1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:03,800 The time of the Wilderness wandering of the Israelites was 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,200 over. It was time now, to cross over 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,200 the Jordan and spy out, the land, Moses and Aaron are dead 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,400 Joshua. And Caleb have taken over as the 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,900 leaders of God's people. Joshua sends a couple of fellas 6 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:23,900 out, maybe more than that, but he sent some men out and they 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:27,400 were to spy out the land, as well as the city of Jericho, 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,200 which was just over the river. I don't know how long it had 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,800 been since these fellows had gotten their. 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,200 I don't know how extensive their Espionage was. 11 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:42,800 But at some point, they found themselves in the house of a 12 00:00:42,808 --> 00:00:47,800 woman whose name was Rahab and the Bible speaks of Rahab as 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,700 Rahab the Harlot. Now, this title, was normally 14 00:00:51,700 --> 00:00:55,500 reserved for an immoral woman as I'm sure you all realize. 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,700 But probably this woman was no longer practicing that sinful 16 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:05,300 occupation. However, as is often the case, a 17 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:09,500 scar that we get from having committed, a sin early on, May 18 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:11,600 continue with us for a long time. 19 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,500 I do not believe that these men went to her house for any 20 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:20,000 ungodly purpose. In fact, I believe that it was 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,900 God's Providence that put them there. 22 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,800 And I'll try to explain that if I don't forget it in a minute. 23 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,300 But while these men were at the house of Rahab and the Bible 24 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,000 says that her house was on the town wall. 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Archeologist, tell us that the city of Jericho was a mighty 26 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,900 walled City in the ancient world. 27 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:45,700 The wall was great enough. That supposedly, according to 28 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:49,700 architect archaeologists, it appeared to have been a wide 29 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:53,700 enough for two charriots to have passed a breasted each other on 30 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:57,000 the top of it. So it wasn't just a fence that 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,400 was built around the city, but I'm Mighty wall and houses were 32 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,800 built on the edge of this perhaps hanging off of The Edge 33 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,600 and rahab's was one of those while the these men were at her 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:15,300 house, somehow word, leaked out and the king of Jericho, which, 35 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,500 you know, we talk about Kings today. 36 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:21,600 He wasn't a king, like the king of England, or the king of 37 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:27,000 France, but more like a mayor would be he Was a politically 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,000 child uh politically competent, man but did not have the power 39 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,900 that a king in some cases might have had but the king of Jericho 40 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:41,200 heard about that and he said a message to rehab to send those 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:47,100 men out because she has a said, he said they'd be here to spy 42 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:52,300 out the land, and the City Rehab had, figured it all out. 43 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,800 You see she had heard about the Exploits of Israel. 44 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,000 She knew how that one city after the other had been falling to 45 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,300 them because God was blessing them. 46 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:08,500 They were not going to lose. God, never needs numbers. 47 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,500 He only needs dedication and obedience and the wind is 48 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:16,900 absolutely guaranteed. And so one land and one city and 49 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:20,500 one nation after the other had been falling before them. 50 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,500 In fact, she told them our hearts have failed or melted 51 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:28,100 within us, Us when we heard what you did to this one and that one 52 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:31,100 and the other one. And so she said I'm going to 53 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:35,300 make a deal with you. I'm going to hide you, and I'm 54 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:37,200 going to keep you from being caught. 55 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,900 But I want you to promise me that when Israel comes to take 56 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:46,900 the city that my father's house will be saved and will be all 57 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,900 right, she had, no doubt. That's, is that Jericho would 58 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:53,400 fall. She just wasn't sure when it 59 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,400 would happen, but she knew if God's people came and besieged 60 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,800 the city that the city would fall. 61 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,700 And so they made a deal with her, they said you take this 62 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:07,000 piece of scarlet line. Apparently, she had some red 63 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,400 rope that. She had there in the house and 64 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,200 she was going to let that out of a window. 65 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,399 And they were going to climb down the outside of that that 66 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,300 wall, she hid them underneath some stalks of Flax on the roof 67 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:24,400 of the house when the soldiers came and she told them a, she 68 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,400 told them a story. She said, yes, there were some 69 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,200 men that came in to me tonight but I don't know where they came 70 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,600 from and I don't know where they went, but if you will pursue 71 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,800 after them quickly down by the forward, that is Speaking of the 72 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,600 River Ford Thou shalt to overtake them and so they left. 73 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:47,800 Now, one of the reasons that I think those men probably went to 74 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,500 her house was that God knew that this was going to take place. 