Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021637A
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00:14 >>OUR MESSAGE THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE, MAYBE, 00:17 A LITTLE UNUSUAL. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 00:21 JEWISH FEAST DAYS AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, WHETHER OR NOT 00:24 IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR CHRISTIANS, TODAY, TO BE KEEPING 00:27 THESE FEASTS. NOW, SOME MESSAGES YOU DEAL MORE 00:32 WITH THE MILK OF THE WORD AND SOMETIMES IT'S THE 00:34 MEAT OF THE WORD. I KNOW THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE 00:37 THE HEALTH MESSAGE - LET'S SAY THE ALMOND MILK AND THE TOFU OF 00:40 THE WORD - TODAY'S MORE THE TOFU OF THE WORD. AND, BECAUSE - 00:45 THIS IS REALLY A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT AND WE'RE 00:47 GOING TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT JESUS IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE, IN 00:51 REALITY, ALL OF THE FEAST DAYS TEACH US SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS. 00:56 MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE KIDS IN OUR 00:59 MIDST - I DID THIS LAST WEEK AND SOME TOOK IT UP WITH GREAT GUSTO 01:03 - MATTER OF FACT, I WAS SURPRISED HOW MANY ADULTS 01:05 ALSO PARTICIPATED. STARTING NOW I WANT THE YOUNG 01:10 PEOPLE - IF YOU WANT TO TRY AND KEEP TRACK OF ME, YOU'RE GOING 01:14 TO BE AMAZED HOW MANY TIMES YOU HEAR ME SAY THE WORD 'FEAST'. 01:18 THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE WORD 'FEASTS' OR SOME DERIVATIVE OF 01:22 THAT. BUT I'LL BE INTERESTED TO KNOW 01:26 - BET IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT. FIRST THING I THINK WE SHOULD 01:30 CONSIDER IS WE LIVE IN A DIMENSION CALLED TIME, AND TIME 01:36 IS SORT OF ETHEREAL UNLESS WE CREATE BENCHMARKS. 01:40 YOU KNOW, GOD GAVE US THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS AND HE 01:42 SAYS THESE ARE FOR SIGNS AND THESE ARE FOR SEASONS. 01:45 AND SOMETIMES WE DO THINGS WITHIN TIME AND CERTAIN DAYS AND 01:49 DATES TO MEMORIALIZE THINGS. YOU KNOW, IT'S - WE MEMORIALIZE 01:55 PEOPLE - CHRISTMAS, OSTENSIBLY. I GUESS APRIL FOOLS' DAY 02:01 WOULD BE IN THAT CATEGORY, WE MEMORIALIZE EVENTS IN HISTORY. 02:08 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SAY 9/11 NOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S SORT OF 02:12 BECOME A MEMORIAL - NOT A HAPPY ONE - DIFFERENT DATES BECOME 02:15 MEMORIALS. THINK ABOUT ALL THE HOLIDAYS 02:17 WE HAVE IN AMERICA - WE HAVE A QUITE A FEW - AND IT SEEMS 02:19 TO BE GROWING ALL THE TIME. YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, 02:22 CHRISTMAS. YOU'VE GOT EASTER. 02:23 YOU'VE GOT HALLOWEEN - I'M NOT TOO EXCITED ABOUT - I WAS JUST 02:26 AT HOME DEPOT YESTERDAY; THEY'VE ALREADY GOT THE HALLOWEEN 02:28 DECORATIONS. THEY DON'T WASTE ANY TIME AT ALL. 02:31 NAME THE OTHERS: LABOR DAY COMING UP, FOURTH OF JULY - 02:35 THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DATE - THANKSGIVING, 02:37 >>MEMORIAL DAY. >>MEMORIAL, NEW YEARS, COLUMBUS 02:40 DAY, PRESIDENTS' DAY - >>(VOICES SHOUTING 02:43 ANSWERS OVER EACH OTHER) >>SECRETARIES' DAY, BOSSES' DAY 02:52 - WHO MAKES THESE UP? THEY'VE GOT A DAY FOR 02:56 EVERYTHING NOW, RIGHT? NOW, IN THE JEWISH ECONOMY, 03:01 THEY HAD SEVEN MAJOR FEASTS. AND THESE FEASTS REALLY HELPED 03:06 THEM TO OUTLINE THE PLAN OF SALVATION. NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO 03:12 FIND THESE SEVEN FEASTS IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS, CHAPTER 23, 03:16 BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, BEYOND THE SEVEN FEASTS THERE, 03:19 THEY HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED A COUPLE OF OTHERS. OF COURSE, 03:22 YOU'VE HEARD OF HANUKKAH; HANUKKAH WAS DEVELOPED DURING 03:25 THE TIME OF THE MACCABEES, SO IT CAME MUCH LATER. 03:27 AND, IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, THEY DEVELOPED ANOTHER 03:29 FEAST, PURIM, BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DELIVERANCE THAT HAPPENED, 03:33 WHILE THEY WERE IN PERSIA, DURING THE TIME OF ESTHER. 03:36 BUT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXODUS, THERE WERE THESE 03:40 RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL FEASTS, AND THERE WERE SEVEN OF THEM. 03:45 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT TODAY AND I THINK 03:49 IT'S IMPORTANT, ALSO, TO ASK THE QUESTION, HOW DO WE RELATE TO 03:52 THESE THINGS? ALL OF THE FEASTS 03:55 WERE ABOUT JESUS. THEY ALL TAUGHT US ABOUT THE 03:59 LORD AND HIS MINISTRY IN SOME WAY. 04:02 EVEN CHRIST SAID - JOHN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 39 - "YOU SEARCH THE 04:06 SCRIPTURES, FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE; AND 04:10 THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME." 04:13 IN FACT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JESUS, 04:15 THE HIGH POINTS IN THE LIFE OF JESUS COINCIDED WITH THE JEWISH 04:21 FEASTS. WHAT WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU HEAR WORDS FROM CHRIST, IN 04:24 THE BIBLE? HOW OLD WAS HE? TWELVE YEARS OLD - I'M SURE HE 04:29 TALKED BEFORE THAT BUT, I MEAN, THE FIRST RECORDED WORDS IN THE 04:32 BIBLE, WHEN DID IT HAPPEN? AT A FEAST - HE WENT WITH 04:35 HIS PARENTS TO A FEAST. HE OFTEN WENT TO THE TEMPLE AND 04:40 HE TAUGHT DURING THE FEASTS. WHEN THAT WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN 04:43 ADULTERY HE WENT TO THE FEASTS OF THE TABERNACLES. 04:46 WHEN HE SAID, 'I AM THE LIVING WATER' HE WENT TO THE PASSOVER. 04:50 HIS DEATH WAS DURING THE FEAST, HIS RESURRECTION, HIS ASCENSION 04:53 JUST BEFORE PENTECOST - THE WHOLE LIFE OF JESUS WAS OFTEN 04:58 CHOREOGRAPHED IN CONNECTION WITH THESE JEWISH FEASTS, SO THEY'RE 05:02 VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY TEACH US 05:05 A LOT ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 05:07 NOW, PROBABLY, IT WILL ALSO HELP WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE JEWISH 05:10 FEASTS, TO KEEP IN MIND THE JEWISH CALENDAR WAS VERY 05:14 DIFFERENT THAN OUR CALENDAR TODAY. 05:17 THEY HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE MONTHS. 05:19 WE LIVE UNDER THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR - IT'S THE ROMAN 05:25 CALENDAR - IT'S A SOLAR CALENDAR. 05:28 THE JEWS USED A LUNAR CALENDAR. 05:31 IT WAS VERY ACCURATE, BUT THEY USED A DIFFERENT HEAVENLY BODY. 05:34 WE KNOW WE'VE GOT 365 ONE-QUARTER DAYS IN A YEAR. 05:39 THE ROMANS REALLY, ACTUALLY, MESSED WITH THE CALENDAR QUITE A 05:43 BIT BECAUSE, YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THE DAYS OF THE WEEK THAT WE 05:48 HAVE - THE NAMES FOR - ARE THE ROMAN DAYS. 05:51 MONDAY WAS 'MOON DAY' AND TUESDAY WAS 'TUOI', WEDNESDAY 05:55 WAS 'ODIN'S DAY', FRIDAY - 'FREYA'S DAY', SATURDAY - 05:59 'SATURN'S DAY', SUNDAY WAS THE DAY OF THE SUN - SOL. 06:04 THE MONTHS - THE REASON YOU'VE GOT A MONTH NAMED 'JULY' IS 06:09 BECAUSE OF JULIUS CAESAR, AND WHEN AUGUSTUS CAESAR FOLLOWED 06:12 NOT LONG AFTER THAT, HE WANTED A MONTH NAMED AFTER HIM. 06:16 BUT JULY HAD MORE DAYS AND SO AUGUSTUS CAESAR TOOK SOME DAYS 06:20 OFF FEBRUARY, WHICH IS WHY FEBRUARY'S SO SHORT. 06:23 AND THEY ENDED UP BEING TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE SEPTEMBER - 06:29 SEPTIMO? IF YOU SAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 06:32 IN SPANISH, IT'S SEPTIMO DIA ADVENTISTA. 06:36 SIETE IS SEVEN - SEPTEMBER IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SEVENTH 06:39 MONTH. WHAT MONTH IS IT? >>NINTH. 06:41 >>NINTH MONTH. OCTOBER - OCTAGON - 06:44 OCHO - HOW MANY IS THAT? >>EIGHT. 06:46 >>OCTOBER IS WHAT MONTH? >>TENTH. 06:48 >>TENTH MONTH - NUEVE - NOVEMBER - IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE NINTH 06:51 MONTH - IT'S THE ELEVENTH MONTH - DECA - DECEMBER - DIEZ - 06:56 SUPPOSED TO BE THE TWELFTH - TENTH MONTH, BUT IT'S THE 06:59 TWELFTH. SEE, I'M CONFUSED ALREADY! 07:00 (LAUGHTER) THE ROMAN CALENDAR IS LIKE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - 07:04 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL. (LAUGHTER) YEAH, YOU KNOW, 07:08 ENGLISH WORDS ARE VERY CONFUSING. 07:10 IF YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN A LANGUAGE, DON'T LEARN ENGLISH 07:13 BECAUSE A LOT OF IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 07:15 SO - BUT THE JEWISH CALENDAR WAS - THEY HAD 360 DAYS IN THE YEAR 07:20 BECAUSE THERE WERE THIRTY DAYS TO THE MONTH. 07:22 AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL PASTOR DOUG, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE 07:24 SENSE.' WELL, THEY WOULD ADD A SPECIAL MONTH EVERY, I THINK, 07:27 SIX YEARS - BECAUSE THERE'S 365 DAYS IN THE YEAR, IF THEY ONLY 07:32 HAD 360, THEN THEY'RE SHORT FIVE EVERY YEAR, WELL, THEY'D 07:35 COMPENSATE. WE COMPENSATE WITH LEAP YEAR FOR 07:38 THE QUARTER-DAY DISCREPANCY. YOU STILL WITH ME? 07:41 AND 360'S REALLY A PERFECT NUMBER. 07:44 HOW MANY DEGREES IN A CIRCLE? >>THREE HUNDRED SIXTY. 07:46 >>THREE HUNDRED SIXTY. IT WAS A GREAT WAY TO CALCULATE. 07:50 DO YOU WANT TO HEAR JUST AN AMAZING FACT? 07:53 HOW MANY NUMBERS ON A ROULETTE WHEEL? 07:56 >>WE DON'T KNOW. >>RIGHT ANSWER! 07:58 YOU KNOW - THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION. 08:01 YOU ALL ARE LOOKING GOING - HOW MANY? 08:04 WHO KNOWS? THIRTY-SIX. 08:07 HOW MANY DEGREES IN A CIRCLE? >>YOU SAID THAT. 08:09 >>THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY, RIGHT? 08:11 AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES, 08:13 YOU'RE GOING DOWN - NINETY DEGREES IS AN ANGLE - RIGHT - 08:17 TWO SEVENTY - YOU'RE GOING WEST. IF YOU COUNT - ONE PLUS TWO IS 08:23 HOW MUCH? PLUS THREE - >>SIX. 08:28 >>PLUS 4 - >>TEN. 08:29 >>KEEP DOING THAT UNTIL YOU GET TO THIRTY-SIX. 08:31 YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GET TO? SIX - SIX - SIX. 08:34 (INAUDIBLE) ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 08:36 SO IT IS A MATHEMATICALLY VERY INTERESTING NUMBER. 08:39 ANYWAY, SO THERE CALENDAR WAS DIFFERENT. 08:41 THEY ALSO HAD TWO CALENDARS - THEY HAD THEIR RELIGIOUS 08:45 CALENDAR, WHICH STARTED IN THE SPRING; THEY HAD THEIR REGULAR, 08:51 SECULAR CIVIL CALENDAR, WHICH STARTED IN THE FALL. 08:55 AND SO, THEY HAD A WHOLE TWO SEPARATE CALENDARS THAT KIND OF 08:59 OVERLAPPED EACH OTHER. WHEN - DURING THE EXODUS, 09:03 MOSES SAID, 'THIS WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS FOR YOU' - 09:06 WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT. IT WAS THEIR SPIRITUAL CALENDAR. 09:09 BUT, DURING THE TIME OF NOAH, IN THE FLOOD, YOU NOTICE HE'S 09:11 TELLING WHAT MONTH OF THE YEAR IT WAS? 09:14 WELL, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CIVIL CALENDAR - FOR THE 09:17 MONTHS WHEN THE DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPENED DURING THE FLOOD. 09:19 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 09:21 SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND, AS WE GO INTO THE 09:23 FEASTS, TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 09:25 NOW I WANT TO JUST GIVE YOU A SLIDE THAT WILL HELP YOU SEE AN 09:28 OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE FEASTS WERE - THESE SEVEN FEASTS - AND WE'LL 09:32 PUT THAT UP ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 09:33 SO YOU'VE GOT PASSOVER - THAT WAS - THAT FEAST LASTED ONE DAY. 09:37 IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT YOU HAD THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 09:40 AND, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT, YOU HAD THE FEAST OF 09:42 FIRSTFRUITS . THERE WERE THREE SPRING FEASTS. 09:46 THEN, FIFTY DAYS LATER, YOU HAD THE FEAST OF WEEKS , OR PENTECOST 09:49 - THAT WAS A ONE-DAY FEAST. THEN YOU GOT INTO THE FALL 09:53 FEASTS CONNECTED WITH THAT FALL HARVEST: YOU HAD THE FEAST OF 09:56 TRUMPETS , THE DAY OF ATONEMENT , AND THE DAY OF TABERNACLES . 09:59 YOU NOTICE, IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, YOU'VE GOT THREE, 10:01 YOU'VE GOT ONE IN THE MIDDLE, AND YOU'VE GOT THREE - TOTAL OF 10:03 SEVEN. ONE STANDS OUT AS UNIQUE. 10:05 YOU EVER SEE THE JEWISH MENORAH? 10:07 IT'S GOT THREE CANDLES ON ONE SIDE, ONE TALL ONE IN THE 10:09 MIDDLE, AND THREE ON THE OTHER SIDE - AND THEY ALL DID THAT IN 10:12 CORRESPONDENCE WITH THEIR - THEIR SPIRITUAL FEASTS. 10:16 THE FEASTS WERE DATES. THESE FEASTS WERE ALSO ANNUAL 10:21 SABBATHS - THEY WOULD REST DURING THESE CEREMONIAL FEASTS. 10:26 THEY WERE NOT THE SABBATH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. NOW, WITH THAT 10:30 AS A BACKGROUND, GO IN YOUR BIBLE, REAL QUICK, TO THE BOOK 10:32 OF LEVITICUS. THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES - NOT THE ONLY PLACE - 10:35 BUT ONE OF THE MAIN PLACES - CHAPTER 23 - WHERE YOU FIND THE 10:39 FEASTS. WE'RE NOT GOING TO READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER, BUT IF YOU 10:42 JUST LOOK HERE AT LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 1, "AND THE LORD SPOKE TO 10:47 MOSES, SAYING, 'SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO 10:50 THEM: 'THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM TO BE 10:54 HOLY CONVOCATIONS, THESE ARE MY FEASTS." 10:58 WHEN I POST IT ONLINE, I USUALLY POST, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M 11:01 PREACHING ABOUT OR TEACHING, AT MY FACEBOOK PAGE. 11:05 AND I MENTIONED I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT SHOULD CHRISTIANS 11:07 KEEP THE FEAST DAYS - (WHISTLES) I GOT, LIKE, 30,000 RESPONSES. 11:12 AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WHY'S PASTOR DOUG BOTHERING 11:14 TALKING ABOUT THIS? WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, THERE'S A 11:16 LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT BELIEVE THAT BIBLE 11:19 CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE KEEPING THE FEASTS. 11:21 AND, YOU KNOW, SABBATH-KEEPING CHRISTIANS WERE WANTING TO KEEP 11:24 THE SABBATH AND THEY'RE SAYING, 'WELL, IF YOU'RE KEEPING THE 11:26 SABBATH, WHY NOT KEEP THE FEASTS?' 11:28 BECAUSE, YOU NOTICE, THE SABBATH IS MENTIONED IN THE SAME CHAPTER 11:32 WITH THE FEASTS. THE LORD SAYS, 'SPEAK TO THE 11:35 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL...THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD.' THIS 11:37 IS THE THING THEY PUT ONLINE: 'PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE CALLING 11:39 THEM THE JEWISH FEASTS; THEY ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD. 11:42 THESE ARE NOT FOR THE JEWS, THESE ARE FOR EVERYBODY.' THEY 11:44 ARE ALSO CALLED THE FEASTS OF THE JEWS, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - 11:48 IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. BUT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT 'FEASTS 11:52 OF THE LORD', IT SIMPLY MEANS FEASTS THAT WE KEEP TO THE 11:54 LORD, IS WHAT THAT'S SAYING. FIRST ONE HE MENTIONS, VERSE 3, 11:59 "SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE, BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS A 12:02 SABBATH OF SOLEMN REST, A HOLY CONVOCATION." THAT WORD, 12:05 'CONVOCATION', MEANS 'ASSEMBLY'. IT'S WHERE WE GET THE WORD 12:09 'CONVENTION' - 'TO CONVENE' - 'TO GATHER' - 'A HOLY 12:12 GATHERING'. IT SAYS YOU SHALL NOT DO ANY WORK ON THE SABBATH 12:15 OF THE LORD IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS. 12:18 NOW HE HAS SEPARATED THE SABBATH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM THE 12:23 CEREMONIAL SABBATHS BECAUSE THEN HE MAKES THIS PREFACE STATEMENT 12:26 IN VERSE 4, "THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, HOLY 12:29 CONVOCATIONS WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM AT THEIR APPOINTED 12:32 TIMES." THESE ARE DATES. THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE 12:35 BETWEEN THE SABBATH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 12:38 THE JEWISH FEASTS. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES? 12:41 WHEN DID THE SABBATH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COME, BEFORE OR 12:45 AFTER SIN? >>BEFORE. 12:47 >>BEFORE SIN. WAS IT PART OF GOD'S PERFECT 12:49 PLAN? PERFECT WORLD - YES. AND WILL WE STILL KEEP IT IN HEAVEN? 12:54 >>YES. >>YES. WHO WROTE THE SABBATH OF 12:57 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? >>GOD. 12:59 >>GOD DID. WITH WHAT? >>A PEN? PENCIL? 13:02 >>HIS FINGER. >>FINGER. 13:04 WHO WROTE THE SABBATHS - THE CEREMONIAL SABBATHS? 13:08 >>MOSES. >>MOSES. WHAT DID HE WRITE ON? 13:10 >>PAPER. >>PAPER OR PARCHMENT. 13:13 WHAT DID THE LORD WRITE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON? 13:15 >>STONE. >>STONE. WHERE WERE THE TEN 13:18 COMMANDMENTS PLACED? >>THE ARK. 13:20 >>IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. THEY ARE PART OF THE COVENANT. 13:23 WHERE WERE THE CEREMONIAL LAWS PLACED? 13:26 >>THE ARK. >>IN A POCKET ON THE 13:27 OUTSIDE OF THE ARK. THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT. 13:30 ONE IS A DATE - IT'S PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, IT'S SOMETHING 13:32 THAT COMES WEEKLY. THERE'S BEEN NO INTERRUPTION IN 13:35 THE CALENDAR THAT AFFECTS THE WEEKLY CYCLE, IT IS ONGOING 13:39 - PART OF THE MORAL LAW. 2,500 YEARS LATER IS WHEN 13:45 THE JEWISH FEASTS APPEAR. THEY ARE SHADOWS THAT WERE TO 13:49 HELP US TO RECOGNIZE AND IDENTIFY JESUS WHEN HE CAME. 13:52 NOW, I THINK THERE'S A LOT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM, AND SO, 13:55 WE'RE GOING - THEN IT GOES ON AND IT LISTS THE FEASTS. 13:58 AND IT GOES THROUGH THE SEVEN FEASTS HERE THAT I'M ABOUT TO 14:01 SHARE WITH YOU. I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE WHOLE 14:02 CHAPTER OR WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME. LET'S BEGIN TO GO 14:05 THROUGH THEM. HERE'S A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE FEASTS: FIRST 14:08 ONE, BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, WAS THE PASSOVER. THE PASSOVER - 14:13 WHEN THEY WERE BORN AS A NATION THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT. 14:16 THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE WAS SOMETHING THAT NO NATION WOULD 14:19 EVER FORGET - ALL THE SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES AND PLAGUES 14:23 AND THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND THE MIRACULOUS WAY THEY WERE 14:26 DELIVERED AND THE GREAT TRANSITION OF A BORDER - THEY 14:29 CROSSED FROM EGYPT, OVER THE RED SEA, INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 14:33 YOU KNOW, RIVERS ARE OFTEN BORDERS - DIFFERENT COUNTRY NOW. 14:36 THEY'RE BORN AS A NATION. THEY CAME IN AS A SMALL GROUP OF 14:39 FAMILY - SEVENTY PEOPLE - AND NOW THEY LEAVE MILLIONS. 