Well, it's time for 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel again,
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and we're so excited.
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Our quarterly is The Promise,
God's everlasting covenant,
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and we're on lesson 10,
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The New Covenant.
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We hope that you have your Bible
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and a quarterly.
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If you don't, you can go
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to ABSG.Adventist.org
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and download a quarterly
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and get your pen
and take some notes.
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We've got lots of good
Bible information today.
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What a joy it is
to open God's Word
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and dig deep for understanding.
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There's so many
treasures in this Word,
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and we are glad that
you are joining us today
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for Sabbath School Panel.
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Let me introduce the 3ABN family
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that's sitting around the table.
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Jill Morikone?
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Thank you, Shelley.
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Privileged to be here.
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And Pastor John Lomacang?
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Praise the Lord. It's
good to be here as always.
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Amen.
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John Dinzey?
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It's a privilege to be here,
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and I praise the
Lord for the opportunity.
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Amen.
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And Pastor Ryan Day?
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Always a blessing to be
here a part of this panel.
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We are blessed by
each one of your presence.
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Jill, could you
open with prayer please?
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Sure.
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Holy Father, we come before You
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in the name of Jesus,
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grateful for the gifts
of Your Word and Spirit.
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Would You come and teach
us just now in Jesus' name?
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Amen.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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We have finally
gotten to the New Covenant.
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Our memory verse today
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is Jeremiah 31:31.
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Behold the Lord says,
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"Behold, the days are coming.
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I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
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and with the house of Judah."
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So let's do a quick review.
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We've been studying
the everlasting covenant,
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which by the way,
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is the foundation of
the three angels' messages.
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So this is very
pertinent to today's time.
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And to understand
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what is the
everlasting covenant.
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Revelation 13:8 says,
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"The lamb slain
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from the
foundation of the world."
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Grace, Paul told Timothy,
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it was given to
us in Christ Jesus
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before time began.
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And Hebrews 13:20 says,
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"That Christ's blood
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is the blood of the
everlasting covenant."
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So from Genesis to Revelation,
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what we're seeing is
a progressive unfolding
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of God's everlasting covenant
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in the Messiah,
Jesus Christ, God,
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who would become a person,
the person of Jesus Christ.
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Each one of God's
covenants builds on.
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It's a greater revelation
than He showed us before.
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And ever since
Genesis 15, right after the...
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3:15, right after the fall,
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God has promised a holy seed,
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the seed of a woman
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who would bruise
the head of the serpent.
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And that's what we're seeing.
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I just wanna
make this one point.
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Salvation has
always been by grace.
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Hebrews 11 says that
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Noah became the heir
of righteousness by faith.
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Genesis 15:6 says,
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"Abraham believed God,
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and it was credited
to him as righteousness."
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We saw last week that
the covenant of Sinai,
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the old covenant
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is actually a continuation
of the Abrahamic covenant.
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Because when God heard
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the cries of
the Hebrew children,
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He remembered His covenant
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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and he put it into motion.
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Here's what I wanted to...
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Just be sure I say to you
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that Abrahamic covenant
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is frequently referred to
as the everlasting covenant,
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and it contains devotion
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to God's moral law
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and salvation by faith in God.
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So we're going
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to just skip
over the rest of this,
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but I do wanna
remind you of one thing,
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God's covenants
are always God's will,
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God's testament.
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It is an absolute error
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to refer to God's
covenants as a contract.
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God is the one who
makes all the promises
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and invites us to come
into relationship with Him.
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And as we enter covenant,
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that covenant
does have conditions.
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God wants a
relationship of loyal love.
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He wants us to walk
in obedience to Him.
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So it's the covenant of,
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kind of like a father
and child relationship
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or a husband and
bride relationship.
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Let's look at Sunday.
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Our time is going away.
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Behold, the days are coming.
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The nation of Israel
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dismally failed to
keep God's covenant.
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They disobeyed, they
broke the Old Covenant.
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So God promises a New Covenant.
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Let's look at that word new.
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New isn't...
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The better word
would be renewed.
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It means
renewed like a new moon.
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It's not a brand
new solar body up there.
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A new moon is a
new phase of the moon.
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It is the renewed
illumination of the moon.
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So when we say New Covenant,
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don't think that God,
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some people seem to
think that God just said,
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oh, all of that failed at Sinai,
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wash my hands,
we're starting over.
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No, it is the continuation.
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And actually I don't have this,
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but if we look at
Luke Chapter 1, let me...
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This just reminds me.
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Let's see if I can
find my scripture here,
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Luke Chapter 1.
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And if you go down,
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when it's
looking at the promise,
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we're gonna look at verse 69.
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Zachariah is talking about it.
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And he says, he has raised
up a horn of salvation for us.
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This is Jesus Christ.
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And then look at verse 72.
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Why is he raising him up?
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To perform the mercy
promised to our fathers
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and to remember
His holy covenant,
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the oath which He
swore to our father Abraham.
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So, and then He goes on.
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He says, "To grant us
that we being delivered
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from the hand of our enemies
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might serve him without fear
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in holiness and
righteousness before him
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all the days of our lives."
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This is the new renewed covenant
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following the
Abrahamic covenant.
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So let's look at Jeremiah 31:31.
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We're gonna take it apart.
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31 through 34, Jeremiah 31,
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"Behold, the days are
coming, says the Lord,
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when I'll make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
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and with the house of God."
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Who's making the covenant?
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It's God who
instigates the covenant.
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"Not according to the covenant
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that I made with
the father in that day
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that I took them by the hand
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to lead them out
of the land of Egypt,
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My covenant, which they broke
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though I was a husband to them."
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Do you see that some
relational part of the covenant.
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God's inviting us into
a covenant relationship,
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but any relationship
we talked about this,
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I think last week,
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any relationship has
to have boundaries...
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It's...
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And so, God is setting
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boundaries of love
around His covenant.
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He says, verse 33.
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"This is the covenant
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that I will make
with the house of Israel
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after those
days, says the Lord."
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He's talking
about the New Covenant.
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I will put My laws where?
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In their minds and
write it on their hearts.
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And then God always
puts this in and I love it.
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And I will be their God
and they shall me My people.
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God is a relational God.
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And then He says,
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I will be their God,
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and they shall be My people.
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Oh, what law?
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He says,
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"I'm gonna write
the law on their minds
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and in their hearts."
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We're gonna come back to that,
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to see what law
He's talking about.
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"No more.
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He says, shall every
man teaches neighbor,
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and every man
his brother, saying,
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'Know the Lord,' for
they shall all know me
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in a relational aspect
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from the least of
them to the greatest,
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says the Lord.
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For I will
forgive their iniquity,
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and their sin I
will remember no more."
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The word to know
in the Hebrew mind
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was a relational knowledge.
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So God is offering
forgiveness of sins
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to those who are in a
meaningful relationship
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with Him.
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So what law is He talking about?
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The word law in
Hebrew means instruction
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and the Ten Commandment law.
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God's law is eternal.
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We've been studying that.
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It is God's
instruction of covenant love.
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How we should love
Him with all of our heart,
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soul, mind, and strength
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and love one another
as we love ourselves.
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If just to go to
a quick comparison,
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we looked, I think last
week or the week before,
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the Old Covenant
found in Exodus 20:22
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through Exodus 23:22
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had the moral law
at the heart of it.
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It had a civil
law that was the...
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Say the constitution
for the nation of Israel.
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And it was
based on the moral law
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to teach the people
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who had lived in a pagan society
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for so long,
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how they should act.
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And then it had
a ceremonial law.
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Well guess what?
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Thirty, what we find
out is that what the...
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Is what the New
Covenant is all about as well?
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We find the moral law
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is the heart of
the New Covenant.
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Hebrews 8:10
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God says in the New Testament,
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this is my New Covenant.
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I'm gonna write my laws,
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the moral law
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in your minds
and in your hearts.
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There's civil laws.
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Where were the civil laws given?
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The Old Covenant, Mount Sinai,
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the New Covenant,
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the Mount of Beatitudes.
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And they are a An
extension or a government
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around those laws.
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But God in the
person of Jesus Christ
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came down to
establish this New Covenant
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and He fulfilled
the ceremonial laws.
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I'm actually gonna go
off whatever I'd plan.
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Let's go to Colossians 2:14.
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I wanna show you something.
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In Colossians 2:14,
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He's talking about that
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when Christ was crucified,
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He wiped out the handwriting
of requirements against us,
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which was contrary to us
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and has taken it out of the way
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having nailed it to the cross.
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What was contrary to us?
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Ephesians 2:15 says,
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"It was this wall
of separation."...
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It is in Deuteronomy 30:20...
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31:26, we saw that
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the Old
Covenant had curses in it
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that it was on
the outside of the ark
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and it was there as
a witness against them.
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We know,
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it wasn't the Ten Commandments.
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And in context,
look here he says,
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having disarmed,
this is Ephesians 2:15,
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or Colossians 3:15,
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"Having disarmed
principalities and powers,
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He made a public
spectacle of them.
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So let triumphing over them.
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Let no one judge
you in food or in drink
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or regarding a festival
or a new moon or Sabbaths."
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This is the
annual festival Sabbaths,
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which are a
shadow of things to come.
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But the substance was Christ.
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Jesus Christ is the
body that casts the shadow.
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Everything about
the Old Covenant,
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the sanctuary
system pointed to Him.
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He is the ultimate sacrifice.
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All those annual
Sabbaths pointed to His ministry
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and all the drink offerings
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and the food offerings.
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All of this was
nailed to the cross
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because, we now
have a renewed covenant
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with the
Messiah who has arrived.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much, Shelley.
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What a wonderful set
up for the New Covenant
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or the renewed covenant.
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I love that word for it.
