NT Framework - Total Victory

Is total victory possible on this earth? Well, is it .... 

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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Biblical culture points to total victory.
This is an interesting point,because if you have partial
obedience to God, then you'llhave partial biblical culture.
Right, I mean, it can only bethat way.
But if you have total obedience, you will be having a totally

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biblical culture.
That's the end of that.
Now Solomon gives us a glimpsein his era of what total
obedience will produce.
They didn't have it, but theyhad four generations of built-up
loyalty and it was growing.
And what was the result?
A very high biblical culturethat God was blessing

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tremendously to the extent.
People from all over the worldwere coming to see what was
going on there and they were togive testimony.
Hey, this is the God, the onetrue God.
It's the God we worship.
You should worship Him too.
This was their greatopportunity.
God, it's the god we worship.
You should worship him too.
See, this was their greatopportunity.
But solomon didn't have in hisgeneration, didn't have total
obedience, so they didn't havetotal victory and they didn't

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have total biblical culture.
Okay, but solomon doesforeshadow the one who will
bring in a totally obedientculture and a total victory, and
that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
In this way he foreshadows theMessiah.
So when his offspring, that'sSolomon's offspring, the seed.

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The Messiah comes and rules inthe future kingdom we'll see a
totally biblical culture becausehe's going to take Israel and
he's going to put his law upontheir heart.
He's going to put his spiritwithin them and no man will
teach another, for they shallall know him, from the least to
the greatest right.
You're going to have in Israela totally obedient people and a

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totally biblical culture in themillennial kingdom.
So we'll get to see what itlooks like there.
So what's our point?
We're the church, so what arewe supposed to be doing?
Well, in the church, our goalis again to learn loyalty to God
as believers and producepartial sub-pockets of biblical

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culture in our own lives, in ourfamilies, in our life in our
family, in our church community,to build as much biblical
culture as we can.
As we do that, what does it dofor us?
It prepares us to reign withhim in the millennial kingdom.
So we're in training now forreigning then, and so we want to

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produce as much biblicalculture as we can in the world.
By the way, this is we staveoff.
By doing this we stave off thecorrosion in our own culture
that's taking place Becausepeople see, I had a guy call me.
He's from the other side buthe's here when he can be here.
He says you know, I came toyour house on side, but he's

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here when he can be here.
He says you know, I came toyour house on Christmas and we
had him over for a few hours andI had no idea.
But this is just last week,no-transcript.
I didn't know that it couldactually be this, where I could
have mature conversations withpeople who are 14 years old and

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stuff like that.
He's like.
It changed everything.
I realized my standards are whatI hoped for way too low but
that there's a possibility.
And he's talking about biblicalculture.
He's seeing it.
Kids they're not just do whatmom and dad say because mom and
dad say to do it, but, out ofrespect, want to do it because

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they recognize this is biblicalmodel and they want to follow
Ephesians 6.1.
Children obey your parents inthe Lord, for this is right.
They know they can't do thatwithout Ephesians 5.18 being
filled by the Spirit, right?
So he was just seeing that,right?
It's no kudos to me.
This is kudos to God and to Hisgrace, because what we're
trying to do in my family isbuild on the generations of
loyalty.
In both of our families,robin's and mine, we're trying

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to build on that in the nextgeneration so that they can go
further than us.
My hope is that they go wayfurther than us.
That should be every parent'shope, right, right and so
biblical culture points to atime when jesus christ will come
back and israel will be totallyobedient and there will be a

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totally biblical culture, andthat's what we're looking
forward to in the kingdom.
I mean, the lord jesus christsaid seek first the kingdom and
his righteousness, see, and so,and that's the period of history
where we will get to see it.
See, right now it's just trashout there, folks.
It is trash, it's trashy.
And this is the greatestcountry in the world, so just

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think what it's like in otherplaces.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
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