Exodus, Ch. 17 - Ch. 31

This is up on the mountain now Paul says that believers can help together by prayer 2nd

Corinthians 111 2nd Corinthians 111 which is what Aaron and her did you find in verse 12 but Moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it and Aaron and her held up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going

Down to the Sun and Joshua defeated Discomfited vanquished Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword

So Aaron and her they didn't sit back and say how come you can't hold your hands up Moses you're tired

Well, I'm tired too. I'm not coming up here to help you. I work as hard as you do No, they said we'll help

Believers are supposed to work together. They're not supposed to criticize each other If you see somebody that's burdened go help them with the burden

Instead of sitting back sometimes we say well if they walk with God, they wouldn't have those problems who says they wouldn't

You and I walk with God perfectly We don't do anything wrong, but we got problems Well, how come somebody else can't have a problem then?

We're supposed to help and encourage one another and to pray for one another and Moses had the rod of God in his hand

Which speaks of God's almighty power now It is important that God's people cooperate with God and gain him a victory over the flesh

Romans 6 Tells us to reckon To yield and to put to death the deeds of the body

Moses alone on that mountain could not have won the battle Joshua alone in the battlefield could not have won the battle it required both of them

And how wonderful that we have the interceding Son of God who is for us in Romans 8 34 and the indwelling

Spirit of God Who is for us Romans 8 26 and the Word of God in our hand my friends you are not weaponless

You have all that you ever need now notice that Joshua did not completely

Destroy the Amalekites he discomfited them in verse 13 he vanquished them

But it doesn't say that he destroyed them totally and completely The flesh will never be completely destroyed or eradicated in this life

Christ will give us a new completely total nature dominated by the Spirit of God when he returns

Philippians 3 21 now the promise of complete destruction of the flesh is given in verse 14 and the

Lord said unto Moses write this for a memorial in A book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua for I will utterly put out the remembrance of I'm Amalek from under heaven

God says it's something he's going to do, but it hadn't been done right at that moment He was going to completely push it out and in 2nd

Samuel chapter 1 Verses 6 through 10 it informs us

That it was one of the Amalekites that Saul spared that killed him that got him killed now

If you read 1st Samuel 15 You'll see that Saul sin was refusing to deal finally with the

Amalekites He was supposed to deal with him utterly and finally but he didn't do it and it was an

Amalekite that would use to bring about his death and If you don't put the death of flesh in your life every day

It'll be that same flesh that will bring about your discomfort in the will of God and will cut off the blessings of Lord From your life now in this passage of Scripture You find the word

Jehovah in verse 15 and Moses built an altar and called the name of it

Jehovah Nessie or Jehovah Nessie, and it means the Lord is my banner the

Lord is my banner We have our victory through Christ alone and not through our own efforts all right now in The third section of this is chapter 18 wisdom from the world

Now Bible students disagree as to the application of this chapter It just depends on who you read as what kind of idea you get

Whether or not Jethro who was his father -in -law when he came they disagree as to whether his advice

To Moses was of the Lord or was of the flesh You can find good men on either side some see this chapter as a picture of the future kingdom when the bride is joined to Christ and The Gentiles which is a picture of Jethro sharing the blessings of Israel Now we are going to reign with Christ and share his dominion just as the officers shared the rule with Moses But it is my own personal conviction as I study this that Jethro's counsel or his advice was of the flesh

It was of the flesh and not of the Lord for one thing in numbers 11.

We find a similar situation in Numbers chapter 11 and God took of his spirit and distributed the power among the 70 officers

Now Jethro's interpretation of the problem was selfish. He said why sit is thou thyself alone?

Thou will surely wear away This thing is too heavy for thee thou art not able

Now that sounds like Simon Peter in Matthew 16 verse 21 and following says pity thyself

Lord. Don't go to the cross Lord it'll hurt it'll be painful. You don't know what you're saying

Lord. You don't understand what happens when you go to the cross and This is what

Jethro was saying to him now God had already told Moses back in chapters 3 and 4 of Exodus That he alone would supply the needed grace to do the job now in numbers 11 which ties in with this

Moses agreed with Jethro's his father -in -law's Interpretation and he complained to God How many

Christians do I know they go to a father -in -law who walks in the flesh? And he gives his advice

Like it's the greatest and the most godly advice and gets that young boy into trouble in our will of God Because that man was out of will of God for himself

Be very careful where you get your advice from and how you follow advice Because this proved to be the wrong advice now in verse 11

After he complained to God Jethro admits that Jehovah is Greater than all gods that Jethro now

I know that the Lord is greater verse 11 of chapter 18 Then all gods for in the thing when thou dealt proudly he was above them as we said the other evening

Jethro worshipped other gods He was a pagan He was not a follower of the true

God of Israel He was not and so this is a far cry from a definite confession of faith in the true

God but in verse 27 furthermore as We look at verse 27 and Moses let his father -in -law depart and he went his way into his own land

He seemed to acknowledge God and he seemed to come close to God But we see him refusing to stay with Israel, but going back to his own people

Jethro Moses had a good testimony with him then and Moses did straighten things out with him

He did acknowledge that God was the main God of God was the true God But he wasn't willing to follow that God and stay with the people of Israel so he left now our

God is a God of order and there's nothing wrong with organization and This is one of the problems we come into this passage of Scripture But we wonder if this worldly wisdom of Jethro was pleasing to God for Jethro himself

Was not very sure about what he was advising Moses to do and this is what he was saying

Look at verse 23 if thou shalt do this thing and God command thee so Then thou shalt be able to endure and all this people shall also go to their place in the peace.

He's saying Spread out all these responsibilities to everybody else. Don't try to do this.

God told you to do it, but you can't do it yourself and So he's trying to get him to relinquish the responsibility

God had given and spread it out So he wouldn't have to do it himself now he was willing to rejoice and all that the

Lord had done in verse 9 and 10 and Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the

Lord had done to Israel When he had delivered out of the hands of the Egyptians Jethro said blessed be the Lord who's delivered you out of the hand of The Egyptians, but he was not willing to believe that God could help

Moses with the everyday burdens of life And so he said you can't stand it. You'll wear away Moses.

You cannot you can't stand those pressures How many wise instead of saying we need to trust

God? Turn around and say well, maybe you are just quit teaching Sunday school Maybe you ought to quit doing this maybe you ought to quit doing that because you see you can't do everything and So a man or a woman or a young man or young lady a mother or dad or parents will walk away from what

God's laid On your heart because somebody else advises him in the flesh that you're whatever God calls you to do.

He'll equip you to do it Whatever God lays on your heart to do he'll give you the strength and the wisdom to do it now

Moses adopted Jethro scheme and The people agreed to it, but we have no assurance that God approved the organization

Now God's attitude in numbers 11 suggest just the opposite that he did that God We don't have any evidence that that God approved this

But we know that Moses did adopt this scheme and the people agreed to it You can find that more clearly in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verses 9 to 18

Deuteronomy 1 verses 9 to 18 Moses agreed to it the people agreed to it But there's no evidence in the scripture that God decided to bless it now there are the open and obvious attacks of the flesh and Amalek is a picture of that But there are also the subtle ideas of the flesh they come very subtly

These appeals to us that if you're not careful You won't recognize him and that's sort of a picture like Jethro the subtle advice that he gave

Now Moses could have done whatever God called him to do for God's commandments are his enablements but it is easy for us to get wrapped up in pity and To feel that nobody else cares and that God has given us too great a burden

But if you read Isaiah 40 verse 31 You'll find that God is the solution to the problem and so let me read you

Isaiah 40 I Believe it is if it's not But they that wait upon the

Lord shall renew their strength They shall mount up with wings like eagles They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint if you're where God wants you

When God wants you to be there my friend God will give you the strength and sustain your life to be able to do what

God wants you to do well That's through chapter 18, and I know we all right.

