(MUSIC) 00:00:00.40\00:00:44.40 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:00:44.40\00:00:47.70 IT IS BY NO MISTAKE THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY 00:00:47.70\00:00:50.56 GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:00:50.56\00:00:52.30 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT ARE HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY 00:00:52.30\00:00:55.86 WITH US AND AROUND THE WORLD, ACROSS THE OCEAN, HERE IN THE 00:00:55.86\00:01:01.23 UNITED STATES - WHEREVER YOU ARE, WELCOME. 00:01:01.23\00:01:03.90 AND WE KNOW THAT, AGAIN, YOU WILL TRULY BE BLESSED STUDYING 00:01:03.90\00:01:08.40 GOD'S WORD WITH US AND THAT WE CAN GROW CLOSER TO HIM AND 00:01:08.40\00:01:12.53 CLOSER TO HIS COMING. AMEN. 00:01:12.53\00:01:15.83 THIS MORNING WE ARE GOING TO SING TOGETHER SO PULL OUT YOUR 00:01:15.83\00:01:20.16 HYMNALS IF YOU ARE AT HOME AND SING ALONG. 00:01:20.16\00:01:22.96 HYMN #506 - 'A MIGHTY FORTRESS' IS OUR GOD. 00:01:22.96\00:01:27.30 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MAISIE, KARL, AND KERYL IN 00:01:27.30\00:01:30.36 FRANCE, EDRICE IN HAITI, SUVARNA IN INDIA, IYA IN ITALY, MAGALIE 00:01:30.36\00:01:36.83 AND MICHA IN MAURITIUS, AND NATHAN, NAOMI, ROSE AND NATASHA 00:01:36.83\00:01:41.56 IN VANUATU. SO HYMN #506 AND WE'RE GOING TO SING 00:01:41.56\00:01:45.56 ALL FOUR VERSES. (MUSIC) 00:01:45.56\00:01:47.40 >>AMEN. 00:03:55.86\00:03:57.23 IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US 00:03:57.23\00:03:59.40 ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 00:03:59.40\00:04:02.80 YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND YOU CLICK 00:04:02.80\00:04:05.90 ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 00:04:05.90\00:04:08.96 HYMNAL AND WE ARE HAPPY TO SING THAT WITH YOU. 00:04:08.96\00:04:11.70 AS YOU KNOW - THOSE OF YOU THAT TUNE IN ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS 00:04:11.70\00:04:16.10 - WE ARE MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL AND LEARNING ALL THE 00:04:16.10\00:04:19.20 NEW SONGS THAT KIND OF GET PASSED OVER OR NEVER HEARD OF 00:04:19.20\00:04:22.10 BEFORE. SO THIS MORNING IS NO EXCEPTION. 00:04:22.10\00:04:26.06 HYMN #77 IS WHAT WE'LL BE LEARNING TOGETHER AND THIS IS 00:04:26.06\00:04:32.53 ACTUALLY KNOWN BY THREE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD - JOSEFIN IN 00:04:32.53\00:04:37.16 IRELAND, JOYCE IN KENYA, AND MAISIE AND KARL IN MAURITIUS. 00:04:37.16\00:04:41.56 I GUESS THAT'S FOUR SO YOU'D HAVE A QUARTET. 00:04:41.56\00:04:44.33 'O LOVE OF GOD MOST FULL' - WE WILL SING ALL FOUR VERSES AND 00:04:44.33\00:04:48.60 IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL SONG. WHEN WE WERE SINGING THIS 00:04:48.60\00:04:50.76 EARLIER - BEAUTIFUL HARMONIES, BEAUTIFUL WORDS - IT'S A PRAYER. 00:04:50.76\00:04:55.70 (MUSIC) 00:04:55.70\00:04:56.63 >>DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY 00:06:41.03\00:06:44.66 THAT WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND WORSHIP YOU IN HEART AND 00:06:44.66\00:06:48.46 IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. 00:06:48.46\00:06:50.66 AND WE THANK YOU THAT YOUR WORD DOES WARM OUR HEART AND IT 00:06:50.66\00:06:54.00 KINDLES A FIRE IN US LIKE NO OTHER AND LORD, AS WE LEARN MORE 00:06:54.00\00:06:57.66 ABOUT YOU TODAY THROUGH OUR STUDY, HELP THAT KINDLE - THAT 00:06:57.66\00:07:01.96 KINDLED FIRE TO BURN BRIGHT AS WE LEAVE THIS PLACE AND AS WE 00:07:01.96\00:07:05.66 LEAVE OUR STUDY - THAT WE CAN SHINE FOR OTHERS AND DRAW THEM 00:07:05.66\00:07:08.80 CLOSER TO YOU AND UPLIFT YOU IN EVERYTHING WE DO AND SAY. 00:07:08.80\00:07:13.20 AND LORD, JUST HELP EACH OF US TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR 00:07:13.20\00:07:16.30 COMING. WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING SOON. 00:07:16.30\00:07:18.20 PLEASE JUST KEEP US CLOSE TO YOU AND KEEP US FAITHFUL TO THE END. 00:07:18.20\00:07:22.66 PLEASE BLESS PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US YOUR WORD TODAY. 00:07:22.66\00:07:25.70 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME JESUS, AMEN. 00:07:25.70\00:07:30.10 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, 00:07:30.10\00:07:33.06 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 00:07:33.06\00:07:42.80 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR MUSICIANS. 00:07:42.80\00:07:45.80 I KEEP THINKING THE SINGING GETS BETTER AND BETTER AND I SURE 00:07:45.80\00:07:48.33 APPRECIATE JO AND THE MUSICIANS AND THE SINGERS AND IT'S ALWAYS 00:07:48.33\00:07:52.10 FUN TO HEAR THE SONG REQUESTS COMING IN FROM AROUND THE WORLD 00:07:52.10\00:07:55.60 AND EVERYWHERE FROM SMALL PACIFIC ISLANDS TO COUNTRIES IN 00:07:55.60\00:07:59.96 THE MIDDLE EAST. IT'S NEAT TO KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE 00:07:59.96\00:08:03.30 ARE LISTENING AND STUDYING WITH US. 00:08:03.30\00:08:05.26 WELCOME, THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ON TV AND I WANT TO WELCOME 00:08:05.26\00:08:08.63 THOSE WHO MIGHT BE PART OF OUR SACRAMENTO CENTRAL EXTENDED 00:08:08.63\00:08:12.63 MEMBERS THAT - WE HAVE PEOPLE SCATTERED AROUND THE PLANET THAT 00:08:12.63\00:08:16.43 DON'T HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH THAT THEY CAN ATTEND AND THEY'RE OUR 00:08:16.43\00:08:19.90 ONLINE MEMBERS AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AS WELL AND THOSE 00:08:19.90\00:08:24.06 WHO MIGHT BE VISITING HERE TODAY IN OUR CLASS. 00:08:24.06\00:08:27.70 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 00:08:27.70\00:08:29.00 WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO OUR STUDY IN JUST A MOMENT - 00:08:29.00\00:08:31.63 LESSON 6 - DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:08:31.63\00:08:34.90 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER I'D LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. 00:08:34.90\00:08:41.20 ENCOURAGE YOU AND IN SOME WAY GO PROVIDALONG WITH THE STUDY. 00:08:41.20\00:08:45.40 AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE OFFERING THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE AND 00:08:45.40\00:08:48.56 IT'S CALLED 'NO TURNING BACK'. IF YOU WANT A COPY ASK FOR OFFER 00:08:48.56\00:08:51.53 #146 AND CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 00:08:51.53\00:08:55.03 FOR THOSE LISTENING ON RADIO THAT NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE 00:08:55.03\00:09:00.23 - 866-788-3966. 00:09:00.23\00:09:04.70 SOMETHING ELSE THAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK - I THOUGHT I WOULD 00:09:04.70\00:09:07.60 SHARE WITH YOU - THAT IS JUST SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION. 00:09:07.60\00:09:12.33 THE WRITER OF OUR LESSON, PROFESSOR MARTIN, WHO TEACHES AT 00:09:12.33\00:09:18.20 BOGENHOFEN - I'VE BEEN THERE - IN GERMANY, THEY HAVE RECORDED 00:09:18.20\00:09:23.36 KIND OF AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH ONE OF THESE LESSONS THAT DEALS 00:09:23.36\00:09:27.06 WITH THE SANCTUARY. AND SO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 00:09:27.06\00:09:29.96 HEAR THE TEACHER'S INTRODUCTION - HE'S GOT IT BOTH IN GERMAN AND 00:09:29.96\00:09:33.06 IN ENGLISH - YOU CAN DO THAT REAL SIMPLY. 00:09:33.06\00:09:35.23 THERE'S A WEBSITE - IT'S 'SANCTUARYLESSON.ORG' - 00:09:35.23\00:09:39.90 THAT'S EASY - 'SANCTUARYLESSON.ORG'. 00:09:39.90\00:09:42.70 SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE TEACHING OR ARE PART OF A CLASS 00:09:42.70\00:09:47.26 AND YOU WANT TO FIND OUT 'WHAT'S THE TEACHER GOT TO SAY ABOUT 00:09:47.26\00:09:49.16 THIS?' THAT'S JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF 00:09:49.16\00:09:51.73 SOME OF THE MODERN CONVENIENCES OF THE INTERNET. 00:09:51.73\00:09:54.26 NOW YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. OKAY, NOW TO OUR LESSON. 00:09:54.26\00:09:58.00 AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD TO REALLY PRAY AS I'VE STUDIED FOR 00:09:58.00\00:10:02.23 THIS LESSON BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH HERE - IT'S ON THE DAY OF 00:10:02.23\00:10:06.36 ATONEMENT - WHAT THE JEWS CALLED 'YOM KIPPUR' - 'YOM' BEING 00:10:06.36\00:10:10.73 'DAY', 'KIPPUR' MEANING 'ATONEMENT' AND, TYPICALLY, IT 00:10:10.73\00:10:15.06 FALLS IN THE MONTH OF - LATTER MONTHS - OR LATTER WEEKS OF 00:10:15.06\00:10:19.76 SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER. IT COULD VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR. 00:10:19.76\00:10:22.73 THIS WAS THE END OF THE JEWISH YEAR. 00:10:22.73\00:10:26.33 NOW, IN MOST OF THE WORLD NOW WE BELIEVE THAT THE YEAR WILL END 00:10:26.33\00:10:30.63 AND BEGIN WITH THE ENDING AND BEGINNING OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE 00:10:30.63\00:10:34.50 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, BUT IT DIDN'T WORK THAT WAY FOR THE 00:10:34.50\00:10:39.16 JEWS. THEY WERE ON A LUNAR CALENDAR. 00:10:39.16\00:10:42.86 NOW THEY HAD A CIVIL CALENDAR AND THEN THEY HAD THE CEREMONIAL 00:10:42.86\00:10:46.53 CALENDAR AND ACCORDING TO THE CEREMONIAL CALENDAR IT WOULD 00:10:46.53\00:10:49.80 FALL - BASED ON WHEN THE MOON WAS LINING UP - IT WOULD BE 00:10:49.80\00:10:54.33 SOMEWHERE NEAR THE END OF SEPTEMBER BEGINNING OF OCTOBER. 00:10:54.33\00:10:57.43 AND THIS WAS THE HIGH DAY OF THE YEAR. 00:10:57.43\00:11:00.40 THEIR - WE LEARNED IN OUR LAST STUDY - THEIR RELIGIOUS 00:11:00.40\00:11:03.60 PRACTICES REVOLVED AROUND THE SANCTUARY. 00:11:03.60\00:11:07.03 WHY? WHY WAS THIS? WELL, FOR MOSES, STARTING OUT IN 00:11:07.03\00:11:11.80 THE WILDERNESS, IT WAS IN THE DESERT, THIS STRUCTURE - A TENT 00:11:11.80\00:11:16.60 - SORT OF A MOBILE TEMPLE - WHY WOULD THAT BE THE CENTER OF WHO 00:11:16.60\00:11:20.26 THEY ARE AND THEIR WORSHIP? A NUMBER OF REASONS. 