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Series Code: SSOS
Program Code: SSOS190005A
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00:26 Welcome to the Series that we've entitled: 00:29 The Sanctuary, Salvation and our Savior. 00:32 My name is David Shin 00:33 and I'm honored to have you join us 00:35 as we journey through the sanctuary... 00:37 to discover the relevance to our practical Christian lives 00:41 as well as understanding the work and ministry 00:43 of Jesus Christ. 00:45 Today, I'd like to begin by talking about Jack Lalane... 00:49 Jack LaLane was a health enthusiast and a nutritionist 00:54 and these are some of the notable feats 00:56 that he was able to accomplish. 00:58 At the age of 42, he set the world record for pushups 01:03 by doing over 1,000 in 23 minutes. 01:08 At the age of 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's wharf, 01:14 a distance of 2.4 kilometers... 01:16 he wore handcuffs and also towed a 1,000-pound boat 01:22 but that was not all, 01:23 at the age of 70, he swam a 1.5-mile section 01:29 of Long Beach Harbor by towing 70 people 01:32 in 70 boats while handcuffed and shackled... 01:36 this was in celebration of his 70th birthday 01:39 and he towed these 70 individuals in 70 boats... 01:43 I can't imagine... and this is a photograph 01:46 of Jack LaLane when he was over 90, 01:50 I hope to look like that when I'm 70 or even 50... 01:53 there he is with his muscles and cut and so forth... 01:56 now, we marvel at individuals like Jack LaLane 02:00 because it seems like he defies the aging process 02:05 but there's something about aging and even death 02:09 that we can delay but we can never avoid 02:16 and this is a result of sin. 02:18 Sin has not only affected our characters and our morality, 02:23 but it's also affected our physical nature. 02:27 We were never meant to die, 02:29 we were never meant to age, 02:31 we were never meant to deteriorate 02:33 and Jack LaLane... 02:35 even though he was able to delay the aging process, 02:39 he was not able to avoid it. 02:41 Now, on the screen, I have this graph 02:45 that depicts the ages of individuals 02:49 in the book of Genesis, 02:50 have you ever read the... the chronology 02:53 or the... the lineage in the book of Genesis? 02:56 these individuals... their lives were not measured 02:59 in decades... but rather, it was measured in centuries. 03:05 When you look at the age of Adam, 03:09 he lived over 900 years of age... 03:12 930 to be exact... 03:14 Adam lived to that age. 03:16 Methuselah lived to the ripe old age... 03:19 the longest man that ever lived recorded in Scripture, 03:22 969 years of age... 03:27 this is a remarkable time period and then you have Noah there... 03:31 he lived 950 years of age. 03:34 The Bible indicates that Noah did not start having children 03:39 until the year 500... 03:41 until he was age 500... 03:43 this is remarkable... 03:44 imagine how much productivity you can have in your life 03:48 but when you look at the graph, 03:51 you can see that after the flood, 03:53 the timeline or the age of individuals 03:58 takes a precipitous decline. 04:01 For instance, you can see that Abraham lives 175 years of age. 04:07 Now, that's still a long time but compared to 969, 04:10 that is dramatically different 04:13 and then, you get down to Jacob who lives 147 04:17 and by the time you get to the time of David... 04:20 David died in his 70s. 04:22 Now, what happened? 04:24 you can see that the vital force of man after the fall 04:29 begins a decline and so, after Eden was lost, 04:35 there was not only a deterioration of our morality 04:38 and our spirituality and our mental capability, 04:42 there was also a deterioration of our physical nature. 04:46 sin had a dramatic affect on creation as well. 04:51 Our earth... our planet... 04:53 it is not the way that God created it, 04:55 even the way that animals relate to each other 04:57 has been dramatically shifted and changed. 05:00 When we look at the plan of salvation, 05:04 through the lens of the sanctuary... 05:06 through this framework, 05:07 we can see that God wants to bring us back to Eden. 05:11 Eden was lost and God wants to restore Eden 05:15 and this is where Adam and Eve were in Edenic perfection. 05:19 In the Most-Holy-Place experience, 05:21 face-to-face communion with God that was lost 05:24 and through the sanctuary 05:26 we are shown how God wants to bring us back... 05:29 He wants to bring us back into the Courtyard 05:32 that is where we experience pardon and justification... 05:36 He brings us into the Holy Place... 05:39 that is where we experience power and sanctification 05:43 and then He brings us into the last phase... 05:46 the Most-Holy-Place experience, 05:48 and that is where we experience glorification. 05:52 In other words, in the last phase 05:54 where God brings us from the Courtyard into the Holy Place... 05:58 into the Most Holy place, 06:00 He will restore us back to the nature of Adam before the fall. 06:07 Not only in terms of our physical nature, 06:12 but in terms of the environment as well. 06:16 Adam and Eve lived in a perfect environment 06:20 and God in glorification would restore that back. 06:24 So, here we have the summary, 06:26 the Court is where we experience justification, 06:29 the removal of sin's penalty. 06:32 The Holy Place is where we experience sanctification... 06:35 the removal of sin's power 06:37 and in the Most Holy Place, 06:39 that's where we experience glorification 06:41 which will be the subject of our topic today 06:45 and that is the removal of sin's presence. 06:48 So, you can see in the sanctuary, 06:50 even as we see three distinct compartments... 06:53 the Courtyard... the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place, 06:55 God has three stages of bringing us back. 06:58 Justification... sanctification and glorification. 07:03 In Romans chapter 8 verse 30, the Bible says, 07:07 "And those whom He predestined, He also called; 07:12 and those whom He called, He also justified; 07:17 and those whom He justified, He also glorified. " 07:22 Now, the interesting thing about this text 07:24 is that Paul here omits "sanctification. " 07:27 He includes "justification" 07:30 and then mentions "glorification" 07:33 and people are like, "Hey, where is sanctification in this mix? 07:36 Is Paul not believing in sanctification? 