Participants: Pr. Harold White
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021341
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:50 WELCOME AND HAPPY SABBATH. WE'RE SO HAPPY YOU'RE JOINING US 00:52 THIS MORNING. IF YOU'RE BEHIND A TV SCREEN OR 00:55 BEHIND A COMPUTER SCREEN, WE'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A 00:59 SPECIAL PLACE HERE FOR YOU IN THE SANCTUARY - 01:02 WE ACTUALLY HAVE SEATS. SO IF YOU EVER DECIDE TO COME 01:06 VISIT US LOCALLY, I'LL BE SAVING A SEAT FOR YOU. 01:09 THIS MORNING WE HAVE ALL THE HYMNS THAT YOU'VE REQUESTED 01:12 EVERY WEEK AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE'RE HERE TO SING THEM 01:15 WITH YOU. SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR HYMNALS, 01:17 LET'S PULL THEM OUT. AND OUR FIRST SONG THIS MORNING 01:20 IS HYMN #569 - 'PASS ME NOT O GENTLE SAVIOR'. 01:24 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM JONATAS IN BRAZIL, TAMARA IN THE 01:30 CAYMAN ISLANDS, MARTINE IN FRANCE, GLADWIN IN INDIA, FREDDY 01:34 IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, ERICA IN TAIWAN, AND LEONARD IN THE 01:39 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. NOW THIS IS A REQUEST FROM ALL 01:42 OVER SO KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT YOU - ALL OVER THE PLANET. 01:48 WE'LL SING THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS OF 01:52 HYMN #569. 01:54 (MUSIC) 02:47 >>AMEN. 'WHOM HAVE I ON EARTH BESIDE THEE? 02:50 WHOM IN HEAVEN BUT THEE?' ISN'T THAT AWESOME? 02:55 I LOVE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SING THIS SONG WITH A BIT OF OOMPH 02:59 BECAUSE WE'RE SAYING, 'GOD, HEY, WE WANT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION. 03:02 DON'T PASS ME BY. HEAR MY HUMBLE CRY. I'M EXCITED 03:06 AND I WANT YOU TO SAVE ME.' WHAT AN AWESOME REQUEST. 03:10 IF YOU HAVE A REQUEST, VISIT US AT 'WWW.SACCENTRAL.ORG'. 03:21 IF YOU CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK REQUESTING ANY HYMN - OLD 03:25 OR NEW, FAST OR SLOW - WITHIN OUR HYMNAL, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO 03:28 HEAR FROM YOU. OUR NEXT SONG THIS MORNING - 03:38 WE WILL SING THE FIRST, SECOND HYMN #AND THIRD STANZAS. 03:42 (MUSIC) 04:44 >>AMEN. 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY' - THREE TIMES FOR GOD THE FATHER, 04:48 GOD THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. LET'S PRAY. 04:53 DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOLINESS. 04:57 WE THANK YOU THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US THIS IMAGE - THIS CHARACTER 05:02 OF HOW HOLY YOU ARE THAT WE MIGHT REFLECT IT HERE ON EARTH. 05:07 WE ASK THAT BY THE HELP OF JESUS CHRIST THAT EVERY DAY WE WALK 05:12 AND TALK AND THINK LIKE YOU. THIS MORNING, AS WE WORSHIP AND 05:20 STUDY WE ASK THAT YOU HAVE YOUR HOLY SPIRIT COME AND ENGULF US. 05:25 HELP PASTOR WHITE AS HE BRINGS OUR MESSAGE TODAY AND HELP US. 05:30 LET US HEAR AND LET US HAVE IT IN OUR HEARTS NOT ONLY AFTER 05:35 TODAY, BUT WELL INTO THE WEEK. WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US AND 05:40 WE THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US. IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. 05:46 OUR LESSON STUDY THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR 05:49 HAROLD WHITE, OUR ADMINISTRATIVE PASTOR AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 05:58 >>ALRIGHT, GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. HAPPY SABBATH TO YOU. 06:02 BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 06:04 GLAD ALL OF YOU JOINED US AND EVERYONE JOINING US LIVE 06:07 STREAMING OR IF YOU'RE JOINING US THIS MORNING ON YOUR 06:10 COMPUTER, RADIO - WE ARE HAPPY THAT YOU ARE WITH US TODAY, TOO. 06:15 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER IN KEEPING WITH THE SUBJECT OF OUR 06:18 QUARTERLY - THE SANCTUARY - AND IT'S ENTITLED 'A HEAVENLY MODEL' 06:23 AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK FOR OFFER #802 - 06:29 'A HEAVENLY MODEL' - AND THIS PARTICULAR LESSON 06:34 WILL ANSWER A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 06:37 'WHY DID GOD ASK MOSES TO BUILD A TABERNACLE?' 06:40 FOR EXAMPLE AND 'WHAT DID GOD EXPECT HIS PEOPLE TO LEARN FROM 06:43 THE SANCTUARY?' 'WHY DID ANIMALS NEED TO BE 06:46 SACRIFICED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT SANCTUARY SERVICES?' 06:49 AND 'DID THE DAY OF ATONEMENT FORESHADOW A CLEANSING OF THE 06:53 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY?' THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES 06:56 AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET THIS OFFER #802 IS TO DIAL 07:00 866-STUDY-MORE OR 866-788-3966. NOW THIS MORNING OUR SUBJECT 07:10 TITLE IS 'HEAVEN ON EARTH'. THE CONCEPT THAT HEAVEN OR 07:18 ETERNAL LIFE - WHEN WE THINK OF HEAVEN WE THINK OF ETERNAL LIFE. 07:22 THAT CONCEPT, TO ME, AS A BOY WAS REALLY - I HAD NO IDEA THERE 07:27 WAS GOING TO BE AN EARTH MADE NEW. I NEVER HAD HEARD SUCH A 07:30 THOUGHT - AND THAT WE'D BE BACK HERE WITH GOD WITH US 07:34 FOR ETERNITY. THAT WAS A REVELATIONAL THOUGHT TO ME. 07:38 I HAD SUCH A VAGUE IDEA OF HEAVEN THAT IT WASN'T TOO FAR 07:41 REMOVED THAT SOMEDAY I WOULD BE OUT THERE ON A CLOUD PLAYING 07:45 A HARP. THAT'S ABOUT ALL I HAD EVER HEARD ABOUT HEAVEN. 07:48 BUT WHEN YOU REALLY STUDY THE WORD IT - WOW - IT TAKES ON SO 07:52 MUCH MORE MEANING, ESPECIALLY THIS SUBJECT, THE SANCTUARY. 07:55 SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE JOIN ME THIS MORNING TO READ OUR MEMORY 07:58 TEXT TAKEN FROM HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 AND VERSE 5 IN THE NEW KING 08:03 JAMES VERSION. IF YOU'D READ ALONG WITH ME NOW, OKAY? 08:07 "WHO SERVE THE COPY AND SHADOW OF THE HEAVENLY THINGS, AS MOSES 08:13 WAS DIVINELY INSTRUCTED WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO MAKE THE 08:17 TABERNACLE. FOR HE SAID, 'SEE THAT YOU MAKE ALL THINGS 08:22 ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.'" 08:27 SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN OUR QUARTERLY THIS WEEK. 08:33 HEAVEN ON EARTH TAKES ON AMAZING CONCEPTS. 08:39 THE SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN IS A REAL PLACE. 08:42 EVIDENTLY WE FIND OUT FROM THE WORD THAT THE SANCTUARY IN 08:46 HEAVEN IS A REAL PLACE WITH REAL OBJECTS - REAL THINGS THERE - 08:50 AND BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY WAS 08:55 MODELED AFTER THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 08:58 GOD GAVE MOSES INSTRUCTION TO BUILD THE FIRST SANCTUARY AND 09:03 THERE WERE SOME STAGGERING TRUTHS THAT WERE TO BE TAUGHT 09:08 BECAUSE OF THIS SANCTUARY AND THE SERVICES. 09:11 IT WAS ALL WRAPPED UP IN JESUS CHRIST, THE COMING MESSIAH. 09:15 IT WAS ALL ABOUT HIM. 09:16 EVERYTHING POINTED TOWARDS HIM AND IT'S - THERE'S SO MANY 09:21 THINGS WE CAN LEARN THIS QUARTER FOR SURE. 09:24 AS WE MOVE TO SUNDAY'S LESSON ENTITLED, 'THE FIRST SANCTUARY 09:26 ON EARTH' - THIS WAS A NEW THOUGHT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. 