Hello, friends,
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welcome to another
Wednesday Night Bible Study
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here at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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Thank you for taken
the time to tune in.
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We want to welcome you,
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wherever you are,
with a hearty amen.
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Can we all say amen together?
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Amen.
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And we have our Bibles,
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we have our pens,
we have our lessons.
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And in just a moment,
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I'll tell you where
you could get a copy
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of the lesson to
continue to follow us.
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But we're going to spend
less than an hour in God's Word
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and what better way
to enhance our thoughts
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about what God
would have us to do
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than to study His Word together.
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In just a moment,
we'll sing our theme song,
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and I'll tell you where you can
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get a copy of the
lesson to follow along with us
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but before we do any of that,
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let's begin with
the Word of prayer.
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Wonderful Father in heaven,
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thank You that Your Word
will always enlighten our minds
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when we open this sacred book.
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Father, we thank You
for Your sustaining grace
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that has kept this book
from generation to generation.
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And now as we ingested
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and hide it in
our hearts and minds,
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we know that the
power that kept this book
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can also keep us.
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Be our teacher
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through the power
of Your Holy Spirit,
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we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Now for copy of the
lesson, go to this website,
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it is lesson number 31,
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entitled "The Truth
about the Body Temple."
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Go to asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson number 31.
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Lesson number 31,
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and we're going to
continue in our discussion about
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the Truth about the Body Temple.
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But, you know, we
always have a theme song
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and our theme song
is on the screen here.
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If you know, you
can sing along with us,
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it's called "Victory in Jesus."
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Let's sing the song together.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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The topic is "The
Truth about the Body Temple."
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Let's say that together.
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They want us to
sing again. That's okay.
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I don't mind. Let's
say the topic together,
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"The Truth about
the Body Temple."
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We have been walking
through lesson number 31.
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Now we covered
quite a bit of scriptures
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on this lesson so far,
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but we're going to begin tonight
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at question number nine.
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But before we do that,
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I want to go to
the anchor verse,
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I call this the anchor verse.
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Go with me to 1
Corinthians 6:19-20.
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This is the anchor verse.
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Now before this
lesson, we talked about health,
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we talked about the
clean and unclean foods,
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what the Bible says we
should and should not eat,
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and we always know that
whenever we study God's Word,
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the Lord has the
best plan, does He not?
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Whenever it's in God's
Word, we can trust God's Word,
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the Lord has the best plan.
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He tells us what to
exclude and what to include,
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but what I want to
bring out also is this
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that the inside is not
the only part of our bodies
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that belong to the Lord.
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What other part of our
body belong to the Lord?
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Can you say it with me the...
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The outside.
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Outside.
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So many of us concern ourselves
with what we put in our bodies,
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but the Bible also,
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the Lord also wants
us to be concerned with
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what we put on the
outside of the body.
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Now we're living in a generation
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where people don't
really care what they do,
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they don't care what
they put on the inside,
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they don't care what
they put on the outside.
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And if you follow the
patterns of the world,
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the world will
give you directions
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completely
opposite to God's Word.
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What we want to do
is follow the directions
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in God's Word,
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why?
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Because we are
planning for an eternal kingdom,
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and you don't wait
till the day before
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to plan for the best journey
that anyone will ever have,
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and that is to
live with the Lord
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throughout eternity.
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But not only that,
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we want to be able to represent
the Lord in this world.
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You know, if I go over to Europe
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or go to South America or go
to wherever I go in the world,
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when I enter through
customs, they know right away
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that my citizenship is, where?
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Talk to me, where?
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In the United States.
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They know I'm a
citizen of America.
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And when you go to countries,
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sometimes, it's
obvious to the people there
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that we are not
from their country.
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By the way, we talk,
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sometimes they
mention terminologies
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that we don't have
any clue what they mean.
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For example, over in Australia,
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what we call the
trunk, the back of the car,
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they call the boot.
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Completely different.
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Over here a boot is
something you wear on your foot,
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in Australia it's
the trunk of the car,
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the back.
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Terminologies are different.
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How people live
is often different,
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how they eat is often different.
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For those of us who
are pilgrims in this earth
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and preparing for
that eternal kingdom,
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there's a way
God wants us to live,
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there's a way He
wants us to take care
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of our body temple
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both on the inside
and on the outside.
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And here's the reason why?
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
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All right, let's
look at that one together.
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And the Bible says,
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"Or do you not know
that your body is the..."
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What's the next word,
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"Temple of the Holy
Spirit which is in you,
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whom you have from God,
and you are not your own?"
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So why do we not own our bodies?
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Let's read verse 20 together.
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Are you ready? Here we go.
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"For you were
bought with a price.
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Therefore, glorify God," where?
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"In your body
and in your spirit,
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which are God's."
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Now the world often...
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Let me even narrow that down.
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In many churches,
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people say they
glorify God in the Spirit,
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they live in the
Spirit, they sing in the Spirit,
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they walk in the Spirit,
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some people say,
they pray in the Spirit.
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That's well and good,
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but the Lord also
wants us to worship Him
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and to
acknowledge His ownership,
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not just of our spiritual
life, but the physical life.
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The Lord created us.
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He wants us to
handle what He's given to us
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with great stewardship.
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And so when we walk through that
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we notice patterns in the Bible,
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what happened
when Adam and Eve fell,
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what was the first thing that...
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Well, how did God notice
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that there was a change
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in their relationship
between Him and them?
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What did God do when
He found Adam and Eve?
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Somebody tell me.
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You remember what God did
when He found Adam and Eve,
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they were hiding.
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Why were they hiding?
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Can you remember? Naked.
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Say it again
'cause they were what?
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Naked. They were naked.
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The clothing they had
before they sin was gone.
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The glory of God,
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the light of
God had disappeared,
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and they knew when
they saw themselves,
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"Hey, we got to
find some clothing."
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Do you remember
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what kind of clothing
they made for themselves?
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Ha? Fig leaves.
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They put fig leaves on.
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The Bible said they
made aprons of fig leaves.
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If you've ever
seen an apron before,
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it's not the proper garment.
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But the way that
people just today looks like
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some people still
are buying aprons.
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God wants us to be modest, why?
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Because we're citizens
of a different kingdom.
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The Lord did not leave
Eve and Adam in an apron.
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He killed an animal
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and He covered
them with that skin,
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He wanted them to be covered up.
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And from that day until
we receive the glory of God,
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again, you know, the
robe of righteousness,
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I believe it's going
to be the restoration
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of that light that we lost.
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The glory of God
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will once again
enshroud us, clothe us.
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Until that day,
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the Lord wants
us to be covered up.
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And that's the
principle of modesty.
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He wants us to dress so
that when people see us,
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they know that we are not
following all the designers
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because when I was being raised,
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and some of you
may remember this,
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being raised...
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I remember, you know, in the...
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Well, help me
out. I'm not that old.
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I'm getting older, we
all are getting older.
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Amen? Amen? Amen.
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But I remember there was an age
when there was the miniskirt,
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and then it
became the middy skirt,
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then the maxi skirt.
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I grew up in New York
City where men wore high shoes,
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elevated shoes.
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They didn't wear high
heels, they wore elevator shoes.
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Anyone of you
remember platform shoes?
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Anybody remember that?
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They call it super fly,
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with the long
coats, the big hats.
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And the world is continually
putting us through the wringer.
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It makes us look the
way, if we follow the world,
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we'll look different
from season to season,
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but if we follow God's Word,
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we always maintain a
context with godly dress.
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So tonight, we're going
to continue our discussion
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because as we looked at
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how the fall
affected Adam and Eve,
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one of the first families
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that are
highlighted in the Bible
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is a young man by
the name of Jacob.
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Does anybody remember
what his wife's name was?
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Rachel.
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Wonderful young lady,
her father's name was Laban.
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When the Lord pursued Jacob,
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when Jacob had
deceived his brother Esau,
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the Lord met with Jacob
at a place called the Bethel,
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which means "the house of God."
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God met him there.
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He wrestled with the Lord,
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the Lord allowed him to prevail,
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he changed his name
from Jacob to Israel
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because he
prevailed with the Lord.
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But there was something else,
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the Lord desired now
to sanctify his family.
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And now we're going to
go to question number nine,
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and we're going to begin,
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we're going to
walk through the story
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in Genesis 35
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and see what kind of instruction
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the Lord gave to
Jacob and his family.
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He was going to
sanctify them for service.
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And not only
sanctify them for service,
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but sanctify them that
they may represent Him,
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they may represent Him
because what they did not know
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was God was going
to bless the world
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through the 12 sons of Jacob.
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The Lord was about to
turn the world upside down
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through the children,
through the sons of Jacob.
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But to begin the process,
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He said, "There
needs to be some changes
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in your family and even
in the servants you have."
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So let's look at
question number nine.
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Here it is.
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How did God
instruct Jacob and his family
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to present themselves to God?
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How did God
instruct Jacob and his family
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to present themselves to God?
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Let's go to Genesis Chapter 35,
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and we're going to walk
through the story together,
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and see how God
instructed Jacob and his family.
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When God gives instructions...
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I tell you, those instructions
always bring enlightenment.
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Here it is.
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I'm reading from the
New King James Version
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and that's what's going
to appear on the screen.
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Here it is.
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And the Bible says,
"Then God said to Jacob."
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What's the first word
He said to Jacob together?
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"Arise."
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Look at the
screen together with me.
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Let's read that, what is it?
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"Arise, go up to
Bethel and dwell there,
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and make an altar there to God,
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who appeared to
you when you fled
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from the face of
Esau your brother."
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His brother was
coming after him.
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Look at verse 2.
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"And Jacob said to his household
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and to all who were with him."
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Let's read this together.
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What did he say?
Look at the screen.
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"Put away the," what?
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"Foreign gods
that are among you,"
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next thing is,
"purify yourselves, and,"
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the third thing what?
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"Change your garments."
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Now pause that off
the screen for a moment,
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I want to elaborate
before we go to verse 3-4.
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The Lord said, "Put
away the foreign gods,"
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so which meant,
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they were gods among them
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that should not have been there.
