Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep my commandments."
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Now people all over the
world are turning back to God's
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eternal moral law, claiming
His promise to write them
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in our hearts and our
minds. Live from the DC Armory
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in our nation's
capital, 3ABN presents
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The 10 Commandments Weekend.
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn and
welcome back to Washington D.C.
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We're here celebrating
the eternal nature of God's
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10 Commandments, and
I'll tell you what, we've got
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some marathon men and
women with us, this wonderful
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crowd has been with us
all day long, and tonight
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we're going to be bringing
to you Michael Oxentenko,
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who is going to be doing a
sermon called "The Blue Stone",
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but first, we've got with
us again, Darrel Marshall,
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who's going to sing
"Give them all to Jesus".
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Are you tired of
chasing pretty rainbows,
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and are you tired of
spinning round and round.
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Wrap up all the
shattered dreams of your life
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and at the feet of
Jesus lay them down.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus;
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shattered dreams, and
wounded hearts, broken toys.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus,
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and He will turn
your sorrow into joy.
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He never said
you'd only see sunshine,
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and He never said
there'd be no rain, no.
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He only promised a
heart full of singing
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about the very thing
that once brought pain.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus;
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shattered dreams,
wounded hearts and broken toys.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus,
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and He will turn
your sorrow into joy.
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Sing it with me if you know it.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus:
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shattered dreams,
wounded hearts and broken toys.
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Give them all, give them
all, give them all to Jesus,
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and He will turn
your sorrow into joy.
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Yes, He will turn
your sorrow into joy.
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I believe He will,
don't you? Amen, yes He will.
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Thank you so much
Darrel, that was beautiful.
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Well, now it's my
joy to introduce you
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to Pastor Michael Oxentenko,
and Pastor Mike I understand
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that the Lord impressed you that
you should do this blue stone
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message for our 10
commandments weekend.
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Exactly, there's a number of
people here from my congregation
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that said: "Pastor Mike,
why don't you get involved"
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"in this 10
commandments weekend. "
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I said: "well, no, God asks
me to do the blue stone topic,"
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"that'll be an indicator,"
and you called me and asked me
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to do that topic,
that's why I'm here.
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You know, we had several other
people that are not connected
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with his church who
were emailing us and saying
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this was the
perfect sermon for tonight.
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I've not heard it and
I'm looking forward to it,
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and I'm going to turn
it over to you, God bless.
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God bless you Shelley.
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Let's bow our heads and
pray. Dear Heavenly Father,
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today there may be someone
here and listening out there
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and seeing this program
that does not know Jesus Christ.
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Father, there may be
someone who is doubting
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that Jesus Christ has the
power to transform and cleanse
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their life. Father,
as I pray before You,
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I ask that You'd open up
the power from Your throne,
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You give us Jesus and
His spirit to understand
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this topic that has been
lost for almost 2000 years.
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It was understood by the
early church, and by the ancient
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Jewish people, but is
part of the remnant message
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for the end of time,
in Jesus' name, amen.
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I woke up this morning
happy, how many of you woke up
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this morning happy? I'm
happy and I want to tell you
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why I'm happy: I'm
happy because God loves me
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and I know that God loves
me because there's a cross
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that occurred 2000
years ago, and God put love
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on that cross for me, can
you agree with me on that?
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But I have a second
reason I know I'm happy,
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it's because I know I
have a beautiful wife,
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she's right there in red,
and I know that God loves me,
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but I know that my wife
loves me, and I want to share
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with you something that
she has given me permission
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to talk about. About 6 years ago
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I went overseas to do an
evangelistic meeting in India
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and we were separated for
a good little period of time,
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and I began to feel
pretty bad about that,
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so my wife emailed me these
romantic little email notes
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that were encouraging me
to come home, and so I wanted
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to leave that meeting a
little early to get those hugs
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and kisses that were
waiting for me in America,
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but before I did so I
stopped by a jewelers shop
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to buy my wife something that
would show her that I loved her.
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Now, my wife does not
wear jewellery, she doesn't
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wear earring, she
doesn't wear rings on her hands,
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she doesn't wear a
necklace, my wife has the jewel
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that is inside, the
beautiful jewel that is part
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of a hidden heart
committed to Christ.
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So what I did was I
stopped and I got her something
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that's in this box,
now this is our love box.
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I have placed in this box
little tokens over the years
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that are meant to say "I love
you, I value your character,"
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"treasure them as messages
of love from me to you. "
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One of the gifts I've
put in this box, I bought it
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at that meeting, was an emerald.
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I had saved up some
money, emerald green represents
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faithfulness, and my
wife if faithful to me,
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and I love her for that, so
I gave her this, and she got it
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and looked at it and she
said: "Oh, that's great Mike,"
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"I love you, but I
don't need an emerald for you"
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"to tell me that,
don't do it again. "
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I said: "Yes Ma'am!"
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Well, what happened was this,
my little son saw that emerald
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and he took it to
school for show and tell
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and he lost it, and I
was absolutely heart broken.
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I remember meeting with my
wife, we prayed and I said:
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"Dear God, that
emerald is gone. "
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2 years passed, my son
was playing on the playground
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at the school, they were
taking honeysuckle flowers
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and as they would pull
them apart they would put
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the honeysuckle nectar on
the tongue, it was absolutely
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delicious, and
suddenly a honeysuckle flower
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fell from the shrub all
the way down and as it fell
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he reached down to pick it
up, and there was the emerald
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on the ground,
and I have it here.
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We put it back in the
love box where it belongs,
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we thank God for the gift.
Dear heart, love is a jewel,
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God's law is a jewel,
it is not a common rock,
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God's truth is precious, and
at the center of God's reality,
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at the center of God's
precious truth is the person
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of Jesus Christ.
We are going to study
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a topic today
called "The Blue Stone".
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That blue sapphire stone
that appeared on Mt. Sinai
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when God gave the
10 commandment law.
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Take you Bibles and
turn to 1 Corinthians 10:1-4
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as we focus on the
slide with the text.
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How many times have we read
this verse and we've read it
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from one side to the next
and we really read it wrong?
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"Under the cloud",
what does that mean?
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It means under the
pillar of fire and cloud.
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"They passed through the
sea", what does that mean?
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Well, we say: "Oh, the
Red Sea, got that one. "
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"Baptized into Moses
and the cloud", now you say
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"wait a second Pastor, I
didn't know they were baptized"
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"into a cloud, how could
they get wet from a cloud?"
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So we just ignore that
one. "Baptized into the sea",
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I had mentioned that
before, "supernatural food",
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which was manna
that fell from heaven,
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and then it says that they
drank from a supernatural rock
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that followed them,
and that rock was Christ.
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Yet, when we picture this
as we do here, innocently so,
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we have natural looking
stone, and yet the text says
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that it was supernatural
rock that they drank from
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and that was water gave
them life in the desert,
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and then it says the
rock was Christ, and we tend
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to treat that as a
metaphor rather than seen
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as a real, literal
thing. So some of these elements
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we treat as literal,
and some of these elements
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we spiritualize away.
