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How To Get Rid Of Your Guilt

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Participants: Pr. Louis Torres

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01:00 Good evening and welcome to "Digging Up the Future."
01:04 Are you excited about studying Bible Prophecy?
01:07 Have you enjoyed what we've been learning?
01:09 What I have enjoyed is that we've been studying
01:11 not only prophecy but things that can prepare us to be ready
01:15 when the prophecies are fulfilled.
01:17 You know, like how to deal with pain and suffering.
01:22 We've talked about human suffering,
01:23 we've talked about many practical things.
01:25 And what good is it know,
01:27 you know, when the time prophecies and if you're ready,
01:29 how many will like to be ready,
01:32 when they end as well.
01:33 So this has been a wonderful seminar.
01:35 We're thankful that Pastor Torres is with us
01:38 and he is-- it's just been great.
01:39 I've just enjoyed it very much.
01:40 Tonight's topic is a, is something that
01:43 I think lot of people struggle with.
01:45 Not only here perhaps here
01:47 but those that are viewing as well.
01:50 And that is "What should I do with Guilt."
01:53 Have you ever been guilty about anything?
01:56 If not see me afterwards.
01:57 But maybe you should be guilty about
01:59 not being guilty if that's the case.
02:01 But really this is a significant problem
02:03 and what do with that.
02:06 You know, sometimes we don't have guilt that's the problem,
02:08 sometimes we have too much.
02:10 Tonight, we're gonna be talking about that Pastor Torres is.
02:13 He is going to be explaining that
02:14 how to get rid of your guilt.
02:17 How many of you thing we should pray
02:18 before we talk about something like that?
02:20 I believe so too.
02:21 Let's just bow our heads and ask the Lord's presence.
02:24 Father in heaven, today we're thankful for the Holy Spirit.
02:29 And we invite Holy Spirit,
02:30 Your presence here this evening.
02:32 Bible says You'll convict of sin and of righteousness
02:35 and of judgment to come.
02:38 And we ask that you would do that this evening
02:41 not just convict us of what's wrong
02:43 but show us what's right.
02:45 And we especially uplift our speaker
02:48 and those that will be bringing
02:51 the message and music to us tonight.
02:54 And each person here and each person watching
02:56 and we come in Christ name, amen.
02:59 From night, tonight
03:00 we've had some wonderful music, haven't we?
03:03 I thought man we should be hearing some singing too.
03:06 How many of you it would be good to hear some singing?
03:08 So tonight we're going to hear some singing
03:09 and Marion Peppers is going to sing for us tonight
03:14 "In Your Mercy."
03:56 In Your mercy
04:00 You have shown me
04:02 Your salvation
04:08 Undeserving of Your favor I am free
04:18 And I'll never be the same
04:24 All my life I will remain
04:30 In Your mercy
04:33 Tender mercy shown to me
04:47 In your mercy You have promised to be near me
04:57 I am resting in the shelter of Your wings
05:07 Every fear I leave behind
05:12 Every confidence I find
05:18 In your mercy
05:21 Tender mercy shown to me
05:29 So great is Your love
05:35 Higher than the heavens
05:39 Your faithfulness reaches the sky
05:48 Be exalted O Lord
05:53 Over all the earth
05:58 Let Your glory be seen in my life,
06:07 in my life
06:31 In Your mercy
06:35 You have given of Your life blood
06:43 One last heartbeat and redemption was complete
06:52 What a debt of love You paid
06:58 With Your death, my soul was saved
07:09 In Your mercy
07:15 Tender mercy shown to me
07:57 Amen, thank you so much. Wasn't that a blessing?
08:00 Like you know, when you hear someone sing
08:03 you like to sing too, don't you?
08:04 So let's stand together and sing our theme song,
08:07 before we begin our meeting
08:10 with Pastor Torres this evening.
08:12 "Marvelous Message We Bring."
08:20 Marvelous message we bring
08:24 Glorious carol we sing
08:27 Wonderful word of the King
08:31 Jesus is coming again
08:35 Coming again, coming again
08:42 Maybe morning, maybe noon
08:46 Maybe evening, but surely soon
08:50 Coming again, coming again
08:57 Oh what a wonderful day it will be
09:03 Jesus is coming again
09:12 Amen, you sound wonderful. You can be seated.
09:26 Well, good evening to you. Good evening.
09:29 It's so good to see you again and especially
09:31 I was blessed by that message and song.
09:36 One day I was holding a series of meetings
09:41 and after this presentation
09:44 an elderly lady approached me.
09:48 She wanted to talk with me privately.
09:55 So after everyone left we sat down
09:58 the lady was troubled, she began to cry.
10:03 And she said, "let me share with you what's in my heart.
10:10 When I was a young bride, young wife,
10:17 the time came when I finally got pregnant.
10:22 And I was so excited that we're gonna have a child.
10:29 And I broke the news to my husband
10:32 that I was expecting fully anticipating
10:36 that he would have the same excitement as I have.
10:42 But I was shocked, he said, get rid of it.
10:53 I couldn't believe my ears."
10:59 She said, "how can I, it's our child."
11:05 He said, "I tell you get rid of it.
11:07 We don't need a child now." She was heartbroken.
11:12 She wept and she thought that
11:18 he wasn't that serious but he was
11:22 and finally he said to her "It's either it or me."
11:31 You will need to make up your mind.
11:40 She told me that she just couldn't bare the thought.
