For our sin He is crucified.
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For our sin He is crucified.
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We might be saved.
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Crucified, laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
rejected and alone
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Like the rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me above all
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Above all
powers, above all kings
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Above all nature
and all created things
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Above all wisdom
and all the ways of man
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You were here
before the world began
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Above all
kingdoms, above all thrones
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Above all wonders
the world has ever known
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Above all wealth and
treasures of the earth
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There's no way to
measure what You're worth
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Crucified, laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
rejected and alone
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Like the rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me above all
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Above all
powers, above all kings
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Above all nature
and all created things
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Above all wisdom
and all the ways of man
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You were here
before the world began
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Above all
kingdoms, above all thrones
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Above all wonders
the world has ever known
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Above all wealth and
treasures of the earth
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There's no way to
measure what You're worth
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Crucified, the
laid behind the stone
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You lived to die
rejected and alone
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Like the rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me above all
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Like the rose
trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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And thought of me above all
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Thank You for the cross, Lord
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Thank You for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
and gave amazing grace
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Thank You for this love, Lord
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Thank You for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know, Your
forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious!
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The darling of heaven, crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Thank You for the cross, Lord
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Thank You for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and shame
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In love You came
and gave amazing grace
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Thank You for this love, Lord
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Thank You for the
nail-pierced hands
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Washed me in Your cleansing flow
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Now all I know, Your
forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious!
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The darling of heaven, crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Say worthy.
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Worthy is the Lamb
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seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crown
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You reign victorious!
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The darling of heaven, crucified
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What worthy is the Lamb!
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So worthy is the Lamb!
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What so worthy
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Worthy is the Lamb!
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Thank you, Jesus.
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I wonder as I wander
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Out under the sky
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How Jesus the Savior
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Did come for to die
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For poor on'ry people
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Like you and like I
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I wonder as I wander
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Out under the sky
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When Mary birthed
Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall
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With wise men and farmers
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And shepherds and all
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But high from God's heaven
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A star's light did fall
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And the promise of ages
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It then did recall
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If Jesus had wanted
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For any wee thing
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A star in the sky
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or a bird on the wing
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Or all of God's Angels
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In heaven to sing
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He surely could have it
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'Cause he was the King
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I wonder as I wander
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Out under the sky
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How Jesus the Savior
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Did come for to die
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For poor on'ry people
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Like you and like I
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I wonder as I wander
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out under the sky
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Oh, King Jesus, we do wonder
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how could it be that
You would empty Your throne.
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Come down to this
planet and be born
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for the
solitary reason of dying.
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Your birth, Your death...
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let them both be upon our hearts
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as we continue our worship.
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And holy Christ,
our hearts must respond
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to what You teach us today.
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Grant us Your
grace and Your courage
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we pray in Your name, amen.
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True confession time.
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I'm not afraid of snakes.
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I just don't want to be
there when they are there.
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Are you the same
way even that a picture
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of the snake makes you recoil?
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Take a look at this.
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Yeah, just a picture of snake.
Hey, mercy look at this one.
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Oh, boy. Hey, about this one?
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This one oh, would not
be able to hand that one,
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how about the next one.
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So be warned the
story you are about to hear
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is a real life snake story.
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I should be correct.
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It's actually is a thousands
of poisonous snakes stories
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It's the stuff of nightmares.
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Take your Bible
out, open to the fourth
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book of the Bible,
the Book of Numbers.
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Our series "The Chosen"
is moving towards its wreck.
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Not today, next
weekend, final installment.
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By the way next
Sabbath is sadist
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and the gladdest story of all.
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Don't shoot they
miss next Sabbath.
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All right.
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Numbers fourth
Book of the Bible.
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And by the way if you
didn't bring the Bible
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you have got to follow
this one for yourselves.
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So grab the pew
Bible in front of you,
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it's the saying translation
new King James Version
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that I'm in here.
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It will be page
109 in your pew Bible.
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Story begins in verse
4, Snakes in the Cradle.
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That's the title
of today's teaching.
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Snakes in the Cradle,
Numbers 21:4 then, they,
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that will be
children of Israel the chosen.
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"Then, they
journeyed from Mount Hor"
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oh, boy sad story
don't you miss next week.
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Aaron has died a top Mount Hor,
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the high priest of the community
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40 years number two in
leadership is been buried.
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"Then, they
journeyed from Mount Hor
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by the Way the Red Sea, to
go around the land of Edom"
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now I need to tell you
what happening in here.
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Edom will be the
land of children of Esau.
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These are the children of Jacob.
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So, there's cousins are in
Edom and God is absolutely clear
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you don't put the
finger, you don't put a finger
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on those Edomites
they are my children.
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God is still that way
with the children of East.
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By the way still loves
the children of the East.
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And so He says the only way
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here is the
Promise Land here's Edom
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they are coming
up from the south.
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The only way you can
get to the Promise Land
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I want you to go East.
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You go East, you go around Edom
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then you come to
the Jordan next week.
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But every step
they take eastward
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they realize we are getting
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further and further
from the Promise Land.
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Hence, the rest of verse
4 "and the soul of people
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became very
discouraged on the way."
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Verse 5, "And the people
00:17:10.35\00:17:11.74
spoke against God
and against Moses.
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'Why have you brought us up
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out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness?
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For there is no
food and no water,
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and our soul
loathes this worthless'"
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this "worthless bread."
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And the words of the former
Yankees pitcher Yogi Berra,
00:17:28.24\00:17:31.81
"it is deja vu all over again."
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I mean, can you believe it?
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It's a different
reading the same story
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we've been
reading all this semester
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the same people,
the same murmuring,
00:17:41.17\00:17:43.81
the same
complaining, the same meltdown
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different
incident, different story
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might feel familiar
it's a different story.
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For 40 years
they have been bearing
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and entire generation
behind these kids backs
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and a little burial mounts
and hot sand of their parents.
00:18:04.02\00:18:09.54
But I notice some thing
about a negative spirit.
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Maybe you have too.
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You meet a person who
when you looks at the cup
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he always tells
you it's half empty.
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You meet a person
who is by nature negative
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and I'm telling you
what, you can trace it back
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to the parents like
father like son, like daughter,
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like mother, like daughter.
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Some times it is
like daughter like mother.
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Its kids they got it
naturally they got earnestly.
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There grown up in a home.
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We sit around the dinner table
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and mom and dad were
ripped apart of the Church,
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ripped apart of the leaders,
ripped apart their work,
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complain about
the world every thing
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neggy, neggy,
neggy, they it earnestly.
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The negative
spirit never forget this,
00:18:58.52\00:19:01.24
a negative spirit
is highly contagious.
00:19:01.27\00:19:07.42
Especially, in groups by the way
00:19:07.45\00:19:09.84
which is why
every-- every leader knows
00:19:09.87\00:19:12.27
that you had got
the cut this thing off
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at the past or the entire group,
00:19:14.85\00:19:16.67
the entire congregation,
the entire community
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will going to melt down.
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So the people spoke is verse 5.
00:19:23.37\00:19:25.13
"And the people spoke
against God and against Moses,
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'Why have you brought us up
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out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness?
00:19:28.57\00:19:30.03
There is no food and no water,
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and our soul loathes
this worthless bread.'"
00:19:31.18\00:19:33.51
Which being interpreted means
00:19:33.54\00:19:34.60
we are sick and
tied of this awful manna.
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And by the way, I would go
the same way, wouldn't you?
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Forty years with that
same die wouldn't you get sick?
00:19:41.71\00:19:45.03
I would, but I
want you to remind you
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before you are too quick
to sympathize with the people.
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I want to remind you
it was never God's plan
00:19:49.31\00:19:51.31
for them to have
40 years of manna.
