WEBVTT 00:00:16.429 --> 00:00:30.429 Father, I thank you for this morning that we have been just immersed in your presence, Lord, standing here, acknowledging you, adoring you, worshiping you, and that you have been and are amongst us. 00:00:30.589 --> 00:00:31.869 And we are so grateful. 00:00:32.109 --> 00:00:40.269 Father, this morning as we open your word, I pray, Father, only what you want to be said will be said, only what you want to be heard will be heard. 00:00:40.429 --> 00:00:43.549 But Father, we submit ourselves to the word of God. 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:46.909 We submit ourselves to the truth of the Lord. 00:00:47.230 --> 00:00:48.750 In Jesus' name. 00:00:49.069 --> 00:00:49.709 Amen. 00:00:50.030 --> 00:00:50.510 Amen. 00:00:50.590 --> 00:00:51.790 You may be seated. 00:00:53.069 --> 00:00:55.150 It is so good to see you all. 00:00:55.709 --> 00:00:57.310 School year is back. 00:00:57.790 --> 00:00:59.310 How are you feeling about that? 00:01:00.989 --> 00:01:01.310 Okay. 00:01:01.870 --> 00:01:02.510 Alright. 00:01:03.069 --> 00:01:03.390 Okay. 00:01:03.709 --> 00:01:06.670 Lord, would you do a work in our hearts today? 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:09.549 Our kids, our girls went back to school as well. 00:01:09.790 --> 00:01:12.670 OSU is back, new new opportunities. 00:01:12.909 --> 00:01:14.590 It is so good to be here. 00:01:14.750 --> 00:01:18.750 Today, I I trust is a word for all of us here. 00:01:19.069 --> 00:01:23.709 But I'm going to address two very specific people, uh, two specific kinds of people. 00:01:23.869 --> 00:01:26.589 On the one hand, the Justice Warriors. 00:01:29.149 --> 00:01:30.189 Okay, alright. 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:33.310 Hey, this is a Hollerback church, so I'd love to hear from you. 00:01:33.469 --> 00:01:36.429 If you're like, no, I don't like that, just say boo or something. 00:01:36.589 --> 00:01:38.909 Or if you're like, amen, you shout it out. 00:01:38.989 --> 00:01:43.149 Or alright, the other side is the Justice Warriors, the other one's the journalers. 00:01:43.469 --> 00:01:45.629 Any journalers over here? 00:01:46.509 --> 00:01:47.469 Okay, alright. 00:01:47.709 --> 00:01:49.149 Man, I'm gonna work harder today. 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:53.549 Listen, some of you are wired for the world out there. 00:01:53.709 --> 00:01:57.310 You see a system that is unfair and it wrecks you. 00:01:57.390 --> 00:02:07.950 You you care about the person who didn't get the fair shot, you uh worry about the coworker who got passed over, you're worried about the neighborhoods no one's investing, and you'd march for that. 00:02:08.270 --> 00:02:10.189 In fact, you've been in a few marches. 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:13.310 Your primary motivator is justice. 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:14.909 That's on the one hand. 00:02:15.150 --> 00:02:17.710 On the other hand, there's some of you who are the opposite. 00:02:17.870 --> 00:02:19.870 You have done work on you. 00:02:20.110 --> 00:02:30.189 You have been working on you, you've gone therapy, you are a journaler, you like to process, you've had the hard conversations, and you're doing the slow work of becoming a healthier person. 00:02:30.590 --> 00:02:37.310 Things like justice issues, impoverished neighborhoods, grocery store store droughts, global hunger. 00:02:37.550 --> 00:02:41.310 It's not that you don't care, you just never think about it. 00:02:41.630 --> 00:02:43.310 So that's on the other hand. 00:02:43.550 --> 00:02:50.030 Neither of these is wrong necessarily, but what I want to talk today is they're incomplete without the other. 00:02:50.189 --> 00:02:56.670 We're gonna look at the the whole package that Jesus has brought for us, and that's where we're gonna go. 00:02:56.830 --> 00:02:59.390 So we're gonna go classroom style today. 00:02:59.550 --> 00:03:00.909 Um, can someone help me? 00:03:01.070 --> 00:03:02.830 Just pick up this chair for me, please. 00:03:03.070 --> 00:03:06.270 Um in in light of school, you guys okay? 00:03:06.430 --> 00:03:11.150 We're gonna we're gonna do a little bit of work here today, and I thought I would bring the markers. 00:03:11.310 --> 00:03:13.469 Okay, who doesn't love a good whiteboard? 00:03:14.110 --> 00:03:14.590 Yeah? 00:03:14.909 --> 00:03:16.189 Thank you, Daniel? 