Hello and welcome
to Wednesday night
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A Sharper Focus here in
the 3ABN Worship Center.
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We thank you so much
for tuning in tonight
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as we continue our study,
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we walk through the
Word of God together.
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So thank you for
taken the time to tune in.
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Now as you know,
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we are going to continue
the lesson that we began,
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and the last
lesson we continued was
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the truth about the body temple.
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And so we'll tell you more about
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how to get a copy of
the lesson in just a moment.
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But before we do anything,
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before we have our
theme song or anything else,
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we always begin
with a word of prayer.
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Our loving Father in heaven,
we thank You that tonight
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as we open Your Word,
You'll open our hearts.
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Father, we pray for
Your Holy Spirit to come
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and be our
teacher, to be our guide,
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to be our strength,
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and also to be
our understanding.
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May we not only learn, Lord,
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but maybe we find
within us a deep desire
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to not only know Your truth,
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but to serve You as
our Lord and as our Savior.
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So guide, Lord, we pray
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that all things may be
done in harmony with Your will.
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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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Now for those of you
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who are here that are
part of our local audience,
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you know,
there's someone missing,
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my wife is missing tonight,
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and I just want
to say hello to her.
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She's there in Miramar,
Florida visiting with her mom,
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and her brother, and a
sister, and a sister-in-law.
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Hi, Angie, hope everything
is nice and warm down there.
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We want it to be cooler up here,
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can we say amen?
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The warm weather is something...
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You know, when it
gets cold we complain,
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when it gets warm, we're happy,
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when it gets too
hot, we complain,
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when it gets too cold,
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we just really never
know what we want to have.
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Tonight's lesson is entitled
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"The Truth about
the Body Temple."
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If you'd like to
get a copy of it,
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go to this following website.
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The website is asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson
number 31, lesson number 31.
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If you've already downloaded it
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and you have up to 19 questions,
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then you don't have to go back.
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But as many of you know,
as we continue in the lesson,
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we'll be adding on
additional questions
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as we consider the remainder
of the focus of this topic.
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Also, at that very same website,
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you can look at all
the different videos
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that you may have missed.
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I think we have about 30 lessons
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that are prior to this.
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We have about 87 or 88 videos.
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So if you've
missed any of the lessons
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from the very beginning, a
couple of years ago till now,
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you can go to that
website and get a copy of it,
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and share with your
friends and your neighbors.
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But before we
get into our lesson,
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what do we sing?
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We sing our theme song
which is on the screen,
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what is it?
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Victory in Jesus.
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 sin
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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 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. Amen.
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That's the story
of our redemption
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and our salvation being plunged
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beneath the victory
of His redeeming blood,
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His cleansing flood.
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Both of those
are interchangeable.
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Tonight, the topic is
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"The Truth about
the Body Temple."
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Say that with me.
What is the topic?
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The Truth about the Body Temple.
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Now there is a scripture
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at the
beginning of every program
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that's on this
topic I'd like to go to.
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So let's begin by going
to 1 Corinthians Chapter 6.
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1 Corinthians Chapter 6.
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You know, many people
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when they study
the topic of the body,
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you know, we are
very much into health.
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We want to be healthy.
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So we are careful about
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what we put on the
inside of our bodies,
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but as we continue studying,
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if you have a church
building or a temple,
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well, not just
the outside is holy,
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but the inside is holy,
and not just the inside,
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we should be careful
about what we put on the inside,
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but also careful about
what we put on the outside.
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There's nothing
more disheartening
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than walking by a
beautiful holy temple.
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And in some cities,
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seeing graffiti on the building.
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Now, you know, it
doesn't belong there.
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Well, the
generation in which we live,
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the Bible talks
about God's body temple,
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and we live in a generation
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where there's
graffiti on the body temple.
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But we want to study
what the Bible says about
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how important and how special
God considers our bodies to be.
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So let's begin
with the principle,
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1 Corinthians.
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6:19 and 20, here's
what the Bible says.
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It says, "Or do you not know
that your body is the," what?
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"Temple of the Holy Spirit,
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who is in you,
whom you have from God,
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and you are not," what?
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"You are not your own."
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And why?
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"For you were bought at a price,
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therefore
glorify God in your body,
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and in your
spirit, which are Gods."
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Now, when we talk about worship,
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worship is vitally important.
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All temples that I know
of whether Buddhist temple,
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or Hindu temple,
or Christian temple,
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or Catholic temple,
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whatever terminology
may be added to that,
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whatever denomination,
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whatever persuasion
may worship in there,
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they consider the outside
and the inside very important
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and very holy.
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When you think of the
journey of the Israelites
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and we have laid some
foundation on this topic.
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We have talked about
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the Israelites
and their journey.
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Let me just see
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if you're
following me carefully.
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Where did the Lord
free the Israelites from?
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What nation?
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From the nation of...
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Say it again, the nation of...
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The nation of Egypt.
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So while they were in Egypt,
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there were many practices
that the Israelites learned
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after being slaves
there for 400 years.
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Anybody live in any place
for that many generations,
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you're going to
inevitably pick up
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what that generation
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or what that
country has to offer.
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I'm looking at
my audience today,
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we have
Hispanics, we have Asians,
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we have Americans, we have...
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Where are you from?
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Polish.
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And I can tell you,
I've heard this before,
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at birth, if you
take a Polish baby
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and raise him
in the Philippines,
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he'll speak Filipino
which he would Tagalog
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or whatever the dialect may be.
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If you take an Asian
baby, and raise them in Poland,
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they'll speak Polish.
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They are inevitably
molded by their society.
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That's almost standard.
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If you take an English
baby and raised them in...
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Where are you from again? Cuba.
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From Cuba or as a they say Cuba,
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they learn how to speak Spanish.
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And I've discovered that
even in the Latino countries,
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Spanish sounds different
from country to country.
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But the country
that a person is in
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shapes the way he or she thinks.
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We think like
America has informed us,
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we think like
America has influenced us.
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While the children
of Israel were in Egypt,
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from the time that Joseph
was taken there as a slave,
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you can add that all
up and it was 430 years.
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And so when God brought them out
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because they were
slaves most of the time,
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when God let them out of Egypt,
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He made sure that
they did not leave
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without getting
properly remunerated.
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That's the high class pays.
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The Lord made sure that
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they got paid for
all the labor they did
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under the taskmaster's
hand of the pharaohs of Egypt.
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The Lord made sure
that when they left Egypt,
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they left Egypt
with absolutely nothing.
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Everything that Egyptians had...
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You got to
broaden the picture here.
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If you leave...
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I was going to use
Thompsonville as an example.
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Anyway, let's use a bigger city.
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If you were being
let out of New York City,
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and the Lord said to
the million plus slaves,
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"When you leave New York,
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take everything
the New Yorkers have,"
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What do you think
they're going to take?
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They can take suits, and
dresses, and if they said,
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take all the
ornaments and adornments,
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they can take all
kinds of clothing,
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all kinds of jewels,
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their idols, anything
made of gold, and silver,
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and emeralds, and
whatever precious metal,
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they're going to
take them with them.
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But the Lord
wasn't just paying them,
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the Lord had a
plan for those things
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that He was going to give
to the children of Israel.
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Let's go to the first
question, question number 14,
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and see what God's plan was
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when He led the
children of Israel
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out of Egypt.
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Okay, keep the setting,
He's about to set them free,
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and before that time comes,
He tells them when they leave,
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this is what I'm
going to do for you.
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So question
number 14, here it is.
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If you're at home,
it'll be on the screen.
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Here's the question,
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"What did the Lord
give to the Israelites
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when He freed them from Egypt?
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What did the Lord
give to the Israelites
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when He freed them from Egypt?
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Go to Exodus Chapter 3,
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and we're going to
look at that together.
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Exodus is properly titled,
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it means in a sense coming out,
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they were
brought out, they left.
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Exodus by the way
is almost synonymous
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to the word
Christian in the New Testament,
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the word Christian in the
Greek means the called out ones.
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So you see in the
New Testament Christian,
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and the Old Testament
Exodus, God always calls us out,
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and Peter sets out of darkness
into this, what kind of light?
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Marvelous light.
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Let's see what the Lord
did for the children of Israel
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when He brought them
out of the land of Egypt.
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Here it is.
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Exodus 3:21 and 22, and
the Bible reads as follows,
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the Lord says,
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"And I will give
this people favor
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in the sight of the Egyptians,
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and it shall
be, when you go out,
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that you shall not go out," how?
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"Empty handed.
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But every woman
shall ask of her neighbor,
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namely, of her who
dwells near her house,
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articles of," what?
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"Silver, articles
of gold, and clothing,
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and you shall
put them on your sons
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and on your daughters.
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So you shall do," what?
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"Plunder the Egyptians."
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Now that's a
very important point.
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And I want to emphasize,
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I think I did
some private program.
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I sought it from this
point for a particular reason.
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But the Lord said,
"You're going to plunder them."
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And He said, "Put them
on, put them on your children,
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put them on your sons,
put them on your daughter."
00:13:15.59\00:13:18.19
Now, just to illustrate,
I have this jacket on,
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but if I go like this,
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I also have the jacket on.
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In both cases,
I'm able to carry it.
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The context here in the
Hebrew is the Lord was saying,
00:13:31.64\00:13:34.21
carry that stuff with you.
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He wasn't saying
put the stuff on you.
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There's a
difference all together.
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He was saying put it up.
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So as you carry
things and one of the ways
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that they carry that
sometimes they use baskets,
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they had weaved baskets
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that were kind of
like large backpacks
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which had arm handles
like we have backpacks,
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and they put
whatever they could in there,
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and whatever the weight was
that each individual can carry,
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that's what they
had on their backs.
00:14:01.80\00:14:03.41
Some people just
throw it over this shoulder,
00:14:03.44\00:14:05.64
and throw it over that shoulder,
00:14:05.67\00:14:07.01
and depending on the size,
00:14:07.04\00:14:08.71
like Nana
couldn't care very much,
00:14:08.74\00:14:11.45
but Michael could carry more.
00:14:11.48\00:14:13.42
You see, depending on
the size of the individual,
00:14:13.45\00:14:15.48
they were able to carry that.
