The word of God declares,
listen closely Psalm 59:13,
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starting at verse 16, 59:16.
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"But I will sing of Your power,
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yes, I will sing aloud of
Your mercy in the morning,
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for You have been my defense
a refuge in the day of trouble.
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To You, O my
Strength, I will sing praises,
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for God is my
defense, my God of mercy."
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And our God of mercy
today is mighty the Savior
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who save us from our
sins, from our struggles
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and to redeem,
redeem us to Himself.
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Let's sing together,
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"Everyone needs
compassion," all together.
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Everyone needs compassion
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And love that's never failing
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Let mercy.
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Let mercy fall on me
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You sound
wonderful. Everyone needs.
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Everyone needs forgiveness
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The kindness.
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The kindness of a Savior
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Hope of nations.
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The hope of nations
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You all sing this
chorus together, Savior.
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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So take me.
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So take me as You find me
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All my fears.
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All my fears and failures
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Fill my life again.
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Fill my life again
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That's my prayer today.
I give my life to follow.
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I give my life to follow
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Everything that I believe in
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Now I surrender.
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Now I surrender
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Let's sing it, Savior.
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever.
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Shine your light.
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Shine your light, and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Shine your light
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Shine your light, and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Savior.
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Would you sing that chorus out?
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Shine your light.
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Shine your light, and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Jesus, shine your light,
and let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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of the risen King
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Savior.
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever.
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Let's sing it out again, Savior.
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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Come on, ring it out.
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever.
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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What wondrous love is this
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul, O my soul!
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul
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What wondrous love
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That caused the Lord of bliss
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To bear the dreadful curse
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for my soul, for my soul
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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O my soul
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love is this
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul, O my soul!
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul
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What wondrous love
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That caused the lord of life
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Christ laid aside His crown
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For my soul, for my soul
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Christ laid aside
His crown for my soul
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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O my soul, O my soul!
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love is this
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O my soul, O my soul!
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous love
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What wondrous...
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Love...
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I want to plunge
into today's teaching--
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We'll get to that bag.
This is a critical teaching.
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Oh, God, give us ears to
hear and minds to comprehend
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what the Bible is saying.
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Let's pray together.
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Holy Father, what
wondrous love is this,
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o my, o my soul, o my soul.
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We've been swept
up to Your throne room
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in Your heavenly temple today
over and over and over again.
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Don't let us down now.
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Let Holy Scripture
have its way in our midst
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and let today's
teaching be crystal clear
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for Christ glory and
honor we pray in His name, amen.
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I have here in this
paper bag two vials of blood.
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It's real blood.
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This is real
blood, it is goat's blood
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and I'm very grateful
to my friend Kathy Koudele
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who is in the
agriculture department
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here at Andrews University
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for procuring
this blood from a goat.
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The goat is still alive.
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If she had taken all the
blood, the goat would be dead.
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Just two little
vials 10cc's each.
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This is sort of
like a biohazard so you--
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you know, it probably isn't
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but you just have
to do this sometimes.
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I want to take
some of this blood
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and I want to ask you is
it possible that this blood,
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this is goat blood.
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Is it possible for
this blood to cleanse?
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I mean, my reaction is
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when you have this you
get goat's blood on you.
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To me, now to be honest,
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to me that doesn't
look like a cleanse,
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that looks like it stains
which is why I got to tell you
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I am amazed with
the dramatic story
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in Leviticus 16
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that says, no, no, no, no, no,
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the blood cleans not stains
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and I want to go into the heart
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of that drama
with you right now.
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So while I'm cleaning up,
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would you open
your Bible please,
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to the third book of the
Bible, the Book of Leviticus?
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We don't go to Leviticus
hardly ever, ever, ever.
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The third book of
the Bible, Leviticus.
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We're gonna plunge into
the middle of the drama.
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I'm telling you what nobody
sleeping through this one,
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not if you are in
the camp of Israel.
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This is the day of purgation.
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Leviticus Chapter
16, if you didn't bring
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your own Bible you
have to track this drama.
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Grab the pew Bible
right in front of you,
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I'll give you the page
number in just a moment.
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Trying to do this carefully.
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All right, Leviticus Chapter 16,
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page 80 in the pew Bible.
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Yom Hakkipurim that's
what it is in the Hebrew
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we know today as
the Day of Atonement
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or Yom Kippur as
it is popularly known.
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Plunge right into
the heart of that day.
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Leviticus 16, page
80 in the pew Bible,
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I'll be in the New
International Version,
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whatever translation you
have I'm glad you have one.
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Let's pick it up in verse 15,
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"He" this is a high
priest named Aaron, all right.
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"He then shall
slaughter the goat
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for the sin
offering for the people
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and take its blood..."
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You just saw real live
goat's blood, all right.
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"And shall take its
blood behind the curtain
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and do with it as he
did with the bull's blood.
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He shall sprinkle it
on the atonement cover
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and in front of it."
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I doubt personally whether Aaron
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the high priest slept
a wink the night before.
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I mean, you think about it.
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He is now being asked to God
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what has been forbidden
under the penalty of death
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to be done 364 days of the year
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but suddenly
everything is changed.
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Now you go in.
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I remind you
this is father Aaron
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who just days
ago buried two boys
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who in there
inebriated DUI drunkenness
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stumbled carelessly
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into the most holy space
of that little earthly tent
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and incinerated just like that.
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He's buried them.
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In fact, look at
the first two verses
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of Chapter 16.
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Obviously, this is on his mind.
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"The Lord spoke to Moses
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after the death of
the two sons of Aaron
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who died when they
approached the Lord."
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Verse 2 " And the
Lord said to Moses,
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' You tell your
brother Aaron not to come
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whenever he chooses
into the Most Holy Place
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behind the curtain in
front of the atonement cover
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on the ark, or else he will die,
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because I appear in the cloud
over the atonement cover.'"
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Got it?
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Aaron would not have
slept a wink the night before.
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How could you sleep
knowing that every man
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and woman and
child in the nation
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will at that very
moment be on their faces
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in the sand praying their
hearts out to almighty God?
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And while they are praying
you all alone in that tent
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will move to
this ornate thick veil
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and with hands that were
surely trembling violently,
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you will grab that
veil pulling it aside
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to what human
eyes were never to see
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and human hands
were never to touch.
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You would pull the veil
aside and in that perfect cube
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a single piece
of golden furniture.
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Let me just--
let your imagination
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put some color to it
by putting on the screen
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an artist portrayal of that ark.
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That's all that's
in that perfect cube
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called the most holy place.
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Solid gold
cherubim, those are two angels
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representing the
angels that stand
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beside the throne
of the eternal God,
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their wings touch.
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They are carved out of a single,
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beaten out of a
single sheet of gold.
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And over that solid gold
block called the mercy seat,
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there is a physical presence
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so blinding and
so fiery in its glory
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that a human being
cannot gaze upon it and live.
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It is the
presence of God himself.
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You don't think
Aaron is sleeping
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the night before, do you?
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How could you sleep?
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Let's read it again, verse 15.
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"He" Aaron " shall
then slaughter the goat
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for the sin
offering for the people
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and take its
blood behind the curtain
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and do with it as he
did with the bull's blood.
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He shall sprinkle it
on the atonement cover
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and in front of it.
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In this way" verse 16
" he will make atonement
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for the Most Holy Place
because of the uncleanness
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and rebellion of the Israelites,
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whatever their sins have been."
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Through the previous year.
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"He is to do the same
in the Tent of Meeting,"
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that would be
the other compartment
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called the holy
place "which is among them
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in the midst of
their uncleanness."
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Verse 17, "No one is to
be in the Tent of Meeting
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from the time Aaron
goes in to make atonement
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in the Most Holy
Place until he comes out,
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having made
atonement for himself,
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for his household
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and the whole
community of Israel."
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Now verse 30, add verse 30.
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"Because on this day
atonement will be made for you,
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to cleanse you.
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Then, before the Lord,
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you will be clean
from all your sins."
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Did you catch that?
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The blood of a goat
mysteriously, metaphysically
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brings about
achieves a cleansing
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of the entire community.
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What's up with that?
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What is up?
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There are two realities
to this Day of Atonement,
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the most somber,
00:19:26.15\00:19:27.62
the most sacred of celebrations.
00:19:27.65\00:19:34.58
Two realities,
that contrary to our
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first impression are
essential for us to understand
00:19:38.16\00:19:42.40
in the third
millennium, two realities.