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And I emphasized a moment ago,
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Rachel's father a
man by the name of Laban,
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you read that in Exodus 33,
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Laban sold gods,
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he fashioned them out
of various types of metal,
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various types of
wood, he designed them.
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And when Rachel married Jacob,
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she brought these
gods into the house.
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So God said,
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"You got to get
rid of those gods.
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Next you have to purify."
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Whenever God calls
us, He purifies us,
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remember that text?
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If we confess our sins,
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He is faithful and just
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to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse.
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So there's always a cleansing
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when you commit
yourself to the Lord.
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"Purify yourselves, get ready."
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And of third thing He said
was, what's that on the screen,
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last part, change your what?
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"Change your garments."
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In other words, "How you dress,
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that's not appropriate for
Me to choose you as My servant.
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You got to get
that in order too."
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Now let's look
at the next verse,
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which will appear on the screen.
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Here it is.
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And verse 3 of Genesis
35, "Then let us arise,"
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always go up when you
go follow the Lord get up,
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"Go up to Bethel,
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and I will make an
altar there to God,
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who answered Me in
the day of My," what?
00:16:10.13\00:16:13.17
"Distress and also
and has been with Me
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in the way which I have gone."
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That's powerful.
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Now what did they do in response
00:16:21.58\00:16:23.45
to the instruction
about change your garments,
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purify yourselves, get
rid of the foreign gods.
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Notice what they did.
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Verse 4, "So they gave
Jacob all the foreign gods
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which were in their," what?
00:16:37.26\00:16:39.19
"Hands, and the earrings
which were in their," what?
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"Ears, and Jacob hid
them under the terebinth tree
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which was by Shechem."
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Notice what they did.
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Whatever foreign
gods were in their houses
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and, you know, in homes
00:16:53.91\00:16:58.01
when you follow the
patterns of the world,
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all kinds of gods
could end up in your house.
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The Lord says,
00:17:04.15\00:17:05.49
"Get rid of those and then
also change your garments."
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And notice what they
understood that to mean,
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they got rid of
the foreign gods.
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And in this particular case,
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Rachel brought these in because
her father Laban made them,
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they had to get rid of them.
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Now let me ask what did they do?
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What did they do
with these foreign gods?
00:17:22.54\00:17:24.94
What did they do
with the earrings
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when they took them off?
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What did they do?
00:17:27.71\00:17:29.04
They hid them.
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Specifically, they bury them.
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You don't hide
things under trees,
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you bury them.
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Here the word
terebinth, simply means,
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in the King James
Version, oak tree.
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They dug a pit, they
dug a hole burry these gods,
00:17:40.39\00:17:45.39
took the earrings
out of their ears,
00:17:45.43\00:17:48.16
and made sure that
when they come home...
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The Lord didn't say,
"Put them on the counter,
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when you come home,
you can put it back on."
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He said,
00:17:54.24\00:17:55.57
"Get them out of your house
and get them out of your ears."
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Amen?
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Now when you follow
the world, the world say,
00:17:58.81\00:18:01.14
"No, no, no, put
them in your ears
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and keep them in your houses."
00:18:03.91\00:18:05.68
Now,
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I'm going to ask you a
question and I want a response.
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Whose instruction is
wiser, the world's or God's?
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God's. Okay.
00:18:15.26\00:18:16.76
So now let's follow this.
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It may seem really
uncommon for this message
00:18:18.16\00:18:21.00
to be going forward in 2015,
00:18:21.03\00:18:23.97
you may see it a different date.
00:18:24.00\00:18:25.33
That's fine.
00:18:25.37\00:18:26.70
But in this day and
age, if you follow the world,
00:18:26.74\00:18:29.34
the world will say,
00:18:29.37\00:18:30.71
"No, no, no, no,
put the earrings in
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and bring the
gods into your house."
00:18:33.01\00:18:35.24
And today, we
live in a generation
00:18:35.28\00:18:37.65
where one earring, two
earrings, five earrings,
00:18:37.68\00:18:43.25
or as many as you want,
00:18:43.28\00:18:45.09
and as many holes and
piercings as you want,
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the world is modifying...
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Let me just use it.
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The world is
ignoring God's instruction.
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But why did God
instruct them that way?
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It's very important.
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If Jacob was the only ones that
were going to be sanctified,
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then the Lord will say,
"This is only for them."
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But as you walk
through the lesson,
00:19:04.17\00:19:05.51
you'll see this was not
instruction just for Jacob,
00:19:05.54\00:19:08.68
but this is instruction
for the people of God.
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We'll see that in just a moment.
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All right?
00:19:12.51\00:19:13.85
So write that
down, the answer was,
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how did God
instruct Jacob and his family
00:19:15.25\00:19:17.15
to present themselves?
00:19:17.19\00:19:18.89
Get rid of the foreign
gods, purify yourselves,
00:19:18.92\00:19:22.16
and remove or
change your garments.
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In other words,
00:19:25.56\00:19:26.90
remove the earrings
that are in your ears,
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and he took them out.
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They took them out.
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When you read the story,
00:19:31.97\00:19:33.30
you'll find that
not only did Rachel,
00:19:33.34\00:19:35.37
but the servants
that were in their homes.
00:19:35.40\00:19:38.41
God was sanctifying
the entire household
00:19:38.44\00:19:41.91
because the entire
household was call of God
00:19:41.94\00:19:45.11
to be a place where
sanctification exists.
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Now that's important.
00:19:48.38\00:19:49.72
You know, sometimes,
00:19:49.75\00:19:51.09
we honor the
Sabbath, and we say,
00:19:51.12\00:19:52.45
"Well, we have visitors,
00:19:52.49\00:19:54.16
we don't want
to impose upon them
00:19:54.19\00:19:55.86
what we do on the Sabbath."
00:19:55.89\00:19:57.23
But when the Sabbath
was established by God,
00:19:57.26\00:19:59.63
didn't He also say,
00:19:59.66\00:20:01.03
"Even the stranger
that is within your gates,"
00:20:01.06\00:20:03.77
didn't He say that?
00:20:03.80\00:20:05.33
So God was saying if
there are strangers...
00:20:05.37\00:20:08.57
And these
servants weren't strangers.
00:20:08.60\00:20:11.11
The imposition here
was, "They are your property,
00:20:11.14\00:20:14.81
they work for you,
they live with you,
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.21
if your entire household
is going to be sanctified,
00:20:17.25\00:20:19.91
I want everyone to comply
00:20:19.95\00:20:22.52
with the
instructions given to Jacob."
00:20:22.55\00:20:24.09
And they did. And
praise the Lord they did.
00:20:24.12\00:20:26.69
Now, let's go to
question number 10,
00:20:26.72\00:20:28.89
all right?
00:20:28.92\00:20:30.26
Here it is.
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Which of the Ten Commandments
does this practice reflect?
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Let's go to Exodus 20:3.
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Exodus 20:3.
00:20:38.73\00:20:43.64
This is one of the most
misunderstood commandments.
00:20:43.67\00:20:49.74
Now a lot of times,
we say the Sabbath is,
00:20:49.78\00:20:51.51
but this one has a
broader application
00:20:51.55\00:20:54.65
and if we get to some
of the other questions,
00:20:54.68\00:20:57.22
which we will eventually,
00:20:57.25\00:20:58.75
you'll see that
this commandment,
00:20:58.79\00:21:00.12
Exodus 20:3,
00:21:00.16\00:21:01.76
has a broader application than
just idols of wood and stone,
00:21:01.79\00:21:06.96
and gold and silver.
00:21:07.00\00:21:08.83
Let's look at this question.
00:21:08.86\00:21:10.20
Here is the answer together.
00:21:10.23\00:21:11.57
Exodus 20:3.
00:21:11.60\00:21:12.93
Let's read this
together. Are we ready?
00:21:12.97\00:21:14.44
"You shall," what?
00:21:14.47\00:21:15.80
"Have no other gods before Me."
00:21:15.84\00:21:19.64
And in the generation...
00:21:19.67\00:21:21.24
Now I want to give you a
little bit of history here
00:21:21.28\00:21:22.68
because the children of Israel
00:21:22.71\00:21:24.05
eventually ended up
in the land of Egypt.
00:21:24.08\00:21:27.52
And much of what
happens in our world today,
00:21:27.55\00:21:29.92
many of us don't
acknowledge this,
00:21:29.95\00:21:32.15
but many of the
practices in our world today,
00:21:32.19\00:21:34.76
didn't start in America,
they didn't start in Rome,
00:21:34.79\00:21:38.33
they didn't
necessarily start in Europe,
00:21:38.36\00:21:40.76
but they go way
back to antiquity
00:21:40.80\00:21:43.06
and many of the
things that we do today
00:21:43.10\00:21:45.07
have their
foundation in places like Egypt,
00:21:45.10\00:21:47.77
places like Babylon.
00:21:47.80\00:21:49.14
That's why you find
in the New Testament
00:21:49.17\00:21:51.54
those phrases are
used in Revelation.
00:21:51.57\00:21:54.04
You find the word
Egypt, you find the word Sodom,
00:21:54.08\00:21:56.78
you find the word Babylon
00:21:56.81\00:21:58.41
because the
things that are happening
00:21:58.45\00:21:59.78
in our world today go way back.
00:21:59.81\00:22:02.42
Today, sodomites and sodomy
00:22:02.45\00:22:04.45
is practiced in our world today,
00:22:04.49\00:22:06.96
but how many
thousands of years ago
00:22:06.99\00:22:09.29
was this practiced?
00:22:09.32\00:22:10.86
Way back in the days of Nova,
way back in the days of Lot.
00:22:10.89\00:22:15.00
It's old.
00:22:15.03\00:22:16.36
So if somebody to say,
00:22:16.40\00:22:17.73
"Well, it
doesn't really mattered,
00:22:17.77\00:22:19.10
times have change."
00:22:19.13\00:22:20.47
Does it matter,
00:22:20.50\00:22:22.00
do changing times mater to God?
00:22:22.04\00:22:23.97
Yes or no?
00:22:24.01\00:22:26.34
Do changing times matter to God?
00:22:26.37\00:22:27.71
Yes or no? It's
not a trick question.
00:22:27.74\00:22:29.08
No. No.