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God's plan was
for that generation
00:19:52.62\00:19:54.06
goes straight in
at the Promise Land
00:19:54.09\00:19:56.03
but because of their unbelief
00:19:56.06\00:19:58.99
they've been struck
with that bread for 40 years.
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A hundred years ago,
these words were written
00:20:05.08\00:20:08.95
I'm reading to you.
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For 40 years did
unbelief and murmuring
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and the rebellion
shout out ancient Israel
00:20:14.73\00:20:17.36
from the land of Canaan.
00:20:17.39\00:20:18.75
Now listen, "We too
00:20:18.78\00:20:21.40
may have to
remain here in this world
00:20:21.43\00:20:22.94
because of our insubordination.
00:20:22.97\00:20:28.40
We too may have remain in
this world many more years
00:20:28.43\00:20:31.04
as did the children of
Israel but for Christ sake"
00:20:31.07\00:20:34.19
that is strong
language by the way,
00:20:34.22\00:20:36.08
"but for Christ sake
His people should not add
00:20:36.11\00:20:38.19
sin to sin by charging
God with the consequence
00:20:38.22\00:20:40.24
of their own
wrong course of action."
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You can't blame God,
you cannot blame Moses
00:20:41.77\00:20:44.21
for these 40 years.
00:20:44.24\00:20:46.04
We are here because you choose.
00:20:46.07\00:20:50.57
So we have verse 5
"And the people spoke
00:20:50.60\00:20:52.35
against God and against Moses.
00:20:52.38\00:20:53.55
Why have you brought us
up, why have you brought us up
00:20:53.58\00:20:55.13
out of Egypt the
die in the wilderness?
00:20:55.16\00:20:56.64
For there is no
food and no water,
00:20:56.67\00:20:58.15
and our soul loathes
this worthless bread."
00:20:58.18\00:21:00.46
The leader God knows
00:21:00.49\00:21:01.65
that He has got mild
down on his hands again.
00:21:01.68\00:21:03.86
Deja vu all over
again, here we go again.
00:21:03.89\00:21:07.99
It's just days
from the promise Land.
00:21:08.02\00:21:11.68
And so verse 6, "So the
Lord sent fiery serpents
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among the people,
and they bit the people,
00:21:16.89\00:21:19.39
and many of the
people of Israel died."
00:21:19.42\00:21:24.81
I know, this sounds awful
00:21:24.84\00:21:26.05
but I got to tell
you something guys,
00:21:26.08\00:21:28.38
there is a breath
taking portrait of God
00:21:28.41\00:21:31.77
in what we had just read.
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You got to get this
don't ever forget this.
00:21:34.00\00:21:37.22
God is so committed
to our human freedom
00:21:37.25\00:21:40.40
that he has elevated free choice
00:21:40.43\00:21:42.52
as the highest of
all universal liberties.
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You think about it.
00:21:46.77\00:21:48.84
In God's kingdom
there is no greater freedom
00:21:48.87\00:21:53.07
than the freedom to choose.
00:21:53.10\00:21:56.50
That point is so critical
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to understand in
this story that are,
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I wish you take out
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Would you?
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Take out your study
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Let's get that point
while it is fresh in our minds.
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the ushers gets
that study guide.
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This is a series "The Chosen."
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And by the way this is the
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It all wraps up.
Don't you miss next week.
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But today's teaching is
entitle "Snakes in the Cradle."
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You see right besides
"Snakes in the Cradle"
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the word study
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click there you have the same
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All right that's right down
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while it's fresh,
fresh in our minds.
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Jot it down.
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God is so committed
to our human freedom
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that He has elevated
free choice, free choice.
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You got a free choice,
baby. It is your choice.
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"He has elevated free choice
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as the highest of
all universal liberties."
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Keep riding, "In God's kingdom
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there is no greater freedom
than the freedom to choose.
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Without the freedom to choose,"
write it down "reciprocal."
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You know reciprocal
means? It means I give it back.
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You give to me I return it.
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"Without the freedom to choose,
reciprocal love could not exist
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because love
must not only give you
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the right to say YES
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it must also grant
you the right to say NO."
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If you are a
young man on this campus
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and you being longing
to go out with a girl,
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you finally get up
the courage to take reside
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and you put a gun at her head
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and you announce love
me or I will kill you.
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Trust me what she
gives you will never be love.
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You can called him rape
but you cannot call in love.
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Because love in order
for the love to be loved
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it has to give you the
right not only to say yes,
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but it must give
you the right to say no.
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Well, why don't
you tell that to God?
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I mean, he is the one
who is kill all the people
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because they said no to Him.
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No, not so fast
watch out, watch this.
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Deuteronomy is out theme book.
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I want to take it to a
verse in Deuteronomy Chapter 8
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we'll put on the screen
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because we need to
put the finger right here.
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Let me show you
some thing interesting
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about the wilderness terrain
which for 40 years has been
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that the tram
and camping grounds.
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All right, this
is the wilderness.
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Moses fairly addresses, he says
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I want to remind you about God.
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Look what God did for.
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"He led you through that
great and terrible wilderness,
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in which" were what?
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"In which were fiery serpents
and scorpions and thirsty land
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where there was no water,
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God brought you water
out of the flinty rock."
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Now please note
ladies and gentlemen,
00:24:32.38\00:24:33.77
that the fiery serpents
and by the way there are fiery
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because of there
rapid fire, killer venom,
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burns as it goes in
and soon death in minutes.
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These fiery serpents
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the wilderness is
there natural habitat.
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There are the
logical inhabitants.
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They already lived in.
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In fact, would you
write it down please?
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"God did not suddenly create
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a slithering
horde of fiery serpents
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to punish the
children of Israel,
00:24:58.57\00:24:59.65
the snakes were already there."
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Don't you put this one on God.
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Well, what kind of mean You
are to come up for these snakes.
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He didn't come up for them,
the snakes are already there.
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For 40 years God's presence.
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And 1 Corinthians 10, reminds us
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it is the presence of
the pre-incarnate Christ.
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For 40 years Christ himself
has been the divine shield
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to protect these
wandering liberate slaves.
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Forty years He's
been that shield and wall.
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"But it is clear in response
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to the people's dark
and murmuring wishes,"
00:25:32.34\00:25:34.37
jot it down "God
honors their free choice."
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He values that more
than any thing in the world
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even if you saying no to Him,
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He values that more the
new having to say yes to Him.
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"God honors their free
choice and removes himself
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from their midst thus
lifting the divine shield
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that had protected
them all these years."
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Why?
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Because God is love
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and in order
for love to be loved
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it must not only grant
you the right to say yes,
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it must give you
the right to say no.
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And when Israel
says no, once again
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this time God quietly
takes no for an answer.
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He says, all right,
00:26:07.94\00:26:08.98
I got the
point, I got the point.
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I'm out of here. Good bye.
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And he walks away.
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Want you to hit the pause button
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here for just
for one quite moment.
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Some of you have been going
through some difficult time,
00:26:23.41\00:26:27.35
tough, tough, I understand.
00:26:27.38\00:26:30.58
You may be
tempted, you may be tempted
00:26:30.61\00:26:32.67
to just kiss God off.
00:26:32.70\00:26:35.50
Tell Him I've had it with You.
00:26:35.53\00:26:38.19
I begged You to do
this, I asked You to intervene
00:26:38.22\00:26:41.14
You have done
nothing for me, adios.
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I want you to think
very carefully my friend,
00:26:44.00\00:26:45.96
before you say no
to God do you know
00:26:45.99\00:26:49.75
what He has kept you
from all these years.
00:26:49.78\00:26:55.32
You be careful, won't
you say no on the borders.
00:26:55.35\00:26:57.98
Won't you say no on the
borders of the Promise Land?
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You're hanging
there with that yes.
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Verse 6, "So the Lord,
00:27:05.02\00:27:06.82
sent fiery
serpents among the people,
00:27:06.85\00:27:08.46
and they bit the people
00:27:08.49\00:27:09.52
and many of the
people of Israel died."