75 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,400 And might I suggest to you there, perhaps was no one else 76 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:00,500 in all the city of Jericho who could have told such a tail and 77 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,300 had it believed as she did. You ever thought about that? 78 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Who else could say? Yeah, I had company tonight but 79 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,400 I don't know where they came from. 80 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,300 I don't know who they were, and I don't know where they were 81 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:16,300 going. She was the perfect person to 82 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:18,300 fit into this part of God's plan. 83 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,200 There's no doubt that God was overseeing all of this because 84 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,100 nearly everything that we're going to talk about today from 85 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,000 the Old Testament, at least until we get to the new was 86 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,300 providential and prophetic in its in its import well, They 87 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:38,000 said you take this piece of scarlet line that we're going to 88 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,400 go down by and you bind that in the window and it will come to 89 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,100 pass that when we come to take the land and the city that that 90 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:49,400 line will be seen. And they said everyone that is 91 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,600 in the house will be saved. I don't forget that because the 92 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,900 word house plays quite an important role when you are 93 00:05:56,900 --> 00:06:00,800 studying Taipan data type or Shadow and substance, as we're 94 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,800 doing this morning, everyone that is in the house. 95 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:07,500 House that is Mark was Scarlet. They're going to be. 96 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,900 All right, we'll take responsibility for them and if 97 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:14,400 anything happens to them their blood will be up on our head. 98 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:18,700 On the other hand, if they get out of the house then they're 99 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:21,800 going to be responsible for themselves and if something 100 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,600 happens to them while they're out of the house, we're not 101 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,300 responsible for what for what happens to them. 102 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,300 So they climb down the red rope and made their way by a 103 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:33,600 circuitous route. Back to the camp. 104 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,200 And Gave the report back to Joshua and Caleb. 105 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,600 Now, all of you who are have done very much reading and the 106 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,000 Old Testament are aware of the fact that this is in a sense, a 107 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,900 passing over as it were, it was an escape. 108 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,800 It was a rescue, if you will, and interestingly enough all 109 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,500 that are in the house that is Mark was Scarlet were saved and 110 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:01,100 rescued that has to have an important part. 111 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:04,800 If you, if you're familiar though, with the Old Testament, 112 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,600 you're bound to be aware of an incident that took place very 113 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,300 similar incident. That took place almost exactly 114 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:18,600 40 years earlier. That was when Israel was getting 115 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,500 ready to leave Egypt. God told Moses to go before 116 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:28,300 pharaoh and asked that his people be released remember 117 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,400 that. And one time after the other 118 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,100 favor old would first say yes? Then he would say no. 119 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,600 And so a series of a number of plagues that I don't have time 120 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,200 to go into were visited upon Egypt. 121 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,700 The only one that I'm really concerned about is the last one, 122 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:50,900 the very last plague that God's in was the plague of the death 123 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,800 angel. And this is an important one 124 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,800 because God had said, the time is going to come when I'm going 125 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,900 to pass over the camp. And so when I come over the camp 126 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,900 every house that is not marked with the blood of the Passover 127 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:12,600 Lamb Come Morning. The first born in that family, 128 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,800 as well as the firstborn of all family. 129 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:21,100 Owned animals will be dead. And so in the twelfth chapter of 130 00:08:21,108 --> 00:08:26,300 the book of Exodus, God gave instructions for the killing of 131 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:29,500 the Passover Lamb. They were to kill that lamb and 132 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,299 just serve a certain way. It had to be a young male 133 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,900 without blemish and so on and then they were to take the blood 134 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,299 of that animal and paint it on the doorpost. 135 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:42,200 And the Lynne tells that is on the top part in the side, parts 136 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,700 of the house. And so God said, when I see the 137 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:49,600 blood, I will pass over you. You know, we used to sing the 138 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,000 old song, when I see the blood, I will pass over you and 139 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,900 undoubtedly many of us our son that and never realized the 140 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:01,800 import of those words. It was literally a passing over 141 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,400 and if you wonder why the lamb was referred to as the Passover 142 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:12,300 Lamb, it was because of that it was a passing over God passed 143 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:15,300 over all of those house. Just that had the blood of the 144 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:19,200 lamb and those that did not death was the result. 145 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,600 And the Bible tells us that that night, that even favor, oh, 146 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,900 rolled out of bed with a cry of Anguish. 147 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:29,200 Because there was not a house in all of Egypt in which one was 148 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,900 not dead. But Over Yonder in the little 149 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:36,800 group of Goshen, the little area of Goshen, where God's people 150 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,100 lived strangely enough. No death over there because they 151 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,600 had obeyed the command of God and painted the blood of the 152 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,400 Lamb. Lamb on the doorpost. 153 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,300 So here we have two cases and in each case, those that were in 154 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,900 the house that is Mark with Scarlet are safe and those that 155 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,300 are out of the house. Mark was Scarlet, are not safe. 156 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,300 What we're dealing than with is a symbol or a type. 157 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:06,000 If you will of people being saved by the blood of Christ. 