Participants: Pr. Chris Buttery
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021352
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00:45 >>GOOD MORNING. WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL 00:48 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH RIGHT HERE IN - TODAY IS SUNNY - 00:52 IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA ON THE WEST COAST OF 00:54 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 00:56 IF YOU'RE JOINING US FROM ANYWHERE AROUND THE PLANET, 00:59 WE'RE JUST SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN. 01:01 IF YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO AN EXTRA SPECIAL WELCOME AND, OF 01:04 COURSE, ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' LIVE STREAMING 01:08 - WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN FOR 01:10 'CENTRAL STUDY HOUR'. TODAY ON OUR PROGRAM WE'RE DOING 01:13 SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO 01:15 REALLY ENJOY IT. WE ARE GOING TO BE BLESSED BY 01:18 TWO SPECIAL PIECES BY PASTOR RALPH HENDERSON. 01:22 RALPH, WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 01:24 IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE YOU WERE HERE. 01:27 >>IT'S BEEN A WHILE, YES, BUT I'M GLAD TO BE HERE TODAY. 01:29 IT'S NICE TO BE VISITING WITH YOU HERE. 01:31 >>TELL ME A LITTLE BIT - SHORT - OF HOW DID YOU GET HERE TODAY. 01:34 EVERYBODY HAS A STORY. 01:36 >>HOW I GOT HERE TODAY? I CAME BY PLANE FROM FLORIDA. 01:39 >>IN LIFE, YES. >>OH, IN LIFE. 01:41 IN LIFE, WE STARTED A MUSIC MINISTRY BACK IN 1994. 01:45 IT WAS CALLED 'CALL TO PRAISE MINISTRY'. 01:47 AND ACTUALLY, I KIND OF FEEL LIKE SACRAMENTO CENTRAL IS OUR 01:50 HOME BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES THAT WE ACTUALLY 01:53 BEGAN AS WE STARTED OUR MUSIC MINISTRY. 01:56 AND FROM THERE - I DID THAT FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AND THEN BEGAN 01:59 PASTORING A SMALL CHURCH UP IN SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA AND 02:04 THEN WENT DOWN TO FLORIDA AND I'M NOW PASTORING THE 02:07 PLYMOUTH-SORRENTO SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND 02:10 THE NEW BEGINNING MISSION. 02:12 PLYMOUTH-SORRENTO IS RIGHT OUTSIDE OF APOPKA AND 02:15 NEW BEGINNING MISSION IS JUST OUTSIDE OF ORLANDO A LITTLE BIT. 02:18 >>WELL RALPH AND I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS - I FIRST MET HIM AND 02:21 HIS LOVELY WIFE JONI WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN AND WE WORKED 02:24 TOGETHER FOR A TIME. AND ONE THING THAT I ALWAYS 02:27 APPRECIATED ABOUT RALPH IS THAT HE LIKED TO GET THE YOUNG PEOPLE 02:31 INVOLVED IN PARTICIPATING IN CHURCH. 02:34 YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THIS BUT - HE WOULD SIGN ME UP TO HELP 02:36 WITH SABBATH SCHOOL AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND THAT MEANT A LOT 02:38 BECAUSE WE FELT, AS YOUNG PEOPLE, THAT WE WERE VALUABLE 02:42 AND WE WERE GIVEN A PLACE TO HELP LEARN TO LEAD SONG 02:45 SERVICES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THANK YOU RALPH, FROM ME, FOR 02:49 - AS - YOU KNOW, TEENAGERS THEY NEED ENCOURAGEMENT AND THEY NEED 02:52 ADULTS TO TAKE THEM UNDER THEIR WINGS SO RALPH AND JONI WERE A 02:59 SO TODAY RALPH IS GOING TO SING FOR US TWO SONGS - OH, LET ME 03:02 TELL YOU, IF YOU - AFTER YOU HEAR HIM YOU'RE GOING TO GO 03:04 'WHERE CAN I GET HIS CDS?' SO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU. 03:07 YOU GO TO 'CT' - YOU'RE GOING TO E-MAIL - THIS IS HIS E-MAIL 03:10 ADDRESS - 'CTPMINISTRY@HOTMAIL.COM'. 03:15 WHAT IS CTP? >>CALL TO PRAISE. 03:18 >>CALL TO PRAISE - 'CTPMINISTRIES@HOTMAIL.COM'. 03:23 TODAY RALPH WILL BE SINGING 'BE STILL AND KNOW' AND 03:25 'I WANT THEM TO MEET JESUS'. WELCOME RALPH. 03:28 >>THANK YOU. (MUSIC) 03:49 >>BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 03:57 BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS HOLY. 04:05 BE STILL, O RESTLESS SOUL OF MINE, BOW BEFORE THE PRINCE OF 04:12 PEACE, LET THE NOISE AND CLAMOR CEASE. 04:21 BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 04:29 BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS FAITHFUL. 04:37 CONSIDER ALL THAT HE HAS DONE. STAND IN AWE AND BE AMAZED AND 04:46 KNOW THAT HE WILL NEVER CHANGE. BE STILL. 05:00 BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 05:08 BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 05:16 BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 05:24 BE STILL. BE SPEECHLESS. BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. 05:42 BE STILL AND KNOW HE IS OUR FATHER. 05:51 COME REST YOUR HEAD UPON HIS BREAST, 05:55 LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM OF HIS UNFAILING HEART OF LOVE 06:04 BEATING FOR HIS LITTLE ONES CALLING EACH OF US TO COME. 06:15 BE STILL, BE STILL. 06:37 >>THIS NEXT SONG IS A SONG THAT I WROTE MANY YEARS AGO. 06:41 WHEN WE HAD OUR MUSIC MINISTRY. WE WERE TRAVELING FROM 06:43 CALIFORNIA TO COLORADO AND I WAS DRIVING THE BIG BUS UP FRONT ALL 06:47 ALONE AND THE LORD BROUGHT THIS SONG TO ME AND I WANT TO SHARE 06:50 IT WITH YOU THIS MORNING. 06:52 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE IS THAT YOU COME TO MEET 06:54 JESUS AND KNOW HIM AS YOUR PERSONAL FRIEND AND SAVIOR. 07:00 (MUSIC) 07:19 >>I'VE TRAVELED ALL ACROSS THIS LAND AND EVERY WHERE I GO 07:29 PEOPLE'S HEARTS ARE FILLED WITH FEAR FOR A FUTURE THEY DON'T 07:36 KNOW. THEY DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND 07:43 THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY, TO PLACE THEIR LIVES IN JESUS' 07:51 HANDS AND COME TO HIM TODAY. I WANT THEM TO MEET JESUS. 08:03 HE'S A FRIEND ABOVE ALL FRIENDS. HE'LL NEVER FORSAKE THEM, 08:13 HIS LOVE KNOWS NO END. NO MATTER WHAT THEY'VE COME 08:21 THROUGH, NO MATTER WHERE THEY'VE BEEN, HE CAME NOT TO CONDEMN 08:30 THE WORLD BUT TO SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SIN. 08:38 ARE YOU SECURE IN THE LIFE THAT YOU LIVE OR ARE YOU LOST AND 08:45 CONFUSED? YOU SEARCH AND STRUGGLE FOR THAT 08:50 PEACE OF MIND AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 08:58 LET ME INTRODUCE YOU NOW TO A FRIEND OF MINE AND WHEN YOU 09:09 GIVE YOUR LIFE TO HIM THAT PEACE YOU'LL SURELY FIND. 09:18 I WANT YOU TO MEET JESUS. HE'S A FRIEND ABOVE ALL FRIENDS. 09:28 HE'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU. HIS LOVE KNOWS NO END. 09:37 NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE COME THROUGH NO MATTER WHERE YOU'VE 09:45 BEEN HE CAME NOT TO CONDEMN YOUR LIFE BUT TO SAVE YOU FROM 09:54 YOUR SIN. NO GREATER LOVE HAS ANY MAN 10:03 THAN THE SAVIOR HAS FOR YOU. HE GAVE HIS LIFE THEN ROSE AGAIN 10:13 THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE TOO. CONSIDER LIFE WITHIN HIS HANDS, 10:22 HOW DIFFERENT IT WOULD BE. JUST TAKE THE TIME TO MEET MY 10:30 FRIEND AND COME ALONG WITH ME. I WANT YOU TO MEET JESUS. 10:42 HE'S A FRIEND ABOVE ALL FRIENDS. HE'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU, 10:52 HIS LOVE KNOWS NO END. NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE COME 10:59 THROUGH, NO MATTER WHERE YOU'VE BEEN, 11:06 HE CAME NOT TO CONDEMN YOUR LIFE BUT TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SIN. 11:18 HE CAME NOT TO CONDEMN YOUR LIFE BUT TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SIN. 11:43 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH RALPH, THOSE WERE BEAUTIFUL. 11:47 LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 11:50 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GIFT OF MUSIC 11:54 AND I PRAY THAT THE WORDS THAT RALPH JUST SANG WILL STAY WITH 11:58 US AND THAT WE WILL REALIZE THAT NO MATTER WHAT WE'VE GONE 12:03 THROUGH, YOU'RE ALWAYS THERE AND WE NEED TO SHARE JESUS WITH 12:07 THOSE AROUND US. PLEASE BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP 12:13 YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER TODAY. 