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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:50 IT IS BY NO ACCIDENT THAT YOU HAVE TUNED IN TO JOIN US TO 00:53 STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. WELCOME. 00:57 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT ARE JOINING US RIGHT HERE 00:59 IN OUR SANCTUARY. A SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT 01:02 ARE JOINING US AS YOU DO EVERY WEEK FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY 01:06 AND AROUND THE WORLD. WELCOME AND LET'S SING TOGETHER. 01:15 TILL I COME' - AND THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MAVIS IN CHINA, 01:19 CAMILO IN COLUMBIA, ANA IN COSTA RICA, ROBIN IN ISRAEL, JERLYN IN 01:25 SAUDI ARABIA, VINA IN SOUTH KOREA PLUS MORE PEOPLE FROM 01:31 AROUND THE PLANET THAN WE CAN PUT ON THE AIR. 01:34 SO HYMN #600 - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES - 01:37 'HOLD FAST TILL I COME'. (MUSIC) 02:39 >>THAT IS OUR HOPE AS WE STUDY TOGETHER, THAT EACH ONE OF 02:42 YOU - THAT YOU'RE JUST HOLDING FAST TO JESUS AND HOLDING FAST 02:45 TO HIS WORD BECAUSE HE IS COMING SOON TO TAKE US HOME AND I CAN 02:49 HARDLY WAIT AND I HOPE THAT THAT IS WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART ALSO. 02:53 IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL REQUEST - IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN THAT 02:56 YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A COMING STUDY, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 03:00 JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 03:03 'CONTACT US' LINK, AND THERE YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 03:07 HYMNAL AND WE WOULD LOVE TO SING THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING STUDY. 03:11 AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH OUR HYMNAL AND LEARNING 03:14 NEW ONES. WE ARE IN A SECTION NOW ON 03:16 THE TRINITY - HYMN #71 - 'COME THOU ALMIGHTY KING'. 03:22 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM KAREN IN FLORIDA, FROM JOYCE IN 03:25 KENYA, ALICIA IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, MARY JANE IN VIRGINIA 03:29 AND AGAIN, FROM MANY, MANY MORE AROUND THE PLANET. 03:34 HYMN #71 - 'COME THOU ALMIGHTY KING' - WE'LL SING THE FIRST, 03:38 THE SECOND AND THE LAST VERSES. (MUSIC) 05:16 >>LET'S PRAY. 05:17 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE ABLE TO 05:19 COME BEFORE YOU, TO WORSHIP YOU IN SONG, TO WORSHIP YOU IN STUDY 05:25 AND PRAYER TOGETHER. 05:27 WE ARE HUMBLED THIS MORNING THAT YOU GAVE UP ALL OF HEAVEN TO 05:30 COME AND SAVE US AND WE ARE JUST SO GRATEFUL, LORD. 05:34 AND AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU TODAY IN OUR STUDY, PLEASE HELP 05:37 US TO TAKE THESE WORDS TO THE PEOPLE THAT WE COME IN CONTACT 05:41 WITH EVERY DAY - THAT THEY CAN SEE YOU LIVING IN US AND THAT 05:44 THEY WILL BE DRAWN TO YOU WITH WHAT THEY SEE IN US. 05:48 FORGIVE US WHEN WE FAIL YOU, LORD, JUST FILL US WITH YOUR 05:51 SPIRIT AND YOUR POWER AS YOU HAVE PROMISED AND WE HANG OUR 05:55 PROMISES - OUR HOPES AND OUR DREAMS ON YOUR PROMISES THAT YOU 05:59 ARE COMING SOON LORD JESUS. COME QUICKLY, WE PRAY. 06:03 I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, JESUS. AMEN. 06:08 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGH TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, 06:11 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 06:19 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE, OUR SINGERS, AND OUR MUSICIANS. 06:23 I ENJOYED SINGING SOME OF THOSE NEW SONGS AND THAT SONG THAT WE 06:29 JUST DID WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY GOOD FOR OUR STUDY LAST WEEK 06:32 WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TRINITY, BUT IT'S GOOD TO ALSO 06:37 SING A NEW SONG TO THE LORD. I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS 06:40 WHO ARE STUDYING AROUND THE WORLD. WE HAVE BOTH VISITORS - 06:44 BOTH HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH - WELCOME. 06:46 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE IN OUR CLASS TODAY. 06:48 WE HAVE VISITORS WHO ARE PART OF OUR STUDIO - I DON'T MEAN STUDIO 06:52 - OUR SATELLITE AUDIENCE ARE WATCHING ON THE INTERNET AROUND 06:55 THE WORLD. WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU. 06:56 A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING OUT THERE ARE SOME OF THE 06:59 ONLINE MEMBERS OF CENTRAL CHURCH. 07:01 A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WE STARTED A PROGRAM HERE AT SACRAMENTO 07:08 CETHE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MESSAGE AND - BUT THEY DON'T 07:11 HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND. 07:13 SOME ARE MISSIONARIES WHO ARE OUT THERE IN THE OUTBACK OF THE 07:16 MISSION FIELD IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. 07:18 BUT THEY'VE GOT AN INTERNET CONNECTION THROUGH SATELLITE OR 07:21 SOME OTHER MEANS AND THIS PROVIDES A WAY FOR THEM TO BE 07:26 PART OF A GROUP. I SPOKE THIS WEEK WITH SOMEONE 07:29 WHO IS A TRUCK DRIVER AND THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I LOST MY HOME 07:33 BUT I DO HAVE A SLEEPER IN MY TRUCK AND SOMETIMES I'LL STOP 07:37 ON SABBATH, I'LL WORSHIP WITH A CHURCH. SOMETIMES I UNLOAD AND 07:40 I STOP AND I HAVE NOBODY BUT I'VE GOT SATELLITE TV' - IN HIS 07:43 TRUCK - SOME OF THESE TRUCKS ARE PRETTY SOPHISTICATED - AND HE 07:46 SAID THIS IS HIS CHURCH. AND SO THAT'S WHY WE DO THIS. 07:50 AND MAYBE YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY - YOU WORSHIP WITH US 07:52 EACH WEEK BUT YOU'RE NOT CONNECTED WITH A LOCAL CHURCH. 07:55 IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE HOW YOU COULD BE PART OF THE 07:57 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL INTERNET 07:59 CHURCH FAMILY OR ONLINE FAMILY OR SATELLITE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 08:04 THEN JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE, IT'S 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - 08:07 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - AND PASTOR HAROLD SORT OF MANAGES THE 08:12 ONLINE MEMBERSHIP AND WE'LL TELL YOU HOW TO DO THAT. 08:17 WEAND RESOURCES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE FOR YOU TO KEEP STUDYING 08:20 AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO GIVE YOU FELLOWSHIP AS MUCH AS 08:23 POSSIBLE. ALSO, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT 08:26 GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY. WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW QUARTERLY 08:29 I'LL TALK ABOUT IN A MINUTE AND THE LESSON IS 08:32 'IS HEAVEN FOR REAL?' OR 'HEAVEN IS IT FOR REAL?' 08:36 BY JOE CREWS. IT'S A FANTASTIC BOOKLET. 08:38 PEOPLE WONDER, 'IS THERE A SPECIFIC PLACE FOR HEAVEN?' 08:41 'WILL WE HAVE REAL BODIES IN HEAVEN?' 08:44 YOU KNOW, 'IS IT JUST A MYTH?' 'WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?' 08:47 AND IT TELLS US EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE BIBLE. 08:50 OF COURSE, THERE'S SOME THINGS ABOUT HEAVEN WE DON'T KNOW 08:52 BECAUSE IT SAID, 'THE EYES HAS NOT SEEN, THE EAR HAS NOT HEARD, 08:56 NEITHER HAS IT ENTERED INTO THE HEART THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS 08:59 PREPARED FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW 09:01 SOME OF THE THINGS, SEND FOR THIS BOOK. 09:04 BY THE WAY, IT'S OFFER #189. CALL 866-STUDY-MORE - 09:09 866-788-3966. WE'LL SEND IT TO YOUR FOR FREE. 09:13 NOW THAT'S FOR THOSE IN NORTH AMERICA. 