Jesus The Fulfillment Of Prophecy Pt 3

when your Bibles with me to the prophecy of Hosea in Chapter number 11 and the Gospel of Matthew at chapter 2 and again I want to preach from the subject Jesus the fulfillment of prophecy Jesus the fulfillment of prophecy Hosea chapter number 11 and verse number one reads when Israel was a child then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt the Gospel of Matthew at chapter 2 verses thirteen fourteen and verse number 15 and when they were departed behold the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt and be thou there until I bring the word for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him when he arose he took the young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt where as 15 Reed's and was there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying out of Egypt have I called my son thank you you may have your seeds the grass withers and the flower fades but the word of our God shall stand forever Jesus the fulfillment of prophecy I want to try to stress in these series of messages during this season of Advent that what God has done in and through Jesus Christ was not an afterthought it was not some plan that God came up with when something else didn't work out with God there is no plan B he knows the end from the beginning he is omniscient there's nothing he cannot know and so God's plans are always preordained not an afterthought but a forethought from the beginning God's intention was to send Jesus as the propitiation for our sins and so Hosea prophesized hundreds of years before the birth of Christ that out of Egypt shall come my son and in order for that prophecy to be fulfilled God strategically arranges for events to take place to get Jesus to Egypt to bring him out it's reminiscent of God bringing Israel out of Egypt Israel's exodus out of Egypt is a foreshadowing of the Son of God coming out of Egypt the exodus of Israel out of Egypt is the inauguration of God's plan while the Son of God coming out of Egypt is the commencement of God's plan in order for Hosea's prophecy to be fulfilled God has to arrange certain circumstances and I think ought to help somebody here this morning in order for your life's situations to work out God has to arrange certain circumstances you wouldn't have the faith you have this morning if God had not arranged certain circumstances I wish I had a witness here you wouldn't be the shouter you are this morning you wouldn't be the praiser that you are this morning if God had not arranged certain circumstances in your life to bring you to this morning of testimony our brothers and sisters maybe you can't praise God because you don't even realize who it was moving on your behalf you thought it was your administrator you thought it was your boss you thought it was your family background you thought it because you went to prayer review our Texas Southern but it was nobody I wish I had some noise in it was nobody as a matter of fact he arranged certain circumstances to even get you here this morning you don't know how many people could have run into you on 16 and 59 why are you sent last night he arranged certain circumstances to keep you safe until he woke you up this morning walk with me around the tapes and see how God moves and rules and preordained circumstances to fulfill prophecy I told you last Sunday there is always revelation human response and fulfillment of Old Testament scripture is right here in the text Jesus is born in Bethlehem of Judaea and the Bible says that wise men come from the east and they come bearing gifts gold frankincense and myrrh they said we have seen the star in the east and we have come to worship Him they are not believers they are pagan astronomers but they noticed that in their astronomy there's a star shining in each and they follow that star to Bethlehem Judah and they inquire where is he who is born King of the Jews Herod hears that and is immediately insane with jealousy and intimidation because he will have no rivals for his supposed power but here a baby is born and Herod decides to send the wise men to find that child and he tells them privately come back and bring me word that I too may go and worship Him we shall had a Bible reader and the scripture says when the wise men find Jesus because wise men always find Jesus I wish I had time to stay right there wise men people who got good sense always find Jesus wise men wise women wise people always do whatever they have to do to find Jesus that's the sermon right there but I got to leave it alone when they find it they open their treasures gold to represent him as a king frankincense to represent his humanity myrrh is an embalming spice foreshadowing his death on the cross and they opened their treasures and not only do they open their treasures but they bow down and worship Him and when they worship Him the scripture says that God shows them that Herod does not really want to worship the baby he wants to destroy him and the scripture says when they got up off that knees when they finished worshiping they went home another way wise men always find Jesus and they always go home another way you can meet Jesus and go home the same way you can have a got a witness here what a wonderful change in my life has been wrought since Jesus came into my heart I have light in my soul for which long I have sought since Jesus not money not social influence not educational achievement not financial success but since I've met Jesus brothers and sisters I want to I want to just place a caveat here never be ashamed to call the name Jesus never be embarrassed to admit that you know Jesus never got a witness here never back up from anybody who talks about Muhammed and Buddha and their other supposed gods