 Praise the Lord. Jay Masi Sapko and welcome everyone to class, sorry I had to repeat the welcome because I was unmuted and I was speaking. Thank you all for joining class and we'll begin. Can I ask one of our online students to lead us in prayer please? Anyone? Anyone can lead us in prayer? Online students? Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we just commit this time of studying to thy hands and we pray Father that whatever we learn today will not only be able to retain but apply it in our day-to-day lives Father. We pray Father that you also bless all the teachers and all the students and we thank you for your precious word Father. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Thank you Sanjay. I really appreciate your ever readiness to lead in prayer whether it's mentoring or even in class. I just really appreciate that. It's something really nice about you. Thank you. Okay so we were studying with chapter 4 and what are we looking at in chapter 4? The prophecy is concerning thee. The promise of his coming. Okay that is the title of the chapter. Yes. What are we studying in this chapter? Hello what are we studying in this chapter? We're studying about the covenants. Prophecies. Okay the Old Testament prophecies. Okay fulfilled by Jesus. What are the prophecies that we're looking at? None of you went through your notes I think. What are the prophecies we're looking at in chapter 4? No I'm asking what are we what prophecies there are many prophecies regarding various things in the Old Testament but what are we looking specifically about? Prophecies concerning the birth of Christ. Thank you Lucy. The incarnation of Jesus Christ. Okay the incarnation. So I think none of you have looked through your notes. There's a big question mark and a big puzzle and some of you are giving me very sweet smiles. Anyways the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Right. Sorry I'll just close this otherwise. We'll have a lot of background noise. Okay so we're looking at the prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus Christ. Okay or the incarnation of Christ. When we talk about incarnation what do we mean? God taking the form of man. God becoming man. Okay so we looked at various prophecies and we were looking at the 8th prophecy. We were considering in the Old Testament that is Malachi chapter 3 verse 1. Okay so can somebody read that again please Malachi chapter 3 verse 1. Malachi chapter 3 verse 1. Behold I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple even the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight. Behold he is coming says the Lord of hosts. Amen. Thank you. So who is the messenger here? My messenger in the beginning of the verse. John the Baptist. Okay so how do we know it's John the Baptist because John the Baptist was the one who was going to prepare the way for whom? For Jesus. Okay we look at this prophecy also in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3. What is Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3 say? Can somebody read that please? And somebody else can turn to Luke chapter 1 verse 76 and somebody else can turn to John chapter 1 verse 23. So we can have somebody read Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3. Anyone ready to read Isaiah 40 verse 3? Can pass the mic around so others can. Okay you can read it later. Yes go ahead Lucy. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3. The voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Okay so here Isaiah is prophesying about this messenger who would come and prepare the way for Jesus and how do we know it's John the Baptist? Look at what Luke chapter 1 verse 76 says. And you child will be called the prophet of the highest for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways. Yeah so it's talking about whom here? Talking about John the Baptist. And John the Baptist himself in John chapter 1 verse 23. Can somebody read that? John is talking about encoding Isaiah's prophecy. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3. Can somebody read that? Give it to Nelson the mic. He can read it. He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord as the prophet Isaiah said. Yes so here we see that the messenger here is referring to John the Baptist. Okay and then it says in Malachi chapter 3 verse 1 and the Lord whom you will seek will suddenly come to his temple. Okay so who is the Lord here? It's talking about referring to whom? Jesus. And when he comes suddenly into the temple the fulfillment of this seems to be referring to John chapter 2 verses 14 to 14 and 15. John chapter 2 verses 14 and 15. What happens in John the latter half of John chapter 2? Jesus is in the temple and what is he doing? When they were doing the wrong things in the temple selling and buying he overthrew all those things and he wanted to set it clear. Okay he cleansed the temple, he cleared it of all the business transactions that were happening and he cleared the temple. So when Jesus comes to clear the temple of those who are selling the sheep cattle and doves. Okay so here if you notice in Malachi chapter 3 verse 1 it says that Jesus is the messenger of the covenant. Which covenant? Old covenant? Is a messenger of what? He's a messenger of the covenant. Jesus came to fulfill the old covenant because Jesus says in Matthew chapter 5 verse 17. Look at what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 5 verse 17. Someone else can turn to Hebrews chapter 8 verses 6 to 13. Okay so what does Jesus say in Matthew chapter 5 verse 17? Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Yes Jesus says I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets but I have come to fulfill it. Okay and he came to fulfill the old covenant. He also came to usher in the new covenant. Okay look at what Hebrews chapter 8 verses 6 to 13 says. Can somebody please read that? Hebrews chapter 8 verses 6 to 13. Yes you're right Hebrews 8 verses 6 to 13. But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them he says behold the days are coming says the Lord. When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with the fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant I disregarded them says the Lord. For this is a covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord. I would put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me. From the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins. And their lawlessness and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. In that he says a new covenant he has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant. Now when Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant or he brought about the new covenant, is the old covenant bad or what do you think? Why was there a need for a new covenant? Was the old covenant not good enough? It just showcased the man's depravity of not living up to the law. Okay it shows the man's inability to live up to the law. Okay. And he just came to uphold the new covenant. Okay right, came to uphold the new covenant. Paul when he's talking about the law in Romans he says the law is good. He's talking about the old covenant law, the Old Testament law. He says the law is good. There's nothing wrong with the law. But it's we as people who are not able to keep the law. It's our own frailty. And that is why we read in Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 26. God says I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh and I will write my laws upon your heart and mind. And I will put my spirit in you and my spirit will cause you to keep my laws. So it was not that the old law which God gave or the old covenant was in any way falling short of what God wanted it. So he wanted a new covenant to know. It was because we were not able to keep up with the old covenant. We were not able to keep the law. So he came to establish the new covenant and the new covenant is established on better promises. Why are you on better promises? What is a better promises? What is the old covenant based on? What are the promises based on the old covenant? Based on our doing. New covenant is based on what the Lord has done for us. What Jesus has done on the cross. Thank you so much. So the old covenant is basically if you don't keep all of these laws, all of these curses will follow. We see that in Deuteronomy. So it was based on us trying to keep the law and then God realized that these people really can't keep. And that's why he said, I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will write my laws upon your heart and mind and I will put my spirit. So Holy Spirit who will help us to keep God's covenant or his promises. The new covenant is built on better promises. Why? Because it is depending on the finished work of Jesus Christ. It is by grace through faith and not by works. And it's the Holy Spirit who will enable us. The Holy Spirit who comes and indwells in each one of us. The Holy Spirit who helps us. What was the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament? How was the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament? Coming and going. Yeah, that's the right way of looking at it. Coming and going. Sorry. Okay. Only when he would come and go and who also says, okay, it's not that he'll come to earth and then go back to heaven. No. Come and go means he will come on a person till that person finishes that specific assignment. So for a limited extent of time and specific people he would come on and when the assignment is completed, he would leave them. Okay. Not come and go. He would come and infill them or indwell in them or empower them and then he would leave them. Okay. But how is the work of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament? What does Jesus say? The Holy Spirit will come and dwell in you. And he's a comforter. He's a comforter but the Holy Spirit will come and indwell in you for ever. John chapter 14 and John chapter 16. We read that. Okay. So here we see that, you know, Jesus came to establish the New Covenant. Okay. I'm not going to look at what are the differences between the Old and New Covenant because you have a topic on covenants. You will be studying that in detail. Okay. But just to know for you to know that Jesus initiated or is the one who's a mediator of the New Covenant. Mediator means what? Sorry. Intermediator. What does a mediator mean? Between God and