Good morning and welcome
to 3ABN's Fall Homecoming
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2016. What a
blessing we've already had...
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we've experienced
being here, haven't we?
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Amen! Amen!
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Welcome to our family here
and welcome to you, our 3ABN
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family at home.
Whether you're watching
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or listening on the
radio we welcome you
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and we're so glad that
you have joined us today.
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We've had a Spirit-filled
anointed Camp Meeting so far
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focusing on the revival...
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the revival that the
Lord Jesus wants to make
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in each one of
our hearts and lives.
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And right now it is
my privilege to introduce
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Sr. Shelley Quinn.
She is a woman of God.
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She and her husband
J.D. are precious people:
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students of the Word
that travel the world
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sharing Jesus.
Sharing the gospel of grace
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and how God wants to
transform our hearts and lives.
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And she has impacted my
life in incredible ways as well.
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She's a woman of God and
she lives what she teaches...
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and that's the
most important thing.
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Her message this
morning is God's Covenant Love.
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But before she
comes and ministers to us
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we have a special duet
from Tim Parton - he's already
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seated over there at the piano.
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He's is the general manager
of our new Praise Him! music
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channel, and Pastor
John Lomacang is director
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of world
evangelism here at 3ABN.
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And he is also the
pastor... he's MY pastor:
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the pastor of the
Thompsonville SDA church.
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And the song they're going to
be doing is I Must Tell Jesus.
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But before they
come and minister to us
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let's go to the Lord in prayer.
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Father, we come before
You and we ask right now
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that you would
give us ears to hear
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and a heart that is
open to receive Your message.
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And we thank you in the
precious and holy name of Jesus,
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Amen. Amen!
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I must tell Jesus
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all of my trials;
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I cannot bear these
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burdens alone;
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In my distress He
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kindly will help me;
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He ever loves and
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cares for His own.
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear my
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burdens alone;
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me,
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Jesus alone.
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I must tell Jesus
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all of my troubles;
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He is a kind,
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compassionate friend;
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If I but ask Him
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He will deliver,
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Make of my troubles
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quickly an end.
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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I cannot bear
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my burdens alone;
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I must tell Jesus!
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I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me...
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Jesus can help me...
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Jesus can help me,
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Jesus alone.
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Amen and amen! Thank
you for that beautiful song!
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And how true...
Jesus alone can help us.
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Well, you all look
really good this morning.
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What did you think of the rain?
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Yeah. You know
what? I like the rain!
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My hair doesn't
but I like the rain!
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Well, we are going to do
an old-fashioned Bible study
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this morning. I hope you
have your Bibles with you
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because, you know...
I didn't do graphics.
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I'm kind of... hmm... I have
mixed feelings about graphics.
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I think sometimes we
depend too much upon graphics
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although it is good for
our television audience.
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And we want to just
welcome those of you
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who are watching by TV
or radio or on the Internet.
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Please get your
Bibles and join with us
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because what we're going
to talk about this morning
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is something that is critical.
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And I think if we under-
stand it a little bit better -
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it's a familiar topic
- but if we understand it
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a little bit better, I believe
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that we will
not have any problem
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with obedience. We
won't have any problem
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with condemnation.
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We won't have problems in not
having assurance of salvation.
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So let's go to
the Lord in prayer.
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Ah, heavenly Father,
thank you for this day of life!
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Thank you, Father, that
we woke up this morning!
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And thank you,
Father, that you are our Maker
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and our Creator, and that You
desire the works of Your hands,
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Father. We thank you, Father,
for the gift of Jesus Christ,
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the gift of Your Holy Spirit.
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The gift of Your Word, Father.
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And to know that
Your grace, Father, has...
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Your grace
incorporates divine assistance
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and supernatural
power unto salvation.
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Father, I pray in the name of
Jesus: forgive us of our sins.
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Just give us cleans
hands and a pure heart.
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I ask in the name of
Jesus right now, Father, that
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You would get me out of the way.
That You would speak through me
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as we read Your Word.
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Send Your Holy
Spirit to be our teacher.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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What we're going to
talk about this morning
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is God's covenant love.
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The unifying theme
of scripture is this:
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God is a covenant maker
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and God is a covenant keeper.
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And His covenants
define and establish
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His relationship to mankind.
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And over and over again we see
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the heart of a
loving God is this:
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"I will be their God and
they will be My people. "
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That's what God is looking for.
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And, you know, in
the Old Testament -
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during the Old Testament times
- covenants were quite common.
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What is a covenant? It
is an oath-bound contract,
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an oath-bound
arrangement where one person
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is contracting, basically,
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to bless and serve another.
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And what they did... You
remember how they ratified
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covenants in the
Old Testament times?
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They would sacrifice an animal.
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The covenants were
always ratified by blood.
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And we see the same thing
with God's covenant with people.
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Now sometimes
covenants were unilateral.
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That meant that the other party
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did not have to
respond in any way.
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Can we think of unilateral
covenants that God gave us?
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How about Noah?
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When He gave Noah the covenant
that it would not rain any more
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what was the sign of
the covenant? The rainbow.
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So that was unilateral.
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I mean, this is just God saying:
"This is what I'm going to do. "
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You don't have to do
anything in response.
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How about with
David? The Davidic covenant
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that David would always
have someone from his lineage
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sitting on the throne.
Didn't have to do anything.
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This is a covenant that
God was going to do by Himself.
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But sometimes
covenants included a response
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from the person with whom
the covenant was being made.
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And if you think
about the ratification
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we're going to look today
how when God made a covenant
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with Abraham He
ratified it with blood.
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This was the covenant that
you will be justified by grace
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through faith. And the
covenant that he would have...
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be the father of
many, many nations.
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When God made the old covenant
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He ratified it with
blood. They sacrificed.
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And when God
made the new covenant
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how did He
ratify the new covenant?
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With the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And so we are
going to look at that.
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But I also wanted to
take this idea of signs.
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There were always
signs of the covenant.
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What is the sign of the
covenant of God's grace?
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Do you know what it is?
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Exodus 31:13.
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God said: "I have
given you the Sabbath Day
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as a sign that I am the
One who sanctifies you. "
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See, it has always been sal-
vation by grace through faith.
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And as we look at the
history of covenants today
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we're going to understand
that I hope in a better way.
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What was the sign
of the old covenant
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with the book of the
law and the book of Moses?
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Circumcision. What is
the sign of the new covenant?
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Baptism. See... Jesus
only instituted two ordinances
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for the new covenant.
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One was communion,
which pointed to His death.
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The other was baptism
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which pointed to the
burial and resurrection.
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So there are always
signs to God's covenants.
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Now I used to believe -
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and there's still
many people who believe -
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that the Old Testament
- that the old covenant -
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was salvation by works.
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And I believed that the new
covenant was salvation by grace.
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You know, someone has said
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preconceived
opinions effectively insulate
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the mind against truth.
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And what you'll find as you're
talking with so many people
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who are just like me, growing
up in a Sunday-keeping church...
