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>>Eric Flickinger:
Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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Glad that you
could join us today.
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We are taking a journey through
the prophecies of the Bible,
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learning how to study
them so that we end up
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understanding them correctly
rather than incorrectly.
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And this week we
are on lesson number 8.
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It is "In the
Psalms." This is part 1 of 2.
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We're going to be looking
at more of this next week.
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But this week we're delving
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into the Psalms and seeing
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how they can help us understand
the prophecies of the Bible.
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As we do so,
let's begin with prayer.
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Father, we're grateful
to be here again today.
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We're glad that You
have brought us together
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and brought us to
this time and place
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to study Your Word
and especially the Psalms
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so we can better understand
the times in which we live
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and the things which
are shortly to come to pass
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in this world. 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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>>Shawn Boonstra: Amen.
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>>Eric: We are also
grateful to have with us
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the author of this quarter's
"Sabbath School" lesson,
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Pastor Shawn Boonstra.
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Shawn, good to
have you here again.
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>>Shawn:
Anonymous off-screen "amen."
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>>Eric: That's right.
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I think by now they
recognize the tone of voice.
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They know who is here.
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We still haven't
decided to kick you off yet,
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so there's been
some good content here,
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and we'll see what
next week looks like.
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But this week, I think
we're going to be all right.
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"In the Psalms," part number 1.
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So we're looking at the book
of Psalms and how they help us,
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how the Psalms help us
to understand the prophecies
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found in Revelation.
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And in this week, we're
going through different psalms
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and seeing elements
of that. >>Shawn: Right.
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>>Eric: Let's
start with Psalm 122--
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>>Shawn: Right, the one
that's in the quarterly.
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>>Eric: ...and dive
right in. >>Shawn: This was--
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I know I had some
friends proofread the quarterly
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and stuff for me,
and they said this is
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one of their favorite parts.
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So many people
don't think of the Psalms
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as prophetic books.
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Okay, we've got the poetry,
and then we've got Daniel,
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and we've got
Revelation. Ehhh...
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You can't separate the Bible
into silos quite so neatly,
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and there's a lot of
material in the Psalms
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that if Revelation, for example,
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isn't drawing on it,
it at least casts light
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on what
Revelation's talking about.
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John didn't write
in a vacuum, right?
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John wrote with these scriptures
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in his heart and
always drawing on the content
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God had already revealed to him
and then adding new insights.
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So yeah, Psalm 122. It's
one of the "Psalms of Ascent."
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There are a bunch of
these from Psalm 120 onward,
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and these are
literally sung as they're going
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into the temple. So
that should tell us a lot.
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The sanctuary is a huge
theme in Bible prophecy.
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And one of the reasons
I like this, of course,
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the temple is on Mount
Zion. That's where it is,
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the Temple
Mount, we now call it,
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where the temple used to be.
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And we find that Temple Mount
showing up in Revelation 14,
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which is that central
focal point of Revelation.
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The center
chapters, 12, 13, and 14,
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are really the
focus of the action.
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It's a chiastic
structure that puts
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the biggest emphasis
in the middle, just about.
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And so we find God's people on
Mount Zion, the Father's name--
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we already know
that's His character--
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written in their foreheads.
They're standing there
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with the Lamb. That's
their only ticket of access
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to that mountain. And
then as we looked earlier,
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they're also spreading
the message to the world,
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much the way that the
cherubims were singing
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God's glory and sharing
His message in Revelation,
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chapters 4 and 5. So
this is one of those.
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And I thought, well, why
don't we take a look at it?
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And let's start in Psalm 122,
right at the head of the thing.
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It's only about
nine verses--not about,
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it's exactly nine verses long.
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"I was glad
when they said to me,
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'Let us go [into]
the house of the Lord!'"
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I have to pause there because
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the house of the
Lord is up on Mount Zion.
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And it tells me something:
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Going into God's
presence is an occasion for joy.
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And that should speak volumes
if we're terrified of God.
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The idea that He
lifts the veil, lets us in,
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brings us into His presence.
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Yeah, if we don't have Jesus,
you ought to be terrified.
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You ought to be, "Woe am
I, I'm a man of unclean lips."
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But David, who has
clearly-- he wrote this one.