12:15 AND I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH PASTOR CHRIS AS HE BRINGS US THE 12:17 LESSON STUDY. BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY 12:20 AROUND THE WORLD - EACH ONE. I JUST PRAY THAT WE WOULD ALL 12:25 SENSE YOUR SPIRIT MOVING IN OUR HEARTS TODAY. 12:27 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 12:32 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY. 12:34 PASTOR CHRIS IS OUR FAMILY LIFE AND EVANGELISM PASTOR 12:38 HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. 12:41 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU TODAY. 12:44 GLAD TO BE IN THIS PLACE WITH YOU. 12:47 IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S JUST BEEN A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG SINCE 12:50 I'VE BEEN HERE WITH YOU. 12:51 WE'VE BEEN BUSY DOING THE 'DISCOVER REVELATION' SEMINAR 12:55 AND - JUST NICE TO BE BACK IN THIS PLACE AND A SPECIAL WELCOME 12:58 TO THOSE WHO ARE VIEWING ONLINE AND ALSO, PERHAPS, WATCHING ON 13:01 TV OR WHEREVER YOU MIGHT BE - AND THINKING OF YOU TODAY. 13:05 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF OUR FREE OFFER. 13:08 IT'S OUR SPECIAL OFFER AND IT'S A LITTLE BOOKLET WRITTEN BY JOE 13:12 CREWS, 'PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT' AND SO IF YOU WANT TO 13:15 KNOW WHAT JESUS IS DOING TODAY UP THERE IN HEAVEN, AND PERHAPS 13:20 YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT - YOU WANT TO CALL IN. 13:22 THE NUMBER YOU WANT TO CALL IN TO IS 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 13:27 1-866-788-3966. SO PLEASE CALL IN. 13:31 WELL, WE ARE GOING INTO OUR FINAL LESSON FOR THIS QUARTER SO 13:37 WE'RE IN LESSON NUMBER 13 AND THE TITLE IS 'EXHORTATIONS FROM 13:41 THE SANCTUARY' AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT IN 13:46 PARTICULAR HERE THIS MORNING. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT OUR 13:48 MEMORY TEXT AND I WANT TO - I'M GOING TO READ IT FROM THE KING 13:52 JAMES VERSION HERE THIS MORNING SO HERE IT IS. 13:55 IT'S FOUND IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSES 21 AND 22 AND THIS IS 13:58 A PART OF THE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE 14:01 LOOKING AT THIS MORNING. HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSES 21 AND 22. 14:07 IT SAYS, "AND HAVING A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD, 14:10 LET US DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF 14:14 FAITH, HAVING OUR HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL 14:17 CONSCIENCE AND OUR BODIES WASHED WITH PURE WATER." 14:22 JUST PRIOR TO THIS, FROM CHAPTER 7 AND ON, PAUL HAS GIVEN A 14:26 FANTASTIC THEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST'S 14:29 SACRIFICE AND HIS HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY. 14:32 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 7, CHRIST IS PORTRAYED AS A HIGH PRIEST AFTER 14:37 THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. THEN IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 8, 14:41 CHRIST IS PRESENTED AS THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY 14:45 AND OF THE NEW COVENANT - THE BETTER COVENANT. 14:48 HEBREWS CHAPTER 9 - THE BLOOD OF CHRIST MAKES THE NEW COVENANT 14:53 EFFECTIVE. AND THEN IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, 14:56 JUST PRIOR TO THESE VERSES, CHRIST'S SACRIFICE IS PRESENTED 15:00 AS BEING SUPERIOR TO ANIMAL SACRIFICES. 15:04 NOW, THE WRITER OF HEBREWS CLAIMED THAT THE EARTHLY 15:06 SANCTUARY SHOULD NO LONGER CLAIM THEIR LOYALTY - OR CLAIM THE 15:11 LOYALTY AND DEVOTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAUSE GOD HAD 15:15 SET UP SOMETHING FAR MORE SUPERIOR - SOMETHING FAR BETTER 15:19 THAN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY. 15:21 THE EARTHLY WAS SIMPLY A SHADOW OF THAT GREAT SANCTUARY IN 15:25 HEAVEN THAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ABOUT OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS. 15:29 THE LATTER - THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY - IS SUPERIOR WITH A 15:32 SUPERIOR PRIEST - A DEATHLESS PRIEST IN HEAVEN - A PRICELESS 15:37 SACRIFICE THAT CHRIST MADE FOR US. A MORE - AS THE WRITER SAYS, 15:42 'A MORE EXCELLENT MINISTRY' WHILE THE FORMER - 15:45 THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY - THE TYPE - IS INFERIOR. 15:50 YOU HAVE PRIESTS BUT THEY DIED, YOU SEE. 15:53 YOU HAD SACRIFICES OF ANIMALS AND YOU HAD TO ACCESS GOD 15:57 VIA A HUMAN EARTHLY PRIEST. YOU COULDN'T GO INTO THE MOST 16:02 HOLY PLACE OF THE HEAVENLY - OF THE SANCTUARY, RATHER, WITHOUT 16:05 THE WORK OF THE PRIEST. THE PRIEST - THE HIGH PRIEST 16:09 WOULD GO INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 16:11 BUT NOW, PAUL, HAVING BUILT HIS CASE HERE, HE ENCOURAGES AND HE 16:17 EXHORTS BELIEVERS TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF 16:20 THESE TRUTHS - THAT THERE IS A BETTER SANCTUARY, A BETTER 16:24 MINISTRY, A BETTER HIGH PRIEST YOU UNDERSTAND, 16:27 BETTER SACRIFICES. 16:28 AND SO LET'S READ THE TEXT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SPENDING A 16:30 LITTLE TIME ON HERE, THIS MORNING, IN OUR STUDY. 16:33 HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 AND WE'RE READING VERSES 19 AND ON. 16:36 IT SAYS, "THEREFORE, BRETHREN, HAVING BOLDNESS TO ENTER THE 16:39 HOLIEST BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY WHICH HE 16:44 CONSECRATED FOR US THROUGH THE VEIL, THAT IS, HIS FLESH, AND 16:49 HAVING A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD, LET US DRAW NEAR 16:53 WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, HAVING OUR 16:57 HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE AND OUR BODIES WASHED 17:00 WITH PURE WATER. 17:02 LET US HOLD FAST THE PROFESSION OF OUR FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING, 17:05 FOR HE WHO PROMISED IS FAITHFUL." 17:08 VERSE 24, "AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE 17:11 AND TO GOOD WORKS, NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES 17:15 TOGETHER, AS IS THE MANNER OF SOME, BUT EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER; 17:20 AND SO MUCH THE MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY APPROACHING." 17:26 NOW THE LESSON BRINGS THIS OUT AND IT WAS QUITE INTERESTING. 17:28 THERE WERE TWO FACTS THAT WERE MENTIONED - TWO FACTS, WHICH 17:31 LEADS TO THESE THREE EXHORTATIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO 17:33 SPEND TIME LOOKING AT HERE THIS MORNING. 17:36 THE TWO FACTS ARE THAT WE CAN ACCESS THE THRONE - THE VERY 17:39 THRONE OF GOD VIA TWO THINGS. DID YOU SEE WHAT THEY WERE? 17:44 THROUGH TWO THINGS: THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS HIGH 17:49 PRIESTLY MINISTRY. WE CAN ACCESS THE THRONE OF GOD 17:52 VIA THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND HIS HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY AND THIS 17:57 LEADS TO THESE THREE EXHORTATIONS. 18:00 'LET US DRAW NEAR' IS THE FIRST EXHORTATION - THAT'S THERE IN 18:05 VERSE 22 AND THEN VERSE 23, 'LET US HOLD FAST' AND THEN VERSE 24, 18:14 'LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD 18:18 WORKS'. AND THESE THREE COMPRISE THAT 18:21 FAMILIAR TRIAD OF FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE. 18:25 YOU REMEMBER READING ABOUT THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13 AND 18:29 VERSE 13 - THAT GREAT LOVE CHAPTER. 18:31 PAUL SAYS, 'AND NOW ABIDES' - YOU REMEMBER? - 18:34 'FAITH, HOPE, AND' - THE KING JAMES SAYS 'CHARITY' BUT - 18:38 'LOVE' - THAT'S RIGHT - 'FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE, THESE THREE; BUT 18:40 THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.' AND SO WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT 18:43 THESE THREE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS TO CHRISTIAN LIVING HERE AND 18:46 WE'LL REVIEW THIS HERE IN OUR LESSON TODAY. 