Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021345
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00:44 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:47 IT IS BY NO MISTAKE THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY 00:50 GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:52 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU THAT ARE HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY 00:55 WITH US AND AROUND THE WORLD, ACROSS THE OCEAN, HERE IN THE 01:01 UNITED STATES - WHEREVER YOU ARE, WELCOME. 01:03 AND WE KNOW THAT, AGAIN, YOU WILL TRULY BE BLESSED STUDYING 01:08 GOD'S WORD WITH US AND THAT WE CAN GROW CLOSER TO HIM AND 01:12 CLOSER TO HIS COMING. AMEN. 01:15 THIS MORNING WE ARE GOING TO SING TOGETHER SO PULL OUT YOUR 01:20 HYMNALS IF YOU ARE AT HOME AND SING ALONG. 01:22 HYMN #506 - 'A MIGHTY FORTRESS' IS OUR GOD. 01:27 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MAISIE, KARL, AND KERYL IN 01:30 FRANCE, EDRICE IN HAITI, SUVARNA IN INDIA, IYA IN ITALY, MAGALIE 01:36 AND MICHA IN MAURITIUS, AND NATHAN, NAOMI, ROSE AND NATASHA 01:41 IN VANUATU. SO HYMN #506 AND WE'RE GOING TO SING 01:45 ALL FOUR VERSES. (MUSIC) 03:55 >>AMEN. 03:57 IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US 03:59 ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 04:02 YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND YOU CLICK 04:05 ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR 04:08 HYMNAL AND WE ARE HAPPY TO SING THAT WITH YOU. 04:11 AS YOU KNOW - THOSE OF YOU THAT TUNE IN ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS 04:16 - WE ARE MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL AND LEARNING ALL THE 04:19 NEW SONGS THAT KIND OF GET PASSED OVER OR NEVER HEARD OF 04:22 BEFORE. SO THIS MORNING IS NO EXCEPTION. 04:26 HYMN #77 IS WHAT WE'LL BE LEARNING TOGETHER AND THIS IS 04:32 ACTUALLY KNOWN BY THREE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD - JOSEFIN IN 04:37 IRELAND, JOYCE IN KENYA, AND MAISIE AND KARL IN MAURITIUS. 04:41 I GUESS THAT'S FOUR SO YOU'D HAVE A QUARTET. 04:44 'O LOVE OF GOD MOST FULL' - WE WILL SING ALL FOUR VERSES AND 04:48 IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL SONG. WHEN WE WERE SINGING THIS 04:50 EARLIER - BEAUTIFUL HARMONIES, BEAUTIFUL WORDS - IT'S A PRAYER. 04:55 (MUSIC) 06:41 >>DEAR LORD, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY 06:44 THAT WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND WORSHIP YOU IN HEART AND 06:48 IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. 06:50 AND WE THANK YOU THAT YOUR WORD DOES WARM OUR HEART AND IT 06:54 KINDLES A FIRE IN US LIKE NO OTHER AND LORD, AS WE LEARN MORE 06:57 ABOUT YOU TODAY THROUGH OUR STUDY, HELP THAT KINDLE - THAT 07:01 KINDLED FIRE TO BURN BRIGHT AS WE LEAVE THIS PLACE AND AS WE 07:05 LEAVE OUR STUDY - THAT WE CAN SHINE FOR OTHERS AND DRAW THEM 07:08 CLOSER TO YOU AND UPLIFT YOU IN EVERYTHING WE DO AND SAY. 07:13 AND LORD, JUST HELP EACH OF US TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR 07:16 COMING. WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING SOON. 07:18 PLEASE JUST KEEP US CLOSE TO YOU AND KEEP US FAITHFUL TO THE END. 07:22 PLEASE BLESS PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US YOUR WORD TODAY. 07:25 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME JESUS, AMEN. 07:30 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, 07:33 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 07:42 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR MUSICIANS. 07:45 I KEEP THINKING THE SINGING GETS BETTER AND BETTER AND I SURE 07:48 APPRECIATE JO AND THE MUSICIANS AND THE SINGERS AND IT'S ALWAYS 07:52 FUN TO HEAR THE SONG REQUESTS COMING IN FROM AROUND THE WORLD 07:55 AND EVERYWHERE FROM SMALL PACIFIC ISLANDS TO COUNTRIES IN 07:59 THE MIDDLE EAST. IT'S NEAT TO KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE 08:03 ARE LISTENING AND STUDYING WITH US. 08:05 WELCOME, THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ON TV AND I WANT TO WELCOME 08:08 THOSE WHO MIGHT BE PART OF OUR SACRAMENTO CENTRAL EXTENDED 08:12 MEMBERS THAT - WE HAVE PEOPLE SCATTERED AROUND THE PLANET THAT 08:16 DON'T HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH THAT THEY CAN ATTEND AND THEY'RE OUR 08:19 ONLINE MEMBERS AND WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AS WELL AND THOSE 08:24 WHO MIGHT BE VISITING HERE TODAY IN OUR CLASS. 08:27 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 08:29 WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING INTO OUR STUDY IN JUST A MOMENT - 08:31 LESSON 6 - DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY. 08:34 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER I'D LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. 08:41 ENCOURAGE YOU AND IN SOME WAY GO PROVIDALONG WITH THE STUDY. 08:45 AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE OFFERING THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDE AND 08:48 IT'S CALLED 'NO TURNING BACK'. IF YOU WANT A COPY ASK FOR OFFER 08:51 #146 AND CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 08:55 FOR THOSE LISTENING ON RADIO THAT NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE 09:00 - 866-788-3966. 09:04 SOMETHING ELSE THAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK - I THOUGHT I WOULD 09:07 SHARE WITH YOU - THAT IS JUST SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION. 09:12 THE WRITER OF OUR LESSON, PROFESSOR MARTIN, WHO TEACHES AT 09:18 BOGENHOFEN - I'VE BEEN THERE - IN GERMANY, THEY HAVE RECORDED 09:23 KIND OF AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH ONE OF THESE LESSONS THAT DEALS 09:27 WITH THE SANCTUARY. AND SO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 09:29 HEAR THE TEACHER'S INTRODUCTION - HE'S GOT IT BOTH IN GERMAN AND 09:33 IN ENGLISH - YOU CAN DO THAT REAL SIMPLY. 09:35 THERE'S A WEBSITE - IT'S 'SANCTUARYLESSON.ORG' - 09:39 THAT'S EASY - 'SANCTUARYLESSON.ORG'. 09:42 SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE TEACHING OR ARE PART OF A CLASS 09:47 AND YOU WANT TO FIND OUT 'WHAT'S THE TEACHER GOT TO SAY ABOUT 09:49 THIS?' THAT'S JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF 09:51 SOME OF THE MODERN CONVENIENCES OF THE INTERNET. 09:54 NOW YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. OKAY, NOW TO OUR LESSON. 09:58 AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD TO REALLY PRAY AS I'VE STUDIED FOR 10:02 THIS LESSON BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH HERE - IT'S ON THE DAY OF 10:06 ATONEMENT - WHAT THE JEWS CALLED 'YOM KIPPUR' - 'YOM' BEING 10:10 'DAY', 'KIPPUR' MEANING 'ATONEMENT' AND, TYPICALLY, IT 10:15 FALLS IN THE MONTH OF - LATTER MONTHS - OR LATTER WEEKS OF 10:19 SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER. IT COULD VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR. 10:22 THIS WAS THE END OF THE JEWISH YEAR. 10:26 NOW, IN MOST OF THE WORLD NOW WE BELIEVE THAT THE YEAR WILL END 10:30 AND BEGIN WITH THE ENDING AND BEGINNING OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE 10:34 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, BUT IT DIDN'T WORK THAT WAY FOR THE 10:39 JEWS. THEY WERE ON A LUNAR CALENDAR. 10:42 NOW THEY HAD A CIVIL CALENDAR AND THEN THEY HAD THE CEREMONIAL 10:46 CALENDAR AND ACCORDING TO THE CEREMONIAL CALENDAR IT WOULD 10:49 FALL - BASED ON WHEN THE MOON WAS LINING UP - IT WOULD BE 10:54 SOMEWHERE NEAR THE END OF SEPTEMBER BEGINNING OF OCTOBER. 10:57 AND THIS WAS THE HIGH DAY OF THE YEAR. 11:00 THEIR - WE LEARNED IN OUR LAST STUDY - THEIR RELIGIOUS 11:03 PRACTICES REVOLVED AROUND THE SANCTUARY. 