Participants: Ivor & Atonte Myers
Series Code: BOF
Program Code: BOF000050
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00:15 Hello and welcome to Battles of Faith.
00:17 We are your host, Ivor and Atonte Myers, 00:20 and we're with Power of the Lamb Ministries. 00:23 In our last program 00:24 we learned that not only has God given us a blueprint, 00:29 the gospel plan of salvation. 00:32 But He has also put it in different stories 00:36 throughout the Old Testament. 00:38 We looked at the story of the children 00:42 of the Israel leaving Egypt 00:44 and going into the wilderness, 00:46 and we actually saw the blueprint 00:48 all over that story. 00:50 Really the gospel plan of salvation 00:52 all over that story, 00:54 and so we see that not only has does 00:57 God have a plan for us, 00:59 He actually has hid it if you will. 01:03 In all the different stories 01:04 so that if we study we can come up 01:06 and see that this is God's plan of salvation for us. 01:10 And not only do we need to read about it, 01:13 study it but we need to apply it, 01:15 the steps into our own lives. 01:17 That's right, we've been discussing 01:19 the fact that God in His effort to save humanity 01:25 who was lost because of the rebellion 01:27 against Him has given this world a gift, 01:32 a blueprint in the sanctuary that He had given to Moses 01:37 and that sanctuary was to serve as His GPS. 01:42 God's gospel plan of salvation 01:46 to direct mankind back to him. 01:48 And so if you've been following us 01:50 we know that you're gonna be 01:52 excited to open the word of God again 01:54 and see how this blueprint 01:57 goes deeper in the word of God. 01:59 And if you haven't been following us, 02:01 if you're just joining us for the first time, 02:02 we just wanna kind of catch you up a little bit 02:05 and we're gonna take a look at this sanctuary that God 02:09 had instructed Moses to build, 02:10 and see just how this sanctuary 02:13 is the pattern of salvation. 02:16 This time we're gonna look at it 02:17 through the life of Christ. 02:18 But before we do that, 02:20 we again wanna put 02:21 our sanctuary image up on the screen 02:24 and just explain each article of furniture very briefly, 02:27 so that you get the picture 02:28 we want you to memorize this, 02:30 this blueprint because God's GPS doesn't lie, 02:34 it always speaks the truth. Amen. Amen. 02:36 So again, the sanctuary image is now on the screen 02:40 and what you'll see there are six articles of furniture. 02:44 Two were found in the Outer Court, 02:47 three were found in what was called the Holy Place. 02:50 That's the Table of Showbread, 02:52 the Seven branched Candlestick, 02:54 the Altar of Incense 02:55 and the final article of furniture represents 02:58 the throne of God that was found in the Most Holy Place. 03:00 So the first article of furniture 03:02 is the Altar of Sacrifice. 03:04 You'll find all this in the Book of Exodus. 03:07 The Altar of Sacrifice represented 03:09 Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. 03:12 The Laver, which is where the Priest would 03:14 wash their hands and their feet represents baptism. 03:18 The Table of Showbread represents the word of God, 03:21 "Man shall not live by bread alone 03:23 but by every word that proceeds out 03:25 of the mouth of God." 03:26 The Altar of Incense represents prayer 03:29 whereby we commune with God. 03:31 And the Seven branched Candlestick represents 03:33 the light that shines as a result 03:37 of the Christian witness 03:39 Let your life so shine that men may see your good works, 03:42 and finally the Altar of, 03:44 I'm sorry, the that the Ark of the Covenant 03:46 found in the Most Holy Place, 03:48 number six there, 03:49 right on the top of your screen 03:50 representing the Law of God. 03:52 And just mentioning this again, 03:54 if you look at the way the articles of furniture 03:56 are set up it is in the shape of the cross. 03:58 Simply showing us that thousands of years 04:01 before Christ came, 04:02 the sanctuary prophesied as it 04:05 were that Christ would come 04:07 and die on ours for our sins die on a cross on our behalf. 