09:16 IF YOU'RE OVERSEAS YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE. 09:19 HOW'S THAT SOUND? FOR FREE. 09:20 JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AND WHERE IT HAS OUR 09:23 FREE STUDY MATERIALS YOU'LL SEE THIS BOOK. 09:27 YWE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. YOU'VE GOT TO PROMISE TO READ IT 09:29 AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED. 09:34 LET ME CATCH MY BREATH I'M SO EXCITED - I COULD 09:36 HYPERVENTILLATE AND PASS OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY. 09:39 WE'RE ENTERING INTO A NEW QUARTER RIGHT NOW THAT IS ON 09:42 A GREAT THEME OF BIBLE STUDY. 09:44 IT'S ONE OF THE, OH - NOT FORGOTTEN TRUTHS OR - NEGLECTED 09:50 TRUTHS IN THE WORD OF GOD AMONG MANY CHRISTIANS. 09:53 YOU KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS THAT UNDERSTAND SOME 09:56 OF THE SAME THINGS THAT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS BELIEVE. 10:00 YOU KNOW, IF SOMEONE WAS TO SAY, 'WHAT IS A SEVENTH DAY 10:02 ADVENTIST?' I'D SAY, 'WELL, WE'RE BIBLE CHRISTIANS.' 10:04 'WELL, BUT YOU'VE GOT A DIFFERENT NAME. 10:06 WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT?' 'WELL, WE BELIEVE THE TEN 10:09 COMMANDMENTS STILL EXIST. WE DON'T KEEP THEM TO BE SAVED 10:12 BUT, BECAUSE WE LOVE THE LORD WE BELIEVE WE SHOULD OBEY. 10:14 ONE OF THOSE IS THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH SO WE KEEP THE SEVENTH 10:17 DAY SABBATH.' WELL, THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER 10:19 CHURCHES BESIDES ADVENTISTS THAT KNOW THAT TRUTH. 10:22 THERE ARE SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS, SEVENTH DAY PENTECOSTAL, 10:25 WORLD-WIDE CHURCH OF GOD - THERE'S A NUMBER OF CHURCHES - 10:27 CHURCH OF GOD SEVENTH DAY - A LOT OF CHURCHES UNDERSTAND THE 10:30 SABBATH TRUTH SO WE DON'T HAVE A COPYRIGHT ON THAT. 10:33 OF COURSE, IT'S IN THE BIBLE. WELL, WHAT ELSE IS DIFFERENT? 10:37 WELL, SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOUR 10:42 NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS THE RESURRECTION BUT YOU DON'T 10:44 DIRECTLY GO TO HEAVEN OR YOUR PUNISHMENT IN HADES, IF YOU'RE 10:48 LOST, BECAUSE YOU SLEEP UNTIL THE JUDGMENT DAY - YOU SLEEP 10:52 UNTIL THE RESURRECTION AND THE SECOND COMING. 10:54 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. 10:56 FOR THOSE WHO DIE, IT'S THEIR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT TO BE 10:59 WITH THE LORD, BUT FOR US WHO LIVE IN TIME IT HASN'T HAPPENED 11:02 YET AND SO - BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONLY CHURCH THAT BELIEVES THAT - 11:08 THERE ARE OTHER CHURCHES THAT KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT. 11:10 AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, WE BELIEVE IN BAPTISM BY 11:13 IMMERSION.' WELL, BAPTISTS BELIEVE THAT. 11:16 WE'RE NOT THE ONLY CHURCH THAT BELIEVES THAT. 11:18 AND I CAN GO DOWN THROUGH SOME OF OUR BASIC DOCTRINES, BUT I'LL 11:20 TELL YOU THERE'S ONE THING THAT VERY FEW CHURCHES UNDERSTAND AND 11:26 IT'S THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY. 11:28 NOW I HAD AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO 11:32 AFTER - SHORTLY AFTER BECOMING A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST - AND I 11:37 STUDIED DEEPLY THE BIBLE AND THE MESSAGE AND WAS VERY EXCITED 11:40 ABOUT IT AND WHEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SANCTUARY I 11:43 THOUGHT, 'HOW COME I NEVER SAW THAT BEFORE?' 11:48 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST AND THEY ONEVER TALKED ABOUT THAT. 11:51 BUT I REALIZED IT WAS FROM COVER TO COVER IN THE BIBLE. 11:55 AND THEN I WAS IN TEXAS HELPING FAMILY FINISH A HOUSE THAT 11:59 THEY WERE BUILDING AND I BEGAN - AND THERE WAS NO SEVENTH DAY 12:02 ADVENTIST CHURCH - AND I WOULD DRIVE ON SABBATH WITH THE FAMILY 12:07 TO LUBBOCK, TEXAS AND WORSHIP THERE, BUT EVERYONE ELSE THAT WE 12:10 WERE WORKING WITH AND MEETING ALL WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. 12:13 AND THERE ARE THREE CHURCHES IN TEXAS - YOU'VE GOT YOUR BAPTIST 12:16 CHURCH - THERE'S MORE THAN THREE, BUT THREE MAIN CHURCHES. 12:19 EVERY TOWN HAD THESE THREE CHURCHES - CHURCH OF CHRIST, 12:22 METHODIST. AND YOU DRIVE THROUGH ANY TOWN 12:24 THEY HAD THEIR CHURCH OF CHRIST, THEIR BAPTIST CHURCH AND THEIR 12:27 METHODIST CHURCH. A COUPLE OF - SOMETIMES 12:28 DIFFERENT VARIEITES OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH. 12:30 WELL, ALL THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT WE WERE GETTING TO KNOW 12:33 THERE ALL WENT TO ONE OF THESE THREE CHURCHES AND THEY WERE 12:35 INVITING US TO GO TO THEIR CHURCHES. 12:37 SO WE WENT TO THE BAPTIST CHURCH AND THEY'D INVITE US TO PREACH 12:40 THERE. WE MADE SOME FRIENDS FROM THE CHURCH OF CHRIST - AND THIS 12:43 WAS VERY RARE, BUT - THE ONE PASTOR GOT SICK - THEY DON'T 12:47 ALLOW WOMEN TO PREACH - SO THEY SAID, 'PASTOR DOUG, WILL YOU 12:51 COME PREACH FOR US?' SO I WAS INVITED TO PREACH IN 12:53 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THAT WAS VERY UNUSUAL BECAUSE IT'S A 12:55 VERY STRICT CHURCH. THEY DON'T USE ANY MUSICAL 12:57 INSTRUMENTS AND A NUMBER OF VERY FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES. 13:01 THEY HAD COMMUNION EVERY WEEK. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW 13:04 WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? THE OLD CHURCH OF CHRIST? YEAH. 13:08 AND IF SOMEONE SAID THEY ACCEPTED THE LORD THEY BAPTIZED 13:10 THEM THAT DAY - THE SAME DAY THAT YOU ACCEPTED THE LORD. 13:15 AND THEN I WENT TO VISIT THE - OUR LANDLORD BECAUSE WE STAYED 13:19 THERE FOR MONTHS AND WE RENTED A HOUSE - MRS. COMBY - SHE WENT TO 13:22 THE METHODIST CHURCH. SHE INVITED US SO WE WENT. 13:25 SUNDAY SCHOOL - THE METHODIST QUARTERLY - THEY USE A QUARTERLY 13:27 JUST LIKE WE DO. 13:28 THEY DIVIDE UP THEIR SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR THIRTEEN 13:31 SECTIONS - FOUR QUARTERS - AND IT WAS ON THE SANCTUARY. 13:36 AND SHE WAS THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND SHE STARTED TO KIND 13:39 OF STUMBLE THROUGH AND TRY AND TEACH THE SANCTUARY AND I COULD 13:43 TELL SHE WAS STRUGGLING SO A COUPLE TIMES I RAISED MY HAND 13:45 AND I MADE A COMMENT AND PRETTY SOON SHE SAID, 'BROTHER DOUG, 13:49 COULD YOU PLEASE TEACH THIS CLASS FOR ME? 13:51 YOU KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT IT THAN WE DO.' AND SO I STARTED 13:55 TEACHING SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE METHODIST CHURCH AND IT WAS ON 13:58 THE SANCTUARY. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE JUST GOING, 'WOW! 14:04 HOW COME WE'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE?' AND SO, IT JUST HELPED 14:10 MCHURCHES, BUT YOU VERY RARELY HEAR A SERMON ON THE SANCTUARY. 14:15 NOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT FOR A WHOLE QUARTER. 14:16 SO WE'VE GOT OUR BLACK BELT IN THIS SUBJECT, RIGHT? 14:21 SO TODAY'S LESSON IS LESSON NUMBER ONE AND HOPEFULLY - THE 14:26 LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS I THINK WE'VE BEEN HANDING THEM OUT - WE 14:27 HAVE A COUPLE ON THE CORNERS, I SEE. 14:29 WELL, WE'VE GOT JUST A FEW THAT ARE LEFT. 14:31 IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, YOU MIGHT - ETHAN MIGHT HOLD ONE UP FOR 14:35 YOU - IF YOU DON'T HAVE A QUARTERLY - SEE HIM RIGHT HERE? 14:37 KEEP - WALK TOWARDS ME. RIGHT HERE. THERE YOU GO. 14:41 HOLD YOUR HANDS UP AND HE'LL GET YOU ONE FOR YOUR STUDY TODAY. 14:44 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SWING AROUND - THEY'LL SEE YOUR HAND. 14:47 THE STUDY IS ON THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY TODAY. 14:51 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US 14:53 FROM 1 KINGS 8:49. THIS IS THE DEDICATION PRAYER 14:57 OF SOLOMON. IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES I'D 14:59 APPRECIATE IT IF YOU SAID THIS OUT LOUD WITH ME. ARE YOU READY? 15:03 1 KINGS 8:49, "THEN HEAR IN HEAVEN YOUR DWELLING PLACE THEIR 15:10 PRAYER AND THEIR SUPPLICATION, AND MAINTAIN THEIR CAUSE." 