Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021347
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:52 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN. WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US 00:54 LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE 00:57 VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, OR YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, 01:00 IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE 01:03 JOINING US AND YOU'RE PART OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE 01:06 WORLD. WE'RE READY HERE IN THE SANCTUARY. 01:09 WE'VE WARMED UP OUR VOICES AND WE'RE READY TO SING YOUR 01:11 FAVORITES THAT YOU HAVE SENT IN. OUR FIRST SONG - #523 - 01:16 'MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE'. 01:19 WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR STANZAS. 01:20 THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JULIE IN CANADA, JOYCE-LUM IN CAMEROON, 01:25 KAREN IN MONTSERRAT, AND ALLAN AND JANICE IN THE UNITED ARAB 01:28 EMIRATES AND MANY MORE OF OUR FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. #523 - 01:32 ALL FOUR STANZAS - 'MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE'. 01:36 (MUSIC) 04:07 >>'I NEED NO OTHER EVIDENCE, I NEED NO OTHER PLEA, 04:16 IWHAT OTHER EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED WHEN YOU SEE WHAT JESUS CAN DO 04:19 IN SOMEONE'S LIFE? I THINK THAT'S EVIDENCE THAT HE 04:22 DID RISE AND HE'S WORKING IN EACH OF US. 04:27 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WANT TO SING WITH US ON AN 04:29 UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S REALLY SIMPLE. YOU JUST GO TO OUR 04:32 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK 04:36 AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG AND WE'LL DO OUR 04:39 BEST TO SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 04:41 AND START SENDING IN YOUR CHRISTMAS SONGS, IT IS TIME. 04:45 SO GO TO OUR WEBSITE, CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND SEND 04:48 IN YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS AND WE'RE GOING TO START SINGING 04:50 THOSE SOONER THAN LATER. OUR NEXT SONG IS #79. 04:56 THIS IS OUR NEW ONE FOR THIS WEEK AS WE'RE CONTINUING WORKING 04:59 OUR WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL SINGING SONGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD 05:02 BEFORE. #79 - 'O LOVE OF GOD, HOW STRONG AND TRUE!' 05:07 THIS IS FROM TIM AND JESS IN AUSTRALIA, HELENA IN GRENADA, 05:11 JOSEFIN IN IRELAND AND ASSENTH IN MEXICO AND SOME OTHERS AROUND 05:16 THE WORLD. WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FIVE 05:18 STANZAS BECAUSE IT'S VERY SHORT. #79 - JOIN WITH US. 05:22 (MUSIC) 06:45 >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 06:48 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE KNOW THAT YOU LOVE US AND JUST LIKE THE 06:54 SONG SAID, THAT YOUR LOVE IS DEEPER AND STRONGER THAN 07:03 WE KNOW HOW IT DEVOURS PEOPLE'S ANDHEARTS AND THEIR LIVES AND 07:07 THEY'RE CONSUMED BY IT. BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT YOU AND WE 07:10 REALIZE THAT YOU LOVE US EVEN MORE - FATHER WE STAND IN AWE. 07:15 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LOVE THAT YOU DO HAVE FOR US AND 07:21 I PRAY THAT WE WILL SHOW YOUR LOVE TO THIS WORLD - THE WORLD 07:26 THAT IS FULL OF HATE AND EVIL - THAT WE CAN BE LIGHTS AND SHARE 07:31 YOUR LOVE WITH OTHERS. PLEASE BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP 07:34 YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. 07:36 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND HIS MINISTRY 07:39 HERE AT CENTRAL AND AROUND THE WORLD AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL 07:42 GIVE HIM THE WORDS THAT YOU HAVE FOR US THIS MORNING. 07:45 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 07:49 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO 07:52 CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 08:01 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR SINGERS. 08:04 WELCOME EVERYBODY TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SABBATH SCHOOL AND WE'RE 08:09 GLAD THAT WE CAN BE STUDYING GOD'S WORD TOGETHER AGAIN TODAY. 08:12 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON TODAY AND 08:16 THAT FREE OFFER IS CALLED 'ASSURANCE: JUSTIFICATION MADE 08:20 SIMPLE' AND IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF THIS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS 08:24 CALL THE NUMBER. 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 08:28 1-866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND YOU THIS BOOK ON ASSURANCE. 08:35 PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW 'HOW CAN I HAVE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION AND 08:38 YET, AT THE SAME TIME, NOT BE PRESUMPTUOUS?' 08:41 AND SO WE'LL GIVE THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. AND, YOU KNOW, 08:45 I JUST WANT TO SAY A SPECIAL GREETING TO OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE 08:49 IN CHINA. SINCE I SAW YOU LAST I WAS IN 08:53 HONG KONG AND THEY HAD A CONVOCATION THERE AND A LOT OF 08:58 PEOPLE CAME EVEN FROM THE MAINLAND OF CHINA OVER TO HONG 09:01 KONG AND THEY SAID, 'WE WATCH CENTRAL STUDY HOUR. 09:06 WE PARTICIPATE IN THE SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS.' AND THAT WAS 09:09 JUST THRILLING TO HEAR. THEY DON'T DO IT SO MUCH BY 09:11 SATELLITE THERE AS THEY DO BY INTERNET. 09:15 BUT I WANT TO GREET OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING IN CHINA AND I 09:18 WANT TO WELCOME, IN ADVANCE, OUR FRIENDS THAT STUDY WITH US IN 09:21 ROMANIA BECAUSE WE'LL BE - IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS WE'LL BE ON THE 09:24 OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET AND I'LL BE - PASTOR ROSS AND I'LL 09:29 BE GOING TO ROMANIA AND DOING SOME EVANGELISM THERE. 09:32 MY FIRST TRIP - WE'VE GOT A WHOLE ROMANIAN CONGREGATION HERE 09:35 AT CENTRAL CHURCH AND I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ROMANIA AND SO 09:38 WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 09:39 WE'LL SEE OUR FRIENDS IN BUCHAREST. 09:41 AND IT'S ALWAYS ENCOURAGING WHEN WE SEE THE LETTERS COMING IN 09:44 FROM AROUND THE WORLD - PEOPLE THAT STUDY WITH US. 09:47 OUR STUDY GUIDE TODAY - WE'RE CONTINUING GOING THROUGH A 09:51 VARIETY OF STUDIES ON THE SANCTUARY. 09:53 A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY - ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE THE SANCTUARY 09:56 APPEARS AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN STUDY IS 10:00 TODAY'S LESSON 'CHRIST OUR HIGH PRIEST'. 10:05 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT THAT THEME AND OUR 10:09 MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US FROM HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2. 