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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW190026A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:27 Let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:11 We're so glad that you joined us. 01:13 You know, we're gonna have a really exciting hour here 01:16 in God's Word. 01:17 And we want you to get your Bible 01:18 and get some things out so you can study along with us. 01:21 We have looked at it 01:22 and we are excited about this topic. 01:25 This is a second part, by the way. 01:26 If you missed the first, you know, 01:28 you might be missing out a little bit, 01:30 but we're going to go over those things 01:32 in just a moment. 01:33 Excuse me. 01:35 But we're going to be looking at restitution of all things. 01:39 And other word for restitution is restoration? 01:42 Restoration of all things. 01:44 So praise the Lord for that. 01:46 But I think first of all, 01:47 it'll be good to introduce everyone 01:49 and then we're going to go back 01:50 and then we're going to have prayer 01:52 and then we're going to have some special music. 01:53 So on my right, Dr. J.D. Quinn. 01:56 Good to have you. It's my pleasure. 01:58 It's always fun to talk about restoration or restitution, 02:02 that's a big word for a Texas boy. 02:03 Yes. That's right. 02:04 That's right. Restitution. 02:06 Amen. Praise the Lord. 02:07 We're glad you've taken time to be with us today, 02:09 and we praise God for you. 02:10 And I'm Kenny Shelton, 02:12 and on my left is my wife Chris Shelton. 02:13 Hello! Yeah. 02:15 And on your left, we have Brother Ryan Day. 02:17 Amen. It's always good. 02:18 I know you're busy all the time. 02:20 Man, hey, busy in the Lord, brother, but it's good. 02:23 It's kind of hard to turn it down 02:24 even though you're busy 02:25 to be able to say with due season. 02:27 I have lot of passion for the gospel. 02:28 That's right. 02:29 And the good news is that Jesus is not busy working. 02:31 It's a holy work, exciting work, 02:33 and I'm excited to be able to do it with you guys. 02:34 Yeah. Oh, praise the Lord. 02:35 We're always glad to have you. And, Brother Don Owens. 02:37 Yes, sir. Glad to have you. 02:38 We miss your wife today, but we're glad to have you. 02:40 She's a little busy. I like it. 02:42 There's another word you can add in is recovery. 02:44 Okay, yes. Recovery. 02:46 Yeah, I like the word recovery. 02:47 I want to be recovered so... 02:48 Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 02:50 Why don't we sing in a little 02:52 while we have our piano player there, 02:53 Summer Boyd, 02:55 we're so glad that you've come in 02:56 and playing the piano for us. 02:57 It makes us so nice and so wonderful. 02:59 We praise God for that. 03:01 But before we have the song, 03:02 I think it'd be nice if we pray. 03:03 I know before I sing, I need to pray. 03:05 Oh, absolutely. First we need to pray. 03:08 Yes. 03:09 Brother, J.D., how about you start off the prayer, please? 03:12 Father, as we come to You on this Sabbath day, 03:14 we just want to thank You, Lord, 03:15 for Your many, many blessings. 03:17 Lord, we thank You that we can come before You 03:20 and just give You permission, Lord, 03:23 to be in charge of this time tonight. 03:28 And, Father, that we will be able 03:30 to undo these things. 03:31 And, Father, that it will make sense 03:33 to each of us. 03:34 And thank You, Lord, that we have people 03:36 that we're sharing 03:37 with our brothers and sisters in Christ Lord. 03:40 And, Father, we do submit our lives 03:42 and our energies to you. 03:44 We ask this in the name of Jesus. 03:46 Amen. Amen. Amen. 03:48 Okay, Brother Ryan, 03:49 you're gonna lead us on this music, aren't you? 03:51 We're going to sing good old fashioned. 03:53 I like this. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. 03:55 Perfect song for this particular topic. 03:57 Amen. 03:59 You guys got to sing out loud for me. 04:00 Amen, amen. 04:03 O soul, are you weary and troubled? 04:10 No light in the darkness as you see? 04:18 There's life for a look at the Savior 04:25 And life more abundant and free 04:33 Turn your eye upon Jesus 04:39 Look full in His wonderful face 04:46 And the things of earth will grow strangely dim 04:54 In the light of His glory and grace 05:02 Through death into life everlasting 05:09 He passed, and we follow Him there 05:16 Over us sin more hath dominion 05:24 For more than conquerors we are 05:31 Turn your eyes upon Jesus 05:38 Look full into His wonderful face 05:45 And the things of earth will grow strangely dim 05:53 In the light of His glory 05:58 And grace 06:02 Amen. Thank you so much. Amen. 06:03 Such a wonderful choice, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. 06:07 We're going to encourage you to do that as we study, 06:09 turn your eye upon Jesus. 06:11 And again, we're going to be getting 06:13 to restitution of all things. 06:14 And we started on our first part, 06:16 and I think it will be good to go over 06:17 just for some quick things 06:19 that we covered the first in case, 06:20 so no one's lost as we go into the study. 06:22 And we had a wonderful, I call it a memory verse, 06:25 foundation scripture. 06:27 Would you read that for us? Oh, absolutely. 06:28 From the Book of Acts Chapter 3. 06:30 Get your Bible, Acts 3:19-21. 06:34 Yes. I love this scripture 06:35 This is good. 06:37 It reads, "Repent ye therefore and be converted, 06:40 that your sins may be blotted out, 06:42 when the times of refreshing shall come 06:45 from the presence of the Lord, 06:47 and He shall send Jesus Christ, 06:49 which before was preached unto you, 06:52 whom the heaven must receive..." 06:53 Now this what really stuck out 06:56 when I read this a few weeks ago. 06:58 "Whom the heaven must receive 06:59 until the times of restitution of all things, 07:04 which God has spoken 07:05 by the mouth of His holy prophets 07:07 since the world began." 07:09 Wonderful, you made a point I think is very interesting, 07:12 the fact that it's in our notes here, 07:14 "Restoration of something lost or stolen 07:18 to its proper owner." 07:20 I like that, God said, "I'm going to give it back." 07:22 But I kind of had a thought along those lines. 07:25 And I said, you know, 07:26 did the enemy really steal this earth 07:29 or did he win this earth? 07:31 Right. 07:32 I mean, it's something we need to think about 07:34 'cause I thought he's never been fair, 07:35 he's never told the truth, 07:37 he's never been right, he's a liar, 07:38 he's a deceiver, he's a fraud. 07:39 That's right 07:41 And still yet, 07:42 as he took the world over 07:44 because man chose to follow him. 07:46 That's right. 07:48 So something that's been challenged here 07:51 is as we look at it. 07:53 The world was, you know, the enemy says it's mine. 07:56 That's right. It's actually stolen though. 07:58 Stolen, really? It's actually. 08:00 Wouldn't be because of the premise 08:02 in which he received it, he deceived, didn't he? 08:04 He started out as a deception and he took it, 08:06 so praise God we look at our study. 08:09 Jesus said, "I'm going to restore all things." 08:12 And I just kind of wondered, 08:13 we talked about it in our first lesson, 08:16 what's all things? 08:18 How far does that go, somebody have an idea? 08:20 What's our thoughts? All things. 08:22 Well, the saying that did really confuses 08:24 a lot of people, if God's God, 08:27 how could He allow that to even happen? 08:28 Yeah. Well. 08:30 I mean, yeah. 08:32 Well as far as that particular question. 08:34 In a sense, he won it, 08:37 because he was able to deceive and we gave it to him. 08:40 Amen. We gave it to him. 08:41 But the beautiful thing is, 08:43 God gave us a pattern, 08:45 He gave us a pattern back to salvation, back to Him, 08:48 a way of restitution or restoration. 08:52 And as I've been studying this over and over, 08:55 because it always amazed me, 08:56 when we do evangelistic series 08:59 throughout the different dispensations of history, 09:02 we'll talk about the present truth for that time. 09:04 And what it is, 09:06 is God restoring what was taken away. 09:10 You see the devil himself in heaven was Lucifer, 09:13 and what was Lucifer? 