(Through the Bible) Leviticus 16-20 — Chuck Smith

The Day of Atonement and the High Priest

Now, in chapter 16, we deal with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The High Priest wasn't to go into the Holy of Holies at any time. The Lord began to speak to Moses, and this was given after the death of the sons of Aaron.

And now God is becoming more specific about the ministry of the priest and how that they are not to go into the Holy of Holies at any time, that they die not. For God said, I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

And so Aaron shall come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, and he shall put on a holy linen coat, and shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with a linen miter shall he be attired.

These are the holy garments, therefore, that he shall wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. Now, on the Day of Atonement, now during the rest of the year, the other priest would offer the sacrifices, but on the Day of Atonement, actually, the High Priest had to do all the work.

And if you count the number of animals and all that he had to kill and butcher and offer, it comes to some thirty-some animals that he had to deal with. Plus, he had to bathe five times. Now, on this particular day, he did not wear the beautiful garments of the High Priest, the ephod and the blue miter and all that.

But on this day, he wore just the plain linen of the robes of the priesthood. And the first thing he had to do is offer an offering for his own sins. He had to take care of his own sins first. And then, having offered the offerings for his own sins, then he would offer for the sins of the people.

And of course, as you look at this, it is all looking forward to Jesus Christ. So there is just beautiful symbolism all the way through, with the exception that there is no equivalent in Christ for the sin offering that the High Priest offered for himself.

For Jesus did not have to offer any sacrifice for himself, being sinless. There's no New Testament equivalent to that. But Christ has become our High Priest. And he entered into the heavens of which the earthly tabernacle was only a model.

And not with the blood of goats, but with his own blood. And his was not an annual affair, for the High Priest must each year offer, but Jesus once and for all. And is forever sitting down now at the right hand of the Father until his enemies are made his footstool.

But in the work of Aaron, on the Day of Atonement, you find tremendous symbolisms to Christ, our Great High Priest, going in and offering for us and for our atonement before God. Speaking of the Old Testament and the sacrifices, Paul the Apostle tells us in Colossians that these were all a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ.

These things were all just shadows of Jesus Christ. He's the substance. And so Christ standing there at the division of history, cast the shadow in the Old Testament in the sacrifices and in the holy days and all, they were all shadows of Jesus Christ.

And none more important or powerful than this Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, when the priest made atonement for the people and in the offerings we see the work of Jesus Christ. Now, there were two goats that were brought and the High Priest Aaron would take the two goats and would cast lots on the two goats.

One was for the Lord and the other was a scapegoat. Verse 9, and Aaron shall bring the goat which is upon which the Lord's lot fell and offer him for the sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself.

And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord and his hands full of sweet incense, big and small, and bring it within the veil. And he shall take the blood of the bullock, sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward.

Before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle blood with a finger seven times. And then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his blood within the veil to do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat and shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and for their transgressions.

And so now on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, when the high priest doing all of his work alone, no help on this day, even as Jesus alone bore our sins, suffered in our place. Now the high priest would only come into the Holy of Holies one day a year.

That was all. This was coming into the presence of God manifested there within the Holy of Holies, the mercy seat. And on this day of atonement he would enter the Holy of Holies three times. First of all coming in offering the sin offering for himself.

Then with the blood of the bullock as a sin offering for the people and then with the blood of the goat as a sin offering for the people. Coming into the Holy of Holies offering these sin offerings that God might make a covering of the sins of the nation.

Blood, Atonement, and Access to God

Now this is the law of God for sin and as we get into a subsequent chapter, God does deals with the importance of the blood in chapter 17. And he forbids any eating of blood. And in verse 11 he said, For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls.

For it is the blood that makes the atonement for the soul. The covering. It's the blood that makes the covering. I point that out to point up to me what is a great disparity today among the Jews. Though they observe still Yom Kippur as the holiest day of the year, yet I have questioned the Jews as to how they hope to have forgiveness of their sins.

