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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT
YOU HAVE TUNED IN TO JOIN US TO
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STUDY GOD'S WORD
TOGETHER. WELCOME.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU
THAT ARE JOINING US RIGHT HERE
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IN OUR SANCTUARY. A
SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT
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ARE JOINING US AS YOU DO EVERY
WEEK FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD.
WELCOME AND LET'S SING TOGETHER.
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TILL I COME' - AND THIS COMES AS
A REQUEST FROM MAVIS IN CHINA,
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CAMILO IN COLUMBIA, ANA IN COSTA
RICA, ROBIN IN ISRAEL, JERLYN IN
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SAUDI ARABIA, VINA IN SOUTH
KOREA PLUS MORE PEOPLE FROM
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AROUND THE PLANET
THAN WE CAN PUT ON THE AIR.
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SO HYMN #600 - WE'RE
GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES -
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'HOLD FAST TILL I COME'. (MUSIC)
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>>THAT IS OUR HOPE AS WE
STUDY TOGETHER, THAT EACH ONE OF
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YOU - THAT YOU'RE JUST HOLDING
FAST TO JESUS AND HOLDING FAST
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TO HIS WORD BECAUSE HE IS COMING
SOON TO TAKE US HOME AND I CAN
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HARDLY WAIT AND I HOPE THAT THAT
IS WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART ALSO.
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IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL REQUEST -
IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN THAT
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YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A
COMING STUDY, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK, AND THERE
YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR
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HYMNAL AND WE WOULD LOVE TO SING
THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING STUDY.
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AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN GOING
THROUGH OUR HYMNAL AND LEARNING
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NEW ONES. WE ARE
IN A SECTION NOW ON
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THE TRINITY - HYMN #71 -
'COME THOU ALMIGHTY KING'.
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THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM
KAREN IN FLORIDA, FROM JOYCE IN
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KENYA, ALICIA IN TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO, MARY JANE IN VIRGINIA
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AND AGAIN, FROM MANY,
MANY MORE AROUND THE PLANET.
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HYMN #71 - 'COME THOU ALMIGHTY
KING' - WE'LL SING THE FIRST,
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THE SECOND AND THE
LAST VERSES. (MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT
A BLESSING IT IS TO BE ABLE TO
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COME BEFORE YOU, TO WORSHIP YOU
IN SONG, TO WORSHIP YOU IN STUDY
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AND PRAYER TOGETHER.
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WE ARE HUMBLED THIS MORNING THAT
YOU GAVE UP ALL OF HEAVEN TO
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COME AND SAVE US AND WE
ARE JUST SO GRATEFUL, LORD.
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AND AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU
TODAY IN OUR STUDY, PLEASE HELP
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US TO TAKE THESE WORDS TO THE
PEOPLE THAT WE COME IN CONTACT
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WITH EVERY DAY - THAT THEY CAN
SEE YOU LIVING IN US AND THAT
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THEY WILL BE DRAWN TO
YOU WITH WHAT THEY SEE IN US.
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FORGIVE US WHEN WE FAIL YOU,
LORD, JUST FILL US WITH YOUR
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SPIRIT AND YOUR POWER AS YOU
HAVE PROMISED AND WE HANG OUR
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PROMISES - OUR HOPES AND OUR
DREAMS ON YOUR PROMISES THAT YOU
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ARE COMING SOON LORD
JESUS. COME QUICKLY, WE PRAY.
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I PRAY THESE THINGS IN
YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN.
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OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGH
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE
AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE,
OUR SINGERS, AND OUR MUSICIANS.
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I ENJOYED SINGING SOME OF THOSE
NEW SONGS AND THAT SONG THAT WE
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JUST DID WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY
GOOD FOR OUR STUDY LAST WEEK
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WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE
TRINITY, BUT IT'S GOOD TO ALSO
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SING A NEW SONG TO THE LORD.
I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
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WHO ARE STUDYING AROUND THE
WORLD. WE HAVE BOTH VISITORS -
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BOTH HERE AT
CENTRAL CHURCH - WELCOME.
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WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE
HERE IN OUR CLASS TODAY.
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WE HAVE VISITORS WHO ARE PART OF
OUR STUDIO - I DON'T MEAN STUDIO
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- OUR SATELLITE AUDIENCE ARE
WATCHING ON THE INTERNET AROUND
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THE WORLD. WE
WANT TO WELCOME YOU.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING
OUT THERE ARE SOME OF THE
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ONLINE MEMBERS
OF CENTRAL CHURCH.
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A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WE STARTED
A PROGRAM HERE AT SACRAMENTO
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CETHE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
MESSAGE AND - BUT THEY DON'T
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HAVE A LOCAL
CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND.
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SOME ARE MISSIONARIES WHO ARE
OUT THERE IN THE OUTBACK OF THE
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MISSION FIELD IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD.
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BUT THEY'VE GOT AN INTERNET
CONNECTION THROUGH SATELLITE OR
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SOME OTHER MEANS AND THIS
PROVIDES A WAY FOR THEM TO BE
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PART OF A GROUP. I
SPOKE THIS WEEK WITH SOMEONE
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WHO IS A TRUCK DRIVER AND THEY
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I LOST MY HOME
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BUT I DO HAVE A SLEEPER IN
MY TRUCK AND SOMETIMES I'LL STOP
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ON SABBATH, I'LL WORSHIP WITH
A CHURCH. SOMETIMES I UNLOAD AND
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I STOP AND I HAVE NOBODY BUT
I'VE GOT SATELLITE TV' - IN HIS
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TRUCK - SOME OF THESE TRUCKS ARE
PRETTY SOPHISTICATED - AND HE
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SAID THIS IS HIS CHURCH.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE DO THIS.
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AND MAYBE YOU'RE IN THAT
CATEGORY - YOU WORSHIP WITH US
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EACH WEEK BUT YOU'RE NOT
CONNECTED WITH A LOCAL CHURCH.
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IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE
HOW YOU COULD BE PART OF THE
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL INTERNET
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CHURCH FAMILY OR ONLINE FAMILY
OR SATELLITE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP,
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THEN JUST GO TO OUR
WEBSITE, IT'S 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' -
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - AND PASTOR
HAROLD SORT OF MANAGES THE
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ONLINE MEMBERSHIP AND
WE'LL TELL YOU HOW TO DO THAT.
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WEAND RESOURCES THAT WE CAN
PROVIDE FOR YOU TO KEEP STUDYING
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AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO
GIVE YOU FELLOWSHIP AS MUCH AS
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POSSIBLE. ALSO, WE
HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT
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GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY.
WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW QUARTERLY
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I'LL TALK ABOUT IN A
MINUTE AND THE LESSON IS
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'IS HEAVEN FOR REAL?'
OR 'HEAVEN IS IT FOR REAL?'
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BY JOE CREWS. IT'S
A FANTASTIC BOOKLET.
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PEOPLE WONDER, 'IS THERE A
SPECIFIC PLACE FOR HEAVEN?'
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'WILL WE HAVE
REAL BODIES IN HEAVEN?'
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YOU KNOW, 'IS IT JUST A
MYTH?' 'WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?'
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AND IT TELLS US EVERYTHING THAT
WE CAN LEARN FROM THE BIBLE.
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OF COURSE, THERE'S SOME THINGS
ABOUT HEAVEN WE DON'T KNOW
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BECAUSE IT SAID, 'THE EYES HAS
NOT SEEN, THE EAR HAS NOT HEARD,
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NEITHER HAS IT ENTERED INTO THE
HEART THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS
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PREPARED FOR THOSE THAT LOVE
HIM. BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW
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SOME OF THE
THINGS, SEND FOR THIS BOOK.
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BY THE WAY, IT'S OFFER
#189. CALL 866-STUDY-MORE -
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NOW THAT'S FOR
THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA.
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IF YOU'RE OVERSEAS
YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE.
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HOW'S THAT SOUND? FOR FREE.
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JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS
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YOU'LL SEE THIS BOOK.
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YWE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
YOU'VE GOT TO PROMISE TO READ IT
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AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE
ELSE. YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED.
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LET ME CATCH MY BREATH
I'M SO EXCITED - I COULD
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HYPERVENTILLATE AND PASS
OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY.
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WE'RE ENTERING INTO A NEW
QUARTER RIGHT NOW THAT IS ON
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A GREAT THEME OF BIBLE STUDY.
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IT'S ONE OF THE, OH - NOT
FORGOTTEN TRUTHS OR - NEGLECTED
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TRUTHS IN THE WORD OF
GOD AMONG MANY CHRISTIANS.
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YOU KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF
CHRISTIANS THAT UNDERSTAND SOME
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OF THE SAME THINGS THAT
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS BELIEVE.
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YOU KNOW, IF SOMEONE WAS
TO SAY, 'WHAT IS A SEVENTH DAY
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ADVENTIST?' I'D SAY,
'WELL, WE'RE BIBLE CHRISTIANS.'
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'WELL, BUT YOU'VE
GOT A DIFFERENT NAME.
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WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT?'
'WELL, WE BELIEVE THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS STILL EXIST.
WE DON'T KEEP THEM TO BE SAVED
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BUT, BECAUSE WE LOVE THE
LORD WE BELIEVE WE SHOULD OBEY.
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ONE OF THOSE IS THE SEVENTH DAY
SABBATH SO WE KEEP THE SEVENTH
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DAY SABBATH.' WELL,
THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER
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CHURCHES BESIDES
ADVENTISTS THAT KNOW THAT TRUTH.
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THERE ARE SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS,
SEVENTH DAY PENTECOSTAL,
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WORLD-WIDE CHURCH OF GOD -
THERE'S A NUMBER OF CHURCHES -
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CHURCH OF GOD SEVENTH DAY - A
LOT OF CHURCHES UNDERSTAND THE
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SABBATH TRUTH SO WE
DON'T HAVE A COPYRIGHT ON THAT.
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OF COURSE, IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
WELL, WHAT ELSE IS DIFFERENT?
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WELL, SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS
BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOUR
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NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS
THE RESURRECTION BUT YOU DON'T
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DIRECTLY GO TO HEAVEN OR YOUR
PUNISHMENT IN HADES, IF YOU'RE
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LOST, BECAUSE YOU SLEEP UNTIL
THE JUDGMENT DAY - YOU SLEEP
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UNTIL THE RESURRECTION
AND THE SECOND COMING.
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THE BIBLE IS
VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
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FOR THOSE WHO DIE, IT'S THEIR
NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT TO BE
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WITH THE LORD, BUT FOR US WHO
LIVE IN TIME IT HASN'T HAPPENED
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YET AND SO - BUT WE'RE NOT THE
ONLY CHURCH THAT BELIEVES THAT -
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THERE ARE OTHER CHURCHES
THAT KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT.
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AND YOU MIGHT SAY,
'WELL, WE BELIEVE IN BAPTISM BY
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IMMERSION.' WELL,
BAPTISTS BELIEVE THAT.
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WE'RE NOT THE ONLY
CHURCH THAT BELIEVES THAT.
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AND I CAN GO DOWN THROUGH SOME
OF OUR BASIC DOCTRINES, BUT I'LL
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TELL YOU THERE'S ONE THING THAT
VERY FEW CHURCHES UNDERSTAND AND
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IT'S THE SUBJECT
OF THE SANCTUARY.
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NOW I HAD AN INTERESTING
EXPERIENCE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO
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AFTER - SHORTLY AFTER BECOMING
A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST - AND I
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STUDIED DEEPLY THE BIBLE AND
THE MESSAGE AND WAS VERY EXCITED
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ABOUT IT AND WHEN I LEARNED
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SANCTUARY I
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THOUGHT, 'HOW COME I
NEVER SAW THAT BEFORE?'
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST AND
THEY ONEVER TALKED ABOUT THAT.
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BUT I REALIZED IT WAS FROM
COVER TO COVER IN THE BIBLE.
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AND THEN I WAS IN TEXAS HELPING
FAMILY FINISH A HOUSE THAT
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THEY WERE BUILDING AND I BEGAN
- AND THERE WAS NO SEVENTH DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH - AND I WOULD
DRIVE ON SABBATH WITH THE FAMILY
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TO LUBBOCK, TEXAS AND WORSHIP
THERE, BUT EVERYONE ELSE THAT WE
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WERE WORKING WITH AND MEETING
ALL WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
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AND THERE ARE THREE CHURCHES IN
TEXAS - YOU'VE GOT YOUR BAPTIST
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CHURCH - THERE'S MORE THAN
THREE, BUT THREE MAIN CHURCHES.