158 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,100 Now, what we're talking about today and what I want to trace 159 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:16,200 with you today is the idea of how the blood of Christ began in 160 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,200 Prophecy, at least, even in the Old Testament. 161 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,800 You'll notice that in all of these cases, the word house 162 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:28,900 plays an important role. Now all that are in the house 163 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:31,000 that is Mark was scarred. It are safe. 164 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:35,400 Remember what Paul said in second Timothy 3 verses 14 and 165 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,000 15. When he said these things write 166 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,400 I unto thee hoping to come under the shortly. 167 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,300 But if I should Terry long, that thou mayest know how thou 168 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:49,500 oughtest to behave thyself. In the house of God which is the 169 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:54,000 Church of the Living. God, the pillar and ground or 170 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,500 support if you will of the truth. 171 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,900 And so one just simply carries over to the other. 172 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,600 Just as those in the house Mark was scarlet and rahab's, day 173 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,100 were saved just as those that were in the house marked with 174 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:09,300 the blood of the Lamb Scarlet in color. 175 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,500 I'm sure that's not an accident in Moses day were saved. 176 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,600 So it is today those that are in the house of God. 177 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,100 God that is Mark was Scarlet. The blood of Jesus Christ. 178 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:23,700 Purchased his church. When you're in the house of God, 179 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:27,700 Mark was Scarlet today. You were still safe and God is 180 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:32,400 responsible for you. Nothing will happen to you as 181 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,400 long as you remain faithful and stay in the house of God. 182 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:40,100 So want to talk with you today about the blood of Christ, and 183 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,600 how it began literally in the very early chapters of the Old 184 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,500 Testament. Remember reading their how that 185 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:50,900 the Bible says that there came a time when Cain and Abel offered 186 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:54,100 a sacrifice. Now, this this is kind of 187 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:59,600 interesting to me and I'll try not to take too much time, but 188 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:04,300 the Bible tells us that they offered a sacrifice, Cain was a 189 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:09,100 tiller of the fields or a farmer while Abel was a keeper of sheep 190 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:11,900 or a Shepherd. Now, the scripture tells us 191 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:15,500 nothing about in The Genesis account tells us nothing about 192 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:19,400 their having been. A command of God to do this, but 193 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,600 we know there was, how do we know that? 194 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,500 Because in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, sometimes referred to 195 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:32,100 as Faith, honor roll. The Bible said by faith Abel 196 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:36,300 offered a more excellent sacrifice than his brother came. 197 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,400 How did he do it by faith? According to Romans 10:17, Faith 198 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,300 cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 199 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:48,600 And so while we are not told the command he could not have done 200 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,800 it by faith except to have done it in response to a command of 201 00:12:52,808 --> 00:12:56,500 God if you get my point. So God had commanded this but 202 00:12:56,500 --> 00:13:01,600 notice what happens Cain. And offers a sacrifice that is a 203 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,800 vegetable sacrifice. Well, what's wrong with that? 204 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,600 It undoubtedly represented many, many hours of toil and sweat. 205 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 If you've ever worked on a farm, you know what I'm talking about 206 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,000 or even a garden for that matter. 207 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:19,900 And yet God did not accept that, but Cain and Abel sacrifice. 208 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:25,700 Rather was a sacrifice in which blood was found because Abel 209 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:27,800 offered the fatlings of his flock. 210 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,900 And the scripture plainly says that unto Cain, God, had no 211 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,700 respect, but unable Rifice he did and came became very, very 212 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:41,800 angry, very wrong. The Bible says, and God said to 213 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,500 him, why art thou wroth? Why hast thou countenance? 214 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,200 Fallen? That's kind of amusing to me. 215 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:54,100 Pardon me for smiling. Because there's many times when 216 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,400 I've been preaching and I've noticed that the, that the 217 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,300 countenance of some Falls when you talk about certain things, 218 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:03,500 and if you're, if you're a public teacher, you know what 219 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:06,700 I'm talking about. God knew that, that Kane was 220 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:10,600 angry, because his countenance had fallen, he was pouting. 221 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,700 And so God said, and listen to this, because this is the key to 222 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:18,900 understanding it. God said, if thou doest, well 223 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:23,600 shalt thou not be accepted. In other words, if you are 224 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,000 obedient, won't you be accepted? But he said, if thou doest not, 225 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,000 well, that is if you didn't obey me sin, lieth at the door, so 226 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,400 there's the problem. Cain offers a sacrifice with no 227 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,400 blood, and God doesn't accept it. 228 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,300 And he said, sin is at the door Abel offers a sacrifice that 229 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,700 contains blood, which was a type or a figure of the blood of 230 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:50,700 Jesus Christ. That would later be a come to 231 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,100 pass the Bible tells, Us in 1st Corinthians, 5 and verse 7. 232 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,500 That Jesus is our Passover and the Old Testament, as well as 233 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:02,200 the Hebrew letter is replete with passages indicating that 234 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,900 every time a sacrifice was killed. 