09:14 He was covering cherub over the law of God. 09:19 And if he was protecting the law, 09:22 he lived the law. 09:24 But pretty soon he began to go around to the other angels 09:26 and say, "Hey, we can be holy, 09:30 we don't need God to be holy. 09:32 We can be holy on earth." 09:33 You know he didn't go and say, 09:35 "Hey, Brother Ryan, you want to be evil?" 09:37 Yeah. 09:38 "Let's be evil, let's challenge Him." 09:40 No, he deceived them 09:42 and so that's how he won third of the angels. 09:45 So God gave us this pattern 09:47 and the more I look at it, the more I see 09:49 that it's somewhat infinite in its study. 09:52 I don't think we can ever come to a complete conclusion 09:56 as we go through each article of the sanctuary, 09:59 you know the laver, 10:02 the altar of sacrifice, the table of showbread, 10:05 the incense, the light stand, the holy of holies 10:09 that contains the Ark of the Covenant, 10:11 I don't think we'll ever exhaust that study. 10:14 But it's so neat when we begin to see 10:17 that the enemy attacked that pattern... 10:22 That's right. Absolutely. 10:23 Because that pattern represents God... 10:25 Absolutely. 10:26 And that pattern contained the Ten Commandments. 10:28 And so because he's brought in 10:31 just little bits and pieces of deception 10:33 throughout the ages, 10:34 God is just so wise, He's so encompassing 10:37 that through each dispensation He began to restore. 10:41 And that's what we talked about on our first lesson 10:44 was the restoration of the Word of God. 10:45 Sure. Amen. 10:47 Because I think we're all on agreement, right? 10:48 That the Word of God was covered up. 10:51 Sure, absolutely. 10:53 Yeah, and so God said, basically I'm going to what? 10:55 Brother Ryan, is uncovered. 10:57 Yeah, absolutely. 10:59 I think, you know, we're taking this approach 11:01 through the pattern of the sanctuary 11:02 which is very appropriate, genius. 11:05 Because that's exactly what the Bible is best patterned 11:07 after this blueprint of the sanctuary. 11:10 And one for, you know, just for our viewer at home, 11:11 there may be someone asking 11:13 that's tuning in for the first time 11:14 asking why the sanctuary? 11:15 Why would you approach this topic 11:17 from the point of the sanctuary? 11:19 If you think about it logically, 11:20 the Bible always explains itself... 11:22 Oh, absolutely. 11:23 There's a couple of scriptures really quickly... 11:24 The Bible says, "All we like sheep 11:26 have gone astray. 11:28 Every man went his own way." 11:32 When we take our way out of the way of Christ, 11:36 into our own way, then we become lost sheep. 11:39 We become, walking into a direction 11:41 that is not towards heaven but towards destruction. 11:44 And so we went, everyone on our own way. 11:47 When Jesus shows up, Jesus say, "Look, I am the..." 11:50 Way. "I am the way." 11:52 you want to be saying, I am the way. 11:54 I am the door. 11:55 If you want to walk through that door, 11:57 there's only one way in. 11:59 And so Christ is the way. 12:00 Now, we take that a step further, 12:02 Psalm 77:13 says, 12:04 "Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary." 12:08 Is Christ in the sanctuary? Yes. 12:10 Christ in His way of righteousness 12:12 is found in the sanctuary. 12:14 So that's why we're approaching this 12:15 from the sanctuary because the sanctuary 12:16 is the blueprint of salvation. 12:18 Well, and we often think, 12:20 and you just opened up a can of worms 12:22 'cause last night when I was going through 12:24 this right at the end, 12:25 it's like the Lord just turned on a light bulb 12:27 and I started writing here and then I thought, 12:29 no, I better get up my computer. 12:31 And then when I printed, I printed so... 12:33 It's such tiny, 12:34 I really need a two pair of glasses to see it. 12:36 But it was so neat, 12:38 because often we think 12:40 of the different pieces of furniture 12:43 represent a different dispensations, 12:45 different things that are being restored, 12:47 different time periods. 12:49 Some people can take the Old Testament, 12:51 and even the teachings of Christ 12:53 and apply them to those pieces of sanctuary. 12:56 But all of a sudden last night I thought, 12:59 Jesus is the door of tabernacle. 13:02 That's right. 13:03 You know it says that He had the key of David, 13:05 He says, "I am the way as you said the truth, 13:07 and the life no one comes to the Father but by me." 13:10 Jesus is the altar of sacrifice. 13:14 The Bible says in 1 John 3:16, 13:17 "He laid down His life for us, behold the name of God." 13:20 We find that in John 1:29, "Jesus is the laver." 13:25 He is the laver." 13:26 "Wash Me and I will be whiter than snow." 13:29 We find that in Psalms 51:7. 13:31 I've to write these down, 13:33 because I am not able to regurgitate quite as well. 13:36 "And then wash away thy sins." 13:39 We find that in Acts 22:16. 13:41 So even though, or let me just keep going. 13:45 "Jesus is the showbread," John 6:35. 13:49 It says, "I am the bread of life. 13:51 He that cometh to Me shall never hunger." 13:53 Oh, I'm telling you 13:55 as these passages came last night, 13:57 it was just so... 13:58 It filled me up. It was so beautiful. 14:01 It says, "Jesus is the seven-branched candlestick." 14:05 "I Am," He says in John 8:12, 14:08 "I am the light of the world, the light of life." 14:11 "Jesus is the altar of incense," 14:14 1 Timothy 2:25. 14:17 "He is the mediator between God and man." 14:20 He is that incense. The only mediator. 14:22 That's right. Thank you. 14:24 "Jesus is the Ark of the Covenant. 14:26 The law was contained 14:28 inside of His mind and His heart." 14:31 And it says in Romans 8:7, 14:34 "Carnal mind is enmity against God: 14:36 for it is not subject to the law of God." 14:39 "The law of God is in His heart," 14:42 Psalms 37:31. 14:44 So truly restitution of all things 14:48 is the restoration of God, 14:53 in our hearts, and in our mind. 14:55 It is actually putting the pieces 14:57 that the enemy stole back together... 15:01 Wow. Which is also in Christ Jesus. 15:03 Those are the foundations of everything 15:06 that we'll discuss more. 15:08 So let's not forget these things, 15:09 at home you're jotting down quickly. 15:11 Because we want to go into, maybe more depth as we go. 15:14 But, man, that's a good overall projection of it. 15:17 It's really good. 15:19 And it's good to see you excited. 15:20 Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. 15:22 Oh, well, it's just so beautiful 15:24 when you begin to dissect and put this together, 15:27 it's just like, wow! 15:29 You know, why didn't we see that years ago. 15:30 But the more we look at it, the more we see, 15:33 the more the curtain, you know is rolled back. 15:36 And we're in that time in world's history 15:39 when we need this pattern more than ever. 15:41 Because we need to be putting these things 15:44 into our hearts and into our minds 15:46 and fully reflect, remember Jesus said, 15:48 "Let this mind be in you which is in Christ Jesus." 15:52 You know, so we need a mind of God, 15:54 we need to be praying about that, 15:56 and we need to be able to share these things. 15:58 And say here, 16:00 "This is the pattern God left us, 16:01 let's follow through." 16:03 And what each part means, 16:04 we don't leave anything out 16:05 because the world likes to leave out, 16:07 they like to pick and choose 16:08 which piece of furniture they want. 16:10 That's right. 16:11 And you know here at the end, we're restoring the last piece, 16:15 which is the altar, you know, the mercy seat, excuse me. 16:20 Yeah, we talked about just throw the Word of God 16:21 then covered up, that's right, 16:23 we found 1300 or so and forth and began to be uncovered. 16:26 Yes. 16:27 And, you know, looking at the Word of God, 16:29 confidence was built back in the Word of God. 16:30 Then we move on to 1400s and 1500s, 16:33 we're talking righteous by faith. 