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But when we finish our study
tonight you're going to discover
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that every single element
in the verses we've just read
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are literal, they really
happened and at the center
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of it is the person of
Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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Take the Bible you have in your
hand, turn to Exodus 13:21,22,
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the Bible says: [text on screen]
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Have you ever felt
lonely in your life?
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Like God isn't there?
You feel like He's not
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leading you? Think about this:
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when God took His children
out of Egypt He appeared
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in this incredible
pillar of fire and cloud,
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He led them in the
night, He led them in the day.
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If their life was
dark, he was the light,
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if the heat of the sun was
too brilliant, He was the shade,
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there was nothing that they
needed that He did not provide.
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So in this beautiful figure
we have the presence of God
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leading His people in
the pillar of fire and cloud.
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Let me ask you a
very basic question here:
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do you think that cloud
was empty, yes or no? No.
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Who was in the cloud?
God, but you know what?
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There were other things in that
cloud we're going to find out
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in the study. That
cloud was full of divine
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and spiritual activity,
and where that cloud went
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everything in that
cloud went with them.
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Now, where did they
go, what was the reason
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for the exodus?
Why did bring them out
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of Egypt in the first
place? Turn to Exodus 15:13,17:
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The Bible says: [text on screen]
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"The place, O Lord" - the
Hebrew word is "Makon", it means
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"the place like Solomon had
placed for the 10 commandments,"
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"the Ark of the Covenant",
it's a very defined term,
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[continues to read]
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Mt. Sinai was not just a
mountain, Mt. Sinai was not
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just a place where God
was camping out to give them
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His law and move on.
According to this verse
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Mt. Sinai was in fact a
sanctuary, a holy house,
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a home for the people of
God. Have you ever felt lonely
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in your life, like you
didn't belong, you go to church,
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find that the people
aren't really loving you there,
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you reach out for
love, and you get harsh words
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of criticism instead,
that can happen in any church
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where Christ is not the
center. Yet, we find here
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that the purpose of
deliverance is not just to bring
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God's people out of slavery,
the purpose of deliverance
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is to bring God's
people to God; it's to bring
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God's people home, it's to plant
His people in His presence,
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in His house, where
they belong forever and ever.
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Dear heart, over 20 years
ago I was at the end of my rope
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at the age of 15.
I didn't have a home,
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I was getting ready
to leave home, my mother
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is a schizophrenic,
my family was in turmoil,
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I didn't know where my father
was, and I remember praying
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a very simple prayer:
"If there's a God up there"
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"save me, pick me up,
and put me somewhere else. "
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And God came to me at the
age of 15 and picked me up
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on eagles' wings and brought
me to Fletcher, North Carolina,
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where I met my father who was
in a hospital, who was praying,
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he'd just been
converted to Jesus Christ,
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that before he died he could
find his son, his children,
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and he could
connect them back to Christ.
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And I'll tell you right now,
I know that we worship a God
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who picks us up on
eagles' wings, and that's what
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Exodus 19 says: God picked
His people up on eagles' wings,
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and He brought them to
Himself. We worship a God
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that wants to
provide a home for you.
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Hebrews 8:5: [text on screen]
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Now, we should stop
and analyze this verse
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without moving too quickly.
Moses was told that when
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he built that tabernacle
that it was to be built
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after the original which
appeared to him on the mountain.
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In other words, Mt.
Sinai contained, in the Hebrew,
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the "tabnit", the
pattern, but if you really look
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at the context of the storyline
of Exodus, it is the pattern,
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Mt. Sinai is the sanctuary,
Mt. Sinai has all the components
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that you would find
in the Hebrew tabernacle.
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Let me just work
through this with you.
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What do we find in
the Hebrew tabernacle?
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You walk into the outer court,
the first piece of furniture
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you find is the bronze altar,
and the reason it's bronze
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is because it's the place
of sacrifice, it's symbolic
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of the coming of Christ,
Christ is pictured in symbolic
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imagery in Daniel and
Revelation having bronze flesh,
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He has bronze flesh
because He died on that altar
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for you and me. And
when you move a little
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further you come to the bronze
laver, which is the great bronze
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sea that was in between the
bronze altar and Holy Place.
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Then you move a little
further, there were 2 rooms:
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the Holy Place and
the Most Holy Place.
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Inside the Holy Place there
were 3 pieces of furniture,
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how many of you know what
they are, raise your hand.
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Candlestick, table of showbread
and then the altar of incense.
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And before the altar of
incense as you're looking into
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the Most Holy Place
there was a purple veil,
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2 colors combine to
give purple, blue and red.
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Red represents the blood,
blue represents something else,
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we're going to
discover that tonight.
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Just before the
curtain to the Most Holy Place
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as you look in, there
was a room that no one saw
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but the high priest once a year,
that was the Most Holy Place.
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Inside the Most Holy Place there
was only 1 piece of furniture,
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what was that one
piece of furniture?
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It was the Ark of the Covenant.
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In the very center of the
cube of the Most Holy Place
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the Ark had 2 angel
cherubim, 1 at each side,
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there was a simple lid on
top, under the lid was a copy
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of the 10 commandment
law deep within the box.
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So when God took His love box,
He placed the 10 commandments
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inside the love box,
and that love box was
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the Ark of the
Covenant. The Ark also contained
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some other objects, and when
I look in my wife's love box,
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which I've given her,
there are things in here
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which she knows
about. Would you like to know
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what they are? Of course you do,
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but you can't know,
that's my business and hers,
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she let me tell you about
the emerald, but I'm not going
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to tell you about these
other things, that's a secret.
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We know what they were though
for the Ark of the Covenant,
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Aaron's rod that
budded, the pot of manna,
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and the like. So
the Ark of the Covenant
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was God's love box for
His people, it contained
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the precious give of
love that God had placed there
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for them to
remember that He loved them.
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Now, according to Hebrews
8:5, the verse we just read,
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the tabernacle was
modelled after Mt. Sinai.
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That means something, that means
when you look at the mountain
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you should be able to
find every piece of furniture
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in the sanctuary
on that mountain.
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It also means that maybe
the Exodus itself would be
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included in the
outer court imagery.
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I'd like to propose to you
that the outer court represents
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the Exodus, and Mt.
Sinai is in fact the sanctuary.
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How many of you like
to go to someone's house
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for Thanks Giving? I do.
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I have a wonderful
aunt named Aunt Mary-Anne,
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and she is a delight to
know, and every time I go there
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I relive my childhood,
those good Thanks Givings
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that we had, those Christmases,
when I go to her home
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I relive my past.
When Israel came into
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the sanctuary they
relived the past of the Exodus,
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they relived every
single incident from Egypt,
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from slavery, all the
way to God's holy mountain;
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it's right there
in the sanctuary,
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let me illustrate
this. The bronze altar,
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I'll show you this slide,
the bronze altar pointed back
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to the Passover
when the lamb was slain.
