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 Good morning, church family.

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 If you're a guest here or you've never been to Maranatha, my name is Luke Fawcett.

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! I'm a pastoral intern here. I have the privilege of serving you guys in that way.

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 Thank you once again for giving me the privilege of opening God's Word with you

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 and considering the implications of it for our lives.

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 The title for the message this morning is

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 Jesus is the Promised Son.

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 Jesus is the Promised Son.

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 We're finishing our Advent series by looking at the final section of Matthew 2, verses 13 to 23.

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 Matthew 2, verses 13 to 23.

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 This time of year reminds me a lot of my childhood,

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 when I would ride with my mom in her old minivan and listen to a lot of classic Christmas tunes.

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 For you teens, this was before Spotify and commercial-less streaming,

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 so that was how I enjoyed music.

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 But more than any other holiday, I think Christmas is set apart by its festive songs.

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 While many are concerned with Santa Claus and sleigh bells and snow,

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 others actually reflect true elements of the biblical storyline.

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 Wise men and wonder,

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 shepherds and stars,

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 angels and anticipation,

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 heaven and earth.

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 Some are tender and serene.

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 Perhaps your favorite song is in these kind of lyrics.

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 Some of these we just sang.

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 Silent night,

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 holy night.

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 All is calm,

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 all is bright.

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 Round yon virgin,

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 mother and child,

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 holy infant,

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 so tender and mild.

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 Sleep in heavenly peace.

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 Sleep in heavenly peace.

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 Or this one,

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 away in a manger,

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 no crib for a bed.

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 The little Lord Jesus

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 laid down his sweet head.

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 The stars in the sky

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 look down where he lay,

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 the little Lord Jesus

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 asleep on the hay.

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 Or this one,

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 O little town of Bethlehem,

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 how sweet we see thee lie.

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 Above thy deep and dreamless sleep,

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 the silent stars go by.

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 But other songs are cheerful and triumphant.

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 O come all ye faithful,

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 we just sang this,

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 joyful and triumphant.

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 O come ye,

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 O come ye to Bethlehem.

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 Come and behold him,

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 born the king of angels.

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 O come,

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 let us adore him.

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 O come,

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 let us adore him.

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 Or joy to the world,

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 the Lord is come.

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 Let earth receive her king.

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 Let every heart prepare him room.

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 And heaven and nature sing.

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 What centers each of these Christmas classics

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 are themes like joy and love and peace,

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 like light and life for the world.

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 Our souls are calmed

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 and they're lifted up

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 because of the incarnation of Jesus.

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 He is God with us.

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 He has entered into our story.

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 But that is only half of the story.

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 They conclude Matthew's account

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 where we left off last week

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 with wise men bowing down

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 and worshiping the blessed baby.

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 But what about the other half of the story?

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 Our passage has a completely different feel to it.

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 Instead of peaceful safety,

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 we see murderous threats.

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 Instead of sweet sleep,

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 there is urgent escape.

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 Instead of joyful song,

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 there are sorrowful lamentations.

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 Instead of Bethlehem,

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 we get Egypt.

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 What kind of Christmas is this?

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 Perhaps we have virtually no songs

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 that tell about this

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 because even among the biblical authors,

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 the gospel writers,

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 Matthew is actually the only one

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 who gives us this account.

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 But this too

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 is part of Jesus' story.

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 It is part of our story.

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 And while our stories,

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 perhaps even

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 this Christmas experience for you,

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 is mingled with sorrow

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 and joy,

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 pain and peace,

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 loneliness

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 and comfort.

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 We will see that this half of the story

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 is not just necessary.

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 This half of the story

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 is glorious

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 for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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 So if you have not already,

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 I would encourage you to open

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 a physical copy of God's word

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 to Matthew chapter 2,

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 verse 13 to 23.

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 You can find our passage

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 on page 808

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 of the Pew Bible

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 in front of you.

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 Page 808

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 of the Pew Bible

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 in front of you.

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 You can follow along

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 as I read this passage.

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 Now when they had departed,

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 behold,

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 an angel of the Lord

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 appeared to Joseph

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 in a dream

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 and said,

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 Rise,

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 take the child

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 and his mother

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 and flee to Egypt

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 and remain there

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 until I tell you.

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 for Herod

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 is about to search

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 for the child

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 to destroy him.

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 And he rose

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 and took the child

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 and his mother

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 by night

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 and departed to Egypt

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 and remained there

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 until the death of Herod.

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 This was to fulfill

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 what the Lord

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 had spoken

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 by the prophet.

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 Out of Egypt

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 I called my son.

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 Then Herod,

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 when he saw

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 that he had been tricked

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 by the wise men,

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 became furious

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 and he sent

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 and killed

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 all the male children

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 in Bethlehem

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 and in all that region

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 who were two years old

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 or under,

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 according to the time

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 that he had ascertained

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 from the wise men.

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 Then was fulfilled

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 what was spoken

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 by the prophet Jeremiah.

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 A voice was heard

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 in Ramah,

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 weeping

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 and loud lamentation.

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 Rachel weeping

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 for her children.

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 She refused

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 to be comforted

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 because they are no more.

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 But when Herod died,

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 behold,

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 an angel of the Lord

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 appeared in the dream

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 to Joseph in Egypt

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 saying,

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 Rise,

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 take the child

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 and his mother

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 and go to the land

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 of Israel

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 for those who sought

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 the child's life

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 are dead.

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 And he rose

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 and took the child

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 and his mother

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 and went to the land

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 of Israel.

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 But when he heard

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 that Archelaus

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 was reigning over

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 at Judea

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 in place of his father

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 Herod,

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 he was afraid

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 to go there.

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 And being warned

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 of him in dream,

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 he withdrew

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 to the district

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 of Galilee.

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 And he went

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 and lived

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 in a city

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 called Nazareth

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 so that what was spoken

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 by the prophets

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 might be fulfilled,

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 that he would be called

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 a Nazarene.

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 You may have noticed

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 that there are

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 three scenes

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 in this narrative.

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 Three scenes.

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 Each indicated

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 by the word

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 when.

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 You can see these

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 in verse 13.

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 Now when

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 they had departed,

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 that's the wise men.

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 Verse 16.

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 Then Herod,

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 when he saw

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 that he had been tricked

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 by the wise men.

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 And verse 19

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 and 22,

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 kind of combined there.

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 Now when Herod died,

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 and in verse 22,

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 but when he heard

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 that Archelaus

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 was reigning

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 over Judea.

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 These scenes

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 or situations

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 carry along

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 the narrative

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 and they each

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 close with

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 a prophetic fulfillment.

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 So Matthew here

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 is merging

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 situation

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 and scripture.

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 He's merging

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 the providence

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 and the sovereignty

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 of God together.

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 Something that

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 we'll look back at

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 toward the end.

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 So the important thing

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 is that when

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 something happens,

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 it happens

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 to fulfill

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 what God

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 has said.

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 When something

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 happens,

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 it happens

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 to fulfill

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 what God

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 has said.

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 So let's start

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 with point one.

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 God's people

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 live

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 in exile.

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 God's people

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 live

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 in exile.

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 verse 13

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 gives us

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 this first

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 situation.

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 Now when

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 they had

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 departed.

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 The they here

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 is referring

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 to the wise men.

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 These wise men

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 who God

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 had previously

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 told

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 not to return

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 to Herod.

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 So the question

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 is,

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 what happens

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 when the wise men

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 leave

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 without telling

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 Herod?

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 Well,

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 Matthew shows

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 us

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 verse 13b,

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 Behold,

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 or look,

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 an angel

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 of the Lord

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 appeared to

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 Joseph

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 in a dream

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 and said,

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 Rise,

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 take the child

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 and his mother

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 and flee

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 to Egypt

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 and remain

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 there until

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 I tell you.

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 For Herod

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 is about

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 to search

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 for the child

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 to destroy

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 him.

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 Notice

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 that there

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 are four

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 commands

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 given here.

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 Rise,

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 take,

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 flee,

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 and remain.

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 And there's

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 one reason.

00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:14.000
 Herod

00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:14.819
 is looking

00:10:14.819 --> 00:10:15.859
 for Jesus.

00:10:16.959 --> 00:10:17.419
 Herod

00:10:17.419 --> 00:10:18.059
 is looking

00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:18.779
 for Jesus.

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 Do you

00:10:19.699 --> 00:10:20.399
 sense the

00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:20.979
 urgency

00:10:20.979 --> 00:10:21.599
 and the

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 danger

00:10:22.139 --> 00:10:22.759
 here?

00:10:24.019 --> 00:10:24.599
 He's saying,

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 get out,

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 Joseph.

00:10:27.099 --> 00:10:27.459
 Herod

00:10:27.459 --> 00:10:28.039
 is coming

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 to kill

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 your son.

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 And God

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 does not

00:10:32.419 --> 00:10:32.939
 give Joseph

00:10:32.939 --> 00:10:33.439
 a return

00:10:33.439 --> 00:10:33.740
 date.

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 He just

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 says,

00:10:35.339 --> 00:10:35.959
 remain here

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 until I

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 tell you.

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 This is

00:10:39.099 --> 00:10:39.819
 not unlike

00:10:39.819 --> 00:10:40.479
 when God

00:10:40.479 --> 00:10:41.339
 called Abraham

00:10:41.339 --> 00:10:41.959
 in Genesis

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 chapter 12

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 verses 1.

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 He said,

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 go from

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 your country

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 and your

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 kindred

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 and your

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 father's

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 house

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 to where?

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 To the

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 land that

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 I will

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 show you.

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 Leave

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 everything,

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 Abraham,

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 your country,

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 your family,

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 your community

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 and go.

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 I will

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 show you

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 where I

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 will take

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 you.

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 I will

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 take care

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 of you.

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 You can

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 hear here

00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:11.779
 echoes

00:11:11.779 --> 00:11:12.379
 of the

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 story.

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 Leave

00:11:14.019 --> 00:11:14.819
 everything,

00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:15.460
 Joseph.

00:11:16.539 --> 00:11:16.939
 Leave

00:11:16.939 --> 00:11:17.579
 your family,

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 leave your

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 country,

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 leave your

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 community,

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 leave your

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 culture

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 and go.

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 I will

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 take care

00:11:25.980 --> 00:11:26.320
 of you.

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 You

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 might

00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:29.440
 imagine

00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:30.019
 Joseph's

00:11:30.019 --> 00:11:30.440
 fear.

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 I mean,

00:11:31.659 --> 00:11:32.060
 who would

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 not fear

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 their child

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 in danger?

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 Always

00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:36.920
 looking over

00:11:36.920 --> 00:11:37.480
 your shoulder,

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 wondering

00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:38.960
 what's going

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 to happen.

00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:42.500
 Even

00:11:42.500 --> 00:11:42.980
 though Joseph

00:11:42.980 --> 00:11:43.460
 is later

00:11:43.460 --> 00:11:43.860
 obedient,

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 he is not

00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:45.279
 absolved

00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:45.899
 of emotion.

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 And we

00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:47.800
 know from

00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:48.600
 previous stories

00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:49.220
 that Joseph

00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:50.120
 has had

00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:50.700
 cause for

00:11:50.700 --> 00:11:50.980
 fear,

00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:51.240
 right?

00:11:51.580 --> 00:11:52.259
 Mary has

00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:52.539
 gotten

00:11:52.539 --> 00:11:53.019
 pregnant.

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 He doesn't

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 know who

00:11:54.300 --> 00:11:54.700
 got her

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 pregnant,

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 but he

00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:55.840
 knows it's

00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:56.360
 not him.

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 There's

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 going to

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 be a

00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:58.079
 divorce,

00:11:58.319 --> 00:11:58.819
 potentially.

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 There's

00:11:59.720 --> 00:11:59.919
 going to

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 be

00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:00.720
 complications

00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.000
 and Joseph

00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:02.980
 is afraid.

00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:04.199
 So an

00:12:04.199 --> 00:12:04.659
 angel has

00:12:04.659 --> 00:12:04.980
 to come

00:12:04.980 --> 00:12:05.319
 to him

00:12:05.319 --> 00:12:05.720
 and the

00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:06.279
 first thing

00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:06.579
 that the

00:12:06.579 --> 00:12:06.819
 angel

00:12:06.819 --> 00:12:08.679
 says is

00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:09.079
 do not

00:12:09.079 --> 00:12:09.699
 be afraid.

00:12:10.579 --> 00:12:11.199
 Do not

00:12:11.199 --> 00:12:12.059
 be afraid,

00:12:12.340 --> 00:12:12.620
 Joseph.

