Welcome to another
Edition of Bible Alive
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I'm so glad that you have come
to join us. We've got a neat
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message today. I love unpacking
the Scriptures and making
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them practical so that we can
live out the Scriptures in our
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everyday lives and before we
get started I want to introduce
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to you Pastor Mark Howard.
Pastor, it's good to have you
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here.
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It's great to be here Dwight
and you know I was just thinking
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a lot of times
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you have guests on the
show, you ask the Guests what
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they do, what their Ministry
is about, why don't you tell
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us about what your Ministry
is about today for the Viewers
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who don't what- what- what
is Remnant Publications up to?
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Well Remnant Publications
prints hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of different books.
We publish and print, we do
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literature, we just had a- a
neat project not too long ago
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called the Remnant Study
Bible and we both have One
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It- it is dear to my heart
because I believe personally
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that it's the best Study Bible
that has ever been produced
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obviously, I'm a little bit
biased but it is got helps in
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the back, it has Ellen White's
quotes that help people to
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understand the Bible inside,
I mean if you haven't got one
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well I believe that you should
get one and I'm not doing this
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as a sales pitch
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Oh yeah,you've got Bible
Study helps, you've got charts
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you have got Concordance,
you have got just all kinds of
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resources to make your
Bible Study more complete.
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Make it come alive
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and you know, really in the
last days that we are living
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I believe if you don't have a
Bible, you need to get a Bible
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any Bible but if you are really
searching for a Bible that
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that you can- that the Bible
can come alive and help you
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this is a tremendous tool and we
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and we're already in 40
different Countries with the
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Study Bible and it's not just by
advertising, people have gotten
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it and they've heard about it
and they've bought it and then
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the e-mails that we get back
from people that say- the one
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complaint that they have,
saying that "I wish you had more
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comments in the back"
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and that's from Seventh
Day Adventists, which I'm a
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Seventh day Adventist but
our show it is not for- just for
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Adventists, for every Christian
person that un- to unpack those
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Scriptures but that's with
everybody, they've been just
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really blessed and it's-
it's- it's kind of a neat thing
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so administer, not admonis-
it doesn't matter, they've all
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said, "We love these comments!"
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it's- it's the New King James
Bible, they love the comments
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and the non Adventists, that
have writen back, Christians
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have said we wish you
to put more comments in
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because they really help
made the Bible come alive
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They really do, yeah
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so anyway, that's a neat thing
and- and one other thing and
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then we'll get on with their
work, is we've just produced
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"The Testimonies"
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They are- if they is- called
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"Testimonies to The Church. "
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9 Volumes, they would
help Church folk in their
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every day walk
and also in the Church
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Very practical
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Very practical
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written a 100 years
ago or so by Ellen White
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and they are called "Testimonies
the The Church" and you know
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if you- if you look at those
Books, 9 Volumes, it's about
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that thick
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Yeah
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1.6 million words. So a lot
of people look at it and think,
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"Oh, I know I should read that,
it's got a lot of practical
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stuff but, whooo! That's
almost more than I can imagine
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and so they say I'm going to
get started with it and start
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another book that
smaller. " So we decided
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to put it on Audio.
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Uhh hmm
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and then we had a professional
voice, 90 voices that we
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interviewed. Out of 90, we
took one, her name is Kelly
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and she's done a wonderful
job, very professional and
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then we've had other people
like O Jim Gilley from 3 ABN
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and Shelley Quinn and
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we have Mollie,
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Oh yeah, Doug Batchelor
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Sean Bruce Ridges, many people
that have donated their voices.
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They have helped us out so that
people that again, living in
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the last days could get started
and really see things grow
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practical in their lives, so
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So, that our new thing,
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Thats- just a few
things. If I keep going
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we won't have
time for our study.
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All right. Well,
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that's- that's some
great stuff for sure
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Of all times people need
to be in the Word and that's
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why we do this.
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Yes. that's right, that's right.