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So when they came to that altar
they couldn't help but remember
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that in Egypt they were set
free by a lamb that was killed,
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and their sins were taken
off of them when they sacrificed
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at the altar. Then
they came to the bronze
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laver, which was called
by Solomon, the bronze sea,
00:20:27.09\00:20:31.13
and it was deliberately
named the bronze sea
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because it points
back to the Red Sea.
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When God opened up the
Red Sea they went through it
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to His holy mountain.
You have to pass through
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the bronze laver from the
altar to get to the sanctuary,
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so it corresponds.
The sanctuary parallels
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the mountain in every way.
Sinai is the prototype sanctuary
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let me illustrate this:
every single piece of furniture
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that you find in the sanctuary
is on that mountain, bar none -
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we'll prove that here tonight.
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Let's start with the
candlestick, the candlestick
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was made to look like
a burning almond tree.
00:21:07.72\00:21:11.03
Exodus
25:32,33: [text on screen]
00:21:11.06\00:21:17.39
So what was the
candlestick made to look like?
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It was made to look
like an almond tree.
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It was a burning tree
because there was oil there
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and they lit it
and it was a flame.
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What did Moses see on Mt.
Sinai when God spoke to him?
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A burning bush, and so
the menorah tree pattern
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represented the burning
bush, so that piece of furniture
00:21:39.86\00:21:43.50
was on the mountain.
The 70 elders ate and drank
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with God on the mountain,
Exodus 24:9,11: [text on screen]
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So when God made a covenant
with His people, what did He do?
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Invite them up there
and said bring a snack?
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No, what did He do?
He said: "Come up to Me"
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"and I'm going to have a
fellowship meal with you."
00:22:14.44\00:22:17.66
"I want you to eat and drink
with Me in My holy mountain."
00:22:17.69\00:22:22.19
God had fellowship
designed into Mt. Sinai.
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Now, when you come to the Holy
Place, what piece of furniture
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has bread and flagons
where you can drink at it,
00:22:29.66\00:22:33.83
it's the table of showbread,
it had drink on offerings
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and bread, so we have
the imagery of the table
00:22:36.54\00:22:39.40
of showbread on the mountain.
Then we have 1 more piece
00:22:39.43\00:22:43.03
of furniture left in
the Holy place, and that is
00:22:43.06\00:22:45.01
the altar of
incense. The question arises:
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where in the world was
there an altar on that mountain?
00:22:47.77\00:22:50.68
We have the answer,
it's recorded in Exodus 24:4,
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God said: [text on screen]
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So was there an
altar at the mountain? Yes,
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a 12 stone altar, which
corresponded to the altar
00:23:10.97\00:23:15.93
of incense in the Holy Place.
So let's just do a quick review.
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The altar in the
outer court pointed back to
00:23:20.40\00:23:23.12
the Passover lamb.
The bronze sea, or laver,
00:23:23.15\00:23:25.92
in the outer court
represented the Red Sea.
00:23:25.95\00:23:28.64
The candlestick corresponded
to the burning bush.
00:23:28.67\00:23:31.75
The table of showbread
corresponded to the covenant
00:23:31.78\00:23:34.75
meal with God on the mountain
when they ate and drank.
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And the altar of
incense corresponded to
00:23:37.75\00:23:39.63
the 12 stone
altar on the mountain.
00:23:39.66\00:23:42.29
So every single piece
of furniture was there,
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but I left out 1 piece of
furniture, what's missing?
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The Ark of the
Covenant in the Most Holy Place.
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Where was that on the mountain?
Where is the place where
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you'd find the
law on the mountain?
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That would be the
focus of where we're going.
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Dear heart, the Ark of
the Covenant had its parallel
00:24:00.94\00:24:04.45
on the mountain,
it was there too.
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When the covenant was
received the Bible indicates
00:24:08.99\00:24:11.78
that God was standing
on a blue sapphire stone.
00:24:11.81\00:24:14.50
Take your Bibles to Exodus
24:9, let's read really slowly
00:24:14.53\00:24:20.97
and
deliberately: [Text on screen]
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Now, what is God
standing on in the context?
00:24:41.72\00:24:45.69
Is He standing on asphalt? No.
00:24:45.72\00:24:48.82
Is He standing on marble? Gold?
00:24:48.85\00:24:51.88
What does the Bible
say? It says He's standing
00:24:51.92\00:24:53.50
on a pavement of sapphire
stone, that's the reason why
00:24:53.53\00:24:58.27
this study is
called "The Blue Stone."
00:24:58.30\00:25:00.41
What in the world is
this? What is God doing here?
00:25:00.44\00:25:03.82
In the context God
called Moses into the moutain
00:25:03.85\00:25:06.90
to receive the law, and
He's very specific, He says:
00:25:06.93\00:25:09.95
"Come up to Me and
I'll give it to you,"
00:25:09.98\00:25:12.74
we find His invitation,
Exodus 24:11,12 [text on screen]
00:25:12.77\00:25:17.86
So God is standing on
this blue sapphire stone
00:25:37.26\00:25:40.14
and He calls Moses up
into the mountain, He says:
00:25:40.17\00:25:42.95
"Moses, I'm going to give
you the tables of the law. "
00:25:42.98\00:25:46.81
Let me ask you a question:
is there anything described
00:25:46.84\00:25:50.59
there with God? Only 2 things:
God and His blue sapphire stone.
00:25:50.62\00:25:56.23
When you look at the
Hebrew of this verse,
00:25:56.26\00:25:57.84
and I have a slide that
illustrates this, I'm going
00:25:57.87\00:26:00.75
to give you a Hebrew
lesson today, it's very clear
00:26:00.78\00:26:03.63
what's happening
here. The Bible says:
00:26:03.66\00:26:06.30
"Come up to Me and
I'll give you 'luchot' ",
00:26:06.33\00:26:09.89
sounds like a or
leukocyte something, "luchot",
00:26:09.92\00:26:15.75
means "tables of",
"ha eben" - "the stone",
00:26:15.78\00:26:21.56
"tables of the stone".
You see the definite article
00:26:21.60\00:26:25.72
is there in the Hebrew.
The only stone in "the" context
00:26:25.75\00:26:29.82
is the stone that
God is standing on.
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.43
The only stone where God
is at where He calls Moses up
00:26:32.46\00:26:35.99
is "the" blue sapphire
stone, so good grammar,
00:26:36.02\00:26:40.78
good exegesis means that
definite article goes right back
00:26:40.82\00:26:44.38
to that blue sapphire
stone, God took the tables
00:26:44.41\00:26:48.51
of the law from that
blue sapphire stone that He
00:26:48.55\00:26:53.03
is standing on according
to the Hebrew of Exodus 24,
00:26:53.06\00:26:57.51
no missing that.
Now, inquiring minds
00:26:57.54\00:27:01.12
want to know, isn't that right?
Inquiring minds want to know
00:27:01.16\00:27:05.40
what in the world is
that blue sapphire stone.
00:27:05.43\00:27:08.66
How many of you want
to know? Let's find out.