00:03:17.150 --> 00:03:19.150 Daniel, Daniel the man. 00:03:19.790 --> 00:03:20.110 Okay. 00:03:20.750 --> 00:03:21.390 All right. 00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:25.790 Now, I also want to acknowledge it is the start of a school here. 00:03:25.870 --> 00:03:28.750 Uh, freshman, did you say you say there are a few of you here? 00:03:28.990 --> 00:03:29.550 Welcome. 00:03:29.710 --> 00:03:36.030 Uh how many of you came back from school from from uh being away for the summer and that, and you're you're back for the season? 00:03:36.270 --> 00:03:37.150 Show of hands. 00:03:37.469 --> 00:03:41.310 Okay, so I want to get us all on the same page for just a minute. 00:03:41.469 --> 00:03:47.630 We have been going through a journey this year of looking, let's call it an Old Testament survey. 00:03:47.790 --> 00:03:56.189 We started back in January, and I'm gonna get here because I want to see, I want you to see the timeline, the the arc of the story that we've been saying. 00:03:56.350 --> 00:03:59.390 We started in January, and we started with creation. 00:03:59.550 --> 00:04:21.469 We looked at creation, the full, the horrible situation that then we saw the first murder, and then we saw we got to the uh Noah's Ark and that whole situation, kind of a reset, and then we got to the Tower of Babel, and we ended March with the introduction of a man named Abraham, and how that story started. 00:04:21.629 --> 00:04:33.709 It was very important for us to start the Old Testament survey right there in the first few chapters of Genesis, because in a sense, almost everything is contained in those first few chapters of Genesis. 00:04:33.949 --> 00:04:40.109 From there, it's the same story over and over and over and over again. 00:04:40.269 --> 00:04:46.349 And it diagnoses for us what the real problem was, where it came from, and what the real solution is. 00:04:46.589 --> 00:04:46.909 Okay. 00:04:47.549 --> 00:04:54.029 Phase two in April, we started and we looked at our series, was then called the Era of the Patriarchs. 00:04:54.189 --> 00:04:56.189 The Patriarchs starting with Abraham. 00:04:56.430 --> 00:05:02.109 Abraham, who then had Isaac, who then had Jacob, Jacob whose name became Israel. 00:05:02.349 --> 00:05:06.349 Israel had 12 sons and a few daughters. 00:05:06.589 --> 00:05:09.549 Sorry, the girls, uh, the guys got the 12, okay? 00:05:09.709 --> 00:05:14.750 So there were the 12 tribes and they became the complete nation of Israel. 00:05:14.990 --> 00:05:18.029 From there, we looked into a man named Joseph. 00:05:18.269 --> 00:05:26.189 We saw how we eventually got into the situation of being slaves, uh, captives in Egypt for 400 something years. 00:05:26.430 --> 00:05:30.829 Moses came along, and then Joshua, and and we kind of stopped there. 00:05:31.069 --> 00:05:34.430 I think it was Joshua, uh, was the last patriarch we were looking at. 00:05:34.589 --> 00:05:39.389 So we spent April, May, June just looking at the era of the era of the patriarchs. 00:05:39.629 --> 00:05:53.949 The reason we did it this way is in Matthew chapter 1, when the genealogy of Jesus was given, it starts with it says, from Abraham to the first king, David, was 14 generations. 00:05:54.189 --> 00:05:59.949 From David to the exile was 14 generations, and from the exile to Christ was 14 generations. 00:06:00.189 --> 00:06:02.109 Any math nerds here with me? 00:06:02.509 --> 00:06:04.829 That kind of jazzed me up, let me tell you. 00:06:04.909 --> 00:06:06.909 I was like, okay, we got a structure. 00:06:07.149 --> 00:06:18.189 So we had the era of the patriarchs, then we got to the end of that era, and the nation of Israel started saying, We want a king, we want a human king like the nations around us. 00:06:18.430 --> 00:06:20.909 The Lord said, Not a good idea. 00:06:21.069 --> 00:06:22.349 You don't really want that. 00:06:22.509 --> 00:06:24.109 They're like, Yeah, we do. 00:06:24.349 --> 00:06:26.750 And he's like, okay, and he gave them a king. 00:06:26.909 --> 00:06:30.909 And there started in July, we started looking at the era of the kings. 00:06:31.229 --> 00:06:32.750 Saul was the first one. 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:34.430 He was kind of mid. 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:44.109 David was supposed to be a man after the Lord's heart, so he was kind of the best of them all, except for the murder and the adultery and you know, all of that stuff. 