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He's clearly sinned.
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He finds going into
God's presence...joy. Joy.
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If your study of the sanctuary
and prophecy isn't joyful,
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you might be reading it wrong.
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Verse 2: "Our feet have
been standing within your gates,
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O Jerusalem!"
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And I guess here
what I'm looking at
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is he's looking around.
I picture David like this.
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He's looking around. "I
can't believe where I am.
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I'm in Jerusalem.
Look where I get to be."
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And I have to ask myself,
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do I feel that way
about the family of God?
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Do I feel that way about being
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part of the
last-day remnant movement?
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Do I look around
saying, "What am I doing here?
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Look where I am.
I can't believe it."
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I don't know how you feel,
but I still have a little bit
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of imposter syndrome. I'm
a preacher, and it's like,
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who in the world
put me in this job?
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I don't know if
that's true for you.
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>>Eric: Oh,
absolutely, absolutely.
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There's so many places that
you and I could be in our lives
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in the world, and
God has us right here
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in the heart of
what's going on, you know,
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in the midst of the activity,
the significant activity
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at the end of earth's history,
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and we get to be a part of it.
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>>Shawn: It pictures us
on Mount Zion with Jesus.
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I don't belong
there, and I know I don't.
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Verse 3 says,
"Jerusalem-- built as a city
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"that is bound firmly together,
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to which the tribes go
up, the tribes of the Lord"--
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that still shows
up in Revelation;
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there's 12 gates
with the 12 tribes--
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"as was decreed for Israel,
to give thanks to the name
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of the Lord."
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What's etched on our foreheads
in Revelation, chapter 14?
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>>Eric: God's name.
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>>Shawn: The Father's name.
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And we've
discussed this already.
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God's name is not just a label.
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It's not just a word you
pronounce in reference to God.
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It's deeper than that.
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To this day, we
still say that if somebody
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has a great reputation,
they have "a good name," right?
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Name was meant
to-- Hebrew parents
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name their
babies very carefully:
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"I hope this child grows
into the following character."
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Name is character.
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We give thanks to
the name of the Lord.
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It's more than just saying,
"Hey, thank You for saving me."
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It's an
acknowledgement of who He is.
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And we become so enmeshed
with that in the last days
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that it's
written in our foreheads.
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This is a symbol of where
your moral decisions take place,
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in the frontal lobe.
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It's right--it's uncanny
how they got that so right,
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but if God's the
author, it makes sense.
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God's name is
etched into our foreheads.
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We find out in Exodus--it's one
of my go-tos for how important
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the name of God is here.
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You know, here they
are, they're on Mount Zion,
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they're in the temple,
they're in within the gates,
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and they're
worshiping God's name.
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At one point, Moses says,
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"I want to see
You. I want to see You."
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"Well, I can't show that to
you. It'll kill you, Moses."
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"Yeah, but I
really need to see You."
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And God says, "I will
make my glory pass before you,
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and I will
reveal my name to you."
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And what God doesn't do in
that case is approach Moses
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in the cleft of the rock
and open a piece of paper.
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Here's my secret name.
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Shh, don't tell
anybody, but this is how
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it's actually pronounced,
and I will put that away.
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No, no, no, He reveals Himself.
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And when it says that
God reveals His name to Moses
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in Exodus, chapter
34, He starts to describe
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His own character:
"I am the Lord, who is
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"longsuffering and gracious
and righteous and merciful
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and just," and His
name is His character.
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We worship God's name;
we're worshiping who He is.
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The name is
written in our foreheads,
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God's character is
etched into our foreheads,
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and God's law is also a
transcript of His character.
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The Bible says
those on Mount Zion
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are the ones who keep
the commandments of God.
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Why is that important?
Have they earned a spot
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by keeping the
commandments? No, no.
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Keeping God's law was ground
zero before we ever sinned.
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You don't earn
anything that way.
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That was basic level
expectation of humanity.
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But it's a
transcript of His character,
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and it says in
Hebrews, chapter 10
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that God writes
His law in our hearts,
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but He writes His
name in our forehead.
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The heart is the
mind. It is the mind.
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These things are synonymous.
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I don't know, we could spend
hours in a psalm like this,
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but we're worshipping
the name of the Lord,
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and that's His
character; that's His moral law.
