Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021415
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:49 MICHAEL, ANNIE, NANCY AND I ARE WELCOMING YOU AND WE'RE SO GLAD 00:53 THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN. 00:54 WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR 00:57 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS 01:01 TELEVISION NETWORKS - IT DOESN'T MATTER, WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU 01:04 ARE TUNING IN AND YOU ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 01:07 FAMILY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. 01:11 WE WANT TO START THE PROGRAM LIKE WE ALWAYS DO, SINGING YOUR 01:14 FAVORITES AND TODAY, OF COURSE, IS NO EXCEPTION. 01:17 THEY KEEP COMING IN AND WE LOVE TO SING AND WE KNOW YOU DO TOO. 01:22 SO LET'S START - 'TIS LOVE THAT MAKES US HAPPY' - IF YOU HAVE A 01:26 HYMNAL, TURN IN IT TO #579 AND WE WILL DO ALL THREE STANZAS. 01:31 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM MARCIA IN AUSTRALIA, HAYLEY IN 01:34 THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, KARL AND MAISIE IN FRANCE, JOEL IN 01:38 NEW ZEALAND, ROBERT IN PAPUA, NEW GUINNEA, AND THERE WERE 01:41 SEVERAL OTHER WONDERFUL PLACES AROUND THE WORLD THAT WANT TO 01:44 SING THIS WITH US AS WELL. ALL THREE STANZAS - #579. 01:48 (MUSIC) 04:32 >>SUCH A SIMPLE SONG, BUT THE MESSAGE IS PROFOUND. 04:36 AND I FIND THAT EVERY DAY WITH A 3- AND A 5-YEAR-OLD - AS 04:40 I'M TRYING TO TEACH, YOU KNOW, HOW TO BE NICE AND KIND, THAT IT 04:46 TRULY - WHEN YOUR CHILDREN GET THAT CONCEPT - AND EVEN AS 04:50 ADULTS IT'S VERY EASY TO FORGET THAT SOMETIMES. 04:53 BUT THAT IS TRUE HAPPINESS - WHEN YOU ARE NOT THINKING ABOUT 04:57 YOURSELF BUT YOU'RE MAKING SOMEBODY ELSE HAPPY. 05:00 SO LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY. 05:03 THAT TRUE HAPPINESS - IT'S THAT LOVE IN OUR HEARTS THAT, OF 05:07 COURSE, ONLY THE LORD CAN GIVE US, THAT WILL TRULY MAKE US 05:10 HAPPY AND MAKE OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY. 05:13 OUR NEXT SONG - YOU'RE USED TO SINGING TWO SONGS WITH US, BUT I 05:17 HAVE AN EXTRA SPECIAL SONG TODAY AND IT'S NOT US, IT'S ERWIN. 05:23 AND ERWIN NANASI HAS BEEN IN THE STATES TWO AND A HALF YEARS. 05:28 HE IS FROM GERMANY AND HE ACTUALLY CAME TO THE STATES TO 05:32 GO TO AFCOE, WHICH IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 05:35 EVANGELISM, AND HE STAYED. 05:37 AND WE LOVE HAVING ERWIN HERE IN THE STATES BECAUSE HE BLESSES US 05:43 WITH HIS AMAZING TALENTS ON THE PIANO AND HE IS GOING TO BE 05:48 PLAYING FOR US 'WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN'. 05:50 I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT HE IS ALSO THE MUSIC DIRECTOR - THE 05:54 RESIDENT COMPOSER AT WEIMAR COLLEGE AND HE HAS DONE 05:57 TREMENDOUS WORK WITH THE COLLEGE STUDENTS AT WEIMAR - 06:00 THE CHOIR - AND TEACHING THE MUSIC. 06:03 SO HE'S GOING TO PLAY FOR US RIGHT NOW, 'WHEN WE ALL GET TO 06:05 HEAVEN' AND YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME, HE SAID, TO FOLLOW 06:07 ALONG IN YOUR HYMNALS - #633. 06:11 (MUSIC) 09:28 >>AMEN! THANK YOU ERWIN. ERWIN WAS PLAYING OUT OF THE 09:31 HYMNALS THAT YOU HAVE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHAT'S WRITTEN IN 09:35 THE HYMNAL IS NOT WHAT HE JUST PLAYED. 09:39 AND THAT IS WHAT INSPIRES ME AND JUST MAKES ME EXCITED. 09:43 WHEN YOU CAN TAKE GOD'S - THE TALENTS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU 09:46 AND PLAY BEAUTIFUL MUSIC LIKE THAT. 09:49 AT THIS TIME, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 09:53 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING US, FOR 09:56 BRINGING US HERE, AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THAT WE JUST 09:59 HEARD FROM ERWIN. AND ONE DAY, WHEN WE ALL GET TO 10:03 HEAVEN, WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE. 10:06 AND THE BEST PART IS THAT WE'LL FINALLY GET TO SEE YOUR FACE. 10:11 AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH BE READY FOR THAT DAY. 10:15 PLEASE SEND YOUR SPIRIT AND COME AND LIVE IN OUR HEARTS AS WE 10:18 OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 10:20 BE WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HIS 10:23 MINISTRY HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD. 10:26 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY 10:30 WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 10:37 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE. ERWIN, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE THAT SONG 10:40 - WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN. MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH. 10:46 I WANT TO WELCOME - THOSE WHO MAY BE VISITING HERE AT CENTRAL 10:48 CHURCH TODAY, I WANT TO WELCOME ALWAYS THE EXTENDED CLASS - 10:53 PEOPLE WHO ARE EITHER WATCHING ONLINE OR BY SATELLITE OR FROM 10:57 AROUND THE WORLD. AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE 10:59 TO STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WITH YOU. 11:02 WE WILL BE CONTINUING TODAY IN LESSON #2 IN OUR NEW QUARTERLY. 11:07 OF COURSE, HERE AT CENTRAL WE SORT OF LIVE IN THE FUTURE. 11:10 WE TAPE A FEW WEEKS IN ADVANCE SO THAT WE CAN GET THE PROGRAMS 11:13 CLOSED CAPTIONED AND EDITED AND SENT TO THE VARIOUS SATELLITE 11:16 NETWORKS AND - BUT BEFORE WE DO, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 11:20 TODAY'S LESSON IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FEAST 11:23 DAYS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT MOSES' LAW 11:26 AND CHRIST. AND THERE'S A FREE OFFER CALLED 11:29 'FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS' AND WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU JUST BY 11:32 CALLING AND ASKING. THE NUMBER'S THERE ON YOUR 11:34 SCREEN. I KNOW SOME LISTEN TO THIS 11:36 PROGRAM ON RADIO SO I SAY THE NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE - 11:40 THAT'S 866-788-3966. AND WHEN YOU CALL, ASK FOR OFFER 11:46 #179 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU. 11:50 ALSO, OUR LESSON IS ON 'CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES'. 11:56 TODAY WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - 'CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES' - 11:59 AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US FROM JOHN 5:46 - 12:04 I'LL JUST READ IT OUT OF THE LESSON HERE. 12:06 THIS IS THE NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION, JOHN 5:46. 12:10 WILL YOU SAY IT WITH ME? ARE YOU READY? "IF YOU BELIEVED 12:13 MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME." 12:19 NOW, I RUN INTO IT EVERYWHERE - PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THAT THE LAW 12:26 OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. 12:30 ACTUALLY, THEY ARE THE SAME LAW AND CHRIST IS A PERFECT IMAGE OF 12:35 THE LAW OF MOSES. LET ME GIVE YOU AN ILLUSTRATION 12:38 OF THAT - NOW I GAVE OUT SOME VERSES I'M GOING TO ASK PEOPLE 12:42 TO READ, BUT THERE'S ONE VERSE I DID NOT GIVE OUT SO I NEED A 12:45 VOLUNTEER. YOU DON'T HAVE A SLIP OF PAPER. 12:47 I NEED SOMEONE, HOPEFULLY IN THE FIRST FEW ROWS, THAT'S WILLING 12:50 TO READ FOR ME DEUTERONOMY 18:15. 12:53 HOLD UP YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE WILLING. WE'VE GOT A HAND 12:55 RIGHT HERE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP 12:58 FOR US, DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18, VERSE 15. 13:02 AND THE REASON THAT I WANT TO GO TO THIS VERSE IS BECAUSE JESUS 13:08 REALLY IS A TYPE - OR I SHOULD SAY MOSES WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 13:13 JESUS WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE MISSION OF MOSES AND MOSES 13:18 FORETOLD THAT THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 13:20 SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES, 13:23 YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS BECAUSE, AS IT 13:26 SAYS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE, 'IF YOU BELIEVE MOSES, YOU'D BELIEVE 13:29 ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME.' NOW WHERE DID - WHERE DID MOSES 13:33 WRITE ABOUT JESUS? GO AHEAD, READ THAT VERSE FOR US, PLEASE. 