Welcome to Anchors of Truth
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live from the 3
ABN Worship Center,
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the sanctuary
series with John Bradshaw.
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Hello and
welcome to what is volume
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3 chapter 2 in our
Anchors of Faith series
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and this
particular set of meetings
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deals with the sanctuary.
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There is a word that we
use couple of words that
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we call systematic theology,
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it's a term that
people who go to college use.
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But when you boil
it down, that basically
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means doctrines,
systematic theology are
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the doctrines, or
the belief systems of
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any group or organization.
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When we talk about
systematic theology,
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these meetings are
very, very important because
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the subject matter that
is the sanctuary is the one
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part of systematic
theology that is solely
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Seventh-day
Adventist. When we look at the
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stew of
doctrines, there are many,
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many
organizations, many believes
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it says they can
bring in the carrot and the
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potatoes, Sabbath,
state of the dead, salvation.
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We do not hold those
alone, there are many
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churches that preaches
these things, but when it
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comes to the
sanctuary that is the
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one dare I say ingredient.
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That is solely
Seventh-day Adventist;
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no one else is
preaching the sanctuary
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quite like we preach it.
So, you're not gonna hear
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what you will hear
tonight in any other place,
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because nobody preaches
the sanctuary like we do.
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The sanctuary is crucially
important for a number of
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reasons, one, it
tells you who you are,
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it tells you
where you came from,
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it tells you why you are here,
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it explains how you got here,
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it tells you where you're going
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and it tells you
how to get there.
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That's why the study of
the sanctuary is so crucial,
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because it pinpoints
you in time and space
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and eschatology and
prophecy and lets you
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know precisely where you are
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and where you are
going. Many, many years ago
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when the Adventist
church got it's start,
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we got our start
coalescing around three
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doctrines that we
called the "S" doctrines,
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Sabbath, Sanctuary,
and State of the dead.
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And those are the three
main doctrines that began
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to pull the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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together; together
that is Sabbath, Sanctuary,
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and State of the
dead. And then of course we
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grew from there, so
these meetings are very, very
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crucial because you are
not gonna hear this stuff
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any place else in
the world because nobody
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teaches the
sanctuary like the Seventh-day
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Adventist church
teaches the sanctuary.
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So, that is our
one ingredient to the,
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the stew of, of systematic
theology and no one else
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has it quite like we
do. So it is my privilege
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and pleasure to welcome
you to the second night of
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these meetings as our speaker
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talks to us about the sanctuary.
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He's of course John Bradshaw;
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he is the speaker/
director for It Is Written.
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And as those mentioned
last night by our President
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Jim Gilley, he
follows in the long line of
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very wonderful
godly man who headed that
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ministry George
Vandeman, Mark Finley,
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Shawn Boonstra
and now John Bradshaw,
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so we are very, very
pleased to have him here
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for these several
nights. And I ask that you take
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out pen and pencil here
in our audience and home
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and give ear to these messages.
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This is sanctuary 101
dare I say, as we learn about
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the things that God will
teach us in the sanctuary,
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before he comes to
us tonight our Pastor,
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our friend John
Lomacang is gonna bring
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us our music, he's
going to be singing
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"Wonderful Merciful Savior,"
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I'm sure you'll be blessed.
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Wonderful, merciful Savior
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Precious Redeemer and Friend
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Who would have
thought that a Lamb
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Could rescue the souls of men
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Oh you rescue the souls of men
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Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
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Spirit we long to embrace
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You offer hope
when our hearts have
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Hopelessly lost our way
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Oh, we've
hopelessly lost our way
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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You are the One that I praise
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You are the One I adore
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You give the healing and grace
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My hearts always hungers for
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Oh, my hearts always hungers for
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Almighty, infinite Father
Faithfully loving Your own
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Here in our weakness You find us
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Falling before Your throne
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Oh, we're falling
before Your throne
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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You are the One that we praise
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And you are the One we adore
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You give the healing and grace
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That our hearts
always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts
always hunger for.
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Well, thank the Lord for that,
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can you say amen? Amen.
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Great to see you this evening.
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We are gathering here tonight,
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to gather around the
Bible the holy word of God.
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I believe that God
has blessed us richly,
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by giving us subjects
in the Bible that we can go
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to and mind deep, deep,
deep, deep and still really
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never get to the bottom of.
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The sanctuary is
one of those subjects,
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here I am presuming to
talk about the sanctuary
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several times and rings
have been written on the
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subject and encyclopedic
books and a whole sets of
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books have been written about
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this subject by experts.
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But one wonderful
thing about the Bible,
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Jesus whose
theology was incredibly deep,
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very deep, was
able to be understood by
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boys and girls,
the young, the old,
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the highly
educated, the ignorant.
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The Bible is one of
those books; there is something
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there for every one of
us, so not to be intimidated,
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not to be presumptuous.
We go back to the Bible
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tonight and study part
2 of our Anchors of Truth
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series on the
sanctuary. I'm gonna pray as we
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begin, if you would
bow your head with me
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I would be glad, let us pray.
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Our Father in
heaven, we thank you that
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we can gather around your word,
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we come to you
tonight in the name of Jesus,
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not presumptuously I
pray but humbly asking
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that your spirit would
guide our spiritual steps.
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And open the eyes
of our understanding;
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I pray that you
would be merciful to this
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frail, faulty human instrument.
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That in spite of what
you have to work with,
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your voice would still
be heard and we would still
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see Jesus
clearly and beautifully.
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Bless us please to your glory,
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we ask in Jesus name, amen.
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In 1985, an event took
place maybe I should say
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a series of events
took place that had a very,
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very big effect on
these United States.
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It wasn't an
election, it wasn't a death,
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it wasn't a sporting event,
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it wasn't an natural disaster.
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The truth of the
matter is that many
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people thought it
was way more important
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than any of those things.
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I tell you what
had been taking place.
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Sometime before that
Coca cola had been losing
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market share to Pepsi
cola in fact I believe
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I am right and
saying that now there was
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more Pepsi cola
being sold in supermarkets
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then there was Coca
cola. And so the marketing
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geniuses that Coca
cola decided that they would
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use their MBA's to
good effect and they
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would do something
whatever it took to claw
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their way back to
first place in the cola wars.
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See their tests
reveal that people preferred
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Pepsi because it was
a little sweeter than
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Coca cola and so they
went to the lab and they
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can concocted
something they thought was going
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to have a superior taste
to the pretender Pepsi cola.
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And so on a given
day what everybody had,
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I shouldn't say
everybody, but what
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America had been
drinking as their
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Coca cola beverage
was pulled from the market
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and new coke was
rolled out in its place.
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Now, to begin with
sales of new coke were
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good, but over a
period of time and when I say
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a period of time I mean a
very short period of time.
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Sales of the new coke tanked
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and people were not happy.
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In fact
psychologists employed by the
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Coca cola company
said that people who called
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Coca cola to talk
about the ouster of old coke
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and the
introduction of new coke sounded
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just like people
who were mourning the
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death of a close
friend or a family member.
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People who worked
for Coca cola bottling
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plants were
reporting that they now had
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friends who
wouldn't even talk to them
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anymore, talk show
hosts and comedians
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lambasted the new
coke. At supporting events
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like baseball
games when advertisements
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would appear advertising
new coke, fans would boo.
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They were even
protests in some parts of the
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United States, in
the South, in many
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Southern States people
went to the streets and
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they took their cans
and their bottles of new
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coke and poured
them out in the streets,
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that had to be a
sticky mess, poured them out
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in the streets in
protests that the Atlanta based
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Coca cola
company would dare to do
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something so terrible,
as take away their old coke.
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Well, Coca cola
announced less then
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three months after
the introduction of
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new coke that old
coke was coming back,
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that announcement was
so important that Peter
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Jennings interrupted
ABC's nightly news to
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make the
announcement, one senator
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it seems funny now doesn't it?
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Arkansas Senator Pryor,
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David Pryor
believe his name was.
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He said and I
wrote down what he said,
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he said that, that
the reintroduction of old
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coke was a meaningful
moment in U.S. history.
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Seventy seven days
after being taken off the
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market classic coke
was reintroduced and before
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along new coke was
a relic of the past.
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The simple fact of
the matter was that
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the withdrawal
of old coke and the
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introduction of new coke was a
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monumental categorical failure.
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They tried and they
got it wrong, they reached
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for the stars and
they came up dreadfully
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short, nobody likes to fail.
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And there are
millions of ways that we can
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fail, basketball
player takes a last minute
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attempt at a game
winning shot makes the
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basket and he's a
hero, tries the same thing
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tomorrow night he misses
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and he's a goat he failed.