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We're in harmony with it.
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I think this anticipates
Revelation, chapter 14.
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>>Eric: It leads us right into
it, the whole issue of worship
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and worshiping the true God
and His character, who He is.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, exactly.
>>Eric: Beautiful, beautiful.
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You've got some other--
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do you want to
keep diving into 122?
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>>Shawn: Let's finish
this one really quick, yeah.
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Verse 5, really quick,
like, I'll burn through
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the whole show. This
is important, verse 5:
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"There thrones
for judgment were set,
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the thrones of
the house of David."
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Okay, we're on Mount Zion,
the Father's name is written
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in our
foreheads. This parallels--
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because what do we preach
in the three angels' message?
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"Fear God, give glory to Him,
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because the hour
of His judgment"--
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this psalm is
foreshadowing that same act.
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There's nothing
new in Bible prophecy.
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If we think this message just
dropped out of heaven in 1844
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and 1863, we're misguided.
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It's been there since
the very beginning of time,
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and it hasn't changed at all.
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"Worship Him who made"--
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read the Bible; Nehemiah
prays to the "God who made";
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book of Acts,
"Worship Him who made";
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Jonah, who do you worship?
"I worship the God who made."
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And the judgment
hour shows up here.
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Judgment is tied
to heaven's sanctuary.
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That's in Psalm 122: "Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem!
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"'May they be
secure who love you!
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"Peace be within your walls and
security within your towers!'
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"For my brothers
and companions' sake
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I will say,
'Peace be within you!'"
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That underlines
something important.
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If our approach
to Bible prophecy
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and the three angels'
message is fear-based,
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if that's what you're
preaching, small wonder
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you're not seeing
the results you hoped for
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because--it's the peace.
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What did the angels proclaim
when Jesus becomes incarnate?
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Peace. Peace to earth.
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The arrival of Christ is peace.
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A right understanding
of prophecy is peace.
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Anyway, we could
spend the entire time
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just in Psalm 122. I put
a bunch of psalms in there.
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Good luck in your classes
getting through all these.
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But they
foreshadow, they anticipate--
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nah, not even that.
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The message has been
the same the whole time:
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Since we sinned,
come back to the Creator.
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Come back. Come
back to Mount Zion.
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>>Eric: These give us context
to understand what's going on
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in Revelation. And typically
we expect that Revelation
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contains our day
in Bible prophecy.
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And I think that's accurate.
>>Shawn: Oh, it's in there.
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>>Eric: But all of
this helps us understand
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the significance of that.
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You also talk
about Psalm 15 and 24.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, boy,
oh boy, how are we ever
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going to get all of this done?
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Just come to my
private YouTube channel,
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and I'll just read
the whole Bible to you.
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That's not actually
true. That's not real.
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Psalm 15, this one's important.
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"O Lord, who shall
sojourn in Your tent?"
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Who shall be in the sanctuary?
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"Who shall dwell
on Your holy hill?"
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Well, there's a really important
question because where are we
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in Revelation 14?
>>Eric: Mount Zion.
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>>Shawn: On
Mount Zion with Jesus.
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And David asks the question,
thousands of years in advance,
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who gets to go up there?
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That would be a
really important answer.
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How do I get up on that hill?
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Verse 2: "He who
walks blamelessly
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"and does what is right...
speaks truth in his heart;
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"who does not
slander with his tongue
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and does no evil
to his neighbor."
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Take a look at who's standing
on Mount Zion in Revelation 14.
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There is no
guile in their mouth.
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They tell the truth.
There is an absolute parallel.
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The same people allowed
on the sanctuary grounds
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in the temple in
the Old Testament
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is the same group
that shows up there.
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This is a historical faith.
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The standards haven't changed.
The message hasn't changed.
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The method of
salvation hasn't changed.
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We stand in a long
stream of God's people
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who all approach
God the same way.
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>>Eric: So we're
looking at those who stand
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on Mount Zion. We
spent a little time in 1:22,
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not near as much
time as we could.
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We're touching all
these different psalms.
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You go into it, a little
more detail, in the study guide,
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but you have a companion book.
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>>Shawn: I do
have a companion book,
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and it gives a little more.