09:30 IN FACT, A GENTLEMAN A FEW MINUTES AGO TOLD ME 'THERE ARE 09:35 SOME NEW THOUGHTS IN THIS LESSON THIS WEEK' AND THIS IS ONE OF 09:37 THEM - THAT WE THINK OF THE FIRST SANCTUARY AS THE ONE THAT 09:42 GOD GAVE MOSES INSTRUCTIONS TO BUILD, BUT THE LESSON BRINGS OUT 09:46 THAT THE FIRST SANCTUARY ON EARTH BEING THAT IN THE 09:48 GARDEN OF EDEN. THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS CONSIDERED A 09:52 SANCTUARY OR 'HOLY OF HOLIES' AS ONE WRITING POINTS OUT. 09:57 DID GOD DWELL IN THE GARDEN? HIS PRESENCE WAS THERE. 10:01 HE TALKED TO ADAM AND EVE. HE COMMUNICATED WITH THEM SO 10:05 HIS PRESENCE WAS THERE. IT WASN'T CONFINED TO THE 10:07 GARDEN, OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T CONFINE GOD TO ANY PLACE 10:11 OR ANYTHING. BUT HE WAS THERE. 10:13 HE WAS WITH THEM. AND HIS PRESENCE WAS THERE. 10:19 HE COMMUNICATED OPENLY WITH THEM AND SOME PARALLELS ARE GIVEN 10:23 BETWEEN THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND THE SANCTUARY BUILT LATER AND WE 10:26 WILL TOUCH ON THOSE AS WE GO THROUGH THE LESSON THIS MORNING. 10:30 HE CAME TO EARTH EVEN THOUGH HIS HOME HAD BEEN IN HEAVEN. 10:33 NOW THIS WAS HIS INTENTION ALL ALONG - TO DWELL WITH MAN. 10:37 THAT WAS HIS INTENTION - TO BUILD - TO CREATE THE EARTH 10:40 - INHABIT IT. AND HE WAS GOING TO COME AND DWELL 10:43 WITH THOSE WHO HE CREATED AND THAT WAS HIS INTENTION UNTIL SIN 10:49 CAME INTO THE PICTURE, RIGHT? SIN RUINED EVERYTHING. 10:52 SIN DIDN'T JUST DRIVE ADAM AND EVE OUT OF THE GARDEN, BUT GOD'S 10:59 SPECIAL PRESENCE, EVIDENTLY, BECAUSE AFTER AWHILE THE GARDEN 11:01 WAS REMOVED - NO MORE GARDEN OF EDEN. 11:05 GOD ALWAYS WANTED TO DWELL WITH HIS CREATION. 11:08 AND HOW SAD THIS 6,000-YEAR INTERRUPTION BETWEEN GOD 11:13 DWELLING WITH HIS PEOPLE IN A PERSONAL DYNAMIC WAY AND WHEN HE 11:17 CAN - WHEN HE'S ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND 11:21 YEARS AFTER JESUS COMES. SO A LONG INTERRUPTION IN HIS 11:27 ORIGINAL PLAN. WILL HE REVIVE HIS PLAN? 11:30 HE WILL REVIVE HIS PLAN IN A NEW CREATION OF A NEW EARTH AND A 11:34 NEW HEAVEN - A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. 11:36 AND THAT'S THE ULTIMATE OF THE GOOD NEWS. 11:39 THAT'S THE ULTIMATE OF THE GOSPEL IS THAT HE WILL COME AND 11:43 DWELL WITH US AGAIN IN A PERFECT ENVIRONMENT - A PERFECTLY MADE 11:46 REMADE EARTH. I WAS READING RECENTLY WE 11:49 SHOULDN'T WORSHIP THE GOSPEL. THE GOSPEL IS THE GREAT NEWS - 11:53 THE GOOD NEWS - BUT WE SHOULDN'T WORSHIP IT. 11:57 WE SHOULD WORSHIP THE ONE WHO MADE THE GOOD NEWS POSSIBLE. 12:00 SO WHILE WE MAY LOOK FORWARD TO MANY THINGS ON THE EARTH MADE 12:03 NEW - NO MORE SICKNESS, NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SORROW, NO MORE 12:07 DEATH - ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS - A PERFECT ENVIRONMENT - 12:10 PERFECT WEATHER - PERFECT EVERYTHING. THAT'S ALL GLORIOUS 12:15 AND FUN TO THINK ABOUT, BUT DON'T WORSHIP IT. 12:18 WORSHIP THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO MAKE IT ALL POSSIBLE. 12:21 THAT'S THE INTENTION THAT GOD WOULD HAVE FOR EACH ONE OF US. 12:25 NOW, THE CONCEPT WAS ONE OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND 12:32 THE FIRST EARTHLY SANCTUARY THAT WAS BUILT. 12:34 GOD DID DWELL IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 12:37 HIS SPECIAL SHEKINAH GLORY WAS IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY. 12:43 NOW, MANY TIMES, THIS SPECIAL PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE EARTHLY 12:47 SANCTUARY WAS MANIFESTED AT CERTAIN TIMES WHEN HIS PEOPLE 12:52 WOULD STRAY AND THEY NEEDED TO BE BROUGHT BACK OR SOMETHING - 12:55 SOME SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION WOULD BE SHOWN AND THEY WOULD KNOW 12:59 THAT GOD'S SPECIAL PRESENCE WAS THERE. 13:02 SO GOD DID DWELL IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY. 13:07 HE CAN'T BE CONFINED TO IT, OF COURSE, BUT HE CERTAINLY 13:10 WAS THERE - HIS PRESENCE. 13:11 NOW, SOME PEOPLE QUESTION 'WHY DOESN'T GOD DO THAT TODAY? 13:15 WHY DOESN'T HE GIVE US A SPECIAL PLACE - A SANCTUARY - ONE 13:20 SPECIAL PLACE LIKE HE HAD FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WE 13:23 COULD SENSE, WE COULD FEEL, WE COULD SEE HIS PRESENCE - HIS 13:27 GLORY - HIS SHEKINAH?' WHY DOESN'T HE DO THAT? 13:30 WELL, THERE'S A GOOD QUESTION AND I BELIEVE IT HAS SOME GOOD 13:34 ANSWERS. ONE, WE MUST REALIZE THAT THE 13:37 EARTHLY SANCTUARY POINTED TOWARDS CHRIST, THE COMING 13:40 MESSIAH. EVERYTHING IN THE SANCTUARY AND 13:43 ALL OF THE SERVICES POINTED TO JESUS. 13:47 JESUS CAME AND FULFILLED ALL THAT THE SANCTUARY REVEALED DOWN 13:53 TO THE - DOWN TO THE MINUTEST DEGREE. 13:58 AND SO WE HAVE THIS EXAMPLE EVER BEFORE US. 14:03 WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE. 14:05 WE HAVE THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS COMING AND FULFILLING EVERYTHING 14:09 THAT WAS - POSSIBLY COULD BE FULFILLED IN THE SANCTUARY AND 14:12 ITS SERVICES. AND SECONDLY, IN THE WORD, WE 14:16 HAVE A SPECIAL REVELATION OF CHRIST. 14:19 THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS A REVELATION OF JESUS. 14:22 IF YOU WANT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION GO TO THE WORD AND 14:26 FIND JESUS. JESUS IS THE WORD. 14:28 WE DON'T NEED A SPECIAL BUILDING, WE HAVE THE WORD. 14:31 WE HAVE THE WORD BETTER THAN ANYBODY HAS EVER HAD THE WORD ON 14:36 THE FACE OF THE EARTH AT ANY TIME. 14:39 WE HAVE - YOU PROBABLY HAVE TEN BIBLES IN YOUR HOME - SOME OF 14:42 YOU - I KNOW I DO. WE HAVE THE WORD. THIS IS JESUS THE WORD. 14:47 JESUS IS THE WORD. WE HAVE IT RIGHT BEFORE US. 14:49 WE DON'T NEED A SPECIAL BUILDING. 14:50 SO HE'S MADE HIS DEMONSTRATION TO US FOR ALL TIME. 14:55 WE SHOULD NEVER COMPLAIN THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIAL 14:58 DEMONSTRATIONS OF GOD'S PRESENCE. 15:00 PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEIR EYE TOOTH TO 15:05 LIVE RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU AND I ARE LIVING AND TO KNOW THE 15:08 THINGS THAT WE KNOW. THEY EVEN WROTE THINGS THAT THEY 15:12 DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BUT WE DO. THAT'S AMAZING. 15:17 WE'RE SO FORTUNATE. WELL, BACK TO THE LESSON. THE COMPARISON 15:20 IS GIVEN OF HOW ADAM WAS TO TEND AND KEEP THE GARDEN. 15:25 THE SAME TWO VERBS ARE USED FOR THE SERVICE OF THE LEVITES 15:28 IN THE TABERNACLE - TO TEND AND KEEP THE TABERNACLE. 15:35 OF THE TWO, I WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE ENJOYED THE FIRST TEND AND 15:39 KEEP BETTER THAN THE SECOND TEND AND KEEP. 15:42 TEND AND KEEP THE GARDEN WOULD HAVE BEEN A GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE. 15:47 A PERFECT ENVIRONMENT WITH PERFECT AND ENDLESS VITALITY. 