It's so good to be here tonight,
and it's good to have those who are joining us by Zoom, and we
look forward to hearing from someone that joins us by sermon
audio. We're going to be in the book
of Zechariah again tonight, and we're going to be in the book
of Zechariah chapter 11, the Gospel according to Zechariah.
And there is verse 8 that we'd like to look at tonight, but
I'd like to read verses 7 and 8, as we look at this wonderful
passage of Scripture that the Lord shares with us with regard
to shepherds. And in verse 8, He's talking
about cutting off some shepherds, and we'd like to look at that
tonight. But in Zechariah 11, verse 7, And I will feed the
flock of slaughter, Even you, O poor of the flock. And I took
unto me two staves, the one called Butan, and the other one called
Bans, and I fed the flock. Verse eight, three shepherds
also I cut off in one month. and my soul loathed them, and
their soul also abhorred me." And then verse 9, "...then said
I, I will not feed you." that that dieth, let it die, and that
that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest
eat every one the flesh of another. We'd like to spend some time
on that eighth verse. Now, as we look at this eighth
verse, We need to look at it not as literal shepherds. So
often in the scriptures we find symbolism. And in this passage
of scripture, I believe that the Lord is sharing with us through
the prophet Zechariah that there are three groups of people contained
in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament that were
to shepherd the flock of the Lord, or to shepherd the people
of the Lord. They were the prophets, the priests, and the kings. Tonight
we'd like to look at those three entities as they're found in
the Old Testament, and a few of them that we find fulfilled,
all of them are fulfilled in the name of Jesus Christ himself.
He is the true prophet, he is the true priest, and he is the
true king. But most of the Old Testament
shepherds failed in their task. Even the best of them show us
that they were nothing more than human. There is only one that
can fulfill all of the requirements of a prophet, all the requirements
of a priest, and all the requirements of a king from a spiritual standpoint,
and that is our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. During the time
of Israel as a kingdom, there were these three classes, and
we find there were always rises and falls among these folks.
So as we look at this subject tonight, join me, if you would,
in the book of Matthew chapter seven for our first reading.
Matthew chapter seven. We'd like to look at the prophets,
we'd like to look at the priests, and we'd like to look at the
kings. And a prophet is meant, to receive a message from, and
use from our standpoint, a message from God. That's what a prophet
was to do. And then communicate that message
to the people. And generally speaking, we have
16 Old Testament prophet books. And that's Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Daniel, and then the ones that we're studying now,
the minor prophets. But we have other prophets that were around
at that time. But those 16 wrote to us the
message of the Lord. They were to be the ones that
communicated the message of the Lord. And that's very important
when we study the Old Testament, that they are communicating to
us the message of the Lord. These folks did not exist on
their own and they did not exist for their own glory, they existed
for the glory of God. Now we find that the New Testament
shares with us that they were holy men. Now that's like reading
Just Lot, or Justified Zacharias, or other folks in the scripture,
that they were justified, only God's people are truly holy. Without the holiness of God given
to us, we have no holiness. So these men were called holy
men of God. I'm going to take it to the bank
that they were believers in the Messiah, Christ Jesus, that God
had given them the new birth, just like he gives it to his
people today, that they were elect before the foundation of
the world. And God carried out his wonderful
gospel to them. Someone brought him the message.
Now, oftentimes we don't know who. That's not the important
thing. It's what was brought to them
and what was the results of what was brought to them, and that
was their life and their willingness. God gave them a will to serve
him. And we have those Old Testament
prophets brought out. Now, there are prophets mentioned
that sometimes not even by name. Sometimes they are mentioned
throughout books of the Old Testament. But let us look over here in
the book of Matthew chapter 17, as the Lord shares with us a
great warning. Matthew chapter 17 and verse
15. Excuse me, Matthew chapter 7,
verse 15. Matthew chapter 7 and verse 15.
