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ME. Let's turn to God's Word
and Hagi, Hagai Chapter two. This
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is the second time the Lord speaks
to his prophet gives him a word to
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speak on this day. It is
a word that is of great encouragement to
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us. Let's give our attention to
God's word. Hagi Chapter Two, Verses
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Twenty through twenty three. The word
of the Lord came a second time to
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Hagi on the twenty four day of
the month. Speak to cerebel Zerebebel,
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governor of Judah, saying I am
about to shake the heavens and the earth
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and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength
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of the Kingdoms of the nations and
overthrow the chariots and their riders, and
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the horses and their riders shall go
down. Everyone by the sword of his
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brother on that day, declares the
Lord of hosts. I will take you,
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who os a rebel, my servant, the son of Sheltiel, declares
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the Lord, and make you like
a signant ring, for I have chosen
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you. Declares the Lord of hosts. Amen. You may be seen in
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the genealogies, in the gospels,
for them, in Matthew and Luke's Rebebel
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is mentioned as one of the great
ancestors of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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He is part of the family history, which is to say he's part of
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our family history. He's a father
in the faith. He is one who
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has come before us. He is
part of this great history of people and
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the Lord is used to accomplish his
purposes in our world, in our lives,
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in your life, and even until
the very end of the world,
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when all of these things that are
promised here, I'm come to completion and
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consummation. Family Histories can tell you
a lot right you can learn about your
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own family. We like to study
our own geneology. You sometime, I'm
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or if we show up at a
family reunion, we look at other people
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and we say, these people look
kind of like me. And even if
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you're in a family that perhaps you've
been an adopted to and you don't look
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like the others, it's still is
so meaningful to know the people who are
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part of your story. Whether it's
genetics or not, we have been adopted
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into the family of God. We
have been brought into a promises through his
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son, good things and this word
in Haggi, this prophecy that comes to
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Zarebabile is part of our story.
It's part of the story that God has
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been developing and progressing and and accomplishing
ever since the beginning of the world.
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And what ultimately is revealed to us, what Jesus reveals to us here,
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is the certainty of his kingdom and
our election in him. He reveals these
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things to us here so that we
wouldn't be afraid when things shake and things
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shaken our world, when things shake
in our lives, and when things shake
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on the last day, when the
Lord Jesus Returns, he tells us what
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he tells us here, so that
we wouldn't be afraid, but so instead
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we would trust in him and give
God our phrase. So what does he
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say? Well, the Prophet,
the word of the Lord, comes to
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Hagi on this twenty four day of
the month, and he comes and he
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speaks to ze rebel, the governor
of Judah, the son of Shealtiall,
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as we have heard his name several
times throughout this book, you'll remember he's
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one of those who came from a
came with the other exiles back by order
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of Cyrus, into the promised lamb, come back and called to lead these
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people in in rebuilding the temple.
You remember that they've faced difficulty, they've
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struggled. The enemies around them have
pressed upon them, there have been plots,
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there have been all kinds of things
that have caused them to want to
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give up, and for a time
they did. God is calling them back
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to continue the work. You remember, back in the beginning, he says
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you live and paneled houses. Well, my house remains unfinished. So now
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he speaks in particular to the leader, one of the leaders of these people,
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the governor of Judah. And what
does he say? He says two
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things. He gives him a word
that speaks of shaking and a word that
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speaks of blessing. First, the
word of shaking. What does he say?
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He says, I am about to
shake the heavens and the earth.
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This reminds us that this is no
small shaking, as God understands. What
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he is about to do, as
God tells us and wants us to understand
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what he is about to do,
is is going to happen on a large
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scale, a cosmic scale, a
creation level scale. This is not some
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small local conflict, but this shaking
of the heavens and the earth indicates some
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kind of creation wide judgment, a
judgment that will happen even in both realms,
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heaven and earth. This could refer
both to all of the world skies
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and seas, or could refer,
as I think it does, to the
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spiritual realm as well as of the
earthly realm. God being the one who
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made both of these realms in the
beginning of the world, making the heavens
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and the earth, he will now
shake both of them. Charles Feinberg,
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and Old Testament scholar, points out
the universal judgment of the Lord, not
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just in heavens and earth, but
in the word throne. Maybe you notice
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this. In Verse Twenty Two.
God says he's going to overthrow the throne
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of the kingdoms. Fineberg says,
and I think he rightly concludes, that
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this is because God sees the world
system of kingdoms ultimately is as one the
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powers of this world, the things
that is world and and ultimately those under
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Satan himself who will be overthrown.