And the standard pat answer that the Jew gives to me as far as the basis for the forgiveness of his sins is that Yom Kippur is now the day of reflection in which you think over your past year. And you think of all of the evil things you have done and you think of all of the good things that you have done.

And your hope and purpose is that your good outweighs your evil. Now if you know some crooked Jew that's been giving you a bad time you might go to him the day before Yom Kippur. Because quite often about this time of the year they're really striving hard to make up for all of the other mismanagement during the year so that on the next day when they're reflecting they're going to come out okay in these balances.

And yet, and yet, the fallacy of it all. Because God has established the basis for relationship with Himself. And the way that God has established for the basis of relationship is through blood sacrifices for it is through the blood that atonement is made.

God also declared in the law for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. And sin is that which has always separated man from God. And under the law there is not one word about balancing your good works against your evil.

God made a covenant with these people. A covenant whereby they might relate to Him. A covenant whereby they might come to Him. But that covenant whereby they might come to Him was actually a covenant that involved the shedding of the blood of an animal for it is through the blood that atonement is made.

Now one thing the law shows is not how approachable God is but how unapproachable God is by the normal man. Under the law there is no easy approach to God. There was only one man that could really approach God and that was the high priest.

And that was only once a year. And that was only after many sacrifices and many washings. And so their own law shows them that God is unapproachable by them. And when I have challenged the Jew on this issue, he really has no real answer.

It only gives you some of the lame things that the rabbis have taught them which have no scriptural basis. The Old Testament doesn't really present us a God that can be approached by anyone at any time.

In fact the 16th chapter here begins, And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before the Lord and died. And the Lord said unto Moses, speak to Aaron thy brother that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil.

You're not to come here just any time. You're only to come here once a year. And then only as you follow all of the ceremony that God is laying out here. Now if God was so unapproachable then, What makes the Jew think that God is any more approachable today?

And if He could only be approached through blood sacrifices, How do they think that they can approach Him with their own works? Which God's Word in their own Testament declares is as filthy rags in the sight of God.

Now in the Old Testament, Any endeavor to approach God by any other method than the prescribed method by God, Was considered by God an abomination. So they are not true to their own scriptures. Having forsaken the way of God, They have now sought to establish their own righteousness by their works, Apart from the law of God.

And as Paul said, Those to whom the law was given never did attain to the righteousness that is in the law. Because having departed from the law of God, They are seeking now by works to be righteous before God.

And Paul in Romans shows the fallacy of their whole approach to God today. Now, we have an approach to God. Something that Israel no longer has. They don't have any offering for sins. They don't have any temple.

They don't have any high priest. But we have approached to God today through Jesus Christ, Our great high priest, Who has entered into heaven for us. Not into the earthly tabernacle made with hands, But into the very presence of God, The heavenly of which the earthly temple was only a model.

And there Jesus has entered in. And by His entering in with the sacrifice for us, He then flung wide the door and said, Ok, all of you kids come on in. And all of the children, Who by faith, Believe and trust in Jesus Christ, Now have a free access to God through the blood of Jesus Christ,.

And the blood of His new covenant, That He has established with man. And therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, That we might receive mercy in our time of need. What a beautiful thing we have through Jesus Christ.

So we are not coming to God apart from a blood sacrifice. For it is the blood that makes the atonement. And without the shedding of blood, There is no remission of sin. And that is why Jesus shed His blood.

And that is why God put such a high respect for blood, In the minds of these people, Emphasizing over and over, The high respect that they should have for blood. Even the blood of animals. It is to teach them that high respect,.

So that when God's blood was shed for our sins, It should be something that is held in highest respect and reverence. In Hebrews we are told that he that despised Moses' law, Was stoned in the mouth of two or three witnesses.

Of how much sore punishment, Suppose ye he to be thought worthy,. Who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God,. And who hath counted the blood of His covenant, Wherewith He was sanctified an unholy thing.

Oh, the reverence that God would have us to have and respect, God would have us to have for blood, Even the blood of the animal, How much more respect for the blood of Jesus Christ. And I shudder when people speak disparagingly concerning the blood of Jesus Christ.

