>>> AS YOU'RE WELL AWARE, WE ARE LIVING IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES. JOIN US NOW FOR TODAY'S SPECIAL 00:00:01.73\00:00:12.24 PROGRAM. [ MUSIC ] 00:00:12.24\00:01:01.69 >> GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS AND WELCOME TO THURSDAY NIGHT, YOU 00:01:14.97\00:01:18.24 ARE NOW TUNING INTO THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD. 00:01:18.24\00:01:21.61 WE BELIEVE THAT, DON'T WE? BECAUSE MOST OF THE WORLD IS 00:01:21.61\00:01:25.05 AFFECTED BY WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT HERE, CONSIDER THIS THE AXLE OF 00:01:25.05\00:01:31.42 THE UNDILUTED THREE ANGELS MESSAGES, ONE THAT WILL COUNTER 00:01:31.42\00:01:34.96 ACT THE COUNTERFEIT. IF YOU'RE PART OF OUR FAMILY, 00:01:34.96\00:01:40.00 WELCOME BACK. IF YOU'RE JUST TUNING IN, PUT 00:01:40.00\00:01:42.86 THIS ON MEMORY. THERE'S SO MUCH MORE AFTER THAT 00:01:42.86\00:01:47.10 PROGRAM TO YOU'LL BE BLESSED BY. WE HAVE A DYNAMIC TOPIC TONIGHT. 00:01:47.10\00:01:51.84 IT'S A LEARNING TOPIC. IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INTO THE 00:01:51.84\00:01:55.24 PLACE TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW, THIS IS THE TOPIC AND YOU'LL BE 00:01:55.24\00:02:02.85 ABLE TO GET SOMETHING CLEARER. I LIKE THE PHRASE GET INTO 00:02:02.85\00:02:12.96 FOCUS. IF YOU GET INTO FOCUS BEFORE YOU 00:02:12.96\00:02:15.56 TAKE THE PICTURE, YOU'LL GET A GOOD RESULT. 00:02:15.56\00:02:18.40 WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS THAT LENS ON GOD'S WORD, WHEN THE PROGRAM 00:02:18.40\00:02:22.64 IS DID YOU, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WILL BE CLEAR IN YOUR MIND. 00:02:22.64\00:02:27.04 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT. 00:02:27.04\00:02:31.61 WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR 36 YEARS AND GOD JUST CONTINUES TO GIVE 00:02:31.61\00:02:36.05 US BLESSINGS. TO MY RIGHT IS MY BROTHER. 00:02:36.05\00:02:40.72 IF YOU WAKE UP AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING, HE'S READY TO PREACH. 00:02:40.72\00:02:47.23 A MAN READY TO SPEAK OF THE LORD. 00:02:47.23\00:02:59.31 >> SHELLY WHO HAS MANY HALTS. HOW ARE YOU DOING. 00:02:59.31\00:03:14.72 >> I'M IN A LOT OF PAIN RIGHT NOW. 00:03:14.72\00:03:17.16 IF I MOVE WRONG, IT MAKES ME REACT. 00:03:17.16\00:03:19.89 >> WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT. 00:03:19.89\00:03:23.06 >> I'M GLAD TO BE HERE. >> SHELLEY HAS BEEN STUDYING ON 00:03:23.06\00:03:27.34 THE COVENANTS. PASTOR JOHN DINZEY. 00:03:27.34\00:03:36.75 >> IT'S A BLESSING FOR ME TO BE HERE, AS WELL. 00:03:36.75\00:03:40.38 I PRAY ON TO THE LORD MO PUT US ON THE PATH. 00:03:40.38\00:03:48.46 >> THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT BEFORE THERE WAS A CALL CENTER, 00:03:48.46\00:03:51.66 BEFORE THERE WAS A PHYSICAL CHURCH, HE WAS HERE, HE SAW THIS 00:03:51.66\00:03:54.96 THING DEVELOP AND I PRAISE THE LORD FOR YOUR LONGEVITY, GOING 00:03:54.96\00:04:00.07 ON 31 YEARS, RIGHT? >> GOING ON 31 YEARS AND IT'S 00:04:00.07\00:04:03.67 AMAZING THE MANY BLESSINGS AND MIRACLES I HAVE SEEN HAS JUST 00:04:03.67\00:04:08.04 INCREASED MY FAITH IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD. 00:04:08.04\00:04:10.08 >> GOD MAKES A COVENANT THAT HE THEY HAVE BREAKS. 00:04:10.08\00:04:13.78 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A TOPIC THAT FOR SOME OF YOU MIGHT 00:04:13.78\00:04:17.65 BE BRAND NEW, YOU HEAR THE PHRASE COVENANT, YOU MIGHT THINK 00:04:17.65\00:04:22.02 OF YOUR CREDIT CARDS, YOUR RENT. YOU MIGHT THINK OF WHAT YOU'RE 00:04:22.02\00:04:26.06 PAYING WHEN IT COMES TO THE END OF THE MONTH FOR YOUR MORTGAGE. 00:04:26.06\00:04:29.80 YOU MIGHT SAY I SIGNED SOMETHING THAT I REALLY WASN'T SURE WHAT I 00:04:29.80\00:04:34.74 SIGNED BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SIGN A HOUSE, YOU SIGN A STACK 00:04:34.74\00:04:37.47 OF PAPERS THAT'S AS TALL AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, YOU JUST 00:04:37.47\00:04:41.71 SAY YES BECAUSE YOU WANT THE HOUSE, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THOSE 00:04:41.71\00:04:45.58 PIECES OF PAPER FOR YOU SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP 00:04:45.58\00:04:48.52 BETWEEN THE LORD WHO PAID FOR YOUR ETERNAL HOUSE AND THE 00:04:48.52\00:04:51.72 CONDITIONS OF THAT BLESSING NOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME 00:04:51.72\00:04:55.36 PORTIONS OF IT THAT MAY BE THEOLOGICAL, BUT WE'RE GOING TO 00:04:55.36\00:04:59.26 MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN BECAUSE ON THE HEEL OF THIS 00:04:59.26\00:05:02.73 PROGRAM IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. 00:05:02.73\00:05:04.67 WHERE DO I STAND WITH CHRIST AND WHAT OBLIGATION DO I HAVE TO 00:05:04.67\00:05:09.14 HIM. WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR ME, WHAT 00:05:09.14\00:05:11.81 KIND OF COVENANT HAS HE MADE AND WHAT DOES HE REQUIRE OF US 00:05:11.81\00:05:15.88 BECAUSE OF OUR LOVE FOR HIM. TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO DISCOVER 00:05:15.88\00:05:20.48 SOMETHING. I THINK MAYBE THREE WEEKS AGO, 00:05:20.48\00:05:23.65 WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAWS, THE DISABILITY, THINGS LIKE THAT. 00:05:23.65\00:05:31.06 MANY OF YOU ARE CHRISTIANS THAT DON'T OBSERVE THE BIBLE, YOU SAY 00:05:31.06\00:05:37.17 I'M CHRISTIAN AND I LOVE THE LORD AND THAT'S ALL THAT 00:05:37.17\00:05:40.44 MATTERS. THAT MATTERS TO A GREAT DEGREE. 00:05:40.44\00:05:43.71 I IMAGINE YOU SAYING TOTAL CAR COMPANY I'LL MAKE A PAYMENT 00:05:43.71\00:05:47.34 WHENEVER I CAN, THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS. 00:05:47.34\00:05:50.35 THEY SAY NO, YOU MADE A CONTRACT WITH US AND YOU HAVE OBLIGATIONS 00:05:50.35\00:05:53.55 TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON. YOU SAY IF I VITAL THE 00:05:53.55\00:05:57.02 CONDITIONS OF THIS OBLIGATION, WHAT HAPPENS? 00:05:57.02\00:06:00.79 WELL, YOU'VE HEARD OF REPOSSESSION, IT'S NOT A GOOD 00:06:00.79\00:06:03.73 THING. TONIGHT WE WANT TO LET YOU SEE 00:06:03.73\00:06:05.39 IN THE BEAUTIFUL SENSE THAT THE LORD HAS MADE A PERPETUAL 00:06:05.39\00:06:09.40 COVENANT THAT IS CALLING HIS PEOPLE TO CAULK UNDER. 00:06:09.40\00:06:11.90 TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE TWO COVENANTS. 