Answer this question. Do. You ready for jury duty it's the retrial of all the centuries Welcome to a day of testimony as we begin an unusual lesson called What shall I do with Christ it's the question posed by ponchos pilot the Roman governor who delivered Jesus up to be crucified Adrian Rogers poses that question again today and asks you to be part of the jury one when you do with Jesus Christ maybe as you consider this someone will come to your mind who needs to hear today's lesson let them know they can go to L.W.'s dot org and hear it at their convenience and they'll find some great resources for spiritual growth there l w f dot org If you can turn in your Bible to look now in Matthew Chapter 27 verse 22 as we hear Adrian Rogers reopen this case today. We're going to ask a question today it's a question that pilot ask had a Roman governor who delivered Jesus up to be crucified What shall I do then with Jesus which is called price what shall I do with Christ's Jesus was standing before a pilot. But at the judgment pilot stands before Jesus. Jesus is standing before you today through the Spirit and through the word but one day as surely as I stand here you will stand before the Lord Jesus Christ and so this question has a very pertinent or a very personal a very pressing question watch I do with Jesus who is called Cross So today we're going to put Jesus Christ on trial again I'm going to ask you to listen to the testimony of people concerning Jesus Christ. But 2 great questions are What think ye of Christ. The 2nd question is What shall I do with Jesus. Who is called the crisis 1st of all I want to bring a man called the forerunner of Jesus a wilderness man. John the Baptist. John the Baptist's. You are related by blood to the Lord Jesus Christ in some ways John that you were the one to baptize the. John I want to ask you a question. What think ye of Christ. And I want you to hear that rugged individualists John the Baptist's. As he looks at the one in the prisoner's dog. And this is what John has to say about him. Be holding. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Thank you job I appreciate that testimony. I want to call now one of the greatest intellects the world has ever known a man who would have the equivalency if you live today of a triple Ph d. a Man conversant in many languages a world traveler a scholar. A philosopher. Paul the Apostle stand before this jury. And tell us. What do you think of Christ's. I see the Apostle Paul as he says he. Is Be image of being visible God. Thank you call him I call one of the Roman soldiers us and Turion. You watched him die. You placed him all that hellish cross you watched as they drove that spear into his side. I think he of Christ truly. This was the Son of God. But somebody says but Pastor these are people who lived so long ago. Don't you have any modern witnesses who can speak yes witnesses will you take the stand please. I have some here today. Who would like to tell you. What they think of Christ. Because you're saying he's not dead he's alive. I'm going to ask witness if you'll take the stand give your name and actual the question What think you of cross. My name is Don Graham you know I know Jesus is alive today and he's still changing lives today because I grew up in a home where my dad was an all pro linebacker but he's also a drunk reprobate. You know who mentally and physically abused my mom. You know we had everything the world would say success we had fame we had fortune and we had a house before people lived in but we didn't have a home and you know I had a mom who was a good lady who did all the right things but through the study she learned to do the right things and was going to get her to trust in Jesus was the only way that mom was going to be able to get. And after Mom trust in Jesus she immediately started praying for my dead through prayers to be shared with over with my dad and through their visit a star rating as. We came to a verse of scripture John 316 that we all know when he came to the word whosoever that whosoever made him. In death became a Christian that night maybe they saw a change made and started to come home without a cop's over he started to tell my brother and you know how much you love this he would hug us and kisses you not only that you know even him to even today we still hug and kiss each other until it's over how much we love each other because I want to be like my dad so much I have you know walk the aisle church is bad tasked with my life never change that didn't have that personal relationship with Jesus. You know watch today for 2 years and share verse scripts with the secretary's fast seventy's is therefore for the man be in Christ is a new creature all things are passed away behold all things become the through that verse I went to bed that night and I trust in Jesus as my personal size. Lord changed my life. Not only that you know I now want to become more like my Heavenly Father Mars with father you know of has problems you know since the end but of I know I have a problem solver living inside of me you know I like to close by just reading a quick paragraph because all of the Christmas is for my family and me to have a very Merry Christmas like those 2 curses we've had. 3 years ago we were all worried about him and wondered when he would come back while open our presents we were so miserable through those years now we have a happy and merry Christmas to my dad except the Jesus in his heart we have a lot to be thankful for this is all I want for Christmas and I've got it I wrote that in the. Now that's why I know Jesus is alive. My name is Ted modern This is my wife Lily and we're here to testify the faithfulness to Jesus Christ his comfort I've been safe for 25 years but the supernatural powers of Christ that changed me at 13 years old was so evident it was something to happen to me 4 and a half years ago. When a few years ago lost a little daughter 2 and a half year old daughter and