you talk about the name Jesus because that name has power over any other name there's no other name given among men whereby we must be saved except the name Jesus somebody like that you scared to call that name some of you act like you're embarrassed to even mention that name and so you get kind of set with us because we care all too much about that name well that's your problem that's not my concern whenever I hear the name Jesus called I know who brought me I know who kept me I know who provided for me I know who sustained me and if you don't want to call him I would call him by myself Jesus early in the morning Sheila's late in the midnight hour it drives my Pierre they went home another way and then the scripture says when they departed God comes again to Joseph in a dream he's already told Joseph in a dream don't be afraid to take Mary for your wife because what is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and then he comes to Joseph in another dream and tells him get up now arise get up right now take the baby and the child and get to Egypt but the only way that can be possible because Mary and Joseph are peasants they are poor peasants as a matter of fact when they go to make their sacrifice in the temple they can't even afford a lamb they bring turtledoves which is the offering of the pool pigeons and turtle doves were offered in the state of lambs without spot or blemish when you were too poor to afford land their suit they're too poor to afford a lamb all they can afford is a Turtledove so how can they finance a trip to eat well God arranged for wise men to come with gold frankincense and myrrh that they sold to get to eat wish I had some butter to help me here if God gives you a word he'll provide for you to see it through somebody help me testify if God has called you to do something he'll provide the means to get it done yeah I want you to get this God gives Joseph a precaution he warns him when they were departed when the wise men left the angel told Joseph in a dream arise take the child and his mother and flee wrong get out of town cause Herod is looking for that big and he's looking for him not to worship but to destroy listen brothers the sister Satan has been trying to destroy the seed from genesis 3:15 I wish I had time to preach all of that but but but but the see promise has been put off from genesis 3:15 the seed promised i'm not talking about the seed promised that these prosperity preachers are talking about sow a seed in my ministry and you will be prosperous I'm talking about the seed of the woman has been postponed since genesis 3:15 Abraham and Sarah try to help God with Ishmael but Ishmael is not the see Jacob who becomes Israel is a good substitute but he's not the see someone ought to help me here Moses who led the children of Israel out of Egypt brought up from the Nile in a basket by Pharaoh's daughter is a good Emancipator but he's not to see David is a man after God's own heart he's a good psalmist he's a good forerunner but he's not the senior Solomon the wisest King that ever lived a good man but not to see Joseph who is the father of Jesus in the natural world because he's married to Mary is a good man but he didn't plant the seed the seed has been postponed since genesis 3:15 but postponement does not mean fulfill me just because God has postponed does not mean God will not fulfill and I think I ought to tell somebody who's waiting on God just because the answer hasn't come doesn't mean that answer will never come my grandmother used to say he may not come when you wanted I wish I had a witness but if you wait on it he's always on time and when God shows up postponement becomes full filled man now here's what I want you to get in mistakes in this precaution when the angel spoke Joseph I don't live it Joseph here but he he did because it's not enough to hear you got the heed what you heard our brothers and sisters how much trouble could I have kept myself from if I had only heeded what I heard I wish I had an honest believer right here I wish I had somebody here who got in trouble like I got in trouble I wish I had somebody here whose life was a mess and a wreck because of the mess you got yourself into you knew better you heard what the word said but you didn't heed it is there a witness here this morning I know what's right I know what I should have done I know what was the right course to take but I wanted to do what I wanted to do and I wound up in trouble because when I heard I didn't he I'm not talking to you say you hear I'm talking to some crooks like myself I'm talking to some devilish folk in here like myself who knew what was right but you chose wrong I knew what I should have done but I didn't do ever got a witness here I heard what the Lord said but I wanted to have my own way and sometimes God will move out of the way and let you have it your way but when you're here and you don't need you always get in trouble but thank God for grace thank God for mercy thank God for forgiveness but even when I mess up these vats are erase it anybody here anybody here ever been wash anybody ever been made whole even though your sin he will forgive Yodas went to Egypt to hide that child from the insane jealousy of King Herod look at the parallel Pharaoh Pharaoh Pharaoh did everything he could to destroy that scene but God brought them out of Egypt then God sent the see taejun just to bring him out to fulfill Hosea 11 and one listen nobody no King no person no nation can stop God's plan and if you belong to God Jeremiah says I know the plan I wish ahead of backward I know the plans that I have for you plans to prosper you to give you a future and a hope and when the devil tries to destroy you you got something in you in the words of MC Hammer