933 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 78 - Part 2 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 78 PART 2 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 1 Psalms 22, 23, and 24 We’re so glad to have all of you in the studio. For those of you joining us out in television, we just want to always remind you that we’re just a simple Bible study. I don’t want to get theological, and I don’t want to get deeper than what people can understand. But on the other hand, we do want to go beyond what most Sunday school quarterlies do. My whole premise is: keep it simple, yet get an understanding of what the Word really says. Because there’s a lot of ignorance out there that’s just almost unbelievable. But for those of you out in television, again, we want to thank you for your prayer support and your letters. My, we continue to be amazed at our mail and how encouraging it all is. And the phone calls—once in a while the girls will tell me what they just heard, and they have to grab the Kleenex because the tears are flowing about the good phone calls they get. So we know the Lord is being awfully good to us. And again, we just ask that you would search the Scriptures with us, follow verse-by-verse. I’m always emphasizing to be just as aware of what is not in here as what is, because a lot of people have been told stuff that is not in here. These next four programs will be, hopefully, in the next Messianic Psalms. We’ll be going to them in a minute, which will be Psalm 22, 23, and 24. Now, they all three kind of fit together. You’ll see that when we get there. But as a New Testament introduction to the Old, I’m going to start out with verses I use quite often – Romans 15. We’re just going to start at verse 4 and go all the way down, and verse 8 is sort of like the frosting on the cake. Romans 15:4-5 “For whatsoever things were written aforetime (that means back in the Old Testament) were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 5. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:” Romans 15:6-8a “That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7. Wherefore receive you one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. 8. Now I say that Jesus Christ was (past tense—in His earthly ministry) a minister of the circumcision…” Now catch that. He was a minister of whom? Israel. Not a word about being a minister to Gentiles back there in His earthly ministry. He was the minister of the “circumcision”—of Israel. Now I’m doing this because of one of the comments I’m going to make back in the Book of Psalms. Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:” Well, now goodness sakes, who were the Fathers? The Old Patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and later on Moses and David and the Prophets. It was all concerning God and His Covenant people, Israel. Now one more before we go back to Psalms. I want you to turn to I Peter chapter 1. I think we did this in our last taping. This will be the theme now of all the Messianic Psalms. I Peter 1:10a “Of which salvation…” In other words—you know, that’s the theme of Scripture—whether it was to Adam or whether it was to Israel or whether it’s to us as Gentiles today. But Peter is dealing with fellow Jews who had now come into a relationship through the Kingdom Gospel—which required the Jew to believe that Jesus was the Christ. Nobody has told them to quit Law-keeping, so Peter is talking of that salvation. I Peter 1:10 “Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, (those same prophets) who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:” At some point in the future. I Peter 1:11 “Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them (That is, in the Prophets as they wrote.) did signify, when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the (What?)glory that should follow.” Now, I think we put it on the board last week. We haven’t got it up there now. But that’s the whole theme of these Messianic Psalms—the suffering of the coming Messiah and the glory which would follow. Now let’s go back to Psalms 22. Remember now, David is the primary author of the Book of Psalms, under the Holy Spirit, of course. But it’s the relationship, not between God and you and me as the Gentile world, but it’s the relationship between God and Israel. And since Israel was a pastoral nation—I trust you all know what I mean by that. What was their main commodity? Sheep! #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible