897 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 75 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture Part 21

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 75 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 21 Genesis – Revelation Okay, it’s good to see everybody in on a chilly day in Okalahoma, but we’re glad that you braved it, and you’re here. We appreciate so much that you folks here in the Tulsa area come in and comfort us with your being here, because it’s the only way I can teach. Again, we always like to remind our television audience how we do appreciate your letters and your prayers on our behalf. And speaking of prayer, you remember in one of my recent programs I mentioned that the young red-haired lady that always sits here in my front row is fighting brain cancer. She’s been gone about two months, but Sharon is back with us today. We want our whole national television audience to know how she appreciates your prayers. After I made that announcement of her illness, she actually had contact from people out there in the audience. So when I saw her today, I said, well, I just better let the audience know that Sharon is back. She’s not over the hill, but she also is not out of the woods. She still has to take some chemo, but we just praise the Lord because she has meant so much to the ministry. She’s the one that did the closed captioning and so forth. All right, we’re going to pick right up where we left off in our last program, which for those of you here it was a couple three weeks ago. But for those of you on television, it was just a week ago. We’re still connecting the dots of Scripture, and we’re going to jump in at Matthew chapter 9. This will be a little review before we carry on from where we left off in the last taping. I see it more and more all the time. You’ve got to repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat. So I’m not going to apologize for it. We just covered this, but I’m going to repeat it just to remind everybody where we’re coming from. All right, that would be Matthew chapter 9 and we’re going to start reading verse 35. Then we’re going to skip right over to chapter 10 verses 5 and 6. All right, Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. Matthew 9:35 “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” Not just one here and there, but every sickness and every disease among the people. All right, now as you come down into chapter 10, He chooses the twelve disciples. We don’t have to read those names, but you can just jump across to chapter 10 verse 5. Matthew 10:5-6 “These twelve (Now, remember, this is at the onset of His earthly ministry.) Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, (That’s the key word. He commanded them.) saying, Go not, (And I have to emphasize that.) into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: (But instead of going to Gentiles--) 6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” That’s what the Word of God says. Now that is as plain as language can make it. You don’t go that way; you go this way. There’s no making up your mind. You do what I tell you. Now we know what happened after the three years of earthly ministry. The nation of Israel rejected it all, and that brought about the crucifixion, which, of course, had to happen. Peter and the eleven—after Judas is gone, they replace him with Matthias—too, continue on with that same message and the same signs and wonders and miracles. The only difference is that now Christ is ascended back into glory, but their operation, the modus operandi, stays the same. They are still ministering to Jews only, and they’re still preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. They’re still hoping to convince the nation of Israel that the One they crucified was indeed the Christ! So repent of it, believe that He’s alive. He’s been raised from the dead, and He’s gone back to glory; but He’s going to come very soon and still fulfill all the Old Testament covenants and promises. But you see, God had something else on His mind which was totally, totally secret to every other writer of Scripture. You cannot find anything of this anywhere in the Old Testament, or in the four gospels, or Acts, or Revelation, or anybody else; because God is now going to take the opposite tact. That’s in Acts chapter 9 where we were just a few programs back at the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Acts chapter 9 and he’s just experienced the horrendous meeting of the Lord out there on the road. I think it left him physically devastated. He was blind. He was probably dehydrated. He was famished, and he actually needed physical help to get into the city of Damascus. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible