1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,640 All right, good morning. Go ahead and turn to Genesis. 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:11,320 Chapter 22 is where we'll start. We won't spend tons of time 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,280 there, but it is where I want to start and we are going to be 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,480 starting a brand new series this morning. 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,080 So I hope you're excited about that. 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,240 I think we learned everything there is to learn about Jonah. 7 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:30,960 I'm just kidding, brother Josh. Sometimes these series are, are 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,200 really, really good for, you know, they, they build around 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,440 maybe four or five weeks of lessons and then they have to 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:43,440 fill a 13 week series. And so I try to, I try to choose 11 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:49,520 a series that we're going to be really learning every single 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:50,760 week. And I think this is one of 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,320 those. I had another series in mind 14 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,840 that I wanted to do and I chose this one kind of not last 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,920 minute, but late, late, later than I would like to have. 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,000 But I think it's going to be a good series for us. 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,520 If you see me hobbling around, just so you know, I have 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,560 something going on with my sciatic nerve. 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,800 So I know lots of people have that issue. 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,280 So you probably know exactly what I'm feeling like. 21 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,520 And so there's nothing particularly wrong with me. 22 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,480 It just my leg doesn't straighten out and it hurts if I 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,600 do. So I'm trying to walk to make it 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,800 hurt the least possible. So that's what's going on with 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,120 me. But Gray finally convinced me to 26 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,640 go to the to the chiropractor. So I went and they said that's 27 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,360 exactly what it is. So they're going to work on me 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,800 next week. So hopefully get that fixed up. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,200 But we're going to start a new series and we're going to start 30 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,320 in Genesis chapter 22. Now we hear often preaching on 31 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:45,760 storms and I think that's good. And you'll hear this, this, this 32 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,200 phrase often. If you're not in a storm, you'll 33 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,160 you just came out of one or you're going to be going into 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,720 one soon. And I think that's very 35 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,960 accurate. However, I don't think it's the 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,360 whole picture. I think there are times where we 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,640 are on the mountaintop as Christians. 38 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,240 We have times in our lives where we are really close to God, 39 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,919 where we've we've conquered some sin and, and resisted 40 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,600 temptation. And that's a mountaintop 41 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,320 experience. Maybe, you know, maybe God heals 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,800 you of something and, and miraculously heals you. 43 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,760 The doctor gives a, a prognosis that's not great. 44 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,840 And a couple weeks later they can't explain it, but it's gone. 45 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,560 Those are mountaintop experiences. 46 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,200 Those are things that we know, you know, with, with prayer and 47 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,160 everything else. God heals us. 48 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,840 So we do have in our lives, not just storms or calm. 49 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,640 Sometimes we have mountaintop experiences and those those are 50 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,200 great. And we're going to start this 51 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,520 series here this morning called Mountains and Valleys. 52 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,200 And what it is, is we have 7 mountains in the Bible, 7 53 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:52,160 specific mountains, actual, actual geographic locations, and 54 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,920 then six valleys in the Bible. And the goal here is the 55 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:58,680 mountains we talk about. We're going to do all the 56 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,080 mountains 1st and then get then all the valleys at the end. 57 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,960 But the goal here is to really to be inspired by the mountains 58 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,520 that we see in the Bible. And, and you'll, you'll see what 59 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,120 I'm talking about here as we get into this first one, some 60 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,600 amazing things happened on on these mountains and, and then in 61 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,400 the valleys to be instructed. Some terrible things have to 62 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,760 happen in some of the valleys and valleys of disobedience and, 63 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,320 and frustration for God's people. 64 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,600 And we're going to the goal there is to be instructed in 65 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,880 those in those valleys. So we're going to start this 66 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,800 series, the valleys and the mountains. 67 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,680 And you know, we're not going to spend tons and tons of time 68 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,040 talking about the actual geography of them because pastor 69 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,280 just did that for about a year and a half, did all the the 70 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,360 Bible geography. So we're not going to spend too 71 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,880 much time on that. And we're also not going to 72 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,880 spend too much time on some of the controversial pieces of some 73 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,960 of these mountains. For example, we're going to talk 74 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,840 about Mount Moriah first. There are, there are a good 75 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:08,040 number of, of scholars that believe Mount Moriah is where 76 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,880 Christ was crucified as well as you know, where Abraham 77 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,519 sacrificed Isaac and and, and, and, and I'll ask you this right 78 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:21,399 now, where is Mount Moriah now? Does anybody know that what it 79 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:27,840 what is Mount Moriah or where is it right now that ha, so it is 80 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:30,560 the whole Temple Mount. Yep, where the Dome of the rock 81 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,440 is at. So that is Mount Moriah and the 82 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,720 Muslims have taken the actual, what they believed to be the 83 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,160 stone that Isaac was sacrificed on and they built the AL Aqsa 84 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,840 Mosque, I believe, on top of that. 85 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,520 So when you, if you, you can't, but if you were to be able to go 86 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,480 on top of the Temple Mount, you would see where Isaac was 87 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,440 sacrificed. And they, they're pretty, that's 88 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,080 pretty accurate even for Christian scholars. 89 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,960 Now then there's other scholars though, that say that Mount 90 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,160 Moriah is the place where Christ was crucified. 91 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,080 We don't believe that because he was crucified outside of the 92 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,640 city walls. So my point is we're not going 93 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,840 to take a ton of time and argue those things. 94 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:17,960 That's not the point of this of these lessons. 95 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,880 OK, So if if and I say that because if there's things where 96 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,440 you because I do this sometimes when people are teaching or 97 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,600 preaching, I go, oh man, that was a great point they could 98 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,960 have made right there. But some of it's because I'm not 99 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,000 trying to make that point in this series. 100 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,840 OK, We are going to talk much more about what happened on 101 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:39,440 these mountains and what we can learn from from what happened on 102 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,360 these mountains. OK, so that's where we're going 103 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,160 to go with this series. Genesis chapter 22 verses one 104 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,120 through all the way through verse 14 really is this story of 105 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,880 Abraham on Mount Moriah. He takes Isaac there to 106 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,360 sacrifice. And we're not going to read the 107 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,600 whole passage. I'm just going to pick a a verse 108 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,520 or two out of there. But that's where we'll start. 109 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,160 But let's go ahead and pray and then we'll get right into this 110 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,640 lesson. Father, I thank you for this day 111 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,040 that you've given us. Thank you for another 112 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,440 opportunity we have to open your word and to learn. 113 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,720 God, I pray that you be with me as I teach that you would make 114 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,000 the points that we are trying to make here very, very obvious and 115 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,120 understandable to your people. And I pray that the things we 116 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,880 learn in this series, we'd be able to to take into our lives 117 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,240 the good and the bad and God the good things where we see the 118 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,640 hand of God just moving all the way through Scripture for our 119 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,920 redemption and the bad things in these valleys where we see some 120 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,920 some real things we can learn from and and hopefully avoid the 121 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,320 mistakes ourselves. I pray that we would learn those 122 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,920 things in this series in Jesus name, I pray Amen. 123 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,360 Now the name Mariah means scene of God or chosen by God. 124 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,120 And I think it's very interesting. 125 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,360 I'll ask you this question because it is Sunday school. 126 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,320 So I try to make it a little bit interactive. 127 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,640 I know what happens is I get to Russian at the end of every 128 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,680 lesson and nobody gets to answer or ask any questions. 129 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,200 But I like to to be a little bit interactive, but for one, to 130 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,000 keep you awake and for two, so you can learn. 131 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,080 Does anybody know how many times Mount Moriah is mentioned in the 132 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,640 Bible? Give me a guess. 133 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,000 How many How many times do you think? 134 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,480 Who was that? It's Taiwana. 135 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:24,400 Anybody else? 7 Anybody else? 136 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,600 All right, Mount Moriah is mentioned three times in the 137 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:30,680 Bible. The entire Bible. 138 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:32,960 It's only mentioned by name twice. 139 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,440 Yeah. Where is that candy? 140 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,400 It's too early for candy. We'll do something else. 141 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:38,920 Any mints? Mints or something. 142 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:41,880 But yeah, it's mentioned three times. 143 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,960 It's only see. It's only mentioned by name 144 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,200 twice. And we're going to look at all 145 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,000 all three of those appearances because they're very important 146 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 as to what the point of Mount Moriah is. 147 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,080 I know. I do think it's interesting also 148 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,120 that a lot of stories in the Bible, sometimes you'll see very 149 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,000 important places that have very little detail, though Mount 150 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,720 Moriah is one of them, very important place all the way 151 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,360 through the Bible. I mean, in Genesis 22, we see 152 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,800 that it is a prophecy of the coming Messiah, this sacrifice 153 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,440 of his only son that. And then, and then we see 154 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,360 Christ, the only son of God being sacrificed is very 155 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,920 important, but not a lot of detail about Mount Moriah. 156 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,280 And I think God does that on purpose so that we don't get 157 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,880 hung up in the details. We get the point of what this 158 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,240 picture is. And we talked about this when we 159 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,559 looked at the Savior in the shadows. 160 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,240 This was one of them. This is a type of Christ, and it 161 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,440 definitely is. But I think God doesn't give us 162 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,880 tons and tons of details so that we don't get caught up on it. 163 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,919 We have verses one through 14 and that's about all we have in 164 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:49,080 this whole story, let alone it, it doesn't mention but Mount 165 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,280 Moriah but one time and it just tells us that's where it was. 166 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,360 And I think it's it's important. But you see that in verse 2 of 167 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,800 Genesis chapter 22, he said, take now thy son, thine only son 168 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,120 Isaac, whom thou lovest, and they get thee into the land of 169 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,560 Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the 170 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:06,960 mountains, which I will tell thee of. 171 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,840 That's what we have about Mount Moriah here. 172 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,000 That's it. That's and so I do think it's 173 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,800 very important that we don't read too much into it. 174 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,040 We take it what God gives us and that's it. 175 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,720 But then there's other stories where we have lots and lots of 176 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,920 detail. And I think God does that on 177 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,280 purpose as well because there's lots of of very important 178 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,720 lessons in the details that he wants us to learn. 179 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,680 But I think it's interesting that Mount Moriah means chosen 180 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:39,440 by Jehovah or chosen by God because with God's eternal 181 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,480 foresight, the Providence of God, that in his eternal wisdom 182 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,240 he chose this place knowing it was going to be where his son or 183 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,240 a picture of what his Son would do for us in redeeming mankind. 184 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,160 So quickly let's go into the three times that we see Mount 185 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,720 Moriah. The first time is here in 186 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,840 Genesis chapter 22. We already looked at it in verse 187 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,040 2. Get the end of the land of 188 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,120 Moriah and offer them therefore burnt offering on one of the 189 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,480 mountains which I will tell the of That's the first time we see 190 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,360 it and that's with Abraham. The second time we see it, and 191 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,120 I'd like you to turn here is in Second Samuel chapter 24. 192 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:25,320 So go to Second Samuel 24 and if you know this story, Second 193 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,200 Samuel 24. This is where King David 194 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:35,240 numbered the people and eventually 70,000 men of Israel 195 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,440 die because of this sin. But this is where we see it the 196 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,840 second time and this is the one time that it's mentioned, but 197 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:47,320 it's not mentioned by name. So let's see in verse 18 second 198 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:53,640 Samuel chapter 24. So this is after David David 199 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,840 numbers the people. Gad the the prophet comes to him 200 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,600 and says, what have you done? This is a wicked thing in the 201 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,520 eyes of God that you've numbered the people. 202 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,280 He told you not to verse 18 And Gad came that day to David and 203 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,520 said unto him, go up rear an altar unto the Lord in the 204 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,280 threshing floor of Aruna the Jebusite. 205 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,280 And that's the mention of Mariah and I'll show you in a second 206 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,360 where where we see that that is Mariah. 207 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,200 So it get up and rear an altar in the threshing floor of Aruna 208 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,440 the Jebusite. And David, according to to the 209 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,600 saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 210 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,960 And Aruna looked and saw the king and his servants coming 211 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,520 toward him. And Aruna went out and bowed 212 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,800 himself before the king on his face upon the ground and and it 213 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,280 goes on. But then you see it at verse 24. 214 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,520 Aruna offers him the the land here. 215 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,800 Just take it. And David says in verse 24, 216 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,800 maybe you've heard this phrase. And the king said unto him unto 217 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,240 Aruna, Nay, but I will surely buy it of the at a price, 218 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,080 neither will Ioffer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God, 219 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,600 of that which just cost me nothing. 220 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,920 So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 221 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,880 shekels of silver. And David built there an altar 222 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,160 under the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace 223 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,440 offerings. So the Lord was entreated for 224 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,640 the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. 225 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,320 So while this is all happening, men are dying from this 226 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,440 pestilence that we'll look at in just a few minutes. 227 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,680 But David buys the threshing floor of Aruna, and that is 228 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,080 Mount Moriah. Now go to Second Samuel. 229 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:25,760 Nope. Sorry. 230 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,520 Yes, Second Samuel 12. No, that's not where I want to 231 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,840 go. Second Chronicles chapter 3. 232 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,600 I'm going to say that can't be where I want to go. 233 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,680 It's behind us. Second Chronicles chapter 3 So 234 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:44,320 David was the second time we see Mount Moriah mentioned but not 235 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,480 by name. But we know it is the same place 236 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,360 because in Second Chronicles chapter 3 and verse one, we we 237 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,200 read this then Solomon began to build the House of the Lord at 238 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,320 Jerusalem in Mount Moriah. So we know the temple's built at 239 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,040 Mount Moriah. We know that it's the same place 240 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,240 that Isaac was sacrificed. So those two are the same. 241 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,840 And he says, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, 242 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,680 in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing floor 243 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:14,200 of Ornan the Jebusite. So Aruna now is Ornan in this 244 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,680 passage is the same person, but Ornan the Jebusite. 245 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,600 This is the threshing floor that David bought to sacrifice to 246 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:22,960 God. So we know that these three 247 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,320 places now, they are the same place. 248 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,240 They are Mount Moriah that David bought for Solomon to build the 249 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,640 temple because God wouldn't let David build it because he was a 250 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,040 bloody man. He was a man of war and God 251 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,760 didn't want him to build the temple. 252 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,040 So those are the three times that we see Mount Moriah 253 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:47,080 mentioned in the Bible. And I'm not super, I'm not huge 254 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,800 on, on numerology. I think people can really, 255 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,120 really read into it. That's how they come up with 256 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,600 the, you know, Jesus is coming back in 2024, January 1st 257 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,560 between the 1st and the 7th and that passes and he doesn't come 258 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,120 back. It's all numerology. 