1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,900 Good morning everyone. Good morning to you who are 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:04,900 familiar? Good morning to you, who maybe 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,800 we're still getting to know. We're glad to everyone who's 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,800 here today to share in the most important thing that we could 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,100 possibly do in our lives. The most important thing that we 6 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,200 could possibly do is to recognize the Creator who 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,400 brought us here, who designed us to formed us, who gave us hearts 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,300 that have eternity in them that we should gather together to 9 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:29,500 learn more about how to learn more about his word to study and 10 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,600 to sing Raise. And to remember the things that 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,000 we are alive for, what a wonderful day it is and we have 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 a beautiful day outside today. Spring is here, life is come and 13 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:44,000 I'm having a good day. I don't know about you, but it's 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,100 good to be here. This morning. 15 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:48,300 We're going to continue our study in the book of Hebrews. 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,200 Now there are several here who maybe weren't here as we've been 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,200 doing this study. So I'll try to kind of fill you 18 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,400 in as we go without going through, the whole Hebrew study 19 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,200 again but basically what we're studying is a book written by 20 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:03,800 This is unusual in the Bible but it's an unknown author. 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,700 We're not told who wrote this but we do know it comes from 22 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,100 God. God inspired the holy scriptures 23 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:12,000 to be written so that we could know his plan so that we can 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,400 know his will for us in our lives. 25 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,200 And so we know it came at least from God. 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,100 God designed the Bible and had it written through the Holy 27 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:24,500 Spirit and and We Know It Was Written who it was written to. 28 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:29,100 It was written to the Jews at the time who were transitioning 29 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:32,200 from this old I meant to the New Testament and you're like, what 30 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,300 in the world is that if you don't know, if you're not 31 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,900 familiar about this much of your Bible, the front half or front 32 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:42,500 will weigh more than half of your Bible, is the old Covenant, 33 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,300 that's where the Jews were under. 34 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:47,900 That's what the Old Testament. And the sacrificial system was 35 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:51,500 about before Jesus came, and this kind of division between 36 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,500 the two is where Jesus set up the New Covenant, what we live 37 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,900 under today, if you've seen movies, it's kind of like the 38 00:01:57,908 --> 00:02:01,100 setup and the plot development and then Rising action. 39 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,500 The climax of the whole story and this is kind of where we're 40 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,400 studying in this climax where Jesus has come to fulfill the 41 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,000 setup that is the foundation of the world, the old Covenant, 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,600 that tells us God's will and his plan, this is what we're living 43 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,000 under today. This New Covenant and this 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,500 letter, we're studying is just a piece of that, but the the 45 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,000 unique part about this letter is, it's the transition point 46 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,100 between the two because there were people who were, who had to 47 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,900 make the switch. Now the A thing, I think we're 48 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:34,000 trying to relate to maybe the biggest with the Jews is they 49 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,900 had a lot of big changes to undergo and their religious 50 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,000 perspective and their life perspective. 51 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:42,000 And maybe that's the case for you. 52 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,200 Maybe you didn't grow up with this stuff, maybe this isn't 53 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,300 what you came from, you can relate to the Jews, the Hebrews 54 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,800 who are receiving this letter, because they have to learn about 55 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,200 this Messiah and accept this Messiah, whose come to save them 56 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,900 from their sins. Now, as will learn, hopefully, 57 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,200 they were waiting for it, and they should have been waiting. 58 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,000 But such as the case today, I guess we're not all waiting for 59 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,700 Jesus today but that's the goal. That's the goal is to always be 60 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,900 waiting for God's next step in his plan, both in our personal 61 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:15,800 lives and for the life and for the greater plan of God's will. 62 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,700 So we're reading in Hebrews chapter 9 up into this point and 63 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:23,300 the goal of the Hebrew writers to get these Jews to realize how 64 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:26,900 great and how much Divine Jesus is. 65 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,700 So we've talked about how in the early chapters Jesus has Other 66 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,200 than the, the prophets, he's greater than Angels, he's 67 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,000 greater than everything before in the Old Testament so that 68 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 they should listen to him. And now we're going to talk in 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,900 this in this chapter about the Tabernacle, and from the last 70 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:48,000 study, we talked about how in the Old Testament, that was 71 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,900 types of sacrifices that were made, there was a, an atonement 72 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:55,800 offering there was the the, the bread offering the peace 73 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,500 offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. 74 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,300 So, the types of offerings In sacrifices to God, in the Old 75 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,900 Testament, we went over before and those themes will carry 76 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:09,000 through. And just to kind of bring us up 77 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,800 to speed and Hebrews chapter 8. The last couple verses before 78 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,100 chapter 9 that will read today, say this for this is the 79 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:19,899 Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. 80 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:24,100 After those days says the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind 81 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:27,400 and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they 82 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,100 shall be my people. So this new law that God's going 83 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:32,000 to bring is going to be something that changes us from 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,800 the inside out. If you, if you've seen a lot of 85 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,200 religious activities, sometimes it can seem very rich. 86 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:40,100 Dualistic. The goal for God's people. 87 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:43,300 In this new covenant is to take it beyond the ritual to take you 88 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:47,300 in word to change us that way. Verse 11. 89 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,000 He said, none of them shall teach his neighbor and none of 90 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,800 them his brother saying know the Lord for everyone shall know. 91 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,500 Me from the least of them to the greatest of them. 92 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:00,400 From the poor man to the rich man from the from the lowly man 93 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,500 to the to the ruler. Everyone will know. 94 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:06,200 For I will be merciful to the unrighteousness and their sins 95 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,200 and their Lawless Deeds. I will remember no more. 96 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,000 He is going to forgive us in this new covenant. 97 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,800 Verse 13. The last verse of that chapter 98 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,900 in that he says a New Covenant, he has made the first obsolete. 99 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,400 So now what is becoming obsolete? 100 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,700 And growing old is ready to vanish away. 101 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,200 So that old Covenant that we talked about if the word 102 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,600 covenant is strange and unfamiliar just think the word 103 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,900 will someone who leaves behind a plan and a system that is their 104 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:38,800 will. And so this old law he said is 105 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,600 obsolete. It's now going away and ready to 106 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,300 vent a white van. Nashua and replaced by the new 107 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:48,400 law, okay? So Hebrews chapter 9 verse 1. 