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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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RIGHT HERE IN
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING
IN. WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US
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LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE
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VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, OR
YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO,
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IT DOESN'T MATTER.
WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE
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JOINING US AND YOU'RE PART OF
OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE
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WORLD. WE'RE READY
HERE IN THE SANCTUARY.
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WE'VE WARMED UP OUR VOICES
AND WE'RE READY TO SING YOUR
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FAVORITES THAT YOU HAVE
SENT IN. OUR FIRST SONG - #523 -
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'MY FAITH HAS
FOUND A RESTING PLACE'.
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WE'RE GOING TO
SING ALL FOUR STANZAS.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JULIE IN
CANADA, JOYCE-LUM IN CAMEROON,
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KAREN IN MONTSERRAT, AND ALLAN
AND JANICE IN THE UNITED ARAB
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EMIRATES AND MANY MORE OF OUR
FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. #523 -
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ALL FOUR STANZAS - 'MY FAITH
HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE'.
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>>'I NEED NO OTHER
EVIDENCE, I NEED NO OTHER PLEA,
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IWHAT OTHER EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED
WHEN YOU SEE WHAT JESUS CAN DO
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IN SOMEONE'S LIFE? I
THINK THAT'S EVIDENCE THAT HE
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DID RISE AND HE'S
WORKING IN EACH OF US.
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IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT
YOU WANT TO SING WITH US ON AN
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UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S REALLY
SIMPLE. YOU JUST GO TO OUR
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WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND
CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK
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AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR
FAVORITE SONG AND WE'LL DO OUR
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BEST TO SING THAT FOR
YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
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AND START SENDING IN YOUR
CHRISTMAS SONGS, IT IS TIME.
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SO GO TO OUR WEBSITE, CLICK ON
THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND SEND
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IN YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS
AND WE'RE GOING TO START SINGING
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THOSE SOONER THAN
LATER. OUR NEXT SONG IS #79.
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THIS IS OUR NEW ONE FOR THIS
WEEK AS WE'RE CONTINUING WORKING
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OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL
SINGING SONGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD
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BEFORE. #79 - 'O LOVE OF
GOD, HOW STRONG AND TRUE!'
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THIS IS FROM TIM AND JESS IN
AUSTRALIA, HELENA IN GRENADA,
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JOSEFIN IN IRELAND AND ASSENTH
IN MEXICO AND SOME OTHERS AROUND
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THE WORLD. WE'RE
GOING TO SING ALL FIVE
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STANZAS BECAUSE IT'S VERY
SHORT. #79 - JOIN WITH US.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE KNOW THAT
YOU LOVE US AND JUST LIKE THE
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SONG SAID, THAT YOUR LOVE
IS DEEPER AND STRONGER THAN
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WE KNOW HOW IT DEVOURS PEOPLE'S
ANDHEARTS AND THEIR LIVES AND
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THEY'RE CONSUMED BY IT.
BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT YOU AND WE
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REALIZE THAT YOU LOVE US EVEN
MORE - FATHER WE STAND IN AWE.
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
LOVE THAT YOU DO HAVE FOR US AND
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I PRAY THAT WE WILL SHOW YOUR
LOVE TO THIS WORLD - THE WORLD
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THAT IS FULL OF HATE AND EVIL -
THAT WE CAN BE LIGHTS AND SHARE
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YOUR LOVE WITH OTHERS.
PLEASE BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP
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YOUR WORD AND WE
STUDY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW.
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR AND HIS MINISTRY
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HERE AT CENTRAL AND AROUND THE
WORLD AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL
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GIVE HIM THE WORDS THAT
YOU HAVE FOR US THIS MORNING.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT
THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
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GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO
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CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY
MUCH TO OUR SINGERS.
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WELCOME EVERYBODY TO SACRAMENTO
CENTRAL SABBATH SCHOOL AND WE'RE
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GLAD THAT WE CAN BE STUDYING
GOD'S WORD TOGETHER AGAIN TODAY.
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH OUR LESSON TODAY AND
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THAT FREE OFFER IS CALLED
'ASSURANCE: JUSTIFICATION MADE
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SIMPLE' AND IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY
OF THIS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
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CALL THE NUMBER.
866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S
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1-866-788-3966 AND WE'LL
SEND YOU THIS BOOK ON ASSURANCE.
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PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW 'HOW CAN I
HAVE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION AND
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YET, AT THE SAME
TIME, NOT BE PRESUMPTUOUS?'
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AND SO WE'LL GIVE THAT TO
YOU FOR FREE. AND, YOU KNOW,
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I JUST WANT TO SAY A SPECIAL
GREETING TO OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE
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IN CHINA. SINCE I
SAW YOU LAST I WAS IN
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HONG KONG AND THEY HAD A
CONVOCATION THERE AND A LOT OF
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PEOPLE CAME EVEN FROM THE
MAINLAND OF CHINA OVER TO HONG
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KONG AND THEY SAID, 'WE
WATCH CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.
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WE PARTICIPATE IN THE SABBATH
SCHOOL CLASS.' AND THAT WAS
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JUST THRILLING TO HEAR.
THEY DON'T DO IT SO MUCH BY
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SATELLITE THERE AS
THEY DO BY INTERNET.
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BUT I WANT TO GREET OUR FRIENDS
THAT ARE WATCHING IN CHINA AND I
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WANT TO WELCOME, IN ADVANCE, OUR
FRIENDS THAT STUDY WITH US IN
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ROMANIA BECAUSE WE'LL BE - IN A
COUPLE OF WEEKS WE'LL BE ON THE
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OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET AND
I'LL BE - PASTOR ROSS AND I'LL
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BE GOING TO ROMANIA AND
DOING SOME EVANGELISM THERE.
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MY FIRST TRIP - WE'VE GOT A
WHOLE ROMANIAN CONGREGATION HERE
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AT CENTRAL CHURCH AND I'VE
NEVER BEEN TO ROMANIA AND SO
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WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
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WE'LL SEE OUR
FRIENDS IN BUCHAREST.
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AND IT'S ALWAYS ENCOURAGING WHEN
WE SEE THE LETTERS COMING IN
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FROM AROUND THE WORLD -
PEOPLE THAT STUDY WITH US.
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OUR STUDY GUIDE TODAY -
WE'RE CONTINUING GOING THROUGH A
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VARIETY OF
STUDIES ON THE SANCTUARY.
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A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY - ALL
THROUGH THE BIBLE THE SANCTUARY
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APPEARS AND ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN STUDY IS
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TODAY'S LESSON
'CHRIST OUR HIGH PRIEST'.
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WE HAVE A NUMBER OF VERSES THAT
TALK ABOUT THAT THEME AND OUR
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MEMORY VERSE COMES TO
US FROM HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2.
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I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF
YOU COULD SAY IT WITH ME.
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HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2, AND
TODAY IT'S COMING FROM THE NEW
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AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE.
THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE
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TRANSLATIONS - THE NEW AMERICAN
STANDARD BIBLE. ONE MORE TIME,
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HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2 - YOU READY?
"NOW THE MAIN POINT IN WHAT HAS
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BEEN SAID IS THIS: WE HAVE SUCH
A HIGH PRIEST, WHO HAS TAKEN HIS
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SEAT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF
THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY IN THE
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HEAVENS, A MINISTER IN
THE SANCTUARY AND IN THE TRUE
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TABERNACLE, WHICH THE
LORD PITCHED, NOT MAN."
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NOW THERE, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT A
TRUE TABERNACLE, IT'S NOT BEING
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OPPOSED TO A FALSE TABERNACLE,
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE REAL
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HEAVENLY TABERNACLE AS OPPOSED
TO THE MAN-MADE ONES THAT WERE
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ON EARTH. AND IN
OPPOSITION TO THE
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PRIESTHOOD OF MEN ON EARTH, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD OF
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CHRIST IN HEAVEN. BUT
YET THE LORD STILL HAS A
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PRIESTHOOD ON EARTH OF
SORTS. DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE?
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TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE HIGH
PRIEST WE NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING
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ABOUT THE LOW PRIESTS AND
SO TURN TO - LET'S SEE, I THINK
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IT'S IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 2 -
I'M SORRY, 1 PETER CHAPTER 2,
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VERSE 9. NOW A PRIEST USUALLY
MINISTERS IN A BUILDING, RIGHT?
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SO IS THERE STILL A
PRIESTHOOD IN THE WORLD TODAY?
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NOW I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
THE POPE AND HIS PRIESTS, I'M
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TALKING ABOUT BIBLICALLY IS
THERE STILL A PRIESTHOOD IN THE
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WORLD TODAY? YES. IS THERE STILL
A TEMPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY?
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YES, THERE'S
STILL A TEMPLE ON EARTH.
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IT'S A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE BUT IT'S
VERY REAL AND THE BIBLE TELLS US
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IN EPHESIANS 2, 'WE
ARE LIVING STONES BUILDING
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UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE'.
JESUS IS NOT ONLY THE LAMB AND
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THE HIGH PRIEST,
HE'S THE CORNERSTONE.
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JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE
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DAYS I'LL RAISE UP ONE MADE
WITHOUT HANDS' - SPEAKING OF
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WHAT? HIS CHURCH - HIS
BODY - HIS CHURCH IS CALLED
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'THE BODY OF CHRIST' AND
SO THERE IS A SPIRITUAL HOUSE.
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PAUL SAID, 'WHAT? DON'T YOU
KNOW THAT YE' - COLLECTIVELY -
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'YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD'.
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AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE
COMPOSE THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE,
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THERE IS A SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD
AND YOU SEE HERE IN 1 PETER
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CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, "BUT YOU
ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
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PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS
OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY
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PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO
CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO
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HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" SO RIGHT
AWAY WE SEE PART OF THE WORK OF
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A PRIEST IS TO PROCLAIM.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO - WELL LET'S
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- MAYBE I'LL START WITH
A DEFINITION FOR A PRIEST.
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AND THIS IS SORT OF A COMPOSITE
OF DEFINITIONS THAT YOU WOULD
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FIND IN MERRIAM WEBSTER
AND WIKIPEDIA IF THAT CAN BE
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TRUSTED. BUT IT
SEEMED ACCURATE TO ME.
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A PRIEST IS 'A PERSON
AUTHORIZED, ORDAINED, OR SET
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APART TO PERFORM THE SACRED
RITUALS OF A RELIGION ESPECIALLY
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AS A MEDIATORY AGENT BETWEEN
HUMANS AND A DEITY OR DEITIES' -
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DEPENDING ON IF
IT'S A PAGAN PRIESTHOOD -
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'TO REPRESENT THE SAID DEITY.
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THE PRIEST'S DUTIES MAY INCLUDE
PREACHING, TEACHING, BLESSING
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AND JUDGING BETWEEN PARTIES.'