15:16 SO WHEN THEY BUILT A SANCTUARY ON EARTH, DID THEY BELIEVE THAT 15:20 GOD REALLY LIVED IN THAT BUILDING? 15:25 I REMEMBER, WITH MY JEWISH GRANDMOTHER, DRIVING BY A 15:30 SYNAGOGUE AND IT WAS A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SYNAGOGUE - A TEMPLE 15:37 - AND IT WAS A UNIQUE DESIGN IN THE STAINED GLASS WITH A JEWISH 15:40 STAR - I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT MADE ME ASK THE QUESTIONS, BUT I 15:43 MUST HAVE BEEN FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD AND I SAID, 'GRANDMA, 15:46 WHAT'S THAT BUILDING?' SHE SAID, 'THAT'S THE HOUSE OF 15:49 GOD.' I THOUGHT, 'WOAH. GOD LIVES THERE.' 15:56 I THOUGHT, 'I'M NEVER GOING THERE.' BECAUSE I GOT IN A LOT 15:59 OF TROUBLE. MY GRANDMA - WHENEVER I'D, YOU KNOW, HIT MY 16:01 HEAD OR SOMETHING SHE'D SAY, 'GOD'S PUNISHING YOU FOR RUNNING 16:03 TOO FAST.' I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, GOD WAS A POLICMAN WHO WAS GOING 16:06 TO PUNISH US. IF I'D GO TO GOD'S HOUSE, I'D BE 16:08 IN TROUBLE ALL THE TIME. AND SO, THAT SCARED ME. 16:12 THE IDEA THAT THERE'S A BUILDING THAT HE LIVED IN AND - WHEN 16:16 SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE, DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THEY 16:20 UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD DID NOT DWELL IN A MAN-MADE STRUCTURE 16:24 PHYSICALLY? WELL, LET'S FIND OUT. 16:27 WE'VE GOT A LOT TO STUDY ON THIS SUBJECT. 16:31 GOD IS DESCRIBED AS BEING OMNIPOTENT. 16:35 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? ALL POWERFUL. 16:39 AND GOD IS DESCRIBED AS BEING OMNISCIENT - ALL KNOWING - 16:45 OMNISCIENCE - AND HE'S DESCRIBED AS BEING OMNIPRESENT - THAT'S 16:50 WHAT YOU WERE THINKING DINA - THAT MEANS THAT HE COULD BE 16:53 EVERYWHERE AT ONE TIME. IT'S LIKE - IT SAYS - I THINK 16:57 IT'S 1:37, 'WHERE SHALL I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? 17:00 IF I GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN LIKE JONAH YOU'RE THERE. 17:04 IF I DIG A HOLE AND GO INTO THE CAVES YOU'RE THERE. 17:06 IF I CLIMB A MOUNTAIN YOU'RE THERE.' YOU CAN'T FLEE 17:08 FROM GOD'S PRESENCE BECAUSE HE'S OMNIPRESENT. 17:11 THAT'S WHY JESUS, WHEN HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN HE SAID, 'I 17:13 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.' GOD IS OMNIPRESENT. 17:18 SO HOW COULD GOD, IF HE'S OMNIPRESENT, HAVE AN ADDRESS? 17:23 IS THERE A SPECIFIC PLACE WHERE HE DWELLS? IF YOU HAD A COSMIC 17:29 GPS - YOU KNOW, GPSs ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE 17:35 SATELLITES THAT ARE IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND BECAUSE THEY GET 17:42 - THEY ACTUALLY DON'T DO IT - TRIANGULATE IS THREE POINTS - 17:45 GOOD SATELLITE RECEPTION YOU'VE GOT SEVEN OR NINE POINTS. 17:49 WHEN I'M FLYING IN MY PLANE I'VE GOT A GPS AND IT PICKS UP THESE 17:51 SATELLITES - IT'LL NOT ONLY TELL ME WHERE I AM ON THE MAP, IT 17:54 TELLS ME MY ALTITUDE - AND RIGHT NOW THESE SATELLITES ARE PRECISE 17:59 WITHIN LIKE SIX FEET - WHEN THESE PLANES ARE LANDING. 18:03 A LOT OF THE NEWER PLANES, THEY CAN LAND THEMSELVES, RIGHT NOW. 18:07 REMEMBER RECENTLY WE HAD A PLANE CRASH IN SAN FRANCISCO? 18:10 IT BASICALLY CAME IN TOO - TOO LOW AND TOO SLOW SO IT 18:15 STALLED ON APPROACH. 18:16 I KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE I'VE FLOWN INTO 18:19 SAN FRANCISCO MANY TIMES AND THERE'S USUALLY A STRONG 18:22 HEADWIND AND IT WAS A CALM DAY AND I THINK HE WAS EXPECTING 18:24 THAT IT'D BE THE SAME WIND SPEED - SLOW YOU DOWN - HE CAME IN, 18:28 HIT HIS GEAR, SOME PEOPLE DIED, BUT HE WAS MAKING A MANUAL 18:32 APPROACH. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY. 18:35 THOSE PLANES ARE ABLE TO MAKE A GPS APPROACH BECAUSE THEY CAN 18:39 FIX THE LOCATION OF THAT PLANE JUST TO WITHIN A FEW FEET OFF 18:42 THE GROUND AND BRING IT IN. IF YOU HAD A COSMIC GPS AND YOU 18:47 PUNCHED IT GOD'S ADDRESS, WHERE WOULD IT TAKE YOU? 18:50 IS THERE A PLACE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE WHERE GOD HAS AN 18:55 ADDRESS. I MEAN, IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE 18:59 OTHER STARS AND GALAXIES, IS HE CLOSER OR FURTHER? 19:03 IF YOU WERE TO TAKE OFF AND START FLYING THROUGH SPACE AND 19:05 YOU COULD HAVE AN ANGEL SAY, 'YOU'RE GETTING WARM. 19:08 YOU'RE GETTING WARM. NOPE. 19:09 YOU'RE GETTING COLD, COLD, COLD. TURN LEFT. 19:11 WARM, WARM, WARM.' COULD HE NAVIGATE YOU IN TO 19:13 WHERE GOD'S OFFICE IS? WHAT DO YOU THINK? 19:19 THERE IS A PLACE, I BELIEVE THE BIBLE TEACHES THERE IS A PLACE 19:23 WHERE GOD DWELLS. NOW WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THE 19:25 DWELLING PLACE OF GOD CALLED THE SANCTUARY. 19:30 IT IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE THRONE OF GOD AND WE'RE GOING TO BE 19:35 TALKING ABOUT THAT. WHEN WE STUDY THE SUBJECT OF THE 19:37 SANCTUARY, THERE ARE THREE OR FOUR WORDS THAT ARE USED. 19:41 IT'S SOMETIMES CALLED 'THE TABERNACLE'. 19:43 TYPICALLY, THE TABERNACLE IS - WE THINK OF THE PORTABLE 19:47 SANCTUARY THAT WAS BUILT IN THE WILDERNESS. 19:50 AND SOMETIMES WE TALK ABOUT THE SANCTUARY - WE USE IT - AND THAT 19:54 MEANS 'HOLY PLACE'. IT SOMETIMES IS CALLED 'THE HOLY 19:57 PLACE' OR SOMETIMES IT'S CALLED 'THE TEMPLE'. 20:03 NOW I'VE GOT A FEW SLIDES I'M GOING TO HAVE SHERLE POP UP ON 20:05 THE SCREEN FOR US AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO START WITH THE 20:09 TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS. THE FIRST SANCTUARY THAT WAS 20:14 BUILT WAS BUILT TO BE A TEACHING - A THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEACHING 20:18 STRUCTURE TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE GOSPEL, TO TELL THEM ABOUT GOD 20:24 AND HOW HE SAVES US. AND SO, IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE 20:28 STRUCTURE. THERE HAVE BEEN THREE TEMPLES ON 20:30 EARTH IN THE BIBLE. THE ONE IN THE WILDERNESS. 20:35 YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE THAT WAS BUILT BY SOLOMON - DAVID REALLY 20:38 AMASSED THE MATERIAL FOR IT, BUT SOLOMON BUILT IT. 20:42 THAT WAS DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 20:44 AND LATER, WHEN EZRA, NEHEMIAH, AND THE CAPTIVES CAME BACK FROM 20:47 BABYLON, THEY REBUILT THE THIRD ONE THAT WAS THEN GREATLY 20:51 REFURBISHED BY HEROD THE GREAT. AND JESUS TAUGHT IN THAT TEMPLE. 20:56 THAT WAS DESTROYED IN 70 AD. THERE HAS BEEN NO EARTHLY TEMPLE 20:59 BUILT - OR JEWISH TEMPLE - SINCE THEN. 21:03 SOME HAVE SPECULATED THAT THAT TEMPLE IS GOING TO BE REBUILT. 21:06 THEY ALL HAD BASICALLY THREE THINGS IN COMMON. 21:09 GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE PLEASE, SHERLE. THIS IS A SIMPLE DESIGN 21:13 AND WE'LL USE THE ONE IN THE WILDERNESS. 21:14 THEY HAD WHAT THEY CALLED THE COURTYARD. THEN THERE WAS - 21:19 IN THE MIDDLE - THE PART THAT WAS COVERED WAS THE HOLY PLACE 21:23 AND AS YOU PASSED THROUGH THE HOLY PLACE YOU CAME INTO THIS 21:27 CUBICLE THAT HELD THE ARK OF THE COVENANT CALLED 21:29 THE HOLY OF HOLIES. AND IT WAS CALLED THE HOLY OF 21:32 HOLIES BECAUSE IT REPRESENTED THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD - 21:36 THE SHEKINAH GLORY OF GOD. WHEN MOSES SPOKE WITH THE LORD 21:39 IT WAS IN THERE. ONCE A YEAR THE HIGH PRIEST 21:40 COULD GO IN THERE. ANY OTHER PRIEST WENT IN THERE - 21:42 ANY OTHER PERSON WENT IN THERE - HE'D BE STRUCK DEAD. 21:45 IT WAS CALLED - IT REPRESENTED THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 21:48 IT WAS A SYMBOL OF THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IN HEAVEN. 21:52 NOW IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY THEY HAD GOLDEN WALLPAPER IN THE 21:58 HOLY PLACE - ANGELS WERE ENGRAVED. 