235 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,400 It was typical or a type meaning that it brought to mind in God's 236 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,500 mind the time when his own son would come and offer his blood 237 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,700 on the cross. These are very, very much 238 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:19,800 intertwined. So that's obviously the reason 239 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,100 why cable sacrifice was accepted. 240 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:27,900 And Keynes was not now the Bible tells us that even before that 241 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,300 that Adam and Eve when they sinned in the garden you 242 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:36,100 remember that when they sinned the scripture tells us that God 243 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,600 took the skins of animals and clothed them. 244 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:43,600 Now one thing you're going to find let me just interject. 245 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,200 This one thing you're going to find when you study the scheme 246 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,300 of redemption. And that's essentially what 247 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:52,100 we're doing today. When you study the scheme of 248 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,300 redemption, you're going to find always that. 249 00:15:55,300 --> 00:16:00,200 It is the innocent who suffers for the guilty without exception 250 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,900 without exception. It is the innocent who pays the 251 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:09,800 priced, it is the guilty who goes free, that's who we are 252 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:10,800 today. Isn't it? 253 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,800 Romans 3:23 tells us that we are all guilty of sin and have all 254 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,900 come short of the glory of God. Yet. 255 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:20,600 We sit here today, expecting to go to heaven. 256 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,700 Why? Because the innocent Lord or 257 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:29,500 Christ suffered in our place and Peter said, by his stripes, are 258 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:32,700 you healed? And so the innocent always 259 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:36,300 suffers from The guilty when you and literally from the beginning 260 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:40,400 of sin in the Garden of Eden that has ever been the case when 261 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,700 those animals died. So that God could take their 262 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:48,300 skins and make clothing for Adam and Eve because they were naked. 263 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,200 Those animals had to give up their lives, they were innocent, 264 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:58,300 but they died and the guilty. Pair Adam and Eve went free. 265 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,000 And such was the case, even with Cain and Abel Abel was the 266 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,200 Innocent party, but if you'll remember Cain, murdered him and 267 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,000 killed him and was allowed to go on and live though he was marked 268 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,300 with some sort of a mark so that he would be distinguished from 269 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:16,800 the rest of the people from that time on. 270 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:22,099 And so what we're looking at today is is is this when you see 271 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:28,400 the blood of Jesus Christ in its in its infancy, in its prophetic 272 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:33,000 Forum, when you look at this red line that Rahab posted in her 273 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,700 Window. What you're seeing in that red 274 00:17:35,700 --> 00:17:41,000 line is a sign of a scheme of redemption from the beginning of 275 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,100 sin in Genesis to its eventual and final eradication. 276 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,400 In the Book of Revelation, it also always speaks of death as 277 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:56,000 the inevitable result of sin. But interestingly enough blood 278 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,300 is also seen as the inevitable atonement for that sin. 279 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 So while blood is shed in death and death, is the result of sin. 280 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:08,700 Blood is also the inevitable atonement for that sin. 281 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,400 Well, let's begin right here at Cain and Abel sacrifice and 282 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,700 study the bloodline of Christ. As we begin to study in the Old 283 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,900 Testament over here. In Exodus chapter 12, we come to 284 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:26,700 the time where I And a moment ago of the Passover and remember 285 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,100 that I told you that Paul said in First Corinthians 5 and verse 286 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:34,500 7, that Christ is our Passover. This means that there is a 287 00:18:34,508 --> 00:18:39,100 connection between the literal Passover and exodus 12 and the 288 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,200 Passover that we enjoy today now. 289 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:48,300 In Exodus 12 and verse 13. God said, and the blood shall be 290 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:52,300 to you for a token upon the houses where you are, and when I 291 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:56,200 see the blood, I will pass over you and the plague shall not be 292 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,300 upon you to destroy you. When I smite the land of Egypt 293 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,500 back up in verses 3 and 4 he said speak ye unto all the 294 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:08,100 congregation of Israel. Say in the tenth day of this 295 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:12,200 month, they shall take to them every Manel and listen carefully 296 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,800 they shall take to them. And a lamb according to the 297 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,100 house of their fathers, a lamb for and house. 298 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,700 And if the household be too little, for the lamb, let him. 299 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:25,400 And his neighbor next into his house. 300 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,800 Take it. According to the number of the 301 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,900 souls, every man, according to his eating shall make your count 302 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:33,700 for the lamb. Now, you're probably wondering 303 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:38,600 where in the world I'm going. In Israel, there were many many 304 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,300 houses, but let's just suppose that this represents the 305 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:47,500 households are houses in Israel. When it came time for the 306 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:52,900 Passover, God commanded that every one of these house houses 307 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,300 would have a lamb. The only exception to that would 308 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,400 be if your house was too small to complete the eating of the 309 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,100 lamb. In that case, you could invite 310 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:07,100 someone from your neighbor's house to come and help you eat 311 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,400 it. But, not one morsel of that. 312 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,100 Lamb was allowed to leave your house. 