14:44 AND THEY NEEDED TO GET ORGANIZED. 14:46 HE GAVE THEM A CALENDAR, AMONG OTHER THINGS. 14:49 HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS'. 14:50 THE MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE OF THE PASSOVER HAD TO DO - BEFORE 14:54 THEY COULD LEAVE EGYPT - WITH THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB AND 14:58 THE BLOOD, BOTH SYMBOLS OF JESUS. 15:01 REMEMBER, AN ANGEL OF JUDGMENT CAME THROUGH THE LAND OF EGYPT. 15:05 FIRSTBORN WAS GOING TO DIE IN EVERY FAMILY UNLESS THEY HAD THE 15:09 BLOOD OF THE LAMB AROUND THE LINTEL AND THE DOORPOSTS OF 15:13 THEIR HOME. IF THE ANGEL OF DEATH SAW THE 15:18 BLOOD - THIS ANGEL OF JUDGEMENT - HE WOULD PASS OVER THEM AND 15:21 THEY WOULD BE SPARED. THEY WOULD BE UNDER THE BLOOD - 15:24 THERE WOULD BE MERCY BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD. 15:27 NOW, DO WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE BIBLICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT IN 15:29 SALVATION? BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS - 15:32 HE IS OUR LAMB - THAT JUDGMENT PASSES OVER. HAVE YOU ACCEPTED 15:36 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB? >>AMEN. 15:38 >>SO PASSOVER IS VERY IMPORTANT. NOW, I'VE OFTEN HAD PEOPLE THAT 15:40 SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, WE SHOULD STILL BE KEEPING THE FEASTS. 15:43 THEY REMIND ME THAT THE PASSOVER WAS CALLED AN ETERNAL COVENANT. 15:48 HE SAID, 'DO THIS THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS FOREVER AMONG 15:52 YOUR PEOPLE.' SO WHY WOULDN'T WE STILL BE DOING IT?' WE DO! 15:57 EVERY TIME - WHEN THE LORD INSTITUTED THE LORD'S SUPPER HE 16:00 SAID, 'I'VE LONGED TO EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU.' 16:03 BUT DO WE KILL A LAMB NOW? NO, AND NOW IT'S 16:07 GOING TO BE JESUS. HE IS THE LAMB. 16:10 AND, SPIRITUALLY, WE RENEW OUR COVENANT WITH JESUS THROUGH THE 16:14 GRAPE JUICE AND THROUGH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD. 16:16 AND SO, IN A SENSE, YES, THE PASSOVER IS ETERNAL IN THAT 16:20 EVERY TIME WE CELEBRATE THE LORD'S SUPPER, WE'RE REMEMBERING 16:23 THAT. ALRIGHT, NEXT YOU'VE GOT THE 16:26 FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY 16:29 AFTER THE PASSOVER. AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS 16:31 UNLEAVENED BREAD AT THE LORD'S SUPPER. 16:34 WHEN THEY GOT HUNGRY IN THE WILDERNESS, DID GOD GIVE THEM 16:38 BREAD FROM HEAVEN? HE DID. 16:40 AND IT SAYS IN EXODUS 34:18, "THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 16:44 YOU SHALL KEEP. SEVEN DAYS YOU SHALL EAT 16:46 UNLEAVENED BREAD, AS I COMMANDED THEE." 16:48 WHAT DOES LEAVEN REPRESENT? >>SIN. 16:51 >>MOST OF THE TIME LEAVEN, IN THE BIBLE, REPRESENTS SOMETHING 16:55 THAT FERMENTS AND CAUSES SOMETHING TO RISE AND IT CAUSES 16:58 A PROBLEM AND JESUS, YOU KNOW, HAVING UNLEAVENED BREAD MEANS 17:02 NO SIN. THE BREAD, BY THE WAY, WAS TO BE 17:05 UNLEAVENED AND THE GRAPE JUICE WAS TO BE UNFERMENTED. 17:08 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW. JESUS, AT THE LAST SUPPER, HE 17:11 SAID, 'I WILL NOT DRINK THIS WINE AGAIN UNTIL I DRINK IT 17:14 WITH YOU NEW IN THE FATHER'S KINGDOM.' NEW WINE IS 17:17 UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE THERE'S A 17:20 LOT OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES THAT STILL - THEY'VE GOT THE 17:24 FERMENTED STUFF THAT THEY PASS AROUND. 17:26 I KNOW A GUY THAT WAS A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC AND ALL IT 17:29 TOOK WAS HE WENT TO A COMMUNION SERVICE AT ONE OF THESE CHURCHES 17:32 AND THEY GAVE HIM A LITTLE TASTE OF THAT AND IT JUST KICKED HIM 17:34 RIGHT OFF THE WAGON AGAIN. AND SO DON'T DO ANYTHING TO MAKE 17:37 YOUR BROTHER STUMBLE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 17:40 >>SO, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT - IT SAYS, FOR INSTANCE, 1 17:44 CORINTHIANS 5:8, "...LET US KEEP THE FEAST, NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN, 17:47 NOR WITH THE LEAVEN OF MALICE AND WICKEDNESS, BUT WITH THE 17:50 UNLEAVENED BREAD OF SINCERITY AND TRUTH." 17:52 NOTICE HOW PAUL IS USING SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE HERE. 17:55 THIS WAS IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING. 17:58 JOHN 6:41, "JESUS THEN COMPLAINED" - I'M SORRY - "THE 18:02 JEWS THEN COMPLAINED ABOUT HIM, BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD 18:04 WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." AND JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD 18:07 OF LIFE.' THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES WAS LEGALISM AND WORKS 18:12 - MARK 8:15 - "...THE LEAVEN OF HEROD" CHRIST TALKS ABOUT - 18:15 WORLDINESS AND PRESUMPTION. THE LEAVEN OF THE SADDUCEES - 18:19 DISBELIEF AND HUMANISM - IT'S MATTHEW 16 - AND SO THIS 18:22 LEAVEN - THE DISBELIEF AND THE WORLDINESS. 18:24 WE'RE TO HAVE THIS GODLINESS AND HOLINESS IN OUR LIVES. 18:28 THIRD FEAST - THE OFFERING OF THE FIRSTFRUITS - THIS WAS THE 18:32 FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH - ABIB OR NISSIN - AND THE 18:35 PASSOVER WAS EATEN - AND THE FIFTIETH DAY AFTER THIS YOU END 18:41 UP WITH PENTECOST. AND WE'RE COMING TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 18:44 AND SO, THIS REPRESENTED THE FIRSTFRUITS. 18:47 IT HAPPENED ON THE DAY FOLLOWING JESUS BEING PLACED IN THE TOMB. 18:50 YOU'VE GOT THE RESURRECTION. WHAT HAPPENED AT 18:53 THE RESURRECTION? 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20, "BUT NOW 18:56 CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS 18:59 OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 19:01 YOU NOTICE, THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF PAUL, HE CONTINUES TO TALK 19:04 ABOUT THE FEASTS AND SAY HOW CHRIST IS THE FULFILLMENT OF 19:07 THAT? CHRIST IS THE PASSOVER, 19:09 CHRIST IS THE FIRSTFRUITS. NOW, WERE THERE SOME FIRSTFRUITS 19:12 TAKEN TO HEAVEN WHEN JESUS ROSE? >>YES. 19:15 >>FIRSTFRUITS WERE LIKE THEY USED TO TAKE A SHEAF OF GRAIN 19:18 AND WAVE IT BEFORE THE LORD AND THANK HIM FOR THE HARVEST. 19:21 CHRIST, WHEN HE WENT TO HEAVEN - HAVE YOU READ BEFORE, IN MATTHEW 19:24 CHAPTER 27, THERE WAS A RESURRECTION? 19:26 EARTHQUAKE, RESURRECTION, AND IT SAYS THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS 19:31 TORN. AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE 19:34 AND MANY OF THE GRAVES WERE OPEN AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS 19:38 WHO HAD FALLEN ASLEEP WERE RAISED, COMING OUT OF THE GRAVES 19:41 AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, AND THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY AND 19:44 APPEARED TO MANY, AND WHEN HE ASCENDED, THEY ASCENDED TO 19:47 HEAVEN WITH HIM. THERE WAS A VERY BRIEF APPEARANCE OF THIS 19:50 GROUP THAT WEEKEND OF - SUNDAY, WHEN HE ROSE - AND THEY WENT TO 19:55 HEAVEN AS A FIRSTFRUITS. WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY WERE. 19:58 SOME OF THE SAINTS WHO HAD DIED AROUND JERUSALEM - IT COULD HAVE 20:01 BEEN ISAIAH, IT COULD HAVE BEEN JOHN THE BAPTIST, IT COULD HAVE 20:04 BEEN JEREMIAH OR - YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW, BUT SOME OF THE 20:08 FAITHFUL - IT MAY HAVE BEEN - SOME THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE 20:10 TWENTY-FOUR, LIKE THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS. 20:12 THEY WERE THE FIRSTFRUITS - WENT TO HEAVEN - EARLY RESURRECTION. 20:17 THEN YOU HAVE, FIFTY DAYS LATER, THEN YOU'VE GOT THAT FEAST 20:19 THAT'S SORT OF BETWEEN THE SPRING AND THE FALL. 20:22 YOU'VE GOT PENTECOST. NOW, IT'S INTERESTING, IT SAYS - 20:26 LEVITICUS 23:16 - "COUNTY FIFTY DAYS" - FROM THE PASSOVER - 20:31 "TO THE DAY AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH; THEN YOU SHALL OFFER 20:34 A NEW GRAIN OFFERING..." PENTECOST IS THE SECOND OF 20:37 THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE FESTIVALS. THERE'S SOME OF THESE 20:41 FEASTS THEY WOULD ACTUALLY - HAD TO BE AT THE TEMPLE. 20:44 THEY WOULD GO, FOR THE SACRIFICE, TO JERUSALEM AND IT 20:47 WAS CALLED THE FEAST OF WEEKS, BECAUSE IT CAME AT THE END OF 20:51 SEVEN SEVENS - FORTY-NINE - ONE DAY AFTER THE FIFTIETH. 20:56 WHY DO WE CALL OUR BIG - WHAT'S IT CALLED? 20:58 THE BIG MILITARY BUILDING WE'VE GOT? 21:00 >>PENTAGON. >>PENTAGON, WHY DO 21:01 THEY CALL IT THAT? FIVE SIDES. IT'S BECAUSE OF FIVE. 21:04 THE BOOKS OF MOSES - FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES ARE CALLED THE WHAT? 21:07 >>PENTATEUCH. >>PENTATEUCH - AND A PENTAGON - 21:11 IT'S THAT - IT'S TALKING ABOUT FIVE SIDES. 21:13 AND SO, THIS WAS THE FEAST WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT. 21:16 NOW LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING INTERESTING. 21:18 ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH TRADITION, AFTER THE PASSOVER, 21:22 IT TOOK THEM FORTY-NINE DAYS TO GET TO MOUNT SINAI. 21:25 ON THE FIFTIETH DAY GOD DECLARED HIS COVENANT. 