Well, we want to get the Words
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so today we're going to talk
about Strange Fire and that's
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found in Leviticus Chapter
10 so if you don't have your
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Bibles make sure that you
get them and let's open them up.
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Before we study, we always want
to start with a Word of Prayer
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that we would ask The Holy
Spirit to come into our minds
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and to take away
any preconceived ideas
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ideas and so if you would
bow your heads with me right now
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before we start, that
would be great. Let's do that.
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Father in Heaven, I just
thank You so much that we can be
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on the air, that we could
be a blessing not because of
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ourselves Father, but because
You said that You would live
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in us, that that Word could
be living, a living fountain
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that would- it would spring
out and Father I just pray
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that the minds will be open
today. I pray that you will send
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them The Holy Spirit in a
double measure and that Father
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we could understand about this
Strange Fire, how that could
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be practical in our lives
today. I thank you Father for
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hearing this prayer because
I pray it in the Name of Jesus
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Amen
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OK. Leviticus chapter 10. If
you're not there, get it now.
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If you don't have your Bibles,
run and get them and we won't
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leave you far behind
but Leviticus Chapter 10,
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Strange Fire. Ok, Pastor Mark.
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Yes sir
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I know this is one that is
dear to your heart, in a way,
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I mean, it is very practical
so, I'll let you start out.
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Yeah. I'd say- even as you
say that, I mean, it's kind of
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one of those things, dear
to your heart might not be the
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best expression.
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Strange but this is
really one of the most
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signaled judgments of God
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in all the Bible. One of
the most, you know, hard to
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understand, for some people,
judgments of God. You have
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2 sons of Aaron
the High Priest, Nadab
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Abihu and we are in Leviticus
Chapter 10 and the whole story
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takes place in about 10
verses. It says there in verse 1
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of Leviticus 10
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and just in those 2 verses
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you read that and what's
going on here? And so, maybe
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we need to just review a couple
things here. Nadab and Abihu
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were the sons of Aaron.
They were Priests, they had been
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set apart for the Priesthood
and that all comes in before now
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and it says that they took a
censer. Now censer was something
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that a Priest would
take and put incense in
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Right
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he'd put fire and he'd
put incense as he went in to
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minister in the Temple and he
would take that censer and the
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fire he was supposed to use was
fire that the Lord started. Now
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a lot of people are not
familiar with this but if you go
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to Leviticus 6
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OK. Leviticus 6
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just a couple verses or
Chapters rather before verse 8.
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Notice a couple things
here about this Temple fire.
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Leviticus 6 and
verse 8. Now, it says here
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Now the context here is
about the burnt offering but
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we're looking at this fire and
this fire was to be kept burning
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Now if you go on and you
look at verse 13, it says
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OK
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now, I want you to go to
Leviticus 8 and I'm sorry,
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Leviticus 9 and verse 24
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OK
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and this is leading right
into Leviticus 10 and I want you
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the notice in verse 24, it
says, in fact, we might want to
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start with verse 23
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Now this fire on the altar was
not a fire that somebody went
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out and lit by whittling
some sticks together or
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hitting some flint or something
else obviously they didn't have
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matches then but God himself
lit the fire and then he said,
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"Keep it burning continually"
and he instructed his Priests
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that if you- you inspire for
anything in the Temple, lighting
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of the lamps or the incense or
anything, it has to be my fire.
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It can't be any fire that you
kindle, it has to be the fire
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that I lighted and
so you have in Chapter
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Boy He's... God sure
is particular, isn't He?
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Yeah. Ind- in- in
fact, he really is
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and we are going to flesh that
out a little bit here because
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sometimes people will say,
you know what- what, in fact,
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evidently Nadab and Abihu said
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what's the difference
between this fire and that fire?