11:47 She was caught between the big twigs.
11:50 She dearly loved her husband.
11:53 She couldn't bear the taught of her husband leaving her.
11:58 And she fearing
12:02 that he would follow through with his threat
12:06 decided that she will have an abortion.
12:12 She went through it.
12:16 But she said,
12:19 that she has suffered ever since.
12:24 That she told me,
12:26 "I have never heard any peace since then.
12:35 I wonder if God will ever forgive me," she said.
12:42 And I said to her "my sister, God has a promise."
12:50 You all know it, don't you? If we confess our, what?
12:55 Our sins, He is faithful and what else and just.
13:00 Aren't you gland for that, He is faithful and what else?
13:03 And just to forgive us our sins.
13:06 But it doesn't stop there and cleanse us.
13:10 And what else? Cleanse us.
13:14 From how much? All unrighteousness.
13:19 She said "but how can that be true."
13:24 I said "my sister, the problem is
13:28 that you've been listening to the accuser
13:30 all of this time rather than to the forgiver.
13:38 You need to listen to the forgiver
13:40 and not your accuser."
13:43 That was a new thought for her, a new revelation.
13:46 Sixty nine years, that woman carried her guilt.
14:00 Pardon me, 59-years,
14:03 59-years she carried her guilt
14:11 and finally at last she accepted the promise.
14:17 And we knelt down together and with tears
14:22 she expressed thanksgiving to that God
14:28 who is able to abundantly pardon.
14:35 How do you get rid of guilt and that's the subject tonight.
14:37 But let us pray together as we open toward.
14:40 Our Father, thank You so much
14:42 that we can study your holy word about the subject.
14:44 So many, so many all over the world are suffering
14:50 because of this terrible thing called guilt.
14:53 And I pray that by Your grace as we go through the word
14:58 that those who are carrying great burdens
15:01 can finally find peace.
15:04 It's our prayer in Jesus name, amen.
15:09 The problem with guilt is that we as human beings
15:15 are always the ones perpetrating
15:17 or doing something that's wrong.
15:19 In fact the scripture tells us in the Book of Jeremiah 13:23
15:24 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin."
15:28 You know an Ethiopian has what color of skin?
15:32 Black or dark brown.
15:34 "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his" what?
15:39 "His spots.
15:40 Then" it says "may ye also do good
15:44 at are accustomed to do" what?
15:46 "To do evil."
15:49 And so we have the nature the tendencies to propensities
15:53 to do what's wrong.
15:55 And when we do what's wrong
15:57 there is no question that we suffer separation
16:00 and that's why the Bible says
16:01 "But your iniquities have separated
16:03 between you and your" what?
16:05 "And your God and your sins have hid his face from you,
16:09 that he will not hear you."
16:10 In other words friends, sin separates.
16:14 Sin what?
16:15 Sin separates and the scripture says then
16:19 that we are with the propensities to sin
16:24 and therefore because we have those propensities
16:28 then we have that which is called guilt
16:31 which is the result of sinning.
16:35 Now in the Book of Revelation,
16:37 we focus tonight on the one who is able to remove sins.
16:44 But the problem is this God has a huge problem
16:51 and that huge problem is this.
16:54 How many of you have sinned in your life?
16:56 Any of you?
16:58 How many of you sinned once?
17:00 How many of you have lost count?
17:03 Okay.
17:06 Now because it is part of our nature
17:10 God has the problem of how to destroy sin
17:17 without destroying the sinner.
17:24 And since its already part of our nature
17:26 you can understand God's great problem, right.
17:29 Because if He destroys what will He destroy?
17:32 The sinner.
17:33 But His desire is not to destroy the sinner,
17:34 His desire is to destroy sin.
17:37 And so how does God do it? What process that He use?
17:43 And how can you and I avail ourselves of the process
17:46 which helps us then to get rid of this thing called sin
17:50 so that we do not suffer then the consequence
17:53 and the terrible result that comes from guilt.
17:58 In the Book of Revelation
17:59 Jesus is portrayed as a divine glorified being.
18:06 The Bible says that when John heard the voice
18:10 he turned around and he said that
18:11 he saw someone with hair like wool
18:14 and cloths with a long garment.
18:17 And then it says that he in his hand he had stars
18:21 and that he walked in the midst of candlesticks.
18:26 Now that's an interesting portrayal of Christ.
18:33 In fact, I want to tell you that this particular picture
18:37 that John writes to us concerning the Revelation
18:41 that Christ made of Himself
18:43 is a picture of an Old Testament priest.
18:47 Picture of what? Old Testament priest.
18:52 It speaks about candle, seven candlesticks
18:54 and by the way there after in the scriptures
18:57 you don't hear anything more about "seven candlesticks."
19:02 The reason for it is this,
19:04 that in order for us understand Revelation
19:06 we must then go to the rest of Bible to find the quotes
19:11 that will unveil or open up for us
19:14 these particular symbols that God has unfolded to us.
19:19 And so in order to understand this candlesticks
19:22 and Christ walking in the midst of candlesticks he says
19:25 "then that the candlesticks represent the seven churches.
19:28 And also he says the stars represent
19:32 the seven angels to the seven churches.
19:34 But let's beyond that and go to the Old Testament
19:37 and find out what these candles really represent
19:42 and where does this scene come from.
19:45 In the Old Testament God had told Moses
19:50 that he wanted to dwell with his people.