259 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,680 So I'm not huge on numerology, but I do think it's interesting 260 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:11,640 they they mention this that the number 2 is typically in 261 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,760 numerology means a witness or a testimony. 262 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,480 And we know where that comes from in it, where two people are 263 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,080 that that's a a witness and and all the rest of that three is 264 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,440 the number of the, the Trinity. Yeah. 265 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,240 So that one's pretty obvious. So you have it mentioned three 266 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,200 times, but only the name itself 2 times. 267 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,120 And then they make, we make this point here that Mount Moriah 268 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,480 then was a witness or a testimony of what the Triune God 269 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,200 would do on behalf of sinful man. 270 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,200 Not huge on numerology, but I think that is is interesting to 271 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,880 take a quick peek at the two and the three there. 272 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,640 But secondly, then we have those 3 mentions. 273 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,400 Now I want to look at the activity that actually happened 274 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,480 on Mount Moriah. You probably moved your finger, 275 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:59,720 but go to Genesis, back to Genesis chapter 22, Genesis 276 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:04,240 chapter 22. And the first activity we see on 277 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,280 Mount Moriah is the fact that there was a sacrifice. 278 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,120 That was the, that's the first activity, the first mention. 279 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,160 And we'll do the same thing. We'll we'll go look at the 280 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,640 second mention with David and see what happened there. 281 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,920 And the third mention with Solomon and see what happened 282 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,840 there. But first is the sacrifice with 283 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,840 Abraham and Isaac. Go to Genesis chapter 22 and 284 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:29,600 verse 9. Well verse 8 and Abraham said, 285 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,760 my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. 286 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,080 So they went both of them together. 287 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,640 This is when Isaac said, hey, I see the fire and I see the wood, 288 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,160 but where's the sacrifice and gods? 289 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,440 And Abraham says God will provide himself a lamb. 290 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,520 What a perfect picture again of of the coming Messiah. 291 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,680 God would provide himself a lamb for our sins. 292 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,000 But in verse 9, they came together and they came to the 293 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,400 place which God had told him of Abraham and Abraham built an 294 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,680 altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son 295 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,280 and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 296 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,680 I did I mentioned this before with our Savior in the shadow 297 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,200 series, but that's been a few months. 298 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:11,200 But it's, it's interesting to me if, if Abraham, I mean, if Isaac 299 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,440 was was old enough to carry the wood and, and carry, you know, 300 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,960 those things up the mountain. He certainly was capable of 301 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,040 getting away from his father, to not have to be a sacrifice. 302 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:25,480 He gave himself willingly, let his father bind him, laid him on 303 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,120 the laid him on the altar. Obviously this was going through 304 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,280 Isaac's mind. Where is the sacrifice? 305 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,800 So when his father started binding him, he wasn't going, am 306 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,240 I the sacrifice? He knew. 307 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,400 He knew what was happening happening and he allowed his 308 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,320 father to do that, which I think is a perfect picture of Christ. 309 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,280 Bible even says he could have called 10 legions of angels to 310 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,640 take him off the cross, destroy those that were there, but he 311 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:54,040 didn't he he stayed there for our sin, a willing sacrifice on 312 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,280 that cross. So that's the first thing we see 313 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,400 with the activity on Mount Moriah. 314 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,960 There was a sacrifice that happened, a perfect picture of 315 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,839 of what was coming. But then secondly, we see in 316 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:09,359 Second Samuel 24 and go there again, Second Samuel 24. 317 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,319 You may just have to put bookmarks in in these three 318 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:18,960 spots. But Second Samuel chapter 24 and 319 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,119 verse 14, I think this is a really interesting passage if 320 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,599 you read through it. I think we fly through it pretty 321 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,480 quickly sometimes and and don't really catch what's going on 322 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,480 here. David numbers the people. 323 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,480 Gad comes to him and says, hey, there's going to be a 324 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,400 punishment. And that's the second thing I 325 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,240 want to see here on Mount Moriah. 326 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,800 A sentencing happens, but look what David this is this is the 327 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:48,120 point I want to make here. David says in verse 14, verse 328 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,600 13, So Gad came to David and told him and said unto him, 329 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,640 shall so so he says, Hey, God's going to give you a choice. 330 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,040 What is your punishment going to be? 331 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,520 Which I used to hate when my dad would do because my dad used to 332 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,640 do that kind of stuff. Not not to be mean. 333 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,920 He would just say, would you rather have a whoopin right now 334 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,880 or, you know, lose this privilege for two weeks? 335 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,840 Man, that's a hard choice. Well, here's what happens with 336 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,840 David, Gad says in verse 13. So Gad came to David and told 337 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,400 him, would you rather have seven years of famine on the and thy 338 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,280 land? Seven years of famine is a long, 339 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,000 I mean, that can destroy an entire economy. 