00:06:11.90\00:06:16.14 THERE ARE MANY COVENANTS IN THE BIBLE, THERE'S A PHRASE OLD 00:06:16.14\00:06:21.24 COVENANT, NEW COVENANT WHICH HAS BEEN SLAUGHTERED IN THE 00:06:21.24\00:06:24.31 CHRISTIAN WORLD TO MEAN ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 00:06:24.31\00:06:28.08 TONIGHT YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IS THE OLD COVENANT, WHAT IS THE NEW 00:06:28.08\00:06:31.69 COVENANT AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH CHRIST. 00:06:31.69\00:06:34.66 DID I LAY A GOOD FOUNDATION ON THAT ONE? 00:06:34.66\00:06:38.83 WE HAVE SOME -- THESE HEARTS ARE FILLED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF 00:06:38.83\00:06:43.50 THE STUDY OF GOD'S WORD. BEFORE WE GO TO THAT, WE ARE 00:06:43.50\00:06:46.63 GOING TO HAVE A WONDERFUL SONG TITLED IN THE GARDEN. 00:06:46.63\00:06:52.81 PAULO TORRES AND ET EVERETT ARE GOING TO PREPARE OUR HEARTS WITH 00:06:52.81\00:06:59.15 THE SONG IN THE GARDEN. [ MUSIC ] 00:06:59.15\00:09:34.44 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SPEND YOUR 00:09:34.44\00:09:37.61 DAYS WITH THE LORD, I LOVE THAT SONG IN THE GARDEN ALONE, THOSE 00:09:37.61\00:09:41.28 ARE THE SPECIAL TIMES WITH YOU AND CHRIST THAT BUILD ON A 00:09:41.28\00:09:44.45 RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU CANNOT HAVE IN A CROWD. 00:09:44.45\00:09:46.15 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ACCOMPANIMENT. 00:09:46.15\00:09:53.62 THE TWO COVENANTS, THE OLD VERSUS THE NEW. 00:09:53.62\00:09:59.13 THE TWO COVENANTS, THE OLD COVENANT VERSUS THE NEW 00:09:59.13\00:10:04.70 COVENANT. THAT HAS BEEN A PERPETUAL BATTLE 00:10:04.70\00:10:08.24 IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF THAT THAT 00:10:08.24\00:10:12.04 GIVEN WAY TO PEOPLE THAT ARE APPROACHING THEIR RELATIONSHIPS 00:10:12.04\00:10:17.31 TO CHRIST IN WAYS THAT ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURES. 00:10:17.31\00:10:21.32 YET WITHIN THEIR HEARTS, I BELIEVE IN MANY CASES AND MAYBE 00:10:21.32\00:10:23.75 I CAN SAY IN MOST CASES, MANY OF THEM ARE HONESTLY SIP SEAR, 00:10:23.75\00:10:29.12 BECAUSE THEIR UNDERSTANDING IS WHAT'S GUIDING THEIR DECISION. 00:10:29.12\00:10:32.99 BEFORE WE GET INTO THE TOPIC FULLY, I WANT TO JUST, I HAVE 00:10:32.99\00:10:36.67 TWO OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT I'M GOING TO JUST KIND OF GIVE 00:10:36.67\00:10:40.70 THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN A MOMENT BEFORE WE 00:10:40.70\00:10:43.77 GO TO THE TOPIC OF THE OLD AND NEW COVENANT AND GO TO 00:10:43.77\00:10:49.28 DEFINITIONS TOO, IN A MOMENT, BUT ABOUT THREE WEEKS, MAYBE A 00:10:49.28\00:10:52.75 MONTH AGO OR SO, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT TIME, YOU 00:10:52.75\00:10:56.79 KNOW I'LL JUST MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE 00:10:56.79\00:11:01.42 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS AND WE HONOR THE BIBLE SABBATH. 00:11:01.42\00:11:05.49 THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT THAT HONORING THE BIBLE SABBATH, 00:11:05.49\00:11:11.27 PEOPLE SAY THAT'S GREAT FOR YOU BUT DOESN'T FIT FOR ME. 00:11:11.27\00:11:15.74 I'M GOING TO START WITH SHELLEY, YOU WERE THERE. 00:11:15.74\00:11:19.21 YOU WERE THERE AND RYAN WAS THERE, SO I WANT TO SHARE YOUR 00:11:19.21\00:11:23.28 STORIES, CONDENSE IT FOR ME AS TO HOW THIS REALITY OF 00:11:23.28\00:11:32.39 UNDERSTANDING GOD'S COVENANT MADE THE DITCHES OF OBSERVING OR 00:11:32.39\00:11:35.19 NOT OBSERVING THE SABBATH. >> WHEN I WAS BROUGHT UP, I WAS 00:11:35.19\00:11:42.50 TAUGHT COLOSSIANS2: 14. WHEN GOD CALLED ME, AS I WAS 00:11:42.50\00:11:52.74 STUDYING THE SANCTUARY, AND NOT JUST IN EXODUS, ALL THE WAY 00:11:52.74\00:11:57.21 THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, SUDDENLY, I REALIZED THAT GOD'S 10 00:11:57.21\00:12:02.55 COMMANDMENT LAW WAS ON THE INSIDE OF THE ARK, WRITTEN O 00:12:02.55\00:12:08.06 STONE AND THAT THE BOOK OF THE LAW WHICH IS I FOUND OUT THE OLD 00:12:08.06\00:12:11.63 COVENANT WAS ON THE SIDE POCKET OF THE ARK AS A WITNESS AGAINST 00:12:11.63\00:12:19.20 HIM. IT WAS A TEMPORARY THING. 00:12:19.20\00:12:21.17 JD WAS TRAVELING BUT HAPPENED TO BE HOME THAT DAY. 00:12:21.17\00:12:23.84 I CAME DOWN STAIRS AND SAID OH, HONEY, BECAUSE I HAD STUDIED FOR 00:12:23.84\00:12:27.61 WEEKS AND WEEKS AND I SAID I'VE BEEN WOEFULLY WRONG ABOUT THE 00:12:27.61\00:12:36.72 SABBATH. ONCE I REALIZED THAT THE 00:12:36.72\00:12:39.22 COMMANDMENTS WERE PERFECT, THEY WERE ETERNAL, THEY ARE THE HEART 00:12:39.22\00:12:42.46 OF THE OLD COVENANT AND NEW COVENANT, I SAID I'VE WITHIN 00:12:42.46\00:12:48.86 WOEFULLY WRONG ABOUT THE SABBATH. 00:12:48.86\00:12:50.00 HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID WHAT'S WOEFULLY MEAN? 00:12:50.00\00:12:56.47 THE POINT IS THAT WHEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH OF THE COMMANDMENTS 00:12:56.47\00:13:02.51 AND THAT ALL 10 ARE A SINGLE UNIT, IT'S LIKE A CHAIN. 00:13:02.51\00:13:05.91 IF YOU BREAK ONE LINK, YOU'RE BREAKING THEM ALL, JAMES SAYS. 00:13:05.91\00:13:11.82 WHEN I LEARNED THAT THE SABBATH WAS STILL ENFORCE AND I 00:13:11.82\00:13:18.76 CELEBRATED MY FIRST SABBATH, EXODUS 31: 13 GOD SAYS THE 00:13:18.76\00:13:24.77 SABBATH IS A SIGN THAT I'M THE ONE WHO SANCTIFIES YOU. 00:13:24.77\00:13:39.65 I WAS TRYING TO WORK MY WAY HO HEAVEN AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I 00:13:39.65\00:13:43.22 UNDERSTOOD GOD'S FULL PLAN OF GRACE WHEN I STARTED CELEBRATING 00:13:43.22\00:13:47.76 THE SABBATH. I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD WHO 00:13:47.76\00:13:50.53 WAS WORKING IN ME TO WILL HIM TO DO HIS GOOD PLEASURE. 00:13:50.53\00:13:53.96 >> WOW. WOW. 00:13:53.96\00:13:55.80 RYAN, YOU HAD A HODGEPODGE OF A BACKGROUND. 00:13:55.80\00:14:00.24 >> YEAH, I WAS A CHRISTIAN GROWING UP, MY DAD WAS A 00:14:00.24\00:14:04.07 MINISTER, A PASTOR THE MAJORITY OF MY UPBRINGING AND I ATTENDED 00:14:04.07\00:14:11.28 MOSTLY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH. STRANGELY, WHEN YOU'RE IN THAT 00:14:11.28\00:14:15.22 SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS, THEY'RE TEACHING YOU THE 10 00:14:15.22\00:14:18.99 COMMANDMENTS. YOU HAVE TO MEMORIZE THEM, COME 00:14:18.99\00:14:22.02 BACK EVERY WEEK AND MEMORIZE THEM. 00:14:22.02\00:14:24.49 IT'S INTERESTING THAT AS I GOT OLDER INTO A TEENAGER AND NOW 00:14:24.49\00:14:28.60 SITTING OUT FASTER AND LISTENING TO SERMONS AND HEARING THE 00:14:28.60\00:14:32.07 OPPOSITE, SAYING BASICALLY TELLING ME ALL THOSE 10 00:14:32.07\00:14:35.77 COMMANDMENTS YOU LEARNED AS A KID, THAT'S PART OF THE OLD 00:14:35.77\00:14:38.71 COVENANT, DONE AWAY WITH AT THE CROSS. 