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Good morning, my friends. 
It's a great joy to be gathered 

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with you again for worship 
today. 

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I hope you've been uplifted and 
you have been encouraged and 

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you've learned a lot from our 
Friday and our Saturday evening 

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Services during our meeting this
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But I want to remind you that 
today is different right now is 

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different because the purpose of
our worship this morning is to 

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remember the death and the 
burial and the resurrection of 

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our Lord Jesus Christ. 
This is no ordinary day. 

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This is the Lord's day. 
And as the Apostle, John wrote, 

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I was in the spirit on the 
Lord's day. 

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And I hope that you find 
yourself in the same spirit 

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Spirit of recognition that we're
here for this special purpose. 

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For our study to to introduce 
our study this morning. 

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I want to read from Hebrews 
chapter 9, verses 1, through 10 

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if you have your Bible in the 
Pew, or on the on your phone, or

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whatever, the case is, I'd 
invite you to turn along and to 

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read with me from Hebrews 
chapter 9, Verses 1 through 10. 

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I've also got it up on the 
screen here. 

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The Bible says then indeed, even
the first Covenant had 

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ordinances of divine service and
the Earthly Sanctuary for a 

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tabernacle was prepared. 
The first part in which was the 

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lampstand, the table, and the 
showbread, which is called the 

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sanctuary and behind the second 
Veil, the part of the Tabernacle

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which is called the holiest of 
all, which had the golden Sensor

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in the Ark of the Covenant over 
Lane on all sides with gold in 

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which where the golden pot that 
had the Manna Aaron's Rod that 

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budded and the tablets of the 
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Were the cherubim of Glory 
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these things, we cannot now 
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Now, when these things had been 
thus prepared, the priests 

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always went first, always went 
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Michael performing the services 
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The high priest went alone once 
a year, not without blood, which

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he offered for himself and for 
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ignorance, the Holy Spirit, 
indicating this, that the way 

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into the holiest of all, was not
yet made manifest. 

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While the first Tabernacle was 
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for the present time in which 
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offered, which cannot make him 
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perfect in regard to the 
conscience concerned only with 

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foods and drinks various 
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imposed until the time of 
reformation. 

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Now friends, some of what I just
read may have made no sense to 

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you whatsoever. 
I may as well. 

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Have been speaking a foreign 
language And don't feel bad if 

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that's the case. 
Because what is being talked 

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about here in Hebrews chapter 9 
is an ancient religious system 

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which really has not been 
practiced in over 2000 years. 

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You've never seen in person. 
What the writer of Hebrews is 

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talking about right now. 
And so today, we're going to 

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kind of have to go to spiritual 
kindergarten, so to speak to 

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understand these things. 
But as we read the Old 

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Testament, and as we examine the
connections between the old 

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Covenant system and the 
Christian system that we are 

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under today, you're going to see
an incredible picture being 

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painted and incredible tapestry 
being woven together here. 

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Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as
we study some truths from the 

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Tabernacle. 
I have to admit that this sermon

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which I'm going to preach did 
not originate with me. 

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In fact it's actually one of the
oldest in the Christian faith 

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just a few years ago, some 
archaeologists Unearthed and 

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Egyptian burial mask that was 
made out of paper. 

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And when they took it apart to 
analyze, What it was constructed

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out of they found some 2nd 
Century Bible manuscripts one of

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which was sermon notes from the 
first century on Hebrews, 9 10 

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and 11. 
So this is a sermon that's been 

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preached for a very, very long 
time. 

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And the reason it's survived is 
because it makes plain some very

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difficult things. 
It takes Some very challenging 

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and hard questions and explains 
them by drawing, a simple 

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picture. 
Now, first of all, what exactly 

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is the Tabernacle? 
I think a lot of people may not 

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be familiar with this word. 
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don't feel bad because it's sort
of an archaic word, but maybe 

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you've been to one of the Gospel
meetings such as sulfur. 