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You say, Dwight, look
it says the Lord sent them.
00:27:12.94\00:27:14.51
I told you God is the
one who came up with these.
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Hey, hold on, hold on.
00:27:16.13\00:27:19.69
There's an important
Old Testament principle
00:27:19.72\00:27:21.19
you need to keep in mind
00:27:21.22\00:27:22.37
this will help you
through the Old Testament.
00:27:22.40\00:27:24.46
We'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:27:24.49\00:27:25.52
Here it is.
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"God is often shown as
doing that which he allows."
00:27:26.61\00:27:31.83
So, when Bible says
00:27:31.86\00:27:32.89
" God hardened Pharaoh's heart,"
00:27:32.92\00:27:34.50
He didn't
hardened Pharaoh's heart.
00:27:34.53\00:27:35.97
He gave Pharaoh an
opportunity to make a choice
00:27:36.00\00:27:37.92
and Pharaoh chosen in
that moment of decision
00:27:37.95\00:27:40.54
to say no to God
00:27:40.57\00:27:41.93
but the Old
Testament portrays God
00:27:41.96\00:27:43.56
is often doing
that which He loves.
00:27:43.59\00:27:46.60
Says the Lord, sent
the venomous adders.
00:27:46.63\00:27:49.71
He did not.
00:27:49.74\00:27:51.60
He simply allowed
them, He step backs.
00:27:51.63\00:27:53.14
All right you
don't want Me here,
00:27:53.17\00:27:55.09
here what's I have been keeping
00:27:55.12\00:27:56.31
from you for 40
years, you may have them now.
00:27:56.34\00:28:00.84
Well.
00:28:00.87\00:28:03.00
Did I already mention to you
00:28:03.03\00:28:04.09
that I'm not
really keen on snakes?
00:28:04.12\00:28:07.27
I mean, you try
to imagine with me.
00:28:07.30\00:28:09.09
Imagine it.
00:28:09.12\00:28:11.00
I can't-- man, I cannot fathom
the horror of a deadly adder,
00:28:11.03\00:28:17.15
some how
slithering up into my bed.
00:28:17.18\00:28:22.99
I like to sleep with
the leg out of the covers.
00:28:23.02\00:28:27.28
So he find out he's looking
for warm, he finds that hole.
00:28:27.31\00:28:30.93
I can't imagine what
would be like to wake up
00:28:30.96\00:28:33.03
in the middle of the night
00:28:33.06\00:28:34.09
with something cold and clammy
00:28:34.12\00:28:35.55
moving slowly up
the side of my torso.
00:28:35.58\00:28:40.39
I mean, do you
get the heebie jeebies
00:28:40.42\00:28:41.48
like I do just think about this?
00:28:41.51\00:28:45.36
I know my problem is I'm
telling this is the truth
00:28:45.39\00:28:47.41
I'm the baby boomer,
all right and so I grew up,
00:28:47.44\00:28:49.23
I grew up with a whole
lot of missionary stories.
00:28:49.26\00:28:53.14
A lot of you haven't
heard Missionary stories
00:28:53.17\00:28:54.74
but boy, we baby
boomers grew up with them.
00:28:54.77\00:28:56.95
And I'm the
missionary's kid anyway
00:28:56.98\00:28:58.39
but I think grew up
for the Africa or India.
00:28:58.42\00:28:59.79
I grew up in-- you know,
civilized Japan as it were
00:28:59.82\00:29:03.10
but they told the stories.
00:29:03.13\00:29:04.52
I remember those stories
00:29:04.55\00:29:05.64
some of you might
remember them where
00:29:05.67\00:29:07.10
you know the missionary wakes up
00:29:07.13\00:29:08.16
in the middle of the night
and they are cocked and coiled
00:29:08.19\00:29:10.25
that hooded mantle
cobra as just is a stuff.
00:29:10.28\00:29:17.05
It's a stuff of
nightmares and this is it.
00:29:17.08\00:29:21.50
Patriarchs and Prophets
00:29:21.53\00:29:22.56
let them put it on
the screen for you.
00:29:22.59\00:29:23.81
"In almost every
tent" isn't is something
00:29:23.84\00:29:26.68
"almost every tent in it
were the dying or the dead.
00:29:26.71\00:29:30.96
None were secure.
00:29:30.99\00:29:32.04
Often the silence
of the night was broken
00:29:32.07\00:29:33.65
by piercing cries that
told of fresh victims."
00:29:33.68\00:29:39.29
Yeah, therefore verse 7,
00:29:39.32\00:29:43.09
you got to handed to the people.
00:29:43.12\00:29:46.07
They may be slow
but there are quick.
00:29:46.10\00:29:51.88
Bless them.
00:29:51.91\00:29:53.59
"And Therefore the
people came to Moses,
00:29:53.62\00:29:55.21
and said, 'We have sinned,
00:29:55.24\00:29:56.59
for we have spoken against
the Lord and against you,
00:29:56.62\00:29:59.23
pray to the Lord that He
take away the serpents from us.'
00:29:59.26\00:30:01.93
So Moses prayed for the people."
00:30:01.96\00:30:03.63
The very leader that
hours ago they had cursed off,
00:30:03.66\00:30:06.86
they are coming
to and pleading you,
00:30:06.89\00:30:08.53
you got to pray for us please.
00:30:08.56\00:30:11.10
I tell you what, I worked
for few leaders in my life.
00:30:11.13\00:30:17.67
It takes a very big leader...
00:30:17.70\00:30:21.96
to after he or
she is been rejected
00:30:27.26\00:30:33.53
be willing to still
lead the same people.
00:30:33.56\00:30:39.23
Moses immediately
praise for his stricken people.
00:30:42.67\00:30:47.76
You know what, it occurs
to me you may be a leader.
00:30:47.79\00:30:50.34
Leader in your dormitory
room, leader in your marriage,
00:30:50.37\00:30:52.91
leader in your home,
leader in your office,
00:30:52.94\00:30:54.92
leader in your school,
leader in your place of work,
00:30:54.95\00:30:57.88
leader in your neighborhood.
00:30:57.91\00:30:58.95
You may be a leader.
00:30:58.98\00:31:00.01
Guess what leader friend,
00:31:00.04\00:31:02.75
the spiritual
mission of a leader
00:31:02.78\00:31:05.01
is to pray for her
people, pray for his people.
00:31:05.04\00:31:08.59
You got a roommate
you pray, you pray.
00:31:08.62\00:31:12.44
You pray for your people.
00:31:12.47\00:31:15.13
Moses prays and God responds
00:31:15.16\00:31:16.81
with this most unusual
three fold instruction.
00:31:16.84\00:31:19.72
Watch this.
00:31:19.75\00:31:20.78
Verse 8 "Then the
Lord said to Moses,"
00:31:20.81\00:31:22.58
after Moses pleaded
on behalf of the people.
00:31:22.61\00:31:24.45
Verse 8, Number one " I
what you make a fiery serpent."
00:31:24.48\00:31:27.41
You make one
just like these snakes
00:31:27.44\00:31:28.66
that would come into this camp.
00:31:28.69\00:31:29.73
I want to look
just like these snakes.
00:31:29.76\00:31:31.14
Number one, "you
make a fiery serpent."
00:31:31.17\00:31:32.92
Number two "you
set it on a pole."
00:31:32.95\00:31:34.24
Hebrew word is for
a military standard
00:31:34.27\00:31:36.04
and I want that
pole to be so high
00:31:36.15\00:31:37.84
that it could be seen a
across the desert sands, okay.
00:31:37.87\00:31:40.33
Number one, serpent.
00:31:40.36\00:31:41.39
Number two, high on a
pole and Number three Moses,
00:31:41.42\00:31:43.70
you get the
people this instruction
00:31:43.73\00:31:45.24
every one who is bitten,
00:31:45.27\00:31:46.49
when he looks at the pole
with the serpent you live.