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Yours kids birthday
is coming up and you
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gonna make the
mother of all birthday cakes
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and it's gonna be
great and on the afternoon of
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the birthday party, you
take the cake out of the
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oven and there is a big
crater where the cake is
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supposed to be rising
up like a lovely hill top.
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And you don't feel
good about that and you're
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not even sure where
to go now, because what
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I'm gonna do replace
junior's birthday cake,
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you might have try to fix,
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I'm gonna tell you about this.
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What was it, that's
right it was just recently we
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were getting ready move
and the dryer packed up.
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Melissa said, the
dryer is not working anymore,
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I've had that
problem before I can fix it.
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You just, you just
turn it back on it will go,
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I had a very sophisticated
method of fixing things,
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you just turn it
back on it will go.
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Went down dryer I
turn it on wasn't going,
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I reached it I turned
the little barrel around,
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and I said well
maybe something stuck,
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try it again it wasn't
going and then I realize
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no doubt a belt
around the dryer tumble
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is broken that happens
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after a few years you know.
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And so I said I know what to do,
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I will take the back off the
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dryer and I will fix it up.
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There was something telling me,
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Google how to
fix a broken dryer,
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Google that, I said
man I don't have time for
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Google right now.
And then something,
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someone told me your
ought to flip off the
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power, before you mess around
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the back of the appliance.
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I said I am only
taking off the back,
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I am not gonna
mess with anything,
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it was later on I
found out that if you wanna
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fix the thing you take
the top up, not the back off.
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I found that out too
late, I took the back off
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I said there I looked
I said well how in the
00:16:39.74\00:16:41.52
world, well I get to
the what do you call I think
00:16:41.53\00:16:44.27
the belt I didn't
know. So I had to take this
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thing off, Google and
in this ear unplug it,
00:16:48.94\00:16:54.72
Google, un, I said I
don't have time for that.
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And next minute
there was, and there was a
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spark and there was
pop. Thankfully I didn't pop,
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and the light that
was shinning inside the
00:17:04.91\00:17:07.22
dryer went up and I had
to go back upstairs with
00:17:07.23\00:17:11.28
my tail between my
legs and announced to
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my wife that
heroic, wise all-knowing,
00:17:14.61\00:17:20.46
all fixing husband had failed.
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And it was a spectacular failed,
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a failure, at
least I wasn't dead.
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You know, other
ways you can fail,
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you can fail to find the
perfect anniversary gift,
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you can fail to
remember your anniversary,
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I wouldn't recommend
that, that's not good,
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you can fail an exam,
you can fail just to get
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everything done on
a given day that you
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wanna get done. A
failure doesn't feel
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good, nobody likes
to fail, nobody wants to
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fail, its not good, but
the failures I'm talking
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about, belts can be
replaced you know what?
00:17:57.05\00:17:59.68
I Googled how to replace a belt,
00:18:00.06\00:18:03.63
then I called a place
do you have a belt for this
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model, I got the belt
and did in twenty minutes
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what had ended up
costing me a couple
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of weeks into the
movement all of that.
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But those things
really inconsequential,
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you can get over not
being able to get a stain
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out of your children's clothing.
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You can get over
that, but the failures that
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really eat at you,
that really nor at you,
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really the ones that matter
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most are spiritual failures.
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What do you do at
the end of the day when
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you realize that you
have failed spiritually
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or you might think you
are a failure spiritually.
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Now, the truth of
the matter is the word of
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God says that we have
all failed spiritually,
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all of us, that's me,
that's you, that's Mother
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Theresa, that's the
Pop, that's the General
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Conference President,
all, because I read in the
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Bible that all have
sinned, and come short
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of the glory of
God. It's an ugly reality
00:19:09.02\00:19:12.00
of our spiritual
lives, but it's a reality
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nonetheless, all
have sinned and that's not
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such a good thing.
Because as we talked
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about last night,
sin separates between
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us and God and the
wages of sin is what?
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Its death, the
wages of sin is death.
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We failed
spiritually, and nobody feels
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.52
good about that.
Do you know you lose
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your temper with the kids?
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Now, of course
I wouldn't do that
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but I mean you might
lose your temper with
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the kids and you
say something you know
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you shouldn't say, you
manifest an angry spirit
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like you know you
should manifest and for
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a brief moment you feel
it's almost accelerating
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because that's what
anger is like you know
00:19:54.62\00:19:56.15
and then, and then
you go away saying oh!
00:19:56.16\00:19:59.07
How could I do
that, how could I speak to
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my spouse, so
unkindly? How could I slam the
00:20:00.89\00:20:05.12
door on the way out
of my, my employee's
00:20:05.13\00:20:08.67
office and leave
the office in a huff.
00:20:08.68\00:20:10.61
How could I, how
could I do those things?
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How could I, now
that's a bad feeling,
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a bad feeling?
Every so often we feel
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wrong spiritually
and there was a tendency,
00:20:19.20\00:20:20.95
it's not a total
bad tendency because a
00:20:20.96\00:20:24.89
little guilt will
take you a long way.
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But you can feel
like a spiritual failure,
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no one likes that, nobody.
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Well, I have good news for you,
00:20:35.23\00:20:36.58
and that is that God
has a remedy, a sure fire,
00:20:37.12\00:20:42.91
fail safe, full proof
remedy for our spiritual
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failings, and that's good news.
00:20:49.24\00:20:52.79
Last time we begin
our Anchors of Truth
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study series on the
subject of the sanctuary
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sanctuary reality, we
discover there really is
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a real sanctuary
in a real heaven.
00:21:07.56\00:21:10.53
A real God is there
and His very real Son,
00:21:11.15\00:21:14.94
our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ is there in
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heaven's sanctuary,
it's a glorious structure,
00:21:19.34\00:21:22.60
no earthly structure
could ever come close
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to representing it's
vastness, it's majesty
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and it's glory.
Revelation talks about it,
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the book of Hebrews
is all over it of course
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because Paul is
writing to the very believers
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who have a temple
in their very midst.
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Christ, our High
Priest does minister for us,
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real people, real
sinners, in a real sanctuary
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ministering the real
benefits of His very real
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sacrifice for us.
Now, this time around
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we're calling
our presentation the
00:21:56.51\00:21:58.38
presentation the
sanctuary spirituality
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it's one thing to know
that there is a sanctuary,
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but how does that
effect our lives spiritually,
00:22:03.90\00:22:06.62
we talked last
time about having an
00:22:06.72\00:22:08.91
High Priest praise the Lord.
00:22:08.92\00:22:10.54
There's a spiritual
reality, but what is it
00:22:10.89\00:22:14.40
about the
sanctuary or what about the
00:22:14.41\00:22:16.99
sanctuary it takes
us deeper into the mind
00:22:17.00\00:22:19.82
and into the heart of
God, it gives us deeper
00:22:19.83\00:22:22.29
insights into the
plan of salvation and God's
00:22:22.30\00:22:25.05
working for us
and his grace for us
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and his goodness to us.
Now, first let's remember
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some things its good
nail some things down
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and have them establish,
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the Bible says that God is what?
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Love, John wrote that
in First John and he was
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so impressed by
that idea he repeated it
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8 verses later in
First John 4 and verse 16.
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God is love Peter said
that God is not willing
00:22:49.36\00:22:53.70
that any should perish but that
00:22:53.99\00:22:56.18
all should come to what?
00:22:56.76\00:22:58.22
Repentance, that's
God's desire for us,
00:22:59.04\00:23:01.42
it's not to say that
everybody will come to
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.66
repentance but if God
had it His way or if God
00:23:03.67\00:23:08.18
had what He really
wanted His will would
00:23:08.19\00:23:11.36
be that everybody
would choose to come
00:23:11.37\00:23:14.22
to repentance.
Now, remember this
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verse, Matthew 1 and verse 21:
00:23:16.30\00:23:18.05
Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
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For he shall do what?
Save His people from what?
00:23:20.38\00:23:24.01
Alright now that's a
reality you understand,
00:23:24.71\00:23:26.67
when Adam and Eve
sinned what was it that
00:23:27.29\00:23:29.48
God do, let's remember
that God is love it will
00:23:29.49\00:23:31.92
help us
understand the sanctuary.
00:23:31.93\00:23:33.69
What did God do
when Adam and Eve sinned?
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The Bible says that
God came down to the
00:23:36.72\00:23:39.93
Garden of Eden, now
I don't know if you've
00:23:39.94\00:23:42.98
ever had maybe the
noisy kids playing in
00:23:42.99\00:23:46.37
your front yard,
you went out to see them
00:23:46.38\00:23:47.94
alright, you run them off. Amen.