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In Hebrew, the word is Chadashah
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and in Greek Kainos,
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but similar words,
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but they both mean new
in quality, not in time
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where we get that
renewed covenant from,
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I love that.
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Not a New Covenant,
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but God is
renewing it with His people.
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We're gonna look
at another covenant
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in the Book of Hosea.
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It's not really a
different covenant,
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but this is just a covenant.
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So turn with me
to Hosea Chapter 2.
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This is actually 150 years
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probably before the
New Covenant is introduced
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in Jeremiah Chapter 31,
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but we will notice some elements
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that are
similar in this covenant
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that God makes with
the people in Hosea,
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as opposed to in Jeremiah.
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Now, the Prophet Hosea, this is,
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he was the last prophet
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before the
Northern kingdom fell.
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And he made this
strong appeal to the people.
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It was a time of
spiritual bankruptcy for Israel.
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Now the tribes
had long since split,
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the 10 tribes,
the Northern tribes.
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And then, of
course, the two Southern.
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So we're talking
specifically about the Northern,
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the 10 Northern
tribes there of Israel.
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They had idol worship.
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They had set up
worship for Baal and Astoreth.
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They had child
sacrifice and gross sensuality
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associated with
these pagan rights.
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There was injustice and
oppression that was common.
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In fact, no commandment of God
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seemed to be kept by the people.
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God's covenant,
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it was clearly
broken by the people.
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The theme of Hosea,
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this always gets me is
a theme of steadfast love.
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You'll see if love
is temporary and fickle,
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it doesn't hurt a whole lot
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because
unreturned love or rejection
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is really no issue
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because weak love,
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it simply seeks another object.
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But if love is steadfast,
rejection and unfaithfulness,
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it causes great anguish.
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Love goes on
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even when the
object of that love
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no longer cares,
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but the person
with the steadfast love,
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that love goes on.
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Tremendous suffering results.
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Israel's unfaithfulness to God
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caused unspeakable anguish
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because our God
has steadfast love.
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He didn't just say,
okay, I'm done with them.
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I'm gonna find a
new object of affection.
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Someone else to love,
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it caused unspeakable anguish
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because they had
turned their back on Him.
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So we're in Hosea Chapter 2.
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We're gonna pick
it up in verse 16.
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In the previous
verses, we see that
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the nation of Israel
had played the harlot.
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They did their own thing.
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They had
children with other men.
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They chased after other lovers.
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Basically, they
had forsaken God.
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They had broken the covenant
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and followed other gods
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with a little g pagan gods.
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And we see in Hosea 2:16,
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"And it shall be in
that day, says the Lord,
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that you will
call Me My Husband,
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and no longer
call Me my Master."
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We see the steadfast
covenant love of God.
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"For I will take from her
mouth the names of the Baals."
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He's saying,
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"I'm gonna remove from
you that idol worship."
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"And they shall be remembered
by their name no more.
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In that day," what?
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"I will make a covenant for them
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with the beasts of the field,
with the birds of the air,
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with the creeping
things of the ground."
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Jump down to verse 19.
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"I will betroth
you to me for forever.
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Yes, I will betroth you to
me in righteousness and justice,
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and lovingkindness and mercy.
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I will betroth you
to Me in faithfulness.
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And you shall know the Lord."
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I see three
parallels between this covenant
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in Hosea 2 and the New Covenant
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or the renewed covenant
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that Shelley talked
about in Jeremiah 31,
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the first covenant...
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The first parallel
is that in both cases,
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the covenant is compared
to our marriage relationship.
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We see in Jeremiah, God said,
00:18:25.73\00:18:27.54
"Though, I was a
husband to them."
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We see in Hosea that
you will call Me my Husband,
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and no longer call Me my Master.
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The second parallel is
that they would know the Lord.
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In Jeremiah it says,
00:18:40.35\00:18:41.68
"They shall all know
Me from the least of them
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to the greatest of them."
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In Hosea, it just says,
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"You shall know the Lord."
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The third parallel is
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we see a certain
renewing of the vows
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or the covenant.
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In Jeremiah, it says,
00:18:55.86\00:18:57.20
"I will make a New
Covenant or a renewed covenant
00:18:57.23\00:18:59.77
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah."
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In Hosea, it says,
00:19:02.74\00:19:04.07
"I will betroth
you to Me forever.
00:19:04.11\00:19:07.11
I will betroth you to Me
00:19:07.14\00:19:08.48
in righteousness and judgment."
00:19:08.51\00:19:09.84
There's that
marriage relationship,
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that renewing of that
covenant or those vows.
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So let's look in
our remaining time
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at the heart work
that God wants to do
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in your heart and in mine
00:19:22.69\00:19:25.23
under this New Covenant.
00:19:25.26\00:19:26.63
And we're gonna find
out that this heart work,
00:19:26.66\00:19:28.80
it went on even
in the Old Covenant,
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which is what I love.
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I have seven promises
00:19:32.53\00:19:35.84
that God gave to
His covenant people.
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Promise number
one, to grant repentance
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and cleansing from sin.
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Let's look at Ezekiel 18.
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We're gonna spend
some time in Ezekiel.
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Ezekiel 18:30
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partway through the verse.
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It says,
00:19:51.95\00:19:53.29
"Repent and turn from
all your transgressions,
00:19:53.32\00:19:55.02
so that iniquity
will not be your ruin."
00:19:55.06\00:19:58.23
Here's a call,
heart work to repentance.
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"Cast away from you,
all the transgressions,
00:20:02.66\00:20:05.00
which you have
committed and get yourselves
00:20:05.03\00:20:06.84
a new heart and a new spirit.
00:20:06.87\00:20:08.97
For why should you who
die, O house of Israel?"
00:20:09.00\00:20:13.58
We see this
appeal to repentance,
00:20:13.61\00:20:15.81
appeal to turn
back, appeal for God
00:20:15.84\00:20:18.91
to give them a new
heart and a new spirit.
00:20:18.95\00:20:22.98
And we know even
repentance is a gift from God.
00:20:23.02\00:20:25.62
Romans 2:4 says,
00:20:25.65\00:20:27.09
"It is the goodness of God
00:20:27.12\00:20:28.46
that leads us or
draws us to repentance."
00:20:28.49\00:20:32.16
The second promise
is that God promises
00:20:32.19\00:20:34.30
to write His word in our hearts.
00:20:34.33\00:20:36.83
Shelley already
referenced that in Jeremiah 31,
00:20:36.87\00:20:39.20
but I'm gonna show
you a different reference.
00:20:39.23\00:20:40.77
This is in Deuteronomy.
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.14
This is gonna show
you that the old...
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What we call the Old Covenant
00:20:44.64\00:20:47.08
was also written in
the hearts of the people.
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.94
We always say just
the New Covenant was,
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.85
Hebrews 8:10 of course
says that and Jeremiah 31,
00:20:51.88\00:20:54.88
but Deuteronomy 6:6 says,
00:20:54.92\00:20:56.65
"And these words
which I command you today
00:20:56.69\00:20:58.95
shall be in your heart."
00:20:58.99\00:21:00.32
Did you catch that?
00:21:00.36\00:21:01.69
They will be in your heart.
00:21:01.72\00:21:03.06
And in Deuteronomy 30:6,
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.49
it says,
00:21:05.53\00:21:06.86
"The Lord your God
will circumcise your heart
00:21:06.90\00:21:10.63
and the heart of
your descendants,
00:21:10.67\00:21:13.94
to love the Lord your
God with all your heart,
00:21:13.97\00:21:16.00
with all your soul
that you may live."
00:21:16.04\00:21:17.61
So this is really
under Old Covenant.
00:21:17.64\00:21:19.71
And we say, "Oh, wait a minute.
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.18
But the New Covenant was
when the law went in the heart."
00:21:21.21\00:21:23.98
And yes it did in a special way,
00:21:24.01\00:21:26.18
but it also was in the heart
00:21:26.21\00:21:27.55
under that Old Covenant as well.
00:21:27.58\00:21:29.68
Third promise
00:21:29.72\00:21:31.05
is to cleanse us
from sin and idol worship.
00:21:31.09\00:21:35.12
We're going back to Ezekiel.
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Ezekiel 36,
00:21:36.66\00:21:37.99
we're gonna end
with these passages.
00:21:38.03\00:21:39.36
Ezekiel 36:25,
00:21:39.39\00:21:42.56
"The promise to
cleanse you and I from sin
00:21:42.60\00:21:45.20
and idol worship."
00:21:45.23\00:21:46.57
Now we might say, we're
not worshiping idols today.
00:21:46.60\00:21:48.70
And maybe not these pagan gods,
00:21:48.74\00:21:50.54
we might not bow down to them,
00:21:50.57\00:21:51.91
but we all have something
if you're honest with yourself
00:21:51.94\00:21:56.51
and the recesses of your heart,
00:21:56.54\00:21:58.51
that you might be
holding onto above Jesus,
00:21:58.55\00:22:02.35
or that you might be saying,
00:22:02.38\00:22:05.32
"I can't give this to you,
God, because I kinda like it.
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.69
And I wanna hold onto it."
00:22:07.72\00:22:09.49
That's called an idol.
00:22:09.52\00:22:10.93
It says in Ezekiel 36:25,
00:22:10.96\00:22:13.09
"I will sprinkle
clean water on you
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.90
and you shall be clean."
00:22:14.93\00:22:16.67
He promises to cleanse us.
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.93
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:22:18.97\00:22:20.84
and from all your idols.
00:22:20.87\00:22:23.10
Oh, do you wanna be cleansed?
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.91
Do you wanna be made whole?
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.71
Do you want those idols
in your life cast aside?
00:22:26.74\00:22:30.18
God promises
that He can do that.
