1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:09,200 There is abstract art, and there is realism there is street ball 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:14,800 and regulation basketball, there is chaotic worship and worship 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,900 that is decent. And in order, there is the if it 4 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,400 feels it, if it feels good. Do it lifestyle. 5 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:26,800 And then there is the walking in the footsteps of Jesus 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,100 lifestyle. And when it comes to building 7 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:37,100 projects directed and supervised by the father, a series of 8 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:43,100 well-defined patterns emerge, we see this in both the Old 9 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:48,300 Testament as well as in the New Testament and it becomes clear 10 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:53,600 as we examine the scriptures that the abstracts chaotic, do 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,700 it, how you like it approach is clearly not the mark. of our 12 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:04,599 divine architect, he likes his buildings built according to his 13 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:09,300 plan and he likes them built according to his specification 14 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:14,200 and since Romans 15 14 says that the things written aforetime 15 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,600 were written for our learning, one of the things I'm going to 16 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,100 do this evening is go back to the Old Testament and notice 17 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,800 This one of the most obvious lessons and that is that the 18 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:33,100 master builder likes a plan. He likes to form, he likes a 19 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,700 model, a blueprint, a pattern, if you please, that's going to 20 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:40,100 look at. And I want to read just 21 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,100 Deuteronomy 12. A few verses from Deuteronomy 12 22 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:46,300 to introduce our study. Before we go to God In Prayer, 23 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,800 Deuteronomy 12. Look at verse 13 and 14. 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,100 Their, the Bible reads as follows. 25 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,400 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt 26 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,400 offerings in every place that you see. 27 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,300 But in the place, which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes 28 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:15,500 there, you shall offer your burnt offerings and there you 29 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,800 will do all that. I command. 30 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,800 You verse 32 whatever. I command. 31 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,200 You be careful to observe it. You shall not add to it nor take 32 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,100 away from it. Brothers and sisters, I declare 33 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:35,300 unto you that that is pattern lingo and it's not the only time 34 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:39,400 it is something you find all throughout the Old Testament and 35 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,900 the New Testament. In other way we've put this we 36 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:46,800 find in First Peter chapter 4 11 If any man speaks let him speak 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,400 as the Oracles of God and other way that we have praised, this 38 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,400 is that we will speak for the Bible speaks. 39 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:57,700 We're going to be silent or the Bible is science. 40 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:01,000 That's what the things that makes us unique as God's people 41 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,500 as members of the Church of Christ will notice little bit 42 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:07,300 about that this afternoon. Going to notice this idea of the 43 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:09,500 pattern to look a little bit more about this idea of the 44 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:13,500 Altar and how important it was that would be built in this one 45 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:17,100 particular place by the pattern by the book. 46 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:23,400 Seems there is a very strange disconnect when we talked about 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,100 the idea of patterns and blueprints and models and forms. 48 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:32,300 It's not that the world can understand that idea. 49 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Not that man cannot fathom and comprehend. 50 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:43,400 This thought just recently, I was made aware that clean films 51 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,900 is one of these companies that will take movies and they will 52 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:53,200 clean them up. They will take out all of the 53 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,100 profanity, all the nudity and the inappropriate scenes. 54 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Think it's a star. To buy a lot of these Mormon 55 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,000 groups and in Utah, and then they would advertise them, sell 56 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 these movies or rent these movies. 57 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,900 Well, this is just been declared illegal and all these companies 58 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:14,900 have had to close down and shut down their businesses because 59 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:20,399 these Hollywood screenwriters have felt as if they have been 60 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,300 violated. Listen to what some of the 61 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:24,300 words. This is from the president of 62 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:25,900 the Directors, Guild Association. 63 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:30,300 He says these films Carrie Our name and reflect our 64 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,400 reputations. So we have great passion about 65 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,900 protecting our work against unauthorized editing. 66 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,000 Another man was saying one of these people, in this industry 67 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,900 audiences, can now be assured that the films that they buy or 68 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:50,300 rent or the vision of the film makers, of course, with all 69 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:54,400 their filthiness, who made them and not the arbitrary choices of 70 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,500 a third-party editor. The judge in the case said film, 71 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,100 Sizing causes irreparable injury to the creative artistic 72 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:07,200 expression in the copyrighted movies. 73 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,000 So the sum it up, the complaint was about unauthorized editing 74 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,200 of the intellectual property of the Hollywood screenwriters. 75 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,600 Now, in this particular instance, I don't have much 76 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,200 sympathy for these folks, but they understand the principle 77 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,800 and the principle that's being upheld. 78 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:30,300 Is this is their product. And nobody else should have the 79 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,100 right to edit to add or to take away from it. 80 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,600 They've set it up and it should be Hill upheld in the way that 81 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,300 they have installed it. But you know, it's quite another 82 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,300 thing. When men decide that it's okay, 83 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:50,900 to edit the prize building project of the Divine, architect 84 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,900 of God our creator. But that's exactly what's 85 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:56,500 happened is the height of arrogance for men to assert 86 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:00,200 that, he can improve upon the master Model, but that's exactly 87 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,700 what's happening today in the world of religion. 