(MUSIC)
00:00:00.43\00:00:14.91
>>OUR MESSAGE THIS
MORNING IS GOING TO BE, MAYBE,
00:00:14.91\00:00:17.58
A LITTLE UNUSUAL.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
00:00:17.58\00:00:21.62
JEWISH FEAST DAYS AND, MORE
SPECIFICALLY, WHETHER OR NOT
00:00:21.62\00:00:24.85
IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR
CHRISTIANS, TODAY, TO BE KEEPING
00:00:24.85\00:00:27.96
THESE FEASTS. NOW,
SOME MESSAGES YOU DEAL MORE
00:00:27.96\00:00:32.33
WITH THE MILK OF THE
WORD AND SOMETIMES IT'S THE
00:00:32.33\00:00:34.96
MEAT OF THE WORD. I
KNOW THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE
00:00:34.96\00:00:37.47
THE HEALTH MESSAGE - LET'S SAY
THE ALMOND MILK AND THE TOFU OF
00:00:37.47\00:00:40.57
THE WORD - TODAY'S MORE THE
TOFU OF THE WORD. AND, BECAUSE -
00:00:40.57\00:00:45.57
THIS IS REALLY A VERY
IMPORTANT SUBJECT AND WE'RE
00:00:45.57\00:00:47.24
GOING TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT
JESUS IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE, IN
00:00:47.24\00:00:51.61
REALITY, ALL OF THE FEAST DAYS
TEACH US SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS.
00:00:51.61\00:00:56.28
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT AN
ASSIGNMENT FOR THE KIDS IN OUR
00:00:56.28\00:00:59.35
MIDST - I DID THIS LAST WEEK AND
SOME TOOK IT UP WITH GREAT GUSTO
00:00:59.35\00:01:03.56
- MATTER OF FACT, I WAS
SURPRISED HOW MANY ADULTS
00:01:03.56\00:01:05.09
ALSO PARTICIPATED.
STARTING NOW I WANT THE YOUNG
00:01:05.09\00:01:10.97
PEOPLE - IF YOU WANT TO TRY AND
KEEP TRACK OF ME, YOU'RE GOING
00:01:10.97\00:01:14.24
TO BE AMAZED HOW MANY TIMES YOU
HEAR ME SAY THE WORD 'FEAST'.
00:01:14.24\00:01:18.31
THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE WORD
'FEASTS' OR SOME DERIVATIVE OF
00:01:18.31\00:01:22.68
THAT. BUT I'LL BE
INTERESTED TO KNOW
00:01:22.68\00:01:26.35
- BET IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT.
FIRST THING I THINK WE SHOULD
00:01:26.35\00:01:30.42
CONSIDER IS WE LIVE IN A
DIMENSION CALLED TIME, AND TIME
00:01:30.42\00:01:36.59
IS SORT OF ETHEREAL
UNLESS WE CREATE BENCHMARKS.
00:01:36.59\00:01:40.10
YOU KNOW, GOD GAVE US THE SUN,
THE MOON, AND THE STARS AND HE
00:01:40.10\00:01:42.53
SAYS THESE ARE FOR SIGNS
AND THESE ARE FOR SEASONS.
00:01:42.53\00:01:45.47
AND SOMETIMES WE DO THINGS
WITHIN TIME AND CERTAIN DAYS AND
00:01:45.47\00:01:49.14
DATES TO MEMORIALIZE THINGS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S - WE MEMORIALIZE
00:01:49.14\00:01:55.84
PEOPLE - CHRISTMAS, OSTENSIBLY.
I GUESS APRIL FOOLS' DAY
00:01:55.84\00:02:01.65
WOULD BE IN THAT CATEGORY, WE
MEMORIALIZE EVENTS IN HISTORY.
00:02:01.65\00:02:08.49
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SAY 9/11 NOW,
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S SORT OF
00:02:08.49\00:02:12.49
BECOME A MEMORIAL - NOT A HAPPY
ONE - DIFFERENT DATES BECOME
00:02:12.49\00:02:15.90
MEMORIALS. THINK
ABOUT ALL THE HOLIDAYS
00:02:15.90\00:02:17.87
WE HAVE IN AMERICA - WE HAVE
A QUITE A FEW - AND IT SEEMS
00:02:17.87\00:02:19.80
TO BE GROWING ALL THE TIME.
YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE,
00:02:19.80\00:02:22.57
CHRISTMAS. YOU'VE GOT EASTER.
00:02:22.57\00:02:23.81
YOU'VE GOT HALLOWEEN - I'M NOT
TOO EXCITED ABOUT - I WAS JUST
00:02:23.81\00:02:26.31
AT HOME DEPOT YESTERDAY; THEY'VE
ALREADY GOT THE HALLOWEEN
00:02:26.31\00:02:28.81
DECORATIONS. THEY
DON'T WASTE ANY TIME AT ALL.
00:02:28.81\00:02:31.61
NAME THE OTHERS: LABOR DAY
COMING UP, FOURTH OF JULY -
00:02:31.61\00:02:35.18
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT
DATE - THANKSGIVING,
00:02:35.18\00:02:37.22
>>MEMORIAL DAY.
>>MEMORIAL, NEW YEARS, COLUMBUS
00:02:37.22\00:02:40.76
DAY, PRESIDENTS'
DAY - >>(VOICES SHOUTING
00:02:40.76\00:02:43.22
ANSWERS OVER EACH OTHER)
>>SECRETARIES' DAY, BOSSES' DAY
00:02:43.22\00:02:52.43
- WHO MAKES THESE
UP? THEY'VE GOT A DAY FOR
00:02:52.43\00:02:56.10
EVERYTHING NOW, RIGHT?
NOW, IN THE JEWISH ECONOMY,
00:02:56.10\00:03:01.91
THEY HAD SEVEN MAJOR FEASTS.
AND THESE FEASTS REALLY HELPED
00:03:01.91\00:03:06.78
THEM TO OUTLINE THE PLAN OF
SALVATION. NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:03:06.78\00:03:12.39
FIND THESE SEVEN FEASTS IN THE
BOOK OF LEVITICUS, CHAPTER 23,
00:03:12.39\00:03:16.86
BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW,
BEYOND THE SEVEN FEASTS THERE,
00:03:16.86\00:03:19.69
THEY HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED
A COUPLE OF OTHERS. OF COURSE,
00:03:19.69\00:03:22.76
YOU'VE HEARD OF HANUKKAH;
HANUKKAH WAS DEVELOPED DURING
00:03:22.76\00:03:25.10
THE TIME OF THE MACCABEES,
SO IT CAME MUCH LATER.
00:03:25.10\00:03:27.64
AND, IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF
ESTHER, THEY DEVELOPED ANOTHER
00:03:27.64\00:03:29.90
FEAST, PURIM, BECAUSE OF THE
GREAT DELIVERANCE THAT HAPPENED,
00:03:29.90\00:03:33.41
WHILE THEY WERE IN PERSIA,
DURING THE TIME OF ESTHER.
00:03:33.41\00:03:36.54
BUT, IN CONNECTION WITH
THE EXODUS, THERE WERE THESE
00:03:36.54\00:03:40.32
RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL FEASTS,
AND THERE WERE SEVEN OF THEM.
00:03:40.32\00:03:45.15
AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT THAT TODAY AND I THINK
00:03:45.15\00:03:49.16
IT'S IMPORTANT, ALSO, TO ASK THE
QUESTION, HOW DO WE RELATE TO
00:03:49.16\00:03:52.09
THESE THINGS? ALL OF THE FEASTS
00:03:52.09\00:03:55.16
WERE ABOUT JESUS. THEY
ALL TAUGHT US ABOUT THE
00:03:55.16\00:03:59.43
LORD AND HIS
MINISTRY IN SOME WAY.
00:03:59.43\00:04:02.10
EVEN CHRIST SAID - JOHN CHAPTER
5, VERSE 39 - "YOU SEARCH THE
00:04:02.10\00:04:06.51
SCRIPTURES, FOR IN THEM YOU
THINK YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; AND
00:04:06.51\00:04:10.05
THESE ARE THEY
WHICH TESTIFY OF ME."
00:04:10.05\00:04:13.42
IN FACT, WHEN YOU
LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JESUS,
00:04:13.42\00:04:15.88
THE HIGH POINTS IN THE LIFE OF
JESUS COINCIDED WITH THE JEWISH
00:04:15.88\00:04:21.06
FEASTS. WHAT WAS THE FIRST TIME
YOU HEAR WORDS FROM CHRIST, IN
00:04:21.06\00:04:24.56
THE BIBLE? HOW OLD WAS HE?
TWELVE YEARS OLD - I'M SURE HE
00:04:24.56\00:04:29.43
TALKED BEFORE THAT BUT, I MEAN,
THE FIRST RECORDED WORDS IN THE
00:04:29.43\00:04:32.03
BIBLE, WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?
AT A FEAST - HE WENT WITH
00:04:32.03\00:04:35.44
HIS PARENTS TO A FEAST. HE
OFTEN WENT TO THE TEMPLE AND
00:04:35.44\00:04:40.71
HE TAUGHT DURING THE FEASTS.
WHEN THAT WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN
00:04:40.71\00:04:43.48
ADULTERY HE WENT TO THE
FEASTS OF THE TABERNACLES.
00:04:43.48\00:04:46.01
WHEN HE SAID, 'I AM THE LIVING
WATER' HE WENT TO THE PASSOVER.
00:04:46.01\00:04:50.59
HIS DEATH WAS DURING THE FEAST,
HIS RESURRECTION, HIS ASCENSION
00:04:50.59\00:04:53.72
JUST BEFORE PENTECOST - THE
WHOLE LIFE OF JESUS WAS OFTEN
00:04:53.72\00:04:58.06
CHOREOGRAPHED IN CONNECTION WITH
THESE JEWISH FEASTS, SO THEY'RE
00:04:58.06\00:05:02.53
VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO
UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY TEACH US
00:05:02.53\00:05:05.60
A LOT ABOUT THE
PLAN OF SALVATION.
00:05:05.60\00:05:07.54
NOW, PROBABLY, IT WILL ALSO HELP
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE JEWISH
00:05:07.54\00:05:10.81
FEASTS, TO KEEP IN MIND
THE JEWISH CALENDAR WAS VERY
00:05:10.81\00:05:14.94
DIFFERENT THAN
OUR CALENDAR TODAY.
00:05:14.94\00:05:17.38
THEY HAD DIFFERENT
NAMES FOR THE MONTHS.
00:05:17.38\00:05:19.98
WE LIVE UNDER THE GREGORIAN
CALENDAR - IT'S THE ROMAN
00:05:19.98\00:05:25.09
CALENDAR - IT'S
A SOLAR CALENDAR.
00:05:25.09\00:05:28.09
THE JEWS USED A LUNAR CALENDAR.
00:05:28.09\00:05:31.16
IT WAS VERY ACCURATE, BUT THEY
USED A DIFFERENT HEAVENLY BODY.
00:05:31.16\00:05:34.56
WE KNOW WE'VE GOT 365
ONE-QUARTER DAYS IN A YEAR.
00:05:34.56\00:05:39.97
THE ROMANS REALLY, ACTUALLY,
MESSED WITH THE CALENDAR QUITE A
00:05:39.97\00:05:43.27
BIT BECAUSE, YOU THINK ABOUT
IT, THE DAYS OF THE WEEK THAT WE
00:05:43.27\00:05:48.14
HAVE - THE NAMES FOR
- ARE THE ROMAN DAYS.
00:05:48.14\00:05:51.78
MONDAY WAS 'MOON DAY' AND
TUESDAY WAS 'TUOI', WEDNESDAY
00:05:51.78\00:05:55.95
WAS 'ODIN'S DAY', FRIDAY
- 'FREYA'S DAY', SATURDAY -
00:05:55.95\00:05:59.59
'SATURN'S DAY', SUNDAY
WAS THE DAY OF THE SUN - SOL.
00:05:59.59\00:06:04.33
THE MONTHS - THE REASON YOU'VE
GOT A MONTH NAMED 'JULY' IS
00:06:04.33\00:06:09.06
BECAUSE OF JULIUS CAESAR, AND
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAESAR FOLLOWED
00:06:09.06\00:06:12.43
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, HE
WANTED A MONTH NAMED AFTER HIM.
00:06:12.43\00:06:16.17
BUT JULY HAD MORE DAYS AND SO
AUGUSTUS CAESAR TOOK SOME DAYS
00:06:16.17\00:06:20.08
OFF FEBRUARY, WHICH IS
WHY FEBRUARY'S SO SHORT.
00:06:20.08\00:06:23.71
AND THEY ENDED UP BEING TOTALLY
OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE SEPTEMBER -
00:06:23.71\00:06:29.58
SEPTIMO? IF YOU SAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
00:06:29.58\00:06:32.95
IN SPANISH, IT'S
SEPTIMO DIA ADVENTISTA.
00:06:32.95\00:06:36.36
SIETE IS SEVEN - SEPTEMBER
IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SEVENTH
00:06:36.36\00:06:39.46
MONTH. WHAT
MONTH IS IT? >>NINTH.
00:06:39.46\00:06:41.30
>>NINTH MONTH.
OCTOBER - OCTAGON -
00:06:41.30\00:06:44.17
OCHO - HOW MANY
IS THAT? >>EIGHT.
00:06:44.17\00:06:46.90
>>OCTOBER IS
WHAT MONTH? >>TENTH.
00:06:46.90\00:06:48.64
>>TENTH MONTH - NUEVE - NOVEMBER
- IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE NINTH
00:06:48.64\00:06:51.97
MONTH - IT'S THE ELEVENTH
MONTH - DECA - DECEMBER - DIEZ -
00:06:51.97\00:06:56.75
SUPPOSED TO BE THE TWELFTH
- TENTH MONTH, BUT IT'S THE
00:06:56.75\00:06:59.15
TWELFTH. SEE,
I'M CONFUSED ALREADY!
00:06:59.15\00:07:00.75
(LAUGHTER) THE ROMAN CALENDAR
IS LIKE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -
00:07:00.75\00:07:04.92
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT
ALL. (LAUGHTER) YEAH, YOU KNOW,
00:07:04.92\00:07:08.76
ENGLISH WORDS
ARE VERY CONFUSING.
00:07:08.76\00:07:10.89
IF YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN A
LANGUAGE, DON'T LEARN ENGLISH
00:07:10.89\00:07:13.96
BECAUSE A LOT OF IT
JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:07:13.96\00:07:15.70
SO - BUT THE JEWISH CALENDAR WAS
- THEY HAD 360 DAYS IN THE YEAR
00:07:15.70\00:07:20.37
BECAUSE THERE WERE
THIRTY DAYS TO THE MONTH.
00:07:20.37\00:07:22.40
AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL PASTOR
DOUG, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE
00:07:22.40\00:07:24.47
SENSE.' WELL, THEY WOULD ADD
A SPECIAL MONTH EVERY, I THINK,
00:07:24.47\00:07:27.81
SIX YEARS - BECAUSE THERE'S 365
DAYS IN THE YEAR, IF THEY ONLY
00:07:27.81\00:07:32.21
HAD 360, THEN THEY'RE SHORT
FIVE EVERY YEAR, WELL, THEY'D
00:07:32.21\00:07:35.98
COMPENSATE. WE
COMPENSATE WITH LEAP YEAR FOR
00:07:35.98\00:07:38.32
THE QUARTER-DAY
DISCREPANCY. YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:07:38.32\00:07:41.99
AND 360'S REALLY
A PERFECT NUMBER.