340 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:30,360 Or would you rather have you, David, flee 3 months before your 341 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:33,800 enemies while they pursue you? Or would you rather have three 342 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,200 days of pestilence in the land and Gad says, now advise and see 343 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,320 what answer I shall return to him that sent me being God. 344 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,080 So God tells Gad, go ask David what he wants and come back and 345 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,720 let me know, which is interesting in itself. 346 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,960 But David says to Gad in verse 14, I am in a great straight and 347 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,480 you got to think this is the king of Israel making a making a 348 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,440 decision for the entire land because of his mistake, because 349 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,120 of his sin. Am I going to have seven years 350 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,160 where these people starve and I have to watch that happen? 351 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,040 Or am I going to have three months where our enemies are 352 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:13,440 pursuing us and winning or which which could run them completely 353 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,840 out of their land? Or am I going to have three days 354 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,560 of pestilence? And he says, let us fall now 355 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,880 into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great, and let 356 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,760 me not fall into the hand of man. 357 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,840 And I I've noticed that before, but often skipped over it. 358 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,160 David is so confident in the mercy of God that he says, let 359 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,880 God choose. He'll choose the least, I 360 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,320 believe the least of these three punishments because I don't know 361 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,400 which one is the least. And so they and so God chooses. 362 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,040 He says, OK verse 15. So the Lord sent a pestilence 363 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,480 upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed and 364 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,160 their died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba, 70,000 365 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,000 men. And that's why the 70,000 men 366 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,680 died. This pestilence that God chose 367 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,000 for them. I, I think that probably is the 368 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,040 least of them. Yes, 70,000 people died, but who 369 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,080 knows how many would die in a famine for seven years or in 370 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,600 wars for three months being chased by your enemies. 371 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,720 But 70,000 people die and then it's over. 372 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,880 And the and the punishment is done. 373 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,560 So the second thing we see with activity here on Moriah, because 374 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,200 this is where it happened. Remember, at the end of this 375 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,840 chapter is where we see David by the threshing floor of Aruna or 376 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,320 Ornan and make this sacrifice to God. 377 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,960 So this is that that same story. This is what's happening. 378 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:37,640 So on Mount Moriah, we have a sentencing, a price has to be 379 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,360 paid because of the sin. There's going to be a sacrifice. 380 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:45,720 It's it's coming. That'll be Jesus Christ as a the 381 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,320 prophecy of Isaac shows, but there has to be a punishment for 382 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,120 sin. And then the third thing, the 383 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:55,000 third activity we see on Mount Moriah is in Second Chronicles 384 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,280 chapter 5. And so I'd like you to go there 385 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,320 as well. Second Chronicles chapter 5, 386 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,800 just a few chapters after what we just looked at in in chapter 387 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,560 3 where where Solomon starts to build the temple. 388 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:14,560 But the third activity I believe that we see on Mount Moriah is a 389 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,640 satisfaction in verse chapter 5. Second Chronicles chapter 5 and 390 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,920 verse 7, it says this. And the priest brought in the 391 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,640 ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the Oracle of 392 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,120 the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of 393 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:35,280 the cherubim. And what we have here is in this 394 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,800 most holy place, every year on the Day of Atonement, blood is 395 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,840 put on the mercy seat, right? For what purpose? 396 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,920 It's the Day of Atonement. It's an atoning for the sin of 397 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,920 the people. And when God, when that blood is 398 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,280 offered on the mercy seat, God is satisfied. 399 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,240 And So what a perfect picture again of of the coming Messiah. 400 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,480 He would offer His blood before the Father. 401 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,640 Bible even says that He takes his, the blood back to the 402 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,000 Father and God is pleased with it. 403 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,360 He's satisfied with it and the redemption of mankind is 404 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,000 finished. That's what happened on the 405 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,120 cross. It is finished. 406 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:20,360 God's wrath against sin is satisfied because of the blood 407 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:22,800 of Jesus Christ. Perfect picture here of what's 408 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,000 going on with Mount Moriah. There's going to be a sacrifice. 409 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,600 There is a punishment for sin and the blood is what satisfies 410 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,040 a holy God, not just any blood as we see in the new in the Old 411 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,000 Testament. That's what the picture was. 412 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,520 I, I was watching, I don't want to get on a rabbit trail here, 413 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,920 but I was watching a video of a couple of well, one was a was a 414 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,600 theologian slash scholar. The other two were were kind of 415 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,280 fringe that had come with this idea that the reason that Jesus 416 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,640 Christ came was to do away with killing animals. 417 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,760 That was the reason for his coming. 418 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,720 How you can read the Bible and come up with that, I don't know. 419 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,280 But they, they take just the Gospels. 420 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,920 They, they say the only thing we know that is inspired is the, is 421 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,680 the words that are in red. So the rest of the Bible, you 422 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,760 can take it or leave it, But the words of God that are Christ, 423 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,600 that are in red, those are the ones you have to follow. 