(MUSIC) 00:00:00.36\00:00:45.30 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:00:45.30\00:00:49.86 MICHAEL, ANNIE, NANCY AND I ARE WELCOMING YOU AND WE'RE SO GLAD 00:00:49.86\00:00:53.10 THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN. 00:00:53.10\00:00:54.63 WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR 00:00:54.63\00:00:57.56 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS 00:00:57.56\00:01:01.16 TELEVISION NETWORKS - IT DOESN'T MATTER, WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU 00:01:01.16\00:01:04.60 ARE TUNING IN AND YOU ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 00:01:04.60\00:01:07.93 FAMILY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:01:07.93\00:01:11.43 WE WANT TO START THE PROGRAM LIKE WE ALWAYS DO, SINGING YOUR 00:01:11.43\00:01:14.70 FAVORITES AND TODAY, OF COURSE, IS NO EXCEPTION. 00:01:14.70\00:01:17.96 THEY KEEP COMING IN AND WE LOVE TO SING AND WE KNOW YOU DO TOO. 00:01:17.96\00:01:22.13 SO LET'S START - 'TIS LOVE THAT MAKES US HAPPY' - IF YOU HAVE A 00:01:22.13\00:01:26.03 HYMNAL, TURN IN IT TO #579 AND WE WILL DO ALL THREE STANZAS. 00:01:26.03\00:01:31.26 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MARCIA IN AUSTRALIA, HAYLEY IN 00:01:31.26\00:01:34.76 THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, KARL AND MAISIE IN FRANCE, JOEL IN 00:01:34.76\00:01:38.66 NEW ZEALAND, ROBERT IN PAPUA, NEW GUINNEA, AND THERE WERE 00:01:38.66\00:01:41.36 SEVERAL OTHER WONDERFUL PLACES AROUND THE WORLD THAT WANT TO 00:01:41.36\00:01:44.86 SING THIS WITH US AS WELL. ALL THREE STANZAS - #579. 00:01:44.86\00:01:48.60 (MUSIC) 00:01:48.60\00:01:49.30 >>SUCH A SIMPLE SONG, BUT THE MESSAGE IS PROFOUND. 00:04:32.03\00:04:36.26 AND I FIND THAT EVERY DAY WITH A 3- AND A 5-YEAR-OLD - AS 00:04:36.26\00:04:40.93 I'M TRYING TO TEACH, YOU KNOW, HOW TO BE NICE AND KIND, THAT IT 00:04:40.93\00:04:46.03 TRULY - WHEN YOUR CHILDREN GET THAT CONCEPT - AND EVEN AS 00:04:46.03\00:04:50.56 ADULTS IT'S VERY EASY TO FORGET THAT SOMETIMES. 00:04:50.56\00:04:53.80 BUT THAT IS TRUE HAPPINESS - WHEN YOU ARE NOT THINKING ABOUT 00:04:53.80\00:04:57.50 YOURSELF BUT YOU'RE MAKING SOMEBODY ELSE HAPPY. 00:04:57.50\00:05:00.60 SO LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY. 00:05:00.60\00:05:03.43 THAT TRUE HAPPINESS - IT'S THAT LOVE IN OUR HEARTS THAT, OF 00:05:03.43\00:05:07.56 COURSE, ONLY THE LORD CAN GIVE US, THAT WILL TRULY MAKE US 00:05:07.56\00:05:10.63 HAPPY AND MAKE OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY. 00:05:10.63\00:05:13.40 OUR NEXT SONG - YOU'RE USED TO SINGING TWO SONGS WITH US, BUT I 00:05:13.40\00:05:17.86 HAVE AN EXTRA SPECIAL SONG TODAY AND IT'S NOT US, IT'S ERWIN. 00:05:17.86\00:05:23.13 AND ERWIN NANASI HAS BEEN IN THE STATES TWO AND A HALF YEARS. 00:05:23.13\00:05:28.46 HE IS FROM GERMANY AND HE ACTUALLY CAME TO THE STATES TO 00:05:28.46\00:05:32.36 GO TO AFCOE, WHICH IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 00:05:32.36\00:05:35.36 EVANGELISM, AND HE STAYED. 00:05:35.36\00:05:37.96 AND WE LOVE HAVING ERWIN HERE IN THE STATES BECAUSE HE BLESSES US 00:05:37.96\00:05:43.56 WITH HIS AMAZING TALENTS ON THE PIANO AND HE IS GOING TO BE 00:05:43.56\00:05:48.00 PLAYING FOR US 'WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN'. 00:05:48.00\00:05:50.60 I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT HE IS ALSO THE MUSIC DIRECTOR - THE 00:05:50.60\00:05:54.13 RESIDENT COMPOSER AT WEIMAR COLLEGE AND HE HAS DONE 00:05:54.13\00:05:57.40 TREMENDOUS WORK WITH THE COLLEGE STUDENTS AT WEIMAR - 00:05:57.40\00:06:00.76 THE CHOIR - AND TEACHING THE MUSIC. 00:06:00.76\00:06:03.23 SO HE'S GOING TO PLAY FOR US RIGHT NOW, 'WHEN WE ALL GET TO 00:06:03.23\00:06:05.50 HEAVEN' AND YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME, HE SAID, TO FOLLOW 00:06:05.50\00:06:07.53 ALONG IN YOUR HYMNALS - #633. 00:06:07.53\00:06:11.83 (MUSIC) 00:06:11.83\00:06:12.50 >>AMEN! THANK YOU ERWIN. ERWIN WAS PLAYING OUT OF THE 00:09:28.93\00:09:31.93 HYMNALS THAT YOU HAVE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHAT'S WRITTEN IN 00:09:31.93\00:09:35.50 THE HYMNAL IS NOT WHAT HE JUST PLAYED. 00:09:35.50\00:09:39.16 AND THAT IS WHAT INSPIRES ME AND JUST MAKES ME EXCITED. 00:09:39.16\00:09:43.46 WHEN YOU CAN TAKE GOD'S - THE TALENTS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU 00:09:43.46\00:09:46.63 AND PLAY BEAUTIFUL MUSIC LIKE THAT. 00:09:46.63\00:09:49.16 AT THIS TIME, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 00:09:49.16\00:09:53.10 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING US, FOR 00:09:53.10\00:09:56.86 BRINGING US HERE, AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THAT WE JUST 00:09:56.86\00:09:59.90 HEARD FROM ERWIN. AND ONE DAY, WHEN WE ALL GET TO 00:09:59.90\00:10:03.23 HEAVEN, WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE. 00:10:03.23\00:10:06.86 AND THE BEST PART IS THAT WE'LL FINALLY GET TO SEE YOUR FACE. 00:10:06.86\00:10:11.03 AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH BE READY FOR THAT DAY. 00:10:11.03\00:10:15.30 PLEASE SEND YOUR SPIRIT AND COME AND LIVE IN OUR HEARTS AS WE 00:10:15.30\00:10:18.56 OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 00:10:18.56\00:10:20.93 BE WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HIS 00:10:20.93\00:10:23.86 MINISTRY HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:10:23.86\00:10:26.00 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY 00:10:26.00\00:10:30.30 WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:10:30.30\00:10:37.53 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE. ERWIN, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE THAT SONG 00:10:37.53\00:10:40.96 - WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN. MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH. 00:10:40.96\00:10:46.10 I WANT TO WELCOME - THOSE WHO MAY BE VISITING HERE AT CENTRAL 00:10:46.10\00:10:48.43 CHURCH TODAY, I WANT TO WELCOME ALWAYS THE EXTENDED CLASS - 00:10:48.43\00:10:53.33 PEOPLE WHO ARE EITHER WATCHING ONLINE OR BY SATELLITE OR FROM 00:10:53.33\00:10:57.43 AROUND THE WORLD. AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE 00:10:57.43\00:10:59.83 TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WITH YOU. 00:10:59.83\00:11:02.26 WE WILL BE CONTINUING TODAY IN LESSON #2 IN OUR NEW QUARTERLY. 00:11:02.26\00:11:07.96 OF COURSE, HERE AT CENTRAL WE SORT OF LIVE IN THE FUTURE. 00:11:07.96\00:11:10.76 WE TAPE A FEW WEEKS IN ADVANCE SO THAT WE CAN GET THE PROGRAMS 00:11:10.76\00:11:13.03 CLOSED CAPTIONED AND EDITED AND SENT TO THE VARIOUS SATELLITE 00:11:13.03\00:11:16.60 NETWORKS AND - BUT BEFORE WE DO, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 00:11:16.60\00:11:20.96 TODAY'S LESSON IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FEAST 00:11:20.96\00:11:23.03 DAYS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT MOSES' LAW 00:11:23.03\00:11:26.73 AND CHRIST. AND THERE'S A FREE OFFER CALLED 00:11:26.73\00:11:29.60 'FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS' AND WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU JUST BY 00:11:29.60\00:11:32.26 CALLING AND ASKING. THE NUMBER'S THERE ON YOUR 00:11:32.26\00:11:34.56 SCREEN. I KNOW SOME LISTEN TO THIS 00:11:34.56\00:11:36.63 PROGRAM ON RADIO SO I SAY THE NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE - 00:11:36.63\00:11:40.50 THAT'S 866-788-3966. AND WHEN YOU CALL, ASK FOR OFFER 00:11:40.50\00:11:46.20 #179 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 00:11:46.20\00:11:50.50 ALSO, OUR LESSON IS ON 'CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES'. 00:11:50.50\00:11:56.40 TODAY WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - 'CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES' - 00:11:56.40\00:11:59.76 AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US FROM JOHN 5:46 - 00:11:59.76\00:12:04.80 I'LL JUST READ IT OUT OF THE LESSON HERE. 00:12:04.80\00:12:06.46 THIS IS THE NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION, JOHN 5:46. 00:12:06.46\00:12:10.03 WILL YOU SAY IT WITH ME? ARE YOU READY? "IF YOU BELIEVED 00:12:10.03\00:12:13.96 MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME." 00:12:13.96\00:12:19.56 NOW, I RUN INTO IT EVERYWHERE - PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THAT THE LAW 00:12:19.56\00:12:26.60 OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. 00:12:26.60\00:12:30.50 ACTUALLY, THEY ARE THE SAME LAW AND CHRIST IS A PERFECT IMAGE OF 00:12:30.50\00:12:35.93 THE LAW OF MOSES. LET ME GIVE YOU AN ILLUSTRATION 00:12:35.93\00:12:38.76 OF THAT - NOW I GAVE OUT SOME VERSES I'M GOING TO ASK PEOPLE 00:12:38.76\00:12:42.00 TO READ, BUT THERE'S ONE VERSE I DID NOT GIVE OUT SO I NEED A 00:12:42.00\00:12:45.43 VOLUNTEER. YOU DON'T HAVE A SLIP OF PAPER. 00:12:45.43\00:12:47.63 I NEED SOMEONE, HOPEFULLY IN THE FIRST FEW ROWS, THAT'S WILLING 00:12:47.63\00:12:50.13 TO READ FOR ME DEUTERONOMY 18:15. 00:12:50.13\00:12:53.50 HOLD UP YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE WILLING. WE'VE GOT A HAND 00:12:53.50\00:12:55.70 RIGHT HERE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP 00:12:55.70\00:12:58.20 FOR US, DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18, VERSE 15. 00:12:58.20\00:13:02.13 AND THE REASON THAT I WANT TO GO TO THIS VERSE IS BECAUSE JESUS 00:13:02.13\00:13:08.96 REALLY IS A TYPE - OR I SHOULD SAY MOSES WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 00:13:08.96\00:13:13.60 JESUS WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE MISSION OF MOSES AND MOSES 00:13:13.60\00:13:18.80 FORETOLD THAT THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:13:18.80\00:13:20.93 SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES, 00:13:20.93\00:13:23.73 YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS BECAUSE, AS IT 00:13:23.73\00:13:26.16 SAYS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE, 'IF YOU BELIEVE MOSES, YOU'D BELIEVE 00:13:26.16\00:13:29.50 ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME.' NOW WHERE DID - WHERE DID MOSES 00:13:29.50\00:13:33.93 WRITE ABOUT JESUS? GO AHEAD, READ THAT VERSE FOR US, PLEASE. 