00:22:30.21\00:22:32.05
Promise number
four, the next verse,
00:22:32.08\00:22:33.92
"He promises to
give you a new heart
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.25
and a new spirit."
00:22:36.28\00:22:37.62
Verse 26,
00:22:37.65\00:22:38.99
"I will give you a new heart
00:22:39.02\00:22:40.89
and put a new
spirit within you."
00:22:40.92\00:22:42.46
We don't conjure it up.
00:22:42.49\00:22:43.83
We don't try to get a new heart.
00:22:43.86\00:22:45.36
We don't try to grit our
teeth and have a better spirit.
00:22:45.39\00:22:48.13
God gives it to us.
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.66
I will take the heart
of stone out of your flesh
00:22:49.70\00:22:52.93
and give you a heart of flesh.
00:22:52.97\00:22:55.47
God takes that out.
00:22:55.50\00:22:56.84
I love that.
00:22:56.87\00:22:58.21
Next verse, this is
promise number five.
00:22:58.24\00:23:00.08
He promises to
give us His Spirit
00:23:00.11\00:23:02.51
so that we can
walk in obedience.
00:23:02.54\00:23:05.45
Verse 27,
00:23:05.48\00:23:06.82
"I will put My Spirit within you
00:23:06.85\00:23:09.88
and cause you to
walk in My statutes.
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.29
You will keep My
judgments and do them."
00:23:13.32\00:23:15.26
That's obedience.
00:23:15.29\00:23:16.62
He says, "You will do it."
00:23:16.66\00:23:17.99
Why?
00:23:18.03\00:23:19.36
Because His Spirit is within us,
00:23:19.39\00:23:20.73
because He's removed
those idols from our life,
00:23:20.76\00:23:22.83
because He's taken
out that stony heart
00:23:22.86\00:23:25.17
and given us a heart of flesh,
00:23:25.20\00:23:26.94
a heart that's open to Him.
00:23:26.97\00:23:28.87
Promise number six,
00:23:28.90\00:23:30.24
He's gonna be our God.
00:23:30.27\00:23:32.21
Verse 28,
00:23:32.24\00:23:33.71
"Then you shall
dwell in the land
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.04
that I gave to your fathers.
00:23:36.08\00:23:37.51
You shall be My people
00:23:37.55\00:23:39.61
and I, I'm gonna be your God."
00:23:39.65\00:23:42.15
The final promise.
00:23:42.18\00:23:43.52
Number seven,
00:23:43.55\00:23:44.89
He promises to
vindicate His name
00:23:44.92\00:23:47.46
before the world.
00:23:47.49\00:23:48.96
We're still in Ezekiel 36,
00:23:48.99\00:23:50.49
but this is verse 23.
00:23:50.53\00:23:51.99
Jump back a couple of verses.
00:23:52.03\00:23:53.40
"I will sanctify My great name,"
00:23:53.43\00:23:55.63
you see that,
00:23:55.66\00:23:57.00
"which has been
profaned among the nations,
00:23:57.03\00:24:00.37
which you have profaned in
their midst and the nations
00:24:00.40\00:24:02.54
shall know that I am the Lord."
00:24:02.57\00:24:04.41
And how do the
nations know that He is God?
00:24:04.44\00:24:06.68
When I am hallowed in You,
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.91
in their eyes.
00:24:08.94\00:24:10.85
That means when God changes you,
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.71
when God changes me,
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.35
other people see that
our God is a great God
00:24:14.38\00:24:17.19
and He can do anything.
00:24:17.22\00:24:18.55
Amen.
00:24:18.59\00:24:19.92
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It touched my heart.
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Now we're going to continue
with Pastor John Lomacang.
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Amen. Thank you so much.
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You know, the
Old and New Covenant
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is a beautiful topic.
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I wanna dive into it by
looking at the scripture
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that is brought out by
the author of this lesson.
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It's an amazing focal point
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where he starts
in Isaiah 56:6-7.
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Let's look at that together,
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talking about the Old
and the New Covenants.
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He says in Isaiah 56:6-7.
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Because a lot of
times we think that
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the covenant is only for those
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who are just in
the family of God.
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But the Lord starts saying,
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"Wait a minute.
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If I accused the
earth and those in it
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of breaking My covenant,
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then My covenant is
extended to the earth,
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and those who are in it.
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Notice what He says,
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"Also the sons of the foreigner
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who joined themselves
to the Lord to serve Him,
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and to love the
name of the Lord,
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to be His servants.
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Everyone who keeps
from defiling the Sabbath,
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and holds fast My covenant.
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Even them,
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I will bring to
my holy mountain,
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and make them joyful
in My house of prayer.
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Their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.92
will be accepted on My altar,
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for My house
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shall be called
a house of prayer
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for all nations,"
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or some translation
says "for all people."
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Notice what's happening here.
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The covenant made with
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob to Israel,
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but the Lord
opened it up and says,
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whoever, as Galatians says,
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"If you are in Christ, you
are Abraham's seed and heir
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according to the promise."
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So He's saying the covenant
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is not for any
particular nationality.
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I just gave it to them like
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I gave mail to the people
that work at the post office,
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but their job is
to get this gospel
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to the entire world.
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And that's why Jeremiah
31:33 is so vitally important.
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He states the covenant
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that he made with
the house of Israel
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is not just for
the house of Israel.
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And we'll find out
what that means in a moment.
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Jeremiah 31:33,
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"But this is the covenant
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that I will make
with the house of Israel
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after those days,
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says the Lord:
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I will put My
laws in their minds,
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and write it on their hearts,
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and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people."
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When we stand on
the sea of glass,
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when the redeemed of the
age who stand before God,
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the Bible says
out of every nation,
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every kindred, every
tongue, every people,
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God is saying,
you've got a responsibility.
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Those to whom I
made this covenant,
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but go into the highways
and hedges and compel all.
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What we're gonna see now
is when we read about that.
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Now let's go to
Galatians Chapter 3.
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When we read about
the expansive invitation
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from God's
covenant to the world,
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let's see how the Apostle Paul
qualifies this very carefully.
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Verse 26 to 29 of
Galatians Chapter 3,
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"For you are all sons of God
through faith in Jesus Christ
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or Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as
were baptized into Christ,
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have put on Christ."
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No argument there,
but he doesn't stop.
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek,
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there is neither slave nor free,
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there is
neither male nor female,
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for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are
Christ's, if you belong to Him,
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then you are
Abraham's seed, and heirs
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according to the promise."
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So the promise
that the Lord made here
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that not only applies
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through the Ten
Commandments to all humanity,
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but the Sabbath...
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But the Sabbath reiterates that.
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So when the
Sabbath command was given,
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the Lord says, you nor your son,
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nor your daughter,
nor your manservant,
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nor your maidservant,
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nor your
cattle, nor the stranger
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that is within your gates.
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When people come to my house
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or would stay
with my wife and I,
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we all keep the
Sabbath together.
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They're not watching television
while we're worshiping.
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The stranger that
is within our gates,
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we let them know
when they come to visit.
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Most people
that come to visit us
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are members of our family
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and understand
our faith already.
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But if somebody
comes, that's not there,
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we say, well, we
honor the Sabbath
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from sunset
Friday to sunset Sabbath,
00:29:20.12\00:29:22.09
and the blessing
that God extends to us
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blesses them also
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because that covenant
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is not something
limited to nationality.
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But I wanna bring something out
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as Ecclesiastes
12:13, once again,
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the expansive
nature of the covenant.
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And then I'm gonna
make a twist on you
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that you don't see coming.
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Chapter 12, verse 13 and 14.
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Look at how the wise
man, Solomon concludes.
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"Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter:
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Fear God and
keep His commandments,
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for this is the
whole duty of man."
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That's the King James Version.
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"For God shall bring
every work into judgment
00:29:53.22\00:29:55.32
with every secret thing,
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whether it be good
or whether it be evil."
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.16
So when the Bible
says in 1 Corinthians,
00:29:59.19\00:30:00.83
we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ.
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This is all nationalities,
the commandments of God,
00:30:03.60\00:30:06.17
everyone must give an account.
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So the commandments of God
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are there for all humanity
00:30:09.70\00:30:12.17
to live in harmony with
or live in violation of.
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But now the question is,
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we're talking
about the New Covenant
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and the question is
00:30:20.52\00:30:21.85
why was a New
Covenant necessary?
00:30:21.88\00:30:23.95
Let's go to Galatians 3:19.
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I'm gonna try to move
as quickly as Jill does.
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I've always said the
clock slows down for Jill
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but I don't know how.
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Galatians 3:19.
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And the question I pose here
is very, very, very important.
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How can a
temporary ceremonial law
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applied to a
permanent priesthood?
00:30:39.90\00:30:42.57
Think of this, Galatians 3:19,
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"What purpose then
does the law serve?
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It was added
because of transgression,
00:30:47.41\00:30:49.88
till the Seed should come
to whom the promise was made,
00:30:49.91\00:30:53.35
and it was
appointed through angels
00:30:53.38\00:30:54.98
by the hand of a mediator."
00:30:55.02\00:30:57.42
Notice the
temporary nature of the law.
00:30:57.45\00:30:59.85
The ceremonial
law had a lifespan
00:30:59.89\00:31:02.52
till the Seed should come.
00:31:02.56\00:31:04.46
In one of our prior lessons,
we talked about the Seed,
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therefore, nothing
about the ceremonial law
00:31:07.23\00:31:10.77
was intended to be permanent.
00:31:10.80\00:31:13.87
The only aspect
of the ceremonial law
00:31:13.90\00:31:16.60
that was
intended to be permanent
00:31:16.64\00:31:19.84
in its symbolism was the
lamb, the lamb, the sacrifice.
