Participants: Pr. John Lomacang, Pr. John Stanton
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL130013
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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:02 and sit back as we explore God's word together 00:05 on this edition of "House Calls." 00:22 Welcome to another edition of "House Calls" 00:25 and we are so thankful you've chosen to tune in today. 00:28 I know some of you look forward to this program. 00:30 We get chance to travel around 00:31 John is in the upper northwest 00:33 and here we are in Central America, 00:34 that is the Central Time Zone in North America. 00:36 Well we just say Central America to put it all together. 00:39 And people say this is one of my favorite programs. 00:42 We get our Bibles out and they study together. 00:44 Haven't you heard those comments? 00:45 Amen, yeah it's been great. 00:47 The feedback is been very positive. 00:48 Because this is a Bible study program, 00:50 we do appreciate you're getting your Bibles. 00:52 Many of you, if you're driving or if you're at work, 00:54 it may be less convenient for you 00:56 to have your Bible open there 00:57 or surely, if you're listening to this in your car 01:00 keep your eyes on the road. 01:02 But for the next hour or so 01:06 we're gonna be studying the Word of God together. 01:07 We always begin with your Bible questions 01:10 and many of you have said to us, keep going forward. 01:13 I mean, the age groups have been tremendous, 01:16 it's not older people or younger people 01:18 but all across the board at camp meetings and churches 01:20 we've gone to, people said, "I look forward to House Calls. 01:24 Every week I get my Bible 01:26 and keep doing what you're doing so--" Praise God. 01:29 One thing they don't know is that when they say-- 01:33 they meet me and they say, "John, you're so tall." 01:36 I say, "Well, you should see both of us together, 01:38 then you'll pretty much change that viewpoint 01:40 because he's the one that's six nine and half barefoot." 01:44 But he's never barefoot so I say 6'10. 01:46 So anyhow little bit of trivia there for you. 01:49 But before we go any further in the program 01:51 and get to our Bible questions and our topic for today 01:54 we always like to begin with prayer, so John-- 01:56 Let's do. Pray for us. 01:58 Gracious Father, in heaven. 02:00 Lord, it's great to be alive today 02:02 and to be able to do something like this 02:04 study Your word and get to know You better. 02:07 We pray for Your presence to be here with us. 02:09 We're covering some topics that can be challenging to some 02:13 and we just pray for Your Spirit 02:14 to clarify the word, to teach us truth. 02:18 And in Jesus' name we ask for these things. 02:20 Amen. Amen. 02:23 Now as we mentioned the program has 02:25 a lot to do with your Bible questions and your comments. 02:28 So if they are questions floating around in your mind 02:31 right now you like to say, "Hey, now that they're on 02:33 let me send them a question. 02:35 Here is the information you need. 02:36 The email address is housecalls@3abn.org 02:40 That's housecalls@3abn.org 02:43 and we'll download those 02:45 and try to get the answer to you from the Word of God. 02:47 But, thank you, 02:49 because that's a big part of our program sending those questions 02:52 and it let's just know that you're watching, 02:54 that also gives us an opportunity to answer questions 02:57 that may be somebody else is thinking about 02:59 but you're the one brave enough to send those to us. 03:01 If you don't have a computer 03:03 you can still send them snail mail 03:05 to PO Box 220 West Frankfort, 03:08 Illinois, 62896, attention "House Calls." 03:12 Well, sometimes there are some people 03:14 address the envelops John and John and they-- 03:17 I think they know where that goes. Yeah. 03:19 But what's our first question for today, John? 03:21 Question is from Judy. 03:22 She says, "Good morning, pastors. 03:24 "House Calls" has been very instrumental 03:26 in my learning the truths of the Bible. 03:27 Amen. Praise the Lord. 03:29 I appreciate your program very much. 03:30 Thank you very much, Judy. 03:32 She says, "Please help me with 1 Peter 3:19." 03:35 Okay. She quotes part of that here. 03:37 She says, "By which also he went 03:39 and preached unto the spirits in prison." 03:42 And so let's go to 1 Peter 3:19 03:48 and I am going to begin with verse 18 03:49 to give some context here, 03:51 so we can understand what's being said here by Peter. 03:56 It says in verse 18, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, 04:00 the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, 04:05 being put to death in the flesh, 04:08 but made alive by the Spirit." 04:10 So notice the initial onset here 04:13 of the discussion in this section of the chapter. 04:17 He is talking about flesh and spirit. 04:19 Those who are in flesh, in other words 04:21 in person, alive and able to hear the gospel 04:25 and respond to what Jesus has done and they-- 04:28 those who do respond are made alive by the Spirit. 04:33 And that is Spirit as far as capital 'S' the Holy Spirit. 04:37 So we read on verse 19, "By whom also He went" 04:40 that is Jesus "and preached to the spirits in prison." 04:44 Notice, it's not capital 'S' 04:45 but the spirit being each individual being a spirit. 04:50 And they-- it says, "are in prison. 04:52 Who formally were disobedient, 04:55 when once divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, 04:58 while the ark was being prepared in which a few, 05:01 that is, eight souls were saved through water." 05:03 So he's going back now to a time of the flood. 05:07 A flood. Just before the flood. 05:09 And He's speaking to those who were spirit in prison 05:13 as being those who alive at the time of the flood. Exactly. 05:17 So that is the issue to remember here 05:20 that the gospel now that is being preached 05:23 was also preached back to those, by whom? 05:28 Who preached to those before the flood? 05:30 The Holy Spirit and Noah. The Holy Spirit through Noah. 05:32 Exactly. Okay. 05:34 So he's bringing together now what Jesus has done for us 05:38 and the preaching of the gospel 05:40 which began way back when in the time of Noah 05:43 through his voice led by the Holy Spirit 05:46 to those who were in prison. 05:49 Now you might say, but though 05:50 there's some other language being used here, 05:52 it's language that I'm unfamiliar with. 05:54 Well, its interesting, if you go down a little further 05:56 you will see that Peter is little interesting 05:58 in his language that he is choosing 06:00 because in chapter 4 nonetheless the same kind of passage here 06:05 because the context remains the same 06:06 right through the beginning of chapter 4. 06:09 We've read this in verse 6, so drop down little further 4:6. 06:14 "For this reason the gospel was preached 06:17 also to those who are" what? Dead. 06:21 "Dead, that they might be judge according to men in the flesh, 06:25 but live according to God in the spirit." 06:28 In other words all of us 06:30 have fallen short of the glory of God. 06:31 Isn't that true? That's right. 06:33 We all need God's transformative power, 06:35 His spirit to change us and make us alive in Christ. 06:39 And so those that are preached to are dead, 06:45 and they in many respects are spirits, 06:48 dead spirits who are in prison, 06:50 in prison or in captivity to what? 06:52 To sin. To sin. 06:54 So Peter is using some interesting language 06:56 but what he's doing, 06:58 he's trying to be little more I guess colorful to explain 07:01 that those who are in sin are truly spirits, 07:04 dead spirits who are in captivity to the enemy. 