13:37 >>THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET 13:40 FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, OF THY BRETHREN, 13:43 LIKE UNTO ME; UNTO HIM YE SHALL HEARKEN;" 13:47 >>ALRIGHT, THIS IS A PROPHECY - A VERY IMPORTANT 13:49 PROPHECY THAT ALL THE JEWS KNEW ABOUT THAT SOMEDAY GOD WOULD 13:53 RAISE UP A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. MOSES SAID 'LIKE ME' - GOD'LL 13:58 RAISE UP A PROPHET. THAT'S A PRETTY TALL ORDER 14:01 BECAUSE MOSES WENT FROM BEING THE VERY LEAST - I MEAN, 14:05 HE'S KIND OF RETRIEVED FLOATING AROUND IN THE RIVER - TO NOT 14:08 ONLY BEING A LEADER IN EGYPT, BUT THE FOUNDER OF A NEW NATION. 14:11 THERE'S ALMOST NOBODY ELSE YOU COULD POINT TO IN THE BIBLE THAT 14:15 MADE A BIGGER DIFFERENCE IN HISTORY THAN MOSES DID. 14:19 NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE WAYS THAT MOSES IS LIKE CHRIST. 14:24 I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THEY ARE PARALLELS IN MANY RESPECTS SO 14:28 THAT AS WE TALK ABOUT THE LAW OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU 14:31 WON'T THINK OF THEM AS OPPOSING LAWS, BUT REALLY, THEY'RE IN 14:35 CONCERT. THEY'RE SORT OF IN STEREO WITH EACH OTHER. 14:39 ALRIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES: JOHN 1:21, "AND THEY 14:44 ASKED HIM" - JOHN THE BAPTIST - "'WHAT THEN? 14:47 ARE YOU ELIJAH?'" - BECAUSE WHEN JOHN STARTED 14:49 PREACHING - JOHN THE BAPTIST - THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ELIJAH 14:52 RETURNED - "'ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE SAID, 'I AM NOT.' 'ARE YOU 14:55 THE PROPHET?' AND HE ANSWERED, 'NO.'" - 14:58 WHAT DO THEY MEAN 'THE PROPHET'? 15:00 NOT TALKING ABOUT ELIJAH, WHO IS 'THE PROPHET'? 15:03 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF THIS PROPHET WOULD BE - A 15:06 PROPHET LIKE MOSES - THEY JUST CALLED HIM 'THE PROPHET' BECAUSE 15:09 IF HE'S LIKE MOSES HE WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE PROPHET. NOT THE 15:11 MESSIAH, BUT THIS ULTIMATE PROPHET THAT WOULD COME. 15:15 AND JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, 'NO.' AGAIN YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 1, 15:19 VERSE 25 - THEY ASKED HIM - "WHY THEN DO YOU BAPTIZE IF YOU ARE 15:22 NOT THE CHRIST, NOR ELIJAH, NOR THE PROPHET?" 15:26 GO, AGAIN, TO JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - 5:45, "'DO NOT THINK 15:31 THAT I SHALL ACCUSE YOU TO THE FATHER; THERE IS ONE WHO ACCUSES 15:36 YOU - MOSES, IN WHOM YOU TRUST. FOR IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU 15:41 WOULD BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME. 15:43 BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE HIS WRITINGS, HOW WILL YOU BELIEVE 15:46 MY WORDS?'" THAT'S SORT OF IN OUR MEMORY VERSE. 15:49 LET'S GO TO - I TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S JUMP OVER TO - YEAH, ACTS 15:55 CHAPTER 3 - ACTS 3:22, "FOR MOSES TRULY SAID UNTO THE 16:03 FATHERS, A PROPHET SHALL THE LORD YOUR GOD RAISE UP UNTO YOU 16:06 OF YOUR BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO ME;" - NOW HERE, IN THE NEW 16:10 TESTAMENT, PETER'S QUOTING WHAT WE JUST READ IN DEUTERONOMY. 16:13 MOSES SAID 'THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOING TO RAISE UP A PROPHET FROM 16:16 YOUR BRETHREN, LIKE ME.' - "HIM YOU SHALL HEAR IN ALL THINGS, 16:20 WHATEVER HE SAYS TO YOU...YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS, FROM 16:23 SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER, AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN, 16:26 HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF THESE DAYS." 16:28 - NOW WHO IS PETER TALKING ABOUT? 16:31 HE'S TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AS THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT. 16:33 NOW LISTEN TO STEPHEN - HIS LAST SERMON BEFORE HE DIES - ACTS 16:37 7:37, "THIS IS" - SPEAKING OF JESUS - "THIS IS THAT MOSES WHO 16:44 SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL RAISE UP 16:47 FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN. 16:49 HIM YOU SHALL HEAR.'" IS THERE ANY QUESTION THAT THE NEW 16:52 TESTAMENT WRITERS BELIEVED THAT JESUS WAS 'THE PROPHET LIKE 16:56 MOSES'? ISN'T THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 16:59 NOW YOU CAN JUMP TO - WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - JOHN 6:14, 17:04 "THEN THOSE MEN, WHEN THEY HAD SEEN THE SIGN THAT JESUS DID, 17:07 SAID, 'THIS IS TRULY THE PROPHET WHO IS TO COME INTO THE WORLD.'" 17:12 A PROPHET LIKE MOSES. AS MOSES LED THE CHILDREN OUT OF 17:15 THEIR SLAVERY, JESUS WAS TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY FROM SIN. 17:21 GO TO 1 CORINTHIANS 10, VERSE 1, "MOREOVER BRETHREN, I DO NOT 17:27 WANT YOU TO BE UNAWARE THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE 17:30 CLOUD, ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, ALL WERE BAPTIZED INTO 17:33 MOSES" - THAT'S A STRANGE PHRASE - 'BAPTIZED INTO MOSES'? 17:38 YOU EVER BEEN TO A CHURCH WHERE THE PASTOR SAYS, 'I NOW BAPTIZE 17:41 YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, IN THE NAME OF MOSES 17:44 AND THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'? 17:46 WHY DO YOU SAY 'BAPTIZED INTO MOSES'? 17:48 BECAUSE AS MOSES LED THE PEOPLE - MOSES WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST IN 17:52 MANY WAYS - AS WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE - AS HE LED THEM THROUGH THE 17:56 WILDERNESS, OUT OF SLAVERY, AS JESUS LEADS US OUT OF SLAVERY - 18:00 THROUGH THE RED SEA - TYPE OF BAPTISM - WATER BAPTISM - 18:04 THROUGH THE PILLAR OF FIRE - TYPE OF SPIRIT BAPTISM - AND 18:08 MANY OTHER WAYS, MOSES IS A TYPE OF CHRIST HERE. 18:11 SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE LAW OF 18:13 CHRIST, I JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS BACKDROP THAT THEY REALLY 18:17 ARE PARALLELS. MOSES IS THE JESUS OF THE OLD 18:20 TESTAMENT IN MANY WAYS - THE GREAT SAVIOR. 18:25 AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT JESUS SAID, 'SO THE SON OF MAN 18:27 WILL BE LIFTED UP.' AND THEN YOU GET JOHN 3:16 RIGHT AFTER THAT. 18:32 THAT WAS, BY THE WAY, JOHN 3:14 AND 15. 18:36 ALRIGHT, NOW LOOK AT SOME OF THE PARALLELS OF MOSES AND JESUS. 18:39 DID MOSES SURVIVE ATTEMPTED BABY GENOCIDE WHEN HE CAME INTO THE 18:44 WORLD? DOES JESUS SURVIVE AN ATTEMPTED 18:47 BABY GENOCIDE WHEN HE COMES INTO THE WORLD? 18:50 OKAY, DO I NEED TO READ YOU THOSE VERSES? 18:52 EXODUS 1:22, MATTHEW 2:16? WAS MOSES BORN FROM SLAVES? 19:00 WERE HIS PARENTS SLAVES? BUT DID MOSES EVER SERVE AS A SLAVE? 19:05 WAS JESUS BORN FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE SINNERS? 19:08 BUT DID HE EVER SIN? ALRIGHT, LET ME JUST LOOK AT 19:14 SOME OF THESE OTHERS. THERE'S MANY. 19:16 I'M JUST GOING TO TOUCH THE SURFACE HERE. 19:19 WAS MOSES SAVED AFTER GOING THROUGH EGYPT? 19:24 DID JESUS GO THROUGH EGYPT BEFORE HE WAS - BEGAN HIS 19:28 MINISTRY? AND YOU CAN SEE HERE IT SAYS - 19:32 LUKE 2:40 - "AND THE CHILD GREW AND BECAME STRONG IN SPIRIT, 19:36 FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM." 19:39 YOU LOOK IN EXODUS 2:10, "AND THE CHILD GREW, AND SHE BROUGHT 19:41 HIM TO PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER" - INTERESTING, BOTH JESUS AND 19:45 MOSES USE THE SAME TERMINOLOGY 'AND THE CHILD GREW' AND BOTH 19:50 CAME OUT OF EGYPT 'I'VE SAVED MY SON OUT OF EGYPT' IT SAYS. 19:54 DID MOSES REFUSE EARTHLY WEALTH? YOU CAN READ IN HEBREWS 11, 19:59 VERSE 24, "BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED TO BE 20:03 CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, CHOOSING RATHER TO 20:06 SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE 20:08 PASSING PLEASURES OF SIN, ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST 20:12 GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT." 20:15 SO HE LEFT THE PALACE TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE. 20:19 DID JESUS LEAVE THE PALACE TO SAVE GOD'S PEOPLE? 