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>>Eric Flickinger: Welcome to
"Sabbath School," brought to you
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by It Is Written.
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We're glad
you're joining us today.
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We are taking a look at
how to study Bible prophecy,
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something very significant
for us living in, well,
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really the last days of
earth's history to understand.
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And today, we're
going to look at how
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we can understand sacrifice.
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How does understanding sacrifice
correctly or misunderstanding it
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have a very real role
to play in the way that we
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live our lives today?
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We're going to find that
out. Let's begin with prayer.
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Father, thank You
for being with us today
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and giving us an opportunity
to understand You more
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through our study of Your Word.
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We ask that You'll
bless our time together
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and we thank You,
in Jesus' name, amen.
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We are delighted, once again,
this week to have the author
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of this quarter's
"Sabbath School" lesson
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with us, Pastor Shawn
Boonstra, Shawn, welcome.
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>>Shawn Boonstra: Hey, thank
you. Thanks for having me back.
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It's always a miracle when I
get invited back another week.
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>>Eric: Well, you keep giving
us good information, good stuff,
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and so we just
keep inviting you back.
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So, we'll see what
next week looks like.
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>>Shawn: And you can address
all your complaint letters
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over everything I've
said to Eric Flickinger--
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>>Eric: That's right.
>>Shawn: ...at It Is Written.
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>>Eric: And I know exactly
what to do with all of those
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complaint
letters. [Shawn laughs]
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We're grateful
that you're here, Shawn.
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"Understanding Sacrifice"--
so this is a significant--
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not to downplay the
significance of the other weeks
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that we've been going,
but understanding sacrifice,
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this is big.
>>Shawn: This is core.
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>>Eric: This is really
core. >>Shawn: In, you know,
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we see in Revelation 1, I mean,
this is all about prophecy.
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And I don't really do a
whole lot of verse-by-verse
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exposition of prophecy.
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Instead, we're looking
at foundational concepts
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that make it
easier to understand.
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Revelation, Jesus
introduces Himself
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as the one who
died and who is alive
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and will live forevermore.
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The crucifixion's in there.
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In Revelation 4
and 5, Jesus walked
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into the throne room of God.
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Right, "Who is
worthy to open the seals?"
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And we know that human history
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cannot proceed
from that point forward.
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That's what the
seals are in Revelation 6.
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None of the church's
history can start till somebody
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is qualified to open
those seals, and John weeps,
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"Oh, nobody can be found
worthy. This is hopeless."
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And Jesus walks into
that scene as a slain lamb.
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The crucifixion of
Christ is the reason
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the church can exist.
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It's the reason that
history could unfold.
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It's the reason that
prophecy is headed somewhere.
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It's the anchor point.
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And it's impossible
to understand prophecy
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unless you have an accurate
understanding of the cross.
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Now, I say that knowing
that we've discussed the cross
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for 2,000 years as
Christians and will never
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hit the end of it.
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An accurate
understanding doesn't mean
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an exhaustive understanding.
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I think we'll be
studying it for all of eternity.
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>>Eric: I think
you're absolutely right.
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This week, you start the
week's lesson on Sabbath.
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You draw a contrast
between the sacrifices
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that the pagans make
versus the sacrifices
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that God requires in the Old
Testament. Unpack that for us.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, we could probably
spend the whole show right here.
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However, here's
what I find fascinating.
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Go around the world,
sacrifice is a common theme
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in almost every culture,
and there's a couple of reasons
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for that, I think. One
is, there's a leftover memory
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of something that
dates way back when.
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I'm working on a documentary
right now that traces mythology
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from around the
world all to Mesopotamia.
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They all share those roots.
Sacrifice shows up everywhere.
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If you go down and look at
the Incas in South America,
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they sacrifice a
llama one day a year.
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They still do this to this day,
mostly ritualistic these days,
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and often just
for tourists' sake.
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Why, why does sacrifice show up?
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Why does
everybody have this concept
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that something
needs to die in order
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to make my life complete?
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Where does that come from?
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And then I started to
dig a little bit deeper
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because there's
more than one concept
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of how sacrifice works.