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EVERY TOWN HAD THESE THREE
CHURCHES - CHURCH OF CHRIST,
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METHODIST. AND YOU
DRIVE THROUGH ANY TOWN
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THEY HAD THEIR CHURCH OF CHRIST,
THEIR BAPTIST CHURCH AND THEIR
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METHODIST CHURCH. A
COUPLE OF - SOMETIMES
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DIFFERENT VARIEITES
OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
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WELL, ALL THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY
THAT WE WERE GETTING TO KNOW
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THERE ALL WENT TO ONE OF THESE
THREE CHURCHES AND THEY WERE
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INVITING US TO GO
TO THEIR CHURCHES.
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SO WE WENT TO THE BAPTIST CHURCH
AND THEY'D INVITE US TO PREACH
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THERE. WE MADE SOME FRIENDS FROM
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST - AND THIS
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WAS VERY RARE, BUT - THE
ONE PASTOR GOT SICK - THEY DON'T
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ALLOW WOMEN TO PREACH - SO THEY
SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, WILL YOU
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COME PREACH FOR US?' SO
I WAS INVITED TO PREACH IN
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THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THAT
WAS VERY UNUSUAL BECAUSE IT'S A
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VERY STRICT CHURCH.
THEY DON'T USE ANY MUSICAL
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INSTRUMENTS AND A NUMBER
OF VERY FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES.
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THEY HAD COMMUNION EVERY
WEEK. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
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WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
THE OLD CHURCH OF CHRIST? YEAH.
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AND IF SOMEONE SAID THEY
ACCEPTED THE LORD THEY BAPTIZED
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THEM THAT DAY - THE SAME
DAY THAT YOU ACCEPTED THE LORD.
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AND THEN I WENT TO VISIT THE
- OUR LANDLORD BECAUSE WE STAYED
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THERE FOR MONTHS AND WE RENTED A
HOUSE - MRS. COMBY - SHE WENT TO
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THE METHODIST CHURCH.
SHE INVITED US SO WE WENT.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL - THE METHODIST
QUARTERLY - THEY USE A QUARTERLY
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JUST LIKE WE DO.
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THEY DIVIDE UP THEIR SUNDAY
SCHOOL LESSON FOR THIRTEEN
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SECTIONS - FOUR QUARTERS -
AND IT WAS ON THE SANCTUARY.
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AND SHE WAS THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
TEACHER AND SHE STARTED TO KIND
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OF STUMBLE THROUGH AND TRY AND
TEACH THE SANCTUARY AND I COULD
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TELL SHE WAS STRUGGLING SO A
COUPLE TIMES I RAISED MY HAND
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AND I MADE A COMMENT AND PRETTY
SOON SHE SAID, 'BROTHER DOUG,
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COULD YOU PLEASE
TEACH THIS CLASS FOR ME?
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YOU KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT IT
THAN WE DO.' AND SO I STARTED
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TEACHING SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE
METHODIST CHURCH AND IT WAS ON
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THE SANCTUARY. AND, YOU KNOW,
THEY WERE JUST GOING, 'WOW!
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HOW COME WE'VE NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE?' AND SO, IT JUST HELPED
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MCHURCHES, BUT YOU VERY RARELY
HEAR A SERMON ON THE SANCTUARY.
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO DO
IT FOR A WHOLE QUARTER.
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SO WE'VE GOT OUR BLACK
BELT IN THIS SUBJECT, RIGHT?
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SO TODAY'S LESSON IS LESSON
NUMBER ONE AND HOPEFULLY - THE
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LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS I THINK
WE'VE BEEN HANDING THEM OUT - WE
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HAVE A COUPLE ON
THE CORNERS, I SEE.
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WELL, WE'VE GOT
JUST A FEW THAT ARE LEFT.
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, YOU MIGHT
- ETHAN MIGHT HOLD ONE UP FOR
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YOU - IF YOU DON'T HAVE A
QUARTERLY - SEE HIM RIGHT HERE?
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KEEP - WALK TOWARDS ME.
RIGHT HERE. THERE YOU GO.
00:14:37.30\00:14:41.00
HOLD YOUR HANDS UP AND HE'LL GET
YOU ONE FOR YOUR STUDY TODAY.
00:14:41.00\00:14:44.93
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SWING
AROUND - THEY'LL SEE YOUR HAND.
00:14:44.93\00:14:47.30
THE STUDY IS ON THE
HEAVENLY SANCTUARY TODAY.
00:14:47.30\00:14:51.20
WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US
00:14:51.20\00:14:53.36
FROM 1 KINGS 8:49. THIS
IS THE DEDICATION PRAYER
00:14:53.36\00:14:57.63
OF SOLOMON. IF
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES I'D
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APPRECIATE IT IF YOU SAID THIS
OUT LOUD WITH ME. ARE YOU READY?
00:14:59.86\00:15:03.26
1 KINGS 8:49, "THEN HEAR IN
HEAVEN YOUR DWELLING PLACE THEIR
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PRAYER AND THEIR SUPPLICATION,
AND MAINTAIN THEIR CAUSE."
00:15:10.96\00:15:16.30
SO WHEN THEY BUILT A SANCTUARY
ON EARTH, DID THEY BELIEVE THAT
00:15:16.30\00:15:20.53
GOD REALLY LIVED
IN THAT BUILDING?
00:15:20.53\00:15:25.10
I REMEMBER, WITH MY
JEWISH GRANDMOTHER, DRIVING BY A
00:15:25.10\00:15:30.66
SYNAGOGUE AND IT WAS A SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA SYNAGOGUE - A TEMPLE
00:15:30.66\00:15:37.23
- AND IT WAS A UNIQUE DESIGN IN
THE STAINED GLASS WITH A JEWISH
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STAR - I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT
MADE ME ASK THE QUESTIONS, BUT I
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MUST HAVE BEEN FOUR OR FIVE
YEARS OLD AND I SAID, 'GRANDMA,
00:15:43.66\00:15:46.13
WHAT'S THAT BUILDING?'
SHE SAID, 'THAT'S THE HOUSE OF
00:15:46.13\00:15:49.16
GOD.' I THOUGHT,
'WOAH. GOD LIVES THERE.'
00:15:49.16\00:15:56.10
I THOUGHT, 'I'M NEVER GOING
THERE.' BECAUSE I GOT IN A LOT
00:15:56.10\00:15:59.56
OF TROUBLE. MY GRANDMA -
WHENEVER I'D, YOU KNOW, HIT MY
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HEAD OR SOMETHING SHE'D SAY,
'GOD'S PUNISHING YOU FOR RUNNING
00:16:01.80\00:16:03.96
TOO FAST.' I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
GOD WAS A POLICMAN WHO WAS GOING
00:16:03.96\00:16:06.66
TO PUNISH US. IF I'D
GO TO GOD'S HOUSE, I'D BE
00:16:06.66\00:16:08.70
IN TROUBLE ALL THE
TIME. AND SO, THAT SCARED ME.
00:16:08.70\00:16:12.43
THE IDEA THAT THERE'S A BUILDING
THAT HE LIVED IN AND - WHEN
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SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE,
DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THEY
00:16:16.93\00:16:20.20
UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD DID NOT
DWELL IN A MAN-MADE STRUCTURE
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PHYSICALLY?
WELL, LET'S FIND OUT.
00:16:24.80\00:16:27.76
WE'VE GOT A LOT TO
STUDY ON THIS SUBJECT.
00:16:27.76\00:16:31.53
GOD IS DESCRIBED
AS BEING OMNIPOTENT.
00:16:31.53\00:16:35.36
WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN? ALL POWERFUL.
00:16:35.36\00:16:39.30
AND GOD IS DESCRIBED AS
BEING OMNISCIENT - ALL KNOWING -
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OMNISCIENCE - AND HE'S DESCRIBED
AS BEING OMNIPRESENT - THAT'S
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WHAT YOU WERE THINKING DINA
- THAT MEANS THAT HE COULD BE
00:16:50.10\00:16:53.00
EVERYWHERE AT ONE TIME.
IT'S LIKE - IT SAYS - I THINK
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IT'S 1:37, 'WHERE SHALL
I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE?
00:16:57.06\00:17:00.96
IF I GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE
OCEAN LIKE JONAH YOU'RE THERE.
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IF I DIG A HOLE AND GO
INTO THE CAVES YOU'RE THERE.
00:17:04.13\00:17:06.40
IF I CLIMB A MOUNTAIN
YOU'RE THERE.' YOU CAN'T FLEE
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FROM GOD'S PRESENCE
BECAUSE HE'S OMNIPRESENT.
00:17:08.46\00:17:11.40
THAT'S WHY JESUS, WHEN HE
ASCENDED TO HEAVEN HE SAID, 'I
00:17:11.40\00:17:13.56
AM WITH YOU WHEREVER
YOU GO.' GOD IS OMNIPRESENT.
00:17:13.56\00:17:18.16
SO HOW COULD GOD, IF HE'S
OMNIPRESENT, HAVE AN ADDRESS?
00:17:18.16\00:17:23.26
IS THERE A SPECIFIC PLACE WHERE
HE DWELLS? IF YOU HAD A COSMIC
00:17:23.26\00:17:29.96
GPS - YOU KNOW, GPSs ARE
GREAT BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE
00:17:29.96\00:17:35.43
SATELLITES THAT ARE IN DIFFERENT
PLACES AND BECAUSE THEY GET
00:17:35.43\00:17:42.53
- THEY ACTUALLY DON'T DO IT
- TRIANGULATE IS THREE POINTS -
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GOOD SATELLITE RECEPTION
YOU'VE GOT SEVEN OR NINE POINTS.
00:17:45.86\00:17:49.00
WHEN I'M FLYING IN MY PLANE I'VE
GOT A GPS AND IT PICKS UP THESE
00:17:49.00\00:17:51.43
SATELLITES - IT'LL NOT ONLY TELL
ME WHERE I AM ON THE MAP, IT
00:17:51.43\00:17:54.00
TELLS ME MY ALTITUDE - AND RIGHT
NOW THESE SATELLITES ARE PRECISE
00:17:54.00\00:17:59.53
WITHIN LIKE SIX FEET -
WHEN THESE PLANES ARE LANDING.
00:17:59.53\00:18:03.00
A LOT OF THE NEWER PLANES, THEY
CAN LAND THEMSELVES, RIGHT NOW.
00:18:03.00\00:18:07.20
REMEMBER RECENTLY WE HAD A
PLANE CRASH IN SAN FRANCISCO?
00:18:07.20\00:18:10.36
IT BASICALLY CAME IN TOO
- TOO LOW AND TOO SLOW SO IT
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STALLED ON APPROACH.
00:18:15.20\00:18:16.53
I KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT HAD
HAPPENED BECAUSE I'VE FLOWN INTO
00:18:16.53\00:18:19.03
SAN FRANCISCO MANY TIMES
AND THERE'S USUALLY A STRONG
00:18:19.03\00:18:22.23
HEADWIND AND IT WAS A CALM
DAY AND I THINK HE WAS EXPECTING
00:18:22.23\00:18:24.86
THAT IT'D BE THE SAME WIND SPEED
- SLOW YOU DOWN - HE CAME IN,
00:18:24.86\00:18:28.46
HIT HIS GEAR, SOME PEOPLE
DIED, BUT HE WAS MAKING A MANUAL
00:18:28.46\00:18:32.93
APPROACH. IT
WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
00:18:32.93\00:18:35.60
THOSE PLANES ARE ABLE TO MAKE
A GPS APPROACH BECAUSE THEY CAN
00:18:35.60\00:18:39.36
FIX THE LOCATION OF THAT PLANE
JUST TO WITHIN A FEW FEET OFF
00:18:39.36\00:18:42.66
THE GROUND AND BRING IT IN.
IF YOU HAD A COSMIC GPS AND YOU
00:18:42.66\00:18:47.30
PUNCHED IT GOD'S ADDRESS,
WHERE WOULD IT TAKE YOU?