00:14:15.52\00:14:16.95
If they had ox carts
00:14:16.99\00:14:18.32
or whatever kind of
apparatus they had to bring it,
00:14:18.35\00:14:21.49
they packed all those
articles of gold, and silver,
00:14:21.52\00:14:25.23
and precious
clothing, and ornaments,
00:14:25.26\00:14:27.16
they packed it all with them.
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It was amazing
that God had a plan
00:14:29.00\00:14:31.63
for the children of Israel.
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Let's look at
the very next verse.
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So if you answer Exodus
3:21 and 22, the Lord says,
00:14:35.10\00:14:39.37
"Take everything they have,
their gold and their silver,
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and put it on your
sons and your daughters."
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All right?
00:14:45.31\00:14:46.75
The Lord gave
them all the wealth.
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And if you could put
that there in the nutshell,
00:14:48.45\00:14:50.19
the Lord gave the
Israelites the wealth of Egypt.
00:14:50.22\00:14:54.62
All right, now let's
see in Exodus Chapter 12.
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Let's look at that.
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Exodus 12:35
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and 36, all right?
00:15:03.03\00:15:07.00
Let's go to that one.
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What else did the Lord do?
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And the Bible says,
00:15:10.24\00:15:11.57
"Now the children
of Israel had done..."
00:15:11.61\00:15:14.84
Now the first verse
was the instruction,
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now they're following
the instruction, here it is.
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"Now the children
of Israel had done
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according to the word of Moses,
00:15:22.68\00:15:26.35
and they asked
from the Egyptians
00:15:26.39\00:15:28.86
articles of
silver, articles of gold,
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and," what else? "
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Clothing.
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And the Lord had
given the people favor
00:15:35.30\00:15:37.97
in the sight of the Egyptians,
00:15:38.00\00:15:40.37
so that they granted
them what they requested.
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Thus," let's read that
part together, they did what?
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"They plundered the Egyptians."
00:15:46.34\00:15:49.11
Now plunder is a powerful word.
00:15:49.14\00:15:52.75
Plunder didn't just mean
they took everything they had,
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but plunder means
simply when they left Egypt,
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Egypt's economy
bottomed out, they had nothing.
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Because in that
era, in that generation,
00:16:02.06\00:16:05.39
they didn't have credit
cards like we have nowadays.
00:16:05.43\00:16:07.96
They didn't have
wallets with dollar bills in it.
00:16:08.00\00:16:10.20
They wore their money.
00:16:10.23\00:16:12.03
If you look at some
of the ancient coins,
00:16:12.07\00:16:13.54
and depending on
how far back you can go,
00:16:13.57\00:16:15.70
but there were
some cities of antiquity
00:16:15.74\00:16:17.94
where they literally wore
a necklace with their coins
00:16:17.97\00:16:21.08
that had a hole in it.
00:16:21.11\00:16:22.64
So when they paid
whatever they purchased,
00:16:22.68\00:16:25.41
they would loosen the
chain and take a coin out
00:16:25.45\00:16:27.58
and another coin,
that was their money.
00:16:27.62\00:16:29.92
But now we can
see one of the reasons
00:16:29.95\00:16:31.69
why we went from just
coins to dollar bills.
00:16:31.72\00:16:33.96
Who can tell me,
00:16:33.99\00:16:35.32
what's the sense of going
from coins to dollar bills?
00:16:35.36\00:16:37.89
What's the sense?
00:16:37.93\00:16:39.83
The weight, exactly.
00:16:39.86\00:16:41.30
Can you imagine
carrying $200 of coins
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around your neck or
$1,000 for that matter,
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I don't think
00:16:47.20\00:16:48.54
you'll have a
neck for very long.
00:16:48.57\00:16:50.27
But when they
left in those days,
00:16:50.31\00:16:51.64
they took all
the articles of gold,
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all the articles of silver,
00:16:53.61\00:16:55.04
and the list goes on
and on and on and on.
00:16:55.08\00:16:57.31
But God had a purpose for that.
00:16:57.35\00:16:59.45
But there was something
that the Lord told them to do,
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there was something else
the Lord told them not to do,
00:17:03.32\00:17:06.12
right?
00:17:06.15\00:17:07.49
He said, take that,
00:17:07.52\00:17:09.12
but here's what I
don't want you to do
00:17:09.16\00:17:11.56
with what you
take out, all right?
00:17:11.59\00:17:13.26
Let's go to question
number 15, question number 15.
00:17:13.29\00:17:17.50
What specifically did the Lord
tell the Israelites not to do?
00:17:17.53\00:17:23.30
What specifically did the Lord
tell the Israelites not to do?
00:17:23.34\00:17:27.64
So if you can put
this in two categories,
00:17:27.68\00:17:29.68
God gave them a to-do
list and a not to-do list.
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When you leave do this,
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but when you leave
don't do this, all right?
00:17:35.35\00:17:38.15
Because they had
been so influenced,
00:17:38.19\00:17:40.36
God had to give them
specific instructions.
00:17:40.39\00:17:43.36
And as is the case,
00:17:43.39\00:17:45.69
if they followed
God instructions,
00:17:45.73\00:17:47.56
their to-do list
and their not to-do list
00:17:47.60\00:17:50.27
would stay intact.
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Here's what the Lord said.
00:17:51.67\00:17:53.00
And we'll go now
to Exodus Chapter 20,
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and we're going to
look together at verse 23.
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Let me turn there.
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Exodus Chapter 20,
00:18:02.24\00:18:03.75
and we're going to
look at verse 23, all right?
00:18:03.78\00:18:09.28
Here it is on the screen.
00:18:09.32\00:18:10.99
It says, the Lord,
00:18:11.02\00:18:12.65
"You shall not make
anything to be with Me,
00:18:12.69\00:18:17.79
gods of silver or gods of gold,
00:18:17.83\00:18:22.26
you shall not
make for yourselves.
00:18:22.30\00:18:25.80
He says when you leave...
00:18:25.83\00:18:27.47
Now this is
important because in Israel,
00:18:27.50\00:18:29.80
I mean, sorry in
Egypt, these were gods.
00:18:29.84\00:18:32.74
If you look at...
00:18:32.77\00:18:34.28
I've never been
to Cairo's museum,
00:18:34.31\00:18:36.54
but I've seen
it on the internet,
00:18:36.58\00:18:38.81
you know, the
internet is the portal.
00:18:38.85\00:18:40.52
I love to go and see.
00:18:40.55\00:18:41.88
But when they buried,
the kings of antiquity,
00:18:41.92\00:18:45.69
and they buried many of
these tombs were raided.
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You've heard of tomb raiders.
00:18:50.06\00:18:51.49
Many of the tombs were raided.
00:18:51.53\00:18:52.86
And so sometimes
00:18:52.89\00:18:54.23
they would build
these large pyramids,
00:18:54.26\00:18:55.60
and on the inside, they
would put all the articles
00:18:55.63\00:18:58.10
that indicated the wealth
00:18:58.13\00:18:59.47
and the fame of
that particular king.
00:18:59.50\00:19:01.27
And when they uncovered
that, they unearthed that,
00:19:01.30\00:19:03.71
they would see...
00:19:03.74\00:19:05.94
The descriptions
were just so vast
00:19:05.97\00:19:10.25
to even begin to describe.
00:19:10.28\00:19:12.41
Whatever they made,
00:19:12.45\00:19:13.78
whether it was sarcophagus
in which they were laid,
00:19:13.82\00:19:17.62
whether it was their crown
00:19:17.65\00:19:20.36
or the
breastplate that they wore,
00:19:20.39\00:19:22.69
whatever they
made, it was ostentatious
00:19:22.72\00:19:25.06
or as they would say, in Dubai,
00:19:25.09\00:19:27.20
you know, you can't
say luxurious in Dubai,
00:19:27.23\00:19:29.06
that's a little word,
you have to say opulent
00:19:29.10\00:19:32.27
because they were
extremely wealthy,
00:19:32.30\00:19:34.70
gold, silver, emeralds,
diamonds, sapphires, ruby,
00:19:34.74\00:19:39.77
Egypt was a
powerfully wealthy dynasty.
00:19:39.81\00:19:43.14
So now the tables are turned.
00:19:43.18\00:19:46.18
They're poor, and
the Israelites are what?
00:19:46.21\00:19:48.95
Wealthy.
00:19:48.98\00:19:50.32
And there's a promise in
the Bible, the Lord says,
00:19:50.35\00:19:52.05
"I will give unto you
the wealth of the Gentiles."
00:19:52.09\00:19:56.02
And that's exactly what He did.
00:19:56.06\00:19:57.96
He gave them all they needed,
00:19:57.99\00:19:59.46
but there was a
particular purpose.
00:19:59.49\00:20:00.83
So now if you can
write the answer down,
00:20:00.86\00:20:02.76
what specifically did the Lord
tell the Israelites not to do,
00:20:02.80\00:20:06.13
and what did He
tell them not to do?
00:20:06.17\00:20:08.77
"Do not make gods
out of these things.
00:20:08.80\00:20:11.67
That's powerful.
00:20:11.71\00:20:13.04
Do not make gods
out of these articles.
00:20:13.07\00:20:16.81
A lot of times
we read the Bible,
00:20:16.85\00:20:19.48
but there's a
particular point we missed.
00:20:19.51\00:20:21.22
I'm going to go back,
this is an earlier question,
00:20:21.25\00:20:23.28
I'm not going to go
back to the question.
00:20:23.32\00:20:24.72
But to give context to this,
00:20:24.75\00:20:26.42
I want to establish
something vitally important.
00:20:26.45\00:20:28.49
These were described as gods,
00:20:32.19\00:20:34.76
what they brought
from the land of Egypt,
00:20:34.80\00:20:36.97
they're very
important, not just accessories.
00:20:37.00\00:20:40.80
See we call it
accessories nowadays.
00:20:40.84\00:20:42.70
You go to some of
these stores in the mall
00:20:42.74\00:20:44.51
or in big shopping centers
00:20:44.54\00:20:45.87
and you see all
the golds and jewels,
00:20:45.91\00:20:47.38
and they call it accessorizing,
God called them gods.