19:53 He wanted to what? Dwell with His people.
19:56 Now you must understand this
19:58 that for God to dwell with us
20:00 means that there can be no sin in us
20:03 in order for Him to dwell with us.
20:05 So God desires to be with His children.
20:08 It was the Lord who spoke to Adam and Eve,
20:11 and communicated with him.
20:12 It was the Lord that actually spoke to Adam and Eve
20:15 when Adam and Eve fell into sin.
20:18 And of course through out the scriptures
20:20 you'll see in the Old Testament that Jesus appears to Abraham.
20:24 He appears to Jacob,
20:26 He appears in many different occasions,
20:29 sometimes as an other human being
20:33 and sometimes He appears as an angle.
20:36 But the point is this,
20:39 God always delights to be with His children.
20:44 What do you say?
20:45 I think that you as parents for example,
20:48 if you have children,
20:50 hopefully you love your children
20:51 and the desire you have is that
20:53 those children be near you.
20:54 Is that correct?
20:56 I have children and I would love for them to be near me.
20:59 But unfortunately one is in New York City,
21:02 the other one is in Cleveland, Ohio
21:04 and my youngest one my daughter
21:06 is in out on Okinawa.
21:08 Well, she happens to be the one that's most productive
21:11 and she has four children.
21:13 And so the grandchildren are over there.
21:16 And I've often thought if I had known
21:19 that grandchildren are so great I would have them first.
21:27 I'd love for them to be
21:28 and when they come over it's such a joy.
21:30 My daughter has two twin little girls
21:32 and it's such a joy to play with those little girls.
21:36 They just go all over grandpa,
21:38 you know crazy about grandpa.
21:42 We love to have those we love with us.
21:46 God is no different.
21:48 In fact God's love intensifies
21:51 beyond our own
21:52 and if you desire to be with those you love
21:55 you can well understand how anxious God is
21:57 to be with His children.
21:58 What do you say?
22:00 But He has this terrible problem,
22:01 the sin problem.
22:04 So what does God do?
22:06 Well He tells Moses, "And let them me" what?
22:10 "A sanctuary that I may" what?
22:12 "Dwell among them."
22:14 And so in that sanctuary
22:17 there is several articles of furniture.
22:21 For example, you see right there the candelabra.
22:25 This particular lamp stand was in the sanctuary.
22:30 The sanctuary had two apartments
22:31 we'll explain that later.
22:32 But look at Exodus 25:37 and it says.
22:35 "And thou shall make seven lamps thereof
22:38 and they shall light the lamps thereof
22:40 that may give light over against it."
22:43 Speaking about inside this tabernacle.
22:45 But notice it says seven, what?
22:48 Lamp stands.
22:49 How many lamp stands was it there in Revelation
22:52 where Jesus is walking?
22:53 Seven. Seven.
22:54 So now we find then that, that typology
22:58 really comes from all over in the Old Testament, okay.
23:02 Now what is that God intended to do in this sanctuary?
23:07 Why did He ask to him to make the sanctuary?
23:11 Well, I want you to take a look at the actual sanctuary.
23:17 This is a clip of the sanctuary
23:21 and I'm sorry that those out there in the viewing
23:23 audience cannot see it
23:24 but those here present are able to see it.
23:26 You can see the sanctuary here how it was put together.
23:31 Then of course, I want to give you
23:33 a bird's eye view of the sanctuary.
23:36 A what?
23:37 A bird's eye view.
23:38 So I want you to notice this clip.
23:39 This clip will take us
23:41 right into the actual sanctuary.
23:44 If you notice here there is the court.
23:46 There is the what? The court.
23:48 And then of course, there is a tabernacle.
23:50 This is the laver.
23:53 This is where the priest would wash himself.
23:55 This is the altar of sacrifice.
23:57 When sacrifices where made
23:59 this is where they would burn the sacrifices.
24:02 But I want you to notice then
24:03 as we go in through the opening here
24:07 and come over the altar of sacrifice
24:11 we will also come over the laver
24:13 and then we'll go right into the actual sanctuary
24:16 and you will see then the both sides--
24:18 on one on the right side
24:20 you'll see the table of showbread
24:21 on the left side you'll see the candlesticks
24:23 and right in front the altar of incense
24:25 and right beyond that there is another apartment
24:29 called the most holy place
24:30 and that is where the presence of God was.
24:34 You see the table of showbread, the lamp stand,
24:37 the altar of incense right there you see it
24:39 and then right inside
24:41 this is where the holy Shekinah was.
24:45 And this is where the presence of God was.
24:51 And inside that particular article
24:55 which is called the ark of the testament
24:58 inside of that God had commanded Moses
25:03 to take the tables of stones
25:04 that He had written with His own fingers
25:06 and placed them in there showing then
25:09 that government of God sits
25:12 over the Ten Commandments or in other words
25:14 it's a foundation of God's government
25:16 on His wonderful moral laws.
25:18 What do you say?
25:20 Okay, now the thing about this is
25:23 however that no one could enter
25:26 into the most holy place except the high priest.
25:28 Except who? The high priest.
25:31 And so the other priest could enter into the other places
25:34 but not into the most holy place.
25:38 Now here is the scene of the tents around--
25:44 the Israelites who always made the tabernacle,
25:48 the centre of everything that they did.
25:51 Here is the altar of sacrifices I've mentioned et cetera.