00:06:44.269 --> 00:06:57.629 Um, and then from there was Solomon, also pretty good on the spectrum of kings, except for the 700 wives and the 300 concubines, and uh his heart essentially straying from the Lord. 00:06:57.789 --> 00:06:59.149 What happens from there? 00:06:59.310 --> 00:07:05.469 Well, the 12 tribes of the nation of Israel splits in two, northern and southern. 00:07:05.629 --> 00:07:09.469 Northern was essentially ten of the twelve tribes. 00:07:09.629 --> 00:07:12.990 They begin to follow a man named Jeroboam. 00:07:13.549 --> 00:07:15.870 The two follow Rehoboam. 00:07:16.269 --> 00:07:19.549 Not a lot of creativity and names in those days, but here we are. 00:07:19.789 --> 00:07:25.870 Jeroboam, the ten tribes of northern, Rehoboam, the two tribes, uh Judah and Benjamin. 00:07:26.029 --> 00:07:27.709 And so the story goes from there. 00:07:27.870 --> 00:07:31.389 Really, from Solomon, it starts getting pretty depressing. 00:07:31.949 --> 00:07:36.349 From there, we've been in this for like a few weeks now, and I'm like more every week. 00:07:36.430 --> 00:07:38.509 I'm like, no, not another king's failure. 00:07:38.589 --> 00:07:39.870 And here we go on and on. 00:07:39.949 --> 00:07:41.629 So this is the era we're in now. 00:07:41.709 --> 00:07:44.189 We're talking about the era of the kings. 00:07:44.349 --> 00:07:47.789 Now, in October, we're gonna get to the exile. 00:07:47.870 --> 00:07:49.709 Well, we're beginning to talk about the exile. 00:07:49.870 --> 00:07:52.349 From October, they came out of the exile. 00:07:52.589 --> 00:08:01.789 Now you have the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, no king, no real identity, just a lot of what on earth happened? 00:08:02.029 --> 00:08:12.189 We need a savior, we need a messiah, and we're gonna look at that last 14 generations leading up to the birth of Christ, which is where we're gonna end our year. 00:08:12.430 --> 00:08:22.750 Now, the important part is you see this arc of the story, all the way from creation to the patriarchs to the kings to the returning from exile to the coming of Jesus. 00:08:22.909 --> 00:08:27.389 It should show us how this has all been pointing to this moment all along. 00:08:27.549 --> 00:08:32.909 We're gonna have a great advent season, and Christmas Eve is gonna be the bomb.com. 00:08:33.310 --> 00:08:34.110 You with me? 00:08:34.350 --> 00:08:35.710 It's gonna be great. 00:08:36.029 --> 00:08:41.070 All of this, all of this has been pointing to our need for a Messiah. 00:08:41.310 --> 00:08:43.389 All of this has been pointing to Jesus. 00:08:43.549 --> 00:08:53.789 In fact, when when Jesus walks on the road to Emmaus after being resurrected from the dead, and a couple of his disciples don't recognize him, and they're walking with him, and what does the Bible tell us? 00:08:53.949 --> 00:09:08.590 It says that Jesus began from Moses, and what he means is the first five books of the Bible, the Torah, the Moses and the prophets, the Old Testament scriptures, began to explain to them all the things concerning himself. 00:09:08.909 --> 00:09:19.949 This whole story that we've been covering this year, and we'll cover this year, has all been pointing to Jesus, pointing to our need for a savior, pointing to our need for redemption. 00:09:20.189 --> 00:09:27.069 And if you're new here and you're like, whoa, do I feel like I've lost a lot, I've missed a lot, kind of, but not really. 00:09:27.470 --> 00:09:28.590 Here's why. 00:09:28.909 --> 00:09:35.949 The same story that happened there, happened there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, all along this arc. 00:09:36.350 --> 00:09:41.069 We are hopelessly lost without a savior. 00:09:41.710 --> 00:09:45.710 We keep trying ourselves, we keep failing. 00:09:45.949 --> 00:09:48.669 We try harder, we put more rules in place. 00:09:48.829 --> 00:09:50.669 Some of us just give up altogether. 00:09:50.909 --> 00:09:54.590 Whatever your solution, we are in desperate need of a savior. 00:09:54.750 --> 00:09:56.509 It was always supposed to be like this. 00:09:56.750 --> 00:10:04.189 We were supposed to be a people who hold on to the hand of the Father and do this life with him, but we rebelled. 