22:01 IN HEAVEN, IS GOD SURROUNDED BY GOLDEN WALLPAPER OR A LIVING 22:05 WALL OF ANGELS? ALRIGHT, SO RIGHT AWAY WE SEE 22:09 THAT ON EARTH IT IS A FIGURE OF THE REAL. 22:14 IF YOU GO INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE, THERE WAS THE ARK OF THE 22:18 COVENANT AND THERE WERE ANGELS ON TOP. 22:26 HAVE YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 6 WHERE IT SAID, 'IN THE YEAR 22:29 THAT KING AZZIAH DIED I SAW THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP AND HIS 22:34 VOICE MADE THE TEMPLE SHAKE AND HE WAS FLANKED ON THE RIGHT AND 22:40 THE LEFT WITH SERAPHIM - TWO ANGELS - SIX WINGS AND THEY'RE 22:44 PRAYING, CONSTANTLY SAYING, 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY.' 22:47 AND SO HERE ISAIAH HAS THIS VISION OF GOD ON HIS THRONE IN 22:51 HEAVEN BUT THEY'RE REAL ANGELS, THEY'RE NOT GOLDEN ONES. 22:54 SO EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY IS SORT OF A 22:57 MINIATURE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND. BY THE WAY, THE TEMPLE OF 23:00 SOLOMON, THE TEMPLE BUILT DURING THE TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, 23:04 ALL HAD COURTYARD, HOLY PLACE, MOST HOLY PLACE. 23:08 THEY ALL HAD THE SAME BASIC FURNITURE. 23:10 THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE COURTYARD WAS THE 23:13 ALTAR AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE FIRST THING WAS A SACRIFICE. 23:17 BY THE WAY, THERE WAS ONE DOOR. 23:20 JESUS SAID, 'I'M THE DOOR.' ONE DOOR IN - ALTAR, SYMBOL OF 23:23 THE CROSS - THE PLACE TO SACRIFICE AND THAT WAS KIND OF A 23:28 SYMBOL OF JUSTIFICATION, YOU MIGHT SAY. 23:30 AND THEN THERE WAS A BRONZE LAVER FILLED WITH WATER AND - 23:35 YOU CAN GO TO THE ALTAR REAL QUICK, SHERLE, AND SHOW THAT 23:37 NEXT PICTURE. THE ALTAR WAS THE PLACE WHERE 23:40 THEY WOULD BURN THE SACRIFICE AND THIS REPRESENTS THE CROSS OF 23:43 CHRIST. AND AFTER THE SACRIFICE, THE 23:46 PRIESTS WOULD ALSO HAVE A PLACE OF WASHING - IT WAS A LAVER. 23:49 THIS IS JUST ONE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THAT. 23:52 I THINK THIS IS A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION. 23:54 THEY HAD A PLACE FOR WASHING HANDS AND FEET. 23:56 SO THERE WAS A LOWER PLACE - YOU NOTICE HOW THE LOWER PART IS 23:59 FILLED WITH WATER AND THE UPPER PART. 24:01 BECAUSE WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE, THEY HAD TO HAVE - 24:05 YOU KNOW, FOOT WASHING WAS COMMON IN THE BIBLE. 24:07 THEY WASHED THEIR HANDS - THEY'D WASH THEIR FEET - THEY'RE GOING 24:09 INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. AND THEN WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE 24:13 HOLY PLACE - AND THAT'S THE NEXT PICTURE - ACTUALLY, THIS IS I 24:17 THINK A PHOTOGRAPH - THERE'S, OH, TWO OR THREE MINISTRIES IN 24:21 NORTH AMERICA THAT I KNOW OF, THAT HAVE SANCTUARIES THEY'VE 24:24 REBUILT AND THEY PUT THEM IN SEMIS AND THEY TAKE THEM AROUND 24:26 THE COUNTRY AND THEY MINISTER TO CHURCHES. 24:30 I THINK ONE'S CALLED 'MESSIAH'S MANSION'. 24:32 AND THIS, I THINK, IS A PHOTOGRAPH SOMEONE SNAPPED OF 24:34 ONE OF THOSE WHERE THEY'VE REBUILT SOME OF THE FURNITURE. 24:38 ON THE RIGHT, WHEN YOU GO IN, THERE WAS A TABLE CALLED 24:41 THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD. 24:43 I CALLED IT THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD FOR YEARS BECAUSE IT 24:45 WAS WRITTEN THAT WAY IN THE KING JAMES VERSION, BUT IT'S 24:48 PRONOUNCED SHOWBREAD AND IT JUST MEANS 'BREAD ON DISPLAY' AND 24:52 THIS HAD TWELVE LOAVES REPRESENTING THE TWELVE TRIBES - 24:55 JESUS IS THE BREAD - THAT WAS ON YOUR RIGHT. 24:58 ON THE LEFT WAS A CANDLE WITH SEVEN LAMPS AND THEY'RE - 25:02 DIFFERENT ARTISTS SOMETIMES HAD A LONG POLE FOR THAT RATHER THAN 25:06 THE PEDESTAL AND YOU'LL SEE DIFFERENT ARTISTS CONCEPTIONS OF 25:09 THAT. AND THEN YOU HAD THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. THIS REPRESENTS THE 25:13 THREE DISCIPLINES IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 25:16 YOU NEED THE BIBLE - BREAD OF LIFE - ON THE RIGHT. 25:19 MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD. 25:21 IT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD DAILY. 25:23 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THAT BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.' 25:25 ON THE LEFT THE LIGHT - THAT MEANS LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE. 25:29 JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 25:30 WE'RE TO BE WITNESSES FOR THE LORD AND THAT WAS KEPT BURNING 25:33 WITH THE OIL - A SYMBOL FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WAS IN THERE. 25:36 AND THE ALTAR OF INCENSE - THEY'D TAKE THIS PURE INCENSE 25:39 AND THEY'D PUT IT ON THESE COALS AND THE COALS WOULD COME FROM 25:41 THE ALTAR OUT IN THE COURTYARD AND THAT ALTAR IN THE COURTYARD 25:44 HAD BEEN IGNITED BY GOD - FIRE OF GOD CAME DOWN AND STARTED IT 25:48 AND THEY WERE TO KEEP THAT HOLY FIRE GOING FOREVER. 25:50 NEVER LET THAT FIRE OF GOD GO OUT. 25:55 ADOWN AND IGNITED THE SACRIFICES AND THAT WAS GOD'S FIRE - KEEP 25:59 IT GOING - IT HAPPENED FOR MOSES. 26:01 SO THEY USED THIS INCENSE - THEY PUT IT ON THAT FIRE THEN THE 26:05 PRAYERS - IT SYMBOLIZED THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WE'RE TO 26:08 SEND INTO THE HOLY PLACE BEFORE GOD. 26:10 AND SO THE THREE DISCIPLINES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE - YOU WANT TO 26:14 BE HEALTHY? PRAY, READ YOUR BIBLE, LET YOUR 26:19 LIGHT SHINE. IT'S JUST REAL SIMPLE. 26:22 YOU SHARE YOUR FAITH, LIVE THE LIFE - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A 26:25 PRAYER LIFE - BE IN COMMUNION WITH GOD AND FEEDING YOUR SOUL. 26:30 SO THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE HOLY PLACE AND THAT 26:32 REPRESENTS SANCTIFICATION TAKING PLACE THERE. 26:35 AND THEN YOU'D MOVE INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 26:37 GO TO THE NEXT - THAT'S ANOTHER ARTIST'S CONCEPTION HERE - 26:40 YEAH, I LIKE THAT ONE. 26:41 YOU SEE THE CANDLESTICK, YOU CAN SEE THE SHEWBREAD, YOU CAN SEE 26:43 THE PRIEST IS OFFERING THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE, HE'S 26:46 MAKING ATONEMENT, HE'S INTERCEDING, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT 26:49 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND INSIDE - WHAT WAS IN THE ARK? 26:54 TEN COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE. 26:57 THE PRIEST HIMSELF WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 27:00 CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST, IS THAT RIGHT? 27:05 I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU PREVERYTHING IN ONE BALE OF HAY 27:08 TODAY BUT I'M TRYING TO GIVE YOU SOME STUFF. 27:10 EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PRIEST'S CLOTHES TAUGHT US SOMETHING 27:12 ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION. THEN YOU HAVE THE NEXT IMPLEMENT 27:17 AND THAT WAS THE ARK - THE GOLDEN BOX THAT EVERYBODY WOULD 27:20 LIKE TO FIND. ;IT'S STILL HIDDEN, PROBABLY 27:23 SOMEWHERE NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM OR UNDER JERUSALEM IN A CAVE. 27:27 IT'S BEEN THERE SINCE BEFORE NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE 27:29 TEMPLE AND, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND. 27:32 INSIDE ARE STILL THOSE TWO STONE TABLETS THAT WERE SO IMPORTANT 27:37 THAT GOD SAID, 'HERE'S PART OF MY WORD I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT 27:41 TO HOLY MEN OR WOMEN TO WRITE, I'M GOING TO WRITE IT MYSELF. 27:44 I'M GOING TO SPEAK IT WITH MY VOICE.' 27:47 AND SO THE GOLDEN BOX WAS REALLY A CONTAINER. 27:49 THE IMPORTANT THING - THE TREASURE - WAS NOT THE GOLDEN 27:51 BOX, THOUGH WE'D PROBABLY ALL LIKE TO FIND THE GOLDEN BOX. 27:54 THE IMPORTANT THING WAS THE WORDS INSIDE AND WHEN YOU THINK 27:59 ABOUT IT, YOU REALLY HAVE THAT IN YOUR BIBLE. 