00:20:47.41\00:20:51.71
There's a
difference all together
00:20:51.75\00:20:53.65
because these were used
for a particular purpose.
00:20:53.68\00:20:58.25
Each of these articles
had a particular function.
00:20:58.29\00:21:01.12
A number of
years ago, I remember,
00:21:01.16\00:21:02.76
I told the story,
but it fits here again.
00:21:02.79\00:21:04.93
I remember meeting a
young lady who was a Wiccan.
00:21:04.96\00:21:09.06
She practiced the
art of witchcraft.
00:21:09.10\00:21:12.67
For some reason,
00:21:12.70\00:21:14.04
at least my
understanding back then,
00:21:14.07\00:21:15.54
I could be
corrected if I'm incorrect.
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.84
She was considered,
00:21:17.87\00:21:19.21
you know, they considered
Wiccan not an evil witch,
00:21:19.24\00:21:21.18
but a good witch.
00:21:21.21\00:21:23.14
Is that an oxymoron?
00:21:23.18\00:21:25.25
Good witch.
00:21:25.28\00:21:27.35
And she wanted to meet me,
00:21:27.38\00:21:28.85
and I was
preaching in Wisconsin.
00:21:28.88\00:21:31.82
And after one of my sermons,
00:21:31.85\00:21:33.19
young lady came to me
00:21:33.22\00:21:34.56
that was an Adventist Christian,
00:21:34.59\00:21:35.92
and she said, "My
friend wants to meet you.
00:21:35.96\00:21:37.36
She liked your message.
00:21:37.39\00:21:38.73
And could she meet
you this afternoon?"
00:21:38.76\00:21:41.26
I said, "Sure."
00:21:41.30\00:21:42.63
She said,
"Well, let me ask a bit
00:21:42.66\00:21:44.00
because maybe she won't...
00:21:44.03\00:21:45.37
Well, let me see...
Well, maybe she's ready...
00:21:45.40\00:21:47.60
Well, let me see
if she's ready...
00:21:47.64\00:21:49.00
Well, I don't know if
she has a protection on."
00:21:49.04\00:21:51.51
And I said, "What's the problem?
00:21:51.54\00:21:54.01
Why would you need
protection from me?
00:21:54.04\00:21:55.68
I'm just the pastor,
I'm just doing the sermon."
00:21:55.71\00:21:58.21
I came to find
out when I met her,
00:21:58.25\00:22:01.78
I had to ask the question,
00:22:01.82\00:22:03.89
"Your friend said you
had on your protection,
00:22:03.92\00:22:08.26
what does she mean by that?"
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.03
And I learned something that day
00:22:10.06\00:22:11.69
that ignited in me
the mind of an inquirer,
00:22:11.73\00:22:15.60
and I began to study deeper
into this particular topic.
00:22:15.63\00:22:19.53
What I came to
discover is that as a witch,
00:22:19.57\00:22:25.77
they protected
themselves, as it were,
00:22:25.81\00:22:28.94
from whatever spirit you have.
00:22:28.98\00:22:32.88
So they don't want to
get the spirit that you had,
00:22:32.91\00:22:35.82
neither do we want to get
the spirit they have, right?
00:22:35.85\00:22:38.82
Amen to that.
00:22:38.85\00:22:40.19
We don't want their spirit,
00:22:40.22\00:22:41.79
and they didn't want our spirit.
00:22:41.82\00:22:43.83
So they wore protection,
00:22:43.86\00:22:45.63
and their jewels
were their protection.
00:22:45.66\00:22:49.03
If you go to some of
these websites today...
00:22:49.06\00:22:50.57
I don't suggest
you do a lot of that,
00:22:50.60\00:22:52.13
but if you want to meander
in the maze of mediocrity,
00:22:52.17\00:22:55.40
you can look at
some of these websites
00:22:55.44\00:22:56.77
where they sell these articles,
00:22:56.81\00:22:58.41
and they
literally call them gods.
00:22:58.44\00:23:00.71
Like the goat's head.
00:23:00.74\00:23:02.91
There it's an
amulet in the occult world.
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.15
All these
articles that they wear
00:23:06.18\00:23:07.95
have a particular
function, the upside down cross,
00:23:07.98\00:23:11.09
the hand with
the various symbols,
00:23:11.12\00:23:13.09
these are all amulets,
00:23:13.12\00:23:14.72
and they have various
functions in the occult world.
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.43
Well, Egypt is the
mother of the occult world.
00:23:17.46\00:23:22.16
Those who study the occult
00:23:22.20\00:23:24.80
often go to
Egypt as a pilgrimage
00:23:24.83\00:23:27.20
because that's the place
00:23:27.24\00:23:28.57
where much of this
occult practice was started.
00:23:28.60\00:23:30.47
So now putting this together,
00:23:30.51\00:23:32.84
those articles that were brought
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.34
out of the land of Egypt
and the children of Israel
00:23:34.38\00:23:36.24
now have, they
got all these articles
00:23:36.28\00:23:38.61
that were used
for occult worship.
00:23:38.65\00:23:40.72
And the Lord
said, "Whatever you do,
00:23:40.75\00:23:42.98
do not make a God
out of these things."
00:23:43.02\00:23:46.35
Because that's
exactly what they were.
00:23:46.39\00:23:48.49
Okay, now let's see why.
00:23:48.52\00:23:49.86
Let's go to Exodus 20:3.
00:23:49.89\00:23:51.89
Let's put this in
the proper context
00:23:51.93\00:23:53.46
because I
believe that oftentimes
00:23:53.50\00:23:56.40
this commandment is
probably, maybe second
00:23:56.43\00:24:00.80
to one of the most
misunderstood commandments.
00:24:00.84\00:24:02.54
A lot of people
say the fourth one is,
00:24:02.57\00:24:04.31
but this is an amazingly
misunderstood commandment.
00:24:04.34\00:24:06.98
Exodus 20:3, here's
what the Bible says.
00:24:07.01\00:24:10.55
Well, let's start with verse 2.
00:24:13.92\00:24:15.72
Well, let's start with verse 1.
00:24:15.75\00:24:18.25
"And the Lord God,"
we got to get the author.
00:24:18.29\00:24:20.62
"And the Lord God
spake all these words saying,
00:24:20.66\00:24:24.96
'I am the Lord, your God,
00:24:24.99\00:24:26.36
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
00:24:26.39\00:24:29.36
out of the house of bondage.' "
00:24:29.40\00:24:31.23
Now get this. This
is so vitally important.
00:24:31.27\00:24:34.27
He brought them out of
bondage, He brought them, what?
00:24:34.30\00:24:36.67
Out of bondage.
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.14
So when He brings
them out of bondage,
00:24:38.17\00:24:40.31
are they still in bondage?
00:24:40.34\00:24:41.84
Yes or no?
00:24:41.88\00:24:43.21
I'm giving you the
answer. No, they're not.
00:24:43.24\00:24:45.41
So the things that
He's going to give them now,
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.12
as He frees them from bondage
will maintain their freedom.
00:24:48.15\00:24:54.32
He's not going to
give them anything.
00:24:54.36\00:24:55.89
It's amazing as you go
through the Ten Commandments,
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.09
and the reason why this
jumps out of my mind right now
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.66
is because the
fourth commandment,
00:25:00.70\00:25:02.13
when you talk about the Sabbath,
00:25:02.16\00:25:03.50
people say you're in bondage.
00:25:03.53\00:25:05.63
He reminded them of the Sabbath
00:25:05.67\00:25:07.24
when He brought
them out of bondage,
00:25:07.27\00:25:09.47
but there's something
else He reminded them of.
00:25:09.50\00:25:12.07
Look at verse 3, the
verse I want to focus on.
00:25:12.11\00:25:16.18
He says, "You
shall have no other,"
00:25:16.21\00:25:18.41
what's the next word?
00:25:18.45\00:25:19.78
"Gods before me."
00:25:19.81\00:25:21.15
Then look at this.
00:25:21.18\00:25:22.55
"You shall not make
for yourselves any carved,
00:25:22.58\00:25:26.35
or graven images,
00:25:26.39\00:25:28.02
or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above,
00:25:28.06\00:25:32.39
or that is in the earth beneath,
00:25:32.43\00:25:34.93
or that is in the
water under the earth.
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.33
You shall not bow down
to them, nor serve them
00:25:38.37\00:25:43.30
for I the Lord, your
God, and a," what kind of God?
00:25:43.34\00:25:46.78
"Jealous God,
00:25:46.81\00:25:48.21
visiting the iniquity of
the Father, on the children,
00:25:48.24\00:25:52.68
to the third and
fourth generation
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.68
of those who do," what?
00:25:54.72\00:25:56.38
"Hate Me." Got
to finish it though.
00:25:56.42\00:25:58.42
"But showing mercy
to thousands of those
00:25:58.45\00:26:01.42
who love Me and
keep My commandments."
00:26:01.46\00:26:06.19
He made it very,
very clear, very clear,
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.43
please don't make
gods out of these things
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.03
that you brought out of Egypt.
00:26:12.07\00:26:13.40
Don't bow down to them,
00:26:13.44\00:26:15.14
don't serve them,
don't worship them.
00:26:15.17\00:26:17.67
In the occult world,
00:26:17.71\00:26:19.04
they understand
perfectly what that means.
00:26:19.07\00:26:21.61
But in the Christian
world, it's often misunderstood.
00:26:21.64\00:26:25.45
It's parlayed
off as accessorizing,
00:26:25.48\00:26:29.28
but let's continue
to go on, all right?
00:26:29.32\00:26:31.99
Question number 16.
00:26:32.02\00:26:34.62
Question number 16.
00:26:34.66\00:26:36.16
Now, God, everything
that the Lord gives us
00:26:36.19\00:26:37.93
has a purpose.
00:26:37.96\00:26:39.29
It has a, what? A purpose.
00:26:39.33\00:26:41.03
God just never...
00:26:41.06\00:26:42.43
He never gives us anything
00:26:42.46\00:26:43.80
just for the
purpose of giving it to us,
00:26:43.83\00:26:45.70
except health and strength.
00:26:45.73\00:26:47.30
You know, we can't share
our health and our strength.