88 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,500 Well, let's go back. We read Deuteronomy 12 or 13 89 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:09,100 through 15. I believe it was verse 31 and 90 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:12,100 how was very important than a very particular place. 91 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,600 God would tell them where that would be where they were to 92 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,900 worship. That gives a little insight to 93 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:20,000 the discussion in John chapter 4, I believe. 94 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,400 Now, today it doesn't have to be in this particular or that 95 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,900 particular City, but they had a pattern back then that was set 96 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:28,000 up. It's a couple interesting 97 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,900 stories once found in Joshua 22. Last time I preached, I read 98 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:33,000 this but it's such a link to reading. 99 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,100 I think, I'll just sum up what happens in Joshua 22. 100 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,600 God's people have now entered in the promised land, the 101 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,300 two-and-a-half tribes that were settled on the other side of the 102 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:44,700 Jordan had come over and they helped to run out. 103 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:48,900 All of the invading are all the enemy people there and conquered 104 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,200 all of those Nations. And so God had told the original 105 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:54,900 two-and-a-half tribes, okay? You can go back to your 106 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:56,900 families. You can settle down now. 107 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:59,500 And everybody can live happily ever after. 108 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:03,000 And it should have been just a very glorious time in Israel, 109 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:08,900 but it wasn't very long until the sound of war was ringing 110 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:11,600 through Israel because they heard that those two and a half 111 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,600 tribes already have gone. And they've set up another 112 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,600 altar. They're going to worship God, in 113 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,000 a place that God has not assigned for them to worship. 114 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,900 They said suit up, boys. We're going to war and so they 115 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:26,900 loaded up. They packed up and they headed. 116 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,800 like they were going to fight it was gonna be a civil war, Unity 117 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,700 was threatened because at least their perception was Most folks 118 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,200 are Brethren have decided they're going to edit the 119 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,300 pattern. They're going to tear up the 120 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:42,800 pattern and and do their own thing. 121 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,500 Well, when they meet up, they find that, that's not the case. 122 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,500 Thankfully, they find out that they built this other altar, but 123 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,600 they never had any intention of worshipping there. 124 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,600 But they were only setting that up as a memorial to for them of 125 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,900 what God had done for them. But the point remains there was 126 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:05,900 about to be a battle there because God's people understood 127 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:09,000 that you don't change God's ways, you don't alter God's 128 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,600 patterns. And in another story, it doesn't 129 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,200 end quite so possibly read about a man that we don't read a whole 130 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:23,500 lot about in in second Kings. Chapter 16 verse 2 says, it's a 131 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:27,300 summary of his life. A has did not do what was right 132 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:31,500 in the sight of the Lord. His God, I don't know all the 133 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:34,400 things that he did wrong. I don't know all the areas in, 134 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,100 which he messed up and violated God's will. 135 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:39,700 But in the same chapter, we see the one thing, and perhaps the 136 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:44,900 big thing, In which he erred in second Kings chapter, 16, read 137 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,900 with me. If you will, in this this little 138 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:49,500 story and see what happened here. 139 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:54,200 How did he violate the pattern? Again, we're looking back to the 140 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,800 Old Testament at the things. Written, aforetime, what can we 141 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,400 learn from these stories? Verse 10, says, now King ahaz 142 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,700 went to Damascus. To meet tiglath-pileser king of 143 00:09:06,708 --> 00:09:12,800 Assyria and saw an altar that was at Damascus and King ahaz 144 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,600 sent to your Raja, the priest, the design of the Altar, and 145 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,700 it's pattern according to all its workmanship. 146 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,300 He's over in Syria and sees their Altar and something about 147 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:27,000 it catches, his eye strikes and he says, you know what, I think. 148 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,900 I like that design a little bit better than the design we have. 149 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,700 And so he gets the pattern he gets the design. 150 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:38,700 He finds out all about the details of how it was built. 151 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,800 Verse 11 says, then your ride to the priest, built an altar, 152 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,100 according to all the king ahaz had sent from Damascus. 153 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:50,100 So your ride to the priest, made it before, King ahaz came back 154 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,900 from Damascus. And when the king came back from 155 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:55,200 Damascus, the king saw the Altar and the King approached, the 156 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,800 Altar and made offerings on it. So he burned his burnt offering 157 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,400 and his grain offering and he poured his drink offering and 158 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,300 sprinkled the blood of his For peace offerings on the altar. 159 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,000 He also brought the bronze altar, which was before the Lord 160 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,400 from the front of the temple from between the new altar and 161 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,000 the house of the Lord and put it on the north side of the new 162 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,500 altar. Then key hit King has commanded. 163 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:17,500 You ride to the precinct on the great. 164 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,700 New alter burn the morning, burnt offering the evening grain 165 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:22,300 offering the Kings burnt sacrifice. 