NT Framework - Good Aim

What do you have your sights set on? A raise, new car, season tickets, your next vacation? These are fine things to think about and plan for, but we are speaking of our life's work instead.

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This series included graphics to illustrate what is being taught, if you would like to watch the teachings you can do so on Rumble (https://rumble.com/user/SpokaneBibleChurch) or on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtV_KhFVZ_waBcnuywiRKIyEcDkiujRqP).

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. 

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to New Testament Framework
• 0:10 Israel's Conquest and Loyalty to God
• 0:52 David's Line and God's Heart
• 2:32 Solomon's Wisdom and Kingdom Division
• 3:54 Divine Discipline and Authority Orientation
• 5:54 Israel's Blindness and Recognizing Jesus
• 6:33 Conclusion and Call to Action

Transcript

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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.

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The conquest is setting up that picture because Israel's got to go into the land. They've got to remove their enemies. And this deals with all of the aspects of sanctification. You know. And their aim was: hey, we're going to learn loyalty to God, and God's going to fight our battles for us. He's going to give us victory. He's going to bring us into the land. He's going to give us peace and prosperity in the land, right? And they conquered a lot under Joshua, but they didn't finish because they didn't learn loyalty to God. And they began to follow other gods, the gods of the other nations, and so forth. And so they dwelled among them and they began to mix religion, to syncretize things, right? And God wasn't happy about that. But this goes on, and then you've got a generation that leads to the reign of King David. You've got a few generations there in the time of Ruth, you know, and this whole story of this one particular line that results in David. You know, you've got Ruth, and you've got uh Boaz, you know, and you've got Obed, Jesse, and then you've got David. And so you can see those generations that live in the times of the Judges, there's there's a like a there's a pocket of believers in Israel who are really strong. And they're building on the basis of the scripture. And it comes to David. Remember, David's a man after God's own heart, right? He's just a shepherd boy, right? He's out there taking care of his father's flock, you know. I mean, he's being groomed by God, see, for a shepherding type ministry as a king. Because a king will be a good shepherd, right? If you're a good shepherd, you know how to take care of those who are weak. And isn't David being groomed for that, see? And so he fails, we know, we know he failed with Bathsheba and he had his her husband Uriah murdered and all that. And that's that's that's where we learn about the dimension of fellowship that King David, he got out of fellowship with the Lord, but what did he do when he was sinless pointed out? He got back in it, right? I mean, the guy suffered the loss of four of his sons' lives. I mean, imagine as a father or a mother losing four of your sons. And yet he never turned and said, Okay, God, I'm I'm done with you. I'm tired of. He always kept walking with the Lord through all the repercussions of his sin. He just kept trusting the Lord. And this becomes a picture of the Davidic house, and that's leading to the Messiah, right? This is this is Jesus' line. Okay, and it goes back all the way to David. So important things. Now, Jesus never got out of fellowship, right? So he's a little bit different. He's a greater than David, he's a greater than Joshua. The golden era of Solomon, this is the when the culture of Israel was at its high point because they had learned loyalty to God until the end of Solomon's reign, of course. And Solomon decided to tank and go into human viewpoint and all that and make treaties with all the nations and marry thousands of girls to bring all, get into treaties with these nations and so forth. But but he is he is a picture of the wisdom of the Messiah, isn't he? Because he's the wisest man to ever live in the world until Messiah comes. So he's also preparatory for Messiah, because Messiah said, you know, the wisdom of Solomon, but he says a greater than Solomon is here. Yeah, God in the flesh, God's wisdom in an individual. An individual who came to give himself for us. And then, of course, the kingdom then begins to divide, it divides, you know, after Solomon with Rehoboam. And God begins to discipline the nation. You know, why does he discipline Israel? Because he made a covenant with them, because he's in that relation, a covenant relationship with them. And he loves them. It's the same reason he disciplines you because you're in a relationship with him. And he loves you enough to not let you ruin your life. You know, so the Bible teaches about discipline, you know, divine discipline. We transfer that into our families, right? You know, parental discipline. Parents, if they love their children, what will they do? Let them do whatever they want, right? You know, let them figure it out. No, no, no. Parents have to be very hands-on. Kids need direction. They have to have that. They have to have discipline when they've done wrong. Otherwise, they won't learn authority. If you don't learn authority, you'll never get right with God. You'll never get right with God because you'll always act like you're the authority. And God's saying, no, you're not the authority. I'm the authority. I say. And you do, or you suffer the consequences. People say, I don't like that. Yeah, I know you don't. We don't like that. Why? Because we have a sin nature that says, I'm God. I'm going to do what I want. So all this authority orientation, it starts in the home, see? And God is teaching Israel discipline during the kingdom divided. That they need to get right with him if they're going to enjoy blessing. That's why it says in Romans Ephesians 6, 1, that parents should obey their, children should obey your parents in the Lord. And then you, this is the first command with a promise, so that you may live long in the land. What's that saying? It's saying if you learn authority orientation to your parents, guess what? It'll make for a good and prosperous long life. Why? Because you'll be living within specific parameters. It's when we step out from those parameters and we try to go and do it on our own that all of a sudden we get in a lot of trouble in this world. Getting involved in drugs, vice, robbery, theft, you know, all sorts of crazy things. See, because and all that's violation of authority, right? Civil authority, which God has set up. Romans 13. There's no authority except that which comes from God. So we have to learn authority orientation. He was teaching that to Israel with the kingdom divided. Kingdom goes into decline again. They're just the nation at this time is just in rebellion against God for the most part. There's a few good kings here and there that lead the people in the right way, but for the most part, they just go into decline. And God's disciplining them. But what happens? What happens when this nation and when humans go negative to God, negative to God, negative to God? What happens is you can't, you you begin to be blinded to what's true, what's right, what's just, you know, which is is what happened by the time you get to the gospels, Jesus comes on the scene. You're thinking, can't these people tell this is God in the flesh? Can't they tell this is their Messiah? And and yet Jesus says, What about the Pharisees? That they're blind. They're blind, they're the blind and they're leading the blind. The leadership of Israel is blind. They they couldn't see it. Why couldn't they see it? Because they had so much sin, so much carnality by this time that they were unable to even recognize the God of the universe when he came in the hidden flesh. That's why I wonder a lot of times in the church today if if if Jesus Christ came here today and came into a pulpit of this church or he went into a pulpit of some other church, if people would even know who he was.

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