Well once again,
welcome to Anchor Bible school.
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We're glad you're here.
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Has it been an
exciting experience so far?
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Praise the Lord.
You're not too tired, right?
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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You must have gotten a
good night's sleep last night.
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I know I did.
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But I'm glad to have you here.
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And we have some
exciting things to study
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in this particular session.
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I want us to go in our syllabus
to the bottom of page 16.
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The bottom of page
16 of our syllabus.
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And I'm going to read this
statement from Ellen White.
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We're dealing with the principle
that Christ is the center
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of the Old Testament.
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He's the Hero of
the Old Testament.
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Every text in the Old Testament
points to Jesus Christ.
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Ellen White caught
this important point
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in this statement
from, Desire Of Ages,
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pages 211 and 212.
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This is what she says.
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This is an audacious statement.
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"In every page..."
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How many pages?
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"In every page, whether history,
or precept, or prophecy,
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the Old Testament Scriptures
are irradiated with the
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glory of the Son of God."
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So what is the glory
of the Old Testament?
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Jesus.
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"So far as it was of divine
institution, the entire system
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of Judaism was a compacted
prophecy of the gospel."
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What does, "compacted," mean?
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Scale model, folks.
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A compacted prophecy, see?
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And then Jesus gives it
breath when He fulfills it.
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She continues saying, "To Christ
'give all the prophets witness.'
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From the promise given
to Adam, down through the
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patriarchal line and the legal
economy, heaven's glorious light
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made plain the
footsteps of the Redeemer.
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Seers beheld the Star of
Bethlehem, the Shiloh to come,
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as future things swept before
them in mysterious procession.
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In every sacrifice
Christ's death was shown.
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In every cloud of incense
His righteousness ascended.
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By every jubilee
trumpet His name was sounded.
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In the awful mystery of the
holy of holies His glory dwelt."
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Quite a statement, isn't it.
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And you read the
book, Desire Of Ages,
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it becomes very clear
that Ellen White not only had
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this in a theoretical
sense, but the Desire Of Ages
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shows Jesus in all of His
glory in the Old Testament,
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as well as the books,
Patriarchs And Prophets,
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and Prophets And Kings.
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Now St. Augustine...
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I don't like to
quote saints that much.
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Especially when they're
human saints, so called.
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But he said something I
think that is very wise.
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He said, "The New is
in the Old concealed.
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And the Old is in
the New revealed."
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That's a nice way to
put it in a nutshell.
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Now going to page 17,
the Old Testament is not
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abolished, but rather fulfilled.
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Is there a difference between
abolishing and fulfilling?
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Yes.
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Notice, let's
change the word around
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from,
"fulfill," to, "fill full."
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What does Jesus do
with the Old Testament?
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He fills it full of meaning.
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To fulfill means, to fill full.
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Jesus fills the Old
Testament with meaning.
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If Jesus had not come,
the Old Testament would be
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an incomprehensible riddle.
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Jesus gives meaning
to the Old Testament.
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If Christ had not
come, the Old Testament
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would have no
explanation or reason.
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What would be the reason
for killing millions of animals?
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The Old Testament
in itself has no light.
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It's light is reflected light.
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The Old Testament is
a collection of stories,
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laws, precepts,
biographies, and events.
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If the Old Testament were
alone, it would be an enigma.
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The Old Testament
is like a light bulb.
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Christ must give the
bulb electric current
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in order for the Old
Testament to give light.
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Now, the Jews and Christians
commit the same basic mistake.
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The Christians
of today, they say,
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"Well, we're New
Testament Christians."
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And the Jews say,
"We're Old Testament.
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Not Christians, but we
go by the Old Testament."
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Now actually when
you look at it carefully,
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both of them are
committing the same error.
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Because Christians don't
see Christ in the Old Testament,
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and the Jews don't
see Christ in the New.
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Let's read this statement.
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Christ's Object
Lessons, 128 and 129.
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"There are those who
profess to believe and to teach
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the truths of the Old Testament,
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while they reject the New."
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Who would those be?
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The Jews.
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"But in refusing to
receive the teachings of Christ,
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they show that they do not
believe that which patriarchs
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and prophets have spoken.
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'Had ye believed Moses,'
Christ said, 'ye would have
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believed Me;
for he wrote of Me.'
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Hence there is no real
power in their teaching
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of even the Old Testament.
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Many who claim to
believe and to teach the gospel
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are in a similar error."
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Who would those be?
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New Testament
Christians, so called.
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"They set aside the
Old Testament Scriptures,
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of which Christ declared, 'They
are they which testify of Me.'
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In rejecting the Old,
they virtually reject the New;
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for both are parts
of an inseparable whole.
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No man can rightly present the
law of God without the gospel,
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or the gospel without the law.
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The law is the gospel embodied,
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and the gospel
is the law unfolded.
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The law is the root, the
gospel is the fragrant blossom
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and fruit which it bears.
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The Old Testament
sheds light upon the New,
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and the New upon the Old.
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Each is a revelation of
the glory of God in Christ.
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Both present truths that will
continually reveal new depths
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of meaning to
the earnest seeker."
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And so that's a very
significant statement.
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You know, people who say,
"I'm a New Testament Christian,"
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you can't understand the
New Testament without the Old.
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And those who say, "Oh,
I go by the Old Testament.
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You know, I'm not a Christian."
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Well, they can never
really understand the Old.
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Because the center
of the Old is Christ,
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and the center of
the New is Christ.
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So you can't accept one
and not accept the other
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without seeing Christ.
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And so Christ is at the
very center of Scripture.
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Now I have a list
of prophecies here
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from the Old
Testament about Christ.
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I'm going to go
through these very quickly.
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I'm not going to
mention the references.
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You know, for those who
are watching this streaming,
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we've received several
requests to have the materials
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that we're making available.
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And you know, if
you beg hard enough,
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we might accommodate you.
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But I'm not going to
take the time to mention
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the specific verses, I'm just
going to mention the events.
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Because you have the
verses in the syllabus.
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The Old
Testament says that Jesus
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would be born in Bethlehem.
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He would be born of a virgin.
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He would be announced by a star.
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Children would be
massacred when He was born.
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He would be called out of Egypt.
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He would be baptized or
anointed when the 69th week
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of Daniel 9 ended.
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He would perform marvelous works
and be a powerful preacher.
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The Jews would
reject His message.
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The Jews would serve
Him only with their lips.
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He would enter
Jerusalem on a donkey in the
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midst of great acclamation.
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He would cast out the
money changers from the temple.
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Zeal for God's
house would consume Him.
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He would be sold
for 30 pieces of silver.
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His disciples
would all forsake Him.
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He would die a vicarious death.
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He would say on the
cross, "My God, My God,
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why have You forsaken Me?"
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That comes directly
from Psalm 22 and verse 1,
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the very words that
Jesus spoke on the cross.
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His hands and His
feet would be pierced.
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Lots would be
cast upon His garments.
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His heart would be
poured out like water.
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His enemies
would spit in His face.
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His enemies would dare Him
to come down from the cross.
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None of His
bones would be broken.
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On the cross He
would say, "I thirst."
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His passion would last
three days and three nights.
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His burial would
be with the rich.
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He would resurrect from
the dead on the third day.
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He would ascend to heaven,
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and He would sit at
the Father's right hand.
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Do you think there
was sufficient evidence
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that Jesus was the Messiah?
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Of course there was.
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But reading the Old
Testament without Christ
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will lead you to
wrong conclusions.
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And that's the problem
with the Jewish nation today,
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those who have not
accepted Jesus as the Messiah.
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They have a
veil over their mind.
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And the veil is taken
away when they see Jesus
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in the Old Testament, when
they see that their Messiah
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is Jesus Christ.
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You know, we say Jesus
Christ belongs to the church.
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No, the Messiah
belongs to the Jews first.
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It's their Messiah.
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And when they see
Jesus in the Old Testament,
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the Old Testament
suddenly becomes a light bulb
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that when you turn on
the switch, you say, "Wow.
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We've missed our
Messiah totally and completely."
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And Ellen White
states that in the end time,
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there will be
thousands upon thousands of Jews
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that will accept the
message of the remnant
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and come over
to the Lord's side.
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And so we love the Jews.
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We love them because,
you know, through this nation
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God brought the
oracles of God to us.
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God loves them.
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And we need to pray for them
that they will see the light,
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that they will see the
reason for their own religion.
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They don't have a
reason for their religion.
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What was the purpose
of all of the sacrifices?
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What was the purpose
of all of the incense?
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What is the meaning
of the Hebrew feasts?
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What does the Sanctuary teach?
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Totally in the dark until
you see that Jesus fulfills
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everything, and say, "Wow,
look what I've been missing."
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Now, what I want us to
do is go to the material,
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"The Lord is Our Rock."
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"The Lord is Our Rock."
