Welcome to Anchors
of Truth, live from the
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3ABN Worship
Center. The Sanctuary
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series with John Bradshaw.
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We're so happy that
you could join for the
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third of the Anchors
of Truth series. The first
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was with Ty Gibson,
and the subject was love.
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And last month John
Lomacang gave the very
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popular series on, on
spirits, unclean spirits
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and that was
extremely well received and
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a lot of people
learned a whole lot about
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that. I'm still
getting letters on both of
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these from the Ty
Gibson series and from
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John Lomacang
series on how much it
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meant to you the
viewer, and that's what
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this is all about.
This series tonight is going
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to be introducing
the new speaker for
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It Is Written. John
Bradshaw recently was
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called to take the
place of Shawn Boonstra
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who took a medical
leave and we hope Shawn
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is doing well,
recovering and we look forward
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to his being back in
the pulpit before too long.
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We would love to even
have him here on 3ABN,
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and this
particular series we have one
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open for him any
time that he is ready
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to do that. But
tonight John Bradshaw
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is gonna be our
speaker and you're gonna
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get better
acquainted with him. As someone
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today say who is
John Bradshaw? Well
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number one he is
the speaker of It Is
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Written, but he hasn't
always been the speaker
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of It Is Written, he
grew up in New Zealand.
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He accepted the Lord
Jesus Christ at the age
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of 23 from reading
The Great Controversy
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which was given
to him by his brother
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who had accepted
Jesus Christ as his personal
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Savior. John came to
this country. He went
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to Amazing Facts,
the school of evangelism,
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studied and became an
evangelist for Amazing
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Facts and he did that
for a number of years.
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Sixteen years he
was holding evangelistic
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crusade around
the country. He became
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Pastor of the
Lexington, Kentucky Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church.
He served there for a
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number of years before accepting
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the call to
College Place, Washington
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where he pastored
only for a short time
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and then It Is
Written called and said
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we are asking you
to come, and be the
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fourth in the
history of It Is Written
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to serve as
speaker. George Vandeman
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the founder, Mark
Finley was the second
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speaker and then
Shawn Boonstra and
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now it's John
Bradshaw. Tonight he's gonna
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be studying with
us on the Sanctuary
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and the exciting
place that the Sanctuary
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has in our Salvation.
The title of tonight's
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subject is going to be
reality, and I'm looking
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forward to it. I
know that the Lord has
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blessed John, Has
given him real insights
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into the scripture
and I believe that as you
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become more
acquainted with him, you're
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going to appreciate
the way that he studies the
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Bible the way he
presents those studies as he
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comes to us by
television. Tonight
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before he does come
as our speaker I'm going
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to ask our good
friend C.A. Murray to come
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and sing for us
and he is going to sing
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that song, I will give all
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my service to you, C.A.
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I give all my service to You
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I give all my service to You
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No matter the
cost or what others do
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I give all my service to You
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I give all my problems to You
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I give all my problems to You
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No matter the
cost or what others do
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I give all my problems to You
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I give all my family to You
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I give all my family to You
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No matter the
cost or what others do
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I give all my family to You
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I give all my future to You
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I give all my future to You
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No matter the
cost or what others do
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I give all my future to You
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I give all my worship to You
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I give all my worship to You
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No matter the
cost or what others do
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I give all my worship to You
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I give all my worship to You.
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Thank you very much
for that, good evening
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everyone. Good
evening. What a blessing
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to be here at 3ABN
with you and with you
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this evening. And
I'm excited that we can
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get together here and
gather around the Bible.
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As we open the Bible
tonight I believe God
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is going to bless us.
Do you know what I believe,
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I believe that God
does bless us when we
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open the Bible. Now
sometimes when we open
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up the Bible together
people are blessed with
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45 minutes sleep. And
if that's the blessing
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you need as we open
the Bible tonight then
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by all means go ahead
and receive that blessing.
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Sometimes people are
blessed as they leave
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church, lets say
they're blessed with the gift
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of criticism and
backbiting. You've
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experienced that.
I'm not saying you're
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participating in
the way that you've done
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yourself, but you
know of folks who they,
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maybe they leave
the Sanctuary or leave
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church or maybe
even leave camp meeting,
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and they could
spend hours telling you
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exactly what was
wrong with what they heard.
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Well I hope tonight
though that you gonna
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give the blessing
that we're all gonna get
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the blessing that
God wants us to have.
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There are
blessings in the word of God
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when we come keen
to be blessed and eager
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for God to fill us
up with His spirit and
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anxious for God to
impact our lives in a powerful
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then I think maybe,
maybe that I'm trying
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to get out of
something here, but what I
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want to say is
even irrespective of the
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preacher if we're
keen to be blessed and
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expecting to be
blessed by God, when we
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encounter the Lord
in the Bible we'll we
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blessed. Now we're
beginning a series of
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messages based on the
Sanctuary. This simply
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and extraordinarily
complex, this very
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basic, yet this
very advanced, this very
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ancient, but very
modern and relevant today.
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This, this thing,
this Sanctuary. I don't
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propose over the
next few messages to,
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to tell you a whole lot
of things that you never
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heard before. You
know what I've told
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many congregations
is this. If I'm telling
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you things that you've
never heard before then,
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then either there
is something wrong with
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what I'm saying or
there is something wrong
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with you. Here is
what I like. I like to tell
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people the old,
old story whenever I
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preach I don't try to
be creative and inventive.
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I'm not looking to be
on the, on the cutting
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edge of new and
marvelous. I think if
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we come to the Bible,
to the pillars of truth,
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to the tried and
tested, to the known and then
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we take out of that
story of how some things
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old and some things
new of we let God breathe
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his spirit into us
through the word of God
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we're going to be
okay. Now in case you're
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wondering. We aren't
over the next few messages
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gonna be talking
about the decorations around
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the altar of incense
or the carvings around
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the Altar of Burnt-Offering.
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That's not really
where I wanna go with this.
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We would busy
ourselves with the minutiae
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and I don't say
that disrespectfully of
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the Sanctuary or we
could come to this and
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look at the bigger
picture. The aspects
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of the Sanctuary
that really impact us most
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powerfully and
most prominently today.
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So in case you're
thinking when is he
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gonna talk about
the blue edge around
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the priest
garment. You know you might
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have to listen for a
while to hear me talk
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about that over
these next few days, but
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I think as we study
the Bible together and
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talk about this
wonderful, wonderful
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subject, this
present truth subject of the
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Sanctuary. Then
there's no question that
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we're going to be
blessed. Well that
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having being said.
It's probably time we open
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up our Bible. Before
we do that, lets pray
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together and ask God,
now let's do different.
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And expect God to
bless us wonderfully
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right now. Can we
pray together? Lets pray.
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Our Father in
heaven, we thank you
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that we can come to
you tonight in the name
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Jesus Your Son. We
are grateful tonight
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that You've given us
Your word, the Holy Bible.
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Somewhere in the
Bible I believe it was
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in the 8th division
of the book of Psalms.
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Man who had much
to repent have said.
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What is man that
thou art mindful of him.
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The son of man that
you visit him. Lord,
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we've forfeited every
right to your blessing,
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but we thank You
that You don't treat us as
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we deserve to be
treated. We thank You
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that you're merciful
and gracious. So rather
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than ask you
presence tonight, this is your
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place we thank you
for your presence. We
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expect to be
blessed, not selfishly, but
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because we believe
you wish to manifest
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yourself in us that
you be glorified. We ask
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that we would take
away from our meditations.
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Even something that
would draw us closer
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to you, that would
weld us immovably to you.
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I pray tonight that we
would collide with your
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grace and your
goodness. And so bless us please
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as you wish for us to
be blessed. We pray and
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we thank you in Jesus name,
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please join me and say amen.
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Just today talked to a
fellow who told me that
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he had done some
traveling, he and his
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wife lot of
traveling. He said every year.
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We try to go somewhere
different make us think.
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He doesn't like
taking the package to a
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vacations, he likes
to take these vacations
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where you go to a
place and maybe have
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to drive through
the wilderness and do it
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just a little bit
tough. He told me, that some
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years ago, he
had been to Cambodia.
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I said oh you went to
Angkor Wat. He said yes
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I did. Now I, I, I
know I came off sounding
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all educated, but I
just read about Angkor Wat
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recently so I
could converse with some
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knowledge on this
subject. In Cambodia
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from what I understand
it's kind of in Central
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Cambodia they're in
Asia, South East Asia.
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There is, there is an
ancient city of Angkor.
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It's about 800 years
old that what this fellow
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Dave told me today
about 800 years old.