00:18:47.30\00:18:50.53
IS THERE A PLACE OUT
THERE SOMEWHERE WHERE GOD HAS AN
00:18:50.53\00:18:55.96
ADDRESS. I MEAN,
IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE
00:18:55.96\00:18:59.90
OTHER STARS AND GALAXIES,
IS HE CLOSER OR FURTHER?
00:18:59.90\00:19:03.83
IF YOU WERE TO TAKE OFF AND
START FLYING THROUGH SPACE AND
00:19:03.83\00:19:05.93
YOU COULD HAVE AN ANGEL
SAY, 'YOU'RE GETTING WARM.
00:19:05.93\00:19:08.13
YOU'RE GETTING WARM. NOPE.
00:19:08.13\00:19:09.13
YOU'RE GETTING COLD,
COLD, COLD. TURN LEFT.
00:19:09.13\00:19:11.03
WARM, WARM, WARM.'
COULD HE NAVIGATE YOU IN TO
00:19:11.03\00:19:13.93
WHERE GOD'S OFFICE
IS? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:19:13.93\00:19:19.50
THERE IS A PLACE, I BELIEVE THE
BIBLE TEACHES THERE IS A PLACE
00:19:19.50\00:19:23.43
WHERE GOD DWELLS. NOW
WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THE
00:19:23.43\00:19:25.96
DWELLING PLACE OF
GOD CALLED THE SANCTUARY.
00:19:25.96\00:19:30.13
IT IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE THRONE
OF GOD AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:19:30.13\00:19:35.16
TALKING ABOUT THAT. WHEN
WE STUDY THE SUBJECT OF THE
00:19:35.16\00:19:37.90
SANCTUARY, THERE ARE THREE
OR FOUR WORDS THAT ARE USED.
00:19:37.90\00:19:41.80
IT'S SOMETIMES
CALLED 'THE TABERNACLE'.
00:19:41.80\00:19:43.73
TYPICALLY, THE TABERNACLE
IS - WE THINK OF THE PORTABLE
00:19:43.73\00:19:47.43
SANCTUARY THAT WAS
BUILT IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:19:47.43\00:19:50.30
AND SOMETIMES WE TALK ABOUT THE
SANCTUARY - WE USE IT - AND THAT
00:19:50.30\00:19:54.53
MEANS 'HOLY PLACE'. IT
SOMETIMES IS CALLED 'THE HOLY
00:19:54.53\00:19:57.53
PLACE' OR SOMETIMES
IT'S CALLED 'THE TEMPLE'.
00:19:57.53\00:20:03.33
NOW I'VE GOT A FEW SLIDES I'M
GOING TO HAVE SHERLE POP UP ON
00:20:03.33\00:20:05.96
THE SCREEN FOR US AND I THINK
IT'S GOING TO START WITH THE
00:20:05.96\00:20:09.53
TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS.
THE FIRST SANCTUARY THAT WAS
00:20:09.53\00:20:14.10
BUILT WAS BUILT TO BE A TEACHING
- A THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEACHING
00:20:14.10\00:20:18.80
STRUCTURE TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE
GOSPEL, TO TELL THEM ABOUT GOD
00:20:18.80\00:20:24.06
AND HOW HE SAVES US.
AND SO, IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE
00:20:24.06\00:20:28.16
STRUCTURE. THERE
HAVE BEEN THREE TEMPLES ON
00:20:28.16\00:20:30.83
EARTH IN THE BIBLE.
THE ONE IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:20:30.83\00:20:35.03
YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE THAT WAS
BUILT BY SOLOMON - DAVID REALLY
00:20:35.03\00:20:38.60
AMASSED THE MATERIAL FOR
IT, BUT SOLOMON BUILT IT.
00:20:38.60\00:20:42.53
THAT WAS
DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
00:20:42.53\00:20:44.20
AND LATER, WHEN EZRA, NEHEMIAH,
AND THE CAPTIVES CAME BACK FROM
00:20:44.20\00:20:47.73
BABYLON, THEY REBUILT THE
THIRD ONE THAT WAS THEN GREATLY
00:20:47.73\00:20:51.53
REFURBISHED BY HEROD THE GREAT.
AND JESUS TAUGHT IN THAT TEMPLE.
00:20:51.53\00:20:56.53
THAT WAS DESTROYED IN 70 AD.
THERE HAS BEEN NO EARTHLY TEMPLE
00:20:56.53\00:20:59.80
BUILT - OR JEWISH
TEMPLE - SINCE THEN.
00:20:59.80\00:21:03.66
SOME HAVE SPECULATED THAT THAT
TEMPLE IS GOING TO BE REBUILT.
00:21:03.66\00:21:06.16
THEY ALL HAD BASICALLY
THREE THINGS IN COMMON.
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.36
GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE PLEASE,
SHERLE. THIS IS A SIMPLE DESIGN
00:21:09.36\00:21:13.13
AND WE'LL USE THE
ONE IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:21:13.13\00:21:14.93
THEY HAD WHAT THEY CALLED
THE COURTYARD. THEN THERE WAS -
00:21:14.93\00:21:19.30
IN THE MIDDLE - THE PART THAT
WAS COVERED WAS THE HOLY PLACE
00:21:19.30\00:21:23.76
AND AS YOU PASSED THROUGH THE
HOLY PLACE YOU CAME INTO THIS
00:21:23.76\00:21:27.46
CUBICLE THAT HELD THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT CALLED
00:21:27.46\00:21:29.43
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. AND
IT WAS CALLED THE HOLY OF
00:21:29.43\00:21:32.53
HOLIES BECAUSE IT REPRESENTED
THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD -
00:21:32.53\00:21:36.06
THE SHEKINAH GLORY OF GOD.
WHEN MOSES SPOKE WITH THE LORD
00:21:36.06\00:21:39.06
IT WAS IN THERE. ONCE
A YEAR THE HIGH PRIEST
00:21:39.06\00:21:40.76
COULD GO IN THERE. ANY
OTHER PRIEST WENT IN THERE -
00:21:40.76\00:21:42.93
ANY OTHER PERSON WENT IN
THERE - HE'D BE STRUCK DEAD.
00:21:42.93\00:21:45.70
IT WAS CALLED - IT
REPRESENTED THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
00:21:45.70\00:21:48.86
IT WAS A SYMBOL OF THE
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IN HEAVEN.
00:21:48.86\00:21:52.70
NOW IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY
THEY HAD GOLDEN WALLPAPER IN THE
00:21:52.70\00:21:58.83
HOLY PLACE -
ANGELS WERE ENGRAVED.
00:21:58.83\00:22:01.80
IN HEAVEN, IS GOD SURROUNDED
BY GOLDEN WALLPAPER OR A LIVING
00:22:01.80\00:22:05.36
WALL OF ANGELS?
ALRIGHT, SO RIGHT AWAY WE SEE
00:22:05.36\00:22:09.50
THAT ON EARTH IT IS
A FIGURE OF THE REAL.
00:22:09.50\00:22:14.26
IF YOU GO INTO THE MOST HOLY
PLACE, THERE WAS THE ARK OF THE
00:22:14.26\00:22:18.83
COVENANT AND THERE
WERE ANGELS ON TOP.
00:22:18.83\00:22:26.56
HAVE YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER
6 WHERE IT SAID, 'IN THE YEAR
00:22:26.56\00:22:29.76
THAT KING AZZIAH DIED I SAW THE
LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP AND HIS
00:22:29.76\00:22:34.83
VOICE MADE THE TEMPLE SHAKE AND
HE WAS FLANKED ON THE RIGHT AND
00:22:34.83\00:22:40.10
THE LEFT WITH SERAPHIM - TWO
ANGELS - SIX WINGS AND THEY'RE
00:22:40.10\00:22:44.63
PRAYING, CONSTANTLY
SAYING, 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY.'
00:22:44.63\00:22:47.50
AND SO HERE ISAIAH HAS THIS
VISION OF GOD ON HIS THRONE IN
00:22:47.50\00:22:51.36
HEAVEN BUT THEY'RE REAL
ANGELS, THEY'RE NOT GOLDEN ONES.
00:22:51.36\00:22:54.36
SO EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN THE
EARTHLY SANCTUARY IS SORT OF A
00:22:54.36\00:22:57.00
MINIATURE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND.
BY THE WAY, THE TEMPLE OF
00:22:57.00\00:23:00.86
SOLOMON, THE TEMPLE BUILT DURING
THE TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH,
00:23:00.86\00:23:04.46
ALL HAD COURTYARD,
HOLY PLACE, MOST HOLY PLACE.
00:23:04.46\00:23:08.60
THEY ALL HAD THE
SAME BASIC FURNITURE.
00:23:08.60\00:23:10.96
THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU
WENT INTO THE COURTYARD WAS THE
00:23:10.96\00:23:13.53
ALTAR AND THAT'S BECAUSE
THE FIRST THING WAS A SACRIFICE.
00:23:13.53\00:23:17.80
BY THE WAY, THERE WAS ONE DOOR.
00:23:17.80\00:23:20.13
JESUS SAID, 'I'M THE DOOR.'
ONE DOOR IN - ALTAR, SYMBOL OF
00:23:20.13\00:23:23.63
THE CROSS - THE PLACE TO
SACRIFICE AND THAT WAS KIND OF A
00:23:23.63\00:23:28.16
SYMBOL OF
JUSTIFICATION, YOU MIGHT SAY.
00:23:28.16\00:23:30.50
AND THEN THERE WAS A BRONZE
LAVER FILLED WITH WATER AND -
00:23:30.50\00:23:35.03
YOU CAN GO TO THE ALTAR REAL
QUICK, SHERLE, AND SHOW THAT
00:23:35.03\00:23:37.10
NEXT PICTURE. THE
ALTAR WAS THE PLACE WHERE
00:23:37.10\00:23:40.10
THEY WOULD BURN THE SACRIFICE
AND THIS REPRESENTS THE CROSS OF
00:23:40.10\00:23:43.33
CHRIST. AND AFTER
THE SACRIFICE, THE
00:23:43.33\00:23:46.50
PRIESTS WOULD ALSO HAVE A PLACE
OF WASHING - IT WAS A LAVER.
00:23:46.50\00:23:49.73
THIS IS JUST ONE
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THAT.
00:23:49.73\00:23:52.43
I THINK THIS IS A
DIGITAL REPRESENTATION.
00:23:52.43\00:23:54.26
THEY HAD A PLACE FOR
WASHING HANDS AND FEET.
00:23:54.26\00:23:56.80
SO THERE WAS A LOWER PLACE -
YOU NOTICE HOW THE LOWER PART IS
00:23:56.80\00:23:59.13
FILLED WITH WATER
AND THE UPPER PART.
00:23:59.13\00:24:01.56
BECAUSE WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE
HOLY PLACE, THEY HAD TO HAVE -
00:24:01.56\00:24:05.20
YOU KNOW, FOOT WASHING
WAS COMMON IN THE BIBLE.
00:24:05.20\00:24:07.50
THEY WASHED THEIR HANDS - THEY'D
WASH THEIR FEET - THEY'RE GOING
00:24:07.50\00:24:09.40
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
AND THEN WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE
00:24:09.40\00:24:13.46
HOLY PLACE - AND THAT'S THE NEXT
PICTURE - ACTUALLY, THIS IS I
00:24:13.46\00:24:17.43
THINK A PHOTOGRAPH - THERE'S,
OH, TWO OR THREE MINISTRIES IN
00:24:17.43\00:24:21.43
NORTH AMERICA THAT I KNOW OF,
THAT HAVE SANCTUARIES THEY'VE
00:24:21.43\00:24:24.40
REBUILT AND THEY PUT THEM IN
SEMIS AND THEY TAKE THEM AROUND
00:24:24.40\00:24:26.96
THE COUNTRY AND THEY
MINISTER TO CHURCHES.
00:24:26.96\00:24:30.13
I THINK ONE'S
CALLED 'MESSIAH'S MANSION'.
00:24:30.13\00:24:32.30
AND THIS, I THINK, IS A
PHOTOGRAPH SOMEONE SNAPPED OF
00:24:32.30\00:24:34.50
ONE OF THOSE WHERE THEY'VE
REBUILT SOME OF THE FURNITURE.
