Thank you for
joining us once again
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here at Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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It is our privilege
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to be able to
spend this time with you.
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Now, you may
have a lot of things
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going in the world today,
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but I'm going to ask that
you put those things aside
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and you spend this
thoughtful 50 minutes
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or so in the Word of God,
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because I know you
will not regret it.
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It is a subject that
will bless your heart.
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It'll give you hope.
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It'll give you
encouragement even in this mess
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that we live in today.
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Why a heavenly sanctuary?
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Why?
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You know, they may say, well,
we've talked about lot of that.
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Well, we'll see as we go along
in here by the grace of God,
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some of the beautiful
truths that are brought out
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in the sanctuary and
they all point to Jesus.
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I like that, don't you?
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So we're going to
have prayer right now
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and then we're gonna
get right into the Word,
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and I believe it's
going to be a real blessing,
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but we need to pray for
the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Shall we do that together?
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Loving Father in heaven,
thank You for Your Word today.
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We ask now Your Holy Spirit
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will just illuminate
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these beautiful
truths of Your Word.
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We pray that You
will impress them
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on our hearts and our minds,
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help us to realize
the hour in which we live.
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Help us to realize that this,
the time it's just almost gone.
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And yet, somehow we
maybe not caught the vision
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yet of Your soon coming.
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Help us today we pray
to see how You are working
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in our behalf and
how we need to combine
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humanity and divinity together.
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And we thank you in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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You have your
Bible, turn with me.
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We're going to be looking up
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to begin with and
talk about a sanctuary.
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This is a
passage that most people
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read every time
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when you talk about
the earthly sanctuary.
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Because if you're
like I am, I want to know
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who said to make
it earthly sanctuary.
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Who set it up?
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Why was all the things
so specific in every detail,
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every piece, everything that
went into the earthly sanctuary
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had to be exactly
the way that God said so,
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because He said
in Exodus 25:8-9,
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the Bible says.
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Don't you like that?
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The Bible says,
and I'm not giving,
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you know, this or
that, the Bible says.
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The Bible said, "And let
them make me a sanctuary,
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that I may dwell among them."
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If you were going to
guess today, who, who said that?
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God, good.
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God said, "Let
them make me," what?
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"A sanctuary
that I may dwell in,"
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because sin had come
in, isn't that right?
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Sin came in, separated God.
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He could no longer
walk with Adam and Eve
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in the cool of the evening,
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but God said, "I
still love the people.
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And I still
want to talk to them.
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I want to commune with them.
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Let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them."
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But notice what he
says, because we're saying,
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"Why a heavenly sanctuary?"
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Some will say, "Well, is
there a heavenly sanctuary?"
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Majority of the teachers
and preachers in the world
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today do not believe
in a heavenly sanctuary.
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And it seems so clear to me.
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And I pray that it's
clear from the Word of God.
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Yeah.
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Even people who supposed
to know sometime deny it.
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But notice that, He said,
"I want you to make a sanctuary
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and do it according to
all that I shall show thee,
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after," what?
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"The pattern of the tabernacle,
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and the pattern of all
the instruments thereof,
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even so shall ye make it."
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So evidently a pattern
must be something that exists.
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It certainly didn't exist
on the earth, so where was it?
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These are the things that
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we want to
answer these questions.
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Go with me now, if you
will, to the Book of Hebrews,
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just to give us
a foundation here,
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and we'll read from
the Book of Hebrews.
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Hebrews Chapter 8.
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Hebrews Chapter 8, I
think most of you know it well,
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Hebrews 8:1.
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Hebrews 8:1.
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Now we could read
them all one through five
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and it'd be beautiful,
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but we will refer
to these as we study.
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Hebrews 8:1 said,
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"Now of the things
which we have spoken of,
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this is the sum."
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Here's the bottom
line. This is the way it is.
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It's what it says, "We
have such a high priest,"
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who's a high priest?
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"Jesus Christ, who
is set on the right hand
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of the throne of
Majesty in the," where?
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"Heavens."
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We have a high priest.
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Where is that
high priest right now?
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He's in heaven. Okay.
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That's what it says right now.
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This is starting to
say, why, why a sanctuary?
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Is there a heavenly sanctuary?
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Right now it says,
there's something going on.
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There's something going on here,
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because it says here,
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the Bible says the
majesty in the heaven.
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There's Jesus.
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He's in the
heavens. What is he doing?
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Well, we're going to
answer those questions as we go.
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One more quick
passage if you don't mind.
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Hebrews Chapter 9,
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just turn over
there to Chapter 9,
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I'm going to read
verses 24, read verse 24.
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Now notice what the Bible said?
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"For Christ is not entered
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into the holy
place made with hands."
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What does that mean?
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He's not talking about
the earthly sanctuary, is He?
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He's not made, He's not
entered into something now
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that's been made with
hands, but notice what it is,
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but into the holy, notice,
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which they are the
figures of the true,
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but into heaven itself
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now to appear in the
presence of God for us.
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Okay. 24, did you? We get that?
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"For Christ is not
entered into the holy places
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made with," what?
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"With hands,
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which are the
figures of the true."
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Huh. They are a
copy of the truth.
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So there must be
something else somewhere,
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and it wasn't here on earth.
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Now what it says, it
says a pattern, right?
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Figures of the true.
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But now we, it clarifies
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but into heaven
it says right now
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itself now to appear in
the presence of God for.
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Praise God, we have Jesus
who is interceding in what?
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In our behalf.
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Brother Jan, He's
standing for you right now.
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If you stand for Him,
he's going to stand for you.
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If you don't stand for Him,
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you're not going
to have an advocate.
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If you don't live
for Him and choose Him
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as your Lord and Savior,
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your lawyer, He's
not going to show up.
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And without a lawyer,
even in earthly court,
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know the judge will
say, man, you're up.
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You better get you a lawyer.
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Sometime the police
say that, don't they?
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You better get
you a lawyer, boy.
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Come on now. You
know what I mean?
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Better get you a
lawyer. You don't come out here.
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You don't come
here without a lawyer.
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We need a lawyer right now
because our eternal destiny
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is hanging on that.
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I love the Great
Controversy, 488 and 9
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says this about why
a heavenly sanctuary.
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Remember the heavenly
sanctuary is the very center
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of Christ work in behalf of man.
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Isn't that wonderful?
It's the very center of it.
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And most people said, "We
don't study the sanctuary."
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A lot of churches never
studied the earthly sanctuary.
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Psalms talks about
thy way, oh God, is what?
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Is in or through the sanctuary.
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Thy way to God is
through the sanctuary.
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Redemption, plan of
salvation is through what?
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The sanctuary,
looking at everything
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that took place there foretells
what takes place in heaven?
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God's plan for us.
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It says here, Great Controversy.
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"It concerns every
living soul upon this earth."
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It concerns you,
and it concerns me.
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So therefore we
need to understand
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it may be
better than what we do.
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Maybe you understand
it much better than I do,
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praise God.
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It opens to view,
notice that, it says,
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The plan of redemption,
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it brings us down to
the very close of time
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and reveals the
triumphant issue of the contest
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between righteousness and sin.
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And so here is, put
a little star by this.
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Notice this, it is
of the utmost importance
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that all should thoroughly
investigate this subject.
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Did you get it?
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Utmost important
that all thoroughly
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investigate this subject.
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Now remember, we talked
about there's many, many subject
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connected to the sanctuary.
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We're just kind of
narrowing it down and talking
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about a couple
of them here today.
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The intercession of
Christ in man's behalf,
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in the sanctuary above, notice,
I'm going to read it again
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because somebody's
not going to get this.
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If you've read it and
you've got it in your heart,
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but many people may
be have not read this.
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The intercession of
Christ in the sanctuary,
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the intercession of who?
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Christ, who is
He interceding for?
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For us will go over that
and over He's interceding.
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He's pleading right
now to the Father for you.
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He's pleading for me right
now and He's pleading what?
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His blood.
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It's not them
because they're sinners.
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There's none good, no, not one.
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There's none righteous
on the face of this earth,
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but Jesus says, "I am Your Son.
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I gave my life for
them and where I am,
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I want them with Me."
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Man, that's awesome.
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So that means He's
done everything possible.
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So the intercession of Christ
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in man's behalf in
the sanctuary above
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is essential to
the plan of salvation
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was, as was His
death on the cross.
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Woo, that's heavy duty.
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We talk about death of Christ.
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We talk about
crucifixion, right?
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And we marvel and
say, it's wonderful,
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but His work
interceding for us in heaven
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is just as
important as His death
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because He must take His blood
and He has to be applied in it.
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Most of the churches
teach that it all ended where?
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It all ended at the cross.
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Oh, wonderful.
That aspect of it.
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But if you noticed in
the earthly sanctuary,
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there was something else
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that when the
sacrifice was made,
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their blood had
to be taken where?
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Into the sanctuary,
it had to be applied,
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had to be approved as it were
by God, how wonderful this is.
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Evangelism 223 says this.
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I love the book Evangelism.
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If you don't have
it, you need to get it.
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If we can help you do that, you
know, you need to call us here
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at Behold the Lamb.
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We're here to try to help
and try to be an encouragement
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and to present and to
supply books to people
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so they can read and get.
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I tell you, it just
brings joy to your heart
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when you read these things.
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It said, "God's people are
now to have their eyes fixed
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on the heavenly sanctuary."
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God's people are what?
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To have their eyes fixed
on the heavenly sanctuary,
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notice, where the final
ministration or the final work
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is going forward,
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where He's
interceding for His people.
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What does that mean?
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Remember, Jesus has made
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His last stop
before He comes back.
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When He first went to heaven,
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He tells us, I wish
we had a lot more time.
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I should've said two-part.
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I know I should
have said one of two.
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Didn't do it.
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So I'm going to have to hurry.
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But when you talk about here,
when Jesus went back to heaven,
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He went into the Most Holy Place
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and was there for what?
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1800 year 1900,
whatever, long time, right?
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And then He went
into the Holy of Holies
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for the Day of Atonement,
or the Day of Judgment.
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And we know that we've
been in the Day of Judgment
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since 1844.
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And this is such a
simple truth that many people
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just do not understand.
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They've never studied it.
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And they don't
really care to study it
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because the devil
has put out a counterfeit
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and people love counterfeit
more than they do the truth.