07:07 The gospel needs to be preached to them. 07:11 Now some would say, well, no, 07:12 it sure looks like these spirits are already dead 07:16 and they are in some kind of purgatory of some type 07:20 and that's where Jesus went and preached to them 07:22 during the crucifixion, during the days that He was dead 07:25 and they heard Him preach. 07:27 Let me tell you, that cannot mesh well 07:30 with the gospel elsewhere 07:32 because it says that Jesus was in fact 07:35 in the grave for those three days 07:38 and we read also in the Bible that 07:40 when someone dies the dead know nothing. 07:43 So He was not able to do anything like that 07:45 nor did He see corruption either during any time 07:50 of His crucifixion experience or His life for that matter. 07:55 But if you want to go little further, 07:57 I found this text It's kind of interesting, John. 07:59 It's comes from Luke 9. 08:04 And I am reading verses 59 and 60. 08:08 Luke is talking with Peter here I think and it says that, 08:13 "And he said to another, Follow me. But he said--" 08:16 No it's not Peter actually it's someone 08:18 who is asking to follow him. 08:19 But he said "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 08:24 And Jesus said to him in verse 60, 08:26 "Let the dead bury their own dead." That's right. 08:31 "But you go and preach the Kingdom of God." Right. 08:34 The emphasis Jesus had was is, 08:36 what's most important? Preaching God's Kingdom. 08:39 That's what comes first. 08:41 But He uses this language, 08:42 "Let the dead bury their own dead." Right. 08:44 And we find the dead in two contexts here 08:47 even from Jesus' own words. 08:49 The dead first being spiritually dead, right. 08:53 The dead secondly being 08:55 the one's that have physically died. 08:58 And so we find this back and forth throughout the Bible 09:01 and that's what we're finding in the writings of Peter as well. 09:03 That's right and not only that 09:05 remember, when you read Peter 09:07 he said the same spirit that quickened Christ, 09:11 when Christ died in the flesh, 09:13 the same spirit that quickened Him to life 09:15 is the same spirit by which the sermons were preached. 09:18 And when you find here in Genesis 6, 09:22 let's go to Genesis 6 09:25 and I'll read another text here in just a moment here. 09:27 In Genesis 6, the Bible says in verse 3, 09:30 "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive 09:34 with man forever or shall not always strive with man 09:37 for he indeed is flesh he had his days shall be 120 years." 09:43 And so you find clearly here 09:46 that the spirit was the one through Noah 09:50 who was preaching to those 09:52 who were dead in trespasses and sin. 09:54 And so these were the ones, 09:55 these were the ones whose spirits were in prison. 09:58 And when you say, whose spirits were in prison? 10:00 We use the phrase nowadays in a very loose-- 10:04 we says, you know, my spirits are so low today. 10:06 We're not saying that a separate part of us is law. 10:09 We're not saying, boy, you're in such depressed spirit. 10:12 We're talking about-- 10:13 Our emotions, our heart put down. 10:15 Exactly. Yeah. 10:16 We're talking about the condition of one 10:18 who is dead in trespasses and sin. 10:21 And that's what the Lord talks about. 10:22 Remember His, His mission as outlined in Isaiah 60, 10:28 I'm gonna go there and read that very carefully 10:30 one of the things that the Bible mentions very clearly 10:35 here in Isaiah 60, Isaiah 61. 10:38 It says, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me." 10:43 The same spirit that was upon the Lord 10:44 to bring Him forth from the grave 10:46 the same spirit, notice what it was to do. 10:49 "Because the Lord has anointed me 10:51 to preach good tidings to the poor, 10:53 He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, 10:56 to proclaim liberty to the captives, 10:59 and the opening of the prison to those who are bound." 11:02 Who are the ones in prison? 11:04 Those who are in this prison of sin was the one 11:08 to whom the gospel was preached in the days of Noah. 11:11 They're not being preached to again 11:13 because they cannot, they die once and that's it. 11:16 Hebrews 9:27, "It is appointed unto men once to die, 11:20 but after that the judgment." That's right. 11:23 There is no second thing around. 11:25 There are no spirits hanging around saying, 11:26 oh, we didn't hear that sermon 11:28 and Jesus says, "Don't worry about it 11:29 I am gonna die and come down to preach to you the sermon." 11:31 No, when Jesus entered the grave 11:34 He was unconscious as any human being would be. 11:39 He was in human form dead until His resurrection. 11:43 And more than that what you'll find here 11:45 in some of this language is 11:46 God's Spirit is driving with man spirit. Exactly. 11:50 Even in Genesis 6 it says, 11:52 "The heart, the thoughts of the heart 11:56 were only evil continually." 11:58 He's talking about the condition of the heart 11:59 and when he does that he's narrowing, 12:01 or focusing down on man spirit spiritually deprived, right? 12:07 Or spiritually alive in Christ. 12:09 Nonetheless often the Bible speaks of man as a spirit 12:14 and not to say a separate soul but just a spirit. 12:18 And so when God is speaking on a spiritual level 12:23 in regard to the condition of man 12:24 as Peter is connecting with here, 12:27 he is saying the Spirit of God 12:29 is driving with the spirit of man in his heart. 12:32 He is saying, he is dead 12:33 but God wants to make him spiritually alive in Him. 12:36 It's just the language is little different. 12:38 Don't make a doctrine 12:40 just because the language Peter is using is a little different. 12:44 And we find this language used throughout the Bible 12:46 as we pointed out in several places as well. 12:48 So I think the struggle is sometimes, John, 12:52 that entire doctrine are sometimes 12:54 made out of a one little text 12:56 where writer uses some colorful, some interesting language 13:00 that can be difficult to understand. 13:03 In fact Peter even mentioned that about Paul. Right. 13:06 He says, Paul's writings are very complicated. 13:09 They're very--sometimes very difficult to understand 13:12 and it gave even Peter a struggle sometimes 13:15 to understand his teaching. 13:16 And he says, "Some people wrestled them 13:17 to their own destruction." 13:19 So you have to be very, very careful 13:21 that you're not including the text a gospel. 13:23 And John made a very important point, I want to reiterate this. 13:26 Don't build a doctrine on one text, 13:29 put the entire text together. 13:31 And then also you have to think 13:32 very carefully and very illogically. 13:35 Are the men that died thousands of years earlier in the flood, 13:40 where they waiting for a sermon to be preached to them somewhere 13:45 when continually the Bible said, They are dead, 13:47 they are dead, they are dead, they are dead, they are dead." 13:50 And they died and was buried with their fathers 13:53 and they died and was buried in the grave, 13:55 and they died and was buried, you know. 13:58 And the dead know not of anything. 14:00 They are not waiting to sing, 14:01 "You know, we didn't get that sermon." 14:03 Oh, but don't worry about it, it's coming 14:05 because Jesus is gonna die and bring the sermon down 14:07 and preach to us completely illogical, 14:10 giving rise to the very lie that Satan taught 14:12 in the very beginning in Genesis 3, 14:15 "You will not surely die." 14:17 That's the foundation upon which that doctrine is established. 