00:27:08.69\00:27:11.85
The answer comes in Ezekiel
1. I can remember a number
00:27:11.88\00:27:16.23
of years ago my son
was about 2 years of age,
00:27:16.26\00:27:19.39
just wanted to talk
and he was babbling a lot.
00:27:19.42\00:27:23.03
Jamaica was at the
window, there was this storm
00:27:23.06\00:27:26.30
coming in and I
looked out, it looked black,
00:27:26.33\00:27:29.50
and I thought "Oh no,
there's a tornado on the way",
00:27:29.53\00:27:32.00
and as I looked it pulled
the shingles off the house
00:27:32.03\00:27:34.46
nearby and the
lightning cracked, and I said:
00:27:34.49\00:27:36.85
"Let's get away from the
window", and that little guy
00:27:36.88\00:27:39.31
pulled a chair up to the window,
starting dancing up and down
00:27:39.34\00:27:43.29
on the window like
this: [demonstrates action],
00:27:43.32\00:27:47.03
"Dada, Dada", and
I'll tell you what he said,
00:27:47.06\00:27:50.69
he said: "Dada, Jessa
comma tom, Dada", and he was
00:27:50.72\00:27:54.46
so happy, and I was
afraid, but He was so happy.
00:27:54.49\00:27:58.71
"Dada, Jessa comma
tom", I couldn't figure out
00:27:58.75\00:28:02.92
what he was saying till finally
it hit me what he was saying,
00:28:02.96\00:28:06.66
he said: "Daddy, Jesus
is coming in the storm. "
00:28:06.69\00:28:12.29
I hugged him, I kissed him,
I prayed for him right there,
00:28:12.33\00:28:15.68
I've never forgotten
that. In Ezekiel 1:4 the prophet
00:28:15.71\00:28:19.00
Ezekiel sees God
coming in a storm.
00:28:19.03\00:28:21.82
He sees the storm
wind coming from the north,
00:28:21.85\00:28:24.24
it's described as a
pillar of fire and cloud,
00:28:24.27\00:28:26.58
it is the same pillar of
fire and cloud that led Israel
00:28:26.61\00:28:29.89
out of Egypt, but this time
we learn what's in the pillar
00:28:29.92\00:28:33.16
of fire and cloud.
Ezekiel sees God coming
00:28:33.19\00:28:36.84
and inside that pillar of fire
and cloud He sees 4 cherubim
00:28:36.88\00:28:41.15
with 4 faces, the face of
an ox, and face of an eagle,
00:28:41.18\00:28:45.03
the face of a
lion, the face of a man.
00:28:45.06\00:28:48.50
It's not a pretty face if you
ask me, that's the kind of thing
00:28:48.54\00:28:50.87
that watches out after
your children at night.
00:28:50.90\00:28:53.95
When you bow down to
pray according to the prophet
00:28:53.98\00:28:56.69
Ezekiel, that's the
kind of angel that devours
00:28:56.72\00:28:59.35
the enemy if it gets in
the way, it's a better kind
00:28:59.38\00:29:01.49
of angel we see in
the pictures today.
00:29:01.52\00:29:04.01
So the cherubim each have
4 wings, with 2 they cover
00:29:04.04\00:29:07.00
themselves, with the
other 2 they reach out and touch
00:29:07.03\00:29:09.84
the other cherubim. In
the center of the cherubim
00:29:09.87\00:29:12.61
were torches, and then beneath
them are wheels with eyes,
00:29:12.64\00:29:17.23
and then in verse 22 it
pictures a sea of glass,
00:29:17.26\00:29:20.13
a firmament of glass,
and over the sea of glass
00:29:20.16\00:29:22.95
there is a throne, in verse
26. And all of that, all of it,
00:29:22.98\00:29:28.35
is in the pillar
of fire and cloud.
00:29:28.38\00:29:30.77
So when God led His people out
of Egypt, He really did bring
00:29:30.80\00:29:34.58
them out of
Egypt on eagles' wings.
00:29:34.61\00:29:38.27
This is the imagery of His grand
and miraculous deliverance.
00:29:38.31\00:29:43.65
Now, what do you think of
when you think of something
00:29:43.68\00:29:46.04
that has wheels?
00:29:46.07\00:29:48.32
You think of a motorcycle,
a Porsche, a Corvette,
00:29:48.36\00:29:53.59
a Ferrari, I'll tell
you, my brother used to have
00:29:53.63\00:29:58.79
a Ford Fairlane, wasn't much
of a car, but at high school
00:29:58.83\00:30:02.18
in Galax, Virginia,
right after school he'd open
00:30:02.21\00:30:05.33
that thing up, and slip it into
1st gear and put the gas down
00:30:05.36\00:30:08.82
and you'd hear this screeching
sound and the smoke billowing
00:30:08.85\00:30:12.27
from it, and it
felt like a fiery chariot
00:30:12.30\00:30:14.98
moving across the
line, and they kicked him out
00:30:15.01\00:30:18.18
of school for that,
he's gone, got his GED,
00:30:18.21\00:30:21.57
that worked for him.
But we think of something
00:30:21.60\00:30:24.93
like that, but back then
in the days when the Bible
00:30:24.96\00:30:28.71
was written you'd think
of a chariot, wouldn't you?
00:30:28.74\00:30:31.54
If the pillar of fire
and cloud has wheels it means
00:30:31.57\00:30:34.33
it's God's chariot.
So what's going on here?
00:30:34.36\00:30:37.94
Let me give you some pictures
to help illustrate this:
00:30:37.97\00:30:41.40
here is the cover of the
Biblical Archaeology Review,
00:30:41.43\00:30:44.80
it shows God's throne
very similar to what you would
00:30:44.83\00:30:48.38
have found described in
Ezekiel 1, it has the composite
00:30:48.41\00:30:52.79
parts of an eagle, a man's
face, ox's tail, lion's body.
00:30:52.82\00:30:56.79
Let's go to the next slide,
here we have a Judean coin
00:30:56.82\00:31:00.76
dating to the time of
King Solomon, he broke
00:31:00.79\00:31:03.11
the second commandment to make
this coin, it shows a picture
00:31:03.14\00:31:06.53
of God's throne, God is
sitting on it, we see wheels
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.47
and then you see the
wings coming out, just like
00:31:09.50\00:31:13.45
Ezekiel pictures. So
in Ezekiel 1 God's throne
00:31:13.48\00:31:17.43
is described as a chariot.
Dear heart, that means that when
00:31:17.46\00:31:21.48
you're in trouble God
comes to you, it means that God
00:31:21.51\00:31:25.91
is not this aloof
deity that sits on a throne
00:31:25.94\00:31:28.31
that's stuck out there
somewhere and can never move.
00:31:28.34\00:31:31.96
According to the prophet
Ezekiel God rides the wings
00:31:31.99\00:31:34.89
of the cherubim, He comes
to His people when they need
00:31:34.92\00:31:37.78
to be encouraged, He
comes to you, as David said,
00:31:37.81\00:31:40.41
to pull you out of many waters.