166 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:25,000 And his grain offering with the burnt offering of all the people 167 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 of the land, their grain offering and their drink 168 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,700 offerings. And sprinkle on it all, the 169 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:32,100 blood of the burnt offering, all the blood of the sacrifice, and 170 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:37,200 the Bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by and Raja. 171 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,400 Did it like it was a big celebration a great and happy 172 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,500 time this new alter. But this is the reason why the 173 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,700 biggest reason, why his name goes down in infamy because he 174 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:52,600 decided he was going to switch things. 175 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,300 And when it came to the altar of the Lord, God had said there was 176 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:59,000 a very specific pattern but he decided to change. 177 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,800 That's one pattern, let's look at another let's go back. 178 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,400 Now to the Book of Genesis. And look at Genesis chapter 6. 179 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,400 Hey we're going to look at numbers are. 180 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,200 Now this was quite a building project ends up. 181 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,300 It's going to be just for men. Noah and his three sons that are 182 00:11:14,308 --> 00:11:19,000 on this great project. But we find that there are 183 00:11:19,008 --> 00:11:21,100 Specific Instructions give and there's not a whole lot of 184 00:11:21,108 --> 00:11:24,100 details and Lisas, they're revealed to us in this chapter. 185 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:28,100 But there are some specifics. We do, get the blueprint, we can 186 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:34,000 see a pattern here. Genesis 6 verse 14, make 187 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,000 yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms in the ark and 188 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,900 covered inside and outside with pitch now to go by the pattern. 189 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:45,500 Once again have to do, he's going to have to use go for 190 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,200 would. Now I've got to just said, build 191 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,100 it out of wood, he could have used any kind of wood but he 192 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,300 specified. Go for wood. 193 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,900 Couldn't use any other kind of wood or he'd be violating the 194 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,500 pattern. Verse 15. 195 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:02,100 And this is how you shall make it the length of the Ark shall 196 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:10,300 be 300 cubits. 450 feet. Its width 50 cubits and its 197 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,700 height Thirty cubits. Those were not arbitrary 198 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:15,100 numbers. That was God's plan. 199 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,900 That's how I want bill and if no one would have done anything 200 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,400 other than build according to those instructions were to 201 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,500 happen. That but would have sunk and had 202 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,000 been the end of mankind as we know it verse. 16 say you shall 203 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,700 make a window for the art and he shall finish it to a cubit from 204 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,000 above and set the door of the Ark and its side. 205 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,400 You shall make it with lower second and third decks or 206 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,100 stories. That's the way it had to be 207 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:43,300 built. And Noah did not have the right 208 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:46,800 to change it. He was given God's blueprint. 209 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,700 Well, we have a lot more instruction when we come down a 210 00:12:50,708 --> 00:12:54,000 little bit further on the scene of time, and we come to Moses. 211 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 You know, Moses. Was given the great privilege of 212 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:02,400 building the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle was kind of like 213 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,100 a tent-like structure was a temporary structure as they were 214 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,100 traveling from place to place, but every time they set it up, 215 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,500 it was to be set up. Just a certain way. 216 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,200 And it's really amazing to notice all the details that are 217 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,400 given, we're not going to read all those details. 218 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,400 Will read a little bit though, from Exodus 20:5, if you would 219 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,900 turn to that place and here, he talks about the particular 220 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:27,100 Furnishings of the Tabernacle. He talks about the Ark of the 221 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:30,200 testimony, the table for the showbread, the golden lampstand 222 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,200 and all the details about the Tabernacle itself. 223 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,200 But in Exodus, 25 verse 9, we read the following words. 224 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:49,700 According to all that, I show you, that is the pattern of the 225 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,800 Tabernacle and the pattern of all its Furnishings. 226 00:13:54,300 --> 00:14:00,700 Just so shall you make it They get trouble understanding that. 227 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:04,600 You think he had any interest in becoming creative and doing 228 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,600 things his own ways? Moses. 229 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,300 No, not our Moses. Look down to verse 40. 230 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:19,000 Same chapter And see to it that you make them according to the 231 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 pattern which was shown you on the mountain. 26:30. 232 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,700 They've got at the beginning, got it in the middle and got to 233 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,400 the end of these instructions, verse 30 says and you shall 234 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,300 raise up the Tabernacle, according to its pattern which 235 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:40,800 you were shown on the mountain. If it's quite clear, isn't it? 236 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:45,400 God wanted Moses and the children of Israel to 237 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,800 understand. I have patterned, you hear what 238 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,900 my pattern is? You see what my pattern is. 239 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:53,700 And you don't change it, you don't add to it and you don't 240 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:59,000 take away from this is my way. Can you imagine Moses tweaking 241 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,300 the dimensions or changing some of the materials in the 242 00:15:01,308 --> 00:15:04,800 instructions that God gave? The thought is shocking the 243 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,500 wall. Of course, not Moses wouldn't do 244 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:09,500 that. Let me come a little bit further 245 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:12,900 down the stream of time. When we come to Solomon, David, 246 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:17,400 of course, wanted to build the temple, but the Bible says that 247 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,800 he was a bloody man, and for that reason, he was not allowed 248 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,600 to build it, but his son Solomon was Solomon built that Temple. 249 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,000 Now we have a permanent structure, a place where God was 250 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,300 to dwell. The Mercy Seat again. 251 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:36,800 We see those instructions and carried out with great detail. 252 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,300 Thanks Solomon. Altered changed any of those? 253 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,800 Thank you get a improved. Do you think he thought he could 254 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,700 improve? No, not Solomon. 