Remorse AND Faith

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All right, we are going to pray and we're going to get started. Let's pray.

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Speak, Lord, your servant hears. Please show me now your ways so that I may gain

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Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ.

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Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. So give me life, O Lord, according to your word, and I will declare your greatness.

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Amen. Now, last week we did a kind of a one -off lesson regarding repentance, what it is and what it isn't.

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And does anyone remember what the two primary components of repentance are? Remorse, yes, or contrition.

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What's the other? Faith. So remorse and faith. Together you have true sorrow and contrition for your sin, and at the same time, confident faith that Jesus forgives you of your sins.

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It seems counterintuitive, and then where one is deficient, you don't really have true saving faith.

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So if you have no remorse for your sins and you think that God just loves you, that's not the gospel.

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The gospel is that Christ bled and died for our sins. Now, today we're going to get back then into our study.

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We're still doing a pre -study on the book of Leviticus. We've been taking a look at the book of Hebrews to consider what it teaches regarding types and shadows of the

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Mosaic covenant as it points to Christ, specifically the sacrifices. But before we do that,

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I will ask, were there any questions that percolated up in your minds during the sermon? I don't know if you did or not.

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Okay, you know, all right. So John the Baptist response, questionable. All right. Let's see if we can take a crack at it real quick.

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I'm going to duplicate this tab real quick, and we're going to take a look at Luke 7. And I would argue, and this is kind of how

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I argued it in the text, that based upon the plural we, that John knows he's going to his death.

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He's already at this point said he must increase, I must decrease. And so we know that he's a prophet because it says the word of the

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Lord came to John the son of Zechariah, which is your standard formula from the

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Old Testament of how prophets are called and the word of the Lord speaking to them. So then, so the idea then, he's now arrested, he's in the palace of Machaerus, and so the issue that I pointed out in the sermon was that his disciples are kind of caught in limbo now.

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They have real loyalty to John the Baptist, and at the same time,

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John was pointing to Jesus. And so they're seeing all these things that Jesus is doing, and what he's doing isn't exactly squaring with their expectation of this winnowing fork, fire -breathing

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Messiah who is going to clear the threshing floor and burn up the chaff. So you know, there was a little bit of a disconnect.

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So then in the statement, so you'll note here, John is sending his disciples back to Jesus.

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A little bit of historical note, do you know that there's an actual sect, a religious sect today that claims its heritage and focus is

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John the Baptist? It's a weird, small thing, but it still exists to this day, huh?

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Yeah, yeah, well that he's their prophet, you know, he's the center of their teaching and focus and stuff like that.

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No, yeah, in fact, the people in that sect are doing the exact opposite of what

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John would have had them do. I'm not sure of all of their theological positions as it relates to Jesus himself.

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Okay, I'm not going to answer that. Yes? Really? Okay, very good.

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Okay, so, you know, Don verifies that I'm not totally crazy, just mostly, so that's how that works.

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And so the idea then is that his disciples, they're out there watching

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Jesus and they're going back and reporting to John, and John's sending them back to Jesus, okay?

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And notice again the question, focusing in on the pronoun. The pronoun was, are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another?

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We. Notice John isn't saying, are you the one to come or shall

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I look for another? That's we. So this question is more than just on the behalf of John the

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Baptist, and I have a hard time believing John is suffering from doubts. You know, he's run his course, he's already said he must decrease and Christ must increase.

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John the Baptist is not a disciple of Jesus, he's the forerunner of Christ. So it's one of John's disciples.

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Two of John's disciples now go to Jesus with the question, are you the one that we're to expect, or should we expect another?

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And so notice that the question itself includes his disciples, and so it's almost as if John is sitting there going, you know, get out of the nest guys, get out of the nest, you got to go to Jesus now.