00:07:41.99\00:07:44.59
HOW MANY DEGREES IN A
CIRCLE? >>THREE HUNDRED SIXTY.
00:07:44.59\00:07:46.96
>>THREE HUNDRED SIXTY. IT
WAS A GREAT WAY TO CALCULATE.
00:07:46.96\00:07:50.00
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR
JUST AN AMAZING FACT?
00:07:50.00\00:07:53.97
HOW MANY NUMBERS
ON A ROULETTE WHEEL?
00:07:53.97\00:07:56.34
>>WE DON'T KNOW. >>RIGHT ANSWER!
00:07:56.34\00:07:58.74
YOU KNOW -
THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION.
00:07:58.74\00:08:01.38
YOU ALL ARE
LOOKING GOING - HOW MANY?
00:08:01.38\00:08:04.31
WHO KNOWS? THIRTY-SIX.
00:08:04.31\00:08:07.12
HOW MANY DEGREES IN A
CIRCLE? >>YOU SAID THAT.
00:08:07.12\00:08:09.38
>>THREE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY, RIGHT?
00:08:09.38\00:08:11.79
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING
A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES,
00:08:11.79\00:08:13.46
YOU'RE GOING DOWN - NINETY
DEGREES IS AN ANGLE - RIGHT -
00:08:13.46\00:08:17.33
TWO SEVENTY - YOU'RE GOING WEST.
IF YOU COUNT - ONE PLUS TWO IS
00:08:17.33\00:08:23.47
HOW MUCH? PLUS THREE - >>SIX.
00:08:23.47\00:08:28.24
>>PLUS 4 - >>TEN.
00:08:28.24\00:08:29.90
>>KEEP DOING THAT
UNTIL YOU GET TO THIRTY-SIX.
00:08:29.90\00:08:31.57
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU
GET TO? SIX - SIX - SIX.
00:08:31.57\00:08:34.38
(INAUDIBLE)
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:08:34.38\00:08:36.41
SO IT IS A MATHEMATICALLY
VERY INTERESTING NUMBER.
00:08:36.41\00:08:39.15
ANYWAY, SO THERE
CALENDAR WAS DIFFERENT.
00:08:39.15\00:08:41.35
THEY ALSO HAD TWO CALENDARS
- THEY HAD THEIR RELIGIOUS
00:08:41.35\00:08:45.89
CALENDAR, WHICH STARTED IN THE
SPRING; THEY HAD THEIR REGULAR,
00:08:45.89\00:08:51.06
SECULAR CIVIL CALENDAR,
WHICH STARTED IN THE FALL.
00:08:51.06\00:08:55.80
AND SO, THEY HAD A WHOLE TWO
SEPARATE CALENDARS THAT KIND OF
00:08:55.80\00:08:59.30
OVERLAPPED EACH OTHER.
WHEN - DURING THE EXODUS,
00:08:59.30\00:09:03.51
MOSES SAID, 'THIS WILL BE THE
BEGINNING OF MONTHS FOR YOU' -
00:09:03.51\00:09:06.64
WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT.
IT WAS THEIR SPIRITUAL CALENDAR.
00:09:06.64\00:09:09.38
BUT, DURING THE TIME OF NOAH,
IN THE FLOOD, YOU NOTICE HE'S
00:09:09.38\00:09:11.78
TELLING WHAT MONTH
OF THE YEAR IT WAS?
00:09:11.78\00:09:14.02
WELL, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
THE CIVIL CALENDAR - FOR THE
00:09:14.02\00:09:17.09
MONTHS WHEN THE DIFFERENT THINGS
HAPPENED DURING THE FLOOD.
00:09:17.09\00:09:19.62
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT
IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
00:09:19.62\00:09:21.12
SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE
BACKGROUND, AS WE GO INTO THE
00:09:21.12\00:09:23.39
FEASTS, TO
UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS.
00:09:23.39\00:09:25.69
NOW I WANT TO JUST GIVE YOU A
SLIDE THAT WILL HELP YOU SEE AN
00:09:25.69\00:09:28.70
OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE FEASTS WERE
- THESE SEVEN FEASTS - AND WE'LL
00:09:28.70\00:09:32.00
PUT THAT UP ON
THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
00:09:32.00\00:09:33.80
SO YOU'VE GOT PASSOVER - THAT
WAS - THAT FEAST LASTED ONE DAY.
00:09:33.80\00:09:37.61
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT YOU HAD
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
00:09:37.61\00:09:40.78
AND, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
THAT, YOU HAD THE FEAST OF
00:09:40.78\00:09:42.68
FIRSTFRUITS . THERE
WERE THREE SPRING FEASTS.
00:09:42.68\00:09:46.28
THEN, FIFTY DAYS LATER,
YOU HAD THE FEAST OF WEEKS , OR
00:09:46.28\00:09:49.95
PENTECOST - THAT WAS A ONE-DAY
FEAST. THEN YOU GOT INTO THE
00:09:49.95\00:09:53.56
FALL FEASTS CONNECTED WITH THAT
FALL HARVEST: YOU HAD THE FEAST
00:09:53.56\00:09:56.56
OF TRUMPETS , THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT , AND THE DAY OF
00:09:56.56\00:09:59.76
TABERNACLES . YOU NOTICE, IT'S
KIND OF INTERESTING, YOU'VE GOT
00:09:59.76\00:10:01.86
THREE, YOU'VE GOT ONE IN THE
MIDDLE, AND YOU'VE GOT THREE -
00:10:01.86\00:10:03.37
TOTAL OF SEVEN. ONE
STANDS OUT AS UNIQUE.
00:10:03.37\00:10:05.43
YOU EVER SEE THE JEWISH MENORAH?
00:10:05.43\00:10:07.54
IT'S GOT THREE CANDLES ON
ONE SIDE, ONE TALL ONE IN THE
00:10:07.54\00:10:09.40
MIDDLE, AND THREE ON THE OTHER
SIDE - AND THEY ALL DID THAT IN
00:10:09.40\00:10:12.21
CORRESPONDENCE WITH
THEIR - THEIR SPIRITUAL FEASTS.
00:10:12.21\00:10:16.08
THE FEASTS WERE DATES.
THESE FEASTS WERE ALSO ANNUAL
00:10:16.08\00:10:21.98
SABBATHS - THEY WOULD REST
DURING THESE CEREMONIAL FEASTS.
00:10:21.98\00:10:26.49
THEY WERE NOT THE SABBATH OF THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS. NOW, WITH THAT
00:10:26.49\00:10:30.23
AS A BACKGROUND, GO IN YOUR
BIBLE, REAL QUICK, TO THE BOOK
00:10:30.23\00:10:32.43
OF LEVITICUS. THIS IS ONE OF THE
PLACES - NOT THE ONLY PLACE -
00:10:32.43\00:10:35.10
BUT ONE OF THE MAIN PLACES -
CHAPTER 23 - WHERE YOU FIND THE
00:10:35.10\00:10:39.30
FEASTS. WE'RE NOT GOING TO READ
THE WHOLE CHAPTER, BUT IF YOU
00:10:39.30\00:10:42.67
JUST LOOK HERE AT LEVITICUS 23,
VERSE 1, "AND THE LORD SPOKE TO
00:10:42.67\00:10:47.41
MOSES, SAYING, 'SPEAK TO THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO
00:10:47.41\00:10:50.31
THEM: 'THE FEASTS OF THE LORD,
WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM TO BE
00:10:50.31\00:10:54.32
HOLY CONVOCATIONS,
THESE ARE MY FEASTS."
00:10:54.32\00:10:58.25
WHEN I POST IT ONLINE, I
USUALLY POST, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M
00:10:58.25\00:11:01.79
PREACHING ABOUT OR
TEACHING, AT MY FACEBOOK PAGE.
00:11:01.79\00:11:05.53
AND I MENTIONED I'M GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT SHOULD CHRISTIANS
00:11:05.53\00:11:07.46
KEEP THE FEAST DAYS - (WHISTLES)
I GOT, LIKE, 30,000 RESPONSES.
00:11:07.46\00:11:12.30
AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING,
'WHY'S PASTOR DOUG BOTHERING
00:11:12.30\00:11:14.34
TALKING ABOUT THIS?
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, THERE'S A
00:11:14.34\00:11:16.50
LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE OUT
THERE THAT BELIEVE THAT BIBLE
00:11:16.50\00:11:19.51
CHRISTIANS SHOULD
BE KEEPING THE FEASTS.
00:11:19.51\00:11:21.11
AND, YOU KNOW, SABBATH-KEEPING
CHRISTIANS WERE WANTING TO KEEP
00:11:21.11\00:11:24.58
THE SABBATH AND THEY'RE SAYING,
'WELL, IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE
00:11:24.58\00:11:26.21
SABBATH, WHY NOT
KEEP THE FEASTS?'
00:11:26.21\00:11:28.92
BECAUSE, YOU NOTICE, THE SABBATH
IS MENTIONED IN THE SAME CHAPTER
00:11:28.92\00:11:32.19
WITH THE FEASTS. THE
LORD SAYS, 'SPEAK TO THE
00:11:32.19\00:11:35.42
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL...THESE ARE
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.' THIS
00:11:35.42\00:11:37.59
IS THE THING THEY PUT ONLINE:
'PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE CALLING
00:11:37.59\00:11:39.83
THEM THE JEWISH FEASTS;
THEY ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.
00:11:39.83\00:11:42.26
THESE ARE NOT FOR THE JEWS,
THESE ARE FOR EVERYBODY.' THEY
00:11:42.26\00:11:44.70
ARE ALSO CALLED THE FEASTS OF
THE JEWS, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -
00:11:44.70\00:11:48.17
IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. BUT
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT 'FEASTS
00:11:48.17\00:11:52.97
OF THE LORD', IT SIMPLY
MEANS FEASTS THAT WE KEEP TO THE
00:11:52.97\00:11:54.64
LORD, IS WHAT THAT'S SAYING.
FIRST ONE HE MENTIONS, VERSE 3,
00:11:54.64\00:11:59.21
"SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE
DONE, BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS A
00:11:59.21\00:12:02.28
SABBATH OF SOLEMN REST, A
HOLY CONVOCATION." THAT WORD,
00:12:02.28\00:12:05.62
'CONVOCATION', MEANS 'ASSEMBLY'.
IT'S WHERE WE GET THE WORD
00:12:05.62\00:12:09.26
'CONVENTION' - 'TO
CONVENE' - 'TO GATHER' - 'A HOLY
00:12:09.26\00:12:12.43
GATHERING'. IT SAYS YOU SHALL
NOT DO ANY WORK ON THE SABBATH
00:12:12.43\00:12:15.60
OF THE LORD IN
ALL YOUR DWELLINGS.
00:12:15.60\00:12:18.60
NOW HE HAS SEPARATED THE SABBATH
OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM THE
00:12:18.60\00:12:23.47
CEREMONIAL SABBATHS BECAUSE THEN
HE MAKES THIS PREFACE STATEMENT
00:12:23.47\00:12:26.81
IN VERSE 4, "THESE ARE
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, HOLY
00:12:26.81\00:12:29.94
CONVOCATIONS WHICH YOU SHALL
PROCLAIM AT THEIR APPOINTED
00:12:29.94\00:12:32.38
TIMES." THESE ARE
DATES. THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE
00:12:32.38\00:12:35.85
BETWEEN THE SABBATH OF
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
00:12:35.85\00:12:38.15
THE JEWISH FEASTS.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES?
00:12:38.15\00:12:41.92
WHEN DID THE SABBATH OF THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS COME, BEFORE OR
00:12:41.92\00:12:45.33
AFTER SIN? >>BEFORE.
00:12:45.33\00:12:47.96
>>BEFORE SIN. WAS IT
PART OF GOD'S PERFECT
00:12:47.96\00:12:49.43
PLAN? PERFECT WORLD - YES. AND
WILL WE STILL KEEP IT IN HEAVEN?
00:12:49.43\00:12:54.10
>>YES. >>YES. WHO
WROTE THE SABBATH OF
00:12:54.10\00:12:57.61
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>GOD.
00:12:57.61\00:12:59.57
>>GOD DID. WITH
WHAT? >>A PEN? PENCIL?
00:12:59.57\00:13:02.38
>>HIS FINGER. >>FINGER.
00:13:02.38\00:13:04.45
WHO WROTE THE SABBATHS
- THE CEREMONIAL SABBATHS?
00:13:04.45\00:13:08.32
>>MOSES. >>MOSES.
WHAT DID HE WRITE ON?
00:13:08.32\00:13:10.62
>>PAPER. >>PAPER OR PARCHMENT.
00:13:10.62\00:13:13.12
WHAT DID THE LORD WRITE
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON?
00:13:13.12\00:13:15.79
>>STONE. >>STONE.
WHERE WERE THE TEN
00:13:15.79\00:13:18.19
COMMANDMENTS PLACED? >>THE ARK.
00:13:18.19\00:13:20.43
>>IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
THEY ARE PART OF THE COVENANT.
00:13:20.43\00:13:23.63
WHERE WERE THE
CEREMONIAL LAWS PLACED?
00:13:23.63\00:13:26.27
>>THE ARK. >>IN A POCKET ON THE
00:13:26.27\00:13:27.34
OUTSIDE OF THE ARK.
THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT.
00:13:27.34\00:13:30.01
ONE IS A DATE - IT'S PART OF THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS, IT'S SOMETHING
00:13:30.01\00:13:32.61
THAT COMES WEEKLY.
THERE'S BEEN NO INTERRUPTION IN
00:13:32.61\00:13:35.94
THE CALENDAR THAT AFFECTS
THE WEEKLY CYCLE, IT IS ONGOING
00:13:35.94\00:13:39.35
- PART OF THE MORAL LAW.
2,500 YEARS LATER IS WHEN
00:13:39.35\00:13:45.09
THE JEWISH FEASTS APPEAR.
THEY ARE SHADOWS THAT WERE TO
00:13:45.09\00:13:49.02
HELP US TO RECOGNIZE AND
IDENTIFY JESUS WHEN HE CAME.
00:13:49.02\00:13:52.89
NOW, I THINK THERE'S A LOT
WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM, AND SO,
00:13:52.89\00:13:55.63
WE'RE GOING - THEN IT GOES
ON AND IT LISTS THE FEASTS.
00:13:55.63\00:13:58.67
AND IT GOES THROUGH THE SEVEN
FEASTS HERE THAT I'M ABOUT TO
00:13:58.67\00:14:01.00
SHARE WITH YOU. I'M
NOT GOING TO READ THE WHOLE
00:14:01.00\00:14:02.40
CHAPTER OR WE'RE GOING TO RUN
OUT OF TIME. LET'S BEGIN TO GO
00:14:02.40\00:14:05.24
THROUGH THEM. HERE'S A QUICK
OVERVIEW OF THE FEASTS: FIRST
00:14:05.24\00:14:08.38
ONE, BEGINNING OF THE YEAR,
WAS THE PASSOVER. THE PASSOVER -
00:14:08.38\00:14:13.42
WHEN THEY WERE BORN AS A
NATION THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT.