man. Okay. So when God made the Covenant, the Old Testament, he made it with Abraham, God with Abraham, God with Noah, God with Moses, God with the people of Israel. Okay. The next prophecy we would look at is the ninth one is the Lord's servant in Isaiah chapter 42 verses 1, 6 and 7. So can somebody read that please? Isaiah chapter 42 verses 1, 6 and 7. Yes, Andrew. Thank you. Andrew says a mediator is one who stands in the gap. Isaiah chapter 42 verse 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold my elect one in whom my soul delight. I have put my spirit upon him. He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. Verse 6, I, the Lord have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people as a light to the Gentiles. Verse 7, to open blind eyes to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house. Amen. Thank you. So here it's talking in Isaiah chapter 42. It's talking about the Lord's servant. Okay. Look at what it says in verse 1. Behold my servant. Okay. And the M is a capital M. So who is it referring to? Who is it referring to? My. Isaiah chapter 42 verse 1. Behold my servant. Who is the my? Okay. Thank you, Sanjay. It's God. My elect. God my father. Okay. Or God the father. Okay. And who is the servant here? Jesus Christ. Okay. Jesus Christ because there again you see a capital S. It's not a small S. Okay. How many servant songs? This is called as a servant song. Isaiah chapter 42 is called as a servant song. How many servant songs are there in Isaiah? Anyone knows? Okay. There are four servant songs in Isaiah. Okay. Very characteristic of Jesus. Prophecy is concerning Jesus. So very important. It's called as servant songs. There are four servant songs in the book of Isaiah. And the servant here is referring to Jesus. How do we know it's referring here to Jesus? Look at what Acts chapter 3 verse 13 says. Acts chapter 3 verse 13. Can somebody read that please? Acts chapter 3 13. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God of our fathers glorified his servant Jesus. Whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate. When he was determined to let him go. Yes. So here in Acts chapter 3 we see that Peter's pitching this sermon. And it's true the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He's referring to Jesus as whom? Yes. Glorified his servant Jesus. Okay. So here the servant songs are basically in Isaiah is referring to Jesus. Do you want to know where are the other servant songs? Yes. No. Okay. The first servant song is in Isaiah chapter 42 verses 1 to 4. Isaiah chapter 42 verses 1 to 4. All these are not in your notes. I'm just giving you extra so you can take it down. Second one is Isaiah 49 1 to 6. The third servant song is Isaiah 54 to 9. And the fourth servant song is Isaiah 52 verse 13 to chapter 53 verse 12. Isaiah 52 verse 13 to chapter 53 verse 12. I'll repeat that again. Isaiah 42 1 to 4. Isaiah 49 1 to 6. Isaiah 54 to 9. Isaiah 52 verse 13 to chapter 53 verse 12. So these are the four servant songs we find in the book of Isaiah. And we see that the servant here we know is talking about Jesus because even Peter in his sermon in chapter 33 verse 13 refers to Jesus as the servant. Okay. We notice also that Jesus himself, it says here that, you know, my servant whom I uphold, my elect one and whom my soul delights, I have put my spirit upon him and he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. Okay. So we see that, you know, Isaiah also talks about this Messiah who is going to come to Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 to 3 where it says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and open up the prison doors to those who are bound. And he goes on in verse two and three to declare even more what the Messiah would do. But look at what Jesus himself proclaims about himself and he comes to the temple in Luke chapter 4 verses 18 and 19. Can somebody read that please? Luke chapter 4 verses 18 and 19. Luke 4, 18 and 19. Luke chapter 4 verses 18 and 19, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to sit at liberty those who are blessed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Amen. Thank you, Sanjay. So here we read that Jesus himself is saying, hey, what was prophesied about me in Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 to 3 and also Isaiah chapter 42 verse 6 or verse 1, sorry, the spirit of the Lord is upon me and I'm here to do what was prophesied by God or revealed to the prophets in the Old Testament. We will look at three things that we can gather insights from this servant's song in Isaiah chapter 42 verses 1, 6 and 7. We'll notice three important facts about the servant. The first thing is the servant who's referred to as Jesus Christ was to be given as a covenant to the people. It refers to Jesus coming and being the mediator of the new covenant or it is referring to Jesus bringing about the new covenant that he came to give us. And we noticed that the servant himself was to be given as a covenant. So Jesus himself was to be given as a covenant because it says in Isaiah chapter 42 verse 6 it says, and I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people and as a light to the Gentiles. And so