I'm here to testify that Jesus Christ that no one could give me the comfort except maybe the son of God. You know as I reached over and picked as a father would do as I picked up my little daughter was a tragic accident as I carried her in that van to the hospital in a before I even cried out to God he was there he was faithful and as I filled my donor in my hands I don't know when the life left her but as I held her in my arms he was holding me in his own and you know the days after that his comfort not only his spiritual comfort his body of Christ and His faithfulness in his word kept us together strong we had a strong marriage before but it's got to see even stronger. As a mom that night when I saw. Joy she I am her eyes were looking for me she knew she was in trouble and my arms can reach her. But I know that even though mine couldn't sees us lifted her and carried her home I thought I would never see mine alone. But God gave me something he gave me a piece he gave me his love his grace that I can't even tell you. Most of all he came used. And I was able to smuggle it can I know I know that I know I can promise you with everything that. Is the Son of God. We know that. There is such pain in that story and yet such hope and coming up next a man who was searching for answers who had a chance encounter that changed his life we'll get back to these witnesses in just a moment now today's lesson is part of an audio album titled spiritual steel for building believers 8 messages that will help you grow as you seek to follow Christ or you can order it individually and ask for what shall I do with Christ for the single lesson or the album spiritual steel for building believers call us at 1877 love God or go to L.W.'s dot org And just a few moments I'll tell you about a special resource we have as a thank you this month for helping us out financially but right now let's get back to another witness in this stirring lesson titled What shall I do with Christ. My name is Ed Rollins and this is my wife Barbara and we would like to testify that Jesus Christ is the Risen Son of God it was 20 years ago that I ask God to reveal Himself to me in a personal way and we see at the time I was a young man with a new home a new car 2 beautiful healthy children. But I was living a lifestyle in the fast lane and going faster all the time and had all but had destroyed our marriage. And it was Mother's Day that I was sitting in church and I asked God to send someone to show me the way it was 2 days later that I was having lunch with a friend in a restaurant and we were discussing how we should live a better life and change our lifestyle nothing really was resolved and as I was leaving the restaurant I was backing out and I looked into the restaurant and I saw a man whom I had never met but I recognize from the newspaper I pulled my car back in and went in and I said pardon me are you Adrian Rogers and he said yes I am and I said I need to talk to you personally so he was there having lunch with breakfast with his wife Joyce we went to a separate table I shared with him my problems and he gave me his telephone numbers that call me in an hour I'll be home I went home and told Barbara what had happened and I called Dr Rogers and he asked me to come to his home I did and invited Barbara to go with me. When we got there in his study he didn't share a bunch of do's and don'ts of marriage the would be shared with us was Jesus Christ he asked us to pray and to receive Christ into our hours our lives were dramatically changed and I learned later that that Dr Rogers was to be at a meeting that morning and that the. Morning his friend had forgotten to pick him up and then he spoke audibly standing there in his kitchen and said Lord what would you have me to do today in that order impressed on him to take Joyce to breakfast and even where to take her. Was this a coincidence no it was no coincidence it was just an answer of prayer from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I too would like to testify about our lord and savior Jesus Christ I know that God is real that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died for our sins and I know that he heals broken hearts and men's broken homes and I am living proof and my husband my children are living proof that Jesus died on the cross for us and that it was not in vain and I'd like to take the opportunity to say thank you Jesus for wearing that painful crown of thorns for me and for all those here who love you and know you. Well today. You've heard the testimony of the witnesses. There were the witnesses of Jesus Friend. You've heard the witnesses of his enemies those who clamored for his bad. You've heard the witness of those who said he lives and he changes lives but now in all reverence and all humility. I want to get very quiet. And very still. Because as one more witness I'm going to call today I'm going to call today. The chief justice. Of the Supreme Court. Of the universe. The one who sits upon the bench for eternity. I'm going to ask. All know my God. What think ye. Of Christ and I want you to hear him as he said is this is my beloved son. In whom. I am well pleased just how Listen to the scripture if you will for him from 1st John here's what God says in His Holy Word or if we receive the witness of man and we have. The witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself and he that believeth not God has made him a liar because he believe with not a record that God gave of his son God Almighty out of the glory says this is my beloved son. And God has given us the written record. And God has given us the witness of the spear. But holy father. Forgive. We don't want to be impertinent but Father. They nailed him on a cross they say he was blood guilty father what do you say. God The Father says he was guilty. Guilty of love in the 1st degree guilty of loving OS and taking our kill upon himself but God. What added in us do you give. God The Father says