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Alma, or Chapel Grove Tennessee 
where they have the meeting 

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under a tabernacle. 
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understand what a tabernacle is 
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A tabernacle is a structure or a
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you to know that the Tabernacle 
of the Old Testament was no 

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ordinary 10th. 
In fact, it was something 

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utterly unique in history. 
When the Israelites were set 

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free from Egyptian slavery and 
they passed through the midst of

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the Red Sea. 
God brought them out into the 

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Wilderness to Mount Sinai and 
when they arrived the Lord came 

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down from heaven and he settled 
on that mountain in a terrible 

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in an awe-inspiring display of 
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And then speaking in a voice 
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He communicated The Ten 
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He was going to have with this 
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The children of Israel. 
Will, you know, the presence of 

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God was so Dreadful the children
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they asked Moses to go up on 
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God, to receive the Covenant and
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So Moses climbed and atop the 
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with God, receiving the various 
laws and ordinances of the old 

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Covenant system. 
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time he spent there with God, 
was dedicated to receiving the 

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plans, for this tent, how it 
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would be conducted, how the 
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so forth? 
Now, throughout the Bible, this 

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tent has had many different 
names. 

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It's been called The Sanctuary, 
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congregation the Tabernacle of 
witness and testimony, the house

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of God and the prophet Samuel, 
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God and all these names. 
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spiritual and religious 
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That this tent had for the 
ancient people of God and as we 

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study the Tabernacle, you're 
going to learn a fundamental 

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truth about all matters of 
religious and spiritual 

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significance and that is when 
God has a plan for something and

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he wants mankind to be involved 
in his plan, he tells people 

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exactly what to do and how to do
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He gives Very meticulous plans 
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improvisation. 
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meticulous with his 
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And that's because these are 
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Tabernacle was no different, the
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house on earth. 
The place where God would accept

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worship from men and where he 
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Actions to them. 
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40-day period, God said this to 
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According to all that I show 
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Tabernacle and the pattern of 
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Just so you shall make it. 
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there's a blueprint, there are 
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know, God has always worked this
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When God told. 
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He gave the exact dimensions and
specifications for that vessel 

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when Moses are, when God told 
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Tabernacle, he gave them a 
blueprint to follow and when God

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sent the apostles into the world
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he gave them a pattern to preach
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When he wrote to Corinth he said
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you remember me in all things 
and keep the Traditions, just as

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I delivered them to you and then
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communion. 
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received from the Lord that 
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And so this is why we need to 
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they have to say because They've
got their teaching from the Lord

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and their purpose was to then 
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when it comes to religious 
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God, always tells us what he 
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expects us to do it. 
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we continue our study. 
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Tabernacle, we look at the 
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Of the building itself, you're 
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interesting groups of three that
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the Tabernacle. 
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three different areas starting 
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The outer Court wasn't really 
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it was this yard on the outside.
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Cubit wall. 
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to A feet instead of qubits 
because we understand what feet 

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are a little better. 
This wall was made of a fine 

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linen, curtain suspended by 
bronze pillars set in bronze 

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sockets and there was only one 
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the east now within the court 
was the tabernacle proper and it

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was 45 feet long by 15 feet wide
and the foundation was 100 

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blocks. 
Acts of silver which each 

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weighed about 114 pounds. 
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foundation made up of eleven 
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silver. 
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was a Boards of acacia wood. 
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they were 15 feet long and two 
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Now, like we mentioned earlier, 
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the Actions of the boards of 
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was very particular about his 
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As you can see in the picture 
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Total 20 on each side, 6 on the 
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and on the bottom of each board,
where a couple of pegs which set

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into sockets in the silver 
foundation, on top of each 

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board, there was a gold ring. 
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would run a cord which was 
tightened to hold the boards 

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taught and secure. 
So you can see this was quite a 

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sturdy structure when it was all
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Now, the outer Court was open 
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had four rooves. 
The first roof was ten curtains 

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of fine linen, in alternating 
colors of blue and Scarlet, and 

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purple and decorated all Were 
with pictures of angelic beings 

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called cherubim. 
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together with clasps to create 
what was called the first Veil. 

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You can see there it made up the
door of the Tabernacle. 

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The second covering was 11, 
curtains of goat hair. 

