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00:28 Hello and a great big welcome.
00:30 We're glad you decided to join us 00:31 today at 3ABN Worship Hour. 00:33 I mean, this is real study for today 00:36 and you will not want to miss it. 00:38 I believe it's going to draw us closer to Jesus Christ. 00:41 Don't you? 00:42 As we, we're gonna pray about here in just a moment, 00:43 but give you just a little, maybe insight, 00:46 what we're going to be studying about today. 00:47 God has always wanted to be with His people 00:51 and certainly He had a plan 00:53 to be with His people and He surely, 00:55 He has a plan to be with us, right? 00:56 And certainly in the New Jerusalem. 00:58 So we're going to look at that plan, 00:59 see how we can be there 01:01 and to realize, as we look at the subject, 01:03 He is here, holy, holy. 01:06 This is holy ground 01:07 because His presence is here with us. 01:09 I'm going to kneel and have a prayer. 01:10 And I want you to pray along with me. 01:12 And again, I'm very grateful and thankful. 01:14 We receive cards and letters. 01:15 People say, when you kneel, when they had the opportunity, 01:17 they kneel and pray with us. 01:19 Thank you for doing that. 01:20 And if you can't, you're going down the road, 01:22 just in your mind, pray with us, shall we? 01:28 We thank Thee heavenly Father, 01:29 for the privilege we have of prayer. 01:31 We thank You that we can call You our Father. 01:33 We come to Thee, because we have need of a Savior. 01:35 We come to Thee, because we realized that today 01:38 as we call upon Your name and You are here. 01:41 It becomes holy ground. 01:43 Lord, help us to remember that you're with us 01:45 in and around and through each and every day of our life, 01:47 every moment. 01:49 And that we need to act like as Christians 01:51 that we are on holy ground. 01:52 Thank you for hearing. Thank you for answering prayer. 01:54 Open hearts, minds, and lives of people today 01:57 that we may be drawn closer to You to realize 01:59 that time is short and you're coming, 02:00 in Jesus' name. 02:02 Amen. 02:04 Again, if you're taking notes, just to be sure and put down, 02:06 He is here, holy, holy. 02:09 And I like that song. 02:10 And maybe we'll go over verses 02:11 that a little bit later on as we go. 02:13 I'd like to start and it's always good to start 02:15 in the Word of God in Exodus Chapter 25. 02:18 Now you've heard this read 02:19 I'm sure over and over and over. 02:21 But I'm going to read it again. 02:22 It never gets old to me 02:23 and I pray it doesn't get old to you 02:25 because I see God's plan in this. 02:27 Exodus 25:8-9. 02:31 Exodus 25:8-9. 02:34 And this is what the Bible says. 02:37 It says, "And let them make me a sanctuary, 02:40 that I may dwell among them. 02:43 According to all that I show thee, 02:45 after the pattern of the tabernacle 02:47 and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, 02:50 even so shall ye make it." 02:53 Aren't you glad that God has a plan? 02:55 Here He said, "Let them make me a sanctuary." 02:57 Why? What happened? 02:58 Because God speaks that sin had separated. 03:01 And God said, "I still want to be with My people, 03:03 but because of sin, until we get it, 03:05 draws back together, I'm going to have a plan 03:08 that I can still meet with My people." 03:10 Now, the second passage of scripture. 03:12 And again, these are just foundation scriptures 03:14 found in the Book of Hebrews, Hebrews 8:2. 03:19 I believe it is, 1. 03:21 Hebrews 8:1. 03:23 And I always love to say this again. 03:24 This is what the Bible says. 03:26 Hebrews 8:1. 03:28 The Bible says, notice what the Bible says. 03:31 It says, "Now of these things 03:33 which we have spoken is the sum: 03:35 We have such an high priest who is set on the right hand 03:39 of the throne of the Majesty in heavens.: 03:43 Again, so powerful when we look at these passage of scripture. 03:46 Let's just do one more, shall we? 03:48 Because again, we're looking, Christ is interceding for us. 03:51 We have to realize 03:53 that there's something going on in the heavens. 03:55 We believe that we're in the judgment hour 03:57 and that Jesus is, certainly is coming. 03:59 Now, let's go, shall we to our next passage of scripture 04:02 in the Hebrews 9:24. 04:05 Hebrews 9:24. 04:07 Let's read that verse, shall we? 04:09 It says, "For Christ is not entered into the holy places 04:12 made with hands, which was a figure of the true, 04:15 but into heaven itself now 04:17 to appear in the presence of God for us." 04:21 Boy, this is, I mean, you talk about beautiful. 04:23 When you look at the passage of scripture, 04:24 Christ is not entered to the holy place what? 04:26 Made with hands. 04:28 He's not in the earthly sanctuary, 04:29 but He now He's in heaven doing something. 04:31 What is He doing? 04:33 He's in heaven now appearing in the presence of God for us. 04:37 It's very, to me, it's very sad that many people have no, 04:40 they really don't have any idea 04:42 that there's any work going on in heaven. 04:44 They've never studied the earthly sanctuary. 04:46 They have no idea of what Christ is doing for us, 04:48 but yet we sing songs. 04:50 You know, He's ever interceding and He's our high priest. 04:53 So what is He doing in heaven? 04:55 Oh, this is awesome when you think about it. 04:57 I want to read the Great Controversy. 04:59 This is a pretty long paragraph here, 05:02 but it's so, so important 05:04 that we know why we're taking time to study this. 05:07 Great Controversy, page 488 and 9, 488 and 9. 05:11 Notice what it says. 05:13 It says, "The sanctuary in heaven 05:15 is the very center of Christ's work in behalf of men. 05:20 It concerns every soul living upon the earth. 05:23 It opens the view the plan of redemption, 05:26 bringing us down to the very close of time, 05:29 revealing the triumphant issue of the contest 05:32 between righteousness and sin. 05:35 Notice, it is of the utmost importance 05:38 that all should thoroughly investigate 05:41 this subject or the subjects." 05:43 Notice. Here's the key, notice, underline it. 05:46 "The intercession of Christ in man's behalf 05:49 in the sanctuary above is as essential to the plan 05:53 of salvation as was His death upon the cross." 05:57 Wow! 05:58 Think about that last several lines right there. 06:00 That is powerful. 06:02 The intercession of Christ, what? 06:03 In man's behalf, is He interceding for us? 06:06 Yes, there's a purpose and we talk about, 06:07 He is here, holy, holy. 06:09 We sing, we're standing on holy ground. 06:12 There's something to that with intercession of Christ 06:15 in man's behalf in the sanctuary above, notice, 06:18 is essential to the plan of salvation 06:20 as was the death upon the cross. 06:23 That's pretty heavy duty 06:25 when you think about His death upon the cross. 06:27 So there must be something after the death on the cross. 06:31 There must be something as the interceding. 06:33 We just read a couple of passage of scripture 06:35 that He's in heaven now, right? 06:36 Interceding for us. 06:38 I want to give you another one, I think is just, 06:40 to me it's just really powerful 06:42 in the book of Evangelism. 06:43 Some of you'd be familiar 06:44 with these books that I mentioned. 06:46 If not, I encourage you 06:47 to try to get some of these books and read them. 06:49 Many of you have access to them, 06:51 but bless your hearts, you're not reading them. 06:53 And I would encourage you really to do that. 06:54 It'll just draw you closer to Jesus. 06:56 Evangelism 223 says this. 06:59 "God's people are now," notice this, 07:02 "to have their eyes fixed," where? 07:04 Good. 07:06 "On the heavenly sanctuary, 07:07 where the final ministration of our great High Priest 07:11 is in the work of judgment is going forward," 07:15 notice this, "where He is interceding for His people." 