I shudder when people say, Oh, Christianity is a bloody religion. I shudder when men like Voltaire say, The blood of Christ, the blood of pigs, there's no difference. I shudder at such blasphemy. God wants you to have the very highest respect For the blood of Jesus Christ That was shed, That your sins might be put away.

But the glorious thing about Jesus Christ, And about His sacrifice for our sins, It was only necessary once, And it covered for all. We don't have to bring sin offerings. His sacrifice was sufficient for every one of us, And has provided the basis whereby God can forgive you of your sins.

But let me tell you this, In the Scripture, there is no other basis whereby God can forgive you of your sins, And there is no way that you as a sinner can have fellowship with God Until the sin issue is dealt with.

Something has to be done about your sins. God is a holy God. There is no sin that can dwell in His presence. And thus for you to become one with God, Have fellowship with God, Something must be done about your sins.

So no man can really have fellowship with God apart from Jesus Christ. The cross of Christ is to them that perish foolishness. But to us who are saved, thereby it's the power of God, Whereby I've been cleansed of my sin, So that now I can come to God through Jesus Christ.

The Two Goats and Christ’s Victory Over Sin

So, the 16th chapter is absolutely a fabulous chapter to study. As you see Aaron the high priest going in, Sprinkling the blood before the mercy seat, Making the atonement in the holy place for the uncleanness of Israel.

And that was with the blood of the bullock, And then going back in with the blood of the goat. The two goats, they cast the lots. One was for the Lord, sacrificed as the sin offering, But the other one, the scapegoat.

These speak of the two-fold work of Jesus Christ. Jesus not only provides the forgiveness of your sins, But he also provides you power over sin, To separate your sins from you. Now this second goat, the scapegoat, After having slain the first goat, upon whom the lot fell, And offering it as a sacrifice, he took the second goat, And he laid his hands upon the head of the second goat.

And over the head of the second goat, He confessed all the sins of the nation. Transferring all of the sins onto this second goat. And then the second goat was led by a priest, Out of camp. Out into the wilderness.

And it was let go. To just run off in the wilderness. And it was the scapegoat. And it spoke of the separation of us from sin. Now, as the years went on, There was a highly developed ritual that went with this.

As the temple was finally established in Jerusalem, There was a certain area where the scapegoat was generally released. And there were men that would stand at vantage points. All the way out to the Judean wilderness.

And the priest would be going out,. And the people would all be waiting back in the great area of the temple mount. And the priest, as he would lead the scapegoat out into the wilderness,. Finally he'd come to the wilderness area,.

Where he turned it loose. And as it ran, and when it disappeared, He would give a signal to the fellow back on the mountain peak,. Who would give the signal to the next guy,. Who would send the signal to the next, to the next, to the next.

And in just a few moments, The signal would come from the Mount of Olives,. To those down on the temple mount,. That the scapegoat has gone. The sins are gone. And there would be this great rejoicing of the people.

The singing of the Hallel Psalms,. The praises unto God,. As the news would come back,. That the goat carrying the sin was gone. And I think of that great rejoicing, When we realize that our sins are gone.

Never to be remembered again. Christ having borne them, Carried them. And the victory and the power that he gives to us, Over sin. So, this Day of Atonement, Most important day, In the Jewish calendar, It's worthy to study and compare, With Jesus Christ.

So, in verse 34, This shall be an everlasting statute unto you, To make atonement for the children of Israel, For all their sins once a year. And they did as the Lord commanded Moses. Now in chapter 17, God laid out that there was only to be one place for sacrifice.

The Sanctity of Blood and Fellowship With God

And that was the temple. They weren't to just sacrifice anywhere. But the tabernacle and later the temple, Were to be the only places where sacrifices were to be offered unto the Lord. And that any time you killed any of your animals, You really should bring them, You shouldn't just butcher your animals anywhere in the field.

You should bring them to the temple, And offer them unto the Lord as a peace offering, Or communion with God, So that you would offer it, And then you would get part of the meat back for yourself. In order that as you ate, It was something that had been offered to God.

