Welcome to "Battles of Faith."
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We're your host
Ivor and Atonte Myers,
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and we're with Power
of the Lamb Ministries.
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You know, something
that is a more recent
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invention is called a GPS,
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you can have it on your phone,
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you can have it in your car,
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and it helps you
to find your way.
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Sometimes, we have found
that they are not perfect,
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they'll say make
a left and the left
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will be going off of a
cliff, so they are not perfect.
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Man didn't make it,
but it really does come
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in handy when you don't
know where you're going.
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You know we have
found that God has provided
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all of us, the
world, the simple world
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with a GPS to help
us to find our way home.
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And we like to call it
the blueprint. That's right.
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A blueprint is put in
place to help you like
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a map, to help you
and guide you in the way
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that you should go and we find
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that the Bible
does have a blueprint.
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And there is a reason
why God had to give us
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a blueprint and maybe
we can recap what we have
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found in previous
programs and why God
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even had to give us a blueprint.
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That's right, Atonte.
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A GPS is used to
help us find the way
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especially when we're lost.
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And as we look at our safety,
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we're gonna see that
God has indeed given man
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a GPS, whereby he might
know the way to salvation.
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So what we're gonna do is,
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we're gonna do a
little recap as you said
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and we're going
to see why it is that
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God had to give us a GPS.
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So let's go back to the
Book of Ezekiel Chapter 28.
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And again we
invite you at home to get
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your Bibles and
to open up with us,
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because we're going to see
how God's plan of salvation
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is unfolded in this GPS.
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Exodus 28
beginning with verse 14,
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the Bible
describes a fallen angel
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by the name of Lucifer
who was created perfect,
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but eventually sinned and
cause a rebellion in heaven.
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Verse 14 reads, "Thou
are the anointed cherub
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that covereth and
I have set thee so,
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thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God,
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thou hast walked up and down
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in the midst of
the stones of fire.
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Thou was perfect in
thy ways from the day that
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thou was created, till
iniquity was found in thee."
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We understand that
this covering cherub
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is so called
because what this angel did
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was cover the
Ark of the Covenant.
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This was found in the
Old Testament Sanctuary,
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which was a miniature model of
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the "Throne Room of God,"
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there was the
Ark of the Covenant
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that was found in
the most Holy Place
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and above the Ark
was the Mercy Seat
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whihc represented
God's throne or His law.
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You're looking at image
on the screen right there,
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but you'll see
there that there were
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two angels on
either side of that Ark
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and those are
described as covering cherubs.
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So, what we know about
this is that Lucifer was
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a covering cherub,
one that stood in the very
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presence of God,
in the very midst of
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God's throne protecting
or defending if you will
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the law of God,
that where cover means
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to protect or to defend.
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Well, the Bible
says that Lucifer sinned.
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And the definition of sin
is transgression of God's law.
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As a result, he
was cast out of heaven.
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We also know
that when God created
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planet earth that, that
He created man perfectly
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and subject to His
law, to His government.
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But we
understand that Lucifer came
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to the garden in the form
of a serpent and he tempted
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Adam and Even,
and they two sinned
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or rebelled against God's law.
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When a person sins or
rebels against God's law,
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it puts them in a
certain condition?
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We'll say that,
that condition is
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a llost
condition, a lost condition.
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So God gave the blueprint,
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so that we could
find our way, exactly.
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If you're lost, you
need to find your way.
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Exactly. What is that blueprint?
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It is none other than
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what the Bible
calls, the sanctuary.
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Psalm 77 verse 13, in fact says,
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"Thy way, O God,
is in the sanctuary."
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God's path to salvation,
His direction back to heaven,
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man when he sinned, he was
put out of the Garden of Eden.
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God's plan of salvation is to
lead man back to his presence.
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And we find, we'll
find that as we look at
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the sanctuary
blueprint, we're going to see
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that that's
exactly what God did.
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He showed man the
very way in which he could
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return to the presence of God.
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So, what we're gonna do now is,
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we're gonna take a
look at that sanctuary
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from a bird's eye
view, if you will.
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And if you were living
in the Old Testament times
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and you were a
Jew, who had been living
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in that time where Moses was
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instructed to
build the sanctuary.
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You would see
basically a tabernacle that had
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six articles of furniture in it.
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Now on your
screen, you'll see those
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six articles of furniture.
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The first two of those articles
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were found in the outer court.
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When you went
into the outer court,
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you came at to something called
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the Altar of Sacrifice.