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And I have seen people shy
away, inside of Christianity,
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mind you, shy away
from the cross of Christ
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because they look at the
way pagans offered sacrifices.
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And they think that
it's analogous somehow,
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that the cross of
Christ is analogous to--
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oh, what were some of
the mystery cults of Rome?
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The Taurobolus where
they put a cow on a grate,
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and you go underneath, and
the blood soaks you and so on.
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And because I've heard
some Christians shy away
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from the idea that
Jesus dies as my substitute,
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I thought we probably
need to drill down here.
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There's this
idea that dates back
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to the days of Anselm
that really what Jesus did--
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you'll hear theologians call
it "moral influence theory"--
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what Jesus did was die
on the cross to show me
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how much He loves me.
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And that will change my mind,
and now I will align with God
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because I understand
how much He loves me.
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And that is absolutely a part
of what happened at the cross.
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There's no
question it demonstrates
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God's love for me, that He's
willing to go to that length.
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But does it solve my problem
knowing that God is nice?
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Does it really
solve the problem?
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Pagans would offer a
sacrifice to buy off a deity.
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We talked about
this in another lesson.
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Basically, it's a
shortcut to intimacy:
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"All right, what do I
owe you for this week's sins?
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Here we go."
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So, Christians have
shied-- and I get why, maybe--
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they've shied away from
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the substitutionary
atonement at the cross
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because it just
seems so horrible to them.
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But it's got to
be more than that;
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that doesn't deal with guilt.
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In fact, this idea that
all Jesus did was show me
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how much He loves me and
that there's no exchange--
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He doesn't pay.
I've had people say,
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"No, God doesn't pay
for anything at the cross."
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No? The words used
are "redeem" and "ransom."
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I know people have
their little loopholes
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and workarounds, but
it gets harder and harder
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to work around it
as you make your way
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through the Bible--
it happens too often.
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And ground zero,
in my humble opinion,
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is probably Isaiah 53.
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There is zero chance you can
get through Isaiah 53 honestly
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and not come out realizing
that Jesus took my place.
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He took my punishment for
me. Let's take a look at this.
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Isaiah 53, verse 4.
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And if this is all we do today,
this will help the foundation
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of this lesson. Isaiah
53, everybody knows this one.
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It really begins in Isaiah 52.
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This is one of those places
where the chapters and verses
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might be in the wrong place,
and maybe the last few verses
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of 52, but let's
start in verse 4:
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"Surely He has borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows."
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Now, what some
people will say is, "Okay,
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"basically, He had to
suffer because we were so bad
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and we mistreated Him;
that's all this means."
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"He has borne our
griefs"-- he carried them--
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"and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed Him stricken,
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smitten by God, and afflicted."
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All right, so they'll say,
"Oh, yeah, but it just looked
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"like God was afflicting him.
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That's all that happened there.
It was our misunderstanding."
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Well, verse 5: "He was
pierced for our transgressions."
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Some people say,
"No, no, that means
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"because of our
transgressions; we were so bad,
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we did that to
Him"-- no, no, no.
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"He was pierced
for our transgressions;
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He was
crushed"-- "daka" in Hebew--
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"[bruised] for our iniquities;
upon Him was the chastisement
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"that brought us
peace, and with His wounds
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we are healed."
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He suffers; I'm healed.
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There's an
exchange that happens here.
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What should have
fallen on me falls on Jesus,
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and what He-- well,
it's the Ellen White quote
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that I love so much: He
"was treated as we deserve,
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[so] that we [can] be
treated as He deserves."
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Verse 6: "All we like
sheep have gone astray;
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we have turned--every one--
to his own way; and the Lord"--
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here's where it gets hard to
defend moral influence theory--
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"the Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all."
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Now, did God
place something on Him?
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What? "The iniquity of us all."
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My lawlessness,
my sin placed on Him.
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Yes, my lawlessness,
our human lawlessness,
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crucified Him, but
there's something more here.
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Something's laid on Him.