00:26:47.34\00:26:49.90
It could be a
blessing to others,
00:26:49.94\00:26:51.31
but whatever God gives to us,
00:26:51.34\00:26:52.91
He intends to use it
for a particular purpose.
00:26:52.94\00:26:55.61
This is often
something that's missed
00:26:55.64\00:26:57.91
in understanding why
the Lord gave the Israelites
00:26:57.95\00:27:00.12
all the articles
of gold, and silver,
00:27:00.15\00:27:02.22
and jewels that He did.
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.12
Question number 16, here it is.
00:27:04.15\00:27:07.52
For what purpose
were the precious stones
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.09
and jewels to be used?
00:27:10.13\00:27:13.13
For what purpose
were the precious stones
00:27:13.16\00:27:15.80
and jewels to be used?
00:27:15.83\00:27:18.47
Let's go to Exodus
Chapter 25, Exodus Chapter 25.
00:27:18.50\00:27:23.27
All right, we're
going to look at...
00:27:26.14\00:27:28.04
I'm going to read verse 8,
00:27:36.55\00:27:38.15
but then I'm going to back up
00:27:38.19\00:27:39.69
after we answer the
question on the screen,
00:27:39.72\00:27:41.72
I'm going to back
up to a few verses
00:27:41.76\00:27:43.32
just to show you
00:27:43.36\00:27:44.69
that the Lord now
begins to expand the material,
00:27:44.73\00:27:47.03
the list that He
brought out of Egypt, all right?
00:27:47.06\00:27:50.17
Here's the answer, Exodus
25:8, let's read this together.
00:27:50.20\00:27:53.03
It's on the screen.
00:27:53.07\00:27:54.40
And the Bible says,
00:27:54.44\00:27:55.77
"And let them make Me a," what?
00:27:55.80\00:27:57.14
"Sanctuary that I may," do what?
00:27:57.17\00:27:59.34
"Dwell among them."
00:27:59.37\00:28:01.74
Let them make Me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them.
00:28:01.78\00:28:06.01
The Lord wanted to
make a place of worship.
00:28:06.05\00:28:09.08
What He didn't want them,
00:28:09.12\00:28:10.62
He didn't want them to
be the place of worship,
00:28:10.65\00:28:13.66
He wanted to make
a place of worship.
00:28:13.69\00:28:17.33
The Egyptians had
so many gods, like...
00:28:17.36\00:28:22.06
My wife and I went to India,
we saw the Buddhist temples,
00:28:22.10\00:28:25.80
and the Hindus' temple.
00:28:25.83\00:28:27.90
Amazing, the gods, and I asked,
00:28:27.94\00:28:32.07
"Well, how many gods are
there in the Hindu religion?"
00:28:32.11\00:28:34.64
They said, "Too many to count."
00:28:34.68\00:28:36.75
And during the night,
00:28:36.78\00:28:38.11
you'll see various
altars set up along the roadway,
00:28:38.15\00:28:41.68
I mean, late at night,
00:28:41.72\00:28:43.05
and then you'll
see as you're driving,
00:28:43.08\00:28:44.42
you see a really bright light,
00:28:44.45\00:28:45.89
and when you turn to
your right there are people
00:28:45.92\00:28:47.92
right at the
intersection under a bridge,
00:28:47.96\00:28:50.19
under an overpass
candles lit up on the ground,
00:28:50.23\00:28:53.26
and they're
bowing before this God
00:28:53.29\00:28:54.86
that is either out of
some kind of shiny metal
00:28:54.90\00:28:57.80
or some kind of
painted material.
00:28:57.83\00:29:00.07
It has many arms or crowns,
they're bowing down to them,
00:29:00.10\00:29:04.84
even in the Buddhist
temples that we went in.
00:29:04.87\00:29:07.18
So I understand that
Egypt is no different
00:29:07.21\00:29:10.78
because occult practices
and the worship of false gods
00:29:10.81\00:29:14.78
were prevalent in Egypt
as it is today in many lands
00:29:14.82\00:29:18.39
and among many cultures.
00:29:18.42\00:29:19.75
So the Lord says, I
want to use these articles
00:29:19.79\00:29:21.46
to make a sanctuary.
00:29:21.49\00:29:22.99
But now look with me,
and we're going to see,
00:29:23.02\00:29:26.39
look at verse 7.
00:29:26.43\00:29:28.16
He talks about a
function very, very quickly.
00:29:28.20\00:29:31.93
In Exodus 25:7,
00:29:31.97\00:29:34.50
notice what other
stones He mentions,
00:29:34.54\00:29:36.60
what stones does He mentioned?
00:29:36.64\00:29:38.51
"Onyx stones, and
stones to be set in the ephod
00:29:38.54\00:29:42.94
and in the breastplate."
00:29:42.98\00:29:44.45
Now what I'm going to
do, a little later on,
00:29:44.48\00:29:47.02
we're going to see.
00:29:47.05\00:29:48.38
I'm going to
show you some pictures
00:29:48.42\00:29:49.75
in one of the following programs
00:29:49.78\00:29:51.12
of what the Lord actually
did with those articles.
00:29:51.15\00:29:53.76
How He really did design them
to fit in the temple services.
00:29:53.79\00:29:58.69
So you could begin
to compare what we see
00:29:58.73\00:30:02.20
and what we do not see,
00:30:02.23\00:30:03.67
what God intended to be
using those articles for.
00:30:03.70\00:30:06.87
All right, so the answer
to that one for question 16,
00:30:06.90\00:30:10.24
what purpose the Lord
wanted to make a what?
00:30:10.27\00:30:12.67
Sanctuary, a place
where He will be worshiped.
00:30:12.71\00:30:15.94
And by the way, when
you think of God's house,
00:30:15.98\00:30:20.05
what the Lord is
going to illustrate here
00:30:20.08\00:30:22.12
is should the Lord's
house be less than anyone else's
00:30:22.15\00:30:27.09
or the best.
00:30:27.12\00:30:29.32
It should be the best.
00:30:29.36\00:30:30.69
So the Lord was going to
make a temple, the sanctuary,
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.96
this is going to be
the portable sanctuary
00:30:32.99\00:30:35.30
long before they
made the permanent temple,
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.53
but this is going to
be a portable sanctuary,
00:30:37.57\00:30:41.17
and all the
articles on the inside
00:30:41.20\00:30:44.47
were going to be used
for a particular function.
00:30:44.51\00:30:47.01
All right,
let's go to number 17,
00:30:47.04\00:30:49.31
number 17, all right?
00:30:49.34\00:30:52.15
Question, here it is.
00:30:55.25\00:30:56.58
"How were the precious jewels
00:30:56.62\00:30:59.29
to be used in the
sanctuary service?"
00:30:59.32\00:31:03.09
I just answered the question.
00:31:03.12\00:31:04.89
I gave you the answer.
I jumped ahead of myself.
00:31:04.93\00:31:07.46
But just for
those who are watching,
00:31:07.50\00:31:08.83
let's go ahead
00:31:08.86\00:31:10.20
and put the
answer on the screen,
00:31:10.23\00:31:11.57
Exodus 25:7, here it
is, here's the answer.
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.50
"Onyx stones, and
stones to be set in the," what?
00:31:14.54\00:31:19.11
"Ephod and in the," what else?
00:31:19.14\00:31:21.28
"Breastplate."
00:31:21.31\00:31:22.64
You know, actually,
00:31:22.68\00:31:24.91
there's a blessing
tonight in store for you,
00:31:24.95\00:31:26.75
I actually do have the slides,
00:31:26.78\00:31:28.68
and I believe I've given
it to our graphics people.
00:31:28.72\00:31:31.62
So I'm going to bring
them up on the screen right now
00:31:31.65\00:31:33.15
and show you what
the Lord intended.
00:31:33.19\00:31:35.42
There it is. Okay, great.
00:31:35.46\00:31:36.83
Here we have it also.
00:31:36.86\00:31:38.19
Notice here, you have
the priestly garments,
00:31:38.23\00:31:41.56
The ephod is
that colorful garment
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.57
that is over his blue robe.
00:31:44.60\00:31:47.44
That's the ephod.
00:31:47.47\00:31:48.80
But in the middle of
that is the breastplate.
00:31:48.84\00:31:50.97
Notice all the precious stones
that are in the breastplate.
00:31:51.01\00:31:54.78
If you can count very quickly,
how many stones do you see?
00:31:54.81\00:31:58.98
Fourteen.
00:31:59.01\00:32:00.55
Ah, I just
wanted to check and see.
00:32:00.58\00:32:02.15
Right, there's one on the
left, and one of the right,
00:32:02.18\00:32:04.15
those are called
the urim, all right?
00:32:04.19\00:32:07.19
You have the ephod,
you have the breastplate,
00:32:07.22\00:32:09.32
and you have those stones,
00:32:09.36\00:32:10.69
each one of the stones
represent one of the tribes
00:32:10.73\00:32:12.96
of the children of Israel.
00:32:12.99\00:32:14.43
But the urim was powerful.
00:32:14.46\00:32:16.77
You see when God
intervened in a matter
00:32:16.80\00:32:19.10
that could not be settled
00:32:19.13\00:32:20.47
by the leadership
of the Israelites,
00:32:20.50\00:32:23.27
if the answer was
yes, what will happen?
00:32:23.30\00:32:26.41
The white stone lit up.
00:32:26.44\00:32:28.84
If the answer was no,
00:32:28.88\00:32:30.65
the darker stone
began to radiate.
00:32:30.68\00:32:33.62
So therefore there
was a divine presence
00:32:33.65\00:32:37.45
that was accompanying
the children of Israel.
00:32:37.49\00:32:40.36
There was divine presence there
00:32:40.39\00:32:42.72
that God was literally residing
in the midst of His people.
00:32:42.76\00:32:46.39
But that breastplate,
00:32:46.43\00:32:47.76
if you notice it very carefully,
00:32:47.80\00:32:49.13
we still have it
on our screen here,
00:32:49.16\00:32:50.50
you notice that the
jewels were worn by whom?
00:32:50.53\00:32:54.80
Someone tell me.
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.01
By the high priests.
00:32:57.04\00:32:59.74
Now this is powerful,
we got to get past this.