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Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay, so yeah, so John, yeah that's right, in the gospel of John 1, it is asked of John the

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Baptist, are you the prophet, not a prophet, the prophet, and the reference there is to Deuteronomy 18, where Moses says that the

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Lord himself will raise up a prophet from among you who is like me, and to him you must listen. And anyone who doesn't listen to him,

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God will give an account, you'll have to give an account to God, you know, so you have to listen to that guy. So the prophet is the one referenced in Deuteronomy 18.

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All right. Yeah, that's correct.

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That's another way of saying it. That's another way of saying, are you the Messiah? If he had said, yes, I'm the prophet, then he would have been claiming a messianic title for himself, and he could not do that.

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He is a prophet, the last of the prophets, if you would. All right, all of that being said, let's head back then into Hebrews.

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We pretty much covered chapter 7. We've taken Melchizedek and really just plumbed the depths of that concept of how

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Jesus is a priest, not in the order of the Levites, but in the order of Melchizedek.

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And then Hebrews 8, we're going to now get into a more in -depth look at how the

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Levitical sacrifices that we're going to read as we're working through the book of Leviticus are going to tie back in then, you know, to Christ himself.

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And this is a text that explicitly says this is a shadow.

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This is a type and a shadow that's pointing to Christ. So Hebrews 8 .1.

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Now the point in what we are saying is this. We have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven, a minister in holy places in the true tent that the

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Lord set up, not man. And so you'll note that this kind of verifies what we were saying, that the tabernacle that was built in the wilderness was a copy.

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It was not the original. The original is the true tent that where Christ, our priest, ministers.

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For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Thus it's necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

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Now, if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law or the

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Torah here. They serve a copy, a shadow of the heavenly things.

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Now consider that sentence. Verse five, they serve a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things.

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Now let's do a little bit of work. How many of you familiar with evangelical eschatology? Big thing happened this week.

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Big thing happened this week in Israel. Did you see the news? They dedicated the brand new altar for the hopefully soon to be built third temple.

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I mean, there were priests and ephods in everything. And of course, the evangelical prophetic world is abuzz, right?

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They're abuzz. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? It's not a good thing,

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I can tell you that. It's not a good thing. I mean, if they rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem, would that be a yay?

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Yeah. And I'll tell you why though. I'll tell you why the issue is and what the issue is. Josh, you pointed out the fact, you know, it's missing the

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Ark of the Covenant. Nobody knows exactly where it is. It is rumored to be in, is it

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Somalia? Ethiopia. Ethiopia. It's rumored to be there. To let everybody see?

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It's not there? I did not miss that. I missed that story. How did I miss it? So did

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God go whoosh? So they opened it up and basically it was the biggest longest running ruse.

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Yeah, I will say this though. Abraham Lincoln once said, don't trust everything you read on the internet.

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So yeah, just so you know. How'd you know?

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That was, I mean, that's amazing, your prophetic insights there. Okay, so you'll note then, they serve a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things.

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So if they rebuild a temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, and the latest prediction is that if it's going to be rebuilt, it's going to be rebuilt between, halfway between the

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Al -Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. That's the idea, that it's going to be put in there.

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And right between the two of them. But the thing is, the Muslims, they run the whole top of the

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Temple Mount. So I don't know how they're going to pull that off politically. But the thing is, if it were built, then we're rebuilding the type and shadow.

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The type and shadow never, none of the sacrifices there ever made anybody perfect.

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They were all pointing to the reality, and that's Christ. And so we have this text that says, they serve a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things.

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For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, see that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

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But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old, as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

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For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. So note how it's discussing the

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Mosaic covenant. Mosaic covenant is going to be basically described as being kaput.

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For if he finds fault with them, when he says, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant

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I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, for they did not continue in my covenant.

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And so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.

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After those days, declares the Lord, I will put my laws into their minds, write them on their hearts, and I will be their

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God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach each his neighbor and each his brother saying, know the

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Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful towards their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

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Man, that's a verse worth hanging on to. I will be merciful towards their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

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So in speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one what? Obsolete.

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What has happened to the Mosaic covenant? Obsolete. It is as obsolete as your

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Nokia phone that you had in 1998, or your BlackBerry.