07:21 I hope you got that. 07:22 Did you notice, He's in his final, right? 07:25 Ministration, final stage as our High Priest, 07:28 just before He comes back to the earth here. 07:31 The work of the judgment, 07:32 which we've been giving in Adventism since 1844, 07:36 the judgment hour message. 07:37 It's just not another message 07:39 because you can't find anything in the Word of God. 07:41 It is a message, I'll tell you that it's life and death issue. 07:44 He's interceding, He's working in our behalf. 07:47 He's begun His final phase here. 07:49 He's interceding for His people. 07:51 Aren't you glad that we have a high priest? 07:54 Aren't you thankful for Jesus Christ, 07:56 who is interceding for you? 07:57 He's interceding for me, anyone who wants Him to. 08:01 You just have to give your life to Him, 08:03 take Him as Lord and Savior. 08:06 So as we just investigate this subject for today, 08:10 the earthly and the heavenly sanctuary, 08:13 we can see it real vividly. 08:15 I can see it in my mind, a vivid 08:17 presentation of the different aspects of Christ work 08:21 in behalf of fallen man. 08:23 You can just see it and you can follow that. 08:25 Remember, how can you follow someone 08:27 if you don't know where they're at? 08:28 So we have to follow Christ through the sanctuary. 08:30 Thy God, thy way of God is through the sanctuary. 08:33 So we must be able to find Him. 08:35 We have to know where He's at 08:37 and what He's doing in our behalf 08:39 so that we may follow Him. 08:41 Now, remember why we follow Him? 08:44 Because what He's doing is for us. 08:47 What He's doing is for us. 08:48 So we need to focus our attention then on the whys 08:51 and maybe the what's that He's doing there. 08:55 I think this is very important. 08:56 Now Paul backs this up in our next passage of scripture, 09:00 and we notice in Hebrews 3:1. 09:02 So what the Bible said. 09:04 Hebrews 3:1. 09:05 The Bible says, notice this, "Wherefore, holy brethren, 09:09 partakers of the heavenly calling, 09:11 consider the high, the Apostle and High Priest 09:15 of our profession, Jesus Christ." 09:18 That's pretty plain, is it not? 09:20 But notice Paul says this, holy brethren, 09:22 be partakers of the heavenly calling. 09:24 Are you a partaker of the heavenly calling? 09:27 God is calling you today to be ready for His coming. 09:30 He says this, notice the word consider. 09:32 I think it's an interesting word. 09:33 Consider the Apostle or High Priest. 09:36 That means to observe Him fully, get really get involved. 09:41 Really know what it's all about here. 09:42 And notice it discover Jesus in a very special way, 09:48 our profession, which means simply our acknowledgement. 09:51 Do you acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior 09:53 and as your High Priest and He's working in our behalf? 09:57 Absolutely. 09:58 So should we consider our High Priest 09:59 after what Paul has said and what we've, 10:01 couple of verses we've read in Scripture? 10:03 Absolutely. 10:04 I'm going to read a quote here, it's from Letter 97 in 1898. 10:08 Notice this, Letter 97 in 1898. 10:13 It says this, "As the majesty of heaven, 10:16 He was exalted, notice, above the angels, 10:20 and in His work of redemption, 10:22 He carries with Him all who have received Him," 10:26 notice this, "and believed on His name." 10:29 Isn't that awesome when you think about this? 10:33 The majesty of heaven, 10:35 the work of redemption that's going on. 10:37 Oh, I want to go to heaven. I want to go to hell. 10:39 Sure, you want to go to heaven, 10:40 but this is the work that's going on in our behalf 10:43 right now, I think is so, so very important. 10:46 But notice what it says here, He carries, notice with Him, 10:49 all who have received and believed on His name. 10:54 So have you received Him? 10:56 Do you believe on His name? 10:58 Then He's carrying you. 10:59 You're not carrying yourself. 11:01 We're not capable of doing that as you well know, 11:04 but He said, I'll carry you. 11:06 Praise God for that. 11:07 Now, what was the purpose as we look at the earthly 11:10 sanctuary and the heavenly tabernacle? 11:13 You look at the earthly and the heavenly. 11:15 What was really the purpose of it? 11:17 God had a plan, we noted that. 11:18 We'll note it a little more as we go on. 11:21 But there was a reason what did the, notice this, 11:23 the earthly and the heavenly tabernacle. 11:25 What is it doing? 11:26 Number one, it's dealing with the sin issue. 11:31 Sin issue? Absolutely, the sin issue. 11:34 It was set up to deal with sin, which the Bible said, 11:38 and I don't, you know, 1 John 3:4. 11:41 And what does it say? 11:42 It says, "Sin is the transgression" what? 11:44 Yeah. "Of God's law." You see it out there. 11:46 Sin is simply the transgression of God's law. 11:49 So the issue that we're talking about today, dealing with sin 11:52 and we need to deal with that issue today. 11:54 There's no doubt about it. 11:56 And so Christ then entered what? 11:58 He entered into His work as mediator. 12:01 He's mediating for us. 12:03 See the big issue is some people say it 12:04 finished at the cross. 12:06 It's all over with, but yet we read scripture 12:08 and we find out that He didn't finish at the cross. 12:10 He continued on into heaven as He went back into heaven 12:14 because He began as mediator. 12:18 And we realized there's only one mediator. 12:20 The Bible tells us in our passage 12:22 of Scripture found in 1 Timothy 2:5. 12:25 1Timothy 2:5. 12:26 It just simply talks about there's only 12:28 one mediator, right? 12:30 One God. And, of course, there's only one mediator. 12:32 And that's two in one, man is Jesus Christ. 12:34 So there's, you don't go to the priest and start, 12:37 well, I need a mediator. 12:39 You don't go to the pastor 12:40 or an elder or any Mary or anyone. 12:44 There's only one medium. 12:45 So why is it we have such a hard time 12:47 understanding something as simple as this? 12:51 There's only one mediator. 12:52 So how would you go, why would you go anyplace else? 12:55 The Bible said, there's only one. 12:57 And that is, praise God, is Jesus Christ. 12:59 Remember after His resurrection 13:02 and He came up out of the grave 13:03 and then he was here on this earth how many days? 13:06 Forty days, remember that, 13:09 before He went back into heaven. 13:11 You can find that in Acts 3:1-3. 13:13 It's not, it won't be on the screen, 13:15 but just jot it down. 13:16 I'll throw some things out from time to time, 13:17 just make sure you jot them down and go, 13:19 because you want to prove, right? 13:21 Whether it be true or not. 13:23 Well, and you also can read Desire of Ages, page 819. 13:27 Okay. So God gave a blueprint then to whom? 13:30 Good. He gave the blueprint to Moses. 13:32 I liked that. So what God said, make me what? 13:35 We read it. Make me a sanctuary. 13:38 Remember at that time, what was Israel? 13:41 Israel was nomadic tribe. 13:42 Basically you would say a group of people, 13:44 they just wandered to and fro. 13:46 They never had a permanent home at that time. 13:48 So they were wandering people. 13:51 And the sanctuary then would simply be a tent 13:54 that would be able to be, put it together 13:57 and take it apart and travel. 13:59 Put it together again, take it apart and travel some more, 14:02 now from place to place. 14:04 So remember this tent that God wanted to give them. 14:07 This sanctuary was a visible place 14:11 of the worship of the true God. 14:13 Think about that. 14:15 God said all the people need something what? 14:17 Visible so that they can see visible proof, 14:20 that there's one true God. 14:22 Very opposite of the heathen nations. 