This world constantly prides itself on building and
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achieving. We measure these things.
We measure success by wealth, by power,
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by strength of armies, by number
of munitions, by political cloud,
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by heritage, by skill, all
kinds of things which do provide a measure
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of success in the world. You
can build the Tower of Babel, but
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it only goes so high before judgment
comes and before God shows us that ultimately
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it's it's not about the things that
we build and our strength and our pride,
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that's about him, that the things
of this world, even the best
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things of this world, are not
good enough to earn us a place in
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heaven. They don't even begin to
compare to the new heavens and the new
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earth that God is giving to us
in Christ, the Kingdom of Heaven that
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is not of this world, that
is unshakable. This is what God gives
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to us in revelation fifteen. We
hear this. Then the seventh angel blew
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his trumpet and there were loud Voices
in heaven saying the Kingdom of this world
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has become the Kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ, that he shall
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reign forever. Amazing word, a
word of confidence, a word of glory
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and a word that is completely and
entirely a found in the name Jesus Christ.
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These things are not just promisided at
the end here that we see them
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promisied, prophesied, promiside. That's
a good word and I keep using that.
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In the Old Testament Iszekiel, thirtsand
eight hundred and twenty one, I
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will summon a sword against God and
on my mountains, declares the Lord God,
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every man's sword will it be against
his brother Zachariah, f thirteen,
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fourteen thirteen. And on that day
a great panic from the Lord shall fall
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upon them, so that each will
seize the hand of another and the hand
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of the one will be raised against
the hand of another. If you've been
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with with us as we've been going
through Ezekiel in the evenings, you know
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that there are these images that God
uses and where God particts, picks Particular
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Kingdoms and he shows how their downfall
will be their pride, not just their
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internal pride, but the expressions of
their pride. Tire, for example,
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he compares to this great ship he
he thinks about he compares this great kingdom
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and he and all of their sea
activity, at all their water based economic
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mad power, and he says indeed, this this kingdom, is very great,
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but that ship Sanks, sinks.
It's kind of like the titanic right
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in our own previous century. Right, the ship that can never sing,
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named after the Gods, right the
titans, it goes out on the waters
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and then down it went. Man
Often, always in his sinfulness, putting
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pride in himself and his accomplishments,
in the things that he can do.
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And they work for a time,
they bring success and blessing for a time,
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but they do not bring the ultimate
blessings of the Lord. And when
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we trust in them, when we
put our hopes in them, God will
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bring them to an end. And
so here the way of this expressed is
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man against man, which is maybe
the ultimate expression of this. Instead of
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mankind assembling together the throne, singular
throne of all the kingdoms, and rising
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up as one unified power, what
happens conflict? Man does not join together
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in some kind of great utopia that
then becomes this divine nation. No,
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brother against brother, man against man, and this is how they die,
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a great shaking of the ovens and
the earth. And this is exactly what
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Haggi is pointing to, as well
what the other prophets point to, which
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on reveals also in revelation. The
strength of this world will be its own
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undoing and we cannot put our trust
in it. However, a second thing
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will happen, a blessing, a
blessing that comes to this king, despite
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the shaking of the kings and the
Kingdom's God has chosen this man to stand,
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Zerebebel, governor of Judah, son
of Shell Teel, despite the shaking
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of the kings and the kingdoms,
the Lord of hosts, the one who
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is the captain of the Great Angelic
Armies, he will cause this man to
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stand, and we know more than
just as a rebebel, those who are
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under him in Judah and the Kingdom
of God. And remember, is a
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Rebebel as a governor. And that
sounds important, but not from the perspective
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of everybody, maybe not even from
the perspective of Zarebebel. He is a
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governor under the King of Persia.
This is a this is a province in
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some way, of a of a
great empire. He owes authority to those
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who are are higher than him.