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Does anyone remember those things? Oh, I know.

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It's as obsolete as a pager. Ooh, yeah.

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Oh, there we go. Huh? Obsolete is a slide rule.

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As obsolete as my HP calculator that I had, right? And we're all thinking about this.

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It's as obsolete as a white belt in bell bottoms. I may or may not have had such a thing.

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But you kind of get the point, right? It's obsolete. It's kaput. It's not there anymore.

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So what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish. And you're going to note here that this is probably written,

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I would argue, before the temple was destroyed. The author of Hebrews knew that Christ had prophesied that the temple itself was going to be scraped off the temple mount.

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Not one stone will be left upon another. And so you'll note then, without a temple, is it possible to practice

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Mosaic covenant Judaism? Not at all. There's no way to do it.

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Now, here's the reason why evangelicals think that there has to be a temple in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.

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And let me find this real quick. I think it's two Thessalonians. And let me see if it's...

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Yes. Here we go. So here's the reason they think that there has to be a physical temple when

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Jesus returns. Second Thessalonians 2. Now, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you brothers not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed either by a spirit or a spoken word or a letter seeming to be from us to the effect that the day of the

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Lord has already come. And so you can all hear that song now running through your head. Life was filled with guns and wars and everyone got trampled on the floor.

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Wish we'd all been ready. Yeah. Talk about being left behind, right? Come on, Bruce. Sing along with me.

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I know, I know. They gave me nightmares when I was in junior high. Yeah.

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Oh, he's triggered. Go to your safe space, Bruce. Go to your safe space. Okay. All right.

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So let no one deceive you in any way, Paul writes. For that day will not come unless the rebellion that Greek word apostasy, unless the rebellion comes first, the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of destruction who opposes himself and exalt against every so -called

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God or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the where temple of God.

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Now this is a matter of referent is a matter of referent.

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Remember the movie young Frankenstein? Yeah. Frankenstein.

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That's right. And the line where wolf, their wolf, right?

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It's a matter of reference. So when we're talking about the temple of God, which temple are we referring to?

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Well, there was one back then. Well, okay. So now we're now we're cooking now.

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Now we're cooking here. So there was a temple. Yeah. Yeah. Just tear down this temple and I'll build it again in three days.

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Okay. All right. So that has something to do with Christ built in three days.

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Now, when we are baptized, we're united with Christ and his death and his resurrection. You ever heard that passage of scripture, how it describes the church as living stones being built into the temple of God.

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Do you think the apostle Paul was talking about the temple that was going to be destroyed? Or was he talking about the temple that existed at the time that he was writing the temple that Christ was making, which is his church, the body of Christ.

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All right. So here's how the evangelicals read it. They go, well, there ain't no temple in Jerusalem yet.

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So Jesus can't come back. There ain't no temple there right now, but they sit there and go, but look, people who are

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Jewish have now resettled in Israel and they have been set up as a nation state by the

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United nations. So it's just about any moment. Now they're going to rebuild that temple, which is to set the stage for the man of lawlessness.

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And it's just going to be cats and dogs living together and Zul and, and all that kind of stuff.

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Yes. Okay. Now let me, let me rephrase your question. The question was, are there so many people who are so in favor of supporting

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Israel because they think that by doing so it'll bring on the end of the world? The answer is yes. And they overtly say that the reason why they support

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Israel is so that we can finally launch into the end of the world, get that great tribulation over with and have

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Jesus come back. Yeah. Bruce.

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Right. Yeah. And that's kind of the issue.

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Do you think for a second that modern day Israel is faithful to the Mosaic covenant today?

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I mean, the raging gay community in Tel Aviv is going to argue against that and they completely oppose

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Christ. I mean, have you seen the videos of guys who've tried to do evangelism on the streets of Jerusalem and how the

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Orthodox Jews literally surround them and mock them and taunt them and scream at them and yell at them and spit at them so they can't even get a word in edgewise.

