh will see
18:05	it’s the same mountain by the way and i
18:07	can prove it in a minute
18:08	yahweh will see and on the mount of
18:10	yahweh he
18:12	shall be seen that’s just the straight
18:15	hebrew
18:16	but here we are in first chronicles 21
18:19	and Jesus himself that’s who the angel
18:21	the lord is
18:22	is on his way to jerusalem to basically
18:25	lay it
18:26	waste and what happens the text
18:29	says he was about to destroy jerusalem
18:34	yahweh saw
18:38	and he relented from the calamity
18:41	what did he see what did he see
18:46	well i’ll show you this in just a little
18:49	bit
18:50	but it’s absolutely patently clear that
18:54	what he saw we saw mount moriah
18:59	mount moriah is the place where the
19:01	temple will be built
19:03	and you’ll see that shortly but also
19:06	about four blocks away
19:09	from where the temple is built is the
19:12	exact place where Christ was crucified
19:14	for our sins
19:17	yahweh saw and that’s what the text says
19:20	he saw
19:21	and then it also says on the mountain of
19:24	the lord
19:25	he will be seen but i’m getting ahead of
19:29	myself
19:30	so yahweh saw and he relented of the
19:32	calamity and he said to the angel who
19:34	was working destruction it’s enough
19:36	now stay your hand and the angel of
19:39	yahweh was standing by the threshing
19:41	floor of ornan the jebusite
19:44	and david lifted up his eyes and saw the
19:46	angel of the lord listen to these words
19:48	standing between earth and heaven
19:52	wait a second isn’t that what Jesus was
19:55	doing when he was suspended between
19:57	earth and heaven he was standing between
19:59	the two
20:00	while on the cross you see these little
20:03	details are not throw away details
20:05	all of them are pointing all of us to
20:08	Christ
20:08	in what he would accomplish on that same
20:11	mountain
20:12	so ornan the jebusite the threshing
20:14	floor of a gentile a man who isn’t
20:17	even a jew and so david
20:20	and the elders cl
20:23	elders clothed in sackcloth they fell on
20:26	their
20:26	faces and david said to god was it not i
20:30	who gave command to number the people
20:32	it is i who have sinned and done great
20:35	evil but these sheep what have they done
20:38	please let your hand oh yahweh my god be
20:41	against me and against my father’s house
20:45	but do not let the plague be on your
20:47	people
20:48	but i would note how could the plague be
20:50	on david and his father’s house god has
20:52	promised
20:53	that the descendant of david the one who
20:55	would be the messiah
20:56	would sit on the throne of david forever
21:00	so god’s hand couldn’t be against david
21:02	or his family or his house
21:07	so the angel of yahweh
21:10	commanded gad to say to david that david
21:13	should go up and raise an
21:14	altar to yahweh on the threshing floor
21:18	of
21:18	ornan the jebusite what an interesting
21:21	thing
21:21	have you ever stopped to think for a
21:22	second the implications of this
21:24	the very place where atonement for sins
21:27	was made
21:28	in its previous iteration was a
21:31	threshing floor a place
21:33	where wheat and chaff were separated
21:37	and isn’t that what Christ’s cross is to
21:40	this day
21:41	it is the place where our atoning
21:45	sacrifice was made so that we can be
21:48	reconciled and pardoned and atoned
21:50	and ransomed but also the cross itself
21:53	is a threshing floor
21:54	think of while Christ was hanging on the
21:56	cross between two thieves
21:58	one believed and the other didn’t and
22:01	the threshing floor
22:02	activity of the cross began at this
22:04	point and now even to this day the cross
22:07	is the big dividing point
22:08	do you believe that Jesus died for your
22:11	sins or not
22:12	well i’m a good person i don’t really
22:14	need that
22:16	well with the chaff you go
22:20	or do you repent in sackcloth and ashes
22:24	saying i have sinned against you and
22:26	done what was evil
22:28	have mercy on me god so david went up
22:32	a god’s word that he had spoken in the
22:34	name of yahweh
22:35	now ornan the jebusite was threshing
22:38	wheat of course he was
22:39	he turned and saw the angel and his four
22:42	sons who were with him and they hid
22:44	themselves
22:44	kind of invokes the book of revelation
22:47	when god comes in judgment and people
22:49	hide themselves
22:50	wishing that the rocks would fall on
22:51	them to kill them and as david came to
22:53	ornan ornan looked and saw david and
22:55	went out from the threshing floor
22:57	and paid homage to david with his face
22:59	to the ground and david said to ornan
23:01	give me the sight of the flesh threshing
23:03	floor that i may build on at an
23:04	altar to yahweh and give it to me at its
23:07	full price
23:08	so that the plague may be averted from
23:10	the people then ornan said to david take
23:12	it
23:13	and let my lord the king do what seems
23:15	good to him see i give oxen for burnt
23:17	offerings and the threshing sledges for
23:18	the wood
23:19	and the wheat for the grain and the
23:21	offering i give it all but king david
23:23	said to orana no
23:24	but i will buy them for full price and i
23:27	will not take for yahweh what is yours
23:29	nor offer burnt offerings it costs me
23:31	nothing
23:32	so david payne ordon 600 shekels of gold