255 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,400 David though, when it came to some of the instructions given 256 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,300 concerning the Ark of the Covenant going back. 257 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:58,800 Now to the Tabernacle when it came to the Ark of the Covenant 258 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,500 made a mistake, you'll remember that with us up and after that 259 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:04,700 mistake and the correction was made. 260 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,900 I like the words that did David uses in first Chronicles chapter 261 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:14,700 15 to describe the lesson that he had learned First Chronicles 262 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:17,200 15 verse 12. Fifteen. 263 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:25,600 He said to them, you were the heads of the fathers, houses of 264 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,900 the Levi's sanctify yourselves and make yourselves. 265 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:31,000 Holy you and your brethren, that you may bring up the Ark of the 266 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,100 Lord, God of Israel to the place. 267 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,600 I have prepared for it for because you did not do it. 268 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,300 The first time, the Lord, Our God broke out against us because 269 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:46,400 we did not consult him about the proper order or after the due 270 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,000 order. So the priests and Levites 271 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,400 sanctify themselves to bring up the Ark of the Lord, God of 272 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,200 Israel. And the children of the Levites, 273 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,000 bore the Ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles as Moses 274 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,200 had commanded. According to the word of the 275 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,600 Lord, they did it after the due order, they follow the pattern, 276 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:05,700 they did, they follow the instructions, according to the 277 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:09,599 blueprint, the form, the model and everything went. 278 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:14,800 Well, and so it is, we learned over and over and over again 279 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,700 when God says to build something he wants It built, according to 280 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:21,300 his plan, he wants it built a cording. 281 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:27,099 To his specification. If you don't learn anything else 282 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:29,900 from the Old Testament, that's one of the great lessons that 283 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:32,800 you should be able to learn. You know, many book, people 284 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,000 believe today. Now we're making a switch 285 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,400 because we've talked about some things were built in the Old 286 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,200 Testament, but in the New Testament, there's something 287 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,800 pretty special that God had designed to build, isn't there? 288 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:49,000 Jesus said, Matthew 16 Palm this rock. 289 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:52,800 I will build my church. Now these, these items here that 290 00:17:52,808 --> 00:17:54,500 we see in the Old Testament were special. 291 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,200 They were holy, they belong to God, and he had special 292 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,100 instructions concerning them. But now, this was his crowning 293 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:03,300 creation. This was his greatest of all 294 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:10,200 designs. this greatest building project of all time, Would be 295 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:16,900 the church, his church. And so if after we look at the 296 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:20,600 altar and the are the instructions and the violations, 297 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:23,800 according to the pattern, the Tabernacle and the temple, we 298 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,600 come down to the New Testament even though yet we have not 299 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,600 noticed any new testament scriptures on the idea of the 300 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,900 pattern. Does it not stand to reason that 301 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:36,800 we come to the church, we look for pattern when it comes to the 302 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,300 Plan of Salvation it would allow one. 303 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,600 It's into the kingdom of God, the church when it comes to how 304 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,200 we would worship as we assemble as the body of Christ. 305 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,100 When it comes to the church government that we have within 306 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:51,800 the body of Christ, doesn't it stand to reason that we learned 307 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,200 something from the Old Testament? 308 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:57,000 And everything in the church. We look for the pattern. 309 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,100 Look for the model, we look for blueprint. 310 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,800 That makes sense, doesn't it? You know? 311 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:08,300 I read just the other day. In fact I see it in one of your 312 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,400 bulletins are one of your your works and quote about dr. 313 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,000 Leonidas Holland of Lipscomb University, talking about the 314 00:19:15,008 --> 00:19:18,400 pattern even in God's creation. Maybe someone has mentioned that 315 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,800 here in a lesson before. But even then in the worldly 316 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:28,100 matters, you can see certain patterns emerge God's way and 317 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:30,600 how he likes things uniform and orderly. 318 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,700 Anyway, this professor from David Lipscomb, University 319 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:37,300 discovered that all rennes These little tiny birds, the South 320 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:42,300 Carolina wren, at least. Whistle thereto nor sing their 321 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:46,800 song or whatever you want to call it always in the key of G. 322 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,000 Peculiar thing, isn't it interesting? 323 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,000 I guess one of the beauties of that would be that they're 324 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,300 always on key and that would be nice. 325 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:58,700 Wouldn't it for someone with? We just knew that we're always 326 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:02,700 going to be on key disadvantage, I guess would be that it's 327 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:06,400 always the key of G but this is a demonstration of the 328 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,100 blueprint, God hadn't pattern and every single time you see 329 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:13,500 the same thing, but unfortunately, the religious 330 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:15,000 world doesn't look at things like that. 331 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,800 My mother sews and some of you sisters. 332 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:24,500 So here I assume If you had come up with a pattern of something 333 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,500 or you were using a patent, would show a certain amount of 334 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,700 disrespect. If you were to, I don't have a 335 00:20:28,708 --> 00:20:31,500 pattern with me, just try to imagine this, you saw a pattern, 336 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:36,000 somebody asked you to sew it for them and you just ripped the 337 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,200 pattern that you were given torn apart, stomped on it. 338 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,000 Threw it in the trash. And I don't think I like that. 339 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,300 Design my own pattern. Or for those of you who have 340 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,700 worked on building projects, you've been given the blueprint 341 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:53,100 you're in charge of this specific aspect of the 342 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:55,100 construction. You see the blueprint and you 343 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:59,400 say I don't like that you just start scratching through this 344 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,000 particular design or these particular Dimension. 