00:14:38.71\00:14:41.61 FORGET IT. WE LIVE IN JESUS, HE IS OUR LAW, 00:14:41.61\00:14:45.38 OUR GRACE, OUR SALVATION, NO MORE NEED FOR LAW. 00:14:45.38\00:14:54.99 I'M COACHING PEE WEE BASKETBALL AND MOST OF THE GAMES HAPPEN ON 00:14:54.99\00:15:00.26 SATURDAYS. EVERY SATURDAY MY DAD HAD 00:15:00.26\00:15:02.50 STUDIED THIS PREVIOUSLY, HE'S NOW TO SABBATH KEEPING FOR MANY 00:15:02.50\00:15:05.87 YEARS. I CONTINUE TO GO TO SUNDAY 00:15:05.87\00:15:07.94 TEACHING CHURCHES. I WAS A LITTLE IGNORANT IN THAT 00:15:07.94\00:15:10.94 ASPECT BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW. SO EVERY SATURDAY, RYAN, SON, I 00:15:10.94\00:15:15.08 REALLY WISH THAT YOU WOULD HONOR GOD'S DISABILITY, SON, TODAY'S 00:15:15.08\00:15:19.08 THE DISABILITY AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE OUT THERE, THIS IS GOD DAY. 00:15:19.08\00:15:22.02 I HEARD THIS EVERY SINGLE WEEK AND IT BOTHERED ME SO MUCH, KIND 00:15:22.02\00:15:27.42 OF CAUSED A DISAGREEMENT, A DISGRUNTLEMENT BETWEEN ME AND MY 00:15:27.42\00:15:32.29 DAD. I THOUGHT I'M GOING TO GIVE IT A 00:15:32.29\00:15:34.23 SHOT. I PUT IN A TAPE, IT WAS A VHS 00:15:34.23\00:15:37.87 TAPE MARK FINLEY ON THE SABBATH. WATCHED THAT AND I WAS JUST 00:15:37.87\00:15:43.10 FLOORED AT THE EVIDENCE IN SCRIPTURE ON THE VALIDITY OF 00:15:43.10\00:15:48.14 SABBATH KEEPING JUST BASED ON WHAT I SAW IN THAT VIDEO, I WAS 00:15:48.14\00:15:57.95 CONVINCED, THERE'S A LOT OF PROOF FOR THE SABBATH BUT 00:15:57.95\00:15:59.79 THERE'S A LURKING QUESTION IN MY MIND, WAIT A SECOND, THE SABBATH 00:15:59.79\00:16:04.36 IS PART OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, THE OLD COVENANT, SO THIS GUY 00:16:04.36\00:16:07.60 HAS GOT TO BE MESSED UP. TIME PASSED UNTIL I WAKED IN AN 00:16:07.60\00:16:11.87 OLD CHURCH ONE DAY. I'M JUICING THE STORY DOWN, 00:16:11.87\00:16:15.74 WALKED INTO THIS OLD CHURCH ONE DAY AND THIS GUY GAVE ME A STACK 00:16:15.74\00:16:19.37 OF BOOKS. HE SAID YOU CAN HAVE THESE 00:16:19.37\00:16:21.64 BOOKS, DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH THEM, PASS THEM OUT, GIVE THEM 00:16:21.64\00:16:25.05 AWAY. I WENT THROUGH THE BOOKS, THERE 00:16:25.05\00:16:27.35 WAS ONE THAT STUCK OUT TO ME THAT SAID 10 COMMANDMENTS TWICE 00:16:27.35\00:16:34.42 REMOVED, THE TITLE OF IT AND FRONT OF IT JUST STUCK OUT TO 00:16:34.42\00:16:38.03 ME. I SAID I'M GOING TO READ THIS. 00:16:38.03\00:16:40.20 I POURED THROUGH IT AND IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE 00:16:40.20\00:16:43.50 OF NOT ONLY SABBATH KEEPING AND THE VALIDITY BUT THE DIFFERENCE 00:16:43.50\00:16:50.37 BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW COVENANT, SHELLEY, I HAVE TO 00:16:50.37\00:16:53.78 GIVE A SHOUT OUT FOR YOU THERE. THAT BOOK PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN 00:16:53.78\00:16:59.45 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A NEW COVENANT CHRISTIAN, WHAT THAT 00:16:59.45\00:17:02.72 MEANS, BUT ALSO UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR TOPIC 00:17:02.72\00:17:06.22 TONIGHT, THE TWO COVENANT, THE OLD ANT NEW COVENANT. 00:17:06.22\00:17:09.32 >> WOW. WOW. 00:17:09.32\00:17:11.29 THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WATCHING OR MAY BE LISTENING ON RADIO. 00:17:11.29\00:17:15.50 MY WIFE WORKS FOR RADIO, I CANNOT LEAVE THAT OUT. 00:17:15.50\00:17:18.77 YOU CAN DRIVE AND LISTEN, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD. 00:17:18.77\00:17:22.17 MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THAT SAME CATEGORY, SAYING IN ORDER TO 00:17:22.17\00:17:28.44 MAKE THAT POINT CLEAR, THE MAJORITY OF INDIVIDUALS ARE 00:17:28.44\00:17:33.08 HONEST CHRISTIANS WHO HAVEN'T EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO CONSIDER 00:17:33.08\00:17:36.55 WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. 00:17:36.55\00:17:39.35 WE'LL GIVE PASS DOOR A CHANCE TO CHIME IN ON IT TONIGHT. 00:17:39.35\00:17:42.29 HAVING BEEN RAISED A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST BUT STILL THE 00:17:42.29\00:17:47.96 DISCOVERY COMES LATER WHEN IT BECOMES PERSONAL. 00:17:47.96\00:17:50.17 >> YES, PEOPLE SAY I GREW UP IN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 00:17:50.17\00:17:59.44 CHURCH. WHEN YOU COME TO A POINT IN YOUR 00:17:59.44\00:18:01.94 LIFE, WHY DO WE DO THIS, WHY DO WE DO THAT, WHY DO WE BELIEVE 00:18:01.94\00:18:06.92 THIS AND BELIEVE THAT. I DECIDED TO DO A STUDY FOR 00:18:06.92\00:18:10.25 MYSELF AND I SAID LORD, HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR CHURCH 00:18:10.25\00:18:14.49 TEACHES, SO I GRABBED SOME BIBLE STUDIES AND THE BIBLE AND I WAS 00:18:14.49\00:18:21.86 COMPARING WHAT OUR BIBLE STUDY SAYS AND WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:18:21.86\00:18:26.10 I WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF STUDYING AMOUNTED I SAID WOW, 00:18:26.10\00:18:29.60 THIS IS BEAUTIFUL AND I UNDERSTOOD IT AND I WAS BLESSED 00:18:29.60\00:18:32.07 BY IT, SO I REJOICE IN GOD'S WORD, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE I SAID 00:18:32.07\00:18:36.38 BEFORE, IT'S A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH AND I JUST PRAISE THE LORD 00:18:36.38\00:18:40.42 THAT OUR -- WAS THE -- WHAT THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST TEACH IS 00:18:40.42\00:18:49.29 BIBLICAL, FOUNDED ON GOD'S WORDS AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL, IT'S 00:18:49.29\00:18:54.50 LOGICAL. THERE'S THIS BEAUTY FROM GENESIS 00:18:54.50\00:18:57.57 TO REVELATION. >> A CONTINUITY. 00:18:57.57\00:19:09.01 WHEN YOU SEE IT, YOU SAY WOW, GOD IS JUST AMAZING. 00:19:09.01\00:19:13.31 THIS IS JUST A SMALL DROP OF THE ABUNDANT THINGS THAT GOD WANTS 00:19:13.31\00:19:17.09 TO TEACH HIS CHILDREN. >> AMEN. 00:19:17.09\00:19:18.69 >> HAVE WE NOT BEEN SO MUCH DISTRACTED BY THINGS OF THE 00:19:18.69\00:19:24.73 WORLD AND WE WERE ABLE TO CONCENTRATE MORE ON WHAT GOD IS 00:19:24.73\00:19:28.40 TRYING TO TEACH US, WE WOULD LOVE GOD SO MUCH THAT WE WOULD 00:19:28.40\00:19:32.30 SAY I WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE AT THE FOOT OF JESUS. 