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🧐 Overview
Theological Verdict & Summary
Sermon Summary: A historical and prophetic look at the church's relationship with Israel and the peace of Jerusalem.
Pastoral Analysis: While the sermon offers a passionate defense of Israel and a condemnation of anti-Semitism, it fundamentally fails to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The message substitutes the atoning work of Christ with a transactional framework based on human actions toward Israel, resulting in a critical theological error that undermines the sufficiency of the Gospel.
Biblical Parallel (Archetype): Sardis — The sermon presents a 'name that it is alive, but is dead' orthodoxy. While it engages with biblical history and prophetic themes, it completely omits the core Gospel of Christ's atoning work and monergistic salvation. Instead, it substitutes the Gospel with a transactional framework where divine blessing is tied to human actions regarding Israel, effectively replacing the finished work of Christ with human effort and nationalistic focus.
Big Idea: The church must comprehend its spiritual roots in Israel, reject anti-Semitism, and actively pray for the peace of Jerusalem because God's covenant with Israel is eternal and unrevoked. [00:01:35 ▶️ 📄]
📖 How they Handle Scripture & Jesus
- Primary Text: Psalms 122:6-9
- Usage Classification: Topical
- Text-to-Talk Ratio: Low
- Pulpit Decorum: ❌ FAIL - The speaker uses coarse language and pejoratives, describing the Apostle Paul as a 'hateful Pharisee monster,' which is disrespectful to biblical figures and undermines pastoral authority.
✝️ Christological Focus: Absent
"The sermon fails to connect the topic of Israel to the person and work of Jesus Christ, omitting the Gospel entirely."
Scripture Saturation: Verses Read: 4 | Referenced: 26 | Alluded: 2
📖 View 1 Passages Read Aloud
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Psalms 122:6-9
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"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say peace be within you because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good."
Key References: Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 62:1, Romans 11, Genesis 17, Galatians 3:6-9, John 4, Matthew 5:44, Acts 10, Acts 10:22, Acts 15, and 16 more...
🎙️ Sermon Content & Delivery
Word Count: 3,141 words
📌 View 9 Key Topics Addressed
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The Covenant and Ownership of Israel
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> The pastor argues that God's covenant with Abraham regarding the land is everlasting and has never been revoked, asserting that Jews own the land forever. -
Jewish Roots of Christianity
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> He lists Jewish figures (patriarchs, prophets, Jesus, Mary) to demonstrate that salvation and the faith originated with the Jewish people. -
Historical Anti-Semitism
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> The pastor details a timeline of Christian-perpetrated violence against Jews, including the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and the theological precursors to the Holocaust. -
God's Faithfulness to Israel
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> Citing Romans 11, he asserts that God has not cast away Israel and that their 'fall' allowed salvation to come to the Gentiles. -
The History of Anti-Semitism and the Cross
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> The pastor contrasts the Christian view of the cross as salvation with the Jewish view of it as an emblem of 2,000 years of murder and persecution, citing Hitler and the Holocaust. -
God's Unbroken Covenant with Israel
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> Using Romans 11, the pastor argues that God has not cast away Israel, citing the unconditional nature of the Abrahamic covenant which cannot be revoked or replaced. -
Sovereign Election and Divine Mystery
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> The pastor explains Romans 9-11 as a 'codicil' regarding Jewish destiny based on election, not works, and describes God's blinding of Israel as a mystery to facilitate Gentile salvation. -
Warning to Gentile Believers
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> Citing the metaphor of grafted branches, the pastor warns Gentiles not to boast against Israel, noting that God will not spare the 'grafted in' if they become Christless or retreat from righteousness. -
Call to Action Against Anti-Semitism
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> The pastor commands the congregation to stand against anti-Semitism, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and promises prosperity to those who do so.