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Isn't that sad?
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I'm not happy about
that, but it's true.
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You think God would put
all these things down here
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that we can't understand them.
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And we can't understand
where we're at in the stream.
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No, He wants us to
understand these things.
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Jesus is interceding.
Praise God for His people.
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So as we look at this subject
a little bit closer sanctuary.
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Oh, in sanctuary, we
see a vivid presentation.
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I'm doing with
vivid presentation
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of the different
aspects of Christ' ministry
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in behalf of His fallen man.
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And we need to focus our
attention on these things.
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Listen, it will
change your heart.
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It will change your life.
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I remember many years
ago, as I've been in a trial,
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study the sanctuary,
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I heard it all my
life, raised in a church
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where they talked
about it once in a while.
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But as I really
begin to feast my eyes
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and my heart
and my mind upon it,
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I began to see
Jesus in a different way.
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I began to see all
the aspects of that,
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that I couldn't see before.
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As I studied this,
oh, my attention to,
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oh look that, oh,
what does this mean?
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Oh, I see what it means.
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He had me on his
mind. I'm thankful.
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So we are to
look for these things.
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Listen, Paul
encouraged us to do that.
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You remember in Hebrews 3:1.
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Hebrews 3:1,
"Wherefore, holy brethren,"
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so I'm appealing to you,
holy brother and sisters,
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"partakers of heavenly calling."
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Here's what he said.
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"Consider the
Apostle or the High Priest
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Jesus Christ."
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What did Paul do?
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He's warned us to consider
Jesus Christ our high priest.
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So that's what I'm
appealing to you today.
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When you say consider,
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it means to
observe fully in the Greek,
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to observe fully, right?
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To consider him to, notice this,
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in some cases,
it will be discover.
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Discover Jesus Christ.
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Discover Him.
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You may know Him.
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You may have
known Him all your life,
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but there's a time that
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you need to
come to discover Him.
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And when you discover
Him, you begin to love Him more
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and more and more, and
you commit yourself to Him.
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Letter 97 in 1898
says this, notice,
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why am I going to
consider the High Priest?
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Number one, Paul says,
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I need to
consider the High Priest.
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I know I need to
consider the High Priest.
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I know I need to consider.
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I need some
knowledge, acknowledgement,
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knowledge of God.
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And here it says why.
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"As the Majesty of heaven,"
Letter 97, 1898, notice this,
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"He was exalted
above the angels,
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and in His work of
redemption He carries with Him
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all who have received Him
and believed on His name."
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He does why?
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Because He carries, oh,
He carries the whole world
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on His shoulders.
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That's encouraging.
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That means I can
be a part of that.
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He carries you, He carries me.
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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
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and thou shall be saved.
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But remember,
there's other things
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that go along with that,
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don't try to
take the easy way out.
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Jesus said, "You love Me,
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you're going to
keep My commandments."
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He also says what?
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"Follow in My footsteps."
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There's no easy
way without sacrifice
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and making it to
the kingdom of God.
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What was the
purpose of the earthly
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and the heavenly sanctuary?
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I think the answer
will be very simple today
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as we just rush on as we can.
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It was set up to
deal with the sin issue.
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What was the
sanctuary set up for?
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To deal with the sin issue.
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1 John 3:4. What
is sin is what now?
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Sin is the
transgression of the law.
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Most of the
church, you want to say,
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"Yeah, but that doesn't count."
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The law is not binding now.
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Don't kid yourself.
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Roman says, "Where there
is no law, there is no sin."
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We have to look at the
whole Word of God right here.
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Christ entered into
his mediatorial work.
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We understand
that were as mediator,
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but notice He come
out of the tomb, right?
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Stayed 40 days on
this earth, did He not?
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And then He ascended to heaven.
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And when He ascended to heaven,
He began His work as mediator.
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And I'm saying,
sometimes why in this world?
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How can we, you
know, as people are saying,
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where people of
the book try to say
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that we need to go
to someone that dead
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to be our
mediator, intercede for us.
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Did you get it, or
go to some human being
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and confess our sins
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and have them to go
to the Father for us,
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Bible says,
there's one, only one what?
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Mediator between God.
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2 Timothy 2:5,
"There's one, only one mediator
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between God and man,
and that's Jesus Christ."
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And I say, today, if
you're going any place
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other than Jesus
Christ, it's not going to work.
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Why? Because the Bible says so.
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I'm not trying
to be bossy or ugly,
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but the Bible says differently.
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Why don't we by
faith just accept it?
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God said to Israel,
"Make Me a sanctuary."
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Now why did He say,
make Me a sanctuary?
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Remember the children of
Israel at this point in time?
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Where do you
call them? The nomads?
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In other words,
they were wanderers.
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They were
wandering around where?
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Somebody say the wilderness.
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Yeah.
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And the sanctuary
was simply a tent.
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Interesting.
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That could be put together
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and could be taken
apart rather quickly.
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They can move it
from place to place.
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How
accommodating God is, isn't He?
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They'll make a sanctuary.
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Then pour a bunch of
footings, anchored all down.
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He made it in pieces, right?
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And it all put together
without the sound of a hammer.
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That's the reverence and respect
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that we don't have for our
sanctuary most of the time.
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Too much talking,
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too much stuff
going on a lot of times,
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other than getting
ready to meet with God.
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That'd be nice if
we do that on Sabbath.
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If we haven't had
that custom right now
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that we get here
a few minutes early
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and we come in
here and can I say this,
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keep our mouth
shut and talk with God,
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ain't that right?
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Lot of talking
we can do elsewhere.
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But I'm saying we come in here,
get ready in the sanctuary.
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That's where God
met with His people.
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He commune with
them. He talked with them.
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We'll prove that
in a few moments.
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And why a sanctuary,
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because look where
God's people had come from.
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They needed more
than just the word.
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They needed
something that they can see.
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I do too today.
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I can learn more
from a picture sometime
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than I can from
reading about it.
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And so there was something,
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this sanctuary
was a visible place.
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And it was a place that
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they could learn
to worship one God
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where they came from,
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they were worshiping as it were,
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and there are many
gods and many of the pagan
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and the heathens.
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So they didn't
hardly know the difference
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and God was going to teach them.
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And He said, "I'm going
to give a visible place,
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you can see it.
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And then I'm going
to manifest myself there
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and you'll be able
to see that I'm there,
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and this will help
you to have faith."
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Worship the one true God.
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And again, very
opposite of the worship
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of the other heathen gods.
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Sanctuary brought
God near to His people.
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See that's all He's ever wanted.
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He never wanted the separation.
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We evidently wanted to.
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Adam and Eve wanted separation
because they chose to do other.
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If you want to be
separated from God,
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just do other than what it says
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in the Word and
you're separated.
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Is that pretty
simple? You can do that.
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No one can make
you do otherwise.
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You can choose if
you want to serve Him,
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you can choose to
deny Him if you want to,
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but it's not going to work.
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It's not going to work
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if you want
heaven to be your home.
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Sanctuary brought
God near His people.
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And then also it made
His presence real to them.
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Did you get it?
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It made His
presence real to the people.
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That absolutely is relationship,
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but see what did
the pagan and heathens
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had their gods out there
where they could see them.
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And they all said they did this,
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and they did that.
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Well, they did or
not, and this is going on.
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So the people where God
said, look, I'm going to,
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I'm going to
manifest Myself to My people.
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God has and still does.
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He want, He wants to find
a lodging with His people.
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And this is all that
we're doing in this study.
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I want you to stay with me
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because we're going to go at it.
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I don't want to say
we're going to go wow,
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but we're going to go wild
in the Word of God quickly.
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Does that mean you jot it down,
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if you don't
have it in your mind,
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God's still
looking for a lodging place
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in your heart, in
your heart, in my heart.
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This is what He wants.
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1 Corinthians 3:16-17.
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1 Corinthians what?
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3:16-17, you know
this, it starts out.
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"No you not that ye
are the temple of" what?
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"God." When you look
around and He's trying to say,
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don't you know that
you're the temple of God?
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"Oh, that the
Spirit of God dwelleth you?
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Is the Spirit of God
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really dwelling
in you and in me?
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It's supposed to, is it not?
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It says here,
"We are the temple."
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The spirit is
looking for a place to dwell.
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And let me tell you,
besides that the enemy,
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the evil spirits are looking
for a place to dwell too.
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And the good, if the
good spirit's not there
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the Holy
Spirit, I guarantee you,
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the evil spirit is.
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Well, we better we think
along that line, verse 17.
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Notice this.
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Here it gets to, "If any
man defile the temple of God,"
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who is the temple?
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Temple of God,
is not what he said,
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no, you not that ye have,
you are the temple of God.
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If any man defiles the what?
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Temple of God,
him shall God destroy
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for the temple of God is
holy, which temple ye are.
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So what is it telling?
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There's a lot of different ways.
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We have to be careful
how we treat this temple,
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this body and careful of
what we take into this body.
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Because God said,
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"If you take
things into your body
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that destroy your
mind, destroy your soul,
00:20:59.72\00:21:01.62
destroy your
thinking mechanism right here,
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God's going to destroy you."
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That's what the Bible says.
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You don't have to
say, well, the pastor said,
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the Bible said that, willingly
and knowingly that you do it.
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We're not talking about
people who don't understand.
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We're talking about
people who understand
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that God has given His last
day church a health message.
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Letter 139, 1898 says this.
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Letter 139 says, I
thought about this.
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And I read it two or
three different times.
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It said, "What might
not men and women have been
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had they realized that
the treatment of the body
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has everything
to do with the vigor
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and the purity
of mind and heart?
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Those who have been, you
know, surgery and a lot of pain,
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stump your toe, come on, church.
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You know what?
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It's very hard to
study the Word of God
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when you're in pain.
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Is it not? It is.
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Don't make you a bad
person. It's just simply it is.
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So we have to be great.
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It has everything. What is it?
00:22:03.08\00:22:04.85
How we treat our body
00:22:04.89\00:22:06.22
and what we put it
has everything to do
00:22:06.25\00:22:07.59
with the way we think
and the choices that we make.
00:22:07.62\00:22:10.23
I want it to make sense.
00:22:10.26\00:22:12.03
Guys, body is or
must be a fit temple
00:22:12.06\00:22:14.96
for the Holy Spirit.