00:11:20.26\00:11:24.36 ONE IS GOD SAYS, 'THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY.' 00:11:24.36\00:11:28.53 THE WAY THAT GOD SAVES WAS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SANCTUARY. 00:11:28.53\00:11:33.66 IT HELPED THEM UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM GOD. 00:11:33.66\00:11:37.16 IT WAS TELLING THEM HOW TO GET BACK TO GOD. 00:11:37.16\00:11:39.70 THERE WAS ONE DOOR AND THERE WAS ONE NUCLEUS GOAL - IT WAS THE 00:11:39.70\00:11:42.86 PRESENCE OF GOD - WE'VE BEEN SEPARATED FROM THE PRESENCE. 00:11:42.86\00:11:45.70 AND IT TAUGHT ABOUT HOW TO GET BACK TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:11:45.70\00:11:49.43 IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE CLEANSING FROM THEIR SIN TOOK 00:11:49.43\00:11:52.30 PLACE. IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY 00:11:52.30\00:11:54.56 WOULD BRING THEIR OFFERINGS TO GOD AND WHERE THEY DID THEIR 00:11:54.56\00:11:58.26 GIVING AND IT JUST BECAME THE VERY CORE - IT WAS THE DYNAMO OF 00:11:58.26\00:12:04.46 THEIR WHOLE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE - WAS THIS TABERNACLE - LATER 00:12:04.46\00:12:08.86 PERMANENTLY CALLED THE TEMPLE OR THE SANCTUARY. 00:12:08.86\00:12:12.30 ONCE A YEAR THEY HAD THE MOST SOLEMN SACRED SERVICE AND IT WAS 00:12:12.30\00:12:17.56 CALLED 'THE CLEANSING' OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:12:17.56\00:12:20.03 NOW WHY DID THEY NEED TO CLEANSE IT? 00:12:20.03\00:12:22.56 HOW MANY OF YOU GET KIND OF ANNOYED WHEN YOU DRIVE UP THE 00:12:22.56\00:12:27.00 STREET AND THERE'S SOME NEW NICE DEVELOPMENT. THEY'VE GOT A NICE 00:12:27.00\00:12:29.33 WHITE BRICK WALL OR SOME MASONITE WALL AND SOME KID, 00:12:29.33\00:12:32.76 DURING THE NIGHT, DECIDED TO BECOME ARTISTIC WITH A CAN OF 00:12:32.76\00:12:37.63 SPRAY PAINT AND THEY VANDALIZE THIS WALL? 00:12:37.63\00:12:44.33 ISN'T THAT DISCOURAGING WHEN YOU SEE THAT? 00:12:44.33\00:12:45.66 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE OWNERS COME OUT AND THEY TRY AND FIND 00:12:45.66\00:12:47.23 SOME PAINT THAT'S ALMOST THE SAME COLOR OF THE BRICK AND TRY 00:12:47.23\00:12:49.53 AND PAINT OVER THIS AWFUL GRAFFITI AND THEN IT BECOMES 00:12:49.53\00:12:53.23 SORT OF AN ENDLESS BATTLE AND IT'S REALLY SAD. 00:12:53.23\00:12:58.33 AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVEN GO TO THE STORE AND TRY AND BUY SPRAY 00:12:58.33\00:13:00.56 PAINT THEY WANT TO SEE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND YOUR 00:13:00.56\00:13:04.03 ID AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THIS - IT'S JUST THE VANDALIZING. 00:13:04.03\00:13:09.43 SO WHY DID THE SANCTUARY NEED TO BE CLEANSED? 00:13:09.43\00:13:11.36 HAD IT BEEN VANDALIZED SOMEHOW BY GANGS? 00:13:11.36\00:13:16.60 I HEAR YOU SAY BECAUSE OF SIN. HOW DID IT GET SINFUL? 00:13:16.60\00:13:21.93 NOW EVERY DAY - THERE'S TWO KINDS OF SERVICES IN THE 00:13:21.93\00:13:26.00 SANCTUARY - THEY HAD A DAILY SACRIFICE WHERE THE PRIEST WOULD 00:13:26.00\00:13:31.93 MINISTER IN THE COURTYARD IN THE HOLY PLACE ON A DAILY BASIS TO 00:13:31.93\00:13:36.30 GO THROUGH - AND THEN THEY HAD SPECIAL SACRIFICES ON THE 00:13:36.30\00:13:38.63 SABBATH SO THERE WAS A WEEKLY, YOU COULD SAY, TOO. 00:13:38.63\00:13:41.26 BUT THINGS WERE DONE ON A DAILY BASIS AND PEOPLE WOULD COME 00:13:41.26\00:13:46.13 CONFESSING THEIR SINS - WE LEARNED ABOUT THAT. 00:13:46.13\00:13:48.06 THERE WERE SACRIFICES THAT WERE MADE AND WHEN A PERSON PLACED 00:13:48.06\00:13:51.23 THEIR HANDS ON THE HEAD OF THE VICTIM AND THEY CONFESSED THEIR 00:13:51.23\00:13:54.13 SINS AND THAT LAMB OR THAT GOAT WAS SLAIN AND THEN SOME OF THE 00:13:54.13\00:13:57.90 BLOOD WAS BROUGHT IN AND SPRINKLED BEFORE THE LORD, WHERE 00:13:57.90\00:14:01.83 DID THE SIN GO WHEN YOU CONFESSED YOUR SIN TO THE 00:14:01.83\00:14:05.56 VICTIM? IT WENT TO THE LAMB OR THE GOAT, THE OXEN - 00:14:05.56\00:14:10.43 IT COULD EVEN BE A DOVE. AND THEN WHEN THEY TOOK SOME OF 00:14:10.43\00:14:13.40 THE BLOOD FROM THAT ANIMAL AND THEY SPRINKLED IT IN THE 00:14:13.40\00:14:15.70 SANCTUARY, SYMBOLICALLY - YOU REALIZE SIN IS NOT LIKE SOME 00:14:15.70\00:14:19.03 KIND OF HYDROCHLORIC ACID THAT WAS STORED THERE OR SOMETHING - 00:14:19.03\00:14:23.36 SYMBOLICALLY THAT SIN WENT WHERE? IT'S IN THE SANCTUARY. 00:14:23.36\00:14:29.16 AND BOY, THAT'S SORT OF A BUILD UP AFTER AWHILE. 00:14:29.16\00:14:34.33 AND, YOU KNOW, IT NEEDED A CLEANSING. 00:14:34.33\00:14:37.93 AND SO, SYMBOLICALLY, ONCE A YEAR THERE WAS A FINAL CLEANSING 00:14:37.93\00:14:41.16 REPRESENTING THAT GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO HAVE AN EXPERIENCE, 00:14:41.16\00:14:43.90 INDEFINITELY, OF SINNING AND REPENTING, SINNING AND 00:14:43.90\00:14:47.23 REPENTING. HE WANTS TO SEPARATE HIS PEOPLE 00:14:47.23\00:14:49.36 FROM SIN. WILL WE BE CONTINUING TO SIN AND REPENT IN HEAVEN? 00:14:49.36\00:14:54.93 SO, AT SOME POINT, THAT CYCLE HAS TO STOP. IS THAT RIGHT? 00:14:54.93\00:15:01.46 AND SO THIS REPRESENTED THAT THERE'S A TIME COMING WHEN GOD 00:15:01.46\00:15:04.70 WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO TURN FROM SIN, BE SEPARATED AND SIN BE 00:15:04.70\00:15:07.96 SEPARATED FROM THEM. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE 00:15:07.96\00:15:11.10 A GOOD IDEA, AND I HOPE THIS WON'T BE TEDIOUS, BUT TURN IN 00:15:11.10\00:15:14.03 YOUR BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS - LEVITICUS CHAPTER 16 00:15:14.03\00:15:21.20 - AND I'M GOING TO QUICKLY READ THROUGH THIS CHAPTER WHERE YOU 00:15:21.20\00:15:23.53 FIND 99 PERCENT OF THE INFORMATION ON THE CEREMONY 00:15:23.53\00:15:27.36 CALLED THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:15:27.36\00:15:30.60 AND I'LL JUST START WITH VERSE 1 - I MIGHT DO A LITTLE COMMENTARY 00:15:30.60\00:15:35.06 ALONG THE WAY BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING THAT REALLY 00:15:35.06\00:15:37.00 BEATS JUST READING THE BIBLE. 00:15:37.00\00:15:39.76 "NOW THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES AFTER THE DEATH OF THE TWO SONS 00:15:39.76\00:15:43.96 OF AARON, WHEN THEY OFFERED PROFANE FIRE BEFORE THE LORD, 00:15:43.96\00:15:47.66 AND DIED;'" - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT THE BIBLE TELLS US 00:15:47.66\00:15:51.70 THAT THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO USE HOLY FIRE, MEANING THAT FIRE 00:15:51.70\00:15:55.76 THAT HAD FIRST BEEN KINDLED THERE ON THE ALTAR WHEN FIRE 00:15:55.76\00:15:58.36 CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. 00:15:58.36\00:16:00.36 AND THEY BROUGHT SOME FIRE FROM THE CAMPGROUND AND BROUGHT IT IN 00:16:00.36\00:16:03.33 BEFORE THE LORD AND PUT IT IN THE CENSER AND THEY HAD BEEN 00:16:03.33\00:16:05.53 DRINKING AND THEY WERE INEBRIATED AND HOFNI AND PHINEAS 00:16:05.53\00:16:10.20 - THE TWO SONS OF AARON - NO, NADAB AND ABIHU - SORRY, I GOT 00:16:10.20\00:16:13.63 THEM MIXED UP WITH THE SONS OF ELI. 00:16:13.63\00:16:15.46 NADAB AND ABIHU, THEY WENT IN BEFORE THE LORD INEBRIATED, THEY 00:16:15.46\00:16:18.93 TOOK PROFANE FIRE AND THEY STARTED TO MARCH OFF INTO THE 00:16:18.93\00:16:22.10 HOLY PLACE AND LIGHTNING OF SOME SORT - FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD 00:16:22.10\00:16:26.10 AND DESTROYED THEM. AFTER THAT IS WHEN GOD IS 00:16:26.10\00:16:31.20 SAYING, 'DO NOT COME AT ALL TIMES INTO THE HOLY PLACE'. 00:16:31.20\00:16:34.93 THIS, YOU KNOW, GOD'S PRESENCE IS HOLY. 00:16:34.93\00:16:37.30 HIS PRESENCE IS A CONSUMING FIRE. 00:16:37.30\00:16:39.66 IT IS A UNIQUE PERSON ON A UNIQUE TIME THAT CAN COME IN 00:16:39.66\00:16:44.56 BEFORE THE LORD AND YOU MUST COME IN BY INVITATION. 00:16:44.56\00:16:47.13 YOU GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF A KING UNINVITED, WHAT WAS THE 00:16:47.13\00:16:49.73 DECREE? REMEMBER THE BOOK OF ESTHER? 00:16:49.73\00:16:53.20 AND SO GOING INTO THE PRESENCE OF A KING UNINVITED WAS SERIOUS 00:16:53.20\00:16:55.96 BUSINESS. GOD SAYS, 'I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU SHOULD COME.' 00:16:55.96\00:16:59.40 AND IT WAS COMING FOR A PURPOSE - A UNIQUE TIME, A UNIQUE 00:16:59.40\00:17:04.43 PERSON, A UNIQUE PURPOSE. "'TELL AARON YOUR BROTHER NOT TO 00:17:04.43\00:17:09.33 COME AT JUST ANY TIME INTO THE HOLY PLACE INSIDE THE VEIL, 00:17:09.33\00:17:13.13 BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT WHICH IS ON THE ARK, LEST HE DIE; FOR I 00:17:13.13\00:17:17.23 WILL APPEAR IN THE CLOUD ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT. 00:17:17.23\00:17:20.80 THUS AARON SHALL COME'" - NOW THIS IS NOT THE CLOUD OF INCENSE 00:17:20.80\00:17:23.16 THAT CAME FROM THAT ALTAR OF INCENSE, THIS IS A CLOUD OF 00:17:23.16\00:17:27.00 SHEKINAH GLORY THAT IS LIKE A MINIATURE - WHAT WAS ON THE TOP 00:17:27.00\00:17:30.46 OF MOUNT SINAI WHEN GOD GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:17:30.46\00:17:33.80 CLOUD OF GLORY, RIGHT? SMOKE AND CLOUD - SO IT'S LIKE 00:17:33.80\00:17:36.60 THE PRESENCE OF GOD WAS SOMEHOW VEILED ABOVE THE ARK - THEY 00:17:36.60\00:17:40.30 CALLED IT THE MERCY SEAT DURING THIS TIME. 00:17:40.30\00:17:46.63 IN VERSE - IT SAYS, "'I WILL APPEAR IN THE CLOUD ABOVE THE 00:17:46.63\00:17:49.36 MERCY SEAT.'" - VERSE 3 - "'THUS AARON SHALL 00:17:49.36\00:17:51.80 COME INTO THE HOLY PLACE: WITH THE BLOOD OF A YOUNG BULL AS A 00:17:51.80\00:17:55.43 SIN OFFERING, AND OF A RAM AS A BURNT OFFERING. 00:17:55.43\00:17:58.96 HE SHALL PUT THE HOLY LINEN TUNIC AND THE LINEN TROUSERS ON 00:17:58.96\00:18:02.63 HIS BODY; HE SHALL BE GIRDED WITH A LINEN SASH, AND WITH THE 00:18:02.63\00:18:05.86 LINEN TURBAN HE SHALL BE ATTIRED. 