00:23:47.95\00:23:50.77
The God had some
noisy kids playing in
00:23:50.88\00:23:52.41
His front yard they had sinned,
00:23:52.42\00:23:54.39
God came down to the
Garden of Eden to see
00:23:54.74\00:23:57.62
Adam and Eve and
when He did He was
00:23:57.63\00:23:59.92
not coming down to run them off.
00:23:59.93\00:24:01.80
He was not
coming down to read them
00:24:02.15\00:24:03.99
the right act, God
was not coming down so He
00:24:04.00\00:24:06.95
could look at them
sternly, to rebuke them
00:24:06.96\00:24:09.17
sharply, turn His
back on them and walk away.
00:24:09.18\00:24:11.70
The Bible says
that when God came down
00:24:12.26\00:24:14.31
to the Garden of Eden
He called out to Adam,
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.69
He said Adam, where are you?
00:24:16.99\00:24:19.40
Which is a curious
thing for God to say?
00:24:20.88\00:24:22.83
God who created the universe,
00:24:24.01\00:24:26.65
God whom the
Bible says the heaven of
00:24:27.51\00:24:30.27
heavens cannot
contain, God came down to a
00:24:30.28\00:24:33.02
garden can't have
been the biggest garden in
00:24:33.03\00:24:35.19
the universe I
would have thought.
00:24:35.20\00:24:36.30
And He said Adam, where are you?
00:24:36.57\00:24:37.90
As though he had lost him?
00:24:38.14\00:24:39.11
No, God had not lost
him. God wasn't saying
00:24:39.19\00:24:42.12
Adam, where are
you geographically,
00:24:42.13\00:24:44.16
God was saying Adam
where are you spiritually?
00:24:44.87\00:24:48.20
Adam where is
your heart, I have come
00:24:48.72\00:24:50.53
down here to do
something about the
00:24:50.54\00:24:52.16
separation between me and you.
00:24:52.17\00:24:53.81
God is love, He
could have nuked Adam and
00:24:54.11\00:24:58.92
Eve the moment they
had their first crooked
00:24:58.93\00:25:02.01
thought, but He
didn't and when sin had
00:25:02.02\00:25:05.34
happened God came down
here seeking the sinners.
00:25:05.35\00:25:09.23
As they draw them
back to His heart of love,
00:25:09.39\00:25:11.77
I say praise the
Lord. Amen. That's the God
00:25:11.98\00:25:15.19
we serve, let me make
a statement in the hope
00:25:15.20\00:25:18.37
that you will understand
it, in the way I wish for
00:25:18.38\00:25:20.37
it to be understood.
Our problem isn't sin,
00:25:20.38\00:25:24.11
now we could have a
whole series of sermons
00:25:24.62\00:25:26.88
pointing out that
the problem is sin.
00:25:26.89\00:25:28.52
But let me make my
point our problem isn't
00:25:28.53\00:25:31.71
sin, God has got
a remedy for that,
00:25:31.72\00:25:35.33
just take a look at
Calvary that will show
00:25:36.10\00:25:39.35
you that when it
comes to sin God has done
00:25:39.36\00:25:42.48
everything necessary,
everything imaginable,
00:25:42.88\00:25:47.76
everything
possible to get us back
00:25:48.08\00:25:51.10
over the hump of
sin. No sin's not our
00:25:51.11\00:25:54.58
problem, now I mean
I'm not recommending
00:25:54.59\00:25:57.67
sin by the way don't
think for a second that
00:25:57.68\00:25:59.42
I am saying sin's not a problem,
00:25:59.43\00:26:00.89
massive problem.
My suggestion tonight
00:26:01.52\00:26:04.14
is that sin is not The problem,
00:26:04.15\00:26:06.05
I want you to think
about a sinner his name
00:26:06.06\00:26:08.03
we don't know, but he's
referred too in the Bible
00:26:08.26\00:26:10.45
as the prodigal son.
The prodigal son said to
00:26:10.71\00:26:13.99
his dad it's time for
me to go, I would like my
00:26:14.00\00:26:16.14
share of the farm one third,
00:26:16.15\00:26:18.13
wait was he the older brother
00:26:19.44\00:26:20.56
or the younger brother?
00:26:20.57\00:26:21.54
Alright, one
third because the older
00:26:22.54\00:26:24.23
brother would have
taken double portion,
00:26:24.24\00:26:25.75
give me my share of the
farm dad I am out of here,
00:26:26.23\00:26:28.62
and the boy takes a
bag full of money and goes
00:26:28.80\00:26:32.06
to a far country
and squanders it,
00:26:32.07\00:26:34.77
just like he went
the Vegas and run around
00:26:35.43\00:26:37.22
in limousines and
went to the fancy casinos.
00:26:37.23\00:26:40.17
Now, there is a
oxymoron for you,
00:26:40.33\00:26:41.93
and a fancy night
clubs that was another one
00:26:42.12\00:26:44.14
and he blow it all and
he made a fool of himself.
00:26:44.43\00:26:47.64
While he was sitting
in the mud of the pigs
00:26:48.76\00:26:50.10
stall, he said in his
heart, man what an idiot
00:26:50.11\00:26:53.29
I've been, I got
to go back to dad,
00:26:53.30\00:26:55.00
but I'm gonna go back
and I will say dad if you
00:26:55.57\00:26:57.53
would take me back as a slave,
00:26:57.54\00:26:59.34
that's what I'm asking for.
00:26:59.70\00:27:00.82
And so he's going
back home somehow dad
00:27:01.10\00:27:04.17
sees him coming from a
great way off, dad said,
00:27:04.18\00:27:07.17
man, my son is back he
leaps the fence and runs
00:27:07.18\00:27:11.38
up the road to meet
the boy what would you
00:27:11.39\00:27:12.95
thought you were the boy.
00:27:12.96\00:27:14.04
He is dad, well
that's not what God was
00:27:16.39\00:27:19.59
thinking, the dad
runs up to the boy he hugs
00:27:19.60\00:27:24.13
and he kisses him
and he says come on now,
00:27:24.14\00:27:26.62
let's kill the fatted
calf and get a new robe on
00:27:26.63\00:27:28.74
you and that
signet ring that that
00:27:28.75\00:27:30.85
shows that you have authority.
00:27:30.86\00:27:32.10
You know that's the
only place in the Bible
00:27:32.81\00:27:34.44
at least that I am
aware off that shows God
00:27:34.45\00:27:36.80
running, you know
that the dad represents God
00:27:36.81\00:27:40.36
we know that. And
here the dad representing
00:27:40.37\00:27:42.98
God runs, the only
time in the Bible God runs
00:27:42.99\00:27:47.43
what he is running to
do? He's running towards
00:27:47.44\00:27:50.43
the sinner not to
chase the sinner away,
00:27:50.44\00:27:52.85
but to grab hold of
the sinner and draw him
00:27:53.00\00:27:55.50
back to God's
great heart of love,
00:27:55.51\00:27:56.97
that's the God we
serve friends. Amen.
00:27:57.30\00:27:59.42
The Bible says that God is love,
00:27:59.43\00:28:01.99
no sin is not the
problem, the problem is
00:28:02.20\00:28:05.38
our
unwillingness to come to God,
00:28:05.52\00:28:07.82
so that He can do
something about the sin problem.
00:28:07.95\00:28:10.06
You understand what
I mean, right I don't
00:28:11.22\00:28:12.19
want to leave the
wrong impression on you here.
00:28:12.20\00:28:13.52
It's the not the sin,
sin is a reality now a man
00:28:14.44\00:28:17.25
we've all sinned
let's get over that.
00:28:17.64\00:28:20.27
Now, let's deal
with the solution,
00:28:20.63\00:28:22.15
the solution run to
God, here is my heart Lord,
00:28:22.37\00:28:25.75
you've got to do
something about it.
00:28:25.76\00:28:27.28
And when you pray
a prayer like that
00:28:28.48\00:28:29.75
you know that God
is gonna do something
00:28:30.35\00:28:31.59
about it, God wishes
for us to run to Him.
00:28:31.60\00:28:34.71
So, that he can clean
us up and make us whole.
00:28:35.24\00:28:37.42
The word of God says
in Psalms 77 and verse 13:
00:28:37.71\00:28:40.60
Thy way, O God,
is in the sanctuary,
00:28:41.03\00:28:45.06
who is so greater
God as our God remember
00:28:45.50\00:28:48.81
the big picture.