00:24:34.50\00:24:38.00
ON THE RIGHT, WHEN YOU GO
IN, THERE WAS A TABLE CALLED
00:24:38.00\00:24:41.76
THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD.
00:24:41.76\00:24:43.60
I CALLED IT THE TABLE OF
SHEWBREAD FOR YEARS BECAUSE IT
00:24:43.60\00:24:45.90
WAS WRITTEN THAT WAY IN THE
KING JAMES VERSION, BUT IT'S
00:24:45.90\00:24:48.66
PRONOUNCED SHOWBREAD AND IT JUST
MEANS 'BREAD ON DISPLAY' AND
00:24:48.66\00:24:52.20
THIS HAD TWELVE LOAVES
REPRESENTING THE TWELVE TRIBES -
00:24:52.20\00:24:55.83
JESUS IS THE BREAD -
THAT WAS ON YOUR RIGHT.
00:24:55.83\00:24:58.23
ON THE LEFT WAS A CANDLE
WITH SEVEN LAMPS AND THEY'RE -
00:24:58.23\00:25:02.06
DIFFERENT ARTISTS SOMETIMES HAD
A LONG POLE FOR THAT RATHER THAN
00:25:02.06\00:25:06.23
THE PEDESTAL AND YOU'LL SEE
DIFFERENT ARTISTS CONCEPTIONS OF
00:25:06.23\00:25:09.26
THAT. AND THEN YOU HAD THE ALTAR
OF INCENSE. THIS REPRESENTS THE
00:25:09.26\00:25:13.70
THREE DISCIPLINES
IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
00:25:13.70\00:25:16.10
YOU NEED THE BIBLE -
BREAD OF LIFE - ON THE RIGHT.
00:25:16.10\00:25:19.76
MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY
BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD.
00:25:19.76\00:25:21.80
IT'S A SYMBOL FOR
THE WORD OF GOD DAILY.
00:25:21.80\00:25:23.90
JESUS SAID, 'I AM THAT BREAD
THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.'
00:25:23.90\00:25:25.93
ON THE LEFT THE LIGHT - THAT
MEANS LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE.
00:25:25.93\00:25:29.00
JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
00:25:29.00\00:25:30.63
WE'RE TO BE WITNESSES FOR THE
LORD AND THAT WAS KEPT BURNING
00:25:30.63\00:25:33.53
WITH THE OIL - A SYMBOL FOR THE
HOLY SPIRIT THAT WAS IN THERE.
00:25:33.53\00:25:36.76
AND THE ALTAR OF INCENSE -
THEY'D TAKE THIS PURE INCENSE
00:25:36.76\00:25:39.13
AND THEY'D PUT IT ON THESE COALS
AND THE COALS WOULD COME FROM
00:25:39.13\00:25:41.40
THE ALTAR OUT IN THE COURTYARD
AND THAT ALTAR IN THE COURTYARD
00:25:41.40\00:25:44.66
HAD BEEN IGNITED BY GOD - FIRE
OF GOD CAME DOWN AND STARTED IT
00:25:44.66\00:25:48.20
AND THEY WERE TO KEEP
THAT HOLY FIRE GOING FOREVER.
00:25:48.20\00:25:50.66
NEVER LET THAT
FIRE OF GOD GO OUT.
00:25:50.66\00:25:55.96
ADOWN AND IGNITED THE SACRIFICES
AND THAT WAS GOD'S FIRE - KEEP
00:25:55.96\00:25:59.30
IT GOING - IT
HAPPENED FOR MOSES.
00:25:59.30\00:26:01.70
SO THEY USED THIS INCENSE - THEY
PUT IT ON THAT FIRE THEN THE
00:26:01.70\00:26:05.30
PRAYERS - IT SYMBOLIZED THE
PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WE'RE TO
00:26:05.30\00:26:08.20
SEND INTO THE
HOLY PLACE BEFORE GOD.
00:26:08.20\00:26:10.53
AND SO THE THREE DISCIPLINES OF
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE - YOU WANT TO
00:26:10.53\00:26:14.33
BE HEALTHY? PRAY,
READ YOUR BIBLE, LET YOUR
00:26:14.33\00:26:19.46
LIGHT SHINE.
IT'S JUST REAL SIMPLE.
00:26:19.46\00:26:22.06
YOU SHARE YOUR FAITH, LIVE THE
LIFE - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A
00:26:22.06\00:26:25.80
PRAYER LIFE - BE IN COMMUNION
WITH GOD AND FEEDING YOUR SOUL.
00:26:25.80\00:26:30.76
SO THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING
IN THE HOLY PLACE AND THAT
00:26:30.76\00:26:32.60
REPRESENTS SANCTIFICATION
TAKING PLACE THERE.
00:26:32.60\00:26:35.83
AND THEN YOU'D MOVE
INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
00:26:35.83\00:26:37.56
GO TO THE NEXT - THAT'S ANOTHER
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION HERE -
00:26:37.56\00:26:40.16
YEAH, I LIKE THAT ONE.
00:26:40.16\00:26:41.50
YOU SEE THE CANDLESTICK, YOU CAN
SEE THE SHEWBREAD, YOU CAN SEE
00:26:41.50\00:26:43.73
THE PRIEST IS OFFERING THE
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE, HE'S
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.50
MAKING ATONEMENT, HE'S
INTERCEDING, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
00:26:46.50\00:26:49.86
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND
INSIDE - WHAT WAS IN THE ARK?
00:26:49.86\00:26:54.23
TEN COMMANDMENTS. YOU
CAN GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE.
00:26:54.23\00:26:57.40
THE PRIEST HIMSELF
WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:26:57.40\00:27:00.13
CHRIST IS OUR HIGH
PRIEST, IS THAT RIGHT?
00:27:00.13\00:27:05.36
I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU
PREVERYTHING IN ONE BALE OF HAY
00:27:05.36\00:27:08.23
TODAY BUT I'M TRYING
TO GIVE YOU SOME STUFF.
00:27:08.23\00:27:10.66
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PRIEST'S
CLOTHES TAUGHT US SOMETHING
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.96
ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION.
THEN YOU HAVE THE NEXT IMPLEMENT
00:27:12.96\00:27:17.00
AND THAT WAS THE ARK - THE
GOLDEN BOX THAT EVERYBODY WOULD
00:27:17.00\00:27:20.86
LIKE TO FIND. ;IT'S
STILL HIDDEN, PROBABLY
00:27:20.86\00:27:23.20
SOMEWHERE NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM
OR UNDER JERUSALEM IN A CAVE.
00:27:23.20\00:27:27.13
IT'S BEEN THERE SINCE BEFORE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE
00:27:27.13\00:27:29.43
TEMPLE AND, AS FAR AS WE
KNOW, IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND.
00:27:29.43\00:27:32.43
INSIDE ARE STILL THOSE TWO STONE
TABLETS THAT WERE SO IMPORTANT
00:27:32.43\00:27:37.00
THAT GOD SAID, 'HERE'S PART OF
MY WORD I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT
00:27:37.00\00:27:41.26
TO HOLY MEN OR WOMEN TO WRITE,
I'M GOING TO WRITE IT MYSELF.
00:27:41.26\00:27:44.80
I'M GOING TO
SPEAK IT WITH MY VOICE.'
00:27:44.80\00:27:47.03
AND SO THE GOLDEN BOX
WAS REALLY A CONTAINER.
00:27:47.03\00:27:49.66
THE IMPORTANT THING - THE
TREASURE - WAS NOT THE GOLDEN
00:27:49.66\00:27:51.40
BOX, THOUGH WE'D PROBABLY
ALL LIKE TO FIND THE GOLDEN BOX.
00:27:51.40\00:27:54.43
THE IMPORTANT THING WAS THE
WORDS INSIDE AND WHEN YOU THINK
00:27:54.43\00:27:59.03
ABOUT IT, YOU REALLY
HAVE THAT IN YOUR BIBLE.
00:27:59.03\00:28:02.40
WHAT'S IN THAT
GOLDEN BOX IS IN YOUR BIBLE:
00:28:02.40\00:28:04.36
IT'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
IT'S THE WORDS OF GOD.
00:28:04.36\00:28:07.33
AND SO - IS
THAT MY LAST PICTURE?
00:28:07.33\00:28:10.00
NO, I THINK THE LAST PICTURE WAS
- AND THEN ONCE A YEAR, ON THE
00:28:10.00\00:28:12.56
DAY OF ATONEMENT, THE HIGH
PRIEST WOULD GO INTO THE HOLY OF
00:28:12.56\00:28:15.90
HOLIES AND THERE WAS A SPECIAL
YOM KIPPUR CEREMONY - WE'RE
00:28:15.90\00:28:19.30
LIVING RIGHT NOW, AS I RECORD
THIS PROGRAM, IT'S YOM KIPPUR,
00:28:19.30\00:28:21.90
ISN'T IT? AND SO
THEY WOULD HAVE THAT
00:28:21.90\00:28:24.30
SPECIAL TIME OF MAKING ATONEMENT
FOR GOD - GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:28:24.30\00:28:28.86
AND IT WAS THE END OF THE JEWISH
RELIGIOUS YEAR - NOT THEIR CIVIL
00:28:28.86\00:28:32.96
YEAR. SO THAT'S JUST A
QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE SANCTUARY.
00:28:32.96\00:28:36.26
NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET
INTO THE LESSON FOR TODAY.
00:28:36.26\00:28:37.93
I WANTED TO INTRODUCE IT SOME
HERE - SOME OF YOU PROBABLY KNEW
00:28:37.93\00:28:41.10
THESE THINGS. SOME
OF YOU THOUGHT, 'WELL,
00:28:41.10\00:28:42.46
I NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.'
AND YOU SEE THE SANCTUARY THEME
00:28:42.46\00:28:47.23
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE.
I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST
00:28:47.23\00:28:51.43
A MINUTE. ALRIGHT,
'GOD'S RESIDENCE' -
00:28:51.43\00:28:54.56
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
ISAIAH 66, VERSES 1 AND 2.
00:28:54.56\00:28:58.26
NOW WE'VE GIVEN OUT SOME
VERSES - MIKE, LET'S GET YOU A
00:28:58.26\00:29:00.53
MICROPHONE. THANK YOU.
HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THAT HE CAN
00:29:00.53\00:29:02.96
SEE YOU. AND I'LL
START OUT WITH A VERSE
00:29:02.96\00:29:09.30
THAT YOU FIND IN 1 KINGS 8:27.
DURING THE DEDICATION PRAYER,
00:29:09.30\00:29:13.10
SOLOMON, HE SAYS, "BUT WILL
GOD INDEED DWELL ON THE EARTH?"
00:29:13.10\00:29:18.63
- THIS IS WHEN SOLOMON'S
DEDICATION PRAYER OF THE
00:29:18.63\00:29:21.83
GREATEST TEMPLE THAT'S EVER
BEEN BUILT ON EARTH AND SOLOMON,
00:29:21.83\00:29:25.73
HIMSELF SAYS, "WILL
GOD INDEED DWELL ON EARTH?
00:29:25.73\00:29:28.30
BEHOLD, HEAVEN AND THE HEAVEN
OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN YOU.
00:29:28.30\00:29:31.70
HOW MUCH LESS THIS
TEMPLE WHICH I HAVE BUILT!"
00:29:31.70\00:29:34.86
- HE UNDERSTOOD
GOD WASN'T IN THERE.
00:29:34.86\00:29:37.16
AND THEN HE SAID IN VERSE 49 - 1
KINGS 8:49, "THEN HEAR IN HEAVEN
00:29:37.16\00:29:43.26
YOUR DWELLING PLACE" - ALRIGHT,
SO WHERE DID SOLOMON RECOGNIZE
00:29:43.26\00:29:46.80
THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD WAS?
"HEAR IN HEAVEN YOUR DWELLING" -
00:29:46.80\00:29:52.33
I'M BUILDING A TEMPLE HERE ON
EARTH BUT IT IS A SYMBOL OF YOUR
00:29:52.33\00:29:55.63
DWELLING PLACE. I KNOW
THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
00:29:55.63\00:29:57.20
LIVE HERE. YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO WAKE UP AND
00:29:57.20\00:29:59.46
COOK YOUR BREAKFAST
AND HANG OUT HERE ALL DAY.