15:53 WOULDN'T THAT HAVE BEEN A JOY? JUST IN ITSELF - TO BE PERFECTLY 15:57 FULL OF VIGOR AND VITALITY AND TO TEND A GARDEN THAT WAS JUST 16:02 PERFECT. I WOULD HAVE LOT RATHER DONE 16:05 THAT THAN TO TEND AND KEEP THE TABERNACLE. WHY? 16:09 WELL THAT WAS A BIT TEDIOUS TO BE A LEVITE. 16:13 I MEAN, JUST THE SACRIFICIAL PART OF THE SANCTUARY SERVICES 16:17 WAS MORE THAN TEDIOUS, IT WAS HARD WORK. 16:21 BEFORE I WAS A CHRISTIAN, MY EARLY ADULT LIFE, 16:25 I WAS A BUTCHER'S HELPER. 16:27 I WORKED IN AN BUTCHER SHOP IN A PRETTY LARGE GROCERY STORE. 16:30 AND I KNOW HOW MUCH - HOW HARD OF WORK IT IS JUST TO CUT ONE 16:36 SIDE OF BEEF - THEY CALL IT A SIDE - A HALF OF A COW - 16:41 BASICALLY HALF - NO HEAD, NO HOOVES - BUT - NO INNARDS - BUT 16:46 A HALF OF A COW. IT'S CALLED A SIDE. 16:49 AND IT TOOK A PRETTY STRONG MAN TO CARRY ONE HALF OF A COW AND 16:54 PLOP IT ONTO A BLOCK AND START CUTTING IT ALL UP. 16:58 A LOT OF WORK AND VERY MESSY. 17:01 TO TEND AND KEEP THE GARDEN WASN'T ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 17:05 TO TEND AND KEEP THE TABERNACLE WAS A LOT DIFFERENT. 17:10 SO I WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY PREFERRED THE FIRST TO BE SURE. 17:14 NOW WE OFTEN SAY THAT WE ARE HOMESICK FOR HEAVEN. 17:18 WELL, WE - THAT'S A GOOD THING TO SAY, I GUESS. 17:24 WE'RE HOMESICK FOR HEAVEN. BUT WE'VE NEVER BEEN IN A 17:26 HEAVENLY ENVIRONMENT. ADAM AND EVE HAD. 17:30 THINK HOW BADLY THEY WERE HOMESICK FOR HEAVEN. 17:33 THEY MUST HAVE - THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF TIMES 17:38 LONGED TO BE HOME IN THEIR HEAVENLY ATMOSPHERE EXPERIENCE. 17:44 THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS A HEAVENLY ATMOSPHERE, RIGHT? 17:48 IT WAS JUST A MARVELOUS PLACE. AND THEY LOST IT. 17:51 HOW OFTEN THEY WOULD HAVE LONGED TO BE BACK THERE, BUT BECAUSE OF 17:54 SIN, OF COURSE, THEY COULDN'T. 17:56 FROM TEND AND KEEP - TO SLAY AND BUTCHER. 18:01 THAT'S A DRASTIC CHANGE FOR ADAM AND EVE BECAUSE THEY HAD TO 18:05 BEGIN SLAYING AND BUTCHERING ANIMALS SACRIFICIALLY. 18:09 ANOTHER PARALLEL WAS GIVEN OF THE CHERUBIMS. 18:12 ANGELS WERE IN THE GARDEN. ANGELS WERE IN THE SANCTUARY. 18:16 ANGELS WILL COME BACK WITH JESUS WHEN JESUS REAPPEARS. 18:20 THOUSANDS AND TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND ANGELS WILL COME 18:23 WITH JESUS. I WAS READING RECENTLY ALSO THAT 18:27 - ABOUT ANGELS - WE DON'T THINK ENOUGH ABOUT OUR ANGELS AND HOW 18:31 THEY ARE ALWAYS MINISTERING TO US. WE JUST DON'T EVEN TALK 18:35 ABOUT IT NEAR ENOUGH. WE DON'T THINK ENOUGH ABOUT IT 18:36 NEAR ENOUGH. ANGELS THAT ARE IN THIS PLACE THIS MORNING - 18:40 PRAISE GOD. IT'S NICE TO THINK ABOUT A GUARDIAN ANGEL. 18:45 EACH ONE OF US HAS ANGELS WATCHING OVER US. 18:47 THINK ABOUT AN ANGEL. AN ANGEL IS IN HEAVEN WITH GOD. 18:51 THAT'S - WE DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAR OUT THAT IS - I MEAN, 18:56 OUR TELESCOPES HAVE GONE HOW MANY LIGHT YEARS AWAY AND WE 19:00 HAVEN'T EXACTLY SEEN HEAVEN YET - IN THE TELESCOPE - SO IT'S WAY 19:03 OUT THERE - HEAVEN. BUT AN ANGEL IS IN FRONT OF GOD 19:08 AND GOD SAYS, 'I NEED YOU TO GO DOWN AND HELP OUT SO AND SO. 19:14 HE OR SHE IS GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM AND YOU NEED TO GO RIGHT 19:18 AWAY.' SNAP - BINGO! THAT ANGEL THAT WAS THERE IS NOW 19:23 RIGHT BY YOUR SIDE IN A SPLIT - LESS THAN A SECOND. WHEW! 19:29 IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE THAT WE ARE MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN ANGELS. 19:33 I CAN HARDLY WAIT UNTIL I'M ACTUALLY AT LEAST EQUAL TO AN 19:37 ANGEL. WOW, THAT KIND OF TRAVEL IS OUT OF OUR MIND - 19:43 WE JUST CAN'T THINK ABOUT IT. BUT LET US MOVE ON TO MONDAY'S 19:46 LESSON ENTITLED 'A COPY OF THE PATTERN'. 19:49 WE ARE REFERRED TO EXODUS 25:9 AND VERSE 40 WHICH SAYS THIS - 19:53 VERSE 9, "ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I SHEW THEE, AFTER THE PATTERN 19:58 OF THE TABERNACLE, AND THE PATTERN OF ALL THE INSTRUMENTS 20:01 THEREOF, EVEN SO SHALL YE MAKE IT." 20:05 VERSE 40, "AND LOOK THAT THOU MAKE THEM AFTER THEIR PATTERN, 20:09 WHICH WAS SHEWED THEE IN THE MOUNT." THEN WE NEED TO COMPARE 20:13 THAT WITH HEBREWS 8:5 AND HEBREWS 9:23 AND 24. 20:19 8:5 SAYS - HEBREWS 8:5, "WHO SERVE UNTO THE EXAMPLE AND 20:24 SHADOW OF HEAVENLY THINGS, AS MOSES WAS ADMONISHED OF GOD WHEN 20:29 HE WAS ABOUT TO MAKE THE TABERNACLE: FOR, SEE, SAITH HE, 20:32 THAT THOU MAKE ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHEWED 20:35 TO THEE IN THE MOUNT." THEN CHAPTER 9, VERSES 23 AND 20:38 24, "IT WAS THEREFORE NECESSARY THAT THE PATTERNS OF THINGS IN 20:42 THE HEAVENS SHOULD BE PURIFIED WITH THESE; BUT THE HEAVENLY 20:46 THINGS THEMSELVES WITH BETTER SACRIFICES THAN THESE. 20:50 FOR CHRIST IS NOT ENTERED INTO THE HOLY PLACES MADE WITH HANDS, 20:53 WHICH ARE THE FIGURES OF THE TRUE; BUT INTO HEAVEN ITSELF, 20:57 NOW TO APPEAR IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD FOR US." 21:01 SO WE ASK THE BIG QUESTION TO BEGIN WITH, 'WHAT WAS ONE OF THE 21:05 BIG REASONS THAT GOD HAD THIS SANCTUARY BUILT?' 21:15 DIDWAS HE CONFINED TO IT?HIS SANCTUNO.? Y 21:17 PASTOR BATCHELOR TALKED ABOUT THAT SOMEWHAT LAST WEEK. 21:20 YOU CAN'T CONFINE GOD TO ANY TABERNACLE OR ANY PLACE, BUT 21:25 CERTAINLY HIS PRESENCE WAS THERE. 21:27 HE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH AS HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS 21:32 DESIRE. HE DID INHABIT THE SANCTUARY. THERE WAS A SHEKINAH 21:37 GLORY. EXODUS 25:8 SAYS, "AND LET THEM MAKE ME A SANCTUARY; 21:41 THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM." AND 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS' 21:45 PAGE 372 SAYS, "ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT WAS THE SHEKINAH. 21:51 THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE AND FROM BETWEEN THE 21:55 CHERUBIM GOD MADE KNOWN HIS WILL." 21:58 AND THEN AGAIN IT SAYS, "BEYOND THE SECOND VEIL, THE SACRED ARK 22:02 WITH ITS MYSTIC CHERUBIM AND ABOVE IT THE HOLY SHEKINAH - THE 22:06 VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF JEHOVAH'S PRESENCE. 22:11 ALL BUT A DIM REFLECTION" - GET THAT - "ALL BUT A DIM REFLECTION 22:16 OF THE GLORIES OF THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN. 22:19 THE GREAT CENTER OF THE WORK FOR MAN'S REDEMPTIONS. 22:22 TRULY GOD DID COME FROM HEAVEN TO DWELL WITH MAN IN A 22:26 TABERNACLE BUT IT IS A DIM REFLECTION OF THE GLORIES THAT 22:30 EXIST IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY." CAN GOD DO THAT? 22:35 OF COURSE HE CAN. GOD CAN DO ANYTHING. I HOPE THAT YOU CAN 22:39 EXERCISE YOUR PURE MINDS FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS NOW. 22:42 THINK BACK TO WHEN THE COMMAND WAS GIVEN TO MOSES TO BUILD THE 22:47 EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND THE VIEW OF GOD WAS NOT NEARLY AS 22:52 COMPREHENSIVE AS WE CAN HAVE A VIEW OF GOD TODAY IN THE SENSE 22:56 THAT BACK THEN THE WORLD WAS NOT NEARLY AS BIG AS WE KNOW IT TO 23:01 BE TODAY - THE UNIVERSE. THEY LOOKED OUT AND I THINK I 23:04 READ ONE PLACE THAT THEY EVEN HAD THE NUMBER OF STARS COUNTED. 