00:32:59.77\00:33:03.08
Who is our high
priest, someone tell me?
00:33:03.11\00:33:05.48
Jesus is our high priest.
00:33:05.51\00:33:07.55
So now I always say to people,
00:33:07.58\00:33:09.85
of course, you can
wear all the jewels
00:33:09.88\00:33:12.62
if you're the high priest.
00:33:12.65\00:33:14.82
Who's our high priest?
00:33:14.86\00:33:16.42
Jesus is our high priest.
00:33:16.46\00:33:17.79
Matter of fact,
00:33:17.83\00:33:19.16
go with me to
Revelation Chapter 1.
00:33:19.19\00:33:20.83
Let's look at this picture.
00:33:20.86\00:33:22.20
You see Revelation is written
so much in sanctuary language
00:33:22.23\00:33:25.80
before we go to
the very next question.
00:33:25.83\00:33:27.44
Revelation is written
in such beautiful language,
00:33:27.47\00:33:30.17
it describes
Jesus wonderfully, okay?
00:33:30.21\00:33:35.04
Okay, we're going to go ahead,
Revelation Chapter 1, and...
00:33:35.08\00:33:41.32
Okay, I'll go ahead and...
00:33:41.35\00:33:46.25
let's start with verse 12,
00:33:46.29\00:33:48.89
verse 13.
00:33:52.33\00:33:55.63
All right, the Bible
describes the seven churches,
00:33:55.66\00:33:57.43
but then notice, notice one.
00:33:57.47\00:33:59.93
It says, "And in the
midst of the seven lampstands,
00:33:59.97\00:34:04.74
one like the Son of
man clothed with a garment
00:34:04.77\00:34:10.78
down to the feet
00:34:10.81\00:34:12.88
and girded about the chest
with a," what kind of band?
00:34:12.91\00:34:16.08
"A golden band."
00:34:16.12\00:34:18.22
So notice right away
00:34:18.25\00:34:19.59
describing the
high priestly garments.
00:34:19.62\00:34:21.92
Jesus is our high priest.
00:34:21.96\00:34:23.89
Clearly, He's
the one ministering
00:34:23.93\00:34:25.99
in the sanctuary
in our behalf today.
00:34:26.03\00:34:29.66
It goes on further, verse 14,
00:34:29.70\00:34:32.37
"His head and His
hair were white like wool,
00:34:32.40\00:34:36.87
as white as snow, and
his eyes like a flame of,"
00:34:36.91\00:34:39.64
what?
00:34:39.67\00:34:41.01
"Fire."
00:34:41.04\00:34:42.38
It describes His feet.
00:34:42.41\00:34:43.75
"His feet were like fine brass
as if refined in a furnace,
00:34:43.78\00:34:48.25
and His voice as
the sound of," what?
00:34:48.28\00:34:50.69
"Many waters."
00:34:50.72\00:34:52.75
So when you think
about that, you see clearly,
00:34:52.79\00:34:56.49
and I like the way
that the Bible describes it
00:34:56.52\00:34:58.59
because when you
think about brass today,
00:34:58.63\00:35:01.06
brass is really not
that valuable a metal.
00:35:01.10\00:35:03.33
But it refers to Him
as what kind of brass?
00:35:03.37\00:35:06.80
Refined, refined,
the best, the best.
00:35:06.84\00:35:13.07
So anything that
describes the Lord
00:35:13.11\00:35:14.68
is always the best.
00:35:14.71\00:35:16.18
Amen to that.
00:35:16.21\00:35:17.65
So you begin to see clearly.
00:35:17.68\00:35:19.21
But there's another
purpose that the Lord had
00:35:19.25\00:35:21.68
for these precious stones.
00:35:21.72\00:35:23.42
Look at the next text
in question number seven,
00:35:23.45\00:35:25.95
which we're going to
continue the question,
00:35:25.99\00:35:27.42
how are these
precious stones to be used
00:35:27.46\00:35:29.69
in the sanctuary service?
00:35:29.72\00:35:31.66
Let's go now to
Exodus Chapter 25.
00:35:31.69\00:35:34.43
And we're going to now
look together at verse 17,
00:35:34.46\00:35:38.30
all right?
00:35:38.33\00:35:39.67
I'm in Exodus 25, I
kept something there
00:35:39.70\00:35:41.20
that I not lose my place.
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.41
Exodus 25,
00:35:43.44\00:35:44.77
and we're going to
look at verse 17, all right?
00:35:44.81\00:35:48.14
Here it is.
00:35:48.18\00:35:49.64
And the Lord says,
00:35:49.68\00:35:51.05
"You shall make a
mercy seat of," what?
00:35:51.08\00:35:55.18
"Pure gold,
00:35:55.22\00:35:57.25
two and a half
cubits shall be its length,
00:35:57.29\00:36:01.02
and a cubit and
a half its width."
00:36:01.06\00:36:03.66
Now look at that,
00:36:03.69\00:36:05.03
the mercy seat was
going to be made of what?
00:36:05.06\00:36:07.96
Gold.
00:36:08.00\00:36:09.33
So now let's
put this in context.
00:36:09.36\00:36:12.07
Everything in the
sanctuary is supposed to point
00:36:12.10\00:36:14.14
to a particular function
as Christ as our high priest.
00:36:14.17\00:36:18.74
And when He told
Moses to make a sanctuary,
00:36:18.77\00:36:21.58
the very next verse
in Exodus 25:9, He said,
00:36:21.61\00:36:25.01
"Make it
according to the pattern
00:36:25.05\00:36:27.25
that I've shown
you in the mountain."
00:36:27.28\00:36:29.35
So what you've seen,
00:36:29.38\00:36:30.72
I wanted this, and then He
gave specific instructions,
00:36:30.75\00:36:33.86
so specific,
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.22
some people have
followed those instructions
00:36:35.26\00:36:36.93
to make a mock
up of the sanctuary.
00:36:36.96\00:36:39.76
Specific, the Lord
was very, very specific.
00:36:39.79\00:36:42.23
All the articles were made
of some kind of precious stone.
00:36:42.26\00:36:45.53
But let's look
at that, pure gold.
00:36:45.57\00:36:47.70
Now we have
another picture of that.
00:36:47.74\00:36:49.17
Let's look at this
together, showing you
00:36:49.20\00:36:50.84
what the Lord intended
to do with all this gold.
00:36:50.87\00:36:52.81
Here's the
picture of the mercy seat,
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.01
the mercy seat.
00:36:55.04\00:36:56.51
Why is a mercy seat,
00:36:56.54\00:36:57.88
when the Bible says
the Lord is full of mercy,
00:36:57.91\00:37:01.15
it's pointing to
this article of furniture.
00:37:01.18\00:37:02.92
God was always the one.
00:37:02.95\00:37:04.42
And you have the two angels,
00:37:04.45\00:37:06.05
they're covering their
face with one of their wings,
00:37:06.09\00:37:08.22
and they're covering the
mercy seat with the others.
00:37:08.26\00:37:11.96
And inside the mercy seat,
you had the rod that bud it,
00:37:11.99\00:37:18.50
you had the hidden
manna, and you also had the...
00:37:18.53\00:37:24.61
Come on, somebody tell
me, the Ten Commandments.
00:37:24.64\00:37:29.01
It is very same mercy seat,
00:37:29.04\00:37:30.48
on the sides of it
was the book of the law,
00:37:30.51\00:37:35.12
on the inside were
the Ten Commandments,
00:37:35.15\00:37:38.35
a differentiation
between one and the other.
00:37:38.39\00:37:41.22
But the seat was to
be overlaid with gold.
00:37:41.26\00:37:43.93
Everything about it
was to represent the glory
00:37:43.96\00:37:47.86
and the beauty of the Lord.
00:37:47.90\00:37:49.23
So here's the
next one, Exodus 25:17.
00:37:49.26\00:37:51.83
What the Lord intent to
make with these precious stones?
00:37:51.87\00:37:54.57
What else? The mercy seat.
00:37:54.60\00:37:56.64
Write that down, the mercy seat.
00:37:56.67\00:37:58.67
We're just touching
on a few of the articles
00:37:58.71\00:38:00.74
that are very
important in the services
00:38:00.78\00:38:06.01
that are there
in the scriptures.
00:38:06.05\00:38:09.92
The ephod, the
breastplate, now the mercy seat.
00:38:09.95\00:38:12.85
Let's look at one
more. Let's look at one more.
00:38:12.89\00:38:15.29
Exodus Chapter 31.
00:38:15.32\00:38:16.86
Let's turn there.
00:38:16.89\00:38:18.66
Exodus Chapter 31.
00:38:18.69\00:38:21.30
All right,
00:38:21.33\00:38:23.33
and we're going
to look at verse 8,
00:38:23.37\00:38:29.90
verse 8, and those of
you that are watching,
00:38:29.94\00:38:33.41
you'll see the
scripture with us.
00:38:33.44\00:38:35.01
Here's the answer
to verse 8. What else?
00:38:35.04\00:38:37.48
"The tables and its
utensils, the pure gold," what?
00:38:37.51\00:38:43.05
"Lampstand with
all its utensils,
00:38:43.08\00:38:47.06
the altar of, " what else?
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.12
"Of incense."
00:38:49.16\00:38:50.86
So the Lord was
intending to make all that.
00:38:50.89\00:38:52.73
He wanted to make them
00:38:52.76\00:38:54.10
not only the pure
golden lampstands,
00:38:54.13\00:38:57.10
but all the utensils,
and the altar of incense.
00:38:57.13\00:39:00.14
I'll show you a picture that
00:39:00.17\00:39:02.20
as we continue to go
through the study together,
00:39:02.24\00:39:04.41
but let me pause for a
moment to begin to put this all,
00:39:04.44\00:39:06.81
begin to package this.
00:39:06.84\00:39:09.44
The Lord was
about to make something
00:39:09.48\00:39:10.98
so profound and so beautiful
00:39:11.01\00:39:13.52
that when the children of Israel
00:39:13.55\00:39:15.48
came to the temple to worship,
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.29
every article of furniture
00:39:17.32\00:39:19.09
would represent a
particular function
00:39:19.12\00:39:21.19
in the Lord's ministry,
in the heavenly sanctuary.