108 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,400 It says then indeed even the first Covenant had ordinances of 109 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,300 divine service and the Earthly Sanctuary. 110 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,700 Okay. So this Sanctuary is talking 111 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,100 about is going to be related to the physical presence that they 112 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,600 would set up for the religious people in Israel. 113 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,600 Okay, it might sound like a lot of terminology and things like 114 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,400 that for the people who are members here we've been studying 115 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,700 about this. We've studied several Times. 116 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,100 So, I hope not to belabor it too much because I think we've 117 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:20,500 gotten good practice in this area and study recently. 118 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,800 But this this Earthly Sanctuary, he's talking about the religious 119 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,600 setup that they used to have. And this is what was called The 120 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Tabernacle. So this place was set apart. 121 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,500 So if you're thinking themes is a good thing to think for us New 122 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:39,400 Testament, Christians, what are the themes? 123 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,900 God had a place that was set apart. 124 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,900 There was a special place for God in the Old Testament. 125 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:50,800 It was first surrounded by specific dimensions of this. 126 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,200 These, this Veil, this Tabernacle is set up with an 127 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,100 outer area in which whereas the altar of sacrifice where we, 128 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,700 they would do those burnt offerings and they would have a 129 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:06,400 washing area and then this is where it got even closer and 130 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,900 closer to the presence of God you have this first area is 131 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:13,500 called the holy place and then right after After that, the 132 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:16,500 closest place to the presence of God for the Israelites was 133 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,800 called this, Most Holy place. And that's where the Ark of the 134 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,300 Covenant that we're going to talk about today. 135 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:24,800 That's where it was and that's where they would go to the 136 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,500 presence of God. So it was set apart. 137 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:31,600 It was, it was very specific and very designed to be intentional 138 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,900 with how they approached God. He wasn't someone who they would 139 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:37,200 just look up into the sky during that time and just go. 140 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,600 I know you're here somewhere. No. 141 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,200 There was a specific presence and they could pray to him and 142 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,700 things like that. But anyway, we'll get them. 143 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:48,300 So, this is what he's going to be talking about with this 144 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,800 Tabernacle, this Earthly Sanctuary verse 24. 145 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:56,700 A tabernacle was prepared the first part in which was the 146 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:59,500 lampstand. So this lampstand was the 147 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,800 candlesticks and it was what provided like for the holy 148 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,000 place. You know they don't have they 149 00:08:05,008 --> 00:08:07,700 don't have light fixtures in there and so that Candlestick 150 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,800 was the plate was the thing that provided that In the light and 151 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,500 the table, and the showbread, which is called The Sanctuary. 152 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:19,300 So in this holy place, so we are talking about this area right 153 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:20,800 here. There are three main things. 154 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:25,200 There's a Candlestick, there's a table of showbread, and there's 155 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,000 an altar of incense three things. 156 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,600 Those three things had a special representation and to keep it 157 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:35,400 the beauty of God's word is, it's not just some religious 158 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:38,900 mumbo-jumbo. It's the showbread was had 159 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:42,400 twelve loaves of bread on it and those were to represent the 12 160 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,600 families or the 12 tribes of Israel. 161 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:49,000 So it was a symbol of God's fellowship with his people. 162 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,700 Then you have the altar of incense that was representation 163 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:55,300 of the prayers of the people going before, God. 164 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:58,600 And so as they would like that, incense it would float through 165 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,700 the curtains and into the room and even into the presence of 166 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:03,700 God. So you have something that 167 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:05,500 represents prayer. We do that today. 168 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,900 Very simple, the prayer we have fellowship with God and the 169 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,800 light that God provides to us represented in the Candlestick. 170 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,500 And it even looks like a tree. I think, is the idea is to 171 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,300 symbolize the tree of life that God brings to us Okay. 172 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,700 So we have the table. The showbread. 173 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:26,600 So this is the sanctuary. This is the setup of the Earthly 174 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,400 sanctuary in the Old Testament. We don't have this anymore. 175 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:35,000 Another picture of it. Verse 3 and behind the second 176 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,300 Veil, the part of the Tabernacle which is called the holiest of 177 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:40,300 all. So there's a first Veil to enter 178 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:43,900 the holy place and just kind of like a curtain, separating it? 179 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,200 And then the second Veil is, what goes to the holiest of all? 180 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:53,100 Where God's presence was verse 4, which had the golden censer 181 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:57,700 and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid on all sides with gold. 182 00:09:57,700 --> 00:09:59,900 So, as we've been reading through the Old Testament, all 183 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:03,100 those did everything was so suspicious, so specific and So 184 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:07,000 precious, they had precious stones and precious materials to 185 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,800 cover, even the wood of these boxes. 186 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:14,300 Overlaid on all sides with gold and which were the golden pot 187 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:17,900 that had Manna. Now the Ark of the Covenant is a 188 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:20,400 symbol of God's presence with the people as you read through 189 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,300 the Old Testament. What happens with the ark really 190 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:26,600 determines, what's happening is with God's people, when the ark 191 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,500 is taken away from God's people and it's not in their hands, 192 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,700 they're, they're separate, they're losing battles. 193 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,700 But when the art comes with them, it's God's presence is 194 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,800 strengthening them and they win and they it's a symbol. 195 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,900 It's all themes that are carried even into what we can understand 196 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,300 today. The presence of God and this Ark 197 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:48,000 of the Covenant. So that was overlaid on all 198 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 sides with gold and which were the golden pot. 199 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,100 So inside there's a golden part pot that had the Manna and 200 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,200 Aaron's Rod that budded and had the tablets of the covenants. 201 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,300 Okay? So if three things inside of the 202 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,600 Ark of the Covenant, the the first thing was the Manna and in 203 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,700 case you're not familiar with that, and the Old Testament. 204 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:12,000 God did some incredible things. They're hard to Fathom, but when 205 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,700 his people needed food out in the middle of the desert, he 206 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:18,900 brought down food from the skies and it was like Dew on the 207 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:22,000 ground in the morning and they called that mana. 208 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,500 And what's interesting is that they kept Semana in this golden 209 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:28,800 pot as a memorial and as a symbol. 