00:14:13.42\00:14:16.32
THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE WAS
SOMETHING THAT NO NATION WOULD
00:14:16.32\00:14:19.82
EVER FORGET - ALL THE SIGNS AND
WONDERS AND MIRACLES AND PLAGUES
00:14:19.82\00:14:23.22
AND THINGS THAT HAPPENED
AND THE MIRACULOUS WAY THEY WERE
00:14:23.22\00:14:26.23
DELIVERED AND THE GREAT
TRANSITION OF A BORDER - THEY
00:14:26.23\00:14:29.33
CROSSED FROM EGYPT, OVER THE
RED SEA, INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:14:29.33\00:14:33.37
YOU KNOW, RIVERS ARE OFTEN
BORDERS - DIFFERENT COUNTRY NOW.
00:14:33.37\00:14:36.47
THEY'RE BORN AS A NATION.
THEY CAME IN AS A SMALL GROUP OF
00:14:36.47\00:14:39.64
FAMILY - SEVENTY PEOPLE -
AND NOW THEY LEAVE MILLIONS.
00:14:39.64\00:14:44.55
AND THEY NEEDED
TO GET ORGANIZED.
00:14:44.55\00:14:46.95
HE GAVE THEM A
CALENDAR, AMONG OTHER THINGS.
00:14:46.95\00:14:49.02
HE SAID, 'THIS IS
THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS'.
00:14:49.02\00:14:50.42
THE MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE OF
THE PASSOVER HAD TO DO - BEFORE
00:14:50.42\00:14:54.29
THEY COULD LEAVE EGYPT - WITH
THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB AND
00:14:54.29\00:14:58.13
THE BLOOD, BOTH
SYMBOLS OF JESUS.
00:14:58.13\00:15:01.56
REMEMBER, AN ANGEL OF JUDGMENT
CAME THROUGH THE LAND OF EGYPT.
00:15:01.56\00:15:05.13
FIRSTBORN WAS GOING TO DIE IN
EVERY FAMILY UNLESS THEY HAD THE
00:15:05.13\00:15:09.97
BLOOD OF THE LAMB AROUND
THE LINTEL AND THE DOORPOSTS OF
00:15:09.97\00:15:13.81
THEIR HOME. IF THE
ANGEL OF DEATH SAW THE
00:15:13.81\00:15:18.01
BLOOD - THIS ANGEL OF JUDGEMENT
- HE WOULD PASS OVER THEM AND
00:15:18.01\00:15:21.82
THEY WOULD BE SPARED.
THEY WOULD BE UNDER THE BLOOD -
00:15:21.82\00:15:24.15
THERE WOULD BE MERCY
BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD.
00:15:24.15\00:15:27.22
NOW, DO WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE
BIBLICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT IN
00:15:27.22\00:15:29.96
SALVATION? BECAUSE
OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS -
00:15:29.96\00:15:32.29
HE IS OUR LAMB - THAT JUDGMENT
PASSES OVER. HAVE YOU ACCEPTED
00:15:32.29\00:15:36.40
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB? >>AMEN.
00:15:36.40\00:15:38.10
>>SO PASSOVER IS VERY IMPORTANT.
NOW, I'VE OFTEN HAD PEOPLE THAT
00:15:38.10\00:15:40.84
SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, WE SHOULD
STILL BE KEEPING THE FEASTS.
00:15:40.84\00:15:43.54
THEY REMIND ME THAT THE PASSOVER
WAS CALLED AN ETERNAL COVENANT.
00:15:43.54\00:15:48.88
HE SAID, 'DO THIS THROUGHOUT
YOUR GENERATIONS FOREVER AMONG
00:15:48.88\00:15:52.25
YOUR PEOPLE.' SO WHY WOULDN'T
WE STILL BE DOING IT?' WE DO!
00:15:52.25\00:15:57.72
EVERY TIME - WHEN THE LORD
INSTITUTED THE LORD'S SUPPER HE
00:15:57.72\00:16:00.76
SAID, 'I'VE LONGED TO
EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU.'
00:16:00.76\00:16:03.39
BUT DO WE KILL A
LAMB NOW? NO, AND NOW IT'S
00:16:03.39\00:16:07.93
GOING TO BE
JESUS. HE IS THE LAMB.
00:16:07.93\00:16:10.87
AND, SPIRITUALLY, WE RENEW OUR
COVENANT WITH JESUS THROUGH THE
00:16:10.87\00:16:14.10
GRAPE JUICE AND
THROUGH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD.
00:16:14.10\00:16:16.57
AND SO, IN A SENSE, YES,
THE PASSOVER IS ETERNAL IN THAT
00:16:16.57\00:16:20.41
EVERY TIME WE CELEBRATE THE
LORD'S SUPPER, WE'RE REMEMBERING
00:16:20.41\00:16:23.31
THAT. ALRIGHT,
NEXT YOU'VE GOT THE
00:16:23.31\00:16:26.25
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED
BREAD, WHICH FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY
00:16:26.25\00:16:29.52
AFTER THE PASSOVER.
AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS
00:16:29.52\00:16:31.82
UNLEAVENED BREAD
AT THE LORD'S SUPPER.
00:16:31.82\00:16:34.86
WHEN THEY GOT HUNGRY IN THE
WILDERNESS, DID GOD GIVE THEM
00:16:34.86\00:16:38.26
BREAD FROM HEAVEN? HE DID.
00:16:38.26\00:16:40.73
AND IT SAYS IN EXODUS 34:18,
"THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
00:16:40.73\00:16:44.50
YOU SHALL KEEP.
SEVEN DAYS YOU SHALL EAT
00:16:44.50\00:16:46.37
UNLEAVENED BREAD,
AS I COMMANDED THEE."
00:16:46.37\00:16:48.70
WHAT DOES LEAVEN
REPRESENT? >>SIN.
00:16:48.70\00:16:51.61
>>MOST OF THE TIME LEAVEN, IN
THE BIBLE, REPRESENTS SOMETHING
00:16:51.61\00:16:55.24
THAT FERMENTS AND CAUSES
SOMETHING TO RISE AND IT CAUSES
00:16:55.24\00:16:58.88
A PROBLEM AND JESUS, YOU KNOW,
HAVING UNLEAVENED BREAD MEANS
00:16:58.88\00:17:02.92
NO SIN. THE BREAD,
BY THE WAY, WAS TO BE
00:17:02.92\00:17:05.72
UNLEAVENED AND THE GRAPE
JUICE WAS TO BE UNFERMENTED.
00:17:05.72\00:17:08.92
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
JESUS, AT THE LAST SUPPER, HE
00:17:08.92\00:17:11.36
SAID, 'I WILL NOT DRINK
THIS WINE AGAIN UNTIL I DRINK IT
00:17:11.36\00:17:14.00
WITH YOU NEW IN THE
FATHER'S KINGDOM.' NEW WINE IS
00:17:14.00\00:17:17.20
UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE.
AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE THERE'S A
00:17:17.20\00:17:20.67
LOT OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES
THAT STILL - THEY'VE GOT THE
00:17:20.67\00:17:24.11
FERMENTED STUFF
THAT THEY PASS AROUND.
00:17:24.11\00:17:26.17
I KNOW A GUY THAT WAS A
RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC AND ALL IT
00:17:26.17\00:17:29.01
TOOK WAS HE WENT TO A COMMUNION
SERVICE AT ONE OF THESE CHURCHES
00:17:29.01\00:17:32.38
AND THEY GAVE HIM A LITTLE TASTE
OF THAT AND IT JUST KICKED HIM
00:17:32.38\00:17:34.78
RIGHT OFF THE WAGON AGAIN.
AND SO DON'T DO ANYTHING TO MAKE
00:17:34.78\00:17:37.99
YOUR BROTHER
STUMBLE, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:17:37.99\00:17:40.42
>>SO, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
- IT SAYS, FOR INSTANCE, 1
00:17:40.42\00:17:44.76
CORINTHIANS 5:8, "...LET US KEEP
THE FEAST, NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN,
00:17:44.76\00:17:47.86
NOR WITH THE LEAVEN OF MALICE
AND WICKEDNESS, BUT WITH THE
00:17:47.86\00:17:50.50
UNLEAVENED BREAD OF
SINCERITY AND TRUTH."
00:17:50.50\00:17:52.63
NOTICE HOW PAUL IS
USING SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE HERE.
00:17:52.63\00:17:55.67
THIS WAS IN OUR
SCRIPTURE READING.
00:17:55.67\00:17:58.44
JOHN 6:41, "JESUS THEN
COMPLAINED" - I'M SORRY - "THE
00:17:58.44\00:18:02.18
JEWS THEN COMPLAINED ABOUT HIM,
BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD
00:18:02.18\00:18:04.45
WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
AND JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD
00:18:04.45\00:18:07.78
OF LIFE.' THE LEAVEN OF THE
PHARISEES WAS LEGALISM AND WORKS
00:18:07.78\00:18:12.55
- MARK 8:15 - "...THE LEAVEN
OF HEROD" CHRIST TALKS ABOUT -
00:18:12.55\00:18:15.62
WORLDINESS AND PRESUMPTION.
THE LEAVEN OF THE SADDUCEES -
00:18:15.62\00:18:19.73
DISBELIEF AND HUMANISM -
IT'S MATTHEW 16 - AND SO THIS
00:18:19.73\00:18:22.66
LEAVEN - THE
DISBELIEF AND THE WORLDINESS.
00:18:22.66\00:18:24.90
WE'RE TO HAVE THIS GODLINESS
AND HOLINESS IN OUR LIVES.
00:18:24.90\00:18:28.47
THIRD FEAST - THE OFFERING OF
THE FIRSTFRUITS - THIS WAS THE
00:18:28.47\00:18:32.67
FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE
MONTH - ABIB OR NISSIN - AND THE
00:18:32.67\00:18:35.88
PASSOVER WAS EATEN - AND THE
FIFTIETH DAY AFTER THIS YOU END
00:18:35.88\00:18:41.02
UP WITH PENTECOST. AND WE'RE
COMING TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:18:41.02\00:18:44.02
AND SO, THIS
REPRESENTED THE FIRSTFRUITS.
00:18:44.02\00:18:47.02
IT HAPPENED ON THE DAY FOLLOWING
JESUS BEING PLACED IN THE TOMB.
00:18:47.02\00:18:50.79
YOU'VE GOT THE
RESURRECTION. WHAT HAPPENED AT
00:18:50.79\00:18:53.23
THE RESURRECTION? 1
CORINTHIANS 15:20, "BUT NOW
00:18:53.23\00:18:56.33
CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD,
AND HAS BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS
00:18:56.33\00:18:59.87
OF THOSE WHO
HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP."
00:18:59.87\00:19:01.57
YOU NOTICE, THROUGH THE WRITINGS
OF PAUL, HE CONTINUES TO TALK
00:19:01.57\00:19:04.07
ABOUT THE FEASTS AND SAY
HOW CHRIST IS THE FULFILLMENT OF
00:19:04.07\00:19:07.08
THAT? CHRIST IS THE PASSOVER,
00:19:07.08\00:19:09.24
CHRIST IS THE FIRSTFRUITS.
NOW, WERE THERE SOME FIRSTFRUITS
00:19:09.24\00:19:12.48
TAKEN TO HEAVEN
WHEN JESUS ROSE? >>YES.
00:19:12.48\00:19:15.88
>>FIRSTFRUITS WERE LIKE THEY
USED TO TAKE A SHEAF OF GRAIN
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.69
AND WAVE IT BEFORE THE LORD
AND THANK HIM FOR THE HARVEST.
00:19:18.69\00:19:21.42
CHRIST, WHEN HE WENT TO HEAVEN -
HAVE YOU READ BEFORE, IN MATTHEW
00:19:21.42\00:19:24.23
CHAPTER 27, THERE
WAS A RESURRECTION?
00:19:24.23\00:19:26.70
EARTHQUAKE, RESURRECTION, AND IT
SAYS THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS
00:19:26.70\00:19:31.27
TORN. AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A
MINUTE. THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE
00:19:31.27\00:19:34.94
AND MANY OF THE GRAVES WERE OPEN
AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS
00:19:34.94\00:19:38.57
WHO HAD FALLEN ASLEEP WERE
RAISED, COMING OUT OF THE GRAVES
00:19:38.57\00:19:41.91
AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, AND
THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY AND
00:19:41.91\00:19:44.35
APPEARED TO MANY, AND WHEN
HE ASCENDED, THEY ASCENDED TO
00:19:44.35\00:19:47.25
HEAVEN WITH HIM. THERE WAS A
VERY BRIEF APPEARANCE OF THIS
00:19:47.25\00:19:50.32
GROUP THAT WEEKEND OF - SUNDAY,
WHEN HE ROSE - AND THEY WENT TO
00:19:50.32\00:19:55.76
HEAVEN AS A FIRSTFRUITS.
WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY WERE.
00:19:55.76\00:19:58.23
SOME OF THE SAINTS WHO HAD DIED
AROUND JERUSALEM - IT COULD HAVE
00:19:58.23\00:20:01.30
BEEN ISAIAH, IT COULD HAVE BEEN
JOHN THE BAPTIST, IT COULD HAVE
00:20:01.30\00:20:04.40
BEEN JEREMIAH OR - YOU KNOW,
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT SOME OF THE
00:20:04.40\00:20:08.20
FAITHFUL - IT MAY HAVE BEEN
- SOME THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE
00:20:08.20\00:20:10.84
TWENTY-FOUR, LIKE
THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS.
00:20:10.84\00:20:12.74
THEY WERE THE FIRSTFRUITS - WENT
TO HEAVEN - EARLY RESURRECTION.
00:20:12.74\00:20:17.05
THEN YOU HAVE, FIFTY DAYS LATER,
THEN YOU'VE GOT THAT FEAST
00:20:17.05\00:20:19.25
THAT'S SORT OF BETWEEN
THE SPRING AND THE FALL.
00:20:19.25\00:20:22.25
YOU'VE GOT PENTECOST. NOW,
IT'S INTERESTING, IT SAYS -
00:20:22.25\00:20:26.72
LEVITICUS 23:16 - "COUNTY FIFTY
DAYS" - FROM THE PASSOVER -
00:20:26.72\00:20:31.63
"TO THE DAY AFTER THE SEVENTH
SABBATH; THEN YOU SHALL OFFER
00:20:31.63\00:20:34.73
A NEW GRAIN OFFERING..."
PENTECOST IS THE SECOND OF
00:20:34.73\00:20:37.67
THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
FESTIVALS. THERE'S SOME OF THESE
00:20:37.67\00:20:41.04
FEASTS THEY WOULD ACTUALLY
- HAD TO BE AT THE TEMPLE.
00:20:41.04\00:20:44.37
THEY WOULD GO, FOR THE
SACRIFICE, TO JERUSALEM AND IT
00:20:44.37\00:20:47.78
WAS CALLED THE FEAST OF WEEKS,
BECAUSE IT CAME AT THE END OF
00:20:47.78\00:20:51.38
SEVEN SEVENS - FORTY-NINE
- ONE DAY AFTER THE FIFTIETH.
00:20:51.38\00:20:56.42
WHY DO WE CALL OUR
BIG - WHAT'S IT CALLED?
00:20:56.42\00:20:58.39
THE BIG MILITARY
BUILDING WE'VE GOT?
00:20:58.39\00:21:00.42
>>PENTAGON. >>PENTAGON, WHY DO
00:21:00.42\00:21:01.92
THEY CALL IT THAT? FIVE
SIDES. IT'S BECAUSE OF FIVE.
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.99
THE BOOKS OF MOSES - FIVE BOOKS
OF MOSES ARE CALLED THE WHAT?