10:13 I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD SAY IT WITH ME. 10:15 HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2, AND TODAY IT'S COMING FROM THE NEW 10:18 AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE. THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE 10:23 TRANSLATIONS - THE NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE. ONE MORE TIME, 10:26 HEBREWS 8:1 AND 2 - YOU READY? "NOW THE MAIN POINT IN WHAT HAS 10:32 BEEN SAID IS THIS: WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST, WHO HAS TAKEN HIS 10:37 SEAT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY IN THE 10:41 HEAVENS, A MINISTER IN THE SANCTUARY AND IN THE TRUE 10:45 TABERNACLE, WHICH THE LORD PITCHED, NOT MAN." 10:49 NOW THERE, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT A TRUE TABERNACLE, IT'S NOT BEING 10:53 OPPOSED TO A FALSE TABERNACLE, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE REAL 10:57 HEAVENLY TABERNACLE AS OPPOSED TO THE MAN-MADE ONES THAT WERE 11:02 ON EARTH. AND IN OPPOSITION TO THE 11:05 PRIESTHOOD OF MEN ON EARTH, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD OF 11:11 CHRIST IN HEAVEN. BUT YET THE LORD STILL HAS A 11:13 PRIESTHOOD ON EARTH OF SORTS. DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE? 11:18 TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE HIGH PRIEST WE NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING 11:20 ABOUT THE LOW PRIESTS AND SO TURN TO - LET'S SEE, I THINK 11:25 IT'S IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 2 - I'M SORRY, 1 PETER CHAPTER 2, 11:30 VERSE 9. NOW A PRIEST USUALLY MINISTERS IN A BUILDING, RIGHT? 11:37 SO IS THERE STILL A PRIESTHOOD IN THE WORLD TODAY? 11:44 NOW I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE POPE AND HIS PRIESTS, I'M 11:48 TALKING ABOUT BIBLICALLY IS THERE STILL A PRIESTHOOD IN THE 11:50 WORLD TODAY? YES. IS THERE STILL A TEMPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY? 11:57 YES, THERE'S STILL A TEMPLE ON EARTH. 11:59 IT'S A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE BUT IT'S VERY REAL AND THE BIBLE TELLS US 12:04 IN EPHESIANS 2, 'WE ARE LIVING STONES BUILDING 12:07 UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE'. JESUS IS NOT ONLY THE LAMB AND 12:11 THE HIGH PRIEST, HE'S THE CORNERSTONE. 12:14 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE 12:17 DAYS I'LL RAISE UP ONE MADE WITHOUT HANDS' - SPEAKING OF 12:19 WHAT? HIS CHURCH - HIS BODY - HIS CHURCH IS CALLED 12:24 'THE BODY OF CHRIST' AND SO THERE IS A SPIRITUAL HOUSE. 12:29 PAUL SAID, 'WHAT? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YE' - COLLECTIVELY - 12:31 'YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD'. 12:33 AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE COMPOSE THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, 12:37 THERE IS A SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD AND YOU SEE HERE IN 1 PETER 12:41 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, "BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL 12:46 PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY 12:52 PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO 12:55 HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" SO RIGHT AWAY WE SEE PART OF THE WORK OF 12:59 A PRIEST IS TO PROCLAIM. NOW WE'RE GOING TO - WELL LET'S 13:04 - MAYBE I'LL START WITH A DEFINITION FOR A PRIEST. 13:08 AND THIS IS SORT OF A COMPOSITE OF DEFINITIONS THAT YOU WOULD 13:10 FIND IN MERRIAM WEBSTER AND WIKIPEDIA IF THAT CAN BE 13:14 TRUSTED. BUT IT SEEMED ACCURATE TO ME. 13:17 A PRIEST IS 'A PERSON AUTHORIZED, ORDAINED, OR SET 13:21 APART TO PERFORM THE SACRED RITUALS OF A RELIGION ESPECIALLY 13:25 AS A MEDIATORY AGENT BETWEEN HUMANS AND A DEITY OR DEITIES' - 13:30 DEPENDING ON IF IT'S A PAGAN PRIESTHOOD - 13:32 'TO REPRESENT THE SAID DEITY. 13:35 THE PRIEST'S DUTIES MAY INCLUDE PREACHING, TEACHING, BLESSING 13:38 AND JUDGING BETWEEN PARTIES.' AND SO THAT JUST KIND OF GIVES 13:43 YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT A PRIEST'S RESPONSIBILITIES 13:45 MIGHT BE. AND THEN THE HIGH PRIEST WOULD 13:48 SORT OF BE THE PRIEST IN CHARGE OF ALL THE OTHER PRIESTS. 13:51 IT'S THE SUPREME PRIEST. WE HAVE A WHOLE SECTION THAT 13:54 DEALS WITH THAT. NOW GOING INTO OUR LESSON RIGHT 14:01 WE'VE GIVEN OUT SOME VERSES - RIGHT OVER HERE. ANDREW, 14:04 GET THE MICROPHONE. AND WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 14:10 BEFORE WE DO I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD AGAIN. 14:14 THREE EXAMPLES JUST IN REVELATION. THERE ARE OTHERS. 14:16 I JUST READ YOU ONE FROM 1 PETER. 14:18 REVELATION 1:6, "AND HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD AND 14:25 FATHER, TO HIM BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER. 14:28 AMEN." THAT WAS REVELATION 1:6. 14:31 IF WE GO TO REVELATION 5:10 - "AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND 14:34 PRIESTS TO OUR GOD; AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH." 14:38 IT TELLS US WE'RE GOING TO HEAVEN BUT IT SAYS ULTIMATELY WE 14:41 REIGN ON EARTH. NOW WE HAVE, IF WE'RE READY, GO AHEAD AND 14:45 DO REVELATION 20, VERSE 6. ARE WE READY? YES WE ARE. 14:49 >>REVELATION 20, VERSE 6, "BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE WHO HAS 14:55 PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION. OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS 15:00 NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, 15:05 AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." 15:08 >>OKAY, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING, WHEN DID JESUS BEGIN 15:12 SERVING AS OUR HIGH PRIEST? 15:19 WELL, SPECIFICALLY, WHEN YOU READ OUR MEMORY VERSE HERE IT 15:22 SAYS, 'THIS IS THE MAIN POINT, WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH PRIEST WHO 15:24 IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF THE MAJESTY AND 15:28 THE HEAVENS.' WHEN HE ASCENDED AND HE 15:30 PRESENTED HIS BLOOD HE REALLY ENTERED INTO HIS PRIESTLY WORK. 15:34 I'M SURE JESUS WAS MEDIATING AND DOING OTHER THINGS THAT A PRIEST 15:37 MIGHT DO BUT HE REALLY ENTERED INTO HIS WORK IN A SPECIFIC WAY 15:41 FOLLOWING HIS SACRIFICE, BECAUSE IF A PRIEST HAS NO BLOOD TO 15:43 OFFER IT'S NOT THE FULL PRIESTHOOD AT THAT POINT. 15:47 AND WHEN DID THE SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD BEGIN? 15:53 OF ALL BELIEVERS? WELL, PRIOR TO CHRIST THERE WAS 15:56 A LINE WITHIN A TRIBE THAT WERE PRIESTS BUT NOW, BEING A NATION 16:03 OF PRIESTS, THAT BEGAN AT THE SAME TIME. 16:05 OKAY, HERE'S THE NEXT QUESTION: WHEN DO WE CEASE TO BE A NATION 16:10 OF PRIESTS? THE CHURCH? WELL, THE VERSES WE JUST READ 16:16 IT'S TALKING ABOUT EVEN BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM - FOREVER. 16:21 YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET TO IT MORE IN A LITTLE BIT BUT THE BIBLE - 16:26 WELL, I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ IT NOW. 16:31 YEAH, LET'S LOOK AT HEBREWS 6, VERSE 19 - A LOT OF OUR VERSES 16:36 TODAY ARE FROM HEBREWS - LET ME JUST READ THIS TO YOU. 16:38 HEBREWS 6, VERSES 19 AND 20, "THIS HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR 16:46 PRESENCE BEHIND THE VEIL, WHERE THE FORERUNNER HAS ENTERED FOR 16:50 US, EVEN JESUS, HAVING BECOME HIGH PRIEST FOREVER" - HOW LONG 16:55 IS HE GOING TO BE HIGH PRIEST THEN? 16:57 - "FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." 17:01 SO IF HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST FOREVER AND WE JUST READ THAT WE 17:03 WILL BE PRIESTS AND KINGS WITH HIM AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT EVEN 17:07 BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM - EVEN BEYOND SIN BEING DEALT WITH - 17:10 THEN HOW LONG ARE WE PRIESTS? FOREVER. 17:14 SO WHAT IS THE WORK OF A PRIEST? IS IT TO JUST CONSTANTLY BE 17:17 OFFERING BLOOD, OR IT IS ALSO TO PROCLAIM? 17:22 DIDN'T WE JUST READ 'TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HAS 17:24 CALLED US OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT.' 17:27 WHY DID THE LEVITES GET TEN PERCENT? 