you won't have it is this. I. Gave you evidence. He is shown to be the Son of God with power. By the resurrection. From the Dead Yet. This is the testimony rock rib evidence Jesus Christ came out of that tomb. Living risen victorious pastor how do you know. How do you know. Perhaps they made up the story perhaps since Apostles were maids and liars oh oh my friend a man may live for a lie but few if any will die for a lie the seal the testimony with their law man lied to get out of trouble not to get into trouble but if you could not keep them quiet because they knew that he had been raised from the grave and to silence then you might as well have told the sun to shine. Cox says this is my beloved Son the evidence that he's not just another religious teacher. Is that God raised Him from the dead in the book of Acts says he was shown alive by many infallible proofs. Now you've heard the testimony today. And now I'm going to ask. The jury to make a decision. I'm going to ask you now to make a solemn decision because I remind you that Jesus Christ is in your hands but I also remind you that one day you'll be in his hands. He is before you today but soon and. Perhaps sooner than you realize you will be beforehand. Now what can you do with Jesus well. You can crown him a crucified. What can you do with Jesus you can accept him are rejected. What can you do with Jesus you can confess Sam are deny him. But you cannot ignore him. Or you are face to face with the unavoidable and abbot of all Jesus Christ and you say well I will not decide you just decided not to decide which was your decision and Jesus said of your decision in Matthew 12 verse 30 he that is not with me. Is against me. You will walk out of this building today. Either under the blood or over the blood cramp of his blood Benita your feet. Or you will be under the blood of the poor goodness of sand. Don't try to pull the trick that pilot tried to pull it didn't work and it never will work the question is. What thinking of crimes watch allied do with cheese us 1st call the crisis. Imagine about it in your hand right now. Is he guilty or was he a fake a fraud an impostor of a liar a charlatan. A name. Guilty guilty of blasphemy was he guilty if so then in your heart and in your mind mark the ballot he's guilty a but if not. If you believe the only guilt he was guilty of was love in the 1st degree. That's his guilt. You believe he's the son of a God who left heaven and came suffered bled and died was buried and rose again if you believe that. In your heart and in your mind Mark you about it that way have you done it. Remember the question is not what will you do with a preacher. Not what will you do with the church not what will you do with a denomination What will you do with Jesus have you decided. Guilty or innocent. Now here's the test of your character. Are you willing by faith today. To live by that decision. It would be better never to have heard of him than to believe he's the son of God and refuse to bow the knee he's not looking for admiration. Don't tip the head you must bow the knee . Would you say right now Lord Jesus come into my heart. For a prayer like this Lord Jesus. I believe you are the Son of God. I believe you died on that cross for my sand. And I believe that God raised you from the dead I believe. I believe the testimony. That I've heard today. And now Lord Jesus. I trust you to save me. And I'll not be ashamed of your. Confession as model. Father I pray now that many. Will say yes to Jesus Christ and his wonderful main man. If you have marked your ballot for Jesus Christ if you prayed to receive Him as Savior and Lord would you write us let us know about your decision we love to rejoice with you pray for you and send you some free materials to get you started in your Christian walk and ask for the new Christian study helps when you contact us today write a said love worth finding box 38600 Memphis Tennessee 38183 or in Canada write p.o. Box 152 Maple Ridge b.c. V 2 x. 7 g. One will send you these new Christian study helps as our gift to welcome you into God's family and help you begin to grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ. 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This is an grand lot to the daily life are they living in the Old Testament the glory of God appeared to the children of Israel as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night as they were led in the wilderness sometimes the glory of God would surround the tabernacle and later the temple with a golden glory cloud as a manifestation of God's presence but the Bible says God's glory is no longer revealed than a cloudy fiery pillar is no longer revealed in a glowing cloud the Bible says and 1st Corinthians 316 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you when we receive Jesus Christ by faith as our personal Savior and Lord we become display cases for God's glory think about it when others look at you what do they see maybe it's turned to clean the display case this is a man Graham Lotz. The c e m network is pleased to present Ronald Eldar and born to when. They say that history repeats itself and I'll have to admit it seems to be true actually there are 2 perfectly good reasons why history it would repeat number one human nature doesn't change number 2 God doesn't change. So in spite of all the changes in technology man still has the same needs the same hopes the same fears the same lust so we make the same mistakes over and over again and God responds to those same mistakes the same way over and over again. But before God does respond he always sins a prophet a real prophet not a fortune teller not someone with a lot of guesswork he actually talks to someone gives him a message as his go tell him there's an interesting little passage in Amos as a matter of fact that goes this way surely the Lord God will do nothing but he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets that's interesting though Amos