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The third was Ram skin dyed red 
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Well, Scholars are a little 
divided, the words a little 

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ambiguous. 
It might either be Dolphins skin

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or Badger skin. 
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certainly more interesting, but 
the latter is probably more 

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likely. 
The Tabernacle building contains

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the two other areas. 
Now, in our reading, they were 

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called the first part and the 
second part, but you probably 

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know them as the holy place and 
the most. 

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Holy Place the holy place was 
this first section. 

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It was 30 feet long and 
dividing. 

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The two of these was the second 
Veil and then the most holy 

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place which was 15 feet square. 
The second veil, was again, a 

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very heavy and substantial piece
of fabric also colorful and 

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covered with Angelic figures. 
This was a truly magnificent and

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Beautiful building. 
In fact, people have estimated 

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it would take five hundred and 
fifty million dollars to 

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reconstruct this building 
according to all the proper 

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specifications. 
So we have our three areas, the 

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outer Court, the holy place, and
the most holy place and in these

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different areas you would find 
three different classes of 

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people in the outer court that 
was open to everyone. 

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Anyone could come and go and see
the worship taking place but not

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just, anybody could go into the 
holy Place, only priests could 

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go in there and that's what the 
writer of Hebrews said. 

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In our reading, the priest went 
always into the first part of 

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the Tabernacle. 
Now, in the ancient days of 

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religion, a priest was somebody 
who offered prayers and 

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sacrifices on your behalf. 
And when God selected the 

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Israelites as his chosen people,
he specified that the sons of 

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Aaron from the tribe of Levi 
would be priests for everyone 

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else, the whole nation. 
And they were the only people 

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who were allowed to go into the 
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There's one more person here and
that's the high priest. 

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There's a little picture of him 
down in the corner. 

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And as we read before the 
prayer, once a year on the day 

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of atonement Yom, Kippur the 
high priest would pass through 

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the veil into the most. 
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atonement for his sins and for 
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didn't have a roof, so it was 
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sun light didn't reach into the 
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those curtains Andrews it was 
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The only light in the Holy place
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Candlestick. 
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made of solid beaten gold and 
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It's quite beautiful. 
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maintaining this lamp were also 
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This light from the lamp stand. 
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it did not reach into the most 
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second Veil separating the two 
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The only light in the most holy 
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God. 
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shining Cloud of Glory that the 
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three sources of light. 
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furniture starting out in the 
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We have the Brazen altar, it was
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of wood, but it was coded and 
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brass was thick enough to 
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and the offerings that were 
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of it. 
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Corner, which represented the 
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hooks all made of bronze as 
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Now, as we mentioned earlier, 
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become priests, but you weren't 
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You had to be consecrated as a 
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Han here at this altar. 
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priest, he would come to the 
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be killed as a substitute for 
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would be burned on the altar. 
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to the next piece of furniture 
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The Laver was a large bronze 
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the New Testament talks about 
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It describes it as baptism uses 
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baptized in the Laver and that's
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writings. 
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to be completely immersed in 
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prepare him for his priest. 
Lee duties. 

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Now, whence he came up out of 
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clean, white garments of his 
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the first Veil into the 
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service. 
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to one of them was to trim that 
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it burning constantly. 
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showbread, this table was also 
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With gold and on the table were 
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Just like we're going to partake
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except there were 12 of them 
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each tribe of Israel and every 
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The priests would eat these 
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Now in front of that Veil, there
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again made of acacia wood coated
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three feet high and like the 
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on the corners, but you didn't 
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burned incense. 
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Testament, it's very clear that 
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place, but when you read 
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this altar as if it's in the 
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And that's because while the 
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Place, its function reached into
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priest would stand at this Altar
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God, but he couldn't see God on 
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The second Veil, which separated
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But when he prayed, he would 
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And this incense would fill the 
room and the cloud of smoke 

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would drift beyond the curtain 
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And so the function of this 
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between the holy place and the 
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side of that curtain we have the
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golden box inside which were 
three symbols odds of Israel sin

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and a over the top of those 
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golden lid, called The Mercy 
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And The Mercy Seat is where the 
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blood of atonement. 
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have fellowship with his people.
There's much more we could say 

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this right here is where God 
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his people. 
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three classes of people, three 
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three groups of furniture. 
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clear picture of the Tabernacle 
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But I want to explain what all 
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Because friends, this isn't just
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This has actual application to 
your life today as we read in 

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our reading. 
The Bible says that the 

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Tabernacle has symbolic meaning 
for the present time Hebrews. 