345 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:09,400 You start making changes How would the owner feel about? 346 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,100 That wouldn't feel too good about that the one who had asked 347 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:15,100 you or had contracted with you too. 348 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:17,800 So that particular outfit wouldn't feel too good about 349 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,700 that. Why is it that those are so easy 350 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:25,700 for us to understand? we can grasp those so readily, 351 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:31,400 but when it comes, to the Lord and his blueprint and his 352 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,600 pattern, all of a sudden, people think they can start ripping and 353 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,700 tearing and marking all over God's blueprint and God's 354 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:45,100 pattern, I hope everyone here tonight, understands Some of you 355 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:46,900 heard this so many times, but those of you who are young, 356 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,000 understand that God has a pattern, we've seen it in the 357 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,800 Old Testament. Let's look at it in the New 358 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,800 Testament, a lot of times in recent years. 359 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,000 I don't know how popular this is. 360 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,900 Now people go around saying, what would Jesus do? 361 00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:58,900 What would Jesus do? And certainly that's a good 362 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:00,400 idea. What would Jesus do? 363 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:04,100 But in some of these things, when it comes to Salvation and 364 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:09,200 worship, what did Jesus say what did the apostles? 365 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,700 Say what did the church do ask those questions? 366 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,400 Find the answers to those questions and you have the 367 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,700 pattern that Jesus had provided for us in the church. 368 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Let's look at a couple of new testament scriptures though. 369 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,600 That reinforce we've already learned from the Old Testament, 370 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,600 bring back some of these directly from the Old Testament. 371 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,900 The book of Acts. You remember in Acts chapter 7, 372 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:37,400 Stephen gave that that sermon before he was became the first 373 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,600 Christian martyr die for preaching that sermon. 374 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:46,600 Here's an excerpt in Acts 7 verse 44, He said, our fathers 375 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:51,600 had the Tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he appointed 376 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,300 instructing Moses, to make it, according to the pattern that he 377 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,300 had seen, it's brought to the New Testament. 378 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:01,400 Yes, it is because it's still important for us today. 379 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,200 Hebrews chapter 8, verse 5, beautiful book, comparing the 380 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,400 old and the new and how the old is perfected. 381 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,900 Under the new and Hebrews. 8 verse 5 Paul writes who serve 382 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,900 the copy and Shadow of the Only things as Moses was divinely 383 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:20,200 instructed when he was about to make the Tabernacle for he said 384 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,600 see that you make all things according to the pattern shown 385 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,300 you on the mountain and then Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1. 386 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,600 He shows that those those things in the old were shadowed, the 387 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,000 things better things to come and there's a connection made and 388 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,400 certainly we can see the connection between the old and 389 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,600 the new and the importance of the pattern. 390 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,200 And if you don't get that, then look at 2nd, Timothy 1 verse 13 391 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,100 there. The Bible says, Paul says, to 392 00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:49,600 the young man, Timothy, hold fast. 393 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:55,800 Stay with it, hold fast. The pattern of sound Words, 394 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,000 which you have heard from me, in faith and love, which are in 395 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,800 Christ Jesus. It's not about a steadfast 396 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,100 adherence here, buying says, just as Moses made all things 397 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:09,500 according to the pattern and just as Noah built the ark. 398 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:13,100 According to all that God, commanded him Genesis 622. 399 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:17,300 So must we follow the Divine pattern found in the New 400 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:22,100 Testament? Colossians 3 verse 17, teaching 401 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:23,800 the same truth about the pattern. 402 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,400 Whatsoever, you do in word or deed do all in the Name of 403 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:36,100 Christ, Jesus, or do all by the authority of Christ Jesus. 404 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:43,100 Everything we do. In our worship, everything that 405 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,100 has to do with church government and over and over again. 406 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,700 In many different areas, we need to have authority, we need to 407 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,100 have the authority of the blueprint. 408 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,200 So, is there a pattern when it comes to Salvation? 409 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:59,100 Is there a pattern? When there comes when it comes 410 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,600 to Salvation? My sure there is. 411 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,600 Every time you will notice something very interesting. 412 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,100 It's not a coincidence and it's not an accident. 413 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,600 It's part of the plant the pattern that God had designed. 414 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,200 Every time you find the Forgiveness of sins salvation 415 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,100 And baptism. You always find that baptism 416 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,800 precedes, the Forgiveness of sins. 417 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:27,900 We have the pattern laid out so beautifully for us. 418 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,400 In the book of Acts and Acts chapter 2 on the day of 419 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,900 Pentecost, after that powerful sermon that Peter preached, the 420 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:40,100 men and women were astonished and the men cried out, they were 421 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:42,400 cut to their heart men and Brethren. 422 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400 What shall we do? What was the response? 