He is having part of it. But the fat and all was burned as a sweet savor unto the Lord. And so you get the meat to eat. And as you eat, the idea is, I'm communing with God. I'm eating with God. I'm having this fellowship with God.

The peace offering. And so any time you were going to eat meat, Any time you were going to have a barbecue, You should bring it first to the priest. Offer it to the Lord. Let it be slain there. You weren't to just slay the animals anywhere.

But let there be that constant reminder Of the need that we have for fellowship with God. And so offer it to God. And realize that I'm eating with God. I'm partaking with God. I'm a part of God. And realize that relationship that you have to the Lord.

And then, in the latter portion of chapter 17, The sanctity of the blood. Beginning with verse 10. They are not to eat any manner of blood, Nor to allow any stranger within the land To eat any manner of blood.

For God will set His face against that person And cut them off from the people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon the altar To make an atonement for your souls.

For it is the blood that makes the atonement for the soul. Therefore, I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood. Neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, Or of the strangers, and so forth, That hunts and catches any beast or fowl, That it may be eaten, He shall pour out the blood and cover it with dust.

For it is the life of all flesh. The blood is for the life thereof. Therefore, I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh. For the life of all flesh is the blood.

So the respect for life, And then, of course, the realization that The blood was that which brings the covering for sin. Chapter 18. Here we find the term used over and over again, For I am the Lord your God.

Holiness and Separation From the World

So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with Him. For I am the Lord your God. And actually, Laying out the importance of the fact that They are representing God to the world. Now Paul the Apostle speaks about how the name of God Is blasphemed among the Gentiles Because of the ways the Jews were living.

And God was stressing the importance For I am Jehovah your God. And all through this chapter, You'll find that emphasis as God deals with them In the way that they should live And dealing with moral issues in chapter 18.

Now, as God deals with these moral issues, He is dealing basically with incestuous relationships. First of all. And forbidding any type of incestuous relationship. I think that the movie industry Has had the most corrupting influence upon the world Than any other single source.

I think the minds of men have been polluted more Through the movie industry than anything else. I think that they have introduced more filth And corruption into the world Than any other single source.

And there seems to be within the movie industry A desire to show bizarre kind of relationships. First of all, adultery. Seeking to make it an acceptable practice. And then having satiated people With adulterous relationships So that it no longer gives a tingle, They started showing incestuous relationships.

Homosexual relationships. Seeking to make them accepted practices. And then began to show bestiality. The relationship with animals. Horrible, filthy, polluting things. Now, the Bible says, Whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap.

And if you sow to the flesh, You're going to, of the flesh, reap corruption. You cannot look at those things Without polluting yourself. Without polluting your mind. Because you are sowing into your mind these things.

And if these are the things you are sowing into your mind, Sowing to your flesh, Then of your flesh you're going to reap corruption. Paul tells us of the heathen world Having forsaken God. And not wishing to retain God in their minds, God gave them over to minds that were reprobate.

And then he begins to speak of the reprobate practices, Homosexuality, And goes on then and lists a whole horrible list Of the reprobate practices of men Who no longer wanted to have God in their conscience.

Of course they didn't want God in their conscience. Of course they'd like to think that we evolved from animals. They must get rid of God out of their conscience. Because they could never live with a conscience With all of the horrible, filthy things That they have dreamed up in their minds And in their imaginations And have portrayed upon the films.

Horrible acts. And as Paul lists for us in Romans chapter 1, These horrible things that men did. He says something very startling at the end of the chapter. Being filled with all unrighteousness, Fornication, Wickedness, Covetousness, Maliciousness, Full of envy, Murder, Debate, Deceit, Malignity, Whispers, Backbiters, Haters of God, Despiteful, Proud, Bolsters, Inventors of evil things, Disobedient to parents, Without understanding, Covenant breakers, Without natural affection, Implacable, Unmerciful.

Now, Go down that list again and just think of the movies. What kind of things do they depict in the movies? Fornication, Unrighteousness, Wickedness, Covetousness, Murder, Deceit, Haters of God, Proud, Bolsters, Inventors of evil things, Without natural affection.