00:18:05.86\00:18:08.73 THESE ARE HOLY GARMENTS. THEREFORE HE SHALL WASH HIS BODY 00:18:08.73\00:18:12.00 IN WATER, AND PUT THEM ON.'" - SEE THE VERY SACRED 00:18:12.00\00:18:15.46 PREPARATION THAT'S HAPPENING - HE WAS TO BE CLEANSED. 00:18:15.46\00:18:18.16 HE WAS TO DO A SACRIFICE IN HIS OWN BEHALF FOR CLEANSING AND HE 00:18:18.16\00:18:22.16 WAS TO PUT ON THESE SACRED CLEANSE GARMENTS WHEN HE CAME - 00:18:22.16\00:18:25.60 SIN CANNOT SURVIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:18:25.60\00:18:29.56 AND IT SAYS THEN - IT SAYS, "AARON SHALL OFFER THE BULL AS A 00:18:29.56\00:18:35.63 SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR HIMSELF, AND MAKE ATONEMENT FOR 00:18:35.63\00:18:39.80 HIMSELF AND FOR HIS HOUSE. HE SHALL TAKE THE TWO GOATS AND 00:18:39.80\00:18:43.46 PRESENT THEM BEFORE THE LORD AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF 00:18:43.46\00:18:45.93 MEETING. THEN AARON SHALL CAST LOTS FOR 00:18:45.93\00:18:48.96 THE TWO GOATS: ONE LOT FOR THE LORD AND THE OTHER FOR THE 00:18:48.96\00:18:52.03 SCAPEGOAT." - NOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO 00:18:52.03\00:18:54.36 UNDERSTAND THESE TWO GOATS ARE VERY DIFFERENT. 00:18:54.36\00:18:57.03 YOU'VE GOT THE LORD'S GOAT - THAT GOAT DIES AND THE BLOOD IS 00:18:57.03\00:19:01.06 BROUGHT INTO THE SANCTUARY. THE SCAPEGOAT DOES NOT AND WE'VE 00:19:01.06\00:19:05.46 GOT A SECTION IN A MINUTE, WE'LL GET TO THAT. 00:19:05.46\00:19:07.66 THEY CAST LOTS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:19:07.66\00:19:10.46 WELL, THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN DO IT. 00:19:10.46\00:19:13.56 YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE DRAWING STRAWS AND WHOEVER GETS 00:19:13.56\00:19:17.00 THE SHORT STICK OR THE SHORT STRAW? 00:19:17.00\00:19:19.46 THEY DIDN'T DO IT QUITE LIKE THAT IN THE BIBLE, BUT IT WAS 00:19:19.46\00:19:21.70 THE SAME PRINCIPLE, I MEAN, WE FLIP COINS. 00:19:21.70\00:19:23.96 IF YOU ONLY HAVE TWO CHOICES YOU CAN FLIP A COIN. 00:19:23.96\00:19:25.93 IF YOU'VE GOT THREE CHOICES - UNLESS IT STANDS ON ITS EDGE 00:19:25.93\00:19:28.23 IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK, RIGHT? WHEN THEY WERE ON THE SHIP WITH 00:19:28.23\00:19:31.70 ALL THE SAILORS, THEY CAST LOTS TO SEE WHO CAUSED THE STORM - 00:19:31.70\00:19:34.96 ALL THE SAILORS CAST LOTS. HOW DID THEY DO THAT? 00:19:34.96\00:19:38.10 THEY HAD A JAR AND IT HAD A NARROW OPENING - BIG, ROUND, 00:19:38.10\00:19:42.23 BULBOUS JAR OR A GOURD - HAD A NARROW OPENING AND THEY HAD ALL 00:19:42.23\00:19:46.13 THESE ROUND STONES THAT WERE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME SIZE AND 00:19:46.13\00:19:49.36 THEY'D GET ALL WHITE STONES AND ONE BLACK STONE - FOR INSTANCE - 00:19:49.36\00:19:54.53 AND THEN THEY WOULD SHAKE THE STONES AND WHICH EVER ONE - IT 00:19:54.53\00:19:57.86 WAS PREDETERMINED - WHICH EVER ONE GOT THE BLACK STONE, THEY 00:19:57.86\00:20:01.53 WERE THE ONE CHOSEN IF IT WAS ONE. SO SOMEHOW THEY CAST LOTS 00:20:01.53\00:20:05.90 BETWEEN THESE TWO GOATS AND THEY SHOOK OUT THE STONE AND THE ONE 00:20:05.90\00:20:08.66 THAT GOT THE BLACK STONE, FOR INSTANCE, BECAME THE SCAPEGOAT 00:20:08.66\00:20:11.60 AND THE OTHER ONE THE LORD'S GOAT. 00:20:11.60\00:20:13.86 SO THEY SAID, 'LORD, YOU PICK WHICH ONE.' 00:20:13.86\00:20:16.83 THEY DIDN'T JUST FLIP A COIN OR GO EENY MEENY MINEY MOE - "THEN 00:20:16.83\00:20:21.50 AARON SHALL CAST LOTS FOR THE TWO GOATS: ONE LOT FOR THE LORD 00:20:21.50\00:20:24.13 AND THE OTHER LOT FOR THE SCAPEGOAT. 00:20:24.13\00:20:25.73 AND AARON WILL BRING THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LORD'S LOT FELL, 00:20:25.73\00:20:29.43 AND OFFER IT AS A SIN OFFERING. 00:20:29.43\00:20:32.23 BUT THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LOT FELL TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT SHALL 00:20:32.23\00:20:35.63 BE PRESENTED ALIVE BEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKE ATONEMENT UPON IT, 00:20:35.63\00:20:39.83 AND TO LET IT GO AS THE SCAPEGOAT INTO THE WILDERNESS." 00:20:39.83\00:20:42.86 NOW THAT WORD 'ATONEMENT' THERE IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT A 00:20:42.86\00:20:45.30 PURIFICATION THAT HAPPENS - NOT THAT THE GOAT IS BEING PURIFIED, 00:20:45.30\00:20:49.30 BUT THE GOAT IS USED AS A PURIFYING OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:20:49.30\00:20:53.46 NOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO HERE IS REALLY CONTROVERSIAL. 00:20:53.46\00:20:57.60 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT? 00:20:57.60\00:20:59.90 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW CONTROVERSIAL THIS IS. 00:20:59.90\00:21:04.23 DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9, THE 70-WEEK 00:21:04.23\00:21:09.73 PROPHECY - HOW MANY OF YOU ARE ACQUAINTED WITH THAT PROPHECY? 00:21:09.73\00:21:12.93 AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE MESSIAH AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE 00:21:12.93\00:21:16.66 ANTICHRIST - THAT THERE ARE SOME VERSES IN THERE THAT ABOUT HALF 00:21:16.66\00:21:22.96 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SAYS IS THE LORD - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE 00:21:22.96\00:21:25.83 LORD - AND THE OTHER HALF SAYS IT'S THE ANTICHRIST. 00:21:25.83\00:21:29.13 WOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET THAT WRONG. 00:21:29.13\00:21:31.33 I MEAN, HOW MUCH WRONGER CAN YOU GET IT? IS THAT SUCH A WORD? 00:21:31.33\00:21:35.66 BUT REALLY, I MEAN, THEY'RE TOTAL OPPOSITES. 00:21:35.66\00:21:39.70 WE BELIEVE THE ONE WHO MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE IS JESUS. 00:21:39.70\00:21:44.73 HE CAUSED THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS. 00:21:44.73\00:21:47.10 HE'S THE ONE WHO CONFIRMED THE COVENANT. AND A LOT OF OUR 'LEFT 00:21:47.10\00:21:51.46 BEHIND' EVANGELICALS, THEY BELIEVE THAT ONE IS THE 00:21:51.46\00:21:55.13 ANTICHRIST WHO MAKES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE 00:21:55.13\00:21:57.96 WHO CONFIRMS THE COVENANT. THE ANTICHRIST CONFIRMING THE 00:21:57.96\00:22:00.86 COVENANT? WHAT COVENANT DID THE ANTICHRIST EVER MAKE? 00:22:00.86\00:22:03.86 ANYWAY, SO IT'S - THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU 00:22:03.86\00:22:07.70 KNOW, IS THIS SYMBOLIC OR LITERAL?' 00:22:07.70\00:22:09.80 AND 'WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE 144 - AND 00:22:09.80\00:22:12.63 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE SORT OF IN THIS SPIRITUAL GRAY 00:22:12.63\00:22:15.40 AREA THAT WE MAY NOT KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU GET GOD AND THE DEVIL 00:22:15.40\00:22:20.40 MIXED UP. I REMEMBER I WAS PREACHING ONE 00:22:20.40\00:22:23.76 TIME ABOUT JESUS AND THE MILLENNIUM AND I BECAME 00:22:23.76\00:22:29.36 FLUSTERED IN WHAT I WAS SAYING AND I GOT JESUS AND SATAN MIXED 00:22:29.36\00:22:32.66 UP - JUST IN TALKING. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THINKING ONE 00:22:32.66\00:22:35.33 THING AND SOMETHING ELSE COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. 00:22:35.33\00:22:36.76 YOU GET TONGUE-TIED - AND I WAS GLAD KAREN STOPPED ME. 00:22:36.76\00:22:39.66 SHE SAID, 'DON'T YOU MEAN JESUS?' 00:22:39.66\00:22:40.90 I SAID, 'WHAT DID I SAY? OH SATAN! OH NO - YES, JESUS!' 00:22:40.90\00:22:43.13 I SAID - YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO CORRECT THAT, RIGHT? 00:22:43.13\00:22:48.23 I WANT - YOU KNOW, OUR TWO YOUNGEST BOYS, THEIR NAMES ARE 00:22:48.23\00:22:52.23 STEPHEN AND NATHAN AND ONE TIME, OUT IN THE COURTYARD, THEY WERE 00:22:52.23\00:22:58.23 REALLY ACTING UP. THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO, YOU 00:22:58.23\00:23:00.43 KNOW, WE'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME NOW. 00:23:00.43\00:23:02.26 AND WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE, KAREN - PASTOR'S WIFE - 00:23:02.26\00:23:05.13 SHE BECAME VERY IRRITATED. THEY WERE BOTH YOUNG, THEY WERE 00:23:05.13\00:23:07.13 BOTH RUNNING AROUND AND GETTING IN THE FOUNTAIN - WHATEVER THEY 00:23:07.13\00:23:08.76 WERE DOING, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IN HER FRUSTRATION SHE DIDN'T KNOW 00:23:08.76\00:23:12.10 WHETHER TO CALL OUT STEPHEN OR NATHAN AND SHE SAID, 00:23:12.10\00:23:14.06 'SATAN COME HERE!' PEOPLE LOOKED AT HER LIKE... 00:23:14.06\00:23:24.33 SO YOU DON'T WANT TO GET THAT MIXED UP. 00:23:24.33\00:23:27.00 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE MIX UP WHO IS THE SCAPEGOAT. 00:23:27.00\00:23:32.43 IS THE SCAPEGOAT TALKING ABOUT A SIN-BEARER FOR US? 00:23:32.43\00:23:36.60 A TYPE OF JESUS? OR IS IT A TYPE OF SATAN? 00:23:36.60\00:23:41.03 AND THERE ARE MANY WHO SAY, 'WELL, THE LORD'S GOAT'S THE ONE 00:23:41.03\00:23:44.86 WHO DIES - HIS BLOOD IS SHED.' AND EVERYONE VIRTUALLY AGREES ON 00:23:44.86\00:23:48.23 THAT. BUT BECAUSE THE OTHER ONE - IT SAYS - MAKES ATONEMENT, 00:23:48.23\00:23:50.96 THAT ALSO MUST BE A SYMBOL OF THE LORD. BUT, OH NO, NO, NO - 00:23:50.96\00:23:54.33 MANY CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SAID THAT WAS A TYPE OF THE DEVIL 00:23:54.33\00:23:56.96 AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE BUT THAT'S REALLY 00:23:56.96\00:24:00.90 IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 00:24:00.90\00:24:02.53 THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE CLEAR FOR THIS STUDY. 