🖼️ View 9 Illustrations & Stories
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Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor describes the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, noting the starvation, massacre, and the specific fate of prisoners sent to Egypt and Rome to build the Colosseum. -
Sermon Illustration
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> He recounts the First Crusade in 1096, where knights slaughtered 12,000 Jews, and in 1099 burned 969 Jewish men, women, and children alive in a synagogue while singing hymns. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor describes the Spanish Inquisition, including the posthumous trial of dead Jews' bones and the torture methods used to extract money and confessions. -
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> He draws a parallel between the Roman Church's decree for distinctive Jewish clothing and Hitler's yellow star, linking church history to the Holocaust. -
Sermon Illustration
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> He mentions walking through the Auschwitz death camp and cites Martin Luther's book 'Concerning the Jews and Their Lies' as a precursor to Nazi ideology. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor recounts how Hitler invaded Poland on Martin Luther's birthday to celebrate Luther's contribution to the Third Reich, illustrating the deep historical roots of anti-Semitism. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor explains the concept of a 'codicil' (a legal addition to a document) to describe how Romans 9-11 functions as a specific insertion regarding Jewish destiny within the broader letter to the Romans. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor uses the birth of Jacob and Esau, noting Jacob was born holding his brother's heel ('heel catcher'), to illustrate that God's destiny for them was established before birth, independent of their works. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor illustrates the concept of spiritual blindness using the conversion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, where physical scales fell from his eyes after he was spiritually blinded to Jesus as Messiah.
🚀 View 1 Calls to Action
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Pastoral Charge
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> Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and identify as a friend of the Jewish people.
🧭 Biblical Alignment Dashboard
Overall Verdict: Fundamentally in Error
| Category | Status | Reasoning |
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| Gospel Presentation | ❌ FAIL | The Gospel Engine is not intact. The sermon entirely omits the Gospel of Christ's atoning death and monergistic salvation, substituting it with a transactional, nationalistic framework that ties divine blessing to human actions regarding Israel and Jerusalem. |
| Soteriology | ❌ FAIL | The sermon omits the core doctrines of salvation, including human depravity, Christ's penal substitution, and monergistic regeneration, replacing them with a works-based transactional model. |
| Bibliology | ✅ PASS | The sermon references Scripture and historical context, though the hermeneutic is flawed by the omission of the Gospel. |
| Hermeneutic | ⚠️ WEAK | The sermon uses a transactional hermeneutic that links spiritual blessing directly to human actions toward Israel, neglecting the redemptive-historical fulfillment in Christ. |
| Theology Proper | ✅ PASS | The sermon does not explicitly deny the nature of God, but the focus on transactional blessing distorts the understanding of God's grace. |
| Sacramentology | ⚪ N/A | No sacraments were observed or discussed in the sermon. |
| Confessional Depth | ❌ SHALLOW | The sermon lacks depth in core Christian doctrines, focusing instead on historical narratives and nationalistic applications without anchoring them in the Gospel. |
⚙️ The Core Gospel Framework
Why it matters for the final verdict: A complete Gospel framework protects a sermon from becoming man-centered. If a preacher gives commands for good behavior but leaves out the grace and atonement of the Gospel, it often results in a 🔴 Critical or 🟠 Major error for Moralism (teaching human self-improvement rather than reliance on Christ). However, if these Gospel elements are missing simply because the pastor is preaching a highly focused, practical message to mature believers (e.g., instructions on biblical marriage), our system applies a "Safe Harbor" pardon, graciously reducing the omission to a 🟡 Minor error.
✅ The Law And Wrath:
"If you bless the Jewish people, God will bless you. And if you curse them, God help you. You have an enemy in heaven, and he will not forget it." [00:06:51 ▶️ 📄]
❌ Total Depravity And Inability: Not observed in the sermon.
✅ Active Obedience Of Christ:
"Jesus kept the law of Moses Jesus said, do not think that I've come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law." [00:05:25 ▶️ 📄]
✅ The Cross And Atonement:
"When a Christian sees a cross, he sees salvation. When a Jewish person sees the cross, he sees the murder of his relatives and friends for 2,000 years. He sees the emblem under which they have been slaughtered." [00:16:42 ▶️ 📄]
⚠️ Theological Concerns
🔴 Critical Gospel Omission
Root Cause: Moralism / Legalism
The Belief/Behavior: The sermon entirely omits the Gospel of Christ's atoning death and monergistic salvation, substituting it with a transactional, nationalistic framework that ties divine blessing to human actions regarding Israel and Jerusalem.
Why It's Dangerous: This is dangerous because it leads the congregation to believe that salvation or blessing is earned through human effort and political alignment rather than received by grace through faith in Christ alone.
Biblical Correction: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
🟠 Major Coarse Language / Pejoratives
Root Cause: Lack of Pastoral Sensitivity
"Paul was a brilliant theologian, but he was a hateful Pharisee monster who was causing Christians to be sent to jail and murder." [00:24:13 ▶️ 📄]
The Belief/Behavior: The pastor calls Paul a 'hateful Pharisee monster who was causing Christians to be sent to jail and murder.'
Why It's Dangerous: This disrespectful language undermines the authority of Scripture and the Apostle Paul, who is a key figure in the Gospel. It also models poor pastoral decorum.