14:25 You know that roundabout that had many gods. 14:28 You remember that? Absolutely. 14:29 So God was trying to bring the attention of His people 14:32 focused upon the one true God. 14:36 And then you look at the sanctuary, notice, 14:38 it brought God near to His people. 14:42 It brought Him very near to His people and made, notice this, 14:47 so He became very real to them. 14:50 I just wonder today, is God real to you? 14:54 Is He real to you? 14:57 God said that it's a visible thing for Israel. 14:59 And it was aâ | 15:01 something His presence would be real 15:03 and it can be in your life. 15:05 If He's not real in your life, it wouldn't be today His day. 15:07 Wouldn't you think? 15:09 Make Him real in your life. 15:11 Let Him be God, let Him be the ruler of your life. 15:15 See God still today, 15:16 you say, oh, this was back in the Old Testament. 15:18 God still today wants to find a lodging, 15:21 you know, with His people. 15:23 He's still looking for a people. 15:26 But first of all, He wants to find out about the heart 15:29 because that's where He wants to dwell. 15:32 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. 15:35 These are familiar passage of Scripture, 15:36 but boy, are they good? 15:38 Now, remember, you want to be the temple, 15:40 you want the holy, oh, 15:41 I want the Holy Spirit to dwell in me, I want to. 15:44 If you do, listen to this passage of scripture. 15:46 Notice what it says. 15:48 It says, know ye not. 15:49 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 15:51 "Know ye not that you are the, 15:53 notice this, the temple of God 15:55 that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 15:59 Verse 17, "If any man defile the temple of God, 16:02 him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is, 16:06 notice this, is holy, which temple ye are." 16:11 To me that's just so very clear. 16:14 Know ye not that you're the temple of God. 16:16 Know what? God's spirit wants to dwell in you. 16:18 You ask yourself the question, are you a temple today? 16:21 Are you living the kind of life that where the Holy Spirit 16:23 can dwell inside you? 16:25 Live in you and show through you. 16:28 Notice, I mean, it's so simpler, 16:29 If you defile that temple. 16:31 People say, well, it doesn't make any difference 16:33 what I take it into my body, or if I drink and I smoke, 16:35 come on, let's just get real. 16:36 I take drugs and I go out and I do this, and I do that. 16:39 The Bible says, "If any man defile the temple of God," 16:45 notice this, "God shall destroy." 16:49 Wow! 16:50 For the temple of God is holy. 16:51 Which temple you are? 16:55 He's here, holy, holy. 16:59 If we see, corrections need to be made, 17:01 by God's grace, let's make those corrections. 17:05 I like this little quote here. 17:06 And it is found in Letter 139. 17:08 Letter 139 in 1898. 17:12 And this is just powerful. Please listen. 17:15 And it starts out like this. 17:17 Letter 139, 1898. 17:20 "What might not men and women, men, and women have been," 17:25 think about it, 17:27 "had they realized the treatment of the body 17:30 has everything to do with the vigor 17:33 and purity of mind and heart. 17:36 His body is," and I'm gonna put a must, 17:39 "is a fit temple for the Holy Spirit. 17:42 God can commune with him, 17:45 for soul and body are in harmony with God." 17:49 So it sounds to me as we read these things that if, 17:52 unless we're in harmony with God 17:54 and we're taking care of this temple, 17:56 this body, the best we know how to take care of it, 17:58 putting on the right things, in the right things 18:00 and in the mind and seeing and reading 18:02 and so on and so forth. 18:03 If we do that, then God can commune with us 18:06 and how desperately we need communication from heaven. 18:09 Oh, how desperately right now, 18:11 because the world seems to be off center. 18:12 Everything's going haywire as you look around 18:15 and it needs to be brought back to the center of God. 18:18 But we are entering the last days. 18:20 Ever deceivable, that's unrighteousness 18:23 is going to be unveiled as it were before. 18:26 And that's among God's people 18:27 and who's He working, especially 18:29 among those who claim to keep the commandments of God 18:32 and the testimony of Jesus. 18:33 There's no doubt about it. And so He's working. 18:35 We need to be very, very careful by the grace of God, 18:38 equipped with the Holy Spirit of the living God. 18:42 Review and Herald article I'd like to read 18:44 to you just a couple of lines here. 18:46 That's 11/24/1896. 18:50 Little magazine Review and Herald, 18:51 notice 11/24/1896 says this. 18:55 We just talked about the mind, did we not? Notice this. 18:57 "The more completely the mind and the body 18:59 are yielded to the Holy Spirit, 19:01 greater will be the fragrance of our offering to Him." 19:08 To present, right, a sweet savor, 19:10 sweet smell as it were to God, 19:12 the more completely our mind and body, 19:14 it yielded to the Holy Spirit, 19:17 the more acceptable we are to God. 19:19 I want to be acceptable to God, don't you? 19:21 Absolutely. I know that you do. 19:23 But notice there's a second point here 19:24 that we'll try to bring out. 19:26 He wants any and that may be simple 19:29 that he wants to meet with any group. 19:32 He wants to meet with any company, any little group, 19:35 handful of people that will worship Him 19:39 in spirit and in truth. 19:41 Now that's true. This won't be on your screen. 19:43 Jot it down. I believe that's in John 4:24. 19:47 He wants us to worship Him in spirit and in what? 19:51 Good. In spirit and in truth. 19:54 If we Worship Him in spirit and in truth, 19:57 if we're in this group or that little group over here, 19:59 He is there. 20:01 He's here, holy, holy. 20:02 He's present with us. 20:05 Worship Him in spirit and truth. 20:07 For He says this, we understand this passage. 20:09 You've read it many times, in Matthew18:20. 20:12 I love it, said, oh, the Bible says. 20:14 I say it over and over because I love it. 20:16 It's melody to my heart and my mind because what? 20:19 God has said. 20:20 Matthew 18:20 says, 20:22 "Where two or three 20:23 are gathered together in my name, 20:26 there I am," where? 20:28 "There I am in the midst of them." 20:32 Can we possibly understand that? 20:34 It's over my head. 20:36 Understand by faith. 20:37 God says, when you come together in My name, 20:40 if you're there wanting to learn, 20:42 if you've made a commitment to Jesus Christ, 20:44 if you ask Him to come in 20:46 and you've got a little group meeting over here, 20:48 some people over here, He said, 20:49 there I am in the midst. 20:51 That's God's church. 20:52 My, that's very simple. There I am in the midst. 20:56 Jesus is not going to be in the midst, 20:58 the Holy Spirit is not going to be in the midst. 21:00 Why gathered together? 21:01 I've often said that in a message, 21:03 unless the Holy Spirit takes that message 21:05 and does something with it, it's useless 21:07 for man to get up, the Bible talks about, 21:09 and almost say uselessness of preaching. 21:12 Think about it. 21:13 Because many times, man is speaking. 21:16 Man is trying to make a show of things. 21:18 Let the Holy Spirit of the living God come in. 21:20 Let the Spirit of God 21:21 speak to the heart and mind of people. 21:23 And there will be decisions that will be made. 21:25 There's no doubt about it. 21:27 When Jesus is present, there it is, holy ground. 21:31 Do you remember that the song 21:34 and every once in a while I cut down on a line or two, 21:36 and then I wish I had enough. 21:38 So I'm just going to try to read it. 21:41 The song is He is here. 21:44 Hallelujah. 21:46 He is here. 21:47 Amen. 21:49 He is here, holy, holy. 21:52 I will bless His name again. 