(MUSIC) >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL 00:00:00.96\00:00:45.50 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. WHEREVER YOU'RE JOINING US FROM 00:00:45.50\00:00:48.93 ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD, LISTENING ON RADIO, 00:00:48.93\00:00:52.53 WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR THE VARIOUS 00:00:52.53\00:00:56.26 TELEVISION NETWORKS, IT DOESN'T MATTER. 00:00:56.26\00:00:58.43 WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN AND JOINING US FOR 00:00:58.43\00:01:01.43 ANOTHER CENTRAL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM SACRAMENTO 00:01:01.43\00:01:04.73 CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HERE IN THE CAPITAL CITY 00:01:04.73\00:01:07.73 OF CALIFORNIA. EVERY WEEK WE HEAR FROM YOU - 00:01:07.73\00:01:11.20 YOU LOVE TO SING SONGS WITH US. WE LOVE TO SING SONGS WITH YOU 00:01:11.20\00:01:15.50 AND, OF COURSE, WE ALWAYS OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND WE STUDY 00:01:15.50\00:01:17.96 TOGETHER. IT'S PART OF OUR PROGRAM. 00:01:17.96\00:01:20.06 SO LET'S START WITH #526 - WONDERFUL SONG IN THE HYMNAL AND 00:01:20.06\00:01:25.80 IT IS A FAVORITE OF MANY PEOPLE: RANDY IN BELIZE, JOY IN THE 00:01:25.80\00:01:30.20 CAYMAN ISLANDS, JAKO IN ICELAND - AND HE HAD SENT - I READ ALL 00:01:30.20\00:01:34.46 THE MESSAGES THAT COME WITH THE SONGS EACH WEEK AND HE HAS BEEN 00:01:34.46\00:01:37.50 WAITING TO HEAR HIS SONG REQUEST AND I SAW THAT SO I SAID, 'OKAY, 00:01:37.50\00:01:42.10 WE'RE GOING TO SING IT FOR EVERYONE IN ICELAND AND 00:01:42.10\00:01:45.33 EVERYBODY ELSE THIS MORNING, JEREMIAH IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 00:01:45.33\00:01:48.86 BRANA IN YUGOSLAVIA, AND RAUL IN SOUTH KOREA, AND MANY OTHER 00:01:48.86\00:01:52.86 STATES AND COUNTRIES. IT ONLY HAS TWO STANZAS SO WE'RE 00:01:52.86\00:01:57.13 GOING TO DO BOTH OF THEM. #526 - 'BECAUSE HE LIVES'. 00:01:57.13\00:02:01.73 (MUSIC) 00:02:01.73\00:02:02.43 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. I KNOW THAT IS A FAVORITE OF 00:04:43.53\00:04:45.36 MANY PEOPLE HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH AS WELL. 00:04:45.36\00:04:48.53 IF YOU HAVE A SONG THAT YOU WANT TO SING WITH US ON AN UPCOMING 00:04:48.53\00:04:51.80 PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 00:04:51.80\00:04:55.16 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK, AND ANY SONG 00:04:55.16\00:04:59.10 THAT'S IN THE HYMNAL IS RIGHT THERE AND YOU CAN PICK IT AND 00:04:59.10\00:05:02.36 YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND START SENDING IN YOUR CHRISTMAS 00:05:02.36\00:05:04.83 REQUESTS - IT WON'T BE LONG UNTIL WE START SINGING THOSE. 00:05:04.83\00:05:08.06 BUT IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE, SEND IT IN AND WE HOPE THAT WE CAN 00:05:08.06\00:05:12.50 SING THAT FOR YOU SOON. OUR NEXT SONG, AS WE CONTINUE 00:05:12.50\00:05:16.53 WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL SINGING ALL THE SONGS WE 00:05:16.53\00:05:19.06 DON'T KNOW AND SOME OF THEM WE DO, IS #76 - 'O LOVE THAT WILL 00:05:19.06\00:05:24.33 NOT LET ME GO' - SO THIS IS THE ONE WE'RE GOING TO DO TODAY. 00:05:24.33\00:05:27.83 WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR STANZAS - IT'S NOT VERY LONG. 00:05:27.83\00:05:30.56 THIS IS FROM ANDREW IN AUSTRALIA, ANGELA IN ITALY, 00:05:30.56\00:05:34.56 GLENDA IN FLORIDA, SANDRA IN IDAHO, AND A FEW MORE AROUND THE 00:05:34.56\00:05:39.00 WORLD. #76 - ALL FOUR STANZAS. 00:05:39.00\00:05:42.26 (MUSIC) 00:05:42.26\00:05:43.03 >>WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WORDS THAT YOU JUST SANG? 00:07:53.56\00:07:57.23 WEREN'T THOSE BEAUTIFUL? 00:07:57.23\00:07:59.70 'O JOY THAT SEEKEST ME THROUGH PAIN, I CANNOT CLOSE MY HEART TO 00:07:59.70\00:08:05.46 THEE, I TRACE THE RAINBOW THROUGH THE RAIN, AND FEEL THE 00:08:05.46\00:08:10.33 PROMISE IS NOT VAIN THAT MORN SHALL TEARLESS BE.' 00:08:10.33\00:08:15.80 ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY? 00:08:15.80\00:08:20.33 THIS WORLD IS A HORRIBLE PLACE BUT GOD IS GOOD - THAT'S RIGHT - 00:08:20.33\00:08:26.83 AND ONE DAY YOU TRACE - WHAT DOES IT SAY? - 00:08:26.83\00:08:31.93 THE RAINBOW THROUGH THE RAIN AND ONE DAY IT WILL BE A 00:08:31.93\00:08:35.20 TEARLESS DAY. LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 00:08:35.20\00:08:41.83 FATHER IN HEAVEN, YOU DO HAVE A LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET US GO. 00:08:41.83\00:08:52.06 AND NO MATTER HOW HORRIBLE WE TREAT YOU, YOU STILL LOVE US AND 00:08:52.06\00:08:59.73 I PRAY THAT EACH OF US TODAY THAT CAN HEAR MY VOICE - THAT WE 00:08:59.73\00:09:07.03 WILL FEEL YOU SPEAKING TO US AND THAT EVEN IF WE'RE GOING THROUGH 00:09:07.03\00:09:16.13 PAINFUL SITUATIONS - THAT WE CAN TRACE THE RAINBOW THROUGH THE 00:09:16.13\00:09:20.96 PAIN AND HOLD ON BECAUSE ONE DAY IT WILL BE THAT TEARLESS DAY. 00:09:20.96\00:09:31.66 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE HOPE THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US AS 00:09:31.66\00:09:33.96 CHRISTIANS - THAT YOU ARE COMING SOON. 00:09:33.96\00:09:38.23 AND WE LOVE YOU AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH OUR SPEAKER 00:09:38.23\00:09:41.26 THIS MORNING AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY. 00:09:41.26\00:09:44.50 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HIS MINISTRY HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH, 00:09:44.50\00:09:47.96 AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 00:09:47.96\00:09:52.40 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, OUR 00:09:52.40\00:09:55.16 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. 00:09:55.16\00:09:58.56 >>HAPPY SABBATH. HOW IS EVERYBODY? 00:09:58.56\00:10:02.76 DEBBIE ALMOST GOT ME CRYING BEFORE I CAME OUT TO TEACH. 00:10:02.76\00:10:06.30 I CHOKED UP. I LOVE THAT SONG. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SONG. 00:10:06.30\00:10:09.36 'O LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO.' WELCOME IF YOU'RE VISITING 00:10:09.36\00:10:12.53 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH. WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 00:10:12.53\00:10:15.60 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR REGULAR MEMBERS - ANY THAT MAY BE 00:10:15.60\00:10:17.66 VISITING, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS THAT 00:10:17.66\00:10:21.33 ARE WATCHING FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND, PERIODICALLY AS I 00:10:21.33\00:10:24.10 TRAVEL, I MEET THEM AND IT'S JUST ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT 00:10:24.10\00:10:27.56 WE'RE ABLE TO MINISTER TO THESE FOLKS. 00:10:27.56\00:10:29.36 WE WERE IN - KAREN AND I WERE IN HAWAII A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND 00:10:29.36\00:10:32.83 WE MET SOME FOLKS THERE THAT ARE ON THE REMOTE END OF ONE OF THE 00:10:32.83\00:10:35.16 ISLANDS AND THEY SAID SATELLITE CHURCH IS OFTEN HOW WE ARE ABLE 00:10:35.16\00:10:39.60 TO FELLOWSHIP AND SO I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS AND OUR 00:10:39.60\00:10:43.56 ONLINE MEMBERS AND OTHERS THAT ARE PART OF OUR - THE TV SABBATH 00:10:43.56\00:10:47.16 SCHOOL CLASS. WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU TUNED IN. 00:10:47.16\00:10:49.56 IN A MINUTE WE'LL GET TO OUR LESSON. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER, 00:10:49.56\00:10:52.23 AS ALWAYS, THAT KIND OF HELPS ENHANCE OUR LESSON. 00:10:52.23\00:10:55.63 TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ATONEMENT AND PURIFICATION AND 00:10:55.63\00:11:00.63 WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER. IT'S A BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS 00:11:00.63\00:11:03.86 CALLED 'BLOOD BEHIND THE VEIL' AND THIS IS REALLY APPROPRIATE 00:11:03.86\00:11:07.36 FOR OUR LESSON TODAY. WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT 00:11:07.36\00:11:09.70 BLOOD AND CLEANSING IN THE BLOOD. 00:11:09.70\00:11:11.73 AND IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT IDEA OF THE SACRIFICE AND 00:11:11.73\00:11:15.53 THE ATONEMENT, WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY OF THIS - JUST CALL 00:11:15.53\00:11:18.30 THE NUMBER THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN. 00:11:18.30\00:11:20.40 OR YOU MIGHT BE LISTENING ON RADIO - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - 00:11:20.40\00:11:24.96 866-788-3966. THIS BOOK - ASK FOR OFFER #130 - 00:11:24.96\00:11:30.10 IT MAKES IT EASIER WHEN YOU CALL FOR THEM TO KNOW. 00:11:30.10\00:11:32.20 ASK FOR OFFER #130 - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 00:11:32.20\00:11:34.40 WE ONLY ASK THAT YOU READ IT AND THEN PASS IT ON. 00:11:34.40\00:11:37.93 SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. WE WANT TO GET AS MUCH MILEAGE 00:11:37.93\00:11:40.56 OUT OF THE TRUTH AS WE CAN, AMEN? LESSON TODAY IS #5 IN OUR 00:11:40.56\00:11:45.56 QUARTERLY, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:11:45.56\00:11:49.46 NOW WE KNOW WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING ON TV AND ONLINE 00:11:49.46\00:11:52.30 FROM ALL DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN BACKGROUNDS AND MAYBE YOU'RE 00:11:52.30\00:11:55.53 PART OF A CHURCH - YOU'VE NEVER REALLY STUDIED THE SANCTUARY 00:11:55.53\00:11:57.76 BEFORE. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT 00:11:57.76\00:12:00.06 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND TAUGHT IN PART OR IN WHOLE OR IN 00:12:00.06\00:12:04.73 REALITY OR SYMBOL ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION. 00:12:04.73\00:12:09.03 THE THEME OF THE SANCTUARY - YOU CAN SEE SHADOWS OF THIS ALL 00:12:09.03\00:12:14.03 THROUGH THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE AND MANY OF THE VISIONS IN THE 00:12:14.03\00:12:17.56 BIBLE TAKE PLACE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SANCTUARY AND SO YOU 00:12:17.56\00:12:20.90 REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT. 00:12:20.90\00:12:22.83 IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND SALVATION. 00:12:22.83\00:12:24.86 IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF THIS, YOU CAN GO TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD 00:12:24.86\00:12:28.06 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND I BET THEY'LL SHARE ONE WITH 00:12:28.06\00:12:30.23 YOU. YOU CAN ALSO JUST GO TO - TYPE 00:12:30.23\00:12:32.50 IN 'SABBATH SCHOOL' ONLINE - GO TO GOOGLE OR YAHOO AND TYPE THAT 00:12:32.50\00:12:35.73 IN - AND YOU CAN SEE THE STUDY GUIDE ONLINE. 00:12:35.73\00:12:38.13 THAT'S TYPICALLY HOW I STUDY IT, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, BECAUSE 00:12:38.13\00:12:40.86 THEN I CAN COPY AND PASTE THE NOTES FROM THERE INTO MY NOTES, 00:12:40.86\00:12:43.70 RIGHT OFF THE INTERNET SO THAT'S KIND OF NEAT. 00:12:43.70\00:12:46.43 ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 1 00:12:46.43\00:12:50.50 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES 18 AND 19 - 1 PETER 1:18 AND 19 - AND 00:12:50.50\00:12:56.33 IF YOU WOULD SAY THIS WITH ME I APPRECIATE YOU'RE JOINING ALONG. 00:12:56.33\00:13:00.66 I'M DOING IT FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION HERE IN MY NOTES. 00:13:00.66\00:13:03.46 ARE YOU READY? "KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT 00:13:03.46\00:13:07.36 REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, 00:13:07.36\00:13:11.60 FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR 00:13:11.60\00:13:14.80 FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB 00:13:14.80\00:13:21.13 WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT." 00:13:21.13\00:13:24.26 YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING, HE SAID YOU'RE NOT 00:13:24.26\00:13:25.83 REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS LIKE SILVER AND GOLD. 00:13:25.83\00:13:30.00 YEAH, A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT LAST PRETTY WELL IS SILVER AND, 00:13:30.00\00:13:33.50 ESPECIALLY, GOLD. YOU CAN DIG UP GOLD AFTER 5,000 00:13:33.50\00:13:36.83 YEARS AND IT'S STILL GOLD. IT DOES NOT OXIDIZE. 00:13:36.83\00:13:40.56 IT DOES NOT CORRODE. BUT COMPARED TO THE BLOOD OF 00:13:40.56\00:13:45.00 CHRIST, GOLD AND SILVER ARE CORRUPTIBLE. 00:13:45.00\00:13:48.86 AND SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING - THESE THINGS - THE 00:13:48.86\00:13:51.56 HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY BUT CHRIST AND HIS WORD THEY DO 00:13:51.56\00:13:54.93 NOT PASS AWAY. AND HE SAYS WE'RE REDEEMED WITH 00:13:54.93\00:13:58.36 BLOOD. NOW IN THIS LESSON THERE IS 00:13:58.36\00:14:02.26 QUITE A BIT THAT TALKS ABOUT SACRIFICE. 00:14:02.26\00:14:04.06 NOW THIS IS NOT PLEASANT - I USED TO WONDER, WHEN I FIRST 00:14:04.06\00:14:07.36 BEGAN TO GO TO A CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THEY WOULD SING SONGS 00:14:07.36\00:14:12.10 LIKE 'THERE'S POWER IN THE BLOOD'. 00:14:12.10\00:14:14.16 I THOUGHT, 'WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO TO A CHURCH AND BE PART OF A 00:14:14.16\00:14:16.73 RELIGION WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALL SINGING AND TALKING ABOUT 00:14:16.73\00:14:19.70 BLOOD?' I MEAN, DOESN'T BLOOD SOUND A LITTLE GORY? 00:14:19.70\00:14:24.00 IT SOUNDS VIOLENT AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN FROM THE EARLIEST STAGES OF 00:14:24.00\00:14:27.96 LIFE - HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU CUT YOURSELF 00:14:27.96\00:14:32.86 AND NOTICED YOU WERE LEAKING? DID IT KIND OF HORRIFY YOU? 00:14:32.86\00:14:39.93 AND I REMEMBER MY UNCLE HARRY, MY FATHER'S BROTHER, HE WAS 00:14:39.93\00:14:43.90 A LITTLE ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES. 00:14:43.90\00:14:46.50 HE RAN AN INDIAN TRADING POST FOR 40 YEARS, BUT ONE OF THE 00:14:46.50\00:14:49.90 KIDS CAME IN ONE DAY SAYING, 'I'M - I'VE CUT MYSELF' - AND 00:14:49.90\00:14:54.56 THEY'D CUT THEMSELVES AND THEY WERE BLEEDING A LITTLE BIT AND 00:14:54.56\00:14:57.36 HE SAID - HE'D HAVE FUN WITH IT - HE'D SAY, 'WOW! LOOK AT THAT. 00:14:57.36\00:15:00.53 I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH BLOOD IN MY LIFE!' 00:15:00.53\00:15:02.63 AND HE'D SAY, 'THAT'S REALLY NEAT!' 00:15:02.63\00:15:04.46 YOU KNOW, AND HE'D JUST - THE KIDS WOULD NEVER GET THE 00:15:04.46\00:15:06.53 REACTION FROM HIM THAT THEY EXPECTED - YOU KNOW, SYMPATHY OR 00:15:06.53\00:15:09.43 HORROR OR SOMETHING - AND HE'D SAY, 'LOOK AT ALL THAT BLOOD.' 00:15:09.43\00:15:15.36 I'M SORRY, BUT I'M LAUGHING NOW AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE 00:15:15.36\00:15:19.23 NATURALLY KIDS THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG AND WE THINK 00:15:19.23\00:15:23.56 'THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE OUTSIDE OF MY BODY.' 00:15:23.56\00:15:27.20 AND I THINK WE KNOW - THE BIBLE TEACHES - THAT THE LIFE IS IN 00:15:27.20\00:15:30.83 THE BLOOD. WE'LL HAVE THESE VERSES, ACTUALLY, WE'LL BE 00:15:30.83\00:15:32.80 SHARING - MATTER OF FACT, SOMEONE LOOK THAT UP FOR ME. 00:15:32.80\00:15:35.16 I'M GOING TO GET YOU INVOLVED RIGHT AWAY. 00:15:35.16\00:15:36.86 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME LEVITICUS 17:11. WE'VE GIVEN OUT 00:15:36.86\00:15:39.80 SOME SLIPS - OVER HERE - WHERE'S OUR MICROPHONES? YOU GOT IT? 00:15:39.80\00:15:43.96 TAKE A MICROPHONE TO THAT MAN RIGHT THERE. 00:15:43.96\00:15:46.06 HOLD YOUR HAND UP, RICHARD. AND, I TELL YOU WHAT, 00:15:46.06\00:15:48.56 LET ME SEE - WHO HAS ROMANS 5:9? YOU? 00:15:48.56\00:15:53.66 ALRIGHT, WE'LL PASS IT UP TO YOU. 00:15:53.66\00:15:54.66 YOU'LL BE IN A FEW MINUTES THOUGH. 00:15:54.66\00:15:56.00 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO TALK - WE'RE TALKING A LITTLE BIT AT 00:15:56.00\00:15:59.03 THE BEGINNING OF THIS - ABOUT BLOOD AND THE IMPORTANCE OF 00:15:59.03\00:16:01.90 BLOOD BECAUSE IT'S MENTIONED QUITE A BIT IN OUR LESSON AND I 00:16:01.90\00:16:06.50 THINK IT'S A SUBJECT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. 00:16:06.50\00:16:08.56 ALRIGHT, ARE WE READY FOR RICHARD? WE ARE. 00:16:08.56\00:16:11.53 GO AHEAD RICHARD, WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT FOR US? 00:16:11.53\00:16:13.43 >>"FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD, AND I HAVE GIVEN 00:16:13.43\00:16:18.43 IT TO YOU UPON THE ALTAR TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOULS; FOR IT 00:16:18.43\00:16:23.03 IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL." 00:16:23.03\00:16:27.46 >>SO WHEN WE'RE SINGING 'POWER IN THE BLOOD', WHAT IS IT THAT 00:16:27.46\00:16:30.50 MAKES ATONEMENT? THE BLOOD. WHY BLOOD? WHY NOT EARS? 00:16:30.50\00:16:38.23 WHY NOT SKIN? WHY NOT BRAIN TISSUE? I MEAN, WHY BLOOD? 00:16:38.23\00:16:46.33 THE BLOOD FEEDS EVERY CELL IN YOUR BODY. 00:16:46.33\00:16:50.16 THE BLOOD CLEANSES EVERY CELL IN THE BODY. 00:16:50.16\00:16:53.10 THE BLOOD IS WHAT TAKES AWAY THE BAD GASES AND SUPPLIES 00:16:53.10\00:16:56.50 THE OXYGEN - FRESH - THE GOOD GASES. 00:16:56.50\00:16:58.90 IT'S THE BLOOD CIRCULATING - THE BLOOD IS THE SAP OF YOUR BODY 00:16:58.90\00:17:04.30 AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN - IT'S NOT PLEASANT, BUT AN 00:17:04.30\00:17:09.43 ANIMAL CUT AND BLEED TO DEATH OR SHOT AND BLEED TO DEATH. 00:17:09.43\00:17:15.83 BUT AS THE BLOOD FLOWS OUT, THE LIFE FLOWS OUT AND WHEN SOMEONE 00:17:15.83\00:17:21.40 POURS OUT THEIR BLOOD - YOU KNOW THE THING THAT HAPPENED TO JESUS 00:17:21.40\00:17:24.43 AT THE VERY END - THEY PIERCED HIM WITH A SPEAR AND WATER AND 00:17:24.43\00:17:27.73 BLOOD RAN OUT. CLEANSING - OF COURSE WATER IS A TYPE OF 00:17:27.73\00:17:30.80 BAPTISM. JOHN EMPHASIZES THAT A LOT IN HIS GOSPEL. 00:17:30.80\00:17:34.60 BUT THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:17:34.60\00:17:37.60 GENESIS - YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES? LOOK IN GENESIS 9. 00:17:37.60\00:17:42.10 IT'S NOT THE FIRST PLACE YOU FIND BLOOD. 00:17:42.10\00:17:44.66 THE FIRST PLACE YOU FIND BLOOD IS - WHO KNOWS? IN THE BIBLE? 00:17:44.66\00:17:48.93 THE BROTHER OF CAIN, WHAT'S HIS NAME? ABEL. 00:17:48.93\00:17:54.73 IT SAYS 'THE BLOOD OF YOUR BROTHER ABEL CRIES TO ME FROM 00:17:54.73\00:17:57.16 THE GROUND. SO CAIN DID NOT STRANGLE HIM. 00:17:57.16\00:18:01.33 HE DID SOMETHING THAT MADE HIM BLEED. MAYBE HE BLUDGEONED HIM 00:18:01.33\00:18:04.63 OR WE DON'T KNOW, BUT HE STRUCK HIM IT SAYS AND HE 00:18:04.63\00:18:07.63 KILLED HIS BROTHER. 00:18:07.63\00:18:08.86 AND HE SAYS, 'THE BLOOD OF YOUR BROTHER ABEL' - AND IT'S 00:18:08.86\00:18:11.26 INTERESTING THAT IF YOU GO TO - DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE IN 00:18:11.26\00:18:13.60 GENESIS, I JUST THOUGHT OF ANOTHER VERSE. 00:18:13.60\00:18:15.63 IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW 23, VERSE 35, JESUS, WHEN HE WALKED AWAY 00:18:15.63\00:18:20.13 FROM THE TEMPLE, HE TURNED BACK AND HE SAID SOMETHING THAT 00:18:20.13\00:18:22.10 SHOULD HAVE MADE EVERYBODY SHUDDER. 