Biblical Correction: Ephesians 4:29 "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."
✅ Commendations
Historical Awareness | Condemnation of Anti-Semitism
The pastor rightly condemns anti-Semitism and highlights the tragic history of Christian persecution of Jews, calling the church to reject this sin.
Pastoral Application | Prayer for Jerusalem
The pastor encourages the congregation to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, fostering a sense of spiritual responsibility.
📜 Full Sermon Transcript (Audit)
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[00:00:16] This stands for the reading of God's Word. Turn to Psalms chapter 122 verses 6 through 9.
[00:00:25] We bring greetings to our television audience and those of you who are watching around the world. We continue our prophetic sermon series with this message for the theme, From Here to Eternity, with the topic, To America the Church and the World Must Fully Comprehend.
[00:00:43] our Bible teaching is Israel and the church. Read Psalms 122, 6 through 9. Ready? Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say peace be within you
[00:01:06] because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good. Can we pray? Father God we gather here today in your house to obey the word of God to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May the
[00:01:21] anointing of the Holy Spirit show us today the history of the church and the future all believers will have in the holy city. In Jesus name we pray and ask these things and all of God's children
[00:01:35] said amen. You may be seated. Jerusalem is the city of God. He has placed his name there. That's in the Bible. Jesus Christ will rule the world from there for a thousand years during the millennial
[00:01:50] reign. Isaiah 40 verse 1, God's command to Christians is this, comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. There are two elements in this verse. One, one group is being comforted And the second group is doing the comforting.
[00:02:08] It is the mission of the church to comfort and to bless the Jewish people.
[00:02:14] That's that simple.
[00:02:15] Isaiah 62, 1 says, for Zion's sake, that's Jerusalem, I will not hold my peace.
[00:02:22] And for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest.
[00:02:25] This is God's promise to never stop working while the restoration and peace of Jerusalem are at risk.
[00:02:32] The most terrorizing headlines that Satan will ever read is that Jesus Christ has returned to Jerusalem. What do Christians and Jews have in common? One, both of us serve the same God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Some of you have other gods. The God you serve is the face you
[00:02:55] see in the mirror, but the real God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Both Christians and Jews get their spiritual roots from Abraham in Romans 11. Concerning the Jewish people in Genesis 17, and I will establish my covenant between me and you, Abraham, and your descendants after you,
[00:03:18] listen, and in their generations, plural, for an everlasting covenant. Everlasting covenant means forever. The covenant that God made with Israel for the land still stands. It has never been revoked. It has never been changed. The Jewish people do not occupy the land. God says they own
[00:03:43] the land forever and forever and forever. Do I hear an amen? St. Paul writes concerning the church in Galatians chapter 3, verses 6 through 9, just as Abraham believed God, it was accounted to him
[00:04:02] for righteousness. It was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. Now, and know therefore that only those which are of faith are the children of Abraham and the scripture, listen to this, For seeing that God would justify the heathen by faith, the heathen would be us, the Gentiles.
[00:04:25] Preach the gospel to Abraham saying, you shall in all the nations be blessed.
[00:04:31] So those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
[00:04:36] That's the word of God.
[00:04:37] The point is, faith did not begin with the New Testament.
[00:04:43] It began with Abraham.
[00:04:45] He is the father of faith.
[00:04:50] Consider what Christians have received from the Jewish people.
[00:04:53] Jesus to the Samaritan woman, he said, salvation is of the Jews.
[00:05:00] It's a shocking statement.
[00:05:03] Not that he was talking to a woman, which was unusual, but it was shocking to say that salvation was of the Jews.
[00:05:11] Think about it.
[00:05:12] the patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob are all Jewish people the prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Haggai Zechariah Malachi all Jews not a Baptist in the bunch the first family of Christianity Mary Joseph and Jesus Jewish Jesus kept the law of Moses Jesus
[00:05:38] said, do not think that I've come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. He celebrated his bar mitzvah at the age of 13. He wore a prayer shawl from that day until the day he died. He was
[00:05:52] buried in that prayer shawl. He's going to return to the earth in the second coming as a Jew. How do you know that? Because the book of Revelation says, behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
[00:06:06] Judah is the root word for the word Jew.
[00:06:10] Jesus Christ is coming back, a Jewish rabbi.
[00:06:14] He's going to rule and reign over this earth, and God bless his holy name.
[00:06:21] It's going to happen.