00:10:04.350 --> 00:10:06.669 Sin entered in, we rejected him. 00:10:06.909 --> 00:10:09.230 That is the story over and over. 00:10:09.629 --> 00:10:21.309 What I want to do today, because we're still here in the era of kings, we're here in this third chapter here, is I want to look at the story from two different perspectives, from the perspectives of two prophets. 00:10:21.470 --> 00:10:25.710 One was the prophet Isaiah, so you can turn to Isaiah chapter 1 in the meantime. 00:10:25.949 --> 00:10:28.509 The other one was the prophet Jeremiah. 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:39.710 Now, there's some very interesting things about these two prophets, and there's two very important time periods in the era of kings that these two prophets cover. 00:10:40.029 --> 00:10:46.029 Isaiah is in the timeline where uh, all right, are you still tracking with me? 00:10:46.590 --> 00:10:46.909 Okay. 00:10:47.230 --> 00:10:50.590 Northern kingdom, ten tribes, that was called Israel. 00:10:50.750 --> 00:10:54.990 Southern kingdom, that was called Judah, even though it was Judah and Benjamin. 00:10:55.149 --> 00:10:59.949 We're in the era where the ten tribes ending with uh oh, who was it? 00:11:00.029 --> 00:11:01.069 Was it Josiah? 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:04.509 Josh, Joshia, the last king of Israel? 00:11:04.750 --> 00:11:05.789 We covered it last week. 00:11:05.949 --> 00:11:07.629 Second Kings chapter 17. 00:11:08.350 --> 00:11:11.949 The Assyrian invasion happened and they got exiled. 00:11:12.110 --> 00:11:12.829 We're there. 00:11:13.069 --> 00:11:18.110 But Isaiah was a prophet to Judah, but he's watching what just happened. 00:11:18.269 --> 00:11:20.269 That's our first context. 00:11:22.350 --> 00:11:25.710 Our second context is there, they are they're done. 00:11:25.789 --> 00:11:28.350 Here, they come along 150 years later. 00:11:28.509 --> 00:11:33.149 The Babylonians are about to invade Judah and send them into exile. 00:11:33.309 --> 00:11:38.829 So, two very, very important time periods in the nation of Israel and Judah's time period. 00:11:38.990 --> 00:11:46.909 And we're gonna look at what those prophets diagnosed as the problem, prophesied was the solution, and how Jesus stepped into all of that. 00:11:47.069 --> 00:11:47.870 Are you with me? 00:11:48.350 --> 00:11:49.230 Are you ready? 00:11:49.629 --> 00:11:51.149 Alright, so let's start here. 00:11:51.309 --> 00:11:56.269 Context number one is the Assyrians are coming. 00:11:57.549 --> 00:12:00.829 Now, if you're saying, How did he get this job? 00:12:01.069 --> 00:12:02.590 He clearly can't write. 00:12:02.750 --> 00:12:03.470 That's fine. 00:12:03.549 --> 00:12:04.189 That's fine. 00:12:04.269 --> 00:12:05.149 You can judge. 00:12:05.389 --> 00:12:06.189 I can't. 00:12:06.750 --> 00:12:07.789 The Assyrians. 00:12:07.870 --> 00:12:16.750 So our first context is Assyrians, and Isaiah chapter one is they're watching what's happening to their people, and here we are in the story. 00:12:17.069 --> 00:12:20.509 So read from Isaiah chapter 1, verse 2. 00:12:20.750 --> 00:12:25.069 We are about 700 BC, and that's where. 00:12:25.389 --> 00:12:25.710 Okay. 00:12:26.509 --> 00:12:28.350 Isaiah chapter 1, verse 2. 00:12:28.509 --> 00:12:34.350 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. 00:12:34.590 --> 00:12:38.669 Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. 00:12:38.909 --> 00:12:45.389 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. 00:12:45.549 --> 00:12:46.990 Do you see the imagery here? 00:12:47.149 --> 00:12:49.789 Even a dumb ox knows its owner. 00:12:49.949 --> 00:12:52.669 But you, my people, don't know your God. 00:12:52.990 --> 00:12:56.909 This is the diagnosis, the problem that he is highlighting over here. 00:12:57.069 --> 00:12:58.110 They have rebelled against me. 00:12:58.269 --> 00:12:59.549 Verse 3, uh, was four. 00:12:59.789 --> 00:13:12.189 Ah, sinful nature, a nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly, they have forsaken the Lord, and they have despised the holy one of Israel. 00:13:12.269 --> 00:13:14.350 They are utterly estranged. 00:13:14.590 --> 00:13:16.269 Jump to verse 13. 00:13:16.669 --> 00:13:18.750 Bring no more vain offerings. 00:13:19.069 --> 00:13:21.309 Incense is an abomination to me. 00:13:21.549 --> 00:13:28.669 This is strange because the offerings and the incense was part of the rituals, the practices of people of God. 00:13:28.829 --> 00:13:29.949 So check it out. 00:13:30.189 --> 00:13:33.069 New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations. 