313 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,300 What's the point of all of this? The point of all of this is to 314 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:21,200 show That the observation, if you will, of the Passover was 315 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,000 congregational, or within each and every household, every 316 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,200 household might contain two or three different generations and 317 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,500 still is such a still, the case in many parts of the world in 318 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:35,600 the Philippines. For instance, where I often go, 319 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,200 it is not uncommon to see two or three generations of the same 320 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,200 family living in the same house and the older ones taking care 321 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,800 of the little ones as they grow up and so on. 322 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,800 Long. And so this is the way he that 323 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,100 they observe the Passover on a yearly basis. 324 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:56,900 Now just as every house had a Passover and every house had a 325 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:59,200 lamb. When you understand that, the 326 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,200 house of God is the Church of the Living. 327 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,100 God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 328 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:06,300 You can see that there is a connection between the Church of 329 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:09,800 the Lord Jesus Christ. And the house in Exodus chapter 330 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,300 12 and just as every house has a lamb which was a figure or a 331 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:18,900 type of Jesus Christ. So every congregation today has 332 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:24,100 the Lord's supper, and that Lord supper allows us to remember, 333 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:28,500 who we remember, Jesus Christ. And who is he? 334 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,900 He is our Passover, 1st Corinthians, 5 and verse 7, Now, 335 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:38,300 sometimes Brethren say, not our Brethren, but some Bradman say, 336 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,600 well, it is true that there is one cup. 337 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,800 But there's one cup for the whole world. 338 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:53,500 They say the cup is the blood and so there's one cup for the 339 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:57,600 whole world number 1. The Bible never says that the 340 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,500 cup is the blood. It never says that what it says 341 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:06,000 is that Jesus said this cup is the New Testament in my blood. 342 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:10,400 That's quite a difference than saying this cup is the blood. 343 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:15,200 What Jesus told us was that the cup was the New Covenant or the 344 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,500 agreement. If you will ratify Dorset 345 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:21,700 enforce by his blood quite It a difference in saying that it is 346 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:24,200 the blood. There is The Testament, but 347 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,200 there is also the blood that set it in force. 348 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,600 So I hope you can see the similarity sometimes Brethren 349 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,200 say, and you know, when you when you think of the passage, I 350 00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:40,900 think its first Corinthians 10 and 16 where Paul said the 351 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:44,900 bread, the cup which we bless is it not the communion of the 352 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,400 blood of Christ the bread which we break? 353 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,200 Is it? Not the communion of the body of 354 00:22:49,208 --> 00:22:53,900 Christ and the Brethren ask? Why that Paul or how Paul could 355 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:56,900 write that to Corinth he apparently was perhaps in 356 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:58,400 Ephesus? When he wrote that? 357 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,000 And that they say, how could he write something from Ephesus to 358 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,600 Corinth and say speak of the bread? 359 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,300 And the cup, which we bless. There's only one way, and many 360 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,100 of the scholars. Such as we Vine, will tell you 361 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:19,100 that the word, we there refers to we the assembled by get that 362 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:24,100 we've assembled in Ephesus, and we the assembled in Corinth. 363 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:27,600 And we, this assembled here in Nashville and we the assemble, 364 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,800 where I live in Fremont, California. 365 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,900 For Nia. We bless the cup and we break 366 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:37,500 the bread. And so no, you don't have one 367 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,800 cup for the whole world and I want to tell you something. 368 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:44,400 If you make that argument, you need to understand that in order 369 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,700 for your argument, and the type from, which it Springs right 370 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:53,500 here in a Exodus 12. If that argument has any 371 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:58,000 Credence you're going to have to find some way to get one lamb 372 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:04,700 for all of real. if there's one cup for all the world, But no, 373 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,800 every congregation in Israel, had a Passover just as every 374 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:15,400 Congregation of the Lord's church has the Lord's, Supper it 375 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,100 fits, and it's too good to be an accident. 376 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,700 Only the mind of an infinite. God could have conceived of 377 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:27,900 that. Now every time this animal was 378 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:33,500 killed It pictured. The time when Jesus would come 379 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,000 and die on the cross. That's why Jesus is said to be 380 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,400 our Passover. Just as they were saved by that 381 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,700 Passover, we are saved by H and so they're connected in type of 382 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:48,400 antitype though, they were not the same thing. 383 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,100 You continue to study this and you come over here to Joshua 384 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:55,100 chapter 2, as we all have already read. 385 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,200 And you see that line that is hung in rahab's window. 386 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,900 And as I told you this represents as it were in typical 387 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:07,800 language in figurative, language a sign of the blood of Christ. 