AND SO THAT JUST KIND OF GIVES
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YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT
A PRIEST'S RESPONSIBILITIES
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MIGHT BE. AND THEN
THE HIGH PRIEST WOULD
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SORT OF BE THE PRIEST IN
CHARGE OF ALL THE OTHER PRIESTS.
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IT'S THE SUPREME PRIEST.
WE HAVE A WHOLE SECTION THAT
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DEALS WITH THAT. NOW
GOING INTO OUR LESSON RIGHT
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WE'VE GIVEN OUT SOME VERSES
- RIGHT OVER HERE. ANDREW,
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GET THE MICROPHONE. AND WE'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
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BEFORE WE DO I'M TALKING ABOUT
THAT SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD AGAIN.
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THREE EXAMPLES JUST IN
REVELATION. THERE ARE OTHERS.
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I JUST READ YOU
ONE FROM 1 PETER.
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REVELATION 1:6, "AND HAS MADE US
KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD AND
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FATHER, TO HIM BE GLORY
AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER.
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AMEN." THAT WAS REVELATION 1:6.
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IF WE GO TO REVELATION 5:10
- "AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND
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PRIESTS TO OUR GOD; AND
WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH."
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IT TELLS US WE'RE GOING TO
HEAVEN BUT IT SAYS ULTIMATELY WE
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REIGN ON EARTH. NOW WE HAVE,
IF WE'RE READY, GO AHEAD AND
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DO REVELATION 20, VERSE
6. ARE WE READY? YES WE ARE.
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>>REVELATION 20, VERSE 6,
"BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE WHO HAS
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PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS
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NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE
PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST,
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AND SHALL REIGN WITH
HIM A THOUSAND YEARS."
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>>OKAY, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
SOMETHING, WHEN DID JESUS BEGIN
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SERVING AS OUR HIGH PRIEST?
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WELL, SPECIFICALLY, WHEN YOU
READ OUR MEMORY VERSE HERE IT
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SAYS, 'THIS IS THE MAIN POINT,
WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST WHO
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IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND
OF THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY AND
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THE HEAVENS.'
WHEN HE ASCENDED AND HE
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PRESENTED HIS BLOOD HE REALLY
ENTERED INTO HIS PRIESTLY WORK.
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I'M SURE JESUS WAS MEDIATING AND
DOING OTHER THINGS THAT A PRIEST
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MIGHT DO BUT HE REALLY ENTERED
INTO HIS WORK IN A SPECIFIC WAY
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FOLLOWING HIS SACRIFICE, BECAUSE
IF A PRIEST HAS NO BLOOD TO
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OFFER IT'S NOT THE FULL
PRIESTHOOD AT THAT POINT.
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AND WHEN DID THE
SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD BEGIN?
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OF ALL BELIEVERS? WELL,
PRIOR TO CHRIST THERE WAS
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A LINE WITHIN A TRIBE THAT WERE
PRIESTS BUT NOW, BEING A NATION
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OF PRIESTS, THAT
BEGAN AT THE SAME TIME.
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OKAY, HERE'S THE NEXT QUESTION:
WHEN DO WE CEASE TO BE A NATION
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OF PRIESTS? THE CHURCH?
WELL, THE VERSES WE JUST READ
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT EVEN
BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM - FOREVER.
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YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET TO IT MORE
IN A LITTLE BIT BUT THE BIBLE -
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WELL, I'LL GO
AHEAD AND READ IT NOW.
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YEAH, LET'S LOOK AT HEBREWS 6,
VERSE 19 - A LOT OF OUR VERSES
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TODAY ARE FROM HEBREWS -
LET ME JUST READ THIS TO YOU.
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HEBREWS 6, VERSES 19 AND 20,
"THIS HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR
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PRESENCE BEHIND THE VEIL, WHERE
THE FORERUNNER HAS ENTERED FOR
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US, EVEN JESUS, HAVING BECOME
HIGH PRIEST FOREVER" - HOW LONG
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IS HE GOING TO
BE HIGH PRIEST THEN?
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- "FOREVER ACCORDING TO
THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK."
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SO IF HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST
FOREVER AND WE JUST READ THAT WE
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WILL BE PRIESTS AND KINGS WITH
HIM AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT EVEN
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BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM - EVEN
BEYOND SIN BEING DEALT WITH -
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THEN HOW LONG ARE
WE PRIESTS? FOREVER.
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SO WHAT IS THE WORK OF A PRIEST?
IS IT TO JUST CONSTANTLY BE
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OFFERING BLOOD, OR
IT IS ALSO TO PROCLAIM?
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DIDN'T WE JUST READ 'TO PROCLAIM
THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HAS
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CALLED US OUT OF DARKNESS
INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT.'
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WHY DID THE
LEVITES GET TEN PERCENT?
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WHY DID THEY GET THE
TITHE? WHAT WAS THEIR WORK?
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WERE THEY TO DO
ANYTHING IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT?
00:17:35.73\00:17:38.43
THE LEVITES DIDN'T ALL OFFER
SACRIFICE, THAT WAS THE SONS OF
00:17:38.43\00:17:41.33
AARON, BUT ALL THE LEVITES
RECEIVED OF THE TITHE BECAUSE
00:17:41.33\00:17:44.86
THEY HAD A JOB TO DO, ALONG WITH
THE CHILDREN OF AARON, TO GO AND
00:17:44.86\00:17:48.80
TO TEACH AND TO
PREACH THE THINGS OF GOD.
00:17:48.80\00:17:52.50
WILL WE HAVE A WORK TO
DO AS AMBASSADORS FOR GOD
00:17:52.50\00:17:55.93
THROUGH ETERNITY?
00:17:55.93\00:17:57.76
ARE WE GOING TO BE PROCLAIMING
THE PRAISES OF THE ONE WHO SAVED
00:17:57.76\00:18:01.93
US - AMONG UNFALLEN WORLDS
AND ANGELS - THROUGH ETERNITY?
00:18:01.93\00:18:06.36
SO IN THAT RESPECT WE'RE GOING
TO CONTINUE WITH SOME OF THE
00:18:06.36\00:18:09.36
PROCLAMATION PART
OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
00:18:09.36\00:18:12.16
AND WE ARE ALSO THERE TO
REPRESENT GOD. THAT'S ANOTHER
00:18:12.16\00:18:16.50
VERY IMPORTANT PART OF A
PRIEST - TO REPRESENT GOD.
00:18:16.50\00:18:20.23
AND, ALRIGHT, I TELL YOU
WHAT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME -
00:18:20.23\00:18:23.86
WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT MELCHIZEDEK -
00:18:23.86\00:18:26.33
JESUS A PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK.
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 110
00:18:26.33\00:18:30.66
- PSALM 110, VERSE 4.
WHO - SOMEONE GOT THAT VERSE?
00:18:30.66\00:18:34.56
HOLD YOUR HAND UP IF YOU
GOT THAT SLIP OF PAPER WITH A -
00:18:34.56\00:18:38.30
PSALM 110, VERSE 4. I'M
NOT SEEING ANY TAKERS AND
00:18:38.30\00:18:44.16
WE'LL TAKE A VOLUNTEER FROM THE
FLOOR WHO'S WILLING TO READ THAT
00:18:44.16\00:18:46.93
FOR US. WE'VE GOT
A HAND RIGHT BEHIND
00:18:46.93\00:18:49.06
MIKE HERE. HOLD
YOUR HAND UP SO THE
00:18:49.06\00:18:50.56
MICROPHONE PEOPLE
CAN SEE YOU. YOU SEE HER?
00:18:50.56\00:18:53.20
OKAY, WE'LL GET TO
YOU IN JUST A SECOND.
00:18:53.20\00:18:55.03
NOW FIRST, IF WE'RE GOING TO
UNDERSTAND HOW JESUS IS A PRIEST
00:18:55.03\00:18:58.30
LIKE MELCHIZEDEK, WE'VE GOT TO
GO BACK TO THE FIRST MENTION OF
00:18:58.30\00:19:01.66
MELCHIZEDEK.
REVELATION 14:18 - NO, NO -
00:19:01.66\00:19:07.16
GENESIS, SORRY - GENESIS 14:18.
I HAD THE VERSE OF REVELATION
00:19:07.16\00:19:13.30
JUST ABOVE THAT. AND
HERE'S THE EXPERIENCE:
00:19:13.30\00:19:17.00
"THEN MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM
BROUGHT OUT BREAD AND WINE;
00:19:17.00\00:19:20.83
HE WAS THE PRIEST
OF GOD MOST HIGH." -
00:19:20.83\00:19:23.93
NOTICE THAT, HE'S THE PRIEST
OF JEHOVAH - "AND HE BLESSED
00:19:23.93\00:19:28.03
HIM" - BLESSED ABRAHAM - "AND
SAID, 'BLESSED BE ABRAM OF GOD
00:19:28.03\00:19:31.66
MOST HIGH, POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN
AND EARTH AND BLESSED BE GOD
00:19:31.66\00:19:35.63
MOST HIGH WHO HAS DELIVERED
YOUR ENEMIES INTO YOUR HAND.'
00:19:35.63\00:19:38.60
AND HE" - IT'S TELLING
US ABRAHAM - "GAVE HIM" -
00:19:38.60\00:19:43.40
MELCHIZEDEK - "A TITHE
OF ALL." TITHES OF WHAT?
00:19:43.40\00:19:46.90
OF WHAT HE HAD JUST OBTAINED
DURING HIS VICTORY AND BATTLE.
00:19:46.90\00:19:50.26
SO TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND,
LOT AND HIS FAMILY AND THE
00:19:50.26\00:19:55.66
PEOPLE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
ARE CONQUERED IN A WAR BY
00:19:55.66\00:20:00.30
CHEDOLAOMER - THESE FIVE KINGS
OF THE NORTH - THEY COME DOWN,
00:20:00.30\00:20:04.20
THEY FIGHT WITH SODOM AND
GOMORRAH AND FOUR OF THE CITIES
00:20:04.20\00:20:06.56
OF THE PLAIN AND THEY WIN.
THEY PUT THE CITY TO THE TORCH,
00:20:06.56\00:20:11.20
PROBABLY, AND THEY TAKE ALL OF
THE BOUNTY OF THE WAR AND THEY
00:20:11.20\00:20:16.00
CARRY IT UP NORTH. ONE
OF THE PEOPLE COMES AND
00:20:16.00\00:20:19.40
TELLS ABRAHAM,
LOT AND HIS FAMILY
00:20:19.40\00:20:21.63
AND ALL THESE PEOPLE OF SODOM
AND GOMORRAH AND THE CITIES HAVE
00:20:21.63\00:20:24.53
BEEN CONQUERED AND ABRAHAM
PRAYS AND GOD SAYS, YOU KNOW,
00:20:24.53\00:20:28.53
'GO RESCUE THEM.' KIND
OF LIKE GOD TOLD DAVID TO
00:20:28.53\00:20:31.40
GO RESCUE THE
CAPTIVES FROM ZIKLAG.
