Jesus and the Gentiles

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okay uh obviously as the PowerPoint says x we are going to take a look at uh Jesus x and the Gentiles x um I know my last couple classes have x been on um x you know like Jesus and the Samaritans I x think I did Jesus and the scribes x uh Jesus and the tax collectors so we're x going to give Jesus in the Gentiles the x uh a shot x um today so let's let's talk about the x class in general uh number one obviously x we'll take a look at um x you know some new testament passages x that apply to this I think where God is x telling the children of Israel x hundreds and hundreds of years before x Christ is born that there will be a x messiah that there is a path uh for the x Gentiles to gain salvation we'll take a x look at that we're going to look at um x you know Jesus's uh interaction some of x his first interactions with the Gentiles x uh and then if we have time I think we x will I have a uh a video about x some of the ancient remedies uh that the x ancient Jews and other people uh in x Israel would use to try to get better x a lot of the uh you know the x Superstition and stuff like that some of x the more um I don't know maybe gruesome x remedies or oftentimes the remedy was x worse than the uh than the actual uh x issue that they were having hi Judy x oh hi you too you would you thought you x were gonna sneak in you're not sneaking x in x we always love to see you Judy x all right um so first of all we know x from Jesus's interactions and he said x this to the Samaritan woman uh that he x was sent uh I think he sent this I sent x this to the Pharaohs uh to the Canaanite x woman uh but he was sent to the lost x sheep of the House of Israel that was x his primary goal was to preach the x gospel message of hope uh to his fellow x Jews x that's who he was sent to he was a Jew x himself we know this and he was sent to x his own people to tell them to come back x to God to turn back to God uh that there x was a hope of this you know just think x about the suffering and the oppression x that he was going that um the children x of Israel were going through with uh you x know with the Romans and so the Romans x always kind of play A Part they're x always in the mix oftentimes in the x background but they're still there and x they were really the oppressive Gentiles x right you had a group of Gentiles that x were oppressing the children of God and x so we you know we've talked about this x too about the different factions that x came out of this time period right there x was a faction uh of of people called the x zealots that were just hardcore and they x wanted to get rid of all any influence x from the Greeks or or the Romans within x Israel they wanted you know Israel for x you know Judea for the Jews so to speak x right type of thing okay so where where x do we get this idea that the Gentiles x are also uh you know God has a plan and x purpose for the Gentiles well I mean you x could say that it's found from the very x beginning in Genesis right but we'll x take a look at a couple uh from uh the x prophet Isaiah Isaiah the second chapter x this is one that should be familiar to x us right this is also found in Micah the x fourth chapter uh so we've actually x we've actually got two prophets that x speak of this and actually use a lot of x the same verbiage uh as far as a future x hope a future time when God uh through x his son will reign through the Earth uh x verse two and it shall come to pass in x the last days that the mountain of the x Lord's House x shall be established in the top of the x mountains x and shall be exalted above the hills in x all nations shall flow unto it and many x people shall go and say Come Ye x let us go up to the mountain of the Lord x to the house of the god of Jacob he will x teach us of his ways x we'll walk in his paths for out of the x law our Zion shall go forth the law and x the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and x he shall judge among the Nations and x shall rebuke many people and they shall x beat their swords into plowshares and x their Spears into pruning hooks Nations x shall not lift up sword against Nation x neither shall they learn War anymore o x House of Jacob x and let us walk in the light of the Lord x so that's that's a great prophecy right x it's talking about a future time when x God's will would be done throughout all x the Earth all the wars that we see now x the tumult that we see now is going to x be done away with and God will reign in x righteousness through his son x um and so that was an important part of x the Old Testament there is uh there's x several of these right where God is kind x of telling the children of Israel x through His prophets that this isn't x just your hope x yes the Oracles of God were given to you x yes the law of Moses was the foundation x uh of this wonderful hope but it's going x to be expanded not just to the Jews but x also to the Gentiles as well and who's x at the center point of that well even x though he was sent to the lost sheep of x the tribes of Israel Christ is at the x center of this he is going to be the x catalyst x by which the Gentiles are grafted in as x Paul tells us in Romans right they're x grafted in into the Hope x um x the hope that was given to the Jews as x well okay Isaiah Isaiah was still in x Isaiah 