16:34 Martin Luther, I thought, 16:36 I mean, really restoration of what? 16:39 The altar of sacrifice if you look right here. 16:41 Question number two, then bring in somebody, 16:43 we kind of get it all together here, 16:45 that you have something else just make sure you speak up. 16:47 I was going to mention in Psalms 68, 16:49 kind of we're talking about Psalms 68:24 says, 16:51 "They have seen thy goings, O God, 16:52 even the goings of my God, my King in the sanctuary." 16:56 So you're watching what Christ is doing in the sanctuary, 16:58 and that's what relates to this whole... 17:00 Amen, yes. 17:01 I'm talking about. Yes. 17:02 Well, that question number two, I think it's talking about, 17:04 explain righteousness about faith. 17:06 Now that can take a long time to do that and place to go on. 17:09 That's okay. 17:10 But it's, yeah, it's okay, because it's good 17:11 because the enemy then try to do what? 17:14 He tried to conceal this from the people. 17:17 So we realize that as we look at this today, 17:20 we're thinking now, Martin Luther, 17:21 when he discovered this, it changed his life. 17:25 Absolutely. 17:26 And I'm kind of wondering here 17:27 if we discovered, you discovered, 17:30 will it change your life, or should it change your life? 17:32 Absolutely. 17:34 You know I just want to mention, 17:35 since we're on this note. 17:37 Speaking from the perspective of Martin Luther, 17:39 prior to this, it's from a biblical, 17:41 kind of a historical perspective. 17:43 You know, when you leave the Book of Daniel, 17:45 you have this understanding, 17:47 especially from the chapters of Daniel Chapter 8. 17:51 it says that this antichrist power, 17:54 this little on power is attacking 17:56 and casting down the truth to the ground, 17:59 and he's trampling upon God's people and his sanctuary. 18:03 Okay. 18:04 Now when you look at that, 18:06 some people are gonna take that very literal. 18:07 And I believe that while there was, 18:09 there can be and should be a little application of that 18:11 as viewed in history. 18:13 Also a spiritual application, the message of the sanctuary, 18:16 the way of the Lord, 18:18 there's righteousness by faith concept 18:19 that's put on display in the sanctuary 18:22 over a period of time from, you know, 18:25 several hundred years before Christ all the way through 18:28 until this time period, 18:30 the late, you know early to mid 1500s. 18:34 You see that God's sanctuary message 18:36 had been trampled, the truth about the Word 18:39 had been cast down. 18:40 And so now what we are getting into, 18:42 which I love this, 18:43 as you start to see a pattern through history, 18:45 really beginning with John Wycliffe 18:46 in the 1300s, moving up to the 1400s 18:49 as the Word of God has been restored. 18:50 Now, we're in the 1500s, early 1500s, Martin Luther, 18:54 through Martin Luther, through this man, 18:56 God is now going to begin to restore 18:58 each and every major aspect of His sanctuary message 19:02 that this antichrist power, the enemy of God, 19:05 ultimately the devil has been trampling down, 19:07 has been casting to the ground. 19:08 So now we come to Martin Luther 1500s, 19:11 and so what did God show Martin Luther? 19:13 What did he open his mind to? 19:14 You know what? There's only one savior. 19:16 There's only one way of salvation. 19:18 There's only one way to obtain righteousness 19:21 and that's only through Christ and His sacrifice. 19:25 And so, that's exactly what we're seeing here 19:27 and so too... 19:29 The question says explain righteousness by faith 19:30 and how the enemy has tried to conceal 19:32 the truth from his people. 19:34 Well, if you take righteousness by faith, 19:36 it's just simple definition, a simple explanation, 19:39 just take those words, righteousness by faith. 19:41 Whose righteousness? Christ. 19:42 Not my righteousness, 19:44 but the Bible says my righteousness is what? 19:45 Filthy rags. Filthy rags. 19:46 Through righteousness of Christ by, notice, faith. 19:49 And you're left asking question, whose faith? 19:51 Yeah. Christ. 19:53 The third angel's message says, 19:54 here's the patience of the saints 19:56 where they keep the commandments of God 19:57 and the faith of Jesus. 19:59 So we obtain the righteousness by Christ 20:01 through exemplifying in our life the faith 20:04 that Jesus exercised too on earth 20:07 which is faith in His Father to give Him victory over sin. 20:10 Martin Luther began to see that, 20:11 and Martin Luther began to point us back 20:13 to Jesus, the cross. 20:14 Absolutely. 20:16 I think what he went through 20:17 to learn this his willingness because he went, we know, 20:21 he read the Bible as it was chained, you know, 20:24 in monastery he began to read. 20:26 Also when he went to the library 20:28 first time ever that he found the whole Bible as it were. 20:32 And I'm sure that he came up with, was it Romans 1:17? 20:37 I mean what does it tells? 20:38 I guess, "For there in is the righteousness of God 20:40 revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, 20:44 the just shall live by" what? 20:46 "Faith." Just to live by faith. 20:48 Absolutely. 20:49 What did this do to man 20:51 who tried to work yourself into the kingdom? 20:52 What might it do to us? 20:53 I think it's important, too, to mention not only work, 20:57 but, you know, during that period of time 20:59 for him and for other people, 21:01 if they had been baptized 21:03 according to the Catholic theology, 21:05 the sacrament of penance was the only way 21:08 that they could find forgiveness from sins. 21:10 And so, I mean, he mutilated his body 21:14 and he never felt that peace that passes all understanding. 21:19 He tore his knees going up and down the steps. 21:23 People were dark, can you imagine? 21:26 Just imagine. 21:27 If you were praying today and you never ever felt 21:32 the presence of God in an answer. 21:34 Or that you were okay, 21:36 or that your sins were forgiven. 21:38 I mean, they were dark, they were crying out, 21:41 they had no hope, except going to the priest, 21:45 and the priest would tell you have been bad, 21:47 you've got to do this. 21:48 And they would mutilate their body 21:50 trying to find that gift of heaven 21:53 which is the righteousness of Christ. 21:55 What's even more, 21:57 just to break it down more simplistically, 21:59 from this perspective. You know, 22:01 the enemy used human agents to distort God's message. 22:04 You know, there were decades and decades of people, 22:07 centuries of people who were confused 22:09 and deceived into believing 22:11 that they had to work their way to heaven. 22:12 And so, you know, 22:14 now what's amazing is now 22:15 God is going to use human agents 22:17 to restore this message, 22:18 He's going to help us blow the trumpet 22:19 to let people know that there is good news. 22:22 We don't have to go and pray to a man, 22:23 we don't have to work our way or beat our self up. 22:26 Christ took those stripes, 22:27 through His stripes we are healed. 22:29 Amen. Yeah. Amen 22:31 You know, what's interesting is that it is, 22:33 you know God is a God of order. 22:35 But He did strike back in the 1300s and the 1400s, 22:38 just a little bit at a time. 22:40 You brought the word earlier of how genius God is. 22:45 Because if He had given the whole lump sum at one time, 22:49 they would have probably, you know, 22:51 just found a way to erode it somewhere. 22:54 But, boy, He's just giving a little bit to be built on, 22:56 to be built on, to be built on, and... 22:59 Go ahead. 23:00 I mean to me it's God will work it all time. 23:03 And here we are with the main topic, 23:05 you know, righteousness by faith. 23:06 Is that somehow maybe, 23:08 like when we state the Word of God 23:09 that we should even... 23:11 We should do it today. Yes. 23:12 Again you study one subject at a time, 23:15 you can't throw everything all out there once 23:17 and then try to digest. 23:18 So you take one thing, get it clear in your heart, 23:20 get clear in your mind, 23:22 and then you react to that, you know. 23:25 As we just evolve, I mean, 23:26 the first time I read the lesson, 23:28 I said, "Wow, it's little complicated." 23:30 And then I read it the second time, 23:32 "Wow, this could be built on." 23:34 And then the third time, I was really excited. 23:36 Right. 