20:22 HE CAME FROM THE FATHER. DID JESUS REFUSE EARTHLY WEALTH? 20:27 THAT'S A STRUGGLE - A BIGGER STRUGGLE THAN YOU THINK. 20:29 A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, NO BIG DEAL.' BUT IF YOU WERE 20:31 OFFERED ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND ALL THEIR GLORY - IF 20:34 YOU COULD WIN 'WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE?' YOU'D PROBABLY 20:38 CHOOSE THAT INSTEAD OF CHOOSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 20:42 AGAIN THE DEVIL TOOK JESUS - THIS IS MATTHEW 4:8 - "AGAIN, 20:46 THE DEVIL TOOK HIM UP ON AN EXCEEDINGLY HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND 20:48 SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR GLORY. 20:51 AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'ALL THESE THINGS I WILL GIVE YOU IF YOU 20:54 WILL FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.'" DID JESUS REFUSE THE EARTHLY 20:57 KINGDOM - THE EARTHLY WEALTH? ALRIGHT, PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSES 7 21:03 AND 8 - IT SAYS HE "MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, TAKING THE 21:07 FORM OF A BONDSERVANT, AND COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN. 21:11 AND BEING FOUND IN THE APPEARANCE AS A MAN, HE HUMBLED 21:14 HIMSELF AND BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH, EVEN THE 21:17 DEATH OF THE CROSS." DID MOSES FIND A WOMAN AT A WELL? 21:25 EXODUS 2:15, "NOW WHEN PHARAOH HEARD THIS THING, HE SOUGHT TO 21:30 SLAY MOSES. BUT MOSES FLED..." DID MOSES GO THROUGH THE RED SEA 21:35 AND THEN GO INTO THE WILDERNESS AND SIT BY A WELL? 21:38 DID JESUS, AFTER HIS BAPTISM, GOING THROUGH THE SEA, DID HE GO 21:41 INTO THE WILDERNESS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL AND THEN DOES HE LATER 21:44 SIT DOWN BY A WELL AND MEET A WOMAN? 21:47 IT SAYS MOSES SAT DOWN "IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN...BY A WELL." 21:51 HE ENDS UP MEETING ONE OF SEVEN THAT BECOMES HIS WIFE. 21:57 JESUS MEETS THIS WOMAN WHO'S HAD FIVE HUSBANDS, SHE HAS ONE 22:02 LIVING WITH HIM, NONE OF THEM SATISFIED BUT SHE FINDS THE 22:05 MESSIAH IN CHRIST WHO WOULD BE THE SEVENTH. 22:08 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? A WOMAN AT A WELL. 22:12 I ALWAYS LIKE TO STOP WHENEVER I FIND THIS. WHERE DID JACOB - 22:15 WHERE DID JACOB FIND HIS WIFE? RACHEL? AT A WELL. 22:22 WHERE DID ELIEZER FIND A WIFE FOR ISAAC? AT A WELL. 22:27 SO I ALWAYS TELL ALL THE SINGLES WHEN THEY HERE THIS, 'WHERE DO 22:29 YOU NEED TO HANG OUT? WATER COOLER.' RIGHT? 22:35 OKAY, WAS MOSES A GREAT LAW GIVER? OUR LESSON TODAY IS ABOUT 22:40 CHRIST AND HIS LAW - SPEAKING OF CHRIST AND THE LAW OF MOSES. 22:43 MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT LAW-GIVER. 22:46 MATTER OF FACT, JUST THINK ABOUT IT - HE TOOK A NATION - WE KNOW 22:48 GOD GAVE HIM THIS INFORMATION - HE DIDN'T DREAM IT UP, BUT HERE 22:51 YOU HAVE SOMEONE HISTORICALLY, THAT WE KNOW, TOOK A NATION THAT 22:55 BASICALLY CAME OUT OF SLAVERY WITH NOTHING AND GAVE THEM THE 22:59 BEST LAWS - AND MOST OF THE LAWS IN THE WORLD ARE, IN SOME WAY, 23:02 BASED UPON THE LAWS OF MOSES. EVEN MOSES SAID - OR GOD SAID TO 23:06 MOSES, 'WHAT NATION IS THERE THAT HAS RIGHTEOUS AND JUST LAWS 23:10 AS YOU HAVE?' I MEAN, IT WAS JUST AMAZING THE 23:13 WISDOM THAT CAME THERE. SO THEY'RE GREAT LAW GIVERS. 23:16 JESUS SAID, JOHN 13:34, "A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU" - 23:20 SO IS JESUS A LAW GIVER LIKE MOSES? BOTH WERE JUDGES. 23:25 EXODUS 18:13, "AND SO IT WAS, ON THE NEXT DAY, THAT MOSES SAT TO 23:30 JUDGE THE PEOPLE; AND THE PEOPLE STOOD BEFORE MOSES FROM MORNING 23:33 UNTIL EVENING." MOSES WAS A JUDGE. WAS JESUS A JUDGE? 23:37 IS JESUS A JUDGE? 2 CORINTHIANS 5:10, "FOR WE MUST 23:41 ALL" - THAT'S EVERYBODY HERE - "WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE THE 23:44 JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST, THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS 23:47 DONE IN THE BODY." SO MOSES IS A GREAT JUDGE, 23:51 JESUS IS A GREAT JUDGE. WAS MOSES A GOOD SHEPHERD? 23:56 EXODUS 3:1, "NOW MOSES WAS TENDING THE FLOCK OF JETHRO HIS 24:00 FATHER-IN-LAW...AND HE LED THE FLOCK TO THE BACK OF THE DESERT, 24:04 AND CAME TO HOREB, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD." 24:07 AND HE STARTED TALKING TO BUSHES BECAUSE HE'D BEEN THERE TOO LONG 24:11 - THE BURNING BUSH. DID JESUS - WAS HE THE GOOD SHEPHERD? 24:16 DID HE CARE FOR HIS FATHER'S SHEEP? 24:18 IS HE THE ONE WHO IS WILLING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP? 24:20 INTERESTING HOW MANY ARE SHEPHERDS: JOSEPH IS A SHEPHERD, 24:24 DAVID'S A SHEPHERD, MOSES IS A SHEPHERD, ABRAHAM'S A SHEPHERD, 24:26 RIGHT? TYPES OF CHRIST. 24:32 DOES MOSES BRING BREAD DOWN FROM HEAVEN? 24:37 OR AT LEAST HE FEEDS THE PEOPLE WITH HIS BREAD OF LIFE AS A TYPE 24:41 OF CHRIST? IT COMES FROM GOD. 24:43 JOHN 6:32 - JESUS SAID - SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO QUESTION 'IS JESUS 24:47 A TYPE OF MOSES?' OR MOSES A TYPE OF CHRIST 24:50 BECAUSE CHRIST SAID SO, JOHN 6:32 "THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, 24:54 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, MOSES DID NOT GIVE YOU THE BREAD 24:57 FROM HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER GIVES YOU THE TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 24:59 FOR THE BREAD OF GOD IS HE WHO COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GIVES 25:02 LIFE TO THE WORLD.' THEN THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LORD, GIVE US THIS 25:06 BREAD ALWAYS.' AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.'" 25:09 ALRIGHT, DID MOSES DEFEAT A SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS? 25:13 REMEMBER WHEN ALL THOSE SERPENTS CAME TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL? 25:17 A PLAGUE OF THEM? HE LIFTED UP A SERPENT ON A 25:19 STAFF AND BY LOOKING IN FAITH TO THAT THEY LIVED? 25:23 DID JESUS DEFEAT THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE WAS 25:26 TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL THERE DURING THE 40 DAYS? 25:30 WAS MOSES - DID MOSES COME OFF A MOUNTAIN SHINING? THEY COULDN'T 25:36 EVEN LOOK AT HIS FACE. WAS JESUS SHINING ON A MOUNTAIN? 25:40 AND HE CAME DOWN TO THE VALLEY AND IT SAYS IN DESIRE OF AGES HE 25:42 WAS STILL SHINING AND THEY COULD SEE, NOT ONLY HIM, PETER, JAMES 25:46 AND JOHN WERE ALL KIND OF GLOWING THAT DAY. 25:48 AND YOU'VE GOT THAT IN MATTHEW 17:2 AND IT SAYS, 25:53 "HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN." MOSES - IT SAID HE HAD TO VEIL 25:57 HIS FACE, VERSE 34 - EXODUS 34, VERSE 33. 26:02 DID THEY COME DOWN TO TEACH AND TO SAVE? 26:06 AFTER JESUS CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN HE TAUGHT. 26:08 MOSES CAME DOWN FROM SPEAKING WITH GOD, HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE 26:11 AND TAUGHT THEM HOW TO BE SAVED. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. 26:16 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE MOSES? STILL TALKING ABOUT THE 26:20 PARALLEL'S BETWEEN MOSES AND CHRIST. DID THEY? 26:23 EXODUS 17:4, "SO MOSES CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL 26:26 I DO WITH THIS PEOPLE? THEY ARE ALMOST READY TO STONE ME!'" 26:28 AND ALSO IN NUMBERS 14, THE PEOPLE WERE READY TO STONE MOSES 26:32 WHEN THOSE SPIES CAME BACK WITH AN EVIL REPORT. 