18:49 NOW, WE'RE ONTO SUNDAY'S LESSON: 'ACCESS TO THE HEAVENLY 18:54 SANCTUARY' - ACCESS TO THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 19:00 I DON'T THINK ANYONE HERE WOULDN'T CONSIDER IT, PERHAPS, A 19:04 HIGH HONOR IF YOU RECEIVED AN INVITATION FROM THE PRESIDENT OF 19:08 THE UNITED STATES OR, IF YOU LIKE ROYALTY, 19:12 THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. 19:14 YOU WOULDN'T CONSIDER IT - YOU WOULDN'T NOT CONSIDER IT TO BE A 19:17 HIGH HONOR TO RECEIVE AN INVITATION - IRRESPECTIVE OF 19:20 YOUR POLITICAL VIEWS IT'S QUITE - IT'D BE QUITE AN HONOR TO 19:22 RECEIVE A PERSONAL LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 19:25 STATES SAYING, 'COME INTO MY PRESENCE'. 19:28 BUT AN INCREDIBLY GREATER OFFER HAS BEEN OFFERED TO ALL THOSE 19:32 WHO ARE WILLING TO RESPOND. 19:34 WE MAY ENTER IN, THE BIBLE SAYS, THROUGH THE HOLIEST - THROUGH A 19:38 NEW AND A LIVING WAY THAT JESUS HAS OPENED FOR US. 19:42 IN THE ANCIENT TABERNACLE - THAT ANCIENT SANCTUARY - NO ONE BUT A 19:46 PRIEST COULD ENTER THE HOLY PLACE AND THE MOST HOLY PLACE 19:50 AND THEY COULD - THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT COULD APPEAR IN 19:54 THE SANCTUARY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 19:56 BUT HERE WE'RE INVITED TO ALL GO IN. 19:59 WE'RE ALL INVITED TO COME IN. THERE'S A FEW VERSES WE'RE GOING 20:01 TO LOOK AT HERE AND THESE WERE IN YOUR LESSON STUDY SO LET'S 20:04 LOOK AT THEM. WE'RE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 4. 20:06 BY THE WAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE READ HEBREWS 10:19 TO 22 20:09 - WHO HAS THAT ONE? HEBREWS 10:19 TO 22 - 20:13 RIGHT HERE - MAN, LOOK AT THAT, HOW CONVENIENT. WONDERFUL. 20:15 EXCELLENT. HEBREWS 10:19 TO 22 AND MANJEET, 20:20 IF YOU COULD JUST READ THE FIRST - READ IT, BUT THE FIRST PART OF 20:23 VERSE 22 AS WELL - NOT THE ENTIRE VERSE OF 22. 20:26 SO HERE WE ARE, HEBREWS 4, VERSE 16 - A FAMILIAR PASSAGE TO US. 20:33 IT S"BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY 20:39 AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED." 20:44 MAN, ISN'T THAT A WONDERFUL THING? 20:45 LET US - HERE'S THE INVITATION. WE CAN COME AND WE'RE NOT JUST 20:49 GOING TO COME, IT SAYS WE CAN COME BOLDLY. 20:51 WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. 20:53 AND WHY DO WE COME TO GOD'S THRONE OF GRACE? 20:56 YOU NOTICE, RIGHT NOW IT IS THE THRONE OF GRACE. 20:59 WHY IS IT THE THRONE OF GRACE? 21:01 IT'S THE THRONE OF GRACE BECAUSE - BECAUSE THE DOOR OF - THE PLAN 21:05 OF SALVATION - THE DOOR OF SALVATION IS STILL OPEN TO ALL 21:08 WHO WILL COME AND ALL WHO WILL RECEIVE CHRIST'S OFFER OF 21:13 ETERNAL LIFE, YOU SEE. THIS IS THE THRONE OF GRACE. 21:15 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, HE'LL BE SITTING ON 21:18 THE THRONE OF HIS - DO YOU REMEMBER? - GLORY. 21:21 PROBATION WOULD HAVE CLOSED. 21:23 GRACE TO SINNERS NO LONGER ACCESSIBLE. 21:27 EVERYONE'S MADE THEIR DECISION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 21:29 BUT NOW IT'S THE THRONE OF GRACE AND WE CAN COME AND OBTAIN 21:32 TWO THINGS. WE CAN OBTAIN MERCY FOR THE 21:36 FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND WE CAN ALSO FIND GRACE TO DO WHAT? 21:40 HELP IN TIME OF NEED. DO WE HAVE TIMES OF NEED? 21:44 YEAH, THERE ARE PLENTY OF TIMES OF NEED. 21:46 WHEN TEMPTATION COMES KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR IS THAT A TIME OF 21:48 NEED? SO THAT'S THE TIME WE CAN COME 21:50 TO THE THRONE OF GRACE AND PRESS OUR PETITIONS. 21:53 THEN HEBREWS 6, VERSES 19 AND 20 - IT SAYS, "WHICH HOPE WE HAVE 21:58 AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, BOTH SURE AND STEADFAST, AND WHICH 22:04 ENTERETH INTO THAT WITHIN THE VEIL; WHITHER THE FORERUNNER IS 22:07 FOR US ENTERED, EVEN JESUS, MADE AN HIGH PRIEST FOR EVER AFTER 22:12 THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." AND SO WE CAN HAVE ACCESS. 22:17 WE CAN COME WITHIN THE VEIL BECAUSE THE FORERUNNER, JESUS, 22:20 HAS MADE A WAY FOR US. WE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN 22:22 ACCESS THE THRONE OF GOD HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. 22:25 HEBREWS 10:19 THROUGH 22. THANKS MANJEET. 22:29 >>THEREFORE, BRETHREN, HAVING BOLDNESS TO ENTER THE HOLIEST BY 22:36 THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY WHICH HE CONSECRATED 22:42 FOR US, THROUGH THE VEIL, THAT IS, HIS FLESH, AND HAVING A HIGH 22:49 PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD, LET US DRAW NEAR..." 22:54 >>OKAY. PERFECT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. EXCELLENT. 22:58 SO HERE WE HAVE - WE CAN HAVE ACCESS - WE CAN ENTER INTO THE 23:01 HOLINESS BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND WE ARE INVITED TO DRAW NEAR. 23:07 HOW CAN WHAT WAS POSSIBLE TO ONLY A FEW INDIVIDUALS THOSE 23:10 YEARS AGO BE NOW ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY CHILD OF GOD? 23:14 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? ACCORDING TO THE VERSE IT SAYS, 23:16 'A NEW AND LIVING WAY HAS BEEN OPENED UP FOR US AND WE CAN 23:20 ENTER IN' - BY THE WHAT, FRIENDS? - 'THE BLOOD' - 23:23 THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. 23:26 A WONDERFUL CONCEPT AND WONDERFUL IDEA - A WONDERFUL 23:30 THING THAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US. 23:31 IF YOU GO BACK - AND WE'VE STUDIED THIS THIS QUARTER - YOU 23:34 GO BACK TO THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND YOU REMEMBER THAT WHEN THE 23:38 SINNER CAME - AND LET'S JUST SAY THAT HE BROUGHT OR SHE BROUGHT A 23:41 LAMB - THEY CAME INTO THE COURT, THEY LEANED - THEY WEIGHED UPON 23:46 THAT PARTICULAR ANIMAL, CONFESSING THEIR SINS, THE SIN - 23:49 THE GUILT - WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE SINNER TO THE INNOCENT 23:52 VICTIM. NOW, BECAUSE THEY BORE THE SIN, 23:54 THE ANIMAL MUST DIE. AND SO THE SINNER TOOK THE LIFE 23:58 OF THAT PARTICULAR ANIMAL HIMSELF/HERSELF, AND THEN THE 24:02 PRIEST DID SOMETHING WITH THE BLOOD. 24:05 HE TOOK THE BLOOD AND - DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE DID? - 24:06 HE WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE OF THE HEAVENLY - OF THE SANCTUARY 24:10 - I KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY - 24:12 WE WILL GET THERE. HE WENT INTO - THE PRIEST - THE 24:14 PRIEST WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE AND WHAT DID HE DO WITH THE 24:17 BLOOD? HE SPRINKLED THE BLOOD, RIGHT? WHERE? 24:21 RIGHT THERE BEFORE THE VEIL - THE ALTAR OF INCENSE, YOU SEE. 24:24 ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT THE HIGH PRIEST - THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD 24:28 GO INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT - HE WOULD 24:30 GO IN WITH THE BLOOD OF THE GOAT AND THEN HE WOULD GO IN AND WHAT 24:36 WOULD HE DO WITH THE BLOOD? HE WOULD SPRINKLE THE BLOOD 24:38 WHERE? BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT, OKAY, 24:41 WHICH WAS ON TOP OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. THAT'S RIGHT. 24:45 WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE THRONE OF GOD THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS. 24:51 CHRIST'S BLOOD HAS PAVED THE WAY FOR US TO HAVE COMPLETE AND FULL 24:55 ACCESS TO GOD RIGHT THERE IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 24:59 JESUS PREPARES THE WAY FOR US AT EVERY SINGLE STEP. 25:04 ON THAT DAY OF ATONEMENT, BY THE WAY, THE PRIEST WOULD COME OUT 25:07 OF THE MOST HOLY PLACE - HIGH PRIEST WOULD COME OUT OF THE 25:09 MOST HOLY PLACE AND HE WOULD TOUCH THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR OF 25:13 INCENSE WITH THE BLOOD. 25:14 HE'D COME OUT AND HE'D TOUCH THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT 25:16 OFFERINGS OUT THERE IN THE COURTYARD - BLOOD ALL THE WAY 25:19 THROUGH. THROUGH CHRIST'S BLOOD WE HAVE FULL AND COMPLETE ACCESS 25:23 TO THE FATHER. ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL NEWS? 25:25 THIS IS VERY GOOD NEWS HERE THIS MORNING. 