21:28 >>AMEN. >>SO YOU'VE GOT FIFTY DAYS AFTER 21:31 THE PASSOVER GOD DECLARES A COVENANT AT MOUNT SINAI. 21:36 NOW YOU'VE GOT FIFTY DAYS AFTER JESUS' BLOOD, PENTECOST HAPPENS, 21:42 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE NEW COVENANT IS ACTIVATED AT THAT 21:46 TIME. DO YOU SEE HOW THERE'S - THE 21:49 THINGS HAPPENING TO THE EARLY CHURCH ARE MATCHING UP WITH WHAT 21:51 HAPPENED WITH GOD'S PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT THE JEWS AND 21:54 YOU'VE GOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. AND THERE'S A - AN OVERLAP - 21:59 IT'S AN OVERLAP - IT'S ALL MATCHING UP. 22:01 NEXT - AND SO, PENTECOST - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT AND YOU 22:06 GO TO THE FIFTH FEAST - NOW YOU'RE IN THE FALL - AND IT'S 22:09 CALLED THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS WAS CALLED 22:13 ROSH HASHANAH - YOU'VE HEARD OF THAT. AND YOU CAN FIND THAT IN 22:16 LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 24, "SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 22:19 SAYING: 'IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, 22:21 YOU SHALL HAVE A SABBATH-REST, A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF 22:24 TRUMPETS, A HOLY CONVOCATION." THIS WAS A FEAST. 22:27 THIS WAS A HAPPY TIME. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE LORD'S 22:31 COMING - DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A TRUMP. 22:33 BUT IT ALSO SAID, 'LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET. 22:37 A TRUMPET IS A PROCLAMATION - A LOT OF TRUMPETS - THERE'S 22:39 MILITARY TRUMPETS, THERE'S TRUMPETS OF CELEBRATION AND 22:42 TRUMPETS OF FEASTS, BUT AFTER PENTECOST, NEXT WAS THE TRUMPET 22:47 - WE ARE TO BE PROCLAIMING THE LORD UNTIL THE JUDGMENT, WHICH 22:51 WAS THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, WHICH IS THE NEXT FEAST. 22:54 AND SO, THEN YOU'VE GOT - AND THEY WOULD BLOW THROUGH A SHOFAR 22:58 OR A RAM'S HORN DURING THAT FEAST. 23:00 DURING SOME OF THE OTHER FEASTS THEY HAD SILVER TRUMPETS. 23:03 THEN YOU GO TO THE SIXTH FEAST - I'M HURRYING ALONG BECAUSE I'VE 23:06 GOT A LOT TO COVER - WE CALL IT TODAY, YOM KIPPUR. YOU'LL SEE IN 23:10 MANY OF YOUR CALENDARS, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL NOT ONLY SEE 23:13 CHRISTMAS, YOU'LL SEE HANUKKAH, YOU'LL SEE YOM KIPPUR, THE 23:15 JEWISH FESTIVALS ARE OFTEN IN EVEN AMERICAN CALENDARS. IT'S 23:19 BETTER KNOWN AS THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, THAT IS THE SIXTH 23:22 FEAST. NOW THIS WAS - IT'S NOT REALLY FAIR TO CALL IT A FEAST, 23:26 IT WAS A FAST - BUT THEY CALLED IT A FEAST BECAUSE WHEN THEY GOT 23:29 DONE FASTING THEY FEAST. YOU'VE HEARD OF RAMADAN? 23:33 RAMADAN IS A TIME WHEN MUSLIMS FAST - BUT THEY DON'T FAST THE 23:38 WHOLE TIME, THEY FAST ALL DURING THE DAY, BUT ONCE THE SUN GOES 23:42 DOWN, THEY FEAST. AND THEY'RE REALLY HUNGRY AT THAT POINT. 23:46 AND SO, AT THE END OF THE TIME OF THE FASTING, DURING THE DAY 23:53 OF ATONEMENT, THEY WERE PUTTING AWAY THEIR SIN. 23:55 THEY WERE HUMBLING THEMSELVES - IT WASN'T A TOTAL FAST, BUT THEY 23:58 WOULD SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS, THEY'D WANT TO HAVE THE SIN 24:01 SEPARATED FROM THE PEOPLE, AND IT WAS A TIME OF JUDGMENT. 24:06 NOW WE'RE LIVING, RIGHT NOW, HISTORICALLY, IN THE SIMILAR 24:11 PHASE OF THAT FEAST, WHICH WOULD BE THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. 24:16 WE'RE IN THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH, WHICH IS THE AGE OF 24:19 LAODICEA, WHICH MEANS 'JUDGING THE PEOPLE', AND CHRIST HAS GONE 24:25 FROM - WHEN WE ENTERED THIS CHURCH OF LAODICEA - IN 1844 24:30 CHRIST - YOU GET THAT FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 8:14 - CHRIST 24:34 FINISHED HIS WORK IN THE HOLY PLACE AND HE'S MOVED INTO THE 24:36 HOLY OF HOLIES IN HIS HEAVENLY MINISTRATION AS OUR HIGH PRIEST 24:41 UP THERE. AND SO, THAT'S THE TIME 24:44 OF JUDGMENT, YOM KIPPUR. IT WAS A SOLEMN TIME. 24:48 AND CHRIST, YOU KNOW, WHEN HE WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE 24:52 AND HE BEGAN TO BE EXCEEDINGLY SORROWED, HE WENT THROUGH THIS 24:55 TRIAL AND THIS TIME OF SELF-DENIAL AND THE SINS OF THE 25:00 WORLD WERE PLACED UPON HIM. WHAT HAPPENED, DURING THE DAY OF 25:03 ATONEMENT, THEY HAD TWO GOATS - AND YOU CAN FIND THIS IN 25:07 LEVITICUS 16 - ONE GOAT WAS CALLED THE LORD'S GOAT, THE 25:13 OTHER GOAT WAS CALLED AZAZEL, THE LORD'S GOAT WAS SACRIFICED 25:16 AND THE BLOOD WAS SPRINKLED - REPRESENTED JESUS. 25:18 THEY WOULD, SYMBOLICALLY, TAKE ALL THE SINS THAT HAD BEEN 25:22 STORED THROUGH THE CEREMONIAL YEAR, THE PRIEST WOULD THEN BEAR 25:27 THEM, HE'D TAKE THEM OUT, HE'D PLACE THEM ON THE HEAD OF THE 25:31 SCAPEGOAT - YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'SCAPEGOAT' BEFORE? 25:35 - THEN THEY'D GIVE THAT GOAT INTO THE HANDS OF A TRUSTWORTHY 25:39 MAN WHO WOULD LEAD IT AS FAR AWAY FROM THE CAMP AS HE COULD 25:42 AND, TRADITIONALLY, THEY'D LEAD IT UP INTO A RAGGED CANYON CLIFF 25:47 AND HE'D KICK IT OFF THE CLIFF, BECAUSE IT WAS A VERY BAD OMEN 25:51 IF THAT GOAT CAME BACK TO THE CAMP. 25:56 NOW IT DOESN'T SAY THEY KICKED IT OFF THE CLIFF, IN THE BIBLE, 25:58 I'VE JUST READ THAT IN SOME JEWISH TRADITIONS, BECAUSE THEY 26:01 DIDN'T WANT IT TO COME BACK. BECAUSE IT, SUPPOSEDLY, NOW 26:04 WAS TAKING ALL THEIR SINS. ONE WAS THE LORD'S GOAT THAT WAS 26:08 SACRIFICED; THIS IS MORE LIKE THE DEVIL WHO IS, OBVIOUSLY, 26:12 PAYING FOR HIS OWN SIN. NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK, 26:15 'HOW DOES A DEVIL BEAR SIN?' WELL, IT'S NOT THAT THE DEVIL IS 26:19 BEARING THE SINS OF PEOPLE AS A SACRIFICE. 26:22 IF YOU'RE NOT SAVED, WHO PAYS FOR YOUR SIN? YOU DO. 26:26 EVERY MAN'S REWARDED ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WORKS, RIGHT? 26:30 IS THE DEVIL - ARE HIS SINS AND THE SINS THAT THE DEVIL HAS 26:33 INSTIGATED, ARE THEY COVERED BY JESUS OR DOES HE PAY THE 26:36 JUDGMENT FOR THAT? IS SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE? 26:40 DOES IT SAY HE BURNS DAY AND NIGHT? IT DOES. 26:44 WELL, WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S GOING TO BE. 26:45 IT SAYS 'FOREVER', MEANING UNTIL HE'S ALL GONE, BUT WHO'S GOING 26:47 TO DESERVE PUNISHMENT MORE THAN ANYTHING? 26:49 MORE THAN ANYONE? IT'S GOING TO BE THE DEVIL. 26:52 AND SO, THE WHOLE DAY OF ATONEMENT REPRESENTED SEPARATING 26:56 THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. THE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED 27:01 FROM THE SINS THAT HAD BEEN SYMBOLICALLY STORED 27:03 THERE THROUGH THE YEAR. ALRIGHT, SO THAT WAS THE SIXTH 27:05 FEAST, AND THEN YOU GET TO THE FINAL FEAST, THE FEAST OF 27:08 TABERNACLES, WHICH WAS A CELEBRATION OF 27:12 THEIR DELIVERANCE. IT WAS A TIME OF THEIR REJOICING 27:15 - THIS WAS THE HAPPIEST OF THE YEAR. 27:17 THE PEOPLE WOULD ALL GATHER AND THEY'D GET THESE PALMS AND 27:20 THEY'D GATHER AND THEY'D STAY IN BOOTHS OR TENTS AND IT COMES 27:24 FROM THE WORD SUKKOT, WHICH MEANS 'A BOOTH', AND THEY WOULD 27:28 REMEMBER THEIR WILDERNESS WANDERINGS AND DELIVERANCE FROM 27:32 EGYPT, AND IT WAS SYNONYMOUS WITH 'WHEN WE ARE GOING TO 27:35 TABERNACLE WITH GOD IN HEAVEN'. IT WAS DURING THAT FEAST THAT 27:40 THEY WOULD POUR OUT THE WATER, REMEMBERING THAT THE WATER HAD 27:42 BEEN MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDED FOR THEM IN THE WILDERNESS. 27:45 YOU READ IN JOHN 7:37 - BY THE WAY, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING IF 27:51 YOU STUDY THE GOSPELS, YOU'LL FIND THE WORD 'FEAST' ABOUT TEN 27:55 TIMES MORE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THAN ALL THE OTHER THREE GOSPELS 27:58 PUT TOGETHER. JOHN REALLY ACCENTUATES JESUS AS 28:02 THE FULFILLMENT OF THE FEASTS. IT SAYS IN JOHN 7:37, "ON THAT 28:06 LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, JESUS STOOD AND CRIED 28:08 OUT, SAYING, 'IF ANYONE THIRSTS, LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK. 28:12 HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID, OUT OF HIS 28:14 HEART WILL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER.'" BECAUSE, DURING THAT 28:19 FEAST OF TABERNACLES, THE PRIEST WENT THROUGH A WATER CEREMONY 28:22 WHERE HE'D POUR WATER, REMINDING THEM HOW WATER CAME OUT OF THE 28:24 ROCK, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THAT, HE SAYS, 'I AM THE LIVING 28:28 WATER.' AND SO A LOT OF WHAT JESUS DID IN HIS PROCLAMATIONS 28:33 AND WHAT YOU FIND IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CORRESPONDS WITH THE 28:36 VARIOUS JEWISH FEASTS, SHOWING THAT HE WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF 28:40 ALL THAT. WHICH BRINGS US TO THE REALLY - THE CORE OF WHAT I WANT 28:44 TO MAKE CLEAR DURING THIS MESSAGE. WITH THIS AS A 28:49 BACKGROUND, DO WE NEED TO KEEP, TODAY, THE JEWISH FEASTS? 28:55 I SAY 'NO' - CERTAINLY NOT THE WAY THEY DID. 28:59 NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHY. FIRST OF ALL, ONE THING I MEANT 29:01 TO MENTION, THERE WERE THREE OF THE FEASTS THAT REQUIRED GOING 29:07 TO THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM AND SACRIFICING LAMBS. 