We won't talk about God's law about God's law Probably the no topic is more misunderstood when you come to the

Bible than the law of Moses And it's meaning you cannot go to the Old Testament and found

Christianity You can't go to the Old Testament and use Old Testament concepts in the church Old Testament scriptures we do not get our doctrine from the

Old Testament We get our doctrine from the writings of the Apostle Paul and yet many people are in total confusion

Because they don't know how to correlate the Old Testament and the New Testament and they go back there And they find something they think that's for us and all of this now

To confuse the covenants of God is to misinterpret the mind of God and miss the blessings of the

Lord on the personal life It is wise that the believer examines the Word of God to determine the place and purpose of the whole

Mosaic system The whole Mosaic system, which is a law now beginning with basically and I will give it to you in generalities

Basically with Exodus chapter 19 and going all the way through the cross of Christ the people run the law

That's basically the realm of the law from Exodus 19 all the way through the cross of Christ You might read

Colossians 2 14 now people are under what we call the Mosaic system and after the cross of Christ all the way through acts the seventh chapter the gospel is still staying with the

Jews and Only in Acts 10 did the Gentiles get the gospel as a group of people Acts 7 is whenever God the

Jews blasphemed the Holy Spirit in Acts 8 He moved to the Samaritans Which was a cross between a Jew and a Gentile and only in Acts 10

The Gentiles did not get the gospel of Christ as a group of people all the way through Acts the 10th chapter

So Matthew Mark Luke and John in the first nine chapters of the book of Acts God is dealing basically with Jewish people or the

Samaritan people who was a cross between a Jew and a Gentile and so the Mosaic system it was a transitional period from the

Mosaic system to the System of the church or grace as we know it because the Apostle Paul got saved in Acts the ninth chapter now

This is called the law of Moses in the Bible it is just called the law It is called sometimes the law of God.

These are words that are interchangeable. They're synonyms They are synonymous one with the other now for the sake of convenience you and I we did this the other evening

We talked about the moral law and the ceremonial law We break it into two parts and we refer basically we say the moral law to the

Ten Commandments that's basically what we talk about and we'll look at the Ten Commandments in just a few moments and the civil law and the

Ceremonial law rather refers to the types and the symbols those things that were used in the ceremonies that they had and Then we come up with the civil law and that means the everyday laws and ordinances that were given to govern their lives day by day

That would be the civil law now Actually, the Bible never makes a distinction like that The Bible never makes a distinction between moral and ceremonial law

It just doesn't it just talks about the law the law the law and so we ought not to but we can to kind of Help us study it.

For example, the fourth commandment Which is about the Sabbath is found in the moral law

It is in the Ten Commandments and yet it is most importantly a part of the ceremonial system of the

Jewish Holy Days And so we see that it was a part of both and you couldn't separate them now the purpose of the law was quite different than what a lot of people think that it was

God had already made an Everlasting covenant with the people of Israel the

Jews through their father Abraham in Genesis the 15th chapter He made a covenant that was everlasting.

It could not be broken You can find it reconfirmed in Psalm 89 Where God says if you can change the seasons if you can change the night and the day then you can break his covenant that He reconfirmed with his servant

David. He said I will not lie once I have sworn by my holiness I will not lie to my servant

David and God just reconfirmed to David what he had said to Abraham back in Genesis 15

So my point is it was an everlasting covenant It could not be broken or it could not be changed now the covenant that God gave to Abraham Had nothing to do with obedience or disobedience

It did not matter whether people were obedient or disobedient as far as that covenant was concerned

It was an everlasting covenant and it just depended on God's grace He promised them that his blessings would be there and he gave them ownership of the land of Canaan He just gave it to him and said unto your seed

I'll give it and it didn't make any difference what they said or did not say what they did or did not do God promised that land now

The law of the Mosaic system was added Alongside it was added alongside

God's previous covenant You might read Romans 5 verse 20 But it was a temporary measure as we find in Galatians 3 19

The law was temporary and it was only given to be temporary Now it was given only to Israel.

It was not given to the church It was given to the Jews It was given to them to mark them out as God's chosen people and his holy nation

You write might read with me. Well, let me read it to you Psalm 147 It's very interesting

That most people confuse it but it will solve it for us in Psalm 147

I'll just read it and you can write it down and In Psalm 147 it says this verse 19 and 20

He showeth his word unto Jacob. He changed Jacob's name to Israel his statutes and his law unto

Israel He has not dealt so with any other nation and as for his ordinances

They have not known them praise ye the Lord He gave his law to Israel and he never gave it to anyone else and he gave it to them

To make out a chosen people or a chosen nation and to separate them now

He never gave the law to save anybody. He didn't give the law to Israel to save them It never has and it never will save any person and our seventh -day

Adventist friends are much amiss if they think you can keep the law Anybody tells you and you keep the law just doesn't know anything about human nature or God They either don't understand the holiness of God or they don't understand the far -reaching part of sin

They just don't understand seeing all the wholeness of God if they believe they can keep the law It is impossible to be saved by keeping the law

Galatians 3 11 and Romans 3 20 All right, he gave six reasons.

I'll give you six reasons as to why he gave Israel the law Let me give them to you and give you a bunch of scripture. First of all to reveal his glory and holiness

He gave the law to reveal to them his glory and his holiness You might read

Deuteronomy 5 you can just put DT Deuteronomy 5 verses 22 to 28

Deuteronomy 5 22 to 28 Second reason to reveal man's sinfulness to show his holiness and glory and to show man's sinfulness

Romans 7 7 Romans 7 7

Romans 7 13 1st Timothy 1 9 and following 1st

Timothy 1 9 and following James 1 22 to 25 reveal man's sinfulness a third reason that he gave the law was to mark

Israel as his chosen people and to separate them from heathen Gentile nations To separate them from pagan make sure you put pagan or heathen

Gentile nations Because today God deals with three groups of people in in 1st

Corinthians 10 32 he deals with the church Which is basically Gentiles, but he has also unbelieving

Gentiles And then the Jews the three groups of people that he deals with. All right, read

Psalm 147 as we just read 19 Psalm 147 19 and 20

Ephesians 2 11 through 17 Ephesians 2 11 through 17 and Acts chapter 15

A fourth reason as to why he gave them the law was to give them a standard for godly living that they might inherit the land and enjoy its blessings in peace a standard for godly living

Deuteronomy 4 1 and following Deuteronomy 4 verse 1 and following Deuteronomy 5 29 and following Judges 2 19 to 21 judges chapter 2 19 to 21

Tell us that he gave it to him for standard for godly living a fifth reason was to prepare Israel for the coming of Christ to prepare

Israel for the coming Messiah Galatians 3 24 tells us that Galatians 3 24 tells us that God gave it to them as a schoolmaster

Now a schoolmaster in a strict sense of the word was a trained slave Whose task or job?

Was to prepare a child adult living that's what a schoolmaster was when the child matured and entered adulthood

He received his inheritance and he no longer needed the schoolmaster now

Israel was in her spiritual childhood under the law She was just beginning to grow as a nation.

And so the law was her schoolmaster But this prepared her for the coming

Messiah Galatians 3 verse 23 all the way through chapter 4 verse 7

Galatians 323 through Galatians 4 verse 7 the key verse in that is

Galatians 3 24 all right, the sixth reason that God gave is to illustrate in type in picture form and Ceremony the person and work of Jesus Christ Hebrews 10 1

Hebrews 10 1 those are the six basic reasons as to why God gave Israel the law now the law is compared to several things in Scripture and I want to give you what it's compared to first of all, the law is compared to a mirror a mirror a mirror in James 1 22 to 25

James 1 22 25 because it reveals man's sin. The law is like a mirror it reveals man's sin

Secondly, it is compared to a yoke a yoke Acts 15 10

Galatians 5 1 acts 15 10 Galatians 5 1 in Romans 8 31 and following 8 3

I'm sorry. I said 31 8 3 8 3 The reason it is compared as a yoke because the law brings bondage and the flesh cannot obey the law

Therefore it becomes a yoke. It comes heavy upon our shoulders and it also is compared to a child trainer

As we said a schoolmaster a child trainer Because it prepared the way for the coming of Christ to Israel it trained them as a youthful nation

To become a mature nation and again those passages of Scripture Galatians 3 23 through Galatians 4 7

It is also compared to letters written on stones letters written on stones 2nd

Corinthians the 3rd chapter in contrast to the law of love that is written on our hearts by the

Holy Spirit letters written on stones a Fifth way that it is compared.

It is compared to it is called a shadow a shadow in Contrast to the reality and fulfillment.