25:55 Now what does this have to do
25:58 with separating sin from the sinner
26:00 and getting rid of guilt?
26:03 God here opens up to us wonderful lessons
26:08 that we must understand
26:10 if we're to understand how God is finally
26:13 going to eradicate sin in the future, okay.
26:16 In other words, if you and I are going to cooperate with God
26:20 in terms of this process
26:21 of separating sin from the sinner
26:24 then we must understand it and then be able to prepare
26:28 for that glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
26:31 Now I want you to understand what had to take place.
26:35 In this particular sanctuary God demonstrated the process
26:39 and here's what took place.
26:41 Let's suppose that you were an Israelite
26:43 and you lived in the days
26:45 when you're in the wilderness
26:47 and there were all these tents pitched around.
26:49 Let's supposed that was the case.
26:51 And let's suppose that you made the mistake.
26:54 You got upset with your wife and you said something to her
26:56 that you shouldn't have said, okay.
26:59 And I'm picking on the husbands now, all right.
27:02 And let's suppose that was the case.
27:04 Well, if you wanted to make sure
27:07 that thing did not keep you from God
27:10 because to the Jewish man
27:12 he always had to go and worship and it was important
27:15 and if you went to worship before God
27:16 that he went without sin.
27:18 Went without what? Without sin.
27:20 And by the way today friends,
27:22 God wants us to come to Him just as we are
27:27 but He doesn't want us to stay as we are.
27:30 Did you hear what I've said?
27:32 God wants us to come to Him as we are
27:35 but He does not intend that we stay as we are.
27:39 And so the Israelite then who felt bad about what he did
27:44 now had that chore of getting himself a sacrifice.
27:48 And the sacrifice usually was an animal, a lamb
27:52 that he was raising.
27:54 And usually these are animals were very cute little pets
27:57 and I don't know if you've ever had lambs around you
28:00 but they're cute little animals, aren't they?
28:03 I remember when I was in Armenia not too long ago
28:07 and we're looking for Noah's Ark.
28:11 And we happened to stop at Yerevan
28:14 which is the one of the cities of Armenia
28:17 and it turns out
28:18 that in Armenia they still sacrifice lambs.
28:22 And I was just troubled with all these little lambs
28:25 in the streets on the sidewalks
28:28 by the stores with their legs tied
28:31 and ready to be sold to somebody
28:33 so that they could sacrifice it.
28:34 And then have a meal from the lamb.
28:37 And I wished at that time that I was well enough to do
28:40 so that I could buy the lambs and set them free.
28:47 The sinner now had to bring a lamb.
28:49 But think about it,
28:50 suppose you happened to live way out there,
28:52 okay and you did something
28:55 and now you've to go to the tabernacle.
28:57 Where did you have to go to? To the tabernacle.
29:00 You see this man here.
29:02 Okay, you have to go to the tabernacle.
29:04 So here you come with the lamb
29:06 and there are all the Israelites watching you.
29:10 Okay.
29:11 Wonder what he did now.
29:14 Do you understand that's how we think right?
29:16 Wonder what he did now.
29:18 He didn't matter what people thought.
29:21 What matter to the individual was what God thought?
29:24 What do you say?
29:27 They wanted to be right with God
29:29 then it was important to go to God
29:31 and to go to what God had ordained
29:34 as a process of removal of sin.
29:36 So the sinner then came and he came into the court.
29:41 He brought his sacrifice
29:43 and now he had to go through several steps.
29:46 Number one, we're told that the individual
29:50 had to confess his sin
29:53 whatever it was, to do what?
29:56 To confess his sin.
30:00 Now it was important that he was specific with his sin.
30:04 Notice it said "It shall be, when he shall be guilty."
30:07 Be what? There is that word.
30:10 What that's we're talking about tonight?
30:11 Guilt.
30:13 Therefore where and that
30:15 which "he is guilty in one of these things,
30:17 that he shall confess that he has sinned in" What?
30:21 "In that thing."
30:22 Have you ever heard in the church somebody say
30:25 "brethren, if I offended somebody forgive me."
30:28 Have you ever heard that? Can I see your hands?
30:31 All right, let me ask you a question.
30:33 Did that person confess what they actually did?
30:37 Isn't it interesting that sometimes
30:39 we use that as an albeit to get away from actually admitting
30:43 that we have done something.
30:45 Now that doesn't mean that there is some sincere people
30:48 who are really a concern.
30:50 Maybe they've done something they didn't know
30:51 and they just want to make sure
30:52 that it's all right and so they said look,
30:54 if I had done something let me know so I can clear it.
30:57 But friend, for us to say
30:59 brethren, if I have done something
31:00 so our friend is somebody, forgive me.
31:03 When you know that you've done something
31:05 have you confessed the sin?
31:07 Yes or no?
31:09 You see my friends, either its hard to die to self.
31:15 It is what? It is hard to die to self.
31:20 Pride just does not allow us to be honest
31:27 and that's why we need divine grace.
31:31 Now the scripture then reveals that as the person came
31:36 and confessed the sin one of the things he had to do
31:40 was that he had to put his one hand on the lamb
31:44 and then lean over on the lamb
31:47 therefore putting his weight upon the lamb.
31:50 Now you may ask the question
31:52 why did he have to put his weight on the lamb?
31:56 Because in the scriptures
31:58 when John the Baptist saw Jesus Christ
32:01 what did he say of Jesus?