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9:24 the writer says that this 
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true in Hebrews 9 verses 9 and 
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It says, there was a problem. 
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And that was that the functions 
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fully eased, the consciences of 
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inadequate. 
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pointing forward to something 
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True and more real. 
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type and anti-type in Shadow and
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Tabernacle are picturing, 
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And in fact, we can take the 
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we can overlay it with this 
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and it matches up perfectly. 
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symbolism here is to figure out 
what the holy place is supposed 

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to be a picture of. 
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Is heaven because the Bible 
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verse 12, and verse 24. 
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Well, friends, I submit to you, 
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the Church of Jesus Christ, and 
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to support that. 
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says that this room was a 
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which the Lord directed, And not
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Now what did Jesus build when he
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I'm not aware of anything that 
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church as Mac. 
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don't know of anything else that
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Hebrews 9 verse 11 says but 
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the good things to come with the
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Tabernacle Burn akal not made 
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creation. 
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with hands reminds me of Daniel 
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was pictured, as a stone cut out
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with hands. 
It was something God, created 

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and not mad. 
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Timothy. 3:15, the Apostle Paul 
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God is the Church of the Living 
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And that's what the Tabernacle 
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Of the church. 
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church, then the courtyard must 
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leave to come into the church 
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Remember in John 15 verse 19. 
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world, the world would love its 
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the world but I chose you out of
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Hates you. 
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those who come out of the world.
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got the church and we've got 
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God's saving life-giving 
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people are on the outside 
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sins. 
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How do you Come into the church 
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same way that the priest would 
come from the court into the 

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holy Place. 
Remember not just anyone could 

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go into the sanctuary, you had 
to be a priest. 

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Now, what was a priest? 
A picture or a symbol of? 

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We're friends. 
The Bible says that priests were

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symbolic of Christians, all 
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and verse 9 says, you also as 
living stones are being built up

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a spiritual house, a holy 
priesthood to offer up spiritual

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sacrifices acceptable to God 
through Jesus Christ, but you 

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are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, his 

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own special people that you may 
proclaim the Praises of him who 

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called you out of Darkness into 
his Alice light, what a 

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wonderful picture. 
Did you ever think about that 

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you as a Christian are a priest?
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You are the true fulfillment of 
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Romans 12 verse 1 says, I 
beseech, you therefore Brethren 

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by the mercies of God, that you 
present, your bodies, a Living 

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Sacrifice. 
Now, who offered sacrifices that

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was the priesthood and we, as 
priests Present, our bodies, a 

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Living Sacrifice, holy 
acceptable to God, which is our 

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reasonable service friends. 
Do you ever have trouble acting 

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as you should acting righteously
is a Christian. 

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Maybe it will help to think of 
yourself as a priest consecrated

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in God's service that can help 
motivate you to live 

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righteously. 
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Revelation, 1 verses five and 
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It says to him who loved us and 
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own blood and has made us Kings 
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Father to him, be glory and 
Dominion forever and ever, amen.

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Now this passage gives us a clue
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because remember, you don't 
become a priest because of who 

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you were born, as who your 
father was. 

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There's a part of That old 
symbolic priesthood part of that

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old priesthood, which was 
symbolic of how we become 

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priests remember. 
In order for an Israelite to 

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become a priest, you had to be 
consecrated by a sin offering at

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the altar and that's true of 
you. 

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And I as well, we cannot become 
priests unless a sin offering is

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made for us. 
But I've got some fantastic news

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friends. 
It's already been Taken care of 

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because Jesus Christ is the 
Fulfillment of the altar, the 

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sacrifice, and the high priest 
who made the sacrifice, because 

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Jesus sacrificed himself. 
Listen to Hebrews 7 verses 26 

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and 27. 
It says for such a high priest 

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was fitting for us. 
Who is Holy harmless? 

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Undefiled separate from Sinners.
And as I'm higher than the 

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heavens, who does not need 
daily. 