21:56 He is here. 21:57 Listen closely. 21:59 Hear Him calling out your name. 22:02 He is here. You can touch Him. 22:05 You will never be the same again. 22:08 Think about He is here. 22:10 Reach out by faith and touch Him right now. 22:12 He is here. 22:13 You'll never be the same again. 22:16 And those of you who have experienced that, 22:18 you understand that well. 22:20 Today, you know, one of the last lines of that song, 22:22 I love it because it said, today, 22:25 I feast on the manna from above. 22:29 I pray you're feasting from the manner 22:32 above instead of eating that Dale stuff. 22:35 Are you with me? 22:36 Sitting, eating that stuff, that's you know, 22:38 rotten over here in the corner. 22:40 God has fresh manna for me. 22:42 And that means heavenly things for you, 22:44 rather than going over the same old thing, 22:46 doing the same old thing. 22:47 Behold, all things become new. 22:49 God wants it new, He wants it. 22:51 I'm feasting on that manna from above. 22:56 That song says, I searched. 22:58 I searched for peace among shadows 23:00 and the dark and the lonely. 23:02 In this world that we're living in right now 23:04 where you see it, we talked about going haywire. 23:06 Everything is turned upside down. 23:08 Right's wrong, wrong is right. 23:09 We don't know anymore except we have the Word of God. 23:13 I praise Him for that. 23:14 And this, we have to stick with that because if you don't, 23:17 you, one on these days, you're going to be so confused. 23:18 You won't know right from wrong. 23:21 We have the Word of God, but he said, you know, 23:22 I'm wanting to find something strong. 23:24 I'm wanting to find something lasted. 23:26 And basically I've tasted everything of this world. 23:29 But today I'm going to feast. 23:31 So I'm praying that you're feasting 23:33 on the Word of God today because He is here, holy, holy. 23:37 Now back to the plan we talked about, the plan 23:40 was laid out for the building of the earthly sanctuary. 23:43 And then I can just say this underline, God's plan. 23:46 Oh, that was Moses' plan, blah-blah. 23:48 God's plan. 23:49 There was a reason for the plan. 23:51 Remember on the mount, I love this. 23:53 I tell you what, how awesome 23:54 that would be one of these days, 23:56 we'll be able to see those heavenly things, you know, 23:59 by the grace of God, one day, if we meet Him, 24:01 many of us will meet Him face to face, 24:02 we're going to be able to see things as Moses saw. 24:06 What an awesome thing is, Moses saw in vision. 24:09 He saw what? 24:11 He saw a miniature representation 24:13 of the heavenly sanctuary. 24:15 He saw that, Patriarchs and Prophets, 343, 24:19 I believe it is there. 24:20 He saw. 24:22 And I love it where it said, 24:23 John saw or Moses saw, or Daniel saw. 24:25 You can see today by the grace of God is by faith. 24:29 You can see the plan that God has for you and your life 24:32 as well as I can see the plan. 24:33 Now my plan may not be your plan. 24:35 your plan may not be my plan. 24:37 We need to be very careful, 24:38 not be critical of someone else's 24:40 plan that God has given them, 24:41 long as it certainly harmonizes with the Word of God. 24:44 Not only was we find that in the Patriarchs and Prophets, 24:48 but in Acts 7:44. 24:50 Please follow me there, Acts 7:44. 24:54 Notice how it reads. 24:55 And the reason I want to use Acts 24:57 here because it is very important, 24:58 because I've studied with people before, 25:00 and one guy said to me, I'll study the Bible with you, 25:02 but I'll only use the Book of Acts. 25:06 I'll only use the Book of Acts. I won't use another. 25:08 Well, my understanding there's, 25:10 isn't there 66 books in the Bible? 25:12 Well, he's missing 65. Okay. 25:14 Let me go on. Acts 7:44. 25:17 Here's what it says. 25:18 "Our fathers had the tabernacle," 25:20 notice this, "in the wilderness." 25:21 That means the earthly, right? 25:24 "As he had appointed," 25:25 notice, "speaking with Moses that he should make it 25:27 according to the fashion that he had seen." 25:31 So he said then, well, 25:32 make this after what you've seen in vision. 25:35 This is what the work that's going on in heaven. 25:38 Notice it, a miniature representation 25:40 of the heavenly sanctuary. 25:42 The work that's going on in the heavenly sanctuary. 25:44 Man, you can find out exactly what's going on 25:46 by following the earthly. 25:48 It's exciting when you see these things, 25:50 there's no doubt about it. 25:51 And make it according to the fashion 25:53 that you see, notice that. 25:54 And, of course, Hebrews 8:2, 25:57 we just read Hebrews while ago, 8:1. 26:01 This is verse 2, it says this. Hebrews 8:2. 26:03 He said, he's "A minister of the sanctuary, 26:06 and of the true tabernacle, 26:08 which the Lord pitched." 26:09 That means which the Lord set up and not man. 26:12 Wow. The heavenly. 26:14 So the earthly then was what? 26:16 A pattern of the heavenly. 26:18 Hebrews 8:5 says this. 26:21 Hebrews 8:5 simply says, 26:24 "After all things, according to the pattern 26:27 showed thee in the mount." 26:29 So if anyone has a problem, 26:30 just simply read a couple of verses of scripture 26:32 and you'll see. 26:33 Make everything according to that pattern 26:35 that I showed you on the mount. 26:37 Pattern, something must have existed 26:39 before to have a pattern, isn't that right, a shadow? 26:41 Sure. 26:42 So I think we must consider. 26:44 And I want to consider a little article 26:46 in the Signs of the Times, 2/14/1900. 26:50 2/14/1900. 26:54 This is just try to put a couple of things together 26:56 for food for thought. 26:57 Notice what it says here. 26:59 It says, the Jewish tabernacle was a type. 27:02 Signs of the Times 2/14/1900. 27:05 Notice, "The Jewish tabernacle 27:07 was a type of the Christian Church." 27:11 The church where? 27:13 The church on earth composed of those who are faithful 27:17 and loyal to God, is the true tabernacle 27:22 where of the Redeemer is the minister. 27:25 God and not man pitched the tabernacle 27:27 on a high and elevated platform. 27:30 So why is that sometime we want 27:31 to put it on a low platform? 27:33 We never want to elevate those truths 27:35 that God has in His Word. 27:37 We pick out things that we want to and we leave the others. 27:40 We can't do that in the Word of God. 27:42 Notice this right here. 27:43 The church on earth is, notice this, 27:46 composed of those who are faithful and loyal. 27:50 God's Church is what? 27:51 Composed of those who are, notice that are faithful 27:54 and loyal to God. 27:55 That's the true tabernacle. 27:57 Praise God. 28:00 Man, I tell you, there's stuff in here that we need to rethink 28:02 some of maybe our stand. 28:03 Now, you say, I don't have, I'm not quite clear on that. 28:07 Let me just use something else in The Great Controversy, 414. 28:10 In the Great Controversy, page 414. 28:13 This to me, I put a little star by it in my note, 28:16 a little star, Great Controversy, 28:18 414 makes this statement, 28:21 just in case we've missed all the other stuff 28:23 we've been talking about here. 28:25 It says, "The sanctuary in heaven 28:28 in which Jesus ministers in our behalf is the" what? 28:32 Good. 28:34 "The great original of which" notice this, 28:36 "of which the sanctuary built by Moses was a copy." 28:40 Boy, that's just about as clear as you can get, is it not? 28:45 Copy of the great original in heaven 28:46 or the work that's going on in the heavenly sanctuary. 28:49 So again, I like to say in vision, what did John do? 28:54 He said, I saw. 28:56 That's enough to get anybody excited. 