00:18:22.10\00:18:24.86 HE SAID, 'THAT ON YOU MAY COME ALL THE RIGHTEOUS BLOOD SHED ON 00:18:24.86\00:18:28.13 THE EARTH.' HE SAID, 'ON THIS GENERATION - 00:18:28.13\00:18:30.06 ALL THE RIGHTEOUS BLOOD - INNOCENT BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN 00:18:30.06\00:18:32.26 SHED ON THE EARTH. FROM THE BLOOD OF RIGHTEOUS ABEL 00:18:32.26\00:18:38.30 TO THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH, THE SON OF BERICHIAH, WHOM YOU 00:18:38.30\00:18:41.03 MURDERED BETWEEN THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR.' 00:18:41.03\00:18:43.93 KING JOASH KILLED THE SON OF JEHOIADA THE PRIEST - ZECHARIAH, 00:18:43.93\00:18:48.40 IN THE TEMPLE, HE SHED HIS BLOOD. AND THESE WERE INNOCENT 00:18:48.40\00:18:51.73 PEOPLE. ABEL WAS INNOCENT. ZECHARIAH WAS - ALL THE INNOCENT 00:18:51.73\00:18:54.30 BLOOD - IT'S LIKE IT HAD BEEN PENT UP AND JESUS SAID THIS 00:18:54.30\00:18:57.40 GENERATION IS GOING TO PAY FOR THAT. 00:18:57.40\00:19:00.96 THERE'S AN ACCOUNT MADE FOR ANY INNOCENT BLOOD IN THE BIBLE. 00:19:00.96\00:19:04.16 THEY HAD A LAW THAT IF A PERSON HAD BEEN FOUND SLAIN - YOU KNOW, 00:19:04.16\00:19:09.03 PERIODICALLY IT HAPPENS IN OUR CULTURE, YOU'LL HEAR ON THE NEWS 00:19:09.03\00:19:11.66 THAT THERE WAS A MURDER. THEY DON'T KNOW WHO'S 00:19:11.66\00:19:13.96 RESPONSIBLE BUT SOMEBODY WAS SLAIN. 00:19:13.96\00:19:15.86 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE IS GUILT UPON THAT LAND UNTIL THE 00:19:15.86\00:19:20.43 GUILTY PARTY IS PUNISHED. AND THEY HAD A WHOLE SACRIFICE 00:19:20.43\00:19:24.00 THEY WOULD GO THROUGH IF THEY COULDN'T FIND THE GUILTY PARTY. 00:19:24.00\00:19:26.40 THEY WOULD OFFER THIS - YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT A SACRIFICE OF THE 00:19:26.40\00:19:29.70 RED HEIFER? THEY'D GO THROUGH THIS SACRIFICE 00:19:29.70\00:19:32.36 AND THIS ANIMAL WOULD BE OFFERED TO TRY TO CLEANSE THE LAND 00:19:32.36\00:19:36.36 BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING, 'LOOK, WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. 00:19:36.36\00:19:38.86 WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE GUILTY OF 00:19:38.86\00:19:40.96 THIS INNOCENT BLOOD. AND SO, THIS IS THE FIRST 00:19:40.96\00:19:43.30 REFERENCE OF BLOOD - IS TALKING ABOUT THE BLOOD OF ABEL THERE. 00:19:43.30\00:19:46.66 NOW, IN GENESIS, I MENTIONED THAT A MINUTE AGO. 00:19:46.66\00:19:50.20 GENESIS 9, VERSE 4, GOD SAYS TO NOAH, "BUT YOU SHALL NOT EAT THE 00:19:50.20\00:19:55.13 FLESH WITH ITS LIFE, THAT IS, ITS BLOOD." 00:19:55.13\00:19:58.93 - WELL, THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE WHAT? 00:19:58.93\00:20:03.20 DO NOT EAT THE FLESH WITH THE LIFE - "SURELY FOR YOUR 00:20:03.20\00:20:06.50 LIFEBLOOD I WILL DEMAND A RECKONING; FROM THE HAND OF 00:20:06.50\00:20:10.16 EVERY BEAST I WILL REQUIRE IT, AND FROM THE HAND OF MAN. 00:20:10.16\00:20:15.33 FROM THE HAND OF EVERY MAN'S BROTHER I WILL REQUIRE THE LIFE 00:20:15.33\00:20:20.13 OF MAN. 'WHOEVER SHEDS MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN HIS BLOOD SHALL BE 00:20:20.13\00:20:24.73 SHED; FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE MADE MAN.'" YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT 00:20:24.73\00:20:28.90 ONLY A HEALTH LAW - WHY DON'T WE EAT BLOOD? 00:20:28.90\00:20:35.30 WELL, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY HEALTH PROBLEMS WITH IT. 00:20:35.30\00:20:37.53 DISEASE CAN BE TRANSFERRED FROM ANIMAL TO ANIMAL VIA THE BLOOD. 00:20:37.53\00:20:41.20 BUT BLOOD IS DIFFERENT. IT'S NOT JUST A HEALTH LAW. 00:20:41.20\00:20:45.46 THE BLOOD GOES BEYOND THAT. 00:20:45.46\00:20:47.16 THERE'S SOMETHING SYMBOLIC THERE. 00:20:47.16\00:20:49.13 IT'S THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST THAT WE'RE CLEANSED. 00:20:49.13\00:20:51.23 THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD AND GOD SAYS, 'OF MAN, OF BEAST YOU ARE 00:20:51.23\00:20:57.16 NOT TO EAT BLOOD.' DO YOU ALSO FIND THAT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 00:20:57.16\00:21:00.46 IN ACTS CHAPTER 15 DOES IT SAY THAT YOU COMMAND THEM TO ABSTAIN 00:21:00.46\00:21:03.26 FROM? FROM BLOOD. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE WORKING 00:21:03.26\00:21:07.36 WITH THE NAVAJOS AND ONE OF THE THINGS - I'D NOT HEARD OF THIS 00:21:07.36\00:21:12.00 BEFORE - THEY MADE BLOOD SAUSAGE. 00:21:12.00\00:21:15.43 ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE? 00:21:15.43\00:21:17.83 OH - THAT GAVE ME THE CREEPS WHEN I WAS A MEAT EATER - IS THE 00:21:17.83\00:21:21.86 IDEA THAT YOU WOULD MAKE A MEAL OUT OF BLOOD. 00:21:21.86\00:21:25.00 AND THAT'S A GOOD REASON FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN TO AVOID EATING 00:21:25.00\00:21:29.90 ANY MEAT IS BECAUSE MOST MEAT IN AMERICA IS NOT BUTCHERED IN A 00:21:29.90\00:21:33.26 KOSHER WAY - THERE'S STILL BLOOD IN IT. AND IT TELLS US THAT 00:21:33.26\00:21:36.90 THERE'S SOMETHING SACRED ABOUT THAT - THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD. 00:21:36.90\00:21:41.90 ALRIGHT, WHO - I THINK I GAVE YOU MIKE - YOU'VE GOT 00:21:41.90\00:21:44.56 ROMANS 5:9. DO YOU HAVE YOUR MICROPHONE? 00:21:44.56\00:21:46.83 WE'RE NOT QUITE READY SO I'M GOING TO READ SOME OTHER VERSES. 00:21:46.83\00:21:48.86 HEBREWS 9:22, "AND ACCORDING TO THE LAW ALMOST ALL THINGS ARE 00:21:48.86\00:21:53.03 PURIFIED WITH BLOOD, AND WITHOUT SHEDDING OF BLOOD 00:21:53.03\00:21:58.30 THERE IS NO REMISSION." 00:21:58.30\00:22:00.33 HOW CAN YOU BE FORGIVEN WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD? 00:22:00.33\00:22:04.20 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS. 00:22:04.20\00:22:07.30 SO WHEN THEY SACRIFICED LAMBS AND WHEN THE BLOOD OF THESE 00:22:07.30\00:22:10.70 VICTIMS - OR GOATS OR BULLS - IT MIGHT EVEN BE - IF YOU WERE REAL 00:22:10.70\00:22:14.63 POOR AND YOU COULD NOT AFFORD A GOAT OR A LAMB - THE BULL WAS 00:22:14.63\00:22:19.90 SORT OF THE CADILLAC OFFERING. IT WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE. 00:22:19.90\00:22:23.06 THE POOR PEOPLE WOULD OFFER A CLEAN BIRD LIKE A DOVE. 00:22:23.06\00:22:26.46 WHAT DID JOSEPH AND MARY OFFER FOR JESUS FOR THE PURIFICATION 00:22:26.46\00:22:31.50 AFTER HE WAS BORN? IT WAS A DOVE. 00:22:31.50\00:22:33.73 THAT'S BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY POOR AND - BUT THEY ALL HAD TO 00:22:33.73\00:22:38.10 BE CLEAN ANIMALS. AND THE BLOOD OF THESE ANIMALS 00:22:38.10\00:22:43.13 WAS ALL A SYMBOL FOR THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 00:22:43.13\00:22:46.36 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? AND FOR HIS CLEANSING. 00:22:46.36\00:22:49.36 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US THEN ROMANS 5:9. 00:22:49.36\00:22:52.30 >>ROMANS 5:9, "MUCH MORE THEN, HAVING NOW BEEN JUSTIFIED BY HIS 00:22:52.30\00:22:56.73 BLOOD, WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WRATH THROUGH HIM." 00:22:56.73\00:23:00.76 >>ALRIGHT, SO THERE'S A JUSTIFICATION THAT HAPPENS 00:23:00.76\00:23:02.46 THROUGH THE BLOOD. SO HOW DOES THIS WORK? 00:23:02.46\00:23:05.16 YOU REMEMBER THE MODEL OF THE SANCTUARY? 00:23:05.16\00:23:08.40 YOU WALK THROUGH THE DOOR - YOU BEGIN TO APPROACH GOD - THE 00:23:08.40\00:23:10.96 FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU WALKED IN THE DOOR WAS WHAT BIG 00:23:10.96\00:23:14.13 ARTICLE OF FURNITURE? THERE'S AN ALTAR. 00:23:14.13\00:23:18.60 NOW WHAT HAPPENS AT AN ALTAR? WELL, THERE'S WORSHIPING THAT 00:23:18.60\00:23:22.60 HAPPENS AT AN ALTAR BUT THE JEWISH ALTAR ACTUALLY HAD A FIRE 00:23:22.60\00:23:26.46 GOING ON IT BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING BEING CONSUMED THERE. 00:23:26.46\00:23:32.36 THEY DID NOT TOSS THE ANIMALS ON THE ALTAR ALIVE. 00:23:32.36\00:23:36.40 WOULDN'T THAT BE AWFUL? THERE WAS ACTUALLY COMPASSION. 00:23:36.40\00:23:40.63 THE QUICKEST WAY POSSIBLE IS THEY WOULD TIE THEM UP, THEY 00:23:40.63\00:23:44.96 WOULD CUT THEIR THROATS AND, YOU KNOW, ONCE THE BLOOD IS LOST - 00:23:44.96\00:23:48.50 PRESSURE IS LOST FROM THE BRAIN - UNCONSCIOUSNESS SETS IN ALMOST 00:23:48.50\00:23:51.36 IMMEDIATELY AND THEN THEY WOULD CATCH MOST OF THE BLOOD - THE 00:23:51.36\00:23:55.50 OTHER WAS SPILT UPON THE GROUND AND THAT BLOOD WOULD BE 00:23:55.50\00:23:59.73 SPRINKLED BEFORE THE LORD IN A VARIETY OF WAYS DEPENDING UPON 00:23:59.73\00:24:02.53 WHAT CEREMONY IT WAS - WHETHER IT WAS A DAILY SACRIFICE OR 00:24:02.53\00:24:05.66 WHETHER IT WAS A WEEKLY SABBATH SACRIFICE OR IF IT WAS A DAY OF 00:24:05.66\00:24:08.80 ATONEMENT. BUT THAT BLOOD, BASICALLY, WAS 00:24:08.80\00:24:11.16 PRESENTED TO ATONE FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. 00:24:11.16\00:24:15.76 AND SO THEY WERE DECLARED FORGIVEN BECAUSE OF THAT BLOOD. 