26:35 DID THEY ATTEMPT TO STONE JESUS? JOHN 8:59, "THEN THEY TOOK UP 26:40 STONES TO CAST AT HIM: BUT JESUS HID HIMSELF." 26:44 DID MOSES FAST FOR 40 DAYS, 40 NIGHTS? 26:48 DID JESUS? YEAH, ON THE MOUNTAIN. 26:50 MOSES FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS. 26:51 DID JESUS FAST 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS? 26:54 WHO ELSE FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS? 26:57 ELIJAH. IF YOU GO TO MARK CHAPTER 9, 27:02 WHAT THREE INDIVIDUALS ARE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOGETHER? 27:05 MOSES, JESUS AND ELIJAH ALL FASTED 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS. 27:11 DID MOSES LEAD 12 INDIVIDUALS? DID HE HAVE 12 LEADERS? 27:17 YEAH, NUMBERS 1, VERSE 44 - MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS VERSE - 27:21 NUMBERS 1:44, "THESE ARE THOSE THAT WERE NUMBERED, WHICH MOSES 27:25 AND AARON NUMBERED, AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL, BEING TWELVE 27:29 MEN." DID JESUS HAVE 12 OR DO YOU NEED 27:33 ME TO GO TO THAT VERSE? DO WE ALL BELIEVE HE HAD 12 27:35 APOSTLES? ALRIGHT, I'LL SKIP THAT. 27:38 NOT ONLY DID JESUS HAVE TWELVE, JESUS HAD 70. 27:42 LUKE 10:1, "AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED SEVENTY 27:45 OTHERS ALSO, AND SENT THEM TWO BY TWO..." 27:49 DID EXODUS - DID EXODUS - DID MOSES ALSO HAVE 70? 27:53 EXODUS 24:9, "THEN WENT UP MOSES, AND AARON, NADAB, AND 27:58 ABIHU, AND SEVENTY OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL." 28:00 SO JESUS HAS GOT A GROUP OF 12 AND 70 LEADERS. 28:04 MOSES HAS A GROUP OF 12 AND 70 LEADERS. 28:07 DO YOU SEE PARALLELS HERE OR AM I JUST DREAMING THESE THINGS UP? 28:12 DID JESUS GIVE UP HIS SPIRIT TO OTHERS? 28:15 YEAH, HE SAID, 'I'LL SEND' - WELL IT'S THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST - 28:19 CHRIST SAID, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE WITH YOU AND I AM WITH 28:22 YOU ALWAYS THROUGH THE SPIRIT.' HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, HE SENT 28:25 THE HOLY SPIRIT. MOSES DID THE SAME THING. 28:28 AND IT SAYS HERE THAT - IN NUMBERS 11 - GOD SAID, "THEN I 28:31 WILL COME DOWN AND TALK WITH YOU THERE" - NUMBERS 11:17 - "I WILL 28:35 TAKE OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS UPON YOU AND WILL PUT THE SAME UPON 28:37 THEM." HOW MANY OF YOU WANT THE SPIRIT 28:40 OF CHRIST? DO WE EVER PRAY FOR THE SPIRIT OF MOSES? 28:44 SEE, WHAT MOSES DID WITH THE ELDERS IS A TYPE OF WHAT 28:46 CHRIST DOES WITH US AND SO IT'S REAL. 28:50 DID MOSES DELIVER THE PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY? 28:55 DOES JESUS DELIVER US FROM SLAVERY TO THE DEVIL AND SIN? 28:59 IT SAYS HERE IN LUKE 4:18, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, 29:03 BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; 29:06 HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 29:09 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES." - LIBERTY - JESUS CAME TO SET 29:15 THE CAPTIVES FREE AS MOSES DID. DID MOSES BUILD A TEMPLE? 29:21 YOU'RE QUIET FOR A CLASS. MAYBE YOU'RE THINKING. 29:24 DID JESUS BUILD A TEMPLE? JOHN 2:19, "JESUS 29:29 ANSWERED...'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE 29:32 IT UP.'" WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? HIS BODY. 29:35 AND WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST. 29:38 'WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' 29:40 SO MOSES BUILT A TEMPLE, JESUS HAS BUILT A TEMPLE IN THIS 29:43 WILDERNESS - IT'S HIS CHURCH - HIS BODY. WAS JESUS MEEK? 29:49 ARE WE GUESSING OR DOES HE SAY THAT? 29:51 'I AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' WAS MOSES KNOWN FOR BEING MEEK? 29:56 NUMBERS 12:3, "(NOW THE MAN MOSES WAS VERY MEEK, ABOVE ALL 30:00 THE MEN WHICH WERE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)" NOW DID MOSES 30:04 WRITE THAT? CAN A MEEK PERSON WRITE THAT THEY'RE MEEK? 30:10 YOU HEARD ABOUT THE MAN THAT WON AN AWARD - HE WON A MEDAL FOR 30:13 BEING THE MOST HUMBLE MAN IN THE TOWN? 30:15 BUT THEN HE WORE THE MEDAL AND THEY TOOK IT AWAY. 30:19 SO PROBABLY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT JOSHUA LATER ADDED INTO THE 30:24 BOOK OF NUMBERS BECAUSE JOSHUA, OBVIOUSLY THE END OF MOSES' 30:28 BOOKS - YOU GET TO THE END OF DEUTERONOMY IT SAYS MOSES DIED 30:31 AND HE WAS BURIED AND ALL THIS STUFF. 30:33 MOSES DIDN'T WRITE THAT PART SO PROBABLY JOSHUA WROTE SOME OF 30:37 THESE THINGS - JOSHUA, WHO WAS MOSES' ATTENDANT - HE SAW HOW 30:40 MEEK HE WAS AND IT SAYS THIS CONNECTED WITH A STORY ABOUT HOW 30:43 BADLY MOSES WAS MISTREATED, BUT HE DIDN'T TRY FOR THE HIGHEST 30:46 POSITION. JESUS WAS MEEK. MOSES WAS MEEK. 30:50 THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF THE DEVIL. 30:52 WAS MOSES WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE FOR GOD'S PEOPLE? 30:58 EXODUS 32:32, "YET NOW, IF YOU WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN - BUT IF 31:04 NOT, I PRAY, BLOT ME OUT OF YOUR BOOK WHICH YOU HAVE WRITTEN." 31:08 AND WAS JESUS WILLING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE? 31:11 DID HE FACE THE SECOND DEATH THERE ON THE CROSS AND 31:14 SEPARATION FROM GOD THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN? 31:17 ALRIGHT, WAS MOSES RESURRECTED? YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF JUDE 1, 31:22 VERSE 9, "YET MICHAEL" - WHO WAS CHRIST - "THE 31:25 ARCHANGEL, IN CONTENDING WITH THE DEVIL, WHEN HE DISPUTED 31:28 ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES," - THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM, 31:30 HE SINNED. HE'S MINE.' - HE SAID, "'THE LORD REBUKE YOU!'" 31:33 AND WE KNOW MOSES WAS RESURRECTED BECAUSE HE APPEARS 31:36 TO JESUS - RESURRECTED - ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 31:40 AND, OF COURSE, YOU ALL KNOW JESUS WAS RESURRECTED. 31:42 NOW, THAT'S JUST A FEW OF THE TYPES THAT I'VE GOT OF CHRIST 31:46 AND MOSES, BUT THERE ARE MANY OF THEM. 31:49 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CHRIST AND HIS LAW - CHRIST'S AND MOSES' 31:54 LAW - THEY'RE NOT AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER, IT'S REALLY ONE AND 32:00 THE SAME. BUT SOME OF THE CEREMONIAL LAWS 32:02 THAT CHRIST GAVE MOSES POINTED BACK TO CHRIST TO 32:06 HELP US IDENTIFY HIM. WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN 32:08 JUST A MOMENT. ALRIGHT, FIRST SECTION. 32:10 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME NOW, ON CIRCUMCISION AND DEDICATION, 32:13 SOMEONE HAS JOHN 7:22 - HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 32:16 WHO HAS IT? OVER HERE? OKAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 32:18 SPIN YOUR CAMERA 180 TO GET HIM. AND WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 32:22 IN THE MEANTIME, IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT - YOU TALK ABOUT 32:26 CIRCUMCISION IN THE BIBLE AND IT CAN SEEM A LITTLE AWKWARD, 32:28 BUT IT'S IN THE BIBLE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. 32:30 LEVITICUS 12, VERSES 2 AND 3, "SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF 32:35 ISRAEL, SAYING: 'IF A WOMAN HAS CONCEIVED, AND BORNE A MALE 32:39 CHILD, THEN SHE SHALL BE UNCLEAN SEVEN DAYS; 32:43 AS IN THE DAYS OF HER CUSTOMARY IMPURITY." 32:45 - WHENEVER THERE'S ANY KIND OF BODY ISSUE, WHETHER IT'S A WOUND 32:50 OR A SORE - AND, OF COURSE, THE WOMAN'S MONTHLY CYCLE WAS 32:53 CONSIDERED IN THAT CATEGORY - YOU WERE CONSIDERED UNCLEAN. 32:56 AND SO, AFTER BIRTH THAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS. 32:59 AND SO FOR ONE WEEK SHE WAS TO BE UNCLEAN "AS IN THE DAYS OF 33:02 HER CUSTOMARY IMPURITY" - BUT ON THE EIGHTH DAY SHE WAS TO BRING 33:07 THE BOY TO THE TEMPLE. AT THAT TIME HE WAS TO BE 33:10 CIRCUMCISED AND THAT WAS TRADITIONALLY THE TIME WHEN HIS 33:12 NAME WAS PICKED AND IT WAS REGISTERED. 