29:11 YOU FIND THAT IN DEUTERONOMY 16:16, "THREE TIMES A YEAR ALL 29:15 YOUR MALES SHALL APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE PLACE 29:18 WHICH HE CHOOSES:" - THAT WAS BEFORE JERUSALEM WAS CHOSEN - 29:23 "AT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, AT THE FEAST OF WEEKS, 29:25 AND AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES;" SO, OF THE SEVEN, 29:28 THREE - AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE ALL REQUIRED TO COME, BUT BY THE 29:33 TIME OF JESUS THEY FIGURED YOU WERE A GOOD JEW IF YOU AT LEAST 29:35 MADE IT TO ONE. THE REASON IS, THE JEWS HAD THEN 29:39 BEEN SCATTERED AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND IT WAS 29:41 ECONOMICALLY VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO COME FROM THE FAR 29:44 REACHES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN THREE TIMES A YEAR 29:48 TO THE FEASTS. AND SO, THEY SAID, 'WELL, YOU 29:51 OUGHT TO COME AT LEAST ONCE.' AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY IF 29:54 YOU'RE A FAITHFUL MUSLIM YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE - ONCE IN YOUR 29:57 LIFE YOU MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA. 29:59 WELL, IF YOU WERE A FAITHFUL JEW, YOU NEEDED TO GO TO 30:02 JERUSALEM FOR THE FEAST ONCE A YEAR. 30:05 YOU REMEMBER PAUL? HE TALKS ABOUT THAT. 30:07 HE SAYS, 'IT'S EXPEDIENT THAT I GET DOWN TO THE FEAST'. 30:10 AND I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE. 30:11 ALRIGHT, I DON'T THINK THAT GOD EXPECTS US TO KEEP THE JEWISH 30:15 FEASTS, BECAUSE THAT WAS PART OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW THAT WAS A 30:21 SHADOW POINTING TO CHRIST. AND WHEN CHRIST CAME, HE'S THE 30:25 FULFILLMENT OF IT, LIKE WITH THE PASSOVER. 30:28 DO WE STILL SACRIFICE LAMBS OR DO WE HAVE THE LORD'S SUPPER? 30:31 >>LORD'S SUPPER. >>LORD'S SUPPER. 30:33 WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TODAY - WOULD YOU THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING 30:36 WRONG IF PASTOR DOUG BROUGHT A LAMB IN AND SLAUGHTERED A LAMB 30:38 HERE IN CHURCH? >>HORRIFYING. 30:40 >>NOT ONLY WOULD THAT BE BRUTAL, AND I'D BE ARRESTED BY PETA, OR 30:45 SOMEBODY, BUT BEYOND THAT, YOU WOULD THINK THAT IS A DENIAL OF 30:53 JESUS AS THE LAMB. WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT NOW BECAUSE WE KNOW 30:57 THAT WAS A SHADOW UNTIL CHRIST. >>AMEN. 30:59 >>RIGHT? >>AMEN. 31:01 >>SAME PRINCIPLE FOR THE OTHER FEASTS. 31:04 LET ME ILLUSTRATE: AT THE TIME OF CHRIST, AFTER HE ASCENDED TO 31:08 HEAVEN, HE SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES, WHAT WAS THE RELIGION 31:10 OF ALL TWELVE DISCIPLES? >>JEWISH. 31:12 >>THEY WERE ALL JEWS, RIGHT? THEY WERE JEWS WHO ACCEPTED 31:16 CHRIST. AND I LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE - 31:18 YOU ALL KNOW, BUT SOME PEOPLE WATCHING - I STILL 31:21 CONSIDER MYSELF JEWISH. MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH. 31:24 I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE EVER HAD TO GIVE UP BEING JEWISH TO BE A 31:26 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN. MATTER OF FACT, I THINK - I USED 31:29 TO TELL MY GRANDPARENTS, 'I'M MORE OF A JEW THAN YOU ARE' - 31:32 BECAUSE I WAS AT LEAST KOSHER AND THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS. 31:36 AND SO - AND I KEPT THE SABBATH AND THEY WERE PRETTY SLOPPY 31:38 ABOUT IT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE EARLY 31:42 CHURCH, THEY WERE ALL JEWISH TO START WITH. 31:45 IT WASN'T UNTIL THE STONING OF STEPHEN IN ACTS 10 - PETER GOES 31:50 TO CORNELIUS' HOUSE - THE GOSPEL BEGAN TO GO TO THE GENTILES. 31:54 SO, WHEN THE JEWISH BELIEVERS WENT OUT PREACHING, THEY WERE 31:58 SAYING, 'NOW, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE LAW OF MOSES NOW THAT JESUS 32:00 IS COME?' THEY WERE STILL SORTING ALL THIS OUT. 32:04 PETER AND THE APOSTLES SAID, 'THAT'S ALL BEEN FULFILLED NOW 32:07 AND' - BUT SOME OF THE JEWS THAT CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY, THEY 32:11 SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, WE CAN'T GIVE UP MOSES.' AND THEY WERE FORCING 32:15 ALL THE GENTILE CONVERTS TO KEEP THE CEREMONIAL LAW. 32:20 NOW PETER AND PAUL SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT, THAT'S 32:22 FINE.' EVEN PAUL KEPT SOME OF THE FEASTS, TO REACH THE JEWS 32:25 AFTERWARD, BUT HE DIDN'T TELL THE CONVERTS - THE JEWISH 32:29 CONVERTS - 'YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP THE JEWISH FEASTS' - 32:30 QUITE THE OPPOSITE. YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 32:34 MATTHEW 23, JESUS SAID - VERSE 4 - "FOR THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS, 32:40 HARD TO BEAR, AND THEY LAY THEM ON MEN'S SHOULDERS; BUT THEY 32:42 THEMSELVES WILL NOT MOVE THEM WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS." 32:45 LET'S BE CAREFUL AND NOT PUT IN UNNECESSARY BURDENS ON PEOPLE. 32:49 ARE WE GOING TO MAKE ALL OUR MALES GO THREE TIMES A YEAR TO 32:51 JERUSALEM? OR ONCE A YEAR? ACTS 15 - HEY, YOU KNOW, AMAZING 32:58 FACTS IS THINKING ABOUT DOING A TRIP TO JERUSALEM. 33:03 AND I WAS TALKING TO PASTOR GILLEY THE OTHER WEEK; HE SAID 33:06 HE MIGHT HELP US HOST A TRIP. ANY OF YOU INTERESTED? 33:08 >>AMEN. >>KAREN'S NEVER - I'VE BEEN 33:10 THERE TWICE - SHE'S NEVER BEEN THERE SO THAT'D BE NEAT - 33:12 TAKE A TRIP - JUST CHECKING. ALRIGHT. 33:13 (LAUGHTER) ACTS 15:5 - NOTICE: "BUT SOME OF THE SECT OF THE 33:19 PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED ROSE UP, SAYING, 'IT IS NECESSARY TO 33:24 CIRCUMCISE THEM, AND TO COMMAND THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES." 33:28 YOU CAN SEE THE CONTENTION. THEY SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP 33:30 THESE LAWS.' ACTS 15:10, "NOW THEREFORE, WHY DO YOU TEST GOD 33:35 BY PUTTING A YOKE ON THE NECK OF THE DISCIPLES WHICH NEITHER OUR 33:39 FATHERS NOR WE WERE ABLE TO BEAR?" 33:43 THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL OF IT. 33:46 ACTS 15:24, "SINCE WE HAVE HEARD THAT SOME WHO WENT OUT 33:50 FROM US HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS, UNSETTLING YOUR SOULS, 33:55 SAYING, 'YOU MUST BE CIRCUMCISED AND KEEP THE LAW' - TO WHOM WE 33:58 GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT." SO AT LEAST ADMIT WITH ME THERE 34:04 WAS A PROBLEM IN THE EARLY CHURCH WHERE SOME OF THE JEWISH 34:07 BELIEVERS WERE TELLING THE GENTILE BELIEVERS 'THERE'S 34:09 ADDITIONAL LAWS YOU NEED TO KEEP OF MOSES AND THE APOSTLES WERE 34:13 SAYING, 'THAT'S NOT TRUE. THERE WAS SOME DIVISION. 34:16 THEY HAD A WHOLE COUNSEL MEETING IN JERUSALEM TO SETTLE THIS 34:19 ISSUE. YOU READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 15 - 34:21 JUST READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER - AND THEIR FINAL SUMMARY IS THAT 34:25 WE'RE NOT GOING TO REQUIRE THE GENTILE CONVERTS TO KEEP THESE 34:28 CEREMONIAL LAWS BECAUSE THEY'RE FULFILLED IN JESUS. 34:32 NOW THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR, WE HAVE A NEW SACRIFICE. 34:38 WE ARE NOW LIVING WITH A NEW SACRIFICE. 34:41 DO WE SACRIFICE LAMBS ANYMORE? >>NO. 34:43 >>DANIEL 9:27, SPEAKING OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, "AND HE 34:48 SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK; AND IN THE 34:51 MIDST OF THE WEEK" - THAT'S IN THE SEVEN YEARS OF THE MINISTRY 34:54 OF CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES - "IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK HE SHALL 34:58 CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION TO CEASE..." 35:02 DID JESUS CAUSE THE PURPOSE FOR THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE? 35:06 YES. JOHN 1:29 - WHO IS OUR LAMB NOW? 35:13 - JOHN POINTS TO JESUS AND SAID, "BEHOLD! 35:15 THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!" 35:17 SO WE HAVE A NEW SACRIFICE. NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE A NEW 35:20 SACRIFICE, WE HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD. 35:23 MATTHEW 26:65, "THE HIGH PRIEST, WHEN HE CONDEMNED JESUS, 35:28 CAIAPHAS, HE GOT INDIGNANT; HE SAID, 'HE HAS SPOKEN BLASPHEMY. 35:33 WHAT FURTHER NEED DO WE HAVE OF WITNESSES? 35:35 LOOK, NOW YOU HAVE HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY!" 35:36 AND HE TORE HIS CLOTHES. THE HIGH PRIEST WAS NEVER 35:41 TO REND HIS GARMENTS. THEY WERE HOLY GARMENTS. 35:44 WHEN AARON'S SON DIED - HIS SONS DIED - BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN, 35:48 MOSES SAID, THROUGH THE LORD, THE LORD SAID - AARON, THROUGH 35:52 MOSES - 'DO NOT' - YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO MOURN; THEY'D TEAR 35:55 THEIR GARMENTS. HE SAID, 'DO NOT TEAR YOUR 35:58 GARMENTS, BECAUSE YOU ARE WEARING HOLY GARMENTS; THEY 36:01 REPRESENT THE PERFECT CHARACTER OF CHRIST.' THE HIGH PRIEST WAS 36:03 NEVER TO TEAR HIS GARMENTS. CAIAPHAS - THE FIRST TIME IN 36:06 HISTORY - HE TORE HIS GARMENTS, REPRESENTING THE PRIESTHOOD - 36:10 THE EARTHLY LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD WAS OVER. 36:12 WE HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD - JESUS IS OUR HIGH PRIEST. 36:15 WE ARE A NATION - A KINGDOM - OF PRIESTS - ISN'T THAT WHAT IT 36:18 SAYS? 1 PETER 2:9, "BUT YOU ARE A 36:20 CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD," - IT GOES ON TO 36:24 SAY, "A HOLY NATION," - BECAUSE WE, NOW, ARE A NEW NATION. 