00:22:29.11\00:22:30.45
"I am the Lord, I
change not, I am the same,
00:22:30.48\00:22:33.11
together,
yesterday, today, and forever."
00:22:33.15\00:22:37.02
God doesn't change, His
commandments don't change,
00:22:37.05\00:22:40.39
His requirements don't change.
00:22:40.42\00:22:43.16
So from generation to
generation this applies,
00:22:43.19\00:22:46.46
"You shall have no
other gods before Me."
00:22:46.49\00:22:48.76
Now let me give you
a little short brief,
00:22:48.80\00:22:50.60
as I possibly can,
00:22:50.63\00:22:52.23
study on why this is
so vitally important.
00:22:52.27\00:22:55.57
When I studied
the inception of gods
00:22:55.60\00:23:01.71
and studied them in
the context of Egypt,
00:23:01.74\00:23:05.55
an amazing discovery
came to the forefront
00:23:05.58\00:23:09.15
about why this commandment
was given particularly
00:23:09.18\00:23:13.79
when they came out
of the land of Egypt,
00:23:13.82\00:23:15.66
why the Lord said that.
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.03
Now I'm going to leave
that there as a cliffhanger
00:23:17.06\00:23:18.89
and when we get to Exodus,
00:23:18.93\00:23:20.30
I'll unfold the
rest of it for you.
00:23:20.33\00:23:22.36
But now let's go
to question number 11.
00:23:22.40\00:23:25.03
Question Number 11.
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.97
All right?
00:23:28.00\00:23:29.87
And here it is.
00:23:29.90\00:23:31.24
How is this
adornment instruction
00:23:31.27\00:23:34.78
expressed in the New Testament?
00:23:34.81\00:23:38.48
Go to 1 Peter 3:3-4, all right?
00:23:38.51\00:23:43.95
1 Peter 3:3-4.
00:23:43.99\00:23:47.76
That's where we're going.
00:23:47.79\00:23:49.12
Some of you have
already gone there before me.
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.49
1 Peter 3:3-4.
00:23:51.53\00:23:56.30
And let me...
00:23:56.33\00:23:57.67
As you read this, sometimes,
00:23:57.70\00:23:59.03
the English language
00:23:59.07\00:24:00.40
falls short of
expressing what's in the Greek.
00:24:00.44\00:24:03.87
And in this particular case,
the word that is best used,
00:24:03.91\00:24:06.68
and you'll get to that when
you see the context of the text
00:24:06.71\00:24:10.21
is often not clear
in the English language
00:24:10.25\00:24:12.65
to use the word that
they can best describe
00:24:12.68\00:24:15.35
the translation from the Greek.
00:24:15.38\00:24:16.72
But let's read
the text together.
00:24:16.75\00:24:18.39
All right, here we
go. It's on the screen.
00:24:18.42\00:24:20.52
Speaking of those who
are New Testament Christians.
00:24:20.56\00:24:24.89
"Do not let your
adornment be," what?
00:24:24.93\00:24:29.13
"Merely outward
arranging the hair,
00:24:29.16\00:24:33.34
wearing gold, or
putting on," what?
00:24:33.37\00:24:37.07
"Fine apparel."
00:24:37.11\00:24:39.04
Let's go to the next verse.
00:24:39.07\00:24:40.51
"Rather let it be
the," what kind of person?
00:24:40.54\00:24:44.61
"Hidden person of the heart,
00:24:44.65\00:24:46.82
with the incorruptible beauty
of a gentle and quiet spirit,
00:24:46.85\00:24:52.22
which is very
precious in the sight of God.
00:24:52.25\00:24:55.56
You know, one of the things
00:24:55.59\00:24:56.93
that the Bible brings out
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.29
is the ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit.
00:24:58.33\00:25:00.93
If you have the
King James Version,
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.30
you'll find an ornament,
00:25:02.33\00:25:03.67
is that what you
have in your Bible, Mike?
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.90
Ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit.
00:25:05.93\00:25:08.07
Brother Hutchinson,
that's what you have,
00:25:08.10\00:25:09.50
ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit.
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.61
And the reason why
it uses the phrase...
00:25:12.64\00:25:16.31
And I'm going to look here.
00:25:16.34\00:25:17.68
The reason why it
uses the phrase, the word,
00:25:17.71\00:25:21.18
"But rather let it be
hidden, the hidden person,"
00:25:21.22\00:25:25.29
is because people expressed
their wealth in society
00:25:25.32\00:25:29.72
by the things that were visible.
00:25:29.76\00:25:32.73
Now let me ask you a question.
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.10
Can you tell what
a person is thinking?
00:25:34.13\00:25:35.86
Yes or no? Come on, talk to me.
00:25:35.90\00:25:37.23
Yes or no? No.
00:25:37.27\00:25:38.63
Because it's, what, hidden.
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.84
Right?
00:25:40.87\00:25:42.20
The Lord in essence saying
what's more valuable to Him
00:25:42.24\00:25:45.77
is the things that are hidden,
00:25:45.81\00:25:48.28
the incorruptible heart,
the gentle and quiet spirit.
00:25:48.31\00:25:52.01
So Peter is encouraging us today
00:25:52.05\00:25:54.98
to not follow the same pattern.
00:25:55.02\00:25:56.62
Now the words
that I mentioned to you
00:25:56.65\00:25:58.05
that were very important.
00:25:58.09\00:25:59.99
In the King James
Version, sometimes, it says
00:26:00.02\00:26:02.52
the platting of hair
or the plating of hair.
00:26:02.56\00:26:06.53
In the New King James it
says, the arranging of hair.
00:26:06.56\00:26:09.16
One of the practices
that were very prevalent
00:26:09.20\00:26:11.10
in not only the
New Testament time,
00:26:11.13\00:26:13.37
but the Old Testament time
is when specific hairstyles
00:26:13.40\00:26:17.47
were formed,
00:26:17.51\00:26:18.84
they platted gold
and silver strands
00:26:18.87\00:26:21.74
or whatever jewels
were had in the hair,
00:26:21.78\00:26:25.48
and it differentiated
the very wealthy from those
00:26:25.51\00:26:29.52
that were humble.
00:26:29.55\00:26:30.89
And I don't want
to use the word poor.
00:26:30.92\00:26:32.55
The very wealthy from
those that were humble.
00:26:32.59\00:26:35.26
And it formed
within the hearts of those
00:26:35.29\00:26:37.73
who are adorned this
way an attitude of pride.
00:26:37.76\00:26:42.93
And so when you look at that...
00:26:42.96\00:26:45.53
Look at the contrast of that.
00:26:45.57\00:26:47.30
The Lord talked about
the incorruptible beauty,
00:26:47.34\00:26:49.97
a gentle and quiet spirit,
00:26:50.01\00:26:51.87
which is a contrast to a
haughty and proud spirit.
00:26:51.91\00:26:56.71
So the Lord, in
essence, is saying to us today
00:26:56.75\00:26:59.05
in the very same way,
00:26:59.08\00:27:00.42
the reason why the Lord calls us
00:27:00.45\00:27:02.12
to not follow the
patterns of the world,
00:27:02.15\00:27:04.49
He wants us to have,
what kind of a spirit,
00:27:04.52\00:27:06.55
together, gentle
and quiet spirit,
00:27:06.59\00:27:11.33
which means, and
this is powerful,
00:27:11.36\00:27:13.09
think of it.
00:27:13.13\00:27:16.70
What you don't
say can speak louder,
00:27:16.73\00:27:19.83
sometimes, than what you say.
00:27:19.87\00:27:23.44
Have you noticed that?
00:27:23.47\00:27:26.84
I remember growing up.
I've heard this phrase before.
00:27:26.88\00:27:29.14
I didn't hear
this in my household,
00:27:29.18\00:27:30.51
so I want to put
that in the right context.
00:27:30.55\00:27:32.41
But I remember
hearing people say,
00:27:32.45\00:27:34.88
"Don't do what I
do, do what I say."
00:27:34.92\00:27:39.79
Now what's deceptive about that?
00:27:39.82\00:27:41.89
What's deceptive about that?
00:27:41.92\00:27:43.63
It's because you
might say what to do,
00:27:43.66\00:27:45.63
but you do
something completely opposite,
00:27:45.66\00:27:47.96
and the children come along,
00:27:48.00\00:27:49.33
and you ask them
when they get adults,
00:27:49.36\00:27:51.33
"Why you do
that?" "My mom did that."
00:27:51.37\00:27:53.17
"But didn't she tell
you to do something else?"
00:27:53.20\00:27:55.10
But, you know what, together,
00:27:55.14\00:27:57.34
"Actions speak
louder than words."
00:27:57.37\00:28:02.48
So the actions of
the world are much louder
00:28:02.51\00:28:07.45
than if the world says,
00:28:07.48\00:28:08.82
"Don't do this
or don't do that,"
00:28:08.85\00:28:10.19
if it does that,
00:28:10.22\00:28:11.65
then we often follow what we see
00:28:11.69\00:28:14.42
rather than what we have heard.
00:28:14.46\00:28:15.92
The Lord brought
that out, He said,
00:28:15.96\00:28:18.03
"Let your outward
appearance be seen as gentle
00:28:18.06\00:28:22.43
and your spirit
be seen as quiet."
00:28:22.46\00:28:25.47
Now another word for...
00:28:25.50\00:28:26.84
The opposite word
for quiet is loud.
00:28:26.87\00:28:29.60
And I tell you the
way the world dresses
00:28:29.64\00:28:31.11
sometimes is loud. Amen?
00:28:31.14\00:28:32.71
Amen.
00:28:32.74\00:28:34.08
It speaks loud.
00:28:34.11\00:28:35.44
"Whoa! What was that"?
00:28:35.48\00:28:38.68
I saw an article
once in a magazine.
00:28:38.71\00:28:41.48
It was a different
magazine where the article was,
00:28:41.52\00:28:44.99
"How the present
age in which we live
00:28:45.02\00:28:47.49
affects the way
that people dress
00:28:47.52\00:28:49.66
when they go to churches?"
00:28:49.69\00:28:51.19
But this is not new.
00:28:51.23\00:28:52.59
Go to the very next
text. Go to question number 12.