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I was taught all my
life the commandments of God
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were nailed to the
cross. The Old Testament was not
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important. And it took the Lord
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when He called me
to full-time ministry
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He impressed upon my
mind by the Holy Spirit
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"Come sit at My feet.
Forget what you think you know.
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I will teach you. " And
you know where He started me?
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He started me on a
study of the sanctuary.
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Whooh! If we don't
understand the sanctuary,
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we're not going to understand
the rest of God's Word.
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Because when we look at
things through the sanctuary...
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the lens of
sanctuary understanding
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then we truly understand
the ministry of Jesus Christ.
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So the sanctuary is one of
the most important doctrines
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that we can know. So
it took a lot of time
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because I'm kind of
a hard-headed person
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but Biblical evidence disproved
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the traditions that
had been handed down to me.
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You know, Jesus
said: "You make void
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the Word of God by
your traditions of men. "
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What I learned was that 2/3
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of the first 5
books of the Bible...
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Genesis through Numbers...
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is a narrative of God's grace.
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It is a narrative that
shows the calling, the election,
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salvation, the providential
care of God for His people
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Israel. And I discovered
that salvation has always been
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by grace through faith.
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Righteousness has
always been by faith.
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In Isaiah 64 and verse 6 Isaiah
says that our righteousness
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is nothing more than
filthy rags in front of Him.
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How many of you have noticed
that the closer you get to God
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the more you
recognize your own sin?
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Because the beauty of
the brightness of His light
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helps us see. You know,
this is why we should never be
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judgmental. What did Paul say?
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"Judge not that ye
be not judged. " Amen?
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I learned in
Jeremiah 33 and verse 16
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that it says: "The
Lord, our righteousness. "
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So the people of
the Old Testament times
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knew of God's grace.
Please open your Bibles to
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II Timothy
chapter 1 and verse 9.
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II Timothy 1:9.
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What I hope to put to bed
today during this Bible study...
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Have you ever had anyone
tell you that if you are trying
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to walk in obedience that you
are trying to be saved by works
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and that you're legalistic?
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That is so untrue. Untrue!
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But let's look at II
Timothy 1 and verse 9.
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Paul writes: "Who has
saved us... " Speaking of God...
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"Who has saved us and
called us with a holy calling.
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Not according to our
works but according to His own
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purpose and grace
which was given to us
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in Christ Jesus... " When?
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"before time began. "
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The everlasting covenant
of grace is God's promise
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to save sinful humanity
through the redemptive work
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of Jesus Christ. This is
a covenant of redemption,
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His oath-bound promise
that was established by God
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before time began.
And did you know that
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physicists have now said...
I say now. It's been about
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twenty years ago I read this...
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that they now say there was
no time before the world began.
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That's what the
Bible has always said.
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But His plan was
to send Jesus Christ
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to rescue fallen
humanity and fulfill His plan
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of giving us the
gift of eternal life.
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In Titus 1:12...
excuse me... Titus 1:2
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it say: "In hope of eternal life
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which God - who cannot lie -
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promised before time began. "
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So we have the
hope of eternal life.
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Do we have
immortality right now?
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We don't? There's so many people
out there who think we do!
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But I Timothy 6:16 says
that God ALONE is immortal.
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And I Corinthians 15:51-55
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explains to us that
it is at the last trump
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when Jesus returns
to call forth His saints
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from their
graves... it is at THAT moment
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that this mortal
puts on immortality.
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But before time began
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God had the
Calvary plan in mind.
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Revelation 13:8 says
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that Jesus was the Lamb who
was slain from the foundations
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of the earth. So, from
the foundations of the world
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we know that it is His blood
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that will be the blood
of the everlasting covenant
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as Hebrews tells us.
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It is Jesus and
righteousness by faith -
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salvation by grace -
which is the everlasting gospel
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that Revelation 14:6 tells us.
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So what God's covenants do
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is they are a
progressive revelation
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of God's plan of salvation.
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He's unfolding the
eternal plan through His various
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covenants. And remember this:
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both the Old and
the New Testament say
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we cannot save ourselves.
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Both the Old and the
New Testament clearly say
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"salvation
belongs to the Lord. "
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So let's consider some of
His covenants real quickly.
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These are covenants of grace,
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and it began with Adam and Eve.
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When God created Adam
and Eve in His own image
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He implanted in
them His moral character.
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It was natural to do His will.
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They understood God's law.
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It was just part of them.
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Now God has a specific command
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that He made to them saying:
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"Do not eat from the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. "
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Why not?
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Because that meant that you
are now, when you eat of that
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fruit, you are going to
decide what's good for you;
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you're going to
decide what's bad for you.
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It's like you were becoming God.
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And that's why when He
said "If you eat of this tree
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you will surely die. "
And Satan comes along and
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says: "Ha, ha... no you won't! "
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"You won't surely die...
you'll become like God. "
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"You can decide
what's good for you.
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You can decide
what's bad for you. "
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Isn't that what the
world is doing today?
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It is! So they
were deceived by Satan.
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And the fall of
mankind... when they fell
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they recognized they were naked.
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They felt guilt and
shame for the first time
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and they actually hid from God.
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But God established a
substitutionary sacrifice.
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Let's turn to Genesis 3:15.
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Because as God establishes
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this substitutionary sacrifice
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He shows them - He's fore-
shadowing - the redemptive work
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of Christ. So Genesis 3:15
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where God is announcing the
everlasting covenant of grace
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that was put into
action as soon as man sinned
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to restore the
fellowship in obedience.
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Genesis 3:15.
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And God says: "And
I will put enmity... "
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a deep-rooted hatred...
"between you and the woman
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and between your
seed and her Seed.
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He shall bruise your head
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and you shall bruise His heel. "
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He's speaking to the serpent
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who deceived God's people
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and He is saying
there's going to be enmity.
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"This is the Great Controversy
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between you and between My
Son Christ Jesus, the Seed. "
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Which we will look
at. Galatians 3:19 says
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He is the Seed. He
says: "OK, serpent,
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you're going to bruise
His heel but He will crush you
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under His feet. "
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So when God made this promise
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then He had to do a sacrifice.
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He had to sacrifice an
animal to cover their nakedness.
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So that ratified
the covenant with Adam.
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Now turn to Genesis chapter 15.
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No, no, no, no. Let' start
with Genesis... Yeah, Genesis
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chapter 15 when
God made a covenant
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with Abraham.
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Genesis chapter 15, and we're
going to look at verses 6-18.
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So I'm going to be
reading rather quickly.
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Genesis 15 verses 6 through 18.
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"And he... " speaking of
Abraham... "believed in the Lord
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and He accounted it... " He,
God... "accounted it to Abraham
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for righteousness.
Then He said to him:
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'I am the Lord who
brought you out of Ur
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and out of the Chaldeans to give
you this land to inherit it. '
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And he said: 'Lord
God, how shall I know
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that I will inherit
it? ' So He, the Lord, said
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to Abraham: 'Bring Me
a three-year-old heifer,
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a three-year-old female
goat, a three-year-old ram,
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a turtledove and
a young pigeon. '
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Then he brought
all of these to Him
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and He cut them in
two down the middle
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and placed each
piece opposite the other.