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So, I mean, so our modern day Jews, the equivalent of Christians today? Yeah, no.

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All right. And this is where you've got to do your biblical work because the modern day

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Jews of today, they are the theological descendants of the Pharisees. Once the temple was destroyed, the

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Pharisees were like the last group standing. They were the last group standing and they reworked

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Judaism to be what it is today. How do you do Judaism without a temple?

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How do you do that? And so they've invented what they call Orthodox Judaism, which is not

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Mosaic covenant Judaism. And this Hasidic way of doing things has nothing to do with what

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Moses was revealed to Moses, what David practiced, what he believed.

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It has nothing to do with what the Judaism that Jesus grew up in at all. It's a very different thing.

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Yeah. So you got it. So coming back then to Hebrews.

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So in speaking of the new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. So what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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And with no temple there, it has vanished away. So now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness for a tent was prepared.

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The for a tent was prepared. The first section in which were the lamp stand and the table of the bread of presence.

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I always loved the fact that it keeps, you know, it's a gift being called the bread of the what rather the presence.

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I cannot see that phrase and sit there and go, you know, it just sounds a lot like a type and shadow of the

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Lord's supper. Right. You know, Christ being truly present in with under the bread and wine.

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So it's called the holy place. Now behind the second curtain was a second section called the most holy place, having the golden art altar of incense and the arc of the covenant covered on all sides with gold in which was a golden urn holding the manna and Aaron staff that budded in the tablets of the covenant.

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Above it were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat of these things.

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We can not now speak in detail. These preparations having dustman made the priest go regularly into the first section performing their ritual duties, but into the second, only the high priest goes and he, but once a year and not without taking, taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

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By this, the Holy spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet open as long as the first section is still standing.

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So, you know, that the way into the holy place is because it was a curtain of partition that, you know, that there's the way in isn't there yet until that partition is taken down, which is symbolic for the present age.

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So according to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

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Note what it says there. Sacrifices are offered that can not perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

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So you'll note the author of Hebrews is making it very clear that these things were to be set up until there would be a time of reformation.

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He's not talking about Martin Luther's reformation. By the way, we're talking about the one that Christ institutes with the new covenant, but when

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Christ appeared as a high priest of good things that have come then through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is not of this creation.

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He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

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For at the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctify for the purification of the flesh.

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Well, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living

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God. So the idea then is that here on earth there was this temple set up when guys in the priesthood, and you got the great high priest once a year would go into the holy of holies and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat.

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And all of that was a type and shadow which prefigured Jesus Christ, who is the solo priest in the order of Melchizedek, and he went into the real temple, the real tent, but into the curtain of the holy places, and he placed his own blood on the mercy seat, the real mercy seat.

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You see, it doesn't matter if there's an ark of the covenant in Ethiopia, Somalia, or somewhere hidden in the sands of Egypt.

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That was a copy. It was a type and shadow. The real ark of the covenant, the real mercy seat, it's safe and secure.

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Does that make sense? So the raiders of the lost ark are focusing on the wrong ark, focusing on the wrong thing.

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And so you'll note then that Christ's blood does perfect and comfort our consciences.

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So when you are confronted with God's law and God says, you have fallen short, and you sit there and you go, ah,

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I have fallen short. Do not despair. Christ, his once for all sacrifice, your priest in the order of Melchizedek has taken his own blood and poured it on the mercy seat so that you can be forgiven, so that you can have real comfort, so that your conscience can be assuaged and you can be perfected.

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End of story. Animals can't do that. Jesus's blood did that. You see it?

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Okay. For if the blood of goats and bulls and sprinkling of heifers sanctify, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living

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God? So therefore, he, Jesus, is the mediator of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

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And this is kind of an important one right here. Man, so much of the preaching that goes on in the visible church today is all about the here and the now.

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The here and the now. You know, what's the point of having a Christianity if it's not going to make your life better here and now?