11:07 WHY? WHY WAS THIS? WELL, FOR MOSES, STARTING OUT IN 11:11 THE WILDERNESS, IT WAS IN THE DESERT, THIS STRUCTURE - A TENT 11:16 - SORT OF A MOBILE TEMPLE - WHY WOULD THAT BE THE CENTER OF WHO 11:20 THEY ARE AND THEIR WORSHIP? A NUMBER OF REASONS. 11:24 ONE IS GOD SAYS, 'THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY.' 11:28 THE WAY THAT GOD SAVES WAS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SANCTUARY. 11:33 IT HELPED THEM UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM GOD. 11:37 IT WAS TELLING THEM HOW TO GET BACK TO GOD. 11:39 THERE WAS ONE DOOR AND THERE WAS ONE NUCLEUS GOAL - IT WAS THE 11:42 PRESENCE OF GOD - WE'VE BEEN SEPARATED FROM THE PRESENCE. 11:45 AND IT TAUGHT ABOUT HOW TO GET BACK TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 11:49 IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE CLEANSING FROM THEIR SIN TOOK 11:52 PLACE. IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY 11:54 WOULD BRING THEIR OFFERINGS TO GOD AND WHERE THEY DID THEIR 11:58 GIVING AND IT JUST BECAME THE VERY CORE - IT WAS THE DYNAMO OF 12:04 THEIR WHOLE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE - WAS THIS TABERNACLE - LATER 12:08 PERMANENTLY CALLED THE TEMPLE OR THE SANCTUARY. 12:12 ONCE A YEAR THEY HAD THE MOST SOLEMN SACRED SERVICE AND IT WAS 12:17 CALLED 'THE CLEANSING' OF THE SANCTUARY. 12:20 NOW WHY DID THEY NEED TO CLEANSE IT? 12:22 HOW MANY OF YOU GET KIND OF ANNOYED WHEN YOU DRIVE UP THE 12:27 STREET AND THERE'S SOME NEW NICE DEVELOPMENT. THEY'VE GOT A NICE 12:29 WHITE BRICK WALL OR SOME MASONITE WALL AND SOME KID, 12:32 DURING THE NIGHT, DECIDED TO BECOME ARTISTIC WITH A CAN OF 12:37 SPRAY PAINT AND THEY VANDALIZE THIS WALL? 12:44 ISN'T THAT DISCOURAGING WHEN YOU SEE THAT? 12:45 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE OWNERS COME OUT AND THEY TRY AND FIND 12:47 SOME PAINT THAT'S ALMOST THE SAME COLOR OF THE BRICK AND TRY 12:49 AND PAINT OVER THIS AWFUL GRAFFITI AND THEN IT BECOMES 12:53 SORT OF AN ENDLESS BATTLE AND IT'S REALLY SAD. 12:58 AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVEN GO TO THE STORE AND TRY AND BUY SPRAY 13:00 PAINT THEY WANT TO SEE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND YOUR 13:04 ID AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THIS - IT'S JUST THE VANDALIZING. 13:09 SO WHY DID THE SANCTUARY NEED TO BE CLEANSED? 13:11 HAD IT BEEN VANDALIZED SOMEHOW BY GANGS? 13:16 I HEAR YOU SAY BECAUSE OF SIN. HOW DID IT GET SINFUL? 13:21 NOW EVERY DAY - THERE'S TWO KINDS OF SERVICES IN THE 13:26 SANCTUARY - THEY HAD A DAILY SACRIFICE WHERE THE PRIEST WOULD 13:31 MINISTER IN THE COURTYARD IN THE HOLY PLACE ON A DAILY BASIS TO 13:36 GO THROUGH - AND THEN THEY HAD SPECIAL SACRIFICES ON THE 13:38 SABBATH SO THERE WAS A WEEKLY, YOU COULD SAY, TOO. 13:41 BUT THINGS WERE DONE ON A DAILY BASIS AND PEOPLE WOULD COME 13:46 CONFESSING THEIR SINS - WE LEARNED ABOUT THAT. 13:48 THERE WERE SACRIFICES THAT WERE MADE AND WHEN A PERSON PLACED 13:51 THEIR HANDS ON THE HEAD OF THE VICTIM AND THEY CONFESSED THEIR 13:54 SINS AND THAT LAMB OR THAT GOAT WAS SLAIN AND THEN SOME OF THE 13:57 BLOOD WAS BROUGHT IN AND SPRINKLED BEFORE THE LORD, WHERE 14:01 DID THE SIN GO WHEN YOU CONFESSED YOUR SIN TO THE 14:05 VICTIM? IT WENT TO THE LAMB OR THE GOAT, THE OXEN - 14:10 IT COULD EVEN BE A DOVE. AND THEN WHEN THEY TOOK SOME OF 14:13 THE BLOOD FROM THAT ANIMAL AND THEY SPRINKLED IT IN THE 14:15 SANCTUARY, SYMBOLICALLY - YOU REALIZE SIN IS NOT LIKE SOME 14:19 KIND OF HYDROCHLORIC ACID THAT WAS STORED THERE OR SOMETHING - 14:23 SYMBOLICALLY THAT SIN WENT WHERE? IT'S IN THE SANCTUARY. 14:29 AND BOY, THAT'S SORT OF A BUILD UP AFTER AWHILE. 14:34 AND, YOU KNOW, IT NEEDED A CLEANSING. 14:37 AND SO, SYMBOLICALLY, ONCE A YEAR THERE WAS A FINAL CLEANSING 14:41 REPRESENTING THAT GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO HAVE AN EXPERIENCE, 14:43 INDEFINITELY, OF SINNING AND REPENTING, SINNING AND 14:47 REPENTING. HE WANTS TO SEPARATE HIS PEOPLE 14:49 FROM SIN. WILL WE BE CONTINUING TO SIN AND REPENT IN HEAVEN? 14:54 SO, AT SOME POINT, THAT CYCLE HAS TO STOP. IS THAT RIGHT? 15:01 AND SO THIS REPRESENTED THAT THERE'S A TIME COMING WHEN GOD 15:04 WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO TURN FROM SIN, BE SEPARATED AND SIN BE 15:07 SEPARATED FROM THEM. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE 15:11 A GOOD IDEA, AND I HOPE THIS WON'T BE TEDIOUS, BUT TURN IN 15:14 YOUR BIBLES TO THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS - LEVITICUS CHAPTER 16 15:21 - AND I'M GOING TO QUICKLY READ THROUGH THIS CHAPTER WHERE YOU 15:23 FIND 99 PERCENT OF THE INFORMATION ON THE CEREMONY 15:27 CALLED THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 15:30 AND I'LL JUST START WITH VERSE 1 - I MIGHT DO A LITTLE COMMENTARY 15:35 ALONG THE WAY BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING THAT REALLY 15:37 BEATS JUST READING THE BIBLE. 15:39 "NOW THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES AFTER THE DEATH OF THE TWO SONS 15:43 OF AARON, WHEN THEY OFFERED PROFANE FIRE BEFORE THE LORD, 15:47 AND DIED;'" - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT THE BIBLE TELLS US 15:51 THAT THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO USE HOLY FIRE, MEANING THAT FIRE 15:55 THAT HAD FIRST BEEN KINDLED THERE ON THE ALTAR WHEN FIRE 15:58 CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. 16:00 AND THEY BROUGHT SOME FIRE FROM THE CAMPGROUND AND BROUGHT IT IN 16:03 BEFORE THE LORD AND PUT IT IN THE CENSER AND THEY HAD BEEN 16:05 DRINKING AND THEY WERE INEBRIATED AND HOFNI AND PHINEAS 16:10 - THE TWO SONS OF AARON - NO, NADAB AND ABIHU - SORRY, I GOT 16:13 THEM MIXED UP WITH THE SONS OF ELI. 16:15 NADAB AND ABIHU, THEY WENT IN BEFORE THE LORD INEBRIATED, THEY 16:18 TOOK PROFANE FIRE AND THEY STARTED TO MARCH OFF INTO THE 16:22 HOLY PLACE AND LIGHTNING OF SOME SORT - FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD 16:26 AND DESTROYED THEM. AFTER THAT IS WHEN GOD IS 16:31 SAYING, 'DO NOT COME AT ALL TIMES INTO THE HOLY PLACE'. 16:34 THIS, YOU KNOW, GOD'S PRESENCE IS HOLY. 16:37 HIS PRESENCE IS A CONSUMING FIRE. 16:39 IT IS A UNIQUE PERSON ON A UNIQUE TIME THAT CAN COME IN 16:44 BEFORE THE LORD AND YOU MUST COME IN BY INVITATION. 16:47 YOU GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF A KING UNINVITED, WHAT WAS THE 16:49 DECREE? REMEMBER THE BOOK OF ESTHER? 16:53 AND SO GOING INTO THE PRESENCE OF A KING UNINVITED WAS SERIOUS 16:55 BUSINESS. GOD SAYS, 'I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU SHOULD COME.' 16:59 AND IT WAS COMING FOR A PURPOSE - A UNIQUE TIME, A UNIQUE 17:04 PERSON, A UNIQUE PURPOSE. "'TELL AARON YOUR BROTHER NOT TO 17:09 COME AT JUST ANY TIME INTO THE HOLY PLACE INSIDE THE VEIL, 17:13 BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT WHICH IS ON THE ARK, LEST HE DIE; FOR I 17:17 WILL APPEAR IN THE CLOUD ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT. 17:20 THUS AARON SHALL COME'" - NOW THIS IS NOT THE CLOUD OF INCENSE 17:23 THAT CAME FROM THAT ALTAR OF INCENSE, THIS IS A CLOUD OF 17:27 SHEKINAH GLORY THAT IS LIKE A MINIATURE - WHAT WAS ON THE TOP 17:30 OF MOUNT SINAI WHEN GOD GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 17:33 CLOUD OF GLORY, RIGHT? SMOKE AND CLOUD - SO IT'S LIKE 17:36 THE PRESENCE OF GOD WAS SOMEHOW VEILED ABOVE THE ARK - THEY 17:40 CALLED IT THE MERCY SEAT DURING THIS TIME. 17:46 IN VERSE - IT SAYS, "'I WILL APPEAR IN THE CLOUD ABOVE THE 17:49 MERCY SEAT.'" - VERSE 3 - "'THUS AARON SHALL 17:51 COME INTO THE HOLY PLACE: WITH THE BLOOD OF A YOUNG BULL AS A 17:55 SIN OFFERING, AND OF A RAM AS A BURNT OFFERING. 