00:22:15.00\00:22:16.33
The Holy Spirit
cannot dwell in the temple,
00:22:16.36\00:22:18.47
in a body that were
taking things in it, right?
00:22:18.50\00:22:21.74
Now we can all
ask for forgiveness
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.10
and done the wrong
things in the past.
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We come to God.
00:22:25.21\00:22:26.54
We still may suffer
for some of those things.
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Are you still with me, church?
00:22:29.28\00:22:31.01
Because when we
do the wrong things,
00:22:31.05\00:22:32.41
there are scars.
00:22:32.45\00:22:34.25
Now God can forgive us,
00:22:34.28\00:22:35.88
but still there
scars from our past life.
00:22:35.92\00:22:39.55
As someone will say, I
used to drink for 40 years.
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.32
They have issues
of that right there,
00:22:42.36\00:22:43.76
but they've gained the victory.
00:22:43.79\00:22:45.13
Praise God, God's forgiven them.
00:22:45.16\00:22:46.49
Heaven can be their
home. That's all good.
00:22:46.53\00:22:48.86
But sometimes it
affects the thinking
00:22:48.90\00:22:51.43
and decision-making
part of the brain.
00:22:51.47\00:22:55.10
The Holy Spirit wants
to dwell in a pure temple.
00:22:55.14\00:22:57.67
So we need to be careful
what we take into our bodies,
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because why?
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.21
Because God wants
to commune with us,
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and the soul and the body
must be in harmony with God.
00:23:06.08\00:23:10.09
Now, if you want
God to commune with you
00:23:10.12\00:23:12.42
through the Holy Spirit, I
do, then I need to do what?
00:23:12.45\00:23:16.06
All that I know to do
to do the right things
00:23:16.09\00:23:18.73
and choices that I make.
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Two quick points,
Review and Herald, 11-24-1896.
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Review and Herald,
11-24-1896 says this,
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"The more
completely mind and body
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are yielded to the Holy Spirit."
00:23:32.01\00:23:33.44
What is it?
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That you remember,
you can't yield completely
00:23:34.84\00:23:36.71
if we're doing
things that we know hurt us.
00:23:36.75\00:23:39.51
Does that make sense?
00:23:39.55\00:23:40.98
If we're doing things
that we know can hurt us
00:23:41.02\00:23:43.69
even over a long period of time,
00:23:43.72\00:23:45.89
Holy Spirit just can't do
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.26
what the Holy
Spirit wants to do.
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.32
"The more completely
the mind and the body
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are yielded to the Holy Spirit,
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the greater
will be the fragrance
00:23:53.80\00:23:56.03
of the offering
that we offer to him."
00:23:56.06\00:23:59.50
Just that the
more please to God.
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Fragrance, we all
like a good smell.
00:24:02.57\00:24:04.74
Oh, that rose, Oh, the flowers.
00:24:04.77\00:24:08.54
Oh, that's right.
00:24:08.58\00:24:10.81
God said, He's more pleased
with the one who's willing.
00:24:10.85\00:24:15.92
He can talk with us.
00:24:15.95\00:24:17.29
Secondly, He wants
to meet with any group,
00:24:17.32\00:24:20.42
whether it be a home church,
00:24:20.46\00:24:22.02
whether it be a
company we talk about,
00:24:22.06\00:24:23.63
they're a big
church, a big group,
00:24:23.66\00:24:25.13
whatever it might be.
00:24:25.16\00:24:26.49
He wants to be there if anyone's
00:24:26.53\00:24:28.53
willing to worship
Him in spirit and what?
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And in truth.
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John 4:24, read when
you have the opportunity.
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He wants to worship with those
who want to worship with Him
00:24:36.77\00:24:39.71
in spirit,
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in the power of the
Holy Spirit and in truth.
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In other words, you hear
it and you take it in and say,
00:24:43.28\00:24:45.35
"Hey, that's wonderful."
00:24:45.38\00:24:48.52
Now remember, part of this
here is divinity and humanity,
00:24:48.55\00:24:51.65
we understand working together.
00:24:51.69\00:24:53.82
You know, as a
church, we need to understand.
00:24:53.86\00:24:56.69
We need to understand too,
00:24:56.73\00:24:59.36
is it okay just to get
something off my shoulder.
00:24:59.39\00:25:01.00
You say, sure.
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.80
I've written some of you here
don't want look at your faces.
00:25:02.83\00:25:05.83
Somebody smile, right?
00:25:05.87\00:25:08.57
When we begin
the 11 o'clock hour,
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I think it behooves us
00:25:11.01\00:25:12.34
as God's people
to be in our seats,
00:25:12.37\00:25:16.75
not to let the pastor,
00:25:16.78\00:25:18.11
the elders all come up
here and start having prayer.
00:25:18.15\00:25:19.71
And then everybody
decides to find their way
00:25:19.75\00:25:21.25
into the church.
00:25:21.28\00:25:23.72
I never grew up that way myself.
00:25:23.75\00:25:25.92
Now, if anybody
had done it today,
00:25:25.95\00:25:27.29
I'm not picking on you.
00:25:27.32\00:25:28.66
And I don't know who did,
00:25:28.69\00:25:30.03
who didn't,
that's not the issue.
00:25:30.06\00:25:31.39
The issue,
shouldn't we be in our seats.
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.66
And so when those who
are in front come up here
00:25:33.70\00:25:36.03
and offer prayer,
everybody's together.
00:25:36.06\00:25:40.00
Everything has to be
done and done in order.
00:25:40.04\00:25:42.67
I think it just makes it.
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.04
Please, let's try to do
that by the grace of God.
00:25:44.07\00:25:47.11
And we need to try to
make sure we come up on time.
00:25:47.14\00:25:49.38
There's a time. There's a time.
00:25:49.41\00:25:53.05
God says in His Word in Matthew,
00:25:53.08\00:25:54.42
I just go on with a...
00:25:54.45\00:25:55.78
You know what I'm talking about.
00:25:55.82\00:25:57.15
I'm not trying to scold anybody.
00:25:57.19\00:25:58.52
I'm just, I want to tell
you something that troubles me.
00:25:58.55\00:26:01.02
Matthew 18:20, He said,
00:26:01.06\00:26:02.69
"For where two or three
are gathered together," where?
00:26:02.72\00:26:05.83
"In my name, there I
am going to be," where?
00:26:05.86\00:26:08.43
"In the midst." See that.
00:26:08.46\00:26:10.47
See me as, Jen,
that's good news, Brother.
00:26:10.50\00:26:13.74
Herb, that's good news.
00:26:13.77\00:26:15.57
He said where two or what?
00:26:15.60\00:26:17.07
Three are gathered
together in My name, there I am.
00:26:17.11\00:26:22.04
That means I
believe that He is here
00:26:22.08\00:26:25.58
and I believe that you need to,
00:26:25.61\00:26:26.95
and I need to guard my
thought and my attitude
00:26:26.98\00:26:30.12
and what took place this week
00:26:30.15\00:26:31.79
and what I wish
you've taken place.
00:26:31.82\00:26:33.42
Come on.
00:26:33.46\00:26:36.32
Thoughts and holding you to
be holy directed toward God,
00:26:36.36\00:26:38.66
because He said
I'm in that place.
00:26:38.69\00:26:40.30
But let me tell
you, the Holy Spirit
00:26:40.33\00:26:41.66
will not stay in a place
00:26:41.70\00:26:43.87
when there's things going
on that shouldn't be going on.
00:26:43.90\00:26:47.50
And it'll just
be a make-believe,
00:26:47.54\00:26:48.87
and the enemy will show up
00:26:48.90\00:26:50.31
when the spirit
says I can't stay.
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.57
Why? Because the
temple is not holy.
00:26:52.61\00:26:56.21
How we need help?
00:26:56.24\00:26:58.21
There's a beautiful song.
00:26:58.25\00:27:00.18
When we say, whoa, boy,
00:27:00.22\00:27:01.88
two or three together, together,
00:27:01.92\00:27:03.25
there I am in the midst.
00:27:03.28\00:27:04.62
And it says, notice this.
00:27:04.65\00:27:06.02
It says, He is here.
00:27:06.05\00:27:08.92
Hallelujah.
00:27:08.96\00:27:10.79
He is here.
00:27:10.83\00:27:12.43
Amen.
00:27:12.46\00:27:14.30
He is here.
00:27:14.33\00:27:15.66
Holy, holy, I will
bless His name again.
00:27:15.70\00:27:20.60
He is here.
00:27:20.64\00:27:21.97
Listen closely.
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.21
Hear Him calling out your name.
00:27:24.24\00:27:27.71
He is here.
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.08
You can touch Him.
00:27:29.11\00:27:31.75
You will never be what?
00:27:31.78\00:27:33.48
You will never
be the same again.
00:27:33.52\00:27:36.85
Today, my brothers and sisters,
00:27:36.89\00:27:38.22
by the grace of
God, I feast on manna.
00:27:38.25\00:27:41.26
I'm not feasting
on something day old.
00:27:41.29\00:27:43.22
I'm not feasting on
the lies of the enemy.
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.46
I'm feasting on
the manna from above.
00:27:45.49\00:27:48.00
Why? Because He is here.
00:27:48.03\00:27:49.93
Hallelujah.
00:27:49.96\00:27:51.30
He is here. Somebody say, amen.
00:27:51.33\00:27:52.97
That's what it says here.
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.64
He's here. He's listening.
00:27:54.67\00:27:56.10
Listen closely.
00:27:56.14\00:27:57.77
Don't you know,
00:27:57.81\00:27:59.14
He's calling
your name right now?
00:27:59.17\00:28:00.51
Can't you hear
Him calling your name?
00:28:00.54\00:28:03.18
But why?
00:28:03.21\00:28:04.55
'Cause it's
real, 'cause He's here.
00:28:04.58\00:28:06.61
He's here by faith.
00:28:06.65\00:28:07.98
You can reach out and do what?
00:28:08.02\00:28:09.35
You can touch Him.
00:28:09.38\00:28:11.45
You'll never be the same
again when you really reach out
00:28:11.49\00:28:13.92
and finally touch him
the way you're supposed to,
00:28:13.96\00:28:16.79
the way I'm supposed to
00:28:16.83\00:28:18.29
as I feed on
this manna from above.