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All right? So we need a Christianity that's going to make my kids behave. We need a

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Christianity that's going to make it so that I can finally get that raise at work or get promoted and have that corner office.

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We need a Christianity that's going to make my wife respect me. There's no religion like that.

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Okay. I can hear her taunting me from the basement.

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Okay. Right? But you're going to note over and again when we read in the epistles, it's focusing the terminus of our faith not on the here and the now.

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It's focusing the terminus of our faith on eternal life. And there's some good reasons for this, by the way, because I keep pointing this out.

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I've been here now for four and a half years, and those of you who keep coming back, you look way worse today than when

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I first got here. Wait, so do I. Right?

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Because we're all heading to the grave. We're all heading to the grave. We are saved through death and resurrection.

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So our hope is in the eternal life. It's not in the here and the now. And what Jesus has promised us now, he has not promised you an earth -shattering divine purpose or destiny that's going to change the world.

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He hasn't promised you that raise. He hasn't promised you a wife that respects you.

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No, but what he has promised you is eternal life. That is what he has promised you.

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So that being the case, in this life now, we expect to be given a cross by Jesus.

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Take up your cross and follow Christ. You always think about that, you know.

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Take up your cross and follow Christ. And crosses are heavy.

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Crosses are rugged. They have splinters. They are a heavy load, and they are for the purpose of killing you.

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I always think, you know, especially when we baptize somebody a little bit older, it's like, man, that person's gonna have a big old target on them now.

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It's like ringing the dinner bell for the demonic. Somebody's baptized, they are now a target of the devil, and their lives are going to be thrown into absolute turmoil.

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Because the devil is in the business of knocking that faith in Christ out of you. And if you're telling other people about Jesus, he's not only interested in knocking that faith out of you, he's trying to convince you that you need to keep that mouth of yours shut, and stop telling everybody about the forgiveness of sins in Christ.

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You know, I think about Reverend Althoff, right? And you think about all the work that they're doing in a persecuted place like you wouldn't believe, right?

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He has to find ways to subversively keep his head down, mouth shut, and not draw attention to himself while telling people about Christ.

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And it only takes that one phone call that he could really get in a lot of trouble. And that's happening, by the way, for Christians even here in the

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United States. I don't know if you've noticed, but those who are most vocal against Trump, they seem to be buying into a particular leftist ideology.

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I describe it, you know, other people describe it this way as well, as that SJW ideology, social justice warrior, right?

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And when a company is taken over by SJWs, you know, they've been converged. In those companies, if a

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Christian speaks about sin, being forgiven by Christ, calling somebody to repent of their sins, they are likely going to be written up and lose their job.

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Because apparently in the SJW ideology, human beings have a right to not be offended, right?

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Yeah. While wearing a

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Johnny Cash shirt, right?

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Uh -huh. Yeah. Yeah. What was that Mark Twain quote that censorship is like forbidding adults to eat a steak because babies can't chew?

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But in the SJW narrative, I mean, Christians are the one, it's the evil white

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Christian patriarchy that's causing humanity to languish and to suffer. And, you know,

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I've made reference to it before, but if you really want to see what that kind of ideology looks like artistically, then watch the series on Hulu, The Handmaid's Tale.

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It's, I mean, that is probably the most egregious anti -Christian propaganda series

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I've ever seen in my life. It's a complete train wreck. But, you know, doing my line of work, it's like necessary for me to watch to kind of see what they put in there.

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But whoa, you know, the SJWs equate biblical

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Christianity with Islam. They give real Islam a pass and they equate biblical

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Christianity with the evils of, like, Sharia law Islam. So the whole story is set in, you know, in a future part of, in the future in America when this very strict fundamentalist

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Bible -thumping Christian sect has taken over, literally conquered the United States, renamed it

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Gilead, and the oppression that occurs in it, you know, is all has, you know, some kind of biblical pretense to it, but it looks more like Sharia law to me than anything

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Christianity had to do. Because if you really want to see what Christianity looks like in its heyday, look at Europe at the time of the

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Reformation and in the centuries immediately following it. That whole era, that Western civilization in that time was called

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Christendom. You want to see what Christianity looks like. There's, you know, there's freedoms, there's worship, and all this kind of stuff, and you kind of have to get past some of the initial fighting that went on in the early part of the

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Reformation when things settled down. That's, you know, Western civilization is the actual result of biblical

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Christianity. It's the leavening effect that it had on society. So, and then you look at other parts of the world where the poverty that is in those parts of the world, a lot of times that poverty that they wear so starkly is a direct result of their religion.