32:03 "Behold" what? "The Lamb of God that" what?
32:08 "Taketh" the actual Greek work means beareth.
32:12 What does that it mean?
32:13 Beareth or bearers the sins of the world.
32:16 In other words "behold the Lamb of God
32:18 that takes the weight of sin of the world."
32:21 That does what? Take the weight.
32:24 So here comes the man.
32:27 He has the lamb the innocent victim
32:30 but he knows that there is no other way
32:32 if he is going to be right with God
32:34 he must get rid of that sin.
32:38 But why an innocent victim?
32:40 Simply because my friends,
32:42 if you die for your sin you'll never live again.
32:48 You cannot atone for your sin.
32:51 You're life is not holy enough to meet the just law
32:56 that God has as a standard of holiness.
32:59 In other words the only thing
33:01 that could atone fore the violation
33:04 of a holy law is a holy life.
33:08 What did I say?
33:10 The only thing that can atone for the holy law is a what?
33:14 A holy life.
33:19 And so an innocent victim is brought,
33:23 their weight is placed upon it and then with his own hand
33:27 he was to take the knife and take the life of that lamb.
33:33 Now you can understand what God is trying to say.
33:38 You see friends, the problem with sin is that often times
33:43 we do not see how bad sin is.
33:46 What did I say? We do not see how bad sin is.
33:53 And because we do not see how bad sin is
33:55 and we don't understand the cost
33:58 God had to create some mechanism to help us
34:02 to understand the pain that sin brings.
34:06 Friends, does sin bring pain? Yes or no?
34:09 Yes or no? Yes.
34:10 And listen let me illustrate it this way so you can understand.
34:15 There was a man who just woke up and found out
34:18 that he hadn't heard the alarm clock.
34:20 And so he was late for work.
34:21 He jumps out of bed puts on his clothing,
34:24 dashes over to the kitchen, gulps down the glass of juice,
34:27 enters into his garage, gets into his car turns it on,
34:31 pushes the button for the automatic door to open up.
34:35 The door opens up and he begins to back down
34:38 only to feel the car going over something.
34:41 Upset that somebody had left something in the way of the car
34:45 he stops the car, gets out, goes to the back of the car
34:48 to pullout whatever it is only to discover
34:51 that he has run over his little boy.
34:57 Now let me ask you a question.
35:02 Do you think that man will ever again
35:05 hurry out of his driveway?
35:08 Yes or no? No.
35:10 Why?
35:13 Because he has experienced the pain
35:16 of that mistake has brought.
35:24 God intended that a human beings
35:27 who have become careless because of sin.
35:29 Listen friends, we're born and brought
35:31 in so much all the time with iniquity
35:34 on television every place we go
35:36 that it is hard for us to understand
35:38 why is something so bad, correct.
35:42 I think you'll hear people say what's so bad about that?
35:46 Is that true?
35:48 What's so bad about that? Well, let me put it this way.
35:53 How many of you have children as you mother prepare some cake
35:57 or some pastry or some cookie
36:00 how many of you remember being tempted?
36:10 How many of you like sweets, can I see your hands?
36:13 All right.
36:15 I mean to tell a child not to take something
36:17 when you put it right then in the refrigerator it hard.
36:19 Mother had six boys.
36:21 How many? Six boys.
36:22 Well, six boys and mother oftentimes
36:25 when she bought pastries
36:26 you know what she had to do?
36:28 She had to hide them.
36:30 She had to what? Hide them.
36:32 And you know what we would do?
36:34 We would try to sniff it out. You understand.
36:37 We're like bloodhounds, where is it.
36:42 Well sometimes she'd buy bigger cake you know
36:44 and she would say boys don't touch it.
36:45 Do you hear what I have said?
36:46 She was a little lady but she had an iron fists,
36:49 do you understand.
36:50 And when she grabbed the whole of you, and forget about it.
36:53 There is no mercy.
36:54 Do you understand? So she said don't touch it.
36:57 Well, you know what she meant that
36:58 but sometimes temptation was too great.
37:02 And now you try to figure out how to maneuver yourselves
37:04 so that you can accomplish
37:05 what you want to without her knowing it, you know.
37:08 So I remember at one time you know thinking okay
37:13 I will swipe it right from behind.
37:15 And when she comes to see it she'll look at the front.
37:18 See you understand.
37:19 So I just swipe from behind and I get myself a taste
37:22 she'll never know it, okay.
37:24 I opened the refrigerator
37:26 and as the refrigerator door opens there it is.
37:30 Do you understand?
37:32 And there I'm about to take a swipe all right.
37:37 All of a sudden I hear of some footsteps.
37:40 Let me ask you question.
37:43 Where do you think I would wish mom wasn't there at that time?
37:48 Somewhere else.
37:51 Do you think I would wish she was by my side yes or no?
37:54 All right, but listen, listen to this point.
37:58 At that moment
38:00 I prefer to satisfy my desires
38:06 than to have my own mother abide me.
38:10 At that moment my yielding to temptation means more to me
38:15 than the one that I'd say I love.
38:19 Sin separates, doesn't it?
38:21 Now supposed, supposed you did take the cookie
38:24 and your mother caught you with it.
38:26 Now she says, you're sentenced to death.
38:31 You're what?
38:33 You're sentenced to death, okay.
38:35 But let me ask you a question
38:36 how many of you feel that you want to die
38:39 because you took a cookie?
38:40 Any of you let me see your hands?