The Lord shared here that there is a great beware Beware of false
prophets. Now, a prophet is to deliver
the message of God. A prophet is a representative
to deliver the message of God. When we read the book of Zechariah,
we're receiving the message that God gave to Zechariah. When we're
reading Ezekiel, now it may be hard for us to understand. It
may be hard for us to comprehend. We do know that it doesn't mean
a lot of things that's being said about it. It has something
to do with the person, work, and glory of our Savior, the
Lord Jesus. So those men that wrote, wrote
by inspiration. They wrote because the Holy Spirit
moved them, and they gave to us a message. Now the Lord shares
with us here, beware of false prophets which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. So
a great difference between them and the prophets that we read
about here in the Old Testament, those 16 in particular, is that
they were the sheep of God and we have these ravening wolves
that have the interest in destroying the true message of grace. That's what they seek to destroy.
The prophets of the Old Testament declared the true glory of God,
of grace. Now, in the book of Nehemiah,
would you join me in the book of Nehemiah? As we look at the
Lord dealing with, he said, I will kill three prophets in a month.
Now that passage of scripture in a month is not necessarily
a specific amount of time. It has the context of looking
over a period of time. Here in the book of Nehemiah
chapter six, Nehemiah chapter six. And you know, it's interesting
how our Bible was put together, because Nehemiah, Ezra and Nehemiah
were after the 70 years. And all of the other prophets
are prior to them going into captivity. So here we have Ezra,
Nehemiah, in Nehemiah chapter six, And there in verse 10, Nehemiah
chapter six and verse 10. Afterward, I came into the house
of Shemiah, the son of Deliah, the son of Methabel, who was
shut up. And he said, let us meet together
in the house of God within the temple and let us shut the doors
of the temple for they will come to slay thee. Yea, in the night
will they come to slay thee. And I said, Nehemiah said, should
such a man as I flee, who is there that being as I am would
go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. And lo, I perceived that God
had sent not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecy against
me, for Tobiah and Samballot had hired him." We're going to
find that that has much to do with the false prophets contained
in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. They have
been hirelings. And in the book of Deuteronomy,
as we look at this with regard to false prophets, and we're
gonna look at some with regard to the prophets of God, but in
Deuteronomy chapter 13, Deuteronomy chapter 13, we have this message
given to us. Old Testament, Deuteronomy chapter
13, and there in verses one, two, and three, Deuteronomy 13.
If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to
pass. Deuteronomy 13. Verses 1, 2,
and 3. If the sign of the wonder come
to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying... Now, the Lord
mentions this in the New Testament, and, you know, I hear it all
the time about people saying what miracle took place, and
what miracle took place, and what was told me, and what I
saw, and I saw the Lord by the clothesline, and He told me this
and that. Well, here we have these people
that pretend to create great miracles, and whatever it is,
this is the key to it though. They may be able to do things
that are beyond our ability to do things, but he said here,
this is the crux of the matter, let us go after other gods. Now if that's what the message
is, after the eye has been caught by some miracle, some grandiose
thing, some grandiose speaker, some whatever, he says, let us
go after other gods which thou hast not known and let us serve
them. Thou shall not hearken unto the
words. of that prophet or that dreamer
of dreams for the Lord your God proveth you to know whether you
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul. So if someone comes along with a great miracle some And
they say, let's go over here and let's have a conversation
on free will. Let's have a conversation on
God intended to save everybody. I was looking at a book I have
in there and on the outside, he made provision for everybody.
And on the backside of this fence, it says election and predestination. I says, he's got it backwards.
That should be on the front of the gate too. God never made
provision for everybody. God never intended to save everybody. God has made a great statement
about He's not going to save a bunch of people. So we're not
going to go there. And people are going to come
along and try to move us from our position. I was in a conversation
the other day. It's interesting how things are
moving along. And I said, you know, one thing
about salvation, it caused me to quit looking at every wind
of doctrine. It just stops. You just are settled
on this one issue, Christ is the issue. And we're not attracted
by all the nonsense that is coming along. Well, it's brought out
in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 13, by Moses to the children
of Israel, that God said, this is what I'm going to do. Now,
if someone comes along and has great swelling words and then
tell us to go off and worship some idol, Stay away, stay away. False prophets do not point towards
Christ. They lead away to follow other
gods. The Bible has much to say about
false prophets. It has a lot to say about prophets.
I know 16 of them that were men. One of my favorite verses about
John, there was a man sent from God. whose name was John. There was a man. Now Zachariah
was a man. Haggai was a man. Jeremiah was a man. Ezekiel was
a man. These are all men. And they have
failures. and they will admit failures.