56. x very similar words 56. x um x 56 verse 6. x well first um you know verse 56 thus say x in verse one let's say at the Lord keep x ye judgment x in do justice x for my salvation is near to come in my x righteousness to be revealed well that's x talking about Christ isn't it right here x are those themes again that we find out x find throughout both the Major Prophets x and also the Minor Prophets this idea of x keep ye judgment in do justice right x Mike is going to talk about that and x Micah 6 6 very similar words for my x righteousness x is about to be revealed okay and you x know there's uh there's a little whiff x of John the Baptist and that as well x right which Isaiah talks about as well x but let's take a look at verse six also x the sons of the stranger that join x themselves to the Lord to serve him and x to love the name of the Lord to be his x servants everyone that keepeth the x Sabbath from polluting it and taketh x hold of my Covenant even them will I x bring to my Holy Mountain and make them x joyful In My House of Prayer their burnt x offerings in their sacrifices shall be x accepted upon mine Altar for mine how x shall be called The House of Prayer x for all people x okay and we know that Christ is actually x going to use this right when he's when x is he going to use this he's going to x quote here and uh from uh Isaiah and x also from Jeremiah by the way but when x does he use these these words x say again Jim x the variety purges the temple right he's x gonna when he purges the temple these x are the words that he's going to use x okay which is pretty which is pretty x good okay so even when he's kind of x clearing the temple which was in the x court of the Gentiles by the way it was x where the Gentiles were supposed to go x to worship okay it was the closest that x they could get to the temple of God and x what was in the what was in the um the x court of the Gentiles well uh the the x money changes had taken it over okay and x they had animals and everything else and x so the Gentiles had no place to worship x okay and this is one of the things that x Jesus was concerned about okay so again x was Jesus sent to the lost sheep of the x tribes of Israel absolutely did that x mean he had no dealings with the x Gentiles of course not x all right and then lastly in Isaiah the x 60th chapter x yeah this is this is a good one x uh we're gonna look at uh verses one x through five okay uh arise Shine for thy x light is come in the glory of the Lord x is risen upon me for Behold The Darkness x shall cover the Earth x and gross Darkness to people but the x Lord shall arise upon thee in his glory x shall be seen upon thee and the Gentile x shall come to thy light in Kings to the x brightness of thy Rising lift up thine x eyes round about and see all they gather x themselves together they come to thee x thy son shall come from far and thy x daughters shall be nursed at thy side x then Thou shalt see and flow together x and thine heart shall fear and be x enlarged because the abundance of the x sea shall be converted unto thee the x forces of the Gentile shall come unto x thee so the Gentiles are mentioned quite x a bit and it's there's some wonderful x imagery that is used here right about x Darkness and Light that God revealed his x light to Mankind through his son and x where did that happen it happened x obviously in the in the land of Israel x right the world was in darkness x they didn't know the way of God x and so God in his love and in his Mercy x provides the light x for the first the children of Israel but x also to the Gentiles and we know x brothers and sisters that x uh Christ is going to even though he has x said these words right he says look I x was sent to the lost sheep of the tribe x of Israel that was that's my primary x mission x okay but he also was sent to All Mankind x and uh let's let's take a look at this x in math uh actually in um the end x yeah in Acts chapter one x uh x not sorry mock x try mark x yeah uh Mark 16 x in verse 15 and he said unto them go ye x into the world x and preach the gospel to Every Creature x he that believeth and is baptized shall x be saved but he that believeth not shall x be damned x and these signs shall follow thee that x believe in my name shall they cast out x Devils they shall speak with new tongues x they shall take up serpents and if they x drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt x them they shall lay hands on the sick x and they shall recover and so this was x Christ's commission uh to the children x of uh to to his disciples go out into x the world preach the gospel okay so even x though he had a very specific primary x um primary commission to the Jewish x people x now he's telling his followers not just x the Jewish people anymore go out to all x of the world and we know that Paul is x going to be the great Apostle to the x Gentiles but we know from looking at the x acts he always started in synagogues x right so he's he's going to use the the x Jewish people and kind of their x infrastructure to um you know to kind of x start that process of preaching to the x genitals because they were Gentiles that x were very interested in what the Jews x had to preach they were very interested x in this idea of monotheism x it was so completely different than what x was going on in the world at that time x which had