36:30 AND THAT LEADS ME TO THE NEXT POINT. 36:33 GOT A NEW PRIESTHOOD, GOT A NEW NATION - ACTUALLY I'VE GOT A NEW 36:37 TEMPLE NEXT - MATTHEW 27, VERSE 50 - GOT A NEW TEMPLE - "AND 36:43 JESUS CRIED OUT AGAIN WITH A LOUD VOICE," - HE DIES ON THE 36:45 CROSS - "AND YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT. 36:47 THEN, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS TORN FROM TOP TO 36:51 BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH QUAKED." WHY DID THE VEIL 36:53 REND IN THE TEMPLE? WAS IT JUST OLD AND 36:56 NEGLECTED AND SO IT TORE? YOU KNOW THE VEIL, THEY SAY, 37:00 WAS AS THICK AS A MAN'S HAND. IT WAS A HEAVY VEIL AND IT TORE 37:05 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM - NOBODY ON THE BOTTOM - IT WAS 37:07 VERY TALL - TORE IT. IT SUPERNATURALLY RIPPED. 37:11 NO MAN WAS EVER SUPPOSED TO LOOK INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 37:14 GOD TORE IT, LAID IT OPEN - WAS THERE AN ARK IN THERE? 37:17 NO, THE ARK HAD BEEN HIDDEN BACK IN THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH, WHEN 37:21 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND STOLE - DESTROYED THE TEMPLE. 37:24 BEFORE HE DID THAT, THEY HID THE ARK - IT'S NEVER BEEN FOUND. 37:27 IT'S STILL HIDDEN OVER THERE SOMEWHERE. 37:30 WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RENDING OF THE VEIL? 37:34 IT'S NOT AN EARTHLY TEMPLE ANYMORE. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 37:38 LOOK AT THE WORDS OF JESUS: 'WE HEARD HIM SAY, 'DESTROY THIS 37:42 TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE DAYS I'LL BUILD ANOTHER MADE 37:45 WITHOUT HANDS.'' JESUS DID SAY, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, IN THREE 37:49 DAYS I'LL RAISE IT UP.' AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY. 37:52 WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? >>THE BODY. 37:54 >>THE BODY OF CHRIST. THE BIBLE SAYS YOU ARE 37:57 LIVING STONES - JESUS IS THE CORNERSTONE. 38:00 WE ARE BUILT UP TOGETHER INTO A NEW TEMPLE. 38:02 PAUL SAYS, 'WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW - YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD'. 38:06 SO, DO WE NEED TO GO TO JERUSALEM FOR THE FEASTS? 38:11 OR IS CHRIST NOW THE TEMPLE? >>CHRIST. 38:14 >>AND THE CHURCH IS THE TEMPLE - YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD - WE 38:18 ARE HIS BODY. ALRIGHT, NOT ONLY IS IT A NEW 38:21 TEMPLE, NEW PRIESTHOOD, NEW SACRIFICE, THE BIBLE 38:23 SAYS IT'S A NEW NATION. I JUST READ TO YOU FROM PETER 38:26 THAT YOU'RE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION. 38:29 GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 7, "THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE 38:33 WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM." 38:37 GALATIANS 3:29, "AND IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S 38:41 SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE." 38:44 ROMANS 2, VERSE 29 - I KNOW, I'M GIVING YOU A LOT OF VERSES - 38:48 "BUT HE IS A JEW WHO IS ONE INWARDLY, AND CIRCUMCISION IS 38:51 THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE SPIRIT, NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE 38:54 PRAISE IS NOT FROM MEN BUT FROM GOD." 38:57 NOW THERE ARE JEWS THAT ARE PART OF THIS HOLY NATION, BUT ANYBODY 39:01 CAN BE A SPIRITUAL JEW. THE BIBLE TELLS US MANY WILL 39:05 COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST - THE GENTILES - AND SIT DOWN IN 39:09 THE KINGDOM WITH ABRAHAM ISAAC AND JACOB AND THE NATURAL 39:11 CHILDREN CAN BE IN OUTER DARKNESS. JESUS SAID TO SOME OF 39:15 THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 'YOU'RE NOT ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN, YOU'RE 39:19 OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, BECAUSE ABRAHAM DIDN'T TRY TO 39:23 KILL ME.' PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM ARE ABRAHAM'S 39:26 SPIRITUAL SEED. >>AMEN. 39:28 >>SO ALL THE PROMISES GOD MADE TO ABRAHAM ABOUT INHERITING THE 39:30 PROMISED LAND, THEY BELONG TO YOU. 39:32 IF YOU ACCEPT CHRIST, YOU ARE ADOPTED IN. 39:34 PAUL MADE IT VERY CLEAR: THE GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE 39:38 STALK OF ISRAEL. WE BECOME A NEW NATION. 39:42 AND SO, IT'S REALLY CLEAR, SO MANY OF THESE PROMISES THAT ARE 39:44 MADE ABOUT ISRAEL - I BELIEVE GOD STILL HAS A SPECIAL WORK FOR 39:48 THE JEWISH PEOPLE, BUT YOU ALL BECOME SPIRITUAL JEWS WHEN YOU 39:52 ACCEPT CHRIST. >>AMEN. 39:54 >>SO YOU'VE GOT A NEW TEMPLE, NEW NATION, NEW PRIESTHOOD - 39:59 UM - YOU'VE GOT A NEW CIRCUMCISION. 40:06 I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL PICKING A PICTURE FOR THIS. 40:07 ROMANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 25 AND 26, "FOR CIRCUMCISION VERILY 40:12 PROFITETH, IF THOU KEEP THE LAW: BUT IF THOU BE A BREAKER OF THE 40:16 LAW THY CIRCUMCISION IS MADE UNCIRCUMCISION." 40:19 GALATIANS 5:2 AND 3, "INDEED I, PAUL, SAY TO YOU" - LISTEN TO 40:23 THIS. THIS IS, TO ME, VERY IMPORTANT - 40:25 PAUL, HE SAYS, "INDEED, I, PAUL SAY TO YOU THAT IF YOU BECOME 40:29 CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING." 40:32 DOES THAT - WAS HE SAYING THAT NO GENTILES, NOBODY FROM THE 40:36 TIME OF CHRIST SHOULD BE CIRCUMCISED? 40:38 IT'S PRETTY COMMONLY PRACTICED IN NORTH AMERICA. 40:41 NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING. PAUL IS SAYING IF YOU ARE BEING 40:43 CIRCUMCISED FOR THE BENEFIT OF SALVATION, OR BEING ADOPTED, 40:47 CHRIST IS NO PROFIT. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF 40:50 CHRIST WAS TO FULFILL THAT. DO YOU SEE WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING? 40:54 HE SAYS, IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19, "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND 40:58 UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD 41:02 IS WHAT MATTERS." SO IS THE MORAL LAW - TEN 41:05 COMMANDMENTS - STILL IN PLACE? >>AMEN. 41:07 >>THE CEREMONIAL LAW - CIRCUMCISION WAS PART OF THAT - 41:10 IS NOTHING. CIRCUMCISION CAME A THOUSAND 41:12 YEARS - TWO THOUSAND YEARS - AFTER CREATION. 41:16 EVEN JESUS AND MOSES SAID, 'CIRCUMCISE, THEREFORE, THE 41:19 FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART. DON'T BE HARD HEARTED.' THE NEW 41:23 COVENANT IS ABOUT HAVING YOUR HEART COMMITTED TO GOD. 41:26 >>AMEN. >>SO IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT 41:29 CIRCUMCISION NOW. A NEW COVENANT - WE'RE 41:32 UNDER A NEW COVENANT. 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25, "IN THIS 41:36 SAME MANNER HE ALSO TOOK THE CUP AFTER SUPPER, SAYING, 'THIS CUP 41:40 IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD. THIS DO, AS OFTEN AS YOU DRINK 41:44 IT,'" - HE DIDN'T GIVE THEM A DATE, HE JUST SAID, 'AS OFTEN 41:47 AS YOU DO IT' - "DRINK IT IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME." 41:50 HEBREWS 8:8, "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT WITH THEM, HE SAYS: 41:54 'BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE 41:56 A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF 41:58 JUDAH." BY THE WAY, WE WERE JUST TALKING 42:01 ABOUT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL - DOES GOD HAVE A COVENANT 42:05 TO SAVE GENTILES? WHERE IS THE COVENANT TO 42:09 SAVE GENTILES IN THE BIBLE? >>'I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT.' 42:14 >>THEY'RE ADOPTED INTO ISRAEL, BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT - YOU 42:18 KNOW, I HEAR A LOT OF MY OTHER PROTESTANT FRIENDS, THEY SAY, 42:22 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE OLD COVENANT, WE'RE UNDER THE NEW 42:24 COVENANT.' I SAY, 'OKAY, WHO DID GOD MAKE THE NEW COVENANT WITH? 42:28 'I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE GENTILES'? NO. 42:30 'I'LL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' SO, IF YOU 42:34 WANT TO BE PART OF THAT NEW COVENANT, YOU MUST BE PART OF 42:39 THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 42:41 >>YES. >>AND SO, WE ARE ADOPTED IN, SO 42:45 IT'S REALLY HARD TO SAY, 'I'M GOING TO GET ADOPTED INTO THE 42:47 HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THROW OUT THE SABBATH DAY. 42:49 (LAUGHTER) SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 42:52 YOU WERE WONDERING WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT. 42:55 ALRIGHT, SO, NEW COVENANT - HEBREWS 8:13, "IN THAT HE SAYS, 43:00 'A NEW COVENANT,' HE HAS MADE THE FIRST OBSOLETE. 43:04 NOW WHAT IS BECOMING OBSOLETE AND GROWING OLD IS READY TO 43:07 VANISH AWAY." SO WHAT IS VANISHING AWAY? 43:12 WELL, THE OLD AGREEMENT DOESN'T MEAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 43:14 BECAUSE THE NEW COVENANT IS 'I'LL WRITE MY LAW' - THE TEN 43:17 COMMANDMENTS - 'ON THEIR HEART.' IT'S THE SAME LAW WRITTEN A 43:19 DIFFERENT PLACE. SO SOMETHING'S VANISHING AWAY - 43:23 ALL THE SHADOWS AND TYPES WERE VANISHING AWAY. 43:28 NOW, KEEP IN MIND THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT LAWS. 43:31 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT LAW THERE - WELL, YOU'VE GOT MORAL LAW AND 43:33 YOU'VE GOT CIVIL LAW AND YOU'VE GOT HEALTH LAW AND THERE'S 43:35 DIFFERENT VARIETIES, BUT YOU READ IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND 43:39 YOU READ IN CHRONICLES, NEHEMIAH - A NUMBER OF PLACES - IT TALKS 43:41 ABOUT A DISTINCTION MADE. LET ME READ, FOR INSTANCE, 43:45 2 CHRONICLES: "I WILL NOT" - 2 CHRONICLES 33:8, "AND I WILL NOT 43:51 AGAIN REMOVE THE FOOT OF ISRAEL FROM THE LAND WHICH I HAVE 43:53 APPOINTED FOR YOUR FATHERS - ONLY IF THEY ARE CAREFUL TO DO 43:55 ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM, ACCORDING TO THE WHOLE LAW AND 44:00 THE STATUTES AND THE ORDINANCES BY THE HAND OF MOSES." 