00:19:42.43\00:19:44.34
I wish you jot
them down right now.
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Grab the study guide please,
it's in your worship bulletin.
00:19:45.98\00:19:48.45
If you didn't get a study guide,
00:19:48.48\00:19:49.51
hold your hand up, we've got out
00:19:49.54\00:19:50.62
friendly ushers ready to go.
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They have today
two pieces for you.
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They have piece number one,
00:19:53.88\00:19:55.08
the study guide
that you will need,
00:19:55.11\00:19:56.36
they have a card.
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You will need the card.
00:19:57.45\00:19:58.79
Ask for the card and the piece,
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they are gonna
give them both to you.
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You came in three of
you with one bulletin,
00:20:02.07\00:20:03.60
then you need
your own study guide.
00:20:03.63\00:20:05.14
No sense in sharing.
You get to have your own.
00:20:05.17\00:20:07.42
Grab a study guide
and I'll make sure,
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we'll make sure that all
the way up to the balcony
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.71
and the overflow as
well that the study guides
00:20:13.74\00:20:17.30
are for all those who need one.
00:20:17.33\00:20:19.04
And by the way, those of you
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who are watching on
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You can have the
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Let me put our
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Go to that website you see
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You are looking for a brand
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But you are
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which is called
today, "The Cleansing."
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You're looking
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And when it says
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click on the study guide.
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You have the
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Let's go, let's jot them out,
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two realities critical for us
living in the third millennium.
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Reality number one, the
Day of Atonement symbolize
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the final judicial cleansing,
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judicial cleansing
of God's sanctuary.
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Write in the word sanctuary.
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Sums going on judicially
and so reality number one
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the Day of Atonement symbolize
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the final judicial
cleansing of God's sanctuary.
00:21:13.16\00:21:15.82
And then jot it
down reality number two,
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the Day of Atonement symbolize
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the final moral
cleansing of God's people.
00:21:19.44\00:21:24.72
Cleansing of God's
sanctuary judicially,
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cleansing of
God's people morally.
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Let me explain.
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If we've taken the time today
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to read the
Chapters 3 and 4 of Leviticus
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we would have been reminded
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that when the
children of Israel sinned,
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they brought little animals.
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Do you remember that?
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They brought little
animals to the sanctuary
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where those
animals were sacrificed.
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You knew that, didn't
you? We've all known that.
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We've grown up
with those stories.
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Something
interesting about those,
00:21:47.30\00:21:49.08
little animals that are brought,
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they will take one,
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the worshipper
will take one hand,
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place that
hand, that single hand
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on the head of the animal
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not confessing
his sins or her sins.
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The confession was already done
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back at the point of infraction.
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You've already talked to God,
00:22:00.60\00:22:01.63
you've already
confessed your sins
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but there is something
else taking place right here.
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The hand goes on that animal,
00:22:06.13\00:22:08.44
the sacrificial animal is slain.
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And then on special occasions,
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specified occasions the
blood of that slain animal
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was dubbed on to the
horns of the altar of sacrifice
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and then taken into
the most holy place,
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into the holy place
rather before the curtain
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to the most holy
place and the ark of incense
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and it was sprinkled right here,
00:22:25.79\00:22:27.24
just sprinkled on the
sandy floor of the desert.
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Every time the
priest came in to sprinkle,
00:22:31.14\00:22:33.90
he would sprinkle it right there
00:22:33.93\00:22:35.43
in front of the
altar of incense.
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Now the sprinkling of
the blood of the sacrifice
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.20
inside the tabernacle
powerfully symbolize, get this,
00:22:41.23\00:22:44.79
the transference of
the sinner sin to God
00:22:44.82\00:22:47.68
and its temple
and its sanctuary.
00:22:47.71\00:22:50.79
So I need you to read,
it's there in your study guide.
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My friend Roy Gane who
teaches Old Testament here
00:22:53.50\00:22:55.40
at the theological seminary.
00:22:55.43\00:22:56.46
If you want to buy a book
00:22:56.49\00:22:59.34
that will unlock for
you the deep symbolism,
00:22:59.37\00:23:02.27
the rich mystery of
the sanctuary system
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get his book, it's in
both bookstores here in town.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.18
The title of the
book is "Altar Call."
00:23:08.21\00:23:10.40
You can go on Amazon.com
and you can get Altar Call
00:23:10.43\00:23:13.09
by Roy Gane, all right.
00:23:13.12\00:23:14.65
I put a few lines from Roy
on the screen here describing
00:23:14.68\00:23:17.72
what's taking place
here with those sacrifices.
00:23:17.75\00:23:19.97
Roy writing, "By transferring
a sacrificial animal to God,
00:23:20.00\00:23:24.51
an Israelite transferred
sin or ritual impurity from him,
00:23:24.54\00:23:28.74
from herself to
God at His sanctuary.
00:23:28.77\00:23:31.08
The person was
freed from the problem
00:23:31.11\00:23:32.49
because God took it.
00:23:32.52\00:23:33.74
It was now in God's 'ball park,'
00:23:33.77\00:23:35.18
that is, His sanctuary.
00:23:35.21\00:23:36.67
When an Israelite
laid one hand on the head
00:23:36.70\00:23:38.44
of an animal in a sin offering
00:23:38.47\00:23:40.10
this gesture
played an important role
00:23:40.13\00:23:42.54
in the transfer of
evil to the sanctuary."
00:23:42.57\00:23:47.16
Through the high drama
of the Day of Atonement
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and you need to jot this down.
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"Through the high drama
of the Day of Atonement,
00:23:51.04\00:23:52.94
God taught his people
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that the evil of
human rebellion and sin
00:23:54.29\00:23:57.00
would not forever
stain this universe,
00:23:57.03\00:23:59.84
but that a day of
reckoning was coming,
00:23:59.87\00:24:01.51
a day of judgment."
00:24:01.54\00:24:03.04
It is clear it
was a day of judgment.
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Write in that word, judgment.
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"A day of purgation,
00:24:06.69\00:24:08.95
when the judicial
records of sin would be cleansed
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.84
from God's sanctuary and
purged from his universe."
00:24:11.87\00:24:15.69
And so jot this down.
00:24:15.72\00:24:17.07
The divine purging is
described in Leviticus 16
00:24:17.10\00:24:19.92
as cleansing, cleansing
the sanctuary, all right.
00:24:19.95\00:24:25.21
Cleansing the sanctuary.
00:24:25.24\00:24:28.99
You'll say come on,
00:24:29.02\00:24:32.40
Dwight, this is
just Old Testament stuff,
00:24:32.43\00:24:36.13
I'm a New Testament Christian.
I'm beyond all of this.
00:24:36.16\00:24:39.64
Oh, are you really?
00:24:39.67\00:24:40.85
Well, you certainly out
beyond the New Testament
00:24:40.88\00:24:42.47
because the New
Testament confirms
00:24:42.50\00:24:44.60
and affirms that cleansing.
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In fact, let's
turn to that next text,
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Hebrews Chapter 9
take a look at this,
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amazing in the--
00:24:50.28\00:24:51.95
And by the way, you
know, the Book of Hebrews
00:24:51.98\00:24:54.48
in the New
Testament is a twin almost
00:24:54.51\00:24:57.30
to the Book of
Leviticus in the Old Testament.
00:24:57.33\00:24:58.85
These two books are twin books
dealing with the same theme.
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We'll go to the New Testament.
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In that wilderness tabernacle
00:25:06.36\00:25:08.55
the cleansing on
the Day of Atonement.
00:25:08.58\00:25:10.51
You know, how the
cleansing happened?
00:25:10.54\00:25:12.79
When the blood of the goat
00:25:12.82\00:25:14.90
was brought to where
the other sprinklings
00:25:14.93\00:25:16.64
had been made all year long
00:25:16.67\00:25:18.56
the symbolic
cleansing took place
00:25:18.59\00:25:20.24
when the high priest
spilled goat's blood on top
00:25:20.27\00:25:24.31
of the other stains.
00:25:24.34\00:25:26.37
Cleansing the sanctuary
00:25:26.40\00:25:28.61
is that just an
Old Testament motive.
00:25:28.64\00:25:30.24
Where are you?
Hebrews Chapter 9.
00:25:30.27\00:25:31.80
Let's take a look at that.
00:25:31.83\00:25:33.46
Hebrews Chapter 9,
00:25:33.49\00:25:35.88
let's pick it up
here in verse 22.