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It's all fire
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Fire is fire
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and we- we see some of
that today. We'll flesh that out
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again in just a
moment but here it says that
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and the Bible says
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Then and there and so... we
might want- that's a little bit
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of the background
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and we might just want to
read the next few verses to see
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what happens and then
comment. It says in verse 3,
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In other words, worship is
not about you, it is about Me
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Yes
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God says and I have to be
regarded as Holy and I mean- I
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mean, now where do we? Dwight
there is all places we can
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go here now
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I mean, what do we say about
the- the way God's treated in
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the- in the typical local
Church today, as far as Holiness
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goes. in fact, I was just
talking to somebody, I don't
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know who, it was you are
somebody else who said, they
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went into a Church in a
particular place and the Pastor
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was up there in a
Bahamas shirt and sandals
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and just you know, kind of
kicking back and- and you know,
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it's all about comfort
and convenience anymore, what
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happened to Holiness?
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Right, and that I think, that's
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so true here, and again
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we- we would never have
enough time on this program to
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probably go through some of
that excepting this, God is a
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particular God because
he's God. I mean, I am glad he's
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particular because they have
said if- if the Earth- if the
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Earth was just a little bit
closer to the Sun or a little
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further away or if the way it
was tilted, just a few degrees
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could change
everything on this earth.
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That's absolutely right
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I mean, God is such a particular
God to keep us alive and
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so there is a right way,
there is a wrong way, especially
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with God, it should be
God's way and so I have gone to
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different Churches and some
people go into the sanctuary,
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the sanctuary is to be Holy
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Yeah
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you know, I mean, even in the
Bible, it says, "Be still and
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know that I am God. " A
reverence, you- you know, God's
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sanctuary and you go in
there and it's noisy, people are
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talking just like it's-
just like in a restaurant
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and when we go in, we are
meeting God, you know even in
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the Bible, the Angels will veil
their faces before God and they
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have never sinned. Why
in the world do we think?-
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I was in the Church one time,
it's been quite some time ago,
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but it really it- it- it hurt me
but the Guy just said, you know,
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he is praying to Our Heavenly
Father, I mean, we should kneel
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before him and he said,
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and he just said, "Dear Pops.
" It was just so sacrilegious.
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This was a Pastor and
I'm sure he didn't realize it
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No.
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but it hit me because I'm
thinking, why do we want to
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bring God down to our level,
when he is God? And God has
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a particular order in
everything that he does. Why in
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the World would we dress the
way we want, talk when we want,
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don't worry about the sanctuary?
Say, Who cares. God doesn't
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care. We are worshiping
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Yeah
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we are"- whatever but he
does care and obviously he was
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he was showing that.
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Yeah. Where do we get the
idea that God doesn't care and
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see, this
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Yeah
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is the thing, the reason we
do that oftentimes is because
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we don't understand and if
something doesn't make sense
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to us- and- and I don't think
we think of it this way but
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if something doesn't say- make
sense to us, we just figure it's
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unimportant
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Yeah
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but who made us the prime
source of wisdom in the Universe
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Yeah
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I mean, here's the God of Heaven
and if he say is something is
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important, I may
not see importance in it
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but I should have faith
and trust that there is because
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God is
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Faith and trust and
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trust and to begin with
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and respect.
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Yeah
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This is God,
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I mean,
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could he perhaps know something
I don't know? You know I
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mean, this is the whole
thing. You know, "No, no. Not at
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all. " You know and Na- Nadab
and Abihu go in there with their
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I don't know
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why they didn't call me
God. I mean, that's the thing, I
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mean, we almost are taking
the Name God. In fact, you know
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in one of the Commandments
that we shouldn't take the
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Lord's name in vain
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Yeah
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but we take His Name in
vain when we put self in the way
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That's right
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because self is on the Throne
and God is empty in our hearts
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Yeah
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and so vain means basically
empty, so really, we've got to
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start trusting in God.
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For no purpose.
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So we take God's Name...
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Yes. Sometimes people
think that's just is limited to
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swearing
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to swearing
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but is beyond that
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it's- it's taking the
name of- of- of Christians
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Yes
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and then not
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and living like the World
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Yeah. Living like the World.
