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Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 18.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers,

and I will put my words in his mouth,

and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

This is a promise, from God through Moses,

that God would raise up a prophet greater than Moses,

who would have the words of God in his mouth

and would speak all exactly as God commanded him.

Now this is the picture that we see of prophets throughout the Old Testament.

The whole responsibility of a prophet was to speak for God, to say, thus says the Lord, and then relay exactly what God

had said. And we see faithful prophets like Moses and others who come after him, Isaiah, Jeremiah,

Daniel, Ezekiel, we could go on and on and on with different prophets. But we know none of those

prophets were perfect. All of those prophets struggled with sin in their own lives. The picture

here in Deuteronomy 18, though, is a greater, perfect prophet who is to come who would have no sin who would

speak God's word perfectly reveal God's truth perfectly this is Jesus Deuteronomy chapter 18 is pointing us ultimately to Jesus, to the coming of

a perfect prophet who would speak the words of God, perfectly reveal the truth of God without any

hint of error, sin, or impurity. And so as we think

about Advent, as we think about the coming of Jesus, let us realize that this is who we need.

We need a perfect prophet, not someone who will claim to speak for God and then speak

contrary to God. Not someone who will claim to speak for God and then do his best but still be flawed.

No, we need one who perfectly reveals the truth of God, and this is Jesus.

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