Welcome to Battles Of Faith.
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We are your host
Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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On today's program we are going
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to be talking
about the sanctuary.
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The Bible says in Psalms
77:13, "thy way oh God is"
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"found in the sanctuary. "
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Many of you may be thinking,
isn't the sanctuary that
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thing that Moses
built in the wilderness?
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I don't understand it,
there are so many symbols and
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this furniture goes
there and this side all those
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things, but really God's
will for your life can be found
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in the sanctuary.
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We are so excited about
this program because we know if
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we learn more about the
sanctuary, we can perfectly
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fulfill God's
will for our lives.
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We want that for you.
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That's right, the sanctuary is
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actually a science, the
science of salvation can be
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found in the sanctuary.
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To most people the
sanctuary is like science, it is
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difficult to understand.
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We want to take this
program to unfold the sanctuary
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and show that it God's
way, according to Psalm 77:13,
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His way is actually and
indeed found in the sanctuary.
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Some people may, when
they hear that term, the way,
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they think of
Jesus, Jesus is the way.
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When you look at John 14:13,
or rather verse 6 which says
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Jesus is speaking here, "I
am the way, the truth, and"
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"the light. "
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When you put those verses
together some 77:13 and John
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14:6, you come to the
conclusion that Jesus the way is
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actually is
found in the sanctuary.
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That's right, Jesus
is all in the sanctuary.
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That's right, He is
present there and the science of
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salvation is there, His
work is there and we are going
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to look at the sanctuary
and understand that there are
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many principles that reveal
the blueprint to salvation.
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To the way God saves
and delivers His people.
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The context of what we have
been speaking about in terms
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of how Satan is attempting
to manipulate the environment,
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and through science,
falsely called, change the
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characters of humanity.
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We are going to see in
this program that the sanctuary
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actually lays out the
method God uses in order to save
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His people from the
tricks of the enemy.
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Right, and I know all of
us are interested to know
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exactly how God plans to
save us because it is our goal
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to be with Jesus
and be in heaven.
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That's right, in Exodus
25:8 the Bible says there
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God is speaking to Moses
and says, "let them make me a"
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"sanctuary that I
may dwell among them. "
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We are going take a
look at a couple graphics
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that we have.
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The sanctuary was a
beautiful edifice that was
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constructed in the wilderness.
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As you look at some of
these graphics you will see here
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that the sanctuary was
located directly in the center
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of the camp of Israel.
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He had the tribes on
various sides and you have the
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sanctuary building
right in the center of
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the children of Israel.
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If we were to go into the
sanctuary, or right into the
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first door of the sanctuary,
you have what you call the
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outer court and inside the
outer court are two articles
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of furniture.
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You have the bronze alter
where animals were sacrificed
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and if you go a little further
into the sanctuary, still
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in the outer court, you
have what they call the laver.
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The laver is where the
priests would wash their hands
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and their feet
before they entered into
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service for the Lord.
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If you were now to go
further into the sanctuary you
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would have a second compartment,
a smaller building as it
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were, rather not a smaller
building, there was the outer
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tent, then you had
the sanctuary proper.
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Inside that sanctuary it
was divided into two parts.
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In the first part
you have what was called
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the Holy place.
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In the Holy place there were
three articles of furniture.
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The seven branched candlestick
which represented the
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light of the sanctuary.
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That was what kept
the sanctuary lighted.
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You had the altar of incense,
which symbolized prayer.
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Then you have a table of
shewbread which represented
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the word of God.
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These articles could not
just be placed anywhere in the
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sanctuary, God gave Moses
the instructions of where to
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place them, they
were not randomly placed.
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Exactly how we are going to
see the significance of that
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as we go on.
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When we moved further
into the sanctuary you have the
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second compartment, which
was called the Most Holy Place.
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Inside the Most Holy
place, you have the Ark of the
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covenant and God's
presence in that compartment.
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So this was the outline of
the sanctuary and Atonte what
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we are going to see is
the process by which God saves
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His people, the way
of salvation according
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to Psalms 77: 13
is actually laid out
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in the sanctuary service.
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So let's begin by looking
at an example of the story
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of the Exodus, this is
when the children of Israel were
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led out of Egypt
and began their journey
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into the promised land.
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There was a way that was
given to them to escape the
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bondage of Egypt and
enter into the promised land.
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So what was the first
thing that God instructed the
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children of Israel to do
to prepare to leave bondage?
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The very first thing that
He asked them to do was to put
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the blood on the doorpost.