00:24:02.53\00:24:07.26 "BUT THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LOT FELL TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT" - 00:24:07.26\00:24:10.43 VERBEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKERSE ATONEMENT UPON IT, AND TO LET IT 00:24:14.70\00:24:17.46 GO AS THE SCAPEGOAT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 00:24:17.46\00:24:20.96 AND AARON WILL BRING THE BULL OF THE SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR 00:24:20.96\00:24:23.36 HIMSELF, AND MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIMSELF AND FOR HIS HOUSE, AND 00:24:23.36\00:24:26.66 SHALL KILL THE BULL AS THE SIN OFFERING WHICH IS FOR HIMSELF. 00:24:26.66\00:24:29.63 THEN HE SHALL TAKE A CENSER FULL OF BURNING COALS OF FIRE FROM 00:24:29.63\00:24:33.23 THE ALTAR BEFORE THE LORD, WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF SWEET INCENSE 00:24:33.23\00:24:36.80 BEATEN FINE, AND BRING IT INSIDE THE VEIL. AND HE SHALL PUT THE 00:24:36.80\00:24:40.53 INCENSE ON THE FIRE BEFORE THE LORD, THAT THE CLOUD OF INCENSE 00:24:40.53\00:24:44.66 MAY COVER THE MERCY SEAT THAT IS ON THE TESTIMONY, LEST HE DIE." 00:24:44.66\00:24:49.63 - THERE'S THE - MIGHT BE SMOKE TO SEPARATE THE PRESENCE OF GOD 00:24:49.63\00:24:53.03 - "HE SHALL TAKE SOME OF THE BLOOD OF THE BULL AND SPRINKLE 00:24:53.03\00:24:55.43 IT WITH HIS FINGER ON THE MERCY SEAT" - THE BLOOD OF WHAT GOAT? 00:24:55.43\00:24:59.33 HE'S TALKING ABOUT - WELL, THE BLOOD OF THE SACRIFICE - IT'S 00:24:59.33\00:25:03.20 NOT THE SCAPEGOAT - "...AND BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT HE SHALL 00:25:03.20\00:25:07.16 SPRINKLE SOME OF THE BLOOD WITH HIS FINGER SEVEN TIMES. 00:25:07.16\00:25:10.46 THEN HE SHALL KILL THE GOAT OF THE SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR 00:25:10.46\00:25:13.56 THE PEOPLE, BRING ITS BLOOD INSIDE THE VEIL, DO WITH THAT 00:25:13.56\00:25:17.50 BLOOD AS HE DID WITH THE BLOOD OF THE BULL, AND SPRINKLE IT ON 00:25:17.50\00:25:21.23 THE MERCY SEAT AND BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 00:25:21.23\00:25:24.30 SO SHALL HE MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE HOLY PLACE BECAUSE OF THE 00:25:24.30\00:25:28.13 UNCLEANNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR 00:25:28.13\00:25:30.90 TRANSGRESSIONS, FOR ALL THEIR SINS; AND SO HE SHALL DO FOR THE 00:25:30.90\00:25:34.66 TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHICH REMAINS AMONG THEM IN THE MIDST 00:25:34.66\00:25:37.63 OF THEIR UNCLEANNESS. THERE SHALL BE NO MAN IN THE 00:25:37.63\00:25:41.33 TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHEN HE GOES IN TO MAKE ATONEMENT IN THE 00:25:41.33\00:25:44.80 HOLY PLACE, UNTIL HE COMES OUT, THAT HE MAY MAKE ATONEMENT FOR 00:25:44.80\00:25:48.40 HIMSELF, FOR HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND FOR ALL THE ASSEMBLY OF ISRAEL." 00:25:48.40\00:25:53.60 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO STOP THERE AND GET INTO OUR LESSON AND THEN 00:25:53.60\00:25:56.30 MAYBE WE'LL PAUSE AGAIN AND READ ANOTHER SEGMENT OF THAT. 00:25:56.30\00:25:58.93 NOW, YOU KNOW, I REALIZE AS I WAS READING, I DON'T THINK I 00:25:58.93\00:26:01.46 READ OUR MEMORY VERSE YET, DID I? WE'RE GOING TO DO IT TOGETHER 00:26:01.46\00:26:06.46 - MICAH - THE MEMORY VERSE IN OUR LESSON - MICAH 7, VERSES 18 00:26:06.46\00:26:09.90 AND 19 - AND I'M READING FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 00:26:09.90\00:26:13.63 MICAH - THE BOOK OF MICAH 7, VERSES 18 AND 19 - YOU READY? 00:26:13.63\00:26:19.70 "WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU, PARDONING INIQUITY AND PASSING 00:26:19.70\00:26:24.53 OVER THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS HERITAGE? 00:26:24.53\00:26:28.50 HE DOES NOT RETAIN HIS ANGER FOREVER, BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN 00:26:28.50\00:26:32.53 MERCY. HE WILL AGAIN HAVE COMPASSION ON 00:26:32.53\00:26:35.76 US, AND WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES. 00:26:35.76\00:26:38.86 YOU WILL CAST ALL OUR SINS INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA." 00:26:38.86\00:26:43.06 NOW AT WHAT POINT ARE ALL THE SINS CAST INTO 00:26:43.06\00:26:46.93 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA? HAS THAT HAPPENED AS SOON AS YOU 00:26:46.93\00:26:51.33 CONFESS YOUR SINS? I'M NOT ANSWERING THAT YET. 00:26:51.33\00:26:56.96 OKAY, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME DANIEL 9:20. 00:26:56.96\00:27:00.80 I THINK WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES SO YOU'VE ALREADY GOT THAT. 00:27:00.80\00:27:02.83 LET'S GIVE YOU A MICROPHONE - JOLYNE'S GOT THAT HERE. 00:27:02.83\00:27:05.33 AND WHILE WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT I'M GOING TO READ, AGAIN, 00:27:05.33\00:27:07.66 LEVITICUS 16:16, "SO HE SHALL MAKE ATONEMENT" - NOTICE - "FOR 00:27:07.66\00:27:11.60 THE HOLY PLACE, BECAUSE OF THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF 00:27:11.60\00:27:15.10 ISRAEL, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS, FOR ALL THEIR 00:27:15.10\00:27:17.86 SINS; AND SO HE SHALL DO FOR THE TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHICH 00:27:17.86\00:27:22.13 REMAINS AMONG THEM IN THE MIDST OF THEIR UNCLEANNESS." 00:27:22.13\00:27:24.70 NOTICE, IT SAYS HE'S MAKING ATONEMENT - HOLY PLACE - AND IT 00:27:24.70\00:27:29.00 SAYS TABERNACLE - FOR THEIR SINS. 00:27:29.00\00:27:31.50 WHAT YOU CAN'T MISS HERE IS THAT SOMEHOW THEIR SINS ARE CONNECTED 00:27:31.50\00:27:35.20 WITH THE TABERNACLE AND THE HOLY PLACE. 00:27:35.20\00:27:37.50 DID WE ALL GET THAT? SOMEHOW THE SIN IS SYMBOLICALLY 00:27:37.50\00:27:40.86 OR IN SOME WAY TRANSFERRED THERE. 00:27:40.86\00:27:43.30 NOW, THERE'S TWO WAYS THAT WE CONFESS SIN - WELL THERE'S MANY 00:27:43.30\00:27:48.76 DIFFERENT WAYS BUT TWO WAYS I WANT TO FOCUS ON. 00:27:48.76\00:27:50.70 ONE IS YOU COME BEFORE THE LORD AND YOU CONFESS YOUR SIN. 00:27:50.70\00:27:54.83 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAS NOT JUST AN INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION, 00:27:54.83\00:27:59.20 IT WAS CORPORATE CONFESSION. 00:27:59.20\00:28:02.53 WHEN I SAY 'CORPORATE' I DON'T MEAN LIKE A CORPORATION, I'M 00:28:02.53\00:28:06.53 TALKING ABOUT A COLLECTIVE - AS A GROUP OF PEOPLE. 00:28:06.53\00:28:10.33 WITH THAT IN MIND, GO AHEAD JO. WHY DON'T YOU READ DANIEL 9:20. 00:28:10.33\00:28:14.83 >>"NOW WHILE I WAS SPEAKING, PRAYING, AND CONFESSING MY SIN 00:28:14.83\00:28:18.90 AND THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND PRESENTING MY SUPPLICATION 00:28:18.90\00:28:22.40 BEFORE THE LORD MY GOD FOR THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF MY GOD." 00:28:22.40\00:28:26.33 >>AND IT GOES ON AND SAYS THAT THE ANGEL GABRIEL APPEARED. 00:28:26.33\00:28:28.50 WHAT WAS DANIEL DOING? 00:28:28.50\00:28:29.90 'WHILE I WAS PRAYING CONFESSING MY SIN AND THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE 00:28:29.90\00:28:34.63 ISRAEL.' LATER IN THE LESSON WE TALK 00:28:34.63\00:28:37.50 ABOUT ISAIAH'S TABERNACLE DAY OF ATONEMENT EXPERIENCE AND HE 00:28:37.50\00:28:42.83 SAYS, 'WOE IS ME' - THIS IS ISAIAH CHAPTER 6 - 'FOR I AM A 00:28:42.83\00:28:46.53 MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF 00:28:46.53\00:28:50.33 UNCLEAN LIPS.' YOU'VE GOT THE INDIVIDUAL 00:28:50.33\00:28:52.43 CONFESSION THEN YOU'VE GOT THE CORPORATE CONFESSION. 00:28:52.43\00:28:55.60 WHEN WE PRAY THE LORD'S PRAYER DO WE SAY 'FORGIVE ME MY SINS'? 00:28:55.60\00:29:01.00 OR IS IT FORGIVE US? IS THAT CORPORATE OR INDIVIDUAL? 00:29:01.00\00:29:05.53 SO SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IS THIS IS NOT JUST CLEANSING AN 00:29:05.53\00:29:09.46 INDIVIDUAL FROM SIN, THIS IS CLEANSING THE CHURCH OR HIS 00:29:09.46\00:29:12.70 PEOPLE - HIS NATION - FROM SIN. THIS IS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING 00:29:12.70\00:29:16.33 THING. THEY WERE TO COME TOGETHER. 00:29:16.33\00:29:18.10 IT'S LIKE WHEN GOD SAID THERE IN SOLOMON'S PRAYER, 'IF MY PEOPLE, 00:29:18.10\00:29:25.03 AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM SHTHEIR WICKED WAYS'. 00:29:25.03\00:29:28.16 SOMETIMES IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT US AS A PEOPLE. 00:29:28.16\00:29:33.00 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE ON THAT. 00:29:33.00\00:29:34.73 JUDGES 10:10, "AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, 00:29:34.73\00:29:39.46 SAYING, 'WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE WE HAVE BOTH 00:29:39.46\00:29:43.30 FORSAKEN OUR GOD AND SERVED THE BAALS!'" 00:29:43.30\00:29:46.06 BAAL WORSHIP - SO THERE WAS A CORPORATE CONFESSION. 00:29:46.06\00:29:50.43 AND SO THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAS NOT JUST FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, 00:29:50.43\00:29:55.13 THAT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED ON A DAILY BASIS, IT WAS FOR THE 00:29:55.13\00:29:57.96 NATION AS WELL AS THE INDIVIDUALS. 00:29:57.96\00:30:02.33 NOW JUST IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION - TO SHOW YOU HOW 00:30:02.33\00:30:04.90 THIS PRINCIPLE - AND HOW CENTRAL THIS DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE 00:30:04.90\00:30:08.83 SANCTUARY CLEANSING WAS, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - THREE 00:30:08.83\00:30:12.13 SCRIPTURES, VERY QUICKLY - FOR INSTANCE REVELATION CHAPTER 1, 00:30:12.13\00:30:17.13 VERSES 12 AND 13, "THEN I TURNED TO SEE THE VOICE THAT SPOKE 00:30:17.13\00:30:21.66 WITH ME. AND HAVING TURNED I SAW SEVEN 00:30:21.66\00:30:24.50 GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS, AND IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS 00:30:24.50\00:30:27.80 ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, CLOTHED WITH A GARMENT DOWN TO THE FEET 00:30:27.80\00:30:33.00 AND GIRDED ABOUT THE CHEST WITH A GOLDEN BAND." 00:30:33.00\00:30:35.66 ALRIGHT, WHO IS THAT STANDING AMONG THE LAMPSTANDS? 