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.43
This is not new.
00:28:55.46\00:28:56.80
Notice what
happened in the past,
00:28:56.83\00:28:59.07
happens in the present.
00:28:59.10\00:29:00.70
Question number
12. Look at this.
00:29:00.74\00:29:02.87
How did God describe Israel
00:29:02.90\00:29:06.61
when they adopted
foreign practices?
00:29:06.64\00:29:10.31
What we see today is not new.
00:29:10.35\00:29:12.98
Solomon said
there is nothing new
00:29:13.01\00:29:14.38
under the sun.
00:29:14.42\00:29:15.75
What we see today
00:29:15.78\00:29:17.12
happened in a different society,
00:29:17.15\00:29:18.85
in a different age, in
a different generation.
00:29:18.89\00:29:21.22
There's really nothing
new, it just gets updated.
00:29:21.26\00:29:23.59
All right? Here's Hosea 2:13.
00:29:23.63\00:29:26.53
This is how the
Lord described Israel
00:29:26.56\00:29:29.46
when they adopted
foreign practices.
00:29:29.50\00:29:31.83
Now notice this. Here it is.
00:29:31.87\00:29:34.07
He says, "I will punish
her for the days of the Baals
00:29:34.10\00:29:39.34
to which she burned incense."
00:29:39.37\00:29:41.88
Baal was a foreign god
but notice how He knew this,
00:29:41.91\00:29:46.18
notice what was seen
00:29:46.21\00:29:47.98
that indicated
her form of worship.
00:29:48.02\00:29:50.89
"She decked herself with,' what?
00:29:50.92\00:29:54.56
"Her earrings and," what?
00:29:54.59\00:29:56.96
"Jewelry, and
went after her lovers,
00:29:56.99\00:30:00.40
but Me she
forgot,' says the Lord.'"
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.17
Now this is really powerful
because the children of Israel,
00:30:04.20\00:30:07.87
at this particular point,
00:30:07.90\00:30:09.54
had already been
delivered from Egypt.
00:30:09.57\00:30:14.41
And what they learned as
slaves in Egypt for 400 years,
00:30:14.44\00:30:19.55
it was hard to remove.
00:30:19.58\00:30:21.82
You know,
sometimes it takes longer
00:30:21.85\00:30:23.28
to break a practice than it does
00:30:23.32\00:30:24.65
to adopt a practice.
00:30:24.69\00:30:26.45
The more you do something,
00:30:26.49\00:30:27.82
the easy it becomes to practice,
00:30:27.86\00:30:29.86
but it takes sometimes
longer to get rid of a practice
00:30:29.89\00:30:33.16
than it does to
adopt the practice.
00:30:33.19\00:30:36.23
Sometimes a
person sees something
00:30:36.26\00:30:37.70
for short span of
time, it becomes an influence
00:30:37.73\00:30:40.74
that their
practice becomes a habit,
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.67
becomes a character trait,
00:30:42.70\00:30:44.57
and then it carries on from them
00:30:44.61\00:30:46.34
to the next generation
to the next generation.
00:30:46.37\00:30:49.18
Whenever the children of
Israel were in rebellion...
00:30:49.21\00:30:52.45
I want you to notice something,
this is very important.
00:30:52.48\00:30:54.35
"She decked
herself." "She did," what?
00:30:54.38\00:30:58.02
"Decked herself with
her earrings and jewelry
00:30:58.05\00:31:01.89
and went after her lovers."
00:31:01.92\00:31:03.73
Never did the Lord speak
of the children of Israel
00:31:03.76\00:31:07.50
in a righteous walk
00:31:07.53\00:31:09.40
when they were
decked with jewels,
00:31:09.43\00:31:10.77
and ornaments, and earrings.
00:31:10.80\00:31:12.27
He never spoke of
them as in a relationship,
00:31:12.30\00:31:16.54
as in a faithful relationship,
00:31:16.57\00:31:18.91
whenever they were
decked with earrings,
00:31:18.94\00:31:20.44
and jewels, and ornaments.
00:31:20.48\00:31:22.44
He always referred
to them as in rebellion.
00:31:22.48\00:31:26.25
And so the question is,
should we follow the example
00:31:26.28\00:31:29.95
of a faithful relationship
or a rebellious relationship?
00:31:29.98\00:31:33.69
Which one? Faithful.
00:31:33.72\00:31:35.06
A faithful relationship.
00:31:35.09\00:31:36.42
So if the children
of Israel did that then,
00:31:36.46\00:31:38.59
and the Lord said,
00:31:38.63\00:31:39.96
"Hey, she's
following a different god."
00:31:40.00\00:31:42.03
Today, in our very
world, you'll discover
00:31:42.06\00:31:45.73
that people are
following different gods
00:31:45.77\00:31:47.74
when they are
adorned the very same way.
00:31:47.77\00:31:50.41
About...
00:31:50.44\00:31:52.27
Now it's been 28,
29 years of ministry,
00:31:52.31\00:31:55.04
when I was...
00:31:55.08\00:31:57.01
I'm talking
about maybe the 1990s,
00:31:57.05\00:32:00.05
I got invited to speak
at a camp meeting once.
00:32:00.08\00:32:04.15
And I never forgot this,
after I spoke that evening...
00:32:04.19\00:32:08.19
There was a young lady,
was as Adventist young lady,
00:32:08.22\00:32:10.13
she came to me, and she says,
"My friend wants to meet you."
00:32:10.16\00:32:14.16
And I said...
00:32:14.20\00:32:15.53
And then she said,
"Well, maybe she doesn't.
00:32:15.56\00:32:16.90
Well, maybe she doesn't.
00:32:16.93\00:32:18.93
Well, let me check with
her to see if she's okay."
00:32:18.97\00:32:21.20
And I'm thinking
what's all this vacillating,
00:32:21.24\00:32:23.41
why keep changing
00:32:23.44\00:32:24.77
either she does want
to meet me or she doesn't.
00:32:24.81\00:32:27.44
And then she made the statement
that really opened up my mind
00:32:27.48\00:32:30.91
to start studying
God's Word even deeper.
00:32:30.95\00:32:32.88
She said, "Well, I'm not sure
00:32:32.91\00:32:35.12
if she's going to
have on her protection."
00:32:35.15\00:32:38.55
I said, "Protection?
What am I going to do to her?
00:32:38.59\00:32:42.59
It's just me."
00:32:42.62\00:32:44.06
And I met the young lady.
00:32:44.09\00:32:45.89
She was a young
practicing witch.
00:32:45.93\00:32:50.47
She was a Wiccan.
00:32:50.50\00:32:52.33
And when I met her, she said,
00:32:52.37\00:32:55.60
"My friend invited
me to camp meeting,
00:32:55.64\00:32:57.21
I want to meet you, I
enjoyed your speech today."
00:32:57.24\00:32:59.74
Well, I don't give
speeches, I give sermons.
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.24
Amen? You guys
are quite tonight.
00:33:01.28\00:33:03.35
Amen?
00:33:03.38\00:33:04.71
Amen.
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.08
But she says, "I
wanted to meet you
00:33:06.11\00:33:07.45
because I enjoyed
your speech today."
00:33:07.48\00:33:08.82
And her friend was
there and her friend was,
00:33:08.85\00:33:11.12
kind of, looking back
and forth between us like,
00:33:11.15\00:33:12.72
"Oh, is this going to go okay?
00:33:12.75\00:33:14.09
Is this going to go okay?"
00:33:14.12\00:33:15.46
And she said to me.
00:33:15.49\00:33:17.13
And I said,
"Your friend mentioned
00:33:17.16\00:33:19.53
that you wanted to meet
me, but she want to make sure
00:33:19.56\00:33:23.57
that you might have
on your protection."
00:33:23.60\00:33:25.83
I said, "Could you
explain that to me?
00:33:25.87\00:33:27.47
What do you mean by protection?"
00:33:27.50\00:33:29.34
She says, "Well,
I'm a young witch
00:33:29.37\00:33:33.88
and as a result of the,
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.54
the kind of
witchery that I practice,
00:33:35.58\00:33:37.68
we don't believe
in any evil existing
00:33:37.71\00:33:42.15
except outside
of our protection."
00:33:42.18\00:33:45.25
And I said,
00:33:45.29\00:33:46.62
"What do you
mean by protection?"
00:33:46.65\00:33:47.99
She says, "Well, my
jewelry is my protection."
00:33:48.02\00:33:50.46
I said, "Protection from what?"
00:33:50.49\00:33:53.16
And when she began
to explain this to me,
00:33:53.19\00:33:55.16
it opened my mind, I'd tell you,
00:33:55.20\00:33:57.20
then certain portions
of the Bible became alive
00:33:57.23\00:33:59.93
that I never understood before.
00:33:59.97\00:34:02.17
And I went back and I studied.
00:34:02.20\00:34:04.17
And believe me, when I studied,
00:34:04.21\00:34:05.77
I like to go very
deep into the study,
00:34:05.81\00:34:07.58
and I came to discover
00:34:07.61\00:34:09.31
that those who
followed foreign gods
00:34:09.34\00:34:12.31
believed in the
immortality of the soul.
00:34:12.35\00:34:18.42
Follow carefully.
00:34:18.45\00:34:19.79
So that means, if a person died,
00:34:19.82\00:34:22.86
they believed that
00:34:22.89\00:34:24.23
that person's soul or
spirit roamed the earth,
00:34:24.26\00:34:28.86
looking for
someone else to possess.
00:34:28.90\00:34:31.70
But the way to
protect themselves
00:34:31.73\00:34:34.44
from any spirit
that could come...
00:34:34.47\00:34:35.84
And she considered me...
00:34:35.87\00:34:37.21
And I praise the Lord for this.
00:34:37.24\00:34:38.57
She considered
that since I'm a pastor,
00:34:38.61\00:34:40.58
I might have a spirit
that she doesn't want to have,
00:34:40.61\00:34:43.51
so she has to
have on her protection.
00:34:43.55\00:34:45.21
I want to say to
the glory of God,
00:34:45.25\00:34:46.78
the only spirit that I
have is the Holy Spirit.