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 But later

00:12:15.199 --> 00:12:15.740
 as well

00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:16.399
 when Herod's

00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:17.559
 son Archelaus

00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:18.319
 assumes the

00:12:18.319 --> 00:12:18.699
 throne,

00:12:19.319 --> 00:12:19.579
 Matthew

00:12:19.579 --> 00:12:20.220
 tells us

00:12:20.220 --> 00:12:20.919
 that Joseph

00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.199
 was afraid.

00:12:23.740 --> 00:12:24.559
 He knows

00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:25.299
 what Herod

00:12:25.299 --> 00:12:25.779
 is like.

00:12:25.899 --> 00:12:26.439
 He knows

00:12:26.439 --> 00:12:26.939
 what kind

00:12:26.939 --> 00:12:27.619
 of father

00:12:27.619 --> 00:12:28.439
 Herod

00:12:28.439 --> 00:12:29.179
 is like

00:12:29.179 --> 00:12:29.479
 and what

00:12:29.479 --> 00:12:29.699
 he's

00:12:29.699 --> 00:12:30.419
 passing on

00:12:30.419 --> 00:12:30.839
 to his

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 sons.

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 And so

00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:33.119
 God redirects

00:12:33.119 --> 00:12:33.779
 the story.

00:12:34.439 --> 00:12:34.979
 God directs

00:12:34.979 --> 00:12:35.459
 Joseph to

00:12:35.459 --> 00:12:35.979
 relocate

00:12:35.979 --> 00:12:36.639
 outside of

00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:37.239
 Bethlehem.

00:12:39.359 --> 00:12:39.679
 Joseph's

00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:40.339
 concern here

00:12:40.339 --> 00:12:41.019
 reminds me

00:12:41.019 --> 00:12:41.419
 of something

00:12:41.419 --> 00:12:42.039
 that happened

00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:43.099
 my freshman

00:12:43.099 --> 00:12:43.539
 year at

00:12:43.539 --> 00:12:43.979
 Cedarville

00:12:43.979 --> 00:12:44.559
 University.

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 Some of

00:12:46.179 --> 00:12:46.459
 you may

00:12:46.459 --> 00:12:46.859
 have heard

00:12:46.859 --> 00:12:47.199
 of it.

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 It's called

00:12:47.979 --> 00:12:48.859
 COVID-19

00:12:48.859 --> 00:12:49.299
 pandemic.

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 The students

00:12:52.259 --> 00:12:52.639
 had just

00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:53.179
 returned from

00:12:53.179 --> 00:12:53.859
 campus from

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 their spring

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 break trips

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 and classes

00:12:56.179 --> 00:12:56.899
 had resumed

00:12:56.899 --> 00:12:57.439
 as normal.

00:12:58.240 --> 00:12:58.939
 Second day

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 we attended

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 chapel at

00:13:00.019 --> 00:13:00.539
 10 a.m.

00:13:01.719 --> 00:13:02.279
 But to

00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:03.120
 our surprise

00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:04.439
 our president

00:13:04.439 --> 00:13:04.879
 Dr.

00:13:04.959 --> 00:13:05.819
 White walks

00:13:05.819 --> 00:13:06.159
 up on

00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.219
 stage and

00:13:08.219 --> 00:13:08.919
 he says

00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.919
 to leave

00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:12.659
 campus that

00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:13.000
 day.

00:13:14.019 --> 00:13:14.679
 He says

00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:15.339
 don't pack

00:13:15.339 --> 00:13:15.639
 up your

00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:15.979
 stuff.

00:13:16.740 --> 00:13:17.259
 Don't say

00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:17.740
 bye to your

00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:18.159
 friends.

00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:19.399
 just get

00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:20.039
 out of

00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:20.500
 campus

00:13:20.500 --> 00:13:21.159
 today.

00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:23.240
 This is

00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:23.539
 real.

00:13:23.959 --> 00:13:24.399
 Like literally

00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:25.120
 we left

00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.120
 that day

00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:26.939
 from campus

00:13:26.939 --> 00:13:27.579
 two days

00:13:27.579 --> 00:13:28.159
 after coming

00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:28.480
 back.

00:13:29.699 --> 00:13:30.159
 And you

00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:30.620
 can imagine

00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:31.039
 some of the

00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:31.639
 questions that

00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:32.039
 ran through

00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:32.539
 our heads.

00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:33.759
 Right?

00:13:33.819 --> 00:13:34.339
 When am I

00:13:34.339 --> 00:13:34.600
 going to

00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:35.039
 return?

00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:36.199
 For me I

00:13:36.199 --> 00:13:36.500
 was eight

00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:37.259
 hours away so

00:13:37.259 --> 00:13:37.659
 what about

00:13:37.659 --> 00:13:38.000
 all my

00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:38.299
 stuff?

00:13:38.419 --> 00:13:38.879
 I didn't

00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:39.299
 even have

00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:39.719
 a car.

00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:40.259
 I had to

00:13:40.259 --> 00:13:40.620
 figure that

00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:40.860
 out.

00:13:41.579 --> 00:13:42.139
 What about

00:13:42.139 --> 00:13:42.759
 my community?

00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:43.500
 Right?

00:13:43.539 --> 00:13:44.339
 My friends.

00:13:45.539 --> 00:13:46.059
 But within

00:13:46.059 --> 00:13:46.559
 a day

00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:47.819
 everyone

00:13:47.820 --> 00:13:48.660
 had emptied

00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:49.360
 the campus

00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:50.420
 and was

00:13:50.420 --> 00:13:51.260
 awaiting further

00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:52.200
 instructions for

00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:52.580
 what would

00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:53.340
 happen next.

00:13:54.780 --> 00:13:55.879
 For this

00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.320
 Jewish family

00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:59.120
 within the

00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.420
 night

00:13:59.420 --> 00:14:00.720
 Joseph,

00:14:01.560 --> 00:14:01.840
 Mary,

00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:03.000
 and Jesus

00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.080
 are literally

00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:05.220
 refugees

00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:06.420
 in a foreign

00:14:06.420 --> 00:14:06.900
 nation.

00:14:07.900 --> 00:14:08.520
 Exiled

00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:09.500
 from Israel.

00:14:10.900 --> 00:14:11.620
 But notice

00:14:11.620 --> 00:14:12.360
 here the focus

00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:13.100
 on Jesus.

00:14:14.180 --> 00:14:14.660
 Look again

00:14:14.659 --> 00:14:15.000
 at verse

00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:15.519
 13.

00:14:17.699 --> 00:14:18.139
 The angel

00:14:18.139 --> 00:14:18.519
 says,

00:14:18.839 --> 00:14:19.360
 rise,

00:14:20.199 --> 00:14:20.799
 take the

00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.299
 child and

00:14:22.299 --> 00:14:22.959
 his mother.

00:14:23.959 --> 00:14:24.459
 He doesn't

00:14:24.459 --> 00:14:24.679
 say,

00:14:24.959 --> 00:14:25.480
 take Mary

00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:26.000
 and her

00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:26.360
 kid.

00:14:27.719 --> 00:14:28.100
 See,

00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:28.439
 this is

00:14:28.439 --> 00:14:29.219
 still Jesus'

00:14:29.500 --> 00:14:30.000
 story.

00:14:31.079 --> 00:14:31.539
 And while

00:14:31.539 --> 00:14:32.159
 the situation

00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:32.799
 is alarming,

00:14:33.219 --> 00:14:33.579
 you can

00:14:33.579 --> 00:14:34.419
 already begin

00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:35.360
 to see the

00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:36.159
 sovereignty of

00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:36.819
 God at

00:14:36.819 --> 00:14:37.259
 play,

00:14:37.719 --> 00:14:38.339
 accomplishing

00:14:38.339 --> 00:14:39.000
 his purposes.

00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:40.459
 This

00:14:40.459 --> 00:14:41.120
 intervention

00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:41.679
 by the

00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:43.019
 angel is

00:14:43.019 --> 00:14:43.519
 not just

00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:44.019
 the second

00:14:44.019 --> 00:14:44.579
 to Joseph,

00:14:44.819 --> 00:14:45.600
 but the

00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:46.639
 third of

00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:47.799
 four in

00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:48.519
 two chapters

00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:49.199
 for Matthew.

00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:50.819
 So don't

00:14:50.819 --> 00:14:51.240
 miss the

00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:52.279
 fact that

00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:52.960
 God is

00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:54.019
 all over

00:14:54.019 --> 00:14:55.000
 the details

00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:55.600
 of the

00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:56.039
 story.

00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:58.519
 Perhaps

00:14:58.519 --> 00:14:59.000
 the most

00:14:59.000 --> 00:14:59.600
 surprising

00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:00.960
 detail of

00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:01.779
 the entire

00:15:01.779 --> 00:15:02.939
 instruction

00:15:02.939 --> 00:15:03.539
 here is

00:15:03.539 --> 00:15:04.399
 where God

00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:04.899
 tells

00:15:04.899 --> 00:15:06.220
 Joseph to

00:15:06.220 --> 00:15:06.639
 take his

00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:07.039
 family.

00:15:07.460 --> 00:15:07.720
 Did you

00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:08.159
 notice that?

00:15:08.220 --> 00:15:08.659
 He says,

00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:10.500
 flee to

00:15:10.500 --> 00:15:11.199
 Egypt.

00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.740
 Now,

00:15:13.820 --> 00:15:14.580
 geographically,

00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:15.140
 Egypt was

00:15:15.140 --> 00:15:15.600
 near the

00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:15.840
 southern

00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:16.379
 border of

00:15:16.379 --> 00:15:16.720
 Israel.

00:15:17.400 --> 00:15:17.860
 So it

00:15:17.860 --> 00:15:18.420
 makes sense

00:15:18.420 --> 00:15:18.740
 that if

00:15:18.740 --> 00:15:19.060
 they're in

00:15:19.060 --> 00:15:19.580
 Bethlehem,

00:15:19.640 --> 00:15:19.960
 kind of at

00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:20.420
 the south

00:15:20.420 --> 00:15:21.560
 part of

00:15:21.560 --> 00:15:21.920
 Israel,

00:15:22.259 --> 00:15:22.620
 that they

00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:23.100
 would flee

00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:23.940
 to Egypt.

00:15:25.020 --> 00:15:25.680
 But if

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 you know

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 your Old

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 Testament,

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 Egypt is

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 not just

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 a geographic

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 place to

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 Israel.

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 Egypt

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 represented

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 this world

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 and all

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 that it

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 had to

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 offer,

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 the luxury,

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 the power,

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 the food,

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 everything you

00:15:44.719 --> 00:15:45.359
 could want

00:15:45.359 --> 00:15:46.099
 was in

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 Egypt.

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 You may

00:15:48.379 --> 00:15:48.779
 remember

00:15:48.779 --> 00:15:49.339
 Israel's

00:15:49.339 --> 00:15:50.099
 complaint in

00:15:50.099 --> 00:15:51.120
 Exodus 16

00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.059
 after God

00:15:52.059 --> 00:15:53.219
 miraculously

00:15:53.219 --> 00:15:53.919
 takes them

00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:54.219
 out of

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 Egypt and

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 begins their

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 journey.

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 Here's what

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 they say.

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 Would we

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 had died

00:16:00.659 --> 00:16:01.159
 at the

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 hand of

00:16:01.719 --> 00:16:02.179
 the Lord

00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:02.559
 in the

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 land of

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 Egypt

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 when we

00:16:05.019 --> 00:16:05.599
 sat by

00:16:05.599 --> 00:16:06.059
 the meat

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 pots

00:16:06.500 --> 00:16:06.939
 and ate

00:16:06.939 --> 00:16:07.439
 bread to

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 the full.

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 for you

00:16:09.740 --> 00:16:10.420
 have brought

00:16:10.420 --> 00:16:10.920
 us out

00:16:10.920 --> 00:16:11.460
 into this

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 wilderness

00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:13.180
 to kill

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 this whole

00:16:13.860 --> 00:16:14.400
 assembly

00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:15.680
 with hunger.

00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:17.139
 Exodus

00:16:17.139 --> 00:16:17.720
 16

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 3

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 Or later

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 in Numbers

00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:21.139
 as they're

00:16:21.139 --> 00:16:22.100
 still journeying

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 through the

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 wilderness,

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 the people

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 are weeping.

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 So why

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 are they

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 weeping?

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 And here's

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 what it

00:16:27.040 --> 00:16:27.340
 says.

