Hawaii 4 – The Greatest Promise

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Genesis 3:15

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Daniel 9:2

“In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.”

Jeremiah 25:11

“And this whole country will become a ruin and a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.”

Ezekiel 4:6

“Forty days I have assigned to you, a day for each year.”

Numbers 14:34

“For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.”

Hebrews 9:26

“But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.”

Daniel 9:25

“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.”

Luke 3:1-3

“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.”

Galatians 1:18

“Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.”

Galatians 2:1

“Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.”

Acts 18:12

“When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews united in attacking Paul and brought him before the tribunal.”

Daniel 9:26

“After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.”

Daniel 9:27

“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.”

John 3:16-17

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

Revelation 5:12

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”

Revelation 3:5

“The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.”

Revelation 21:27

“Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

Mark 16:16

“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”

Memorable Quotes

“When somebody makes a promise, you have to rely upon that promise.”

“In the garden of Eden, there was a promise that God would send a redeemer to save humanity from the problem of sin.”

“God gives his people 490 years to get their spiritual house in order.”

“The prophecy of Daniel 9 was fulfilled exactly on time in AD 27, the baptism of Christ, spring AD 31, the crucifixion of Christ, and AD 34 the stoning of Steven and the gospel goes to the Gentiles.”

“God is in control of history and he invites us to allow him to be the Lord of our lives because God does no harm to his children.”

“When Christ died on the cross of Calvary, as Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last, at that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.”

“The sacrificial system had come to an end. God was no longer dwelling among his people, which was the whole reason why they built the tabernacle and the temple in the first place.”

“It matters where your name is written.”

“The blood of the lamb on the door lintils and doorposts was the acid test of faith that the lamb of God was the guarantee of eternal life, not the pagan gods of Egypt.”

“If you want to be in the Lamb’s book of life and you want to accept the death of the Messiah foretold over hundreds of years in great precision, you want to say that his death isn’t just historical curiosity but it was for me personally.”

“If my name is in the Lamb’s book of life, I’m going to live for eternity, and this life and all its troubles is but the blink of an eye.”

“Life is too short to mess around with these questions of eternal significance.”

“Jesus did a once and for all sacrifice, and if we accept his sacrifice on our behalf, we have the promise of eternal life with him.”

“The prophecy tells us that the Messiah came on time, in the fullness of time, and he died on Calvary exactly as foretold in prophecy.”

“The Lamb’s book of life is the register, and everybody who’s to receive eternal life is found in that book.”

Other Quotations

From the Apostle Paul, Galatians 4:4 (alluded to)

“In the fullness of time, God sent his Son.”