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I'm going to illustrate now
the steps that we need to follow
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in finding Christ
in a particular passage
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from the Old Testament,
or a particular symbol
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in the Old Testament.
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And we're going to go
through this material,
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"The Lord is Our
Rock," and we're going to see
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several
principles involved here.
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We're going to see the
principle of sola scriptura.
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We're going to see
Christ at the center.
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We're going to see
the importance of the
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study of structure.
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We're going to look at
several principles here.
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And I'll bring
them out as we go along.
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Now there is an
intimate connection between
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what Jesus did on the
cross and the fire that fell
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on the day of Pentecost.
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You cannot understand the fire
unless you understand the cross.
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So the first thing that I want
us to notice is that there's a
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very close link between
the cross and the fire that
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descended on the
day of Pentecost.
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The second point
that I want to underline
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is that the important
thing that took place on the
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day of Pentecost was
not what happened on earth.
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The important event
took place in heaven.
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And what took place on earth
was simply the announcement
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of what was
taking place in heaven.
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In fact, do you know that
every time that Jesus begins
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a new work in the Sanctuary,
there's an earthly announcement?
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Let me ask you, when Jesus came
to the camp to camp with us,
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was it announced?
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Remember the angels singing,
"Glory to God in the highest."
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Remember the wise men who came?
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They announced that
the Messiah had been born.
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There was an
earthly announcement.
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When Jesus was
about to go to the cross,
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was there an announcement?
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Remember the triumphal entry,
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a little less than a week
before Jesus died on the cross?
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The purpose was to attract
the attention of everybody.
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Are you following me or not?
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When Jesus was going to
begin His work in the Holy Place
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of the Sanctuary, was
there an earthly announcement?
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Of course there was.
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There was a mighty rushing wind,
and there were tongues of fire,
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and the place shook.
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There were tremendous phenomena
that took place on earth.
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But that was an
announcement of something that
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Jesus had begun to do in heaven.
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And let me ask
you, leading up to 1844,
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was there an
earthly announcement?
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Oh, yes there was.
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The Millerite movement
was announcing that Jesus was
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about to enter a new
phase of His ministry in the
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heavenly Sanctuary
in the Most Holy Place.
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See, there's
always an announcement
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when Jesus is going to move
into a new phase of His work.
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Is there going to
be an announcement
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when the judgment of the
living is about to begin?
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The loud cry will be
the announcement that the
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judgment of the living is either
beginning or about to begin.
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Because the Sabbath
issue will be the issue
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that will determine who is on
one side or who is on the other.
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So there will be this powerful
loud cry announcement on earth
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announcing that the
judgment of the living
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is either beginning
or is about to begin.
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There's no date attached.
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But we can know
when thousands of people
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are leaving their churches
and joining the remnant church.
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We know that the final
movements are going to be
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very, very rapid ones.
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So two things.
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Number one, there's a connection
between the cross and the fire.
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And number two, the important
event was not on earth.
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The important
event was in heaven.
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The earthly event was
simply an announcement
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of something that
was happening in heaven.
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Now let's go to the
next section in our material.
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And I want to show
you the connection between
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the sacrifice and the fire.
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There's this
pattern in the Old Testament
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where you have a
sacrifice, and then God consumes
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the sacrifice with fire.
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There's this pattern
that I want us to notice.
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The first example
is Abel's sacrifice.
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Now the Bible
doesn't mention specifically
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that God sent fire to
consume Abel's sacrifice.
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But it stands to reason
when we look at all of the other
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examples in the Old Testament.
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That's the way that God showed
that He accepted a sacrifice.
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So I'm going to read this
statement from Ellen White,
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Signs Of The
Times, February 6, 1879,
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where Ellen White
explains that "God had respect
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unto this sacrifice,"
that is unto Abel's sacrifice,
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"and fire came down
from Heaven and consumed it."
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How did God show that He
accepted Abel's sacrifice
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and not Cain's sacrifice?
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Because He consumed
the sacrifice that was
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offered by Abel.
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Sacrifice; fire.
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The next example that I want
to give is when the wilderness
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tabernacle was
inaugurated in the desert.
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Let's read
Leviticus 9 verses 22 to 24.
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"Then Aaron lifted his hand
toward the people, blessed them,
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and came down
from offering the..."
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Notice, three offerings.
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"...the sin offering, the burnt
offering, and peace offerings.
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And Moses and Aaron went
into the tabernacle of meeting,
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and came out and
blessed the people.
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Then the glory of the Lord
appeared to all the people..."
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And now notice, how did
God show that He accepted these
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three sacrifices that
were placed upon the altar?
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Verse 24, "...and fire
came out from before the Lord
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and consumed the burnt offering
and the fat on the altar.
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When all the people
saw it, they shouted
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and fell on their faces."
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So how did God show that
He accepted these sacrifices
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upon the altar?
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By consuming them with fire.
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Sacrifice; fire.
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The next example I
want to give is from the
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period of the Hebrew monarchy,
the period of the Hebrew kings.
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1 Chronicles 21:26
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You remember that
the ark of the covenant
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was placed on Ornan's
threshing floor for a while
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before it was taken to Jerusalem
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after it was
recovered from the Philistines.
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And I want you to notice
that David offered a sacrifice,
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and then something happened.
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Let's read it, 1 Chronicles
chapter 21 and verse 26.
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"And David built
there an altar to the Lord,
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and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings,
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and called on the Lord.
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And He answered
him from heaven by fire
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on the altar of burnt offering."
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Once again,
sacrifice, and then what?
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Fire, showing that God
accepted the sacrifice.
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The next example I want
to give is when the temple
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built by Solomon was dedicated.
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Notice I did not
say, "Solomon's temple."
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Because it
wasn't Solomon's temple.
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Neither was the ark, Noah's ark.
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Nor was Jacob's ladder Jacob's.
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It's the Lord's
ladder, it's the Lord's ark,
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and it's the Lord's temple.
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So when the temple built
by Solomon was dedicated,
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I want you to notice
what happened, according to
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2 Chronicles
chapter 7 and verse 1.
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"When Solomon had
finished praying, fire came down
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from heaven and
consumed the burnt offering
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and the sacrifices;
and the glory of the Lord
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filled the temple."
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Once again,
sacrifice, and then what?
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Fire.
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So there's this pattern.
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Sacrifice;
fire. Sacrifice; fire.
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Let's go to one further example.
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1 Kings chapter 18 and verse 38,
1 Kings chapter 18 and verse 38.
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This is the experience
of Elijah on Mount Carmel.
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You remember that he put
the sacrifices, the animals,
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upon the altar.
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And I want you to notice
how God responded to his plea.
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And of course, we
all know this story.
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It says, "Then the fire
of the Lord fell and consumed
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the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood and the stones
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and the dust, and
it licked up the water
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that was in the trench.
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Now when all the people saw
it, they fell on their faces
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and they said,
'The Lord, He is God!
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The Lord, He is God!'"
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So you have this pattern
of sacrifice, and then fire,
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showing that God
accepted the sacrifice.
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Now what I want us to do is
to look at a different symbolism
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that teaches the same lesson.
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You see, there's the idea
that the sacrifice is accepted
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by the Lord because of the fire.
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But now let's look at
another symbol that teaches
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the same lesson.
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I'm referring to the
rock from which water came
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in the Old Testament.
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So let's go in our
Bibles to Exodus chapter 17
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and verses 1 through 6.
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Exodus 17 and
verses 1 through 6.
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There are two rock
episodes in the Old Testament.
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And each of them
teaches a very important lesson.
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Exodus 17:1-6
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You're going to see in a
minute how this symbolism
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relates to the
symbolism of sacrifice and fire.
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It's the same lesson,
but with different symbols.
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Exodus 17 verse 1 says,
"Then all the congregation
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of the children of
Israel set out on their journey
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from the Wilderness of Sin,
according to the commandment
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of the Lord, and
camped in Rephidim;
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but there was no water
for the people to drink.
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Therefore the people
contended with Moses, and said,
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'Give us water,
that we may drink.'
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So Moses said to them,
'Why do you contend with me?
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Why do you tempt the Lord?'
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And the people thirsted
there for water, and the people
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complained against Moses, and
said, 'Why is it that you have
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brought us up out of Egypt,
to kill us and our children
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and our livestock with thirst?'"
00:21:42.47\00:21:45.07
Let me ask you, is
grumbling and mumbling sin?
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The Bible says, "Whatever
is not of faith is sin,"
00:21:51.82\00:21:55.79
in Romans 14 verse 23.
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"Whatever is not
of faith is sin."
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Was Israel showing
ungratefulness toward God?
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I mean, read the
previous chapter.
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God had rained bread
from the bakery of heaven.
00:22:06.25\00:22:08.96
Imagine how busy the
angels were making this bread
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to feed a million men, not
counting women and children,
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every day except one day
of the week for 40 years.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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They had seen the Red Sea open,
00:22:26.05\00:22:27.35
they had seen the
Egyptians swallowed,
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they had seen the
plagues falling upon Egypt.