00:13:33.93\00:13:37.43 >>THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET 00:13:37.43\00:13:40.70 FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, OF THY BRETHREN, 00:13:40.70\00:13:43.36 LIKE UNTO ME; UNTO HIM YE SHALL HEARKEN;" 00:13:43.36\00:13:47.36 >>ALRIGHT, THIS IS A PROPHECY - A VERY IMPORTANT 00:13:47.36\00:13:49.90 PROPHECY THAT ALL THE JEWS KNEW ABOUT THAT SOMEDAY GOD WOULD 00:13:49.90\00:13:53.83 RAISE UP A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. MOSES SAID 'LIKE ME' - GOD'LL 00:13:53.83\00:13:58.43 RAISE UP A PROPHET. THAT'S A PRETTY TALL ORDER 00:13:58.43\00:14:01.23 BECAUSE MOSES WENT FROM BEING THE VERY LEAST - I MEAN, 00:14:01.23\00:14:05.63 HE'S KIND OF RETRIEVED FLOATING AROUND IN THE RIVER - TO NOT 00:14:05.63\00:14:08.53 ONLY BEING A LEADER IN EGYPT, BUT THE FOUNDER OF A NEW NATION. 00:14:08.53\00:14:11.83 THERE'S ALMOST NOBODY ELSE YOU COULD POINT TO IN THE BIBLE THAT 00:14:11.83\00:14:15.70 MADE A BIGGER DIFFERENCE IN HISTORY THAN MOSES DID. 00:14:15.70\00:14:19.40 NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE WAYS THAT MOSES IS LIKE CHRIST. 00:14:19.40\00:14:24.06 I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THEY ARE PARALLELS IN MANY RESPECTS SO 00:14:24.06\00:14:28.16 THAT AS WE TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU 00:14:28.16\00:14:31.43 WON'T THINK OF THEM AS OPPOSING LAWS, BUT REALLY, THEY'RE IN 00:14:31.43\00:14:35.70 CONCERT. THEY'RE SORT OF IN STEREO WITH EACH OTHER. 00:14:35.70\00:14:39.73 ALRIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES: JOHN 1:21, "AND THEY 00:14:39.73\00:14:44.16 ASKED HIM" - JOHN THE BAPTIST - "'WHAT THEN? 00:14:44.16\00:14:47.43 ARE YOU ELIJAH?'" - BECAUSE WHEN JOHN STARTED 00:14:47.43\00:14:49.73 PREACHING - JOHN THE BAPTIST - THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ELIJAH 00:14:49.73\00:14:52.23 RETURNED - "'ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE SAID, 'I AM NOT.' 'ARE YOU 00:14:52.23\00:14:55.43 THE PROPHET?' AND HE ANSWERED, 'NO.'" - 00:14:55.43\00:14:58.73 WHAT DO THEY MEAN 'THE PROPHET'? 00:14:58.73\00:15:00.46 NOT TALKING ABOUT ELIJAH, WHO IS 'THE PROPHET'? 00:15:00.46\00:15:03.06 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF THIS PROPHET WOULD BE - A 00:15:03.06\00:15:06.36 PROPHET LIKE MOSES - THEY JUST CALLED HIM 'THE PROPHET' BECAUSE 00:15:06.36\00:15:09.40 IF HE'S LIKE MOSES HE WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE PROPHET. NOT THE 00:15:09.40\00:15:11.73 MESSIAH, BUT THIS ULTIMATE PROPHET THAT WOULD COME. 00:15:11.73\00:15:15.63 AND JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, 'NO.' AGAIN YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 1, 00:15:15.63\00:15:19.93 VERSE 25 - THEY ASKED HIM - "WHY THEN DO YOU BAPTIZE IF YOU ARE 00:15:19.93\00:15:22.90 NOT THE CHRIST, NOR ELIJAH, NOR THE PROPHET?" 00:15:22.90\00:15:26.73 GO, AGAIN, TO JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - 5:45, "'DO NOT THINK 00:15:26.73\00:15:31.13 THAT I SHALL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER; THERE IS ONE WHO ACCUSES 00:15:31.13\00:15:36.66 YOU - MOSES, IN WHOM YOU TRUST. FOR IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU 00:15:36.66\00:15:41.16 WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME. 00:15:41.16\00:15:43.76 BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIS WRITINGS, HOW WILL YOU BELIEVE 00:15:43.76\00:15:46.30 MY WORDS?'" THAT'S SORT OF IN OUR MEMORY VERSE. 00:15:46.30\00:15:49.13 LET'S GO TO - I TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S JUMP OVER TO - YEAH, ACTS 00:15:49.13\00:15:55.56 CHAPTER 3 - ACTS 3:22, "FOR MOSES TRULY SAID UNTO THE 00:15:55.56\00:16:03.00 FATHERS, A PROPHET SHALL THE LORD YOUR GOD RAISE UP UNTO YOU 00:16:03.00\00:16:06.10 OF YOUR BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO ME;" - NOW HERE, IN THE NEW 00:16:06.10\00:16:10.30 TESTAMENT, PETER'S QUOTING WHAT WE JUST READ IN DEUTERONOMY. 00:16:10.30\00:16:13.53 MOSES SAID 'THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOING TO RAISE UP A PROPHET FROM 00:16:13.53\00:16:16.10 YOUR BRETHREN, LIKE ME.' - "HIM YOU SHALL HEAR IN ALL THINGS, 00:16:16.10\00:16:20.40 WHATEVER HE SAYS TO YOU...YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS, FROM 00:16:20.40\00:16:23.50 SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER, AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN, 00:16:23.50\00:16:26.20 HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF THESE DAYS." 00:16:26.20\00:16:28.93 - NOW WHO IS PETER TALKING ABOUT? 00:16:28.93\00:16:31.93 HE'S TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AS THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT. 00:16:31.93\00:16:33.73 NOW LISTEN TO STEPHEN - HIS LAST SERMON BEFORE HE DIES - ACTS 00:16:33.73\00:16:37.93 7:37, "THIS IS" - SPEAKING OF JESUS - "THIS IS THAT MOSES WHO 00:16:37.93\00:16:44.83 SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP 00:16:44.83\00:16:47.03 FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN. 00:16:47.03\00:16:49.70 HIM YOU SHALL HEAR.'" IS THERE ANY QUESTION THAT THE NEW 00:16:49.70\00:16:52.90 TESTAMENT WRITERS BELIEVED THAT JESUS WAS 'THE PROPHET LIKE 00:16:52.90\00:16:56.86 MOSES'? ISN'T THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 00:16:56.86\00:16:59.50 NOW YOU CAN JUMP TO - WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - JOHN 6:14, 00:16:59.50\00:17:04.20 "THEN THOSE MEN, WHEN THEY HAD SEEN THE SIGN THAT JESUS DID, 00:17:04.20\00:17:07.43 SAID, 'THIS IS TRULY THE PROPHET WHO IS TO COME INTO THE WORLD.'" 00:17:07.43\00:17:12.36 A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. AS MOSES LED THE CHILDREN OUT OF 00:17:12.36\00:17:15.00 THEIR SLAVERY, JESUS WAS TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY FROM SIN. 00:17:15.00\00:17:21.20 GO TO 1 CORINTHIANS 10, VERSE 1, "MOREOVER BRETHREN, I DO NOT 00:17:21.20\00:17:27.50 WANT YOU TO BE UNAWARE THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE 00:17:27.50\00:17:30.00 CLOUD, ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, ALL WERE BAPTIZED INTO 00:17:30.00\00:17:33.70 MOSES" - THAT'S A STRANGE PHRASE - 'BAPTIZED INTO MOSES'? 00:17:33.70\00:17:38.86 YOU EVER BEEN TO A CHURCH WHERE THE PASTOR SAYS, 'I NOW BAPTIZE 00:17:38.86\00:17:41.83 YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, IN THE NAME OF MOSES 00:17:41.83\00:17:44.06 AND THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'? 00:17:44.06\00:17:46.80 WHY DO YOU SAY 'BAPTIZED INTO MOSES'? 00:17:46.80\00:17:48.96 BECAUSE AS MOSES LED THE PEOPLE - MOSES WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST IN 00:17:48.96\00:17:52.56 MANY WAYS - AS WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE - AS HE LED THEM THROUGH THE 00:17:52.56\00:17:56.26 WILDERNESS, OUT OF SLAVERY, AS JESUS LEADS US OUT OF SLAVERY - 00:17:56.26\00:18:00.26 THROUGH THE RED SEA - TYPE OF BAPTISM - WATER BAPTISM - 00:18:00.26\00:18:04.40 THROUGH THE PILLAR OF FIRE - TYPE OF SPIRIT BAPTISM - AND 00:18:04.40\00:18:08.56 MANY OTHER WAYS, MOSES IS A TYPE OF CHRIST HERE. 00:18:08.56\00:18:11.83 SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE LAW OF 00:18:11.83\00:18:13.96 CHRIST, I JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS BACKDROP THAT THEY REALLY 00:18:13.96\00:18:17.50 ARE PARALLELS. MOSES IS THE JESUS OF THE OLD 00:18:17.50\00:18:20.46 TESTAMENT IN MANY WAYS - THE GREAT SAVIOR. 00:18:20.46\00:18:25.06 AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT JESUS SAID, 'SO THE SON OF MAN 00:18:25.06\00:18:27.93 WILL BE LIFTED UP.' AND THEN YOU GET JOHN 3:16 RIGHT AFTER THAT. 00:18:27.93\00:18:32.73 THAT WAS, BY THE WAY, JOHN 3:14 AND 15. 00:18:32.73\00:18:36.10 ALRIGHT, NOW LOOK AT SOME OF THE PARALLELS OF MOSES AND JESUS. 00:18:36.10\00:18:39.06 DID MOSES SURVIVE ATTEMPTED BABY GENOCIDE WHEN HE CAME INTO THE 00:18:39.06\00:18:44.90 WORLD? DOES JESUS SURVIVE AN ATTEMPTED 00:18:44.90\00:18:47.93 BABY GENOCIDE WHEN HE COMES INTO THE WORLD? 00:18:47.93\00:18:50.30 OKAY, DO I NEED TO READ YOU THOSE VERSES? 00:18:50.30\00:18:52.10 EXODUS 1:22, MATTHEW 2:16? WAS MOSES BORN FROM SLAVES? 00:18:52.10\00:19:00.53 WERE HIS PARENTS SLAVES? BUT DID MOSES EVER SERVE AS A SLAVE? 00:19:00.53\00:19:05.50 WAS JESUS BORN FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE SINNERS? 00:19:05.50\00:19:08.90 BUT DID HE EVER SIN? ALRIGHT, LET ME JUST LOOK AT 00:19:08.90\00:19:14.66 SOME OF THESE OTHERS. THERE'S MANY. 00:19:14.66\00:19:16.93 I'M JUST GOING TO TOUCH THE SURFACE HERE. 00:19:16.93\00:19:19.06 WAS MOSES SAVED AFTER GOING THROUGH EGYPT? 