The Bible tells us,
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
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It says to,
"Receive with meekness
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the implanted Word,
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which is able to save your souls
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and to be diligent
to present yourself
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approved to God,
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rightly dividing
the Word of truth."
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Join us now for the
3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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Our study today is Preparation
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for the End Time.
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Hello, I'm Shelley
Quinn, and we welcome you
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to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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It is so exciting for each of us
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on this panel to
have the time to take
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just a single day and kind of,
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you know, if you just read
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this through your
Sabbath school lesson
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for the week, you
kind of get your toes wet,
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but we kind of try to
study and go all the way,
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we're at waist-deep, and
then we try to back it out,
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don't we, CA.
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Try to back it out
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so that we're at least knee deep
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when we each give
our study for the day.
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And we're
learning from one another,
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and we hope
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that you are
enjoying this as well.
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We are talking
today about Christ
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in the heavenly sanctuary.
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This is coming from
our second quarterly,
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which is
Preparation for the End Time.
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If you don't have a quarterly,
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you can go
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to ABSG.Adventist.org
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and download a
quarterly or better yet,
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go to your local
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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They'll be happy
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not only to give you a quarterly
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but to invite you
to study with them.
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I mean, this is wonderful.
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I am excited about this lesson,
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Christ in the
heavenly sanctuary.
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But before we begin, I
want to introduce our panel,
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next to me, my dear,
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precious friend
Mollie Sue Steenson.
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And, Mollie, we're very thankful
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to have you here.
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You used to be
the general manager,
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almost said it again,
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but you're still a
vice-president of 3ABN,
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and then we have Greg Morikone,
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who is vice president
and production manager.
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Good to be here.
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Wonderful to have
you, Greg, and next to him,
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his lovely wife, Jill Morikone,
who is our new general manager,
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very thankful.
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And then we have
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the illustrious and
articulate CA Murray with us,
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Pastor CA Murray,
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who is the general
manager of the Proclaim channel.
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I'm going to ask Greg, yeah,
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we don't get to have
you on here very often,
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but would you
please open with prayer.
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Sure, yeah, let's pray.
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Father in heaven, Lord,
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we again thank You
for the opportunity
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of opening Your Word.
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And, Lord, as we study
the Sabbath school lesson
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for this week, we just
pray for Your Holy Spirit
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to impress upon
our minds the things
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that we need to take to heart.
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And, Lord, we thank
You that You never leave us
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nor forsake us, and, Lord,
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that Your Word is
powerful and quick,
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and, Lord, that it'll
do something in our lives
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if we allow the Holy
Spirit to dwell there.
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So, Lord, we
just thank You again
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for the opportunity we
have here as this panel
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but those at home
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have opened
your holy scriptures,
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and in Jesus' name, we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen and amen. Thank you, Greg.
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But we hope that you at
home have your Bible with you
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and something to take notes on.
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What we're going to
be talking about is,
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I said, this is lesson five,
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Christ in the
heavenly sanctuary.
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And we're going to explore
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what is Christ doing
in the heavenly sanctuary?
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Why is it so
important that we understand
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what He's doing
in these last days
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because after Christ completed
His work here on earth,
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as our sacrifice He went
to the heavenly sanctuary
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to minister as our high priest.
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I want to read two scriptures
that are on Sabbath's lesson,
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Hebrews 10:12,
it says, "This man,"
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speaking of Christ, Jesus,
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"after he'd offered
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one sacrifice for sins forever."
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Once for all,
no more sacrifices.
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That's right.
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"He sat down at
the right hand of God."
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In Hebrews 6:20, it says,
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"Where the
forerunner has entered for us
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even Jesus having become
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our high priest forever
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according to the
order of Melchizedek."
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So His intercessory work
in the heavenly sanctuary
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is crucial for us in preparation
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for the end time.
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Let's read our
memory text together.
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This is Philippians 2:9-10,
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coming from the NIV version,
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and it reads,
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"God exalted Him
to the highest place
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and gave Him the name
that is above every name,
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that at the name of Jesus
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every knee should bow
in heaven and on earth
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and under the earth."
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I want to read something
from the Great Controversy.
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A wonderful book, if
you haven't read that book,
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I highly
encourage you to get a copy
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of the Great
Controversy by E.G. White.
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I know so many people
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who have become Christians
and Adventist Christians
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because of reading that book.
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But I'm gonna read
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from page 488, and it says this,
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"The subject of the sanctuary
in the investigative judgment
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should be clearly
understood by the people of God.
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All need a knowledge for
themselves of the position
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and work of their
great High Priest.
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Otherwise it will be impossible
for them to exercise the faith
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which is essential at this
time or to occupy the position
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which God designs them to fill."
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So Sunday's lesson,
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we are studying the
supreme sacrifice of Jesus,
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and the lesson
asks the question,
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"Why did God send
His Son into the world?"
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Well, I started
thinking about that,
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and I'm going to give
you a number of things
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that I thought of that...
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I won't give you all
the scripture references,
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but we know
that God sent His son
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into the world
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while we were still sinners
as a demonstration of His love.
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Jesus came into the world
to be a light in darkness,
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to give us the truth,
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to reveal the
true nature of God,
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to be a light to the world,
preach the kingdom of God,
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the good news of
salvation by grace,
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to call sinners to
repentance, and to destroy evil,
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the Bible says. He
came to seek and save
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the lost sinners by
giving His life as a ransom,
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and He came to give us
abundant life right now
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and the promise of
eternal life forever.
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So let's look at Romans 8:3,
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we're talking again about Christ
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as our supreme sacrifice.
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In Romans 8:3, this
is what Paul writes,
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"For what the law
could not do in that
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it was weak through the flesh,
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God did by sending His own Son
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in the likeness of
sinful flesh on account of sin.
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He condemned sin in the flesh."
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The law was holy, the
law was good, Paul said.
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It revealed our transgressions,
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it revealed the
righteousness of God,
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but our flesh is weak,
and there is absolutely no way
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that you or I could
render perfect obedience
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to the law of God.
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The law did not have
the power to justify...
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In fact, the law
called for animal sacrifices
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and when you think about
this, you know, it showed us
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that it was going to take
a substitutionary sacrifice
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to pay for our sins,
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but the Bible
says in Hebrews 10:4,
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"That the animal
blood could not remove sin."
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The sacrifice merely
pointed to Jesus Christ
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who paid the
penalty for all of our sins.
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So God so loved the
world, He sent His Son
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in the likeness of sinful flesh.
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When you think about
it, His divinity was veiled
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by His humanity
at the incarnation.
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He came to be a sin offering,
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but He Himself was sinless.
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He walked in perfect obedience
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so that He could offer
Himself as a sacrifice,
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so let's look at
2 Corinthians 5:21.
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2 Corinthians
5:21, "For He made Him
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who knew no sin
to be sin for us..."
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because our sins were placed
upon Christ, the sinless one.
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And then it
says why He did this,
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"That we might become
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the
righteousness of God in Him."
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There's an exchange
here, this reconciliation
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that Christ took
our sins upon Him,
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and then He credited
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or imputed His
righteousness to us.
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Hallelujah!
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And let's look at
the Old Testament,
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Isaiah 53:10. Isaiah 53:10.
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This is such an
amazing scripture,
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Isaiah 53:10,
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"Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise Him..."
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This is speaking
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of the suffering
servant of God, the Messiah.
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"It pleased the
Lord to bruise Him.
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He has put Him to grief.
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When You,"
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talking about
God, "make His soul,"
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talking about
Christ, "an offering for sin,
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He shall see His seed,
He shall prolong His days,
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And the pleasure of the
Lord shall prosper in His hand."
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You know, the oath
when we think about it,
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the law demanded
Christ's death, didn't it?
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The law demanded His death.
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And throughout His
humiliation, both in...
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And I'm talking
about His humiliation
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not just on the cross,
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but His humiliation
in giving up His glory
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and just coming and
taking on our flesh,
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throughout His humiliation
in life and in death,
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Christ remained faithful,
and He became our sin offering,
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a perfect final
substitutionary sacrifice,
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and it was the final sacrifice,
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bringing all other
sacrifices to the end.
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He condemned sin in the flesh,
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He broke the power
of sin at the cross.