But what does the word of God say
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here about him? How is a
rebebel supposed to think about himself? He
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is supposed to understand himself, though, a governor of Judah, as something
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much higher, as though one who
rules within the empire of Persia. He
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is to consider himself as one who
is like a signet ring of God the
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king. A signet ring was a
tool, an item that was used to
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give honor, often, I'm an
authority, to those who bear it,
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or it in particularly revealed and marked
that a person was representing, or had
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was representing the name of someone else. It marked that they had received this
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thing from someone who gave it to
them. Now there is a place in
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the Bible where a signet ring comes
up and it's very interesting in light of
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this passage, and I think it
will cause us to praise God. Zerubbabel
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is the governor of Judah. As
the son of she altiol, he comes
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from the tribe of Judah, and
this tribe of Judah's of course, named
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after the fourth son of Jacob Judah, and Judah, the namesake of this
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governor of this tribe of this land, got himself in a bunch of trouble
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one time all around a signet ring, not all around in signering involving a
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signet ring. He was traveling one
time and he saw a woman by the
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side of the road, her and
he goes to her and he says I'll
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give you a I think it was
a goat or and she says, I
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don't want that, I want your
ring, I want your signet ring,
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I want your staff, and he
gives it to her. And as a
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promise, and there will something come
later. Here's what genesis thirty eight eighteen
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says. What, what pledge shall
I give to you that this other thing
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will come? And she replies,
your signet and your cord and your staff,
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that is in your hand. So
he gave them to her and went
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into her and she conceived by him. Well, as it turns out,
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this woman was not just any woman. It was his daughterinlaw, a daughter
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in law who he was not treating
well and who concocted this plan so that
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she could conceive of this child.
And it worked and ultimately he was exposed.
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He she is. She, her
name is Tamar. Perhaps you know
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the story. She's brought out for
illegitimately conceiving this child. A penalty is
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about to happen and then she reveals, by way of the SIGNET, the
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cord the staff, who's the child
was. It was Judas. Judah says
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her righteousness is more than mine.
Judah is a shamed Judah sees his sin,
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he sees the way in which he
has he has done wrong and he
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is openly and publicly embarrassed and all
of these these things happen and they're recorded
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there in scripture of Judah, of
Judah. But of course that's not the
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end of the story, and what
we see is that God uses these events.
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He uses these events to bring about
children who eventually are the child who
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is eventually the father of Sheltiel,
who's the father of a rebel who is
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one of the grandfathers of Christ.
God through this sin, he redeems it
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and he brings good out of evil. Where Judah passed this signet ring on
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in sin and in a sinful moment, God then takes his grandchildren and turns
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them into a signet ring, a
mark of God's own authority, a mark
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in which God is not doing evil, but massive amounts of good, of
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redemption, of salvation, of healing
and even the forgiveness of sins. It's
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a mark in a way. It's
a sign, in a way, of
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God's turning things around, another example
of him using these dark marks in family
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histories and turning them into into things
that he brings blessings out of ultimately,
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is a rebel is a sign,
another sign, and many of them God's,
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many signs of God's work in the
world, a sign that, despite
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the shaking of the Kingdoms, God's
kingdom will stand. And how will we
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know? Well, look at Zerebebel, look at Judah. And why is
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that volt of as we come to
the end of this passage, why is
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the rebel will chosen? He's chosen, because he's chosen. He's chosen because
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the Lord has chosen him. God
does not tells a rebel, look at
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all of your great accomplishments, your
leadership has been fantastic. Ever since you've
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gotten back. It hasn't been.
He doesn't tell as a rebel. Well,
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you've come from this great line of
people who've done all these excellent things,
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many of the people in Judah's line
and complete failures. No, he
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says, you can have confidence in
these things, for I have chosen you.
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That's it. In other words,
God takes his confidence, which is
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perhaps in his power and his strength
and his paneled houses in this city,
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perhaps his PA. His confidence is
in his over Lord in Persia. Perhaps
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his confidence is in making sure nobody's
mad with him on the other sides,
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and God says. Enough of that, none of that. Put your confidence
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in me. Do not be afraid
when the shaking of the NASANS come,
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come, because you are my servant, I have chosen you and I have
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made you like a signet ring.
So when Zerebebel gets nervous, what should
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he say to himself? He should
say I'm okay, because I have been
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chosen by God. I will serve
God, because I have chosen, been
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chosen by God. His election by
God points up both to the object of
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his faith, his Lord, and
the reason for his obedience his Lord.