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 We

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 remember

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 the fish

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 we ate

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 in Egypt

00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:32.360
 that cost

00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:32.840
 nothing.

00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:34.200
 The cucumbers,

00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:34.920
 the melons,

00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:35.460
 the leeks,

00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:36.019
 the onions,

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 and the

00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:36.980
 garlics.

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 Not

00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:38.299
 garlics

00:16:38.299 --> 00:16:38.480
 pure,

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 but garlic.

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 Also,

00:16:40.220 --> 00:16:40.419
 I don't

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 know what

00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:41.299
 leeks are,

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 but I

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 assume that

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 they were

00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:43.159
 good because

00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:43.600
 they wanted

00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:43.919
 that.

00:16:46.179 --> 00:16:46.579
 But now

00:16:46.579 --> 00:16:47.120
 our strength

00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:47.620
 is dried

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 up and

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 there is

00:16:48.539 --> 00:16:49.100
 nothing at

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 all but

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 this manna

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 to look

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 at.

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 We don't

00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:53.460
 want manna,

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 Moses.

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 We want

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 Egypt.

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 Take us

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 back.

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 But Egypt

00:17:01.439 --> 00:17:02.559
 was exile

00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:03.379
 for God's

00:17:03.379 --> 00:17:03.699
 people.

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 Egypt

00:17:05.700 --> 00:17:06.120
 was a

00:17:06.120 --> 00:17:06.480
 place

00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:06.940
 of

00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:07.500
 slavery

00:17:07.500 --> 00:17:08.500
 and

00:17:08.500 --> 00:17:09.340
 bondage.

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 From

00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:11.580
 God's

00:17:11.580 --> 00:17:12.140
 perspective,

00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:13.019
 Egypt

00:17:13.019 --> 00:17:13.819
 represented

00:17:13.819 --> 00:17:14.700
 a curse,

00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:15.819
 God's

00:17:15.819 --> 00:17:16.279
 judgment

00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:16.940
 on those

00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:17.220
 who were

00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:17.960
 hard-hearted,

00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:19.440
 a place

00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:19.900
 full of

00:17:19.900 --> 00:17:20.720
 devastation

00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:21.059
 and

00:17:21.059 --> 00:17:21.720
 plagues.

00:17:23.259 --> 00:17:23.759
 That's

00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:24.259
 why God's

00:17:24.259 --> 00:17:24.519
 covenant

00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:25.019
 curses

00:17:25.019 --> 00:17:25.740
 in Deuteronomy

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 28

00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:27.019
 actually

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 close

00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:28.600
 with a

00:17:28.600 --> 00:17:29.059
 promise

00:17:29.059 --> 00:17:29.740
 that he's

00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:29.940
 going to

00:17:29.940 --> 00:17:30.420
 take them

00:17:30.420 --> 00:17:30.960
 back to

00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:31.220
 Egypt

00:17:31.220 --> 00:17:31.700
 if they're

00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:32.380
 disobedient.

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 He says,

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 And the

00:17:34.540 --> 00:17:35.020
 Lord will

00:17:35.020 --> 00:17:35.460
 bring you

00:17:35.460 --> 00:17:36.220
 back in

00:17:36.220 --> 00:17:36.760
 ships to

00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:37.200
 Egypt.

00:17:38.100 --> 00:17:38.420
 Notice

00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:38.860
 this,

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 A journey

00:17:40.540 --> 00:17:41.080
 that I

00:17:41.080 --> 00:17:41.660
 promised

00:17:41.660 --> 00:17:42.500
 you should

00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.080
 never make

00:17:43.080 --> 00:17:43.460
 again.

00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:45.380
 And there

00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:45.800
 you shall

00:17:45.800 --> 00:17:46.100
 offer

00:17:46.100 --> 00:17:46.640
 yourselves

00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:47.300
 for sale

00:17:47.300 --> 00:17:48.100
 to your

00:17:48.100 --> 00:17:48.600
 enemies as

00:17:48.600 --> 00:17:49.100
 male and

00:17:49.100 --> 00:17:49.940
 female slaves,

00:17:50.340 --> 00:17:50.720
 but there

00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:51.020
 will be

00:17:51.020 --> 00:17:51.600
 no buyer.

00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:54.320
 Israel

00:17:54.320 --> 00:17:55.880
 was never

00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:56.960
 supposed to

00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:57.540
 go back

00:17:57.540 --> 00:17:58.520
 to Egypt.

00:17:59.260 --> 00:17:59.840
 God had

00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:00.340
 redeemed

00:18:00.340 --> 00:18:00.660
 them.

00:18:00.780 --> 00:18:01.080
 He had

00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:01.379
 brought

00:18:01.379 --> 00:18:02.000
 them out

00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:02.639
 of slavery.

00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:03.859
 He had

00:18:03.859 --> 00:18:04.659
 brought

00:18:04.659 --> 00:18:05.399
 them to

00:18:05.399 --> 00:18:06.039
 Sinai,

00:18:06.220 --> 00:18:06.559
 where they

00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:06.859
 were given

00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:07.460
 his law,

00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:07.759
 where they

00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:08.159
 were meant

00:18:08.159 --> 00:18:08.879
 to worship

00:18:08.879 --> 00:18:10.059
 him alone.

00:18:10.699 --> 00:18:11.259
 Forget the

00:18:11.259 --> 00:18:12.000
 other gods,

00:18:12.179 --> 00:18:12.839
 forget the

00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:13.199
 world,

00:18:13.419 --> 00:18:13.960
 forget the

00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:14.379
 luxury,

00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:15.319
 forget the

00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:15.699
 pleasure.

00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.279
 You were

00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:18.259
 made to

00:18:18.259 --> 00:18:18.679
 worship

00:18:18.679 --> 00:18:20.199
 me alone.

00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:21.319
 They were

00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:22.000
 never supposed

00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:22.599
 to go back

00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:23.079
 to that.

00:18:24.659 --> 00:18:25.639
 So why

00:18:25.639 --> 00:18:26.039
 is the

00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:26.579
 Messiah

00:18:26.579 --> 00:18:27.759
 in Egypt?

00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:27.960
 Egypt?

00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:29.920
 Why take

00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:30.099
 the

00:18:30.099 --> 00:18:30.539
 promised

00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:31.379
 son out

00:18:31.379 --> 00:18:31.779
 of the

00:18:31.779 --> 00:18:32.220
 promised

00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:32.819
 land?

00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:34.700
 Egypt

00:18:34.700 --> 00:18:35.279
 seems like

00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:35.819
 the last

00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:37.200
 place Jesus

00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:38.059
 should be.

00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:39.480
 But verse

00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:40.680
 14 shows us

00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:41.259
 that Joseph

00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:41.920
 obeys

00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:42.619
 immediately,

00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:44.379
 without question

00:18:44.379 --> 00:18:45.180
 or hesitation.

00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:47.319
 Notice it

00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:47.940
 says,

00:18:47.940 --> 00:19:01.380
 Joseph

00:19:01.380 --> 00:19:02.039
 remained in

00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:02.779
 Egypt until

00:19:02.779 --> 00:19:03.259
 Herod's

00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:03.660
 death,

00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:05.039
 which God

00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:05.860
 later communicates

00:19:05.860 --> 00:19:06.759
 in verse 19,

00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:07.539
 which roughly

00:19:07.539 --> 00:19:08.240
 was about a

00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:08.799
 year later.

00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:11.240
 Stories like

00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:12.000
 these remind

00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.180
 us that

00:19:14.180 --> 00:19:15.140
 faith is

00:19:15.140 --> 00:19:16.000
 exercised

00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:16.860
 the most

00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:18.179
 when we

00:19:18.179 --> 00:19:18.599
 know the

00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:19.000
 least.

00:19:20.159 --> 00:19:20.919
 Faith is

00:19:20.919 --> 00:19:21.819
 exercised

00:19:21.819 --> 00:19:22.639
 the most

00:19:22.639 --> 00:19:23.439
 when we

00:19:23.439 --> 00:19:23.859
 know the

00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:24.279
 least.

00:19:28.459 --> 00:19:29.459
 When all

00:19:29.459 --> 00:19:30.000
 we have

00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.559
 to trust

00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:31.119
 is God's

00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:32.339
 word and

00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:33.179
 his character,

00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:35.219
 is he

00:19:35.219 --> 00:19:35.959
 enough?

00:19:37.439 --> 00:19:37.819
 For

00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:38.359
 Joseph,

00:19:38.659 --> 00:19:39.059
 he was

00:19:39.059 --> 00:19:39.500
 enough.

00:19:40.099 --> 00:19:40.559
 He didn't

00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:41.319
 ask questions,

00:19:41.419 --> 00:19:42.059
 he simply

00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:42.819
 followed.

00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:44.959
 But Matthew

00:19:44.959 --> 00:19:45.599
 tells us in

00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:46.439
 verse 15

00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:47.400
 that despite

00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:48.220
 the difficulty,

00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:48.960
 this was

00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:49.519
 God's

00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:50.200
 plan.

00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:52.240
 This was

00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:52.980
 to fulfill

00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:53.420
 what the

00:19:53.420 --> 00:19:53.960
 Lord had

00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:54.700
 spoken by

00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:55.340
 the prophet

00:19:55.340 --> 00:19:56.559
 out of

00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:57.120
 Egypt.

00:19:57.620 --> 00:19:58.259
 I called

00:19:58.259 --> 00:19:59.259
 my son.

00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:00.980
 Now,

00:20:01.080 --> 00:20:01.340
 students,

00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:01.759
 you know

00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:02.460
 from inductive

00:20:02.460 --> 00:20:03.160
 Bible study

00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:03.779
 lessons you've

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:04.799
 had that

00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:05.460
 there's one

00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:06.620
 overarching rule

00:20:06.620 --> 00:20:07.559
 in Bible study.

00:20:08.059 --> 00:20:08.380
 See if you

00:20:08.380 --> 00:20:08.740
 can finish

00:20:08.740 --> 00:20:09.360
 this phrase.

00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:10.519
 Context

00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:11.640
 is

00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:12.880
 king.

00:20:13.019 --> 00:20:13.259
 Yes,

00:20:13.380 --> 00:20:14.080
 context is

00:20:14.080 --> 00:20:14.500
 king.

00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:15.299
 So when

00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:15.720
 later

00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:16.900
 authors like

00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:17.460
 Matthew

00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:18.799
 cite earlier

00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:19.559
 authors like

00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:20.119
 Hosea,

00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:21.019
 we have to

00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:21.640
 go back

00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:22.319
 to Hosea

00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:22.740
 to figure

00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:23.319
 out what

00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:23.960
 is Matthew

00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:24.640
 communicating.

00:20:25.180 --> 00:20:25.700
 So let's

00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:26.299
 flip back

00:20:26.299 --> 00:20:27.299
 to Hosea

00:20:27.299 --> 00:20:28.339
 chapter 11.

00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:29.160
 This is

00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:30.059
 where Matthew

00:20:30.059 --> 00:20:30.640
 is citing.

00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:32.519
 I'm going to

00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:32.779
 give you a

00:20:32.779 --> 00:20:33.519
 little context

00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:33.839
 here.

00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:34.420
 He cites

00:20:34.420 --> 00:20:34.940
 verse 1,

00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:35.220
 but I want

00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:35.480
 to read

00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:35.740
 through

00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:36.740
 verse 5.

00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:39.400
 Hosea 11,

00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.740
 1 to 5.

00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:47.279
 When Israel

00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:47.759
 was a

00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:48.220
 child,

00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.400
 I loved

00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:49.660
 him,

00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:51.160
 and out

00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:51.700
 of Egypt

00:20:51.700 --> 00:20:52.559
 I called

00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:53.140
 my son.

00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:54.980
 The more

00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:55.279
 they were

00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:55.799
 called,

00:20:56.180 --> 00:20:57.079
 the more

00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:57.579
 they went

00:20:57.579 --> 00:20:58.039
 away.

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 They kept

00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:00.279
 sacrificing

00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:00.740
 to the

00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:01.420
 Baals and

00:21:01.420 --> 00:21:02.220
 burnt offerings

00:21:02.220 --> 00:21:02.960
 to idols.

00:21:04.460 --> 00:21:05.079
 Yet I

00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:06.259
 who taught

00:21:06.259 --> 00:21:06.880
 Ephraim,

00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:07.779
 it was I

00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:08.299
 who taught

00:21:08.299 --> 00:21:08.740
 Ephraim

00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:09.319
 to walk.