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"He was oppressed"--verse
7-- "and He was afflicted,
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"yet He opened not His mouth;
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like a lamb that is
led to the slaughter."
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The language here is identical
to the language of Leviticus 4,
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Leviticus 9-11;
it's hearkening back
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to the lambs in
the Levitical system.
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He is the sacrificial lamb.
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"Like a sheep...
before its shearers is silent,
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"so He opened not his mouth.
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"By oppression and
judgment He was taken away;
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"...as for His
generation, who considered
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"that He was cut off out
of the land of the living,
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stricken for the
transgression of my people?"
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It's really hard,
especially-- you know,
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I'm not a Hebrew
scholar, but if you do read this
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in Hebrew, it's using
the language of Leviticus
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to describe Jesus,
where they laid their hands
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on the lamb,
confessed their sins over it;
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the lamb is slain instead of me,
the sinner; the blood is carried
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into the
sanctuary by the priest.
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That's what Jesus is doing here.
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And the other
language, Galatians 3:
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"He became a curse" for me.
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See, that's more
than me mistreating Him.
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"He was made sin for us."
He becomes sin in my place.
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Here's what I
think is the issue, Eric.
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I understand the tendency
to look at the cross and say,
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"That's too horrible. That
can't be what I think it is."
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And it seems
like-- and we're using
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the pagan reference:
"Oh, we're appeasing an angry,
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"bloodthirsty God here,
and we're paying Him off,
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"and Jesus is
murdered by His own Father
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in order to pay."
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No, He did pay for my sins, but
that's the real price of sin.
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The real price of sin, God said,
"The wages of sin is death."
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Why? Why is it that way?
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Well, God is perfectly
just and merciful and good.
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One of the key
themes in Bible prophecy
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is the character of God.
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When it makes
reference to God's name,
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your name was your
character in biblical times.
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The Father's name
written on the foreheads
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in Revelation 14,
that's us understanding
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and coming in
alignment with God's character.
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Our character
begins to reflect His.
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He creates a perfect universe,
and He puts us in there
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as free moral agents
because without that,
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there is no love. Unless I have
the choice to say "no" to you,
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I can't--you know, my
wife, I know she loves me
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'cause she's still
there at the end of the day,
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and she has the
freedom to leave, right?
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God made us free moral agents.
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Love is meaningless
if there isn't a choice.
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We made the wrong choice,
and we started to live for self.
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Now a perfect God, whose
creation reflects His glory--
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you find that all
through the Psalms,
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and we might touch on
that when we get to the Psalms.
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His glory is
reflected in His creation.
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There's just one
major blight on all of it.
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Here is an entire race of
people that lives for self.
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Fallen angels can point
to the human race and say,
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"God made that, too."
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Our existence becomes, in sin,
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a lie about the
character of God.
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Our very existence tells a
lie about who He is because,
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"Hey, we're made
in the image of God,
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everybody's God's child,
and look how they behave."
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There's only one
solution for that.
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Now, God could have
just said, "You know what,
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"I'm blowing the whistle.
Everybody out of the pool!
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Scrap it"--you find
this in pagan mythology:
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"Let's just scrap the whole
thing and let's try again."
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The Mayans had a story; they
restarted it two or three times.
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They made people
out of mud, no good;
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made them out of wood, no
good; destroy them with a flood.
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God could have
just wiped us out.
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But instead, He
chooses to display His mercy
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and His character
over the long haul,
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as we've looked
over several weeks.
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By rights, we shouldn't exist.
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By rights, in a universe
created by a perfect, holy God,
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we shouldn't even exist.
The righteous penalty is death.
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Now, could God just say,
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"Look, I'm just going
to overlook all this"?
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Well, let's ask this question
from a human perspective
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and see if it makes sense. I'm
going to--oh, I'm out of time.
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We're going to have to
take a break, aren't we?
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Maybe I should pause
and come back to this story
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in a minute
because a human court
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might illustrate why it is
God can't just overlook sin.
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>>Eric: And you've
just illustrated something,
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that we've got a
lot in this lesson
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that we're not
going to be able to cover.