14:21 The doctrine that you don't really die, 14:23 you are waiting and but according to the Bible 14:25 as we just read in Hebrews 9, 14:27 "It's appointed unto men once to die 14:30 and after that the judgment" Hebrews 9:27. 14:33 So let's not-- in a nutshell, 14:36 the same spirit that anointed Jesus, 14:38 the same spirit that quickened Him from the dead 14:41 is the same spirit through which Noah preached to those 14:44 who were in the prison house of sin. 14:47 That's all that simply saying. 14:49 And as Jesus said, He's come to set at liberty 14:51 those who were bound, those who were in prison 14:55 and that's exactly the terminology used there. 14:57 Sinful men in the prison house of sin, 15:00 the Holy Spirit preached to them in Noah's day, 15:03 the same spirit that quickened Christ from the dead. 15:07 That's all I was simply saying. 15:08 You know, it lead's me to believe 15:10 and I'm gonna read the part two of this question. Sure. 15:12 I wasn't going to but I am going to do this, it just hit me. 15:15 The two questions here lead me to believe 15:18 that this individual is probably studying 15:20 with someone from a Latter-day Saints Church. 15:23 Because these are two texts that they use 15:25 and the second text is from Psalm 82:6, 15:29 "I have said, Ye are gods, 15:31 and all of you are children of the Most High." 15:34 Because I know one of their teachings is that 15:36 we will be--we'll reach the level of godness. 15:39 We will become gods. 15:41 And so if you look at that text Psalm 82:6, 15:47 "I said, You are gods, 15:48 and all of you are children of the Most High. 15:51 But you shall be like men, 15:54 and fall like one of the princes." 15:57 He don't continue to read on. 15:59 The issue here is that they are like Gods. 16:03 In another words they are in the position of God. 16:04 They aren't a God. 16:07 They are like or in the position of God as judges 16:11 and that's what is being conveyed here 16:14 because this whole issue 16:16 that it discussed here by the Psalmist 16:17 in Psalm 82 is a rebuke for Israel's unjust judges. 16:24 He's talking to the judges and when he is speaking to them, 16:27 He's saying, you know, You're gods, you're like gods, 16:30 like you stand in the place of God as a judge 16:33 but I say that you shall be-- 16:36 you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princess, 16:38 "Arise, O God, judge the earth for you 16:41 shall inherit all nations." That's right. 16:43 So he is contrasting here, he is not comparing them 16:46 and saying that they are gods, but they are like gods 16:50 and God rebuke them for being like gods or judges 16:53 against those and they were being unjust 16:56 and that they will in fact be judged 16:57 by the one God eventually. 16:59 Very good point. So be very, very careful. 17:03 It's important that you brought that out, John. 17:06 I want to emphasize something else, 17:08 because of this continued belief that they are these spirits 17:12 that never receive the gospel and were "never baptized" 17:17 this whole push to understand genealogy 17:20 and to carefully trace the lineage of family members. 17:23 Say for example, the Stanton name 17:25 what, what in fact is prevalent among the Mormon faith 17:29 is they would trace all the Stanton members 17:31 and they say, was he baptized, was she baptized, 17:34 was he baptized and they baptized for the dead. 17:37 So there's a lot more than just trying to figure out 17:40 genealogies of family members. 17:42 Well, how many people were in the Stanton family 17:43 or the Lomacang family. 17:45 They do that to trace to see-- 17:47 so they have evangelism for the dead which is Satanic. 17:52 I just want to be very careful, 17:53 be very candid about it not to cut corners. 17:55 If you're baptizing for people that have already died 17:59 and they've already died, their record books have closed. 18:02 You cannot reverse their record by saying, 18:04 oh, well, John's great, great, grandfather, 18:07 you know, John Stanton the first, 18:09 you know, five generations ago wasn't baptized, 18:13 therefore we're gonna make sure that 18:15 as we follow John's lineage and connect to his father 18:18 and his grandfather and his great grandfather 18:19 his great, great grandfather. 18:20 We'll go ahead and baptize for him 18:22 so he will be saved, that's pagan. 18:25 Not only that they're saying with the spirits in prison 18:28 that he is alive somewhere in the spirit realm 18:32 being waiting to be preached to. Right. 18:34 And then they're being baptized 18:36 by someone else here on this earth, 18:38 so that they can pass through or rise to the next level. 18:42 It's just not theologically correct and that's why we say, 18:46 that you got to stick with the Bible alone. 18:49 In many ways the Bible-- 18:52 in many places the Bible 18:53 is clearly contradictory to the Book of Mormon 18:57 and so, you know, when asked-- 19:00 in fact, John, just to give you a practical story here 19:03 I was in Springfield, Illinois, pastoring. 19:06 There's a gentleman that was nearby 19:07 who was very unlike, uncharacteristic of some Mormons 19:12 he was going from church to church 19:14 to talk with the pastors and trying to share 19:18 that almost evangelical Mormon or something 19:20 but trying to share his faith with them. 19:22 And they-- he said when he got to me 19:24 that he expected me to kick him out 19:26 because he said everybody did. 19:27 He said, no one ever would listen to him. 19:29 And I said, "No, I will come and we'll talk." 19:31 So I went visited him in his house 19:34 and he said, why-- he shared some few things 19:38 and he said why wouldn't you believe what I've shared. 19:42 And I said, "Here's my problem, 19:43 the main issue is that the Book of Mormon 19:47 and the teachings of the Mormon Church 19:49 contradicts scripture in several areas, 19:53 but two prominent areas that I am to the point of realization 19:58 that there is no light in them. Right. 20:01 And he said, "Well, but if you're convinced otherwise 20:04 what if you saw a light in that would you accept?" 20:06 I said, "I'll always follow light 20:07 but I've already done that assessment." 20:10 And so I believe the Bible over the Book of Mormon. 20:13 Anyway so we talked about what some of those things are 20:15 and the two that were brought up was, 20:17 number one, man immortality 20:21 which they teach, we believe man is mortal. 20:24 Number two, Sunday sacredness 20:27 which they have adopted through Roman Catholicism 20:30 Adventist church understands Seventh-day is the Sabbath. 20:33 Those two things are contradictory to what they teach 20:36 I cannot accept their teachings. Right. 20:39 And so we were very cordial-- it was a good discussion. 20:41 I enjoyed talking with him, 20:43 but these are points of difference that you have to say 20:46 like anybody belonging to any other church 20:47 if it disagrees with God's word, 20:50 stand on God's word even if he have to stand alone. 20:53 Right, and you will never make-- 20:55 you will never make a mistake 20:57 by standing on God's word, the revealed word. 21:00 I think one of the programs we did in the past 21:03 you used a phrase that I think fits right here. 21:05 There is exegesis expounding on what is in the Bible 21:08 then there is. Eisegesis. 21:10 Adding to what the Bible has never even said. 21:13 For example, somebody may say when Jesus comes back 21:16 yes the bodies are going to rise from the grave 21:19 and then those spirits that are in heaven, 21:21 they are gonna comeback into the bodies 21:22 and the body and spirit is gonna go back to heaven together. 21:25 But right now the spirits are there. 