00:19:32.30\00:19:34.67 >> THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. >> I'M A BIG PICTURE PERSON, 00:19:34.67\00:19:47.02 SOMEONE MAY BE WATCHING RIGHT NOW SAYING I BELIEVE IN THE 00:19:47.02\00:19:51.72 JESUS AND THE CROSS AND I DON'T NEED THE COVENANT. 00:19:51.72\00:19:54.96 I WANT TO SOLIDIFY, THE BIBLE STORY, WHAT I CONSIDER JUST THE 00:19:54.96\00:19:59.33 STORY OF THE SCRIPTURE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION AND TAKE 00:19:59.33\00:20:04.23 AN AERIAL VIEW WHAT THE BIBLE IS SAYING FRONT COVER TO BACK 00:20:04.23\00:20:07.30 COVER, THIS IS A STORY OF REDEMPTION, IT IS, BUT A STORY 00:20:07.30\00:20:11.61 VIA COVENANT. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS ENTIRE 00:20:11.61\00:20:15.08 WORLD FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION IS A CONSTANT STORY OF COVENANT 00:20:15.08\00:20:22.12 >> AMEN. >> SO MANY CHRISTIANS TRY TO 00:20:22.12\00:20:24.72 TAKE THAT COVENANT AND THROW IT AWAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T 00:20:24.72\00:20:27.56 UNDERSTAND IT FOR ONE BUT THE WORD JUST SOUNDS SO OLD 00:20:27.56\00:20:32.46 TESTAMENT, IT SOUNDS SO OLD COVENANT, RIGHT, COVENANT, 00:20:32.46\00:20:37.60 COVENANT, JESUS DONE AWAY WITH THAT, PRAISE THE LORD WE HAVE 00:20:37.60\00:20:39.80 THE CROSS AND THAT'S ALL WE NEED BUT THE CROSS IS THE PART OF THE 00:20:39.80\00:20:44.74 COVENANT, PART OF A COVENANT. YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE, 00:20:44.74\00:20:49.58 YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND BIBLE PROPHECY, YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND 00:20:49.58\00:20:53.05 ANY OF THIS UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND KIND OF THE NARRATIVE 00:20:53.05\00:20:59.89 PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT IT MEANS. >> PAUL THE APOSTLE WHEN HE 00:20:59.89\00:21:06.49 TALKED SAID WE LOOK THROUGH A GLASS DIMLY. 00:21:06.49\00:21:10.37 MANY CHRISTIANS ARE LOOKING THROUGH A DIM GLASS, THEY LOVE 00:21:10.37\00:21:14.14 BUT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A GLASS DIMLY. 00:21:14.14\00:21:17.01 PART OF THAT IS WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT, THE TRADITION ON 00:21:17.01\00:21:19.87 THE WHOLE, WHAT THE CHRISTIANS DO AND HOW THEY PRACTICE. 00:21:19.87\00:21:22.91 WE ARE NOT SAYING BECAUSE OF THAT THAT WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU 00:21:22.91\00:21:26.15 ARE, OR YOU ARE BETTER THAN WE ARE. 00:21:26.15\00:21:28.08 WE'RE SAYING THAT THE REVELATION AND I LOVE THE WAY YOU SAID 00:21:28.08\00:21:31.52 THAT, WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE FULL STORY, PUT IT THIS WAY AND 00:21:31.52\00:21:34.92 JOHN YOU SAID THIS BEAUTIFULLY. WHEN YOU REALLY GRAB THAT 00:21:34.92\00:21:38.26 PICTURE, YOU START THINKING HOW COULD SOMEONE MAKE SUCH A 00:21:38.26\00:21:42.56 BEAUTIFUL COVENANT. >> AMEN. 00:21:42.56\00:21:43.73 >> WITH ME IN MIND, BECAUSE HE JUST WANTS TO SAVE ME. 00:21:43.73\00:21:48.67 IF SOMEBODY SAID THIS IS THE LAST SEAT ON THE LAST PLANE AND 00:21:48.67\00:21:52.64 WE'RE LEAVING AND AFTER WE LEAVE, THEIRS IS COOKED. 00:21:52.64\00:21:57.18 YOU WANT TO THE ONBOARD, OH, WHAT'S THE CONDITIONS. 00:21:57.18\00:21:59.18 YOU WON'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS, PUT ME ONBOARD. 00:21:59.18\00:22:02.45 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN YOU SAY GET ME 00:22:02.45\00:22:09.16 ONBOARD. THEN WHEN YOU'RE ONBOARD, THE 00:22:09.16\00:22:11.49 LORD CAN SAY TO YOU DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU GET ONBOARD 00:22:11.49\00:22:14.93 WHAT'S AHEAD OF YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY CLUE WHEN WE 00:22:14.93\00:22:18.33 LAND AND THE NEW JERUSALEM, WHAT'S GOING TO UNFOLD BEFORE 00:22:18.33\00:22:21.94 YOU. THE BEAUTY OF THE COVENANT GOD 00:22:21.94\00:22:26.07 HAS MADE FOR US IS A BEAUTIFUL BLESSING FOR US. 00:22:26.07\00:22:29.51 PASTOR YOU WERE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING FIRST. 00:22:29.51\00:22:31.71 >> I'M SAYING SOMETHING BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, 00:22:31.71\00:22:34.88 THINGS GETTING INTO FOCUS. I REMEMBER THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS 00:22:34.88\00:22:41.66 ALWAYS ABLE TO SEE FROM FAR AWAY VERY WELL BUT AS ABLE CONTINUED 00:22:41.66\00:22:45.49 TO COME UPON ME, I NOTICED THAT THE SIGNS FROM FAR AWAY WERE 00:22:45.49\00:22:52.90 GETTING BLURRY, AND I KNOW IT WASN'T A PROBLEM WITH THE SIGN. 00:22:52.90\00:22:56.07 IT WAS A PROBLEM WITH MY EYESIGHT THAT WAS GETTING 00:22:56.07\00:22:59.37 WEAKER. >> GOOD EXAMPLE. 00:22:59.37\00:23:00.34 >> SO THIS WENT ON FOR A WHILE UNTIL I STARTED MISSING IN 00:23:00.34\00:23:04.95 EXITS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU GPS, YOUR EXIT IS NUMBER 35, AND 00:23:04.95\00:23:11.59 THIS IS THE NAME OF THE ROAD, AND SO IT WAS GETTING HARD TO 00:23:11.59\00:23:15.42 SEE THAT, SO OH, THAT WAS EXIT 35. 00:23:15.42\00:23:18.29 THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, THE NAME OF THE ROD. 00:23:18.29\00:23:19.76 I SAID OH, MAN, NOW I HAVE TO GO ANOTHER FIVE MILES AND TURN 00:23:19.76\00:23:24.43 AROUND AND COME BACK TO THIS THING. 00:23:24.43\00:23:26.40 I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT TO THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE TO GET FITTED 00:23:26.40\00:23:29.80 FOR GLASSES, AND HE SAYS TELL ME WHAT LETTERS YOU CAN SEE WITHOUT 00:23:29.80\00:23:34.38 ANY AID, YOU KNOW, I SAID I SEE THIS, THIS, BUT THE LINES BELOW 00:23:34.38\00:23:40.05 WERE VERY BLURRY. THEN HE PUT THESE THINGS IN 00:23:40.05\00:23:42.85 FRONT OF ME AND THE VERY FIRST THING I DID WAS SMILE, BECAUSE I 00:23:42.85\00:23:47.66 COULD SEE. >> AMEN. 00:23:47.66\00:23:48.76 >> THE REASON I'M SHARING THAT IS BECAUSE LITTLE MY PRAYER THAT 00:23:48.76\00:23:53.26 AS WE SHARE THINGS FROM GOD'S WORD, PEOPLE WILL SMILE AND SAY 00:23:53.26\00:23:58.27 NOW I SEE THINGS CLEARLY, BECAUSE I WAS ABLE TO SEE THINGS 00:23:58.27\00:24:01.90 CLEARLY. I SAID WOW, THAT'S GOING TO 00:24:01.90\00:24:03.67 CHANGE MY LIFE, BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO MISS THOSE EXITS. 