17:31 WHY DID THEY GET THE TITHE? WHAT WAS THEIR WORK? 17:35 WERE THEY TO DO ANYTHING IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT? 17:38 THE LEVITES DIDN'T ALL OFFER SACRIFICE, THAT WAS THE SONS OF 17:41 AARON, BUT ALL THE LEVITES RECEIVED OF THE TITHE BECAUSE 17:44 THEY HAD A JOB TO DO, ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN OF AARON, TO GO AND 17:48 TO TEACH AND TO PREACH THE THINGS OF GOD. 17:52 WILL WE HAVE A WORK TO DO AS AMBASSADORS FOR GOD 17:55 THROUGH ETERNITY? 17:57 ARE WE GOING TO BE PROCLAIMING THE PRAISES OF THE ONE WHO SAVED 18:01 US - AMONG UNFALLEN WORLDS AND ANGELS - THROUGH ETERNITY? 18:06 SO IN THAT RESPECT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH SOME OF THE 18:09 PROCLAMATION PART OF THE PRIESTHOOD. 18:12 AND WE ARE ALSO THERE TO REPRESENT GOD. THAT'S ANOTHER 18:16 VERY IMPORTANT PART OF A PRIEST - TO REPRESENT GOD. 18:20 AND, ALRIGHT, I TELL YOU WHAT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - 18:23 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT MELCHIZEDEK - 18:26 JESUS A PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 110 18:30 - PSALM 110, VERSE 4. WHO - SOMEONE GOT THAT VERSE? 18:34 HOLD YOUR HAND UP IF YOU GOT THAT SLIP OF PAPER WITH A - 18:38 PSALM 110, VERSE 4. I'M NOT SEEING ANY TAKERS AND 18:44 WE'LL TAKE A VOLUNTEER FROM THE FLOOR WHO'S WILLING TO READ THAT 18:46 FOR US. WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT BEHIND 18:49 MIKE HERE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THE 18:50 MICROPHONE PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU. YOU SEE HER? 18:53 OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 18:55 NOW FIRST, IF WE'RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND HOW JESUS IS A PRIEST 18:58 LIKE MELCHIZEDEK, WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK TO THE FIRST MENTION OF 19:01 MELCHIZEDEK. REVELATION 14:18 - NO, NO - 19:07 GENESIS, SORRY - GENESIS 14:18. I HAD THE VERSE OF REVELATION 19:13 JUST ABOVE THAT. AND HERE'S THE EXPERIENCE: 19:17 "THEN MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM BROUGHT OUT BREAD AND WINE; 19:20 HE WAS THE PRIEST OF GOD MOST HIGH." - 19:23 NOTICE THAT, HE'S THE PRIEST OF JEHOVAH - "AND HE BLESSED 19:28 HIM" - BLESSED ABRAHAM - "AND SAID, 'BLESSED BE ABRAM OF GOD 19:31 MOST HIGH, POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND BLESSED BE GOD 19:35 MOST HIGH WHO HAS DELIVERED YOUR ENEMIES INTO YOUR HAND.' 19:38 AND HE" - IT'S TELLING US ABRAHAM - "GAVE HIM" - 19:43 MELCHIZEDEK - "A TITHE OF ALL." TITHES OF WHAT? 19:46 OF WHAT HE HAD JUST OBTAINED DURING HIS VICTORY AND BATTLE. 19:50 SO TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND, LOT AND HIS FAMILY AND THE 19:55 PEOPLE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE CONQUERED IN A WAR BY 20:00 CHEDOLAOMER - THESE FIVE KINGS OF THE NORTH - THEY COME DOWN, 20:04 THEY FIGHT WITH SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND FOUR OF THE CITIES 20:06 OF THE PLAIN AND THEY WIN. THEY PUT THE CITY TO THE TORCH, 20:11 PROBABLY, AND THEY TAKE ALL OF THE BOUNTY OF THE WAR AND THEY 20:16 CARRY IT UP NORTH. ONE OF THE PEOPLE COMES AND 20:19 TELLS ABRAHAM, LOT AND HIS FAMILY 20:21 AND ALL THESE PEOPLE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE CITIES HAVE 20:24 BEEN CONQUERED AND ABRAHAM PRAYS AND GOD SAYS, YOU KNOW, 20:28 'GO RESCUE THEM.' KIND OF LIKE GOD TOLD DAVID TO 20:31 GO RESCUE THE CAPTIVES FROM ZIKLAG. 20:33 AND SO ABRAHAM GETS THE 300 TRAINED SERVANTS IN HIS HOUSE - 20:37 HE'S GOT SERVANTS IN HIS HOUSE THAT ARE ACTUALLY TRAINED FOR 20:39 WAR - ABRAHAM HAD A VERY BIG HOUSEHOLD - AND HE GETS TOGETHER 20:42 WITH MAMRE AND SOME OF THE OTHER POWERFUL SHEIKS IN HIS COUNTRY. 20:46 THEY ALL GO TOGETHER AND THEY FIGHT AGAINST THESE KINGS FROM 20:50 DAMASCUS AND THEY'RE CELEBRATING. 20:53 THEY WERE NOT PREPARED TO BE ATTACKED AND THEY'RE OVERCOME. 20:56 ABRAHAM AND HIS FORCES ATTACK THEM BY NIGHT AND THEY WIN. 21:00 THEY BRING BACK NOT ONLY LOT AND HIS FAMILY BUT THEY GET ALL OF 21:03 THE POSSESSIONS THAT THESE KINGS HAD ACQUIRED IN THEIR RAIDS AND 21:07 IT'S A GREAT BOUNTY - JUST CAMELS LADEN WITH 21:09 GOLD AND TREASURE. 21:12 AND ABRAHAM SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE FOR MYSELF 21:15 ANYTHING - JUST WHAT BELONGS TO THE SOLDIERS FOR THEIR RIGHTS OF 21:19 WAR - BUT I'M GOING TO TAKE TEN PERCENT OF ALL THIS BOUNTY OF 21:24 THE VICTORY AND I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO THE HIGH PRIEST OF 21:28 THE COUNTRY, WHO SERVES THE TRUE GOD, NAMED MELCHIZEDEK. 21:32 NOW MELCHIZEDEK IS MUCH DEBATED AND MANY BELIEVE THIS IS A REAL 21:37 MYSTERY, BUT HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST AND - GO AHEAD, 21:41 READ FOR US. I THINK I GAVE YOU PSALMS 110, 21:44 VERSE 4. READ THAT FOR US AND YOU'LL 21:46 UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S REFERRED TO A LOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 21:50 >>"THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT RELENT, 'YOU ARE A PRIEST 21:54 FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.'" 21:58 >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 21:59 THE WORD MELCHIZEDEK HAS A KEY RIGHT IN THE WORD THAT TELLS US 22:02 SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THIS KING/PRIEST IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 22:07 THE WORD MELCHIZEDEK MEANS 'KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS'. 22:10 WELL, RIGHT AWAY, JESUS IS OUR KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 22:13 BUT THEN, IF YOU LOOK IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 9 AND IT SAYS, 22:20 SALVATION TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM, CALLED BY GOD AS HIGH PRIEST 22:25 'ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK' OF WHOM WE HAVE 22:29 MUCH TO SAY," - AND YOU READ THROUGH HEBREWS AND PAUL HAS A 22:32 LOT TO SAY ABOUT MELCHIZEDEK - "AND HARD TO EXPLAIN, SINCE YOU 22:36 HAVE BECOME DULL OF HEARING." PAUL IS BASICALLY SAYING TO THE 22:40 HEBREWS HE'S WRITING TO, 'YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO PUT ON YOUR 22:44 SPIRITUAL THINKING CAP TO UNDERSTAND THIS - THAT CHRIST IS 22:48 A HIGH PRIEST, NOT AFTER THE ORDER SO MUCH OF AARON AS MUCH 22:53 AS THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK, BECAUSE WAY BACK WHEN GOD CALLED 22:57 ABRAHAM, MELCHIZEDEK WAS ALREADY A HIGH PRIEST. 23:02 NOW, WHEN GOD CALLED ABRAHAM, THERE WAS A SPECIFIC PEOPLE. 23:05 BUT MELCHIZEDEK WAS A HIGH PRIEST BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS EVEN 23:07 CALLED AS A SPECIFIC PEOPLE, MEANING HE WAS A PRIEST OF GOD 23:11 TO ALL PEOPLE BACK THEN. HE APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE. 23:16 THE BIBLE SAYS - YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, HEBREWS 7 - 23:19 ANOTHER ONE - HEBREWS 7, VERSE 1, "FOR THIS MELCHIZEDEK, KING 23:23 OF SALEM, PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHO MET ABRAHAM 23:26 RETURNING FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE KINGS AND BLESSED HIM, TO 23:29 WHOM ALSO ABRAHAM GAVE A TENTH PART OF ALL, FIRST BEING 23:32 TRANSLATED 'KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,' AND THEN ALSO 23:37 KING OF" - LET ME SEE HERE, I MESSED UP - "'KING OF 23:46 PEACE,' WITHOUT FATHER, WITHOUT MOTHER, WITHOUT GENEALOGY, 23:50 HAVING NEITHER BEGINNING OF DAYS NOR END OF LIFE, BUT MADE LIKE 23:54 THE SON OF GOD, REMAINS A PRIEST CONTINUALLY. 23:58 NOW CONSIDER HOW GREAT THIS MAN WAS, TO WHOM EVEN THE PATRIARCH 24:02 ABRAHAM GAVE A TENTH OF THE SPOILS." 