25:29 OKAY, AND SO WHAT WE FIND IS WE HAVE THE HOPE OF ONE DAY 25:33 BEING REUNITED WITH GOD AT LAST. 25:36 SIN GOT IN THE WAY BACK THERE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, IT MESSED 25:40 THINGS UP - MESSED UP GOD'S PLANS AND THEN JESUS HAS MADE A 25:44 WAY POSSIBLE WHEREBY WE WILL HAVE A REUNION ONE DAY WITH GOD. 25:49 WE WILL BE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND WE WILL SEE GOD FACE TO 25:52 FACE. NOW, THE TEXT TELLS US THAT WE CAN COME IN - IT SAYS 25:57 IN VERSE 19, "HAVING, THEREFORE, BRETHREN" - WHAT'S THAT WORD? - 25:59 "BOLDNESS." NOW THAT'S NOT, OF COURSE, THE 26:02 BOLDNESS OF PRESUMPTION, BUT THE ASSURANCE OF FAITH AS WE PRESENT 26:05 CHRIST'S BLOOD, YOU UNDERSTAND, AND THE INCENSE OF HIS MERITS. 26:09 AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS IDEA OF BOLDNESS IN JUST A MOMENT. 26:12 AND IT SAYS THERE THAT "HAVING BOLDNESS TO ENTER IN THE 26:16 HOLINESS BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY WHICH HE 26:19 CONSECRATED FOR US, THROUGH THE VEIL." 26:22 YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS DIED, THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WHAT? 26:25 RENT IN TWAIN OR TORE IN TWO FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. 26:29 AND THEY SAY THAT THAT VEIL WAS ABOUT THE THICKNESS OF A MAN'S 26:32 HAND. AND THAT SYMBOLIZED A DIVINE ACT 26:35 - BEING TORN FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. IN OTHER WORDS, 26:38 IT SIGNIFIED - CHRIST'S DEATH SIGNIFIED A TRANSITION FROM 26:41 THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY TO THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 26:45 ALSO, A VEIL NEED NO LONGER STAND BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. 26:50 AND THEN IT SAYS THERE IN VERSE 20, IT SAYS, 'THROUGH THE VEIL, 26:55 THAT IS, TO SAY, HIS FLESH.' WHEN JESUS CAME - HE CAME NOT 27:00 JUST TO TELL US HOW TO LIVE, JESUS CAME TO SHOW US HOW TO 27:05 LIVE, DIDN'T HE? JESUS CAME TO SHOW US HOW TO LIVE. 27:08 IF WE LOOK AT ROMANS CHAPTER 8, VERSES 3 AND 4 - AND YOU CAN 27:11 FEEL FREE TO TURN THERE WITH ME - ROMANS CHAPTER 8, VERSES 3 AND 27:14 4, WE FIND SOMETHING INTERESTING HERE. 27:18 ROMANS CHAPTER 8, VERSES 3 AND 4. 27:20 THE BIBLE SAYS, "FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO IN THAT IT WAS 27:23 WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE 27:27 LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE 27:30 FLESH: THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN 27:33 US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. 27:39 AND SO, WHAT JESUS DID HE DID IN HUMAN FLESH - HE KEPT GOD'S LAW. 27:45 WHAT WE COULDN'T DO IN THAT WE WERE WEAK, JESUS CAME AND HE DID 27:49 AND NOW HE OFFERS TO US HIS SPIRIT WHO WILL WRITE THAT LAW 27:51 UPON OUR HEARTS AND IN OUR MINDS. 27:55 THAT'S THE NEW COVENANT PROMISE. THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR 27:57 EACH ONE OF US, YOU SEE. WHEN JESUS CAME HE SHOWED US THE 28:02 WAY. JESUS GAINED VICTORY BY DEPENDING UPON HIS FATHER, 28:06 YOU UNDERSTAND. REVELATION 3, VERSE 21 - LET ME 28:09 JUST FLIP OVER THERE AND IF YOU WANT TO JOIN ME YOU'RE WELCOME. 28:11 REVELATION CHAPTER 3, VERSE 21 - IT SAYS, "TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES" 28:16 - AND THIS IS TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - REVELATION 3:21 - "TO 28:19 HIM WHO OVERCOMETH WILL I GRANT TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE, 28:24 EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME, AND AM SET DOWN WITH MY FATHER IN HIS 28:32 THRONE." AND SO HERE WE READ THAT THE 28:36 PROMISE TO ALL THOSE WHO OVERCOME - WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO 28:40 SIT WITH - WHAT DOES IT SAY THERE? 28:42 WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SIT THERE - SIT DOWN WITH HIS - WITH HIM BY 28:46 HIS FATHER, YOU UNDERSTAND. NOW I SUSPECT THAT GOD HAS NOT - 28:50 OR JESUS AND GOD THE FATHER - THEY'RE NOT SO MUCH INTERESTED 28:53 IN US - OUR ENTITLEMENT TO ROYALTY, YOU UNDERSTAND, SITTING 28:58 WITH THEM - SITTING WITH THEM AT THEIR THRONE - BUT MORE 29:02 INTERESTED IN HAVING US WITH THEM, YOU UNDERSTAND? 29:06 I MEAN GOD WANTS TO PLACE US THERE. 29:08 YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF IRONIC, THIS WHOLE EPISODE OF SINNERS 29:12 BECOMING SAINTS BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND THEN BEING ABLE TO SIT 29:16 AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD - SIT THERE WITH JESUS. 29:19 ISN'T THAT WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS? ISN'T THAT WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS? 29:22 HE SAID, 'I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.' 29:24 HE WANTED TO TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD. 29:25 HE WANTED TO SIT IN THE THRONE OF GOD. 29:28 BUT IN THE END, THOSE WHO HAVE EXPRESSED FAITH IN CHRIST - 29:31 THOSE WHO HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST - HIS SACRIFICE - AND LEAN HEAVILY 29:35 ON HIM AS HIGH PRIEST IN HEAVEN - MAN, WONDERFUL THING - WE GET 29:41 TO SIT WITH HIM AT HIS THRONE. IT'S PHENOMENAL. 29:47 IT IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL WHAT GOD DOES FOR HUMAN BEINGS. 29:52 SO JESUS, WHEN HE CAME, HE OVERCAME. 29:55 WHEN HE WAS HERE HE OVERCAME BY DEPENDING ON HIS FATHER. 29:57 HE DIDN'T CONSULT HIS FEELINGS, HE JUST SIMPLY LIVED 30:00 BY THE WORD OF GOD. 30:02 NOW WE GET INTO TROUBLE WHEN WE LIVE BY OUR FEELINGS, DON'T WE? 30:05 WE SOMETIMES PARLAY AND DISCUSS AND HAVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS WITH 30:09 OUR OWN FEELINGS AND WE - OUR FEELINGS DECEIVE US MANY TIMES. 30:13 JESUS DIDN'T CONSULT HIS FEELINGS, HE LIVED BY THE WORD 30:17 OF GOD AND WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO THE SAME. 30:20 HE OVERCAME BY TRUSTING HIS FATHER AND WE CAN OVERCOME AS WE 30:23 TRUST IN JESUS, AMEN? SURE. 30:26 NOW TO ENTER INTO THE SANCTUARY THEN - TO ENTER INTO THE 30:29 SANCTUARY - WE ARE INVITED TO ENTER INTO THE SANCTUARY THEN - 30:31 IS TO UNDERSTAND - IT SIMPLY MEANS FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE 30:34 WORK THAT CHRIST IS DOING IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 30:38 WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WORK HE WAS DOING IN THE HOLY PLACE 30:40 AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WORK HE'S DOING NOW 30:43 IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE. BY FAITH, YOU SEE, WE ARE TO 30:46 UNDERSTAND HIS WORK AND TO FOLLOW JESUS BY FAITH THERE IN 30:52 THE MOST HOLY PLACE. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE 30:55 INSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE WERE TALKING, THINGS WERE GOING ON 30:59 AROUND YOU, BUT YOUR MIND WAS A MILLION MILES AWAY? 31:02 AND MEN DON'T SAY THAT THAT HAPPENED TO YOU WHILE YOUR WIVES 31:04 WERE TALKING. DON'T BE SAYING THAT. 31:06 BUT STUFF IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND YOU AND YOU JUST - YOU'RE 31:10 NOT PAYING ANY ATTENTION - WALKING DOWN THE STREET, STUFF 31:13 FLASHING AT YOU FROM THE STORE WINDOW, CARS BUZZING BY, HORNS 31:17 HONKING, AND YOUR MIND IS A MILLION MILES AWAY. 31:20 IT CAN BE THE SAME FOR THE BELIEVER. 31:23 WE HAVE DISTRACTIONS APLENTY HERE ON PLANET EARTH. 31:25 ISSUES A LOT WE MUST DEAL AND CONTEND WITH, BUT OUR MINDS CAN 31:28 BE WHERE? CAN BE THERE. OUR MINDS CAN BE IN HEAVEN. 31:33 OUR MINDS CAN BE THERE WHERE CHRIST IS 31:34 IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 31:36 ISSUES CAN BE HAPPENING ALL AROUND US, BUT WE ARE FOCUSED - 31:39 OUR MINDS ARE IMAGINING WHAT CHRIST IS DOING UP THERE. 31:43 THE ANGELS OF GLORY ALL GATHERED AROUND THE BOOKS AND HIS 31:48 JUDGMENT PROCESS, THE 24 ELDERS, ENOCH, AND ELIJAH AND MOSES. 