00:22:29.37\00:22:31.54
They had seen all kinds of
signs that God was with them
00:22:31.57\00:22:35.52
and that God was blessing them.
00:22:35.55\00:22:36.81
And now they're complaining
because there's no water.
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They deserved to fall
under the judgment of God.
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So in verse 4 we're told,
"So Moses cried out to the Lord,
00:22:43.67\00:22:47.89
saying, 'What shall
I do with this people?
00:22:47.92\00:22:50.94
They are almost
ready to stone me.'"
00:22:50.97\00:22:53.54
And now God says
something very interesting.
00:22:55.04\00:22:57.90
"And the Lord said to
Moses, 'Go on before the people,
00:22:59.24\00:23:03.30
and take with you some
of the elders of Israel.
00:23:04.08\00:23:07.07
Also take in your hand
your rod with which you
00:23:07.68\00:23:11.06
struck the river...'"
00:23:11.09\00:23:12.48
That is the river Nile
when it was turned into blood.
00:23:12.77\00:23:15.09
"...with which you
struck the river, and go."
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.27
Verse 6, "Behold, I
will stand before you there
00:23:18.54\00:23:23.79
on the rock in Horeb; and
you shall strike the rock,
00:23:23.82\00:23:28.87
and water will come out of
it, that the people may drink."
00:23:29.41\00:23:33.50
Now, this is an
interesting episode.
00:23:34.64\00:23:37.66
You have three
symbols in this story.
00:23:38.20\00:23:40.22
You have a rock, you have
a rod, and you have the water
00:23:40.82\00:23:45.17
that comes from the rock.
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So how do you suppose we can
find out what the rock means,
00:23:47.09\00:23:49.89
and what the rod means,
and what the water represents?
00:23:50.09\00:23:53.49
Hello.
00:23:54.90\00:23:56.30
Sola scriptura.
00:23:56.71\00:23:59.06
Because if you only
read this passage, you have
00:24:00.31\00:24:02.52
no
interpretation to the symbols.
00:24:02.55\00:24:04.86
So where do you find other
passages that allude to this
00:24:05.76\00:24:09.11
story that we find here?
00:24:09.20\00:24:10.70
A Bible concordance.
00:24:11.50\00:24:13.31
And where else?
00:24:13.47\00:24:14.85
The marginal
references, that's right.
00:24:15.43\00:24:18.15
And so when we go to
a concordance, we find
00:24:18.72\00:24:22.33
all sorts of text that
help us understand what God
00:24:22.36\00:24:25.46
wanted to teach through
this particular passage.
00:24:25.49\00:24:29.18
Now in this passage
we have three symbols.
00:24:29.21\00:24:32.55
And we need to study
each symbol within itself
00:24:32.97\00:24:37.50
and determine
what that symbol means.
00:24:37.53\00:24:39.42
And then after we've
done that individually,
00:24:39.45\00:24:42.09
we'll put them all
together to get the picture.
00:24:42.12\00:24:44.82
So what you do is you interpret
the symbols individually.
00:24:45.14\00:24:47.95
And then after you understand
what each symbol means,
00:24:48.15\00:24:50.55
then you bring them together
so that you see how they
00:24:50.58\00:24:53.07
relate to each other.
00:24:53.10\00:24:54.27
Now the first symbol
that we want to take a look at
00:24:54.61\00:24:56.99
is the rock.
00:24:57.02\00:24:58.37
What does the rock represent?
00:24:58.79\00:25:01.09
Well, Deuteronomy 32 verse 4.
00:25:01.62\00:25:04.06
Nine times in this chapter
it tells us that the rock
00:25:04.70\00:25:08.78
is the Lord.
00:25:09.11\00:25:10.44
Should Israel have understood
even that in the Old Testament
00:25:10.77\00:25:13.70
that the rock was
more than a literal rock?
00:25:13.73\00:25:15.95
They could understand
that in the Old Testament.
00:25:16.39\00:25:18.48
Yes.
00:25:19.16\00:25:20.23
Could they have
understood that the manna
00:25:20.33\00:25:22.33
was more than physical food?
00:25:22.36\00:25:23.98
Yes, because Moses
told them in Deuteronomy 8.
00:25:24.35\00:25:27.58
He says that God gave
them manna from heaven
00:25:27.61\00:25:30.42
that they might know that man
does not live by bread alone,
00:25:30.45\00:25:33.25
but by ever word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God.
00:25:33.28\00:25:35.60
They knew that the
manna represented God's word.
00:25:35.63\00:25:37.46
Moses told them so.
00:25:37.49\00:25:38.64
And so they should have known
that the rock was a symbol,
00:25:39.67\00:25:42.48
even in the Old Testament.
00:25:42.51\00:25:43.60
It says in Deuteronomy 32
verse 4, "He is the Rock..."
00:25:43.63\00:25:47.55
See, the rock is a person.
00:25:47.58\00:25:48.91
"...His work is perfect;
for all His ways are justice,
00:25:49.54\00:25:53.00
a God of truth
and without injustice;
00:25:53.03\00:25:55.09
righteous and upright is He."
00:25:55.12\00:25:56.80
And in this
chapter 32, you know,
00:25:56.83\00:25:59.78
Moses is bragging a little bit.
00:26:00.60\00:26:01.76
He says, "The rock of the
pagans is not like our Rock."
00:26:01.79\00:26:06.16
Because the pagans
had their rock too.
00:26:07.27\00:26:09.34
But their gods
were made out of stone.
00:26:09.75\00:26:12.95
Here, the stone
represents the Lord.
00:26:12.98\00:26:15.52
Now, the rock then in the Old
Testament represents the Lord.
00:26:16.67\00:26:21.57
But which particular
Person are we dealing with here?
00:26:22.18\00:26:24.53
Because we have God the
Father, we have the Son,
00:26:24.56\00:26:26.67
we have the Holy Spirit.
00:26:26.70\00:26:27.73
Which individual
here are we dealing with?
00:26:27.90\00:26:31.40
1 Corinthians chapter
10 and verses 1 through 4
00:26:31.75\00:26:34.30
has the answer; 1
Corinthians 10:1-4.
00:26:34.33\00:26:36.91
"Moreover, brethren, I do
not want you to be unaware
00:26:37.81\00:26:40.62
that all our fathers
were under the cloud,
00:26:41.26\00:26:43.59
all passed through the sea,
all were baptized into Moses
00:26:43.90\00:26:47.41
in the cloud and in the
sea, all ate the same..." What?
00:26:47.44\00:26:51.42
"...spiritual food..."
00:26:52.24\00:26:53.91
Ah, it wasn't
only physical food.
00:26:53.94\00:26:55.77
The same spiritual food.
00:26:56.24\00:26:57.95
"...and all drank the
same spiritual drink."
00:26:58.22\00:27:01.69
So water represents something
beyond the literal water,
00:27:01.72\00:27:05.12
beyond the literal H2O.
00:27:05.15\00:27:07.23
"For they drank
from that spiritual Rock
00:27:07.74\00:27:11.45
that followed them,
and that Rock was Christ."
00:27:11.48\00:27:15.50
So who is the Lord who is
mentioned in Deuteronomy 32?
00:27:17.06\00:27:20.92
Jesus Christ.
00:27:21.76\00:27:22.96
Jesus Christ is the Rock.
00:27:24.09\00:27:25.70
Now you know what's
interesting in this story,
00:27:26.12\00:27:28.33
in this story in Exodus 17?
00:27:28.78\00:27:30.38
Jesus tells Moses,
because it's Jesus speaking,
00:27:31.35\00:27:34.55
He says, you know, "I'm
going to go and I'm going to
00:27:34.58\00:27:36.87
stand on the rock."
00:27:36.90\00:27:38.04
So there you have
the symbol and what the
00:27:38.07\00:27:40.54
symbol represents together.
00:27:40.57\00:27:43.82
The rock is the symbol, and
Jesus is standing on the rock.
00:27:45.20\00:27:50.23
So you have the
symbol and what the symbol
00:27:50.71\00:27:53.10
represents in the story.
00:27:53.13\00:27:54.84
And so now we have to interpret
what the rod represents.
00:27:56.12\00:27:58.33
Is it clear what
the rock represents?
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Now we need to interpret
what the rod represents.
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What does the rod represent?
00:28:03.41\00:28:05.77
Well, the rod
represents judgment.
00:28:06.36\00:28:09.09
Every time that Moses
raised his rod, what happened?
00:28:10.04\00:28:13.43
A judgment fell
upon the Egyptians.
00:28:13.93\00:28:17.33
But not only does the
rod represent judgment,
00:28:17.90\00:28:20.63
but the act of smiting
with the rod represents
00:28:20.66\00:28:24.36
that judgment is falling upon.