423 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,600 We see the same response. In different words with the same 424 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,300 facts are presented throughout the Book of Acts and throughout 425 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,300 the New Testament. Peter answered and said repent 426 00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,700 and be baptized every one of you. 427 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:03,000 In the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and 428 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000 you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the remission of 429 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,200 sins, the Forgiveness of sins. We're talking about the same 430 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:14,500 thing and acts 3:19 again. We see the emphasis placed on 431 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,700 repentance as you go through the book of Acts time and time 432 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:19,800 again. Again you see the same truths 433 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,800 stressed and emphasized in Acts chapter 8? 434 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,800 We notice the importance of the confession. 435 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:29,200 Remember Phillip was preaching to the Ethiopian unit. 436 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,200 He heard about Jesus. The gospel was preached to him. 437 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,200 He was Pete. He was preached Christ. 438 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,900 And when he heard Christ preach, what did he know when he saw 439 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:39,800 that water? He didn't want to wait till next 440 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,300 week or sometime when they grabbed up a bunch of bunch of 441 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:46,100 folks, 20 or 30. People would just go get 442 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,900 baptized sometime down the road. He says, I want to do this. 443 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,000 Now here is water. What doth hinder me to be 444 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,200 baptized? And it was something that had to 445 00:26:54,208 --> 00:26:56,100 be done right now. Why? 446 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,500 Because He had to get his sins forgiven. 447 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:05,100 And so what was the response? If thou believest with all thine 448 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,900 heart, thou mayest, he had to believe and that belief was 449 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:10,500 something that needed to be expressed. 450 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:16,300 And he said in Acts 8:37, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 451 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,700 Son of God, and then he went down into that water. 452 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,100 He baptized them, they came both app out of the water and he went 453 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:26,100 on his way rejoicing. We see the same pattern over and 454 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:29,500 over and over again. So why would we want to see? 455 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:31,800 Or Why would we want to tamper with that? 456 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,900 Why we want to say that? Well, now actually, we've got a 457 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:39,300 new design and we think we can enlarge the membership rolls. 458 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:43,800 If we just turn this up baptism right here, not into an absolute 459 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,800 necessity, not something that is essential for salvation, but 460 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,300 let's just make that. Let's just make that optional 461 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:55,200 and let's just say instead of Being baptized. 462 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,300 Let's substitute something else in here. 463 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,300 We're going to put something else in here and we're going to 464 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,800 call it the sinner's prayer. How about that? 465 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,300 Now that change prayer is a big thing in the Bible prayers. 466 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,500 Talked about a lot, isn't it? I sure will just slip that in 467 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:11,500 there in the place. And that's a lot easier. 468 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,700 In fact, we can have people, just send us a little letter or 469 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:19,100 tell us over the phone that they put their hand over the, the TV 470 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,200 set or the radio. And they prayed that sinner's 471 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,400 prayer with us. And look at how fast fast. 472 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:32,400 Our ministry is growing, but would that be That would be in 473 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,200 addition to the patterns and a subtraction and addition we can 474 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,100 see that that wasn't tolerated under the new Under the Old 475 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:44,200 Testament and we can see when we look at the Book of Genesis and 476 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,100 the building of art that would be absurd to make any changes. 477 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,300 Why is it We try to make those changes or that we would accept 478 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,000 those changes in the New Testament. 479 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:58,500 Well, you know, one of the problems is the average 480 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:03,100 rank-and-file member some of our friends and Neighbors in town, 481 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:07,400 they don't know what the pattern is because where they've been 482 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,200 going, they hadn't heard what the pattern is. 483 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,800 That's why it's our job to get the pattern to them. 484 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,200 But what about when it comes to worship their pattern when it 485 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,300 comes to worship? Some people say what? 486 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:22,900 They don't have music. Beautiful music. 487 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,300 Then the body of Christ. We love music, God's people, in 488 00:29:26,308 --> 00:29:27,900 the Old Testament, New Testament. 489 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:31,800 We have always loved music, we love music back home. 490 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000 And I know there's people here that are down enough to do that, 491 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,200 we have professional musicians, make their living. 492 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:41,500 But when it comes to the worship, when we gather as God's 493 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:44,000 people, we don't just offer up God. 494 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:49,300 Anything we don't just do. We just don't do like a has did 495 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,300 and go. And look at that the Pagan Altar 496 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,000 and say, well, you know what? I I like that. 497 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,400 I think will bring that in, and I think we'll use that to 498 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,700 worship God. He act like he was still 499 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:01,700 worshipping God. And honoring God, great 500 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,800 celebration, a has stopped, but he wasn't honoring God. 501 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,300 Wesley, because he strayed from the path, when it comes to music 502 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:10,700 was the Bible. Tell us clearly we find it in 503 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:19,100 Ephesians 5:19. Colossians, 3:16 Hebrews 2:12. 504 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,600 First Corinthians 14 and 15 over and over and over. 505 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:29,400 Over again, the pattern. Call score singing. 506 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:32,200 So that's why that's all you're going to. 507 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,200 That's all you're going to hear it here in the Lord's Church. 