17:58 HE SHALL PUT THE HOLY LINEN TUNIC AND THE LINEN TROUSERS ON 18:02 HIS BODY; HE SHALL BE GIRDED WITH A LINEN SASH, AND WITH THE 18:05 LINEN TURBAN HE SHALL BE ATTIRED. 18:08 THESE ARE HOLY GARMENTS. THEREFORE HE SHALL WASH HIS BODY 18:12 IN WATER, AND PUT THEM ON.'" - SEE THE VERY SACRED 18:15 PREPARATION THAT'S HAPPENING - HE WAS TO BE CLEANSED. 18:18 HE WAS TO DO A SACRIFICE IN HIS OWN BEHALF FOR CLEANSING AND HE 18:22 WAS TO PUT ON THESE SACRED CLEANSE GARMENTS WHEN HE CAME - 18:25 SIN CANNOT SURVIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 18:29 AND IT SAYS THEN - IT SAYS, "AARON SHALL OFFER THE BULL AS A 18:35 SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR HIMSELF, AND MAKE ATONEMENT FOR 18:39 HIMSELF AND FOR HIS HOUSE. HE SHALL TAKE THE TWO GOATS AND 18:43 PRESENT THEM BEFORE THE LORD AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF 18:45 MEETING. THEN AARON SHALL CAST LOTS FOR 18:48 THE TWO GOATS: ONE LOT FOR THE LORD AND THE OTHER FOR THE 18:52 SCAPEGOAT." - NOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO 18:54 UNDERSTAND THESE TWO GOATS ARE VERY DIFFERENT. 18:57 YOU'VE GOT THE LORD'S GOAT - THAT GOAT DIES AND THE BLOOD IS 19:01 BROUGHT INTO THE SANCTUARY. THE SCAPEGOAT DOES NOT AND WE'VE 19:05 GOT A SECTION IN A MINUTE, WE'LL GET TO THAT. 19:07 THEY CAST LOTS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 19:10 WELL, THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN DO IT. 19:13 YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE DRAWING STRAWS AND WHOEVER GETS 19:17 THE SHORT STICK OR THE SHORT STRAW? 19:19 THEY DIDN'T DO IT QUITE LIKE THAT IN THE BIBLE, BUT IT WAS 19:21 THE SAME PRINCIPLE, I MEAN, WE FLIP COINS. 19:23 IF YOU ONLY HAVE TWO CHOICES YOU CAN FLIP A COIN. 19:25 IF YOU'VE GOT THREE CHOICES - UNLESS IT STANDS ON ITS EDGE 19:28 IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK, RIGHT? WHEN THEY WERE ON THE SHIP WITH 19:31 ALL THE SAILORS, THEY CAST LOTS TO SEE WHO CAUSED THE STORM - 19:34 ALL THE SAILORS CAST LOTS. HOW DID THEY DO THAT? 19:38 THEY HAD A JAR AND IT HAD A NARROW OPENING - BIG, ROUND, 19:42 BULBOUS JAR OR A GOURD - HAD A NARROW OPENING AND THEY HAD ALL 19:46 THESE ROUND STONES THAT WERE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME SIZE AND 19:49 THEY'D GET ALL WHITE STONES AND ONE BLACK STONE - FOR INSTANCE - 19:54 AND THEN THEY WOULD SHAKE THE STONES AND WHICH EVER ONE - IT 19:57 WAS PREDETERMINED - WHICH EVER ONE GOT THE BLACK STONE, THEY 20:01 WERE THE ONE CHOSEN IF IT WAS ONE. SO SOMEHOW THEY CAST LOTS 20:05 BETWEEN THESE TWO GOATS AND THEY SHOOK OUT THE STONE AND THE ONE 20:08 THAT GOT THE BLACK STONE, FOR INSTANCE, BECAME THE SCAPEGOAT 20:11 AND THE OTHER ONE THE LORD'S GOAT. 20:13 SO THEY SAID, 'LORD, YOU PICK WHICH ONE.' 20:16 THEY DIDN'T JUST FLIP A COIN OR GO EENY MEENY MINEY MOE - "THEN 20:21 AARON SHALL CAST LOTS FOR THE TWO GOATS: ONE LOT FOR THE LORD 20:24 AND THE OTHER LOT FOR THE SCAPEGOAT. 20:25 AND AARON WILL BRING THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LORD'S LOT FELL, 20:29 AND OFFER IT AS A SIN OFFERING. 20:32 BUT THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LOT FELL TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT SHALL 20:35 BE PRESENTED ALIVE BEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKE ATONEMENT UPON IT, 20:39 AND TO LET IT GO AS THE SCAPEGOAT INTO THE WILDERNESS." 20:42 NOW THAT WORD 'ATONEMENT' THERE IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT A 20:45 PURIFICATION THAT HAPPENS - NOT THAT THE GOAT IS BEING PURIFIED, 20:49 BUT THE GOAT IS USED AS A PURIFYING OF THE SANCTUARY. 20:53 NOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO HERE IS REALLY CONTROVERSIAL. 20:57 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT? 20:59 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW CONTROVERSIAL THIS IS. 21:04 DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9, THE 70-WEEK 21:09 PROPHECY - HOW MANY OF YOU ARE ACQUAINTED WITH THAT PROPHECY? 21:12 AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE MESSIAH AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE 21:16 ANTICHRIST - THAT THERE ARE SOME VERSES IN THERE THAT ABOUT HALF 21:22 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SAYS IS THE LORD - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE 21:25 LORD - AND THE OTHER HALF SAYS IT'S THE ANTICHRIST. 21:29 WOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET THAT WRONG. 21:31 I MEAN, HOW MUCH WRONGER CAN YOU GET IT? IS THAT SUCH A WORD? 21:35 BUT REALLY, I MEAN, THEY'RE TOTAL OPPOSITES. 21:39 WE BELIEVE THE ONE WHO MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE IS JESUS. 21:44 HE CAUSED THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS. 21:47 HE'S THE ONE WHO CONFIRMED THE COVENANT. AND A LOT OF OUR 'LEFT 21:51 BEHIND' EVANGELICALS, THEY BELIEVE THAT ONE IS THE 21:55 ANTICHRIST WHO MAKES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE 21:57 WHO CONFIRMS THE COVENANT. THE ANTICHRIST CONFIRMING THE 22:00 COVENANT? WHAT COVENANT DID THE ANTICHRIST EVER MAKE? 22:03 ANYWAY, SO IT'S - THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU SAY, 'WELL, YOU 22:07 KNOW, IS THIS SYMBOLIC OR LITERAL?' 22:09 AND 'WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE 144 - AND 22:12 THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE SORT OF IN THIS SPIRITUAL GRAY 22:15 AREA THAT WE MAY NOT KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU GET GOD AND THE DEVIL 22:20 MIXED UP. I REMEMBER I WAS PREACHING ONE 22:23 TIME ABOUT JESUS AND THE MILLENNIUM AND I BECAME 22:29 FLUSTERED IN WHAT I WAS SAYING AND I GOT JESUS AND SATAN MIXED 22:32 UP - JUST IN TALKING. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THINKING ONE 22:35 THING AND SOMETHING ELSE COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. 22:36 YOU GET TONGUE-TIED - AND I WAS GLAD KAREN STOPPED ME. 22:39 SHE SAID, 'DON'T YOU MEAN JESUS?' 22:40 I SAID, 'WHAT DID I SAY? OH SATAN! OH NO - YES, JESUS!' 22:43 I SAID - YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO CORRECT THAT, RIGHT? 22:48 I WANT - YOU KNOW, OUR TWO YOUNGEST BOYS, THEIR NAMES ARE 22:52 STEPHEN AND NATHAN AND ONE TIME, OUT IN THE COURTYARD, THEY WERE 22:58 REALLY ACTING UP. THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO, YOU 23:00 KNOW, WE'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME NOW. 23:02 AND WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE, KAREN - PASTOR'S WIFE - 23:05 SHE BECAME VERY IRRITATED. THEY WERE BOTH YOUNG, THEY WERE 23:07 BOTH RUNNING AROUND AND GETTING IN THE FOUNTAIN - WHATEVER THEY 23:08 WERE DOING, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IN HER FRUSTRATION SHE DIDN'T KNOW 23:12 WHETHER TO CALL OUT STEPHEN OR NATHAN AND SHE SAID, 23:14 'SATAN COME HERE!' PEOPLE LOOKED AT HER LIKE... 23:24 SO YOU DON'T WANT TO GET THAT MIXED UP. 23:27 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE MIX UP WHO IS THE SCAPEGOAT. 23:32 IS THE SCAPEGOAT TALKING ABOUT A SIN-BEARER FOR US? 23:36 A TYPE OF JESUS? OR IS IT A TYPE OF SATAN? 23:41 AND THERE ARE MANY WHO SAY, 'WELL, THE LORD'S GOAT'S THE ONE 23:44 WHO DIES - HIS BLOOD IS SHED.' AND EVERYONE VIRTUALLY AGREES ON 23:48 THAT. BUT BECAUSE THE OTHER ONE - IT SAYS - MAKES ATONEMENT, 23:50 THAT ALSO MUST BE A SYMBOL OF THE LORD. BUT, OH NO, NO, NO - 23:54 MANY CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SAID THAT WAS A TYPE OF THE DEVIL 23:56 AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE BUT THAT'S REALLY 24:00 IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 24:02 THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE CLEAR FOR THIS STUDY. 