00:25:35.91\00:25:38.91
"In fact," the writer of Hebrews
00:25:38.94\00:25:40.79
pointing out here,
00:25:40.82\00:25:41.85
"In fact, the law requires
00:25:41.88\00:25:43.99
that nearly everything be" what?
00:25:44.02\00:25:47.31
Be cleansed.
00:25:47.34\00:25:48.56
"Nearly everything
be cleansed with blood,"
00:25:48.59\00:25:50.82
excuse me.
00:25:50.85\00:25:51.93
By the way, that Greek word
00:25:51.96\00:25:53.54
for cleansed here
is the very same word
00:25:53.57\00:25:56.51
in the Greek Old
Testament called the Septuagint
00:25:56.54\00:25:58.54
in the Day of Atonement.
00:25:58.57\00:25:59.60
Identical word, identical word.
00:25:59.63\00:26:02.42
Now the law is
clear that everything
00:26:02.45\00:26:03.78
be cleansed with blood
00:26:03.81\00:26:05.58
"and without the
shedding of blood
00:26:05.61\00:26:07.11
there is no forgiveness."
00:26:07.14\00:26:08.31
Verse 23, "So it
was necessary, then,
00:26:08.34\00:26:11.24
for the copies of
the heavenly things"
00:26:11.27\00:26:13.22
that would be
the earthly sanctuary
00:26:13.25\00:26:14.87
"to be purified
with these sacrifices,
00:26:14.90\00:26:16.84
but the heavenly
things themselves
00:26:16.87\00:26:18.99
are gonna be
purified and cleansed."
00:26:19.02\00:26:20.41
By the way, the word purified
is identical with cleanse,
00:26:20.44\00:26:22.40
for some reason NIV
00:26:22.43\00:26:23.92
chooses to render it separately.
00:26:23.95\00:26:27.18
"So it is that the
heavenly things themselves
00:26:27.21\00:26:28.95
will be cleansed with
better sacrifices than these.
00:26:28.98\00:26:31.69
For" verse 24,
00:26:31.72\00:26:32.76
"Christ did not
enter a man-made sanctuary
00:26:32.79\00:26:34.99
that was only a copy
of the true one in heaven,
00:26:35.02\00:26:37.29
he entered heaven itself,
00:26:37.32\00:26:38.99
now to appear for
us in God's presence."
00:26:39.02\00:26:41.31
Verse 25, "Nor
did he enter heaven
00:26:41.34\00:26:43.47
to offer
himself again and again,
00:26:43.50\00:26:44.80
the way the high priest
enters the Most Holy Place
00:26:44.83\00:26:46.80
every year with
blood that is not his own."
00:26:46.83\00:26:48.69
Verse 26,
00:26:48.72\00:26:49.75
"Then Christ would have
had to suffer many times
00:26:49.78\00:26:52.00
since the
creation of the world."
00:26:52.03\00:26:53.09
No, no, no, no, no.
00:26:53.12\00:26:54.15
"But now he has appeared
00:26:54.18\00:26:55.60
once for all at
the end of the ages
00:26:55.63\00:26:58.59
to do away with sin by
the sacrifice of himself."
00:26:58.62\00:27:03.54
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:03.57\00:27:04.60
clearly this is Day
of Atonement language.
00:27:04.63\00:27:07.33
There's only one day
in the liturgical year
00:27:07.36\00:27:10.17
when a sacrifice
cleansed the sanctuary.
00:27:10.20\00:27:14.34
What's the writer of
Hebrew is trying to tell us.
00:27:14.37\00:27:16.30
Jot it down, will you?
00:27:16.33\00:27:17.79
"If God's sandbox illustration
of the plan of salvation,
00:27:17.82\00:27:22.06
if the earthly
sanctuary had to be cleansed
00:27:22.09\00:27:25.53
and it represented the
great reality in heaven
00:27:25.56\00:27:27.74
then should we not conclude,
00:27:27.77\00:27:29.26
the writer of Hebrews is asking,
00:27:29.29\00:27:30.73
that the heavenly sanctuary
would also be cleansed"
00:27:30.76\00:27:34.93
write it in "that
the heavenly sanctuary
00:27:34.96\00:27:36.38
would also be cleansed
00:27:36.41\00:27:38.02
but with the
greatest sacrifice of all?"
00:27:38.05\00:27:40.17
Not with the blood of goat
00:27:40.20\00:27:43.87
but with the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ himself.
00:27:43.90\00:27:47.25
Wow, don't you tell me
00:27:47.28\00:27:48.88
that's an Old
Testament teaching,
00:27:48.91\00:27:50.19
that's Old and New Testament.
00:27:50.22\00:27:54.47
The heavenly
sanctuary must be cleansed.
00:27:54.50\00:27:58.84
So here's the question, when?
00:27:58.87\00:28:00.99
When should the
sanctuary be cleansed?
00:28:01.02\00:28:02.43
Tell you what, the
two apocalyptic books
00:28:02.46\00:28:04.23
Daniel and Revelation leave
us not guessing another moment.
00:28:04.26\00:28:07.40
Just three passages, let
me just fly these by you,
00:28:07.43\00:28:09.74
you notice when.
00:28:09.77\00:28:10.80
Let's go to back
to the Old Testament.
00:28:10.83\00:28:13.04
You say, Dwight,
00:28:13.07\00:28:14.10
can I just read
it off the screen?
00:28:14.13\00:28:15.16
Of course, you can
read it off the screen
00:28:15.19\00:28:16.22
but I would love for you
to see this in your own Bible.
00:28:16.25\00:28:17.92
By the way, we've
been to this Daniel 7,
00:28:17.95\00:28:20.44
every time we've
been in this series.
00:28:20.47\00:28:21.82
So, you're familiar with this.
00:28:21.85\00:28:23.08
Let's go back to
Daniel 7, go back,
00:28:23.11\00:28:26.11
it's page 602 in your pew Bible.
00:28:26.14\00:28:31.31
Let's read those
same two verses again,
00:28:31.34\00:28:32.67
Daniel 7:9 and then verse 10.
00:28:32.70\00:28:35.70
Daniel's in vision,
00:28:35.73\00:28:37.64
Daniel 7:9 "As I looked,
00:28:37.67\00:28:40.38
thrones were set in place,
00:28:40.41\00:28:42.51
and the Ancient of
Days took his seat."
00:28:42.54\00:28:44.85
Something is being
convened right now.
00:28:44.88\00:28:47.54
"His clothing
was as white as snow,
00:28:47.57\00:28:49.30
the hair of his
head was white like wool.
00:28:49.33\00:28:50.98
His throne was
flaming with fire,
00:28:51.01\00:28:52.27
and its wheels were all ablaze."
00:28:52.30\00:28:53.51
Verse 10, "A river
of fire was flowing,
00:28:53.54\00:28:55.92
coming out from before him.
00:28:55.95\00:28:57.42
Thousands upon
thousands attended him,
00:28:57.45\00:28:59.56
ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before him.
00:28:59.59\00:29:02.91
The court was seated,
and the books were opened."
00:29:02.94\00:29:07.53
Remember from
our study last week
00:29:07.56\00:29:08.80
the three obvious
lies, obviously number one,
00:29:08.83\00:29:11.47
this is a court scene.
00:29:11.50\00:29:13.06
Come on, we know it's a court,
it says it's a court scene.
00:29:13.09\00:29:15.11
Obviously number two,
00:29:15.14\00:29:16.56
the court is
convened in God's temple
00:29:16.59\00:29:17.92
because the throne is there,
00:29:17.95\00:29:19.15
His throne is always
in His palace or temple
00:29:19.18\00:29:20.97
and finally
obviously number three,
00:29:21.00\00:29:22.40
the court is convened
before the end of the world.
00:29:22.43\00:29:25.29
Daniel 7 is clear.
00:29:25.32\00:29:26.64
After the court,
boom, the world ends
00:29:26.67\00:29:28.97
and God's kingdom is set up.
00:29:29.00\00:29:31.38
So what we know?
00:29:31.41\00:29:32.97
We know from Daniel 7
that the day of reckoning,
00:29:33.00\00:29:35.43
this day of judgment,
00:29:35.46\00:29:37.45
this judicial
review of the records
00:29:37.48\00:29:39.11
that is so
powerfully foreshadowed
00:29:39.14\00:29:41.02
by the Day of Atonement
00:29:41.05\00:29:42.27
will indeed transpire
in the heavenly sanctuary,
00:29:42.30\00:29:45.24
in the very throne room of
God just before the end of time.