31:53 OUR MINDS CAN GRASP - OUR IMAGINATIONS CAN GRASP THE 31:57 SCENES UP THERE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 32:00 THEY SAY THAT - WELL, I SHOULDN'T SAY 'THEY SAY' BUT 32:03 IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS AS SPACE SHUTTLES GO - FLY FURTHER AWAY 32:07 FROM THE EARTH AND GET CLOSER TO THE MOON, THE MOON BECOMES A LOT 32:11 LARGER AND THE EARTH BECOMES A LOT SMALLER. 32:15 THE QUESTION FOR US IS WHICH DIRECTION ARE WE HEADING? 32:18 THAT'S THE QUESTION. WHICH DIRECTION ARE WE TENDING? 32:20 ARE WE TENDING MORE TOWARDS HEAVEN AND THINGS OF THIS EARTH 32:23 ARE GROWING STRANGELY DIM IN THE LIGHT OF HIS GLORY AND GRACE, OR 32:27 DO ISSUES AND PROBLEMS LOOM LARGE HERE ON PLANET EARTH AND 32:31 IT'S VERY DIM UP THERE IN HEAVEN WHAT JESUS IS DOING. 32:34 WHAT DIRECTION ARE WE GOING? WHERE IS OUR FOCUS AND WHAT ARE 32:39 WE LOOKING AT? THANK THE LORD WE CAN HAVE 32:43 DIRECT ACCESS TO GOD BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, AMEN? SURE. 32:50 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO OVER TO MONDAY'S LESSON. 32:52 WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT HERE ABOUT THIS ADMONITION - 32:55 THIS EXHORTATION - THIS ADVICE THAT PAUL IS URGING UPON US. 33:01 ALRIGHT, SO WHAT ARE THE FOUR CONDITIONS FOR APPROACHING GOD 33:04 IN THE SANCTUARY? HERE ARE SOME OF THE - HERE'S 33:07 THE FIRST PART: HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 22 - BACK THERE IN 33:13 HEBREWS - HEBREWS 10, VERSE 22 - THE FIRST THING IT SAYS HERE - 33:16 WELL, LET'S READ THE WHOLE TEXT. IT SAYS, "LET US DRAW NEAR WITH 33:19 A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, HAVING OUR HEARTS 33:23 SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE, AND OUR BODIES 33:26 WASHED WITH PURE WATER." DID YOU SEE THE FOUR THERE? 33:29 THE FOUR ARE: DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART - IN FULL ASSURANCE 33:32 OF FAITH, #2 - HAVING OUR HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL 33:35 CONSCIENCE, #3 - AND OUR BODIES WASHED WITH WATER, #4. 33:38 LET'S TALK ABOUT THESE FOR JUST A FEW MOMENTS. 33:40 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DRAW NEAR? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DRAW NEAR? 33:44 NOW YOU REMEMBER ON THAT GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT, AS AARON WENT 33:48 INTO THE TABERNACLE AND HE WENT INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE ON THE 33:53 DAY OF ATONEMENT, PEOPLE WOULD GATHER AROUND, THE SCRIPTURES 33:57 TELL US - PEOPLE WERE TO DRAW NEAR BECAUSE THEY WERE 34:00 INTERESTED IN WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE TABERNACLE - IN THE 34:04 SANCTUARY ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY. 34:06 WHEN WE WATCH THEM - WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW THEY APPROACHED AND 34:09 HOW THEY DREW NEAR AND WHAT THEY DID, WE CAN LEARN OURSELVES AS 34:13 TO HOW TO DRAW NEAR ALSO. LEVITICUS CHAPTER 16 AND VERSE 34:19 29 GIVES US A COUPLE OF IDEAS AS TO WHAT THEY DID ON THAT DAY OF 34:25 ATONEMENT WHEN JUDGMENT WAS TAKING PLACE. 34:28 YOU UNDERSTAND - AND WE'VE STUDIED THIS - THIS WAS A GREAT 34:30 DAY WHERE SINS WERE TO BE BLOTTED OUT AND IF YOU HADN'T 34:33 CONFESSED YOUR SINS AND THEY WEREN'T IN THE SANCTUARY, YOU'D 34:35 BE CUT OFF - OUT OF ISRAEL, YOU UNDERSTAND, ON THAT PARTICULAR 34:38 DAY IF YOU HAD NOT EXPRESSED FAITH IN THE COMING MESSIAH BY 34:43 OFFERING UP YOUR SACRIFICES AND CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN YOUR SIN. 34:48 AND SO HERE LEVITICUS CHAPTER 16 - THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT DAY. 34:50 AND CHAPTER 16 IN LEVITICUS TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT 34:54 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. 34:55 VERSE 29 - IT SAYS, "AND THIS SHALL BE A STATUTE FOR EVER UNTO 34:59 YOU: THAT IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE TENTH DAY" - THAT'S WHEN 35:02 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT TOOK PLACE - "YE SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS, 35:07 AND DO NO WORK AT ALL, WHETHER IT BE ONE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY, 35:11 OR A STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG YOU:" NOW JUMP OVER TO 35:15 CHAPTER 23 OF LEVITICUS - LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 AND WE'RE 35:20 LOOKING AT VERSE 27 - LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 AND VERSE 27. 35:25 IT'S GOING TO GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 35:28 THE PEOPLE - WHAT THE PEOPLE WERE DOING ON THE DAY OF 35:30 ATONEMENT AS THEY WERE TO DRAW NEAR TO THE SANCTUARY - SHOWING 35:33 INTEREST IN WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THERE. 35:35 LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 AND VERSE 27. 35:39 IT SAYS, "ALSO ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH THERE 35:43 SHALL BE A DAY OF ATONEMENT: IT SHALL BE AN HOLY CONVOCATION 35:47 UNTO YOU; AND YE SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS, AND OFFER AN 35:50 OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD." 35:55 AND SO HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DID ON THE DAY 35:58 OF ATONEMENT AND WE'RE ENCOURAGED TO DO. 36:00 FIRST OF ALL, THEY WERE TO AFFLICT THEIR SOULS AND OFFER UP 36:03 A SACRIFICE AND THAT JUST SIMPLY REFERS TO HAVING HUMILIATION 36:07 OVER SIN AND DEPEND - HAVING A GREAT - RECOGNIZING OUR GREAT 36:12 NEED AND DEPENDENCE UPON THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST, 36:17 YOU UNDERSTAND. THAT'S ALL IT MEANS. 36:19 IT MEANS HAVING HUMILIATION OVER OUR SINS AND SENSING OUR GREAT 36:22 NEED WHILE CLINGING ONTO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS. 36:25 YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THERE WILL EVER BE A TIME WHEN WE WALK 36:28 THROUGH THIS WORLD, WHERE WE'LL EVER FEEL SECURE - 36:33 WE SHOULD EVER FEEL SECURE IN OURSELVES. 36:36 BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEELING SECURE IN YOURSELF AND FEELING 36:40 SECURE IN JESUS CHRIST, YOU UNDERSTAND. 36:43 THERE WILL NEVER BE A TIME - WE SHOULDN'T EVER FEEL SECURE IN 36:45 OURSELVES. THERE'LL NEVER BE A TIME WHEN WE 36:47 SAY, 'LOOK, I'M DONE. NO MORE STRUGGLING. I'M SAVED. 36:49 THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT.' 36:51 THERE WILL NEVER BE A TIME WHERE WE'LL SAY THAT. 36:54 WE HAVE ONE BUSINESS TODAY AND THAT BUSINESS IS TO MAKE AN END 36:57 OF SIN BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AMEN? 36:59 THAT'S THE WORK THAT JESUS IS DOING IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 37:03 AND THEN IT SAYS THEY WERE TO DO NO WORK. 37:05 THEY WERE TO DO NO WORK. AND SOMEONE SAYS, 'WELL, PASTOR 37:08 CHRIS, WE'RE LIVING HERE IN THIS GREAT ANTITYPICAL DAY OF 37:10 ATONEMENT AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT WE SHOULD JUST KIND OF 37:12 RESIGN - THROW IN THE TOWEL - TURN IN OUR HOURS AND THAT'S IT? 37:17 NO. NOW GOD MADE PROVISION - AND THIS IS A WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL 37:20 LESSON FOR US. GOD MADE PROVISION ON THE DAY OF 37:23 ATONEMENT BACK THEN FOR FOLK TO DO NO WORK. 37:26 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS TO BE NO DISTRACTIONS. 37:29 THERE WERE TO BE NO DISTRACTIONS. 37:30 THE LESSON FOR US IS TO SEEK TO REMOVE SOME OF THOSE 37:33 DISTRACTIONS FROM OUR LIVES, BY GOD'S GRACE, THAT HINDER US FROM 37:37 SPENDING TIME LOOKING AT WHAT CHRIST IS DOING IN THE HEAVENLY 37:40 SANCTUARY - SPENDING TIME IN HIS WORD, YOU SEE. MATTHEW 6:33 37:44 SAYS, "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; 37:47 AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." 37:49 SOMETIMES WE GET THAT TURNED AROUND. 37:51 I'M GOING TO SEEK ALL THESE THINGS FIRST AND THEN WHEN I 37:53 HAVE TIME I'LL SEEK GOD. IF YOU'RE LIVING THAT WAY - IF 37:57 YOU PLAN TO WORK THAT WAY - YOU'RE JUST GOING TO BE 37:59 FRUSTRATED AND UPSET AND THINGS ARE NOT 38:01 GOING TO GO REALLY THE WAY YOU THINK THEY OUGHT TO GO. 38:08 BTHEN ALL THESE THINGS WILL BES ADDED UNTO YOU AND ALL THOSE 38:11 THINGS HE REFERS TO IN THE PREVIOUS VERSES IS CLOTHING, A 38:15 ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, AND FOOD FOR YOUR BELLIES. 