is surely God is not going to do anything unless he 1st reveals it to the prophets the lion has roared who will not fear the Lord God has spoken who can but prophesied once God speaks to you says Amos you got a prophesies but really until God speaks to a prophet a real prophet has nothing to say. So why would god bother than to speak to a prophet why and why does he tell a prophet what is going to happen it's not certainly not for our entertainment it's not for us to sit around tables like we do with fortune cookies and joke and laugh about them the reason why God reveals the future will be a surprise I think to a lot of people you may want to listen to this carefully God reveals the future to give us a chance to change the future you know the words he comes along and says some terrible things are going to happen to you if you continue along the path you're following repent change do better and those terrible things won't happen. Now if you can read the Old Testament prophecies with this principle in mind you'll have gone a long way to understanding what the Bible is all about. Every Old Testament prophets spoke out of a specific historical context every Old Testament prophet spoke to a specific time in history now does that mean that the Old Testament prophets have no relevance to us in the 20th century Well hardly There's a little little short passage in Isaiah 41 it begins in verse 21 and it outlines one of the most important principles that there is in the Bible about prophecy it reads this way produce your cause say it the Lord bring forth your strong reasons saith the king of Jacob let them bring forth and show us what shall happen this is the challenge to any false prophet or any false god go on bring it forth to show us what is going to happen and then he says let them show the former things what they be that we may consider them and know the latter end of them shall read that again let them show the former things what they be so we can think about them and understand the way it's all going to come out in other words we're supposed to look at the past in order to understand the future and so the prophet goes on to say declares things to come show the things that are to come here after so we can know your gods but 1st show us the former things so we can think about that and understand the latter end of what Isaiah seems to be saying is that for every significant prophecy there will be a former event and a later event. The 1st fulfillment foretold by a prophet as a model or a pattern of what is to come later now the Old Testament is full of examples of this the one of the better illustrations is an event with a very strong in time implications the prophet in question is Daniel and Daniel is given certain visions which provide a very long framework for the development of history now the next question that comes up from this I have argued that prophecy is not really history in advance but here we come to Daniel and Daniel delivers prophecies that sound very much like they are and in this there is another reason for prophecy that I haven't discussed here before prophecy is also given so that men when they see it play out will see the hand of God in history you know the words we are told what's going to happen not only so we can repent and change that it might not happen but we are also told what's going to happen so that when it does we will know that God's hand was in it there are some prophecies in the Bible about which man can do little or nothing they are there so that you will understand what's going on around you as it happens in his long 11th chapter Daniel recounts a vision of the not too distant future from him when a singular evil man would come on the scene the man's name which Daniel did not know would be entitled to sleep if unease and about $168.00 b.c. He would play out the scenario that Daniel wrote now what he would do he would become an absolute enemy of God in God's people he would desecrate the temple he would erect an altar to Zeus over the altar in the temple he would sacrifice swines flesh on that altar and he would profane the holy place he would make any practice of the worship of God a capital offense. This is what Daniel said he would do in this is how it is worded in the Prophet begin reading in Daniel $1129.00 at the time appointed he shall return and come toward the south but it shall not be as the former or as the latter for the ships of kick him shall come against him that is against Antiochus therefore he shall be grieved in return and have indignation against the holy covenant the words he will bristle against the worship of God so shall he do he shall even return and have intelligence with them who forsake the holy God the covenant there will be Judases as it were there will be traitors there will be people who will work with him against their own people and arms shall stand on his part said Daniel and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength they shall take away the daily sacrifice they shall place the abomination that makes desolate it all happened he polluted this thing to worry about freeing swines flesh he set up this abominable statue of Zeus which was the abomination that made desolate and he stopped the worship of God by daily sacrifice. Now if all this is this is all we had historians would identify this with antichrist and we could dismiss it as history and wouldn't have to think about it anymore but the problem is with Jesus who was also a real prophet. The problem is that Jesus also made reference to the abomination of desolation and he placed it in the future in his time what is the mysterious abomination of desolation spoken of by Jesus and Daniel what was it in history what will it be in the future. Desolation right to born to women Post Office Box 56 White House Texas 7579. 