00:31:19.87\00:31:24.81
Let's go on, Hebrews 9.
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Now put on your boots,
00:31:26.75\00:31:28.08
we're getting
in deep water here.
00:31:28.12\00:31:29.65
Hebrews 9:9-10. Look at this.
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Once again, talking
about the temporary nature.
00:31:32.62\00:31:35.39
"It was symbolic
for the present time
00:31:35.42\00:31:37.13
in which both gifts
and sacrifices are offered,
00:31:37.16\00:31:39.66
which cannot
make him who perform
00:31:39.69\00:31:41.86
the service perfect in
regard to the conscience.
00:31:41.90\00:31:44.87
Verse 10,
00:31:44.90\00:31:46.23
"Concerned only
with foods and drinks
00:31:46.27\00:31:48.07
with various washings and
fleshy ordinances imposed,"
00:31:48.10\00:31:52.47
and there it is again,
00:31:52.51\00:31:53.84
"until the time of reformation
or until the Seed should come."
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So here's the question.
00:31:57.78\00:31:59.55
Another question.
00:31:59.58\00:32:00.92
How can an imperfect law
apply to a perfect priesthood?
00:32:00.95\00:32:05.99
Let's go to Hebrews 7:18-19,
00:32:06.02\00:32:10.06
"For on the one hand
there is an annulling
00:32:10.09\00:32:12.76
of the former commandment
00:32:12.79\00:32:14.43
because of its
weakness and unprofitableness,
00:32:14.46\00:32:17.77
for the law
made nothing perfect,
00:32:17.80\00:32:20.20
but on the other hand,
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.64
there is the
bringing in of a better hope,
00:32:21.67\00:32:25.11
through which we
draw near to God."
00:32:25.14\00:32:27.34
This is gonna
get really powerful.
00:32:27.38\00:32:29.01
How do we get closer to Christ?
00:32:29.04\00:32:30.75
Sorry, how do we
get closer to God?
00:32:30.78\00:32:32.81
I gave you the
answer, but ignore it.
00:32:32.85\00:32:35.28
Act like you didn't hear it.
00:32:35.32\00:32:36.92
The ceremonial law was a shadow.
00:32:36.95\00:32:39.25
It was ritualistic
based on faulty animals
00:32:39.29\00:32:41.82
and ceremonies that
were inherently imperfect.
00:32:41.86\00:32:44.53
None of those
ceremonies in and of themselves
00:32:44.56\00:32:46.70
had any
perfection connected to it.
00:32:46.73\00:32:48.63
But Hebrews 10:1,
let's go there now.
00:32:48.66\00:32:51.50
"For the law, having a
shadow of good things to come
00:32:51.53\00:32:54.30
and not the very
image of those things
00:32:54.34\00:32:56.00
can never with
those same sacrifices,
00:32:56.04\00:32:58.57
which they offered
continually year by year,
00:32:58.61\00:33:01.98
make those who approach perfect.
00:33:02.01\00:33:03.75
For then would they have
not ceased to be offered?
00:33:03.78\00:33:06.95
For the worshipers once purged
00:33:06.98\00:33:08.68
would have had no
more conscience of sin."
00:33:08.72\00:33:11.65
But look at verse 3 and 4.
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"But in those sacrifices,
00:33:14.36\00:33:15.96
there is a reminder
of sins," how often?
00:33:15.99\00:33:18.33
"Every year," why?
00:33:18.36\00:33:20.30
"For it is not possible
00:33:20.33\00:33:21.96
that the blood
of bulls and goats
00:33:22.00\00:33:23.33
could take away sins."
00:33:23.37\00:33:24.70
Help me Holy Ghost.
00:33:24.73\00:33:26.07
So if the blood
of bulls and goats,
00:33:26.10\00:33:27.80
and calves and lambs, and
doves can't take away sin,
00:33:27.84\00:33:30.91
what kind of blood do we need?
00:33:30.94\00:33:32.64
Let's go to Hebrews 7:13-14,
00:33:32.67\00:33:36.11
"For He of whom
these things are spoken,
00:33:36.14\00:33:39.25
belongs to another tribe.
00:33:39.28\00:33:40.88
Now I wanna make a
very important point
00:33:40.92\00:33:42.25
as I read this,
00:33:42.28\00:33:44.59
the Levitical
tribe was never spoken
00:33:44.62\00:33:46.89
of as a permanent fixture
00:33:46.92\00:33:49.56
because the ceremonial law
was not a permanent fixture.
00:33:49.59\00:33:53.03
It was only to last
until the Seed should come.
00:33:53.06\00:33:55.73
When the ceremonial
law ended at the cross,
00:33:55.76\00:33:58.40
when Jesus brought it to an end
00:33:58.43\00:34:00.24
and He also brought
the Levitical priesthood
00:34:00.27\00:34:02.14
to an end.
00:34:02.17\00:34:03.51
But how do we
have a priest today?
00:34:03.54\00:34:05.27
Jesus didn't come
from the tribe of Levi.
00:34:05.31\00:34:07.28
He came from the tribe of Judah.
00:34:07.31\00:34:09.21
Go quickly with me now.
00:34:09.24\00:34:10.58
Verse 13,
00:34:10.61\00:34:12.25
"For He of whom
these things are spoken
00:34:12.28\00:34:14.28
belongs to another tribe
00:34:14.32\00:34:15.88
from which no man has
officiated at the altar.
00:34:15.92\00:34:19.32
For it is evident that
our Lord arose from Judah
00:34:19.35\00:34:21.72
of which tribe
Moses spoke nothing
00:34:21.76\00:34:24.13
concerning the priesthood."
00:34:24.16\00:34:25.59
Now let's get
down to the very fact.
00:34:25.63\00:34:27.36
So out of what
tribe did Jesus come?
00:34:27.40\00:34:29.93
Hebrews 7:1-3,
00:34:29.96\00:34:32.23
"For this,
Melchizedek, king of Salem,
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.64
priest of the Most
High who met Abraham
00:34:34.67\00:34:37.04
returning from the slaughter
of the kings and blessed him."
00:34:37.07\00:34:40.44
This is the tribe
that Jesus came out of.
00:34:40.48\00:34:43.71
I'm gonna make it very clear.
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.08
So I could run down
to the very end of this.
00:34:45.11\00:34:46.82
Jesus is a priest after
the order of Melchizedek.
00:34:46.85\00:34:52.29
And when you read
about Melchizedek,
00:34:52.32\00:34:54.22
he's referred to as
the king of righteousness
00:34:54.26\00:34:56.89
and in verse 3 of Hebrew 7
00:34:56.93\00:34:59.09
without beginning of
days and without end of life,
00:34:59.13\00:35:03.10
and He remains a priest
continually all forever.
00:35:03.13\00:35:07.17
The only way that we can
have a permanent priesthood
00:35:07.20\00:35:11.07
is we have to have
one who liveth forever.
00:35:11.11\00:35:13.68
And Jesus is He that ever liveth
00:35:13.71\00:35:16.41
to make intercession for us.
00:35:16.44\00:35:20.35
Amen. Amen.
00:35:20.38\00:35:21.88
Well, moving to
Wednesday's portion,
00:35:21.92\00:35:25.35
the title is A Better Covenant,
00:35:25.39\00:35:29.29
and this title is taken from
00:35:29.32\00:35:31.73
the fact that in
the Book of Hebrews,
00:35:31.76\00:35:33.46
it actually calls
00:35:33.50\00:35:34.83
the New Covenant
a better covenant.
00:35:34.86\00:35:38.33
But as you
compare the Old Covenant,
00:35:38.37\00:35:40.24
the New Covenant,
the bottom line is that
00:35:40.27\00:35:41.64
salvation is by faith in a
God who will forgive our sins.
00:35:41.67\00:35:47.01
Not because of
anything worthwhile in us,
00:35:47.04\00:35:49.08
but only because of His grace.
00:35:49.11\00:35:52.25
So the question that
is asked in the lesson
00:35:52.28\00:35:55.68
is where did the fault lie?
00:35:55.72\00:35:57.92
What's the failure
of the Old Covenant?
00:35:57.95\00:36:01.46
Hebrews 8:7-8,
00:36:01.49\00:36:03.93
"For if the first
covenant had been faultless,
00:36:03.96\00:36:08.00
then no place
would have been sought
00:36:08.03\00:36:10.00
for a second
00:36:10.03\00:36:11.63
because finding fault with them,
00:36:11.67\00:36:14.20
He says, behold,
00:36:14.24\00:36:15.57
the days are
coming, says the Lord
00:36:15.60\00:36:16.94
when I will make a New Covenant
00:36:16.97\00:36:18.31
with the house of Israel
00:36:18.34\00:36:19.77
and with the house of Judah."
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.54
So it was not a
fault with the covenant,
00:36:21.58\00:36:25.11
but a fault with them.
00:36:25.15\00:36:27.65
Why?
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.02
Hebrews 4:2 helps us
00:36:29.05\00:36:30.85
with the answer
to that question.
00:36:30.89\00:36:33.72
"For indeed the
gospel was preached to us
00:36:33.76\00:36:36.86
as well as to them,
00:36:36.89\00:36:38.76
but the word which they
heard did not profit them,
00:36:38.79\00:36:42.36
not being mixed with
faith in those who heard it."
00:36:42.40\00:36:46.50
So we see then
that it is because
00:36:46.53\00:36:49.24
they did not mix
their experience with faith.
00:36:49.27\00:36:53.34
So it has been
asked before we ask again,
00:36:53.38\00:36:56.38
why then was the
first covenant made?
00:36:56.41\00:37:00.88
The answer is,
for the same reason
00:37:00.92\00:37:02.88
that the law was
presented as Sinai
00:37:02.92\00:37:05.65
because of sin.