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What happened there,
Atonte? That's where--
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Well, that's where
the children of Israel
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would bring a daily sacrifice.
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So they would bring
a lamb and bring it to
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the sanctuary and the
priest would take that lamb
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and sacrifice that
lamb for their sins
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on the Altar of Sacrifice.
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Actually they
sacrificed the lamb,
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the priest was
there to officiate.
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But that's where
that sacrifice took place.
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Back on the
screen, if you were to go
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a little bit
further into the sanctuary,
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you would now see an article
of furniture called the Laver.
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And because, of
course, when a lamb is
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sacrificed it's,
you know, there is blood
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and that's kind
of a messy situation.
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So this is where
the priest would wash
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their hands, and so in that
Laver was a mixture of blood.
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That's right. And water.
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Water, blood, and
the priest had dirt
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or anything on
them, they had to wash
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before they entered into
what was called the tabernacle
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proper or the sanctuary proper.
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Advancing a little bit further,
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you now came to a compartment
called the Holy Place.
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The Holy Place had three
articles of furniture in it,
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and it was a tent as
it were within the tent.
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In this Holy
Place, there was the
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Table of Showbread,
and that's basically
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where the priest would
bring in 12 loaves of bread
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every week, and they
were changes out weekly
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just representing
those loaves of bread.
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If we would've to think of
what these articles represent,
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the loaves of bread would
represent the word of God.
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You remember,
Jesus said in Mathew 4:4.
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"Man shall not
leave by-- Bread alone.
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Bread alone, but by
every word that proceeds
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out of the mouth of God.
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Right in the centre
of the Holy Place was
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another article
of furniture called
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the Altar of Incense, Incense.
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And that's where the
priest would do what,
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they would burn incense.
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Right, if we burn
incense on a daily basis
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and that incense was like
a sweet smelling fragrance.
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We know in the New Testament
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that that
incense represents, what?
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Prayer. The prayers.
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In Revelation 8. That's right.
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It talks about the
prayer of the saints.
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That's right, so all
these articles of furniture
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basically are
symbols of greater truths
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that we find in
the New Testament.
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In the same Holy
Place, you had another
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article of furniture called the
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Seven-Branched Candlestick.
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You'll see that right there
to the left of your screen.
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The Seven-Branched Candlestick,
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which gave light
in the tabernacle.
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And Matthew 5 tells us
that, you know, Jesus says--
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We are to be the
light of the world.
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That's right, the
light of the world.
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So you're seeing
all these symbols,
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all these articles
representing different
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truths in the New Testament.
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Finally, you, in this
sanctuary you would not,
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if you would
advance, you would go into
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another compartment
called "The Most Holy Place."
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That was divided,
that divided the Holy Place
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from the Most Holy Place,
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there was a curtain in between,
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and when you went
into that Most Holy Place,
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that's where the
actual presence of God was,
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the Shekinah Glory,
the light if you will.
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There was a mercy seat
representing his throne,
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the Ark of the Covenant
representing the law of God
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and the foundation of His throne
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and then you have
those two covering cherubs
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which represented the
angels in the very presence of
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God's throne and God's midst.
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So here you have a bird's
eye view of the sanctuary.
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And I find that again
Psalm 77:13 telling us
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that God's way is found
in the sanctuary is just
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absolutely mind blowing.
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The sanctuary basically is
the entire plan of salvation,
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the entire story of salvation
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from the fall of
Lucifer, down to the redemption
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of mankind, the
ultimate redemption of mankind.
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It's all right
there in the sanctuary.
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And I think
something interesting,
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if we could look
at our graphic again
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when you look at the
actually even where God had them
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place the articles of
furniture, actually symbolizes
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this blueprint or
Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
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That's right, if you
take a look you'll see
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that the way the
articles of furniture
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are setup, if you
were to join outline
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around the
articles of furniture,
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you would find a cross.
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It's almost as though Atonte,
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thousands of years
before Jesus came to this world.
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The sanctuary prophesied that
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Christ would die on our behalf.
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He would die on a
cross for our sins.
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So the gospel is
right there in that
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Old Testament
Sanctuary, in that blueprint.
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And in fact, if you were
to look at that chart again,
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I know, we're
referring to the chart
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over and over again,
but we want you to get
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used to this, to this GPS, okay.
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If you were to
look at everywhere,
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everyplace in
which an article is,
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Jesus was wounded
in that very place.
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That's right, the
Altar of Sacrifice placed
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down at the bottom.
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We know that he
was nailed on the cross
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at His feet,
there was a wound there.
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We know that He had a crown
of thorns placed on His head.