33:17 I KNOW WHEN STEPHEN WAS BORN THAT WE STILL HAD NOT MADE UP 33:20 OUR MIND - OF COURSE, WE DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL THE DAY HE WAS BORN 33:22 WHETHER IT WAS A BOY OR GIRL. AND THEY OFFERED TO TELL US BUT 33:28 THEY DID A SONOGRAM THE DAY THAT KAREN WENT INTO LABOR AND WE 33:32 SAID, 'OH, AT THIS POINT WE MAY AS WELL JUST WAIT.' THEY SAID, 33:35 'DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?' I SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW. 33:37 WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NAME IS.' AND SO WHEN WE LEFT 33:39 THE HOSPITAL THEY SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A NAME ON THE BIRTH 33:41 CERTIFICATE.' AND SO IT JUST SAID, 'BABY BOY BATCHELOR'. 33:44 SO WE FINALLY CAME UP WITH THE NAME STEPHEN. SO I CALLED MY DAD 33:53 AND TOLD MY DAD AND MY DAD WAS ALL UPSET BECAUSE MY FATHER'S 33:57 NAME WAS GEORGE EDWARD BATCHELOR. 34:01 MY FATHER NAMED MY BROTHER GEORGE FALCON BATCHELOR BUT MY 34:05 BROTHER COULDN'T HAVE ANY CHILDREN AND MY STEP-BROTHER 34:09 OPTED NOT TO NAME ANY KIDS AFTER MY DAD AND SO WHEN I HAD STEPHEN 34:13 - MY DAD'S GETTING OLD NOW - HE SAID, 34:16 'YOU COULD HAVE NAMED ONE AFTER ME. 34:18 IT'S A FAMILY TRADITION.' SO WE FELT REALLY BAD SO WE CALLED 34:21 BACK THE HOSPITAL, WE SAID, WE WANT TO ADD ONE MORE NAME. 34:23 SO WE ENDED UP WITH FOUR NAMES - GEORGE STEPHEN EDWARD BATCHELOR. 34:27 BUT THEY USED TO DO THAT ON THE EIGHTH DAY AND IT TALKS ABOUT 34:30 WHEN THEY DID THAT IN THE TEMPLE WITH JESUS. THE DAY THAT THEY 34:36 BROUGHT HIM TO BE CIRCUMCISED IS THAT DAY. MATTER OF FACT, 34:40 WHO HAS THAT? JOHN 7:22 WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT FOR US? 34:43 >>"MOSES THEREFORE GAVE YOU CIRCUMCISION (NOT THAT IT IS 34:47 FROM MOSES, BUT FROM THE FATHERS), 34:49 AND YOU CIRCUMCISE A MAN ON THE SABBATH." 34:52 >>NOW, WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF CIRCUMCISION? SEVERAL. 34:57 FOR ONE THING, IT REPRESENTED THAT THE HOLY SEED - THERE WAS A 35:03 CONSECRATION THAT GOD GAVE TO ABRAHAM THAT THE HOLY SEED WOULD 35:07 COME THROUGH HIS FAMILY - HIS LINE. IT ALSO REPRESENTED - 35:11 AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL TRY TO BE AS DELICATE AS I CAN BE BUT ONE OF 35:16 THE STRONGEST DRIVES - STRONGEST ANIMAL DRIVES IN THE WORLD 35:20 BESIDE FOOD, IS THE DRIVE TO REPRODUCE - SEX. 35:24 AND IT WAS SORT OF DEMONSTRATING THAT GOD'S PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING 35:30 TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE FLESH BUT BY THE SPIRIT. 35:33 IT WAS A CUTTING AWAY OF THE FLESH. 35:35 IT ALSO REPRESENTED A SHEDDING OF BLOOD THAT TOOK PLACE. 35:40 THE FIRST TIME THAT CHRIST SHED BLOOD IN THE TEMPLE WAS NOT WHEN 35:42 HE DIED ON THE CROSS, IT WAS WHEN HE WAS EIGHT DAYS 35:45 OLD IS WHEN HIS FIRST BLOOD WAS SHED. 35:48 NOW, IF CIRCUMCISION WAS ALL POINTING TO WHEN THE HOLY SEED 35:52 WOULD COME, CHRIST THE MESSIAH, AND IF JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT 35:56 OF THAT, THEN WHY BOTHER CIRCUMCISING HIM? 35:58 IT ALL POINTED TO HIM, HE MAY AS WELL JUST GO WITHOUT BECAUSE 36:03 DOES CIRCUMCISION MATTER NOW? PAUL SAYS, 'NO'. 36:07 I MEAN, THERE ACTUALLY ARE SOME MEDICAL BENEFITS, BUT IF THERE'S 36:11 NO REQUIREMENT BIBLICALLY, THERE ARE CERTAIN TYPES OF CANCER THAT 36:16 ARE AVOIDED AND - I WON'T GET INTO THAT RIGHT NOW. 36:19 AND THAT'S WHY, EVEN IN THE HOSPITALS TODAY, NO MATTER WHAT 36:21 YOUR RELIGION IS, THEY STILL OFFER CIRCUMCISION FOR MALE 36:25 CHILDREN. BUT IT'S NOT REQUIRED. 36:29 PAUL SAYS, VERY CLEARLY, 'CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. 36:31 UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING.' AND YET, PAUL TOOK TIMOTHY AND HAD 36:34 HIM CIRCUMCISED BECAUSE IT WAS GOING TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK 36:37 FOR TIMOTHY WHO HAD A JEWISH FATHER AND - OH NO, HE HAD A 36:41 JEWISH MOTHER AND GENTILE FATHER - HAD NOT BEEN CIRCUMCISED AND 36:46 HE DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK AS HE WAS 36:48 PREACHING AND DOING MINISTRY. SO WHY DID JESUS? 36:54 BECAUSE HE KEPT ALL THE LAW. 36:56 'WHY AM I GOING TO GIVE ALL THESE LAWS TO THE PEOPLE?' 36:59 HE KEPT THE LAW OF MOSES IN EVERY RESPECT. 37:02 NOW DIDN'T THEY ACCUSE JESUS OF BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES? 37:06 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF SABBATH BREAKING. 37:07 DID HE BREAK THE SABBATH? HE BROKE THEIR TRADITIONS 37:10 CONNECTED WITH IT. THEY ACCUSED JESUS OF BEING 37:13 DEMON-POSSESSED. WAS HE DEMON-POSSESSED? 37:15 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A SAMARITAN - HE WASN'T. 37:18 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A GLUTTON AND A WINE BIBBER. 37:21 I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'VE MET PASTORS THAT SAY, 'OH, THE BIBLE 37:24 SAYS JESUS GOT DRUNK. HE KNEW HOW TO PARTY. 37:26 IT CALLED HIM A GLUTTON AND A WINE-BIBBER.' 37:27 NO, THEY ACCUSED HIM OF THAT. HE WAS NOT. 37:31 SO THEY ACCUSED HIM OF A LOT OF THINGS AND I JUST WANT THAT TO 37:34 BE CLEAR. ALRIGHT, A COUPLE OF OTHER 37:36 VERSES HERE ON THAT SUBJECT - AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TIME 37:41 TO READ THAT. YEAH, I'LL READ THAT REAL QUICK. 37:44 GENESIS 17:9, "AND GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM: 'AS FOR YOU, YOU SHALL 37:49 KEEP MY COVENANT, YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU THROUGHOUT 37:51 THEIR GENERATIONS. THIS IS MY COVENANT WHICH YOU 37:54 SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU: 37:58 EVERY MALE CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED; AND YOU SHALL BE 38:02 CIRCUMCISED IN THE FLESH OR YOUR FORESKINS, AND IT SHALL BE A 38:05 SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YOU." 38:08 EXODUS 13:2, "CONSECRATE TO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN, WHATEVER 38:14 OPENS THE WOMB AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 38:16 BOTH OF MAN AND BEAST; IT IS MINE." 38:18 'THAT YOU SET APART IT TO THE LORD ALL THAT OPEN THE WOMB, 38:21 THAT IS, EVERY FIRSTBORN THAT COMES FROM ANIMAL, WHICH YOU 38:24 HAVE, ALL THE MALES SHALL BE THE LORD'S.' WHY WAS IT THAT ALL THE 38:28 MALE FIRSTBORNS WERE TO BE CONSECRATED TO GOD? 38:31 BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST. 38:34 WHO WAS THE FIRSTBORN OF MARY? IT WAS JESUS. 38:38 JESUS PROBABLY WAS THE LAST BORN OF MARY TOO. 38:41 SOME PEOPLE CHOKE WHEN I TELL THEM THAT, BUT THE OTHER 38:44 BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT JESUS HAD WERE PROBABLY FROM A FIRST 38:49 FAMILY. JOSEPH WAS PROBABLY A WIDOWER 38:52 AND HE HAD OTHER CHILDREN BEFORE JESUS. 38:55 IT SEEMS, FROM EVERYTHING WE READ IN THE BIBLE, THEY WERE 38:58 STEP-BROTHERS, BECAUSE WHY WOULD JESUS COMMIT HIS MOTHER TO JOHN 39:03 THE APOSTLE IF SHE HAD OTHER NATURAL CHILDREN? 39:05 THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. AND IF JESUS WAS THE FIRSTBORN 39:10 AND HE WAS LEADING ALL THE OTHERS, IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL FOR 39:15 THE FIRSTBORN TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BUSINESS AND BECOME AN 39:17 ITINERANT PREACHER. BUT THE YOUNGEST, THEY OFTEN, 39:20 YOU KNOW, THEY COULD GO OFF AND DO THEIR OWN THING. 39:23 YOU REMEMBER THE FIRSTBORN STAYED HOME WITH THE - THE STORY 39:25 OF THE PRODIGAL SON? THE YOUNG ONE, HE WENT OFF TO A 39:27 FAR COUNTRY. AND SO, IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL - IT 39:29 WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED DISRESPECTFUL FOR THE FIRSTBORN 39:32 SON TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BUSINESS, BUT THE YOUNGER WERE 39:35 ALLOWED A LITTLE MORE LATITUDE THAT WAY. 39:38 ALRIGHT, SO THOSE FIRSTBORN WERE A TYPE OF CHRIST. 