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But He did not
cut the birds in two.
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And when the vultures
came down on the carcasses
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Abram drove them away.
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Now when the sun was going down
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a deep sleep
fell upon Abram... "
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This is Abram before
he was called Abraham...
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"and behold, horror and
great darkness fell upon him.
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Then He... " God...
"said to Abram: 'Know certainly
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that your descendants will be
strangers in a land that is not
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theirs and will serve
them. And they will be afflicted
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for 400 years. ' " So
God is telling him in advance
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that they're going to
be carried away to Egypt.
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"And also the nation
whom they serve I will judge
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afterward. They shall come
out with great possessions.
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Now as for you: you
shall go to your fathers
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in peace. " He's saying
"You shall die in peace. "
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"You shall be
buried at a good old age.
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But in the fourth generation
they shall return here
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for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet complete. "
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"And it came to pass when the
sun went down and it was dark
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that behold, there
appeared a smoking oven
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and a burning torch that
passed between those pieces.
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And on the same day
the Lord made a covenant
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with Abram. " So He
is making a covenant.
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He ratifies it, puts
Abraham in a deep sleep.
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And I believe
this is when Abram saw
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the day of Jesus. You
know, remember when Jesus
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told the Pharisees
"Your father Abraham
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has seen My day and was glad. "
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I believe this is
when God showed him
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because He's making a
covenant of grace with him.
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And I believe this is
when the Lord showed Abraham
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what was going to happen.
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Now what we want to
do is turn to Galatians 3
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so we can get the New
Testament part of this.
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Galatians 3, and
we'll begin with verse 6.
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So God is making
this covenant with Abraham
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that he will be the father
of many... of all nations.
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Blessed through
the promised Seed...
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the prophesied
Seed of Jesus Christ.
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That he would be
justified by faith alone
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not by works and he
will receive the Holy Spirit.
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So let's look at Genesis
chapter 3, and we will begin
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with verse 6. That's
Galatians... thank you.
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You know, it's
amazing when you're talking
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you think you
say the right thing.
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I appreciate that so
much, sister. Thank you.
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Galatians chapter 3 and
we will begin with verse 6.
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Galatians 3 and verse 6.
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Paul is writing to
the Galatians and he says:
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"Just as Abraham believed
God and it was accounted him
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for righteousness. "
That's righteousness by faith!
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"Therefore know that
only those who are of faith
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are sons of Abraham. "
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So that includes you and I.
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"And the scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify
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the Gentiles by
faith. " What does it mean to
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be justified? It means that
you have been declared innocent.
00:26:01.62\00:26:06.49
That you cannot be
charged with your sins.
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It's when you have been
set free from your past.
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He says: "The scriptures, fore-
seeing that God would justify
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the Gentiles by faith,
preached the gospel to Abraham
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beforehand saying:
'In you all the nations
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shall be blessed. ' So
then those who are of faith
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are blessed with
believing Abraham.
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For as many as are
of the works of the law
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are under the curse. "
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.99
Now, we haven't
gotten to this covenant.
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When he's speaking of the
law here, he's speaking of
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the old covenant -
the book of the law
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that was written by
Moses that had the ceremonial
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practices and regulations.
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That had the civil laws in it.
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So I'm going to prove
that to you from the text here.
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"For as many as are
under the works of the law
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are under the
curse for it is written -
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and now he's going to
quote Deuteronomy 27:2-
00:27:07.76\00:27:11.73
"Cursed is everyone
who does not continue
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in all the things
which are written in the book
00:27:14.60\00:27:18.77
of the law to do them. "
00:27:18.97\00:27:21.97
What Moses wrote as
God dictated it to him
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is the old covenant.
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He wrote it, and they
called it the book of the law...
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the book of the covenant.
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And we'll look at
that in just a moment.
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"But that no one is
justified by the law... "
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the book of the
law, the old covenant...
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"in the sight of God
is evident. For the just
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shall live by faith.
Yet the law is not of faith
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but the man who does
them shall live by them.
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Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law. "
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This book: God told Moses to
put it on the side of the ark
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that it would stand as
a witness against them.
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It had all the curses
and all the blessings.
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So he goes on
once more and he says:
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"Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law
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having become a curse for us.
00:28:12.69\00:28:14.19
For it is written:
'cursed is everyone
00:28:14.39\00:28:16.69
who hangs on a tree. '
00:28:16.89\00:28:18.23
That the blessing of Abraham
might come upon the Gentiles
00:28:18.63\00:28:21.26
in Christ Jesus
that we might receive
00:28:21.46\00:28:24.40
the promise of the
Spirit through faith. "
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Brethren, I believe... He
said: "I speak in the manner
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of men, though it is
only a man's covenant.
00:28:32.24\00:28:35.01
Yet if it is confirmed
no one annuls or adds to it.
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Now to Abraham and his
seed were promises made.
00:28:38.45\00:28:43.89
He does not say 'and
his seeds' as of many
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but as of one and to
your Seed who is Christ. "
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So the everlasting covenant
is this covenant that was made
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with Abraham that
"you'll be justified by faith. "
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And then he says: "And
this I say: that the law... "
00:29:00.27\00:29:04.24
still speaking of
the book of the law
00:29:04.41\00:29:06.84
which was 430 years later...
"cannot annul the covenant
00:29:07.04\00:29:12.38
that was confirmed by
God in Christ that it should
00:29:12.58\00:29:15.98
make the promise of no effect.
00:29:16.18\00:29:19.42
For if the inheritance is
of the law it is no longer
00:29:19.62\00:29:22.19
a promise. But
God gave it to Abraham
00:29:22.39\00:29:25.83
by promise. " So he
goes on and then he starts
00:29:26.03\00:29:29.30
talking how the law was
given to drive us to faith.
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So let's unpack this
just a little bit more.
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Turn to Genesis chapter 26.
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Genesis chapter 26 and verse 4.
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Here we have... God has
made the everlasting covenant
00:29:43.45\00:29:46.82
with Abraham: that we
will be justified by faith,
00:29:47.02\00:29:50.29
that we will receive the
promise of the Holy Spirit.
00:29:50.49\00:29:52.95
That it is all going to come
through the Seed - capital S -
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Jesus Christ. And
some people say: "Yes!
00:29:57.56\00:30:03.33
We are saved by grace. We
do not need to worry about
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.33
obedience. " Hmmm!
00:30:06.53\00:30:10.31
Let's see if Abraham
understood it that way.
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Let's look at Genesis chapter 26
00:30:14.38\00:30:17.21
and we'll begin with verse 4.
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Genesis 26 and verse 4.
00:30:19.35\00:30:22.12
God is now speaking to Isaac.
00:30:22.52\00:30:25.15
Abraham has passed.
00:30:25.55\00:30:27.62
His life has expired.