00:21:04.99\00:21:07.86
>>PENTATEUCH.
>>PENTATEUCH - AND A PENTAGON -
00:21:07.86\00:21:11.03
IT'S THAT - IT'S
TALKING ABOUT FIVE SIDES.
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.47
AND SO, THIS WAS THE FEAST WHEN
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
00:21:13.47\00:21:16.81
NOW LET ME GIVE YOU
SOMETHING INTERESTING.
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.17
ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH
TRADITION, AFTER THE PASSOVER,
00:21:18.17\00:21:22.68
IT TOOK THEM FORTY-NINE
DAYS TO GET TO MOUNT SINAI.
00:21:22.68\00:21:25.55
ON THE FIFTIETH DAY
GOD DECLARED HIS COVENANT.
00:21:25.55\00:21:28.98
>>AMEN. >>SO YOU'VE
GOT FIFTY DAYS AFTER
00:21:28.98\00:21:31.45
THE PASSOVER GOD DECLARES
A COVENANT AT MOUNT SINAI.
00:21:31.45\00:21:36.46
NOW YOU'VE GOT FIFTY DAYS AFTER
JESUS' BLOOD, PENTECOST HAPPENS,
00:21:36.46\00:21:42.50
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE NEW
COVENANT IS ACTIVATED AT THAT
00:21:42.50\00:21:46.80
TIME. DO YOU SEE
HOW THERE'S - THE
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.00
THINGS HAPPENING TO THE EARLY
CHURCH ARE MATCHING UP WITH WHAT
00:21:49.00\00:21:51.67
HAPPENED WITH GOD'S
PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT THE JEWS AND
00:21:51.67\00:21:54.21
YOU'VE GOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
AND THERE'S A - AN OVERLAP -
00:21:54.21\00:21:59.18
IT'S AN OVERLAP -
IT'S ALL MATCHING UP.
00:21:59.18\00:22:01.22
NEXT - AND SO, PENTECOST - THE
HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT AND YOU
00:22:01.22\00:22:06.05
GO TO THE FIFTH FEAST - NOW
YOU'RE IN THE FALL - AND IT'S
00:22:06.05\00:22:09.62
CALLED THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS WAS CALLED
00:22:09.62\00:22:13.29
ROSH HASHANAH - YOU'VE HEARD OF
THAT. AND YOU CAN FIND THAT IN
00:22:13.29\00:22:16.33
LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 24, "SPEAK
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
00:22:16.33\00:22:19.40
SAYING: 'IN THE SEVENTH MONTH,
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH,
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.94
YOU SHALL HAVE A SABBATH-REST,
A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF
00:22:21.94\00:22:24.41
TRUMPETS, A HOLY
CONVOCATION." THIS WAS A FEAST.
00:22:24.41\00:22:27.94
THIS WAS A HAPPY TIME. THE
BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE LORD'S
00:22:27.94\00:22:31.51
COMING - DESCEND
FROM HEAVEN WITH A TRUMP.
00:22:31.51\00:22:33.92
BUT IT ALSO SAID, 'LIFT
UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET.
00:22:33.92\00:22:37.32
A TRUMPET IS A PROCLAMATION
- A LOT OF TRUMPETS - THERE'S
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.85
MILITARY TRUMPETS, THERE'S
TRUMPETS OF CELEBRATION AND
00:22:39.85\00:22:42.22
TRUMPETS OF FEASTS, BUT AFTER
PENTECOST, NEXT WAS THE TRUMPET
00:22:42.22\00:22:47.00
- WE ARE TO BE PROCLAIMING THE
LORD UNTIL THE JUDGMENT, WHICH
00:22:47.00\00:22:51.30
WAS THE DAY OF ATONEMENT,
WHICH IS THE NEXT FEAST.
00:22:51.30\00:22:54.47
AND SO, THEN YOU'VE GOT - AND
THEY WOULD BLOW THROUGH A SHOFAR
00:22:54.47\00:22:58.27
OR A RAM'S HORN
DURING THAT FEAST.
00:22:58.27\00:23:00.38
DURING SOME OF THE OTHER
FEASTS THEY HAD SILVER TRUMPETS.
00:23:00.38\00:23:03.21
THEN YOU GO TO THE SIXTH FEAST -
I'M HURRYING ALONG BECAUSE I'VE
00:23:03.21\00:23:06.15
GOT A LOT TO COVER - WE CALL IT
TODAY, YOM KIPPUR. YOU'LL SEE IN
00:23:06.15\00:23:10.25
MANY OF YOUR CALENDARS,
YOU KNOW, YOU'LL NOT ONLY SEE
00:23:10.25\00:23:13.72
CHRISTMAS, YOU'LL SEE HANUKKAH,
YOU'LL SEE YOM KIPPUR, THE
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.89
JEWISH FESTIVALS ARE OFTEN
IN EVEN AMERICAN CALENDARS. IT'S
00:23:15.89\00:23:19.39
BETTER KNOWN AS THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT, THAT IS THE SIXTH
00:23:19.39\00:23:22.80
FEAST. NOW THIS WAS - IT'S NOT
REALLY FAIR TO CALL IT A FEAST,
00:23:22.80\00:23:26.37
IT WAS A FAST - BUT THEY CALLED
IT A FEAST BECAUSE WHEN THEY GOT
00:23:26.37\00:23:29.70
DONE FASTING THEY
FEAST. YOU'VE HEARD OF RAMADAN?
00:23:29.70\00:23:33.71
RAMADAN IS A TIME WHEN MUSLIMS
FAST - BUT THEY DON'T FAST THE
00:23:33.71\00:23:38.51
WHOLE TIME, THEY FAST ALL DURING
THE DAY, BUT ONCE THE SUN GOES
00:23:38.51\00:23:42.62
DOWN, THEY FEAST. AND THEY'RE
REALLY HUNGRY AT THAT POINT.
00:23:42.62\00:23:46.99
AND SO, AT THE END OF THE TIME
OF THE FASTING, DURING THE DAY
00:23:46.99\00:23:53.16
OF ATONEMENT, THEY
WERE PUTTING AWAY THEIR SIN.
00:23:53.16\00:23:55.33
THEY WERE HUMBLING THEMSELVES -
IT WASN'T A TOTAL FAST, BUT THEY
00:23:55.33\00:23:58.63
WOULD SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS,
THEY'D WANT TO HAVE THE SIN
00:23:58.63\00:24:01.34
SEPARATED FROM THE PEOPLE,
AND IT WAS A TIME OF JUDGMENT.
00:24:01.34\00:24:06.81
NOW WE'RE LIVING, RIGHT NOW,
HISTORICALLY, IN THE SIMILAR
00:24:06.81\00:24:11.51
PHASE OF THAT FEAST, WHICH
WOULD BE THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
00:24:11.51\00:24:16.28
WE'RE IN THE LAST AGE OF
THE CHURCH, WHICH IS THE AGE OF
00:24:16.28\00:24:19.19
LAODICEA, WHICH MEANS 'JUDGING
THE PEOPLE', AND CHRIST HAS GONE
00:24:19.19\00:24:25.16
FROM - WHEN WE ENTERED THIS
CHURCH OF LAODICEA - IN 1844
00:24:25.16\00:24:30.33
CHRIST - YOU GET THAT FROM
DANIEL CHAPTER 8:14 - CHRIST
00:24:30.33\00:24:34.00
FINISHED HIS WORK IN THE HOLY
PLACE AND HE'S MOVED INTO THE
00:24:34.00\00:24:36.64
HOLY OF HOLIES IN HIS HEAVENLY
MINISTRATION AS OUR HIGH PRIEST
00:24:36.64\00:24:41.38
UP THERE. AND
SO, THAT'S THE TIME
00:24:41.38\00:24:44.95
OF JUDGMENT, YOM
KIPPUR. IT WAS A SOLEMN TIME.
00:24:44.95\00:24:48.82
AND CHRIST, YOU KNOW, WHEN HE
WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
00:24:48.82\00:24:52.62
AND HE BEGAN TO BE EXCEEDINGLY
SORROWED, HE WENT THROUGH THIS
00:24:52.62\00:24:55.72
TRIAL AND THIS TIME OF
SELF-DENIAL AND THE SINS OF THE
00:24:55.72\00:25:00.26
WORLD WERE PLACED UPON HIM.
WHAT HAPPENED, DURING THE DAY OF
00:25:00.26\00:25:03.23
ATONEMENT, THEY HAD TWO
GOATS - AND YOU CAN FIND THIS IN
00:25:03.23\00:25:07.27
LEVITICUS 16 - ONE GOAT
WAS CALLED THE LORD'S GOAT, THE
00:25:07.27\00:25:13.01
OTHER GOAT WAS CALLED AZAZEL,
THE LORD'S GOAT WAS SACRIFICED
00:25:13.01\00:25:16.31
AND THE BLOOD WAS
SPRINKLED - REPRESENTED JESUS.
00:25:16.31\00:25:18.95
THEY WOULD, SYMBOLICALLY,
TAKE ALL THE SINS THAT HAD BEEN
00:25:18.95\00:25:22.52
STORED THROUGH THE CEREMONIAL
YEAR, THE PRIEST WOULD THEN BEAR
00:25:22.52\00:25:27.16
THEM, HE'D TAKE THEM OUT, HE'D
PLACE THEM ON THE HEAD OF THE
00:25:27.16\00:25:31.93
SCAPEGOAT - YOU'VE HEARD THE
EXPRESSION 'SCAPEGOAT' BEFORE?
00:25:31.93\00:25:35.70
- THEN THEY'D GIVE THAT GOAT
INTO THE HANDS OF A TRUSTWORTHY
00:25:35.70\00:25:39.17
MAN WHO WOULD LEAD IT AS FAR
AWAY FROM THE CAMP AS HE COULD
00:25:39.17\00:25:42.37
AND, TRADITIONALLY, THEY'D LEAD
IT UP INTO A RAGGED CANYON CLIFF
00:25:42.37\00:25:47.28
AND HE'D KICK IT OFF THE CLIFF,
BECAUSE IT WAS A VERY BAD OMEN
00:25:47.28\00:25:51.31
IF THAT GOAT
CAME BACK TO THE CAMP.
00:25:51.31\00:25:56.18
NOW IT DOESN'T SAY THEY KICKED
IT OFF THE CLIFF, IN THE BIBLE,
00:25:56.18\00:25:58.29
I'VE JUST READ THAT IN SOME
JEWISH TRADITIONS, BECAUSE THEY
00:25:58.29\00:26:01.36
DIDN'T WANT IT TO COME BACK.
BECAUSE IT, SUPPOSEDLY, NOW
00:26:01.36\00:26:04.39
WAS TAKING ALL THEIR SINS.
ONE WAS THE LORD'S GOAT THAT WAS
00:26:04.39\00:26:08.33
SACRIFICED; THIS IS MORE LIKE
THE DEVIL WHO IS, OBVIOUSLY,
00:26:08.33\00:26:12.93
PAYING FOR HIS OWN SIN.
NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK,
00:26:12.93\00:26:15.37
'HOW DOES A DEVIL BEAR SIN?'
WELL, IT'S NOT THAT THE DEVIL IS
00:26:15.37\00:26:19.81
BEARING THE SINS OF
PEOPLE AS A SACRIFICE.
00:26:19.81\00:26:22.74
IF YOU'RE NOT SAVED, WHO
PAYS FOR YOUR SIN? YOU DO.
00:26:22.74\00:26:26.45
EVERY MAN'S REWARDED ACCORDING
TO HIS OWN WORKS, RIGHT?
00:26:26.45\00:26:30.02
IS THE DEVIL - ARE HIS SINS
AND THE SINS THAT THE DEVIL HAS
00:26:30.02\00:26:33.66
INSTIGATED, ARE THEY COVERED
BY JESUS OR DOES HE PAY THE
00:26:33.66\00:26:36.52
JUDGMENT FOR THAT? IS SATAN
CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE?
00:26:36.52\00:26:40.80
DOES IT SAY HE BURNS
DAY AND NIGHT? IT DOES.
00:26:40.80\00:26:44.37
WELL, WE DON'T KNOW HOW
LONG THAT'S GOING TO BE.
00:26:44.37\00:26:45.60
IT SAYS 'FOREVER', MEANING UNTIL
HE'S ALL GONE, BUT WHO'S GOING
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.37
TO DESERVE
PUNISHMENT MORE THAN ANYTHING?
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.94
MORE THAN ANYONE?
IT'S GOING TO BE THE DEVIL.
00:26:49.94\00:26:52.37
AND SO, THE WHOLE DAY OF
ATONEMENT REPRESENTED SEPARATING
00:26:52.37\00:26:56.18
THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR
SINS. THE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED
00:26:56.18\00:27:01.05
FROM THE SINS THAT HAD
BEEN SYMBOLICALLY STORED
00:27:01.05\00:27:03.22
THERE THROUGH THE YEAR.
ALRIGHT, SO THAT WAS THE SIXTH
00:27:03.22\00:27:05.82
FEAST, AND THEN YOU GET TO
THE FINAL FEAST, THE FEAST OF
00:27:05.82\00:27:08.99
TABERNACLES, WHICH
WAS A CELEBRATION OF
00:27:08.99\00:27:12.06
THEIR DELIVERANCE. IT
WAS A TIME OF THEIR REJOICING
00:27:12.06\00:27:15.56
- THIS WAS THE
HAPPIEST OF THE YEAR.
00:27:15.56\00:27:17.07
THE PEOPLE WOULD ALL GATHER
AND THEY'D GET THESE PALMS AND
00:27:17.07\00:27:20.80
THEY'D GATHER AND THEY'D STAY
IN BOOTHS OR TENTS AND IT COMES
00:27:20.80\00:27:24.41
FROM THE WORD SUKKOT, WHICH
MEANS 'A BOOTH', AND THEY WOULD
00:27:24.41\00:27:28.44
REMEMBER THEIR WILDERNESS
WANDERINGS AND DELIVERANCE FROM
00:27:28.44\00:27:32.01
EGYPT, AND IT WAS SYNONYMOUS
WITH 'WHEN WE ARE GOING TO
00:27:32.01\00:27:35.62
TABERNACLE WITH GOD IN HEAVEN'.
IT WAS DURING THAT FEAST THAT
00:27:35.62\00:27:40.02
THEY WOULD POUR OUT THE WATER,
REMEMBERING THAT THE WATER HAD
00:27:40.02\00:27:42.86
BEEN MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDED
FOR THEM IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:27:42.86\00:27:45.96
YOU READ IN JOHN 7:37 - BY THE
WAY, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING IF
00:27:45.96\00:27:51.93
YOU STUDY THE GOSPELS, YOU'LL
FIND THE WORD 'FEAST' ABOUT TEN
00:27:51.93\00:27:55.07
TIMES MORE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
THAN ALL THE OTHER THREE GOSPELS
00:27:55.07\00:27:58.74
PUT TOGETHER. JOHN
REALLY ACCENTUATES JESUS AS
00:27:58.74\00:28:02.01
THE FULFILLMENT OF THE FEASTS.
IT SAYS IN JOHN 7:37, "ON THAT
00:28:02.01\00:28:06.35
LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF
THE FEAST, JESUS STOOD AND CRIED
00:28:06.35\00:28:08.92
OUT, SAYING, 'IF ANYONE THIRSTS,
LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK.