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So let's look at 1 Timothy 1:17,
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why did God...
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Why did Christ have to become
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a human being?
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Why couldn't He have
just shown up and said,
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"Here I am, tada"?
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Listen...
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'Cause, well, first of all,
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we had to have a
substitute that died for us.
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1 Timothy 1:17 says this,
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"Now to the King
eternal, immortal, invisible,
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to God who alone is wise,
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be honor and
glory forever and ever."
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So we see that God is eternal,
immortal, and invisible,
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but now let's turn
over to 1 Timothy 6:16,
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this explains
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why Christ had to be incarnated.
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He came to walk
in our own shoes,
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yes, to be an example to us,
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yes, to experience everything
that we'd been through
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so that He could be
a faithful high priest,
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but 1 Timothy 6:16,
speaking of God says,
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"who alone has immortality,"
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only God is
immortal at this time,
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"dwelling in
unapproachable light,
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whom no man has seen or can see,
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to him be honor
and everlasting power."
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Now before I make my points,
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I want to read
one more scripture,
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1 Corinthians 15:51-53,
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it says, "Behold,
I tell you a mystery,
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we shall not all sleep,
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but we shall all be
changed in a moment,
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in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
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For the trumpet will sound,
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and the dead will be
raised incorruptible,
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and we shall be changed..."
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When?
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At the trumpet,
the last trumpet,
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so this is when Christ returns.
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"For this corruptible
must put on incorruption,
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and this mortal
must put on immortality."
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See, only God can
grant immortality to us,
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but as God,
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if Christ had not
taken on the flesh,
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He couldn't have died.
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He couldn't have died for us,
so He had to come as a mortal,
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become a mortal
being, taking on our flesh,
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taking on our immortality,
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so that he could
die as our substitute.
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And our quarterly says this,
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"Though divine in
though in nature God,
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Jesus took on human
likeness, humbled Himself
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by becoming obedient
to death on the cross
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and in a way known only to God."
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It says, "The divinity of Christ
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did not die when
Jesus died on the cross,
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but in some way,
beyond human comprehension,
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the divinity of
Jesus was quiescent
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during the nine
months in the womb
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and in the days of the tomb
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and Jesus never used
it to aid His humanity
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during His life
in ministry here."
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The point is this,
Jesus was born to die.
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He was born to die for me,
He was born to die for you,
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and if you will
accept His supreme sacrifice,
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you will be saved.
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Amen. Wow.
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Beautiful,
Shelley. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you so much, you know,
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in looking at Christ
in the heavenly sanctuary,
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and today, I've got Monday,
and I look at the Lamb of God,
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and you're talking
about the supreme sacrifice.
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Now, when you look at...
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When you hear the Lamb of God,
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that is
sanctuary talk, is it not?
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Oh, yes, He sure is. Yes, it is.
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And I'm looking at...
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We're looking at
the heavenly sanctuary,
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now was there a
earthly sanctuary?
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Yes.
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What happened every
year down at Shiloh,
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that was the sanctuary
on the earth at Shiloh,
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every year at the same
time, they took a lamb.
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What was applied to that lamb?
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Well, that lamb
took on figuratively
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all the sins of
the nation, did it not?
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Yes. And they took that lamb.
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It was a spotless lamb,
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a lamb without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing.
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Shelley, just as you
described our divine,
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our supreme sacrifice.
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They put that lamb on the altar,
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and they took a dagger
and they plunged that dagger
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through his heart.
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Now that was in the natural...
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That was in the
natural sanctuary,
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here on this
earth, down at Shiloh,
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and all again, what was
the purpose of that lamb?
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All of the sins of the
nation were applied to that lamb
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once a year,
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but what had to
happen the next year?
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Had to do the
same thing over again.
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Well, and on Monday, we
look at the Lamb of God.
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Now remember,
and it's John 1:29,
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John the Baptist addresses Jesus
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as Jesus was approaching him
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in the wilderness at Bethabara,
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did I say that word
correctly, Bethabara?
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Sounds good to me.
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That was beyond the Jordan,
what was John doing there?
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He was baptizing,
and so here comes Jesus.
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Now Jesus was John's cousin,
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but I believe that John received
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this by divine revelation
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because I doubt
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that at the last family reunion,
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John and Jesus
got together and said,
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"Do you know what?
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I think I'm the Lamb
of God," and John said,
00:17:04.02\00:17:06.35
"Do you know what,
I think you're the..."
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No, I think this was
by divine revelation.
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Yes. Yes.
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But here what
John says, John 1:29,
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"The next day John saw
Jesus coming toward him,
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and said, " what?
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"Behold!
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The Lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world!"
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Now when John called
Jesus, the Lamb of God,
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he was making
reference to sanctuary,
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he was making
reference to Jesus,
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purpose for being here
on the earth as you said,
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Jesus born to die,
born of a woman to die,
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resurrected from
the dead to live forever
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as the King of
kings and Lord of lords,
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just to take
that thought further.
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Even more directly,
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He was making reference
to Christ's death for sin,
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the ultimate culmination of
all the sacrificial animals.
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How long had they
been sacrificing an animal?
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Ever since God instituted
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the feast of Passover
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had they been sacrificing.
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Even before.
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That was the beginning
of that sacrificial system.
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The ultimate common culmination
of all of those sacrifices
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of that had ever been slain
or sacrificed sin throughout
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Hebrew sanctuary ritual history.
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Okay, did you have a
thought that you had on that?
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Well, just...
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I was just going to add
that actually that's when
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the sanctuary
sacrificial system came,
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but we know that
from the very beginning,
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when Adam and Eve
lost their Shekinah glory,
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God had to sacrifice,
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and He instituted
the sacrificial system
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then we see with Cain and Abel,
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so I know what you
were talking about,
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just wanted to clarify.
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With the sanctuary...
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The sanctuary,
just wanted to clarify.
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Okay, and that was
good clarification.
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Okay all four of the gospels,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John do the same thing.
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They tell the
story of what Jesus did
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in His role as the Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world.
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Now, here's a point
that I think is worth making.
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We aren't...
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Have you ever heard this,
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"I'm just a
sinner saved by grace"?
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Now is there truth in that,
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but we aren't just
sinners saved by grace.
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We are now saints
who are saved by faith.
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That's good.
Yeah, that's excellent.
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Jesus takes away
the sin of the world,
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he who die to sin
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consider ourselves dead to sin,
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have we died to sin?
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Then we consider
ourselves dead to sin.
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We were made free from
sin. And, Jill, I'll do it.
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I just have to put it in here.
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If we confess our sins,
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He's faithful and
just to forgive us
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and to cleanse us
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from all
unrighteousness, His sacrifice,
00:20:11.14\00:20:15.84
and that
sacrifice was at Calvary,
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He is the Lamb of God.
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That sacrifice made a way for us
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because He who
knew no sin became sin.
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Remember, what that...
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In the natural
sanctuary at Shiloh,
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the sins were applied to
that animal for the nation
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for that year, and
then He was sacrificed.
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Well, He who knew no
sin became sin for who?
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For us.
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He took our sins upon
Himself as the Lamb of God
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and, oh, is that
double imputation,
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I love that word.
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Jill Morikone, to my knowledge,
is the one that coined that.
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He became sin for
us, He took our sins,
00:21:01.76\00:21:05.89
but then you
know what else He did?
00:21:05.93\00:21:08.83
He Imputed righteousness to us.
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He took our sins,
and we became righteous.
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Hey, what kind of deal is that?
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Amen. Okay.
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Let me just...
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Let's just look
at a few scriptures
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concerning Christ
as the Lamb of God.
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Go to Revelation,
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we're going to
look at a few there,
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and then we'll
probably jump back to Hebrews,
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but Revelation 5:12,
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the scripture says,
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"Worthy is the Lamb
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who was slain to receive power,
00:21:40.86\00:21:44.27
and riches, and wisdom,
00:21:44.30\00:21:46.27
and strength, and honor,
and glory, and blessings!"
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Worthy is that Lamb.
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Now in Revelation 13:8,
00:21:53.51\00:21:58.95
we're talking about
those that worship the beast.