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That's right, Which is a
wound, and also when you're
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on a cross, you've to
be nailed by your hands
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and so with the candlestick,
with the candlesticks
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was placed and
Altar of Showbread,
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Table of Showbread is
placed that's also where
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His hands would have been.
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And then we know He
died of a broken heart, so--
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It's the Altar of
Incense. The Altar of Incense.
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And it's
interesting, Atonte, because,
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you know, the Altar of
Incense represents prayer,
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our communion
with God and when Jesus
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felt that His communion
with God had been cutoff.
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"My God, My God, why
hast Thou forsaken Me?"
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You're not answering me.
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We're not dialoguing
or communing as we have
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been so used to
doing when Jesus felt that
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that was cutoff,
it broke His heart.
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That's right. And He died.
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But we actually, I'm looking
at the chart one more time.
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There is one more
piece of furniture and that's
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the Laver, that's
right, and what happened--
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Right. What did
the Roman soldier did?
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Yeah, Jesus died,
the Roman soldier,
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one of the Roman soldier
came and pierced his side
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and out came
blood and water, right.
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And so, it's
amazing that the sanctuary,
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articles of furniture
actually show not only
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Christ death on
the cross for us,
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but in every place
that an article is,
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there Jesus was
wounded on our behalf.
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It's interesting, Atonte,
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as we look at this
content, we look at this
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sanctuary, this blueprint,
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this GPS that when
God had instructed Moses
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to build the sanctuary,
he said in Exodus 25:8,
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"Let them make me a sanctuary
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that I may dwell among them."
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If you were to
look at that sanctuary
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from the outside, you
would see a building that looked
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very plain, you
know, brown covering just
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nothing attractive about it,
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but inside that tabernacle
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was the very light of
God, the Shekinah Glory,
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the very presence of God.
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In the same way, Jesus
when He comes to this earth,
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in fact, I
believe its John 2:19,
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where Jesus was speaking
to the Jews and He said,
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"Destroy this temple,
and I will raise it up
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again in three days."
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And they thought He was
talking about, you know,
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a literal temple,
He was talking about
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the temple of His body.
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So Jesus makes
this correlation that
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He is that Old
Testament Sanctuary.
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He is the sanctuary embodied.
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When Jesus was born,
the Bible says that His name
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would be called
Emanuel, meaning--
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God with us. God with us.
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You look at that
baby, you saw nothing
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attractive, nothing spectacular,
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but just like that tabernacle
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in the Old Testament,
inside that very natural
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normal looking baby was
the very presence of God.
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In fact, John
Chapter 1 tells us,
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I believe it's
verse 14 tells us that,
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"In Christ was the life,
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and the life was
the light of men."
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That's John 1:4,
and then verse 14 says,
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"That he dwelt among us."
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Just like God says
in the Old Testament,
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"Let them make me a sanctuary,
that I may dwell among them."
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Christ Himself came,
the Glory of God embodied
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in flesh, so that we
could behold Him and not die.
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We find that the
sanctuary then not only
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points to Christ birth
and Him coming as a God
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in the flesh, it
points to His death.
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And if we even go further,
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we'll see that
the sanctuary actually
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illustrates
Christ at every point
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or at every
article it illustrates
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some aspect of Christ life.
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Okay, I thought you're
gonna add something there,
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but let me just go
on and add this as well,
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because I think
it's important for us to
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understand that each
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article of furniture
represents something.
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We covered a little bit earlier,
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but the Altar of Sacrifice,
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what is that
mean to us and for us?
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Well, just like
this lamb had to be
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sacrificed on a daily basis
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and it points the
lamb, points to Jesus.
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Jesus is the Lamb of
God and He came and died
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for our sins, we're to
die daily, that's right.
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And allow the blood
of Jesus to work in our
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lives on a daily
basis, His sacrifice for us.
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That's right, and
it's interesting because
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that Altar of Sacrifice,
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it represents a work
that you and I must do.
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We must die daily. We
must pick up our cross.
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Take up our cross, the
Bible says and follow Christ,
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but it also
points to Christ Himself
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because John 1:29,
when John is baptizing
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in the Jordan and
when He sees Jesus
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and this language
can only, you know,
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truly be understood when
you understand this blueprint.
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So when John the
Baptist sees Jesus,
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He says to Him,
John 1:29, it says,
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"The next day John
sees Jesus coming unto him,
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and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God,
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which taketh away
the sin of the world."
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When you understand
this blueprint, this GPS,
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you see exactly what
God was trying to teach
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the children of Israel, way
back there in the wilderness.