00:31:46.52\00:31:51.80
"So Moses" verse 9
"made a bronze serpent,
00:31:51.83\00:31:53.94
and he put it on a
pole, and so it was,
00:31:53.97\00:31:55.95
if a serpent had
bitten anyone, when he looked
00:31:55.98\00:31:58.08
at the bronze
serpent, he lived."
00:31:58.11\00:32:01.10
The end, because
it's was the end.
00:32:01.13\00:32:06.43
For those who did
not or would not look,
00:32:06.46\00:32:10.61
I'm too pride for this.
00:32:10.64\00:32:12.34
I'm too intelligent.
00:32:12.37\00:32:13.57
You don't just
look at some thing
00:32:13.60\00:32:15.67
and get healed, I refuse.
00:32:15.70\00:32:18.59
For those two bright
for raw faith it was the end
00:32:18.62\00:32:26.00
but for those
victims who tenderly carried
00:32:26.03\00:32:29.22
or urgently drag to
that-- thrown open tenth flap.
00:32:29.25\00:32:33.39
I mean, you can't try to put it
00:32:33.42\00:32:34.74
put yourself
there it's your mother,
00:32:34.77\00:32:36.21
it's your mother
who's been bitten.
00:32:36.24\00:32:38.18
You got your mother
in the corner of the tent
00:32:38.21\00:32:39.31
what you gonna do?
00:32:39.34\00:32:40.37
The word is if
you get your mother,
00:32:40.40\00:32:41.65
so that she can
turn almost glazed eyes
00:32:41.68\00:32:44.50
and faced that serpent she live.
00:32:44.53\00:32:46.56
What you gonna do it in momma?
What you gonna do with brother?
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.01
He's been bite. Your
wife is almost comatose.
00:32:49.04\00:32:52.02
She's going,
going. What you gonna do?
00:32:52.05\00:32:56.79
You haven't been bitten yet.
00:32:56.82\00:32:58.72
You gonna drag that
body, you don't care how heavy.
00:32:58.75\00:33:00.80
How you gonna tenderly,
00:33:00.83\00:33:02.26
you're gonna get
that body to the open flap
00:33:02.29\00:33:04.40
and then you're
gonna take your two hands
00:33:04.43\00:33:06.23
and you gonna cup
them around that face
00:33:06.26\00:33:08.02
that is precious to you
00:33:08.05\00:33:09.08
and you're gonna
said come on papa,
00:33:09.11\00:33:10.22
come on papa, look,
look, open your eyes daddy,
00:33:10.25\00:33:12.67
you can see look at the snake.
00:33:12.70\00:33:16.60
Wouldn't you?
00:33:16.63\00:33:20.01
It would not been
academic exercise,
00:33:20.04\00:33:21.83
it would not be
little theatrical
00:33:21.86\00:33:24.30
one, two, three with
all the passion you have
00:33:24.33\00:33:27.00
you would move that
person to a life giving gaze.
00:33:27.03\00:33:31.92
And oh, by the way,
00:33:31.95\00:33:33.38
had it been
you-- had it been you.
00:33:33.41\00:33:39.62
I know, I like you be pleading
somebody get me to the door,
00:33:39.65\00:33:46.57
get me to the door.
00:33:46.60\00:33:49.24
I have to see this now.
00:33:49.27\00:33:51.63
Was it the bronze serpent
that saved Israel that day?
00:33:54.94\00:33:58.23
You think, the
bronze serpent did it?
00:33:58.26\00:34:01.67
Scholars believe
that God asked Moses
00:34:01.70\00:34:03.95
to make that
serpent bronze or brass
00:34:03.98\00:34:06.40
to reflect the color of these
inviting guest, the killers.
00:34:06.43\00:34:12.54
So I went on
Goolge, I said okay,
00:34:12.57\00:34:13.90
give me yellow or bronze snakes
00:34:13.93\00:34:15.28
so this is what I get.
00:34:15.31\00:34:17.80
I tell you what, take your pick,
00:34:17.83\00:34:19.00
I wouldn't want one of
them in my sleeping bag,
00:34:19.03\00:34:20.73
not a one of those.
00:34:20.76\00:34:24.04
Do you think, do you think
00:34:24.07\00:34:26.18
that the replica
hanging high on that standard,
00:34:26.21\00:34:29.01
do you suppose, that there were
00:34:29.04\00:34:30.95
some sort of divine
magic in that twisted brass.
00:34:30.98\00:34:34.48
You think people
believe that it was magic.
00:34:34.51\00:34:36.05
Are you kidding the people?
00:34:36.08\00:34:37.11
No exactly what's going on,
00:34:37.14\00:34:38.40
there is no pizza,
bronze in the world
00:34:38.43\00:34:41.15
that can possibly
save me from what I got.
00:34:41.18\00:34:42.84
I'm going, baby.
00:34:42.87\00:34:45.18
They know, the God has
simply called for raw face.
00:34:45.21\00:34:51.75
Is God who is
prescribed the bronze serpent
00:34:51.78\00:34:55.48
you see it, you look at it.
00:34:55.51\00:34:57.96
You hear me? You
look at it and you live.
00:34:57.99\00:35:01.95
And given the fact, that
Israel and murmuring complaint
00:35:01.98\00:35:05.37
had just abandoned
their trust in God.
00:35:05.40\00:35:07.04
It is clear that this
divine remedy is case specific.
00:35:07.07\00:35:10.54
I'm making it exactly for you.
00:35:10.57\00:35:12.41
Where you fail,
you got to come back.
00:35:12.44\00:35:14.27
I need raw faith right here.
00:35:14.30\00:35:15.50
I need you to trust me,
you just look at this thing,
00:35:15.53\00:35:17.87
you just look at
it and I'll heal you.
00:35:17.90\00:35:20.40
You don't look your gone.
00:35:20.43\00:35:22.00
The remedy was
simple, write it down.
00:35:25.81\00:35:27.90
"Look and live!" Look and live.
00:35:27.93\00:35:34.38
Raw faith which was precisely
00:35:34.41\00:35:38.48
Jesus point in that
clandestine midnight
00:35:38.51\00:35:44.10
take to take
conversation with Nicodemus
00:35:44.13\00:35:46.79
wouldn't been seen dead
with him during day light.
00:35:46.82\00:35:50.76
John 3, I want
you to turn to John 3,
00:35:50.79\00:35:53.65
we're not
coming back to Numbers.
00:35:53.68\00:35:55.03
John 3, the gospel
saying St. John Chapter 3
00:35:55.06\00:35:58.50
take a look at this.
00:35:58.53\00:35:59.56
Everybody knows John
3:16, come on, we know it.
00:35:59.59\00:36:01.75
The two verses before John 3:16.
00:36:01.78\00:36:04.77
John Chapter 3, John 3.
00:36:04.80\00:36:09.01
Red letters, if you
got Red Letters Bible
00:36:12.13\00:36:13.68
there's a
bright red, hallelujah.
00:36:13.71\00:36:16.94
Jesus speaking
midnight under the shadow,
00:36:16.97\00:36:22.23
of an outdoor encounter.
00:36:22.26\00:36:27.52
John 3:14, "And
as Moses lifted up
00:36:27.55\00:36:30.83
the serpent in the wilderness,
00:36:30.86\00:36:33.91
even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up,
00:36:33.94\00:36:36.44
that whoever believes in Him
00:36:36.47\00:36:39.19
should not perish
but have eternal life."
00:36:39.22\00:36:43.99
You need to
remember, ladies and gentlemen,
00:36:47.51\00:36:49.37
this is pre-incarnate Christ,
00:36:49.40\00:36:50.99
this is the same one who
was pre-incarnate Christ.