00:13:33.309 --> 00:13:36.829 I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 00:13:36.990 --> 00:13:41.230 Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul hates, says the Lord, right? 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:43.629 They have become a burden to me. 00:13:43.710 --> 00:13:45.789 I am weary of bearing them. 00:13:46.029 --> 00:13:49.389 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. 00:13:49.470 --> 00:13:51.949 Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. 00:13:52.110 --> 00:13:54.029 Your hands are full of blood. 00:13:54.269 --> 00:13:55.149 Here it is. 00:13:55.389 --> 00:14:01.710 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes, cease to do evil. 00:14:01.870 --> 00:14:02.509 Here it is. 00:14:02.750 --> 00:14:12.509 Learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. 00:14:13.149 --> 00:14:14.909 Here's the diagnosis. 00:14:15.389 --> 00:14:20.990 These people, in a sense, they didn't stop worshiping, but they stopped doing. 00:14:21.230 --> 00:14:22.750 They stopped doing justice. 00:14:22.829 --> 00:14:26.110 They stopped actually following the Lord. 00:14:26.269 --> 00:14:34.909 So we're the problem is diagnosed for us here in Isaiah 1, verse 2 through 17. 00:14:35.069 --> 00:14:39.629 And I want to put this on the board because we're gonna jump around just a little bit. 00:14:39.949 --> 00:14:47.789 They're carrying on essentially with their practices of religion, but they're ignored justice, oppressing people, and they're not defending the weak. 00:14:47.949 --> 00:14:52.509 See, the word for rebellion in verse 2 is pasha. 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:59.470 It's not this kind of just like teenage rebellion, we're like, oh, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna listen to you know, grunge music or something. 00:14:59.870 --> 00:15:03.309 It's it's more like a treason. 00:15:04.350 --> 00:15:06.669 A covenant was made with God. 00:15:06.829 --> 00:15:12.350 The rebellion talked about here isn't some flighty emotional thing, it is treason. 00:15:12.590 --> 00:15:22.509 They have turned on the agreement, the covenant made between between Abraham and God and God, between their people and who we are. 00:15:22.669 --> 00:15:24.269 It is significant. 00:15:25.069 --> 00:15:30.590 And the specific treason God names isn't ritual failure. 00:15:30.829 --> 00:15:39.389 It's that the fatherless and the widow, the two people groups with zero legal power in that world, had nobody defending them. 00:15:39.789 --> 00:15:45.870 It's like you worship me here, but do nothing about it in the world that I've placed you in. 00:15:46.189 --> 00:15:47.789 That is the situation. 00:15:48.110 --> 00:15:51.069 Religion was thriving, but justice was gone. 00:15:51.149 --> 00:15:52.509 Now, let's fast forward. 00:15:52.590 --> 00:15:55.549 We're still in Isaiah, we're still looking at the situation. 00:15:55.789 --> 00:16:00.750 God is sending yet another prophet, Isaiah, to try and bring them back to the Lord. 00:16:00.990 --> 00:16:03.710 He prophesies of one who is to come. 00:16:03.949 --> 00:16:07.789 Would you turn in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 61? 00:16:12.350 --> 00:16:16.189 We're gonna read the first two verses of Isaiah 61. 00:16:16.829 --> 00:16:21.710 Again, I encourage you to come to church with your Bible, your paper Bible, and a pen. 00:16:21.789 --> 00:16:26.669 Let the Lord speak to you, name it, date it, underline it, wrestle with the word of God. 00:16:26.829 --> 00:16:27.470 Get it in you. 00:16:27.629 --> 00:16:28.269 Amen. 00:16:28.829 --> 00:16:30.829 Alright, 61 verse 1. 00:16:31.149 --> 00:16:37.949 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 00:16:38.189 --> 00:16:40.429 Put yourself in a situation for a minute. 00:16:40.750 --> 00:16:46.110 Isaiah is actually watching Assyria take over the people of Israel. 00:16:46.350 --> 00:16:53.870 He's seeing the same problem that Judah is having, they having, uh, and and it's coming, it's imminent. 00:16:54.110 --> 00:17:02.189 But the word of the Lord's always, there's always grace available, there's always a way out if we but listen and return to the Lord. 00:17:02.350 --> 00:17:05.069 In that context, he's speaking to his people. 