23:08 THERE WERE ONLY SO MANY THOUSANDS. 23:09 WELL, WE KNOW NOW THAT THERE'S TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND 23:13 TRILLIONS OF STARS AND SOME OF THOSE STARS THAT WE SEE ARE NOT 23:16 JUST STARS BUT THEY'RE WHOLE GALAXIES FULL OF STARS. 23:20 IT'S INCREDIBLE. OUR CONCEPT OF GOD IS EVEN SO 23:24 MUCH BIGGER THAN THE CONCEPT THAT THESE PEOPLE COULD 23:27 HAVE HAD OF GOD BACK THEN. WE KNOW SO MUCH MORE. 23:31 SO TO SAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO CONFINE GOD TO AN EARTHLY 23:35 BUILDING, THAT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING CONCEPT. 23:38 BUT YES, HIS SPECIAL PRESENCE DID DWELL IN THE SANCTUARY. 23:42 HEAVEN WAS COME DOWN TO EARTH IN THIS SPECIAL WAY. 23:45 NOW CONSIDER THIS: BEFORE GOD CREATED THE EARTH AND ITS 23:50 INHABITANTS, A PLAN WAS PUT IN PLACE, WAS IT NOT, THAT IF MAN 23:55 FELL THERE WOULD BE A WAY TO SAVE MAN. ARE WE 23:58 UNDERSTANDING THAT TO BE TRUE? LET ME SHARE A TEXT WITH YOU. 24:02 HEBREWS 4:3 - ONE OF MANY THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS - "FOR WE WHICH 24:06 HAVE BELIEVED TO ENTER INTO REST, AS HE SAID, AS I HAVE 24:10 SWORN IN MY WRATH, IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST: ALTHOUGH THE 24:14 WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." 24:18 THE PLAN OF SALVATION WAS LAID FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE 24:22 WORLD. THAT'S AN AMAZING THING TO PONDER FOR US ALSO. 24:28 SO JESUS CONFIDED WITH THE FATHER. 24:32 IN FACT, WE'RE TOLD THAT HE CONFIDED WITH THE FATHER MORE 24:36 THAN ONCE - I THINK UP TO THREE TIMES AT LEAST - ABOUT HIS 24:41 WILLINGNESS TO COME AND BE THE SAVIOR TO A LOST MANKIND IF 24:46 INDEED MAN DID FALL INTO SIN. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 24:51 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON? 24:55 'PLEASE LET ME GO. I WANT TO GO.' 24:57 THE FATHER RELUCTANT, IN ONE SENSE, TO LET HIS SON GO BUT 25:03 WANTING TO BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR US - AMAZING LOVE. 25:06 IT'S HARD TO COMPREHEND ALL THAT IT'S JUST SO AMAZING. 25:11 THINK OF THE EMOTIONS AND THE INTENSE DISCUSSION THAT TOOK 25:14 PLACE BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SON. SO THE PLAN WAS LAID 25:17 FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. BEFORE CREATION EVER 25:19 TOOK PLACE THIS PLAN WAS IN PLACE. CREATION TAKES PLACE AND 25:24 THE CLOCK BEGINS TICKING. PROPHECIES WERE 25:27 GIVEN TO PROPHETS - TIME PROPHECIES - TO WHEN THE 25:32 SAVIOR WOULD COME AND BE BORN AND BE BAPTIZED AND ALL THAT. 25:37 SO THE CLOCK TICKS, TICKS, TICKS DOWN TO THE TIME WHEN JESUS 25:46 COMES TO HIS FATHER - I'M SURE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS THERE - 25:50 AND JESUS SAYS TO THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, 'THE TIME IS 25:56 HERE.' THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE FATHER 25:59 PROBABLY DO NOT NEED TO SAY A WORD. 26:03 THEY KNOW WHAT TIME HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 26:05 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE TIME THAT WAS FOR HIM TO LEAVE THE 26:10 EQUALITY THAT HE HAD WITH HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN AND COME AND 26:13 BECOME A HUMAN BEING UPON THIS EARTH. 26:17 THINK ABOUT THAT MOMENT. THINK ABOUT THE EMOTIONS OF THAT 26:21 MOMENT AND THE HOLY SPIRIT LEAVES AND WHERE DOES HE GO? 26:26 HE VISITS A YOUNG LADY - A YOUNG VIRGIN NAMED MARY - AND IN AN 26:30 INSTANT - IN A SINGLE MOMENT - JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS GOD - GOD 26:37 OF THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE - EMPTIED HIMSELF OF THE EQUALITY 26:42 THAT HE HAD WITH HIS FATHER AND HE BECOMES A SPECK SO SMALL IT 26:48 TAKES A MICROSCOPE TO SEE. WHAT AN AMAZING CONDESCENSION 26:54 FROM GOD TO A SPECK. WE CAN'T COMPREHEND IT. 27:00 WE CAN'T BEGIN TO IMAGINE. WE CAN'T BEGIN TO COMPREHEND IT 27:13 AFROM THE GOD OF THE VAST - UNIVERSE - MORE VAST THAN WE 27:16 COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED - BECOMES A SPECK AS HEAVEN COMES 27:20 TO EARTH. DID JESUS CONFINE HIMSELF TO THIS SPECK? 27:23 WELL, WE CAN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THAT - NOT YET - BUT WE CAN 27:27 UNDERSTAND THAT HE DID EMPTY HIMSELF OF THE EQUALITY THAT HE 27:31 HAD WITH HIS FATHER. HE DIDN'T BECOME A MAN, HE 27:33 IMMEDIATELY BECAME A SPECK IN A VIRGIN'S WOMB. 27:37 AND THEN, IN NINE MONTHS OR SO, HE ACTUALLY WAS BORN AND GREW 27:41 UP, EVENTUALLY, TO BE A MAN. FATHER AND SON PERFECTLY UNIFIED 27:47 - PERFECTLY LOVING - FOR AN ETERNITY OF TIME NOW - POP - 27:54 THERE'S A SEPARATION THERE THAT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN. WHY? 27:59 BECAUSE HEAVEN WANTS TO COME DOWN TO EARTH AS - OUR LESSON IS 28:03 ALL ABOUT HEAVEN COMES DOWN TO EARTH. 28:05 JESUS IS THE BEST HEAVEN HAS TO OFFER AND HE COMES DOWN TO EARTH 28:10 FOR US. IT'S MIND-BOGGLING. 28:17 GOD HAD COME DOWN TO DWELL WITH HIM IN THE SANCTUARY BUILT WITH 28:20 HANDS AND EVERYTHING IN THAT SANCTUARY POINTED TO THE SAVIOR 28:23 THAT ONE DAY WOULD COME DOWN TO EARTH FROM HEAVEN TO BEGIN 28:26 DWELLING IN THE SANCTUARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN FOR APPROXIMATELY 28:29 NINE MONTHS AND THEN HE WOULD BE BORN. 28:32 AND AS HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, IT WAS ALL ABOUT TRYING TO HELP THE 28:35 WORLD TO SEE THAT JUST AS HE CAME DOWN TO EARTH TO DWELL IN 28:39 THE SANCTUARY AND IN A SENSE HE CAME DOWN TO BEGIN HIS EARTHLY 28:43 SOJOURN IN THIS YOUNG VIRGIN, HE ALONE SHOULD DWELL IN THE 28:48 SANCTUARY OF EACH ONE OF OUR HEARTS. AMAZING STUFF. 28:54 NOW BACK TO MONDAY A BIT MORE, 'A COPY OF THE PATTERN'. 28:57 IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY WAS 29:01 CONSTRUCTED AFTER THE PATTERN. WHERE WAS THE PATTERN? 29:03 THE PATTERN IS IN HEAVEN - THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 29:07 I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW BECAUSE IT HELPS US TO CONNECT 29:11 WITH HEAVEN. JUST AS CHILDREN LOOK LIKE THEIR 29:15 PARENTS AND ACT A LOT LIKE THEIR PARENTS, IT HELPS THAT 29:17 CONNECTION. JUST LIKE WHEN WE MOVE. 29:20 MOVING IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST STRESSORS ON EARTH. 29:23 IT CAUSES SO MUCH STRESS TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY HAVE TO MOVE. 29:25 TAKE UP ROOTS AND MOVE TO ANOTHER STATE MAYBE - EVEN 29:29 ANOTHER COUNTRY. IT'S A VERY STRESSFUL THING. 29:32 AND WHEN YOU GET SETTLED AND YOU HAVE YOUR FURNITURE - FURNITURE 29:35 THAT YOU'RE USED TO - IN PLACE - AHHH, THAT'S SUCH A STABILIZING 29:39 INFLUENCE ON US. YOU SEE THE THINGS YOU'RE USED 29:43 TO AND IT'S - WELL, THAT'S WHAT IT IS WITH THE HEAVENLY 29:46 SANCTUARY AND THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY. 29:48 WE ARE CONNECTED TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF THE EARTHLY 29:50 SANCTUARY. AND THE MORE WE STUDY THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY, 29:53 THE BETTER IT WILL BE FOR US IN REGARDS TO THIS CONNECTION. 