21:27 Scripturally no support whatsoever. 21:30 Yeah, they are trying to use the text to bring that out 21:32 but its just not there, that's eisegesis. 21:34 Exactly, you see when the soul went ahead 21:37 after the person died the soul went ahead 21:39 and people have gone through all this extensive lengths 21:42 to put the body of a person who has died on the gram scale 21:46 cc, they are four gram less than they were five minutes ago, 21:50 so the soul weighs four grams and its going ahead. 21:53 It opens the doors to all these fables 21:56 like, sprit possession, 21:59 mom coming back and talking to me, 22:02 familiar spirits roaming around my house. 22:04 And what many Christians don't see 22:06 is they are giving so much support to a satanic world 22:10 in giving rise to the reality that 22:12 if my mom did die and is in heaven now 22:15 will be may be she can communicate, 22:17 now giving business to soothsayers and fortunetellers 22:21 which the Bible says these are Satan's workers. Yeah. 22:24 So you'll see that doctrine 22:26 when you don't accept what the Bible teaches 22:28 you open the door to so many fables 22:30 and so many satanic connections 22:35 that if you just simply remember that the Bible says 22:37 there going to be a resurrection, 22:39 the resurrection of the righteous 22:41 and the resurrection of the unrighteous. 22:43 But like a bulb that's blown 22:47 that does not work in somebody else's lamp. 22:50 A person dies doesn't live in somebody else's environment. 22:54 See, they're not living somewhere else, 22:56 they are not in heaven Liberace and Dean Martin 22:59 and Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis. 23:01 They're not the rap pack, Elvis is not playing the guitar 23:04 and Liberace is not playing a piano 23:06 and then he also make it appears 23:08 that didn't matter what kind of life you live, 23:09 he sit with the Lord now, that's really amazing. 23:14 Anyway your point was very well taken. 23:16 Pastor John and Pastor John, 23:19 Oh, by the way this is not Pastor John this-- 23:22 there is three John's, John Lomacang, 23:24 John Stanton, and then John Dinzey. 23:27 So they put on extremely on the graph 23:30 but here's the question. 23:31 The Bible says that when we sin against God the Father, 23:33 we will be forgiven. 23:35 When we sin against the Son, we will be forgiven. 23:37 But when we sin against the Holy Spirit, 23:39 we will not be forgiven. 23:41 Now for us, not to be doomed for eternal destruction, 23:46 what could be that sin, 23:49 so that we get ourselves freed form any condemnation? 23:54 In other words, what possible sin 23:57 can I commit against the Holy Spirit 24:01 that could condemn me that wouldn't be forgiven? 24:05 So they want categorical sin. 24:07 So let's describe and break this down. 24:08 I'm gonna read the text here Matthew 12:31, 24:12 It says, "Therefore I say to you, 24:14 every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, 24:19 but the blasphemy against the Spirit 24:22 or the Holy Ghost will not be forgiven men." 24:27 So you ask yourself the question, 24:28 well, which sin is that? 24:30 Which commandment has to be broken 24:32 in order for me not to be forgiven? 24:34 Well, let me encourage you, it's not the Ten Commandments. 24:37 So people say, "Well, are there sins 24:39 outside of the Ten Commandments?" 24:41 The answer is no. 24:43 But let me go ahead and make it very clear 24:45 what the Bible is talking about here. 24:47 You see, the Holy Spirit is the active agent, 24:52 the third person of the Godhead that's carrying on the work. 24:56 And what's the work of the Holy Spirit? 24:58 Let's go to John 16. 25:01 John 16 to show you here. 25:03 What is the work of the Holy Spirit? 25:06 Here I am. Okay. 25:13 Well, turn faster. Okay, John 16, 25:17 Okay. Here it is. 25:23 I am gonna read verse 7, 25:26 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth, 25:29 it is to your advantage or expedient that I go away. 25:33 If I do not go away, the Holy Sprit 25:35 or the helper will not come to you, 25:38 but if I depart, I will send him to you. 25:41 And when he comes," look at the work of the Holy Spirit 25:45 "he will convict the world of sin, 25:48 and of righteousness, and of judgment." 25:52 Now let's break this down. 25:54 If I--if I refuse, if I resist the Holy Spirit 26:01 will I ever be convicted of sin? Yes or no. 26:04 No. No. 26:06 so this one that is wooing me 26:08 and trying to get me to respond to the voice of salvation. 26:13 Perfect example, I think the question we just answered 26:16 leads right into this, in the days of Noah. 26:19 The Bible says, "My spirit will not always strive with the man. 26:24 Well, how many responded? Only eight. 26:27 How many were saved? Only eight. 26:29 You get the point? 26:30 What happened to the others? They were lost. 26:32 That's the perfect example, wonderful example. 26:34 They were not convicted of sin 26:36 because they resisted the work of the spirit. 26:38 And so that's the sin that really is the unforgivable one 26:42 because if you don't respond to the spirit 26:44 who is trying to convict you of sin 26:46 then you never be convinced of your sin, 26:48 then you'll never be asking for forgiveness of that sin 26:51 and then you cannot be saved from your sin, 26:54 so therefore you die because of your sin. 26:56 So therefore what is never forgiven 26:58 is the reason why you are lost. 27:01 So it's not lying and stealing 27:03 and killing and committing adultery 27:05 and taking God's name in vain and bowing down to idols. 27:08 It's resisting conviction by the Holy Spirit. 27:10 Say it again. 27:11 Resisting the conviction of the Holy Spirit. 27:14 The persistent resisting of conviction 27:17 that comes from Holy Spirit that is the unpardonable sin. 27:20 There you go. 27:22 And it's unpardonable not because God won't forgive it, 27:25 it's because He can't forgive it. 27:28 Because there is nothing that allows him 27:30 by the free will choice to be saved 27:32 of an individual to forgive it. Right. 27:34 It's unpardonable because 27:36 He can't forgive a sin that isn't-- 27:39 Confessed. Confessed. 27:40 There you go. 27:42 It's never because He won't, He's always merciful. 27:45 If anyone confesses their sin He will always forgive it 27:47 it doesn't matter what sin that is. 27:49 It's the sin that will not be confessed-- 27:51 that is not confessed because of resistance of the Holy Spirit, 27:54 blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, pushing him away 27:56 that God can't forgive. 27:58 And so let's go to 1 John 1. 28:00 Let's see this in action. 28:02 You see the work of the Holy Spirit to say 28:04 Mark or Beverly, you are living a life of sin. 28:09 And you say, "I don't want to hear it." 28:11 like so many children have said to their parents, 28:13 "Mom and dad would you stop condemning me?" 28:15 You know, they're not condemning you, 28:17 they are condemning the sin. 28:19 A parent that loves his or her children 28:22 are condemning the actions of that child not the child, 28:25 but people that are bound in sin, 28:27 they are so loving the sin 28:29 that they don't want people to talk about it 28:31 that's why let's keep going to the next level 28:33 that's why many churches nowadays are so full 28:35 because they are not talking about sin, okay. 28:38 What's you comment on that before you read a passage? 28:40 Well, it's a huge issue. 28:42 I mean, the Lord is very clear from His word 28:44 that we need to be talking about what is sin 28:47 and what's not sin, so the people can be convicted. 28:50 How can the Holy Spirit work in the realm of church 28:53 and members and individuals if we don't know what's wrong. 