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When they were told
to bring a sacrifice,
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an animal, a lamb,
they were also told to
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lay their hands upon
their head of that animal
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and they would have
confessed their sins
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on the head of that animal.
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And as they did this,
what was happening was,
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they were
transferring their sins
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from themselves to
the innocent animal
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and then the animal was slain.
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This is exactly
what John the Baptist was
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speaking about, when he said,
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"Behold the Lamb of
God, which taketh away
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the sin of the world."
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So we, what
we're trying to do is,
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we're trying to get
you to trust the blueprint,
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trust the GPS
because we're gonna find
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in later programs
that it is a failure
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to understand the
GPS, the path of salvation
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that leads so many
people, sincere people even
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to be lost, to be confused
about the plan of salvation.
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Or to believe
things that are not truly
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in the word of God,
that's right, that's right.
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So we have here
the Altar of Sacrifice,
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we now
understand what that means.
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What about the Laver?
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The Laver, the Laver
is where once again we see
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the priest would wash
their hands and their feet.
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And when we
think about it, well,
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what could that
represent in the New Testament?
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Washing water, I
mean, what comes to mind.
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Well, even Jesus
before His ministry started,
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He had to be baptized.
That's right, that's right.
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And so the Laver
represents baptism.
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That's right, exactly.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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That's right, it
is-- By the Holy Spirit.
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By the Holy Spirit
and even down to that
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water whereby,
whereby we are cleansed,
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Jesus is the water of life.
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So not only He
is the Lamb of God,
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but He is the water,
whereby we are cleansed
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from our sins as well.
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He is that water of life
whereby when we take it in,
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we experience a new
birth, a new creation.
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So we also must be baptized.
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We can't just, you
know, say I accept Christ
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and leave it at
that and say, okay,
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great, I accepted Christ, I
confessed Him with my mouth,
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that's all it takes no.
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The blueprint shows
us that not only must
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we accept Christ, we
must also be born again,
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we must be baptized, okay.
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So now we move, we
advanced into the Holy Place.
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And in the Holy
Place, once again we found
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those three
articles of furniture,
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the Table of
Showbread, the Altar of Incense,
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and the
Seven-Branched Candlestick.
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It is interesting
that in the Book of John
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Chapter 6,
Jesus says of Himself,
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I am the bread of life.
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Again, Atonte,
these things begin to fall
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into perspective,
when you understand
00:19:58.95\00:20:00.97
the blueprint and
you understand what He is
00:20:00.98\00:20:03.28
referring to, it begins to make
00:20:03.29\00:20:05.40
all the sense in the world.
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He is basically saying, look,
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I am these things
that the Old Testament
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Sanctuary was pointing to.
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I am the blueprint
and if you understand
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the Old Testament
Sanctuary, it is near impossible
00:20:17.76\00:20:21.92
to be fooled, to be deceived,
00:20:21.93\00:20:24.45
to be misguided, we
know that that's exactly
00:20:24.46\00:20:26.75
what the devil's trying to do.
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So He says, I am
the bread of life.
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We're to eat of His flesh,
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and when we eat of His
flesh, what do we have?
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We have life, we have life.
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And so a a Christian so far,
00:20:39.58\00:20:41.00
what we can see is we
have to first die to self,
00:20:41.01\00:20:44.42
that's through the power of God,
00:20:44.43\00:20:46.54
be baptized by the Holy Spirit,
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but through water and now
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at the Table of
Showbread, we realize,
00:20:51.59\00:20:53.64
Jesus is the Bread of
Life, but He is the through,
00:20:53.65\00:20:57.21
it's also
representing the word of God.
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So as Christians we have to
be studying the word of God.
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That's right, that's right.
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We now come to
the Altar of Incense.
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And the Altar of
Incense found right there
00:21:06.35\00:21:08.38
in the centre of the
Holy Place represents
00:21:08.39\00:21:11.50
that as we said in
Revelation Chapter 8,
00:21:11.51\00:21:14.42
it represents the incense,
the prayers of the saints,
00:21:14.43\00:21:18.49
the prayers of the
saints represents intersession.
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It is our communion with God.
00:21:21.53\00:21:27.58
Something interesting about
00:21:27.59\00:21:28.57
the Alter of Incense is
that the incense would burn
00:21:28.58\00:21:32.20
and the smoke would
go up and it would go up
00:21:32.21\00:21:33.98
over the vale where
the presence of God is.
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So it's communion with the God.