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>>Shawn: Oh, no, no.
We'll never get done.
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>>Eric: We wish we could.
>>Shawn: It's the slain lamb
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foundation of
all prophecy anyway.
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>>Eric: Yep, so
we need to hit that.
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We're going to talk about
the human courtroom situation
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here in a second. Tell
us about the companion book.
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>>Shawn: All right, I
did write a companion book.
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They called me and
said, "You're supposed
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to write a companion book."
"What?" I forgot about that.
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So, I did write one,
though, and the stuff
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that doesn't make
it into the quarterly,
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a lot of that goes
into the companion book.
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So if you're teaching the
lesson or sitting in the lesson,
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there's additional
material that might help
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with a meaningful
discussion from Scripture.
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>>Eric: Very good,
so if you would like
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to pick up that companion
book, it is very easy to do.
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You will find it
at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, itiswritten.shop.
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You are looking
for the companion book
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to this quarter's
"Sabbath School" lesson.
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And as Shawn just mentioned,
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it is going to go more deeply
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into this subject, the
significance of sacrifice.
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And really, each and every week,
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it goes deeper in
the subject matter
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that he covers in
the study guide itself.
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So you'll want to pick that up,
and it will deepen and broaden
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and strengthen your
study of these subjects.
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We're going to be
back in just a moment
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as we continue looking at
"Understanding Sacrifice."
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Be back in just a moment.
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>>Eric: Welcome
back to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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Shawn, you mentioned
about an earthly court
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teaching us something here.
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>>Shawn: The Bible teaches--
it's somewhere it is written--
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it's somewhere in the
first five books of the Bible:
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God can't just overlook sin.
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He can't just overlook
it, and maybe this helps.
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There is no earthly
analogy that actually
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paints an accurate picture.
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There's a reason we will
study the plan of salvation
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for all eternity.
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But let's
suppose, for half a moment,
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it's horrible, but they discover
24 bodies in the crawl space
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under my house,
I'm a serial killer,
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I'm Ed Gein or whoever,
and so they haul me into court,
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and, "Yep, he's
guilty; he killed 24 people."
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Pretty horrible what I
did, but I promised the judge.
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I said, "You know what, judge,
I get it, this was pretty bad.
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I'll tell you what, I
promise not to do it anymore."
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And he says, "You know what,
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in that case, God be
with you, go home. Just go."
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And you know, nobody would
think justice had been done.
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It's not enough
to stop doing it.
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I have already compromised
the safety of society,
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and I'm a risk, and
that has to be dealt with.
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When you and I
sinned as a human race,
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we already compromised
the happiness of the universe,
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and for God to
say, "You know what,
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let's just--fine, just
promise not to do it anymore."
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He does want us to
promise not to do it anymore.
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That's clear with the
woman caught in adultery,
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"Go and sin no more."
Don't do that anymore.
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But we all instinctively
sense that's not enough.
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What if Hitler had said in '45,
instead of committing suicide,
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he said, "You know what,
that was my bad, my bad."
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And we go, "Oh, okay,
he's learned his lesson."
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No, nobody would think
that justice has been done.
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As a matter of
fact, ever since '45,
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people have been going
looking for the perpetrators.
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I think they're
almost all gone now,
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but we look for
the perpetrators.
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Why, why, why, why
does almost every culture
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on the face of the
planet offer sacrifice?
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I get that pagan idea of
sacrifice has been perverted.
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It is a bloodthirsty, angry
god that you're paying off.
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But the fact
remains that every culture
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is still doing it
because there's this sense
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that it's not enough
to just stop doing it.
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There is guilt
behind what we've done.
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We have a, for
lack of a better term--
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but it's not a
horrible analogy--
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there's a huge debit
in our side of the column.
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It's like it's all red ink.
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And to just, for God to say,
"That's not that big of a deal,"
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makes a liar out
of Him when He says,
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"The wages of sin is
death." You can't exist forever
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in this shape.
"I can't allow sin."
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Sin is not an oops.
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Sin is not a toddler
who writes on the wall
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because they don't understand.