210 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,300 But we took we're told in the Old Testament if they kept it 211 00:11:32,308 --> 00:11:35,800 for more than Than a day. Or if they kept too much, it 212 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,400 would grow worms and it would stink and rot immediately, 213 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,300 because God wanted them to have Manna every day. 214 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,400 And he would God wanted them to come to him for the food. 215 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,400 And from the bread from heaven. But what's interesting is, God 216 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,700 somehow, preserve that because that wasn't a bucket full of 217 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:54,800 worms. It was, it was Mana as symbol so 218 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,300 that they would remember. It had Aaron's Rod that budded 219 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:00,900 in the Old Testament. God's people started to go up 220 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:03,300 against Aaron and say, hey, why, why are you getting all the 221 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:04,400 power? Why you getting all the 222 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,700 authority? What's wrong with us? 223 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,600 Why can't we have some power? And Aaron was like, guys, this 224 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,400 is not me, this is not my deal, God set me up. 225 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,600 I'm not the one choosing it. I'm just serving in the way God 226 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,100 has asked me to And the way that the way that they settled this 227 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,800 is Aaron, God told Aaron to do this. 228 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,700 And so they all took their staffs up and they set them and 229 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:30,400 one area together, and Aaron's Rod was set apart to show that. 230 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,100 He was the leader and that his Rod a grew and blossomed out of 231 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:37,400 this stick. This dead chopped off, stick 232 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,700 started to grow and Blossom buds. 233 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,400 And I believe it said he, it even had almonds come off of, 234 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,100 it's fascinating. The detail in that the 235 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:52,400 confirmation of God's will and his plan and his leaders, and 236 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,400 the Old Testament and the tablets of the Covenant. 237 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,400 So, when this was originally written this whole Old 238 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,000 Testament, it was written on tablets of stone. 239 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,500 And so, those stone tablets were the third thing that were inside 240 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:06,200 of there. Now, really, when you think 241 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,500 about these things, these are all things that should symbolize 242 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:13,900 and carried a wait for them. That was - it reminded them a 243 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:17,800 lot of their failures if you think about Mana well, it 244 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,600 reminded them that God was there to provide for them but how much 245 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,100 they failed and complain against God to get that mana and how 246 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:26,200 much they complain about and when they got that man, are they 247 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,900 wanted Quail? They wanted something else. 248 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:32,400 There's a it was a reminder of their own failure, Aaron's Rod, 249 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,000 that budded that was a reminder of them going against God's plan 250 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 and God's leadership. And then the Covenant, there was 251 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,300 a time where those tablets were Split air Moses would got so 252 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,500 angry. He split them, he broke them. 253 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,000 And that was a covenant, they that they could not keep 254 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,200 perfectly. But it was in this it was in 255 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,300 this Covenant. That was God's presence in God's 256 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:00,100 will was surrounding it, verse 5 and above it. 257 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:04,000 So Above This Covenant on top kind of like a lid where the 258 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:09,100 cherubim of Glory overshadowing, The Mercy Seat of these things. 259 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:11,600 We cannot now speak in detail. Okay? 260 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,500 So these chair of them were like those, those winged creatures, 261 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:18,300 those angels. These are the same creatures 262 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:21,900 that were described in the, in the exit of Garden in Genesis 263 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:24,700 when when Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden, God 264 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:28,300 Place cherubim there to guard it and there was a flaming sword 265 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:30,100 twirling around to keep them out. 266 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:33,800 So it's fascinating. Now that that God is trying to 267 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,100 make a way for his people to come back to him and to be 268 00:14:36,100 --> 00:14:40,500 reconciled. And to be taken to him that 269 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:43,200 there are cherubim they're showing where God's presence is 270 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:47,600 in the holiest of all. Verse 6. 271 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,600 Now, when these things have been thus prepared, so all of these 272 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,600 symbols in the Tabernacle, when these things have been prepared, 273 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,100 the priests always went into the first part of the Tabernacle 274 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,800 performing the services, okay? So in their system, you had the 275 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,700 levitical priesthood. So that was a family of Levi, 276 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:08,400 who were the priests one man was the, was the high priest, but 277 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:11,200 they had these priests who would go through and do these 278 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,700 services. So the services they did, they 279 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:16,500 would come put new bread. They put fresh bread every day. 280 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,200 On that table and they would they would like incense and 281 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,700 offer prayers. And they would add oil to the 282 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,500 lamps to keep it running because the oil was the fuel and the 283 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:29,700 lamp. That was keeping that Lit, that 284 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,900 light was supposed to never go out in the Tabernacle. 285 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,300 So they were every single day going in and Performing these, 286 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:43,300 these little services. Verse 7, but into the second 287 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:47,200 part, so the most holy place, the high priest went alone once 288 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,800 a year, just the high priest, not without blood, which he 289 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,800 offered for himself, and for the people's sins committed in 290 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,800 ignorance. So this holy place this Most 291 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,700 Holy Place, only the high priest went in, and he went in once a 292 00:16:03,708 --> 00:16:07,400 year twice on that day, he went in the two reasons, it says 293 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,000 here, he had to go in first and offer atonement for himself. 294 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,100 Self. Then he went in afterward a 295 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:17,700 second time to offer atonement for the people of Israel and he 296 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:21,300 would take blood in there and sprinkle it on The Mercy Seat, 297 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,900 this place where the chairman and the lid are, this is called 298 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:26,900 The Mercy Seat. Now think about the presence of 299 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:28,700 God. God, I was hurt, I read it, 300 00:16:28,708 --> 00:16:32,500 described God looking down. He might see those articles in 301 00:16:32,508 --> 00:16:35,700 the in the Ark of the Covenant, the symbols of their failure in 302 00:16:35,708 --> 00:16:38,700 their inability to keep the Old Law and their continual 303 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:41,800 Rebellion. But when that blood Sprinkled on 304 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,000 The Mercy, Seat God had mercy and he saw the blood of the 305 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,300 sacrifice, instead of just seeing those symbols of their 306 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:52,200 failure. And that was called atonement 307 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,800 day, one day a year was called atonement day, where there was 308 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,400 blood sprinkled. They're very, very intentionally 309 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,100 on The Mercy Seat, it was not without blood. 310 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:05,099 So, that's kind of the theme. We're going to get two of 311 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:07,500 connecting it to Jesus and Jesus is blood. 312 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,300 Is that there was even blood offered in the Old Testament on 313 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:15,200 The Mercy Seat. And it's interesting here that 314 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,000 it talks about it's offered for the sins committed in ignorance. 315 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,000 When I was kind of starting to become more aware of things in 316 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,700 our faith system and understanding the way God works. 