00:24:15.76\00:24:19.53 NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO HOW THAT HAPPENED PRACTICALLY IN 00:24:19.53\00:24:22.60 JUST A MINUTE. UNDER THE SECTION IN YOUR LESSON 00:24:22.60\00:24:27.03 'SIN AND MERCY' THERE'S A STORY I WANT YOU TO TURN TO. 00:24:27.03\00:24:33.06 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO 2 SAMUEL 14 AND I'VE GOT TO GIVE YOU 00:24:33.06\00:24:37.76 THE BACKGROUND. THE SON OF DAVID, ABSALOM, WAS 00:24:37.76\00:24:43.20 SEPARATED FROM HIS FATHER BECAUSE HE HAD MURDERED HIS 00:24:43.20\00:24:47.06 BROTHER AMNON. NOW ABSALOM, HE'S GOT A BAD 00:24:47.06\00:24:53.46 ENDING AND OTHER THINGS HAPPEN, BUT AT THIS POINT, AS YOU'RE 00:24:53.46\00:24:56.56 READING YOUR BIBLE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF THE STORY 00:24:56.56\00:24:58.73 GOES, MOST OF US WOULD EMPATHIZE A LITTLE BIT WITH ABSALOM 00:24:58.73\00:25:03.33 BECAUSE AMNON WAS EVEN WORSE THAN ABSALOM IN SOME WAYS. 00:25:03.33\00:25:07.20 AMNON - ABSALOM HAD A BEAUTIFUL SISTER - NOW WE ALREADY KNOW 00:25:07.20\00:25:11.30 ABSALOM WAS A VERY GOOD LOOKING YOUNG MAN AND IT SAYS HE HAD A 00:25:11.30\00:25:14.23 BEAUTIFUL SISTER - HER NAME WAS TAMAR. AMNON HAD A CRUSH ON 00:25:14.23\00:25:19.50 HIS HALF SISTER TAMAR - SAME FATHER, DIFFERENT MOTHER - AND 00:25:19.50\00:25:25.70 HE SEDUCED HER - TRICKED HER INTO COMING INTO HIS ROOM. 00:25:25.70\00:25:29.00 HE THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO POISON HIM, PRETENDED THAT HE 00:25:29.00\00:25:30.83 WAS SICK - HE SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT YOU TO COOK MY FOOD IN 00:25:30.83\00:25:32.50 FRONT OF ME BECAUSE I CAN TRUST YOU.' HE SENT EVERYBODY OUT AND 00:25:32.50\00:25:35.33 HE RAPED HIS SISTER. WELL, ESPECIALLY IN BIBLE TIMES, 00:25:35.33\00:25:40.26 IF THAT HAPPENED IT MEANT THAT YOU WERE DEFILED. THERE'S NO 00:25:40.26\00:25:42.60 RECORD SHE EVER MARRIED. SHE WENT OUT IN MOURNING. 00:25:42.60\00:25:44.96 AND THEN AFTER THAT HE SAID, 'NO, I DON'T THINK I WANT HER.' 00:25:44.96\00:25:46.83 SHE SAID, 'NOW WE NEED TO GET MARRIED.' 00:25:46.83\00:25:47.96 HE SAID, 'NO, I DON'T WANT TO MARRY YOU. 00:25:47.96\00:25:49.20 NOW I ACTUALLY HATE YOU.' IT'S AMAZING HOW QUICKLY THIS 00:25:49.20\00:25:52.36 INFATUATION AND LOVE TURN TO HATE IN THIS STORY - WITHIN A 00:25:52.36\00:25:55.46 FEW VERSES. AND ABSALOM HEARD ABOUT IT. 00:25:55.46\00:26:00.80 HE SAID, 'MY SISTER, DON'T LET THIS DESTROY YOU. 00:26:00.80\00:26:03.46 I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT.' NOTHING HAPPENS FOR TWO YEARS. 00:26:03.46\00:26:08.10 AND AMNON - EVERYBODY FIGURES THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE WAS 00:26:08.10\00:26:10.50 DEALING WITH IT AND THINGS WERE GOING TO BE OKAY. 00:26:10.50\00:26:12.40 ABSALOM THROWS A PARTY BECAUSE HE'S SHEARING SHEEP AND THAT WAS 00:26:12.40\00:26:15.33 THE TIME OF CELEBRATION. 00:26:15.33\00:26:16.70 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF NABAL - WHEN THEY'D SHEAR SHEEP THEY 00:26:16.70\00:26:18.26 WERE CELEBRATING, GIVING GIFTS - HE INVITES ALL HIS BROTHERS. 00:26:18.26\00:26:20.70 ALL HIS BROTHERS COME. ABSALOM TELLS HIS BROTHERS, 00:26:20.70\00:26:23.16 'WHEN I GIVE YOU THE SIGNAL' - HE SAID, 'DON'T BE AFRAID. 00:26:23.16\00:26:25.60 I WANT YOU TO RISE UP AND I WANT YOU TO KILL AMNON.' 00:26:25.60\00:26:29.53 HE GIVES THE SIGNAL, THEY DO IT, AND THEN ABSALOM FLEES TO LIVE 00:26:29.53\00:26:34.03 WITH HIS GRANDFATHER IN GESHUR - IN ANOTHER COUNTRY BORDERING 00:26:34.03\00:26:38.16 ISRAEL. HE RUNS AWAY. YEARS GO BY, ABSALOM IS GONE, 00:26:38.16\00:26:41.66 DAVID IS NOW GRIEVING FOR HIS SON BECAUSE HE REALIZES WHY 00:26:41.66\00:26:44.73 ABSALOM DID IT. DAVID DID NOTHING TO PUNISH 00:26:44.73\00:26:47.56 AMNON WHEN HE KILLED HIS BROTHER - WHEN HE RAPED HIS SISTER. 00:26:47.56\00:26:50.76 DAVID REALIZED 'IF I HAD DEALT WITH IT ABSALOM PROBABLY 00:26:50.76\00:26:52.93 WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS' AND SO HE'S MISSING HIS SON. 00:26:52.93\00:26:55.16 HE'S WANTING HIS SON TO COME HOME AND EVERY DAY THEY CAN TELL 00:26:55.16\00:26:57.86 HE'S DISTRESSED AND WORRIED ABOUT HIS SON THAT IS SEPARATED 00:26:57.86\00:27:01.33 FROM HIM. NOW, ISN'T THAT KIND OF WHAT SIN IS? DAVID IS A KING. 00:27:01.33\00:27:05.66 HE REPRESENTS GOD. HE'S GOT A SON THAT IS SEPARATED 00:27:05.66\00:27:07.96 AND HE WANTS HIM BACK. SO JOAB KNOWS - JOAB IS NOT ONLY 00:27:07.96\00:27:14.50 DAVID'S NEPHEW, HE'S HIS GENERAL. 00:27:14.50\00:27:16.50 HE SAID, 'DAVID'S NOT HIMSELF. HE CAN'T FOCUS ON THE KINGDOM. 00:27:16.50\00:27:19.30 HE CAN'T FOCUS ON THE WARS WE'RE FIGHTING. 00:27:19.30\00:27:20.83 WE'VE GOT TO GET ABSALOM BACK.' AND SO JOAB TELLS THIS WOMAN - 00:27:20.83\00:27:24.76 HE GETS A WISE WOMAN OF TEKOA - THAT'S A REGION NOT TOO FAR FROM 00:27:24.76\00:27:28.53 JERUSALEM - BUT SOMEONE FROM OUT OF TOWN THAT DAVID WON'T 00:27:28.53\00:27:31.73 RECOGNIZE AND SHE COMES IN ASKING FOR JUDGMENT FROM THE 00:27:31.73\00:27:34.96 KING. THE KING USED TO SIT, SORT OF, 00:27:34.96\00:27:37.20 AS THE SUPREME COURT JUDGE. THERE WERE JUDGES IN EVERY TOWN, 00:27:37.20\00:27:40.03 BUT IF THAT WASN'T SATISFYING YOU COULD TAKE IT TO THE KING. 00:27:40.03\00:27:43.10 HE WAS THE FINAL ARBITRATION. SO SHE COMES BEFORE THE KING AND 00:27:43.10\00:27:46.46 SHE MAKES UP THIS STORY JOAB HAS GIVEN HER. 00:27:46.46\00:27:49.00 SHE SAID, 'YOUR MAIDSERVANT IS A WIDOW. 00:27:49.00\00:27:51.43 I'VE GOT TWO GROWN SONS AND THEY'RE NOT MARRIED. 00:27:51.43\00:27:54.30 THEY WERE OUT IN THE FIELD ONE DAY AND THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT AND 00:27:54.30\00:27:56.96 IT GOT OUT OF HAND AND THEY FOUGHT AND ONE STRUCK THE OTHER 00:27:56.96\00:27:59.96 SO THAT HE KILLED HIS BROTHER. 00:27:59.96\00:28:02.06 AND NOW HE'S HIDING BUT THE NEIGHBORS ARE TELLING US 00:28:02.06\00:28:05.06 'YOU'VE GOT TO TURN OVER YOUR OTHER SON SO THAT WE CAN EXECUTE 00:28:05.06\00:28:07.20 HIM FOR KILLING HIS BROTHER.' AND THEN I WILL HAVE NO HUSBAND, 00:28:07.20\00:28:10.80 I WILL HAVE NO CHILDREN, NO HEIRS AND I'LL BE DESTITUTE.' 00:28:10.80\00:28:13.36 AND SHE'S PLEADING BEFORE THE KING AND THE KING SAYS, 'OKAY, 00:28:13.36\00:28:16.16 THAT'S NOT GOOD.' HE SAYS, 'I'LL FORGIVE YOU.' 00:28:16.16\00:28:19.40 AND SO THERE'S A STATEMENT MADE HERE - NOW I TOLD YOU THAT WHOLE 00:28:19.40\00:28:23.10 STORY TO UNDERSTAND THIS VERSE: 2 SAMUEL 14:9 - I LOVE IT WHEN I 00:28:23.10\00:28:27.80 SEE YOUR HEADS ALL BOB DOWN. THAT MEANS THAT YOUR BIBLES ARE 00:28:27.80\00:28:30.70 OPEN. 2 SAMUEL 14:9, "AND THE WOMAN OF TEKOA SAID TO THE 00:28:30.70\00:28:35.20 KING, "MY LORD, O KING, LET THE INIQUITY BE ON ME AND ON 00:28:35.20\00:28:38.46 MY FATHER'S HOUSE, AND THE KING AND HIS THRONE BE GUILTLESS." 00:28:38.46\00:28:41.40 IN OTHER WORDS, SHOW MERCY TO ME AND, - YOU KNOW, IF A KING 00:28:41.40\00:28:46.86 RENDERS A JUDGMENT WHERE HE SEEMS TO BE CONDONING GUILT, 00:28:46.86\00:28:51.96 THAT JUDGMENT, BIBLICALLY, FALLS ON THE KING. 00:28:51.96\00:28:55.16 AND SO THIS WOMAN OF TEKOA IS SAYING, 'THE JUDGMENT - THE 00:28:55.16\00:28:59.40 GUILT FOR THIS WILL NOT BE ON YOU. 00:28:59.40\00:29:00.80 IF THERE'S ANY GUILT IT'LL BE ON ME. YOU'LL BE INNOCENT.' 00:29:00.80\00:29:04.70 AND SO, BASICALLY, SHE WAS PAINTING A PICTURE FOR THE KING 00:29:04.70\00:29:09.80 TO THEN SEE, 'WELL, IF THAT'S TRUE NOW' - SHE SAYS - 'WHY HAVE 00:29:09.80\00:29:14.06 YOU NOT CALLED YOUR SON ABSALOM TO COME HOME? 00:29:14.06\00:29:18.33 IF YOU'RE GOING TO FORGIVE ME AND SAY THAT MY SON SHOULD LIVE, 00:29:18.33\00:29:21.66 PERHAPS YOU'RE GUILTY IN NOT FORGIVING YOUR SON AND BRINGING 00:29:21.66\00:29:25.50 HIM HOME.' AND IT'S VERY CLEVER THE WAY - 00:29:25.50\00:29:28.03 AND THEN FINALLY DAVID SAYS, 'IS JOAB BEHIND THIS?' 00:29:28.03\00:29:32.66 AND SHE SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE LIKE AN ANGEL OF HEAVEN, KING. 00:29:32.66\00:29:34.93 YOU'RE SO DISCERNING. YOU'RE' - BUT HE FINALLY SAID, 00:29:34.93\00:29:38.56 'OKAY, YOU CAN TELL ABSALOM TO COME HOME.' 00:29:38.56\00:29:40.43 BUT THERE'S A VERSE THAT'S IN THAT SAME STORY THAT, TO ME - GO 00:29:40.43\00:29:44.80 TO VERSE 14 - 2 SAMUEL 14:14. I BET YOU'VE NOT QUOTED OR HEARD 00:29:44.80\00:29:50.86 TOO MANY PREACHERS QUOTE THE WOMAN OF TEKOA. 00:29:50.86\00:29:54.23 SHE MAKES A STATEMENT IN THERE THAT SUMMARIZES THE GOSPEL, "FOR 00:29:54.23\00:29:58.56 WE WILL SURELY DIE AND BECOME LIKE WATER SPILLED ON THE 00:29:58.56\00:30:02.16 GROUND, WHICH CANNOT BE GATHERED UP AGAIN. 00:30:02.16\00:30:04.83 YET GOD DOES NOT TAKE AWAY A LIFE; BUT HE DEVISES MEANS," - 00:30:04.83\00:30:09.83 GOD DEVISES MEANS - "SO THAT HIS BANISHED ONES ARE NOT EXPELLED 00:30:09.83\00:30:15.80 FROM HIM." WE HAVE BEEN BANISHED. 00:30:15.80\00:30:18.76 WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD AND FROM HEAVEN AND WE'LL DIE AND 00:30:18.76\00:30:22.20 BECOME LIKE WATER THAT HAS SPILLED ON THE GROUND. 00:30:22.20\00:30:24.50 BUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, GOD HAS DEVISED THE MEANS - IT'S CALLED 00:30:24.50\00:30:28.06 THE PLAN OF SALVATION - THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE FOREVER SEPARATED 00:30:28.06\00:30:32.16 OR BANISHED FROM HIM. ISN'T THAT A BEAUTIFUL 00:30:32.16\00:30:33.80 STATEMENT? THAT SORT OF SUMMARIZES THE PLAN 00:30:33.80\00:30:36.23 OF SALVATION. AND SO, WE'RE STILL UNDER THIS 00:30:36.23\00:30:39.83 SECTION ON THE ATONEMENT MADE BY BLOOD. 00:30:39.83\00:30:43.33 SO THEY BRING THEIR OFFERING - AND WE'LL GET TO IT IN A MINUTE 00:30:43.33\00:30:45.40 - THEY LAY THEIR HANDS ON THE HEAD OF THIS OFFERING, CONFESS 00:30:45.40\00:30:48.03 THEIR SINS - THAT SIN WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE SACRIFICE, 00:30:48.03\00:30:51.93 ITS BLOOD WAS SPILT, THE BLOOD WAS PRESENTED AND APPLIED AND 00:30:51.93\00:30:56.46 THAT MADE ATONEMENT FOR THEM. NOW, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE I 00:30:56.46\00:31:01.80 THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING. LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU. 00:31:01.80\00:31:04.76 DEUTERONOMY 21:8, "'PROVIDE ATONEMENT, O LORD, FOR YOUR 00:31:04.76\00:31:10.00 PEOPLE ISRAEL, WHOM YOU HAVE REDEEMED, AND DO NOT LAY 00:31:10.00\00:31:13.66 INNOCENT BLOOD TO THE CHARGE OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.' 00:31:13.66\00:31:17.13 AND ATONEMENT SHALL BE PROVIDED ON THEIR BEHALF FOR THE BLOOD. 