no lie tens of thousands of x different gauze that you had to keep x track of right most people didn't keep x track of them they had you know a x handful of different gods that they x really focused in on but this idea of x monotheism who were these Jews these x Jewish people they got their synagogue x they're very different right they're x very kind of anti-establishment a little x bit right this had this had an impact on x a certain amount of people and there x were Believers of of God I think uh Paul x Paul x um styles them that they weren't Jews x but they were Gentiles that were x interested in the gospel and this is x where you know slowly but surely you x know after uh you know so much x confrontation with the Jewish people uh x or the Jewish leaders in these different x synagogues he says look we you know I x turn to I turn to the Gentiles I'm going x to go to the Gentiles and from that x point on we're going to see a separation x aren't we from the Jewish synagogues x with Paul going in a different direction x focusing mainly x uh on uh Gentile conference x all right any questions comments x yes brother Steve x when you go right back to the promises x to Abraham you know the promise to x Abraham was that all nations would be x blessed through him yes and so this is x this is not like an add-on right it was x like oh let's also remember these people x right I mean the whole plan was that all x the Earth would be filled with the glory x of God the whole plan was that all x nations would be blessed right yeah yeah x that's good point Steve thank you x yes absolutely brother Chris x since since we have a break x sure is this on x definitely so we we often think of Jesus x trying to bring us you know back to God x uh but in fact you mentioned the idea x that he was revealing something he was x the light of the world he was uh x bringing to light something that was x hidden in the Old Testament but he was x trying to bring them forward the the law x was a Schoolmaster to bring us forward x to Christ so something we can learn from x that is uh you know Jesus is trying to x bring us forward to God not trying to x bring us back and that was the problem x with the Jews is they wanted to go back x to the law they didn't want to go x forward and why they wouldn't uh accept x his message okay so he's trying to x reveal something while they're trying to x hold on to the Past you know so whenever x we use the terms back and forward we x should think of God as bringing us x forward x and how difficult it would be right for x a certain x groups of Jews during this time x who all they see is oppression x they see oppression from the religious x their religious leaders right x they also see oppression from the Romans x the Romans were a daily reminder x that they were not free x it's a daily reminder that they had x Masters vicious mean Masters and they x weren't free to do what they wanted they x weren't free to control their own state x their own nation and so that's going to x bother a lot of people and it's going to x culminate as we know right in ad70 x there's going to be a full-on Revolt x while starting in A.D 66 but there's x going to be a full-on revolt x against Roman uh Roman uh you know rule x and the Romans are going to be merciless x when they come in they're going to just x you know kill tens of thousands of x people they're going to destroy the x temple Mount uh and they're going to x scatter a lot of the Jewish people take x them captive I mean there's actually a x relief that you can go uh titus's Arch x right you can go into Rome and you can x see it and what is it depict it depicts x uh Jewish um you know Jewish people x enslaved being brought back to the uh to x Rome to be sold in the uh x you know to be sold as slaves in the x slave market and you know just think x about that life right uh is actually one x of I I believe in that the Arch of Titus x they're actually carrying uh the x Candlestick right from uh from inside of x the temple as a you know as a piece of x booty right you know and just think x about all the uh all the stuff that they x brought out of the temple I mean x millions of dollars worth of uh gold x right that x that's right yeah brother Steve just x said it paid for the Coliseum 100 x correct uh and there there's um x there's some evidence as well that some x of the Jews Jewish slaves were actually x uh brought in to work on the Coliseum as x well so you know tight uh Vespasian and x Titus are going to use that money to x kind of you know build this Coliseum and x then have all these awesome games and x people are like yeah Vespasian is the x best Titus is the best right and it x keeps the people placated right uh bread x and circuses as they said you feed them x give them a little wine and then x entertain them and they're going to be x fine right you can tax them and they're x not going to do anything all right uh so x let's take a look at Matthew x Matthew chapter 8 x . yeah so this is um x this is this is interesting here in x Matthew chapter 8 and verse 11. x um so this is actually and we'll look at x this probably next week but this is his x interaction with the Centurion a gentile x okay and this is kind of his PostScript x this is what he speaks to his disciples x after this event let's take a look at it x uh Matthew 8 beginning in verse 11 and I x say unto you