317 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,000 It fascinated me. I remember asking my dad, you 318 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,100 know, how does God forgive us for our sins? 319 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,800 That we don't even know we're doing if you think about it, I 320 00:17:36,808 --> 00:17:40,600 mean, that's probably the majority of our sins and in the 321 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,600 more we grow older and the more we grow up, we realized Our 322 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,300 faults more and more. And we start to peel back the 323 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:52,500 layers of our own selfishness. Our own Pride, our own Wrongs in 324 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:58,700 our hearts, there are so many layers of our individual wrong. 325 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,300 How in the world does God, forgive us for that. 326 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,200 And even the Old Testament, there was a way for them to have 327 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,600 to have those sins covered in to have those sins atone for its 328 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,400 beautiful that God understands, where we're at let's be real we 329 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:19,500 all have deep issues on some level or another And maybe we've 330 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:23,600 gotten some progress in those, maybe we have it but God is 331 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,100 concerned with taking care of us that he even understands and 332 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:29,400 takes care of the sins. We commit ignorance. 333 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:33,400 As long as we are trying to follow his plan, okay. 334 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,900 It's not like we can just be ignorance, is bliss? 335 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:39,000 Because we learned the New Testament that that Paul was 336 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,900 persecuting the church and Indian and going against the 337 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:44,300 Jesus, ignorantly. So it's not like you can just 338 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:48,500 live in ignorance obviously, but God understands when his people 339 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,700 Who are following him? That were not just going to be 340 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:55,400 there, right? When you start maturation helps 341 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,200 overcome sin and it makes send pop up less often, but we still 342 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,700 have issues to overcome and God understands us on that level 343 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:09,700 from the, from the beginning. Until now, Verse 8, the Holy 344 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:13,100 Spirit, indicating this, that the way into the holiest of all 345 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:18,900 was not yet made manifest. While the first Tabernacle was 346 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,800 still standing. Okay, so the fact that only one 347 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,100 man could go in once a year to do this. 348 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,100 It's showing us that there's not really a way in there, yet, 349 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,900 while this first Tabernacle this Earthly Tabernacle in the Old 350 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:37,900 Testament, and those ways had not given them a way to really 351 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:41,800 access the holiest of all, Just the fact that they had to do 352 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,900 that once a year, it's like we're waiting on something, 353 00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:46,300 aren't we? Something else has to happen 354 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:50,900 because this can't be it and that's true. 355 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,400 And on top of that to kind of give a little more color to what 356 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,400 would happen with this. The priest had bells on the 357 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,800 bottom of his garments and he had a rope tied around his foot 358 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:05,400 as security, because if that priest came in there and he 359 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,600 wasn't ceremonial clean ceremonially ceremonially clean 360 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:12,500 He might be struck dead on the spot. 361 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,600 So if he hits the floor, nobody's going else is going in 362 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,800 there because only the high priest can go in there. 363 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:21,000 So if someone else were to go in there and get him, they would 364 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,500 die. And so they had a rope tied 365 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:28,000 around his foot so that if he happened to be killed in there 366 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,100 or for some reason died, they could pull him out. 367 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:35,900 So as we started to understand the gravity of the Old Law and 368 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:39,100 God's presence that will help us to understand the new law and 369 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,600 how great Jesus is to counteract. 370 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:46,800 The sin problem that we have and how it separates, what separates 371 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,900 us from God. God's presence was so great. 372 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:52,500 He didn't want them to take it lightly. 373 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,500 He had a way for them to be ceremonially clean and to the 374 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:59,300 where they could come into His presence and his Holiness and 375 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,200 not be defiled, and this seems like a crazy reality. 376 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,500 Why in the world would a good God? 377 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:06,800 Just strike somebody dead. He was coming to talk to him. 378 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:12,400 There are realities that we don't fully comprehend because 379 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:17,300 we don't fully live in it in a way that is aware of them all 380 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:20,300 the time. We don't talk to people who do 381 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:22,800 the kinds of things that God can do on a daily basis. 382 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,500 We talk to people who get tired and have to sleep every 16 hours 383 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,000 like we do. We get tired. 384 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,200 We have to interact with people who have failures in faults. 385 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:36,000 We're not dealing on a daily basis face to face with a God 386 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,900 who can literally raise people from the dead. 387 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:42,900 And who created the world. So when we try to understand 388 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:45,300 him, it's helpful to understand that we're not dealing with 389 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:51,100 someone who's like us. So that if he demands something 390 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:55,200 OS and ask something of us, we should seriously respect it and 391 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,900 take it for the gravity that holds. 392 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,500 And we'll talk about this more in a minute. 393 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:05,300 Verse 9, these things we've talked about it was symbolic for 394 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:08,600 the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are 395 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,100 offered, which cannot make him who perform the service. 396 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:16,400 Perfect in regard to the conscience concerned only with 397 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,900 foods and drinks various Washings and fleshly ordinances 398 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:24,000 imposed until the time of reformation, okay. 399 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,600 That was a lot of maybe words that might be hard to 400 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,400 understand. So it was symbolic the Old law 401 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,900 was symbols, that word in Greek is Parabola. 402 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,200 It's a parable of the things that would come. 403 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,900 It's not the real thing. The old, let the Old Testament 404 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:43,300 was full of symbols for the present time in which both gifts 405 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:45,900 and sacrifices that we've already talked about those are 406 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:49,400 offered, but they cannot make him and perform the service. 407 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,900 Perfect, it doesn't make him completely complete, it makes 408 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:59,700 him a toned for for a time. It makes him clean for a But it 409 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:02,700 doesn't make him perfect and regard to the conscience. 410 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,400 And as we strive to serve God, we have to be aware of the fact 411 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:10,800 that no kind of ritualistic thing. 412 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,200 We do by itself can make us clean and conscience. 413 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,700 We can all come to worship today and do what are really. 414 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:22,600 These are rituals a ritual isn't necessarily against God's will. 415 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,200 It's just something that you do have like on a regular basis as 416 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,200 part of your routine of Performing tasks. 417 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:33,000 We seen we commune around the Lord's table, we pray, those are 418 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,300 rituals. And so if we do those things and 419 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,900 we expect that alone to make us pure and perfect and clean in 420 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,500 our conscience. It's not going to be enough. 