29:59 SOMETHING ELSE I THINK IS IMPORTANT HERE ON MONDAY IS 30:02 SOMETHING WAS VERY CONFUSING TO ME, AT FIRST, WHEN I BECAME A 30:07 CHRISTIAN. I COULDN'T KEEP IT ALL SEPARATED. 30:08 I USED TO SCRATCH MY HEAD A LITTLE BIT. 30:12 I'D THINK 'WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?' 30:14 A GOOD EXPLANATION IS GIVEN IN THE LESSON. 30:17 THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE THERE, ON MONDAY, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 30:21 THE TWO IS CALLED 'TYPOLOGY'. 'TYPOLOGY IS A DIVINELY DESIGNED 30:27 PROPHETIC CONFIGURATION THAT INVOLVES TWO CORRESPONDING 30:30 HISTORICAL REALITIES CALLED 'TYPE' - OR THE ORIGINAL - AND 30:34 THE ANTITYPE - THE COPY.' YOU EVER STRUGGLE WITH THAT? 30:38 WHICH IS WHICH? TYPE - ANTITYPE - TYPE MET 30:41 ANTITYPE - WELL, IT'S ALL IN THAT DEFINITION THERE. 30:45 IT GOES ON TO SAY, 'BECAUSE THE CORRESPONDING RUNGS FROM THE 30:51 TYPE - OR ORIGINAL - TO THE ANTITYPE - COPY - WE CAN SEE IN 30:54 HEBREWS THAT THE HEAVENLY MODEL THAT MOSES HAD SEEN IS REFERRED 30:58 TO AS TYPE OR 'PATTERN' AND THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY IS THE 31:03 ANTITYPE OR 'THE COPY'. OKAY? 31:07 AND THEN IT POINTS OUT THAT WE, AS SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, ARE 31:10 ON SOLID GROUND WHEN WE EMPHASIZE THE PHYSICAL REALITY 31:15 OF THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY AND THAT IS IMPORTANT IN THE SENSE 31:19 THAT SO MANY OTHER DENOMINATIONS DON'T EVEN DISCUSS THE SANCTUARY 31:23 CONCEPT WHATSOEVER. 31:25 THE SANCTUARY AND THE TRUTH SURROUNDING THE SANCTUARY, 31:29 BASICALLY ARE JUST SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS ARE THE ONES THAT 31:34 UNDERSTAND IT AND EXPLAIN IT AND TEACH IT. AND IT'S - 31:38 IT'S VERY - IT'S VERY ENLIGHTENING TO ME. 31:41 AS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN I HAD COME TO BELIEVE THE SABBATH IS THE 31:47 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN I HAD COME YOU DIE. 31:49 I WAS LEARNING A LOT ABOUT THE HEALTH MESSAGES AND ALL THE 31:51 WONDERFUL DIFFERENT TEACHINGS, BUT AS I LEARNED SOME OF THESE 31:54 THINGS I FOUND ANOTHER CHURCH TEACHING EVEN - A LITTLE CHURCH 31:59 - SOME OTHER CHURCHES - TEACHING THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP ON 32:01 SABBATH AND I FOUND SOME CHURCHES THAT BELIEVE - VERY FEW 32:05 - THAT BELIEVE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD. 32:07 BUT I DIDN'T FIND ANYBODY TEACHING ANYTHING ABOUT THE 32:10 SANCTUARY. WHEN I STUDIED THE SANCTUARY MESSAGE AND ALL OF 32:13 ITS RAMIFICATIONS AND ALL THE PIECES FITTING TOGETHER LIKE A 32:17 BIG, GIANT, WONDERFUL JIGSAW - IT WAS JUST A WONDERFUL 32:20 REVELATION OF GOD'S WORD BEING WHAT IT IS AND HOW WE, AS GOD'S 32:25 REMNANT PEOPLE, CAN BE ENCOURAGED. WE DON'T HAVE TO - 32:29 WE DON'T HAVE TO BE APOLOGETIC AT ALL ABOUT TEACHING THIS 32:33 SUBJECT. IT IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 32:37 IT HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND WHO WE ARE. 32:39 WE ARE GOD'S REMNANT PEOPLE WITH A VERY SPECIAL REMNANT MESSAGE, 32:44 ARE WE NOT? AND WE MUST NOT BE APOLOGETIC ABOUT IT. 32:47 I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT, ALL OTHER RELIGIONS - WELL, JESUS 32:52 CHRIST IS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD. MAYBE PEOPLE AREN'T 32:57 CHRISTIANS BUT THEY'VE HEARD OF JESUS CHRIST. 32:59 PROBABLY HARDLY ANYONE IN AMERICA HAS NOT HEARD ABOUT 33:02 JESUS CHRIST AND KNOW SOME THINGS ABOUT HIM. 33:05 OTHER RELIGIONS - AND I'M NOT KNOCKING ANY OTHER RELIGION - 33:09 BUT IT'S DIFFERENT. HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW ANYTHING 33:13 ABOUT MOHAMMED OTHER THAN THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW THAT 33:16 PERSUASION? OR BUDDHA? 33:18 PROBABLY NOT ONE IN A HUNDRED THOUSAND KNOW TWO FACTS ABOUT 33:21 BUDDHA IF THEY'RE NOT PART OF THAT PERSUASION. 33:24 BUT THE SANCTUARY AND ITS SERVICES, FROM THE VERY 33:28 BEGINNING, ALL FOCUSED AROUND JESUS CHRIST. 33:32 JESUS CHRIST IS THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING. 33:35 EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS. 33:38 NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH IS SO COMPREHENSIVE AS THE SANCTUARY 33:44 IS ABOUT JESUS. IT ALL POINTS - POINTED TOWARD JESUS. 33:48 THIS IS A FANTASTIC SUBJECT AND I HOPE BY THE END OF THIS 33:51 QUARTER ALL OF US UNDERSTAND HOW FANTASTIC THIS SUBJECT REALLY 33:55 IS, ESPECIALLY TO US AS SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS AND HOW WE NEED 33:58 TO GET IT OUT TO THE WORLD AROUND US. 34:01 AND, OF COURSE, THAT IS WHY IT HAS BEEN THE OBJECT OF ATTACK 34:05 THROUGH THE YEARS. THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE WHO RISE 34:08 UP WITHIN OUR OWN DENOMINATION AND ATTACK THE SANCTUARY 34:11 MESSAGE. YOU PROBABLY ARE AWARE OF THAT. 34:13 AND IT HAPPENS EVERY SO OFTEN. SOMEBODY GETS A FOLLOWING 34:17 BECAUSE THEY COME UP WITH SOME NEW IDEAS OR DIFFERENT THOUGHTS 34:20 ABOUT THE SANCTUARY AND IT'S BEEN VERY INTERESTING TO FOLLOW 34:24 THOSE INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. 34:26 THEY ALL GET A LITTLE FOLLOWING - THEY ALL MAKE A BIG COMMOTION 34:30 AND THEN, EVENTUALLY, EVERY ONE OF THEM GO OFF INTO, KIND OF, 34:34 OBSCURITY. OH, THEY STILL HAVE A LITTLE 34:36 FOLLOWING SOMETIMES BUT THEY ARE REALLY ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING - 34:41 NOTHING FOR THE SAVING OF SOULS. THEY JUST HAVE THIS LITTLE BITTY 34:46 FOLLOWING THEY WERE - THEY JUST FADE OFF INTO OBLIVION, 34:49 BASICALLY - MOST OF THEM - ALMOST ALL OF THEM. 34:52 SO YES, THE SANCTUARY MESSAGE HAS BEEN ATTACKED BUT THE 34:55 SANCTUARY MESSAGE IS LIKE A BOB. IT BOBS UP BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS 35:00 GOING TO BE PERFECTLY - IT'S A PERFECT MESSAGE. IT'S A 35:03 WONDERFUL MESSAGE AND YOU CAN'T DO AWAY WITH IT. 35:06 WELL, THE LESSON SHIFTS EMPHASIS QUITE A FEW TIMES THIS WEEK. 35:12 TUESDAY IS ENTITLED 'JESUS AS THE SANCTUARY' AND WE ARE TAKEN 35:15 TO THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 2:19 THROUGH 21, "JESUS ANSWERED 35:20 AND SAID UNTO THEM, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I 35:23 WILL RAISE IT UP.' THEN SAID THE JEWS, 'FORTY AND 35:26 SIX YEARS WAS THIS TEMPLE IN BUILDING, AND WILT THOU REAR IT 35:30 UP IN THREE DAYS?' BUT HE SPAKE OF THE TEMPLE OF THE BODY." 35:33 YOU KNOW, AS YOU PUT YOURSELF IN THE SANDALS OF THE JEWISH 35:37 PEOPLE, IF THEY DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A CONNECTION WITH JESUS 35:41 LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE, THEY WOULD HAVE - THEY WOULD HAVE HAD 35:44 A HARD TIME WITH SOME OF THE THINGS HE WAS SAYING. 35:46 THIS IS ONE OF THEM. 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. 