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 I took

00:21:10.439 --> 00:21:10.980
 them up

00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:11.639
 by their

00:21:11.639 --> 00:21:12.059
 arms,

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 but they

00:21:13.619 --> 00:21:13.960
 did not

00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:14.379
 know that

00:21:14.379 --> 00:21:14.740
 I healed

00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:15.019
 them.

00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:16.679
 I led

00:21:16.679 --> 00:21:17.119
 them with

00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:17.599
 cords of

00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:18.019
 kindness,

00:21:18.179 --> 00:21:18.439
 with the

00:21:18.439 --> 00:21:18.980
 bands of

00:21:18.980 --> 00:21:19.379
 love.

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 I became

00:21:20.259 --> 00:21:20.819
 to them

00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:21.220
 as one

00:21:21.220 --> 00:21:21.839
 who eases

00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:22.379
 the yoke

00:21:22.379 --> 00:21:22.759
 of their

00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:23.200
 jaws.

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 I bent

00:21:24.179 --> 00:21:24.759
 down to

00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:25.500
 feed them.

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 So they

00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:28.299
 shall not

00:21:28.299 --> 00:21:28.960
 return to

00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:29.259
 the land

00:21:29.259 --> 00:21:29.720
 of Egypt,

00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:30.879
 but Assyria

00:21:30.879 --> 00:21:31.599
 shall be

00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:32.159
 their king,

00:21:32.679 --> 00:21:34.179
 because they

00:21:34.179 --> 00:21:35.039
 have refused

00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.000
 to return

00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:36.439
 to me.

00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.299
 Hosea,

00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:39.640
 as a

00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:40.100
 prophet

00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:40.539
 during the

00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:40.920
 time of

00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:41.340
 exile,

00:21:41.460 --> 00:21:41.840
 is looking

00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:42.700
 back to

00:21:42.700 --> 00:21:43.160
 Egypt,

00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:44.600
 looking back

00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:45.320
 to Israel

00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:46.019
 in this

00:21:46.019 --> 00:21:46.480
 toddler,

00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:47.100
 adolescent

00:21:47.100 --> 00:21:47.559
 kind of

00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:48.039
 stage.

00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:49.380
 God had

00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:49.759
 called

00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:51.620
 Israel out

00:21:51.620 --> 00:21:52.259
 of Egypt

00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:53.120
 through his

00:21:53.120 --> 00:21:53.799
 servant Moses.

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 You can

00:21:54.500 --> 00:21:55.080
 remember the

00:21:55.080 --> 00:21:55.920
 repeated phrase

00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:57.220
 that Moses

00:21:57.220 --> 00:21:58.640
 says to

00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.000
 Pharaoh.

00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:00.700
 But just

00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:01.200
 as quickly

00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:01.580
 as they

00:22:01.580 --> 00:22:02.120
 were liberated

00:22:02.120 --> 00:22:02.820
 from Egypt,

00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:04.559
 they enslaved

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:05.740
 themselves to

00:22:05.740 --> 00:22:06.599
 other gods.

00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:07.960
 So God

00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:08.359
 redeemed

00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:08.720
 them,

00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:10.259
 but Israel

00:22:10.259 --> 00:22:11.079
 still rebelled.

00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:13.039
 This eventually

00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:13.819
 led to another

00:22:13.819 --> 00:22:14.880
 exodus cycle,

00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:15.680
 where even

00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:15.920
 though they

00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:16.200
 wouldn't go

00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:16.680
 back to

00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:17.019
 Egypt,

00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:17.500
 they would

00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:18.140
 be put

00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:18.720
 in bondage

00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.079
 through a

00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:19.400
 different

00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:20.519
 foreign nation.

00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:21.319
 They would

00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:21.839
 go back

00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:22.720
 into slavery,

00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:23.880
 and then

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.440
 eventually be

00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:25.079
 brought back

00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:25.500
 out of the

00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:26.200
 promised land.

00:22:27.220 --> 00:22:27.880
 But when

00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:28.259
 we read

00:22:28.259 --> 00:22:28.779
 Hosea's

00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:29.200
 account,

00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:29.940
 there's one

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:31.599
 really striking

00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:32.279
 question.

00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:34.299
 How can

00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:34.980
 Matthew say

00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:35.920
 that Jesus

00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:36.559
 was taken

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:36.920
 out of

00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:38.460
 Egypt if

00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:39.140
 Hosea is

00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:39.539
 clearly

00:22:39.539 --> 00:22:40.620
 referring to

00:22:40.620 --> 00:22:41.140
 Israel?

00:22:42.460 --> 00:22:43.079
 In other

00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:43.539
 words,

00:22:44.700 --> 00:22:45.180
 how is

00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:45.799
 Matthew not

00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:46.519
 pulling these

00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:47.339
 words out of

00:22:47.339 --> 00:22:48.120
 context to

00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:48.839
 fit his own

00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:49.380
 purposes,

00:22:50.339 --> 00:22:50.980
 something that

00:22:50.980 --> 00:22:51.680
 we as Bible

00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.200
 readers are

00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:52.920
 always mindful

00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:53.500
 of avoiding?

00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:55.279
 Well,

00:22:55.299 --> 00:22:55.599
 some have

00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:56.039
 tried to

00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:56.759
 answer this,

00:22:57.380 --> 00:22:58.019
 and there's

00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:58.599
 a few things

00:22:58.599 --> 00:22:59.620
 that are not

00:22:59.620 --> 00:23:00.360
 very helpful.

00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:01.400
 First,

00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:02.200
 some try to

00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:02.660
 resolve this

00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:03.180
 tension by

00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:03.759
 claiming that

00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:04.660
 Hosea is a

00:23:04.660 --> 00:23:06.240
 prediction about

00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.519
 Messiah and

00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:08.200
 not Israel.

00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:10.660
 But aside from

00:23:10.660 --> 00:23:11.240
 the problem

00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:12.920
 that if it's

00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:13.860
 about Messiah

00:23:13.860 --> 00:23:14.340
 and not

00:23:14.340 --> 00:23:14.860
 Israel,

00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:15.640
 that that

00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:16.279
 implicates

00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:17.100
 Jesus as

00:23:17.100 --> 00:23:17.800
 this wayward

00:23:17.800 --> 00:23:18.380
 son who

00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:18.759
 went away

00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:19.360
 from God,

00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.100
 who we

00:23:20.100 --> 00:23:20.600
 know Jesus

00:23:20.600 --> 00:23:21.240
 is not,

00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:22.460
 the other

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:23.660
 problem is

00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:23.920
 that it

00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.259
 reads the

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:24.759
 New Testament

00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:25.580
 back into

00:23:25.580 --> 00:23:25.960
 the Old

00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:26.420
 Testament,

00:23:27.080 --> 00:23:27.620
 instead of

00:23:27.620 --> 00:23:28.180
 starting with

00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:28.460
 the Old

00:23:28.460 --> 00:23:29.080
 Testament and

00:23:29.080 --> 00:23:29.540
 working your

00:23:29.540 --> 00:23:30.200
 way forward

00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:30.680
 toward the

00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:31.220
 New Testament.

00:23:31.220 --> 00:23:33.319
 Hosea really

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.240
 is talking

00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.200
 about Israel,

00:23:35.579 --> 00:23:36.539
 not Jesus.

00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:38.380
 God called

00:23:38.380 --> 00:23:39.339
 Israel his

00:23:39.339 --> 00:23:40.319
 firstborn son

00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:41.160
 in Exodus

00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:42.120
 4.11.

00:23:42.380 --> 00:23:42.819
 So when

00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:43.420
 Hosea looks

00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:44.200
 back to

00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:44.539
 Exodus,

00:23:44.740 --> 00:23:45.380
 he's talking

00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:46.339
 about Israel,

00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:47.299
 God's

00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:48.519
 firstborn son,

00:23:48.700 --> 00:23:49.500
 this nation

00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:50.120
 that he

00:23:50.120 --> 00:23:50.579
 called to

00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:51.000
 himself.

00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:52.680
 And the

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:53.019
 other thing

00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:53.339
 is that

00:23:53.339 --> 00:23:53.900
 Hosea,

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:54.660
 verse 1,

00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:55.039
 is not a

00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:55.579
 prediction at

00:23:55.579 --> 00:23:55.860
 all.

00:23:56.500 --> 00:23:57.120
 He's looking

00:23:57.120 --> 00:23:58.259
 backwards so

00:23:58.259 --> 00:23:58.660
 that he may

00:23:58.660 --> 00:23:59.400
 look forward

00:23:59.400 --> 00:23:59.820
 to the

00:23:59.820 --> 00:24:00.320
 exile.

00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:01.300
 Back to

00:24:01.300 --> 00:24:01.700
 Exodus,

00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:02.700
 forward to

00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:03.140
 exile.

00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:05.140
 Now others

00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:05.840
 knowing the

00:24:05.840 --> 00:24:06.820
 context say,

00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.259
 okay, that's

00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:07.680
 not a very

00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:08.259
 good argument.

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:09.620
 But there is

00:24:09.620 --> 00:24:10.120
 this loose

00:24:10.120 --> 00:24:11.060
 connection between

00:24:11.060 --> 00:24:11.800
 Egypt, right?

00:24:12.019 --> 00:24:12.519
 Jesus goes

00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:13.080
 into Egypt,

00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:13.740
 Israel goes

00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:14.280
 into Egypt.

00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:14.960
 Okay, Jesus,

00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:16.519
 this is a

00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:16.900
 fulfillment.

00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:18.620
 But again,

00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:19.300
 this is kind

00:24:19.300 --> 00:24:19.940
 of like playing

00:24:19.940 --> 00:24:20.920
 word association.

00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:21.800
 It's very

00:24:21.800 --> 00:24:22.940
 loosey-goosey

00:24:22.940 --> 00:24:23.700
 in terms of

00:24:23.700 --> 00:24:24.340
 how the Bible

00:24:24.340 --> 00:24:24.980
 operates.

00:24:25.120 --> 00:24:25.680
 And we know

00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:26.620
 from Matthew's

00:24:26.620 --> 00:24:27.320
 other

00:24:27.320 --> 00:24:29.040
 fulfillments

00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:29.819
 that he is

00:24:29.819 --> 00:24:31.139
 very specific.

00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:32.500
 He is very

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:33.379
 direct when he

00:24:33.379 --> 00:24:34.000
 wants to say,

00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:35.220
 this was

00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:36.119
 to fulfill

00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:36.960
 this.

00:24:38.339 --> 00:24:39.099
 So what are

00:24:39.099 --> 00:24:39.440
 we supposed

00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:39.980
 to think?

00:24:40.299 --> 00:24:40.639
 Okay, those

00:24:40.639 --> 00:24:42.059
 are not the

00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:42.639
 best ways to

00:24:42.639 --> 00:24:43.000
 read it.

00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:43.920
 How do we

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:44.240
 think about

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:44.559
 this?

00:24:45.779 --> 00:24:46.000
 Well,

00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:46.579
 pastor and

00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:47.099
 theologian

00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.759
 Kevin DeYoung

00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.319
 helps us

00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:48.579
 out.

00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:50.359
 He says that

00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:51.659
 Matthew wasn't

00:24:51.659 --> 00:24:52.399
 trying to give

00:24:52.399 --> 00:24:53.539
 Hosea a new

00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:53.879
 meaning.

00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:56.039
 But he did

00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:56.759
 see something

00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.839
 messianic in

00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.839
 Hosea's words.

00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:01.099
 Jesus would

00:25:01.099 --> 00:25:01.940
 be the

00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:02.759
 faithful son

00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:03.440
 called out

00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:03.980
 of Egypt,

00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:05.779
 filling up

00:25:05.779 --> 00:25:06.460
 what was

00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:07.279
 lacking in

00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:08.139
 this faithless

00:25:08.139 --> 00:25:09.099
 first son,

00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:09.859
 Israel.

00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:12.220
 So in the

00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:12.940
 same way

00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:13.819
 that Hosea

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:14.460
 looks back

00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:15.059
 at Exodus

00:25:15.059 --> 00:25:16.220
 and sees a

00:25:16.220 --> 00:25:17.220
 pattern for

00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:17.859
 exile,

00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:19.659
 Matthew is

00:25:19.659 --> 00:25:20.399
 looking back

00:25:20.399 --> 00:25:21.180
 to Israel

00:25:21.180 --> 00:25:22.099
 and seeing a

00:25:22.099 --> 00:25:22.799
 pattern in

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:23.059
 Jesus'

00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:23.740
 life.