38:18 EVERYTHING ELSE IS AN EXTRA BONUS. AND SO THOSE THINGS 38:22 GOD PROVIDES FOR HIS PEOPLE. AND SO WE'RE TO PUT GOD FIRST. 38:26 AND THE THIRD THING IT SAYS IS WE ARE TO FAST. 38:29 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - THEY WERE TO FAST THAT PARTICULAR DAY. 38:32 YOU KNOW IT MAY ACTUALLY REQUIRE SOME OF US A LITTLE MORE SELF- 38:35 DENIAL TO EAT JUST PROPER FOOD AT THE PROPER TIMES THAN TO FAST 38:38 FOR A 24-HOUR PERIOD OF TIME. YEAH, IT MIGHT JUST DO THAT. 38:42 THE SOUL NEEDS TO BE NOURISHED AS WELL. PERHAPS HAVING A FAST 38:45 FROM TV AND CERTAIN MAGAZINES AND DIFFERENT THINGS. 38:48 MORE TIME WITH THEM MEANS LESS TIME WITH JESUS AND SO WE HAVE 38:54 TO ASK THE QUESTION: 'HOW DO YOU FIND PERSONAL TIME?' 38:57 WELL, WHEN YOU TITHE YOU DON'T TITHE WHAT'S LEFT, RIGHT? 38:59 YOU GET YOUR PAYCHECK - YOU GET YOUR MONEY - AND YOU TITHE FROM 39:02 WHAT? THE TOP. DO THE SAME THING WITH GOD WITH 39:06 TIME - TITHE FROM THE TOP AND GIVE HIM THE BEST AND THE FIRST, 39:10 YOU UNDERSTAND. SPEND TIME WITH HIM IN THE 39:13 MORNING, FIRST THING - TIME IN PRAYER STUDYING HIS WORD. 39:16 AND SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DID - THE CHILDREN 39:20 OF ISRAEL DID AS AARON WENT INTO THAT - WENT INTO 39:23 THE MOST HOLY PLACE ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. 39:25 THEY WERE TO DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART OR JUST SIMPLY A 39:29 DEDICATED HEART - A SINCERE HEART - WITHOUT HYPOCRISY AND 39:33 WITHOUT ANY RESERVATION - A SINCERE HEART. 39:36 THE BIBLE SAYS IN OTHER PLACES - IT REFERS TO THE HEART BEING 39:40 PERFECT - HAVING A PERFECT HEART. 39:42 THAT JUST SIMPLY MEANS A HEART THAT IS CONSECRATED ENTIRELY TO 39:45 GOD. IT DOESN'T MEAN THE LIFE MAY BE 39:47 PERFECTLY FLAWLESS - IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT. 39:49 IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU'RE HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION 39:52 AND YOU HAVE EVERY INTENTION TO DO GOD'S WILL BY HIS GRACE AND 39:55 THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 39:57 AND THEN IT SAYS THAT WE ARE, IN THAT VERSE - LET ME GO BACK TO 40:00 HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 22, "DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART" - 40:04 THAT'S #1. #2 - "IN FULL ASSURANCE OF 40:07 FAITH" - WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD - ISN'T 40:12 THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? IT SAYS THAT RIGHT OVER THERE IN 40:14 HEBREWS CHAPTER 11. WE MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND A 40:17 REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM. 40:21 WE MUST COME WITH FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH. 40:24 YOU KNOW, AS PARENTS, IF OUR CHILDREN EVER DOUBTED OUR WORD 40:31 OR OUR PROMISES - YOU KNOW, AS A PARENT, YOU KIND OF KNOW WHAT 40:34 THAT FEELS LIKE WHEN THEY COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'DAD, MOM, ARE 40:38 YOU SURE? YOU SURE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TODAY?' - OR 40:41 'YOU SURE THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE - YOU SURE?' 40:45 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THE FATHER - THE HEAVENLY FATHER MUST FEEL 40:48 WHEN WE COME TO HIM SAYING, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD, I'M NOT SO SURE. 40:50 I MEAN, YOU'RE SAYING IT HERE BUT I'M NOT SO SURE.' 40:54 DO YOU THINK IT MIGHT HURT HIS HEART A LITTLE BIT TO REALIZE 40:57 HIS EARTHLY CHILDREN DOUBT HIS PROMISES? 41:03 DASSURANCE OF FAITH.? AND FAITH IS SIMPLY JUST 41:05 BELIEVING WHAT GOD SAYS. THAT'S ALL IT IS. 41:07 THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE EASIEST DEFINITIONS OUT THERE. 41:10 BELIEVING WHAT GOD SAYS. IF GOD SAYS HE CAN CLEANSE YOUR 41:13 HEART FROM SIN, GUESS WHAT HE CAN DO? 41:15 HE CAN CLEANSE YOUR HEART FROM SIN. 41:17 IF HE SAYS THAT HE CAN IMPART GRACE TO YOU TO LIVE ABOVE SIN, 41:20 GUESS WHAT THAT MEANS. IT MEANS HE CAN IMPART GRACE SO 41:23 THAT YOU CAN LIVE ABOVE SIN, YOU SEE. 41:26 FAITH ACCEPTS THAT. DOUBT AND UNBELIEF JUST SIMPLY 41:29 ROB A PERSON OF THE CAPACITY TO ACCEPT WHAT JESUS PROMISES TO DO 41:34 FOR YOU AND ME. THAT'S WHAT IT DOES - IT JUST 41:37 ROBS US OF THE CAPACITY TO APPLY JESUS' SAVING GRACE. 41:40 OKAY, THAT'S #2. #3 - WE'RE TO COME WITH HEARTS 41:44 SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE. 41:47 WHAT IS THE CONSCIENCE? 41:48 THE CONSCIENCE IS THAT QUIET VOICE THAT SPEAKS TO YOU. 41:51 NO, IT'S NOT PINOCCHIO'S JIMINY THE CRICKET OR ANOTHER YOU. 41:56 THE CONSCIENCE IS THE AVENUE BY WHICH GOD SEEKS TO SPEAK TO YOU. 42:00 NOW YOUR CONSCIENCE - WHAT YOUR CONSCIENCE SAYS DEPENDS ON WHO'S 42:04 PLAYING IT, YOU UNDERSTAND - OR PLAYING ON IT. 42:07 IT DEPENDS ON - IF SOMEONE HAS A GUITAR IN THEIR HANDS, WHAT TYPE 42:10 OF MUSIC IS PLAYED DEPENDS ON WHO IS PLAYING, CORRECT? 42:15 - WHO'S PLAYING THAT GUITAR. WHAT YOU HEAR FROM THE GUITAR 42:18 DEPENDS ON WHO'S STRUMMING THE CHORDS. 42:21 IF SATAN IS PLAYING ON THE CHORDS OF YOUR CONSCIENCE HE MAY 42:24 GIVE YOU AN EASY TIME WHEN YOU SHOULD BE, ACTUALLY, 42:27 HAVING A HARD TIME. 42:28 OR HE MAY HOUND YOU AND WORRY YOU WHEN YOU SHOULD JUST BE 42:31 EXPERIENCING HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM IN JESUS CHRIST. 42:34 SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN - OUR CONSCIENCES ARE TRULY 42:38 GUILT FREE AND THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE AS THEY'RE SPRINKLED WITH 42:43 THE BLOOD OF JESUS. NOTHING ELSE WILL WORK. 42:46 THE BLOOD WAS SPRINKLED IN THE HOLY PLACE FOR THE FORGIVENESS 42:49 AND THE COVERING OF SIN AND ONCE A YEAR IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE 42:53 FOR THE BLOTTING OUT OF SIN. NOW WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW 42:55 VERSES HERE: HEBREWS 11, VERSE 28 - JUST SO WE CAN TRY TO 42:59 UNDERSTAND THIS A LITTLE BIT - HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 28. 43:02 ALRIGHT, IT SAYS, "BY FAITH HE" - THAT IS, MOSES - "KEPT THE 43:07 PASSOVER AND" - WHAT'S THAT PHRASE? - "THE SPRINKLING OF 43:11 BLOOD, LEST HE WHO DESTROYED THE FIRSTBORN SHOULD TOUCH THEM." 43:16 DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT? 43:19 THEY WERE TOLD TO TAKE THE BLOOD OF THE ANIMAL AND THEY WERE TO 43:21 PUT IT ON THE LINTELS - DOORPOSTS - OF THE DOOR - AND 43:24 THEY WERE TO SPRINKLE THE BLOOD UP THERE. 43:25 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WERE TO APPLY THE BLOOD. 43:29 THE SPRINKLING OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS MUST BE APPLIED 43:32 OR IT'S OF NO USE WHATSOEVER. 43:35 HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, VERSES 22 TO 24 - NOTICE THIS - HEBREWS 43:39 12:22-24 - IT SAYS, "BUT YOU HAVE COME TO MOUNT ZION AND TO 43:44 THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD, THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, TO AN 43:47 INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS, TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND 43:50 CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN WHO ARE REGISTERED IN HEAVEN, TO GOD THE 43:54 JUDGE OF ALL, TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT, TO JESUS 43:57 THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND TO THE BLOOD OF 44:02 SPRINKLING" - THERE IT IS AGAIN - "THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS 44:05 THAN THAT OF ABEL." SO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WRITER 44:09 HERE IS SIMPLY WRITING FIGURATIVELY OF CHRISTIANS 44:12 TODAY WHO ARE BEING ASSEMBLED BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD - AND 44:16 HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN BE ASSEMBLED BEFORE THE THRONE OF 44:18 GOD? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? I TOLD YOU THAT WE WERE GOING TO 44:21 COME TO IT IN JUST A MOMENT AND HERE WE ARE. 44:23 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO THE THRONE OF 44:25 GOD? OF COURSE, YES, THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS. 44:28 YES, THROUGH HIS HIGH PRIESTLY MINISTRY. 44:30 BUT HOW CAN WE COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD? THROUGH PRAYER. 44:35 THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S REFERRING TO HERE. 44:38 WE CAN COME INTO - PRESS INTO THE VERY THRONE ROOM OF GOD 44:41 THROUGH PRAYER. NOTHING TO HINDER US - I MEAN, 44:45 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK TO GOD IN PRAYER YOU DON'T HAVE TO - 44:47 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE PUT ON HOLD. 44:50 THERE'S NO ONE THAT'S GOING TO - YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE SOME 44:53 AUTOMATED MESSAGE TELL YOU TO PRESS 1 OR PRESS 2. 44:56 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE - NO SECRETARY IS GOING TO GET IN THE 44:59 WAY FOR YOU TO APPROACH GOD. YOU CAN COME INTO HIS PRESENCE, 45:04 YOU SEE, IT SAYS HERE, 'THROUGH PRAYER BEFORE JESUS THE MEDIATOR 45:07 OF THE NEW COVENANT AND THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING' - 45:10 NOW NOTICE - 'THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING SPEAKS BETTER THINGS 45:12 THAN THE BLOOD OF ABEL.' CAN BLOOD SPEAK? APPARENTLY SO. 45:17 YOU REMEMBER THAT GOD SAID TO CAIN, 'THE VOICE OF THY 45:20 BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIES UNTO ME FROM THE GROUND.' 45:22 ABEL'S BLOOD CRIED FOR WHAT? VENGEANCE. 45:25 IT CRIED FOR VENGEANCE. BUT ACCORDING TO HEBREWS, JESUS' 45:28 BLOOD SPEAKS BETTER THINGS. WHAT DO YOU THINK JESUS' BLOOD 45:30 SPEAKS? MERCY. JESUS' BLOOD SPEAKS MERCY. 45:35 THE DOUBLE - THE SPRINKLING BLOOD HAS A DOUBLE MESSAGE. 45:38 FIRST, IT REVEALS TO US SINS ARE TERRIBLENESS. 45:42 WHEN WE SPEND JUST A - WHEN WE SPEND TIME LOOKING AT THE CROSS, 45:46 WE SEE OUR WONDERFUL SAVIOR UP THERE ON CALVARY, THE BLOOD 45:50 DRIPPING FROM HIS BROW AND HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE AND HIS FEET. 45:54 IT SPEAKS TO US OF THE HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN. 45:58 SECONDLY, IT SPEAKS TO US OF THE WONDERFUL - IT SPEAKS TO US OF 46:02 THE WONDERFUL LOVE OF GOD. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CROSS IT 46:07 SPEAKS TO US OF JESUS' TERRIFIC AND MAGNIFICENT LOVE FOR SINNERS 46:11 LIKE YOU AND ME. THAT'S THE THIRD THING - THAT'S 46:15 THE THIRD CONDITION FOR COMING INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 46:17 #4 - BODIES WASHED IN WATER - THAT'S BAPTISM. 46:21 BAPTISM, OF COURSE, SIMPLY PROCLAIMS TO ALL WITNESSES THE 46:24 INTENTION OF THE PERSON TO ENTER INTO THE PRIVILEGES AND TO 46:28 ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHILD OF 46:31 GOD - THAT'S BAPTISM. ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO TUESDAY AS 46:33 WE TRY TO MOVE ALONG AND SEE IF WE CAN'T FINISH HERE. 46:37 THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF APPROACHING GOD. 46:40 SOME REASONS MAY BE THAT THEY FEEL THEY'RE TOO - THEY'VE DONE 46:43 TOO MANY BAD THINGS OR DONE TOO MANY THINGS THAT GOD CAN'T 46:46 FORGIVE, BUT THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE WAY. 46:48 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSES 19 46:52 AND 20 TELL US THAT WE CAN COME WITH BOLDNESS. 46:54 WE'VE BEEN READING THESE VERSES - 'HAVING THEREFORE, BRETHREN' - 46:56 WHAT'S THAT WORD? 'BOLDNESS TO ENTER INTO THE 47:00 HOLINESS BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.' AND THEN IN VERSE 22, "LET US 47:03 DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH. 47:09 NOW BOLDNESS IS THAT WORD FROM THE GREEK PARRHESIA AND WE CAN 47:14 EXTRACT SEVERAL ENGLISH WORDS FROM THAT: OUTSPOKENNESS, 47:18 FRANKNESS, PLAINNESS OF SPEECH, COURAGE, CONFIDENCE, 47:23 AND FEARLESSNESS. 47:25 SO WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME BOLDLY WITH COURAGE, WITH 47:29 CONFIDENCE, WITH FEARLESSNESS INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 47:32 IF A PERSON - I MEAN, YOU KNOW - YOU KNOW - AND WE'RE AS HUMAN AS 47:36 THE NEXT PERSON - THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO US. 47:39 YOU DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW YOU'VE SINNED, AND YOU'RE JUST 47:42 SO RELUCTANT - WILL GOD TAKE YOU AGAIN? 47:44 THE ANSWER IS YES HE WILL. YOU CAN COME BOLDLY - WHY? 47:50 WE READ IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 16, "LET US THEREFORE COME 47:53 BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN" - WHAT? - 47:57 "MERCY." THESE TEXTS SPEAK TO US ABOUT A GOD WHO WANTS US TO COME 48:02 TO HIM. A GOD WHO DESIRES US TO COME TO HIM. 48:04 A GOD WHO KNOWS THAT IF WE DON'T COME TO HIM WE'LL BE LOST. 48:07 AND SO HE SAYS, 'COME, COME BOLDLY' YOU UNDERSTAND. 48:11 NOW THE ASSURANCE AND CONFIDENCE THAT WE'RE TO HAVE - THAT IS NOT 48:13 COCKINESS - DIFFERENT THING ALTOGETHER, YOU UNDERSTAND. 48:16 OUR CONFIDENCE IS NOT IN OURSELVES IT IS IN - WHOM? 48:19 JESUS CHRIST. YOU CAN HAVE FULL ASSURANCE. 48:22 YOU CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE BECAUSE OF JESUS. 48:24 WE CAN'T SAVE OURSELVES. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING THAT IS 48:27 GOOD WITHOUT GOD'S HELP, BUT WE CAN HAVE FULL ASSURANCE. 48:31 NOTHING MORE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING MORE THAN FULL 48:34 ASSURANCE, AND NOTHING LESS, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT OUR GOD. 48:38 HOW DO WE GAIN THIS ASSURANCE? 48:40 SIMPLY THROUGH A THING CALLED FAITH. 48:42 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US WE CAN ACCESS OR HAVE THIS THROUGH A 48:45 THING CALLED 'FAITHFUL SERVICE'. WE CAN ACCESS IT BY FAITH AND WE 48:51 CAN HAVE IT BECAUSE OF THE FAITHFUL SERVICE WE DO FOR OUR 48:55 LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. SO WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE TODAY. 49:00 LET'S GO TO WEDNESDAY - HOPE - BE STEADFAST AND UNSWERVING. 49:05 I JUST READ A STORY THE OTHER DAY ABOUT A COMMUTER FLIGHT. 49:10 CAPTAIN HARRY DEMPSEY - THIS TOOK PLACE IN 1987 - HE HEARD A 49:14 STRANGE - THEY WERE FLYING - TAKING OFF - 49:15 AND HE HEARD A STRANGE NOISE AT THE BACK OF 49:17 THIS LITTLE 15-PASSENGER AIRPLANE. 49:19 SO WHEN HE WENT BACK THERE - LEFT THE CONTROLS TO HIS 49:23 CO-PILOT - HE WENT BACK THERE TO CHECK OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 49:27 THE PLANE HIT AN AIR POCKET AND, OF COURSE, IT BOUNCED EVERYBODY 49:30 AROUND IN THERE AND IT THROUGH DEMPSEY AGAINST THE BACK DOOR 49:35 AND THE DOOR ACTUALLY POPPED OPEN AND THAT'S THE NOISE HE 49:39 HEARD - THE DOOR WAS LOOSE - IT WASN'T SHUT - FULLY 49:42 CLOSED THERE - WHEN THE PLANE TOOK OFF. AND SO DEMPSEY - 49:46 THE DOOR FLUNG OPEN AND DEMPSEY GOT SUCKED OUT AND THEY WERE 49:51 ABOUT 5,000 FEET IN THE AIR. WELL, THE CO-PILOT REALIZED WHAT 49:55 WAS HAPPENING. HE RADIOED TOWERS AROUND AND 49:57 TRIED TO FIND A PLACE WHERE HE COULD LAND THE PLANE AND QUICKLY 50:00 AND SO WHEN THEY - THE PLANE LANDED - THEY 50:03 ACTUALLY FOUND DEMPSEY ALIVE. THEY FOUND DEMPSEY ALIVE AND HE 50:07 WAS STILL CLINGING TO THE OUTDOOR STAIR RAILING. 50:09 APPARENTLY WHEN THE DOOR FLUNG OPEN IT DROPPED THE STAIRS. 50:12 HE INSTINCTIVELY GRABBED THE RAILING AND HE HUNG ON FOR DEAR 50:15 LIFE FOR TEN MINUTES IN 200 MILE AN HOUR WINDS. 50:19 AND THEY SAID THEY HAD TO TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO PRY - TO GET HIS 50:23 HANDS LOOSE FROM - YOU CAN IMAGINE! 50:27 YOUR LIFE IS IN THE BALANCE - IT'S HANGING BY YOUR GRIP. 50:31 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE ON WEDNESDAY - 50:34 'HOLD ON'. HANGING ON. WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING TEXTS TELL 50:38 US TO HOLD ON TO? SOMEONE'S GOT HEBREWS 10:23 - 50:41 OKAY, MICHAEL'S GOT THAT. VERY CONVENIENT HERE FOR YOU 50:45 THIS MORNING. HEBREWS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 23 - 50:47 WE'RE LOOKING AT HEBREWS 3:6 AND 14. 