07:38 You can see in other parts of his gospels 07:40 or in his epistles, I should say, 07:42 where he mentions "sanctification" 07:43 so, Paul was a believer in sanctification 07:46 and theologians believe 07:48 that the reason why Paul transitioned from justification 07:51 to sanctification 07:52 is because sanctification actually begins 07:56 the glorification process. 07:59 In other words, 08:00 the transformation of our characters 08:03 to becoming more and more like Jesus 08:06 is a part of the glorification process 08:09 that God has in store for us. 08:11 The book "Education" says on page 15, 08:13 "To restore in man the image of his Maker, 08:17 to bring him back to the perfection 08:19 in which he was created. 08:21 To promote the development of body, mind, and soul, 08:24 that the divine purpose in His creation 08:26 might be realized... 08:27 this was to be the work of redemption. " 08:31 In other words, God wants to bring us all the way back 08:35 and this process of restoration would actually be incomplete 08:40 if God pardoned and gave us power 08:43 but He left us with our physical natures. 08:47 Can you imagine? 08:48 God says, "I pardon you... I give you power... 08:50 but I can't glorify you... I can't give you new bodies... 08:54 I can't restore the earth... 08:56 I can't create a new heavens and a new earth... " 08:58 no, no, no, God says, "Look, I'm going to complete 09:00 the process... 09:01 I'm going to bring you all the way back 09:04 to where Adam and Eve were before the fall... " 09:08 and it begins with our character transformation 09:12 here and now. 09:13 Glorification is an important final phase 09:18 of the process where God will bring us back. 09:22 I'm looking forward to that day. 09:24 I am tired of back aches... I'm tired of the flu... 09:28 I'm tired of people getting cancer and dying... 09:32 all of these things are a result of sin. 09:35 Aging... baldness... wrinkles... all of these things 09:39 came as a result of sin... 09:41 God never meant us to age, 09:43 God never meant us to die 09:45 but as soon as Adam and Eve ate of that forbidden fruit, 09:48 there was a change in human nature. 09:52 Our physical nature... 09:53 Adam and Eve began to die. 09:55 The planet began to wax old like a garment as the Bible says 10:00 and God's plan of salvation is to bring us back. 10:04 The first point of glorification is... 10:07 glorification is spiritual restoration... 10:10 glorification is a process that begins 10:13 with our character transformation now. 10:16 In other words, glorification is not just 10:18 "Pie in the sky by and by" 10:20 where I say, "Oh, at the second coming of Jesus... 10:22 there I will be glorified... " 10:24 but according to Scripture, 10:25 the glorification of our spiritual nature... 10:29 our character actually begins the moment that you accept Jesus 10:34 as Savior and Lord 10:35 and God says, "Look, I want to begin 10:37 this process of sanctification, glorification of your character" 10:42 how do we know this? 10:44 In 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18, the Bible says, 10:48 "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror 10:52 the glory of the Lord, are being transformed 10:56 into the same image from glory to glory, 10:59 just as by the Spirit of the Lord. " 11:02 Notice the terminology that Paul uses 11:05 in 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18, 11:07 he says that you are going from glory to glory... 11:11 from character to character... 11:14 from transformation to transformation 11:17 and this is talking about our character. 11:20 You are being transformed into the same image 11:24 and this is where glorification ultimately begins. 11:28 In other words, 11:30 if our characters have become like Jesus 11:34 and we allow God to work His work in us 11:39 to make us more like Jesus, 11:41 we will be glorified at the second coming of Jesus. 11:45 Glorification is a surety if we allow Jesus to pardon us, 11:52 to give us power and to make us and mold us to become like Him. 11:57 Glorification actually begins right now. 12:01 As we go on, John Piper says, 12:04 "In Paul's mind the process called sanctification 12:06 in this life... 12:07 the process of transformation from one degree of holiness 12:11 to the next, 12:12 is the first stage of glorification. " 12:16 He echoes what Paul says there 12:19 where he transitions from justification 12:21 directly to glorification. 12:22 Sanctification begins the process of glorification 12:26 even now. 12:27 We come to our next point of restoration. 12:30 Glorification involves physical restoration... 12:34 glorification culminates with our physical transformation 12:38 at the second coming of Jesus. 12:41 Can you imagine what that's going to be like? 12:43 When Jesus comes the second time, the Bible says, 12:46 "The trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised 12:50 and in a moment... in a twinkling of an eye 12:53 we shall be changed. " 12:57 I'm looking forward to that day. 12:59 Can you imagine if we're laid to rest... 13:01 and we don't have the privilege of being translated 13:04 without seeing death and we're there 13:05 and we're raised in the resurrection 13:07 and then we look up 13:08 and suddenly we look at our hands 13:10 and we see new hands... 13:11 we are resurrected to immortal bodies... 13:16 and this is a part of glorification. 13:19 Glorification begins with the character 13:21 and if we allow Jesus to work in us, 13:23 He continues that process and at the second coming, 13:27 we will receive new bodies 13:30 because of the power and the majesty of Jesus Christ. 13:35 I want to be there at the second coming. 13:37 I want to be there when the clouds open 13:40 and Jesus comes again to glorify us. 13:42 We're going to take a short break 13:43 and when we come back, we will continue in our study 13:47 of glorification... 13:48 of how God brings us back to Eden restored... 13:52 the restoration of the image of God in us... 13:56 not only in spirit but in physicality. |
Revised 2019-10-01