God creates a world,
00:28:48.82\00:28:51.56
populates it with
two people very happy,
00:28:51.57\00:28:54.14
very holy people,
Adam and Eve his wife.
00:28:54.15\00:28:56.60
And then
inexplicably there is no,
00:28:58.06\00:29:00.17
there is no excuse
for it, there is no real
00:29:00.62\00:29:04.15
satisfactory explanation for it,
00:29:05.01\00:29:06.85
Adam and Eve fell into sin.
00:29:07.67\00:29:08.88
Sin separated
between God and Adam and Eve
00:29:09.33\00:29:12.74
that was terrible
but God had thought of
00:29:13.06\00:29:17.08
that ahead of time.
Because we know that
00:29:17.09\00:29:18.86
as soon as there was
sin, there was a savior.
00:29:18.87\00:29:22.15
But God now could not dwell in
00:29:22.61\00:29:24.48
the midst of his
people. He was unable to do
00:29:24.49\00:29:27.50
that as he once
did, his great grand holy
00:29:27.51\00:29:31.24
presence would be
just too much for sinful
00:29:31.25\00:29:34.27
human beings to
bear. God had a plan then,
00:29:34.28\00:29:37.17
after his people
were free from Egyptian
00:29:38.22\00:29:39.76
slavery He said to
Moses: And let them
00:29:39.77\00:29:42.10
make me a sanctuary;
that I may dwell among them.
00:29:42.11\00:29:44.66
As a matter of
fact, I'm gonna read you a
00:29:44.96\00:29:46.94
couple of verses
here from Exodus chapter
00:29:46.95\00:29:48.47
25, Exodus and
chapter 25 verse 1:
00:29:48.48\00:29:53.17
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
00:29:53.61\00:29:55.26
"Speak to the children
of Israel, that they will
00:29:55.59\00:29:57.84
bring me an offering:
of every man that gives
00:29:57.85\00:30:00.30
willingly with his heart
ye shall take my offering.
00:30:00.31\00:30:02.97
And you know they
did go to the place Moses
00:30:03.15\00:30:05.03
said enough don't
bring anymore wouldn't that
00:30:05.04\00:30:07.03
be great, next
time there's a church
00:30:07.04\00:30:09.85
building project,
building many he had to
00:30:09.86\00:30:12.47
say, don't bring anymore money
00:30:12.48\00:30:13.67
we had enough, what a
privilege they consider
00:30:13.68\00:30:17.76
it to be, to
support the building of the
00:30:17.77\00:30:20.24
sanctuary of God.
And it is a privilege
00:30:20.25\00:30:22.72
to support God's
word can you say amen?
00:30:23.11\00:30:24.63
Amen. There is no
question about it,
00:30:24.64\00:30:26.23
alright verse 8:
Let them make me a
00:30:26.69\00:30:28.57
sanctuary, that I
may dwell among them,
00:30:28.58\00:30:30.01
verse 9: According
to all that I show you,
00:30:30.02\00:30:32.74
after the pattern of
the tabernacle, and the
00:30:33.14\00:30:34.71
pattern of all the
instruments thereof,
00:30:34.72\00:30:36.71
even so shall you
make it. Moses have me make
00:30:37.06\00:30:40.37
a sanctuary I want
to dwell in the midst of
00:30:40.38\00:30:43.53
my people and he did,
God's visible presence
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.29
was there, the Shekinah
glory was manifest there.
00:30:46.30\00:30:49.60
It filled the
sanctuary to overflowing,
00:30:49.75\00:30:52.57
God wanted to dwell in
the midst of His people.
00:30:52.95\00:30:56.70
Another reason for
having the sanctuary
00:30:57.98\00:30:59.66
it would be a
teaching tool, it would be to
00:30:59.67\00:31:02.36
reveal to the
people what God was really
00:31:02.37\00:31:04.02
like hundreds of
years now, and they've been
00:31:04.03\00:31:06.12
dwelling in the midst
of, of abject hedonism.
00:31:06.13\00:31:09.00
And they may have
come out, there were
00:31:10.14\00:31:11.41
some strange ideas is to
what God was really like,
00:31:11.42\00:31:13.84
God wanted to show
them what he was like,
00:31:14.29\00:31:16.25
what he would do for
them in the present and
00:31:17.09\00:31:19.24
what he would do
for them in the future.
00:31:19.25\00:31:20.95
He also wanted them
to understand and future
00:31:21.21\00:31:24.41
generations to
understand that one day
00:31:24.42\00:31:27.06
a Messiah would come;
he would deal with the
00:31:27.07\00:31:30.59
problem of sin.
And usher in a forever
00:31:30.60\00:31:34.49
with no sin and no
curse. Stephen Haskell book
00:31:34.96\00:31:39.50
The Cross and
It's Shadow, called the
00:31:39.51\00:31:41.38
Sanctuary the most
wonderful object lesson
00:31:41.39\00:31:44.53
ever given to mankind
that's what he called it.
00:31:44.87\00:31:47.66
So, God was gonna
help them understand what
00:31:49.09\00:31:50.73
the plan of
salvation was all about,
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.45
what is mercy and graceful like?
00:31:52.68\00:31:54.09
What his unfailing
love was all about?
00:31:54.77\00:31:57.37
The people
surrounded by darkness,
00:31:57.94\00:31:59.61
we're gonna see a
great light and light would
00:31:59.86\00:32:02.26
shine out of the
sanctuary and so they
00:32:02.27\00:32:04.50
build a sanctuary a
dwelling place for God,
00:32:04.51\00:32:06.97
a beautiful two room structure.
00:32:06.98\00:32:08.95
First room holy
place, second room most holy
00:32:09.32\00:32:11.78
place it was grand,
inside there the walls
00:32:11.79\00:32:15.72
were lined with Gold there
00:32:15.73\00:32:17.75
were fabulous rich curtains,
00:32:17.76\00:32:19.90
some of them had
angels embroiled on there.
00:32:20.04\00:32:23.08
God was telling them
the angels look on and
00:32:23.42\00:32:26.01
the angels are part
of the plan of salvation,
00:32:26.02\00:32:29.40
I will send you hope
that half of the time
00:32:29.74\00:32:32.11
not hope, help. I
will send you and hope,
00:32:32.48\00:32:34.49
I'll send you hope,
and I'll send you help
00:32:34.74\00:32:38.15
that half of the time
you won't even know who's
00:32:38.70\00:32:40.75
there, you thought
you got lucky crossing the
00:32:40.76\00:32:44.36
street and you
didn't get hit by that bus.
00:32:44.37\00:32:46.35
Wait a minute I had
an angel run up there and
00:32:46.70\00:32:48.57
slow it down, God
said there are gonna be
00:32:48.74\00:32:51.88
angels helping you
through all of this.
00:32:51.89\00:32:53.65
God had the roof
made out of four different
00:32:54.62\00:32:56.67
cloths or skins
inside the sanctuary varying
00:32:56.68\00:33:00.27
items of furniture.
Now, that first room
00:33:00.71\00:33:04.45
I mentioned was a
room called the holy place
00:33:04.46\00:33:06.40
and what was inside
there, inside the holy
00:33:06.41\00:33:09.15
place was the
table of Shewbread on the
00:33:09.16\00:33:11.49
North side and the seven branch
00:33:11.50\00:33:14.44
candlestick
lamp-stand on the South side and
00:33:14.45\00:33:17.35
straight your head
was the altar of incense.
00:33:17.36\00:33:21.92
Now, these were
wonderful pieces of
00:33:22.87\00:33:24.06
furniture, but even
in the furniture God
00:33:24.07\00:33:28.14
poured meaning and
blessing and representation
00:33:28.91\00:33:33.76
and lessons and
opportunity for learning.
00:33:33.92\00:33:37.20
The table of
Shewbread, now that was a meal
00:33:38.06\00:33:42.89
offering to the
Lord. I wrote down what
00:33:42.90\00:33:45.56
M.L. Andreasen said about it,
00:33:45.57\00:33:47.06
he said it was an
ever- present testimony that
00:33:47.07\00:33:50.05
Israel was dependent
upon God for sustenance,
00:33:50.06\00:33:53.26
and a constant
promise from God that
00:33:54.19\00:33:57.31
He would sustain
them. The bread of the
00:33:57.32\00:34:01.19
presence is symbolic
of the one who ever lives
00:34:01.20\00:34:03.93
to make
intersection for us, Jesus said,
00:34:03.94\00:34:06.76
I am the bread of
life, He was the living bread
00:34:07.07\00:34:12.30
who came down from
heaven, that Shewbread
00:34:12.50\00:34:15.74
represented Jesus
and further than that.