1888 Bible. And tell us the call letters of this radio station. So what did Jesus mean by the abomination of desolation What was he talking about well it was on a particular day when Jesus and the disciples were walking along by the temple and the disciples were pointing to the book buildings of the temple and and talking to Jesus then Meiring them this was the 2nd temple it was Harrod's reconstruction of the original the disciples admired it greatly It was a place of God's presence it was like a fortress it was great huge stone with a great sense of permanence it was a place of safety it was forever but as they pointed at it Jesus said You see all these things. I want to tell you the truth there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down now that had to shock the disciples because when they got across to the Mount of Olives they came to him privately and they said tell us when will this be and what will be the sign of your coming end of the end of the age because they really understood that if that was going to be the case we're talking in time. And Jesus answered and said to them Be careful that no one deceives you because many are going to come in my name saying I am Christ and deceive many and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars don't be troubled by this for all these things have to happen but the end is not yet I remember hearing as a boy that wars and rumors of wars was a sign of the imminent return of Christ but Christ that all know you're going to hear a lot about wars and rumors of wars but the end is not yet for a nation shall rise against nation kingdom against kingdom feverishly famines and pestilence and earthquakes and all sorts of places. All these are the Beginning of Sorrows kind of frightening when you think about it famine and pestilence and earthquake is just the beginning he goes on to say then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and should kill you and you should be hated of all nations for my name's sake and then shall Many be offended and shall be tray one another and shall hate one another do you hear an echo out of Daniel of people of the holy covenant actually be trading one another and cooperating with the one who would actually destroy and desecrate the Temple he said in many false prophets chiller arise and shall deceive many so they're going to be plenty of prophets around as we come down toward the time of the end and many many people will listen to them and be deceived and because iniquity shall abound because so much sin everywhere the love of many shall wax cold so just as in Daniel's prophecy the people of the covenant are being corrupted then Jesus said but he that shell endure to the end the same shall be saved and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness and all nations and then shall the end come. When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place who so read of let him understand then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains but him which is on the house top not come down to take anything out of his house don't let him that is in the field return to get his clothes just leave. Him If you realize what I just read to you what Jesus is saying to his disciples sitting there with him he said Now look whenever you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet but we go back to Daniel's time it is very plain that his prophecies are about one Antiochus epiphany who came along about 168 b.c. Defiled the temple set up an altar to Zeus offered swines flesh on the altar and corrupted the holy people it all happened but apparently all that was like a pattern like a woman who would lay out a bolt of cloth and would take a dress pattern out of a little package and lay it out and pin it with pins all over the the fabric that lies below and then carefully go around and cut out the pattern and create pieces of a garment that can be sewn together and which will resemble the pattern I guess in some ways but will in his reality be totally different apparently something along that line is what happens in prophecy Antiochus epiphany as in all the things he did were like a pattern you lay out on a bolt of cloth but it's coming again the pattern will be cut again Jesus said and when it happens just get out don't hang around don't go back in the house just leave which you really implies that when it starts it isn't going to take very long . He then goes on to say one of them there was a child and then that gives suck in those days but pray that your flight be not in the winter be very hard pray that's not on the Sabbath day so a parent of the communion community around at whatever time that would be would be on a Sabbath observant community pray that he says because in that time shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be Oh Ok Jesus is pointing to a time unique in human history it will be a time of the greatest trouble has ever been there has never been any time before like it and there will never be anything like it ever again so we've come to a day that is none unlike any other and he goes on to say except those days when this all this is begin to happen except those days should be shortened there should be no flesh saved alive but for the elect sake those days shall be shortened You know I every time I look at this I remember my boyhood when it would have seemed impossible for there to be any circumstance in which there would be a war or any series of circumstances in which there would be no flesh saved alive but there was a day when someone said we had exploded a secret weapon in Japan and wiped out an entire city and in the process of time we learned more about that we saw the hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific. We saw the race between us and the Russians the development of missiles and came to the place to where there was more than enough nuclear weaponry to wipe out all human life and probably everything except insects are a subset of subsidy life to wipe us all off the planet. There was a time when it would have been hard to do it but with a little forethought it could have been done and