28:56 That's right. 28:58 What is it I think Parks Magna, Parks recently, 29:02 we've referred to this in other program but you know, 29:05 a comment was made here that we're so-- 29:09 trying to be so concern and caring for people 29:12 that we're not labeling thing sin anymore, 29:14 we're calling it addictions and a problem that they have 29:19 and oh, you know, it's just the way they were raised. 29:22 And what that's doing is its excusing them. 29:27 And we can't excuse sin. 29:28 We need to fest up to it that's when confession occurs. 29:32 Confession never occurs just by acknowledging sin, 29:35 it's only when we fest up 29:36 that its wrong and we turn from it, 29:38 that's confession and then 29:39 true repentance that occurs. Yeah. 29:41 And so people can never be free from something 29:43 that they are not convinced is a problem. 29:46 If you say, it's just a condition. 29:47 Well, you know, with a little bit of therapy 29:50 you'll be able to understand how to, how to exist a long-- 29:56 How to mange it. 29:57 Well, that's the one I'm trying to come. 29:58 How to manage your issue? 30:00 Well, you know, I'm addicted to this. 30:02 Well, we'll teach you how not to overdo. 30:04 That's why today in a country in our country, 30:06 we talk about how many people die of alcoholic, alcoholism. 30:10 People are alcoholic synonymous, 30:11 people are going to this AA all their lives 30:15 after they're delivered from alcoholism, 30:17 so many traffic deaths and so many families are destroyed. 30:20 But what's being sold in America still, alcohol. 30:23 Still have alcohol, and beer commercials 30:26 because they're not looking at what is causing. 30:28 So let's go back to the initial issue here. 30:31 If we're not convinced of sin 30:33 then we'll never ask for forgiveness of that sin. 30:36 But notice how the Bible says that here. 30:37 And this is speaking more 30:39 or like about the unpardonable sin. 30:41 Look at this. What passage? 30:42 1 John 1:8-10, okay. 30:47 And then I'm going to read. 30:48 Then you're going to read chapter 2 30:50 and verse 1 and 2, all right. 30:52 Here's what the Bible says. 30:54 "If we say we have no sin we deceive." 30:57 Who? Ourselves. 30:58 "Ourselves and the truth is not in us." Stop. 31:02 Who's being deceived? We are. 31:04 God is not being deceived. 31:06 Parents are not being deceived. 31:07 If a kid says, you know, mom I'm gay. 31:10 And they'll say, you're what? 31:13 It's not a problem mom. 31:15 And the parents say, it is a problem. 31:17 Mom, it's my lifestyle. 31:19 That's what Dr. Magnum Parker. 31:20 We use phrases like lifestyle or my preference 31:23 or this is what I do. 31:25 Because of what I do being different from what you do. 31:26 Why you're going to label me? 31:28 Why you're going to judge me like that? 31:29 you know, kids nowadays. Yeah, sure. 31:31 Why you want to judge me? 31:32 It's sin, killing, lying, stealing, 31:36 you know, all that it is sin. 31:38 But if we say we have no sin who we're lying to? Ourselves. 31:42 And the truth is not in us. 31:44 In other words that means, you know, like John said, 31:46 you're not facing up to up to, you don't want to own up to it. 31:49 You're not dealing with the truth that's happening. 31:51 In you there is no conviction of this, 31:53 that's why I say the truth is not in us. 31:54 And issue here to 'cause I know you mentioned gay. 31:57 The issue here is we all have propensities 31:59 to certain sins. Right. 32:01 Some have a propensity to anger 32:03 and outburst of wrath. That's right. 32:05 Some have a propensity to drink and to be an alcoholic. Yeah. 32:08 Some have a propensity to be an adulterer. 32:11 It's usually not one event, 32:12 it's often repeated. That's right. 32:14 It's we have a propensity for certain things, 32:17 sexual addiction. All right. 32:18 These are certain things that we have a bent toward. 32:21 And those who say I'm guy 32:23 have a propensity toward that lifestyle. 32:25 But the lifestyle if we lived out that's the sin. 32:30 Let's stop talking about the propensity being the sin 32:33 just because someone is tempted. Right. 32:35 And inclined that direction. That's not sinful. 32:37 It's the yielding to it. It's the yielding to it. 32:39 It's a going, It's using that as a lifestyle. 32:42 Its heading-- its committing 32:43 those actions that are the sins. Right. 32:46 And so if someone says I'm gay my thing is okay. 32:50 What do you do you know 32:52 what're you doing about that. That's right. 32:53 And someone might say well, I stay away from anybody 32:56 or anything that would pull me into that lifestyle. 32:59 I stand upright for Christ and live a Christ like life. 33:02 I say praise the Lord. 33:04 Someone that is gay that lives upstanding life 33:09 and follows Christ and the directions 33:12 from His word as far as how to deal with that sin. Right. 33:16 And I'd offer that to anybody else with any other kind of sin. 33:19 Right and that's-- and by the way 33:20 let me just even add another component here. 33:22 I always go back to some of these issues of, 33:25 you know, my mom was delivered from alcoholism 33:28 and cigarettes instantly. 33:30 Nevermore did she refer to herself as a person 33:32 addicted to alcohol or never more did she refer to herself 33:35 as a person addicted to tobacco. 33:37 We tend to America, we tend in America 33:40 not to talk about deliverance. 33:42 We tend to say 'I'm recovering alcoholic.' Well if you-- 33:46 It's the management of the issue. Right. 33:47 We tend to deal with management, rather than deliverance. 33:51 You see can you imagine-- 33:52 let's go to a different thing altogether. 33:54 Let's go to and I'm going to read 33:55 the rest of these verses by the way 33:56 because we're going to bring this issue to ahead here. 33:58 Let's go to the Apostle Paul 34:00 who was a murderer. That's right. 34:03 That's what he did. 34:04 He persecuted Christians, he condoned their murder, 34:08 as well as participated in that. 34:10 Can you imagine you say to your preacher, 34:11 'you know, my preacher is a, 34:13 my preacher is managing his murdering. 34:15 You know, he's managing it pretty well. 34:17 He's a murderer but he is kind of, 34:19 he's not lately felt that he needs to kill anyone. 34:21 So he's okay.' 34:23 Can you imagine that? 34:25 Well, you know, my doctor is a--he kills people 34:31 but you know, he hasn't done that lately. 34:34 Can you imagine going to that kind of physician? 34:36 You see, what you are talking about? 34:38 And so we don't-- what I'm getting at is 34:40 we don't preach deliverance anymore. 34:43 We preach the management 34:45 and to learn how to exist with this problem 34:48 and eventually, you'll be delivered. 34:51 I don't believe that. 34:52 I believe that God delivers us. 34:54 The life I used to live in the world, 34:56 I don't live that anymore. 34:57 And I have no desires-- zero desire to go back to that. 35:00 That's deliverance. 35:02 That's not, well, I'm recovering disc jockey 35:04 Or I'm recovering gambler. 35:06 You see, not recovering, I've been delivered. 35:09 We need to preach deliverance to the captives. 35:13 See, so the person who-- whether the sin is promiscuity, 35:20 adultery or gay lifestyle or murder whatever it is, 35:25 there's deliverance to the captive. 35:27 So we shouldn't categorize them, 35:28 but here is the point that I'm trying to make here 35:30 which could get to the end of this question? 35:33 If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves 35:35 and the truth is not in us. 35:36 Which means, we're not wanting to own up 35:38 the fact that there is a problem. 