23:38 And then here we are 23:39 and we're just building on each other, 23:41 and... 23:42 If you, at least, what I can identify with, 23:46 I think there comes a time in all of our lives 23:48 when we get sick and tired of being sick and tired. 23:50 Yes, come on. 23:51 And at that particular time, then it's time to make a move. 23:54 Yes. Right. 23:55 And then a little nugget will come your way, 23:57 and you built on that nugget. 23:59 I think it's important 24:00 because we were talking about the history, 24:01 you are talking about being sick and tired. 24:03 But there are people and I have been one of them 24:06 that have been so down and so depressed 24:09 and felt so unworthy. 24:11 I felt that there was no hope, you know 24:14 and there were actually times in my life years ago 24:17 that I thought about committing suicide. 24:21 And I wanted to commit suicide, except I kept thinking, 24:25 who would take care of my children? 24:27 Who would take care of the children? 24:29 That's right. 24:30 You know so, coming and understanding 24:34 that Christ's righteousness will cover all of that. 24:39 We just need to reach out to Him in faith 24:43 and accept that free gift. 24:46 That is such a blessing for you, 24:47 many of you who may be watching. 24:49 You may have tuned in thinking there's no hope for me, 24:52 I've been too bad. 24:54 But Christ says there is hope. 24:56 I've been there, I've done that, 24:57 and I want to give you My victory. 24:59 Ain't that beautiful? Amen. 25:01 Praise the Lord. 25:02 Kind of what you're touching at, 25:03 we watched a movie just recently, 25:05 was a Christian film, a film I think in Poland. 25:07 Anyways it had English titles underneath. 25:09 But the woman was thrown in prison. 25:11 She was supposed to be speaking against the government. 25:14 So they put her in there, and how she got through this, 25:16 she stared writing scriptures on the wall. 25:19 And she wrote those scriptures in... 25:21 Some time period later, 25:22 she ends up in this different barracks, 25:24 in this different camp. 25:25 And one lady, 25:26 they threw in this camp with her, 25:28 and she came out to find out she was in the same room. 25:30 And those scriptures on that wall 25:32 that gave her the confidence to get through, 25:34 so God's Word is that powerful. 25:36 It is. 25:37 And this woman, she could even thank the guards 25:38 who were beating her and wiping her, 25:40 she could thank them for the food, 25:41 yeah, literally. 25:43 Oh, wow. I think I heard that story. 25:44 Yeah. That's amazing. 25:46 I mean, God is always there to help. 25:48 Always, always on time. 25:49 In that kind of situations, God will send you somewhere, 25:53 something will happen, He will send you somebody. 25:54 That's right. 25:56 We can remember that there is a lady 25:57 that called into ministry one time. 25:59 She'd been out to the, we call it "the dump" you know. 26:03 Taking the trash and stuff all that big old junkyard, 26:06 or whatever to get rid of the trash. 26:08 And she was thinking of suicide. 26:10 Life was just too much, 26:11 she just couldn't stand it anymore, 26:13 too many questions 26:14 that were not answered in her life. 26:17 She said, "Why continue to go on? 26:19 It's just one failure after the other." 26:21 She's looking to herself and work around, 26:22 and encourage people to look at Jesus, 26:24 the author of our faith. 26:25 It's what righteousness by faith, 26:27 all about Him, nothing about us, 26:28 it's all about Him. 26:29 Anyway, she's thinking, I'm just... 26:31 Once I get down, I'm gonna kill myself. 26:33 And as she was walking around throwing her trash. 26:35 Now, it was a great big old land field, you know. 26:38 One day, she stepped on something, 26:40 and she moved her foot, 26:41 she reached down and picked it up. 26:43 And, of course, that's why she called the minister. 26:44 It's the VCR. 26:45 You know, this little, had little tape on it, 26:48 it's from Behold the Lamb and it had a subject on it 26:52 that was exactly what she needed. 26:54 That doesn't mean anything good 26:56 for anyone here. 26:57 It simply meant that was what she needed at that time. 26:59 Somebody, somebody had thrown it away. 27:02 That's right. Yeah, yeah. 27:03 Somebody had thrown it away 27:05 because it didn't do them any good 27:06 or they didn't care for it, 27:07 they didn't need it in their life. 27:09 But there was this one poor soul 27:11 that needed a Word. 27:13 And she reached down and played that thing, 27:14 then called him and said, 27:15 "I don't think about suicide anymore." 27:17 One man's trash is another man's treasure. 27:18 You never might, 27:20 with Jesus everything changed, but He's God. 27:22 Or perhaps, you know, the player didn't play, 27:26 she thought of doing both the way 27:27 and I mean, wow, what a miracle. 27:29 God is good. 27:31 He promises that His Word will not return void. 27:34 And it's just so powerful, 27:35 that's why you can get excited on these lessons 27:38 because we have to dig into the Word of God 27:41 for the jewels that apply to these subjects 27:44 and they're so beautiful. 27:46 You know, it reminds me of another story 27:48 of a lady in New York. 27:49 We were in Florida at the time, 27:52 and this lady, she's a Jewish lady. 27:54 I still have contact with her. 27:56 But she had been in a terrible wreck. 28:01 And it had crippled her. 28:03 And she was just on her knees and crying, 28:06 the wreck eventually destroyed her marriage 28:09 and she was just pleading with God for help. 28:12 I don't know what to do, 28:14 she didn't know whether she wanted to go on or not, 28:17 and she just was crying and weeping and weeping. 28:20 And when she got done, 28:22 she turned on her TV to put a tape in 28:24 because she didn't have a satellite dish or anything. 28:26 But when she turned on the TV, 3ABN was there, 28:30 Behold the Lamb presents was playing, 28:33 you were speaking and she said, 28:36 "Everything he said was what I just dreamed about." 28:41 Everything, so she called, praising God, 28:45 because everything that was said 28:48 and she told her friends, they said, 28:49 you can get that channel. 28:53 God wants you to have that channel. 28:55 That's right. You'll get it. 28:56 You'll get that channel. 28:58 That is true. 28:59 Amen. Praise God. 29:00 Isn't that wonderful? 29:02 If anyone here can give 29:03 a definition of righteousness by faith, 29:05 it could be in few words, 29:07 it might be a quote or something that you have. 29:08 What would it be? 29:10 Anybody wants to volunteer just. 29:13 Well, I'd give a scripture 29:15 and then kind of recap what I said earlier 29:17 and that is, 29:18 what comes to my mind is Proverbs 3:5-6. 29:21 Amen. 29:23 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart 29:24 and lean not on your own understanding, 29:25 in all your ways acknowledge Him 29:27 and He shall direct your path." 29:30 I want His righteousness because mine's filthy rags. 29:34 So in order to obtain His righteousness, 29:36 I have to do that by faith. 29:38 Amen. Whose faith? 29:39 Not my faith, 29:41 I'll have to have faith in Christ, 29:42 so that His faith, His exercising faith 29:45 can be replicated in me. 29:47 So through Christ's faith, through the righteousness 29:50 that Christ has already obtained, 29:52 I can also have that what she has won victory over. 29:55 It's a victory over sin. 29:57 That's really what righteousness by faith is, 29:58 victory over sin. 30:00 Absolutely. 30:01 To say in Zachariah 3 is a beautiful word picture, 30:03 it shows God in His throne judging, Chris, 30:04 Satan would be coming in to throw everything at you, 30:06 that's your trash or junk. 30:08 And Jesus comes in and He says, 30:09 it's a brain plugged by the fire, now it's at in. 30:12 What I think he means to say is, he says, 30:14 you see his nail pierced hand here. 30:16 I hung on a cross for this my blood and die from it. 30:18 I purchased you from my blood. 30:19 And remember, 30:20 and Joshua was in filthy garments 30:22 as you mentioned before of the garments. 