00:31:17.13\00:31:21.33 SO YOU SHALL PUT AWAY THE GUILT OF INNOCENT BLOOD FROM AMONG YOU 00:31:21.33\00:31:24.50 WHEN YOU DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD." 00:31:24.50\00:31:27.83 GOD TELLS US THAT THERE - YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD 'ATONEMENT' 00:31:27.83\00:31:30.50 MEANS? IN ENGLISH YOU JUST TAKE THAT WORD, CHOP IT 00:31:30.50\00:31:33.26 UP WITH SOME HYPHENS - YOU'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE - 00:31:33.26\00:31:35.70 IT MEANS 'AT-ONE-MENT'. YOU TAKE THE WORD ATONEMENT AND 00:31:35.70\00:31:39.33 WRITE IT ON A PIECE OF PAPER. WE'VE BEEN SEPARATED FROM GOD 00:31:39.33\00:31:42.30 AND THE PURPOSE OF THE PRIEST WAS TO MAKE ATONEMENT. 00:31:42.30\00:31:45.00 THAT MEANS 'TO MAKE AT ONE THOSE THAT ARE SEPARATED' - 00:31:45.00\00:31:48.63 AT-ONE-MENT. THAT'S ATONEMENT. AND SO, GOD IS WANTING TO BRING 00:31:48.63\00:31:52.93 US BACK TOGETHER. NOW, YOU'LL FIND IN YOUR LESSON 00:31:52.93\00:31:57.10 IT OFTEN CALLS IT THE SIN OFFERING. 00:31:57.10\00:32:01.40 MANY, MANY TIMES YOU FIND THE WORDS SIN OFFERING. 00:32:01.40\00:32:03.93 SIN OFFERING IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST TRANSLATION BECAUSE SOME OF 00:32:03.93\00:32:08.16 WHAT WE CALL SIN OFFERINGS WERE ACTUALLY PURIFICATION OFFERINGS. 00:32:08.16\00:32:12.40 ONE EXAMPLE - NOW I THREW THIS IN BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF 00:32:12.40\00:32:15.56 PEOPLE HAVE ASKED THIS QUESTION - IT SOUNDS WEIRD - HOW MANY OF 00:32:15.56\00:32:19.53 YOU KNEW THAT IF A WOMAN HAD A BABY BOY SHE WAS DECLARED 00:32:19.53\00:32:26.56 UNCLEAN FOR A WEEK, BUT IF SHE HAD A BABY GIRL SHE WAS UNCLEAN 00:32:26.56\00:32:30.86 FOR TWO WEEKS? AND SHE COULDN'T GO TO THE 00:32:30.86\00:32:33.90 TEMPLE FOR 33 DAYS IF SHE HAD A BOY, BUT SHE COULDN'T GO TO THE 00:32:33.90\00:32:37.96 TEMPLE 66 DAYS IF SHE HAD A GIRL. 00:32:37.96\00:32:41.13 WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO EXPLAIN THAT TO ME? 00:32:41.13\00:32:44.96 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE - I'VE GOT SOME IDEAS I'LL SHARE WITH YOU, BUT I 00:32:44.96\00:32:48.20 JUST WANTED TO EXERCISE YOUR PURE MINDS. 00:32:48.20\00:32:51.03 SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID - YOU KNOW, FOR YEARS THEY WOULD SAY, 00:32:51.03\00:32:55.26 'WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE WHEN A WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO A GIRL THAT 00:32:55.26\00:33:00.43 THERE'S A DISCHARGE LONGER.' THERE'S NO MEDICAL TRUTH TO 00:33:00.43\00:33:04.50 THAT. DR. DEROSE, DO YOU KNOW OF ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO, OKAY. 00:33:04.50\00:33:08.60 WE'VE GOT SOME DOCTORS IN THE HOUSE, I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM 00:33:08.60\00:33:10.50 THAT. BUT I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT. 00:33:10.50\00:33:13.06 THEY JUST MAKE THESE THINGS UP AND THEY BECOME URBAN MYTHS AND 00:33:13.06\00:33:16.00 THEY CIRCULATE. THERE'S NO TRUTH TO THAT. 00:33:16.00\00:33:18.63 OR - AND THEN I'VE HEARD, 'WELL, IT'S BECAUSE OF SIN ORIGINATING 00:33:18.63\00:33:24.16 WITH EVE AND SO THAT THE GIRLS ARE IMPURE. 00:33:24.16\00:33:30.40 YOU GIVE BIRTH TO A GIRL WELL, YOU'VE GOT TO COMPENSATE 00:33:30.40\00:33:33.46 BECAUSE IT'S A GIRL. YOU COULDN'T ACHIEVE A BOY AND 00:33:33.46\00:33:36.50 SO THERE'S TWICE AS MUCH TIME FOR PURIFICATION BECAUSE THEY'RE 00:33:36.50\00:33:39.10 MORE SINFUL.' THAT DOESN'T MARKET VERY WELL. 00:33:39.10\00:33:43.16 LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW. THE BEST ANSWER I HAVE HEARD IS 00:33:43.16\00:33:48.66 THIS IS NOT A SIN OFFERING. THE OFFERING THAT THE WOMAN IS 00:33:48.66\00:33:51.90 MAKING FOLLOWING A CHILD IS A PURIFICATION OFFERING. 00:33:51.90\00:33:55.10 IT SAYS THIS I THINK IN THE LESSON AS MUCH AS WELL. 00:33:55.10\00:33:57.83 AND A PURIFICATION OFFERING IS WHENEVER THERE WAS ANY DISCHARGE 00:33:57.83\00:34:01.30 FROM THE BODY THERE WAS AN OFFERING OF PURIFICATION. 00:34:01.30\00:34:04.00 OBVIOUSLY, IF A COUPLE IS MARRIED - THIS IS GOD'S PLAN. 00:34:04.00\00:34:07.60 HE SAYS, 'BE FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY.' 00:34:07.60\00:34:09.06 IF THEY DO WHAT THEY'RE COMMANDED THERE'S NO SIN IN 00:34:09.06\00:34:10.70 HAVING CHILDREN. ALRIGHT, SO YOU'RE NOT ASKING 00:34:10.70\00:34:12.93 FOR FORGIVENESS FOR HAVING A BABY, RIGHT? 00:34:12.93\00:34:15.73 IF YOU'RE DOING IT BY GOD'S DESIGN IN MARRIAGE. 00:34:15.73\00:34:18.43 SO IT'S NOT A SIN OFFERING IN THAT RESPECT, 00:34:18.43\00:34:21.63 IT'S A PURIFICATION OFFERING. 00:34:21.63\00:34:23.16 THE REASON THAT - THE BEST ANSWER I'VE HEARD FOR ME - THE 00:34:23.16\00:34:27.83 REASON, I'VE HEARD, THAT THERE'S EXACTLY TWICE AS MUCH OF TIME 00:34:27.83\00:34:32.73 WAITING FOR THE WOMAN AS GIVING BIRTH TO A GIRL AS GIVING BIRTH 00:34:32.73\00:34:37.83 TO A BOY IS BECAUSE EIGHT DAYS AFTER THE BOY WAS BORN - 00:34:37.83\00:34:42.26 REMEMBER, SHE WAS TO STAY AWAY FROM THE TEMPLE FOR SEVEN DAYS? 00:34:42.26\00:34:45.46 THAT MEANS ON THE EIGHTH DAY SHE WOULD GO WITH HER SON AND HER 00:34:45.46\00:34:48.00 SON WOULD BE CIRCUMCISED, WHICH REQUIRED THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD 00:34:48.00\00:34:52.86 AND THAT WOULD COMPENSATE FOR THE OTHER HALF OF THE TIME 00:34:52.86\00:34:56.66 BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWO INDIVIDUALS HERE NOW THAT ARE SHEDDING 00:34:56.66\00:34:59.60 BLOOD. AND SO THAT BOY AND THAT SHEDDING OF BLOOD - THE FIRST 00:34:59.60\00:35:03.43 TIME JESUS SHED BLOOD WAS NOT ON THE CROSS, IT WAS IN THE TEMPLE 00:35:03.43\00:35:06.60 WHEN HE WAS EIGHT DAYS OLD, RIGHT? AND THOUGH IT'S MINOR, 00:35:06.60\00:35:11.30 THERE IS SOME SHEDDING OF BLOOD THAT HAPPENS AT CIRCUMCISION. 00:35:11.30\00:35:14.36 AND SO THAT, TO ME, IS THE BEST ANSWER THAT I'VE HEARD IS THAT 00:35:14.36\00:35:17.96 THERE'S SOME CREDIT, BASICALLY, THAT'S GIVEN BECAUSE SHE BROUGHT 00:35:17.96\00:35:20.03 THE MAN-CHILD WHO'S BEING CIRCUMCISED AND THAT'S A TYPE OF 00:35:20.03\00:35:23.56 CHRIST. ANYWAY, TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT IS. 00:35:23.56\00:35:26.26 BUT IT'S A PURIFICATION OFFERING AND NOT SO MUCH A SIN OFFERING. 00:35:26.26\00:35:30.86 NOW, WHO NEEDS SIN OFFERING? EVERYBODY. 00:35:30.86\00:35:39.40 PSALM - SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME JEREMIAH 13:23 - WE GAVE THAT 00:35:39.40\00:35:44.70 OUT. YOU'VE GOT THAT RIGHT THERE? ALRIGHT, HANG ON TO IT. 00:35:44.70\00:35:47.43 JEREMIAH 13:23 - I'LL READ PSALM 14:3, "THERE IS NONE WHO DOES 00:35:47.43\00:35:53.56 GOOD, NO, NOT ONE." YOU CAN READ ISAIAH 53, VERSE 6, 00:35:53.56\00:35:59.00 "ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY." 00:35:59.00\00:36:01.93 YOU CAN READ ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT 00:36:01.93\00:36:06.43 OF THE GLORY OF GOD." AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO READ 00:36:06.43\00:36:08.53 ROMANS 3:12, "THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, NO, NOT ONE." 00:36:08.53\00:36:13.13 YOU CAN READ JOB 5:7, "YET MAN IS BORN TO TROUBLE, 00:36:13.13\00:36:16.50 AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD." THERE'S MANY MORE THAT I COULD 00:36:16.50\00:36:19.56 READ TO YOU THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT EVERY HUMAN THAT HAS EVER BEEN 00:36:19.56\00:36:23.36 BORN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE, JESUS, HAS SINNED. 00:36:23.36\00:36:27.96 AND YOU ARE GOING TO READ FOR US - I THINK WE'RE READY. 00:36:27.96\00:36:30.03 YEAH, GO AHEAD AND READ JEREMIAH - WHAT IS IT? - 13:23. 00:36:30.03\00:36:34.20 >>JEREMIAH 13:23, "CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS 00:36:34.20\00:36:37.93 SKIN OR THE LEOPARD ITS SPOTS? 00:36:37.93\00:36:40.90 THEN MAY YOU ALSO DO GOOD WHO ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO EVIL." 00:36:40.90\00:36:44.26 >>THE REASON A LEOPARD HAS SPOTS AND AN ETHIOPIAN'S SKIN IS DARK 00:36:44.26\00:36:49.06 IS MELANIN - IT'S COMING FROM THE INSIDE OUT. 00:36:49.06\00:36:53.10 SO THERE'S A PROBLEM ON THE INSIDE THAT IS CAUSING US TO 00:36:53.10\00:36:56.13 SIN. IT'S IN OUR NATURES. 00:36:56.13\00:36:59.03 AND WE CAN'T CHANGE THOSE THINGS WITHOUT SUPERNATURAL 00:36:59.03\00:37:02.50 INTERVENTION AND THIS IS WHAT HE'S TEACHING HERE. 00:37:02.50\00:37:06.10 I HAD A QUOTE HERE FROM SENECA - IT SAYS, 'SOME SINS WE HAVE 00:37:06.10\00:37:09.96 COMMITTED, SOME WE HAVE CONTEMPLATED, SOME WE HAVE 00:37:09.96\00:37:12.86 DESIRED, SOME WE HAVE ENCOURAGED. 00:37:12.86\00:37:15.23 IN THE CASE OF SOME, WE ARE INNOCENT ONLY BECAUSE WE DID NOT 00:37:15.23\00:37:17.66 SUCCEED.' I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. 00:37:17.66\00:37:21.50 NOW, THERE WAS ONE SIN FOR WHICH THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE. 00:37:21.50\00:37:25.56 WHAT WAS THAT? THIS WAS ALSO IN YOUR LESSON. 00:37:25.56\00:37:28.50 IT WAS CALLED PRESUMPTUOUS SIN. LET ME READ THIS TO YOU. 00:37:28.50\00:37:32.53 SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME HEBREWS 10:26. 