24:07 "BUT THE GOAT ON WHICH THE LOT FELL TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT" - 24:14 VERBEFORE THE LORD, TO MAKERSE ATONEMENT UPON IT, AND TO LET IT 24:17 GO AS THE SCAPEGOAT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 24:20 AND AARON WILL BRING THE BULL OF THE SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR 24:23 HIMSELF, AND MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIMSELF AND FOR HIS HOUSE, AND 24:26 SHALL KILL THE BULL AS THE SIN OFFERING WHICH IS FOR HIMSELF. 24:29 THEN HE SHALL TAKE A CENSER FULL OF BURNING COALS OF FIRE FROM 24:33 THE ALTAR BEFORE THE LORD, WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF SWEET INCENSE 24:36 BEATEN FINE, AND BRING IT INSIDE THE VEIL. AND HE SHALL PUT THE 24:40 INCENSE ON THE FIRE BEFORE THE LORD, THAT THE CLOUD OF INCENSE 24:44 MAY COVER THE MERCY SEAT THAT IS ON THE TESTIMONY, LEST HE DIE." 24:49 - THERE'S THE - MIGHT BE SMOKE TO SEPARATE THE PRESENCE OF GOD 24:53 - "HE SHALL TAKE SOME OF THE BLOOD OF THE BULL AND SPRINKLE 24:55 IT WITH HIS FINGER ON THE MERCY SEAT" - THE BLOOD OF WHAT GOAT? 24:59 HE'S TALKING ABOUT - WELL, THE BLOOD OF THE SACRIFICE - IT'S 25:03 NOT THE SCAPEGOAT - "...AND BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT HE SHALL 25:07 SPRINKLE SOME OF THE BLOOD WITH HIS FINGER SEVEN TIMES. 25:10 THEN HE SHALL KILL THE GOAT OF THE SIN OFFERING, WHICH IS FOR 25:13 THE PEOPLE, BRING ITS BLOOD INSIDE THE VEIL, DO WITH THAT 25:17 BLOOD AS HE DID WITH THE BLOOD OF THE BULL, AND SPRINKLE IT ON 25:21 THE MERCY SEAT AND BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 25:24 SO SHALL HE MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE HOLY PLACE BECAUSE OF THE 25:28 UNCLEANNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR 25:30 TRANSGRESSIONS, FOR ALL THEIR SINS; AND SO HE SHALL DO FOR THE 25:34 TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHICH REMAINS AMONG THEM IN THE MIDST 25:37 OF THEIR UNCLEANNESS. THERE SHALL BE NO MAN IN THE 25:41 TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHEN HE GOES IN TO MAKE ATONEMENT IN THE 25:44 HOLY PLACE, UNTIL HE COMES OUT, THAT HE MAY MAKE ATONEMENT FOR 25:48 HIMSELF, FOR HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND FOR ALL THE ASSEMBLY OF ISRAEL." 25:53 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO STOP THERE AND GET INTO OUR LESSON AND THEN 25:56 MAYBE WE'LL PAUSE AGAIN AND READ ANOTHER SEGMENT OF THAT. 25:58 NOW, YOU KNOW, I REALIZE AS I WAS READING, I DON'T THINK I 26:01 READ OUR MEMORY VERSE YET, DID I? WE'RE GOING TO DO IT TOGETHER 26:06 - MICAH - THE MEMORY VERSE IN OUR LESSON - MICAH 7, VERSES 18 26:09 AND 19 - AND I'M READING FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 26:13 MICAH - THE BOOK OF MICAH 7, VERSES 18 AND 19 - YOU READY? 26:19 "WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU, PARDONING INIQUITY AND PASSING 26:24 OVER THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS HERITAGE? 26:28 HE DOES NOT RETAIN HIS ANGER FOREVER, BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN 26:32 MERCY. HE WILL AGAIN HAVE COMPASSION ON 26:35 US, AND WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES. 26:38 YOU WILL CAST ALL OUR SINS INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA." 26:43 NOW AT WHAT POINT ARE ALL THE SINS CAST INTO 26:46 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA? HAS THAT HAPPENED AS SOON AS YOU 26:51 CONFESS YOUR SINS? I'M NOT ANSWERING THAT YET. 26:56 OKAY, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME DANIEL 9:20. 27:00 I THINK WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES SO YOU'VE ALREADY GOT THAT. 27:02 LET'S GIVE YOU A MICROPHONE - JOLYNE'S GOT THAT HERE. 27:05 AND WHILE WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT I'M GOING TO READ, AGAIN, 27:07 LEVITICUS 16:16, "SO HE SHALL MAKE ATONEMENT" - NOTICE - "FOR 27:11 THE HOLY PLACE, BECAUSE OF THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF 27:15 ISRAEL, AND BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS, FOR ALL THEIR 27:17 SINS; AND SO HE SHALL DO FOR THE TABERNACLE OF MEETING WHICH 27:22 REMAINS AMONG THEM IN THE MIDST OF THEIR UNCLEANNESS." 27:24 NOTICE, IT SAYS HE'S MAKING ATONEMENT - HOLY PLACE - AND IT 27:29 SAYS TABERNACLE - FOR THEIR SINS. 27:31 WHAT YOU CAN'T MISS HERE IS THAT SOMEHOW THEIR SINS ARE CONNECTED 27:35 WITH THE TABERNACLE AND THE HOLY PLACE. 27:37 DID WE ALL GET THAT? SOMEHOW THE SIN IS SYMBOLICALLY 27:40 OR IN SOME WAY TRANSFERRED THERE. 27:43 NOW, THERE'S TWO WAYS THAT WE CONFESS SIN - WELL THERE'S MANY 27:48 DIFFERENT WAYS BUT TWO WAYS I WANT TO FOCUS ON. 27:50 ONE IS YOU COME BEFORE THE LORD AND YOU CONFESS YOUR SIN. 27:54 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAS NOT JUST AN INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION, 27:59 IT WAS CORPORATE CONFESSION. 28:02 WHEN I SAY 'CORPORATE' I DON'T MEAN LIKE A CORPORATION, I'M 28:06 TALKING ABOUT A COLLECTIVE - AS A GROUP OF PEOPLE. 28:10 WITH THAT IN MIND, GO AHEAD JO. WHY DON'T YOU READ DANIEL 9:20. 28:14 >>"NOW WHILE I WAS SPEAKING, PRAYING, AND CONFESSING MY SIN 28:18 AND THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND PRESENTING MY SUPPLICATION 28:22 BEFORE THE LORD MY GOD FOR THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF MY GOD." 28:26 >>AND IT GOES ON AND SAYS THAT THE ANGEL GABRIEL APPEARED. 28:28 WHAT WAS DANIEL DOING? 28:29 'WHILE I WAS PRAYING CONFESSING MY SIN AND THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE 28:34 ISRAEL.' LATER IN THE LESSON WE TALK 28:37 ABOUT ISAIAH'S TABERNACLE DAY OF ATONEMENT EXPERIENCE AND HE 28:42 SAYS, 'WOE IS ME' - THIS IS ISAIAH CHAPTER 6 - 'FOR I AM A 28:46 MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF 28:50 UNCLEAN LIPS.' YOU'VE GOT THE INDIVIDUAL 28:52 CONFESSION THEN YOU'VE GOT THE CORPORATE CONFESSION. 28:55 WHEN WE PRAY THE LORD'S PRAYER DO WE SAY 'FORGIVE ME MY SINS'? 29:01 OR IS IT FORGIVE US? IS THAT CORPORATE OR INDIVIDUAL? 29:05 SO SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IS THIS IS NOT JUST CLEANSING AN 29:09 INDIVIDUAL FROM SIN, THIS IS CLEANSING THE CHURCH OR HIS 29:12 PEOPLE - HIS NATION - FROM SIN. THIS IS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING 29:16 THING. THEY WERE TO COME TOGETHER. 29:18 IT'S LIKE WHEN GOD SAID THERE IN SOLOMON'S PRAYER, 'IF MY PEOPLE, 29:25 AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM SHTHEIR WICKED WAYS'. 29:28 SOMETIMES IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT US AS A PEOPLE. 29:33 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE ON THAT. 29:34 JUDGES 10:10, "AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, 29:39 SAYING, 'WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE WE HAVE BOTH 29:43 FORSAKEN OUR GOD AND SERVED THE BAALS!'" 29:46 BAAL WORSHIP - SO THERE WAS A CORPORATE CONFESSION. 29:50 AND SO THE DAY OF ATONEMENT WAS NOT JUST FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, 29:55 THAT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED ON A DAILY BASIS, IT WAS FOR THE 29:57 NATION AS WELL AS THE INDIVIDUALS. 30:02 NOW JUST IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION - TO SHOW YOU HOW 30:04 THIS PRINCIPLE - AND HOW CENTRAL THIS DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE 30:08 SANCTUARY CLEANSING WAS, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - THREE 30:12 SCRIPTURES, VERY QUICKLY - FOR INSTANCE REVELATION CHAPTER 1, 30:17 VERSES 12 AND 13, "THEN I TURNED TO SEE THE VOICE THAT SPOKE 30:21 WITH ME. AND HAVING TURNED I SAW SEVEN 30:24 GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS, AND IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS 30:27 ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, CLOTHED WITH A GARMENT DOWN TO THE FEET 30:33 AND GIRDED ABOUT THE CHEST WITH A GOLDEN BAND." 30:35 ALRIGHT, WHO IS THAT STANDING AMONG THE LAMPSTANDS? 