It is a shadow a semblance a partial in Contrast to the reality and fulfillment that we have in Jesus Christ and we have

Hebrews 10 1 in Colossians 2 14 to 17 now it's important that we notice a few things the law cannot do

There are some things in Scripture. They're very explicitly things the law cannot do Let me give you five things the law cannot do first of all the law cannot make anything perfect You're riding along pretty good

Okay, the law cannot make anything perfect The Scriptures Hebrews 7 11 through 19

Hebrews 7 11 through 19 and Hebrews 10 1 and 2

Hebrews 10 1 and 2 Hebrews 7 11 through 19 the law cannot make anything perfect Secondly the law cannot justify from sin

The law cannot justify anyone from sin acts 13

Acts 13 verses 38 and 39 Acts 13 verses 30 and 39 in Romans 3

Romans 3 verses 20 to 28 Romans 3 20 to 28 it cannot justify from sin a third thing that the law cannot do it cannot give righteousness

It cannot give righteousness Galatians 2 21 So What you're beginning to see is you don't have to worry about keeping the law do you

Not really you don't You don't make you miserable trying. All right, it cannot give righteousness fourthly.

It cannot give peace to the heart It cannot give peace to the heart Hebrews 9 9

It will never give peace to the heart and fifthly it cannot give life Galatians 3 21 it cannot give life.

It just can't do it So let's got a move a little bit and let's look at the relationship between Christ and the law

What what's what's Jesus got to do with the law? Let's kind of look at that briefly Fe.

All right. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth come by Jesus Christ John 1 17

Now there is obviously a contrast between the legalistic system of Moses for Israel and the gracious position of the

Christian That he has in the church Christ was made under the law

Galatians 4 verses 4 through 6 Galatians 4 4 through 6. He was made under the law

Christ We're looking at Christ in the law Also, he fulfilled the law in every respect

Matthew 5 17 His person and work are seen in the law

Luke 24 44 to 47 Luke 24 44 to 47

He is the end of the law and righteousness for every believer Romans 10 1 through 13

Romans 10 1 through 13. He paid the penalty of the law and Bore the curse of the law on the cross

Galatians 3 10 through 14 Galatians 3 10 through 14 and Colossians 2 13 and 14

Colossians 2 13 and 14 he bore the curse of the law on the cross now the law no longer

Separated Jew and Gentile for in Christ. We become one in the church We become one in the church

Ephesians 2 verses 11 and 12 Ephesians 2 verses 11 and 12 That is why in John the 15th chapter.

Jesus said this isn't in my notes, but I won't share it with you Jesus said I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love

If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love why because he is God what commandments did he give us?

He only gave us two To love the Lord thy God with all your heart mind soul and strength and that takes care of the first first part of the 10

Commandments he said to love your neighbor like you love yourself that takes care of the rest of the 10 commandments He put them in a way that you can keep them

He put them in a way that we can we'll see that we get out of the 10 Commandments in a few moment that they are Put in the New Testament in such a way that they can be adhered to but as they are written

You cannot you cannot basically keep all of them. Now. Let's look at the Christian then and the law

What's it got to do with you and me the New Testament makes it very clear First of all that the

Christian is not under the law Romans 6 14 Romans 6 14 years put

Christian not under the law Romans 6 14 and Galatians 5 18, but he lives in the sphere of grace grace secondly

Christian the believer has died to the law. He is not under the law. He has died to the law

That is Romans 7 1 through 4 Romans 7 1 through 4 my friends If you don't get anything out of this you you ought to be getting some joy in your heart that you are dead to the

Law not to worry about it Does your peace come by what you do or don't do? Then you try to keep the law

You're trying to get back on the law Thirdly, that's what we're talking about. You have been delivered from the law. The Christian has been delivered from the law

Romans 7 5 through 6 Romans 7 5 and 6 delivered from the law and Fourthly, the believer has been warned not to become entangled again in the bondage of the law

Galatians 5 1 through 4 Galatians 5 1 through 4 not to become entangled again in the law

Which means falling out of the sphere of grace and be given living like a servant and not a son you are a son of God a child of God and you're not a servant a

Servant knows not what his master does and the Bible very clearly teaches that now Does this mean then that the

Christian is supposed to be lawless and ignore the holy demands of God? And of course the answer that is an emphatic.

No, of course not That is the very accusation that Paul's enemies threw at him because he emphasized the believers glorious position in Jesus Christ Romans 6 1 2nd

Corinthians 3 is an important passage of Scripture 2nd Corinthians 3 the whole chapter makes it very clear that the glory of the gospel of God's grace

Far surpasses the temporary glory of the Old Testament law That we

Christians go from glory to glory and we grow in grace and verse 18 in chapter 3 of 2nd

Corinthians is a good one to look at actually The New Testament Christian is under a more demanding way of life

Than the Old Testament believer was for the Old Testament law dealt only with outward acts The things you did the things people could see now you and I do that all the time.

We fool one another all the time Everybody looks at us and thinks we're the finest Christians in the church

We're constantly fooling one another but the Christian doesn't live that way because God doesn't deal with outward acts.

He looks at inward attitudes He looks at what you're thinking right now He looks at what you think in your heart about your husband your wife your children your parents and other people in the church

And so this is extremely more difficult now being free from the law does not mean being free to sin

It does not mean change liberty to license We have been called to liberty and we must use that liberty for the good of others and for the glory of God You might read

Galatians the whole fifth chapter is a good one. We are under the higher law of the love of Christ Which is the law of Christ the law of Christ is the love of God Galatians 6 verse 2

Now we do not try to obey God in the energy of the flesh Because that is impossible

Romans 7 14 the flesh is sinful. It is weak and it cannot submit to the law

But as we reckon ourselves dead to sin We count on rely on the fact that we are dead to sin in Romans 6 and we yield to the

Holy Spirit As has taught us in Romans 8 the spirit fulfills the law of love in us and through us

Romans 8 the first four verses So we got to reckon we're dead Romans 6 and we got to believe that we're alive under the

Lord in the Spirit of God lives and in dwells in you and Romans 8 and that brings the fulfillment of it in your life and to go back to the law and To try to bring yourself back under the law again is to exchange reality for shadows and liberty for bondage

It is to forfeit the high calling that you have in grace Law means that we must do something to please

God Grace means that God works in us to fulfill his own perfect will and there's a big difference now

Let's look quickly there at the Ten Commandments all of the Old Testament law

Is but an amplification and An application of the Ten Commandments the whole

Old Testament legal system. It's nothing but amplifying and applying the

Ten Commandments nine of the Ten Commandments are Repeated in the

New Testament for Christians One of them is never repeated nine of them are all right.

Let me give them to you quickly number one We go through the Ten Commandments. I'm not gonna read them all to you I'll just give you the basic context of it.

No other gods before me Number one is no other gods Give me a bunch of scriptures acts 14 15

Acts 14 15 John 4 21 to 23 John 4 21 to 23 1st

Timothy 2 5 1st Timothy 2 5 James 2 19

James 2 19 1st Corinthians 8 6 1st Corinthians 8 6

James 2 19 1st Timothy 2 5 John 4 21 to 23 Acts 14 15 no other gods before me.

That's where it teaches us It's can't have other gods before God number to make no idols or images as I said to you early

It's very interesting that the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church does not have the second commandment in their catechism

It is omitted It's in their Bible, but it isn't in their catechism They take the tenth one and split it in two why obviously the reason is because they do have images they do use

Icons they do use these whatever rationalization you want to make out of it. They do have them and the

Bible forbids it acts 17 29 Acts 17 29

Romans 1 22 23 Romans 1 22 and 23 1st

John 5 21 1st John 5 21 1st

Corinthians 10 7 and 14 1st Corinthians 10 7 and 14 1st

John 5 21 Romans 1 22 and 23 and acts 17 29 make no idols or images third do not take his name in vain

James 5 12 his name in vain James 5 12 Matthew 5 33 to 37 number 3 do not take his name in vain

James 5 12 Matthew 5 33 to 37 and Matthew 6 5 through 9

Matthew 6 5 through 9 All right, the fourth commandment Remember the

Sabbath this is not repeated anywhere in the New Testament It just isn't in there.

I'm sorry Sabbath well, what about the Lord's Day and that's a Christian Sabbath.