00:19:19.06\00:19:24.66 DID JESUS GO THROUGH EGYPT BEFORE HE WAS - BEGAN HIS 00:19:24.66\00:19:28.73 MINISTRY? AND YOU CAN SEE HERE IT SAYS - 00:19:28.73\00:19:32.53 LUKE 2:40 - "AND THE CHILD GREW AND BECAME STRONG IN SPIRIT, 00:19:32.53\00:19:36.00 FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM." 00:19:36.00\00:19:39.03 YOU LOOK IN EXODUS 2:10, "AND THE CHILD GREW, AND SHE BROUGHT 00:19:39.03\00:19:41.76 HIM TO PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER" - INTERESTING, BOTH JESUS AND 00:19:41.76\00:19:45.00 MOSES USE THE SAME TERMINOLOGY 'AND THE CHILD GREW' AND BOTH 00:19:45.00\00:19:50.70 CAME OUT OF EGYPT 'I'VE SAVED MY SON OUT OF EGYPT' IT SAYS. 00:19:50.70\00:19:54.20 DID MOSES REFUSE EARTHLY WEALTH? YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS 11, 00:19:54.20\00:19:59.80 VERSE 24, "BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED TO BE 00:19:59.80\00:20:03.76 CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, CHOOSING RATHER TO 00:20:03.76\00:20:06.43 SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE 00:20:06.43\00:20:08.96 PASSING PLEASURES OF SIN, ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST 00:20:08.96\00:20:12.40 GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT." 00:20:12.40\00:20:15.53 SO HE LEFT THE PALACE TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:20:15.53\00:20:19.03 DID JESUS LEAVE THE PALACE TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE? 00:20:19.03\00:20:22.60 HE CAME FROM THE FATHER. DID JESUS REFUSE EARTHLY WEALTH? 00:20:22.60\00:20:27.70 THAT'S A STRUGGLE - A BIGGER STRUGGLE THAN YOU THINK. 00:20:27.70\00:20:29.73 A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, NO BIG DEAL.' BUT IF YOU WERE 00:20:29.73\00:20:31.53 OFFERED ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND ALL THEIR GLORY - IF 00:20:31.53\00:20:34.76 YOU COULD WIN 'WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE?' YOU'D PROBABLY 00:20:34.76\00:20:38.26 CHOOSE THAT INSTEAD OF CHOOSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:20:38.26\00:20:42.80 AGAIN THE DEVIL TOOK JESUS - THIS IS MATTHEW 4:8 - "AGAIN, 00:20:42.80\00:20:46.50 THE DEVIL TOOK HIM UP ON AN EXCEEDINGLY HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND 00:20:46.50\00:20:48.86 SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR GLORY. 00:20:48.86\00:20:51.43 AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS I WILL GIVE YOU IF YOU 00:20:51.43\00:20:54.30 WILL FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'" DID JESUS REFUSE THE EARTHLY 00:20:54.30\00:20:57.90 KINGDOM - THE EARTHLY WEALTH? ALRIGHT, PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSES 7 00:20:57.90\00:21:03.70 AND 8 - IT SAYS HE "MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, TAKING THE 00:21:03.70\00:21:07.60 FORM OF A BONDSERVANT, AND COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN. 00:21:07.60\00:21:11.53 AND BEING FOUND IN THE APPEARANCE AS A MAN, HE HUMBLED 00:21:11.53\00:21:14.13 HIMSELF AND BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH, EVEN THE 00:21:14.13\00:21:17.30 DEATH OF THE CROSS." DID MOSES FIND A WOMAN AT A WELL? 00:21:17.30\00:21:25.93 EXODUS 2:15, "NOW WHEN PHARAOH HEARD THIS THING, HE SOUGHT TO 00:21:25.93\00:21:30.00 SLAY MOSES. BUT MOSES FLED..." DID MOSES GO THROUGH THE RED SEA 00:21:30.00\00:21:35.06 AND THEN GO INTO THE WILDERNESS AND SIT BY A WELL? 00:21:35.06\00:21:38.60 DID JESUS, AFTER HIS BAPTISM, GOING THROUGH THE SEA, DID HE GO 00:21:38.60\00:21:41.96 INTO THE WILDERNESS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL AND THEN DOES HE LATER 00:21:41.96\00:21:44.10 SIT DOWN BY A WELL AND MEET A WOMAN? 00:21:44.10\00:21:47.03 IT SAYS MOSES SAT DOWN "IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN...BY A WELL." 00:21:47.03\00:21:51.76 HE ENDS UP MEETING ONE OF SEVEN THAT BECOMES HIS WIFE. 00:21:51.76\00:21:57.33 JESUS MEETS THIS WOMAN WHO'S HAD FIVE HUSBANDS, SHE HAS ONE 00:21:57.33\00:22:02.63 LIVING WITH HIM, NONE OF THEM SATISFIED BUT SHE FINDS THE 00:22:02.63\00:22:05.86 MESSIAH IN CHRIST WHO WOULD BE THE SEVENTH. 00:22:05.86\00:22:08.70 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? A WOMAN AT A WELL. 00:22:08.70\00:22:12.50 I ALWAYS LIKE TO STOP WHENEVER I FIND THIS. WHERE DID JACOB - 00:22:12.50\00:22:15.96 WHERE DID JACOB FIND HIS WIFE? RACHEL? AT A WELL. 00:22:15.96\00:22:22.36 WHERE DID ELIEZER FIND A WIFE FOR ISAAC? AT A WELL. 00:22:22.36\00:22:27.06 SO I ALWAYS TELL ALL THE SINGLES WHEN THEY HERE THIS, 'WHERE DO 00:22:27.06\00:22:29.33 YOU NEED TO HANG OUT? WATER COOLER.' RIGHT? 00:22:29.33\00:22:35.30 OKAY, WAS MOSES A GREAT LAW GIVER? OUR LESSON TODAY IS ABOUT 00:22:35.30\00:22:40.60 CHRIST AND HIS LAW - SPEAKING OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES. 00:22:40.60\00:22:43.70 MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT LAW-GIVER. 00:22:43.70\00:22:46.06 MATTER OF FACT, JUST THINK ABOUT IT - HE TOOK A NATION - WE KNOW 00:22:46.06\00:22:48.60 GOD GAVE HIM THIS INFORMATION - HE DIDN'T DREAM IT UP, BUT HERE 00:22:48.60\00:22:51.60 YOU HAVE SOMEONE HISTORICALLY, THAT WE KNOW, TOOK A NATION THAT 00:22:51.60\00:22:55.53 BASICALLY CAME OUT OF SLAVERY WITH NOTHING AND GAVE THEM THE 00:22:55.53\00:22:59.43 BEST LAWS - AND MOST OF THE LAWS IN THE WORLD ARE, IN SOME WAY, 00:22:59.43\00:23:02.26 BASED UPON THE LAWS OF MOSES. EVEN MOSES SAID - OR GOD SAID TO 00:23:02.26\00:23:06.30 MOSES, 'WHAT NATION IS THERE THAT HAS RIGHTEOUS AND JUST LAWS 00:23:06.30\00:23:10.83 AS YOU HAVE?' I MEAN, IT WAS JUST AMAZING THE 00:23:10.83\00:23:13.83 WISDOM THAT CAME THERE. SO THEY'RE GREAT LAW GIVERS. 00:23:13.83\00:23:16.03 JESUS SAID, JOHN 13:34, "A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU" - 00:23:16.03\00:23:20.43 SO IS JESUS A LAW GIVER LIKE MOSES? BOTH WERE JUDGES. 00:23:20.43\00:23:25.53 EXODUS 18:13, "AND SO IT WAS, ON THE NEXT DAY, THAT MOSES SAT TO 00:23:25.53\00:23:30.46 JUDGE THE PEOPLE; AND THE PEOPLE STOOD BEFORE MOSES FROM MORNING 00:23:30.46\00:23:33.93 UNTIL EVENING." MOSES WAS A JUDGE. WAS JESUS A JUDGE? 00:23:33.93\00:23:37.86 IS JESUS A JUDGE? 2 CORINTHIANS 5:10, "FOR WE MUST 00:23:37.86\00:23:41.30 ALL" - THAT'S EVERYBODY HERE - "WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE 00:23:41.30\00:23:44.46 JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS 00:23:44.46\00:23:47.83 DONE IN THE BODY." SO MOSES IS A GREAT JUDGE, 00:23:47.83\00:23:51.70 JESUS IS A GREAT JUDGE. WAS MOSES A GOOD SHEPHERD? 00:23:51.70\00:23:56.73 EXODUS 3:1, "NOW MOSES WAS TENDING THE FLOCK OF JETHRO HIS 00:23:56.73\00:24:00.40 FATHER-IN-LAW...AND HE LED THE FLOCK TO THE BACK OF THE DESERT, 00:24:00.40\00:24:04.73 AND CAME TO HOREB, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD." 00:24:04.73\00:24:07.33 AND HE STARTED TALKING TO BUSHES BECAUSE HE'D BEEN THERE TOO LONG 00:24:07.33\00:24:11.66 - THE BURNING BUSH. DID JESUS - WAS HE THE GOOD SHEPHERD? 00:24:11.66\00:24:16.80 DID HE CARE FOR HIS FATHER'S SHEEP? 00:24:16.80\00:24:18.53 IS HE THE ONE WHO IS WILLING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP? 00:24:18.53\00:24:20.73 INTERESTING HOW MANY ARE SHEPHERDS: JOSEPH IS A SHEPHERD, 00:24:20.73\00:24:24.06 DAVID'S A SHEPHERD, MOSES IS A SHEPHERD, ABRAHAM'S A SHEPHERD, 00:24:24.06\00:24:26.96 RIGHT? TYPES OF CHRIST. 00:24:26.96\00:24:32.73 DOES MOSES BRING BREAD DOWN FROM HEAVEN? 00:24:32.73\00:24:37.63 OR AT LEAST HE FEEDS THE PEOPLE WITH HIS BREAD OF LIFE AS A TYPE 00:24:37.63\00:24:41.63 OF CHRIST? IT COMES FROM GOD. 00:24:41.63\00:24:43.66 JOHN 6:32 - JESUS SAID - SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO QUESTION 'IS JESUS 00:24:43.66\00:24:47.16 A TYPE OF MOSES?' OR MOSES A TYPE OF CHRIST 00:24:47.16\00:24:50.73 BECAUSE CHRIST SAID SO, JOHN 6:32 "THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, 00:24:50.73\00:24:54.43 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, MOSES DID NOT GIVE YOU THE BREAD 00:24:54.43\00:24:57.10 FROM HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER GIVES YOU THE TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 00:24:57.10\00:24:59.83 FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHO COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GIVES 00:24:59.83\00:25:02.70 LIFE TO THE WORLD.' THEN THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, GIVE US THIS 00:25:02.70\00:25:06.40 BREAD ALWAYS.' AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.'" 00:25:06.40\00:25:09.00 ALRIGHT, DID MOSES DEFEAT A SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS? 00:25:09.00\00:25:13.96 REMEMBER WHEN ALL THOSE SERPENTS CAME TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL? 00:25:13.96\00:25:17.33 A PLAGUE OF THEM? HE LIFTED UP A SERPENT ON A 00:25:17.33\00:25:19.76 STAFF AND BY LOOKING IN FAITH TO THAT THEY LIVED? 00:25:19.76\00:25:23.50 DID JESUS DEFEAT THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE WAS 00:25:23.50\00:25:26.06 TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL THERE DURING THE 40 DAYS? 00:25:26.06\00:25:30.93 WAS MOSES - DID MOSES COME OFF A MOUNTAIN SHINING? THEY COULDN'T 00:25:30.93\00:25:36.20 EVEN LOOK AT HIS FACE. WAS JESUS SHINING ON A MOUNTAIN? 00:25:36.20\00:25:40.53 AND HE CAME DOWN TO THE VALLEY AND IT SAYS IN DESIRE OF AGES HE 00:25:40.53\00:25:42.96 WAS STILL SHINING AND THEY COULD SEE, NOT ONLY HIM, PETER, JAMES 00:25:42.96\00:25:46.13 AND JOHN WERE ALL KIND OF GLOWING THAT DAY. 00:25:46.13\00:25:48.73 AND YOU'VE GOT THAT IN MATTHEW 17:2 AND IT SAYS, 00:25:48.73\00:25:53.13 "HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN." MOSES - IT SAID HE HAD TO VEIL 00:25:53.13\00:25:57.36 HIS FACE, VERSE 34 - EXODUS 34, VERSE 33. 00:25:57.36\00:26:02.66 DID THEY COME DOWN TO TEACH AND TO SAVE? 00:26:02.66\00:26:06.30 AFTER JESUS CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN HE TAUGHT. 00:26:06.30\00:26:08.96 MOSES CAME DOWN FROM SPEAKING WITH GOD, HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE 00:26:08.96\00:26:11.10 AND TAUGHT THEM HOW TO BE SAVED. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 00:26:11.10\00:26:16.26 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE MOSES? STILL TALKING ABOUT THE 00:26:16.26\00:26:20.16 PARALLEL'S BETWEEN MOSES AND CHRIST. DID THEY? 00:26:20.16\00:26:23.03 EXODUS 17:4, "SO MOSES CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL 00:26:23.03\00:26:26.40 I DO WITH THIS PEOPLE? THEY ARE ALMOST READY TO STONE ME!'" 00:26:26.40\00:26:28.73 AND ALSO IN NUMBERS 14, THE PEOPLE WERE READY TO STONE MOSES 00:26:28.73\00:26:32.26 WHEN THOSE SPIES CAME BACK WITH AN EVIL REPORT. 