00:28:18.33\00:28:20.73
He is here.
00:28:20.76\00:28:22.33
Somebody sing it.
00:28:22.36\00:28:23.70
Holy, holy, what is?
00:28:23.73\00:28:27.90
That's it?
00:28:27.94\00:28:29.27
Tears here, holy, holy.
00:28:29.30\00:28:31.94
I will bless his
name again. He is here.
00:28:31.97\00:28:34.41
Listen closely, for
He's calling out your name.
00:28:34.44\00:28:38.85
Oh, that's such
a beautiful song.
00:28:38.88\00:28:41.58
He is here, halleluiah,
00:28:41.62\00:28:45.49
He is here say what?
00:28:45.52\00:28:48.19
Amen.
00:28:48.22\00:28:49.99
He is here, holy, holy.
00:28:50.03\00:28:53.56
I will bless his name again.
00:28:53.60\00:28:57.50
He is here listen closely,
00:28:57.53\00:29:01.40
hear Him calling out your name.
00:29:01.44\00:29:06.04
He is here. You can touch Him.
00:29:06.07\00:29:10.65
You will never
be the same again.
00:29:10.68\00:29:16.08
Then isn't that
what it's all about?
00:29:16.12\00:29:17.45
That should be a
song that's on our heart.
00:29:17.49\00:29:19.75
I don't know it that well,
00:29:19.79\00:29:21.12
but it just touched
my heart and my soul.
00:29:21.16\00:29:23.53
Why?
00:29:23.56\00:29:24.89
Because I sense
an awesome moving
00:29:24.93\00:29:26.33
of the spirit of the living God.
00:29:26.36\00:29:30.93
And I can see the song
says, He can see our face
00:29:30.97\00:29:34.80
and the countenance of our face.
00:29:34.84\00:29:37.74
We can see angels all around us,
00:29:37.77\00:29:41.94
but today I feast
on manna from above.
00:29:41.98\00:29:45.61
He is here.
00:29:45.65\00:29:46.98
Hallelujah.
00:29:47.02\00:29:49.48
The plan laid
out for the building
00:29:49.52\00:29:51.89
of the earthly
sanctuary was God's plan.
00:29:51.92\00:29:55.96
I can't say it
any plainer than that.
00:29:55.99\00:29:57.69
The plan laid
out for the building
00:30:00.76\00:30:02.23
of the earthly
sanctuary was God's plan.
00:30:02.26\00:30:04.93
Surely we want to be involved.
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.64
In the mount Moses saw
a miniature presentation
00:30:08.67\00:30:14.38
of the heavenly sanctuary.
00:30:14.41\00:30:16.21
Read about that, Patriarchs
and Prophets, page 343,
00:30:16.24\00:30:20.12
also in the Book of Acts 7:44.
00:30:20.15\00:30:24.39
Notice what it says.
00:30:24.42\00:30:25.75
It says, "Our fathers
00:30:25.79\00:30:27.12
had the tabernacle
of witness," where?
00:30:27.16\00:30:28.69
"In the wilderness, the earthly,
00:30:28.72\00:30:31.56
as he had
appointed, speaking unto Moses,
00:30:31.59\00:30:34.73
that he should make it
according to the fashion
00:30:34.76\00:30:38.40
that he had seen."
00:30:38.43\00:30:39.93
What did God
do? Come on, church.
00:30:39.97\00:30:41.30
Somebody help me.
00:30:41.34\00:30:44.71
Moses
envisioned, isn't that right?
00:30:44.74\00:30:47.01
God took him.
Now, God's not lying.
00:30:47.04\00:30:49.14
When they said
there is no such thing
00:30:49.18\00:30:50.51
as a heavenly sanctuary.
00:30:50.55\00:30:51.88
There's no such
thing as war going on
00:30:51.91\00:30:53.25
in the heavenly sanctuary.
00:30:53.28\00:30:54.62
The work that went on
in the earthly sanctuary
00:30:54.65\00:30:56.35
is going on in the
heavenly sanctuary.
00:30:56.38\00:30:59.22
I mean, that's awesome
thing when you think about it.
00:30:59.25\00:31:02.66
Hebrews 8:2, it says, notice
this, "A minister," who is it?
00:31:02.69\00:31:06.63
Jesus, "A
minister of the sanctuary
00:31:06.66\00:31:09.10
and of the true tabernacle,
00:31:09.13\00:31:10.97
which the Lord set up
or pitched and not man."
00:31:11.00\00:31:15.14
That means the heavenly
00:31:15.17\00:31:17.84
'cause the earthly was
a pattern of the heavenly.
00:31:17.87\00:31:21.74
Hebrews 8:5. It says, notice.
00:31:21.78\00:31:23.75
"That all things
according to the pattern
00:31:23.78\00:31:26.55
showed thee on the mount."
00:31:26.58\00:31:28.82
It was so
important to God, was it not?
00:31:28.85\00:31:30.79
That He said, I'm
going to take Moses up there
00:31:30.82\00:31:32.15
and I'm going to show him.
00:31:32.19\00:31:33.52
And I want him to make it exact.
00:31:33.56\00:31:35.09
God wanted Moses to be right,
00:31:35.12\00:31:36.96
do exactly as
God told him to do.
00:31:36.99\00:31:39.59
That's part of the teaching
and obedience, is it not?
00:31:39.63\00:31:43.30
You make everything
according to the pattern,
00:31:43.33\00:31:45.43
so there must be something.
00:31:45.47\00:31:47.14
Somebody tells you
to cut out something
00:31:47.17\00:31:48.50
according to the pattern,
00:31:48.54\00:31:49.87
the pattern was already
there, isn't that right?
00:31:49.90\00:31:53.01
Pattern which is in heaven.
00:31:53.04\00:31:54.81
Signs of the Times 214, 1900.
00:31:54.84\00:31:58.68
It said, "The Jewish
tabernacle was a type
00:31:58.71\00:32:01.38
of the Christian Church."
00:32:01.42\00:32:03.55
The Jewish tabernacle was what?
00:32:03.59\00:32:05.79
A type of the Christian Church,
00:32:05.82\00:32:07.59
the church on
earth composed of those.
00:32:07.62\00:32:11.03
God's Church is composed
of those who are faithful
00:32:11.06\00:32:14.00
and true and loyal to God.
00:32:14.03\00:32:18.17
Yep. Some of them
didn't get it well.
00:32:18.20\00:32:20.80
Think about it.
00:32:20.84\00:32:22.17
Oh, it has to have
such and such name.
00:32:22.20\00:32:23.54
It's got to have this,
it's got to have that on it.
00:32:23.57\00:32:25.71
God's Church,
God's Christian Church,
00:32:25.74\00:32:27.78
the New Testament Church
00:32:27.81\00:32:29.14
is composed of
those who are faithful
00:32:29.18\00:32:30.95
and true and loyal to God.
00:32:30.98\00:32:33.25
This is the true tabernacle.
00:32:33.28\00:32:36.15
And Jesus is the minister.
00:32:36.18\00:32:39.79
He's the head of it.
00:32:39.82\00:32:43.19
God set it up, not man.
00:32:43.22\00:32:46.93
And when God set it up,
00:32:46.96\00:32:48.30
he set it up on a
high holy platform.
00:32:48.33\00:32:52.17
And somehow we've
been dragging it down.
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.00
By God's grace, we
need to elevate it again.
00:32:54.04\00:32:55.97
Let me be real clear
in case we missed it.
00:32:56.00\00:32:58.54
I'm going to be
a little bit clear
00:32:58.57\00:32:59.91
in the Great Controversy,
00:32:59.94\00:33:01.28
page 414 says this,
"The sanctuary in heaven
00:33:01.31\00:33:06.41
in which Jesus
ministers in our behalf."
00:33:06.45\00:33:09.38
Jesus is working
what? In our behalf for you.
00:33:09.42\00:33:12.69
You can't do it, I can't do it.
00:33:12.72\00:33:15.32
We have no business to be there,
00:33:15.36\00:33:16.69
but He's representing us
if we give our life to Him.
00:33:16.73\00:33:19.43
Notice this, "Is
the great original
00:33:19.46\00:33:22.33
of which the sanctuary
built by Moses was a copy."
00:33:22.36\00:33:26.47
Oh, that's so
clear. Oh, I like it.
00:33:26.50\00:33:29.20
Why did John,
in vision John saw.
00:33:29.24\00:33:32.51
I love it, John saw.
00:33:32.54\00:33:34.21
I wished I knew that song.
00:33:34.24\00:33:35.58
I'd sing it a
little bit too, John saw.
00:33:35.61\00:33:37.41
Talk about the New
Jerusalem, isn't that right?
00:33:37.45\00:33:39.08
Look what John saw people
walking on streets of gold.
00:33:39.11\00:33:41.52
John saw, the
Bible said John saw,
00:33:41.55\00:33:44.72
and he was taken into
the heavenly sanctuary.
00:33:44.75\00:33:48.22
Read that in Revelation 15:5.
00:33:48.26\00:33:51.23
Well, I'll read it to you.
00:33:51.26\00:33:52.59
It said, "After that I
looked, and, behold, the temple
00:33:52.63\00:33:55.13
of the tabernacle of
testimony in heaven was opened."
00:33:55.16\00:33:58.70
Man, that's
pretty clear is it not?
00:33:58.73\00:34:00.60
Either John lied or
he didn't have a vision.
00:34:00.64\00:34:03.17
He lied about that
too or he told the truth.
00:34:03.20\00:34:05.57
He said, in
vision, I beheld, I look,
00:34:05.61\00:34:07.31
and there was a tabernacle
of the testimony in heaven
00:34:07.34\00:34:10.08
was open.
00:34:10.11\00:34:11.45
He began to see Jesus
was working in our behalf.
00:34:11.48\00:34:14.02
John saw that
testimony. You know what?
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.48
The testimony is the ark
00:34:16.52\00:34:18.25
with the Ten Commandments in it,
00:34:18.29\00:34:19.62
if somebody were with me.
00:34:19.65\00:34:21.02
Revelation 11:19,
how do we know that?
00:34:21.06\00:34:23.56
Because it says,
"The temple of God
00:34:23.59\00:34:25.39
was opened in heaven,
00:34:25.43\00:34:26.76
and there were seen
in his temple", the what?