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and we are making Christians
of no effect, so, I agree.
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Well, you know,
something else here that is
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important to note, is that
you have- Nadab and Abihu were
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Leaders among the people
and they were dedicated to the
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Priesthood, so in other words,
they were in a position that
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people look up to them and God
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Yes
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intended that they could look
up to Nadab and Abihu and learn
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what it meant to be a Christian.
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Probably, you had Moses, you had
Aaron and you had Aaron's Sons
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That's right
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I mean, Miriam was in
there somewhere but this was the
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priestly role- I would,
you know, I don't know for sure
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but I am telling you, like you
said, there were way up, they
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could have been
3rd and 4th in command
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Yeah
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because they were the one
underneath Aaron. Aaron was
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underneath Moses.
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Yeah
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So I mean, they were-
they should've been setting an
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example.
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That's right and- and evidently
they knew better. Now one of
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that happens and we won't go
the the Scriptures there but if
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somebody wants to reference
it, you could go to Leviticus 8,
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I think it's right around verses
23 and 24 where the- where
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these men are set apart for
the Priesthood and one of the
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things that happen, is they
took a sacrificial animal and
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they took the blood of the
animal, representing the blood
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of Christ and they touched it
to the tips of their- their ears
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OK
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and the tips of their thumb
and the tips of their big toes.
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In- in other words,
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Which represents?
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representing Holiness,
purification by the Blood of
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Christ of the things
that we let into our senses
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OK
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through whe-whether we are
listening to or watching, the
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same idea there. The things
that we do with our hands,
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OK
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should be Holy, the places we go
with your feet, should be Holy.
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So they pretty
much had it covered up
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and a lot
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they were Holy
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of people talk about being
covered with the blood of Christ
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Yeah
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and yet they say, "It has
nothing to do with the way that
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I live"
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Yeah
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but you don't get
that from Scriptures
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That's right
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I mean this is
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God expected
Holiness of His people
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Yeah. Absolutely. OK.
Well that's and that's- that's
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something because if we call
ourselves Christians and we are
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covered with the Blood of
Christ, then we should act,
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I mean, I think that there
is more of an example, the power
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of example, is
greater than speech, alone.
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That's right
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What's- what's that song? "I'd
rather- I'd rather see a sermon
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than
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hear one
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than hear one any day"
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and isn't that the case? I
mean, I have had people tell me
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personally, that when they see
Christians, maybe they'll come
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the Church, why should they
go to Church? I have had people
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tell me this,
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why should I Church? I'm a
good person, I don't steal,
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I don't drink, I don't smoke
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Yeah
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you know, I don't cheat on
my taxes and- and why should I
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go to Church and pay this-
this tithe and offering like
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this club. I mean I don't
want to go to Church and pay my
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money out. I don't get paid
back for anything. When I see
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nothing but hypocrites in the
Church. Of course, that's not
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a good excuse but- but the-
but you and I, everyone that
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is watching, we should have
the power of example and Nadab
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and Abihu was far
from that example.
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You know, something else that
goes on and we want to touch
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on here, is that when- when
Nadab and Abihu were basically
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killed there, in
the presence of the Lord
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it say, "The fire of the
Lord went out and devoured them"
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and of course God then says,
that the reason was because
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in essence they didn't come
before Him and regard Him as
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Holy, which we need to touch
on but then, God told Aaron
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not to mourn,
in verse 6 it says,
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these were the Brothers of
Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
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Ithamar
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Now this was something
they would do in mourning.
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Yes
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You would tear your clothes,
you know, here your- your 2
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Sons, 2 of your
Sons have just died
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Two
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or your Brothers have just
died and God says, "I don't
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want you to mourn. I don't
want you, any appearance of
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mourning" because God knew
that it would make the people
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sympathize with the offenders
as though God did something
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wrong.