28:57 John said, I saw. 28:59 Man, in the Book of Revelation, John said, I saw, 29:01 and sometime we read that it's like, John didn't see it. 29:05 And we deny it. Well, John didn't see it. 29:06 The Bible says John did what? 29:08 He saw. 29:10 Man, we need to pay attention to that. 29:11 Oh, it's so beautiful, John saw. 29:18 Shouldn't our eyes be open? 29:19 Shouldn't we not see 29:22 what God has in store for us? 29:26 John saw this heavenly sanctuary. 29:29 You can see it by faith right now. 29:31 In fact, he said, he pinned it 29:34 in Revelation 15:5, passage of scripture. 29:37 Revelation 15:5. 29:39 Notice what it says. 29:40 And after that, John said, I saw, 29:42 "After that I looked and," what? 29:44 And what did he do? 29:45 "He looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle 29:48 of the testimony in heaven was opened." 29:51 So either, may I be this bold, 29:53 either John was telling the truth or he lied. 29:58 Did somebody get that? 30:00 Either he saw it in heaven or he didn't see it in heaven. 30:03 And most people say, well, it can't be going on. 30:05 The Bible just said that he saw. 30:07 And there it was, heaven was open. 30:10 He saw it up there. 30:11 Most of you if you ask any Christian today. 30:13 Well, you think John, you know, prophet of God in Revelation. 30:17 Oh, yeah, yeah. 30:18 Well then John said I saw the testimony in heaven. 30:22 John saw the testimony. And what? 30:24 Remember what John saw was the testimony. 30:26 What John saw was the ark. 30:30 The ark with the Ten Commandments in it 30:32 that most people trying to deny that if it exists 30:35 or we need to worry about it. 30:36 That's what John saw in heaven. 30:38 Certainly if it's in heaven, 30:39 it's good enough for us here, is it not? 30:41 Just think about that. 30:43 Revelation 11:19. 30:45 Revelation 11:19, 30:47 John said again, he said, 30:49 "And the temple of God was," what? 30:51 "Temple of God was opened in heaven, 30:53 there was seen in his God's temple, 30:55 notice, the ark of his testament." 30:59 Wow. What did John see? 31:01 He saw the ark of his testament. 31:04 So what did he see? 31:05 He really saw, and we'll explain this 31:06 as we're going a little more here. 31:08 He saw the Ten Commandment law in the ark. 31:11 Something was going on in heaven 31:13 they're dealing with sin issue, 31:15 transgression of the law and the mercy seat. 31:17 We'll look at that in just a moment, 31:18 something's going on up 31:20 there that we need to be a part of. 31:25 Letter 47 in 1902. 31:28 I know it's awful lot of, you know, 31:30 things that we're looking up here, but man, 31:32 just jot them down and study to show yourself 31:34 approved unto God when you have time. 31:35 Letter 47, 1902 says this, 31:38 "In the temple will be seen the ark of the testament 31:42 in which was placed the two tables 31:44 of stone on which are written," what? 31:47 Good. "God's law." 31:48 Praise the Lord. Awesome. 31:50 What was that? 31:52 Two tables of stone, which are written God's law. 31:55 And we must not forget as we look at this right here. 31:59 I don't think this will be on the screen, again jot it down. 32:01 I believe it's in Exodus Chapter 25. 32:05 Moses called God's law a testimony. 32:08 Moses said it was a testimony. Notice that. 32:10 Oh, you say that's not quite enough. 32:12 You need a little more proof of that. 32:14 Okay. 32:15 Again, I just go right back and say, and John saw. 32:18 John saw in the heaven. 32:20 He saw the altar of incense. 32:23 So we see what we looked in the earthly sanctuary. 32:25 He said, I saw that work that was going on in the heavenly. 32:30 In Revelation 8:3-5, Revelation 8:3-5 says this, 32:34 "Another angel came and stood by the altar." 32:37 This is all important work here, 32:39 "Having a golden censer, 32:41 and there was given him much incense, 32:43 that he should offer it with the prayers, 32:45 notice, of all saints upon the golden altar 32:48 which was before the," what? 32:50 "Before the throne." 32:52 Think, keep these things in your mind as we go. 32:54 So in the earthly, the altar was what? 32:57 Before the throne room of God, the most holy place. 33:03 To me that's just awesome when you think about it. 33:06 Another important point, at least to me here. 33:09 We hear a lot about, and man, 33:10 I loved it when I hear it about Shekinah Glory. 33:13 I know when you hear, he loves Shekinah Glory. 33:16 Think about what is the Shekinah Glory. 33:19 And again this will not be on the screen, 33:20 but jot it down if you really want to read more 33:22 about Shekinah Glory. 33:23 Read in Exodus Chapter 40, you can read verses 34, 35 33:27 and you can see about this Shekinah Glory of God. 33:30 But notice, Shekinah was the glory of God, 33:33 notice this, that shows that God's ark 33:37 is in heaven is the throne of God. 33:42 The throne room of God. 33:44 Notice this, the sinner of the work. 33:46 For this is where the Shekinah Glory 33:48 was in the earthly sanctuary, on the mercy seat, on the ark. 33:54 There must be something very powerful 33:56 about this and that we should know and understand, 33:59 because we're looking at the very, 34:01 as it were throne room of God. 34:03 Where God is and there's work just going on. 34:08 Patriarchs and Prophets, 349. 34:11 Patriarchs and Prophets, 349 says this, above, notice, 34:16 "Above the Mercy Seat was Shekinah, 34:19 the manifestation of Divine Presence." 34:22 So that's not hard for us to understand. 34:24 You know, as we look at that, 34:26 we need a manifestation of the power 34:29 and the presence of God. 34:31 Sometime we go to church 34:32 and you go through all the service 34:34 in Sabbath school and worship hour. 34:35 And you go out drier than you came in. 34:37 Something's wrong. 34:39 You go out unhappy. 34:41 You're not filled. 34:42 That means the Spirit of God is not there. 34:44 And you are not in tuned because the Bible says, 34:46 if you come hungry, you shall be what? 34:48 You shall be filled. 34:50 If you seek, you're going to find it. 34:53 This is the time to get, 34:54 may I say hot in the cause of Christ. 34:56 This is the time now to put it down right now 34:59 and really let it out. 35:00 You know why? 35:01 Because listen, our freedoms are being challenged. 35:03 Freedom of speech is almost completely gone. 35:05 You can't say anything anymore 35:07 that's not offensive to somebody. 35:09 And that's the devil's plan so that we cannot give 35:11 the word the way that we're supposed to give it. 35:15 Pretty soon, if we're not careful 35:16 when you mentioned and especially in Adventism 35:18 if you mentioned, we believe a Sunday law is coming. 35:21 Some of you doubting Thomas's, when that happens, 35:23 I'd like to be around myself, 35:26 but you'll see it, there's no doubt. 35:29 That you've laughed at and you snarled, oh no, 35:31 it's not going to happen. 35:33 You're going to see it take place. 35:36 But you know what? 35:37 Before, too long, you won't be able to say that possibly. 35:41 You may not be able to talk too freely 35:42 about the Sunday law that's coming. 35:44 You may not be able to talk about the persecution 35:46 that's going to follow for God's commandment 35:48 keeping people. 35:50 He's here, holy, holy. 35:54 It's a real message to be given to the world 35:57 that's honey coated and sweet stuff all the time. 36:00 Is it okay as a preacher to say, I'm sick of it. 36:05 I'm sick of it. 36:07 Why? Because our souls at stake. 36:10 We don't have time to waste. 36:12 I tell my wife every day, 36:14 what have we accomplished for the cause of Christ? 36:17 We can't let one day go by that we don't do something positive. 36:19 It's not a works thing. 36:21 It's something inside that wants to come out to say, 36:23 time is short, cry loud and spare not. 36:27 And what do you do? 36:28 Not to his people. 36:31 Shekinah Glory, we need it. 36:32 I'm going to read Exodus 35. 