38:43 None of you.
38:44 But listen, listen to this point,
38:48 what was it that Eve took?
38:55 Let me ask you a question.
38:57 Did Eve deserve death?
39:02 In essence you just took a cookie from the cookie jar.
39:08 Is that true? God said don't take it.
39:12 And what did she do? She took it.
39:15 You mom says don't take it and what do you do?
39:18 You'll take it. Eve dies and you don't.
39:22 And if I were to ask you was God right
39:26 in allowing death to pass upon man
39:29 because of that one act?
39:31 Today you would say no.
39:35 And that's the problem.
39:37 We have become so desensitized
39:40 that we do not understand the challenge that God has
39:44 with this little thing called sin.
39:46 And my friends, unless you and I can understand
39:48 what God is dealing with
39:50 we will never cooperate with God,
39:52 we will never understand
39:53 why God is so concerned with it.
39:55 And listen, let me ask you a question.
39:57 How many cancer cells do you have to have
40:00 in order to get cancer?
40:02 How many? One.
40:05 How many? One.
40:07 And if that cancer cell remains in you
40:10 what will it ultimately do? It will destroy your life.
40:17 Can you understand God's problem, yes or no?
40:22 I know for example that Stephen Hawking
40:26 would like people to go to Mars.
40:27 My friends, can you imagine transporting our contamination
40:31 from here on earth to another planet.
40:35 We have no idea what we're doing.
40:37 We do not understand what God is dealing with,
40:40 the challenge that he has with this thing called sin.
40:45 And that's why we don't because we don't understand it
40:49 when God is trying to help us to wrestle with sin we'd say
40:52 "what do you so up trying about God.
40:54 What's so important about it? It's just a little sin."
41:01 But every sin brings pain to the heart of God.
41:06 And my friends, the cross is simply an emblem of the pain
41:10 that sin has brought to the heart of God
41:13 from the very inception.
41:15 God aches over this.
41:19 And so He is anxious that we do what?
41:21 That we separate from the sin.
41:23 Now listen, when the man understands it,
41:28 and understand the way the sin is death
41:30 and when he understands how bad sin is,
41:32 he is going to want to get rid of it.
41:33 What do you say?
41:35 Is that true yes or no? Oh, God take it from me.
41:38 And that's what the people did in those days.
41:41 They brought their lambs, they sacrifice the lambs.
41:45 And when they confessed their sins by faith believing
41:49 that the Lamb of God will come in the future
41:51 they could then leave their sin behind and go free.
41:55 And that's what God wants.
41:56 He wants you to leave the sin behind.
41:58 And so here's what happened.
42:00 The sinner comes with the sin, by confessing his sin
42:03 he transfers his sins to the lamb.
42:05 The lamb then dies.
42:07 Then that blood from the lamb
42:09 that is been shed is taken into the sanctuary.
42:13 And now the sin is carried into the sanctuary.
42:18 And now that sin is sprinkled before the curtain.
42:24 And now the sin is transferred into the sanctuary.
42:29 Man knows the sinner now goes free.
42:33 He no longer has to feel the guilt
42:35 because he has now has found atonement for his sins.
42:41 Good news what do you say?
42:44 But the sin has come in
42:46 all through the year until once a year
42:49 there was something called the Day of Atonement.
42:50 And when that Day of Atonement took place
42:52 it was the Day of Judgment.
42:53 A what? A Day of Judgment.
42:56 And this Day of Judgment the trumpet would sound.
42:58 All the Jews would gather together.
43:00 The priest then would take two goats
43:02 and would select one as the Lord's goat
43:04 and one as the devil's goat, the Azazel.
43:06 Once the Lord's goat was chosen
43:09 then the sins of the whole nation
43:11 for that year will confessed over that goat.
43:14 The goat was then killed or slain as an atonement.
43:18 And you'll ask the question, why a goat?
43:21 Just like what Moses put up the wrath,
43:23 remember what the serpent.
43:24 Why was it the serpent, why not a lamb upon the stick?
43:27 Because Jesus had to be treated as the sinner.
43:31 As the what? The sinner.
43:33 He had to bear the sins of the world
43:35 and he was treated as the one responsible for sin.
43:40 But ultimately who is the one who is responsible for the sin.
43:44 Satan.
43:45 So Christ had to be treated as we deserved
43:48 that you and I could be treated as He deserves.
43:53 So they took the goat, the goat is slain.
43:56 Then the high priest took the blood of the goat
43:59 and went before the very presence of God
44:01 and sprinkled the blood doing this time
44:04 all the people are searching their hearts
44:06 to make sure that there is not one sin
44:08 that would separate them from the camp and from God.
44:12 This was called the Day of Atonement.
44:14 And they at one meant to reunite God and His people.
44:18 The Jews call it Yom Kippur,
44:20 you've heard of that haven't you.
44:22 And so this is the time of judgment,
44:24 a time when it was,
44:27 it was necessary to get rid of everything.
44:29 This is the time when you went to your brother and said "look
44:31 I have told to forgive me.
44:33 Here its take back.
44:34 I don't want it you can have it.
44:35 I'll even give you four times the amount
44:37 if you'd take it back."
44:38 Do you understand simply because
44:39 it was more important to be at peace with God
44:42 than to have that peace of material thing?
44:45 Do you understand what I'm saying?
44:46 And so this took place in once a year as a Day of Atonement.