00:28:08.92\00:28:12.39
HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, AS THE
SCRIPTURE HAS SAID, OUT OF HIS
00:28:12.39\00:28:14.92
HEART WILL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING
WATER.'" BECAUSE, DURING THAT
00:28:14.92\00:28:19.16
FEAST OF TABERNACLES, THE PRIEST
WENT THROUGH A WATER CEREMONY
00:28:19.16\00:28:22.26
WHERE HE'D POUR WATER, REMINDING
THEM HOW WATER CAME OUT OF THE
00:28:22.26\00:28:24.90
ROCK, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL
THAT, HE SAYS, 'I AM THE LIVING
00:28:24.90\00:28:28.47
WATER.' AND SO A LOT OF WHAT
JESUS DID IN HIS PROCLAMATIONS
00:28:28.47\00:28:33.21
AND WHAT YOU FIND IN THE GOSPEL
OF JOHN CORRESPONDS WITH THE
00:28:33.21\00:28:36.78
VARIOUS JEWISH FEASTS, SHOWING
THAT HE WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF
00:28:36.78\00:28:40.25
ALL THAT. WHICH BRINGS US TO THE
REALLY - THE CORE OF WHAT I WANT
00:28:40.25\00:28:44.52
TO MAKE CLEAR DURING
THIS MESSAGE. WITH THIS AS A
00:28:44.52\00:28:49.52
BACKGROUND, DO WE NEED TO
KEEP, TODAY, THE JEWISH FEASTS?
00:28:49.52\00:28:55.40
I SAY 'NO' -
CERTAINLY NOT THE WAY THEY DID.
00:28:55.40\00:28:59.23
NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHY.
FIRST OF ALL, ONE THING I MEANT
00:28:59.23\00:29:01.84
TO MENTION, THERE WERE THREE OF
THE FEASTS THAT REQUIRED GOING
00:29:01.84\00:29:07.84
TO THE TEMPLE IN
JERUSALEM AND SACRIFICING LAMBS.
00:29:07.84\00:29:11.45
YOU FIND THAT IN DEUTERONOMY
16:16, "THREE TIMES A YEAR ALL
00:29:11.45\00:29:15.58
YOUR MALES SHALL APPEAR BEFORE
THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE PLACE
00:29:15.58\00:29:18.95
WHICH HE CHOOSES:" - THAT WAS
BEFORE JERUSALEM WAS CHOSEN -
00:29:18.95\00:29:23.09
"AT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED
BREAD, AT THE FEAST OF WEEKS,
00:29:23.09\00:29:25.73
AND AT THE FEAST OF
TABERNACLES;" SO, OF THE SEVEN,
00:29:25.73\00:29:28.50
THREE - AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE
ALL REQUIRED TO COME, BUT BY THE
00:29:28.50\00:29:33.30
TIME OF JESUS THEY FIGURED YOU
WERE A GOOD JEW IF YOU AT LEAST
00:29:33.30\00:29:35.54
MADE IT TO ONE. THE
REASON IS, THE JEWS HAD THEN
00:29:35.54\00:29:39.01
BEEN SCATTERED AROUND
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND IT WAS
00:29:39.01\00:29:41.31
ECONOMICALLY VERY DIFFICULT
FOR THEM TO COME FROM THE FAR
00:29:41.31\00:29:44.21
REACHES OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN THREE TIMES A YEAR
00:29:44.21\00:29:48.08
TO THE FEASTS. AND
SO, THEY SAID, 'WELL, YOU
00:29:48.08\00:29:51.45
OUGHT TO COME AT LEAST ONCE.'
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY IF
00:29:51.45\00:29:54.16
YOU'RE A FAITHFUL MUSLIM YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO MAKE - ONCE IN YOUR
00:29:54.16\00:29:57.19
LIFE YOU MAKE
PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA.
00:29:57.19\00:29:59.53
WELL, IF YOU WERE A FAITHFUL
JEW, YOU NEEDED TO GO TO
00:29:59.53\00:30:02.50
JERUSALEM FOR THE
FEAST ONCE A YEAR.
00:30:02.50\00:30:05.07
YOU REMEMBER PAUL?
HE TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:30:05.07\00:30:07.14
HE SAYS, 'IT'S EXPEDIENT
THAT I GET DOWN TO THE FEAST'.
00:30:07.14\00:30:10.14
AND I'LL SAY MORE
ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
00:30:10.14\00:30:11.91
ALRIGHT, I DON'T THINK THAT GOD
EXPECTS US TO KEEP THE JEWISH
00:30:11.91\00:30:15.58
FEASTS, BECAUSE THAT WAS PART
OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW THAT WAS A
00:30:15.58\00:30:21.02
SHADOW POINTING TO CHRIST.
AND WHEN CHRIST CAME, HE'S THE
00:30:21.02\00:30:25.85
FULFILLMENT OF IT,
LIKE WITH THE PASSOVER.
00:30:25.85\00:30:28.36
DO WE STILL SACRIFICE LAMBS
OR DO WE HAVE THE LORD'S SUPPER?
00:30:28.36\00:30:31.33
>>LORD'S
SUPPER. >>LORD'S SUPPER.
00:30:31.33\00:30:33.26
WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TODAY - WOULD
YOU THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING
00:30:33.26\00:30:36.00
WRONG IF PASTOR DOUG BROUGHT
A LAMB IN AND SLAUGHTERED A LAMB
00:30:36.00\00:30:38.37
HERE IN CHURCH? >>HORRIFYING.
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.14
>>NOT ONLY WOULD THAT BE BRUTAL,
AND I'D BE ARRESTED BY PETA, OR
00:30:40.14\00:30:45.44
SOMEBODY, BUT BEYOND THAT, YOU
WOULD THINK THAT IS A DENIAL OF
00:30:45.44\00:30:53.11
JESUS AS THE LAMB. WE DON'T NEED
TO DO THAT NOW BECAUSE WE KNOW
00:30:53.11\00:30:57.05
THAT WAS A SHADOW
UNTIL CHRIST. >>AMEN.
00:30:57.05\00:30:59.92
>>RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:30:59.92\00:31:01.69
>>SAME PRINCIPLE
FOR THE OTHER FEASTS.
00:31:01.69\00:31:04.29
LET ME ILLUSTRATE: AT THE TIME
OF CHRIST, AFTER HE ASCENDED TO
00:31:04.29\00:31:08.10
HEAVEN, HE SENT OUT THE
DISCIPLES, WHAT WAS THE RELIGION
00:31:08.10\00:31:10.67
OF ALL TWELVE
DISCIPLES? >>JEWISH.
00:31:10.67\00:31:12.97
>>THEY WERE ALL JEWS, RIGHT?
THEY WERE JEWS WHO ACCEPTED
00:31:12.97\00:31:16.37
CHRIST. AND I
LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE -
00:31:16.37\00:31:18.84
YOU ALL KNOW, BUT SOME
PEOPLE WATCHING - I STILL
00:31:18.84\00:31:21.61
CONSIDER MYSELF
JEWISH. MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH.
00:31:21.61\00:31:24.08
I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE EVER HAD
TO GIVE UP BEING JEWISH TO BE A
00:31:24.08\00:31:26.38
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN.
MATTER OF FACT, I THINK - I USED
00:31:26.38\00:31:29.22
TO TELL MY GRANDPARENTS, 'I'M
MORE OF A JEW THAN YOU ARE' -
00:31:29.22\00:31:32.49
BECAUSE I WAS AT LEAST
KOSHER AND THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS.
00:31:32.49\00:31:36.26
AND SO - AND I KEPT THE SABBATH
AND THEY WERE PRETTY SLOPPY
00:31:36.26\00:31:38.56
ABOUT IT. AND SO,
YOU KNOW, THE EARLY
00:31:38.56\00:31:42.86
CHURCH, THEY WERE
ALL JEWISH TO START WITH.
00:31:42.86\00:31:45.13
IT WASN'T UNTIL THE STONING OF
STEPHEN IN ACTS 10 - PETER GOES
00:31:45.13\00:31:50.31
TO CORNELIUS' HOUSE - THE GOSPEL
BEGAN TO GO TO THE GENTILES.
00:31:50.31\00:31:54.51
SO, WHEN THE JEWISH BELIEVERS
WENT OUT PREACHING, THEY WERE
00:31:54.51\00:31:58.48
SAYING, 'NOW, WHAT DO WE DO WITH
THE LAW OF MOSES NOW THAT JESUS
00:31:58.48\00:32:00.72
IS COME?' THEY WERE
STILL SORTING ALL THIS OUT.
00:32:00.72\00:32:04.02
PETER AND THE APOSTLES SAID,
'THAT'S ALL BEEN FULFILLED NOW
00:32:04.02\00:32:07.56
AND' - BUT SOME OF THE JEWS THAT
CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY, THEY
00:32:07.56\00:32:11.63
SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, WE CAN'T GIVE
UP MOSES.' AND THEY WERE FORCING
00:32:11.63\00:32:15.56
ALL THE GENTILE CONVERTS
TO KEEP THE CEREMONIAL LAW.
00:32:15.56\00:32:20.07
NOW PETER AND PAUL SAID, 'LOOK,
IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT, THAT'S
00:32:20.07\00:32:22.37
FINE.' EVEN PAUL KEPT SOME
OF THE FEASTS, TO REACH THE JEWS
00:32:22.37\00:32:25.81
AFTERWARD, BUT HE DIDN'T
TELL THE CONVERTS - THE JEWISH
00:32:25.81\00:32:29.34
CONVERTS - 'YOU'VE GOT
TO KEEP THE JEWISH FEASTS' -
00:32:29.34\00:32:30.98
QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
00:32:30.98\00:32:34.35
MATTHEW 23, JESUS SAID - VERSE 4
- "FOR THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS,
00:32:34.35\00:32:40.29
HARD TO BEAR, AND THEY LAY THEM
ON MEN'S SHOULDERS; BUT THEY
00:32:40.29\00:32:42.76
THEMSELVES WILL NOT MOVE
THEM WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS."
00:32:42.76\00:32:45.49
LET'S BE CAREFUL AND NOT PUT IN
UNNECESSARY BURDENS ON PEOPLE.
00:32:45.49\00:32:49.23
ARE WE GOING TO MAKE ALL OUR
MALES GO THREE TIMES A YEAR TO
00:32:49.23\00:32:51.53
JERUSALEM? OR ONCE A YEAR?
ACTS 15 - HEY, YOU KNOW, AMAZING
00:32:51.53\00:32:58.67
FACTS IS THINKING ABOUT
DOING A TRIP TO JERUSALEM.
00:32:58.67\00:33:03.08
AND I WAS TALKING TO PASTOR
GILLEY THE OTHER WEEK; HE SAID
00:33:03.08\00:33:06.05
HE MIGHT HELP US HOST A
TRIP. ANY OF YOU INTERESTED?
00:33:06.05\00:33:08.48
>>AMEN.
>>KAREN'S NEVER - I'VE BEEN
00:33:08.48\00:33:10.19
THERE TWICE - SHE'S NEVER
BEEN THERE SO THAT'D BE NEAT -
00:33:10.19\00:33:12.35
TAKE A TRIP -
JUST CHECKING. ALRIGHT.
00:33:12.35\00:33:13.99
(LAUGHTER) ACTS 15:5 - NOTICE:
"BUT SOME OF THE SECT OF THE
00:33:13.99\00:33:19.59
PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED ROSE
UP, SAYING, 'IT IS NECESSARY TO
00:33:19.59\00:33:24.20
CIRCUMCISE THEM, AND TO COMMAND
THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES."
00:33:24.20\00:33:28.50
YOU CAN SEE THE CONTENTION.
THEY SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP
00:33:28.50\00:33:30.91
THESE LAWS.' ACTS 15:10, "NOW
THEREFORE, WHY DO YOU TEST GOD
00:33:30.91\00:33:35.98
BY PUTTING A YOKE ON THE NECK OF
THE DISCIPLES WHICH NEITHER OUR
00:33:35.98\00:33:39.81
FATHERS NOR WE
WERE ABLE TO BEAR?"
00:33:39.81\00:33:43.22
THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO
KEEP UP WITH ALL OF IT.
00:33:43.22\00:33:46.12
ACTS 15:24, "SINCE WE HAVE
HEARD THAT SOME WHO WENT OUT
00:33:46.12\00:33:50.59
FROM US HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH
WORDS, UNSETTLING YOUR SOULS,
00:33:50.59\00:33:55.13
SAYING, 'YOU MUST BE CIRCUMCISED
AND KEEP THE LAW' - TO WHOM WE
00:33:55.13\00:33:58.77
GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT."
SO AT LEAST ADMIT WITH ME THERE
00:33:58.77\00:34:04.11
WAS A PROBLEM IN THE EARLY
CHURCH WHERE SOME OF THE JEWISH
00:34:04.11\00:34:07.31
BELIEVERS WERE TELLING
THE GENTILE BELIEVERS 'THERE'S
00:34:07.31\00:34:09.64
ADDITIONAL LAWS YOU NEED TO KEEP
OF MOSES AND THE APOSTLES WERE
00:34:09.64\00:34:13.52
SAYING, 'THAT'S NOT
TRUE. THERE WAS SOME DIVISION.
00:34:13.52\00:34:16.28
THEY HAD A WHOLE COUNSEL MEETING
IN JERUSALEM TO SETTLE THIS
00:34:16.28\00:34:19.45
ISSUE. YOU READ
IN ACTS CHAPTER 15 -
00:34:19.45\00:34:21.92
JUST READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER -
AND THEIR FINAL SUMMARY IS THAT
00:34:21.92\00:34:25.96
WE'RE NOT GOING TO REQUIRE THE
GENTILE CONVERTS TO KEEP THESE
00:34:25.96\00:34:28.86
CEREMONIAL LAWS BECAUSE
THEY'RE FULFILLED IN JESUS.
00:34:28.86\00:34:32.43
NOW THE BIBLE'S PRETTY
CLEAR, WE HAVE A NEW SACRIFICE.
00:34:32.43\00:34:38.77
WE ARE NOW LIVING
WITH A NEW SACRIFICE.
00:34:38.77\00:34:41.14
DO WE SACRIFICE
LAMBS ANYMORE? >>NO.
00:34:41.14\00:34:43.55
>>DANIEL 9:27, SPEAKING OF THE
COMING OF THE MESSIAH, "AND HE
00:34:43.55\00:34:48.58
SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH
MANY FOR ONE WEEK; AND IN THE
00:34:48.58\00:34:51.72
MIDST OF THE WEEK" - THAT'S IN
THE SEVEN YEARS OF THE MINISTRY
00:34:51.72\00:34:54.76
OF CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES - "IN
THE MIDST OF THE WEEK HE SHALL
00:34:54.76\00:34:58.33
CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND
THE OBLATION TO CEASE..."
00:34:58.33\00:35:02.66
DID JESUS CAUSE THE PURPOSE
FOR THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE?
00:35:02.66\00:35:06.90
YES. JOHN 1:29 -
WHO IS OUR LAMB NOW?
00:35:06.90\00:35:13.27
- JOHN POINTS TO
JESUS AND SAID, "BEHOLD!
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.44
THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES
AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!"
00:35:15.44\00:35:17.78
SO WE HAVE A NEW SACRIFICE.
NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE A NEW
00:35:17.78\00:35:20.72
SACRIFICE, WE
HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD.
00:35:20.72\00:35:23.55
MATTHEW 26:65, "THE HIGH
PRIEST, WHEN HE CONDEMNED JESUS,
00:35:23.55\00:35:28.89
CAIAPHAS, HE GOT INDIGNANT; HE
SAID, 'HE HAS SPOKEN BLASPHEMY.