00:36:51.02\00:36:53.27
He is the one who came
up with the divine remedy
00:36:53.30\00:36:55.25
in the first place
and said Nicodemus,
00:36:55.28\00:36:56.76
listen to me, look at Me.
00:36:56.79\00:36:58.41
I'm the serpent, do
you understand that?
00:36:58.44\00:37:00.73
I'm the serpent,
there must have been--
00:37:00.76\00:37:04.04
shock on the face of
that sanctimonious rabbi.
00:37:04.07\00:37:07.54
I'm the serpent.
00:37:07.57\00:37:11.69
When I'm lifted up
you look at me, you live.
00:37:11.72\00:37:17.42
You don't look
at me, its curtains.
00:37:17.45\00:37:22.98
And then He speaks say
it out loud with me come on.
00:37:23.01\00:37:25.69
"For God so loved the world
00:37:25.72\00:37:27.97
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:37:28.00\00:37:30.06
that whoever believes in
Him will not perish but have"
00:37:30.09\00:37:34.43
eternal life "everlasting life."
00:37:34.46\00:37:37.39
You get it if you
raw faith trust me.
00:37:37.42\00:37:42.01
Which is why
ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:42.04\00:37:43.08
the story of the
serpent on the pole
00:37:43.11\00:37:44.39
is much more than a snake story.
00:37:44.42\00:37:46.72
God is seizing the opportunity
00:37:46.75\00:37:48.42
for one more
sandbox illustration
00:37:48.45\00:37:51.73
before they march
into the Promise Land.
00:37:51.76\00:37:53.66
Did you have
sandboxes in your Sabbath school
00:37:57.14\00:37:59.25
when your kid growing up?
00:37:59.28\00:38:01.41
I don't think young
adults had sandboxes.
00:38:01.44\00:38:04.29
I asked the two younger adults
00:38:04.32\00:38:05.35
I'm working with to put
this PowerPoint together.
00:38:05.38\00:38:07.32
No, no we didn't have sandboxes.
00:38:07.35\00:38:08.38
Did you have
sandboxes? They didn't.
00:38:08.41\00:38:10.20
He have phonographs, right.
00:38:10.23\00:38:11.53
Put the things little
story they tell the stories
00:38:11.56\00:38:13.41
on the boo, phonographs.
00:38:13.44\00:38:17.06
But when I grew
up we had sandboxes.
00:38:17.09\00:38:18.53
If you-- chook,
chook, chook, chook, chook.
00:38:18.56\00:38:20.34
Let me ask you this,
did you have a sandbox,
00:38:20.37\00:38:21.66
did you have a
sandbox outside your house
00:38:21.69\00:38:23.74
as your kid grown up?
00:38:23.77\00:38:24.92
Did you have those?
00:38:24.95\00:38:25.98
They still have
those, don't they?
00:38:26.01\00:38:27.08
Yeah.
00:38:27.11\00:38:28.15
Every kid knows
about the sandbox.
00:38:28.18\00:38:29.64
You know, what's been going on,
00:38:29.67\00:38:30.70
40 years of a
literal burning sandbox
00:38:30.73\00:38:34.03
in the wilderness
and God's been sticking
00:38:34.06\00:38:36.05
I'm gonna give you
the plan of salvation.
00:38:36.08\00:38:37.18
Watch it-- puts
the sanctuary down.
00:38:37.21\00:38:38.75
See, this is what happens.
00:38:38.78\00:38:40.65
There's a holy place,
there's a most holy place.
00:38:40.68\00:38:42.46
See that gold that is
golden ark is my throne.
00:38:42.49\00:38:46.55
He telling the
story of salvation,
00:38:46.58\00:38:47.87
you see the bread, Shewbread.
00:38:47.90\00:38:48.97
I'm the bread of life.
00:38:49.00\00:38:50.03
You see the water,
I'm the water of life.
00:38:50.06\00:38:51.76
You see the
light, the candelabra,
00:38:51.79\00:38:53.12
I'm the light of the world.
00:38:53.15\00:38:55.98
You see the sacrifice
on the altar I'm the Lamb,
00:38:56.01\00:38:58.15
I'm the Lamb that takes
away the sin of the world.
00:38:58.18\00:39:00.37
God puts in the sand
00:39:00.40\00:39:01.76
chook, chook, chook,
chook, chook He has this
00:39:01.79\00:39:03.15
and now just
before the Promise Land--
00:39:03.18\00:39:08.49
a stick of the snake on
top and it says look at this.
00:39:08.52\00:39:15.43
He is not just
telling snake stories.
00:39:15.46\00:39:17.55
He is making a
point about salvation.
00:39:17.58\00:39:20.53
All right, jot
it down "Numbers 21
00:39:20.56\00:39:22.67
and John 3
introduce the healing metaphor
00:39:22.70\00:39:27.10
into the divine
plan of salvation."
00:39:27.13\00:39:29.14
Healing, healing, healing.
00:39:29.17\00:39:31.16
What we have a
lamb. We got a lamb.
00:39:31.19\00:39:32.69
No, no, no, the
lamb is not enough.
00:39:32.72\00:39:34.11
Watch this,
keep your pen moving.
00:39:34.14\00:39:35.30
"Whereas the lamb depicted
the forgiveness of our sins,
00:39:35.33\00:39:40.38
the serpent demonstrated
the healing from our sins."
00:39:40.41\00:39:46.77
It is the
mysterious truth, keep writing,
00:39:46.80\00:39:48.57
"that in order to heal humanity,
00:39:48.60\00:39:51.53
the Savior must
become the very poison"
00:39:51.56\00:39:55.04
He must become the
"poison that was killing them."
00:39:55.07\00:40:00.14
It is a Healing metaphor.
00:40:00.17\00:40:04.15
And that's why physicians today,
00:40:04.18\00:40:07.63
you go to a doctor's office
00:40:07.66\00:40:08.69
some more in
that doctor's office
00:40:08.72\00:40:09.96
may be unheard
diploma, may be on this wall
00:40:09.99\00:40:12.64
you will see this symbol.
00:40:12.67\00:40:14.35
Take a look at that symbol.
Do you know that symbol is?
00:40:14.38\00:40:17.31
That's Moses serpent on a pole.
00:40:17.34\00:40:21.75
It's a symbol of healing,
healing, healing, healing.
00:40:21.78\00:40:28.78
You got some
great biologists here
00:40:28.81\00:40:30.04
those of you that
are science majors
00:40:30.07\00:40:31.35
or premed students or whatever.
00:40:31.38\00:40:34.26
You taken biology and I
have talked to David Steen
00:40:34.29\00:40:36.13
and I've talked to Bill Chobotar
00:40:36.16\00:40:37.53
they teach biology,
they teach immunology,
00:40:37.56\00:40:39.88
they teach the whole thing.
00:40:39.91\00:40:40.94
You know, what's
happening a Cavalry what's this.
00:40:40.97\00:40:42.61
You know, what's
happening on the cross?
00:40:42.64\00:40:44.09
Oh, you guys
help me If I'm wrong
00:40:44.12\00:40:45.99
because I have
been working on this.
00:40:46.02\00:40:47.50
What's happening on
the cross is an antigen,
00:40:47.53\00:40:50.99
an antigen has been injected
into the victim of the cross.
00:40:51.02\00:40:55.58
Sin as it were was mainline
00:40:55.61\00:40:58.25
directly in to
the heart of Jesus.
00:40:58.28\00:41:02.49
An antigen, that's the poison.
00:41:02.52\00:41:04.55
When the antigen
gets inside the system,
00:41:04.58\00:41:06.51
now help me outside scientist,
00:41:06.54\00:41:07.70
when the antigen gets
inside the body if it has time,
00:41:07.73\00:41:10.76
if the body has time
00:41:10.79\00:41:12.18
it responds to the
antigen by creating antibodies.