00:37:05.69\00:37:08.46
So I'm gonna read to you
00:37:08.49\00:37:09.82
that is
directly from the lesson.
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.63
The problem
with the Old Covenant
00:37:12.66\00:37:14.43
was not the covenant itself,
00:37:14.46\00:37:16.03
but with the
failure of the people
00:37:16.06\00:37:17.60
to grasp it in faith.
00:37:17.63\00:37:19.23
Hebrews 4:2.
00:37:19.27\00:37:20.60
The superiority
of the New Covenant
00:37:20.64\00:37:22.54
to the old lies in that Jesus,
00:37:22.57\00:37:26.17
instead of being revealed
00:37:26.21\00:37:27.71
only through the
animal sacrifices,
00:37:27.74\00:37:30.28
as in the Old Covenant
now appears in the reality
00:37:30.31\00:37:34.58
of his death and
high priestly ministry.
00:37:34.62\00:37:37.99
In other words, the salvation
offered in the Old Covenant
00:37:38.02\00:37:41.86
is the same offered in the new.
00:37:41.89\00:37:45.03
Faith and the
sacrifice that God provided.
00:37:45.06\00:37:49.36
So in what way is it better?
00:37:49.40\00:37:51.83
It is better in that
everything that has been taught
00:37:51.87\00:37:55.27
through symbols and
types in the Old Testament
00:37:55.30\00:37:58.17
has found His
fulfillment in Jesus.
00:37:58.21\00:38:01.84
It all pointed to
Jesus, the Lamb of God
00:38:01.88\00:38:04.68
that takes away
the sin of the world.
00:38:04.71\00:38:08.42
I'm moving now to Hebrews 8:1-2,
00:38:08.45\00:38:11.65
follow me along.
00:38:11.69\00:38:13.49
The New Covenant
has a true tabernacle.
00:38:13.52\00:38:16.89
Now it says in Hebrews 8:1-2.
00:38:16.93\00:38:19.39
Now this is the main point
of the things we are saying.
00:38:19.43\00:38:23.87
We have such a high priest
00:38:23.90\00:38:26.74
who is seated at the
right hand of the throne
00:38:26.77\00:38:29.27
of the majesty in the heavens,
00:38:29.30\00:38:30.94
a minister of the sanctuary
and of the true tabernacle,
00:38:30.97\00:38:36.75
which the Lord
erected and not man.
00:38:36.78\00:38:38.81
In other words,
the sanctuary on earth
00:38:38.85\00:38:41.55
was just a shadow,
00:38:41.58\00:38:42.92
a copy of the true tabernacle,
00:38:42.95\00:38:44.95
which was, which is in heaven
00:38:44.99\00:38:47.76
of which Jesus
Christ is the high priest.
00:38:47.79\00:38:50.29
And you're gonna hear
more about that in a moment.
00:38:50.33\00:38:51.96
And I know you're just
waiting for that moment,
00:38:51.99\00:38:54.20
but let's go to Hebrews 9:8-14.
00:38:54.23\00:38:57.87
I'm gonna read it
quickly because time is moving.
00:38:57.90\00:39:01.47
Verse 8,
00:39:01.50\00:39:02.84
"The Holy
Spirit indicating this,
00:39:02.87\00:39:04.84
that the way into
the Holiest of All
00:39:04.87\00:39:07.54
was not yet made manifest
00:39:07.58\00:39:09.78
while the first
tabernacle was still standing.
00:39:09.81\00:39:13.21
It was symbolic
for the present time
00:39:13.25\00:39:15.25
in which both gifts
and sacrifices are offered
00:39:15.28\00:39:17.85
which cannot make who
performed the service perfect
00:39:17.89\00:39:20.62
in regard to the conscience.
00:39:20.66\00:39:22.49
Concerned only with foods
and drinks, various washings,
00:39:22.52\00:39:25.19
and fleshly ordinances
00:39:25.23\00:39:26.80
imposed until the
time of reformation."
00:39:26.83\00:39:29.60
You've heard this before.
00:39:29.63\00:39:31.30
"But Christ came as High Priest
of the good things to come,
00:39:31.33\00:39:36.20
with the greater and
more perfect tabernacle
00:39:36.24\00:39:38.94
not made with hands, that is,
00:39:38.97\00:39:40.54
not of this
creation, not of this world.
00:39:40.58\00:39:44.08
Not with the blood
of goats and calves,
00:39:44.11\00:39:46.28
but with His own blood
00:39:46.31\00:39:48.02
He entered the Most
Holy Place once for all,
00:39:48.05\00:39:51.89
having obtained
eternal redemption.
00:39:51.92\00:39:54.96
"Praise God.
00:39:54.99\00:39:56.56
Now notice verse 13.
00:39:56.59\00:39:57.93
This has to be very clear.
00:39:57.96\00:39:59.33
"For if the blood
of bulls and goats
00:39:59.36\00:40:01.10
and the ashes of a
heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
00:40:01.13\00:40:03.80
sanctifies for the
purifying of the flesh,
00:40:03.83\00:40:06.57
how much more shall
the blood of Christ,
00:40:06.60\00:40:10.37
who through the eternal Spirit
00:40:10.41\00:40:11.97
offered Himself
without spot to God,
00:40:12.01\00:40:15.38
cleanse your
conscience from dead works
00:40:15.41\00:40:17.78
to serve the living God?"
00:40:17.81\00:40:20.48
And see, we want to
underline and highlight
00:40:20.52\00:40:24.92
that there has always
been only one way to be saved,
00:40:24.95\00:40:29.59
through Jesus Christ.
00:40:29.62\00:40:31.29
I'm going to Acts 4:12,
00:40:31.33\00:40:33.36
and we'll come back in a
moment to Hebrews Chapter 10.
00:40:33.40\00:40:35.66
Acts 4:12,
00:40:35.70\00:40:37.57
"Nor is there
salvation in any other,
00:40:37.60\00:40:41.47
for there is no other name
under heaven given among men
00:40:41.50\00:40:45.37
by which we must be saved."
00:40:45.41\00:40:47.28
That is only
through Jesus Christ.
00:40:47.31\00:40:50.68
Hebrews Chapter 10.
00:40:50.71\00:40:53.31
This has already been read.
00:40:53.35\00:40:55.02
We're just gonna highlight
that it was those sacrifices
00:40:55.05\00:40:59.09
that were offered,
they had to be remembered
00:40:59.12\00:41:03.56
once a year on
the Day of Atonement.
00:41:03.59\00:41:06.29
Let's go to
Colossians 2:14 quickly,
00:41:06.33\00:41:10.33
for the purpose of
underlying something here.
00:41:10.37\00:41:12.60
"Having wiped out the
handwriting of requirements
00:41:12.63\00:41:15.50
or ordinances
00:41:15.54\00:41:16.87
that was against us,
which was contrary to us.
00:41:16.91\00:41:20.28
And He has taken
it out of the way,
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.61
having nailed it to the cross."
00:41:22.64\00:41:24.35
Those are the sacrificial issues
00:41:24.38\00:41:27.62
concerning the Old Covenant.
00:41:27.65\00:41:31.12
All those sacrifices
no longer need to be done
00:41:31.15\00:41:35.49
because Jesus
Christ, the true sacrifice
00:41:35.52\00:41:38.06
has died for us on the cross.
00:41:38.09\00:41:41.26
He is the true sacrifice for us.
00:41:41.30\00:41:44.07
He is the only one
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.77
that it is only
through the blood of Jesus
00:41:45.80\00:41:48.00
that we can be saved.
00:41:48.04\00:41:50.07
So this is why
it's a better covenant
00:41:50.11\00:41:53.17
because it
fulfills the requirement.
00:41:53.21\00:41:56.28
Hebrews 10:7-12, it says,
00:41:56.31\00:41:59.38
"Then I said,
'Behold, I have come in the...
00:41:59.41\00:42:02.42
I will come in
the volume of the book
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.95
it is written of Me
to do Your will, O God."
00:42:03.99\00:42:07.49
Previously saying
sacrifice and offerings,
00:42:07.52\00:42:11.43
burnt offerings
and offerings for sin,
00:42:11.46\00:42:13.80
You did not desire,
nor had pleasure in them,
00:42:13.83\00:42:17.40
which are offered
according to the law.
00:42:17.43\00:42:19.53
Then He said,
00:42:19.57\00:42:20.90
'Behold, I have come.
00:42:20.94\00:42:22.27
I come to do Your will, O God.
00:42:22.30\00:42:24.34
He takes away the first
00:42:24.37\00:42:26.64
that He may
establish the second.
00:42:26.68\00:42:29.91
The New Covenant.
00:42:29.94\00:42:31.28
By the will, we have been
sanctified through the offering
00:42:31.31\00:42:34.58
of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all."
00:42:34.62\00:42:38.22
No more
sacrifices need to be done.
00:42:38.25\00:42:40.76
Jesus has fulfilled them.
00:42:40.79\00:42:42.42
And every priest
stands ministering daily
00:42:42.46\00:42:46.36
and offering repeated...
00:42:46.39\00:42:47.93
Repeatedly the same sacrifices,
00:42:47.96\00:42:49.83
which can never take away sins.
00:42:49.86\00:42:52.00
Anyone that offers
sacrifices for their sins
00:42:52.03\00:42:56.81
has no value whatsoever at all,
00:42:56.84\00:43:00.48
because the true
sacrifice Jesus Christ has come.
00:43:00.51\00:43:03.24
So if the Jews or
anyone else builds altars,
00:43:03.28\00:43:07.32
builds a temple
to try to sacrifice,
00:43:07.35\00:43:10.59
no value before God whatsoever,
00:43:10.62\00:43:12.92
because it is only through
the blood of Jesus Christ.
