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fingerprints
-So were working through our fingerprints series, where were finding the fingerprints of Jesus in the book of Genesis
-And today I want to talk about Abram and the events of his life that point us to Christ
-And I thought today that we’d do something a little bit different
-I was thinking about our fingerprints theme
-And I thought it would be interesting today if we started in a New testament passage, and then we traced our way backward in time through the bible to see the fingerprints in Genesis
-And so the passage I want to start with today is in hebrews chapter 5
-So if you have your bible I invite you to turn to Hebrews 5 with me, we’re going to start in verse 1
Hebrews 5:1-6
-And what if you read through Hebrews you’ll notice that it talks about Melchizedek over and over and over again
-And we’re being told that there is a fingerprint of Jesus on Mechizidek
-Look I’ll be honest with you, Hebrews is a very difficult book to read and understand
-It’s honestly an intimidating book
-Because there’s so many references to the Old Testament, and there’s so many allusions to rituals and connections being made
-That it can honestly be a little bit overwhelming.
-Hebrews is the kind of book that you can’t just sit and read front to back
-There’s just too much
-It’s honestly the kind of book that you have to study verse by verse to really understand
-And this Melchizidek thing is no exception
-And so Melchizidek was a priest, we read about in Genesis
-And even though in Hebrews he’s talked about for like 3 chapters in a rows
-But when we go back to the Old testament and try to learn more about him
-We find that he’s mentioned in like 2 verses.
-And so as we’re trying to understand exactly what Hebrews is talking about
-We’re left scratching our heads and wondering to ourselves, what in the heck is he even talking about?
-And so the first thing I want you to notice is that Hebrews is not actually quoting Genesis here
-But he’s quoting one of the Psalms
-And again, in the psalm where he’s mentioned he gets like 1 verse .
So I want us to go back to the psalms and see what we can learn here
This is Psalm 110.
And I just want to read the whole thing here
Psalm 110
-And so as we read this psalm, I want to ask you a question
-Who here has ever heard the idea that we need to read the bible in Context
-Someone really quick give me a quick explanation of what context means???
-So here’s another very important question I want to ask
-Who’s context was Psalm 110 written in?
-Right it’s King David.
-And david was writing this Psalm, which was probably intended to be sung by the way
-In a royal precision or in the temple courts in some way
-And he wrote this song about the one who would take over for him on the throne
-He says the Lord will extend your Scepter from Zion
-You will rule from Jerusalem
-You will vanquish the enemies of isreal.
-Now I want to say something very provocative here
-When david wrote this, when the spirit Guided him to write this song about the one who would sit on the throne after him
-David had in mind the wrong person
-Now God knew, and looking back on it we know that the one who ruled on the throne from the line of David was Jesus
-But do you think david knew that?
-Do you think David had any idea that he was actually writing about the messiah who would come 1000 years later?
-Well I would venture to say that David had no idea
-And so even though he was writing under the inspiration of the Holy spirit
-He was in a sense wrong about who he thought he was writing about
-See from the time of David there was the notion that God would appoint an heir to the throne
-Who was a decendent of David
-And we get that spellled out for us specifically in 2 Samuel 7.
-And so As we work our way backwards, turn back now to 2 Samuel 7, and let’s read what exactly it was that God said to him
2 Samuel 7:1-7
-Now I want to really drive home the importance of this passage
-Because this is, in my opinion the hingepoint of the entire Old Testament
-Every Good story has a moment in which the main character is given a decision to make
-And how they respond to that decision sets the course of the entire plot
-And that’s what we’re getting here
-The nation of Isreal has finally gotten to the point where they have defeated their enemies
-They’ve Finally gotten to a point of being settled
-They’ve finally Gotten a King who is a man after God’s own heart
-And that king says
-You know, here I am living in this fancy palace
-Yet the ark of the covenent
-The place where the spirit of the Lord resides
-Is outside in the weather and the elements
-in a shabby old tent
-And david says that just doesn’t seem right
-I want to do something about that
-And what does God say?
-He says no.
He says I don’t want a temple
-God says for the last 500 years I’ve lived in a tent for a reason
-In a sense he’s telling David look, if I would have wanted a temple, I would have told Moses to build me a temple in the first place
-God says I like living in a tent
-You know why?
-Tents can move!
-god says thats the whole point
-Because I am the kind of God who travels with you,
-Not the kind of God where you have to go to a special place
-But isn’t that how we treat God today sometimes?
we get this idea that God is limited to a church building, or a designated area?
-But God has always been the kind of God who goes where we go, not the other way around
-And then he gives a little bit more detail about David’s request to build a temple
2 Samuel 7:8-11
-God says not only do I not want a house to live in,
-But I’ll double down and I’ll build a house for you
-I’ll establish Jerusalem as your resting place
-Not the other way around
And then he says
And this is the hinge point I was talking about
-God says one of your decendents will be the one who builds a temple for me
-And I will establish His KINGDOM FOREVER
-AND THIS is the critical error that David makes
-this is the point at which the entire Old Testament story begins to go downhill
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