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I wish it would give everything,
but if you're finding,
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"Man, I'd like to read
a little more on this,"
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there's some supplemental
material in the book that
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I wrote to go with this so
that you'll have a little more.
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If you're teaching
class, you're sitting in class
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and wanna sound like
you did your homework,
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I'll help you do your
homework. How about that?
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I'll help you do your homework,
and maybe there's a few thoughts
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that can help spark a
useful biblical discussion
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that leads to growth in Christ.
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>>Eric: And that's a great
place for these discussions
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to spring from,
is not just the study
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but also this companion book.
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If you would like to pick it up,
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it's easy to find.
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It's found at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, itiswritten.shop.
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Find the companion book,
pick it up, read it, study it,
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let others know
that it is there as well.
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Also, if you
happen to have missed
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any of our previous lessons,
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remember that they are archived
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You can find them on the
It Is Written TV channel,
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Just look for the It
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So, share it with
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We're going to be back in just
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at understanding
prophecy through the Psalms.
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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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We're looking at
the book of Psalms
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and seeing how they
can help us understand
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the book of Revelation and
the times in which we live.
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Shawn, we're
trying to figure out how,
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trying to understand--
maybe that's a better word--
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how all the Psalms fit together
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with what's
going on in Revelation.
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Maybe if we read Revelation 14,
that'll give us a little bit,
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something to reference back to.
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>>Shawn: Sure, you
know, the book of Psalms is--
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we've got 150
songs that are worship.
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And of course,
worship is central
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to the book of Revelation.
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The key thoughts,
again, in that center part,
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chapters 12, 13, and 14,
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worship emerges as
one of the big issues.
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So it shouldn't be a surprise
that the inspired worship
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of God's people points forward
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to some of the things we find in
the book of Revelation at all.
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I think it makes sense.
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And let's take a
look at Revelation 14,
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and in particular,
I want to take a look
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at the character of
those who stand on Mount Zion.
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And this is important because
we just asked in the last psalm,
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who gets to
stand on that mountain?
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And in Psalm 24, we're going
to get the same question again.
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It comes up more than
once. Who's allowed up there?
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So right from the top,
Revelation 14, verse 1:
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"Then I looked, and behold,
on Mount Zion stood the Lamb."
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Well, we've talked about that
and how central that is already.
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"With Him 144,000 who had
His name and His Father's name
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written on their foreheads."
We've looked at that.
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That's more than just a
moniker; it's character.
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"And I heard a voice from heaven
like the roar of many waters
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and like the
sound of loud thunder."
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Oh, we could have
a study just on that,
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but we don't have that time.
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"Like the roar of many waters...
like the sound of loud thunder.
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"The voice I heard was
like the sound of harpists
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"playing on their
harps, and they were singing
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"a new song before
the throne and before
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the four living creatures
and before the elders."
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We touched on that
in a previous lesson.
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So the cherubim are there.
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"No one could learn
that song except the 144,000
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who had been
redeemed from the earth."
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Here we go. Who are they?
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Verse 4: "It is these who
have not defiled themselves
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with women, for
they are virgins."
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Now, pretty
clear in this context,
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we're not talking
literally. >>Eric: Right.
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>>Shawn: Or every married
man is doomed, every married--
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no, it's like, no,
this is spiritual virginity.
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We already looked at marriage is
one of the most common metaphors
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throughout Bible,
and the story ends
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with the bride of Christ,
and the bridegroom comes,
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and the wedding
supper of the Lamb.
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These are people who
kept themselves pure.
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They didn't
commit spiritual adultery
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with the idols and
gods of this earth.
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Or if they did,
they're now in Christ,
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and that's all forgiven.
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"It's these who have not
defiled themselves with women,
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"for they are
virgins. It is these who"--
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my favorite line here--
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"follow the Lamb
wherever He goes."
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I teach that to
evangelistic audiences:
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"Lord, we
covenant with You tonight
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"that when You speak,
we will follow the Lamb
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wherever He goes."
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"These have been redeemed."
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Here's how I know.
They're not literal virgins,
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nor are they
actual spiritual virgins.
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They are only so in Christ.
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Otherwise, they
wouldn't need redemption.
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They've been redeemed.
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"These have been redeemed
from mankind as firstfruits...