424 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,880 And so they, they build this whole theology off of it that 425 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,760 the reason Christ came was to do away with animal killing, not 426 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,600 just sacrifice, but killing in general. 427 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,600 And I listened to this whole debate. 428 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,840 They had very, very silly, silly reasoning. 429 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,760 They have. But where was I going with that? 430 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:40,360 I'm sorry. Anyways, I believe my point was 431 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,600 that this blood had to be sacrificed. 432 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,000 And the point was, oh, the Old Testament, all those sacrifices, 433 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:51,080 because Hebrews even tells us the law was a schoolmaster to 434 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,560 bring us to Christ, right? So what was the point of the 435 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,440 sacrifices? Was this was the point of the 436 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,440 sacrifices to actually forgive them of their sin in the Old 437 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,440 Testament? Absolutely not. 438 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,000 We we know that from the New Testament because it was a 439 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,240 picture of the coming once for all sacrifice that Jesus Christ 440 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,320 would make. So anyways, I said I don't want 441 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,440 to get on a rabbit trail. And that's why I lost my train 442 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,040 of thought because it wasn't what I had had thought of 443 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,040 before. But anyway, so we have those 444 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,200 activities on Mount Moriah. Now thirdly, we see some 445 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:27,680 announcements on Mount Moriah. And remember I mentioned that 446 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,720 the 2 is, is a witness or a testimony, the number 2 and the 447 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,160 three is the witness in the testimony of this triune God of 448 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,840 what was happening on Mount Moriah of basically a prophecy 449 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,360 of the coming Christ. And so the first announcement we 450 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:46,720 have is that the son would be the sacrifice. 451 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,560 And we see that in Genesis chapter 22, God tells Abraham, 452 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,440 take your son and make him a sacrifice. 453 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,440 Now Isaac didn't know that, but Abraham did and he is the son. 454 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,440 He is told that his son would be the sacrifice. 455 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,640 And we see that in the New Testament in Romans chapter 6 456 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,320 and verse 23. The wages of sin is death, but 457 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,440 the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 458 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,640 So this is this is we know that the Son is coming to be the 459 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,680 sacrifice and this announcement is made on Mount Moriah with 460 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,040 with Isaac Hebrews chapter 10 verse 12. 461 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,840 I just mentioned this, but it says this man after he had 462 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:30,880 offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right 463 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,880 hand of God. Why is he able to make that 464 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,880 sacrifice? Have God turned his back on him 465 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,680 for the first time in eternity? And I mentioned this a couple 466 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,560 weeks ago when I was preaching that the agony Christ felt in 467 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,920 the garden was not because of the pain that was coming. 468 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,640 It was because of the sin that he would have to take on and 469 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,800 that he would have to have his Father turn his back on him. 470 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,320 That's the the agony he was feeling. 471 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,880 And I I wish we would feel that same agony about our own sin. 472 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:09,200 You know, I think often we we have a temptation and we think I 473 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,640 don't, I don't think that we think 01 time we'll be fine. 474 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,920 We know it's not fine. But we don't have the same 475 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,440 attitude about sin that Christ had this agony in the garden 476 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,480 over the fact that he would have to take on sin for the first 477 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:30,640 time in eternity. But this first, this first time 478 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,800 we see Mount Moriah in the Bible is the is the announcement that 479 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,880 the son would be the sacrifice once for all and then sat down 480 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,320 on the right hand of God. The second thing we see with the 481 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,960 Trinity, the second announcement is that the father would execute 482 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,640 the sentence. And I remember that's that was 483 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,320 the point there with David. God came to David, gave him an 484 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,480 option and then executed that judgment and said, all right, I 485 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,200 will have mercy on you, but this is your, this is the punishment 486 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,320 for the sin that you committed. 70,000 men die in this three day 487 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,240 pestilence. Go to Isaiah chapter 53. 488 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,440 It's very interesting. As a side note here as well, 489 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,240 I've, and I'm sure some of you have seen this as well, but 490 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,920 when, when somebody is talking to a, a true Jew, a Jewish 491 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,880 person that's not a Messianic Jew, they don't believe Christ, 492 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,480 but they are a true Jew following the culture and 493 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,600 following the Old Testament and all the rest of that. 494 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,120 They have Isaiah 53 taken out of all their scripture readings in 495 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,920 their in their tabernacles and everything else there is Isaiah 496 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,280 53 is not there because they can't explain it away. 497 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,680 So they just take it out kind of like new translations do now. 498 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:44,960 But Isaiah 53, they take it out because so, so some, if you 499 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,120 watch some of their videos, there are men that say, Hey, I'm 500 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,800 going to read a passage to you and tell me where, where it's 501 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,240 from. They read Isaiah 53 to them and 502 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,160 they say it's New Testament. We don't believe it. 503 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,720 They turn them, turn the Bible around and say it's Isaiah 53 504 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,680 and they, they're floored because they've never heard it 505 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,680 before. But it is a prophecy of the 506 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,960 Messiah and exactly what happened with Jesus Christ. 