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It's an incredible
thing. A couple of hundreds
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years ago a
Frenchman explorer named Henri
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Mouhot, I think that's
his name, was traveling
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in Asia looking
for old sites and he,
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we can't say he
discovered, because
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it had never really
been lost. But, but, but
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most of the world had
forgotten or had never
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got to know about
Angkor this city. Henri Mouhot
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the Frenchman found
this city and then told the
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world about it. The
city itself is as large as
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the city of Paris. It's
big, it's a very big city
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and it's filled up
with old temples. The
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magnificent stone
structures. How they
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were built to say I
don't know is true but you
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could probably find
out pretty easily. The,
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the magnificent center
piece of this old city of
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Angkor is Angkor Wat
a fabulous temple. Now
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people who worry
about these things say
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that the holds of
tourists who go there to
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visit, they're gonna
destroy the place. My
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friend say there is no
security guards anyway,
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you can climb over
the top of anything. Stand
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on top of anything, he
said if you wanna climb
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up to the top, the
pinnacle of the temple
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and fall off that's up
to you. I'm not sure that
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many tourists want to
do that, but he was saying
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there is nothing to
stop a person from doing
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that. It is just
across the street is with
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the airport is and
maybe this wasn't great
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planning. Now the
sound of the planes coming
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and taking off and
all the, is it shock waves
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or whatever it is threatens just
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that to do irreparable
damage to this fabulous
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place. If you go
there today, it's a site of
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some importance to
some people. It's true.
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But for the most
part it's an old city that
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was overgrown,
swallowed up by the jungle,
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left abandoned for
hundreds and hundreds
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of years. I've never
been to Athens, Greece
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but what I understand
in the center of Athens,
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Greece is an
enormous temple originally
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it was dedicated to
Zeus, King of the Olympian
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Gods. When it was
built it was magnificent.
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It took 680 years to
build. Can you imagine
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something taking that
long to build. You've to
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be patient. I mean
I've been aware of church
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building projects and
that saints get a little
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bothered when it
takes a while for things to
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really get
happening and imagine if your
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church built
something it took 680 years to
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get completed that
be something. But about
00:17:01.12\00:17:04.22
a 100 years after
it was completed it
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began to fall into
ruin following a barbarian
00:17:06.17\00:17:09.57
invasion, then years
later the materials used
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to build this
beautiful thing were taken to be
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used in the
building of other temples and
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other
construction projects. If you
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go there today
there is not much left.
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Ten pillars, ten, ten
complete pillars still
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standing if you see
it, you say what pillars,
00:17:27.49\00:17:30.58
just pillars. Three
of them some disrepair,
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one of them is on
the ground, fell over in
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1852 it's just
laying there. A once proud
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temple, magnificent,
but now dilapidated, ruined,
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forgotten,
appreciated sure, but only for
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historical and
archeological purposes.
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It is said that
the oldest manmade
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place of worship is
in Turkey. I don't know
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the name of place in
Turkish, but in English
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it translates to
Potbelly Hill. I believe
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this thing was in
existence long before
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the pyramids of
Egypt were in existence.
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Long before Stonehenge.
Again fascinating ruins
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and that's about it.
It's nothing more now
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then something that
was a foot note in history.
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An archeological
fascination. You know
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I've been to
Stonehenge in, in England and
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looked at that,
that complex with
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fascination. You ask
yourselves all sorts of
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questions, how do they
do that put those stones
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up there. What in
the world was it for?
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Most people think
it was a worship site.
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Not a very savory
worship site, but a
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worship site most
people will tell you.
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I'm going to be in
London and seeing part
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of the wall of the
city of London built by
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the Romans. They say
about 400 BC it's still
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there. You could,
you could, well you can't
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really touch it. You
know suppose to I guess
00:19:05.18\00:19:06.55
you could if you
really wanted to. Old, good
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for nothing but
looking at. You can search
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the world my point
is that you find all
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temples fascinating
temples, architectural
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master pieces, once
they were really something,
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today they are really
curiosities and that's
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about it. But when
we come to the Bible.
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We read about a
temple that's truly old,
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truly ancient in
fact the Bible tells us
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that God has a
temple and you'll find
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it in heaven when
it was constructed?
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I don't know. The
Bible doesn't really give us
00:19:41.80\00:19:43.90
many clues about
its construction date,
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but we can know that
it is ancient, ancient,
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way older than
any old temple here on
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the earth. Now unlike
earthly temples, unlike
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the ruins that
you'll find in Greece and
00:19:59.48\00:20:02.36
in Turkey and in
Cambodia and in Israel
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and other places,
unlike those things.
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This ancient
temple of God constructed,
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I don't know how
long ago, is still being
00:20:13.93\00:20:17.24
used and in fact
the Bible makes clear
00:20:17.25\00:20:19.80
that today it is
so relevant to us that
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this temple of God
in heaven is the nerve
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center of the plan
of Salvation. In fact
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whether we realize it
or not, the Sanctuary,
00:20:29.84\00:20:33.33
the temple of God
in heaven is absolutely
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vital to our daily
lives and to our eternal
00:20:37.73\00:20:42.06
destinies. If you
have your Bible with you
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turn with me in Bible
the Revelation chapter
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11. Revelation
chapter 11 lets pick up what
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the Bible says about
this temple. Revelation
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chapter 11 and I
read from verse 19.
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Revelation chapter 11
and verse 19 the Bible says,
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And the temple of
God was opened in heaven,
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and there was seen
in His temple the ark
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of His Testament
and there were lightning
00:21:03.82\00:21:06.52
and voices and
thundering and an earthquake
00:21:06.53\00:21:11.63
and great hail. God's
own temple, God's dwelling
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place. Now it's true
this one little verse buried
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in about the heart of
the book of Revelation
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doesn't tell us a lot
in terms of details, but
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it tells us a lot.
Let's look, this verse tells
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us that one, God
has a temple in heaven.
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Now that's
significant, just that alone. It
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tells us that too in
heaven is the ark of the
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covenant and we know
that in the ark of the
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covenant among
other things is that what?
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Ten Commandments. So
we get a little picture
00:21:46.73\00:21:49.66
developing here
and we know therefore
00:21:49.67\00:21:51.86
that the Ten
Commandments of God are in the
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heavenly temple. A
temple in heaven God's temple
00:21:55.41\00:21:59.15
not in ruins but
still very much in use.
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Now to try to
ascertain the relevance of this
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heavenly temple
lets go back all the way
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back to the
beginning. The Bible tells us
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that in the beginning
God created the heaven
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and the earth. Now it
had to been an amazing
00:22:22.86\00:22:26.88
time to be alive.
There was Adam and Eve
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and you can think
there was no sin, there
00:22:30.54\00:22:34.01
was no death, they
were no taxes to pay,
00:22:34.02\00:22:37.07
there was no smell
to breathe, there were
00:22:37.08\00:22:39.76
no noisy neighbors.
It was just like you wish
00:22:39.77\00:22:43.95
it would be. In fact
better than all of that,
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way better than all
of that it's very clear
00:22:48.43\00:22:51.09
from the word of God
that God would come down
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to the Garden of Eden
and talk with Adam and Eve
00:22:53.48\00:22:56.43
face to face. Now
can you even imagine what
00:22:56.44\00:23:00.10
that would be like? God
showing up at your house
00:23:00.11\00:23:04.23
and sitting down to
spend sometime. That's how
00:23:04.24\00:23:07.74
good Adam and Eve
had it. In fact if you go
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into the book of
John. You read in John 1
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and verse 1. In
the beginning was
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the word. The word
was with God and the word
00:23:14.47\00:23:17.56
was God and then in
verse 14 the Bible says,
00:23:17.57\00:23:21.11
the word was made
flesh and dwelt or tabernacle
00:23:21.12\00:23:25.45
among us. What this
tells us is something
00:23:25.46\00:23:29.26
phenomenal. It is
God's wish, God's will to
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spend time in the
presence of His people.
00:23:34.77\00:23:37.52
God is not aloof,
God is not hard to get
00:23:37.53\00:23:41.53
through to, God has
not turned His back on
00:23:41.54\00:23:45.03
the world, on the
human family. God is not
00:23:45.04\00:23:47.90
hard to catch up to
get some time with, God
00:23:47.91\00:23:50.67
wants to spend time
with His people and I don't
00:23:50.68\00:23:55.28
mean that in just
some metaphysical and
00:23:55.29\00:23:58.08
metaphorical sense.
God really wants to spend
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time with us. In fact
if we can get to the end of
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the story. I mean the
very end of the story.