30:23 So Christ is only gonna take that filthy garment off you, 30:25 put my robe of righteousness over you. 30:27 Yes. So He's gonna cover you. 30:29 And while you guys are talking, 30:31 I thought that the lady that was caught in adultery 30:33 that came and then before... 30:35 You know, was bought to Christ. 30:37 And then Christ began to write in the sand, 30:40 and pretty soon all of her accusers left. 30:43 Disappeared. 30:44 And he said, "Well, where are thy accusers?" 30:47 Then she said, "They're not here." 30:49 And what Did he say? 30:50 "Go and sin no more." 30:52 I can just almost picture like, 30:54 it was His righteousness He was putting in 30:56 and covering her. 30:58 But in that righteousness, 31:00 He didn't say go back and do what you were doing. 31:01 Yes. 31:03 He says, "Go and sin no more." 31:05 So Christ never wants us to stay in sin. 31:08 He's always pulling away from sin. 31:11 That's the one thing that separates us from salvation, 31:15 from Jesus, from God, 31:16 from being the citizen in the new world, 31:19 in heaven is sin. 31:20 So He says, "Go and sin no more." 31:23 We can do that through history, 31:24 through His grace and through His power. 31:26 Let me read this. 31:28 Took this out of the commentary and just, 31:30 it certainly touched my heart. 31:32 God has a plan for you. 31:35 And upon conversation, listen to this, 31:38 He gives you the power to accelerate... 31:41 Well, there you go now. 31:42 For the fulfillment of His purpose. 31:44 Amen. 31:46 Boy, all of a sudden, 31:48 because that's where we get bogged down. 31:50 I'm not moving fast enough, I'm not moving fast enough, 31:52 if you got a plan for my life, let's have it. 31:55 But he's gonna accelerate it at the right time. 31:57 That's right. 31:58 Amen. And wow! 32:00 I just absolutely, thank you, Jesus. 32:03 Yes. 32:04 And, you know, 32:06 He's the one that's always on time... 32:08 Yes. Lot of time, like the enemy. 32:10 Thanks, well, I'm the one that's in charge. 32:14 You gonna pay attention to this, 32:15 this is what you can have. 32:17 But the Lord said, "Just hold on J.D., 32:19 I'm going to accelerate just at the right time. 32:22 Your wings going to be blowing in the wind, 32:24 so just hold on, you know. 32:26 But anyway, I just love that. That's beautiful. 32:27 Thank you, Jesus, that it's You that does accelerate our plan. 32:30 Amen. 32:32 You know, Brother Kenny, I have to read this one. 32:33 I saw this quote, short, simple but to the point. 32:35 Come on now. 32:37 You want to talk about a quote 32:38 that really nails down righteousness by faith. 32:39 Yes. 32:41 This comes from The Upward Look, page 303. 32:44 Powerful, it's a heavy hitter though, 32:45 are you ready for it? 32:46 I love it. Come on. 32:48 "Christ took humanity and bore the hatred of the world 32:52 that He might show men and women..." 32:55 Yes, go on. What does he want to show us? 32:57 "That they could live without sin." 33:00 Amen. Wow. 33:01 That's powerful. Yes. 33:03 That's powerful. That's the goal. 33:04 People don't want to, really want to hear that. 33:06 Do you know what? 33:07 But that is our message, 33:09 that's our message to get to the world. 33:11 So that's beautiful, 33:12 I like those punches once in a while. 33:14 I found one in the Testimonies to Ministers, page 91 and 92. 33:19 Little paragraph, that was really good. 33:21 Talking about righteousness by faith 33:23 was to bring a more prominently before the world, 33:26 is to be brought more prominently 33:27 before the world. 33:28 "The uplifted Savior, 33:30 the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. 33:33 It presented justification through faith in the Surety..." 33:36 who is the Surety? 33:38 Christ. Christ is. 33:39 "It invites the people to receive 33:41 the righteousness of Christ, 33:43 which is made manifest," notice this, 33:45 "made manifest in obedience to all the commandments of God, 33:51 imparting the priceless gift 33:53 of our righteousness to helpless man 33:56 or his righteousness to helpless man." 33:58 That's right. So we... 34:00 If you really think about we are helpless, 34:01 we are doomed, we are... 34:03 We could say we are finished. 34:04 Yes. 34:06 There's nothing that can help us, only Christ. 34:08 That's right. 34:09 So we reach out to Him and the world needs to know 34:11 that there is help out there for them. 34:12 Reach out, and it say and touch Him today. 34:16 And He will certainly share, 34:17 I'd say would give that righteousness, 34:19 His righteousness. 34:20 At a place you mentioned while ago 34:21 over filthy rags that we are as human beings. 34:24 So praise God that we have that surety in His Word. 34:28 Amen. 34:29 It's something the Lord gave me just a couple of week ago, 34:31 He always gives me these little quips. 34:32 Anyways it says, 34:33 "When you turn to the pole, he takes control, 34:36 when you turn to the cross self gets lost." 34:38 Oh, I love that. 34:40 Yeah. Praise... 34:41 You see, that's out part. 34:43 We've been talking about through His power, 34:44 through His grace, through His righteousness. 34:47 But our part is to submit and commit, 34:50 and to make a decision. 34:51 You know, I have had friends for many, many years. 34:54 They pray, they talk, 34:55 they get into difficult times in their family. 34:58 And they're always like, "Well, we want God to do this, 35:00 please pray He'll do that." 35:02 But as far as I know, 35:03 I've never even seen a Bible in their home. 35:05 They may have a Bible, but I've not seen it. 35:08 You know, 35:09 I've never seen evidence of Bible study. 35:11 So, brothers and sisters, those of you who are watching, 35:14 that is your part, turn, 35:15 submit and commit your life to Him 35:17 and then begin to study. 35:19 That's right. Amen. 35:20 And ask, always praying and ask for the guidance 35:22 for the Holy Spirit. 35:23 And then thus be this book. 35:26 The book, book becomes alive. 35:30 It is a living, breathing, life changing book. 35:34 Because it's not just words on a paper, 35:36 but it's backed up by the Holy Spirit. 35:38 Amen. 35:40 You know, we like to put our money in the banks, 35:41 and it's backed up by the federal government. 35:44 Well, this is backed up by the God of heaven. 35:47 You cannot lose, 35:49 and it is powerful and it's living. 35:51 But we have to taste. 35:52 We have to take a bite of it. 35:54 A bite at a time, a piece at a time 35:56 day by day, moment by moment, 35:58 being continuing, learning to continue to be 36:01 in of atmosphere prayer, you know. 36:05 Right. Amen. 36:06 Isn't that kind of goes into the 1500s? 36:08 That's right. 36:10 Kind of get to that in John Calvin on prayer. 36:12 What did he find out? 36:13 What did he find out 36:15 when he started reading the scriptures about prayer? 36:17 That's right. What do you no longer need? 36:19 That's right. You no longer needed a... 36:21 We no longer needed in advance. 36:22 You didn't need a man, you didn't need a priest, 36:24 right, for any kind of intercession with God. 36:26 He knew He could... 36:28 That must have been so exciting, 36:29 maybe to be in the Word all the time. 36:31 You love Jesus with all your heart 36:33 and then one day, it's boom over the head. 36:35 You get, you hear this, "I don't need a man!" 36:37 That's right. 36:39 "I don't need a women. I don't need Mary. 36:40 I don't need, you know, anything to intercede. 36:42 Yeah, someone called me, was this, 36:44 some of this material I'm using from Ivor Myers, 36:45 he said something, 36:47 you think about the booth, the confessional booth. 36:48 That's right. 36:49 There's a veil in between, and a man sitting... 36:51 Two compartments. Right, right. 36:52 And that blows you away because you think, 36:53 whoa, you're whole. 36:55 Oh, just another example of what's the devil's done. 36:56 That's the replica of the... 36:58 It's the distortion of the... 36:59 perversion of the sanctuary. 37:00 You guys are going to do it to me again 37:02 because you know what is this all about, 37:04 this great controversy? 37:05 He wants worship, 37:07 and He has taken the things of God 37:09 and turn them in the way he wants to be worshiped. 37:12 Yes. But they are not the right... 