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Shelley, I know you
shared the scripture earlier,
00:22:03.59\00:22:06.86
maybe not in today's lesson,
00:22:06.89\00:22:08.62
but I know this
scripture has been mentioned
00:22:08.66\00:22:11.29
a few times, Revelation 13:8,
00:22:11.33\00:22:16.20
"All who dwell on the
earth will worship him,"
00:22:16.23\00:22:19.17
and that's
talking about the beast,
00:22:19.20\00:22:21.37
whose names have
00:22:21.40\00:22:22.97
not been written
in the Book of Life
00:22:23.00\00:22:26.78
of the Lamb slain
00:22:26.81\00:22:28.24
from the
foundation of the world."
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Oh!
00:22:29.78\00:22:31.11
Do we want our name
written in the Book of Life?
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Okay, and I now I want
00:22:34.02\00:22:35.35
to just touch on
this, Hebrews 1:3,
00:22:35.38\00:22:38.45
jump to Hebrews
just for a minute.
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Hebrews 1:3,
00:22:40.79\00:22:42.76
we're told that Jesus
did this after His ascension
00:22:42.79\00:22:47.36
because He is the
Lamb that was slain,
00:22:47.40\00:22:50.20
but you know that...
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.03
And we
understand His death burial,
00:22:52.07\00:22:55.20
but let's look
at the resurrection,
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.81
"Who being the
brightness of His glory
00:22:57.84\00:23:00.88
and the express
image of His person,
00:23:00.91\00:23:03.14
and upholding all things
by the word of His power,
00:23:03.18\00:23:07.05
when He had by
Himself purged our sins."
00:23:07.08\00:23:10.35
Done what? Purged our sins.
00:23:10.39\00:23:12.65
Here's what happened.
00:23:12.69\00:23:14.19
"He sat down at the
right hand of Majesty on high."
00:23:14.22\00:23:19.13
So where is Jesus right now?
00:23:19.16\00:23:20.76
Seated at the
right hand of the Father.
00:23:20.80\00:23:22.70
What is He doing for us?
00:23:22.73\00:23:24.57
He is forever
making intercession for us.
00:23:24.60\00:23:27.64
His work at His
crucifixion, at His death,
00:23:27.67\00:23:32.67
it didn't end
there as the Lamb of God
00:23:32.71\00:23:36.54
after His work as
the sacrificial lamb,
00:23:36.58\00:23:40.52
Christ became something,
Shelley, you hit on it.
00:23:40.55\00:23:43.39
He is now our great high priest.
00:23:43.42\00:23:47.22
And what does a high priest
do? What is an intercessor?
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He's forever making
intercession for us.
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.76
He is our great high priest.
00:23:53.80\00:23:55.93
And you know what
an intercessor does?
00:23:55.96\00:23:58.37
An intercessor stands in the gap
00:23:58.40\00:24:00.87
and makes up the hedge,
00:24:00.90\00:24:02.30
the Lord Jesus Christ, Greg,
he takes hold of your hand,
00:24:02.34\00:24:06.61
then he takes hand,
hold of the hand of God,
00:24:06.64\00:24:10.11
and He brings us together
that is what He's doing for us.
00:24:10.15\00:24:14.62
He's as our great high priest.
00:24:14.65\00:24:16.85
He's forever making
intercession for us.
00:24:16.89\00:24:21.12
Let's go to Hebrews 4,
00:24:21.16\00:24:22.92
I think I've got
you in Hebrews 1 now.
00:24:22.96\00:24:24.53
Let's go to Hebrews 4
and look at 14-16, it says,
00:24:24.56\00:24:29.30
"Seeing then that we
have a great high priest
00:24:29.33\00:24:31.90
who is passed from the
heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,
00:24:31.93\00:24:35.20
let us hold fast our confession,
00:24:35.24\00:24:37.67
for we do not have a high priest
00:24:37.71\00:24:39.31
who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses,
00:24:39.34\00:24:42.01
but was in all
points tempted as we are,
00:24:42.04\00:24:44.35
yet without sin.
00:24:44.38\00:24:45.85
Let us, therefore, come
boldly to the throne of grace
00:24:45.88\00:24:49.12
that we may obtain
mercy and grace to help
00:24:49.15\00:24:52.15
in time of need."
00:24:52.19\00:24:53.52
As the Lamb of God,
00:24:53.56\00:24:54.99
our sins were
transferred to Him,
00:24:55.02\00:24:57.09
as our great high priest,
00:24:57.13\00:24:59.16
He's standing in the gap
making up the hedge for us.
00:24:59.19\00:25:02.93
Hooray! Amen.
00:25:02.96\00:25:04.83
Yeah, that's great. Wow!
00:25:04.87\00:25:06.20
This is just a great study,
00:25:06.23\00:25:07.74
Christ in the
heavenly sanctuary,
00:25:07.77\00:25:09.60
and I have Tuesday,
and it's our high priest,
00:25:09.64\00:25:13.07
and Mollie in this last
passage that she was reading,
00:25:13.11\00:25:15.61
here actually mentions
00:25:15.64\00:25:16.98
that Christ
being the high priest,
00:25:17.01\00:25:19.18
what I want to do is
actually go to Hebrews 7,
00:25:19.21\00:25:22.92
so just a couple of chapters
00:25:22.95\00:25:25.19
further in the Book of Hebrews.
00:25:25.22\00:25:27.09
Hebrews 7,
00:25:27.12\00:25:28.92
and we're going to be
looking at verses 22-24.
00:25:28.96\00:25:33.83
And the
question that I have here
00:25:33.86\00:25:35.53
is what
qualifications does Christ have
00:25:35.56\00:25:39.23
as our high priest
00:25:39.27\00:25:41.04
that no other
priest could ever have?
00:25:41.07\00:25:45.04
So let's look
at Hebrews 7:22-24,
00:25:45.07\00:25:51.11
and I have it...
00:25:51.15\00:25:53.05
Again, my wife has
typed some of this out for me,
00:25:53.08\00:25:54.85
so I'm going to read
it here from my paper.
00:25:54.88\00:25:56.32
It says, I have three
points, and point number one is,
00:25:56.35\00:25:59.19
"He has a permanent priesthood."
00:25:59.22\00:26:02.42
Point number one. He
has a permanent priesthood.
00:26:02.46\00:26:04.96
It says, "By so much more,"
00:26:04.99\00:26:06.76
and that's
referring to Melchizedek,
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.80
"Jesus has become a
surety of a better covenant."
00:26:08.83\00:26:12.53
Amen.
00:26:12.57\00:26:13.90
"Also there were many priests
00:26:13.94\00:26:16.10
because they were
prevented by death
00:26:16.14\00:26:18.17
from continuing
but He, Jesus Christ,
00:26:18.21\00:26:22.68
because He continues forever
00:26:22.71\00:26:25.38
has an unchangeable priesthood."
00:26:25.41\00:26:27.32
So there we have
it, He, meaning Jesus,
00:26:27.35\00:26:29.62
continues forever.
00:26:29.65\00:26:30.99
So point number one,
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.35
"He has a permanent priesthood."
00:26:32.39\00:26:33.96
Point number two,
00:26:33.99\00:26:35.32
"He is able to save completely."
00:26:35.36\00:26:38.69
Let's confer that.
Hebrews 7:25, let's turn there.
00:26:38.73\00:26:41.83
Hebrews...
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.20
Well, a couple
verses down actually.
00:26:43.23\00:26:44.60
Hebrews 7:25, and it says,"
00:26:44.63\00:26:47.17
Wherefore, He is
able also to save them
00:26:47.20\00:26:50.07
to the uttermost
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.97
that come unto God by him seeing
00:26:52.01\00:26:56.28
He ever liveth to make
intercession for them."
00:26:56.31\00:27:00.62
So we have here, He is
able to save completely,
00:27:00.65\00:27:03.45
and that is where it
says save to the uttermost.
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I'd say that's powerful. Amen.
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.26
Point number three,
"He is God, and He is holy,
00:27:09.29\00:27:15.40
and He has authority to
forgive our sins, my sins."
00:27:15.43\00:27:19.40
Wow! Praise the Lord.