00:30:35.66\00:30:38.53 IT'S JESUS. WHY SEVEN LAMPSTANDS? 00:30:38.53\00:30:42.83 WHERE DO YOU FIND SEVEN LAMPSTANDS OTHERWISE? 00:30:42.83\00:30:45.73 IT'S IN THE SANCTUARY PLACE - IN THE HOLY PLACE OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:30:45.73\00:30:49.60 ALRIGHT, JUMP WITH ME TO REVELATION 8, VERSE 3. 00:30:49.60\00:30:53.30 I LOVE HEARING THE RUSH OF PAGES TURNING. "THEN ANOTHER ANGEL, 00:30:53.30\00:30:59.53 HAVING A GOLDEN CENSER, CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR. 00:30:59.53\00:31:03.56 HE WAS GIVEN MUCH INCENSE, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE 00:31:03.56\00:31:06.80 PRAYERS OF ALL THE SAINTS UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH WAS 00:31:06.80\00:31:09.90 BEFORE THE THRONE." NOW THERE WAS AN ALTAR IN THE 00:31:09.90\00:31:12.76 COURTYARD BUT THIS WAS AN ALTAR THAT HAS INCENSE OFFERED ON IT 00:31:12.76\00:31:16.26 BEFORE THE THRONE - THE THRONE A TYPE OF THE HOLY OF HOLIES - 00:31:16.26\00:31:21.73 SO WHAT ALTAR IS THIS? IT'S THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 00:31:21.73\00:31:27.16 ALRIGHT, SO YOU'VE GONE FROM THE CANDLESTICKS, YOU'VE GOT THE 00:31:27.16\00:31:29.53 ALTAR OF INCENSE, GO TO REVELATION 11. 00:31:29.53\00:31:32.33 YOU NOTICE WE'RE MOVING SEQUENTIALLY THROUGH REVELATION? 00:31:32.33\00:31:35.30 REVELATION 11:19, "THEN THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN 00:31:35.30\00:31:40.00 HEAVEN," - NOW THIS MUST BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT PART OF THE 00:31:40.00\00:31:43.80 TEMPLE? THE CENTER - "AND THE ARK OF HIS 00:31:43.80\00:31:49.26 COVENANT WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE. AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS, 00:31:49.26\00:31:53.00 NOISES, THUNDERINGS, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL." 00:31:53.00\00:31:56.26 NOW SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IS THE LAST PART OF THAT 00:31:56.26\00:31:58.16 VERSE: 'THERE ARE LIGHTNINGS, NOISES, THUNDERINGS, AN 00:31:58.16\00:32:04.90 EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL.' YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 00:32:04.90\00:32:08.13 WHEN JESUS COMES, AT THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING THERE ARE 00:32:08.13\00:32:12.43 THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND A GREAT HAIL. 00:32:12.43\00:32:16.60 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE ARK BEING REVEALED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE 00:32:16.60\00:32:22.26 SECOND COMING - OR SIMULTANEOUSLY, AT LEAST, 00:32:22.26\00:32:25.56 WITH IT. AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A 00:32:25.56\00:32:27.53 SEQUENCE THAT IS HAPPENING. IT'S LIKE YOU, IN REVELATION, 00:32:27.53\00:32:30.66 ARE MOVING THROUGH THE SANCTUARY TOWARDS THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:32:30.66\00:32:33.63 AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS AT THE END OF THE BOOK? 00:32:33.63\00:32:35.56 GOD, HIMSELF, WILL BE WITH US. 00:32:35.56\00:32:37.53 SO IT STARTS OUR WE'RE ON THE OUTSIDE AND YOU'RE MOVING IN. 00:32:37.53\00:32:40.96 ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION IT'S TALKING ABOUT 00:32:40.96\00:32:42.66 THE JOURNEY BACK INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:32:42.66\00:32:45.16 IT'S HAPPENING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SANCTUARY. 00:32:45.16\00:32:48.06 THE VISION THAT JOHN HAS IN REVELATION IS IN THAT CONTEXT. 00:32:48.06\00:32:52.30 NOW, THE REASON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT IS 00:32:52.30\00:32:57.16 BECAUSE CHRIST ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN FOLLOWING HIS SACRIFICE 00:32:57.16\00:33:02.10 BACK IN 31 AD AND HIS SACRIFICE WAS DECLARED VICTORIOUS. 00:33:02.10\00:33:11.53 THE DISCIPLES WORSHIPED HIM IN THE UPPER ROOM. 00:33:11.53\00:33:13.80 HE SAID, 'ALL HAIL'. THEY HELD HIM BY THE FEET AND 00:33:13.80\00:33:16.03 THEY WORSHIPED HIM. AND AFTER HE ASCENDED FORTY DAYS 00:33:16.03\00:33:19.33 LATER - TO HEAVEN - HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN'. 00:33:19.33\00:33:23.96 HE HAD BEEN WORKING AS OUR HIGH PRIEST. DOES ANYONE QUESTION - 00:33:23.96\00:33:28.13 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR IN HEBREWS - THAT 00:33:28.13\00:33:31.13 WE HAVE A HIGH PRIEST? THE EARTHLY HIGH PRIEST WAS A 00:33:31.13\00:33:33.33 TYPE OF OUR HIGH PRIEST - OUR HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF 00:33:33.33\00:33:36.00 MELCHIZEDEK - BECAUSE JESUS DIDN'T COME FROM THE TRIBE OF 00:33:36.00\00:33:38.63 LEVI. HE WAS A UNIQUE HIGH PRIEST ALL 00:33:38.63\00:33:42.26 THE OTHER HIGH PRIESTS POINTED TO AND HE IS NOW AT THE RIGHT 00:33:42.26\00:33:45.83 HAND OF GOD MINISTERING IN OUR BEHALF. 00:33:45.83\00:33:49.20 THE TYPE OF HIS MINISTRY FOR THOSE FIRST 1900 YEARS FROM THE 00:33:49.20\00:33:54.36 TIME HE ASCENDED WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE WHAT THE PRIEST 00:33:54.36\00:33:57.10 DID ON A DAILY BASIS. BUT BEFORE CHRIST COMES BACK 00:33:57.10\00:34:01.06 THERE IS A HEAVENLY DAY OF ATONEMENT. 00:34:01.06\00:34:02.93 THAT WAS A TIME OF JUDGMENT - THE PEOPLE WOULD HUMBLE 00:34:02.93\00:34:06.13 THEMSELVES - WHEN ONLY THE PRIEST WENT IN. 00:34:06.13\00:34:09.86 AND THERE WAS THIS SACRIFICE - ALL THE SINS HAD BEEN STORED AND 00:34:09.86\00:34:13.56 THE PEOPLE WERE PRAYING FOR COMPLETE SEPARATION - IF THEY 00:34:13.56\00:34:16.30 WERE CHERISHING SIN IN THEIR LIVES THE PRIEST COULD DIE IN 00:34:16.30\00:34:19.00 THERE. MATTER OF FACT, I'VE NOT READ IT IN THE BIBLE 00:34:19.00\00:34:23.83 BUT I'VE READ IT IN SEVERAL EXTRA BIBLICAL SOURCES THAT THE 00:34:23.83\00:34:26.76 HIGH PRIEST USED TO WEAR A BLUE CORD AROUND HIS ANKLE 00:34:26.76\00:34:29.90 WHEN HE WENT INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES BECAUSE NOBODY COULD GO 00:34:29.90\00:34:36.63 IWHAT IF HE SHOULD BE AN OLDER PRIEST AND HAVE A HEART ATTACK? 00:34:36.63\00:34:40.20 NO ONE COULD GO IN AND GET HIM. AND SO, IT'S LIKE WHEN THEY HAD 00:34:40.20\00:34:46.80 TO GO COVER UP NOAH IN HIS TENT. RATHER THAN LOOK ON THEIR 00:34:46.80\00:34:50.40 FATHER'S NAKEDNESS, SHEM AND JAPHETH PUT A GARMENT OVER THEIR 00:34:50.40\00:34:54.00 SHOULDERS AND WALKED IN BACKWARDS. 00:34:54.00\00:34:56.86 AND IT'S LIKE HOW DO YOU GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD? 00:34:56.86\00:34:59.46 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE I'VE GOT IN MY LESSON HERE THAT 00:34:59.46\00:35:01.86 I THINK - LOOK WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES - 2 CHRONICLES 7, VERSES 00:35:01.86\00:35:05.50 1 AND 2 - WHEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS TEMPLE - 2 CHRONICLES - 00:35:05.50\00:35:10.46 YOU OUGHT TO READ THIS. THIS IS - YOU DON'T FIND THIS IN 00:35:10.46\00:35:12.66 KINGS - WHEN THEY DEDICATE THE TEMPLE - YOU'LL ONLY FIND IT IN 00:35:12.66\00:35:15.50 THIS VERSE. 2 CHRONICLES 7, VERSES 1 AND 2, 00:35:15.50\00:35:19.20 "WHEN SOLOMON HAD FINISHED PRAYING," - HIS DEDICATION 00:35:19.20\00:35:21.46 PRAYER ON THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF ALL THE EARTHLY TEMPLES - 00:35:21.46\00:35:25.00 "WHEN SOLOMON HAD FINISHED PRAYING, FIRE CAME DOWN FROM 00:35:25.00\00:35:28.46 HEAVEN AND CONSUMED THE BURNT OFFERING AND THE SACRIFICES; AND 00:35:28.46\00:35:33.33 THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TEMPLE. 00:35:33.33\00:35:36.96 AND THE PRIESTS COULD NOT ENTER THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, BECAUSE 00:35:36.96\00:35:40.26 THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAD FILLED THE LORD'S HOUSE." 00:35:40.26\00:35:43.73 IT WAS LIKE A GIGANTIC ARC WELDER IN THERE WITH THE GLORY 00:35:43.73\00:35:47.23 OF GOD AND THEY JUST COULDN'T GO IN - THEY COULDN'T SURVIVE IT. 00:35:47.23\00:35:51.06 SO IF THE HIGH PRIEST SHOULD DIE OR HAVE A HEART ATTACK OR IF HE 00:35:51.06\00:35:53.93 WENT IN WITH SIN IN HIS LIFE UNCONFESSED, LIKE NADAB AND 00:35:53.93\00:35:56.96 ABIHU, SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN. AND SO THEY HAD A CORD AROUND 00:35:56.96\00:36:01.60 HIS ANKLE AND IF HE DIDN'T COME OUT AT THE PROPER TIME AND IT 00:36:01.60\00:36:04.66 SEEMED LIKE - HE HAD BELLS ON THE BOTTOM OF HIS GARMENT, YOU 00:36:04.66\00:36:06.93 KNOW, IF THEY COULD HEAR HIM - THE LITTLE BELLS TINKLING - 00:36:06.93\00:36:10.56 THAT MEANT THAT HE WAS GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE SPRINKLING 00:36:10.56\00:36:13.33 THE BLOOD AND MINISTERING FOR THEM - IF THEY DIDN'T HEAR THE 00:36:13.33\00:36:15.20 BELLS AND TOO MUCH TIME WENT BY, THEY'D PULL HIS BODY OUT. 00:36:15.20\00:36:19.96 AND SO NOBODY COULD GO IN, IT WAS THAT SERIOUS. 00:36:19.96\00:36:23.46 WELL, ON A DAILY BASIS IT WAS LIKE WHAT THE PRIEST DID IN THE 00:36:23.46\00:36:26.63 HOLY PLACE - THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID FOR THE FIRST 1900 YEARS. 00:36:26.63\00:36:31.83 THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH - YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT THE AGE OF 00:36:31.83\00:36:34.90 EPHESUS AND SMYRNA AND PHILADELPHIA - THOSE REPRESENT 00:36:34.90\00:36:37.46 DIFFERENT PHASES OR AGES OF CHURCH HISTORY - THE LAST AGE OF 00:36:37.46\00:36:40.93 THE CHURCH IS CALLED WHAT? LAODICEA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT 00:36:40.93\00:36:44.53 THE WORD 'LAODICEA' MEANS? A JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 00:36:44.53\00:36:48.80 AND WHEN THAT AGE OF THE CHURCH BEGAN - WE BELIEVE THAT WAS 1844 00:36:48.80\00:36:52.66 - CHRIST ENTERED INTO HIS FINAL PHASE - HIS DAY OF 00:36:52.66\00:36:56.40 ATONEMENT-TYPE OF MINISTRY - OF CLEANSING GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:36:56.40\00:37:01.03 THAT'S ALSO WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BEGAN, WHERE CHRISTIANS CAME 00:37:01.03\00:37:04.70 TOGETHER FROM MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS, THEY 00:37:04.70\00:37:07.23 SAID, 'LET'S GET BACK TO THE BIBLE.' 