24:05 ALRIGHT, SOME SAY, BECAUSE IT SAYS THAT MELCHIZEDEK WAS 24:09 WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, THAT HE WAS ETERNAL - HE DIDN'T DIE - 24:14 AND THAT MELCHIZEDEK WAS REALLY THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT ABRAHAM 24:17 PAID TITHES TO. NO, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. 24:20 I BELIEVE MELCHIZEDEK WAS A REAL PERSON. 24:22 THE REASON IT SAYS 'WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS' - IT'S JUST 24:25 SAYING THAT HE HAS NO GENEALOGY. YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY, WHEN 24:29 SOMEONE APPEARS IN THE BIBLE IT TELLS WHAT PEOPLE THEY COME FROM 24:32 AND MOST OF THE PROMINENT PEOPLE MENTIONED CAN BE TRACED TO SOME 24:36 NATION OR GENEALOGY THAT YOU FIND THERE IN GENESIS. 24:40 BUT HERE MELCHIZEDEK APPEARS, APPARENTLY OUT OF NOWHERE, HE'S 24:44 CALLED 'THE KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS' AND THERE'S BEEN 24:47 A LOT OF SPECULATION ABOUT 'WHO IS HE?' 24:49 NOW, I'LL TELL YOU ONE THEORY THAT'S VERY INTERESTING 24:52 AND IT DOES KIND OF WORK. 24:53 AND I'M NOT TOTALLY SUBSCRIBING TO THIS BUT MANY HAVE WONDERED 24:57 IF MELCHIZEDEK WAS SHEM - SHEM, THE SON OF NOAH. 25:03 ARE YOU AWARE THAT MELCHIZEDEK, IN THIS BATTLE WITH THE KINGS, 25:07 THIS ALL TAKES PLACE IN ABOUT 1855 BC AND SHEM WAS STILL ALIVE 25:15 THEN. MATTER OF FACT, SHEM LIVED ANOTHER 45 OR 50 25:17 YEARS BEYOND THAT. 25:20 AND THE THEORY IS THAT AFTER ABRAM, BECAUSE OF THE IDOLATRY 25:25 THAT HAD COME IN AROUND THE TOWER OF BABEL AND AMONG THE 25:28 PEOPLE THERE, WHEN GOD CALLED HIM OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES, 25:31 SHEM WAS STILL ALIVE, AS WERE HIS BROTHERS, AND NOAH WAS EVEN 25:36 ALIVE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, UP TO THE TOWER OF BABEL, AND WHEN 25:41 NOAH LEFT AND TEREH LEFT AND THEY WENT TO HERON, IT WASN'T 25:46 LONG AFTER THAT THEN, THINGS GOT SO BAD THAT SHEM SAID, 'I'VE 25:49 HEARD THAT GOD HAS CALLED ABRAM TO THIS LAND OF CANAAN WHERE 25:54 HE'S GOING TO BE ESTABLISHED. 25:56 I'M GOING TO FOLLOW HIM.' AND SO SHEM CAME WITH HIS FAMILY 26:00 AND THEY MOVED TO A COUNTRY CALLED SALEM, WHICH LATER IS 26:04 KNOWN AS JERUSHALOM - IT JUST MEANS 'PEACE'. 26:08 THIS IS WHERE JERUSALEM WAS LATER SITUATED AND HE'S A TYPE 26:12 OF CHRIST. NOW, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN HIS 26:15 500TH YEAR, BUT HE LIVED 600 YEARS. 26:19 WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN A WORSHIPER OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, LIVING 26:24 AMONG THE CANAANITES, THAT ABRAHAM WOULD HAVE SEEN AS 26:33 SCONFIDENT THAT THAT TITHE WAS GOING TO THE PRIEST OF THE MOST 26:37 HIGH GOD. PRIESTS WERE TYPICALLY THE HEADS OF FAMILIES. 26:45 WHO WAS THE PRIEST FOR THE FAMILY OF JOB? JOB WAS. 26:49 AND WHO WAS THE PRIEST FOR THE FAMILY OF JACOB? JACOB WAS. 26:53 JACOB SAID, 'LET US GO TO BETHEL AND WE'LL OFFER SACRIFICE.' 26:55 WHO OFFERED SACRIFICE? 26:56 THE HIGH PRIEST FOR THE FAMILY WAS THE PATRIARCH. 27:00 SO THIS IS AN AGED PATRIARCH - MELCHIZEDEK. 27:05 DON'T KNOW, CAN'T PROVE IT - IT COULD BE THAT ONE - YOU KNOW, 27:08 SOMETIMES BIBLE CHARACTERS HAD MORE THAN ONE NAME THAT WERE 27:10 DESCRIPTIVE AND HIM BEING CALLED 'KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS' - I 27:13 MEAN, HERE'S SOMEBODY THAT LIVED AND SAW THE WORLD BEFORE THE 27:17 FLOOD AND THE FACT THAT SHEM WAS STILL ALIVE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 27:21 LOOKED UPON AS THE PATRIARCH OF PATRIARCHS. 27:25 AND HIS BROTHERS MAY HAVE STAYED IN MESOPOTAMIA. 27:28 THE LINE OF JESUS CAME THROUGH SHEM. COULD HAVE BEEN SHEM. 27:31 I DON'T KNOW, I'M JUST SAYING THAT'S AN INTERESTING THEORY. 27:33 AND HE PROBABLY DIED ABOUT 1796 BC NEAR AS WE CAN TELL. 27:38 BY THE WAY, I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO SEE 27:42 SOME OF THESE DATES AND AGES AND HOW THEY OVERLAP, AMAZING FACTS 27:45 SPENT ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF DEVELOPING AN INTERNET TIMELINE. 27:50 IT'S FREE - IT'S FOR BIBLE STUDY AND IT SHOWS ALL THE BIBLE 27:53 CHARACTERS AND BIBLE HISTORY ON A TIMELINE AND HOW THE PROMINENT 27:56 CHARACTERS THEIR LIVES OVERLAPPED AND IT'S ON A GRAPH 27:59 THAT YOU CAN MOVE BACK AND FORTH. IT'S REALLY NEAT. 28:01 IT SHOWS THE TIMES AND THE AGES AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THAT 28:04 IT'S JUST - GO TO 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 28:06 IT'S REALLY EASY - 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' AND YOU'LL 28:08 SEE HOW THE LIFE OF SHEM OVERLAPPED WITH THE LIFE OF 28:11 ABRAM. SO HE COULD HAVE BEEN MELCHIZEDEK. LOOK AT THE - 28:14 LOOK AT THE CLUES NOW ABOUT HOW HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. 28:20 IT SAYS, 'WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS' - WELL HIS GENEALOGY IS 28:24 NOT MENTIONED. THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS IS FROM 28:27 EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. IS JESUS OUR KING OF 28:30 RIGHTEOUSNESS? THAT'S WHAT MELCHIZEDEK MEANS. 28:33 IS HE OUR KING OF PEACE? ISN'T HE? 28:36 WHAT DOES MELCHIZEDEK DO WHEN ABRAHAM COMES TO HIM? 28:39 HE BRINGS FORTH BREAD AND WINE. WHAT DID JESUS DO TO SEAL THE 28:43 COVENANT WITH THE APOSTLES THERE AT THE LAST SUPPER? 28:46 WHAT ARE THE TWO PRINCIPLE EMBLEMS THAT ARE USED? 28:48 IT'S BREAD AND WINE. IS JESUS THE KING OF THE EARTHLY 28:52 JERUSALEM OR THE NEW JERUSALEM? YOU SEE ALL THE PARALLELS THAT 28:58 WE SEE. AND HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST, 29:00 NOT FOR JUST ONE TRIBE OR ONE PEOPLE, BUT FOR ALL PEOPLE. 29:04 AND SO HE'S COMPARED TO A HIGH PRIEST LIKE MELCHIZEDEK. 29:10 ALRIGHT, MOVING ALONG HERE, IF WE LOOK IN - ANOTHER EXAMPLE - 29:21 LIKE HIS BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH 29:25 PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD, TO MAKE PROPITIATION FOR 29:30 THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. 29:31 FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HAS SUFFERED, BEING TEMPTED, HE IS 29:35 ABLE TO AID THOSE WHO ARE TEMPTED." 29:37 SOMETHING ELSE WE LEARN ABOUT THE HIGH PRIEST - THE HIGH 29:41 PRIEST WAS MADE FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE. 29:45 IT'S UNUSUAL TO HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO COMES FROM ANOTHER 29:49 PEOPLE AND ANOTHER COUNTRY TO SAY, 'I'M GOING TO BE PRIEST 29:53 OVER YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR COUNTRY. THE HIGH PRIEST USUALLY 29:56 CAN RELATE TO THE PEOPLE. HE'S TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE. 29:58 HE'S TO MEDIATE AMONG THE PEOPLE. 30:00 HE COMES FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE. DOES JESUS KNOW HOW WE FEEL? 30:05 IS HE A HIGH PRIEST WHO IS ABLE TO SYMPATHIZE AND EMPATHIZE WITH 30:10 WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH? SOMEONE READ FOR ME HEBREWS 30:12 4:15. WHO HAS THAT? LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 30:17 HEBREWS 4:15 AND THEY'LL LET ME KNOW WHEN WE'RE READY FOR THAT. 30:22 IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO READ HEBREWS 6, 30:26 VERSES 19 AND 20. 30:27 IT SAYS, "THIS HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, BOTH SURE 30:33 AND STEADFAST, AND WHICH ENTERS THE PRESENCE BEHIND THE VEIL, 30:38 WHERE THE FORERUNNER HAS ENTERED FOR US, EVEN JESUS, HAVING 30:42 BECOME HIGH PRIEST FOREVER" - WE ALREADY READ THIS. 30:45 HIGH PRIEST FOR HOW LONG? FOREVER - "ACCORDING TO THE 30:47 ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL. 30:51 WHAT IS AN ANCHOR USED FOR? IT'S SOMETHING THAT SECURES. 