00:27:19.43\00:27:20.77
Hebrews 7:26
and 27, and it says,
00:27:20.80\00:27:25.81
"For such a high
priest became us,
00:27:25.84\00:27:29.51
who is holy, harmless,
00:27:29.54\00:27:32.81
undefiled,
separate from sinners,
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.85
and has become
higher than the heavens
00:27:35.88\00:27:38.92
who does not need daily,
00:27:38.95\00:27:40.69
as those high priests,
to offer up sacrifices,
00:27:40.72\00:27:44.23
first, for His own sins,
and then for the people's,
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for He did this once for all
00:27:48.16\00:27:50.87
when He offered up Himself."
00:27:50.90\00:27:53.84
So Christ offered up Himself
as the ultimate sacrifice
00:27:53.87\00:27:57.24
for my sins.
00:27:57.27\00:27:59.04
He knew no sin, I think
that's an important part too,
00:27:59.07\00:28:01.14
He knew no sin.
00:28:01.18\00:28:02.51
I think, Shelley, you
touched on that earlier
00:28:02.54\00:28:03.95
but He died for me,
took what I deserved.
00:28:03.98\00:28:06.75
"Christ also came as a
man to live this life,"
00:28:06.78\00:28:09.65
verse 26 says, "He became us..."
00:28:09.68\00:28:12.55
Became "us".
00:28:12.59\00:28:13.92
It's something that
I have a hard time...
00:28:13.96\00:28:15.52
I don't think
I'll ever understand,
00:28:15.56\00:28:16.89
Pastor CA,
00:28:16.93\00:28:18.26
how God could be 100%
divine and 100% human.
00:28:18.29\00:28:22.20
You know, that's just amazing
00:28:22.23\00:28:23.57
but God has
that all figured out,
00:28:23.60\00:28:25.13
and I appreciate so
much His sacrifice for me.
00:28:25.17\00:28:28.07
"Christ's
sacrifice was complete.
00:28:28.10\00:28:30.61
It was once and for all.
00:28:30.64\00:28:32.34
It needed to
happen only one time."
00:28:32.37\00:28:33.91
And I think, Mollie,
you were mentioning that.
00:28:33.94\00:28:36.14
"It only needed
to happen one time,
00:28:36.18\00:28:37.51
and it was
sufficient to bring salvation
00:28:37.55\00:28:39.68
to every human being."
00:28:39.71\00:28:41.95
And I just have a
little side note here
00:28:41.98\00:28:43.42
in my notes, another
side note in my notes.
00:28:43.45\00:28:46.09
"Sufficient to bring salvation,"
00:28:46.12\00:28:48.09
and I just have
here what a gift...
00:28:48.12\00:28:49.86
What a gift from Jesus Christ.
00:28:49.89\00:28:51.49
It always touches
my heart, and I think,
00:28:51.53\00:28:53.16
many times we need
00:28:53.19\00:28:54.53
to just
contemplate that sacrifice,
00:28:54.56\00:28:55.96
and Ellen White
mentions that too,
00:28:56.00\00:28:57.57
what Jesus has done
for us, it's truly amazing.
00:28:57.60\00:29:00.07
So the three points...
00:29:00.10\00:29:01.70
Again, the question
was what qualifications
00:29:01.74\00:29:05.81
does Christ have
as our high priest
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that no other
priest could ever have?
00:29:07.34\00:29:08.81
Point one, He has a
permanent Priesthood,
00:29:08.84\00:29:10.98
He is able to save completely,
and then point three,
00:29:11.01\00:29:13.95
He is God, He is holy,
00:29:13.98\00:29:15.78
and He has
authority to forgive sins.
00:29:15.82\00:29:19.05
I want to look at Hebrews 8:6.
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Hebrews 8:6,
00:29:22.86\00:29:24.86
and this is talking
about Christ as our mediator.
00:29:24.89\00:29:28.36
And again, you were
talking about Christ
00:29:28.40\00:29:29.73
as our intercessor, Mollie.
00:29:29.76\00:29:31.40
Hebrews 8:6 says,
00:29:31.43\00:29:34.24
"But now, He has obtained
a more excellent ministry
00:29:34.27\00:29:39.97
inasmuch as He is also
Mediator of a better covenant,
00:29:40.01\00:29:44.88
which was
established on better promises."
00:29:44.91\00:29:48.02
So we have a more
excellent ministry,
00:29:48.05\00:29:50.79
here Paul begins
the discussion of Christ
00:29:50.82\00:29:53.69
as the mediator
of a better covenant,
00:29:53.72\00:29:56.83
and Mollie again mentioned this,
00:29:56.86\00:29:58.19
but mediator is one
00:29:58.23\00:29:59.56
who mediates between two parties
00:29:59.59\00:30:02.93
to remove a disagreement
or to reach a common goal.
00:30:02.96\00:30:06.60
And, Mollie, I
liked what you did,
00:30:06.63\00:30:07.97
you know, you grasped my hand,
00:30:08.00\00:30:09.34
and your
illustration was just powerful.
00:30:09.37\00:30:11.51
Yeah, because it's
really bringing sinful man
00:30:11.54\00:30:13.98
and God together.
00:30:14.01\00:30:15.44
So I tell you,
praise the Lord for that.
00:30:15.48\00:30:17.21
Interesting
little side note here,
00:30:17.25\00:30:18.58
it says the word
mediator occurs six times
00:30:18.61\00:30:22.78
in the New Testament,
00:30:22.82\00:30:24.49
and four times it's
with reference to Christ.
00:30:24.52\00:30:27.16
Christ is the
mediator between God and man
00:30:27.19\00:30:30.36
and can lay His hands on both us
00:30:30.39\00:30:33.29
as sinful human beings
and His connection with God.
00:30:33.33\00:30:36.43
As God, He understands
God and can speak for Him,
00:30:36.46\00:30:41.37
as man He understands man
00:30:41.40\00:30:44.47
and can
sympathetically minister for Him
00:30:44.51\00:30:47.21
before the Father in heaven.
00:30:47.24\00:30:49.34
It's just like
wow, praise the Lord.
00:30:49.38\00:30:50.71
If we could stand up here
on this Sabbath school set,
00:30:50.75\00:30:52.41
I think I would.
00:30:52.45\00:30:53.78
Praise the Lord for that.
00:30:53.82\00:30:55.15
I tell you, it's just,
wow, it's just unbelievable.
00:30:55.18\00:30:58.05
And I have here,
this is from the lesson,
00:30:58.09\00:30:59.42
so if you're following along
in your Sabbath school lesson,
00:30:59.45\00:31:01.89
it's, the question is
what has Christ obtained
00:31:01.92\00:31:05.63
for us through His death
and now His ministry in heaven?
00:31:05.66\00:31:10.23
So let's look next chapter
00:31:10.27\00:31:11.73
over Hebrews 9:11-15.
00:31:11.77\00:31:17.91
And we'll just go
verse 11 and 12, it says,
00:31:17.94\00:31:21.41
"But when Christ appears
00:31:21.44\00:31:23.28
as a high priest of
the good things to come,
00:31:23.31\00:31:26.61
He entered through the greater
00:31:26.65\00:31:27.98
and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands,
00:31:28.02\00:31:31.55
that is to say
not of this creation."
00:31:31.59\00:31:34.12
Verse 12,
00:31:34.16\00:31:35.49
"And not through the
blood of goats and calves,
00:31:35.52\00:31:38.36
but through His own blood,
00:31:38.39\00:31:40.33
He entered the Holy
Place once and for all,"
00:31:40.36\00:31:43.40
which you were
mentioning, Mollie,
00:31:43.43\00:31:45.03
having obtained
eternal redemption."
00:31:45.07\00:31:48.57
So Christ has
obtained eternal redemption
00:31:48.60\00:31:50.61
and He turned to life to
those who believe in Him.
00:31:50.64\00:31:54.28
And redemption to me,
and actually it's not to me,
00:31:54.31\00:31:57.21
but this is the
Greek translation,
00:31:57.25\00:31:59.55
that also means to ransom
or releasing or deliverance.
00:31:59.58\00:32:04.72
So if you read the
last part of verse 12,
00:32:04.75\00:32:06.52
it says having
obtained eternal deliverance.
00:32:06.55\00:32:10.49
Praise God for that.