30:38 IT'S JESUS. WHY SEVEN LAMPSTANDS? 30:42 WHERE DO YOU FIND SEVEN LAMPSTANDS OTHERWISE? 30:45 IT'S IN THE SANCTUARY PLACE - IN THE HOLY PLACE OF THE SANCTUARY. 30:49 ALRIGHT, JUMP WITH ME TO REVELATION 8, VERSE 3. 30:53 I LOVE HEARING THE RUSH OF PAGES TURNING. "THEN ANOTHER ANGEL, 30:59 HAVING A GOLDEN CENSER, CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR. 31:03 HE WAS GIVEN MUCH INCENSE, THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE 31:06 PRAYERS OF ALL THE SAINTS UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH WAS 31:09 BEFORE THE THRONE." NOW THERE WAS AN ALTAR IN THE 31:12 COURTYARD BUT THIS WAS AN ALTAR THAT HAS INCENSE OFFERED ON IT 31:16 BEFORE THE THRONE - THE THRONE A TYPE OF THE HOLY OF HOLIES - 31:21 SO WHAT ALTAR IS THIS? IT'S THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 31:27 ALRIGHT, SO YOU'VE GONE FROM THE CANDLESTICKS, YOU'VE GOT THE 31:29 ALTAR OF INCENSE, GO TO REVELATION 11. 31:32 YOU NOTICE WE'RE MOVING SEQUENTIALLY THROUGH REVELATION? 31:35 REVELATION 11:19, "THEN THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN 31:40 HEAVEN," - NOW THIS MUST BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT PART OF THE 31:43 TEMPLE? THE CENTER - "AND THE ARK OF HIS 31:49 COVENANT WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE. AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS, 31:53 NOISES, THUNDERINGS, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL." 31:56 NOW SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IS THE LAST PART OF THAT 31:58 VERSE: 'THERE ARE LIGHTNINGS, NOISES, THUNDERINGS, AN 32:04 EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL.' YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 32:08 WHEN JESUS COMES, AT THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING THERE ARE 32:12 THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND A GREAT HAIL. 32:16 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE ARK BEING REVEALED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE 32:22 SECOND COMING - OR SIMULTANEOUSLY, AT LEAST, 32:25 WITH IT. AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A 32:27 SEQUENCE THAT IS HAPPENING. IT'S LIKE YOU, IN REVELATION, 32:30 ARE MOVING THROUGH THE SANCTUARY TOWARDS THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 32:33 AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS AT THE END OF THE BOOK? 32:35 GOD, HIMSELF, WILL BE WITH US. 32:37 SO IT STARTS OUR WE'RE ON THE OUTSIDE AND YOU'RE MOVING IN. 32:40 ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION IT'S TALKING ABOUT 32:42 THE JOURNEY BACK INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 32:45 IT'S HAPPENING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SANCTUARY. 32:48 THE VISION THAT JOHN HAS IN REVELATION IS IN THAT CONTEXT. 32:52 NOW, THE REASON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT IS 32:57 BECAUSE CHRIST ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN FOLLOWING HIS SACRIFICE 33:02 BACK IN 31 AD AND HIS SACRIFICE WAS DECLARED VICTORIOUS. 33:11 THE DISCIPLES WORSHIPED HIM IN THE UPPER ROOM. 33:13 HE SAID, 'ALL HAIL'. THEY HELD HIM BY THE FEET AND 33:16 THEY WORSHIPED HIM. AND AFTER HE ASCENDED FORTY DAYS 33:19 LATER - TO HEAVEN - HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN'. 33:23 HE HAD BEEN WORKING AS OUR HIGH PRIEST. DOES ANYONE QUESTION - 33:28 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR IN HEBREWS - THAT 33:31 WE HAVE A HIGH PRIEST? THE EARTHLY HIGH PRIEST WAS A 33:33 TYPE OF OUR HIGH PRIEST - OUR HIGH PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF 33:36 MELCHIZEDEK - BECAUSE JESUS DIDN'T COME FROM THE TRIBE OF 33:38 LEVI. HE WAS A UNIQUE HIGH PRIEST ALL 33:42 THE OTHER HIGH PRIESTS POINTED TO AND HE IS NOW AT THE RIGHT 33:45 HAND OF GOD MINISTERING IN OUR BEHALF. 33:49 THE TYPE OF HIS MINISTRY FOR THOSE FIRST 1900 YEARS FROM THE 33:54 TIME HE ASCENDED WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE WHAT THE PRIEST 33:57 DID ON A DAILY BASIS. BUT BEFORE CHRIST COMES BACK 34:01 THERE IS A HEAVENLY DAY OF ATONEMENT. 34:02 THAT WAS A TIME OF JUDGMENT - THE PEOPLE WOULD HUMBLE 34:06 THEMSELVES - WHEN ONLY THE PRIEST WENT IN. 34:09 AND THERE WAS THIS SACRIFICE - ALL THE SINS HAD BEEN STORED AND 34:13 THE PEOPLE WERE PRAYING FOR COMPLETE SEPARATION - IF THEY 34:16 WERE CHERISHING SIN IN THEIR LIVES THE PRIEST COULD DIE IN 34:19 THERE. MATTER OF FACT, I'VE NOT READ IT IN THE BIBLE 34:23 BUT I'VE READ IT IN SEVERAL EXTRA BIBLICAL SOURCES THAT THE 34:26 HIGH PRIEST USED TO WEAR A BLUE CORD AROUND HIS ANKLE 34:29 WHEN HE WENT INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES BECAUSE NOBODY COULD GO 34:36 IWHAT IF HE SHOULD BE AN OLDER PRIEST AND HAVE A HEART ATTACK? 34:40 NO ONE COULD GO IN AND GET HIM. AND SO, IT'S LIKE WHEN THEY HAD 34:46 TO GO COVER UP NOAH IN HIS TENT. RATHER THAN LOOK ON THEIR 34:50 FATHER'S NAKEDNESS, SHEM AND JAPHETH PUT A GARMENT OVER THEIR 34:54 SHOULDERS AND WALKED IN BACKWARDS. 34:56 AND IT'S LIKE HOW DO YOU GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD? 34:59 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE I'VE GOT IN MY LESSON HERE THAT 35:01 I THINK - LOOK WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES - 2 CHRONICLES 7, VERSES 35:05 1 AND 2 - WHEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS TEMPLE - 2 CHRONICLES - 35:10 YOU OUGHT TO READ THIS. THIS IS - YOU DON'T FIND THIS IN 35:12 KINGS - WHEN THEY DEDICATE THE TEMPLE - YOU'LL ONLY FIND IT IN 35:15 THIS VERSE. 2 CHRONICLES 7, VERSES 1 AND 2, 35:19 "WHEN SOLOMON HAD FINISHED PRAYING," - HIS DEDICATION 35:21 PRAYER ON THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF ALL THE EARTHLY TEMPLES - 35:25 "WHEN SOLOMON HAD FINISHED PRAYING, FIRE CAME DOWN FROM 35:28 HEAVEN AND CONSUMED THE BURNT OFFERING AND THE SACRIFICES; AND 35:33 THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TEMPLE. 35:36 AND THE PRIESTS COULD NOT ENTER THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, BECAUSE 35:40 THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAD FILLED THE LORD'S HOUSE." 35:43 IT WAS LIKE A GIGANTIC ARC WELDER IN THERE WITH THE GLORY 35:47 OF GOD AND THEY JUST COULDN'T GO IN - THEY COULDN'T SURVIVE IT. 35:51 SO IF THE HIGH PRIEST SHOULD DIE OR HAVE A HEART ATTACK OR IF HE 35:53 WENT IN WITH SIN IN HIS LIFE UNCONFESSED, LIKE NADAB AND 35:56 ABIHU, SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN. AND SO THEY HAD A CORD AROUND 36:01 HIS ANKLE AND IF HE DIDN'T COME OUT AT THE PROPER TIME AND IT 36:04 SEEMED LIKE - HE HAD BELLS ON THE BOTTOM OF HIS GARMENT, YOU 36:06 KNOW, IF THEY COULD HEAR HIM - THE LITTLE BELLS TINKLING - 36:10 THAT MEANT THAT HE WAS GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE SPRINKLING 36:13 THE BLOOD AND MINISTERING FOR THEM - IF THEY DIDN'T HEAR THE 36:15 BELLS AND TOO MUCH TIME WENT BY, THEY'D PULL HIS BODY OUT. 36:19 AND SO NOBODY COULD GO IN, IT WAS THAT SERIOUS. 36:23 WELL, ON A DAILY BASIS IT WAS LIKE WHAT THE PRIEST DID IN THE 36:26 HOLY PLACE - THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID FOR THE FIRST 1900 YEARS. 