00:34:16.04\00:34:19.98
Remember what Jesus
said in John 6 and verse
00:34:21.10\00:34:23.30
33, no John 6 and
verse 63, He said the flesh
00:34:23.31\00:34:27.36
profits nothing, He
said the words that I speak
00:34:27.37\00:34:31.84
to you they are
spirit and they are life.
00:34:31.85\00:34:35.89
So the bread in the
sanctuary takes us in
00:34:36.14\00:34:40.38
our thoughts to Jesus,
the bread of life and to
00:34:40.39\00:34:44.16
His word which
for us is truly bread.
00:34:44.17\00:34:48.58
Matthew 4 and verse 4:
Jesus said, it is written;
00:34:49.41\00:34:52.89
Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by what?
00:34:54.13\00:34:57.64
By every word that
proceeds from the mouth,
00:34:58.12\00:35:00.13
of the mouth of
God." That bread inside
00:35:00.39\00:35:03.84
the sanctuary
reminds us and reminded them,
00:35:03.85\00:35:06.73
that just like we
are dependent upon food
00:35:06.74\00:35:11.58
to live
physically, we are absolutely
00:35:11.76\00:35:16.43
completely totally
100 percent dependent upon
00:35:16.44\00:35:20.20
God's word to exist
and to live spiritually.
00:35:20.21\00:35:25.41
We can't survive
without the word of God,
00:35:26.27\00:35:32.00
what did Jeremiah
write: Thy words were found,
00:35:32.14\00:35:35.67
and I did eat them.
In Revelation chapter 10,
00:35:36.01\00:35:39.76
a chapter that is,
that is, can I say,
00:35:40.46\00:35:43.60
I think I can, a
chapter that is pregnant
00:35:43.61\00:35:45.54
with meaningful believers today?
00:35:45.55\00:35:47.38
Daniel took a little
book, it wasn't Daniel,
00:35:49.65\00:35:53.68
John took a little book
but it was Daniel's book
00:35:54.20\00:35:56.40
and he ate it and it
was sweet in his mouth,
00:35:57.37\00:36:02.03
bitter in his belly.
God's word is like food for us
00:36:02.52\00:36:07.79
today and so friend
if we're not reading,
00:36:07.80\00:36:10.09
if we're not opening the
Bible, if we're not doing
00:36:10.84\00:36:13.80
more than just
glazing over the surface,
00:36:13.81\00:36:16.19
grazing at the
surface. We are not growing and
00:36:16.20\00:36:19.61
benefiting spiritually
like God wants us to,
00:36:19.62\00:36:22.77
now keep something
in mind when you come to
00:36:23.27\00:36:24.91
the Bible and you
think about us being bread.
00:36:24.92\00:36:27.16
You know that
there was bread and then
00:36:28.33\00:36:31.95
there is bread
you knew that right.
00:36:31.96\00:36:33.89
Not a bread you make
at home with the whole
00:36:34.66\00:36:37.17
wheat and maybe you
get extra fancy and you
00:36:37.18\00:36:40.65
make it out of little sprouts
00:36:41.40\00:36:43.19
or something like
that. Oh! That's good
00:36:43.20\00:36:45.44
now there is, there is
some substance to that.
00:36:45.83\00:36:47.71
If you drop that I mean
you get your foot out of
00:36:48.23\00:36:50.92
the way I mean there
is something in there.
00:36:50.93\00:36:53.18
I'm not talking about
the real bad bread that,
00:36:54.72\00:36:56.48
that healthy bread
that really taste super
00:36:56.69\00:36:59.08
healthy, I don't mean
that. But I mean that good,
00:36:59.09\00:37:02.16
good bread there's
some substance to it right,
00:37:02.17\00:37:04.55
there is something in
it, but long ago somebody
00:37:04.75\00:37:07.30
got a bright idea.
If we take a grain of
00:37:07.31\00:37:09.98
wheat and take out
everything that's good
00:37:09.99\00:37:14.37
and then make bread
out of the fluff that's
00:37:15.30\00:37:18.49
left, maybe we'll
sell and sell it did like,
00:37:18.50\00:37:23.16
that stuff I mean if
you put on your plate,
00:37:23.44\00:37:26.63
if you don't put
enough peanut butter on it,
00:37:26.64\00:37:28.46
it will levitate
right up off the plate,
00:37:29.14\00:37:30.64
how many of you
have ever seen that.
00:37:30.65\00:37:31.69
It will levitate, right
up you see there is bread
00:37:32.34\00:37:38.06
and bread someone said
is not an original thought.
00:37:38.07\00:37:40.58
But somebody said,
there is some bread you
00:37:41.24\00:37:44.04
would get more
nutritional benefit if
00:37:44.05\00:37:46.23
you threw the bread out
and ate the wrapper that
00:37:46.24\00:37:48.32
the bread came
in. You know what I'm
00:37:48.33\00:37:50.10
talking about, if you
just had a diet of just
00:37:50.11\00:37:55.40
that white bread no
whole wheat in there,
00:37:55.41\00:38:00.01
if that's all you
have you would ended up
00:38:00.17\00:38:03.35
probably sick, end up unwell.
00:38:04.13\00:38:06.29
Little bit of that,
that's okay but that's what you
00:38:06.65\00:38:09.54
majored in, you
wouldn't do well.
00:38:09.55\00:38:11.94
If got to get some
refuge into your diet,
00:38:12.93\00:38:17.93
isn't that
right? You've got to get
00:38:18.26\00:38:20.59
when we come to
the Bible there is a
00:38:21.29\00:38:24.48
tendency for some
people to have a white
00:38:24.49\00:38:26.88
bread religion and
they graze through the Bible
00:38:26.89\00:38:30.71
like, a buffet, you
know buffet is great.
00:38:31.29\00:38:34.10
When you were a
child your mother said
00:38:34.90\00:38:36.17
eat that and eat
that and eat that and so.
00:38:36.18\00:38:38.92
My brother, I never
did tell you this did I,
00:38:40.11\00:38:43.03
my brother I didn't
go back even further
00:38:43.41\00:38:47.52
my mother had a, had
a way of cooking cabbage
00:38:47.96\00:38:51.04
when I was a child and
she would put in the pot
00:38:51.05\00:38:54.96
and, and murder the cabbage,
00:38:55.67\00:38:58.43
torture the cabbage,
when it came out it was,
00:38:59.36\00:39:01.95
it was, it was
white and it was nasty.
00:39:02.07\00:39:06.55
And she would say
now eat that cabbage
00:39:07.60\00:39:09.18
and there were
times that we just,
00:39:09.77\00:39:11.17
we would sit there till
8 O'clock at night looking
00:39:11.18\00:39:14.29
at the cabbage, being
a good boy I would eat
00:39:14.30\00:39:18.32
the cabbage, my
brother would take the plate
00:39:18.33\00:39:20.42
over to the trash
can. And he would now this
00:39:20.43\00:39:23.62
is an education for
any child wanting to sneak
00:39:23.63\00:39:27.91
around behind the
parents back and he
00:39:27.92\00:39:29.43
would lift up the trash
and the trash can put his
00:39:29.44\00:39:32.08
cabbage in there and
then covered it back up
00:39:32.09\00:39:33.59
and say I have
done because my father
00:39:33.60\00:39:35.41
would go look in the trash can.
00:39:35.42\00:39:36.60
Well, where I
was going with this,
00:39:37.02\00:39:40.41
the cabbage would
be cooked to death.
00:39:41.74\00:39:43.30
There was a reason
I was telling you this
00:39:43.31\00:39:44.89
and a very good
reason, the Lord might even
00:39:45.27\00:39:48.92
help me remember
what the reason was.
00:39:48.93\00:39:50.54
You got to get some
refuge in your diet,
00:39:55.43\00:39:58.06
you had to eat the
cabbage but when you
00:39:58.61\00:40:00.20
went to buffet when
you were older you saw.
00:40:00.21\00:40:02.75
I don't know if
anyone put boiled cabbage on
00:40:02.99\00:40:04.50
the buffet, but you
saw some of that and said
00:40:04.51\00:40:05.88
I am not eating that my mother
00:40:05.89\00:40:06.99
is not here to make me.
00:40:07.00\00:40:08.55
Some people do
that with the Bible,
00:40:10.64\00:40:12.13
they skip through
the Bible and they say
00:40:12.71\00:40:14.09
well I take a little
loaf, I think little graze,
00:40:14.33\00:40:17.13
a little of the gospel
of John and I kind of like a
00:40:17.58\00:40:20.19
proverbs, some of
them I like the Psalms
00:40:20.20\00:40:23.31
that's my Bible.