04:12 So memorize that image, 04:14 and now what we're gonna do 04:15 is we're gonna show once 04:16 again as we did in our last program 04:17 and as we'll do in future programs. 04:19 How this sanctuary actually 04:22 demonstrates the Path of Salvation? 04:25 So that none need be confused 04:27 as to the direction of heaven. 04:31 How we can be saved? 04:33 So we're gonna take a look at our Christ. 04:36 How is Christ's actions seen in this blueprint? 04:42 We're gonna start with a theme 04:44 that we call Christ descends. 04:47 Let's go to the Book of John. 04:49 John Chapter 6, John Chapter 6, 04:53 we're gonna take a look at, 04:55 I believe it is verse. Verse 38. Verse 38. 05:00 And it says, and ye have not His, 05:03 "and ye have not His word abiding in you 05:05 for whom He has sent Him you believe not." 05:09 Now that is a beautiful verse 05:10 and it's just not the verse we wanted to read. 05:13 Even though it's beautiful. 05:14 So just stick that verse in your memory somewhere, 05:16 we may use it other at time in the future 05:18 but we're gonna read John 6. 05:20 We're in 5 verse 38, 05:22 we're actually both there. Okay. So 6 verses 38. 05:25 That's right. Okay, alright. 05:29 "For I came down from heaven, 05:31 not to do my own will but the will of Him that sent me." 05:34 Okay, so this verse is basically telling us, 05:37 Christ is speaking here, He says, 05:38 I came down from heaven. 05:43 As we look at the sanctuary, 05:46 the highest point in the sanctuary 05:49 was the Ark of the Covenant 05:51 and above that the mercy seat of God. 05:56 We understand that Christ in heaven 05:59 left His throne to come down to this earth. 06:04 So lets put our image backup 06:06 and you'll see there at that the Ark of the Covenant. 06:11 You'll see there the throne of God, 06:14 we might say, we might look at that picture and say, 06:17 well, Christ left that throne, 06:19 item number, six right there, 06:21 to come down to this earth. 06:24 Now I just want to say, you know, praise God. Amen. 06:28 That, that, that God sent His Son into this world, 06:32 to redeem us and to save us 06:35 and to call us back to Him. 06:38 Christ left heaven, 06:40 He left His throne to come down to this earth. 06:42 Well, that moves from Most Holy Place 06:46 to the Holy Place 06:48 and there we find three articles of furniture. 06:50 Those articles are? 06:52 The Table of Showbread, 06:54 the Altar of Incense 06:55 and the Seven branched Candlestick. 06:57 Seven branched Candlestick. 06:58 Okay so we might ask now well. 07:00 Okay, Jesus left his throne in heaven, 07:02 but He came down to earth to do what? 07:06 Look at John Chapter 1, John Chapter 1 verse 9, 07:10 and at home if you have your Bibles, 07:12 I don't know if we invited you to, 07:13 but we invite you now to get those Bibles 07:15 so you could follow along with us. 07:16 John 1, verse 9. It says that was, 07:20 "that was the true light 07:22 which alighted everyman that cometh into the world." 07:25 Okay, this verse is actually speaking, 07:28 we should have probably read that verse earlier. 07:30 But it's speaking about Christ 07:32 who came into this world 07:34 to be the light of this world. Yeah. 07:38 So Christ comes and He comes with a mission. 07:40 He leaves His throne in heaven, 07:42 Ark of the Covenant, Mercy Seat, 07:44 to be a light in this world. 07:47 Why, because we were in darkness. Darkness. 07:50 And one of the hardest things to do 07:51 is to find your way back to heaven 07:54 when you're in darkness. 07:55 To find your way. 07:56 It's impossible. It's impossible. 07:58 To find your way anywhere. 07:59 That's right. In the dark. 08:01 That's right. So Christ comes 08:03 and He is the light that is going to help guide us 08:06 back to salvation. 08:08 Not only that because there are two articles 08:10 of furniture in the Most Holy Place. 08:13 There is the Table of Showbread 08:16 and there is the Altar of Incense. Incense. 