388 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,600 It was not an accident. I'll promise you that it was 389 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,400 scarlet and color it represented, the blood of 390 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,600 Christ, which was literally for the big for the eradication of 391 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,300 Sin from the beginning to the end. 392 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:23,300 You say, how could that be? We'll look at Hebrews 9 and 393 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:27,000 verse 15. There, the Apostle Paul said and 394 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,300 what a, what a powerful passage this is he said in for this, 395 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,800 cause he is the mediator of the New Testament. 396 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,900 Are you following me? He said, for this cause he is 397 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:41,800 the mediator of the New Testament over here is the New 398 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,300 Testament that by means of death. 399 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:48,000 For the transgressions of the sins that were committed under 400 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,800 the first testament, they, which are the called might receive the 401 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,000 promise. Of Eternal inheritance. 402 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,800 What does that mean? If you boil it all down, what 403 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,300 Paul is teaching in Hebrews 9 and 15? 404 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:06,700 Is that when Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood, his 405 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:11,100 blood not only goes forward to take care of our sins but it 406 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:16,300 also, it goes back retrospective if you will, to the Past during 407 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,500 a time, when these things here, could not really forgive sin. 408 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:23,600 Remember that Paul said it is not possible for the blood of 409 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,400 bulls and goats to take away sin. 410 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,600 Well, that's why the blood of Christ has to also go back and 411 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,600 cover that they did all that they could do. 412 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:38,000 It was a temporary fix. But finally, the blood of Christ 413 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,900 will cleanse their sins. What I'm telling you is that 414 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:45,000 come to Day of Judgement. Every person who is saved, no 415 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,600 matter what year, or what era of time, he lived in every person 416 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,400 who is saved, will ultimately be saved by the blood of Jesus 417 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,100 Christ, though. He may have lived in an earlier 418 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,600 time. I'm and been forgiven on a 419 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:04,700 temporary or ceremonial basis. Until the real thing came along. 420 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,400 Now let me talk with you a minute about the blood of 421 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,300 Christ. And on the cross. 422 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:17,300 In Ephesians 1 and verse 7. Paul said in whom we have 423 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:21,100 Redemption through his blood, the Forgiveness of sins, 424 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:23,200 according to the riches of his grace. 425 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,000 There probably is no more beautiful subject in the New 426 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,200 Testament than the subject of redemption. 427 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:36,800 And it is also probably one of the least understood subjects. 428 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:40,800 I think we all understand that Redemption means somebody has 429 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,200 been saved from their past sins. But let me explain maybe in a 430 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,200 little greater depth. What I understand it to be years 431 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,600 ago, when my family and I were getting ready to leave 432 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,200 Cincinnati Ohio and moved back to California. 433 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,200 We went down to and I'm dating myself. 434 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,100 Some of you're not old enough to remember this, but we went down 435 00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:05,200 to the S&H. Green Stamps store. 436 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,500 Remember, some of you remember. I can see. 437 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:12,400 He's smiling used to, when you buy groceries or gas, they give 438 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,500 you S&H Green Stamps or sometimes Blue Chip Stamps. 439 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,700 And when we would receive those stamps, we had the option. 440 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:26,100 If we wanted to to take those stamps back, paste them in a 441 00:28:26,108 --> 00:28:29,900 book. And when we got enough books, we 442 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:32,900 could take those stamps down to the step store. 443 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,800 And get a piece of merchandise that we wanted or needed. 444 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:41,200 Well, we had a piece of merchandise that we wanted to 445 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,500 get and I remember when we went down there with our few stamps, 446 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,000 I remember going through the door and to my amazement, it 447 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,100 just kind of clicked like that over the door. 448 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:58,000 It said, Redemption Center. I thought, Redemption Center. 449 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,300 And I think for the first time, I understood Redemption better 450 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,600 than I ever had, because you see what we had was some old stamps 451 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,600 that we had pasted in these books. 452 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:14,200 They were totally useless to us. We didn't need those things, we 453 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,200 didn't want those things. They were of, no use to us until 454 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,000 and unless they were Redeemed by that company, that put them out 455 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 in the first place. And when they redeemed them, 456 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,700 they would give in its place to us a piece of merchandise. 457 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,800 And eyes that we did need and want. 458 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:36,500 Now, here we are guilty of sin. And Jesus comes along and dies 459 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:40,500 on the cross. We don't need those sins. 460 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,300 We can go to heaven with these sins. 461 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:48,900 There have absolutely no use to us, but Jesus comes and sheds, 462 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,600 his blood. And when we obey the gospel, 463 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:58,300 those sins are redeemed, their taken away from us and in their 464 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:02,500 place is given us the promise of eternal life. 465 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,100 That's Redemption. That's what it needs. 