39:42 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME JOHN 5:1. WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE? 39:47 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND I'LL SIGNAL YOU WHEN THEY GET 39:49 YOU FOCUSED THERE. IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO 39:51 READ GALATIANS 4, VERSES 4 AND 5, "BUT WHEN THE FULLNESS OF THE 39:57 TIME HAD COME, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN 40:02 UNDER THE LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE WHO WERE UNDER THE LAW, THAT WE 40:07 MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION AS SONS." NOW THIS IS A PHRASE 40:11 THAT'S USED MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE: 'REDEEM THOSE WHO ARE 40:15 UNDER THE LAW.' WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE UNDER THE LAW? 40:19 IF YOU'RE A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN ARE YOU UNDER THE LAW? 40:24 DOES NOT BEING UNDER THE LAW MEAN YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER AN 40:28 OBLIGATION TO OBEY THE LAW? WELL, IT'S USED TWO DIFFERENT 40:32 WAYS. ARE CHRISTIANS LAW BREAKERS OR LAW KEEPERS? 40:38 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAW. 40:41 YOU'VE GOT THE LAW OF CHRIST, WHICH WE SAY IS THE NEW 40:43 COVENANT, BUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CERTAINLY ARE 40:46 INCLUDED IN THAT. THEN THERE ARE CERTAIN CEREMONIAL LAWS. 40:49 BUT MOSTLY, IN ROMANS, WHEN PAUL SAYS 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW 40:53 BUT UNDER GRACE.' HE MEANS WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE PENALTY 40:57 OF THE LAW BECAUSE CHRIST SAVES US FROM THE PENALTY. 41:01 SO IF YOU'VE BEEN SAVED FROM THE PENALTY - YOU'RE NO LONGER UNDER 41:03 THE PENALTY - THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE FREE TO BREAK THE LAW, IT 41:06 MEANS YOU'RE FREE FROM THE PENALTY OF DEATH. 41:09 NOW YOU HAVE LIFE. AND SO SOME HAVE TAKEN THAT TO MEAN - 41:12 AND HAVEN'T YOU HEARD IT USED THAT WAY? SOMEONE SAYS, YOU'RE 41:14 NOT UNDER THE LAW, THAT MEANS YOU CAN NOW BREAK THE LAW.' WOW. 41:19 BUT THEY ONLY PREACH THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE SABBATH. 41:22 I'VE NEVER HEARD A PASTOR STAND UP AND SAY, 'YOU'RE ALL FREE TO 41:25 COMMIT ADULTERY. YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. 41:27 YOU'RE ALL FREE TO STEAL FROM EACH OTHER, 41:29 YOU'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW. YOU'RE ALL FREE TO LIE, YOU'RE 41:31 NOT UNDER THE LAW.' THEY DON'T EVER USE IT THAT WAY UNTIL THEY 41:33 HEAR THE SABBATH TRUTH THEN THEY SAY, 'OH NO, WE'RE NOT UNDER THE 41:35 LAW, WE'RE UNDER GRACE.' WHICH SEEMS A LITTLE BIT SUSPICIOUS. 41:40 OKAY, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 5:1. 41:44 >>JOHN 5:1, "AFTER THIS THERE WAS A FEAST OF 41:47 THE JEWS, AND JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM." 41:51 >>SO DID JESUS - HE NOT ONLY WAS CIRCUMCISED ACCORDING TO THE LAW 41:54 OF MOSES - DID HE KEEP THE FEASTS? 41:57 NOW HOW SHOULD A CHRISTIAN RELATE TO THE FEASTS TODAY? 42:01 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF FEAST LAWS. 42:03 ARE THE FEAST LAWS DIFFERENT FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAWS? 42:08 I TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE LAST WEEK, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT 42:10 THAT I MENTION THIS BECAUSE I RUN INTO A NUMBER OF SINCERE 42:14 CHRISTIANS - I DON'T QUESTION THEIR SINCERITY, BUT THEY'VE 42:17 BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THIS IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, A TRUTH THAT HAS 42:20 BEEN MISSING IS THAT WE'RE, IN THE LAST DAYS, SUPPOSED TO BE 42:25 KEEPING ALL OF THE JEWISH FEASTS. I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 42:29 I THINK THE BIBLE IS EXCEEDING CLEAR, AS IS THE SPIRIT OF 42:32 PROPHECY, THAT THOSE ARE THE LAWS THAT WERE NAILED TO THE 42:36 CROSS. IT TALKS ABOUT THOSE LAWS BEING 42:38 NAILED - THE CEREMONIAL LAWS THAT WERE IN THE OUTSIDE OF THE 42:41 ARK - AND STEPHEN AND I WERE LOOKING FOR A VERSE LAST WEEK ON 42:46 WHERE THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE PLACED - IT IS DEUTERONOMY 30 OR 42:50 31 - THEY'RE PLACED IN A POCKET ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARK. 42:54 THOSE ARE THE LAWS THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE FEASTS. 42:57 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ON THE INSIDE OF THE ARK. 42:59 DID THE LAW 'DO NOT KILL' EXIST BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 43:05 WHAT ABOUT BACK DURING THE TIME OF CAIN AND ABEL? 43:09 WAS IT WRONG BACK THEN? DID GOD CALL THAT A SIN BACK THEN? 43:12 DID THE LAW REGARDING ADULTERY EXIST BEFORE THE TEN 43:15 COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN? DID JOSEPH KNOW THAT ADULTERY 43:19 WAS A SIN WHEN HE TOLD POTIPHAR'S WIFE, 'HOW CAN I DO 43:21 THIS THING AND SIN AGAINST GOD?' SO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 43:25 WAS NOT THE ORIGIN OF THOSE PRINCIPLES. 43:27 THEY EXISTED LONG BEFORE THAT - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE ALL 43:30 THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WRONG TO LIE. 43:33 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WRONG TO STEAL. AND SO THERE'S SOMETHING 43:38 DIFFERENT ABOUT THOSE LAWS. THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT 43:40 ABOUT THE MORAL LAW - THE DECALOGUE - IN THAT GOD WROTE IT 43:43 WITH HIS FINGER, SPOKE IT WITH HIS VOICE, SPOKE IT PUBLICLY TO 43:45 A NATION, PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARK. 43:48 BUT DID YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE PASSOVER BACK IN THE GARDEN OF 43:52 EDEN? NO, THERE WAS NO SIN. BACK IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM, DID 43:57 THEY HAVE THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS? NO. 44:00 SO ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT LAWS, THEY CAME IN CONNECTION WITH THE 44:04 EXODUS EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THEY WERE TYPES OF SALVATION. 44:08 NOW, IS THERE BENEFIT IN STUDYING THESE LAWS AND KEEPING 44:11 THE SPIRITUAL PART OF THESE LAWS? I THINK THERE IS. 44:15 LET ME LOOK AT SOME OF THE FEAST DAYS WITH YOU QUICKLY. 44:18 AND, OF COURSE, DON'T FORGET, THAT'S OUR OFFER TODAY IS 'THE 44:21 FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS' AND YOU'LL WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF 44:24 THAT BECAUSE THE NUMBER WILL BE UP AT THE END. ALRIGHT, 44:27 FIRST FEAST THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IS THE PASSOVER. 44:31 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 5, VERSES 7 AND 8, 44:36 "THEREFORE PURGE OUT THE OLD LEAVEN, THAT YOU MAY BE A NEW 44:39 LUMP, SINCE YOU TRULY ARE UNLEAVENED. FOR INDEED CHRIST, 44:43 OUR PASSOVER, WAS SACRIFICED FOR US." - SO DO WE OFFER SACRIFICE 44:48 - PASSOVER LAMBS ANYMORE? WHO IS OUR PASSOVER LAMB? 44:51 WOULDN'T IT BE SILLY NOW TO GO TO JERUSALEM ONCE A YEAR AND TRY 44:55 AND KEEP THE JEWISH FEASTS THE WAY THE JEWS DID? 44:57 WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING OF A DENIAL OF EVERYTHING THAT IT ALL 45:01 POINTED TO IN GOING BACK AND SACRIFICING LAMBS? 45:04 THE JEWS DON'T EVEN SACRIFICE LAMBS RIGHT NOW. 45:07 IT SAYS CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER - "THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE 45:11 FEAST, NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN, NOR WITH THE LEAVEN OF MALICE AND 45:14 WICKEDNESS," - HE'S SHOWING THERE'S SPIRITUAL ANALOGIES FOR 45:17 THE LEAVEN. THERE'S AN ANALOGY FOR THE LAMB. 45:19 IT'S JESUS - "BUT WITH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD" - THAT'S WHY 45:22 JESUS SAID YOU DO NOT PUT NEW WINE IN OLD WINESKINS. 45:26 I THINK WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE FEAST DAYS TODAY 45:28 THEY ARE TRYING TO PUT THE NEW WINE OF THE GOSPEL IN OLD 45:31 WINESKINS AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BURST THE SKINS. 