08:19 Let's look at Luke Chapter 6 verse 12, 08:21 Luke Chapter 6 verse 12. 08:23 You know, as we're turning there, 08:25 I remember recently hearing, 08:29 I won't mentioned the person's name 08:30 but a very unpopular talk show 08:34 and they were talking about 08:35 how there are many paths to God. 08:37 And as we look at this GPS 08:39 and as we're learning it more and more, 08:42 and we're seeing that, 08:43 that is not true. That's right. 08:44 There is only one path to God 08:46 and that's through Jesus. That's right. 08:47 And it is a narrow path. Yeah. 08:49 We're told. You know, 08:50 we can't go to the right or to the left, 08:53 we've got to stay in this narrow path 08:54 and we're gonna see that as we go along. 08:56 Because the Bible describes the people 08:58 who will follow Jesus, 09:00 follow the Lamb with us where ever He goes. 09:02 And what we're gonna find is that this pattern 09:04 actually reveals the way the Lamb went. 09:08 We're gonna get to that in a later part of this program. 09:11 So you don't want to miss that, 09:12 but Luke Chapter 6, verse 12. 09:18 "And it came to pass in those days that 09:21 He went out into a mountain to pray 09:24 and continued all night in pray to God." 09:27 Okay so, this is just one verse that points out 09:30 a very important aspect of Christ's life. 09:33 Christ came to this earth to demonstrate 09:35 to us something godly. 09:39 To demonstrate to us what a godly life was like. 09:41 And not only did He descend from heaven, 09:44 Ark of Covenant, to let his light shine, 09:48 Seven branched Candlestick, 09:50 but He also descended to show us 09:52 how to live a life of prayer. 09:55 In fact, He interceded for us. 09:57 He was just praying out there just to be praying. 10:00 He came not only to shine light 10:02 but to also intercede for us. 10:05 So this sanctuary what we're seeing so far, 10:07 is that it actually delineates 10:09 Christ descent from heaven on our behalf 10:13 and what He would do in order to save us. 10:16 And it says that He prayed all night. 10:21 I know as Christians we think okay, 10:23 well, Jesus prayed all night 10:25 and that's what He was called to do. 10:27 But really? I mean, we're all, 10:29 I mean there's times we're struggling with things 10:31 and we want victory 10:33 and we're fine being that our normal prayer 10:36 that we're doing our, you know, 10:37 maybe an hour in prayer daily, 10:40 on a daily basis, it's just not working, 10:41 it's just not giving us the victory 10:43 over that really tough, 10:45 hard thing that we're struggling with. 10:47 And so I have found that 10:48 we've both been a part of all night prayer meetings before, 10:52 and have personally spent 10:54 many many hours at night in prayer, 10:57 when you're trying to get victory over 10:58 something you're struggling with. 11:00 And I think Jesus did this not just 11:02 so that we could see that He did it, 11:04 but to be our example. 11:05 I mean, He didn't have any sin in His life, 11:08 we're filled with sin and need to get victory. 11:10 And so how much more do we need to pray, 11:12 the way Jesus prayed and sometimes all night. 11:14 That's right. That's right. 11:16 Jesus descends from His throne, 11:18 He comes to be the light of the world, 11:21 He comes to show us an example of prayer. 11:23 But there is also one other article in that most, 11:26 in that Holy Place rather, and that is what? 11:29 The Table of Showbread. Showerbread. 11:31 Which represents the world of God. 11:34 And there is very interesting stories 11:36 found in John Chapter 4. 11:38 Jesus is speaking to this woman at a well 11:41 and He's giving her salvation, 11:43 He's showing her the Path of Salvation. 11:45 The disciples had gone 11:47 because you know everyone was hungry, 11:49 so they had gone to get food 11:51 and when they come back, 11:52 Jesus seems to be fully satisfied. 11:55 And I want you to notice 11:56 what He says in John 4 verse 31, 11:58 it says, "in the meanwhile 11:59 His disciples prayed Him saying master eat." 12:02 Now remember, He's just witnessing to this woman 12:06 and He said unto them 12:07 I have meat to eat that is food, 12:10 not actually flesh, but food. 12:11 That's what the word meat means. 