36:31 THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH - YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT THE AGE OF 36:34 EPHESUS AND SMYRNA AND PHILADELPHIA - THOSE REPRESENT 36:37 DIFFERENT PHASES OR AGES OF CHURCH HISTORY - THE LAST AGE OF 36:40 THE CHURCH IS CALLED WHAT? LAODICEA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT 36:44 THE WORD 'LAODICEA' MEANS? A JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 36:48 AND WHEN THAT AGE OF THE CHURCH BEGAN - WE BELIEVE THAT WAS 1844 36:52 - CHRIST ENTERED INTO HIS FINAL PHASE - HIS DAY OF 36:56 ATONEMENT-TYPE OF MINISTRY - OF CLEANSING GOD'S PEOPLE. 37:01 THAT'S ALSO WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BEGAN, WHERE CHRISTIANS CAME 37:04 TOGETHER FROM MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS, THEY 37:07 SAID, 'LET'S GET BACK TO THE BIBLE.' 37:09 NOT ONLY CLEANSING OF THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE, IT WAS A 37:11 CLEANSING OF HIS TEMPLE ON EARTH. 37:13 DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD? 37:16 WE - YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, NOT JUST YOUR BODY, BUT IT SAYS 37:19 'YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD' - COLLECTIVELY. 37:22 WE ARE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE. 37:24 AND HE BEGAN TO CLEANSE HIS PEOPLE FROM ALL THESE FALSE 37:27 TEACHINGS THAT HAD COME IN OVER THE DARK AGES AND WHEN THAT'S 37:31 COMPLETE HE'S COMING BACK. HE'LL STAND UP AND AT THAT POINT 37:36 GOD'S PEOPLE NEED TO BE PURGED FROM THEIR SIN. 37:38 SO NOW'S THE TIME - WHAT SHOULD OUR ATTITUDE BE AS A PEOPLE? 37:43 WHAT WAS THE ATTITUDE OF THE ISRAELITES DURING YOM KIPPUR? 37:46 EVEN JEWS TODAY, THEY SPEND 25 HOURS IN PRAYER. 37:50 SOME OF THEM STAY IN THE TEMPLE ALL DAY LONG. 37:52 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME OF HUMILIATION, HUMBLING, PUTTING 37:54 AWAY OF SIN, SEEKING AFTER HOLINESS, RECONCILING WITH 37:57 OTHERS THAT THEY'VE HAD ODDS WITH. 38:01 IT'S JUST REALLY A VERY SERIOUS TIME OF SAYING, 'HEY, PREPARE TO 38:04 MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL.' IT WAS THE END OF THE YEAR AND 38:08 SO WE, AS GOD'S SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 38:12 THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE OF 'WE'RE LIVING IN AN AGE OF HIGHER 38:16 EXPECTATIONS.' YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, 38:22 YOU KNOW, IF I LIVED BACK DURING THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES WHEN 38:25 JESUS WAS HERE - WHEN HE WALKED THE EARTH - I COULD SEE IT WOULD 38:27 BE REALLY IMPORTANT TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE. 38:29 BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SUCH A SINFUL WORLD RIGHT NOW AND IT'S 38:31 SO HARD TO BE HOLY RIGHT NOW AND GOD DOESN'T EXPECT AS MUCH OF US 38:35 TODAY AS HE DID OF THEM BACK THEN BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, JESUS 38:37 WAS THERE WITH THEM.' THAT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 38:41 YOU CAN'T SUPPORT THAT. CHRIST SAID, 'THESE THINGS THAT 38:44 I HAVE DONE, GREATER THINGS THAN THESE WILL 38:46 YOU DO BECAUSE I GO TO THE FATHER.' 38:48 DOES THE LORD EXPECT LESS, THE SAME AMOUNT, OR MORE FROM HIS 38:54 PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS? MORE? I WON'T RESPOND BUT LET ME ASK A 38:59 QUESTION ANOTHER WAY. IS THE DEVIL THE SAME, BETTER OR 39:06 WORSE AT TEMPTING GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS? 39:10 HE'S BETTER AT IT, WHICH MEANS HE'S WORSE! RIGHT? 39:14 DO YOU ALL AGREE WITH THAT? HAS HE BEEN PRACTICING. 39:17 SO IS HE GETTING BETTER AT IT? WHERE SIN ABOUNDS DOES GRACE 39:22 MUCH MORE ABOUND? AND SO IF THE DEVIL IS GETTING 39:25 BETTER AT WHAT HE IS DOING, IS HE BEATING THE LORD OR CAN GOD'S 39:29 PEOPLE GET BETTER AT LIVING LIKE CHRISTIANS? 39:31 THE LORD IS GOING TO COME FOR A PEOPLE THAT HAVE PROVEN TO THE 39:35 UNIVERSE AND THE DEVIL THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US TO BE 39:38 CHRISTIANS AND BE CHRIST-LIKE. AND SO THIS IS A TIME - WE'RE 39:48 LIALRIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, 'BEYOND FORGIVENESS' IS OUR NEXT 39:51 SECTION - BEYOND FORGIVENESS. HEBREWS 8, VERSE 3 - SOMEONE 39:55 LOOK UP FOR ME HEBREWS 8:6 - WHO HAS THAT? 39:59 WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 40:03 NOW THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE HIGH PRIEST WAS TO MEDIATE 40:06 BETWEEN GOD AND MANKIND. DO SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THOSE 40:10 OLD COOK STOVES - WHETHER IT WAS ELECTRIC OR GAS THERE WERE THREE 40:14 SETTINGS ON YOUR PLATES ON THE STOVE. 40:17 DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THOSE THREE SETTINGS WERE? 40:19 LOW, MEDIUM AND HIGH. WHY WAS MEDIUM CALLED 'MEDIUM'? 40:26 MEDIUM MEANS 'IN BETWEEN'. IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD 40:28 'MEDIATOR'. IT MEANS A GO-BETWEEN. 40:32 AND JESUS IS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. THAT'S WHY HE'S 40:35 PORTRAYED AS THE LADDER THAT CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH. 40:39 AND SO THE HIGH PRIEST WAS TO MEDIATE. 40:42 THAT'S WHAT AARON SYMBOLIZED. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE, READ 40:45 FOR US HEBREWS 8:6. I THINK WE'RE READY. 40:50 >>HEBREWS 8 AND 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT 40:54 MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT, 41:01 WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED ON BETTER PROMISES." 41:03 >>ALRIGHT. NOW WHY ARE THE PROMISES BETTER? 41:05 BECAUSE GOD FAILED HIS FIRST PROMISE? NO. 41:08 THE FIRST PROMISES ARE DEALING WITH SYMBOLS OF, YOU KNOW, GOATS 41:12 AND SHEEP - TYPES - AARON BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST - 41:15 THOSE AREN'T AS GOOD AS THE REAL THING. 41:18 THE FIRST PROMISES ARE BASED ON TYPES AND SYMBOLS. 41:20 THE PROMISES NOW ARE BEING REALIZED WITH THE REAL LORD AND 41:25 THE REAL SACRIFICE THAT HE OFFERED. 41:31 THE BLOOD OF A LAMB THAT'S A SYMBOL OR THE BLOOD OF JESUS 41:33 THAT REALLY DOES TAKE AWAY OUR SIN? AND SO CHRIST IS A MEDIATOR 41:38 AND THAT'S THE WORK THAT THE HIGH PRIEST REPRESENTED. 41:41 LET ME READ A QUOTE TO YOU FROM THAT CLASSIC BOOK 'PATRIARCHS 41:44 AND PROPHETS' - THIS IS, BY THE WAY, PAGE 357 - 41:47 I THINK IT'S IN YOUR LESSON. "THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHILE IT 41:50 WAS TO RELEASE THE REPENTANT SINNER FROM THE CONDEMNATION OF 41:53 THE LAW, WAS NOT TO CANCEL THE SIN; IT WOULD STAND ON RECORD 41:58 IN THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE FINAL ATONEMENT; 42:01 SO IS THE TYPE OF THE BLOOD RECORD IN THE SANCTUARY" - LET 42:05 ME SEE - I'M SORRY - "SO IS THE TYPE - THE BLOOD OF THE 42:09 PURIFICATION OFFERING REMOVED THE SIN FROM THE PENITENT, BUT 42:13 IT RESTED IN THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE DAY OF ATONEMENT." 42:15 NOW SOME OF YOU ARE GOING, 'AH! YOU MEAN WHEN I TELL GOD I'M 42:19 SORRY FOR MY SINS AND HE SAYS 'YOU'RE FORGIVEN' THAT I'M NOT 42:22 REALLY FORGIVEN - NOT TOTALLY FORGIVEN? 42:25 NO, YOU'RE FORGIVEN, BUT THE RECORD OF YOUR SIN IS NOT 42:28 DESTROYED YET. I MIGHT GET PULLED OVER FOR SPEEDING. 42:33 I MIGHT GO TO TRAFFIC COURT AND THEY MIGHT SAY, 'WE'RE NOT GOING 42:37 TO PUT THIS ON YOUR RECORD SO THE INSURANCE COMPANY IS GOING 42:42 TO RAISE YOUR RATES.' BUT, YOU KNOW, IF I GET PULLED 42:45 OVER AGAIN IN ANOTHER SIX MONTHS, THE RECORD OF MY FIRST 42:48 SPEEDING IS STILL THERE. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT? 42:52 THEY WILL NOT TREAT YOU - IF YOU REPENT AND GO TO TRAFFIC SCHOOL 42:57 - THEY'LL SAY, 'ALRIGHT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOUR INSURANCE 42:59 COMPANY RAISE YOUR RATES. 43:01 WE'RE NOT GOING TO POST IT.' BUT IF YOU GET ANOTHER ONE, 43:05 THEY'RE GOING TO DIG BACK INTO YOUR COMPUTER FILE AND SAY, 'YOU 43:07 KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN THREE TIMES SPEEDING.' 