37:14 You mentioned before the program, 37:16 you think better when things are on your right, 37:18 that we all need to think right. 37:20 We have to go back to the Bible to find what is the right way 37:24 because all this spiritual confusion. 37:25 But... 37:27 I love this flow because you have, 37:29 you have John Calvin, 37:31 his influence came somewhat after Martin Luther. 37:34 That was technically around the same time, 37:36 but still somewhat after Martin Luther. 37:40 Martin Luther pointed people away from the church to Christ. 37:46 Because the focus that had basically 37:49 been centralized within the church 37:51 was around the holy church, 37:53 that the church had the authority, 37:54 the church had the power. 37:56 And, of course, the man, the pope, the bishop 37:58 was the head of that church, 37:59 and everybody looked to the man, 38:00 looked to the church. 38:02 What God showed Martin Luther, 38:03 you know no, no, no point back to Christ. 38:04 So Martin Luther pointed us to the man, Jesus Christ. 38:07 Yes, amen. 38:08 And now follow this logic, 38:10 now what John Calvin is looking and he said, 38:12 "Okay, if this gospel is really about what Christ has done, 38:16 he started to see Jesus 38:18 for exactly whom the Bible said that He was, a high priest. 38:20 He didn't have to go 38:21 to some manmade earthly priest no more. 38:24 He could go as the Book of Hebrews says, 38:26 to the high priest, Christ, 38:28 the only mediator between God and man. 38:30 And that's exactly what we see historically here 38:33 is right here along this 1500s time frame, 38:36 John Calvin rises up and says, 38:37 "You know what? 38:39 Christ is My high priest. 38:40 I don't have to go pray to some man 38:42 in a confessional booth. 38:43 I just need to go to Jesus Christ. 38:44 He hears my prayers, He forgives my sins. 38:47 So why would I need to return to some man or some church? 38:50 So John Calvin helped to restore 38:52 that altar of incense. 38:54 Absolutely. 38:55 And which reminds me of real quick... 38:57 I want to read this quote real quickly. 38:58 Back to what we were just speaking of earlier, 39:01 this quick quote here, I love this, 39:03 this come from the Faith I Live By, 39:05 page 197. 39:06 Now get this, 39:08 righteousness by faith connection with the sanctuary. 39:11 She says "The incense ascending with the prayers of Israel." 39:14 So she points to the altar. 39:16 "It represents the merits and intercession of Christ." 39:20 And notice what she says here, "His perfect righteousness, 39:26 which through faith, righteousness by faith. 39:29 His perfect righteousness, 39:31 which through faith is imputed to His people, 39:33 and which can alone make the worship of sinful 39:36 being acceptable to God." 39:38 Amen. That's powerful. 39:39 So Christ is our intercessor, He's the high priest. 39:42 Only through His righteousness and through His faith 39:45 which is replicated in our lives, 39:46 by faith in Him can we come to the throne of God. 39:50 Yes. That's powerful. 39:51 That's powerful. 39:52 And it's through that sanctuary message 39:54 which we are talking about. 39:55 And from a practical standpoint, 39:57 whoever we communicate is normally 39:58 who we have relationship with. 40:00 That's right. 40:01 And so we can take out the middle man 40:03 and go directly to the Man. 40:06 That is where the relationship is established right there. 40:08 Amen. 40:10 And because He is the creator, 40:12 then He can make things 40:15 that we don't think is possible. 40:18 Possible. Amen. 40:20 All things are possible. 40:22 I say the altar and whatever he's been talking about here, 40:25 was completely covered. 40:27 I mean, you know, 40:29 by manmade traditions and thoughts and so on. 40:31 Now, why would the enemy want to cover the altar 40:35 really of incense, if you think about it? 40:37 What about when we pray? 40:39 What do I need? 40:41 What is the incense that was put on the altar? 40:44 Remember the fire with the smoke 40:46 and it would go up over the veil 40:47 into the most holy place. 40:49 What is the incense? 40:51 What does it represent? Prayer. 40:52 Represents the prayers of the saints of Christ. 40:54 Prayers of the saints. 40:55 But then was myrrh and frankincense 40:58 and so on, those at Christ's righteousness. 41:01 Their prayers are going to be answered, 41:02 there' power going to be there. 41:04 It's going to go up as it were... 41:05 To me, I want to think sometime 41:07 as the smoke that goes up. 41:08 But not about the fires, smoke goes up, and we say, 41:11 I wonder sometime too if that's not the... 41:13 We talk about the forgiveness of sin 41:16 being burned up, it's gone. 41:18 You know, it's no more. 41:19 But also it's our prayers 41:21 mingled with Christ's righteousness, the incense. 41:25 So you have the incense as Christ's righteousness, 41:27 you have fire on that altar. 41:30 So we need to be praying, when we pray, 41:31 we need to pray with fire. 41:33 That means through the power of the Holy Spirit. 41:35 Around that altar of incense was a crown. 41:39 You know, what does a crown represent? 41:41 You know we talk about in Scripture. 41:42 It's certainly, it's victory, isn't it? 41:44 So there's victory in Christ. 41:46 So there's victory in the blood of the Lamb. 41:48 Or you'd say, 41:50 "What do you mean, blood of the Lamb?" 41:51 Because there was four horns on that altar, 41:54 that the blood was applied, 41:55 you know, one time, twice I guess every day, daily. 41:59 And then one time ?of the year... 42:00 Blood to the horns. 42:02 To the horns, and that means what? 42:03 The blood, that's power, horns represents power. 42:05 That's right. 42:07 So we have power through the blood of Jesus Christ. 42:09 Right? He mingles with, right? 42:12 He elevates us as we're up and over, we'd say... 42:15 Amen. I praise God for that. 42:18 John Calvin saw that that you were talking about. 42:20 He saw that because of Jesus Christ 42:23 and while He lived and He died, 42:25 and He gave to mankind 42:28 that the wrath of God was appeased. 42:32 Think about it, because of Jesus Christ, 42:34 we're looking at today, right? 42:36 That's how we get forgiveness of sin. 42:38 It's not because I'm begging and pleading, 42:39 and I'm on my knees and I'm, you know it's... 42:43 You know we should maybe do that at times. 42:45 But it's simply because of Jesus Christ and His blood, 42:49 His righteousness that we can bowl it, right? 42:53 Bowl it to the throne. 42:56 A grace to find help in our time of need. 42:59 This is something I think that we need to study 43:01 more and more about 43:02 that smoke that's going over the veil, 43:05 again another thought, 43:07 it's just, you know, we talk about, 43:08 is think about it is that sin, right? 43:12 Had been traded in for the righteousness of Christ. 43:15 I mean, that's heavy duty study 43:17 when you get to thinking about it. 43:18 Yeah, it's fantastic, 43:20 because if you think of it in relation to the sanctuary, 43:22 our job is to come to the sanctuary, 43:25 come to Christ, 43:26 and plead in sincerity for forgiveness. 43:29 When we... You think about the sanctuary. 43:31 The sinner would place his hands 43:33 upon the head of that lamb. 43:34 And then after he would confess his sins, 43:36 again that lamb representing Christ, 43:38 he would then take the knife 43:40 and he would take the life of that lamb. 43:41 Now, the priest figure would then take a receptor bowl 43:45 of some kind, catch that blood in the bowl, 43:47 and now the sins, the record of sins 43:50 which is in the blood symbolically 43:51 is now taken into the sanctuary, 43:53 it's been transferred into the sanctuary. 43:55 So we have to be willing, it all begin, 43:57 all starts with a harmless, a willingness 44:00 where we has to come to Christ to say, 44:02 "Lord, take what I can give you know." 44:04 And so, we come and we give it to him, 44:06 and then he takes the record into that most holy place. 44:10 It's transferred in, 44:11 now as that incense goes up, and this is what I love. 44:12 Check this out. 44:14 We're going to get to it, 44:15 maybe not today, maybe another time. 44:17 But as that incense goes up, 44:18 notice how it's going over the veil, 44:19 it's going to go in the most holy place. 