00:43:12.95\00:43:15.49
Verse 12,
00:43:15.52\00:43:16.86
"But this Man, Jesus,
00:43:16.89\00:43:18.39
after He had offered
00:43:18.43\00:43:19.76
one sacrifice
for sins for forever,
00:43:19.79\00:43:22.63
sat down at the
right hand of God."
00:43:22.66\00:43:26.27
So now, instead of symbols,
00:43:26.30\00:43:28.34
as it says in the
lesson types and examples,
00:43:28.37\00:43:31.01
we have Jesus Himself.
00:43:31.04\00:43:33.81
And so, I move now
to Hebrews 7:22-25.
00:43:33.84\00:43:38.01
A lot of
scriptures, write them all down.
00:43:38.05\00:43:40.18
It's too late now,
00:43:40.22\00:43:41.72
but I hope you can
rewind the tape as they say.
00:43:41.75\00:43:43.95
Hebrews 7:22-25,
00:43:43.99\00:43:46.35
"By so much more Jesus
00:43:46.39\00:43:49.56
has become a surety
of a better covenant.
00:43:49.59\00:43:53.83
Also, there were many priests
00:43:53.86\00:43:55.66
because they were prevented
by death from continuing.
00:43:55.70\00:43:58.73
But He, because
He continues forever,
00:43:58.77\00:44:01.60
has an unchangeable priesthood.
00:44:01.64\00:44:04.04
Therefore He is able
to save to the uttermost
00:44:04.07\00:44:08.11
those who come
to God through Him,
00:44:08.14\00:44:11.15
since He always lives
00:44:11.18\00:44:13.85
to make intercession for them."
00:44:13.88\00:44:17.25
So it is a better covenant
because it has Jesus in it.
00:44:17.29\00:44:22.69
The true Lamb of God
00:44:22.72\00:44:24.66
that takes away
the sin of the world.
00:44:24.69\00:44:28.13
And I don't know if
you're gonna touch on this,
00:44:28.16\00:44:30.47
but I'm gonna
read it really quick
00:44:30.50\00:44:31.87
and you can put
some more meat on it.
00:44:31.90\00:44:33.77
How about that? Okay.
00:44:33.80\00:44:35.14
Hebrews 4:14-16,
00:44:35.17\00:44:37.51
"Seeing then that we
have a great High Priest
00:44:37.54\00:44:40.81
who has passed
through the heavens,
00:44:40.84\00:44:42.68
Jesus the Son of God,
00:44:42.71\00:44:44.18
let us hold fast our confession.
00:44:44.21\00:44:47.28
For we do not have a High Priest
00:44:47.32\00:44:48.65
who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses,
00:44:48.68\00:44:51.15
but was in all points tempted
as we are, yet without sin.
00:44:51.19\00:44:56.12
Let us therefore come
boldly with confidence
00:44:56.16\00:45:00.53
to the throne of grace,
00:45:00.56\00:45:01.90
that we may obtain
mercy and find grace
00:45:01.93\00:45:04.67
to help in time of need."
00:45:04.70\00:45:07.00
Praise be to God.
00:45:07.04\00:45:08.64
And He is able to
say to the uttermost,
00:45:08.67\00:45:10.57
the worst of sinners.
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.74
I don't care how
many sins you have done.
00:45:12.77\00:45:14.71
They can be forgiven
through Jesus Christ.
00:45:14.74\00:45:16.64
Come to Him with
sincerity of heart
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.41
and you will be
forgiven and accepted.
00:45:19.45\00:45:22.18
Hmm.
00:45:22.22\00:45:23.55
Amen.
00:45:23.59\00:45:24.92
So I'm looking
down here at my lesson
00:45:24.95\00:45:26.29
and pastor stepping
all over my scriptures
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.96
and Pastor John Dinzey
stepping all over my scripture.
00:45:28.99\00:45:31.53
So it just kind of...
00:45:31.56\00:45:32.89
It's great for
do have repetition,
00:45:32.93\00:45:34.46
but as I'm going
through this, I'm realizing
00:45:34.50\00:45:35.86
there's so many different
angles to go with this.
00:45:35.90\00:45:37.67
So I almost kind
of deviated and wrote,
00:45:37.70\00:45:41.20
rewrote my own message
here to kind of fit the theme.
00:45:41.24\00:45:43.67
'Cause there was other
scriptures that I believe
00:45:43.71\00:45:45.31
really, really fits this theme,
00:45:45.34\00:45:47.08
but there's also
gonna be some texts
00:45:47.11\00:45:48.44
we're gonna repeat as well.
00:45:48.48\00:45:50.18
This is obviously
Thursday's lesson,
00:45:50.21\00:45:52.35
The New Covenant Priest.
00:45:52.38\00:45:54.12
So this is emphasizing
what has already been heard.
00:45:54.15\00:45:57.25
You've heard many times already
that Christ is our high priest.
00:45:57.29\00:46:00.66
There's no escaping that.
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.39
And the lesson brings this out.
00:46:02.42\00:46:03.93
It says, "The Book of
Hebrews places a heavy emphasis
00:46:03.96\00:46:06.70
on Jesus as our high priest
in the heavenly sanctuary."
00:46:06.73\00:46:10.40
In fact, the clearest exposition
00:46:10.43\00:46:11.80
of the New Covenant
00:46:11.83\00:46:13.17
found in the New Testament
00:46:13.20\00:46:14.54
appears in the Book of Hebrews
00:46:14.57\00:46:16.74
with its emphasis on
Christ as high priest.
00:46:16.77\00:46:20.01
This is no coincidence.
00:46:20.04\00:46:21.54
Christ heavenly
ministry is intrinsically...
00:46:21.58\00:46:25.28
Intricately, excuse me,
00:46:25.31\00:46:27.68
tied to promises
of the New Covenant.
00:46:27.72\00:46:30.19
As you have heard all of the...
00:46:30.22\00:46:32.05
Well you guys were like
rapid fire through Hebrews.
00:46:32.09\00:46:34.06
I think we just covered
the entire Book of Hebrews
00:46:34.09\00:46:36.29
all in just like
20 minutes just then.
00:46:36.32\00:46:38.29
It goes on to say,
00:46:38.33\00:46:39.66
"The Old Testament
sanctuary service was the means
00:46:39.69\00:46:41.46
by which the Old
Covenant truths were taught.
00:46:41.50\00:46:44.40
It's centered around
sacrifices and mediation.
00:46:44.43\00:46:47.40
Animals were slain
00:46:47.44\00:46:48.77
and their blood was
mediated by the priest.
00:46:48.80\00:46:51.27
These, of course, were
all symbols of the salvation
00:46:51.31\00:46:55.28
found only in Jesus.
00:46:55.31\00:46:57.68
There was no
salvation found in them
00:46:57.71\00:47:00.72
and in and of themselves.
00:47:00.75\00:47:02.52
And as you heard very clearly,
00:47:02.55\00:47:04.05
the Bible makes this very clear.
00:47:04.09\00:47:05.59
Of course, Hebrews 10:4
makes it very, very clear.
00:47:05.62\00:47:09.59
For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls
00:47:09.62\00:47:12.26
and goats could take away sins.
00:47:12.29\00:47:14.36
And there may be
someone watching and says,
00:47:14.40\00:47:15.73
"Wait, hold on.
00:47:15.76\00:47:17.10
It's not possible,
then why in the world
00:47:17.13\00:47:18.53
did the Lord
choose to use animals,
00:47:18.57\00:47:21.94
you know, if it
cannot take away the sin?
00:47:21.97\00:47:23.84
Obviously, as it has
been emphasized, many times
00:47:23.87\00:47:26.07
these were symbols.
00:47:26.11\00:47:27.44
In fact, I would like to
go to Exodus 12 real quick.
00:47:27.48\00:47:29.21
I wanna just show this
because many people say,
00:47:29.24\00:47:31.31
well, why did the Lord...
00:47:31.35\00:47:32.68
Why in the Lord...
00:47:32.71\00:47:34.05
Why in the world
would the Lord used animals
00:47:34.08\00:47:35.88
as a symbol?
00:47:35.92\00:47:37.25
And I think that there's needs
to be meaning tied to this.
00:47:37.29\00:47:39.89
And, of course, if
you were in the situation
00:47:39.92\00:47:42.02
where you had to take the
life of an innocent animal,
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.63
that is symbolic for something,
00:47:44.66\00:47:46.16
there was lots of
meaning tied to this.
00:47:46.19\00:47:47.66
So Exodus Chapter 12, of course,
00:47:47.70\00:47:49.46
this particular series of text
00:47:49.50\00:47:51.37
is in the
context of the Passover.
00:47:51.40\00:47:53.40
But I just wanna
read this really quickly.
00:47:53.44\00:47:55.04
Exodus Chapter 12,
beginning with verse 3.
00:47:55.07\00:47:56.84
The Lord says,
00:47:56.87\00:47:58.21
"Speak to all the
congregation of Israel, saying:
00:47:58.24\00:47:59.97
'On the tenth of this month
00:48:00.01\00:48:01.34
every man shall
take for himself a lamb."
00:48:01.38\00:48:04.48
Of course, we know that lamb
to be representative of Jesus.
00:48:04.51\00:48:07.38
And He goes on to say,
00:48:07.42\00:48:08.75
"According to the
house of his father,
00:48:08.78\00:48:10.12
a lamb for a household.
00:48:10.15\00:48:11.49
And if the household
be too small for the lamb,
00:48:11.52\00:48:14.46
let him and his neighbor
next to his house take it
00:48:14.49\00:48:17.09
according to the
number of the persons,
00:48:17.13\00:48:18.86
according to each man's need,
00:48:18.89\00:48:20.63
you shall make your
count for the lamb."