00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:24.940
 Another

00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:25.519
 commentator

00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:25.960
 puts it

00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:26.579
 like this,

00:25:26.579 --> 00:25:28.480
 Jesus was

00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.359
 reenacting

00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:30.159
 the Exodus

00:25:30.159 --> 00:25:32.119
 story with

00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:33.460
 one major

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:34.399
 difference.

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:36.199
 Whereas

00:25:36.199 --> 00:25:37.279
 Israel proved

00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:37.960
 itself to be

00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:39.000
 an unfaithful

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:39.980
 and idolatrous

00:25:39.980 --> 00:25:40.379
 son,

00:25:41.159 --> 00:25:41.779
 Jesus would

00:25:41.779 --> 00:25:42.419
 prove himself

00:25:42.419 --> 00:25:43.019
 to be a

00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:43.919
 faithful son

00:25:43.919 --> 00:25:44.779
 through whom

00:25:44.779 --> 00:25:45.179
 God would

00:25:45.179 --> 00:25:45.699
 bring about

00:25:45.699 --> 00:25:46.379
 that long

00:25:46.379 --> 00:25:46.859
 promised

00:25:46.859 --> 00:25:48.059
 restoration of

00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:48.799
 God's people

00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:49.819
 that Hosea

00:25:49.819 --> 00:25:51.279
 later anticipates.

00:25:52.879 --> 00:25:53.839
 This is what

00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:54.919
 Hosea anticipates.

00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:56.200
 So what

00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:56.779
 Matthew is

00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:57.259
 saying is

00:25:57.259 --> 00:25:58.259
 that Jesus

00:25:58.259 --> 00:25:58.980
 is the

00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:00.140
 true Israel.

00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.279
 He is

00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:02.180
 the faithful

00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:02.640
 son.

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:05.360
 Jesus must

00:26:05.360 --> 00:26:06.140
 go into

00:26:06.140 --> 00:26:07.560
 Egypt in

00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:08.160
 order to be

00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:08.800
 brought out

00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:09.080
 of it.

00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:11.019
 He must

00:26:11.019 --> 00:26:11.740
 enter into

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:13.320
 humanity in

00:26:13.320 --> 00:26:13.740
 order to

00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:14.340
 redeem it.

00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:16.100
 He must

00:26:16.100 --> 00:26:16.740
 go to the

00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:17.820
 cross to

00:26:17.820 --> 00:26:18.480
 be raised

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:19.140
 again to

00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:19.539
 life.

00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:20.759
 This is the

00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:21.980
 pattern of

00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:22.279
 Jesus.

00:26:23.080 --> 00:26:23.600
 And notice

00:26:23.600 --> 00:26:24.100
 the way that

00:26:24.099 --> 00:26:24.779
 Matthew traces

00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:25.439
 this across

00:26:25.439 --> 00:26:25.879
 the first

00:26:25.879 --> 00:26:26.439
 five chapters

00:26:26.439 --> 00:26:26.740
 of his

00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:27.039
 book.

00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:28.319
 We're in

00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:28.919
 chapter 2

00:26:28.919 --> 00:26:29.699
 where Jesus

00:26:29.699 --> 00:26:30.219
 is called

00:26:30.219 --> 00:26:30.859
 out of

00:26:30.859 --> 00:26:31.179
 Egypt.

00:26:32.199 --> 00:26:32.699
 But then in

00:26:32.699 --> 00:26:33.339
 chapter 3

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:34.179
 Jesus goes

00:26:34.179 --> 00:26:34.779
 through the

00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:35.279
 waters of

00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:35.740
 baptism.

00:26:36.459 --> 00:26:36.819
 Does that

00:26:36.819 --> 00:26:37.279
 remind you of

00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:37.559
 the Red

00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:37.839
 Sea?

00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:39.459
 In chapter

00:26:39.459 --> 00:26:40.019
 4 he

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:40.719
 wanders for

00:26:40.719 --> 00:26:41.699
 40 days

00:26:41.699 --> 00:26:42.019
 in a

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:42.359
 wilderness.

00:26:43.219 --> 00:26:43.419
 Does that

00:26:43.419 --> 00:26:44.159
 recall 40

00:26:44.159 --> 00:26:44.759
 years in a

00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:45.000
 wilderness?

00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:45.639
 But the

00:26:45.639 --> 00:26:46.480
 difference is

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:47.859
 Jesus resists

00:26:47.859 --> 00:26:48.480
 temptation

00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.159
 every single

00:26:50.159 --> 00:26:50.980
 time.

00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:52.380
 He does

00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:53.160
 not live

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:54.140
 by bread

00:26:54.140 --> 00:26:54.779
 alone.

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.539
 But every

00:26:55.539 --> 00:26:56.039
 word that

00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:56.980
 comes from

00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:57.279
 the mouth

00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:57.539
 of the

00:26:57.539 --> 00:26:57.839
 Father.

00:26:58.259 --> 00:26:58.480
 And then

00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:58.839
 in chapter

00:26:58.839 --> 00:26:59.460
 5 he

00:26:59.460 --> 00:26:59.900
 will go

00:26:59.900 --> 00:27:00.180
 up to

00:27:00.180 --> 00:27:00.599
 a mountain

00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:01.880
 and he

00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:02.319
 will bring

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.420
 down God's

00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:03.720
 law.

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:05.839
 Jesus is

00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:06.579
 this true

00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:07.160
 Israel.

00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:09.000
 He is

00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:09.599
 the faithful

00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:10.079
 son.

00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:11.660
 Now that's

00:27:11.660 --> 00:27:12.240
 a lot of

00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:12.920
 whole Bible

00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:13.819
 theology,

00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:14.160
 right?

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:14.900
 But why

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:15.299
 does this

00:27:15.299 --> 00:27:15.920
 matter for

00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:16.559
 you and

00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:16.920
 me?

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:18.599
 Okay,

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.700
 here's why

00:27:19.700 --> 00:27:20.279
 it matters.

00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:22.680
 Jesus does

00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:23.799
 not just

00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:24.480
 have to

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.700
 die and

00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:26.559
 be raised

00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:27.360
 for our

00:27:27.360 --> 00:27:28.079
 sanctification

00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:28.559
 and our

00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:29.059
 justification.

00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:31.759
 Jesus has

00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:32.640
 to live

00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:33.579
 the life

00:27:33.579 --> 00:27:34.299
 that we

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:34.940
 were supposed

00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:35.960
 to live.

00:27:37.059 --> 00:27:37.599
 If he

00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:38.220
 doesn't live

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:38.660
 a perfect

00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:39.059
 life,

00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:39.420
 then the

00:27:39.420 --> 00:27:40.339
 death means

00:27:40.339 --> 00:27:40.920
 nothing.

00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:41.779
 The

00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:42.220
 resurrection

00:27:42.220 --> 00:27:42.980
 means

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:43.579
 nothing.

00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:45.259
 So Jesus

00:27:45.259 --> 00:27:46.039
 has to be

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:46.620
 the faithful

00:27:46.620 --> 00:27:47.039
 son,

00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:47.680
 the faithful

00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:48.360
 daughter that

00:27:48.360 --> 00:27:49.339
 you and I

00:27:49.339 --> 00:27:49.799
 were meant

00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:50.240
 to be.

00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:50.859
 He has

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:51.200
 to be

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:52.079
 this true

00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.299
 Israel who

00:27:53.299 --> 00:27:53.839
 goes through

00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:54.299
 the wilderness

00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:55.240
 and comes

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:55.920
 out as a

00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:56.620
 faithful son,

00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:57.640
 who goes up

00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:58.120
 the mountain

00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.000
 and comes

00:27:59.000 --> 00:27:59.880
 down and

00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:00.519
 brings God's

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:01.299
 law to

00:28:01.299 --> 00:28:01.700
 us.

00:28:02.819 --> 00:28:03.660
 He has

00:28:03.660 --> 00:28:04.120
 to go to

00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:04.660
 the cross.

00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:06.539
 He has

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:06.880
 to go to

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:07.359
 the grave.

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:08.799
 Someone has

00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:09.400
 to die.

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:11.120
 And it's

00:28:11.120 --> 00:28:11.680
 either Jesus

00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:12.940
 or it's

00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:13.380
 you and I.

00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.120
 Do you see

00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:15.380
 this?

00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:15.900
 Do you see

00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:16.480
 the pattern?

00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:17.380
 Do you see

00:28:17.380 --> 00:28:17.840
 why this

00:28:17.840 --> 00:28:18.280
 matters?

00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:23.680
 I wonder

00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.240
 if you feel

00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:24.800
 today like

00:28:24.800 --> 00:28:25.120
 you don't

00:28:25.120 --> 00:28:25.760
 measure up.

00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:29.000
 Well,

00:28:29.020 --> 00:28:29.580
 that's good

00:28:29.580 --> 00:28:31.360
 because Jesus

00:28:31.360 --> 00:28:32.080
 measured up

00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:32.840
 for you.

00:28:35.660 --> 00:28:36.740
 So turn to

00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:37.300
 him for help

00:28:37.300 --> 00:28:37.620
 today.

00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:39.600
 It is because

00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:40.300
 Jesus is

00:28:40.300 --> 00:28:41.220
 truly God's

00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:42.660
 son that we

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:43.240
 through faith

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.140
 inherit his

00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:44.660
 rights,

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:46.080
 eternal

00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:46.720
 life,

00:28:47.300 --> 00:28:47.940
 sonship,

00:28:48.580 --> 00:28:48.980
 God's

00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:49.640
 presence,

00:28:49.840 --> 00:28:50.460
 communion with

00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:50.840
 the Holy

00:28:50.840 --> 00:28:51.300
 Spirit.

00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:53.460
 All of our

00:28:53.460 --> 00:28:54.180
 Christian hope

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:55.620
 is bound

00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:56.700
 up in the

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.080
 life,

00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:57.860
 death,

00:28:58.360 --> 00:28:58.860
 resurrection,

00:28:59.380 --> 00:28:59.800
 and return

00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:00.240
 of Jesus.

00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:02.060
 That's why

00:29:02.060 --> 00:29:02.540
 it matters.

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:04.700
 Okay,

00:29:04.740 --> 00:29:05.120
 that brings us

00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:05.640
 to our second

00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:06.000
 point.

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:07.660
 God's people

00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:08.240
 weep at

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:08.660
 loss.

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.820
 God's people

00:29:09.820 --> 00:29:11.340
 weep at

00:29:11.340 --> 00:29:11.779
 loss.

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:12.619
 God's people

00:29:12.619 --> 00:29:13.779
 weep at

00:29:13.779 --> 00:29:14.720
 us.

00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.319
 We've

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:15.720
 already read

00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:15.920
 this,

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:16.279
 so I'm not

00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:16.899
 going to

00:29:16.899 --> 00:29:17.279
 read it

00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:17.599
 again,

00:29:17.779 --> 00:29:18.259
 but verse

00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:18.940
 16 gives

00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:19.319
 us the

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:20.180
 second scene

00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:21.740
 of this

00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.200
 story,

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.099
 where Herod

00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:25.940
 goes to

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:26.539
 Bethlehem

00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:26.819
 and he

00:29:26.819 --> 00:29:27.099
 starts

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:27.799
 murdering

00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:28.720
 baby boys.

00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:30.519
 And it

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:30.839
 says that

00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:31.500
 this was to

00:29:31.500 --> 00:29:32.059
 fulfill what

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:32.539
 the prophet

00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:33.279
 Jeremiah had

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:33.639
 said.

00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:35.099
 Now,

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:35.519
 who in the

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:35.940
 Bible does

00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:36.480
 this remind

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:36.940
 you of?

00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:38.519
 If you

00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:38.819
 guys were

00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:39.299
 here during

00:29:39.299 --> 00:29:39.720
 our Daniel

00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:40.399
 series in the

00:29:40.399 --> 00:29:40.680
 summer,

00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:41.640
 maybe this

00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:42.620
 has overtones

00:29:42.620 --> 00:29:43.799
 of Nebuchadnezzar

00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.640
 and three

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:45.600
 Hebrew boys

00:29:45.600 --> 00:29:46.320
 who he

00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:46.820
 wanted to

00:29:46.820 --> 00:29:47.140
 kill.