00:39:21.22\00:39:25.79
Now let me ask a question,
it requires a yes or no.
00:39:25.83\00:39:29.16
Is there still an
earthly sanctuary?
00:39:29.20\00:39:31.93
Yes or no?
00:39:31.97\00:39:34.04
No.
00:39:34.07\00:39:35.40
Where is the sanctuary?
00:39:35.44\00:39:36.81
It is in heaven.
00:39:36.84\00:39:38.87
So when the
Bible talks about that
00:39:38.91\00:39:40.24
in Revelation
Chapter 4, John says,
00:39:40.28\00:39:42.34
"I saw heaven open,"
00:39:42.38\00:39:43.71
and he described
what he saw in the temple.
00:39:43.75\00:39:48.15
So the work that
God is doing now,
00:39:48.18\00:39:50.19
the work that Jesus is
doing as our high priest
00:39:50.22\00:39:53.02
is in that heavenly sanctuary.
00:39:53.05\00:39:55.86
But let's think in
terms of all the articles
00:39:55.89\00:39:58.59
that were made.
00:39:58.63\00:39:59.96
You have the outer
court, you have the inner court,
00:40:00.00\00:40:02.50
you have the holy place,
00:40:02.53\00:40:03.87
and you have
the most holy place,
00:40:03.90\00:40:05.23
and everything about it
00:40:05.27\00:40:06.60
was made of some
kind of precious stone,
00:40:06.63\00:40:08.54
that's why the Lord
gave the children of Israel
00:40:08.57\00:40:11.27
these articles to use.
00:40:11.31\00:40:13.21
Okay, now let's go
to question number 18.
00:40:13.24\00:40:16.14
Let's go to question number 18.
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.38
Here it is.
00:40:18.41\00:40:19.91
All right, now I
want to kind of...
00:40:19.95\00:40:24.19
Let's go to Exodus Chapter 32.
00:40:24.22\00:40:26.82
But what I'd like to do...
00:40:26.86\00:40:29.49
Wow, this is a
beautiful story here.
00:40:29.52\00:40:33.43
You could sometime
run through the story,
00:40:33.46\00:40:36.90
and what I'll do
after we read verse 1
00:40:36.93\00:40:39.73
of Exodus Chapter 32,
00:40:39.77\00:40:41.10
where our next
answer is coming from,
00:40:41.14\00:40:42.84
we're going to look at
some of the details in the story
00:40:42.87\00:40:44.51
before we go any
further, all right?
00:40:44.54\00:40:46.74
Here's the question.
00:40:46.78\00:40:48.28
What happened to the Israelites,
00:40:48.31\00:40:50.71
question number 18,
00:40:50.75\00:40:52.21
while Moses was in
the Mount of Sinai?
00:40:52.25\00:40:55.72
What happened to the Israelites
00:40:55.75\00:40:57.75
while Moses was in
the Mount of Sinai?
00:40:57.79\00:41:00.76
Now the question is,
why did Moses go up there?
00:41:00.79\00:41:05.36
What did he go up there for?
00:41:05.39\00:41:08.90
The Lord called him.
00:41:08.93\00:41:10.27
He went to receive
the Ten Commandments.
00:41:10.30\00:41:13.84
While he was gone...
00:41:13.87\00:41:15.20
Do you remember how
many days he was there?
00:41:15.24\00:41:18.07
For 40 days, for
40 days he was there,
00:41:18.11\00:41:21.88
and he seemed to
have been there so long
00:41:21.91\00:41:24.08
that the people
began to take liberties,
00:41:24.11\00:41:28.55
they began to
move in the direction
00:41:28.58\00:41:30.99
that God never
intended for them to move.
00:41:31.02\00:41:34.09
Now it may seem like we
don't have many questions,
00:41:34.12\00:41:35.96
but we're going to
take this story now,
00:41:35.99\00:41:37.99
and begin to
break out components
00:41:38.03\00:41:39.73
in that
particular story, all right?
00:41:39.76\00:41:42.23
Let's put the answer.
00:41:42.26\00:41:43.73
What happened to Moses while...
00:41:43.77\00:41:46.60
What happened to the Israelites
00:41:46.63\00:41:47.97
while Moses was in
the Mount of Sinai?
00:41:48.00\00:41:50.51
Exodus 32:1, here's
what the Bible says,
00:41:50.54\00:41:54.18
let's look at it together.
00:41:54.21\00:41:55.54
"Now when the people saw
that Moses delayed coming down
00:41:55.58\00:41:59.48
from the," what?
00:41:59.51\00:42:00.92
"From the mountain,
00:42:00.95\00:42:02.28
the people gathered together
to Aaron and said to him,"
00:42:02.32\00:42:06.29
Look at what
they said, here it is,
00:42:06.32\00:42:09.32
"Come, " read
the next three words,
00:42:09.36\00:42:11.73
"Make us gods that
shall go before us,
00:42:11.76\00:42:16.67
for as for this Moses,
00:42:16.70\00:42:18.63
the man who brought us
up out of the land of Egypt,
00:42:18.67\00:42:22.24
we do not know what
has become of him.' "
00:42:22.27\00:42:25.94
Well, the very
thing the Lord said
00:42:25.97\00:42:28.41
not to do is
exactly what they did.
00:42:28.44\00:42:30.61
Now, does that
sound like children today?
00:42:30.65\00:42:32.75
It's amazing how
the Lord calls them
00:42:32.78\00:42:34.15
the children of Israel.
00:42:34.18\00:42:37.22
When you say, "Dear children,
00:42:37.25\00:42:38.59
don't do this,
" what do they do?
00:42:38.62\00:42:40.36
Exactly what you
tell them not to do.
00:42:40.39\00:42:42.52
The same heart, the
same heart of rebellion.
00:42:42.56\00:42:45.89
Don't do that,
that's exactly what they do.
00:42:45.93\00:42:48.26
That's exactly how,
00:42:48.30\00:42:49.63
I mean, that's the
kind of young boy I was.
00:42:49.66\00:42:51.50
But let's go to
the very next verse,
00:42:51.53\00:42:54.04
the very next verse.
00:42:54.07\00:42:56.57
Well, first of all,
let's answer verse 1.
00:42:56.60\00:42:59.07
Let's answer verse 1.
00:42:59.11\00:43:00.94
What happened to the Israelites
00:43:00.98\00:43:02.41
while Moses was at
the Mountain of Sinai?
00:43:02.44\00:43:04.41
What do they do?
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.88
They request that
God, a God be made.
00:43:06.92\00:43:10.12
So write that down.
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.52
They requested that
a God would be made.
00:43:11.55\00:43:16.46
That's what they requested.
00:43:16.49\00:43:17.83
"We want us a God."
00:43:17.86\00:43:20.13
This is powerful.
00:43:20.16\00:43:21.50
We want us a God.
00:43:21.53\00:43:22.86
The Lord said, "Thou shalt
have no other gods before Me."
00:43:22.90\00:43:25.77
We want us a God.
00:43:25.80\00:43:27.60
What's going to happen to Moses?
00:43:27.64\00:43:28.97
What happened to
Moses? I have no idea.
00:43:29.00\00:43:30.34
Now there's a parallel
here that's very important
00:43:30.37\00:43:32.91
to what we're studying
00:43:32.94\00:43:34.28
because has Jesus returned yet?
00:43:34.31\00:43:37.25
Yes or no.
00:43:37.28\00:43:38.91
Does it appear as
though He is delayed?
00:43:38.95\00:43:42.15
Well, this is powerful,
00:43:42.18\00:43:43.52
there's a
powerful parallel here.
00:43:43.55\00:43:45.45
Has the Lord brought us out,
00:43:45.49\00:43:49.99
He's brought us out of
darkness into His, what?
00:43:50.03\00:43:52.16
Marvelous light.
00:43:52.19\00:43:53.66
Did He bring out the Israelites?
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.03
Yes, He did.
00:43:55.06\00:43:56.40
Now, if we compare the two,
00:43:56.43\00:43:59.10
what is our journey called
00:43:59.13\00:44:00.47
if you compare that to
the Israelites journey,
00:44:00.50\00:44:01.90
what is our journey now called?
00:44:01.94\00:44:03.44
We are in the...
00:44:03.47\00:44:06.37
Or in the wilderness.
00:44:06.41\00:44:08.38
So Egypt to Canaan,
00:44:08.41\00:44:12.01
darkness to
light, earth to heaven,
00:44:12.05\00:44:16.25
just like the
children of Israel,
00:44:16.28\00:44:18.15
we are in our
wilderness journey.
00:44:18.19\00:44:21.66
But let's look at
a couple of examples.
00:44:21.69\00:44:23.56
Go back with me...
00:44:23.59\00:44:25.49
Go with me now to
the Book of Hebrews,
00:44:25.53\00:44:28.06
but we've got Hebrews Chapter 3.
00:44:28.10\00:44:29.93
Before we got to
the very next question,
00:44:29.96\00:44:31.30
I want to give you some fillers
00:44:31.33\00:44:32.67
because, sorry 1
Corinthians Chapter 10,
00:44:32.70\00:44:35.40
1 Corinthians Chapter 10.
00:44:35.44\00:44:36.94
Okay.
00:44:39.67\00:44:41.01
1 Corinthians Chapter 10,
00:44:44.25\00:44:46.45
because
everything that they did,
00:44:46.48\00:44:50.52
the Lord is saying to us,
00:44:50.55\00:44:52.19
and Paul the Apostle
writes very emphatically
00:44:52.22\00:44:55.12
in 1 Corinthians Chapter 10.
00:44:55.16\00:44:58.43
He records
00:44:58.46\00:45:02.06
the journey of
the Israelites to say,
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.23
Yannick, look of what
they did and don't do it.
00:45:05.27\00:45:09.64
So God still has a to-do
list, and a not to-do list,
00:45:09.67\00:45:14.14
it's found in His Word.
00:45:14.18\00:45:15.51
Let's look at 1
Corinthians Chapter 10,
00:45:15.54\00:45:17.01
we'll walk
through this together.