00:29:59.46\00:30:01.66
THIS IS NOT
YOUR DWELLING PLACE.'
00:30:01.66\00:30:03.66
THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH, WAS IT
BUILT TO SCALE OF GOD'S TEMPLE
00:30:03.66\00:30:09.40
IN HEAVEN? I DON'T THINK SO.
00:30:09.40\00:30:12.86
WELL, I THINK THAT
PROPORTIONALLY IT TELLS US
00:30:12.86\00:30:16.50
SOMETHING ABOUT IT, BUT I
BELIEVE THAT THE REAL TEMPLE OF
00:30:16.50\00:30:21.10
GOD IN HEAVEN - THOSE LITTLE
GOLDEN ANGELS ON TOP OF THE ARK,
00:30:21.10\00:30:25.53
DO YOU THINK REAL
ANGELS ARE THAT SIZE?
00:30:25.53\00:30:27.56
OR ARE THEY MUCH BIGGER?
THOSE HUNDRED OR THOUSAND ANGELS
00:30:27.56\00:30:31.73
THEY ENGRAVED ON THE WALLS
IN THE TEMPLE, DO YOU THINK THAT
00:30:31.73\00:30:33.86
REPRESENTS ALL
THE ANGELS OF GOD?
00:30:33.86\00:30:37.03
THE DIMENSIONS OF THE TEMPLE ON
EARTH - PICTURE, FOR A MINUTE,
00:30:37.03\00:30:43.13
HOW BIG SPACE IS - I MEAN, WHEN
YOU LOOK AT JUST LIKE THE ORION
00:30:43.13\00:30:49.56
NEBULA OR THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
WHERE WE LIVE - IT'S, YOU KNOW,
00:30:49.56\00:30:54.03
THOUSANDS OR HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF LIGHT YEARS ACROSS
00:30:54.03\00:30:58.83
- JUST THE LITTLE STAR THAT
WE LIVE IN CALLED THE MILKY WAY
00:30:58.83\00:31:02.03
GALAXY IS ACTUALLY A GALAXY.
NOW YOU THINK ABOUT THE DWELLING
00:31:02.03\00:31:05.40
PLACE OF GOD - HE'D WANT TO HAVE
A REPRESENTATIVE-SIZE STRUCTURE.
00:31:05.40\00:31:12.00
HE'S GOT A LIVING WALL OF TEN
THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSANDS OF
00:31:12.00\00:31:15.20
THOUSANDS OF ANGELS - SHIMMERING
ANGELS - THAT SURROUND HIS
00:31:15.20\00:31:18.83
DWELLING PLACE. HE
DOESN'T HAVE WALLPAPER.
00:31:18.83\00:31:20.93
IT'S ALL REAL. IT'S MUCH BIGGER.
00:31:20.93\00:31:24.33
PICTURE SOMETHING THAT IS,
YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED LIGHT YEARS
00:31:24.33\00:31:28.16
ACROSS - I MEAN, I'M MAKING
IT UP - I DON'T KNOW - BUT IT'S
00:31:28.16\00:31:32.00
GOING TO BE MUCH BIGGER.
IT'S GOING TO BE MAJESTIC.
00:31:32.00\00:31:35.10
SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE
TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN, DON'T
00:31:35.10\00:31:39.63
LET THE ONE ON EARTH GIVE YOU
A PUNY CONCEPT OF HOW BIG AND
00:31:39.63\00:31:44.63
AWESOME AND MAJESTIC HIS REAL
DWELLING PLACE IS GOING TO BE IN
00:31:44.63\00:31:48.23
HEAVEN. IT'S LIKE
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
00:31:48.23\00:31:50.93
A MATCHBOX PORSCHE
AND A REAL PORSCHE.
00:31:50.93\00:31:55.43
NO - IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
A LITTLE MATCHBOX FORD PICK-UP
00:31:55.43\00:31:59.60
AND A MONSTER TRUCK.
THAT'S STILL NOT BIG ENOUGH A
00:31:59.60\00:32:05.23
CONTRAST, BUT I JUST WANT YOU
TO KEEP IN MIND, THINK BIG ABOUT
00:32:05.23\00:32:08.50
THE REAL THING.
SOLOMON KNEW THAT.
00:32:08.50\00:32:10.93
ALRIGHT, MIKE ARE
YOU READY? ISAIAH 66.
00:32:10.93\00:32:14.23
>>ISAIAH 66, VERSES 1 AND 2,
"THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE HEAVEN
00:32:14.23\00:32:18.80
IS MY THRONE, AND THE EARTH IS
MY FOOTSTOOL: WHERE IS THE HOUSE
00:32:18.80\00:32:23.03
THAT YOU WILL BUILD ME? AND
WHERE IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?
00:32:23.03\00:32:27.96
FOR ALL THOSE THINGS MY HAND
HAS MADE, AND ALL THOSE THINGS
00:32:27.96\00:32:31.70
EXIST, SAYS THE LORD: BUT ON
THIS ONE WILL I LOOK, ON HIM WHO
00:32:31.70\00:32:37.43
IS POOR AND OF A CONTRITE
SPIRIT, AND WHO TREMBLES AT MY
00:32:37.43\00:32:41.53
WORD." >>AMEN.
'HEAVEN IS MY THRONE.
00:32:41.53\00:32:45.46
THE EARTH IS MY' - YOU'VE SEEN
A THRONE BEFORE, WITH A LITTLE
00:32:45.46\00:32:47.66
FOOTSTOOL FOR
RESTING YOUR FEET ON.
00:32:47.66\00:32:50.56
OUR PLANET IS JUST A FOOTSTOOL
AND HEAVEN IS HIS THRONE.
00:32:50.56\00:32:55.46
YOU SEE WHAT I
MEAN ABOUT THE CONCEPT?
00:32:55.46\00:32:57.26
SO WE'VE GOT TO
THINK A LOT BIGGER.
00:32:57.26\00:32:58.53
DON'T TRY TO REDUCE GOD TO
FITTING IN A TEMPLE THAT IS MADE
00:32:58.53\00:33:01.40
WITH MAN'S HANDS.
WHO HAS PSALM 102:19?
00:33:01.40\00:33:04.96
WE GAVE THAT
OUT. RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:33:04.96\00:33:06.53
WE'LL GET YOU A
MICROPHONE. PSALM 102, VERSE 19.
00:33:06.53\00:33:09.66
AND IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING
TO READ ACTS 17, VERSE 24 - ACTS
00:33:09.66\00:33:14.53
17:24, "GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD
AND EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE
00:33:14.53\00:33:20.43
IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH,
DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE
00:33:20.43\00:33:25.83
WITH HANDS." NOW
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF
00:33:25.83\00:33:28.60
THE HOLY SPIRIT. DO
YOU WANT GOD TO DWELL
00:33:28.60\00:33:30.96
IN YOUR HEART? DOES
HE PHYSICALLY TRY TO
00:33:30.96\00:33:34.26
INHABIT YOUR BODY? DOES
HE SQUEEZE IN THERE LIKE,
00:33:34.26\00:33:38.33
YOU KNOW, SOME AMOEBA THAT'S
INFESTED YOU? NO, GOD CAN'T
00:33:38.33\00:33:44.30
GET IN YOU THAT WAY,
HE'S TOO BIG. YOU'D EXPLODE.
00:33:44.30\00:33:48.33
YOU CAN'T HANDLE GOD.
HIS SPIRIT WANTS TO ABIDE IN
00:33:48.33\00:33:52.43
YOU, BUT THE
HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN HIM.
00:33:52.43\00:33:56.20
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PSALM 102, VERSE 19.
00:33:56.20\00:34:00.30
>>"FOR HE LOOKED DOWN FROM THE
HEIGHT OF HIS SANCTUARY; FROM
00:34:00.30\00:34:05.63
HEAVEN THE LORD
VIEWED THE EARTH."
00:34:05.63\00:34:09.36
>>ALRIGHT, ARE WE BEGINNING TO
GET A PRETTY CLEAR PICTURE, FROM
00:34:09.36\00:34:11.76
PLAIN BIBLE LANGUAGE, THAT
GOD LIVES UP THERE SOMEWHERE IN
00:34:11.76\00:34:16.56
SPACE AND HE LOOKS
DOWN UPON THE EARTH?
00:34:16.56\00:34:21.40
THAT THERE IS A DWELLING
PLACE FROM WHICH HE LOOKS DOWN?
00:34:21.40\00:34:24.43
THERE IS A PLACE
WHERE GOD EXISTS.
00:34:24.43\00:34:27.36
AND THEN YOU CAN READ IN
- OH, WHERE DID I HAVE THAT?
00:34:27.36\00:34:31.06
- JEREMIAH 23:23 AND 24 -
GOD SAYS, "'AM I A GOD NEAR AT
00:34:31.06\00:34:38.16
HAND,' SAYS THE LORD, 'AND NOT
A GOD AFAR OFF?...DO I NOT FILL
00:34:38.16\00:34:42.56
HEAVEN AND EARTH?'" SO WHILE GOD
HAS A SPECIFIC PLACE WHERE HE
00:34:42.56\00:34:46.26
DWELLS, HE INHABITS
HEAVEN AND EARTH EVERYWHERE.
00:34:46.26\00:34:50.46
THERE'S NO ONE PLACE THAT HE -
OR RATHER, THERE'S NO PLACE THAT
00:34:50.46\00:34:55.13
HE CANNOT BE THROUGH HIS
OMNIPRESENCE, BUT THERE IS A
00:34:55.13\00:34:58.36
SPECIFICAL PLACE - SPECIFICAL?
THAT WAS A GOOD WORD.
00:34:58.36\00:35:04.03
WE OUGHT TO WRITE THAT DOWN.
YEAH, LET'S USE THAT AGAIN.
00:35:04.03\00:35:07.20
SOMETIMES WE MAKE UP WORDS -
EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT I MEAN AND -
00:35:07.20\00:35:11.76
YEAH, SPECIFIC
PLACE THAT HE DWELLS.
00:35:11.76\00:35:16.06
LOOK WITH ME IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 21, VERSE 22.
00:35:16.06\00:35:22.46
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS
IN HEAVEN, "BUT I SAW NO TEMPLE
00:35:22.46\00:35:28.16
IN IT, FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
AND THE LAMB ARE ITS TEMPLE"?
00:35:28.16\00:35:32.70
IS THERE A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN?
00:35:32.70\00:35:34.90
WELL, GOD HAS A TEMPLE IN THE
UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW, BUT WHEN IT
00:35:34.90\00:35:39.26
COMES DOWN TO EARTH -
THIS KIND OF CONFUSES PEOPLE.
00:35:39.26\00:35:42.46
WILL THERE BE A
SPECIFIC TEMPLE ON EARTH?
00:35:42.46\00:35:46.46
I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU JUMP
TO A COUPLE OF VERSES HERE.
00:35:46.46\00:35:48.93
THIS IS AN INTERESTING
STUDY. EZEKIEL 47:12 - GO TO
00:35:48.93\00:35:55.06
EZEKIEL 47:12 FOR JUST A SECOND.
I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU THINK.
00:35:55.06\00:35:59.23
IN THE NEW HEAVEN WILL
GOD HAVE A DWELLING PLACE?
00:35:59.23\00:36:02.23
LET'S LOOK AT EZEKIEL 47:12.
DO A LITTLE DETECTIVE WORK HERE.
00:36:02.23\00:36:05.86
"ALONG THE BANK OF THE RIVER,"
- HE'S SPEAKING OF HEAVEN - "ON
00:36:05.86\00:36:09.56
THIS SIDE AND THAT, WILL
GROW ALL KINDS OF TREES USED FOR
00:36:09.56\00:36:12.66
FOOD; THEIR LEAVES WILL NOT
WHITHER, AND THEIR FRUIT WILL
00:36:12.66\00:36:15.90
NOT FAIL. THEY
WILL BEAR FRUIT EVERY
00:36:15.90\00:36:18.33
MONTH, BECAUSE THEIR
WATER FLOWS FROM THE SANCTUARY."
00:36:18.33\00:36:21.96
- WHERE'S THE WATER COME
FROM? - "FROM THE SANCTUARY.