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Yeah, I'm thinking of a couple of nations in particular.

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So, the charge is actually false. The charge is actually false. Do you think for a second biblical

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Christianity, the Christianity that calls you to love your neighbor as yourself, would result in Christian terrorism groups killing people and engaging in genocide in the name of Jesus?

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No. Yeah. So, what are they going to point to?

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The Crusades, right? The Crusades to take the Holy Land. Deus Vult, right? No. No, I'm sorry, but even the

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Crusades don't really count. The Crusades were a lot more nuanced than that. It wasn't just some, you know, go and kill the infidel kind of thing.

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That was not, there was far more complex and nuanced political aspects to that.

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Yeah, and yeah, and you know, and even in the time of Martin Luther, I mean, Luther writes extensively about the

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Turks. I mean, every single year, once winter is over and the spring thaw is done and the lands dried out enough that you can actually drive a cart on a path, you know, then the

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Turks were mustering an army and trying to press into Europe. You know, this was just an every year occurrence.

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And, you know, you got to remember, this is the days before football. So, you know, they had nothing better to do but to, you know, war like that.

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Yeah, so summer was war season. And so, you know, defending yourself against a foreign invading army that is invading, you know, for religious ideological reasons,

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I think you could be justified in such a thing. And even, you know, even taking the offensive in order to push it back so that you can protect yourself further, that makes some sense.

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So the person who just blankets says, well, Christians, they've engaged in genocide. Yeah, I'm having a hard time pulling up the data files on that that would validate the claim.

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That's not to say that Christians haven't done horrible things to people, they have. There's been some awful things done to people in the name of Christ.

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But that's not because Christianity teaches you to do so. That's because somebody is doing these evil things and trying to cloak it in a pious sounding

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Christianity when it's not. Yeah, 20th century, without any doubt, was the bloodiest century in human history.

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And what drove all that blood? Socialistic ideologies of either, you think of communism or even fascism.

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Fascism is a form of socialism. Unfortunately, we have

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SJW ideology rising in our midst today. It's a very dangerous and very aggressive thing.

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How do I get off on that topic? Okay. Yeah. Now I want you to consider something, you know, since we're talking a little bit about the

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SJW ideology. Social justice isn't justice at all. And so you think about it this way, is that there's a social justice ideology that is saying that if you're a white male

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American citizen, you actually have a financial obligation to African Americans here.

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And you need to personally participate in making reparations for what happened in the Civil War in the

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United States. Have you heard people talk like this? All right. But that we're dealing with their ancestors.

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And, you know, since then, generations have gone by by the grudge. We are treating you good.

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We're offering you jobs, we're giving you social upbringing, let you come up through the ranks, educating them beyond their abilities and letting them have a pass and things like that.

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We have given it to them. Mm hmm. Well, see, you're asking why?

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And I think this is kind of an interesting question. You have to understand their ideology and the SJW ideology. It's a form of socialism, which means on one level or another, they do not acknowledge individual rights.

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They do not. They do not acknowledge your right as an individual. So they are judging you based upon the group that you're a part of.

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So, David, the group that you are a part of, you are part of the white heterosexual male

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Christian patriarchy. And that's the group that's responsible for slavery in the

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South. And since you're a member of that group, the group itself must make reparations to what happened in the

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Civil War, despite the fact there's not a single person alive today who was enslaved in the

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South. During, you know, prior to the Civil War. Yeah. Oh, good.