421 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:47,500 That is what Jesus calls only on the outside, a whitewash to, 422 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:50,400 that's what the Jews were called, in the New Testament by 423 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,900 Jesus. So, these things could not 424 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,300 perfectly take care of the sin problem of man. 425 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,800 They were only concerned with foods and drinks and various 426 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,600 Washings and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of 427 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:08,900 reformation It's interesting about those various Washings as 428 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:10,800 a side note. This is really the point, the 429 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,100 Riders getting out, but if you look into some of those 430 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:15,900 Washings, it's fascinating that God knew. 431 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:21,500 So God knew so much before any of our modern medicine did part 432 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:22,800 of the Washings that they would do. 433 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,600 And part of the cleansing process is. 434 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,600 If you were made unclean by let's say touching a dead body, 435 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,300 you are considered ceremonially unclean. 436 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,500 You couldn't come into the presence of God so you had to be 437 00:24:34,508 --> 00:24:35,300 purified. Fide. 438 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:37,800 And so they have they would have this water that your purified 439 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,000 with. Okay ceremonially. 440 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,900 That's kind of the picture but practically speaking, the way 441 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,800 they made that water of purification is they would take 442 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,200 a burnt sacrifice. They would take its ashes and 443 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,800 they would run water through those ashes. 444 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,900 And that was your cleansing water and they would apply it 445 00:24:55,908 --> 00:25:00,700 with hyssop, okay? Ashes and hyssop are both now 446 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:05,200 known today to be antibacterial and antiviral. 447 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:07,800 That's when you run water through ashes. 448 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,400 It collects the chemical lie and lie, is what many people in the 449 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,800 early settlement days we're using to make soap, it was a 450 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,300 modern or ancient version of soak, that really, they were 451 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:20,800 using. They might not have even known 452 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:23,600 in too much quantities. Like can be bad for you. 453 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:27,100 And it can be damaging, but in the right quantity, it is like 454 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,900 soap, God was having them be ceremonially cleanse with 455 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:32,000 something. They probably didn't even 456 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,400 understand to be antiviral and then it was applied with hyssop 457 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,800 will show you a picture of his up in a minute but it's just a 458 00:25:38,808 --> 00:25:44,500 plant has thymol in it or time all however you pronounce it and 459 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:46,300 that is what we use in mouthwashes. 460 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:49,400 A lot of times today. On the leaves. 461 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,100 There were gross. A type of mold that produced 462 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:54,900 penicillin. So there were all these things 463 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:56,900 going into the process of the cleansing. 464 00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,800 Ceremony that maybe it helped. Keep them healthy, I don't know, 465 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,600 but at least it was scientifically Way Beyond what 466 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,100 we can ever understand today. That can't be an accident. 467 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:08,100 That can't be just have happened. 468 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:12,700 God is behind Even things like this in the Old Testament where 469 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:14,400 man didn't know what was going on. 470 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:24,400 God knew The last verse said, these things. 471 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,600 We're insufficient. So they were, they were 472 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,200 insufficient by themselves, but they are a very important and we 473 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,400 learn from Romans 12:1. I, it tells us there. 474 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,200 Paul says, I beseech you therefore Brethren by the 475 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,500 mercies of God, that you present, your bodies, a Living 476 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:47,800 Sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable 477 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,700 service. So, all these things they were 478 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,500 doing alone. Weren't going to cleanse them 479 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:54,900 and conscience perfectly and nothing. 480 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:57,700 We do. today, when our works alone, can cleanse our 481 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:03,300 consciences but It is just our reasonable service. 482 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,100 It is what we should logically do. 483 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:09,400 If our God is this great and this merciful to us we should 484 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,600 just reasonably respond by wanting to serve him with 485 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,500 everything that we have verse 11. 486 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,200 But I but Christ came as high priest of the good things to 487 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,400 come with the greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with 488 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,300 hands. So he is not the high priest 489 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:28,900 according to the Earthly Tabernacle, he's got a high 490 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:31,000 priesthood that's going way beyond that. 491 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:35,000 To the good things to come things that we as the church are 492 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,900 just kind of participating in in Hope Of Heaven. 493 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,600 That's coming the good things to come with the greater and more 494 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,300 perfect Tabernacle not made with hands, God's Tabernacle head. 495 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:48,900 The Heavenly places that we are going to that. 496 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:53,200 We are heading for That's what Jesus came to prepare. 497 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,800 He came to prepare, not someplace that was 10 by forty, 498 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,100 five and Fifteen by fifteen with a certain amount of elements. 499 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:04,100 No, he came for a perfect and Heavenly Tabernacle that he 500 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:09,000 wants us to join him in one day, these things are not made with 501 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,500 men's hands. Like the Earthly Tabernacle was 502 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:18,900 The good things to come was even symbolized in the the lampstand. 503 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:21,700 It was meant to look like the tree of life and Jesus. 504 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,600 In the New Testament was crucified on a tree. 505 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,800 He came bringing good things even through his death and 506 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,300 through his suffering verse 12, not with the blood of goats and 507 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:35,400 calves but with his own blood, he entered the most holy Place 508 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:42,200 once for all having obtained. Eternal Redemption once for all 509 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,600 Jesus suffered And he saved us eternally to redeem, something 510 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,500 has to pay for it, and he bought our Eternal salvation and our 511 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:54,400 Eternal Redemption with his own blood. 512 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,200 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, 513 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,300 splink sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of 514 00:29:04,308 --> 00:29:07,500 the flesh. How much more shall the blood of 515 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,800 Christ? Who through the eternal spirit 516 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,100 offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience 517 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:16,500 from dead Works to serve the Living God. 518 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,500 So, remember, he's writing this to people who were used to the 519 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:23,400 fact that you could perform a sacrifice and become clean. 520 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,300 So that they were, so the point of the writer is saying Is that 521 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,400 if those bulls and goats who were sacrificed made them 522 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,000 Sanctified, or set apart and purified to be able to be in 523 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,800 God's presence for the purifying, it's all language 524 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,000 that in the Old Testaments being clean before God, we don't want 525 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,500 to be dirty before God. We want to be clean because we 526 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,700 have to be clean to come into His presence. if all of that, 527 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:56,200 there was animals Made us pure how much more shall the blood of 528 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,500 Christ? The perfect sacrifice in every 529 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,500 way who through the eternal spirit both. 530 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,900 His spirit that is eternal and is aware of what he was doing, 531 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:10,300 eternally and the Holy Spirit, who planned this and and made 532 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:15,600 this plan into go into effect. He offered himself without spot. 533 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,500 He was a perfect sacrifice. Like in the Old Testament there 534 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,900 animals had to be a great animal. 