00:28:24.39\00:28:26.90
In other words, the act
of the rod striking the rock
00:28:27.91\00:28:31.20
or falling upon the
rock means that a judgment
00:28:31.23\00:28:34.15
is falling upon the rock.
00:28:34.18\00:28:36.12
I can imagine that when Moses
was there before the people
00:28:36.15\00:28:39.83
and they were
complaining and murmuring,
00:28:39.86\00:28:41.67
and now Moses raises
his rod before the people,
00:28:41.70\00:28:45.01
the people were probably
shaking in their sandals.
00:28:45.04\00:28:47.96
Whoo, they knew the
power that was in that rod;
00:28:49.20\00:28:52.54
that rod of judgment.
00:28:53.38\00:28:54.91
But lo and behold, instead
of the rod falling upon the
00:28:54.94\00:28:58.39
people who were guilty,
the rod fell upon the Rock.
00:28:58.42\00:29:01.61
Interesting.
00:29:02.73\00:29:03.91
Now the word,
"smite," that is used here,
00:29:05.02\00:29:07.94
"You will smite the rock,"
is the Hebrew word, "nakah."
00:29:07.97\00:29:11.43
And basically, this word is
translated in different ways
00:29:12.66\00:29:16.69
in the Old Testament.
00:29:16.72\00:29:17.93
It's translated, to
smite, to hit, to kill.
00:29:18.22\00:29:23.83
There are many, many
different synonymous terms
00:29:23.86\00:29:25.99
that are used to describe this.
00:29:26.02\00:29:29.00
So the act of smiting
with the rod symbolizes
00:29:29.94\00:29:33.49
the fact that the
judgment is falling upon.
00:29:33.52\00:29:36.63
Now let's read
Isaiah 53 verse 4,
00:29:37.66\00:29:40.18
this Messianic prophecy.
00:29:40.28\00:29:41.64
Interesting Messianic prophecy
that uses the very same word,
00:29:41.67\00:29:44.75
"smite," but it
applies it to the Messiah.
00:29:44.78\00:29:48.84
Notice Isaiah 53 and verse 4.
00:29:49.04\00:29:53.71
It says there, "Surely
He has borne our griefs
00:29:54.45\00:29:59.42
and our sorrows; yet
we esteemed Him nakah..."
00:29:59.52\00:30:05.00
We esteemed the Messiah, what?
00:30:07.71\00:30:10.11
Stricken.
00:30:11.96\00:30:13.18
Same identical word that
is used for striking the rock.
00:30:13.21\00:30:16.41
It says, "...yet we
esteemed Him stricken,
00:30:16.73\00:30:20.01
smitten by..." Whom?
00:30:20.60\00:30:22.63
"...smitten by
God, and afflicted."
00:30:22.83\00:30:26.40
So the rod represents judgment.
00:30:27.06\00:30:29.45
And the falling of the
rod represents execution
00:30:29.55\00:30:33.21
of judgment.
00:30:33.24\00:30:34.45
It means punishing.
00:30:35.09\00:30:36.79
Now what does
the water represent?
00:30:38.26\00:30:40.03
We've interpreted
two symbols so far.
00:30:40.23\00:30:42.25
The first symbol is the rock.
00:30:42.64\00:30:45.15
It represents whom?
00:30:45.18\00:30:46.49
Christ.
00:30:46.73\00:30:47.76
And then you have the
rod, which represents judgment.
00:30:48.00\00:30:51.92
And the act of smiting
represents the fact that the
00:30:51.95\00:30:54.71
judgment is falling upon.
00:30:54.74\00:30:56.26
Incidentally, when Moses smote
with the rod the river Nile,
00:30:56.29\00:31:00.90
a plague fell, a judgment fell.
00:31:00.93\00:31:03.04
The Nile was turned into blood.
00:31:03.14\00:31:04.53
And when he smote the dust,
lice came forth from the dust.
00:31:04.56\00:31:09.50
So the act of
smiting means that a judgment
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.84
of God is falling upon.
00:31:11.87\00:31:13.77
Now what does the water
represent in this episode?
00:31:13.80\00:31:17.17
Well when the rock was
smitten, it gave its what?
00:31:18.18\00:31:21.33
It gave its water.
00:31:21.50\00:31:22.80
Now what does
the water represent?
00:31:24.11\00:31:26.17
The water represents the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
00:31:26.20\00:31:29.23
You say, "Well, where
do you get that from?"
00:31:30.54\00:31:32.39
Let's go to John
chapter 7 verses 37 to 39.
00:31:32.67\00:31:35.99
John chapter 7 verses 37 to 39.
00:31:36.19\00:31:39.00
You know, in this passage Jesus
is at the Feast of Tabernacles.
00:31:40.32\00:31:43.73
And it's the last day of
the Feast of Tabernacles.
00:31:44.21\00:31:46.52
It's the 8th day.
00:31:46.55\00:31:47.58
It's called the
great day of the feast.
00:31:47.61\00:31:49.43
And Jesus is
present in Jerusalem.
00:31:49.68\00:31:51.68
And He's going to make
a revolutionary statement.
00:31:51.92\00:31:54.02
In verse 37 it
says, "On the last day,
00:31:54.63\00:31:57.77
that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out,
00:31:58.07\00:32:01.88
saying, 'If anyone thirsts,
let him come to Me and drink.'"
00:32:01.91\00:32:08.30
So who is the Rock? Jesus.
00:32:09.66\00:32:12.53
He said, "I'm the
Rock. Come to Me and drink."
00:32:12.56\00:32:15.24
Like people came
to the rock to drink.
00:32:15.73\00:32:17.78
Jesus says,
"Come to Me and drink."
00:32:18.05\00:32:20.08
And now comes
something very important.
00:32:20.51\00:32:22.46
"He who believes in Me..."
00:32:22.99\00:32:24.86
The word, "believes,"
means to trust in Jesus.
00:32:25.38\00:32:27.59
It means to
claim Jesus as Savior.
00:32:27.62\00:32:30.23
"He who believes in Me,
as the Scripture has said,
00:32:31.40\00:32:35.57
out of his heart will
flow rivers of living water."
00:32:35.90\00:32:40.32
Out of whose heart will
flow rivers of living water?
00:32:40.42\00:32:43.30
Not out of Jesus, no.
00:32:44.03\00:32:45.67
Out of the person who believes.
00:32:46.07\00:32:48.09
Are you with me or not?
00:32:51.03\00:32:52.32
Jesus says,
"Come to Me and drink.
00:32:53.84\00:32:55.31
And if you believe
in Me, trust in Me..."
00:32:56.32\00:32:58.22
That's what it means to drink.
00:32:58.25\00:32:59.28
"If you trust in Me, then
I will give you the water.
00:32:59.31\00:33:02.81
And the water will be in you.
00:33:02.84\00:33:04.72
And you will become
a fountain of water."
00:33:05.43\00:33:07.49
That's what He's saying.
00:33:08.45\00:33:09.52
What was Jesus referring to?
00:33:11.26\00:33:12.84
Notice verse 39.
00:33:13.57\00:33:14.96
"But this He spoke
concerning the Spirit..."
00:33:15.20\00:33:17.74
So what does
the water represent?
00:33:18.46\00:33:20.03
The Spirit.
00:33:20.44\00:33:21.49
"But this He spoke
concerning the Spirit, whom..."
00:33:22.07\00:33:25.37
Now listen carefully,
"...whom those..." What?
00:33:25.40\00:33:27.36
"...believing in Him..."
00:33:27.75\00:33:29.88
That is, trusting in Him.
00:33:30.60\00:33:32.13
Repenting their sins,
confessing their sins,
00:33:32.16\00:33:34.98
claiming Jesus as their
Savior, and trusting in Him.
00:33:35.01\00:33:39.29
"But this He spoke
concerning the Spirit,
00:33:40.40\00:33:42.27
whom those believing
in Him would..." What?
00:33:42.30\00:33:44.84
"...would receive; for the
Holy Spirit was not yet given,
00:33:45.42\00:33:48.73
because Jesus was
not yet glorified."
00:33:48.76\00:33:50.75
When was Jesus glorified?
00:33:50.78\00:33:52.30
Actually, beyond
the resurrection.
00:33:55.68\00:33:58.20
When He was installed
at the right hand of God.
00:33:59.25\00:34:01.63
When He was invested
as High Priest in heaven
00:34:01.66\00:34:05.05
when He went before His Father.
00:34:05.08\00:34:06.65
That's when Jesus was glorified.
00:34:07.63\00:34:09.44
Are you following me or not?
00:34:10.60\00:34:11.81
Now, how are we
to understand this?
00:34:12.50\00:34:15.64
I'd like to illustrate it
with the relationship between
00:34:16.44\00:34:18.45
the sun and the moon.
00:34:18.48\00:34:19.54
You know, you go out on
a clear night in Fresno,
00:34:20.10\00:34:23.00
and you look into the sky and
see this beautiful full moon.