00:24:03.67\00:24:50.22 >> YOU COULD HAVE DRAWN A CIRCLE AROUND THEM BEFORE AND 00:24:50.22\00:24:53.82 CHRISTIANS THAT WOULD NOT VITAL THOSE OTHER NINE HAVE BEEN 00:24:53.82\00:24:57.63 MISLED IN THEIR MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE COVENANTS TO VIOLATE 00:24:57.63\00:25:00.83 NUMBER FOUR. THAT HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST ISSUE. 00:25:00.83\00:25:09.70 . >> WITH EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YOU, THE BIRDS, THE 00:31:02.39\00:31:09.93 CATTLE AND THE BEASTS WITH YOU, EVERY BEAST IN THE ARK TO GO OUT, EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH, 00:31:09.93\00:31:16.77 NEVER AGAIN SHALL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF BY THE WATERS OF THE FLOOD, NEVER AGAIN SHALL THERE 00:31:16.77\00:31:22.94 BE A FLOOD TO DESTROY THE EARTH. >> HALLELUIAH, WE'RE GLAD HE 00:31:22.94\00:31:28.68 KEEPS THAT ONE. >> EVERY TIME YOU SEE A RAINBOW, THAT'S A SYMBOL OF THAT COVENANT. 00:31:28.68\00:31:38.39 WHEN A CLOUD SHOWS UP AND IT STARTS TO RAIN, GO TO GENESIS AND WAY WHOO, WE'RE OK, THE 00:31:38.39\00:31:44.87 WATER'S GOING TO STOP. IT MAY GET DEEP AT TIMES AND WE'VE HAD 00:31:44.87\00:31:50.71 SOME PEOPLE ARGUE WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S GLOBAL WARMING OR NOT, BUT GOD KEPT HIS COVENANT AND 00:31:50.71\00:31:56.98 SAID I WILL NOT DESTROY THE EARTH BY WATER ANYMORE. >> THAT 00:31:56.98\00:32:01.88 IS VERSE 13. I SAID MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD AND IT SHALL BE FOR THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN 00:32:01.88\00:32:07.42 ME AND THE EARTH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AMEN. 00:32:07.42\00:32:09.36 >> SO WHAT I HEARD THE TERM YEARS AGO THE RAINBOW COALITION, MY MIND AS A BIBLE STUDENT WENT 00:32:09.36\00:32:16.87 TO THIS. >> AMEN. >> BUT THE DEVIL HAS TAKEN THE 00:32:16.87\00:32:20.54 RAINBOW TO MAKE IT A SYMBOL OF GAYITY AND SEXUALITY. I WAS GOING TO PUT UP A WEBSITE 00:32:20.54\00:32:29.78 CALLED THE RAINBOW OF GOD BECAUSE PEOPLE MISUNDERSTOOD THE REASON OF A RAINBOW. 00:32:29.78\00:32:36.45 THIS WAS A SYMBOL GOD MADE TO NOAH. AS SHELLEY SAID, GOD IS A 00:32:36.45\00:32:45.13 COVENANT MAKER AND GOD IS A COVENANT KEEPER. ALL RIGHT. 00:32:45.13\00:32:57.37 LET'S TALK ABOUT, LET'S GO TO EXODUS 34:28. WE'RE GOING TO 00:32:57.37\00:33:05.98 OPEN UP SOME DOORS HERE TO START GIVING SOME EXAMPLES HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW IF YOU WERE 00:33:05.98\00:33:11.25 LISTENING, A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT BECAUSE IT'S A NEW TOPIC, WE IT RATE AND REITERATE THEM 00:33:11.25\00:33:17.23 JUST SO THAT IT CAN BE VERY, VERY CLEAR. I SHOWED YOU A PITURE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS A 00:33:17.23\00:33:21.63 MOMENT AGO AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE COVENANT GOD MADE, THESE ARE THE CONDITIONS OF IT, 00:33:21.63\00:33:26.17 THE ONES HE WROTE TO MOSES IN THE BOOK, THE ONES HE WROTE ON TABLES OF STONE, THESE 10 00:33:26.17\00:33:33.14 COMMANDMENTS ARE THE CONDITION, THE HEART, THE BODY OF THE COVENANT RYAN, READ THAT FOR US. 00:33:33.14\00:33:39.95 >> ABSOLUTELY. I JUST WANT TO ADD AND WE'LL REEMPHASIZE, THE 00:33:39.95\00:33:44.99 CONDITIONS OF THIS COVENANT WHICH WE ARE GOING TO IDENTIFY AS THE 10 COMMANDMENTS WERE NOT 00:33:44.99\00:33:49.02 JUST FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, ALSO FOR NOAH, ABRAHAM, EVERY GROUP, EVEN ALL THE WAY BACK TO 00:33:49.02\00:33:58.23 HEAVEN, WHEN LASSITER SINNED, HE HAD TO HAVE BROKEN A LAW. HE WAS THERE 40 DARES AND 40 00:33:58.23\00:34:10.11 NIGHTS. HE NEITHER ATE BREAD NOR DRANK WATER AND WROTE ON THE 00:34:10.11\00:34:14.15 TABLETS THE WORDS OF THE COVENANT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. >> 00:34:14.15\00:34:18.09 OK. SO THE EMBODIMENT, THE LORD MADE IT VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT THERE'S AN EMBODIMENT HERE. 00:34:18.09\00:34:24.13 LATER IN THE PROGRAM W'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME DIFFERENT GRAPHICS THAT WILL BRING THOSE 00:34:24.13\00:34:30.10 HOME MORE CLEARLY. >> WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD TO THAT? 00:34:30.10\00:34:39.27 >> I THINK THAT THAT SCRIPTURE USED TO CONFUSE ME, BECAUSE I WAS TAUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE OLD 00:34:39.27\00:34:46.05 COVENANT, AND THEN WHEN YOU LOOKED IN EXODUS 24 WHEN GOD SMOKE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS TO THE 00:34:46.05\00:35:06.07 PEOPLE, BEFORE GOD WRITES THEM ON THE STONE, HE GOES UP THE MOUNTAIN, GOD GIVES HIM CIVIL, 00:35:06.07\00:35:13.01 CEREMONIAL LAW AND THE MORAL LAW. MOSES COMES DOWN, HE SPEAKS 00:35:13.01\00:35:17.71 ALL OF THIS TO THE PEOPLE AND HE WRITES IT IN WHAT'S CALLED THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, HE BUILDS 00:35:17.71\00:35:24.12 AN ALTAR, HE MAKES A SACRIFICE, HE RATIFIES THAT COVENANT. >> 00:35:24.12\00:35:29.82 THAT'S RIGHT. >> THE OLD COVENANT IS NOT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, IT'S PART OF IT, I 00:35:29.82\00:35:38.63 MEAN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE THE HEART OF IT, THE BODY OF IT, BUT IT WAS THOSE LAWS, THOSE 00:35:38.63\00:35:53.11 CEREMONIAL THINGS, WHEN I UNDERSTOOD THAT, THEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE COMMANDMENTS 00:35:53.11\00:35:57.55 WERE NOT NAILED TO THE CROSS. >> EXACTLY. AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT OUT, BECAUSE WHEN 00:35:57.55\00:36:01.32 YOU LOOK AT OLD TESTAMENT, YOU FIND THE WHOLE CONDITIONS SHOWS THE TWO COVENANTS, THE LAW OF 00:36:01.32\00:36:24.71 GOD AND THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT YOU SEE WHAT I REFER TO AS THE BOOK OF 00:36:24.71\00:36:43.97 THE LAW OR THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT. THE WHITE LINE US 00:36:43.97\00:36:54.88 BEFORE THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT AND AFTER. WHAT WAS IN THE MIDDLE, WHAT WAS IN THE MIDDLE. 00:36:54.88\00:37:21.04 >> I WOULD LIKE TO ADD PERHAPS AT THIS POINT BECAUSE YOU SHOWED A PICTURE THAT SHOWS TO THE 10 00:37:21.04\00:37:27.91 COMMANDMENTS ARE HERE AND AT THE END, WE'RE GOING TO SHARE SCRIPTURE AND CAPTAINMENTS ARE 00:37:27.91\00:37:33.92 PART OF THE NEW COVENANT, THE EVER LASTING COVENANT. >> THE EVER LASTING COVENANT. 