535 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,700 It had to be the pick of the litter, it had to be the best of 536 00:30:23,708 --> 00:30:27,500 their flock without spots that made an ugly animal. 537 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,100 Jesus was without spot in his character and his morality. 538 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,600 How much more selfish Jesus cleanse, your conscience from 539 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,800 dead Works to serve the Living God, those dead works. 540 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,800 I believe are kind of two fold. Any kind of dead work. 541 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,000 Any kind of sinful act that you might do. 542 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,600 Then I might do that. Should that should cleanse us? 543 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,300 His blood will cleanse us from those dead works and the sinful 544 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:56,000 lives that we've lived in the past. 545 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,800 But I think specifically to the context, he's talking more hear 546 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,200 about the dead Works associated with the Old Law, those old law 547 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:09,100 acts of sacrifice and ritual alone did not make them 548 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:13,200 eternally pure. So in that sense, they were dead 549 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:17,500 and when the New Covenant came they would be completely 550 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,600 irrelevant. God doesn't want people anymore 551 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,700 to sacrifice animals. He sacrificed Jesus, once for 552 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:28,400 all So that we could leave behind these dead works of just 553 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,900 killing an animal that poor animal day. 554 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:35,500 After day, after day, we can take comfort in that we have 555 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:39,900 freedom in conscience and then our Spirits from the Eternal 556 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:44,700 consequences of dead Works to serve the Living. 557 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:49,000 God, We already talked about. Here's a couple pictures of 558 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:51,600 that, lye soap, I was talking about. 559 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,500 They were use those ashes and sprinkling the unclean. 560 00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:59,400 And here's a picture of hyssop that plant that they would use 561 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:06,000 to sprinkle with verse 15. And for this reason, he is the 562 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,400 mediator. Jesus is the mediator of a New 563 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,900 Covenant and new will by means of death for the Redemption of 564 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:17,400 the transgressions under the first Covenant. 565 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,800 Again, Redemption means paid for and transgressions means our 566 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:22,300 sins. What? 567 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,200 We've done to go against God under the first Covenant that 568 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,200 those who are called may receive the promise of the Eternal 569 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,400 inheritance. Now, some people think that, 570 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,300 that there's a limited calling, you know, God hasn't called 571 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:40,600 everyone and the reality is, in the New Testament, we see Jesus 572 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,200 talking about using language. Like, hey, if you want to hear 573 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,300 hear, if you can, if you will change your heart, if you will 574 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:51,700 have an open heart, you are called You are called if you 575 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,700 will accept God's will. So if you're wondering, am I one 576 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:58,500 of those called people? Like what you are today, you're 577 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:02,100 hearing it today. God is calling everyone. 578 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:05,000 Who will hear him? Jesus said, he who has ears to 579 00:33:05,008 --> 00:33:08,700 hear, Let Him hear. That those who are called may 580 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,400 receive the promise of the internet of the Eternal 581 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,700 inheritance. Maybe you're not familiar with 582 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:17,200 what God's offered us. I don't have any pictures up 583 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,500 here to show you God's Eternal inheritance. 584 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,900 I think we experience God's and her intern Eternal inheritance 585 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:27,400 and glimpses. Here the moments that are pure 586 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,300 and joyful in the moments that are designed by God, to be 587 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:35,000 reflections of the light that he wants to bring to us. 588 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,600 The beauties of Life are just mere glimpses into the Eternal 589 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:47,300 peace satisfaction Joy. And life that we have in him. 590 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,200 I don't have any pictures of that. and so if you hear that 591 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:57,500 message, And you hear about eternal inheritance and you're 592 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:00,200 like, what in the world? How does something be eternal? 593 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,500 We don't know yet. We haven't seen it yet, but what 594 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:09,900 we do know is that It is the greatest thing we could ever 595 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:14,000 possibly imagine more. And if we are trying to count 596 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,699 the cost of being a Christian today, if you're one, who's 597 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:20,100 trying to decide, whether I should be a Christian, because 598 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:21,300 that's what the New Testament says. 599 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:24,300 Before you make a commitment like this, you need to count the 600 00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:28,100 cost and see what it's worth. Being a Christian involves not 601 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,800 giving part of yourself. That's watered-down. 602 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,000 God wants you to give everything to him. 603 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:38,500 And he will take care of us. Abundantly if we are willing to 604 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:42,800 do that, In my business classes in college, we called it return 605 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,600 on investment. This is a no brainer. 606 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,900 If you, if you have an investment today that you see 607 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:53,199 can prospectively give you 30% return on investment, you will 608 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:55,900 run out of your shoes to go by that investment. 609 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,700 Because if you're making thirty percent of ten thousand dollars, 610 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:03,500 you making 3 Grand a year on an investment, that's good. 611 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,900 We understand temporal Investments. 612 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:10,400 Do, but do we understand how great our investment is here, 613 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,700 how great our investment should be of our effort, in our time, 614 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:17,400 in our life? But do we understand what we're 615 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,500 giving God? Do we understand? 616 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:22,300 We're giving God our whole lives to the point that he will give 617 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:25,500 us an eternal life. This Beyond any percentage 618 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:31,000 return we could ever imagine if we would ever be excited about 619 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,600 making 200,000 dollars in the stock market this year, We 620 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:41,300 should know that we logically would drop all of that, if it 621 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,100 meant, that we had to sacrifice for the return of Heaven, the 622 00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:49,600 return of a neat having Eternal inheritance that we cannot even 623 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,200 fathom. If you're one of these young 624 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,500 people here today, who doesn't know what inheritance is? 625 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,100 It's with some, it's what someone leaves behind for you, 626 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:59,300 when they're gone. Jesus has left an eternal in 627 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,600 Eternal inheritance for us. For where is from? 628 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,000 Where there is a testament or a will, or a covenant. 629 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,900 There must also of necessity, be the death of the testator. 