43:09 AND I'LL SAY, 'BUT, BUT, BUT - YOU FORGAVE ME THAT FIRST ONE.' 43:13 'WELL, IT'S STILL ON THE BOOKS. WE DIDN'T FINE YOU FOR IT. 43:15 WE DIDN'T RELEASE IT BUT IT'S STILL THERE.' 43:18 NOW SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE - THEY SAY, 'YOU MEAN WHEN I CONFESS MY 43:22 SIN HE DOESN'T CAST IT IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA AND IT'S NEVER 43:24 DISCOVERED - NEVER LOOKED AT AGAIN?' NO. FOLLOW ME. 43:30 LET'S SUPPOSE YOU HAVE A PERSON THAT SAYS, 'LORD, I'M SORRY FOR 43:34 MY SINS.' THEY'RE GENUINELY REPENTANT. 43:36 THEY ACCEPT JESUS. 43:37 JESUS COMES INTO THEIR LIFE AND THEY SERVE THE LORD. 43:40 BUT THEN, FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M JUST 43:43 TIRED OF SERVING GOD.' AND THEY TURN TO DRUGS, THEY RUN 43:47 OFF ON THEIR WIFE, AND RUN OFF WITH A GIRLFRIEND AND GO INTO A 43:54 LIFE OF CRIME AND JUST SAY, 'I'M NOT GOING TO LIVE FOR GOD 43:55 ANYMORE.' WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD IN 43:58 THE JUDGMENT ARE THEY ACCOUNTABLE ONLY FOR THE SINS 44:01 THAT THEY COMMITTED AFTER THEY BACKSLID OR ARE THEY ACCOUNTABLE 44:06 FOR ALL THE SINS THEY EVER COMMITTED? I'D SAY ALL. 44:13 I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT TELLS US THERE'S A 44:15 PARTIAL FORGIVENESS FOR THE LOST. 44:19 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM THE BIBLE THAT I THINK WILL 44:21 EXPLAIN IT. EZEKIEL 18:24 - EZEKIEL 18:24, 44:28 "BUT WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNS AWAY FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS" - 44:33 THIS IS A MAN WHO IS RIGHTEOUS. HE'S GODLY. 44:35 HE'S ON HIS WAY TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? 44:37 FORGIVEN - RIGHTEOUS MAN - BUT HE TURNS AWAY FROM HIS 44:39 RIGHTEOUSNESS - WHETHER YOU SAY IT'S TURNING AWAY FROM RIGHTEOUS 44:43 DEEDS OR TURNING AWAY FROM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST, IT 44:45 DOESN'T MATTER, HE'S TURNED AWAY - "AND COMMITS INIQUITY, AND 44:49 DOES ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT THE WICKED MAN 44:52 DOES, SHALL HE LIVE? ALL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH HE 44:56 HAS DONE SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED; BECAUSE OF THE 45:00 UNFAITHFULNESS OF WHICH HE IS GUILTY AND THE SIN WHICH HE HAS 45:03 COMMITTED, BECAUSE OF THEM HE SHALL DIE." 45:06 LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE. 45:12 THERE WAS - THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT SO I'M DWELLING ON IT. 45:15 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 45:17 HERE IS WHEN YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS TO JESUS AND YOU'RE 45:21 FORGIVEN, YOU DON'T GET TO KEEP THAT FORGIVENESS UNLESS YOU KEEP 45:24 IT A HUNDRED PERCENT. YOU REMEMBER IN THE PARABLE OF 45:28 THE UNMERCIFUL DEBTOR THAT YOU FIND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18? 45:32 THIS MAN HAS A TERRIBLE DEBT HE CANNOT PAY, HE PLEADS FOR MERCY 45:36 - HE ACTUALLY TELLS THE KING, 'FORGIVE ME AND I'LL PAY IT ALL 45:40 BACK.' THE KING SHOWS HIM MERCY - 45:43 HE'S FORGIVEN - HE FORGIVES THE DEBT. 45:46 WELL THAT GUY, INSTEAD OF GOING OUT AND PRAISING THE LORD 45:49 AND BEING NICE TO EVERYBODY BECAUSE HE'S BEEN FORGIVEN THIS 45:51 INCREDIBLE DEBT, HE GOES OUT AND FINDS A FELLOW SERVANT, TAKES 45:54 HIM BY THE THROAT AND SAYS, 'YOU OWE ME FORTY DOLLARS. 45:56 PAY ME BACK OR I'M THROWING YOU IN JAIL.' HIS FRIEND SAYS, 45:58 'LOOK, HAVE MERCY ON ME. I'LL PAY YOU ALL BACK. 46:00 FORTY DOLLARS. I CAN DO IT.' 46:02 HE WOULDN'T HAVE PATIENCE WITH HIM. 46:03 THREW HIM IN JAIL TO BE TORTURED FOR FORTY DOLLARS. 46:07 WHEN THE KING FOUND OUT ABOUT IT HE HAD THAT WICKED SERVANT DRUG 46:10 BEFORE HIM AND HE SAID, 'I FORGAVE YOU TEN THOUSAND TALENTS 46:13 BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME AND YOU WOULD NOT FORGIVE YOUR FELLOW 46:16 SERVANT FORTY DOLLARS WHEN HE ASKED YOU? 46:19 NOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED FOR ALL TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.' 46:23 YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 46:26 HE DOESN'T SAY, 'WELL, NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET PUNISHED FOR 46:28 THE OTHER FIFTY CENTS YOU DIDN'T PAY BACK SINCE I FORGAVE YOU THE 46:30 TEN THOUSAND TALENTS.' HE SAYS, 'THE ORIGINAL PUNISHMENT THAT I 46:35 HAD SET ASIDE WILL BE REINSTATED BECAUSE YOU DID NOT RETAIN MY 46:40 MERCY.' IS THAT CLEAR? YOU WANT ANOTHER EXAMPLE? 46:45 THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A 46:47 LOT OF CHRISTIANS OUT THERE SAY, 'WHAT? YOU FOLKS BELIEVE THAT 46:50 SOMEHOW THE SINS ARE STORED UNTIL THE DAY OF ATONEMENT? 46:54 DON'T YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WAS FINISHED AT THE CROSS?' 46:57 YES, I THINK THE WORK OF CHRIST PROVIDING SALVATION WAS A 46:59 HUNDRED PERCENT FINISHED AT THE CROSS. 47:01 WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HE'S PROVIDED IS THE ISSUE HERE. 47:05 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? ONE MORE EXAMPLE. THERE WAS THIS MAN 47:09 NAMED SHIMEI OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN WHEN DAVID WAS FLEEING 47:13 JERUSALEM BECAUSE ABSALOM WAS PURSUING HIM. 47:15 SHIMEI THREW STONES AND CURSED DAVID. AND DAVID, WHEN HE WAS 47:20 DYING, HE TOLD SOLOMON, 'LOOK, I'VE FORGIVEN SHIMEI BUT HE'S A 47:24 RASCAL AND YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON HIM. 47:26 IF HE TURNED ON ME HE'S LIABLE TO TURN ON YOU BECAUSE HE THINKS 47:29 THAT BENJAMIN SHOULD BE THE MONARCHY. 47:32 AND SO, AFTER SOLOMON BECAME KING HE BROUGHT SHIMEI IN AND 47:35 SAID, 'LOOK, MY FATHER FORGAVE YOU AND YOU'LL GET TO KEEP YOUR 47:38 FORGIVENESS ON THE CONDITION YOU NEVER LEAVE JERUSALEM.' 47:42 BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE'D GO OUT AND STIR THINGS UP WITH THE 47:44 TRIBE OF BENJAMIN. HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, FAIR ENOUGH, 47:47 I'LL STAY HERE.' HE COULDN'T HANDLE IT. 47:49 AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS HIS SLAVES RAN AWAY AND HE WENT DOWN 47:52 TO GATH LOOKING FOR HIS SLAVES AND IT WAS TOLD TO SOLOMON, 47:56 'SHIMEI BROKE THE CONDITIONS OF HIS MERCY.' 47:59 SOLOMON BROUGHT HIM BEFORE HIM - HE SAID, 'DIDN'T I TELL YOU IN 48:01 THE DAY YOU LEAVE JERUSALEM YOU'RE GOING TO BE EXECUTED? 48:04 AS LONG AS YOU OBEY ME YOU'RE FORGIVEN OF WHAT YOU DID TO MY 48:07 FATHER, BUT WHEN YOU BREAK THE RULES, YOUR FORGIVENESS IS 48:11 WITHDRAWN AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED, NOT BECAUSE YOU LEFT 48:14 JERUSALEM, YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUNISHED BECAUSE YOU CURSED THE 48:16 LORD'S ANOINTED, DAVID.' AND SO HIS SIN THAT HAD BEEN 48:25 FFORGIVENESS, WAS WITHDRAWN. NOW THAT OUGHT TO - IT'S VERY 48:29 ENLIGHTENING - THAT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU SHUDDER. 48:32 SO, YOU LIVE 80 YEARS LIKE A CHRISTIAN, YOU ONLY SIN FOR TEN 48:38 YEARS, NOW YOU'RE A HUNDRED YEARS OLD - DON'T WORRY ABOUT 48:43 THE MATH IN THIS - I OFTEN DO EQUATIONS THAT EQUAL 150 PERCENT 48:52 - AND, BUT YOU DECIDE THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE YOU'RE 48:55 JUST GOING TO TURN FROM GOD. DO YOU ONLY, IN THE JUDGMENT, 48:59 SUFFER FOR FIVE YEARS OF SIN OR YOUR LIFE OF SIN? ALL OF YOUR 49:03 RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT YOU HAVE DONE WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED. 49:06 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE JUST READ? THAT OUGHT TO BE A MOTIVATOR. 