00:20:31.40\00:20:33.83
AND SO ABRAHAM GETS THE 300
TRAINED SERVANTS IN HIS HOUSE -
00:20:33.83\00:20:37.33
HE'S GOT SERVANTS IN HIS HOUSE
THAT ARE ACTUALLY TRAINED FOR
00:20:37.33\00:20:39.26
WAR - ABRAHAM HAD A VERY BIG
HOUSEHOLD - AND HE GETS TOGETHER
00:20:39.26\00:20:42.93
WITH MAMRE AND SOME OF THE OTHER
POWERFUL SHEIKS IN HIS COUNTRY.
00:20:42.93\00:20:46.33
THEY ALL GO TOGETHER AND THEY
FIGHT AGAINST THESE KINGS FROM
00:20:46.33\00:20:50.26
DAMASCUS AND
THEY'RE CELEBRATING.
00:20:50.26\00:20:53.10
THEY WERE NOT PREPARED TO BE
ATTACKED AND THEY'RE OVERCOME.
00:20:53.10\00:20:56.93
ABRAHAM AND HIS FORCES ATTACK
THEM BY NIGHT AND THEY WIN.
00:20:56.93\00:21:00.36
THEY BRING BACK NOT ONLY LOT AND
HIS FAMILY BUT THEY GET ALL OF
00:21:00.36\00:21:03.76
THE POSSESSIONS THAT THESE KINGS
HAD ACQUIRED IN THEIR RAIDS AND
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.40
IT'S A GREAT BOUNTY -
JUST CAMELS LADEN WITH
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.80
GOLD AND TREASURE.
00:21:09.80\00:21:12.53
AND ABRAHAM SAYS, 'LOOK,
I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE FOR MYSELF
00:21:12.53\00:21:15.36
ANYTHING - JUST WHAT BELONGS TO
THE SOLDIERS FOR THEIR RIGHTS OF
00:21:15.36\00:21:19.83
WAR - BUT I'M GOING TO TAKE TEN
PERCENT OF ALL THIS BOUNTY OF
00:21:19.83\00:21:24.16
THE VICTORY AND I'M GOING TO
GIVE IT TO THE HIGH PRIEST OF
00:21:24.16\00:21:28.26
THE COUNTRY, WHO SERVES THE
TRUE GOD, NAMED MELCHIZEDEK.
00:21:28.26\00:21:32.60
NOW MELCHIZEDEK IS MUCH DEBATED
AND MANY BELIEVE THIS IS A REAL
00:21:32.60\00:21:37.86
MYSTERY, BUT HE'S A TYPE
OF CHRIST AND - GO AHEAD,
00:21:37.86\00:21:41.36
READ FOR US. I THINK
I GAVE YOU PSALMS 110,
00:21:41.36\00:21:44.33
VERSE 4. READ
THAT FOR US AND YOU'LL
00:21:44.33\00:21:46.40
UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S REFERRED
TO A LOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:21:46.40\00:21:50.16
>>"THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL
NOT RELENT, 'YOU ARE A PRIEST
00:21:50.16\00:21:54.96
FOREVER ACCORDING TO
THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.'"
00:21:54.96\00:21:58.06
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
00:21:58.06\00:21:59.43
THE WORD MELCHIZEDEK HAS A KEY
RIGHT IN THE WORD THAT TELLS US
00:21:59.43\00:22:02.80
SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THIS
KING/PRIEST IS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:22:02.80\00:22:07.10
THE WORD MELCHIZEDEK
MEANS 'KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS'.
00:22:07.10\00:22:10.93
WELL, RIGHT AWAY, JESUS
IS OUR KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.16
BUT THEN, IF YOU LOOK IN HEBREWS
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 9 AND IT SAYS,
00:22:13.16\00:22:20.96
SALVATION TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM,
CALLED BY GOD AS HIGH PRIEST
00:22:20.96\00:22:25.73
'ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF
MELCHIZEDEK' OF WHOM WE HAVE
00:22:25.73\00:22:29.36
MUCH TO SAY," - AND YOU READ
THROUGH HEBREWS AND PAUL HAS A
00:22:29.36\00:22:32.30
LOT TO SAY ABOUT MELCHIZEDEK -
"AND HARD TO EXPLAIN, SINCE YOU
00:22:32.30\00:22:36.23
HAVE BECOME DULL OF HEARING."
PAUL IS BASICALLY SAYING TO THE
00:22:36.23\00:22:40.66
HEBREWS HE'S WRITING TO, 'YOU
NEED TO BE ABLE TO PUT ON YOUR
00:22:40.66\00:22:44.00
SPIRITUAL THINKING CAP TO
UNDERSTAND THIS - THAT CHRIST IS
00:22:44.00\00:22:48.00
A HIGH PRIEST, NOT AFTER THE
ORDER SO MUCH OF AARON AS MUCH
00:22:48.00\00:22:53.16
AS THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK,
BECAUSE WAY BACK WHEN GOD CALLED
00:22:53.16\00:22:57.60
ABRAHAM, MELCHIZEDEK
WAS ALREADY A HIGH PRIEST.
00:22:57.60\00:23:02.33
NOW, WHEN GOD CALLED ABRAHAM,
THERE WAS A SPECIFIC PEOPLE.
00:23:02.33\00:23:05.50
BUT MELCHIZEDEK WAS A HIGH
PRIEST BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS EVEN
00:23:05.50\00:23:07.96
CALLED AS A SPECIFIC PEOPLE,
MEANING HE WAS A PRIEST OF GOD
00:23:07.96\00:23:11.53
TO ALL PEOPLE BACK THEN.
HE APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE.
00:23:11.53\00:23:16.46
THE BIBLE SAYS - YOU CAN
READ, FOR INSTANCE, HEBREWS 7 -
00:23:16.46\00:23:19.66
ANOTHER ONE - HEBREWS 7, VERSE
1, "FOR THIS MELCHIZEDEK, KING
00:23:19.66\00:23:23.10
OF SALEM, PRIEST OF THE
MOST HIGH GOD, WHO MET ABRAHAM
00:23:23.10\00:23:26.06
RETURNING FROM THE SLAUGHTER
OF THE KINGS AND BLESSED HIM, TO
00:23:26.06\00:23:29.76
WHOM ALSO ABRAHAM GAVE A
TENTH PART OF ALL, FIRST BEING
00:23:29.76\00:23:32.83
TRANSLATED 'KING OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS,' AND THEN ALSO
00:23:32.83\00:23:37.53
KING OF" - LET ME SEE
HERE, I MESSED UP - "'KING OF
00:23:37.53\00:23:46.96
PEACE,' WITHOUT FATHER, WITHOUT
MOTHER, WITHOUT GENEALOGY,
00:23:46.96\00:23:50.56
HAVING NEITHER BEGINNING OF DAYS
NOR END OF LIFE, BUT MADE LIKE
00:23:50.56\00:23:54.66
THE SON OF GOD,
REMAINS A PRIEST CONTINUALLY.
00:23:54.66\00:23:58.73
NOW CONSIDER HOW GREAT THIS MAN
WAS, TO WHOM EVEN THE PATRIARCH
00:23:58.73\00:24:02.96
ABRAHAM GAVE A
TENTH OF THE SPOILS."
00:24:02.96\00:24:05.16
ALRIGHT, SOME SAY, BECAUSE
IT SAYS THAT MELCHIZEDEK WAS
00:24:05.16\00:24:09.43
WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, THAT
HE WAS ETERNAL - HE DIDN'T DIE -
00:24:09.43\00:24:14.10
AND THAT MELCHIZEDEK WAS REALLY
THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT ABRAHAM
00:24:14.10\00:24:17.30
PAID TITHES TO. NO,
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
00:24:17.30\00:24:20.73
I BELIEVE
MELCHIZEDEK WAS A REAL PERSON.
00:24:20.73\00:24:22.90
THE REASON IT SAYS 'WITHOUT
BEGINNING OF DAYS' - IT'S JUST
00:24:22.90\00:24:25.43
SAYING THAT HE HAS NO GENEALOGY.
YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY, WHEN
00:24:25.43\00:24:29.80
SOMEONE APPEARS IN THE BIBLE IT
TELLS WHAT PEOPLE THEY COME FROM
00:24:29.80\00:24:32.50
AND MOST OF THE PROMINENT PEOPLE
MENTIONED CAN BE TRACED TO SOME
00:24:32.50\00:24:36.13
NATION OR GENEALOGY THAT
YOU FIND THERE IN GENESIS.
00:24:36.13\00:24:40.03
BUT HERE MELCHIZEDEK APPEARS,
APPARENTLY OUT OF NOWHERE, HE'S
00:24:40.03\00:24:44.13
CALLED 'THE KING OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS' AND THERE'S BEEN
00:24:44.13\00:24:47.16
A LOT OF
SPECULATION ABOUT 'WHO IS HE?'
00:24:47.16\00:24:49.73
NOW, I'LL TELL YOU ONE
THEORY THAT'S VERY INTERESTING
00:24:49.73\00:24:52.03
AND IT DOES KIND OF WORK.
00:24:52.03\00:24:53.93
AND I'M NOT TOTALLY SUBSCRIBING
TO THIS BUT MANY HAVE WONDERED
00:24:53.93\00:24:57.76
IF MELCHIZEDEK WAS SHEM
- SHEM, THE SON OF NOAH.
00:24:57.76\00:25:03.63
ARE YOU AWARE THAT MELCHIZEDEK,
IN THIS BATTLE WITH THE KINGS,
00:25:03.63\00:25:07.66
THIS ALL TAKES PLACE IN ABOUT
1855 BC AND SHEM WAS STILL ALIVE
00:25:07.66\00:25:15.40
THEN. MATTER OF FACT,
SHEM LIVED ANOTHER 45 OR 50
00:25:15.40\00:25:17.90
YEARS BEYOND THAT.
00:25:17.90\00:25:20.40
AND THE THEORY IS THAT AFTER
ABRAM, BECAUSE OF THE IDOLATRY
00:25:20.40\00:25:25.43
THAT HAD COME IN AROUND THE
TOWER OF BABEL AND AMONG THE
00:25:25.43\00:25:28.43
PEOPLE THERE, WHEN GOD CALLED
HIM OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES,
00:25:28.43\00:25:31.86
SHEM WAS STILL ALIVE, AS WERE
HIS BROTHERS, AND NOAH WAS EVEN
00:25:31.86\00:25:36.26
ALIVE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, UP
TO THE TOWER OF BABEL, AND WHEN
00:25:36.26\00:25:41.46
NOAH LEFT AND TEREH LEFT AND
THEY WENT TO HERON, IT WASN'T
00:25:41.46\00:25:46.00
LONG AFTER THAT THEN, THINGS
GOT SO BAD THAT SHEM SAID, 'I'VE
00:25:46.00\00:25:49.70
HEARD THAT GOD HAS CALLED ABRAM
TO THIS LAND OF CANAAN WHERE
00:25:49.70\00:25:54.20
HE'S GOING TO BE ESTABLISHED.