507 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,360 But in Isaiah 53 and verse 10, the father executes the 508 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,760 sentence. So the Son is going to be the 509 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,880 sacrifice. And we see this, this is the 510 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,840 picture of the cross now that the Father executes that 511 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,080 judgment. Pastor mentioned this yesterday 512 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:27,920 at the funeral. But God is loving, but he has to 513 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,320 have punishment for sin or he's not just. 514 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,120 And so even though it's his own Son who takes on this sin for 515 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:40,960 all of mankind, God doesn't look down and go, oh, that's my Son. 516 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,240 That's my, my, my beloved Son. I'm not going to execute 517 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,960 judgment. He has to because of the sin 518 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,960 that his son took on in Isaiah 5310. 519 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,160 We see that verses one through 9. 520 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,280 It's it's all that would happen to Christ. 521 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,320 But in verse 10, yet it pleased the Lord. 522 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,840 Remember there, it's all caps. So that's Jehovah God. 523 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,400 It pleased Jehovah God to bruise him. 524 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,480 He hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an 525 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,320 offering for sin. He shall see his seed, He shall 526 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,320 prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall 527 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,920 prosper in his hand. But it pleased the Lord to 528 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,880 bruise him. That doesn't mean he was happy 529 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,160 about it. It means that it was something 530 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,200 that he had to do. It was what he saw fit to do it. 531 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:30,640 It was the Lord saw fit to bruise him because of the sin 532 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,880 that he took on. Very interesting that that we 533 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,760 see all the way back in the Old Testament what was absolutely 534 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,840 going to happen a couple thousand years later with Jesus 535 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,960 Christ. And so we we see secondly, the 536 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,960 the Father would execute the sentence. 537 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:56,160 And then the third thing we see is that the Spirit then would 538 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,400 woo the Sinner. And we see that with Samuel in, 539 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:06,000 in, in with the temple, first with the temple, we see that God 540 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,640 is holy. They made a holy of holies. 541 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:16,480 Now remember, we think that the Tabernacle in the Old Testament, 542 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,880 remember when we have the, the high priest goes in once a year 543 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,240 on the Day of Atonement, and he's got the, the rope attached 544 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,840 to his ankle in case that he's got sin and he falls dead. 545 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,440 And they, they were able to pull him out without themselves going 546 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,960 in and being killed because that's the Holy of holies that 547 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,640 did not end with the children of Israel in the wilderness. 548 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,560 That is the temple here with Solomon, that that same 549 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,800 structure was in place because the Messiah had not come yet, 550 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,360 right. So this is just to give you an 551 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,840 idea. The, the first temple was built 552 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,960 somewhere around 9:50 to 960 BC somewhere in there. 553 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,320 And I could have my dates off just by a little bit, but it's 554 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,160 somewhere in there, 950 to 960 BC, so 1000 years before Christ. 555 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,040 The temple structure is still in place. 556 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:08,920 And so you have this Holy of Holies that was built in 557 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,400 Samuel's Temple or Solomon's Temple. 558 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,880 I'm sorry, Second Samuel, if you did hold your finger there, 559 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,120 that's if not, that's fine. But Second Samuel chapter 3 is 560 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,760 where we see it was Second Samuel. 561 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,280 What notice? Yes, it was. 562 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:36,280 Is it 24/24/24 Second Samuel 24 is where we see No, it's not 563 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,840 Where was it anyways, I'm looking for where Solomon builds 564 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:49,720 the temple Second Chronicles 5 Sorry so second Chronicles 5. 565 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,680 I'm not going to read this this passage because we just got a 566 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,800 couple minutes, but it's it's we see there where the Holy of 567 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,360 Holies was brought in and set in there. 568 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,440 I even read that verse, I believe, but let's see. 569 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,720 Yes, Yep. So second Chronicles 5 seven and 570 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,400 the priest brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto 571 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,400 his place to the Oracle of the house into the most holy place, 572 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,520 even under the wings of the cherubims. 573 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,920 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of 574 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,240 the ark, and the cherubims cover the ark and the stage thereof 575 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,440 above, and they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends 576 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,360 of the staves were seen from the ark before the Oracle, but they 577 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,040 were not seen without. And there is there. 578 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,000 It is unto this day. Anyways, my point is, they 579 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,280 brought this ark into the Holy of holies, and this structure 580 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,000 now is set in place. That is where God himself would 581 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,440 dwell until that temple was destroyed and Jesus Christ, 582 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,360 well, until Christ was sacrificed. 583 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,200 And the, the, the veil is split. That all happens right here in 584 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,360 Solomon's Temple, which I, I, I don't know if that's what you 585 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,840 have in mind, but sometimes in my mind, I think it's the 586 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,360 Tabernacle. It's not at Solomon's Temple. 