00:26:32.26\00:26:35.26 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE JESUS? JOHN 8:59, "THEN THEY TOOK UP 00:26:35.26\00:26:40.03 STONES TO CAST AT HIM: BUT JESUS HID HIMSELF." 00:26:40.03\00:26:44.03 DID MOSES FAST FOR 40 DAYS, 40 NIGHTS? 00:26:44.03\00:26:48.40 DID JESUS? YEAH, ON THE MOUNTAIN. 00:26:48.40\00:26:50.10 MOSES FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS. 00:26:50.10\00:26:51.90 DID JESUS FAST 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS? 00:26:51.90\00:26:54.40 WHO ELSE FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS? 00:26:54.40\00:26:57.70 ELIJAH. IF YOU GO TO MARK CHAPTER 9, 00:26:57.70\00:27:02.00 WHAT THREE INDIVIDUALS ARE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOGETHER? 00:27:02.00\00:27:05.36 MOSES, JESUS AND ELIJAH ALL FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS. 00:27:05.36\00:27:11.56 DID MOSES LEAD 12 INDIVIDUALS? DID HE HAVE 12 LEADERS? 00:27:11.56\00:27:17.70 YEAH, NUMBERS 1, VERSE 44 - MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS VERSE - 00:27:17.70\00:27:21.66 NUMBERS 1:44, "THESE ARE THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED, WHICH MOSES 00:27:21.66\00:27:25.53 AND AARON NUMBERED, AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL, BEING TWELVE 00:27:25.53\00:27:29.26 MEN." DID JESUS HAVE 12 OR DO YOU NEED 00:27:29.26\00:27:33.36 ME TO GO TO THAT VERSE? DO WE ALL BELIEVE HE HAD 12 00:27:33.36\00:27:35.96 APOSTLES? ALRIGHT, I'LL SKIP THAT. 00:27:35.96\00:27:38.10 NOT ONLY DID JESUS HAVE TWELVE, JESUS HAD 70. 00:27:38.10\00:27:42.23 LUKE 10:1, "AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED SEVENTY 00:27:42.23\00:27:45.60 OTHERS ALSO, AND SENT THEM TWO BY TWO..." 00:27:45.60\00:27:49.06 DID EXODUS - DID EXODUS - DID MOSES ALSO HAVE 70? 00:27:49.06\00:27:53.70 EXODUS 24:9, "THEN WENT UP MOSES, AND AARON, NADAB, AND 00:27:53.70\00:27:58.16 ABIHU, AND SEVENTY OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL." 00:27:58.16\00:28:00.66 SO JESUS HAS GOT A GROUP OF 12 AND 70 LEADERS. 00:28:00.66\00:28:04.56 MOSES HAS A GROUP OF 12 AND 70 LEADERS. 00:28:04.56\00:28:07.00 DO YOU SEE PARALLELS HERE OR AM I JUST DREAMING THESE THINGS UP? 00:28:07.00\00:28:12.20 DID JESUS GIVE UP HIS SPIRIT TO OTHERS? 00:28:12.20\00:28:15.06 YEAH, HE SAID, 'I'LL SEND' - WELL IT'S THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST - 00:28:15.06\00:28:19.53 CHRIST SAID, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE WITH YOU AND I AM WITH 00:28:19.53\00:28:22.03 YOU ALWAYS THROUGH THE SPIRIT.' HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, HE SENT 00:28:22.03\00:28:25.26 THE HOLY SPIRIT. MOSES DID THE SAME THING. 00:28:25.26\00:28:28.63 AND IT SAYS HERE THAT - IN NUMBERS 11 - GOD SAID, "THEN I 00:28:28.63\00:28:31.26 WILL COME DOWN AND TALK WITH YOU THERE" - NUMBERS 11:17 - "I WILL 00:28:31.26\00:28:35.26 TAKE OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS UPON YOU AND WILL PUT THE SAME UPON 00:28:35.26\00:28:37.83 THEM." HOW MANY OF YOU WANT THE SPIRIT 00:28:37.83\00:28:40.10 OF CHRIST? DO WE EVER PRAY FOR THE SPIRIT OF MOSES? 00:28:40.10\00:28:44.43 SEE, WHAT MOSES DID WITH THE ELDERS IS A TYPE OF WHAT 00:28:44.43\00:28:46.40 CHRIST DOES WITH US AND SO IT'S REAL. 00:28:46.40\00:28:50.20 DID MOSES DELIVER THE PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY? 00:28:50.20\00:28:55.00 DOES JESUS DELIVER US FROM SLAVERY TO THE DEVIL AND SIN? 00:28:55.00\00:28:59.16 IT SAYS HERE IN LUKE 4:18, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, 00:28:59.16\00:29:03.56 BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; 00:29:03.56\00:29:06.43 HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 00:29:06.43\00:29:09.40 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES." - LIBERTY - JESUS CAME TO SET 00:29:09.40\00:29:15.13 THE CAPTIVES FREE AS MOSES DID. DID MOSES BUILD A TEMPLE? 00:29:15.13\00:29:21.63 YOU'RE QUIET FOR A CLASS. MAYBE YOU'RE THINKING. 00:29:21.63\00:29:24.36 DID JESUS BUILD A TEMPLE? JOHN 2:19, "JESUS 00:29:24.36\00:29:29.50 ANSWERED...'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE 00:29:29.50\00:29:32.26 IT UP.'" WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? HIS BODY. 00:29:32.26\00:29:35.10 AND WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST. 00:29:35.10\00:29:38.46 'WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' 00:29:38.46\00:29:40.86 SO MOSES BUILT A TEMPLE, JESUS HAS BUILT A TEMPLE IN THIS 00:29:40.86\00:29:43.53 WILDERNESS - IT'S HIS CHURCH - HIS BODY. WAS JESUS MEEK? 00:29:43.53\00:29:49.56 ARE WE GUESSING OR DOES HE SAY THAT? 00:29:49.56\00:29:51.76 'I AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' WAS MOSES KNOWN FOR BEING MEEK? 00:29:51.76\00:29:56.33 NUMBERS 12:3, "(NOW THE MAN MOSES WAS VERY MEEK, ABOVE ALL 00:29:56.33\00:30:00.86 THE MEN WHICH WERE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)" NOW DID MOSES 00:30:00.86\00:30:04.50 WRITE THAT? CAN A MEEK PERSON WRITE THAT THEY'RE MEEK? 00:30:04.50\00:30:10.16 YOU HEARD ABOUT THE MAN THAT WON AN AWARD - HE WON A MEDAL FOR 00:30:10.16\00:30:13.40 BEING THE MOST HUMBLE MAN IN THE TOWN? 00:30:13.40\00:30:15.56 BUT THEN HE WORE THE MEDAL AND THEY TOOK IT AWAY. 00:30:15.56\00:30:19.80 SO PROBABLY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT JOSHUA LATER ADDED INTO THE 00:30:19.80\00:30:24.33 BOOK OF NUMBERS BECAUSE JOSHUA, OBVIOUSLY THE END OF MOSES' 00:30:24.33\00:30:28.86 BOOKS - YOU GET TO THE END OF DEUTERONOMY IT SAYS MOSES DIED 00:30:28.86\00:30:31.56 AND HE WAS BURIED AND ALL THIS STUFF. 00:30:31.56\00:30:33.23 MOSES DIDN'T WRITE THAT PART SO PROBABLY JOSHUA WROTE SOME OF 00:30:33.23\00:30:37.16 THESE THINGS - JOSHUA, WHO WAS MOSES' ATTENDANT - HE SAW HOW 00:30:37.16\00:30:40.23 MEEK HE WAS AND IT SAYS THIS CONNECTED WITH A STORY ABOUT HOW 00:30:40.23\00:30:43.70 BADLY MOSES WAS MISTREATED, BUT HE DIDN'T TRY FOR THE HIGHEST 00:30:43.70\00:30:46.76 POSITION. JESUS WAS MEEK. MOSES WAS MEEK. 00:30:46.76\00:30:50.16 THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF THE DEVIL. 00:30:50.16\00:30:52.10 WAS MOSES WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE FOR GOD'S PEOPLE? 00:30:52.10\00:30:58.36 EXODUS 32:32, "YET NOW, IF YOU WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN - BUT IF 00:30:58.36\00:31:04.60 NOT, I PRAY, BLOT ME OUT OF YOUR BOOK WHICH YOU HAVE WRITTEN." 00:31:04.60\00:31:08.50 AND WAS JESUS WILLING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE? 00:31:08.50\00:31:11.13 DID HE FACE THE SECOND DEATH THERE ON THE CROSS AND 00:31:11.13\00:31:14.10 SEPARATION FROM GOD THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN? 00:31:14.10\00:31:17.73 ALRIGHT, WAS MOSES RESURRECTED? YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF JUDE 1, 00:31:17.73\00:31:22.96 VERSE 9, "YET MICHAEL" - WHO WAS CHRIST - "THE 00:31:22.96\00:31:25.53 ARCHANGEL, IN CONTENDING WITH THE DEVIL, WHEN HE DISPUTED 00:31:25.53\00:31:28.03 ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES," - THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM, 00:31:28.03\00:31:30.86 HE SINNED. HE'S MINE.' - HE SAID, "'THE LORD REBUKE YOU!'" 00:31:30.86\00:31:33.93 AND WE KNOW MOSES WAS RESURRECTED BECAUSE HE APPEARS 00:31:33.93\00:31:36.40 TO JESUS - RESURRECTED - ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 00:31:36.40\00:31:40.36 AND, OF COURSE, YOU ALL KNOW JESUS WAS RESURRECTED. 00:31:40.36\00:31:42.53 NOW, THAT'S JUST A FEW OF THE TYPES THAT I'VE GOT OF CHRIST 00:31:42.53\00:31:46.63 AND MOSES, BUT THERE ARE MANY OF THEM. 00:31:46.63\00:31:49.16 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CHRIST AND HIS LAW - CHRIST'S AND MOSES' 00:31:49.16\00:31:54.86 LAW - THEY'RE NOT AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER, IT'S REALLY ONE AND 00:31:54.86\00:32:00.20 THE SAME. BUT SOME OF THE CEREMONIAL LAWS 00:32:00.20\00:32:02.86 THAT CHRIST GAVE MOSES POINTED BACK TO CHRIST TO 00:32:02.86\00:32:06.40 HELP US IDENTIFY HIM. WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN 00:32:06.40\00:32:08.53 JUST A MOMENT. ALRIGHT, FIRST SECTION. 00:32:08.53\00:32:10.96 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME NOW, ON CIRCUMCISION AND DEDICATION, 00:32:10.96\00:32:13.80 SOMEONE HAS JOHN 7:22 - HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 00:32:13.80\00:32:16.73 WHO HAS IT? OVER HERE? OKAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 00:32:16.73\00:32:18.80 SPIN YOUR CAMERA 180 TO GET HIM. AND WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:32:18.80\00:32:22.53 IN THE MEANTIME, IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT - YOU TALK ABOUT 00:32:22.53\00:32:26.10 CIRCUMCISION IN THE BIBLE AND IT CAN SEEM A LITTLE AWKWARD, 00:32:26.10\00:32:28.90 BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. 00:32:28.90\00:32:30.86 LEVITICUS 12, VERSES 2 AND 3, "SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF 00:32:30.86\00:32:35.76 ISRAEL, SAYING: 'IF A WOMAN HAS CONCEIVED, AND BORNE A MALE 00:32:35.76\00:32:39.80 CHILD, THEN SHE SHALL BE UNCLEAN SEVEN DAYS; 00:32:39.80\00:32:43.46 AS IN THE DAYS OF HER CUSTOMARY IMPURITY." 00:32:43.46\00:32:45.70 - WHENEVER THERE'S ANY KIND OF BODY ISSUE, WHETHER IT'S A WOUND 00:32:45.70\00:32:50.76 OR A SORE - AND, OF COURSE, THE WOMAN'S MONTHLY CYCLE WAS 00:32:50.76\00:32:53.43 CONSIDERED IN THAT CATEGORY - YOU WERE CONSIDERED UNCLEAN. 