466 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,800 You get rid of something, you can't use and get something you 467 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:17,900 desperately need. And Paul says, we are redeemed. 468 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,700 Through his blood, in 1st Corinthians, 15 and 3. 469 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:25,500 And and you'll notice that all the way across here, we've been 470 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:28,300 talking about his blood blood blood. 471 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,800 Blood everywhere is blood, it's always part of the Redemption 472 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,100 scheme, the innocent suffering for the guilty but listen again 473 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,900 in 1st Corinthians 15 and 3 Paul's Road and said for I 474 00:30:40,908 --> 00:30:44,700 delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how 475 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:50,400 that Christ died for our sins. According to the scriptures and 476 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,200 what he means by saying. According to the scriptures, 477 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,200 he's talking about all of those Old Testament passages that 478 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,200 portray in type and antitype and in figurative language, the 479 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,100 coming of the Son of God. Did you know that? 480 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:08,000 David in the Psalms actually speaks, though, he doesn't call 481 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,800 him by name but he speaks of Jesus and the fact that his 482 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,900 hands are pierced with nails. Yes, sir. 483 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:20,600 Absolutely, and Isaiah talks about how that he carried our 484 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,600 burdens and bore our sins and our sorrows. 485 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,500 And and so on. All of that beautiful 486 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:31,300 fifty-third chapter of Isaiah was all profiting 700 plus 487 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:35,600 years, before Jesus ever came to the world, Isaiah wrote about 488 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,100 him and what he would do for us. That's what Paul means. 489 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:42,500 When he says that he died according to the scriptures, he 490 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,500 had to in order to fulfill the scriptures in. 491 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,300 Fact, the Bible plainly says that Jesus fulfilled. 492 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,900 All scripture. In first, John 2 and 2. 493 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,200 The book says, and he is the propitiation for our sins and 494 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,000 not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 495 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,500 The word propitiation is very similar to atonement or 496 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:09,400 reconciliation. And when Jesus died, he became 497 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,100 the propitiation or the atonement if you will for our 498 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:18,300 sins again, in First, Peter 2, and verse 24, Peter said, who is 499 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,100 own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. 500 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,800 Tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness 501 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,700 by whose Stripes, ye were healed. 502 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,500 It ought to make us feel a little more humble to realize 503 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,900 that we can sit here today expecting to go to heaven. 504 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:39,600 Because somebody came and took our women for us. 505 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:48,800 Somebody redeemed us. All was to be lost. 506 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:54,700 But we were redeemed. As the old preachers used to 507 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:57,900 say, our all was in the devil's pawn shop. 508 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:05,100 And we had no way to redeem it. But we have been redeemed by the 509 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,700 blood of Jesus Christ. Finally, a second Corinthians 5 510 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:13,300 and verse 21. Paul said, for he hath, made him 511 00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,700 to be sin for us who knew? No sin. 512 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,900 Speaking of Christ, that we might be made the righteousness 513 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:24,100 of God in him and innocent individual. 514 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,600 Remember, I told you that the innocent always suffers for the 515 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:31,000 guilty and innocent individual comes and dies on the cross. 516 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:38,700 This individual knew no sin. But we who did no sin have been 517 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:42,600 forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ because we obeyed 518 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,500 the gospel. We have been baptized in water 519 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,500 for the remission of sins, and we contacted his blood that way, 520 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:54,300 we are made the righteousness of God in him, but let me continue 521 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,400 on this bloodline was right to the cross. 522 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:00,800 And then from the cross, it begins in earnest. 523 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:07,900 And over over here. Now, today in 2007, And we're 524 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,800 enjoying the blessings of the blood of Christ. 525 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,000 Still in 2007. There are only two things 526 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000 regarding the church that I'm aware of that deal with blood 527 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,300 one is when we are baptized into Christ. 528 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,600 And the other is when we observe the Lord's Supper, as we're 529 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,900 going to do momentarily and we drink the cup of blessing. 530 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:39,000 When you understand that baptism and the Lord's Supper are the 531 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,900 only two things in the church that have one thing in the world 532 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:48,900 to do with blood. Can you understand why these two 533 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:53,699 items are perhaps more often counterfeited and changed than 534 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:58,000 anything else? You don't see the hand of the 535 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,600 devil in that. Of course, he's behind it. 536 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,800 He wants you to be lost. And and when you think about it, 537 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,800 if Rahab had failed to post that line in her window and ask you a 538 00:35:11,808 --> 00:35:15,200 question, when Israel came to take Jericho, do you really 539 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,400 believe her house would have been saved anyway? 540 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:24,000 I don't, I don't believe that have been saved at all, and I 541 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,000 believe we post that line in our window when we are baptized in 542 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,400 water for the remission of sins. But what if she hadn't kept a 543 00:35:32,408 --> 00:35:36,400 lion in the window? What if after she had, put it up 544 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,600 there and those men left, what is, she took a look at that? 545 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,300 And thought what in the world are the neighbors? 