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That is right, it was a
sacrifice He had called them
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to make, and if you look in
the sanctuary service itself,
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you will notice the
first article of furniture
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represented, was
the bronze altar which
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represented a sacrifice.
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Interestingly enough,
after the sacrifice takes place,
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God then leads them,
Exodus 12:14, you will find God
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leading the children of
Israel through the Red Sea.
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This was a symbol
or type of baptism.
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When you look in the sanctuary
you will see the article
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a furniture found after
the bronze altar was the laver.
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The laver represented washing.
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Immediately after they came
through the Red Sea, what you
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have in Exodus 16 is that
they are now being tested on
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God giving them manna,
manna falls six days but on the
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seventh day, rather five
days but on the sixth day it
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will fall twice as much and
on the seventh day they were
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not to go out and gather.
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Well what you have here is
that God is testing them with
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bread, when you think of
bread what are you thinking of
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in the sanctuary?
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You are thinking of
the table of shewbread.
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Interesting enough, as you
move on through to Exodus 19,
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God for the first time
says to Israel, you will be My
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royal
priesthood, My royal nation.
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That royal priesthood and
nation was symbolic of the
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seven branched candlestick
when you remember Jesus saying
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in the New Testament where
Jesus you are the light of the
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world, He was talking
about the people of God were to
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represent the
light of the world.
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In Exodus 19 He is declaring
them as the light of the
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world, in that same chapter
Moses says to the people,
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God is going to come down
on Mount Sinai in a few days.
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You are to spend the
next three days in preparation
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for God's coming.
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Or for God coming
down on Mount Sinai.
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That represented a type,
they were to be in a meditative
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type or state of mind,
they were to be praying and
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searching their own souls
which brings us to the altar
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of incense which we said
earlier represented prayer.
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Then in Exodus 20 you have
God coming down and speaking
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the 10 Commandments, symbolic
of the Ark of the covenant.
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You see the way God led
the children of Israel out of
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Egypt to Himself,
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the blueprint was
found in the sanctuary.
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That's right, and I think
we can see for our own lives
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that that is a very similar
pattern because many of us
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our caught in bondage by Egypt.
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God wants to
deliver us the same way.
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My favorite author, when
the children of Israel had to
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cross the Red Sea, my
favorite author talks about that
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they actually had to step
into the water, it wasn't that
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the water was open when
they were walking toward it,
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but by faith they had
to step into the water.
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When God saw they had
enough faith, that is when He
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parted the Red Sea.
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It is the same thing for
us, God will do that, He will
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deliver us from the things
we are in bondage to if we
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have faith in Him and He
will open the Red Sea for us.
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Exactly and another
instance we can look at with the
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sanctuary, is that the sanctuary
was actually a blueprint
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or a foreshadowing
of the birth of Christ.
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In Exodus 25:8 God said,
"let them make me a sanctuary"
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"that I may dwell among them. "
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In the same way inside
the sanctuary was the actual
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presence of God.
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So when Jesus is born in
Matthew 1:23, I believe it is,
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the Bible says that His
name would be called Emanuel,
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meaning God with us.
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Jesus was God with us.
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He was with us, His body, God
was in Him and surrounding Him
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and when Jesus came to
dwell on this earth it was as
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though He was a sanctuary
in the midst of His people.
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That is why He said in
John 2:19 I believe it is,
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"destroy this temple and
I will raise it up again in"
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"three days," he
was speaking about
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Himself as the sanctuary.
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The sanctuary also points
to Jesus, it points to the fact
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that Jesus Christ is
the presence of God with us.
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Amen!, and again
that is what we need.
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Jesus came to dwell with
us and we need to allow Him to
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dwell with us and us with Him.
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This is the science of
salvation, Christ with us,
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Christ in us.
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The sanctuary not only
points to the life of Christ,
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rather a mean the birth of
Christ, but it also points to
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the life of Christ.
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This is so beautiful Atonte
because Jesus was born in a
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Manger, a Manger with animals.
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When we look at the sanctuary,
where was the animals taken?
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They were sacrificed
on the altar of sacrifice.
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In essence... that was the first
step, that was the very first
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thing... Jesus was born ready
to die, He was born a living
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sacrifice as it were, in
the manger, among animals.
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The very next thing we find
in the sanctuary is the laver,
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again representing
washing or baptism.
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If you look at the next
significant, major significance
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in Christ life, it was
His baptism at 30 years old.
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He was baptized at the Jordan
and you will find there the
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laver and the baptism.
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The path, or the science of
salvation being worked out in
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Christ very own life.