44:51 But when the goat was slain
44:55 and the blood was sprinkled to make the atonement
44:57 then the priest came with all the sins
45:00 and confessed them over the life goat
45:02 or Azazel's goat or the devils goat
45:05 and then that goat was led out
45:07 into the wilderness to die itself.
45:10 Thus the process of separation of sin
45:15 from the sinner was accomplished.
45:18 God's purpose had been reached,
45:21 man felt troubled and felt repentant for what he did
45:26 and thus he brought to God the atonement
45:31 and man then was forgiven, cleansed and justified.
45:37 Now that was in the Old Testament
45:39 how does that apply to us today?
45:41 Remember, we're digging up the future, correct.
45:43 So the scripture says then
45:45 "When did the earthly sanctuary services come to an end?"
45:48 Obviously, we don't have it anymore, correct.
45:49 There is no temple in Jerusalem, is that true.
45:52 So when did it come to an end and why did it come to end?
45:56 Well, the scripture reveals then
45:58 in Daniel 9:27 and in Colossians
46:02 that "Jesus would cause the sacrifice
46:05 and oblation to cease."
46:07 Now the word oblation means offerings
46:09 and sacrifice says all offerings to cease.
46:11 In other words when the Messiah
46:13 actually came as the Lamb of God
46:15 and offer up His life as an atonement for mankind
46:19 He caused to sacrifice and oblations to cease.
46:23 There was no more need
46:24 to offer the sacrifices the animal sacrifices
46:28 because they pointed to whom?
46:30 To Jesus, the true Lamb came.
46:31 And so then what happened was that very moment
46:35 that Jesus criedout "it is finished"
46:38 on the cross and gave up the ghost
46:40 that very moment the priest who were in the temple
46:43 ready to sacrifice the lamb all of a sudden saw the curtain
46:47 and which was about 70 feet high
46:48 ripped from top to bottom.
46:56 The earthly sanctuary had come to an end.
46:58 Type had met antitype.
47:01 All the longing of the people
47:04 who loved God and who wanted to be at peace with God
47:07 finally saw their hope satisfied in Christ as He died.
47:14 Remember John said
47:15 "Behold the Lamb of God it takes away."
47:17 That does what?
47:18 Takes away the sins of the world.
47:20 And so all of those pointed to Christ.
47:23 So then my friends,
47:26 when the veil was torn in half then what took place?
47:29 Well, the scripture says that when Jesus died He rose again.
47:33 And what did He do? He entered where?
47:36 According to Hebrews 9:24.
47:39 "Christ is not entered
47:40 into the holy places made with" what?
47:43 "With hands, which are the" what?
47:45 "The figures of the true." So where did He go?
47:49 "Into heaven itself not to appear
47:52 in the presence of God for" whom?
47:53 "For us."
47:54 In other words friends,
47:55 the local priest in the sanctuary service
47:59 also represent the Christ.
48:01 And when a sinner came
48:03 that priest then represented the Messiah, the Christ.
48:09 When the sanctuary service finally came to an end
48:13 since all of it pointed to Christ,
48:15 Christ then was not only the Lamb
48:17 but Christ also became the priest.
48:20 What did He become? The priest.
48:23 And so it says He didn't enter into the earthly one
48:27 but He entered into the heavenly one.
48:29 And other ones-- pardon me
48:31 in other words the earthly sanctuary
48:33 was only a copy of the heavenly sanctuary.
48:37 Now, when the Lord then went into the heavenly sanctuary
48:44 He went into the sanctuary
48:46 for the purpose of carrying your sin and my sin
48:51 before the presence of God.
48:53 Just as the high priest had to come
48:54 before the presence of God with the sins of the people
48:57 so Christ when He went to heaven
48:59 had to also represent His people
49:03 before God in the sanctuary.
49:08 So the question is this.
49:10 If the earthly sanctuary then had to have a cleansing
49:13 which took place once a year
49:15 then what about the heavenly sanctuary?
49:17 That's not it has to be cleansed.
49:19 I want you to notice the statement
49:20 in the Book of Hebrews again verse 22 and 23.
49:23 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood
49:28 and without the shedding of blood is no remission.
49:30 It was therefore necessary
49:31 that the pattern of the things in the heavens
49:34 should be purified with better things."
49:38 That is in the better sacrifices
49:41 in the heavenly sanctuary.
49:43 So since the earthly one had to be purified
49:45 the heavenly one had to be purified also
49:48 but it had to be purified
49:49 not with the blood of bulls and goats
49:51 but with the blood of Christ Himself.
49:55 When Christ died then
49:56 He went to represent us with His own blood.
50:00 What do you say?
50:01 Now He is then been ministering in our behalf all this time.
50:06 Notice in Daniel 8:14 then it says
50:09 "that the time would come
50:10 when the sanctuary would be" what?
50:12 "Will be cleansed."
50:13 The problem is that in Daniel 8:14
50:15 there is no sanctuary.
50:16 The sanctuary was destroyed
50:17 and Daniel is in Babylon as a captive.
50:20 So what sanctuary it is talking about?
50:22 A heavenly sanctuary.
50:23 The heavenly sanctuary had to be cleansed with better things.
50:26 And that was with the blood of Christ.
50:29 But just as it had to be cleansed
50:32 in the earthly sanctuary
50:34 so in the heavenly sanctuary it would also be cleansed
50:38 and this was also called a time of judgment.