00:41:12.21\00:41:16.16
True or False? Antibodies.
00:41:16.19\00:41:20.33
Calvary is where God's
mainline did to himself
00:41:20.36\00:41:24.14
the poison that is
killed the entire human race
00:41:24.17\00:41:27.14
so that in that
divine human body
00:41:27.17\00:41:29.52
there might become antibodies
00:41:29.55\00:41:32.09
and if you take the
antibodies now hold on,
00:41:32.12\00:41:34.42
if you take the antibodies
00:41:34.45\00:41:36.00
out of one who has been injected
00:41:36.03\00:41:38.00
or has been
bitten with the antigen.
00:41:38.03\00:41:42.11
If you take the
antibody out of that one
00:41:42.14\00:41:44.13
and you come to me
00:41:44.16\00:41:45.19
because I also have been
bitten by that same serpent
00:41:45.22\00:41:48.19
and you inject his
blood straight into me,
00:41:48.22\00:41:51.11
my body immediately
receives it as an antidote.
00:41:51.14\00:41:58.70
Isn't that fascinating?
00:41:58.73\00:42:01.19
You know, look like you get it
00:42:01.22\00:42:02.25
but I thought that pretty
fascinating myself you know.
00:42:02.28\00:42:04.70
The fact is we don't
have a lot of science majors
00:42:11.99\00:42:15.54
with us today
that's the problem.
00:42:15.57\00:42:19.11
Is not some thing
guys, isn't that something
00:42:19.14\00:42:21.21
what you getting in your classes
00:42:21.24\00:42:22.40
is what happened to Calvary.
00:42:22.43\00:42:24.95
The antigen goes
in, the poison goes in.
00:42:24.98\00:42:26.94
My sins what are your sins?
What are your favorite sins?
00:42:26.97\00:42:30.07
You have a little
catalogue keep in your wallet,
00:42:30.10\00:42:31.85
this is what I love to do.
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.30
What are your favorite sins?
00:42:33.33\00:42:35.68
What ever there are--
mainline into the heart
00:42:35.71\00:42:39.30
the broken heart of
the eternal God himself.
00:42:39.33\00:42:43.06
Antibody so that if we go
to that cross there is life
00:42:43.09\00:42:50.77
where the serpent is strung up.
00:42:50.80\00:42:55.14
Centuries later it is
much more clearly articulated
00:42:55.17\00:42:56.97
than I just do it
00:42:57.00\00:42:58.03
and so, let's do it
in your study guide.
00:42:58.06\00:42:59.26
We'll put it on the screen
these verses from the Bible.
00:42:59.29\00:43:03.83
Isaiah 53 speaking
of the coming Messiah,
00:43:03.86\00:43:06.07
you know, this great prophesy.
00:43:06.10\00:43:07.36
"Surely he has
borne our grief's"
00:43:07.39\00:43:09.42
the Hebrew word for
grief, can we translate
00:43:09.45\00:43:11.27
"He has borne our
sickness i.e. poison"
00:43:11.30\00:43:13.53
was mainlined in to him.
00:43:13.56\00:43:14.84
He has borne our
poison and carried our sorrows
00:43:14.87\00:43:18.62
and by His
stripes," what is it say?
00:43:18.65\00:43:20.57
We are what? "Healed."
00:43:20.60\00:43:22.18
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:22.21\00:43:23.24
the serpent is about
the healing metaphor.
00:43:23.27\00:43:24.94
Write it down, we are healed.
00:43:24.97\00:43:26.41
Please go to the
next verse please,
00:43:26.44\00:43:29.17
1 Peter 2:24 "Christ
himself bore our sins
00:43:29.20\00:43:32.63
in his body on the tree,"
antigen injected into Him,
00:43:32.66\00:43:37.19
"so that we might die to
sins and live for righteousness,
00:43:37.22\00:43:40.60
by his wounds you
have been healed."
00:43:40.63\00:43:43.35
There is a
healing metaphor again.
00:43:43.38\00:43:45.08
Final verse, 2 Corinthians 5:21
00:43:45.11\00:43:47.52
" For He, the
Father made Him, Christ
00:43:47.55\00:43:50.39
who knew no sin to be sin"
00:43:50.42\00:43:52.10
he injected it straight into him
00:43:52.13\00:43:53.94
the Lord, had laid on
him the inequity of soul.
00:43:53.97\00:43:55.99
He made Him to be
00:43:56.02\00:43:57.37
"who knew no sin
to be sin for us,
00:43:57.40\00:44:00.32
that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him."
00:44:00.35\00:44:05.31
The story of serpent on the pole
00:44:05.34\00:44:06.37
expands the
shinning truth of salvation.
00:44:06.40\00:44:08.65
The power of the Cross not
only pardons us over our sins
00:44:08.68\00:44:13.92
it can heal us from our sins.
00:44:13.95\00:44:19.14
Mercy, which is
exactly what this is all about.
00:44:19.17\00:44:26.14
A hundred years ago,
you got it right there
00:44:26.17\00:44:28.90
in your study guide
you have to fill it in.
00:44:28.93\00:44:31.53
"As the serpent was
lifted up in the wilderness,
00:44:31.56\00:44:34.10
so the Son of God was
lifted up on the cross,
00:44:34.13\00:44:37.24
that sinners from
the ends of the earth"
00:44:37.27\00:44:38.97
hundred nations represented
at Andrew's University,
00:44:39.00\00:44:41.39
there is no nation
outside the reach of Calvary.
00:44:41.42\00:44:43.67
"Sinners from
the ends of the earth
00:44:43.70\00:44:44.73
might look and live.
00:44:44.76\00:44:45.80
Multitudes are still suffering"
00:44:45.83\00:44:47.67
notice the
metaphor that medicine--
00:44:47.70\00:44:49.83
the medical
metaphor, the healing metaphor.
00:44:49.86\00:44:51.61
"Multitudes are still
suffering from the deadly sting
00:44:51.64\00:44:54.11
of that old serpent, the devil.
00:44:54.14\00:44:56.09
The effects of
sin can be removed
00:44:56.12\00:44:57.87
only by the
provision which God has made.
00:44:57.90\00:45:00.03
Here, alone, hope and
salvation can be found.
00:45:00.06\00:45:02.90
As the
Israelites saved their lives
00:45:02.93\00:45:05.27
by looking upon
the brazen serpent,"
00:45:05.30\00:45:07.46
so sinners that would
be you, that would be me,
00:45:07.49\00:45:09.95
"so sinners can
look to Christ and live.
00:45:09.98\00:45:14.39
Unlike that inert
and lifeless symbol,"
00:45:14.42\00:45:16.40
that just hunk of
brass on top of that stick
00:45:16.43\00:45:18.98
"Christ has power
and virtue in himself,"
00:45:19.01\00:45:21.84
write it down, to heal
"to heal the suffering,
00:45:21.87\00:45:26.35
repenting, bleeding"
00:45:26.38\00:45:28.01
see the medical metaphor is
kept alive, "bleeding sinner."
00:45:28.04\00:45:31.72
How than the shall
the chosen be healed?
00:45:36.02\00:45:38.37
I'm telling you what guys,
00:45:38.40\00:45:40.47
just like Israel that's
how we must look to the pole.
00:45:40.50\00:45:43.55
We must gaze upon the cross,
00:45:43.58\00:45:45.48
look to the
cross, go to the cross,
00:45:45.51\00:45:47.23
kneel at the cross,
bow before the cross.
00:45:47.26\00:45:49.28
It is the only
antidote in the universe
00:45:49.31\00:45:51.98
with the power
to heal you and me
00:45:52.01\00:45:55.14
of our crippling, paralyzing,
00:45:55.17\00:45:57.67
and fatal, fatal sins.
00:45:57.70\00:46:00.69
Fatal sins. See,
I'm not dead yet.