00:30:28.69\00:30:30.89
But here's what
God says to Isaac.
00:30:31.23\00:30:34.00
He is renewing the covenant
that He made with Abraham.
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.63
He says: "I will make
your descendants multiply
00:30:38.93\00:30:42.27
as the stars of the heaven.
00:30:42.47\00:30:44.47
I will give to your
descendants all these lands
00:30:44.67\00:30:47.68
and in your seed all the nations
of the earth shall be blessed. "
00:30:47.88\00:30:50.51
Same words that He
said to Abraham, isn't it?
00:30:50.91\00:30:53.68
But now look at verse 5.
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Why is God
renewing the covenant?
00:30:57.12\00:31:00.86
"Because Abraham obeyed My voice
00:31:01.32\00:31:07.30
and kept My charge, My
commandments, My statutes
00:31:07.50\00:31:10.87
and My laws. " The
covenant with Abraham
00:31:11.07\00:31:14.40
was conditioned upon
obedience to God's voice.
00:31:14.60\00:31:19.61
There was no written
word at the time of Abraham.
00:31:20.38\00:31:24.75
When we read Genesis
- the story of Abraham -
00:31:25.55\00:31:29.65
it was written by Moses.
00:31:29.85\00:31:31.59
This is one of the
first five books of the Bible
00:31:31.79\00:31:33.92
that Moses wrote.
00:31:34.12\00:31:35.46
So Abraham spoke
with God as a friend.
00:31:35.59\00:31:39.96
He knew the
principles of God's government.
00:31:40.36\00:31:43.16
He knew His law of love
00:31:43.40\00:31:45.37
and Abraham passed
this down to his children.
00:31:45.57\00:31:48.67
It was clear, if you
read the book of Genesis
00:31:49.27\00:31:52.84
that all of the laws of God
- all of the Ten Commandments -
00:31:53.04\00:31:57.38
are being followed by
Abraham's descendants.
00:31:57.58\00:32:01.45
And these commandments were
then later repeated at Sinai.
00:32:01.95\00:32:07.72
But during the course of
time Abraham's descendants
00:32:08.12\00:32:10.93
are taken away.
They're in Egypt:
00:32:11.09\00:32:14.50
a pagan nation, a
sun-worshiping nation.
00:32:14.73\00:32:18.00
They're there for 400 years.
00:32:18.20\00:32:20.50
Now remember:
there's no written word.
00:32:20.70\00:32:23.14
They are just
following what they've heard.
00:32:23.57\00:32:28.28
But it's becoming increasing...
When you are enslaved
00:32:28.68\00:32:32.21
it is very difficult to worship
in the way that God prescribed.
00:32:32.41\00:32:36.02
So 400 years... Over time, they
lost much of the understanding
00:32:36.22\00:32:41.86
of God's covenant with Abraham.
00:32:42.06\00:32:44.19
BUT the Bible
says in Exodus 2:24
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that God remembered
His covenant with Abraham
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and Isaac. He heard their
voice when they cried out.
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He remembered the covenant
and He graciously delivered them
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from the bondage of slavery.
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Turn to Psalms 105.
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Psalms 105.
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Here are the
people in bondage in Egypt
00:33:12.35\00:33:15.79
just as God had foretold.
00:33:15.99\00:33:17.83
Four hundred years;
four generations of people
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are in bondage in Egypt.
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God hears their
voice as they cry out
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and He saves them!
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He delivers them from
the bondage of slavery.
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Look at Psalms 105 verse 43.
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Psalms 105 verse 43.
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"And He brought forth
His people with joy. "
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This is a God of covenant
love who loved His people!
00:33:47.12\00:33:51.86
"He brought forth His people
with joy and His chosen ones
00:33:52.06\00:33:55.20
with gladness and
singing and gave them the lands
00:33:55.40\00:33:58.47
of the nations of Canaan
and they repeated the fruits
00:33:58.67\00:34:00.74
of these peoples' labors... "
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Why? Look at verse 45.
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"that they might observe His
statutes and keep His laws. "
00:34:05.41\00:34:08.91
Huh! God brings
them out of bondage. Why?
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They're under the
everlasting covenant of Abraham
00:34:15.52\00:34:18.65
but so that they
may observe His laws.
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So He led them to Mt. Sinai;
00:34:21.99\00:34:23.96
He reminds them at Mt.
Sinai of His law of love...
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His Ten Commandments.
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But let me ask you a question.
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Did they have to obey His
commandments before they were
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saved? No! He saved them first!
00:34:36.30\00:34:40.54
He parted the Red Sea.
They were saved by grace
00:34:40.74\00:34:43.11
through faith. They had faith
that as they entered the Red Sea
00:34:43.31\00:34:47.08
God was going to keep
those walls of water up there.
00:34:47.38\00:34:50.75
They didn't have to measure
up to His moral standards first.
00:34:50.95\00:34:54.36
He knew they couldn't!
00:34:54.56\00:34:55.89
You and I cannot
measure up to God's standards
00:34:56.22\00:35:00.23
until we are saved and converted
and have the Holy Spirit
00:35:00.43\00:35:03.67
within us. They believed God
would see them safely through.
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Then He destroyed their enemy.
00:35:09.10\00:35:10.81
Turn to Exodus 19 and verse 4.
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Exodus 19 and verse 4.
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I love this passage
00:35:18.08\00:35:20.05
because we see the
covenant-love language of God.
00:35:20.25\00:35:24.02
This is before God ever
speaks the Ten Commandments.
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This is before He's come down
with all of His pyrotechnics
00:35:28.36\00:35:33.40
on the mountain.
Exodus 19 and verse 4.
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God's telling Abraham: "I want
you to tell the people this. "
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And what He says is:
"You have seen what I did to
00:35:40.90\00:35:45.24
the Egyptians and how I
bore you on eagle's wings
00:35:45.44\00:35:50.05
and I brought you to Myself. "
00:35:50.25\00:35:52.71
See the covenant-love language?
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"I want to be your God
and you be My people. "
00:35:55.92\00:35:59.69
"Now therefore... "
He says in verse 5...
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"if... " This is going
to be a conditional... it is
00:36:03.89\00:36:07.86
a conditional covenant...
"if you will indeed obey
00:36:08.03\00:36:10.47
My voice and keep my covenants
then you shall be a special
00:36:10.67\00:36:13.13
treasure to Me
above all the people.
00:36:13.34\00:36:16.00
For all the earth is
Mine and you shall be to Me
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.61
a kingdom of
priests and a holy nation.
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These are the words,
Moses, that you are to speak
00:36:21.01\00:36:24.15
to the children of Israel. "
00:36:24.31\00:36:25.65
Does this not
remind you of I Peter 2:9
00:36:25.68\00:36:28.15
that we are a "royal
priesthood, a chosen nation. "
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This is what
He's saying to them:
00:36:32.35\00:36:33.99
"You'll be My royal priesthood
00:36:34.19\00:36:36.19
if you'll obey My
voice. I love you!