00:32:53.43\00:32:56.90 AND SO, AFTER BIRTH THAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS. 00:32:56.90\00:32:59.66 AND SO FOR ONE WEEK SHE WAS TO BE UNCLEAN "AS IN THE DAYS OF 00:32:59.66\00:33:02.76 HER CUSTOMARY IMPURITY" - BUT ON THE EIGHTH DAY SHE WAS TO BRING 00:33:02.76\00:33:07.23 THE BOY TO THE TEMPLE. AT THAT TIME HE WAS TO BE 00:33:07.23\00:33:10.43 CIRCUMCISED AND THAT WAS TRADITIONALLY THE TIME WHEN HIS 00:33:10.43\00:33:12.66 NAME WAS PICKED AND IT WAS REGISTERED. 00:33:12.66\00:33:17.03 I KNOW WHEN STEPHEN WAS BORN THAT WE STILL HAD NOT MADE UP 00:33:17.03\00:33:20.00 OUR MIND - OF COURSE, WE DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL THE DAY HE WAS BORN 00:33:20.00\00:33:22.76 WHETHER IT WAS A BOY OR GIRL. AND THEY OFFERED TO TELL US BUT 00:33:22.76\00:33:28.50 THEY DID A SONOGRAM THE DAY THAT KAREN WENT INTO LABOR AND WE 00:33:28.50\00:33:32.50 SAID, 'OH, AT THIS POINT WE MAY AS WELL JUST WAIT.' THEY SAID, 00:33:32.50\00:33:35.70 'DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?' I SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW. 00:33:35.70\00:33:37.03 WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NAME IS.' AND SO WHEN WE LEFT 00:33:37.03\00:33:39.20 THE HOSPITAL THEY SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A NAME ON THE BIRTH 00:33:39.20\00:33:41.00 CERTIFICATE.' AND SO IT JUST SAID, 'BABY BOY BATCHELOR'. 00:33:41.00\00:33:44.53 SO WE FINALLY CAME UP WITH THE NAME STEPHEN. SO I CALLED MY DAD 00:33:44.53\00:33:53.06 AND TOLD MY DAD AND MY DAD WAS ALL UPSET BECAUSE MY FATHER'S 00:33:53.06\00:33:57.80 NAME WAS GEORGE EDWARD BATCHELOR. 00:33:57.80\00:34:01.03 MY FATHER NAMED MY BROTHER GEORGE FALCON BATCHELOR BUT MY 00:34:01.03\00:34:05.00 BROTHER COULDN'T HAVE ANY CHILDREN AND MY STEP-BROTHER 00:34:05.00\00:34:09.10 OPTED NOT TO NAME ANY KIDS AFTER MY DAD AND SO WHEN I HAD STEPHEN 00:34:09.10\00:34:13.83 - MY DAD'S GETTING OLD NOW - HE SAID, 00:34:13.83\00:34:16.30 'YOU COULD HAVE NAMED ONE AFTER ME. 00:34:16.30\00:34:18.06 IT'S A FAMILY TRADITION.' SO WE FELT REALLY BAD SO WE CALLED 00:34:18.06\00:34:21.66 BACK THE HOSPITAL, WE SAID, WE WANT TO ADD ONE MORE NAME. 00:34:21.66\00:34:23.93 SO WE ENDED UP WITH FOUR NAMES - GEORGE STEPHEN EDWARD BATCHELOR. 00:34:23.93\00:34:27.70 BUT THEY USED TO DO THAT ON THE EIGHTH DAY AND IT TALKS ABOUT 00:34:27.70\00:34:30.73 WHEN THEY DID THAT IN THE TEMPLE WITH JESUS. THE DAY THAT THEY 00:34:30.73\00:34:36.60 BROUGHT HIM TO BE CIRCUMCISED IS THAT DAY. MATTER OF FACT, 00:34:36.60\00:34:40.30 WHO HAS THAT? JOHN 7:22 WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT FOR US? 00:34:40.30\00:34:43.83 >>"MOSES THEREFORE GAVE YOU CIRCUMCISION (NOT THAT IT IS 00:34:43.83\00:34:47.13 FROM MOSES, BUT FROM THE FATHERS), 00:34:47.13\00:34:49.36 AND YOU CIRCUMCISE A MAN ON THE SABBATH." 00:34:49.36\00:34:52.33 >>NOW, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF CIRCUMCISION? SEVERAL. 00:34:52.33\00:34:57.90 FOR ONE THING, IT REPRESENTED THAT THE HOLY SEED - THERE WAS A 00:34:57.90\00:35:03.66 CONSECRATION THAT GOD GAVE TO ABRAHAM THAT THE HOLY SEED WOULD 00:35:03.66\00:35:07.23 COME THROUGH HIS FAMILY - HIS LINE. IT ALSO REPRESENTED - 00:35:07.23\00:35:11.46 AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL TRY TO BE AS DELICATE AS I CAN BE BUT ONE OF 00:35:11.46\00:35:16.23 THE STRONGEST DRIVES - STRONGEST ANIMAL DRIVES IN THE WORLD 00:35:16.23\00:35:20.06 BESIDE FOOD, IS THE DRIVE TO REPRODUCE - SEX. 00:35:20.06\00:35:24.96 AND IT WAS SORT OF DEMONSTRATING THAT GOD'S PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING 00:35:24.96\00:35:30.60 TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH BUT BY THE SPIRIT. 00:35:30.60\00:35:33.46 IT WAS A CUTTING AWAY OF THE FLESH. 00:35:33.46\00:35:35.56 IT ALSO REPRESENTED A SHEDDING OF BLOOD THAT TOOK PLACE. 00:35:35.56\00:35:40.23 THE FIRST TIME THAT CHRIST SHED BLOOD IN THE TEMPLE WAS NOT WHEN 00:35:40.23\00:35:42.70 HE DIED ON THE CROSS, IT WAS WHEN HE WAS EIGHT DAYS 00:35:42.70\00:35:45.23 OLD IS WHEN HIS FIRST BLOOD WAS SHED. 00:35:45.23\00:35:48.60 NOW, IF CIRCUMCISION WAS ALL POINTING TO WHEN THE HOLY SEED 00:35:48.60\00:35:52.13 WOULD COME, CHRIST THE MESSIAH, AND IF JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT 00:35:52.13\00:35:56.43 OF THAT, THEN WHY BOTHER CIRCUMCISING HIM? 00:35:56.43\00:35:58.96 IT ALL POINTED TO HIM, HE MAY AS WELL JUST GO WITHOUT BECAUSE 00:35:58.96\00:36:03.70 DOES CIRCUMCISION MATTER NOW? PAUL SAYS, 'NO'. 00:36:03.70\00:36:07.46 I MEAN, THERE ACTUALLY ARE SOME MEDICAL BENEFITS, BUT IF THERE'S 00:36:07.46\00:36:11.30 NO REQUIREMENT BIBLICALLY, THERE ARE CERTAIN TYPES OF CANCER THAT 00:36:11.30\00:36:16.83 ARE AVOIDED AND - I WON'T GET INTO THAT RIGHT NOW. 00:36:16.83\00:36:19.36 AND THAT'S WHY, EVEN IN THE HOSPITALS TODAY, NO MATTER WHAT 00:36:19.36\00:36:21.93 YOUR RELIGION IS, THEY STILL OFFER CIRCUMCISION FOR MALE 00:36:21.93\00:36:25.50 CHILDREN. BUT IT'S NOT REQUIRED. 00:36:25.50\00:36:29.46 PAUL SAYS, VERY CLEARLY, 'CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. 00:36:29.46\00:36:31.33 UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING.' AND YET, PAUL TOOK TIMOTHY AND HAD 00:36:31.33\00:36:34.20 HIM CIRCUMCISED BECAUSE IT WAS GOING TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK 00:36:34.20\00:36:37.40 FOR TIMOTHY WHO HAD A JEWISH FATHER AND - OH NO, HE HAD A 00:36:37.40\00:36:41.50 JEWISH MOTHER AND GENTILE FATHER - HAD NOT BEEN CIRCUMCISED AND 00:36:41.50\00:36:46.23 HE DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK AS HE WAS 00:36:46.23\00:36:48.53 PREACHING AND DOING MINISTRY. SO WHY DID JESUS? 00:36:48.53\00:36:54.50 BECAUSE HE KEPT ALL THE LAW. 00:36:54.50\00:36:56.60 'WHY AM I GOING TO GIVE ALL THESE LAWS TO THE PEOPLE?' 00:36:56.60\00:36:59.60 HE KEPT THE LAW OF MOSES IN EVERY RESPECT. 00:36:59.60\00:37:02.56 NOW DIDN'T THEY ACCUSE JESUS OF BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES? 00:37:02.56\00:37:06.23 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF SABBATH BREAKING. 00:37:06.23\00:37:07.83 DID HE BREAK THE SABBATH? HE BROKE THEIR TRADITIONS 00:37:07.83\00:37:10.96 CONNECTED WITH IT. THEY ACCUSED JESUS OF BEING 00:37:10.96\00:37:13.06 DEMON-POSSESSED. WAS HE DEMON-POSSESSED? 00:37:13.06\00:37:15.90 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A SAMARITAN - HE WASN'T. 00:37:15.90\00:37:18.66 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A GLUTTON AND A WINE BIBBER. 00:37:18.66\00:37:21.83 I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'VE MET PASTORS THAT SAY, 'OH, THE BIBLE 00:37:21.83\00:37:24.40 SAYS JESUS GOT DRUNK. HE KNEW HOW TO PARTY. 00:37:24.40\00:37:26.33 IT CALLED HIM A GLUTTON AND A WINE-BIBBER.' 00:37:26.33\00:37:27.70 NO, THEY ACCUSED HIM OF THAT. HE WAS NOT. 00:37:27.70\00:37:31.13 SO THEY ACCUSED HIM OF A LOT OF THINGS AND I JUST WANT THAT TO 00:37:31.13\00:37:34.70 BE CLEAR. ALRIGHT, A COUPLE OF OTHER 00:37:34.70\00:37:36.60 VERSES HERE ON THAT SUBJECT - AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TIME 00:37:36.60\00:37:41.06 TO READ THAT. YEAH, I'LL READ THAT REAL QUICK. 00:37:41.06\00:37:44.13 GENESIS 17:9, "AND GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM: 'AS FOR YOU, YOU SHALL 00:37:44.13\00:37:49.10 KEEP MY COVENANT, YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU THROUGHOUT 00:37:49.10\00:37:51.83 THEIR GENERATIONS. THIS IS MY COVENANT WHICH YOU 00:37:51.83\00:37:54.50 SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU: 00:37:54.50\00:37:58.10 EVERY MALE CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED; AND YOU SHALL BE 00:37:58.10\00:38:02.03 CIRCUMCISED IN THE FLESH OR YOUR FORESKINS, AND IT SHALL BE A 00:38:02.03\00:38:05.03 SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YOU." 00:38:05.03\00:38:08.93 EXODUS 13:2, "CONSECRATE TO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN, WHATEVER 00:38:08.93\00:38:14.33 OPENS THE WOMB AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 00:38:14.33\00:38:16.16 BOTH OF MAN AND BEAST; IT IS MINE." 00:38:16.16\00:38:18.43 'THAT YOU SET APART IT TO THE LORD ALL THAT OPEN THE WOMB, 00:38:18.43\00:38:21.80 THAT IS, EVERY FIRSTBORN THAT COMES FROM ANIMAL, WHICH YOU 00:38:21.80\00:38:24.76 HAVE, ALL THE MALES SHALL BE THE LORD'S.' WHY WAS IT THAT ALL THE 00:38:24.76\00:38:28.36 MALE FIRSTBORNS WERE TO BE CONSECRATED TO GOD? 00:38:28.36\00:38:31.96 BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST. 00:38:31.96\00:38:34.90 WHO WAS THE FIRSTBORN OF MARY? IT WAS JESUS. 00:38:34.90\00:38:38.96 JESUS PROBABLY WAS THE LAST BORN OF MARY TOO. 00:38:38.96\00:38:41.66 SOME PEOPLE CHOKE WHEN I TELL THEM THAT, BUT THE OTHER 00:38:41.66\00:38:44.70 BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT JESUS HAD WERE PROBABLY FROM A FIRST 00:38:44.70\00:38:49.46 FAMILY. JOSEPH WAS PROBABLY A WIDOWER 00:38:49.46\00:38:52.96 AND HE HAD OTHER CHILDREN BEFORE JESUS. 00:38:52.96\00:38:55.80 IT SEEMS, FROM EVERYTHING WE READ IN THE BIBLE, THEY WERE 00:38:55.80\00:38:58.23 STEP-BROTHERS, BECAUSE WHY WOULD JESUS COMMIT HIS MOTHER TO JOHN 00:38:58.23\00:39:03.33 THE APOSTLE IF SHE HAD OTHER NATURAL CHILDREN? 00:39:03.33\00:39:05.90 THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. AND IF JESUS WAS THE FIRSTBORN 00:39:05.90\00:39:10.43 AND HE WAS LEADING ALL THE OTHERS, IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL FOR 00:39:10.43\00:39:15.03 THE FIRSTBORN TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BUSINESS AND BECOME AN 00:39:15.03\00:39:17.50 ITINERANT PREACHER. BUT THE YOUNGEST, THEY OFTEN, 00:39:17.50\00:39:20.73 YOU KNOW, THEY COULD GO OFF AND DO THEIR OWN THING. 