28:02 WHAT'S IN THAT GOLDEN BOX IS IN YOUR BIBLE: 28:04 IT'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IT'S THE WORDS OF GOD. 28:07 AND SO - IS THAT MY LAST PICTURE? 28:10 NO, I THINK THE LAST PICTURE WAS - AND THEN ONCE A YEAR, ON THE 28:12 DAY OF ATONEMENT, THE HIGH PRIEST WOULD GO INTO THE HOLY OF 28:15 HOLIES AND THERE WAS A SPECIAL YOM KIPPUR CEREMONY - WE'RE 28:19 LIVING RIGHT NOW, AS I RECORD THIS PROGRAM, IT'S YOM KIPPUR, 28:21 ISN'T IT? AND SO THEY WOULD HAVE THAT 28:24 SPECIAL TIME OF MAKING ATONEMENT FOR GOD - GOD'S PEOPLE. 28:28 AND IT WAS THE END OF THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS YEAR - NOT THEIR CIVIL 28:32 YEAR. SO THAT'S JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE SANCTUARY. 28:36 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE LESSON FOR TODAY. 28:37 I WANTED TO INTRODUCE IT SOME HERE - SOME OF YOU PROBABLY KNEW 28:41 THESE THINGS. SOME OF YOU THOUGHT, 'WELL, 28:42 I NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.' AND YOU SEE THE SANCTUARY THEME 28:47 ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST 28:51 A MINUTE. ALRIGHT, 'GOD'S RESIDENCE' - 28:54 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME ISAIAH 66, VERSES 1 AND 2. 28:58 NOW WE'VE GIVEN OUT SOME VERSES - MIKE, LET'S GET YOU A 29:00 MICROPHONE. THANK YOU. HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THAT HE CAN 29:02 SEE YOU. AND I'LL START OUT WITH A VERSE 29:09 THAT YOU FIND IN 1 KINGS 8:27. DURING THE DEDICATION PRAYER, 29:13 SOLOMON, HE SAYS, "BUT WILL GOD INDEED DWELL ON THE EARTH?" 29:18 - THIS IS WHEN SOLOMON'S DEDICATION PRAYER OF THE 29:21 GREATEST TEMPLE THAT'S EVER BEEN BUILT ON EARTH AND SOLOMON, 29:25 HIMSELF SAYS, "WILL GOD INDEED DWELL ON EARTH? 29:28 BEHOLD, HEAVEN AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN YOU. 29:31 HOW MUCH LESS THIS TEMPLE WHICH I HAVE BUILT!" 29:34 - HE UNDERSTOOD GOD WASN'T IN THERE. 29:37 AND THEN HE SAID IN VERSE 49 - 1 KINGS 8:49, "THEN HEAR IN HEAVEN 29:43 YOUR DWELLING PLACE" - ALRIGHT, SO WHERE DID SOLOMON RECOGNIZE 29:46 THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD WAS? "HEAR IN HEAVEN YOUR DWELLING" - 29:52 I'M BUILDING A TEMPLE HERE ON EARTH BUT IT IS A SYMBOL OF YOUR 29:55 DWELLING PLACE. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 29:57 LIVE HERE. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WAKE UP AND 29:59 COOK YOUR BREAKFAST AND HANG OUT HERE ALL DAY. 30:01 THIS IS NOT YOUR DWELLING PLACE.' 30:03 THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH, WAS IT BUILT TO SCALE OF GOD'S TEMPLE 30:09 IN HEAVEN? I DON'T THINK SO. 30:12 WELL, I THINK THAT PROPORTIONALLY IT TELLS US 30:16 SOMETHING ABOUT IT, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE REAL TEMPLE OF 30:21 GOD IN HEAVEN - THOSE LITTLE GOLDEN ANGELS ON TOP OF THE ARK, 30:25 DO YOU THINK REAL ANGELS ARE THAT SIZE? 30:27 OR ARE THEY MUCH BIGGER? THOSE HUNDRED OR THOUSAND ANGELS 30:31 THEY ENGRAVED ON THE WALLS IN THE TEMPLE, DO YOU THINK THAT 30:33 REPRESENTS ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD? 30:37 THE DIMENSIONS OF THE TEMPLE ON EARTH - PICTURE, FOR A MINUTE, 30:43 HOW BIG SPACE IS - I MEAN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT JUST LIKE THE ORION 30:49 NEBULA OR THE MILKY WAY GALAXY WHERE WE LIVE - IT'S, YOU KNOW, 30:54 THOUSANDS OR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIGHT YEARS ACROSS 30:58 - JUST THE LITTLE STAR THAT WE LIVE IN CALLED THE MILKY WAY 31:02 GALAXY IS ACTUALLY A GALAXY. NOW YOU THINK ABOUT THE DWELLING 31:05 PLACE OF GOD - HE'D WANT TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE-SIZE STRUCTURE. 31:12 HE'S GOT A LIVING WALL OF TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSANDS OF 31:15 THOUSANDS OF ANGELS - SHIMMERING ANGELS - THAT SURROUND HIS 31:18 DWELLING PLACE. HE DOESN'T HAVE WALLPAPER. 31:20 IT'S ALL REAL. IT'S MUCH BIGGER. 31:24 PICTURE SOMETHING THAT IS, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED LIGHT YEARS 31:28 ACROSS - I MEAN, I'M MAKING IT UP - I DON'T KNOW - BUT IT'S 31:32 GOING TO BE MUCH BIGGER. IT'S GOING TO BE MAJESTIC. 31:35 SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN, DON'T 31:39 LET THE ONE ON EARTH GIVE YOU A PUNY CONCEPT OF HOW BIG AND 31:44 AWESOME AND MAJESTIC HIS REAL DWELLING PLACE IS GOING TO BE IN 31:48 HEAVEN. IT'S LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 31:50 A MATCHBOX PORSCHE AND A REAL PORSCHE. 31:55 NO - IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LITTLE MATCHBOX FORD PICK-UP 31:59 AND A MONSTER TRUCK. THAT'S STILL NOT BIG ENOUGH A 32:05 CONTRAST, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KEEP IN MIND, THINK BIG ABOUT 32:08 THE REAL THING. SOLOMON KNEW THAT. 32:10 ALRIGHT, MIKE ARE YOU READY? ISAIAH 66. 32:14 >>ISAIAH 66, VERSES 1 AND 2, "THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE HEAVEN 32:18 IS MY THRONE, AND THE EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL: WHERE IS THE HOUSE 32:23 THAT YOU WILL BUILD ME? AND WHERE IS THE PLACE OF MY REST? 32:27 FOR ALL THOSE THINGS MY HAND HAS MADE, AND ALL THOSE THINGS 32:31 EXIST, SAYS THE LORD: BUT ON THIS ONE WILL I LOOK, ON HIM WHO 32:37 IS POOR AND OF A CONTRITE SPIRIT, AND WHO TREMBLES AT MY 32:41 WORD." >>AMEN. 'HEAVEN IS MY THRONE. 32:45 THE EARTH IS MY' - YOU'VE SEEN A THRONE BEFORE, WITH A LITTLE 32:47 FOOTSTOOL FOR RESTING YOUR FEET ON. 32:50 OUR PLANET IS JUST A FOOTSTOOL AND HEAVEN IS HIS THRONE. 32:55 YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT THE CONCEPT? 32:57 SO WE'VE GOT TO THINK A LOT BIGGER. 32:58 DON'T TRY TO REDUCE GOD TO FITTING IN A TEMPLE THAT IS MADE 33:01 WITH MAN'S HANDS. WHO HAS PSALM 102:19? 33:04 WE GAVE THAT OUT. RIGHT OVER HERE. 33:06 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. PSALM 102, VERSE 19. 33:09 AND IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 17, VERSE 24 - ACTS 33:14 17:24, "GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE 33:20 IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE 33:25 WITH HANDS." NOW YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF 33:28 THE HOLY SPIRIT. DO YOU WANT GOD TO DWELL 33:30 IN YOUR HEART? DOES HE PHYSICALLY TRY TO 33:34 INHABIT YOUR BODY? DOES HE SQUEEZE IN THERE LIKE, 33:38 YOU KNOW, SOME AMOEBA THAT'S INFESTED YOU? NO, GOD CAN'T 33:44 GET IN YOU THAT WAY, HE'S TOO BIG. YOU'D EXPLODE. 33:48 YOU CAN'T HANDLE GOD. HIS SPIRIT WANTS TO ABIDE IN 33:52 YOU, BUT THE HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN HIM. 33:56 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PSALM 102, VERSE 19. 34:00 >>"FOR HE LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HEIGHT OF HIS SANCTUARY; FROM 34:05 HEAVEN THE LORD VIEWED THE EARTH." 34:09 >>ALRIGHT, ARE WE BEGINNING TO GET A PRETTY CLEAR PICTURE, FROM 34:11 PLAIN BIBLE LANGUAGE, THAT GOD LIVES UP THERE SOMEWHERE IN 34:16 SPACE AND HE LOOKS DOWN UPON THE EARTH? 34:21 THAT THERE IS A DWELLING PLACE FROM WHICH HE LOOKS DOWN? 34:24 THERE IS A PLACE WHERE GOD EXISTS. 34:27 AND THEN YOU CAN READ IN - OH, WHERE DID I HAVE THAT? 34:31 - JEREMIAH 23:23 AND 24 - GOD SAYS, "'AM I A GOD NEAR AT 34:38 HAND,' SAYS THE LORD, 'AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF?...DO I NOT FILL 34:42 HEAVEN AND EARTH?'" SO WHILE GOD HAS A SPECIFIC PLACE WHERE HE 34:46 DWELLS, HE INHABITS HEAVEN AND EARTH EVERYWHERE. 34:50 THERE'S NO ONE PLACE THAT HE - OR RATHER, THERE'S NO PLACE THAT 34:55 HE CANNOT BE THROUGH HIS OMNIPRESENCE, BUT THERE IS A 34:58 SPECIFICAL PLACE - SPECIFICAL? THAT WAS A GOOD WORD. 35:04 WE OUGHT TO WRITE THAT DOWN. YEAH, LET'S USE THAT AGAIN. 