00:37:07.23\00:37:09.10 NOT ONLY CLEANSING OF THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE, IT WAS A 00:37:09.10\00:37:11.20 CLEANSING OF HIS TEMPLE ON EARTH. 00:37:11.20\00:37:13.50 DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD? 00:37:13.50\00:37:16.10 WE - YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, NOT JUST YOUR BODY, BUT IT SAYS 00:37:16.10\00:37:19.93 'YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD' - COLLECTIVELY. 00:37:19.93\00:37:22.03 WE ARE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE. 00:37:22.03\00:37:24.30 AND HE BEGAN TO CLEANSE HIS PEOPLE FROM ALL THESE FALSE 00:37:24.30\00:37:27.10 TEACHINGS THAT HAD COME IN OVER THE DARK AGES AND WHEN THAT'S 00:37:27.10\00:37:31.66 COMPLETE HE'S COMING BACK. HE'LL STAND UP AND AT THAT POINT 00:37:31.66\00:37:36.20 GOD'S PEOPLE NEED TO BE PURGED FROM THEIR SIN. 00:37:36.20\00:37:38.60 SO NOW'S THE TIME - WHAT SHOULD OUR ATTITUDE BE AS A PEOPLE? 00:37:38.60\00:37:43.03 WHAT WAS THE ATTITUDE OF THE ISRAELITES DURING YOM KIPPUR? 00:37:43.03\00:37:46.83 EVEN JEWS TODAY, THEY SPEND 25 HOURS IN PRAYER. 00:37:46.83\00:37:50.30 SOME OF THEM STAY IN THE TEMPLE ALL DAY LONG. 00:37:50.30\00:37:52.06 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME OF HUMILIATION, HUMBLING, PUTTING 00:37:52.06\00:37:54.56 AWAY OF SIN, SEEKING AFTER HOLINESS, RECONCILING WITH 00:37:54.56\00:37:57.96 OTHERS THAT THEY'VE HAD ODDS WITH. 00:37:57.96\00:38:01.16 IT'S JUST REALLY A VERY SERIOUS TIME OF SAYING, 'HEY, PREPARE TO 00:38:01.16\00:38:04.10 MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL.' IT WAS THE END OF THE YEAR AND 00:38:04.10\00:38:08.73 SO WE, AS GOD'S SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 00:38:08.73\00:38:12.50 THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE OF 'WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE OF HIGHER 00:38:12.50\00:38:16.76 EXPECTATIONS.' YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, 00:38:16.76\00:38:22.60 YOU KNOW, IF I LIVED BACK DURING THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES WHEN 00:38:22.60\00:38:25.00 JESUS WAS HERE - WHEN HE WALKED THE EARTH - I COULD SEE IT WOULD 00:38:25.00\00:38:27.43 BE REALLY IMPORTANT TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE. 00:38:27.43\00:38:29.03 BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SUCH A SINFUL WORLD RIGHT NOW AND IT'S 00:38:29.03\00:38:31.36 SO HARD TO BE HOLY RIGHT NOW AND GOD DOESN'T EXPECT AS MUCH OF US 00:38:31.36\00:38:35.13 TODAY AS HE DID OF THEM BACK THEN BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, JESUS 00:38:35.13\00:38:37.90 WAS THERE WITH THEM.' THAT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 00:38:37.90\00:38:41.36 YOU CAN'T SUPPORT THAT. CHRIST SAID, 'THESE THINGS THAT 00:38:41.36\00:38:44.36 I HAVE DONE, GREATER THINGS THAN THESE WILL 00:38:44.36\00:38:46.60 YOU DO BECAUSE I GO TO THE FATHER.' 00:38:46.60\00:38:48.10 DOES THE LORD EXPECT LESS, THE SAME AMOUNT, OR MORE FROM HIS 00:38:48.10\00:38:54.70 PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS? MORE? I WON'T RESPOND BUT LET ME ASK A 00:38:54.70\00:38:59.93 QUESTION ANOTHER WAY. IS THE DEVIL THE SAME, BETTER OR 00:38:59.93\00:39:06.30 WORSE AT TEMPTING GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:39:06.30\00:39:10.36 HE'S BETTER AT IT, WHICH MEANS HE'S WORSE! RIGHT? 00:39:10.36\00:39:14.63 DO YOU ALL AGREE WITH THAT? HAS HE BEEN PRACTICING. 00:39:14.63\00:39:17.06 SO IS HE GETTING BETTER AT IT? WHERE SIN ABOUNDS DOES GRACE 00:39:17.06\00:39:22.00 MUCH MORE ABOUND? AND SO IF THE DEVIL IS GETTING 00:39:22.00\00:39:25.00 BETTER AT WHAT HE IS DOING, IS HE BEATING THE LORD OR CAN GOD'S 00:39:25.00\00:39:29.00 PEOPLE GET BETTER AT LIVING LIKE CHRISTIANS? 00:39:29.00\00:39:31.53 THE LORD IS GOING TO COME FOR A PEOPLE THAT HAVE PROVEN TO THE 00:39:31.53\00:39:35.73 UNIVERSE AND THE DEVIL THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US TO BE 00:39:35.73\00:39:38.86 CHRISTIANS AND BE CHRIST-LIKE. AND SO THIS IS A TIME - WE'RE 00:39:38.86\00:39:48.03 LIALRIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, 'BEYOND FORGIVENESS' IS OUR NEXT 00:39:48.03\00:39:51.96 SECTION - BEYOND FORGIVENESS. HEBREWS 8, VERSE 3 - SOMEONE 00:39:51.96\00:39:55.96 LOOK UP FOR ME HEBREWS 8:6 - WHO HAS THAT? 00:39:55.96\00:39:59.36 WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:39:59.36\00:40:03.13 NOW THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE HIGH PRIEST WAS TO MEDIATE 00:40:03.13\00:40:06.90 BETWEEN GOD AND MANKIND. DO SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THOSE 00:40:06.90\00:40:10.56 OLD COOK STOVES - WHETHER IT WAS ELECTRIC OR GAS THERE WERE THREE 00:40:10.56\00:40:14.33 SETTINGS ON YOUR PLATES ON THE STOVE. 00:40:14.33\00:40:17.33 DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THOSE THREE SETTINGS WERE? 00:40:17.33\00:40:19.70 LOW, MEDIUM AND HIGH. WHY WAS MEDIUM CALLED 'MEDIUM'? 00:40:19.70\00:40:26.46 MEDIUM MEANS 'IN BETWEEN'. IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD 00:40:26.46\00:40:28.70 'MEDIATOR'. IT MEANS A GO-BETWEEN. 00:40:28.70\00:40:32.36 AND JESUS IS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. THAT'S WHY HE'S 00:40:32.36\00:40:35.96 PORTRAYED AS THE LADDER THAT CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH. 00:40:35.96\00:40:39.50 AND SO THE HIGH PRIEST WAS TO MEDIATE. 00:40:39.50\00:40:42.50 THAT'S WHAT AARON SYMBOLIZED. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE, READ 00:40:42.50\00:40:45.53 FOR US HEBREWS 8:6. I THINK WE'RE READY. 00:40:45.53\00:40:50.13 >>HEBREWS 8 AND 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT 00:40:50.13\00:40:54.90 MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT, 00:40:54.90\00:41:01.03 WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED ON BETTER PROMISES." 00:41:01.03\00:41:03.60 >>ALRIGHT. NOW WHY ARE THE PROMISES BETTER? 00:41:03.60\00:41:05.83 BECAUSE GOD FAILED HIS FIRST PROMISE? NO. 00:41:05.83\00:41:08.16 THE FIRST PROMISES ARE DEALING WITH SYMBOLS OF, YOU KNOW, GOATS 00:41:08.16\00:41:12.33 AND SHEEP - TYPES - AARON BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST - 00:41:12.33\00:41:15.26 THOSE AREN'T AS GOOD AS THE REAL THING. 00:41:15.26\00:41:18.03 THE FIRST PROMISES ARE BASED ON TYPES AND SYMBOLS. 00:41:18.03\00:41:20.60 THE PROMISES NOW ARE BEING REALIZED WITH THE REAL LORD AND 00:41:20.60\00:41:25.66 THE REAL SACRIFICE THAT HE OFFERED. 00:41:25.66\00:41:31.63 THE BLOOD OF A LAMB THAT'S A SYMBOL OR THE BLOOD OF JESUS 00:41:31.63\00:41:33.86 THAT REALLY DOES TAKE AWAY OUR SIN? AND SO CHRIST IS A MEDIATOR 00:41:33.86\00:41:38.63 AND THAT'S THE WORK THAT THE HIGH PRIEST REPRESENTED. 00:41:38.63\00:41:41.36 LET ME READ A QUOTE TO YOU FROM THAT CLASSIC BOOK 'PATRIARCHS 00:41:41.36\00:41:44.13 AND PROPHETS' - THIS IS, BY THE WAY, PAGE 357 - 00:41:44.13\00:41:47.13 I THINK IT'S IN YOUR LESSON. "THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHILE IT 00:41:47.13\00:41:50.33 WAS TO RELEASE THE REPENTANT SINNER FROM THE CONDEMNATION OF 00:41:50.33\00:41:53.46 THE LAW, WAS NOT TO CANCEL THE SIN; IT WOULD STAND ON RECORD 00:41:53.46\00:41:58.60 IN THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE FINAL ATONEMENT; 00:41:58.60\00:42:01.53 SO IS THE TYPE OF THE BLOOD RECORD IN THE SANCTUARY" - LET 00:42:01.53\00:42:05.56 ME SEE - I'M SORRY - "SO IS THE TYPE - THE BLOOD OF THE 00:42:05.56\00:42:09.86 PURIFICATION OFFERING REMOVED THE SIN FROM THE PENITENT, BUT 00:42:09.86\00:42:13.03 IT RESTED IN THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE DAY OF ATONEMENT." 00:42:13.03\00:42:15.63 NOW SOME OF YOU ARE GOING, 'AH! YOU MEAN WHEN I TELL GOD I'M 00:42:15.63\00:42:19.43 SORRY FOR MY SINS AND HE SAYS 'YOU'RE FORGIVEN' THAT I'M NOT 00:42:19.43\00:42:22.46 REALLY FORGIVEN - NOT TOTALLY FORGIVEN? 00:42:22.46\00:42:25.50 NO, YOU'RE FORGIVEN, BUT THE RECORD OF YOUR SIN IS NOT 00:42:25.50\00:42:28.90 DESTROYED YET. I MIGHT GET PULLED OVER FOR SPEEDING. 00:42:28.90\00:42:33.33 I MIGHT GO TO TRAFFIC COURT AND THEY MIGHT SAY, 'WE'RE NOT GOING 00:42:33.33\00:42:37.60 TO PUT THIS ON YOUR RECORD SO THE INSURANCE COMPANY IS GOING 00:42:37.60\00:42:42.03 TO RAISE YOUR RATES.' BUT, YOU KNOW, IF I GET PULLED 00:42:42.03\00:42:45.13 OVER AGAIN IN ANOTHER SIX MONTHS, THE RECORD OF MY FIRST 00:42:45.13\00:42:48.36 SPEEDING IS STILL THERE. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT? 00:42:48.36\00:42:52.86 THEY WILL NOT TREAT YOU - IF YOU REPENT AND GO TO TRAFFIC SCHOOL 00:42:52.86\00:42:57.60 - THEY'LL SAY, 'ALRIGHT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOUR INSURANCE 00:42:57.60\00:42:59.93 COMPANY RAISE YOUR RATES. 00:42:59.93\00:43:01.26 WE'RE NOT GOING TO POST IT.' BUT IF YOU GET ANOTHER ONE, 00:43:01.26\00:43:05.30 THEY'RE GOING TO DIG BACK INTO YOUR COMPUTER FILE AND SAY, 'YOU 00:43:05.30\00:43:07.16 KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN THREE TIMES SPEEDING.' 00:43:07.16\00:43:09.63 AND I'LL SAY, 'BUT, BUT, BUT - YOU FORGAVE ME THAT FIRST ONE.' 00:43:09.63\00:43:13.46 'WELL, IT'S STILL ON THE BOOKS. WE DIDN'T FINE YOU FOR IT. 00:43:13.46\00:43:15.86 WE DIDN'T RELEASE IT BUT IT'S STILL THERE.' 