35:52 I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' WELL, IF YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 35:54 WHO HE WAS AND HAVE THAT CONNECTION WITH HIM, YOU WOULD 35:56 SAY, 'WHAT? WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS?' 35:59 'UNLESS YOU EAT MY BODY AND DRINK MY BLOOD' - 'WHAT? 36:02 DON'T SAY THOSE KIND OF THINGS. THAT'S BLASPHEMY. 36:05 YOU'RE TALKING NONSENSE. YOU'RE A CRAZY MAN.' 36:08 YOU'D THINK THAT IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHO JESUS WAS OR WHAT HE 36:13 WAS ALL ABOUT AND IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THAT CONNECTION WITH HIM. 36:15 THE SAME THINGS APPLIES TO US TODAY. 36:18 SOMETIMES IF PEOPLE GET THESE CRAZY IDEAS AND THINK, 'OH, 36:21 THAT'S CRAZY' OR 'THAT TEACHING DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE' - IT 36:26 WON'T MAKE ANY SENSE UNLESS YOU'RE CONNECTED TO THE 36:31 PSO WE HAVE THE SAME THING TO, CONTEND WITH. 36:34 NOW THE THING HERE WITH JESUS REFERRING TO HIM AS BEING THE 36:40 TEMPLE OR THE SANCTUARY, THE JEWISH LEADERS SHOULD HAVE 36:43 CAUGHT ON QUICKLY. AND PERHAPS SOME OF THEM DID AND 36:46 THAT'S WHY THEY GOT SO UPSET WITH HIM. 36:48 FOR THE WHOLE SANCTUARY THING WAS ALL ABOUT HIM AND ALL THE 36:50 FORMALITIES AND ALL THE SERVICES AND ALL THE FURNITURE AND 36:54 EVERYTHING WAS ALL ABOUT HIM AND, AS YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I 36:59 DO, THEY LOST SIGHT OF ALL THAT AND IT ALL BECAME JUST A MATTER 37:02 OF FORM - FORMALITY TO THEM AND SO THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT 37:06 HE WAS TRYING TO SAY AND IF THEY DID, I SAY IT WOULD HAVE JUST 37:10 MADE THEM ANGRY. 37:11 SO FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER THEY REJECTED HIM. 37:14 EITHER WAY, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT JESUS HAD TO SAY SO THAT 37:20 WHEN THE SACRIFICE WAS COMPLETE, PEOPLE COULD MAKE - THOSE WHO 37:25 WERE SINCERE IN HEART - COULD PUT ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER AND 37:28 MAKE THE CONNECTIONS TO THE TRUTH AS IT WAS. 37:32 BY THUS MAKING THE STATEMENT, WE ARE REMINDED ALSO THAT JESUS 37:35 WALKED EVERY DAY OF HIS MINISTRY - ACTUALLY EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE 37:40 SINCE ABOUT THE AGE OF TWELVE - KNOWING WHO HE WAS - THE LAMB OF 37:45 GOD. WHAT A REVELATION THAT WAS. 37:49 AT TWELVE YEARS OF AGE TO BE TAKEN TO THE TEMPLE AND SEEING 37:52 THESE ANIMALS TAKEN TO BE SACRIFICED AND SAYING - 37:55 REALIZING - 'THAT'S ME. THAT'S WHAT I HAVE COME FOR. 38:01 I AM THE LAMB THAT WILL BE SACRIFICED.' 38:04 WHAT A REVELATION TO LIVE WITH FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, 38:08 KNOWING EACH DAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE THAT SACRIFICE. 38:12 NOW WE ALL LIVE WITH THE CONCEPT THAT ONE DAY WE WILL DIE, RIGHT? 38:15 YOU CAN BE SURE OF TWO THINGS: TAXES AND DEATH. 38:18 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE REVELATION - THE IDEA THAT 38:24 WE WILL SUFFER THE SECOND DEATH THAT JESUS TOOK UPON HIM. 38:29 WE WILL NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT HE WENT THROUGH IF WE 38:33 ACCEPT HIM AS OUR SAVIOR AND LORD. 38:35 THAT'S THE REALLY GREATEST NEWS. WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT 38:40 - HE DID. AND HE NEVER ONCE FLINCHED, 38:45 BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU. HE NEVER ONCE FLINCHED, 38:48 BECAUSE HE LOVES ME. THANK GOD. 38:50 WHAT A SAVIOR HE IS. AMAZING. 38:55 HE LIVED WITH THAT EVERY DAY. WELL, WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ALSO 38:59 IN THE SANCTUARY AT THE VERY MOMENT THAT HE DIED. 39:03 MATTHEW 27, VERSES 50 AND 51 SAYS, "JESUS, WHEN HE HAD CRIED 39:08 AGAIN WITH A LOUD VOICE, YIELDED UP THE GHOST. 39:12 AND, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN FROM 39:15 THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH DID QUAKE, AND THE ROCKS 39:18 RENT;" NOW, AGAIN, THERE'S SOMETHING VERY PROFOUND TO 39:21 CONSIDER AT THIS POINT IN TIME. THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL HAD 39:24 PREDICTED THE VERY TIME WHEN JESUS WOULD COME AND BE BAPTIZED 39:27 AND THE VERY TIME OF HIS DEATH AND JESUS KNEW THAT TIME BETTER 39:31 THAN ANYBODY. HE WOULD OFTEN SAY, 39:33 'IT IS NOT YET MY TIME.' HE WOULD ESCAPE - THEY TRIED TO 39:36 STONE HIM - HE GOT AWAY FROM THEM. 39:38 BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL WEEKEND, HE SAYS, 39:44 'NOW IS THE TIME.' AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE SAYING, 39:48 'DON'T GO TO JERUSALEM, THEY'LL KILL YOU.' 39:50 'NO, I MUST GO, FOR THE TIME IS AT HAND.' HE KNEW THE TIME. 39:54 HE KNEW THE TIME BETTER THAN ANYBODY SO HE FREELY WENT TO 40:05 THE EXACT MOMENT. AT THE VERY MOMENT WHEN THE 40:10 EVENING SACRIFICE - THE PRIEST RAISED HIS HAND TO SLAY THAT 40:15 ANIMAL - THE LAMB OF GOD GAVE UP THE BREATH AND DIED. 40:22 JESUS FULFILLED THE PROPHECY DOWN TO A MOMENT - DOWN TO A 40:27 SECOND. I BELIEVE THAT'S AN AMAZING THING. IS GOD 40:34 PARTICULAR? SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'GOD'S NOT THAT PARTICULAR.' 40:37 YES, GOD IS VERY PARTICULAR. HE FULFILLS PROPHECY PERFECTLY. 40:42 JESUS KNEW THE TIME PROPHECY. HE KNEW THIS WAS A SPECIAL WEEKEND. 40:46 HE KNEW IT WAS THE TIME FOR THE EVENING SACRIFICE. 40:49 HE ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE NAILED TO THAT CROSS AND AT 40:53 THE MOMENT OF DEATH WAS THE VERY MOMENT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE. 40:59 AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING. ANOTHER PROFOUND THING TOOK 41:08 PLACE THAT VERY MOMENT AND HAD BEEN SUCH A 41:11 PART OF WHO THE JEWS WERE - BECAUSE THE CURTAIN WAS TORN 41:16 FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM, THAT EXPOSED THE WHOLE SANCTUARY 41:20 SERVICES AS IRRELEVANT ANYMORE - THEY DIDN'T NEED TO DO THAT 41:25 ANYMORE FOR THE LAMB OF GOD. IT WAS LIKE DOING AWAY WITH WHO 41:29 THEY WERE. NOW THE ONLY THING WE COULD 41:33 POSSIBLY RELATE TO THAT IS IF GOD TOLD US RIGHT NOW TODAY THAT 41:40 YOU CAN'T DO ANY OF THE THINGS YOU'RE USED TO DOING, 41:43 RELIGIOUSLY SPEAKING. YOU CAN'T COME TO THIS CHURCH ON 41:45 SABBATH MORNING, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING - ANY OF THINGS YOU'RE 41:48 USED TO DOING, RELIGIOUSLY, TOGETHER AS GOD'S PEOPLE. 41:50 YOU'VE GO TO DO AWAY WITH ALL THAT. 41:54 WELL, THAT WAS A PRETTY HARD THING FOR THE JEWISH NATION TO 41:58 ACCEPT. THEY SHOULD HAVE ACCEPTED IT 42:00 BECAUSE THEY KNEW - THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT GOD WAS GOING TO 42:02 REPLACE IT WITH SOMETHING BETTER. 42:04 NOW IF GOD CAME AND TOOK ALL THAT AWAY FROM US - WHAT WE HAVE 42:08 GOING TODAY - WHAT WE DO, WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO KNOW THAT GOD 42:11 HAS SOMETHING BETTER FOR US AND SO - BUT JUST THINK WHAT A 42:16 CHALLENGE IT MUST HAVE BEEN FOR THOSE PEOPLE AT THAT TIME. 42:23 THEN THE CHURCH - IT TALKS ABOUT THE CHURCH NOW BECOMES THE 42:26 SANCTUARY AS THE LESSON TITLE FOR WEDNESDAY POINTS OUT. 42:29 IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE THE CHURCH. WE ARE THE PEOPLE. 