35:07 SOMETIMES WE MAKE UP WORDS - EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT I MEAN AND - 35:11 YEAH, SPECIFIC PLACE THAT HE DWELLS. 35:16 LOOK WITH ME IN REVELATION CHAPTER 21, VERSE 22. 35:22 WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS IN HEAVEN, "BUT I SAW NO TEMPLE 35:28 IN IT, FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE ITS TEMPLE"? 35:32 IS THERE A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN? 35:34 WELL, GOD HAS A TEMPLE IN THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW, BUT WHEN IT 35:39 COMES DOWN TO EARTH - THIS KIND OF CONFUSES PEOPLE. 35:42 WILL THERE BE A SPECIFIC TEMPLE ON EARTH? 35:46 I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU JUMP TO A COUPLE OF VERSES HERE. 35:48 THIS IS AN INTERESTING STUDY. EZEKIEL 47:12 - GO TO 35:55 EZEKIEL 47:12 FOR JUST A SECOND. I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU THINK. 35:59 IN THE NEW HEAVEN WILL GOD HAVE A DWELLING PLACE? 36:02 LET'S LOOK AT EZEKIEL 47:12. DO A LITTLE DETECTIVE WORK HERE. 36:05 "ALONG THE BANK OF THE RIVER," - HE'S SPEAKING OF HEAVEN - "ON 36:09 THIS SIDE AND THAT, WILL GROW ALL KINDS OF TREES USED FOR 36:12 FOOD; THEIR LEAVES WILL NOT WHITHER, AND THEIR FRUIT WILL 36:15 NOT FAIL. THEY WILL BEAR FRUIT EVERY 36:18 MONTH, BECAUSE THEIR WATER FLOWS FROM THE SANCTUARY." 36:21 - WHERE'S THE WATER COME FROM? - "FROM THE SANCTUARY. 36:24 THEIR FRUIT WILL BE FOR FOOD AND THEIR LEAVES FOR HEALING" - OR 36:31 NOW I'M GOING TO JUMP TO REVELATION 22 - REMEMBER, MOST 36:34 OF REVELATION IS DRAWN FROM THESE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES. 36:37 "AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS 36:41 CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING FROM THE THRONE" - NOW THIS IS GOING TO 36:44 COME UP IN JUST A MINUTE - THE OTHER ONE SAID PROCEEDING FROM 36:47 THE SANCTUARY - EZEKIEL SAID - NOW JOHN SAYS, 'PROCEEDING FROM 36:50 THE THRONE. WHERE IS THE THRONE OF GOD? 36:54 ISN'T THE THRONE OF GOD IN THE SANCTUARY? I THINK SO. 36:59 MATTER OF FACT, WHAT DID THEY CALL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT? 37:02 THE LID IS CALLED THE MERCY SEAT. 37:05 IT REPRESENTS THE PRESENCE OF GOD OR THE THRONE OF GOD. 37:08 - "PROCEEDING FROM THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB." 37:11 - GOD AND THE LAMB - "IN THE MIDDLE OF ITS STREET, AND ON 37:16 EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, WAS THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH BORE 37:18 TWELVE FRUITS," - WE JUST READ WHERE IT SAID IT HAD FRUIT 37:22 MONTHLY - "EACH TREE YIELDING ITS FRUIT EVERY MONTH. 37:25 THE LEAVES OF THE TREE WERE FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS. 37:28 AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE, BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND 37:30 OF THE LAMB SHALL BE IN IT, AND HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM." 37:34 SO, IT SAYS THERE'S NO TEMPLE IN IT. 37:37 GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 21, VERSE 3, "AND I HEARD A LOUD 37:45 VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE" - BY 37:49 THE WAY, IT'S THE SECOND TO THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE - "THE 37:51 TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, 37:56 AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE. 37:58 GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD." 38:00 IS GOD LITERALLY GOING TO MOVE HIS DWELLING PLACE FROM WHEREVER 38:06 IT IS OUT THERE NOW TO THIS PLANET WHEN HE MAKES A NEW 38:09 HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH? IT SEEMS LIKE HE WILL. 38:13 WHY DOES IT SAY THERE'S NO TEMPLE IN IT? 38:15 BECAUSE WILL THERE BE BLOOD BEING OFFERED? 38:19 WILL THERE BE A PLACE OF SACRIFICE? 38:22 SEE, IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, JESUS IS PLEADING HIS BLOOD. 38:24 THERE IS ATONEMENT GOING ON WHERE THERE'S HIS SACRIFICE 38:28 BEING PLED. THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD WILL 38:31 BE IN THE NEW EARTH BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO DWELL WITH US. 38:34 HIS THRONE WILL BE IN THE NEW EARTH. 38:36 BUT WILL THERE BE THE ATONEMENT GOING ON WHERE BLOOD IS BEING 38:40 PLED AND THAT KIND OF INTERCESSION FOR SIN? NO. 38:44 SO IN THAT SENSE THERE IS NOT A TEMPLE IN THE NEW - WHAT WAS THE 38:48 FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? 38:51 A PLACE OF SACRIFICE. WILL THAT BE IN HEAVEN? NO. 38:56 AND WILL WE NEED CLEANSING? NO. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A WATER 39:00 - YOU NOTICE JUST BEFORE THE HOLY PLACE THERE WAS WATER? 39:03 NOW, BEFORE THE THRONE IN HEAVEN WATER PROCEEDS - A RIVER FLOWS 39:07 OUT. AND SO JESUS IS THAT RIVER OF LIFE ALSO. ALRIGHT NOW - 39:14 I'M ALL OVER THE PLACE A LITTLE BIT - I HOPE IT'S MAKING SENSE. 39:17 GO WITH ME TO 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 5. 39:22 I WANT SOMEONE TO LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 103:19. 39:26 WHO DID WE GIVE THAT TO? OVER HERE? 39:28 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. PSALM 103:19 - JUST WAIT FOR ME 39:31 AND I'LL GET YOUR SCRIPTURE IN JUST A MINUTE. 2 SAMUEL 7 - 39:36 2 SAMUEL 7, VERSES 5 TO 7. YOU REMEMBER DAVID WANTED TO 39:42 BUILD A TEMPLE FOR THE LORD BECAUSE THE TEMPLE THAT MOSES 39:45 BUILT WAS IN PRETTY BAD CONDITION AT THAT POINT. 39:48 THE AGE OF JUDGES HAD GONE BY AND IT HAD BEEN WORN DOWN. 39:51 "GO AND TELL MY SERVANT DAVID, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'WOULD YOU 39:54 BUILD A HOUSE FOR ME TO DWELL IN? FOR I HAVE NOT DWELT IN 39:57 A HOUSE SINCE THE TIME THAT I BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 40:03 UP FROAND IN A TABERNACLE.S DAY, WHEREVER I HAVE MOVED ABOUT WITH 40:07 ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, HAVE I EVER SPOKEN A WORD TO 40:09 ANYONE FROM THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WHOM I COMMANDED TO 40:12 SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, SAYING, 'WHY HAVE YOU NOT BUILT 40:14 ME A HOUSE OF CEDAR?'''" - YOU KNOW, GOD IS SAYING, 40:17 'EVERYTHING THAT'S MADE I MADE.' IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S GOING 40:21 TO GET WET IF WE DON'T BUILD HIM A HOUSE, RIGHT? 40:24 SO THE PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE IS REALLY TO TEACH ABOUT SALVATION. 40:28 IT'S NOT TO GIVE GOD SHELTER. DO WE ALL AGREE WITH THAT? 40:32 HE DOESN'T NEED PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS, SO TO SPEAK. 40:36 NOW, GOING TO THE NEXT SECTION, 'THE THRONEROOM' - PSALM 93, 40:43 VERSE 2 - DOES GOD HAVE A PLACE WHERE HE SITS? 40:47 IT DOESN'T MEAN HE SITS ALL DAY LONG. DOES THE KING HAVE A 40:50 PLACE WHERE HE SITS FOR TIMES OF JUDGMENT? YEAH. 40:54 IT'S A PLACE WHERE - THE CENTER OF HIS REIGN. 40:57 THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND - IS THERE A THRONEROOM? 40:59 THERE IS. KINGS AND QUEENS. 41:02 NOW SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING, 'WELL' - LET ME READ MY VERSE 41:05 FOR YOU FIRST. PSALM 93, VERSE 2, "YOUR THRONE 41:09 IS ESTABLISHED FROM OF OLD; YOU ARE FROM EVERLASTING." 41:14 SO GOD HAS A THRONE - PRETTY CLEAR? 41:16 SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'WELL, WE GET THIS IDEA THAT GOD HAS A 41:21 THRONE THAT'S DRAWN FROM OUR EARTHLY THRONES.' 41:23 I THINK WE MIGHT LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY. 41:25 I THINK THAT GOING BACK INTO ANTIQUITY, THE ANTIDILUVIANS AND 41:30 THE GREAT PATRIARCHS, THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD WAS THE KING 41:33 OF THE UNIVERSE AND HE HAD A PLACE WHERE HE REIGNED 41:36 AND HE SAT AS JUDGE. 41:38 WE'VE HEARD OF THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 41:40 AND SO EARTHLY MONARCHS HAVE BORROWED THE IDEA OF THE THRONE 41:45 FROM GOD'S DWELLING PLACE WHERE HE REIGNS. 