Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
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Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Total Victory
Is total victory possible on this earth? Well, is it ....
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Biblical culture points to total victory. This is an interesting point, because if you have partial obedience to God, then you'll have partial biblical culture. Right, I mean, it can only be that way. But if you have total obedience, you will be having a totally biblical culture. That's the end of that.
Speaker 2:Now Solomon gives us a glimpse in his era of what total obedience will produce. They didn't have it, but they had four generations of built-up loyalty and it was growing. And what was the result? A very high biblical culture that God was blessing tremendously to the extent. People from all over the world were coming to see what was going on there and they were to give testimony. Hey, this is the God, the one true God. It's the God we worship. You should worship Him too. This was their great opportunity. God, it's the god we worship. You should worship him too. See, this was their great opportunity. But solomon didn't have in his generation, didn't have total obedience, so they didn't have total victory and they didn't have total biblical culture. Okay, but solomon does foreshadow the one who will bring in a totally obedient culture and a total victory, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. In this way he foreshadows the Messiah. So when his offspring, that's Solomon's offspring, the seed. The Messiah comes and rules in the future kingdom we'll see a totally biblical culture because he's going to take Israel and he's going to put his law upon their heart. He's going to put his spirit within them and no man will teach another, for they shall all know him, from the least to the greatest right. You're going to have in Israel a totally obedient people and a totally biblical culture in the millennial kingdom. So we'll get to see what it looks like there. So what's our point? We're the church, so what are we supposed to be doing? Well, in the church, our goal is again to learn loyalty to God as believers and produce partial sub-pockets of biblical culture in our own lives, in our families, in our life in our family, in our church community, to build as much biblical culture as we can. As we do that, what does it do for us? It prepares us to reign with him in the millennial kingdom. So we're in training now for reigning then, and so we want to produce as much biblical culture as we can in the world. By the way, this is we stave off. By doing this we stave off the corrosion in our own culture that's taking place Because people see, I had a guy call me.
Speaker 2:He's from the other side but he's here when he can be here. He says you know, I came to your house on side, but he's here when he can be here. He says you know, I came to your house on Christmas and we had him over for a few hours and I had no idea. But this is just last week, no-transcript. I didn't know that it could actually be this, where I could have mature conversations with people who are 14 years old and stuff like that. He's like. It changed everything.
Speaker 2:I realized my standards are what I hoped for way too low but that there's a possibility. And he's talking about biblical culture. He's seeing it. Kids they're not just do what mom and dad say because mom and dad say to do it, but, out of respect, want to do it because they recognize this is biblical model and they want to follow Ephesians 6.1.
Speaker 2:Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Speaker 2:They know they can't do that without Ephesians 5.18 being filled by the Spirit, right? So he was just seeing that, right? It's no kudos to me. This is kudos to God and to His grace, because what we're trying to do in my family is build on the generations of loyalty. In both of our families, robin's and mine, we're trying to build on that in the next generation so that they can go further than us. My hope is that they go way further than us. That should be every parent's hope, right, right and so biblical culture points to a time when jesus christ will come back and israel will be totally obedient and there will be a totally biblical culture, and that's what we're looking forward to in the kingdom. I mean, the lord jesus christ said seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, see, and so, and that's the period of history where we will get to see it. See, right now it's just trash out there, folks. It is trash, it's trashy. And this is the greatest country in the world, so just think what it's like in other places.
Speaker 1:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube under Spokane Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app, and until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.