35:40 We don't want to admit that. 35:41 Verse 9, though is the beautiful part of it says 35:43 however and I'm going add a caveat. 35:46 If we confess our sins I mean if we own up to the truth, 35:49 we'll confess our sins. 35:50 If we confess our sins, He is faithful 35:53 and just to forgive us of our sins 35:55 and cleanse us from how much, John? All unrighteousness. 35:59 He's gonna remove it all. 36:02 And then it says "If we say that we have not sinned. 36:06 We make him a liar. 36:08 And his word is not in us." 36:10 So now if you say 36:11 that you're--the way you live is not sin, you're lying. 36:16 You're making-- God is calling this sin a sin 36:20 and you're saying it's not a sin. 36:21 If you're living in contrary. Right. 36:23 Opposition to God's word. 36:25 If you're living opposition to God's word 36:26 you're calling Him a liar. 36:28 Now, can a person calling God a liar be saved? 36:33 So what the whole point of this matter is 36:35 this is the work of the Holy Spirit. 36:37 But I want you to get some good news in this. 36:39 And, John, let's wind this up at 1 John 2:1-2. 36:42 "My little children these things I write to you 36:45 so that you may not sin and if anyone sins, 36:48 we have an advocate with the Father 36:49 Jesus Christ, the Righteous. 36:52 And He himself is the perpetuation for our sins, 36:54 and not only for ours but also the whole world." 37:00 In other words, we all can be saved, his provision 37:04 the perpetuation, not just the substitute but the surety. 37:08 You can surely be saved by Christ 37:11 and the whole world could be saved by Christ 37:13 from all of their sins if they simply stop resisting 37:18 the work of the Holy Spirit. 37:19 That's the unpardonable sin. 37:21 Wow, we--I think we've gone the longest 37:23 on questions in this program. 37:24 And it's been good though. 37:26 Yeah, it is being good, absolutely. 37:27 No I'm not saying that. Yeah. 37:28 But it leaves us only 20 minutes for our topic. 37:30 Let's go for it. 37:31 Well friends, if we have activated another thought 37:33 in your mind about a question you want to send to us, 37:36 you can send those questions to the email that's on your screen 37:39 housecalls@3abn.org, that's housecalls@3abn.org. 37:44 It's important because people in this world 37:47 there're so many things people are struggling with. 37:49 And unfortunately, John, this is the sad state of the world, 37:53 unfortunately many of the indulgences 37:56 that used to not be popular 37:58 are becoming more popular and more indulgent. 38:01 For example, how long has alcoholism been an issue? 38:04 For many, many years, but now other sins 38:07 are becoming more and more popularized. 38:09 The list of sins are being-- the list of practices, 38:12 sinful practices are expanding. Right. 38:15 We must let those people know 38:17 that there is still room for salvation. That's right. 38:20 But now the sanctuary, Hebrews is where we were in right. 38:24 Yeah, we've finished talking about the connection 38:27 between the sanctuary of that 38:30 God asked Moses to build on earth 38:32 which was the copy of the real sanctuary 38:36 that existed in heaven. 38:38 And we spend some time on that 38:41 connecting some of the symbols 38:42 even which we'll do a little more today, 38:45 but we want to move in Book of Hebrews 38:47 to verse 7 here and kind of pick up our conversation 38:51 from there in regard to the sanctuary 38:52 and try to finish it in this program. 38:55 Let me read verse 7, John. Which chapter? 38:58 Hebrews chapter 8. Okay. 39:00 Hebrews 8:7, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, 39:07 then no place would have been sought for a second." 39:12 Now the covenant we're talking about here 39:14 is the covenant under the literal blood 39:18 of bulls and goats 39:19 and then the priesthood that existed back then 39:21 in the sanctuary the temple, 39:23 the carried around with them in the wilderness. 39:24 And that was stationary-- 39:26 when Jerusalem finally was established. 39:29 Though that covenant and that system of ceremonies 39:32 and rights was faultless. 39:36 So then they gave way to the second. 39:39 And here is the second. 39:41 "Because finding fault with them" 39:43 that is the old covenant being he says, 39:47 "behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, 39:49 when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel 39:53 and with the house of Judah not according to the covenant 39:56 that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them 39:58 by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, 40:01 because they did not continue in my covenant 40:04 and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 40:07 For this is the covenant that I will make 40:09 with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord. 40:11 I will put my laws in their mind, 40:13 and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, 40:16 and they shall be my people. 40:18 None of them shall teach his neighbor, 40:21 and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' 40:23 for all shall know Me, 40:24 from the least of them to the greatest of them. 40:27 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, 40:29 and their sins and their lawless deeds 40:31 I will remember no more." And just end with verse 13. 40:35 In that He says, "A new covenant,' 40:38 He has made the first obsolete. 40:40 Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old 40:43 is ready to vanish away." 40:45 And, you know, when it says the first covenant 40:47 if it had been faultless, 40:48 but what was the fault of the first covenant. 40:50 Let's just examine that really briefly for a quick moment here. 40:54 Where the instructions that God gave to Moses faulty? No. 40:58 Do they not build the furniture 41:00 the way that God said to build it? No, they did. 41:04 Everything that God instructed Moses to do 41:06 and the Levitical priest to do, they did. 41:09 So what was the fault in it? 41:10 Here is the fault that's brought out in Hebrews 9:12, 41:15 this is the fault. 41:17 Now watch this, verse 13, 41:22 Hebrews 9:13 "For if the blood of bulls and goats 41:25 and of cows and the ashes of a heifer, 41:29 sprinkling the unclean, 41:31 sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh," 41:34 That was the faultiness of it, all the blood of animal blood. 41:38 What is all this animal blood gonna do for us? 41:40 Those are symbols of faith. 41:42 Now the weakness was in the blood of the animal, 41:45 but notice where the weakness was not. 41:48 Verse 14 "How much more shall the blood of Christ, 41:53 who through the eternal Spirit 41:55 offered Himself without spot to God, 41:59 purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" 42:04 So that was the issue there, these were dead works. 42:08 These were works that continually reminded the people 42:11 how horrible these rituals were, 42:15 but they were just simply rituals 42:17 pointing to what Christ would eventually do. 42:20 John 1:29 "Behold the Lamb of God 42:23 that taketh away the sin of the world." 42:25 So people that, but what happen is 42:27 if you get hung upon the weaknesses of these, 42:31 the falls of these. 42:32 These faulty animals, these animals didn't die for us, 42:36 Christ did. But these were just an example. 42:40 They point to a bigger, a bigger picture. 42:42 In fact jumped down to verse 23 and 24. Okay. 42:45 "Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things 42:48 in the heavens should be purified with these, 42:52 but the heavenly things themselves 42:55 with better sacrifices than these. 