36:34 It's not on the screen, it won't be there. 36:36 So don't panic, but I don't have time. 36:38 There's so many things if we try to read all 36:40 of we'll never get to it, 36:41 but I'm just going to pick out three or four words 36:43 of the verses Exodus 25:17-22. 36:47 So powerful that we understand it today when God said. 36:51 Verse 17, Exodus 25:17 says this, 36:54 "Make a mercy seat, make it of pure gold." 36:56 That's all I'm going to read on that one. 36:58 See, I don't have time to read everything else, 36:59 but remember the mercy seat make it of pure gold 37:02 because it represented divinity. 37:04 It was purely what? 37:06 God is all pure. 37:08 But in the earthly sanctuary, when they made, you know, 37:10 articles of, they had it made out of wood. 37:13 And then it was overlaid with what? 37:15 Good. 37:16 Overlaid with gold, representing the wood 37:18 with humanity and divinity working together. 37:21 And we had to be covered over the top and the bottom 37:23 and so on and so forth. 37:25 But the mercy seat here, 37:26 more of Shekinah where God's right power, 37:28 where he was at, pure gold. 37:31 Verse 18, "Make two cherubims of gold." 37:34 Verse 19, "One on each end." Think about it with me. 37:37 Verse 20, "Wings shall cover the mercy seat." 37:41 Now verse 21, 37:42 "Put on the mercy seat, put the, notice this, 37:45 the ark, upon the ark." 37:50 Verse 22, 37:52 "I will meet and commune 37:53 with thee above the mercy seat." 37:56 God said I'm going to meet and commune and He did there. 37:59 Where's God meeting you? 38:00 Where's God meeting me right now? 38:03 Where's the time and place we can get together 38:05 in the quiet of the evening, of the day, of the morning 38:07 and spend some time with God that He can commune with us. 38:11 Remember, the mercy seat is a place over the top 38:15 of the Ark and over the law. 38:18 Mercy seat, right over the top of the law of God. 38:21 Oh, boy, I'm nervous, are you with me? 38:23 Read that. 38:24 You go back to Exodus 25 and 26 and read those chapters. 38:28 In other words, the mercy seat, I'm going to hurry along, 38:30 time is almost gone. 38:31 Mercy of God is over what? 38:34 The mercy of God is over the law, 38:36 which most people said doesn't matter anymore. 38:39 The mercy seat is over the law. 38:42 Man, that's pretty heavy duty. 38:45 The golden angels one on each end, you remember that? 38:48 Though, let me just throw some things out real quick with you. 38:51 The one on the, notice that, one on the right side, 38:55 the one on the right side, 38:57 I'm going to throw this out and then maybe 38:58 we would have time to prove it a little later, is Gabriel. 39:00 The one on the right side represent Gabriel. 39:04 This is, now listen. 39:05 This is where Satan stood before he fell. 39:10 Did you get it? 39:12 Before Satan fell, he was, 39:14 as we say fourth power in the universe. 39:19 But after he fell, Gabriel took his place. 39:22 It's not on the screen, but you can read more about that, 39:24 Desire of Ages, 693, if you want to do that. 39:27 We're talking about here referring to Jesus 39:29 in the Garden of Gethsemane when He was strengthened 39:33 and touched you remember by an angel. 39:36 The mighty angel that stands in the presence of God. 39:40 Occupying the position, which Satan fell, 39:44 came to the side of Christ. 39:46 He was touched, Gabriel. 39:48 Desire of Ages, 324. 39:50 Notice with me, Desire of Ages, page 234 says this. 39:54 Just kind of back up some of this stuff quickly. 39:56 It was Gabriel, the angel next in rank to the Son of God. 40:01 It was Gabriel, notice this, who gave Daniel his message. 40:06 It was, notice this, it was Gabriel 40:08 who came to John, when John was saying, 40:10 I saw and wrote the Book of Revelation. 40:13 It was Gabriel that was there 40:15 doing as God had commissioned him. 40:17 It was Gabriel who said in Revelation 1:3, 40:21 may come up there on your screen, Revelation 1:3. 40:23 Talks about a blessing is pronounced, you know, 40:25 upon those who read and study the Word of God 40:29 and keep the words of prophecy. 40:32 Isn't that beautiful? 40:33 A blessing is pronounced if you do, 40:35 and you have so many pastors and teachers 40:37 and preachers today say stay away from it. 40:39 No, don't stay away from it. 40:40 Get into it. 40:42 The blessing is pronounced 40:44 if we study and read the book. 40:46 Let me just say, we talk about grace. 40:48 People say we're under grace, we don't worry about the law. 40:53 Grace cannot be given on terms 40:58 which makes the law of God void. 41:02 With only grace, we're all sinners. 41:04 But it just cannot be applied. 41:07 Romans 3:31 would, you know, make void the law, it says. 41:12 Where sin is pardoned, the law is claimed, notice this, 41:16 against the sinner must also be satisfied. 41:20 Something about grace here, but notice how they work. 41:25 Two angels looked at each other. 41:28 Another time the mercy seat 41:30 and the law represents the reverence, 41:32 which we should look at these things 41:35 regarding the law of God and the plan of redemption. 41:38 Are we really thinking the reverence of it today? 41:40 We go in the sanctuary 41:41 and we've got everything in the world on our mind, 41:43 except meeting with Jesus, meeting with the Holy Spirit. 41:49 These angels that were there on there, 41:51 they represent, notice this. 41:53 They were used by God to answer questions that Aaron, 41:56 the high priest had. 41:58 You remember? 41:59 The right one would do what? 42:00 There's the question and there the right angel 42:02 would light up for yes. 42:04 And then on the left angel will cloud up for no. 42:09 God said He would commune there with them, Exodus 25. 42:12 You remember that? 42:14 And I just say in my question is, do you need grace today? 42:16 Do I need grace today? 42:18 And to receive grace, the Bible says in Hebrews 4:15-16. 42:22 Hebrews 4:15-16. 42:25 So let us come how? 42:27 Let us come boldly to the throne of God. 42:29 How many of us are creeping up there? 42:31 God said come boldly to the throne of God 42:34 that we may obtain mercy 42:35 and find help in our time of need. 42:37 If we ever needed help and grace and mercy 42:39 it's now, where do we go? 42:40 Go to the mercy seat what it says. 42:43 Things that are impossible will become possible 42:45 through Jesus Christ. 42:47 Why? 42:49 Oh, my, Daniel 7. 42:50 I'm getting, time is getting shorter. 42:51 I'm going to skip through some things and go on. 42:53 I want to hit a couple of points. 42:54 I think it's very, very important to us. 42:56 In 1 Corinthians 6, 42:58 I'm going to skip down 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 43:00 talks about the body as a temple of the Holy Ghost, 43:03 which is in you. 43:04 Then we are reminded, we know we are bought, with a price, 43:08 glorify God, where? 43:09 In your, good, glorify God in your body. 43:12 So you're not your own. 43:14 You're bought with a price. 43:15 And we glorify God where? 43:17 In our body. 43:19 We read 1 Corinthians already 3:16-17. 43:21 You're the temple of God. 43:23 And God wants us to live and taking our body 43:25 and do what we need to do to be the correct temple. 43:28 So the Holy Spirit can live. 43:31 These verses to me, at least tells us this that His Spirit 43:34 wants to dwell in this temple that He made. 43:38 But it has to be, notice, the temple has to be made 43:41 after the heavenly pattern. 43:44 Is the temple? 43:45 Your temple, my temple, is it made after the heavenly 43:47 pattern, Jesus Christ? 43:52 Before Christ can come and live in this temple, 43:57 He gives each one of us a test 44:00 to see if we love Him supremely. 