508 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:39,700 Because it fits the pattern when it comes to the Lord's Supper. 509 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,900 Sometimes people will visit from. other congregations of the 510 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:52,600 Church of Christ, and they'll come in and they'll look And 511 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,800 when that tablecloth is lifted and they see only one cup, 512 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,300 they're confused. And some of them are startled. 513 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,900 What is going on here? These people are a little behind 514 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:03,600 the times. What are? 515 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,900 Why are they using just one cup? I'll tell you what. 516 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,900 We just use one cup because there's not any confusion 517 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:15,300 really. When you go to Matthew 26 and 518 00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:19,700 you read verse 26 to 29 and you read, Mark 14, verse 22, through 519 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:24,200 25 and Luke 22, 19 and 20. And First Corinthians 11 23 520 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,400 through 29. There's not really any 521 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,900 confusion, you know, how many cups you find there. 522 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:31,800 You find one cup. Containing the fruit of the 523 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,600 vine. That's the pattern. 524 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,200 The Bible doesn't have to say what it does. 525 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,100 Say the Bible doesn't have to make it as clear as the Bible 526 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:46,500 does make it. Because we have a pattern and we 527 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:50,400 know what the Lord used in instituting that supper and 528 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,400 we're going to keep it just the way he kept is, what about in 529 00:31:53,408 --> 00:31:58,400 the teaching. And First Corinthians 14 and 530 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,900 First Corinthians 11, their pattern. 531 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:02,300 There, when it comes to the teaching, you know, what 532 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:06,400 happens, they all came together in one place. 533 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,900 They all came together into one place. 534 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,100 That was a pattern established way back in. 535 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:15,300 They didn't divide up into a whole bunch of classroom. 536 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,400 With send the little kids over here, and let's put the women 537 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,500 over here and then the younger and it a little ones and divide 538 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,200 all up like that and do that. They all came together in one 539 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,300 place and one person was teaching at a time, not a whole 540 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:34,400 bunch of people and First Corinthians. 14 verse 34. 541 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:38,000 Of course, we have the pattern of just one man, speaking of at 542 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000 a time but he also adds that it's a shame for a woman. 543 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,600 Even to speak in the church. There's a pattern there when it 544 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,600 comes to the teaching and you can follow this down when it 545 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,700 comes to the worship and you can follow this down when it comes 546 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,100 to church government. That's the last thing. 547 00:32:54,100 --> 00:33:00,400 We'll notice that an idea that is just An area in which the 548 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,600 religious world has just totally abandoned the pattern. 549 00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,200 You see this word? What do you think? 550 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:16,200 What do you think of it? When you see this word, what do 551 00:33:16,208 --> 00:33:19,700 you think of? When you see either of those 552 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,900 words, one of the words that you should also think of is this 553 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:25,300 word right here? You know why? 554 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,600 Because the Bible makes it crystal clear that the pastor is 555 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,200 a bishop and the bishop is an elder in. 556 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,000 The Elder is the pastor and the Elders of Bishop are all talking 557 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,600 about the same office. But we've got, we've got 558 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,800 religious institutions, the largest Christian professing 559 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,800 institution that has turned this bishop into some ruler over 560 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,500 several churches. One man over several churches 561 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:51,200 listen folks That doesn't fit the pattern. 562 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,800 God has established his pattern when it comes to church 563 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,600 government. Just like he did in the Old 564 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,700 Testament. He's done it with the church. 565 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,500 Next 20, verse 17, through 31, you can see this clearly laid 566 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:10,000 out when the Apostle, the Apostle Paul called the Elders 567 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:14,000 of Ephesus to meet him at my letus pastor. 568 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:17,400 It's just the same form of words. 569 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:23,000 Shepherd, shepherd Pastor, Bishop, an overseer, same thing. 570 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000 And that is what the Elder is responsible for doing. 571 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,900 He is a pastor, he is an overseer. 572 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:30,000 You know, we've got today. People say Pastor, you know, 573 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,900 they're talking about, they're talking about Pulpit ministry, 574 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,000 that's not going to get it. And sometimes I think in some of 575 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,500 our congregations, we think that a teacher is just a, somebody 576 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:43,900 who's a Pulpit minister. Because we got a lot of places. 577 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:45,800 Oh, let me teach. I want to teach. 578 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,600 Let me teach this time. I was in a congregation one 579 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,100 time. I thought we had a real good 580 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:54,400 meeting and I left and I called back about six months later to 581 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,100 see how things were going. And the brother said that I 582 00:34:57,107 --> 00:35:00,500 called said, well, I've quit the church. 583 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:06,100 Something big something big is happening here. 584 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,500 So what happened? So well. 585 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:14,000 They still don't have me teaching on Sunday morning, he 586 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,700 quit the church because they didn't have him teaching on 587 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:22,500 Sunday morning folks. I'm talking about teachers, but 588 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:25,200 some of the greatest work that we can do is not going to be 589 00:35:25,207 --> 00:35:27,700 done standing up in front of everybody here, but can be done 590 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,100 in private. Even the great Apostle Paul 591 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,900 said, I have taught you publicly and from house to house, and 592 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:37,500 we've got people lining up to teach publicly. 593 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:40,100 But in some places, we can't find anybody. 