There is no such thing as a Christian Sabbath We'll talk about it in a minute. No such thing as a

Christian Sabbath. Huh? Not at all. All right fifth one Remember the

Sabbath number four just put not repeated or put I always put in a not applicable That's what you put on your forms that you make out, you know, they won't know a number or your insurance number

Just put not applicable this doesn't apply to me. All right number five honor father and mother Ephesians 6 1 through 4

Ephesians 6 1 through 4 children obey your parents which is well pleasing in the Lord that things may be well with you and that your

Days on earth may be long Young people die early because they disobey their parents

Bible plainly teaches that a child can die early if they get into rebellion against their parents That's why

I encourage parents to really come down on the children. You need to teach them All right, honor father and mother

Ephesians 6 1 through 4 are the 6 1 do not kill Do not kill 1st.

John 3 15 1st. John 3 15 and of course Matthew 5 21 to 22

Matthew 5 21 to 22 1st. John 3 15 The seventh do not commit adultery

Matthew 5 27 to 28 5 27 to 28 1st

Corinthians 5 1 through 13 1st Corinthians 5 1 through 13 1st

Corinthians 6 9 through 20 1st Corinthians 6 9 through 20

I hope that you'll go back and read all of these verses at your leisure 1st Corinthians 6 9 through 20 and in Hebrews 13 4

Hebrews 13 4 The bed is holy unto God. All right, Hebrews 13 4.

All right 8 do not steal steal Ephesians 4 28

Ephesians 4 28 2nd

Thessalonians 2nd Thessalonians 3 10 through 12 Ephesians 4 28 and 2nd

Thessalonians 3 10 through 12 and James 5 1 through 4 James 5 1 through 4

All right, do not steal the 9th do not bear false witness Do not bear false witness don't falsely accuse

Colossians 3 9 Colossians 3 9 and Ephesians 4 25

Ephesians 4 25 and Colossians 3 9 and the last one do not covet

Do not covet Ephesians 5 3 Ephesians 5 3 and Luke 12 15 to 21

Luke chapter 12 verses 15 to 21 now We make note mentally that these summaries of the law in the

New Testament Not a one of them ever mentions the Sabbath Let me give you about three or four places where the law is summarized.

All right Matthew 19 Excuse me, Matthew 19

Verses 16 to 20 verses 16 to 20 That mark 10

Matthew 19 16 to 20 and mark 10 17 to 20 mark chapter 10 17 to 20

Luke 18 Luke 18 18 to 21

Luke 18 verses 18 to 21 and Romans 13 Romans chapter 13 verses 8 through 10

And those are places where the law is summarized and the Sabbath is never mentioned in any of those Now, of course the new commandment of love is the basic motivation for the

Christian today You might want to read John 13 John 13 34 and 35

John 13 34 and 35 and Romans 13 9 through 10 Romans 13 9 through 10 the fulfilling of the law

He says his love loving the Lord and loving one another is the fulfillment of the law He plainly teaches.

All right, the list love is shed abroad from our hearts by the Spirit of God Romans 5 5

Romans 5 5 in the book of Romans Romans 5 5 is the only place the Holy Spirit is mentioned until you get to chapter 8 it is not mentioned anywhere in the first 8 chapters or the first 7 chapters of the book of Romans except Romans 5 5 and then in chapter 8 it comes out about 19 times

All right, so that we love God and we love other people Therefore we need no external law to control our lives.

Now. Here's a note that I made the old nature knows no law The old nature knows no law the new nature needs no law

The old nature knows not it just does whatever it wants. No law can control it It cannot submit the law and the new nature doesn't need a law

Because it's filled with love it's filled with love. All right Now what about the Sabbath the Sabbath was

God's special day under the Old Covenant for the Jews The Lord's Day is

God's special day for the church under the new covenant the Sabbath symbolizes salvation by works and You make note of it that in Exodus Chapter 31 verse 16 and 17

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever For in six days the

Lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed the Sabbath has nothing to do with you as a

Christian It has nothing to do with the church whatsoever The Sabbath symbolizes salvation by works six days of labor and then you rested but the

Lord's Day Sunday It's a day of the resurrection. It's a day of spiritual activity not rest rest from commerce

But spiritual activity and Sunday's the first day of the week So the Sabbath is you work six days in your rest

But in Christianity the Lord's Day symbolizes salvation by grace first you rest in the Lord and then you go out and work

It's just the opposite. It is just the opposite All right The work follows the rest you find in Christ now the

Sabbath and the sacrifices the dietary laws The priesthood and the tabernacle services and all of these things are done away in Jesus Christ Now there is nothing wrong with keeping some of the dietary law of the

Old Testament. It's a good law You'll be a lot healthier if you cut down on your pork intake.

I don't know what you say you know, you'll be a lot healthier and They're all but you are not obligated religiously to keep them

Paul said in 1st Timothy 4 you can eat anything you want if you can do it Honestly with prayer and thanksgiving because it is every creature of God is good and it is sanctified by the

Word of God in prayer So here that tells you that you can't eat and it says in the last days there will be false prophets who will come and Will teach you not to marry and to abstain from eating meats and trying to get you back under the

Old Testament law And that's exactly what's going on today But now I think we ought to be wise and perceptive We don't just start to go up and gobble all the cakes and stuff and sweets that I see people that's killing you

Cakes and sweets will kill you You don't find them eating it back in those days and you don't find many people today living on those things, but this generation does and Always a perversion

Satan perverts God gave grapes To be enjoyed Satan comes along as people make wine out of God gave flowers

So people come along and they sell them and then decided to grow them a little poppy They decided to get some heroin

They decided to get some other things God let man find out through the old poppy that he can make morphine morphine can help

Pain and things of this nature somebody else found they get high from morphine. So they start selling that God gave food to eat and what we do is we turn around become gluttonous and make it sinful

Well brother rocky, I just like to eat I do too I do too, but you got to draw a line somewhere, don't you?

Well, it's quite interesting in it. All right let's move along and see what else we can find in these passages of scripture unless I become meddlesome and Get on some treacherous ground here.

Let's look at the tabernacle. Basically an X is 24 to 27 now We have two or three studies already on the tabernacle

And so we're not going to be able to go into the tabernacle in depth like we would like to Because the

Bible spends more chapter space on the tabernacle than it does any other subject some 45 chapters are

Involved with the tabernacle and so we don't have that kind of time But just before I break let's at least get started into it

Exodus 24 to 27 to be the basic passages of scripture that we will confer with now on five separate occasions on five separate occasions the scripture

We find it written that God dwelt amongst men you find five times in the scripture that God dwelt among men

Let me give them to you. First one is in the tabernacle Exodus 25 or say God dwelling amongst men the tabernacle

Exodus 25 or say second in the temple first kick first Kings the eighth chapter first Kings the eighth chapter

He dwelt in the tabernacle he dwelt in the temple The third one was in Jesus Christ God in Christ in him dwells the fullness of the

Godhead bodily God in Christ Reconciling the world unto himself John 1 14 and Colossians 2 9

John 1 14 and Colossians 2 9 now The fourth one is in the church the body of Christ Ephesians 2 verses 20 to 22

Ephesians 2 to 22 God is in this world in you and me because the

Spirit of God lives within us and the Holy Spirit is the third person of The Trinity now the fourth one or rather the fifth one is the

Holy City and that is future That is future revelation 21 3 revelation 21 3 now notice with me the first three of these are connected with the past The fourth one is connected with the present and the fifth one is connected with the future

God has a plan on a way that he will always dwell amongst men He really has it all worked out now the first of these is the tabernacle and that sacred structure formed the center of the

Jewish national life for a period of about 500 years About 500 years.

It was the focal point and as every bit of it has deep spiritual significance

And it's a perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ So let's just look at the human intention that I have written here for you

On our outline the human intention and the divine request now as the children of Israel Stood on the wilderness side of the

Red Sea and they were celebrating the triumph of their Redeemer They've been released from Egypt. They announced their intention to prepare for him a habitation and They just began to to talk about how they want to make something for God and they wanted to build him a place

Whereby he could live and the desire which that intention enshrines was later on reciprocated by God himself

He said I will they said I will prepare him a habitation Now God said let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell amongst them

They made theirs in Exodus 15 to but in Exodus 25 8 it says and let them make me a sanctuary

That I may dwell among them the people had the right attitude But God turned around and confirmed it and said that's exactly what

I want you to do I want you to build what I tell you to build but you see if God had let him alone They would have built it the way they wanted to and it would not have been anything like you and I know today a picture of the

Lord Jesus Christ now, but someone asked as Solomon did in 1st

Kings 8 27 Solomon said will God indeed dwell on the earth? Will God indeed dwell on the earth?