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As those High priests to offer 
up sacrifices first for his own 

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sins. 
And then for the peoples for 

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this, he did once for all when 
he offered up himself, thank 

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God. 
Jesus Christ came and offered 

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himself as the perfect sin 
sacrifice for our behalf, Jesus 

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sanctifies us as priests With 
his own blood. 

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Now remember the writer said 
that that old system was lacking

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partially because it provided 
fleshly Purity, it rolled the 

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sins back every year, but it 
couldn't cleanse the conscience.

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People couldn't see how offering
animal sacrifices, absolved them

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of sin. 
Jesus is the Fulfillment because

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his sacrifice is so Superior. 
Not only does it really cleanse 

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us ceremonially, it makes us 
pure but it can present us with 

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clean conscience, has before 
God. 

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Now, just as the levite could 
only come into the sanctuary by 

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the blood of a sin offering on 
the altar, we can only come into

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the church, the house of God, 
Today by the blood of Jesus 

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offered on the cross. 
Now, the Levites accepted that 

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sacrifice physically in front of
the altar, but we accept the 

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sacrifice of Jesus through 
faith. 

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As the Bible, says in Romans 3, 
verses 24 and 25 being 

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justified, freely by his grace 
through the Redemption that is 

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in Christ. 
Jesus whom God set forth as a 

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propitiation by his blood. 
Bud through faith friends. 

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That's a beautiful picture, but 
I want you to see something 

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here. 
The process is not complete at 

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the altar leaving the world and 
entering the church isn't 

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finished with the sacrifice of 
Jesus, or even with faith, 

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that's because there was another
step. 

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Wasn't there. 
That Laver were a man would come

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and be purified. 
Through immersion in water. 

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And he came up out of that water
clean and then he was ready to 

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be a priest. 
Now friends, is there anything 

451
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that looks like that in the 
gospel? 

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00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,500
Is there anything that looks 
like immersion in water for 

453
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,600
purification for the remission 
of sins friends? 

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00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,100
How about baptism? 
That's exactly what the Bible 

455
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says about baptism. 
Jesus said he who believes? 

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And is baptized will be saved. 
Mark 16:16, our friends. 

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00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:20,800
I want you to look at this 
picture. 

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I told you it would fit. 
So simply and so perfectly. 

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The Brazen altar is a picture of
faith in Jesus Christ. 

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The Laver is a picture of 
baptism and the holy place is a 

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00:34:36,707 --> 00:34:44,800
picture of the church, he that 
believes and is baptized will be

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00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,000
saved. 
It's so simple, it's so easy to 

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00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,800
see when you look at the 
picture, God has painted on the 

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pages of history. 
And in fact, surely the Hebrew 

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writer? 
Had this in mind when he wrote 

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in Hebrews 10, 19 through 22. 
Therefore Brethren having 

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boldness to enter the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a New and

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00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:13,900
Living Way, which he consecrated
for us through the veil, that is

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his flesh. 
And having a high priest over 

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the house of God, let us draw 
near with a True Heart in full 

471
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:26,100
Assurance of Faith having our 
hearts sprinkled from an evil 

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00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:30,400
conscience. 
In our bodies washed with pure 

473
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:37,500
water friends, you can only have
a body cleansed pure in a in a 

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00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:42,600
conscience. 
Sprinkled clean through baptism 

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00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,600
that's the assurance that you 
have that you have been washed 

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00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,600
and purified and Sanctified 
before God in Titus 3:5, the 

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00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,200
Apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul 
called baptism the washing of 

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00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,900
regeneration And and the word 
washing there. 

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00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,100
That's the same Greek word for 
Laver. 

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00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,200
It's no wonder that Paul had 
this in mind because when the 

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gospel was preached to him and 
Acts 22:16 the preacher said and

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now why are you waiting arise 
and be baptized and wash away? 

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00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:19,900
Your sins? 
Calling on the name of the Lord 

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00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,400
just as those priests would put 
on the clean. 

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00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,900
White robes? 
The Bible says that when we are 

486
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,400
Sized we put on Christ, 
Galatians 120, Galatians 3:27, 

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00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:37,800
that old lifestyle of sinful 
living is traded for a new life 

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00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,100
of Holiness. 
And righteousness, we put it on 

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00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,000
as if putting on clean white 
garments. 