12:13 I have meat to eat that you know not of, 12:15 therefore said the disciples one to another, 12:17 has any man brought Him ought to eat. 12:20 Jesus said unto Him, unto them, 12:22 my meat is to do the will of Him that sent me 12:27 and to finish His work. 12:31 To finish His work. 12:33 "Man shall not live by bread alone 12:35 but by every word that proceeds 12:37 out of mouth of God." 12:38 Jesus Christ came to, 12:39 He descended from heaven to show us, 12:41 to be a light for us, 12:43 to intercede for us the Altar of Incense 12:45 and to show us 12:47 what the will of the father was to do His work, 12:50 to finish the work, 12:51 to share that bread of life with all of humanity. 12:56 And so we find here this incredible 12:58 pattern of Christ's life. 13:00 Not only did He leave His throne to be a light, 13:04 Seven branched Candlestick, to be a, 13:07 to intercede for us, Altar of Incense. 13:10 To share the bread of life, in fact He said, 13:12 I am the bread of life that has descended from heaven. 13:16 We also see that Christ Himself 13:19 was baptized on our behalf. 13:23 We find that in Matthew Chapter 3, 13:26 I believe its verse 16, you gonna read that. 13:29 Yes, Matthew Chapter 3 verse 16, it says, 13:32 and Jesus when He was baptized went up 13:35 straight way out of the water and lo, 13:38 the heavens were opened unto Him. 13:40 And He saw the spirit of God descending 13:42 like a dove and lighting it upon Him. Amen. Amen. 13:48 The baptism of Christ. 13:49 It's amazing again, 13:52 we can say is this coincidence. 13:55 Or we can ask is this coincidence, 13:57 or we can say no, no, no, this is God's GPS. 14:01 Look at this God, Christ is following 14:03 the exact pattern of the sanctuary and He's showing, 14:07 this is what I did in order to redeem humanity. 14:11 He left his throne in heaven and what is He doing? 14:13 He's descending, descending, descending. 14:17 Bible says, let this mind be in you 14:19 which was also in Christ Jesus, 14:21 who thought of not robbery to be equal with God 14:23 but humbled himself and became obedient 14:27 even to the death of the cross. 14:28 In other words, Christ left heaven, 14:30 not only did he leave heaven and leave behind His glory 14:34 and all its, you know, His omnipotence. 14:38 He took on a veil of human flesh 14:40 and He humbled himself, humbled himself, 14:42 and humbled himself. He was baptized. 14:44 Baptism is a symbol that one needs 14:47 to die and to be reborn again. 14:49 That's why when John the Baptist saw Jesus 14:52 and Jesus said, you've to baptize me, 14:54 John was like, no, why should I baptize you? 14:57 Why because, you know, I mean, 14:58 think about it Jesus was without what? Sin 15:03 But yet Jesus suffered to be so, why? 15:05 Because He was setting an example for what we must do. 15:09 So Christ He leaves His throne in heaven, 15:12 He intercedes on our behalf, He is the light of the world. 15:17 He's the bread of life, 15:18 He's showing us to will of the Father. 15:19 He is then baptized and what happens 15:22 three and half year later? He is crucified on a cross. 15:27 That's the Altar of Sacrifice. 15:31 So we're finding that the blueprint 15:33 is so authentically from God that you can go from 15:37 the Altar of Sacrifice all the way out 15:39 through all the pieces of furniture 15:42 to the Ark of the Covenant and see the gospel, 15:45 or you can start at the Ark of the Covenant 15:47 and make your way backwards and down, 15:50 and you still see the same plan. 15:53 Exactly. And that is just-- 15:54 It's like which way do you want it. 15:55 Right, and that's so amazing for those who maybe 15:59 haven't seen our previous programs, 16:01 the reason why God even had to give the blueprint 16:03 in the first place because what happened in heaven. 16:08 There was war in heaven and Satan was cast out, 16:10 and you know, and there has to, 16:13 and God is, well He creates humanity. 