00:43:15.86\00:43:18.56 NOW SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE - THEY SAY, 'YOU MEAN WHEN I CONFESS MY 00:43:18.56\00:43:22.26 SIN HE DOESN'T CAST IT IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA AND IT'S NEVER 00:43:22.26\00:43:24.70 DISCOVERED - NEVER LOOKED AT AGAIN?' NO. FOLLOW ME. 00:43:24.70\00:43:30.20 LET'S SUPPOSE YOU HAVE A PERSON THAT SAYS, 'LORD, I'M SORRY FOR 00:43:30.20\00:43:34.43 MY SINS.' THEY'RE GENUINELY REPENTANT. 00:43:34.43\00:43:36.40 THEY ACCEPT JESUS. 00:43:36.40\00:43:37.83 JESUS COMES INTO THEIR LIFE AND THEY SERVE THE LORD. 00:43:37.83\00:43:40.66 BUT THEN, FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M JUST 00:43:40.66\00:43:43.53 TIRED OF SERVING GOD.' AND THEY TURN TO DRUGS, THEY RUN 00:43:43.53\00:43:47.53 OFF ON THEIR WIFE, AND RUN OFF WITH A GIRLFRIEND AND GO INTO A 00:43:47.53\00:43:54.00 LIFE OF CRIME AND JUST SAY, 'I'M NOT GOING TO LIVE FOR GOD 00:43:54.00\00:43:55.96 ANYMORE.' WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD IN 00:43:55.96\00:43:58.26 THE JUDGMENT ARE THEY ACCOUNTABLE ONLY FOR THE SINS 00:43:58.26\00:44:01.56 THAT THEY COMMITTED AFTER THEY BACKSLID OR ARE THEY ACCOUNTABLE 00:44:01.56\00:44:06.70 FOR ALL THE SINS THEY EVER COMMITTED? I'D SAY ALL. 00:44:06.70\00:44:13.03 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT TELLS US THERE'S A 00:44:13.03\00:44:15.43 PARTIAL FORGIVENESS FOR THE LOST. 00:44:15.43\00:44:19.03 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM THE BIBLE THAT I THINK WILL 00:44:19.03\00:44:21.50 EXPLAIN IT. EZEKIEL 18:24 - EZEKIEL 18:24, 00:44:21.50\00:44:28.46 "BUT WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNS AWAY FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS" - 00:44:28.46\00:44:33.96 THIS IS A MAN WHO IS RIGHTEOUS. HE'S GODLY. 00:44:33.96\00:44:35.76 HE'S ON HIS WAY TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? 00:44:35.76\00:44:37.46 FORGIVEN - RIGHTEOUS MAN - BUT HE TURNS AWAY FROM HIS 00:44:37.46\00:44:39.83 RIGHTEOUSNESS - WHETHER YOU SAY IT'S TURNING AWAY FROM RIGHTEOUS 00:44:39.83\00:44:43.26 DEEDS OR TURNING AWAY FROM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST, IT 00:44:43.26\00:44:45.33 DOESN'T MATTER, HE'S TURNED AWAY - "AND COMMITS INIQUITY, AND 00:44:45.33\00:44:49.63 DOES ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT THE WICKED MAN 00:44:49.63\00:44:52.33 DOES, SHALL HE LIVE? ALL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH HE 00:44:52.33\00:44:56.46 HAS DONE SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED; BECAUSE OF THE 00:44:56.46\00:45:00.13 UNFAITHFULNESS OF WHICH HE IS GUILTY AND THE SIN WHICH HE HAS 00:45:00.13\00:45:03.53 COMMITTED, BECAUSE OF THEM HE SHALL DIE." 00:45:03.53\00:45:06.90 LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE. 00:45:06.90\00:45:12.60 THERE WAS - THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT SO I'M DWELLING ON IT. 00:45:12.60\00:45:15.23 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 00:45:15.23\00:45:17.96 HERE IS WHEN YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS TO JESUS AND YOU'RE 00:45:17.96\00:45:21.30 FORGIVEN, YOU DON'T GET TO KEEP THAT FORGIVENESS UNLESS YOU KEEP 00:45:21.30\00:45:24.30 IT A HUNDRED PERCENT. YOU REMEMBER IN THE PARABLE OF 00:45:24.30\00:45:28.43 THE UNMERCIFUL DEBTOR THAT YOU FIND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18? 00:45:28.43\00:45:32.86 THIS MAN HAS A TERRIBLE DEBT HE CANNOT PAY, HE PLEADS FOR MERCY 00:45:32.86\00:45:36.96 - HE ACTUALLY TELLS THE KING, 'FORGIVE ME AND I'LL PAY IT ALL 00:45:36.96\00:45:40.70 BACK.' THE KING SHOWS HIM MERCY - 00:45:40.70\00:45:43.33 HE'S FORGIVEN - HE FORGIVES THE DEBT. 00:45:43.33\00:45:46.40 WELL THAT GUY, INSTEAD OF GOING OUT AND PRAISING THE LORD 00:45:46.40\00:45:49.06 AND BEING NICE TO EVERYBODY BECAUSE HE'S BEEN FORGIVEN THIS 00:45:49.06\00:45:51.23 INCREDIBLE DEBT, HE GOES OUT AND FINDS A FELLOW SERVANT, TAKES 00:45:51.23\00:45:54.40 HIM BY THE THROAT AND SAYS, 'YOU OWE ME FORTY DOLLARS. 00:45:54.40\00:45:56.56 PAY ME BACK OR I'M THROWING YOU IN JAIL.' HIS FRIEND SAYS, 00:45:56.56\00:45:58.93 'LOOK, HAVE MERCY ON ME. I'LL PAY YOU ALL BACK. 00:45:58.93\00:46:00.76 FORTY DOLLARS. I CAN DO IT.' 00:46:00.76\00:46:02.70 HE WOULDN'T HAVE PATIENCE WITH HIM. 00:46:02.70\00:46:03.96 THREW HIM IN JAIL TO BE TORTURED FOR FORTY DOLLARS. 00:46:03.96\00:46:07.06 WHEN THE KING FOUND OUT ABOUT IT HE HAD THAT WICKED SERVANT DRUG 00:46:07.06\00:46:10.00 BEFORE HIM AND HE SAID, 'I FORGAVE YOU TEN THOUSAND TALENTS 00:46:10.00\00:46:13.63 BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME AND YOU WOULD NOT FORGIVE YOUR FELLOW 00:46:13.63\00:46:16.50 SERVANT FORTY DOLLARS WHEN HE ASKED YOU? 00:46:16.50\00:46:19.20 NOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED FOR ALL TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.' 00:46:19.20\00:46:23.26 YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 00:46:23.26\00:46:26.23 HE DOESN'T SAY, 'WELL, NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET PUNISHED FOR 00:46:26.23\00:46:28.03 THE OTHER FIFTY CENTS YOU DIDN'T PAY BACK SINCE I FORGAVE YOU THE 00:46:28.03\00:46:30.63 TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.' HE SAYS, 'THE ORIGINAL PUNISHMENT THAT I 00:46:30.63\00:46:35.66 HAD SET ASIDE WILL BE REINSTATED BECAUSE YOU DID NOT RETAIN MY 00:46:35.66\00:46:40.76 MERCY.' IS THAT CLEAR? YOU WANT ANOTHER EXAMPLE? 00:46:40.76\00:46:45.43 THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A 00:46:45.43\00:46:47.10 LOT OF CHRISTIANS OUT THERE SAY, 'WHAT? YOU FOLKS BELIEVE THAT 00:46:47.10\00:46:50.90 SOMEHOW THE SINS ARE STORED UNTIL THE DAY OF ATONEMENT? 00:46:50.90\00:46:54.13 DON'T YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WAS FINISHED AT THE CROSS?' 00:46:54.13\00:46:57.50 YES, I THINK THE WORK OF CHRIST PROVIDING SALVATION WAS A 00:46:57.50\00:46:59.90 HUNDRED PERCENT FINISHED AT THE CROSS. 00:46:59.90\00:47:01.76 WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HE'S PROVIDED IS THE ISSUE HERE. 00:47:01.76\00:47:05.16 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? ONE MORE EXAMPLE. THERE WAS THIS MAN 00:47:05.16\00:47:09.76 NAMED SHIMEI OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN WHEN DAVID WAS FLEEING 00:47:09.76\00:47:13.03 JERUSALEM BECAUSE ABSALOM WAS PURSUING HIM. 00:47:13.03\00:47:15.23 SHIMEI THREW STONES AND CURSED DAVID. AND DAVID, WHEN HE WAS 00:47:15.23\00:47:20.56 DYING, HE TOLD SOLOMON, 'LOOK, I'VE FORGIVEN SHIMEI BUT HE'S A 00:47:20.56\00:47:24.40 RASCAL AND YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON HIM. 00:47:24.40\00:47:26.06 IF HE TURNED ON ME HE'S LIABLE TO TURN ON YOU BECAUSE HE THINKS 00:47:26.06\00:47:29.13 THAT BENJAMIN SHOULD BE THE MONARCHY. 00:47:29.13\00:47:32.36 AND SO, AFTER SOLOMON BECAME KING HE BROUGHT SHIMEI IN AND 00:47:32.36\00:47:35.93 SAID, 'LOOK, MY FATHER FORGAVE YOU AND YOU'LL GET TO KEEP YOUR 00:47:35.93\00:47:38.56 FORGIVENESS ON THE CONDITION YOU NEVER LEAVE JERUSALEM.' 00:47:38.56\00:47:42.63 BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE'D GO OUT AND STIR THINGS UP WITH THE 00:47:42.63\00:47:44.50 TRIBE OF BENJAMIN. HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, FAIR ENOUGH, 00:47:44.50\00:47:47.20 I'LL STAY HERE.' HE COULDN'T HANDLE IT. 00:47:47.20\00:47:49.96 AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS HIS SLAVES RAN AWAY AND HE WENT DOWN 00:47:49.96\00:47:52.63 TO GATH LOOKING FOR HIS SLAVES AND IT WAS TOLD TO SOLOMON, 00:47:52.63\00:47:56.06 'SHIMEI BROKE THE CONDITIONS OF HIS MERCY.' 00:47:56.06\00:47:59.23 SOLOMON BROUGHT HIM BEFORE HIM - HE SAID, 'DIDN'T I TELL YOU IN 00:47:59.23\00:48:01.70 THE DAY YOU LEAVE JERUSALEM YOU'RE GOING TO BE EXECUTED? 00:48:01.70\00:48:04.06 AS LONG AS YOU OBEY ME YOU'RE FORGIVEN OF WHAT YOU DID TO MY 00:48:04.06\00:48:07.13 FATHER, BUT WHEN YOU BREAK THE RULES, YOUR FORGIVENESS IS 00:48:07.13\00:48:11.00 WITHDRAWN AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED, NOT BECAUSE YOU LEFT 00:48:11.00\00:48:14.56 JERUSALEM, YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED BECAUSE YOU CURSED THE 00:48:14.56\00:48:16.83 LORD'S ANOINTED, DAVID.' AND SO HIS SIN THAT HAD BEEN 00:48:16.83\00:48:25.00 FFORGIVENESS, WAS WITHDRAWN. NOW THAT OUGHT TO - IT'S VERY 00:48:25.00\00:48:29.76 ENLIGHTENING - THAT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU SHUDDER. 00:48:29.76\00:48:32.06 SO, YOU LIVE 80 YEARS LIKE A CHRISTIAN, YOU ONLY SIN FOR TEN 00:48:32.06\00:48:38.16 YEARS, NOW YOU'RE A HUNDRED YEARS OLD - DON'T WORRY ABOUT 00:48:38.16\00:48:43.20 THE MATH IN THIS - I OFTEN DO EQUATIONS THAT EQUAL 150 PERCENT 00:48:43.20\00:48:52.50 - AND, BUT YOU DECIDE THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE YOU'RE 00:48:52.50\00:48:55.93 JUST GOING TO TURN FROM GOD. DO YOU ONLY, IN THE JUDGMENT, 00:48:55.93\00:48:59.13 SUFFER FOR FIVE YEARS OF SIN OR YOUR LIFE OF SIN? ALL OF YOUR 00:48:59.13\00:49:03.23 RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT YOU HAVE DONE WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED. 00:49:03.23\00:49:06.50 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST READ? THAT OUGHT TO BE A MOTIVATOR. 