then we all begin to realize that no the truth is we're getting down to the place where we could probably do it without even trying well you know Jesus said that unless something happens to stop man it will come to that then I basically come to realize that the odds of the end coming in nuclear war are remote the chances are folks it's going to be a post nuclear type of weapon that man will use and would finally destroy us all if God didn't intervene and cut it short this time is generally referred to by theologians as the Great Tribulation It's a benchmark that we look for in prophecy in fact when we are reading back through Isaiah and Jeremiah in his eco we look for the great tribulation in the signs that surround the Great Tribulation Where is it and when we find it we know we can put a mark on the ground as it were and say Ok here is the time this prophet is talking about even though the original pattern of his prophecy is placed in the past. Later in verse $29.00 Jesus makes it even clearer what he's talking about he says immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened the moon will not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven in the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory and he'll send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will gather his elect from the 4 winds from one end of heaven to the other. You know what you're hearing here this is the time of the return of Christ and the resurrection of the did at the last trumpet and it's a time which is still future for us it was future when Christ said all this but this hasn't happened yet it's still out there in the future and so it's a pretty good bet that the abomination of desolation is out there too there was a closer fulfillment to Jesus' day there was a pattern that was repeated in 7080 because in 7080 the Romans entered the city they defiled and destroyed the sanctuary and they fulfilled the pattern of Daniel but the pattern is still there and it appears to be waiting for the last days because Jesus prophecy here is seamless I mean there's no break in it there's no place in or you can try you can trim it and say oh well this applies to some earlier time and this applies to a later time it's really like that garment where Daniel is the paper pattern the dress pattern a woman lays over the bolt of cloth and when she gets all the pieces cut out that's the pattern that existed in Jesus' day. As we come down to the time of the end everything will be sewed together and then we will see what we will see a free copy of this radio program that you can share with friends and others write or call this week only and request the program titled real profits number 6 right to. Post Office Box 560 White House Texas 75791 or call toll free 18 a Bible 44 and tell us the call letters of this radio station let's consider again Isaiah is challenge to the would be prophets he said produce your cause say of the Lord bring forth your strong reasons let them bring forth and show us what will happen let them show us the former things what they be that we may consider them and know the latter end of them or declare to us things for to come you can't interpret prophecy in midair you can't just hang your own interpretation on the prophets imagery you have to understand the history underlying the prophecy The fact is I think it's almost impossible and I think God may not intend for you to be able to sort out all the details of future prophecies what he wants this to do is to be sure we understand the former things so that when the latter things begin to come to pass we'll know what's going on it'll make sense to us and we'll realize God's hand is in it and we won't despair about how it's going to come out you must never also make the mistake of relegating a prophet of the past and thinking you can dismiss him now I want to explain that to you by taking you back to Isaiah once again to the very 1st chapter of Isaiah and try to help you understand what I'm driving in because here is a prophecy that one would think you could just say oh well this is just pointing at the past and I don't need to think about this. Isael one in verse one it says the vision of Isaiah the son of Amos which he saw all concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of use Joe them a has and Hezekiah kings of Judah Oh well see I don't have to worry about that that's what God said concerning Judah and Jerusalem in that time Ok but hang on the prophecy begins by saying here oh heavens and give euro earth for the Lord has spoken I have brought up children and they have rebelled against me the ox knows his owner and they ask his master script but Israel does not know my people don't even think about it. Sinful a nation of people loaded with iniquity a seed of evil doers children who are corruptors. That starts sounding an awful lot like our time in history to me they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the one of the Holy One of Israel to anger they have gone away backward have tried in fact to eliminate God from every aspect of public life but even more important they tried to take God out of the schools already they don't want you praying in schools they don't want to moment of silence in which you might pray God says why would you be stricken any more why would you revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint from the soul of the foot even of the head there is no sound the Senate but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores they haven't been closed they haven't been bound up they haven't been modified with all it meant where's it all going to lead you know your country is going to be desolate He said he got to the place to where they cried out except the Lord of hosts had left us a very small remnant why we would have been like Saddam we would have been like Gomorrah and Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt to ashes. Then the Prophet comes back picking up on the word