00:34:24.60\00:34:27.70
You say, "Oh, how
beautiful the moon is tonight."
00:34:29.94\00:34:32.34
Well, that's only partially
true because the moon is ugly.
00:34:33.97\00:34:37.90
What makes the moon beautiful?
00:34:41.50\00:34:42.94
The sunlight shines on it.
00:34:43.88\00:34:45.56
And then you know
what the moon does?
00:34:45.59\00:34:47.12
The sun shines on the
moon, and then the moon
00:34:47.77\00:34:50.14
shines to the earth.
00:34:50.17\00:34:51.41
Jesus said, "I am
the light of the world."
00:34:53.82\00:34:56.29
But He also said, "Ye
are the light of the world."
00:34:57.05\00:34:59.88
Now how are we
to understand that?
00:35:00.92\00:35:02.52
Jesus is the sun
and we are moons.
00:35:02.55\00:35:05.30
And when Jesus shines
on us, we shine to others.
00:35:06.64\00:35:10.71
What Jesus is saying is
that when we drink the water,
00:35:11.67\00:35:14.71
we become fountains of water.
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.71
Because the water fills us.
00:35:17.18\00:35:19.11
Then we are able to share what
God has given to us to others.
00:35:19.14\00:35:24.02
The greatest sign that you
know Jesus is that you cannot
00:35:24.92\00:35:28.09
keep Jesus inside.
00:35:28.12\00:35:29.47
You want other people to have
the experience that you've had.
00:35:29.50\00:35:32.74
If you don't feel that
intense desire to tell people
00:35:34.17\00:35:36.44
about Jesus, perhaps it's
because you don't know Jesus.
00:35:36.47\00:35:39.29
Because when you
drink the water, you become
00:35:40.12\00:35:41.76
a fountain of water.
00:35:41.79\00:35:43.00
When you receive the
light, you project the light
00:35:43.69\00:35:47.19
or you reflect the
light to the earth.
00:35:47.22\00:35:49.25
So Jesus is saying that
on the day of Pentecost,
00:35:49.81\00:35:52.45
the disciples would what?
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.31
The disciples would
drink the water, because they
00:35:54.74\00:35:57.42
believed and trusted in Jesus.
00:35:57.45\00:35:59.33
And when they drank the water,
00:35:59.36\00:36:00.91
they would become
fountains of water.
00:36:00.94\00:36:02.91
Let me ask you, what is the
first thing that the disciples
00:36:02.94\00:36:05.60
did after they
received the Holy Spirit?
00:36:05.63\00:36:07.62
Preached.
00:36:09.02\00:36:10.44
Preach about whom?
00:36:11.35\00:36:12.52
About Jesus.
00:36:13.09\00:36:14.53
You see, they drank the water.
00:36:15.00\00:36:16.93
And because they
drank the water, now what?
00:36:16.96\00:36:19.95
Now they shared the
water that they had received.
00:36:20.15\00:36:24.71
Now there's a second
episode concerning the rock
00:36:26.36\00:36:31.17
in the Old Testament.
00:36:31.20\00:36:32.38
Before that, let me just
read 1 Corinthians 12 verse 13
00:36:32.41\00:36:35.47
where it clearly
says that the water
00:36:36.04\00:36:37.58
represents the Holy Spirit.
00:36:37.61\00:36:38.64
It says, "For by one Spirit we
were all baptized into one body;
00:36:38.67\00:36:42.33
whether Jews or
Greeks, whether slaves or free,
00:36:42.71\00:36:45.07
and all have been made
to drink into one Spirit."
00:36:45.10\00:36:48.77
So what does
the water represent?
00:36:48.80\00:36:50.20
The Holy Spirit.
00:36:50.23\00:36:51.26
And when you
receive the Holy Spirit,
00:36:51.29\00:36:53.40
then you are what?
00:36:53.81\00:36:56.36
Then you become a fountain
to share what God has given you.
00:36:56.79\00:37:00.70
Now there's a second
episode, rock episode.
00:37:00.73\00:37:03.21
It's found in Numbers
20 verses 7 through 11.
00:37:03.24\00:37:05.72
You have it
there in your material.
00:37:05.75\00:37:07.22
Let's read that passage.
00:37:07.30\00:37:08.75
"Then the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying, 'Take the rod;
00:37:09.15\00:37:12.34
you and your brother Aaron
00:37:14.17\00:37:15.29
gather the
congregation together.'"
00:37:15.32\00:37:17.02
But now there's a difference.
00:37:17.22\00:37:19.11
God says what?
00:37:20.25\00:37:21.50
"Speak to the rock..."
00:37:22.18\00:37:23.73
In other words, "Say to the
rock, 'Give me your water.'"
00:37:23.76\00:37:25.75
"Speak to the
rock before their eyes,
00:37:26.40\00:37:28.04
and it will yield its water."
00:37:28.15\00:37:30.58
So the first time,
God says strike the rock.
00:37:32.21\00:37:34.74
And the second time,
God says speak to the rock
00:37:35.48\00:37:37.65
and ask the rock for its water.
00:37:37.68\00:37:39.65
Why the difference?
00:37:39.88\00:37:41.59
Well you know what Moses did.
00:37:41.62\00:37:43.40
He was pretty mad.
00:37:44.88\00:37:46.21
And you know what?
00:37:46.81\00:37:47.89
Moses spent 40 years
with the children of Israel
00:37:49.12\00:37:52.27
in the wilderness.
00:37:52.30\00:37:53.39
A congregation of a million,
not counting women and children.
00:37:54.19\00:37:57.67
Senior pastor.
00:37:59.09\00:38:00.44
And in those 40 years, he
never lost it till the very end.
00:38:03.30\00:38:06.15
In fact, Ellen White says
in, Patriarch And Prophets,
00:38:07.64\00:38:09.44
that if Moses had not
committed that one sin,
00:38:09.47\00:38:12.51
he would have been translated
to heaven from among the living.
00:38:13.39\00:38:15.89
He would not have died she
says in, Patriarch And Prophets.
00:38:17.21\00:38:19.94
The impression is
that during those 40 years,
00:38:20.95\00:38:22.84
of course, he had 40 years of
preparation in the wilderness.
00:38:22.87\00:38:25.35
See.
00:38:26.28\00:38:27.37
He had his Pentecost experience.
00:38:27.86\00:38:29.79
And that's why
he was so patient.
00:38:30.41\00:38:31.83
But he lost it.
00:38:31.86\00:38:32.90
And instead of speaking
to the rock, what did he do?
00:38:33.28\00:38:37.05
He took the rod and
he struck the rock twice.
00:38:37.69\00:38:41.09
And as a result, God
said, "You will not enter
00:38:41.26\00:38:43.20
the Promised Land."
00:38:43.23\00:38:44.26
That was terrible for Moses.
00:38:44.29\00:38:46.91
Imagine, 40 years longing
to reach the destiny that God
00:38:47.77\00:38:52.27
had said they were going
to have, and now God says
00:38:52.30\00:38:54.55
you're not going to enter.
00:38:54.58\00:38:55.64
Wow.
00:38:55.67\00:38:56.70
What was so serious
about what Moses did?
00:38:58.07\00:39:00.19
It was not simple disobedience.
00:39:00.22\00:39:01.98
Notice, Patriarchs
And Prophets, page 418.
00:39:02.01\00:39:04.32
"By his rash act Moses took
away the force of the lesson
00:39:05.52\00:39:10.60
that God purposed to teach.
00:39:10.63\00:39:12.06
The rock, being a symbol of
Christ, had been once smitten,
00:39:13.14\00:39:17.37
as Christ was
to be once offered.
00:39:17.80\00:39:20.14
The second time it was needful
only to speak to the rock,
00:39:20.83\00:39:24.73
as we have only to ask for
blessings in the name of Jesus.
00:39:25.12\00:39:29.58
By the second smiting of the
rock the significance of this
00:39:30.13\00:39:33.99
beautiful figure of
Christ was destroyed."
00:39:34.02\00:39:37.74
Moses destroyed
the beautiful symbolism
00:39:38.41\00:39:40.92
that God wanted to teach.
00:39:40.95\00:39:42.44
That was the
seriousness of his sin.
00:39:42.89\00:39:46.55
By the way, if we
want the Holy Spirit today,
00:39:47.34\00:39:50.09
Jesus doesn't have to
suffer under the judgment
00:39:50.34\00:39:52.55
of God any more.
00:39:52.58\00:39:53.62
That happened once for all.
00:39:54.14\00:39:55.73
If we want the blessings,
all we have to do is ask.
00:39:57.06\00:39:59.81
Notice Luke 11 verse 13.
00:40:00.39\00:40:02.72
Luke 11 and verse 13.
00:40:02.75\00:40:04.51
It says, "If you then..."
00:40:04.54\00:40:06.12
Here Jesus is speaking.