630 00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:13,800 So the person who writes that Testament or the Covenant, the 631 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,800 parent in a situation where they're going to leave behind a 632 00:36:15,808 --> 00:36:19,800 will they have to die before? Their will goes into effect for 633 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,600 a testament? Or will or a covenant is in 634 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,200 force after? Men are dead since it has no 635 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,200 power at all? While the testator lives. 636 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:30,700 Therefore, not even the first Covenant. 637 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:33,000 Was that was dedicated without blood. 638 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,700 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people. 639 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,800 So, no Moses delivering the Old Law. 640 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:45,600 He took the blood of calves and goats with water Scarlet, wool, 641 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,500 and hyssop and sprinkled, both the book itself and all the 642 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:54,700 people Verse 20 saying this is the blood of the Covenant, which 643 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:58,500 God has commanded you. Then likewise he sprinkled with 644 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:00,900 blood? Both the Tabernacle and all the 645 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,000 vessels of the ministry. Everything we've talked about 646 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,700 this morning, Moses went through and sprinkled all that with 647 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:10,400 blood, everything on blood. And according to the law, almost 648 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,800 all things are purified with blood. 649 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,500 And without shedding of blood, there is no remission. 650 00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:20,700 So here's a pic kind of picture of what might look like with 651 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:23,200 Moses sprinkling, the book and all the people. 652 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,700 And we have a parallel of Jesus, pouring out his blood for the 653 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:28,500 forgiveness. And what we're going to partake 654 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:31,700 of today is the blood of the Covenant, the New Covenant saves 655 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:36,600 us. That's that part of the verse 656 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,200 that says and without shedding of blood, there is no remission. 657 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,100 This has been a theme that we just kind of need to understand 658 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:45,600 about God's the world of God runs that. 659 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,000 Even in the beginning, when Adam and Eve sinned in, they were 660 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,800 separated from God or they were in pure before God because of 661 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,700 their sin, he covered them with coats of fur. 662 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,800 The very beginning. Before the Old Law was even set 663 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,600 up an animal had to die, to be given fur to cover them for 664 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,500 their sins. And then obviously, in the Old 665 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,300 Testament, like we've already talked, about the sacrifices, 666 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:13,200 and in the New Testament, Jesus, is that shedding of blood verse 667 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,200 23. Therefore, it was necessary that 668 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,000 the copies of the things in the heavens, should be purified with 669 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,300 these, but the Heavenly things themselves with better 670 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:27,700 sacrifices than these. So the copies the lampstand and 671 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:31,500 and and the the Covenant, all these things that the Old 672 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:35,900 Testament, cleansed all those copies should be purified with 673 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:41,200 the blood of animals, but the Heavenly things the true, 674 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:46,000 Heavenly things need to be Need to be covered with a better 675 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,100 sacrifice, and that better sacrifices. 676 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,600 Jesus, because he is number one, perfect. 677 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,100 Because you is number two voluntary. 678 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,400 Because he was a rational sacrifice. 679 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,100 And because he was motivated by motivated by love. 680 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:03,300 He is the perfect sacrifice, he wasn't something, it was given 681 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:07,000 against his will. It was all within his will. 682 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:10,700 Verse 24 for Christ has not entered. 683 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:14,300 The holy places made with hands. He hasn't come to some Earthly 684 00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:17,800 setup Tabernacle, which are copies of the true, but into 685 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:24,000 heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us, it's 686 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,900 not shocking to me that Jesus appears in the presence of God. 687 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,000 He is great. We've established through this 688 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,200 study that Jesus is greater than the angels. 689 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,800 He is one with God, but it's fascinating to me that he's 690 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:44,100 there to appear for us to me. That Jesus is in the presence of 691 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:47,200 God for us, Romans 8, verse 31 Echoes. 692 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,300 This thought. What then shall we say to these 693 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:52,500 things if God is for us? Who can be against us? 694 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:56,100 He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us 695 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:58,400 all. How shall he not with him also 696 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,300 freely? Give us all things that Eternal 697 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:04,200 inheritance, he will freely give it to us, who shall bring a 698 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,700 charge against God's elect, is it? 699 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,400 It is God. Who justifies? 700 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,400 Who is he? Who condemns it is Christ who 701 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,100 died. And And furthermore is also 702 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:18,200 risen who is even at the right hand of God who also makes 703 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,800 intercession for us. Jesus, is there at the right 704 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,500 hand of God, pleading on our behalf who shall separate us 705 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:28,800 from the love of Christ, shall tribulation shall distress or 706 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,700 persecution or famine or nakedness or Peril or sword as 707 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,300 it is written for your sake. We are killed all day long. 708 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,500 We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 709 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,600 Yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him 710 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:42,800 who loved us. Us for. 711 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,800 I am persuaded that. Neither death, nor life, nor 712 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,300 angels, nor principalities nor powers nor things present, nor 713 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:52,900 things to come nor height nor depth, nor any other created 714 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:57,700 thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which 715 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:00,500 is in Christ. Jesus, our lord. 716 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,100 If God is for us, then who can be against us, He is interceding 717 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:11,300 with God in the real, Heavenly places not in some copy. 718 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:15,700 Heavenly Tabernacle set up with these Dimensions but in a 719 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:21,000 Heavenly place for on our behalf, not that he should offer 720 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,100 himself often as the high priest, enters the most holy 721 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:28,600 place every year with the blood of another Jesus isn't going to 722 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:33,000 sacrifice multiple times because he then would have had to suffer 723 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,700 often since the foundation of the world. 724 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:40,800 That's not what happened though. But now once at the end or the 725 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,600 consummation, the the build-up of all the ages, he has appeared 726 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,200 to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 727 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:55,900 And is appointed and as it is appointed for men to die once. 728 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,100 But after this, the judgment, Just like we're going to die 729 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:03,200 once and that's it, just like that. 730 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,800 So Christ was offered once to Bear the sins of many He's 731 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,200 trying to get them to see that the system is very different. 732 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,000 They're not going to have continual, sacrifice has Jesus 733 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,800 was so great. He was a one-time thing to 734 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,400 those. To those who eagerly wait for 735 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:25,800 him, he will appear a second time apart from sin for 736 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,100 salvation. So this the fact that Jesus is 737 00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:32,700 going to come once there are some religions in the world. 