30:56 IT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN TIE OFF TO. 30:59 AND BECAUSE JESUS IS IN THE VERY PRESENCE OF THE FATHER AND HE IS 31:02 OUR FRIEND, WE CAN TIE OUR FAITH ON CHRIST. 31:06 ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'RE READY. HEBREWS 4:15. 31:10 >>"FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO CANNOT SYMPATHIZE 31:13 WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED AS WE ARE, 31:18 YET WITHOUT SIN." 31:20 >>CAN JESUS BE A SYMPATHETIC HIGH PRIEST? 31:24 DOES HE KNOW HOW WE FEEL? 31:27 WAS HE TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS AS WE ARE TEMPTED? 31:30 CAN YOU EVER SAY, 'LORD, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE BEEN 31:34 THROUGH?' YOU KNOW, JESUS KNOWS HOW YOU 31:38 FEEL AND HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN IF HE HAD NEVER EVEN COME TO EARTH 31:41 AND LIVED AS A MAN BECAUSE JUST BY VIRTUE OF BEING GOD, GOD 31:45 KNOWS EVERYTHING, RIGHT? 31:47 SO THERE'S NOTHING THAT JESUS DOESN'T KNOW. 31:49 BUT ONE REASON THAT HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS AS WE HAVE 31:52 BEEN IS SO WE WILL KNOW THAT HE KNOWS. 31:58 IT HELPS US SAY, 'I REALLY KNOW THAT HE KNOWS BECAUSE HE WAS ONE 32:01 OF US. HE LIVED AS US.' WE CAN NEVER WAG OUR FINGERS AT 32:06 GOD AND SAY, 'YOU HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A HUMAN.' 32:09 BUT HE DOES KNOW. 32:11 HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN EITHER WAY BECAUSE HE'S GOD, BUT HE DOES 32:14 KNOW AND HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE WE ARE. 32:17 NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, JESUS WAS NEVER TEMPTED WITH HEROIN OR 32:20 CIGARETTES.' WELL, TEMPTATION REALLY FALLS 32:24 UNDER THREE CATEGORIES: YOU'VE GOT THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND 32:28 THE LUST OF THE EYES AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE. 32:30 THOSE THREE TEMPTATIONS THAT JESUS EXPERIENCED IN THE 32:32 WILDERNESS, THEY COVERED THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF TEMPTATION. 32:36 AND THOSE WERE NOT THE ONLY TIMES THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM. 32:38 JESUS WAS HOUNDED BY THE DEVIL ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE. 32:41 HE WAS TEMPTED IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 32:43 BY THE WAY, IS IT A SIN TO BE TEMPTED? NO, WE'RE ALL TEMPTED. 32:48 GIVING IN TO TEMPTATION IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 32:51 SO WE HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO'S ON OUR SIDE. 32:53 SO WHEN HE GOES BEFORE THE FATHER AND WE PRAY IN HIS NAME, 32:57 IS HE ABLE TO BE A FAITHFUL ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR FOR US? 33:03 THAT'S OUR NEXT SECTION: 'ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR'. 33:05 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 JOHN 2, VERSES 1 AND 2. OKAY, MIKE 33:11 HAS THAT RIGHT DOWN IN FRONT. WE'LL GET YOU THE MICROPHONE. 33:13 AND IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 8:31. 33:18 'JESUS OUR ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR'. 33:21 "WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? 33:23 IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? 33:30 ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS? 33:35 WHO SHALL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD'S ELECT? 33:37 IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES. WHO IS HE WHO CONDEMNS? 33:40 IT IS CHRIST WHO DIED, AND FURTHERMORE IS ALSO RISEN, WHO 33:44 IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO ALSO MAKES INTERCESSION 33:48 FOR US." YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETIMES SAID, 'IT'S NOT WHAT 33:53 YOU KNOW IT'S WHO YOU KNOW.' AND WE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, 33:58 IF YOU GET A SPEEDING TICKET AND THEN YOU'RE FORGIVEN BECAUSE YOU 34:03 KNOW SOMEBODY IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR YOU KNOW 34:06 THE JUDGE OR YOU KNOW SOMEBODY IN THE DMV, THAT'S JUST NOT 34:09 FAIR. AND SO WE DON'T LIKE THAT IDEA 'IT'S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW 34:13 IT'S WHO YOU KNOW.' WE SAY, 'WE WANT JUSTICE.' 34:16 BUT ALL OF US LIKE IT WHEN WE DO KNOW SOMEBODY THAT CAN HELP US 34:20 WITH A SITUATION. OR MAYBE YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO 34:23 KNOW - YOU'RE TRYING TO GET THE ATTENTION OF SOMEONE IN HIGH 34:25 PLACES TO GET HIM TO INVEST IN A PROJECT OR TO REPRESENT YOU OR 34:30 YOU WANT TO APPEAL FOR A RAISE OR WHATEVER IT IS. 34:32 KNOWING SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE BOSS OR KNOWS THE OWNER OR KNOWS 34:36 THE GOVERNOR - IT'S ALWAYS KIND OF NICE WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEONE 34:39 WHO KNOWS SOMEONE REALLY IMPORTANT AND THEY CAN BRING 34:42 YOUR CASE BEFORE THAT PERSON, RIGHT? 34:45 UNFORTUNATELY, EVERYBODY KNOWS, IN AMERICAN POLITICS, IT'S NOT 34:52 JUST WHAT YOU KNOW IT'S WHO YOU KNOW AND HOW MUCH YOU DONATE TO 34:55 THEIR CAMPAIGN FUND. AND BY DONATION YOU GET TO KNOW 35:00 THEM AND THEY'LL REPRESENT YOU. I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT'S NOT TRUE 35:04 BUT I THINK EVERYONE HERE KNOWS IT IS TRUE. 35:07 WELL, HERE WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS THE FATHER THAT LOVES US. 35:15 IT'S NICE TO HAVE FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES. 35:18 DO WE HAVE A FRIEND IN THE HIGH PLACE? WE DO. 35:22 AND SO, HE IS THERE TO REPRESENT US. 35:24 AND SO, WHEN OTHERS ARE CONDEMNING AND ACCUSING AND 35:27 POINTING FINGERS, HOW DOES JESUS FEEL ABOUT THAT IF YOU BELONG TO 35:30 HIM? DOES THE LORD DEFEND HIS OWN? 35:34 NOW DON'T GIVE THE DEVIL A REASON TO POINT HIS FINGER. 35:39 BUT LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE QUICKLY FROM THE BIBLE. WHEN 35:41 MARY MAGDALENE - WE'RE ASSUMING IT WAS MARY - THAT WOMAN THAT 35:45 WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTERY - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - AND 35:49 SHE'S BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE AND ALL THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 35:51 BEGIN TO POINT THEIR FINGERS AND ACCUSE HER AND SAY SHE SHOULD BE 35:54 STONED. HOW DOES JESUS FEEL ABOUT THAT? 35:59 HE SEES MARY IS SORRY, SHE'S REPENTANT, SHE'S TERRIFIED AND 36:02 HE BECOMES, REALLY, JESUS BECOMES A DEFENDER OF THE 36:05 DEFENSELESS IN THAT STORY AND HE BEGINS TO WRITE DOWN 36:09 THE SINS OF HER ACCUSERS. 36:11 THE LORD DOESN'T LIKE WHEN PEOPLE ARE ACCUSING OTHERS. 36:15 THE DEVIL IS CALLED THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 36:19 AND GRADUALLY, ONE BY ONE, THEY ALL GO OUT. 36:21 AND HE SAYS, 'WOMAN, WHERE ARE YOU ACCUSERS? 36:23 HAS NO MAN CONDEMNED YOU?' SHE SAID, 'NO MAN LORD.' 36:25 HE SAID, 'NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU. GO AND SIN NO MORE.' 36:29 THE LORD WAS NOT MAKING AN EXCUSE FOR SIN, BUT HE ALSO MADE 36:32 IT CLEAR HE DOESN'T WANT TO CONDEMN. 36:35 'HE THAT SPARED NOT HIS OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US. 36:39 HOW MUCH SHALL HE NOT ALSO WITH HIM FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?' 36:43 SO NOT ONLY DOES HE WANT TO FORGIVE US, HE'S GIVEN HIS SON 36:46 THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED. HOW MUCH DOES GOD WANT US TO BE SAVED? 