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"[in] the Lamb, and in
their mouth no lie was found,
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for they are blameless."
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Now, in what sense
would you and I be called--
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anyway, in a surface
reading, I mean, that's it.
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I can't go up on Mount
Zion... unless I'm in Christ.
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Don't miss that, right?
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They're there with the
Lamb, and it comes up again.
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They follow the Lamb.
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They've been
redeemed from the earth.
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You are accounted
righteous through Christ.
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That's how you get
there. Otherwise you're
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gonna read the Psalms and
despair: "I can't qualify."
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So now we go back to
Psalm 24, another one.
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I think we looked at Psalm
15 before the break, right?
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>>Eric: Yes, correct.
>>Shawn: Look at my memory slip.
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That's aging for you. If you
are 30, take care of your brain.
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That's all I want to tell
you, because it's going to slip
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on you, whether
you want it to or not.
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Aging and death are
real, the wages of sin.
00:19:01.10\00:19:03.41
>>Eric: Very much so.
>>Shawn: Starts with memory loss
00:19:03.44\00:19:05.24
and then ends
in--well, you know how it ends.
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Chapter 24, a psalm of David:
00:19:09.11\00:19:10.91
"The earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof."
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Does that show up in
Revelation 14? Sure it does.
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"Worship Him who made."
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"The world and
those who dwell therein."
00:19:18.69\00:19:21.29
Again, that's
contra the nations.
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There's a lot
here that ties back
00:19:23.63\00:19:25.76
to what we've already
studied and already looked at.
00:19:25.79\00:19:27.76
God says, "It's all mine.
00:19:27.76\00:19:29.06
"I know that you're
going through the appearance
00:19:29.10\00:19:30.23
like you run the
show. It's mine."
00:19:30.27\00:19:32.80
"For He has
founded it upon the seas
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and established
it upon the rivers."
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Lots there, but here
comes the big question:
00:19:37.44\00:19:40.31
"Who shall ascend
the hill of the Lord?"
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That's the same one we found.
00:19:41.91\00:19:43.71
"Who shall stand
in His holy place?"
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Okay, who is it? Now
I want to know, Lord.
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"He who has clean
hands and a pure heart,
00:19:48.58\00:19:51.69
"who does not lift up
his soul to what is false...
00:19:51.72\00:19:54.16
"does not swear deceitfully.
00:19:54.19\00:19:56.32
"He will receive blessing
from the Lord and righteousness
00:19:56.36\00:19:59.13
"from the God of his salvation.
00:19:59.16\00:20:00.66
"Such is the generation
of those who seek Him,
00:20:00.70\00:20:02.66
who seek the face
of the God of Jacob."
00:20:02.70\00:20:07.04
There's actually more here.
00:20:07.07\00:20:08.37
"Lift up your head, O gates!
00:20:08.40\00:20:10.27
"And be lifted
up, O ancient doors,
00:20:10.31\00:20:11.61
that the King of
glory may come in."
00:20:11.64\00:20:13.11
It's interesting
in that famous book,
00:20:13.14\00:20:14.88
"Desire of Ages,"
about page 830-something--
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you'll have to read
10 pages to find it,
00:20:18.18\00:20:19.65
830-something--
00:20:19.68\00:20:21.85
that book ties that particular
statement to Jesus' return
00:20:21.88\00:20:25.45
to heaven, to come
into-- the angels welcoming,
00:20:25.49\00:20:28.69
"You've won at the cross."
00:20:28.72\00:20:30.03
So here we have
Jesus' ascension.
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"Who is this King of glory?"
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This is the slain Lamb,
right, in the sanctuary that
00:20:33.23\00:20:36.23
in Revelation 4 and 5 that we
stand with on Mount Zion later.
00:20:36.26\00:20:40.17
"Who is this King of glory?
00:20:40.20\00:20:41.50
"The Lord, strong and
mighty, mighty in battle!
00:20:41.54\00:20:43.34
"Lift up your head, O gates!
00:20:43.37\00:20:44.84
"...Lift them up, O ancient
doors, that the King of glory
00:20:44.87\00:20:46.98
"may come in. Who
is this King of glory?