x that many shall come from the East and x West and shall sit down with Abraham x Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven x but the children of the king with the x children of the Kingdom x shall be cast out into outer Darkness x there shall be weeping and gnashing of x teeth x so there's there's some imagery that x Christ is using right he's talking about x people coming from all kinds of x different places from the East and the x West right which is a euphemism from x everybody all nations are coming x and it says that they're going to shall x sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob I x think other other Renditions talks about x lounging right kind of the kind of you x know lounging back was you're having a x meal a very relaxed meal with Abraham x Isaac and Jacob think about that visual x okay x um but you yourself are cast out in x other words the children of the Kingdom x the Jewish people Jesus is saying the x children of the Kingdom would be cast x out the thing that they were longing for x but the Gentiles would be the ones that x would be dining x reclining I think that was the word x reclining x at dinner with Abraham Isaac and Jacob x okay and so Christ is saying this and he x says this right after he heals the x servant of the Centurion a Roman x Centurion x right x this guy's the Roman institution in in x Judea was hated x and this guy was a representation but x we'll get into that a little bit more x because he was you know he was the x Centurion actually was a very he was x very kind to the Jewish people and cared x for them and this this happened a lot x you know where where Romans you know x Roman soldiers from all different places x of the of the world come in there they x said okay you're in the Army for 20 x years right x this is where you're going to be staying x and you're like yeah I'm staying in x Israel you know you know nothing about x it but then you know you spend a lot of x time there and you acclimate yourself to x the people x oftentimes they would take um wives x okay from from the surrounding areas x from from those people so who knows we x don't we're not really told to back up x we'll we'll do a deep dive next next x week in on the Centurion some other x people okay so Jesus is using this x imagery again that's taken actually x brothers and sisters right from the Old x Testament right right from Isaiah it's x very seamless like uh you know brother x Chris said this isn't something new x right x um and brother Steve said the same thing x okay x now let's talk about the very first x Gentiles okay now there is some x um x controversy right uh around this you x know what we're the wise men x uh Jews or Gentiles okay I think they x were Gentiles okay who obviously had x been exposed x um to Jewish thought and Jewish ideas x and Jewish uh religion as well x um because we know there was uh you know x the Jews were brought to Babylon the x majority of Jews brothers and sisters in x Babylon stayed in Babylon they didn't go x back to Jerusalem they acclimated x themselves they stayed there and there's x there was a Jewish presence in this area x uh x I think until very recently I think like x the last Jew in Baghdad finally died it x was driven out or something like that x like 10 years ago I think but during x this time uh there was a sizable x population of Jewish people living in x Babylon and so you know that uh you know x they would have obviously come in x contact with these people had x conversations with them but so the wise x men from the East are going to be the x very first Gentiles that are going to uh x uh they're going to see Jesus you know x the Shepherds see him obviously first x out in the fields and then uh you know x later on we're really not told you know x how how long afterward but anyways uh x you know and we there's you know how x many wise men were there well x traditionally you know it says the three x wise the Bible doesn't really say that x there were three wise men doesn't give x us a number but we know that they x brought three gifts so you know x not a big deal either way they're coming x from the East they see this light right x so just think about that you know x oftentimes in scripture we can read the x words x but we don't really internalize the x meaning of those words I'll give you an x example x the wise men came from the East x well what does that mean the wise men x coming from the East well it means that x they have to travel like five six x hundred miles following this star right x and wherever it's going so there's a x tremendous amount of curiosity number x one x courage x but you know obviously they're really x committed to finding out what the deal x is with this uh with this stop x what's going on this was this was x something incredible that they saw now x these mad guy okay uh they were ancient x Persian priests there was an there is x and it's still around today there's an x ancient Persian religion called x zoroastrin and they they they're x um the kind of monotheistic x in a way their main god or their only x God is a horror Mazda x and they've been worshiping him for x thousands and thousands of years uh x there's still some uh there's still some x zarastrians around uh in is not Israeli x out in Iran today but most of them were x wiped out when the uh when the Arabs x came up in um what 700s