44:21 Yes, it is. 44:22 It's going to go into the most holy place. 44:23 Yes. Yeah. 44:25 That's right. 44:27 Where Christ is right now, 44:29 He's our high priest, the Bible tells us 44:31 that we're living in a judgment time. 44:33 Christ is our high priest, 44:34 He's doing a work in the most holy place 44:37 to cleanse that sanctuary, cleanse... 44:39 From all those sins of all the world 44:41 through all history. 44:43 That's what you're talking about. 44:44 It's His blood, His merits, we'd like to say, 44:46 in that incense, you think about incense, 44:49 it tells of Jesus Christ, right? 44:51 You had what was myrrh. 44:53 What did that tell about? 44:55 That the sacrifice is going to die. 44:56 That's right. 44:58 And you think about, then you talk about gold, 44:59 what that represent? 45:01 That He was divine. That's right. 45:03 Then you have the frankincense, 45:04 it means, He's a preserver of life. 45:07 That's so beautiful 45:08 when you think about the preserver of life 45:10 is wrapping His arms of love 45:11 around each and every one of us. 45:14 And He's inviting us to come in. 45:15 He's inviting us to say, 45:16 lay everything that you have on the altar. 45:19 I'll take it from you, all your burdens, 45:21 all your sins, all the misery that you have. 45:23 And I'll replace it with joy and sweetness 45:25 of the Holy Spirit. 45:26 We need to be praying more in the spirit, 45:28 isn't that right? 45:30 That's right. Amen. 45:31 Amen. Ooh! 45:32 Hallelujah! 45:34 Go ahead. I think this fits. 45:35 What I mean, to me it certainly fits. 45:38 It's the way I'm talking about now is, 45:40 of course, is Romans 8:26. 45:42 Even whenever we feel like we may not be an adequate, 45:46 we may be inadequate, 45:48 but yet if we would step out in faith 45:50 and just the utterances are going up, 45:53 they're the very best that you can. 45:55 Then the Holy Spirit then is gonna super charge that. 46:01 He's going to interpret. Interpret, exactly. 46:04 What we fail to be able to communicate. 46:06 Yes, Lord, You know what I'm trying to say. 46:07 Read that text, read that text. 46:09 It's beautiful what it says. 46:10 "Likewise the spirit also helps in our weaknesses, 46:13 for we do not know 46:14 what we should pray for as we ought, 46:17 but the spirit himself makes intercession for us 46:20 with groanings which cannot be uttered." 46:22 Praise God. 46:24 I mean, that is just, to me it's just beautiful. 46:25 Yeah, we can't because I find myself so many times. 46:27 I don't know about you guys, I find myself so many times, 46:29 you know, the devil, he could seek it to us. 46:31 No matter how much we think we're strong, he gets to us. 46:34 And there's times that I just fall on my knees 46:36 and I want to say a prayer. 46:37 And I don't know what to pray. 46:39 And so praise God for that promise 46:41 because I know that I can just call out 46:43 on the name of Jesus and say, "Lord, save me." 46:46 And then somehow He's gonna take those few words 46:48 and He's going to go right to the throne of God and say, 46:50 "This is what Ryan needs." 46:51 Yeah, this is what he wants to say, you know. 46:55 And there's people that say that. 46:57 You know, when you're working with them in whatever, 46:59 they'll say, "Oh, I've never prayed before." 47:01 And then they'll say, 47:03 "I don't know even how to pray." 47:04 Right. 47:06 We can give them some good news here, 47:07 isn't that right? 47:08 God reads the heart. He knows the heart. 47:10 He knows the heart, and He'll answer 47:12 according to what's best for us. 47:13 And there are still people that are in bondage, 47:15 still people that feel like they have to go through a man. 47:18 You know part of the question 47:20 that we didn't actually read the question. 47:22 But it says, what can we do 47:23 to help free the people from this deception? 47:25 One of the best passages is Hebrews 4:14-16. 47:30 It says, "Seeing then that we have a High Priest 47:34 and is passed into the heavens. 47:36 Jesus the Son of God, 47:38 let us hold fast our profession. 47:41 For we have not a High Priest 47:43 that cannot be touched 47:44 with the feelings of our infirmities, 47:46 but was in all point tempted 47:49 like as we are yet without sin." 47:51 Remember, and this is something else 47:53 that I wanted to point out. 47:55 You know, the restitution of all things. 47:58 Acts 3 tells us that Christ had to go back to heaven, 48:01 so everything could be restored. 48:03 That's right. 48:04 And yet so many people in Christendom say, 48:06 "It was all done at the cross." 48:08 And, you know, it was years ago before I understood this, 48:10 I thought if it's all at the cross, 48:12 why are we still here, you know? 48:14 They're dwelling in the courtyard. 48:16 Yeah. 48:18 They haven't went into the holy place yet. 48:19 And then you got sum that are in the holy place, 48:21 but haven't yet experienced the most holy place experience. 48:24 Come on, that's exactly right. 48:26 Jesus greeting on in Hebrews 4:16. 48:29 It says, "Let us therefore," is what we talked about, 48:32 "come boldly unto the throne of grace 48:35 that we may obtain mercy." 48:37 Do we ever need mercy? 48:39 That we may obtain mercy, and find grace, 48:43 the help in time of need. 48:45 Brother and sisters, what a promise. 48:47 You want mercy today, 48:49 you want His grace, His forgiveness, 48:51 His robe of everlasting righteousness 48:54 and love for you, it's there. 48:56 You just need to ask for it. 48:58 That's right. By faith, pray by faith. 48:59 We need to pray by faith. 49:00 Amen. That's powerful. 49:02 Powerful scripture in 2 Corinthians 5:21 49:04 which relates to what you were saying. 49:06 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, 49:08 who knew no sin that we might be made 49:10 the righteousness of God in Him." 49:11 Amen. 49:13 So the idea of that righteousness of God, 49:14 yeah, in Him. 49:15 Is it possible that, as Sabbath keepers, 49:19 and believing on all Ten Commandments 49:23 by the grace of God can keep those. 49:25 I am a true believer in victory over sin. 49:27 Why? Because Jesus is my example. 49:29 Right? That's right 49:31 He says, "We can gain victory, 49:32 all things are possible through Him." 49:33 But is it possible that maybe 49:35 that we sometime bolster up to and lean against 49:39 maybe we keep the law. 49:43 Because we keep it, we're justified. 49:46 And even if we don't, the world seems to think that we do. 49:51 In one passage there in Romans, was it 3:28? 49:54 I got 28 here, it says, "Therefore we conclude 49:56 that a man is justified by faith 49:59 without the deeds of the law." 50:01 That's right. That's kind of... 50:03 So how we justify? 50:05 By keeping, by doing? 50:06 No, but we realize that we're going to have to work, 50:08 we realize we're going to do, because we love Jesus. 50:11 But I like this here, faith, we're justified by faith 50:14 that we've been talking about in our Lord and our Savior. 50:18 Well, and it goes back 50:19 because we're not justified by the deeds of the law. 50:22 Remember, our very best acts are as filthy rags. 50:26 So our deeds even though Jesus said, 50:28 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 50:30 I mean, we are to strive to keep those commandments, 50:32 we're strive to be like Christ, 50:34 but our very best is still as the filthy rag. 50:36 It's not good enough. That's right. 50:38 So He is everything, 50:39 He is all in all and in everything, 50:42 every piece is the Word of God. 50:44 I just want to add really quickly 50:46 'cause I know our time is ticking away. 50:47 But I want to add this for someone 50:48 who may be watching, 50:50 who may not be aware of this, but the gospel, 50:52 we're talking about that experience with Christ, 50:54 that righteousness by faith experience. 50:58 There are two realities that one must experience, 51:01 and will experience if you are really fully abiding 51:04 in the vine of Jesus Christ. 51:06 Number one, justification. 51:07 When you come to Christ as we've been talking about. 51:09 Justification, you're truly pardoned. 