16:17 So that in the future we can judge to see 16:20 if God really is a just and righteous God. 16:24 And so Satan is trying to destroy humanity, 16:27 he doesn't want them to understand the blueprint. 16:31 And so, as you can see, God has made it so that 16:34 it is impossible for Satan to destroy the blueprint. 16:38 Because He just puts it and shows it 16:39 in so many different ways that if we're willing 16:42 to surrender our hearts to God and allow Holy Spirit 16:44 to lead us and study in His word, 16:47 God will continue to show us this blueprint, 16:50 this gospel Plan of Salvation. 16:52 The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:3 16:54 that the saints are gonna judge the world 16:56 and we're gonna judge angels, 16:58 and we're going to actually vindicate God's judgment. 17:03 You know the saints will say, 17:04 just and true are thy ways O God. 17:06 So, you know, not that we're judging God, 17:09 we're actually called to judge Lucifer and his angels, 17:12 and at the same time 17:13 we're gonna vindicate who God is, 17:16 what he has done, 17:17 and God gives us this blueprint, 17:19 so that we can understand His character 17:22 and understand His efforts to save humanity. 17:26 And I think it's a powerful thing that 17:28 He is showing us in so many, 17:30 it's like he's trying to gain 17:31 our confidence in this blueprint 17:33 so that we'll trust it and know that yeah, 17:35 this is not lying. 17:36 It shows the life of Christ, 17:38 it shows Him dying on the cross. 17:40 It shows in the previous program we saw, 17:42 it showed the exact path 17:44 that God lead the children 17:46 though in their journey from Egypt, 17:48 all the way to Mount Sinai, 17:50 it is filled with gospel applications, 17:55 so what we just saw is Christ descending 17:59 from his throne all the way to the Ark, 18:02 I mean to the Altar of Sacrifice 18:05 where He dies for our sins. 18:07 But now we're going to reverse it 18:09 and we're gonna show the life of Christ this time 18:12 starting from the Altar of Sacrifice. 18:15 And again, I will leave an another amazing 18:19 description or depiction 18:20 if you will of the accuracy of the blueprint, the GPS 18:24 So Christ is born. In a manger. In a manger. 18:31 Now what's kept in a manger? Animals. Animals. 18:34 So Christ is born among animals. 18:36 You can find that in Luke Chapter 2 verse 7, 18:40 and as I look at that concept, 18:43 Christ being born among animals. 18:46 You know when the John Baptist sees Him, 18:47 he says, "behold the Lamb of God 18:50 which taketh away the sins of the world." 18:52 We might say that Christ 18:54 was born on the Altar of Sacrifice. 18:58 That's where the animals were taken. 18:59 He was born ready to die. 19:02 He was living sacrifice, 19:03 that's why He came into this world. 19:06 He came to be the Lamb of God 19:10 which would take away the sins of humanity. 19:14 So, we have Christ being born a manger 19:19 and He grows up, 19:22 He gets His call to ministry if you will. 19:27 The next significant thing 19:28 we have happening in Christ's life 19:31 that is recorded in the scripture, of course after 19:33 His visit to the temple at the age of twelve. 19:36 By the way-- By the way, 19:39 it is when Christ visits the temple 19:44 that He begins to understand at the age of twelve 19:48 He begins to understand His mission, 19:51 it is as He is studying this sanctuary, this temple. 19:54 And He's seeing this lambs slain 19:56 and He's watching all these services, 19:58 and I believe it is at point that things 20:01 begin to click in mind. 20:02 This is who I am. This is my mission. 20:04 And so He can say to His mother and father, 20:06 did you not know that 20:07 I would be about my Father's business 20:09 when they came looking for Him at the temple. 20:12 That's where He discovered, I believe, 20:14 in its fullest extent His Father's business. Okay. 20:18 So, so the next significant event 20:20 He's born in the manger, 20:22 at the age of thirty Christ is baptized. 