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Interesting enough Atonte,
when you look at the sanctuary
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you'll find that Christ,
after His baptism, the Bible
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says He was lead into the
wilderness which would take us
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into the Holy
Place of the sanctuary.
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How many times was Jesus
tempted in the wilderness?
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He was tempted three times.
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He was tempted three
times, how many articles of
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furniture do we
find in the Holy Place?
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Three articles of furniture.
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The first temptation, according
to Matthew 4, the devil
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came and said to Jesus, turn
this stone into what? Bread.
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I have a funny suspicion
that Satan was well aware of
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this sanctuary pattern
that he had seen worked out so
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often in the Old Testament.
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The first temptation was
to turn the stone into bread,
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Jesus overcame that.
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The second temptation,
He was taken up into a high
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mountain, or the pinnacle
of the temple, and was asked to
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throw Himself down and
call out to God because
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God would deliver Him.
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It was symbolic of presumptuous
prayer, throw yourself
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down Jesus and pray to
God and He will deliver you.
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He was being tempted
at the altar of incense.
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Symbolically
speaking, Jesus overcame that.
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The third and
final temptation was ...
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I'll give you the world.
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I know that you have
come to save your people.
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I know that You want Your
candlestick, I'll give it to
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You another way,
You don't have to die.
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I'll give Your people
if You simply bow down
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and serve me.
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He was being tempted over
the very people that He loved.
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I'll give them to You if
You will bow down and serve me.
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But Jesus overcame that as well.
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As He overcame these
three temptations the Bible says
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He returned in the
power of God's Spirit.
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He returned to magnify,
not get rid of, but to magnify
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the law of God.
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Which is found in
the Most Holy Place.
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Again we see the sanctuary
actually laying out the
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process of Christ life which
is the process of salvation.
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You know when Jesus overcame,
He was constantly saying,
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"it is written, thou
shall not live by bread alone"
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and thus as far as
all the temptations came.
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We can have that
same power in our life.
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That is what God wants for
us is to go through those same
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steps in the sanctuary so
we can have the power like
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Jesus had power
and overcame the enemy.
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The sanctuary is a
blueprint of salvation.
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It not only reveals how
He led Israel out of Egypt,
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how He came to be God
with us, how He lived His life
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in accordance with
God, but it also reveals the
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depth of Christ.
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If you take a look at the
graphic once again you will see
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that the sanctuary, the
articles of furniture in the
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sanctuary were placed
in very specific places.
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If you were to take a pen
and outline the articles of
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furniture, you would see
there the shape of a cross.
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You mean starting from
the altar of sacrifice as the
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post, and then going all
the way up you will find the
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shape of a cross.
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Incredibly enough, thousands
of years before Jesus came
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the sanctuary revealed
that he would die on a cross
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for our sins.
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Amazing, not only that but
you look at the places where
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the articles of furniture
are placed, Jesus received a
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wound in each
one of those places.
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In the feet, representing
the bronze altar, each wound
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in each hand, the candlesticks,
the table shewbread.
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He had a crown of thorns on
His head representing the ark
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of the covenant in
the sanctuary picture.
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He received a wound in
the His side in which came out
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blood and water, which
represented the laver where the
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laver was placed.
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Jesus died
actually of a broken heart.
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He was rejected of man,
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and supposed to
be rejected of God.
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So we see there that the
sanctuary actually illustrates
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or points out the death
of Christ on our behalf.
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I know that for young
people out there who have never
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probably found the sanctuary
that exciting, when you see
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Jesus all over the sanctuary
it makes it very exciting.
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When you see how He was
able to overcome and how God
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actually put this in the
Bible years before Jesus was
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even on the scene and
actually had the victory.
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It should be very exciting
for you and for anyone who
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was studying and we know
that if you have watched these
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programs you have heard
things that probably challenged
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you in your personal life.
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Especially dealing with
the entertainment industry and
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things like that.
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It is very
difficult to overcome these
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things on your own.
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It is hard to stop listening
to the bad music the pulls
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you away from God.
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It is hard to stop watching
those television programs or
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movies or things that are
disconnecting you from God.
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But if we follow these steps,
God can definitely give us
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the power and
the victory to do so.
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That's right, the
science falsely so called is the
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devil's attempt to pull
us away from the true science
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of the Scriptures.
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As we look at the entertainment
industry and see what it
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is trying to do through
principalities and powers, it is
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really Atonte, trying to
take our minds from the word of
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God and make it difficult
for us to even comprehend the
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Bible, but as we apply
ourselves to the word of God,
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we will see that it is
really not a boring book.