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There is a vale
there, but almost like
00:21:39.77\00:21:41.14
when we pray we
can't literally see God,
00:21:41.15\00:21:45.15
but by faith we know that
He is hearing our prayers.
00:21:45.16\00:21:47.41
Exactly, exactly we know
that our prayers should be
00:21:47.42\00:21:50.58
ascending like that
sweet smelling incense and,
00:21:50.59\00:21:54.44
you know, that's
how God views it.
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When we speak to
Him, when we pray to Him,
00:21:55.98\00:21:58.40
He says it's like
sweet smelling incense
00:21:58.41\00:22:00.93
in my nose, you
know, but even above
00:22:00.94\00:22:04.81
and beyond that
the Bible tells us that
00:22:04.82\00:22:07.46
Jesus Himself is that
sweet smelling savior to God.
00:22:07.47\00:22:13.10
In fact, in Ephesians
Chapter 5 verse 1 and 2,
00:22:13.11\00:22:16.69
the Bible says, "Be
therefore followers of God,
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.46
as dear
children, and walk in love,
00:22:19.47\00:22:22.15
as Christ also has loved us,
00:22:22.16\00:22:24.85
and has given
himself for us an offering
00:22:24.86\00:22:28.00
and the sacrifice to God
for a sweet smelling savior."
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Sweet smelling savior,
so we find that Christ is
00:22:32.99\00:22:35.87
not only the Lamb of God,
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.37
He is not only
the Water of Life,
00:22:38.38\00:22:41.21
He is not only
the Bread of Life,
00:22:41.22\00:22:43.84
but He is also the Sweet
Smelling Savior unto God.
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I find it interesting,
Atonte. He is our intercessor.
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He is our intercessor, you know.
00:22:51.22\00:22:55.04
I find it interesting
that there are so many people
00:22:55.05\00:22:57.70
that say the Old Testament,
00:22:57.71\00:22:59.70
we don't need that, we
should do away with that
00:22:59.71\00:23:03.36
and the sanctuary, oh, yeah,
00:23:03.37\00:23:05.33
that's definitely
Old Testament stuff.
00:23:05.34\00:23:07.53
But if we were to
understand why God had
00:23:07.54\00:23:12.29
given the sanctuary to
mankind because remember
00:23:12.30\00:23:16.24
in that sanctuary is the way.
00:23:16.25\00:23:19.72
Satan's work is to get
us and to keep us lost.
00:23:19.73\00:23:25.34
So I think that the
thing that Satan would
00:23:25.35\00:23:28.91
hate most for us to
understand is that blueprint.
00:23:28.92\00:23:32.71
He would hate for us
to have that GPS because
00:23:32.72\00:23:35.57
someone comes along and says,
00:23:35.58\00:23:36.70
I don't know this
has happened to us.
00:23:36.71\00:23:38.62
We've been in some strange place
00:23:38.63\00:23:39.95
and we're for directions
we pulled over, we someone,
00:23:39.96\00:23:43.64
you know, hey can
you help us and they say,
00:23:43.65\00:23:45.80
yeah, you know, all
you have to do is just,
00:23:45.81\00:23:48.43
go down to the street
here, make a left at the light,
00:23:48.44\00:23:51.31
make a couple of rights
here, make another left,
00:23:51.32\00:23:53.31
another right, go straight,
00:23:53.32\00:23:54.35
go down two miles,
make a left, right, left,
00:23:54.36\00:23:56.36
right and then
you'll be right there.
00:23:56.37\00:23:58.17
And we're like,
okay, this guy sounds like
00:23:58.18\00:24:00.10
he knows what
he's talking about.
00:24:00.11\00:24:02.63
And what happens, we
follow those directions
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.89
to a 'T' and then
you get to the place
00:24:04.90\00:24:07.15
where you thought
you're trying to go
00:24:07.16\00:24:08.87
and you realize you're lost.
00:24:08.88\00:24:11.16
The guy himself didn't even know
00:24:11.17\00:24:12.43
what he was talking about.
00:24:12.44\00:24:13.74
And he thought he
did. And he thought he did.
00:24:13.75\00:24:15.66
Well, God is not a guy. Amen.
00:24:15.70\00:24:19.52
He is not a human
being that he should lie.
00:24:19.53\00:24:22.40
When God gives us the GPS,
00:24:22.41\00:24:24.41
when God gives us this
map-- Didn't make a mistake.