That's no way to take
00:40:23.63\00:40:26.99
the word of God is
it? God gave it all for us
00:40:27.00\00:40:30.22
it all good, it's all in
our favor, sometimes it will
00:40:30.42\00:40:34.60
rub your further
wrong way, sometimes it will
00:40:34.61\00:40:37.47
step on yours toes.
But that's okay if it's
00:40:37.48\00:40:40.98
the word of God we
need it and we need it
00:40:40.99\00:40:45.19
all, every time I
turn around today,
00:40:45.49\00:40:47.52
I am hearing about
somebody down on the
00:40:47.53\00:40:49.70
word of God I just
read today about a popular
00:40:49.71\00:40:52.65
young evangelical
pastor who has got
00:40:52.66\00:40:55.53
tongues wagging in
the evangelical world.
00:40:55.54\00:40:58.02
By writing a book in
which he suggests that
00:40:58.46\00:41:01.16
there might possibly
be no hell and that maybe
00:41:01.17\00:41:04.91
at the end of the day
everybody is gonna saved.
00:41:04.92\00:41:07.66
Now, where in the
world are you coming
00:41:09.25\00:41:12.46
from with an idea like
that, you've got a want
00:41:12.47\00:41:16.16
to reject parts of the
Bible in order to write
00:41:16.44\00:41:19.30
something like
that? Somebody told me
00:41:19.31\00:41:21.54
recently that his
pastor, pastor of a great big
00:41:21.55\00:41:23.52
church made it clear.
Oh no, no there were never
00:41:23.53\00:41:27.22
come a time when
anyone of God's people
00:41:27.23\00:41:30.27
could possibly give up sinning
00:41:30.28\00:41:32.77
and give up disobeying God.
00:41:32.89\00:41:34.88
By the way if you
think like that it certainly
00:41:34.89\00:41:39.17
won't happen but if
that would true what are we
00:41:39.18\00:41:41.15
gonna do with
Revelation chapter 14
00:41:41.16\00:41:42.77
and verse 12: Here
are they that keep the
00:41:43.85\00:41:46.75
commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus.
00:41:46.76\00:41:49.83
I know there is
always room for honest
00:41:50.12\00:41:53.40
disagreement among
people who look at a
00:41:53.41\00:41:55.66
verse, you're looking
at from this angle and
00:41:55.67\00:41:57.69
I am looking at from
that angle and because
00:41:57.70\00:41:59.56
we are different.
And we are in different
00:41:59.57\00:42:01.01
places we don't
see everything alike,
00:42:01.02\00:42:02.77
there is room for
honest disagreement but
00:42:03.03\00:42:05.25
friends there is no
room for rejecting the word
00:42:05.26\00:42:08.88
of God, taking what you like
00:42:08.89\00:42:11.04
rejecting what you are don't.
00:42:11.29\00:42:12.89
We are to live by
every word that proceeds
00:42:13.22\00:42:16.66
from out of the mouth
of God, could you say amen?
00:42:16.67\00:42:18.40
Amen. Well, I thank
God for that, that bread
00:42:18.79\00:42:20.88
was there to remind
people that Christ the
00:42:20.89\00:42:22.68
Messiah was the bread
of life it was made by
00:42:22.69\00:42:25.54
flour that had been
beaten down Jesus had
00:42:25.55\00:42:27.98
been bruised or would
be bruised for our iniquity
00:42:27.99\00:42:30.97
and there is
something I like about this.
00:42:31.14\00:42:32.84
The bread was in
there every day of the week,
00:42:34.04\00:42:36.47
but they were two little
piles of six loafs twelve
00:42:37.82\00:42:41.09
in each and they
replaced the old bread
00:42:41.10\00:42:44.34
with fresh bread you
know what other day of
00:42:44.70\00:42:47.16
the week they did
that on, on the Sabbath,
00:42:47.17\00:42:49.94
which says to me that
if God's people want fresh
00:42:50.32\00:42:53.91
bread they ought to
get themselves down to the
00:42:53.92\00:42:56.50
sanctuary on the Sabbath day.
00:42:56.51\00:42:59.23
So, it's also a
challenge to the preachers,
00:42:59.80\00:43:01.08
the preachers in
the sanctuary on the
00:43:01.09\00:43:03.09
Sabbath ought to be
serving up fresh bread
00:43:03.10\00:43:05.42
for the people of God.
That's true we've got to
00:43:05.66\00:43:07.86
remember that, now
there was a Lamp-stand
00:43:08.76\00:43:11.50
in the sanctuary, the
table of Shewbread told
00:43:11.51\00:43:13.93
us about Jesus,
the bread of life.
00:43:13.94\00:43:18.11
Jesus essential
for our daily lives,
00:43:18.32\00:43:21.64
Jesus essential for our
spiritual well being then
00:43:21.98\00:43:25.48
the Lamp-stand,
made from beaten gold,
00:43:25.49\00:43:28.41
interesting each
branch of the seven branch
00:43:28.42\00:43:32.37
candlestick had
beautiful ornaments
00:43:32.38\00:43:34.57
carved on to it or
designed into it on each
00:43:34.84\00:43:37.37
of those seven
branches there were almonds
00:43:37.38\00:43:39.58
which is fascinating that God
00:43:39.85\00:43:41.58
chose to put almonds there.
00:43:41.59\00:43:43.42
What do they called,
what do they called the
00:43:44.78\00:43:45.92
almond tree back in
Jewish days now I write
00:43:45.93\00:43:49.21
it down here I think
I did yes the awakener,
00:43:49.22\00:43:52.12
the awakener. I
have driven through
00:43:53.01\00:43:54.84
California in the early,
early before is this right
00:43:54.85\00:43:58.93
before spring or early spring?
00:43:58.94\00:44:00.56
Early in the session
and everything else was
00:44:00.89\00:44:03.17
dead as anything.
And there these beautiful
00:44:03.33\00:44:05.39
trees covered in white blossoms.
00:44:05.40\00:44:08.02
The almond tree is the awakener;
00:44:08.68\00:44:10.86
it's the first one
back from the dead,
00:44:11.25\00:44:14.41
if you like at
points that Jesus the
00:44:14.58\00:44:17.04
first born of the dead.
Now, the first fruits of
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.92
them that sleep in the
grave, the almond tree,
00:44:19.93\00:44:23.59
the almonds on the seven branch
00:44:24.07\00:44:25.92
candlestick speak about
Jesus the one who is the
00:44:25.93\00:44:29.39
resurrection and the
life. And that candlestick
00:44:29.40\00:44:32.04
was in the
sanctuary for a reason,
00:44:32.05\00:44:33.92
it was there to defuse light.
00:44:34.35\00:44:37.07
And what is Jesus? He
is the light of the world
00:44:38.79\00:44:42.21
and then Jesus said you
are the light of the world.
00:44:42.56\00:44:47.03
Now, how in the world can we
00:44:48.09\00:44:49.15
be the light of the world.
00:44:49.16\00:44:50.21
When Jesus is the
light of the world,
00:44:51.01\00:44:53.13
Colossians 1 and
verse 27 tells us about the
00:44:53.69\00:44:55.94
mystery of the gospel,
it is Christ in you the
00:44:55.95\00:44:59.85
hope of glory.
When Christ gets in you
00:44:59.86\00:45:03.28
He shines out of you
when my boy was little
00:45:03.66\00:45:06.11
and it was just getting
on a solid fruits first he
00:45:06.66\00:45:08.97
give that little what
is that the little corn or
00:45:08.98\00:45:11.70
wheat or something
around that, instead of
00:45:11.71\00:45:13.67
cereal you give
him. Now then when he was
00:45:13.68\00:45:15.91
getting bigger
and more adventures,
00:45:15.92\00:45:17.34
we discovered that
he likes sweet potato,
00:45:18.11\00:45:19.65
the more he like
more we gave hi, the more
00:45:20.45\00:45:22.04
we gave him, the more
he like it until there was
00:45:22.05\00:45:24.17
this incredible transformation,
00:45:24.18\00:45:25.37
his nose turned
orange and, and really his
00:45:25.75\00:45:28.43
whole face not
his whole face but his
00:45:28.44\00:45:30.69
whole face was orange.
The sweet potato got in
00:45:30.70\00:45:34.40
and the sweet
potato was shinning out,
00:45:34.41\00:45:36.53
it was making a
difference when Jesus
00:45:37.35\00:45:39.49
gets in to you and
me, he is gonna shine out,
00:45:39.83\00:45:42.74
we won't be what we used to be.