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Hollywood cannot
outshine this, their are so many
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beautiful and wonderful
things found in here that will
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draw us continually
closer and closer to Christ.
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That's right, and the sanctuary
is very important where
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Psalms 77:13 says "thy way
is in the sanctuary," really
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it's Atonte's way, or your way,
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you can put your
name in that place.
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Not that we should put our
own way, but that God has said
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that the way has been provided
for each one of us and we
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can make it personal,
but it is always God's way.
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Let's look at
another illustration Atonte,
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of the sanctuary, because
it also illustrates, not only
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the birth of Christ, the
life of Christ and the death
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of Christ, but it
illustrates the work of Christ.
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We know that when Jesus,
when you look at the sanctuary,
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the sanctuary actually
began with a sacrifice of the
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animal, and this is a
very important lesson.
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What it teaches us is that
Christ's work of salvation began
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with His sacrifice.
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A lot people say that
the sacrifice ended it all.
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No! The sacrifice ended
one part of it, but it was the
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beginning of a new work.
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Christ, when He died, began
the work, or the process of
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salvation and when you
look at the next article of
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furniture which represents
the laver which represents the
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washing of when Jesus was
resurrected and He was as it
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were ascended through the sky.
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He was resurrected with a
new body, in other words His
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body was now glorified and
was not bruised up as it had
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been before, it
was washed so to speak.
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He ascended up to heaven
and in Revelation chapter 1,
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we find Jesus
standing in the midst of seven
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Golden candlesticks.
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Where is He now? He is in
the Holy place and then in
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Revelation 11, our attention
is shifted to the Most Holy
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Place, the ark of the covenant.
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What this process reveals
Atonte, is that Christ has
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ascended into heaven, according
to the sanctuary pattern.
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He didn't just die and go
off and leave the sanctuary
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pattern, no it was a
process, the blueprint that He
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followed even in heaven.
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It reveals to us that we
have a high priest now who
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is on the right
hand of the Father,
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interceding on our behalf.
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That's right, He is interceding
for you and me and He is
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asking Lord, help them as
our prayers are extending to
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Him and He is taking them
to God and He's interceding
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on our behalf and he is
asking for the request and needs
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of the things we need.
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But always, things are
never rejected and that is the
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reason we are asking for
grace and the power to overcome.
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This is the one I
really like Atonte.
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The sanctuary reveals a
process by which God will save
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humanity as a whole.
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Those who have accepted
Christ at the bronze altar
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while they were on this earth,
who accepted the sacrifice
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of Christ in their
behalf and lived out His life.
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When they do that, Jesus is
going to come again and part
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the sky as Moses
parted the Red Sea.
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Symbolic of the laver, we
too will be washed and receive
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clean new bodies.
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Amen, we're going to go
through that atmosphere as
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though it were a sea.
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We are going to go over
into that seven branched
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candlestick which represents
the city, or the people,
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of God, we are going
to enter into that city.
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When we enter into that
city, notice we are following
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the sanctuary pattern,
when we enter into that city,
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one of the first things we
are going to do is sit at the
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welcome table.
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There is a popular song,
I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome
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Table One of These Days.
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We are going to sit at the
welcome table with Abraham and
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Isaac and we are actually
following the sanctuary pattern
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of salvation.
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The Bible then says in
Revelation 20, we are going to
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spend 1000 years with
Christ as King's and priests.
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Symbolically speaking that
work of judgment, which took
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place largely at the altar
of incense, in the Holy Place,
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the priest could not
enter into the Most Holy place
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without the incense.
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For 1000 years God's people
are going to be as priests
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doing the work of judgment.
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The work described in Revelation
20 as judging the wicked
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while they are
dead upon this earth.
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Then at the end of the
millennium the city of God
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comes down, and the Bible
says behold the tabernacle of
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God is with men.
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Now we will ever
be with God as one,
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forever and ever after.
00:22:39.95\00:22:42.87
The sanctuary even reveals
the process of salvation for
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the entire race of humanity.
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You know Satan's plan, or
his will for us, is to never
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get into the word enough to
see these beautiful promises.
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Just talking about heaven,
as we are talking about it
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now, I'm getting excited
and can even envision as God
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will take us home to heaven
and sit at the welcome table.
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But you are so caught up in
this world, and the problems
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of this world, the things
of this world has to offer
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again, as the entertainment
industry and those things
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we don't even think about
our final destination which
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is our home heaven.
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That is why Jesus came to
die on a cross for our sins
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so that we can
be with Him forever.