36:50 SO OFTEN I MEET PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND 36:52 THEY THINK, 'OH, MAN, I'M SUCH A MESS. I FALL SO MUCH. 36:55 I DON'T KNOW HOW GOD COULD EVER SAVE ME.' 36:58 AND I SAY, 'WELL DO YOU THINK THAT THE LORD WOULD GIVE SO MUCH 37:00 TO SAVE SOMETHING THAT COULDN'T BE SAVED?' 37:03 I MEAN, WE'LL ALL MAKE - WE'LL TAKE A RISK AND WE'LL INVEST AND 37:09 MAKE A SACRIFICE IF WE THINK IT'LL DO SOME GOOD. 37:12 BUT IF WE THINK IT'S HOPELESS, WHO WANTS TO WASTE THEIR MONEY? 37:15 WOULD GOD HAVE PAID SO MUCH AND GIVEN SO MUCH IF IT WASN'T 37:18 POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE SAVED? WOULD HE? 37:22 WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR SON AS A SACRIFICE IF IT WASN'T POSSIBLE 37:25 TO SAVE WHAT YOU'RE SACRIFICING HIM FOR? SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 37:30 THE VERY FACT THAT HE MADE SUCH A BIG SACRIFICE MEANS THERE'S A 37:33 VERY BIG POSSIBILITY FOR YOU TO BE SAVED. 37:41 MUCH HE GAVE HIS SON AND THE SON THIS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE 37:44 FATHER INTERCEDING ON OUR BEHALF, DO WE HAVE A LOT GOING 37:47 FOR US? THEN IF WE'LL COOPERATE - THAT'S WHERE WE GET SCARED. 37:51 WHAT ABOUT ME? WE'RE THE WEAK LINK IN THE CHAIN, RIGHT? 37:55 IF WE'LL COOPERATE WITH JESUS WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN 37:59 PULLING FOR US, AMEN? AND SO WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT. 38:03 HE'S OUR ADVOCATE. ALRIGHT, READ THAT VERSE FOR US. 38:05 1 JOHN 2, VERSES 1 AND 2. 38:08 >>1 JOHN 2, VERSES 1 AND 2, "MY LITTLE CHILDREN, THESE THINGS I 38:12 WRITE TO YOU, SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN. AND IF ANYONE SINS, 38:17 WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST 38:20 THE RIGHTEOUS. 38:21 AND HE HIMSELF IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS, AND 38:29 NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT ALSO FOR THE WHOLE WORLD." 38:34 >>YEAH, THAT WORD 'PROPITIATION' AND BOY, I STRUGGLED WITH THAT 38:36 FOR AWHILE BECAUSE WE TYPICALLY DON'T USE THAT IN OUR MODERN-DAY 38:39 LANGUAGE. IT'S REALLY SAYING THAT HE IS THE RANSOM - HE IS 38:44 THE SUBSTITUTE FOR OUR SINS AND NOT JUST FOR OURS, FOR THE WHOLE 38:48 WORLD. CAN YOU THINK, IN THE BIBLE, OF A STORY OF SOMEONE WHO 38:52 WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR A KING IN BEHALF OF OTHERS? 38:59 I'VE HEARD THINGS BUT I CAN'T HEAR WHAT I'M HEARING. ESTHER? 39:06 DID ESTHER GO BEFORE A KING TO INTERCEDE FOR HER PEOPLE? 39:11 DID SHE DO IT AT GREAT PERSONAL RISK? WHAT WAS NORMALLY 39:15 THE DECREE FOR SOMEONE WHO CAME BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED? 39:19 DEATH. SHE PUT HER LIFE ON THE LINE AS AN ADVOCATE TO APPEAL 39:24 FOR HER PEOPLE. AND DID THE KING HEAR HER APPEAL? 39:30 HE HELD OUT THE GOLDEN SCEPTER - WHY? BECAUSE HE LOVED HER. 39:32 DOES GOD THE FATHER LOVE JESUS? AND IF HE'S APPEALING ON OUR 39:37 BEHALF, DO WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE? YES. 39:41 AND HOW ELOQUENTLY DID ESTHER APPEAL? 39:44 SHE POURED OUT HER HEART TO THE KING. 39:46 SHE SAID, 'TAKE ME - MAKE US AS SLAVES, BUT PLEASE SPARE OUR 39:49 LIVES.' AND JESUS IS PLEADING - AND 39:51 SOMETIMES WE GET THIS PICTURE AND I PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO 39:54 THE MISCONCEPTION - I THINK WE ALL DO SOMETIMES - THAT BECAUSE 39:59 JESUS IS PLEADING AND SERVING AS A MEDIATOR AND AN ADVOCATE 40:03 BEFORE THE FATHER, THAT WE HAVE THIS PICTURE THAT THE FATHER IS 40:06 UP THERE SAYING, 'LET ME AT 'EM, BOY. 40:08 I CAN'T WAIT TO DESTROY THOSE SINNERS. 40:09 AH, THEY'RE WICKED AND I'M GOING TO JUDGE THEM. 40:11 JUST GET OUT OF MY WAY.' AND JESUS SAID, 'NO FATHER, 40:14 PLEASE.' AND WE HAVE THIS PICTURE THAT IF 40:17 IT WASN'T FOR JESUS THE FATHER WOULD ROLL RIGHT OVER US. 40:20 WELL, THE FATHER SORT OF REPRESENTS JUSTICE BUT DOES THE 40:28 FATHWORLD HE GAVE HIS SON.ESUS? SO THEY'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. 40:32 JESUS SAID 'THE FATHER HIMSELF LOVES YOU.' 40:35 BUT JUST TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S JUSTICE, AND THE 40:38 FATHER IS SITTING THERE AS A KING THAT NEEDS TO ADMINISTER 40:41 THE JUSTICE AND THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS IS DEATH, AND JESUS IS 40:45 PLEADING, AS THE INTERCESSOR, HIS BLOOD AND THERE YOU'VE GOT 40:49 THE KING'S MERCY. AND SO, JUST REMEMBER THE FATHER WANTS US 40:53 TO BE SAVED AND FORGIVEN JUST AS MUCH AS THE SON. 40:56 JESUS IS OUR INTERCESSOR AND HE IS OUR SUBSTITUTE. ALRIGHT, 41:02 LET'S GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT 'JESUS AS MEDIATOR' - 41:07 JESUS AS MEDIATOR. 41:09 A MEDIATOR IS SOMEBODY WHO WORKS WITH BOTH SIDES IN A DISPUTE IN 41:13 AN ATTEMPT TO HELP THEM REACH AN AGREEMENT. NOW YOU'VE ALREADY 41:17 HEARD ME ALLUDE TO THIS, THAT WHEN SOMETHING IS MEDIUM IT'S 41:22 KIND OF HALFWAY, AND A MEDIATOR IS SOMEONE WHO IS BETWEEN 41:26 BOTH PARTIES AND THEY'RE, OSTENSIBLY, SUPPOSED TO BE 41:29 OBJECTIVE TO HELP BRING SOME KIND OF RECONCILIATION. 41:33 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE - ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 41:36 1 TIMOTHY 2, VERSES 3 THROUGH 5. WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 41:41 RICHARD - OVER HERE - THANK YOU ANDREW. 41:44 AND I'LL BE READING HEBREWS 8, VERSE 6, "BUT NOW HE HAS 41:50 OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT MINISTRY, INASMUCH AS HE IS ALSO 41:53 MEDIATOR OF A BETTER COVENANT, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED 41:57 ON BETTER PROMISES." 42:00 AND THEN WE CAN ALSO READ HEBREWS 9, VERSE 15, "AND FOR 42:03 THIS REASON HE" - JESUS - "IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW 42:07 COVENANT, BY MEANS OF DEATH, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE 42:10 TRANSGRESSIONS UNDER THE FIRST COVENANT, THAT THOSE WHO ARE 42:13 CALLED MAY RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE ETERNAL INHERITANCE." 42:18 SO HE IS THERE MEDIATING AND REPRESENTING THAT WE MIGHT 42:21 RECEIVE THAT ETERNAL INHERITANCE. 42:24 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, I THINK WE'RE READY. 42:27 RICHARD, READ 1 TIMOTHY 2 - WHAT IS IT, 3 THROUGH 5? 42:31 >>"FOR THIS IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 42:33 OUR SAVIOR, WHO DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND TO COME TO THE 42:38 KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE 42:41 MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS." 42:46 >>ALRIGHT, SO YOU MEAN WE DON'T NEED TO GO TO AN EARTHLY PRIEST 42:50 TO MEDIATE AND CONFESS OUR SINS? HOW MANY MEDIATORS ARE THERE 42:54 BETWEEN GOD AND MAN? THERE'S ONE. 42:57 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PASTOR. 42:59 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PRIEST. 43:01 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ELDER. 43:02 THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT SALVATION IS THAT EACH OF US CAN 43:05 MAKE A DIRECT APPROACH TO THE FATHER BY GOING DIRECTLY TO AND 43:10 THROUGH JESUS. JESUS IS OUR MEDIATOR. 43:13 NOW WHY DO WE NEED A MEDIATOR? WHY NOT GO TO THE FATHER 43:16 DIRECTLY? YOU COULDN'T HANDLE IT. LOOK AT WHEN THAT HAPPENED 43:22 BEFORE. DEUTERONOMY 5 - THIS IS A GREAT ILLUSTRATION TOO - 43:26 IT'S A BIBLE STORY - DEUTERONOMY 5:23. 