00:37:32.53\00:37:35.33 WHO'S GOT THAT? OVER HERE. JAN, LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:37:35.33\00:37:39.53 SOMEONE OVER THERE GOT A MIC? YOU'RE THE MIC MAN TODAY, OKAY. 00:37:39.53\00:37:44.00 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT NUMBERS 15, VERSES 29 AND 30, "YOU SHALL 00:37:44.00\00:37:49.60 HAVE ONE LAW FOR HIM WHO SINS UNINTENTIONALLY, FOR HIM WHO IS 00:37:49.60\00:37:54.03 NATIVE-BORN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND FOR THE STRANGER 00:37:54.03\00:37:56.43 WHO DWELLS AMONG THEM. BUT THE PERSON WHO DOES ANYTHING 00:37:56.43\00:37:59.40 PRESUMPTUOUSLY, WHETHER HE IS NATIVE-BORN OR A STRANGER, THAT 00:37:59.40\00:38:03.76 ONE BRINGS REPROACH ON THE LORD, AND HE SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM 00:38:03.76\00:38:07.00 AMONG HIS PEOPLE. BECAUSE HE HAS DESPISED THE WORD 00:38:07.00\00:38:09.53 OF THE LORD, AND HAS BROKEN HIS COMMANDMENT, THAT PERSON SHALL 00:38:09.53\00:38:12.96 BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF; HIS GUILT SHALL BE UPON HIM." 00:38:12.96\00:38:16.80 THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE THAT IS FOR PRESUMPTUOUS SIN. 00:38:16.80\00:38:21.96 NOW THAT WORD PRESUMPTUOUS SIN DOES NOT MEAN INTENTIONAL SIN BY 00:38:21.96\00:38:25.46 ITSELF. NOW, I WANT YOU TO BE VERY HONEST. 00:38:25.46\00:38:28.56 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SINNED 00:38:28.56\00:38:34.93 KNOWING BEFORE THAT IT WAS WRONG BUT YOU DID IT ANYWAY? 00:38:34.93\00:38:42.40 CAN YOU CALL THAT INTENTIONAL? IT WAS, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE - 00:38:42.40\00:38:47.56 YOU'VE GOT MANSLAUGHTER, WHICH MEANS YOU KILL A PERSON BY 00:38:47.56\00:38:51.13 ACCIDENT BUT YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO. YOU DIDN'T GO VISIT THE PERSON 00:38:51.13\00:38:53.90 WITH THIS IN MIND OR IT WAS A CAR ACCIDENT. 00:38:53.90\00:38:56.23 IT'S UNINTENTIONAL KILLING OF HUMAN LIFE - MANSLAUGHTER. 00:38:56.23\00:39:00.50 THEN YOU'VE GOT WHAT THEY CALL PREMEDITATED - THAT MEANS YOU 00:39:00.50\00:39:03.30 PICKED UP YOUR GUN, WALKED OVER TO THEIR HOUSE AND SHOT THEM. 00:39:03.30\00:39:05.83 YOU KNEW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO DO - YOU PLANNED ON IT. 00:39:05.83\00:39:09.40 EVERYBODY HERE, I SUSPECT, IS GUILTY AT SOME TIME OR OTHER OF 00:39:09.40\00:39:12.66 PREMEDITATED SIN. IS THAT RIGHT? IF THERE IS NO SACRIFICE FOR 00:39:12.66\00:39:18.70 PREMEDITATED SIN, WE MAY AS WELL PACK UP AND GO HOME BECAUSE 00:39:18.70\00:39:22.86 WE'RE DOOMED. IT'S NOT TALKING HERE ABOUT 00:39:22.86\00:39:25.60 THERE BEING NO SACRIFICE FOR INTENTIONAL SIN. 00:39:25.60\00:39:28.66 YOU'LL NOTICE THE KEY WORD HERE - IT SAYS, 'THIS PERSON BRINGS 00:39:28.66\00:39:33.23 REPROACH ON THE LORD.' THIS IS A PERSON WHO IS 00:39:33.23\00:39:36.46 BASICALLY - THEY'RE TAKING AN ATHEISTIC POSITION OF SAYING, 00:39:36.46\00:39:40.60 'I KNOW WHAT GOD WANTS. I DON'T CARE. 00:39:40.60\00:39:43.40 I'M GOING TO DO MY OWN THING.' NOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE SIN - LIKE 00:39:43.40\00:39:47.20 MARY MAGDALENE - SEVEN DEVILS WERE CAST OUT OF HER. 00:39:47.20\00:39:50.06 AND IF YOU READ IN DESIRE OF AGES, IT IMPLIES SEVEN DIFFERENT 00:39:50.06\00:39:53.80 TIMES SHE FELL BACK INTO THE OLD BEHAVIOR AND THE LORD HAD TO 00:39:53.80\00:39:58.36 SAVE HER AGAIN. A PERSON WHO HAS AN ADDICTION 00:39:58.36\00:40:02.33 AND THEY STOP DRINKING. THEY KNOW IT'S WRONG. 00:40:02.33\00:40:04.56 THEY KNOW IT'S BAD. THEY KNOW IT'S HURTING THEM AND 00:40:04.56\00:40:06.43 THEY SLIP. THEY KNOW WHEN THEY PICK UP THAT 00:40:06.43\00:40:09.93 BOTTLE AND TAKE THAT ONE - THAT FIRST DRINK AGAIN - 00:40:09.93\00:40:12.70 THAT IT'S WRONG. YOU CAN CALL THAT PREMEDITATED. 00:40:12.70\00:40:16.50 BUT THEY'RE SINNING BECAUSE OF WEAKNESS. 00:40:16.50\00:40:18.96 SO A LOT OF OUR PREMEDITATED SIN IS BECAUSE OF WEAKNESS. 00:40:18.96\00:40:22.46 WE DON'T WANT TO. WE WANT TO HAVE VICTORY. 00:40:22.46\00:40:24.26 WE WANT TO CHANGE. HE SAYS THERE IS NO SACRIFICE 00:40:24.26\00:40:27.60 FOR THE SIN THAT IS PRESUMPTUOUS 00:40:27.60\00:40:30.80 - MEANING YOU'RE DOING IT AND YOU DON'T CARE AND YOU HAVE NO 00:40:30.80\00:40:33.70 REMORSE AND YOU HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE HOLY. 00:40:33.70\00:40:36.50 NOW THAT'S WHERE OUR VERSE COMES IN. 00:40:36.50\00:40:39.03 GO AHEAD, JAN, READ FOR US HEBREWS 10:26 AND 27 TOO. 00:40:39.03\00:40:43.83 >>"FOR IF WE SIN WILLFULLY AFTER WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE 00:40:43.83\00:40:47.10 OF THE TRUTH, THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 00:40:47.10\00:40:51.76 BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF JUDGMENT, AND 00:40:51.76\00:40:55.66 FIERY INDIGNATION WHICH WILL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES." 00:40:55.66\00:41:00.26 >>SO IF A PERSON GOES INTO SIN AND THEY SAY, 'I KNOW IT'S WRONG 00:41:00.26\00:41:03.56 BUT I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP DOING IT.' 00:41:03.56\00:41:06.23 THEY HAVE NO DESIRE FOR VICTORY. 00:41:06.23\00:41:08.20 IT'S NOT THE ISSUE OF THEM SLIPPING INTO SOME ADDICTIVE 00:41:08.20\00:41:10.43 BEHAVIOR, BECAUSE WHETHER IT'S OVEREATING - YOU PICK YOUR 00:41:10.43\00:41:13.76 FAVORITE SIN - I THINK EVERYBODY HERE HAS KNOWINGLY SINNED. 00:41:13.76\00:41:17.33 I KNOW I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T EAT ONE MORE BUT - WE LAUGH ABOUT IT 00:41:17.33\00:41:20.10 AT POTLUCK BUT HEY, WELL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SHOULDN'T EAT ONE 00:41:20.10\00:41:22.13 MORE AND YOU DO, THE SIN OF GLUTTONY IS A SIN OF THE FLESH, 00:41:22.13\00:41:26.20 RIGHT? IT'S THE LUST OF THE FLESH. AND SO THERE'S A LOT 00:41:26.20\00:41:29.86 OF US - ALL OF US HAVE DONE THAT KIND OF PREMEDITATED SIN. 00:41:29.86\00:41:33.46 BUT HERE HE SAYS, IF YOU SIN WILLFULLY AFTER YOU'VE RECEIVED 00:41:33.46\00:41:37.00 THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH - IT'S A WILLFUL - NOT WANTING 00:41:37.00\00:41:39.40 VICTORY - IT'S A WILLFUL GOING IN AND SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, I'M 00:41:39.40\00:41:43.20 JUST GOING TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO.' 00:41:43.20\00:41:45.20 HOW MUCH SACRIFICE IS THERE FOR THAT? 00:41:45.20\00:41:47.43 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE 'THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A SACRIFICE. 00:41:47.43\00:41:52.10 SO IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE REPENTANCE AND REMORSE AND YOU 00:41:52.10\00:41:55.50 WANT VICTORY - THAT'S WHAT SACRIFICE IS GOOD FOR, RIGHT? 00:41:55.50\00:41:58.43 BECAUSE THINK ABOUT IT - WHENEVER YOU BROUGHT THE LAMB 00:41:58.43\00:42:00.66 YOU'D LAY YOUR HANDS ON THE HEAD OF THE LAMB, YOU WOULD CONFESS - 00:42:00.66\00:42:03.13 THERE MUST BE CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE FOR THAT SACRIFICE TO 00:42:03.13\00:42:05.96 DO ANY GOOD. THERE NEEDS TO BE REMORSE. 00:42:05.96\00:42:09.06 SO FOR AN ATHEIST OR PEOPLE THAT ARE DENYING GOD OR JUST LIVING 00:42:09.06\00:42:12.90 IN HIGH-HANDED REBELLION, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM 00:42:12.90\00:42:16.70 WAS FOR. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE. HEBREWS 4 - SORRY, 00:42:16.70\00:42:21.16 HEBREWS 6, VERSES 4 TO 6. THIS VERSE SCARES PEOPLE. 00:42:21.16\00:42:24.20 WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON THIS. 00:42:24.20\00:42:26.40 "FOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO WERE ONCE ENLIGHTENED, AND 00:42:26.40\00:42:30.06 HAVE TASTED THE HEAVENLY GIFT, AND HAVE BECOME PARTAKERS OF THE 00:42:30.06\00:42:32.56 HOLY SPIRIT, AND HAVE TASTED THE GOOD WORD OF GOD AND THE POWERS 00:42:32.56\00:42:35.83 OF THE AGE TO COME, IF THEY FALL AWAY, TO RENEW THEM AGAIN TO 00:42:35.83\00:42:39.96 REPENTANCE, SINCE THEY CRUCIFY AGAIN FOR THEMSELVES THE SON OF 00:42:39.96\00:42:43.50 GOD, AND PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME." 00:42:43.50\00:42:45.53 IS THIS SAYING IF A PERSON BACKSLIDES THEY CAN'T BE 00:42:45.53\00:42:48.00 FORGIVEN? WHAT ABOUT THE PRODIGAL SON? 00:42:48.00\00:42:52.33 WHAT ABOUT PETER? WHAT ABOUT DAVID? 00:42:52.33\00:42:54.03 WHAT ABOUT MOSES AND ABRAHAM AND ALL THE STORIES IN THE BIBLE OF 00:42:54.03\00:42:58.73 PEOPLE WHO KNEW GOD'S WILL AND THEY SLID AWAY AND THEY REPENTED 00:42:58.73\00:43:02.20 IN THAT FAR COUNTRY AND THEY CAME BACK AGAIN. 00:43:02.20\00:43:05.46 THIS IS TALKING, AGAIN, ABOUT THE HIGH-HANDED REBELLION WHERE 00:43:05.46\00:43:09.06 WHEN GOD GIVES YOU THE BEST THAT HE'S GOT AND YOU SAY, 'I DON'T 00:43:09.06\00:43:11.33 CARE, I'M GOING TO DO MY OWN THING.' 00:43:11.33\00:43:13.20 THE WORD 'FALL AWAY' THERE IS NOT FALL AWAY, IT'S MORE LIKE 00:43:13.20\00:43:15.40 TURNING AWAY. AND SO, THERE'S NOTHING GOD CAN DO. 00:43:15.40\00:43:19.36 IF YOU REJECT THE BEST THAT GOD OFFERS YOU, WHAT ELSE IS HE 00:43:19.36\00:43:23.30 GOING TO OFFER, RIGHT? OKAY, MOVING ALONG. 00:43:23.30\00:43:27.33 'LAYING ON OF HANDS' - THIS IS UNDER THE SECTION OF 00:43:27.33\00:43:30.23 'LAYING ON OF HANDS'. LET ME READ A VERSE, 00:43:30.23\00:43:35.00 HEBREWS 6:1 AND 2. I THINK THIS IS INTERESTING. 00:43:35.00\00:43:40.86 "THEREFORE, LEAVING THE DISCUSSION OF THE ELEMENTARY 00:43:40.86\00:43:43.90 PRINCIPLES OF CHRIST, LET US GO ON TO PERFECTION, NOT LAYING 00:43:43.90\00:43:49.33 AGAIN THE FOUNDATION OF REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS AND 00:43:49.33\00:43:52.46 OF FAITH TOWARD GOD, OF THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS," - NOW 00:43:52.46\00:43:56.13 NOTICE WHAT PAUL IS SAYING - ASSUMING PAUL WROTE HEBREWS. 00:43:56.13\00:43:58.56 PAUL IS SAYING, 'ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES' - HE'S TALKING ABOUT 00:43:58.56\00:44:01.70 ELEMENTARY DOCTRINES - 'LET'S GO ON TO THE MEAT OF THE WORD AND 00:44:01.70\00:44:04.96 NOT JUST THE MILK.' AND HE SAYS HERE, 'LET'S MATURE 00:44:04.96\00:44:11.33 THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS - THAT'S ELEMENTARY - "OF LAYING 00:44:11.33\00:44:15.46 ON OF HANDS, OF RESURRECTIONS OF THE DEAD, AND OF ETERNAL 00:44:15.46\00:44:20.16 JUDGMENT." NOW, WE'VE ALL HEARD, IN 00:44:20.16\00:44:21.70 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, SOMEONE TALK ABOUT THE RESURRECTION. 