42:57 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, 43:01 which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, 43:05 now to appear in the presence of God for us." 43:07 In literal terms what he's saying is, 43:09 Jesus after His death did not enter 43:11 into that physical sanctuary on earth to purify. 43:14 He entered into heaven itself 43:15 the true Tabernacle to purify us from our sins 43:20 with His work there as our high priest. 43:23 And so the question today is, you know, what is Jesus doing? 43:27 He is mediating on our behalf and He's offered His blood 43:32 as that mediation to cover our sins 43:36 to blood out our sins so that we will be saved. 43:40 It was part of the plan, John, from the very beginning 43:43 that it'd be finished this way. 43:44 What Moses was doing, what they were doing 43:46 with the Tabernacle of old back in the Old Testament 43:49 was a foreshadow of what was happening, 43:52 or going to happen in the literal realities of heaven 43:55 was the Messiah came and offered His life 43:57 and then entered as our high priest 43:59 in the heavenly sanctuary. 44:00 This is beautiful. That's right. 44:01 This is a beautiful picture of what God has done 44:06 to deal with the sin issue. 44:08 And it makes Jesus our Savior right down to the very end 44:13 in what He is doing today. And, you know-- 44:15 Go ahead. 44:17 You find also there was bloodshed all the time. 44:20 I mean, this was a blood-shedding. 44:22 This was a blood-shedding practice that continued 44:25 on and on and on and on. 44:28 And Hebrews 9:22 it says "And according to the law 44:34 almost all things are purged with blood, 44:37 and without shedding of blood there is no remission." 44:40 So all this blood was being shed. 44:42 Can you imagine this is-- this was quite a scene 44:49 and I'm trying to come to the word, 44:50 I'm just at a lost for words and that's rare for me. 44:53 But all the shedding of this blood. 44:55 So therefore what did Christ intent to do? 44:57 And I want to show you something very carefully here. 45:00 Go to Hebrews 10 now, Hebrews 10. 45:03 And by the way the aspect of the sanctuary 45:05 we're talking about here today 45:06 is not so much pointing people back to do 45:08 all those things that happened then. No, no. 45:10 We're talking about the beauty of it now. 45:13 What relevance does it have now if we just keep tying it back 45:17 to the things then we gonna keep you locked to the type. 45:20 We want you to understand 45:21 the antitype of the work that Christ-- 45:22 Which is what Paul was trying to do 45:24 with the Jewish believers entering the church. 45:26 He was trying to move them from the type, the copy 45:30 or excuse me the, yeah, the copy to the antitype 45:33 the reality which is Jesus. That's right. 45:36 And this is where he goes in Chapter 10 of Hebrews. 45:40 And, John, matter of fact read verse 1 45:42 down to verse 4 for me. 45:46 "For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, 45:49 and not the very image of the things, 45:51 can never with these same sacrifices, 45:53 which they offer continually year by year, 45:56 make those who approach perfect." 45:58 Couldn't work it just-- It doesn't work. 45:59 Fault. That's the faultiness of it. 46:02 It did not purify them, it only by faith connected with them 46:05 the Savior who would come the Messiah to offer His life. 46:10 And I like the question 46:11 that is asked in the very next statement there. 46:13 Look at the question that is asked in verse 2. 46:17 "For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 46:20 For the worshipers, once purified, 46:22 would have had no more consciousness of sins." Right. 46:26 "But in those sacrifices 46:27 there is a reminder of sins every year. 46:30 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats 46:32 could take away our sins." 46:34 It's just not possible, so here they are 46:38 aimlessly ritualistically bound by these ceremonies. 46:43 Drink offerings, and ceremonial offerings, 46:45 and ceremonial Sabbaths, and oh, what's today's observance, 46:49 oh, got to go to the temple today for this, 46:52 got to go to the temple for that, got to do this, 46:53 they are just bound by these rituals 46:55 and really it became such a burden. 46:58 Unfortunately many people nowadays 47:00 when you mention the word law, 47:01 some people link the ceremonial law 47:03 and the commandments or the moral law together. 47:06 All right, two different things. 47:07 And because the ceremonial law was done away 47:09 with many Christians are taught by their pastors 47:11 and clergy that the law was done away with. 47:13 Right. No, the-- 47:15 In fact you're putting in a literal terms here 47:18 the law of God was placed within the ceremonial law 47:21 to show how it was perpetual, 47:25 it was forever, it was everlasting. 47:29 But the whole Law of Moses the ceremonial piece of that 47:32 was to show pictures of it. 47:34 It's like the high priest, John, of the old system 47:39 starting with Aaron wasn't the end reality. No. 47:44 He was a foreshadow of Jesus 47:46 to come, our high priest today. That's right. 47:48 The law of God in that ceremonial law 47:51 as well pointed to the fact that in the future 47:54 when Jesus ministered in the heavenly sanctuary 47:57 that His law would ever be before Him. That's right. 48:01 So the things within the law, the ceremonial law 48:04 those pieces of reality last forever. 48:09 That's why the writer of Hebrews is saying, 48:11 what you did before in ceremonies and rites, 48:14 they are just pointed to the future. 48:16 When the future came don't do that anymore. 48:18 The reality is here Jesus, His law, His forgiveness 48:23 all those things that is the reality today. 48:26 Now here is the interesting part two. 48:28 You know, we talked about dual covenant theology 48:31 here a few programs ago and one of the things 48:34 that the Jews want to do still to this day 48:38 is resume sacrifices on the mount, 48:42 which they can't do, 48:44 because location is not available 48:46 for them right now. Right. 48:47 Number one, 48:48 and there are other certain aspects of the ceremonies 48:51 that were done back then that aren't in place now 48:53 to do it. Right. 48:55 But they want to do it, 48:56 because they don't believe in the Jesus 48:58 who took those away. Right. 49:00 So the entire argument here is 49:02 Jesus is here He fulfills these things, 49:04 they're gone move forward 49:07 and in Christ in the new covenant 49:08 we as Christians, we are moving forward with Christ the reality. 49:12 You know, isn't that amazing, John, 49:13 that this whole ideology 49:17 what sometimes we are indicted up 49:20 or accused up, some people say, 49:22 "Well, if you keep the commandment 49:24 you're bound by the law." 49:25 I find it strange in the evangelicals circles 49:28 they're waiting for the sacrificial system 49:31 to be reestablish in Jerusalem. Isn't that amazing? 49:34 Is that crazy? 49:35 Because they don't grasp this teaching. 49:38 And the point I want to emphasis there 49:40 is while they're indicting us of being those bound by the law. 49:45 They are looking forward to the establishment, 49:48 the reestablishment of the sacrificial system 49:51 in Jerusalem and the red heifer 49:55 oh, they keep that phrase being used their often times. 50:00 Why they are looking for that? 50:01 For the conversion of the Jews. 50:03 The evangelizing of the entire world. 50:05 Completely missing the entire point. 50:07 So the Bible as an essence saying here 50:09 as John just read, it's not possible 50:11 that the blood of bulls and goats. 50:13 So why would you want to go ahead 50:14 and reestablish a system that at its best that was faulty. 