44:04 THE HANDWRITING OF MOSES - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE WRITTEN ON 44:08 STONE. NEHEMIAH 9:14, "YOU MADE KNOWN 44:12 TO THEM YOUR HOLY SABBATH, AND COMMANDED THEM PRECEPTS, 44:15 STATUTES AND LAWS, BY THE HAND OF MOSES YOUR SERVANT." 44:18 IT SAYS YOU MADE KNOWN TO THEM THE HOLY SABBATH AND - THE 44:22 SABBATH'S TEN COMMANDMENTS - THE PRECEPTS, STATUTES, AND LAWS BY 44:25 THE HAND OF MOSES. ARE YOU STILL WITH ME? 44:28 GO WITH ME - I DON'T THINK I MADE IT CLEAR - GO WITH ME TO 44:30 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4 - DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, IF YOU'VE 44:36 GOT YOUR BIBLES. I ALWAYS WORRY, SOMETIMES, THAT 44:42 I PUT THE SCRIPTURES ON THE SCREEN AND YOU GET USED TO IT 44:44 AND YOU DON'T LOOK THINGS UP FOR YOURSELF. 44:46 I WANT TO READ VERSE 6 - NO, I'M SORRY, VERSE 9, - DEUTERONOMY 44:52 4:9, "ONLY TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP 44:55 YOURSELF, LEST YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND 44:58 LEST THEY DEPART FROM YOUR HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. 45:01 AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, 45:04 ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD YOUR 45:07 GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE TO ME, 45:11 AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR MY WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO 45:14 FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY LIVE ON THE EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY 45:16 TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.' THEN YOU CAME NEAR AND STOOD AT THE FOOT 45:18 OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND THE MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE TO THE 45:21 MIDST OF HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS, CLOUD, AND THICK DARKNESS. 45:23 AND THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE. 45:26 YOU HEARD THE SOUND OF THE WORDS, BUT SAW NO FORM;" - DON'T 45:29 MAKE AN IDOL, YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING - "...BUT SAW NO FORM; 45:33 YOU ONLY HEARD A VOICE. SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS 45:35 COVENANT WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN 45:38 COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE." 45:41 - AND THEN AT THE BEGINNING OF VERSE 14 THERE'S A THREE-LETTER 45:43 WORD - "AND THE LORD COMMANDED ME AT THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU 45:48 STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, THAT YOU MIGHT OBSERVE..." 45:50 THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND ALL 45:54 OTHER LAW. >>AMEN. 45:56 >>GOD MADE A DISTINCTION IN THE WAY HE DELIVERED IT - HIS OWN 45:59 VOICE, HIS OWN FINGER, WHAT HE WROTE IT ON, WHERE HE PLACED IT 46:03 - THERE'S EVERY KIND OF DISTINCTION HE COULD MAKE. 46:05 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE LAWS THAT ALL POINTED TO JESUS. 46:09 THEY HAVE ALL PASSED AWAY. NOW, IS IT WRONG, THEN, FOR A 46:15 PERSON, IF THEY WANT TO REMEMBER ONE OF THE FEAST DAYS? 46:21 >>NO. >>NO. 46:22 IT SAYS IN ROMANS 14, 'ONE MAN REGARDS ONE DAY ABOVE ANOTHER; 46:26 ANOTHER MAN REGARDS EVERY DAY ALIKE. 46:28 LET EVERY MAN BE PERSUADED IN HIS OWN MIND. 46:30 IF YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP THE DAY, KEEP IT TO THE LORD.' THERE'S 46:32 NOTHING WRONG IF YOU SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT? 46:34 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUR FAMILY CAMPING AND WE'RE GOING TO CAMP 46:38 UNDER PALM BRANCHES AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE FEAST OF 46:42 TABERNACLES.' MATTER OF FACT, ELLEN WHITE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF 46:44 THE CAMP MEETINGS AND SHE SAID, 'THESE ARE OUR FEASTS OF 46:46 TABERNACLES'. BUT SHE NEVER SAID YOU HAD TO GO 46:48 TO JERUSALEM, AND SHE NEVER SAID IT HAD TO BE A CERTAIN DATE. 46:53 SHE SAID IT'S GREAT FOR US, ONCE A YEAR, TO GET TOGETHER FOR A 46:55 CONVOCATION. THAT'S WONDERFUL. 46:59 BUT YOU DON'T TELL SOMEONE, 'YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW' IF 47:01 THEY DON'T DO IT. YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? 47:05 AND SO - AND YET, WE'VE GOT SOME SINCERE PEOPLE THAT ARE 47:08 MANDATING THAT IT SHOULD BE KEPT. 47:10 LET ME READ A STATEMENT TO YOU FROM THIS CLASSIC BOOK ON THE 47:13 LIFE OF CHRIST, DESIRE OF AGES , P. 652 - 47:16 DESIRE OF AGES , P. 652 - IT'S IN THE CHAPTER CALLED 47:20 IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME - ABOUT THE COMMUNION SERVICE. 47:23 AND AFTER JESUS SAID, 'THIS IS MY BLOOD AND THIS IS MY BODY' - 47:28 I GOT THE ORDER WRONG - 'THIS IS MY BODY AND THIS IS MY BLOOD' 47:30 THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, "CHRIST WAS STANDING AT THE POINT OF 47:34 TRANSITION BETWEEN TWO ECONOMIES AND THE TWO GREAT FESTIVALS" - 47:38 THAT'S CONNECTED WITH THE WORD 'FEAST' - "HE, THE SPOTLESS LAMB 47:42 OF GOD, WAS ABOUT TO PRESENT HIMSELF AS A SIN OFFERING, THAT 47:46 HE WOULD THUS BRING TO AN END THE SYSTEM OF TYPES AND 47:52 CEREMONIES THAT FOR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS HAD POINTED TO 47:55 HIS DEATH. AS HE ATE THE PASSOVER WITH HIS 47:58 DISCIPLES, HE INSTITUTED, IN ITS PLACE, THE SERVICE THAT WAS 48:03 TO BE A MEMORIAL OF HIS GREAT SACRIFICE. 48:06 THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE JEWS WAS TO PASS AWAY FOREVER." 48:11 >>AMEN. >>NOW THAT'S HARD TO 48:14 MISUNDERSTAND UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO MISUNDERSTAND IT. 48:18 THE SERVICE WHICH CHRIST ESTABLISHED WAS TO BE OBSERVED 48:21 BY HIS FOLLOWERS IN ALL LANDS THROUGH ALL AGES. 48:25 COLOSSIANS 2:16, "SO LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN MEAT, OR IN DRINK," 48:32 - HE'S TALKING ABOUT EATING THINGS OFFERED TO IDOLS OR NOT - 48:35 "OR IN RESPECT OF AN HOLYDAY,OR OF THE NEW MOON, OR OF THE 48:39 SABBATH DAYS: WHICH ARE SHADOWS" - NOT THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH; 48:44 SABBATH DAYS - WHICH SABBATH DAYS? 48:46 HE SAYS, "...THE SABBATH DAYS: WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO 48:49 COME;" - THERE WAS A SABBATH OF CREATION THAT WAS NOT A SHADOW 48:54 OF CHRIST'S COMING, IT WAS PART OF THE REGULAR REST CYCLE IN 48:59 CREATION. AND THEN THERE WERE SABBATHS 49:01 THAT WERE "...SHADOW(S) OF THINGS TO COME; BUT 49:04 THE BODY IS OF CHRIST." HE SAYS DON'T LET ANYONE JUDGE 49:06 YOU REGARDING THOSE THINGS. I'VE GOT ANOTHER VERSE - GO WITH 49:08 ME TO EPHESIANS 2, VERSES 14 AND 15. 49:12 I JOTTED THIS DOWN TODAY BECAUSE IT WASN'T IN MY NOTES. 49:15 OH, EPHESIANS IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, I WENT TO THE WRONG 49:18 ONE - EPHESIANS 2, VERSE 14, "FOR HE IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS 49:23 MADE BOTH ONE, AND HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF 49:25 SEPARATION, HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, THAT IS, 49:31 THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES, SO AS 49:35 TO CREATE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW MAN FROM THE TWO, THUS MAKING 49:39 PEACE..." SO HE ABOLISHED THIS COMMANDMENT 49:43 OF ORDINANCES - THIS OLD COVENANT AND THESE OLD 49:45 CEREMONIAL LAWS - THERE ARE WONDERFUL THINGS WE CAN LEARN 49:48 FROM THESE THINGS - IF WE WANT TO GO ON A GRANITE BAY CAMPOUT 49:53 AND TAKE ALL THE KIDS AND SAY WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE THE 49:56 PASSOVER AND WE'RE GOING TO RUN FROM THE EGYPTIANS' AND YOU'RE 49:58 GOING TO MEMORIALIZE THESE THINGS, THAT'S WONDERFUL. 50:01 I THINK THAT'S GREAT - THERE'S THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM THAT; 50:03 BUT DON'T GO TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AND TELL THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, 50:06 YOU'VE GOT TO START KEEPING THE JEWISH FEAST DAYS BECAUSE - 50:10 PAUL'S PRETTY CLEAR - THE NEW TESTAMENT'S PRETTY CLEAR, YOU 50:13 HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THAT AND IT IS NOT REQUIRED BY THE LORD. 50:16 IN SOME WAYS IT'S A DENIAL. NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOME OF THE 50:19 REASONS THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH THAT. 50:23 THERE'S A FEW VERSES - I READ ONE OF THEM - PASSOVER WAS 50:27 CALLED 'AN EVERLASTING ORDINANCE'. 