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.57
We would find in
Revelation chapter 22
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where the Bible
says this. And I'm gonna
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read from verse 3,
And there shall be no
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.11
more curse. But the
throne of God and of
00:24:16.12\00:24:19.59
the Lamb shall be
in it. And his servants
00:24:19.60\00:24:23.70
shalt serve him.
And shall see his face.
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That's what God
wants, to spend time with His
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people. We know from
reading the end of the
00:24:32.90\00:24:35.37
story that God
gets His wish throughout
00:24:35.38\00:24:37.77
the ceaseless ages of
eternity, we know that.
00:24:37.78\00:24:40.01
God had His wish
with Adam and Eve in the
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Garden of Eden before
sin. But then sin came.
00:24:43.26\00:24:47.48
What does Isaiah
tell us about sin.
00:24:47.49\00:24:49.54
Isaiah 59 and
verse 2, sin has a habit
00:24:49.55\00:24:52.31
of doing what?
Separating between us and God.
00:24:52.32\00:24:55.51
So God said what am I gonna do?
00:24:57.59\00:25:00.12
I wanna dwell with my people.
00:25:00.90\00:25:02.24
I wanna be in their midst
00:25:02.81\00:25:04.12
and when He saw
the way the human race
00:25:04.57\00:25:06.16
was going, He knew
they certainly needed help.
00:25:06.17\00:25:08.08
If ever there was a
time God needed to be
00:25:08.48\00:25:10.11
in the midst of His
people that was the time.
00:25:10.12\00:25:13.29
So God said to
Moses in Exodus chapter 25
00:25:13.95\00:25:17.54
and verse 8 and let
them make me a sanctuary
00:25:17.55\00:25:21.74
that I may dwell among them.
00:25:22.52\00:25:25.69
Let them build
me a dwelling place,
00:25:26.25\00:25:28.86
have them make me a house,
00:25:29.35\00:25:31.88
I want to be in their midst.
00:25:32.28\00:25:35.64
Build me a
dwelling and they did.
00:25:36.05\00:25:39.21
And Israel being a
nomadic people built a,
00:25:39.84\00:25:42.28
a portable dwelling,
when they moved throughout
00:25:42.84\00:25:46.71
the wilderness
the sanctuary that
00:25:46.72\00:25:48.98
they construct it
could be taken apart
00:25:48.99\00:25:51.01
and transported, dismantled,
00:25:51.02\00:25:53.76
moved throughout
the wilderness and setup
00:25:54.03\00:25:56.62
in another place. Let
them make Me a sanctuary.
00:25:56.63\00:26:00.79
Now if it was up to
me and you what kind
00:26:01.24\00:26:03.78
of a sanctuary
would we make God?
00:26:03.79\00:26:05.34
Granite countertops,
brass fittings everywhere
00:26:05.97\00:26:09.66
I mean what would you
put in the house for God.
00:26:10.05\00:26:12.76
God didn't leave it
up to Moses just to guess
00:26:13.98\00:26:15.91
or wonder or think or,
or, or plan all on his own.
00:26:15.92\00:26:20.01
Exodus 25 and verse 9 says,
00:26:20.76\00:26:22.89
According to all
that I show thee,
00:26:23.31\00:26:25.08
after the pattern
of the tabernacle,
00:26:25.40\00:26:26.87
and the pattern of all
the instruments thereof,
00:26:26.88\00:26:28.63
even so shall ye
make it. God said I want
00:26:29.00\00:26:33.23
to dwell in the
midst of my people.
00:26:33.24\00:26:35.35
So here's what's gonna happen.
00:26:35.84\00:26:37.16
You make me a
dwelling place, but I will show
00:26:37.48\00:26:40.11
you the plans.
I'll draw out the plans,
00:26:40.12\00:26:42.56
you take that
and you build that,
00:26:42.85\00:26:44.51
build it out what
I've showed you to make
00:26:44.52\00:26:46.16
it out of it, build
it according to the plans
00:26:46.17\00:26:48.34
that I show you,
make it according to my
00:26:48.35\00:26:50.38
specifications. And
this sanctuary was gorgeous.
00:26:50.70\00:26:54.08
Two rooms, the first
room the one that priests
00:26:54.99\00:26:59.36
went into on a daily
basis that was called
00:26:59.37\00:27:01.72
the Holy Place and
a smaller room beyond
00:27:01.73\00:27:06.33
the first room
was the one called the
00:27:06.34\00:27:09.14
Most Holy Place.
Around that structure
00:27:09.15\00:27:12.81
was a courtyard, and
around that courtyard
00:27:12.82\00:27:16.20
or edging the
courtyard were linen curtains
00:27:16.21\00:27:19.38
suspended by silver
hooks from pillars of brass
00:27:19.39\00:27:23.40
that were trimmed with silver.
00:27:23.41\00:27:25.09
The sanctuary
itself was exquisite.
00:27:25.75\00:27:29.14
The walls were gold
plated, the curtains
00:27:29.47\00:27:33.38
beautifully made and
God gave Moses plans,
00:27:33.74\00:27:38.40
clear directions
build it the way I show you
00:27:38.76\00:27:41.91
that's important
it needs to be the my
00:27:42.37\00:27:44.54
specifications Moses.
You know it would even
00:27:44.55\00:27:50.63
if we try it, even if
we took time we figured
00:27:50.64\00:27:53.06
we needed to. It'd
be hard to get our minds
00:27:53.07\00:27:55.50
wrapped around
just what the sanctuary
00:27:55.51\00:27:57.49
of God it was really
like. The one in heaven
00:27:57.50\00:28:00.92
or the one here on
earth, so we're gonna take
00:28:00.93\00:28:03.89
some time over
the next few meetings.
00:28:03.90\00:28:06.01
We'll talk about not
just what it was like,
00:28:06.37\00:28:07.84
but what the
functions of the sanctuary were?
00:28:07.85\00:28:10.87
How they are
relevant to us in our daily
00:28:10.88\00:28:13.59
lives today? And
how the beautiful plan
00:28:13.60\00:28:15.70
of Salvation was
demonstrated through
00:28:15.71\00:28:18.16
the sanctuary
services? What could an ancient
00:28:18.17\00:28:22.25
sanctuary possibly
have to do with life down
00:28:22.26\00:28:26.26
here in this fast paced world.
00:28:26.27\00:28:28.08
Now you have your
Bible, lets turn to Hebrews
00:28:28.50\00:28:30.79
chapter 8 and we'll,
you know it's no surprises
00:28:30.80\00:28:34.22
that the writer to
the Hebrews wrote about
00:28:34.23\00:28:37.64
the sanctuary a whole lot.
00:28:37.65\00:28:39.00
To the Hebrews the sanctuary was
00:28:39.34\00:28:41.04
tremendously
important and do you know how
00:28:41.05\00:28:43.23
the Jews were?
The sanctuary was,
00:28:43.24\00:28:45.79
it was a
veritable symbol of their
00:28:46.58\00:28:49.30
national
greatness. You wanted to know
00:28:49.31\00:28:52.04
how they were the people of God.
00:28:52.43\00:28:54.48
Look we've got the temple here.
00:28:54.49\00:28:56.14
We've got the temple,
man here is the evidence
00:28:56.60\00:28:59.20
that we're God's
people, but the writer
00:28:59.54\00:29:01.75
to the Hebrews knew inspired by,
00:29:01.76\00:29:04.05
he wrote this book
and they tell me 66 AD
00:29:04.06\00:29:07.10
and do you know
what was gonna happen
00:29:07.70\00:29:08.84
in just four years
later in 70 AD you write.
00:29:08.85\00:29:10.84
Sanctuary the
temple was gonna be what?
00:29:11.51\00:29:13.17
Devastated. The
writer was saying instead
00:29:14.14\00:29:19.40
of being overly concerned
with the earthly temple
00:29:19.41\00:29:24.92
I want you to look
up because there is a
00:29:25.44\00:29:28.60
heavenly temple that
is so much more important
00:29:28.94\00:29:32.97
now than the earthly temple,
00:29:32.98\00:29:34.92
and so we're
looking at Hebrews chapter 8
00:29:35.37\00:29:37.10
and we'll pick it in verse 1.
00:29:37.46\00:29:38.53
Word of God
says, Now of the things
00:29:39.43\00:29:41.73
which we have
spoken this is the sum.
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.76
We have such an high priest,
00:29:44.48\00:29:47.17
who is set on the
right hand of the throne
00:29:47.95\00:29:50.21
of the Majesty in the heavens.