00:25:54.20\00:25:56.26
I'M GOING TO FOLLOW HIM.'
AND SO SHEM CAME WITH HIS FAMILY
00:25:56.26\00:26:00.70
AND THEY MOVED TO A COUNTRY
CALLED SALEM, WHICH LATER IS
00:26:00.70\00:26:04.60
KNOWN AS JERUSHALOM -
IT JUST MEANS 'PEACE'.
00:26:04.60\00:26:08.30
THIS IS WHERE JERUSALEM WAS
LATER SITUATED AND HE'S A TYPE
00:26:08.30\00:26:12.73
OF CHRIST. NOW, HE
WOULD HAVE BEEN IN HIS
00:26:12.73\00:26:15.70
500TH YEAR, BUT
HE LIVED 600 YEARS.
00:26:15.70\00:26:19.53
WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN A WORSHIPER
OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, LIVING
00:26:19.53\00:26:24.60
AMONG THE CANAANITES,
THAT ABRAHAM WOULD HAVE SEEN AS
00:26:24.60\00:26:33.50
SCONFIDENT THAT THAT TITHE WAS
GOING TO THE PRIEST OF THE MOST
00:26:33.50\00:26:37.50
HIGH GOD. PRIESTS WERE
TYPICALLY THE HEADS OF FAMILIES.
00:26:37.50\00:26:45.10
WHO WAS THE PRIEST FOR
THE FAMILY OF JOB? JOB WAS.
00:26:45.10\00:26:49.40
AND WHO WAS THE PRIEST FOR
THE FAMILY OF JACOB? JACOB WAS.
00:26:49.40\00:26:53.00
JACOB SAID, 'LET US GO TO BETHEL
AND WE'LL OFFER SACRIFICE.'
00:26:53.00\00:26:55.16
WHO OFFERED SACRIFICE?
00:26:55.16\00:26:56.30
THE HIGH PRIEST FOR THE
FAMILY WAS THE PATRIARCH.
00:26:56.30\00:27:00.13
SO THIS IS AN AGED
PATRIARCH - MELCHIZEDEK.
00:27:00.13\00:27:05.56
DON'T KNOW, CAN'T PROVE IT -
IT COULD BE THAT ONE - YOU KNOW,
00:27:05.56\00:27:08.33
SOMETIMES BIBLE CHARACTERS
HAD MORE THAN ONE NAME THAT WERE
00:27:08.33\00:27:10.43
DESCRIPTIVE AND HIM BEING CALLED
'KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS' - I
00:27:10.43\00:27:13.50
MEAN, HERE'S SOMEBODY THAT LIVED
AND SAW THE WORLD BEFORE THE
00:27:13.50\00:27:17.73
FLOOD AND THE FACT THAT SHEM WAS
STILL ALIVE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN
00:27:17.73\00:27:21.90
LOOKED UPON AS THE
PATRIARCH OF PATRIARCHS.
00:27:21.90\00:27:25.36
AND HIS BROTHERS MAY
HAVE STAYED IN MESOPOTAMIA.
00:27:25.36\00:27:28.40
THE LINE OF JESUS CAME THROUGH
SHEM. COULD HAVE BEEN SHEM.
00:27:28.40\00:27:31.93
I DON'T KNOW, I'M JUST SAYING
THAT'S AN INTERESTING THEORY.
00:27:31.93\00:27:33.83
AND HE PROBABLY DIED ABOUT
1796 BC NEAR AS WE CAN TELL.
00:27:33.83\00:27:38.66
BY THE WAY, I'VE MENTIONED THIS
BEFORE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO SEE
00:27:38.66\00:27:42.20
SOME OF THESE DATES AND AGES AND
HOW THEY OVERLAP, AMAZING FACTS
00:27:42.20\00:27:45.70
SPENT ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF
DEVELOPING AN INTERNET TIMELINE.
00:27:45.70\00:27:50.56
IT'S FREE - IT'S FOR BIBLE
STUDY AND IT SHOWS ALL THE BIBLE
00:27:50.56\00:27:53.70
CHARACTERS AND BIBLE HISTORY ON
A TIMELINE AND HOW THE PROMINENT
00:27:53.70\00:27:56.83
CHARACTERS THEIR LIVES
OVERLAPPED AND IT'S ON A GRAPH
00:27:56.83\00:27:59.36
THAT YOU CAN MOVE BACK
AND FORTH. IT'S REALLY NEAT.
00:27:59.36\00:28:01.30
IT SHOWS THE TIMES AND THE AGES
AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THAT
00:28:01.30\00:28:04.00
IT'S JUST - GO TO
'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'.
00:28:04.00\00:28:06.00
IT'S REALLY EASY -
'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' AND YOU'LL
00:28:06.00\00:28:08.56
SEE HOW THE LIFE OF SHEM
OVERLAPPED WITH THE LIFE OF
00:28:08.56\00:28:11.43
ABRAM. SO HE COULD HAVE
BEEN MELCHIZEDEK. LOOK AT THE -
00:28:11.43\00:28:14.46
LOOK AT THE CLUES NOW
ABOUT HOW HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:28:14.46\00:28:20.36
IT SAYS, 'WITHOUT BEGINNING
OF DAYS' - WELL HIS GENEALOGY IS
00:28:20.36\00:28:24.13
NOT MENTIONED. THE
BIBLE SAYS JESUS IS FROM
00:28:24.13\00:28:27.03
EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING.
IS JESUS OUR KING OF
00:28:27.03\00:28:30.16
RIGHTEOUSNESS? THAT'S
WHAT MELCHIZEDEK MEANS.
00:28:30.16\00:28:33.00
IS HE OUR KING
OF PEACE? ISN'T HE?
00:28:33.00\00:28:36.73
WHAT DOES MELCHIZEDEK DO
WHEN ABRAHAM COMES TO HIM?
00:28:36.73\00:28:39.86
HE BRINGS FORTH BREAD AND WINE.
WHAT DID JESUS DO TO SEAL THE
00:28:39.86\00:28:43.43
COVENANT WITH THE APOSTLES
THERE AT THE LAST SUPPER?
00:28:43.43\00:28:46.10
WHAT ARE THE TWO
PRINCIPLE EMBLEMS THAT ARE USED?
00:28:46.10\00:28:48.53
IT'S BREAD AND WINE. IS
JESUS THE KING OF THE EARTHLY
00:28:48.53\00:28:52.63
JERUSALEM OR THE NEW JERUSALEM?
YOU SEE ALL THE PARALLELS THAT
00:28:52.63\00:28:58.20
WE SEE. AND
HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST,
00:28:58.20\00:29:00.96
NOT FOR JUST ONE TRIBE OR
ONE PEOPLE, BUT FOR ALL PEOPLE.
00:29:00.96\00:29:04.50
AND SO HE'S COMPARED TO A
HIGH PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK.
00:29:04.50\00:29:10.23
ALRIGHT, MOVING ALONG HERE, IF
WE LOOK IN - ANOTHER EXAMPLE -
00:29:10.23\00:29:21.76
LIKE HIS BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT
BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH
00:29:21.76\00:29:25.90
PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING
TO GOD, TO MAKE PROPITIATION FOR
00:29:25.90\00:29:30.20
THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE.
00:29:30.20\00:29:31.73
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HAS
SUFFERED, BEING TEMPTED, HE IS
00:29:31.73\00:29:35.13
ABLE TO AID
THOSE WHO ARE TEMPTED."
00:29:35.13\00:29:37.80
SOMETHING ELSE WE LEARN
ABOUT THE HIGH PRIEST - THE HIGH
00:29:37.80\00:29:41.40
PRIEST WAS MADE
FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:29:41.40\00:29:45.10
IT'S UNUSUAL TO HAVE A HIGH
PRIEST WHO COMES FROM ANOTHER
00:29:45.10\00:29:49.50
PEOPLE AND ANOTHER COUNTRY
TO SAY, 'I'M GOING TO BE PRIEST
00:29:49.50\00:29:53.03
OVER YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR
COUNTRY. THE HIGH PRIEST USUALLY
00:29:53.03\00:29:56.00
CAN RELATE TO THE PEOPLE.
HE'S TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
00:29:56.00\00:29:58.96
HE'S TO MEDIATE
AMONG THE PEOPLE.
00:29:58.96\00:30:00.63
HE COMES FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE.
DOES JESUS KNOW HOW WE FEEL?
00:30:00.63\00:30:05.80
IS HE A HIGH PRIEST WHO IS ABLE
TO SYMPATHIZE AND EMPATHIZE WITH
00:30:05.80\00:30:10.03
WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH?
SOMEONE READ FOR ME HEBREWS
00:30:10.03\00:30:12.66
4:15. WHO HAS THAT?
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:30:12.66\00:30:17.26
HEBREWS 4:15 AND THEY'LL LET ME
KNOW WHEN WE'RE READY FOR THAT.
00:30:17.26\00:30:22.73
IN THE MEANTIME, I'M
GOING TO READ HEBREWS 6,
00:30:22.73\00:30:26.10
VERSES 19 AND 20.
00:30:26.10\00:30:27.86
IT SAYS, "THIS HOPE WE HAVE AS
AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, BOTH SURE
00:30:27.86\00:30:33.73
AND STEADFAST, AND WHICH ENTERS
THE PRESENCE BEHIND THE VEIL,
00:30:33.73\00:30:38.73
WHERE THE FORERUNNER HAS ENTERED
FOR US, EVEN JESUS, HAVING
00:30:38.73\00:30:42.16
BECOME HIGH PRIEST
FOREVER" - WE ALREADY READ THIS.
00:30:42.16\00:30:45.40
HIGH PRIEST FOR HOW LONG?
FOREVER - "ACCORDING TO THE
00:30:45.40\00:30:47.63
ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK."
AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL.
00:30:47.63\00:30:51.46
WHAT IS AN ANCHOR USED FOR?
IT'S SOMETHING THAT SECURES.
00:30:51.46\00:30:56.23
IT'S SOMETHING
YOU CAN TIE OFF TO.
00:30:56.23\00:30:59.03
AND BECAUSE JESUS IS IN THE VERY
PRESENCE OF THE FATHER AND HE IS
00:30:59.03\00:31:02.73
OUR FRIEND, WE CAN
TIE OUR FAITH ON CHRIST.