51:11 Justification, I think, 51:13 another word for that is pardoned. 51:14 You are pardoned. 51:16 God shows you grace, 51:17 He gives you what you don't deserve. 51:18 I found this quote here, Review and Herald, 51:20 August 19, 1890, 51:21 "To be pardoned in the way that Christ pardons 51:23 is not only to be forgiven, 51:26 but to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 51:29 The Lord says, 'A new heart will I give unto thee.' 51:31 The image of Christ is to be stamped 51:33 upon the very mind, heart, and soul.'" 51:36 So Christ comes, He pardons us. 51:38 But being pardoned is kind of the vehicle, 51:41 the avenue that takes us into the direction 51:43 that Christ wants to ultimately do 51:45 and that's to experience sanctification. 51:48 We are pardoned, 51:49 and that's the beginning process. 51:51 But then the lifelong process... 51:53 Did you hear, I want to emphasize that, 51:55 the lifelong process that we'll continue dating. 51:59 What did Paul say? "I die daily." 52:01 The fact that he had to get up and die daily. 52:03 Communicates and implies that this is a daily, 52:06 ongoing life long process of sanctification 52:09 and I just want to add in here, 52:10 Christ wants to sanctify us by the truth of His Word. 52:14 And one scripture that comes unto me, 52:16 I love this right here. 52:18 "I can do all things through Christ 52:19 who strengthens me." 52:20 Christ wants to sanctify us. 52:22 And another one Jude 1, Jude 24 and 25 says, 52:26 "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, 52:30 and to present you faultless 52:32 before the presence of his glory." 52:33 So when we're talking about righteousness by faith 52:36 in this amazing experience that we're experiencing. 52:38 He does want to pardon us, He does want to justify us, 52:41 because we've come to Him. 52:43 But now He wants to sanctify us. 52:45 Amen. 52:46 That's what the sanctuary is about 52:48 so that holy place experience 52:49 is about to sanctify us from our sins. 52:51 So that we can eventually walk into the most holy place 52:54 in the presence of God. 52:55 Yes. Amen. 52:57 That's the sanctuary. That will get me started. 52:58 That's life and death, that's good. 53:00 That's life and death issue 53:01 that we realize here from the sanctuary, 53:03 we must make that movement to the most holy place. 53:06 We have to be where, what? 53:08 Where Jesus is. That's right. 53:10 And when He leaves something, it's very interesting. 53:12 The enemy has a way 53:13 in which he tries to come in and counterfeit it. 53:15 That's right. 53:16 It's a lot of good study in there. 53:17 I love this point too, real quickly. 53:19 You know, did God save the Jewish people from Egypt? 53:22 No. 53:23 Now, understand this. 53:25 Did He save them from Egypt? Yeah. 53:26 Did He bring them out of Egypt? He brought them out. Yeah. 53:28 Did He bring them out of Egypt 53:30 and directly into the Promised Land? 53:32 No, no, you had to think to buy that. 53:34 So notice how the pardoning aspect was. 53:37 I'm getting you out of this bondage, I'm saving. 53:39 I'm giving you what you don't deserve. 53:41 But I'm gonna take you out of Egypt. 53:42 I'm pulling you out of the land of bondage. 53:44 But they still had to go 53:46 through this 40 year of sanctifying experience 53:49 before they could go into the Promised Land. 53:50 That's right. So why are we still here? 53:52 Jesus has a work to do. 53:53 He still has a work to finish in us. 53:55 I praise God for that. 53:56 Think of how many people, 53:58 only two were able to go in by the time it was done. 54:01 Oh, have mercy. 54:02 Only two, you know. 54:04 And we bicker in and sit down 54:07 and try to study the Word of God, 144,000, 54:10 is it this, or is it that, you know. 54:12 It's okay to study these things, 54:13 we understand that. 54:14 But remember in the Promised Land how many, 54:16 you know, in the Promised Land 54:18 how many really entered in, she just said. 54:19 How many entered in the ark at the time of the flood? 54:22 Very small, remnant, 54:24 that's going to be saving God's kingdom. 54:25 You can be one of those. 54:27 Anyone who wants to be, simply say, 54:28 right now I'm gonna put Jesus in my heart, in my life. 54:31 I'm going to follow Him all the way. 54:33 And I guarantee if you're praying, 54:35 you want to know the truth, is this truth. 54:37 God's going to reveal that to you. 54:38 Absolutely. 54:39 I'm convinced that He would end somebody 54:41 around the world if He needs to, 54:43 to make sure somebody's praying, 54:44 I want to know... 54:46 He's going to do His end. Amen. 54:48 He always keeps that going, doesn't He? 54:49 Amen. 54:51 You know, we don't have a whole lot of time, 54:52 but I thought just mention at least the candlestick. 54:54 I thought the lamp stand. 54:56 Because it's talking about John Wesley here in the 1700s. 55:00 What did he want? 55:01 We went over the lesson. 55:02 What did he really want everybody to become? 55:05 Lights. 55:07 Yeah, several answers on it. 55:09 But light into the world. 55:10 He wanted everybody to become evangelist, 55:12 to be missionary, to shine the light, you know, 55:16 the seven branched candlestick. 55:19 What happened to that? 55:20 Let's say, you know, daily, what happened? 55:24 The light you had because of the oil. 55:25 What does the oil represent? 55:27 The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. 55:29 And so, yeah. 55:30 And so what happens when that wick, 55:32 we talk about there, when it begin to go down 55:35 and the oil begin to run out, what happen? 55:37 It had to be changed, isn't that right? 55:39 You mentioned, kind of, while ago, 55:41 what happens when that is changed out, you know. 55:44 Children had to wander for 40 years in the wilderness. 55:47 But we as a people, 55:48 we look at that and we say, when we... 55:50 When our wicks, 55:52 spiritual wicks need to be trimmed, you know, 55:54 and the light as it were, 55:56 you know, the oil is going down. 55:57 Right. That means what? 55:59 They had. What they had? 56:00 They had mufflers, 56:02 you know wherever they put out the light. 56:03 But when that happen and the light went out, 56:05 what was that simply represented? 56:07 When tests and trials come to us, 56:09 it takes a long time to get to it. 56:10 But when tests and trials come and then we are relit. 56:14 We're stronger and brighter than ever before 56:17 because of tests and trials that God used. 56:19 Very well put. 56:20 Yeah. Praise God. 56:22 We ought to be strong some day. 56:23 Yeah, and help me, you know, 56:24 maybe next time we can expand upon that even more. 56:28 You know, Jesus says in the Word of God 56:30 to not forsake yourselves the assembling together. 56:34 As I listen to everybody how the Lord has touched 56:37 and given all of you a word in due season. 56:40 This is the reason why. 56:41 We cannot be a candle on our own. 56:45 We need to be shining our light, 56:47 sharing our light, 56:48 and together we build, 56:50 together we grow, together you at home 56:52 are growing prayerfully with us. 56:54 I think we need to have a closing prayer. 56:56 We just have two minutes. We need those... 56:58 Is it snuffers? Was it snuffers? 56:59 There we go. 57:01 Absolutely, in our life. 57:02 We need a quick prayer before we end. 57:04 We thank you for joining us. What a blessing that it. 57:07 Brother, Don, how about you, a quick prayer to end up? 57:08 All right. 57:10 Heavenly Father, we want to thank You, Lord, 57:11 for expounding on us Your Word 57:13 and for showing us in that light, 57:15 Lord, light that expounds our minds, 57:16 understand the sanctuary 57:18 and how we can move through each chamber 57:20 in that sanctuary together with You 57:21 as we talked about 57:23 justifying us through Your blood, 57:24 sanctifying us in that process that we can, Lord, 57:27 walk in that most holy place one day soon, 57:29 to see you face to face 57:30 and know we can hear those words, 57:32 well done, thou good and faithful servant. 57:34 Your title is clear. 57:35 We thank you and we ask this in Jesus' name. 57:37 Amen. Amen. 57:38 Praise the Lord. |
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