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00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,500
When the Levites put on his 
white robes he was ready to 

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leave the courtyard and to go 
into the holy place and when we 

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00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:58,800
put on Christ through baptism 
the Bible says We are translated

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00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,700
out of the kingdom of darkness 
and into the kingdom of God's 

494
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,500
love. 
Now, once we're in the church, 

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we have some wonderful blessings
and we also have some important 

496
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:15,000
responsibilities to in the 
church. 

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00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:19,600
We have one source of light that
golden Candlestick. 

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00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,400
That was pictured. 
So long ago is a symbol of the 

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00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,600
word of God. 
The word of God is our light. 

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00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,800
That's why the psalmist wrote. 
Your word is a lamp to my feet 

501
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:36,100
and a light to my path. 
Psalm 119 verse 105. 

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00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:40,700
There's only one source of truth
and light and that's the word of

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00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:43,700
God. 
The Bible, the inspired 

504
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:48,300
scriptures, we don't need 
councils, we don't need Pope's. 

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00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,700
We don't need Creed's, we don't 
need any additional Revelation 

506
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,000
or instruction. 
We've got it right here. 

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00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:01,900
In the Bible, we have all that 
we need now. 

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00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:05,200
There was also that table of 
showbread where the priests 

509
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,100
would eat. 
The 12 cakes symbolizing, the 12

510
00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:12,900
tribes and surely that is a 
picture of the communion of the 

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00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:14,900
Saints. 
And what a marvelous parallel 

512
00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:20,400
there is between that table, and
this table right here on the 

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00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,500
table of the lord, we have not 
twelve loaves, but one picturing

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00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Jesus and his sacrifice If ice 
Paul said that though, there are

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00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,400
many of us. 
We are one body because we all 

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00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,700
share of that one loaf. 
First Corinthians, 10, 17? 

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00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,200
We don't partake every Sabbath 
day, but we do it on the first 

518
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,100
day of the week, the day of 
Jesus. 

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00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:49,500
Resurrection Acts 20 verse 7. 
Finally, there's the altar of 

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00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:55,600
incense, the Bible tells us in 
Revelation 5:8 and 83 that the 

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00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,800
altar was a humble of the 
prayers of God's people. 

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00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,700
Now, when we pray, we're just 
like that priests, aren't we? 

523
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,400
We are speaking and crying out 
to a god that we cannot see 

524
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:18,500
because we're separated by The 
Veil, The Veil of Flesh. 

525
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,600
Sometimes that can make it hard 
to pray canton's but take 

526
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:30,100
comfort in God's picture because
when you pray your prayers like 

527
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:38,100
the smoke from that altar drift 
up and passed the veil 

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00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:44,100
separating you into the very 
presence of God, your prayers 

529
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:49,100
bridge, the gap between Earth 
and Heaven in prayer. 

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00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:55,000
You get as close to the Heavenly
realm that you can in your 

531
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,200
present, state of humanity. 
Is it any wonder that Jesus? 

532
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:04,200
So often took time to pray while
he was here on the earth? 

533
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:08,400
That's as close as you can get 
to the father in this body. 

534
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,300
What an awesome privilege it is 
to pray. 

535
00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,600
Friends. 
Don't ever take prayer for 

536
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,600
granted There's the type and the
anti-type, the Shadow, and the 

537
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,400
substance, the picture and the 
reality. 

538
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,400
Now, I want to tie everything 
together for you. 

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00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,100
As I told you, I want to show 
you how you can take this 

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00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:34,500
picture, and you can give simple
answers to some of the most 

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00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:39,500
difficult and challenging 
questions facing Believers 

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00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:42,800
today. 
Issues that have divided 

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00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,600
Believers for centuries. 
Could be put to rest, If we 

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00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,700
would just look at the picture, 
God has Illustrated and let it 

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00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:56,200
lead us to the simple truth. 
One of the great questions of 

546
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,000
History has been. 
Should we baptize infants? 