Sodom hear the word of the Lord the rulers of Sodom give ear to the law of our God you people of God Mora he's not talking about Sodom and Gomorra he's applying those names to Judah and Jerusalem because that's the kind of people they had become to what purpose he said is the most of your sacrifices to me I am fed up with burnt offerings of ram and fat of Fed beasts I don't delight in the blood of bullocks or lambs or he goats you know the whole passage here is talking about their religion they were religious people they were in the temple they were making sacrifices they were going through all the motions and God says I'm fed up with it because the religion was never touching their lives it didn't change the way they lived it didn't change the way they treated people and when you spread forth your hands he said I'll hide my eyes from you yes when you make many prayers I'm not going to listen your hands are full of blood wash yourself make yourself clean put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes and cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow you see the pattern here the pattern is of a religious people who will never allow their religion to touch the way they treat people they oppress people they don't take care of the fathers they don't plead for the widow but God says if you will if you'll just turn your life around if you'll repent. Let's reason together said God though your sins be as scarlet they'll be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they'll be like like wool prophecy is given to us so we can change history you don't ever need to say oh it's too late it's all over it's all gone there's nothing we can do about anymore if you're willing God said and obedient you'll eat the good of the land but if you refuse and rebel you shall be devoured with a sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it now you can relegate that to Jerusalem and Judea in the days of King is I if you prefer but it sure if it's now and the promise of being able to eat the good of the land if we all repent and be willing and obedient sure sounds good how he said is the faithful city become a harlot it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now what are they got murderers your Silver's become dross your wine is mixed with water your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves they water down the wind they corrupt of the precious metals everyone loves bribes and follows rewards the entire political and religious system was corrupt all the way through God said well I'm going to turn my hand upon you and I'm going to purge away all the impurities by fire I'll restore your judges as at the 1st in your councillors as at the beginning and afterward you'll be called the City of righteousness the faithful city. Now he continues on through with this and then at the beginning of chapter 2 something really remarkable happens in this prophecy and there's nothing to tell you that there's a great lapse of time in between the 2 of them they are connected in Chapter 2 Isaiah says the word of Isaiah that the son of Amos all concerning Judah and Jerusalem and it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains that means above the governments of the world it shall be exalted above the hills and all nations will flow into the government in the dynasty of God and many people show go and say Come let's go to the mountain of the Lord in the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among many people and to rebuke many nations and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks nations shall not lift up sort against nation neither shall they learn war anymore he realize what's happened he's warned people of corruption right leading up to the very in time and then transitioned into the millennial kingdom of God the rule of God upon the earth when he himself takes charge. If you cut this pattern out and lay it over the fabric of today's world and today's society it ought to give you some hope for just around the corner comes the age of the winners. Until next time this is Ronald art the Born to Win radio program with Ronald Eldard is sponsored by Christian educational ministries and made possible by donations from listeners like you if you can help police in your donation to born to women Post Office Box 560 White House Texas 75791 you may call us at 1888 Bible 44 and visit us online at Born to Win dot net The nation's most powerful Christian Voice World War or old what it's 670 Kayleigh t.t. Dot com and all over Colorado in digital age d n a m 670 k l t t ecommerce City Denver. The world is becoming so dangerous we can hardly afford to sleep where can you look for answers I'm Ronald are tuning in for Born to Win every afternoon at 130 Monday through Friday right here on am 670 k. L.t. I don't or log grew up in the desert the 1st time she saw the ocean and the sea shells are all over the beach at low tide she said can you keep them she did I mean the good news is yes you can. And we've loved collecting seashells we've got opportunity to spend time along the coast some other shows make it to the shore totally intact others where you know they're broken sometimes by the surf sometimes by seagulls who pecked them open to get at their yummy tenants Yeah occasionally I found a particularly striking treasure though like like the conch shell that I picked up a few years ago it was badly broken but inside there was some amazing beauty beautiful swirls in white and blue and purple and I mean incredible designed to be old outside the show was just like rough and plain just another show but not on the inside I never would have seen its unforgettable beauty. If it had been broken. I'm a tramp and I want to have a few today about beauty from broken. You know God display some of his most beautiful creations so broken things maybe broken as a word that in some way describes you right now then it's possible he could show folks some of his beauty through