00:34:46.82\00:34:48.38
Come on, help me out.
00:34:48.42\00:34:49.75
Amen.
00:34:49.78\00:34:51.12
But she didn't want my
spirit to affect her spirit
00:34:51.15\00:34:53.99
or to affect her, so
she had on her protection.
00:34:54.02\00:34:58.89
And I thought, "Unbelievable."
00:34:58.93\00:35:00.53
So they believed that
if a person has a spirit,
00:35:00.56\00:35:03.50
it could somehow
possess their bodies
00:35:03.53\00:35:06.00
if it can get in.
00:35:06.03\00:35:07.80
And I said, "Get in how?"
00:35:07.84\00:35:09.70
She says, "Well,
00:35:09.74\00:35:11.07
spirits can enter
your body various ways,
00:35:11.11\00:35:12.91
it could enter through the ear,
00:35:12.94\00:35:14.48
through the nose,
through the mouth."
00:35:14.51\00:35:16.21
And I kept inquiring.
00:35:19.45\00:35:22.58
And I said, "So
let me ask a question.
00:35:22.62\00:35:26.39
What protection do you have on?"
00:35:26.42\00:35:28.29
"My earrings, it blocks...
00:35:28.32\00:35:31.16
See, that earring
represented the god she served.
00:35:31.19\00:35:34.76
And so if the earring
was positioned by the opening
00:35:34.80\00:35:37.30
of the ear, she believed
that if the spirit was trying
00:35:37.33\00:35:41.47
to find a way in, it
would see the earring,
00:35:41.50\00:35:45.71
that represented her god,
00:35:45.74\00:35:47.08
and it'd stop the
spirit from going in.
00:35:47.11\00:35:50.55
Or if she wore a nose
ring that somehow the spirit
00:35:50.58\00:35:53.95
would try to get
in through the nose,
00:35:53.98\00:35:55.32
and it'll see that ornament
00:35:55.35\00:35:56.92
that represented
the god she served,
00:35:56.95\00:35:59.05
and it would stop,
and couldn't get in.
00:35:59.09\00:36:01.69
And you can keep
going, the lip ring,
00:36:01.72\00:36:03.53
the tongue
ring, all these things
00:36:03.56\00:36:05.16
that are now fads
and fashions in America
00:36:05.19\00:36:08.26
were not so when they
became, when they were born.
00:36:08.30\00:36:11.80
And I kept thinking. I
can't wait to get home.
00:36:11.83\00:36:14.37
I can't wait to
get home to study.
00:36:14.40\00:36:16.10
And I discovered that in Egypt
00:36:16.14\00:36:18.61
where these practices
were heavily prevalent,
00:36:18.64\00:36:22.21
they had the same belief,
00:36:22.24\00:36:23.58
they believed in the
immortality of the soul.
00:36:23.61\00:36:26.01
For example, and
I'm teaching right now,
00:36:26.05\00:36:28.48
when the kings died...
00:36:28.52\00:36:29.85
One of the
reasons why they built
00:36:29.88\00:36:31.22
these large pyramids
00:36:31.25\00:36:32.59
and put all their gold
and silver inside of it
00:36:32.62\00:36:38.29
is because they believed
00:36:38.33\00:36:39.66
that when they
got to the other side,
00:36:39.69\00:36:41.10
they will need these articles.
00:36:41.13\00:36:43.37
Sometimes, they even buried them
00:36:43.40\00:36:44.73
with their servants.
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.50
And then also they
buried them with a boat,
00:36:46.53\00:36:49.04
and they believed
00:36:49.07\00:36:50.41
that their spirit
will row this boat
00:36:50.44\00:36:52.87
to the other side
00:36:52.91\00:36:54.38
where they have continually,
where they'll live continually.
00:36:54.41\00:37:00.32
And by the way, my
wife reminded me of this.
00:37:00.35\00:37:03.22
And so whenever I heard...
00:37:03.25\00:37:04.59
And this is amazing.
00:37:04.62\00:37:05.95
They believe that in
death you crossed the river
00:37:05.99\00:37:10.93
and on the other side
00:37:10.96\00:37:12.29
you had a life that continued.
00:37:12.33\00:37:14.00
So when I heard the
phrase, "And then one day,
00:37:14.03\00:37:17.63
I'll cross that river."
00:37:17.67\00:37:21.37
I thought where
did that come from?
00:37:21.40\00:37:22.94
Did I hear that before?
00:37:22.97\00:37:24.41
And I've traced that back,
00:37:24.44\00:37:25.87
not that it's
sinful in that sense,
00:37:25.91\00:37:28.61
but it connects right
to the Egyptian belief
00:37:28.64\00:37:31.75
that when you died
you cross the river.
00:37:31.78\00:37:35.25
And then all the
artifacts that they wore,
00:37:35.28\00:37:37.45
the gold the jewels,
00:37:37.49\00:37:38.82
they all represented
various Egyptian gods.
00:37:38.85\00:37:43.36
So now this is powerful.
00:37:43.39\00:37:44.99
So the question is, if
your body is God's temple,
00:37:45.03\00:37:51.00
which it is,
00:37:51.03\00:37:54.07
what fellowship
00:37:54.10\00:37:55.60
does the temple of
God have with idols?
00:37:55.64\00:38:00.98
Paul when he
expressed that in the...
00:38:01.01\00:38:03.48
We're going to cover
that in the next lesson.
00:38:03.51\00:38:04.85
We're going to go to
that scripture actually,
00:38:04.88\00:38:06.55
what fellowship does the
temple of God have with idols?
00:38:06.58\00:38:10.22
So that's why when
the Lord expressed this,
00:38:10.25\00:38:12.95
Hosea 2:13, when
He expressed this,
00:38:12.99\00:38:16.22
He was in
essence saying, clearly,
00:38:16.26\00:38:18.69
the way that she looks,
00:38:18.73\00:38:20.33
she's dressed like
she's following the god Baal.
00:38:20.36\00:38:24.77
And how can I tell?
00:38:24.80\00:38:26.13
By her jewelry, by her earrings,
00:38:26.17\00:38:29.80
she's not following Me,
she's following the god Baal.
00:38:29.84\00:38:33.24
That's why the
scripture is designed this way.
00:38:33.27\00:38:35.54
That's why God recorded that.
00:38:35.58\00:38:37.31
So today, when you
go to these stores,
00:38:37.35\00:38:40.68
they call them ornamentation,
they call them accessories,
00:38:40.72\00:38:43.99
and then you go to
legitimate jewelry stores,
00:38:44.02\00:38:47.22
whenever these
articles are hung on the body
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.56
that belongs to the Lord,
00:38:49.59\00:38:51.46
they identified as
belonging to a different god
00:38:51.49\00:38:55.86
other than the Almighty God.
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.73
Amen?
00:38:57.77\00:38:59.10
Now why do we not need
these things on our bodies?
00:38:59.13\00:39:01.20
Let's go back to that story,
00:39:01.24\00:39:02.57
I just told you about the Wiccan
00:39:02.60\00:39:05.01
because we do not believe
in the immortality of the soul.
00:39:05.04\00:39:09.61
We do not believe
that when a person dies,
00:39:09.64\00:39:12.01
there's a spirit
roaming the earth
00:39:12.05\00:39:13.38
looking to
possess somebody else.
00:39:13.42\00:39:14.75
Do we believe that?
00:39:14.78\00:39:16.12
We don't believe that.
00:39:16.15\00:39:18.19
What we do
believe is that the Lord
00:39:18.22\00:39:20.79
is our protection.
00:39:20.82\00:39:23.46
So whenever the
children of Israel
00:39:23.49\00:39:25.09
practiced what the nations
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.16
that did not
honor God practiced,
00:39:27.20\00:39:29.26
the Lord always said,
"There she goes again,
00:39:29.30\00:39:31.90
she decked herself with
her earrings and jewelry
00:39:31.93\00:39:36.10
and went after her
lovers and Me, she forgot."
00:39:36.14\00:39:41.11
Any time the Israelites
moved in that direction,
00:39:41.14\00:39:44.28
God always identify them
in a position of rebellion.
00:39:44.31\00:39:48.28
So now let me just
put this point on before
00:39:48.32\00:39:50.12
we go to the very next question.
00:39:50.15\00:39:53.42
Did God say big
earrings or little earrings?
00:39:53.46\00:39:56.73
Did He describe
that in the verse?
00:39:56.76\00:39:58.56
She wore her big earrings...
00:39:58.59\00:40:00.53
What kind? Did He describe that?
00:40:00.56\00:40:01.93
Yes or no? No.
00:40:01.96\00:40:03.53
Somehow, there's
this belief today
00:40:03.57\00:40:05.90
that if you wear a
tiny little earrings,
00:40:05.93\00:40:08.14
then God is okay with that.
00:40:08.17\00:40:09.50
And that's pervading
even the Adventist church.
00:40:13.78\00:40:18.08
It's coming in.
00:40:18.11\00:40:19.45
The Lord never said
a tiny piece of pork.
00:40:19.48\00:40:22.62
Come on, somebody.
00:40:22.65\00:40:24.29
He never said just a puff
00:40:24.32\00:40:25.65
every now and
then on a cigarette.
00:40:25.69\00:40:28.42
He said abstain completely.
00:40:28.46\00:40:31.26
He didn't say a
little necklace with a cross.
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.93
He didn't say wear the
cross, He said bear the cross.
00:40:33.96\00:40:37.93
And the world has
molded the church so much
00:40:37.97\00:40:41.77
that we look more
like the children of Israel
00:40:41.80\00:40:46.11
at the base of Mount Sinai.
00:40:46.14\00:40:47.48
We're going to
get there in a moment.
00:40:47.51\00:40:49.21
Then the children as
00:40:49.24\00:40:51.38
they are being made righteous
by the garments of God.
00:40:51.41\00:40:55.68
So, brothers and
sisters, we've got to differ
00:40:55.72\00:40:58.85
from the way the
world is molding.
00:40:58.89\00:41:00.79
I tell you why?
00:41:00.82\00:41:02.16
Because in heaven...
00:41:02.19\00:41:03.53
There's the
powerful reason for this.