00:29:45.27\00:29:49.89
And get this, Daniel 7
has a twin chapter, Daniel 8.
00:29:49.92\00:29:54.66
The two chapters go together.
They have the same theme.
00:29:54.69\00:29:58.71
And notice how Daniel 8
00:29:58.74\00:30:00.29
describes this very same moment.
00:30:00.32\00:30:03.93
Just turn to page
Daniel 8, you're already there.
00:30:03.96\00:30:05.68
Daniel 8, just turn
your page to Daniel 8:14,
00:30:05.71\00:30:10.97
"And he said to me,
00:30:11.00\00:30:13.07
'For two thousand
three hundred days,
00:30:13.10\00:30:16.48
then the sanctuary
shall be cleansed."
00:30:16.51\00:30:21.96
There is it, there is
it ladies and gentlemen,
00:30:21.99\00:30:23.28
the cleansing of the sanctuary.
00:30:23.31\00:30:26.90
The précised
metaphor and language
00:30:26.93\00:30:30.06
of the Day of
Atonement itself straight--
00:30:30.09\00:30:33.41
play straight into the
heart of the final judgment.
00:30:33.44\00:30:37.79
It comes at the same
point in the passage of time
00:30:37.82\00:30:41.56
prophesied in both
Daniel 7 and Daniel 8.
00:30:41.59\00:30:43.72
Because-- so
here's what's up, guys,
00:30:43.75\00:30:45.63
because of their close
parallel what Daniel 7 describes
00:30:45.66\00:30:48.91
as a courtroom convened
with records Daniel 8 portrays
00:30:48.94\00:30:52.08
as the cleansing
of the sanctuary.
00:30:52.11\00:30:54.17
Two metaphors to
describe the same event,
00:30:54.20\00:30:57.05
the divine judgment
in the heavenly temple
00:30:57.08\00:30:59.29
just before the
end of the world.
00:30:59.32\00:31:02.38
And wouldn't you know
it, Revelation comes along
00:31:02.41\00:31:05.09
also in apocalyptic
book and says exactly true.
00:31:05.12\00:31:09.23
One more passage we
look up, Revelation 11,
00:31:09.26\00:31:12.38
last book of your
Bible Revelation Chapter 11.
00:31:12.41\00:31:15.43
Isn't this amazing,
00:31:15.46\00:31:17.59
both apocalyptic
books pinpointing
00:31:17.62\00:31:20.90
when this Day of
the Atonement judgment
00:31:20.93\00:31:24.48
would take place
in human history.
00:31:24.51\00:31:26.92
Can't miss it
here, Revelation 11,
00:31:26.95\00:31:31.00
let's pick it up in verse 18.
00:31:31.03\00:31:34.01
Revelation 11:18,
00:31:34.04\00:31:35.60
this is just before
the return of Christ.
00:31:35.63\00:31:37.03
Now notice this,
"The nations were angry,
00:31:37.06\00:31:40.11
and your wrath O God has come."
00:31:40.14\00:31:41.96
Now watch this,
00:31:41.99\00:31:43.02
"The time has come
for judging the dead,"
00:31:43.05\00:31:50.25
judging the dead.
00:31:50.28\00:31:53.58
"And for rewarding
your servants the prophets
00:31:53.61\00:31:55.92
and your saints
00:31:55.95\00:31:56.98
and those who
reverence your name,
00:31:57.01\00:31:58.04
both small and great
00:31:58.07\00:31:59.10
and for destroying
those who destroy the earth."
00:31:59.13\00:32:00.61
Now hold on,
here comes verse 19,
00:32:00.64\00:32:02.53
the moment the judgment
of the dead is discussed
00:32:02.56\00:32:04.91
notice the very
next scene verse 19.
00:32:04.94\00:32:07.80
Then I saw through
a crack in the door
00:32:07.83\00:32:10.58
John says, through
a crack in the door,
00:32:10.61\00:32:13.08
"God's temple in
heaven was opened,
00:32:13.11\00:32:14.91
and within his temple
00:32:14.94\00:32:16.83
was seen the
ark of his covenant.
00:32:16.86\00:32:19.55
And there came flashes
of lightning, rumblings,
00:32:19.58\00:32:21.19
peals of thunder, an earthquake
00:32:21.22\00:32:22.62
and a great hailstorm."
00:32:22.65\00:32:24.24
Isn't that amazing,
ladies and gentlemen?
00:32:24.27\00:32:26.50
When the crack in
the door is opened
00:32:26.53\00:32:29.89
into the temple
having just described
00:32:29.92\00:32:32.82
we are now entering the
time of judging the dead
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.33
what is it that,
00:32:35.36\00:32:36.65
what is that the
elderly John is granted to see?
00:32:36.68\00:32:41.80
The ark, the
Ark of the Covenant,
00:32:41.83\00:32:43.33
let me put that
picture back up on the screen.
00:32:43.36\00:32:45.86
Question, what
one day of the year
00:32:47.20\00:32:50.84
was this piece of
furniture so prominently central
00:32:50.87\00:32:56.43
that it foreshadowed
an end time judgment?
00:32:56.46\00:32:59.76
What one day of the year
00:32:59.79\00:33:02.51
was the Ark of
the Covenant featured?
00:33:02.54\00:33:04.39
Answer, the day,
the Day of Atonement.
00:33:04.42\00:33:10.13
John has shown in
vision the final judgment
00:33:10.16\00:33:11.95
of the Day of
Atonement transpiring in heaven
00:33:11.98\00:33:14.19
before the end of time.
00:33:14.22\00:33:15.26
So what does that mean?
00:33:15.29\00:33:16.50
Let's put it all
together. Jot this down please.
00:33:16.53\00:33:18.39
What can we conclude from these
three apocalyptic predictions?
00:33:18.42\00:33:21.11
Write it down what Daniel 7
00:33:21.14\00:33:22.55
and by the way, just
use abbreviations here.
00:33:22.58\00:33:25.38
"What Daniel 7 describes
00:33:25.41\00:33:27.37
as an end time celestial
court convened with records,
00:33:27.40\00:33:30.38
what Daniel 8 portrays
00:33:30.41\00:33:32.23
as the end time cleansing
of the heavenly sanctuary,
00:33:32.26\00:33:35.56
what Revelation 11
depicts as the end time
00:33:35.59\00:33:39.56
Most Holy Place
judgment of the dead
00:33:39.59\00:33:41.87
are all bound
together by the single dramatic
00:33:41.90\00:33:44.44
cleansing metaphor of
the Day of Atonement."
00:33:44.47\00:33:49.25
Write that
down, all of it bound,
00:33:49.28\00:33:52.16
one metaphor the
Day of Atonement.
00:33:52.19\00:33:54.37
And please note by the
way, all three prophecies,
00:33:54.40\00:33:56.58
all lead immediately
to the end of the world.
00:33:56.61\00:34:01.15
So what's the point?
00:34:01.18\00:34:02.62
Here's the point.
00:34:02.65\00:34:04.81
For that reason in Revelation 14
00:34:04.84\00:34:07.77
just before Jesus returns,
00:34:07.80\00:34:09.24
His picture
returning in verse 14,
00:34:09.27\00:34:10.85
the message to go to the world
just before Christ returns,
00:34:10.88\00:34:13.92
jot it down, Revelation 14:7,
00:34:13.95\00:34:15.71
"The hour of his
judgment has come."
00:34:15.74\00:34:21.03
The hour of His
judgment has come.
00:34:21.06\00:34:23.20
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:23.23\00:34:24.47
we are in the
judgment right now,
00:34:24.50\00:34:29.31
that's the point.
00:34:29.34\00:34:30.53
Now you and I are sitting
here talking to each other
00:34:30.56\00:34:32.62
it's going on in heaven.
00:34:32.65\00:34:34.75
There is a cleansing
of the heavenly sanctuary,
00:34:34.78\00:34:37.09
a judicial cleansing
of the heavenly records
00:34:37.12\00:34:39.71
while we are sitting right here.
00:34:39.74\00:34:41.06
And it's not a great leap
of logic to then conclude.
00:34:45.28\00:34:49.08
At some point the
heavenly courtroom
00:34:49.11\00:34:52.08
will finish with
the records of the dead
00:34:52.11\00:34:55.89
and will move,
because there's no choice.