50:49 I'M JUST GOING TO READ THESE FOR US RELATIVELY QUICKLY. 50:51 HEBREWS 3:6 AND 14 SAYS, "BUT CHRIST AS A SON OVER HIS OWN 50:57 HOUSE, WHOSE HOUSE WE ARE IF WE HOLD FAST THE CONFIDENCE 51:01 AND THE REJOICING OF HOPE." 51:03 HEBREWS 4:14 SAYS, "SEEING THEN THAT WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST 51:07 WHO HAS PASSED THROUGH THE HEAVENS, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, 51:09 LET US HOLD FAST OUR PROFESSION." HEBREWS 6:18, 51:14 "BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS, IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD 51:17 TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION WHO HAVE FLED FOR 51:20 REFUGE TO LAY HOLD ON THE HOPE THAT IS SET BEFORE US." 51:25 HEBREWS 10:23, MICHAEL, THANK YOU. 51:27 >>HEBREWS 10:23, "LET US HOLD FAST THE CONFESSION OF OUR HOPE 51:31 WITHOUT WAVERING, FOR HE WHO PROMISED IS FAITHFUL." 51:35 >>AMEN. SO WE ARE TO DO WHAT? HOLD FAST AND DON'T LET GO. 51:41 IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH. IT TRULY IS. 51:45 IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH. DO NOT LET GO. 51:48 WE CAN TRUST THAT GOD WILL FULFILL HIS PROMISES, AMEN? 51:51 THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF STORIES IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT 51:54 THAT TELL US WE CAN TRUST GOD. 51:56 WE CAN KNOW THAT HIS PROMISES ARE SURE. 51:59 HE TOLD ABRAHAM AND SARAH, 'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHILD'. 52:01 DID THEY HAVE A CHILD? YES, THEY HAD A CHILD. 52:04 THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHESIED OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. 52:07 DID THE MESSIAH COME THE FIRST TIME? YES HE DID. 52:10 THESE PROMISES HAVE BEEN FULFILLED THAT LEAD US TO 52:13 BELIEVE THAT WE CAN TRUST GOD'S PROMISES FOR US TODAY. 52:17 WHEN IT SAYS HE IS COMING BACK CAN WE TRUST THAT PROMISE? 52:20 YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT. 52:21 GOD'S WORD SAYS IT, WE CAN BELIEVE IT. 52:22 DON'T LET THE DEVIL TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT GOOD. 52:25 DON'T LET THE DEVIL TELL YOU THAT YOUR SIN IS TOO BAD - TOO 52:28 BIG FOR GOD TO TAKE CARE OF. WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE DID 52:32 THAT MUCH MORE ABOUND. AND IF IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR 52:35 GRIP IS SLIPPING, REMEMBER THAT GOD HAS A TIGHTER AND FIRMER 52:39 HOLD ON YOU AND YOU CAN TRUST HIM TO HOLD YOU. ALRIGHT. 52:43 SO GLAD THAT YOU JOINED US HERE TODAY FOR THIS WONDERFUL STUDY 52:47 AS WE CLOSE OUR STUDY IN THE - AS WE LOOK AT THE - 52:49 CLOSE OUR STUDY ON THE SUBJECT 52:51 OF THE SANCTUARY, I WANT TO REMIND THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING US 52:53 HERE TODAY TO CALL IN TO THE NUMBER 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 52:59 1-866-788-3966 FOR OUR SPECIAL OFFER - OUR FREE OFFER - 53:05 'PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT'. YOU'LL WANT TO CALL IN TO 53:08 RECEIVE THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US 53:10 HERE TODAY. WE'RE SO GLAD FOR THE FACT THAT 53:14 YOU'VE BEEN HERE AND PARTICIPATED. 53:17 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 53:30 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 53:33 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 53:37 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 53:40 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 53:46 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 53:51 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 53:54 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 53:59 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 54:02 (MUSIC) 54:13 >>THE SCARLET HARLOT WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, WHO 54:17 REPRESENTS THE CHURCH THAT HAS FALLEN INTO APOSTASY AND WE 54:21 THOUGHT, IN THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO POLAR OPPOSITE VISIONS IN 54:26 REVELATION, WE COULD TELL THE STORY OF WHAT THE DEVIL WANTED 54:29 TO DO TO THE CHURCH - THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH AND THIS 54:33 PERSECUTING POWER AND THE REAL PURITY THAT GOD WANTED FOR HIS 54:37 PEOPLE - THE PURE TRUTH - THE PURE WORD - AND JUST SEE THE 54:40 BATTLE - THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TWO 54:43 AND THE DRAGON APPEARS IN BOTH STORIES. 54:46 YOU'VE GOT THE SAME DRAGON - THAT SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON IS 54:49 PERSECUTING THIS ONE WOMAN AND YET THE OTHER WOMAN IS RIDING 54:54 UPON IT - THEY'RE WORKING IN COOPERATION - THEY'RE A TEAM. 54:57 THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO VISIONS CREATES A VERY CLEAN WAY TO 55:02 ILLUSTRATE THE BATTLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR - TRUE CHURCH - 55:05 FALSE CHURCH - GOOD CHURCH - BAD CHURCH - PURE CHURCH - DEFILED 55:10 CHURCH - AND THAT'S THE GREAT CONTROVERSY GOING ON IN THE 55:13 RELIGIOUS WORLD TODAY. >>WE DON'T WANT HER TO GO TO THE 55:16 POINT WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE 'OH MAN, SHE'S KIND OF SCARY. 55:18 >>NO, THE FACE IS GOING TO BE LIKE FLAWLESS BEAUTY - 55:22 JUST INTENSE EYES. I'VE GOT CRAZY LASHES. 55:27 I'VE GOT LIKE THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR LASHES. 55:29 >>OKAY. >>UM...LIKE A REALLY VIBRANT 55:31 LIP, YOU KNOW, SO JUST REALLY, REALLY INTENSE IN THE FACE AND 55:36 FLAWLESS BUT WE CAN ALSO DO, YOU KNOW, DECORATIVE STUFF TOO LIKE 55:40 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ON THE HAND. 55:43 >>AND WE'RE GOING TO ADD A 55:45 PIECE THAT'S A FALL AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE BRAIDS AND IT'S 55:49 GOING TO ADD MORE HAIR AND MORE WAVE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ADD 55:52 A BUNCH OF JEWELS AND CROWNS AND GEMS AND JEWELRY. 55:58 >>SHE IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY DECORATED. 56:00 >>YEAH, DECORATIONS. 56:03 >>THE WOMAN ON THE DRAGON ALSO HAS WRITING ON HER FOREHEAD: 56:07 'MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND THE 56:09 ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH.' WE HAD NICOLE, OUR MAKE-UP 56:12 ARTIST, WRITE ALL THE ACTUAL SCRIPTURE VERSE THERE 56:16 ON HER FOREHEAD IN HEBREW. 56:19 >>ALRIGHT, TAKE HER AROUND. VERY NICE. TIP THE HEAD A LITTLE BIT. 56:26 >>AS AN EVANGELIST, WE HAVE PREACHED - FOR YEARS I'VE TALKED 56:29 ABOUT REVELATION 17 - THIS INFAMOUS WOMAN - AND I'VE NEVER 56:33 REALLY SEEN AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT THAT RIGHTLY PORTRAYS WHAT I 56:37 THOUGHT IN MY MIND JOHN SAW IN VISION. AND IT JUST - 56:41 SOMETHING ABOUT THE VIVID BRIGHT COLORS - EVERYBODY THAT WALKED 56:47 IN AND SAW THAT BEING SHOT - THEIR MOUTHS FELL OPEN. 56:50 I EXPECT THIS IS GOING TO BE A MIXTURE OF RESPONSES AND THAT'S 56:54 ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN YOU SHARE TRUTH WITH PEOPLE, BUT THE TRUTH 56:57 IS THE TRUTH AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE 57:02 CHURCH AND THE GREAT COMPROMISE AND THE PERSECUTION THAT GOD'S 57:08 PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH - EVEN AT THE HANDS OF PROFESSED 57:11 CHRISTIANS, I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, 'WOW, HOW COME 57:16 I NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE? 57:18 I'M GOING TO TAKE A STAND FOR THE TRUTH. 57:20 I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE. 57:22 THIS IS GOING TO LIBERATE ME. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE ME A 57:24 BETTER PERSON. THIS IS A BETTER PICTURE OF GOD. 57:27 ANYTHING WE DO TO DISTORT THE TRUTH OR TO COVER THE TRUTH, IT 57:31 HIDES OR VEILS JESUS IN SOME WAY. AND SO THIS FILM - 57:35 WE'RE WANTING TO TEAR THE VEIL AWAY AND REALLY SHOW 57:37 WHO JESUS IS THROUGH A PURE VIEW OF THE TRUTH AND EVERYBODY 57:43 IS AFFECTED BY THAT. (MUSIC) |
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