[00:06:27] Everything we cherish as Christians came to us from Jewish people.
[00:06:34] Some people live under God's curse for the sin of anti-Semitism.
[00:06:38] Genesis 12, God said concerning the Jewish people, I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.
[00:06:46] That is God's promise to America and to everybody in this audience.
[00:06:51] If you bless the Jewish people, God will bless you.
[00:06:55] And if you curse them, God help you.
[00:06:58] You have an enemy in heaven, and he will not forget it.
[00:07:02] Listen to the book of Matthew.
[00:07:04] Jesus says, quote, inasmuch as you did it to the least of these, my brethren.
[00:07:10] He's talking about the Jews.
[00:07:12] He never called Gentiles his brethren.
[00:07:14] Inasmuch as you did it until the least of these, my brethren, the Jews, you did it unto me.
[00:07:22] How did Christian anti-Semitism get started?
[00:07:25] Why does it exist in the church today?
[00:07:29] Christians in the American church are totally ignorant.
[00:07:32] The Bible says my people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge.
[00:07:37] That's a kind way of saying it.
[00:07:40] Stupid.
[00:07:41] is a great word. Let's begin at the beginning and walk through 2,000 years of world and church history, one bloody brutal page at a time. Point, Jesus Christ was the founder of Christianity.
[00:07:56] All of his followers were Jewish. They were called believers. Nothing is impossible to those that believe. Those people were believers. God did a shocking thing in Acts 10. He gave Peter a vision of a sheet filled with unclean animals. The unclean animals represented Gentiles. That would
[00:08:21] be us. God told him to go to the house of Cornelius, who was a Gentile, and preach the gospel.
[00:08:29] Why did God choose Cornelius among all the people on the face of the earth? He was a Roman centurion, but the Bible says he chose Cornelius quote because he was of good report among the Jewish
[00:08:44] people that's in Acts 10 22 for those of you who are searching for it why did he choose him he was good to the Jewish people shock when Peter preached the people in the house of Cornelius
[00:08:58] were saved and spirit filled instantly and Gentiles began to flood into the church with the Jewish people. The Jewish people were amazed that the ungodly Gentiles could be saved.
[00:09:13] So they called a board meeting. The Bible calls it the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15.
[00:09:19] The Jerusalem Council met. The question is, what to do with these Gentile converts?
[00:09:26] shall they be circumcised to be saved ouch and james said no they don't need to be circumcised but they do need to abstain from sexual immorality and from things polluted by animals that means meat that needs to be kosher listen closely here's where jews and christians get separated
[00:09:54] The Roman army attacked Jerusalem in 70 AD.
[00:09:58] Titus laid siege to the city.
[00:10:00] There was horrible starvation.
[00:10:02] There was horrible massacre.
[00:10:04] The Jerusalem and the temple were demolished.
[00:10:08] The massive stones were pulled down just like Jesus prophesied they would be.
[00:10:13] 97,000 Jewish men were taken prison.
[00:10:16] 17,000 were sent to Egypt.
[00:10:18] 70,000 were taken to Rome to build the Roman Colosseum.
[00:10:23] Designed by a Jewish architect where Christians were later slaughtered and fed to the lions.
[00:10:29] The point is, Gentile believers saw the Roman army coming.
[00:10:34] Horror, starvation.
[00:10:36] This fight over the city of Jerusalem is not our fight.
[00:10:41] We're not Jews.
[00:10:43] So they left and they went to Antioch.
[00:10:47] Acts 11, 26.
[00:10:49] They were first called Christians at Antioch.
[00:10:53] Jesus said in Matthew 24 Then let those in Judea Flee to the mountains Let those on the housetops Not come down Let those in the field flee The point is Titus and the Roman army
[00:11:07] Returned to Rome Seething with hatred Toward the Jewish people This is church history You need to know When the political government of Rome Merged with the church of Rome Under Constantine Christianity in one day was saturated with idols, images.
[00:11:28] The great whore of Revelation 17 was born, and so was Christian anti-Semitism.
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[00:12:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:12:32] Then came the crusaders by the Roman church called by various popes.
[00:12:40] There were seven major crusades.
[00:12:42] The first crusade left Germany in 1096, and 12,000 Jews were slaughtered.
[00:12:50] As the knights of the cross screamed, the Jews have killed our Savior.
[00:12:56] Remember, these people are carrying a cross and a sword, and they're killing everything that looks Jewish.
[00:13:04] From Germany to Jerusalem, they raped, they robbed, and they slaughtered the Jews.