00:34:26.80\00:34:29.40
"The ark of his testament."
00:34:29.43\00:34:32.57
What happened?
00:34:32.60\00:34:34.07
Here so I wouldn't
worry about 10 command.
00:34:34.10\00:34:37.81
Revelation
11:19, the temple of God
00:34:37.84\00:34:39.81
was open to John
00:34:39.84\00:34:41.18
and he looked and he saw
the ark of the testament.
00:34:41.21\00:34:45.31
He saw the law of God there,
notice this, Letter 47, 1902,
00:34:45.35\00:34:50.39
"In the temple will be
seen the ark of the testament
00:34:50.42\00:34:53.25
in which were placed
the two tables of stone,"
00:34:53.29\00:34:55.52
come on, church,
00:34:55.56\00:34:56.89
"on which are
written God's law."
00:34:56.93\00:34:59.49
Huh.
00:34:59.53\00:35:00.86
Remember you say, well,
00:35:00.90\00:35:02.23
I'm not sure about
the testimony in this.
00:35:02.26\00:35:04.07
In Exodus 25:16,
00:35:04.10\00:35:06.80
Moses called
God's law a testimony.
00:35:06.84\00:35:10.14
Moses called
what? Come on, church.
00:35:10.17\00:35:12.27
It's too hot in
here, turn the air down.
00:35:12.31\00:35:13.84
Somebody bring some ice cubes.
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.21
Somebody stand up.
00:35:15.24\00:35:16.81
Man, do something.
00:35:16.85\00:35:18.18
This is important to
you. What did it say?
00:35:18.21\00:35:19.55
This is where I
should be beholding.
00:35:19.58\00:35:22.38
This will give you hope.
00:35:22.42\00:35:23.75
This will give you
encouragement in this dark hour
00:35:23.79\00:35:26.49
that we're living in and
it's going to get darker.
00:35:26.52\00:35:29.32
We need to know
we have a high priest
00:35:29.36\00:35:31.09
and what He's
doing for us right now.
00:35:31.13\00:35:32.59
Lord, have mercy on us.
00:35:32.63\00:35:34.73
John saw, man, I like that.
00:35:34.76\00:35:37.13
John saw heaven.
00:35:37.17\00:35:38.83
In heaven what did he do?
00:35:38.87\00:35:40.20
He also saw the
altar of incense.
00:35:40.24\00:35:42.07
He showed him, what
he saw? He saw what?
00:35:42.10\00:35:44.44
Jesus in the Holy Place,
00:35:44.47\00:35:47.88
because what's
in the Holy Place?
00:35:47.91\00:35:49.24
The altar of
incense, isn't that right?
00:35:49.28\00:35:50.91
Table of showbread, right?
00:35:50.95\00:35:52.71
The candlestick,
with they saw him
00:35:52.75\00:35:54.45
notice the whole, wow.
00:35:54.48\00:35:56.38
It said another angel
came, Revelation 8:3-5.
00:35:56.42\00:35:59.62
The Bible says, "And
another angel came and stood
00:35:59.65\00:36:02.42
by the altar
having a golden censer,
00:36:02.46\00:36:05.89
and there was
given him much incense
00:36:05.93\00:36:08.26
that he should,
00:36:08.30\00:36:09.63
after he, with the
prayers of all the saints
00:36:09.66\00:36:11.70
upon the golden altar
which was before the throne."
00:36:11.73\00:36:14.87
Where was?
Where was that throne?
00:36:14.90\00:36:16.34
The earthly sanctuary.
00:36:16.37\00:36:17.81
The altar of incense
was just before the curtain,
00:36:17.84\00:36:20.18
before the Most
Holy Place, was it not?
00:36:20.21\00:36:22.74
John was saying the same thing.
00:36:22.78\00:36:25.55
The work that was going
on in the heavenly sanctuary,
00:36:25.58\00:36:29.05
man, it's for
you and it's for me.
00:36:29.08\00:36:31.52
Wow.
00:36:31.55\00:36:32.89
Important point.
00:36:32.92\00:36:34.36
We hear about
this. Oh my, the time.
00:36:34.39\00:36:36.19
We hear about
Shekinah Glory, do we not?
00:36:36.22\00:36:38.66
We get excited
about the Shekinah Glory.
00:36:38.69\00:36:41.36
Oh, Shekinah Glory of God.
00:36:41.40\00:36:43.80
You know what that shows?
00:36:43.83\00:36:45.17
That shows that
God's ark in the heavenly
00:36:45.20\00:36:47.90
with the Ten Commandments in it
00:36:47.94\00:36:49.60
represents the
throne room of God.
00:36:49.64\00:36:52.91
What is it?
00:36:52.94\00:36:54.28
The ark with
the Ten Commandments
00:36:54.31\00:36:55.64
and the mercy seat
00:36:55.68\00:36:57.01
and the angels
represents God's throne.
00:36:57.05\00:37:00.18
Oh, that's
called the mercy seat.
00:37:00.22\00:37:04.19
The mercy seat on the ark.
00:37:04.22\00:37:06.09
Patriarchs and
Prophets, 349 says this,
00:37:06.12\00:37:08.76
"Above the mercy
seat was the Shekinah,
00:37:08.79\00:37:12.16
the manifestation
of divine Presence."
00:37:12.19\00:37:14.50
The Shekinah Glory, right?
00:37:14.53\00:37:15.86
You couldn't go in there
00:37:15.90\00:37:17.23
when the presence
of God was so close.
00:37:17.27\00:37:18.60
Maybe someday by
the grace of God,
00:37:18.63\00:37:20.17
the sanctuary will have
that Shekinah Glory in it
00:37:20.20\00:37:23.37
that we will fear to come in.
00:37:23.41\00:37:25.14
When we come in,
we'll be crawling in
00:37:25.17\00:37:26.94
rather than walking
up proud like we've got,
00:37:26.98\00:37:28.84
we deserve it here.
00:37:28.88\00:37:31.55
Crawl in, Shekinah Glory.
00:37:31.58\00:37:34.08
Presence of God is thick
and strong and it should be.
00:37:34.12\00:37:38.12
Exodus 25:17-22.
00:37:38.15\00:37:39.95
I don't have much
time to fend on this.
00:37:39.99\00:37:41.49
It's so powerful, but help
us understand it, Lord, today.
00:37:41.52\00:37:44.99
I wanna take verses,
write down and just make a line
00:37:45.03\00:37:47.96
on each one here,
hopefully a point.
00:37:48.00\00:37:50.13
Exodus 25:17-22, Jesus
said, make a mercy seat,
00:37:50.17\00:37:54.94
notice this, but you know what?
00:37:54.97\00:37:56.40
You make it out of pure gold,
because it represents a deity.
00:37:56.44\00:37:59.01
Did you get it?
00:37:59.04\00:38:00.38
Mercy, no one in
the earthly sanctuary,
00:38:00.41\00:38:02.21
you had a lot of
the furniture was what?
00:38:02.24\00:38:03.85
Made of wood, shittim wood
and it was overlaid with gold.
00:38:03.88\00:38:07.25
Divinity and
humanity working together.
00:38:07.28\00:38:09.55
But on the mercy seat,
00:38:09.58\00:38:10.92
there can't be
anything but mercy,
00:38:10.95\00:38:12.29
it's pure gold.
00:38:12.32\00:38:13.66
Man, that's wonderful.
00:38:13.69\00:38:15.02
Make two cherubims, notice this,
00:38:15.06\00:38:16.39
of gold, one on each side of it.
00:38:16.42\00:38:19.13
Verse 20, "Wings
shall cover the mercy seat."
00:38:19.16\00:38:22.06
Ooh, put that mercy seat.
00:38:22.10\00:38:24.47
Notice this, put
the seat upon the ark.
00:38:24.50\00:38:27.14
Verse 22, I will, notice this.
00:38:27.17\00:38:29.44
"I will meet and
commune with thee
00:38:29.47\00:38:32.14
above the mercy seat."
00:38:32.17\00:38:34.24
Wow.
00:38:34.28\00:38:35.61
God said, I'm going
to meet with you there.
00:38:35.64\00:38:36.98
Now the mercy
seat then is placed
00:38:37.01\00:38:39.31
over the top of the
ark and is placed what?
00:38:39.35\00:38:41.48
Mercy over the law.
00:38:41.52\00:38:43.52
In other words,
00:38:43.55\00:38:44.89
the mercy of
God is over the law.
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.02
Ooh, praise God.
00:38:48.06\00:38:49.72
The two golden
angels you remember,
00:38:49.76\00:38:51.59
one on the right side.
00:38:51.63\00:38:53.09
The one on the right
side of the mercy seat
00:38:53.13\00:38:54.76
is Mr. Gabriel.
00:38:54.80\00:38:56.23
May I say that, Gabriel, right?
00:38:56.26\00:38:58.73
That is...
00:38:58.77\00:39:00.10
Listen, that's where
Satan stood before he fell.
00:39:00.14\00:39:03.94
Somebody listen carefully.
00:39:03.97\00:39:05.97
He stood there.
Desire of Ages, you read it.
00:39:06.01\00:39:08.54
Desire of Ages, 693 says this,
00:39:08.58\00:39:10.31
referring to Jesus in
the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:39:10.35\00:39:13.28
When He was just
about at an end of His life,
00:39:13.31\00:39:16.99
the angel came, you
remember and touched Him
00:39:17.02\00:39:18.65
and strengthened Him
00:39:18.69\00:39:20.02
for the battle
that was to rage on.
00:39:20.06\00:39:22.36
It says, "The mighty angel
who stands in God's presence,
00:39:22.39\00:39:25.49
occupying the
position, which Satan fell,
00:39:25.53\00:39:28.66
came to the side of Christ."
00:39:28.70\00:39:30.73
Desire of Ages, 234, come on.
00:39:30.77\00:39:32.50
It said, It was
Gabriel, the angel next in rank
00:39:32.53\00:39:37.01
to the Son of God.
00:39:37.04\00:39:38.37
Hmm.
00:39:38.41\00:39:39.94
It was Gabriel who
brought the message to Daniel.
00:39:39.97\00:39:43.14
It was Gabriel who
opened the future and prophecy
00:39:43.18\00:39:45.68
of the Book of Revelation.