738 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:35,600 Believe that believe that we are reincarnated year after year, 739 00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:38,800 lifetime after Lifetime, and it's all based on how you were 740 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,200 in the previous life and some of those Eastern religions. 741 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,600 If you're a good person, you'll take a step up, maybe if you 742 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,800 were a grasshopper this year, you'll be a squirrel and it's It 743 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,000 sounds funny, but it's really what they believe. 744 00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:53,500 You'll take a step up to then maybe being a gopher and then 745 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:55,400 maybe you're a rabbit and maybe a deer. 746 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,500 And then your person, if you're bad, you go down, maybe your 747 00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:03,000 grasshopper next and then some kind of larvae That's really 748 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,300 what some people believe. You have multiple lifetimes and 749 00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:09,500 never ends until you become you become a poor man and then you 750 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,200 become a rich man and he become a ruler. 751 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,300 And then you reach nirvana in your, and just part of the 752 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:17,400 existence of the world, you're part of the rocks and the trees, 753 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,300 you're no longer. A person or an animal, you are 754 00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:24,600 just part of the the world's consciousness. 755 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,000 That sounds so stressful. I'm tired. 756 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,100 Just thinking about that. Can't imagine how some of you 757 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:32,900 who are a little bit older you're tired. 758 00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:35,500 You want to wake up as a squirrel and have to do it all 759 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:40,400 over again. We have one shot. 760 00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:45,200 But Jesus gave his only shot for us. 761 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,000 So that we can eagerly wait for him today. 762 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,500 We can eagerly wait today and it's almost sad to me that I 763 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,400 think of it like a foregone conclusion, Jesus probably isn't 764 00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,900 going to come today, but he literally could come to that. 765 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:02,700 That's the world view that we're told. 766 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:05,200 He's going to come sometime and people are going to not be 767 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,900 expecting it. So I just want you to be ready 768 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:10,600 all the time. That's how when, you know, 769 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,400 somebody's devoted to you as if they're waiting for you all the 770 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,400 time when you're there. Jesus said we're told that to 771 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,400 those who eagerly wait, he's going to come back to us apart 772 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,800 from sin. The first time he was dealing 773 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,500 with the whole sin problem. He had a lot of that on his 774 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:28,200 shoulders and that was his whole mission to deal with this sin 775 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,100 mess. But he's coming apart from that. 776 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:32,200 He's not coming to deal with sin when he comes back. 777 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,700 He's coming to get those who are his For salvation. 778 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:44,100 And today, you can be one who eagerly Waits Sorry, one more 779 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:45,400 thing. I just thought we were done one 780 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,700 more thing. This is the last slide. 781 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,200 How in the world? Can Eternal salvation be so 782 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,500 eternal? Yoke is. 783 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:56,800 How can one sacrifice for all time? 784 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,000 Be enough for me to just enjoy, enjoy it. 785 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,400 Millions and millions of years. No, end of all those. 786 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:10,100 Good things in God's presence. The only answer that I can have 787 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,600 this morning is that? That's how great our sacrifices, 788 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:18,700 that's how great the payment is that Jesus bought for us, it's 789 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:21,500 hard to Fathom it because it paid for millions of years of 790 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:25,700 peace and God's presence. And on the flipside of that Y is 791 00:45:25,700 --> 00:45:29,500 eternal suffering. So, Eternal, why can't it just 792 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:32,800 be like maybe five days and in punishment, or whatever? 793 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,900 Because that's, that's beyond me. 794 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,800 Why is it Eternal suffering? That will be for those who do 795 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:45,700 not want God in their lives? It's because Divine Justice is 796 00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:51,300 just that way. Because if we are not going to 797 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000 have Jesus cover our sins, we have to pay for it ourselves and 798 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:01,200 just like that sacrifice. We would have to be punished day 799 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:05,400 after day and year after year because we can never pay for our 800 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,500 sins. It is on an unending problem. 801 00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:13,100 It's either an unending solution or an unending problem. 802 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,700 If we try to fix it on our own, if we try to solve our own 803 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:18,600 problems to the point that we think we're just good enough to 804 00:46:18,607 --> 00:46:23,000 get into heaven, we cannot pay for it on our own, and we cannot 805 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,200 suffer enough in eternity to pay the price. 806 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:33,300 That was our sins, undealt with We if we do not pay for that. 807 00:46:35,100 --> 00:46:38,100 Or if Jesus is not pain for that we have to do eternally. 808 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:40,900 Just like those animals who are sacrificed day after day year 809 00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:45,000 after year. I can just imagine God pleading, 810 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,800 you cannot carry this burden on your own here and you cannot 811 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:52,400 carry the burden of your sin and Eternity. 812 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:56,400 He's pleading with us today. He's pleading with mankind. 813 00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:59,500 You can't carry this. It's literally going to be your 814 00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:01,900 eternity because you'll never pay for it. 815 00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:09,100 But the good news is. Jesus did no booster needed note 816 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:12,600 10,000-year booster. Once we get to heaven, we need a 817 00:47:12,607 --> 00:47:14,700 booster for this vaccine, probably to make it really what 818 00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:17,200 it should be for us. You don't need that with Jesus. 819 00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:21,200 He did it once and he can continually cleanse you. 820 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,400 So if you're not part of that, if you're not waiting eagerly 821 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,000 earnestly for that Eternal Redemption, why not today? 822 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,300 The Bible offers us a plan to join that. 823 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:33,600 First obviously to understand something, we have to hear it. 824 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,400 We have to believe it. We have to repent. 825 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:38,100 What? You just means. 826 00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:40,100 You know what, I was living the way I wanted to live. 827 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,700 I want to live the way God wants me to live now, because I 828 00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:45,100 believe in his plan and I believe all of the best life 829 00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:48,600 because I could possibly, imagine we can repent of Our 830 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,300 Lives confess. That Jesus Christ is the Son of 831 00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:54,600 God, we learned that no man can come to the father, but by 832 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,400 Jesus. And so we must confess Jesus 833 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:01,100 before men, and be baptized for the remission of our sins Acts 834 00:48:01,100 --> 00:48:06,000 2:38 to contact Jesus's blood that it cleanses us, and makes 835 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,100 us eternally. Whole and forgiving, if you've 836 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:12,600 done that today and you've Fallen away, we're here. 837 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,200 That's why we have a church body at church family to get back on 838 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,600 the right track together to pray one for another. 839 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,400 But if you're in that position, if it's not a public thing, you 840 00:48:21,408 --> 00:48:26,300 can take care of it, your seat. But today don't put it off any 841 00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:28,800 longer. You want to join God's family 842 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,800 today, you can do that while we stand while we see. 843 00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:34,800 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 844 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:40,500 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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