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Yes
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and he was trying to maintain
the- the Holiness. Now this
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isn't because
God is an egomaniac
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Right
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but the point is, that God
knows- the devil is constantly
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trying to diminish God's
Holiness in our eyes because
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when we cease to view God
as Holy, that's where the devil
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smears us
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That's right
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and leads us into those
paths that will- that ultimately
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lead to our ruin. In
the particular case, here is
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somebody, may ask well, if these
Guys knew better, then why did
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they go ahead? And of this
strange fire and what caused the
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problem where you
come to verse 8 and it says
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Now, it doesn't say it directly
about Nadab and Abihu but
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it's
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right after this judgment
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Sure
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so the implication is very
clear here, what was happening
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Evidently, that's what had
happened that they had been
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drinking and it confused their
judgment. If you look at the
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next part there,
in the next sentence
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Hmm
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When you're drinking, you
think that you're under control
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Oh yeah
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you really do and I have-
some Guy- a good friend of mine
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when we drank, years and years
ago, it's been a long time ago
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but he used to say, "Let's-
let's go drink and- and get
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stupid and lay on a a pile. " In
other words, he- he was really
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understood that until I
really quit drinking, that you
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think you got it under control
but you get- you just get
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less smart, you know,
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maybe, is there
such a word stupid
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you just get less smart. I
was at a New Year's Eve party
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Yeah
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and my Wife and I- and we got
there late and people want to
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hurry up and drink, you know,
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they want to
bring in the New Year.
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It's like, why would they
want to bring in the New Year
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drinking? To forget all my
troubles but you know, you- you
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bring in this New Year and
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So you can start out
the New Year with a hangover
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With a hangover? That's not a
good way to start the New Year.
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Not at all.
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So, we got there and it was
late and I'll never forget this
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as long as I- it's been years,
I'll never forget this, that
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the people had already been
a couple hours there, you know
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and they probably started
at 9. I know I got there at 11,
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I don't remember, we were
just going to go there and visit
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some of our friends and they
were laughing and joking, they
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came up to me and were
saying things and they were just
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laughing at- I couldn't
laugh. I couldn't laugh because
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it wasn't funny. I
was completely sober.
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Yeah
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and they were just...
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they say, "Oh Dwight,
you know"- they're hot.
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Everything was funny and
it was just- in my mind it was
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like, "This is stupid"
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Yeah
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and then you know what I did
though? Instead of walking out,
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I went ahead and thought,
well, I had to catch up. So, you
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know, after you
know, they call him...
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Dwight, that was stupid.
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That was stupid! That's right
and- and so I hurried up and
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drank a bunch
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Yeah
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so and then pretty
soon everything was funny
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Yeah
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and instead- and it talks about
that in Proverbs, by the way
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Hmm
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but anyways, here, I
want to underline, in fact
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Yeah, "Wine is a
mocker" in- in Proverbs 20
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"Wine is a mocker"
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and it also means, everything
is become funny, that shouldn't
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be funny
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Yeah. it- it,
there is no seriousness
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or less importance
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less importance and this
right here, in verse 9, it says
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In other words, you would
need to have your faculties
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Yeah
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all together, because it makes
a difference, and- and anyways
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anyway, if you know, you don't
have these pencils- these are
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tremendous but- but if
you- if you've got your marker
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underline it, verse 9, where
it says, "Do not drink wine"
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you can see why I am underlining
it, "or intoxicating drinks
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you get that from Remnant,
right? You can get that from
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Remnant, right. That's right.
You know, do you have one Mark?