00:45:17.05\00:45:19.68
Verse 1, "More over
brethren," the Bible says,
00:45:19.71\00:45:26.05
"I do not want you to be unaware
00:45:26.09\00:45:29.62
that all our fathers
were under the cloud,
00:45:29.66\00:45:32.79
all pass through the," what?
00:45:32.83\00:45:35.43
"All pass through
the sea, all were," what?
00:45:35.46\00:45:39.10
"Baptized."
00:45:39.13\00:45:40.47
Are you baptized?
00:45:40.50\00:45:41.84
Same language he's using
the New Testament language,
00:45:41.87\00:45:44.67
but in a similar
sense into Moses,
00:45:44.71\00:45:46.51
in the cloud, and in the sea.
00:45:46.54\00:45:50.68
Now I'll go to the next verse,
"All ate the same spiritual, "
00:45:50.71\00:45:53.68
what?
00:45:53.72\00:45:55.05
"Food."
00:45:55.08\00:45:56.42
What was that
same spiritual food?
00:45:56.45\00:45:57.79
Manna.
00:45:57.82\00:45:59.15
Today, it's the Word of God.
00:45:59.19\00:46:01.32
"And all drank the
same spiritual drink,
00:46:01.36\00:46:05.79
for they drank of
that spiritual rock
00:46:05.83\00:46:08.33
that followed them,"
and that rock was Christ.
00:46:08.36\00:46:11.90
Today, we have the same thing.
00:46:11.93\00:46:13.50
Our journeys are parallel.
00:46:13.54\00:46:16.07
This is where it just turns.
00:46:16.10\00:46:17.94
Anytime a sentence
following something so good
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.74
begins with the word, "But,"
00:46:20.78\00:46:22.11
it's a reversal of
what just happened.
00:46:22.14\00:46:23.98
Here it is.
00:46:24.01\00:46:25.38
"But with most of them,
God was not well pleased."
00:46:25.41\00:46:31.65
And what happened?
00:46:31.69\00:46:33.02
"For their bodies
were scattered," where?
00:46:33.05\00:46:35.62
"In the wilderness.
00:46:35.66\00:46:37.23
Now these things
became our examples."
00:46:37.26\00:46:41.96
What are they?
00:46:42.00\00:46:43.90
So if you want examples,
where do we look in the Bible?
00:46:43.93\00:46:47.07
What people do we look at?
00:46:47.10\00:46:49.37
Whatever the
Israelites did, don't do.
00:46:49.40\00:46:54.01
God's got a to-do
list and not to-do list.
00:46:54.04\00:46:56.44
If you want examples, He said.
00:46:56.48\00:47:00.42
"But with most of them,
God was not well pleased,
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.82
for their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness."
00:47:02.85\00:47:06.02
That's where we are,
00:47:06.05\00:47:07.39
we're in our
wilderness journey now.
00:47:07.42\00:47:09.12
Now verse 6, "These
things became our, "
00:47:09.16\00:47:13.23
say that word together,
"Examples to the intent,
00:47:13.26\00:47:18.13
that we should not lust
00:47:18.17\00:47:19.73
after evil things
as they also lusted."
00:47:19.77\00:47:24.31
Wow.
00:47:24.34\00:47:26.31
"And do not become
idolaters as were some of them."
00:47:26.34\00:47:29.94
Well, let me
not start preaching.
00:47:29.98\00:47:33.62
Idolatry means what?
00:47:33.65\00:47:34.98
What is an idolater?
00:47:35.02\00:47:36.35
In this
particular sense, I'm idle.
00:47:39.49\00:47:41.92
If your car's on idle,
are you going anywhere?
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.36
No, you're not going anywhere.
00:47:44.39\00:47:45.89
That means you're
just not doing anything.
00:47:45.93\00:47:48.76
They were idolaters.
00:47:48.80\00:47:50.13
Not only that,
00:47:50.17\00:47:51.50
but also as you just
said, they worship idols.
00:47:51.53\00:47:53.74
Had the dual application.
00:47:53.77\00:47:55.20
They were the kind
of people that just...
00:47:55.24\00:47:57.77
Where they were doing anything,
00:47:57.81\00:47:59.14
but what God had
called them to do.
00:47:59.17\00:48:00.81
Look where it goes on further
to emphasize and explain,
00:48:00.84\00:48:03.81
describing what
this idolatry was,
00:48:03.85\00:48:06.45
as were some of them.
00:48:06.48\00:48:08.22
"As it is written,"
and this is Exodus 32:6,
00:48:08.25\00:48:12.19
"the people sat
down to do," what?
00:48:12.22\00:48:14.69
"Eat, and drink,
and rose up to play."
00:48:14.72\00:48:18.86
They rose up to play.
00:48:18.89\00:48:20.83
They lived in a
generation just like ours.
00:48:20.86\00:48:23.67
And to think that we say today,
00:48:23.70\00:48:25.63
we have a whole lot
more things to do today
00:48:25.67\00:48:27.60
than they had then.
00:48:27.64\00:48:28.97
Hey, but they still
had things to play with.
00:48:29.00\00:48:31.01
Now I want you to
keep your hats on,
00:48:31.04\00:48:34.68
they're in the wilderness
now, what are they playing with?
00:48:34.71\00:48:37.91
Huh?
00:48:41.68\00:48:43.82
Somebody said sand.
00:48:43.85\00:48:45.19
That's a good analogy.
00:48:45.22\00:48:48.06
But I would suggest to you
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.19
that whatever they
brought out of Egypt
00:48:50.23\00:48:53.33
became their toys,
00:48:53.36\00:48:55.63
whatever they brought
with them out of Egypt
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.50
became a part of the
things that occupy their time.
00:48:57.53\00:49:00.64
It's so vitally
important as children
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that are on the way
to the Promised Land
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that we don't allow anything
that came out of Egypt to what?
00:49:06.34\00:49:09.34
Occupy our time
'cause they're idolaters.
00:49:09.38\00:49:12.31
Some people are
great Christians,
00:49:12.35\00:49:14.28
they sit down to
eat and drink potluck,
00:49:14.32\00:49:17.92
and they rise up to
do nothing but have fun.
00:49:17.95\00:49:20.79
Don't do that the Lord says,
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get involved in the
mission of the church,
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praise the Lord for that.
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But now let's go
on further, verse 8,
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"Nor let us
commit sexual immorality
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as some of them did."
00:49:32.77\00:49:35.30
And what was God's
attitude towards that?
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And in one day, how many died?
00:49:37.44\00:49:40.01
Twenty three thousand fell.
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But then not only that,
00:49:43.65\00:49:44.98
they became
dissatisfied with Christ.
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Now do we live in an
age of sexual immorality?
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Unbelievable,
00:49:51.12\00:49:53.36
we got to pass by all this stuff
00:49:53.39\00:49:55.22
on the way to the Promised Land,
00:49:55.26\00:49:56.73
and let me make a statement,
00:49:56.76\00:49:58.09
it came out of
Egypt, spiritual Egypt.
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It didn't come out of Canaan,
they're on their way to Canaan,
00:50:00.93\00:50:03.47
it's not there,
it came out of Egypt.
00:50:03.50\00:50:07.07
They learned this in Egypt,
and that's what they practice.
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Now let's go on, verse 9,
"Nor let us do," what else?
00:50:10.57\00:50:15.88
"Tempt Christ as some
of them also tempted, "
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and the word there is test,
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"And they were
destroyed of serpents."
00:50:24.75\00:50:27.86
Now let's keep going.
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Verse 10, "Nor murmur as
some of them also murmured,
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and were
destroyed by the destroyer."
00:50:34.10\00:50:37.77
So here they are,
they're in the land,
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they're in the desert,
they're on their way to Canaan,
00:50:39.93\00:50:42.67
and here they
are just having fun.
00:50:42.70\00:50:46.57
Get up early in the morning,
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and if you want to
read the rest of the story,
00:50:47.98\00:50:49.58
you go to Exodus
Chapter 16, "When the bread..."
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When the Lord rained down bread,
00:50:51.95\00:50:53.62
He said, "Get just
enough for one day."
00:50:53.65\00:50:55.65
What did they do? Who remembers?
00:50:55.68\00:50:57.65
They took twice as much.
00:50:57.69\00:51:00.42
They were involved in appetite,
just like our generation.
00:51:00.46\00:51:04.06
And what happened
is except the Sabbath,
00:51:04.09\00:51:06.96
it's spoiled, and it stunk,
00:51:07.00\00:51:08.86
and you can walk
through the campground
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.27
and know who was
a late night eater.
00:51:10.30\00:51:13.23
Okay, I could
tell us in this tent,
00:51:13.27\00:51:15.60
but now look what the Lord says
00:51:15.64\00:51:16.97
about their examples, verse 11.
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"Now all these things
happen to them as," what?
00:51:20.84\00:51:24.68
"Examples, and they
were written for our," what?
00:51:24.71\00:51:28.32
"Admonition on whom the
ends of the ages have come."
00:51:28.35\00:51:34.02
I like these last two verses.
00:51:34.06\00:51:35.82
"Therefore let him
00:51:35.86\00:51:37.53
who thinks he stands take
heed, lest he, " does what?
00:51:37.56\00:51:40.56
"Lest he falls."
00:51:40.60\00:51:41.93
Be very careful
00:51:41.96\00:51:43.30
because we could,
like the Israelites,
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.73
we can say,
we've got the Sabbath,
00:51:44.77\00:51:46.60
we got diet, we have
the sanctuary message,
00:51:46.63\00:51:49.17
didn't they have that?
00:51:49.20\00:51:50.74
They had a
sanctuary right among them.
00:51:50.77\00:51:52.64
They had diet,
don't eat this, eat that.
00:51:52.67\00:51:55.38
They had the Sabbath.
00:51:55.41\00:51:56.75
They honored it, and
some of them didn't honor,
00:51:56.78\00:51:58.11
but they had all these things,
they had the vessels of truth.
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But we see what
happened to many of them.
00:52:01.48\00:52:04.22
But here's the beauty of
the Lord's grace, verse 13,
00:52:04.25\00:52:07.52
"No temptation has overtaken you
00:52:07.56\00:52:09.66
except such as," what?