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Because of his election, God will
be his everything at all times, even
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when Judah, even when Zerebebel doesn't
remember it and beloved. The same is
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true for us as believers. We
are those who have been chosen by God,
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elected by him. Our certainty lies, therefore, not in ourselves,
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not in the kingdoms of this world, not in our own righteousness, but
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in him and his choosing. Our
faith in Jesus will not put us to
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shame, because he's the fulfillment of
all of these promises and these prophecies,
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going even further back than we've already
gone, going back to when Judah received
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a blessing and it was promised that
through Judah, he would rule over his
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people. Or listen to Isaiah,
for unto us, a child is born,
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to us a son is given,
and the government shall be upon his
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shoulder. His name shall be wonderful
counselor mighty God, everlasting father, Prince
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of peace, of the increase of
his government and of peace. There shall
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be no end on the throne of
David and over his kingdom, to establish
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it and to uphold it with justice
and with righteousness. From this time forth
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and forevermore, the zeal of the
Lord of hosts will do this. Going
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back to Adam, even when God
promised to Adam and Eve a seed,
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a son who would come and conquer, conquersate, I'm going to Abraham,
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when he promised to see that would
be preserved, that would come and be
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a blessing to all of the nations
of the world, this seed that would
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rule would be a son of Abraham, a son of David, a son
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of Judah, a son of Sheltiel, a son of Zarebabel, and he
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came. He came. When we
get into the genealogies that I mentioned,
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at the beginning, in Luke,
for example, and Matthew, we read
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that Jesus is a son of Judah, that he was from the house in
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the family of David, and this
son of David who came to to bring
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all things into the consummation thell.
That's what exactly that's exactly what he did.
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It's like God just won't stop.
It's it's as if he just won't
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give up. It's as though he
makes these promises in his zeal is so
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zealous and his power is so mighty
and his graciousness is so good that he
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just keeps going and going and going
until he accomplishes his end, despite our
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sinful plans, despite our fears,
despite the powers of this world and Satan
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doing everything he can to undo and
break the bonds between the Lord and his
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anointed one, between the Lord and
his anointed people, between God and the
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those whom he has called according to
his purpose. But nothing stops our Lord,
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nothing stops his zeal. He keeps
going and going, even though the
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world rejects King Jesus, hangs him
on across shames him, even though the
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leaders and the nations would despise him, the leaders of Israel, even the
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nations of the world, the empire
at that time Rome, though they hung
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him on across though they shamed him
and put fear into all his disciples that
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ran and went into hiding for fear
of the Jews, none of us would
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stop the Lord from doing his work. And we know that, don't we?
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Jesus, our King, the King
of Judah, the lion of Judah,
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the son of Zerebebel, the Chosen
One of God. He rose from
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the dead and he empowered and he
commissioned those who were formerly afraid to go
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and spread this good news of his
kingship throughout the world. Jesus then ascended
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into heaven and now reigns. He
poured out his spirit on us and is
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now shaking the world. He shakes
loose our sins, he shakes loose our
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false idols, are guilt, our
shame, so that we rise up as
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those who have been released from prison, so that we can walk freely and
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the power of his good news,
Jesus bringing many sons into his glory and
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this work that he has begun,
that we see as you look around at
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your brothers and sisters among you around
you. This is a work that he
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will bring to completion. Of course
he will. This is God we're talking
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about. This is our Lord,
who has done all of these things for
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thousands of years and will not stop
until it is all accomplished in his perfect,
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perfect timing, this work that he
completes on this cosmic scale of the
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heavens and the earth and on the
individual scale of your heart and your body,
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which he promises, will rise from
the dead into the glory of the
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Kingdom of God. Just before the
passage we read in Romans Eight, thirty
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one through thirty four, there's this
verse, and those whom he predestined he
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also called, and those whom he
called he also justified, and those whom
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he justified he also glorified. You
know all this, God is revealing to
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us the absolute certainty of his kingdom
and of our election in him, all
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of which belongs to US simply by
receiving it and resting in it, by
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giving our sins to God and receiving
all of his blessings in Christ. John
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Calvin wrights this, for whenever impediments
and difficulties come in our way, calculated
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an interesting word that he uses,
their calculated to drive us to despair when
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we think of the restoration of the
church. This prophecy here in how I
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ought to come to our minds,
which shows us that it is in God's
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power and that it is in his
purpose to overtonne overturn all the kingdoms of
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the earth, to break chariots and
pieces, to cast down and lay prostrate
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all writers, rather than to allow
them to prevent the restoration of his church.
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Jesus is revealing this good news to
us today so that we have strength
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and confidence in him. When our
world shakes, when the world shakes,
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when your individual personal world shakes,
or the little world for the ground shakes
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under your feet and earthquake, or
when the whole heavens and the earth seem
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to be falling down around you,
know that we have a kingdom and an
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unshakable king that will last forever,
chosen by God, even God himself,
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the Lord of hosts, our Savior. Let's pray