Those are the things portrayed. They say, well, this is life. This is realism. This is how people live. We have a right to show it because this is real. This is real life. Realism. If that is so, God help us.

We're living in a horrible world. But, The last verse is the clincher. Who knowing the judgment of God, That they which commit such things are worthy of death, Not only do the same, But have pleasure in them that do them.

If you go to the show to find pleasure in watching murders, In watching fornication, In watching these things, If you go to the show to find pleasure watching other people do them, You are guilty. Taking pleasure in those that do them.

So God is speaking now of the moral laws. His people are to be a pure people. His people are to be a representative people before the world. You're not to be as the world. Everybody's doing it as no excuse for the child of God.

You're to be separate. You're to be different from everybody. He is the Lord your God. And your life is to be separate and different. And if it's not, Then what do you really have? Surely not a true relationship with God.

And so, The first thing that God is forbidding here, Is any type of incestuous relationships. Things that are, All of a sudden become a very popular subject in the Hollywood movies. After, The showing of a few movies, Where fathers abusing their daughters and all.

They've made it almost a common thing. And the young girls that are abused by their fathers today, The number of them is staggering. It's horrible. It's unthinkable. But that whole horrible door was opened by Hollywood.

Oh yes, I know it existed earlier, But it's magnified through Hollywood. Now they're coming out with a series of films on Mothers having incestuous relationships with their sons. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

One of the shows on TV that you're missing tonight. Has that theme. Thank God you're missing it. What a corrupt sinful world. But, Because, Jehovah is your God. You're not to be polluted by these things.

You're not to follow these practices. You're to be different. And the theme all the way through chapter 18, For I am Jehovah your God. And you'll find that he says it some 14 times. As he emphasizes this truth.

Moral Boundaries and Judgment on Defilement

Now they are not to allow their children to pass through the fires. Thy seed to pass through the fires of Molech. Which was, Now God said the Egyptians did these things. The Canaanites did these things.

I know that they're doing it. But for this reason I'm driving the Canaanites out of the land. For this reason I'm destroying them. You're not to follow the practice of the Canaanites. The land, The people in the land where you're going.

In verse 27, The prohibition of homosexual relationships. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination. Now these, I know where I am. I'm just trying to frame the word for these characters who are trying to pass themselves off as ministers and so forth who are advocating homosexual relationships.

Cal State Long Beach has a Gays for Christ Club. Governor Brown just appointed an avowed homosexual to the Superior Court in Los Angeles. Governor Brown is going to be one of the featured speakers at the Gay Community Center's fundraising dinner in Los Angeles at the end of this month.

He's beginning to identify himself so much with that community that it's beginning to look like our governor needs to examine his own relationship with God. And I think you got the message. In verse 23,.

Bestiality. Forbidden. Defile not yourselves. Verse 24,. In any of these things, for in all of these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. The land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it.

And the land itself vomits out her inhabitants. In other words, the land itself is so sick of the corruption that is going on within, ultimately the land itself vomits out. I wonder, I wonder. Jesus, it was interesting, said when the Pharisees said, Lord rebuke your disciples when he was making his triumphant entry.

He said, I'll tell you something. If these disciples were to all together hold their peace, these very rocks would cry out. I wonder how much the land really knows. God said to Cain, The blood of thy brothers, the ground, crieth out unto me.

Where your brother's blood was spilled. Now God says the land vomited out the inhabitants of the people. So sick were their practices. You see, there is a point of moral decay that once a nation reaches that point, it can no longer exist.

It's gone beyond the point of return and the nation can no longer exist. It's going to crumble and fall. And let me tell you something. The United States is awfully close to that point. Now God in speaking of these things said to the nation Israel, if you will obey my commandments and do them, then I will make you great.

But if you forsake them, then you're going to be cursed in the city, cursed in the fields, cursed everywhere you go. God said righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. And God's cry against Israel and the reason why she had to fall was they have forsaken My laws.