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You'd better get one
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I- I need to get one
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but you know, I love marking
my Bible up, I- because it
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Yeah
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because I've got now wine, I've
got in Orange, and intoxicating
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drink and underlined it in Blue
because when I'm- because when
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I'm going to come back to
here, I can find it real quickly
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but that's part of studying
the Bible but I also want to
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read another statement
here, in the- in the Study Bible
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it's- it's got under the
the Book, Patriots and Prophets
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Yeah
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Page 361 and 362. It's right in
the Study Bible. It says here,
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Yeah
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You notice it said,
"The free use of wine. "
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Yeah
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In other words, it says, they
understood that- that the most
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careful and solemn preparation
was necessary before presenting
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themselves in the sanctuary
where the divine presence was
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manifested but by intemperance
they were disqualified for
00:21:01.71\00:21:05.28
their Holy Office, their minds
became confused and their moral
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perceptions dulled so that they
could not discern the difference
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between the sacred
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That's right
00:21:12.89\00:21:13.86
and the common and the
thing with it is that God is
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particular, he has a certain
way of doing things and God
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hasn't changed since
the Old Testament. I mean,
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That's right
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let's go to the New Testament
real quick with, the offering of
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Well, the Bible says
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Ananias and Sapphira
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Malachi 3,
verse... what is it? 6,
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"I am the Lord do not change. "
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I do not change
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New Testament ver- Hebrews
Chapter 13, verse... is it 5?
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It says, "That Jesus Christ,
just the same yesterday, today
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and forever. "
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Yeah
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and- and God was...
with the Ananias and Sapphira
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So Old and New Testament
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Old and New Testament. They
could have offered anything but
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they lied and guess what
happened? Because the fledgling
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Church was growing, both those
folks died and sometimes we
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don't see that today
but it's vitally important.
00:21:49.73\00:21:51.60
Well, you know, something
that I think we need to tie in
00:21:51.63\00:21:54.09
here and just briefly is, in
the- in the New Testament, at
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the end of time you have
the Church, you have a- rather a
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system called Babylon
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OK
00:22:02.14\00:22:03.11
and in this- this false
religious system, it's getting
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.56
the Nations' drunk with their
wine. Well this isn't the wine
00:22:05.59\00:22:07.60
of- alcoholic wine
00:22:07.63\00:22:08.95
Right
00:22:08.98\00:22:09.95
but it's false teachings
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Yes
00:22:10.94\00:22:11.91
and in the same way, where
the Bible is telling us, is in
00:22:11.92\00:22:13.01
the very last days, people's
judgment is going to be confused
00:22:13.04\00:22:16.47
by false teachings so that
00:22:16.50\00:22:17.64
in the religious World,
there will be a downplaying of
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Holy things and
Sacred things and- and people
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Which we see-
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which we see right now,
I mean, it's rampant around
00:22:24.78\00:22:26.52
the World.
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I mean, Churches have become
to me unholy, they- they- they
00:22:27.89\00:22:31.21
want to- they want to- to
entertain ourselves but you know
00:22:31.24\00:22:37.21
I say this, when people get
entertained and they can feel
00:22:37.24\00:22:39.67
good why there at Church because
it's emotional, when they
00:22:39.70\00:22:41.78
go home they can still
slap their wife around and their
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kids around because why? Because
they have not allowed the
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difference
between Sacred and Holy.
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Yeah and they'll say, they'll
go to- they'll go to the- the
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Bible and say, "Well, I know
what God says here but I don't
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think he really means that. "
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Yeah. Why? Because
they are afraid of that
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because they don't know the
difference between the Sacred
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and the common.
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Well, time is almost out again.
Then we hardly got this started
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but I- I think hopefully
you've understood the- the great
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principle here and before
we take our break, think about
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this, during this break,
is that, there is a difference
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between right and wrong. Always,
all through these Scriptures,
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Old and New Testament. God
is a Holy God and he's- and he's
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calling us up to come
up to the higher standard.
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1st Peter 2:9 that- you
know, he's calling us to be a
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peculiar people, a special
people, that we would live that
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example, that other people
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They're different!
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They dress different, they...
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A royal Priesthood.
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A royal Priesthood
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Absolutely and so I pray that's
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It was 13:8, not
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So he doesn't change
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That's right
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He doesn't change and one
little statement here, I'd like
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to read again, it's- it's
out of the Study Bible, Page 3-
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Prophets, Page 360, it says,
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In other words
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