00:36:21.96\00:36:24.90
THEIR FRUIT WILL BE FOR FOOD AND
THEIR LEAVES FOR HEALING" - OR
00:36:24.90\00:36:31.30
NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP TO
REVELATION 22 - REMEMBER, MOST
00:36:31.30\00:36:34.10
OF REVELATION IS DRAWN FROM
THESE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES.
00:36:34.10\00:36:37.90
"AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE
RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS
00:36:37.90\00:36:41.23
CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING FROM THE
THRONE" - NOW THIS IS GOING TO
00:36:41.23\00:36:44.43
COME UP IN JUST A MINUTE - THE
OTHER ONE SAID PROCEEDING FROM
00:36:44.43\00:36:47.33
THE SANCTUARY - EZEKIEL SAID -
NOW JOHN SAYS, 'PROCEEDING FROM
00:36:47.33\00:36:50.86
THE THRONE. WHERE
IS THE THRONE OF GOD?
00:36:50.86\00:36:54.03
ISN'T THE THRONE OF GOD
IN THE SANCTUARY? I THINK SO.
00:36:54.03\00:36:59.60
MATTER OF FACT, WHAT DID THEY
CALL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT?
00:36:59.60\00:37:02.06
THE LID IS
CALLED THE MERCY SEAT.
00:37:02.06\00:37:05.03
IT REPRESENTS THE PRESENCE
OF GOD OR THE THRONE OF GOD.
00:37:05.03\00:37:08.16
- "PROCEEDING FROM THE
THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB."
00:37:08.16\00:37:11.76
- GOD AND THE LAMB - "IN
THE MIDDLE OF ITS STREET, AND ON
00:37:11.76\00:37:16.03
EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER,
WAS THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH BORE
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.90
TWELVE FRUITS," - WE JUST
READ WHERE IT SAID IT HAD FRUIT
00:37:18.90\00:37:22.33
MONTHLY - "EACH TREE
YIELDING ITS FRUIT EVERY MONTH.
00:37:22.33\00:37:25.96
THE LEAVES OF THE TREE WERE
FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS.
00:37:25.96\00:37:28.46
AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE
CURSE, BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND
00:37:28.46\00:37:30.90
OF THE LAMB SHALL BE IN IT, AND
HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM."
00:37:30.90\00:37:34.30
SO, IT SAYS
THERE'S NO TEMPLE IN IT.
00:37:34.30\00:37:37.83
GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER
21, VERSE 3, "AND I HEARD A LOUD
00:37:37.83\00:37:45.13
VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING,
'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE" - BY
00:37:45.13\00:37:49.36
THE WAY, IT'S THE SECOND TO THE
LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE - "THE
00:37:49.36\00:37:51.76
TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN,
AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM,
00:37:51.76\00:37:56.76
AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE.
00:37:56.76\00:37:58.16
GOD HIMSELF WILL BE
WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD."
00:37:58.16\00:38:00.63
IS GOD LITERALLY GOING TO MOVE
HIS DWELLING PLACE FROM WHEREVER
00:38:00.63\00:38:06.33
IT IS OUT THERE NOW TO
THIS PLANET WHEN HE MAKES A NEW
00:38:06.33\00:38:09.96
HEAVEN AND A NEW
EARTH? IT SEEMS LIKE HE WILL.
00:38:09.96\00:38:13.06
WHY DOES IT SAY
THERE'S NO TEMPLE IN IT?
00:38:13.06\00:38:15.40
BECAUSE WILL THERE
BE BLOOD BEING OFFERED?
00:38:15.40\00:38:19.86
WILL THERE BE A
PLACE OF SACRIFICE?
00:38:19.86\00:38:22.03
SEE, IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN,
JESUS IS PLEADING HIS BLOOD.
00:38:22.03\00:38:24.53
THERE IS ATONEMENT GOING
ON WHERE THERE'S HIS SACRIFICE
00:38:24.53\00:38:28.16
BEING PLED. THE
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD WILL
00:38:28.16\00:38:31.06
BE IN THE NEW EARTH BECAUSE
HE'S GOING TO DWELL WITH US.
00:38:31.06\00:38:34.20
HIS THRONE WILL
BE IN THE NEW EARTH.
00:38:34.20\00:38:36.60
BUT WILL THERE BE THE ATONEMENT
GOING ON WHERE BLOOD IS BEING
00:38:36.60\00:38:40.53
PLED AND THAT KIND OF
INTERCESSION FOR SIN? NO.
00:38:40.53\00:38:44.36
SO IN THAT SENSE THERE IS NOT A
TEMPLE IN THE NEW - WHAT WAS THE
00:38:44.36\00:38:48.80
FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU
WENT INTO THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
00:38:48.80\00:38:51.90
A PLACE OF SACRIFICE.
WILL THAT BE IN HEAVEN? NO.
00:38:51.90\00:38:56.30
AND WILL WE NEED CLEANSING?
NO. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A WATER
00:38:56.30\00:39:00.33
- YOU NOTICE JUST BEFORE
THE HOLY PLACE THERE WAS WATER?
00:39:00.33\00:39:03.86
NOW, BEFORE THE THRONE IN HEAVEN
WATER PROCEEDS - A RIVER FLOWS
00:39:03.86\00:39:07.96
OUT. AND SO JESUS IS THAT RIVER
OF LIFE ALSO. ALRIGHT NOW -
00:39:07.96\00:39:14.00
I'M ALL OVER THE PLACE A LITTLE
BIT - I HOPE IT'S MAKING SENSE.
00:39:14.00\00:39:17.13
GO WITH ME TO 2
SAMUEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 5.
00:39:17.13\00:39:22.53
I WANT SOMEONE TO LOOK
UP FOR ME PSALM 103:19.
00:39:22.53\00:39:26.40
WHO DID WE GIVE
THAT TO? OVER HERE?
00:39:26.40\00:39:28.96
WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
PSALM 103:19 - JUST WAIT FOR ME
00:39:28.96\00:39:31.66
AND I'LL GET YOUR SCRIPTURE
IN JUST A MINUTE. 2 SAMUEL 7 -
00:39:31.66\00:39:36.83
2 SAMUEL 7, VERSES 5 TO 7.
YOU REMEMBER DAVID WANTED TO
00:39:36.83\00:39:42.26
BUILD A TEMPLE FOR THE LORD
BECAUSE THE TEMPLE THAT MOSES
00:39:42.26\00:39:45.26
BUILT WAS IN PRETTY BAD
CONDITION AT THAT POINT.
00:39:45.26\00:39:48.36
THE AGE OF JUDGES HAD GONE
BY AND IT HAD BEEN WORN DOWN.
00:39:48.36\00:39:51.20
"GO AND TELL MY SERVANT DAVID,
'THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'WOULD YOU
00:39:51.20\00:39:54.56
BUILD A HOUSE FOR ME TO DWELL
IN? FOR I HAVE NOT DWELT IN
00:39:54.56\00:39:57.46
A HOUSE SINCE THE TIME THAT I
BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
00:39:57.46\00:40:03.80
UP FROAND IN A TABERNACLE.S DAY,
WHEREVER I HAVE MOVED ABOUT WITH
00:40:03.80\00:40:07.30
ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
HAVE I EVER SPOKEN A WORD TO
00:40:07.30\00:40:09.66
ANYONE FROM THE TRIBES OF
ISRAEL, WHOM I COMMANDED TO
00:40:09.66\00:40:12.50
SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL,
SAYING, 'WHY HAVE YOU NOT BUILT
00:40:12.50\00:40:14.80
ME A HOUSE OF CEDAR?'''"
- YOU KNOW, GOD IS SAYING,
00:40:14.80\00:40:17.40
'EVERYTHING THAT'S MADE I
MADE.' IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S GOING
00:40:17.40\00:40:21.56
TO GET WET IF WE DON'T
BUILD HIM A HOUSE, RIGHT?
00:40:21.56\00:40:24.80
SO THE PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE IS
REALLY TO TEACH ABOUT SALVATION.
00:40:24.80\00:40:28.10
IT'S NOT TO GIVE GOD SHELTER.
DO WE ALL AGREE WITH THAT?
00:40:28.10\00:40:32.93
HE DOESN'T NEED PROTECTION
FROM THE ELEMENTS, SO TO SPEAK.
00:40:32.93\00:40:36.93
NOW, GOING TO THE NEXT SECTION,
'THE THRONEROOM' - PSALM 93,
00:40:36.93\00:40:43.03
VERSE 2 - DOES GOD
HAVE A PLACE WHERE HE SITS?
00:40:43.03\00:40:47.96
IT DOESN'T MEAN HE SITS ALL
DAY LONG. DOES THE KING HAVE A
00:40:47.96\00:40:50.70
PLACE WHERE HE SITS FOR
TIMES OF JUDGMENT? YEAH.
00:40:50.70\00:40:54.20
IT'S A PLACE WHERE -
THE CENTER OF HIS REIGN.
00:40:54.20\00:40:57.73
THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND
- IS THERE A THRONEROOM?
00:40:57.73\00:40:59.96
THERE IS. KINGS AND QUEENS.
00:40:59.96\00:41:02.40
NOW SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
'WELL' - LET ME READ MY VERSE
00:41:02.40\00:41:05.76
FOR YOU FIRST. PSALM
93, VERSE 2, "YOUR THRONE
00:41:05.76\00:41:09.73
IS ESTABLISHED FROM OF
OLD; YOU ARE FROM EVERLASTING."
00:41:09.73\00:41:14.10
SO GOD HAS A
THRONE - PRETTY CLEAR?
00:41:14.10\00:41:16.66
SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'WELL,
WE GET THIS IDEA THAT GOD HAS A
00:41:16.66\00:41:21.13
THRONE THAT'S DRAWN
FROM OUR EARTHLY THRONES.'
00:41:21.13\00:41:23.86
I THINK WE MIGHT
LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY.
00:41:23.86\00:41:25.53
I THINK THAT GOING BACK INTO
ANTIQUITY, THE ANTIDILUVIANS AND
00:41:25.53\00:41:30.53
THE GREAT PATRIARCHS, THEY
UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD WAS THE KING
00:41:30.53\00:41:33.50
OF THE UNIVERSE AND HE
HAD A PLACE WHERE HE REIGNED
00:41:33.50\00:41:36.23
AND HE SAT AS JUDGE.
00:41:36.23\00:41:38.16
WE'VE HEARD OF THE
GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT.
00:41:38.16\00:41:40.90
AND SO EARTHLY MONARCHS HAVE
BORROWED THE IDEA OF THE THRONE
00:41:40.90\00:41:45.20
FROM GOD'S DWELLING
PLACE WHERE HE REIGNS.
00:41:45.20\00:41:48.80
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
SOMETIMES WE THINK THAT WE'VE
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.13
INVENTED THINGS AND WE CREATE
OUR GOD BASED ON OUR CUSTOMS.
00:41:51.13\00:41:53.90
YOU KNOW, I THINK SOME OF
OUR CUSTOMS HAVE COME FROM THE
00:41:53.90\00:41:56.16
ETERNAL TRUTHS AND I THINK THERE
IS AN ETERNAL TRUTH THAT GOD
00:41:56.16\00:41:59.63
DOES REIGN AND THERE IS A CENTER
OF THE UNIVERSE WHERE HE DWELLS.
00:41:59.63\00:42:03.66
'BUT PASTOR DOUG,
JESUS SAID GOD IS A SPIRIT.
00:42:03.66\00:42:07.60
HOW CAN HE
INHABIT A SPECIFIC PLACE?'
00:42:07.60\00:42:10.06
THAT'S A COMMON MISTAKE PEOPLE
MAKE. BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT
00:42:10.06\00:42:14.23
DOESN'T MEAN THAT
HE DOESN'T HAVE A FORM.
00:42:14.23\00:42:17.80
BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT DOESN'T
MEAN THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE A
00:42:17.80\00:42:23.83
SPEOPLE BELIEVE IN GHOSTS
THAT HAUNT HOUSES ALL THE TIME.