00:34:55.92\00:34:58.00
You just logically-- okay now,
00:34:58.03\00:34:59.79
it's everybody who is alive.
00:34:59.82\00:35:02.52
You say, oh, listen, Dwight,
00:35:02.55\00:35:04.04
I will know,
there will be a sign
00:35:04.07\00:35:06.02
and I will know
when that day comes.
00:35:06.05\00:35:08.06
You're right.
00:35:08.09\00:35:09.69
You think you will?
00:35:09.72\00:35:10.77
Did the antediluvians know
was there some kind of a sign
00:35:10.80\00:35:14.07
and they knew
it's really important
00:35:14.10\00:35:15.58
how to make a decision?
00:35:15.61\00:35:16.76
Was there some sign?
00:35:16.79\00:35:17.87
Did Lot and Sodom
and Gomorrah know,
00:35:17.90\00:35:20.47
was there some sign given?
00:35:20.50\00:35:22.86
Not a thing.
00:35:22.89\00:35:23.92
They kept
merrying, they kept party,
00:35:23.95\00:35:26.43
they kept living and it came.
00:35:26.46\00:35:30.76
The point, guess
what, it's cleansing time.
00:35:30.79\00:35:36.54
Judicial cleansing
in the records up there,
00:35:36.57\00:35:37.86
but you know what,
00:35:37.89\00:35:38.93
there's nothing I
can do about that.
00:35:38.96\00:35:40.43
There is nothing I can
do about that up there.
00:35:40.46\00:35:42.47
Moral cleansing of
the hearts down here
00:35:42.50\00:35:46.21
and that's where you
and I are called to sit up.
00:35:46.24\00:35:52.42
It's time to get serious.
00:35:55.07\00:35:56.96
Here's the point,
00:35:56.99\00:35:58.02
it is time to get serious
about our moral cleansing.
00:35:58.05\00:36:03.95
That's the point.
You can't laugh it off.
00:36:03.98\00:36:06.42
You can't say well, manana.
00:36:06.45\00:36:09.52
Manana, who gets
manana around here?
00:36:09.55\00:36:13.21
Nobody does.
00:36:13.24\00:36:15.29
It's time, it's cleansing time.
00:36:15.32\00:36:18.66
You say, come on, Dwight,
00:36:18.69\00:36:19.98
I mean I thought
look, look, look,
00:36:20.01\00:36:21.42
I thought that when I
confess my sins to God
00:36:21.45\00:36:23.93
I was immediately
cleansed just like that.
00:36:23.96\00:36:27.23
You know what, my
friend, you were and I'm
00:36:27.26\00:36:30.54
that great gold
standard Bible promises,
00:36:30.57\00:36:34.98
just put it on the screen here,
00:36:35.01\00:36:36.04
1 John 1:9,
00:36:36.07\00:36:37.35
in fact, let's do
this one out loud together.
00:36:37.38\00:36:39.11
You know it so well.
00:36:39.14\00:36:40.21
"If we confess our
sins, He is faithful
00:36:40.24\00:36:43.81
and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us"
00:36:43.84\00:36:48.20
write that down
"and to cleanse us
00:36:48.23\00:36:50.59
from all unrighteousness."
00:36:50.62\00:36:53.17
I'm telling you
what, that is tried
00:36:53.20\00:36:54.98
and true this
divine promise the moment
00:36:55.01\00:36:56.97
I confess my sins to God,
00:36:57.00\00:36:58.91
He forgives me and
immediately cleanses me
00:36:58.94\00:37:01.09
from the guilty
stain of my moral meltdown.
00:37:01.12\00:37:03.63
Boom, cleansed.
00:37:03.66\00:37:08.20
But I need to remind you
00:37:08.23\00:37:13.70
that the God who
forgives us all along the way
00:37:13.73\00:37:18.74
is the same God who
gives us all along the way,
00:37:18.77\00:37:22.83
the freedom to
reverse ourselves at anytime
00:37:22.86\00:37:26.61
and take all those sins back.
00:37:26.64\00:37:33.34
Once upon a time
00:37:33.37\00:37:35.07
it's where Jesus told the story.
00:37:35.10\00:37:36.14
You remember the story.
00:37:36.17\00:37:37.20
Once upon a time
there was a servant
00:37:37.23\00:37:41.45
who owed the king
00:37:41.48\00:37:42.92
an
astronomically humongous debt.
00:37:42.95\00:37:48.30
According to calculations
00:37:48.33\00:37:49.37
he owed 200,000
years of back wages.
00:37:49.40\00:37:55.81
Now when the king did
the auditing of the books
00:37:55.84\00:37:58.40
going through the
records when the king did it,
00:37:58.43\00:38:00.55
he found out this debt
he summoned the servant.
00:38:00.58\00:38:02.96
He said, I'm sorry,
00:38:02.99\00:38:04.03
but it's over for
you, it's curtains.
00:38:04.06\00:38:05.14
Adios to jail you go
00:38:05.17\00:38:06.58
and the servant
fell on his face.
00:38:06.61\00:38:07.80
You remember the story?
00:38:07.83\00:38:08.86
And wept before
the king, I beg of you.
00:38:08.89\00:38:11.08
Just give me sometime.
00:38:11.11\00:38:12.45
I'll get this, I'll come
up with 200,000 years of wages
00:38:12.48\00:38:15.48
if you just give me time.
00:38:15.51\00:38:18.74
It was
ridiculous, the proposition.
00:38:18.77\00:38:21.30
But the king took
pity on the weeping servant
00:38:21.33\00:38:24.51
and you know what the king did?
00:38:24.54\00:38:25.66
Get this guys,
fully and freely forgave
00:38:25.69\00:38:28.94
the entire
astronomically humongous debt
00:38:28.97\00:38:33.31
just like that,
out of the records.
00:38:33.34\00:38:34.67
It's not even on the
records, it's gone, it's over.
00:38:34.70\00:38:37.85
When that servant
ecstatic goes out of that palace
00:38:37.88\00:38:40.15
riding on cloud number nine,
00:38:40.18\00:38:41.86
he is thrilled
00:38:41.89\00:38:43.14
until he bumps
into a fellow servant.
00:38:43.17\00:38:44.48
You remember the story,
00:38:44.51\00:38:45.55
and he find this is the
guy that owes me 100 bucks.
00:38:45.58\00:38:48.25
He grabs the guy
around the throat,
00:38:48.28\00:38:49.34
he says hey, listen, pay
off you owe me 100 bucks.
00:38:49.37\00:38:51.13
The guy says, please,
just give me some time,
00:38:51.16\00:38:52.45
a 100 bucks.
00:38:52.48\00:38:53.55
I'll come with
the 100 bucks, please.
00:38:53.58\00:38:56.31
I'm not giving you anytime,
00:38:56.34\00:38:57.37
you are in jail and
he threw him in jail.
00:38:57.40\00:38:58.89
When the word
comes back, now hold on,
00:38:58.92\00:39:00.91
when the word
comes back to the king
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.95
the king re-summons
the forgiven servant.
00:39:02.98\00:39:09.39
And the punch line of
Jesus story is so astounding
00:39:09.42\00:39:13.29
because people don't
think God is this way.
00:39:13.32\00:39:17.04
But the king in
re-summoning the servant
00:39:17.07\00:39:21.08
who has refused
to live out the grace
00:39:21.11\00:39:22.99
that he had
received from the king,
00:39:23.02\00:39:24.92
the king reinstates
the servant's freely,
00:39:24.95\00:39:28.88
fully forgiven
debt and it is replaced,
00:39:28.91\00:39:32.74
it is rewritten on the record
and the king throws him in jail
00:39:32.77\00:39:37.13
and throws away the key
for ever and ever, amen.
00:39:37.16\00:39:40.56
And Jesus says,
00:39:40.59\00:39:41.75
that's how it will be
with your heavenly Father.
00:39:41.78\00:39:46.48
So nobody is making this up
about at anytime along the way.
00:39:46.51\00:39:50.43
If you want to have it back,
00:39:50.46\00:39:52.05
you want that debt that
00:39:52.08\00:39:53.31
you and I have wept to
God take it away from me.
00:39:53.34\00:39:56.46
If you want to have it back
00:39:56.49\00:39:58.88
you're free to have it all back.
00:39:58.91\00:40:02.95
Hence the review
at the end of time.
00:40:02.98\00:40:08.41
Are you sure you want this?