00:20:47.01\00:20:49.64
The Lord of
hosts"-- that's Yahweh--
00:20:49.68\00:20:52.45
"Lord of hosts, He
is the King of glory!"
00:20:52.48\00:20:55.25
Who gets to stand on the hill?
00:20:55.28\00:20:57.05
"He who has clean
hands and a pure heart."
00:20:57.09\00:20:59.02
I'm done.
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"Does not lift up
his soul to what is false
00:21:01.66\00:21:03.36
or swear deceitfully."
00:21:03.39\00:21:05.76
I'm toast. I'm
already disqualified.
00:21:05.79\00:21:08.76
"Such is the generation
of those who seek Him,
00:21:08.80\00:21:10.90
who seek the face
of the God of Jacob."
00:21:10.93\00:21:15.44
This, to me, is
powerful. They're redeemed.
00:21:15.47\00:21:18.61
If that word wasn't there,
I'd be despondent right now.
00:21:18.64\00:21:22.14
But when you
look at the context,
00:21:22.18\00:21:23.48
these are people who are joyful.
00:21:23.51\00:21:25.08
They're singing this in joy
00:21:25.11\00:21:26.41
as they approach the hill.
They're not terrified anymore.
00:21:26.45\00:21:29.18
And that reminds me of the book
of Hebrews again where it says,
00:21:29.22\00:21:31.49
"Come boldly to
the throne of grace."
00:21:31.52\00:21:33.49
Boldly? Are you kidding me?
00:21:33.52\00:21:35.26
Boldly, me? I can't.
00:21:35.29\00:21:37.93
Yeah, you can. Because you're
under the blood of Christ.
00:21:37.96\00:21:40.73
You're not going there alone.
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And I'm not on Mount Zion alone.
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And I don't have
to do anything alone.
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"I will never leave
you or forsake you."
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I find it interesting
here in Psalm 24 that these
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are the people who seek God.
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And here's what I
find really interesting.
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You can't actually seek
God of your own initiative.
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It doesn't work that way.
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And I know, of course, you make
a decision to seek God, yeah.
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The Bible says in Romans,
chapter 2 that repentance
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is a gift from God.
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1 Corinthians,
chapter 2: "The natural person
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"does not accept the
things of the Spirit of God,
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"for they are folly to him...
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"he is not able
to understand them...
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they are spiritually discerned."
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How do you end up seeking God?
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It means that the Spirit's
already woken up your heart.
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You wouldn't be
interested in God at all
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unless He'd already
knocked on the door.
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And when people
tell me, "I'm terrified
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that I'm not right with God,"
I say, "That's the first step.
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"You wouldn't care--if
God wasn't working on you.
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"The fact that
you're worried about this
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"tells me the Spirit of God
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"is already
pulling you over the line,
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and you're on your way.
Just take that last step."
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Now, seeking implies free will.
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It's up to you to continue
to seek the face of God.
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He's not going to force
you into the kingdom of heaven.
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So these are people
that go up on the holy hill,
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they're willfully seeking
God, they want to be there,
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they're joyful about it,
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they're declared pure in Christ,
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and of course they
want to live that way.
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They want to follow
the Lamb wherever He goes.
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I think the
psalm's just like--oh, wow,
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read these two together,
and there's more detail.
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And suddenly, prophecy's
about joy again, not fear.
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>>Eric: And so many people,
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when they--I
remember doing meetings,
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and people coming to the
meetings, and they're just,
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they're scared of
prophecy. >>Shawn: Oh yeah.
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>>Eric: They've seen
the beasts and antichrist
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and mark of the
beast, and they're scared.
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This gives us a whole different
perspective on prophecy,
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that there should be
peace, that there should be joy,
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that there should
be comfort in the fact
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that we can
indeed be on the hill.
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>>Shawn: Yeah, I know.
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And again, I get
it if you're out there
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and you think,
"I can't make it."
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I talk to people all
the time, just like you do.
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"I don't deserve to be
up there. This is terrible.
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I'm going to be one of
the ones that God smites."
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Again, read 1
Corinthians 2:12-14.
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You wouldn't care
if there wasn't hope.
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That's where you
need to start worrying.
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In fact, you know, you're
not worrying at all anymore
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once it's past the
point of no return.
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I don't worry about
people who are worried.