00:39:45.71\00:39:47.72
And then he
pronounced the blessing upon
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.12
those who read
and those who study
00:39:49.15\00:39:50.69
and those who would do
those word Revelation 1:3.
00:39:50.72\00:39:54.32
Isn't that beautiful?
00:39:54.36\00:39:55.72
Gabriel was busy.
00:39:55.76\00:39:57.59
That's where
Satan should have been,
00:39:57.63\00:39:58.99
but he fell.
00:39:59.03\00:40:00.76
Two angels looked down toward
the mercy seat of the law.
00:40:00.80\00:40:03.60
What does that do?
00:40:03.63\00:40:04.97
They're looking
down to the law of God,
00:40:05.00\00:40:06.33
then the mercy seat with often,
00:40:06.37\00:40:07.70
the angels without
sin with reverence,
00:40:07.74\00:40:12.14
and shows how their regard
for the law and the interest
00:40:12.17\00:40:16.14
that they have in
the plan of salvation.
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.75
Do we need grace and mercy?
00:40:18.78\00:40:20.72
Oh, Lord, have
mercy. Yes, we do.
00:40:20.75\00:40:22.08
Where do we go? We go
to the mercy seat, right?
00:40:22.12\00:40:23.99
We go boldly to
the throne room of God.
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.55
Hebrews 4:15-16. I
can't read all of that.
00:40:26.59\00:40:30.33
You seem to have an
impossible situation
00:40:30.36\00:40:31.83
in your life today.
00:40:31.86\00:40:33.19
Nothing's
impossible with God. Why?
00:40:33.23\00:40:35.26
Daniel 7:10
says, what did he say?
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.83
Daniel said, I saw, ooh,
I saw ten thousand times,
00:40:37.87\00:40:40.74
ten thousands and thousands
of thousands, right, of angels,
00:40:40.77\00:40:43.67
isn't that wonderful?
00:40:43.71\00:40:45.04
God's not shorthanded on angels.
00:40:45.07\00:40:47.58
And we have nothing to fear.
00:40:47.61\00:40:50.75
He will send them all,
00:40:50.78\00:40:52.35
empty all of heaven if
you need it, if you need it.
00:40:52.38\00:40:55.28
If temptation is so
great that you can't stand it,
00:40:55.32\00:40:57.45
you're a weak, but you
say, "Oh God, I need help."
00:40:57.49\00:40:59.75
"I'll empty heaven, He says,
every one of them will come."
00:40:59.79\00:41:02.59
Why are we so overcome sometime?
00:41:02.62\00:41:04.83
Why are we fall so many
times and we fall short?
00:41:04.86\00:41:07.70
The answer is very simple.
00:41:07.73\00:41:09.70
We're not
calling on God for help.
00:41:09.73\00:41:11.87
If you in faith
called out for God for help,
00:41:11.90\00:41:13.94
He's going to
send you that help.
00:41:13.97\00:41:16.54
Remember we've talked
about in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20,
00:41:16.57\00:41:19.91
your body is the temple of what?
00:41:19.94\00:41:21.74
The Holy Ghost.
00:41:21.78\00:41:23.58
Yeah, we need to
glorify God where?
00:41:23.61\00:41:27.78
In our body. Let's...
00:41:27.82\00:41:30.55
I'm already read that
before, but just jot it down
00:41:30.59\00:41:32.82
in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 again,
00:41:32.85\00:41:35.12
know that you're
the temple of God.
00:41:35.16\00:41:36.49
Notice how the Holy
Spirit wants to dwell in you.
00:41:36.52\00:41:40.06
Verses tell us that He
lives in us by His Spirit.
00:41:40.10\00:41:45.13
But the temple is to
be made after the, listen,
00:41:45.17\00:41:48.10
after the heavenly pattern.
00:41:48.14\00:41:50.61
Our temple is to
be made after what?
00:41:50.64\00:41:52.57
The heavenly pattern,
which is Jesus Christ,
00:41:52.61\00:41:55.54
before He will
live in that temple,
00:41:55.58\00:41:58.28
before He can
live in the temple,
00:41:58.31\00:42:00.52
we've got to have it
prepared to receive Him.
00:42:00.55\00:42:03.99
And so He gives us a
test to see if we love Him,
00:42:04.02\00:42:06.86
and we want Him with us.
00:42:06.89\00:42:09.89
So God said,
"Make Me a sanctuary."
00:42:09.92\00:42:12.69
But He said, "You're
making the sanctuary,
00:42:12.73\00:42:14.10
you're going to have
to give up some things.
00:42:14.13\00:42:16.83
To build this
tabernacle, you're going to have
00:42:16.87\00:42:18.33
to give some things
that maybe you might cherish,
00:42:18.37\00:42:22.54
just like being a Christian
today sometime we give up
00:42:22.57\00:42:25.67
some things that maybe
has been very special to us
00:42:25.71\00:42:28.08
to become a
real Bible Christian.
00:42:28.11\00:42:32.28
First, the Bible says,
there must be a willing heart
00:42:32.31\00:42:34.48
and a willing mind.
00:42:34.52\00:42:35.85
And then what it says?
00:42:35.88\00:42:37.22
2 Corinthians 8:12, if
there's not a willing heart,
00:42:37.25\00:42:39.72
I'm willing Lord
to give up anything
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.26
that I need to give up.
00:42:41.29\00:42:42.62
Whatever you say,
I'm willing to do it.
00:42:42.66\00:42:44.33
Or are you going to say, oh,
00:42:44.36\00:42:45.69
but I'm an
exception to the rule.
00:42:45.73\00:42:47.06
No, you can't say that.
00:42:47.10\00:42:49.03
If you first, "If
there first be willing mind,"
00:42:49.06\00:42:51.30
2 Corinthians 8:12 "is
acceptable that a man hath
00:42:51.33\00:42:55.44
and not
according that he hath not.
00:42:55.47\00:42:57.61
Exodus 25:2-3, God
said, bring a willing what?
00:42:57.64\00:43:01.68
Offering. And
notice what he said?
00:43:01.71\00:43:03.65
He said, bring the gold,
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.01
bring the silver
and bring the brass.
00:43:05.05\00:43:08.52
Exodus 38:8, I'm moving quickly,
00:43:08.55\00:43:10.12
only six to seven minutes left.
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.69
In billing the labor of
brass God told the women.
00:43:11.72\00:43:15.22
Now it's God's
saying, it's not me,
00:43:15.26\00:43:17.43
but I'm still
going to say it anyway.
00:43:17.46\00:43:19.06
God's talking to the women.
00:43:19.09\00:43:20.60
There's no doubt
about it as we read it.
00:43:20.63\00:43:22.50
"And the laver, the gold, brass,
00:43:22.53\00:43:24.67
God told the women to
bring the looking glasses.
00:43:24.70\00:43:26.94
Do you remember that?
00:43:26.97\00:43:28.30
The looking glasses,
translation bring the mirrors
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.24
that sometime we spend
too much time in front of.
00:43:31.27\00:43:34.14
God asked him to
give up their mirrors,
00:43:34.18\00:43:36.24
which is wrinkly self
adorning, I'm adorning self.
00:43:36.28\00:43:40.45
And which stands also
for self-righteousness.
00:43:40.48\00:43:43.42
What are we
beholding so often? Self.
00:43:43.45\00:43:46.65
God's asking to
give those things up.
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.99
Not that you
should never look into,
00:43:49.02\00:43:50.36
not that you'd never
fix up, but there's right,
00:43:50.39\00:43:52.39
that we need to
be of good balance.
00:43:52.43\00:43:53.80
Exodus 35:22, it says,
00:43:53.83\00:43:55.76
"And they came both men
and women, as many were,"
00:43:55.80\00:43:58.47
well, notice this,
"they have a willing heart."
00:43:58.50\00:44:01.07
What did they bring?
00:44:01.10\00:44:02.44
God said, I want
you to make a sanctuary
00:44:02.47\00:44:03.81
that I'm going
to dwell among you.
00:44:03.84\00:44:05.17
God said, then I want your
gold and I want your silver.
00:44:05.21\00:44:07.34
I want you to,
notice this, in Exodus 35.
00:44:07.38\00:44:10.81
I want your bracelets.
00:44:10.85\00:44:12.58
I want your earrings.
00:44:12.61\00:44:14.25
I want your rings.
00:44:14.28\00:44:15.68
I want your tablets.
00:44:15.72\00:44:17.05
That's the jewels or gold bands,
00:44:17.09\00:44:18.65
anything, beads,
00:44:18.69\00:44:20.36
all the jewels and all the gold.
00:44:20.39\00:44:23.29
And, of course, it must
be offered with free heart,
00:44:23.32\00:44:26.06
no strings attached.
00:44:26.09\00:44:27.43
Even the animals
they gave for offering
00:44:27.46\00:44:29.93
had to be with a
willing heart for the sacrifice.
00:44:29.96\00:44:32.50
And whether Jesus asks,
00:44:32.53\00:44:34.00
"Do you love Me
more than yourself?"
00:44:34.04\00:44:38.24
Do you love Me more than your,
I'm going to say your mirrors
00:44:38.27\00:44:40.28
and you get what
I'm talking about.
00:44:40.31\00:44:42.31
Do you love me more
than any other thing?
00:44:42.34\00:44:45.05
Matthew 6:33 says,
"Seek ye first the," what?
00:44:45.08\00:44:48.85
"Kingdom of God and
all these other things
00:44:48.88\00:44:50.45
will be added unto you.
00:44:50.49\00:44:51.82
Jesus said, "if
you do not love Me
00:44:51.85\00:44:53.46
more than these
00:44:53.49\00:44:54.82
and you will not give up
what needs to be given up,
00:44:54.86\00:44:57.13
I cannot dwell in you."
00:44:57.16\00:44:58.76
It's a pattern
after the heavenly.
00:44:58.79\00:45:01.13
1 Peter 3:3-4 says
this, "Whose adorning
00:45:01.16\00:45:03.87
let it not be that
of outward adorning
00:45:03.90\00:45:05.77
of the plaiting of the hair.
00:45:05.80\00:45:07.34
You know what?
00:45:07.37\00:45:08.70
You know what the
plaiting of the hair is here?