44:02 And we want Him to be with us and live in us. 44:05 So God said, back then He said, make them a sanctuary. 44:09 That means 44:11 there's going to be things that we're going to have to give up. 44:12 You come to Jesus Christ. 44:13 You want to be a Christian, there's things that may be 44:15 going to have to be given up. 44:17 Things had to be given up when they built the tabernacle. 44:19 Do you remember the Saint Temple? 44:22 To start bring this, right? 44:23 Bringing all these different things 44:25 because they have to make it after the heavenly pattern. 44:29 So it takes, heaven's going to take giving up 44:31 some things in order to be a Bible Christian. 44:36 Do you want to be the real Christian, the real McCoy? 44:40 First, it takes a willing heart and a willing mind. 44:42 2 Corinthians 8:12, "For there first be a willing," what? 44:45 "Mind and acceptable to God, 44:47 to a man what he hath and not according to he hath not. 44:52 "Very, very interesting. 44:53 God said in making the earthly sanctuary, 44:55 what did He say in Exodus 25? 44:57 I don't have time to go into all that right now. 44:58 But He said, all had to be willing offerings 45:00 and bring me your gold and your silver and your brass, 45:03 all the other materials to build a sanctuary. 45:07 Even said in Exodus 38, I'm not picking on a certain class 45:11 here or anything, but I want you to notice with me. 45:13 Exodus 38:8 and billing the laver, 45:16 for instance, out of brass. 45:18 God told the women, notice this, 45:20 He told the women to bring the looking glasses 45:23 and the mirrors for that. 45:26 God asked them to give up their mirrors 45:28 or their self-adoration or there, 45:31 here it says self-righteousness. 45:35 You can't blame me, you just have to look at here and say, 45:37 okay, let's look at this thing here. 45:38 Exodus 38:8, God sent for the women to bring this. 45:41 Exodus 35:22, notice, the Bible says, " 45:44 And they came both men and women, 45:45 as many as were willing hearted, 45:48 brought bracelets, and their earrings, and their rings, 45:52 and their tablets." 45:53 Hebrew, that means your jewels and golden beads 45:56 and all the jewels of gold. 45:58 "And every man that offered an offering 46:01 of gold unto the Lord." 46:02 What did God say? 46:04 Make a sanctuary, getting ready to meet with God. 46:06 He is here, holy, holy. 46:07 He said get off some of those things that you're putting on. 46:10 And he told Him what to bring. 46:11 He said, get over the, you know, 46:12 the wristbands and the rings and the earrings 46:14 and all this kind of business. 46:16 Even the animals that were sacrificed were there. 46:18 You know, it had to be when you gave those, 46:20 it had to be with a willing heart. 46:22 In other words, Jesus simply makes the statement here 46:25 that we need to rethink about for just a moment here. 46:27 You know, who do you love the most? 46:31 Is that maybe your mirrors, come on now, 46:34 or your self-righteousness? 46:36 Or do you love anything more than you love Me? 46:38 Matthew 6:33. 46:40 The Bible is very clear, 46:41 says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and what? 46:43 His righteousness, all these other things 46:45 will be added unto you. 46:47 If you love Me more than these, 46:50 will you not be willing to give up some things? 46:53 But if you don't, I can't dwell in you. 46:57 For each temple has to be built after the heavenly pattern. 47:02 So God gives some strong counsel to us today. 47:06 1 Peter 3:4, the Bible said talking about, again, 47:10 it's not picking on the ladies, but the Bible has said, 47:12 I'm just reading it. 47:14 Those, notice this, 47:15 whose adorning let it not be the outward 47:17 adorning of the plating of the hair. 47:21 That simply means you look it up in the original language, 47:23 elaborate braiding of the hair. 47:26 Some people try to say, yeah, putting gold in, 47:28 do all kinds of different things in here. 47:29 That's not what the Hebrew brings to our attention. 47:32 Somebody may try to stick something else in there. 47:34 You can look up Webster dictionary's 47:36 plating of the hair is a, notice this, 47:39 is the braiding of the hair, elaborate hairdos, 47:42 where it takes to 10 hours, 15 hours, 30 hours 47:46 to get some of these things done. 47:48 There's no use to get angry about and all upset. 47:50 These are things that God want us to look at. 47:52 He said this is not what it's all about. 47:54 Revelation 12, the pure woman, Revelation 17, the harlot, 47:57 look how each one was dressed. 48:00 Review and Herald, 3/17/1899. 48:03 Notice this. 48:04 It says, "In dress and in speech, in deportment, 48:07 we are to be a people distinct and separate from the world." 48:10 Sometime we can't tell the difference. 48:13 We can't tell the difference, we're to be distinct. 48:16 Did you notice that, we're to be separate? 48:18 No, we don't want to be separate. 48:19 We don't want to be different, then you don't have to be, 48:21 but God says His people will be. 48:24 God tells us He does not want His temple 48:26 to be half gold and silver as outside beauty. 48:31 But to have Christ is what this Bible is telling us. 48:33 The hidden man of the heart on the inside. 48:37 Remember the beauty of the earthly sanctuary 48:39 was inside and not outside. 48:43 Paul expresses this quick. 48:44 The last couple of minutes we have here, 48:46 concerning the attitude. 48:47 Notice this. 48:49 I hate to say it again, but I'm going to say it anyway, 48:50 the conduct of women in the church. 48:53 1 Timothy 2:9-10, let, notice this, "In like manner also, 48:56 that women adorn themselves put in order arrangement 48:59 themselves in modest apparel, good taste, conservative, 49:02 with shamefacedness," that's what with what? 49:04 "You know self-respect and sobriety." 49:06 That means a little self-control, 49:08 "Not with broided hair," again, notice 49:10 that, that's plating again, that's elaborate braids. 49:13 It says, "No gold, no pearls, no costly arrayed. 49:17 " Did you get that? 49:18 Verse 10, "But which becometh woman professing godliness 49:22 which in good works." 49:23 So you can see, 49:25 this is a very powerful passage of scripture. 49:27 In fact, the one that even before that, 49:30 and it really, it challenges us as God's people. 49:34 You know, if we go back and we look, remember weâ | 49:36 Our body is the temple. 49:38 God wants to dwell in the temple. 49:40 Remember the temple has to be made after the what? 49:42 The pattern as it were that it's in heaven. 49:45 So it may be different than we've thought about 49:47 or maybe we've never thought about 49:49 in the earthly sanctuary about 49:51 maybe what we put on our bodies or into our bodies, 49:53 or the way that we respond to the Word of God. 49:56 So I'm going to encourage you 49:58 as you look at this passage of Scripture. 50:00 Again, we just read in 1 Timothy 2:9-10. 50:03 It's very pointed. 50:05 And some people just get all upset about it, but you know, 50:07 if it's in the Word of God, why get upset? 50:09 Just read it. 50:11 And, you know, remember it says women adorn themselves. Why? 50:14 Because it seems to be pointing in that direction 50:16 as adorn themselves. 50:18 And we need to be what? 50:19 Adorn God, the Holy Spirit of the living God 50:21 needs to be coming out. 50:22 And not anything that would take the place of that. 50:25 As people would look sobriety, self-control and their hair. 50:29 You know, I've thought about this reverence toward God 50:33 and doing what God would have us to do 50:37 to profess to even be like Christ, 50:39 to be a Christian, and yet even dress immodestly 50:43 is a form of a word we don't want to hear, hypocrisy. 50:47 We profess to be Christians 50:49 in the way that we dress sometime. 