49:11 SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS I - GOD'S GOING 49:13 TO WEIGH MY GOOD DEEDS WITH MY BAD DEEDS AND IF I HAVE MORE 49:15 GOOD DEEDS THEN I DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR SO MANY BAD DEEDS.' NO. 49:18 YOU'RE EITHER FORGIVEN AND COVERED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS OR 49:20 YOU PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN. ISN'T THAT A TERRIBLE - THERE'S 49:25 NO HE PAYS FOR SOME AND YOU PAY FOR SOME. 49:28 I'D LIKE IT THAT WAY BUT IT'S EITHER A HUNDRED PERCENT 49:33 ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 49:34 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'RE NOT WITH ME YOU'RE AGAINST ME.' 49:37 SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 49:39 IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT PRINCIPLE YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A 49:43 LIBRARY - THERE IS A RECORD - WHERE SIN IS STORED - FOR LACK 49:48 OF A BETTER WORD - AND IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT THOSE THAT HAVE 49:54 BEEN CONSISTENT IN TRUSTING IN CHRIST AND FOLLOWING CHRIST, 49:57 THEY THEN ARE COMPLETELY DECLARED CITIZENS, YOU MIGHT 50:03 SAY, OR WHATEVER ANALOGY YOU WANT. 50:06 BUT IF THEY FOUND THAT THEY'RE HYPOCRITES LIKE JUDAS WHO 50:10 FOLLOWED JESUS FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS BUT IN THE END JESUS 50:13 SAID THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THAT MAN IF HE WAS NOT BORN. 50:17 JUDAS IS NOT GOING TO SUFFER JUST FOR THAT ONE SIN OF 50:21 BETRAYING CHRIST. HE'S GOING TO SUFFER FOR HIS 50:24 LIFE OF SIN BECAUSE HE DENIED THE FORGIVENESS OF CHRIST WHICH 50:27 MEANS HE'S GOT TO PAY FOR ALL OF HIS SIN. ALRIGHT, 50:31 I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THAT AND NOW I'VE GOT TO HURRY. 50:34 'THE AZAZEL - THE SCAPEGOAT. NOW WE READ ABOUT THE SCAPEGOAT. 50:39 THE SCAPEGOAT - EVEN THE ANCIENT JEWISH RABBIS UNDERSTOOD IT WAS 50:43 A SYMBOL OF THE FIRST ANGELIC SINNER - THAT FIRST ANGELIC 50:46 REBEL. WHO WOULD THAT BE? THAT'S WHO WE CALL SATAN OR 50:50 LUCIFER, THE DEVIL, BEELZEBUB, APOLLYON - I MEAN, TAKE YOUR 50:54 FAVORITE NAME FOR THE ARCH VILLAIN. 50:56 THIS IS A SYMBOL FOR THE DEVIL. WHO INSTIGATED ALL SIN IN THE 51:00 UNIVERSE? THE DEVIL DID. 51:04 AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, THE LORD MADE THE DEVIL SO HE'S 51:07 SOMEHOW ACCOUNTABLE.' NO, GOD MADE A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL 51:10 NAMED LUCIFER WITH A FREE WILL AND HE CHOSE TO REBEL. 51:14 THE SEEDS OF SIN ORIGINATED AND WERE SPAWNED IN HIM. 51:18 GOD CANNOT SIN. 51:20 EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS GOOD. EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS PERFECT. 51:23 IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT HE MADE LUCIFER FREE AND LUCIFER 51:26 CHOSE OF HIS OWN TO REBEL. IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT DO PEOPLE 51:32 PAY FOR - CAN SIN - LET ME SAY THIS DIFFERENTLY - CAN I BE 51:39 RESPONSIBLE, TO SOME EXTENT, FOR YOUR SIN? YEAH, 51:43 IF I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIN. IS CHARLES MANSON IN JAIL 51:49 BECAUSE HE MURDERED? HE ACTUALLY DIDN'T COMMIT THE 51:52 MURDERS, DID HE? HE INSPIRED THE OTHERS TO DO THE 51:55 MURDERS BUT HE'S STILL IN PRISON, ISN'T HE? 51:58 WHO INSPIRED ALL THE EVIL IN THE WORLD? INSTIGATED IT? THE DEVIL. 52:04 DOES HE HAVE TO BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT? 52:08 SO WHAT BETTER PARTY - AND SATAN CAN BE CAST INTO A LAKE OF FIRE 52:12 - DOES IT TELL US IN REVELATION? SOMEONE LOOK UP EZEKIEL 33:6. 52:17 ALRIGHT, YOU GOING TO READ IT FOR THEM MIKE? 52:19 READ IT SINCE - YOU GOT IT? ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. 52:22 >>OKAY, EZEKIEL 33:6, "BUT IF THE WATCHMAN SEES THE SWORD 52:25 COMING AND DOES NOT BLOW THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOT 52:29 WARNED, AND THE SWORD COMES AND TAKES ANY PERSON FROM AMONG 52:33 THEM, HE IS TAKEN AWAY IN HIS INIQUITY; BUT HIS BLOOD 52:37 I WILL REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN'S HAND." 52:39 >>ALRIGHT. HERE GOD MADE LUCIFER THE CHIEF OF THE ANGELS. 52:43 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GUARD THE GOOD OF THE UNIVERSE. 52:47 AND, YES, PEOPLE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FOR THEIR OWN SINS, BUT AT 52:50 WHOSE HAND DOES HE REQUIRE THE GUILT? 52:54 THE ONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE AND SATAN IS THE PARTY WHO IS 52:58 RESPONSIBLE. THAT AZAZEL - THAT SCAPEGOAT - 53:03 IS THE ONE UPON WHOM THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE ARE ULTIMATELY 53:05 TRANSFERRED. IT'S NOT SLAIN LIKE A SACRIFICE. 53:09 THE LORD'S GOAT - JESUS - DIED. IT IS CARRIED OFF INTO A 53:12 WILDERNESS - DESOLATE PLACE. YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THE 53:15 LORD CASTS A DEMON OUT THE DEMON GOES IN DESOLATE PLACES. 53:20 AND THE DEVIL SAID IN MARK CHAPTER 5, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT 53:25 INTO THE NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO THIS GOAT WAS TAKEN OUT, 53:28 YOU KNOW, ONE - IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE BUT ONE LEGEND IS THAT 53:31 THIS CAPABLE PERSON WHO WOULD TAKE THE GOAT OUT WOULD FIND A 53:34 HIGH PRECIPICE AND KICK HIM OFF TO MAKE SURE HE DIDN'T COME BACK 53:37 BECAUSE IF THAT GOAT FOLLOWED THEM BACK INTO THE CAMP, THAT 53:41 WAS THE WORSE OMEN POSSIBLE - THAT SOMEHOW THEIR SINS HAD 53:44 RETURNED. AND SO THIS WAS TO REPRESENT COMPLETELY AND FOREVER 53:50 SEPARATING GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. NOW IS JESUS FOREVER 53:53 GOING TO BEAR OUR SINS? THEN THAT GOAT THAT FOREVER 53:57 BEARS THE SINS - THAT BEARS RESPONSIBILITY - THAT NEVER 54:00 COMES BACK - CANNOT REALLY BE A TYPE OF CHRIST. 54:03 YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS - OH, LET ME SEE HERE - HEBREWS 9:27, 54:12 "AND AS IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE 54:15 JUDGMENT, SO CHRIST WAS OFFERED ONCE TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY. 54:18 TO THOSE WHO EAGERLY WAIT FOR HIM HE WILL APPEAR A SECOND 54:22 TIME," - HE'S COMING BACK - "APART FROM SIN," - HE'S NOT 54:26 COMING WITH SIN - "FOR SALVATION." 54:29 AFTER THE DAY OF ATONEMENT SACRIFICE AARON OFFERED ANOTHER 54:33 SACRIFICE FOR HIS FAMILY TO REPRESENT HE WAS CLEAN, BECAUSE 54:38 HE HAD BEEN TOUCHING AND DEALING WITH THINGS THAT WERE IMPURE - 54:40 THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. CHRIST IS COMING BACK CLEAN. 54:44 SO WHO ULTIMATELY TAKES THE SIN TO THE LAKE OF FIRE? SATAN. 54:50 IT'S ALL FINALLY TRANSFERRED. YOU KNOW, JESUS SUFFERED, YES, 54:52 FOR ALL OF OUR SINS, BUT THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIN. 54:56 THOSE WHO DO NOT REPENT BEAR THAT RESPONSIBILITY. 54:59 DOES THE DEVIL EVER REPENT? SO DOES HE BEAR RESPONSIBILITY? 55:03 YEAH. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT CLEAR WHO THE SCAPEGOAT IS - 55:07 IT IS NOT JESUS. THE LORD'S GOAT REPRESENTS 55:10 JESUS. THE SCAPEGOAT REPRESENTS WHO? 55:12 SATAN OR THE DEVIL. AND WITH THAT WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 55:18 MORE ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT YOU DIDN'T GET TO.' 55:20 DO NOT FRET, FRIENDS. I LOOKED AHEAD IN THE LESSON. 55:23 I DIDN'T WANT TO COVER EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE OTHER 55:24 LESSONS COVER A LOT OF THAT. LET ME REMIND YOU WE DO HAVE A 55:28 FREE STUDY GUIDE. JUST ASK FOR IT. 'NO TURNING BACK'. 55:32 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. IT'S OFFER #146. 55:35 AND GOD WILLING WE'LL BE TOGETHER TO STUDY ABOUT THIS 55:38 SUBJECT AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 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