00:45:08.74\00:45:10.07
God said, this is
not what His church.
00:45:10.11\00:45:11.44
This is not what His
people is all about here.
00:45:11.47\00:45:13.71
That means the
elaborate braiding of the hair.
00:45:13.74\00:45:17.45
That's what it says.
00:45:17.48\00:45:18.81
Yeah, with gold
or just absolutely.
00:45:18.85\00:45:20.55
You can look up at
Webster dictionary.
00:45:20.58\00:45:22.42
Plaiting means just
simply a very elaborate braid.
00:45:22.45\00:45:26.59
Sometime it
takes hours and hours.
00:45:26.62\00:45:28.02
We won't want to deal with that
00:45:28.06\00:45:29.82
because too many
of us as people do it.
00:45:29.86\00:45:31.63
So we don't
want to deal with it.
00:45:31.66\00:45:32.99
But God says, I don't want that.
00:45:33.03\00:45:35.50
That's what the
Bible said. Did you get it?
00:45:35.53\00:45:37.63
Whose adorning let it
not be the outward adorning
00:45:37.67\00:45:40.20
of the plaiting of the hair.
00:45:40.24\00:45:43.30
Huh.
00:45:43.34\00:45:44.67
Review and Herald, 3-7-1899.
00:45:44.71\00:45:46.84
It says, "In dress,
00:45:46.88\00:45:48.31
and in speech and in deportment,
00:45:48.34\00:45:50.21
we are to be a people distinct
and separate from the world."
00:45:50.25\00:45:54.45
Sometime you can't
tell a Seventh-day Adventist
00:45:54.48\00:45:56.38
from anybody from
a whirling out there,
00:45:56.42\00:45:57.75
the way we dress,
00:45:57.79\00:45:59.12
the way we act, the way we talk.
00:45:59.15\00:46:02.76
God tells us does
not want His temple
00:46:02.79\00:46:06.09
to have gold or
silver for outside beauty.
00:46:06.13\00:46:09.93
Did you get it?
00:46:09.96\00:46:11.30
God says, "I
don't want that." Why?
00:46:11.33\00:46:12.67
Now think about it.
00:46:12.70\00:46:14.27
But I want you to have Christ,
00:46:14.30\00:46:16.77
the hidden man of
the heart on the inside.
00:46:16.81\00:46:19.91
Remember the beauty
of the earthly sanctuary
00:46:19.94\00:46:23.11
was inside, not on the outside.
00:46:23.14\00:46:26.41
Did you get it?
00:46:26.45\00:46:27.82
Wow.
00:46:27.85\00:46:29.45
Paul expresses once again
and Paul's doing it, not me.
00:46:29.48\00:46:33.29
Expresses his concern
and attitude and conduct
00:46:33.32\00:46:35.92
of women in the church.
00:46:35.96\00:46:37.89
When he says
this, in like manner,
00:46:37.93\00:46:40.56
also that women
adorn themselves.
00:46:40.60\00:46:43.26
That means women
are put in order.
00:46:43.30\00:46:45.50
That means that
they arrange themselves
00:46:45.53\00:46:48.14
in a modest apparel.
00:46:48.17\00:46:49.67
That means good taste.
00:46:49.70\00:46:51.97
Conservative
with shamefacedness.
00:46:52.01\00:46:54.34
That means to
self-respect and sobriety.
00:46:54.38\00:46:57.55
It means
self-control not with now again,
00:46:57.58\00:47:01.02
not with braided hair,
plaited, elaborate braids
00:47:01.05\00:47:05.15
or gold or
pearls or costly array,
00:47:05.19\00:47:08.66
but which becometh
a woman, notice this,
00:47:08.69\00:47:10.63
professing
godliness with good works.
00:47:10.66\00:47:14.80
Good taste is a part
00:47:14.83\00:47:18.70
of good religion.
00:47:18.73\00:47:21.24
See the church, say
the church gets silent,
00:47:21.27\00:47:23.77
like, well, what are they doing?
00:47:23.81\00:47:25.31
That's no different than
the other passage of scripture.
00:47:25.34\00:47:27.94
It just hits home
what God is saying to us.
00:47:27.98\00:47:31.41
That's exactly what it says.
00:47:31.45\00:47:32.78
I don't want it.
00:47:32.81\00:47:34.15
No gold and no silver, right?
00:47:34.18\00:47:36.08
No pearls and all this
should be on my people.
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.45
That's what He's saying.
00:47:38.49\00:47:41.59
Reverence toward God to
profess, to be like Christ,
00:47:41.62\00:47:45.16
to be a member and
part of the family of God.
00:47:45.19\00:47:47.30
And yet we dress immodestly
00:47:47.33\00:47:49.53
and wear things that
we shouldn't be wearing.
00:47:49.56\00:47:51.10
It's just a form of hypocrisy.
That's all that it is.
00:47:51.13\00:47:53.34
There's no doubt about it.
00:47:53.37\00:47:55.07
You might at this point
say, well, I agree and yes,
00:47:55.10\00:47:57.37
I understand that,
00:47:57.41\00:47:58.74
but I'm going to get
down to personal things,
00:47:58.77\00:48:00.24
'cause some of you not
been through the studies
00:48:00.28\00:48:01.94
and you know, maybe it
might mean something to you
00:48:01.98\00:48:04.61
and it may not, but
there's too much here
00:48:04.65\00:48:06.25
when God says don't do
it, He means don't do it.
00:48:06.28\00:48:08.68
And no excuses.
00:48:08.72\00:48:10.05
Let me give you a point here
00:48:10.09\00:48:11.42
that really
touches the whole heart.
00:48:11.45\00:48:12.79
We've been in
meetings in other countries
00:48:12.82\00:48:14.42
where God has
worked marvelous miracles
00:48:14.46\00:48:16.83
and people took stand on issues
right then and right there,
00:48:16.86\00:48:20.40
because God said so.
00:48:20.43\00:48:22.10
You're going to, right you say,
well, I agree with most things,
00:48:22.13\00:48:23.90
but my wedding
ring is different.
00:48:23.93\00:48:26.57
How is it different?
00:48:26.60\00:48:28.20
Let me ask you,
how is it different
00:48:28.24\00:48:29.57
than anything else?
00:48:29.60\00:48:31.44
Rings are given to
commemorate certain things,
00:48:31.47\00:48:34.51
isn't that right?
00:48:34.54\00:48:35.88
Such as a super
bowl, retirement ring,
00:48:35.91\00:48:38.85
graduation ring, birthstones,
00:48:38.88\00:48:40.72
we know we'd go
through all of that business,
00:48:40.75\00:48:42.42
engagement rings on.
00:48:42.45\00:48:44.19
Everyone could
say mine is special.
00:48:44.22\00:48:47.59
But I don't find
that in the Word of God.
00:48:47.62\00:48:49.36
If it's special,
then you go ahead.
00:48:49.39\00:48:51.69
Hmm.
00:48:51.73\00:48:53.06
It tells, you say, well,
00:48:53.09\00:48:54.43
it tells the world
something about me.
00:48:54.46\00:48:55.80
Yes, it does.
00:48:55.83\00:48:57.93
But the Word says, no
gold, no silver, no pearls.
00:48:57.97\00:49:02.04
This may be your test,
00:49:02.07\00:49:03.41
and my test may be other things.
00:49:03.44\00:49:05.71
Here's what Google says quickly.
00:49:05.74\00:49:07.48
Just Google worldly thing
'cause people ask the question,
00:49:07.51\00:49:09.78
what they say?
00:49:09.81\00:49:11.15
This is called the
engagement as it were,
00:49:11.18\00:49:13.98
yeah, engagementringhistory.com
says this,
00:49:14.02\00:49:18.02
is wearing, they're
asking this question.
00:49:18.05\00:49:19.75
Is wearing wedding rings pagan?
00:49:19.79\00:49:22.82
It says, the
meaning of the wedding ring
00:49:22.86\00:49:24.49
as a symbol of
mortal or marital commitment
00:49:24.53\00:49:28.20
finds this origin
in pagan mythology
00:49:28.23\00:49:31.47
and superstition.
00:49:31.50\00:49:33.84
The investment
of the pagan symbol,
00:49:33.87\00:49:35.74
it says here, notice
00:49:35.77\00:49:37.11
now has almost completely lost
all of its pagan meaning, why?
00:49:37.14\00:49:40.74
Because we
brought it into the church
00:49:40.78\00:49:42.24
and we baptized and
said, it's all right.
00:49:42.28\00:49:44.61
Where did it come from?
00:49:44.65\00:49:46.82
History will bear
fact from paganism,
00:49:46.85\00:49:49.42
has nothing to do with God.
00:49:49.45\00:49:51.09
God said no gold, no silver.
00:49:51.12\00:49:54.09
There's a heavenly
sanctuary, is it not?
00:49:54.12\00:49:55.66
As we close, I want you to think
00:49:55.69\00:49:57.03
on Patriarchs and Prophets, 357.
00:49:57.06\00:49:58.99
That's not a study on
jewelry and different things.
00:49:59.03\00:50:01.00
It's just some food for thought.
00:50:01.03\00:50:02.56
When God said in My sanctuary,
it can't be gold and silver.
00:50:02.60\00:50:05.37
In fact, He told them
00:50:05.40\00:50:06.74
when we may take
all this stuff off
00:50:06.77\00:50:08.47
and then the fight
begins if whether we want it,
00:50:08.50\00:50:10.41
we love God more than we
love our jewelry or rings
00:50:10.44\00:50:14.74
or whatever it might be.
00:50:14.78\00:50:17.25
We have to come
to grips with that.
00:50:17.28\00:50:19.41
The Adventist Church is very sad
00:50:19.45\00:50:23.05
when it comes to that condition.
00:50:23.08\00:50:25.82
They've let a lot of things in.
00:50:25.85\00:50:27.72
How has it was never
acceptable for umpteen years
00:50:27.76\00:50:29.96
and all of a sudden in
the last since '85, '86,
00:50:29.99\00:50:32.46
all of a sudden
it's acceptable now.
00:50:32.49\00:50:34.40
Has God changed?
00:50:34.43\00:50:36.03
No, He has not.
00:50:36.06\00:50:37.47
Man has changed.
00:50:37.50\00:50:38.83
Well so-and-so, so what?