00:32:10.53\00:32:11.86
Verse 13 says,
00:32:11.89\00:32:13.23
"For if the blood
of goats and bulls
00:32:13.26\00:32:14.66
and the ashes of
a heifer sprinkling
00:32:14.70\00:32:17.43
those who have
been defiled sanctified
00:32:17.47\00:32:20.04
for the cleansing of the flesh."
00:32:20.07\00:32:22.70
So here we have the type
00:32:22.74\00:32:24.61
which would be
the heifer, the goat,
00:32:24.64\00:32:26.68
it's, obviously,
symbolic of Christ's sacrifice
00:32:26.71\00:32:29.71
for each one of us.
00:32:29.74\00:32:31.45
Verse 14, here is the anti-type.
00:32:31.48\00:32:34.32
Verse 14 says,
00:32:34.35\00:32:35.68
"How much more will
the blood of Christ..."
00:32:35.72\00:32:38.05
He's the anti-type,
00:32:38.09\00:32:40.16
"Who through the
eternal Spirit offered Himself
00:32:40.19\00:32:44.29
without blemish to God,
00:32:44.33\00:32:46.59
cleanse your
conscience from dead works
00:32:46.63\00:32:48.90
to serve the Living God."
00:32:48.93\00:32:51.70
And I took from the...
00:32:51.73\00:32:53.07
I like, you know, to
do some different studies.
00:32:53.10\00:32:54.44
And from the SDA Commentary,
00:32:54.47\00:32:56.14
I like what it says
here for the word serve
00:32:56.17\00:32:57.97
at the end of verse 14,
00:32:58.01\00:32:59.34
it says, "Serve the Living God."
00:32:59.37\00:33:00.71
It says,
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.08
"Cleansing, or we are
redeemed for service?"
00:33:02.11\00:33:04.51
Cleansing is not
an end in itself,
00:33:04.55\00:33:07.52
it prepares men to render
acceptable service to God.
00:33:07.55\00:33:12.55
I know I'm running out of time,
but I wanted to just read this.
00:33:12.59\00:33:14.72
This is from Sanctified
Life, page 87 and it says, Paul,
00:33:14.76\00:33:19.56
in reference to Colossians 3:12,
00:33:19.59\00:33:21.26
"But Paul seeks to
impress upon the minds
00:33:21.30\00:33:24.00
the fact that the foundation
of all acceptable service..."
00:33:24.03\00:33:28.07
We're talking
about service to God,
00:33:28.10\00:33:30.11
"As well as the very
00:33:30.14\00:33:31.54
of the Christian grace is love."
00:33:31.57\00:33:34.18
Because sometimes okay,
what is my service to God,
00:33:34.21\00:33:35.84
and that's what I was looking up
00:33:35.88\00:33:37.21
because how do I
serve God acceptably?
00:33:37.25\00:33:39.61
And it says, "With love,
and that only in the soul
00:33:39.65\00:33:42.78
where love reigns will
the peace of God abide."
00:33:42.82\00:33:46.96
And then you can look up
actually Colossians 3:12-17
00:33:46.99\00:33:50.49
because that
scripturally answers
00:33:50.53\00:33:51.86
that as well.
00:33:51.89\00:33:53.23
It's just a powerful passage,
00:33:53.26\00:33:54.60
"Well, let's
move on to verse 15,
00:33:54.63\00:33:56.36
we're again into Hebrews 9:15,
00:33:56.40\00:33:59.83
it says, "For this reason,
00:33:59.87\00:34:01.80
He is the mediator
of the new covenant.
00:34:01.84\00:34:05.07
So that since the
death has taken place
00:34:05.11\00:34:07.78
for the redemption
of the transgressions
00:34:07.81\00:34:10.08
that were committed
under the first covenant,
00:34:10.11\00:34:12.55
those who have been called
00:34:12.58\00:34:13.92
may receive the promise
of eternal inheritance."
00:34:13.95\00:34:18.49
So the mediator of
the new covenant...
00:34:18.52\00:34:20.36
What is the new covenant?
00:34:20.39\00:34:21.89
Let's look at Hebrews 8:10,
00:34:21.92\00:34:24.59
so let's just flip back
to chapter Hebrews 8:10 says,
00:34:24.63\00:34:28.60
"For this is the covenant
00:34:28.63\00:34:30.07
that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days,"
00:34:30.10\00:34:33.27
says the Lord."
00:34:33.30\00:34:34.64
What does He say?
00:34:34.67\00:34:36.40
I will put My laws in their mind
00:34:36.44\00:34:39.31
and write them on their hearts,
00:34:39.34\00:34:41.81
and I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
00:34:41.84\00:34:46.58
So Christ is our Sacrifice,
He is our High Priest,
00:34:46.61\00:34:49.85
He is our
Redeemer and our Mediator,
00:34:49.88\00:34:52.62
and I want to
read this in closing.
00:34:52.65\00:34:54.12
This comes from Desire of Ages,
00:34:54.16\00:34:55.76
"Christ was
treated as we deserve
00:34:55.79\00:34:58.29
that we might be
treated as He deserves.
00:34:58.33\00:35:01.50
He was condemned for our
sins in which He had no share
00:35:01.53\00:35:05.57
that we might be
justified by His righteousness
00:35:05.60\00:35:09.00
in which we had no share.
00:35:09.04\00:35:11.31
He suffered the
death which was ours
00:35:11.34\00:35:13.84
that we might receive
the life which was His,
00:35:13.88\00:35:16.68
with His
stripes, we are healed."
00:35:16.71\00:35:18.75
That's from
Desire of Ages, page 25.
00:35:18.78\00:35:21.12
Amen, thank you so much,
00:35:21.15\00:35:23.05
I loved that
passage from Desire of Ages,
00:35:23.08\00:35:26.22
how Christ was
treated as we deserved,
00:35:26.25\00:35:27.99
that's that double imputation
we were talking about before.
00:35:28.02\00:35:29.99
That's true.
00:35:30.03\00:35:31.36
He took our sin,
00:35:31.39\00:35:33.29
and then imputed
to us His righteous.
00:35:33.33\00:35:36.30
What an incredible gift.
00:35:36.33\00:35:38.47
We've been talking today
about Christ as our substitute,
00:35:38.50\00:35:42.67
Christ as our sacrifice,
Christ as our high priest.
00:35:42.70\00:35:48.31
In my portion,
00:35:48.34\00:35:49.68
some of the
scriptures you all read,
00:35:49.71\00:35:51.11
I'm going to touch on again,
00:35:51.15\00:35:52.48
but my portion has to do
with Christ as our intercessor,
00:35:52.51\00:35:57.45
still dealing with a
high priestly ministry
00:35:57.49\00:35:59.82
of the Lord Jesus,
but Him as intercessor,
00:35:59.85\00:36:03.43
we all have a need
for an intercessor,
00:36:03.46\00:36:07.20
would you say that's accurate?
00:36:07.23\00:36:08.56
You think about in
the Garden of Eden...
00:36:08.60\00:36:11.23
When Adam and Eve first
sinned, sin brought fear,
00:36:11.27\00:36:16.47
sin brought guilt,
00:36:16.50\00:36:18.24
sin brought
separation from the Father.
00:36:18.27\00:36:21.91
Remember, when God
came to talk with them
00:36:21.94\00:36:24.28
in the cool of the day,
and they ran and they hid.
00:36:24.31\00:36:28.15
Sin brought that separation.
00:36:28.18\00:36:30.45
And I know each one of you
00:36:30.49\00:36:31.82
have been
touching on that a bit.
00:36:31.85\00:36:33.19
Romans 3, turn
with me to Romans 3,
00:36:33.22\00:36:36.02
and we know we can
quote this scripture,
00:36:36.06\00:36:38.19
we know that all have sinned
00:36:38.23\00:36:40.70
and fallen short
of the glory of God.
00:36:40.73\00:36:44.27
We all have sinned,
00:36:44.30\00:36:45.83
but yet we all
have the opportunity
00:36:45.87\00:36:49.20
to be justified by His blood
00:36:49.24\00:36:51.87
'cause this
scripture does not stop there
00:36:51.91\00:36:54.01
and praise the Lord, it doesn't.