Well Job said that we talked about that didn't when Job 19 25 26 He said I know that my Redeemer lives and the worms destroy this body and I shall see him in the last days

I'll see him stand on the earth. I'll see my Redeemer stand on this earth

Now it was not because of the holiness of the people For the very time that Moses was on the mountain getting the dimensions of the tabernacle.

What were the people doing? Yes, and making that cafe down there worshiping So the tabernacle didn't have anything to do with what they were right or wrong did it?

It was a place that God Wanted me you know helps me in the church This church is not here basically because everybody in it's perfect and because everybody it's doing the right thing

It is here to help us do the right thing. And that's why the All right, the wholeness does not have anything to do with it

It was not their moral excellence, but is only in the sovereign grace of God And if you never learn anything out of Exodus You will learn that God is sovereign and God does as he pleases and he doesn't worry about where a man believes it or not

God does what he wants you can't pray God into doing something He doesn't want to do and you can't pray

God and get God to change his mind about something that he already doesn't know He's going to do nothing comes as a shock to God my friend prayer helps you and me

It doesn't necessarily change God's mind God's got a will and he's got a purpose for the universe and he's accomplishing them

Prayer helps you and me It's you and I that it encourages to know that we can talk to God and he wants us to do it

But if you think that you can sit here on the planet Earth and change God's character about something God is immutable

He is unchanging. He cannot be changed in his character. God says if you'll do this,

I'll bless you If you don't zap, I'll get you and that's just the way it works And if we do that, then he does none of them.

He did the same thing. He said 40 days They repented and God saw their repentance and God said

I won't destroy but you think God didn't know what they were gonna do Sure, he did. That's why he said Jonah up there

God knew what they were going to do. So what I'm saying to it is not a shock to God when things go on now

It is true that in the patriarchal days of Abraham Isaac Jacob and Joseph in the days of the great

Patriarchs and in what we call primeval history the times that God occasionally visited the earth

We know that he walked in the cool of the garden ever how he did it in Genesis 3 We know that he visited

Abraham in the plains of Mamre in Genesis 18, but God never made his dwelling place

Simply because he couldn't come down without redemption It had to be based on the blood of the ground of completed redemption for him to make a dwelling place

Amongst men now this tabernacle and I've hesitated to get into it too much because they're just so much we're gonna miss

In it, but you might write me and I'll send you a printed page on the tabernacle about 38 pages on it

And then we'll be releasing some new tapes and some new studies on the tabernacle in days to come But first of all in chapter 25 1 through 9

You find a description of the materials employed in the building of it Now it's very interesting how it's gonna come out

Sunday morning. You know what we're gonna close on We're gonna close on a building the tabernacle and it gives us

God's plan for building And I'm gonna show you how you can take God's plan to build that tabernacle and you can build your church

And you don't have to get in all or fret and worry and sweat and tears about it If you follow God's program for building my friends

You don't have to send off to Nashville And you don't send off to other places and ask these people to come in and tell you how you do this and how you

Do this if you'll follow God's plan if we'd follow God's plan our armies We would have to worry about an army that God tells you how to get an army

If we follow God's plan and doing things we get done a lot easier But we get all up in a tizzy because some banker who's not even a

Christian sit and tells us how to run our business Especially the church and it ought not to be that way so you can get it in the word of God now also in excess 25 verse 10 all the way to 27 29 excess 25 10 to 27 29 you find a detailed description and if you learn to see

Christ in it, it won't be subversive a Description the detail sizes and the measurements of all the vessels and the furniture it had to be to the very

Minutest detail it had to be exactly the way God said it and no

Variation whatsoever now the tabernacle was divided basically into two compartments wasn't it two?

compartments the holy place and The high holy place or the most holy place and this was separated by a rather thick veil of curtain a very heavy curtain now

Exodus 26 verses 31 to 33 that veil was so heavy

That it is told that an ordinary team of horses pulling on it from each end could not tear it in two

By taking horses and put it on it Would not be able to tear it in two the total length of the tabernacle was about 45 feet

Approximately 45 feet and about 15 feet wide Now it was enclosed.

This is the holy place, but it was enclosed with a larger enclosure around it which was about a hundred and seventy five feet long about 175 feet long about 19 feet wide and about 8 feet high about 8 feet high and When the camp was at rest when the

Israelites were not moving It was right in the middle and maybe I can get this on the blackboard for you

Maybe about tomorrow. I can get it to you If not, we'll get it to you Maybe at a later date or somehow of just how the tribes were situated

But the tribes had to be in certain positions around the tabernacle and the tabernacle was there and it always faced the rising

Sun It always faced the rising Sun and it was right in the middle of the tribes of Israel Now into the court the outer court came the common people

Into the holy place the place the priests could come and do their service Into the holy of holies are the most holy only the high priests could come so it narrowed down and he only came once a year

Once a year. All right, let's take us a real We're going to look at number three the willing hearted and the wise hearted now in Exodus 35

Which we're not in right now in 24 to 27, but in Exodus 35 4 through 19

You have the divine command now we have in here these passages scripture deal with the setting up of the tabernacle and The paraphernalia the instruments and and all of this and then it comes back and it also just you know

Continues right on but in Exodus 35 4 through 19

We have the divine command and then we pick up at verse 20 in that chapter

And you have the people's response all the way through 29 20 through 29 of Exodus 35

You have this showing the people were willing hearted They were willing to do what

God said they were very wise hearted in in doing what God says do now In verse 4 it says and Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel saying this is the thing which the

Lord commanded Saying and then he went ahead and told him what to do in verse 20 It says and all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses and they came everyone whose heart stirred him up and everyone whom his spirit made willing and they brought the

Lord's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation for all of its service and for all the holy garments and they came both men and women and We'll talk about that a little later

How the the man gives but the women came and and they were willing to give and so this just shows us that They were willing to give they were willing to do what

God said now let me make this point Everyone if you'll study this passage Everybody contributed men and women contributed

No one was excluded from the privilege of giving and I'm not gonna get on giving all out with you

But where they were rich where they had a lot or where they were poor where they were the rulers or where they were the common people every single one of them had a part and Wanted to have a part because it says their hearts were willing and their spirit was stirred up by God Because they were wise hearted and they were willing hearted

They wanted to do the thing that God wanted to do and as I said the other evening Jesus Accepted the widow's might and the

Bible the old or the New Testament never excludes anybody from giving no matter where they are rich Or poor everybody can give something to God I Like what one pastor said?

That he said dr. W a crystal pastor the first Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas He encourages his men and women to take a little offering envelopes and pull a bit in and pin it to their children's diapers

And put it on their little shirt or little blouses to help them understand and to teach them very early how to give because their personality is formed at five years of age their personality is set at five and My friends it's amazing what a child can learn at five years old five years of age

Is it not you give them a book like this a white? Background and a bunch of black marks on it

And we teach them and say you've got to read that and understand it and amazingly so a five and six year old kid can do

It he can take a bunch of black marks on some white paper, and he'll come out with the English language They can learn it if you teach it to them if you teach it to him

And so we need to teach them this thing about giving I believe this is in this for us Not only to give us what happened

But as a lesson for our learning that no one is ever exempted and Jesus himself

Very plainly never exempted any person from giving He paid taxes he paid his tribute.

He paid his dues. He took his money into that to the temple He worshiped God with his giving and he was faithful about it

And he never did now today God is building a spiritual temple the body of Christ It is a temple for which 19 centuries have been rising

Noiselessly this temple has been getting larger and larger. It is not made with human hands It's made up of people in Stevenson, Alabama people in Fort Worth, Texas people in New York City people in Africa people in Asia It's made up of Christian people who have really and truly been born again now while it is in the course of construction

It's a beautiful verse of Scripture in first Kings 6 7 it says that not the sound of a hammer

Nor an axe or any tool of iron is ever heard in the building of the tabernacle

And you don't hear it in the building of the temple of the Lord either Uh -huh, they didn't use any of those things

To build this with it had to be as God said now the amount that you give as these people did it may be

Very small, but if there's first the willing mind If your attitude is right, and I might add if your attitude isn't right

You might as well not give it the church will use it But you will get no blessing and neither will

I we never get a blessing for anything that we do for God with a grudging heart We need to give with a willing mind the right attitude and then with a love in our heart that Trusting that God will use it the way that he desires to use it now

Giving to God's work and workers is the privilege of every Christian And so we must have that if it's to be accepted according the

Bible says According to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not

So don't come saying to the Lord well, Lord. I'd give but I don't have that's not what it says

You give out of what you do have not what you don't Lord if I had a million. I'd build that church Lord if I had it

I was going in I put the first Baptist Church of Stephens in Alabama I'd make it like the first Baptist Church of Dalton, Georgia I'd put a multi -million dollar thing up here if it huh

God says you don't have to work that way Don't give from what you don't have friend. Just give from what you do have now read for yourself 2nd

Corinthians 8 12 2nd Corinthians 8 12 every man according as he purposeth in his heart

So let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful in the word.