you as hard as that might be for you to believe right now you need to hear what your Creator has promised to broken people in our word for today from the Word of God It's in Isaiah 61 beginning with where Sean speaking of Jesus the Bible says the sovereign Lord has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners to comfort all those who mourn to be strong on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes the oil of gladness Instead of mourning and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair God says that through His Son He wants to unleash in your soul healing for the pain of your past and of freedom from the darkness of his brought you down he wants to turn what's been something ugly into something beautiful and something life giving he goes on to say of the broken people he touches that they will be called opes of righteousness for the display of his splendor they will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated all who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed so God says he wants to do a powerful restoring hope giving work in broken people so we can use them to do a powerful hope giving work for him in a broken world. I know he does that I've seen a team of young Native Americans who've lived the despair of the highest rates of alcohol and drug abuse and sexual abuse and suicide on this continent they are broken but with Christ now in their lives they've gone are an Eagle's Wings team to the heart of North America's reservations telling their hope stories and a generation that hasn't listened to anyone that's written not Jesus is a white man's God listens to them and they have led literally thousands of Native Americans to Christ because the white shines more brightly through broken vessels. A broken vessel like you maybe. They will listen to you because of your scars they can see through your wounds the amazing beauty of a joy and a hope that Cooley's savior like Jesus could give. If you turn away from your despair and maybe your bitterness anger self-pity and give your brokenness to him he can do that miracle for you. The song was right when he said this all I had to offer him was brokenness and spirit. But he made something beautiful. Of. Thanks Ron. Kraft has written a free e-book It's called Guardian your heart who would love to be able to send that to you in fact you can download it right now when you go to our website a word with you dot com That's a word with you dot com to download your free many e-book guarding your heart by dugouts Ground 0 or to you as a feature of Ron Hubbard craft ministries Thanks for listening. You're To am 67. 95 point. 67. Well to put it crudely I hope you're getting the guts of Romans Chapter 9 it is an awesomely interesting chapter and I want to make sure you get the import of what Paul is saying because it is absolutely crucial and it's exciting and it's in Korea enormously encouraging for all of us so listen in right away would you call him Koch here and how it happens this is a broadcast on the good news of the gospel the good news of our God and Father and his action in His Son Jesus Christ to set about the rescue of this planet the salvation of all mankind we are looking at Romans 9 and Romans 9 is an explanation of what Paul has previously said in regard to God's grace remember Romans 8 he has talked about God predestine in the world determining that salvation for whom he for New York so predestined to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the 1st born among many brethren Moreover whom he predestined those he old These He also called he and these those whom he called he justified and those whom he justified these he also glorified So Paul then says in the light of that who can be against us who can be against the human race in the salvation of the human race. God is the one who gave His Son and The Son is the one who will not bring a charge against any of us it is He Who died and here so Paul then concludes I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principle it is not powers nor height not anything at all creation can separate us from the love of God. But then if so what about Israel how come they haven't been saved and Paul then says it's not as though the Word of God has failed he says you have to understand though in effect he is saying God is doing things in stages he is basically saying to his readers be patient it's not all going to happen at once and that reminds me by the way of a chapter one where Paul says that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times he mind to gather together in one all things in Christ that phrase in the dispensation of the fullness of the Times suggests something of a length of time doesn't it something of a load of phrases that must take place. And so that's what Paul is saying Paul is saying that look God has set about. Plucking out various groups and various individuals as chosen ones not chosen in the sense of they are to be chosen to be saved while the rest are chosen to be lost no they are chosen to be saved that they mind reveal and at the mercy of God to others so that they might know also that they can be and will be chosen to be saved and so Paul says and gives illustrations of how God does not simply follow a physical lineage he says the younger a Jacob shall serve the older Esau In other words the just because he saw as the 1st born is not necessarily meaning that that is how God's going to work with the firstborn you remember David by the way was called a 1st born though it doesn't it isn't here mentioned in Romans 9 and David was the 19th child. Yet he was called the 1st born the 1st born means the preeminent one that God has chosen for a certain mission and also chosen of course for eternal life and poll also illustrates that God is able to raise up even people who have rejected Him and He then puts them in positions of power like Pharaoh that as Pharaoh resists God may reveal his glory through that resistance.