00:31:40.44\00:31:43.86
So in the sanctuary what
does this chariot represent?
00:31:43.90\00:31:48.94
How does it correspond?
Turn to 1 Chronicles 28:18,
00:31:48.98\00:31:53.99
the Bible says: [text on screen]
00:31:55.11\00:31:57.79
The Ark of the
Covenant is God's chariot,
00:32:06.28\00:32:09.91
and that is in the
pillar of fire and cloud.
00:32:09.94\00:32:13.53
So what is this blue stone that
is picture there being with God
00:32:13.56\00:32:18.27
in the cloud on
Mt. Sinai, what is it?
00:32:18.30\00:32:21.35
We know the 10
commandments were taken from it
00:32:21.38\00:32:23.50
from the context of
Exodus 24, what in the world is
00:32:23.53\00:32:27.75
this blue sapphire stone?
00:32:27.78\00:32:30.29
The answer is in
Ezekiel 1:26: [text on screen]
00:32:30.33\00:32:34.24
Dear heart, the Bible
teaches that God carved
00:32:46.52\00:32:51.52
His 10 commandment law out
of the blue sapphire throne
00:32:51.56\00:32:57.13
of God, that's what it teaches,
00:32:57.16\00:33:00.64
and we know from Scripture
in Psalms 93:2, Hebrews 1:8,
00:33:00.68\00:33:04.85
that God's throne is eternal,
and if God's throne is eternal
00:33:04.88\00:33:08.90
that means that copy
of the law that was placed
00:33:08.93\00:33:12.62
on these 2 tables of
stone is eternal, it can never
00:33:12.65\00:33:16.30
be done away with,
it would be just as easy
00:33:16.33\00:33:19.39
to erase God's
throne from the universe.
00:33:19.42\00:33:22.41
Since God's throne is eternal,
the 10 commandments are eternal.
00:33:22.44\00:33:25.78
What are we going to do with it?
I want to show you a picture,
00:33:25.81\00:33:29.12
I had someone before
this meeting do me a favor
00:33:29.15\00:33:31.76
of painting this picture
for you, we really don't have
00:33:31.79\00:33:35.41
pictures of this in
the church, we should.
00:33:35.44\00:33:37.84
It's a picture of Jesus Christ,
our Lord and Saviour as God,
00:33:37.87\00:33:41.13
standing on that blue
sapphire stone, and you see
00:33:41.16\00:33:44.67
that there are cutaways in
it which has the commandments
00:33:44.70\00:33:47.84
taken out, and then the
full picture of Ezekiel 1
00:33:47.87\00:33:50.95
of the cherubim, and
then the torches underneath.
00:33:50.98\00:33:54.57
That is what is in the
pillar of fire and cloud,
00:33:54.60\00:33:58.12
and when Jesus Christ comes
back, that's what you're going
00:33:58.15\00:34:00.67
to see because that's
what appears in Ezekiel 1,
00:34:00.70\00:34:04.56
and the entire world will
see the law of God in the sky
00:34:04.59\00:34:09.70
according to the imagery of the
sanctuary, and they will know
00:34:09.74\00:34:13.93
that God's truth never changes,
that God's throne is eternal.
00:34:13.96\00:34:18.10
Now, is there any
evidence for this in antiquity?
00:34:18.13\00:34:19.96
Am I just dreaming this up,
or did people in ancient times
00:34:19.99\00:34:22.93
understand it? Yes
they did, the ancient Jewish
00:34:22.96\00:34:25.40
people rightly
understood this subject.
00:34:25.43\00:34:28.59
I'm reading from "The
Legend of the Jews", Vol 6,
00:34:28.62\00:34:31.09
by Louis Ginzberg,
page 49: [text on screen]
00:34:31.12\00:34:35.09
Again, Louis Ginzberg,
"The Legend of the Jews",
00:34:41.75\00:34:43.82
Vol 3, pages
118-119: [text on screen]
00:34:43.85\00:34:47.05
The ancient Jews read
their Old Testament well,
00:34:55.98\00:34:58.13
they understood what
it meant, and they knew
00:34:58.16\00:35:01.25
the 10 commandments
came from God's throne.
00:35:01.28\00:35:04.30
Every Jew wore special clothing,
in fact, we know from Scripture
00:35:04.33\00:35:09.40
they had tassels, 4 tassels at
the corners of their clothing.
00:35:09.43\00:35:14.44
They were meant to
teach them to do something
00:35:14.48\00:35:16.71
and we know that the law
of God came from the throne
00:35:16.74\00:35:19.59
of God based on this
instruction that God gave:
00:35:19.62\00:35:22.02
Numbers 15:37: [text on screen]
00:35:22.05\00:35:24.96
This was well meaning, but
you notice these commandments
00:35:59.39\00:36:01.41
are brown, they're
supposed to be blue.
00:36:01.44\00:36:06.61
That blue tassel
represents God's law.
00:36:06.64\00:36:11.77
No matter where they
went they were not to walk
00:36:11.81\00:36:14.38
outside of God's law.
By faith in God they were
00:36:14.41\00:36:16.93
to live for God
and keep His holy word.
00:36:16.96\00:36:20.27
So far we have
learned the children of Israel
00:36:20.31\00:36:23.23
were led by God in the
pillar of fire and cloud.
00:36:23.26\00:36:26.09
In the pillar of fire and
cloud there was a moving rock,
00:36:26.12\00:36:29.72
which we have identified
as God's blue sapphire throne,
00:36:29.75\00:36:33.02
and Paul says very
plainly that Israel was baptized
00:36:33.05\00:36:36.29
into the sea and into the cloud.
00:36:36.32\00:36:39.64
So inquiring minds want
to know: how in the world
00:36:39.68\00:36:43.06
were they
baptized into that cloud?
00:36:43.09\00:36:46.34
Well, let's find out, Exodus
17, here we have the story.
00:36:46.38\00:36:49.96
They're coming through
the wilderness on their way
00:36:49.99\00:36:51.81
to Mt. Sinai.
They come to Rephidim,
00:36:51.84\00:36:54.71
they're tired, they're
worn out, they're thirsty.
00:36:54.74\00:36:56.96
They cry out to
Moses and to God, they say:
00:36:56.99\00:36:59.75
"Moses, you brought us out
here to just let us drop dead"
00:36:59.78\00:37:04.26
"in the middle of the
desert, we want water. "
00:37:04.29\00:37:07.81
And Moses says: "They're
threatening to kill me God,"
00:37:07.84\00:37:10.48
"what should I do?"
In verse 5 this is what
00:37:10.51\00:37:13.15
God said: "And the Lord
said to Moses, Pass on before"
00:37:13.18\00:37:16.50
"the people, taking with you
some of the elders of Israel,"
00:37:16.53\00:37:19.89
"and take in your hand
the rod with which you struck"
00:37:19.92\00:37:22.11
"the Nile and go, and behold,
"I will stand before you there"
00:37:22.14\00:37:25.80
"on the rock," - literally
in the Hebrew, "bahar",
00:37:25.83\00:37:30.68
"in Horeb, in Mt. Sinai."