00:41:03.56\00:41:04.89
In heaven, the streets
are made of transparent gold.
00:41:04.93\00:41:07.96
Follow me carefully.
00:41:08.00\00:41:09.63
The gates are made of pearls.
00:41:09.66\00:41:13.13
The 12 precious foundations
00:41:13.17\00:41:15.27
are made of different kinds
of precious stones, emeralds,
00:41:15.30\00:41:19.61
rubies, sapphire, turquoise.
00:41:19.64\00:41:22.91
Can you imagine? This is huge.
00:41:22.94\00:41:25.38
Are you ready?
00:41:25.41\00:41:26.75
Say yes. Yes.
00:41:26.78\00:41:29.02
Can you imagine going to heaven
00:41:29.05\00:41:30.59
with this practice.
00:41:30.62\00:41:32.25
You see some folk
on the streets of gold
00:41:32.29\00:41:34.52
with their little pick axes
00:41:34.56\00:41:36.79
trying to get some
jewels for their earrings.
00:41:36.83\00:41:42.16
It may sound farfetched,
00:41:42.20\00:41:44.20
but that's exactly
00:41:44.23\00:41:45.57
what happened among
the children of Israel.
00:41:45.60\00:41:48.04
They wore
articles of jewels and gold
00:41:48.07\00:41:51.37
that had no connection
with God in that sense.
00:41:51.41\00:41:54.58
If that practice
is allowed in heaven,
00:41:54.61\00:41:57.01
give or take a week,
00:41:57.05\00:41:58.38
heaven will be
chiseled up, broken up
00:41:58.41\00:42:01.22
because in heaven all
these are just simply...
00:42:01.25\00:42:04.92
Heaven's asphalt is gold.
00:42:04.95\00:42:07.36
Amen somebody? Amen.
00:42:07.39\00:42:09.19
That's just precious ornaments.
00:42:09.22\00:42:10.69
God simply use
those for the purposes
00:42:10.73\00:42:14.66
for which He ordains
them at that particular time.
00:42:14.70\00:42:17.37
What we're going to also do
00:42:17.40\00:42:18.73
is we're going to
get into the sanctuary
00:42:18.77\00:42:20.10
to find out why God
allowed these articles
00:42:20.14\00:42:23.07
to be among the
children of Israel.
00:42:23.10\00:42:25.54
But now let's go to
the very next question.
00:42:25.57\00:42:27.84
Question number 13.
00:42:27.88\00:42:29.54
This is one of those
lessons you can't rush through.
00:42:29.58\00:42:32.01
Question number 13. Here it is.
00:42:32.05\00:42:34.55
How does God's adornment
differ from that of the world?
00:42:34.58\00:42:39.92
How does God's adornment
differ from that of the world?
00:42:39.95\00:42:45.36
Isaiah 61:10.
00:42:45.39\00:42:47.40
Go there with me.
00:42:47.43\00:42:48.96
Isaiah 61:10.
00:42:49.00\00:42:54.54
Okay, I'm turning there.
00:42:54.57\00:43:01.01
I am there. Okay, look at this.
00:43:01.04\00:43:04.15
Now what you're going to read
in this text when we go to it,
00:43:04.18\00:43:06.28
you're going to see
00:43:06.31\00:43:07.98
the comparison
between those things
00:43:08.02\00:43:11.09
that exists in an Asian wedding,
00:43:11.12\00:43:17.53
as compared to the garments
that God clothes His people in.
00:43:17.56\00:43:23.77
Watch this very carefully.
00:43:23.80\00:43:25.13
Isaiah does a wonderful
job in comparing the two.
00:43:25.17\00:43:28.64
Here it is.
00:43:28.67\00:43:30.01
Isaiah 61:10.
00:43:30.04\00:43:31.37
It's going to be
on the screen for you.
00:43:31.41\00:43:33.88
The Lord says, "I will
greatly rejoice in the Lord."
00:43:33.91\00:43:36.91
Isaiah says this.
00:43:36.95\00:43:38.75
"My soul shall
be joyful in my God,
00:43:38.78\00:43:42.18
for He has clothed me
with the," say together,
00:43:42.22\00:43:46.19
"garments of salvation,
00:43:46.22\00:43:47.79
He has covered
me with the," what?
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.59
"Robe of righteousness."
00:43:50.63\00:43:52.89
Praise the Lord for that.
00:43:52.93\00:43:54.26
Garment of salvation,
robe of righteousness.
00:43:54.30\00:43:56.43
Now look at the comparison.
00:43:56.46\00:43:58.27
He says,
00:43:58.30\00:43:59.63
"As a bridegroom decks
himself with ornaments,
00:43:59.67\00:44:05.51
and as a bride
00:44:05.54\00:44:07.21
adorns herself with her jewels."
00:44:07.24\00:44:11.88
He does the comparison.
00:44:11.91\00:44:13.25
We just came
back of not about...
00:44:13.28\00:44:15.58
Maybe couple of years ago
my wife and I were in Asia.
00:44:15.62\00:44:18.95
Particularly, in India,
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.62
and this is still
practiced to this very day.
00:44:21.66\00:44:24.49
The adornment...
00:44:24.53\00:44:26.03
If you've ever
seen an Indian wedding,
00:44:26.06\00:44:28.86
you don't know adornment until
you seen an Indian wedding.
00:44:28.90\00:44:31.13
Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
00:44:31.17\00:44:32.93
If you have seen
an Indian wedding,
00:44:32.97\00:44:35.14
then you understand adornment
00:44:35.17\00:44:36.97
because the
bridegroom is decked,
00:44:37.01\00:44:39.47
and the bride is decked.
00:44:39.51\00:44:41.91
But that's the
practice of their society.
00:44:41.94\00:44:45.65
We were just over
in southern India,
00:44:45.68\00:44:48.52
northern India,
00:44:48.55\00:44:49.88
and you'd look at
the different gods
00:44:49.92\00:44:51.25
that are there,
thousands of gods,
00:44:51.29\00:44:52.79
Hindu gods, Buddhist gods.
00:44:52.82\00:44:55.06
When you go to the temples,
the jewels are everywhere,
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.79
they are everywhere,
it's a part of their culture.
00:44:57.83\00:45:00.30
The Lord says...
And this is powerful.
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.33
Let me just bring
it to today's language.
00:45:02.36\00:45:03.90
Lord is saying,
00:45:03.93\00:45:05.27
"You see how the Asian bride
00:45:05.30\00:45:08.07
adorns herself
with all her jewels,
00:45:08.10\00:45:09.77
and you see how the bridegroom
00:45:09.80\00:45:11.14
adorns himself
with all of his jewels.
00:45:11.17\00:45:13.51
My robe of righteousness
00:45:13.54\00:45:16.24
and My garment of salvation
00:45:16.28\00:45:19.21
is going to be
more glorious than that.
00:45:19.25\00:45:21.88
Can I get an amen? Amen.
00:45:21.92\00:45:23.42
He says, "See, how
they're glittering,
00:45:23.45\00:45:24.92
how they stand out,
and they're ostentatious,
00:45:24.95\00:45:27.99
you think that's something,
00:45:28.02\00:45:29.49
wait till I give you
My garment of salvation
00:45:29.52\00:45:31.66
and My robe of righteousness."
00:45:31.69\00:45:33.76
It's going to far
outshine any substitution
00:45:33.80\00:45:37.40
that the world can give to us.
00:45:37.43\00:45:38.97
Praise the Lord.
00:45:39.00\00:45:40.54
But the world says
00:45:40.57\00:45:41.90
here are the substitutes
for the robe of righteousness,
00:45:41.94\00:45:45.87
and the garment of salvation.
00:45:45.91\00:45:47.51
And I tell you what?
00:45:47.54\00:45:49.11
I want the robe
of righteousness,
00:45:49.14\00:45:50.85
and I want the
garment of salvation.
00:45:50.88\00:45:52.21
Anybody else? Amen.
00:45:52.25\00:45:53.92
But that's the comparison.
00:45:53.95\00:45:55.28
So when the
Bible does comparison,
00:45:55.32\00:45:56.65
the Bible does not authorize it,
00:45:56.69\00:45:58.62
but God used the
practice of that day and age
00:45:58.65\00:46:01.76
to make the
comparison between His garments,
00:46:01.79\00:46:04.49
His righteousness
and their garments,
00:46:04.53\00:46:07.23
and their righteousness.
00:46:07.26\00:46:08.86
Well, let's go to the next one.
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.77
Okay, moving right
along to question number 14.
00:46:10.80\00:46:14.90
We want to always
follow the pattern
00:46:14.94\00:46:16.40
that God has established.
00:46:16.44\00:46:19.27
Question number 14.
00:46:19.31\00:46:20.64
What did the Lord
give to the Israelites
00:46:20.68\00:46:23.98
when He freed them from Egypt?
00:46:24.01\00:46:26.01
Now this is one...
00:46:26.05\00:46:27.38
We're not going to
finish this tonight,
00:46:27.42\00:46:28.75
I don't know because we
go to question number 19,
00:46:28.78\00:46:30.29
but at least we're
going to lay the foundation.
00:46:30.32\00:46:32.32
And there are
certain things in the Bible
00:46:32.35\00:46:34.26
you cannot rush through.
00:46:34.29\00:46:35.86
This is powerful.
00:46:35.89\00:46:37.33
When you think about the Exodus,
00:46:37.36\00:46:39.33
that chapter is
appropriately titled
00:46:39.36\00:46:41.73
"The Exodus"
that means coming out.
00:46:41.76\00:46:45.30
The Lord brought them
out with a mighty hand.
00:46:45.33\00:46:47.97
Okay, we're going to
go to Exodus Chapter 3
00:46:48.00\00:46:50.11
and find out.
00:46:50.14\00:46:51.47
Now let me do
some quizzing here.
00:46:51.51\00:46:52.84
Does anybody remember
00:46:52.87\00:46:54.38
how long the
Israelites were slaves in Egypt?
00:46:54.41\00:46:57.25
How long the Bible say?
00:46:57.28\00:46:58.98
Four hundred years.
00:46:59.01\00:47:00.42
And 430 if you count Joseph,
00:47:00.45\00:47:03.85
he was there 30
years before they came.