you need to tell the devil you can't touch them I wish I could dance like a hammer I dance right across this thing you you can't touch this that's that's something on the inside that that you can't touch devil you can mess with my body but you can't steal my joy you can mess with my mind but every once in a while my mind was clear up and I can sing this job he brought him to Egypt just to bring him out so that he could save out of Egypt I brought my son that's a precaution that's a hearing and he D but the prediction is at the death of Harun it will be fulfilled listen brothers and sisters there are times when God came bless you unless something or somebody dies you can't get God's blessing until something or somebody is dead until you die to yourself until you die to your ambition till you die and crucify your desires you never know the power of God in your life never got a witness here you know what I had to come to realize and this was a I had to mourn this had to grieve over this and that's why I can preach it because I've lived it after I got out of the hospital and the doctors told my family I would not live and God brought me through every time I look in the mirror the Terry Anderson I was before March 4th 2012 is no more I had to grieve over that I'm mourned over that because I will never be what I was prior to March 4th 2012 I got a I got a limp like Jacob now I got a thorn in my flesh like Paul 9 and once you go through a serious illness or a serious time of loss you'll never be the person you were prior to what your loss but if you stay with God what you go through and what you give up is nothing compared to what you become after you get out I'm not the terror Anderson I was prior to March 4th 2012 I'm a stronger Terry Anderson I'm a wiser Terry Anderson I'm a more praising Terry Anderson because every time I look in the mirror I praise God that because what I lost is nothing compared to what I gained because he says in Philippians for to me to live is Christ I wish I had somebody to help me preach but to die and that doesn't always mean physically to die - you're old in egde of yourself here when you die - that that's a game you know what you gain you gain perspectives because you start to realize that you are not immortal but sooner or later this earthly house of this Tabernacle is going to dissolve I wish I had somebody to help me finish it you start to realize that what you've lost is your perspective on your thinking that you are handling life by yourself God knows how to send circumstances and situations in your path to make you realize if you don't turn around and acknowledge Who I am you never gonna get out of this mess that you in I wish I had somebody who's on the other side of what God brought you out of I need somebody here is on the other side of your valley of the shadow of death you're on the other side of your misery you're on the other side of your heartbreak you're on the other side of your failure and your sin you're on the other side of the problems that had you bound and now that God has delivered you from what you came through you're on the other side of that situation now looking back on it saying if it had not been for the Lord who was on my side I wish I had somebody to help me here I've learned how to give God glory now even in my trials even in my family setbacks even with trouble in my home even with low money in my pocket I've learned how to praise God anyhow have I got a witness here because what God promises he's able to perform I need two or three witnesses here who knows that whatever God promises he's able to perform he's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you can even ask Oh never got a witness here God is able to open doors that the devil closed in your face God is able to make your enemies your footstool God is able to make you rise when they're trying to put their foot on you I said God is able to provide for your every need he'll put food on your table he'll put clothes on your back he'll make a way out of no way he'll give you a jar in your midnight hour and when your hair turns gray God will come right alongside you and hold your hand and walk with you when life turns on you is there anybody here know what he promises he's able to perform he's able to keep you from falling he's able to pick you up turn you around place your feet on solid ground if the Lord been good to you and your lorry is able if the Lord opened doors for you and you'll know it you're able if the Lord heals your body and you know he's able if the Lord forgive your sin problem and you know he's able don't be ashamed to testify don't be ashamed to give God the glory don't be ashamed to proclaim God's name he's worth it to be praised he's good all the time and all the time is good if the Lord been good to you help me magnify me if the loss save your soul and you're not ashamed to testify if the laws major hold and you're not embarrassed to be a witness if the Lord came to see about you and you don't check who's looking at you why don't you grab somebody shake somebody's hand tell him he's able he's able he's able he's able he's been a mother for me he's been a father for me he labor he's able no he's ours he walks with me he talks with me he tell me I am his own and the John John John John do you have John do you have John why don't you hurt somebody tell him this job this job this job no he's alright whatever he promises he is able to perform I know the plans that I have for planting Stuart to give you a future and hope and hope does not make us a shame because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself and he's given to us the Ministry of reconciliation you

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Published: Mon Dec 15 2014