So God is staying on stone
00:37:30.72\00:37:37.16
in Mt. Sinai, we've already
learned in Exodus 24:10-12
00:37:37.20\00:37:43.61
that that stone is
blue sapphire. And He says:
00:37:43.64\00:37:46.13
"Go and strike that rock
and water shall come out of it"
00:37:46.16\00:37:50.40
"that the people may
drink. " This was not a small
00:37:50.43\00:37:53.21
little specced, this
wasn't a little creek,
00:37:53.24\00:37:55.39
according to Psalms 105:41,
this was a river of water
00:37:55.42\00:38:00.15
that opened, a river
of life for God's people
00:38:00.18\00:38:03.66
in the desert.
The Amalekites saw
00:38:03.69\00:38:06.45
the waterhole, and if you
were in the middle of the desert
00:38:06.49\00:38:08.63
and you knew that this
little rag tag group of people
00:38:08.66\00:38:12.67
had a river of water
coming to them, wouldn't you
00:38:12.70\00:38:16.67
want to take
over the real estate?
00:38:16.70\00:38:17.94
That's exactly what
they did, they attacked them,
00:38:17.97\00:38:20.29
and we know that Moses
raised his hands to God
00:38:20.32\00:38:22.56
and prayed, and when he raised
his hands and they were praying,
00:38:22.59\00:38:26.17
he was winning, but
when his hands fell down
00:38:26.20\00:38:27.72
they began to lose the
battle. So what happened was
00:38:27.75\00:38:30.38
they held his
hands up until they won.
00:38:30.41\00:38:32.59
At the end of this battle
we have a verse which tells us
00:38:32.62\00:38:35.61
what was going on.
Exodus 17:15-16 [text on screen]
00:38:35.64\00:38:39.85
That's not a
very good translation,
00:38:53.31\00:38:56.25
the Hebrew is
literally "Ki yad al kes ya",
00:38:56.29\00:39:02.85
"for a hand" - singular - "was
upon the throne of the Lord."
00:39:02.89\00:39:09.53
What it's saying is
Moses took his scepter
00:39:09.56\00:39:11.25
and he struck the
throne of God and that's where
00:39:11.28\00:39:14.23
the water came, and
when he prayed, that's where
00:39:14.26\00:39:17.18
the power came,
because his hand was upon
00:39:17.21\00:39:20.39
the throne of God.
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.81
It's not just an ordinary
little stream that opens up,
00:39:22.85\00:39:26.73
the first river created to
give life is the river of life,
00:39:26.76\00:39:30.58
and ever after in Scripture,
the river of that comes
00:39:30.61\00:39:33.12
to help you live is the
river of life, that's why
00:39:33.15\00:39:36.43
in Revelation 22:1 the
Bible says the river of life
00:39:36.46\00:39:39.67
flows from the throne of
God, and the throne of the Lamb,
00:39:39.70\00:39:43.80
it's the same river.
Moses struck the rock
00:39:43.83\00:39:46.89
the first time, he was told
in Numbers 20 not to strike it
00:39:46.92\00:39:50.03
the second time. The
pillar of fire and cloud
00:39:50.06\00:39:53.07
came down in that
chapter and rested right there
00:39:53.10\00:39:56.17
at the door, and then
God, who was in that pillar
00:39:56.20\00:39:59.18
of fire and cloud, with
the blue sapphire stone,
00:39:59.21\00:40:03.25
spoke to Moses and He
said: "Moses, tell the rock"
00:40:03.28\00:40:07.31
"that is before them to give
up its water", and Moses began
00:40:07.34\00:40:11.92
to think a lot of himself, he
began to get egotistical inside,
00:40:11.95\00:40:16.49
he thought that maybe it
was his power that had brought
00:40:16.52\00:40:19.33
that water out, so
instead of speaking to the rock,
00:40:19.36\00:40:22.65
he took his rod, right
there at the door of the temple,
00:40:22.68\00:40:25.94
and he struck the
rock. Now think about that,
00:40:25.97\00:40:29.87
how many of you feel
comfortable taking your fist
00:40:29.90\00:40:33.83
and hitting the throne of God?
00:40:33.86\00:40:36.67
It would be a difficult
thing to do, wouldn't it?
00:40:36.71\00:40:38.96
What should have
happened to Moses when he that?
00:40:38.99\00:40:41.75
He should have died on
the spot, but God's mercy
00:40:41.78\00:40:44.44
intervened and said:
"No, Moses, I'm not going"
00:40:44.47\00:40:47.05
"to take you life, I know
you did this out of weakness,"
00:40:47.08\00:40:49.62
"but you're not going
to the Promised Land,"
00:40:49.65\00:40:52.33
"you have destroyed the
lesson that this rock must only"
00:40:52.36\00:40:55.68
"be hit once, and after
that you talk to the rock"
00:40:55.71\00:40:59.69
"and power and life
flows from the rock to you. "
00:40:59.72\00:41:03.62
Moses should have died, he
did not because of God's mercy.
00:41:03.65\00:41:06.93
In Ezekiel 47, Ezekiel
sees water flowing from the door
00:41:06.96\00:41:10.20
of the sanctuary, and
he takes a measuring rod,
00:41:10.23\00:41:13.77
he measures it.
First it's ankle deep,
00:41:13.80\00:41:15.36
then knee deep, then waist deep.
He's running along, and as he's
00:41:15.39\00:41:19.20
running along it
gets over his head.
00:41:19.23\00:41:22.04
He notices that wherever the
river goes, the water transforms
00:41:22.07\00:41:25.80
the dead waters that are beside
it so that it becomes alive
00:41:25.83\00:41:29.53
with fish, and trees
begin to pop up, and then
00:41:29.56\00:41:32.41
in Ezekiel 47:19 this is
what he says: [text on screen]
00:41:32.44\00:41:36.99
We know where that river
went. It says very clearly
00:41:50.23\00:41:53.91
it went to the Dead
Sea, the Sea of the Arabah.
00:41:53.94\00:41:58.00
It went to the
lowest spot on planet earth.
00:41:58.03\00:42:00.99
Dear heart, maybe
you came here tonight,
00:42:01.02\00:42:03.88
maybe you're watching
tonight, and you're just afraid
00:42:03.91\00:42:06.36
to tell your friends and
your neighbors that you live
00:42:06.39\00:42:08.80
at the lowest
spot on planet earth.
00:42:08.83\00:42:11.03
Maybe you're struggling
with divorce, maybe you're life
00:42:11.06\00:42:13.75
is falling apart inside
your church, and all your
00:42:13.78\00:42:15.66
religious friends don't know
you're hurting, but you know
00:42:15.69\00:42:18.13
you're hurting, and
you live in the Dead Sea,
00:42:18.16\00:42:21.10
the lowest spot on planet earth,
that's where that river goes.
00:42:21.13\00:42:25.43
I have a picture of the Dead
Sea here, let's just show it
00:42:25.46\00:42:27.95
to you, a man is reading a
newspaper floating in the middle
00:42:27.98\00:42:30.43
of that salty sea.