00:36:36.83\00:36:39.29
All I ask is your
response of love to Me.
00:36:39.49\00:36:42.70
If you love Me,
keep My commandments. "
00:36:42.90\00:36:44.77
And so Moses goes
and tells the people
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and in the next verse... see,
God is pledging His benevolence
00:36:47.20\00:36:51.84
and protection in
exchange for their loyalty.
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So verse 7 says: "So
Moses came and called for
00:36:54.38\00:36:57.01
the elders of the people
and lay before them all of these
00:36:57.21\00:36:59.65
words which the
Lord had commanded him. "
00:36:59.85\00:37:01.98
What words? The
words we just read
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.55
in verses 4 through 6.
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These are the
words: "I'll be your God;
00:37:08.12\00:37:11.66
you'll be My people
if you'll just obey Me. "
00:37:12.06\00:37:14.40
And so... verse 8: "All
the people answered together
00:37:15.36\00:37:19.77
and they said: 'All
that the Lord has spoken
00:37:19.97\00:37:22.07
we will do. ' " "Yes,
we'll be His people. "
00:37:22.27\00:37:25.34
"Yes, we will respond in
covenant love by obeying Him. "
00:37:25.54\00:37:31.41
But see, the people...
Moses then goes back to the Lord
00:37:31.81\00:37:35.68
and says: "Yes! They want to! "
00:37:35.88\00:37:37.49
The people have responded
to this before God even spoke
00:37:37.65\00:37:41.09
the Ten Commandments.
00:37:41.29\00:37:42.62
He's invited them
into covenant relationship.
00:37:42.66\00:37:46.26
And so the covenant was
conditioned upon obedience
00:37:46.90\00:37:52.23
to His voice.
00:37:52.53\00:37:54.20
But their obedience
was an expression...
00:37:55.10\00:37:57.91
supposed to be an
expression... of covenant love.
00:37:58.31\00:38:01.18
It's a precondition to
receiving the covenant blessing.
00:38:01.58\00:38:06.75
So if you think about it
00:38:07.15\00:38:09.62
God's kingdom operates
00:38:09.82\00:38:14.29
on two fundamental
principles of love.
00:38:14.46\00:38:17.26
Can you tell me what those are?
00:38:17.46\00:38:18.86
Mark 12:30-31.
00:38:19.89\00:38:22.73
"You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart,
00:38:23.13\00:38:26.84
with all of your
soul, with all of your mind,
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.20
with all your
strength. " And the second is:
00:38:29.40\00:38:32.57
"You shall love your
neighbor as yourself. "
00:38:32.77\00:38:34.84
See, the first is
unreserved love for God.
00:38:35.24\00:38:39.31
The second is self-sacrificing
love for others.
00:38:39.71\00:38:43.59
But the law of love -
the Ten Commandments -
00:38:44.09\00:38:47.76
the moral law is and
always has been the standard
00:38:47.96\00:38:52.23
of God's government.
00:38:52.43\00:38:53.90
He expects His
covenant people to keep His law.
00:38:54.10\00:38:57.33
Now, He first
spoke these audibly
00:38:57.73\00:39:00.87
and the people
trembled because the Bible says
00:39:01.54\00:39:06.07
when you hear the audible voice
of the Lord that, in Revelation
00:39:06.27\00:39:09.34
it says His voice is
like the rushing waters...
00:39:09.54\00:39:13.08
many rushing waters.
00:39:13.28\00:39:14.68
But now turn to Exodus 20.
00:39:15.08\00:39:18.52
Exodus 20. The
people are trembling now
00:39:19.29\00:39:24.26
in the
awe-inspiring presence of God.
00:39:24.63\00:39:26.93
But He is getting ready just
to speak the Ten Commandments.
00:39:27.86\00:39:31.90
He's going to remind them
of what He had told Abraham,
00:39:32.30\00:39:37.51
what He had told Isaac.
00:39:37.71\00:39:39.34
Remind them of the things that
had been passed down to them
00:39:39.54\00:39:42.61
by word. And it
starts... This is the preamble
00:39:43.01\00:39:47.42
of the Ten Commandments:
00:39:47.62\00:39:49.18
"And God spoke all
these words saying:
00:39:49.38\00:39:51.79
'I am the Lord your God
00:39:52.19\00:39:54.66
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
00:39:55.06\00:39:59.46
out of the house of bondage. ' "
00:39:59.66\00:40:02.03
Do you hear God's
love in this preamble?
00:40:02.43\00:40:07.10
Before we go through the
Ten Commandments let me just
00:40:08.30\00:40:10.57
say this: in Hebrew
they are called ten words.
00:40:10.77\00:40:14.91
And the syntax - which is
the arrangement of these words -
00:40:15.88\00:40:19.71
indicates that
they are commandments.
00:40:19.91\00:40:23.25
But they are
written in the future tense
00:40:23.65\00:40:26.35
which indicates that
they are promises from God.
00:40:26.55\00:40:29.86
Let me repeat that.
00:40:30.63\00:40:32.03
The Ten Commandments
are promises from God.
00:40:32.66\00:40:37.43
We have to quit thinking
00:40:38.23\00:40:41.20
that we can do
anything without God's power.
00:40:41.60\00:40:45.91
Because what God is saying is
00:40:46.11\00:40:48.64
anything that He calls us
to be He will cause us to be.
00:40:49.04\00:40:53.95
It is God working
in us to will and to do
00:40:54.15\00:40:57.35
His good pleasure. So
here He is. He started off
00:40:57.55\00:41:01.82
this preamble saying:
"I am the Lord your God
00:41:02.02\00:41:04.06
who brought you out of bondage.
I have borne you to Myself
00:41:04.46\00:41:08.10
on the wings of eagles. "
And then He goes on to say
00:41:08.30\00:41:11.83
"You shall have no
other gods before Me. "
00:41:12.03\00:41:14.60
"You won't bow down
to idols any longer. "
00:41:15.20\00:41:19.04
"No... you won't
take My name in vain. "
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.11
"You will
REMEMBER My Sabbath Day.
00:41:22.31\00:41:24.88
You're going to be so excited
to come spend this time with Me.
00:41:25.08\00:41:29.25
This time that I have sancti-
fied, that I have put aside
00:41:29.45\00:41:33.36
as holy... this
time for you and I. "
00:41:33.56\00:41:37.39
And then He says to them:
00:41:37.69\00:41:40.06
"You will honor your
mother and your father.
00:41:40.26\00:41:42.16
You will not commit murder;
you'll not commit adultery.
00:41:42.36\00:41:44.97
You'll not lie;
you'll not steal.
00:41:45.37\00:41:47.80
You're not going to
bear false testimony.
00:41:48.00\00:41:50.14
You're not
going to covet. " Why?
00:41:50.44\00:41:52.41
"Because that's what being
in covenant relationship with Me
00:41:52.81\00:41:56.91
is like. I'm
going to empower you
00:41:57.11\00:42:00.75
to overcome these things. "
00:42:00.95\00:42:03.39
Then God engraves, we know,
00:42:03.59\00:42:07.06
the only part of scripture
that was written with the finger
00:42:07.26\00:42:11.59
of God are the Ten Commandments.