546 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:45,400 Gonna think of me with piece of red rope tied up in my window? 547 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,700 What if she had taken it out? Would the fact that she hung it 548 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,400 and then took it out? Have resulted in their being 549 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,800 saved? No. 550 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,000 She had to keep it in the window because they had to see it when 551 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,100 they came. And as I understand the type of 552 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:06,700 data type, we post this line in our window of faith, when we 553 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:10,700 were baptized into Christ. But we keep it in our window 554 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,600 when we observe in a scriptural manner, the Lord's Supper One 555 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:21,600 love, one cup back here. During this time, you read of 556 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,400 the table of showbread. On the table of showbread which 557 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,900 contain 12 loaves of unleavened bread. 558 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,900 Do you remember that? God, decreed. 559 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:37,500 I don't know why, but he decreed that those lows be placed on 560 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:44,000 that table in two rows of seven. What's wrong with three rows of 561 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,900 four? I don't know, but I'll guarantee 562 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:49,200 you. One thing I wouldn't have put 563 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,600 three rows of four. If he asked for two rows of six. 564 00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:01,000 God just doesn't deal with or deal well, with men who change 565 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,200 his word, Do you really believe that if he was, that particular 566 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,700 to specify the way the table was set, then that he is not also 567 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:12,500 particular that the table is set according to the pattern. 568 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:17,100 Now, all, during the time of Moses sojourn, he kept telling 569 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:19,800 Moses when they were building the Tabernacle. 570 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,300 He said, see that now do it according to the pattern. 571 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:32,000 I don't mind to tell you. I am very pattern oriented. 572 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:40,400 I'm afraid of anything that differs from the pattern. now, 573 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,200 you know, there's a lot of things about this that we could 574 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:49,200 say, but I've got the clothes, we used to sing a song and and 575 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,700 part of the words went like this, Not all the blood of 576 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:58,200 beasts on Jewish altar. Slain could give the guilty 577 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,000 conscience peace or wash away his stain. 578 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,500 Some of you are recognizing the words of those songs but the 579 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,600 blood of Christ are Since By Faith. 580 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,400 I saw that stream is Flowing wounds Supply. 581 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:16,000 Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die in 582 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,900 closing. Let me leave a true story with 583 00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:21,000 you. I told you one. 584 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,300 That was true last night. I'll tell you another one today. 585 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:28,000 That's true. During the time of the Mosaic, 586 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,300 dispensation and about the time that Israel was getting ready to 587 00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:36,100 leave Egypt. History records, the story of a 588 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:43,600 little girl She was crippled not able to walk that fast and on 589 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,100 the day that the lamb was to be killed and it's blood painted on 590 00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:50,000 the door. Post this little girl was very 591 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,000 concerned about how the blood was being put on the house. 592 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,700 Because she was the first born. She is the oldest she kept 593 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:04,000 asking all day, has the blood been painted on the house and 594 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,900 was told that it had been but since she was bed fast, she 595 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:12,800 couldn't go see, and when her father came in that afternoon, 596 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:18,500 she asked him and he assured her, that it was And she said, I 597 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:23,300 want to see it. And finally, he just picked her 598 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:27,600 up and carried her out there. And to his amazement, though the 599 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,300 lamb had been killed, nobody had painted it on the door and had 600 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:35,600 it not been for her insistence. She would not have survived the 601 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:41,300 night, the blood was hastily painted on the door. and then, 602 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,800 She lay back and comfort, and peace. 603 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:48,600 It's amazing to me that people today. 604 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:52,400 Can just be a member of a church. 605 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,200 They don't know and they don't seem to care whether or not 606 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,400 they're in the house. That is marked with Scarlett. 607 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:04,000 They're unconcerned about that. I don't understand that. 608 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:07,600 I wonder today. Are you sure that you're in the 609 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,500 house? That is Mark was Scarlet. 610 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,700 That's where salvation is promised and it's not promised 611 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,700 in any other. There wasn't another house in 612 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,200 all of Jericho that was promised salvation. 613 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,600 Do you realize that, I don't know how many thousands of 614 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,300 houses there were, but there was only one that salvation was 615 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:30,800 promised in that in itself is a telling point. 616 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:35,600 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 617 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:41,300 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 618 00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:44,500 would like any additional information or you would like to 619 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,500 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 620 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,000 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 621 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,000 Bakersfield.com. 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