we see that scripture teaches us that Jesus was the one who came to establish the new covenant. And why does it say here that I will give you as a covenant to the people? Why does it say that Jesus himself was given as a covenant? Why doesn't it say Jesus came and established a new covenant? Why shouldn't it have said that Jesus came as the mediator of the new covenant? Why does it say here that Jesus himself was given as a covenant? Any idea? Of course, he was a mediator of the new covenant. He came to establish the new covenant. But why was he given as a covenant? People look at him and see him as an example. He was the one who was crucified for us. So he was crucified means what? God sent his son for our sins. So he himself was the covenant. So his finished work at the cross emphasizes that this is the covenant and through him the new covenant is established. Okay. So it was established through his finished work at the cross. Okay. Through his blood. If you notice in the old covenant, every time a covenant was made, what was sacrificed? An animal, a lamb was sacrificed and it was established in blood. Blood for blood. So in those days, the tradition was in the Old Testament times, the whole ritual was that if two people were making a covenant, they would actually cut their vein here and both of them would keep their hands like this. Okay. So that blood would bleed and both of them would making the covenant would keep a promise. Binding covenant or binding promise would keep their hand like this and say blood for blood, which means, hey, if you fail to keep this promise that we both are going to keep taking an oath, then if you fail, I have the right to take your life. If you don't, if I don't keep the covenant, I have the right to, you know, for you to take my life. If you don't keep the covenant, I have the right to take your life. So blood for blood. But when God made the covenant with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, every time there was an animal that was sacrificed in an unblemished lamb. So here we see that when Jesus came, he not only was a mediator between God and us in establishing the new covenant, not only was he the one who established the new covenant, but he was also someone who was given as a covenant, which means he was that fully, full, perfect, sufficient sacrifice. An unblemished lamb of God that was sacrificed. And through his blood, he established the new covenant. Okay. So we see that scripture teaches us that, you know, Jesus was the one who established a new covenant and he is a priest who also officiates, which means overseas performs a duty in the new covenant by the sprinkling of blood. Okay. So we look at this prophecy, which is mentioned in Isaiah, chapter 52 verse 15. Can somebody read that please? Isaiah 52 verse 15. And somebody else can open to Hebrews chapter 9 verses 11 to 15. Can I read, sister? Yes. Sure, please go ahead. So shall he sprinkle many nations? King shall shut their mouths at him. For what had not been told them, they shall see. And what they had not heard, they shall consider. Amen. Thank you, sister. Get through. So here we see that Jesus not only was given as a new covenant, not only one who established a new covenant, he's also the priest who officiates or oversees or performs a duty of the new covenant by the sprinkling of the blood. Okay. So how is he as a priest, you know, the sprinkling of the blood? What does it mean? You know, in the Old Testament times, in the tabernacle, whenever the priest made a sacrifice, he would take the blood and sprinkle it and all the items in the tabernacle and also on the people. And when he went into the Holy of Holies once a year, he would sprinkle the blood in the Holy of Holies as well, which means the blood was something that would cover their sins. So Jesus was the one, you know, was the priest. Even now, you know, why are we living by grace? It's because Jesus is our officiating high priest. He's a high priest who's not only interceding on behalf of the Father, but he's a high priest when we sin, you know, God the Father automatically pronounces the punishment. So what comes out is punishment. But what comes out of that punishment is grace, because it is Jesus who's saying, you know, I have shed my blood for Selena's sin. So what comes out is grace and forgiveness. Isn't that wonderful? It's not that God the Father has changed. No, when he sees sin, he immediately, you know, punishes sin, the punishment is pronounced. But what comes out, what we receive is grace. It's because Jesus is our great interceding high priest in heaven now. He's interceding on behalf of us. He's officiating on behalf of us. He's saying, Father, forgive her, forgive him, because I've already paid the price. So that is why we, John says, you know, I see in the middle of the throne of heaven, before the throne of God, I see a lamb that looks like it was sacrificed. So who is that lamb that looks like it was sacrificed? Jesus. Okay. So he's still are officiating high priest. Okay. And so we see that, you know, the new covenant was officiated by the sprinkling of his own blood. Look at what Hebrews chapter nine in verses 11 to 15 says, everyone is