45:33 IT DOESN'T WORK. BUT IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN 45:36 LEARN FROM THE PASSOVER? ABSOLUTELY. 45:39 LOOK AT THE WHOLE PASSOVER EXPERIENCE. 45:41 WHENEVER YOU CELEBRATE A COMMUNION SERVICE, 45:43 THAT'S HOW WE KEEP THE PASSOVER NOW. 45:45 SURE WE BELIEVE IN THE FEASTS, YOU MIGHT SAY, 45:48 EVERY COMMUNION SERVICE THAT WE CELEBRATE. 45:50 WE HAVE THE UNLEAVENED BREAD BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS CHRIST WAS 45:53 WITHOUT SIN, AND WE HAVE THE UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE - A TYPE 45:59 OF HIS PURE LIFE - PURE BLOOD - AND SO WE'RE KEEPING THE 46:02 SPIRITUAL PART OF THAT FEAST, YOU MIGHT SAY. 46:06 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. 46:08 I JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT. EXODUS 34:18, "THE FEAST OF 46:11 UNLEAVENED BREAD YOU SHALL KEEP. SEVEN DAYS YOU SHALL EAT 46:13 UNLEAVENED BREAD, AS I COMMANDED YOU," - NOW, YOU KNOW, ONE 46:16 REASON IT SAYS THAT THEY ATE UNLEAVENED BREAD CONNECTED WITH 46:18 THE PASSOVER? THEY HAD TO FLEE. 46:22 THEY TOOK THEIR BREAD BEFORE IT WAS EVEN LEAVENED. 46:25 THEY WRAPPED IT UP AND THEY TOOK OFF FROM EGYPT IN HASTE. 46:29 SO ONE OF THE REASONS THEY ATE UNLEAVENED BREAD IS IT WAS A 46:32 SYMBOL OF THEIR LEAVING IN A HURRY. 46:35 AND THEY ALSO DID THAT THE NIGHT THAT THE ANGEL OF JUDGMENT WENT 46:38 BY. THAT ANGEL OF JUDGMENT PASSES BY 46:41 US BECAUSE THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB IS ON THE DOOR OF OUR HEARTS. 46:45 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.' NOW, 46:49 THERE'S THREE KINDS OF LEAVEN THAT CHRIST TALKS ABOUT: MARK 46:52 8:15 - HE TALKS ABOUT THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH WAS 46:57 LEGALISM AND WORKS. IN MARK 8:15 ALSO HE SAYS 'THE 47:01 LEAVEN OF HEROD' WHICH IS WORLDLINESS AND PRESUMPTION. 47:06 IN MATTHEW 16:6 HE TALKS ABOUT THE LEAVEN OF THE SADDUCEES, 47:09 WHICH IS DISBELIEF IN HUMANISM. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN A 47:12 RESURRECTION. THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ANGELS. 47:14 SO CHRIST TELLS US THIS LEAVEN WAS A SYMBOL OF SIN - 47:18 THERE ANYWAY. ALRIGHT, THEN YOU'VE GOT - THAT 47:21 WAS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. 47:22 THIRD FEAST, YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF OFFERING THE 47:24 FIRSTFRUITS. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20, "BUT NOW 47:28 CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS 47:31 OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 47:33 AND EVEN WHEN JESUS WENT TO HEAVEN HE TOOK A GROUP OF PEOPLE 47:36 THAT WERE RAISED AND THEY WERE LIKE A FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE WHO 47:40 WILL BE RAISED WHEN HE COMES AGAIN. 47:42 MATTHEW 27:51 YOU FIND THAT. YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF 47:45 PENTECOST. WE'VE GOT THE PENTAGON - WHY DO 47:49 THEY CALL IT THE PENTAGON? IT'S GOT FIVE SIDES. 47:52 IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD. 47:54 BIGGEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY IN ROMANIA - THAT 47:57 NICOLAI CEAUSESCU BUILT - YEAH, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT. 48:03 AND WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT, THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING? 48:06 THAT BUILDING - WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT BUILDING? 48:09 PARLIAMENT - THAT THING IS JUST ENORMOUS - BIGGER THAN THE 48:11 PENTAGON. THEY DON'T EVEN USE A FRACTION OF IT. 48:13 BUT PENTA MEANS FIVE AND - PENTAGRAM IS A FIVE-SIDED STAR 48:21 THEY PUT A GOAT ON AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING FOR 48:23 DEVIL WORSHIP. BUT PENTECOST MEANT 50 DAYS 48:27 AFTER THE PASSOVER THEY HAD THAT CELEBRATION AND IT WAS CALLED 48:31 THE FEAST OF WEEKS. AND IT WAS A TIME - IT 48:34 REPRESENTED WHEN JESUS POURED OUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. 48:38 LEVITICUS 23:16, "COUNT FIFTY DAYS TO THE DAY AFTER THE 48:41 SEVENTH SABBATH; THEN YOU SHALL OFFER A NEW GRAIN OFFERING TO 48:44 THE LORD." THE NEW CHURCH WAS BORN - 48:47 THE NEW GRAIN. YEAH, THERE WAS A NEW HARVEST. 48:50 THOUSANDS WERE BAPTIZED AND THEY CALL THAT THE FEAST OF WEEKS. 48:54 ALRIGHT, THEN YOU'VE GOT THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS - I'M TRYING 48:55 TO GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY - AND THAT WAS IN LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 49:00 24, "SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING: 'IN THE SEVENTH 49:03 MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, YOU SHALL HAVE A 49:05 SABBATH-REST, A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS, A HOLY 49:08 CONVOCATION." NOW, WITH THE FEAST DAYS, WERE 49:15 THEY WEEKLY OR ANNUAL? THE SABBATHS THAT ARE NAILED TO 49:19 THE CROSS THAT IT TALKS ABOUT IN COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2? 49:22 ARE THEY WEEKLY - IS IT THE WEEKLY SABBATHS OR THE ANNUAL 49:26 SABBATHS? THE SABBATH - THE WEEKLY SABBATH 49:28 - THAT WAS NEVER AFFECTED BY THE CALENDAR. 49:31 THE ANNUAL SABBATHS, THEY FELL ON DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE WEEK 49:34 EVERY YEAR AND SO YOU HAD THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS. 49:38 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND 49:40 AND JOSHUA - THEY BLEW THOSE TRUMPETS. 49:42 DOES IT TALK ABOUT SEVEN TRUMPETS IN REVELATION? 49:46 AND SO THAT - WHEN CHRIST COMES WILL A TRUMPET BLOW AS WE 49:50 PREPARE TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND? 49:52 "IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE" - THIS IS 49:54 1 CORINTHIANS 15:52, "AT THE LAST TRUMPET. 49:57 FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 49:59 INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED." 50:01 THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT. 50:04 THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL - THE TRUMPET OF GOD - SO THERE'S A 50:08 TRUMPET AND THAT WILL BE SOME FEAST THERE. 50:11 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THIS, OF COURSE, 50:15 WAS IN THE FALL AND CHRIST IS TYPIFIED THERE. 50:19 LEVITICUS 16:9 "AND 50:20 AARON SHALL BRING THE GOAT" - OF THE TWO GOATS THEY CAST LOTS FOR 50:23 - ONE IS CALLED THE LORD'S GOAT - "AND OFFER IT AS A SIN 50:27 OFFERING." WHO IS SYMBOLIZED BY THE LORD'S GOAT? JESUS. 50:33 WHO IS SYMBOLIZED BY THE SCAPEGOAT? 50:35 A TYPE OF SATAN - HE NEVER IS SACRIFICED, HE JUST ENDS UP 50:38 PAYING FOR HIS OWN SIN. THEN THERE'S THE FEAST OF 50:42 TABERNACLES - SUKKOT - THE FEAST OF BOOTHS - AND IT'S WHEN THEY 50:46 REMEMBER THE TIME THAT THEY WERE DWELLING. 50:49 AND JESUS, DURING THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, HE SAID - JOHN 7:37 50:53 - "ON THE LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, 50:55 JESUS STOOD AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, 'IF ANYONE THIRSTS, 50:57 LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK. 50:58 HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID, OUT OF HIS 51:01 HEART WILL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER.'" ONE OF THE THINGS THEY 51:05 DID DURING THE FEAST OF BOOTHS IS THEY REMEMBERED HOW GOD GAVE 51:09 THEM WATER FROM A ROCK AND FED THEM WITH BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 51:14 SO THAT'S JUST AN OVERVIEW OF HOW ALL OF THOSE FEASTS THAT 51:18 JESUS - THAT MOSES HAD, POINTED TO CHRIST. 51:22 ALRIGHT, 'JESUS AND THE TEMPLE'. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 51:24 MARK 14:48. WHO GOT THAT ONE? WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT HERE. 51:31 NOW MOSES HAD ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF CEREMONIES CONNECTED 51:35 WITH THE JEWISH TEMPLE AND JESUS RESPECTED THAT. 51:39 OKAY, KAREN, YOU CAN READ THAT. 51:40 >>"THEN JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'HAVE YOU COME OUT, AS 51:44 AGAINST A ROBBER, WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS TO TAKE ME?" 51:47 I WAS DAILY WITH YOU IN THE TEMPLE TEACHING, AND YOU DID 51:50 NOT SEIZE ME. BUT THE SCRIPTURES MUST BE FULFILLED." 