50:40 Now notice it says "unto 2300 days
50:42 then shall the sanctuary be what be," what?
50:45 "Be cleansed."
50:46 2,300 days, each day for a year, 2,300 years.
50:52 When does the 2,300 year prophecy begin
50:55 and when does a prophecy meet its fulfillment then?
50:57 Well, it began in 457 BC
51:00 and I don't have all the time to explain that to you.
51:03 But it began in 457 BC and it ended in what year, 1844.
51:10 Now according to the scriptures then
51:12 we are in what is called the judgment hour.
51:15 We're in the what? The judgment hour.
51:18 Notice it says here the hour of His judgment
51:21 will come-- is come.
51:24 In other words friends,
51:25 according to Revelation 14:7 the ministration of Christ
51:29 has been taking place for centuries
51:31 but it must also come to an end
51:34 just as the earthly sanctuary also came to an end.
51:38 Which means then that you and I
51:42 and planet earth has a time provision
51:44 in order for us to get rid of sin.
51:48 But how do we get rid of sin?
51:49 First of all we must sense how bad sin is.
51:53 We must repent of it. But how do you repent?
51:56 Well, the Spirit of God is the one that enables us to repent.
51:59 But what is repentance?
52:01 Repentance is a sorrow and a turn away from sin.
52:04 What is it?
52:05 A sorrow and turn away from sin.
52:08 Now it doesn't matter what sin you commit God will forgive.
52:14 We know that because
52:16 we know that David sin and God forgive him.
52:19 Yes, we know that Paul sinned, didn't he and God forgave him.
52:22 In other words friends
52:23 you and I irrespective of what we have done
52:26 in our lives can be forgiven.
52:28 Now, how can we be forgiven?
52:32 Well, the Bible says that that Revelation reveals
52:36 that "The temple of God is seen open" where?
52:39 "In heaven" do you see that?
52:41 And what's seen there. "The ark of His covenant."
52:46 Well, the ark of a covenant
52:47 then representing the time of judgment
52:49 when the high priest came before that ark
52:51 to sprinkle his blood on that ark.
52:54 So Christ with His own blood represents you and me
52:59 when you and I confess our sins
53:02 the Lord then takes that sin upon Himself
53:05 and represents us before the Father
53:08 by His own blood and ask forgiveness in our behalf.
53:12 That's why you and I can be forgiven.
53:14 What do you say?
53:15 And when we believe that through by faith we're forgiven
53:20 then we can leave our guilt behind.
53:22 What do you say?
53:23 But often times what happens is you may confess your sin
53:26 and it's the devil that brings it back to you
53:28 and back to you and back to you.
53:30 Like Luther one time he had a dream
53:32 that the devil appeared before him
53:34 and had a whole list in front of him of all he ever did.
53:38 And so he said yes, I did that
53:40 and yes, I did that and yes, I did that.
53:43 And the devil had his hand over one last item.
53:46 And so Luther said remove your hand I want to see it all.
53:50 And the devil won't remove it.
53:51 Finally he said "remove it all I want to see it all."
53:54 And the devil removed it and it said
53:56 "covered by the blood of Christ."
53:59 My friends, where sin is balanced
54:04 grace is much more abound.
54:07 And the Bible says that we have mediator in heaven.
54:10 "My little children,
54:11 these things I write unto you, that you" what?
54:14 "That you sin not.
54:16 And if any man sin, we have a" what?
54:18 "An advocate with the Father" and who is that?
54:21 "Jesus Christ the righteous."
54:22 Our friends, we have a lawyer.
54:25 We have a what? A lawyer.
54:27 A mediator for there is one God and one what?
54:31 Mediator between whom? God and man who is that?
54:35 The man Jesus Christ. Have you sinned?
54:39 Have you've offended someone?
54:44 Have you been carrying guilt around?
54:47 Have you done something that you wished nobody knew
54:49 about things that you're truly ashamed?
54:53 Something that has troubled you for years and years?
54:57 My friends, there is process if we confess our sins.
55:02 He is what? Faithful and just to do what?
55:05 Forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
55:08 from all unrighteousness.
55:10 How many of you would like to put your faith
55:12 in that advocate in heaven?
55:13 Can I see your hands?
55:15 How many of you've sense a need to have your life cleansed
55:19 so that you could be at peace with God?
55:21 Amen.
55:22 Well, tonight I want to sing a song with you
55:24 and I want you to sing it with me.
55:26 Will you do that with me?
55:28 Yes, I'm sure you know that tune.
55:31 I'm gonna Raphael if he could play it for me right now
55:34 and you'll recognize the tune.
55:35 It's the tune Edelweiss.
55:36 How many of you have remembered Edelweiss?
55:39 Well, I've written some different words to that song
55:42 and I want you to sing them with me.
55:44 Would you do that tonight? Here they are.
56:02 Will you sing it with me?
56:05 May our Lord Jesus Christ
56:12 Represent you in heaven
56:20 May His grace be supplied
56:27 Every moment you need Him
56:34 Peace and power will He provide
56:41 For your needs there's plenty
56:48 Trust Him now thou are now
56:56 Yes, to keep you from safety
57:01 Would you pray with me?
57:03 Oh, Lord, we're so grateful that we have a Savior,
57:08 an advocate who represents us in heaven.
57:12 Accept us, cleanse us
57:14 and make us ready for your kingdom.
57:16 We pray in Jesus name, amen.


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