42:32 WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO LIVE IN AND IT WOULD 42:38 DO US WELL TO KEEP IN MIND, DURING THIS WHOLE QUARTER, ABOUT 42:42 HOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SANCTUARY WAS HOLY. 42:46 EVERYTHING WAS HOLY. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. 42:48 HOLY - AND THEN THERE WAS THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND ALL THE 42:51 UTENSILS WERE HOLY. THE BREAD WAS HOLY. 42:53 THE INCENSE WAS HOLY. EVERYTHING - THE GARMENTS THAT 42:56 THE PRIEST WORE WERE HOLY AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE 43:03 ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 43:04 HOW HOLY DOES GOD WANT US TO BE? HE WANTS US TO BE HOLY, DOESN'T 43:08 HE? EVERYTHING - WE KEEP THAT IN MIND, ESPECIALLY THIS QUARTER AS 43:13 WE'RE GOING THROUGH IT. GOD WANTS US TO BE HOLY. 43:16 NOT ONLY THAT, HE WILL HELP US TO BE HOLY. 43:19 WITHOUT HIM WE COULDN'T DO IT, OF COURSE. 43:21 SO IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT DISCOURAGING IF WE HAD TO TRY TO 43:26 ATTACK - DO IT OURSELVES - BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HE ASKS OF US. 43:30 WE MOVE TO THURSDAY AS WE TAKE ANOTHER GIANT LEAP INTO THE 43:36 FUTURE - AS WE TALK ABOUT THE NEW CREATION. 43:39 THE LESSON TAKES US DIRECTLY TO REVELATION, THE SEVENTH CHAPTER. 43:43 REVELATION 7:15 THROUGH 17 SAYS, "THEREFORE ARE THEY BEFORE THE 43:49 THRONE OF GOD, AND SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE: AND HE 43:52 THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE SHALL DWELL AMONG THEM. 43:55 THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE; NEITHER THIRST NO MORE; 43:58 NEITHER SHALL THE SUN LIGHT ON 43:59 THEM, NOR ANY HEAT. FOR THE LAMB WHICH IS IN THE 44:03 MIDST OF THE THRONE SHALL FEED THEM, AND SHALL LEAD THEM UNTO 44:06 LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATERS: AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS 44:10 FROM THEIR EYES." WELL, REVELATION 21 REPEATS 44:13 SOME OF THAT SAME MATERIAL AND EVEN ADDS TO IT. 44:18 I WON'T TAKE TIME TO READ IT BUT IF YOU TURN BACK INTO THE OLD 44:23 TESTAMENT - ISAIAH 65, VERSES 17 THROUGH 25 TELLS US SOME OF THE 44:28 VERY SAME THINGS - WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE IN THE EARTH 44:31 MADE NEW - VERY FASCINATING AND WONDERFUL. 44:34 AND THEN THIS LESSON BRINGS OUT THAT - HOW THE NEW JERUSALEM 44:37 WILL HAVE A LOT IN COMMON WITH THE SANCTUARY, WHICH WAS SOME 44:42 NEW THINKING FOR MANY OF US, I'M SURE. 44:44 ONE THING THAT I FOUND FASCINATING ABOUT THIS LESSON 44:47 THIS WEEK WAS THINKING ABOUT THE SANCTUARY FROM THE GARDEN OF 44:50 EDEN CLEAR UNTIL THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN OUT OF THE 44:55 SKY. I NEVER HAD QUITE THAT 44:58 COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE SANCTUARY BEFORE, IN MY MIND. 45:02 IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING TO DO THAT. BUT IT DOES MAKE SENSE. 45:05 IT ALL STARTS IN HEAVEN WITH GOD AND IT'S ALL GOING TO END WITH 45:10 GOD ON AN EARTH MADE NEW. GOD WANTS TO DWELL WITH MAN. 45:16 NOW THE WILL OF GOD WILL BE FULFILLED WHEN HE WILL COME TO 45:22 EARTH AND LIVE IN A PERFECT MARVELOUS - PERFECT PLACE OF 45:26 PEACE. THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY DIDN'T 45:29 ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. 45:33 FOR SOME PEOPLE IT DID. THEY WILL BE SAVED IN HIS 45:36 KINGDOM. THEY UNDERSTOOD THE TEACHINGS OF 45:38 THE SANCTUARY AND IT WAS ALL ABOUT SALVATION. 45:41 THEY ACCEPTED THOSE TEACHINGS. ONE PERSON THAT IT DID 45:46 ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT IT WAS MEANT TO AND THAT WAS FOR JESUS. 45:49 THE SANCTUARY, WE THINK, IS ALL ABOUT US AND HOW WE SHOULD LEARN 45:54 ALL THERE IS ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION FOR US BUT 45:56 THE SANCTUARY MEANT A LOT TO JESUS. 46:01 IT HELPED HIM KNOW WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HIS MISSION WAS SO HE 46:04 CAME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THROUGH THE STUDY OF HIS WORD. 46:07 AND, AS I SAID, AT TWELVE YEARS OLD HE PUT ALL THOSE PIECES 46:10 TOGETHER. NOW WE MAY SHRINK BACK FROM DUTY 46:15 AND RESPONSIBILITY THAT MAY BE POINTED OUT IN THE TRUTHS TAUGHT 46:18 BY THE SANCTUARY, BUT IMAGINE WHAT MESSAGE IT GAVE TO 46:23 CHRIST AND HE DIDN'T FLINCH FROM IT FOR A MOMENT. 46:28 HE DID QUESTION HIS FATHER, 'FATHER, IF THERE BE ANY OTHER 46:31 WAY, BUT NEVERTHELESS, NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE.' 46:36 AND THAT'S HOW WE SHOULD APPROACH EVERYTHING TOO. 46:38 WE CAN ASK SOME SINCERE QUESTIONS. 46:41 YOU CAN ASK GOD ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, JUST BE WILLING TO ADD 46:45 THAT ON TO THE END OF YOUR QUESTION, 'NOT MY WILL BUT YOUR 46:48 WILL BE DONE, FATHER.' AND AS WE STILL CONSIDER THIS 46:54 CONCEPT OF GOD'S DESIRE TO DWELL WITH MAN - THAT'S BEEN HIS 46:59 ULTIMATE DESIRE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING CLEAR UNTIL THE END. 47:02 IT'S HIS DESIRE FOR US RIGHT NOW. 47:04 HE WANTS TO DWELL IN US THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 47:06 WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 47:08 NOW, IT'S A WONDERFUL THING TO THINK ABOUT GOD DWELLING IN US, 47:12 BUT IT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT AWKWARD AT TIMES TO THINK ABOUT 47:15 GOD DWELLING IN US IF YOU HAVE THIS STRONG DESIRE TO GO ON AN 47:18 EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING SPREE, FOR EXAMPLE. 47:22 IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT AWKWARD, HAVING GOD DWELL IN YOU, IF 47:25 YOU'RE WANTING TO TURN TO A QUESTIONABLE SITE ON YOUR 47:29 COMPUTER - THINGS THAT, PROBABLY, GOD IS NOT GOING TO 47:32 ENJOY LOOKING AT. SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT AWKWARD 47:35 HAVING GOD THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND THAT 47:39 ISN'T PERFECTLY ALIGNED WITH GOD'S WILL. 47:42 IT'S ALRIGHT TO HAVE GOD CLOSE BY SO THAT WHEN YOU HAVE SOME 47:45 PROBLEMS YOU CAN CRY OUT TO GOD AND SAY, 'HELP ME LORD, I NEED 47:49 YOUR HELP.' BUT TO HAVE HIM ACTUALLY 47:51 DWELLING WITHIN US - THAT'S HIS DESIRE. 47:53 THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS MORE THAN ANYTHING. 47:55 DWELLING WITH HIS PEOPLE. SO IS IT AWKWARD TO HAVE JESUS 48:01 DWELLING WITH YOU - INSIDE OF YOU? 48:05 ARE YOU HAPPY TO HAVE HIM DWELLING INSIDE OF YOU? 48:08 SOMETIMES WE'RE LIKE - SOMETIMES WE'RE LIKE THE DAZED BIRD - 48:12 MAYBE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS - THE BIRD THAT FLEW INTO THE WINDOW 48:17 A GENTLEMAN WAS WATCHING AND SAW THIS BIRD FLY INTO HIS WINDOW 48:20 AND THE BIRD WASN'T FLYING - JUST KIND OF WALKING AROUND IN A 48:24 DAZE AND HE SAW THE NEIGHBOR'S CAT APPROACHING READY TO POUNCE 48:28 AND SO HE GOES OUTSIDE AND HE GRABS THE BIRD JUST IN TIME 48:32 BEFORE THE CAT POUNCES ON HIM. SO THE BIRD IS SAFE IN THE 48:38 HOLLOW OF THE MAN'S HAND. WHAT IS THAT BIRD THINKING? 