Maybe you read your newspapers
00:42:30.46\00:42:33.53
every morning, the
lowest spot on planet earth,
00:42:33.56\00:42:36.55
you get up, you get the paper,
you go through the rat race
00:42:36.58\00:42:39.30
of life, but deep inside
there's no meaning for you
00:42:39.33\00:42:42.68
because there's no
living water for you.
00:42:42.71\00:42:45.18
But the good news is that water
comes to you where you are at,
00:42:45.21\00:42:48.73
it comes to you in
your need and your problem,
00:42:48.76\00:42:50.60
and God's life is for
you. So we have learned so far
00:42:50.63\00:42:53.88
that the 10 commandment
law was taken physically
00:42:53.91\00:42:57.07
from the blue sapphire
stone. We've also learned
00:42:57.10\00:43:00.18
that the blue stone represents
God's throne, Moses struck
00:43:00.21\00:43:03.74
the throne and water came
from the rock so the people
00:43:03.77\00:43:07.26
could live, so not
only is this rock the source
00:43:07.29\00:43:10.62
of moral certainty, the
10 commandments, this rock
00:43:10.65\00:43:14.64
is the source of living
water, the river of life.
00:43:14.67\00:43:17.98
Paul tells us in 1
Corinthians 10:4 that Israel
00:43:18.01\00:43:21.87
drank from a supernatural
rock that followed them,
00:43:21.90\00:43:26.12
and that rock was Christ.
Notice what he doesn't say:
00:43:26.15\00:43:30.40
he doesn't say they
drank from some common rock
00:43:30.43\00:43:32.68
they found in the side
of a cliff, he doesn't say
00:43:32.71\00:43:35.26
they drank from a rock
that was in the desert,
00:43:35.29\00:43:37.76
it was a supernatural rock.
Now a supernatural rock flies,
00:43:37.79\00:43:42.01
a supernatural rock is in
a pillar of fire and cloud,
00:43:42.04\00:43:45.28
a supernatural rock
is blue sapphire stone
00:43:45.31\00:43:47.57
and God is standing on it,
that's what he's talking about.
00:43:47.60\00:43:50.24
They drank from a supernatural
rock that followed them,
00:43:50.27\00:43:52.88
and that rock was
Christ. Dear heart,
00:43:52.91\00:43:58.24
in the divine
economy, the rock is not dead,
00:43:58.28\00:44:02.00
the rock is alive, the
rock is a living stone,
00:44:02.03\00:44:05.35
it is precious in
God's eyes, and for those
00:44:05.38\00:44:08.60
who disobey, it becomes a
rock of stumbling, but for those
00:44:08.63\00:44:12.04
who chose God and seek His
spirit, it becomes a source
00:44:12.07\00:44:15.45
of everlasting life,
the rock is a person.
00:44:15.48\00:44:18.93
Deuteronomy 32:4, the
Bible says: [text on screen]
00:44:18.97\00:44:23.04
In the context, Moses
is describing the Exodus,
00:44:33.19\00:44:36.65
in the context we will
see he's describing the time
00:44:36.68\00:44:40.08
when the rock was
smitten in the desert,
00:44:40.11\00:44:41.89
look at Deuteronomy
32:13,14: [text on screen]
00:44:41.92\00:44:47.17
Notice what we have in this
verse, he opened up the rock
00:45:07.61\00:45:10.82
in the wilderness
and what did he have?
00:45:10.85\00:45:13.02
Lambs, rams and
goats. What do they use
00:45:13.05\00:45:15.15
lambs, rams and goats for?
These are sacrificial animals.
00:45:15.18\00:45:18.57
So when that rock was hit
in the desert it represented
00:45:18.60\00:45:21.95
something in the
future that would die for you,
00:45:21.98\00:45:26.28
a sacrificial act.
Notice what else came out:
00:45:26.32\00:45:30.58
"the blood of the grape",
he uses the word "blood".
00:45:30.62\00:45:34.20
According to ancient
Jewish tradition, the target
00:45:34.23\00:45:37.63
Jonathan based on this,
blood and water came out
00:45:37.66\00:45:40.98
of the rock when Moses struck
it, it's based on this verse.
00:45:41.01\00:45:44.75
Notice that God uses
sacrificial imagery to describe
00:45:44.78\00:45:48.24
striking the rock in the desert.
00:45:48.27\00:45:51.64
There was a ceremony at
the great Feast of Tabernacles
00:45:51.68\00:45:55.93
where the priest
would come up to the altar,
00:45:55.96\00:45:59.88
2 silver tubes at the
altar, and he would take
00:45:59.91\00:46:03.79
a flagon of crystal clear
water, a flagon of blood red
00:46:03.83\00:46:07.76
grape juice and he would
pour them into the 2 tubes,
00:46:07.79\00:46:10.93
they would go underneath
the altar, and then down
00:46:10.96\00:46:14.03
to the Gihon, which was a
spring underneath the temple
00:46:14.06\00:46:17.67
mount, to the Kidron, all
the way down to the Jordan,
00:46:17.70\00:46:21.05
which flowed down to the
Dead Sea, the lowest spot
00:46:21.08\00:46:24.39
on planet earth, and
it was to commemorate
00:46:24.42\00:46:27.21
the striking of the rock in
the wilderness that the priest
00:46:27.24\00:46:29.77
did this, it was the
last great day of the feast
00:46:29.80\00:46:33.80
and according to John
7:37: [text on screen]
00:46:33.84\00:46:37.84
Christ said: "I am the rock,
I am the source of the water"
00:47:00.54\00:47:05.14
"that Moses received in the
desert, I am the fulfillment"
00:47:05.17\00:47:09.72
"of what all of this
means, and if you're thirsty"
00:47:09.75\00:47:13.70
"you come to Me, and I
have water from the rock. "
00:47:13.73\00:47:17.61
We come to the cross, that's
where all prophecy converges.
00:47:17.64\00:47:22.00
We come to the cross
where the prophecies meet,
00:47:22.03\00:47:25.47
and Jesus Christ has just
died for your sins and mine,
00:47:25.50\00:47:29.46
He has just hung between
heaven and hell for you and me,
00:47:29.49\00:47:32.82
and all of the good of God
was crucified on that cross
00:47:32.85\00:47:36.41
so that your sins could be
atoned for, and as that Roman
00:47:36.44\00:47:40.20
centurion takes his spear
in John 19:34, it tells us
00:47:40.23\00:47:43.95
what happened: [text on screen]
00:47:43.98\00:47:46.95
And suddenly the prophecy is
fulfilled, suddenly the metaphor
00:47:51.76\00:47:56.29
becomes material,
suddenly the type meets antitype
00:47:56.32\00:48:00.04
because there is the rock
of ages cleft for me and you,
00:48:00.07\00:48:04.79
dying, 2 streams of
blood and water for you and me.