00:37:33.92\00:37:40.32 I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. SHOULD I GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION THEN? 00:37:40.32\00:37:43.76 >> SURE. >> LET'S GO NOW TO DEUTERONOMY FIVE VERSE 22. 00:37:43.76\00:37:50.97 WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH SOME THINGS AND WE KNOW THERE WERE 600 LAWS IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW. 00:37:50.97\00:38:05.28 WE SAY THE BOOKS OF MOSES, THAT'S THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF 00:38:05.28\00:38:09.88 THE BIBLE. THE BOOK OF MOSES IS CONTAINED IN THE BOOKS OF MOSES. ONE WAS WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF 00:38:09.88\00:38:16.93 GOD ON THE TABLES OF STONE, THE OTHER ONE WRITTEN BY MOSES IN A 00:38:16.93\00:38:35.54 BOOK. EXODUS 24:SEVEN, HE WRITES THAT IN THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT AND HE SPEAKS IT TO THE PEOPLE. 00:38:35.54\00:38:44.22 NOW WHEN YOU GET TO DEUTERONOMY, THE WORT DO DEUTERONOMY IS THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW, SO 00:38:44.22\00:38:50.83 THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, IT'S GETTING A LITTLE 00:38:50.83\00:38:55.60 EXPANDED NOW. IT HAS THE CURSES AND THE BLESSINGS AND HE WRITES THIS OUT IN WHAT THEY CALL THE 00:38:55.60\00:39:04.11 BOOK OF THE LAW AND GOD TELLS HIM TAKE THIS BOOK OF THE LAW, PUT THIS ON THE OUTSIDE ON A 00:39:04.11\00:39:16.69 POCKET OF THE ARK, IT WILL BE THERE AS THEY WITNESS AGAINST YOU. AND THAT'S HOW WE 00:39:16.69\00:39:24.26 UNDERSTAND WHEN WE GET INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT. >> ALL THE BIBLE 00:39:24.26\00:39:46.61 QUESTIONS I GET, MANY DEAL WITH COLLUSIONS CHAPTER TWO. NOTICE DEUTERONOMY 31, SO IT WAS 00:39:46.61\00:40:08.10 WHEN MOSES HAD COMPLETED WRITING THE WORDS OF THIS LAW IN A BOOK WHEN THEY WERE FINISHED, 00:40:08.10\00:40:18.21 REMEMBER THESE WORDS, IT TALKS ABOUT THE HANDWRITING OF 00:40:18.21\00:40:24.19 ORDINANCES. GOD WROTE WITH HIS FINGER, COMMANDMENTS, FINGER OF GOD, MOSES COMMAND THE LEVITES. 00:40:24.19\00:40:38.70 TAKE THIS BOOK OF THE LAW AND PUT IT IN THE SIDE THAT I HAD MAY BE THERE AS A DON'T MISS 00:40:38.70\00:40:44.64 THIS WORD HERE, WITNESS AGAINST YOU. AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT TO 00:40:44.64\00:40:48.78 VISUALIZE THIS, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, AGAIN, ARK OF WHAT? >> 00:40:48.78\00:40:53.95 THE COVENANT. >> THE COVENANT, OK, THE MOST IMPORTANT COVENANT IN THE SENSE OF THE EVER LASTING 00:40:53.95\00:41:01.26 COVENANT WAS PLACED INSIDE THE ARC, THE TABLES OF STONE, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS WERE PLACED INSIDE 00:41:01.26\00:41:06.80 THE ARK BUT THERE WAS A SIDE COMPARTMENT ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND THE 00:41:06.80\00:41:13.94 BOOK OF THE LAW THAT MOSES WROTE THESE OTHER EXTRA LAWS IN HE PLACED ON THE OUTSIDE 00:41:13.94\00:41:20.38 COMPARTMENT. I BELIEVE THAT COMMUNICATES SOMETHING IMPORTANT 00:41:20.38\00:41:23.31 HERE. WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE WAS EVER LASTING. >> WHAT'S WRITTEN 00:41:23.31\00:41:28.48 IN STONE IS PERMANENT, WHAT'S WRITTEN ON PARCHMENT WAS TEMPORARY. >> YOU GOT IT. 00:41:28.48\00:41:36.12 THE LANGUAGE IS SO CLEAR AND YOU READ THE CONTEXT ESPECIALLY VERSUS 16, YOU START READING 00:41:36.12\00:41:41.96 ABOUT THESE MEAT AND DRINK OFFERINGS AND IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT UNNECESSARILY THE 10 00:41:41.96\00:41:53.51 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD WHICH ARE NEVER LASTING, BUT AGAIN, THIS BOOK OF THE LAW THAT MOTIONS 00:41:53.51\00:41:58.41 WROTE ON THE OUTSIDE. >> WELL, HE SUMMARIZED, HE SPOKE IT BEAUTIFULLY, BECAUSE GOD 00:41:58.41\00:42:04.02 SEEMS TO BE TELLING US THIS IS IN THE ARC AND REMEMBER THE ARK 00:42:04.02\00:42:09.46 IS HOLY. >> AND THE ARK IS THE THRONE OF GOD. >> THAT'S RIGHT 00:42:09.46\00:42:21.44 THERE'S A DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE COMMANDMENTS OF CEREMONIAL LAWS, THEY ARE TEMPORARY, TAKEN OUT OF 00:42:21.44\00:42:27.41 THE WAY. WHEN WE GET TO COLLOSIANS TWO:14, IT'S TALKING 00:42:27.41\00:42:39.29 ABOUT THE CEREMONIAL THINGS, NOT 10 COMMANDMENTS. >> LET'S HIT 00:42:39.29\00:42:46.93 THIS BOTH HOURS. LET'S GO TO COLLOSIANS TWO:14. >> I'M LOOKING AT SECOND KINGS CHAPTER 00:42:46.93\00:42:56.47 21 VERSE EIGHT, THIS IS JUST A GENERAL TEXT. I HAVE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS SAY NO NO NO, THE 10 00:42:56.47\00:43:01.68 COMMANDMENTS AND LAWS THAT GOD GAVE TO MOMENTS. SECOND KINGS 00:43:01.68\00:43:08.02 CHAPTER 21. WE'RE GOING TO READ VERSE EGHT HERE. THIS IS JUST TO 00:43:08.02\00:43:12.62 SHOW AND I'M ALSO GOING TO GO TO DANIEL NUMBER NINE. THERE'S MULTIPLE SCRIPTURES THAT 00:43:12.62\00:43:18.26 GOD HIMSELF AND HIS PROPHETS MAKE A CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE OLD COVENANT CEREMONIAL 00:43:18.26\00:43:25.73 ASPECT OF THE LAW AND OF COURSE THOSE LAWS WRITTEN ON THE 10 COMMANDMENTS BY GOD. 00:43:25.73\00:43:36.54 ONLY IF THEY ARE CAREFUL TO DO, NOTICE THIS, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM, OK, 00:43:36.54\00:43:43.12 AND ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE -- OF THE LAW THAT MY SERVANT MOSES 00:43:43.12\00:43:49.39 COMMANDED THEM. NOTICE THE DISTINCTION. GOD IS SAYING THERE'S MY LAW THAT YOU MUST 00:43:49.39\00:43:55.13 KEEP AT THIS TIME BECAUSE CHRIST HASN'T COME TO DO AWAY WITH THAT CEREMONIAL ASPECT AND YOU STILL 00:43:55.13\00:44:01.77 MUST KEEP ALSO WHAT MY SERVANT MOSES HAS TOLD YOU. DANIEL NINE. 00:44:01.77\00:44:08.18 AGAIN, DANIEL CHAPTER NINE. I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS VERY 00:44:08.18\00:44:12.35 CLEARLY. DANIEL CHAPTER NINE AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT VERSES I 00:44:12.35\00:44:16.08 THINK 10 AND 11. >> OK, I'M THERE. >> SO DANIEL, PASTOR READ THAT, DANIEL PASTOR NINE, VERSES 00:44:16.08\00:44:24.26 10 AND 11. DANIEL IS IN PRAYER AND CONFESSING HIS SINS AND THE 00:44:24.26\00:44:31.13 SINS OF ISRAEL. >> WE HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR 00:44:31.13\00:44:36.57 GOD TO WALK IN HIS LAWS WHICH HE SET BEFORE US BY HIS SERVANT, THE PROPHET. YES, ALL ISRAEL HAS 00:44:36.57\00:44:46.21 TRANSGRESSED YOUR LAW AND HAS DEPARTED SO AS NOT TO OBEY YOUR VOICE. THEREFORE, THE CURSE AND 00:44:46.21\00:44:54.79 THE OATH WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, THE SERVANT OF GOD HAVE BEEN POURED OUT ON US, BECAUSE 00:44:54.79\00:45:03.43 WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM. >> WHAT YOU HAVE IN THIS VERSE NOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT 00:45:03.43\00:45:07.80 THE BOOK OF THE LAW, THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT AND WHEN WE SEE, WHEN HE SEE THIS DIFFERENT 00:45:07.80\00:45:13.04 LANGUAGE USED HERE, NOW YOU HAVE THE LAW OF MOSES THAT COME IN. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THE LAW OF 00:45:13.04\00:45:18.68 GOD, THE LAW OF MOSES. THIS VERSE, AS THE PREVIOUS VERSE. 00:45:18.68\00:45:23.35 GOD MAKES A DISTINCTION. DANIEL WAS OPERATING HERE, TOO, GOD, HE MAKES A DISTINCTION. 00:45:23.35\00:45:31.23 YOU HAVE GOD'S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES. WHICH ONE IS EVER 00:45:31.23\00:45:36.60 LASTING, WHICH ONE IS NOT. COLLOSIANS TWO: 14 NAILS DOWN 00:45:36.60\00:45:46.68 WHAT WAS -- >> YOU'RE GETTING EXCITED. SLOW DOWN. >> THIS I 00:45:46.68\00:45:52.01 WHAT I HAD BEEN TAUGHT ALL MY LIFE THAT THE COMMANDMENTS WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS. 00:45:52.01\00:45:56.52 LISTEN, WE HAVE JUST LOOKED AT DEUTERONOMY 31:26 THAT SAID THAT THE LAW OF MOSES, THE BOOK OF 00:45:56.52\00:46:04.09 THE LAW, WHICH IS THE EXPANSION OF THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT IS ON THE OUTSIDE POCKET OF THE ARK 00:46:04.09\00:46:14.07 AS A WITNESS AGAINST THEM. RIGHT? SO NOW LISTEN TO THIS. 00:46:14.07\00:46:19.34 COLLOSIANS TWO:MOURN. HE SAYS HAVING WIPED OUT THE LAND WRITING OF REQUIREMENT. 00:46:19.34\00:46:26.58 I GOT TO STOP HERE AND SAY THE 10 COMMANDMENTS WITH, WE'LL COME TO THOSE IN JUST A MINUTE. 00:46:26.58\00:46:32.75 THAT'S NOT A HANDWRITING OF REQUIREMENT. DO YOU KNOW THEY 00:46:32.75\00:46:37.86 ARE WRITTEN IN FUTURE TENSE? THEY ARE PROMISES FROM GOD. THIS IS GOD'S LAW OF LOVE. 00:46:37.86\00:46:43.87 ESSAYING TO THE PEOPLE HEY, IF YOU'RE IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH ME, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 00:46:43.87\00:46:50.77 HAVE ANY OTHER GODS BEFORE ME, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BOW DOWN TO 00:46:50.77\00:46:59.41 IDOLS. YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE KEEPING THE SABBATH. YOU WON'T DISHONOR YOUR FARE AND 00:46:59.41\00:47:10.33 MOTHER, YOU WASN'T BEAR FALSE WITNESS AND YOU WON'T COVET, 00:47:10.33\00:47:14.83 WHY? BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT COVENANT RELATIONSHIP IS LIKE IN ME. THEY WERE A WITNESS AGAINST 00:47:14.83\00:47:34.45 THEM, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US. HE HAS TAKEN IT OUT OF THE WAY, HAVING NAILED IT TO THE CROSS. 00:47:34.45\00:47:41.39 NOW LOOK, LET'S GO DOWN TO VERSE 16, SO, LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN 00:47:41.39\00:47:51.93 FOOD OR IN DRINK. WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? THE FOOD AND THE DRINK OFFERINGS, HE IS OR 00:47:51.93\00:47:59.87 REGARDING A FESTIVAL OR A NEW MOON OR SABBATHS, THERE WERE ANNUAL CEREMONIAL SABBATHS WHICH 00:47:59.87\00:48:08.75 ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME. >> BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, I WANT TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE 00:48:08.75\00:48:19.59 GOING TO SAY IT, BUT JUST IN CASE, THE BOTH IS NOT A SHADOW 00:48:19.59\00:48:24.47 OF ANYTHING. >> NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> IT'S PART OF GOD'S ETERNAL LAW AND WE'RE GOING TO 00:48:24.47\00:48:32.91 SHOW SCRIPTURES. >> LET ME JUST GIVE THESE TWO MORE SCRIPTURES 00:48:32.91\00:48:39.38 THAT COME WITH EPHESIANS, SAYS THAT CHRIST ABOLISHED IN THE FLESH THE ENMITY THAT IS THE LAW 00:48:39.38\00:48:52.83 OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES SO AS TO CREATE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW MAN FROM THE 00:48:52.83\00:48:59.23 TWO. ONE MORE SCRIPTURE AND I'LL LET SOMEBODY ELSE TALK. 00:48:59.23\00:49:03.57 IN HEBREWS NINE, VERSUS NINE. >> VERSUS NINE AND 10, GO FOR IT. 00:49:03.57\00:49:11.65 >> HE SAYS THAT THIS OLD COVENANT, THIS BOOK OF THE LAW WAS SYMBOLIC FOR THE PRESENT 00:49:11.65\00:49:20.09 TIME IN WHICH BOTH GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE OFFERED WHICH CANNOT MAKE HIM WHO PERFORMED 00:49:20.09\00:49:26.33 THE SERVICE PERFECT IN REGARD TO THE CONSCIENCE CONCERNED ONLY WITH THE FOODS AND DRINKS AND 00:49:26.33\00:49:35.34 VARIOUS WASHINGS AND FLESHY ORDINANCES IMPOSED UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION, THE TIME OF 00:49:35.34\00:49:44.71 REFORMATION WAS WHEN JESUS CAME. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS OLD COVENANT, THIS BOOK OF THE 00:49:44.71\00:49:51.19 COVENANT, THE BOOK OF THE LAW, EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SANCTUARY SERVICE EVERYTHING POINTED TO 00:49:51.19\00:50:04.27 JESUS CHRIST. >> SO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WERE SEEING SYMBOLISM 00:50:04.27\00:50:08.07 THAT POINTED THAT CHRIST THAT WAS COMING THE SACRIFICE THAT WRIEST WOULD MAKE FOR THEM TO 00:50:08.07\00:50:18.28 RATIFY WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS, TO RATIFY THE EVER LASTING COVENANT. >> AMEN. 00:50:18.28\00:50:23.55 >> THIS IS THE GOSPEL IN SYMBOLS THAT GOOD GAVE TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, ALL PAINTED TO CHRIST 00:50:23.55\00:50:32.86 AND THE REALITY IS YOU CANNOT, I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD DIVORCE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS FROM 00:50:32.86\00:50:39.80 THE GOSPEL BECAUSE THIS IS PART OF THAT COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD HOW CAN THEY SIN IF THE 00:50:39.80\00:51:08.43 -- >> IT SAYS THAT HE CLEARLY DID. LET'S GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 26 VERSUS FIVE BECAUSE THIS 00:51:08.43\00:51:17.17 CLEARLY HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS EXISTED BEFORE. HERE'S GOD TALKING ABOUT 00:51:17.17\00:51:25.38 ABRAHAM. BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY 00:51:25.38\00:51:35.76 COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES AND MY LAWS. >> OK. 00:51:35.76\00:51:38.79 >> HERE WE HAVE GOD SAYING ABRAHAM GET THE COMMANDMENTS. HOW COULD THEY KEEP THEM IF THEY 00:51:38.79\00:51:48.77 WEREN'T GIVING UNTIL HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER. WELL BECAUSE THEY 00:51:48.77\00:51:52.47 EXISTED BEFORE. THEY'RE EVER LASTING. YOU'RE BOILING OVER, GO 00:51:52.47\00:51:56.48 AHEAD. >> GOD MADE THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM. YOU KNOW, WHEN MAN 00:51:56.48\00:52:04.82 SINNED, GOD INTRODUCED IN GENESIS THREE:15, THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE SEED THAT'S COMING. 