41:48 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? SOMETIMES WE THINK THAT WE'VE 41:51 INVENTED THINGS AND WE CREATE OUR GOD BASED ON OUR CUSTOMS. 41:53 YOU KNOW, I THINK SOME OF OUR CUSTOMS HAVE COME FROM THE 41:56 ETERNAL TRUTHS AND I THINK THERE IS AN ETERNAL TRUTH THAT GOD 41:59 DOES REIGN AND THERE IS A CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE WHERE HE DWELLS. 42:03 'BUT PASTOR DOUG, JESUS SAID GOD IS A SPIRIT. 42:07 HOW CAN HE INHABIT A SPECIFIC PLACE?' 42:10 THAT'S A COMMON MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE. BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT 42:14 DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE A FORM. 42:17 BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE A 42:23 SPEOPLE BELIEVE IN GHOSTS THAT HAUNT HOUSES ALL THE TIME. 42:27 WHY DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE IDEA THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT 42:30 AND YET HE CAN'T BE IN A PLACE. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 42:34 WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN WILL WE HAVE PHYSICAL BODIES OR 42:37 SPIRITUAL BODIES? FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHABIT 42:41 THE KINGDOM OF GOD BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE SPIRITUAL 42:45 BODIES. THEY ARE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL 42:48 TOGETHER. ARE THERE ANGELS AROUND US NOW? 42:52 WE CAN'T SEE THEM BECAUSE WE JUST HAVE PHYSICAL BODIES. 42:56 BUT WHEN WE HAVE OUR GLORIFIED BODIES WILL WE BE ABLE TO SEE 43:00 ANGELS JUST LIKE I'M LOOKING AT YOU? YEAH. 43:03 BUT WILL WE STILL EAT AND BUILD HOUSES AND INHABIT THEM? 43:07 WE'LL PLANT VINEYARDS, WE'LL BUILD HOUSES, WE'LL INHABIT 43:10 THEM, WE'LL EAT, WE'LL DRINK, WE'LL DO REAL THINGS LIKE ADAM 43:13 AND EVE WERE PLANNED TO DO REAL THINGS. GOD IS BOTH. 43:18 GOD HAS A REAL ESSENCE AND YET HE IS A SPIRIT. 43:21 WHEN JESUS SAID GOD IS A SPIRIT HE WAS LETTING US KNOW THAT WHEN 43:25 WE WORSHIP HIM, WE MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. 43:28 THAT'S WHAT HE TOLD THE WOMAN AND THE WELL. DANIEL 7, VERSE 9 43:33 - I MESSAGE. DANIEL 7, VERSE 9, "I WATCHED 43:37 MESSAGE. 43:38 TILL THRONES WERE PUT IN PLACE, AND THE ANCIENT OF DAYS WAS 43:42 SEATED;" - NOW IS THAT GOD THE SON OR GOD THE FATHER? 43:45 IT'S GOT TO BE GOD THE FATHER BECAUSE YOU KEEP READING AND IT 43:48 SAYS, 'ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN CAME BEFORE THE ANCIENT OF 43:50 DAYS.' SO YOU'VE GOT TWO INDIVIDUALS. 43:54 IS THERE A PLACE WHERE GOD IS SEATED? DOES HE HAVE A THRONE? 43:58 DOES IT MEAN - YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS? 44:00 IT TELLS US THAT GOD DOESN'T SIT ALL THE TIME. 44:05 WHAT DID THE LORD DO WITH ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN? 44:08 HE CAME TO WALK WITH THEM. 44:10 THERE WAS A TIME - APPOINTMENT - WHEN HE WOULD COME MEET WITH 44:13 THEM AND COMMUNE - HE WALKS WITH ME AND HE TALKS WITH ME. 44:16 OF COURSE THAT'S IN THE SONG, 'I COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE' - 44:18 IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE. BUT I THINK IT'S TRUE. 44:20 I THINK GOD GOES ABOUT HIS CREATION. 44:24 I DON'T THINK GOD JUST SITS DAY AFTER DAY LIKE A LONG AIRPLANE 44:29 RIDE. ALL THE TIME HE'S SITTING DOWN. 44:32 THE VERY FACTS HERE - IT SAYS 'THE ANCIENT OF DAYS WAS 44:34 SEATED.' THAT MEANS BEFORE HE WAS SEATED 44:37 HE WASN'T SEATED. YOU WITH ME? THAT MEANS HE WAS DOING 44:39 SOMETHING ELSE. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW - THAT GOD 44:46 GOT A FULL-TIME JOB SITTING ON HIS THRONE. 44:49 BUT IS THERE A PLACE WHERE HE HAS A THRONE? YEAH. 44:54 "AND THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD WAS LIKE PURE WOOL. 44:56 HIS THRONE WAS A FIERY FLAME, ITS WHEELS A BURNING FIRE;" 45:00 YOU'RE SAYING, 'PASTOR DOUG, THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE DESCRIPTION 45:02 OF JESUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.' YEAH, WELL, JESUS SAID, 'IF 45:05 YOU'VE SEEN ME YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.' 45:07 THEY PROBABLY ARE LIKE EACH OTHER. 45:09 ALRIGHT ISAIAH - WE ALREADY READ THAT - HE SAW THE LORD ON HIS 45:13 THRONE. PSALM 89:14 - IT SAYS, "RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE ARE 45:20 THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR THRONE; MERCY AND TRUTH GO BEFORE YOUR 45:24 FACE." SO THE THRONE OF GOD, FROM WHICH 45:27 HE JUDGES, WITH WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DOES HE JUDGE? 45:31 RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE ARE THE FOUNDATION. 45:35 WHAT ELSE? MERCY AND TRUTH. WHAT DOES THE LORD LOVE? 45:39 RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE, MERCY AND TRUTH BECAUSE THEY ARE THE 45:43 EMBODIMENT OF WHO HE IS. AND SO, WHEN HE SITS ON HIS 45:46 THRONE IT'S TELLING US THIS IS WHO HIS CHARACTER IS. 45:51 NOW IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE WORD 'THRONE' A LOT, I DON'T THINK 45:54 THERE'S A CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE THAT TALKS MORE ABOUT THE THRONE 45:57 THAN REVELATION CHAPTER 4. I DID A ROUGH COUNT AND I THINK 46:01 IT'S TEN OR ELEVEN TIMES - YOU'LL HAVE TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN 46:03 - BUT I'M JUST GOING TO READ FOR YOU VERSE 4 - NO, I'M SORRY, 46:08 CHAPTER 4, VERSES 2 TO 6 - REVELATION CHAPTER 4, 46:12 VERSES 2 TO 6. LET ME READ THAT, "IMMEDIATELY I 46:16 WAS IN THE SPIRIT AND BEHOLD A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN." 46:20 SO WHERE'S THE THRONE? "AND ONE SAT ON THE THRONE. 46:24 AND HE WHO SAT THERE WAS LIKE A JASPER AND A SARDIUS STONE IN 46:28 APPEARANCE; AND THERE WAS A RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, IN 46:32 APPEARANCE LIKE AN EMERALD. AROUND THE THRONE WERE 46:35 TWENTY-FOUR THRONES, AND ON THE THRONES I SAW TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS 46:39 SITTING, CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES; AND THEY HAD CROWNS OF GOLD ON 46:42 THEIR HEADS. AND FROM THE THRONE PROCEEDED 46:45 LIGHTNINGS, THUNDERINGS, AND VOICES." - 46:49 THESE THINGS ALSO HAPPENED ON MOUNT SINAI DURING THE TEN 46:51 COMMANDMENTS DELIVERY - "SEVEN LAMPS OF FIRE WERE BURNING 46:56 BEFORE THE THRONE," - WHERE ELSE DO WE SEE SEVEN LAMPS? 47:00 IN THE SANCTUARY? - "SEVEN LAMPS OF FIRE WERE 47:04 BURNING BEFORE THE THRONE, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD. 47:09 BEFORE THE THRONE THERE WAS A SEA OF GLASS, LIKE CRYSTAL. 47:12 AND IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE, AND AROUND THE THRONE, WERE FOUR 47:15 LIVING CREATURES FULL OF EYES IN FRONT AND IN BACK." IT GOES ON. 47:21 IT DESCRIBES THIS - BY THE WAY, DOES IT TALK ABOUT CREATURES 47:25 AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD IN EZEKIEL? 47:27 DOES IT TALK ABOUT WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS IN EZEKIEL? 47:31 A LOT OF THE THINGS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IN REVELATION DESCRIBING 47:34 HEAVEN WERE SEEN BY THAT PROPHET PRIEST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 47:38 AND SO, IT'S JUST GOT A GREAT PICTURE. 47:40 NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY - I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK 47:42 AND I'M TALKING FAST BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH I WANT TO TRY 47:45 AND GET INTO THIS LESSON. THIS IS JUST REALLY AN 47:48 INTRODUCTION TO THE SANCTUARY. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 47:52 SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. 