00:29:50.22\00:29:51.88
A minister of
the what? Sanctuary,
00:29:52.59\00:29:56.62
and of the true tabernacle,
00:29:57.15\00:29:58.87
which the Lord
pitched, and not man.
00:29:59.64\00:30:02.82
Hey you know what
we're reading here?
00:30:03.96\00:30:05.20
Firstly, there is a
sanctuary in heaven.
00:30:06.40\00:30:09.40
Lets understand
that, lets be certain
00:30:10.01\00:30:12.09
about that, lets
be sure about that.
00:30:12.10\00:30:14.49
Do you know what I've
noticed over the years
00:30:14.83\00:30:16.40
of being a
Christian? I've noticed that
00:30:16.41\00:30:18.78
when the devils wants
to get at God's people.
00:30:18.79\00:30:20.62
When the devil
wants to make trouble
00:30:20.99\00:30:22.41
in the church.
When the devil wants to
00:30:22.42\00:30:24.42
shake somebody's
faith. When the devil
00:30:24.43\00:30:26.73
wants to take
somebody and make them doubt
00:30:26.74\00:30:29.45
the entire end time message.
00:30:29.46\00:30:31.13
Do you know he so often starts?
00:30:31.14\00:30:32.44
Right there in the sanctuary.
00:30:32.84\00:30:34.03
Right there in the sanctuary.
00:30:34.52\00:30:36.27
Lets doubt that,
lets doubt these time
00:30:36.28\00:30:38.81
prophecies. Lets
argue about holy place
00:30:38.82\00:30:41.79
and most holy place.
Lets argue about where
00:30:41.80\00:30:43.94
Jesus went when He
had send to heaven?
00:30:43.95\00:30:45.71
Oh you have got to be wrong and
00:30:45.72\00:30:47.08
I got to be right.
just the fact of the
00:30:47.09\00:30:51.27
devil loves to make
trouble on the subject
00:30:51.28\00:30:53.54
of the sanctuary
suggests to me that
00:30:53.55\00:30:55.37
the sanctuary is
an important subject.
00:30:55.38\00:30:56.89
If it wasn't he
wouldn't be wasting his time
00:30:57.82\00:30:59.64
shaking up God's
people when it comes
00:30:59.65\00:31:01.71
to the sanctuary. There
is a sanctuary in heaven.
00:31:01.72\00:31:04.68
Point number two, it
is the true tabernacle
00:31:05.52\00:31:09.19
erected by God and
not erected by humans.
00:31:09.95\00:31:14.12
And thirdly, now
maybe you're too holy
00:31:15.32\00:31:19.91
for this to even matter to you,
00:31:19.92\00:31:21.19
but if like me you
grew up on a wrong side
00:31:21.76\00:31:23.69
of the tracks this
might mean something to you.
00:31:23.70\00:31:26.05
Thirdly, there is in
the sanctuary in heaven
00:31:26.43\00:31:32.65
a high priest
who ministers for us.
00:31:33.11\00:31:36.76
Now that just sets me alive.
00:31:37.88\00:31:39.03
You know some of us
are aware that we need
00:31:39.48\00:31:41.09
a whole lot of mercy
and a whole lot of grace
00:31:41.10\00:31:43.19
and a lot of help.
And there is a high priest
00:31:43.43\00:31:46.29
who ministers for
us in the sanctuary
00:31:46.30\00:31:49.89
of God in heaven.
And that high priest
00:31:49.90\00:31:52.91
as we learn and
revisit over the next few
00:31:53.33\00:31:56.59
times way together is our Lord
00:31:56.60\00:31:58.50
and Savior Jesus Christ
and I say praise the Lord.
00:31:58.51\00:32:01.97
For now lets take
an overview look at the
00:32:03.46\00:32:05.81
sanctuary. The
Bible is very clear that
00:32:05.82\00:32:08.82
there is a
temple of God in heaven.
00:32:08.83\00:32:09.93
I'll read a couple of
little notes I've made here.
00:32:10.21\00:32:12.40
Solomon in second
Chronicle 6 and verse 39
00:32:12.87\00:32:15.73
referred to
God's dwelling place.
00:32:16.12\00:32:19.13
David called it a
palace in Psalm 48:3
00:32:20.61\00:32:23.83
his holy temple in
Psalm 11 and verse 4
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.84
and the place of his
habitation. In Psalm 33
00:32:27.14\00:32:30.96
and verse 14.
We've already seen John
00:32:30.97\00:32:33.76
in the book of
Revelation talks about
00:32:33.77\00:32:35.07
the temple of God.
Isaiah talked about
00:32:35.48\00:32:38.43
the habitation of his holiness.
00:32:38.44\00:32:40.08
Isaiah 63 and
verse 15, Paul referenced
00:32:40.09\00:32:43.18
the true tabernacle
which the Lord pitched
00:32:43.19\00:32:46.24
Jesus referred to
My Father's house.
00:32:46.64\00:32:50.40
And Jeremiah, in
Jeremiah 25 and verse 30
00:32:50.99\00:32:54.98
talked about
God's holy habitation.
00:32:55.32\00:32:57.86
You might have your
Bible still open in the book
00:32:58.20\00:32:59.65
of Hebrews and if
you do Hebrews chapter 8
00:32:59.66\00:33:01.86
that would be good,
but we look in the verse 5
00:33:02.32\00:33:05.33
before we look in
verse 5. It says here that
00:33:05.34\00:33:08.89
the priests who
ministered in the
00:33:08.90\00:33:10.50
sanctuary
served unto the example
00:33:10.51\00:33:13.59
and shadow of
heavenly things as Moses
00:33:13.60\00:33:18.18
was admonished of
God when he was about
00:33:18.19\00:33:20.20
to make the tabernacle.
This is what it says,
00:33:20.21\00:33:22.59
See, saith he,
that you make all things
00:33:22.60\00:33:24.88
according to the pattern
shown to you in the mount.
00:33:24.89\00:33:28.17
So there was a
sanctuary on earth
00:33:29.12\00:33:31.25
and priests
ministered in the sanctuary
00:33:31.97\00:33:35.09
on earth, but
what took place in the
00:33:35.10\00:33:37.51
sanctuary on
earth was just a shadow
00:33:37.52\00:33:40.49
of the reality of
what took place in heaven.
00:33:41.22\00:33:44.10
Let's think about
what happened back here
00:33:44.67\00:33:46.23
in the earthly sanctuary?
00:33:46.24\00:33:47.28
God had Moses
construct a sanctuary.
00:33:48.43\00:33:51.45
And the services of
the sanctuary helped us
00:33:52.29\00:33:55.45
understand the
plan of Salvation.
00:33:55.46\00:33:56.90
The sinner would bring his lamb
00:33:57.69\00:34:00.48
to the sanctuary.
Sometimes bring a goat.
00:34:01.14\00:34:07.09
This would happen
also later at the temple.
00:34:08.65\00:34:11.39
Lambs would be
brought, animals would be
00:34:11.93\00:34:14.47
brought and
sacrificed. The penitent sinner
00:34:14.48\00:34:18.21
would come and
lean his weight on the
00:34:18.22\00:34:20.91
head of that little
lamb. Now, I don't how much
00:34:20.92\00:34:24.14
you all know about
lambs? I come from New Zealand,
00:34:24.15\00:34:27.85
when I was a kid we
had three million people
00:34:27.86\00:34:29.95
and 65 million sheep.
We were just as scared
00:34:29.96\00:34:33.63
as anything that
revolting and takeover
00:34:33.64\00:34:35.52
the place. It was
difficult once upon time,
00:34:35.53\00:34:40.04
at least when I
was kid to not know
00:34:40.53\00:34:42.89
a lot about lambs or sheep.
00:34:42.90\00:34:45.55
You just had to, in
fact we had a reasonably
00:34:45.90\00:34:48.40
large backyard and
so there were times
00:34:48.41\00:34:50.30
that we, we were
raising lambs in our backyard,
00:34:50.31\00:34:52.79
and you know it
was a curious thing.
00:34:53.49\00:34:56.54
I think we had two
or three pet lambs along
00:34:57.82\00:34:59.90
the way when I was a
kid, and we get these
00:34:59.91\00:35:02.92
little lambs just
days old you know.
00:35:02.93\00:35:04.73
And we bottle feed
them and we nurse them
00:35:05.12\00:35:07.23
or we love them and we call out,
00:35:07.24\00:35:09.10
they come running and that was,
00:35:09.11\00:35:11.17
you know Mary had a
little lamb that followed
00:35:11.18\00:35:12.80
her everywhere it
was a lot like that.