They will be like those men that we've heard about recently, particularly
as we think about Paul, oh wretched man that I am. They were failures
in themselves. Their only success was in Christ.
Their only glory was in Christ. The only one that they could
say that represented them well was Christ. We can't represent
ourselves well, but Christ represents us very well as the true prophet. Once again, let's look here in
the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah the prophet, he was
a man sent from God. He was a man sent from God. His name was Jeremiah. So let's
look here in the book of Jeremiah. The prophets of God declared
the gospel. The prophets of God declared
Christ. The prophets of God were not popular. The prophets of
God were often thrown out, thrown in dungeons, ill-treated, maltreated
in all kinds of ways. But they stood firm on the grace
of God. It is the grace of God. It is
the blood of the Messiah. They didn't know his name was
Jesus, but they did know the Messiah. His name was Jesus given
in the New Testament. Now, I can't find that name in
the Old Testament, but I do find Messiah. I do find Jehovah. I do find those good names that
apply to our Savior when He came. All right, here in the book of
Jeremiah chapter 14. Jeremiah chapter 14. And there in verse 14. Then the Lord said unto me, the
prophets prophesy lies. Now this was so prominent during
the time. It's no wonder the Lord said,
I'm going to kill a bunch of shepherds because they're prophesying
lies. Now, the Lord never sent someone
after Jeremiah to kill him, but he did send others. A whole host
in the day of a great prophet said, get all the prophets of
Baal over here and all the priests of Baal over here. Well, the
end of the story is he went and slew them. Now, there's only
one way that we can slay false prophets today, and that is with
the gospel. They'll either be turned or they'll
be burned, but that's it. God will turn them. All right,
here, the Lord said unto me, the prophets prophesy lies in
my name. I sent them not, neither have
I commanded them, neither spake unto them. They prophesy unto
you a false vision and divination and a thing of naught and deceit
of their heart. of their heart. So this is their
message. It is not the message of grace.
It's not the message of Christ. It's not the message of election
before the foundation of the world. It is not the message
of God as a people that he chose and wrote down in the Lamb's
Book of Life before the foundation of the world. Their message was
usually based upon heredity. Are you related to Abraham? Well, the church is related to
Abraham by faith. But it's not. They are not all
Israelites who are of Israel. So there was no message there
that Jeremiah was declaring that way. He understood. Isaiah understood. There was going to be some Gentiles
coming in. You know, the church has always understood that, that
it was not just a peculiar people, particular people called Hebrews,
but it was a church out of every nation, kindred, people, and
tongue. Now, Peter brings the same subject up over in the book
of 2 Peter 2. 2 Peter 2. Turn there with me if you would.
2 Peter 2. Peter brings this up and says,
in 2 Peter 2 and verse 1, and he brings us to the Old Testament
and then brings it forward. But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you. who privately shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction. What did the Lord share through
Zechariah in Zechariah chapter 11 and verse 8? I'm going to
kill some shepherds. I'm going to kill three shepherds.
And he's been in the business of doing that. Now he's going
to bring judgment upon them in the day of judgment. But there
were others, those prophets of Baal, they met the Lord quicker
than they thought they would. That prophet went out and slew
them. And you know, they had to be
held still. God held them still while he slew them. Now he does
that spiritually. I was a false prophet. I was
a liar about God and he slew me spiritually. He put me in
the dung heap so they could raise me up. So the Lord is about that
even today. All right, and in 1 John, book
of 1 John chapter four, verse one. In 1 John chapter four,
verse one. Beloved, believe not every spirit. But try the spirits, whether
they are of God. Now, what is a spirit of God
going to share? Christ, the message of Christ,
the hope of Christ, the mercy of Christ, going to share with
us the gospel and not going to add anything to it. I was really
touched, I mentioned that Sunday the other day, about people who
say that this person mixes law and grace. That is an absolute
impossibility. If you add any law, it is not
any grace at all. So there is no mixture. It's
law or grace, works or grace. And that's what we have. These
prophets were adding works, works, works. All right, so the prophets
that we have, we know them as down through the ages. There
were those 16 identified. Some of them wrote a very short
book, Obadiah. Jeremiah and Isaiah wrote very
long letters, but they were all in agreement when it came to
the subject of every one of those. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name Immanuel,
which being interpreted is God with us. Now that's the hope
of the church. God with us would lay down his
life, a ransom for us. All right, let's look at the
next group that was supposed to be shepherds. And that was
the priests. The priests were to be shepherds.