51:54 >>NOW, DURING THE LIFE OF CHRIST, DID HE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 51:57 THERE WAS SOME UNIQUE FUNCTION AND PURPOSE FOR THE TEMPLE THAT 52:00 HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY GOD? HE WENT THERE FOR CIRCUMCISION. HE 52:05 WENT THERE FOR - YOU KNOW, NOW WE CALL IT A BAR MITZVAH, WHERE 52:09 IN HISTORY BAR MITZVAH WENT FROM 12 TO 13, I DON'T KNOW, BUT 52:12 SOMEWHERE IT SHIFTED. BACK IN CHRIST'S TIME THEY DID IT AT 12. 52:16 YOU WERE CONSIDERED A MAN. AND SO HE WENT THEN BECAUSE HE 52:18 WAS FINALLY OLD ENOUGH TO PARTICIPATE. 52:20 THAT'S PROBABLY WHEN HE WENT FROM BEING A CHILD TO 52:22 UNDERSTANDING HIS LIFE'S MISSION. 52:24 THAT'S WHY HE TOLD HIS PARENTS 'WIST YE NOT I MUST BE ABOUT MY 52:27 FATHER'S BUSINESS?' AND HE HAD AN EPIPHANY WHEN HE 52:30 WAS 12 YEARS OLD ABOUT - THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT 52:33 HIS MISSION AT THAT TIME. JESUS TAUGHT DAILY. 52:37 WHY DID JESUS CHASE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE? 52:40 AND WHEN HE DID THAT HE SAID, 'MY HOUSE - MY FATHER'S HOUSE - 52:43 IS TO BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS. YOU'VE MADE IT A 52:46 DEN OF THIEVES.' HE CALLED IT 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE'. 52:48 BUT AFTER THEY REJECTED THE MINISTRY OF JESUS - THREE AND A 52:53 HALF YEARS AT THE END OF HIS MINISTRY - HE SAID, THERE WILL 52:56 NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN 52:59 DOWN IN THE TEMPLE.' AND HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS 53:02 LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE.' SOMETHING CHANGED. 53:05 YOU KNOW WHEN CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS THERE WAS A TRANSFERENCE. 53:08 IT'S NO LONGER THE LITERAL LAMB, HE IS THE LAMB. 53:12 THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS BECAUSE IT'S NO LONGER 53:15 THE OLD PRIESTHOOD - NEW PRIESTHOOD. 53:18 VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN - NO LONGER THE OLD TEMPLE. 53:21 JESUS SAID, 'I'LL BUILD A NEW TEMPLE', RIGHT? 53:23 SO THE WHOLE ECONOMY CHANGED FROM THE JEWISH LITERAL ECONOMY 53:28 AND THE MOSAIC FEASTS TO THE REALITY OF WHAT CHRIST CAME TO 53:32 ESTABLISH - THAT WE ARE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE. 53:36 OKAY, THIS'LL BE FUN DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR. 53:39 AS APRIL 15TH IS COMING UP - TAXES - TAXES IN YOUR LESSON. 53:45 MATTHEW 17, VERSE 24, "WHEN THEY HAD COME TO CAPERNAUM, THOSE WHO 53:50 RECEIVED THE TEMPLE TAX CAME TO PETER AND SAID, 'DOES YOUR 53:53 TEACHER NOT PAY THE TEMPLE TAX?'" - AND PETER, NOT KNOWING 53:57 WHAT TO SAY - HE DIDN'T WANT TO CALL DOWN THE FEDS - "HE SAID, 54:00 'YES.' AND WHEN HE HAD COME INTO THE HOUSE, JESUS ANTICIPATED 54:04 HIM," - HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED - 54:06 "SAYING, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK, SIMON? 54:08 FROM WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TAKE CUSTOMS OR TAXES, 54:11 FROM THEIR SONS OR FROM STRANGERS?'" 54:13 - OF COURSE, THAT'S BEFORE AMERICA EXISTED. 54:15 NOW WE TAKE IT FROM EVERYBODY. BACK IN CHRIST'S TIME, IF YOU 54:20 WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN, YOU WERE TAX FREE. 54:21 THERE WERE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT TAXED. 54:25 MATTER OF FACT, WHEN DAVID OFFERED TO FIGHT GOLIATH AND HE 54:28 SAID, 'WHAT'S THE REWARD FOR THE ONE THAT KILLS THE GIANT?' 54:31 AND HE SAID, 'OH, HE'LL BE FREE IN ISRAEL.' THAT MEANS THE KING 54:33 - WOULD MEAN HIS FAMILY IS TAX FREE. 54:35 AND SO THERE WERE SOME WHO WERE DECLARED TAX FREE. 54:38 WELL, WHAT THE ROMANS DID, AND WHAT MANY CONQUERING COUNTRIES 54:41 DID, IS THAT THEIR PEOPLE WERE FREE BUT THE CONQUERED PAID A 54:46 TAX. SO THAT'S WHY JESUS IS ASKING THIS. 54:49 'WHAT DO YOU THINK, PETER, OF WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 54:51 TAKE CUSTOMS?'" - OR TAXES - "FROM THEIR SONS OR 54:53 FROM STRANGERS?' PETER SAID TO HIM, 'FROM 54:55 STRANGERS.' JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'THEN THE SONS ARE FREE. 54:59 NEVERTHELESS,'" - IN OTHER WORDS CHRIST IS SAYING, 55:01 'I'M THE KING OF THIS WORLD. I DON'T OWE ANYBODY TAXES.' 55:06 BUT DON'T ANY OF YOU GO OUT AND NOT PAY YOUR TAXES AND QUOTE ME 55:08 ON THAT AND SAY, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN, I DON'T' - THAT'S NOT 55:11 WHAT I'M SAYING. HE SAID, "NEVERTHELESS, LEST WE 55:16 OFFEND THEM, GO TO THE SEA,'" - THIS IS GREAT - "'CAST IN A 55:20 HOOK, AND TAKE THE FISH THAT COMES UP FIRST. 55:22 AND WHEN YOU HAVE OPENED ITS MOUTH, YOU WILL FIND A PIECE OF 55:24 MONEY; TAKE THAT AND GIVE IT TO THEM FOR ME AND YOU.'" DO ANY OF 55:28 YOU REMEMBER THE AMAZING FACTS I TOLD ABOUT A MAN THAT WAS 55:31 FISHING IN RAYBURN LAKE IN TEXAS AND HE CAUGHT A FISH WITH A GOLD 55:36 RING IN ITS MOUTH AND IT HAD THE NAME ETCHED IN IT AND HE CALLED 55:39 THE GUY AND HE FOUND THE GUY THAT HAD LOST IT 20 YEARS 55:42 EARLIER AND REUNITED HIM WITH HIS - HE 55:47 THOUGHT IT WAS A PRANK BUT HE REALLY DID - HE FOUND HIS RING. 55:50 HE HAD LOST IT WATER SKIING 20 YEARS EARLIER. 55:52 ANYWAY, AND HE SAID, 'YOU GIVE IT TO ME.' SO I'VE ALWAYS 55:54 THOUGHT IF YOU WANT MONEY, DO EVANGELISM - GO FISHING - AND 55:59 THAT'S HOW YOU GROW A CHURCH FINANCIALLY, RIGHT? 56:03 SOMEONE HAS ROMANS 13:7 - VERY UNPOPULAR VERSE. WHO HAS THAT? 56:09 HOLD UP YOUR HAND. RIGHT HERE. LUKE - PASTOR LUKE, SORRY. 56:13 WHEN HE AND I TALK IT'S JUST LUKE, BUT IN YOUR PRESENCE HE'S 56:15 PASTOR LUKE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, ROMANS 13:7. 56:20 >>"RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUE: TAXES TO WHOM TAXES ARE 56:26 DUE, CUSTOMS TO WHOM CUSTOMS, FEAR TO WHOM FEAR, 56:31 HONOR TO WHOM HONOR." 56:33 >>HOW MANY OF YOU ENJOY PAYING TAXES? 56:37 OH GOOD, ALRIGHT, WELL, WE'RE NOT ALONE. 56:43 HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT WE NEED TO? 56:46 YOU'RE GLAD WE HAVE A MILITARY? YOU'RE GLAD THAT WE HAVE PAVED 56:50 STREETS? HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THE 56:51 GOVERNMENT WASTES MONEY? WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PROBABLY 56:58 NO GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 56:59 WASTE. THAT'S TRUE - IT IS A PROBLEM. 57:03 BUT SHOULD WE STOP PAYING OUR TAXES? NO, YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT. 57:06 YOU JUST ACCEPT THAT WHENEVER YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT THERE'S 57:09 GOING TO BE SOME KIND OF ABUSE - THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF 57:11 WASTE. YOU TRY TO LIMIT IT BUT THE 57:13 BIBLE SAYS YOU NEED TO DO IT. YOU NEED TO PAY YOUR TAXES. 57:16 YOU KNOW, OUR TIME IS ALL UP AND I DIDN'T - 57:19 THERE WAS ONE MORE SECTION I DIDN'T GET TO. 57:20 I APOLOGIZE, FRIENDS, BUT I THINK WE LEARNED SOMETHING. 57:23 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT YOU'LL 57:26 FIND VERY EDIFYING - A BOOK BY JOE CREWS CALLED 'FEAST DAYS AND 57:29 SABBATHS' AND IT WILL EXPLAIN SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 57:33 THE LAWS OF MOSES - CEREMONIAL LAWS - AND THE LAWS OF CHRIST. 57:36 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE, JUST CALL THAT NUMBER - 57:39 866-788-3966. ASK FOR THIS, READ IT, 57:44 PLEASE SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE AND ASK FOR OFFER #179 AND 57:48 WE'LL MAKE THAT AVAILABLE. GOD BLESS YOU. AND WE'LL LOOK 57:51 FORWARD TO STUDYING AGAIN TOGETHER NEXT WEEK. 57:55 (MUSIC) |
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