00:17:05.390 --> 00:17:13.069 Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed, underline that one, me to bring good news to the poor. 00:17:13.309 --> 00:17:30.509 He has sent me sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty, another important word, liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn. 00:17:31.789 --> 00:17:32.829 What a verse. 00:17:33.069 --> 00:17:33.789 Two verses. 00:17:33.950 --> 00:17:34.910 What two verses. 00:17:35.150 --> 00:17:44.109 The word anointed, I asked you to online, it's the Hebrew word Mashiach, which is where we get the word Messiah from. 00:17:44.430 --> 00:17:47.950 The word anointed, Mashiach, we get the word Messiah from them. 00:17:48.029 --> 00:17:58.430 The other one, the word liberty, is the word deror, and it's the exact word from the Jubilee law we see in Leviticus chapter 25. 00:18:01.150 --> 00:18:02.109 Come on. 00:18:02.910 --> 00:18:05.549 If you don't know what that means, let me tell you. 00:18:05.869 --> 00:18:06.589 Jubilee. 00:18:06.829 --> 00:18:10.990 Jubilee, every 50 years, it was written into the law of God. 00:18:11.150 --> 00:18:13.309 In Leviticus 25, you see this. 00:18:13.470 --> 00:18:15.389 Every 50 years, here's what happened. 00:18:15.629 --> 00:18:18.190 Your debts are cancelled. 00:18:18.829 --> 00:18:19.789 Cancelled. 00:18:20.029 --> 00:18:23.230 I mean, this isn't just liberty and oh, I feel good. 00:18:23.309 --> 00:18:24.670 I'm like, God is amazing. 00:18:24.750 --> 00:18:25.309 No, no. 00:18:25.470 --> 00:18:27.230 Your debts canceled. 00:18:27.549 --> 00:18:29.950 Any students here with student loan debts? 00:18:30.910 --> 00:18:34.029 Any anyone owning a home with a mortgage? 00:18:34.509 --> 00:18:35.549 All right, thank you. 00:18:35.710 --> 00:18:38.349 Any anyone feeling like you owe somebody money? 00:18:39.230 --> 00:18:40.990 Okay, look, you're American. 00:18:41.069 --> 00:18:42.509 We should all have our hands up. 00:18:42.829 --> 00:18:45.549 This is this is the American way, apparently. 00:18:46.430 --> 00:18:47.629 Canceled. 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:48.990 Canceled. 00:18:49.230 --> 00:18:50.589 The year of Jubilee. 00:18:50.750 --> 00:18:53.710 Liberty means it's done. 00:18:53.869 --> 00:18:56.029 If you were a slave, done. 00:18:56.190 --> 00:18:56.750 Canceled. 00:18:56.829 --> 00:18:58.430 You are set free. 00:18:58.829 --> 00:19:00.509 Land set free. 00:19:02.029 --> 00:19:11.230 The concept of liberty, the concept of Jubilee should be and is such an incredible concept if we fully understand what it is. 00:19:11.470 --> 00:19:19.950 Now, when Isaiah says the year of Jubilee to proclaim liberty to the captives, woo! This should be incredible. 00:19:20.109 --> 00:19:22.670 This should be like you bring it on. 00:19:23.230 --> 00:19:24.269 You with me? 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:26.269 This is the prophecy, right? 00:19:26.349 --> 00:19:27.470 So we're looking at that. 00:19:27.710 --> 00:19:34.750 He is describing an economic reset, a physical set free. 00:19:34.910 --> 00:19:37.309 Now put yourself in that situation. 00:19:37.549 --> 00:19:39.549 Now, where does Jesus come in? 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:41.150 You ready for Jesus? 00:19:42.670 --> 00:19:43.150 Alright. 00:19:43.389 --> 00:19:47.230 Church, we're gonna have to talk about our holler back situation over here. 00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:50.269 Okay, you're ready for Jesus in this story? 00:19:50.509 --> 00:19:50.750 Yeah. 00:19:51.470 --> 00:19:51.629 Okay. 00:19:52.349 --> 00:19:57.150 Look, Luke chapter 4, go to verse 17 through 19. 00:19:57.470 --> 00:19:59.230 17 through 19. 00:19:59.389 --> 00:20:01.150 What a beautiful handwriting, huh? 00:20:01.309 --> 00:20:02.190 You with me? 00:20:02.509 --> 00:20:02.990 Nope. 00:20:03.150 --> 00:20:04.269 Okay, that's good. 00:20:04.509 --> 00:20:05.789 Honesty is good. 00:20:05.950 --> 00:20:08.029 Uh Luke chapter 4. 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:12.750 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. 00:20:12.990 --> 00:20:14.349 He unrolled the scroll. 00:20:14.430 --> 00:20:15.069 This is Jesus. 00:20:15.150 --> 00:20:18.750 He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. 00:20:18.990 --> 00:20:19.950 Verse 18. 00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:21.710 See if you recognize this. 00:20:21.950 --> 00:20:28.190 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. 