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Yeah. That's awful nice of you. Yeah. These people would literally argue that a guy, a white guy in poverty in Mississippi with two teeth in his head still has more privilege than Barack Obama.

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Bruce. Sure. Change.

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Which verse? Which verse?

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Which verse? It's 9 to 9 .2.

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9 .2. Okay. Okay.

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Yeah. And you're going to be looking it up in its reference. So, prothesis, setting forth something in public, setting forth, putting forth, presenting, that was just planned advance.

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So this is, I'll tell you what the ESV is doing here, is that it's basically taking its

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Old Testament referent. Okay. And take it. So the idea then is, is the way that the

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Greek is used, it's, it's a, it's the title there is the Greek of the

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Hebrew referent is being pulled into this, into this translation so that it makes sense. Oh no,

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I, no, I don't know if the Septuagint would actually translate it that way. That's a good question. Let me do a quick search real quick.

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That's redundant. Alright. Hold on a second here. I work in the department of redundancy department.

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Bread of presence. I'm just going to do the search. Presence. Okay.

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So, so here's, here's your reference. So if you, if you do an Old Testament search, okay, this is the, this is the thing that is being referred to.

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Bread of the presence, bread of the presence, bread of the presence. So X, X is 2530 and shall set the bread of the presence.

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And so you got, uh, Lachem and then, uh, before the face of, you know, yeah.

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So, so yeah, the, the pot pan I'm here. So you got the, you know, the bread of the face, the bread of the presence, and that's, what's being pulled in.

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So you're taking that so that the references are the same. So what the translators did is they didn't give you a literal translation from the

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Greek. They plugged in the referent and that's not a, I wouldn't say that's in fact, because the

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ESV is a really reformed Calvinistic translation, the reformed have a bigger hand on this than anybody else that you're not, they're not pulling in Lutheran theology here.

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They're just taking the Old Testament referent. So they're taking the idiomatic word, the phrase there in the

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Greek and plugging in how it would be translated if you were to take the, you know, the, the, the

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Lachem of the, the, you know, of the face of God. So does that make sense?

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Did we lose everybody? Yeah. Yeah.

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All right. So back then to our text, let's see here.

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Where did we leave off? Okay. Therefore he's the media of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

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Since death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant for where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established for a will takes effect only at death since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

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Therefore, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

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Now, a little bit of a note here. This is where what we call the Old Testament and the

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New Testament come into play as opposed to covenant and old covenant. People use these interchangeably, but when you were to sit down and decide who's going to get what after you die, we call that a last will and what?

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Testament. So you'll note here it's invoking the covenant now and speaking about the new covenant as if it is a last will and testament.

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You see how it's using that interchangeably? So now this is an interesting thing.

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If the new covenant is really a new testament, then in order for it to be put into effect, somebody had to die.

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And who would that be? Christ, right? So this is one of the reasons why when you open up your

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Bible, it says the New Testament. It says the Old Testament rather than the new covenant and the old covenant.

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Is that interesting? This text then literally ends up playing into how we understand the

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Bible. So therefore he's the mediator of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promised inheritance since the death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

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So the reason for then this covenant then being referred to as a testament is because eternal life is an inheritance.

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That's the reason why. And we all know that inheritance is a gift. It's not something you earn.

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So those of you who've had a relative who's died, who had some money, and you inherited from them a certain amount of money so that you maybe make a down payment on a house or something like that, that's a gift.

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And you didn't have that until that person died. So the new covenant itself promises us an eternal inheritance since the death has occurred then that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant for where where will is involved the death of the one who made it must be established for will takes effect only at death since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood for when every commandment of the law had been declared to Moses to all the people he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop.

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Hyssop. That's a weird one. That shows up just a few times shows up christ's crucifixion too and sprinkle both the book itself and the people saying this is the blood of the covenant that god commanded for you and in the same way he sprinkled with the with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.

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Indeed under the law almost everything is purified with blood and watch this this subclause without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.