00:44:21.70\00:44:24.16 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BAPTISM. 00:44:24.16\00:44:27.23 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ETERNAL JUDGMENT. 00:44:27.23\00:44:29.63 THESE ARE ALL FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS. 00:44:29.63\00:44:31.93 BUT, YOU KNOW, I VERY RARELY HEAR, AS A FOUNDATIONAL 00:44:31.93\00:44:34.46 DOCTRINE, THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAYING ON OF HANDS. 00:44:34.46\00:44:38.70 BUT, EVIDENTLY, IN THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES, THEY TAUGHT 00:44:38.70\00:44:42.00 SOMETHING ELEMENTARY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LAY HANDS. 00:44:42.00\00:44:45.46 NOW WHERE IN THE BIBLE DO WE SEE PEOPLE LAYING HANDS ON ANOTHER? 00:44:45.46\00:44:50.03 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU PUT YOUR ARM 00:44:50.03\00:44:51.66 AROUND YOUR FRIEND. IN A CEREMONIAL FASHION, IN A 00:44:51.66\00:44:56.43 RELIGIOUS FASHION, FOR WHAT PURPOSES WERE HANDS LAID ON? 00:44:56.43\00:45:01.50 HEALING. WHEN A CHILD - THE FIRST-BORN SON WAS BLESSED, 00:45:01.50\00:45:10.10 ORDINATION - DO YOU SEE THE APOSTLES AND THE DEACONS, AND 00:45:10.10\00:45:16.66 THE SACRIFICE. LAYING ON OF HANDS - I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A 00:45:16.66\00:45:20.63 MINI-DOCTRINAL STUDY ON IT. LAYING ON OF HANDS REPRESENTED A 00:45:20.63\00:45:25.30 TRANSFERENCE. A TRANSFERENCE. IT COULD BE 00:45:25.30\00:45:30.56 THE TRANSFERENCE OF SIN. 00:45:30.56\00:45:31.86 FOR INSTANCE, WHEN YOU PLACE YOUR HANDS OR THE HIGH PRIEST 00:45:31.86\00:45:35.86 WOULD PLACE HIS HANDS ON THE HEAD OF A VICTIM AND THEY WOULD 00:45:35.86\00:45:39.23 CONFESS THEIR SINS, THERE WAS A SYMBOLIC TRANSFERENCE OF THE SIN 00:45:39.23\00:45:43.83 TO THAT VICTIM. AND THEN WHEN IT WAS SLAIN, IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY 00:45:43.83\00:45:46.96 SLAIN FOR THE SINS THAT YOU TRANSFERRED. YOU GOT THAT? 00:45:46.96\00:45:50.86 WHEN, AS A FATHER - WHEN JACOB PLACED HIS HANDS ON HIS SONS AND 00:45:50.86\00:45:56.16 HE BLESSED THEM, WHAT DID THAT REPRESENT? 00:45:56.16\00:45:58.33 OR WHEN ISAAC DID IT WITH JACOB? 00:45:58.33\00:46:00.43 IT WAS A TRANSFERENCE OF THIS BLESSING THAT ISAAC HAD RECEIVED 00:46:00.43\00:46:05.23 FROM ABRAHAM AND ABRAHAM FROM TERAH AND ON UP THE LINE - THAT 00:46:05.23\00:46:09.16 THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO COME THROUGH THAT LINE. 00:46:09.16\00:46:12.53 WHEN MOSES PLACED HIS HANDS ON JOSHUA WAS IT A TRANSFERENCE OF 00:46:12.53\00:46:19.33 SIN OR A TRANSFERENCE OF AUTHORITY? IN THE PRESENCE OF 00:46:19.33\00:46:23.20 ISRAEL NO ONE QUESTIONED THAT GOD HAD CALLED MOSES, RIGHT? 00:46:23.20\00:46:27.16 SO HE HAD THIS AUTHORITY THEY RECOGNIZED. 00:46:27.16\00:46:28.90 THERE WERE TIMES WHEN THEY DOUBTED IT - BUT HE THEN LAID 00:46:28.90\00:46:31.03 HIS HANDS ON JOSHUA BECAUSE HE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DIE. 00:46:31.03\00:46:33.46 THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE OF AUTHORITY THAT HAPPENED THERE - 00:46:33.46\00:46:37.03 THAT HE WANTED THEM TO RESPECT AND THEY DID. 00:46:37.03\00:46:39.63 AND SO - AND LIKEWISE, WHEN JESUS PLACED HIS HANDS ON THE 00:46:39.63\00:46:43.40 HAND OF THE APOSTLES. NOW IT'S INTERESTING IN THE 00:46:43.40\00:46:46.40 BIBLE, DO YOU KNOW IT DOESN'T SAY CHRIST LAID HIS HANDS ON THE 00:46:46.40\00:46:48.33 APOSTLES? BUT MOST BELIEVE THAT HE DID 00:46:48.33\00:46:52.00 WHEN THEY WERE SET ASIDE AS APOSTLES. 00:46:52.00\00:46:53.63 IT SAYS IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' THAT HE DID - VERY CLEARLY. 00:46:53.63\00:46:56.83 BUT THEN THE APOSTLES, WHEN THEY LAID HANDS ON SOMEONE TO REPLACE 00:46:56.83\00:47:02.86 JUDAS AND THEY LAID HANDS ON THE DEACONS AND WHEN THEY RECEIVED 00:47:02.86\00:47:06.83 THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHY, WHEN PHILIP WAS PREACHING 00:47:06.83\00:47:11.66 IN SAMARIA, AND THE PEOPLE WERE ACCEPTING HIS PREACHING - 00:47:11.66\00:47:15.96 THEY CALLED FOR PETER AND JOHN AND THEY SAID, 'BUT YOU NEED TO 00:47:15.96\00:47:18.76 COME AND LAY HANDS ON THEM. WHY DIDN'T PHILIP LAY HANDS ON THEM? 00:47:18.76\00:47:23.26 BECAUSE THEY WERE APOSTLES AND THEY HAD THIS DIFFERENT 00:47:23.26\00:47:24.93 AUTHORITY. THEY HAD RECEIVED THE HOLY 00:47:24.93\00:47:26.96 SPIRIT AT PENTECOST FROM JESUS. THEY WERE TRANSFERRING THIS. 00:47:26.96\00:47:29.80 THEY THEN LAID HANDS ON THESE PEOPLE AND THEY RECEIVED THE 00:47:29.80\00:47:32.13 HOLY SPIRIT. AND SO THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE. 00:47:32.13\00:47:34.30 ANY OF YOU EVER PLAYED A GAME WHERE YOU RUBBED YOUR FEET ON A 00:47:34.30\00:47:39.56 STATIC CARPET AND WENT UP AND TOUCHED SOMEBODY? 00:47:39.56\00:47:44.70 AND THE CHARGE THAT WAS IN YOUR BODY WAS TRANSFERRED TO THEM. 00:47:44.70\00:47:51.63 AND SO - YOU EVER PLAY TAG? YOU EVER THINK - YOU EVER 00:47:51.63\00:47:56.26 ANALYZE THE THEOLOGY OF TAG? THE GAME TAG? 00:47:56.26\00:48:00.73 THERE'S VERY PROFOUND THEOLOGY IN THAT GAME. SOMEBODY IS 'IT' 00:48:00.73\00:48:06.00 AND THEY RUN AROUND TRYING TO TOUCH SOMEONE ELSE. 00:48:06.00\00:48:09.36 AND AS SOON AS YOU TOUCH THEM, THEY BECOME IT AND THEY'VE GOT 00:48:09.36\00:48:13.10 TO RUN AROUND AND TOUCH SOMEONE ELSE, RIGHT? 00:48:13.10\00:48:15.13 AND SO THERE'S THIS LIKE TRANSFERENCE OF BEING IT. 00:48:15.13\00:48:18.03 UNLESS YOU'RE HOLDING HOME BASE THEN - YOU'RE SAFE. 00:48:18.03\00:48:23.93 I THINK THAT'S A GAME THAT MUST BE PLAYED IN EVERY COUNTRY. 00:48:23.93\00:48:27.46 THE RULES ARE REALLY SIMPLE. WELL - SO THAT'S SIMPLY WHAT'S 00:48:27.46\00:48:31.46 HAPPENING WITH THIS LAYING ON OF HANDS. 00:48:31.46\00:48:33.26 SO YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN LET ME SEE HERE, YEAH, LEVITICUS 00:48:33.26\00:48:39.76 4, VERSE 27, "IF ANYONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE SINS 00:48:39.76\00:48:48.73 UNINTENTIONALLY BY DOING SOMETHING AGAINST ANY OF THE 00:48:48.73\00:48:51.10 COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD IN ANYTHING WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE 00:48:51.10\00:48:56.23 DONE AND IS GUILTY, OR IF HIS SIN WHICH HE HAS COMMITTED COMES 00:48:56.23\00:48:59.83 TO HIS KNOWLEDGE," - YOU NOTICE THAT? 00:48:59.83\00:49:02.23 YOU COMMITTED A SIN YOU DON'T KNOW BUT IT COMES TO YOUR 00:49:02.23\00:49:04.03 KNOWLEDGE - YOU BECOME AWARE. ANY OF YOU EVER DO SOMETHING 00:49:04.03\00:49:06.66 WRONG AND THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT TELLS YOU LATER? 'OH WOW, 00:49:06.66\00:49:11.56 DIDN'T REALIZE THAT.' AND SOMETIMES YOU NEED SOMEONE LIKE 00:49:11.56\00:49:14.56 NATHAN THE PROPHET TO COME ALONG AND SAY 'THOU ART THE MAN' - 00:49:14.56\00:49:17.10 OR THOU ART THE WOMAN. A PERSON MAY NOT KNOW OF UNTIL THEN. 00:49:17.10\00:49:22.83 AND HE SAYS IF HE DOES ANY OF THOSE THINGS, IT SAYS, "THEN HE 00:49:22.83\00:49:26.13 SHALL BRING AS HIS OFFERING A KID OF THE GOATS, A FEMALE 00:49:26.13\00:49:29.00 WITHOUT BLEMISH, FOR HIS SIN WHICH HE HAS COMMITTED. 00:49:29.00\00:49:32.10 AND HE SHALL LAY HIS HAND ON THE HEAD OF THE SIN OFFERING, AND 00:49:32.10\00:49:35.93 KILL THE SIN OFFERING AT THE PLACE OF THE BURNT OFFERING." 00:49:35.93\00:49:38.83 - THERE WAS A PLACE PRESCRIBED WHERE THEY WOULD DO IT. 00:49:38.83\00:49:41.43 - "THEN THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE" - NOW WHO WOULD LAY THEIR HANDS ON 00:49:41.43\00:49:43.56 IT? THE PERSON WHO WAS GUILTY. 00:49:43.56\00:49:46.23 IT WAS USUALLY A MAN WHO WOULD DO IT ON BEHALF OF HIS FAMILY 00:49:46.23\00:49:48.76 BECAUSE HE WAS THE PRIEST FOR THE FAMILY. 00:49:48.76\00:49:50.30 BUT THAT SIN WAS THEN CONFESSED AND THEN THE SIN WAS TRANSFERRED 00:49:50.30\00:49:54.13 TO THE VICTIM - THAT GOAT OR THAT SHEEP - "THEN THE PRIEST 00:49:54.13\00:49:57.53 SHALL TAKE SOME OF ITS BLOOD" - AND IT SAYS - NOTICE - "KILL THE 00:49:57.53\00:50:02.46 SIN OFFERING AT THAT PLACE" - THE PERSON MIGHT DO IT, THE 00:50:02.46\00:50:07.03 PRIEST OF THE FAMILY MIGHT DO IT, OR THE PRIEST MIGHT DO IT 00:50:07.03\00:50:09.23 DEPENDING ON THE OCCASION. "THEN THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE SOME 00:50:09.23\00:50:12.00 OF ITS BLOOD WITH HIS FINGER, PUT IT ON THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR 00:50:12.00\00:50:15.26 OF BURNT OFFERING, AND POUR OUT THE REMAINING BLOOD AT THE BASE 00:50:15.26\00:50:18.43 OF THE ALTAR." AND SO THAT BLOOD IS BEING 00:50:18.43\00:50:20.93 PRESENTED IN THE SANCTUARY. SO WHERE IS THE SIN GOING? 00:50:20.93\00:50:26.50 SYMBOLICALLY THE SIN IS BEING TRANSFERRED FROM THE GUILTY 00:50:26.50\00:50:30.00 PARTY TO THE VICTIM, FROM THE BLOOD OF THE VICTIM TO THE 00:50:30.00\00:50:33.60 SANCTUARY. SO OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, 00:50:33.60\00:50:36.53 SYMBOLICALLY, THE SANCTUARY IS BECOMING A WAREHOUSE OF SIN. 00:50:36.53\00:50:41.20 DO YOU SEE WHY THEY WOULD HAVE A DAY OF ATONEMENT ONCE A YEAR 00:50:41.20\00:50:42.90 THAT WOULD SYMBOLICALLY CLEANSE - I MEAN, THERE'S NO GREMLINS 00:50:42.90\00:50:46.36 RUNNING AROUND IN THE SANCTUARY THAT ARE SIN. 00:50:46.36\00:50:49.06 THAT SIN IS SYMBOLICALLY BEING TRANSFERRED THERE AND SO THEY 00:50:49.06\00:50:52.06 HAD A SERVICE WHERE THE SIN WAS SYMBOLICALLY SEPARATED FROM THE 00:50:52.06\00:50:55.20 SANCTUARY - IT WAS CLEANSED - THAT WAS THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 00:50:55.20\00:50:58.20 AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT SOME. 00:50:58.20\00:51:00.06 WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT MORE. YEAH, AND SO IT WAS - THE PRIEST 00:51:00.06\00:51:04.16 WOULD REPRESENT THE PEOPLE - THE HIGH PRIEST IN PARTICULAR - AND 00:51:04.16\00:51:08.20 LATER THAT SIN WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THE SCAPEGOAT. 