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:49.440
 Herod,

00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:50.500
 like Nebuchadnezzar,

00:29:50.600 --> 00:29:51.799
 demands absolute

00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:52.560
 worship,

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.080
 but not just

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:54.640
 from his own

00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:55.060
 people,

00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.360
 from every

00:29:56.360 --> 00:29:57.400
 people and

00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:58.460
 nation and

00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:59.060
 language,

00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:01.060
 from Jews

00:30:01.060 --> 00:30:02.120
 and from

00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:02.900
 wise men.

00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:04.960
 Both kings

00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:05.779
 reject God's

00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:06.600
 rule and

00:30:06.600 --> 00:30:07.060
 seek to

00:30:07.060 --> 00:30:07.900
 destroy whoever

00:30:07.900 --> 00:30:08.759
 opposes them.

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:11.859
 inherit's fear

00:30:11.859 --> 00:30:12.400
 of losing

00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:13.019
 the kingdom.

00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.079
 He ensures

00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:16.000
 the loss

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.440
 of all

00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:18.519
 these mothers

00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:19.359
 baby boys

00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:20.259
 in Bethlehem.

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.019
 You can

00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:23.539
 picture the

00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:23.879
 scene,

00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:26.079
 mothers being

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.259
 stripped of

00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:27.900
 their babies

00:30:27.900 --> 00:30:29.099
 and watching

00:30:29.099 --> 00:30:29.920
 them crushed

00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:30.660
 in front of

00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:31.220
 their eyes.

00:30:33.299 --> 00:30:34.299
 This is not

00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:35.099
 unlike Pharaoh's

00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:35.720
 interest in

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:36.339
 eliminating the

00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:37.339
 Hebrew baby boys

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:37.920
 back in

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:38.339
 Exodus.

00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:40.460
 another

00:30:40.460 --> 00:30:41.400
 ruthless

00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:42.259
 tyrant

00:30:42.259 --> 00:30:43.660
 bent on

00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:44.319
 destroying

00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:45.759
 Hebrew sons.

00:30:47.180 --> 00:30:48.039
 And if we

00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:48.900
 trace the story

00:30:48.900 --> 00:30:49.599
 far back

00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:50.019
 enough,

00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:51.079
 we'll see

00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:52.059
 that Herod

00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:53.759
 and Nebuchadnezzar

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.619
 and Pharaoh

00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:55.400
 are not new.

00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:57.579
 There was

00:30:57.579 --> 00:30:58.339
 someone at the

00:30:58.339 --> 00:30:58.960
 very beginning

00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:00.160
 who opposed

00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:00.819
 God's rule.

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.259
 That was

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:03.539
 Satan.

00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:05.000
 And now

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:05.440
 Herod,

00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:05.940
 like the

00:31:05.940 --> 00:31:06.220
 serpent,

00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:06.960
 is bent

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:07.880
 on crushing

00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:09.160
 the promised

00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:09.539
 son.

00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:10.759
 If there

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:11.200
 is no

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:11.720
 son,

00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:12.480
 then there's

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:12.940
 no seed

00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:13.480
 of Abraham.

00:31:14.059 --> 00:31:14.660
 There's no

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:15.460
 son of David.

00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:16.600
 There's no

00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:17.779
 hope for

00:31:17.779 --> 00:31:18.579
 God's people.

00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:21.100
 But while

00:31:21.100 --> 00:31:22.039
 Jesus escapes,

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:23.660
 many sons

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:24.340
 die.

00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:26.019
 And you can

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:26.640
 hear the

00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:27.200
 scene in

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:28.160
 Matthew's words.

00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:29.519
 A loud

00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:30.140
 voice,

00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:31.039
 weeping,

00:31:31.420 --> 00:31:32.380
 lamentation,

00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:34.079
 Rachel refusing

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:34.759
 the comfort

00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:35.879
 of others.

00:31:37.699 --> 00:31:38.599
 The night

00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:38.919
 which was

00:31:38.919 --> 00:31:39.740
 once silent

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:40.579
 by the

00:31:40.579 --> 00:31:40.939
 promised

00:31:40.939 --> 00:31:41.699
 birth is

00:31:41.699 --> 00:31:42.500
 now filled

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:43.699
 with screaming

00:31:43.699 --> 00:31:44.919
 and crying

00:31:44.919 --> 00:31:46.019
 at the loss

00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:47.079
 of Hebrew

00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:47.519
 sons.

00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:50.359
 I wonder

00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:51.159
 what loss

00:31:51.159 --> 00:31:51.740
 you have

00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:52.379
 experienced

00:31:52.379 --> 00:31:52.899
 at the

00:31:52.899 --> 00:31:53.379
 hands of

00:31:53.379 --> 00:31:53.699
 evil.

00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.119
 Abuse

00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:57.619
 from a

00:31:57.619 --> 00:31:58.299
 family member,

00:31:59.379 --> 00:31:59.899
 someone who

00:31:59.899 --> 00:32:00.299
 should have

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:01.159
 protected you,

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:02.759
 and the

00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:03.879
 loss of your

00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:04.920
 dignity and

00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:05.540
 your worth.

00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:08.700
 At least

00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:09.280
 that's what it

00:32:09.280 --> 00:32:09.960
 feels like.

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.220
 Neglect and

00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:12.000
 disinterest from

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.420
 others because

00:32:13.420 --> 00:32:14.380
 of your age or

00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:15.140
 your stage of

00:32:15.140 --> 00:32:16.600
 life, and

00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:18.040
 the loss of

00:32:18.040 --> 00:32:18.800
 friendship, of

00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:19.700
 companionship.

00:32:21.020 --> 00:32:21.840
 Exclusion from

00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:22.580
 others because

00:32:22.580 --> 00:32:23.300
 of your gender

00:32:23.300 --> 00:32:24.520
 or your age or

00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:25.080
 your ethnicity,

00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:26.620
 and the loss

00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:27.980
 of opportunities.

00:32:29.600 --> 00:32:30.260
 Slander from

00:32:30.260 --> 00:32:32.360
 coworkers, and

00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:32.840
 the loss of

00:32:32.840 --> 00:32:33.540
 your reputation

00:32:33.539 --> 00:32:33.940
 in the

00:32:33.940 --> 00:32:35.799
 workplace, or

00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:36.180
 a bad

00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:36.920
 dismissal from

00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:37.960
 a boss, and

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.759
 now the loss

00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:39.399
 of provision

00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:40.279
 for your

00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:40.659
 family.

00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:44.039
 A friend

00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:44.920
 shares personal

00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:45.920
 privileged information

00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.639
 with others, and

00:32:46.639 --> 00:32:47.420
 you feel like you've

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:48.639
 lost trust and

00:32:48.639 --> 00:32:49.740
 relational security.

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:51.539
 Or someone you're

00:32:51.539 --> 00:32:53.000
 discipling walks

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:54.079
 away from Jesus,

00:32:54.879 --> 00:32:56.680
 and you've lost

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:57.619
 that intimate

00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:58.240
 ministry.

00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.740
 loss is a part of

00:33:01.740 --> 00:33:02.700
 this world in

00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:04.140
 both small and

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:05.380
 significant degrees.

00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:07.259
 And Matthew

00:33:07.259 --> 00:33:08.500
 cites Jeremiah to

00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:09.339
 picture another

00:33:09.339 --> 00:33:11.180
 time of loss, the

00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:12.900
 time of exile for

00:33:12.900 --> 00:33:13.319
 Israel.

00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.019
 It was from

00:33:15.019 --> 00:33:16.339
 Ramah that the

00:33:16.339 --> 00:33:17.460
 Babylonians sent

00:33:17.460 --> 00:33:18.620
 out the Hebrew

00:33:18.620 --> 00:33:19.079
 sons.

00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:21.960
 And as a mother

00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:22.720
 of the nation,

00:33:23.299 --> 00:33:24.220
 Rachel here is

00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:25.620
 symbolizing the

00:33:25.620 --> 00:33:26.279
 mourning of

00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:27.500
 mothers watching

00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:28.819
 their sons be

00:33:28.819 --> 00:33:29.980
 taken off into

00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:30.500
 exile.

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:32.600
 But if we read

00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:33.960
 Jeremiah 31, 15

00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:35.960
 in context, we'll

00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:36.740
 soon learn that

00:33:36.740 --> 00:33:37.600
 Jeremiah, like

00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:39.039
 Hosea, isn't

00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:39.980
 making any kind of

00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:40.339
 prediction.

00:33:41.940 --> 00:33:43.380
 In fact, the event

00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:44.519
 itself again refers

00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:46.519
 to Israel and not

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:46.920
 Jesus.

00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:48.600
 So what is Matthew

00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:49.620
 doing here again?

00:33:50.139 --> 00:33:50.959
 Why is he quoting

00:33:50.959 --> 00:33:51.379
 Jeremiah?

00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:54.299
 Well, similar to

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:56.479
 the Exodus, Matthew

00:33:56.479 --> 00:33:58.379
 sees a pattern of

00:33:58.379 --> 00:33:59.439
 this in exile.

00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:02.599
 He's equating the

00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:03.459
 reign of Herod.

00:34:03.979 --> 00:34:04.479
 Notice this.

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:05.299
 He's equating the

00:34:05.299 --> 00:34:06.919
 reign of Herod to

00:34:06.919 --> 00:34:07.739
 the Babylonian

00:34:07.739 --> 00:34:08.359
 exile.

00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:10.940
 And Pastor Mark

00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:11.719
 Deber puts it this

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:11.960
 way.

00:34:12.619 --> 00:34:13.380
 Bethlehem in

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:15.099
 Herod's day has

00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:16.299
 become a kind of

00:34:16.299 --> 00:34:17.920
 Ramah in

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:18.679
 Jeremiah's day.

00:34:19.619 --> 00:34:20.859
 But this is not

00:34:20.859 --> 00:34:21.799
 all that Matthew

00:34:21.799 --> 00:34:22.319
 is doing.

00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:23.759
 If you keep reading

00:34:23.759 --> 00:34:24.579
 Jeremiah, you

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.339
 learn that God

00:34:25.339 --> 00:34:26.179
 turns Rachel's

00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:29.319
 weeping into

00:34:29.319 --> 00:34:30.839
 hope.

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:32.319
 Listen to verses

00:34:32.319 --> 00:34:33.339
 16 to 17.

00:34:34.799 --> 00:34:35.579
 This is in the

00:34:35.579 --> 00:34:36.339
 same chapter.

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:37.779
 Thus says the

00:34:37.779 --> 00:34:40.159
 Lord, keep your

00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:41.519
 voice from weeping

00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:43.099
 and your eyes

00:34:43.099 --> 00:34:43.819
 from tears.

00:34:44.859 --> 00:34:45.460
 For there is

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.440
 reward in your

00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:47.579
 work, declares

00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:48.199
 the Lord.

00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:49.239
 Lord, they

00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:50.679
 shall come back

00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:51.279
 from the land

00:34:51.279 --> 00:34:51.879
 of the enemy.

00:34:52.839 --> 00:34:53.559
 There is hope

00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:54.439
 for your future,

00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:55.119
 declares the

00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:55.699
 Lord, and your

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.279
 children shall

00:34:56.279 --> 00:34:57.339
 come back to

00:34:57.339 --> 00:34:57.759
 their own

00:34:57.759 --> 00:34:58.219
 country.

00:34:59.359 --> 00:35:00.179
 So God

00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:01.159
 promises this

00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:02.500
 return from

00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:04.159
 exile because

00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:05.739
 Israel is his

00:35:05.739 --> 00:35:06.239
 son.

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:08.139
 Because of his

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:09.859
 sonship, God

00:35:09.859 --> 00:35:10.960
 cannot abandon

00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:11.359
 him.

00:35:12.299 --> 00:35:12.819
 And so even

00:35:12.819 --> 00:35:13.500
 though he sends

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.099
 them out to

00:35:14.099 --> 00:35:14.639
 exile to

00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:15.799
 discipline, he

00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:16.519
 must bring

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:17.720
 them back as

00:35:17.720 --> 00:35:18.240
 his son.

00:35:19.660 --> 00:35:20.560
 But here's the

00:35:20.560 --> 00:35:21.039
 problem.

00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:23.680
 Israel brings

00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:24.660
 back with them

00:35:24.660 --> 00:35:25.500
 their sin.

00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:28.539
 So even though

00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:29.260
 they're out of

00:35:29.260 --> 00:35:30.260
 physical exile,

00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.320
 they're still in

00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:33.140
 the spiritual

00:35:33.140 --> 00:35:34.140
 exile.

00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:35.840
 They still are in

00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:36.480
 bondage to

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.340
 something worse

00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:37.940
 than Babylon.