00:31:02.73\00:31:06.60
ALRIGHT, I THINK
WE'RE READY. HEBREWS 4:15.
00:31:06.60\00:31:10.56
>>"FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH
PRIEST WHO CANNOT SYMPATHIZE
00:31:10.56\00:31:13.73
WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WAS
IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED AS WE ARE,
00:31:13.73\00:31:18.10
YET WITHOUT SIN."
00:31:18.10\00:31:20.70
>>CAN JESUS BE A
SYMPATHETIC HIGH PRIEST?
00:31:20.70\00:31:24.43
DOES HE KNOW HOW WE FEEL?
00:31:24.43\00:31:27.56
WAS HE TEMPTED IN ALL
POINTS AS WE ARE TEMPTED?
00:31:27.56\00:31:30.70
CAN YOU EVER SAY, 'LORD,
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE BEEN
00:31:30.70\00:31:34.00
THROUGH?' YOU
KNOW, JESUS KNOWS HOW YOU
00:31:34.00\00:31:38.73
FEEL AND HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN IF
HE HAD NEVER EVEN COME TO EARTH
00:31:38.73\00:31:41.96
AND LIVED AS A MAN BECAUSE
JUST BY VIRTUE OF BEING GOD, GOD
00:31:41.96\00:31:45.26
KNOWS EVERYTHING, RIGHT?
00:31:45.26\00:31:47.36
SO THERE'S NOTHING
THAT JESUS DOESN'T KNOW.
00:31:47.36\00:31:49.50
BUT ONE REASON THAT HE WAS
TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS AS WE HAVE
00:31:49.50\00:31:52.93
BEEN IS SO WE WILL
KNOW THAT HE KNOWS.
00:31:52.93\00:31:58.10
IT HELPS US SAY, 'I REALLY KNOW
THAT HE KNOWS BECAUSE HE WAS ONE
00:31:58.10\00:32:01.16
OF US. HE LIVED AS US.' WE
CAN NEVER WAG OUR FINGERS AT
00:32:01.16\00:32:06.16
GOD AND SAY, 'YOU HAVE NO IDEA
BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A HUMAN.'
00:32:06.16\00:32:09.66
BUT HE DOES KNOW.
00:32:09.66\00:32:11.63
HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN EITHER WAY
BECAUSE HE'S GOD, BUT HE DOES
00:32:11.63\00:32:14.56
KNOW AND HE WAS TEMPTED
IN ALL POINTS LIKE WE ARE.
00:32:14.56\00:32:17.36
NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, JESUS
WAS NEVER TEMPTED WITH HEROIN OR
00:32:17.36\00:32:20.46
CIGARETTES.' WELL,
TEMPTATION REALLY FALLS
00:32:20.46\00:32:24.10
UNDER THREE CATEGORIES: YOU'VE
GOT THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND
00:32:24.10\00:32:28.20
THE LUST OF THE EYES
AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE.
00:32:28.20\00:32:30.26
THOSE THREE TEMPTATIONS
THAT JESUS EXPERIENCED IN THE
00:32:30.26\00:32:32.93
WILDERNESS, THEY COVERED THE
WHOLE SPECTRUM OF TEMPTATION.
00:32:32.93\00:32:36.73
AND THOSE WERE NOT THE ONLY
TIMES THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM.
00:32:36.73\00:32:38.93
JESUS WAS HOUNDED BY THE
DEVIL ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE.
00:32:38.93\00:32:41.80
HE WAS TEMPTED IN
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
00:32:41.80\00:32:43.90
BY THE WAY, IS IT A SIN TO BE
TEMPTED? NO, WE'RE ALL TEMPTED.
00:32:43.90\00:32:48.56
GIVING IN TO TEMPTATION
IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
00:32:48.56\00:32:51.40
SO WE HAVE A HIGH
PRIEST WHO'S ON OUR SIDE.
00:32:51.40\00:32:53.90
SO WHEN HE GOES BEFORE THE
FATHER AND WE PRAY IN HIS NAME,
00:32:53.90\00:32:57.36
IS HE ABLE TO BE A FAITHFUL
ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR FOR US?
00:32:57.36\00:33:03.13
THAT'S OUR NEXT SECTION:
'ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR'.
00:33:03.13\00:33:05.76
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 JOHN
2, VERSES 1 AND 2. OKAY, MIKE
00:33:05.76\00:33:11.36
HAS THAT RIGHT DOWN IN FRONT.
WE'LL GET YOU THE MICROPHONE.
00:33:11.36\00:33:13.70
AND IN THE MEANTIME I'M
GOING TO READ ROMANS 8:31.
00:33:13.70\00:33:18.06
'JESUS OUR
ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR'.
00:33:18.06\00:33:21.66
"WHAT THEN SHALL WE
SAY TO THESE THINGS?
00:33:21.66\00:33:23.86
IF GOD IS FOR US,
WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?
00:33:23.86\00:33:30.50
ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM
ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?
00:33:30.50\00:33:35.16
WHO SHALL BRING A
CHARGE AGAINST GOD'S ELECT?
00:33:35.16\00:33:37.70
IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES.
WHO IS HE WHO CONDEMNS?
00:33:37.70\00:33:40.70
IT IS CHRIST WHO DIED, AND
FURTHERMORE IS ALSO RISEN, WHO
00:33:40.70\00:33:44.30
IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF
GOD, WHO ALSO MAKES INTERCESSION
00:33:44.30\00:33:48.36
FOR US." YOU KNOW, IT'S
SOMETIMES SAID, 'IT'S NOT WHAT
00:33:48.36\00:33:53.06
YOU KNOW IT'S WHO YOU KNOW.'
AND WE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW,
00:33:53.06\00:33:58.46
IF YOU GET A SPEEDING TICKET AND
THEN YOU'RE FORGIVEN BECAUSE YOU
00:33:58.46\00:34:03.93
KNOW SOMEBODY IN THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR YOU KNOW
00:34:03.93\00:34:06.53
THE JUDGE OR YOU KNOW SOMEBODY
IN THE DMV, THAT'S JUST NOT
00:34:06.53\00:34:09.66
FAIR. AND SO WE DON'T LIKE THAT
IDEA 'IT'S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW
00:34:09.66\00:34:13.06
IT'S WHO YOU KNOW.' WE
SAY, 'WE WANT JUSTICE.'
00:34:13.06\00:34:16.13
BUT ALL OF US LIKE IT WHEN WE DO
KNOW SOMEBODY THAT CAN HELP US
00:34:16.13\00:34:20.66
WITH A SITUATION. OR
MAYBE YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO
00:34:20.66\00:34:23.36
KNOW - YOU'RE TRYING TO GET
THE ATTENTION OF SOMEONE IN HIGH
00:34:23.36\00:34:25.96
PLACES TO GET HIM TO INVEST IN
A PROJECT OR TO REPRESENT YOU OR
00:34:25.96\00:34:30.66
YOU WANT TO APPEAL FOR
A RAISE OR WHATEVER IT IS.
00:34:30.66\00:34:32.93
KNOWING SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE
BOSS OR KNOWS THE OWNER OR KNOWS
00:34:32.93\00:34:36.86
THE GOVERNOR - IT'S ALWAYS KIND
OF NICE WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEONE
00:34:36.86\00:34:39.63
WHO KNOWS SOMEONE REALLY
IMPORTANT AND THEY CAN BRING
00:34:39.63\00:34:42.30
YOUR CASE BEFORE
THAT PERSON, RIGHT?
00:34:42.30\00:34:45.53
UNFORTUNATELY, EVERYBODY KNOWS,
IN AMERICAN POLITICS, IT'S NOT
00:34:45.53\00:34:52.06
JUST WHAT YOU KNOW IT'S WHO YOU
KNOW AND HOW MUCH YOU DONATE TO
00:34:52.06\00:34:55.90
THEIR CAMPAIGN FUND. AND
BY DONATION YOU GET TO KNOW
00:34:55.90\00:35:00.23
THEM AND THEY'LL REPRESENT YOU.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT'S NOT TRUE
00:35:00.23\00:35:04.20
BUT I THINK EVERYONE
HERE KNOWS IT IS TRUE.
00:35:04.20\00:35:07.66
WELL, HERE WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT
KNOWS THE FATHER THAT LOVES US.
00:35:07.66\00:35:15.60
IT'S NICE TO HAVE
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.
00:35:15.60\00:35:18.46
DO WE HAVE A FRIEND
IN THE HIGH PLACE? WE DO.
00:35:18.46\00:35:22.66
AND SO, HE IS
THERE TO REPRESENT US.
00:35:22.66\00:35:24.96
AND SO, WHEN OTHERS ARE
CONDEMNING AND ACCUSING AND
00:35:24.96\00:35:27.20
POINTING FINGERS, HOW DOES JESUS
FEEL ABOUT THAT IF YOU BELONG TO
00:35:27.20\00:35:30.43
HIM? DOES THE
LORD DEFEND HIS OWN?
00:35:30.43\00:35:34.36
NOW DON'T GIVE THE DEVIL A
REASON TO POINT HIS FINGER.
00:35:34.36\00:35:39.20
BUT LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE
QUICKLY FROM THE BIBLE. WHEN
00:35:39.20\00:35:41.93
MARY MAGDALENE - WE'RE ASSUMING
IT WAS MARY - THAT WOMAN THAT
00:35:41.93\00:35:45.60
WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF
ADULTERY - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - AND
00:35:45.60\00:35:49.36
SHE'S BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE
AND ALL THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
00:35:49.36\00:35:51.70
BEGIN TO POINT THEIR FINGERS AND
ACCUSE HER AND SAY SHE SHOULD BE
00:35:51.70\00:35:54.26
STONED. HOW DOES
JESUS FEEL ABOUT THAT?
00:35:54.26\00:35:59.13
HE SEES MARY IS SORRY, SHE'S
REPENTANT, SHE'S TERRIFIED AND
00:35:59.13\00:36:02.33
HE BECOMES, REALLY,
JESUS BECOMES A DEFENDER OF THE
00:36:02.33\00:36:05.96
DEFENSELESS IN THAT STORY
AND HE BEGINS TO WRITE DOWN
00:36:05.96\00:36:09.16
THE SINS OF HER ACCUSERS.
00:36:09.16\00:36:11.86
THE LORD DOESN'T LIKE WHEN
PEOPLE ARE ACCUSING OTHERS.
00:36:11.86\00:36:15.96
THE DEVIL IS CALLED THE
ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.
00:36:15.96\00:36:19.23
AND GRADUALLY, ONE
BY ONE, THEY ALL GO OUT.
00:36:19.23\00:36:21.60
AND HE SAYS, 'WOMAN,
WHERE ARE YOU ACCUSERS?
00:36:21.60\00:36:23.36
HAS NO MAN CONDEMNED
YOU?' SHE SAID, 'NO MAN LORD.'