43:31 SO WHEN GOD GIVES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, YOU HEAR IT BEING 43:34 REPEATED HERE IN DEUTERONOMY 5, "SO IT WAS, WHEN YOU HEARD THE 43:37 VOICE FROM THE MIDST OF THE DARKNESS, WHILE THE MOUNTAIN WAS 43:40 BURNING WITH FIRE, THAT YOU CAME NEAR TO ME, ALL THE HEADS OF 43:44 YOUR TRIBES AND YOUR ELDERS. AND YOU SAID: 'SURELY THE LORD 43:47 OUR GOD HAS SHOWN US HIS GLORY AND HIS GREATNESS, AND WE HAVE 43:50 HEARD HIS VOICE FROM THE MIDST OF THE FIRE. WE HAVE SEEN THIS 43:53 DAY THAT GOD SPEAKS WITH MAN; YET HE STILL LIVES. 43:56 NOW THEREFORE, WHY SHOULD WE DIE? FOR THIS GREAT FIRE WILL 44:01 CONSUME US; IF WE HEAR THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD ANYMORE, 44:06 THEN WE SHALL DIE." YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 44:09 WHEN GOD DELIVERED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE LORD ENABLED 44:15 THEM TO BARELY SURVIVE HEARING HIS VOICE - SPEAKING WITH THEM - 44:22 AND THE GLORY THAT THEY SAW WAS ALL THEIR EYES COULD BARELY 44:25 ENDURE. THEY KNEW IF THEY HEARD IT MUCH LONGER, IF THEY SAW IT 44:29 MUCH LONGER, IF THEY WERE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S GLORY 44:32 MUCH LONGER THEY WOULD DIE. 44:34 THEY COULD NOT SURVIVE IT BECAUSE GOD IS A HOLY GOD. 44:37 GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE - THE POWER OF GOD. AND SO, 44:40 YOU AND I CANNOT GO DIRECTLY INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 44:42 OUR SINS HAVE SEPARATED US FROM GOD AND SO WE NEED A MEDIATOR. 44:46 SO WHAT DID THEY SAY TO MOSES? IT SAYS, "IF WE HEAR THE VOICE 44:49 OF THE LORD OUR GOD ANYMORE WE SHALL DIE. 44:51 FOR WHO IS THERE OF ALL FLESH WHO HAS HEARD THE VOICE OF THE 44:54 LIVING GOD SPEAKING FROM THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, AS WE HAVE, 44:56 AND LIVED?" THEN THEY SAID, "YOU GO NEAR AND 45:01 HEAR ALL THAT THE LORD OUR GOD MAY SAY, AND TELL US ALL THAT 45:05 THE LORD OUR GOD SAYS TO YOU, AND WE WILL HEAR AND DO IT." 45:08 SO WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO MOSES? 'LOOK, SOMEHOW YOU'RE 45:11 ABLE TO GO UP AND TALK TO GOD. YOU'RE A HOLY MAN. 45:13 HE SPOKE TO YOU. HE TOLD YOU TO BRING US OUT OF EGYPT.' 45:17 THEY SAID, 'YOU BE THE MEDIATOR. YOU TALK TO GOD AND YOU BRING US 45:22 HIS MESSAGE AND WE'LL DO IT. YOU NEED TO BE THE GO-BETWEEN.' 45:26 SO MOSES IS A TYPE OF CHRIST, ISN'T HE? 45:30 MATTER OF FACT MOSES SAID, "THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP" - 45:33 THIS IS DEUTERONOMY 18:15 - "THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR 45:36 YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME" - ONE OF THE WAYS THAT JESUS IS LIKE 45:40 MOSES IS THAT HE IS THE MEDIATOR. 45:45 HE'S THE TRANSISTOR THAT CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH, 45:49 SO TO SPEAK. 45:50 JESUS IS THE LADDER, HE'S THE BRIDGE - THE CROSS IS A BRIDGE 45:54 THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS GREAT GULF THAT SEPARATES US 45:57 FROM HEAVEN AND THE CROSS IS THE BRIDGE THAT WE LAY DOWN AND GO 46:02 ACROSS THAT GULF. AND SO JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR. 46:06 THAT LADDER THAT JACOB DREAMED ABOUT, UPON WHICH THE ANGELS 46:10 ASCEND AND DESCEND, THAT'S CHRIST. 46:12 HE IS THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. 46:15 SO JESUS IS THAT MEDIATOR. ALRIGHT, AND THEN THE BIBLE ALSO 46:18 TELLS US JESUS IS THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST. 46:23 HEBREWS 10, VERSES 19 AND 20, "THEREFORE, BRETHREN, HAVING 46:28 BOLDNESS TO ENTER THE HOLIEST BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND 46:33 LIVING WAY WHICH HE CONSECRATED FOR US, THROUGH THE VEIL, THAT 46:37 IS, HIS FLESH, AND HAVING A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD." 46:40 WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE HIGH PRIEST? 46:43 IN WHAT WAY WAS THE HIGH PRIEST DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER 46:46 PRIESTS? WERE THERE PRIVILEGES THAT ONLY 46:51 THE HIGH PRIEST HAD? WHO COULD ONLY GO INTO THE HOLY 46:57 OF HOLIES ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT? THE HIGH PRIEST. 47:02 THE HIGH PRIEST HAD ACCESS TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD 47:06 THAT WAS THE CLOSEST. 47:08 AND SO WHEN IT TELLS US THAT JESUS IS NOT ONLY OUR PRIEST 47:10 BUT HE'S OUR HIGH PRIEST, THAT MEANS THAT HE HAS GOT THE 47:13 MAXIMUM ACCESS TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR BEHALF. 47:19 AND SO THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE REMEMBER THAT. 47:21 THE OTHER PRIESTS, THEY MIGHT GO INTO THE HOLY PLACE, THEY MIGHT 47:23 MINISTER IN THE COURTYARD, BUT ONLY THE HIGH PRIEST COULD GO 47:27 RIGHT INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 47:31 YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ELSE, HISTORICALLY, MANY KINGDOMS OF 47:37 MANY RELIGIONS HAD PRIESTS AND THEN THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS. 47:40 EGYPT - THEY HAD PRIESTS AND THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS. 47:42 BAAL - THEY HAD PRIESTS AND THEY HAD HIGH PRIESTS. 47:43 SOMETIMES IT WAS A PRIESTESS, BUT THERE WAS THE HIGH PRIEST 47:47 AND USUALLY ONE OF THE OTHER DIFFERENTIATIONS OF THE HIGH 47:52 PRIEST - THEY HAD ACCESS TO THE MONARCH IN A WAY THAT NO OTHER 47:58 DID. NOT EVERY PRIEST COULD WALK IN 48:01 AND OUT OF THE PALACE BEFORE THE KING. 48:03 BUT THE HIGH PRIEST TYPICALLY HAD ACCESS TO THE KING. 48:07 ANY OF YOU EVER PLAY CHESS? WHAT PIECES DO YOU HAVE NEXT TO 48:12 THE KING AND THE QUEEN? THE BISHOPS. THAT'S JUST - 48:17 THEY'RE JUST CONSIDERED ONE OF THE POWERFUL PIECES AND IT WAS 48:20 RIGHT THERE. AND YOU CAN SEE ALL THROUGH MANY 48:23 OF THE ANCIENT ARTWORK THAT YOU HAD THE MONARCH SEATED - 48:25 YOU OFTEN THEN HAD THE PRIEST. YOU EVER WATCH THE WEDDING IN 48:29 ENGLAND OR A CORONATION IN ENGLAND? 48:31 WHO OFFICIATES A CORONATION AND A WEDDING IN ENGLAND? 48:35 ARCHBISHOP - THE HIGH PRIEST OF ENGLAND. 48:37 AND FOR THE OTHER KINGDOMS, LIKE FOR CHARLEMAGNE, IT WAS THE POPE 48:41 WHO WOULD OFFICIATE. AND SO IT WAS THE HIGH PRIEST 48:45 WHO HAD THIS ACCESS TO THE KING. SO JESUS HAS ACCESS AS THE HIGH 48:50 PRIEST TO THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE AND ALSO TO THE 48:54 PRESENCE OF GOD IN THAT SPECIAL WAY. 48:56 SO IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST. 48:57 YOU KNOW, ONE MORE THOUGHT HERE - I MIGHT HAVE MORE THAN ONE 49:00 THOUGHT, BUT PART OF THE WORK OF THE PRIEST WAS HE WAS TO 49:07 REPRESENT GOD TO THE PEOPLE. 49:10 WHY DID THE PRIEST HAVE SPECIAL GARMENTS? 49:15 AND THE PRIEST HAD A MEDALLION THAT SAID, 'HOLINESS TO THE 49:18 LORD' ABOVE HIS HEAD AND HE WENT THROUGH A SPECIAL WASHING. 49:24 WAS THE PRIEST SUPPOSED TO ALSO BE SHOWING US WHAT GOD IS LIKE - 49:28 IN HIS GARMENTS - IN THE RITUALS? 49:32 IT WAS ALL DESIGNED TO ALSO TEACH AND REPRESENT SOMETHING 49:35 ABOUT THIS OTHER KINGDOM OF HEAVEN - SOMETHING ABOUT GOD. 49:39 AND SO CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND WE, AS A NATION OF HIGH 49:44 PRIESTS, YOU CAN ALSO USE THE WORD - I HAVEN'T USED IT YET - 49:47 AMBASSADOR. A PRIEST WAS AN AMBASSADOR. 49:52 HE WAS THERE TO REPRESENT ANOTHER KINGDOM. 49:55 AND, YOU KNOW, THE TEMPLE, TO SOME EXTENT, WAS AN EMBASSY. 50:01 THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH WAS SOMETHING LIKE AN EMBASSY. 50:04 WHEN YOU ENTERED IT YOU ENTERED, REALLY, THE ENCLAVE OF ANOTHER 50:08 KINGDOM. NOW YOU AND I ARE AMBASSADORS. 50:11 LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF VERSES IN THE BIBLE THAT TELL US 50:15 THIS. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:20, "NOW THEN, 50:18 WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST." WHY? 50:22 BECAUSE WE ARE A NATION OF PRIESTS. 50:24 WE ARE TO REPRESENT ANOTHER KINGDOM. 50:26 I WAS IN WASHINGTON A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR A CONFERENCE AND THEY 50:31 DROVE US DOWN EMBASSY ROW. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? 50:35 THEY HAVE THIS - THIS ONE ROAD - I DON'T THINK ALL THE EMBASSIES 50:38 ARE THERE, BUT A LOT OF EMBASSIES ARE THERE AND EACH ONE 50:40 OF THEM ARE LIKE THESE LITTLE MINI FIEFDOMS. 50:43 THEY'RE LIKE MINI KINGDOMS AND THEY'VE ALL GOT THEIR UNIQUE - 50:46 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TELL SOME OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN ONES THEY HAD 50:48 ALL THE WORDING IN ARABIC AND YOU COULD SEE FROM DIFFERENT 50:51 KINGDOMS THEIR FLAGS FLEW ABOVE THEIR EMBASSY. 50:54 THEIR WALLS AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE LOOKED VERY 50:56 DIFFERENT - IT LOOKED LIKE THEIR COUNTRIES. 50:58 AND ONCE YOU WENT THROUGH, AND THEY'RE OFTEN HIGH SECURITY AND 51:01 THEY'RE GUARDED, AND ONCE YOU COULD GET INTO THOSE LITTLE 51:05 FORTRESSES - THOSE EMBASSIES - YOU REALLY WERE UNDER THE RULES 51:08 OF A DIFFERENT KINGDOM. IF YOU GO OVERSEAS AND YOU CAN 51:13 ENTER AN EMBASSY, WHILE YOU'RE ON THE GROUNDS OF THAT EMBASSY, 51:19 YOU ARE UNDER THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EVEN 51:23 THOUGH THAT EMBASSY MIGHT BE IN TUNISIA, FOR EXAMPLE. 51:27 OR THAT EMBASSY MIGHT BE IN ENGLAND OR, YOU KNOW, PICK ANY 51:35 EMBASSIES. I REMEMBER WE WERE IN CAMEROON, AFRICA AND GOT INTO 51:40 THE HOTEL ELEVATOR WITH A MARINE. 51:42 AT THAT TIME OUR SON DANIEL WAS STILL IN THE MARINES, AND HE WAS 51:45 IN HIS DRESS UNIFORM - ALL THE BUTTONS POLISHED, BLUE - 51:49 VERY SHARP LOOKING - AND SO I WAS CHATTING WITH HIM A LITTLE 51:51 BIT. HE SAID, 'WE'RE HERE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY BANQUET.' 51:57 I SAID, 'SO YOU'RE CELEBRATING THE FOURTH OF JULY?' 51:59 HE SAYS, 'YES, I'M STATIONED WITH OUR EMBASSY HERE AND WE 52:01 CELEBRATE ALL THE HOLIDAYS THAT YOU CELEBRATE.' 52:03 AND SO HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I'M STATIONED WITH THE EMBASSY.' 52:07 AND, BASICALLY, IT'S LIKE A LITTLE PIECE OF THE UNITED 52:09 STATES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. 52:11 OUR CHURCHES SHOULD OPERATE A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE EMBASSY. 52:16 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU MEET THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE AMBASSADORS IN 52:18 WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY ARE DRESSING IN THE CLOTHES AND 52:20 SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR KINGDOM AND THEY ARE TO 52:23 REPRESENT THEIR KING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. 52:27 WE ARE TO BE LIVING LIKE THE RULES OF OUR KING IN ANOTHER 52:31 COUNTRY, AREN'T WE? WE ARE TO BE SPEAKING THE 52:34 LANGUAGE AND FOLLOWING THE LIFESTYLE OF OUR KING. 52:37 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OTHER EXAMPLES. 52:39 OF COURSE, JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE SEEN ME YOU'VE SEEN THE 52:41 FATHER.' YOU LOOK IN LUKE 14:31 - JESUS 52:46 TELLS THE PARABLE, "OR WHAT KING" - LUKE 14:31 - "OR WHAT 52:51 KING, GOING TO MAKE WAR AGAINST ANOTHER KING, DOES NOT SIT DOWN 52:53 FIRST AND CONSIDER WHETHER HE IS ABLE WITH TEN THOUSAND TO MEET 52:58 HIM WHO COMES AGAINST HIM WITH TWENTY THOUSAND? 53:01 OR ELSE, WHILE THE OTHER IS STILL A GREAT WAY OFF," - BEFORE 53:03 THEY ACTUALLY GET INTO A BATTLE - "HE SENDS AN AMBASSAGE" - 53:07 AMBASSADORS AND DESIRES CONDITIONS OF PEACE." 53:12 SO AMBASSADORS ARE ALSO THERE TO HELP MEDIATE TERMS OF PEACE 53:19 BETWEEN KINGDOMS OR PEOPLE THAT ARE AT WAR. YOU GOT THAT? 53:25 IS THIS WORLD AT WAR WITH THE KING OF KINGS? 53:28 IS THERE A GREAT CONTROVERSY GOING ON? 53:30 ARE PEOPLE ABLE - IT SAYS 'WHAT KING - THE KING IS COMING, HE'S 53:35 GOT TWENTY THOUSAND, YOU'VE GOT TEN THOUSAND. 53:37 YOU BETTER FIND TERMS OF PEACE.' WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL THE 53:39 WORLD, 'HEY, OUR KING IS COMING AND HIS ARMY IS A LOT BIGGER 53:42 THAN YOUR ARMY.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 53:45 'AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE PEACE YOU NEED TO SETTLE THAT BEFORE 53:47 HE GETS HERE - WHILE HE'S A GREAT WAY OFF.' 53:51 AND SO AS AMBASSADORS OF ANOTHER KINGDOM WE OUGHT TO BE 53:54 REPRESENTING THAT KING IN OUR LIFESTYLE - IN EVERYTHING FROM 53:58 OUR DRESS AND WHAT WE EAT AND WHAT - OUR WORDS THAT WE SPEAK. 54:02 WE NEED TO REPRESENT ANOTHER KINGDOM. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 54:04 SO WE'RE AMBASSADORS AND THAT'S PART OF THE WORK OF THE HIGH 54:07 PRIEST. AND THEN IT SAYS, AND THIS IS 54:10 IMPORTANT - LAST PART - ONE SACRIFICE - ONE SACRIFICE. 54:16 HEBREWS 10, VERSE 8 - HEBREWS 10, VERSE 8, "PREVIOUSLY SAYING, 54:22 'SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, BURNT OFFERINGS, AND OFFERINGS FOR SIN 54:25 YOU DID NOT DESIRE, NOR HAD PLEASURE IN THEM' (WHICH ARE 54:29 OFFERED ACCORDING TO THE LAW), THEN HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE 54:33 COME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.' HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST THAT HE 54:36 MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND.'" - HE'S QUOTING FROM PSALMS - 54:39 "BY THAT WILL WE HAVE BEEN SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING 54:42 OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL." 54:45 NOW WHY DOES IT SAY IN HEBREWS 10 JESUS IS OFFERED ONCE FOR ALL 54:52 BUT THEN YOU READ IN HEBREWS 6, VERSE 6, "IF THEY FALL AWAY," - 54:57 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE - "TO RENEW THEM AGAIN TO REPENTANCE, SINCE THEY 55:00 CRUCIFY AGAIN FOR THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD, AND PUT HIM TO OPEN 55:04 SHAME." HOW CAN IT SAY IN ONE PLACE HE'S 55:07 CRUCIFIED ONCE FOR ALL AND THEN SAY HE'S CRUCIFIED AGAIN? 55:11 WHAT DOES IT MEAN THERE IN HEBREWS? 55:12 IT SAYS THEY'RE CRUCIFYING THE LORD AGAIN. 55:16 IS JESUS PHYSICALLY GOING TO BE DYING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN 55:19 FOR SIN? NO. BUT IS THE LORD GRIEVED WHEN WE SIN? YES. IS HE 55:27 WOUNDED? WAS HE WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS? YES. 55:30 HE'S NOT CONTINUALLY DYING FOR US, HE DIED ONCE FOR ALL. 55:34 HIS BLOOD, THOUGH, HOW OFTEN IS HIS BLOOD APPLIED? ONCE? 55:39 WAS HIS BLOOD ONLY APPLIED WHEN HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN? 55:41 OR IS THE BLOOD OF JESUS STILL APPLIED WHENEVER ANY SINNER 55:45 THROUGH HISTORY COMES TO CHRIST? SO EVEN THOUGH HE IS OFFERED 55:48 ONCE, HIS BLOOD, SOMEHOW KEPT FRESH, AND IT'S APPLIED ALL 55:54 THROUGH HISTORY WHENEVER SINNERS NEED IT. AMEN? AND SO THAT'S AN 55:58 IMPORTANT, I THINK, DISTINCTION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE. 56:01 AND WITH THAT, THE CLOCK TELLS ME WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 56:04 I THINK WE GOT THROUGH THE BEST PART OF THE LESSON AND SO I WANT 56:07 TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS THAT WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER AND IT'S A 56:11 BOOK CALLED, 'ASSURANCE: JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE' - 56:15 BY YOURS TRULY. AND IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY, 56:17 OFFER #727 IS WHAT YOU ASK FOR. 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