00:24:24.42\00:24:26.48
This blueprint, He
doesn't make a mistake,
00:24:26.49\00:24:30.76
He is showing us and
what He is saying is,
00:24:30.77\00:24:32.30
if anyone comes
along and tells you, no,
00:24:32.31\00:24:35.35
you don't have to do
this or you don't have
00:24:35.36\00:24:37.32
to include that, you
don't have to go this way,
00:24:37.33\00:24:39.61
you can know without a shadow,
00:24:39.62\00:24:41.86
without a doubt, in fact,
00:24:41.87\00:24:42.84
we have a
blueprint map in front of us,
00:24:42.85\00:24:44.33
it actually folds out like a map
00:24:44.34\00:24:46.75
and you know, that's
exactly what that map is.
00:24:46.76\00:24:50.72
This map shows us the whole
sanctuary diagram in the plan.
00:24:50.73\00:24:53.92
God is trying to
open up before us a map
00:24:53.93\00:24:57.00
that shows without a shadow of
00:24:57.01\00:24:58.49
a doubt His plan of salvation.
00:24:58.50\00:25:00.92
So Christ is the Lamb of God,
00:25:00.93\00:25:03.16
He is the Water of
Life, He is the Bread of Life,
00:25:03.17\00:25:05.93
He is the Sweet Smelling Savior.
00:25:05.94\00:25:08.30
What about that
Seven-Branched Candlestick?
00:25:08.31\00:25:11.23
He is the Light of the World.
He is the Light of the World.
00:25:11.24\00:25:16.14
Without Him we would be
in darkness, that's right.
00:25:16.15\00:25:20.28
What we're trying to
get you to understand
00:25:20.29\00:25:22.74
as you watch is
that this sanctuary
00:25:22.75\00:25:25.34
is absolutely
full of the gospel.
00:25:25.35\00:25:28.87
And of Jesus everywhere.
00:25:28.88\00:25:30.23
And of Jesus everywhere,
everywhere, everywhere.
00:25:30.24\00:25:33.45
And we're just
skimming the surface,
00:25:33.46\00:25:35.22
you know, right now.
00:25:35.23\00:25:36.43
We're gonna go deeper
as we continue the program,
00:25:36.44\00:25:39.08
but the sanctuary
is it covers Jesus.
00:25:39.09\00:25:43.01
Christ, in fact,
Christ says, I am the way,
00:25:43.02\00:25:47.03
the truth, and the life.
00:25:47.04\00:25:48.15
No man cometh unto
the father, but by Me.
00:25:48.16\00:25:52.07
What He is saying is
that I am the path. Yes.
00:25:52.08\00:25:54.32
But Psalms 77 says,
"Thy way, O God," is where.
00:25:54.33\00:25:59.07
In the Sanctuary, so
when we look at the sanctuary,
00:25:59.08\00:26:01.72
we should be
seeing Jesus all overly.
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Amen. What about the law of God.
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We're going to
the Most Holy Place
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and there we find
the Ark of the Covenant,
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that's where the law of God is.
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And Jesus said,
think not that I am come
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to destroy the law,
I am come to fulfill.
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He says, I am
the law personified,
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I live this law out.
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If you look at the
description of the law,
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you're looking at the
description of Jesus Christ
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who kept that law perfectly.
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He is also our mercy,
He is God in the flesh,
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He is that Shekinah Glory,
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and so our time is
quickly running out,
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but we see here, we
hope that you've seen
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that this sanctuary represents
Christ, Christ, Christ.
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And if we truly want
to understand Christ,
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we must truly understand
this blueprint, this GPS.
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And if something is
truth from the word of God,
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we should be able to see
Jesus all over it, that's right.
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Everything that we teach Jesus
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should be the
center and this blueprint,
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center and this
blueprint, the sanctuary
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is Jesus in His truest
form, just all of the things
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that He has come to
do, so that we can be safe,
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so that He can show us the way.
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And we can find
our way back to heaven.
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That's right,
He wants to lead us
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back into the
very presence of God.
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Man sinned, he broke God's law,
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and was put out of the Garden.
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And it's interesting, God in the
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Book of Revelation 22 verse14.
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It says, "Blessed are they
that keep His commandments,
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that they may have
right to the tree of life
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and may enter in through
the gates into the city."
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The sanctuary is the
GPS that guides us back
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into the very presence of God.
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And we hope that
you have been blessed
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by what you've learned
today and we've a more to come.
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That's right, you're
not gonna want to miss
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future programs,
because we're gonna be going
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deeper into the
blueprint, the GPS,
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the sanctuary, so
that we can continue
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to show God's
love for all of us.
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Until next time, God bless.
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