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I do believe
there are sins we commit
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because we don't fully
understand what sin is.
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There are things
we do inadvertently,
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but sin itself is not an
oops; it's not a speeding ticket
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that the judge
goes, "You know what..."
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It's much more
serious than that.
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And I think that the
tendency to say, "Oh, you know,
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"the pagans are evil, and
that whole concept is pagan;
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Jesus didn't have
to die in my place,"
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we're actually downgrading
sin to make ourselves
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feel more comfortable with it.
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And what I find
fascinating is if someone were
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to point out my sins,
you would have no problem
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telling
everybody what that's worth
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and how I should be punished:
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"That's pretty
serious what Shawn did."
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But if someone says,
"Here's what Eric did,"
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suddenly, we
start to downplay it.
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So, I find
moral influence theory
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taking off in a couple of cases.
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Number one,
sometimes people are raised
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in a super legalistic household
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where absolutely
everything you do is a sin.
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Everything must-- and
they get fed up with it.
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Like, "Everything I do is a
sin, like absolutely everything,
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and I have to"--and they live
in this constant environment
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of guilt; there's
very little forgiveness.
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So I understand that when they
see that, they're projecting
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what happened at home onto God.
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They think God
the Father is severe,
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like maybe their dad was.
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Or...we still haven't
come to grips with the fact
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that sin is that awful.
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When you read the
Bible's descriptions of it--
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and we're spending a lot
of time here, but, folks,
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this is so foundational.
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The Lamb that is sacrificed
in Revelation, that's big.
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There is no story if
that doesn't take place.
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What does the Bible say
about the nature of our sin?
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"All our righteousnesses
are like filthy rags,"
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the Bible says.
That's pretty graphic.
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I don't even want to
get in-- that's Isaiah 64.
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I don't want to get
too graphic with that,
00:19:06.31\00:19:07.81
but filthy rags
doesn't mean a rag
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that you wiped up a
grease spill with in the garage.
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It is--I don't know
how far we go on TV--
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it's a menstrual
rag; that's what it is.
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It's that--consider
we've got to get rid of that.
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When Jesus dies,
look in the Psalms,
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Psalm 22, verse 6.
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It begins with, "My God, my
God, why have You forsaken me?"
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Under what conditions does
God have to push His own Son
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that far away and that He
feels abandoned by His own God?
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What would be so serious
that God the Son feels abandoned
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by God the Father?
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At the moment our
sins are placed on Him.
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And it says this in
verse 6 of that same psalm;
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it's clearly foreshadowing
the cross: "I am a worm."
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It's putting these
words in Jesus' mouth.
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"I am a worm and not a
man, scorned by mankind
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and despised by the people."
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That worm--it's "toat," I
believe, is the--"towlaat."
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I'm a horrible Hebrew scholar.
00:20:03.26\00:20:05.10
All the Hebrew professors,
address your complaint letters
00:20:05.13\00:20:07.70
to Eric Flickinger,
care of It Is Written,
00:20:07.74\00:20:10.41
because, like, I can't answer--
but the worm is a crimson grub.
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That's the
literal word, "towlaat."
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It's a crimson grub.
It was used to dye things.
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I think we're still doing that.
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Not all of your
yogurt that is red
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is red by natural causes.
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There are insects, you know,
cochineal bugs that we crush
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to get that red dye out of it.
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Cochineal extract
isn't what you think it is.
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But the crimson grub was
used the same way, to get dye.
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The only way to get that
dye was to crush the thing.
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Jesus had to be
crushed to cover us.
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It's not a small matter.
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Romans 7: "Has then what
is good become death to me?
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"Certainly not! But sin,
that it might appear sin,
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"was producing death in
me through what is good,
00:20:53.65\00:20:55.62
"so that sin
through the commandment
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might become
exceedingly sinful."
00:20:57.79\00:21:01.72
God says, "No matter how
serious you think sin is,
00:21:01.76\00:21:04.13
it's worse than that."
00:21:04.16\00:21:05.96
Verse 15: "What I am
doing, I do not understand."