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You're only worried
because God is saying,
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"Hey, come up on a
hill. I want you here."
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Me? "Yeah, you. I
want you on the hill."
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But I can't. "Yes, you can.
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Jesus has
redeemed you. You're fine.
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You're fine. Come on up."
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And I got to tell you, the
hill's a great place to live.
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I know I don't belong
up there, but you're right,
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there's so much
joy. Every time they talk
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about going up on Mount Zion
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in the book of Psalms,
they're beside themselves.
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It's like, "Wow! I
get to go up there!"
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Who reads Revelation like that?
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If you look at
modern-day Christianity,
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you don't see a
lot of that out there.
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"Oh, antichrist
is going to get you."
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It's like, yeah,
he's going to try.
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Do your worst. I don't care.
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I'm up on the mountain with--
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yeah, the dragon is
"angry with the woman
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and goes to make war
with the remnant of her seed."
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Okay, I think I'm fine.
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I think I'm fine
because the Lamb beats him.
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Read Revelation 12.
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The devil's already
defeated by the cross of Christ.
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His place is no
longer found in heaven.
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The one who's tormenting
you is not allowed on the hill,
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never will be ever again,
and you're allowed on the hill.
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That's all you need to know.
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>>Eric: You know, I
think that's powerful.
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Often when we focus on the idea
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that we don't
deserve to be here.
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That's true, we don't
deserve to be on the hill,
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but when we do that,
when we focus on that,
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the focus is on us.
And it's not about us.
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It was never
supposed to be about us.
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>>Shawn: No.
>>Eric: It's supposed to be
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about Him, about
Christ, and what He can do.
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And when we allow
our gaze to turn inward,
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that's where we become
discouraged, naturally.
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>>Shawn: Absolutely,
yeah, there's plenty of material
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in every heart
to discourage you.
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I promise you, you could
take any sermon I preached,
00:25:49.24\00:25:51.45
read the transcript,
and it's not willingly--
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I don't willingly put
error in a sermon. I don't.
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But there'd be enough
in there to disqualify me
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from heaven,
unwittingly. >>Eric: Yeah.
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>>Shawn: There just would be.
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And anybody who's
feeling a little bit confident
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and they're
condemning others, I'm thinking,
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"Do you have any
idea how you happen to be
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on the hill?"
00:26:11.47\00:26:12.90
If an angel--you know,
we're so worried about--
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we think soul-winning
is about being right.
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You have to be right. I
don't want to be misunderstood.
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You must be right. You
must be faithful to the Word.
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But it's not
really about being right.
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It's about loving
people the way Jesus loved them
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and introducing them to
the One who's always right.
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And that's not you.
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And I often have
asked myself this question,
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okay, I think
so-and-so is wrong,
00:26:35.36\00:26:36.99
but if my angel showed up
tonight to give me a Bible study
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on what I still have wrong,
how embarrassing would that be?
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>>Eric: It
would be a long night.
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>>Shawn: It
would be a long night,
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and he'd barely
scrape the surface.
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You get to go on the hill
not because you've earned it,
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but because Jesus did.
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>>Eric: That's it.
And don't forget that.
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Don't forget that it's
not about you; it's about Him.
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It's about what
He has done for you
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and what He is doing for you.
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You may feel unworthy.
00:27:03.69\00:27:06.15
Fair and good, it's true.
00:27:06.19\00:27:08.79
You're unworthy, I'm
unworthy, and so are you.
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None of us are worthy.
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If we were worthy,
we wouldn't need Jesus.
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The fact is, the reason we need
Him is because we're unworthy.
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But when we receive
Him, when we accept Him
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into our lives, the
beauty and the glory
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and the perfection that
are His are credited to us,
00:27:25.84\00:27:29.44
not of our own
doing, not of our own works,
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not of our own accomplishments.
00:27:32.25\00:27:34.22
It's all about
Him, and He works in us.
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So be encouraged.
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Remember that there is
a place called Mount Zion,
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and God wants
you on that mountain.
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He's preparing you for it,
and He has made it possible
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for you to be there.
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We're gonna continue
looking at the book of Psalms
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and seeing how the
prophecies intertwine
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and weave in the book of Psalms
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when we come
back again next week.
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