00:36:54.04\00:36:55.71
It could just stop with "
00:36:55.74\00:36:57.08
all have sinned
and fallen short,"
00:36:57.11\00:36:58.45
and we would be without
hope, but yet the next verse,
00:36:58.48\00:37:02.15
it says, "Being justified freely
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.55
by His grace..."
00:37:04.59\00:37:05.92
We all have the opportunity,
00:37:05.95\00:37:07.29
the privilege
of being justified,
00:37:07.32\00:37:09.86
"By His grace
through the redemption
00:37:09.89\00:37:11.76
that is in Christ, Jesus."
00:37:11.79\00:37:13.56
He bought us back,
00:37:13.60\00:37:15.60
He redeemed us out of
the kingdom of darkness
00:37:15.63\00:37:17.60
and brought us
00:37:17.63\00:37:18.97
into the kingdom
of God's dear Son.
00:37:19.00\00:37:20.34
Yes, amen. Hallelujah!
00:37:20.37\00:37:21.70
Amen. We are
justified through that.
00:37:21.74\00:37:23.67
And verse 25,
00:37:23.71\00:37:25.04
"Whom God set forth
as a propitiation..."
00:37:25.07\00:37:27.71
On our previous
lesson, we talked about that
00:37:27.74\00:37:29.81
in this symbolism
of the mercy seat,
00:37:29.84\00:37:33.11
"And through His blood,
00:37:33.15\00:37:35.38
through faith to
demonstrate His forbearance,
00:37:35.42\00:37:38.15
His righteousness..."
00:37:38.19\00:37:39.52
I'm sorry, let
me read that again,
00:37:39.55\00:37:41.66
"Whom God set
forth as a propitiation
00:37:41.69\00:37:45.56
by His blood through faith
00:37:45.59\00:37:47.60
to demonstrate His righteousness
00:37:47.63\00:37:50.07
because in His forbearance
God had passed over the sins
00:37:50.10\00:37:53.20
that were previously committed
00:37:53.23\00:37:54.97
to demonstrate
at the present time
00:37:55.00\00:37:56.60
His righteousness
00:37:56.64\00:37:58.11
that He might be
just and the justifier,
00:37:58.14\00:38:00.28
the one who has
faith in Christ."
00:38:00.31\00:38:03.01
Praise the Lord
that because of Jesus
00:38:03.04\00:38:06.18
we know we all have
sinned but because of Jesus
00:38:06.21\00:38:08.78
we all have the
opportunity to be justified,
00:38:08.82\00:38:11.05
and we all could be reconciled
again back to the Father.
00:38:11.09\00:38:16.02
Ephesians 2:18, "Through Him,
00:38:16.06\00:38:20.10
we both have access by
one spirit to the Father."
00:38:20.13\00:38:24.47
Because of the
substitutionary death
00:38:24.50\00:38:26.57
of Jesus Christ, we
have access again to God.
00:38:26.60\00:38:30.64
We can be connected back
again, that mediatorial work.
00:38:30.67\00:38:36.24
We all also are
condemned and accused by Satan.
00:38:36.28\00:38:41.58
Let's look at Zechariah 3.
00:38:41.62\00:38:43.85
Zechariah 3 has
an interesting vision
00:38:43.89\00:38:47.92
that is given to Zechariah.
00:38:47.96\00:38:49.96
Zechariah is kind
of a hard book to find,
00:38:49.99\00:38:52.26
were almost the last book
00:38:52.29\00:38:54.40
in the Old
Testament Zechariah, Malachi.
00:38:54.43\00:38:57.57
Zechariah 3,
00:38:57.60\00:38:58.93
we'll start with verse
1, "Then He showed me..."
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This is the
vision Zechariah had,
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"Then he showed me
Joshua, the high priest,
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standing before
the angel of the Lord
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and Satan standing
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at his right
hand to oppose him."
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Now we know that
Joshua was literally
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the high priest at that time.
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During the time of Zechariah,
Joshua was the high priest.
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And the angel of the
Lord being Jesus Christ,
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and we know that Satan
was standing at His right hand
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to oppose Him.
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We know Satan is always
the accuser of the brethren.
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Revelation 12:10,
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"I heard a loud
voice in heaven saying now
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the salvation and the
power and the Kingdom of our God
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and the authority of
His Christ have come,
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for the accuser of our
brethren has been thrown down,
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he who accuses them
before our God day and night."
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So what's taking place here
is Satan is accusing Joshua,
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the high priest.
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Now the name for
Joshua is Yeshua in Hebrew,
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and we also can see that analogy
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that Christ took our sins,
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and we can see that as
well, and the Lord said,
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we're in verse 2, Zechariah 3:2,
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"And the Lord said to Satan,
the Lord rebuke you Satan,
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the Lord who has
chosen Jerusalem rebuke you,
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it's not a brand
plucked from the fire.
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Now Joshua was
clothed with filthy garments
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and was standing
before the angel."
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If we look at Joshua
being the literal high priest,
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it's symbolic of
the sins of Israel.
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He's standing there,
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you know, symbolizing clothed
in these filthy garments.
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Now we know Jesus also
took our sin upon Himself.
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Verse 4, "Then He
answered and spoke to those
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who stood before Him, saying,
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"Take away the
filthy garments from him.
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Take the filthy
garments off of Joshua."
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And to him, he said,
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"See, I have removed
your iniquity from you.
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I will clothe
you with rich robes."
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And I said, "Let them put
a clean turban on his head."
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So they put a
clean turban on his head,
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and they put the clothes on him.
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And the angel of
the Lord stood by,
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Joshua's filthy
garments were taken away.
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The filthy
garments were taken away,
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and he was clothed and covered
with Christ's righteousness."
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We know that Christ
does not condemn us,
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instead He stands
before the Father interceding
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on our behalf.
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We know that at the
point of justification,
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each one of us,
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when we come to
Christ, at that moment,
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we stand before the Father
as if we have never sinned.
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It's amazing.
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At the same time, after
we experience conversion,
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there are going to be
times when we make a mistake,
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when we slip up, and I
think those are the times
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when Satan comes
before the Father
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and says, "Okay
did you see Jill?"
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I thought she was a
Christian and look at this sin,
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and that's, praise the Lord,
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where we have the
intercessory work of Christ
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in the most holy place.
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And we see that in 1 John,
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turn with me
quickly to 1 John 2:1,
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it says, "My, little children,
these things I write to you
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so that you may not
sin and if anyone sins,
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we have an
advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous,
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He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins
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and not for ours only,
but also for the whole world."
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Romans 8:34, "Who
is he who condemns?"
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We know Satan is the accuser
of the brethren, not Christ.
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"Who is he who condemns?"
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It is Christ who died,
and furthermore is also risen
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and is at the right hand of God,
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who makes intercession for us."
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So I just
imagined in my simple mind
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that Christ is there
in the heavenly sanctuary
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and Satan is saying,
"Well, you know what they did?
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And you know that's sin?
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And Jesus is pleading His blood
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interceding on our
behalf before the Father,
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He's saying, "Yes,
Jill made a mistake.
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Yes, Jill sinned, but
that has been covered,
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that has been
confessed, that is forgiven.
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She can stand before the Father
in that righteous white robe."
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We can stand
before Him pure and holy
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as if we have never sinned.
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Let's look at a
few verses in Hebrews.
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If you're looking at
Christ as our high priest,
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there is no better
book in the whole Bible
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to look at than
the Book of Hebrews
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'cause it has so many references
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to Christ as our high priest.
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Now, Mollie, you
referenced this one,
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we're going to look at
it again, Hebrews 4:14,
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we're going to look at a
couple of scriptures in Hebrews.
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"Seeing then we
have a great high priest
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who is passed
through the heavens,
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Jesus, the Son of God,
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let us hold fast our confession,
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for we do not have a high priest
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who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses,
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but was in all points tempted
as we are yet without sin.
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Let us, therefore, come
boldly to the throne of grace
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that we may obtain mercy
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and find grace to
help in our time of need."
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Now we could not come
boldly before the Father
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if we did not
have the high priest.
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If we did not have
this perfect substitute,
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if we did not have Jesus,
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there would be no way
that we could come boldly.
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Remember, we're all
under the condemnation of sin.