00:39:20.73\00:39:23.16 YOU REMEMBER THE FIRSTBORN STAYED HOME WITH THE - THE STORY 00:39:23.16\00:39:25.33 OF THE PRODIGAL SON? THE YOUNG ONE, HE WENT OFF TO A 00:39:25.33\00:39:27.03 FAR COUNTRY. AND SO, IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL - IT 00:39:27.03\00:39:29.56 WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED DISRESPECTFUL FOR THE FIRSTBORN 00:39:29.56\00:39:32.26 SON TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BUSINESS, BUT THE YOUNGER WERE 00:39:32.26\00:39:35.83 ALLOWED A LITTLE MORE LATITUDE THAT WAY. 00:39:35.83\00:39:38.86 ALRIGHT, SO THOSE FIRSTBORN WERE A TYPE OF CHRIST. 00:39:38.86\00:39:42.56 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME JOHN 5:1. WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE? 00:39:42.56\00:39:47.06 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND I'LL SIGNAL YOU WHEN THEY GET 00:39:47.06\00:39:49.50 YOU FOCUSED THERE. IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO 00:39:49.50\00:39:51.80 READ GALATIANS 4, VERSES 4 AND 5, "BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE 00:39:51.80\00:39:57.13 TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN 00:39:57.13\00:40:02.23 UNDER THE LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE 00:40:02.23\00:40:07.06 MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION AS SONS." NOW THIS IS A PHRASE 00:40:07.06\00:40:11.86 THAT'S USED MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE: 'REDEEM THOSE WHO ARE 00:40:11.86\00:40:15.06 UNDER THE LAW.' WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE UNDER THE LAW? 00:40:15.06\00:40:19.13 IF YOU'RE A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN ARE YOU UNDER THE LAW? 00:40:19.13\00:40:24.16 DOES NOT BEING UNDER THE LAW MEAN YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER AN 00:40:24.16\00:40:28.36 OBLIGATION TO OBEY THE LAW? WELL, IT'S USED TWO DIFFERENT 00:40:28.36\00:40:32.56 WAYS. ARE CHRISTIANS LAW BREAKERS OR LAW KEEPERS? 00:40:32.56\00:40:38.60 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAW. 00:40:38.60\00:40:41.40 YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF CHRIST, WHICH WE SAY IS THE NEW 00:40:41.40\00:40:43.90 COVENANT, BUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CERTAINLY ARE 00:40:43.90\00:40:46.76 INCLUDED IN THAT. THEN THERE ARE CERTAIN CEREMONIAL LAWS. 00:40:46.76\00:40:49.70 BUT MOSTLY, IN ROMANS, WHEN PAUL SAYS 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW 00:40:49.70\00:40:53.86 BUT UNDER GRACE.' HE MEANS WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE PENALTY 00:40:53.86\00:40:57.06 OF THE LAW BECAUSE CHRIST SAVES US FROM THE PENALTY. 00:40:57.06\00:41:01.00 SO IF YOU'VE BEEN SAVED FROM THE PENALTY - YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER 00:41:01.00\00:41:03.50 THE PENALTY - THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE FREE TO BREAK THE LAW, IT 00:41:03.50\00:41:06.60 MEANS YOU'RE FREE FROM THE PENALTY OF DEATH. 00:41:06.60\00:41:09.40 NOW YOU HAVE LIFE. AND SO SOME HAVE TAKEN THAT TO MEAN - 00:41:09.40\00:41:12.40 AND HAVEN'T YOU HEARD IT USED THAT WAY? SOMEONE SAYS, YOU'RE 00:41:12.40\00:41:14.66 NOT UNDER THE LAW, THAT MEANS YOU CAN NOW BREAK THE LAW.' WOW. 00:41:14.66\00:41:19.43 BUT THEY ONLY PREACH THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE SABBATH. 00:41:19.43\00:41:22.23 I'VE NEVER HEARD A PASTOR STAND UP AND SAY, 'YOU'RE ALL FREE TO 00:41:22.23\00:41:25.16 COMMIT ADULTERY. YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 00:41:25.16\00:41:27.90 YOU'RE ALL FREE TO STEAL FROM EACH OTHER, 00:41:27.90\00:41:29.10 YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. YOU'RE ALL FREE TO LIE, YOU'RE 00:41:29.10\00:41:31.36 NOT UNDER THE LAW.' THEY DON'T EVER USE IT THAT WAY UNTIL THEY 00:41:31.36\00:41:33.66 HEAR THE SABBATH TRUTH THEN THEY SAY, 'OH NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE 00:41:33.66\00:41:35.83 LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' WHICH SEEMS A LITTLE BIT SUSPICIOUS. 00:41:35.83\00:41:40.90 OKAY, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 5:1. 00:41:40.90\00:41:44.83 >>JOHN 5:1, "AFTER THIS THERE WAS A FEAST OF 00:41:44.83\00:41:47.83 THE JEWS, AND JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM." 00:41:47.83\00:41:51.36 >>SO DID JESUS - HE NOT ONLY WAS CIRCUMCISED ACCORDING TO THE LAW 00:41:51.36\00:41:54.56 OF MOSES - DID HE KEEP THE FEASTS? 00:41:54.56\00:41:57.46 NOW HOW SHOULD A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE FEASTS TODAY? 00:41:57.46\00:42:01.73 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF FEAST LAWS. 00:42:01.73\00:42:03.43 ARE THE FEAST LAWS DIFFERENT FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAWS? 00:42:03.43\00:42:08.50 I TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE LAST WEEK, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT 00:42:08.50\00:42:10.83 THAT I MENTION THIS BECAUSE I RUN INTO A NUMBER OF SINCERE 00:42:10.83\00:42:14.90 CHRISTIANS - I DON'T QUESTION THEIR SINCERITY, BUT THEY'VE 00:42:14.90\00:42:17.10 BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THIS IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, A TRUTH THAT HAS 00:42:17.10\00:42:20.96 BEEN MISSING IS THAT WE'RE, IN THE LAST DAYS, SUPPOSED TO BE 00:42:20.96\00:42:25.50 KEEPING ALL OF THE JEWISH FEASTS. I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 00:42:25.50\00:42:29.80 I THINK THE BIBLE IS EXCEEDING CLEAR, AS IS THE SPIRIT OF 00:42:29.80\00:42:32.00 PROPHECY, THAT THOSE ARE THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE 00:42:32.00\00:42:36.36 CROSS. IT TALKS ABOUT THOSE LAWS BEING 00:42:36.36\00:42:38.63 NAILED - THE CEREMONIAL LAWS THAT WERE IN THE OUTSIDE OF THE 00:42:38.63\00:42:41.46 ARK - AND STEPHEN AND I WERE LOOKING FOR A VERSE LAST WEEK ON 00:42:41.46\00:42:46.36 WHERE THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE PLACED - IT IS DEUTERONOMY 30 OR 00:42:46.36\00:42:50.96 31 - THEY'RE PLACED IN A POCKET ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARK. 00:42:50.96\00:42:54.50 THOSE ARE THE LAWS THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE FEASTS. 00:42:54.50\00:42:57.30 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ON THE INSIDE OF THE ARK. 00:42:57.30\00:42:59.30 DID THE LAW 'DO NOT KILL' EXIST BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:42:59.30\00:43:05.00 WHAT ABOUT BACK DURING THE TIME OF CAIN AND ABEL? 00:43:05.00\00:43:09.10 WAS IT WRONG BACK THEN? DID GOD CALL THAT A SIN BACK THEN? 00:43:09.10\00:43:12.26 DID THE LAW REGARDING ADULTERY EXIST BEFORE THE TEN 00:43:12.26\00:43:15.43 COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN? DID JOSEPH KNOW THAT ADULTERY 00:43:15.43\00:43:19.20 WAS A SIN WHEN HE TOLD POTIPHAR'S WIFE, 'HOW CAN I DO 00:43:19.20\00:43:21.56 THIS THING AND SIN AGAINST GOD?' SO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 00:43:21.56\00:43:25.03 WAS NOT THE ORIGIN OF THOSE PRINCIPLES. 00:43:25.03\00:43:27.26 THEY EXISTED LONG BEFORE THAT - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE ALL 00:43:27.26\00:43:30.00 THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WRONG TO LIE. 00:43:30.00\00:43:33.93 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WRONG TO STEAL. AND SO THERE'S SOMETHING 00:43:33.93\00:43:38.70 DIFFERENT ABOUT THOSE LAWS. THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT 00:43:38.70\00:43:40.93 ABOUT THE MORAL LAW - THE DECALOGUE - IN THAT GOD WROTE IT 00:43:40.93\00:43:43.60 WITH HIS FINGER, SPOKE IT WITH HIS VOICE, SPOKE IT PUBLICLY TO 00:43:43.60\00:43:45.93 A NATION, PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARK. 00:43:45.93\00:43:48.36 BUT DID YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE PASSOVER BACK IN THE GARDEN OF 00:43:48.36\00:43:52.13 EDEN? NO, THERE WAS NO SIN. BACK IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM, DID 00:43:52.13\00:43:57.53 THEY HAVE THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS? NO. 00:43:57.53\00:44:00.30 SO ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT LAWS, THEY CAME IN CONNECTION WITH THE 00:44:00.30\00:44:04.40 EXODUS EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THEY WERE TYPES OF SALVATION. 00:44:04.40\00:44:08.50 NOW, IS THERE BENEFIT IN STUDYING THESE LAWS AND KEEPING 00:44:08.50\00:44:11.86 THE SPIRITUAL PART OF THESE LAWS? I THINK THERE IS. 00:44:11.86\00:44:15.56 LET ME LOOK AT SOME OF THE FEAST DAYS WITH YOU QUICKLY. 00:44:15.56\00:44:18.16 AND, OF COURSE, DON'T FORGET, THAT'S OUR OFFER TODAY IS 'THE 00:44:18.16\00:44:21.53 FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS' AND YOU'LL WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF 00:44:21.53\00:44:24.40 THAT BECAUSE THE NUMBER WILL BE UP AT THE END. ALRIGHT, 00:44:24.40\00:44:27.76 FIRST FEAST THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IS THE PASSOVER. 00:44:27.76\00:44:31.36 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 5, VERSES 7 AND 8, 00:44:31.36\00:44:36.16 "THEREFORE PURGE OUT THE OLD LEAVEN, THAT YOU MAY BE A NEW 00:44:36.16\00:44:39.80 LUMP, SINCE YOU TRULY ARE UNLEAVENED. FOR INDEED CHRIST, 00:44:39.80\00:44:43.10 OUR PASSOVER, WAS SACRIFICED FOR US." - SO DO WE OFFER SACRIFICE 00:44:43.10\00:44:48.03 - PASSOVER LAMBS ANYMORE? WHO IS OUR PASSOVER LAMB? 00:44:48.03\00:44:51.80 WOULDN'T IT BE SILLY NOW TO GO TO JERUSALEM ONCE A YEAR AND TRY 00:44:51.80\00:44:55.10 AND KEEP THE JEWISH FEASTS THE WAY THE JEWS DID? 00:44:55.10\00:44:57.60 WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING OF A DENIAL OF EVERYTHING THAT IT ALL 00:44:57.60\00:45:01.00 POINTED TO IN GOING BACK AND SACRIFICING LAMBS? 