547
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,100
And, you know, there are many 
large and prominent religious 

548
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:07,100
groups that practice infant 
baptism, but I want you to look 

549
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:12,500
at the picture right here in 
this picture, we have faith 

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00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,800
before baptism. 
Now, you can't have that with 

551
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,000
infant baptism because an infant
can't have faith. 

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00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,000
So to baptized as an infant, you
have to take the Laver and you 

553
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,100
have to move it over in front of
the altar friends. 

554
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:34,200
You've got a rearrange God's 
Furniture. 

555
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,700
Now, you can't do that. 
That's the ultimate sign of 

556
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:42,800
disrespect if you invited me 
into your house and I decided to

557
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,900
begin rearranging your 
furniture. 

558
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:49,200
Throwing out chairs and bring in
tables and couches. 

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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,200
As I desired, I would be welcome
in your house for very long. 

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00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,900
It's your house. 
You get to choose how you 

561
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:58,900
arrange it friends. 
It's the same way with God's 

562
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,500
house. 
You can't rearrange. 

563
00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:08,600
God's Furniture infant baptism. 
Does not fit the plan. 

564
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,500
It doesn't fit the picture. 
Here's another question. 

565
00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:16,400
Should we baptize Sinners or 
Christians? 

566
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,700
Should we baptize lost people 
who want to be saved? 

567
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:24,300
Or should we baptize saved 
people to show that they're 

568
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:27,200
already saved? 
Does it even make a difference? 

569
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,700
Well, let's take a look. 
The outer court is the world 

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00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:38,100
where Lost Sinner's are and the 
holy place is the church now. 

571
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:42,600
Where did God put, baptism, 
friends, did he put Get in here 

572
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,100
with the saved. 
No. 

573
00:42:47,300 --> 00:42:51,600
It's out here with the lost and 
that's because baptism, is for 

574
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:57,000
Lost Sinner's so that they can 
become clean and purified and 

575
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:03,900
therefore eligible to enter in 
to God's house to have baptism 

576
00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:08,200
for saved people. 
You have to rearrange, God's 

577
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,100
Furniture. 
You have to move the lever into 

578
00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:15,300
the holy place and friends, that
won't do as popular of a 

579
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:18,200
Doctrine. 
Is that is today It doesn't fit 

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00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,300
the picture that God painted in 
the gospel. 

581
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,100
How about another one? 
Can you pray your way into 

582
00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:29,100
salvation and bypass baptism all
together? 

583
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:33,200
You hear a lot about that today 
and the form of the sinner's 

584
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,600
prayer. 
But we've got a problem because 

585
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:42,100
the altar of incense is a 
picture of prayer and it's not 

586
00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:47,600
out here with the world. 
It's in the church. 

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00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:53,200
It's a privilege for the saved. 
It's a right that is given to 

588
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:58,000
those who are in the Kingdom in 
God's house not the lost. 

589
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,800
The sinner's prayer does not fit
the picture friends. 

590
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,900
One more. 
Do you have to be in the church 

591
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:11,900
to go to heaven? 
That's a difficult question, 

592
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,000
isn't it? 
Let's look at the picture. 

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00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,300
The outer court is the world. 
That's where people are when 

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00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:24,000
they sin, and they break God's 
law the most. 

595
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,500
Holy place is heaven where God 
is and the holy place is the 

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00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:32,200
church friends, we've 
established all of that through 

597
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:37,300
God's word. 
How do you get from here in the 

598
00:44:37,308 --> 00:44:42,200
courtyard to their the holiest, 
the presence of God. 

599
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:49,400
You've got to go through there, 
there's no other way, there's no

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00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,400
other entrance, the picture that
God Drew on the canvas of 

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00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,800
History to illustrate and to 
make plain and simple, the 

602
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,700
gospel shows. 
There's no other way to get from

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00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:08,100
the world to Heaven. 
Except through the Church of 

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00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:12,200
Jesus Christ and friends. 
That's why we take it. 

605
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:13,900
So seriously, that's why the 
church. 

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00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:17,000
H is such a vital part of the 
Gospel. 

607
00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:19,100
That's why we're trying to tell 
everybody. 

608
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,300
They need to get in the church 
because that's the only way 

609
00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:28,600
we've got to do everything we 
can to tell people about it. 