00:35:12.81\00:35:14.14
The lamb got to a certain size
00:35:15.09\00:35:17.12
and disappeared and
I, I couldn't never get
00:35:19.14\00:35:23.19
a straight from my father about
00:35:23.20\00:35:24.62
where the lamb went.
When I got little older,
00:35:24.63\00:35:29.16
it struck me as
this massive co-incidence
00:35:30.37\00:35:32.90
that we would
raise a little lamb,
00:35:33.80\00:35:35.41
the lamb would
disappear and then the freezer
00:35:36.55\00:35:38.85
was miraculously
full of, full of mutton.
00:35:38.86\00:35:41.26
I think I found out
what my dad was up to.
00:35:44.11\00:35:45.88
The little lamb,
they're cute man,
00:35:48.32\00:35:49.80
they are innocent,
they're sweet as anything
00:35:49.81\00:35:52.04
and it hurt me one,
but somebody will have
00:35:52.05\00:35:54.82
to bring his best
lamb down to the sanctuary
00:35:54.83\00:35:56.91
and lean his weight
on the head of the thing
00:35:56.92\00:35:58.76
and confess his
sins. Now in figure
00:35:59.09\00:36:03.55
his sins within transferred
from him to the lamb.
00:36:04.38\00:36:08.25
So if you like, if you
like he had a land that
00:36:09.02\00:36:12.19
was now bearing
a whole lot of sin.
00:36:12.20\00:36:13.77
Now the lamb
would then be killed.
00:36:15.37\00:36:17.52
Very sharp knife would be taken
00:36:18.12\00:36:19.83
and the lamb's
throat would be slit from
00:36:20.15\00:36:21.74
ear to ear. If
you've ever witnessed that?
00:36:21.75\00:36:23.68
Maybe you have, I
have if you've ever
00:36:24.49\00:36:26.23
witnessed that, that's
a, that's a bloody thing.
00:36:26.24\00:36:28.98
It's nothing pretty about it.
00:36:29.70\00:36:30.81
I don't think it
was meant to be pretty.
00:36:30.82\00:36:32.73
I think it was
suppose to be ghastly
00:36:32.74\00:36:34.34
to impress us.
The way God wanted us
00:36:34.35\00:36:36.81
to be impressed.
Now you had a dead lamb.
00:36:36.82\00:36:38.77
The priest would
take some of that blood
00:36:39.22\00:36:41.12
and now it was
sin layered blood.
00:36:41.13\00:36:43.29
Remember the lamb
had sin on it transferred
00:36:43.30\00:36:46.31
from a sinner.
Now you had the blood
00:36:46.32\00:36:48.83
of the lamb and the blood now as
00:36:48.84\00:36:50.70
it was contained
or carried the sin
00:36:50.71\00:36:53.04
of the people. And
the blood was taken
00:36:53.05\00:36:55.30
inside the
sanctuary and put in one
00:36:55.31\00:36:58.58
or two or three
different places.
00:36:58.59\00:36:59.93
What this meant
symbolically was that the,
00:37:01.25\00:37:03.71
the sin of the sinner
was transferred from him
00:37:04.13\00:37:08.88
and was taken
inside the sanctuary.
00:37:09.36\00:37:13.26
Where it went on
record. We'll talk about the day
00:37:14.89\00:37:17.84
of the turn that
another time when they took
00:37:17.85\00:37:19.53
care of the sin
record. So this sanctuary
00:37:19.54\00:37:22.81
was tremendously
important and when the sin,
00:37:22.82\00:37:26.86
sorry when the
lamb was being slain,
00:37:27.72\00:37:29.87
when the
offering was being made.
00:37:29.88\00:37:32.31
The priest acted as
a go between or as an
00:37:32.81\00:37:37.01
intermediary between the people,
00:37:37.02\00:37:40.03
the repentant
people and a Holy God
00:37:40.04\00:37:43.52
whose law had been
broken. So if the earthly
00:37:43.90\00:37:48.61
sanctuary was
patterned after the heavenly
00:37:48.62\00:37:51.44
and if the earthly
priest served unto the shadow
00:37:51.76\00:37:55.13
of heavenly things,
then what they did down
00:37:55.14\00:37:58.15
here on the earth is
a symbol of what takes
00:37:58.16\00:38:00.35
place up there in
heaven. The sinner comes to God
00:38:00.36\00:38:03.99
and brings a lamb. The
lamb, not a woolly lamb,
00:38:04.38\00:38:08.41
the lamb is
obvious question who?
00:38:08.42\00:38:10.35
Jesus that's right.
The lamb is brought,
00:38:11.06\00:38:14.56
but Jesus was a slain,
we'll sacrifice him every
00:38:14.57\00:38:18.44
week or everyday
or ever again after
00:38:18.45\00:38:21.09
the one sacrifice.
Jesus died on the old
00:38:21.10\00:38:23.42
rugged cross shed His blood,
00:38:23.43\00:38:25.03
now bringing faith in
the sacrifice of the great
00:38:25.04\00:38:29.44
lamb back there on Calvary.
00:38:29.45\00:38:30.71
We come to God and
we confess our sins
00:38:30.72\00:38:32.63
and Christ's blood
in heaven is pleaded
00:38:32.64\00:38:37.02
on our behalf as an offering,
00:38:37.03\00:38:39.35
as an expiation for, as
a sacrifice for our sins,
00:38:39.36\00:38:42.97
thank the Lord. It's
the temple of God in heaven.
00:38:43.76\00:38:46.79
The location where
Jesus ministers for us
00:38:46.80\00:38:50.22
as our mediator, as
our great High Priest.
00:38:50.27\00:38:54.57
Now what I'm telling
you is most likely not
00:38:55.24\00:38:57.34
new to you. If it's
new to you well great,
00:38:57.35\00:39:00.29
it's probably not.
But discovering it can be
00:39:01.14\00:39:04.13
a lot like a man
who in England recently
00:39:04.14\00:39:06.40
dug out a small
shiny cup from under a bed
00:39:07.04\00:39:10.30
in his house. It had
been there for years.
00:39:10.31\00:39:13.20
His dad has been in
the scrap metal business,
00:39:13.60\00:39:15.81
and before he died
he gave his son John.
00:39:16.96\00:39:19.50
The man's name was
John several things.
00:39:19.51\00:39:21.17
John said I put it in
a box and I just forgot
00:39:21.18\00:39:25.49
all about it.
Decades later John says what
00:39:25.50\00:39:31.29
about that little
cup. He thought the cup
00:39:31.30\00:39:34.98
was brass, probably wasn't worth
00:39:34.99\00:39:39.89
anything at all.
So he decided that
00:39:39.90\00:39:44.03
he haven't looked
at. Took it down to the
00:39:44.04\00:39:48.24
British museum in
London and had the experts
00:39:48.69\00:39:51.12
there look it over. I
don't pose this thing's
00:39:51.13\00:39:53.80
worth anything but
dad said it was real old
00:39:53.81\00:39:56.66
and it was in the
family for a few years.
00:39:56.67\00:39:58.64
Can you take a look?
You know they found out
00:39:58.65\00:40:00.93
that this thing
was dated from before
00:40:00.94\00:40:02.49
the time of Christ
and was worth a $100,000.
00:40:02.50\00:40:04.87
He knew it was
there. He was very aware
00:40:06.35\00:40:10.02
that he owned it,
that he possessed it,
00:40:10.03\00:40:11.58
but he just didn't know
what it's true value was.
00:40:11.95\00:40:16.24
And sometimes
that can be true for
00:40:17.46\00:40:18.92
the people of
God. Oh the sanctuary,
00:40:18.93\00:40:21.18
I remember
hearing about that when
00:40:21.19\00:40:22.40
I was a child. Oh the sanctuary,
00:40:22.41\00:40:24.23
yeah I've heard
some people discussing
00:40:24.24\00:40:25.81
that or debating
that. Oh the sanctuary,
00:40:25.82\00:40:27.92
when I was in academy
we had a class on that.
00:40:27.93\00:40:31.30
But if, if we go back
to this subject dusted off,
00:40:32.06\00:40:35.62
get it out from under
our bed, open up the Bible,
00:40:36.36\00:40:39.55
bring it to the
Lord in the light of day
00:40:39.56\00:40:41.54
and say Lord what about this?
00:40:41.55\00:40:43.09
It might be that we
can rediscover the great
00:40:43.69\00:40:46.88
value of
knowing that there is an
00:40:47.42\00:40:50.91
High Priest in
heaven Jesus who ministers
00:40:50.92\00:40:54.45
his blood for us
in the presence of
00:40:54.46\00:40:57.60
Almighty God. We
might just say what a
00:40:57.61\00:41:00.98
wonderful God we
serve, what a great savior
00:41:00.99\00:41:03.77
we have, what a
fantastic and perfect
00:41:03.78\00:41:05.92
plan of salvation
God has given to us.