They have forsaken My commandments. And they've gone after their own ways. And I'm sure that as God looks at the United States today, His cry is much the same. They have forsaken My ways. They've forsaken My laws.

They've forsaken My commandments. And the land is about to vomit out its inhabitants because of the things that we have allowed. Sitting back and doing nothing. And so, the land is defiled. Therefore, I visit the iniquity as the land vomits out her inhabitants.

Now, verse 28, that the land spew not you out also when you defile it as it spewed out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

Therefore, shall ye keep My ordinance that ye may commit not any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you and that ye defile not yourselves therein. For I am Jehovah your God.".

Holiness, Justice, and Neighbor Love

The repetition again. Now God continues in this same vein as He moves into chapter 19. Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel and say unto them, Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

You shall reverence every man his mother and his father and keep My Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods, for I am the Lord your God. Notice the repetition over and over.

I am the Lord your God. You're not to have idols or molten gods and so forth. I am the Lord your God. And if you offer a sacrifice of a peace offering unto the Lord, ye shall offer it of your own will.

Again, man's free will involved in all of his service and worship to God. Eat what you can for two days. If you can't eat it all in two days, burn it. If you eat it the third day, then it's no longer accepted.

It becomes an abomination of that which was offered as sacrifice in the peace offerings to God. When you reap your harvest, don't gather the corners of the fields and don't gather everything. Leave something there for the poor of the land.

And so the welfare program was a beautiful program in that they were to go through and pick the grapes that were ripe, but leave everything that wasn't ripe. But they couldn't go through and pick the second time.

Whatever was left was left for the poor in the land. They could come in. Once your harvesters had gone through, you weren't to glean your own land. Let it be there for the poor. Don't even harvest the corners of your fields.

Leave that for the poor. And thus the poor could go out and gather in the fields any time the harvesters had gone through. It was there. It was available for them. And so it wasn't just a dole out program.

You just didn't go out and get food stamps. But you actually went out and gathered your own. And so you were busy doing something rather than just sitting and watching TV and polluting your mind. Now, the Lord goes on to give further instructions.

Verse 10, Thou shalt not glean the vineyard, neither gather every grape. Leave them for the poor and the stranger. You shall not steal. You're not to deal falsely. Don't lie. You shall not swear by God's name falsely.

Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God, for I am Jehovah. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him of the wages that he's hired. Actually, you would pay wages daily. You weren't even to keep his wages overnight.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf. Now, these are a couple of things I found sort of amusing. You're not to curse the deaf or trip the blind. Man, what a dirty dog. Cursing the deaf man. Or laying a stumbling block before a blind man.

I mean, that's really... But you know, I'm amazed at how cruel people really are. I'm amazed how cruel children are to a handicapped child. What is it about our nature that children are so cruel to a handicapped child?

Now, in the animal realm, quite often a handicapped animal will be killed by the other animals. But unfortunately, sometimes men aren't far from that. Taking advantage of the disadvantaged. How often we see it done.

And yet there's nothing more cruel in all the world than taking advantage of a disadvantaged person. There's nothing more dangerous in all the world because God says he sticks up for the disadvantaged.

God said he watches over the widow. Man, when you're doing it to one that God is watching over, you're in big trouble. But you see, man apart from Jesus Christ isn't far from the animal. For an animal has body and consciousness.

And man apart from Jesus Christ has body and consciousness. Therefore, he relates well to the animal kingdom. Therefore, he is cruel to the handicapped or disadvantaged. But a man who has been born again by the Spirit of God and now has a spiritual birth, not just born of the flesh, but now born of the Spirit, and with the spiritual birth, now is related to God and related to Jesus Christ, you really can't do these things.

And if you find yourself doing these things persistently and continually, then I will tell you, you don't have a true relationship with Jesus Christ. For whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

For God's seed is in him now. A new seed. A new life. Born again by the seed of God, by the Spirit of God. And he cannot be living in sin. You say, Oh, I don't know about that, Chuck. Hey, I'm not telling you my words.