There's delirious God loveth a delirious giver that's 2nd Corinthians 9 7 2nd

Corinthians 8 12 is one you won't read for the other one and 2nd Corinthians 9 7 Instant that word we call it cheerful, but it's really the word which means delirious

God likes a hilarious giver Just break up over. I don't see many of those around and you're not looking one now either

Lord gotta give again Sunday. Oh Well, I see maybe I can spread that out a little bit Maybe I can put a little bit in this month's envelope and I put a little next and they'll think

I'm giving twice And you know and all I know I've been right on through all that stuff well It says we love what on ourselves we spend we have as treasure without end

Whatever Lord to thee we lend who give us all and then I wrote a statement that another man wrote

I like this the givers in time are the millionaires in eternity

The givers in time are the millionaires in eternity My friends what you give now

God will restore to you a hundredfold here But the things that you have you're storing up riches in eternity now, let's look at the fourth thing the way of approach chapters 25 to 27 the way of approach the way of the approach

God's approach to man first of all Arabic one under the way of approach God's approach to man Chapters 25 to 27.

I'm gonna give you a little analogy here chapters 25 through 27 set forth God's approach to man

And you will find this in the book of Romans the book of Romans shows

God's approach towards man Now the first and most outstanding

Vessel of the tabernacle that is mentioned in this section of Scripture verses a chapter 25 through 27

The the one that stands out is the Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant which was in the holy place and in the

Ark of the Covenant it had of course its blood -stained mercy seat and in chapter 25

Verse 22 You find what God said and there in verse 21 and thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the

Ark and in the Ark Thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee and there I will meet with thee and I will continue with thee from above The mercy seat from between the two cherubim which are upon the

Ark of the testimony of all things Which I will give thee in commandment unto the children Israel God said

I will meet you there That's where I'm going to be my presence that scintillating whirling flame that indicated the majestic splendorous glorious presence of God was between the cherubim those two

Angelic creatures on the mercy seat that were stained with blood and only the high priest could go into that particular

Location and we find that in the book of Romans Romans the third chapter specifically sets forth that that truth and unfolds the

Antitype or the type that we see Signifying that expression of God's approach to man now then we come to man's approach to God man's approach to God chapters 28 to 30 of Exodus 25 to 27

God's coming to man God's coming to man in chapters 28 to 30 and you find this corresponding to the book of Hebrews the book of Hebrews now just as the

Ark is the outstanding thing in the first section of God's approach to man

Then the high priest is the most prominent figure in man's approach to God Now in this tabernacle there were varying vessels, and we don't have time to go into them

I maybe at some time We'll be able to give you some photos or some some pictures let you see these items as the way

They really were and we have these and we just not able to carry them around and would have any way to show them to you except in Written material maybe an overhead or something like this of these different instruments and vessels that they have

But in the description of the vessels and the furniture all the tabernacle when you study the scripture it proceeds from The tabernacle to outside it starts with the

Ark of the Covenant and the Holy of Holies And it goes back out is the way It does it so from the

Ark of the Covenant which stood in the holiest of all all the way to the brazen altar Which stood inside the gate of that great court, and that would be in Exodus 25 or all the way through 27 16 25 through 27 16 now as we draw near this you meet these vessels in reverse order

Together with a gate in the door now. Let me just give you ten things are involved with it first of all there's the gate

There's the gate to that big large enclosure Then there is the brazen altar the brazen brazen the brazen altar

Then there is the laver the laver of cleansing the brazen laver of cleansing Have to wash then there's the door and for those of you that have this study

I have on the tabernacle a few of you do have it this Hebrew word and picture study You know that it has a white background

And it has the colors in it and each one of those colors corresponds to one of the Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John Because it portrays something about the personality and the character of the

Lord Jesus Christ And it's the door that you have to go through there's only one entrance in there That's why

Jesus said I am the door then you have the table of showbread Showbread in the

Hebrew it's actually called the bread of faces but in the King James called the bread of the table of showbread and Then you have the golden candlestick this beautiful golden menorah

Oh a huge thing of great value thousands of dollars in value and The Troy weighed on it very heavy, then you have the altar of incense the altar of incense and then you have that veil that huge curtain that veil and then there is the

Holy of Holies and Then there's the Ark of the Covenant now

Strangely when you see these laid out. You know as I do already that when you see these things laid out

Any picture of the tabernacle you'll see the long? Enclosure and when you see this thing laid out you will find that it's in the perfect form of a cross

It's in the perfect form of a cross when you see it laid out and Also, there's no covering in there and also we'll see in a moment

There's another piece of furniture that is strangely been left out So let's move quickly Texas 28 to 31 and see what this furniture is

Now as I say it I know there are a lot of things we are not saying about the tabernacle But for those of you that are staying in touch with us

I can assure you that in days to come if God's willing and the God works this thing out as we've shared with you this week you'll be getting a whole

You'll have a whole library full of materials on Christ in the tabernacle and and these things will be explained very beautifully

It's a very beautiful study to go through and see the Christian life on the tabernacle as willing seen

Christ in the tabernacle They're two different things and one's about a 38 page study And the other is about an 87 page study and so we'll be sharing those with you

But the priesthood is vitally involved excess 28 to 31 So we have an introduction to the priesthood the high priest

Without the high priest going in once a year the people could not have forgiveness of sin now

As an introduction to the issue must first of all recognize the division of the nation of Israel the nation was divided

Even though it was together it had divisions within and there were threefold character three divisions

Within the nation of Israel first of all Aaron Aaron the brother Moses Aaron and his descendants were chosen as the priests

They were the priestly family Exodus 28 then the tribe of Levi a

Lot of people say well the Levi were priests The Levites were to perform the service of the tabernacle

Aaron and his were the priests and the Levites were to perform the service of the tabernacle. You might read numbers of third chapter

And the third was the remainder of the nation Constituted what is called the hosts of Israel HOS TS the hosts of Israel numbers 1 & 2 numbers chapter 1 & 2 now there was thus a family of priests a tribe of workers and A nation of our men other words you had worshipers workers and warriors for two for three

W's You had worshipers, and you had workers and Warriors in the nation of Israel now for almost 500 years from Moses to David The tabernacle gave unity to the nation and it bore a witness to the presence of Jehovah in their midst

You might read 1st Kings 6 1 1st Kings 6 1 now with the coming of Solomon now when

Solomon came on the scene and The building of the temple the erection of the temple the use and service of the tabernacle was over it was through it was ended 2nd

Chronicles 5 1 through 10 2nd Chronicles 5 1 through 10 no more need for the tabernacle

The temple was built the forms of God's dwelling places on the earth very

But the fact of his presence with his faithful people always abides God always is with his faithful people

He may vary it in different ways as the way He did it the tabernacle the temple Christ himself and the church and in the future holy city all right now the second section begins

Is in chapter 28 to 30 concerning the tabernacle chapter 28 to 30 breaks down and it describes the way

Of man's approach to God and as we said it corresponds to the teaching of Hebrews now listen to me carefully

You must read and study the book of Hebrews or you might as well forget

Exodus 28 to 30 you cannot understand Exodus 28 through 30 precious friends unless you study the book of Hebrews It will be meaningless to you as a

Christian all you will have a bunch of historical facts But to get the real truths out of it. We must go to the book of Hebrews so read it carefully read it carefully now

Although at the time Hebrews was written the temple was still standing and its ordinances were still being carried on But it's amazing that the writer of Hebrews gets most of his information and makes most of his statements not concerning the temple

For which they had long been waiting for but he goes back to the tabernacle He refers back to the tabernacle in exodus rather than the temple that was standing in the day in which the writer of Hebrews wrote now

I Think there's a very good reason for it the history of Israel turned that during the time of the tabernacle

The time that was in use was the history of a people who until they entered Canaan were pilgrims

They were pilgrims They were wonders And I think I mentioned this to you when I was with you in a revival there there in the scripture where it says that Because of what they've done their children would be

Wanderers in the wilderness that is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word it actually means shepherds

The word wanders there is actually the Hebrew word which means shepherds. They will be shepherds in the wilderness

They'll be caretakers out in the wilderness now They were pilgrims and after doing so they were warriors after they moved into Canaan They became warriors because they had to fight against the

Amalekites They had the dead Jebusites and the Hittites and all kinds the Perizzites had all kinds of ites

Over there that they had deal with when they got in there So they became from pilgrims to warriors now when the

Ark of the Covenant was transferred From the tabernacle to the temple which was the fixed structure the staves

They use staves through rings on the side of the Ark of the Covenant to pick it up and carry it

You know they would carry it you recall those two minutes starting to fall Do you mean said we'll get it and they put their hands on and God killed them both?