594 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,900 Who'll go house to house. We can't find anybody that will 595 00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:46,700 be studying on a one-to-one basis or with a couple of 596 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:48,600 different people in a small setting. 597 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,400 And the church is suffering, when that's happening. 598 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:53,800 Listen, I'm Pastor is not somebody. 599 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:56,800 If we ever get to that point, we have them in our congregation in 600 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,600 the congregation, here, pastors, Elders. 601 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:02,700 Bishops are talking about people that are looking after the Flop. 602 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,900 Pastor is a Shepherd, he's caring for the sheet. 603 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:07,100 He's looking for the after the sheep and he makes sure those 604 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:09,800 sheep are okay. The religious world is totally 605 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,200 lost sight of the Bible pattern when it comes to church 606 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,100 government. There's suppose to be a 607 00:36:15,107 --> 00:36:20,100 plurality of Elders. There's a religious group Very 608 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:24,600 growing religious group, even carries the name, the Church of 609 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,900 Jesus Christ. As part of their name, has men 610 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,700 calling themselves Elders at the age of 18. 611 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:35,000 Have not met the most fundamental of the 612 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,000 qualifications that are given in first Timothy 3 and Titus 613 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,600 Chapter 1. Listen folks, God has a pattern, 614 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,600 God has a pattern, just like he had patterns in the Old 615 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,700 Testament. When it came to the art, the 616 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,200 alter, the tab Michael the temple. 617 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,600 He has patterns in the church. There is a particular pattern 618 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,600 for salvation. There's a special pattern that's 619 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,700 presented to us when it comes to the aspects of our worship. 620 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,300 There's a pattern when it comes to church government. 621 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,200 I'm sure you can think of other patterns and you need to look 622 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,800 for patterns in the New Testament. 623 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:13,200 In Jude verse 3, another scripture that teaches us the 624 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,100 pattern pattern concept. The writer says earnestly 625 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:24,700 contend for the faith. Once delivered to the Saints, it 626 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,400 doesn't change every hundred years. 627 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,000 Every 200 years again. In Matthew 28 verse 20. 628 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:34,300 There's a pattern given Let me simplify it for you. 629 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:43,800 Th baptized teach when he sent them out before he ascended. 630 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,700 After his resurrection because I want you to go teach, I want you 631 00:37:47,707 --> 00:37:50,800 to baptize those that you teach the receive the Gospel and then 632 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,900 I want you to teach them to observe all things whatsoever. 633 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:55,600 I have commanded you there's a pattern here. 634 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,200 This pattern should not change, should never change until Jesus 635 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,700 comes back, and we're not going to let it happen. 636 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,900 We're going to let it change here, we teach them, we teach 637 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:05,800 them the truth. Those who respond to the truth. 638 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,800 Baptized after they're baptized then we teach them to observe 639 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,500 not some things but all things whatsoever I have commanded you 640 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,300 and these people that have been taught. 641 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,700 All things. You know they're going to do. 642 00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:17,900 They're going to start this over there, going to teach them, 643 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,200 they're going to baptize in, they're going to teach them at 644 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,500 what point can this cycle be broken? 645 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,100 Never never if we want to honor and we want to glorify God. 646 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,600 I hope this evening that the study has been helpful to you. 647 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,900 Been a reminder to you of how serious God is as an architect. 648 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:44,100 He's got his projects, he's got his projects in his most 649 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:49,800 precious building of all. It's the Church of Jesus Christ. 650 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:54,700 Are you a member of that church, that great institution? 651 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,700 You don't have to be voted on to become a member. 652 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,400 You don't join this church and Acts chapter 2. 653 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,900 We find that those who are baptized were added to the 654 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:08,300 church. All you have to do is follow the 655 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:10,800 same instruction, the same thing that made Christians back. 656 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,500 Then I'll make you a Christian today. 657 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:17,100 You believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and you're 658 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,200 willing to make that confession before men, you're willing to 659 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,800 turn from a life of sin. In. 660 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,800 Now, you don't have to be the most wicked sinner in the world 661 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,100 to turn from sin. We've all sinned and fall short 662 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:30,500 of the glory of God. If you reach the age of 663 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:33,200 accountability, you have sinned. You need to turn from sin. 664 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,600 Turn your life over to God. That's what he's talking about. 665 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,500 After you've done those steps. You're a fit subject for 666 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,600 baptism. What if there's someone here, 667 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000 who has not obeyed? The gospel plan. 668 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:48,500 God's Plan of Salvation. You've heard it tonight. 669 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,000 We encourage you, if you have not obeyed it to come forward, 670 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,800 as we sing this song and become a child of God. 671 00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:59,700 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 672 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:05,500 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 673 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:08,700 would like any additional information or you would like to 674 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,700 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 675 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,200 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 676 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,200 Bakersfield.com. Our service times are on Sundays 677 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,800 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 678 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,900 Please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our 679 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:30,800 honored guest.