00:20:28.430 --> 00:20:38.990 He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, full stop. 00:20:39.150 --> 00:20:39.470 Period. 00:20:39.549 --> 00:20:40.509 He stopped right there. 00:20:40.670 --> 00:20:42.349 He didn't do the vengeance part. 00:20:42.509 --> 00:20:43.950 That was for later. 00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:46.269 He stopped right there. 00:20:46.990 --> 00:20:52.670 What Jesus is doing here at the beginning of his ministry, this is right at the beginning. 00:20:52.990 --> 00:20:57.549 He's declaring, he's giving a summary statement of why he came. 00:20:57.789 --> 00:20:58.990 This is why he came. 00:20:59.230 --> 00:21:09.389 The Spirit of the Lord upon him to proclaim the good news to the poor, to set free the captives, to set at liberty those who are bound up. 00:21:09.629 --> 00:21:13.869 This is the mission statement of Jesus right here at the beginning of his ministry. 00:21:14.029 --> 00:21:15.389 Where does he pull it from? 00:21:15.629 --> 00:21:27.789 From Isaiah, who was watching a people who were doing a bunch of empty religious activity without taking care of the poor, without caring for the fatherless and the widows. 00:21:28.269 --> 00:21:29.710 He's looking in that context. 00:21:29.869 --> 00:21:34.750 In that context, Jesus, the king, is announcing what he is supposed to do. 00:21:34.910 --> 00:21:37.629 Verse 21 of Luke 4, it says this. 00:21:37.950 --> 00:21:42.750 Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. 00:21:43.069 --> 00:21:46.430 Can you imagine the scene in that room? 00:21:46.750 --> 00:21:47.869 Today, Jesus. 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:49.710 Michael Ethan says this. 00:21:49.950 --> 00:21:54.190 He says, Jesus' ministry is a jubilee occasion. 00:21:54.509 --> 00:21:58.269 He will transform individuals and he will transform society. 00:21:58.750 --> 00:22:05.150 He will forgive sins and he will abolish everything that holds back human liberty and joy and progress. 00:22:05.389 --> 00:22:08.829 He will provide food and shelter and clothes. 00:22:09.069 --> 00:22:10.990 This is the Jesus we serve. 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:16.029 If we want to give this a title, we say the king, oh yes. 00:22:17.869 --> 00:22:22.670 The king of justice. 00:22:24.509 --> 00:22:29.950 This is who Jesus is identifying with in this portion of scripture. 00:22:30.670 --> 00:22:32.509 Now I want us to go over this. 00:22:32.910 --> 00:22:35.309 This is at the time of the Assyrian invasion. 00:22:35.470 --> 00:22:37.470 Let's go 150 years later. 00:22:37.629 --> 00:22:39.789 And now we're talking about the next context. 00:22:39.950 --> 00:22:45.309 We're talking about the prophet Jeremiah, and he's watching the Babylonians coming to do the same thing. 00:22:45.470 --> 00:22:46.990 They would have heard these stories. 00:22:47.150 --> 00:22:48.509 They would have seen what happened. 00:22:48.670 --> 00:22:51.950 The annihilation of this entire people of God. 00:22:52.109 --> 00:22:53.710 Obviously, there's fear in them. 00:22:53.869 --> 00:22:54.589 Let's look here. 00:22:54.750 --> 00:22:55.710 The context here. 00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:05.309 Babylon was on their footsteps and was beginning to take over. 00:23:05.389 --> 00:23:10.029 So go in your Bibles to Jeremiah chapter 8, verse 18, please. 00:23:14.109 --> 00:23:16.269 Jeremiah 8, verse 18. 00:23:16.670 --> 00:23:20.349 Jeremiah is watching the walls of this kingdom beginning to come down. 00:23:20.670 --> 00:23:24.349 And he says this in verse 18 My joy is gone. 00:23:24.670 --> 00:23:26.109 Grief is upon me. 00:23:26.269 --> 00:23:28.829 My heart is sick within me. 00:23:29.629 --> 00:23:32.589 Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. 00:23:32.990 --> 00:23:38.670 There's a lot of this emotive language that he uses as he watches the condition of his nation. 00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:54.670 And friends, if you're if you've been following with me so far, we've gone from the highs of high with David and Solomon and all the nations just looking at the people of Israel down to 10 twelfths of Israel is gone. 00:23:54.829 --> 00:23:58.430 We're the last two nations left, the last two tribes left. 00:23:58.589 --> 00:24:03.389 And he's watching a nation coming and gobbling them up and taking them into exile. 