00:48:20.66\00:48:23.16
And then verse
5 and 6 here says,
00:48:23.20\00:48:24.60
"Your lamb shall
be without blemish."
00:48:24.63\00:48:27.47
Who does that... Who
does that remind you of?
00:48:27.50\00:48:29.10
Obviously, Jesus
Christ, now our high priest
00:48:29.14\00:48:31.77
without blemish, He is perfect.
00:48:31.81\00:48:33.38
His sacrifice was perfect.
00:48:33.41\00:48:35.04
It's says, "A
male of the first year,
00:48:35.08\00:48:36.41
you may take it from the
sheep or from the goats."
00:48:36.44\00:48:38.45
Now notice verse 6 here.
00:48:38.48\00:48:39.81
It says, "Now you shall
keep it until the 14th day
00:48:39.85\00:48:42.42
of the same month.
00:48:42.45\00:48:43.79
Then the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel
00:48:43.82\00:48:45.82
shall kill it at twilight."
00:48:45.85\00:48:47.86
So they would go out
00:48:47.89\00:48:49.22
and they would go out on
the 10th day of the month.
00:48:49.26\00:48:51.43
They would go and choose
this perfect unblemished lamb,
00:48:51.46\00:48:54.96
of course, all
pointing to Christ.
00:48:55.00\00:48:56.36
They would bring
it into their home
00:48:56.40\00:48:57.83
for about three and a half days.
00:48:57.87\00:48:59.37
Because by the
point they brought it in
00:48:59.40\00:49:01.24
and they killed it at twilight,
00:49:01.27\00:49:02.80
it would be about
three and a half days
00:49:02.84\00:49:04.84
pointing to the three
and a half year ministry
00:49:04.87\00:49:06.78
of Jesus Christ.
00:49:06.81\00:49:08.24
But here's the thing,
00:49:08.28\00:49:09.61
they would bring
that into the home.
00:49:09.64\00:49:10.98
And you could imagine
00:49:11.01\00:49:12.35
the family would get used to it.
00:49:12.38\00:49:13.72
They would feed it.
They would nurture it.
00:49:13.75\00:49:15.08
The kids would play with it.
00:49:15.12\00:49:16.45
When they would have
to take that lamb out
00:49:16.48\00:49:17.82
and they would have
to slaughter that lamb.
00:49:17.85\00:49:19.19
It's pointing us to the fact
that Jesus Christ is our lamb
00:49:19.22\00:49:21.76
and His sacrifice
should mean something to us.
00:49:21.79\00:49:25.36
It meant
something to this family
00:49:25.39\00:49:26.96
to have to take the
life of this innocent lamb.
00:49:27.00\00:49:29.16
And that's what
this is all about.
00:49:29.20\00:49:30.70
It's saying, not in
that lamb in and of itself,
00:49:30.73\00:49:33.23
did that animal
take away the sin,
00:49:33.27\00:49:35.74
but what it represents.
00:49:35.77\00:49:37.21
Jesus Christ, our high priest
00:49:37.24\00:49:39.37
of course was
also our sacrifice.
00:49:39.41\00:49:41.94
Of course, this is what
Hebrews Chapter 8 verses, uh,
00:49:41.98\00:49:44.41
excuse me, 10:8-10
is bringing out as well.
00:49:44.45\00:49:48.05
It says there
in Hebrews 10:8-10,
00:49:48.08\00:49:51.25
"Previously saying,
'Sacrifice and offering,
00:49:51.29\00:49:53.66
burnt offerings
and offerings for sin,
00:49:53.69\00:49:55.72
You did not desire
nor had pleasure in them."
00:49:55.76\00:49:58.63
Of course, they
didn't have pleasure, right?
00:49:58.66\00:50:00.00
We just read about it.
00:50:00.03\00:50:01.36
It's horrible thing
to even have to think
00:50:01.40\00:50:02.80
about someone doing.
00:50:02.83\00:50:04.17
But he says, "You did
not have pleasure in them.
00:50:04.20\00:50:05.77
We are offered
according to the law
00:50:05.80\00:50:07.57
or which were offered
according to the law."
00:50:07.60\00:50:09.44
Verse 9,
00:50:09.47\00:50:10.81
"Then He said,
00:50:10.84\00:50:12.17
'Behold, I have come
to do Your will, O God.
00:50:12.21\00:50:13.68
He takes away the first
00:50:13.71\00:50:15.88
and that He may
establish the second.
00:50:15.91\00:50:18.55
By that we will have...
00:50:18.58\00:50:20.82
By that, will we
have been sanctified
00:50:20.85\00:50:23.72
through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ
00:50:23.75\00:50:27.02
once and for all.
00:50:27.06\00:50:28.66
So Jesus is
that final sacrifice.
00:50:28.69\00:50:31.23
He is now our high
priest, Hebrews 9:26.
00:50:31.26\00:50:34.96
And we're gonna come
back to Hebrews 9 in a moment,
00:50:35.00\00:50:36.97
but it says
here in Hebrews 9:26,
00:50:37.00\00:50:39.13
again,
emphasizing this same point.
00:50:39.17\00:50:41.80
He then would have to...
00:50:41.84\00:50:43.27
"Would have had to suffer
00:50:43.30\00:50:44.71
often since the
foundation of the world,
00:50:44.74\00:50:47.18
but now once at
the end of the ages,
00:50:47.21\00:50:49.84
He has appeared to put away sin
00:50:49.88\00:50:51.55
by the sacrifice of Himself."
00:50:51.58\00:50:54.75
Of course, all of this
is pointing us kind of back.
00:50:54.78\00:50:57.79
We're here in
Hebrews, New Testament
00:50:57.82\00:50:59.95
and we're looking back
00:50:59.99\00:51:01.32
all the way
back to Genesis 3:15.
00:51:01.36\00:51:03.83
This is Jesus
Christ that same Seed,
00:51:03.86\00:51:05.83
that powerful Seed,
00:51:05.86\00:51:07.46
which the covenant spoke about,
00:51:07.50\00:51:08.83
which the covenant is all about.
00:51:08.86\00:51:10.40
And He offered Himself
to be that sacrifice for us.
00:51:10.43\00:51:14.64
In fact, this also reminds me
00:51:14.67\00:51:16.97
of the beautiful
promise that we have,
00:51:17.01\00:51:19.54
or that was given to Israel
00:51:19.57\00:51:21.21
in the prophecy
of Daniel Chapter 9.
00:51:21.24\00:51:23.68
If you go back and study
this prophecy of the 70 weeks
00:51:23.71\00:51:26.58
there in Daniel Chapter 9,
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.58
he was told that 70 weeks
are determined for your people.
00:51:28.62\00:51:31.32
And there's six
things listed there.
00:51:31.35\00:51:32.82
They were to
anoint the Most Holy,
00:51:32.85\00:51:34.62
they were to be ready
to receive as a nation
00:51:34.66\00:51:37.16
Jesus Christ as their Messiah.
00:51:37.19\00:51:39.96
And notice what it says
in Daniel 9:27, it says,
00:51:40.00\00:51:43.26
"Then he shall
confirm, that's Christ,
00:51:43.30\00:51:45.67
He shall confirm a," what?
00:51:45.70\00:51:47.40
"A covenant." Which covenant?
00:51:47.44\00:51:50.14
Which covenant?
00:51:50.17\00:51:51.51
The everlasting covenant.
00:51:51.54\00:51:52.87
We're going
back to Genesis 3:15.
00:51:52.91\00:51:55.18
We're going back to
Christ as that coming Seed.
00:51:55.21\00:51:58.41
And here it is, He
shall confirm a covenant
00:51:58.45\00:52:00.22
with many for one week,
00:52:00.25\00:52:01.58
but in the middle of that week,
00:52:01.62\00:52:02.95
He shall bring it in
to sacrifice an offering.
00:52:02.98\00:52:05.99
And what breaks
my heart is there is,
00:52:06.02\00:52:08.09
you know, it's just the truth.
00:52:08.12\00:52:09.46
There's many, many
people in the world
00:52:09.49\00:52:10.83
that do not accept.
00:52:10.86\00:52:12.19
We have a whole
nation of Orthodox Jews
00:52:12.23\00:52:13.56
that don't accept
Christ as the Messiah.
00:52:13.60\00:52:16.20
And it's
interesting because right now,
00:52:16.23\00:52:18.37
if you go over to Israel,
00:52:18.40\00:52:19.77
the number one law
that governs that culture,
00:52:19.80\00:52:22.50
that governs that religion
is known as the Talmudic law
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.97
and within the Talmud law,
00:52:26.01\00:52:27.34
there's something there
00:52:27.38\00:52:28.71
that a lot of
people are not aware of.
00:52:28.74\00:52:30.08
I think I've
brought this out before,
00:52:30.11\00:52:31.45
but for the
purpose of this lesson,
00:52:31.48\00:52:32.81
I wanna repeat it
because I find it significant,
00:52:32.85\00:52:34.55
Notice that the enemy
is behind trying to eclipse
00:52:34.58\00:52:38.15
and keep Christ as Messiah
00:52:38.19\00:52:40.86
and High Priest from His people.
00:52:40.89\00:52:43.09
And so this is
something that is known
00:52:43.12\00:52:44.46
as the rabbinic curse
00:52:44.49\00:52:46.33
and notice what this
says in the rabbinic curse
00:52:46.36\00:52:48.50
within the Talmudic law.
00:52:48.53\00:52:50.07
It's says, "May
the bones of the hands
00:52:50.10\00:52:51.47
and the bones of the fingers
00:52:51.50\00:52:52.93
decay and decompose of him
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.20
who turns the pages
of the Book of Daniel,
00:52:55.24\00:52:58.24
to find out the
time of Daniel 9:24 to 27
00:52:58.27\00:53:02.88
and may his memory rot
00:53:02.91\00:53:04.25
from off the face
of the earth forever."