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Adam and Eve hid from
God, but because of Jesus,
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we are reconciled
back to the Father,
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and we can come boldly
before the presence of God.
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I think we just
have time for one more.
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Let's look at Hebrews 7,
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and you talk about
this one, sweetheart.
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Hebrews 7:25,
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"Therefore, He is also
Jesus, our high priest,
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He is also able to
save to the uttermost."
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Amen.
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In Greek, it means completely,
forever, entirely, perfectly,
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through all time.
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Jesus is able
to save completely.
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He can save forever,
He can save entirely,
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He can save perfectly,
He saves through all time.
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Those who come
to God through Him
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since He ever lives to
make intercession for us,
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so praise the Lord
that we have a high priest
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and that He is
interceding for us
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right now before the Father.
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Amen Amen.
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Well done and a beautiful
picture of that process.
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On Thursday, we looked
at the Day of Atonement,
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and I would ask
you to spend some time
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looking at Leviticus 16
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where we have
the Day of Atonement
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as practiced by
the children of Israel.
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We don't have time to
read through all of that,
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but perhaps we do well to
look at the Day of Atonement
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through the lens
of the Book of Hebrews
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as you have well said, Jill.
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So I want to go to Hebrews 9,
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and I'm gonna
start with verse 20
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and just read a few verses
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to sort of set the
stage for our discussion.
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I'm in Hebrews 9,
beginning of verse 20,
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and this is the New King
James, beginning of verse 20,
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"This is the
blood of the covenant
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which God has commanded you."
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21, "Then likewise,
He sprinkled with blood,
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both the tabernacle
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and all the
vessels of the ministry,
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and according to the law,
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almost all things
are purified with blood,
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and without shedding of blood,
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there is no remission."
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Shelley, I really appreciated
that list of reasons,
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the rationale
for Christ's coming,
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His death, His resurrection,
and His ministry even now.
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I want to add one
more that may be sort of
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an overarching
principle to all of those,
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and that is simply
because there was no other way.
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There was no other way
for our sins to be dealt with
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because blood had to be shed.
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Now, as was read before earlier
in the same chapter, Hebrews 9,
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we know that the shedding
of blood by goats and bulls
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could never
really deal with sin.
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Those acts were done in
faith and were accepted as such,
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but we needed the
shedding of blood of Jesus
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to really make this,
can I say to make this work?
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Psalms 77:13, God's
way is in the sanctuary.
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So we always need
to study the sanctuary
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for a number of things.
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One, so we can see
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what's going on
in heaven right now.
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We can see where we
are in the stream of time.
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We can see what
is being done for us.
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We can have assurance
00:47:52.13\00:47:53.80
that we're
gonna make it through,
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and that Christ is
coming back to get us.
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And all of that is
wrapped up in this package
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called the sanctuary.
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The work to be done, the
cleansing, the atonement,
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the judgment, all
within the sanctuary.
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The heavenly
sanctuary needed to be cleansed,
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and we see that
from Daniel 8:14.
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What we've got to
remember about the sanctuary
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is that we are
dealing with the people
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who for the most
part were illiterate.
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So when they went to church,
they were also going to school.
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Absolutely.
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And God through signs,
and symbols, and textures,
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and cloths, and colors
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was teaching
them about who He was,
00:48:35.14\00:48:39.81
who they were in Him,
their responsibilities to Him,
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and their duties as
children of the Lord.
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So the sanctuary is crucial,
and as we study the sanctuary,
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one of the things that it does,
and you've all touched on it,
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it gives us assurance.
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It gives us assurance
that God is working it out
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in our behalf...
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Praise God.
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That Christ's act on the
cross was not a static event.
00:49:03.47\00:49:07.31
It's a dynamic event, it
ushered in a series of moves
00:49:07.34\00:49:12.51
and things that are
going on in heaven now
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that are for our benefit,
and that gives us assurance.
00:49:14.45\00:49:19.55
A necessary, intimate,
00:49:19.59\00:49:22.36
inseparable
part of the atonement
00:49:22.39\00:49:25.26
is this idea of judgment.
00:49:25.29\00:49:28.46
Sin has been committed,
wrongs have been done.
00:49:28.50\00:49:32.27
We got to deal with this,
00:49:32.30\00:49:33.64
we got to get
this out of the way
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.20
because God's controversy
00:49:35.24\00:49:36.94
is really not so
much with His creation,
00:49:36.97\00:49:40.28
it's with sin.
00:49:40.31\00:49:42.04
And if you love sin,
and if you value sin,
00:49:42.08\00:49:47.02
then when sin is dealt with,
00:49:47.05\00:49:49.88
default setting is you're
going to get dealt with too.
00:49:49.92\00:49:52.09
You know, you've got...
you're the in sin or out.
00:49:52.12\00:49:54.26
I remember...
00:49:54.29\00:49:55.62
I think, it was last
week or perhaps a week before,
00:49:55.66\00:49:57.89
this wonderful book,
it's no longer in print,
00:49:57.93\00:50:00.03
but you can still get it,
00:50:00.06\00:50:01.60
called Living God's
Love by Douglas Cooper.
00:50:01.63\00:50:04.63
Who says basically,
sin is a love issue.
00:50:04.67\00:50:08.67
You know, it's who do you
love and who do you love more.
00:50:08.70\00:50:11.41
And once you put God
first in the love continuum,
00:50:11.44\00:50:16.71
then those decisions
will become kind of easy.
00:50:16.75\00:50:21.18
I see a $100
lying on the ground,
00:50:21.22\00:50:23.28
should I take that
and put it in my pocket
00:50:23.32\00:50:25.29
and go off and praise the Lord?
00:50:25.32\00:50:26.65
Well, if you if you love God,
00:50:26.69\00:50:28.62
that answer
becomes a lot easier.
00:50:28.66\00:50:31.99
You know, stealing,
00:50:32.03\00:50:35.43
the breaking of
the commandments.
00:50:35.46\00:50:36.80
If you put God first,
00:50:36.83\00:50:38.23
then those
questions resolve themselves
00:50:38.27\00:50:41.10
because I'm putting God first,
00:50:41.14\00:50:42.94
you know, my
secretary is flirting with me,
00:50:42.97\00:50:46.24
should I respond
00:50:46.27\00:50:47.71
or should I act like
a good Christian husband
00:50:47.74\00:50:49.38
and go home to my wife?
00:50:49.41\00:50:50.91
Well, if I love God first,
00:50:50.95\00:50:53.08
how can I sin and do
this great wickedness.
00:50:53.11\00:50:54.88
You know those
questions become a lot easier
00:50:54.92\00:50:57.05
when you put God first,
00:50:57.09\00:50:58.59
so you're living God's
love, so a necessary, intimate,
00:50:58.62\00:51:02.12
inseparable
part of the atonement
00:51:02.16\00:51:04.46
is this idea of judgment
00:51:04.49\00:51:07.26
or the adjudication
the settling of accounts
00:51:07.30\00:51:10.60
and dealing with sins,
00:51:10.63\00:51:12.13
so we're living now
in this anti-typical
00:51:12.17\00:51:15.64
or cosmic day of atonement,
00:51:15.67\00:51:17.17
and we understand that
00:51:17.21\00:51:20.01
by our
understanding of the sanctuary.
00:51:20.04\00:51:23.45
It took place on the
10th day of the 7th month,
00:51:23.48\00:51:27.42
which was October
7th called Tishrei.
00:51:27.45\00:51:29.95
And, you know, it's funny.
00:51:29.98\00:51:31.32
When I was in New York,
00:51:31.35\00:51:32.69
and you have such a large
Jewish community in New York,
00:51:32.72\00:51:34.96
on Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement,
00:51:34.99\00:51:37.46
New York City shuts down,
00:51:37.49\00:51:39.19
schools are closed, banks are...
00:51:39.23\00:51:41.56
It's like a bank holiday.
00:51:41.60\00:51:43.06
Things shut down
00:51:43.10\00:51:44.43
because the Jewish
community is so large
00:51:44.47\00:51:47.44
that they influence
the workings of the city,
00:51:47.47\00:51:50.51
it is called a High Holy Day.
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In fact, the most important
day in the Jewish calendar,
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so the work of the high priest
typified in the work of Christ
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in the heavenly sanctuary.