00:42:11.79\00:42:14.20
And He tells Moses:
"Put these in the ark. "
00:42:14.56\00:42:18.30
What was the ark?
00:42:19.47\00:42:21.27
That's God's throne.
00:42:21.47\00:42:23.00
They were put in the ark, and
the mercy seat was above them.
00:42:23.67\00:42:27.64
Mercy always triumphs judgment.
00:42:28.04\00:42:31.21
But the law is God's...
00:42:31.41\00:42:34.08
the foundation
of God's government.
00:42:34.28\00:42:38.92
Now... even after
the first set was broken
00:42:39.32\00:42:42.86
God re-wrote them and
had them placed there.
00:42:43.06\00:42:47.23
Let me run through the timeline
00:42:47.46\00:42:49.56
of... before we get
into the old covenant.
00:42:49.76\00:42:52.33
I've got to hurry. How
does time go away so quickly?
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.24
Let's look at the timeline
of what happened at Mt. Sinai
00:42:56.74\00:43:00.51
because I think
we've got it all wrong.
00:43:00.71\00:43:02.68
So first the people - before God
even speaks the commandments -
00:43:02.88\00:43:06.41
they enter into covenant
relationship saying: "Yes,
00:43:06.61\00:43:09.05
we will... You can be our
God; we'll be Your people.
00:43:09.45\00:43:12.52
We'll obey You. "
00:43:12.82\00:43:14.16
So then God goes and He
speaks from the mountain.
00:43:14.19\00:43:17.03
He speaks the Ten Commandments.
00:43:17.43\00:43:19.29
And then the people,
because they are fearful,
00:43:19.69\00:43:22.33
say: "Ooh! Moses...
YOU be our mediator. "
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.23
So Moses goes up the mountain
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.70
and he receives the words of
a special covenant with Israel.
00:43:27.90\00:43:33.07
The ceremonial
laws, the civil laws.
00:43:33.27\00:43:39.25
Also the Ten
Commandments. He comes down.
00:43:39.75\00:43:42.42
Turn to Exodus 24.
00:43:42.62\00:43:44.55
Exodus 24 and verse 3.
00:43:44.75\00:43:47.02
Moses comes down... Now, mind
you, the Ten Commandments have
00:43:47.89\00:43:51.63
not yet been written on stone.
00:43:51.83\00:43:53.56
They've only been spoken.
00:43:53.76\00:43:55.23
Now Moses comes down.
And he is writing everything
00:43:56.30\00:44:00.57
that the Lord tells
him. So here's what happens.
00:44:00.77\00:44:03.04
Exodus 24 verse 3: "Moses
came and he told the people
00:44:03.91\00:44:08.48
all the words of the Lord
and all of the judgments. "
00:44:08.68\00:44:11.85
He's reciting the
covenant blessings,
00:44:12.25\00:44:14.02
the covenant judgments.
00:44:14.22\00:44:15.55
"And all the people answered
with one voice and said:
00:44:15.58\00:44:17.79
'All the words which the
Lord has said we will do. ' "
00:44:17.99\00:44:20.99
They're repeating
what they said before.
00:44:21.19\00:44:23.06
"And Moses wrote all of
the words of the Lord. "
00:44:23.26\00:44:26.56
Everything that God
had dictated to him.
00:44:26.80\00:44:29.26
"He rose early in the morning.
He built an altar at the foot
00:44:29.46\00:44:31.83
of the mountain and the twelve
pillars according to the twelve
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.27
tribes of Israel.
Then he sent young men
00:44:34.47\00:44:36.20
of the children of Israel
who offered burnt offerings
00:44:36.40\00:44:38.81
and sacrificed peace
offerings of oxen to the Lord.
00:44:39.01\00:44:42.38
And Moses took half the
blood and put it in its basin;
00:44:42.78\00:44:46.78
half the blood he
sprinkled on the altar. "
00:44:46.98\00:44:49.15
What is he doing? He's
ratifying the old covenant
00:44:49.35\00:44:53.09
with blood.
00:44:53.32\00:44:54.72
"Then he took the
book of the covenant... "
00:44:55.52\00:44:59.46
These are the words
that Moses had just written,
00:45:02.03\00:45:04.73
also sometimes
called the book of the law.
00:45:04.93\00:45:06.84
"He read it in the hearing
of the people and they said:
00:45:07.04\00:45:10.24
"All that the Lord has said
we will do. We'll be obedient. "
00:45:10.44\00:45:13.21
So he takes the blood; he
sprinkles it on the people.
00:45:13.41\00:45:16.44
In Hebrews chapter 9 it
says he also sprinkled it
00:45:16.75\00:45:20.92
on the book. It
says: "This is the blood
00:45:21.12\00:45:25.52
of the covenant which
the Lord has made with you
00:45:25.72\00:45:28.92
according to all these words. "
00:45:29.12\00:45:31.16
Now, after they've
made this old covenant
00:45:31.76\00:45:35.03
Moses goes up the mountain.
God tells him in those 40 days
00:45:35.23\00:45:39.20
"Build Me a tabernacle so
I can dwell among the people
00:45:39.40\00:45:42.14
and we'll put all of these
sacrificial things into place. "
00:45:42.34\00:45:46.68
He comes down the mountain;
he sees the people in rebellion.
00:45:47.74\00:45:51.08
He breaks the first set...
he goes back up the mountain.
00:45:51.28\00:45:53.72
God's writing
this in stone again.
00:45:53.92\00:45:56.08
He brings them down and
puts them inside the ark.
00:45:56.48\00:45:59.62
The Ten Commandments
were not written on stone
00:46:00.09\00:46:02.22
until after the old
covenant was written.
00:46:02.42\00:46:06.16
Do you see that?
Why is this important?
00:46:06.36\00:46:09.43
The Ten Commandments, yes,
are written in the old covenant.
00:46:10.47\00:46:14.77
They are the heart
of the old covenant.
00:46:14.97\00:46:17.14
There's the civil
laws, the ceremonial laws,
00:46:17.54\00:46:21.21
and the Ten Commandments
that were written in the book
00:46:21.41\00:46:23.38
of the covenant.
00:46:23.58\00:46:24.95
But then afterwards
God writes them on stone
00:46:25.25\00:46:28.15
and has them put
inside the ark. Whereas
00:46:28.35\00:46:31.59
He has this book of the covenant
put on the outside of the ark.
00:46:31.79\00:46:36.76
Stone was permanent!
00:46:37.26\00:46:39.63
Inside the ark it shows it's the
foundation of His government.
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.83
On the side
pocket it was temporary!
00:46:43.13\00:46:45.80
It was written on animal
skins... not by God's hand
00:46:46.20\00:46:49.00
but by Moses' hand.
00:46:49.20\00:46:50.91
So this was...