20:26 And that represents the Laver. The Laver. 20:28 What do you have there? 20:29 The Altar of Sacrifice, He's born ready to die. 20:32 The Laver, He is baptized at the age of thirty. 20:36 I think it's absolutely amazing 20:39 that we see in those, excuse me, 20:41 thirty years of Christ life, 20:43 we see the Altar of Sacrifice 20:46 and we see the Laver representing 20:51 the beginning of His mission. 20:52 After He was baptized something else happened. 20:56 Yes, He was lead up in the wilderness to be tempted. 21:00 In Matthew Chapter 4 verse 1, 21:01 it says "Then Jesus was led up of the spirit, 21:05 into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. 21:07 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, 21:10 he was afterward and hungered, 21:13 and when the temper came to Him, He said, 21:15 if thou be the Son of God, 21:17 command that these stone that it be made bread. 21:20 Once again, Atonte, I think, 21:21 we can either say this is coincidence 21:23 or we can look at it and say, 21:25 you know what, this is, this is a blueprint. 21:27 This is how God leads in the path of salvation. 21:31 I don't think that the devil just coincidentally 21:33 happened to tempt Christ to turn stone into bread. 21:37 This is taking us right to the Table of Showbread, 21:41 and Christ responds by saying in verse 4. 21:44 It is written, man shall not live by bread alone 21:48 but with every word that proceedeth 21:50 out of the mouth of the God. 21:51 And so Christ's victory there shows us 21:53 the importance of the word of God. 21:55 It shows us that we are to truly seek God 21:58 and to follow the path of the Lamb, 22:02 and by the way that's exactly 22:03 what we're looking at, Christ is the lamb 22:06 and He starts at the Altar of Sacrifice, 22:07 He's baptized, He then goes to the Table of Showbread 22:11 and showing the importance of the word of God 22:13 that it is more necessary than our daily food. 22:18 When we decide, desire to follow the Christ, 22:20 He says, this the way I walked, 22:23 then He says, you walk in it. 22:24 Well also, He's tempted as we'll find not once, 22:28 but three times. Three times. 22:29 And there is three articles of furniture. 22:31 Again, what are the odds. Exactly. Yeah. 22:34 Well the second temptation, verse 5 says, 22:36 then the devil taketh him up into the Holy City 22:39 and sitteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. 22:42 And save unto him if that will be the Son of God 22:45 cast thyself down, for it is written, 22:48 He shall give His angels charge concerning 22:51 thee and in their hands they shall bear the up less 22:54 that anytime thou dash thy foot against a stone. 22:58 So this second temptation, basically the devil 23:01 has taken Jesus up to this high place and says to Him, 23:04 throw yourself down and then call out to God. 23:07 Pray to God, He'll save you. 23:10 We can see here the devil is tempting 23:12 Jesus to offer a presumptuous prayer, 23:15 to put ourselves in harm's way, 23:17 and then ask God to deliver us. 23:19 This is God, this is the Bible showing us 23:22 that presumption is a very dangerous thing. 23:26 Don't put yourselves in harm's way 23:28 and intentionally think, I mean, 23:30 intentionally tempt God and then ask God to save you. 23:34 So, so Jesus here again overcomes His temptation, 23:38 He overcomes showing that not only must 23:41 we depend on the word of God, 23:42 but our prayers must be right prayers to God. 23:47 Don't live in sin and then ask God to save you. 23:51 While you're living in sin. 23:52 And open a known set, 23:54 for sin to be sent in your life, 23:57 truly in God's life you have to be realize that it's sin, 24:00 exactly, and you know not rebel against Him. 24:02 Exactly, exactly. 24:03 So now we get to the third temptation. 24:05 And by the way that second temptation brings us 24:07 to the Altar of Incense. 24:09 So the first temptation, Table of Showbread, 24:11 second temptation, Altar of Incense, 24:14 dealing with prayer. 