Now we have really two mentioned in scriptures a lot. One of them is Melchizedek. Now
there's more mentioned in the New Testament about Melchizedek
in the book of Hebrews than there is mentioned in the book of Genesis.
But the other one was one put in place by God and his name
was Aaron. Now there's much said in the
book of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy about Aaron. And he's even brought
over into the New Testament in the book of Hebrews again. The Lord does not have a lineage
after Aaron. He's not of the Aaronic priesthood. Aaron had a great deal of faults.
He was a human being. And one of the things that we
find out about the priesthood, they were to represent pertaining
the things of God. And turn over there with me to
the book of Leviticus, would you? For just a moment. Here
we have a priest, or two priests, and it tells us that they brought
something else besides the gospel. That's all we can boil it down
to. Leviticus chapter 10, verses 1 and 2. These are Aaron's sons. Nancy and I were given a compliment
the other day, even in our ignorance, even in my ignorance as a preacher. We did something to our children
that most preachers in my position would have not done, and that
is we left them alone. We didn't try to get a profession
out of them. Now most preachers want to get
a profession out of their kids by the age four because they're
the winnable ones. And then they have to deal with
all the nonsense the rest of their lives about them. One of
our children said they thanked us for not trying to wiggle a
profession out of them. Well, I was ignorant and I was
in homemade religion, man-made religion, but that wasn't part
of it and I'm thankful because I've been around others that
really tried to get it done. Well, here in the book of Leviticus
chapter 10, these two boys, young men, were ordained to the Levitical
priesthood because they were Aaron's sons. Aaron had four
sons, and all of them were ordained to the Levitical priesthood.
Now that's a great error when it comes to a priesthood, and
that is that it's heretical. You inherit it. But it also was
heretical, because these two guys didn't know the first thing
about the gospel. It tells us here in Leviticus
chapter 10, And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either
of them a censer, and put fire therein, and put incense therein,
and offered... Now this is a strange fire. before the Lord, which he commanded
them not." So they're doing two errors. The Lord commanded them
not, and they went and offered it anyway. And there went out
fire from the Lord. The Lord slew his shepherds. three of them in a month. Now
here's two right at the same moment. Now when we were going
through the book of Leviticus, I found out that those clothes
that they were wearing was not consumed. It was their bodies
that were consumed. They went out fire from the Lord
and devoured them and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said
unto Aaron, this is that the Lord spake saying, I will be
sanctified in them that Come nigh me before all people, I
will be glorified, and Aaron held his peace." You know what? Aaron wasn't even permitted to
mourn over the passing of his sons. But here we have, they
offered strange fire. Every Sunday, I wonder how much
strange fire is being offered in the world today. Strange fire. Stuff that's not in the book.
or one verse of scripture removed from a whole context presented
as the truth. So these priests were really
rascals. All right, turn with me again
to the book of Jeremiah. The Lord said, I'm going to slay
three shepherds. We have the prophets, we have
the priests, and we have the kings. And they were men, and
many of them, maybe most of them, were beyond men. Lord! The attitude that they
had towards God. Alright, here in the book of
Jeremiah chapter 14 again. Jeremiah chapter 14, and there
in verse 14. Then the LORD spake unto me,
The prophets..." Oh, what did I do? Let me... Jeremiah chapter 5, excuse
me. Jeremiah chapter 5. Jeremiah chapter 5, verse 30. A wonderful and horrible thing
is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love
to have it so. And what will ye do in the end
thereof? I will kill three shepherds in
a month. Now he's going to come out against
them, he's going to judge them. In the book of Judges chapter
17, turn with me to the book of Judges chapter 17. During
the time of the Judges, We find that Israel was given every opportunity,
if it were possible, just like at the end of the flood. People
say, if we could just get everybody in a fine house, and everybody
with a car, and everybody with a check, and everybody, things
would go better. ever an opportunity in the world
that things could have got better, it was after the flood when there
were eight people and all the same family members. It should
have been better. They should have known better.
They should have known why the flood was caused to begin with.