Deuteronomy 31 says that
00:46:51.11\00:46:56.71
it was there "as a
witness against them"
00:46:56.91\00:47:00.25
to condemn their actions.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.68
You know, throughout Deuteronomy
00:47:02.88\00:47:07.32
Moses presents the
law of God as glorious.
00:47:07.52\00:47:10.86
"Oh this is a wonderful thing!
" He's always saying this.
00:47:11.03\00:47:13.83
And he says: "If your
heart's right, you can do it! "
00:47:14.20\00:47:17.27
But God knows our hearts.
00:47:17.63\00:47:19.90
He knows how weak we are.
00:47:20.14\00:47:22.00
He knew the depravity of mankind
00:47:22.20\00:47:24.61
and by grace He
provided the sacrificial system.
00:47:24.81\00:47:27.88
And it was all to
point... these ceremonial laws
00:47:28.88\00:47:33.52
were food and drink offerings...
they were all to point
00:47:33.72\00:47:36.45
to the ministry of Christ.
00:47:36.69\00:47:38.22
And they had the
celebrations and the festivals
00:47:38.62\00:47:40.86
and the special annual Sabbaths.
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Not talking about
the weekly Sabbath
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but these ceremonial Sabbaths.
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Everything was a shadow
of Jesus Christ's ministry.
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Turn to
Colossians 22 and verse 14.
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Colossians 2 and verse 14.
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Everything from
the old covenant -
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which was a
temporary, special contract
00:48:03.61\00:48:06.85
written with the
people of Israel -
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pointed to the
ministry of Jesus Christ.
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Now Colossians 2 and verse 14
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says this. Paul
writes: "Having wiped out the
00:48:19.26\00:48:24.47
handwriting of
requirements that was against us
00:48:24.67\00:48:28.54
which was contrary to
us... " That means taking it out
00:48:29.77\00:48:32.91
of the way... "having
nailed it to the cross... "
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What did He nail to the cross?
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Well let's look in context.
00:48:36.85\00:48:38.25
"Having disarmed
principalities and powers
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He made a public spectacle
of them, triumphing over them
00:48:40.72\00:48:43.72
in it, so... " As
a result, based upon
00:48:43.92\00:48:47.46
what he just said. Because
this thing has been nailed
00:48:47.66\00:48:53.03
to the cross... this
thing that stood against us...
00:48:53.23\00:48:57.17
"let no one judge you
in food or in drink... "
00:48:57.37\00:49:00.20
He's speaking of offerings...
00:49:00.40\00:49:02.07
"or regarding a
festival or a new moon or
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the annual Sabbath...
the ceremonial days. "
00:49:07.01\00:49:09.68
He's talking about the old cove-
nant, the book of the covenant
00:49:09.88\00:49:13.85
that got nailed to the cross.
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And he goes on to say:
00:49:17.42\00:49:18.75
"Don't let them judge you
in food and drink offerings.
00:49:18.89\00:49:22.22
Don't let them judge you in
annual Sabbath, these ceremonial
00:49:22.42\00:49:27.66
days. " And then he
finishes in verse 17, says:
00:49:27.86\00:49:30.97
"These are a shadow of things
to come, but the substance
00:49:31.13\00:49:34.80
is of Christ. " So what
got nailed to the cross?
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It was the old covenant...
the book of the testament.
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the book of the
covenant that Moses wrote.
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It was not the Ten Commandments.
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Turn to Hebrews
chapter 9 and verse 9.
00:49:47.65\00:49:51.82
Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 9.
00:49:52.49\00:49:55.09
Christ's death proved
that the law was absolute,
00:49:56.62\00:50:00.60
it was unchangeable.
00:50:00.80\00:50:02.46
And if God planned
to do away with His law
00:50:02.86\00:50:06.27
then Christ died in vain
00:50:06.57\00:50:08.70
because He died to pay the
penalty that we had incurred
00:50:09.10\00:50:15.04
from breaking the
law. But look at verse...
00:50:15.24\00:50:18.85
Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 9.
00:50:19.05\00:50:21.52
In reference here, he is speak-
ing of the first tabernacle.
00:50:22.68\00:50:25.85
He says: "It... "
the first tabernacle...
00:50:26.25\00:50:28.66
"was symbolic for the present
time in which both gifts and
00:50:29.16\00:50:33.46
sacrifices are offered, which
cannot make him who performed
00:50:33.66\00:50:37.13
the service perfect in
regard to the conscience,
00:50:37.33\00:50:39.57
concerned only with food
and drink, various washings
00:50:39.87\00:50:43.20
and fleshly ordinances
imposed until the time
00:50:43.44\00:50:47.81
of reformation. " He's talking
about the Levitical offerings.
00:50:48.01\00:50:51.11
Christ fulfilled all of
this prophetic symbolism.
00:50:51.51\00:50:55.38
All of the sacrificial system
and the ceremonial system.
00:50:55.58\00:50:58.95
His death - Daniel 9:27-
00:50:59.15\00:51:02.56
prophesied that His
death "would bring an end
00:51:02.76\00:51:06.80
to the
sacrifice and offerings. "
00:51:07.00\00:51:08.96
So we read in
Galatians 3 that Moses... I mean
00:51:09.36\00:51:13.74
Paul said the
Mosaic covenant was added
00:51:14.14\00:51:18.91
to Abraham's covenant
00:51:19.11\00:51:20.84
UNTIL the Seed to whom the
promise was made would come.
00:51:21.18\00:51:26.41
So once Christ came
00:51:27.02\00:51:28.35
that old covenant
got nailed to the cross.
00:51:28.52\00:51:30.79
The sad history of
Israel's continued disobedience
00:51:33.05\00:51:36.99
and covenant breaking, though.
00:51:37.19\00:51:38.69
How they twisted and
distorted obedience to the law
00:51:39.89\00:51:45.23
as a means of salvation.
00:51:45.43\00:51:47.20
They would rigorously
observe the ceremonial laws
00:51:47.60\00:51:51.07
but they'd violate
the purpose of the law.
00:51:51.47\00:51:54.51
And Jesus and Paul were
both very critical of the misuse
00:51:54.71\00:51:57.95
of the law. But
in the Old Testament
00:51:58.15\00:52:00.85
God wrote in Jeremiah 31:33-34
00:52:01.15\00:52:05.79
that He was going to
write His law on our hearts
00:52:05.99\00:52:10.06
someday. He
promised in the new covenant
00:52:10.26\00:52:13.80
He'd write His
laws on our hearts.
00:52:14.00\00:52:16.63
And that promise was
echoed in Ezekiel 36:26-27.
00:52:16.83\00:52:21.64
He said: "I'll give you a
new heart; I'll put a new spirit
00:52:21.84\00:52:24.41
within you. " That's
regeneration; that's new birth!
00:52:24.61\00:52:27.91
He says: "I will
cause you to walk
00:52:28.21\00:52:30.65
in My statutes. "
00:52:31.05\00:52:33.31
You see, in Isaiah chapter 42
00:52:33.72\00:52:37.45
God promised that
He would give Jesus,
00:52:37.62\00:52:40.62
His Son, as a
covenant to the Gentiles.