00:40:06.15\00:40:07.34
"If you then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts
00:40:07.37\00:40:11.35
to your children, how much
more will your heavenly Father
00:40:11.38\00:40:15.99
give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask Him."
00:40:16.02\00:40:19.32
And yet there's a
church in the world,
00:40:21.17\00:40:23.03
the Roman Catholic Church...
00:40:24.44\00:40:26.11
I know that some of you
use to be Roman Catholics.
00:40:26.49\00:40:30.16
That church teaches that every
time the mass is celebrated,
00:40:31.72\00:40:35.28
Christ is sacrificed again.
00:40:35.31\00:40:38.28
If God excluded Moses
from the Promised Land
00:40:39.73\00:40:42.97
for ruining the symbol
and giving the impression
00:40:43.67\00:40:46.54
that Christ would have to
suffer under the judgment of God
00:40:46.57\00:40:49.17
more than once, how does
God feel about a teaching
00:40:49.20\00:40:52.75
of a church that says
that Jesus is sacrificed
00:40:52.78\00:40:55.51
over and over and over
again in thousands of places
00:40:55.54\00:41:01.08
all over planet earth?
00:41:01.11\00:41:02.56
It's an insult to the Lord.
00:41:04.13\00:41:06.35
Because the book of
Hebrews tells us that when Jesus
00:41:06.69\00:41:09.58
died, He died once for all.
00:41:09.61\00:41:12.50
He needs not die any more.
00:41:13.00\00:41:14.77
He does not need to suffer
under the judgment of God.
00:41:14.80\00:41:17.60
He already suffered the
judgment once and for all
00:41:17.63\00:41:20.53
for sin and for sinners.
00:41:20.56\00:41:22.60
Now, what does
Pentecost have to do with this?
00:41:24.96\00:41:27.29
Well let's take a look
at the middle of this page
00:41:28.60\00:41:30.73
that you have in your handout.
00:41:30.76\00:41:33.11
What did Jesus accomplish
by His ministry on earth?
00:41:33.46\00:41:36.46
That's what we
need to know first.
00:41:36.74\00:41:38.45
First of all, Jesus lived His
perfect life in the camp, right?
00:41:39.34\00:41:42.37
And He lived it for
all of us, because we can't
00:41:43.59\00:41:45.42
offer the law perfection.
00:41:45.45\00:41:46.80
Jesus came and lived the
life that the law requires,
00:41:46.83\00:41:49.67
and He lived it in our place.
00:41:49.70\00:41:51.17
What else did He accomplish?
00:41:51.97\00:41:53.43
He offered His life and
sacrifice upon the altar.
00:41:53.91\00:41:56.47
He bore our sins, the sins
of the whole world, upon Himself
00:41:56.50\00:41:59.52
so that we wouldn't have to die.
00:41:59.81\00:42:00.89
He died so that
we don't have to die.
00:42:00.92\00:42:02.50
He lived to
offer the law the life
00:42:02.53\00:42:05.51
that we cannot offer the law.
00:42:05.54\00:42:07.18
And then Jesus resurrected
from the dead at the laver.
00:42:08.14\00:42:11.51
So He's following the Sanctuary.
00:42:11.84\00:42:13.05
The camp, the altar
of sacrifice, the laver.
00:42:13.08\00:42:17.02
Where would we expect Him
to go after His resurrection,
00:42:17.05\00:42:20.31
which is
represented by the laver?
00:42:20.34\00:42:21.92
The next thing that
we would expect would be
00:42:22.57\00:42:25.79
His entering the Holy Place.
00:42:27.08\00:42:29.14
Right?
00:42:29.30\00:42:30.33
We would expect, after
His sacrifice, the fire to
00:42:30.73\00:42:34.29
show approval of the
sacrifice that He had offered.
00:42:34.32\00:42:38.70
Are you understanding me or not?
00:42:39.40\00:42:40.87
Now the question is,
where is that fire manifested
00:42:41.24\00:42:45.05
showing that God accepted
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ?
00:42:45.08\00:42:48.63
Well, we need to
study the temple geography.
00:42:48.74\00:42:51.39
You see, in the
Hebrew Sanctuary, after the
00:42:53.06\00:42:54.95
altar of sacrifice
you have the laver.
00:42:54.98\00:42:57.25
And after the laver, you
have the ministration of the
00:42:57.82\00:43:00.10
High Priest in the Holy Place.
00:43:00.13\00:43:02.04
After Jesus died and resurrected
on earth, we would expect Him
00:43:02.50\00:43:06.62
to go where?
00:43:06.65\00:43:07.72
To begin His
ministry in the Holy Place
00:43:08.16\00:43:10.48
of the heavenly Sanctuary.
00:43:10.51\00:43:11.54
But you know what
most Christians say?
00:43:11.57\00:43:13.15
Including some Adventists
who have left the faith,
00:43:13.18\00:43:16.22
like Desmond Ford.
00:43:16.25\00:43:17.28
They say, "No,
Jesus went directly into
00:43:17.31\00:43:20.06
the Most Holy Place."
00:43:20.09\00:43:21.96
That's senseless.
00:43:22.27\00:43:23.49
What about the Holy Place?
00:43:24.14\00:43:25.61
If Jesus lived His
perfect life in the camp,
00:43:26.53\00:43:28.89
if He died at the altar, if
He resurrected at the laver,
00:43:29.34\00:43:32.48
we would expect Jesus
next to go into the Holy Place.
00:43:32.88\00:43:36.27
And then later to go
into the Most Holy Place.
00:43:36.87\00:43:39.99
So it's foolishness to say
that He jumped from the court
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.85
into the Most Holy Place.
00:43:42.88\00:43:44.33
Because there is a Holy
Place ministry of Jesus Christ.
00:43:44.54\00:43:47.55
Now the question is,
where did Jesus enter?
00:43:48.95\00:43:51.28
Well, let's read Revelation
chapter 4 and verse 5.
00:43:52.41\00:43:54.70
Revelation
chapter 4 and verse 5.
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.83
This is an interesting detail.
00:43:59.01\00:44:00.65
It's describing the
heavenly throne room
00:44:01.87\00:44:04.20
before Jesus arrives.
00:44:04.23\00:44:05.26
Jesus arrives in chapter 5.
00:44:05.29\00:44:06.96
Chapter 4, the throne
room is being prepared
00:44:06.99\00:44:09.24
for the arrival of Christ.
00:44:09.27\00:44:10.70
It says there, "And from
the throne proceeded lightnings,
00:44:11.24\00:44:14.69
thunderings, and voices.
00:44:14.72\00:44:16.03
Seven lamps of fire were
burning before the throne,
00:44:16.06\00:44:18.88
which are the
seven Spirits of God."
00:44:18.91\00:44:20.59
Now, where is this event
taking place in Revelation 4?
00:44:20.62\00:44:23.90
In the Holy Place.
How do we know that?
00:44:24.37\00:44:26.21
Because there's
seven lamps of fire.
00:44:26.50\00:44:28.07
And the seven lamps of fire
were in the Holy Place, right?
00:44:28.10\00:44:31.17
And by the way, the seven
lamps of fire represent what?
00:44:32.16\00:44:34.86
The Holy Spirit.
00:44:35.76\00:44:36.79
Are there seven Holy Spirits?
00:44:36.94\00:44:38.48
No.
00:44:38.70\00:44:39.73
The number seven represents,
there present, is the
00:44:39.99\00:44:42.91
fullness of the Holy Spirit.
00:44:42.94\00:44:44.23
The totality of the
Holy Spirit is present there
00:44:44.85\00:44:47.00
in the throne room.
00:44:47.03\00:44:48.06
And then in
chapter 5 Jesus arrives.
00:44:48.09\00:44:51.16
See, in chapter 4 the
throne room is prepared.
00:44:52.09\00:44:54.47
Those who have watched
the series on, The 24 Elders,
00:44:54.50\00:44:57.76
I have a whole
presentation called,
00:44:57.96\00:45:00.14
The Return of the War Hero.
00:45:00.17\00:45:01.61
Chapter 4; the
preparation of the throne room,
00:45:02.16\00:45:04.22
the cherubim and seraphim
are there, the representatives
00:45:04.25\00:45:06.55
of the worlds are there,
you know, the Holy Spirit
00:45:06.58\00:45:10.55
is present there, the
Father is sitting on the throne.
00:45:10.58\00:45:12.77
And everything is in
expectancy, because in chapter 5
00:45:12.87\00:45:15.38
Jesus is returning
from the earth victorious
00:45:15.41\00:45:17.81
in His battle with the devil.
00:45:18.29\00:45:19.71
And He arrives in
chapter 5 and verse 6.
00:45:20.14\00:45:22.98
And how does He arrive?
00:45:23.18\00:45:25.12
How does He present
Himself before His Father?
00:45:25.32\00:45:27.92
Notice verse 6.