they came up x there and they you know they converted x to Islam all of them by force mostly x anyways um so let's just take a look at x Daniel uh the fifth chapter here x I haven't turned to Daniel in a while x this is the first Daniel turn x Ezekiel oh here we are all right Daniel x chapter five x and verse 11. so it's gonna the these x are who they're talking about here these x the wise men okay x um this is when uh belshazzar sees the x you know mini mini Tiko you frassen he x sees and he's like what's going on we x need guys I don't know what's going on x please and send for the uh the holy the x holy wise men okay verse 11 there is a x man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit x of the Holy Gods he's speaking about x Daniel and in the days of thy father x light and understanding and wisdom like x the wisdom of the Gods was found in him x whom the King Nebuchadnezzar thy father x the king I say thy father made master x of The Magicians astrologers Chaldeans x and soothsayers right and so Daniel was x recognized as the head of all the wise x men x okay he was he was put in charge of all x of these different people they were x really the advisors for the king of x Babylon at this time but you know x there's a lot of other stuff going on x here too astrologers magicians x soothsayers x so they had a wide variety of knowledge x okay that they could share with people x these are the type of people uh that x that are coming to see Jesus so uh I x think it's kind of a foreshadow right x when you look at what Isaiah is talking x about all the people they shall come x from the East and West right well where x the Magi come from they came from the x East they're already coming into the x land of Israel to see the Messiah right x at his birth x you know we have this kind of happening x uh the Prophecies of Isaiah and Micah x and other places are coming coming to x pass with the birth of Jesus x um all right in Matthew chapter 2 x there's a couple things we can take a x look at here we know that uh Jesus is x Jesus you know Mary and Joseph are going x to go down into Egypt again x there is a sizable population of Jews x that lived in Egypt particularly in x Alexandria x um x but in other places and so that would x make sense right for x Joseph and Mary to go down there but one x of the things I want to get get at is x um x you know Jesus is going to come in x contact with all types of different x people you know he's down in Egypt he's x going to see Egyptians right when he's x living up in Nazareth Nazareth had a lot x of different people coming uh coming and x going in that area Okay the further away x you got from Jerusalem in Judea x the more mixed and the more diverse x ethnic ethnically it became all right x closer to Jerusalem heavy heavy Jewish x population the further away from x Jerusalem oh now you get all kinds of x different people particularly up north x up in the up in the Galilee x um you know who knows it's a hodgepodge x up there right it's kind of like the we x talked about it's kind of like the Wild x West in a lot of different ways all x right so Jesus was not didn't live an x isolated life just kind of in Jewish x culture he obviously was steeped in it x but he knew of other people x right he saw different different types x of people he came in contact with them x all right x um and so he would he would have seen x and come across all types of different x people from all over the region uh why x didn't I put Matthew 2 here hold on hold x on x oh yeah yeah okay yeah this is about x um yeah verse 11. uh and when they verse x 10 and when they saw the star they x rejoiced with exceeding great joy and it x says you know they came into the house x they worshiped Jesus and when they had x opened their Treasures they presented x unto him gifts gold uh gold and franks x frankincense and myrrh and so they x actually come it's really interesting x that the wise men come down to Jerusalem x and they're like hey where is I think x they asked this question where is uh x in verse um x in the wise man verse one they came wise x men from the east of Jerusalem saying x where is he that is born King of the x Jews for we have seen his star in the x east x and our come to worship him so they're x thinking they're coming down and it's x going to be like a like a big x celebration that the Messiah has been x born and meanwhile no one knows nothing x and Herod actually is like what king of x the Jews wait a minute I'm the king of x the Jews right and so he's gonna you're x gonna try to quash that immediately and x we know that this is when um you know x the death of the Innocence is going to x happen he's going to send you know his x troops down into x um into Bethlehem and kill all the you x know the toddler is two years old and x and under you know it's awful situation x all right last thing we'll take a look x at um before we take a look at this x video here in Matthew 4. x and we'll we'll end with we'll end with x this uh with this quote here x um yeah verse 23 x chapter 4 and Jesus went about all x Galilee teaching in their synagogues and x preaching the gospel of the Kingdom x inhaling all manner of sickness in all x manner of disease among the people okay x so he's healing them he's preaching the x kingdom of God well who was he preaching x to who is he healing well in his Fame x went