Why well God didn't need their help? God didn't need it so you can do something good But if you do it out of place and get you in trouble even though it's good

Even though it's good But they had staves that they carried that now when it was set up in the temple the staves which were put in the rings by Its side that they and you might read

Exodus 25 13 to 15 Exodus 25 13 to 15 that tells you about them

They were drawn out 2nd Chronicles 5 9 and the pilgrim days were over when the staves were taken out that mean it was there

To stay they were removed no longer needed Now for you and me today who are strangers and pilgrims on the earth 1st

Peter 2 1st Peter 2nd chapter We have no continuing city, but we look for a city

Hebrews team And we know that this is not our final resting place you might read

Michael 210 Michael 210 The teaching of this ancient structure is

Full of instruction for you and me as Christians And it brings great comfort to us because it helps us as we are pilgrims in this world it is a picture of the wilderness condition of the

Church of God it is a perfect picture of the church today as Pilgrims in this old world we are in the world

But we are not of the world and that's exactly the way the people of Israel were they had that tabernacle as long as they had

It they were wanderers, but once they got their temple They knew they were in the land that they were supposed to be in and that's why they're concerned about the temple today now

Hebrews 7 8 9 and 10 Hebrews chapter 7 8 9 and 10 are

Extremely important chapters, and I want to take four statements that are relevant to the priesthood

Out of those four chapters in Hebrew, and I think that we will notice them in contrast between the priesthood in Exodus and Leviticus and the

Christian Church the Christian Dispensation the Christian way of living there is a big difference

And I want to give them to you quickly first of all there's a difference in the priesthood in the priesthood the scripture says and They the sons of Aaron Truly were many priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death

But this man the man Christ Jesus Because he continues ever

Hath an unchangeable priesthood that's Hebrews 7 23 and 24 now twice in That epistle the

Lord Jesus is said to be the unchanging One Hebrews 1 12 and Hebrews 13 8

Hebrews 1 12 and Hebrews 13 8 Jesus Christ ever lived to intercede for the

Christian And so the finished work of Christ upon the cross finds its counterpart in his unfinished work

Upon the throne you might read John 19 verse 30 and Hebrews 7 25 and put them together

He who died to save us from the penalty of sin now lives to keep us from the power of sin the priest in the

Old Testament died But ours never dies he ever lives.

There's a difference in the priesthood There is a difference in the sacrifice the sacrifice would be number two

Neither by the blood of goats and calves But by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained to watch it eternal

Redemption for us Hebrews 9 12 that means once saved always saved He purchased eternal redemption, and if you've been redeemed

It's eternally or you haven't been redeemed at all and if it's eternal you can't ever lose it That doesn't mean you do what you want

You can You ought not to want to but if I do those things I want to do God's got ways of dealing with that God's got ways to deal with that and if you don't think so drive by the funeral home

Just stop in for a visit and while you're there you might make a purchase Or at least you might explore the possibility because God's got a lot of ways of dealing with us when we get out of hand

He doesn't desire to does he he desires to love and to bless and to guide all right now There's a difference in the sacrifice

Hebrews 9 12 Not all the blood of beasts on Jewish altar slain could give the guilty conscience peace or wash away its stain but Christ the heavenly lamb takes all our guilt away a

Sacrifice of nobler name and richer blood than they the ancient poet says there is a difference in the sacrifice

There's also a difference in the sanctuary Difference in the sanctuary the tabernacle was the pattern of things in the heavens

Hebrews 9 23 Hebrews 9 23 and it was this fact that gave point to the divine command of Moses Exodus 25 verse 40 is a good verse to compare

Exodus 25 verse 40, but now it says Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands which are the figures of the true

But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God it should be eternal majesty for us

Hebrews 9 24 he doesn't go into place made by hands like the old tabernacle sanctuary He goes into the very presence of God the

Father himself for what for himself uh -huh for you and me Now my friend just the very fact that he's there brings victory to your life

Brings joy to your life Confidence and assurance you got a problem tonight. Have you got a need in your life?

It needs to be met You got financial difficulty you got whatever difficult you have in your life. He's there to meet it. He's there on your behalf

Can you imagine? Somebody like you and me insignificant four billion people in certain here we are

Stevens in Alabama and yet Christ is right there just as much for you and me as He is for the greatest potentate in the world.

Who's a Christian from the smallest to the light It doesn't make a difference from the greatest to the least from the richest to the poor

It makes no difference Christ is there on your and my behalf That'll change your thinking if you really think about it in a lot of ways now

This last name scripture Hebrews 9 24 reveals the answers to three questions, and I want to give them to you

Where does he appear question one? Where does he appear the answer in heaven itself in the presence of the eternal majesty?

When does he appear where in heaven itself when now? Tomorrow later not now for whom

For us read that every day write it down carry around with you Just put down where you know in the presence of God.

You know when now for whom for me That'll make a big difference when you get discouraged

Now it follows then that there has to be a difference if there's a difference in the priesthood a difference in the sacrifice a

Difference in the sanctuary it follows there has to be a difference in the result a Difference in the result and here it is in the most holy place of the tabernacle.

There was no chair The one thing that is strangely missing in the tabernacle is a chair

Though priests there they were in the Levites never but there was no chair Why? Because the high priest could not sit down for the simple reason that his work was never finished once a year he had to go in there and Every day they had to constantly from Sun up to Sun down offer sacrifices of bulls and goats, but here's what

I like Hebrews 10 12, but this man Christ Jesus After he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever

Sat down on the right hand of the eternal majesty my friends He's paid it once and for all and a mass is nothing but a bloodless

Sacrifice and they are trying to read crucify him over. He only did it once and for all and He's there forever, and he sat down why his work is done

His work as priest is done as far as his sacrifice has been accomplished now

What is that that is to say this the sacrifice now watch the words? Play of words, but the sacrifice of Christ was one for all one for all and once for all one for everyone and Once and for all he only did it once and that is sufficient

That is sufficient and that's the way it is while therefore it had to be confessed

That the Levitical all the Levitical economy the mosaic economy Could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience it is now emphatically affirmed that by one offering

He hath perfected forever Them that are sanctified Hebrews 9 9

Hebrews 10 14 Now I want to just get off just a second and I promise you it'll be just a second

But I think it bears mentioning for me to run over very quickly to the book of Romans And I'm going to read you chapter 8 something.

You know well, but I want to read you just a couple of verses And if you don't get anything else this week you're gonna know with if you're saved you're saved forever once and for all once saved

Always say you Baptist believe once saved always saved. That's right in the Bible teaches it if you're a

Methodist You're saved you just as saved if you saved you may not think y 'all but you are all right If you really been saved now

I'll just read you what it says and now I'll read you what I said there And we know that all things work together for good to them that love

God to them with a called according to his purpose whom He did for know he did Predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren now watch it

Moreover whom he did predestinate them. He also called and Whom he called them.