24:15 And the third temptation, the Bible says in verse 8, 24:21 it says, again the devil taketh him up 24:23 to an exceeding high mountain 24:26 and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world 24:29 and the glory of them. 24:31 And saveth unto Him all these things will I give thee 24:35 if that would fall down and worship me. 24:38 I think it's significant 24:39 that Satan takes him up into a mountain. 24:41 Because Jesus in other places in the scripture, 24:45 in fact I believes it's in the book of Matthew 24:47 where He says-- Matthew 5 I believe it is, 24:51 where he says, you are the light of the world, 24:54 a city set on a hill cannot be hit. 24:59 He was speaking about 25:02 the city of the Church, of God's people. 25:05 So the devil takes him up to this mountain and says, 25:07 I'll give you your Seven branched Candlestick. 25:10 I'll give you your light of the world 25:12 if you just simply bow down and worship me. 25:14 You don't have to die to get it, 25:15 just worship me 25:16 and you'll get what you came for. 25:19 And of course we know the Christ 25:21 also rejected that offer. 25:22 Rejected the temptation to bow down to Satan 25:26 and these three temptations, 25:29 not coincidence that the devil will tempt 25:32 Christ in these two areas. 25:34 Because the blueprint shows us that 25:36 this is where God requires each of us to overcome. 25:40 This might be a whole another series 25:42 but I just thought of this 25:43 when you're talking about the candlesticks 25:45 and God's Church and Satan saying, 25:47 you know, throw yourselves down, 25:48 bow down and I'll give you, your people, 25:50 and Jesus was like, no. 25:52 You know, there's even a specific way that God 25:55 wants us to witness to the world 25:58 that any old way just won't work. 26:00 We can't just take things into our own hands 26:02 and think that we can go 26:03 and witness and minister to the world the way we think, 26:07 it has be-- Using Satan's methods. 26:08 That's right, it has to be according 26:09 to God as well in purpose. 26:11 Well finally we see that Christ 26:15 after He overcomes these three temptations. 26:17 He goes on to do what? 26:20 To preach the law of God that's found 26:23 in the Ark of the Covenant 26:24 combined with the mercy of God, 26:27 which is right on the top of the Ark of the Covenant. 26:30 In fact, it's interesting how law and mercy 26:32 were together because in Exodus 20, 26:35 and I believe it's verse 6. 26:36 Right there in the middle of the Ten Commandments 26:39 we're told about 26:41 who will receive the mercy of God. 26:43 It says, showing mercy unto thousands 26:46 of them that love me and keep my commandments. 26:49 So who does God give mercy to? 26:51 To those who keep His commandments. 26:54 Mercy Seat, Ark of the Covenant, it's the gospel. 26:57 The law and grace combined, the law and mercy combined. 27:01 And so what we see here, 27:03 what see in the program is Christ descended, 27:07 down from heaven, left the Ark, 27:09 left his throne, came down, lived a life of prayer, 27:13 witnessing and Bible study, 27:15 was baptized, died for rest. 27:17 And then reversed it. 27:18 He was born at the manger, he was baptized, 27:20 he was tempted three in the wilderness 27:22 and then went on to preach the law of God 27:24 combined with the mercy of God. 27:26 The blueprint tells us, tells it to us all, 27:29 it's a magnificent thing that God has given us 27:32 and we ought to understand this especially 27:34 in the light of the future messages we have coming up. 27:36 That's right, that's right. 27:38 And again, God wants us to know this message 27:43 and understand the blueprint 27:44 so that we can experience it personally in our lives. 27:47 And so that we can also share it with others. 27:50 There are so many people out 27:52 there that are lost and just don't know their way. 27:55 And God is wanting to use you to be a light 27:58 in their life and put them on, 27:59 and help them to get on the right path. 28:02 We hope that you would join us again, 28:04 until next time, God bless. |
Revised 2014-12-17