And yet it did not change because it didn't change the hearts of
people. The offspring of those folks were just like offspring
of my dad. Well, here in the book of Judges,
we have a period of time when the people did not have a king,
they had God's judges. And they would go along and it
looks like they would have an opportunity to straighten things
up if it ever could happen. But it didn't. And they would
go off and fall after other gods and follow after other prophets. And here in the book of Judges
chapter 17, verse five, the scripture shares this. And the man Micah
had an house of gods, made an ephod and a teraphim and consecrated
one of his sons who became his priest. In those days, there
was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right
in his own eyes. And there was a young man out
of Bethlehem, Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and
he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the
city of Bethlehem, Judah, to sojourn where he could find a
place. And he came to Mount Ephraim,
to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto
him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a
Levite of Bethlehem, Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find
a place. And Micah said unto him, dwell
with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give
you ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel
and food. So the Levite went in." What
a sad commentary on this priest. We find that throughout the Scriptures.
There were those priests that a priest was a representative
from God to man. And the best that Aaron could
do still fell far short. As that man was carrying that
blood into the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement, He committed
a thousand times more sin than was necessary for him to be sent
to an eternal hell if it was left to him. He was a sinner
by nature. He was a sinner by birth. He
was a sinner by practice. And yet he had all of that fine
covering and oil put on him and consecrated by God and yet left
to himself on the most religious day of his life. He was a sinner
before God. And his only hope could be in
a God that saves sinners. Kings. When we go to the Kings,
we find that Saul was the first king. And you know, it's terrible
to read about that, when Samuel came and said, what means the
bleeding of the sheep and the bleeding of the cows? What's
going on here? Because he was ordered to kill
every one of that, every child, every woman, every man, every
beast, everything. And he has the audacity to say
that I saved these for sacrifice. Well, the Prophet Samuel says,
you've checked yourself off from being king. And he went and anointed
David king. Now, he didn't anoint who he
thought he would, because when he got down there, there's a
big, tall, strapping young man who looked like a king should
look. And he went through that whole group of boys, and finally
he said, is there someone else here? And he said, yeah, David's
out there watching the father's sheep. He said, bring him in
here. So he didn't look like a king, he didn't act like a
king, but God made him king. And God said, he's a man after
my own heart. And we followed David's life,
and he disappoints us. Just like we disappoint people,
we're human beings. David has a place in glory because
of God's act on him and not because of David's act. He didn't have
David's faith, he had God's faith. He didn't have David's salvation,
he had God's salvation. He didn't have David's name written
down, he had his name written in glory before the foundation
of the world. So we follow this out. And I copied this, and some
of you can recognize where this came from. This came from the Thompson Chain Reference
Bible. Now this is one man's idea. This is one man's graphic. of Judah. This is the tribes
of Judah. If you notice here, we have Saul,
then David, and then we have Solomon, and then we have Rehoboam. Now, that's Solomon's son. Now,
you can just follow that. Now, I cut off a bunch of the
explanation down here because I didn't agree with it. But we
can look here at the... I don't know. Anyway, we can look at this graphic
and see that even at the best, there was not much there. And
it goes downhill, raises low, downhill, downhill, downhill,
downhill. And then we have the Babylonian captivity. The evil kings, and God got after them and God
sold them. The only reason he preserved
these two tribes in Babylonian captivity is in the tribe of
Judah in the loins of a man was the seed of the Messiah. And
that's the only reason that any of those folks got out of Babylonian
captivity because the 10 tribes, they got ushered out, inbred,
taken away. Don't hear much about him. But
the tribe of Judah needed to be preserved. Now turn with me,
if you would, to the book of Acts chapter 12. Acts chapter
12. Now this is a New Testament king.
And this king was shut down very quickly. He was King Herod. Remember what happened to King
Herod? Hmm. Acts chapter 12, verse 21. And upon a set day, Herod, arrayed
in royal apparel, sat upon his throne and made an oration unto
them. And the people gave a shout,
you know, this is a God. They didn't know
anything either. Saying, it is the voice of a
God and not of a man. And immediately the angel of
the Lord smote him because he gave not God the glory and he
was eaten with worms and gave up the ghost. Now that is a pretty
straightforward dealing with one of the shepherds, King Herod. God dealt with the shepherds
in the Old Testament, the prophets, the priests, and the kings. Now
we're thankful as we come to the New Testament, as we come
to the New Testament, that it is declared throughout the Old
Testament that there is a true prophet coming, a true priest
coming, and a true king coming. Not this King David or Solomon
or Rehoboam, but the true prophet. Not a priest like Aaron. but
a priest after the order of Melchizedek, and not a king like these kings,
but a king of kings and Lord of lords, the Lord Jesus Christ. So turn with me, if you would,
to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18. Now Moses, speaks about this prophet coming
in the book of Deuteronomy. And it's picked up several times
in the New Testament. But in the book of Deuteronomy,
chapter 18, now Moses has had some trouble with the people.