00:40:08.44\00:40:11.91
In fact, will you
jot it down please.
00:40:11.94\00:40:13.74
This is the
point of Jesus parable,
00:40:13.77\00:40:14.83
"The debt that has been
fully and freely removed
00:40:14.86\00:40:19.07
can be fully and
freely reinstated,"
00:40:19.10\00:40:22.44
that's the point.
00:40:22.47\00:40:23.56
It can be removed of course,
but it can be reinstated,
00:40:23.59\00:40:26.05
"if we who have
been cleansed by God
00:40:26.08\00:40:27.62
quit living the life
of the cleansed for God."
00:40:27.65\00:40:31.75
I'm gonna repeat that.
00:40:31.78\00:40:32.99
"The debt that has been
fully and freely removed
00:40:33.02\00:40:34.73
can be fully and
freely reinstated,
00:40:34.76\00:40:36.44
if we who have
been cleansed by God
00:40:36.47\00:40:38.39
quit living the life
of the cleansed for God."
00:40:38.42\00:40:42.54
Some people
mistakenly conclude that
00:40:42.57\00:40:44.03
what the Christian life
00:40:44.06\00:40:45.45
is all about is
only the beginning.
00:40:45.48\00:40:46.83
I got to get
saved at the beginning
00:40:46.86\00:40:47.99
and then I got it.
00:40:48.02\00:40:49.57
Oh, no my friends, the
Day of Atonement reminds us
00:40:49.60\00:40:53.83
that the end of the
journey is just as critical
00:40:53.86\00:40:57.78
as the beginning of the journey.
00:40:57.81\00:41:00.28
Now you have, look at,
it's Jesus from stand to stand,
00:41:00.31\00:41:02.17
don't you be alarmed at all.
00:41:02.20\00:41:05.84
My God, this is
Philippians 1:6 and I love this.
00:41:05.87\00:41:08.26
"My God, who has
begun a good work in you
00:41:08.29\00:41:10.52
will bring it to
completion by the end of time.
00:41:10.55\00:41:14.08
You stay with
God. You stay with God.
00:41:14.11\00:41:16.42
You have nothing, no worries,
00:41:16.45\00:41:19.82
you stay with Him.
00:41:19.85\00:41:22.82
So, Brother Dwight, please,
00:41:22.85\00:41:25.66
this takes all
the assurance away.
00:41:25.69\00:41:27.22
All the security
that I have in Christ,
00:41:27.25\00:41:29.69
now if I have to worry
how the journey is gonna end.
00:41:29.72\00:41:31.69
Man, you've taken it all away.
00:41:31.72\00:41:32.89
Are you
kidding? Are you serious?
00:41:32.92\00:41:35.31
You can't be.
00:41:35.34\00:41:37.12
I married Karen 35
years ago, hallelujah
00:41:37.15\00:41:44.96
and I'm not worried.
00:41:44.99\00:41:46.07
Do you think I sit around
00:41:46.10\00:41:48.04
worried about how the
story is going to end?
00:41:48.07\00:41:49.46
Are you kidding?
00:41:49.49\00:41:50.52
Because we are friends for life.
00:41:50.55\00:41:52.19
I'm a happily married man.
00:41:52.22\00:41:53.89
Do you know why
I'm happy married man?
00:41:53.92\00:41:55.85
Because everyday
when I leave the house
00:41:55.88\00:41:57.17
Karen stands me
up against the door
00:41:57.20\00:41:58.45
and says repeat after me,
I'm a happily married man.
00:41:58.48\00:42:01.36
I repeat it.
I'm happily married.
00:42:01.39\00:42:04.44
I know I'm happily married.
00:42:04.47\00:42:08.49
When you are in
love, when you are in love,
00:42:08.52\00:42:12.09
when you're growing a
deepening relationship
00:42:12.12\00:42:14.16
with someone you
never have to worry about
00:42:14.19\00:42:17.14
how the story is gonna end
00:42:17.17\00:42:18.79
because you already
know how it's gonna end.
00:42:18.82\00:42:21.00
It's gonna end the
same way you begin.
00:42:21.03\00:42:22.53
You begin in love,
it will end in love.
00:42:22.56\00:42:26.21
You got nothing,
nothing to worry about.
00:42:26.24\00:42:29.65
No assurance has
been taken away from you.
00:42:29.68\00:42:31.80
There is no bad news here.
00:42:31.83\00:42:34.50
Give me a break.
00:42:34.53\00:42:37.09
Do you think-- listen, think,
00:42:39.59\00:42:42.01
do you think God's
friends are threatened
00:42:42.04\00:42:45.63
with the Bible teaching
00:42:45.66\00:42:46.69
that He will convene a judicial
review at the end of time
00:42:46.72\00:42:49.34
for the purpose as we
carefully noted last week
00:42:49.37\00:42:51.89
of rejecting Satan's dark
charges against this, friends.
00:42:51.92\00:42:55.27
And God says, okay,
let's look at the records.
00:42:55.30\00:42:56.65
I'm proving to you
they are really my friends.
00:42:56.68\00:42:59.81
Do you think God's
friends are upset about
00:42:59.84\00:43:02.09
a judicial review
that vindicates them?
00:43:02.12\00:43:05.03
Please.
00:43:05.06\00:43:06.33
Do you think God's friends
00:43:06.36\00:43:07.39
would find it
threatening to know
00:43:07.42\00:43:08.52
that while He is judicially
cleansing His sanctuary above,
00:43:08.55\00:43:11.34
He simultaneously wants to be
00:43:11.37\00:43:12.82
morally
cleansing this heart below?
00:43:12.85\00:43:15.94
Do you think that bothers,
that bothers God friends?
00:43:15.97\00:43:18.74
Shouldn't.
00:43:18.77\00:43:19.98
Is moral cleansing a threat?
00:43:20.01\00:43:23.21
Is moral cleansing a threat?
00:43:23.24\00:43:27.15
Why would that
bother you unless,
00:43:27.18\00:43:30.77
unless of course
you didn't want to be
00:43:30.80\00:43:33.90
morally cleansed in
every area of your life.
00:43:33.93\00:43:38.51
Do you suppose that's it?
00:43:38.54\00:43:40.45
Could there be why some
have so viciously ranted
00:43:40.48\00:43:43.91
and raved against
the Bible teaching
00:43:43.94\00:43:45.74
of the
cleansing of the sanctuary
00:43:45.77\00:43:47.13
because embracing
it would compel them
00:43:47.16\00:43:49.62
to surrender something
00:43:49.65\00:43:51.09
that they are
hanging on for dear life.
00:43:51.12\00:43:52.71
And so rather than attack
what they are hanging on to,
00:43:52.74\00:43:55.32
they attack the teaching.
00:43:55.35\00:43:58.09
Such vitriol can we have,
00:43:58.12\00:44:02.12
can we have a
civil conversation here?
00:44:02.15\00:44:04.39
Can we look at the evidence?
00:44:04.42\00:44:06.66
Why all this venom
unless the teaching touches
00:44:06.69\00:44:13.31
where it hurts and
rather than dealing
00:44:13.34\00:44:16.14
with where it hurts
00:44:16.17\00:44:18.33
you destroy the
teaching instead.
00:44:18.36\00:44:21.93
Please, when it turns out
00:44:21.96\00:44:25.10
that this teaching
neither weakens our assurance
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.48
and security in Christ
00:44:28.51\00:44:29.54
nor threatens our
friendship with God
00:44:29.57\00:44:31.59
but in fact,
does the very opposite
00:44:31.62\00:44:33.67
and strengthens our bond
with the judge of the universe.
00:44:33.70\00:44:37.96
Why would you be...?
00:44:37.99\00:44:39.34
Why would you be so
upset with the teaching?
00:44:39.37\00:44:46.10
Good news, bound to
that judge for ever and ever.
00:44:46.13\00:44:53.16
But the life for me,
I don't understand this.
00:44:53.19\00:44:57.00
You see the secret of
the investigative judgment,
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.91
here's the secret is to remember
00:45:03.94\00:45:05.55
how God promises it
will end for His friends.
00:45:05.58\00:45:07.94
So let's end with this.
00:45:07.97\00:45:09.00
All right, you
are in Revelation,
00:45:09.03\00:45:10.06
I'm in Revelation.
00:45:10.09\00:45:11.12
Go to Revelation 3,
isn't this beautiful?
00:45:11.15\00:45:12.94
Can you believe this
text is in the Bible?