00:50:38.87\00:50:41.47
So-and-so is not my example.
00:50:41.50\00:50:43.81
Jesus is my example.
00:50:43.84\00:50:45.31
He said, "I'm looking
for a temple that is holy."
00:50:45.34\00:50:48.98
And it has to be
holy and acceptable
00:50:49.01\00:50:50.88
and no gold, no silver.
00:50:50.91\00:50:52.25
So remember, no stipulations
00:50:52.28\00:50:54.02
of, well, this is
different, all that.
00:50:54.05\00:50:56.08
I don't read that anywhere.
00:50:56.12\00:50:59.09
Patriarchs and Prophets,
357, as we close, said,
00:50:59.12\00:51:01.19
Moses made the
earthly sanctuary.
00:51:01.22\00:51:03.16
Why the sanctuary?
00:51:03.19\00:51:05.99
"He made the earthly sanctuary,
00:51:06.03\00:51:07.53
according to the
fashion that he had seen."
00:51:07.56\00:51:10.10
As we read in Acts 7:44,
00:51:10.13\00:51:12.13
"Paul declares
that the tabernacle,
00:51:12.17\00:51:14.27
and all the
vessels of the ministry,
00:51:14.30\00:51:16.74
when completed, were pattern
of things in the heavens."
00:51:16.77\00:51:21.31
Hebrews 9:21-23, John says,
I love every time John saw.
00:51:21.34\00:51:27.25
"John saw a sanctuary in heaven.
00:51:27.28\00:51:29.52
That sanctuary in
which Jesus ministers
00:51:29.55\00:51:31.65
in our behalf, is
the great original,
00:51:31.69\00:51:34.89
of which the sanctuary
built by Moses was a copy."
00:51:34.92\00:51:39.43
Maybe I should leave you
with just with that thought.
00:51:39.46\00:51:42.26
But you know,
there's lot of things
00:51:42.30\00:51:43.63
in our Christian experience
that maybe are distasteful
00:51:43.67\00:51:46.97
to us because we
don't understand,
00:51:47.00\00:51:48.90
maybe we've never been taught.
00:51:48.94\00:51:52.24
But when the Word of God comes
and says, this is what I want.
00:51:52.27\00:51:55.58
That's where we're tested.
00:51:55.61\00:51:57.68
No, I don't have
to make any changes.
00:51:57.71\00:51:59.05
Hey, I'm, I'm
easy to get along with.
00:51:59.08\00:52:01.82
If something
goes against my grain,
00:52:01.85\00:52:03.18
I may be
difficult to get along with.
00:52:03.22\00:52:06.05
Think about it.
00:52:06.09\00:52:07.86
One guy told me one time though,
00:52:07.89\00:52:09.22
his daughter which
was 10 or 11 at the time,
00:52:09.26\00:52:10.79
she has never needed a whipping.
00:52:10.83\00:52:13.16
She never needed corrected.
00:52:13.19\00:52:14.86
I said, "I wouldn't either
if I got my way every time."
00:52:14.90\00:52:18.07
Just think about it.
00:52:18.10\00:52:20.14
Are we willing as God's people
00:52:20.17\00:52:23.04
to say, when He says no?
00:52:23.07\00:52:26.31
That we're
willing to say, oh, I see.
00:52:26.34\00:52:28.08
I didn't know, but now I do.
00:52:28.11\00:52:30.65
And if it's a
struggle, we take it to what?
00:52:30.68\00:52:32.58
We take it to
the Lord in prayer.
00:52:32.61\00:52:34.78
And we lay it before Him.
00:52:34.82\00:52:36.35
It's proven no
in the Word of God.
00:52:36.38\00:52:38.59
I could go to Isaiah
Chapter 3 and spend another hour
00:52:38.62\00:52:41.46
on all the earrings and
the rings and they're told
00:52:41.49\00:52:43.53
what's so-and-so,
we're not going to do that
00:52:43.56\00:52:44.89
because that's not the purpose,
00:52:44.93\00:52:46.26
but it's truth that
comes out in scripture
00:52:46.29\00:52:48.23
when you study the sanctuary.
00:52:48.26\00:52:50.30
And what are we willing to do?
00:52:50.33\00:52:51.70
Well, we can
pout, we can get mad.
00:52:51.73\00:52:53.13
We can say, well,
I'm not, that's...
00:52:53.17\00:52:55.54
Yeah.
00:52:55.57\00:52:56.91
We can praise God for more truth
00:52:56.94\00:52:58.27
that He's that you're right.
00:52:58.31\00:53:01.74
And so we need to
make that decision
00:53:01.78\00:53:03.31
by the grace of God.
00:53:03.35\00:53:04.91
Pray about it.
00:53:04.95\00:53:07.88
God can turn the
heart and the life around
00:53:07.92\00:53:10.65
to follow His Word
00:53:10.69\00:53:12.89
and anything
that we're not willing
00:53:12.92\00:53:14.32
to give up becomes your God.
00:53:14.36\00:53:17.86
Are you still with me, church?
00:53:17.89\00:53:21.46
Anything that we're
not willing to give up
00:53:21.50\00:53:23.53
when it's shown in the
Word of God that he says, no,
00:53:23.57\00:53:26.07
My people won't be like that.
00:53:26.10\00:53:27.64
That's why He saw His
people in Revelation Chapter 12,
00:53:27.67\00:53:29.57
the pure woman standing on
the moon, isn't that right?
00:53:29.60\00:53:33.04
Didn't have any of
these things on at all.
00:53:33.07\00:53:35.78
But then you
went to Revelation 17,
00:53:35.81\00:53:37.25
you seen the harlot.
00:53:37.28\00:53:38.65
Look how she was
dressed and what she had on.
00:53:38.68\00:53:42.12
Again not trying to
criticize or condemn anyone.
00:53:42.15\00:53:44.09
You didn't know whatever,
but we're learning as we go.
00:53:44.12\00:53:46.59
Praise God for
learning these things.
00:53:46.62\00:53:50.56
Because if they're truth, right,
00:53:50.59\00:53:53.19
God wants us to follow up
by His grace and strength.
00:53:53.23\00:53:56.23
And so if it's
something you need to be praying
00:53:56.26\00:53:57.77
about, please
continue to pray about it.
00:53:57.80\00:54:00.14
If you want to be His witness,
you want to be His temple
00:54:00.17\00:54:03.51
that He can dwell in.
00:54:03.54\00:54:05.31
But if you say I
heard what He said,
00:54:05.34\00:54:06.68
but I'm not willing to do that.
00:54:06.71\00:54:08.38
He can't dwell in you.
00:54:08.41\00:54:10.11
Mine may be something different,
00:54:10.15\00:54:11.48
yours may be
something different.
00:54:11.51\00:54:13.75
But if it's still
against the word of God,
00:54:13.78\00:54:15.18
He says, "I can't dwell
the way I want to with you.
00:54:15.22\00:54:18.55
I can't communicate with you."
00:54:18.59\00:54:21.72
Let's be willing to do
00:54:21.76\00:54:23.09
what He say by the grace of God.
00:54:23.12\00:54:24.59
Let's be willing to do it.
00:54:24.63\00:54:27.00
We actually saw was,
was it in the Netherlands?
00:54:27.03\00:54:30.37
In the Netherlands
we've preached about this,
00:54:30.40\00:54:32.03
but not this subject
here, but about jewelry
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and absolutely different
couples got up out of there.
00:54:35.34\00:54:37.94
And they came
forward and they took off
00:54:37.97\00:54:40.11
what they needed to
right then and right there
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and put it in the plate.
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That's when the power of
the Holy Spirit is working.
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The men and the
women, both, we did not know.
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Now we do. It's very clear.
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And they took it off.
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Is that what God may
be requires of us today?
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Yeah.
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So just make it
a matter of prayer.
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And when God
speaks to your heart,
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I know that you,
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if that's an issue,
we'll do the right thing.
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Even if you've
never heard it before,
00:55:06.20\00:55:07.64
even if you've never
dealt with it before,
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there's much
more that can be given
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on the subject
specifically that you will know
00:55:11.07\00:55:14.44
beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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It's just one thing,
because He's wanting what?
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The body and the mind
to be in tune with Him.
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Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus.
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And then it is a fit
temple for the Holy Spirit
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to live in and through,
00:55:27.79\00:55:29.32
to be the right
influence and the right example
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to everyone else.
00:55:32.16\00:55:33.50
I want to be that
example, don't you?
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By God's grace
and God's strength,
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let's make that decision today
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as we close with
prayer, shall we?
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Merciful Father in
heaven, as we come to Thee,
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we ask that Your Holy Spirit now
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will take the
things that have been said,
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and maybe in the wrong way
or not knowing how to say them,
00:55:47.74\00:55:51.08
but we know
that Your Holy Spirit
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can take what's been said,
00:55:52.48\00:55:55.12
weigh them in the
evidence with the Scripture
00:55:55.15\00:55:58.05
and then give us
grace and strength
00:55:58.09\00:55:59.82
to be able to make a
decision on what we need to do.
00:55:59.85\00:56:03.76
And that goes not
just for that one issue
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we're talking about,
but in many other issues
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of our Christian experience.
00:56:07.70\00:56:09.96
We need to lay
them upon the altar
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as we see
they're not appropriate
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and they will not be
in the kingdom of God.
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Meaning if we don't
turn loose of them now,
00:56:16.04\00:56:17.91
we will not be in
the kingdom of God.
00:56:17.94\00:56:20.81
So we want to turn
those things over to you,
00:56:20.84\00:56:22.44
whatever they
might be right now.
00:56:22.48\00:56:23.88
We need not to have any idols.
00:56:23.91\00:56:25.25
We need to have no
other gods before You.
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And in Word of
God, you call jewelry,
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You call it that You
call them strange, God.
00:56:29.42\00:56:31.15
You call them an abomination.
00:56:31.19\00:56:32.85
You call them filth.
00:56:32.89\00:56:36.83
That's how You, heaven sees it.
00:56:36.86\00:56:38.89
Not the world, but heaven.
00:56:38.93\00:56:41.03
So help us in every aspect
to be able to do Your will.
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We need Your help right now.
00:56:43.97\00:56:45.33
And we thank You for
what You're going to do
00:56:45.37\00:56:47.04
in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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