00:41:05.93\00:41:07.72
I'm going back to
the book of Hebrews.
00:41:08.10\00:41:09.41
Hebrews 4 and verse 14,
00:41:09.42\00:41:10.65
lets read
Hebrews 4 and verse 14,
00:41:13.51\00:41:15.14
maybe a little
bit more than that.
00:41:17.39\00:41:18.58
Seeing then that we
have a great High Priest.
00:41:19.77\00:41:21.94
Lets stop right
there. Here is what we know.
00:41:21.95\00:41:23.94
We're covering some
very elementary things
00:41:23.95\00:41:26.69
this time around
before we go a little
00:41:27.23\00:41:28.96
deeper later. We read
the Bible that there was
00:41:28.97\00:41:31.46
a sanctuary on earth
and there were priests
00:41:31.47\00:41:34.26
that ministered
for God's people there,
00:41:34.27\00:41:35.87
and we read in the Bible
that there is a sanctuary
00:41:36.33\00:41:39.25
in heaven and there is a priest,
00:41:39.75\00:41:42.62
actually an High
Priest who ministers
00:41:43.73\00:41:47.16
for us there. Now
here is what the writer
00:41:47.17\00:41:49.71
to the book, to the Hebrews.
00:41:49.72\00:41:50.88
The writer of the
book of Hebrews saying
00:41:50.89\00:41:52.31
you know, mea
culpa, you know what
00:41:52.32\00:41:54.19
I really wanna do?
I really just wanna
00:41:54.20\00:41:56.17
come out and say
here's what Paul said.
00:41:56.18\00:41:58.04
But if I do that
some people gonna think
00:41:58.98\00:42:00.44
I'm ignorant. And
I just wanna satisfy
00:42:00.45\00:42:02.51
everybody on that point
rather than pick a fight,
00:42:02.52\00:42:04.14
so if you want I
keep calling this guy
00:42:04.62\00:42:06.86
the writer to the
Hebrews I'm just trying
00:42:06.87\00:42:09.14
to cover myself from
the person who is right
00:42:09.15\00:42:12.37
now having a cow
thinking that I'm a ignorant
00:42:12.38\00:42:15.34
person for
believing it was Paul.
00:42:15.35\00:42:16.59
Just being honest with you.
00:42:17.35\00:42:18.34
So the writer to
the Hebrews said this,
00:42:19.10\00:42:21.69
in Hebrews 4 and verse 14.
00:42:22.33\00:42:23.90
Seeing then that we
have a great high priest,
00:42:24.41\00:42:27.96
that is passed into the heavens,
00:42:28.39\00:42:30.01
Jesus the Son of
righteous, have you got that?
00:42:30.35\00:42:32.22
because Jesus is our
high priest in heaven.
00:42:32.62\00:42:35.45
Because of that,
seeing as Christ represents us
00:42:35.91\00:42:39.31
before the throne of
God Paul writes let us
00:42:39.32\00:42:42.84
hold fast our profession.
00:42:43.24\00:42:46.18
We'll comeback to
that point. For we do not
00:42:47.47\00:42:49.90
have an high priest
which cannot be touched
00:42:49.91\00:42:51.76
with the feeling
of our infirmities;
00:42:51.77\00:42:53.20
but he was in all
points tempted like as we are,
00:42:53.54\00:42:56.86
yet without sin.
Verse 16, Let us on the
00:42:57.26\00:43:01.00
strength of that,
let us because of this,
00:43:01.01\00:43:03.73
let us therefore
come boldly unto the
00:43:04.13\00:43:07.24
throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy,
00:43:07.25\00:43:09.87
and find grace to
help in time of need.
00:43:10.36\00:43:14.74
There we have it.
The Bible says because
00:43:15.37\00:43:18.93
we have a great
high priest in heaven,
00:43:18.94\00:43:21.35
we can hold fast our profession.
00:43:21.67\00:43:25.64
Because Christ is
there as your advocate.
00:43:26.77\00:43:29.68
Because Christ is
there as your lawyer,
00:43:29.69\00:43:32.16
because Christ is
there as your intercessor,
00:43:32.17\00:43:34.94
because Christ is
there as your mediator.
00:43:34.95\00:43:37.95
We can come boldly
to the throne of grace
00:43:37.96\00:43:41.24
and hold fast to the profession
00:43:41.25\00:43:44.23
we have then
Christ is our Savior and
00:43:44.24\00:43:46.71
God as the one true God.
00:43:46.72\00:43:48.84
I looked up this
thing. There is a Greek word
00:43:49.65\00:43:51.84
that used here of
course the New Testament
00:43:51.85\00:43:53.60
was written in
Greek which is hold fast
00:43:53.61\00:43:55.76
the word is
Katecho. It means cling
00:43:56.10\00:43:59.58
tenaciously to. Now I
don't know what it does
00:43:59.59\00:44:03.91
in your mind, but
it reminds me maybe
00:44:03.92\00:44:05.41
of a barnacle
clinging to the hull of a ship.
00:44:05.42\00:44:07.91
You can't pry
those things off hardly,
00:44:08.33\00:44:10.66
because they cling
tenaciously to the side
00:44:11.46\00:44:15.05
of the boat. The
writer says here's
00:44:15.06\00:44:18.60
what you want to do,
because there is a high
00:44:18.61\00:44:22.78
priest
representing you in heaven.
00:44:22.79\00:44:24.36
You need to come to
God and hang on tight
00:44:24.78\00:44:28.08
and don't let go. God
says you've got Christ
00:44:29.00\00:44:35.13
representing you in
heaven and because you do,
00:44:35.80\00:44:38.82
you can have
confidence. Jesus knows what
00:44:39.72\00:44:43.64
we're going
through by experience.
00:44:43.65\00:44:47.67
Alright. I'll pick
another fight here.
00:44:50.20\00:44:53.07
I don't mean to, I'm
just gonna do it anyway.
00:44:53.08\00:44:55.49
Some people I know
and they have come to me
00:44:58.46\00:45:00.12
and they have
said, now what that means
00:45:00.13\00:45:02.62
is that when
Jesus was tempted there
00:45:04.16\00:45:06.09
in the
wilderness. Those temptations
00:45:06.10\00:45:08.60
represented
everything. And He want really
00:45:09.48\00:45:13.01
tempted in every
way that you and I,
00:45:13.02\00:45:14.81
but He was tempted
to use His divinity
00:45:15.76\00:45:20.10
or He was tempt,
whatever, okay fine.
00:45:20.60\00:45:22.53
I believe He was,
but I also believe that
00:45:22.77\00:45:25.76
the Bible is right
when it says He was
00:45:25.77\00:45:27.15
tempted in all
points like as we are.
00:45:27.16\00:45:28.65
No, no, no was He
tempted to smoke a joint?
00:45:29.43\00:45:31.26
Probably not. I
don't know if they had
00:45:31.79\00:45:34.04
marijuana back then.
I mean it was Nazareth
00:45:34.05\00:45:37.08
after all and they
might have had worse
00:45:37.09\00:45:38.50
than that, but
whatever the equivalent
00:45:38.51\00:45:41.14
was back there. You
know Jesus was tempted
00:45:41.15\00:45:43.24
with that stuff.
Was Jesus tempted?
00:45:43.25\00:45:46.05
Well careful
now, was Jesus tempted
00:45:46.06\00:45:48.64
to be immoral? Was He tempted?
00:45:48.65\00:45:50.14
Absolutely He was.
Tempted, did He cave?
00:45:50.58\00:45:53.32
Of course not,
not even by a thought,
00:45:53.33\00:45:56.74
was Jesus tempted
to go down there with
00:45:57.15\00:45:58.83
the rough crowd and
drink liquor with them?
00:45:58.84\00:46:00.70
Of course He was tempted.
00:46:00.99\00:46:03.17
But was there
any answering court?
00:46:03.91\00:46:05.45
No, He was
converted. Was there a yearning?
00:46:05.64\00:46:09.08
Oh if only my
mother would let me go out
00:46:09.09\00:46:11.34
and get drink. No,
of course there wasn't,
00:46:11.35\00:46:14.53
but was He tempted? Yes He was.
00:46:14.84\00:46:18.20
Was He tempted to
lose his school when
00:46:18.21\00:46:19.99
He was having a
difficult day with the
00:46:20.00\00:46:21.79
building project? Sure He was.