00:52:09.69\00:52:11.83
"Common to man.
00:52:11.86\00:52:13.70
But God is," what?
00:52:13.73\00:52:15.26
"Faithful,
00:52:15.30\00:52:16.63
who will not
allow you to be tempted
00:52:16.67\00:52:18.20
beyond what you are able,
00:52:18.23\00:52:19.93
but with the temptation
also make a way of escape
00:52:19.97\00:52:23.14
that you may be
able to do," what?
00:52:23.17\00:52:24.97
"Bear."
00:52:25.01\00:52:26.34
So now here's
the context as I go
00:52:26.37\00:52:27.88
to the very next
question or the Exodus 32:2.
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They can't say
00:52:32.71\00:52:35.35
that the Egyptians
made them do anything.
00:52:35.38\00:52:39.49
They can't say we did this
00:52:39.52\00:52:41.02
because the Egyptians
were influencing us to do this.
00:52:41.06\00:52:45.23
Everything that
we do is a choice.
00:52:45.26\00:52:47.26
What is it?
00:52:47.30\00:52:48.63
It's a choice.
00:52:48.66\00:52:50.00
So what they did
then was out of harmony
00:52:50.03\00:52:52.27
with the will of God.
00:52:52.30\00:52:53.64
Now let's go to
question number 18.
00:52:53.67\00:52:55.20
But look at
verse 32, Chapter 32,
00:52:55.24\00:52:58.14
let's go to
verses 2 down to verse 4.
00:52:58.17\00:53:01.18
Before we
answer the second part,
00:53:01.21\00:53:03.38
before we answer the second part
00:53:03.41\00:53:05.68
of question number 18.
00:53:05.71\00:53:08.48
Okay, I'm there now.
00:53:08.52\00:53:11.19
I'll read
00:53:11.22\00:53:13.46
Exodus 32:2-4, here it is.
00:53:13.49\00:53:18.79
Okay, verse 2, what happened?
00:53:18.83\00:53:22.03
It's a terrible thing.
00:53:22.06\00:53:23.53
Here it is.
00:53:23.57\00:53:24.90
"And Aaron said to
them, 'Break off the," what?
00:53:24.93\00:53:28.94
"Golden earrings,
00:53:28.97\00:53:30.31
which are in the
ears of your wives, "
00:53:30.34\00:53:33.51
just like today, "Your
sons," just like today,
00:53:33.54\00:53:37.31
"And your
daughters, and" do what?
00:53:37.35\00:53:39.48
"Bring them to me.' "
00:53:39.51\00:53:40.98
Let's pause right there
00:53:41.02\00:53:42.35
because we think that
men wearing earrings is new.
00:53:42.38\00:53:46.09
They did it in Egypt.
00:53:46.12\00:53:48.06
So now to see that
practice in our generation today
00:53:48.09\00:53:50.79
is a practice
that has been around
00:53:50.83\00:53:52.29
for thousands and
thousands and thousands
00:53:52.33\00:53:55.03
and thousands of years.
00:53:55.06\00:53:57.03
It was practiced in Egypt.
00:53:57.07\00:53:58.93
Today we call it a fashions,
fads, styles, accessories,
00:53:58.97\00:54:04.81
but the Lord says,
00:54:04.84\00:54:07.84
"And Aaron said to them,
00:54:07.88\00:54:09.21
'Break off the
golden earrings.' "
00:54:09.24\00:54:10.58
And this very people now,
00:54:10.61\00:54:12.61
he knew exactly what
they had done with it,
00:54:12.65\00:54:14.22
exactly what the
Lord told them not to do,
00:54:14.25\00:54:15.78
that's exactly what they did.
00:54:15.82\00:54:17.45
Let's continue to
verse 3, continue to verse 3.
00:54:17.49\00:54:21.69
"So all the people
broke off the golden earrings
00:54:21.72\00:54:24.69
which were," what?
00:54:24.73\00:54:26.16
"In their ears,"
And what did they do?
00:54:26.19\00:54:29.56
"They brought them to Aaron."
00:54:29.60\00:54:32.70
And now verse 4,
00:54:32.73\00:54:35.37
"And he received the
gold from their hand,
00:54:35.40\00:54:39.01
and," what did he do?
00:54:39.04\00:54:40.74
"He fashioned it
with an engraving tool..."
00:54:40.78\00:54:44.28
Thou shalt not make
into any graven image.
00:54:44.31\00:54:47.02
The Lord just told them.
00:54:47.05\00:54:49.02
"And made a," what?
00:54:49.05\00:54:50.39
"Molded calf."
00:54:50.42\00:54:52.59
He made a molded calf.
00:54:52.62\00:54:54.59
And by the way, I'm
going to go to the very next,
00:54:54.62\00:54:57.36
I'm going to go to the
verse in just a moment here.
00:54:57.39\00:54:59.56
He did that, he
made this golden calf.
00:54:59.59\00:55:02.36
And then he said, as
we go on in the verse.
00:55:02.40\00:55:07.57
Look...
00:55:07.60\00:55:08.94
And I just, that's
the only part I haven't,
00:55:08.97\00:55:10.31
He says, "And he received them,
00:55:10.34\00:55:11.84
fashioned with
an engraving tool,
00:55:11.87\00:55:13.61
and made them a molden calf.
00:55:13.64\00:55:15.44
Then they said, 'This
is your God, O Israel,
00:55:15.48\00:55:18.51
that brought you out
of the land of Egypt.' "
00:55:18.55\00:55:20.85
I left that part of the
text out from the slide.
00:55:20.88\00:55:23.35
When they did that, He said,
00:55:23.39\00:55:24.72
"This is your God
that brought you out."
00:55:24.75\00:55:26.65
Now let me ask you the question.
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.02
If you were God,
would you be offended?
00:55:28.06\00:55:31.13
Because who brought them out?
00:55:31.16\00:55:32.63
God brought them
out with a mighty hand,
00:55:32.66\00:55:34.43
He delivered them,
00:55:34.46\00:55:35.80
but now they point
to this article of gold
00:55:35.83\00:55:39.27
that came from their
earrings that the women had,
00:55:39.30\00:55:43.47
the girls had, the sons had,
00:55:43.51\00:55:46.07
just like
today, just like today,
00:55:46.11\00:55:48.41
they ornamented
their body temples,
00:55:48.44\00:55:50.68
which God intended to be used
00:55:50.71\00:55:52.05
for the temple
articles of furniture
00:55:52.08\00:55:54.15
for the high priest
to wear in his garment.
00:55:54.18\00:55:56.55
But they had it on themselves,
00:55:56.58\00:55:57.92
they followed the
practices of the Egyptians.
00:55:57.95\00:56:00.06
And that's where
they got it from.
00:56:00.09\00:56:01.59
Now I want to go to verse 7,
00:56:01.62\00:56:03.59
and then I'm going
to lay some foundation
00:56:03.63\00:56:04.96
for our next program.
00:56:04.99\00:56:06.39
Let's look at the last question,
00:56:06.43\00:56:08.60
the last question.
00:56:08.63\00:56:09.96
How did the Lord
describe what had taken place
00:56:10.00\00:56:13.34
among the Israelites?
00:56:13.37\00:56:16.40
How did He describe
what had taken place
00:56:16.44\00:56:18.84
among the Israelites?
00:56:18.87\00:56:21.84
Look at Exodus 32:7,
this is an amazing verse.
00:56:21.88\00:56:28.58
Okay, the Bible says,
"And the Lord said to Moses,
00:56:28.62\00:56:33.25
'Go get down!
00:56:33.29\00:56:36.16
For your people whom you brought
00:56:36.19\00:56:39.19
out of the land of
Egypt have," done what?
00:56:39.23\00:56:41.56
"Have corrupted themselves.' "
00:56:41.60\00:56:44.03
I want you to
notice the tone that...
00:56:44.07\00:56:48.00
See God brought them out.
00:56:48.04\00:56:49.37
But what did He say to Moses?
00:56:49.40\00:56:51.21
These are your people.
00:56:51.24\00:56:53.04
What did he immediately do?
00:56:53.07\00:56:55.04
When they followed the
practices of the Egyptians,
00:56:55.08\00:56:57.95
the Lord said,
"Those are not My people.
00:56:57.98\00:57:00.55
Go down. These are
your people, Moses.
00:57:00.58\00:57:02.75
You need to go down
and talk to these folks
00:57:02.78\00:57:04.79
because they have
corrupted themselves."
00:57:04.82\00:57:07.92
Now when you look at that today,
00:57:07.96\00:57:09.69
and I want to tell
you today if Aaron,
00:57:09.72\00:57:12.19
if there was an Aaron
in the Adventist church
00:57:12.23\00:57:14.36
or many of the
churches that says,
00:57:14.40\00:57:15.73
break up the golden
earrings in your hand,
00:57:15.76\00:57:17.73
in your ears of
the sons and daughters,
00:57:17.77\00:57:19.63
I tell you, there'll
be a lot of golden gods
00:57:19.67\00:57:21.47
in Christian churches nowadays
00:57:21.50\00:57:23.24
because the church
to the greatest degree
00:57:23.27\00:57:25.27
have followed the practices
00:57:25.31\00:57:26.71
that are here
described in our journey
00:57:26.74\00:57:29.24
from the world to the
kingdom from Egypt to Canaan,
00:57:29.28\00:57:33.38
from earth to heaven.
00:57:33.42\00:57:34.75
The churches of the world
look more like the Egyptians
00:57:34.78\00:57:41.39
than the Israelites.
00:57:41.42\00:57:43.02
Next week, you're going
to see in the next covering,
00:57:43.06\00:57:45.46
we're going to show you
when gold and jewels were worn,
00:57:45.49\00:57:50.67
the Lord never identified
His people as His people.
00:57:50.70\00:57:55.00
He always
disconnected His identity.
00:57:55.04\00:57:57.91
Friends, keep studying.
00:57:57.94\00:57:59.37
If you don't make...
00:57:59.41\00:58:00.74
If it doesn't make sense,
00:58:00.78\00:58:02.11
one day it surely will
come into A Sharper Focus.
00:58:02.14\00:58:04.48
God bless you.
00:58:04.51\00:58:05.85