00:35:28.89\00:35:33.06
WHAT FURTHER NEED DO
WE HAVE OF WITNESSES?
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.26
LOOK, NOW YOU HAVE
HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY!"
00:35:35.26\00:35:36.70
AND HE TORE HIS CLOTHES.
THE HIGH PRIEST WAS NEVER
00:35:36.70\00:35:41.17
TO REND HIS GARMENTS.
THEY WERE HOLY GARMENTS.
00:35:41.17\00:35:44.37
WHEN AARON'S SON DIED - HIS SONS
DIED - BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN,
00:35:44.37\00:35:48.61
MOSES SAID, THROUGH THE LORD,
THE LORD SAID - AARON, THROUGH
00:35:48.61\00:35:52.58
MOSES - 'DO NOT' - YOU KNOW,
THEY USED TO MOURN; THEY'D TEAR
00:35:52.58\00:35:55.82
THEIR GARMENTS. HE
SAID, 'DO NOT TEAR YOUR
00:35:55.82\00:35:58.79
GARMENTS, BECAUSE YOU ARE
WEARING HOLY GARMENTS; THEY
00:35:58.79\00:36:01.19
REPRESENT THE PERFECT CHARACTER
OF CHRIST.' THE HIGH PRIEST WAS
00:36:01.19\00:36:03.49
NEVER TO TEAR HIS GARMENTS.
CAIAPHAS - THE FIRST TIME IN
00:36:03.49\00:36:06.90
HISTORY - HE TORE HIS GARMENTS,
REPRESENTING THE PRIESTHOOD -
00:36:06.90\00:36:10.27
THE EARTHLY
LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD WAS OVER.
00:36:10.27\00:36:12.70
WE HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD
- JESUS IS OUR HIGH PRIEST.
00:36:12.70\00:36:15.17
WE ARE A NATION - A KINGDOM -
OF PRIESTS - ISN'T THAT WHAT IT
00:36:15.17\00:36:18.14
SAYS? 1 PETER
2:9, "BUT YOU ARE A
00:36:18.14\00:36:20.81
CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD," - IT GOES ON TO
00:36:20.81\00:36:24.28
SAY, "A HOLY NATION," - BECAUSE
WE, NOW, ARE A NEW NATION.
00:36:24.28\00:36:30.22
AND THAT LEADS ME
TO THE NEXT POINT.
00:36:30.22\00:36:33.12
GOT A NEW PRIESTHOOD, GOT A NEW
NATION - ACTUALLY I'VE GOT A NEW
00:36:33.12\00:36:37.86
TEMPLE NEXT - MATTHEW 27, VERSE
50 - GOT A NEW TEMPLE - "AND
00:36:37.86\00:36:43.40
JESUS CRIED OUT AGAIN WITH A
LOUD VOICE," - HE DIES ON THE
00:36:43.40\00:36:45.50
CROSS - "AND
YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT.
00:36:45.50\00:36:47.87
THEN, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF
THE TEMPLE WAS TORN FROM TOP TO
00:36:47.87\00:36:51.01
BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH
QUAKED." WHY DID THE VEIL
00:36:51.01\00:36:53.48
REND IN THE
TEMPLE? WAS IT JUST OLD AND
00:36:53.48\00:36:56.61
NEGLECTED AND SO IT TORE?
YOU KNOW THE VEIL, THEY SAY,
00:36:56.61\00:37:00.55
WAS AS THICK AS A MAN'S HAND.
IT WAS A HEAVY VEIL AND IT TORE
00:37:00.55\00:37:05.39
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM -
NOBODY ON THE BOTTOM - IT WAS
00:37:05.39\00:37:07.69
VERY TALL - TORE IT.
IT SUPERNATURALLY RIPPED.
00:37:07.69\00:37:11.33
NO MAN WAS EVER SUPPOSED TO
LOOK INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
00:37:11.33\00:37:14.36
GOD TORE IT, LAID IT OPEN
- WAS THERE AN ARK IN THERE?
00:37:14.36\00:37:17.40
NO, THE ARK HAD BEEN HIDDEN BACK
IN THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH, WHEN
00:37:17.40\00:37:21.34
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND
STOLE - DESTROYED THE TEMPLE.
00:37:21.34\00:37:24.57
BEFORE HE DID THAT, THEY HID
THE ARK - IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND.
00:37:24.57\00:37:27.84
IT'S STILL HIDDEN
OVER THERE SOMEWHERE.
00:37:27.84\00:37:30.65
WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE RENDING OF THE VEIL?
00:37:30.65\00:37:34.95
IT'S NOT AN EARTHLY TEMPLE
ANYMORE. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?
00:37:34.95\00:37:38.75
LOOK AT THE WORDS OF JESUS:
'WE HEARD HIM SAY, 'DESTROY THIS
00:37:38.75\00:37:42.72
TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE
DAYS I'LL BUILD ANOTHER MADE
00:37:42.72\00:37:45.49
WITHOUT HANDS.'' JESUS DID SAY,
'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, IN THREE
00:37:45.49\00:37:49.36
DAYS I'LL RAISE IT UP.'
AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY.
00:37:49.36\00:37:52.63
WHAT IS THE CHURCH
CALLED? >>THE BODY.
00:37:52.63\00:37:54.67
>>THE BODY OF CHRIST.
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU ARE
00:37:54.67\00:37:57.74
LIVING STONES -
JESUS IS THE CORNERSTONE.
00:37:57.74\00:38:00.74
WE ARE BUILT UP
TOGETHER INTO A NEW TEMPLE.
00:38:00.74\00:38:02.94
PAUL SAYS, 'WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
- YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD'.
00:38:02.94\00:38:06.21
SO, DO WE NEED TO GO TO
JERUSALEM FOR THE FEASTS?
00:38:06.21\00:38:11.19
OR IS CHRIST NOW
THE TEMPLE? >>CHRIST.
00:38:11.19\00:38:14.99
>>AND THE CHURCH IS THE TEMPLE
- YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD - WE
00:38:14.99\00:38:18.36
ARE HIS BODY.
ALRIGHT, NOT ONLY IS IT A NEW
00:38:18.36\00:38:21.13
TEMPLE, NEW PRIESTHOOD,
NEW SACRIFICE, THE BIBLE
00:38:21.13\00:38:23.10
SAYS IT'S A NEW NATION. I
JUST READ TO YOU FROM PETER
00:38:23.10\00:38:26.50
THAT YOU'RE A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION.
00:38:26.50\00:38:29.34
GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 7,
"THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE
00:38:29.34\00:38:33.84
WHO ARE OF FAITH
ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM."
00:38:33.84\00:38:37.61
GALATIANS 3:29, "AND IF YOU ARE
CHRIST'S, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S
00:38:37.61\00:38:41.82
SEED, AND HEIRS
ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
00:38:41.82\00:38:44.12
ROMANS 2, VERSE 29 - I KNOW,
I'M GIVING YOU A LOT OF VERSES -
00:38:44.12\00:38:48.16
"BUT HE IS A JEW WHO IS ONE
INWARDLY, AND CIRCUMCISION IS
00:38:48.16\00:38:51.76
THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE
SPIRIT, NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE
00:38:51.76\00:38:54.83
PRAISE IS NOT
FROM MEN BUT FROM GOD."
00:38:54.83\00:38:57.67
NOW THERE ARE JEWS THAT ARE PART
OF THIS HOLY NATION, BUT ANYBODY
00:38:57.67\00:39:01.54
CAN BE A SPIRITUAL JEW.
THE BIBLE TELLS US MANY WILL
00:39:01.54\00:39:05.81
COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST
- THE GENTILES - AND SIT DOWN IN
00:39:05.81\00:39:09.11
THE KINGDOM WITH ABRAHAM
ISAAC AND JACOB AND THE NATURAL
00:39:09.11\00:39:11.48
CHILDREN CAN BE IN OUTER
DARKNESS. JESUS SAID TO SOME OF
00:39:11.48\00:39:15.62
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 'YOU'RE
NOT ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN, YOU'RE
00:39:15.62\00:39:19.39
OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL,
BECAUSE ABRAHAM DIDN'T TRY TO
00:39:19.39\00:39:23.02
KILL ME.' PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE
FAITH OF ABRAHAM ARE ABRAHAM'S
00:39:23.02\00:39:26.29
SPIRITUAL SEED. >>AMEN.
00:39:26.29\00:39:28.13
>>SO ALL THE PROMISES GOD MADE
TO ABRAHAM ABOUT INHERITING THE
00:39:28.13\00:39:30.97
PROMISED LAND,
THEY BELONG TO YOU.
00:39:30.97\00:39:32.90
IF YOU ACCEPT
CHRIST, YOU ARE ADOPTED IN.
00:39:32.90\00:39:34.97
PAUL MADE IT VERY CLEAR: THE
GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE
00:39:34.97\00:39:38.34
STALK OF ISRAEL. WE
BECOME A NEW NATION.
00:39:38.34\00:39:42.61
AND SO, IT'S REALLY CLEAR, SO
MANY OF THESE PROMISES THAT ARE
00:39:42.61\00:39:44.98
MADE ABOUT ISRAEL - I BELIEVE
GOD STILL HAS A SPECIAL WORK FOR
00:39:44.98\00:39:48.98
THE JEWISH PEOPLE, BUT YOU ALL
BECOME SPIRITUAL JEWS WHEN YOU
00:39:48.98\00:39:52.39
ACCEPT CHRIST. >>AMEN.
00:39:52.39\00:39:54.19
>>SO YOU'VE GOT A NEW TEMPLE,
NEW NATION, NEW PRIESTHOOD -
00:39:54.19\00:39:59.09
UM - YOU'VE GOT
A NEW CIRCUMCISION.
00:39:59.09\00:40:06.10
I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
PICKING A PICTURE FOR THIS.
00:40:06.10\00:40:07.90
ROMANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 25
AND 26, "FOR CIRCUMCISION VERILY
00:40:07.90\00:40:12.57
PROFITETH, IF THOU KEEP THE LAW:
BUT IF THOU BE A BREAKER OF THE
00:40:12.57\00:40:16.11
LAW THY CIRCUMCISION
IS MADE UNCIRCUMCISION."
00:40:16.11\00:40:19.11
GALATIANS 5:2 AND 3, "INDEED
I, PAUL, SAY TO YOU" - LISTEN TO
00:40:19.11\00:40:23.42
THIS. THIS IS, TO
ME, VERY IMPORTANT -
00:40:23.42\00:40:25.59
PAUL, HE SAYS, "INDEED, I, PAUL
SAY TO YOU THAT IF YOU BECOME
00:40:25.59\00:40:29.02
CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST
WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING."
00:40:29.02\00:40:32.23
DOES THAT - WAS HE SAYING THAT
NO GENTILES, NOBODY FROM THE
00:40:32.23\00:40:36.43
TIME OF CHRIST
SHOULD BE CIRCUMCISED?
00:40:36.43\00:40:38.57
IT'S PRETTY COMMONLY
PRACTICED IN NORTH AMERICA.
00:40:38.57\00:40:41.57
NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING.
PAUL IS SAYING IF YOU ARE BEING
00:40:41.57\00:40:43.54
CIRCUMCISED FOR THE BENEFIT
OF SALVATION, OR BEING ADOPTED,
00:40:43.54\00:40:47.34
CHRIST IS NO
PROFIT. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF
00:40:47.34\00:40:50.01
CHRIST WAS TO FULFILL THAT.
DO YOU SEE WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING?
00:40:50.01\00:40:54.12
HE SAYS, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19,
"CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND
00:40:54.12\00:40:58.75
UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT
KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
00:40:58.75\00:41:02.99
IS WHAT MATTERS." SO
IS THE MORAL LAW - TEN
00:41:02.99\00:41:05.46
COMMANDMENTS -
STILL IN PLACE? >>AMEN.
00:41:05.46\00:41:07.30
>>THE CEREMONIAL LAW -
CIRCUMCISION WAS PART OF THAT -
00:41:07.30\00:41:10.50
IS NOTHING.
CIRCUMCISION CAME A THOUSAND
00:41:10.50\00:41:12.33
YEARS - TWO THOUSAND
YEARS - AFTER CREATION.
00:41:12.33\00:41:16.10
EVEN JESUS AND MOSES SAID,
'CIRCUMCISE, THEREFORE, THE
00:41:16.10\00:41:19.94
FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART.
DON'T BE HARD HEARTED.' THE NEW
00:41:19.94\00:41:23.38
COVENANT IS ABOUT HAVING
YOUR HEART COMMITTED TO GOD.
00:41:23.38\00:41:26.88
>>AMEN. >>SO
IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT
00:41:26.88\00:41:29.02
CIRCUMCISION NOW. A
NEW COVENANT - WE'RE
00:41:29.02\00:41:32.89
UNDER A NEW COVENANT. 1
CORINTHIANS 11:25, "IN THIS
00:41:32.89\00:41:36.49
SAME MANNER HE ALSO TOOK THE CUP
AFTER SUPPER, SAYING, 'THIS CUP
00:41:36.49\00:41:40.20
IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD.
THIS DO, AS OFTEN AS YOU DRINK
00:41:40.20\00:41:44.37
IT,'" - HE DIDN'T GIVE THEM
A DATE, HE JUST SAID, 'AS OFTEN
00:41:44.37\00:41:47.20
AS YOU DO IT' - "DRINK
IT IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME."
00:41:47.20\00:41:50.67
HEBREWS 8:8, "BECAUSE FINDING
FAULT WITH THEM, HE SAYS:
00:41:50.67\00:41:54.24
'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING,
SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE
00:41:54.24\00:41:56.31
A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:41:56.31\00:41:58.98
JUDAH." BY THE WAY,
WE WERE JUST TALKING
00:41:58.98\00:42:01.38
ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
- DOES GOD HAVE A COVENANT
00:42:01.38\00:42:05.52
TO SAVE GENTILES?
WHERE IS THE COVENANT TO
00:42:05.52\00:42:09.52
SAVE GENTILES IN THE BIBLE?
>>'I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT.'
00:42:09.52\00:42:14.40
>>THEY'RE ADOPTED INTO ISRAEL,
BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT - YOU
00:42:14.40\00:42:18.37
KNOW, I HEAR A LOT OF MY OTHER
PROTESTANT FRIENDS, THEY SAY,
00:42:18.37\00:42:22.64
'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE OLD
COVENANT, WE'RE UNDER THE NEW
00:42:22.64\00:42:24.87
COVENANT.' I SAY, 'OKAY, WHO DID
GOD MAKE THE NEW COVENANT WITH?
00:42:24.87\00:42:28.04
'I WILL MAKE A NEW
COVENANT WITH THE GENTILES'? NO.
00:42:28.04\00:42:30.75
'I'LL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' SO, IF YOU
00:42:30.75\00:42:34.55
WANT TO BE PART OF THAT NEW
COVENANT, YOU MUST BE PART OF
00:42:34.55\00:42:39.55
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.46
>>YES. >>AND SO,
WE ARE ADOPTED IN, SO
00:42:41.46\00:42:45.46
IT'S REALLY HARD TO SAY, 'I'M
GOING TO GET ADOPTED INTO THE
00:42:45.46\00:42:47.73
HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND
THROW OUT THE SABBATH DAY.