00:36:23.36\00:36:25.86
HE SAID, 'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN
YOU. GO AND SIN NO MORE.'
00:36:25.86\00:36:29.26
THE LORD WAS NOT MAKING AN
EXCUSE FOR SIN, BUT HE ALSO MADE
00:36:29.26\00:36:32.66
IT CLEAR HE
DOESN'T WANT TO CONDEMN.
00:36:32.66\00:36:35.10
'HE THAT SPARED NOT HIS
OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US.
00:36:35.10\00:36:39.66
HOW MUCH SHALL HE NOT ALSO WITH
HIM FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?'
00:36:39.66\00:36:43.96
SO NOT ONLY DOES HE WANT TO
FORGIVE US, HE'S GIVEN HIS SON
00:36:43.96\00:36:46.86
THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED. HOW MUCH
DOES GOD WANT US TO BE SAVED?
00:36:46.86\00:36:50.50
SO OFTEN I MEET PEOPLE,
ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND
00:36:50.50\00:36:52.90
THEY THINK, 'OH, MAN, I'M
SUCH A MESS. I FALL SO MUCH.
00:36:52.90\00:36:55.70
I DON'T KNOW HOW
GOD COULD EVER SAVE ME.'
00:36:55.70\00:36:58.03
AND I SAY, 'WELL DO YOU THINK
THAT THE LORD WOULD GIVE SO MUCH
00:36:58.03\00:37:00.66
TO SAVE SOMETHING
THAT COULDN'T BE SAVED?'
00:37:00.66\00:37:03.43
I MEAN, WE'LL ALL MAKE - WE'LL
TAKE A RISK AND WE'LL INVEST AND
00:37:03.43\00:37:09.20
MAKE A SACRIFICE IF WE
THINK IT'LL DO SOME GOOD.
00:37:09.20\00:37:12.26
BUT IF WE THINK IT'S HOPELESS,
WHO WANTS TO WASTE THEIR MONEY?
00:37:12.26\00:37:15.96
WOULD GOD HAVE PAID SO MUCH
AND GIVEN SO MUCH IF IT WASN'T
00:37:15.96\00:37:18.83
POSSIBLE FOR YOU
TO BE SAVED? WOULD HE?
00:37:18.83\00:37:22.23
WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR SON AS A
SACRIFICE IF IT WASN'T POSSIBLE
00:37:22.23\00:37:25.60
TO SAVE WHAT YOU'RE SACRIFICING
HIM FOR? SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:37:25.60\00:37:30.56
THE VERY FACT THAT HE MADE SUCH
A BIG SACRIFICE MEANS THERE'S A
00:37:30.56\00:37:33.53
VERY BIG
POSSIBILITY FOR YOU TO BE SAVED.
00:37:33.53\00:37:41.96
MUCH HE GAVE HIS SON AND THE SON
THIS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE
00:37:41.96\00:37:44.00
FATHER INTERCEDING ON OUR
BEHALF, DO WE HAVE A LOT GOING
00:37:44.00\00:37:47.06
FOR US? THEN IF WE'LL COOPERATE
- THAT'S WHERE WE GET SCARED.
00:37:47.06\00:37:51.90
WHAT ABOUT ME? WE'RE THE
WEAK LINK IN THE CHAIN, RIGHT?
00:37:51.90\00:37:55.30
IF WE'LL COOPERATE WITH JESUS
WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN
00:37:55.30\00:37:59.03
PULLING FOR US, AMEN? AND
SO WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT.
00:37:59.03\00:38:03.56
HE'S OUR ADVOCATE.
ALRIGHT, READ THAT VERSE FOR US.
00:38:03.56\00:38:05.93
1 JOHN 2, VERSES 1 AND 2.
00:38:05.93\00:38:08.83
>>1 JOHN 2, VERSES 1 AND 2, "MY
LITTLE CHILDREN, THESE THINGS I
00:38:08.83\00:38:12.80
WRITE TO YOU, SO THAT YOU
MAY NOT SIN. AND IF ANYONE SINS,
00:38:12.80\00:38:17.40
WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE
WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST
00:38:17.40\00:38:20.53
THE RIGHTEOUS.
00:38:20.53\00:38:21.73
AND HE HIMSELF IS THE
PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS, AND
00:38:21.73\00:38:29.90
NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT
ALSO FOR THE WHOLE WORLD."
00:38:29.90\00:38:34.26
>>YEAH, THAT WORD 'PROPITIATION'
AND BOY, I STRUGGLED WITH THAT
00:38:34.26\00:38:36.86
FOR AWHILE BECAUSE WE TYPICALLY
DON'T USE THAT IN OUR MODERN-DAY
00:38:36.86\00:38:39.43
LANGUAGE. IT'S REALLY SAYING
THAT HE IS THE RANSOM - HE IS
00:38:39.43\00:38:44.36
THE SUBSTITUTE FOR OUR SINS AND
NOT JUST FOR OURS, FOR THE WHOLE
00:38:44.36\00:38:48.33
WORLD. CAN YOU THINK, IN THE
BIBLE, OF A STORY OF SOMEONE WHO
00:38:48.33\00:38:52.23
WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR A
KING IN BEHALF OF OTHERS?
00:38:52.23\00:38:59.73
I'VE HEARD THINGS BUT I CAN'T
HEAR WHAT I'M HEARING. ESTHER?
00:38:59.73\00:39:06.46
DID ESTHER GO BEFORE A KING
TO INTERCEDE FOR HER PEOPLE?
00:39:06.46\00:39:11.76
DID SHE DO IT AT GREAT
PERSONAL RISK? WHAT WAS NORMALLY
00:39:11.76\00:39:15.70
THE DECREE FOR SOMEONE WHO
CAME BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED?
00:39:15.70\00:39:19.83
DEATH. SHE PUT HER LIFE ON THE
LINE AS AN ADVOCATE TO APPEAL
00:39:19.83\00:39:24.66
FOR HER PEOPLE. AND DID
THE KING HEAR HER APPEAL?
00:39:24.66\00:39:30.03
HE HELD OUT THE GOLDEN SCEPTER
- WHY? BECAUSE HE LOVED HER.
00:39:30.03\00:39:32.86
DOES GOD THE FATHER LOVE JESUS?
AND IF HE'S APPEALING ON OUR
00:39:32.86\00:39:37.66
BEHALF, DO WE HAVE
A GOOD CHANCE? YES.
00:39:37.66\00:39:41.43
AND HOW
ELOQUENTLY DID ESTHER APPEAL?
00:39:41.43\00:39:44.33
SHE POURED OUT
HER HEART TO THE KING.
00:39:44.33\00:39:46.43
SHE SAID, 'TAKE ME - MAKE US
AS SLAVES, BUT PLEASE SPARE OUR
00:39:46.43\00:39:49.13
LIVES.' AND
JESUS IS PLEADING - AND
00:39:49.13\00:39:51.36
SOMETIMES WE GET THIS PICTURE
AND I PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO
00:39:51.36\00:39:54.83
THE MISCONCEPTION - I THINK WE
ALL DO SOMETIMES - THAT BECAUSE
00:39:54.83\00:39:59.90
JESUS IS PLEADING AND SERVING
AS A MEDIATOR AND AN ADVOCATE
00:39:59.90\00:40:03.56
BEFORE THE FATHER, THAT WE HAVE
THIS PICTURE THAT THE FATHER IS
00:40:03.56\00:40:06.73
UP THERE SAYING,
'LET ME AT 'EM, BOY.
00:40:06.73\00:40:08.33
I CAN'T WAIT TO
DESTROY THOSE SINNERS.
00:40:08.33\00:40:09.80
AH, THEY'RE WICKED AND
I'M GOING TO JUDGE THEM.
00:40:09.80\00:40:11.70
JUST GET OUT OF MY WAY.'
AND JESUS SAID, 'NO FATHER,
00:40:11.70\00:40:14.66
PLEASE.' AND WE
HAVE THIS PICTURE THAT IF
00:40:14.66\00:40:17.20
IT WASN'T FOR JESUS THE
FATHER WOULD ROLL RIGHT OVER US.
00:40:17.20\00:40:20.33
WELL, THE FATHER SORT OF
REPRESENTS JUSTICE BUT DOES THE
00:40:20.33\00:40:28.36
FATHWORLD HE GAVE HIS SON.ESUS?
SO THEY'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
00:40:28.36\00:40:32.00
JESUS SAID 'THE
FATHER HIMSELF LOVES YOU.'
00:40:32.00\00:40:35.30
BUT JUST TO HELP US UNDERSTAND
THAT THERE'S JUSTICE, AND THE
00:40:35.30\00:40:38.66
FATHER IS SITTING THERE AS A
KING THAT NEEDS TO ADMINISTER
00:40:38.66\00:40:41.66
THE JUSTICE AND THE PENALTY FOR
OUR SINS IS DEATH, AND JESUS IS
00:40:41.66\00:40:45.56
PLEADING, AS THE INTERCESSOR,
HIS BLOOD AND THERE YOU'VE GOT
00:40:45.56\00:40:49.43
THE KING'S MERCY. AND SO, JUST
REMEMBER THE FATHER WANTS US
00:40:49.43\00:40:53.36
TO BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN
JUST AS MUCH AS THE SON.
00:40:53.36\00:40:56.56
JESUS IS OUR INTERCESSOR AND
HE IS OUR SUBSTITUTE. ALRIGHT,
00:40:56.56\00:41:02.80
LET'S GO AHEAD AND LOOK
AT 'JESUS AS MEDIATOR' -
00:41:02.80\00:41:07.33
JESUS AS MEDIATOR.
00:41:07.33\00:41:09.30
A MEDIATOR IS SOMEBODY WHO WORKS
WITH BOTH SIDES IN A DISPUTE IN
00:41:09.30\00:41:13.80
AN ATTEMPT TO HELP THEM REACH
AN AGREEMENT. NOW YOU'VE ALREADY
00:41:13.80\00:41:17.26
HEARD ME ALLUDE TO THIS, THAT
WHEN SOMETHING IS MEDIUM IT'S
00:41:17.26\00:41:22.16
KIND OF HALFWAY, AND A MEDIATOR
IS SOMEONE WHO IS BETWEEN
00:41:22.16\00:41:26.53
BOTH PARTIES AND THEY'RE,
OSTENSIBLY, SUPPOSED TO BE
00:41:26.53\00:41:29.13
OBJECTIVE TO HELP BRING
SOME KIND OF RECONCILIATION.
00:41:29.13\00:41:33.80
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE -
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:41:33.80\00:41:36.66
1 TIMOTHY 2, VERSES 3
THROUGH 5. WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
00:41:36.66\00:41:41.80
RICHARD - OVER
HERE - THANK YOU ANDREW.