00:51:08.20\00:51:11.66 LEVITICUS 16:21, "AARON SHALL LAY BOTH HIS HANDS" - THIS IS 00:51:11.66\00:51:18.30 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT - "ON THE HEAD OF THE LIVE GOAT, CONFESS 00:51:18.30\00:51:22.36 OVER IT ALL THE INIQUITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL" - SO 00:51:22.36\00:51:25.76 THIS IS NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL BRINGING IT TO A PRIEST, THIS IS 00:51:25.76\00:51:29.83 THE HIGH PRIEST DOING A SACRIFICE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE 00:51:29.83\00:51:34.30 - THE WHOLE NATION - PUTTING THEM ON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT. 00:51:34.30\00:51:38.16 HOW CAN ONE GOAT BEAR THE SIN OF A WHOLE NATION? 00:51:38.16\00:51:43.43 HOW CAN ONE MAN BEAR THE SIN OF ALL HUMANITY? 00:51:43.43\00:51:49.03 SO OBVIOUSLY, A GOAT CAN'T DO THAT. 00:51:49.03\00:51:51.26 BUT JESUS, BEING THE CREATOR OF HUMANITY, COULD TAKE THE SIN OF 00:51:51.26\00:51:56.66 ALL HUMANITY. AND SO, THERE WAS A SACRIFICE MADE IN BEHALF. 00:51:56.66\00:52:03.16 AND SO THAT SIN WAS TRANSFERRED YOU CAN READ IN JEREMIAH - AND 00:52:03.16\00:52:06.56 THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - JEREMIAH 17:1, "THE SIN OF JUDAH 00:52:06.56\00:52:09.76 IS WRITTEN WITH A PEN OF IRON; WITH THE POINT OF A DIAMOND IT 00:52:09.76\00:52:13.36 IS ENGRAVED ON THE TABLET OF THEIR HEART, AND ON THE HORNS OF 00:52:13.36\00:52:16.63 YOUR ALTARS." AND SO HERE THESE THINGS ARE 00:52:16.63\00:52:20.13 RECORDED AND SO THE SIN WAS TRANSFERRED. 00:52:20.13\00:52:23.26 AND THEN THERE'S THE - YOU KNOW, BEFORE I RUN OUT OF TIME - IT 00:52:23.26\00:52:27.56 TALKS ABOUT THE BEARING OF THE SIN AND LEVITICUS 10:16, "THEN 00:52:27.56\00:52:32.50 MOSES MADE CAREFUL INQUIRY ABOUT THE GOAT OF THE SIN OFFERING, 00:52:32.50\00:52:36.96 AND THERE IT WAS - BURNED UP. 00:52:36.96\00:52:39.50 AND HE WAS ANGRY WITH ELEAZAR AND ITHAMAR, THE SONS OF AARON 00:52:39.50\00:52:42.20 WHO WERE LEFT, SAYING, 'WHY HAVE YOU NOT EATEN THE SIN OFFERING 00:52:42.20\00:52:45.33 IN A HOLY PLACE, SINCE IT IS MOST HOLY" - FOR SOME OF THE 00:52:45.33\00:52:48.40 OFFERINGS THE PRIEST WAS TO EAT SOME OF IT. 00:52:48.40\00:52:51.30 NOW WHY DO WE HAVE COMMUNION SERVICE? 00:52:51.30\00:52:55.46 DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'UNLESS YOU DRINK MY BLOOD AND EAT MY FLESH 00:52:55.46\00:52:58.93 YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU, RIGHT? AND SO THE PRIEST, ON SOME 00:52:58.93\00:53:03.83 OCCASIONS, WAS TO EAT OF THE OFFERING. 00:53:03.83\00:53:05.96 SOME OF THEM WOULD EXPLOIT THIS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. 00:53:05.96\00:53:08.23 YOU REMEMBER THE SONS OF ELI? 00:53:08.23\00:53:10.40 THEY WOULD TAKE THE BEST PARTS AND THEY WOULD TAKE MORE THAN 00:53:10.40\00:53:12.46 THEIR PORTION AND GOD CONDEMNED THE PRIESTS. 00:53:12.46\00:53:16.66 HE SAID, 'YOU HAVE BECOME FAT FROM EATING - FROM EXPLOITING 00:53:16.66\00:53:20.50 THE PEOPLE AND TAKING OF THE BEST OF THEIR OFFERINGS." 00:53:20.50\00:53:23.46 AND ELI FELL OVER AND BROKE HIS NECK BECAUSE HE WAS HEAVY. 00:53:23.46\00:53:27.73 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SOMETIMES THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF 00:53:27.73\00:53:30.73 THE PEOPLE. BUT WHEN THEY DIDN'T DO IT, MOSES GOT MAD. 00:53:30.73\00:53:34.53 THE SONS OF AARON WERE NOT JUST SUPPOSED TO BURN IT, THEY WERE 00:53:34.53\00:53:38.00 SUPPOSED TO EAT SOME OF IT. WHY? THEY WERE TAKING IT UPON 00:53:38.00\00:53:42.10 THEMSELVES. THEY WERE MAKING ATONEMENT. 00:53:42.10\00:53:43.63 THEY WERE SYMBOLICALLY BEARING THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. 00:53:43.63\00:53:46.56 DID JESUS, WITHIN HIMSELF, TAKE OUR SIN? 00:53:46.56\00:53:50.30 SO THE HIGH PRIEST WOULD SYMBOLIZE THAT AS WELL. 00:53:50.30\00:53:53.33 AND THEN I WANT YOU TO KNOW, UNDER THE SECTION UNDER 00:53:53.33\00:53:57.10 'FORGIVENESS'. IN YOUR BIBLES - IF YOU LOOK IN 00:53:57.10\00:54:00.13 YOUR BIBLE - A FAMILIAR VERSE - IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH - ISAIAH 00:54:00.13\00:54:03.40 CHAPTER 1 - GO THERE REAL QUICK - AND VERSE 11. 00:54:03.40\00:54:07.80 ACTUALLY, I MIGHT EVEN READ - I MIGHT READ FROM VERSE 10, "HEAR 00:54:07.80\00:54:15.93 THE WORD OF THE LORD, YOU RULERS OF SODOM; GIVE EAR TO THE LAW OF 00:54:15.93\00:54:18.86 OUR GOD, YOU PEOPLE OF GOMORRAH:" - NOW SODOM AND 00:54:18.86\00:54:21.40 GOMORRAH - IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? 00:54:21.40\00:54:22.76 ARE THEY KNOWN FOR HOLINESS OR SIN? 00:54:22.76\00:54:25.53 SO HERE ISAIAH'S USING SOME PRETTY STRONG LANGUAGE AND HE'S 00:54:25.53\00:54:29.03 TALKING TO HIS PEOPLE - "'TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THE MULTITUDE OF 00:54:29.03\00:54:32.86 YOUR SACRIFICES TO ME?'" - WAIT A SECOND, AREN'T WE 00:54:32.86\00:54:35.33 SUPPOSED TO DO IT? HE'S SAYING, WHAT IS IT? - "SAYS THE LORD. 00:54:35.33\00:54:38.60 'I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF BURNT OFFERINGS OF RAMS AND THE FAT OF 00:54:38.60\00:54:42.46 FED CATTLE. I DO NOT DELIGHT IN THE BLOOD OF 00:54:42.46\00:54:45.33 BULLS OR OF LAMBS OR GOATS. WHEN YOU COME TO APPEAR BEFORE 00:54:45.33\00:54:48.93 ME, WHO HAS REQUIRED THIS FROM YOUR HAND, TO TRAMPLE MY COURTS? 00:54:48.93\00:54:52.33 BRING NOT MORE FUTILE SACRIFICES; INCENSE IS AN 00:54:52.33\00:54:56.53 ABOMINATION TO ME. THE NEW MOONS, THE SABBATHS,'" - 00:54:56.53\00:54:59.26 THESE WERE THE CEREMONIAL SABBATHS - "'AND THE CALLING OF 00:54:59.26\00:55:02.26 ASSEMBLIES - I CANNOT ENDURE INIQUITY AND THE SACRED MEETING. 00:55:02.26\00:55:06.96 YOUR NEW MOONS AND YOUR APPOINTED FEASTS MY SOUL HATES; 00:55:06.96\00:55:09.73 THEY ARE A TROUBLE TO ME, I AM WEARY OF BEARING THEM. 00:55:09.73\00:55:12.93 WHEN YOU SPREAD OUT YOUR HANDS, I WILL HIDE MY EYES FROM YOU; 00:55:12.93\00:55:15.63 EVEN THOUGH YOU MAKE MANY PRAYERS, I WILL NOT HEAR. 00:55:15.63\00:55:17.66 YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD.'" NOW, I'M GETTING READY TO READ 00:55:17.66\00:55:21.66 THE REST OF THIS BUT I'M STOPPING. 00:55:21.66\00:55:23.53 HOW DID GOD FEEL ABOUT THE WHOLE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM IF IT WASN'T 00:55:23.53\00:55:27.13 COMBINED WITH CONFESSION IN THE HEART, SORROW FOR SIN, AND A 00:55:27.13\00:55:31.60 TURNING AWAY FROM SIN? IT WAS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD. 00:55:31.60\00:55:36.30 IT WAS SO TIRING. IF THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE 00:55:36.30\00:55:39.40 SYSTEM THE WAY HE INTENDED IT - NOW HOW DID HE INTEND IT? 00:55:39.40\00:55:43.30 VERSE 16 - ISAIAH 1:16, "WASH YOURSELVES, MAKE YOURSELVES 00:55:43.30\00:55:48.50 CLEAN; PUT AWAY THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS FROM BEFORE MY EYES. 00:55:48.50\00:55:53.20 CEASE TO DO EVIL. LEARN TO DO GOOD. 00:55:53.20\00:55:56.26 SEEK JUSTICE, REBUKE THE OPPRESSOR; DEFEND THE 00:55:56.26\00:55:59.00 FATHERLESS, PLEAD FOR THE WIDOW. 00:55:59.00\00:56:01.73 'COME NOW, LET US REASON TOGETHER,' SAYS THE LORD, 00:56:01.73\00:56:03.63 'THOUGH YOUR SINS ARE LIKE SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE 00:56:03.63\00:56:06.06 AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY ARE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS 00:56:06.06\00:56:08.26 WOOL. IF YOU ARE WILLING AND OBEDIENT," - HE WANTED THEM NOT 00:56:08.26\00:56:14.16 JUST TO OFFER SACRIFICES AND KEEP OFFERING SACRIFICES, HE 00:56:14.16\00:56:18.20 WANTED THEM, THROUGH THIS SACRIFICE, TO UNDERSTAND HOW 00:56:18.20\00:56:20.50 AWFUL SIN WAS AND TO BE TRANSFORMED. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO 00:56:20.50\00:56:24.43 HELP THEM REALIZE THERE'S TO BE A CHANGE IN THE BEHAVIOR. 00:56:24.43\00:56:29.20 HE SAYS, 'IF YOU DO THAT, YOUR SINS, THOUGH THEY BE LIKE 00:56:29.20\00:56:32.46 SCARLET, THEY'LL BE WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE 00:56:32.46\00:56:34.53 CRIMSON, THEY'LL BE LIKE WOOL.' ISN'T THIS WHAT THE LORD REALLY 00:56:34.53\00:56:37.56 WANTS? HE WANTED NOT JUST THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM BUT A 00:56:37.56\00:56:40.46 TRANSFORMATION. HE WANTED THEM TO BE A HOLY PEOPLE. 00:56:40.46\00:56:44.13 I'M OUT OF TIME. I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS WE 00:56:44.13\00:56:46.40 HAVE A FREE OFFER CALLED 'BLOOD BEHIND THE VEIL' WE'LL SEND YOU 00:56:46.40\00:56:49.36 FOR ASKING. JUST ASK FOR OFFER #130. 00:56:49.36\00:56:51.90 CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN, WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 00:56:51.90\00:56:54.73 PLEASE READ IT AND GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE STUDY AGAIN TOGETHER 00:56:54.73\00:56:58.66 NEXT WEEK. 00:56:58.66\00:57:04.93 >>PAUL AND JESUS BOTH PREDICT THAT CHURCH OF GOD BECOMES 00:57:04.93\00:57:09.43 A FORCE AGAINST GOD. 00:57:09.43\00:57:12.46 >>THE RADICAL FAITH THAT JESUS TAUGHT HAD BECOME THE OFFICIAL 00:57:12.46\00:57:15.63 RELIGION OF THE EMPIRE THAT MURDERED HIM. 00:57:15.63\00:57:21.83 >>THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE EARLY CHURCH TOBOGGANED INTO APOSTASY 00:57:21.83\00:57:26.00 WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY. (MUSIC) 00:57:26.00\00:57:27.00