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The Bible speaks Revelation
14 of a special group of
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people who are described
as following the Lamb where
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so ever, He goes.
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Well guess what, the path
of the Lamb is found in the
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sanctuary, every person
that is saved will be able to
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trace their testimony
Atonte, through the sanctuary.
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There was a time where I
decided that I had to give my
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life to Jesus Christ and
their symbolically speaking,
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I did that at the altar of
sacrifice, the bronze altar.
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Now great, I've given my
life to Christ, is it over?
00:24:03.31\00:24:06.63
No! Because I have to move on in
00:24:06.67\00:24:09.29
the process of salvation.
00:24:09.33\00:24:10.85
I have to now be washed and
cleansed from the filthiness
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of this world.
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I have to give up the music
and give up things that were
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polluting, it isn't enough
to just say I give my life
00:24:19.56\00:24:23.42
to Jesus, no I have to follow
through and be washed from
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this life, I did not
know about the sanctuary then.
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I didn't know that I was
now walking through this step.
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But God was leading me as
I looked back now I see, wow,
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this was the process that
is laid out in the sanctuary.
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Once we are washed and
cleansed, but God then lead me
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to the word of God.
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The table of shewbread,
you have to study to show
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yourself approved.
00:24:47.61\00:24:49.11
He leads us to the seven
branched candlestick, this is
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to be a light unto the world.
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You have to share what you
have and be that shining light
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in a dark place.
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Then He says it is not
enough to just study your Bible,
00:24:59.72\00:25:02.44
it is not enough just to
shine, but you have to be in
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constant communication with Me.
00:25:05.19\00:25:07.25
You need to learn how to
pray, and pray, and pray, and
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when those things are
accomplished it is as though you
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have entered into this presence
of God relationship where
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you and God speak,
symbolically speaking as it were
00:25:17.05\00:25:21.05
face-to-face.
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It is not a one-time thing,
He didn't just give His life
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to Christ 10 years ago, but
this is a daily thing we have
00:25:25.65\00:25:28.93
to do daily, we have to
die daily on the altar of
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sacrifice and then God
has to cleanse us more because
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there is more things
that we are finding out that
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God needs to cleanse.
00:25:38.73\00:25:40.33
We have to study His
word daily, pray daily,
00:25:40.36\00:25:42.56
and be a light daily.
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We want to close the
session now with a very special
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message and it is
found in Exodus 25:1-8.
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God lays out these building
blocks that are to be used
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for the sanctuary.
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We are going to put
it up here on the screen.
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We are just going to look
at the articles and what they
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are, they are to be:
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Now Atonte, each one of
these has a very special
00:26:23.04\00:26:25.36
significance,
gold represents faith.
00:26:25.39\00:26:28.06
Silver
represents the word of God.
00:26:28.09\00:26:30.68
Brass represents steadfastness
and impenetrability.
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There are Bible scriptures
that actually explain,
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you at home get your concordance
out and look up these
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words, what does gold mean?
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.14
What does faith mean?
00:26:43.17\00:26:44.14
What does brass
mean in the Scripture?
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What is it used to symbolize?
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Atonte, from our studies
we have found a beautiful
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message in the very
outline of the articles given.
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If you were to put all
these things together in a
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sentence listen to
what it would read.
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It would read
hear, or have faith,
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in the word of the Lord.
00:27:03.43\00:27:04.94
Be steadfast and obey and
He will make you kings and
00:27:04.97\00:27:09.24
priests through
His righteousness.
00:27:09.28\00:27:11.97
Through His righteousness
rather He will cover you.
00:27:12.00\00:27:15.83
By the sacrifice of His
flesh, He will take our curse
00:27:15.87\00:27:19.49
upon Him and through His
spirit, He will give light.
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Anointed, He will intercede
for us bearing us as precious
00:27:23.10\00:27:28.28
upon His mind and heart.
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What a message to be found.
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And that was through all
the things that are represented
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.90
in the sanctuary.
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That's right, I know we
didn't have time to really get
00:27:35.97\00:27:38.24
into it this program, but
beloved if you will search it
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out you will see these things.
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God has precious treasures
for us in His word and they
00:27:42.10\00:27:46.61
are exciting, don't let
what the world has blind you to
00:27:46.65\00:27:51.13
the beauty of God's word.
00:27:51.16\00:27:52.65
That's right, don't let
with Satan is trying to offer
00:27:52.69\00:27:55.76
daily keep you from His
word, because you can find these
00:27:55.79\00:27:58.83
treasures and
jewels for yourself.
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We are all out of time so
until next time, God bless.
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