00:46:21.80\00:46:24.15
I hate to admit
this. But a few weeks ago
00:46:27.13\00:46:30.84
I left my Bible on a airplane.
00:46:30.85\00:46:32.81
It just killed me. I
knew I'm not going to
00:46:34.25\00:46:36.81
get it back. I
called up the airplane,
00:46:36.82\00:46:38.87
I left my Bible on the plane.
00:46:38.88\00:46:40.03
They said I've never seen it.
00:46:40.38\00:46:41.64
I would never see that Bible.
00:46:42.06\00:46:43.22
You know what happened?
00:46:44.50\00:46:45.47
I replaced it in fact
someone else replaced it.
00:46:45.67\00:46:50.10
The most beautiful
Bible I've ever had,
00:46:51.84\00:46:53.79
in fact the most beautiful Bible
00:46:54.66\00:46:56.94
I've ever seen.
Guess what I did today?
00:46:56.95\00:47:01.89
Oh I'm not gonna tell you.
00:47:05.36\00:47:06.34
I'll let you figure it out.
00:47:06.35\00:47:07.66
No, no, no, I just
sent another one to join up
00:47:09.28\00:47:12.39
with that Bible out
there and lost property land.
00:47:12.40\00:47:14.61
I was discouraged,
was Jesus tempted to be
00:47:21.11\00:47:26.94
as discouraged as I was,
00:47:29.32\00:47:31.22
if ever He lost something?
00:47:31.91\00:47:33.53
Come on now,
Jesus was made like unto
00:47:34.72\00:47:38.35
his brethren.
Temptation was real to Jesus
00:47:38.36\00:47:43.02
and the reason I'm, I
say this is not to try
00:47:43.03\00:47:45.80
to make Jesus more
of a human than He was.
00:47:45.81\00:47:47.55
I don't mean to go
there. I'm not trying
00:47:47.56\00:47:49.02
to make a sinner of that man.
00:47:49.03\00:47:50.11
I'm not trying to
tell you that Jesus was
00:47:50.12\00:47:51.41
crass or crude or
rough and was struggling
00:47:51.42\00:47:54.07
to keep it
straight. I don't mean that.
00:47:54.08\00:47:55.52
But what I mean to say
is we can come to Jesus
00:47:56.87\00:48:00.00
pouring out our
hearts to him knowing that
00:48:00.32\00:48:02.22
he's been where we
are. Knowing that Jesus
00:48:02.23\00:48:04.80
has been through the
ringer of temptation.
00:48:04.81\00:48:06.69
Knowing that Christ
had the devil on his tail.
00:48:06.70\00:48:10.42
There where people
dogging his steps during
00:48:10.43\00:48:13.06
his ministry. Waiting
for him to say something.
00:48:13.07\00:48:15.86
Dragging him out of
town to throw him off a hill.
00:48:15.87\00:48:18.10
Trying to trip
him up with his word.
00:48:18.47\00:48:19.73
Devil telling him make
these stones in the bread,
00:48:20.12\00:48:22.45
every time Jesus
turned around there was
00:48:22.46\00:48:24.73
temptation and
trying to take him out.
00:48:24.74\00:48:26.47
We can come to
Jesus Christ today
00:48:26.90\00:48:28.83
and know that Jesus
doesn't look down on us.
00:48:28.84\00:48:31.87
We can know that
Jesus doesn't say
00:48:32.65\00:48:34.51
you miserable
thing. We can know that
00:48:34.52\00:48:38.04
the heart of Jesus is towards us
00:48:38.05\00:48:40.09
and not against us.
He knows where we are.
00:48:40.10\00:48:43.36
He knows what
we're going through,
00:48:43.80\00:48:45.54
because in a real
sense Christ has stood
00:48:45.55\00:48:48.75
in the same place that we have.
00:48:49.01\00:48:50.35
Now again carry on,
I'm not saying that Jesus
00:48:50.72\00:48:53.15
went through exactly
like we went through.
00:48:53.16\00:48:54.57
But He was tempted in
all points like as we are,
00:48:55.64\00:48:59.02
yet without sin. If we
start giving Jesus some
00:48:59.03\00:49:03.97
sort of advantage
against temptation
00:49:03.98\00:49:05.91
that we don't have. We
destroy the completeness
00:49:05.92\00:49:08.73
of his humanity. I
only reason that I can say
00:49:08.74\00:49:10.53
that is because I
read that in a book.
00:49:10.54\00:49:11.83
And it was a good book.
00:49:12.28\00:49:13.31
A book that I've
trust and I expect
00:49:13.32\00:49:14.94
you would as well.
Jesus walked where we walked.
00:49:14.95\00:49:17.49
And that's so significant
that the book of Hebrews
00:49:17.50\00:49:20.98
takes time to point that out.
00:49:20.99\00:49:23.71
Jesus was tempted by
the devil and when He was,
00:49:25.02\00:49:29.27
He was able to
say it is written.
00:49:29.28\00:49:32.33
And I like that
phrase a lot you know.
00:49:32.34\00:49:33.66
It is written, man
shalt not live by bread alone.
00:49:33.67\00:49:37.07
It is written,
you're not gonna tempt
00:49:37.08\00:49:39.54
the Lord thy God. It is written,
00:49:39.55\00:49:41.81
Jesus met him
with the word of God.
00:49:41.82\00:49:43.78
He relied on His
Father in His humanity.
00:49:43.79\00:49:46.96
He relied on the
Holy Spirit power.
00:49:46.97\00:49:50.14
And you know
something when the Bible says
00:49:50.50\00:49:52.03
that we're
tempted like Christ was,
00:49:52.04\00:49:54.19
we know that we can
be victorious like Christ
00:49:54.20\00:49:56.55
was as we rely
on the power written
00:49:56.56\00:49:59.87
in the word of God, amen.
00:49:59.95\00:50:01.89
Christ is acquainted
with the vicissitudes
00:50:03.08\00:50:05.53
of daily life.
We're instruct to become
00:50:05.54\00:50:08.25
with confidence to
us throne of grace.
00:50:08.26\00:50:10.53
Come boldly to
the throne of grace.
00:50:10.54\00:50:14.14
Come with confidence to
where the high priest is.
00:50:14.53\00:50:18.96
Where is the place
for doubting God's mercy
00:50:21.22\00:50:25.10
and God's grace.
There is no place for that.
00:50:25.11\00:50:28.07
None, the, the
saints of God have the
00:50:28.64\00:50:33.25
faith of Jesus. We
read in Revelation 4:12,
00:50:33.26\00:50:35.65
they believe it, they accept it,
00:50:36.08\00:50:38.42
they are confident
that God will give mercy
00:50:38.72\00:50:42.84
and grace to
help in time of need.
00:50:42.85\00:50:45.06
You know there
is, there is a verse
00:50:45.07\00:50:46.73
in the Psalms that I just love.
00:50:46.74\00:50:48.53
I guess the older I
get the more I realize,
00:50:50.04\00:50:52.56
the more I realize I
need God more in my life.
00:50:52.57\00:50:55.80
And there's a
wonderful verse that says
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.34
he knoweth our
frame and remembers
00:50:59.35\00:51:02.89
that we are dust.
00:51:03.22\00:51:04.19
Where are you? If you
find yourself in a heap
00:51:09.94\00:51:13.98
and you're down and
you hardly even know
00:51:16.34\00:51:19.54
which way to turn.
One thing that I would
00:51:19.55\00:51:22.54
encourage you to remember is,
00:51:22.55\00:51:23.72
He knoweth your
frame and He remembers
00:51:24.06\00:51:28.09
that you're dust. Now
be careful how you hear
00:51:28.44\00:51:32.18
what I'm about to
say. There are some people
00:51:32.19\00:51:34.89
who get
tremendously discouraged about
00:51:34.90\00:51:37.49
their dirt. In
fact we all should to a
00:51:37.50\00:51:41.69
certain degree. It
says in the Bible blessed
00:51:41.70\00:51:44.13
that mourn and
it's talking about folks
00:51:44.14\00:51:45.94
who mourn their spiritual lack.
00:51:45.95\00:51:47.87
But one thing
that we can afford to
00:51:49.82\00:51:50.92
remember is that out granddaddy
00:51:50.93\00:51:53.68
Adam was made out of dirt.
00:51:53.69\00:51:55.60
God isn't surprised that
there is dirt in our lives.