00:45:01.00\00:45:04.16 THE JEWS DON'T EVEN SACRIFICE LAMBS RIGHT NOW. 00:45:04.16\00:45:07.76 IT SAYS CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER - "THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE 00:45:07.76\00:45:11.00 FEAST, NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN, NOR WITH THE LEAVEN OF MALICE AND 00:45:11.00\00:45:14.36 WICKEDNESS," - HE'S SHOWING THERE'S SPIRITUAL ANALOGIES FOR 00:45:14.36\00:45:17.26 THE LEAVEN. THERE'S AN ANALOGY FOR THE LAMB. 00:45:17.26\00:45:19.50 IT'S JESUS - "BUT WITH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD" - THAT'S WHY 00:45:19.50\00:45:22.76 JESUS SAID YOU DO NOT PUT NEW WINE IN OLD WINESKINS. 00:45:22.76\00:45:26.16 I THINK WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE FEAST DAYS TODAY 00:45:26.16\00:45:28.90 THEY ARE TRYING TO PUT THE NEW WINE OF THE GOSPEL IN OLD 00:45:28.90\00:45:31.33 WINESKINS AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BURST THE SKINS. 00:45:31.33\00:45:33.43 IT DOESN'T WORK. BUT IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN 00:45:33.43\00:45:36.06 LEARN FROM THE PASSOVER? ABSOLUTELY. 00:45:36.06\00:45:39.76 LOOK AT THE WHOLE PASSOVER EXPERIENCE. 00:45:39.76\00:45:41.16 WHENEVER YOU CELEBRATE A COMMUNION SERVICE, 00:45:41.16\00:45:43.30 THAT'S HOW WE KEEP THE PASSOVER NOW. 00:45:43.30\00:45:45.86 SURE WE BELIEVE IN THE FEASTS, YOU MIGHT SAY, 00:45:45.86\00:45:48.33 EVERY COMMUNION SERVICE THAT WE CELEBRATE. 00:45:48.33\00:45:50.53 WE HAVE THE UNLEAVENED BREAD BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS CHRIST WAS 00:45:50.53\00:45:53.76 WITHOUT SIN, AND WE HAVE THE UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE - A TYPE 00:45:53.76\00:45:59.26 OF HIS PURE LIFE - PURE BLOOD - AND SO WE'RE KEEPING THE 00:45:59.26\00:46:02.90 SPIRITUAL PART OF THAT FEAST, YOU MIGHT SAY. 00:46:02.90\00:46:06.16 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. 00:46:06.16\00:46:08.33 I JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT. EXODUS 34:18, "THE FEAST OF 00:46:08.33\00:46:11.20 UNLEAVENED BREAD YOU SHALL KEEP. SEVEN DAYS YOU SHALL EAT 00:46:11.20\00:46:13.36 UNLEAVENED BREAD, AS I COMMANDED YOU," - NOW, YOU KNOW, ONE 00:46:13.36\00:46:16.63 REASON IT SAYS THAT THEY ATE UNLEAVENED BREAD CONNECTED WITH 00:46:16.63\00:46:18.90 THE PASSOVER? THEY HAD TO FLEE. 00:46:18.90\00:46:22.90 THEY TOOK THEIR BREAD BEFORE IT WAS EVEN LEAVENED. 00:46:22.90\00:46:25.70 THEY WRAPPED IT UP AND THEY TOOK OFF FROM EGYPT IN HASTE. 00:46:25.70\00:46:29.60 SO ONE OF THE REASONS THEY ATE UNLEAVENED BREAD IS IT WAS A 00:46:29.60\00:46:32.60 SYMBOL OF THEIR LEAVING IN A HURRY. 00:46:32.60\00:46:35.33 AND THEY ALSO DID THAT THE NIGHT THAT THE ANGEL OF JUDGMENT WENT 00:46:35.33\00:46:38.66 BY. THAT ANGEL OF JUDGMENT PASSES BY 00:46:38.66\00:46:41.23 US BECAUSE THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB IS ON THE DOOR OF OUR HEARTS. 00:46:41.23\00:46:45.63 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.' NOW, 00:46:45.63\00:46:49.43 THERE'S THREE KINDS OF LEAVEN THAT CHRIST TALKS ABOUT: MARK 00:46:49.43\00:46:52.93 8:15 - HE TALKS ABOUT THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH WAS 00:46:52.93\00:46:57.03 LEGALISM AND WORKS. IN MARK 8:15 ALSO HE SAYS 'THE 00:46:57.03\00:47:01.56 LEAVEN OF HEROD' WHICH IS WORLDLINESS AND PRESUMPTION. 00:47:01.56\00:47:06.00 IN MATTHEW 16:6 HE TALKS ABOUT THE LEAVEN OF THE SADDUCEES, 00:47:06.00\00:47:09.93 WHICH IS DISBELIEF IN HUMANISM. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN A 00:47:09.93\00:47:12.63 RESURRECTION. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ANGELS. 00:47:12.63\00:47:14.50 SO CHRIST TELLS US THIS LEAVEN WAS A SYMBOL OF SIN - 00:47:14.50\00:47:18.10 THERE ANYWAY. ALRIGHT, THEN YOU'VE GOT - THAT 00:47:18.10\00:47:21.26 WAS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. 00:47:21.26\00:47:22.83 THIRD FEAST, YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF OFFERING THE 00:47:22.83\00:47:24.83 FIRSTFRUITS. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20, "BUT NOW 00:47:24.83\00:47:28.56 CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS 00:47:28.56\00:47:31.43 OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 00:47:31.43\00:47:33.96 AND EVEN WHEN JESUS WENT TO HEAVEN HE TOOK A GROUP OF PEOPLE 00:47:33.96\00:47:36.70 THAT WERE RAISED AND THEY WERE LIKE A FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE WHO 00:47:36.70\00:47:40.46 WILL BE RAISED WHEN HE COMES AGAIN. 00:47:40.46\00:47:42.66 MATTHEW 27:51 YOU FIND THAT. YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF 00:47:42.66\00:47:45.86 PENTECOST. WE'VE GOT THE PENTAGON - WHY DO 00:47:45.86\00:47:49.03 THEY CALL IT THE PENTAGON? IT'S GOT FIVE SIDES. 00:47:49.03\00:47:52.60 IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD. 00:47:52.60\00:47:54.30 BIGGEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY IN ROMANIA - THAT 00:47:54.30\00:47:57.60 NICOLAI CEAUSESCU BUILT - YEAH, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT. 00:47:57.60\00:48:03.56 AND WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT, THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING? 00:48:03.56\00:48:06.96 THAT BUILDING - WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT BUILDING? 00:48:06.96\00:48:09.20 PARLIAMENT - THAT THING IS JUST ENORMOUS - BIGGER THAN THE 00:48:09.20\00:48:11.33 PENTAGON. THEY DON'T EVEN USE A FRACTION OF IT. 00:48:11.33\00:48:13.93 BUT PENTA MEANS FIVE AND - PENTAGRAM IS A FIVE-SIDED STAR 00:48:13.93\00:48:21.66 THEY PUT A GOAT ON AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING FOR 00:48:21.66\00:48:23.90 DEVIL WORSHIP. BUT PENTECOST MEANT 50 DAYS 00:48:23.90\00:48:27.30 AFTER THE PASSOVER THEY HAD THAT CELEBRATION AND IT WAS CALLED 00:48:27.30\00:48:31.20 THE FEAST OF WEEKS. AND IT WAS A TIME - IT 00:48:31.20\00:48:34.30 REPRESENTED WHEN JESUS POURED OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:48:34.30\00:48:38.40 LEVITICUS 23:16, "COUNT FIFTY DAYS TO THE DAY AFTER THE 00:48:38.40\00:48:41.76 SEVENTH SABBATH; THEN YOU SHALL OFFER A NEW GRAIN OFFERING TO 00:48:41.76\00:48:44.60 THE LORD." THE NEW CHURCH WAS BORN - 00:48:44.60\00:48:47.43 THE NEW GRAIN. YEAH, THERE WAS A NEW HARVEST. 00:48:47.43\00:48:50.03 THOUSANDS WERE BAPTIZED AND THEY CALL THAT THE FEAST OF WEEKS. 00:48:50.03\00:48:54.00 ALRIGHT, THEN YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS - I'M TRYING 00:48:54.00\00:48:55.86 TO GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY - AND THAT WAS IN LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 00:48:55.86\00:49:00.60 24, "SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING: 'IN THE SEVENTH 00:49:00.60\00:49:03.20 MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, YOU SHALL HAVE A 00:49:03.20\00:49:05.53 SABBATH-REST, A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS, A HOLY 00:49:05.53\00:49:08.80 CONVOCATION." NOW, WITH THE FEAST DAYS, WERE 00:49:08.80\00:49:15.16 THEY WEEKLY OR ANNUAL? THE SABBATHS THAT ARE NAILED TO 00:49:15.16\00:49:19.76 THE CROSS THAT IT TALKS ABOUT IN COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2? 00:49:19.76\00:49:22.70 ARE THEY WEEKLY - IS IT THE WEEKLY SABBATHS OR THE ANNUAL 00:49:22.70\00:49:26.10 SABBATHS? THE SABBATH - THE WEEKLY SABBATH 00:49:26.10\00:49:28.66 - THAT WAS NEVER AFFECTED BY THE CALENDAR. 00:49:28.66\00:49:31.93 THE ANNUAL SABBATHS, THEY FELL ON DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK 00:49:31.93\00:49:34.50 EVERY YEAR AND SO YOU HAD THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS. 00:49:34.50\00:49:38.80 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND 00:49:38.80\00:49:40.76 AND JOSHUA - THEY BLEW THOSE TRUMPETS. 00:49:40.76\00:49:42.76 DOES IT TALK ABOUT SEVEN TRUMPETS IN REVELATION? 00:49:42.76\00:49:46.56 AND SO THAT - WHEN CHRIST COMES WILL A TRUMPET BLOW AS WE 00:49:46.56\00:49:50.40 PREPARE TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND? 00:49:50.40\00:49:52.30 "IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE" - THIS IS 00:49:52.30\00:49:54.53 1 CORINTHIANS 15:52, "AT THE LAST TRUMPET. 00:49:54.53\00:49:57.90 FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 00:49:57.90\00:49:59.93 INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED." 00:49:59.93\00:50:01.86 THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT. 00:50:01.86\00:50:04.00 THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL - THE TRUMPET OF GOD - SO THERE'S A 00:50:04.00\00:50:08.30 TRUMPET AND THAT WILL BE SOME FEAST THERE. 00:50:08.30\00:50:11.43 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THIS, OF COURSE, 00:50:11.43\00:50:15.00 WAS IN THE FALL AND CHRIST IS TYPIFIED THERE. 00:50:15.00\00:50:19.16 LEVITICUS 16:9 "AND 00:50:19.16\00:50:20.73 AARON SHALL BRING THE GOAT" - OF THE TWO GOATS THEY CAST LOTS FOR 00:50:20.73\00:50:23.53 - ONE IS CALLED THE LORD'S GOAT - "AND OFFER IT AS A SIN 00:50:23.53\00:50:27.16 OFFERING." WHO IS SYMBOLIZED BY THE LORD'S GOAT? JESUS. 00:50:27.16\00:50:33.00 WHO IS SYMBOLIZED BY THE SCAPEGOAT? 00:50:33.00\00:50:35.33 A TYPE OF SATAN - HE NEVER IS SACRIFICED, HE JUST ENDS UP 00:50:35.33\00:50:38.56 PAYING FOR HIS OWN SIN. THEN THERE'S THE FEAST OF 00:50:38.56\00:50:42.20 TABERNACLES - SUKKOT - THE FEAST OF BOOTHS - AND IT'S WHEN THEY 00:50:42.20\00:50:46.93 REMEMBER THE TIME THAT THEY WERE DWELLING. 00:50:46.93\00:50:49.13 AND JESUS, DURING THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, HE SAID - JOHN 7:37 00:50:49.13\00:50:53.03 - "ON THE LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, 00:50:53.03\00:50:55.10 JESUS STOOD AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, 'IF ANYONE THIRSTS, 00:50:55.10\00:50:57.40 LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK. 00:50:57.40\00:50:58.66 HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID, OUT OF HIS 00:50:58.66\00:51:01.83 HEART WILL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER.'" ONE OF THE THINGS THEY 00:51:01.83\00:51:05.76 DID DURING THE FEAST OF BOOTHS IS THEY REMEMBERED HOW GOD GAVE 00:51:05.76\00:51:09.70 THEM WATER FROM A ROCK AND FED THEM WITH BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 00:51:09.70\00:51:14.13 SO THAT'S JUST AN OVERVIEW OF HOW ALL OF THOSE FEASTS THAT 00:51:14.13\00:51:18.90 JESUS - THAT MOSES HAD, POINTED TO CHRIST. 