00:42:47.73\00:42:49.53
(LAUGHTER) SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:42:49.53\00:42:52.73
YOU WERE WONDERING
WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT.
00:42:52.73\00:42:55.80
ALRIGHT, SO, NEW COVENANT -
HEBREWS 8:13, "IN THAT HE SAYS,
00:42:55.80\00:43:00.38
'A NEW COVENANT,' HE
HAS MADE THE FIRST OBSOLETE.
00:43:00.38\00:43:04.91
NOW WHAT IS BECOMING OBSOLETE
AND GROWING OLD IS READY TO
00:43:04.91\00:43:07.38
VANISH AWAY." SO
WHAT IS VANISHING AWAY?
00:43:07.38\00:43:12.82
WELL, THE OLD AGREEMENT DOESN'T
MEAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
00:43:12.82\00:43:14.89
BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT IS
'I'LL WRITE MY LAW' - THE TEN
00:43:14.89\00:43:17.56
COMMANDMENTS - 'ON THEIR HEART.'
IT'S THE SAME LAW WRITTEN A
00:43:17.56\00:43:19.56
DIFFERENT PLACE. SO
SOMETHING'S VANISHING AWAY -
00:43:19.56\00:43:23.73
ALL THE SHADOWS AND
TYPES WERE VANISHING AWAY.
00:43:23.73\00:43:28.34
NOW, KEEP IN MIND
THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT LAWS.
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.51
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT LAW THERE
- WELL, YOU'VE GOT MORAL LAW AND
00:43:31.51\00:43:33.84
YOU'VE GOT CIVIL LAW AND YOU'VE
GOT HEALTH LAW AND THERE'S
00:43:33.84\00:43:35.64
DIFFERENT VARIETIES, BUT YOU
READ IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
00:43:35.64\00:43:39.31
YOU READ IN CHRONICLES, NEHEMIAH
- A NUMBER OF PLACES - IT TALKS
00:43:39.31\00:43:41.75
ABOUT A DISTINCTION MADE.
LET ME READ, FOR INSTANCE,
00:43:41.75\00:43:45.29
2 CHRONICLES: "I WILL NOT" - 2
CHRONICLES 33:8, "AND I WILL NOT
00:43:45.29\00:43:51.66
AGAIN REMOVE THE FOOT OF ISRAEL
FROM THE LAND WHICH I HAVE
00:43:51.66\00:43:53.60
APPOINTED FOR YOUR FATHERS -
ONLY IF THEY ARE CAREFUL TO DO
00:43:53.60\00:43:55.93
ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM,
ACCORDING TO THE WHOLE LAW AND
00:43:55.93\00:44:00.47
THE STATUTES AND THE ORDINANCES
BY THE HAND OF MOSES."
00:44:00.47\00:44:04.57
THE HANDWRITING OF MOSES - THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN ON
00:44:04.57\00:44:08.01
STONE. NEHEMIAH
9:14, "YOU MADE KNOWN
00:44:08.01\00:44:12.48
TO THEM YOUR HOLY SABBATH,
AND COMMANDED THEM PRECEPTS,
00:44:12.48\00:44:15.05
STATUTES AND LAWS, BY THE
HAND OF MOSES YOUR SERVANT."
00:44:15.05\00:44:18.75
IT SAYS YOU MADE KNOWN TO
THEM THE HOLY SABBATH AND - THE
00:44:18.75\00:44:22.72
SABBATH'S TEN COMMANDMENTS - THE
PRECEPTS, STATUTES, AND LAWS BY
00:44:22.72\00:44:25.86
THE HAND OF MOSES.
ARE YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:44:25.86\00:44:28.40
GO WITH ME - I DON'T THINK I
MADE IT CLEAR - GO WITH ME TO
00:44:28.40\00:44:30.93
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4 -
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, IF YOU'VE
00:44:30.93\00:44:36.67
GOT YOUR BIBLES. I
ALWAYS WORRY, SOMETIMES, THAT
00:44:36.67\00:44:42.28
I PUT THE SCRIPTURES ON THE
SCREEN AND YOU GET USED TO IT
00:44:42.28\00:44:44.75
AND YOU DON'T LOOK
THINGS UP FOR YOURSELF.
00:44:44.75\00:44:46.92
I WANT TO READ VERSE 6 - NO, I'M
SORRY, VERSE 9, - DEUTERONOMY
00:44:46.92\00:44:52.32
4:9, "ONLY TAKE HEED TO
YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP
00:44:52.32\00:44:55.49
YOURSELF, LEST YOU FORGET THE
THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND
00:44:55.49\00:44:58.36
LEST THEY DEPART FROM YOUR
HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
00:44:58.36\00:45:01.70
AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR
CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN,
00:45:01.70\00:45:04.40
ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY
YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD YOUR
00:45:04.40\00:45:07.97
GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID
TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE TO ME,
00:45:07.97\00:45:11.37
AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR MY
WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO
00:45:11.37\00:45:14.11
FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY LIVE
ON THE EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY
00:45:14.11\00:45:16.78
TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.' THEN YOU
CAME NEAR AND STOOD AT THE FOOT
00:45:16.78\00:45:18.85
OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND THE
MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE TO THE
00:45:18.85\00:45:21.25
MIDST OF HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS,
CLOUD, AND THICK DARKNESS.
00:45:21.25\00:45:23.89
AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU
OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE.
00:45:23.89\00:45:26.86
YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE
WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM;" - DON'T
00:45:26.86\00:45:29.92
MAKE AN IDOL, YOU DIDN'T SEE
ANYTHING - "...BUT SAW NO FORM;
00:45:29.92\00:45:33.26
YOU ONLY HEARD A VOICE.
SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS
00:45:33.26\00:45:35.46
COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED
YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN
00:45:35.46\00:45:38.47
COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE
THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE."
00:45:38.47\00:45:41.74
- AND THEN AT THE BEGINNING OF
VERSE 14 THERE'S A THREE-LETTER
00:45:41.74\00:45:43.81
WORD - "AND THE LORD COMMANDED
ME AT THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU
00:45:43.81\00:45:48.01
STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS,
THAT YOU MIGHT OBSERVE..."
00:45:48.01\00:45:50.48
THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND ALL
00:45:50.48\00:45:54.42
OTHER LAW. >>AMEN.
00:45:54.42\00:45:56.25
>>GOD MADE A DISTINCTION IN THE
WAY HE DELIVERED IT - HIS OWN
00:45:56.25\00:45:59.75
VOICE, HIS OWN FINGER, WHAT HE
WROTE IT ON, WHERE HE PLACED IT
00:45:59.75\00:46:03.12
- THERE'S EVERY KIND OF
DISTINCTION HE COULD MAKE.
00:46:03.12\00:46:05.86
THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE
LAWS THAT ALL POINTED TO JESUS.
00:46:05.86\00:46:09.96
THEY HAVE ALL PASSED AWAY.
NOW, IS IT WRONG, THEN, FOR A
00:46:09.96\00:46:15.97
PERSON, IF THEY WANT TO
REMEMBER ONE OF THE FEAST DAYS?
00:46:15.97\00:46:21.04
>>NO. >>NO.
00:46:21.04\00:46:22.71
IT SAYS IN ROMANS 14, 'ONE MAN
REGARDS ONE DAY ABOVE ANOTHER;
00:46:22.71\00:46:26.92
ANOTHER MAN
REGARDS EVERY DAY ALIKE.
00:46:26.92\00:46:28.58
LET EVERY MAN BE
PERSUADED IN HIS OWN MIND.
00:46:28.58\00:46:30.62
IF YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP THE DAY,
KEEP IT TO THE LORD.' THERE'S
00:46:30.62\00:46:32.82
NOTHING WRONG IF YOU
SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:46:32.82\00:46:34.86
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUR FAMILY
CAMPING AND WE'RE GOING TO CAMP
00:46:34.86\00:46:38.33
UNDER PALM BRANCHES AND WE'RE
GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE FEAST OF
00:46:38.33\00:46:42.40
TABERNACLES.' MATTER OF FACT,
ELLEN WHITE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF
00:46:42.40\00:46:44.63
THE CAMP MEETINGS AND SHE
SAID, 'THESE ARE OUR FEASTS OF
00:46:44.63\00:46:46.77
TABERNACLES'. BUT SHE
NEVER SAID YOU HAD TO GO
00:46:46.77\00:46:48.90
TO JERUSALEM, AND SHE NEVER SAID
IT HAD TO BE A CERTAIN DATE.
00:46:48.90\00:46:53.54
SHE SAID IT'S GREAT FOR US, ONCE
A YEAR, TO GET TOGETHER FOR A
00:46:53.54\00:46:55.68
CONVOCATION. THAT'S WONDERFUL.
00:46:55.68\00:46:59.31
BUT YOU DON'T TELL SOMEONE,
'YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW' IF
00:46:59.31\00:47:01.95
THEY DON'T DO IT. YOU
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:47:01.95\00:47:05.59
AND SO - AND YET, WE'VE GOT
SOME SINCERE PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:47:05.59\00:47:08.36
MANDATING THAT
IT SHOULD BE KEPT.
00:47:08.36\00:47:10.36
LET ME READ A STATEMENT TO YOU
FROM THIS CLASSIC BOOK ON THE
00:47:10.36\00:47:13.46
LIFE OF CHRIST,
DESIRE OF AGES , P. 652 -
00:47:13.46\00:47:16.53
DESIRE OF AGES , P. 652 -
IT'S IN THE CHAPTER CALLED
00:47:16.53\00:47:20.90
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME -
ABOUT THE COMMUNION SERVICE.
00:47:20.90\00:47:23.87
AND AFTER JESUS SAID, 'THIS IS
MY BLOOD AND THIS IS MY BODY' -
00:47:23.87\00:47:28.01
I GOT THE ORDER WRONG - 'THIS
IS MY BODY AND THIS IS MY BLOOD'
00:47:28.01\00:47:30.35
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, "CHRIST
WAS STANDING AT THE POINT OF
00:47:30.35\00:47:34.18
TRANSITION BETWEEN TWO ECONOMIES
AND THE TWO GREAT FESTIVALS" -
00:47:34.18\00:47:38.85
THAT'S CONNECTED WITH THE WORD
'FEAST' - "HE, THE SPOTLESS LAMB
00:47:38.85\00:47:42.66
OF GOD, WAS ABOUT TO PRESENT
HIMSELF AS A SIN OFFERING, THAT
00:47:42.66\00:47:46.36
HE WOULD THUS BRING TO AN
END THE SYSTEM OF TYPES AND
00:47:46.36\00:47:52.30
CEREMONIES THAT FOR FOUR
THOUSAND YEARS HAD POINTED TO
00:47:52.30\00:47:55.90
HIS DEATH. AS HE ATE
THE PASSOVER WITH HIS
00:47:55.90\00:47:58.87
DISCIPLES, HE INSTITUTED, IN
ITS PLACE, THE SERVICE THAT WAS
00:47:58.87\00:48:03.41
TO BE A MEMORIAL OF
HIS GREAT SACRIFICE.
00:48:03.41\00:48:06.01
THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE
JEWS WAS TO PASS AWAY FOREVER."
00:48:06.01\00:48:11.75
>>AMEN. >>NOW THAT'S HARD TO
00:48:11.75\00:48:14.79
MISUNDERSTAND UNLESS YOU
REALLY WANT TO MISUNDERSTAND IT.
00:48:14.79\00:48:18.86
THE SERVICE WHICH CHRIST
ESTABLISHED WAS TO BE OBSERVED
00:48:18.86\00:48:21.20
BY HIS FOLLOWERS IN
ALL LANDS THROUGH ALL AGES.
00:48:21.20\00:48:25.93
COLOSSIANS 2:16, "SO LET NO ONE
JUDGE YOU IN MEAT, OR IN DRINK,"
00:48:25.93\00:48:32.41
- HE'S TALKING ABOUT EATING
THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS OR NOT -
00:48:32.41\00:48:35.48
"OR IN RESPECT OF AN HOLYDAY,OR
OF THE NEW MOON, OR OF THE
00:48:35.48\00:48:39.41
SABBATH DAYS: WHICH ARE SHADOWS"
- NOT THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH;
00:48:39.41\00:48:44.69
SABBATH DAYS -
WHICH SABBATH DAYS?
00:48:44.69\00:48:46.82
HE SAYS, "...THE SABBATH DAYS:
WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO
00:48:46.82\00:48:49.96
COME;" - THERE WAS A SABBATH OF
CREATION THAT WAS NOT A SHADOW
00:48:49.96\00:48:54.96
OF CHRIST'S COMING, IT WAS PART
OF THE REGULAR REST CYCLE IN
00:48:54.96\00:48:59.00
CREATION. AND THEN
THERE WERE SABBATHS
00:48:59.00\00:49:01.14
THAT WERE "...SHADOW(S)
OF THINGS TO COME; BUT
00:49:01.14\00:49:04.04
THE BODY IS OF CHRIST." HE
SAYS DON'T LET ANYONE JUDGE
00:49:04.04\00:49:06.27
YOU REGARDING THOSE THINGS.
I'VE GOT ANOTHER VERSE - GO WITH
00:49:06.27\00:49:08.58
ME TO EPHESIANS
2, VERSES 14 AND 15.
00:49:08.58\00:49:12.28
I JOTTED THIS DOWN TODAY
BECAUSE IT WASN'T IN MY NOTES.
00:49:12.28\00:49:15.05
OH, EPHESIANS IS IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, I WENT TO THE WRONG
00:49:15.05\00:49:18.19
ONE - EPHESIANS 2, VERSE 14,
"FOR HE IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS
00:49:18.19\00:49:23.43
MADE BOTH ONE, AND HAS
BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF
00:49:23.43\00:49:25.89
SEPARATION, HAVING ABOLISHED IN
HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, THAT IS,
00:49:25.89\00:49:31.07
THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS
CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES, SO AS
00:49:31.07\00:49:35.70
TO CREATE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW
MAN FROM THE TWO, THUS MAKING
00:49:35.70\00:49:39.37
PEACE..." SO HE
ABOLISHED THIS COMMANDMENT
00:49:39.37\00:49:43.01
OF ORDINANCES - THIS
OLD COVENANT AND THESE OLD
00:49:43.01\00:49:45.41
CEREMONIAL LAWS - THERE ARE
WONDERFUL THINGS WE CAN LEARN
00:49:45.41\00:49:48.28
FROM THESE THINGS - IF WE WANT
TO GO ON A GRANITE BAY CAMPOUT
00:49:48.28\00:49:53.99
AND TAKE ALL THE KIDS AND
SAY WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE THE
00:49:53.99\00:49:56.69
PASSOVER AND WE'RE GOING TO RUN
FROM THE EGYPTIANS' AND YOU'RE
00:49:56.69\00:49:58.89
GOING TO MEMORIALIZE
THESE THINGS, THAT'S WONDERFUL.
00:49:58.89\00:50:01.00
I THINK THAT'S GREAT - THERE'S
THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM THAT;
00:50:01.00\00:50:03.60
BUT DON'T GO TO YOUR NEIGHBOR
AND TELL THEM THAT, YOU KNOW,
00:50:03.60\00:50:06.57
YOU'VE GOT TO START KEEPING
THE JEWISH FEAST DAYS BECAUSE -
00:50:06.57\00:50:10.51
PAUL'S PRETTY CLEAR - THE NEW
TESTAMENT'S PRETTY CLEAR, YOU
00:50:10.51\00:50:13.14
HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THAT AND
IT IS NOT REQUIRED BY THE LORD.