00:49:06.50\00:49:11.20 SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS I - GOD'S GOING 00:49:11.20\00:49:13.53 TO WEIGH MY GOOD DEEDS WITH MY BAD DEEDS AND IF I HAVE MORE 00:49:13.53\00:49:15.73 GOOD DEEDS THEN I DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR SO MANY BAD DEEDS.' NO. 00:49:15.73\00:49:18.50 YOU'RE EITHER FORGIVEN AND COVERED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS OR 00:49:18.50\00:49:20.96 YOU PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN. ISN'T THAT A TERRIBLE - THERE'S 00:49:20.96\00:49:25.36 NO HE PAYS FOR SOME AND YOU PAY FOR SOME. 00:49:25.36\00:49:28.03 I'D LIKE IT THAT WAY BUT IT'S EITHER A HUNDRED PERCENT 00:49:28.03\00:49:33.30 ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 00:49:33.30\00:49:34.83 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE NOT WITH ME YOU'RE AGAINST ME.' 00:49:34.83\00:49:37.33 SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 00:49:37.33\00:49:39.76 IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT PRINCIPLE YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A 00:49:39.76\00:49:43.16 LIBRARY - THERE IS A RECORD - WHERE SIN IS STORED - FOR LACK 00:49:43.16\00:49:48.20 OF A BETTER WORD - AND IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT THOSE THAT HAVE 00:49:48.20\00:49:54.00 BEEN CONSISTENT IN TRUSTING IN CHRIST AND FOLLOWING CHRIST, 00:49:54.00\00:49:57.80 THEY THEN ARE COMPLETELY DECLARED CITIZENS, YOU MIGHT 00:49:57.80\00:50:03.10 SAY, OR WHATEVER ANALOGY YOU WANT. 00:50:03.10\00:50:06.43 BUT IF THEY FOUND THAT THEY'RE HYPOCRITES LIKE JUDAS WHO 00:50:06.43\00:50:10.03 FOLLOWED JESUS FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS BUT IN THE END JESUS 00:50:10.03\00:50:13.73 SAID THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THAT MAN IF HE WAS NOT BORN. 00:50:13.73\00:50:17.30 JUDAS IS NOT GOING TO SUFFER JUST FOR THAT ONE SIN OF 00:50:17.30\00:50:21.20 BETRAYING CHRIST. HE'S GOING TO SUFFER FOR HIS 00:50:21.20\00:50:24.06 LIFE OF SIN BECAUSE HE DENIED THE FORGIVENESS OF CHRIST WHICH 00:50:24.06\00:50:27.63 MEANS HE'S GOT TO PAY FOR ALL OF HIS SIN. ALRIGHT, 00:50:27.63\00:50:31.13 I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THAT AND NOW I'VE GOT TO HURRY. 00:50:31.13\00:50:34.83 'THE AZAZEL - THE SCAPEGOAT. NOW WE READ ABOUT THE SCAPEGOAT. 00:50:34.83\00:50:39.30 THE SCAPEGOAT - EVEN THE ANCIENT JEWISH RABBIS UNDERSTOOD IT WAS 00:50:39.30\00:50:43.43 A SYMBOL OF THE FIRST ANGELIC SINNER - THAT FIRST ANGELIC 00:50:43.43\00:50:46.96 REBEL. WHO WOULD THAT BE? THAT'S WHO WE CALL SATAN OR 00:50:46.96\00:50:50.90 LUCIFER, THE DEVIL, BEELZEBUB, APOLLYON - I MEAN, TAKE YOUR 00:50:50.90\00:50:54.63 FAVORITE NAME FOR THE ARCH VILLAIN. 00:50:54.63\00:50:56.86 THIS IS A SYMBOL FOR THE DEVIL. WHO INSTIGATED ALL SIN IN THE 00:50:56.86\00:51:00.93 UNIVERSE? THE DEVIL DID. 00:51:00.93\00:51:04.86 AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, THE LORD MADE THE DEVIL SO HE'S 00:51:04.86\00:51:07.13 SOMEHOW ACCOUNTABLE.' NO, GOD MADE A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL 00:51:07.13\00:51:10.53 NAMED LUCIFER WITH A FREE WILL AND HE CHOSE TO REBEL. 00:51:10.53\00:51:14.76 THE SEEDS OF SIN ORIGINATED AND WERE SPAWNED IN HIM. 00:51:14.76\00:51:18.76 GOD CANNOT SIN. 00:51:18.76\00:51:20.33 EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS GOOD. EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS PERFECT. 00:51:20.33\00:51:23.93 IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT HE MADE LUCIFER FREE AND LUCIFER 00:51:23.93\00:51:26.76 CHOSE OF HIS OWN TO REBEL. IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT DO PEOPLE 00:51:26.76\00:51:32.03 PAY FOR - CAN SIN - LET ME SAY THIS DIFFERENTLY - CAN I BE 00:51:32.03\00:51:39.50 RESPONSIBLE, TO SOME EXTENT, FOR YOUR SIN? YEAH, 00:51:39.50\00:51:43.86 IF I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIN. IS CHARLES MANSON IN JAIL 00:51:43.86\00:51:49.70 BECAUSE HE MURDERED? HE ACTUALLY DIDN'T COMMIT THE 00:51:49.70\00:51:52.80 MURDERS, DID HE? HE INSPIRED THE OTHERS TO DO THE 00:51:52.80\00:51:55.76 MURDERS BUT HE'S STILL IN PRISON, ISN'T HE? 00:51:55.76\00:51:58.16 WHO INSPIRED ALL THE EVIL IN THE WORLD? INSTIGATED IT? THE DEVIL. 00:51:58.16\00:52:04.30 DOES HE HAVE TO BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT? 00:52:04.30\00:52:08.20 SO WHAT BETTER PARTY - AND SATAN CAN BE CAST INTO A LAKE OF FIRE 00:52:08.20\00:52:12.46 - DOES IT TELL US IN REVELATION? SOMEONE LOOK UP EZEKIEL 33:6. 00:52:12.46\00:52:17.50 ALRIGHT, YOU GOING TO READ IT FOR THEM MIKE? 00:52:17.50\00:52:19.66 READ IT SINCE - YOU GOT IT? ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. 00:52:19.66\00:52:22.13 >>OKAY, EZEKIEL 33:6, "BUT IF THE WATCHMAN SEES THE SWORD 00:52:22.13\00:52:25.96 COMING AND DOES NOT BLOW THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOT 00:52:25.96\00:52:29.43 WARNED, AND THE SWORD COMES AND TAKES ANY PERSON FROM AMONG 00:52:29.43\00:52:33.26 THEM, HE IS TAKEN AWAY IN HIS INIQUITY; BUT HIS BLOOD 00:52:33.26\00:52:37.53 I WILL REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN'S HAND." 00:52:37.53\00:52:39.90 >>ALRIGHT. HERE GOD MADE LUCIFER THE CHIEF OF THE ANGELS. 00:52:39.90\00:52:43.50 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GUARD THE GOOD OF THE UNIVERSE. 00:52:43.50\00:52:47.10 AND, YES, PEOPLE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FOR THEIR OWN SINS, BUT AT 00:52:47.10\00:52:50.33 WHOSE HAND DOES HE REQUIRE THE GUILT? 00:52:50.33\00:52:54.50 THE ONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE AND SATAN IS THE PARTY WHO IS 00:52:54.50\00:52:58.66 RESPONSIBLE. THAT AZAZEL - THAT SCAPEGOAT - 00:52:58.66\00:53:03.06 IS THE ONE UPON WHOM THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE ARE ULTIMATELY 00:53:03.06\00:53:05.70 TRANSFERRED. IT'S NOT SLAIN LIKE A SACRIFICE. 00:53:05.70\00:53:09.00 THE LORD'S GOAT - JESUS - DIED. IT IS CARRIED OFF INTO A 00:53:09.00\00:53:12.36 WILDERNESS - DESOLATE PLACE. YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THE 00:53:12.36\00:53:15.43 LORD CASTS A DEMON OUT THE DEMON GOES IN DESOLATE PLACES. 00:53:15.43\00:53:20.43 AND THE DEVIL SAID IN MARK CHAPTER 5, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT 00:53:20.43\00:53:25.00 INTO THE NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO THIS GOAT WAS TAKEN OUT, 00:53:25.00\00:53:28.73 YOU KNOW, ONE - IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE BUT ONE LEGEND IS THAT 00:53:28.73\00:53:31.66 THIS CAPABLE PERSON WHO WOULD TAKE THE GOAT OUT WOULD FIND A 00:53:31.66\00:53:34.76 HIGH PRECIPICE AND KICK HIM OFF TO MAKE SURE HE DIDN'T COME BACK 00:53:34.76\00:53:37.26 BECAUSE IF THAT GOAT FOLLOWED THEM BACK INTO THE CAMP, THAT 00:53:37.26\00:53:41.53 WAS THE WORSE OMEN POSSIBLE - THAT SOMEHOW THEIR SINS HAD 00:53:41.53\00:53:44.60 RETURNED. AND SO THIS WAS TO REPRESENT COMPLETELY AND FOREVER 00:53:44.60\00:53:50.10 SEPARATING GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. NOW IS JESUS FOREVER 00:53:50.10\00:53:53.80 GOING TO BEAR OUR SINS? THEN THAT GOAT THAT FOREVER 00:53:53.80\00:53:57.26 BEARS THE SINS - THAT BEARS RESPONSIBILITY - THAT NEVER 00:53:57.26\00:54:00.43 COMES BACK - CANNOT REALLY BE A TYPE OF CHRIST. 00:54:00.43\00:54:03.60 YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS - OH, LET ME SEE HERE - HEBREWS 9:27, 00:54:03.60\00:54:12.06 "AND AS IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE 00:54:12.06\00:54:15.26 JUDGMENT, SO CHRIST WAS OFFERED ONCE TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY. 00:54:15.26\00:54:18.86 TO THOSE WHO EAGERLY WAIT FOR HIM HE WILL APPEAR A SECOND 00:54:18.86\00:54:22.70 TIME," - HE'S COMING BACK - "APART FROM SIN," - HE'S NOT 00:54:22.70\00:54:26.66 COMING WITH SIN - "FOR SALVATION." 00:54:26.66\00:54:29.33 AFTER THE DAY OF ATONEMENT SACRIFICE AARON OFFERED ANOTHER 00:54:29.33\00:54:33.53 SACRIFICE FOR HIS FAMILY TO REPRESENT HE WAS CLEAN, BECAUSE 00:54:33.53\00:54:38.26 HE HAD BEEN TOUCHING AND DEALING WITH THINGS THAT WERE IMPURE - 00:54:38.26\00:54:40.90 THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. CHRIST IS COMING BACK CLEAN. 00:54:40.90\00:54:44.60 SO WHO ULTIMATELY TAKES THE SIN TO THE LAKE OF FIRE? SATAN. 00:54:44.60\00:54:50.20 IT'S ALL FINALLY TRANSFERRED. YOU KNOW, JESUS SUFFERED, YES, 00:54:50.20\00:54:52.46 FOR ALL OF OUR SINS, BUT THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIN. 00:54:52.46\00:54:56.80 THOSE WHO DO NOT REPENT BEAR THAT RESPONSIBILITY. 00:54:56.80\00:54:59.86 DOES THE DEVIL EVER REPENT? SO DOES HE BEAR RESPONSIBILITY? 00:54:59.86\00:55:03.83 YEAH. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT CLEAR WHO THE SCAPEGOAT IS - 00:55:03.83\00:55:07.20 IT IS NOT JESUS. THE LORD'S GOAT REPRESENTS 00:55:07.20\00:55:10.03 JESUS. THE SCAPEGOAT REPRESENTS WHO? 00:55:10.03\00:55:12.70 SATAN OR THE DEVIL. AND WITH THAT WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 00:55:12.70\00:55:18.33 MORE ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT YOU DIDN'T GET TO.' 00:55:18.33\00:55:20.30 DO NOT FRET, FRIENDS. I LOOKED AHEAD IN THE LESSON. 00:55:20.30\00:55:23.06 I DIDN'T WANT TO COVER EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE OTHER 00:55:23.06\00:55:24.80 LESSONS COVER A LOT OF THAT. LET ME REMIND YOU WE DO HAVE A 00:55:24.80\00:55:28.63 FREE STUDY GUIDE. JUST ASK FOR IT. 'NO TURNING BACK'. 00:55:28.63\00:55:32.63 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. IT'S OFFER #146. 00:55:32.63\00:55:35.36 AND GOD WILLING WE'LL BE TOGETHER TO STUDY ABOUT THIS 00:55:35.36\00:55:38.46 SUBJECT AGAIN NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS. 00:55:38.46\00:55:42.26 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 00:55:42.26\00:55:46.50 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:55:46.50\00:55:50.20 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 00:55:50.20\00:55:52.96 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:55:52.96\00:55:56.86 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 00:55:56.86\00:55:59.03 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 00:55:59.03\00:56:02.00 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 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