00:47:03.89\00:47:05.79
So total of 430
years, but 400 generally,
00:47:05.82\00:47:09.02
that's the number of consensus.
00:47:09.06\00:47:13.60
They were there,
00:47:13.63\00:47:15.50
Joseph was there for 30 years
00:47:15.53\00:47:17.17
before another
pharaoh ascended to throne.
00:47:17.20\00:47:22.40
And when you look at Exodus 1.
00:47:22.44\00:47:24.24
Look at it very quickly.
00:47:24.27\00:47:25.97
And it says in Exodus 1:8.
00:47:26.01\00:47:29.41
It's amazing.
00:47:29.44\00:47:30.81
Things changed,
somebody else sat on the seat.
00:47:30.85\00:47:34.12
The Bible says in Exodus 1:8.
00:47:34.15\00:47:36.32
"Now there arose a
new king over Egypt,
00:47:36.35\00:47:39.95
who did not know Joseph."
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.96
He said, "Okay, heard about you,
00:47:42.99\00:47:46.03
not very sure much about you,
00:47:46.06\00:47:48.03
but I don't
really know who you are."
00:47:48.06\00:47:50.07
And what happened,
as Joseph was in Egypt
00:47:50.10\00:47:54.97
because of the famine he
brought his family there,
00:47:55.00\00:47:58.37
and those who were in famine,
00:47:58.41\00:47:59.97
the Lord allowed
them to come into Egypt
00:48:00.01\00:48:02.41
to get bread and food
00:48:02.44\00:48:04.71
and sustenance
during the time of famine.
00:48:04.75\00:48:06.95
And what happened is
this new pharaoh noticed
00:48:06.98\00:48:11.72
that the
Israelites were just growing
00:48:11.75\00:48:13.76
in leaps and bounds.
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.72
He saw them
everywhere, and then he said,
00:48:15.76\00:48:19.66
"You know what?
00:48:19.69\00:48:21.03
If we let them keep this up,
they're going to outnumber us,
00:48:21.06\00:48:25.00
they're going to
become the majority,
00:48:25.03\00:48:28.07
and we're going to
become the minority,
00:48:28.10\00:48:30.57
and we might
end up their slaves.
00:48:30.61\00:48:33.44
So in order to
not let that happen,
00:48:33.48\00:48:35.24
let's put them into slavery."
00:48:35.28\00:48:37.08
So for 400 years they
were in bondage in Egypt.
00:48:37.11\00:48:42.55
Now when you're a slave,
do you get the proper wages?
00:48:42.58\00:48:45.15
Yes or no? No.
00:48:45.19\00:48:46.52
No. Do you get
fair treatment? No.
00:48:46.55\00:48:48.99
When you read the story
of the bondage in Egypt,
00:48:49.02\00:48:51.03
it was hard bondage.
00:48:51.06\00:48:53.19
And when they cried to the Lord,
00:48:53.23\00:48:54.80
the Lord raised up a
man by the name of Moses,
00:48:54.83\00:48:59.53
one who is drawn from the water.
00:48:59.57\00:49:01.80
Raised up Moses to
lead the children of Israel
00:49:01.84\00:49:04.57
out of Egypt.
00:49:04.61\00:49:05.97
So now when they
left, the Lord said,
00:49:06.01\00:49:08.58
"Okay, I'm going to calculate
00:49:08.61\00:49:10.15
how much the Egyptians owe you."
00:49:10.18\00:49:11.71
This is powerful.
God is such a just God.
00:49:11.75\00:49:13.35
Can you say amen to that?
00:49:13.38\00:49:14.75
He said, "They have not paid you
00:49:14.78\00:49:16.72
for 400 years.
00:49:16.75\00:49:19.35
I'm going to
calculate what they owe you,
00:49:19.39\00:49:21.69
and I will make
sure that when you leave,
00:49:21.72\00:49:23.63
you leave with a big check."
00:49:23.66\00:49:25.33
This is powerful.
00:49:25.36\00:49:26.70
Go to Exodus 3:21-22.
00:49:26.73\00:49:29.56
Look what He did.
00:49:29.60\00:49:30.93
He took all the wealth of Egypt
00:49:30.97\00:49:33.87
and made it accessible
to the children of Israel.
00:49:33.90\00:49:36.37
Here it is. Exodus 3:21-22.
00:49:36.40\00:49:39.27
Notice how He did this.
00:49:39.31\00:49:40.64
He says, "And I
will give this people,"
00:49:40.68\00:49:43.51
what's the next word?
00:49:43.55\00:49:44.88
"Favor in the
sight of the Egyptians,
00:49:44.91\00:49:47.95
and it shall be,
00:49:47.98\00:49:49.55
when you go out,
00:49:49.58\00:49:51.05
that you shall not
go out empty-handed."
00:49:51.09\00:49:53.52
God is a good God.
00:49:53.56\00:49:54.92
Sometimes, it takes
400 years to get payback,
00:49:54.96\00:49:57.16
but God always make sure
that He has the last say.
00:49:57.19\00:50:00.90
And then He says,
00:50:00.93\00:50:02.26
"But every woman
shall ask of her neighbor,
00:50:02.30\00:50:05.40
namely, of her who
dwells near her house,"
00:50:05.43\00:50:10.11
listen to what
they should ask for,
00:50:10.14\00:50:11.61
"articles of," say it together,
00:50:11.64\00:50:13.51
"silver, articles of," what?
00:50:13.54\00:50:15.61
"Gold, and," what else?
00:50:15.64\00:50:17.41
"Clothing.
00:50:17.45\00:50:18.81
And you shall
put them on your sons
00:50:18.85\00:50:21.92
and on your daughters.
00:50:21.95\00:50:23.75
So you shall," do
what to the Egyptians?
00:50:23.79\00:50:26.72
"Plunder."
00:50:26.76\00:50:28.09
Another word for
plunder is leave them broke.
00:50:28.12\00:50:31.36
You don't want to be plundered.
00:50:31.39\00:50:32.76
If your bank
account gets plundered,
00:50:32.79\00:50:35.36
you're broke.
00:50:35.40\00:50:36.77
"You shall leave
the Egyptians broke."
00:50:36.80\00:50:39.77
So let's write that down.
00:50:39.80\00:50:41.57
Exodus 3:21-22.
00:50:41.60\00:50:44.67
Write down, what does the
Lord give to the Israelites?
00:50:44.71\00:50:46.98
He gave them articles of
silver and gold and clothing.
00:50:47.01\00:50:50.18
And He said,
"Put them on your sons
00:50:50.21\00:50:51.55
and your daughters,
00:50:51.58\00:50:52.91
make sure when you leave,
the Israelites are broke."
00:50:52.95\00:50:56.02
I mean, the Egyptians are broke.
00:50:56.05\00:50:58.25
All right?
00:50:58.29\00:50:59.62
So what did you
put? So watch this.
00:50:59.65\00:51:01.76
Now when He says
put them on your sons
00:51:01.79\00:51:03.66
and your daughters,
00:51:03.69\00:51:05.03
you got to
understand the context.
00:51:05.06\00:51:06.56
He didn't say wear
them, He said put them on.
00:51:06.59\00:51:10.23
Now, I want to
make an illustration.
00:51:10.27\00:51:11.60
Can I do that? All right.
00:51:11.63\00:51:13.13
Okay. Now. Okay.
00:51:13.17\00:51:16.74
There are many ways
to put the jacket on me.
00:51:16.77\00:51:18.84
One is this way,
so I can carry it,
00:51:18.87\00:51:21.64
the other is, this way,
00:51:21.68\00:51:25.85
so I can wear it.
00:51:25.88\00:51:28.15
"Put it on them."
00:51:28.18\00:51:29.52
The context here was
00:51:29.55\00:51:31.75
we're going to carry
this stuff out of Egypt.
00:51:31.79\00:51:33.46
"Put it on them."
00:51:33.49\00:51:34.82
So they could carry it with them
00:51:34.86\00:51:36.19
when they leave.
00:51:36.22\00:51:37.56
It was not to wear
like the Egyptians wore,
00:51:37.59\00:51:39.49
put it on them, so
they can carry it out.
00:51:39.53\00:51:41.73
So they had the
clothing, they had the silver,
00:51:41.76\00:51:44.43
they had the gold,
00:51:44.47\00:51:45.80
and they were
carrying it out of Egypt.
00:51:45.83\00:51:48.14
They were not
wearing it out of Egypt.
00:51:48.17\00:51:50.84
They were
carrying it out of Egypt.
00:51:50.87\00:51:53.44
You got to get
this all together.
00:51:53.48\00:51:54.81
And when you see
the rest of the story,
00:51:54.84\00:51:56.18
you'll see exactly
how this is verified.
00:51:56.21\00:52:00.15
So now let's go to
the very next verse
00:52:00.18\00:52:02.08
in Exodus 12.
00:52:02.12\00:52:03.85
Let's see what the Lord did.
00:52:03.89\00:52:06.49
He gave the
instruction in Exodus Chapter 3,
00:52:06.52\00:52:08.96
and then the deliverance came,
00:52:08.99\00:52:11.49
and we're going to
see about the deliverance
00:52:11.53\00:52:12.86
in Exodus Chapter 12.
00:52:12.89\00:52:14.23
All right?
00:52:14.26\00:52:15.60
Here is what the Bible says.
00:52:15.63\00:52:17.40
"Now the children of Israel
00:52:17.43\00:52:20.90
had done according
to the word of Moses,
00:52:20.94\00:52:24.97
and they had asked the
Egyptians articles of,"
00:52:25.01\00:52:28.34
what?"
00:52:28.38\00:52:29.71
Silver, articles of," what?
00:52:29.74\00:52:31.55
"Gold, and," what else?
00:52:31.58\00:52:33.85
"Clothing."
00:52:33.88\00:52:35.22
And it goes on, and it says,
00:52:35.25\00:52:36.58
"And the Lord had
given the people favor
00:52:36.62\00:52:40.52
in the sight of the Egyptians,
00:52:40.56\00:52:42.52
so that they granted
them what they requested."
00:52:42.56\00:52:46.63
And let's read the
last part together.