00:42:23.83\00:42:27.50
WHY DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
THE IDEA THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT
00:42:27.50\00:42:30.03
AND YET HE CAN'T BE IN A
PLACE. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:42:30.03\00:42:34.03
WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN
WILL WE HAVE PHYSICAL BODIES OR
00:42:34.03\00:42:37.16
SPIRITUAL BODIES? FLESH
AND BLOOD CANNOT INHABIT
00:42:37.16\00:42:41.43
THE KINGDOM OF GOD BUT AT
THE SAME TIME WE HAVE SPIRITUAL
00:42:41.43\00:42:45.50
BODIES. THEY ARE
PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL
00:42:45.50\00:42:48.40
TOGETHER. ARE THERE
ANGELS AROUND US NOW?
00:42:48.40\00:42:52.23
WE CAN'T SEE THEM BECAUSE
WE JUST HAVE PHYSICAL BODIES.
00:42:52.23\00:42:56.80
BUT WHEN WE HAVE OUR GLORIFIED
BODIES WILL WE BE ABLE TO SEE
00:42:56.80\00:43:00.30
ANGELS JUST LIKE I'M
LOOKING AT YOU? YEAH.
00:43:00.30\00:43:03.33
BUT WILL WE STILL EAT AND
BUILD HOUSES AND INHABIT THEM?
00:43:03.33\00:43:07.23
WE'LL PLANT VINEYARDS, WE'LL
BUILD HOUSES, WE'LL INHABIT
00:43:07.23\00:43:10.63
THEM, WE'LL EAT, WE'LL DRINK,
WE'LL DO REAL THINGS LIKE ADAM
00:43:10.63\00:43:13.60
AND EVE WERE PLANNED TO
DO REAL THINGS. GOD IS BOTH.
00:43:13.60\00:43:18.13
GOD HAS A REAL ESSENCE
AND YET HE IS A SPIRIT.
00:43:18.13\00:43:21.80
WHEN JESUS SAID GOD IS A SPIRIT
HE WAS LETTING US KNOW THAT WHEN
00:43:21.80\00:43:25.63
WE WORSHIP HIM, WE MUST WORSHIP
HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
00:43:25.63\00:43:28.43
THAT'S WHAT HE TOLD THE WOMAN
AND THE WELL. DANIEL 7, VERSE 9
00:43:28.43\00:43:33.70
- I MESSAGE. DANIEL
7, VERSE 9, "I WATCHED
00:43:33.70\00:43:37.30
MESSAGE.
00:43:33.70\00:43:37.30
TILL THRONES WERE PUT IN PLACE,
AND THE ANCIENT OF DAYS WAS
00:43:37.30\00:43:42.16
SEATED;" - NOW IS THAT
GOD THE SON OR GOD THE FATHER?
00:43:42.16\00:43:45.96
IT'S GOT TO BE GOD THE FATHER
BECAUSE YOU KEEP READING AND IT
00:43:45.96\00:43:48.46
SAYS, 'ONE LIKE THE SON OF
MAN CAME BEFORE THE ANCIENT OF
00:43:48.46\00:43:50.66
DAYS.' SO YOU'VE
GOT TWO INDIVIDUALS.
00:43:50.66\00:43:54.00
IS THERE A PLACE WHERE GOD IS
SEATED? DOES HE HAVE A THRONE?
00:43:54.00\00:43:58.56
DOES IT MEAN - YOU
KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS?
00:43:58.56\00:44:00.70
IT TELLS US THAT GOD
DOESN'T SIT ALL THE TIME.
00:44:00.70\00:44:05.20
WHAT DID THE LORD DO WITH
ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN?
00:44:05.20\00:44:08.83
HE CAME TO WALK WITH THEM.
00:44:08.83\00:44:10.96
THERE WAS A TIME - APPOINTMENT
- WHEN HE WOULD COME MEET WITH
00:44:10.96\00:44:13.50
THEM AND COMMUNE - HE WALKS
WITH ME AND HE TALKS WITH ME.
00:44:13.50\00:44:16.46
OF COURSE THAT'S IN THE SONG,
'I COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE' -
00:44:16.46\00:44:18.56
IT'S NOT IN THE
BIBLE. BUT I THINK IT'S TRUE.
00:44:18.56\00:44:20.23
I THINK GOD GOES
ABOUT HIS CREATION.
00:44:20.23\00:44:24.50
I DON'T THINK GOD JUST SITS DAY
AFTER DAY LIKE A LONG AIRPLANE
00:44:24.50\00:44:29.63
RIDE. ALL THE
TIME HE'S SITTING DOWN.
00:44:29.63\00:44:32.16
THE VERY FACTS HERE - IT
SAYS 'THE ANCIENT OF DAYS WAS
00:44:32.16\00:44:34.93
SEATED.' THAT MEANS
BEFORE HE WAS SEATED
00:44:34.93\00:44:37.06
HE WASN'T SEATED. YOU WITH
ME? THAT MEANS HE WAS DOING
00:44:37.06\00:44:39.86
SOMETHING ELSE. THAT'S
GOOD TO KNOW - THAT GOD
00:44:39.86\00:44:46.20
GOT A FULL-TIME JOB
SITTING ON HIS THRONE.
00:44:46.20\00:44:49.76
BUT IS THERE A PLACE
WHERE HE HAS A THRONE? YEAH.
00:44:49.76\00:44:54.36
"AND THE HAIR OF HIS
HEAD WAS LIKE PURE WOOL.
00:44:54.36\00:44:56.43
HIS THRONE WAS A FIERY FLAME,
ITS WHEELS A BURNING FIRE;"
00:44:56.43\00:45:00.10
YOU'RE SAYING, 'PASTOR DOUG,
THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE DESCRIPTION
00:45:00.10\00:45:02.06
OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.'
YEAH, WELL, JESUS SAID, 'IF
00:45:02.06\00:45:05.46
YOU'VE SEEN ME
YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.'
00:45:05.46\00:45:07.06
THEY PROBABLY
ARE LIKE EACH OTHER.
00:45:07.06\00:45:09.06
ALRIGHT ISAIAH - WE ALREADY READ
THAT - HE SAW THE LORD ON HIS
00:45:09.06\00:45:13.03
THRONE. PSALM 89:14 - IT SAYS,
"RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE ARE
00:45:13.03\00:45:20.96
THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR THRONE;
MERCY AND TRUTH GO BEFORE YOUR
00:45:20.96\00:45:24.63
FACE." SO THE
THRONE OF GOD, FROM WHICH
00:45:24.63\00:45:27.03
HE JUDGES, WITH WHAT
CHARACTERISTICS DOES HE JUDGE?
00:45:27.03\00:45:31.80
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
JUSTICE ARE THE FOUNDATION.
00:45:31.80\00:45:35.60
WHAT ELSE? MERCY AND
TRUTH. WHAT DOES THE LORD LOVE?
00:45:35.60\00:45:39.23
RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE, MERCY
AND TRUTH BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
00:45:39.23\00:45:43.40
EMBODIMENT OF WHO HE IS.
AND SO, WHEN HE SITS ON HIS
00:45:43.40\00:45:46.66
THRONE IT'S TELLING US
THIS IS WHO HIS CHARACTER IS.
00:45:46.66\00:45:51.20
NOW IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE WORD
'THRONE' A LOT, I DON'T THINK
00:45:51.20\00:45:54.36
THERE'S A CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE
THAT TALKS MORE ABOUT THE THRONE
00:45:54.36\00:45:57.03
THAN REVELATION CHAPTER 4. I
DID A ROUGH COUNT AND I THINK
00:45:57.03\00:46:01.03
IT'S TEN OR ELEVEN TIMES -
YOU'LL HAVE TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN
00:46:01.03\00:46:03.86
- BUT I'M JUST GOING TO READ
FOR YOU VERSE 4 - NO, I'M SORRY,
00:46:03.86\00:46:08.13
CHAPTER 4, VERSES 2 TO
6 - REVELATION CHAPTER 4,
00:46:08.13\00:46:12.33
VERSES 2 TO 6. LET ME
READ THAT, "IMMEDIATELY I
00:46:12.33\00:46:16.60
WAS IN THE SPIRIT AND
BEHOLD A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN."
00:46:16.60\00:46:20.63
SO WHERE'S THE THRONE?
"AND ONE SAT ON THE THRONE.
00:46:20.63\00:46:24.23
AND HE WHO SAT THERE WAS LIKE
A JASPER AND A SARDIUS STONE IN
00:46:24.23\00:46:28.63
APPEARANCE; AND THERE WAS A
RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, IN
00:46:28.63\00:46:32.06
APPEARANCE LIKE AN
EMERALD. AROUND THE THRONE WERE
00:46:32.06\00:46:35.20
TWENTY-FOUR THRONES, AND ON THE
THRONES I SAW TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS
00:46:35.20\00:46:39.46
SITTING, CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES;
AND THEY HAD CROWNS OF GOLD ON
00:46:39.46\00:46:42.83
THEIR HEADS. AND
FROM THE THRONE PROCEEDED
00:46:42.83\00:46:45.36
LIGHTNINGS,
THUNDERINGS, AND VOICES." -
00:46:45.36\00:46:49.23
THESE THINGS ALSO HAPPENED
ON MOUNT SINAI DURING THE TEN
00:46:49.23\00:46:51.80
COMMANDMENTS DELIVERY - "SEVEN
LAMPS OF FIRE WERE BURNING
00:46:51.80\00:46:56.10
BEFORE THE THRONE," - WHERE
ELSE DO WE SEE SEVEN LAMPS?
00:46:56.10\00:47:00.53
IN THE SANCTUARY? -
"SEVEN LAMPS OF FIRE WERE
00:47:00.53\00:47:04.93
BURNING BEFORE THE THRONE, WHICH
ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD.
00:47:04.93\00:47:09.73
BEFORE THE THRONE THERE WAS
A SEA OF GLASS, LIKE CRYSTAL.
00:47:09.73\00:47:12.60
AND IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE,
AND AROUND THE THRONE, WERE FOUR
00:47:12.60\00:47:15.50
LIVING CREATURES FULL OF EYES IN
FRONT AND IN BACK." IT GOES ON.
00:47:15.50\00:47:21.06
IT DESCRIBES THIS - BY THE WAY,
DOES IT TALK ABOUT CREATURES
00:47:21.06\00:47:25.10
AROUND THE THRONE
OF GOD IN EZEKIEL?
00:47:25.10\00:47:27.83
DOES IT TALK ABOUT
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS IN EZEKIEL?
00:47:27.83\00:47:31.53
A LOT OF THE THINGS YOU'RE GOING
TO SEE IN REVELATION DESCRIBING
00:47:31.53\00:47:34.00
HEAVEN WERE SEEN BY THAT PROPHET
PRIEST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:47:34.00\00:47:38.03
AND SO, IT'S JUST
GOT A GREAT PICTURE.
00:47:38.03\00:47:40.50
NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO
SAY - I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK
00:47:40.50\00:47:42.56
AND I'M TALKING FAST BECAUSE
THERE'S SO MUCH I WANT TO TRY
00:47:42.56\00:47:45.96
AND GET INTO THIS
LESSON. THIS IS JUST REALLY AN
00:47:45.96\00:47:48.86
INTRODUCTION TO THE SANCTUARY.
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE
00:47:48.86\00:47:52.43
SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY
FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
00:47:52.43\00:47:55.56
FOR ONE, JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL
KNOW THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH WILL
00:47:55.56\00:47:59.53
SET YOU FREE. THE
TRUTH OF GOD IS KNOWN
00:47:59.53\00:48:02.13
THROUGH THE SANCTUARY.
IT SAYS, 'THY WAYS, O GOD,
00:48:02.13\00:48:05.00
ARE IN THE SANCTUARY.'
IN PSALMS - IS THAT 77?
00:48:05.00\00:48:09.33
'THY WAY, O GOD,
IS IN THE SANCTUARY.'
00:48:09.33\00:48:11.00
THE WAY THAT HE SAVES US
IS DEMONSTRATED THROUGH THE
00:48:11.00\00:48:17.46
HE IS REVEALED
THROUGH THE SANCTUARY.
00:48:17.46\00:48:20.30
JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE DAYS
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.70
I'LL MAKE ONE
WITHOUT HANDS.' WHAT?
00:48:22.70\00:48:24.23
A TEMPLE - A
SANCTUARY - AND THAT'S HIS BODY.