understanding. I'm going slow so that you can understand anyone has any doubts. Please feel free to raise your hand or, you know, post it on the chat section or you can ask the question. Okay. Hebrews nine, 11 to 15. Can somebody read that please? But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old pen and its trappings in its created world and went straight into heaven's tent, the true holy place once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleanses up a whole lives inside and out. Through the spirit Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead end efforts to make ourselves respectable so that we can live all out for God. Amen. What a beautiful verse versus these are it says, but Christ came as a high priest. Okay. Of the good things to come. And it says he came not with the blood of goats and calves. Okay. Not like the other priests who officiated in the temple or before that in the tabernacle. But Jesus, you know, entered the most holy place through his own blood. Okay. So we know that on the day of atonement, you know, the high priest was chosen to go into the holy of holies. And on that day, two sacrifices, two animals were sacrificed. One to sacrifice for the sins of the people. And one, this priest would sacrifice for himself. And the other one was a scapegoat that they would send out into the wilderness. They would lay the sins of all the people on that scapegoat and we studied this and they would send it out. And the other sacrifice was the blood that would cover the sins of the priest and the people. And before entering the holy of holies, you know, the priest would sprinkle that blood and also sprinkle upon himself and you know, so that he is covered and he can enter the holy of holy. So here you see that, you know, if he doesn't do it in the right way, then when he enters the holy of holies, what happens? He could even be he could drop down dead. Okay, because, you know, he cannot enter the holy presence of God. But here we see that Jesus entered the most holy place, talking with the holy of holies, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood. Okay. And that is why we, when Jesus died on the cross, what happened in the temple? When Jesus died on the cross, what happened in the temple? The veil was torn into two. Yeah, what is that veil? That is... Okay, the veil that separated the holy of holies from the holy place. Okay, that separated us from God. Only there in the holy of holies was the Ark of the Covenant kept and God's presence would come between those two angels, the pteromoms which were on the Ark, the lid of the Ark of the Covenant. And God would speak to the high priest who would come there and give him instructions for the people. But people could not see it because of that curtain that was drawn. So when Jesus died, he established a new covenant and Jesus is saying, I am your officiating high priest. And now you can, you know, you don't need access to the priest into the holy of holies because it's my blood. My blood has, you know, brought about purification of your sins and redemption and, you know, that's why it says here, it was 15. And for this reason, he's immediate to the new covenant by means of the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant. Okay, so we have the access into the holy of holies because the curtain was thrown to two. That means we have access between man has access to God and does not need to go through a human high priest. Okay, isn't that beautiful that Jesus himself is now officiating high priest and by his blood he has made it, made that access and that's why we can boldly enter the throne of grace so that we can receive mercy and grace to help us in a time of need as the writer of Hebrews says. All of you with me? Yes. Sorry. And we also read that, you know, Jesus is a testator of the new covenant. He's a testator or the one who dies to make the covenant effective. Okay. And what does it mean, you're a testator? Jesus is a testator of the new covenant. Basically, testator means a person, you know, who leaves a will. You know, a person who dies leaving a will or a testament that can be enforced now because he is dead. Okay. Now, for example, your parents can leave a will, write a will and if they have property, they can leave it. But when does and they become a testator? That means they are the ones who are making that will or that testament. Okay. And when does that come into effect? When does that will come into effect? After the death of the person, after the death of the testator or after the death of the person who makes that will. Okay. So here we see that Jesus is the testator of the new covenant. It's so beautiful because Jesus actually makes a will. He makes a will or a testament and that will and testament can only come into force only after the person dies. So only when Jesus died, you know, we become the benefactors or we become the one who are the privileged people who are able to experience the benefits or the will that is in the new covenant. Isn't that beautiful? Okay. So here we read this in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 8. Can somebody read that please? Isaiah 53 verse 8. Isaiah 53 verse 