00:45:43.16\00:45:44.63
Christ changes us
powerfully and now
00:45:45.00\00:45:48.70
with Christ in us
Jesus can save us you are the
00:45:48.71\00:45:52.29
light of the world,
thank the Lord for that.
00:45:52.48\00:45:56.46
Now, keep in mind
Jesus wants us to be
00:45:56.95\00:45:58.59
light, the light makes
a difference if we turned
00:45:58.60\00:46:03.10
the lights up where would we be.
00:46:03.11\00:46:05.07
We will be in the
dark, turned the lights on,
00:46:06.24\00:46:08.51
what happens to the darkness?
00:46:08.85\00:46:10.10
It just runs away,
the darkness flees,
00:46:11.05\00:46:14.03
light scatters before
the light of the morning
00:46:14.04\00:46:17.27
sunrise you understand.
Now, Jesus said I want
00:46:17.28\00:46:21.87
you to make a
difference in this world.
00:46:21.88\00:46:23.25
Now we are to be light
but you know that light
00:46:23.90\00:46:25.70
is simply a form of energy.
00:46:25.71\00:46:27.13
Electromagnetic energy.
00:46:28.61\00:46:30.12
It's energy that people can see.
00:46:30.13\00:46:31.96
Now I believe
that when the energy of
00:46:33.77\00:46:35.54
Jesus gets into
us. He wants us to make
00:46:35.55\00:46:39.83
a difference, so I
will not just light but also
00:46:39.84\00:46:43.08
salt, salt is tasty, makes a
00:46:43.09\00:46:47.39
difference when you add salt.
00:46:47.40\00:46:48.71
Salt can't be
present without making
00:46:49.84\00:46:52.10
a difference that's
just what it's like.
00:46:52.11\00:46:54.10
Now, I'm gonna tell
you what God is saying go
00:46:54.69\00:46:56.74
and be what my
persuasion leads me
00:46:56.75\00:47:00.91
to what saying is
that, what God is saying
00:47:00.92\00:47:02.37
here's what I
will do in your life.
00:47:02.73\00:47:06.23
Now, in His book
The Apocalyptic Vision
00:47:07.77\00:47:09.88
and the Neutering of Adventism,
00:47:09.89\00:47:11.15
George Knight talked
about people who were
00:47:11.33\00:47:14.17
guilty of committing
the sin of Bible study.
00:47:14.18\00:47:17.04
Now, I'm faithfully
reproducing what he is
00:47:19.91\00:47:21.75
said and I may just
mangle it a little bit but
00:47:21.76\00:47:24.67
he is hopping I get it right.
00:47:24.68\00:47:25.75
He said the sin of
Bible study as when people
00:47:26.54\00:47:28.62
study and study
and study and study the
00:47:28.63\00:47:30.47
Bible, but that's it
instead of putting that
00:47:30.48\00:47:33.80
in use and sharing
that with others and going
00:47:33.81\00:47:36.18
and showing and
sharing Christ with the
00:47:36.19\00:47:37.66
world, they just study and it's
00:47:37.67\00:47:39.48
like you know,
it's like a kind of
00:47:39.49\00:47:41.38
spiritual
gluttony, spiritual obesity.
00:47:41.39\00:47:43.57
Jesus wants to come
into our lives so that
00:47:45.78\00:47:47.78
He can get out of our
lives, somebody writing
00:47:47.79\00:47:49.83
in the Review and
Herald long time ago
00:47:49.84\00:47:52.40
said, there is a
constant tendency among the
00:47:52.41\00:47:56.02
trees of the Lord to be more
00:47:56.03\00:47:57.56
profuse in
foliage then in fruit.
00:48:00.23\00:48:01.20
When Christ gets into
the life fruit will be
00:48:03.00\00:48:05.70
there, the fruit of
the spirit must be where
00:48:05.71\00:48:07.97
Christ Holy Spirit is
and we can go and bear
00:48:07.98\00:48:10.64
fruit for God's
glory by His grace.
00:48:10.65\00:48:13.39
You see what God is
doing, he's saying to the
00:48:15.27\00:48:17.69
sinner come to the sanctuary.
00:48:17.70\00:48:19.01
Now that sinner would
make the walk of shame
00:48:19.74\00:48:21.35
from the camp of
Israel out there, a cross that
00:48:21.36\00:48:23.71
open space and inside
into the courtyard of the
00:48:23.72\00:48:26.78
sanctuary complex.
And there was walk of
00:48:26.79\00:48:29.79
shame because his
neighbors were saying
00:48:29.80\00:48:31.26
ooh ooh guess who's
being up the something
00:48:31.27\00:48:33.89
and of course it was gonna cost
00:48:35.50\00:48:36.66
his family
something. Maybe they priced
00:48:36.67\00:48:39.41
lamb, maybe even a
pet lamb, cost them some
00:48:39.42\00:48:43.22
money, cost them
some shame and he might
00:48:43.23\00:48:45.45
even be
embarrassed. But God was saying
00:48:45.46\00:48:48.92
when you come down
here and the lamb dies
00:48:49.20\00:48:51.09
there is a way back to
the throne room for you.
00:48:51.29\00:48:54.12
There is a way back to
my heart, there's a way
00:48:54.78\00:48:57.84
back to oneness
with me you know we call
00:48:57.85\00:49:01.18
the last day, the
Hebrew here the Day of
00:49:01.19\00:49:03.03
Atonement, the Day of Atonement.
00:49:03.24\00:49:04.78
The sanctuary was
designed so that a
00:49:05.11\00:49:07.70
rotten, weak, lazy,
wretched, sinner could
00:49:07.71\00:49:12.38
through the mercy
and the grace of God be
00:49:12.39\00:49:15.26
connected with God
and made to be at one with
00:49:15.27\00:49:19.14
God in spite of
his or her failings.
00:49:19.60\00:49:22.92
The alter of incense,
it was called the altar of
00:49:23.98\00:49:25.75
continual and
decision, it represented the
00:49:25.76\00:49:27.90
prayers of
God's people ascending
00:49:28.07\00:49:30.08
continually, continually.
00:49:30.49\00:49:32.72
Oh! I need to say, the altar of
00:49:32.97\00:49:35.62
the seven branch
candlestick was fed by
00:49:36.27\00:49:38.45
olive oil, that's a
symbol of the Holy Spirit
00:49:38.46\00:49:40.79
we'll only be bright
for the Lord when the
00:49:41.27\00:49:43.53
Holy Spirit comes into
our lives what the Jesus
00:49:43.54\00:49:46.22
say he will give the
Holy Spirit to us when
00:49:46.23\00:49:49.04
we ask for the Holy Spirit.
00:49:49.05\00:49:51.22
Now, let me jump over
here again, that altar of
00:49:51.61\00:49:55.06
incense the prayer is
going, now Paul said what?
00:49:55.07\00:49:57.07
Pray without ceasing,
I got to tell you I know
00:49:57.49\00:50:00.89
its busy, life is
busy you have a late night,
00:50:00.90\00:50:02.90
early morning you
jump out of the bed
00:50:03.37\00:50:04.75
we will talk later
and that could happen days
00:50:06.48\00:50:10.07
all in, if you led it
and you can get out of the
00:50:10.08\00:50:12.77
grove and pray can
become a hit and midst thing.
00:50:12.78\00:50:16.24
Someone said to me
recently God bless him,
00:50:16.43\00:50:18.04
he said you know in the
morning well I take like
00:50:18.05\00:50:19.95
five minutes to pray,
brother, five minutes,
00:50:20.09\00:50:23.79
I am barely done saying hello to
00:50:24.51\00:50:26.01
God after five
minutes. You got to take time
00:50:26.02\00:50:29.39
to pray, pray without
ceasing, no don't live on
00:50:29.40\00:50:32.13
your knees but
spiritually keep the
00:50:32.14\00:50:34.38
communication open
between us and God.
00:50:34.39\00:50:37.45
God says in the
sanctuary, there's bread,
00:50:37.78\00:50:43.50
Christ, there
is the seven branch
00:50:43.85\00:50:47.25
candlestick Christ,
there's the prayers of
00:50:47.26\00:50:51.09
God's people going
up. The spirit of God
00:50:51.10\00:50:53.96
intercedes for us
with groaning which cannot
00:50:53.97\00:50:56.36
be uttered, this
sanctuary is about what
00:50:56.37\00:50:59.52
God will do in the life
of an individual to bring
00:50:59.53\00:51:02.76
her, to bring him
back to oneness with God,
00:51:02.77\00:51:05.78
we'll talk more
about the most holy place
00:51:05.79\00:51:07.69
another time. But if you
get in there, there is the
00:51:07.70\00:51:10.12
Ten Commandments
you stand before the
00:51:10.13\00:51:12.64
Ten Commandments
and look at them and
00:51:12.65\00:51:14.49
you will see that
you have broken them,
00:51:14.66\00:51:17.08
that you have
sinned, that you are guilty
00:51:17.32\00:51:20.14
before God, but thank
the Lord on top of the
00:51:20.15\00:51:23.65
Ark of the Covenant
was something called
00:51:23.66\00:51:26.14
the mercy seat.