00:21:05.99\00:21:10.80
We, with human
reason, can't even figure out
00:21:10.83\00:21:14.00
what is sinful and what is not.
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We've become so corrupted by it.
Our minds are so twisted by it.
00:21:15.90\00:21:19.84
We've become so self-centered
that we can't recognize it.
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That's why
sanctification, we're told,
00:21:23.45\00:21:25.41
"is the work of a
lifetime." God is saying,
00:21:25.45\00:21:27.28
"Okay, lesson learned
this year in '24, Shawn.
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Guess what I got for you in
'25? You're still off the mark."
00:21:29.95\00:21:32.79
Sin means to
miss the mark, right?
00:21:32.82\00:21:34.29
"Hamartia," it means an
archer who keeps missing.
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I keep missing all the time.
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I think sometimes we
turn to moral influence theory
00:21:40.46\00:21:42.93
because if we can downplay
what happened at the cross,
00:21:42.96\00:21:44.93
then maybe I'm not all that bad.
00:21:44.97\00:21:47.80
I'd like to
encourage people to look at it
00:21:47.84\00:21:50.14
the way the
Bible talks about it.
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It's that serious. He
had to be made sin for us.
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Suddenly, the love God
displayed for me is so much--
00:21:54.61\00:21:57.98
I mean, if He just
hung on the cross--I mean,
00:21:58.01\00:21:59.81
there's a million
ways that God could tell me
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He loves me and
demonstrate it to me.
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.25
Take me out for
dinner. Why the cross?
00:22:04.29\00:22:06.65
Why would Jesus
resist the temptation
00:22:06.69\00:22:08.66
to bypass the cross? Why?
00:22:08.69\00:22:10.89
Because the cross is essential.
00:22:10.93\00:22:12.46
It's not a nice addition
to the plan of salvation,
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.76
it's central to it, and
you're not saved without it.
00:22:15.80\00:22:19.53
"On Him was laid
the iniquity of us all."
00:22:19.57\00:22:22.47
It is that serious.
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But the flip side of that
is when John is standing there
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weeping in Revelation 4 and
5, and the slain Lamb comes in,
00:22:27.08\00:22:29.98
"Worthy is He, worthy
is He to open the seals,"
00:22:30.01\00:22:34.82
to start the church.
00:22:34.85\00:22:36.15
Nobody can do anything--
Jesus told the disciples,
00:22:36.18\00:22:37.92
"You wait here.
00:22:37.95\00:22:39.49
"You're going to go
to the whole planet,
00:22:39.52\00:22:40.86
but you wait here
until the Holy Spirit comes."
00:22:40.89\00:22:42.72
He goes, His
sacrifice is accepted in heaven.
00:22:42.76\00:22:44.96
I'm convinced--another
subject-- maybe for another day,
00:22:44.99\00:22:47.56
that's Revelation 4 and 5.
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He appears, and now the
church can begin its work.
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It begins at that
moment. The seals are open.
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That means that the
level of my forgiveness
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is much greater
than I can conceive of.
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I've been forgiven for more
than I can wrap my head around.
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The gift is bigger than I think.
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Not only is my sin
bigger than I think;
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the gift is bigger than I think.
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God loved me that much.
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That's something
I can't comprehend
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how wicked it
is? He died for that.
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What's that
quote? I love this one.
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I hope I wrote it
down here somewhere.
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"Christ was
treated as we deserve,
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"that we might be
treated as He deserves.
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He was condemned for our
sins"-- the condemnation for me
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falls on Him--"in
which He had no share,
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"that we might be
justified by His righteousness,
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"in which we had no share.
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He suffered the death"--
there's no around this--
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"He suffered the
death which was ours,
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that we might receive
the life that was His."
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We have a choice.
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You've got the entire
human race is under Adam.
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Adam was the covenant
head of the human race,
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and he blows it.
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That drags us all into
the equation. And God is fair.
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He knows I didn't
choose to be born sinful,
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with sinful tendencies, right?
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Came out of the
womb, ready to fight.
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A lot of it is conscious.