50:29 THEY SAY, 'IF IT'S AN EVERLASTING ORDINANCE, WE NEED 50:31 TO KEEP IT TODAY.' MY ARGUMENT IS WE DO KEEP IT 50:34 WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE LORD'S SUPPER. ANOTHER STATEMENT YOU'LL 50:38 READ IN ZECHARIAH 14, VERSE 16, IT SAYS, "AND IT SHALL COME TO 50:42 PASS THAT EVERYONE WHO IS LEFT OF ALL THE NATIONS WHICH CAME 50:45 AGAINST JERUSALEM SHALL GO UP FROM YEAR TO YEAR TO WORSHIP THE 50:49 KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND TO KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES." 50:52 THEY SAY, 'LOOK, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES IN 50:55 HEAVEN; WHY WOULD WE NOT KEEP IT NOW?' 50:58 WELL, I THINK WE DO KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES - THE FEAST 51:01 OF TABERNACLES WAS REMEMBERING THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY. 51:05 WE WILL FOREVER GATHER TOGETHER IN HEAVEN AND REMEMBER OUR 51:08 DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY. IT WON'T BE ON A SPECIFIC DATE. 51:13 ISAIAH 66:23, "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON 51:16 TO ANOTHER, AND FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, ALL FLESH SHALL COME 51:19 TO WORSHIP BEFORE ME..." I THINK HE'S SIMPLY SAYING, FROM 51:22 WEEK TO WEEK AND MONTH TO MONTH WE'LL ALL COME WORSHIP BEFORE 51:25 HIM. NOW, I'VE GOT A THEORY - THIS IS 51:27 MY THEORY - I CAN'T PROVE IT. I THINK THAT WHEN WE GET TO 51:33 HEAVEN AND THE EARTH MADE NEW, THE SUN AND MOON - THERE STILL 51:37 IS A SUN, IT'S JUST THERE'S NO NEED OF THE SUN IN THE CITY - 51:40 THE CYCLE'S GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. 51:42 I DON'T THINK THAT THE YEAR'S GOING TO BE THREE HUNDRED 51:44 SIXTY-FIVE ONE-QUARTER. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE 360 DAYS. 51:49 I THINK IT WILL BE EXACTLY TWELVE THIRTY-DAY MONTHS. 51:53 I BELIEVE THE WEEK WILL BE 28 - THE LUNAR CYCLE, INSTEAD OF 29 51:57 DAYS, IT'S GOING TO BE 28 DAYS. I THINK WHEN THE FLOOD HAPPENED, 52:01 THE PERFECT SEASONS OF THE LORD - THE WHOLE PLANET WAS 52:04 THROWN OUT OF SKEW. THE WHOLE ROTATION OF THE EARTH 52:08 WAS AFFECTED BY - IT WAS A CATACLYSMIC GEOLOGICAL EVENT. 52:11 IT EVEN WAS, SOMEWHAT, ASTRONOMICAL. 52:15 AND I THINK EVERYTHING GOT THROWN OFF. 52:17 I THINK WHEN WE'RE IN THE EARTH MADE NEW, THAT JUST LIKE A 52:21 BEAUTIFUL SWISS TIMEPIECE, THE SEASONS, THE YEARS, THE MONTHS, 52:25 ARE ALL GOING TO LINE UP SO EVERY SABBATH - I'M SORRY - 52:29 EVERY NEW MOON, IF IT'S EVERY 28 DAYS, IS A SABBATH. 52:33 DO YOU SEE THAT? NOW, I CAN'T PROVE THAT, BUT I LIKE IT. 52:37 IT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. I'M - YOU KNOW, I'M OCD 52:38 I WANT EVERYTHING RIGHT ON SCHEDULE. 52:41 THIS THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE ONE-QUARTER DAYS AND THEN YOU 52:43 NEED A LEAP YEAR AND - NOW I DON'T THINK THE LORD MADE A LEAP 52:46 YEAR. AND SO, I JUST THINK THE WHOLE 52:48 PLANET - THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS AND TRAVAILS. 52:51 I THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THE WORLD. 52:53 AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? OH, ACTS - PEOPLE OFTEN POINT TO 52:56 ACTS WHEN THEY SAY YOU NEED TO KEEP THE FEAST DAYS BECAUSE 52:58 PAUL SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM.' LET ME READ IT - 53:01 ACTS 18, VERSE 20, "WHEN THEY ASKED HIM TO STAY A LONGER TIME 53:05 WITH THEM, HE DID NOT CONSENT, BUT TOOK LEAVE OF THEM, SAYING, 53:09 'I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS COMING FEAST IN JERUSALEM;" THEY 53:13 SAY, 'SEE, PAUL KEPT THE FEASTS, WE SHOULD KEEP THE FEASTS.' BUT 53:16 LISTEN TO WHY PAUL KEPT THE FEAST. 53:18 HE SAYS, 1 CORINTHIANS 9:20, "AND TO THE JEWS I BECAME AS A 53:22 JEW, THAT I MIGHT WIN JEWS; TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW, AS 53:26 UNDER THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT WIN THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW;" - 53:29 'I WENT ALONG AND DID WHAT THEY DID THAT I MIGHT REACH THEM.' 53:33 PAUL DIDN'T SAY HE KEPT THE FEASTS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT 53:35 EVERYONE SHOULD KEEP THEM, HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO DO IT SO I 53:37 CAN TRY AND REACH THE JEWS.' AND THERE AT THE TEMPLE, AT THE 53:40 FEAST, THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM; HE STARTED PREACHING TO THEM. 53:43 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS. 53:47 THERE ARE OTHERS, BUT I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR FROM THE BIBLE 53:50 THAT THESE WERE SHADOWS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY. 53:52 NOW I SHARE THIS WITH YOU AND I REALIZE THAT MOST OF YOU MAY NOT 53:55 HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THIS - YOU MAY HAVE WONDERED. 53:57 I HOPE IT'S BEEN EDIFYING. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S 54:00 STRUGGLING, I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO THEM. 54:03 AND THERE'S A LOT MORE GOOD INFORMATION, BUT - IN SUMMARY, 54:07 MAYBE I'LL CLOSE WITH AN ILLUSTRATION: LET'S SUPPOSE 54:11 YOU'VE GOT A LOVED ONE WHO HAS TRAVELED TO A FAR COUNTRY ON A 54:14 BUSINESS TRIP FOR SIX MONTHS AND YOU MISS THEM. 54:18 YOU MISS THEM DESPERATELY AND YOU'VE GOT THEIR PICTURE ON THE 54:23 MANTLE AND, WHENEVER YOU SEE THE PICTURE, YOU MISS THEM SO MUCH 54:26 YOU GO UP AND KISS THE PICTURE. AND MAYBE THAT EVEN LOOKS LIKE 54:29 IDOLATRY, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. 54:32 AND SO YOU HUG IT AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU KEPT IT - YOU MOVE 54:35 IT FROM ONE ROOM TO THE OTHER SO YOU CAN SEE THE PICTURE. 54:38 YOU THINK OF THEM, YOU MISS THEM, AND THEN FINALLY THE 54:40 TRIP'S OVER AND THEY COME KNOCK AT THE DOOR AND YOU FLING THE 54:43 DOOR OPEN AND YOU SAY, 'YOU'RE HERE! 54:45 JUST A MOMENT.' AND YOU GO AND YOU RUN AND YOU GRAB THE 54:47 PHOTOGRAPH AND YOU START TO HUG AND KISS THE PHOTOGRAPH. 54:50 HOW WOULD THEY FEEL IF THEY'RE THERE IN PERSON AND YOU'RE STILL 54:56 HUGGING THE PHOTOGRAPH? IF THESE THINGS WERE ALL SHADOWS 55:01 AND TYPES THAT POINTED TO THE REALITY OF CHRIST, ISN'T IT 55:04 SOMETHING OF THE DENIAL OF THE REALITY IF YOU 55:07 CLING TO THE SHADOW? >>AMEN. 55:09 >>AND SO, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S GOOD THINGS WE CAN LEARN ABOUT 55:14 THE FEAST DAYS, BUT FOR US TO RETURN TO THAT - HOW ARE WE ALL 55:20 GOING TO GO TO JERUSALEM? GO TO THE TEMPLE? SACRIFICE LAMBS? 55:24 - I DON'T MIND A TRIP TO JERUSALEM, I'M TALKING - YOU 55:26 KNOW WHAT I MEAN - KEEPING IT THE WAY THEY DID; WE CAN'T 55:29 ANYMORE. THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN NAILED TO THE CROSS. 55:31 DON'T LET ANYONE JUDGE YOU REGARDING THOSE THINGS. 55:34 TEN COMMANDMENTS? YES. THE CEREMONIAL FEASTS? NO. 55:42 THEY'RE THERE TO TEACH US, THEY ARE FULFILLED IN CHRIST AND SOME 55:44 ARE STILL YET TO BE FULFILLED. >>AMEN. 55:47 >>WE'RE LIVING IN THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE SECOND COMING 55:50 WILL BE THAT FEAST OF TABERNACLES. (MUSIC) 56:06 >>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 56:08 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR AN AMAZING FACT? 56:10 MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS 56:13 OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO 56:16 THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT 56:19 WIGTON. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, 56:21 MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE 56:25 AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL THERE FOR NATURAL POWER, 56:28 BUT THEY WEREN'T USING IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF 56:30 THE ISLAND THERE WAS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. YOU CAN MAKE 56:34 GEOTHERMAL POWER THERE. IF YOU WENT TO WAIMEA, THE WIND 56:38 WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING, BUT THEY HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE. 56:41 IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC - 56:46 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE. 56:48 AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC. 56:52 AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE 56:55 BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE POWERING THE ISLAND 56:57 BACK THEN WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS. 57:00 IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF 57:03 GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S MAKING AVAILABLE TO US. 57:05 AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK. 57:09 YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO? 57:12 'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE 57:15 WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.' JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF 57:18 LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO 57:22 YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE 57:25 THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK?' 57:28 WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS 57:31 POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND. 57:35 AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER 57:38 YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS. SO WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? (MUSIC) 57:58 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT 58:01 AFBOOKSTORE.COM OR CALL 1-800-538-7275. 58:07 (MUSIC) |
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