through all Syria huh x and they brought unto him all sick x people that were taken with torments x uh x uh with diverse diseases and torments x and those which were possessed with x devils and those which were lunatic and x those that had the palsy and he healed x them and they followed him great x multitudes of people from Galilee and x from decapolis and from Jerusalem and x from Judea and from Beyond Jordan x so there's people coming from all over x from Syria Syria is not Israel brothers x and sisters he's having Gentiles right x when he starts x his his ministry uh in in the Galilee x immediately he's coming into contact x with Gentiles immediately he's healing x these people x okay and so again even though he's not x sent primarily to gentiles x and he'll get into this in his talk you x know there's always the crumbs that fall x from the Masters table right and so this x I think this is a great example he's up x in Sarah I got you Steve he's up in x Syria and uh you know the syrians are x coming people from decapolis are coming x as well the capitalist was filled with x Gentiles Jews and Gentiles coming to x Christ to be healed it's great it's x great imagery real estate x so you just brought us through the x temptation of Jesus and and all of these x Gentiles that are sort of coming to him x and right after the temptation of Jesus x he's in Nazareth x and and he goes into the synagogue there x in Nazareth and he reads from The Scroll x of Isaiah and his neighbors are like who x is this guy right and Jesus replies to x them and says look you know in the time x of Elijah there were a lot of widows in x Israel x but who did Elijah heal right who did x Elijah help right it was the Widow of x where was it zerefest yeah Zarephath x yeah you know so so it wasn't a Jew x right it was a gentile yes and then he x says you know in in Elijah's time there x were a lot of lepers in Israel but who x did he heal x Naaman you know not a Jew right and I x think that you know I thought that was x really fast and and they're incensed x over this and that's why they wanted to x throw him over the cliff because they x thought you know it was just for the x Jews yeah absolutely it's great Steve x yes and so even even when he's starting x out on his ministry there's that little x piece there of you know spreading the x gospel of the Gentiles as well yes x brother Chris x taking the same point but it's something x I had I hadn't seen and it kind of goes x back to you know just another way of x saying something that I previously said x but looking at the Magi coming uh gives x us an idea that the religious Elite in x Babylon was preoccupied what with the x coming watching and waiting for the x coming of the Messiah to fulfill x Daniel's prophecy and when we compare x that to what the Jewish Elite in x Jerusalem was preoccupied with sweeping x a house clean and trying to go back to x fulfill the law which they couldn't do x the first time around but they were so x preoccupied with that again they refused x to come forward so it's interesting to x see you know again what was the at the x foremost thought of those coming from x the East was looking for the coming x Messiah where there are those in x Jerusalem were so preoccupied with the x minutia that they missed the big picture x entirely yeah x very good all right so we're gonna we're x gonna stop there for now okay next week x we'll get into the um you know some of x some of the other uh instances where x Jesus is going to interact with x different Gentiles uh heal different x Gentile peoples as well uh and we'll x take a look at maybe some of the lessons x right what are some of the lessons that x we can take from these wonderful stories x and apply into our lives okay x that's always really it you know that's x why they're written for us right well x how do we these are wonderful stories x right are they making an impact on us x right that's always the question x yeah we read the Bible up we know our x Bibles we can quote the Bible is it is x it written on our hearts are we using it x as the road map to our Salvation x so all right so this video right here x will start we'll probably watch like 10 x minutes of it somewhere around there and x it's called Uh x uh what is it called x it's called life um know life in x biblical times let me pull this up yeah x yeah uh what was everyday life like when x Jesus was alive it's two hours and a x half x okay we're not we're not reading we're x gonna watch this hold on people people x are dinging me right now I got I got x several dings x oh x reposition my mic yes repositioning my x mic x sister penny is that better x thank you all right all right so with x this section right here is about x um some of the ancient uh x you know practices around medicine okay x and what you know when Jesus was a x Healer right these are the Jesus is you x know he's healing all of these people so x they all have different issues that x they're dealing with well outside of x Jesus how would you deal with an issue x that you had like a some kind of medical x issue well it's not great brothers and x sisters right and so you can you can x understand why Jesus was so popular x right uh you can just imagine what these x poor people went through to try to get x some relief from their uh from their x infirmities all right this guy's pretty x good x live it