00:51:18.90\00:51:22.60 ALRIGHT, 'JESUS AND THE TEMPLE'. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 00:51:22.60\00:51:24.83 MARK 14:48. WHO GOT THAT ONE? WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE. 00:51:24.83\00:51:31.36 NOW MOSES HAD ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF CEREMONIES CONNECTED 00:51:31.36\00:51:35.80 WITH THE JEWISH TEMPLE AND JESUS RESPECTED THAT. 00:51:35.80\00:51:39.30 OKAY, KAREN, YOU CAN READ THAT. 00:51:39.30\00:51:40.86 >>"THEN JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'HAVE YOU COME OUT, AS 00:51:40.86\00:51:44.23 AGAINST A ROBBER, WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS TO TAKE ME?" 00:51:44.23\00:51:47.73 I WAS DAILY WITH YOU IN THE TEMPLE TEACHING, AND YOU DID 00:51:47.73\00:51:50.63 NOT SEIZE ME. BUT THE SCRIPTURES MUST BE FULFILLED." 00:51:50.63\00:51:54.60 >>NOW, DURING THE LIFE OF CHRIST, DID HE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 00:51:54.60\00:51:57.63 THERE WAS SOME UNIQUE FUNCTION AND PURPOSE FOR THE TEMPLE THAT 00:51:57.63\00:52:00.60 HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY GOD? HE WENT THERE FOR CIRCUMCISION. HE 00:52:00.60\00:52:05.10 WENT THERE FOR - YOU KNOW, NOW WE CALL IT A BAR MITZVAH, WHERE 00:52:05.10\00:52:09.06 IN HISTORY BAR MITZVAH WENT FROM 12 TO 13, I DON'T KNOW, BUT 00:52:09.06\00:52:12.90 SOMEWHERE IT SHIFTED. BACK IN CHRIST'S TIME THEY DID IT AT 12. 00:52:12.90\00:52:16.03 YOU WERE CONSIDERED A MAN. AND SO HE WENT THEN BECAUSE HE 00:52:16.03\00:52:18.83 WAS FINALLY OLD ENOUGH TO PARTICIPATE. 00:52:18.83\00:52:20.53 THAT'S PROBABLY WHEN HE WENT FROM BEING A CHILD TO 00:52:20.53\00:52:22.86 UNDERSTANDING HIS LIFE'S MISSION. 00:52:22.86\00:52:24.86 THAT'S WHY HE TOLD HIS PARENTS 'WIST YE NOT I MUST BE ABOUT MY 00:52:24.86\00:52:27.20 FATHER'S BUSINESS?' AND HE HAD AN EPIPHANY WHEN HE 00:52:27.20\00:52:30.83 WAS 12 YEARS OLD ABOUT - THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT 00:52:30.83\00:52:33.53 HIS MISSION AT THAT TIME. JESUS TAUGHT DAILY. 00:52:33.53\00:52:37.93 WHY DID JESUS CHASE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE? 00:52:37.93\00:52:40.73 AND WHEN HE DID THAT HE SAID, 'MY HOUSE - MY FATHER'S HOUSE - 00:52:40.73\00:52:43.76 IS TO BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS. YOU'VE MADE IT A 00:52:43.76\00:52:46.23 DEN OF THIEVES.' HE CALLED IT 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE'. 00:52:46.23\00:52:48.93 BUT AFTER THEY REJECTED THE MINISTRY OF JESUS - THREE AND A 00:52:48.93\00:52:53.13 HALF YEARS AT THE END OF HIS MINISTRY - HE SAID, THERE WILL 00:52:53.13\00:52:56.66 NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN 00:52:56.66\00:52:59.00 DOWN IN THE TEMPLE.' AND HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS 00:52:59.00\00:53:02.46 LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE.' SOMETHING CHANGED. 00:53:02.46\00:53:05.73 YOU KNOW WHEN CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE. 00:53:05.73\00:53:08.96 IT'S NO LONGER THE LITERAL LAMB, HE IS THE LAMB. 00:53:08.96\00:53:12.33 THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS BECAUSE IT'S NO LONGER 00:53:12.33\00:53:15.10 THE OLD PRIESTHOOD - NEW PRIESTHOOD. 00:53:15.10\00:53:18.03 VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN - NO LONGER THE OLD TEMPLE. 00:53:18.03\00:53:21.30 JESUS SAID, 'I'LL BUILD A NEW TEMPLE', RIGHT? 00:53:21.30\00:53:23.46 SO THE WHOLE ECONOMY CHANGED FROM THE JEWISH LITERAL ECONOMY 00:53:23.46\00:53:28.23 AND THE MOSAIC FEASTS TO THE REALITY OF WHAT CHRIST CAME TO 00:53:28.23\00:53:32.06 ESTABLISH - THAT WE ARE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE. 00:53:32.06\00:53:36.16 OKAY, THIS'LL BE FUN DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR. 00:53:36.16\00:53:39.63 AS APRIL 15TH IS COMING UP - TAXES - TAXES IN YOUR LESSON. 00:53:39.63\00:53:45.23 MATTHEW 17, VERSE 24, "WHEN THEY HAD COME TO CAPERNAUM, THOSE WHO 00:53:45.23\00:53:50.80 RECEIVED THE TEMPLE TAX CAME TO PETER AND SAID, 'DOES YOUR 00:53:50.80\00:53:53.93 TEACHER NOT PAY THE TEMPLE TAX?'" - AND PETER, NOT KNOWING 00:53:53.93\00:53:57.03 WHAT TO SAY - HE DIDN'T WANT TO CALL DOWN THE FEDS - "HE SAID, 00:53:57.03\00:54:00.70 'YES.' AND WHEN HE HAD COME INTO THE HOUSE, JESUS ANTICIPATED 00:54:00.70\00:54:04.53 HIM," - HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED - 00:54:04.53\00:54:06.56 "SAYING, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK, SIMON? 00:54:06.56\00:54:08.30 FROM WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TAKE CUSTOMS OR TAXES, 00:54:08.30\00:54:11.70 FROM THEIR SONS OR FROM STRANGERS?'" 00:54:11.70\00:54:13.43 - OF COURSE, THAT'S BEFORE AMERICA EXISTED. 00:54:13.43\00:54:15.30 NOW WE TAKE IT FROM EVERYBODY. BACK IN CHRIST'S TIME, IF YOU 00:54:15.30\00:54:20.16 WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN, YOU WERE TAX FREE. 00:54:20.16\00:54:21.90 THERE WERE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT TAXED. 00:54:21.90\00:54:25.13 MATTER OF FACT, WHEN DAVID OFFERED TO FIGHT GOLIATH AND HE 00:54:25.13\00:54:28.43 SAID, 'WHAT'S THE REWARD FOR THE ONE THAT KILLS THE GIANT?' 00:54:28.43\00:54:31.03 AND HE SAID, 'OH, HE'LL BE FREE IN ISRAEL.' THAT MEANS THE KING 00:54:31.03\00:54:33.20 - WOULD MEAN HIS FAMILY IS TAX FREE. 00:54:33.20\00:54:35.96 AND SO THERE WERE SOME WHO WERE DECLARED TAX FREE. 00:54:35.96\00:54:38.50 WELL, WHAT THE ROMANS DID, AND WHAT MANY CONQUERING COUNTRIES 00:54:38.50\00:54:41.76 DID, IS THAT THEIR PEOPLE WERE FREE BUT THE CONQUERED PAID A 00:54:41.76\00:54:46.73 TAX. SO THAT'S WHY JESUS IS ASKING THIS. 00:54:46.73\00:54:49.20 'WHAT DO YOU THINK, PETER, OF WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 00:54:49.20\00:54:51.83 TAKE CUSTOMS?'" - OR TAXES - "FROM THEIR SONS OR 00:54:51.83\00:54:53.80 FROM STRANGERS?' PETER SAID TO HIM, 'FROM 00:54:53.80\00:54:55.86 STRANGERS.' JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'THEN THE SONS ARE FREE. 00:54:55.86\00:54:59.30 NEVERTHELESS,'" - IN OTHER WORDS CHRIST IS SAYING, 00:54:59.30\00:55:01.46 'I'M THE KING OF THIS WORLD. I DON'T OWE ANYBODY TAXES.' 00:55:01.46\00:55:06.16 BUT DON'T ANY OF YOU GO OUT AND NOT PAY YOUR TAXES AND QUOTE ME 00:55:06.16\00:55:08.56 ON THAT AND SAY, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN, I DON'T' - THAT'S NOT 00:55:08.56\00:55:11.56 WHAT I'M SAYING. HE SAID, "NEVERTHELESS, LEST WE 00:55:11.56\00:55:16.43 OFFEND THEM, GO TO THE SEA,'" - THIS IS GREAT - "'CAST IN A 00:55:16.43\00:55:20.46 HOOK, AND TAKE THE FISH THAT COMES UP FIRST. 00:55:20.46\00:55:22.50 AND WHEN YOU HAVE OPENED ITS MOUTH, YOU WILL FIND A PIECE OF 00:55:22.50\00:55:24.26 MONEY; TAKE THAT AND GIVE IT TO THEM FOR ME AND YOU.'" DO ANY OF 00:55:24.26\00:55:28.20 YOU REMEMBER THE AMAZING FACTS I TOLD ABOUT A MAN THAT WAS 00:55:28.20\00:55:31.33 FISHING IN RAYBURN LAKE IN TEXAS AND HE CAUGHT A FISH WITH A GOLD 00:55:31.33\00:55:36.50 RING IN ITS MOUTH AND IT HAD THE NAME ETCHED IN IT AND HE CALLED 00:55:36.50\00:55:39.60 THE GUY AND HE FOUND THE GUY THAT HAD LOST IT 20 YEARS 00:55:39.60\00:55:42.83 EARLIER AND REUNITED HIM WITH HIS - HE 00:55:42.83\00:55:47.56 THOUGHT IT WAS A PRANK BUT HE REALLY DID - HE FOUND HIS RING. 00:55:47.56\00:55:50.16 HE HAD LOST IT WATER SKIING 20 YEARS EARLIER. 00:55:50.16\00:55:52.23 ANYWAY, AND HE SAID, 'YOU GIVE IT TO ME.' SO I'VE ALWAYS 00:55:52.23\00:55:54.30 THOUGHT IF YOU WANT MONEY, DO EVANGELISM - GO FISHING - AND 00:55:54.30\00:55:59.20 THAT'S HOW YOU GROW A CHURCH FINANCIALLY, RIGHT? 00:55:59.20\00:56:03.96 SOMEONE HAS ROMANS 13:7 - VERY UNPOPULAR VERSE. WHO HAS THAT? 00:56:03.96\00:56:09.33 HOLD UP YOUR HAND. RIGHT HERE. LUKE - PASTOR LUKE, SORRY. 00:56:09.33\00:56:13.26 WHEN HE AND I TALK IT'S JUST LUKE, BUT IN YOUR PRESENCE HE'S 00:56:13.26\00:56:15.60 PASTOR LUKE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, ROMANS 13:7. 00:56:15.60\00:56:20.86 >>"RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUE: TAXES TO WHOM TAXES ARE 00:56:20.86\00:56:26.60 DUE, CUSTOMS TO WHOM CUSTOMS, FEAR TO WHOM FEAR, 00:56:26.60\00:56:31.20 HONOR TO WHOM HONOR." 00:56:31.20\00:56:33.70 >>HOW MANY OF YOU ENJOY PAYING TAXES? 00:56:33.70\00:56:37.96 OH GOOD, ALRIGHT, WELL, WE'RE NOT ALONE. 00:56:37.96\00:56:43.83 HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT WE NEED TO? 00:56:43.83\00:56:46.30 YOU'RE GLAD WE HAVE A MILITARY? YOU'RE GLAD THAT WE HAVE PAVED 00:56:46.30\00:56:50.13 STREETS? HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THE 00:56:50.13\00:56:51.90 GOVERNMENT WASTES MONEY? WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PROBABLY 00:56:51.90\00:56:58.13 NO GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 00:56:58.13\00:56:59.96 WASTE. THAT'S TRUE - IT IS A PROBLEM. 00:56:59.96\00:57:03.16 BUT SHOULD WE STOP PAYING OUR TAXES? NO, YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT. 00:57:03.16\00:57:06.56 YOU JUST ACCEPT THAT WHENEVER YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT THERE'S 00:57:06.56\00:57:09.50 GOING TO BE SOME KIND OF ABUSE - THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF 00:57:09.50\00:57:11.53 WASTE. YOU TRY TO LIMIT IT BUT THE 00:57:11.53\00:57:13.60 BIBLE SAYS YOU NEED TO DO IT. 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