[00:13:11] The crusaders were not holy men.
[00:13:13] they were thugs carrying a cross and a sword. There was a river of Jewish blood running from Europe to Jerusalem. Three years later, they entered Jerusalem in 1099 under Godfrey. 969 Jewish men, women, and children ran for the synagogue. The doors were locked. The crusaders
[00:13:33] carrying a cross and a sword set the synagogue on fire and sang, Christ, we adore thee, while 969 men, women, and children were burned alive. Then came the Spanish Inquisition, sponsored by the Roman church. The Roman church dug up the bones of dead Jews and put them on trial. And when the
[00:13:59] bones were convicted of being a heretic, can you think of something so stupid? All money of that Jewish family was then put in the treasury of the Roman church. I'm not making this up. This is
[00:14:11] history. Torture was the order of the day. The church put out leaflets on how to spot heretics.
[00:14:19] Your neighbor, if he turns you in, was given a reward. And the torture began. The Jews were pulled in half on a rack. Some of them had their heads put in a vice and the screws turned until
[00:14:34] their head was crushed. There were other forms of death, but if I told you, it would turn your stomach. Listen, Pope John Paul recognized this sin against the Jewish people, and in the year 2000 asked forgiveness for what the church had done in the past. It was a courageous act on his
[00:14:54] part. May God bless Pope John Paul. It takes courage to say we were wrong, and John Paul was one of those men with courage. The theology of the Roman church led to the Holocaust. How? The
[00:15:15] fourth letter in council of 1215 declared that the Jews should wear distinctive clothing.
[00:15:22] Distinctive clothing. So Hitler's Nazis had the Jews to wear a yellow star. The Roman church says Jews cannot own property. Hitler passed the legislation taking property away from all of the Jews. The Roman church forced the Jews to live in ghetto. Hitler did the very same thing.
[00:15:41] The Roman church killed the Jews in mass.
[00:15:46] Extermination as heretics in the Inquisition.
[00:15:49] Hitler had the final solution.
[00:15:52] Six million Jews were systematically slaughtered in the death camps of Europe.
[00:15:57] I have walked through the death camp of Auschwitz.
[00:16:01] It's a horror that you never forget.
[00:16:05] Martin Luther wrote a book titled Concerning the Jews and Their Lies.
[00:16:09] take a deep breath because this is all true he said know this christian that next to the devil you have no more hated enemy than a jew their synagogue should be burned their tongue should
[00:16:22] be cut out through the back of their neck end of quote hitler hitler loved luther hitler invaded poland on luther's birthday to start the second world war to celebrate luther's contribution to the Third Reich. The point is, for 2,000 years, the Jewish people have been hated. They have been
[00:16:42] brutally murdered. They have been raped. They have been robbed in the name of God. If God is love, surely that God is not the God of the Christians. When a Christian sees a cross, he sees salvation.
[00:16:55] When a Jewish person sees the cross, he sees the murder of his relatives and friends for 2,000 years. He sees the emblem under which they have been slaughtered. As recently as 1933 to 1945, it's called the Holocaust. It's still very real in the minds of Jewish people.
[00:17:17] Has God cast away Israel? Absolutely not. Romans 11, 1 and 11, 11. St. Paul writes, has God cast away his people? Certainly not. Romans 11 is a text, is a chapter that they told me in Bible school to skip over. It is too deep for the human mind to understand. God, the Holy
[00:17:42] Spirit did put nothing in the scripture that you can't understand. You may not like it and you may not want to obey it, but I promise you, you will face it in the judgment. Romans 11, 11, St. Paul
[00:18:04] writes, has God cast away his people, the Jews? He says, certainly not. Two places, certainly not.
[00:18:12] Certainly not. Romans 11, 11, I say then, have the Jewish people stumbled that they should fall?
[00:18:18] Certainly not. But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Hear that? But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Listen, 74 times Israel is mentioned in the New Testament. Certainly in 71 of those references, it speaks of the nation of Israel 96% of the time.
[00:18:40] I'm saying this because people are saying Israel is not in the New Testament. Perhaps you're reading the wrong book, but in this book, it's there. When something is cast away in the Bible, you never hear from it again. In the book of Revelation 7, there are 12 tribes and 144
[00:19:06] sealed. Cast away? Not hardly. Has God broken covenant with Abraham? God's two covenants with Abraham are in Genesis 15 and Genesis 17. The God that we serve is a God of covenant. He keeps covenant for a thousand generations. Actually, that's 50,000 years. If you keep a covenant for
[00:19:29] 50,000 years, it's got a ways to run. It technically means forever. He keeps the covenant for a thousand years of those that love him. He has not and could never break covenant with Abraham. I repeat, God's unconditional covenant with the Jewish people for the land of Israel
[00:19:48] has never been revoked, revised, or replaced. Never. They own it. I say to my ministerial brethren. If God would break the covenant with Abraham, he could break the covenant with us.