Have you noticed that? Moses has said some things and the
people didn't follow him. And Moses said some things and
they got really upset with him. And Moses was, his life was threatened.
I don't know how many times between they left the Red Sea and entering
into the Promised Land. He had been threatened. They
wanted to take his life. They wanted to turn around and
go back. And here in the middle of all that, in the book of Deuteronomy
18 verse 15, the scriptures share this. The Lord thy God will raise
up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren,
like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken. Now you don't pay much
attention to me. What did the Lord tell Isaiah?
They're not gonna hear you. He could have said that to Moses
too. They're not going to pay any attention to you. But this
Moses knew something about the Messiah and the Holy Spirit gave
him this message that there's going to be a prophet coming.
Him you will hear. Now a whole bunch of people don't
pay any attention, that's just normal, but He does cause some
people to pay attention. And they turn aside to see this
great sight. He turns them and they shall
be turned. He gives them a will, His will. Well, the New Testament
picks this up twice in the book of the Acts. Would you turn that?
Well, before we get there, John chapter one. John chapter 1.
Now there was a person in the New Testament times that was
quizzed about whether he was this prophet or not. John chapter
1. John chapter 1 verse 19. He is
quizzed over this and he given every opportunity to be popular. And he doesn't. He says, no,
I'm not him, I'm not him. All right, here in the book of
John 1, verse 19, and this is the record of John, when the
Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who
art thou? We wanna know. The guys back
in Jerusalem wanna know who you were. And he confessed and denied
not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him,
what then, art thou Elias? And he said unto them, I am not.
Well, Elias was promised to come before the Christ. He said, I'm
not. Art thou the prophet? And he
answered, no. Are you that prophet that Moses
wrote about in the law? No. Then said they unto him,
Who art thou that we may give answer to them that sent us?
What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am a voice of
one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the
Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. I'm just a voice in the wilderness. Are you that prophet? Are you
the Christ? Are you the Messiah? And he turned
it all down, because he wasn't, and he knew it. All right, two
verses in the book of Acts, and we'll close, and we'll pick this
up, Lord willing, next time. Acts chapter three, verse 22. Acts chapter three, verse 22
and 23. And for Moses truly said unto
the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto
you of your brethren like unto me, him shall ye hear in all
things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to
pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be
destroyed from among the people. Now that's an important, this
prophet's important. You may not pay attention to
Isaiah or Jeremiah, but you know what? If they'll not hear Moses
and the prophets, they will not believe the one rose from the
dead. Now, we have here one other verse
and that is in Acts chapter seven and you remember that Stephen
speaking. He's, from a historical standpoint,
preaching Christ all the way through the Old Testament. And
in the book of Acts, chapter 7, verse 37, this is that Moses
which said unto the children of Israel, a prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me,
him ye shall hear. This is he that was in the church
in the wilderness, with the angel which spake unto him in Mount
Sinai, and with your fathers, and received the lively oracles
to give unto us." Here is that prophet one more time brought
up. Now we do have a prophet, a representative from God to
speak for us. His name is Christ, Jesus the
Lord. Now he's also the priest, and
we'll look at that next time. There's much said in the book
of Hebrews about him being our priest, and he's our king. So
he is the true prophet, he's the true priest, and he's the
true king. But all of those nonsense guys, prophets, priests, and
kings, he says, I will kill in a month. I will kill three shepherds
in a month. I'll take care of the false prophets,
I'll take care of the false priests, and I'll take care of the false
kings. But this one I will cause to stand for eternity, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Well, Lord willing, we'll pick
this verse up next Wednesday and finish it out about Christ
being our priest and Christ being our king. Him ye shall hear.