00:45:27.95\00:45:29.30
"And I looked, and behold, in
the midst of the throne and of
00:45:29.33\00:45:33.02
the four living creatures,
and in the midst of the elders,
00:45:33.05\00:45:35.68
stood a Lamb as
though it had been slain..."
00:45:35.71\00:45:39.31
How is Jesus presenting Himself?
00:45:39.80\00:45:41.80
Is He alive when
He presents Himself?
00:45:42.68\00:45:44.85
Yes, He died but
now He's coming alive.
00:45:45.05\00:45:47.95
And He's
presenting Himself as the Lamb
00:45:48.62\00:45:51.01
as though it had been
slain before the throne
00:45:51.04\00:45:53.32
where the Father is sitting.
00:45:53.35\00:45:54.74
And it says, and now
notice the nuance here,
00:45:55.65\00:45:57.99
"...having seven horns
and seven eyes, which are the
00:45:58.02\00:46:00.64
seven Spirits of God
sent out into all the earth."
00:46:00.67\00:46:05.08
In chapter 4, the
seven Spirits are there.
00:46:06.75\00:46:09.63
But in chapter 5, the
seven Spirits are what?
00:46:10.44\00:46:13.15
Sent to the earth.
00:46:13.49\00:46:14.71
What event is that?
00:46:14.74\00:46:15.88
That event is the day of
Pentecost when the Holy Spirit
00:46:16.59\00:46:19.28
is sent to the earth.
00:46:19.31\00:46:20.49
So in other words, Jesus
ascends to the throne room,
00:46:21.26\00:46:23.83
He presents
Himself before His Father,
00:46:23.86\00:46:25.93
and then the next step is that
the Holy Spirit is poured out.
00:46:26.34\00:46:33.67
The Spirit is sent to the earth.
00:46:33.70\00:46:35.93
And Ellen White
describes it beautifully in the
00:46:35.96\00:46:38.15
last three pages
of, Desire Of Ages.
00:46:38.18\00:46:40.26
Wow.
00:46:40.29\00:46:41.32
If you can read
that without goose bumps,
00:46:41.35\00:46:43.85
I don't know
how you can do that.
00:46:45.87\00:46:47.27
Because it is really exciting.
00:46:47.30\00:46:49.33
And it's even going to
be more exciting when Jesus
00:46:49.43\00:46:52.69
comes to take all
of His people home.
00:46:52.72\00:46:54.26
Whoo, the heavenly throne
room is going to be prepared.
00:46:54.97\00:46:57.21
By the way, the Father doesn't
come at the second coming.
00:46:57.24\00:46:59.70
He sends forth Jesus.
00:46:59.73\00:47:01.29
Now there's this idea that
Jesus is coming with the Father.
00:47:02.48\00:47:05.04
No, no, the Father sits
on His throne in heaven.
00:47:05.07\00:47:07.11
And the throne room
will be prepared in heaven.
00:47:08.05\00:47:10.66
And then Jesus with
His angels will come here,
00:47:11.67\00:47:14.59
and Jesus and His angels
will call forth the dead.
00:47:14.62\00:47:17.60
And then we'll take
the journey to heaven.
00:47:17.63\00:47:19.55
And then the heavenly
throne room will be prepared
00:47:19.58\00:47:22.14
to receive the
redeemed from all ages.
00:47:22.17\00:47:25.12
And so Ellen White describes
it in a magnificent way.
00:47:25.98\00:47:29.50
She says that Jesus entered
through the gates into the city,
00:47:29.53\00:47:33.20
and the angels were
singing and they were praising.
00:47:33.23\00:47:35.65
I mean, thunderous praise.
00:47:35.68\00:47:37.67
And then Jesus raises
His hands and He says,
00:47:38.03\00:47:40.22
"Shhh, silence."
00:47:41.02\00:47:43.42
She says, suddenly
all the angels obey
00:47:43.94\00:47:45.75
and there's absolute silence.
00:47:45.78\00:47:47.46
And then Ellen White
describes how Jesus enters the
00:47:48.30\00:47:50.52
presence of His Father.
00:47:50.55\00:47:51.77
He shows His Father
the wounds on His hands,
00:47:52.44\00:47:54.52
on His brow, His side, His feet.
00:47:55.23\00:47:59.04
And He says, "Father, I
need to know if My sacrifice
00:47:59.63\00:48:04.30
was sufficient to
bring all of My people home.
00:48:04.33\00:48:06.72
I need to know."
00:48:07.94\00:48:08.97
And the Father
says, "It is enough."
00:48:10.11\00:48:13.40
And then the
Father embraces His Son.
00:48:15.06\00:48:18.00
And then the Father
says, "Let all the angels
00:48:19.75\00:48:23.04
of God worship Him."
00:48:23.07\00:48:24.85
And then the angelic
hosts sing even at a higher note
00:48:25.44\00:48:29.04
hymns of praises to
the Lamb that was slain.
00:48:29.41\00:48:33.16
And then the Holy
Spirit is poured out,
00:48:33.54\00:48:36.02
and the tongues of
fire are seen on earth.
00:48:36.05\00:48:38.57
The tongues on earth of
fire were a signal that the
00:48:38.60\00:48:42.58
sacrifice of Jesus had
been accepted in heaven.
00:48:42.61\00:48:45.43
Sacrifice and fire.
00:48:45.46\00:48:47.10
The same symbolism.
00:48:47.92\00:48:49.41
God was showing that
the striking of the rock
00:48:49.61\00:48:52.83
was accepted, because
now the water was coming
00:48:52.86\00:48:56.22
forth from the rock.
00:48:56.25\00:48:57.46
Isn't that
magnificent symbolism?
00:48:58.53\00:49:00.49
I mean, how can you
understand all of these episodes
00:49:01.52\00:49:04.80
in the Old Testament without
reference to Jesus Christ?
00:49:04.83\00:49:08.25
In, Story Of
Redemption, page 386, which
00:49:08.82\00:49:11.01
you have in your
material, Ellen White explains,
00:49:11.04\00:49:14.23
"The rending of the veil
of the temple showed that the
00:49:14.26\00:49:16.52
Jewish sacrifices and ordinances
would no longer be received."
00:49:16.55\00:49:20.44
Now listen carefully.
00:49:21.55\00:49:22.77
"The great Sacrifice had been
offered and had been accepted,
00:49:23.15\00:49:29.39
and the Holy Spirit
which descended on the day of
00:49:30.21\00:49:32.98
Pentecost carried the
minds of the disciples from the
00:49:33.01\00:49:35.63
earthly sanctuary
to the heavenly..."
00:49:35.66\00:49:37.67
Now listen, "...where Jesus
had entered by His own blood,
00:49:37.77\00:49:42.46
to shed upon His disciples..."
00:49:42.70\00:49:44.99
Not the whole world, folks.
00:49:45.02\00:49:46.60
"...to shed upon His disciples
the benefits of His atonement."
00:49:47.73\00:49:53.16
Now what are the
benefits of Christ's atonement?
00:49:53.19\00:49:55.16
The benefits are His perfect
life and His death for sin.
00:49:56.57\00:49:59.53
Those are the
benefits of His earthly work.
00:50:00.29\00:50:02.28
And those benefits
are available to how many?
00:50:02.69\00:50:05.01
They're available to everyone.
00:50:05.75\00:50:07.24
In other words, when Jesus lived
His life and died His death,
00:50:08.62\00:50:11.36
Jesus bought the
gift of salvation.
00:50:11.74\00:50:14.96
He paid for the
gift of salvation.
00:50:15.26\00:50:17.15
Let me ask you, how
much does a gift cost you?
00:50:18.97\00:50:21.48
It costs to the giver.
00:50:22.96\00:50:25.20
But it's free to the receiver.
00:50:26.14\00:50:27.95
Now let me ask you, is
it possible to refuse a gift
00:50:29.33\00:50:32.67
that somebody gives you?
00:50:32.70\00:50:33.91
Of course.
00:50:34.75\00:50:35.78
Is it possible to refuse
the gift that Jesus bought?
00:50:36.04\00:50:39.22
Oh, you better believe it.
00:50:40.14\00:50:41.66
You see, it's in the Holy
Place that we receive the gift
00:50:42.23\00:50:44.91
when we claim
Jesus as our Intercessor,
00:50:45.92\00:50:48.40
when we claim
Him as our Mediator.
00:50:49.30\00:50:51.30
If we sin, we have an
Advocate with the Father;
00:50:52.41\00:50:55.06
Jesus Christ the Righteous.
00:50:55.09\00:50:56.49
And so it's in the
service in the Holy Place
00:50:57.22\00:51:00.12
where we benefit
from what He did on earth.
00:51:00.22\00:51:02.61
You see, when I
come to Jesus repentant,
00:51:03.28\00:51:05.49
sorry for sin, I
say, "Lord, I blew it.