00:53:04.28\00:53:07.15
You have an entire
nation of Orthodox Jews
00:53:07.18\00:53:10.29
even still to this day
00:53:10.32\00:53:11.85
that will not
study the scriptures,
00:53:11.89\00:53:15.02
more
specifically Daniel 9:24-27.
00:53:15.06\00:53:17.99
Why?
00:53:18.03\00:53:19.49
Because it points to He
00:53:19.53\00:53:20.86
who came to
confirm the covenant.
00:53:20.90\00:53:23.40
And in the midst of that week,
00:53:23.43\00:53:25.07
He brought them into
sacrifices and offerings
00:53:25.10\00:53:28.34
pointing to
Himself as the Messiah,
00:53:28.37\00:53:31.17
the coming High Priest
that is now transitioned
00:53:31.21\00:53:33.94
into the heavenly sanctuary.
00:53:33.98\00:53:35.31
This is powerful.
00:53:35.34\00:53:36.68
In fact, Matthew 27:51,
we've read it many times.
00:53:36.71\00:53:40.45
It says, "And Jesus cried
out again with a loud voice
00:53:40.48\00:53:42.48
and yielded up His spirit.
00:53:42.52\00:53:43.92
He died on the cross."
00:53:43.95\00:53:45.29
And then it says in verse 51,
00:53:45.32\00:53:46.79
"Then behold, the
veil of the temple
00:53:46.82\00:53:48.52
was torn into
from top to bottom.
00:53:48.56\00:53:52.03
And at that moment, the
historian Josephus writes
00:53:52.06\00:53:54.76
that the high priest Caiaphas
00:53:54.80\00:53:56.46
came out of the
temple at that time,
00:53:56.50\00:53:58.07
as he was about to bring
the knife down on that lamb,
00:53:58.10\00:54:00.44
when really the true lamb of God
00:54:00.47\00:54:02.10
had already given
His life up on the...
00:54:02.14\00:54:04.14
Upon Golgotha's Hill
00:54:04.17\00:54:05.97
and out comes the
high priest Caiaphas
00:54:06.01\00:54:08.38
screaming to the
top of his lungs,
00:54:08.41\00:54:09.91
Ichabod, Ichabod,
00:54:09.94\00:54:11.48
signaling that
the glory of the Lord
00:54:11.51\00:54:13.72
had left the temple,
00:54:13.75\00:54:15.12
because Christ was
the ultimate fulfillment.
00:54:15.15\00:54:17.45
In bringing that
veil, the temple veil
00:54:17.49\00:54:20.82
was torn from top to bottom,
00:54:20.86\00:54:22.42
signifying that Jesus
Christ is the completion of all
00:54:22.46\00:54:25.93
to the sacrificial system
00:54:25.96\00:54:27.30
that now His
ministry has changed.
00:54:27.33\00:54:29.33
He's no longer
that sacrifice anymore.
00:54:29.36\00:54:32.13
He's completed the sacrifice.
00:54:32.17\00:54:33.67
Now He is in the
heavenly sanctuary
00:54:33.70\00:54:36.87
ministering on our behalf.
00:54:36.91\00:54:38.37
I wanna end
with Hebrews 9:11-12.
00:54:38.41\00:54:41.78
This is a powerful text
00:54:41.81\00:54:43.21
that I believe
really solidifies this.
00:54:43.24\00:54:45.31
Hebrews 9:11-12,
00:54:45.35\00:54:46.95
"but Christ being come on...
00:54:46.98\00:54:48.98
Become a high priest
of good things to come
00:54:49.02\00:54:51.92
by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle,
00:54:51.95\00:54:54.49
not made with hands,"
00:54:54.52\00:54:55.89
that is to say
not of this building,
00:54:55.92\00:54:58.59
"neither by the
blood of goats and calves,
00:54:58.63\00:55:00.96
but by His own blood,
He entered once into the,"
00:55:01.00\00:55:05.60
and I'm reading
the King James Version,
00:55:05.63\00:55:07.14
which I believe is a more
accurate translation here.
00:55:07.17\00:55:09.97
"He entered once
into the Holy Place,
00:55:10.01\00:55:13.68
having obtained
eternal redemption for us."
00:55:13.71\00:55:17.31
Praise the Lord
00:55:17.35\00:55:18.68
that we have a high
priest, Jesus Christ,
00:55:18.71\00:55:20.55
who still
ministering for us today.
00:55:20.58\00:55:22.52
He is the New
Covenant high priest
00:55:22.55\00:55:25.65
Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:55:25.69\00:55:27.02
Amen.
00:55:27.06\00:55:28.39
Amen. That's right.
00:55:28.42\00:55:29.76
Whoa!
00:55:29.79\00:55:31.19
This has been such
an encouraging lesson,
00:55:31.23\00:55:34.33
and we hope you're doing it.
00:55:34.36\00:55:35.70
I wanna give each
one of you, just a moment
00:55:35.73\00:55:37.97
to make a
comment about your day.
00:55:38.00\00:55:40.67
Mine was heart work on Monday,
00:55:40.70\00:55:42.37
and I just wanna
quote from Psalm 51:10,
00:55:42.40\00:55:44.97
"Create in me a
clean heart, O God,
00:55:45.01\00:55:46.98
and renew as
steadfast spirit within me."
00:55:47.01\00:55:50.68
God wants to do heart work.
00:55:50.71\00:55:52.35
He wants to create in
us the image of the divine.
00:55:52.38\00:55:56.28
Amen. That's right.
00:55:56.32\00:55:57.65
And speaking of
the blood of Jesus
00:55:57.69\00:55:59.02
that He shed for our redemption,
00:55:59.05\00:56:01.12
the writer of Hebrews
writes in Hebrews 9:15,
00:56:01.16\00:56:03.93
"And for this reason,
00:56:03.96\00:56:05.29
He is the mediator
of the New Covenant
00:56:05.33\00:56:07.56
by means of death
00:56:07.60\00:56:09.46
for the redemption
of the transgressions
00:56:09.50\00:56:11.53
under the first covenant,
00:56:11.57\00:56:13.37
that those who are
called may receive the promise
00:56:13.40\00:56:16.67
of the eternal inheritance."
00:56:16.71\00:56:18.57
Praise God for that. Amen.
00:56:18.61\00:56:20.08
Amen.
00:56:20.11\00:56:21.54
Well, the Bible tells us
00:56:21.58\00:56:22.91
that Jesus came
and took our place,
00:56:22.94\00:56:24.98
so that we can
have a place in heaven.
00:56:25.01\00:56:27.92
And I want to
encourage you to understand
00:56:27.95\00:56:30.15
that Hebrews 7:25,
00:56:30.19\00:56:32.22
"He is able to
save to the uttermost.
00:56:32.25\00:56:34.86
The worst among us,
Jesus is able to save."
00:56:34.89\00:56:38.03
And if that's you, I say
I'm the chief of sinners.
00:56:38.06\00:56:40.60
But if you think you are,
00:56:40.63\00:56:42.16
Jesus is waiting to forgive you.
00:56:42.20\00:56:44.10
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:56:44.13\00:56:45.50
Well, we're on Hebrews
1:19, on Hebrews, right?
00:56:45.53\00:56:47.80
Hebrews 12:1-2,
00:56:47.84\00:56:50.21
"Therefore we also,
since we are so surrounded
00:56:50.24\00:56:52.57
by such a great
cloud of witnesses,
00:56:52.61\00:56:54.84
let us lay aside every weight
00:56:54.88\00:56:56.61
and the sin, which
so easily ensnares us
00:56:56.64\00:56:58.61
and let us run with endureth
the race that is set before us
00:56:58.65\00:57:02.15
looking unto Jesus,
00:57:02.18\00:57:03.52
the author and
finisher of our faith,
00:57:03.55\00:57:05.29
who for the joy
that was set before Him
00:57:05.32\00:57:07.19
endured the cross,
00:57:07.22\00:57:08.56
despising the shame
00:57:08.59\00:57:09.92
and has sat down
00:57:09.96\00:57:11.29
at the right hand
of the throne of God."
00:57:11.33\00:57:13.13
Hallelujah.
00:57:13.16\00:57:15.66
This just came into my mind.
00:57:15.70\00:57:18.83
Many of us are
familiar with Isaiah 53,
00:57:18.87\00:57:21.90
the suffering servant song,
00:57:21.94\00:57:25.07
but there's actually
four servant songs in Isaiah.
00:57:25.11\00:57:29.01
That's right.
00:57:29.04\00:57:30.38
And one of those
is Isaiah Chapter 42.
00:57:30.41\00:57:34.55
This whole thing
is a messianic servant
00:57:34.58\00:57:37.99
is who it's talking about.
00:57:38.02\00:57:39.79
And listen to this, verse 6.
00:57:39.82\00:57:43.12
42:6, "I the Lord have
called You," capital Y.
00:57:43.16\00:57:48.16
This is talking
about Jesus, His servant.
00:57:48.20\00:57:51.20
"In righteousness,
I will hold your hand.
00:57:51.23\00:57:53.94
I will keep you and give you
00:57:53.97\00:57:57.91
as a covenant to the people,
00:57:57.94\00:58:00.78
as a light to the
Gentiles, to open blind eyes,
00:58:00.81\00:58:03.65
to bring out
prisoners from the prison."
00:58:03.68\00:58:07.88
Jesus is the New Covenant.
00:58:07.92\00:58:10.15
Join us next
time as we continue.
00:58:10.19\00:58:13.02