00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:40.340
 And the question

00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:41.640
 is, what is God

00:35:41.640 --> 00:35:42.860
 going to do?

00:35:43.680 --> 00:35:44.320
 He's taken

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.539
 his son out

00:35:45.539 --> 00:35:45.920
 of Egypt.

00:35:46.099 --> 00:35:46.579
 He's taken

00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:47.660
 his son out

00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:48.320
 of exile.

00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:49.280
 What is he

00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:49.780
 going to do

00:35:49.780 --> 00:35:50.740
 about sin?

00:35:52.220 --> 00:35:53.019
 And this is

00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:53.680
 what he says

00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:54.579
 just a few

00:35:54.579 --> 00:35:55.340
 verses later.

00:35:57.120 --> 00:35:57.780
 Behold, the

00:35:57.780 --> 00:35:58.320
 days are

00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.599
 coming, declares

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:00.760
 the Lord, future

00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.539
 days, when I

00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:03.780
 will make a

00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:04.420
 new covenant

00:36:04.420 --> 00:36:05.579
 with the house

00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:06.860
 of Israel and

00:36:06.860 --> 00:36:07.700
 the house of

00:36:07.700 --> 00:36:07.980
 Judah.

00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:09.340
 Not like the

00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:10.019
 covenants that I

00:36:10.019 --> 00:36:10.480
 made with their

00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:10.900
 fathers.

00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:11.880
 Notice this,

00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:12.559
 on the day

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.119
 when I took

00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:13.720
 them by the

00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:14.700
 hand to bring

00:36:14.700 --> 00:36:15.320
 them out of

00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:15.800
 the land of

00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:16.220
 Egypt.

00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:18.059
 My covenant

00:36:18.059 --> 00:36:19.300
 that they broke,

00:36:20.059 --> 00:36:20.680
 though I was

00:36:20.680 --> 00:36:21.360
 their husband,

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.380
 declares the

00:36:22.380 --> 00:36:22.680
 Lord.

00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:25.260
 For this is the

00:36:25.260 --> 00:36:26.260
 covenant that I

00:36:26.260 --> 00:36:26.920
 will make with

00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:27.460
 the house of

00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:28.300
 Israel after

00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:28.920
 those days,

00:36:29.019 --> 00:36:29.559
 declares the

00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:29.860
 Lord.

00:36:30.500 --> 00:36:31.880
 I will put my

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:32.640
 law within

00:36:32.640 --> 00:36:33.059
 them.

00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:34.840
 I will write

00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:35.640
 it on their

00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:36.079
 hearts.

00:36:37.220 --> 00:36:38.579
 I will be

00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:39.200
 their God

00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:40.720
 and they shall

00:36:40.720 --> 00:36:41.440
 be my people.

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:43.260
 And no

00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:43.940
 longer shall

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.860
 each one teach

00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:45.380
 his neighbor

00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:46.240
 and each his

00:36:46.240 --> 00:36:46.920
 brother, saying,

00:36:47.180 --> 00:36:47.460
 Know the

00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:49.000
 Lord, for

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:50.059
 they shall all

00:36:50.059 --> 00:36:50.900
 know me.

00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.079
 From the

00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:52.599
 least of them

00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:52.900
 to the

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:54.039
 greatest, declares

00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:55.420
 the Lord, for

00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:56.840
 I will forgive

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.500
 their iniquities

00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:00.059
 and I will

00:37:00.059 --> 00:37:00.619
 remember their

00:37:00.619 --> 00:37:02.099
 sins no more.

00:37:03.660 --> 00:37:04.180
 Isn't that an

00:37:04.180 --> 00:37:05.220
 amazing promise?

00:37:05.219 --> 00:37:08.179
 Matthew emphasizes

00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:09.959
 Jesus as God's

00:37:09.959 --> 00:37:10.659
 son, who not

00:37:10.659 --> 00:37:11.559
 only returns

00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:13.639
 from exile, but

00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:14.759
 also brings with

00:37:14.759 --> 00:37:15.799
 him the mercies

00:37:15.799 --> 00:37:17.059
 of God for his

00:37:17.059 --> 00:37:19.139
 people, who

00:37:19.139 --> 00:37:19.819
 remain in

00:37:19.819 --> 00:37:20.799
 spiritual exile,

00:37:20.959 --> 00:37:21.679
 bound in their

00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:22.039
 sin.

00:37:23.279 --> 00:37:23.939
 And because,

00:37:24.179 --> 00:37:24.619
 notice this,

00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:25.279
 because he's

00:37:25.279 --> 00:37:25.959
 brought us out of

00:37:25.959 --> 00:37:26.919
 spiritual exile,

00:37:27.059 --> 00:37:27.759
 or yes,

00:37:27.879 --> 00:37:28.779
 spiritual exile,

00:37:29.539 --> 00:37:31.299
 he will come back

00:37:31.299 --> 00:37:32.699
 again to bring us

00:37:32.699 --> 00:37:33.579
 out of physical

00:37:33.579 --> 00:37:34.219
 exile.

00:37:35.319 --> 00:37:36.599
 He has removed

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.519
 our iniquities,

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:39.340
 but we're not like

00:37:39.340 --> 00:37:40.259
 Israel, who are

00:37:40.259 --> 00:37:40.920
 brought out of

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:41.239
 exile.

00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:43.219
 We still live in

00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:44.460
 a fallen world.

00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:45.880
 So what is our

00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:46.299
 hope?

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:48.539
 Our hope is still

00:37:48.539 --> 00:37:48.860
 Jesus.

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:51.079
 If he can bring us

00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:51.699
 out of spiritual

00:37:51.699 --> 00:37:53.599
 exile, how much

00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:54.699
 more in his

00:37:54.699 --> 00:37:55.739
 return will he

00:37:55.739 --> 00:37:56.860
 wipe away every

00:37:56.860 --> 00:37:58.360
 tear, all of the

00:37:58.360 --> 00:37:59.440
 weeping of mothers

00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:00.340
 who've lost their

00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:02.440
 sons, all of those

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:02.960
 who've been

00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:04.159
 abused and

00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:06.000
 abandoned, Jesus

00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:07.280
 will do away with

00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.659
 it all.

00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:09.960
 And he will make a

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.940
 whole new world

00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:11.740
 where we will

00:38:11.740 --> 00:38:12.539
 worship God

00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:13.220
 forever.

00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:21.880
 I want to say a

00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:22.460
 word, though, to

00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:24.320
 those who do not

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:25.599
 know Jesus as

00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:26.519
 Savior and Lord.

00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:26.579
 Lord.

00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:33.599
 This text shows us

00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:35.639
 that mourning is

00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:36.860
 all you have.

00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:39.860
 You are not just

00:38:39.860 --> 00:38:40.539
 in the world.

00:38:41.259 --> 00:38:42.659
 You are of the

00:38:42.659 --> 00:38:42.980
 world.

00:38:44.579 --> 00:38:45.519
 Because you

00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:47.380
 reject Jesus, he

00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:48.940
 will reject you.

00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:51.239
 If you listen

00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:52.360
 closely, you'll hear

00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:53.440
 in Rachel's weeping

00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:54.559
 an echo of the

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.139
 sorrow that

00:38:55.139 --> 00:38:56.360
 accompanied Adam

00:38:56.360 --> 00:38:57.159
 and Eve when God

00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:58.039
 brought them out of

00:38:58.039 --> 00:38:59.380
 the garden, out of

00:38:59.380 --> 00:39:00.279
 the promised land.

00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:01.980
 And it also

00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:03.619
 anticipates a final

00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:06.759
 sorrow, weeping and

00:39:06.759 --> 00:39:08.500
 gnashing of teeth that

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:09.199
 Jesus says will

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:10.599
 accompany all of those

00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:12.059
 who God will send out

00:39:12.059 --> 00:39:13.659
 of his presence, all

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:15.679
 evildoers, all who are

00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:16.759
 given to lawlessness.

00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:20.460
 Unbelieving friend,

00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.219
 flee from the wrath of

00:39:23.219 --> 00:39:23.659
 God.

00:39:24.859 --> 00:39:25.980
 Flee from God's

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:26.579
 wrath.

00:39:28.059 --> 00:39:29.059
 There are worse

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:31.439
 things than evil

00:39:31.439 --> 00:39:32.279
 tyrants.

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:34.119
 There are worse

00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:35.119
 things than abuse.

00:39:36.339 --> 00:39:37.299
 There are worse

00:39:37.299 --> 00:39:38.299
 things than losing

00:39:38.299 --> 00:39:38.819
 friends.

00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:41.379
 For those who do

00:39:41.379 --> 00:39:43.459
 not know Jesus, you

00:39:43.459 --> 00:39:44.959
 will spend eternity

00:39:44.959 --> 00:39:46.839
 in judgment, eternity

00:39:46.839 --> 00:39:48.199
 in torment, apart

00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:48.799
 from him.

00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:55.680
 But that's why you

00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:56.240
 need him.

00:39:57.200 --> 00:39:58.539
 That's why you need

00:39:58.539 --> 00:40:00.380
 a true Israel, a

00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:01.740
 better son, someone

00:40:01.740 --> 00:40:02.880
 who's lived the life

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.740
 that you should have

00:40:03.740 --> 00:40:04.800
 lived, who died the

00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:05.740
 death that you should

00:40:05.740 --> 00:40:06.860
 have died, who was

00:40:06.860 --> 00:40:08.120
 raised to life for

00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:10.880
 your sake, so that if

00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.260
 you would confess your

00:40:12.260 --> 00:40:13.460
 sins, turn from them,

00:40:14.060 --> 00:40:15.240
 admit them to God,

00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.500
 and believe on him, you

00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:20.759
 will be saved.

00:40:21.799 --> 00:40:22.859
 No more wrath.

00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.259
 And one day, no more

00:40:25.259 --> 00:40:25.639
 weeping.

00:40:26.539 --> 00:40:27.959
 Isn't that amazing?

00:40:28.799 --> 00:40:29.899
 Don't you want that?

00:40:31.839 --> 00:40:33.159
 We don't deserve it.

00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:35.839
 But God is kind.

00:40:39.259 --> 00:40:40.839
 I know I'm out of time,

00:40:40.919 --> 00:40:41.359
 but I'm going to keep

00:40:41.359 --> 00:40:42.159
 going because this is

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:42.539
 important.

00:40:42.539 --> 00:40:45.320
 Okay, point number

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.119
 three, God's people

00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:47.920
 return to the

00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:48.659
 promised land.

00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:53.800
 Verse 19 introduces

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:54.679
 the final scene.

00:40:58.219 --> 00:40:59.759
 But when Herod died,

00:41:00.420 --> 00:41:01.500
 behold, an angel of

00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:02.559
 the Lord appeared in

00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:03.920
 a dream to Joseph in

00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:05.639
 Egypt, saying,

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:07.619
 Rise, take the child

00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:09.440
 and his mother, and

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.099
 go to the land of

00:41:10.099 --> 00:41:10.480
 Israel.

00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:12.380
 for those who sought

00:41:12.380 --> 00:41:13.740
 the child's life are

00:41:13.740 --> 00:41:14.000
 dead.

00:41:15.099 --> 00:41:16.519
 And he rose, and he

00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:17.519
 took the child and his

00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:18.900
 mother, and went to

00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:20.039
 the land of Israel.

00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:23.199
 Now, perhaps you

00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:24.219
 notice the parallels

00:41:24.219 --> 00:41:25.480
 between how our story

00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:26.980
 started and how it

00:41:26.980 --> 00:41:27.460
 ends.

00:41:28.340 --> 00:41:29.740
 In both places, an

00:41:29.740 --> 00:41:30.760
 angel appears to

00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:31.099
 Joseph.

00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:33.480
 But the difference is

00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:34.240
 instead of fleeing

00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:35.960
 from Egypt, now he

00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.480
 returns to Israel.

00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:39.880
 Fear is replaced with

00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:40.280
 hope.

00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:41.980
 Mourning is replaced

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:43.140
 with gladness.

00:41:43.619 --> 00:41:44.440
 The child who was

00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:45.660
 exiled is now brought

00:41:45.660 --> 00:41:47.240
 into the promised

00:41:47.240 --> 00:41:47.619
 land.

00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:49.000
 Herod is dead.

00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:50.579
 The king has

00:41:50.579 --> 00:41:51.420
 returned.

00:41:53.420 --> 00:41:54.820
 And Matthew seems to

00:41:54.820 --> 00:41:56.000
 close the bookends.