47:55 FOR ONE, JESUS SAID, 'YOU'LL KNOW THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH WILL 47:59 SET YOU FREE. THE TRUTH OF GOD IS KNOWN 48:02 THROUGH THE SANCTUARY. IT SAYS, 'THY WAYS, O GOD, 48:05 ARE IN THE SANCTUARY.' IN PSALMS - IS THAT 77? 48:09 'THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY.' 48:11 THE WAY THAT HE SAVES US IS DEMONSTRATED THROUGH THE 48:17 HE IS REVEALED THROUGH THE SANCTUARY. 48:20 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE DAYS 48:22 I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' WHAT? 48:24 A TEMPLE - A SANCTUARY - AND THAT'S HIS BODY. 48:26 WHAT'S HIS BODY? THE CHURCH. 48:28 AND SO UNDERSTANDING THE CHURCH, UNDERSTANDING CHRIST, 48:31 UNDERSTANDING THE BODY OF CHRIST - YOU CAN LEARN ALL THOSE THINGS 48:33 FROM THIS INTERESTING PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE. IT TEACHES US 48:38 SO MUCH - AND THE SERVICES THAT TOOK PLACE IN THERE TELL US 48:42 ABOUT GOD. REVELATION - YOU WANT TO 48:44 UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAYS - REVELATION 1, 48:48 VERSE 12, "THEN I TURNED TO SEE THE VOICE THAT SPOKE WITH ME. 48:52 AND HAVING TURNED I SAW SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS," - DO YOU SEE 48:57 THAT - ARE THERE LAMPSTANDS IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? 49:02 GO TO REVELATION 8, VERSE 3, "THEN ANOTHER ANGEL, HAVING A 49:06 GOLDEN CENSER, CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR. HE WAS GIVEN MUCH 49:10 INCENSE, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL THE 49:13 SAINTS" - DO WE HAVE AN ALTAR IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? 49:18 REVELATION 5:6, "AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IN THE MIDST OF THE 49:23 THRONE AND OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND IN THE MIDST OF 49:25 THE ELDERS, STOOD A LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, HAVING 49:29 SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF 49:32 GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH." WAS THERE A LAMB SLAIN 49:35 IN THE EARTHLY TEMPLE? GO TO REVELATION 11:19, 49:40 "THEN THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THE ARK 49:42 OF HIS COVENANT" - THERE'S THE HOLIEST THING OF ALL - 49:46 "THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE." 49:49 SO THE WHOLE BOOK OF REVELATION TRANSPIRES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 49:53 HEAVENLY TEMPLE - AS DOES EZEKIEL - NOT ALL OF EZEKIEL, 49:57 BUT MUCH OF EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT THE TEMPLE - AS DOES ISAIAH - 50:02 REFERENCES THE TEMPLE IN HIS VISIONS - AS DOES DANIEL - 50:05 REFERENCE THE TEMPLE IN HIS VISIONS. AND, NOT TO MENTION, 50:09 THE GOAL OF DAVID'S LIFE WAS TO BUILD A TEMPLE. 50:13 BEGINNING OF SOLOMON'S LIFE IS BUILDING A TEMPLE AND YOU 50:16 COULD TALK ABOUT HEZEKIAH AND ALL THE KINGS AND SO MANY OF 50:18 THESE THINGS TRANSPIRED AROUND THE TEMPLE. A LOT OF JESUS' 50:23 TEACHING - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - HE ENTERED AND TAUGHT EARLY IN 50:26 THE MORNING. 'WAS I NOT DAILY WITH YOU TEACHING IN THE 50:27 TEMPLE?' AND SO - AND IN THE LAST DAYS IT SAYS, 'THAT WICKED 50:33 ONE, THE DEVIL, WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD SHOWING HIMSELF 50:36 THAT HE IS GOD.' DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT? IF IT 50:40 GOES ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION THEN MAYBE WE COULD 50:46 LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION. MAYBE WE COULD 50:49 LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE LORD BY STUDYING WHAT HAPPENED 50:54 IN THIS BUILDING. 50:56 IT EVEN TEACHES US SOMETHING ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY. 50:59 I DON'T WANT TO RUSH AHEAD BUT, I MAY GET TO THIS LATER, YOUR 51:03 BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 51:04 THERE WAS AN ALTAR IN THE TEMPLE WHERE FIRE WAS BURNING. 51:08 YOUR BODY IS CONSTANTLY CONSUMING ENERGY. 51:12 IF FOR A MOMENT YOU SHOULD NOT - IF THAT FIRE GOES OUT - YOU DIE. 51:16 THERE WAS A CLEANSING - THERE WAS LIQUID IN THE SANCTUARY FOR 51:19 CLEANSING - YOU'VE GOT A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - YOU'RE 51:21 MOSTLY WATER. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE SPIRIT 51:25 IS LIKE - THE EYE OF THE BODY IS THE LAMP. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE 51:29 HOLY OF HOLIES WOULD BE LIKE THE MIND, 'AS A MAN THINKS IN HIS 51:32 HEART' - IT WAS THE HEART OF THE SANCTUARY. 'THY WORD I HAVE HID 51:34 IN MY HEART.' THE LAW WAS IN THERE, RIGHT? 51:37 THEY WERE CONSUMING SACRIFICES - THEY HAD STORAGE IN THE 51:40 SANCTUARY - FOOD WAS STORED THERE. YOUR BODY STORES FOOD. 51:43 SOME OF US STORE MORE THAN OTHERS. 51:50 OF INCENSE - SO YOU CAN EVEN LEARN ABOUT YOUR BODY BY 51:53 STUDYING THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY. 51:55 AND I'M JUST TOUCHING ON THESE THINGS - MYSELF AND THE OTHER 51:57 TEACHERS WILL GO INTO THESE THINGS IN MORE DEPTH. 52:00 IN THE SANCTUARY IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP. 52:04 WHAT IS THE PLAN OF SALVATION ALL ABOUT? 52:07 ISN'T IT A BATTLE OVER WORSHIP? YOU CAN READ IN JOB, 'THERE WAS 52:11 A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE 52:13 LORD. SATAN CAME ALSO AMONG THEM. 52:16 GOD SAID TO SATAN, 'WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?' 52:18 'I CAME FROM THE EARTH.'' THERE IS A PLACE WHERE GOD 52:21 MEETS WITH HIS OTHER LEADERS OF OTHER WORLDS IN HEAVEN AND SATAN 52:26 CAME FROM THE EARTH - SO THERE IS A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD OUT 52:29 THERE. IT TELLS US THERE - THIS IS ALSO 52:31 A COURTROOM - THERE'S A GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 52:34 'THE LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. THE LORD'S THRONE IS IN HEAVEN. 52:39 HE BEHOLDS THE EYELIDS OF MEN. HE TESTS THE SONS OF MEN.' 52:44 WE READ ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY IN HEAVEN. 52:47 NOW SOMEONE'S GOT HABUKKUK CHAPTER 2, VERSE 20 - 52:50 WHO HAS THAT? RIGHT HERE. 52:53 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU READ - THIS IS OUR LAST VERSE AND I'M 52:55 AFRAID WE'RE GOING TO BE OUT OF TIME BEFORE WE CAN DO ANY MORE. 52:59 DEUTERONOMY 25 - IT SAYS, 'IF THERE'S A DISPUTE BETWEEN MEN 53:04 AND THEY COME TO COURT, THAT THE JUDGES MIGHT JUDGE THEM THAT 53:07 THEY MIGHT JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS AND CONDEMN THE WICKED. 53:10 THERE WAS A PLACE OF JUDGMENT. GOD'S DWELLING PLACE IS ALSO A 53:14 PLACE OF JUDGMENT AND THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT GOES ON JUST 53:17 BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, ISN'T THERE? SO SANCTUARY TEACHES US 53:20 ABOUT THAT AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR ANOTHER LESSON. 53:22 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PLEASE IN HABUKKUK 2:20. 53:26 >>"BUT THE LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. 53:29 LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE BEFORE HIM." 53:32 >>IS THERE A DIFFERENCE WHEN WE COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE LORD 53:36 AND WHEN YOU COME INTO A COURT AND THERE'S JUDGMENT? 53:41 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A JUDGE PUT HIS GAVEL DOWN AND SAY, 53:45 'QUIET IN THE COURT'? 53:48 AND SO IT'S ESPECIALLY AWESOME AND THERE'S A SILENCE AND A 53:52 REVERENCE ESPECIALLY DURING THE TIME OF JUDGMENT BECAUSE 53:55 SENTENCE IS BEING ISSUED THAT WILL HAVE ETERNAL DESTINIES. 54:01 AND THEN, IS IT DIFFERENT WHEN YOU ARE BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD 54:04 AND THE ANGELS ARE SINGING - LIKE YOU SEE IN ISAIAH? 54:07 AND SO, DIFFERENT THINGS ARE HAPPENING. 54:09 WE'RE GOING TO STUDY ALL THIS. 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