00:52:41.02\00:52:45.99
Jesus is a light to us.
00:52:46.19\00:52:50.60
Jesus IS the new covenant.
00:52:50.97\00:52:53.17
And even Jesus said, when
He was having the Last Supper
00:52:53.57\00:52:58.41
instituting communion, He said:
00:52:58.61\00:53:01.18
"This cup is the new
covenant in My blood. "
00:53:01.38\00:53:06.05
"I am going to ratify this
covenant with My own blood. "
00:53:06.25\00:53:12.22
So when He died on the
cross as our substitute
00:53:13.86\00:53:16.83
He brought the new covenant
in and made the old obsolete.
00:53:17.83\00:53:21.80
In the new covenant it
is obvious that the church
00:53:22.83\00:53:26.13
is the new Israel.
There's so many scriptures.
00:53:26.33\00:53:28.44
If you don't
understand that, e-mail me
00:53:28.64\00:53:31.01
and we'll send
you those scriptures.
00:53:31.21\00:53:32.61
But Christ fulfills
all of God's covenants.
00:53:32.81\00:53:35.14
He's the Seed of the
woman's seed of Abraham.
00:53:35.34\00:53:37.31
He's the end goal
of the Mosaic covenant.
00:53:37.51\00:53:39.58
He sits on
David's throne forever...
00:53:40.38\00:53:43.95
the Davidic covenant.
00:53:44.15\00:53:45.69
So turn to Hebrews chapter 8.
00:53:45.89\00:53:47.99
We have to get to
this before we finish.
00:53:48.39\00:53:50.79
Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 8.
00:53:51.16\00:53:53.66
The question is: the Ten
Commandments were the heart
00:53:56.90\00:53:59.90
of the old covenant.
Are they also the heart
00:54:00.17\00:54:03.07
of the new covenant? Yes!
00:54:03.27\00:54:05.84
Hebrews 8 and verse 8.
00:54:06.04\00:54:08.41
Christ came not
only to redeem us
00:54:10.08\00:54:12.65
but that He might
exalt and magnify the law
00:54:13.05\00:54:16.08
and make it honorable.
00:54:16.28\00:54:17.92
So verse 8 says this:
"Because finding fault with
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.29
them he said:
'Behold, the days are coming
00:54:21.49\00:54:23.83
says the Lord when I
will make a new covenant
00:54:24.03\00:54:26.06
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
00:54:26.26\00:54:28.36
Not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers
00:54:28.76\00:54:31.37
in the day when I
took them by the hand
00:54:31.57\00:54:33.80
to lead them out
of the land of Egypt
00:54:34.00\00:54:35.40
because they did not
continue in My covenant
00:54:35.60\00:54:37.71
and I disregarded them. ' "
00:54:37.91\00:54:39.77
See, God keeps covenant
00:54:40.18\00:54:41.51
with those who
keep covenant with Him.
00:54:41.54\00:54:43.35
"For this..." he
says in verse 10...
00:54:45.15\00:54:47.85
"this is the covenant...
" Here's my new covenant...
00:54:48.08\00:54:50.89
"that I'll make
with the house of Israel
00:54:51.09\00:54:53.09
after those days says the Lord:
00:54:53.32\00:54:54.96
"I will put My laws in
their mind and write them on
00:54:55.16\00:54:58.03
their hearts. I'll
be their God; they shall
00:54:58.23\00:55:00.46
be My people. "
Christ magnified the law.
00:55:00.66\00:55:05.93
He said: "You've
heard it said 'You shall not
00:55:06.90\00:55:09.07
commit adultery? '
I'm saying if you lust
00:55:09.27\00:55:12.31
you're already
guilty of adultery. "
00:55:12.51\00:55:14.08
"You've heard it said
'You shall not murder. '
00:55:14.28\00:55:15.78
If you've got hatred in
your heart toward somebody,
00:55:15.98\00:55:18.18
you're already guilty of that. "
00:55:18.38\00:55:20.02
He came to magnify the
law and He fulfilled the law.
00:55:20.22\00:55:24.42
So His
righteousness is given to us.
00:55:24.62\00:55:28.66
It is imputed
and imparted to us.
00:55:29.06\00:55:33.90
This is why we can be jus-
tified by grace through faith.
00:55:34.10\00:55:38.00
See, Jesus Christ always
has been the everlasting...
00:55:38.70\00:55:43.27
the news of salvation by
grace is the everlasting gospel.
00:55:43.47\00:55:48.58
But our
response of covenant love
00:55:48.98\00:55:51.65
must be this: Jesus said
00:55:51.95\00:55:56.58
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments
00:55:56.79\00:56:00.09
AND I will give
you another Helper. "
00:56:00.29\00:56:03.56
Allos Parakletos.
00:56:03.96\00:56:05.69
One who is just like Me.
00:56:05.89\00:56:07.40
"I'll give you
the Holy Spirit. "
00:56:07.76\00:56:10.10
That's what Acts 5:32 is saying:
00:56:10.50\00:56:12.80
that the Spirit is
given to those who obey.
00:56:13.00\00:56:16.00
But the Ten Commandments -
just as they were the heart
00:56:16.20\00:56:20.38
of the old
covenant they are the heart
00:56:20.58\00:56:23.95
of the new
covenant. They are permanent.
00:56:24.15\00:56:27.22
They are God's
standard for His government.
00:56:27.62\00:56:31.02
The good news is this: turn
to I Thessalonians chapter 5.
00:56:32.02\00:56:36.73
See, we don't... Jesus
didn't obey to be saved.
00:56:37.43\00:56:42.13
I mean, to
become the Son of God.
00:56:43.33\00:56:45.37
Jesus obeyed because
He WAS the Son of God.
00:56:45.57\00:56:48.00
We don't obey to be saved;
00:56:48.40\00:56:50.94
we obey because we ARE saved!
00:56:51.14\00:56:53.98
And it is God who is
working in us to will and to do
00:56:54.18\00:56:56.91
His good pleasure.
I Thessalonians 5:23.
00:56:57.11\00:57:00.05
"Now may the God of
peace, Jehovah Shalom Himself,
00:57:00.35\00:57:03.65
sanctify you
completely making you holy,
00:57:03.85\00:57:06.69
separating you from sin.
00:57:06.89\00:57:08.49
May your whole
spirit, soul, and body
00:57:08.69\00:57:12.16
be preserved blameless
at the coming of our Lord
00:57:12.36\00:57:14.63
Jesus Christ. "
Now look at verse 24.
00:57:14.83\00:57:18.53
"He who calls you is faithful
00:57:18.73\00:57:23.27
who will also do it. "
00:57:23.51\00:57:25.44
Salvation is by
grace through faith
00:57:25.64\00:57:27.84
and our response is love;
00:57:28.04\00:57:31.38
covenant love is obedience.
00:57:31.58\00:57:34.42