Revealed, Reminded, Ready: Prophets Point to Jesus

Tomorrow is as real to Jesus right now as what your now is to you right now. God is still ten years ago, by the way, which is why you don't need to let the pain and the trauma of what happened ten years ago to still anchor you back there. The Lord is still there. He's outside of time. And if that's not your version of God, you need to read the bible again. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The one who created it is not contained by it. He's outside of it. And the God who kept every promise for the first coming will keep every promise about his return. [01:24:15] (41 seconds)  #GodOutsideTime

Make no mistake, church. He's coming back. He's coming back. And there's almost a sense where we've gotta shake off the complacency and live with a sense of urgency. He's coming back. You may not have tomorrow, folks. We may not have tomorrow. We got we gotta make the most of it. Jesus says this, however, no one knows the day or the hour, Matthew 24. No one knows when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the son himself. That was the son in humanity. [01:24:57] (34 seconds)  #JesusIsComingBack

If you wanna know what god thinks about the issues of the day, look at Jesus. Jesus says in Luke four, the spirit of the Lord is on me to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom, recovery site, to set the oppressed free. If you wanna know what God thinks about you, look at Jesus. Don't look at some commentator on YouTube or or listen to some podcast. Look at Jesus. The Bible says, for the son of man came to seek and save the lost. And so, friends, in the prophets in the Old Testament, they all paint a picture of Jesus. [01:08:00] (36 seconds)  #LookToJesus

So what we see is this. In the Old Testament, the prophets were many and partial. Jesus is final and full. When we look at the Old Testament prophets, they represented God, but Jesus is God. In the Old Testament, the prophets gave a a partial revelation of god. But in the New Testament, Jesus is the perfect revelation of the father. In the Old Testament, the prophets carried the word. In the New Testament, Jesus is the word. [01:01:17] (36 seconds)  #JesusFinalRevelation

It's because at least in slavery, they had to make no choices. Now as a free person, we have to make choices. And imagine that that person previously incarcerated for twenty five years, now free. Imagine in the second day of freedom going back to His Majesty's Prison, Manchester, knocking on the door and saying, hey. Listen. Can can I come in? Can can I just stand here for a while? I I just wanna be here. Why is that? It's because the old life has levels of even attraction and familiarity to it. Freedom requires something entirely different. Nothing's holding them to the prison anymore apart from mindset and memory. [01:17:10] (49 seconds)  #FreedomIsAMindset

The prophet's role was to remind God's people of God's covenant. Another word, God's promise to his people. And their role was not just to remind them of God's promise to them, but their promise to God. God says, I will bless you. I will favor you. I will I will protect you if you follow my ways. And God's people said, and we promise to follow you and to follow your ways. The prophet's job was to remind us of the promise. It's that annoying person in your life who annoys you of the promise or the pledge you made. [01:10:14] (42 seconds)  #RememberTheCovenant

The prophets were like the ring, fellas, ladies, on your finger from your wedding day where you made a covenant, you made a promise. And that's the thing, one of the things that stops you from going to pornography, from having soul ties with somebody, or from taking the ring off your finger to have a a one night stand, the prophets were like the ring on your finger that reminds you of the promise you made, of the covenant you made to be with that person in sickness and in health. [01:11:23] (38 seconds)  #CovenantKeepsYouFaithful

Somewhere between the first whisper of the story and the last telling of it, truth didn't disappear. It just simply got distorted. So that's why God sent the prophets as authorized spokespersons of divine revelation. I am I have been had my license since I was 18 years of age, and I and I took my driving test in City Center Manchester. I did four lessons, actually, and my driving instructor said, think you're ready to actually go for the test. And so a week later, I was booked in. I took a test. [01:03:23] (39 seconds)  #ProphetsGuardTruth