00:48:04.82\00:48:09.53
The blood represents
justification by faith,
00:48:09.56\00:48:11.98
Christ died so you can
be forgiven, and the water
00:48:12.01\00:48:15.49
represents the Holy
Spirit, you talk to the rock,
00:48:15.52\00:48:18.95
you pray for guidance,
you ask for the Holy Spirit,
00:48:18.98\00:48:22.61
it comes from Jesus to
you to clean your life up.
00:48:22.64\00:48:26.20
Blood to forgive and water of
cleanse came from Jesus' side.
00:48:26.23\00:48:30.20
There is a text in Revelation
7 that pulls it together,
00:48:30.23\00:48:33.78
it says: "And they shall
hunger no more, neither thirst"
00:48:33.81\00:48:37.32
"anymore, the sun shall
not strike them, nor any"
00:48:37.35\00:48:39.71
"scorching heat for the
Lamb in the midst of the throne"
00:48:39.74\00:48:43.96
"will be their shepherd, and
He will guide them to springs"
00:48:43.99\00:48:48.17
"of living water and God
will wipe away every tear"
00:48:48.20\00:48:51.57
"from their eyes. "
The center of God's reality
00:48:51.60\00:48:55.31
is Jesus Christ, the
law came from Jesus Christ,
00:48:55.34\00:48:58.97
Christ is that living stone,
you can't speak of the law
00:48:59.00\00:49:02.51
being against Christ and
be true to the Scriptures,
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law and gospel meet in
the person of Jesus Christ,
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the one who died
because the law was broken
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is the one who is in fact
the law giver, the law came
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from His mind, and that's
why all 3 of these images merge;
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the 10 commandments
came from the blue stone,
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the river of life, the
Holy Spirit, comes from
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the blue stone, and the living
stone is in fact Jesus Christ.
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Jairus' daughter had
just died, he was heartbroken,
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they called for
Jesus. Remember the story?
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As they called for
Jesus He heard and says
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"Yes, I'll go. "
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And as He was going,
He knew, because He's God,
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but there was a
woman who had been unclean,
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she had a flow of
blood for many years,
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according to rabbinical
law she should be executed
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if she touched
anyone. She tried many doctors
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and could not be healed,
and she was seeking life,
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and salvation, and
grace, and she couldn't find it
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anywhere, and she saw Jesus,
and she knew who Jesus was,
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and the Bible says in
Luke 8:43: [text on screen]
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Maybe that's how you feel, like
you can't be healed by anyone,
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[continues to read text]
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That word "fringe" is
"kraspedon", the Greek,
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and it means "tassel", she
reached out and grabbed the blue
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sapphire tassel of
Jesus' garment, she knew what
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it meant, she knew it meant
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the throne of God, she knew
that all authority in heaven
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and earth was
symbolized by that blue tassel,
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and she knew that Jesus
Christ is the living stone,
00:50:39.26\00:50:42.14
and when she
grabbed that blue tassel,
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the life giving power of
God flowed from the rock,
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Jesus Christ, directly into her
and she was healed instantly.
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Dear heart, you don't
have to reform your life,
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you don't have to figure
out how to get good with God,
00:50:55.54\00:50:58.76
the Bible is clear, that
when that river is opened up,
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when you reach out and
you touch Jesus Christ,
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God allows infinite, omnipotent
power to come from Jesus,
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through the Holy Spirit, to you,
00:51:08.91\00:51:10.83
to fix you up, to make you
obedient to the law of God.
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She reached out and
touched Jesus' tassel.
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When I was in Bangalore, India,
I was holding that evangelistic
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meeting, a young girl came
up at the end of my presentation
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on the blue stone and she said
"Pastor Mike, I have the same"
00:51:27.19\00:51:31.38
"problem as the
woman in the story."
00:51:31.41\00:51:33.66
"I have a flow of blood
and no one has been able"
00:51:33.69\00:51:36.61
"to heal me." She
said: "Pastor Mike,"
00:51:36.64\00:51:41.14
"if you prayed for me, and
if the elders prayed for me,"
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"do you think I could be
healed?". I said: "Sister,"
00:51:43.40\00:51:45.53
"I can't heal you,
Jesus can heal you."
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We gathered
together as a group of elders
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and we bowed our head,
I remember very distinctly
00:51:50.67\00:51:53.74
as she was praying she
was saying: "Dear God,"
00:51:53.77\00:51:57.87
"as in the story heal
me too, I need to be clean"
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"on the inside, this problem
I have makes me feel bad. "
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"Dear God heal me", and
the little children prayed,
00:52:07.17\00:52:09.75
and the elders prayed together,
and by faith she reached out
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and touched the blue
tassel, and when she touched
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that blue tassel by faith,
the Holy Spirit healed her.
00:52:16.77\00:52:21.21
She came back to the
meeting the following night,
00:52:21.24\00:52:23.44
she says: "I've been
healed." I know this story
00:52:23.47\00:52:25.57
is not just a story, the
same Christ who did it then
00:52:25.60\00:52:29.51
can do it today.
Maybe you live in the lowest
00:52:29.54\00:52:33.20
spot on planet earth, maybe you
feel like no one can reach you,
00:52:33.23\00:52:37.94
you need to understand this,
that Jesus Christ is the law
00:52:37.97\00:52:41.27
and if Christ wants to make you
clean, He can make you clean.
00:52:41.30\00:52:44.57
He's not asking for a
complicated fix for your life,
00:52:44.60\00:52:47.77
He's simply asking you
to take your hand by faith,
00:52:47.80\00:52:51.94
to reach up to Him, to
pray to Him, seize the tassel
00:52:51.97\00:52:56.07
and ask Him to make you clean
and you will be made clean.
00:52:56.10\00:53:02.23
Rock of Ages cleft for me,
00:53:18.25\00:53:28.83
let me hide myself in Thee.
00:53:28.87\00:53:38.79
Let the water and the blood
00:53:38.83\00:53:48.68
from Thy wounded
side which flowed
00:53:48.72\00:53:57.70
be for sin a double cure,
00:53:57.73\00:54:06.19
cleanse me from
its guilt and power.
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For He is Lord, He is Lord.
00:54:17.52\00:54:34.13
He has risen from
the dead and He is Lord.
00:54:34.17\00:54:50.35
Every knee shall
bow, every tongue confess
00:54:50.39\00:55:06.54
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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You all know that chorus,
would you help me sing it,
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would you please?
00:55:18.99\00:55:20.39
For He is Lord, yes
worship Him tonight,
00:55:20.43\00:55:28.59
He is Lord.
00:55:28.62\00:55:35.56
And He has risen from
the dead and He is Lord.
00:55:35.60\00:55:50.50
Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess
00:55:50.54\00:56:05.41
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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Sing it with me again.
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For He is Lord, He is Lord.
00:56:19.37\00:56:34.90
He has risen from
the dead and He is Lord.
00:56:34.94\00:56:49.76
Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess
00:56:49.80\00:57:04.59
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
00:57:04.62\00:57:19.54
Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess
00:57:19.58\00:57:36.41
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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Amen.
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