00:52:04.82\00:52:12.93 IF YOU EVER DO A BIBLE STUDY JUST ON THE SEED, YOU WILL FOLLOW THE UNFOLDING OF GOD'S 00:52:12.93\00:52:21.97 PROGRESSIVE PLAN, HOW THE COVENANTS ALL CONNECT, BUT WHAT 00:52:21.97\00:52:26.81 HAPPENED? HE MADE THIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND WHEN GOD HAD ABRAHAM CUT UP THE ANIMALS WHICH 00:52:26.81\00:52:33.05 THAT'S WHAT THEY DID, THEY PASSED THROUGH THESE CUT UP PIECES, GUESS WHAT, GOD WAS THE 00:52:33.05\00:52:38.65 ONLY ONE, HE PUT ACHE ARE A HAM IN A DEEP SLEEP. GOD WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT PASSED 00:52:38.65\00:52:44.23 BETWEEN THE ANIMAL PARTS BECAUSE HE WAS SHOWING IT'S UP TO ME. I'M THE COVENANT MAKER, I'M THE 00:52:44.23\00:52:50.87 COVENANT KEEPER, BUT IT SAYS RIGHT THERE IN THAT CHAPTER WHERE HE'S MAKING THAT COVENANT, 00:52:50.87\00:53:00.74 IN GENESIS 15 AND VERSE SIX IT SAYS ABRAHAM BELIEVED IN THE LORD AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM 00:53:00.74\00:53:09.75 AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. THAT'S RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH, FOLKS, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 00:53:09.75\00:53:15.96 IN ABRAHAM, HERE'S THE REASON I'M JUMPING ON THIS FROM GENESIS 00:53:15.96\00:53:29.54 26. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH, BUT YET WHEN GOD RENEWS THE COVENANT, 00:53:29.54\00:53:36.54 THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE JUST READING IN GENESIS 26, GOD IS RENEWING THE COVENANT WITH 00:53:36.54\00:53:46.02 ABRAHAM'S COVENANTS AND HIS PROMISE ISAAC AND THEN, HE GOES THROUGH, HE SAYS I'M GOING TO 00:53:46.02\00:53:53.76 MAKE THIS SAME COVENANT WITH YOU, I'M RENEWING THE COVENANT WITH YOU, AND HE SAYS WHY AM I 00:53:53.76\00:53:58.67 RENEWING THIS? WHY AM I RENEWING ABRAHAM'S COVENANT? YOUR FARE'S 00:53:58.67\00:54:04.91 COVENANT WITH YOU? BECAUSE YOUR FARE ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE, MY CHARGE, MY COMMANDMENTS, KEPT MY 00:54:04.91\00:54:12.95 STATUTES AND MY LAW, SO YOU SEE IT WAS ALWAYS A COVENANT OF GRACE. >> THAT'S RIGHT, 00:54:12.95\00:54:18.99 ABSOLUTELY. >> BUT GOD CALLS US INTO OBEDIENCE AS AN EXPRESSION OF OUR LOVE AND LOYALTY TO HIM. 00:54:18.99\00:54:26.70 >> THAT'S RIGHT, WHEN YOU PUT ALL THIS TOGETHER, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET AND MY JOB IS TO 00:54:26.70\00:54:31.37 FILTER IT DOWN AND PUT IT IN A BLENDER AND GIVE YOU A CUP OF CLEARWATER, IS IT'S NOT POSSIBLE 00:54:31.37\00:54:39.21 FOR THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS TO GET RID OF OUR SINS. >> 00:54:39.21\00:54:45.51 THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO WHEN THEY WERE LAMBS, WHEN THEY GOT TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE, ISAAC ASKED 00:54:45.51\00:54:56.16 A LEGITIMATE QUESTION, HE SAID WE'RE GOING TO PERFORM A SACRIFICE, WHERE IS THE 00:54:56.16\00:55:01.03 SACRIFICE. GOD WILL PROVIDE FOR HIMSELF THE LAMB. 00:55:01.03\00:55:03.30 I LIKE THE WAY THAT ONE OF OUR THEE LADIES AND GENTLEMENNENS WHO HAS PASSED AWAY SAID GOD 00:55:03.30\00:55:16.31 WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF THE LAMB. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT ISAAC COULD DIE AND STILL BE THE SEED. 00:55:16.31\00:55:34.83 WE HAVE A LOT TO COVER HERE. LET ME GO BACK. WHEN SHELLEY READ 00:55:34.83\00:55:42.84 HEBREWS NINE, VERSE NINE AND 10, IT'S SHOWING YOU RIGHT AWAY, HE'S MAKING REFERENCE TO THE 00:55:42.84\00:55:48.14 FIRST COVENANT. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WHEN I TALK ABOUT SHADOWS, HEBREWS 10 SAYS FOR THE 00:55:48.14\00:55:53.58 LAW, HAVING A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME AND NOT THE VERY IMAGE OF THOSE THINGS CAN NEVER 00:55:53.58\00:56:02.36 WITH THOSE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH THEY OFFERED CONTINUALLY YEAR BY YEAR MAKE THOSE WHO 00:56:02.36\00:56:11.53 APPROACH PERFECT. ANIMAL'S BLOOD COULD NEVER SAVE US. 00:56:11.53\00:56:27.78 WE'RE LAYING THE FOUNDATION TO HELP YOU SEE THAT YES, THE PERFECT SACRIFICE IS CHRIST, 00:56:27.78\00:56:34.02 HE'S A TESTATOR, THE ONE WHO HIS BLOOD WAS SHED. IF YOU KNOW THE 00:56:34.02\00:56:41.56 BIBLE AT ALL, YOU KNOW WHEN JESUS DIED, THE TEMPLE SACRIFICES ENDED. YOU KNOW WHEN 00:56:41.56\00:56:47.64 JESUS CAME, JOHN SAID BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKES AWAY THE 00:56:47.64\00:56:57.55 SIN OF THE WORLD. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH. WHAT WE WANT TO MAKE VERY, VERY 00:56:57.55\00:57:01.38 CLEAR TO YOU TALKING ABOUT LAWS AND CEREMONIES AND OLD COVENANT AND BLOOD, WE'RE SAYING TO YOU 00:57:01.38\00:57:07.06 SALVATION HAS NEVER BEEN BY ANY OTHER MEANS BUT BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK, 00:57:07.06\00:57:13.73 YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE SAYS, NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE 00:57:13.73\00:57:19.63 LORD. SALVATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE, LOOKING FORWARD TO THE 00:57:19.63\00:57:25.37 CROSS, NOW WE LOOK BACK TO THE CROSS. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE 00:57:25.37\00:57:28.81 IN THE SECOND HOUR. WE DON'T WANT YOU TO GO AWAY. WE ARE LAYING SOME FOUNDATION. 00:57:28.81\00:57:32.51 IF THIS IS JUST THE FOUNDATION, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MEAL FOR YOU IN THE SECOND HOUR, SO DON'T 00:57:32.51\00:57:37.49 GO AWAY WITH THAT WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AND GOD IS GOING TO BLESS 00:57:37.49\00:57:41.66 YOU TREMENDOUSLY. TWO MINUTES AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 00:57:41.66\00:57:45.09