00:51:56.02\00:51:59.02
God's not, God, God doesn't turn
00:51:59.46\00:52:01.71
and run the other
way when He sees dirt
00:52:01.72\00:52:03.40
in our lives, in
fact He waits for us
00:52:03.41\00:52:05.59
to run to Him. He
knows the dirt is there
00:52:05.60\00:52:09.80
and so He says if
you come to Me I can
00:52:09.81\00:52:13.55
take care of the
dirt and make you cleaner
00:52:13.56\00:52:16.15
then you'll ever be
able to make yourself.
00:52:16.16\00:52:17.70
This is why John
wrote and he said
00:52:18.33\00:52:19.93
my little children.
I'm writing these things
00:52:19.94\00:52:21.94
to you, so that you don't sin.
00:52:21.95\00:52:23.27
Plan A don't sin. But
if you do, you can know
00:52:23.28\00:52:28.86
that you have an
advocate with the Father,
00:52:28.87\00:52:31.26
Jesus Christ the righteous.
00:52:31.27\00:52:33.80
I'm not talking
about cheap grace,
00:52:33.81\00:52:35.70
I'm talking
about powerful grace.
00:52:35.71\00:52:38.09
Grace that can
reach down into the gutter
00:52:38.10\00:52:40.47
and lift you up and set
your feet on solid rock.
00:52:40.48\00:52:44.53
That's the kind of grace
I'm talking about tonight.
00:52:44.79\00:52:47.00
The kind of grace
that is able to forgive
00:52:47.59\00:52:49.73
you and cleanse
you from your sin.
00:52:49.74\00:52:52.76
Some years ago I
was back in New Zealand
00:52:53.36\00:52:56.68
and a friend of mine came to me
00:52:56.69\00:52:58.29
and he said oh
brother, he said to me
00:52:58.30\00:53:01.84
the kids are watching.
00:53:07.60\00:53:08.57
He said to me
there's a guy who is here
00:53:10.42\00:53:15.03
that I want you to
meet. I've been studying
00:53:15.04\00:53:16.68
the Bible with him.
He told me his name.
00:53:16.69\00:53:19.95
I think I've heard that guy.
00:53:21.40\00:53:22.37
I've heard of that
guy. You don't mean,
00:53:23.78\00:53:28.00
he took me to meet
him. My friend Dave said,
00:53:28.41\00:53:31.76
John this is, I'm
gonna call him Joe Smith.
00:53:31.77\00:53:34.95
This is Joe
Smith. I said Joe Smith.
00:53:34.96\00:53:36.42
Joe, you owe me money.
00:53:37.18\00:53:38.43
Well, he didn't like that.
00:53:38.93\00:53:40.71
I said, he said
why do I owe you money?
00:53:41.25\00:53:43.60
I said you used to
own all the nightclubs
00:53:44.02\00:53:46.36
in town right?
Yeah, that was me.
00:53:46.37\00:53:48.63
I left some money
behind in the nightclubs.
00:53:49.17\00:53:51.00
I like some of it
back? He said I don't have
00:53:51.43\00:53:53.97
any money to give you
John and I knew he didn't.
00:53:53.98\00:53:56.18
This guy had been
the man around town.
00:53:56.94\00:54:00.24
This guy owned a
couple of big nightclubs
00:54:01.61\00:54:02.90
in the city near where I lived
00:54:02.91\00:54:03.94
and he was the man.
It's funny how being
00:54:03.95\00:54:07.20
a nightclub owner
makes you the man,
00:54:07.21\00:54:08.35
but he was the
man. And when he arrived
00:54:08.36\00:54:10.15
in his nightclubs
there will be a buzz in the
00:54:10.16\00:54:13.19
nightclubs they tell
me. Little buzz, Joe was,
00:54:13.20\00:54:16.12
Joe was in the house.
00:54:16.13\00:54:17.39
Joe is here and Joe was moved,
00:54:17.79\00:54:19.95
drove a fancy
car, and he hung around
00:54:19.96\00:54:21.85
with fancy
people. Joe later told me
00:54:21.86\00:54:24.89
there were 20 years
that he wasn't sober
00:54:24.90\00:54:27.01
one day out of 20 years.
00:54:28.35\00:54:29.63
Not even if
that an exaggeration.
00:54:30.63\00:54:32.45
I don't know if
that's, I don't know.
00:54:32.46\00:54:33.79
Even if it's an
exaggeration you get
00:54:34.08\00:54:36.09
the point. Drunk for 20 years.
00:54:36.10\00:54:38.01
I believe him
frankly. Joe was the man
00:54:38.02\00:54:41.60
and I knew people. We used to
00:54:42.86\00:54:45.60
go to the nightclubs.
00:54:45.61\00:54:46.58
Well economies do funny things,
00:54:49.16\00:54:52.10
people make
strange business decisions.
00:54:52.85\00:54:54.59
Joe ended up losing everything
00:54:55.10\00:54:56.38
and that's when my friend Dave
00:54:56.39\00:54:57.61
got right beside
him. Dave had known
00:54:58.95\00:55:01.83
Joe all way back,
way back, way back
00:55:01.84\00:55:04.12
when Dave was
just a miserable rotten
00:55:04.58\00:55:08.23
low down wretch of a sinner.
00:55:08.24\00:55:10.34
Dave had come to
Jesus, so Dave and
00:55:10.98\00:55:13.29
Joe didn't run in the
same direction anymore,
00:55:13.30\00:55:15.43
but now the Joe was down,
00:55:15.72\00:55:16.91
he needed a friend
and Dave got beside
00:55:16.92\00:55:18.41
him Dave said, maybe we can talk
00:55:18.42\00:55:21.18
about the Bible.
What do you know God?
00:55:21.19\00:55:22.79
Oh God don't have
anything to do with me.
00:55:22.80\00:55:25.14
I'm way too bad for God.
00:55:25.15\00:55:26.72
I don't know about
that. They started to study
00:55:26.73\00:55:29.37
the Bible together.
Joe started getting so
00:55:29.38\00:55:33.85
interested he
attended church several times
00:55:33.86\00:55:36.74
and that was just as
God had worked it out
00:55:36.75\00:55:40.77
that was when I
came to town to hold
00:55:41.15\00:55:43.16
a prophecy
seminar. By now Joe had some
00:55:43.85\00:55:49.07
real faith in God. I
said Joe you're gonna
00:55:49.08\00:55:50.78
come to these
meeting right. oh sure.
00:55:50.79\00:55:53.48
First night Joe was there,
00:55:54.28\00:55:56.48
second night Joe
was there, tenth night,
00:55:57.10\00:56:00.03
15th night, we made
an appeal for baptism.
00:56:00.48\00:56:02.80
Joe was there, he
filled out that card,
00:56:02.81\00:56:04.63
yes, I want to
be baptized. Amen.
00:56:04.90\00:56:08.50
Last night of the
meeting was one of the
00:56:10.43\00:56:13.06
most remarkable
night of my lives.
00:56:13.07\00:56:15.08
The formal
nightclub attendee had the
00:56:15.99\00:56:20.25
privilege of
baptizing the former nightclub
00:56:20.26\00:56:23.37
owner who came out of that water
00:56:23.38\00:56:26.61
clean in Jesus, in
fact when he came out
00:56:27.35\00:56:29.60
of that water he
put his hands up above
00:56:29.61\00:56:31.61
his head like this
and shuck his head.
00:56:31.62\00:56:34.72
It was like he just
kicked the game winning
00:56:34.94\00:56:36.74
field goal in the
super bowl or something.
00:56:37.14\00:56:38.88
He was triumphed
because what Joe had
00:56:38.89\00:56:42.91
discovered was
he could come boldly
00:56:42.92\00:56:44.97
to the throne of Grace.
00:56:45.59\00:56:46.72
My friend there is
a sanctuary in heaven.
00:56:47.45\00:56:49.36
It exists tonight
Jesus is there tonight
00:56:49.80\00:56:52.79
as your high
priest and he says come,
00:56:52.80\00:56:57.26
just like the lamb
we'll be slain to take care
00:56:57.93\00:57:00.15
of the dirt and sin
of the sinner back then,
00:57:00.16\00:57:02.45
Christ's death can take care of
00:57:03.30\00:57:05.79
your dirt right now. Let
me pray with you briefly,
00:57:05.80\00:57:07.74
let us pray. Oh
Father, we thank you that
00:57:07.75\00:57:10.97
we have an high
priest in heaven,
00:57:10.98\00:57:12.40
teach us to have
implicit faith trust
00:57:13.54\00:57:17.05
and confidence in the
one who ministers for us
00:57:17.06\00:57:19.19
now in the sanctuary. We
pray in Jesus name, amen.
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I'm glad you
joined us, thank you,
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God bless you.
We'll see you next time.
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