00:52:46.66\00:52:48.33
"Thus they," what?
00:52:48.36\00:52:50.17
"Plundered the Egyptians."
00:52:50.20\00:52:52.53
This powerfully,
wealthy, dynasty,
00:52:52.57\00:52:56.04
when God brought
His children out,
00:52:56.07\00:52:59.64
He said,
00:52:59.67\00:53:01.54
"Because of what
you did to My people,
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.08
I'm going to leave
your dynasty broke."
00:53:04.11\00:53:07.12
And they left it
completely broke,
00:53:07.15\00:53:09.15
completely plundered.
00:53:09.18\00:53:11.32
All the articles...
00:53:11.35\00:53:12.69
And I want you to get this.
00:53:12.72\00:53:14.06
Now let's get
the big picture here
00:53:14.09\00:53:15.42
because when they
left with the articles
00:53:15.46\00:53:16.79
of silver and of gold,
00:53:16.83\00:53:18.33
they didn't melt
them down to gold bullion
00:53:18.36\00:53:21.03
or silver squares,
00:53:21.06\00:53:22.96
they brought them
in whatever condition
00:53:23.00\00:53:24.47
that they were in.
00:53:24.50\00:53:26.23
They brought the golden gods,
they brought the silver gods,
00:53:26.27\00:53:29.97
they brought the
ostentatious garments
00:53:30.01\00:53:31.77
that the Egyptians wore,
00:53:31.81\00:53:33.27
they brought their
ceremonial garments
00:53:33.31\00:53:36.44
that they wore,
00:53:36.48\00:53:37.81
everything that the Egyptians
00:53:37.85\00:53:39.18
had that expressed their wealth.
00:53:39.21\00:53:40.92
The Israelites now had
it in their possession.
00:53:40.95\00:53:43.89
And we're not going
to finish this tonight,
00:53:43.92\00:53:45.59
but you will discover something,
00:53:45.62\00:53:46.99
God had a plan
for all that wealth,
00:53:47.02\00:53:49.59
God had a plan
for all that gold,
00:53:49.62\00:53:51.96
God had a plan for
all those precious stones.
00:53:51.99\00:53:54.73
And some of you are
wise enough to understand
00:53:54.76\00:53:56.43
where I'm going with this.
00:53:56.46\00:53:58.53
God was going to
use all that gold,
00:53:58.57\00:54:01.24
all that silver,
00:54:01.27\00:54:03.00
all those precious
stones to do something
00:54:03.04\00:54:06.11
that was far more glorious
00:54:06.14\00:54:08.11
than the Egyptians would
ever desire to do with that.
00:54:08.14\00:54:11.01
Now let's hit one more question.
00:54:11.05\00:54:12.75
Let's hit one more question.
00:54:12.78\00:54:14.12
I think we have
enough time to do that.
00:54:14.15\00:54:15.95
But now keep this in mind,
00:54:15.98\00:54:17.32
they're carrying all the
form of the Egyptian wealth,
00:54:17.35\00:54:20.56
they're not
carrying little things
00:54:20.59\00:54:22.09
in their knapsack,
00:54:22.12\00:54:23.86
they're jingling,
00:54:23.89\00:54:26.39
and they are shining
00:54:26.43\00:54:27.96
as they leave the land of Egypt,
00:54:28.00\00:54:29.66
they got all the gold, all
the silver, all the jewels,
00:54:29.70\00:54:33.00
all the Egyptian clothing,
and they're carrying it out,
00:54:33.03\00:54:36.20
and there's
nothing that the Egyptian
00:54:36.24\00:54:37.84
can do to stop them.
00:54:37.87\00:54:39.21
Amen? Amen.
00:54:39.24\00:54:40.58
When God is ready to bless you,
00:54:40.61\00:54:42.21
the enemy cannot stop
God from blessing you.
00:54:42.24\00:54:45.31
Okay, now look at
question 15 very quickly.
00:54:45.35\00:54:49.52
It says, "What specifically
00:54:49.55\00:54:51.42
did the Lord tell the
Israelites not to do?"
00:54:51.45\00:54:55.56
Now get this.
00:54:55.59\00:54:56.93
He said, "Get that
silver, get that gold,
00:54:56.96\00:54:59.09
bring it out of there."
00:54:59.13\00:55:00.46
But there's something
He told them not to do.
00:55:00.50\00:55:03.10
Okay, now let's
go to Exodus 20:23.
00:55:03.13\00:55:08.00
Exodus 20:23.
00:55:08.04\00:55:10.81
Okay, this is huge.
00:55:10.84\00:55:12.94
Now look at the context
is, they're out of Egypt,
00:55:12.97\00:55:16.54
they're in the wilderness,
00:55:16.58\00:55:18.95
they just got
the Ten Commandments.
00:55:18.98\00:55:21.05
And He says, "You got
all that stuff from Egypt,
00:55:21.08\00:55:23.69
you haven't done
anything with it yet,"
00:55:23.72\00:55:26.09
because this is before
00:55:26.12\00:55:27.46
they started building
anything for the glory of God,
00:55:27.49\00:55:29.29
I'm trying to be vague.
00:55:29.32\00:55:33.29
But He said,
"Now that you have it,
00:55:33.33\00:55:34.66
this is what I
don't want you to do."
00:55:34.70\00:55:36.80
Here is the
answer. Exodus 20:23.
00:55:36.83\00:55:39.70
All right.
00:55:39.73\00:55:41.07
He said,
00:55:41.10\00:55:42.44
"You shall not make
anything to be with Me,"
00:55:42.47\00:55:47.21
together, "gods of," what?
00:55:47.24\00:55:49.48
"Silver or gods," of what?
00:55:49.51\00:55:51.58
"Gold,
00:55:51.61\00:55:52.95
you shall not
make for yourselves."
00:55:52.98\00:55:55.58
This is huge.
00:55:55.62\00:55:56.99
We're walking through the story.
00:55:57.02\00:55:58.49
You're going to see
how God is so specific
00:55:58.52\00:56:00.12
and clear in His Word.
00:56:00.16\00:56:01.49
He said, "What I
don't want you to do
00:56:01.52\00:56:03.29
is make any gods of
silver or any gods of gold,
00:56:03.32\00:56:05.83
I don't want you to do that."
00:56:05.86\00:56:07.40
But we got to end on this text.
00:56:07.43\00:56:08.83
Go to the next
question very quickly,
00:56:08.86\00:56:10.57
question number 16.
00:56:10.60\00:56:11.93
We have to end here.
00:56:11.97\00:56:14.14
For what purpose
were the precious stones
00:56:14.17\00:56:16.94
and jewels to be used?
00:56:16.97\00:56:18.94
For what purpose
were the precious stones
00:56:18.97\00:56:20.81
and jewels to be used?
00:56:20.84\00:56:22.18
God said, "Now that you have it,
00:56:22.21\00:56:24.51
here's what I
don't want you to do,
00:56:24.55\00:56:27.12
but here's what
I want you to do."
00:56:27.15\00:56:29.45
It's so nice that God
gives specific instructions.
00:56:29.48\00:56:32.32
Go to Exodus 25:8.
00:56:32.35\00:56:36.29
Exodus 25:8.
00:56:36.32\00:56:38.59
God said, "I don't want
you to get like the Egyptians
00:56:38.63\00:56:40.73
because the
temptation might arise."
00:56:40.76\00:56:42.83
Now let me make this point.
00:56:42.86\00:56:44.20
If you've got all
this stuff among you
00:56:44.23\00:56:46.84
that represents the way
that the Egyptians lived,
00:56:46.87\00:56:50.17
wouldn't somewhere
along the way you think,
00:56:50.21\00:56:51.94
"Hey, that's a
really nice necklace."
00:56:51.97\00:56:54.84
"Whoa!
00:56:54.88\00:56:56.21
Did you see that outfit?"
00:56:56.24\00:56:57.81
"Look at those earrings."
00:56:57.85\00:57:00.92
You can carry
with you but so long
00:57:00.95\00:57:02.48
before it starts
affecting the way you think.
00:57:02.52\00:57:04.89
"Look at all those rings."
00:57:04.92\00:57:06.25
The Lord said, "Don't do it."
00:57:06.29\00:57:07.62
Now here's the
text very quickly.
00:57:07.66\00:57:08.99
Last one. Exodus 25:8.
00:57:09.02\00:57:10.36
Please put on the screen.
00:57:10.39\00:57:11.73
He says. Here it is.
00:57:11.76\00:57:13.09
"And let them make Me a," what?
00:57:13.13\00:57:15.33
"Sanctuary, that I
may dwell among them."
00:57:15.36\00:57:19.37
He says, "Don't make
gods because I got plans.
00:57:19.40\00:57:22.64
I want you to
make Me a sanctuary
00:57:22.67\00:57:24.67
that I may dwell among you."
00:57:24.71\00:57:26.04
It is on that note
00:57:26.07\00:57:27.41
that we're going to
wind up this week's lesson.
00:57:27.44\00:57:29.04
You see, God took
slaves from Egypt,
00:57:29.08\00:57:33.55
His children. He said,
00:57:33.58\00:57:35.88
"Don't follow the
practices of the Egyptians,
00:57:35.92\00:57:38.55
but I want you to
take all their gold,
00:57:38.59\00:57:40.56
all their
clothing, all their gold,
00:57:40.59\00:57:42.99
all their silver
00:57:43.02\00:57:44.89
and please don't
make any gods with them
00:57:44.93\00:57:46.80
because I want
to make a sanctuary,
00:57:46.83\00:57:49.00
and so please hold it
00:57:49.03\00:57:50.60
so that I can tell
you what to do with it."
00:57:50.63\00:57:52.40
Friends, it's going
to be a powerful topic.
00:57:52.43\00:57:54.47
Stick with us.
00:57:54.50\00:57:55.84
If it doesn't
make sense right now,
00:57:55.87\00:57:57.21
I can guarantee you,
00:57:57.24\00:57:58.57
keep studying God's
Word because sooner or later,
00:57:58.61\00:58:00.54
it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
00:58:00.58\00:58:02.88
God bless you. Let's pray.
00:58:02.91\00:58:04.25