So, when you come
00:51:26.72\00:51:29.70
face to face with your
sinfulness and your sin
00:51:29.71\00:51:32.70
and you're failing,
look up just a little bit and
00:51:32.99\00:51:36.11
see mercy attached to law.
00:51:36.12\00:51:40.05
The Bible says
right mercy and truth have
00:51:41.38\00:51:43.91
met together righteousness
00:51:43.92\00:51:45.65
and peace has kissed each other,
00:51:45.66\00:51:48.35
you've got to love that verse.
00:51:48.57\00:51:49.85
And you see that
absolutely happening in
00:51:50.63\00:51:52.37
the most holy place of
the heavenly sanctuary,
00:51:52.38\00:51:54.66
who is, who is the stern God?
00:51:55.01\00:51:57.58
Who is the God of
Malice and vindictiveness?
00:51:58.70\00:52:02.04
I don't know that God,
I got to tell you I knew
00:52:02.37\00:52:05.42
them once, but then
I started reading the
00:52:05.43\00:52:08.42
Bible, then I
discovered God ways in the
00:52:08.43\00:52:11.39
sanctuary and then
in the sanctuary God
00:52:11.40\00:52:13.86
would reveal himself
as a kind God, as a now a
00:52:13.87\00:52:17.53
just God, sure a just
God. If at the end of the
00:52:17.54\00:52:21.25
day I say thanks but
no thanks God will say
00:52:21.26\00:52:23.43
well you know that's up to you.
00:52:23.44\00:52:24.78
Might say that
with a tear in his eye,
00:52:26.93\00:52:28.42
but that would be up to us.
00:52:29.36\00:52:30.61
You read in the
sanctuary about a God
00:52:31.60\00:52:33.36
who bids us come the
sanctuary shows yeah,
00:52:33.58\00:52:37.01
God is good and God is merciful,
00:52:37.63\00:52:40.69
you ought to read
Psalm 136 sometime soon,
00:52:40.84\00:52:44.22
26 times it says his
mercy endures forever.
00:52:44.82\00:52:52.39
Twenty six times
the Lord is merciful and
00:52:52.96\00:52:57.14
gracious, slow to
anger, plenteous in mercy.
00:52:57.15\00:53:00.51
David wrote,
David was somebody who
00:53:00.91\00:53:02.69
understand a
person's need for mercy.
00:53:02.70\00:53:05.75
Hebrews 9 verse 24
Jesus is in heaven,
00:53:06.45\00:53:10.91
appearing in the
presence of God for us,
00:53:11.33\00:53:15.99
Hebrews 7 and verse 25
Jesus ever lives to make
00:53:18.03\00:53:21.81
intersection for
us, yes God wants
00:53:21.82\00:53:27.27
to sanctify His
church. He says He will have a
00:53:27.28\00:53:30.99
church without spot
or wrinkle or any such
00:53:31.00\00:53:35.60
thing, I've read
the end of the story.
00:53:35.61\00:53:37.72
They can read the end
of the story and various
00:53:37.99\00:53:39.53
parts of the story,
but if you read in Song of
00:53:39.54\00:53:42.04
Solomon 6 and verse
10: the Bible write us
00:53:42.05\00:53:44.72
says: "Who is this
that looks forth as the
00:53:44.73\00:53:46.31
morning, clear as
the moon, fair as the Sun
00:53:46.32\00:53:51.06
and terrible as an
army with banners."
00:53:51.74\00:53:55.20
He is talking about
His church, he's faulty,
00:53:55.78\00:53:59.60
feeble, frail church
made new because they
00:54:00.06\00:54:05.75
have met the God
of the sanctuary.
00:54:05.76\00:54:08.90
What are you gonna do about
00:54:09.91\00:54:10.88
your spiritual
failings? Thomas Edison said,
00:54:10.89\00:54:15.04
"Many of life's
failures are people who do not
00:54:15.05\00:54:17.27
realize how close they were to
00:54:17.28\00:54:18.91
success when they gave up."
00:54:18.92\00:54:21.17
That might be that like
that spiritually for some
00:54:23.48\00:54:26.22
of us, you wanna throw
in the towel but wait a,
00:54:26.23\00:54:29.48
wait a second, wait
a second, you might be
00:54:29.49\00:54:33.18
on the verge of spiritual
breakthrough the lights
00:54:33.19\00:54:35.45
might come on.
We might learn what
00:54:35.46\00:54:36.90
faith is, we
might yield fully to God
00:54:36.91\00:54:41.48
without place for
giving up Edison said,
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.96
I haven't failed, I just found
00:54:44.97\00:54:46.25
ten thousands ways that work.
00:54:46.26\00:54:47.84
I might have found
ten thousand ways that
00:54:49.37\00:54:50.79
don't work for me spiritually.
00:54:50.80\00:54:52.15
But I found a way
that works tonight,
00:54:52.90\00:54:54.45
God's way in the
sanctuary it works.
00:54:55.16\00:54:57.74
Faith in this great
God, someone said mishaps
00:54:58.56\00:55:02.25
are like knives, they can
either serve us or cut us,
00:55:02.26\00:55:05.04
depends if we grab
the blade or the handle.
00:55:05.05\00:55:06.84
When the spiritual
failing comes along
00:55:08.05\00:55:09.74
as somebody once
wrote, we can by the grace of
00:55:09.95\00:55:13.42
God turn our
defeat into victory,
00:55:13.43\00:55:18.47
man who worked
five year and made a
00:55:19.82\00:55:21.21
mistake cost his
company $10 millions.
00:55:21.22\00:55:23.40
He went to the boss
he said I quit boss said,
00:55:23.76\00:55:25.29
you can't quit we
just spend $10 millions
00:55:25.30\00:55:27.69
on your education,
we spend too much money
00:55:27.70\00:55:30.81
on you for you to
quit. Michael Jordan got
00:55:30.82\00:55:33.84
kicked off or cut
from his high school
00:55:33.85\00:55:35.81
basketball team.
Did you ever hear of
00:55:35.82\00:55:38.32
company called Traf O
Data; it was a failure,
00:55:38.33\00:55:42.52
man it was a, it
was a terrible company?
00:55:42.53\00:55:44.68
It was the
company Bill Gates began
00:55:46.00\00:55:47.95
not long before
he began Microsoft.
00:55:48.32\00:55:50.18
And then somebody
saying I lost my temp
00:55:51.26\00:55:52.82
again, I went and
looked at something
00:55:52.83\00:55:54.53
I shouldn't
have looked at again.
00:55:54.54\00:55:55.51
I am not playing
with that that's a serious
00:55:55.68\00:55:57.05
business, but if you
will get inside that sanctuary
00:55:57.06\00:56:00.25
with Jesus if
you will look to God
00:56:00.26\00:56:02.81
have faith in
God, God will do great,
00:56:03.66\00:56:05.62
great, great, great things.
00:56:05.63\00:56:07.49
The sanctuary shows
us. God separates us
00:56:07.50\00:56:10.55
from our sin and reunite
us with his heart of love.
00:56:10.71\00:56:14.95
I heard a radio
interview when I was
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living in Lexington,
Kentucky with a fellow
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name John Bishop,
he had amnesia, and he
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had a real
amnesia. He had, had aseptic
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meningitis,
comatose for seven days,
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when it came to
he couldn't remember
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anything, nothing.
Didn't know how to walk,
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he couldn't talk,
he didn't remember
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who his wife was,
even to this day old
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photographs don't help him.
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He said that his
wife even had teaching
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how to kiss again.
He said that part was
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okay but the rest he
didn't like, it wasn't any good.
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You know what he said?
He said this man is our
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pastor, now an
evangelist he said that,
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that learning over this
again was like being reborn.
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Now friend, you can
come to God with all of
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your lack of capacity,
all your faults, all your
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failings, all your
mess, you know what God
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would do, he will
take, he hold you close,
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he will clean you up
and you'll be able to say
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you know what?
Through the grace of
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Jesus, I have been reborn and we
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praise God tonight
for giving us that great
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object lesson, the sanctuary.
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