00:41:41.80\00:41:44.76
AND I'LL BE READING HEBREWS
8, VERSE 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS
00:41:44.76\00:41:50.63
OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT
MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO
00:41:50.63\00:41:53.86
MEDIATOR OF A BETTER
COVENANT, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED
00:41:53.86\00:41:57.50
ON BETTER PROMISES."
00:41:57.50\00:42:00.33
AND THEN WE CAN ALSO READ
HEBREWS 9, VERSE 15, "AND FOR
00:42:00.33\00:42:03.93
THIS REASON HE" - JESUS -
"IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW
00:42:03.93\00:42:07.66
COVENANT, BY MEANS OF
DEATH, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE
00:42:07.66\00:42:10.60
TRANSGRESSIONS UNDER THE FIRST
COVENANT, THAT THOSE WHO ARE
00:42:10.60\00:42:13.70
CALLED MAY RECEIVE THE PROMISE
OF THE ETERNAL INHERITANCE."
00:42:13.70\00:42:18.90
SO HE IS THERE MEDIATING
AND REPRESENTING THAT WE MIGHT
00:42:18.90\00:42:21.76
RECEIVE THAT
ETERNAL INHERITANCE.
00:42:21.76\00:42:24.66
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:42:24.66\00:42:27.20
RICHARD, READ 1 TIMOTHY 2
- WHAT IS IT, 3 THROUGH 5?
00:42:27.20\00:42:31.16
>>"FOR THIS IS GOOD AND
ACCEPTABLE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD
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OUR SAVIOR, WHO DESIRES ALL MEN
TO BE SAVED AND TO COME TO THE
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KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE
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MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND
MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS."
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>>ALRIGHT, SO YOU MEAN WE DON'T
NEED TO GO TO AN EARTHLY PRIEST
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TO MEDIATE AND CONFESS OUR SINS?
HOW MANY MEDIATORS ARE THERE
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BETWEEN GOD AND
MAN? THERE'S ONE.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO
GO THROUGH THE PASTOR.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO
GO THROUGH THE PRIEST.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO
GO THROUGH THE ELDER.
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THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT
SALVATION IS THAT EACH OF US CAN
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MAKE A DIRECT APPROACH TO THE
FATHER BY GOING DIRECTLY TO AND
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THROUGH JESUS.
JESUS IS OUR MEDIATOR.
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NOW WHY DO WE NEED A MEDIATOR?
WHY NOT GO TO THE FATHER
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DIRECTLY? YOU COULDN'T HANDLE
IT. LOOK AT WHEN THAT HAPPENED
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BEFORE. DEUTERONOMY 5 - THIS
IS A GREAT ILLUSTRATION TOO -
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IT'S A BIBLE STORY
- DEUTERONOMY 5:23.
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SO WHEN GOD GIVES THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, YOU HEAR IT BEING
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REPEATED HERE IN DEUTERONOMY 5,
"SO IT WAS, WHEN YOU HEARD THE
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VOICE FROM THE MIDST OF THE
DARKNESS, WHILE THE MOUNTAIN WAS
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BURNING WITH FIRE, THAT YOU CAME
NEAR TO ME, ALL THE HEADS OF
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YOUR TRIBES AND YOUR ELDERS.
AND YOU SAID: 'SURELY THE LORD
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OUR GOD HAS SHOWN US HIS GLORY
AND HIS GREATNESS, AND WE HAVE
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HEARD HIS VOICE FROM THE MIDST
OF THE FIRE. WE HAVE SEEN THIS
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DAY THAT GOD SPEAKS
WITH MAN; YET HE STILL LIVES.
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NOW THEREFORE, WHY SHOULD WE
DIE? FOR THIS GREAT FIRE WILL
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CONSUME US; IF WE HEAR THE VOICE
OF THE LORD OUR GOD ANYMORE,
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THEN WE SHALL DIE."
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
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WHEN GOD DELIVERED THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, THE LORD ENABLED
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THEM TO BARELY SURVIVE HEARING
HIS VOICE - SPEAKING WITH THEM -
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AND THE GLORY THAT THEY SAW
WAS ALL THEIR EYES COULD BARELY
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ENDURE. THEY KNEW IF THEY HEARD
IT MUCH LONGER, IF THEY SAW IT
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MUCH LONGER, IF THEY WERE
IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S GLORY
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MUCH LONGER THEY WOULD DIE.
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THEY COULD NOT SURVIVE IT
BECAUSE GOD IS A HOLY GOD.
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GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE
- THE POWER OF GOD. AND SO,
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YOU AND I CANNOT GO DIRECTLY
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
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OUR SINS HAVE SEPARATED US FROM
GOD AND SO WE NEED A MEDIATOR.
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SO WHAT DID THEY SAY TO MOSES?
IT SAYS, "IF WE HEAR THE VOICE
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OF THE LORD OUR GOD
ANYMORE WE SHALL DIE.
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FOR WHO IS THERE OF ALL FLESH
WHO HAS HEARD THE VOICE OF THE
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LIVING GOD SPEAKING FROM THE
MIDST OF THE FIRE, AS WE HAVE,
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AND LIVED?" THEN THEY
SAID, "YOU GO NEAR AND
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HEAR ALL THAT THE LORD OUR GOD
MAY SAY, AND TELL US ALL THAT
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THE LORD OUR GOD SAYS TO YOU,
AND WE WILL HEAR AND DO IT."
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SO WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO
MOSES? 'LOOK, SOMEHOW YOU'RE
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ABLE TO GO UP AND TALK
TO GOD. YOU'RE A HOLY MAN.
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HE SPOKE TO YOU. HE TOLD
YOU TO BRING US OUT OF EGYPT.'
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THEY SAID, 'YOU BE THE MEDIATOR.
YOU TALK TO GOD AND YOU BRING US
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HIS MESSAGE AND WE'LL DO IT.
YOU NEED TO BE THE GO-BETWEEN.'
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SO MOSES IS A TYPE
OF CHRIST, ISN'T HE?
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MATTER OF FACT MOSES SAID, "THE
LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP" -
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THIS IS DEUTERONOMY 18:15 - "THE
LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR
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YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME" - ONE
OF THE WAYS THAT JESUS IS LIKE
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MOSES IS THAT
HE IS THE MEDIATOR.
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HE'S THE TRANSISTOR THAT
CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH,
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SO TO SPEAK.
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JESUS IS THE LADDER, HE'S THE
BRIDGE - THE CROSS IS A BRIDGE
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THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS
GREAT GULF THAT SEPARATES US
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FROM HEAVEN AND THE CROSS IS THE
BRIDGE THAT WE LAY DOWN AND GO
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ACROSS THAT GULF. AND
SO JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR.
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THAT LADDER THAT JACOB DREAMED
ABOUT, UPON WHICH THE ANGELS
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ASCEND AND
DESCEND, THAT'S CHRIST.
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HE IS THE CONNECTING
LINK BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.
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SO JESUS IS THAT MEDIATOR.
ALRIGHT, AND THEN THE BIBLE ALSO
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TELLS US JESUS IS
THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST.
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HEBREWS 10, VERSES 19 AND
20, "THEREFORE, BRETHREN, HAVING
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BOLDNESS TO ENTER THE HOLIEST BY
THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND
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LIVING WAY WHICH HE CONSECRATED
FOR US, THROUGH THE VEIL, THAT
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IS, HIS FLESH, AND HAVING A HIGH
PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD."
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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO KNOW
THAT JESUS IS THE HIGH PRIEST?
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IN WHAT WAY WAS THE HIGH
PRIEST DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER
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PRIESTS? WERE THERE
PRIVILEGES THAT ONLY
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THE HIGH PRIEST HAD? WHO
COULD ONLY GO INTO THE HOLY
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OF HOLIES ON THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT? THE HIGH PRIEST.
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THE HIGH PRIEST HAD
ACCESS TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD
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THAT WAS THE CLOSEST.
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AND SO WHEN IT TELLS US THAT
JESUS IS NOT ONLY OUR PRIEST
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BUT HE'S OUR HIGH PRIEST,
THAT MEANS THAT HE HAS GOT THE
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MAXIMUM ACCESS TO THE
PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR BEHALF.
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AND SO THAT'S WHY IT'S
IMPORTANT THAT WE REMEMBER THAT.
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THE OTHER PRIESTS, THEY MIGHT GO
INTO THE HOLY PLACE, THEY MIGHT
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MINISTER IN THE COURTYARD, BUT
ONLY THE HIGH PRIEST COULD GO
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RIGHT INTO THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
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YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ELSE,
HISTORICALLY, MANY KINGDOMS OF
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MANY RELIGIONS HAD PRIESTS
AND THEN THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS.
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EGYPT - THEY HAD PRIESTS
AND THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS.
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BAAL - THEY HAD PRIESTS
AND THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS.
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SOMETIMES IT WAS A PRIESTESS,
BUT THERE WAS THE HIGH PRIEST
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AND USUALLY ONE OF THE OTHER
DIFFERENTIATIONS OF THE HIGH
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PRIEST - THEY HAD ACCESS TO THE
MONARCH IN A WAY THAT NO OTHER
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DID. NOT EVERY
PRIEST COULD WALK IN
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AND OUT OF THE
PALACE BEFORE THE KING.
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BUT THE HIGH PRIEST TYPICALLY
HAD ACCESS TO THE KING.
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ANY OF YOU EVER PLAY CHESS?
WHAT PIECES DO YOU HAVE NEXT TO
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THE KING AND THE QUEEN?
THE BISHOPS. THAT'S JUST -
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THEY'RE JUST CONSIDERED ONE OF
THE POWERFUL PIECES AND IT WAS
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RIGHT THERE. AND YOU
CAN SEE ALL THROUGH MANY
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OF THE ANCIENT ARTWORK THAT
YOU HAD THE MONARCH SEATED -
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YOU OFTEN THEN HAD THE PRIEST.
YOU EVER WATCH THE WEDDING IN
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ENGLAND OR A
CORONATION IN ENGLAND?
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WHO OFFICIATES A CORONATION
AND A WEDDING IN ENGLAND?
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ARCHBISHOP - THE
HIGH PRIEST OF ENGLAND.
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AND FOR THE OTHER KINGDOMS, LIKE
FOR CHARLEMAGNE, IT WAS THE POPE
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WHO WOULD OFFICIATE. AND
SO IT WAS THE HIGH PRIEST
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WHO HAD THIS ACCESS TO THE KING.
SO JESUS HAS ACCESS AS THE HIGH
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PRIEST TO THE KING OF
THE UNIVERSE AND ALSO TO THE
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PRESENCE OF GOD
IN THAT SPECIAL WAY.
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SO IT'S GOOD TO KNOW
THAT HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST.