00:45:12.97\00:45:16.06
Revelation Chapter 3
and verse 5 of Revelation 3
00:45:16.09\00:45:18.86
is filled with the nomenclature
00:45:18.89\00:45:21.81
of a courtroom
of a judgment scene.
00:45:21.84\00:45:24.61
I love this.
00:45:24.64\00:45:25.67
Look at this Revelation
3:5 Jesus is speaking.
00:45:25.70\00:45:29.07
You have a Red Letter
Bible this should be bright red.
00:45:29.10\00:45:32.44
Jesus speaking,
"He who overcomes"
00:45:32.47\00:45:35.08
she who overcomes
00:45:35.11\00:45:36.83
"will, like them,
be dressed in white.
00:45:36.86\00:45:41.70
I will never blot out his name"
00:45:41.73\00:45:44.79
her name "from the book of life,
00:45:44.82\00:45:46.74
but will acknowledge" him,
will acknowledge her " name
00:45:46.77\00:45:49.29
before my
Father and his angels."
00:45:49.32\00:45:52.31
Hold on, hold on,
there he is ancient of days
00:45:52.34\00:45:54.99
convening the judgment.
00:45:55.02\00:45:56.43
The Father is on the throne,
00:45:56.46\00:45:57.78
the celestial
observers the jury is all there
00:45:57.81\00:46:00.40
and what does Jesus
say the hero of heaven,
00:46:00.43\00:46:02.86
what does He say?
00:46:02.89\00:46:04.12
Not to worry, I
will acknowledge you,
00:46:04.15\00:46:09.09
you live My overcoming life.
00:46:09.12\00:46:10.77
You let me overcome through you,
00:46:10.80\00:46:12.48
I'll acknowledge you
to the entire universe.
00:46:12.51\00:46:15.71
You are gonna wear white,
it's the color of victory.
00:46:15.74\00:46:17.71
Your name will never be expunged
00:46:17.74\00:46:20.60
from the books brought
00:46:20.63\00:46:23.64
to the courtroom
the book of life,
00:46:23.67\00:46:26.08
you secured me.
00:46:26.11\00:46:28.20
I've never.
00:46:28.23\00:46:29.57
See, that's what
if friends of Jesus,
00:46:29.60\00:46:30.74
this teaching
affirms, affirms their trust
00:46:30.77\00:46:37.17
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:46:37.20\00:46:39.42
So where you get
these white robes on?
00:46:39.45\00:46:41.16
We started with
blood, let's end with blood.
00:46:41.19\00:46:42.75
Where do you get
these white robes?
00:46:42.78\00:46:43.85
How do you get
robes that are white?
00:46:43.88\00:46:46.07
While since you are
there just turn the page
00:46:46.10\00:46:47.80
to Revelation 7 last line.
00:46:47.83\00:46:51.17
How do I get these
robes that are white?
00:46:51.20\00:46:54.43
Here it is ladies and gentlemen,
00:46:54.46\00:46:55.87
verse 13, Revelation 7:13,
00:46:55.90\00:46:58.36
"Then one of the
elders asked me,"
00:46:58.39\00:47:00.54
hey, John,
00:47:00.57\00:47:02.29
"'These in white
robes who are they,
00:47:02.32\00:47:04.85
and where did they come from?'
00:47:04.88\00:47:06.23
And I answered,"
verse 14, "Sir, you know.'
00:47:06.26\00:47:09.63
And he said,
00:47:09.66\00:47:11.17
'These are they
who have come out
00:47:11.20\00:47:13.27
of the great tribulation...'"
00:47:13.30\00:47:14.40
Now watch this,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:14.43\00:47:16.15
"They have washed their robes
00:47:16.18\00:47:19.00
and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb."
00:47:19.03\00:47:25.76
Hallelujah, it always
comes back to the blood.
00:47:25.79\00:47:28.34
Not the blood of the goat,
00:47:28.37\00:47:29.40
no, no, no, no, no,
the blood of a lamb.
00:47:29.43\00:47:31.14
Behold the lamb of God
00:47:31.17\00:47:32.80
who takes away
the sin of the world.
00:47:32.83\00:47:37.07
Blood, that's why our series
00:47:37.10\00:47:40.58
it's cleansing time
right now, right now.
00:47:40.61\00:47:45.09
It's going on right
now. It's cleansing time.
00:47:45.12\00:47:50.29
Is there something in your life
00:47:50.32\00:47:52.35
that needs to get cleansed
00:47:52.38\00:47:54.21
right out of your
heart this is the time.
00:47:54.24\00:47:58.89
Well, I'll do it
later, Dwight, I'll do it,
00:47:58.92\00:48:00.00
you know, when a
convenient time comes.
00:48:00.03\00:48:01.60
There is no
convenient time, it's right now.
00:48:01.63\00:48:05.52
Is there something
that needs to get cleansed
00:48:05.55\00:48:08.42
right out of your life it's now,
00:48:08.45\00:48:14.15
not tomorrow, not next year,
00:48:14.18\00:48:18.26
it's right now,
it's cleansing time,
00:48:18.29\00:48:21.60
right now.
00:48:21.63\00:48:25.13
I don't know how
long this judgment
00:48:25.16\00:48:26.20
is gonna last in heaven,
00:48:26.23\00:48:28.70
I just know that today right now
00:48:28.73\00:48:29.92
would be a very good time
00:48:29.95\00:48:31.71
to turn to Jesus
for His cleansing,
00:48:31.74\00:48:34.57
that's what I know.
00:48:34.60\00:48:35.71
And that's why today in
your bulletin was this card,
00:48:35.74\00:48:41.37
you were handed
it just a moment ago,
00:48:41.40\00:48:42.87
pull the card out
now, will you please?
00:48:42.90\00:48:44.18
So that I can
take a closing moment
00:48:44.21\00:48:45.84
and think about
what this card represents
00:48:45.87\00:48:47.43
for you and for me.
00:48:47.46\00:48:49.68
Pull the card out.
00:48:49.71\00:48:51.75
You didn't get a card,
00:48:51.78\00:48:54.05
we can give one to you
if you hold your hand up.
00:48:54.08\00:48:56.88
I want to draw your
attention to this card.
00:48:56.91\00:48:58.15
This will be
used in on this campus
00:48:58.18\00:49:00.39
this entire year.
00:49:00.42\00:49:03.48
We get to use it today.
00:49:03.51\00:49:06.75
Excuse me.
00:49:06.78\00:49:10.31
There are list of responses here
00:49:10.34\00:49:11.73
but I only want to
draw your attention
00:49:11.76\00:49:13.00
to three of them
with your permission.
00:49:13.03\00:49:15.68
You see the one,
the second one down,
00:49:15.71\00:49:17.45
I would like to commit my life
to Jesus for the first time.
00:49:17.48\00:49:21.63
There are some of you here today
00:49:21.66\00:49:23.70
who have never
given your life to Jesus.
00:49:23.73\00:49:26.51
You know, you are waiting
for a very special kind of day.
00:49:26.54\00:49:29.71
My friend, there is
no special kind of day.
00:49:29.74\00:49:32.42
The only special day
is the day called today.
00:49:32.45\00:49:36.30
Give your life to Jesus.
00:49:36.33\00:49:37.38
You say, Dwight,
what's that mean?
00:49:37.41\00:49:38.44
Just put your case, say, Jesus,
00:49:38.47\00:49:39.82
you take my case
to that judgment.
00:49:39.85\00:49:43.35
You take me to the courtroom,
00:49:43.38\00:49:45.53
I place my life in your hands.
00:49:45.56\00:49:47.54
I'll do, I'll follow you Jesus,
I don't even know that means.
00:49:47.57\00:49:51.29
I'll follow You,
I'll give You my life.
00:49:51.32\00:49:54.14
I'll put my case in
a nail scared hands.
00:49:54.17\00:49:56.59
You put a check
mark right there.
00:49:56.62\00:49:57.99
We'll get some
literature to you.
00:49:58.02\00:49:59.60
What is it mean to follow Jesus?
00:49:59.63\00:50:01.60
It's not rocket
science, hallelujah,
00:50:01.63\00:50:03.51
it's the simplest friendship
you can grow on this planet
00:50:03.54\00:50:07.63
and God says you can have it.
00:50:07.66\00:50:09.20
Why would you
want to go another day
00:50:09.23\00:50:10.27
and say well,
I've not really secured
00:50:10.30\00:50:11.33
the judgment up
there but I'll wait?