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The high priest becomes
the main actor on this day.
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During the daily sacrifice,
a head of a family comes in,
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he brings a lamb, he
confesses the sins of that lamb,
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the jugular slit,
the blood is drained.
00:52:18.77\00:52:21.97
Those sins are now transferred
symbolically from that person,
00:52:22.00\00:52:25.71
from that family
warehoused in the sanctuary.
00:52:25.74\00:52:29.38
And so,
spiritually, once a year,
00:52:29.41\00:52:31.58
that sanctuary has
got to be cleansed,
00:52:31.61\00:52:33.42
those sins have
to be dealt with.
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.82
And so now the main
actor is the high priest.
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He goes into the
holy place one time
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to deal with those sins.
00:52:42.22\00:52:44.46
Well, they're
parallel that we have just seen
00:52:44.49\00:52:46.39
that you've all
explained so beautifully
00:52:46.43\00:52:48.40
is what Christ
is doing even now.
00:52:48.43\00:52:50.90
We are in that Day of Atonement,
00:52:50.93\00:52:52.93
so we know, among other things,
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.04
we're almost at the end,
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.40
ladies and gentlemen,
we're almost at the end
00:52:56.44\00:52:57.77
because when Christ
comes out of that sanctuary,
00:52:57.81\00:53:00.68
off come the priestly garments,
on go the kingly garments.
00:53:00.71\00:53:04.51
And when He comes back,
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He's coming as King of
kings and Lord of lords.
00:53:05.91\00:53:08.22
But right now, He's
dealing with those sins.
00:53:08.25\00:53:11.79
He is cleansing the sanctuary.
00:53:11.82\00:53:13.82
And some decision has to be made
00:53:13.86\00:53:16.83
as to who is going to
make it when Christ comes.
00:53:16.86\00:53:20.80
He says, "When I
come, My reward is with Me."
00:53:20.83\00:53:24.47
So a decision has to be made
00:53:24.50\00:53:25.83
as to who gets that
reward and who doesn't.
00:53:25.87\00:53:29.20
So when He comes back,
the reward is handed out,
00:53:29.24\00:53:32.11
and of course,
that is eternal life.
00:53:32.14\00:53:33.48
So those decisions
are being made now.
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And that ought to, as
Seventh-day Adventists,
00:53:36.68\00:53:38.91
that ought to
inform everything we do.
00:53:38.95\00:53:41.48
We are people of the eschaton.
00:53:41.52\00:53:43.35
In other words, we
look at the second coming
00:53:43.39\00:53:45.52
and work our way back.
00:53:45.55\00:53:46.89
We are so close to it,
there's no time for playing,
00:53:46.92\00:53:49.36
there's no time for laughing,
there's no time for jesting,
00:53:49.39\00:53:52.59
there's no time for
not being serious with God
00:53:52.63\00:53:56.67
because we are right,
00:53:56.70\00:53:58.60
as you intimated a
couple weeks ago, Shelley,
00:53:58.63\00:54:00.94
in the toes of
the image, as it were,
00:54:00.97\00:54:03.24
but Christ is getting ready
to come out of that sanctuary
00:54:03.27\00:54:05.57
and bring His reward.
00:54:05.61\00:54:06.94
And we, as the people of God,
00:54:06.98\00:54:08.31
must be ready for that
grand and glorious day.
00:54:08.34\00:54:13.01
I had a professor once say,
00:54:13.05\00:54:15.28
"Really, this salvation
thing is awfully simple
00:54:15.32\00:54:17.95
when you study it,
00:54:17.99\00:54:19.32
simply awful if
you don't get it."
00:54:19.35\00:54:20.69
You know what I mean?
00:54:20.72\00:54:23.26
And that's really the way it is.
00:54:23.29\00:54:25.19
This sanctuary
shows us where we are,
00:54:25.23\00:54:28.06
shows us what Christ is doing.
00:54:28.10\00:54:30.63
His death on
the cross opened up,
00:54:30.67\00:54:32.90
as you so well in telling, Jill,
00:54:32.93\00:54:34.87
a ministry of
intercession for us
00:54:34.90\00:54:37.24
which will go on till the
day we see Christ face to face.
00:54:37.27\00:54:41.04
And thank God
Christ is working it out
00:54:41.08\00:54:43.71
in our behalf in the
kingdom, in the sanctuary
00:54:43.75\00:54:47.25
even as we
speak, before He comes,
00:54:47.28\00:54:50.85
"He that is just
will be just still,
00:54:50.89\00:54:52.92
he that is holy
will be holy still.
00:54:52.95\00:54:54.89
He that is unholy
will be unholy still."
00:54:54.92\00:54:58.49
It is my prayer and I notice
00:54:58.53\00:55:00.46
the prayer of
everyone here on this panel
00:55:00.50\00:55:02.26
and hopefully the prayer
of everyone who is watching,
00:55:02.30\00:55:04.60
listening, that
you will make your,
00:55:04.63\00:55:07.90
we say, calling
and election sure,
00:55:07.94\00:55:10.47
make your life
right with Christ,
00:55:10.51\00:55:14.48
surrender to Christ so
that when He comes back,
00:55:14.51\00:55:17.08
you'll be a part of that kingdom
00:55:17.11\00:55:18.45
and in that number.
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Wow. Amen.
00:55:19.85\00:55:21.18
You know, I just
have to say this,
00:55:21.22\00:55:22.62
it was when the Lord took
me to a study of the sanctuary,
00:55:22.65\00:55:29.22
this is when I understood,
for the first time in my life,
00:55:29.26\00:55:33.56
salvation by
grace through faith.
00:55:33.60\00:55:35.60
We have only touched on this.
00:55:35.63\00:55:38.40
We've talked about Jesus
Christ as the supreme sacrifice,
00:55:38.43\00:55:43.41
as the Lamb of God
00:55:43.44\00:55:45.97
which is the sanctuary language.
00:55:46.01\00:55:48.61
We've talked about
Him as our high priest.
00:55:48.64\00:55:51.65
And the high priest had to
be the one to apply the blood
00:55:51.68\00:55:55.78
in the holy place
to do this cleansing.
00:55:55.82\00:55:58.89
We've talked about
Him as our intercessor,
00:55:58.92\00:56:02.69
as the one who
is, as the Bible says,
00:56:02.72\00:56:06.26
the only mediator
between us and God
00:56:06.29\00:56:10.03
and then the Day of Atonement.
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I want to encourage
you at home, if you have...
00:56:12.20\00:56:16.30
Perhaps, if you're a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:56:16.34\00:56:19.47
you may be
somewhat familiar with this,
00:56:19.51\00:56:22.24
the whole sanctuary system.
00:56:22.28\00:56:23.95
I want you to look at it
again through the eyes of grace,
00:56:23.98\00:56:28.35
through the lens of
grace, study the sanctuary.
00:56:28.38\00:56:31.85
If you are not a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
00:56:31.89\00:56:34.79
perhaps you're a Christian
from another denomination,
00:56:34.82\00:56:37.76
or perhaps you're
yet to be a Christian,
00:56:37.79\00:56:41.16
if you will look at
the sanctuary system,
00:56:41.20\00:56:44.37
look for Christ,
00:56:44.40\00:56:45.97
He was the central
theme of the sanctuary system,
00:56:46.00\00:56:50.51
and this how we
understand not only
00:56:50.54\00:56:54.44
how He was our substitute
00:56:54.48\00:56:57.51
but how He is our surety,
00:56:57.55\00:57:00.68
the one who is able
to save to the uttermost.
00:57:00.72\00:57:04.22
Well, I just want to thank
Mollie, Greg, Jill, and CA,
00:57:04.25\00:57:08.99
and we want to thank you,
please join us again next time.
00:57:09.02\00:57:12.56
This is such an exciting...
00:57:12.59\00:57:14.40
As we study
Preparation for the End Time,
00:57:14.43\00:57:18.37
our prayer for you is that
00:57:18.40\00:57:19.73
the grace of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ,
00:57:19.77\00:57:21.80
the love of the Father,
00:57:21.84\00:57:23.17
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:23.20\00:57:24.57
will be with you always.
00:57:24.61\00:57:26.57
Thanks for joining us.
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