48:43 'OH, THANK YOU MISTER. I'M SO HAPPY YOU SAVED ME.' 48:46 NO, THAT LITTLE BIRD BRAIN IS THINKING, 'LET ME GO! 48:51 I WANT TO BE FREE! I WANT TO DO MY OWN THING! 48:56 I WANT TO BE FREE!' AND THAT'S HOW WE ARE. 49:00 WE'RE DAZED BY SIN AND WE WANT TO DO OUR OWN THING. 49:03 GOD DON'T - ARE WE COMFORTABLE WITH LIVING IN THE HOLLOW OF 49:09 GOD'S PIERCED HANDS? HIS NAIL-PIERCED LOVING, 49:13 CARING HANDS? THERE'S NOT A MORE COMFORTABLE 49:18 PLACE ON EARTH TO BE THAN IN THE HOLLOW OF GOD'S HANDS. 49:22 HOW PEACEFUL ARE YOU WITH THE CONCEPT THAT GOD WANTS 49:29 TO DWELL WITH YOU TODAY? 49:32 HE WANTS TO DWELL IN YOU - NOT JUST WITH YOU - IN YOU. 49:36 THOSE ARE AMAZING THINGS TO THINK ABOUT, I TELL YOU. 49:40 WE SHOULD CONSIDER THESE THINGS VERY CAREFULLY. 49:43 NOW THIS MORNING I NEED TO RETELL YOU ABOUT THE FREE OFFER 49:51 AND IT'S THIS STORACLE THAT IS CALLED 'A HEAVENLY MODEL' AND 49:59 IT'S OFFER #802 AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET THIS OFFER #802 IS 50:05 TO DIAL 866-STUDY-MORE OR 866-788-3966 - 866-788-3966. 50:18 YOU THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME IN THIS QUARTERLY - 50:20 THIS LESSON QUARTERLY - THE SANCTUARY? 50:23 YOU KNOW, I - WHEN I FIRST CAME TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS 50:29 40-SOME YEARS AGO - LIKE I SAID, THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS 50:32 THAT I HAD LEARNED WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE LESSONS, IT WAS JUST 50:37 INCREDIBLE. AND YET I REMEMBER ALMOST THE 50:41 VERY NIGHT THAT THE PASTOR - WE HAD A DIFFERENT PASTOR STUDIED 50:45 WITH US AND THEN WE WERE BAPTIZED AND AS SOON AS WE GOT 50:48 BAPTIZED, THIS PASTOR WAS MOVED ON AND ANOTHER PASTOR CAME IN 50:52 AND HE WAS A VERY WONDERFUL FELLOW. HE'S IN SOUTHERN 50:57 CALIFORNIA NOW, I THINK, AND PROBABLY MOSTLY RETIRED. 51:00 BUT HE'S - I REMEMBER HIM ASKING ME SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 51:04 SANCTUARY MESSAGE AND I HAD NEVER STUDIED THAT BEFORE. 51:08 MAYBE I'D GONE THROUGH A LESSON BUT NONE OF IT STUCK. 51:12 AND HE STARTED TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME AND IT WAS JUST OVERWHELMING. 51:16 'WOW, THIS IS EXCITING.' SO I COULDN'T HARDLY WAIT TO GET 51:18 HOME AND START DIGGING THROUGH SOME MATERIAL AND FIND OUT MORE 51:21 INFORMATION AND THE MORE I STUDIED, THE MORE I UNDERSTOOD 51:24 HOW IMPORTANT THIS SUBJECT IS TO THE WORLD AND TO SEVENTH DAY 51:29 ADVENTISTS AND TO CHRISTIANS. WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT. 51:31 WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD KNOWS 51:33 ABOUT IT. IT'S MARVELOUS. IT'S GREAT. IT'S FANTASTIC. 51:37 AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT EXPERIENCE. 51:39 AND SO I HOPE THAT'S THE SAME KIND OF FEELING WE ALL HAVE BY 51:44 THE TIME THIS QUARTER'S OVER - THAT THIS SUBJECT IS A SUBJECT 51:48 TO BE PRAISING GOD FOR THAT HE HAS ALLOWED US TO UNDERSTAND IT. 51:53 SO MAY GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU COME TO THAT CONCLUSION, I PRAY. 51:57 NOW, WE NEED TO CLOSE THIS MORNING, BUT THANK YOU AGAIN FOR 51:59 EVERYBODY WHO JOINED US ONLINE, ON THE SATELLITE, OR BY RADIO. 52:04 THANKS AND COME BACK AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 52:08 >>I GREW UP IN A CHURCH-GOING FAMILY. 52:12 I MEAN, WE WERE AT EVERY MEETING. 52:13 I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS THERE. 52:16 I DIRECTED THREE - VERY INVOLVED - VERY ACTIVE. 52:20 IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? 52:24 I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL. I KNEW ABOUT GOD. 52:27 I KNEW ABOUT JESUS BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP 52:32 WITH JESUS CHRIST. MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I 52:37 GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD BEEN MURDERED. 52:42 I PLAYED IT OFF WELL. NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT I WAS 52:45 STRUGGLING WITH IT. IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE 52:52 WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT 53:00 AFTER COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER. 53:06 ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH 53:10 WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT 53:14 OF WORD. SHE HAD THE SATELLITE SYSTEM HOOKED UP 53:18 AND I'M FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS AND THEN THE LOGO POPS 53:21 ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF 53:25 DIFFERENT MINISTERS BUT HERE - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE 53:29 WAS ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND 53:31 ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND 'I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 53:35 LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS.' 53:37 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STORACLES. 53:39 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET 53:41 ENOUGH. AND THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND HE'S GOING THROUGH 53:45 THE APPEAL AND I'M JUST GOING, 'LORD, I HEAR YOU. 53:48 I HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I 53:52 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE JUDGED - ANYTHING 53:55 JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING. AND I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I 53:58 JUST FELT AT HOME. BUT THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM. 54:03 I WAS STILL PARTYING. I WAS STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS. 54:08 AT THIS TIME, I WAS SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT. 54:12 SIXTEEN DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 54:17 I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A 54:20 BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE 54:26 IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE STUDY. 54:30 AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE VOICE, 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.' 54:36 AND I DID AND I WAS LIKE, 'WHAT AM I DOING?' 54:42 AND I GOT ON MY KNEES. I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT 54:46 TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' 54:51 I WAS GOING TO CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE AND I WAS GOING TO END 54:54 UP OVERDOSING, HAVING A HEART ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS. 54:59 'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY. ALL OF IT.' 55:04 AND THAT DAY HE LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME. 55:10 IT WAS ALL GONE. WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN YOUR 55:14 LIFE HE DOES IT COMPLETE. (MUSIC) |
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