23:35	by weight for the site
23:37	and david built there an altar to yahweh
23:40	and presented burnt offerings and peace
23:43	offerings
23:44	and called on yahweh and yahweh answered
23:47	him with fire from heaven upon the altar
23:49	of burnt offering
23:51	and then yahweh commanded the angel and
23:53	he put his sword
23:54	back into its sheath what a beautiful
23:57	picture
23:58	we who have sinned greatly against god
24:00	we know full well that we
24:02	we should expect from god that he would
24:04	cut us down
24:05	with the sword of the angel of the lord
24:08	but because of what Christ accomplished
24:10	for us on that same mountain
24:12	and taking our sins upon himself dying
24:15	in our
24:16	place paying our ransom with his own
24:19	blood
24:20	now the dread angel of the lord sheathes
24:24	his sword
24:25	and we are at peace with god and at that
24:28	time
24:28	when david saw that yahweh had answered
24:30	him at the threshing floor of ornan the
24:32	jebusite
24:33	he sacrificed there for the tabernacle
24:36	of the lord which moses had made in the
24:38	wilderness
24:38	and the altar of burnt offering were at
24:40	that time in the high place
24:42	at gibeon but david could not go before
24:45	it to
24:45	inquire of god for he was afraid of the
24:49	sword of the angel of the lord
24:51	when have you ever read of david
24:55	this mighty man the one who slew goliath
24:58	being so knee-knocking scared
25:02	that he wouldn’t even go into the
25:04	presence of the lord
25:06	he knew his guilt full well the fear of
25:08	the lord is the beginning of wisdom
25:10	so david said here shall be the house of
25:13	yahweh
25:14	elohim and hear the altar of burnt
25:17	offering of israel and if you fast
25:20	forward just a little bit to second
25:22	chronicles chapter 3
25:23	you can see very well where this what
25:25	this mountain is
25:27	solomon began to build second chronicles
25:29	chapter 3 verse 1
25:30	to build the house of yahweh in
25:32	jerusalem on mount moriah
25:34	where the lord had appeared to david his
25:36	father at the place that david had
25:38	appointed on the threshing floor
25:40	of on the jebusite but isn’t mount
25:42	moriah the very place
25:44	it is where abraham was told to offer up
25:49	isaac and on that day the lord provided
25:52	the sacrifice
25:54	so this advent season as we consider
25:57	the genealogy of our lord Jesus Christ
26:00	the fact that he is the son of david
26:03	note then that when you read the rest of
26:06	the line of david it’s pretty much a
26:09	sketchy list
26:10	i mean really i mean i’m glad they
26:13	didn’t
26:14	that matthew wasn’t inspired by the holy
26:16	spirit to say
26:17	that Jesus Christ was the son of
26:19	manasseh
26:21	case you don’t know about this fellow
26:23	manasseh was so wicked he offered up his
26:25	own children as sacrifices to baal and
26:28	molech
26:29	and you’ll note that as you read the the
26:32	account of Jesus’s genealogy
26:35	at the very end there and talking about
26:37	the line of david what happens
26:39	they end up in babylon and Christ didn’t
26:42	come to restore
26:43	israel to her former glory as in the
26:45	days of david
26:46	or solomon instead david Jesus did what
26:50	none of the sons of david nor david
26:52	himself can do
26:54	Jesus did what was perfectly right in
26:56	the eyes of the lord
26:59	and the lion of the tribe of judah
27:02	became the lamb of god who takes away
27:05	the sin of the world
27:06	your sin and mine is it any wonder then
27:10	that when Jesus was confronted by the
27:13	pharisees in matthew 22 verses 41-46
27:17	they gathered together around Jesus and
27:19	they asked him a question saying
27:21	what do you think about the Christ whose
27:23	son is
27:24	Jesus asks ask them what do you say
27:26	about the Christ whose son is they
27:28	is he they said well the son of david
27:31	and he said to them well how is it then
27:32	that david
27:33	in the spirit calls him lord saying the
27:36	lord said to my lord
27:38	sit at my right hand until i put your
27:39	enemies under your feet
27:41	if then david calls him lord how is he
27:44	his son
27:45	and no one was able to answer him a word
27:48	nor from that day did anyone dare to ask
27:50	him
27:50	any more questions and that’s kind of
27:53	the profound
27:54	amazing bit of all of this is that Jesus
27:57	Christ is david’s son and david’s
28:01	lord and it’s truly
28:04	amazing psalm 110 which we read earlier
28:08	together
28:08	says the lord says to my lord sit at my
28:10	right hand
28:11	until i make your enemies your footstool
28:14	and yahweh sends forth from zion
28:16	your mighty scepter rule in the midst of
28:19	your enemies
28:21	and then listen to this verse your
28:23	people will offer themselves freely on
28:25	the day of your power
28:27	clothed in holy garments from the womb
28:29	of the morning
28:30	to the dew of your youth it will all be
28:34	yours so brothers and sisters in Christ
28:37	this penitential season
28:39	consider the fact that none is righteous
28:41	no not one
28:42	there was one that was righteous oh and
28:43	that was Christ who was both the son of
28:46	david
28:46	and the son of god in the name of Jesus
28:49	amen

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