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment and who will declare his generation for he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgressions of my people. He was stricken. Amen. Thank you, Warren. So here we see that he was cut off from the land of the living. That means he died and he died for the sins of his people. Okay. Look at what Hebrews chapter 9 verse 16 and 17 says. For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force of men are dead since it has no power at all while the testator leaves. Amen. So here we see that, you know, for where there is a testament or where there is a will or where there is a covenant there also be, it must be, there's also a necessity for the death of the testator. So who's a testator here in Hebrews chapter 9. Yes. Talking about Jesus because we read Hebrews chapter 11 9 verses 11 to 15. Okay. We spoke about Jesus as a high priest. He was the one who established a new covenant by his own blood. Okay. And he brought redemption through to us who were under the first covenant so that, you know, through his blood we can receive the promises of the eternal inheritance which is in the new covenant and verse 16 and 17 talks about him being the testator and saying, why did Jesus have to die? Why did he have to establish, you know, shed his blood or why did he have to die so that, you know, the new covenant that he makes would come into effect only after the death of the testator or the person who dies. Okay. So verse 17 says, for a testament is enforced after men are dead since it has no power at all why the testator lives. Okay. The Greek word for testament can be translated, you know, as a legal contract or a binding agreement. Okay. In other words, a covenant. Okay. So here it's talking about the new covenant but the word testament here in Greek can be translated as a legal contract or a binding agreement. Okay. So you look at the way the writer of Hebrews is using the words. He's not writing covenant here. He's talking about a testament because, you know, for the Jews they understand testament means a will and the will will come only into effect after the person dies. So that is why he's using the word testament, a legal contract or a binding agreement. So the writer of Hebrews is basically making this argument to us that just as the old covenant, okay, the old covenant was a binding agreement that was based on the blood of some animal. Okay. So also the new covenant was established in the blood of Jesus Christ. Okay. And as a divine testator of the new covenant, it was absolutely necessary for Jesus, you know, necessarily that Jesus ratified that covenant for us with his own blood. It was necessary for Jesus to make that new covenant with his own blood. Why? So if you people ask you why was it necessary for Jesus to shed his own blood? Okay. You can give them all of these reasons. Okay. Because he established a new covenant or a new will or a new testament and a new will and new testament can come only into effect when the person dies. And also Jesus made the new covenant because we were not able to keep the old covenant and he did not use any animal sacrifice. Jesus himself became that full sufficient perfect sacrifice so that there is no need for any more sacrifices for sins to be made or no more new covenants to be made because this was the full binding perfect covenant. Okay. The sacrifice that Jesus was made was so full and sufficient that it pleased the heart of God. And hence no more sacrifice needs to be made. Isn't that wonderful? You know we are much more privileged than the Old Testament people. Yes or no? Why? Why are we more privileged than the Old Testament? No need to sacrifice. Okay. It's more to do with faith and belief than works and flesh. Okay. More to do with faith and belief than and its grace more grace than you know others many of us would have fallen dead and you know be affected by plagues and the you know earth would have opened and swallowed us alive. Okay. More grace. What else? The Holy Spirit dwells in us forever. What else? We have access before the very presence of God. Right. Which the Old Testament people did not have. We have access before the very presence of God. So you know all of this should just actually help us to you know look at this new covenant in a more worthy way. Okay. Like the writer of Hebrew says that some of us have treated you know in Hebrew chapter six he says some of us have treated the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing and has trampled it under our feet. So when we sin, when we go away and stay from God, when we love the things of the world, where actually what are we doing? We're treating the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing as something that is not, it's not anything valuable to us. It's worthless. So it's so important for us to hold these things with so much more all respect and not treated as something that is unholy and unworthy. It's so important for us the way we live our lives, what we see, what we think, what we do, our actions you know where we go and how we live our lives. Okay. So we see that Jesus himself is a covenant. He is the new covenant and the new covenant is embodied in the