He also justified and whom he justified Them he also Glorified now my friends you have been glorified and justified in the eyes of God That means that you have to have been set aside by God for himself

Jesus said all that my father gives to me Comes to me and him that cometh to me out of him no wise cast out and he says that all that my father gives

Me no man can pluck him from my hand now. Let me read you what I said there again It says here very quickly by one offering he has perfected forever

Them that are sanctified, and if you're a Christian you have been sanctified by the Lord That means you have been perfected forever in God's eyes

Now you're frail, and I'm frail and feeble down here, but your spiritual position is not here. Where is

Christ? He's in heaven in the air. He's a right hand the father. Where are you? We said what in the book of Colossians in the book of Ephesians for we have been made to be seated in the heavenlies

In Christ Jesus in Christ Jesus Oh I wish we had time to go into some studies on the blood of Christ on the blood of Christ and the

Christian to understand some of these things in a little more depth, but the conscience of the

Worshipper is the reflection of a value of the sacrifice and his sacrifice is once and for all

One for all and it is perfect, and you can trust it. You can just trust him trust him all right

Let me make a few comments. I just put here verse for the fourth thing to make a few comments in Exodus 30 verse 7 in Exodus 30 verse 7 and I wanted to make these because sometimes these are troublesome to pick out

It says and Aaron shall burn there on sweet incense every morning when he dresses the lamps

He shall burn incense upon it now the fire there And then he mentioned some blood in ten and Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it

Once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements once in the year shall he make atonement upon?

It throughout your generations. It is most holy unto the Lord He's talking about that atonement that once a year the day of atonement

Now the fire of Exodus 30 verse 7 and the blood of Exodus 30 verse 10 teach us that there can be no acceptable worship to God apart from atonement

Now you say why do you make that statement because only a saved person can worship Now I'll go back to the statements that I read you by this gentleman

It's supposedly got saved and he says well that everybody's praying to the same God this scripture right here says no in our study

It says no, so I didn't get too far afield by reading it to you This says that there has to be an atonement and only a saved person and Jesus said

I am the way the truth and the life And no man can come to God, but by me that means the Buddhist hasn't come the right way or either

Jesus Christ is a deceiver That means that only a saved person can worship God all a lost person do he only do is get saved

He's got to come and we usually say what he said Lord be merciful to me a sinner Whatever words he wants to use he's got to confess.

He's a sinner He's got to repent of those sins And he's got to give himself to Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and ask

Give an invitation for sins to be forgiven or they never will be God want to explode and make it happen now

This is why this is important to us all right another comment that I make is that in Exodus 30 verse 15 30 verse 15

I'll read that to you the rich shall not give more be careful now The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less

Than a half a shekel when they give an offering unto the Lord to make an atonement for your soul now

Why is that in there? Do you know why that's in there because the price of redemption is the same for everybody?

The price of redemption is the same isn't it sure it is we all know that it just is that means that a rich man

Should not give any more or Try to do any more in his life to be saved than a poor person

Well, we know that so because all we got to do is to say Lord. I'm a sinner forgive me and the rich man the poor man comes together and There's no difference.

We say at the cross, and that's true Well now that does not mean That in the workings of the

Lord that a rich person is not supposed to give more to the Lord than a poor person He obviously will because he's got more and the more you have the more you're responsible for the

Lord says So naturally the little widow who gave what she had she couldn't give as much as some of the wealthy people

But the heart determined the value of the gift But you take a man who's a multimillionaire

And you take a person that has $20 and that person has $20 that he ties that $20 this multimillionaire

He gives $5 to Do you think God honors both of those no way not if I understand the

Bible he doesn't No, no, no, we give it says what on the first day we lay aside as God has prospered as God has prospered some give more and some give less, but everybody gives

Everybody is I would never go without giving something. I'd be scared to Don't care if it's a penny dime nickel. Whatever is give something and don't be embarrassed about it

I'd be embarrassed to put a penny. I have little children sometimes have given me envelopes The penny nickel

I have a lady that sends me 700 pennies a year she saves pennies all year long and sends us those pennies for an offer

Now I just share that with you not to evoke any emotive response from you or anything that but to let you know to let you know just About giving somehow or other you have to give something

Everybody's I must give something to my church I must give something to the Lord's work, and I have never been in a position although I've been why

I didn't have a dime, but I've never been in a position where I couldn't give something Something I've been in church for you can have money

I had a man stand up one time and it says our church is trying to build a this or that So I've got four houses.

I don't need it. I won't dedicate one of those houses brother I was gonna dedicate one of those houses to the Lord just dedicate

We're to sell it and give it to the Lord Another guy did the car had a young girl stem says I don't have a thing, but my wedding rings

I have no money, but I want to give these to the Lord She went back another man said young lady how much those rings cost and she told him he said

I'll just take those back and Redeem those for you. I'll give the money for those rooms, and it just started working I'm sitting back there saying me people crazy.

You know I said we people a little fanatical You know they're a little out of it. No it wasn't down camp

Zion and murder, Mississippi If I think something has to go down there the Lord works here at Stevenson's like works down there

The Lord's everywhere. I'm not opposed to him I know most of them go down there and preach far better than most of it I know

I'm been around all that and don't and I don't put down. It's a great place to go. I'd ever been I Never been

I just know half of people go on look I know all people don't programs for most of it But what I'm saying to you is this my friends give something don't ever let

Satan fool you and see them thinking that you can't Give something to God because you can't you really can't and this is what

I see in this passage Scripture and even these particular things here as we go through them, and we see what he's saying to it here all right now

He has protected perfected forever Them that are sanctified, and then we see that only a a saved person can really worship the

Lord now listen to me carefully Working for salvation and working because of salvation are two different things

Always keep that in your thinking You don't work to get saved you work for the

Lord because you are saved You work because you love him you do things because you love him and if you do anything in this church or any other church if you do it for any other reason than the fact that you love the

Lord and You want to do what God wants you to do you ought not to do it? Because it's just worthless.

It really doesn't accomplish anything Oh the task might get done But it won't get done like it would be if somebody was doing it who really had the right attitude in their heart

You said well if I don't do it. I mean my well because it'll get done All it'll get done.

Don't you worry about it. God will get it done He just wants to use me and you to do it but if we won't do it he'll get somebody else do it you and I'll sit around complain about it and God provide it and Tell everybody else how wonderful job we could have done

We could have done it and done a better job than the one who did it Maybe or maybe not but God's blessings on it when it's done by the person he wants to do it

So just remember don't work to try to get saved or keep you salvation you work Just simple fact because you know the

Lord all right, and then I just mentioned in Exodus 30 verse 21 our closing remark 3021

So they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not and It shall be a statute forever to them even to him and to a seed throughout their generations now a lot of people

You don't go back to the Old Testament get New Testament doctrine There is no New Testament doctrine for the washing of feet

Jesus Never gave it even though he did it it was not anything new he was given he was a

Jew he was just observing Jewish custom People say what Jesus did it he didn't do anything new they've been doing that for thousands of years you find it right back away back in Exodus Wasn't doing anything different.

He was just following the custom as a courtesy that you wash the feet of those why they had sandals They walked on dirty roads.

They didn't have air -conditioned car They didn't ride donkeys everywhere the winter camels They won't most of a place they went their feet would come in and it was just a courtesy

It was a show of humility and love and devotion to someone when they came into your home That you would do that because you were honored at anybody who would come in your home

I wish we'd come back to that Not about the washing the feet, but be willing to go to somebody's home no matter who they are

No matter how menial that home might be They might only have a wooden box for a table

They may only have a crate to sit on but if they invite you in their home as a Christian brother and sister you ought To be more than willing to go

What'd be more than willing to go, but I find it. I know a lot of evangelists I know they don't they don't like I'm confident in my field there

There are a lot of people who don't like to do that and it's hard for some time to condescend because of our spiritual attainment because of our intellectual achievements and because of all the service we give to the

Lord not to want to go and fellowship with some lowly believer Well he that first gonna be last and he that's last gonna be first There'll be a lot of sweet people up there gonna be first in line when a lot of us just hanging around the back out

There hoping to get in Trying to walk through no, that's not what's about.

I just pray That somehow or other my friends that we would understand

That the daily washing really implies as far as Christianity is concerned a daily washing of the word

The New Testament use that phrase done it by the washing of the water of the word to stay in the Word of God daily and it will wash and purge and Its effectiveness will take place in your life.

If you just read the Bible daily, it's hard to sin when you're reading the Bible It's hard to keep on when you're reading about stay in the word and then

I just said At our next session together we will Begin with verse our chapter 32 and we will go throughout and Continue unto the climax of the book of Exodus.