00:50:13.14\00:50:16.44
IN SOME WAYS IT'S A DENIAL.
NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOME OF THE
00:50:16.44\00:50:19.65
REASONS THAT PEOPLE
SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH THAT.
00:50:19.65\00:50:23.79
THERE'S A FEW VERSES - I
READ ONE OF THEM - PASSOVER WAS
00:50:23.79\00:50:27.59
CALLED 'AN
EVERLASTING ORDINANCE'.
00:50:27.59\00:50:29.92
THEY SAY, 'IF IT'S AN
EVERLASTING ORDINANCE, WE NEED
00:50:29.92\00:50:31.33
TO KEEP IT TODAY.' MY
ARGUMENT IS WE DO KEEP IT
00:50:31.33\00:50:34.93
WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE LORD'S
SUPPER. ANOTHER STATEMENT YOU'LL
00:50:34.93\00:50:38.40
READ IN ZECHARIAH 14, VERSE 16,
IT SAYS, "AND IT SHALL COME TO
00:50:38.40\00:50:42.84
PASS THAT EVERYONE WHO IS LEFT
OF ALL THE NATIONS WHICH CAME
00:50:42.84\00:50:45.97
AGAINST JERUSALEM SHALL GO UP
FROM YEAR TO YEAR TO WORSHIP THE
00:50:45.97\00:50:49.41
KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND TO
KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES."
00:50:49.41\00:50:52.31
THEY SAY, 'LOOK, WE'RE GOING TO
KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IN
00:50:52.31\00:50:55.08
HEAVEN; WHY WOULD
WE NOT KEEP IT NOW?'
00:50:55.08\00:50:58.39
WELL, I THINK WE DO KEEP THE
FEAST OF TABERNACLES - THE FEAST
00:50:58.39\00:51:01.09
OF TABERNACLES WAS REMEMBERING
THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY.
00:51:01.09\00:51:05.89
WE WILL FOREVER GATHER TOGETHER
IN HEAVEN AND REMEMBER OUR
00:51:05.89\00:51:08.46
DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY.
IT WON'T BE ON A SPECIFIC DATE.
00:51:08.46\00:51:13.10
ISAIAH 66:23, "AND IT SHALL COME
TO PASS THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON
00:51:13.10\00:51:16.04
TO ANOTHER, AND FROM ONE SABBATH
TO ANOTHER, ALL FLESH SHALL COME
00:51:16.04\00:51:19.47
TO WORSHIP BEFORE ME..." I
THINK HE'S SIMPLY SAYING, FROM
00:51:19.47\00:51:22.58
WEEK TO WEEK AND MONTH TO MONTH
WE'LL ALL COME WORSHIP BEFORE
00:51:22.58\00:51:25.65
HIM. NOW, I'VE
GOT A THEORY - THIS IS
00:51:25.65\00:51:27.72
MY THEORY - I CAN'T PROVE
IT. I THINK THAT WHEN WE GET TO
00:51:27.72\00:51:33.39
HEAVEN AND THE EARTH MADE NEW,
THE SUN AND MOON - THERE STILL
00:51:33.39\00:51:37.13
IS A SUN, IT'S JUST THERE'S
NO NEED OF THE SUN IN THE CITY -
00:51:37.13\00:51:40.66
THE CYCLE'S GOING TO
BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.
00:51:40.66\00:51:42.90
I DON'T THINK THAT THE
YEAR'S GOING TO BE THREE HUNDRED
00:51:42.90\00:51:44.87
SIXTY-FIVE ONE-QUARTER. I
THINK IT'S GOING TO BE 360 DAYS.
00:51:44.87\00:51:49.77
I THINK IT WILL BE EXACTLY
TWELVE THIRTY-DAY MONTHS.
00:51:49.77\00:51:53.48
I BELIEVE THE WEEK WILL BE 28
- THE LUNAR CYCLE, INSTEAD OF 29
00:51:53.48\00:51:57.25
DAYS, IT'S GOING TO BE 28 DAYS.
I THINK WHEN THE FLOOD HAPPENED,
00:51:57.25\00:52:01.55
THE PERFECT SEASONS OF THE
LORD - THE WHOLE PLANET WAS
00:52:01.55\00:52:04.49
THROWN OUT OF SKEW. THE
WHOLE ROTATION OF THE EARTH
00:52:04.49\00:52:08.02
WAS AFFECTED BY - IT WAS A
CATACLYSMIC GEOLOGICAL EVENT.
00:52:08.02\00:52:11.99
IT EVEN WAS,
SOMEWHAT, ASTRONOMICAL.
00:52:11.99\00:52:15.00
AND I THINK
EVERYTHING GOT THROWN OFF.
00:52:15.00\00:52:17.23
I THINK WHEN WE'RE IN THE
EARTH MADE NEW, THAT JUST LIKE A
00:52:17.23\00:52:21.10
BEAUTIFUL SWISS TIMEPIECE, THE
SEASONS, THE YEARS, THE MONTHS,
00:52:21.10\00:52:25.37
ARE ALL GOING TO LINE UP
SO EVERY SABBATH - I'M SORRY -
00:52:25.37\00:52:29.14
EVERY NEW MOON, IF IT'S
EVERY 28 DAYS, IS A SABBATH.
00:52:29.14\00:52:33.15
DO YOU SEE THAT? NOW, I
CAN'T PROVE THAT, BUT I LIKE IT.
00:52:33.15\00:52:37.15
IT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME.
I'M - YOU KNOW, I'M OCD
00:52:37.15\00:52:38.49
I WANT EVERYTHING
RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
00:52:38.49\00:52:41.16
THIS THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE
ONE-QUARTER DAYS AND THEN YOU
00:52:41.16\00:52:43.59
NEED A LEAP YEAR AND - NOW I
DON'T THINK THE LORD MADE A LEAP
00:52:43.59\00:52:46.19
YEAR. AND SO, I
JUST THINK THE WHOLE
00:52:46.19\00:52:48.76
PLANET - THE WHOLE
CREATION GROANS AND TRAVAILS.
00:52:48.76\00:52:51.17
I THINK SOMETHING
HAPPENED TO THE WORLD.
00:52:51.17\00:52:53.17
AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE?
OH, ACTS - PEOPLE OFTEN POINT TO
00:52:53.17\00:52:56.07
ACTS WHEN THEY SAY YOU NEED
TO KEEP THE FEAST DAYS BECAUSE
00:52:56.07\00:52:58.27
PAUL SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GO
TO JERUSALEM.' LET ME READ IT -
00:52:58.27\00:53:01.21
ACTS 18, VERSE 20, "WHEN THEY
ASKED HIM TO STAY A LONGER TIME
00:53:01.21\00:53:05.85
WITH THEM, HE DID NOT CONSENT,
BUT TOOK LEAVE OF THEM, SAYING,
00:53:05.85\00:53:09.02
'I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS
COMING FEAST IN JERUSALEM;" THEY
00:53:09.02\00:53:13.59
SAY, 'SEE, PAUL KEPT THE FEASTS,
WE SHOULD KEEP THE FEASTS.' BUT
00:53:13.59\00:53:16.52
LISTEN TO WHY
PAUL KEPT THE FEAST.
00:53:16.52\00:53:18.56
HE SAYS, 1 CORINTHIANS 9:20,
"AND TO THE JEWS I BECAME AS A
00:53:18.56\00:53:22.96
JEW, THAT I MIGHT WIN JEWS; TO
THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW, AS
00:53:22.96\00:53:26.80
UNDER THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT WIN
THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW;" -
00:53:26.80\00:53:29.84
'I WENT ALONG AND DID WHAT THEY
DID THAT I MIGHT REACH THEM.'
00:53:29.84\00:53:33.04
PAUL DIDN'T SAY HE KEPT
THE FEASTS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT
00:53:33.04\00:53:35.24
EVERYONE SHOULD KEEP THEM, HE
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO DO IT SO I
00:53:35.24\00:53:37.68
CAN TRY AND REACH THE JEWS.'
AND THERE AT THE TEMPLE, AT THE
00:53:37.68\00:53:40.65
FEAST, THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM;
HE STARTED PREACHING TO THEM.
00:53:40.65\00:53:43.15
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THESE
ARE SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS.
00:53:43.15\00:53:47.19
THERE ARE OTHERS, BUT I THINK
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE BIBLE
00:53:47.19\00:53:50.49
THAT THESE WERE
SHADOWS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY.
00:53:50.49\00:53:52.73
NOW I SHARE THIS WITH YOU AND I
REALIZE THAT MOST OF YOU MAY NOT
00:53:52.73\00:53:55.03
HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH
THIS - YOU MAY HAVE WONDERED.
00:53:55.03\00:53:57.27
I HOPE IT'S BEEN EDIFYING.
IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S
00:53:57.27\00:54:00.94
STRUGGLING, I HOPE YOU'LL
TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO THEM.
00:54:00.94\00:54:03.20
AND THERE'S A LOT MORE GOOD
INFORMATION, BUT - IN SUMMARY,
00:54:03.20\00:54:07.41
MAYBE I'LL CLOSE WITH AN
ILLUSTRATION: LET'S SUPPOSE
00:54:07.41\00:54:11.25
YOU'VE GOT A LOVED ONE WHO HAS
TRAVELED TO A FAR COUNTRY ON A
00:54:11.25\00:54:14.55
BUSINESS TRIP FOR SIX
MONTHS AND YOU MISS THEM.
00:54:14.55\00:54:18.69
YOU MISS THEM DESPERATELY AND
YOU'VE GOT THEIR PICTURE ON THE
00:54:18.69\00:54:23.02
MANTLE AND, WHENEVER YOU SEE THE
PICTURE, YOU MISS THEM SO MUCH
00:54:23.02\00:54:26.59
YOU GO UP AND KISS THE PICTURE.
AND MAYBE THAT EVEN LOOKS LIKE
00:54:26.59\00:54:29.50
IDOLATRY, BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
00:54:29.50\00:54:32.97
AND SO YOU HUG IT AND YOU LOOK
AT IT AND YOU KEPT IT - YOU MOVE
00:54:32.97\00:54:35.64
IT FROM ONE ROOM TO THE OTHER
SO YOU CAN SEE THE PICTURE.
00:54:35.64\00:54:38.21
YOU THINK OF THEM, YOU
MISS THEM, AND THEN FINALLY THE
00:54:38.21\00:54:40.44
TRIP'S OVER AND THEY COME KNOCK
AT THE DOOR AND YOU FLING THE
00:54:40.44\00:54:43.45
DOOR OPEN AND YOU
SAY, 'YOU'RE HERE!
00:54:43.45\00:54:45.25
JUST A MOMENT.' AND YOU GO
AND YOU RUN AND YOU GRAB THE
00:54:45.25\00:54:47.22
PHOTOGRAPH AND YOU START TO
HUG AND KISS THE PHOTOGRAPH.
00:54:47.22\00:54:50.52
HOW WOULD THEY FEEL IF THEY'RE
THERE IN PERSON AND YOU'RE STILL
00:54:50.52\00:54:56.22
HUGGING THE PHOTOGRAPH? IF
THESE THINGS WERE ALL SHADOWS
00:54:56.22\00:55:01.23
AND TYPES THAT POINTED TO
THE REALITY OF CHRIST, ISN'T IT
00:55:01.23\00:55:04.07
SOMETHING OF THE
DENIAL OF THE REALITY IF YOU
00:55:04.07\00:55:07.44
CLING TO THE SHADOW? >>AMEN.
00:55:07.44\00:55:09.57
>>AND SO, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S
GOOD THINGS WE CAN LEARN ABOUT
00:55:09.57\00:55:14.84
THE FEAST DAYS, BUT FOR US TO
RETURN TO THAT - HOW ARE WE ALL
00:55:14.84\00:55:20.32
GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM? GO
TO THE TEMPLE? SACRIFICE LAMBS?
00:55:20.32\00:55:24.85
- I DON'T MIND A TRIP TO
JERUSALEM, I'M TALKING - YOU
00:55:24.85\00:55:26.76
KNOW WHAT I MEAN - KEEPING
IT THE WAY THEY DID; WE CAN'T
00:55:26.76\00:55:29.06
ANYMORE. THOSE THINGS
HAVE BEEN NAILED TO THE CROSS.
00:55:29.06\00:55:31.86
DON'T LET ANYONE JUDGE
YOU REGARDING THOSE THINGS.
00:55:31.86\00:55:34.86
TEN COMMANDMENTS? YES.
THE CEREMONIAL FEASTS? NO.
00:55:34.86\00:55:42.30
THEY'RE THERE TO TEACH US, THEY
ARE FULFILLED IN CHRIST AND SOME
00:55:42.30\00:55:44.97
ARE STILL YET TO
BE FULFILLED. >>AMEN.
00:55:44.97\00:55:47.44
>>WE'RE LIVING IN THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT AND THE SECOND COMING
00:55:47.44\00:55:50.05
WILL BE THAT FEAST
OF TABERNACLES. (MUSIC)
00:55:50.05\00:56:06.39
>>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
00:56:06.39\00:56:08.60
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HEAR AN AMAZING FACT?
00:56:08.60\00:56:10.50
MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS
TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS
00:56:10.50\00:56:13.40
OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR
POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO
00:56:13.40\00:56:16.91
THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM
THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT
00:56:16.91\00:56:19.24
WIGTON. YOU KNOW,
I REMEMBER YEARS AGO,
00:56:19.24\00:56:21.71
MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE
00:56:21.71\00:56:25.08
AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL
THERE FOR NATURAL POWER,
00:56:25.08\00:56:28.28
BUT THEY WEREN'T USING
IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF
00:56:28.28\00:56:30.72
THE ISLAND THERE WAS
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. YOU CAN MAKE
00:56:30.72\00:56:34.49
GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE. IF
YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND
00:56:34.49\00:56:38.26
WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT
THEY HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE.
00:56:38.26\00:56:41.60
IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN
ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC -
00:56:41.60\00:56:46.23
BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY
MUCH SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE.
00:56:46.23\00:56:48.80
AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS
ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC.
00:56:48.80\00:56:52.24
AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE
00:56:52.24\00:56:55.18
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII,
THEY WERE POWERING THE ISLAND
00:56:55.18\00:56:57.51
BACK THEN WITH
DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS.
00:56:57.51\00:57:00.72
IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW
WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF
00:57:00.72\00:57:03.35
GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S
MAKING AVAILABLE TO US.
00:57:03.35\00:57:05.95
AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE
THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK.
00:57:05.95\00:57:09.22
YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH
CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO?
00:57:09.22\00:57:12.43
'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE
TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE
00:57:12.43\00:57:15.43
WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.'
JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF
00:57:15.43\00:57:18.90
LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL
KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO
00:57:18.90\00:57:22.44
YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE
WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE
00:57:22.44\00:57:25.37
THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO THEM THAT ASK?'
00:57:25.37\00:57:28.48
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:57:28.48\00:57:31.75
POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A
SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
00:57:31.75\00:57:35.58
AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE
CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER
00:57:35.58\00:57:38.75
YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS.  SO
WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? (MUSIC)
00:57:38.75\00:57:58.61
>>FOR LIFE-CHANGING
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT
00:57:58.61\00:58:01.14
AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR
CALL 1-800-538-7275.
00:58:01.14\00:58:07.45
(MUSIC)
00:58:07.45\00:58:22.43