50:52 You know, really we're living in hour of earth's history 50:54 where God said, I'm coming back for the people 50:56 who dare to be different. 50:57 We cannot dress the way the world dresses 51:01 and claim to be followers of Christ. 51:03 Study the earthly sanctuary again, 51:05 you'll see how God gave right direction and everything 51:08 that the priests and those who were officiating, what? 51:10 That they wore. 51:11 He wanted to make sure it's not even 51:13 when they went up to the altar of the sacrifice, 51:15 even their ankles didn't even show. 51:17 So we need to be careful from based upon the Word of God. 51:21 And again, you might say at this point in time, 51:23 you might say, well, you know, I agree. 51:26 I agree with most of what's been said right here, 51:29 but you're going to say, remember, 51:30 God asked to give up our gold and our silver and you know, 51:33 our earrings and our bracelets. 51:35 And, you know, He covers it all. 51:37 And certainly that's, you know, a lot more in Isaiah Chapter 3 51:39 that we get into, but we won't, we don't have time to do that. 51:42 But as we look at it and you say, well, I understand, 51:44 but I'd be willing to give off and take off anything 51:48 that I need to, because the Word of God says no gold. 51:51 So I don't know how you're going to beat that one. 51:53 No gold and no silver. 51:55 But you're going to say, well, I know, 51:57 but my wedding ring is a little bit different. 51:59 It is. And I say, well, yeah, it is. 52:01 And, but how many people you think about the rings they, 52:05 you know, that's given to commemorate a certain thing, 52:07 for instance, a super bowl ring, or a graduation ring, 52:12 a retirement ring, a birthday ring and engagement ring. 52:16 I mean, it, the list just goes on and on and everybody thinks 52:19 that's the most important thing, But is it really? 52:23 Everyone can say it's special to me. 52:26 It tells the world something about me. 52:29 Well, you know, I can say, yeah, it does that. 52:33 But then I must go back to the Word of God 52:35 and again not trying to pick on anybody. 52:36 But the Word of God says this, 52:37 but you know how little these passages of scripture 52:40 are touched upon in the pulpit today 52:42 because it's distasteful to some. 52:45 God never asked us. 52:46 He just said present what I've given you. 52:48 And that's what we should do. 52:49 He said no gold, no matter how small, no matter how little, 52:52 no matter if you spent something on it, 52:54 you didn't spend anything on. 52:55 God said no gold and silver, no pearls, et cetera. 52:58 Yeah. 52:59 This may be your test. 53:01 This may be, you know, somebody close to you, 53:03 maybe a test for them. 53:05 But I would, you know, just to Google, just something 53:07 worldly out there and said, you know, 53:09 I want to know about the wedding band and so on. 53:12 I mean, where did it come from and so on and so forth. 53:14 And I went to, you know, www.engagementringhistory.com. 53:20 So this is from an outside source, 53:21 but notice even they know, notice this, 53:24 it says this, the wearing of ring, 53:27 is the wearing of rings pagan? 53:31 Here's what the answer. 53:33 The meaning of the wedding ring 53:34 as a symbol of marital commitment 53:38 finds its origin in pagan mythology and superstition. 53:44 The investment of this pagan symbol 53:48 has completely lost its pagan meaning. 53:51 And they go on to say, why? 53:53 Because so-called Christianity has taken it 53:56 and changed the meaning of it. 53:58 We as Christians are, should be very conscious 54:01 of where something originated. 54:03 Where did it come from? 54:04 We do that on Sabbath and Sunday issue 54:06 and a lot of other different things, as you well know. 54:10 So if we not realize it come from pagan mythology 54:13 and superstition and the Roman church 54:15 and then baptized and we brought. 54:18 Why would we want to do it 54:19 when God says don't do it. 54:21 These are just some things that we're challenged 54:22 with as we study the earthly sanctuary, 54:25 as we looked at it. 54:26 Remember he said, hey, you know, He is here, holy, holy. 54:30 We're the temple. 54:31 He wants to dwell in us. 54:33 The temple must be holy, 54:34 and shouldn't we consider those things 54:36 that might be offensive to God. 54:38 Consider giving them up. 54:39 Is anything too big too good to give up for God? 54:43 Moses made the earthly sanctuary. 54:46 He made it according 54:47 to the fashion that He had seen. 54:50 Paul declares, the tabernacle and the vessels of the ministry 54:54 were a pattern of those things in the heavens. 54:57 John said, I saw a sanctuary in heaven. 55:01 The sanctuary in which Jesus ministers in our behalf, 55:05 the great original, the sanctuary 55:08 built by Moses was a copy. 55:10 He is here, holy, holy. 55:14 Wouldn't you consider right now, 55:16 just there may be decisions you need to make 55:18 about some of the things that's been said, 55:20 that you make that decision right now, 55:22 based on the Word of God, not based on family, 55:24 not based upon what somebody else might say. 55:26 Some church teaches, just simply go to the Word of God. 55:30 And so, you know, God's Word has said this. 55:32 I didn't know it before. 55:34 I've done all these things. 55:36 And I didn't realize that my body is the temple 55:38 and it needs to be acceptable to Jesus. 55:41 So He can come in and dwell in me and purify me 55:43 and make me ready for His soon coming. 55:46 Do you want to be ready for the coming of Jesus? 55:49 I know I do. 55:50 And I know there's things just got to be given up. 55:53 And so we'll present those to Him on a daily basis. 55:56 Say, God cake take control of my life. 55:58 I can't control it. 56:00 Help my mind, I can't seem to control it. 56:02 He'll help you with that. 56:04 I take this and I wear this. 56:05 I do that, but I want to be pleasing in your sight. 56:08 He'll help you do that. 56:10 Let Him come in, let Him be the Lord of your life. 56:14 I'm going to say a little prayer for you in closing, 56:16 because I know it's a challenge. 56:18 It's something new. Maybe you've never heard it before. 56:20 And you just don't know what to do with some of this stuff. 56:23 But I just, I'm going to encourage you to submit it 56:25 before our heavenly Father who will take control 56:28 and He will help you. 56:30 He will never ask you to give up anything 56:31 that's good for you. 56:33 He only wants to give you that, which is good 56:35 so that we can be ready to meet Him in the clouds of glory. 56:38 Now I pray for you. You pray for me too, will you? 56:41 I'm going to kneel and have prayer. 56:44 Loving Father in heaven we truly again, 56:46 we thank You for Your Word. 56:48 You said it's like a two edged sword. 56:50 So it rightly divides and separates 56:52 and it cuts some time. 56:54 And we read these things, we know what it says, 56:55 but sometime we just don't want to do it, Lord. 56:57 Or sometime we're just selfish and self-centered. 56:59 We pray that the Holy Spirit will now speak to our hearts 57:01 and our lives. 57:03 And simply come to you and say, 57:04 Lord, I want to put You first 57:05 and whatever needs to be given up that I could be ready 57:07 to meet You in the clouds of glory. 57:09 Let it take place. 57:10 And I thank You in advance for Holy Spirit, 57:12 power and truth in' Jesus name. 57:14 Amen. 57:16 It's been good to spend this time with you. 57:18 We're going to be praying for you. 57:19 We want you to pray for us. 57:21 We need to hear as things go forward at 3ABN 57:23 and then ministries around the world 57:25 that we love to spend this time with you 57:26 and study the Word of God. 57:28 God bless you. 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