00:50:11.36\00:50:12.39
Don't you wait,
00:50:12.42\00:50:13.45
just put a check
mark right now, please.
00:50:13.48\00:50:16.15
You are not making
any commitment to me,
00:50:16.18\00:50:17.24
you understand that.
00:50:17.27\00:50:19.19
You're making a
commitment to Jesus.
00:50:19.22\00:50:21.69
Put a check mark there,
00:50:21.72\00:50:22.75
I want to commit my life
to Jesus for the first time.
00:50:22.78\00:50:27.43
How about the next one?
00:50:27.46\00:50:28.49
It's about four down
to-- I would like to receive
00:50:28.52\00:50:31.49
Bible studies to
prepare for baptism.
00:50:31.52\00:50:34.27
You never been baptized
00:50:34.30\00:50:36.05
for whatever
reason it just never came.
00:50:36.08\00:50:38.62
I want to tell you something,
00:50:38.65\00:50:39.68
no one is gonna be
baptized next Sabbath.
00:50:39.71\00:50:42.27
But if you would
like to begin to think,
00:50:42.30\00:50:46.13
say, do I have to be a
college student to do this?
00:50:46.16\00:50:48.06
You're kidding,
this is for all of us.
00:50:48.09\00:50:50.47
If you have not been baptized
00:50:50.50\00:50:51.77
and you would like to begin
00:50:51.80\00:50:54.47
to prepare your
life to follow Jesus
00:50:54.50\00:50:56.00
in radical discipleship,
00:50:56.03\00:50:57.30
would you put
check mark right there.
00:50:57.33\00:50:58.62
I just want to, I just
want to be baptized some day.
00:50:58.65\00:51:00.56
Don't baptize me tomorrow,
00:51:00.59\00:51:01.90
I just want to be
baptized some day.
00:51:01.93\00:51:03.20
Just put a check mark there.
00:51:03.23\00:51:06.14
And there is that blank,
00:51:06.17\00:51:08.03
this what you
can put on the bland,
00:51:08.06\00:51:09.92
pray for me.
00:51:09.95\00:51:12.08
I want to tell you
that everyone of these cards
00:51:12.11\00:51:13.64
will be prayed over
00:51:13.67\00:51:15.79
and if there ever were
time in the human journey
00:51:15.82\00:51:18.23
when we needed
people praying for us,
00:51:18.26\00:51:21.19
this would be it.
00:51:21.22\00:51:22.26
You don't have to put down
00:51:22.29\00:51:23.32
what it is that need to
have somebody pray over,
00:51:23.35\00:51:25.88
just say pray for me.
00:51:25.91\00:51:27.07
I've got my name
here, I got my phone number,
00:51:27.10\00:51:29.57
just pray for me and
you will be prayed over.
00:51:29.60\00:51:34.93
Even God that cleansing,
00:51:34.96\00:51:36.69
what is this thing that
00:51:36.72\00:51:37.75
God wants to
cleanse out of your life?
00:51:37.78\00:51:39.39
What is it He wants to
cleanse out of my life?
00:51:39.42\00:51:41.13
You know, I know, ask Him
00:51:41.16\00:51:44.48
and have
somebody praying for you.
00:51:44.51\00:51:49.23
I want to take
a moment right now
00:51:49.26\00:51:50.29
for you to fill that up.
00:51:50.32\00:51:51.35
Would you?
00:51:51.38\00:51:52.41
Would you just put
a check mark there?
00:51:52.44\00:51:54.00
Your email address
will be very helpful,
00:51:54.03\00:51:55.19
telephone number.
00:51:55.22\00:51:56.25
I want the
singers please to come up
00:51:56.28\00:51:57.45
and I want them to sing for us
00:51:57.48\00:51:59.71
this beautiful old gospel hymn
00:51:59.74\00:52:02.53
"Just as I am, without one plea,
00:52:02.56\00:52:05.86
But that Thy
blood was shed for me."
00:52:05.89\00:52:08.30
And while they are
singing that stanza,
00:52:08.33\00:52:10.28
would you just fill it
in and then in just a moment
00:52:10.31\00:52:12.50
we'll just turn it, hand
them into the centre isle.
00:52:12.53\00:52:16.45
We'll receive those back.
00:52:16.48\00:52:20.34
Just as I am
00:52:24.87\00:52:30.75
Without one plea
00:52:30.78\00:52:36.41
But that Thy blood
00:52:36.44\00:52:41.91
Was shed for me
00:52:41.94\00:52:47.88
And that Thou bid'st me
00:52:47.91\00:52:54.29
Come to Thee
00:52:54.32\00:52:59.22
O Lamb of God
00:52:59.25\00:53:04.59
I come, I come.
00:53:04.62\00:53:11.64
And I'm gonna work heart out
00:53:17.65\00:53:20.52
as just somehow think about it.
00:53:20.55\00:53:23.24
You may of course be there,
00:53:23.27\00:53:25.64
some of you have been
thinking about this decision
00:53:25.67\00:53:27.46
for a very long time
and the spirit of Jesus
00:53:27.49\00:53:31.60
is speaking to
your heart right now
00:53:31.63\00:53:33.09
and He is saying, hey,
00:53:33.12\00:53:34.69
this is the day,
let's do it today.
00:53:34.72\00:53:38.55
If he is speaking to your heart,
00:53:38.58\00:53:40.08
something stirring up inside
00:53:40.11\00:53:42.13
would you put a
check mark on that.
00:53:42.16\00:53:43.59
Just put a check mark down.
00:53:43.62\00:53:46.49
It would never be
simpler than today.
00:53:46.52\00:53:48.08
Nobody is being
asked to come to the front,
00:53:48.11\00:53:50.49
you do this all anonymously
but you'll be prayed over.
00:53:50.52\00:53:55.88
They are gonna sing one stanza
00:53:55.91\00:53:57.47
if you haven't
filled it out yet,
00:53:57.50\00:53:58.57
fill it out in this last stanza.
00:53:58.60\00:54:05.22
Just as I am
00:54:05.25\00:54:08.58
And waiting not
00:54:08.61\00:54:15.69
To rid my soul
00:54:15.72\00:54:20.91
Of one dark blot
00:54:20.94\00:54:26.07
To Thee whose blood
00:54:26.10\00:54:30.84
Can cleanse each spot
00:54:30.87\00:54:36.44
O Lamb of God
00:54:36.47\00:54:42.11
I come, I come.
00:54:42.14\00:54:49.24
You bring your card in
please toward the center isle.
00:54:51.86\00:54:54.61
The ushers are coming,
and while they are doing that
00:54:54.64\00:54:56.36
let's stand now,
let's stand together
00:54:56.39\00:54:58.59
and sing that old favorite.
00:54:58.62\00:55:01.14
Just as I am
00:55:01.17\00:55:05.19
Without one plea
00:55:05.22\00:55:10.20
But that Thy blood
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Was shed for me
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And that Thou bid'st me
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Come to Thee
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O Lamb of God
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I come, I come.
00:55:36.33\00:55:44.27
And so holy lamb of God,
00:55:46.00\00:55:47.24
we have sung to
you that we come.
00:55:47.27\00:55:50.01
We come just as we are,
00:55:50.04\00:55:51.90
there is no way we
can cleanse ourselves.
00:55:51.93\00:55:54.83
The stain is too
deep. We've tried too long.
00:55:54.86\00:55:59.28
Only your blood, only
the sacrifice of Calvary
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can make the
victorious difference for us.
00:56:04.22\00:56:10.24
And so we come, know our hearts,
00:56:10.27\00:56:15.04
know that we will trust
you in this cleansing time,
00:56:15.07\00:56:19.58
in this judgment
hour we will trust You
00:56:19.61\00:56:22.42
by Your grace
every step of the way
00:56:22.45\00:56:26.02
until Lord Jesus, you come.
00:56:26.05\00:56:32.16
And now to Him who loves us
00:56:32.19\00:56:35.78
and has freed us
from our sins by His blood
00:56:35.81\00:56:40.70
and has made us to be a kingdom
00:56:40.73\00:56:42.72
and priest to
serve His God and Father,
00:56:42.75\00:56:46.33
to Him be glory and power
00:56:46.36\00:56:49.31
for ever and ever, amen.
00:56:49.34\00:56:55.58
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00:56:57.05\00:56:58.18
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00:56:58.21\00:56:59.90
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