00:24:03.549 --> 00:24:08.109 His reason for grief is justified, it's valid. 00:24:08.269 --> 00:24:11.069 That's why Jeremiah is writing like he's writing. 00:24:11.150 --> 00:24:19.549 He says in verse 19, Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land. 00:24:19.789 --> 00:24:21.789 Is the Lord not in Zion? 00:24:21.950 --> 00:24:23.869 Is her king not in her? 00:24:24.109 --> 00:24:29.150 Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and their foreign idols? 00:24:29.389 --> 00:24:33.869 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:38.430 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded. 00:24:40.589 --> 00:24:43.470 I mourn and dismay has taken hold on me. 00:24:43.869 --> 00:24:46.509 There is, is there no bomb in Gilead? 00:24:46.750 --> 00:24:47.789 Verse verse 22. 00:24:47.950 --> 00:24:49.309 Is there no bomb in Gilead? 00:24:49.549 --> 00:24:51.309 Is there no physician there? 00:24:51.629 --> 00:24:55.869 Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? 00:24:56.109 --> 00:25:06.750 Chapter 9, oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. 00:25:09.069 --> 00:25:18.029 The problem is highlighted here in Jeremiah 8, verse 18 through 9, verse 1. 00:25:18.349 --> 00:25:23.150 Again, they've turned from the Lord, and there's this cry in the middle of this. 00:25:23.309 --> 00:25:25.309 Is there no bomb in Gilead? 00:25:25.629 --> 00:25:27.069 Is there no physician? 00:25:27.230 --> 00:25:33.869 And he's using emotive, relational language like the daughter of the Lord, the daughter of the king. 00:25:34.109 --> 00:25:38.910 Here, not just a weeping prophet, but here a weeping father. 00:25:39.230 --> 00:25:43.789 A weeping father who is weeping over the condition of his people. 00:25:44.829 --> 00:25:54.430 He is emotional because they've kept generation after generation, year after year after king after king, they've kept rebelling against the Lord. 00:25:54.509 --> 00:26:04.190 And they've found themselves in this place where they're about to be taken out of the land which the Lord gave them, away from an identity as the people of God. 00:26:04.589 --> 00:26:06.990 They're known as the daughter of God. 00:26:08.269 --> 00:26:10.109 But they are sick. 00:26:10.829 --> 00:26:12.029 Where is the bomb? 00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:13.389 Where's the physician? 00:26:13.549 --> 00:26:18.670 They're sick, they're in desperate, desperate need of a physician. 00:26:19.389 --> 00:26:26.109 The word bomb is a word sorry, which isn't just kind of folk medicine, like someone doing alternative medicine. 00:26:26.349 --> 00:26:30.430 This was the real thing, the best known remedy in this world. 00:26:30.670 --> 00:26:33.789 Jeremiah wasn't asking if anyone's tried anything. 00:26:33.950 --> 00:26:41.230 He's asking, why isn't the medicine actually reaching the root problem of the people? 00:26:42.509 --> 00:26:51.710 One commentary talks about this physician, and he says, prophets and teachers who, in a moral and spiritual sense, are instruments of healing. 00:26:51.869 --> 00:26:53.309 That's what this physician is. 00:26:53.549 --> 00:27:02.589 Prophets and teachers who, in a moral sense, that is in their day book, but we know what Jeremiah is going to talk about in a minute, is about the great physician to come. 00:27:03.710 --> 00:27:05.549 This is real lament. 00:27:07.389 --> 00:27:18.910 I don't know where we sit sometimes when we look at what's going on in our nation, when we look at what's going on in our city, when you look at what's going on in your streets. 00:27:19.389 --> 00:27:21.150 Is your heart broken? 00:27:22.029 --> 00:27:25.789 Because the people of God are sick. 00:27:26.910 --> 00:27:31.869 People are sick and they're in desperate need of an answer. 00:27:33.309 --> 00:27:36.029 Do we allow ourselves our hearts to be broken? 00:27:36.109 --> 00:27:41.470 Do we allow ourselves to hear and understand the heart of a father who's talking about his daughter? 00:27:41.789 --> 00:27:44.829 Thankfully, the prophecy comes. 00:27:45.069 --> 00:27:58.029 And if you turn in your Bible to Jeremiah chapter 31, same prophet who's looking at a similar situation and he's bringing the word of the Lord in. 00:27:58.430 --> 00:28:01.389 This is this is incredible. 00:28:01.629 --> 00:28:08.109