00:46:00.72\00:46:04.00
I'm not dead.
00:46:04.03\00:46:05.07
No, it's eating you
out from the inside out.
00:46:05.10\00:46:11.24
You'll die.
00:46:11.27\00:46:13.20
You'll die unless you
are healed you will die.
00:46:13.23\00:46:19.28
So what is it
that you struggle with?
00:46:19.31\00:46:23.48
What is the sin
that you struggle with?
00:46:23.51\00:46:26.91
I know what I battle in my life.
00:46:26.94\00:46:29.79
I know. What is it?
00:46:29.82\00:46:33.77
This has been some series,
00:46:33.80\00:46:35.26
I mean, we've looked at
all kinds of stuff, sex,
00:46:35.29\00:46:38.47
alcohol, drugs, diet.
00:46:38.50\00:46:45.60
There are sins of the flesh,
00:46:45.63\00:46:47.72
the sins of the
mind, just a mouse,
00:46:47.75\00:46:53.79
sins of the
eyes, sins of the ears.
00:46:53.82\00:46:58.53
So what is it?
What is the poison?
00:46:58.56\00:47:02.04
I know what I've been
injected with by my choice.
00:47:02.07\00:47:06.42
Ladies and gentlemen,
whatever sin you struggle with
00:47:09.69\00:47:14.13
there is all sufficient power
00:47:14.16\00:47:16.24
at the cross of
Christ to heal you and me.
00:47:16.27\00:47:20.71
Heal us, not just forgive
us, hallelujah, but heal us.
00:47:20.74\00:47:24.31
We've got to be healed.
00:47:24.34\00:47:25.43
It's not enough to be forgiven,
you've got to be healed.
00:47:25.46\00:47:31.72
You can't go on forever
00:47:31.75\00:47:35.01
and die this side
of the Promise Land.
00:47:35.04\00:47:39.82
Look to the cross where
flows a healing antidote
00:47:39.85\00:47:46.70
of the divine
serpent that can save us.
00:47:46.73\00:47:50.45
We must look to the
cross. Look to the cross.
00:47:50.48\00:47:55.98
Some of you are saying,
you know, Dwight, I appreciate
00:47:56.01\00:47:57.66
you're going
through this little exercise
00:47:57.69\00:47:59.01
of trying to job my memory.
00:47:59.04\00:48:00.63
I actually
haven't been able to think
00:48:00.66\00:48:02.01
of very much at all.
00:48:02.04\00:48:03.41
Some guys just got it.
00:48:07.33\00:48:09.77
Let me tell you
something, my friend.
00:48:09.80\00:48:12.34
I'm deeply concerned about
00:48:12.37\00:48:13.53
the toxicity of
our spiritual pride.
00:48:13.56\00:48:16.72
It was a calculated list
to even get into this series.
00:48:16.75\00:48:19.05
You know, why,
because the moment
00:48:19.08\00:48:20.11
you start
talking about behavior,
00:48:20.14\00:48:21.38
the moment you start talking
about distinctive teachings
00:48:21.41\00:48:24.17
and countercultural behavior--
00:48:24.20\00:48:27.60
and by the way we got into
this series because of you.
00:48:27.63\00:48:30.47
The survey we
did this last spring
00:48:30.50\00:48:31.66
you ask these questions,
00:48:31.69\00:48:32.72
one series could
tie it all together.
00:48:32.75\00:48:34.64
I believe the Holy
Spirit let us into the chosen.
00:48:34.67\00:48:37.89
But I've been deeply concerned
00:48:37.92\00:48:41.28
that as we've examined
this countercultural life--
00:48:41.31\00:48:44.44
the distinctive
teachings of the chosen.
00:48:44.47\00:48:48.93
God has called us to embrace.
00:48:48.96\00:48:50.23
God has called us to embrace it
00:48:50.26\00:48:51.38
all the series
we've examined that.
00:48:51.41\00:48:52.93
I have become deeply concerned
00:48:52.96\00:48:54.71
that somehow the
chosen are in danger
00:48:54.74\00:48:56.55
of being duped,
deceived into believing
00:48:56.58\00:49:01.72
that our salvation
is somehow predicated
00:49:01.75\00:49:04.14
upon our counterculturalness
and our radical obedience
00:49:04.17\00:49:06.72
and our distinctive
teachings and one story
00:49:06.75\00:49:09.15
the serpent on the pole declares
00:49:09.18\00:49:10.83
it is not predicated on that.
00:49:10.86\00:49:13.67
I want to tell you something,
00:49:13.70\00:49:15.37
all the righteous
living in the world,
00:49:15.40\00:49:16.70
all the righteous
living in the world
00:49:16.73\00:49:19.26
will never say the righteous
or the wicked or the chosen.
00:49:19.29\00:49:23.89
You can't, you
just can't get saved
00:49:23.92\00:49:26.65
by how you live.
00:49:26.68\00:49:27.81
The chosen are not
saved because they are chosen,
00:49:35.49\00:49:39.68
they are chosen
because they are saved
00:49:39.71\00:49:43.84
and has a worldly difference.
00:49:43.87\00:49:50.69
Which is why we
must look to His cross,
00:49:50.72\00:49:53.62
it is the only, it
is the only antidote
00:49:53.65\00:49:57.89
that can save us.
00:49:57.92\00:50:02.01
And by the way, my friend,
00:50:02.04\00:50:04.75
there is no way you
can back this out for you
00:50:04.78\00:50:10.70
because if you are not saved
00:50:10.73\00:50:13.60
and not chosen
do you understand,
00:50:13.63\00:50:16.68
do you
understand that chose people
00:50:16.71\00:50:18.72
who thought they were
chosen died in that wilderness.
00:50:18.75\00:50:22.89
I got it, I got it,
00:50:22.92\00:50:23.95
I'm a part of
that, I got the card.
00:50:23.98\00:50:25.56
I'm a part, look.
00:50:25.59\00:50:26.86
Nope, they never made
it to the Promise Land
00:50:26.89\00:50:31.47
thought they were chosen
00:50:31.50\00:50:33.26
turns out they weren't
healed they were not saved.
00:50:33.29\00:50:39.83
One more quotation look at this,
00:50:39.86\00:50:41.62
its in your study guide.
00:50:41.65\00:50:42.84
I love this one.
00:50:42.87\00:50:43.91
"If you will only do
your part" what's my part?
00:50:43.94\00:50:45.84
Dwight, this is all you do,
bow at the cross of Calvary.
00:50:45.87\00:50:49.26
Isn't that beautiful?
00:50:49.29\00:50:50.48
"Bow at the cross of Calvary,
00:50:50.51\00:50:52.24
you will receive
the blessing of God.
00:50:52.27\00:50:55.35
God loves you.
00:50:55.38\00:50:57.06
He doesn't wish to draw
you nigh to him to hurt you,
00:50:57.09\00:50:59.56
oh, no, but to comfort
00:50:59.59\00:51:01.30
you to pour in the
oil of rejoicing, to heal"
00:51:01.33\00:51:03.76
there is that metaphor again.
00:51:03.79\00:51:04.94
"To heal the
wounds that sin has made,
00:51:04.97\00:51:07.09
to bind up where
Satan has bruised.
00:51:07.12\00:51:08.85
Will you bow low at
the foot of the cross?"
00:51:08.88\00:51:11.61
I love this.
00:51:11.64\00:51:12.67
"Jesus will place his arms
around you, and comforts you.
00:51:12.70\00:51:16.12
Will you do this
without further delay?"
00:51:16.15\00:51:20.09
isn't that beautiful?
00:51:20.12\00:51:21.80
Just go to the cross,
just look, just look and live.
00:51:21.83\00:51:26.50
As this old year veins
and the New Year approaches us
00:51:29.50\00:51:36.30
is what I like to do.