Messiah. Okay. The second thing that we can learn here from this servant song that we read in Isaiah chapter 42. You know, second important fact about the servant is that yeah, that the servant was there to open blind eyes, bring out prisoners, you know, from the prison and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house. We already read this, right? Yes or no? Okay. When we looked at Luke chapter 4 where Jesus said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me to preach the good news, to set free the prisoners, recovery of the sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free. And we see that not only Jesus did it, he looks upon us as his church to fulfill this even today. Okay. So it is we who have to continue proclaiming the good news, you know, because he's anointed us to set the prisoners free, you know, for those who are blinded by the things of this world and blinded from the truth of God, we speak the truth, we preach and teach the truth. And also we set the captives and those who are oppressed by Satan, we set them free. Okay. So this, we were here to continue the work of, of Jesus Christ. Okay. And we also look at this in Isaiah chapter 9 versus 1 and 2. Okay. This prophecy was also fulfilled in Isaiah chapter 9 versus 1 and 2. Can somebody read that please? Isaiah chapter 9 versus 1 and 2. Isaiah 9, 1 and 2. Nevertheless, the gloom will not be upon her who is oppressed as when at first he lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali. And afterward, don't have any oppressed her by, by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan in the Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of the death upon them, a light has shined. Amen. So here's a prophesying about Jesus Christ and basically here the, the prophet Isaiah is saying that he's warning the people of Judah that the Assyrians are going to come and invade them and it's going to be really terrible for them. And we know that the invasion of the Assyrians was terrible for the Jewish people, especially for those who are living in the northern part of the promise land, the northern region. That is a land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, which is very close to the sea of Galilee. But even though there's doom and destruction that was pronounced for the people of the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, see how gracious and good God is. He's saying, hey, you people will be destroyed because of your sin, but he's saying there will be a time when these people, the same people will see a great light. Those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them, a light has shined. So what is he prophesying? You are going to be captives, taken as captives to Assyria. There's going to be great distress, great agony. There was the invasion of the Assyrians was so terrible, but he's promising that there will come a Messiah who would redeem you. So he says the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed. That means he's promising these lands of Zebulun and Naftali that is around the Sea of Galilee, that even though they're going to be severely ravaged by the Assyrians, that there will be a promise for this land, there will be a day when they will see special blessings. And he's saying that the people who walked in darkness have seen a great light upon them has light shined. He's saying that the same tribes of Zebulun and Naftali were going to suffer under Assyrian invasion. God is going to show them mercy. They are going to be the first ones to see the light of the Messiah. And we see that this Matthew also quotes this passage and he very clearly says, Jesus's ministry started where? In Galilee, the Galilean ministry of Jesus and we see that the majority of Jesus's ministry took place in the northern area of Israel around the Sea of Galilee and we see that these people certainly did have special blessings because the light of the world was revealed to them and they were the people who were privileged to see this Messiah. So even though they have a promise doom and destruction but these were the same tribes where the same people were able to witness the light of the Messiah to see his miracles and also the light that's shown through the Messiah was witnessed by people who were living around the Sea of Galilee. So another beautiful thing that we can take away from today's lesson is even though we have a God who is a God who is a jealous God for his holiness he punishes sin but also a God who is gracious, merciful he promises restoration. He promises to restore us when we come back to him just like he promises here in Isaiah chapter 9 verses 1 and 2 for the tribes of Anaptali and Zebulin. We'll stop here we look at the third aspect of the servant song that we looked in Isaiah chapter 42 sorry we couldn't ask any questions anyone has any questions before we end class any questions when the blood for blood covenant when was it it was during the Old Testament times yes okay there are no questions thank you everyone for joining today's class have a blessed weekend and enjoy your weekend a restful weekend and see you on Monday thank you thank you Warren thank you Sanjay, Lucy, Daniel thank you everyone