[00:20:06] If God is the covenant breaker, what confidence do we have that he's going to keep it with us?
[00:20:13] You don't. Israel's destiny is based on God's sovereign election. Listen closely. Romans 9, 10, and 11 is a codicil. How many of you do not know what a codicil is? Raise your hand.
[00:20:29] some of you a codicil is when a lawyer is writing a document and he wants to add something to it and so he writes it and puts it in the original document romans 1 through 9 and 12 through 16
[00:20:50] is on one topic but 8 but 9 10 and 11 are all about god and the jewish people the jewish destiny based upon the sovereign election romans 9 and 10 the birth of jacob and esau listen to this
[00:21:10] and not only this but when rebecca had conceived by one even by our father isaac listen for the children jacob and esau being not yet born neither having done good or evil that the purpose of god
[00:21:26] according to divine election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. What does that mean? That means when those two boys were born, God had a destiny for their lives that he was
[00:21:42] going to see to it for it's fulfilled. When Jacob came out of the womb, holding the heel of his brother, he was called the heel catcher and he lived and died a trickster because that's what
[00:21:55] God said he would be. Romans 11, 5, Paul writes under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, even so then at this present time, this is post Calvary now, this is after the cross. There's a remnant
[00:22:08] according to the election of grace. There are Jewish people who are living now with the favor of God. Romans 11, 5, Paul writes at this time, this is post Calvary. There's a remnant according to the election of grace. People say, well, I don't understand that. According to Romans 11,
[00:22:27] 33, Paul didn't understand it either. He said, it's a mystery past understanding. It's God saying, I'm sovereign. I can do what I want, when I want, if I want, as long as I want, without explanation,
[00:22:41] I decide. That's why he's God. God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus.
[00:22:56] Romans 11, 8.
[00:22:58] Romans 11, 10.
[00:23:01] And this is the new King James Version.
[00:23:04] Saying they had eyes that could not see.
[00:23:07] Let their eyes be darkened that they might not see.
[00:23:11] Why?
[00:23:11] Romans 11, 11.
[00:23:13] That through their season of blindness, salvation has come to the Jewish people.
[00:23:19] Paul is saying he's blinding them to salvation right now.
[00:23:23] so that you and you and you and me and every Gentile watching this telecast would have the opportunity of salvation.
[00:23:34] That's Romans 11, 25.
[00:23:43] For God has blinded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all Gentiles.
[00:23:50] This blindness is illustrated in the conversion of St. Paul.
[00:23:54] Paul was spiritually blinded to the identity of Jesus as Messiah on the road to Damascus. God saw Paul. Paul was a brilliant theologian, but he was a hateful Pharisee monster who was causing Christians to be sent to jail and murder. Paul was spiritually
[00:24:13] blinded to the identity of Jesus as Messiah on the road to Damascus. The Bible records immediately there fell from Paul's eyes scales, and he received his sight instantly. He arose and was baptized. This is in Acts chapter 9. There's a warning to the Gentiles, and if some of the
[00:24:36] branches are broken off, boast not against the branches the attitude God has taken toward us.
[00:24:43] Be not high-minded, but fear. If God spared not the natural branches, the Jewish people, he will not spare the Gentiles the grafted in breeches Christless Christianity that dodges tough issues that cowers from controversy retreats
[00:25:00] from righteousness has a form of godliness but denies the power thereof church it is time to stand up to speak up and you are in God's battle axe in the war against anti-semitism remember God's command to the church
[00:25:18] Comfort ye, comfort ye My people saith God Do something about it Give the Lord praise in the house Stand to your feet Are you a friend of the Jewish people?
[00:25:37] Do you pray for the peace of Jerusalem?
[00:25:39] If you do, God will prosper you I want you to make it A habit Of praying for the peace of Jerusalem Why?
[00:25:50] So that you will prosper I want you to pray for your family Because King Jesus is coming soon in the clouds of heaven.
[00:26:02] Brothers and sisters, when we get there, we are going to have a celebration that the minds of human beings cannot prepare.
[00:26:09] Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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