50:18 Read verse 14. Oh yeah. 50:20 10:14. 50:21 It says, "For by one offering he has perfected forever 50:25 those who are being sanctified." 50:27 He has done it all. There it is. 50:29 Jesus has by one offering, He sacrifices Himself 50:33 has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 50:36 There is no reason to go back to those old sacrifices 50:39 because Jesus has already ended that system 50:41 and has provided the forever sacrifice. 50:44 So two things that are kind of ridiculous 50:45 in this context to think that we must go back to feasts 50:49 and ceremonies and sacrifices and rituals, 50:52 to think that we must go back to this old system 50:54 of righteousness is a denial of the new covenant 51:02 that's made through the blood of Christ, 51:05 is a denial of the high priest who works now in our behalf. 51:08 We are going back to reinstitute all priestly services. 51:11 That's why one of the things you have to keep in mind 51:13 is anytime any religion establishes 51:15 an earthly priesthood 51:17 outside of the general priesthood of all believers, 51:20 which is taught about by the Apostle Peter, 51:24 you know, where all the nation, 51:25 We're holy nation, a royal priesthood, 51:28 that's how we're standing in the side of Christ, 51:30 that's through His righteousness. 51:31 But whenever there's an earthly priesthood established 51:35 in sense various ordinances 51:39 that's a duplication of a system 51:44 that has already been removed out of the way. 51:48 The Lord ended the earthly-- 51:49 there's no earthly priest to that we go to. 51:52 Christ is our high Priest. 51:54 Now, I am not going to open up a whole another topic here 51:57 because this isn't our topic 51:58 but there is already another system established of priesthood 52:03 on this earth that the enemy has set up 52:06 instead of God's system, right? Exactly. 52:10 So it's already been established 52:12 and that is a priesthood of a actual church. Right. 52:16 And they are saying, 52:18 you got to come through them for forgiveness, 52:20 you've got to come through their church for absolution, 52:23 for forgiveness and remission of sins. 52:26 You see, the devil has already taken a system 52:28 that Jesus has done away with 52:30 and try to set up his own. Right. 52:31 And that system exists till to this day. 52:34 It's just in symbol but into on this earth 52:37 as far as earth is concerned it's in literal form. 52:40 So anyway, let's not go too much there 52:43 because I don't want to be accused of being accuser 52:49 but it is a reality. 52:51 Right and the reality and being sensitive 52:53 to the reality that you know, 52:55 there are many sincere Christians 52:56 in all walks if Christianity, 52:58 we are just--we are talking about systems here. 52:59 We are not talking about people in particular. 53:01 And so the whole purpose of that comment 53:04 in essence the way I would take is pointing us to Christ, 53:07 away from earthly substitutes to the Christ, 53:10 to the only One. 53:11 You know, 1 Timothy 2:5, 53:13 "For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, 53:20 the man Christ Jesus." 53:22 You cannot forget that and then it says here, 53:27 how do we come, how do we come into presence of God? 53:30 We don't come into presence of God 53:32 through an earthly man. 53:33 That was the old system. 53:35 They came to the temple 53:37 and the high priest was then the mediator between man and God 53:42 but now Christ is the mediator. 53:46 There's only one mediator. 53:47 There's only one mediator right now, 53:49 that's the man Christ Jesus. 53:51 Not a man and then a woman, Mary and then God. Right. 53:59 See, that's a substitute that lessens the work of Christ. 54:03 It's going through flesh and the flesh 54:06 was the other faulty part of it because the priest then 54:08 had to perform sacrifices for themselves. Sure. 54:13 Just in case, and then when they went to the holiest 54:16 of holies they had a string tied to their foot. 54:19 Just in case they were not sinless 54:21 they would die in the presence of Christ, 54:23 in the presence of God and they had to be dragged out. 54:26 Let's close up this sanctuary teaching here 54:28 with a picture of the Day of Atonement. Beautiful. 54:32 Through the whole year 54:34 this system would offer sacrifices 54:36 and then at the end of the year on the Day of Atonement, 54:39 the high priest would go into the second apartment, 54:42 the holiest of all, the most holy place to appear 54:46 before the presence of God 54:52 and to offer the blood that would cover and cleanse-- 54:58 not just blood, you know, not just covering sins 55:01 but cleanse the sin from all year long-- Blot out. 55:05 That were accumulated in the sanctuary. 55:08 And then of course, as a result of that 55:10 those sins were then packaged 55:11 and placed upon the skin goat 55:14 who was then banish out of the camp 55:15 and that sin for the year was removed forever. 55:19 So we find in reality then Jesus who was our sacrifice 55:24 has now appeared before his Heavenly Father. That's right. 55:28 Presence of God to offer His blood 55:31 to cleanse us from the sin. 55:33 In fact, when you read 1 John 1:9, 55:35 it's not just forgiveness 55:36 but it's also cleansing from all sin. 55:40 And cleansing is a key piece at the end of the dealing 55:43 with the sin issue that the sanctuary reveals. Right. 55:46 And that's what Jesus is doing now, 55:47 He isn't just forgiving, 55:49 He is now cleansing the sin of the earth 55:50 of all people to then be able to come back 55:53 and take us home. 55:54 The cleansing of the sanctuary. Yes. 55:56 The Day of Atonement, that's exactly what it wasn't. 55:58 Matter of fact, when Peter, the apostle preached 56:00 on the day of Pentecost, 56:01 what was so beautiful about what he said, 56:03 he said in the hearing of all the Jews 56:06 that were at Jerusalem 56:07 and the language he used was indicative of something 56:10 that they had been under for thousands of years. 56:13 He made a statement and they thought, 56:14 huh, because they said, "Man and brethren what must we do?" 56:19 And Peter asked this question, "Repent and there-- 56:22 repent therefore and be converted," Acts 3:19, 56:27 "That your sins may be blotted out." Blotted out. 56:30 "When the times of refreshing 56:32 shall come from the presence of the Lord." 56:34 Presence of the Lord in the most holy place. 56:37 Times of refreshing when all the sins are blotted out, 56:40 that's a refresh. 56:42 What do we call when you refresh something? Refreshing. 56:45 That what will happen on the Day of Atonement 56:47 and we are living in that time right now. 56:49 Because that was the last piece to be performed 56:51 in the annual service which repeated year after year, 56:54 that mean at the very end before Jesus comes 56:56 its' the last thing that accomplishes 56:58 the work of eradicating sin in the lives of His people. 57:01 Wow, the time of refreshing. 57:04 Friends, we are living in the time of refreshing right now. 57:06 The sins of God's people have gone before 57:09 our sins at the judgment. 57:10 And when the Lord comes, 57:12 before He comes there's going to be a declaration, 57:14 Revelation 22:11, "He that is unjust, 57:17 let him be unjust still, righteous, 57:18 let him be righteous still, holy, let him be holy still, 57:21 filthy, let him be filthy still." 57:23 It shut and then the refreshing comes in 57:25 an all of our sins are blotted out eternally. 57:27 For that to be a joy to you accept the Lord Jesus Christ 57:30 in your life today. 57:32 May God bless you. |
Revised 2014-12-17