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I had to make a choice to
entertain that propensity.
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But He says, "Look,
how about another Adam?
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How about an obedient Adam?"
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The Adam that is
without sin, Peter calls Him
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"without spot or blemish."
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He lives the life that
should have been yours.
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So, here we
have one human being,
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the only One in all
of history whose life
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really is a perfect reflection
of the character of God;
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He is the image of God.
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It says so, Paul
writes the image of God
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was fully in Him.
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Now, there's one file in
the filing cabinet in heaven.
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Here's a perfect human being who
actually was the image of God.
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God says, "You can choose.
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"Corporately,
Adam can be your head,
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or corporately,
Jesus can be your head."
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And then He goes to the
cross and takes the penalty
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that should have belonged
to everybody in the other camp.
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How that exactly works?
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I had somebody ask me
years ago, "Sin and salvation,
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explain it to me."
"What, in 10 minutes?" [laughs]
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In 10 minutes, here's where I
go on what the Scriptures say.
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That sacrifice is
enough to correct what I did
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and consider me innocent.
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The sin is worse
than you think it is,
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but that means
the gift is bigger
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than you think it
is, if that makes sense.
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>>Eric: Yeah. In the short
amount of time we have today.
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>>Shawn: We
barely touched the topic.
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>>Eric: I know,
we've at least hit
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some very significant ground.
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There's so much in
this week's lesson,
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Cain and Abel-- and
the Passover and so forth.
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Let me--good stuff, great
stuff in this week's lesson,
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but you've brought something
out that I think is important.
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There are going to be
people who are watching this,
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maybe who are going
through the study guide,
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and they're reading
this, and they're going, "Okay,
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I see the sacrifice. I
realize that I am sinful."
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>>Shawn: Right.
>>Eric: "You know, Shawn,
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"you don't know
what I've done. Eric,
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you don't know what I've done."
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And we probably don't want to
know what--we don't wanna know
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what you've done, and
you don't want to know
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what he and I have done.
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>>Shawn: You really don't
wanna know what Eric has done.
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>>Eric: [laughs] It's bad stuff,
guarantee it, but here we are.
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We have sinned. "The
wages of sin is death."
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Give that person some hope.
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Give that person
some encouragement
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and point them in
a positive direction.
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>>Shawn: I brought this
up a couple of lessons ago,
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but this is such a
foundational verse for me.
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Here's where I anchor my hope.
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It's in Romans,
chapter 5 and verse 8:
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"While we were yet sinners"--
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God could see
what you did exactly.
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There's no varnish over
it; there's no hiding it.
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You know, God saw it
the way it really was.
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He saw it more
clearly than you did.
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He knows what you did.
That's kind of the point.
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Again, God's not waiting
for you to fix your resume.
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"While we were yet sinners,
Christ"--God shows His love.
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Here's what it says, Romans
5:8, for us, "In that while
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we were still
sinners, Christ died for us."
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As filthy as you are,
Jesus looked down and said,
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"No, I need that
person, I want you, I want you,
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and I'll give my
life for you now."
00:27:04.95\00:27:07.62
As one great book
I read pointed out,
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you don't even have to
repent to first come to Christ.
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Just come, just come.
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He saw what you did,
and He did this anyway.
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He did this
because of what you did.
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"He knows your
frame," the Bible says.
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He understands how weak you are,
00:27:21.37\00:27:23.77
and so He stands
in as your strength.
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If it's your sin
that's holding you back,
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what in the world?
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"If we confess our
sins, He's faithful and just."
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Get with the program.
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God knows you did
that, give it over to Him.
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He says He'll forgive it.
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He'll forgive
it. It can be done.
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>>Eric: I love that.
Our job is to just confess.
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He says, "From
there, I've got it."
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>>Shawn: Yep. >>Eric:
Yep. "You just confess;
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"I will forgive and cleanse you
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from all unrighteousness,"
and that's His promise.
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We're glad that
you've joined us today.
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We'll be back again
next week as we continue
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looking at how to
understand Bible prophecy.
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God bless you.
We'll see you then.
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