00:41:57.460 --> 00:41:58.420
 But there's another

00:41:58.420 --> 00:41:58.840
 verse.

00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:00.119
 Verse 22.

00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:05.400
 But when Joseph heard

00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:06.420
 that Archelaus was

00:42:06.420 --> 00:42:07.839
 reigning over Judea in

00:42:07.839 --> 00:42:08.619
 the place of his

00:42:08.619 --> 00:42:10.079
 father Herod, he was

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:11.139
 afraid to go there.

00:42:11.739 --> 00:42:12.839
 And being warned in a

00:42:12.839 --> 00:42:14.039
 dream, he withdrew to

00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:14.759
 the district of

00:42:14.759 --> 00:42:15.179
 Galilee.

00:42:15.859 --> 00:42:17.500
 And he went and lived

00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:18.219
 in a city called

00:42:18.219 --> 00:42:20.019
 Nazareth, so that what

00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:20.980
 was spoken by the

00:42:20.980 --> 00:42:22.339
 prophets might be

00:42:22.339 --> 00:42:24.059
 fulfilled, that he

00:42:24.059 --> 00:42:25.719
 would be called a

00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:26.359
 Nazarene.

00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:30.380
 The return to Israel

00:42:30.380 --> 00:42:32.079
 was only partial for

00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:32.400
 Jesus.

00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.240
 Jesus didn't return and

00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:36.579
 assume David's throne.

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:41.039
 He was relegated to a

00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.559
 backwater district, to

00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:44.800
 Galilee, where nobodies

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:46.820
 and fishermen lived.

00:42:48.820 --> 00:42:49.700
 And notice Matthew

00:42:49.700 --> 00:42:51.059
 doesn't say he lived in

00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:51.500
 Nazareth.

00:42:51.500 --> 00:42:51.980
 Nazareth.

00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:53.280
 It says he lived in a

00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.019
 city called Nazareth.

00:42:55.860 --> 00:42:56.980
 When people have asked

00:42:56.980 --> 00:42:58.059
 me about where I grew

00:42:58.059 --> 00:42:59.079
 up as I've gotten to

00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:00.300
 know some of you, I

00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:01.400
 always have to say I

00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.440
 live in a city called

00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:02.960
 Sellersville.

00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:04.360
 Because if you're not

00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:05.000
 from Sellersville, you

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:06.219
 have no idea what it is.

00:43:06.820 --> 00:43:07.760
 It's the same thing

00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:08.119
 here.

00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:09.260
 If you're not from

00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:10.280
 Nazareth, you have no

00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:10.619
 idea.

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:12.579
 It's this backwater.

00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:15.599
 Really, nobody has

00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:16.159
 heard of it.

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:19.619
 And when you look at

00:43:19.619 --> 00:43:20.599
 this situation, you

00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:21.480
 wonder what in the

00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:23.179
 world is God doing.

00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:25.659
 Jesus shouldn't be

00:43:25.659 --> 00:43:25.960
 hidden.

00:43:26.099 --> 00:43:27.000
 He's the hope of the

00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:27.719
 world, right?

00:43:28.340 --> 00:43:29.719
 He's the true son.

00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:31.179
 He's the faithful

00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:32.179
 Israel.

00:43:33.820 --> 00:43:35.320
 But this, too, is part

00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:36.099
 of God's plan.

00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:38.559
 God accomplishes his

00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:39.719
 purposes in ways that

00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:40.659
 seem foolish to the

00:43:40.659 --> 00:43:40.960
 world.

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:43.679
 Wasn't it Nathanael who

00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:45.039
 said, can anything good

00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:46.019
 come out of Nazareth?

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.360
 And the crowds in

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:51.340
 Jerusalem who asked,

00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.440
 is the Christ to come

00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:53.039
 from Galilee?

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:56.719
 When we consider God's

00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:58.940
 sovereignty, which means

00:43:58.940 --> 00:44:01.340
 his righteous rule as

00:44:01.340 --> 00:44:03.800
 king, and his providence,

00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:05.320
 which means his good

00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:07.000
 guidance in every situation

00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:09.500
 toward his purpose, we, too,

00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:11.000
 can have questions of our

00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:11.240
 own.

00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:13.539
 I mean, I have so many

00:44:13.539 --> 00:44:15.039
 questions in this story

00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:15.639
 alone.

00:44:16.759 --> 00:44:18.259
 Okay, why send Joseph to

00:44:18.259 --> 00:44:18.539
 Egypt?

00:44:18.759 --> 00:44:20.039
 Why not just strike down

00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.019
 Herod like God does in Acts

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:23.799
 12 to Herod's descendant?

00:44:25.259 --> 00:44:26.859
 Why allow the death of

00:44:26.859 --> 00:44:28.819
 innocent sons when you

00:44:28.819 --> 00:44:29.859
 could have preserved them?

00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:33.260
 Why relegate Jesus to

00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:34.740
 Nazareth, where he would

00:44:34.740 --> 00:44:35.900
 grow up in obscurity?

00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:38.960
 But ultimately, all these

00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:40.660
 questions boil down to one

00:44:40.660 --> 00:44:42.140
 important question.

00:44:42.139 --> 00:44:46.259
 why allow evil at all?

00:44:47.379 --> 00:44:49.379
 Why not save everyone from

00:44:49.379 --> 00:44:49.920
 everything?

00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:54.779
 It's easy to praise God for

00:44:54.779 --> 00:44:56.099
 his sovereignty when he

00:44:56.099 --> 00:44:58.000
 providentially fulfills his

00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.879
 promises to bring wise men to

00:44:59.879 --> 00:45:00.659
 worship him.

00:45:00.659 --> 00:45:03.799
 But what about when it brings

00:45:03.799 --> 00:45:04.259
 suffering?

00:45:06.619 --> 00:45:10.500
 For Joseph, for Mary, for

00:45:10.500 --> 00:45:13.859
 mothers, for sons, for

00:45:13.859 --> 00:45:16.759
 Jesus, and for us.

00:45:19.339 --> 00:45:21.019
 Among the kinds of loss that

00:45:21.019 --> 00:45:22.420
 I've already mentioned in this

00:45:22.420 --> 00:45:24.259
 sermon, some of you know what

00:45:24.259 --> 00:45:26.039
 it is like to lose a child,

00:45:27.259 --> 00:45:29.159
 perhaps even before you're able

00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:30.399
 to hold them for the first

00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:30.740
 time.

00:45:35.200 --> 00:45:38.680
 God can sympathize uniquely with

00:45:38.680 --> 00:45:40.599
 those who've lost sons.

00:45:42.500 --> 00:45:45.920
 It was God's idea to put his

00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.460
 son on the cross.

00:45:48.780 --> 00:45:50.559
 Jesus says, no one takes my

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:51.340
 life from me.

00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.200
 I lay it down on my own

00:45:54.200 --> 00:45:54.559
 accord.

00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:03.260
 It was God who Paul says, did

00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:07.260
 not spare his own son, but

00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:09.119
 gave him up for us all.

00:46:10.700 --> 00:46:12.039
 And then he says, will he not

00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:13.960
 graciously give us all things?

00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:17.820
 If he's given us his son, what

00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:20.160
 more do we have to ask?

00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:23.480
 If he's made us sons because of

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.380
 Jesus, we have all of the

00:46:25.380 --> 00:46:27.079
 promises, all of the blessings,

00:46:27.500 --> 00:46:29.219
 all of the rights as his

00:46:29.219 --> 00:46:29.500
 children.

00:46:32.139 --> 00:46:35.840
 He entered into our exile, into

00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.659
 our loss, so that he could

00:46:38.659 --> 00:46:42.159
 destroy sin and death and

00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:44.880
 weeping and all those who

00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.500
 oppose him.

00:46:45.500 --> 00:46:48.420
 And he will bring us to a new

00:46:48.420 --> 00:46:49.300
 promised land.

00:46:50.019 --> 00:46:52.179
 This new creation that we long

00:46:52.179 --> 00:46:52.599
 for.

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.559
 A place where there's no more

00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:55.960
 weeping.

00:46:56.099 --> 00:46:57.400
 There's no more loss.

00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.099
 There's no more enemies.

00:47:00.099 --> 00:47:00.299
 enemies.

00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:05.880
 What Herod meant for evil, killing

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:07.819
 babies for his own self

00:47:07.819 --> 00:47:11.400
 preservation, God meant for

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:11.799
 good.

00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.119
 To send his son to exile so

00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:17.219
 that he could accomplish his

00:47:17.219 --> 00:47:18.699
 work and lead God's people to

00:47:18.699 --> 00:47:20.179
 victory over evil.

00:47:21.460 --> 00:47:23.319
 And the amazing fact of this

00:47:23.319 --> 00:47:25.239
 entire story is that the only

00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:28.579
 son that Herod wanted to kill is

00:47:28.579 --> 00:47:30.019
 the son that he could not.

00:47:30.819 --> 00:47:32.480
 The son that would assume the

00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:35.219
 throne, not just of Israel, but

00:47:35.219 --> 00:47:36.420
 of the whole world.

00:47:38.279 --> 00:47:39.880
 Matthew uses all these different

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:41.799
 situations in Jesus' story to

00:47:41.799 --> 00:47:44.239
 communicate one central point.

00:47:47.219 --> 00:47:49.779
 Jesus fulfills the first exile,

00:47:49.779 --> 00:47:54.119
 the first exodus, to ensure a

00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:56.759
 final exodus for God's people.

00:47:56.760 --> 00:48:02.400
 A final exodus out of the world

00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:03.740
 into the new creation.

00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:07.580
 And while we still live in exile

00:48:07.580 --> 00:48:11.140
 and weep at loss, we anticipate

00:48:11.140 --> 00:48:12.880
 Jesus' return.

00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.140
 And our reunion with God into the

00:48:16.140 --> 00:48:18.140
 promised land where Jesus will

00:48:18.140 --> 00:48:21.240
 reign forever and we will worship

00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:22.300
 him forever.

00:48:22.300 --> 00:48:22.420
 forever.

00:48:23.420 --> 00:48:27.080
 That hope produces joy and peace

00:48:27.080 --> 00:48:29.280
 amidst sorrow and weeping.

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:33.260
 At times we feel more like the

00:48:33.260 --> 00:48:35.820
 Israelites in the exodus and the

00:48:35.820 --> 00:48:38.880
 exile than we do like the wise men

00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:39.920
 at Bethlehem.

00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:43.680
 But take heart, Christian brothers

00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:44.700
 and sisters.

00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.180
 Jesus has overcome the world and he is

00:48:49.180 --> 00:48:51.360
 returning again to bring us to the

00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:52.039
 promised land.

00:48:52.579 --> 00:48:53.720
 That is our hope.

00:48:54.980 --> 00:48:55.740
 Let's pray.

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:57.639
 Let's pray.

00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:57.639
 Let's pray.

00:48:57.639 --> 00:48:58.639
 Let's pray.

00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:07.799
 Father, your plan is amazing.

00:49:09.019 --> 00:49:13.179
 Who could have dreamt up this kind of

00:49:13.179 --> 00:49:13.480
 work?

00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:17.259
 To send your own son to be born in our

00:49:17.259 --> 00:49:17.940
 likeness.

00:49:18.619 --> 00:49:20.599
 To send that son to the cross.

00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.460
 And then to raise that son from the

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:23.879
 grave.

00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:26.880
 So that all of your sons in him could

00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:29.860
 also experience forgiveness and

00:49:29.860 --> 00:49:30.680
 newness of life.

00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:33.240
 Father, thank you for your many

00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:34.519
 mercies in Jesus.

00:49:37.059 --> 00:49:39.000
 And I pray, Lord, for those who don't

00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:40.079
 know you in this room.

00:49:40.619 --> 00:49:41.800
 Especially, Lord, these.

00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:45.880
 That they would see that all they have

00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:47.960
 is weeping and mourning to look

00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:48.519
 forward to.

00:49:49.740 --> 00:49:50.880
 This world is temporary.

00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:51.480
 It's temporary.

00:49:52.260 --> 00:49:53.539
 It's pleasures are fleeting.

00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:56.059
 But Jesus is eternal.

00:49:57.680 --> 00:50:00.860
 So, Father, would you save some?

00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:05.140
 Would you bring peace into the turmoil

00:50:05.140 --> 00:50:06.599
 of those who don't know you?

00:50:08.160 --> 00:50:09.559
 Thank you, Father, for Jesus.

00:50:10.220 --> 00:50:11.720
 We pray these things in Jesus' name.

00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:12.079
 Amen.