587 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,640 This, this veil is split and, and then in 70 AD it is, it is 588 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,120 destroyed for the last time. But my point is, the first thing 589 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,920 we see with the Spirit wooing the Sinner is that there is a 590 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,440 holy place. God is holy. 591 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,360 And then secondly, the temple bears witness to the fact that 592 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,040 man is sinful. And, and we already mentioned 593 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,200 that, but man could not go into the Holy of Holies. 594 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,960 It could not come before God because we're sinful. 595 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,760 And then lastly with the Holy Spirit, this third part of the 596 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:39,680 Trinity wooing sinners to himself is the fact that God 597 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,520 made it possible one time a year with this temple, with the 598 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,680 temple structure for man to come be reconciled to him shows us 599 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,040 that God is not a the picture of the Greek mythological gods 600 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,400 waiting to just send lightning down and destroy things. 601 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,880 He wants to be reconciled to mankind, but he cannot reconcile 602 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:04,680 with sin still in place. And so as we saw, he's a just 603 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,760 God. He will execute judgment if sin 604 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,920 is not taken care of. Heard this yesterday at the at 605 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,520 the funeral. But that sin was taken care of 606 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,760 by Christ himself. The sacrifice we saw with 607 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,280 Abraham and Isaac, that picture that sacrifice took care of our 608 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,719 sin. But the mercy seat, why is it 609 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,480 called the mercy seat? Because when the blood is put on 610 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,400 it, God shows mercy on his people. 611 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,880 That's why it was called that. And so, so I'm going to finish 612 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,880 with this verse. Revelation 2217. 613 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,639 Even today the Spirit of God is pleading with sinners to come 614 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,320 and be reconciled to him. It's it's, it's a picture we saw 615 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,280 all the way started back in in with Mount Moriah in Genesis 616 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,760 chapter 22 and still all the way in the last book of the Bible, 617 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,639 Revelation chapter 22, verse 17. And the spirit and the bride 618 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,920 say, come and let him that heareth say come and let him 619 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:03,480 that is a thirst come. And whosoever will let him take 620 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:07,720 the water of life freely. God is thus the Holy Spirit is 621 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,600 still wooing sinners to himself and until Christ comes back, 622 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:13,880 that's his, that's one of his jobs. 623 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,920 He's calling sinners to repentance. 624 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,840 I thought this was an interesting poem and, and this 625 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,440 will be well, I'll read this and then we'll pray and be done. 626 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,200 Mount Moriah was a shadow for it told of things to come, how that 627 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,960 God would pay man sin debt with the blood of his own son. 628 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,360 I'm thankful for the shadow for it showed to me the way to that 629 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,240 blessed mount called Calvary where my sin was washed away. 630 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,880 And that's my whole point this morning. 631 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,720 I hope that, like we said, these, these mountains hopefully 632 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,400 are an inspiration to us of, of the plan God had in place 633 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,160 already. This is not something that off 634 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,160 the cuff he's going, what do we do now? 635 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,480 And I used to, I mentioned this, but I used to in witnessing kind 636 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,160 of say that, you know, then man sinned. 637 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,320 And so God said, well, we've got to have a sacrifice. 638 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,240 This is before the foundations of the earth. 639 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,800 God knew what was his redemption plan. 640 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,840 And so as soon as the Bible starts in, in in fact, even 641 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,320 before Genesis chapter 22, but with the with Mount Moriah in 642 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,400 Genesis chapter 22, the redemption plan is starts to be 643 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,320 put out there for us to see and for us to know that what was 644 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,240 coming. And so God had this plan in 645 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:25,840 place all along for mankind's redemption. 646 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:31,520 And I hope we see that in Mount Moriah, our first mountain in in 647 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,480 this series. All right, let's pray and we'll 648 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,120 be done. We'll get into another mountain 649 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,440 next week. Father, I thank you for this day 650 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,640 you've given us. Thank you for another 651 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,720 opportunity to open your word. God, I thank you for the the 652 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:45,760 prophecy in your word. It's that we can look back all 653 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,200 the way through and know this is not a chance thing. 654 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,560 This is not a religion that has been come up with. 655 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,080 This is not something man looked in your word and saw things that 656 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,600 maybe sort of matched and put a religion together. 657 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,240 God, this was your plan from before about the foundations of 658 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:07,120 the world to redeem mankind when we fell after being made perfect 659 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,440 in a in a perfect state and we fell. 660 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,240 God, you had this plan all along and and you showed it to us. 661 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,560 And so God, I pray as we witness and we share this gospel, this 662 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,280 good news with others. Yeah, that we would have full 663 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:24,800 confidence that that this Messiah that came was was the 664 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,000 one that you sent for redemption of our sins. 665 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,720 And God, I pray that as we bump into Jewish people, God, that we 666 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:35,520 would be able to steer them to this, to this obvious point as 667 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,160 well. God that you had from eternity 668 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,880 past had this plan of our redemption. 669 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,640 Pray that you be with the next service. 670 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,240 God be with pastor as he preaches. 671 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,400 Fill him with your power. Pray that you'd feed us, help 672 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,800 our hearts to be prepared. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen. 673 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,680 All right, we're dismissed.