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.60
WHAT'S HIS BODY? THE CHURCH.
00:48:26.60\00:48:28.86
AND SO UNDERSTANDING THE
CHURCH, UNDERSTANDING CHRIST,
00:48:28.86\00:48:31.20
UNDERSTANDING THE BODY OF CHRIST
- YOU CAN LEARN ALL THOSE THINGS
00:48:31.20\00:48:33.63
FROM THIS INTERESTING PIECE
OF ARCHITECTURE. IT TEACHES US
00:48:33.63\00:48:38.83
SO MUCH - AND THE SERVICES
THAT TOOK PLACE IN THERE TELL US
00:48:38.83\00:48:42.20
ABOUT GOD.
REVELATION - YOU WANT TO
00:48:42.20\00:48:44.83
UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES FOR
THE LAST DAYS - REVELATION 1,
00:48:44.83\00:48:48.76
VERSE 12, "THEN I TURNED TO SEE
THE VOICE THAT SPOKE WITH ME.
00:48:48.76\00:48:52.66
AND HAVING TURNED I SAW SEVEN
GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS," - DO YOU SEE
00:48:52.66\00:48:57.80
THAT - ARE THERE LAMPSTANDS
IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
00:48:57.80\00:49:02.53
GO TO REVELATION 8, VERSE 3,
"THEN ANOTHER ANGEL, HAVING A
00:49:02.53\00:49:06.33
GOLDEN CENSER, CAME AND STOOD
AT THE ALTAR. HE WAS GIVEN MUCH
00:49:06.33\00:49:10.53
INCENSE, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER
IT WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL THE
00:49:10.53\00:49:13.96
SAINTS" - DO WE HAVE AN
ALTAR IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
00:49:13.96\00:49:18.80
REVELATION 5:6, "AND I LOOKED,
AND BEHOLD, IN THE MIDST OF THE
00:49:18.80\00:49:23.10
THRONE AND OF THE FOUR LIVING
CREATURES, AND IN THE MIDST OF
00:49:23.10\00:49:25.26
THE ELDERS, STOOD A LAMB AS
THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, HAVING
00:49:25.26\00:49:29.40
SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES,
WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF
00:49:29.40\00:49:32.10
GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE
EARTH." WAS THERE A LAMB SLAIN
00:49:32.10\00:49:35.63
IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
GO TO REVELATION 11:19,
00:49:35.63\00:49:40.83
"THEN THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS
OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THE ARK
00:49:40.83\00:49:42.60
OF HIS COVENANT" - THERE'S
THE HOLIEST THING OF ALL -
00:49:42.60\00:49:46.50
"THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT
WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE."
00:49:46.50\00:49:49.36
SO THE WHOLE BOOK OF REVELATION
TRANSPIRES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE
00:49:49.36\00:49:53.66
HEAVENLY TEMPLE - AS DOES
EZEKIEL - NOT ALL OF EZEKIEL,
00:49:53.66\00:49:57.26
BUT MUCH OF EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT
THE TEMPLE - AS DOES ISAIAH -
00:49:57.26\00:50:02.33
REFERENCES THE TEMPLE IN
HIS VISIONS - AS DOES DANIEL -
00:50:02.33\00:50:05.76
REFERENCE THE TEMPLE IN HIS
VISIONS. AND, NOT TO MENTION,
00:50:05.76\00:50:09.43
THE GOAL OF DAVID'S
LIFE WAS TO BUILD A TEMPLE.
00:50:09.43\00:50:13.13
BEGINNING OF SOLOMON'S LIFE
IS BUILDING A TEMPLE AND YOU
00:50:13.13\00:50:16.16
COULD TALK ABOUT HEZEKIAH
AND ALL THE KINGS AND SO MANY OF
00:50:16.16\00:50:18.76
THESE THINGS TRANSPIRED AROUND
THE TEMPLE. A LOT OF JESUS'
00:50:18.76\00:50:23.16
TEACHING - JOHN CHAPTER 8 -
HE ENTERED AND TAUGHT EARLY IN
00:50:23.16\00:50:26.06
THE MORNING. 'WAS I NOT
DAILY WITH YOU TEACHING IN THE
00:50:26.06\00:50:27.93
TEMPLE?' AND SO - AND IN THE
LAST DAYS IT SAYS, 'THAT WICKED
00:50:27.93\00:50:33.53
ONE, THE DEVIL, WILL SIT IN THE
TEMPLE OF GOD SHOWING HIMSELF
00:50:33.53\00:50:36.83
THAT HE IS GOD.' DO WE NEED TO
UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT? IF IT
00:50:36.83\00:50:40.60
GOES ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO
REVELATION THEN MAYBE WE COULD
00:50:40.60\00:50:46.26
LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLAN
OF SALVATION. MAYBE WE COULD
00:50:46.26\00:50:49.33
LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE
LORD BY STUDYING WHAT HAPPENED
00:50:49.33\00:50:54.40
IN THIS BUILDING.
00:50:54.40\00:50:56.20
IT EVEN TEACHES US
SOMETHING ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY.
00:50:56.20\00:50:59.46
I DON'T WANT TO RUSH AHEAD BUT,
I MAY GET TO THIS LATER, YOUR
00:50:59.46\00:51:03.26
BODY IS THE TEMPLE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:51:03.26\00:51:04.83
THERE WAS AN ALTAR IN THE
TEMPLE WHERE FIRE WAS BURNING.
00:51:04.83\00:51:08.76
YOUR BODY IS
CONSTANTLY CONSUMING ENERGY.
00:51:08.76\00:51:12.23
IF FOR A MOMENT YOU SHOULD NOT -
IF THAT FIRE GOES OUT - YOU DIE.
00:51:12.23\00:51:16.00
THERE WAS A CLEANSING - THERE
WAS LIQUID IN THE SANCTUARY FOR
00:51:16.00\00:51:19.56
CLEANSING - YOU'VE GOT A
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - YOU'RE
00:51:19.56\00:51:21.56
MOSTLY WATER. THE
BIBLE SAYS THAT THE SPIRIT
00:51:21.56\00:51:25.70
IS LIKE - THE EYE OF THE BODY IS
THE LAMP. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:51:25.70\00:51:29.40
HOLY OF HOLIES WOULD BE LIKE THE
MIND, 'AS A MAN THINKS IN HIS
00:51:29.40\00:51:32.13
HEART' - IT WAS THE HEART OF THE
SANCTUARY. 'THY WORD I HAVE HID
00:51:32.13\00:51:34.76
IN MY HEART.' THE
LAW WAS IN THERE, RIGHT?
00:51:34.76\00:51:37.03
THEY WERE CONSUMING SACRIFICES
- THEY HAD STORAGE IN THE
00:51:37.03\00:51:40.30
SANCTUARY - FOOD WAS STORED
THERE. YOUR BODY STORES FOOD.
00:51:40.30\00:51:43.90
SOME OF US STORE
MORE THAN OTHERS.
00:51:43.90\00:51:50.46
OF INCENSE - SO YOU CAN
EVEN LEARN ABOUT YOUR BODY BY
00:51:50.46\00:51:53.50
STUDYING THE
SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY.
00:51:53.50\00:51:55.33
AND I'M JUST TOUCHING ON THESE
THINGS - MYSELF AND THE OTHER
00:51:55.33\00:51:57.96
TEACHERS WILL GO INTO
THESE THINGS IN MORE DEPTH.
00:51:57.96\00:52:00.70
IN THE SANCTUARY IT
WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP.
00:52:00.70\00:52:04.90
WHAT IS THE PLAN OF
SALVATION ALL ABOUT?
00:52:04.90\00:52:07.66
ISN'T IT A BATTLE OVER WORSHIP?
YOU CAN READ IN JOB, 'THERE WAS
00:52:07.66\00:52:11.00
A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME
TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE
00:52:11.00\00:52:13.63
LORD. SATAN
CAME ALSO AMONG THEM.
00:52:13.63\00:52:16.66
GOD SAID TO SATAN,
'WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?'
00:52:16.66\00:52:18.80
'I CAME FROM THE EARTH.''
THERE IS A PLACE WHERE GOD
00:52:18.80\00:52:21.03
MEETS WITH HIS OTHER LEADERS OF
OTHER WORLDS IN HEAVEN AND SATAN
00:52:21.03\00:52:26.16
CAME FROM THE EARTH - SO THERE
IS A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD OUT
00:52:26.16\00:52:29.16
THERE. IT TELLS US
THERE - THIS IS ALSO
00:52:29.16\00:52:31.26
A COURTROOM -
THERE'S A GREAT JUDGMENT DAY.
00:52:31.26\00:52:34.10
'THE LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE.
THE LORD'S THRONE IS IN HEAVEN.
00:52:34.10\00:52:39.66
HE BEHOLDS THE EYELIDS OF
MEN. HE TESTS THE SONS OF MEN.'
00:52:39.66\00:52:44.06
WE READ ABOUT THE
GREAT JUDGMENT DAY IN HEAVEN.
00:52:44.06\00:52:47.43
NOW SOMEONE'S GOT
HABUKKUK CHAPTER 2, VERSE 20 -
00:52:47.43\00:52:50.13
WHO HAS THAT? RIGHT HERE.
00:52:50.13\00:52:53.00
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU READ
- THIS IS OUR LAST VERSE AND I'M
00:52:53.00\00:52:55.53
AFRAID WE'RE GOING TO BE OUT OF
TIME BEFORE WE CAN DO ANY MORE.
00:52:55.53\00:52:59.03
DEUTERONOMY 25 - IT SAYS, 'IF
THERE'S A DISPUTE BETWEEN MEN
00:52:59.03\00:53:04.03
AND THEY COME TO COURT, THAT
THE JUDGES MIGHT JUDGE THEM THAT
00:53:04.03\00:53:07.16
THEY MIGHT JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS
AND CONDEMN THE WICKED.
00:53:07.16\00:53:10.36
THERE WAS A PLACE OF JUDGMENT.
GOD'S DWELLING PLACE IS ALSO A
00:53:10.36\00:53:14.36
PLACE OF JUDGMENT AND THERE'S
A JUDGMENT THAT GOES ON JUST
00:53:14.36\00:53:17.43
BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, ISN'T
THERE? SO SANCTUARY TEACHES US
00:53:17.43\00:53:20.70
ABOUT THAT AND THAT'S VERY
IMPORTANT FOR ANOTHER LESSON.
00:53:20.70\00:53:22.96
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PLEASE IN HABUKKUK 2:20.
00:53:22.96\00:53:26.70
>>"BUT THE LORD IS
IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE.
00:53:26.70\00:53:29.46
LET ALL THE EARTH
KEEP SILENCE BEFORE HIM."
00:53:29.46\00:53:32.93
>>IS THERE A DIFFERENCE WHEN WE
COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE LORD
00:53:32.93\00:53:36.83
AND WHEN YOU COME INTO A
COURT AND THERE'S JUDGMENT?
00:53:36.83\00:53:41.50
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A JUDGE
PUT HIS GAVEL DOWN AND SAY,
00:53:41.50\00:53:45.13
'QUIET IN THE COURT'?
00:53:45.13\00:53:48.00
AND SO IT'S ESPECIALLY AWESOME
AND THERE'S A SILENCE AND A
00:53:48.00\00:53:52.23
REVERENCE ESPECIALLY DURING
THE TIME OF JUDGMENT BECAUSE
00:53:52.23\00:53:55.80
SENTENCE IS BEING ISSUED THAT
WILL HAVE ETERNAL DESTINIES.
00:53:55.80\00:54:01.03
AND THEN, IS IT DIFFERENT WHEN
YOU ARE BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD
00:54:01.03\00:54:04.53
AND THE ANGELS ARE SINGING
- LIKE YOU SEE IN ISAIAH?
00:54:04.53\00:54:07.70
AND SO, DIFFERENT
THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
00:54:07.70\00:54:09.53
WE'RE GOING TO STUDY ALL
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00:54:09.53\00:54:11.56
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:55:08.86\00:55:12.90
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:55:12.90\00:55:16.60
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:55:16.60\00:55:19.43
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:55:19.43\00:55:23.23
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:55:23.23\00:55:25.56
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:55:25.56\00:55:28.33
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