00:51:36.33\00:51:38.52
I like to invite you
to join me, make a little,
00:51:38.55\00:51:41.65
let's make a
little covenant you and I.
00:51:41.68\00:51:43.47
I won't check up on you
00:51:43.50\00:51:44.85
if you promise
not to check up on.
00:51:44.88\00:51:47.66
But here's what I
would like to invite.
00:51:47.69\00:51:50.00
This community
the chosen as it were.
00:51:50.03\00:51:55.22
What would happen if
everyday of journey ahead--
00:51:55.25\00:51:57.55
you start tomorrow
not with the New Year,
00:51:57.58\00:51:59.09
but what would
happen if everyday
00:51:59.12\00:52:00.59
we went to the foot of
the cross to begin the day?
00:52:00.62\00:52:05.58
I learn this from my friend
00:52:05.61\00:52:06.73
who now sleeps in
Jesus Roger Morneau
00:52:06.76\00:52:09.65
and I'll tell what it has
made a difference in my life.
00:52:09.68\00:52:12.44
Roger taught me the best way
00:52:12.47\00:52:14.47
to begin your day even worship--
00:52:14.50\00:52:16.78
the best way to
begin your worship
00:52:16.81\00:52:18.49
is to go to Calvary,
00:52:18.52\00:52:19.55
read the story of the
cross, read Matthew 27:24-54.
00:52:19.58\00:52:24.34
What is that?
00:52:24.37\00:52:25.41
Thirty little
verses, you read it
00:52:25.44\00:52:27.53
every single day of your life.
00:52:27.56\00:52:28.79
You go to the place
00:52:28.82\00:52:29.91
where the unleashed
power of God can heal you.
00:52:29.94\00:52:32.58
Go the foot of the cross.
00:52:32.61\00:52:34.16
And so since I learned
that from Roger Morneau
00:52:34.19\00:52:36.09
by the grace of God
I begin every worship
00:52:36.12\00:52:38.37
right there at
the foot of the cross.
00:52:38.40\00:52:41.15
Every time I stand here,
00:52:41.18\00:52:42.34
this is the cross inlaid
into this wooden platform, why?
00:52:42.37\00:52:46.12
Because it's at
the foot of the cross
00:52:46.15\00:52:49.15
that you and I are secured.
00:52:49.18\00:52:50.38
That's the only
place we are healed.
00:52:50.41\00:52:53.79
So what happened?
00:52:53.82\00:52:54.86
Come on, see now your Bible,
00:52:54.89\00:52:57.21
oh, go buy yourself
a Bible for Christmas.
00:52:57.24\00:52:59.34
Don't like the Bible you have,
buy yourself a new translation.
00:52:59.37\00:53:01.14
It's great to get a new
translation now and then.
00:53:01.17\00:53:03.44
It makes a little
more, I got to get into this.
00:53:03.47\00:53:05.41
Turn those nice crispy pages.
00:53:05.44\00:53:08.62
But what you say,
you and I make a covenant
00:53:08.65\00:53:11.20
by the grace of God
we will go to the cross
00:53:11.23\00:53:13.54
read Matthew 27:24-54 everyday.
00:53:13.57\00:53:17.09
Look out what
else you do in worship,
00:53:17.12\00:53:18.39
start your worship at the cross.
00:53:18.42\00:53:21.31
Wouldn't it be something?
00:53:21.34\00:53:23.56
Whole community that's chosen,
00:53:23.59\00:53:24.87
you know, why, you now,
why, that would be important?
00:53:24.90\00:53:26.50
I'll tell you why.
00:53:26.53\00:53:27.65
Because the chosen
will never end their story
00:53:27.68\00:53:32.64
in the Promise Land until first
00:53:32.67\00:53:37.61
they go to the
serpent on the pole.
00:53:37.64\00:53:41.65
You can't get
there without that cross.
00:53:41.68\00:53:45.87
I need to make an appeal. I
want to pray with you first.
00:53:56.63\00:54:02.35
Dear Father, what is this,
00:54:02.38\00:54:07.34
on the very
borders of the Promise Land
00:54:11.42\00:54:15.45
they still need to learn
the truth about the cross.
00:54:15.48\00:54:20.67
Could it be the same for us?
00:54:20.70\00:54:22.48
Got everything else down,
00:54:22.51\00:54:23.86
oh, that kind of
cultural part got it,
00:54:23.89\00:54:26.09
distinctiveness,
oh, got that one
00:54:26.12\00:54:28.85
but are we
missing the quintessence
00:54:28.88\00:54:33.02
of what salvation is all about.
00:54:33.05\00:54:37.04
The healing of a
divine physician,
00:54:37.07\00:54:41.63
we divine
physician who was injected
00:54:41.66\00:54:45.93
with our antigen,
our sin, our poison
00:54:45.96\00:54:52.68
and now because of Calvary
can offer us eternal life
00:54:52.71\00:54:59.82
if only with raw faith
00:54:59.85\00:55:01.30
we will look to the
cross that we might live.
00:55:01.33\00:55:06.63
Holy Father, please,
00:55:06.66\00:55:11.08
take us to the cross
over and over and over
00:55:11.11\00:55:17.40
until Christ
himself comes I pray.
00:55:17.43\00:55:23.32
Before you go I wanted
to take one more moment
00:55:23.35\00:55:25.89
and let you know how glad I am
00:55:25.92\00:55:27.40
you shared this hour of worship
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:27.43\00:55:30.21
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:55:30.24\00:55:32.10
and we're on the
campus of Andrew's University
00:55:32.13\00:55:33.75
and the series is The Chosen.
00:55:33.78\00:55:36.14
This is a series
that has been growing
00:55:36.17\00:55:38.35
and it's burned on my heart
00:55:38.38\00:55:40.29
and over the last few weeks
before this new season began.
00:55:40.32\00:55:44.61
And some
concentrated prayer time
00:55:44.64\00:55:46.74
I believe the Spirit of
God lead me do this series,
00:55:46.77\00:55:49.18
out of the Book of Deuteronomy
00:55:49.21\00:55:50.80
for this generation
within our community of faith
00:55:50.83\00:55:53.49
and outside this
community of faith.
00:55:53.52\00:55:55.46
I believe both, both
communities need to hear
00:55:55.49\00:56:00.24
the compelling Bible truth
00:56:00.27\00:56:03.01
captured in this
series called The Chosen.
00:56:03.04\00:56:04.64
So thank you for
joining me and all of us
00:56:04.67\00:56:07.33
as we continue our
journey deeper and deeper
00:56:07.36\00:56:09.67
into the heart of this theme.
00:56:09.70\00:56:11.53
Living as you and I do and I'm--
00:56:11.56\00:56:14.19
I know I'm
preaching to the choir now,
00:56:14.22\00:56:16.36
living as we do on
the edge of a civilization
00:56:16.39\00:56:19.43
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change.
00:56:19.46\00:56:23.40
I am so grateful
and I know you are
00:56:23.43\00:56:25.75
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:25.78\00:56:29.04
I'm thankful that you and I
00:56:29.07\00:56:30.66
have been given
name the privilege by God
00:56:30.69\00:56:33.03
to partner to
reach this generation
00:56:33.06\00:56:34.86
the world over through
the satellite telecast.
00:56:34.89\00:56:36.95
I don't know how it works,
00:56:36.98\00:56:38.18
I just know that those
satellites drop the signals
00:56:38.21\00:56:41.05
and those
footprints all over the planet
00:56:41.08\00:56:43.30
are helping
disseminate this divine call
00:56:43.33\00:56:46.88
to become a part of The Chosen,
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:46.91\00:56:50.01
So please, here's
what I want you to know,
00:56:50.04\00:56:51.88
I thank God for
you in a generous way
00:56:51.91\00:56:54.86
you have partnered
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believe for such a time as this.
00:57:02.79\00:57:06.17
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And be assured, I'm looking
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God bless you.
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