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YOU KNOW, ONE MORE THOUGHT HERE
- I MIGHT HAVE MORE THAN ONE
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THOUGHT, BUT PART OF THE
WORK OF THE PRIEST WAS HE WAS TO
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REPRESENT GOD TO THE PEOPLE.
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WHY DID THE PRIEST
HAVE SPECIAL GARMENTS?
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AND THE PRIEST HAD A MEDALLION
THAT SAID, 'HOLINESS TO THE
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LORD' ABOVE HIS HEAD AND HE
WENT THROUGH A SPECIAL WASHING.
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WAS THE PRIEST SUPPOSED TO ALSO
BE SHOWING US WHAT GOD IS LIKE -
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IN HIS GARMENTS
- IN THE RITUALS?
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IT WAS ALL DESIGNED TO ALSO
TEACH AND REPRESENT SOMETHING
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ABOUT THIS OTHER KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN - SOMETHING ABOUT GOD.
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AND SO CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST
AND WE, AS A NATION OF HIGH
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PRIESTS, YOU CAN ALSO USE THE
WORD - I HAVEN'T USED IT YET -
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AMBASSADOR. A
PRIEST WAS AN AMBASSADOR.
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HE WAS THERE TO
REPRESENT ANOTHER KINGDOM.
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AND, YOU KNOW, THE TEMPLE,
TO SOME EXTENT, WAS AN EMBASSY.
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THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH
WAS SOMETHING LIKE AN EMBASSY.
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WHEN YOU ENTERED IT YOU ENTERED,
REALLY, THE ENCLAVE OF ANOTHER
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KINGDOM. NOW YOU
AND I ARE AMBASSADORS.
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LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF
VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT TELL US
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THIS. 2
CORINTHIANS 5:20, "NOW THEN,
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WE ARE
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST." WHY?
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BECAUSE WE ARE A
NATION OF PRIESTS.
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WE ARE TO
REPRESENT ANOTHER KINGDOM.
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I WAS IN WASHINGTON A FEW WEEKS
AGO FOR A CONFERENCE AND THEY
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DROVE US DOWN EMBASSY
ROW. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE?
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THEY HAVE THIS - THIS ONE ROAD -
I DON'T THINK ALL THE EMBASSIES
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ARE THERE, BUT A LOT OF
EMBASSIES ARE THERE AND EACH ONE
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OF THEM ARE LIKE
THESE LITTLE MINI FIEFDOMS.
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THEY'RE LIKE MINI KINGDOMS AND
THEY'VE ALL GOT THEIR UNIQUE -
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YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL SOME OF
THE MIDDLE EASTERN ONES THEY HAD
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ALL THE WORDING IN ARABIC
AND YOU COULD SEE FROM DIFFERENT
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KINGDOMS THEIR FLAGS
FLEW ABOVE THEIR EMBASSY.
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THEIR WALLS AND THEIR
ARCHITECTURE LOOKED VERY
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DIFFERENT - IT
LOOKED LIKE THEIR COUNTRIES.
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AND ONCE YOU WENT THROUGH, AND
THEY'RE OFTEN HIGH SECURITY AND
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THEY'RE GUARDED, AND ONCE
YOU COULD GET INTO THOSE LITTLE
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FORTRESSES - THOSE EMBASSIES -
YOU REALLY WERE UNDER THE RULES
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OF A DIFFERENT KINGDOM. IF
YOU GO OVERSEAS AND YOU CAN
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ENTER AN EMBASSY, WHILE YOU'RE
ON THE GROUNDS OF THAT EMBASSY,
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YOU ARE UNDER THE LAW OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EVEN
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THOUGH THAT EMBASSY MIGHT
BE IN TUNISIA, FOR EXAMPLE.
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OR THAT EMBASSY MIGHT BE IN
ENGLAND OR, YOU KNOW, PICK ANY
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EMBASSIES. I REMEMBER WE WERE
IN CAMEROON, AFRICA AND GOT INTO
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THE HOTEL
ELEVATOR WITH A MARINE.
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AT THAT TIME OUR SON DANIEL WAS
STILL IN THE MARINES, AND HE WAS
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IN HIS DRESS UNIFORM - ALL
THE BUTTONS POLISHED, BLUE -
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VERY SHARP LOOKING - AND SO I
WAS CHATTING WITH HIM A LITTLE
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BIT. HE SAID, 'WE'RE HERE
FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY BANQUET.'
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I SAID, 'SO YOU'RE
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH OF JULY?'
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HE SAYS, 'YES, I'M STATIONED
WITH OUR EMBASSY HERE AND WE
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CELEBRATE ALL THE
HOLIDAYS THAT YOU CELEBRATE.'
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AND SO HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
I'M STATIONED WITH THE EMBASSY.'
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AND, BASICALLY, IT'S LIKE
A LITTLE PIECE OF THE UNITED
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STATES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
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OUR CHURCHES SHOULD OPERATE
A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE EMBASSY.
00:52:11.23\00:52:16.20
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU MEET THESE
PEOPLE WHO ARE AMBASSADORS IN
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WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY ARE
DRESSING IN THE CLOTHES AND
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SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF
THEIR KINGDOM AND THEY ARE TO
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REPRESENT THEIR
KING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
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WE ARE TO BE LIVING LIKE
THE RULES OF OUR KING IN ANOTHER
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COUNTRY, AREN'T WE?
WE ARE TO BE SPEAKING THE
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LANGUAGE AND FOLLOWING
THE LIFESTYLE OF OUR KING.
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LET ME GIVE YOU
SOME OTHER EXAMPLES.
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OF COURSE, JESUS SAID, 'IF
YOU'VE SEEN ME YOU'VE SEEN THE
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FATHER.' YOU LOOK
IN LUKE 14:31 - JESUS
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TELLS THE PARABLE, "OR WHAT
KING" - LUKE 14:31 - "OR WHAT
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KING, GOING TO MAKE WAR AGAINST
ANOTHER KING, DOES NOT SIT DOWN
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FIRST AND CONSIDER WHETHER HE IS
ABLE WITH TEN THOUSAND TO MEET
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HIM WHO COMES AGAINST
HIM WITH TWENTY THOUSAND?
00:52:58.16\00:53:01.23
OR ELSE, WHILE THE OTHER IS
STILL A GREAT WAY OFF," - BEFORE
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THEY ACTUALLY GET INTO A BATTLE
- "HE SENDS AN AMBASSAGE" -
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AMBASSADORS AND
DESIRES CONDITIONS OF PEACE."
00:53:07.63\00:53:12.46
SO AMBASSADORS ARE ALSO THERE
TO HELP MEDIATE TERMS OF PEACE
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BETWEEN KINGDOMS OR PEOPLE
THAT ARE AT WAR. YOU GOT THAT?
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IS THIS WORLD AT WAR
WITH THE KING OF KINGS?
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IS THERE A GREAT
CONTROVERSY GOING ON?
00:53:28.96\00:53:30.93
ARE PEOPLE ABLE - IT SAYS 'WHAT
KING - THE KING IS COMING, HE'S
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GOT TWENTY THOUSAND,
YOU'VE GOT TEN THOUSAND.
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YOU BETTER FIND TERMS OF PEACE.'
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL THE
00:53:37.20\00:53:39.86
WORLD, 'HEY, OUR KING IS COMING
AND HIS ARMY IS A LOT BIGGER
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THAN YOUR ARMY.'
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:53:42.03\00:53:45.33
'AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE PEACE
YOU NEED TO SETTLE THAT BEFORE
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HE GETS HERE - WHILE
HE'S A GREAT WAY OFF.'
00:53:47.63\00:53:51.43
AND SO AS AMBASSADORS OF
ANOTHER KINGDOM WE OUGHT TO BE
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REPRESENTING THAT KING IN OUR
LIFESTYLE - IN EVERYTHING FROM
00:53:54.03\00:53:58.20
OUR DRESS AND WHAT WE EAT AND
WHAT - OUR WORDS THAT WE SPEAK.
00:53:58.20\00:54:02.00
WE NEED TO REPRESENT ANOTHER
KINGDOM. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:54:02.00\00:54:04.76
SO WE'RE AMBASSADORS AND THAT'S
PART OF THE WORK OF THE HIGH
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PRIEST. AND THEN
IT SAYS, AND THIS IS
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IMPORTANT - LAST PART -
ONE SACRIFICE - ONE SACRIFICE.
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HEBREWS 10, VERSE 8 - HEBREWS
10, VERSE 8, "PREVIOUSLY SAYING,
00:54:16.30\00:54:22.90
'SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, BURNT
OFFERINGS, AND OFFERINGS FOR SIN
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YOU DID NOT DESIRE, NOR HAD
PLEASURE IN THEM' (WHICH ARE
00:54:25.90\00:54:29.46
OFFERED ACCORDING TO THE LAW),
THEN HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE
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COME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'
HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST THAT HE
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MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND.'"
- HE'S QUOTING FROM PSALMS -
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"BY THAT WILL WE HAVE BEEN
SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING
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OF THE BODY OF JESUS
CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL."
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NOW WHY DOES IT SAY IN HEBREWS
10 JESUS IS OFFERED ONCE FOR ALL
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BUT THEN YOU READ IN HEBREWS 6,
VERSE 6, "IF THEY FALL AWAY," -
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IT'S IMPOSSIBLE - "TO RENEW THEM
AGAIN TO REPENTANCE, SINCE THEY
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CRUCIFY AGAIN FOR THEMSELVES THE
SON OF GOD, AND PUT HIM TO OPEN
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SHAME." HOW CAN IT
SAY IN ONE PLACE HE'S
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CRUCIFIED ONCE FOR ALL AND
THEN SAY HE'S CRUCIFIED AGAIN?
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WHAT DOES IT
MEAN THERE IN HEBREWS?
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IT SAYS THEY'RE
CRUCIFYING THE LORD AGAIN.
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IS JESUS PHYSICALLY GOING TO BE
DYING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
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FOR SIN? NO. BUT IS THE LORD
GRIEVED WHEN WE SIN? YES. IS HE
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WOUNDED? WAS HE WOUNDED
FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS? YES.
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HE'S NOT CONTINUALLY DYING
FOR US, HE DIED ONCE FOR ALL.
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HIS BLOOD, THOUGH, HOW OFTEN
IS HIS BLOOD APPLIED? ONCE?
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WAS HIS BLOOD ONLY APPLIED
WHEN HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN?
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OR IS THE BLOOD OF JESUS STILL
APPLIED WHENEVER ANY SINNER
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THROUGH HISTORY COMES TO CHRIST?
SO EVEN THOUGH HE IS OFFERED
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ONCE, HIS BLOOD, SOMEHOW
KEPT FRESH, AND IT'S APPLIED ALL
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THROUGH HISTORY WHENEVER SINNERS
NEED IT. AMEN? AND SO THAT'S AN
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IMPORTANT, I THINK, DISTINCTION
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