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00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:34,000
You can see how this picture 
takes so many difficult things, 

611
00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:37,800
and it makes them so simple, 
friends. 

612
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,900
There's also some profound 
symbolism here to think about 

613
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:46,700
this Tabernacle was Actually 
replaced with the temple but 

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00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:50,900
they shared the same design and 
you might remember that when 

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00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:56,000
Jesus died on the cross, the 
Bible says that he died at about

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00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:01,500
3 p.m. in the afternoon. 
And as this happened, the veil 

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00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:06,100
separating the holy place from 
the most holy Place ripped in 

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00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:10,500
two from top to bottom. 
Now, that's significant because 

619
00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:14,500
at 3 p.m. in the afternoon, 
there would have been a priest 

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00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,900
standing right there offering 
the evening prayers in front of 

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00:46:18,908 --> 00:46:23,600
that Veil now, can you imagine 
the shock that that man 

622
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,900
experienced when this Veil that,
separated him from The Forbidden

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00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:30,300
chamber? 
If he went inside, he would be 

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00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:35,600
struck dead by God. 
All of a sudden is torn open. 

625
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:40,800
And for the first time he can 
look Look in there and he can 

626
00:46:41,100 --> 00:46:45,800
see into the throne room of God.
And the Bible says that this 

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00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,800
event symbolized how Jesus 
opened the way to heaven through

628
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:55,000
his death on the cross friends, 
that would have been an amazing 

629
00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:00,300
thing to be in the shoes of that
priest and to stand where he 

630
00:47:00,300 --> 00:47:03,300
stood and to see that Veil 
ripped open. 

631
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:08,700
But you know, the Bible says 
that someday Jesus is going to 

632
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:13,800
return and when he does, he's 
going to rip open The Veil The 

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00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:21,600
Veil of time and space, which is
separating us from God and will 

634
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:28,000
be able to look up and see into 
the throne room of God and not 

635
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:34,500
only that but go up there and be
with him in his Presence 

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00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:38,300
forever. 
But only if we're like that old 

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00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:45,100
priest only if we are found 
serving in the Holy place the 

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00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:50,500
church only then can we pass 
through the veil into the 

639
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:55,200
presence of our creator friend? 
If Jesus came back right now, 

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00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,500
would you be found serving in 
the house of God? 

641
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:03,000
And I'm not saying what he finds
you at church this morning. 

642
00:48:03,900 --> 00:48:05,800
Not when he finds you at worship
Services. 

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00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:11,700
Would he find you serving? 
In the church in the house of 

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00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:17,600
God, would he find you as one of
those priests would he look at 

645
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:22,800
your life? 
And find it clean and white and 

646
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,000
spotless. 
Would he find it a Living? 

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00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,100
Sacrifice As Romans described 
friends. 

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00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:34,600
The only way to Don those 
Priestly garments to be found 

649
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:40,300
serving is, as we talked about, 
it's to be Sanctified and to be 

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00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:46,300
purified through belief and 
baptism as Jesus said in Mark 

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00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:51,100
16:16 if you believe and are 
Just, you will be saved and 

652
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:54,100
friends. 
If you have not been, if you 

653
00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:57,600
have not become a Christian, we 
want to invite you right now. 

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00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:02,100
We are ready to hear your 
confession of your belief in 

655
00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:06,400
Christ and your Readiness to 
repent of your life of sin. 

656
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:11,500
And we are ready to help you be 
baptized for the remission of 

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00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,500
those sins. 
You can come up out of that 

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00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:16,300
water. 
As the Bible says and new 

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00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:20,900
creature, a new creation. 
You can begin your Priestly 

660
00:49:20,900 --> 00:49:26,100
service and have the assurance 
that either if you die. 

661
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:31,900
Or if Jesus comes back, you'll 
have been found to be Faithfully

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00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:36,200
serving in the house of God 
friends we can help you obey the

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00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,500
gospel and baptism. 
Um, this morning, or if you have

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00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:41,500
another spiritual need come 
forward right now. 

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00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,100
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at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 
Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. please, 

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make plans to join us. 
We would love for you to be our 

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honored guest