00:51:05.69\00:51:07.81
I'm sorry. I repent.
00:51:07.84\00:51:09.75
I confess my sin.
00:51:09.78\00:51:10.94
I'm a miserable
sinner. I deserve death.
00:51:10.97\00:51:12.84
But Jesus, I believe
that You lived the life
00:51:12.87\00:51:15.66
that I should live, You died
the death that I should die.
00:51:15.69\00:51:18.08
I receive You as my
Savior and as my Lord."
00:51:18.11\00:51:20.95
Jesus says, "I take
My life and My death,
00:51:20.98\00:51:23.55
and I place
them to your account.
00:51:23.58\00:51:25.16
And I look upon you as
if you had never sinned."
00:51:25.33\00:51:27.53
You benefit from what He did,
personally and individually.
00:51:29.39\00:51:32.86
Are you following me?
00:51:32.90\00:51:33.93
For most
Christians, you know, everything
00:51:34.85\00:51:36.55
took place at the cross.
00:51:36.58\00:51:37.63
Jesus has an important work
to perform in the Holy Place
00:51:37.73\00:51:41.57
of the Sanctuary.
00:51:41.77\00:51:43.14
Now what happened
after the day of Pentecost?
00:51:44.07\00:51:46.11
Well the disciples drank
the water, and what did they do?
00:51:46.78\00:51:49.88
Whoo, they drank the water,
00:51:52.51\00:51:53.88
and immediately
after drinking the water...
00:51:53.91\00:51:55.36
Which means that they
received the Holy Spirit.
00:51:55.39\00:51:56.84
Because they had repented and
they had confessed their sins
00:51:56.87\00:51:59.48
the ten days before, and so on.
00:51:59.51\00:52:01.23
They prepared to
receive the Holy Spirit.
00:52:01.26\00:52:03.38
So now they
received the Holy Spirit.
00:52:03.48\00:52:05.07
And what do they do immediately?
00:52:05.27\00:52:06.88
They go out and witness.
00:52:08.26\00:52:09.54
Notice Acts chapter 1.
00:52:10.24\00:52:11.51
This is on the last
page of your material.
00:52:11.54\00:52:13.17
Acts chapter 1 verses 7 and 8.
Acts chapter 1 verses 7 and 8.
00:52:13.20\00:52:17.31
I want you to notice that
the expression, "you shall,"
00:52:19.36\00:52:21.63
is used twice here.
00:52:21.73\00:52:23.04
"And He said to them, 'It
is not for you to know times or
00:52:24.31\00:52:28.72
seasons which the Father
has put in His own authority.
00:52:28.75\00:52:31.91
But you shall receive...'"
00:52:31.94\00:52:33.77
There, "you shall." Notice.
00:52:33.87\00:52:35.03
"...you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit
00:52:35.06\00:52:38.65
has come upon you."
00:52:38.68\00:52:39.72
What did Jesus say?
"You shall receive..." What?
00:52:40.58\00:52:42.75
Power. What for?
00:52:43.04\00:52:44.51
You know, today you
listen to charismatics
00:52:46.06\00:52:48.13
and they say, "Oh, the
reason for the power is for you
00:52:48.16\00:52:50.10
to have a good time in
church, to roll in the aisles,
00:52:50.13\00:52:53.04
to laugh in the
spirit, and to feel good."
00:52:53.07\00:52:55.16
You know, it's for
your own personal benefit.
00:52:56.57\00:52:58.47
So you can speak in tongues that
not even God can understand.
00:52:58.50\00:53:01.65
It's all about me, me, me.
00:53:04.63\00:53:06.13
But the purpose of the Holy
Spirit, of receiving the power,
00:53:07.81\00:53:10.91
is witness.
00:53:11.12\00:53:12.44
Because it says, "You
shall receive power when the
00:53:13.13\00:53:15.07
Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be witnesses..."
00:53:15.10\00:53:18.90
"Receive and give,"
is what Jesus is saying.
00:53:19.51\00:53:22.68
"...you shall be
witnesses to Me in Jerusalem,
00:53:22.71\00:53:25.70
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and unto the end of the earth."
00:53:25.73\00:53:30.06
One final illustration.
00:53:30.86\00:53:32.36
The Samaritan woman
illustrates perfectly
00:53:32.39\00:53:34.87
what we've been talking about.
00:53:34.90\00:53:36.19
Jesus goes to Jacob's well.
00:53:37.25\00:53:40.86
Sitting there, and a woman
comes to draw water at noon.
00:53:41.82\00:53:44.96
Which is very unusual because
water isn't drawn at noon.
00:53:44.99\00:53:48.11
It's terribly
hot in the Holy Land.
00:53:48.14\00:53:49.81
But this woman had
a life that she lived,
00:53:49.84\00:53:53.35
which was morally corrupt.
00:53:53.38\00:53:55.43
And so she didn't
want anybody to see her.
00:53:55.46\00:53:57.33
So Jesus says,
"Give Me water to drink."
00:53:57.36\00:53:59.14
And she says, "How
is it that You, a Jew,
00:54:00.01\00:54:01.67
would speak to a Samaritan?"
00:54:01.70\00:54:03.04
See, this woman progresses
in her understanding of Jesus.
00:54:03.92\00:54:06.81
First of all, Jesus is a Jew.
00:54:06.84\00:54:08.28
Then when Jesus reveals
her life to her, she says,
00:54:08.31\00:54:10.90
"I think you're a prophet."
00:54:10.93\00:54:11.99
By the end of the
conversation, she says,
00:54:12.02\00:54:13.69
"I believe You're the Messiah."
00:54:13.72\00:54:15.23
And so this woman,
you know, Jesus says
00:54:17.63\00:54:20.15
something very interesting to
her in John 4 verses 13 and 14.
00:54:20.18\00:54:23.45
Notice John 4:13-14.
00:54:23.48\00:54:25.37
"Jesus answered and said to her,
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'Whoever drinks of this
water will thirst again...'"
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You drink from this
water from Jacob's well,
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you will thirst again.
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"...but whoever drinks of the
water that I shall give him..."
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It's speaking about Pentecost.
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Listen carefully.
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"...that I shall give
him will never thirst.
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But the water that I shall
give him will become in him
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a fountain of water springing
up into everlasting life."
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Are you catching the picture?
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"You come and
drink from the fountain,
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and then you become a fountain,"
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is what Jesus is saying.
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And this woman
lived this experience.
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When she accepted Jesus
as Messiah, she goes back to
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Sychar, the city
that she lived in.
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She not embarrassed now.
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She goes from
house to house, she says,
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"I found the Messiah
that we've been waiting for.
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Really!"
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And you know she had
an excitement in her voice
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that led people to say,
"Wow, we've got to hear."
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"Yeah, I can show
you where He's at."
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And so now she comes
with the whole city of Sychar.
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She drank the water, and
now she's giving the water.
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And then, you know, the
disciples come back to Jesus,
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and they say, "Lord,
we brought You the food
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that You told us to go get."
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And you know, Jesus
said, "My food and My drink
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is to do My Father's
will and to finish His work."
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And the disciples, you know,
spiritually blind, they say,
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"Well maybe somebody
brought Him some food
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while we were gone."
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And then Jesus says,
"Haven't you heard that there's
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four months until the harvest?"
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He says, "No, no, there's not
four months until the harvest."
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He says, "Look, at the fields.
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They're already white
waiting for the harvest."
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And you read, Desire Of
Ages, Ellen Whites says that
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Jesus was not pointing at fields
of barley or fields of wheat.
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Jesus was pointing at
this woman who was coming
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with the entire city of Sychar
to hear the words of Jesus.
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She drank the
water from the fountain.
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And now she became a
fountain of water to others.
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The greatest sign,
brothers and sisters,
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that we know Jesus
is an intense desire
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to let others know about Jesus.
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If we are not letting
other people know about Jesus,
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if we don't feel that desire,
if we're simply warming the pew,
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perhaps it's because
we haven't known the Lord.
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I finish by reading this
statement from Ellen White,
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Ministry of Healing, 102.
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"She proved herself a
more effective missionary
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than His own disciples.
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The disciples saw
nothing in Samaria to indicate
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that it was an
encouraging field.
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Their thoughts
were fixed upon a great
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work to be done in the future."
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Like many Adventist, they
say, "We're not doing much now,
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but when the
latter rain comes..."
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"They did not see
that right around them
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was a harvest to be gathered.
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But through the woman whom
they despised, a whole city full
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were brought to hear Jesus.
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She carried the light
at once to her countrymen.
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This woman
represents the working of a
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practical faith in Christ."
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So is this story of the
rock a very significant story?
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Is it centered in Jesus Christ?
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It most certainly is.
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If you don't see Christ, you
will make no sense out of it.
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It will be meaningless.
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But with Christ, it becomes
a living passage to teach us
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important lessons in our
spiritual walk with the Lord.
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